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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, December 1st and is Dak Prescott the NFL MVP?
I was about to say congratulations to the Dallas Cowboys for winning the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl, the Super Bowl, I think, the Cowboys. I don't know if I'm gonna go that far.
This is perfect, This is perfect because Dallas fans are so confident right now as they should be. You're a good team, but you're basically the same team that you've been, or that you were last year. At least. Yeah, Mike McCarthy is the same guy that he was last year.
He almost blew that into the game thing. yes, he almost did, with that pass to the end zone, stopped the clock, gave him a lot more time. That would have been something we would be discussing right now if it didn't work out.
But the cowboys are good enough, City lamb is a fucking beast, and they're good enough offensively. Their defense came up big when it mattered, even though there were no punts tonight, they didn't force a single punt and they didn't have to punt.
The Cowboys played a good game, but I do love it. Feels I'm getting excited. Since I can't root for the commanders doing anything special this year, I am finding myself just rooting more and more for the expectation for Dallas Cowboys fans to get higher and higher and higher, and then end in ultimate heartbreak. But hold on a second.
You just said they're the same team as last year. Dak Prescott's playing way better than last year, he is better than last year. He is playing out of his mind. Like, and I know he probably won't win the MVP because the MVP is going to go to the one seed.
They'd have to jump the Eagles. Jalen Hurts also playing very good football. I'm just saying, Dak Prescott, I mean, he's playing phenomenal, phenomenal football. Hank, you're a Cowboys fan. I saw your friend is a Cowboys fan.
Yep, Tiff, shout out, Tiff. Dak is awesome right now. Like, there's just no way to like. That's just what he's taking care of.
The football last year he had, he finished the season, I know he was injured for a few games, but he finished the season. 23 touchdowns, 15 interceptions. This season, Through week 13, he's 23 touchdowns, six interceptions. He's having an awesome, awesome year and he's up there for MVP.
If they could figure out a way, I mean, it's all it all sets up now. Because if the Niners could somehow beat the Eagles on Sunday, next week becomes a a a colossal game between the.
Eagles and cowboys. We're going to find out how many points the bank is worth. That's what we're.
Going to find out it's, it's, but yeah, the Cowboys like offense is humming. They have so many weapons, it feels like they finally, like last year, a couple of years ago, like it felt like they didn't have the complimentary weapons. You know, now, Brandon Cooks, Brandon Cooks is, he's back.
I also think a couple of years ago they were in this, this pattern where they had to run Ezekiel Elliott more than they should have. Yeah, because Jerry was paying him so much money and Jerry's like, Hey, this is my my star running back, let's give him the ball. And it became pretty clear, at least last year, that Pollard was a better option for him at running back when he was in the game.
And so they were like, forcing the ball to Ezekiel. Now they don't have to worry about that anymore. Their wide receivers are dynamic, they've got a good tight end.
Yeah, Jake Ferguson is awesome, he was a he was a beast tonight. The C the Seahawks middle of their defense was just getting gashed.
And so I, I do want to talk about the Seahawks a second. The one thing that would make me nervous. And maybe you can just say, Hey, that was a little off night, a weird, weird setup. Their defense, the Cowboys defense, which they have been, you know, that has been the thing that they've been resting on for a couple of years now. Did not look great tonight and it was against, you know, if you want to look through the Cowboys season, you could make the fraud case. And the fact that they have really kicked the shit out of some bad teams and some bad quarterbacks, and when they face good quarterbacks, their defense does not look the same.
I'm not. Was that that that did happen tonight?
I mean, Gino had a good night. I'm not making the fraud case against the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys are. I think the Cowboys are a great team, they're, they're one of the teams that could win the Super Bowl.
Right now, I'm just saying, like, I'm putting a lot of my, my sweat equity and my mental wellbeing in the fact that I'm. I'm just imagining a world where they have a very heartbreaking into this. Oh, that will most likely happen, I'm just.
It just this is. The Cowboys feel different this year. Just in the fact that Dak Prescott is playing a lot better and he has to prove it still. But he is playing better than he was last year and it doesn't. It feels like, you know, if he can keep elevating his game. Who knows, Max, you're, you're shaking your head, This is a you. You blame this loss on me. Uh, yeah.
I mean, you changed the whole vibes of the game, but that's. I had told him he had to come in the gambling cave because we were watching the game in the gambling cave. And we would just hear Max, for people who think that Max is doing a shtick. It's not because he was sitting in the editor's bay where guys were working. And we would hear him from around the corner just screaming like, that's a flag and shit like that. So I was like, Hey, you got to come sit in the gambling cave.
And then the I don't think the Seahawks scored again. were they winning when you did that? Yeah, yeah, and I don't think there was a positive play.
No, I don't think so either. I don't think so either. Damn, that's so messed up, you did that.
Well, and then Big Cat tried to give me the whole. He was like, Oh so, you think that that really affected the game by you sitting by you sitting in here rather than sitting out there. And then I actually defended you, Hank, and I was like, Yeah, no, it didn't. You freak out and hang for pulling the guy last week? Obviously it affected the game. I agree with you.
No, that's not what you were doing, but no, but I would, I know that it did. And then I asked Taylor, who was sitting there. I was like, Did you ever, when you were playing in the NFL, were you ever like, man? It feels like someone switched their position on the couch right now. I don't know what that rep was bad.
MAX Yeah, did someone? just did someone just put on their lucky underwear? what the fuck just happened. It affected the game.
