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AARON RODGERS IS ALL THE WAY BACK + TALKING TNF WITH RYAN FITZPATRICK
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "AARON RODGERS IS ALL THE WAY BACK + TALKING TNF WITH RYAN FITZPATRICK", an episode of Pardon My Take published December 17, 2025 (2 h 14 min, about 29,041 words). It mentions 268 people, works and ideas, including Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick.
What this episode is about
The discussion focuses on NFL topics, including Aaron Rodgers' impressive return and preparations for the upcoming Thursday Night Football game between the Rams and Seahawks, featuring insights from Ryan Fitzpatrick. Additionally, the conversation includes reflections on recent games, analysis of playoff prospects, listener questions, and a look ahead at college football playoff matchups.
Key takeaways
- Hot farts predict smell. Heat equals odor; it's physics for foodies.
- Game Time app: Tickets so cheap, you'd think they're fake. But they're legit, promise!
- Steelers' home streak: Ninjas at night. NFL's underhanded scheduling helps.
- Aaron Rodgers, the old gunslinger, might just reload for another playoff showdown.
- Steelers' slick streak: 23 wins on Monday nights for prime-time glory!
Who speaks in this episode?
- Dan Katz (Host) · 51 min speaking
- Eric Sollenberger (Host) · 19 min speaking
- PFT Commenter (Host) · 44 min speaking
- Ryan Fitzpatrick (Guest) · 13 min speaking
- Zach (Host) · 4 min speaking
- Max (Guest) · 3 min speaking
- Memes (Host) · 3 min speaking
- Shane Pug (Guest) · 1 min speaking
What is discussed, and when
- – 15:00: Monday Night Football, Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike McDaniel
- – 30:00: Pat Mahomes, Super Bowl, Monday Night Football, Ryan Fitzpatrick
- – 45:00: March Madness, Raising Canes, Barcel, Raising Cane's
- – 1:00:00: NBA Cup, NBA Cup, Thunder, Hank
- – 1:15:00: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick
- – 1:30:00: Thursday Night Football, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jacksonville Jaguars
- – 1:45:00: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Dolphins, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Fitzpatrick
- – 2:00:00: Netflix, Inc., Harvard University, Harvard, Super Bowl
- – 2:13:54: Netflix, Inc., Andrew Funk, Villanova, Andrew Funk
Notable quotes from "AARON RODGERS IS ALL THE WAY BACK + TALKING TNF WITH RYAN FITZPATRICK"
We are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football…
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · atThroughout the years and then I had Statull actually look it up to confirm what I thought I was seeing. The NFL has engineered this streak for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
about Pittsburgh Steelers · atYeah, but Big Ben, this Big Ben, hey, Big Ben, you're you're finding out what it's like to be in the podcast game.
about Big Cat · atYeah, I have contemplated because I've got one more year before my health insurance runs out. So, I have thought about that. That was a big deal for Philip as we've seen with the 10 kids.
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · atI think the hard thing is for Shane Stik in I mean for all coaches/playcllallers you have trust issues and so basically the Colts were in a position where they.
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · atYeah, I think the things that weigh on you with Sam, he's been so good the last two years. I think he's I saw a stat yesterday where he leads quarterbacks in wins in the regular season the last two.
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · atOkay, now we're getting back to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · atFigure out, is it the line, is it the quarterback, is it the play caller. but I think the one thing that we know is they are not the same team. Even though they have a lot of…
about Ryan Fitzpatrick · at
Who and what is mentioned in this episode?
People
- Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 12 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses TNF Rams–Seahawks, QB play (Rivers/Rodgers), and playoff trust tiers. - Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 11 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses Thursday Night Football (Rams–Seahawks), QB play (Rivers/Rodgers), and playoff trust tiers. - Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Referenced expert / main interview subject in episode context · 11 mentions · first at
Central interview guest; discussed Thursday Night Football (Rams–Seahawks), QB play (Rivers/Rodgers/Lawrence/Allen), and broader playoff trust tiers. - Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 11 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses Thursday Night Football (Rams–Seahawks), QB play (Rivers, Rodgers, Caleb), and playoff trust tiers.Yeah, I think the things that weigh on you with Sam, he's been so good the last two years. I think he's I saw a stat yesterday where he leads quarterbacks in wins in the regular season the last two.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · 10 mentions · first at
- Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 9 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses Thursday Night Football (Rams–Seahawks), QB play (Rivers, Darnold, Caleb), and playoff trust tiers. - Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 9 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses TNF Rams–Seahawks, QB play (Rivers/Rodgers), and playoff trust tiers. - Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Main guest · 9 mentions · first at
Primary interview subject; discusses Thursday Night Football (Rams–Seahawks), QB play (Rivers/Rodgers), and playoff trust tiers.DraftKings, we are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night…
- Big Cat — Person · Co-host · 5 mentions · first at
One of the main hosts of the podcast - Hank — Person · Co-host · 2 mentions · first at
One of the main hosts of the podcastTailgates pack stands at buzz before kickoff but getting in nightmare. Hank, what game are you looking at for week 16?
- PFT Commenter — Person · Co-host · 1 mention · first at
One of the main hosts of the podcastShow getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football, Steelers, PFT, they might win a playoff game. Aaron Rogers looking good.
- Mystic Zack — Person · Co-host · 1 mention · first at
One of the main hosts of the podcastYeah, I am. Zack, do you have a game you're looking at week 16?
- Ryan Fitzpatrick — Person · Guest · 8 mentions · first at
Former NFL quarterback providing insights on current games and playersDraftKings, we are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night…
- Pat Mahomes — Person · Referenced athlete · 9 mentions · first at
Discussed for his injury and impact on the NFLPatrick Mahomes already got ACL surgery.
- Philip Rivers — Person · Referenced player (comparative example) · 6 mentions · first at
Used as a case study for veteran QB readiness/processing vs arm talent; discussed as having returned to play and what defenses will do with film on him.He looked let's say he looked 30 pounds heavier maybe than when he played. And Philip was a big guy when he played. So I put him at least 260 265. and that's probably being generous, but he.
- Josh Allen — Person · Referenced athlete · 4 mentions · first at
Discussed for his performance and impact on the NFLIt feels very wide open. Anyone can have anything. Like there's Josh Allen who's playing probably the best football of anybody right now.
- Aaron Rodgers — Person · Referenced athlete · 3 mentions · first at
Discussed for his performance and potential returnFootball. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football, Steelers, PFT, they might win a playoff game. Aaron Rogers looking good.
- Trevor Lawrence — Person · Referenced athlete · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for his NFL performanceThe Jaguars. Yeah. You beat him six times. The Jaguars this year though look really good. Trevor Lawrence looks amazing. He's playing the best football that we've ever seen him…
- Caleb Williams — Person · Referenced athlete · 1 mention · first at
Discussed for his performance and potential in NFLThis will be productive. do a quarterback reddraft for Drake May, Caleb Williams, and Jane Daniels.
- Mike McDaniel — Person · Referenced coach · 4 mentions · first at
Discussed for his coaching style and team performanceIt's 100% right. The d and Mike McDaniel, I know that he's got the vote of confidence, so he's going to maybe stick around. I don't we can talk about two in a second.
- Kyle Shanahan — Person · Referenced coach · 3 mentions · first at
Discussed for his coaching style and team performanceThey're right in the thick of it. Kyle Shan I made the point that I think Kyle Shanahan should be in the discussion for coach of the year. He's never won the award before. What…
- Tua Tagovailoa — Person · Referenced NFL quarterback (team decision debate) · 2 mentions · first at
Central to a Dolphins-forward-looking discussion: whether Miami should 'run it back' with Tua and how McDaniel should proceed.McDaniel, I know that he's got the vote of confidence, so he's going to maybe stick around. I don't we can talk about two in a second.
- TJ Watt — Person · Referenced athlete · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for his NFL performanceMany players do at the team facility without issue to alleviate general soreness. Following one treatment, TJ Watt was left in extreme pain and doctors quickly sent him to the…
- Bo Nicks — Person · 2 mentions · first at
Oh. So, I think, in developing all these quarterbacks, I think Trevor is an example of it, just like Caleb is this year, just like Bo Nicks is, even though Trevor's older than those guys, is you have a team that's playing really.
- Sam Darnold — Person · Player discussed · 2 mentions · first at
Quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks discussed for his performance.Is awesome. Mike McDonald has done an incredible job. I'm still I do believe in Sam Darnold. I thought Sam Darnold was, one of those guys even four years ago that were Hey, if…
- Kyle Pitts — Person · Referenced athlete · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for his performance and potential in NFLThe end of the season. But, I was watching him and I was I think I want Kyle Pitts. I think he's finally figured it out. It's a small sample size based on one game, the Kyle…
- Jaden Daniels — Person · Referenced athlete · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for his college football performanceI'm going to switch it up. Jaden Daniels.
- Drake Maye — Person · Referenced athlete · 1 mention · first at
Discussed for his college football performanceOkay, that's Drake May in the first quarter.
- Troy Aikman — Person · Referenced broadcaster · 9 mentions
Discussed for his NFL commentary - Ben Solak — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Danny Heifetz — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Danny Kelly — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Kaelen Jones — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Riley McAtee — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Steven Ruiz — Person · Referenced expert · 6 mentions
Discussed for his insights on NFL - Adrian Wojnarowski — Person · Referenced journalist · 4 mentions
Discussed for his NBA reporting - Bart Scott — Person · Referenced broadcaster · 4 mentions
Discussed for his NFL commentary - Bill Simmons — Person · Referenced journalist · 4 mentions
Discussed for his sports commentary - Brian Windhorst — Person · Referenced journalist · 4 mentions
Discussed for his NBA reporting - Chris Haynes — Person · Referenced journalist · 4 mentions
Discussed for his NBA reporting
Books & papers
- A Christmas Story — Book · 1 mention · first at
There are a ton of designs including some a Christmas story designs from their holiday partnership featuring Ralphie in the bunny suit, the leg lamp, and even a bar of soap, raising canes, chicken fingers, one love. Hank,.
Companies & orgs
- Bar Stool Sports — Company · Affiliation · 4 mentions
Parent company of the podcast - Pittsburgh Steelers — Company · Referenced team · 4 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and historical context in NFL - Philadelphia Eagles — Company · Referenced team · 17 mentions
Discussed for their performance and potential in NFL playoffs - Netflix, Inc. — Company · Sponsor · 12 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of streaming and content distributionDraftKings, it's the fight nobody saw coming. Jake Paul vers Anthony Joshua live on Netflix December 19th. Two worlds collide in the ring. And DraftKings Sportsbook has the…
- DraftKings — Company · Sponsor · 4 mentions · first at
Promoted as a sports betting platformOn today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night.
- Los Angeles Rams — Company · Referenced team · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and upcoming gamesBacks to and through the line of scrimmage without getting touched. And the Rams are top three in terms of their ability to do that. So, I think that'll be a big part of this game. And then Matthew Stafford from under center.
- Miami Dolphins — Company · Referenced team · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and historical context in NFLWe're going to maybe figure out what the Dolphins are going to do going forward.
- Chicago Bears — Company · Referenced team · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and potential in NFLAre coaching for a very long time against each other. It's it feels good because the Bears have not been really, a participant in a lot of the rivalry in the last, decade plus.…
- Buffalo Bills — Company · Referenced team · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and potential in NFL playoffsThey the second lowest opposing winning percentage on Monday Night Football is the Buffalo Bills and they're 46%. Yeah.
- Jacksonville Jaguars — Company · Referenced team · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed for their performance and potential in NFL playoffsPassing last week, one touchdown rushing. Should we believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars?
- Seattle Seahawks — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
Discussed for their performance and upcoming gamesWeek 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football, Steelers, PFT, they might win a playoff game. Aaron Rogers looking good.
- San Francisco 49ers — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
Discussed for their performance and potential in NFL playoffsSunday. And yeah, that it feels like that 49 we talked about on Sunday, but if the Seahawks beat the Rams, the 49ers are very much live for the one seed. They control their own…
- Kansas City Chiefs — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
Discussed for their performance and impact on the NFLBy the way, did you because the Chiefs were eliminated, I believe. Let me pull up the stat. It's pretty crazy. The in the last, let me find it. I think it's the last 25 years, 26 years. How many.
- Amazon Prime — Company · Affiliation · 1 mention · first at
Platform for Thursday Night Football streamingThursday Night Football, Amazon Prime.
- Cincinnati Bengals — Company · Sports team discussed · 44 mentions
Mentioned in the context of their performance and upcoming games in the NFL season.Mhm. the Bengals are going to have some tough games going down the stretch. have you been able to like look at Joe Burrow and put yourself in his shoes and I guess I'm kind.
- Dallas Cowboys — Company · Sports team discussed · 25 mentions
Mentioned in the context of NFL games and playoff scenarios - Dolphins — Company · Referenced team · 10 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of NFL games and their performance in cold weather.Against each other because we had the Steelers and what they do on Monday Night Football and the Dolphins have lost 13 straight games including the playoffs with kickoff temperatures below 40° since 2016.
- Fox Sports 1 — Company · Affiliation · 6 mentions
Mentioned in the context of sports broadcasting - New England Patriots — Company · Sports team discussed · 3 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of their performance and schedule in the NFL season.Playing Cleveland, Philly, and the Jets, I still think that week 18 matchup where Miami goes to New England, as long as it's over 40 degrees, there's a chance that the Bills can still win the AFC East.
- James Madison University — Company · Referenced institution · 2 mentions · first at
Discussed in the context of college footballEveryone's super excited. We've got JMU at Oregon. I believe get in price is 88 bucks. Pretty cheap. second cheapest is going to be Oklahoma. I think that's 190 bucks to get in.
- Los Angeles Chargers — Company · Team discussed · 2 mentions · first at
NFL team mentioned in the context of potential playoff matchups.Yeah. I think if they can get the Chargers on Monday Night Football in the playoffs, I think the Steelers win that game.
- New York Jets — Company · Sports team discussed · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned in the context of their performance and potential in the NFL season.He walks back into our life and I'm loving every second of it. I think you could probably play. I think if the Jets gave you a call and they were Hey, Ryan, for old time's sake.
- Minnesota Vikings — Company · Sports team discussed · 32 mentions
Mentioned in the context of their performance and future prospects.It's 100% right. The d and Mike McDaniel, I know that he's got the vote of confidence, so he's going to maybe stick around. I don't we can talk about two in a second.
- Harvard — Company · Educational institution mentioned · 5 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of the Harvard-Yale game and its significance.Phenomenal. But this so the penultimate Thursday night football. You like that Harvard guy?
- Arizona Cardinals — Company · Team discussed · 4 mentions
NFL team mentioned in passing during the conversation.Going to help me make money. But the other part of it is like we still have like we're still relevant. Now, the tough games are when you have, say, let's say Arizona and the Giants were playing, week.
- Cleveland Browns — Company · Team discussed · 1 mention · first at
NFL team mentioned in passing during the conversation.Getting there, but he hasn't done it yet. And I still think the Buffalo Bills, if they win out, which they're playing Cleveland, Philly, and the Jets, I still think that week…
- New York Giants — Company · Sports team discussed · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned in the context of their performance and future prospects.Like we're still relevant. Now, the tough games are when you have, say, let's say Arizona and the Giants were playing, week.
- Harvard University — Company · Educational institution mentioned · 6 mentions · first at
Briefly mentioned in the context of a shirt and footballYeah. I hate to bring this up Ryan but you guys you know the Harvard Yale game means a lot to you guys.
- Houston Texans — Company · Sports team discussed · 2 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of NFL games.Schedule remaining. the Cowboys, the which that's not difficult. Well, you never know. The Cowboys, the Texans, and then the Broncos. And that it will be what happens with the…
- Yale — Company · Referenced institution · 2 mentions · first at
Mentioned in the context of the Harvard-Yale football rivalry.First time in history and Ivy League school was allowed to play in the 1A playoffs, the FCS playoffs. Yale got the automatic bid, Harvard got an atlarge bid, and they were playing at Villanova.
- Detroit Lions — Company · Referenced team · 1 mention · first at
Mentioned in passing regarding their performance.If the Lions lose to the Steelers on Sunday, the winner of the Bears Packers game will be in.
- Villanova — Company · Referenced institution · 5 mentions · first at
Mentioned in passing regarding a football game.Playoffs, the FCS playoffs. Yale got the automatic bid, Harvard got an atlarge bid, and they were playing at Villanova.
- Barcel — Company · 3 mentions · first at
Coworker athlete Biz. This was just I just obviously there's a lot of stuff that happens at Barcel.
- Raising Cane's — Company · 2 mentions · first at
Raising Canes. Kirk Herbstreet and his beloved Golden Retriever Peter. We're just at Raising Canes Nashville flagship to serve fans and talk all things Heisman College football…
- Thunder — Company · 2 mentions · first at
Hands. Yeah, Sam Prey seems like I think the Thunder have like a million picks still.
- Spurs — Company · 2 mentions
- MS-13 — Company · 1 mention · first at
Now I'm looking up quarterbacks that are number 13 so they can be MS-13. yeah, I don't I don't know if we got any out there right now. Oh, Dan Marino. MS-13.
