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Anytime a quarterback gets cut and they've got this big dead cap hit, yeah, I would love to get paid millions of dollars to not work anymore. That is truly. Schools should teach classes if you want to prepare young children for how to succeed in America. Teach them the best ways to get paid a fuck load of money and to not have to work at their job.

Territory of being maybe the worst N.FL trade of all time. Hershel Walker has always been the gold standard. Or, sorry, Uh, yeah, no, no, Hershel Walker, right? Hershel Walker.

It was Seahawks won this trade. We can officially declare that now we were still. It was still up in the air, but now we can say, Uh, yeah, the Seahawks, you dominated the Broncos. Congratulations. It's another win on your schedule. Uh, for Russ Wilson, I think you asked me at the end of the season, like over under, Russell, Wilson starts 16 or 17 and a half more games.

Of Russell Wilson Yes, I don't think Russell Wilson is good anymore, I think he's, I think.

He's like an average quarterback. Think of the right system, he could, he could thrive, I think.

He's, yeah, the number one defense. He's a weird guy, that's the thing is like, you can, you can overlook signing a weird guy if he's going to be good. But Russell's goodness, his talent is no longer to the point where it outweighs just what a bizarre human being he is. I just don't know.

Where, where that team's going to be, uh, to sign him as a starter. When you look at like, who's got openings and Raiders, yeah, but are they going to draft someone? are they going to? Like, they're obviously whatever. Three, four, five of the openings will be filled by someone who's drafted coming up in a month.

Starter Yeah, what about, like, a team that's probably going to draft a quarterback and could.

Use some veteran leadership. Do you want that type of leadership? though? weird leadership leadership?

To where? Yeah, it's weird. Leadership. He's a Superbowl winning QB, that's a fact.

I just I don't know where he fits in, maybe I'm wrong. I think there'll be a team to take.

That takes a chance on. I'm like, if you were to tell me that the Steeler signed him, I would not be surprised by that. But he wouldn't be guaranteed starter, he wouldn't be guaranteed starter, probably not a QB competition, he might win the job.

I don't think you get to decide, I don't think you get to decide if you're Russ Wilson right now.

But he might, but Russ, Russ might be at the point where if he's not guaranteed a starting job.

He might just retire, like Russell Wilson when Mike McDaniel, you know, obviously he'd be a.

Backup, but fireworks. Maybe the giants. Did you see the report? Rich Eisen said that the giants.

Are done with Daniel, Daniel Jones, he said. The two words that are being used for Daniel Jones is buyer's remorse. Yikes. Um, at the time, I think when we. I think Leroy, his ghost, might have actually broken the news of his contract. That might be his final scoop.

Tag your quarterback. Yeah, because you had a history of a guy who had an a very good year when they went to the playoffs where it was two years ago. And you essentially said, this is who he is now, not the other four years. Let's let's bank on him being the same guy and have this not.

Be an anomaly. Yeah, yeah. He had a great year and he stayed healthy that year, which he normally doesn't do. And then you paid him like he was a healthy, good quarterback, which I guess he was in the most recent season that you saw him.

Good fit. So one last question about Russell Wilson before we talk about some other stuff, Uh, do you I? I do have a small part of me that feels bad for him and I know that's crazy. He's made millions and millions of dollars, he is getting paid $39 million to do nothing this year.

Wasn't a joke, Yeah, maybe, but also at the end of the day. Also. Also Malcolm Butler At the end of the day, you're, you're married to Sierra. You've got more bathrooms than number of times.

Yeah, they're good, but at the end, like it's one of those deep down. Your head hits the pillow late at night, you're like, Man, I wish that didn't all happen the way it did.

Yeah, like, things were pretty good in Seattle for me. I had a fan base that loved me, no matter.

What I did, it would have let you, like, age poorly and still stuck by you, giving you a hero's.

Retirement ceremony? Yeah, yeah, it would have been good, it would, it would have been good for us to stay in Seattle.

First Domino Kirk Cousins Kirk Cousins, who reportedly is thinking about moving to Atlanta.