The Seahawks are in trouble. They played well tonight. And like, that was like, it felt like this was their kind of like, Hey, this is our last stand we got to. This is our best effort. I don't know that they're in trouble.
This might be a moral loss for the Seahawks. Well, no, they're in trouble, they're in trouble.
In the fact that a statement loss for them, they they have to play. Their next two games are against the Niners and the Eagles, and they they can't keep losing and make the playoff, I think.
With tonight's games, what tonight's game proved more than anything is that Thursday night football whoops ass, as long as the teams that are playing also played on a Thursday the week beforehand.
And if the refs decide to throw a thousand flags to make sure every offensive possession?
Gets all the way to a touchdown. There were a ton of flags today, but there was some good offensive football that was played. There was DK. DK had a hell of a game when he caught that first pass and took off. And they said that he reached a speed of like, two, 22.6 something miles per hour. Yeah, um, maybe it's no. At 22.2 miles per hour, which is 0.2 miles per hour faster than Tyreek Hill has been with the ball this year.
And for DK to be faster than Tyreek Hill, despite the fact that he outweighs him by what? Do you think? 50 pounds is insane? It's insane that that's the.
Fastest dude in the NFL, he was little boy in Duran blend, he was, Yeah, Duran got in sign language, in sign language as well.
Um, gang signs, I don't know, no, I mean, Roger Dell will probably be.
Like, that's a gang sign, I'm going to find it. We learned sign language, yeah, which is pretty cool.
If you're going to learn sign language to talk shit on your opponent, I respect that.
The Seahawks are in trouble, though. You got to learn it, they're six and six and they have to.
Play the Eagles and the Niners. Yeah, not, not a great couple of games coming, anything could.
Happen, though anything could happen, they could. It did feel like this was like, Hey, we're going to put everything into this game. We got to win this game. Uh, we can't keep losing these games.
There are three game losing streak. So yeah, it feels like it could, it could spiral a little.
More having to go to at 49ers next week? Yeah, I could see that. But also, like the Seahawks, they find a way to win weird games. They do. If they can drag you into the mud and make you play a really strange game, they can beat you.
Yeah, I don't know I was. I was not impressed bad teams, I was not impressed with that play call at the end, uh, where they tried to run the screen.
On fourth down, well, they just didn't block the one guy you have to block, yeah, like Michael Parsons.
Let's see you, you have to, I don't. You could actually run a play where it's like, Hey, we're not going to block anyone else except Michael Parsons, and it might work.
Yeah, I think in theory, a screen could work if you're just banking on them, sending everybody at you, and then you could get a big chuck yardage off that screenplay. The problem with running a screen there is that Michael Parsons is faster than almost every single other edge defender in the NFL. So if you don't even chip them or get in his way, make him, like, take a half step to the.
Outside, he's going to get in Gino's face. Yes, yeah, that was a sad way to end the game.
Um, anything else before we get to week 13.
Oh, thank you to everyone, Spotify wrapped. That's always cool. I mean, it's always like crazy to see how much time people spend with us.
Cause?
We're fucking idiots. There was some insane numbers this year. Yeah, yeah, everyone that.
Appreciate everyone. And even if you're not listening on Spotify, if you're listening on Apple, if you're listening on Amazon, if you're listening on Google, if you're listening on.
YouTube we love you all. It was, uh, it was very humbling to see all that it always is. These. This many people spend this much time listening to my thoughts and and really, really, that many people are like, super well-versed in all the weird shit that's going on with this podcast. Yeah, um, it is, it's it blows my mind to think about it.
Thank you to everybody.
Every year we know Spotify wraps is coming, and every year I'm like, Oh my god, like this is crazy, that's a lot. I think the maybe the one of the good things about this show, uh, is that. At the end of the day, it does kind of still feel like our lives haven't changed that much. It feels like we're just sitting with our friends and talking. Um, so when we have these moments where it's like, Oh shit, the numbers are that big.
It's always like, damn, a hundred countries, like you could tell me no one's listening to the show. I'd be like, I'll keep doing it. A hundred countries, yeah.
A hundred countries, what was the craziest country? Did I not send?
You guys this? No, it was an email, cause if it was, I did not read it, yeah.
Hank's been sending off a lot of emails recently. You're the email king of this office. Someone stole some.
Golf clubs? Uh, no, well, Hank sent an email being like, we're about to go through the tapes.
That was just a smoke out. It ended up being an ironic twist of fate. The control room person who needed to go through the tapes, interesting, had taken them.
It was one club, there's a couple of clubs that were missing, one of the clubs he accidentally had in his bag. That's the perfect crime, the guy that would be in charge of reviewing it.
He's like, Hey, wait, I know this guy, it was Pete, what the fuck? Yes, Pete.
Okay, so I understand that there's a lot of people in a hundred countries listening episodes. Stephen A. Smith If you are, if you are in UM, like eastern Europe, please tweet at all.
Business Pete to stop stealing golf clubs. 25 of new fans discovered you in 2023. Okay, let me see this. This country I'm getting to, I'm getting to him and get to it.
How does it feel to have gone global? Great, you were streaming 102 countries 102. How many countries are Bulgaria? was your top country?
Bulgaria, United States is your top.
Country There are 195 countries. Wow, more than half of the world listens to this Canada.
Austria, Ireland, Japan, Columbia, Columbia. What's up? That was probably Jackie Tables on vacation.