- Snoop Youth Football League — Company · 1 mention · first at
Spot they did this summer. In addition to sponsoring the game, Canes is donating $100,000 to the Snoop Youth Football League and bringing the food truck to their game the following day.
- Bob Does Sports — Company · 1 mention · first at
It's probably a lot of like Grant Horvath. I think he I think he's deep into the Bob Does Sports universe.
- Pacers — Company · 1 mention · first at
Z's a Knicks fan. Yeah, Zach's a Knicks fan. Remember he went to the Knicks Pacers game. That was when Zack That was a great time.
Products & tech
- Game Time — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
Promoted as a digital product for ticket purchasesGame time cues, price jumps. I got one locked out mid click all you want. I got one I'm looking at if you want.
- Uber Eats — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
Promoted as a digital product for food deliveryUber Eats has deals on your favorite game day restaurants and groceries all season long. When football makes you hungry, get game day deals all season long. Only on Uber Eatats. And now.
- Aura Frames — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
Promoted as a physical product for digital photo frames - Twisted Tea — Product · 3 mentions · first at
Twisted Tea's delicious. I love it. Love the half and half. What do you boys like again? What's your favorites?
- Raising Canes — Product · 2 mentions · first at
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- Chevy Silverado — Product · 2 mentions · first at
Or gearing up for kickoff, there's one ride that's always game ready. It's the Chevy Silverado. The Chevy Silverado is a longtime partner of, pardon my take, and it's our…
- Fox 1 — Product · 2 mentions · first at
You can stream your favorite live sports so you never miss those did you see that moments? That means Fox College Football Saturday is now on Fox 1. And now every Saturday…
- Carver Mat — Product · 2 mentions · first at
- Warzone — Product · 1 mention
- YouTube Shorts — Product · 1 mention
Concepts & topics
- ACL Recovery — Concept · Referenced topic · 1 mention · first at
Discussed in the context of player injuries and recoveryI just know it's a it's a new thing that they're using for ACL recovery that they're not really talking about cuz they don't know if it's like allowed or not.
- dry needling — Concept · 4 mentions · first at
I don't know. But all I know about dry needling is that someone some agent texted Ian Rapaort what to say and then he just copy and pasted it.
- NBA Cup — Concept · 3 mentions · first at
Okay. My hot seat. NBA Cup, it's on the finals. Do you guys want to give a prediction? Do you care? Zack, you're a Knicks fan.
- AWLs — Concept · 3 mentions
- PMT — Concept · 3 mentions
- NFC Championship game — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
Might be worth a shot to bet on the Niners because when they make the playoffs, they get to the NFC Championship game.
- Code Take — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
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- Pardon My Take — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
Ride that's always game ready. It's the Chevy Silverado. The Chevy Silverado is a longtime partner of, pardon my take, and it's our favorite truck, and it's all about grit.…
- CPOE — Concept · 2 mentions
- Fitzy — Concept · 2 mentions
- NCAA tournament — Concept · 1 mention · first at
He said that the NCAA tournament is a joke.
- Fiesta Bowl — Concept · 1 mention · first at
We're not Liberty. We saw Liberty play against Oregon a couple years ago, the Fiesta Bowl.
- Internet Invitational — Concept · 1 mention · first at
He probably watched the Internet Invitational.
- Sandbagger — Concept · 1 mention · first at
And then I followed it up watching the sandbagger with Paige Sporanic where he was just explaining piss bombs.
- Badger — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Wants to come to Wisconsin. One wants to be a Badger.
- The War on Christmas — Concept · 1 mention · first at
My other hot scene is The War on Christmas. cuz Punk is playing a show on Thursday night, Christmas show in New York at the Racket. Come out, check us out. got a lot of special guests from.
- Dodgerland — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Which is insane because they doing it with a cap. Yeah, they are in Dodgerland.
- Krampus — Concept · 1 mention · first at
What about Krampus? Remember that guy?
- The Grinch — Concept · 1 mention · first at
He's like the Grinch, by the way. The Grinch He's so good at his job.
- pocket health — Concept · 1 mention · first at
I don't know if you've seen the pocket health thing we've been doing. that's Sam's baby as well. So, I got to imagine he has something to do with the creamsicle line. I'll talk to him and.
- Cinnamon rolls — Concept · 1 mention · first at
- all 22 — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Defense and it pops out to you when you're watching on the little, all 22, it's really impressive. And that's the stamp that Robert Salah puts on his defenses all the time. And these guys are playing really hard.
- America's most dependable full-size truck — Concept · 1 mention · first at
- tank for two a — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Situation a lot of times, but I think back to like 2019 when I was on the Dolphins and that was the tank for two a year and that was the year we started 0 and7 or whatever we…
- Pokemon — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Well, I was interested in all the Pokemon art talk that he was going with, but I also think that I think that he's a little bit like prisoner in the moment. it's been a bad year for him. He had the toe surgery. He came.
- Harvard Yale game — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Yeah. I hate to bring this up Ryan but you guys you know the Harvard Yale game means a lot to you guys.
- FCS playoffs — Concept · 1 mention · first at
First time in history and Ivy League school was allowed to play in the 1A playoffs, the FCS playoffs. Yale got the automatic bid, Harvard got an atlarge bid, and they were playing at Villanova.
- Fox College Football Saturday — Concept · 1 mention · first at
You can stream your favorite live sports so you never miss those did you see that moments? That means Fox College Football Saturday is now on Fox 1. And now every Saturday…
- Big Noon Kickoff — Concept · 1 mention · first at
Saturday is now on Fox 1. And now every Saturday morning, you can catch Dave Portoy and Big Cat as part of the big noon kickoff crew only on Fox 1. Fox 1 is built for live edge…
- Doug streams — Concept · 1 mention · first at
The podcast that will be exclusive to Netflix, our PMTVs, if we do, Doug streams, our golf videos, Zack streams, Zack streams, those are coming in 2026.
- PMTV — Concept · 1 mention
- Ryder Cup — Concept · 1 mention
- Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl — Concept · 1 mention
- UCL — Concept · 1 mention
Places & events
- Super Bowl — Event · Referenced event · 13 mentions · first at
Discussed in the context of NFL playoffs and team potentialsThe last, let me find it. I think it's the last 25 years, 26 years. How many Super Bowl losers got back to the Super Bowl? Last 32 years. How many Super Bowl losers got back to the Super Bowl?
- March Madness — Event · Referenced event · 5 mentions · first at
Discussed in the context of college basketball and tournament structureWrong and where he could have gotten it right. He is right in that in every single March Madness is the same where we talk about this we a perfect March Madness is upsets early big dogs late.
- NBA Cup — Event · Referenced event · 3 mentions · first at
Discussed in the context of NBA seasonOkay. My hot seat. NBA Cup, it's on the finals. Do you guys want to give a prediction? Do you care? Zack, you're a Knicks fan.
- Lynchburg — Place · 1 mention · first at
You're you're mistaking us from our neighbors down the road in Lynchburg.
- Harrisonburg — Place · 1 mention · first at
This is Harrisonburg. Come to Harrisonenberg, Western Virginia. talk that [ __ ] I just don't really understand loving college football and then again.
- Racket — Place · 1 mention · first at
Christmas. cuz Punk is playing a show on Thursday night, Christmas show in New York at the Racket. Come out, check us out. got a lot of special guests from the Barcel New York office and some other guys in the music business.
- Fenway — Place · 1 mention · first at
The boys rallied. We're going to have a better year next year and we got to beat Yale next year. Harvard Yale at Fenway.
Media & podcasts
- Pardon My Take — Media · Hosted podcast · 4 mentions · first at
The podcast being enriched, main content sourceOn today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night.
- Monday Night Football — Media · Referenced program · 16 mentions · first at
Discussed for its impact on NFL viewership and team performancesWeek 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football, Steelers, PFT, they might win a playoff game. Aaron Rogers looking good.
- Thursday Night Football — Media · Referenced program · 9 mentions · first at
Discussed for its impact on NFL viewership and team performancesWe are going to do a little cleanup from week 15. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show getting ready for Thursday Night Football. Rams, Seahawks, talk Monday Night Football…
Sponsors
- Twisted Tea — Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
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- Uber Eats — Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
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- Fox 1 — Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at
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- Aura Frames — Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
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- Chevy football season — Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
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Yeah. The heat. Well, it's also like what you ate. Yeah. What you've been what you've been doing recently.
But let's say dictate. Let's say you're on a couch. You're not thinking about what you had for lunch. Can you tell? Hank said the heat when it comes out. Like if it's hot, that's going to smell.
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Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, December 17th. And I think Aaron Rodgers might be back. The old gunslinger. And the Steelers win yet again on Monday Night Football. They have not lost. What is it? 16-0 at home. Something ridiculous.
Well, all right. It's interesting you brought that up. I first of all 23 starts 23 straight Monday night football home wins
Wednesday though right I I wanted to I wanted to glaze the Steelers right off the bat but since we're diving into the streak right now I'm I'm I'm forced to get into this for a second
they lost on Monday night they did was it Monday night it was Monday night it was uh it was maybe not Monday night Monday evening football I think the game kicked off at 5:00 pm back in
was it Monday night football the game kicked off Monday evening 5:00 pm in 2020 20 the Washington football team beat the Steelers who I believe were undefeated and they were 11 and0.
Uh technically not Monday Night Football because it was it was a delayed game because of co but it was on Monday night
but it didn't have the Monday Night Football graphics. Did not have the graphic. Did not have the pageantry. Who knows if they even they probably didn't even play Renegade.
So they're 23 their 23 straight home wins with the Monday Night Football graphic.
Correct. I think it's since 1991. I I started looking back through their schedule over the years and something jumped off the off the page to me. So, I had Stat Hole look it up and again I I think the Steelers this is the year they're going to win a playoff game. I've said it all year.
You have and I I I'm starting to believe if they can play the Chargers if they That's exactly what it that's what I told you. I said if they can get that matchup I feel like they could win that one. But I
I don't know if they're going to get that matchup. I looked at the schedule uh throughout the years and then I had Statull actually look it up to confirm what I thought I was seeing. The NFL has engineered this streak for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The win loss record, the winning percentage of opponents that the Steelers have played during the streak
on Monday Night Football is 40%. That is by far the weakest schedule of any team that's played on Monday Night Football. Well, a couple of those percentage points come in because the Steelers beat them.
That is true. But then I had Sad Hole look it up again and see what was the what were those teams winning percentages the year before.
Got it. When they made the schedule, Steelers again, easiest Monday Night Football schedule in the league.
Oh man, they're tilting the scales. I get it. I I feel like you got to play ball with the Rooney sometimes and they they know that Monday Night Football, it's good for the brand to see the Steelers winning at home under the lights. I'm not trying to take away from what the Steelers did last night because I feel like they're coming into form at the right time. I just saw all the talk about the streak and I had to look into it deeper.
They the the second lowest opposing winning percentage on Monday Night Football is the Buffalo Bills and they're 46%. Yeah.
The Steelers are far and away the easiest schedule. Put that in perspective too. That's the Patriots schedule this year is is about 400. So that's what you're looking at.
Got it. Yeah. about 20 about 24 years of the Patriots schedule. The uh the Steelers have also always been not like they're never bad.
So that does play into it. But yeah, it was it was the two two streaks going up against each other because we had the Steelers and what they do on Monday Night Football and the Dolphins have lost 13 straight games including the playoffs with kickoff temperatures below 40° since 2016. It's a obviously the dumbest analysis we do with the candy ash uniforms, but god damn it is it right.
It's 100% right. It's 100% right. The d and and Mike McDaniel, I know that he's got the vote of confidence, so he's going to maybe stick around. I don't we we can talk about two in a second. I don't know what it is about him. He he might have to next time they play a game under 40° just coach in the booth, dude. Because you co you keep saying that you're not cold and you get there early to to practice in the cold and you wore the shirt a couple years ago being like, I wish it were colder. Every time they show you, you look like the coldest man in the world.
Yeah. The fogged up glasses. He should coach shirtless. Yeah. Be a man about it. Look like M. Collins out on the field before the game.
It's It's crazy. He can't The cold has beaten him. Yeah. Mentally. Mentally, physically
in all the ways. Yeah. Mike McDaniel, Napoleon Hitler. Hitler can't can't win in the cold.
No. Also, what's Mike McDaniel's like 5'9? Yeah. Interesting. That's true. Uh, short geniuses.
They they tried to do the thing where they they tried to beat the Steelers by being the Steelers a little bit in the first half. And you that's the exact game plan that Pittsburgh wants.
Yeah, Pittsburgh has some shortcomings. Um, but if you try to play Pittsburgh Steeler football against the Pittsburgh Steelers, you'll get your ass kicked by the real thing. Yeah,
their defense looked really good. Also, you know what? Credit though to the Dolphins defense because I feel like
they hung in there. That first half was pretty tough for the Steelers. They were knocking the [ __ ] out of them. They were very, very physical. Uh, but then after halftime, everything kind of swung. The Dolphins didn't really do a whole lot. And then the fourth quarter happened and McDaniel seemed to kind of just give up on playing offense. There was like no urgency when they got down. They It pissed Troy Aman off.
You know, Troy was pissed about everything. I I agreed with him on the taunting call.
You can't look at a guy, but you can't stand over a guy. I love that Troy is at the point of his career where he's like, I have I'm really good at this.
Joe and I have been doing this a long time. No one's going to get rid of this booth. I'm going to just tell you how it how I feel about every play, every quarterback, every referee, and just [ __ ] on things.
Yeah. Yeah. It was it was a great game for Pittsburgh. The defense looked really good. Uh DK looked They need to get him more involved. Yeah, he he like disappears a little bit, but when he gets the ball, he's still [ __ ] awesome and he'll run through somebody's face.
But the the big thing for the Steelers is that Rogers looks the last two games he has looked old Rogers like. And if he is going to play like that, then yes, I do think they can win a playoff game. He the last two games he has 58 yards, four passing touchdowns, almost a 80% adjust adjusted completion percentage. He's been on fire. He had that one tight window throw that like yeah that to DK. I think it was the touchdown that DK made a great play afterwards. But yeah, it feels like he's starting to get a little bit of his swagger back and things are making sense and he becomes a dangerous piece in the AFC playoffs because we talk about it with quarterback play. Like if you have a quarterback you can trust. If Aaron Rogers is going to play like this, you can trust the Steelers. I don't know.
We've seen them look really really bad. So, I'm not going to just erase that and be like, "This is a different team." Jersey Jerry said supi last night.
Yeah. I I think if they can get the Chargers on Monday Night Football in the playoffs, I think the Steelers win that game.
Yeah. I think they could. They're now 2 and0. Monday Night Football. Yeah. They're now 2 and 0 since getting Adam Thielen. Yeah. 2018 Pro Bowler.
I got a question about the Dolphins. Why wouldn't you just play Zach Wilson the last three games?
So, they're eliminated. They had a They had a weird season where they obviously were the bad vibes team to start the season. They lost a bunch of games. They were competitiveish. Then their schedule softened up a little bit. They got the Jets twice. They got the Saints. They rattled off some wins. They looked like a competent team. But we all kind of the whole time were saying, "Hey, you know, when when they actually have to start playing some teams again,
they've put themselves in too much of a hole." And I don't know. two is he's just not good. Like he the first three and a half quarters was just some really bad quarterback play. And I would like if I feel like Mike McDaniel is going to survive. I don't know if you can just run it back with Tua.
Yeah. Why Why not play Zach Wilson? Why not play Quinn Es? I I'm I am uh intrigued. I'm I'm I'm questioning whether or not I want to see Quinners play. I thought about that last night. I think I'm in Quin de Argua. I think I am a a Quinn Euers guy.
That's a That's a stretch. Yeah. I I I just I He's a tough guy. I want to see what they got.
Yeah. Can you walk that Can you walk me through that one? What? Walk you through what?
Quinn Quind Dear. There's a a Venezuelan street gang. Trende Aragua. Much like the Howaliban or uh or the Tyaban.
So this is a this is a spin-off of the Howaliba band. Yeah. This is a or the or the Shroud Boys.
Yeah, the Shroud Boys. It's a South American version of of the Stra or Bryce. All right. I was just that was for the listener. I knew all that, but I just wanted to make sure the listener knew.
I I liked watching Quinn play when he was in college. He had he was like a first round talent for a couple years and then kind of fell off a little bit. I just You might You might as well roll the dice though if you're offensive.
That's quite a sentence. What? He was a first round talent for a couple years. He was a lot of guys were first. But I guess you know you know as well as I You're right. You're right. you see a guy.
It's a funny thing to say out loud being like, "Yeah, that for a year you he was mocked in the first round."
Just just like I'd like to see Kyle Tras out on the field again. Yeah, I agree. I think Kyle Tras could could do some things.
I I wouldn't mind seeing Quinn Eureers out there because at this point, what what else are you going to do if you're the Dolphins?