Yeah, per Mike Florio, a pro football talk, not fan fiction. Mike Florio had some words for you.

Hank is a fan. Fact he was not happy last night. I'm going to pull up the tweet. Mike Florio was not happy. And the first person I thought of was you, Henry Lockwood.

Them a hell of a time online, hell of a time read it. I mean, there's like many shows do interviews, I don't know that.

The weirdest flex I've ever seen, he had two flexes, two flexes. Okay, hold on. So my actually thought that his, uh, his Caleb Williams flex is pretty good the other day on Friday.

He's been texting me, being like, I'm so mad, the bears are going to be good, I'm like, I feel like.

You're tricking me. Yeah, I'm going to pull up the, uh, the Caleb Williams, he said. This one.

He said last night to the folks who try to dismiss our reports by saying we have no sources or whatever. You realize we had like 50 guests on our show last week from Indy, right? You realize pretty much everyone in the league reads PFT, right? You realize I've been doing this for 23 years, right? I didn't realize most of that.

Hater? But everyone reads PFT, that's subjective. Well, here's the thing everyone in the league does, having 50 guests. Okay, here's where we're.

I'm going to, I'm going to back our guy Florio for a second, because he's in that weird gray area. Where you have the shafties and the Ian rap ports. Who will just trade news, they have news, they'll give you the news. There's not opinion, Florio adds his opinion.

Signed or this guy got cut. I think where people get confused, though, is because with Rapport and Schefter and and you know, Diana. Like. They report facts, so when they're reporting something, you just assume it's a fact because they're tweeting it. Florio does that, but then also speculates, Yeah.

Well, you got to know your source. It's Florio, sometimes in, especially in the dog days of the N.FL calendar year, where there's not a lot happening. That's when Florio, his mind starts to wander a little bit, and he starts connecting the dots and doing the tea leaves and all that stuff, and that's fun.

I like Florio, I always say this, he is more like barstool than he thinks. Like, where? Again? Schefter and Rapport are just driven by scoops, driven by getting reports, Florio is driven by page views.

Fiction that's a fan, you're doing your part on him, you're fan fictioning him. This is, this is Hank Florio.

Writes something just being like this, There's no truth behind this, let me just throw this out there. He actually does have kernels of truth that end up being popcorn. We ate his hypotheses.

Yeah, either way, I like Florio, your entire life is a Florio hater. Hypotheses.

My old point is like, he's, we're more alike. Sometimes I just think he likes to get mad and be like, how can people not, you know, take me seriously? So he thinks, Uh, Kirk cousins, he's.

The best in the biz, he thinks Kirk Cousins is making some sort of family plan to move his family and his team down to Atlanta. Yeah, uh, I don't know what that could possibly be like. Is he trading in all of his sweaters at Kohl's?

Wife is down there, someone's friend is, someone's friend's cousin is a real estate agent in Buckhead, and she's actually taking a meeting. Kirk was Kirk's wife. Kirk was spotted in Magic City last.

Weekend behind the curtain. Yeah, sampling the wings, I mean, the The Falcons would be.

Real, like, if they signed Kirk Cousins, I would maybe pick them to that, I would definitely pick.

Them to win the NFC South. What are the odds right now? What are the odds on the Falcons winning the NFC? Can we look ahead at that? I don't know.

Either way, Kirk Cousins Domino One, Domino one, I think, Justin Fields Domino two, I agree. I think, um, hmm.

Right, Russ is our quarterback, also, Mike Glennon had that happen to him with Mitch. Yeah. Also here's Jaden Daniels.

MIKE GLENNon Time like, whoop, it's Mitch. What'd you got, Jake? Plus 1400 doing the NFC Atlanta?

Uh, I still don't like it, it's right in the middle of the pack. I kind of like it with Kirk, just based on the speculation of Kirk. The Vikings are plus 2000. Uh, so, another Florio tweet We just spent 10 minutes with Caleb Williams. Condolences to the Vikings, Lions and Packers.

For now, oh, we're getting very credible indications that Cousins is seriously considering.

