Charissa Thompson, 4X World Series Champ Bruce Bochy, CFB And The Bills Are In Trouble
2023-11-15 02:43:59
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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, November 15th and the Buffalo Bills.
Stink. They might be dead, they might be my dad. Let's talk window, you got to talk window, ready, ready. what's the window close?
You think it's officially closed? I think I think they're about to jump out of the window.
It's that was a very bad Monday night football game. Hank, why are you taking a picture of me? He's doing a tick-tock.
He's doing it. I didn't mean to stop. Hey, I had the cameras in the air, I had the over-under on. When we're gonna get pissed off at Hank during the show, it being five and a half minutes into it.
Smash the under on that one, you know what? Hank is probably one of those. Please a plant, he's a comment section plant.
Yeah, because he was trying to derail us, cuz we were actually gonna bash the bills. He's one of the guys like, you guys never say anything bad about the bills, you guys are pussies, your frauds.
He was trying to get us off our game. I'm gonna do, here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna start my own tick-tock. It's gonna be one second with Henry Lockwood for the entire year.
Yeah, one second a day, I like it. 365 teacher. Yeah, 365 days of grumpy hank, grumpy hank.
Okay, the bills are bad, they're in trouble. Sean McDermott bad. Ken Dorsey fired, which is, we know it, it's shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. When you start firing offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators in the middle of the season, it usually is not a great sign.
I have a question for you because with Ken Dorsey.
Yeah, did Ken Dorsey put 12 guys on the field at the end of the game last night?
Ken Dorsey also didn't throw the interceptions that Josh Allen has been throwing more of. He has been bad.
I think they need to get an offensive coordinator installed that will tell Josh Allen harder not to turn the ball over.
It's it's the we know. Josh is a gunslinger. I still think he's very good quarterback. This season has not been good because if you look at his numbers, you can live when Josh Allen is in the high 30s. And like the 10 to 15 interception range right now, through 10 weeks, he's at 19 touchdowns, 11 interceptions. The interception on first down at the end of the half, when he basically gave them three points, that was really, really bad. And I like, you can't win football games when you, when you're, when you're careless with the football, like Josh Allen's been, he's been bad.
Something is wrong, maybe it is the offensive coordinator. I think it also just needs. Josh needs to have, like, a come-to-jesus moment of, like, Hey, I can't be a superhero. On every single play, have to take care of the football better because you're putting your defense in a bad spot.
You're putting your team in a bad spot when you throw those type of interception.
I thought the defense didn't play poorly at all. No, they played well.
They played pretty well, Broncos had the ball and like at the yard line, every, every, every drive.
Yeah, the Broncos lived in between the 30-yard lines for like, this entire game, so the defense in Buffalo is not the issue. Although it is kind of weird that they put 12 guys on the field for that field goal at the very end. McDermott also had. You remember? He had 12 guys, maybe even 13 guys, on the field at the end of that Vikings game. He did that on purpose, that they didn't call, yeah, did that on purpose.
Like, was this, was this on purpose? And hoping that they didn't call it because it was such a short field goal? It was, I don't know.
It was it was a comical ending of the game because it was like Sean Payton was also trying to lose the game. By doing using his timeouts and then doing the rush on the field fire drill. But the biggest takeaway from this game, and we'll talk about the Broncos in a second, because Russell Wilson actually does look good, is the bills are broken. And they right now. I would say, almost. I don't think they're gonna be in the playoffs, I don't think they are either, they have a really tough schedule.
They're five and five now, and it feels like everything. Whatever it was, it was, you can point back to the 13 seconds point back to tomorrow. Hamlin The Bengals game last year in the playoffs. But something is very broken and it feels like there's blame to go around a lot of places. Josh being he's a quarterback.
He, he gets the blame when they don't win, and he gets the blame when he throws bad interceptions. And I think Sean McDermott, who has, hey, he has had some bad moments this year. The 13 guys on the field, the the weird travel to London, where the bills clearly were sleepwalking. The first half, also Sean McDermott. I know this is old-school coaching. James Cook fumbles on the first play of the game. Doghouse James Cook. I think it was his second fumble in his career. Now. He did have some other weird moments because I think it was that was Josh's fault on the handoff.
But then he also fumbled and picked it up, which was the coolest play ever later in the game. Why would you bench your guy who is? They came out in the end of the second quarter and they had a touchdown drive where everything looked great. And it all started because James Cook was running the ball and being explosive and everything. Fed off that you basically sat one of your key parts of your team because he fumbled the ball on the first play.
It makes no sense, it makes no sense. Coaches have doghouses for running backs, they don't have doghouses for quarterbacks. If you're kickers, imagine if you're it, know that you're no.
Imagine you bench a kicker in game?
Yeah, you have three missed against, I'm saying, or if you, if you bench your quarterback. Because he threw an interception right early in the game, it's only only running backs get put in the doghouse. It's like, I can't trust this guy. Well, maybe James Cook is, like, had a significant enough body of evidence to prove that. Maybe he can hang on to the football for a while, right?
It was like a recurring thing where you, where you fumble, and granted, running backs don't. It's not like you're, you're running the ball as often as you're passing in most offenses. Yeah, so if you throw one interception every like 35 passes, not as big a deal as if you fumble once every like 12 carries. So I understand that, but but James Cook is a good player.
It didn't really make a lot of sense that they were like, we're just going to Latavius Murray.
Yeah, let's let's build our offense in 2023 around Latavius, he's 33, or how in running back years.
He's like 35.
But yeah, it was. He made some questionable decisions. I thought that the bills, the bills offense would not be this discouraging if they didn't turn the ball over all the time. Like it looks like they've got guys in space sometimes. Josh AllEn You could say it's a bad year.
You could also point at either the madden curse or, what I think is more likely, the Room 40 curse. Ever since, Josh Allen, disgracefully, Deez nuts us on these very airwaves in front of children. He hasn't been the same quarterback, maybe he needs to apologize for that, I'm not sure, but Josh, I like Josh as a person.
I want him to do well. I root for Josh every time he plays, he's electric to watch when he's playing well. He has not played well this year.
No, he's not played well and and he has to figure out the turnovers because it feels like it's gotten progressively worse in the last few years. I think he has 71 interceptions since 2018 and I I also think there's a arm. Strength is a great asset to have, but it also can can be a negative when you think you can make every throw all the time. I've watched it before with, you know, Cutler, Favre had a little of this. Where it's like, I am, my arm is so strong that I don't care what the coverage is. And figuring out how to to maybe take a little off and also say I don't have to make every throw, I don't.
Not every throw has to be Oh, these guys are covered, but my arm is so strong I can get it in there. That decision-making has to fix, because otherwise the bills are. I mean, again, I don't think they're gonna make the playoffs this year, but we're talking long-term now. Like, this is something that he's got to start fixing right now so that he can build on it going into next year. I the other.
The other thing is Ken Dorsey, I do. I have no problem with Ken Dorsey being fired. In the fact that some of the play-calling is absolutely like, tragic. The fourth and one shotgun, why any team that's in fourth and one and goes shotgun should the OC should be fired right away?
Yeah, you have to get one yard and you're like, now let's get seven yards, it's crazy, it's crazy.
I hate that and I. It seems like the running backs, they're, they're on their heels, the quarterbacks are on their heels.
They don't get a great running start. Just just do, man, football, man. Whatever happened to I formation, whatever happened to pro set, whatever happened to offset I.
Whatever, whatever happened, a good old-fashioned fullback big cat. Whatever happened to two yards in a clouded up. What about John Coon?
If you need, if you need two yards, he'll get you three. if you need five yards, he'll get you three.
Mm-hmm, yeah, it's. It feels like they overthink all these things. We also now have Stefan Digs, his brother said. Got to get 14 out of there. Feels like, I mean, we've been on Diva Watch with Stefan, but it's it is feeling like it's hit a critical point.
Everything feels wrong in Buffalo, I feel bad for the people of Buffalo, but I think that they everything we're saying, they know, and they have known for, you know, the majority of this season. That everything is broken. And you have to figure out a way to fix it. Because you're paid Josh a lot of money and he's got it, he's got it, starts with him in the interceptions.
I feel like Josh misses Mrs. Day Bull. I think they had something really good together. I like Joe Brady, though Joe Brady was half of the the offensive mind behind Joe Burrow. When he was at LSU. He wasn't great in Carolina, wasn't, but again, he was in Carolina.
Now he's got a new chance, he's got a new chance, he's got a better quarterback. I'm excited to see what they do. But yeah, I don't think that the bills are gonna make the playoffs.
I don't think it's gonna happen. And they hit their schedule is a gauntlet now. So that was supposed to be one of their easy wins, especially at home. And they almost what? That's the thing that's frustrating with the bills.
As bad as they have looked, they almost won that game last night. You know what I mean, like, they go up with a minute left. That's just kind of how they've been living, where, even in their bad games, it's like, Oh, they could win this game.
They play the Jets, who have their number at Eagles, at Chiefs, Cowboys at home. How many those are at night?
That's the big question, because this year, Josh Allen has only one seven touchdown. Well, no luck. I guess. he has what? Eight touchdowns now and nine interceptions, actually, none of those.
None of those four, I listen, or at night, no chargers. The following week is a Nike that's very good because Josh Allen this year has turned into Kirk Cousins in primetime.
Yeah, what are you gonna say? That makes no sense.