I but Zach Wilson like the if Mike McDaniel is the guy that we think he is, which I still think he's a good coach, he should be able to he's he's in that Shawn McVey Kyle Shanahan. I can make any quarterback look competent because he's been doing it with Tua obviously not last night until the last uh you know 10 minutes. Unbelievable over by the way. That was the deadest thing ever and they just kept on playing.
Now I'm looking up quarterbacks that are number 13 so they can be MS-13. Uh yeah,
I don't I don't know if we got any out there right now. Oh, Dan Marino. MS-13. Uh yeah, I I feel like uh
good friend of the program. Good friend of the program. I I think the Steelers have the pieces in place where Kenny Gain well, he can make their weird horizontal passing game work.
Aaron Rogers loves him cuz he's dynamic enough. If he if he catches the ball in space, he can make a guy miss and the offense can look pretty competent. They mixed in Washington a little bit last night. They look good. And Aaron Rogers was like, you know, he's he's now firmly labeled the Steelers as being underdogs. It's them against the world.
Yep. A lot of guys who've been passed over. There's some castoffs if you look at our roster. makes it really special.
They're the most expensive defense. Kenny Gainwell signed a next to nothing contract. Connor Hayward, an afterthought, had a touchdown run. Marquez has been on a couple teams. Adam Thielen got cut. Samuel was on the street for a long time. So, it says a lot about the character of the guys we brought in. And then he went on to clarify that he doesn't consider himself a castoff. I saw I saw his wrist. He's a caston, but I think that he has now like formed the Steelers offense into being like us against the world. And I think that's a good spot for Aaron Rogers. And you you could feel that he's gaining his confidence because he was very he was in a very jovial mood after the game when he it was very funny when he was like, "Yeah, and we got TJ. I don't know where he's been all week." That was a pretty funny line. Yeah. Like, yeah, he's been, you know, he had he had surgery on his lung.
Dry needling. Yeah. What is dry needling? I don't know. But all I know about dry needling is that someone some agent texted Ian Rapaort what to say and then he just copy and pasted it.
Yeah. Can you pull up Ian Raport's dry needling um tweet? It was the most copy and
No, that that's him updating it. It was the most copy and paste tweet I've ever seen from an agent. Uh I don't know where. We'll we'll we'll find it.
I have no idea if I spelled that right. What? Inan Rapport? No. Dry dry needling.
Uh it's the word needle and dry. Okay. So, it could have been something different. I've never heard of that word.
You've never heard of needling? Dry dry needling? I got it for you. Here it goes. This is this is directly from an agent.
They're two pretty common words. Ready? Dry needling is a treatment many many players do at the team facility without issue to alleviate general soreness. Following one treatment, TJ Watt was left in extreme pain and doctors quickly sent him to the hospital. A hero experience, but minor surgery and full recovery.
What are you giggling at over that? Dry needling is not a hard word to spell. I mean, Kate didn't know what OBGYn was and you're going to years ago. Yeah.
But now But now I'm getting shamed for not knowing what dry needling is. No, no, no, no. Also, it's the way you said I can't spell it because I've never heard of it.
Well, I didn't know what it was. You know what needle is? Yes, I know what a needle is.
And you know how to spell the word dry, but I don't know what that thing is. So, I don't know if it actually has to do with needles.
Dry. I would say probably I know what an OBGI is. I don't have a vagina. Facts. That's just doesn't have one. Sometimes it does get tricky when you're doing like the ing's because sometimes it's Y before
I thought you were going to talk about the Yeah. No. Well, no, it doesn't. Dry is always
No. Dr. Y. It's dry like like a vagina. Are Are you talking to me or Zach? I I don't know which one I'm talking to. I think I can't tell which one is Zach came to your defense, which is insane.
That's Yeah. Good guy. Why is that insane? That's Well, no, he can't spell. No, but Zach's a phonetic speller, and that one's still easy to phonetically spell.
For the record, I spelled it correctly in the search bar, but not nothing was coming up. So, that's why I was like, maybe I spelled this wrong.
For the record, Hank could spell objin correctly. He just couldn't pronounce it.
Yeah. Yeah. Either way, Rapport just saying dry needling is something everyone does.
Yeah. I I don't know. I've never had the procedure. It doesn't sound comfortable. You would like a little bit of lube on the needle. It's supposed to It's supposed to, you know, fix general soreness as Rapport said. I
He's got some crazy injuries. TJ. Yeah. Yeah. When he like fell in a pool. Yeah.
Well, yeah, he didn't get injured there. It just looked like he And Jerry, that was actually on Jerry. Jerry should have been there to catch him.
TJ should be back, though. He is doing better. It is scary because you don't want to anything with a minor surgery in lungs.
You don't want that. Those don't feel like those words go together. You don't want that. That's the old Terod Taylor.
Yeah. Uh, as for some cleanup, so we had the official word Michael Parsons to his ACL. Y Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL. Patrick Mahomes already got ACL surgery.
Kind of crazy. Usually you wait for the swelling to go down. I guess he didn't have a lot of swelling, but he it was an ACL and an LCL. Yeah.
So, it's both of those, which complicates things a little bit. I I think he's going to play next year. I think some people are asking if he's going to be back for week one. I don't know. Adrien Peterson screwed everything up when he came back after like he tore his ACL on Christmas and then he came back week one and set the alltime rushing record pretty much. Uh, no one knows.
I have Well, I I I did some research and I do I do have some intel. Um, it's kind of a 50-50 proposition because this came from uh Swedrick uh Fredleton in a reply to Patrick Mahomes surgery. He said, "I tore my right ACL as a high school sophomore in February and played in September."
Beast. That's huge. Beast. But then he went on to say, "I tore my left ACL as a senior and knew it was time to hang it up."
So, which one was it? Was it his right or left? His was Mahomes was his right. I don't know.
If it was his right, we should expect him back in September. If it was his left, he might hang it up.
Let's see. I think it was Oh, no. So, that might be it. So if you're going off of Fred Frederick uh Swedrick Fredleton Oh man,
this is preeptides though. Yeah, true. He was a high school sophomore. Peptides could be a game changer.
Maybe fly over. They're not they're not talking about them enough. I just What are peptides?
I just know it's a it's a new thing that they're using for ACL recovery that they're not really talking about cuz they don't know if it's like allowed or not.
But that is helping people recover quickly. That's what Billy That's what Billy football injected into my arm.
He was ahead of his time to fix my my UCL and it worked. That still But I think of all the dumb things. So, I think that was probably the dumbest thing I've ever done.
If you get the surgery, the the sooner you get the surgery, the better off you are.
Yeah. Of recovering quickly. Well, yeah, because it it shortens the timeline by a day or two.
Well, sometimes you have to wait like a week if it's like really swelling. Yeah. Either way, I just love guys who uh reply with their own um injuries being like, "Here's here's an approximate timeline for a worldclass athlete with worldclass rehab."
In in the 1970s and 80s, you used to just say like, "Yeah, I blew my knee out." Yeah. And then that was it. Your your knee would just get blown out and it would never get blown back in.
He was going to be the best player ever. Yep. Blew could have gone pro and then
blew his knee out. When the weather changes, you're like, "My tricked knee." Yeah. That's what that's what medicine was until like the year 2005. Yeah. Do you guys think there How many Chiefs fans out there are there right now saying with no sense of troll, irony, anything. They're saying we don't know how that season would have ended.
That's some That's some like third level cope. I think I think there's a I think it's more than you think.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's more than you think. I would say like 35% of Chiefs fans are thinking that.
And good for them because that's a great thing to be able to walk around with in your back pocket being like, "Well, we don't actually know."
It's [ __ ] you know? So, the best thing would be if Mchu came in and just won three straight.
Yeah. And then you're like, are they better without Patrick Mahomes? Yeah. But they still would have been if Mchu if Mchu started against the Chargers, they could have won.
Yeah. They just waited. He Patrick Mahomes waited too late to tear his knee. Yeah. Did you guys uh I I going back to Monday Night Football real quick. Did you guys see Big Big Ben had to he did a press conference last night. Yeah. I don't know why he was doing a press conference. He had to walk back his Tomlin quotes.
I think they had some sort of uh like Ring of Honor, bring back the old legends. It was that type.
Joey Porter night. Oh, Joey Porter night. But yeah, he said that uh he didn't actually say they should fire Mike Tomlin. He said that Mike Tomlin should deserves to decide whatever he wants and saying they should clean house wasn't actually saying fire him.
Was Terry Bradshaw there last night? Ooh, that's the big question. That is the big question.
Probably not. Yeah, but Big Ben, this Big Ben, hey, Big Ben, you're you're finding out what it's like to be in the podcast game.
You think sometimes you say [ __ ] and you got to you got to you got to address it.
You know that Big Ben saw Philip Rivers out there. Let's get Big Ben on the pod.
Big Ben made a couple phones. I agree. Let's get Big Ben on the pod. Big Ben was like, I if Phil can do it, I can do it.
Look at Big Ben. He looks He's just so big. He really is. He is. Look at that. He's wearing the Yeah. the varsity jacket. There's something about Big Ben when you just watch him and just just guys bouncing off of him.
He looks good. Yeah, he does. He could still play. He definitely could still play his arm. He could still th He could still throw a ball out of bounds down the sideline
for sure. All right, so when we look at the uh the playoff bracket, the playoff uh matchups that we would have right now. Yep.
Um who would we have the Steelers up against? The Chargers. The Chargers. But the Chargers do have a difficult schedule remaining. the Cowboys, the which that's not difficult. Well, you never know. The Cowboys, the Texans, and then the Broncos. And that it will be what happens with the Broncos in the one seed. Whether they're playing for anything there, we don't know.
So, the other that's not an easy schedule. Other possibilities they have, they could play against the Bills.
Mhm. They could play against the uh the Jaguars. They're still or the Texans. Yeah. The Texans played the Chargers in week 17, which will be a pretty big game for playoff seating.
Yeah, it feels like that. But the the AFC picture feels pretty much set because I I mean, no offense to the Colts,
and I'm excited to watch the Colts play on Monday Night Football against the 49ers, but they have a very small chance. And the Steelers, similar like what I was saying with the Bears on Sunday, they are at minimum playing for a win and get in week 18 at minimum.
They can clinch earlier than that if they win and the Ravens lose. Yeah. And uh if you're looking at these matchups, the Chargers feel like the sweet spot. I was watching the game last night and thinking, is there a way that that the Steelers can throw this game against the Dolphins and then have so that the Dolphins squeak into the playoffs and have to go back to Pittsburgh? But we we say that with the but there's not they're done
with the Chargers, but the Chargers have mucked up every game. Their defense has played great. They just beat the Eagles. They just beat the the Chiefs. They were underdogs in both games. Like I I know that they look because of their offensive line look like the team that you'd most want to play in the first round, but I one to seven in the AFC. I don't know who would surprise me. May it would probably be that four five spot.
Yeah. I mean, it's not meant to be a knock against the Chargers because they Yeah, they do play physical football.
They're a ball club, but I'm just I'm I'm doing visualization where I imagine the Steelers beating a team in the playoffs, and it feels like the Chargers would be that team.
Justin Herbert getting sacked like eight times. Yeah. So, this right now, Tomlin is on a six-game playoff losing streak,
which is uh I believe it's one short of the all-time record. Marvin Lewis had seven in a row. Um there's a couple other guys, I think, that had six, but the way that they're playing right now, Yeah. I it's prisoner of the moment. They were great last night, but it does feel like they might have figured something out.
Yeah, the in the NFC Thursday night is just obviously a massive massive game, which we're going to talk to Ryan Fitzpatrick about because he's uh doing it for Thursday Night Football, but we do have like clinching scenarios where um if the Lions lose to the Steelers on Sunday,
the winner of the Bears Packers game will be in. So, that's a clinching scenario. The Bucks Panthers game will be massive on Sunday. And yeah, that it feels like that that 49 we talked about on Sunday, but if the Seahawks beat the Rams, the 49ers are very much live for the one seed. They control their own destiny. If the Rams beat the Seahawks, it feels like the Rams will be cruising to the one seed.
It's going to be the Rams. So, yesterday I I put a future in on the 49ers to win the Super Bowl.
Oh. 21 to1. Okay. Pretty good. And and part of that was thinking that if the Seahawks beat the Rams, I think there might be some weather up in Seattle. Uh if that happens, then the Niners have they have a chance at it. It's not like it's not super likely, but they have a a real chance to get the one seed. And I kind of like how Brock Party's been playing.
Yeah, he was really good uh against the Titans. He was good the week before. It's kind of been like a a she's all that with Brock Party where he's like sticking the ball in people's faces. He's dugging into the end zone. He's got some some swag to him right now. So,
he's been playing well. Yeah. ever since that four pick night against the Panthers, which they still won that game. He looks like he's kind of back.
Yep. Yeah, the Niners are dangerous. I I like that. I I think this this entire like I don't remember a playoffs where it feels like outside of maybe the Rams and you could say maybe the Broncos because of home field like it just it feels very wide open.
It's very open. It feels very very wide open. Anyone can have anything. Like there's Josh Allen who's playing probably the best football of anybody right now.
There's the Jaguars who are playing just complete total dominating football. Yeah. Against some bad teams, but they look good.
You've got the Texans with one of the best defenses that we've seen in recent memory.
And that's all in the AFC. It's like Yeah. And then Oh, yeah. The Broncos, they're they've earned the one seed at this point. They're that good. They're on they're the hottest team in football.
I Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. So that's why I felt like it's it's it might be worth a shot to uh to bet on the Niners because when they make the playoffs, they get to the NFC Championship game.
Yeah, Shanahan's a great coach. By the way, did you because the Chiefs were eliminated, I believe. Let me pull up the stat. It's pretty crazy. The in the last, let me find it. I think it's the last 25 years, 26 years. How many Super Bowl losers got back to the Super Bowl? Last 32 years. How many Super Bowl losers got back to the Super Bowl?
Uh, let's see. Last 32 years. So that's outside the Bills. That's post Bills. That's That's right after Bills.
Patriots. One. Can't be many. The answer is one. Oh, that's it. 2017 Patriots. Yeah, there's uh it's it's pretty shocking. Uh, one of the last 32 Super Bowl losers has returned and only one of the last 53 Super Bowl losers has won it. Same team.
That's the real Super Bowl hangover. Yeah. Is losing the Super Bowl. Is losing the Super Bowl. Yeah, because the Chiefs Yeah. I I was looking at it last night. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 uh Super Bowl losers since the year 2000 didn't make the playoffs.
Wow. Yeah. So, that is the Super Bowler. Okay, Ryan Clark also uh tried to give us the hottest take on Micah Parsons saying Bon Knicks got him injured. How Boon Knicks, he said the Michael Parsons is hurt because of Bo Knicks, the violence in which Micah Parsons had to chase Boon Knicks the entire second half was extremely evident.
Oh, so it's almost like a compliment to Bon Knicks. It is a compliment to Bicks, but it also is just like, okay,
thanks thanks for your input there, Ryan. Yeah, Bick watching in tears. I I do love RC how he wears the uh the lapel pin with his own initials that are like it's like a graphic design of RC
in case you forget and and the dumbest suits ever. Yeah. Just makes I think he has a wardrobe before Monday Night Football where he says, "How can I make sure that if you turn on the TV, I have to be the first thing you look at and you're going to stare at me because my outfit makes no sense."
It's Ryan Clark time. Yeah, Ryan Clark. I didn't know they made so many suits without buttons. or pockets.
One, he it looked like he was just wearing like a towel. Yeah. That was just wrapped around his his midsection.
That's fashion. We wouldn't understand. Listen, if me or you wore Ryan Clark's outfits, we look hot as [ __ ]
Oh, yeah. That's facts. We would be able to pull that off. We just choose not to.
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my hot seat is Joel Clatt. Yeah. Yeah. He he said that the NCAA tournament is a joke.
Yeah. The most unfair tournament in all of sports. Also in this ring, he said no one cares about JMU. They just want to see the good teams battle it out.
Yeah. Um most un How is it the most unfair tournament in all sports? It's the most fair.
Yeah. Well, no, Hank, that's not right. The way that you determine who the best team is is you have a a bunch of people that get together at a Hampton Inn and they sit in a conference room and they put a bunch of TVs on the ground and then they sit around eating the salad bar. They have a a buffet table that comes in that's got probably the the driest rolls that you'll ever see and they sit there eating finger food for about five hours and then they put out a poll
and then that is who the best team in football is. That's how you that's how you play sports. So Joel Clatt's a friend of ours. We had him on the show. We had a great time when he was here in the studio. So I I feel comfortable being able to do this. Uh I'm going to take his man card one. Have to take his man card. Calling it the dumbest the most unfair tournament. the dumbest tournament. No one wants to see any of the Cinderellas.
He's a one sports sally. He's a onepoint sports sally. He's getting his man card. I do love Joel Clatt. Here's where Joel Clatt got it wrong and where he could have gotten it right. He is right in that in every single March Madness is the same where we talk about this we a perfect March Madness is upsets early big dogs late. That part is true. So he is right in the fact that when there are a bunch of uh crazy like high seeds in the final four or you know the what was it St. Peters when St. Peters plays in the Elite 8 against I think it was UNCC and gets and gets houseed by 40. Yeah, I would have rather had an instant classic Elite 8 game with two of the best teams in the country. So, he is right that we there's a point where you don't want Cinderellas, but he's wrong in saying that we don't care about Cinderellas because we do love Cinderellas in the first couple rounds and this is why they
should go to a 16 team playoff and we should give the Cinderellas a chance. I'm I'm excited to see JMU play. [ __ ] it. That's why we That's why we love the tournament of March Madness.