Moving his family to Atlanta? Yeah, you know what the original Magic said We can't get?

Into specifics For now, I could say that about anything and be like, Well, can't get into specifics. It was, it was Bethlehem. Oh, he can't get into specifics.

By the way, we should have we we screwed up on Sunday, we should have mentioned.

I forgot, well, I guess I would say that, and then I'd be like, Wait, he had 50 interviews.

Superbowl week, So well, it was Combine week, actually. Yeah, um, Chris Mortensen passing away was sad. Mort was the original, he was the original newsbreaker.

Like an N.F.L. reporter that was on television before Chris Morton, Yeah, like, as a feature of a show. And he, he seemed like a a great guy. I never got the chance to meet him.

Being, yeah, and you could tell, just by the outpouring of, you know, people saying their stories about him and everything, he was just beloved by everyone. It makes me think, sometimes, how many, how much, how much hate do you think we'll get when we die?

Definitely will still be some hate. I don't like to joke about death on the show. Big Cat, yeah.

True Purple gloves. John Cena Yeah, it'll be love, but there'll be some hate, too. Oh.

When, when Big Cat dies, somebody is going to post the Taylor Swift video, Yeah, like this.

Fucking asshole, hope he burns in hell. It'll just be like, Thank God, there's one less man.

On the planet, yeah, I guess it would be an unhealthy does. I knew this was happening.

Yeah, yeah, like all all those doughnuts we should have known also be some of that.

Shout out to Mort. Because I think the diagnosis of his his throat cancer, which is a super aggressive type of cancer, was that. Like, 2015, 2016. Yeah, and so he, he lived for what, nine years, eight years after that.

Just a cool dude, would, would you guys, isn't it weird to think, though, like, and it's morbid? But we'll eulogize each other, like if one of us dies first, like Hank, if you died, PFT and I would have to do what we would be part of the eulogies, right? I do.

How you were a ticket taker, be like Hank would still be taking tickets right now, I think I would.

Have to give a eulogy for Dave, right? Yeah, like one of them, Oh, no, Ms. Peaches, what'd you do?

It's the best life hack ever if you're naming a dog. If you name your dog after a noun, it's awesome if you name your dog after a noun. And put Mr or Miss in front of it, yeah.

Um, okay, Jason Kelsey retired. Max thought we were going to lead the show, probably should have.

Should have led the show well, I think, you know, shout out to the Kelsey brothers there. He's becoming a full-time podcaster right now, which I think he's going to find out is a lot harder than playing football. FACTS Um, but they've, they've done a very good job of, uh, of playing the game, and they they do a good job on the podcast. It's very funny show and a good show, but they also know how to play the game.

Jason Kelsey and his life for the rest of time, he was an all-time dude. Uh, in terms of like N.FL lore, like six round pick, incredible mainstay of the Eagles this this past whatever decade. Plus where they've gone to a Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, gone to a bunch of big games. Like, he's the guy, uh, where you said, did you tear up a little? He also, his speech was great.

Whatever the fuck he wants. If he was going to Travis's retirement day and everyone else was dressed as nice and he wore no sleeves, then yes, I could see I would be disrespectful.

It's your thing, you choose the rule. He's a hater, he sounds like a real loser. Yeah, he was.

Like, can't put on sleeves. I honestly didn't know that, and Max did ratio the fuck out of him, ratio him to hell. Uh, but yeah, it was. It was a great speech.

Um, it was great, it had everything, it was emotional, it was funny it it, it was a great.

Yeah, uh, you bring up a good point, though. What happens with the tush push? Next year? Are they going to run it?

Yeah, they're still going to run it. I don't think it'll be as successful as it was.

As it was.

Did you see the Wisconsin center? Uh, actually. Finally, someone broke the three cone. I think it was three cone drill that Jason Kelsey had the record for centers for, like, whatever it was the last 13 years. So maybe you draft him good.

He definitely gave like a blueprint for other Philadelphia athletes, like I feel like Bryce Harper at he wants so very badly to be what Jason Kelsey is.