One of those games would be a primetime game, you think it'd be. Flex should be which one's in Vegas to Rico be like, let's go. She's dolphins or cowboys, not not dolphins, jets, Eagles chiefs, cowboys, Eagles chiefs or cowboys. Yeah, versus the chargers.
Yeah, chargers, Well, the network's got to like, block certain games. So like those are gonna be America's Game of the Week with Nansen Romo. For some of them, because they're all 4 p..m start. Yeah, Josh has not been good in Primetime this year. Also, the Chargers game is the Peacock exclusive game.
Oh, oh, the cock exclusive Saturday night, Yeah.
All right, other side of this game, the Broncos. I don't know how it happened, but Russell Wilson looks better and been. I don't want to say all the way back, but he is playing winning football and making plays with his feet and making nice passes and not making the mistakes. I, it's. I'm kind of rooting for him because we ourselves, included all of the media, everyone has spent like a year and a half shitting on him. And what do we love to do as media and as Americans? As we love to tear someone down and then be like, you know what, we're rooting for you to come back, yeah, but and that's what we're doing.
It's so fun to shit on Russell Wilson, I know it's, it's so fun and I like doing it. But yeah, he looked good last night and for the last couple weeks he looked good, he beat, he beat Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
Yeah, to back, pretty hard to do, and now let's see this. This would be a two-game winning streak for the Broncos when they're up at halftime before that. Before these last two games, the Broncos were, oh, and ten in their last ten games where they had a halftime lead.
No, three games, three games. it's three games in three games in a row. They've done it.
So it was against the Chiefs and who else? Hackers? The Packers? They had a halftime lead three games in a row after going, oh and ten with leads at halftime. It does feel like they they might have, they might have found something. Turn something around Russell to your point, like when he's making plays with his feet.
He's a completely different player, I think. For the last four or five years, Russell got into the mindset of, Oh, I'm too valuable to this team. I don't need to use my feet as much, I don't want to get hurt, I don't want to take hits. Which, yeah, there's a time and place for that to be, like, a little bit more conservative. And to get rid of the ball and to not want to run and avoid some of the linebackers taking clean shots at you.
But it also makes you a worse quarterback when you are good with your feet and you don't use them at all. Yeah, and so he was doing that, he was taking hits downfield, he was scrambling, he was avoiding line, but he looked good.
Russell Wilson actually looked good last. yeah, he's looked good for the majority of this season.
It's funny because I feel like Sean Payton egged him into being good. Yeah. Like all the talk has been, Sean Payton has already moved on from Russell Wilson. He's he didn't pick Russell Wilson. This is gonna be, they're gonna draft the future, the franchise.
Sean Payton's gonna be here long after Russell Wilson is gone. And now I feel like that having that in your relationship, where Sean Payton's like, I don't really care about you. Like you stink at football, Russell was like, No, I don't, I'm still good. He, uh, he fixed him by neutering him.
Yeah, which is just by ignoring dogs, yeah. He, like, took away his balls and said, I'm the big sack in town. I could care less. Whether you're here or you're not, and then you have to prove to me that you're gonna be the quarterback and.
And also not allowed to bring your own trainer into the locker room. Yes, that, you know, I'd have an office. yeah, that no one else can go into Hank. Do you have an office? No, the Good N.C. has one here.
The last thing I had about the Broncos, Patrick Sertan is awesome. He completely shut down Stefan Diggs when he was up against him. Credit to the Broncos. Because I know there was gonna be a fire. I'm a big believer. If you have really good players, you should try to keep him, and he's a really good player and he's young and try to keep him.
And also, Mims is electric as a punt return. That was a part of the field position is he had a couple that flipped the field for the Broncos.
That was pretty much it. Yeah, yeah, he had, he had some nice returns and we would be talking about this game completely differently. If they had missed that first field goal. And it stood like, if I, we still would be, so no.
I would. We still would be saying that there's bad things about the bills.
Would we give Russell Wilson and the Broncos as much credit? If that kick goes in? Probably not as much, but it's just like, it's, it's. It's so funny how, like one small outcome like that can determine being optimistic about the Broncos future. Because I think if you're a Broncos fan, you watch this game. And this is a game that you lose every single time for the last two years, and you somehow figure out a way to win it. You're feeling good, you're feeling really good about yourself this morning, but things. It was a very, very fine line between winning and losing.
Now, granted, the bills are definitely broken. Even if they had lost that game, yes, or even if they'd won that game, they're definitely broken, yes.
No, they're, they're completely broken.
There's I, it's, it's a tobacco right now for Buffalo. Mm-hmm. And and again, they have the gauntlet coming up. I do think that the Broncos, yeah, I mean, look, I guess they could find a way back into the playoff picture.
I don't, I'm not gonna say they're gonna make the playoffs, they're in the hunt, they've at least, they've at least found a way forward. If Russell Wilson's gonna be on the roster next year, I know his contract.
There's a weird shit where, like, they have to cut him at a certain point. But he's playing to a level where it's like, maybe we can figure out a way to use our assets. Our picks for something else besides a quarterback, Yeah, I'm gonna defer to Florio on the contract stuff.
He's, he's always, like, right on top of that. That's the one thing that Mike Florio is great at. He can, like, identify a loophole on when you can get rid of a quarterback. You remember he had Derek Carr before anybody else did? Yeah, so Florio, do some work on that. When could the Broncos potentially move on from Russell Wilson?
Yes, okay, let's do.
Some college football talk. We got a lot of college football to get to. Is there anything else in the NFL that we missed?
I was gonna say, weirdly enough, Sunday night football this week is between the two hottest teams in the league, Broncos Vikings. Mmm, who would have thought a few weeks ago out of called Flex of the year on that now?
Be a good Game of the year What is your flex of the year? I'm still looking into it. Do you get more excited about the schedule than the actual games? I think so.
Yeah, it's like, it's crazy. Yeah, I do. I think that actually is the truth. Where you like, look at this schedule.
It's like, you're like a little kid who, like, you. Give them a piece of candy and they don't want to eat it because they like to just have the piece of candy. Yeah, like, I don't want to watch the football, I just want to know that the football, I like watching it too, but yeah, schedules way, yeah, Jake.
Can you predict what the the highest rated game this year will be from now until the end of the season? Starting now, yeah, starting now, I can look in. I care about ratings, that's how I judge whether a game is good or not.
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The story of the season, by the way, how happy do you think, Dion, is that? The Jim Harbaugh thing happened? Very happy because his September and then the. The backlash to losing in October, November has been completely erased by the fact that Jim Harbaugh has sucked up every headline. Jim Harbaugh suspended for three games by the big ten hours before, well, no hours, but I think they actually were already on the plane to Happy Valley.
So it's Friday, it was Friday, he found out by social via social media. So did Word word Manual. Who is the ad for Michigan?
Jim Harbaugh, suspended, didn't coach the game on Saturday against Penn State. And Jim Harbaugh went in front of the media yesterday and gave the most Jim Harbaugh quotes of all time. So he first started by saying, Michigan is America's team, he said. It's got to be America's team. America loves a team that beats the odds, beats the adversity, overcomes what the naysayers and the critics, the so-called experts, think. Well, they, yeah.
They do rely on a network of clandestine surveillance to accomplish everything. I can see why that would align with the USA.
The the adversity is my favorite part of this, because it feels like the adversity was created by Michigan. Cut their own leg off.
Yeah, look, look at, look at me, just gutting this out on one leg, cut your own leg and be like.
I, I can barely walk, this is crazy. Yeah, I.
First of all, was shot to see Jim Harbaugh in front of the media at all. Because I thought that he died. yes, I thought he was dead. Because after the game, when Sherrod Brown.
Gave his speech I love you man, I can love you man, this is for you Jim, I you coach.
I said it was basically the speech that everyone when they're on a bachelor party. And they see their college friends or old friends that they haven't seen in a very long time. Like 12 beers deep, sitting around and like, I fucking love you, man, I fucking love you so much. We should get a house together. I was what he did after that game, I honestly thought he was dead.
It looked like riggs leaving Pinehurst. It was. It was surreal. It was one of those moments where it's like, this is, we're definitely not a cult. Yeah, definitely not a cult.
Now I I love Harbaugh because he does give quotes like this and he puts himself in the most ridiculous scenarios.
He's the ultimate football guy. Yeah, so the other quote, the the biggest one, was. He had a raspy voice and he said, I'm the iron wall that viruses, viruses bash against and shatter.
Something's going on there, but I'll get it worked out, work it out of my system, do some more push-ups, eat an apple. Mm-hmm. I'm an iron wall that viruses bash against and shatter.
Jim Harbaugh is Dwight Schrute. I am a vaccine, he is incredible, like the virus show, Show me a virus.
I will shatter it with my iron wall, I'm gonna work out.
I'm gonna do so many push-ups that the virus is not gonna be able to keep up, and I'm gonna make you know what Jim Harbaugh actually thinks that he can make a virus? Tap. Yeah, absolutely submits, absolutely. I actually thought that the most surprising quote of the press car chicken was when he was talking about the chickens, because we all know that Harbaugh in the past. It says that he doesn't eat chicken because chicken is a nervous little bird that gives off nervous energy. In fact, I was, I was actually talking to a Michigan player yesterday.