Yeah. Yes. It would be great to watch like indivi like Notre Dame against Oregon. I think that would have, you know, a much wider audience. People would want to tune in, watch that game. But there's something about a tournament where you've got underdogs and the possibility of them winning. It's harder in football.
He should stick to his own sport. Stick to your sport. We love you in football. We don't love you in basketball. You're Schroinger's clat. You're you're good and bad at the same time. And you need to stick to your one. Stick stick to sport clatt because JMU Listen, I got news for you.
We're not Liberty. We saw Liberty play against Oregon a couple years ago, the the Fiesta Bowl.
We're not [ __ ] Liberty, dude. We have sex at James Madison University. It's encouraged. It's mandatory.
Different team, different players. I know it's a big spread, but what if what if just do that thought experiment. What if it did happen?
How good would that be for the sport? And you know what? It's almost like the entire future of the group of five is on our back and on Twain's back this weekend
cuz if we can don't get blown out. If one of those teams keeps it competitive, like one score, one touchdown,
they might not take away, they might not change the format too much. Yeah. If there's two blown blowouts, I got news.
They're going to change the format of the tournament entirely. We might not ever see another group of five school get in unless they're ranked in the top 15. Um, it feels like there's a lot on the line, but we're not Liberty, Joel. You're you're mistaking us from our neighbors down the road in Lynchburg. This is Harrisonburg. Come to Harrisonenberg, Western Virginia. talk that [ __ ]
I I I just don't really understand loving college football and then again just ignoring half of half of the the the sport. I would I would like to see Notre Dame in there in Well, not instead of JMU because I want you to have uh you know your moment. I'm excited for to watch that game maybe instead of two lane. Sure. But they didn't do enough and we need to like if you win your games and and you're a G5 school, you should have a chance to get in. You shouldn't start the season being like, "There is 0% chance that if JMU wins all their games, they don't get to play in the playoff." That makes no sense to me.
Stick to your sport, Joel. We love you. But basketball, it's the perfect thing. It's the perfect tournament. And the and upsets are, you know, easier to happen in basketball because there's only five guys on the court. You can have offshooting nights. Yes, it's a little more more difficult in football, but I will say this as maybe a checkmate on Joel Joel Clatt. When was the last time an eight seed won the entire uh tournament? Was it Was it Villanovavva?
Like in like 1980 85. Yeah. Yeah. 198 when uh Patrick Yuing they beat Georgetown.
Eight seed won the entire March Madness tournament. When was the last time an eight seed won the college football playoff?
Oh. Oh yeah, that's right. It was last year. Good point. Cinderella Ohio State going all the way to the championship.
A little darling underdog. Scrappy. Nobody believes in us. [ __ ] eight seed, buddy.
Ryan Day put his name on the map that day. Yeah, it was uh what a run. Yeah, what a run. Lou,
no one believed in Ohio State is the eight seed. Also, when we when we came out with this format, what did we say at the start? Like, it's going from four teams to 12 teams. And yes, there will be debates about who gets in, but at the end of the day, win games and you will get in. You have you have nobody to blame but yourself if you don't get in to a 12 team tournament. That's my biggest problem with all of this is you you can't eliminate the fact that the games need to matter. It's why we said that Miami should be in over Notre Dame. It's why that if you win games, you should have a seat at the table. You can't just say we're going to play this entire sport in this entire season on hypothetical matchups with power ratings from Vegas.
Yeah. And you look at strength of schedule and you're like, "Oh, JMU hasn't played anybody. They haven't played anybody. They haven't played anybody." Nobody cares about you win the games that you play. You can you can't control your schedule. said this across the board, whether it's about James Madison football or the New England Patriots in the NFL. You play who you play.
You play who you play. I'm not That's actually Hank, I I've been trying to set you up on that for the last like 3 weeks.
When I when I dig into the Patriots, it's there if it's there if you want the shot.
If you want the shot, you haven't taken the shot yet. And this is the last week that you can take the shot.
I don't think about you. I don't I don't know what to say. I I I acquire I have all the the space in your brain. I I don't care about you. You guys are going to like you're a relevant team that's going to get beat by a hundred.
Okay. All right. Wow. I like it. 100. But at least we talked about it for like 20 hours on the show for the last 5 weeks. Thank god.
Listen. Listen. Are you coming in in your duck uniform? No. Rico's I I want like that's the thing. Despite the fact that like you're you know you you're out to get me and and you want my teams to lose and my players to do bad. I wish JMU would win. It'd be good for the show. They have no shot. I agree with Joel Clatt.
No one cares about JMU. Yeah, I do. Yeah, PFD. That's the thing is I I think the group of five, they care about Tulain and JMU this weekend.
And I think people would change their mind if there was an upset. If there was an upset, it becomes a massive story.
That's I agree. Good for the sport. I care about JMU by proxy. I care about PFT and he cares about JMU. So therefore, I care about JMU.
There we go. Yeah. You have a gun to your head. Not Notre Dame or JMU to be in the playoff.
Well, yeah. Not Notre Dame could have won a national championship, but I still I still stand by the fact that you you had the rules and you need to have a spot.
We're not It's just gun to your head. Pick one. Who can win a national championship?
Would you rather see in the playoff? Oh, Ju. You got you got to take you gota take the easy answer.
You got to take Notre Dame. If you get shot, then it's like at least I went out supporting Jesus. Mhm. The uh two lane Notre Dame should been in over two lane. Keep JMU's spot.
I appreciate the sentiment. Listen, I know that nobody cares about JU football except like a very small contingent of group of five supporters. And if you happen to go to JMU, but if it if it's close, you're going to find yourself rooting for JMU. I hope it's close.
Joel Clatt, he learned to to put a bow on this whole thing. He learned that like you don't you don't bismerch March Madness. You don't go after the tournament. That's that's maybe that's that's maybe the quickest way to get just a mass of dudes just at your throat.
Yeah. Just being like, "What the fuck?" Yeah. A bunch of burners. You want to get ready to learn Providence, buddy.
Yeah. Okay. Your cool throw. Uh my cool throne. I have a couple elite athletes on my cool throne. Uh my first one is LeBron.
Yeah. I've spent my whole life hating LeBron and and you know, as time goes by, I just he's making me love him more and more.
Oh, you're talking about the golf. He's on the sideline. He's got his interlock. He's so retired. He's practicing as well. He's so retired.
He's so And did you see the the technical free throw? No. There was a a technical game in their game and he just stepped up to the free throw line. He's shooting like 70% and JJ Reic after was like, "It should have been Luca."
Yeah. But LeBron just just stepped up and took it. He's like, "Yeah, why wouldn't I take it?"
That's so funny. It's like, uh, yeah, you have Luca. And just Yeah, the the golf swing is just it's I I I relate to it. I I I I understand where his head's at. And it's not on work.
No, no, he's gone to the game. The game has him, though. He is checked out. He's got the bug. He's officially obsessed with golf.
I would like to see his YouTube stats. I would love to see LeBron James YouTube wrapped for for 2025 because I think it's probably a lot of like Grant Horvath. I think he I think he's deep into the Bob Does Sports universe.
He probably watched the Internet Invitational. Oh, definitely. Full knows who Visi is. Yeah,
I wonder what he thought about the ruling. But yeah, I that that clip made me laugh. Um and then my other cool throne coworker athlete Biz. This was just I just I just you know, obviously there's a lot of stuff that happens at Barcel. People put out a lot of different stuff, but I this past weekend I I was basically in a biz binge. Uh they put out Peek and Him and Wanton Dawn.
Great stuff. Go watch out. It was one of the greatest greatest series I've ever watched. It was again it's like I forget I'm like watching it just as a fan I'm like oh yeah these are our co-workers like we know them. It's it's incredible stuff. Felt like a movie. Really really good there. I think there's four episodes. Uh
British Columbia just seems like it's it looks like you're on a movie set the entire time. It's a beautiful place.
And then I followed it up watching the sandbagger with Paige Sporanic where he was just explaining piss bombs.
Oh, piss bombs. So funny to Paige Sporanic. Just fills his foreskin with piss. One of the funniest. I mean that Biz Biz Whitney and Yandel are just like the
Yeah, no one could win in a chirp battle with those guys. They're they're so funny. But yeah, I was like I I I kind of realized it yesterday. I was like I think I've watched like eight hours of biz content in the last three days.
They also are like the Avengers of Chirping because they all have different skill sets.
Yeah. Like Yans is very sarcastic. Wick could just go bar for bar with you. And then Biz is just disarming because he's so goddamn funny and also so so nice
and he'll go so far. He'll ask you he'll make you so uncomfortable with things that he just doesn't care. Yeah. Like
let me see your dick. Yeah. A lot of business chirps are in the form of a question so you don't even realize that you want to wear those shoes.
Yeah. Like he will he will sneak past you and he's so friendly. Yeah. We we did a uh a breakdown after the RDER Cup on uh Macro dos and because we speculated that the reason that the team didn't have cohesion is because they didn't do like postgame showers like every other sport.
And so we asked guys from every sport like about the locker room culture. Biz gets on there and immediately starts talking about piss bombs
and he said that there were times when he was in the league that he would be a he would be a healthy scratch.
This is so funny. and he would watch the game and then after the game he'd take a shower with the boys like as healthy scratch but didn't didn't need to just to be part of the team.
I 100% done done that. You've done healthy scratch. Well, not like healthy scratch but just didn't play second in the game but
no he was he would but he would wear a suit on the bench. Okay. Come in the locker room, take his suit off and hop in the shower with the shower.
He's the best. He is the best. Oh, so funny. That was cool. Good job. Good job. Uh, my hot seat is Dylan Raola. He's on the hot seat because he's transferring. He's uh entering the portal. And I don't know if this was a troll graphic or if the university actually made a statement,
but Texas Tech does not want him. Is that real? I don't know. Did Texas Tech say like, "Hey, we're not interested in him."
I heard Texas Tech is in the market for like an 8 to9 million quarterback. I don't know if that's what Dylan Ro is going to command. So,
more or less? Less, I would assume. I mean, he's been good, but not he's not the best quarterback in the transfer portal
cuz you would you have to think that he he has to he's considering Texas Tech. If they offered him, he would probably take it.
So, what what other schools that are primarily red and white are going to need a quarterback next year?
That's what you got to look at. Wants to come to Wisconsin. One wants to be a Badger.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Okay. Yeah, he could do that. Would you Would you offer him the job?
I would. I think he's okay. And then I would completely flip and be like, "This this whole Patrick Mahomes thing is really cool."
You'd have to Guys can't have heroes. You'd have to start dressing like that. Guys can't have heroes.
Yeah. Uh my other hot scene is The War on Christmas. Uh cuz Punk is playing a show on Thursday night, Christmas show in New York at the Racket. Come out, check us out. got a lot of special guests from the uh Barcel New York office and some other guys in the music business. There's one guy that works in in New York. He's in the Chicago office a lot. He's going to be performing with us. I don't want to give it away, but it will either be the best.
No. Well, he's in the band. [ __ ] It'll either be the best thing you've ever seen or or the worst thing that you've ever seen. Should we do Should we be doing our It's not Frank Should we doing doing our burpees in the in the parking lot before to get ready?
I think maybe you should. Okay. I think maybe you should do some burpees. I saw there was a guy in that tune on Twitter. Joe Yanks is very excited about it. Uh whoever that person could be that performing.
You have no idea. There's no idea who that could be. No idea. It could be anybody. Uh my Cool Throne is Shawn McVey.
So he's coaching Thursday night. had his second child just a couple days ago. So, it's been a wild week for him. I don't know. Do we usually put a lot of stock in in coaches getting a baby bump?
Because I feel like with coaches, depending on how the baby's sleeping, it could be a baby bump or it could be the opposite.
He's got He's got to it it Shawn McVey the Rams money line's got to be the play.
You think so? Yeah. New baby. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, that feels right. Good vibes. Uh so, congrats to to Coach Mcy. My other cool throne is the haters.
Oh, the haters are right. The haters are right. Congratulations haters. Got to take my hat off to you. Uh Jaden's shut down for the season. RG4, injury-prone, made out of glass. It was all right this year. And I I went back and I I listened to my worst case scenario going into the season. And uh yeah, it happened. It all happened. The haters are right. Can't say anything to the haters. focus on next year. I always said
people said RG4. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I mean is this is this Tom Fernelli did text us asking soft benching?
I heard he did he did ask that question. I did hear a lot of RG4 like the second he was drafted too. Yeah. It's because same thing. It's like Heisman Trophy second overall pick.
Um my plan is still the same with Jaden. You can't deny that this was a back year. I've got no spin zone for that. was a a step back. I don't even want to say sophomore slump because when he played, he didn't play poorly. He wasn't great like he was last year, but
he didn't play great. He didn't play great, but he he was all the stats. Yeah. Yeah. Please. I He wasn't like a bad quarterback. He didn't play well, but he was also hurt for the entire season.
32nd in CPOE. CPO is a big stat. That's your big stat. That's what you base That's the money stat right there.
Um, you want to do a blind resume? We'll save blind resume for for Friday's show. Um,
I want the blind resume. I want the blind ref. Well, I don't I don't think I have it up right now.
I'll fill a buster. Okay, fill a buster for me for a second. Um Hank, are you looking up Jaden Daniel's stats? I This is probably the right thing to do to sit him down and hope that next year he can uh pick up where he was year one. Where where are you going to rank him in offseason quarterback rankings?
I don't care about offseason quarterback rankings. They're meaningless. Cuz we put him in a lot of top fives.
They're meaningless. Put him in a lot a lot of top fives. When your guy's not good, offseason quarterback rankings are meaningless. When he's very good, then it becomes the most meaningful thing in the world to get him in that top five.
Uh, but the the plan was always Super Bowl 2027. So, next year is the year. Next year's the year.
Next year's the year. All in. You got the plan, right? I do. Okay. Quarterback one. Eight touchdowns, no interceptions. Quarterback two, eight touchdowns, three interceptions. Quarterback three, five touchdowns, three interceptions. Quarterback four, two touchdowns, one interception.
I'm lost in the blind resume. I think there was a 80. I think quarterback one. I want the eight zero.
Okay, that's uh Drake May in the first quarter. Got it. The second one was Drake May in the second quarter.
What was that? That was 83. Okay. Third one was Drake May in the third quarter.
What was that? Five to three. Okay. And the last one was Drake May in the fourth quarter,
which was two touchdowns, one interception. Okay. So, yeah, he first half Drake May.
Yeah. Mr. First half. Yeah. I mean, that's what happens when you win games. You're you're not like throwing the ball on the fourth quarter because you're up.
Okay. All right. Here's another one. Fifth one. Uh, quarterback five, one touchdown, one interception.
Is that overtime? No, that's Drake May in the fourth quarter within seven points.
Oh, one. What about is there blocking on there? What do you mean? One great block.
That was I think that was in the first half. No, that was the fourth quarter. Remember you were like, "Oh, May has a chance to make a comeback." And he did.
That was the big run. Oh, the big run. Yeah, that was a great block. Yeah, maybe
sounds a little bit like a great handoff, but that's It was a great block though, Max. I appreciate fullbacks.
Yeah, low man wins. Fact. Yep. Hard nose guy. But yeah, congratulations to the haters. I got I I have I have nothing to say. The haters are right. Bad season. I'm still optimistic about the future. No spinning it. Bad season.
I Can I spin it for you real quick? the fact that he was in and out of the lineup. If he had just played poorly all season, that would be a lot more devastating.
Yeah. Oh, this is, you know, it was never it felt like it was just a bunch of stops and starts.
Oh, you gave Terry all that money. Yeah. Oh, wow. I'm happy for Terry. Me, too.
I'm very happy for Terry. It is crazy thinking back like being at those camps, especially the Ravens and Commanders camps cuz like it's it hasn't gone, you know, there's a lot of smoke right now with with John with uh John Harbaugh.
Yeah. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But yeah, I I've I've gone to some dark places. Maybe last year was as good as it gets.
NFC Championship game. It was a great run. Nah, I enjoyed it. These are the thoughts that you have in these in in the seasons from hell. Nah,
we'll be back. And in the meantime, my number one team is just rooting against Hank
is being a status a statistician. Yeah. Listen, Hank, you say rent free. It's called being a fan.
He's a diehard fan. I'm a diehard fan of hating you. Of hating you. Yeah. Okay. My hot seat. Uh NBA Cup, it's on the finals. Do you guys want to give a prediction? Do you care? Zack, you're a Knicks fan.
They care about this. I think you hang a banner. Memes. You care about the Z's a Knicks fan. Yeah, Zach's a Knicks fan. Remember he went to the the Knicks Pacers game. That was when Zack
That was a great time. Took off the McDonald's order. The Yeah. Carmelo Anthony. Best player ever.