Guess what the, uh, I like this one, this one actually surprised me.
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Come on, come on.
Your listeners taught music genre Ooh, hmm. Taylor Swift, Uh, so it's drill, drill music.
Taylor Swift isn't a genre rap. Oh, really, yeah, okay, we should be in the.
Culture Department What's up? what's up? All right? Well, yeah, seriously though.
Thank you to everyone. We don't take it for granted, we never, we never do. Um, it's pretty crazy, yeah.
I Love You shared episode was Life, Oh, love that. It's good of that. I'm all out of kids.
So.
We'll have to, we'll have to think of, maybe we'll do it again, though, cause we have Titus here well.
There's also other people on this podcast that could have kids. True, hank, hank, I could you.
Could you could? All right? Well, uh, let's kick it to ourselves. Picks and preview, and then Cam Newton and Brandon Marshall incredible show.
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Week 13, Week 13.
I don't like the sound of week.
13.
I know I just don't, cause now we're we're putting the word teen in there, and that sounds a.
Lot like week 18.
Yeah, we're in the T, we're in our teens now. Uh, okay, so Sunday feels like we have a little bit. Not not the best slate, but the Eagles 49ers game, which we'll get to, is definitely the crown jewel of this weekend.
I like that. The crown jewel, the crown jewel.
You like that. That's going to be the game that everyone's going to be focused on the afternoon.
Yeah, the crown jewel of the weekend. We will, we will live stream it. Max, you got any flights or anything he's not on.
How's the foot? Max? Uh, foot's good, I will be here. Okay, great, yep.
Great, ready to roll, all right? So let's get into the Sunday slate, let's start.
I ordered them in, uh, how? I thought, What are you going to say, Hank? you say anything? I ordered them in in in, uh. The games that I thought were the most appealing. And again, it's not like the most appealing slate to start, but that's okay, cause that's usually chaos.
Lions, it's Saints, Lions.
Dan Campbell said He's not going to just yell louder, They're going to have a plan. I think he should have a new plan and also yell louder at his team. Okay, that's to both worlds.
I Uh, yeah.
This, this is going to be a true test. The Lions there, I feel like they're at a crossroads, cause they've had two bad games. The Bears was a bad game even though they won, and the Packers was a bad game on Thanksgiving.
Are they a real team in the NFC? Can they go down and beat the Saints who are very injured? Uh, I think it's Michael Thomas is out. A lot of these in the concussion protocol, she, she, he's got a thigh injury.
Cam Jordan is banged up Marsha Marshawn Lattimore's.
Out, wait, you say Michael Thomas is out. Michael Thomas is out. shut the fuck up, never believe it.
We also have a little, uh, discord, discord, discord, we have discourse course, no discord.
Acrimonious discourse Is it discord? There can be discord. This course is like, it's talking, but discord is is bad. We've got some, we've got. I know it's actually on a website, hank.
It's an application. Discord Boomer, I mean, you could type in discord.com, is that?
On a website, well, you shouldn't be typing in any websites right now. Mr. hacked this course.
Written or spoken, communication or debate. Yeah, but what about discord? Yeah, there can be discord.
Yes, does that mean it's bad, right? Discord, disagreement between people? Yes, okay.
So he, Okay, so the Saints have some discord. Happy we got that cleared up. Alvin Kamara after Sunday's game, said Uh, the offensive, the offense for the Saints doesn't have an identity.
And then Dennis Allen said on Monday, I think we have explosive players on offense. I think we prove we can be explosive on offense, essentially saying the offense is explosive.
Uh, they're 19th in scoring, so they do have explosive players. But that seems to also imply that they don't have an identity. If you answer, Do you have an identity? by saying, Well, parts of our team have an identity, yeah.
That means you don't have an identity, right? It's like, we've got good, we've got good parts, but the whole thing, right, if you look at it, you just don't.
Know what we do? You have a car? Well, I have a tire. Yeah, I've got a lot of. I've got a seat and a seatbelt.
I've got a lot of gas. Yeah, do you have a car? though? No, you do not have a car.
They don't, well, they do have a car, actually. Yeah, they do, yep. But um, when you look at the Saints and this division as a whole, the NFC South, I have a prediction about this division.
Okay, we're going to see whoever wins the NFC South will not fire their coach going into next season. agreed every other team will okay.
So we already have the Panthers. We got the Panthers, they're out Saints, they're going to fire. Uh, the Bucks should fire Todd Bowles if they don't make it top 10 coach on the hunt out there.
And then, uh, the Falcons, probably, I think that they fire, I'm not saying that they should. Well, they're going to win the NFC, they are going to win, but if they don't, actually, I'm not going to entertain hypotheticals.
I like that, uh, thought, though, cause I think you're right. But it also makes for, I think, hopefully better football from every team in that very sad division going down the stretch. Cause every coach, we can say the entire NFC South is coaching for their job.
I would actually be fun if like.
If divisions did, like league meetings, like all the all the the NFC South got together and like, Hey guys, we gotta be better. Yeah, that's a joke. Any Agar does that. Yeah, that's right.
She does, yeah, she does, uh okay, uh, yeah. I. I liked the lines. This game, mostly because the Saints rush defense has kind of fallen off a cliff. They've been getting gashed 228 yards last week against the Falcons.
I feel like the Lions might with Jared's mini slump. They might be like, Hey, let's just run the ball down their throat and then we'll just do play.