Nick Sirianni looks in the mirror and he sees Jason Kelsey.

Yeah, yeah, it's good to have a blueprint, though. It's like you have somebody that everyone wants to emulate. And if everybody could be Jason Kelsey, then you'd be very, very happy as a sports fan.

Yeah, Mount Rushmore of six round picks, he's on it.

He's the Mount Rushmore of Eagle as Eagles athlete.

Yeah, Mount Rushmore. Six round picks. It's Tom Brady, Antonio Brown, Terrell Davis and then Jason Kelsey.

That's good round.

That's a great round, great picks right there.

Yeah, also first team All American beer drinker. Yeah, that dude loves beer. I love how much he loves beer.

Got to get him on the pod, we hung out with him once. Yeah, when?

Probably 17 2016 2017.

It was Bo Allen's apartment.

Oh yeah.

And it was Chris Long, Bo Allen and Jason Kelsey, and we just hung out.

Brent Selick, too.

Yeah, Brent Selick. And we just hung out for, I don't know, three, four hours. It was awesome. Drank beers.

Yeah.

You didn't know that.

No, this is the first I'm hearing of this.

Have you ever hung out with him? No, oh no.

You know what, I really...?

I'm actually surprised he didn't mention us in his speech. That was a great night.

It was a great hang. I hope so much that he hates Max. That'd be so good, wouldn't it?

Come on, don't say that.

Well, you're appropriating his culture.

Yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, his culture is not your costume, Max.

You just told me that I have to appropriate his culture.

You look like a guy that gets dressed.

He grew out his hair whenever his hair was growing out. That's when I started to grow out my hair and then I just never looked back. He is my inspiration.

You're very unsettling in a hat.

I just want to look like him, I want to be him.

Great hats are going to be out on Thursday, the just cover hats. We got all new gambling merch from arch Madness.

I don't look good in a hat.

You don't look good in a hat.

You will look better than me in this hat.

I told Max before we started that he looks like when Forrest Gump went on his cross-country run, he just somehow got fatter. Yeah, I mean,....

Well, we workshopped that. I said, I looked like Forrest Gump, you said, you look like....

True, it was a workshop.

Yeah, credit to max, actually.

Yeah, credit to me.

It was a workshop.

But the fatter part was funny.

Okay, what else do we have before we get to Hank's number 10 Patriots?

I saw a pretty hilarious fan last night at the Clippers box game. Okay, did you see the guy from Taiwan? No, there was a guy that flew in from Taiwan and he held up a poster that said, like, I flew 15 hours or whatever from Taiwan. To see my favorite player, Russell Westbrook.

Didn't play.

Brought all his jerseys, the man was wearing 15 Russell Westbrook jerseys.

Oh my god.

All on top of each other, and he started to take them all off, showing the different layers of Russell Westbrook.

But at least he got to see Giannis.

Yeah, at least he got to see Giannis, which is nice.

I thought you were going to say Giannis because he got ruled out like an hour before.

But he was definitely on a plane overseas, and the news broke that Russell Westbrook hand issue.

That's brutal.

That's a tough flight, that's a tough flight you can't, and all your bag is just filled with nothing but Russell Westbrook jerseys.

Yeah, I think we're at the point, though, with the N.BA, that you can't make a long flight to try to see your favorite player with any type of confidence anymore.

No.

It's on you.

You have to actually be in touch with the player beforehand and let them know like, Hey, I'm considering spending $5,000 on this flight from Taiwan. Would you just promise me that you're going to play that game?

Yeah, you need to find a week where they're at home for a straight week and be like, I'm just going to take the whole week. Because then I might have a good chance of seeing my favorite player play.

Yeah, but I think Hank, no disrespect. I know that I did crown the Celtics Eastern Conference champions, I think NBA champions. On Monday's show. I think I'm going to ride on the Bucks, I think I got to go with Pat Bev.

Belt to ass.

Belt to ass, they're just 6-0..

Last six.

They're fucking people up ever since they got gallinari, they haven't lost a game since they got gallinari.

Is he playing?

I don't know.