Yeah. Best player ever. That That was really the take that got Zack on the map. I feel like
Yeah. Mhm. Just fighting with Brandon. Brandon. Yeah. About Carmelo being better than LeBron.
I think he just said, "Who would you take one-on-one?" Have you thought about writing a TV show about Carmelo Anthony? No. There's guys for that.
Uh memes. Do you care? Yeah, because it's the cup, babe. Do you care? I I care. I care.
Like, how much though? I'm I'm trying to understand. So, I I learned last night that this game means nothing towards the standings. Uh,
right. So, if you score like 100 points, that also doesn't matter. But I think the mindset of the players is what matters. How you prepare for a championship game. Like I think the NBA I think there these things can exist in the same world that the NBA Cup has been a success that it has given a little bit of juice to some of these you know November December games but I just still don't care. Like there's no way if they do this for another they do this the rest of the time there's no way you'll be able to be like oh yeah 20 2025 yeah that was the year the Spurs won the NBA Cup.
Yeah it's a Who won last year? Lakers. The Bucks. Bucks. Who won the year before?
Lakers the year before. Okay. It's and you technically you have to hang a banner.
You have to. You have to. It's a league rule. Oh, that's [ __ ] It's a trophy game.
There will be a trophy presented. I'm excited to watch the game. I just don't care who The NBA Cup means nothing to me.
Is the cup in the building? Cup's in the building because it's the cup. They get paid, too, don't they?
Each player gets uh half a mill. Okay. Yeah. There's I think it's also just being around Stephen Chay him being like the cup matters so much.
I love the cup. I got the Spurs. There is something to like the Spurs are going to win.
Preparing for a game that that means something and it does for money. Yeah. Like it does actually have an impact on on your bank account. So
for sure but yeah it means nothing. Do the coaches coach differently in the cup final? Do they coach like it's a a game seven?
They got to. I think you have to got to. It's mandated. All right. My cool throne is um all of us because there's a new study out there that farts cure Alzheimer's.
Oh, sick. That's awesome. All right. So, smelling your farts. Good. That'll be good for my dementia, Hank.
Yeah. There was a there was also a study. I think it's just I think Big Fart is putting some funding behind some New York Post articles because there was another one that was just farts make you if you smell your own farts, you live longer.
Hell yeah. Can you guys uh can you guys tell if your fart's going to smell just by ripping it? Yes. Like by feel?
Yeah. The heat. Well, it's also like what you ate? Yeah. What you've been what you've been doing recently.
But let's say dictate. Let's say you're on a couch. You're not thinking about what you had for lunch. Can you tell? Hank said the heat when it comes out. Like if it's hot, that's going to smell.
Yeah. If it's cold, no smell. I'm trying to describe the feeling. You do know. Like I do know. Definely no.
There's light farts. Yeah, there's some that are just like pure air. Dry. There's a lot though where
there's just Yeah. Some just you think it you think it's going to be a nothing fart and then you're like, "Oh shit."
Oh, yeah. Like the tiny ones. Yeah. You're like, "Oh, this is a tiny one. This would be fine."
The uh the postplane farts usually don't smell that bad. Never farted on a plane. I need to I need to uh I need to get I next Sunday, Zack, remind me when I go up to my office to start prepping for the show somewhere in the middle of the afternoon slate, I'll sit and close my office door and I'll rip like 3 minutes worth of farts. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to record that for a gang.
So, fart box next Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to do uh do a spaces?
I could just And then somebody has to fart. Raise your hand. Yeah, got to rip one.
Only farts. Uh, yeah. So, cool throw on us. Love that. Also, I just I might live forever because I might just be like I as long as I stay alive, I can keep watching a highlight of that killed throw.
It was so good. I I've watched it so many times. It's getting embarrassing. Yesterday was the first thing that I saw when I opened up the Twitter timeline and I I watched it. I was like, "This is the catch."
It's It was the catch. Listen, the stakes for the catch were so much higher. Caleb's throw was better than Joe Montana's. He threw it from the 30.
Montana threw from the 18 and it was cold weather. I I liked it so much. I thought it was the catch. I I sent it to Chris Burman. I was like, "This is the catch, Chris."
They were mashing it up. I was like, "This is the catch, dude." And he was like, "That's a a great point."
Yeah. I've watched a lot of the mashups. Yeah. It's It's a problem. Am I going to? It's just all it because I've clicked on it so many times that it's pretty much every other video on my for you.
I think it was it was a maybe a better throw and maybe a maybe a better catch. Stakes way higher obviously for the catch. So that one we're not going to Yeah, but it was what a dot. Oh man, I still don't know how like he came out of nowhere. Happy for DJ Moore, too. Zack, your hot seat cool throne. My hot seat this week is going to be uh the rest of the NBA because uh Cooper flag may have fully been activated.
Yes, he has reached full activation. He's fully activated. 18 years old, 40 piece in regulation.
Full mast for the flag. Yes. Damn. Some beautiful highlights from that game. They did take the L though.
Okay. Some beautiful highlights though. Yes. If we're talking just highlight tapes, he's looking good.
Is the future of the NBA in good hands? I don't know whose hands it's in right now.
I think it's in Wimby's hands. I think it's Wimy's hands. For sure. If we stop if we say that less though, does is there a chance that goes away? Like if I don't should we not speak Wimy's hands into existence cuz he's broken basketball.
Yeah. Yeah. I But I I love Wimby is the guy that I absolutely love watching play right now. If you ask me in 10 years, I might be like, I hate watching this guy play basketball.
He's too good because it's unfair. The I I would say the future of basketball's in Wemby and Sam Prey's hands. Yeah,
Sam Prey seems like I I think the Thunder have like a million picks still. Yeah,
they just have it all. But Wimby might just be so good that he can overcome any pick.
What if they just trade all the picks for Wimby? That would be a problem. Yeah, really big problem.
That would be a problem. Or Giannis. Yeah. Oh man, that'd be a huge problem. But I I do think that we're right in it's where we were with Patrick Mahomes in like his first couple seasons. Mhm.
That's where we're at with Wimi. It's like we we love it. We're watching something and being like, "Damn, this is so cool."
But the Thunder are also in Dodger Land. Yes, they are. They are in Dodger Land, which is insane because they doing it with a cap. Yeah,
they are in Dodgerland. Okay, Zach, your cool throne. My cool throne this uh today is I don't know if you guys are feeling it, but I'm feeling it. We're in the thick of the uh like Christmas coming up. Holiday season is in full effect, boys.
Yeah. How are we feeling about this? The holiday chair. It's like it I know it may sound silly.
Uh not silly. Not silly silly. Like like strangers that are usually like kind of cold. Everyone's being inviting. Like the Uber drivers are being nice. The people at the all restaurants being kind.
Yeah. What what happened specifically that that made you realize this? It sounds like that was a good experience.
I'm I'm two for two this week on Uber D. You've been like, "So so how you doing anything for the holidays? How's the holidays going? You have a great rest of your day, man." I'm like, "This is beautiful. This is so awesome."
Yeah. Because I I agree with you, Zach, because the the way the schedule laid out this year, the fact that we had like the latest possible Thanksgiving kind of [ __ ] up my brain where it just the turnaround from Thanksgiving to Christmas felt like the shortest it could be.
I feel like the snow is the difference. We've had a full like layer of snow basically all month and that has forced you to get into
like Christmas time. Yeah, it's hot because you know Christmas is approaching. You look outside, there's snow, it's like, "Oh, okay. This is This is real Christmas. Yeah.
But like in some winter's past where it's like warm going up to Christmas, then it doesn't feel like Christmas time.
I love the holiday cheer. It is. It is. There is nothing better than going to like a Christmas bar and just having everyone be drunk, a little overweight, but happy.
Yeah, it's great. Everyone's jolly. I mean, you get to You're searching for Christmas gifts for your loved ones. Like, you're getting into their interest. Like, what what what will make their day? Like, hot chocolate's back. You know, you can't really drink hot chocolate as an adult most of the year, but now it's like this acceptable.
By the way, good guy AJ Brown giving that kid hot chocolate. You guys see that video?
No. What did he do? He gave a kid hot chocolate during the game. During the game.
There's also an adult autograph seeker right next to him. He just he just wouldn't even look at him. Gave the kid hot chocolate.
Good guy. AJ Brown. What do you guys think about getting some holiday cheer in the studio?
We could for Monday. We already did this. What? Oh, we still have like 10 more of those dogs.
No, we got rid of them all. Oh, we did. The I was thinking we'd get more inflatables.
More inflatables. We could do some holiday cheer for Monday's show. Although I think they're one and0 since S since we've got since we got those inflatables,
Zach. Since you've destroyed the Yeah, since you stabbed a snowman. Well, I I was trying to My memory doesn't work too well. I was like,
here's an idea. I wasn't sure if the inflatables were were before or after the game. It was Monday Night Football and we got inflatables and then like 5 days later you won a game.
Yeah. Yeah. One and0. Here's an idea because I know that we have a pretty crazy week this week. And by the way, for we haven't said this yet. Next week we're doing we'll have a show Monday, Wednesday, no show Friday because Christmas is on Thursday. We're not going to tape on Thursday night. Then the following week we'll have a show Monday. So regular Sunday recap. So, we'll have a show Monday and then Friday on January 2nd. So, it'll be two shows each week for the next two weeks. So, we're going to we're going to miss a Friday and then we're going to miss a Wednesday,
but we're going to have new shows. New Year's Eve and the day after Christmas, those are those will be no show days.
Those will be no show days. Um, Zach, here's an idea because we we we were talking scheduling outside and it is a crazy week and I know we have some PMTV ideas. What if we pivot and the PMTV this week is you going out and shopping for some holiday cheer for the studio?
We can do that. We can get We can get Could you holiday cheer it up? If you guys are down to get festive, I'm not to get festive.
I would love for you to holiday cheer it up. Let's Let's get cheer for Let's get Jolly.
Okay, I can do that for you, sir. And maybe you know what? What What What's theme? So, it should be like
Christmas. No, but should be should be like metal Christmas. You know what I'm saying? Let's give him a little curveball. Indian Christmas.
What about What about cream Christmas? Cream Christmas. Metal cream Christmas. I don't think the Indians do Christmas.
Yeah, but you could just do Indian Christmas. I would like to see Zach Christmas.
Hardcore Zack Christmas. Hardcore Christmas. Hardcore Zack Christmas. Okay. So, it's your likes
and Christmas. Okay. Hardcore. Hardcore Zack Christmas. Okay. How do you feel? Unlimited budget. How do you feel about trees?
Trees? Yeah. I I mean I I I love foliage. What about you? Like Christmas trees?
Oh, I mean the smell is so good. PFT. It is. The scent is like Oh, man. It's great.
Are you a fake tree guy or a real tree guy? I I I don't have a tree currently in my current apartment, but uh I do like a real tree. Yeah. When you can do it.
Yeah. So, these Christmas tree farms, they're taxing nowadays, so sometimes you can't do it, but when you can do it, great idea.
I saw the Swedish tradition online uh yesterday. This guy posted a picture. He said that he's a divorced dad and he doesn't have a lot of traditions with his son. And one of the traditions is find finding the worst possible tree at the lot every year. And it was like the stumpiest, grossest tree, but it was like such a cute tradition.
That's cool. That's Yeah. The trying to have some fun with it. Listen, as a a former Christmas tree salesman, you need guys like those to get rid of the last inventory. Yeah. They've got personality. They've got great personalities.
Yeah. Okay. Great. Zack. So, you're going to hardcore Zack Christmas. We'll get so fast.
I want your likes in here. Okay. Like I want things you like. Okay. My My favorite parts about Christmas.
It No, your favorite parts about you. Oh, interest. Oh, goodness. Okay. All right.
Like I know you're a big Laboo guy. Got to get some Laboos in here. I don't I never had Laboo, but I'll get you guys some of these if you want to get Trinket.
Sack a COD Christmas. You know you have some Leoos. I got action figures, but I don't have stuffed animals except for that one Squishall.
Maybe get some some action figures in here. What about uh Krampus? Remember that guy?
Krampus rocks. Yeah, Krampus. Yeah. War Zone. Yeah. How do we That's new. Have you guys seen that Grinch from Universal?
No. He's awesome. Let me see. The Grinch from Universal. He's like the Grinch, by the way. The Grinch um
He's so good at his job. The Grinch movie gets heavy play in my house. It's really good. The The
cartoon. I've Oh, yeah. It's awesome. I've never seen I've never seen the uh Jim Carrey version.
Yeah. I wouldn't I don't think that's Where are you? All right. So, you're not finding any.
No, that's This is it. This is it. That was twerking. This is him. This He's just very I mean, this is a long I'm trying to find the right video.
I He's good. He's got He's got highlights. This isn't the video I was looking for.
Okay. The PE There's people out there that will know. Oh, this is this is a video. This video rips.
Okay. This is Grinch highlights from Max. There's people out there that will know. He's like super viral. Six. Seven.
Eight. NINE. Are you ready? He's just like the mascot. Whatever. Whatever. This isn't the right crowd.
NO. STAY IN IT. STAY in it. This isn't the right crowd. He's good. There's the people. The people out there will will know what I'm talking about.
Stay in it. You tell they can they can relate to a video that they like a lot when they're watching on their phone and then they show it for other people and they're like, "Uh, yeah.
What is up, my guy?" Okay. You know what? I regret saying anything. He's just good at his job. [ __ ] it.
All right. [ __ ] it. You know what? No one's mad at you. No, people are you. You guys are mad at me.
No, we're not. I can I can see it on your faces. I'm not I'm not We've actually had like a pretty welcoming tone here.
No, I know. I know. But it's too welcoming cuz I'm I'm I'm I'm you you can feel the room when it when it's not hitting.
I'm just disappointed. It's ripping. I think it's ripping, dude. No. What other videos uh do you chuckle at late at night while you're laying in bed that you want to introduce the number one sports podcast?
Nick Kleti made a video recently that I thought was so funny. Let's see it. Pull it up.
Oh, [ __ ] This one's got this one's got to hit. Max's videos getting viral with Max.
There is nothing worse than showing someone a video and having it not hit. I I feel like he doesn't he doesn't post his his videos to Twitter.
Oh no. Oh, now we got to sign into a different app. Oh, Instagram's going to be tough.
Now you're just googling his name. But it got me where I needed to be. Falling apart. Okay. Okay. [ __ ]
Oh, you got to sign in. I got to log in. Log in, Max. We got to see it now. This buildup is Max. Max,
I can't log in. I don't I don't I don't know my passwords like this. Nicollet's at home right now being like, they're about to gas me up and then you're just going to you're going to rug
friend of the show. You're rug pulling them. Please. Please. Oh, maybe it's on YouTube.
Please. Maybe he's a shorts guy. No, he's not a shorts guy. We need this video,
guys. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. No, you brought it up. Well, you asked me a question.
Which one is it? Which one is it on his Instagram? I got it. I got it. Okay. All right. Thank god. Here we go.
There's no sound. Sound's not working. [ __ ] There's no sound. Bringing my name is poop and wise. You guys are just trying not to laugh now. We can't play that music. So we
All right. That was a good It was a good pooping wife. Good. Yeah, it was funny. It was funny.
Farts. Anyone else want to play funny video? No, you got it, man. It's your thing.
Yeah, it's your thing. You're crushing it. I I'm I'm I'm This is like as embarrassed as I've been on this show.
Okay. So, that was Max's video corner. That one was memes. Yeah. Memes tried to memes. You get your own thing.
I have my own computer. That was Max. Okay. Uh, let's get to our interview with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Before we get to Fitzy's brought to you by Aura Frames, let me tell you guys about my holiday pattern. I tell myself I'm going to be thoughtful. I panic at the last minute. I buy a gift card. This year, I skipped the panic. I got an Aura frame. Got one last year, too. It's a great Christmas present. Uh, moms love it. Dads love it. Grandparents love it. Nieces love it. Nephews love it. Everybody loves it. You can personalize your gift. You can add a message before it even arrives. And it comes in a gift box. It's packaged in a premium gift box. No price tag. You can put unlimited free photos and video on it. You just download the Aura app. You connect it to Wi-Fi. You can't wrap togetherness, but you can frame it. It really is a great gift. I can upload pictures of myself, of Blake, of whatever to my mom's picture frame. And
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What are we thinking? Big decisions to make for this weekend. Mega day. Maybe some duck some duck wings.
I got some deep dish. I realized that recently of why you said duck parm last week. And I was so confused. I was like, duck porn.
I don't think that'd be good. Okay. Yeah. No, I don't actually think that duck.
What about uh we haven't done Chinese in a while cuz we have two days. We have two Super Bowl Sundays this week.
Yep. So, we got two Super Bowl Sundays going in going into a holiday week. That's
Listen, we're we're on to 2026, Max. You can't just jump into Christmas. You got to ease yourself into it.
Yeah. I think maybe Chinese one day and then uh wings the next. We never got those subs.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got to do that. Got to do subs. Aren't you going to make us subs?
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Have you gotten a phone call? because I feel like you're you're the guy like you you got to be watching this and being like I might be able to get back out there.