He said The very first day that Harbaugh got to school there, he, uh, he was inspecting the buffet line in there, like in the cafeteria for the team. And he walked up to the chicken because there were chicken cutlets. He just stared at it and started scratching his head, and he pulled the nutritionist over, said, Hey, what's the deal with the chicken here? They're like, well, it's got a lot of protein, it's lean, it's it's good for players after workouts. And Harbaugh was like.
I want you to do a study for me, I want you to investigate because it's a nervous bird. I want you to look to see if there's been any rise in mental illness in the United States. And the consumption of chicken, I want to see if there's a correlation between the two. So he's been anti chicken for a long time, eating steak, drinking milk, that whole thing, and then he's done a complete 180..
Yeah, in a stunning turn of events. Harbaugh actually owns chickens now, and he praised them for being low maintenance, high production, and he said.
Yeah, so he's now like a believer in chickens. Yeah, they, he said. They lay an egg every 26 27 hours. They need water, They need food. I play with them too, I let them out in the yard, run around.
They're happy to see me. Yeah, basically was like, Oh, these chickens produce something. Yeah, I can win with this, roosters.
Are the first ones in the facility? Every single morning, it's, yeah, read the press clippings. They take a shit on them chickens, he said.
There was a time I said chicken was a nervous bird. I was dead wrong. Yeah, if I can change and you can change, then we all can do it. What a beautiful moment it's, listen.
I know there's a lot of college football fans that hate Michigan at this moment. I get it. I think Michigan clearly did something wrong. I think they should be, you know, suspended or whatever, whatever happens in the future.
I'm down with. I love Jim Harbaugh. I will always love Jim Harbaugh. I will always ride with Jim Harbaugh. He is the funniest like guy basically ever in college coaching and he's a great coach.
I love him and I do think there's a difference. So I thought the Big Ten was wrong for what they did. Because I don't know how you do an investigation that quickly. And then be like, alright, three games here we go. Like, if you think that Michigan did something wrong, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna most likely agree with you, because it seems like there's a lot of smoking guns everywhere. Due process still does matter. And just in, just like throwing something at the wall and being like, hopefully everyone will be fine with three games, which doesn't even really mean anything because he can coach during the week. It was such a half measure, half-assed thing by the Big Ten that it leaves me like, no, no other conclusion than the Big Ten. Has no idea what they're doing and they're just trying to save face.
The funny thing is, if you're if you're a fan of Ohio State or another Big Ten school. I. I completely agree with being so mad at Michigan. Yeah, and you want Michigan like kicked out of college football, you want the death penalty for Michigan. I would, too, if I went to one of those schools. But if you're detached from it and you can look at it from just an objectively ridiculous point of view, it's a very funny scandal that's happening.
Jim Harbaugh is the perfect person to be having to address this and to deal with the adversity that he inflicted upon himself. This is good for college football because it's hilarious, that's so. From my point of view, it's the funniest thing that's ever happened.
But again, if you're an Ohio State fan, you should want Jim Harbaugh, like, put on the nearest train and then taken directly to Chicago to go coach the bears. Yes, that, and and you should want that too big cat, please, but yeah, this is it's funny. But I would also caution. Like, if you're a fan of a serious college football team, if you love Ohio State, if you love Alabama, Georgia, any powerhouse school, USC, you name it, Texas, you should be very worried. That due process, right? It's not existing, because I got news for you.
You're cheating your dick off to it. Might, you might not be doing it as egregiously as what Michigan is doing. And you're probably not going into, like, military grade sophistication with your surveillance of other teams. But every single school, if they're good, is cheating big-time. And you don't want this to be the precedent for when you get caught. Because if you're a Michigan fan. And this happens across college football, it happens across all college sports, a little bit in pros, but mostly at the college ranks. We saw it last year with Alabama and their basketball team.
If your team is the one that's being investigated, you turn, you turn into a legal scholar. So, yeah, and so much reading, you learn much. We learn all the laws about trans transfer, all of handgun possession, you learn everything that you have to know about. Like, okay, here's the N.C.A.A bylaws that they're gonna use to persecute us with, and here's how this does not meet X, y, Z criteria.
And then everybody else in the country learns the top line. It's like, you're a bunch of cheating fucks.
You should be suspended immediately. And then you just reply in Twitters all day, being like, Actually, this is exactly what happened. The only thing I'll push back on you for is Alabama and Georgia should not be worried. Because the one thing that you should always give credit to the SEC is they do things correctly. In the fact that they never punish or hurt their best teams, they're experts at looking the other way, they do the like Greg Sankey would never do this.
He would never do this. A team that is about is on the precipice of going to the college football playoff. That is like the talk of the nation. He would never be like, Hey, let's cut our own legs here and try to hurt our own conference.
That's the difference in the SEC. In Big Ten, we got Tony Petiti, a fucking moron like dude. Just figure out the fact that maybe we could win a national title for the first time and in whatever it's been like, eight, nine years. And get the fuck out of the way and just say the N.C.A.A has to deal with it, that's what the SEC does, and they win national titles.
Tony Petiti needs to pretend that he's the cop from from the town when the nuns pull up after the bank robbery.
Just look the other way. Yeah, I didn't see nothing. She's like, Look, Michigan, it's not fair, it life is not fair.
Here's a little. Here's a little lesson for everyone out there, life is not fair if you're Tony Petiti. This is different if it was Rutgers, if it was Purdue, if it was Wisconsin, yes, that's different than Michigan.
I own, I like, life is not fair. It sucks that I have to admit this. But Michigan and Ohio State are different than the rest of the Big Ten, and you need to treat them like they are different than the rest of the Big Ten. Because if the goal is to get as many Bowl games and more money for college football playoffs. In these big TV deals, you have to prop up your big-time like breadwinners when it comes to college football.
I think I, I think I misspoke on his name. I think it's Sharon Brown or Sharon Moore. I said Brown earlier. That's for Ron. Moore is the interim coach of Michigan.
He probably is happy he did that because, you know, he's like, I listen, that was an emotional thing. He definitely. The next day was like, whoops, yeah, I went a little too hard.
Maybe maybe not, though, because maybe I bet you they had the longest hug ever. When he went back to the hotel. Oh yeah, Harbaugh said. I died for that guy. Yeah, exactly, they both died for each other, which is beautiful.
But Sharon Moore, he's coaching on Saturdays, Harbaugh, still gets to coach the team during the week.
Well, Harbaugh is also coaching the game on the team on Saturdays. Because, going back to the game, 28 runs in the second half, no passes. I know there was one pass, it was a PI that was Harbaugh. All like J.J. McCarthy, What do you go?
Finish seven for eight.
Yeah, which? And it's shocking because he's a good quarterback too. Yeah, they were just like, you know what fuck it? We're gonna run the ball down Penn State's throat the entire time. And yeah, it did feel like Harbaugh, like he was sending him at, like a smoke signal to Harbaugh. Like, this is for you, coach, I got your back and I don't know what the rules are, how close Harbaugh is allowed to be to the stadium.
I know he can't be on the sidelines.
He said he was five inches away from the TV when Sharon Moore was giving that speech.
He was probably speaking, like, during the game, I was trying to kiss the TV. If I was Michigan's ad, here's what I would do during the Games. I would give Harbaugh a headset and I would say, Okay, it's a one-way headset. They can hear everything they say, but they can't talk back to you and just put it on him and have Harbaugh.
He would totally believe that he's still coaching the game.
Yeah, he even said. When he was like, people were like, how are you dealing with all this stuff? He's like, I just dive into work, which is football. Yeah, you just want to coach football. Max was at the game, he said. It was the worst sporting event.
He's ever been to, I mean, did you watch? It was horrible. Yeah, so James Franklin is.
I would assume all Penn State fans are now feeling like he has to go. I know he wins, he's. He's won 11 games, I think four or five times, but it just never. He's never gonna win the big one.
He's never, he's not going anywhere like the way.
From what I've been told by other Penn State people that know more about me, is that. The way his contract set up is that there's no way that you can get rid of him.
Yeah, but we talked about this a couple weeks ago. If this, if it was still gonna be a 14 playoff for the next like 10, 20 years. Then you're looking at this and you're like, Yeah, Franklin, he's not gonna get us to that next level, he's got to go. You guys will be in the playoff.
Yeah, but then it's just gonna be the same thing. Yeah, no, like never. You'll get to the 12 team playoff and then you'll just see what happens against Ohio State. In Michigan, they're the jets.
I was saying, this means Penn State, they're not the jets. Yes, they are. they are. They win 11 games.
Yeah, but not.
Well, I'm saying, this year, like, the defense is really, really good and you have a quarterback who's hyped up. And like, thought. He thought that he was gonna be the difference maker in the program. And then the quarterback just isn't good enough and the offense is not good enough.
Say what you want about the jets. But at least they were smart enough not to play. Christian Hackenberg. Mm-hmm.
That's different. Well, no, it's same sense. I played him. But college N.FL, the Penn State is a classic case. And we're gonna talk about Jimbo in a second of a program. Having to come to grips with what they might be versus what the team, what, what the the fans expect. Because if you asked 90 of college football fans, would you like 11 wins a year? And to be in like a New Year's Day bowl? They'd be like, fuck.
Yes, I would. Penn State is one of those college programs that they have a history of national titles, they have a history of great success. And the bar is so high that James Franklin, as he can win 11 games all he wants, if he can't beat Michigan, Ohio State, that's not enough.
But they still recruit like those I know, so that's the difference. Is that, like, they bring in the guys that should get you to that next step. But Franklin just can't coach that big game. Yeah, plays so soft, he coaches so soft, every single thing. Brains.