Action. And then we'll win the game. I would like to see the Lions win this by double digits, yeah.
Because I really would it. With all the injuries that we've listed and Alvin Camara saying we don't have an identity, I just don't know. The Lions defense is bad, but the Saints offense is worse, so it's like you should be able to stop them. They don't have a ton of guys that can beat you.
I actually agree a hundred percent that they don't have an identity, right? It's when you, when everyone on the team seems to like the backup quarterback more than the starting quarterback. That is an issue. And that's what it feels like. So I went back. There was an alternate angle of Ludacris repelling from the ceiling, landing at the 50 yard line, which again, Ludacris. I. It feels weird to say that he's underrated, but I feel like Ludacris has gotten more underrated in the last, like five years, I agree.
But he was, Yeah, he's the best, so he's. He's repelling down. Singing move bitch and then James Winston is getting all up in Derek Carr's face, like singing move bitch to him. I think he was doing it to hype up Derek Carr. But also at the same time when your backup quarterback is telling your starting quarterback, move bitch repeatedly, yeah.
The starting quarterback starts to interpret that in a.
Different way. Jamis has never been a read the room guy. No, that's not his strength really. Read anything.
Read a linebacker. It's not like, get getting the temperature of a room and being like, Hey, I shouldn't do this, shouldn't eat a W, shouldn't stand up on a table, say fuck him right in the pussy.
That kind of stuff, yeah, fuck her right, her right in the pussy.
Yeah, so, uh okay, maybe yeah. Read the room.
Like, he's never even read a stadium before. He went out dressed in his pads before a game, exactly which was like, Hey, James, you're.
Suspended. That's why we love him. Yeah, that's why we love Jim. That's exactly why we love him.
All right, great clip, though. It was it really it. it to me surpassed true lock wrapping too easy. Yeah, it was cheesy.
Yeah, it was cheesy on the sidelines, uh.
Okay, nerd nugget. The Lions have produced at least 325 net yards in all 11 games this season. For the first time in team history, no other team has an active streak or more than five games with.
Hang the banner Okay, good job, good job lines.
Yard yards, yard yard kings. But we got a lot of yards. That's like a great name for a mower, yeah, the Yard king, or like a good giveaway at a minor league park.
Yeah, be the yard king. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You get to sit.
Come down, we're going to do the Yard King giveaway, like right behind home plate and.
You wear a crown and there's a throne in a lawn chair. Yeah, no, like a lawn chair that's got jewels and shit on it. The yard king.
I'm the yard king. Yeah, the Savannah bananas are.
Definitely gonna steal that from us. Uh, okay, Broncos and Texans, good game, I'd say, important.
Game, I say, great game. Yeah, I say this might be the crown jewel of the morning. Oh so, it's an.
Important game The Broncos, uh, if they win on Sunday, have a 64 chance of making the playoffs, which is wild to say, given where they were at the end of September. If they lose, they go down to 21 and the Texans similar 54 if they win 18. If they lose. It's a loser leaves Town game. The loser of this game will be under 25 chance to make the playoff.
I'd say loser moves to the.
Suburbs? Yeah, they can still get back in if they want, because I looked at the Broncos schedule, it's not the easiest thing in the world. But if they lost this game, I could still see them when I think they're probably going to lose one more at least. And things can shake out differently, obviously, over the course of the last few weeks.
But I don't. Yeah, I don't think that the Broncos are totally out of it. They've won what? Five in a row right now, five in a row, five in a row. Since October 22nd. They've beaten the Packers, Chiefs, Bills, Vikings and Browns. I'm going to put an asterisk on the Browns win too, because that was, that wasn't a real football team, that.
We saw last week after DTR got hurt. Yeah, so so you brought up those teams and that was that was my my. What I'm thinking about this game? So the Broncos have righted the ship, they've looked a lot better.
They've also been getting a shitload of turnover, 16 turnovers in the last five games in that stretch. And I was thinking about it, I was like, Huh, I wonder how turnover prone those teams that they beat? So the Browns, Vikings, Bills, Chiefs are all at the bottom of the league in terms of giving up the football. They have the most turnovers, and the Browns and Vikings are actually the worst and second to worst.
Okay, so they had a string of games where they played teams that are careless with the football, they were able to greatly benefit from that. The Texans, on the other hand, are pretty good with the football. C.J. Stroud obviously started his his season without, you know, any turnovers for the first, whatever.
It was six, seven games. That's kind of why I like the Texas. I feel like the Broncos have. It's been very nice. But when the fumbles and the picks stop, is like, Okay, do they have the offense to, like, get these sustained drives? do they? Can they do it when it's not a, you know, start the drive at the 50? Start the.
Drive at the opponent's 40.
Let me ask you a question, though, big cat. Let's take it one layer deeper on that analysis. Are those teams ranked as being so careless with the football because they've played the Browns, and the Browns took away the football from them? No, no, the Broncos.
Broncos, Broncos took well, that's part of them. But they also like, they also have a lot of turnovers. Yeah, Mahomes had a bunch of turnovers, and the Vikings have had a lot of turnovers. The Browns have had a lot of turnovers, like in other games, so they, I mean, the Browns, their.
Quarterback situation has led to a lot of turnover, right? So the um. The Broncos defense, in addition to the turnovers, are also averaging, giving up just 16 points a game in the last five weeks.
Yeah, so there went from 36 to 16. They're legitimately good. There's no tank Dell for.