Yeah, I I have contemplated because I've got one more year before my health insurance runs out. So, I have thought about that. That was a big deal for Philip as we've seen with the 10 kids.
Um but for me it just came down to do I want to reset the clock on my Hall of Fame eligibility? And I think that answer is no. You know, I think
uh next year We'll see what happens there. And uh maybe after I don't get inducted into the Hall of Fame, first ballot. I'll think about it.
I No, I I think America's waited long enough for Ryan Fitzpatrick to get in the Hall of Fame. I think that'd be very a very mean thing to do to us to make
you also like our our whole hall of fame pitch is always like you can't tell the story of football without and then if you fill in that name, it's the truth. I actually you played for so many teams. I don't know if you could tell the story of football without you. No, I uh I I don't know about that. But I do know I was watching Philillip. I started practicing cadences because I like his story other than you know him being a top 10 of all time in terms of yardage and touchdowns. Like the guy has been sitting on the couch for 5 years.
He looked let's say he looked 30 pounds heavier maybe than when he played. And Philip was a big guy when he played. So I put him at at least 260 265. and that's probably being generous, but he went out there, he ran the offense. They didn't ask him to do a whole lot and they had a chance to win that game. So, it was really impressive to see and I thought he gave it a great effort.
And he's starting again uh week 16. What I mean he obviously doesn't have the same arm, but is it is it from your perspective because you obviously could talk about it better than anyone else in terms of like you played for so long in the league and if you were asked to go back out there. Is it the fact that Phil can still think the game better than most that he's able to get away with it a little bit where it's like if you're able if you have played that long and you've seen that many things, there's still an an ability to see things and yes, the arm's not there, but you can still get by with the fact that you can think it better than the defense. Yeah, I I'm really interested to see this week because Seattle didn't come after him at all.
And I think that was out of respect to Philip's mind. The fact that the only way they thought he'd be able to dice them up is for them to come after him, him to beat him with some of those quick hot throws. And so, uh, I have to imagine they're going to come after him a little bit more this week, put some pressure on him and see now that like there's film out there and we can see, you know, how many times did he throw the ball over 10 yards in that game? He had the nice back shoulder to Alec Pierce. He had the interception that he floated at the end of the game, but that ball's going to come out quick. He's not going to take a whole lot of hits. So, I think teams can start structuring a game plan around what they just saw versus Seattle. Um, and I don't know that that's going to bode well for Philip, unfortunately.
Maybe not. I I hope that it does. We We love watching him play and it it was great to see him out. I'm cherishing every moment that I get with Philip Rivers. This feels like it's it's all, you know, house money that we're playing with. I thought I was out of the Philip Rivers business four years ago and now he walks back into our life and I'm loving every second of it. I think you could probably play. I think I think if the Jets gave you a call and they were like, "Hey, Ryan, for old time's sake. Remember that season you won 10 games with us, why not step out here?" I think I think you could step in for a game and throw for like maybe 200 yards. I think you could do it.
Oh, I I guarantee I could. I My issue was uh I mean, look, they're still in the playoff hunt. They're just trying to win that game. Philip did exactly what he was asked to do, which was put us in position to win this game at the end. than he did. The issue I would have, and this was kind of me at the end of my career, too, but when you're playing with house money, when you're out there having fun, I don't know how many checkdowns are going to be thrown.
Yeah, there's I love the yolo ball. And I think me, four years removed from playing going out there, there's going to be a lot of balls flying in the air. So, you know, sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad, but uh it certainly wouldn't be boring. I I got one last question and it's not about Philillip specifically. It's maybe the bigger NFL picture because I saw someone point this out and I'm curious your take on it. They were like, "Hey, this is actually not the best thing in terms it's kind of an indictment on college football and getting quarterbacks prepped that Phil Rivers at 44 is better than some of these guys in their early 20s. Do you think that's fair? Do you think there's there is a quarterback uh I don't even know what it would be called, but like there's a vacuum.
Yeah, there's a there's a problem with quarterbacking and how we're getting quarterbacks ready that this can even happen?
I don't think so. Cuz if you look around the league and you look at I mean you look at your guy Caleb and the way that he's kind of developing this year and Bo Nicks, there's a lot of different guys. I I think the hard thing is for Shane Stik in I mean for all coaches/playcllallers you have trust issues and so basically the Colts were in a position where they needed a guy to come in that wasn't going to screw it up and as a young guy it's really hard. We've seen it in Minnesota where you just have these plays that you're young you're developing and you screw it up. McCarthy had one in this last game again, but like Philip Rivers is a guy he's going to get the motions right. He's going to get the shifts right. He's going to be able to get guys in and out of the huddle. He's going to call the play and he's not going to put the ball in harm's way. So that's all they were looking for. I don't think it's an indictment on
young guys. I don't think it's an indictment on Riley Leonard. I do think if you're looking at the Colts situation, the Anthony Richardson thing is just weird. Whether the Colts don't like him or him and his agent are pissed at the Colts. uh by the way everything was handled uh it's just weird right now that after you know he's six plus weeks removed from his eye surgery um I I think that he is probably healthy enough to play so I think there's some question marks there in my mind
yeah I think if if Philip Rivers wasn't already talking to Shane Stken every week breaking down film I don't I don't think he gets that call necessarily but I can see it's like you're in the playoff push just go in manage the game and I'm again I'm very thankful that Phil is back in our lives uh there's one team out there that you uh you killed over the course of your career. Do you know that you have the NFL record for most wins against a single team?
Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars. Yeah. You you beat him six times. The Jaguars this year though look really good. Trevor Lawrence looks amazing. He's playing the best football that we've ever seen him play. He's a guy that's not afraid afraid to do the yolo ball. He had what, five touchdowns uh passing last week, one touchdown rushing. Should we believe in the Jacksonville Jaguars? Oh. So, I think, you know, in developing all these quarterbacks, I think Trevor is an example of it, just like Caleb is this year, just like Bo Nicks is, even though Trevor's older than those guys, is you have a team that's playing really well around him. You have a defense that's creating a lot of turnovers. And I would say Trevor's year this year has been up and down, but to be able to have those up and downs and continue to win football games, he's been able to find more consistency as the season's gone on. So, I think it's a good reminder
that play calling really matters in this league. I think Liam Cohen is a great coach and, you know, we're coming off a game. You try not to overreact each week, whether it's a bad game or a great game. Uh Trevor Lawrence has certainly got gotten better this year. I'm not too concerned about the Jacksonville Jaguars making uh noise in the playoffs. So
Oh, okay. So, yeah, we do overreact to everything. Um that's just, you know, like we when you say don't overreact, it's like I watched that game for Trevor Lawrence. I know the Jets stink, but it's like he's the best quarterback ever. Uh that's I think that's fair to say they're probably going to win the Super Bowl. That's how we reacted to week 15.
Yeah, but there's a reason, you know, how the Jets reacted to it. They fired their defensive coordinator.
True. That's true. He's a coach killer. Yeah. I I also just love Jaguars game, especially when you get the pool going in December down in Jacksonville. That I think that pool might lead the nation in the most t-shirts worn in a pool. I feel like you're at like an 80% clip down there.
Uh I I think the Diamondbacks, they also have a lot of t-shirts being worn in their pool. So
yeah, you can never be too safe with the sun, you know, never be too safe. Even though the Diamondback's roof is usually closed.
I just love the ambiance down there. Yeah. Uh I I got one bone to pick with you Ryan.
Oh, it's it's regarding Thursday Night Football, which we love and we watch. We can't wait for it this week.
Can you not do the uh like yellowish orange line of scrimmage line on the screen? It was very confusing last Thursday night. The creamsicle line of scrimmage, it it looked like it was the first down line
uh that that's displayed on the broadcast. Okay. Okay. Just make sure that if you have that line, it's it's not like a yellow or an orange or a cream.
Okay. I'll talk to Sam Schwarzene about that. You guys know Sam? Yes. A little bit. He's real He's real happy. I don't know if you've seen the pocket health thing we've been doing. Uh that's Sam's baby as well. So, I got to imagine he has something to do with the creamsicle line. I'll talk to him and get him straight on that. Okay. Thank you.
All broadcast for Amazon is so awesome. Our guy Sam does such a great job. It's it's you learn so much when you're watching it. Let's talk about though Thursday Night Football. The So this is the the finale for you um for Thursday Night Football on Amazon. Couldn't be better. Couldn't be better.
Not our fin. Not true. What's your finale? Well, unfortunately, our finale at the beginning of the year, we were excited about uh the Christmas game. Denver and Kansas City.
That's right. All right. That's the finale. That still will mean something in terms of Denver going for the one seed. Uh so so that's still an important game. And I and Bo Knicks has been phenomenal. But this so the penultimate Thursday night football. You like that Harvard guy?
I like that. That's great. By the way, like nice job throwing that shirt in our face. We get it. Haha. You're so smart.
Cinnamon rolls. My kids got it for me. What do you want? Yeah, right. Yeah, right. That's That's such a Harvard shirt to wear and be like, "Hey, you get it just like uh used to make." Okay, that's good. That's a good shirt. But let's talk about this game. The Rams Seahawks. It's going to be phenomenal. Both teams trying to win the NFC West. Both teams trying to get the one seed. I'll start with the Seahawks. We are believers in the Seahawks in totality. Uh their defense is awesome. Mike McDonald has done an incredible job. I'm still I I do believe in Sam Darnold. I I I thought Sam Darnold was, you know, one of those guys even four years ago that were like, "Hey, if he gets another shot, he could be good." But it has been a little up and down these last couple of weeks and we're getting closer to playoff football. What have you seen? Are you are you trusting in Sam Darnold? Do you think that this is a Super Bowl caliber
team? Yeah, I I think the things that weigh on you with Sam, he's been so good the last two years. I think he's I saw a stat yesterday where he leads quarterbacks in wins in the regular season the last two years. Um you think back to the Detroit game and then the Rams playoff game last year. You think back to the first Rams game this year where he threw four picks. Uh and that has to weigh on you a little bit. Um, what I would love to see out of Seattle, I think first of all, the weather looks like it might be a factor. There might be some rain, which it's Seattle, it could change any minute, but that'll be interesting. Um, I would love to see them get Rasheed Shahed somehow more involved in this offense. Um, he does great with his kick returns. They haven't even attempted to throw a post route to him yet. You know, Sam missed a go ball to Rasheed that got knocked down in the first Rams game, but
it's going to be one of those games where they are going to have to rely on Sam to win this thing for him because that offense of the Rams right now, I know that they got held to 21 points in that first Seattle game, but the way they're running the football right now is really incredible. And Sam's going to have to show up and win this one. I think this will go a long way in terms of can we see a different version of Sam Darnold in the playoffs if he can get the Seahawks through this game.
Can you explain to us uh what's so what's so interesting about the uh the Rams rushing attack? Because I think we watch the games and we watch Pukan Dua, we watch Matt Stafford back there playing almost as good as he's ever played in his entire career. They've got like three different tight ends who are all kind of the same guy that look confusing when they're on the screen. Uh but like when it comes to their their running attack, what's what's so good about it this year? What are they doing? Well,
so I think the fact that it's a two-headed monster, I think Blake Corm's done a great job for them this year. We knew who Kairen Williams was and he's continued to be a good player. But when you watch them, just watch how many times their running back gets through the line without being touched. And I think that this game that's going to mean a lot because the front four of Seattle is super uh talented, super aggressive, but they do a great job of getting on their blocks. and the Rams. Andrew Witworth keeps telling me is in my ear like this is the most underrated offensive line in football. Seattle is not very good at getting their running backs to and through the line of scrimmage without getting touched. And the Rams are top three in terms of their ability to do that. So, I think that'll be a big part of this game. And then Matthew Stafford from under center.
Matthew Stafford opening up the play action with being able to run so effectively. I think the mistake that the Rams made in the first game, even though they won, was they got away from the run a little too much because they were gashing them in the first half and then kind of shied away from it. So, I think that's going to be a huge factor in this game and probably the deciding factor for the Rams. when you watch Puka and Stafford, we we've been, you know, talking about it in such a glowing way the last few weeks, and it's obviously been all season, but it feels like especially in the last few weeks, they're in a zone that is you just can't guard it. It's it's it's the perfect pass. It's the perfect wide receiver.
What do you do to stop it? Because there's there's some of these balls it's like this defender is in the perfect position yet the pass got there right where it needed to be and Puka can make every single catch. I don't know what you do as a defense. Yeah, you could see the competitiveness that he has on every catch that he makes. Uh and somehow these 50/50 balls are like 9010 balls to Puka. But the physicality that he plays with, I think when you watch him, I mean between Puka and Aman Ross St. Brown. Two of my favorite receivers to watch because they're so involved in the run game too and they take pride in that and the physicality and blocking which sets up a lot of their stuff in the pass game as well in the play action. But Puka is an absolute savage. And I think Devonte Adams and having him and all the touchdowns that he's scored, they're great friends, but I think that's even pushed Puka to play even better these
last few weeks cuz it's like look what this guy is doing on the other side. This is what greatness looks like. I got to make sure that I'm still relevant and people remember my name and who I am, which they obviously do. But he uh he's an incredible player and a tone setter for that team.
Yeah. What about another team in that division, the 49ers? Should we be talking about the 49ers more because they're right in the thick of it. Kyle Shan I I made the the point that I think Kyle Shanahan should be in the discussion for coach of the year. He's never won the award before. What that that team has gone through both on offense and defense. Also, Robert Salah should get a lot of credit too for the defense. Um, should we be talking more about the 49ers as a team?
Here's the thing that people still don't understand about the 49ers. If the Rams win out, they're going to win the NFC West and be the one seed. If Seattle wins out, they're going to win the NFC West and be the one seed. If Seattle beats the Rams and the 49ers win out, the 49ers will not only win the NFC West, they will be the one seed in the NFC.
Yep. Yeah. which is insane. It's insane that we haven't been talking about him. M. Jones did such a great job for them. You can tell in the last few weeks, Brock Perie,
he's starting to really warm up. I I actually called on the radio, first time ever for Westwood one, the San Francisco game versus the Panthers, the one where Brock threw three picks, and it just looked a little bit off. It looked like he was getting his footing back. Um, but you can tell they're getting healthy at the right time on offense. What would this team look like with Fred Warner and Bosa? It would be very scary, but they're getting healthy on offense and they're definitely a team that has been underappreciated and I think, like you said, Kyle Hannish, Kyle Shanahan should be up for uh coach of the year because of the efforts he's put in.
Do you think they would be a dangerous team in the playoffs? I do. I think they'd be a really dangerous team in the playoffs. A lot of these teams, uh, when you can score like they can, when you can possess the ball like the 49ers can, that really helps the defense out. They've been banged up on defense. They are a little bit of a mash unit, but uh, the aggressiveness that they play with flying around. When you watch film and you could see the speed and a team rallying to the ball on defense and it pops out to you when you're watching on the little, you know, all 22, uh, it's really impressive. And that's the stamp that Robert Salah puts on his defenses all the time. And these guys are playing really hard.
Yeah. Uh, can we play a little game here called who do you trust? Just Yeah. Love it.
Okay. Top top five teams that you trust in the NFL right now. If it if we're talking about the playoffs, who has a chance to win it all? Who are the top five teams that you would actually that you trust?
Okay. Uh, the Rams, the Bills, Houston, um, New England, and San Francisco. So, you trust all those teams?
Yeah. Seahawks weren't on there. Yeah. If you ask me next week, if the Seahawks win this game versus the Rams, they'll move into being able to be trusted. But, you know, just like Shane Stiken, I got trust issues.
Yeah. Green Bay. Green Bay is another one. Like, I want I want to trust Green Bay, but I don't know that I can.
Yeah, they the injuries obviously on Sunday to Michael Parsons is massive. The um I don't know that I trust the Bills, but I do trust Josh Allen.
But that that's the thing, right? We I think we all trust Josh Allen. So, it's like let's look at the last two games. I mean, after the Bills lost to Miami, every Bills fan was,
"Oh my gosh, this is I mean, we're wasting this guy." the prime of his career and and then you see what he did versus the Bengals and the defense just needs to make a couple plays and then we saw what he just did versus the Patriots. If you look at the landscape of the AFC right now, we're looking at the quarterbacks that are going to be in the playoffs. I I mean, I don't know who else you can trust. I think, you know, Drake May's getting there, but he hasn't done it yet. And I still think the Buffalo Bills, if they win out, which they're playing Cleveland, Philly, and the Jets, I still think that week 18 matchup where Miami goes to New England, as long as it's over 40 degrees, there's a chance that the Bills can still win the AFC East.
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Yes. So, so the the Dolphins real quick because we have a long time theory and you played for the Dolphins. It's the jerseys when they get in cold. They're candy ass jerseys and they just don't play well in the cold because of the jerseys. Did you feel that when you got in the cold?
Yeah. But did you see they got in early so they could practice at night in the snow? Yeah, I didn't see that.
They're the most like this whole iteration of the Dolphins are the most like don't say that we're cold. Please do not print that we're cold. I swear to God we're not cold. Look how many times we've tried to beat the cold.