It's, it's, it is, runs up the middle, runs up the middle, hope for us, hope for a slant and then pun on fourth and one just punch. So many pundits, so many times. And like I, at the end of the day, I was like, Alright, this is Penn State football, I'm not gonna.
I don't get upset about Penn State football like I do other other sports, but it's like it's still frustrating to see, like, the same thing over and over again. What are their rankings in terms of recruiting?
Are they? are they up there? they're up there, Ohio State, but I feel like I feel like they're outside, they're in that. Like, if I were to just throw a dart and say what? I think Penn State's recruiting is like, I would say that they're probably 7th through 10th.
Somewhere national, the way the rankings have gone in the last few years is essentially. There's Ohio State, there's Georgia and there's Alabama. And then those three teams have dudes that are on a different level. And then the Michigan's, the LSU's, the Florida State's, the Penn State's, they're right there. But there's still that gap between, like, Oh my God, right?
But three teeth? But though that tier two is still competing for playoff spots, yeah, I'm time like Penn State is never competing for that playoff spot. One time, let's be like right now against Ohio State.
They had that, yeah, but so. But right now, it's LSU here.
Here's the difference right now. If you look at 2024 and I don't know, you know, obviously signing day and all this stuff, everything can change. Georgia and Ohio State Georgia has four or five stars, Ohio State has five, Penn State has zero. Like, that's the difference. Is like, you can get a lot of four stars, but can you get the five or six or seven five stars every single recruiting class?
That those become the true difference makers.
When you play on Saturday, so if you have a team of four, score four stars, you can beat the shit out of bad teams. Because you can run the ball, you can run the ball, you can run the ball, and then you can rely on like a decent passing game. If you have five stars at running back or at wide receiver, then that's when you can compete with that next level. And Penn State doesn't have, but there's a tier.
Two, like, there's your one that is in the college football every year, you know what I mean? Like, no matter what they're in it every year. There's a tier two that, like every couple of years, they're gonna, they're gonna make it into. The four seed. Probably get smoked, but they're like playing for a college, for for a college football playoff every so years.
Penn State is in that third tier when they should be in that second tier.
Yeah, and look, it also comes down to what you do with your five stars, because that's the biggest thing is like, you have to like, look, I'm looking right now at a random year, 2021, right? 2021. Penn State has had zero five stars, Alabama had seven, Ohio State had seven, Georgia had four. That's the difference.
And those elite guys, those are the top three in terms of five star recruits in 2021. Having those elite guys and then doing something with them, like actually making them great.
What I'm hearing, Max, is that you need to spend more time tweeting at high school players. They're being recruited by Penn State, being like, Hey.
I can't, I can't put that much in, that much passion into Penn State football, the other thing is.
And Clemson was obviously in that tier, they've taken a step back, but they were in that like they got the five, six, five stars.
I feel like Texas is getting up there too.
Well, the the funny thing is because we're going to talk about. Jimbo is looking at that 2022 class when he had eight, five stars and it was the greatest college football recruiting class of all time. And Jimbo Fisher has now been fired. His buyout is comical. He's owed nineteen million dollars in the next 60 days, another seven million dollars the next 120 days, and then seven million dollars every year from 2025 to 2031.
It's so good. So he gets, he gets almost 27 million in the next like 90 days of his life. And then it's not offset. That's a crazy thing. Yeah, a lot of times coaches salaries, they get offset.
If you get a new job, then the money that you make at the new job counts towards what you're getting paid in your buyout. And you have to prove that you're looking for a new job in order to get that money, Jimbo is just gonna get all this money and we put a. We put a price target on the cost per barrel of oil a couple months ago at I think $90 per barrel. It got to 90, I think got to like $93, and then it dipped back down again.
But that's when Texas A&M alum have real fuck you money. What once oil money gets, once the oil prices get that high? It got so bad that they were like, you know what? We're just gonna say, fuck it and get rid Jimbo. Because we're gonna have to go out, get a new coach and we're gonna have to fund that buyout to and pay Jimbo Fisher. But it's not worth it having a team that's barely above 500 every year and in the picture.
That's so funny. Is the Texas A&M donor giving a hot like a hundred and sixty million dollars at halftime of the Texas A&M Mississippi State game? That was literally just like, Here's his buyout. That was the The 12th Man Foundation.
Yeah, that was like giving their annual donation, it was just specifically a check to get rid of Jimbo Fisher. And oh my God you, you pay me that much money to fuck off and I am going to fuck off so hard. You will never see my face again. I would, I would leave the country immediately, I would just I would buy an island.
I don't know what Texas A&M does now because I think that might be the worst job in college football. And I know that people like, What the fuck are you talking about? You get paid so much money, the expectations are so crazy. And like Jimbo Fisher, couldn't. He had the recruiting classes, the Covid years.
Weird. He won ten games, even beat Alabama in 2021, and it's still not enough. Like it's. I don't know who would want to take that job if it's anything besides just a money play, which, yeah, I would hand. Yeah, I understand, but you, you have to take that job knowing you're gonna get paid a lot of money and you're probably gonna fail because you. The the bar that they want to be at is so disconnected from where they are.
Yeah, well, big cat, you forget. Texas A&M has a history of winning national championships and winning ten games. Oh wait, that's right.
They've won ten games, I think, twice in the last 20 years. oh, and oh wait, the national championship that they won, I think, was 1937. Yeah, the most recent one. The one name that they're looking for is Oregon, Dan Lanning, who came out and said that this was his quote.
I think I've been really, really clear here since day one, I'm not going anywhere. There's zero chance I'd be coaching somewhere else. I've got unfinished business here. Oregon fans rightfully were like this awesome, Happy said it.
That doesn't mean shit. I don't think he's gonna take it, I think very well, could not take it.
Yeah, we know, though. The college football coaches will say whatever they want to say in the moment and then take it later.
Yeah, just coaches in general, right? people in general. In fact, we'll say that until you put a big check in front, they're like, Yeah, I'll do that.
Nick Saban said I will not be the coach of Alabama Crimson Tide.
Yeah, like two weeks before he went and was the coach, the Alabama, yeah. Bobby Petrino said he wasn't gonna meet. Leave the Falcons. And then he wrote a note on a napkin and left in the locker room.
Yeah, I still burst said. He actually had a good tweet because it was, I can't remember what the context was. It was something about players thinking about Nil and like, it's a distraction, I think maybe, Saban said. it was a distraction, and he's like.
He literally sat in front of the Michigan State team and was like, I'm not going anywhere and then was at LSU two weeks later. Yeah, Brian Kelly didn't. Brian Kelly didn't even go to the senior like dinner at Cincinnati. Because he's like, Fuck that I'm out. Yeah, like, coaches will do whatever I. It's great that Dan Lanning said. I like Dan Lanning a lot.
I'm rooting for Dan Lanning, I hope he stays because it's better for college football if he does. And guys don't keep jumping around. But I would never, ever take a quote from a coach and be like, Yep, good, we're good.
Yeah, it's over. I would if I was a An M, I would look at Elko. They're probably looking at him right now. I would, I would be, I would be shot up. Belichick, Belichick, why not?
Well, they do have a history bringing professional coaches down at the college level. Yeah, Sherman did that, right. Why not? Urban Meyer? Urban Meyer at He's a freak. It would actually be perfect if he was at a An M because it is again a cult.
It's just of different nature. Urban Myers, The perfect cult leader. Yeah, I mean, he sucked as an N.F.L. head coach, but as a college head coach, where he is like the warlord slash cult leader. At whatever town he's in, then he's really good at that. And there's no more insulated place in the world than College Station, Texas. It would be fun.
It would be very fun if he went, get him back in the SEC, that would be great. Yeah, they probably are delusional enough to think that they can.
They can try to get saban, they'll probably just like, make a phone call to save and be like, Harry interested? No, okay, sorry for bothering you, Kansas head coach Lance Lippo Lance Lippo.
They'll probably talk to him.
He's the only problem with him, which is not fair because he's won literally everywhere he's gone. U.W. Whitewater, Buffalo, now Kansas is. He's a little older, so that's like that the only thing that people always like, Well, he's old, who cares?
He wins games, yeah.
I also heard a rumor about Dan Campbell Texas A and M alone. Oh no, you could never eat. I don't think he's gonna leave Detroit. I would, although.
There's definitely a group of Lions fans who are listening to this right now, and it might not be a large group. But I bet you there's a group that are like, that'd be cool because then Ben Johnson would be the coach and they don't want to lose Ben Johnson. Yeah, I I hear you. There's some people who are thinking that in their head, they're like, because when you get that offensive coordinator, whiz kid and it's like, Well, we're gonna lose him eventually.
There's, it's not a large amount. Maybe Lions fans. You can circle a trust. You can tweet me and say you've thought this, and it's not the worst thought you can, you can tweet me that. I hope Dan Campbell stays Detroit.
He's perfect for Detroit, but I guarantee you there's some Lions fans in the back of their head. They're like, Oh, would that? That would kind of work out?
I actually think that's that's not a thought that you've had already, but it's a great spin zone to keep in your back pocket. In case you do lose Dan Campbell, there's a couple. It's a perfect way to work it out and say, okay, well, at least we didn't lose Ben.
Yeah, I think that is now our code. I think 99 of Lions fans love Dan Campbell. There's just circle of trust. I will not judge you. if you treat me this, I will not judge you.