I think so.

Celtics legend.

Yeah, I think he's playing.

Never played.

Also, some other people would-.

The greatest rehab working out videos? Yeah, just skipping.

Yeah, he played last night, he played 17 minutes, four points.

Some people would just point to the fact that the All-star break did happen, and they've just been good since the All-star break.

But still.

But still gallinari.

They have been good. And yeah, I mean, it was actually....

Yeah.

I kind of like that. The Bucs have that situation, a lot of teams, Celtics have it where their best player goes out. And it's like, Well, the other guy is just going to, is really fucking good. He's just going to score all the points and we'll be fine.

Yep.

This is big, yeah. Before you announce number 10, I want to give you just a little bit of background here.

Well, it doesn't matter, because the list has already been locked in.

So yeah, I know, but we already went from what 6 to number 1. Is that what we did? the top 6 or top 7? yes.

So give us the 6 through 1 and then we'll go back to 10.

Dante Hightower 6, Ty Law 5, Julian Edelman 4, Teddy Bruschi 3, Rob Gronkowski 2.

Okay, so when we left the combine on Thursday, I was hanging out with a couple coaches and a couple of gyms. Not to brag, but I got a big slap on my back. And before I turned around, I said to myself, That's a coach who's too big and intimidating to coach in the NFL anymore. I turned around and it was Mike Vrabel right there and he was like, What's up, bitch? which is the perfect Mike Vrabel way to say hello to you.

Well, it doesn't matter because the list is locked in. That was my point, but I can't.

Right, you can't change it.

Retro aCtively.

I know, but just so, you know, no pressure. I hope you put Vrabel on there because he's going to beat your ass.

I would love to watch that.

Dude, he would kick your ass.

He would fuck you up so bad, you'd be crying, you'd be bloody.

So would you.

Yeah, but I'd put him on my top 10 list, yeah.

He doesn't want to beat my ass.

Who said I didn't?

Okay, so who's number 10?

With that being said, number 10,.

Randy Moss.

Yeah, only player on this list to not win a Super Bowl, but he was that good, that exciting record breaker.

Best receiver of all time.

Best receiver of all time When he came to the Patriots, they got him for nothing. You know, people didn't have high expectations. And then, you know, game one, it was apparent like he was going to dominate. And that was, you know, the most fun season until it wasn't.

Unstoppable Unicorns.

How many Super Bowls do you think Tom Brady would trade to get 19-0?

Two, probably, I think, he said. I could be wrong, but I think he said he would trade like one or two just to have that one.

I had memory hold that one play at the very end of the first Giants-Patriots Super Bowl, where Brady just chucks it downfield. He told Randy to reverse fields when he points at him and the ball hit off Randy Moss's hands. And they would have been in field goal range. I'd completely forgotten about that play.

The thing with the time was, though, there was only like 14 12 seconds left. They were all the way on the other side of the field, they had no timeout. So people posted a lot being like, what if he caught this? I don't know that they would have gotten down the field and spiked it.

It would have been electric, though. Yeah, Tom Brady would have run the fastest 40 of his life.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't even know if he did when he was 22.

I saw that, yeah, he beat himself.

I don't even know if they mentioned the record-breaking season in the documentary.

I don't think they did.

Insane.

Who's your honorable mention?

My honorable mention Rodney Harrison.

Oh, okay, Rodney Harrison.

Great guy.

Didn't make the top 10.

I think he talked about the helmet catch.

Yeah.

Talk about the helmet catch, and then we'll just do one quick clip of you winning a Super Bowl.

My favorite thing about Rodney Harrison is when he gets on TV on Sunday nights. And he just talks about how dirty some of these players are and how much they should be suspended for their hits. Yeah, it's like, This is Rodney Harrison telling you this?

Rodney HarRison Okay, good job Hank. Should we do hot seat? cool throne? sure.

I have two hot seats, I'll elect to use one because I'm assuming one of you guys will have the other one.

That's very nice of you.

Thank you. So my hot seat is spring break.

Why?

Miami is opting out of spring break.