And and their coaches uh his glasses fogging up halfway. He's the right side of the glasses was tough.
He was the coldest man on earth. And the fact that they're called the dolphins, like a a nice tropical aquatic animal, it just all fits together so perfectly. He's like, "Yeah, Dolphins can't play in the cold."
I I think like we also when we're talking about MVPs, and we always just point to the end of the year stats last night's a great example of when you watch that game and you watch the Dolphins offense for the first three quarters, well, three and a half quarters, and then you look at to his stats at the end of the game.
Yeah. Compare those to say Josh Allen's stats against the Patriots. Tu is look a lot better than his. And so that's a great example of a game where we have to be careful at the end of the year. The stats obviously matter, but we have to be careful of just relying on stats in terms of quarterback's numbers.
Yeah. Yeah. I got a question about my Bears. Uh Caleb has I mean that throw he made to DJ Moore, I think I've watched it a thousand times. It was one of the coolest throws ever. But the team in general, like I am I'm now of the belief that they can compete with anyone in the NFC. uh especially with their run game that the the game that you guys were at on Philadelphia in Philadelphia on Black Friday that was kind of the eye opening oh wow like this team can compete with anyone. Do you trust Caleb? Do you think that the progression I I know the progression has been there but has he gotten to a point where you're starting to be like hey this guy can maybe win some playoff games? I I would just love to see him more consistent in terms of throwing in rhythm and throwing, you know, the execute the way the way that the play was called. I would just love to see him get more continue to get more
consistent at that. But it was really funny. I think it was two weeks ago, I was talking to my kids and we're watching the game and I said, "This dude throws better than anybody in the NFL on the run." And then the announcers immediately said, "Boy, he really struggles throwing on the run." cuz again I think the stats say and maybe he has a bunch of throwaways or overthrows. I don't know. But the stats say that he's not as good as some of these other quarterbacks on the run, but to your point on that touchdown to DJ Moore and a bunch more examples, the velocity that that dude can put on the ball and the accuracy that he throws with when he gets outside the pocket and I don't think people realize how fast he is.
He runs away from people. So, I think the brand of football that the Bears are playing right now is really good. I think their defense creates a lot of turnovers. I'm a little like I think their defense scares me a little bit in the playoffs in terms of being able to trust them. Yeah. They're not generating turnovers.
And then the offense, what have they done? They can run the crap out of the football. Um, which is a winning formula. their end of the season here with Green Bay, Sam Fran, and Detroit is an absolute gauntlet. So, we'll see how they finish up these last three weeks.
Yeah, I'm excited to watch the this this home stretch. And you're right about the Caleb like I I think similar to the Tua in that if you look at the stats, you can see one thing and if you watch the game, you see another where the completion percentage has been a big talking point. Ben Johnson's brought it up, Caleb's brought it up. I agree that like there are definitely some times where it's like, "Hey, just take the check down or, you know, make a little bit better of a pass." But I think what people miss on the completion percentage is he's so elite at getting out of harm's way and not taking sacks and throwing the ball away and not throwing interceptions that that's such like the he has not been putting the Bears in a lot of negative spots where last year that happened all the time.
Yeah. And and I think I think the other thing when I watch them, you know, I when uh Ben Johnson said we don't throw 50/50 balls, I actually think that mentality hurts Caleb on the his deep passes because there's a lot of deep passes that he throws that get overthrown that he's nervous cuz we don't throw 50/50 balls. So, it's either got to be the perfect ball or it's got to be too far and incomplete. Uh, I think that mindset and mentality actually does hurt him a little bit because he's a much more accurate passer than he's showing on some of those deep balls.
Yeah. Yeah. There's a couple quarterbacks, actually two Eagles quarterbacks that that I'm thinking of when I watch Caleb and he's getting out of these sacks and he's throwing the ball out of bounds. McNab used to be awesome at that. And uh Jaylen Herz, he's also when he's playing at his best, like avoiding those big negative plays and getting the ball out of bounds. Those are actually good plays. It it sucks that it gets lumped in the uh the completion percentage and we look at that, but it means a lot on a drive. Um for the Eagles, how much uh how much better is their offense or did they just play the Raiders?
Uh they just played the Raiders. I mean, they have issues. They've had issues up front all year. Um I think that's been the biggest thing. And you know, there's been a lot of fingerpointing at all kinds of different things trying to figure out, you know, is it the line, is it the quarterback, is it the play caller. Um, but I think the one thing that we know is they are not the same team. Even though they have a lot of the same playmakers, they're not the same team they've been in the past in terms of consistency on offense. So, can they find it? Maybe. But you realize that that was not a team that I mentioned that I trust in the playoffs. And I think all of us football fans are I hate that Patrick Mahomes got hurt, but I don't think any of us want to see the Eagles and the Chiefs in the
N playoff or in the Super Bowl again. Like I Let's get some fresh blood in there. Let's see some new teams play.
Yeah, agreed. Speaking of Patrick Mahomes, how he got surgery right away. You never tore your ACL, but you obviously have been around a lot of guys who who had that injury. like in your estimation is he going to are we going to see him next year and is it something like talking to other guys because I've always thought that yes ACL surgeries have gotten way better. Guys come back nine months or whatever it is but they're still not the same guy for probably another year in terms of like their peak level. They need to be able to trust it and everything. Did you did did you do you feel that anecdotally at all? Uh I think I think first of all it is amazing the strides where you know 20 years ago it was like oh no he tore his ACL will he ever be the same guy. I think uh the advances that doctors have made in the ACL surgery a lot of guys are coming back and they're just the same as they were before. So I don't
think there's any doubt as long as you're rehabbing the right way which like Patrick is obviously going to rehab the right way. he's going to do the right things. And it's always unfair to put timelines on guys, but 9 months does seem to be the right timeline in terms of that's when we can at least start to maybe expect that he would be ready. Nothing before that. So, he's going to come back better than ever. And u next year I I bet you we won't even notice.
Yeah. So, this was not a passing of the torch season to Bo Knicks in that division. The torch remains with Patrick.
Yeah. I I mean they've they've got some stuff they got to figure out in Kansas City and and I think you know last year they won so many close games and this year they were in a bunch of those close games they're on the wrong side of it but if I'm Kansas City first of all we got to figure out what's Travis Kelce going to do and it you know I I would guess that he's going to retire but I have zero inside information on that. So, we've got to replace that production somehow. And then I would love to see them address the running back room. And you know, when they it can't just be the same two guys and then when somebody gets hurt, bring the same two guys back. Like I would love to see some new blood in there and some some youthful uh energy and speed in the back field. I think that'll really help them.
You're right about the uh close game thing because I I think we do we just look at the wins losses at the end of a season and we're like that team's good, that team's bad. But there are so many like last year they were what 15-2. They probably weren't a 15-2 team. Last year they were probably more like a 12 and five team. This year they're six and eight. They're probably better than a six and eight team. But that's just kind of how the ball bounces and some of these games go against you. And then you look up, you're like, "Holy [ __ ] we're six and eight."
I mean, think about think about our guy Baker right now. Think about Bay seven and seven and the way they started the season winning those games with no time on the clock. Think if all those games went the wrong way.
Yeah. Like they would be sitting at three and 11, right? Be, you know, I mean, it's it's absolutely wild. But you're right. At the end of the year, you sit there and and that's why some of these guys get paid the big bucks, too. You know, you got to be able to do it.
You watched a guy last week uh on Thursday Night Football that might get paid the big bucks this off seasonason, Kyle Pittz. He finally he finally showed
Yeah. And Kurt Cousins. I would love to see Kurt Cousins get one more contract. Let's get him to a half billion dollars. He's so close to 500 mil. Why not? But Kyle Pittz, I think everybody's watched Kyle Pittz for the last four years and been like, "He's so good. Why don't they throw the ball to him?" Um, his first four years in the NFL, he had in a row, one touchdown, two touchdowns, three touchdowns, four touchdowns. Now he's at four touchdowns right now. So, we're projecting him to score one more before the end of the season. But, I was watching him and I was like, I think I want Kyle Pitts. I I I think he's finally figured it out. It's a small sample size based on on one game, the Kyle Pitts game, but that's how we are as NFL fans. We watch it, we're like, they've unlocked Kyle Pitts. Do you think that he's actually a guy that that could be like a a superstar tight end, or is this just recency bias blip on the
radar, he'll go back to Kyle Pitts? Yeah. I I mean, I I'm going to tell my kids this story one day. I was there for the Kyle Pitts game. Yeah. You know, was there I was watching. Um I I think there's a large body of work. I think that he has gotten better. He's certainly been more productive with Kirk as the quarterback. Um I also think that's come with Drake London being injured. He's received more targets and more looks, but he's a very specific guy. And so, um you know, he's not a guy that you're going to be able to put at the end line, end of the line and block, which you know, they they do have to do that a little bit. But you you look at a guy like Darren Waller who came out of retirement and the success that he's had in Miami and the things that he's done.
Um the biggest thing I see with Kyle Pittz that I wish he would be able to get better at is he's a little bit awkward catching the ball over his shoulders. There's some awkwardness there. And so to be such a big target in the red zone, I think that's why you don't see him get a ton of touchdowns is because he's not great at that. But somebody's certainly going to pay him. And um I I don't think I would be in that business though.
Yeah. Uh as we get, you know, later in the season, there's obviously a lot of teams that have been eliminated. Uh a lot of teams that are not playing good football. You were on a couple of those teams. How bad do the vibes get? And is it like do you as a team are you able to get up for it? Because especially week 16, 17, 18, it does feel like the quit factor is in there. And I know guys are playing on for tape and maybe their next job, but can you feel it in the room in on on Sunday where it's like, "All right, we got no chance cuz no one's no one's head is in this thing."
Yeah. I I think every team is different. I was in that situation a lot of times, but I I think back to like 2019 when I was on the Dolphins and that was the tank for two a year and that was the year we started 0 and7 or whatever we started and the beginning of the year the Patriots beat us by 45 points. And I I think you have to take on the mentality at the end of the year of like, all right, we got we still have the ability to be relevant. We can screw the season up for some of these teams. And so in that season, we played the Patriots in week 18, went up to uh New England. If they beat us, they were going to have the first seed in the AFC.
And we ended up beating them at the last second. Kansas City got the first seed in the AFC. Kansas City ended up winning their first Super Bowl. And so I think those are the things you have to think about. Yes, you think about okay uh my statistics, my play, these things are going to help me make money. But the other part of it is like we still have like we're still relevant. Now, the tough games are when you have, say, let's say Arizona and the Giants were playing, you know, week.
That that is when it gets tough when everybody's just, you know, you're like, it feels like preseason game number four back in the day where you're looking at the clock and you're handing it off and you're trying not to throw any incompletions so that clock keeps running. Those are the games that are tough.
Yeah, that I think the Raiders and Giants play next week. That's going to be a tough one.
Mhm. the Bengals are going to have some tough games going down the stretch. Uh, have you have you been able to like look at Joe Burrow and and and put yourself in his shoes and uh I I guess I'm kind of asking you to read another guy's mind, which is a tough situation to be in, but based on his comments last week, it seemed like he was either frustrated with the organization or just uh kind of frustrated with with getting hurt all the time. And going battling back through injuries, it has to like weigh on you mentally. What did you think when you saw Joe uh talking about, you know, his love of the game?
Well, I was interested in all the Pokemon art talk that he was going with, but I also think that I think that he's a little bit like prisoner in the moment. You know, it's been a bad year for him. He had the toe surgery. He came back if you want. I mean, he was having fun in that Buffalo game. He was playing lights out and then it was two plays. Benford jumps up and picks off the pass and then his next throw gets batted and Epanessa picks it off. Um, I think it's prisoner of the moment and and Joe's a different guy. Joe certainly is a different guy. So, I don't think anybody can try to, you know, read his mind, but he's either prison of the moment upset or he's playing chess and he's trying to set something up to where he doesn't want to be in Cincinnati and this is part of that long play where maybe in another year, you know, he gets traded somewhere a little bit warmer with nicer weather. Yeah, he did seem like he was
having fun on Thanksgiving, too, after that game. It it seemed like it it meant a lot to him and he was smiling. He was liking hanging out with the boys. Uh so, yeah, it might be a chess match. He might be, you know, trying to set something up. It historically, it hasn't been so easy to play chess against a guy that doesn't want to spend the money on a chess board. Uh but it he might be trying to trying to set up a move, whether that's to Minnesota or like you said, some warm weather place. But it it is like without trying to sound too cheesy, like the the amount of work that all these dudes put in to this season and like this this is their entire livelihood and they pour so much into it. And so when the season doesn't go the way that you want it to go and even with Joe, think about him this off season and getting the contracts with the boys and he had his receivers there and they're all set up to have a great
year. um you know the disappointment after putting everything that you put into it really weighs on you towards the end of the year. So I I to me it was more of a you know reflection on how the year had gone.
Yeah. Um I I hate to bring this up Ryan but um you guys you know the Harvard Yale game means a lot to you guys. Didn't go so well for Harvard this year. Are you considering maybe being the GM of Harvard football trying to figure it out? What do we need to do to take Harvard to the next level?
You got to win that game. We got to win that game. And and the hardest thing too is so for Black Friday, we had the Eagles game. I was in Philly. Harvard first time in history and Ivy League school was allowed to play in the 1A playoffs, the FCS playoffs. Uh Yale got the automatic bid, Harvard got an atlarge bid, and they were playing at Villanova.
Well, I was in Philly already. I went Harvard lost 52 to7. Oh, were you up seven nothing at least?
Weren't up seven nothing. We dropped eight passes in the first half. Wasn't our best showing.
We'll get the boys rallied. We'll get the boys rallied. We're going to have a better year next year and we got to beat Yale next year. Harvard Yale at Fenway.
Oh, that's big. That's big. Yeah. Massive. You have to win that game. That's the most the most meaningful rivalry in the world.
We all We all care deeply about it. It's I tell you the I could tell you a quick little story about the fan base at Harvard. Um my son is now a freshman there and so he's he's going to the games. He's cheering. He's excited. Well, I got a picture from a friend that saw my son at one of the opening games and he brought his laptop to the game and was doing homework uh game. So, I told him, "We can't do that anymore. It doesn't matter if you've got a paper due during the game. We got to get it done beforehand. We got to manage our time a little bit differently. So,
we also got to get that fan base riled up a little bit. Yeah. I mean, that also is I mean, you got to you got to be at least a little proud that your son is, you know, such a good kid that he's also taking care of. He's he football, but also knows that, you know, he's got to do work, too. That's there's there's worse things that your son could be doing.
Yeah, you're right. He's on that grind. Yeah. How did he get into Harvard? Did he Did he know anyone? Well, mom and dad both went there, but he's also he's also a very very bright kid. Good test.
Um, all right, Ryan, this has been awesome. We love having you on. I got one last question. It's a rollback question. Rhoback.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. QZIPS, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Promo code take. Thursday Night Football, Amazon Prime. Uh, Rams Seahawks. We're so excited for the game. Like we said, they do a great job pregame, halftime, postgame. Sam Schwarzene's alt cast is awesome. It's just a great product all around. Uh my last question though, we talked about Mahomes with his his ACL. The other big one was obviously Micah Parsons. When you lose a guy like that, what is what happens to a team where is there a little bounce where it's like, hey, we got to we got to all chip in here even though that is our best player and we just lost him or h how does that work where it's, you know, the mentality in the locker room going to the next game and being like, hey, we're still alive.
It's not like the Chiefs who were eliminated and they lost Patrick Mahomes. The Packers are still very much alive. If they beat the Bears and the Lions lose, they can clinch a playoff spot on Sunday.
Yeah. Are you you're as a Bears fan, you're asking me this? Yeah. I'm nervous. I'm nervous about the like uh the nobody believes in us card that they're going to try to throw out there. Yeah.
I think it's a lot like, you know, after a coach gets fired or, you know, you put a you bench your quarterback and put another guy in. Like there's there's a rallying cry for one week and then reality set and it's like oh okay so this could be the week there's the rallying cry. I hate to tell you that.
I know that's I I've been thinking about it the whole time and it's like the Packers fans being able like we beat the Bears twice and the second time we had no Micah Parsons. Like god [ __ ] damn it.
Yeah. Well and you know how much Ben Johnson enjoys beating the floor twice a year.
Yeah. Yeah. We got to I That was the It's the only mistake he's made as a head coach is is name dropping Matt Laflur. He's been perfect otherwise.
I like that Laflur went and just did like a quick handshake like because he's got to wait for the second game. If he beats him a second time, then he can go over the top.
Yeah, I love it. I want them to hate each other. I think it's so much better. I hope that, you know, both coaches are are coaching for a very long time against each other. It's it feels good because the Bears have not been really, you know, a participant in a lot of the rivalry in the last, you know, decade plus. So, it feels good to have a team like, hey, we I feel like they can beat the Packers.
Yeah. And the NFL is so much better when the Chicago Bears have a good team, too. So, very happy to have them.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, Ryan, you're the best. Uh, I don't know when we'll see you again. Maybe in Lake Tahoe.