Um, all right, last couple things. Jaden Daniels should be the Heisman. We talked about it quickly on Monday. I have some stats for you. Pft. Jaden Daniels Verse, Florida had 372 passing yards, 234 rushing.
That's been done a lot. Has five total touchdowns, first player in FBS history to have 350 plus passing yards and 200 plus rushing yards in a single game.
Was that his Heisman moment? Listen, I want to hear what the Heisman moments are for his competition.
Yeah, we we also need to be start like he is. Lamar Jackson, when Lamar Jackson won the Heisman with three losses.
Yeah, that's what he is, except his stats might be better so we can look his main competition. I would say, Bo Nix, Michael Penix, right? And then Marvin Harrison. Yeah, obviously, if you're going to go with like the most talented player, Marvin Harrison, probably like in terms of pure talent, and.
Maybe better, but. And then a small sect of Michigan fans who are like, Will J.J. McCarthy is going to be like 45 for 50 against Ohio State for?
375,000 yards, Yeah, you could do that. But if you look at passing yards, Jaden Daniels has thirty three thousand one hundred sixty-four yards. Bo Nix has three thousand one hundred Thirty-five yards. Michael Penix has 3533, all pretty close together, very, very similar in terms of stats.
And then you go to rushing yards. Yeah, Jaden Daniels has nine hundred eighteen rushing, He's going to have a thousand rushing yards this year. Bo Nix, 121 Michael Penix Negative 27.
Jane Daniels has more touchdowns, more rushing touchdowns than the rest of them. And his completion percentage is not quite as good as Bo Nix. But it's better than Michael Penix. So he also. Here's some more stats.
We're just gonna give you guys all the things you need to go out and tell everyone. Jaden Daniels, averaging 408 total yards per game second place, is 350. That's a pretty big difference most plays of 20-plus yards in 2023.
Jaden Daniels has 76, Michael Penix has 57 and Bo Nix has 39 76 plays of 20-plus yards. Here's Quick Power Conference ranks by stat Jaden Daniels total yards a game, First total TDS a game, First past yards a game.
Second past TDS a game, first, rush yards a game, first rush TDS a game sixth, QBR first, passer rating first, yards of play first, EPA play first. I feel like I'm spitting bars here these. He's leading everything.
So I found, I found another interesting stat on Death Valley Insider. And they compared Joe Burroughs 2019 with Jaden Daniels projected Yeah, 2023 in a 12-game regular season. So here's what they're projecting to. Obviously. Joe Burrough more passing yards, 4,366. Jane Daniels on pace for 3,797. but if you look at total yards, Joe had 4,614.
Jaden Daniels on pace for 4,809 and Joe had 47 total touchdowns. Jaden Daniels has would have 46 total touchdowns on pace. Come on now, it's not a play defense not as good as Joe Burrough. But if you want to just look at purely from a statistical point of view, Jane Daniels is really, really fucking good. And his defense is one of the worst, the best.
He's the best player in college football this year and that's what the award should be. It shouldn't be a team award. And we're completely unbiased in all of these takes.
Yeah, it's not like we're only saying this because we put a future on him to win the Heisman Trophy.
I do like that. There were some people being like, Do you have a future on him? or something like, Yeah, we literally said it.
We put it in live on air. Yeah, I'm just kicking myself. I didn't get it at 900, I mean, that's okay.
Let's just stay. 500 500 is good, stay the course. And Jaden Daniels should be your Heisman. take these stats and spread them from sea to shining sea. Jane Daniels Heisman moment.
He has a Heisman moment.
I don't know what the other guys are, that's what I go off of. Yeah, it's just who has, who has the greater one replay that you watch over and over again. Um, all right.
Last thing?
Quickly, James Madison, I told you I would give you, I would. I'm splitting my time now because my football team is garbage. I am splitting my time between Jaden Daniels for Heisman and.
JMU for a bowl game, Get JMU into a bowl game, let the kids play, and you know what? And Jacksonville State? I'm gonna say, let Jacksonville State play in a bowl game, too.
Okay, so it is a possibility. It's actually a, I'd say, about 50 chance that JMU gets to play in a Bowl game, even though they're not this. Is this biased? No, no possibility. Or if I was being biased, I would say like, they're probably gonna play double.
Okay, it's, it's about 50-50.
So they are ineligible to play in the postseason. However, if there are not enough bowl eligible teams in college football this season, then they will allow teams that are not eligible due to technicalities to play. Got it, so that's, that's a real thing.
I don't know if that would put them in a New Year's Six or not. And again, I'm speaking hypothetically, if they do happen to win out. They got game Day this weekend, which is awesome in Harrisonburg against APP State. And then they have Coastal in the last game, which are gonna be two tough games. But assuming if they happen to win both those games, then there are a number of ways that they could get into a Bowl game. So who are we rooting against?
So we're rooting against a lot of different teams, I can give you the entire list of teams that I'm rooting. Rip them off. So shout out to Nit Stu who actually compiled all this for us. FIU Buffalo, Wake Forest, Colorado, Washington State, Hawaii, Houston, Full FAU, Cal, TCU, Mississippi State, Old Dominion, South Carolina, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Navy Rice, Western Michigan, Colorado State. And then we've got a bunch of others that we're rooting to lose, two games including unfortunately.
Your Wisconsin badgers which might happen, might not.
No, they're bad, so it could very well happen. Although I'd kind of think they're gonna beat Nebraska. Because Luke Vickle said, We're gonna find out who wants to be here. Yep, that's always the sign of things might start to turn around because they're gonna have a little like, you don't want to be here, bro.
So we just, we just don't want teams to reach six wins.
And if not enough, teams reach six and that you can also be eligible at five and six. I believe I don't know how all that works. I think they changed it a couple years ago.
So there's, uh, there's 40 teams that are in the hunt. JMU needs eight or more of those to come up short. Got it?
So I think it's a it's a good possibility. Okay, all right, 50-50, all right. We're rooting against those teams.
I'm in, I'm in, I'm rooting against those teams. So everyone has their, their marching orders. It's to recap, Jim Harbaugh, funniest guy in the world.
JMU needs to be in a bowl game. Jaden Daniels Heisman Yep, that feels good. I like where we're at.
Yeah, these are all fun things to embrace, yes.
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Where's your cool throne? Yeah, do you decide? what? my hot seat?
Well, you, I think the listeners decided because you took you this long to come up with this.
All right, fine, I will ignore that. I guess. If you want to get right in the present, yeah, let's do it. You guys are, you guys are absolute divas. Hank through. There's a hundred cameras in here.
Hey, I take pictures every you guys all the time I take my phone on. You goes, Oh, I took me five minutes before I get pissed off, Hank, do you get pissed off of this camera to get pissed off?
No, so what, so different to show cameras and being like, Oh, what's the show?
Hank, you came into this room at the very start of the show before we even start taping. You shot me a look, you're giving looks to that, given looks. No, you came to go.
Did you do the presentation? It was a question. It was a valid question, especially considering the events of last Tuesday. Here's what Hank did.
He tried everything to not do this presentation. He told me he had a call right as the show started.
You heard me on the call. Make company.
He came in and he unplugged everything with the with the TV, so that Max and Memes had to hustle trying to get everything set. He was like, all the presentation doesn't work, the presentation doesn't work, it works.
We're ready to go, let's go, let's see this presentation, Bucko.
All right, well, you know, I did. I did a lot of thinking about him the past couple of you like that, I've ever heard you bucko.
Yeah, when you Bucko a guy, that's so much worse. Let's do it, Bucko. Yeah, Simon, come on hand. If you are using Let me speak for this one, please go ahead sport.
The assignment at hand was to do a presentation about how the Gillette lighthouse was not real. Which, you know, I think part of the reason why I struggled to get it done was because I had already admitted that the lighthouse was not real. And we had spent a lot of time going through reasons for what, you know, makes a real lighthouse and what makes a big. Like, Yeah, cuz you keep bringing it up, No, you guys kept bringing it up. And and my point being that I didn't know how to do a presentation where, you know, explaining why the lighthouse wasn't real. When we've already gone over that, and I've already admitted that it wasn't real. So I, you know, decided to think bigger and and go into what reality and what's real and what's fake really means.
So, without further ado, you get meta with it, you got metaphysical. Let's begin, wait, hank, right off the bat. I have one one gripe about the opening slide of this.
Okay, what does the date say on that presentation? That was just the day I started it. Henry John Lockwood 11 5, 20 20. And today is what, the 14th, that should say, the 14th. Well, I can't help when I start, like, I've been working on this for a while. You always date your PowerPoint presentation when you make them.
Okay, also, Gillette, it's felt good, boy, Jake, are you?
Great point, cut his mic.
Not joking, Uh, which lighthouse are you talking about here? Hank the Gillette lighthouse? Oh, because that's a different lighthouse with one t. mm-hmm.
Okay, so the dates wrong? dates correct? okay.
All right, well, this, I mean, Max, is, for medics, fucked up. He's literally lying on the ground right now, flopping around. Didn't even give me the presentation the way I sent it. This is supposed to be a lot clearer.
I don't know why it's see-through. But what is real and fake actually mean? Real? The definition is actually existing as a thing or occurring, in fact, not imagined or supposed. fake means not genuine or counterfeit.