Yeah.

I don't know how that's going to work.

I saw the video.

But they made a video. DESantis was like, we're not, you know? They made a video that was like, it's not you, it's me. Breaking up. Like, kind of a parody video of Miami residents breaking up with spring break, and DeSantis said. They have a bunch of security measures to, you know, stop it.

Yeah, they did this with PCB, the other a few years ago, where they stopped letting people drink on the beach and then it just kind of ended there.

Yeah.

The war against spring break is raging.

I was never a big spring break guy because I was too fat.

I never got to go on one.

Max, Were you agreeing with me there?

Yeah, I played baseball, so we had.

Yeah.

It was always like, get in shape or just I could just stay in Madison and just like, drink and hang out, and I would do the latter.

I did Panama City Beach one year, and Panama City Beach might be it might be the worst city in America. It's just you leave the actual beach and then you've got guys wearing JNCos, riding a bicycle named Travis.

Beating up future quarterbacks.

Beating up future quarterbacks and trying to sell you salvia on the street, yeah. And then there's an occasional preacher that pulls you signs like, I'll give you free pancakes if you listen to me preach to you.

I'd take that deal.

Yeah, I did, I actually did take that deal worth it. Yeah, I saw Woody Harrelson in a waffle house in Panama City Beach one time.

During spring break.

During spring break, he was there eating by himself, and then, as he was on his way out, this kid stopped him. He was probably like a nine-year-old kid. It was like, Hi, Mr.

Yes, okay, so spring break out.

Hot seat.

Hot seat feel bad for the kids?

Although Miami spring break, I feel like it's not a college kid destination.

I would agree with that. Yeah, you gotta go to Mexico.

Yeah, or you go-.

Somewhere cheap.

And then you gotta come back with all the bracelets of all the places you went to.

Yeah.

I went into Senior Frogs, I think there's one in Cabo. And we went in for one drink in the middle of the day. And it smelled like puke and like spaghetti. And I was like, do not miss this.

Yeah, the good news is there's like 400 other beaches in Florida you can go to, yeah.

My cool throne is having nothing to hide.

Oh.

The commercial, I think we talked about it a few weeks ago.

Yeah, we really should have given people a warning about that commercial because it hit on a Monday morning and everyone was like, What is this?

Whoops.

We did a commercial where we're, you know, basically naked.

You guys came out great. That one side angle of just like, it's just an upshot of my side boob, not great.

I haven't seen the commercial.

I think you, I think I came out the worst. I look like two dimensional.

I don't know.

You look big cat, looks jacked.

Can somebody say-?

They're all chested.

Yeah, send the video because I haven't watched it. I just walked by Max when he was editing something and just our nude bodies were on his computer screen.

Yeah, apologies to everyone for not giving you a heads up because you've probably seen it, especially if you're watching the podcast. Our Bad. We should have been like, Hey, there's this new commercial, it's a great commercial.

Shout out our billboard on Randolph Street.

Hank's just fishing with Dynamite now.

Across from J.P. Graziano's Good Night John Boyd.

It's great you were at a bar on Friday night with the billboard out the window.

It's interesting that we put it outside your favorite bar.

Do you even say anything to girls or are you just-?

No, I didn't mention it at all, I didn't even mention it at all.

You just kind of keep nodding towards the window, check it out.

Yeah, yawning like, Oh, whoa, that's a cool billboard.

You're so lucky.

Yeah, sorry about this video, I just watched it. That's tough, yeah.

Well, it was just the fact that it was a Monday morning and we didn't give anyone a prep. It's a great ad, gets people watching body armor. We love body armor, but we should have been like, Hey, there's an ad coming out.

Well, yeah, I think we did, because we showed up, it was a late Sunday night, still football season, and then we showed up 8 a.m. They're like, here's your costume. And it was just a two-inch see-through. I don't even know spandex boxers.

Yeah, it looked like we were all hiding different sizes of birds in our shorts.

Mine was like a small sparrow.

At one point, they were saying that was going to be the billboard.