Houston this weekend. And yeah, so I, I kind of liked the Broncos. I know I like C.J. Stroud, we are Stroud boys, but I feel like I don't know the Broncos.
If the Broncos win this game, I'm going to get reckless with my Broncos stakes. And I've been already like, I've been hitting the median a little bit. I'm going to go fully off the road with my Bronco. The nice thing about this?
Game is I don't really have a like, a rooting interest in either. I like both teams, kind of, you know what I mean like.
If if either of these teams made it to playoffs, I'd be like, that's fun, I want, like the Broncos would be a fun story. RUSSELL WILSON You know, putting it all back together, C.J. Stroud's obviously been one of the best stories of this year. So I I think I'm okay with either team winning.
There's not one team that I'm like, I don't want to see this team in.
The playoff, I think that what we might have here as a coach of the Year Bowl. Maybe the winner of this game. Shane Steichen, though Still, Shane Steichen is one of my votes. You can always say I don't like Tomlin coach of the year, you don't think so he, he should win.
Comeback coach of the year, Comeback coach from the beginning of how he started, yeah, and also coming back. Yes, that too.
So the Texans have never beaten Russell Wilson. I'm just put, I'm. I've got one thing that I'm going to say about each game where I'm trying to steal Jake's nerd nugget. I love it I've been.
Doing that, too, but it's great. Was that a Jake? No, I mean, you guys were close about the turnovers. But I have a little extra sprinkle, all right, go ahead, give us a sprinkle.
So, the Broncos are now number one in the NFL and takeaways, and their best turnover differential is right now plus eight since 2005. They're plus 20..
See, I'm saying, fumble luck, ball luck. You got to try to, you got to try to time it. We talked about that, Hank remember the season that Hank did not like that.
Hank doesn't believe in luck. Turnover. luck. Turnover. luck is a real thing.
You don't believe.
In weather, No. The ball bounces, like there's times when the ball will bounce. It's like, oh, it went right into someone else's hands, or it didn't like.
There is a there is an element of.
Luck that comes into turnovers. Tip balls. Yeah. If there's like a cornerback that tries to make an interception and he should, and it bounces off his hands and we're like, that's where he plays defense. Most cornerbacks would make that pick. You know, like there's elements of there's small, there's, but it's not like a data point.
I think it is the very definition of a data. Yeah, I think it's a small sample size.
Everyone kind of regresses to the mean, where it's like, there's certain turnover plays that, okay, that was expected to be a turnover, but like you could, you could have a team that just.
Recovers all their fumbles. I can understand why Hank doesn't believe in turnover luck, because when Mack Jones throws interception, he throws a fucking interception. There's no luck and no luck at all. That's actually it's turnover skill, and Mack Jones is very good at it.
Yes, okay, next game Colts of Titans.
Jonathan Taylor's out that sucks thumb injury. It feels like a Mike Vrabel game, I know.
Will Levis at home has been good.
It does feel like a Mike Vrabel game. it feels like a Vrabel special right now.
What uniforms are they wearing? are they not? They're not doing their throwback skin? are they?
The Titans No, I don't think, I don't think so. Okay, I'm going to guess that. They're going to wear some combination of blue, gray, and like slightly a color that's in between gray and blue.
I like the Titans uniforms in general. You do, yeah, I no, I disagree, yeah.
I kind of like them all, right? I think they're fine. I don't think there's anything Sunday.
Titans Uniforms.
Sunday. They're like, the equivalent, the uniform equivalent of ambient ambient music, where you're just. It's just kind of study, it's like create a player on 2K, it's like rain listening to.
Raindrops in your headphones? Yeah, uh, all right. Well, I guess I can't find. I was going to just basically base this all off of the uniforms, but yeah, I like the Titans in this game, I do too.
Sure, this, I mean, if the Colts can win, they're they are right now the seventh seed.
Minshew on the road is an issue, that is a fact, I always remind myself of that Minshew on the road.
Yeah, all I'm seeing is, can the Titans please wear the throwbacks again?
Fair, fair. It's a fair request. Yeah, it's a fair request.
And listen, our our gripe is not with the Titans wearing those uniforms because the uniforms are bad. And we understand how how teams work when they move cities. But you can't. I don't like the idea of going back and wearing a Houston Oilers jersey, especially when you're playing against the Houston.
Texans Right right, uh, all right nerd nugget for this game.
Titans running back Derek Henry has.
Great success against the Colts. In his 14 games against the division rivals, he has seven 100.
Yard rushing performances Yep, this is Mike Frabel, Derek Henry game, that's what I'm.
I'm predicting that, okay, uh, all right, next game up Cardinals and Steelers. Can he pick it unlocked?
Here we go. I didn't realize, uh, how funny the Matt Canada stats were, the fact that, uh, the last game that Matt Canada was not. The offensive coordinator for the Steelers was when they lost the Browns in the playoffs and the Steelers had 523 yards of offense. And then they went two and a half years without getting over 400 yards, and then the very first game that Matt Canada was not the OC, they went over 400 yards.
Yeah, it's insane. Like, how is that was that? I just don't even understand it, I don't get it.
That's how bad he was. Like, it's actually, you can statistically look at it. Really good offense, offensive output. Two and a half years where they couldn't get over 400 yards, he leaves 400 yards. Yeah, it's just funny to me that.