Huh, so if it's an interesting word with? With that being said, I I would like to now open it up the floor to you guys. I have some examples and you tell me what's real and what's fake. Okay, you're opening up the floor for questions.
No, I'm opening up the floor for you guys. we're not allowed to talk. You're at well, you've been around me 100. What do you think opening up the floor means?
It means you guys can give me you, you have one, you have two words. I don't think you know what opening up the floor means. I'm gonna show you pictures you each know.
No other commentary, just real or fake. All right, I'll play next slide.
That is Jesus Christ. I think he was a real person, he existed, he existed.
It's a real or fake, he existed, he existed, real real. All right, next slide. He didn't look like that, though. Yeah, that's not a good representation of Jesus.
No, so you're saying that there's some debate on whether it's no. I'm saying that person, that picture right there as a person, is not a likeness of what Jesus, you have a picture of what.
He looks like, Yeah, they made it, they made, they tried to get a well.
Would you call it a rendering? You remember that painting? He's a real person who existed. Do you have proof? Yes, there's historical record of Jesus.
Council of NicaEA APPIAN. Okay, I just don't know how you can say that's not a real picture of him. If you don't have a real pic, what's it drawing? But whatever, okay, go on.
It's clearly a drawing. I didn't have pictures back then. Idiot the moon landing.
Real, real.
How is there wind on the flag? It's not wind on the flag. They put wires in the flag to make it stand out. That's actually a fact, you can see the wires.
Next picture this pair of chest. I'm very bad at this pair. I'm gonna say, real heck, there's only one chest there. real, yeah, I'm also bad at it. I've been berated several times for not correctly identifying fake boobs.
I'm gonna say, those are, they look real, those are, I think they're fake. I think those are fake. Next slide this Christmas trees.
Take a look fake on the right, they're all fake, fake, fake, fake. The Big Bang. Real, I didn't ask you to go to the next slide, but go ahead, real, yeah, it's real.
We do an evolution now. I'm just asking questions, I'm, yeah, it's real, I'm just, I'm, I open it up for you guys.
I wanted some.
Are you? are you? Actually? This is like, you're. Hank doesn't know whether these are real or fake, he's like.
This is a perfect chance for me to ask some questions. I never I feel too stupid to ask. Is the big bang real? you guys tell me? I know, obviously, but you tell me, but there's no proof of the big bang being real. There is a lot of proof.
There's a lot of look at Neil DeGrasse Tyson's timeline right now, I'm sure he's tweet about it nine times today.
You're talking about evolution, I believe in evolution, I do not believe that. We all just sprouted out of nowhere. And and a dude gave a girl or his rib, it was like, Here now you're a girl.
Some, some what? Someone argue that we're living in a simulation, someone argue that the Big Bang is real, someone argue that, you know, those boobs are real, those boobs are fake.
Are you questioning? There's arguments, and there's there you got to question everything. That was kind of the are we doing flat-earth? The hypothesis that I went through is like, yes, technically, by definition.
Some would say that this lighthouse is not real, but there's some that would say that it is real. I want to give, I want to give Hank credit, because Hank, actually, this is a genius. Or money in the water that you're making right now. By taking the entire concept of what we think of as reality and questioning it, that's the only way out of this. I actually, I think Hank is doing a good job.
Next slide, please.
Iris Murdoch, You guys are familiar, famously said, You tell me, we live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
You could put any quote anywhere and just put a name under it, be like, Here's this quote.
Yeah, oh, look, I'm looking up a quote right now. The Gillette lighthouse is completely fake, and anyone who thinks it's real is an idiot. Donald Trump.
Trump would never say that, Yeah, absolutely. Hank. What's your favorite Iris Murdoch novel? Probably the Great Gatsby next slide.
Now we go on to the the we got that never even read the Great Gatsby. Just know it's a book.
Scott Fitzgerald Yeah, green light, green light across the pond.
Lighthouses described a lighthouse. Yeah, yeah, I did so anyway. The the question of what's real and what's fake, and can be questioned by anyone's you could. Someone could say something's real, and someone could always have an argument that it's fake.
Just because someone you know has proof that something's real, doesn't mean that it necessarily is. And it's our job as humans to determine, find, you know, find what's an illusion and what's reality. Like, that's our daily task is what is real and what is fake. Some things they might be like, some things like, You know, Jesus, that mate, maybe he wasn't real.
Maybe those things weren't real, but he's a symbol, he's a symbol of hope. Yeah, he's a symbol of what we're going for. You're smart, what you did done.
You can even like, there are a lot of idiots in this world, me being one of them.
Well, also, I think maybe Hanks been hanging out with somebody that has a history of questioning whether or not things are real. And that has rubbed off on, Oh, lighthouses in New England. Wait, go back, please.
Can you respect my slides? The first lighthouse was built in North America was the Boston Light, so it was built in Boston in Massachusetts. It's been a symbol of our state, of our region for a long time. It's a beacon of hope, if you will.
Is that real next slide? Is that lighthouse real? That lighthouse is real? I don't know what.
Oh, it is okay, all right, just I want to set the ground well so that lighthouse is real, got it?
It depends on who you ask. This is Sally Snowman. She was the last Lighthouse keeper in America. Would so she. She is retiring at the end of 20 to 23 and will not be replaced.
So in 2024, being a lighthouse keeper as a job is.
Not real in a No. It's still a real job. It's not they have it anymore anywhere in the world.
In America, okay, is this? That's my world. There's still real job Sally Snowman, currently a lighthouse keeper. I'm saying, in 2024, right? But right now, right, this.
I saw that you put the date at the start of your presentation, what was that again? November 5th? Okay, so as of the date of taking a long time to come to these, conclude, as of the date of this presentation. It's a real job, got it?
But in 2024, it will not be a real job, however, in 2023 it was a real job. So it kind of opens it up. It's like it is gonna be real at some point, but fake and others. How does that work?
You can't say in 2023 it was, it is next slide. The last major lighthouse built in America was in 1962. It was Sullivan's Lighthouse in South Carolina, that was until the Gillette Lighthouse.
Mm-hmm, in conclusion.
It's our job, as as humans, as intellectuals, to, you know, sift through the nonsense and and the illusions and determine what's real and what's fake. So, and and really, just find those those beacons of hope. Just because someone tells you, you know, Jesus wasn't real, it doesn't mean you can't use them as a symbol of hope. Just because PFT says this lighthouse isn't real, it doesn't mean you can't, it's not, it doesn't have to be real to you. And as a region.
So I think it's like, maybe it's not real to you guys, it's like wrestling. But Patriots, fans, new Englanders, they will recognize this lighthouse as a real thing, as a beacon of hope and as a symbol of our team in our region. So that was kind of what I came to. It was hard, you know?
Obviously I had to say the lighthouse wasn't real, but in doing my research and coming to these conclusions, it's just not real. To you guys. I think that's, I think, I think that's fair. I've gotten dumber.
I think Hank took the weirdest possible way to reach a reasonable conclusion, which is, if we believe in the lighthouse, then it's real. Well, I didn't know what, what the the the task was like. Make a presentation about how the lighthouse isn't real. But we know we've gone through that, right, so I didn't have to say it's not real.
I did on the show right when they after they lost, I mean, I like the presentation was good.
You've confused everyone, which was smart. You did kind of like, a hey, look at my thumb. gee, you're dumb, something in the face. What is real? Is this real right now?
I.
You know, some of some are saying that, you know, the big bang theory is really the big question, like some, some are saying that. We're just. It was, it was a comment.
It was an Elon Musk tick-tock, and it was a comment in the tick-tock, so not a Elon Musk quote.
That we are living in a simulation? Yes, simulation is to determine how humans will deal with AI. And we're about to come to that, that's about to come to a head, and that has to do with the lighthouse out. Okay, the Big Bang theory. Did it happen or not, we might not even be here.
Exactly nothing is real exactly.
Yeah, I mean, you did a good job of confusing everyone. That was actually very smart of you, Hank I.
Give it an a-plus. It was good. Why I you took the right route was just question everything, literally everything, and so then nothing can be proven. What's that on the slide?
What is that slide? It's a zoomed-in Sally Snowman memes and Max are loving it. I think it looked like Rico. I like Sally Snowman.
My sally snowman guy, Goat, sounds like a character in children's book. Mm-hmm. All right Hank, good job, thank you.
Oh, you feel good that that's done with? Yeah, I was stressing me out. Yeah, I did. We know. How much of that slide did you do yourself?
All of it, mmm.
All of it.
The Boston Light had DMS from people, just got it, but I had to go. I want the whole, the whole beginning. I think the only slide that, you know, I had some help with was the the Boston Light.
I mean, it was a good presentation. You have us questioning everything, nothing is real or is everything real?
That's on us.
That's, that's the conclusion only a man very upset with the state of their football team would reach. Yeah, well, none of this really even matter.
This is really, yet when you zoom out, you're like, this is where the patriot sees.
Presentation of what's real and what's fake. I mean, I've talked more about Lighthouses this year than the Patriots. That's probably fact. Yeah, that is, yeah, that is a fact, because you keep bringing it up.
Yeah, bring it up again, I never want. I mean, it's it's done, it's settled, we've, we've gone through the exercise.
It's up to you whether determinants real or fake. I choose real, you choose fake. It's like it's like religion, you know, real to me.
Yeah, great job, Hank. thank you. great job. what a great job, yeah.
Everyone watch the YouTube subscribe to the YouTube Hanks presentation. What is real?