Super Bowl, probably. Super Bowl. Yeah, we'll see a Super Bowl. We'll see a Super Bowl. Also, can you just tell Witworth like we get it, dude? You're the sweatshirt guy. It's a little much maybe.
Oh, you know what? No, he's he hasn't been wearing them lately. It's been like six or seven weeks in a row.
No sweatshirt underneath the the jacket. Hoodie. No hoodie. Yeah. What's he been wearing? He's holding out. He's trying to get more money from Roback.
No, he's trying to do the hotspin dad look. Every week it's like the hotspin dad look. So, he's wearing boots now. He's I mean, the guy is beautiful, but yeah. And he's kind of shied away from it the last like month and a half. It is funny watching uh old linemen, you know, retire, lose that weight, and then they start dressing like the hockey like because that's not He spent his entire life being, you know, a big guy, probably wearing sweatpants, sweatshirt, just weren't no one knows who he is, and now it's like, oo, this guy's a hot body. Wow. Well, he went from growing up in Louisiana to playing O line at 340 in Cincinnati to the real glow up, which was the LA Rams, Walter Payton, man of the year, Super Bowl,
lost all this weight, he's less than 300 lb, hot Aspen dad. He's real glow up, but we're we're also very proud of him.
Yes. It's a fun show. We like watching Thursday Night Football, and you guys do a great podcast together, too. So, uh two of our favorite dudes and uh yeah, we'll see you at Super Bowl. All right, sounds good, guys. I'll be there to take a picture of Josh Allen for you.
Yeah, wait. Oh, yeah. We should have. I heard you told that story. So, that story, um, I don't know if we ever said that it was you who's taking the picture. And the best part about the story is that you, so I was like, "Hey, Ryan, can you take a picture of us and Josh?" Which we know each other well enough that I didn't feel uh, weird asking you,
but then I did feel like an [ __ ] being like, "Hey, my tits were out. Can you take it again?
Not Yeah. Not realizing the whole time that the real problem with the picture were my eyeballs. And I should have I should have You should You actually [ __ ] you. You should have said, "Hey, take PFT's glasses. You need them more than him today."
Oh, I need the glasses, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He But you could AI the photo anyway, right? Just like change your eyes in there.
Well, no, that's a good point. The Yeah, Big Cat's pupils were pinpoint because of AI. That's actually not a real picture.
There you go. Somebody AIDed that photo to make your pin pinpoint pupils. It was just so funny because I was so nervous about the [ __ ] tits and then I posted the picture and all the responses went a different way and I was like, "Oh boy,
that's on." It was an exciting night for everybody, I think. Really? Yeah. Maybe. Hey, listen. When we see when you see Super Bowl week, just, you know, maybe bring an extra pair of sunglasses for me. I'll probably need it.
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Yeah. If you are a listener and you're listening to this on, you know, Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to it, literally nothing is changing. If you consume us by listening, nothing is changing. If you watch us, we are going to be on Netflix. Um, and we're very, very excited. It's going to be a It's a big deal for the podcast.
Surreal. It's surreal. It's I think it's going to open some more doors for us. It also allows us to uh compensate and let some of the behind the scenes guys, guys in the booth, Shane Pug, all these other guys uh share in the success of the podcast. So, we're very excited about that part. Hank PFT and I, you know, talked about it and we're like, yeah, if this means that everyone can have more pie, let's let's make some more pie.
We want more pie and cake. Want more pie for them and cake and we want to eat the cake, too. Y
uh yeah, Netflix sounds like they're going to be a great partner. We talked about all the all the uh details behind it and we went through it pretty closely. We sat down. We very rarely do a a like three-way podcast meeting where we talked about whether or not this would be a good thing for us to do and we came to the conclusion that it seems like it's going to be a very good thing for everybody involved.
Yeah. So, I'm excited. I'm very excited to be on Netflix. So, and then uh in terms of where everything's going to live, so like I said, the actual podcast, the the viewing experience of the podcast that will be exclusive to Netflix, our PMTVs, if we do, you know, Doug streams, our golf videos,
Zack streams, Zack streams, those are coming in 2026. Those will be on uh YouTube and they will eventually we're working on it so that everything can live on Netflix, but those will be on both places. So, um we're we're excited. I think it's going to be a huge opportunity for us. The this has been a crazy, you know, journey and and obviously the the podcast is doing very well and it's it's cool to have an opportunity like this. So, we're pumped and we'll have more details when we get closer. We don't want to overexlain something that we don't have we don't have a place for people to go right this second. I think in the next coming weeks we'll have some more details so that everyone can feel like they're in the know. Uh but yeah, we're pumped. One one thing that I've really liked over the years is uh when we find out about like parents and their kids listening to part of my take and and it
becoming something that they bond over whether we say something stupid and they want to talk about it and say, "Wow, PFT is really dumb, isn't he, Dad?" "Yeah, you sure is, son." Things like that. It's nice to hear. I feel like even with Netflix, like that's going to be a good barrier to clear with parents. Yeah. like trying to explain to my mom how to get on YouTube or to watch the the podcast kind of difficult. She's locked and loaded on Netflix. Yeah, it's right there. Everyone's got Netflix.
And nothing is changing in terms of content because, you know, Netflix, we talked to them, great partner, so it's not nothing's going to be changing. Um it's just that's where the podcast is going to live now. And we're excited.
Yeah. For for the first I don't know five years there was no video at all. Yeah. kind of forget that that we literally didn't have a video.
It was behind a payw wall. It was on Barcel for the first then two years and then after Barcelona we just started posting it on YouTube. But
this is kind of you know it it's just going back to what I guess the video started as.
Yeah. And finally and it's I mean I everyone has Netflix. If you don't have Netflix, you should have Netflix. Netflix is is the is the one.
And finally Mincy can Netflix and chill. Yes. That's going to be very very important for him.
Very important. So yeah, more details coming, but it is a big deal for this podcast. We're really excited. I mean, the the Netflix is a a very big company and big deal and they made us feel like special and we're we're going to be a big part of their vertical to grow their podcast. So, um, all those details will be coming out and yeah, it's a a win for for everyone. So, we're excited.
Very excited. They told us we're pretty and we agreed. Yeah, exactly. We're like, you know what, we are pretty. And you just think about like Zack on Netflix. You ever think that Zack?
The team on Netflix PMT. A lot of people going to be watching you on Netflix. Team is uh I think it's a beautiful thing.
Maybe you could do the Netflix and chill with a date if you ever take that girl out on a second date. Have you called her back?
We're uh Yeah, we haven't talked a little bit. You know, seasonal thing. We got a lot of football going on recently.
Seasonal. Seasonal. It's a seasonal thing. Yeah. You're married to the game. That makes sense.
Lot of ball out there to watch. Yeah, it's it's a very seasonal thing. Ball comes first.
Yeah, that's the big news. And yeah, that that is the big news. Netflix on PMT.
Not not starting January 1st. Not start starting January 1st. When we get the exact start date, we will definitely let everyone know. We will give you more details as we get closer. It's, you know, we we try not to to do big big announcements when we don't have an action that you can take. So, we're not there at the action yet, but I think this is going to be something that gets released um by Netflix and, you know, uh a press release at some point on Wednesday. So, we wanted to make sure we told the AWLs first. And again, if you're listening to this, I mean, I think because we've we've been so we were so early to the game, 80% of our um audience is just listening to this and like I said, nothing changes for them.
So, but actually go watch us on Netflix, please. Yeah, that would be awesome. Just turn it on. If you turn on for your dog
if you if you if you have to commute and you can't watch, turn on for your dog.
That was a good That Hank, that was a really good effect. What's up, fellas? What's up?
What What type of rehearsals are done prior to shows if any rehearsals? We got two rehearsals.
It often seems like part of the shows are adlib while others are well structured.
No, we got the table readal. First of all, we do the table read about two hours before. Then we do the dress rehearsal about 1 hour. That's when we change it to our costumes. We usually wear, you know, polo shirts, khakis, belts to work, but then we change into, you know, what you see now.
Do you imagine if we rehearsed? The most rehearsing we do is when we start a conversation, then stop it and say, "Save for the show."
Or walking by like one of us will walk by the other saying, "I got something I want to say to you, but I'm not going to say it till we get on the show."
Imagine like scripting some of the stupidest things that we've ever said. People thought the show was like actually written down and scripted at the beginning. I think that was a Dave rumor.
Sometimes either me or Big Cat will sit down uh with a lot of the guys in the corner and we'll just like start throwing out some takes.
Yeah. That it's directed at the one person that's not there at the time. Just like it's a feel it out a little bit and be like, is this you think he's going to be mad about this? You think he's going to be upset about this? And then that's a little bit of a rehearsal.
Yeah. Or like a rehearsal where it's like you see you guys are just you're just talking about me and Hank. Yeah. Yeah. It's like if if Hank is there and I'm not. No.
It's about me. If I'm there and Hank's not, it's about Hank. No. So, oh, or rehearsal like you see a tweet and then you are sitting next to Max and PFT and you say, "Hey, look at this tweet.
Look at that one." Yeah. Yeah. That's And people get angry at rehearsal, I guess.
Actually, you know what? Maybe the most rehearsing that we've done recently was after the Eagles Chargers Monday Night Football game where we just me and Big Cat just texted the group thread like, "Hey, we should get a bunch of inflatable things to bring in for Max." And then we're like, "Okay."
The secret group thread. Secret group thread. Oh, no. You left. You left. Oh yeah, leave. I I did leave. I did leave.
But that might have been Yeah, that might have been me PFT and memes. Hank also did have someone from another part of the company text me and say I have to be in it. It was a fake request.
Oh yeah. No, we were there for that. Yeah. I had nothing to do with that was awesome distraction.
Yeah. I didn't even think twice about it, too. She was like, "You need to be out on the basketball court." And then I just kept being like, "What am I doing here?" She's like, "Just wait." And it it didn't it didn't register in my head at all. came over to me one time. She was like, "I'm running out of stuff to to pretend to tell Max to do. I don't know what to say."
She She said nothing. She was like She was like, "You just have to be here." And then at one point, I guess she got the okay that you guys were all set up. Then she was like, "Actually, you know what? You don't need to be here." And I just believed it.
This will be productive. Uh do a quarterback reddraft for Drake May, Caleb Williams, and Jane Daniels.
Oh, okay. All right. All right. Big Cat, you got the first overall pick. I'm taking Caleb Williams. All right, PF, you got the second overall pick.
I'm going to take Drake. Does this include the fourth quarter? I'm going to switch it up. Jaden Daniels.
Yeah, Bo Knicks. I was going to say B Knicks has got to be in there. Well, no. The It was a three-person draft.
I think Meme should have to make the list. All right, Memes, tell us your list.
You got the first pick. No, he's got all the picks. You got all picks. If I'm the Bears, did I interview Drake May this time?
No. Uh, I'd still go Caleb. I'd probably probably do Drake at two. Maybe Bow at three.
Okay. All right. H, I'll do Tyler Shock. Are you going to throw out nine? Don't throw a nine. I
was thinking about I was thinking about throwing out nine. Put Tyler Shock in there even though it's different.
Yeah, different. We'll go Tyler Shock and three or four. So, you just didn't draft Jaden Daniels.
Yeah. All right. Just remember that. Put that on the bulletin. All right. Memes hates the Commanders.
My preemptive take of the year was right. What was your preemptive take? Commanders and miss the playoffs and Jane Daniels be the worst out of the all the quarterbacks in 2024.
Whoa. Michael Penn. He looked pretty good before the injury. I don't know about that memes.
I don't know about that memes. Monday Night Football. You You take nine over Jaden
right now. Best best ability is availability. That's true. That's true. Hey, listen. Like I said, the haters are right. Congrats to the haters.
They got you this year. Yeah, haters shot up the power rankings board this year.
All right, last one. Uh, can someone explain how Max is both a Nova fan and a PSU fan? This feels illegal.
Well, no. Nova doesn't have division one football. Villanova does not have People get so are so mad at me. Villanova is an FCS football school. They will. It is impossible for Villanovavva and Penn State to play in a postseason format. They can play in the regular season. They did play in the regular season this year. So that's where people got mad at me, but like Villanovavva losing to Penn State doesn't affect Villanova's season in any way whatsoever.
But it does beating Penn State still does not really affect their season. Yeah, Penn State.
Oh no, but it doesn't really affect Villanovas. Yeah, it'd be an all time win for Villanova.
Yeah, the uh you Max actually to Max's credit like he is very straightforward with his Penn State like it is at the bottom of his rankings and he does not like we could never if Penn State lost in a national championship. We could not like get a rise out of Max. He'd just be like mad.
I would get I would but we couldn't get like an Eagles or Phillies rise out of you. We could we could like tease you a little, but it wouldn't
you just wouldn't be that you wouldn't be as upset as you been with other it wouldn't come close to watching Max like if you lost in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament with Villan Nova
for so the difference is like going into the Penn State football year I have no idea who's on the team like I learn it I like watch each game and I learn guys as the season goes on.
You're always learning. Yeah. And even even then like I still don't know many guys on the Penn State football team. They're the team I root for,
but it's like I don't really know Penn State football that well. Villanova basketball, I'm like I'm following the recruiting like every single week. Every guy that we get, as soon as we get them, I'm looking at their highlight tapes, getting excited for how they're going to fit in the system. Like Villanova basketball is my thing. And also, I went to Villanova. People don't know that I went to Villanova.
You're smart. I gra Wait, is Villanova a smart school? Uh, it's pretty smart. Okay,
it's pretty smart. Um, but yeah, you're smart people. I because it's it does get confusing because I went to Hopstra out of high school
and I Okay. And I transferred to Villanova, graduated from Villanova. What did you study at Villanova?
Communications, media production. Do you think there's ever a chance we'll have a March Madness where all three of your teams are in
Hoffra, Villanova, and I don't see that's the thing. I don't care about Penn State basketball. And you don't care about
Actually, I do cut like if if Penn State basketball is like in the tournament, I'm like I would root for Penn State basketball to like win that game. Not that I would really care.
Who's the white guy who hit all the threes? [ __ ] I loved that guy. Oh, for Penn State.
Yeah. I don't know. See, I don't even I DON'T WHAT WAS HIS NAME? It was like two years ago.
I thought for a second you were talking about Dante. No. Yeah, I was I was going to say the white guy all those three. There's like 10 different guys that that could be. What was his name?
Got to get Hoffster in. This is going to kill me. Hoffster's good this year. Hoffster hasn't made the NCA tournament since uh
they would have they would have 2000 and then the one time they did was 2020 got cancelled.
Yeah. Okay. Wait, hold on. We got We can't That's our one mutual mutual. Is it Shep? No.
IS ANDREW FUNK? YES. FUNK. WE GOT FUNK. REMEMBER WE FUNKED, DUDE. He was whapping.
Zack, what a pull. There it is. Did you look that up? That was all That was all Google. Yeah.
Oh, okay. Well, still good pull. Funk. What was your search, dude? Funk was awesome.
Penn State white guy who hit all those threes. And it was Andrew Funk. Yeah, he he was Oh, he's on the Nuggets. He must be on the I wonder if he's on the GLeague. Andrew Funk, Penn State. I want to see what is there was I want to say it was against Texas A&M maybe that they they might have lost but it was he was lights out. He was so much fun. Andrew Funk, he was a he was a full tournament type of guy. Okay, good show, boys. Great show. Uh I'm looking at Funk right now. Three is right in the middle, front and center to start to start this show.
I'm l I'm looking at it. I think that's three. Right. Right. Hank. Mhm. Can you see it? Memes,
here. Let's zoom in on it. I'll do it. Zoom in on it. You have an ad, right? Uh
memes. Memes. Zoom in on three. I don't have an ad. Memes. Zoom in on it. Locked in on this guy.
Text. Zoom in on it. We can see it. Oh yeah, here it is. Stop talking, man. the Texas&M game. He went eight for 10. Those some good numbers.
Three. I think that was PFT. Good quarter of a second. Gotcha. I think that was PFT. Oh, yeah. Eight for 10 from three. That was such a fun game.
Oh, Pug made his his analysis. And whatever. PF. Oh, yeah. It is. It is the one that he pointed at, you know,
I I wasn't going to go for it until memes did his draft and then now memes I had to. Well, your team sucks.
Wow. Mus hates the commanders. Oh, yeah. 22. 100. Uh, I'll go six. What number did Andre Andrew Funk wear?
99. Pug. I'll go 12. 44. Eight. 10. Andrew Funk. Shout out to Andrew Funk. Whoa. Whoa.
I said that that happened sometime and someone gas lit me and being like, "No, that was just a reflection." You're sketching.
I think it was Was it you that was gaslighting me? No. 15. 15. TBO. Do one more,
TBO. Just one more. We're currently 36 guesses away. One more. This would make it.
This could be it. This could be it. What? What are you? Six. Six. Come on, memes. 100.
Six is the number I got. Yep. Is it? Yeah. I could see it being six. Nah. 57. Anyone?
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Dan Katz (Host), Eric Sollenberger (Host), PFT Commenter (Host), Ryan Fitzpatrick (Guest), Zach (Host), Max (Guest), Memes (Host), Shane Pug (Guest).
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