Mike Tomlin kind of took on the Rooney's mentality with his own coordinator, where he was like, Yeah, we like, we like continuity here. continuity sucks when the person that you're keeping continuity with is garbage. Yeah, that's actually a downside to continuity. Like. But then again, maybe Tomlin thought to himself, like, if I start firing people, maybe the Rooney's don't even think that you can fire coaches.
Yeah, and so if I start firing them?
They'll be like, Wait, we can do this. We didn't know this button was here, I'm going to press the.
ButTon Yeah, but yeah, it is very funny to see the offense look, they looked like a real NFL.
Offense Last week, we threw in the middle of the field. Pat Friermuth's season Friermuth.
I wonder.
What Deontay Johnson's going to be? Is this going to be a Deontay Johnson? Works his ass off? This week to try to get rid of the film from last week, our Steelers insider Jersey Jerry said that T.J. Watt.
Had a player's only meeting that he called to hold people accountable. Well, I heard that there was a.
Fight that was going on, actually, No, that was from Adam Schefter. there was a fight that was going on. Uh, Minka Fitzpatrick and somebody else in the locker room were upset, and then T.J. Watts stepped in. He goes, Hey guys, we all need to be a team.
Let's cut this out. It was an exclusive report from Adam Schefter. I don't know if you saw that. And then he marched straight into the.
Workout room and started doing squats and gave them some. What is that? What are the? what do they do? The taco seasoning? What's the el paso, el paso here?
Take some el paso. You remember that?
Report from Schefter. A couple of years ago, when he was talking about his contract and he marched straight into Mr. Rooney's office. Yeah, he said, let's get this done, and then went and went right.
To the weight room. Yeah, it's the best when Schefter tweets just strictly from the agent.
I loved T.J. Watt in Schefter's brain is like an Eighties movie character. That's, hey, he's Howie Long. We all need to listen to. Coach, Yeah, okay.
Let's get on the same page coach is.
Right, guys, yeah, we. Yeah. Who's the cheesiest at the commercial? That's always stuck in our heads.
Yeah, well, it's a cheesiest. Uh yeah, the Cardinals are bad. Who do you think, JJ's?
Rooting for in this matchup?
Steelers He's got to root for the Steelers. Is there a chance?
That he comes back, yeah, he was, he was talking about it on, I think, on McAfee, that he was.
Working out with the guys. He did, uh, he did the eyeball emoji, maybe before last week's game or the week before game, and um, I think it was last week's game. Actually in Houston. He, like quote, tweeted something and did the eyeball emoji.
And then people were like, Oh, shit, is J.J. Watt coming back to the Texans? I think he was just like the captain, the honorary captain. That would be cool, though it would be cool he came back for just the playoffs.
I would love to see J.J. Watt play for the Steelers in the playoffs. No, I'm saying for the Texans, I think he's saying.
He said on McAfee that he was working out with the Texans. Either one. For the Steelers, that would make sense. Yeah, the Steelers would be awesome. I like the Steelers in this game, even though I. It's stupid to take Mike Tomlin as a favorite, uh, of five and a half points, or whatever it is.
I just don't. The Cardinals defense is bad, they're very bad. James Conner.
Revenge game, though. They're going to run the ball down their throat. Um, one note about this one. Zach Ertz got released today, as reported by insider J.J. Watt. So Zach Ertz released from the Cardinals. Max, Congratulations.
Dream team Dallas got it out with a broken forearm. Everyone's saying that he wants to sign with a contender. Congrats on getting Zach Ertz back. Let me be the first to report exclusively on part of my take that the Philadelphia Eagles.
Have signed Zach Ertz? Uh, Dallas Goddard is going to be coming back soon, so that might not be the case, he said. He was trying to play this week, but I don't think he will.
Okay, but you don't want Zach Ertz, then I do want Zach Ertz.
Julie Ertz's husband I do want Julie Ertz's husband. Um, but this whole thing that goddard, goddard might be out one, maybe two more weeks. You can bring Ertz in, but I don't think he's.
Going to be like, a difference maker, you don't think Ertz is going to be a difference maker.
Trey McBride is really good. That's why, that's why this is happening. Trey McBride's good, yeah, for the Cardinals.
Yeah, no, I mean, Zach Ertz is a Philly legend, but.
We don't need Zach Ertz right now. Wow, not a difference maker.
You're back on the family. I'm not turning my back on no family. It sounds like you kind of are. I'm not turning my back on the family I want. Frank Reich.
I was just telling you that, give me Frank Reich.
You want Frank Reich over Zach Ertz? Bad family to bring back, yeah.
No, that's not bad family, it's bad family.
That's family bad head coach, he's got that Panthers stink on.
That's family. You just let the text just sit there and you don't respond to it because you're.
Like, I don't want to fucking Max is just arguing like a six-year-old right now.
That's not true. I'm not arguing, this doesn't need to be an argument. You just asked me my opinion and I gave you my opinion. It's a bad opinion.
To each their own, to each their own. Okay, nerd nugget for Cardinal Steelers.
The Steelers have 124 regular season victories against the NFC since the 1970 merger, which is the most among AFC teams. Wow.
Almost as much as Lamar Jackson. That's wild, that is wild. Superbowl rematch, too, yes.
These two teams don't like each other very much throughout the record.
John Madden's last game was it really?
Yeah, I didn't know that.
I'm pretty sure that was John Madden's last game. I'm pretty sure that was, you can fact check me. I'll look pretty sure that was John Madden's last game.