But if it was good or not, it's entirely subjective. We don't know that's true.
We don't know anything, point. If we learn anything, we don't know. Mm-hmm. That's really the biggest takeaway from Hank's entire presentation.
No one knows, question everything, nobody can ever be wrong. All right, PFt. Your hot seat. Cool throne? Uh, well, first of all, Hank, did you do a cool throne?
Yeah, my Cool Throne was a lighthouse presentation. Oh okay, Hot seat was okay. see, it was the Bally sports. Oh, I could. It. Was you taking the clip down?
Yeah, about James Harden, that was soft, it was soft, that was a good speech the guy gave.
It was impassioned.
He was just right, he was it. He was right. It's impassioned a word. Yeah, it was an impassioned speech that he gave.
It was emotional, it was just a rat passionate.
Well, it's good, impassioned speech. Can't say it was a passion.
Passionate is it in? and passion, passion impact like, Yeah, I'm like, empathy, you become passion and path, showing intense feeling. Yeah, there it is. I know I am an empath.
So you're not the only nerd here, Jake.
All right, my hot seat is Connor McDavid because his coach got fired again. Yeah, it's time to ask the question Is Connor McDavid a coach killer big cat? cuz this is coach number four?
I think for him, not only did his coach get fired, but they lost their number one fan, Ryan Whitney. He has, he has. He has renounced, disavowed the Oilers, which actually has made them win. Because so this is gonna sound sad for me. I did put tweet alerts on for Whitney because I saw that he was doing Twitter spaces, emergency Twitter spaces, and let's just say we look, we love Whitney.
He's our the number one guest who's been on this show. He's not really a guy who's like, gonna, you know, be working overtime. So when he was doing the Twitter spaces, I was like, this is good, so, but now I have tweets, Twitter alerts on for him. And all he does is just be like, think like, Congrats to the Oilers for winning. You're lucky that I like, stop being a fan.
Yeah, well, they should be. So he's more Twitter.
So here's the thing, here's the thing with wit is that Wit now gets a claim that he was initially right. He was only wrong about changing his mind and being wrong. Yes, so his original take that they suck was correct.
But this is, yeah, it's Connor McDavid's fourth head coach. A lot of people are saying he's a coach killer. I'm going to say that he's a coach killer. Just because it's fun. And I have no idea if it's true or not. But it's always good to, like, just slap that label on a really good player, coach.
You're so good that if you don't win everything all the time, then it means that you suck. Actually. Yeah, speaking of Twitter spaces, did you guys see the Dolphins fan invade the jets Twitter space? Oh yeah, it was pretty good, very funny. I this is just but classic radio prank.
I, I was a big Robert Saleh fan, like I, because of what he did with the defense. I thought he did, you know, a really good job. And I, you know, I thought keeping him or letting him go after the season was gonna be a huge mistake. But holy shit, I don't know what the agenda is behind the scenes with Zach Wilson, but it's fucking disgusting at this point. Second point I wanted to quickly make was.
This is all.
That's great Jets Twitter space with like 800 people. Yeah, I love the idea of the Jets fan. Like kicking him off and then looking at somebody like, Get the fuck out of here, man. Like this guy is staring just solemnly at his iPhone. Oh, that's great, that is great, it is good.
And our friend Pete Blackburn pointed out on Twitter that every coach that McDavid's had has had some sort of a dick reference in his name. Oh so, just something he's got knob lock now. He had Woodcroft, he had tippet before, and then Ken Hitchcock, oh, I've been all of his coaches.
So he's got a type and he likes get them all fired, okay? So I'm just I'm excited that we have that narrative now. Yeah, I'm like, David agree, you have to latch on to a narrative in a sport that you. I consider myself to be a hockey expert, but I know that a lot of people in this room don't.
But it's good to just take, if you're a puck boy, find a narrative and then just latch on to it. Let's go and keep repeating it. Coach Killer, My cool throne is diapers, diapers on my cool throne. Because Dan Campbell has been asked about his fourth down choices that he's making, how he's going for it so often in fourth down. And he is advising Lions fans to wear diapers when they watch the game. Oh, he says, here's what I would say, because I tell my family this, just wear a diaper before some of these games.
I'll give them an alert and say, put them on and be ready to roll. Only Dan Campbell could describe putting on diapers as being ready to, ready to roll, ready to shit yourself. Yeah, I actually, I don't hate the idea I all cars on the table.
I have worn a diaper during a game before. Mm-hmm, so you can pee yourself, you me pee dog. Yeah, I did it one time when the lines at the bathroom were very, very long in the stadium.
You can dipe up for a game. Yeah, that's my kids. I'm gonna be like, you're ready to roll? Yeah, just right, we're on, ready to roll.
Baby, I actually act the day and poop your pants. I start. I might start wearing diapers when we're watching NFL streams on Sunday, that won't be gross.
You got seven hours of football.
I'm gonna be like, a bit we could leave on the table. It's like Mel Kiper.
Mel Kiper in the draft? Yeah, there's bats are right next to us. Yeah, but I understand the principle behind it. Yeah, which is good in principle. I think that's where it's good in principle.
And yeah, I mean, you pee in the sink.
I do, yeah, but that's a hole, that's a drain, it is a hole. I don't sit in my own urine.
You just we just wash dishes in it, you've also peed in the sink.
I have peed in the sink, yeah, but yeah, Dan Campbell telling talk about the old office piss sink now that we're not there anymore, yeah.
I mean, I think I talked about it when we were there, too. Yeah, there was a there was a shop sink that no one used in the hallway. Did you get busted? I got a couple times or someone maybe came around the corner and I had to zip up real quick.
I go wash my hand, I got busted. It was during a Sunday I was peeing in a shop sink. And which is just in the front. For like, the reference is in the hallway, the hallway that's not used on business, that shit like.
It was our office and there was like three other businesses in this same. Well, we only had two bathrooms for 50 people, I know, but yeah, but we had to not just two bathrooms, we had two toilets. Yeah, 50 people, 50 people. And so there's a shop sink that was in the back hallway to the businesses on a Sunday.
Nobody else used this office. It was which I put everyone on to. I was like, Yo guys, there's a sink.
We can piss. It was just us. For the most part, the rule was just put, leave the water. Yeah, don't poop.
It's number one only. And so, yeah, I went back there or leave myself. I was like the fourth person to use it that day. And then I heard footsteps around the corner. And as I'm zipping up, this woman's like, Excuse me. I looked at her and I was like, Can I help you? and she was like, Yeah, I work here. Yeah. I was like, Oh, well, I'm pit.
I piss here, sorry, yeah, so do I. Yeah, this is I'm working right now.
Actually, there's, Listen, Max, what do you say? you're gonna say there's bad?
No, I was just gonna say you were like, Yeah, we only did it on Sundays.
I only.
Listen, I pee in the sink in my house, every other pee in the sink in the office setting has only been because we have had a limited amount of toilets. It was the old New York Office, the first office that we had, like a hundred people in two bathrooms. That was when I started pissing in the sink, I.
Only do it when I have to. What if your son sees you peeing and starts doing it?
I'm like, Look, this is what we do.
We're men you have to have like a specific sinkers, it's all sinks, all stable, yeah, kitchen sink.
No problem, after I do the dishes, give myself a little reward.
I would love to see a urinal built into this studio right here. I'll be back to over in that corner.
Yeah, that's a good spot for it would be a good spot, all right. My hot seat is Max.
Max, you're on the hot seat. Oh, I think I know this isn't a college basketball show. No, it's not.
Oh, you have so many losses, you don't even know what. You're on the hot seat, I know what it's for, you're on the hot seat. Because the Philadelphia Water dogs are now the team, the water dogs are in Philadelphia, and so they announced all the.
That was a good clap, Jake, no one else, yeah.
So we've been given Philadelphia as the home of the water dogs, fitting that we finished second last year. Max, Every time that we lose, it's your ass. No, we. Now we band together as a group.
Oh, yeah, oh, I band together to root for the water dogs.
Okay, mm-hmm.
I just had a question, but you answered I was, I forgot what place that? The Philadelphia Water Dogs action last year second.
So we're the Philadelphia Water dogs. I love it, I love it, Philly, Philly. I went. When, when Paul Rabel was talking us, talking me through the different options, I was like, it'd be weird if you know, like we did Boston or D.C. Or I think it was great lakes, maybe for the Midwest region.
I was like, why don't we just put this all on Max?
That seems. I'm happy to have them, I'm happy to have the water, the dogs, I'm happy to ride with my guys. You, I'm ready to go.
I'm ready to go to battle for my guys. I don't think you are.
I'm very excited about this because Phil is a great sports town, great for passionate sports fans such as yourself, Max. I would like to see an SEC type atmosphere, kind of like the bad, kind of like a.
J.V version of the bank. It would be a shame if we started throwing batteries at the whipsnakes. We don't do that anymore. Why'd I say I do you want to replay what I just said?
Yeah, that would be, it would be a shame.
But it'll be a real shame. And we did a pardon my take battery giveaway. I would actually, or one of the game.
I would like our stadium to be like the safe space for Philly fans to be able to do all the stuff that used to do. No, I want them to like, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we should bring.
We should bring Santa Claus out every halftime and have the crowd just boom, yeah, get it out of your system.
Yeah, we want the nastiest fans in the world. I like that, I like that a lot. Well, yeah, you don't have to do it.