Yeah, I pretty much say yes to everything that's ever been asked of me in my career. I think that was the one time where I was like, and I think you guys played it correctly. Because you're like, let's let Big Cat decide this because he's the one who's going to look the worst.

No, no, no.

I said, I need to be in a bodysuit.

No, what happened was somebody asked me. Here's the idea for the billboard. You guys are all going to be nude. And you and Big Cat are going to be holding footballs in front of your crotches. And then Hank is going to be holding a golf ball in front of his.

Oh man.

Blurring it out And so I said, I'm down with that. But you might want to double check with Hank that it's OK, because Hank's the one that's going to have to live with that visual.

And I said, if I'll make a compromise, put me in the jacked bodysuit and I'll do it. They're like, No, no, it's like, all right.

No matter who was going to have the tiny ball in front of our penis was going to end up being like, No, I don't want to do this billboard.

I actually think I'm less like, if my penis was out there, I wouldn't really care. It's the it's everything else that sucks, I mean, the penis sucks too, but at least I've told everyone like it sucks like, bad.

Penis Yeah, right, I mean, we're podcasters. What do you expect? yeah.

OK, good hot seat, cool throne.

Thank you.

PFT My hot seat is arch manning.

Yes, I had that as well. Is that the one you had? Hank? yeah.

Oh, thank you.

Good job.

Well, actually, my hot seat was NCAA Football 2024.

OK, well, I'll just I'll just put Arch on the hot seat because he's not going to be. He's opted out of being in the new college football game and I don't really care. But it is very funny seeing people. Because if you just zoom out and look at what you're actually upset about, a lot of people are upset. That, like, a 20 year old, isn't going to be in their favorite video game.

Right, and I, so. Initially I was like, the story, and I don't know if it's fact is like, I just want to focus on football. And I kind of have Arch Manning's back in that respect. Because if you're in a football game, a video game, you're going to just play the video game as yourself all the time. And then someone pointed out that Arch Manning would be in it and his rating would be like sixty five, and he'd be a backup.

Let's let's reach a compromise in EA Sports, NCAA College football. Arch manning is not going to be in the game, however, don't put any filters or blocks on the game that prevent you from making arch manning, creating your own arch manning. I don't want, like, the last name thing coming up be like, Sorry, this last name cannot be used, right?

Yes, agreed, agreed.

I have another hot seat, just real quick. Charlotte the Stingray still hasn't given birth. Oh, it's fucked up. I don't think that she's actually pregnant.

Oh, the strangest. He chose to do this.

We had to do a 24 hour punishment and I was thinking about it. Last night. We had, you know, games, we had each other, we had guests popping in. It was still one of the most miserable experiences of my life.

Oh, jail sucks. Put it on a quote card.

He just chose to do 100 hours. He was like, Oh, you know, be funny if I did 100 hours of solitary. I completely respect it.

Oh yeah.

Insane.

He's down for anything, Clemmer's down for anything with like, he's. If you build more people like Clemmer at Barstow would be great because he is, he'll do anything. But I agree with you, Hank, when people are like, this is punishment.

Yeah, it's his, I think he's fine.

Yeah, like he said, he's fine, he's just living his life.

He's actually so. When I started watching it, all the comments were it was right off the bat, like the first four hours. They were saying Clemmer is going to go insane by the end this week. No, he's going to make everybody that's watching the stream go insane because he's doing, he's doing fine with it. And his, the way his brain works is just so strange that you can't help but watch.

He did that multiple times.

Yeah, it's really, really bizarre stuff, but yeah, I can't stop watching Clemmer, Yeah.

All right, my hot seat is Anthony Edwards. You guys see, last night Anthony Edwards lost track of time and he missed the tip off of the Timberwolves game.

I didn't see that.

So yeah, he didn't, he didn't start first time, he hasn't started since he was a rookie. He was at the arena, he was warming up in the tunnel.

This is the kind of thing that you point to when it's like, Yeah, the Timberwolves are.

Good, but your star player lost track.

Just forgot when the game started.

Just completely forgot.