Yeah, I've told this story a million times. One of my buddies decided to drink an entire bottle of Malort and I missed the run back. Oh, no, yeah.
He's just puking in my house. Were you holding his hair back? No, he disappeared, he started.
He's like, I'm going to try to drink this whole bottle of Malort. And then he disappeared, and then I found him in my room. He had puked in my room. And it was just like, the worst thing. That's bad. That was great.
It smelled like it was a basement apartment, too.
It was just oh so bad. That's a great run back, I missed the run back. Larry Fitzgerald never gets the credit for it, but one of the all-time hustle plays on his part.
Is this the year where they did the split madden cover right after the Superbowl? Paul, Amalo and Fitzgerald? Oh, they might've. I'm not sure what year that was, I think it was Madden 10, so it would make sense.
Yeah, that does make sense. Okay, next up, wait, did you do nerd nugget?
Yeah, most wins against AFC, that's right.
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Com.
Okay, dolphins and commanders PFt, I'm sorry.
Yeah, I'm very sorry. This is going to be shit pumping, shit kicking, no two ways about it. I think that the dolphins are going to hang a million points on us, so I just don't want to give up as many points as the Broncos.
As long as we don't set any N.FL records, but they're going to put up a bunch. Did you see what the Dolphins do on defense? They don't have a turnover chain, they don't have, like a turnover plank or anything, but they have a turnover cake.
What? So, every player on the Dolphins defense that gets a turnover, they get a cake later on in the week. Oh, that's awesome, it's awesome, yeah.
So the guy, was it Holland? That ran back to Halem? Yeah, he got a turnover cake this week. Love it. It's a great, great means to motivate your players on defense. It's like, Okay, either. You can wear a chain around your neck for 30 seconds on the sideline, or you get a full dessert during the week.
That's awesome. Also, Mike McDaniels has had quite a week. Did you see the clip? He got hit in the nuts on the sideline? He was hanging on for dear life.
My heart goes out to him for that moment. But he also had to correct Al Michaels report that he stole his player's girlfriend and made him made it his wife. Okay, yeah. So Al Michaels told the story on Black Friday that they were Mike McDaniels. They were at like, some team function. And then this girl was with one of the players and he told the player, like, I'll take it from here.
Otherwise, you're cut. Uh, wasn't exactly like that, but he had to come out and correct Al Michaels for that. But yeah.
That's a very funny story to get wrong. Yeah, he said that they had just met.
Like, 45 seconds before. So it wasn't like he stole someone else's girlfriend. Gotcha. But still very funny to have to come out and say, Hey. I want to just correct one thing. The mother of my children, my wife of many years. I didn't steal her.
Yeah.
Good for Mike McDaniel for, like, having people believe that for a week. Yeah, it's kind of a baller move. Yeah, uh, I'm. I'm not optimistic, as you can tell, about the commanders this weekend.
It feels like a game that, uh, the dolphins use is just like target practice. Like, let's go out there and let's open up the playbook, try a bunch of weird shit. See if we can get our defense right. I'm. I'm personally hoping for good things from the commander's offense. I would like to see us put up some points. I'd like to see Sam Howell continue not taking sacks, continue being a good quarterback.
And he's thrown for a million yards this year, I think he has the most yards of any quarterback in the NFL. Because they're asking him to drop back a lot, and um, he's, he's shown a lot of promise. I'm still committed to Sam Howell, but I just I don't have good thoughts or feelings or vibes at all about the defense.
This could be this could be one of those games that, like, usually when you go in expecting the worst, maybe something good happens.
Yeah, it could be, yeah, that's a that's a good way to put it. Um, and I am very dumb with my football analysis, so there's a chance.
I'm wrong about this, too, I would love to be wrong about this. But we don't even really get an interim bump from our defense coordinator, Jack Del Rio, being fired, which kind of sucks. Cause now it's just like, Okay, Ron Rivera is going to be right defensive coordinator. So you don't have, like, it's not that much of a change of scenery on the defense.
I would like, would have loved to have Rivera get fired, but Rivera kind of did. Del Rio a solid though. Yeah, like, Hey, I'll just do all the work that.
You're doing, you're going to get paid. Yeah, just get out of here, man, just leave.
Scram.
You don't have to drive to Landover Maryland every weekend, good for you. You don't have to worry about not showering after the game, cause we don't have any water in the locker room.
Yeah, it actually was probably like, he probably was like, Thanks man, yeah, I can go.
I can go home for Christmas. So all I want for the rest of the season is for Sam Howell to continue to be good enough to make the Commanders an attractive head coaching destination. Yeah, and not get sacked, that's all I want.
And stay healthy, stay healthy, and be good enough to the point where Belichick's like, Okay, I can take, I can, I can win with this guy. I think that's a.
Reasonable goal. Yeah, I like that. Uh, all right, Jake, your nerd nugget. A win on Sunday would.
Improve Miami's record to nine and three this season, something that the Dolphins haven't accomplished since 2001. Head coach Mike McDaniel would also lock up another winning season. He'd be the third head coach in Dolphins history to have a winning record each of his first two seasons, joining Don Shula and Dave Wonstad.
Wow, okay, one more one, that must be nice.
All right, um, I saw a very depressing stat the other day about the commanders and how how historically bad they've been through November over the last 23 years. I think their best record was one year when they had, I think, seven wins going into November and we missed the playoffs. Um, every other season has been like, three wins, four wins, five wins, three wins, three wins, four wins, three wins. It's November.