Yeah, we want exclusively Philly Trash.
Game No one. Literally, you literally just have to open your eyes, and you, you open your eyes every day. It's trash. Okay, fine.
Max is excited. Yeah, no, I'm excited. I decided I'm water dogs. I, I love my water dogs.
My boys are gonna be fired up to play in Philly, this group is gonna be fired up for Philly Sports.
It's gonna be awesome, yeah. Correct way to pronounce is the fluffy water dogs, water dogs, fluffy water dogs, fluffy, fluffy, fluffy water dogs. If you're just saying different letters, it's a fluffy water dogs. That's how you say in Philadelphia, luffy, the fluffy water dogs.
Yeah, I don't think it was. As they say, it sounds like fluffy. when they say it fluff. I like the fluffy eagles, like the full Adelphia, yeah.
Yeah, I kind of like that. Yeah, if you're, if you're drunk enough, it sounds like fluffy eagles. I'm excited, I'm excited.
All right, so big announcement. Yeah, that's great. Uh, my cool throne is Giancarlo Stanton. So he now gets a pass to be injured because Brian Cashman did a press conference, and Brian Cashman said, We try talking about Giancarlo Stanton. We try to limit the time he's down, but I'm not gonna tell you he's gonna play every game next year because he's not. He's gonna wind up getting hurt again.
More likely than not, because it seems to be part of his game. Mmm.
In this, in this press conference, was this the same one where he's just standing outside, like yelling at reporters? Yeah, yeah, it seems like he's. That's a man that knows he might get fired soon. Yeah, yeah, so you see the agents response.
No, what do you say? Stanton's agent responded Today I I read the context of the entire interview. I think it's a good reminder for all free agent agents considering signing in New York worth both foreign and domestic. That's a play for the team.
You've got to be made of teflon, both mentally and physically, because you can never let your guard down, even in the office.
Cash might be trying to get fired. That's why, yeah, it's a man that knows that. Yeah, he actually, I think he might, I think he might want to get fired. Because if you're the GM of the Yankees and you don't win a world series, everyone's like, this guy's a clown, right? And anything less than that. And you lose a lot, like getting one World series in a long time, so it seems like a thankless job.
You usually don't give a big like media press conference outside what what appears to be like, I don't know, a strip of like street side restaurants. Yes, in front of the media, screaming at everybody. If you're very secure in your job, yes, yes.
All right, so I look forward to more cash in quotes. He's trying to get fired, Jake.
My hot seats. The New Orleans Pelicans. Zion Williamson, first overall pick superstar, told the media he's, quote trying his best to buy in right now.
Mmm, so that sounds very optimistic. Someone quote You didn't said you should try to buy an oxygen mask because you're breathing really heavy. During that press conference, I laughed. Would you consider?
Zion Williamson To be a superstar? Yeah, no, no, I don't think I would.
Superstar No, I've just said, Superstar, Yeah, it's not a set.
That's why I wanted to address it. Yeah, I feel like I feel like he is called a superstar a lot.
But I don't think that he is Superstars play.
What other player has has has torn through their shoe and affected a stock?
See, he was a college superstar. I absolutely agree with that. Yeah, he was definitely a college superstar. He won a championship, right? Yeah, that's, he was loaded.
Yeah, they were really good.
And your cool Throne, my cool Thrones. Lucky underwear During the Manning cast, Patrick Mahomes told the Mannings that he's worn the same pair of underwear for his entire N.F.L. career every game.
That was fucked up to how he predicted that so perfectly, he knew that that. Did you see the clip? He the Eli Manning was like? I think the Broncos were like, first and goal in the 10.
He's like, are they gonna score a touchdown and how? and he's like, they're gonna run, they're gonna run, they're gonna do a play-action pass and score. Literally exactly how it went down.
Yeah, pretty sick. Also, to your point earlier PFT. I'm gonna say Eagles Chiefs. Monday night football is going to be the highest rated game of the season moving forward. Also, there's a potential of Taylor appearing in primetime standalone. It has to be Super Bowl rematch. Oh, yeah, sees, and she's a philly girl.
I mean, it has to be the highest rated game of the year, right? yeah.
Good call ratings of the year, yeah.
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We now welcome on our very good friend. Recurring guest third time on it is Karissa Thompson. you can see her on Thursday night. Football, Amazon Prime. Let's start with that.
I'm not in my prime and this is the third time I've been on. You are in your prime.
Yeah, the first time was when you came on, we got every single fact about your life wrong. Yeah, you did. You went to Washington State, called Larry David, you didn't let us talk to Larry David.
Second time was in your office in California with EA, so is you and Aaron? We're on the show Great Time, so this is number three.
Again, factually wrong, though. I know that this is your podcast, so I'm gonna shut up and let you ask the questions. But you know, the first time we all met, it wasn't your podcast, yet it was on the set. Oh, it's live. Only be before you guys had a dollar, and now I'm in this bazillion dollar studio, 20 bazillion.
I didn't want to put your business in the streets, but if you want to tell people again how rich you are, yeah.
Bravo to you guys. The first time you weren't part of my take. I remember we were in three different locations I was in, like my New York apartment. I think Big Cat might have been Cisco, San Francisco.
For some reason, you were in Hollywood Hills hobnobbing with the big shots. And as I normally do, I remember my washer and dryer was right behind me because that was also my kitchen. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, just reached in for clean laundry and your top ramen. But you guys have come a long way. We have wait.
So I actually, I try to black out the spelling bee because it was kind of embarrassing.
Was that a low point for you in your career? No, that was a high point, we know.
We walked in, I remember it was so sad because we walked into Fox Sports and they there was like a timed union, like dinner and everyone left. And we're like, who's gonna run the cameras? and they're like, we'll let one guy stay? It was like one guy, Carissa, me, Dave and Hank standing there and being like, what are we doing?
It was fantastic. So for those of you that were born, I don't know. Recently, Fox Sports Live was the first program on FS1 when it became a cable entity. And we had no idea what we're doing. But I still reference that show regularly because the shit that we got away with was phenomenal. Yeah, Gary Payton openly referencing like, I jerked off 30 million dollars and Andy Roddick saying, What's the other hand for?
It is one of the greatest moments that no one saw on television. We had so much fun. It was Gary Payton, Donovan McNabb, Andy Roddick, Gabe Kapler. Yes, was on it as well, and the show didn't do as well as we wanted. But you guys were a highlight and I just, I'm just very proud of how you come.
I remember the whole time just been like, Chris, probably it's like, why she's gonna call her agent after this and be like, what?
Just sign me up for. This is on the contrary. I have just watched from afar. You guys continue to succeed.
Yeah, what would you say is the low point in your career? oh?
God, low point in my career, probably when I said, play cock instead of play clock at a Minnesota Gophers game. Yeah, for the Big Ten network, huh? It was so cold outside and I kept saying the word over and over again because I tried to correct it. And then at this point, I was like, Back to you, Tom, like ten times. I was like, I'm gonna be fired.
There's no way I am gonna continue in this industry.
But yeah, that wasn't a highlight of a word with you. After that, were they like, Did you do that on purpose?
No, they, I mean, they understood, you know, the minutes, like, caught, it was outside, right? Yeah, there wasn't a dome at the Old Gophers game. Yeah, so they understood that I was freezing. But they were like, Hey, maybe next time, like, if you get it the word wrong on accident, maybe don't keep saying it.
Also, like, it's maybe because we've been around media for so long now and been doing this. I my respect for sideline analysts and people who are they cutting to has grown exponentially. Because you guys get like, no time and you have to nail it and it's like, we're gonna go to you 20 seconds. You got to get everything out, all this information. And I would, I would do that, I'd play, say, play, cock, cock every time.
There is a reason that I am no longer a sideline reporter. And all this to Aaron Andrews. All the time, I'm like, use you prep all week long? You have all these calls with players, you have all these calls with coaches.
You have all this for 15 to 20 seconds, and then half the time it's not even on camera, right? It's just like a report. So I'm like, the amount, the ROI on the amount of work that you put in versus what you actually see. I give them so much respect and there's a reason that I don't do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would just freeze every time they said it to be like, wait on, okay, and they're like, All right, that's all No.
Details with like, how you hold the mic, each reporters got like a different grip on it. Do I go to finger, do I go three? do I do the extended pinky?
Like, why you have to make sure that the mic flag is pointed directly at the camera? And there's a lot of red meat, too, because it's like a break in the action. So if you screw up anything, that's all anybody talks about for the next five minutes on Twitter.
It's a big like, What's? Where's the upside? Like? You're only gonna fail in that situation. Yeah, I just talked to Mike Tomlin.
He says that we need to go out in the second half and compete.
I and I've said this before, so I haven't been fired for saying it, but I'll say it again. I would make up the report sometimes because a the coach wouldn't come out at halftime or it was too late. And I was like, I didn't want to screw up the report. So I was like, I'm just gonna make this up. Because, first of all, no coach is gonna get mad if I say, hey. We need to stop hurting ourselves. We needed to be better on third down, we need to stop turning the ball over the quarterback. Yeah, exactly, and and do a better job of getting off the field. Like, they're not gonna correct me on that.
I'm like, it's fine, I'll make up the report. It would be very funny if you were like, Yeah.
So I just spoke with Arthur Smith at halftime and he said Bijan Robinson blew smoke in his face. Yeah, why he's not getting the ball, yeah.
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