We should do reasons why teams can't win the N.B.A. finals. Yeah, and it would be just Anthony Edwards forgetting, and it would just be like Chet Holmgren's shoulders.

Yeah, it was. There was a man I can't remember his name.

Chris Paul Just a picture of Chris Paul for the Warriors.

It was there was a player, fuck, what was his? He's a pitcher.

I love that I would do something like that.

Okay, my cool throne is Dak Prescott, he got a new haircut.

Oh yeah, yeah. So what kind of haircut is it?

He also, I think, had a kid, but he it was just regular haircut.

Just a close haircut.

Yeah, really, I couldn't really see any difference. But that is where we're at in the new cycle.

Is that like NFL? Is that like when moms have another kid and they cut their hair because they don't have time to take care of it? Yeah, Prescott just cut like half an inch off his hair.

Yeah, and all the way from beard to goatee, oh, that was what it was. So the aggregators were like the M.L. football, the dove climbing were like Dak Prescott got a new haircut. Thoughts.

Okay, my thought? yep.

Yeah, that's a haircut and he got a goatee. I actually like the goatee. He kind of looks good, he's got a good jaw.

It's like, Dan Quinn, a little bit, Yeah, great job, besides the fact it's made out of glass. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, Jake, your hot seat, cool throne. Jake is back. Congrats Jake. You did a great job with the tournament this weekend.

Thank you guys, it was a lot of fun. Yes, great drama we had Monday morning golf.

Who won?

His name was Austin Eckroat. First ever PGA win.

Nice.

You were working the bear trap this weekend, which is a great name.

Posted over the bear trap.

Great name for holes on the golf course, The Bear Trap, Yes.

Brought to you by Jack and Klaus, which I wanted to say really badly, but wouldn't have made sense.

So with the PGA Tour this year, everyone that's won is the biggest underdog ever.

Yeah.

It's really weird.

There's been eight or nine events and there's already been three rookies who have won last year. in 54 events, three rookies won.

Yeah, if you look at the odds, they're all between like 60 and 500 to one odds that have won.

Yeah, the co-leader after 54 holes, David Skins, was 1,000 to one.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that, like, 50 really good players are on the live.

I don't know what that means. No, live. We don't include them in our world Golf ranking.

Well, we have the Arnold Palmer and then the players next week, so it's some big events coming up.

Two big boy events, if they don't get a big name in either one, yeah.

We need some big boys, we need some big boys.

Yeah, okay.

So that was fun. My hot seat is teams who need a wide receiver. Oh, because Mike Evans is staying with the Bucs.

Yes, one jersey guy.

A lot of people were saying, if he had free agency, maybe the jets, maybe the chiefs, but he's not going anywhere. And he had a great year.

Yeah, he kind of in a way hit free agency. He was just like, I'm going to hit free agency. And then the Bucs were like, here's some more money. He's like, Okay, thank you.

Jason Light's first draft pick as a GM Mike Evans He's been there a long time. Mike Evans, I mean, we talked about it this fall. He is, if he plays another three, four, five years, he will be in the conversation for Mount Rushmore of wide receivers. In terms of, like, his total numbers and the dominance he's had every single season he's been in the N.FL, he's had a thousand yards.

Yep, also Jason Light. very cool guy, very cool. I like Jason Light a lot, but I still have that red flag in the back of my head with Jason Light that he likes. Stephen Chey.

And also he might be James one one.

Yes, that too, yeah.

My Cool Throne is friend of the program Dan Hurley after winning the Big East title regular season. He went out to the bar and celebrate. Oh, nice fans and students.

First time they want it in since 1999.

Yeah, so love him.

Was he drinking this?

Probably literally. All Dan Hurley has done since Max joined this podcast is Win. Yeah, it's true, crazy.

And they, you guys tell me if I'm wrong. This is the best chance for repeats since the 06 07 gators.

Yeah, probably yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, usually a team loses some key pieces they did, but they're going to be one seed, they have a chance to do it.

Yeah, they absolutely do. Uh, okay, good job boys, let's get to our interview. We have Diana Rossini.

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