This time of year is just generally not a good time. It's when teams start playing real football. Yeah, we bow out, Belichick said. That he said the season doesn't start until Thanksgiving, right?
Well, chargers of patriots.
Yes, the season, finally.
Starts season has begun.
I hope we lose. Okay, um, a couple, a couple fun fact for you, Hank. This is, uh, so, the last time the Patriots were underdogs against an under 500 team at home.
Was the game that drew blood? So got knocked out? Wow. Started. Started as a underdog, finished as a minus one and a half favorite against the Jets, but that's how long it's been. Uh, they are five and a half point underdogs, I believe.
To the chargers, which I the Patriots are really bad, really bad. they're really bad, horrible, Mac Jones is.
Really bad, I think Zappy is also really bad. Mac Jones is running scout team this week, okay?
With all that said, and they're really, really bad, maybe worse team. I don't know how you could bet the Chargers minus five and a half on the road, cause the Chargers love to not like, win games that they should win convincingly. Yeah, Brandon.
Staley might be motivated to beat the guy who could potentially take his job, though.
I guess, but like, could you, would you ever like? I don't know if I'd take the Chargers minus five and a half against a college team on the road, just just out of principle.
Just the logo, the colors, the history. I'd be like, Oh, they'll probably win by three. But you know how bad the Patriots are right now, The Patriots are so bad that they got flexed out, the Patriots.
It was going to be the Patriots and the Chargers, or, excuse me, Patriots and the Chiefs. And ESPN said. You know what, the Patriots are so bad that we don't want Taylor Swift's boyfriend to be playing in this game. That's how bad we think the ratings are going to be for the Patriots. That's that's the worst time ever.
They're not wrong, and honestly, I'm happy.
Yeah, no, you should be happy. Um, fun charger stat 61 Career starts for Justin Herbert. Uh, 1,526 points scored, 1,542 points allowed. Pretty damn close.
Yeah, well, just a couple of weeks ago it was dead even, it was dead even, yeah, and so updating it, I want it to stay dead even.
They are, they have what? One more loss, yeah, with him as a starting quarterback, so this by the system, they win this game.
And I think it's like something crazy. Like, 20 of the last 29 Chargers games have been decided by a touchdown or less. Which leads me to my point of like, how could you bet the chargers? I know that you the Patriots are so, so bad. This is a game you should not bet. I'm probably still.
Going to bet it, but you should not bet. To Hank's point, Bailey Zappia hasn't really started, though. This could be a coming up or history repeats itself.
And last time this happened, where there were this much of a home dog. Drew Bledsoe got hurt. Tom Brady steps in, right, so you're starting, quarterback Bailey Zappia gets hurt, your backup Mac Jones steps in, and he becomes the guy.
Yes, this is the start of the DVD.
Love it, Hank Yeah, this is a bad time to be a fan of either team. But to Hank's point earlier about fumble luck, turnover luck, being bullshit. The Chargers kind of back them up on that because they have been like, exactly as we said, even with point differential, wins, losses, all that stuff.
And, uh, they have, like, the worst turnover luck of all time. But it's consistent. You know, they're just a bad like with the Chargers. You can be consistently bad at having turnover luck, and it actually just means that you're.
Bad that you're bad at football. Yeah, uh, okay, hank you, you don't want to win.
No, okay, I think we might, though. That's what I'm saying. It's just that, but I don't want to.
It's like the Patriots are so bad, it has nothing to do with the Patriots. Just the Chargers, five and a half on the road, the lighthouse, like, who's going to stop bringing up? That's, that's crazy.
It shouldn't be five point favorites. There's a chargers, they're disaster right now, they're quit.
They, they're on, quit watch, yeah, uh, uh.
Quentin Johnson got benched last week. I think the Patriots are on Quit watch, too, oh.
I think the Patriots already quit, cause it's like, I don't think quit, well, I think quit.
TOMMY DEVITO Yeah, yeah, quit watch, cause like going into work every day and have Belichick just reading you the right act.
That's a really good thing if you're a great team and he's like motivating you to play even better to the best of your ability. But if you're a really bad team?
That just makes you bummed out all the time. Yeah, yeah, uh. Jabril Peppers Clip No.
Yeah, he hugs Saquon Barkley and was like, You're lucky? We asked. Oh, yeah, love it.
You're lucky, we're.
Not better, cause we would have beaten you if we were better at football. We lucky, we asked.
Uh, okay, Jake, your nerd nugget. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will coach in his 424th overall game this week that'll move past Don Shula for the third most games coach with one team behind.
George Hollis is five, oh, six and four. 54 by Tom Landry, Crafts Coach Belichick winner Lose your third place now, most games ever with one team. Unless they fire him before Sunday.
Okay, that'd be funny. He might take the GMU job. I heard there was a photoshop going around. He does love D.C.
That's great, I saw a photoshop that's me. That's basically close to Annapolis, it's very close to Real and to Land over, where he'll also be coaching the commanders.
Yeah.
It can be a busy man, we'll dip it. Uh, okay, jets, falcons of jets. Tim Boyle's worse than Zach Wilson.
Do you think so? I do think so.
But he's not Zach Wilson is a thing. I think. Yeah, I know, I don't. I don't think he's as. He's not as bad in hilarious ways as Zach Wilson is bad in unique ways, yeah.
He's like.
Traditionally bad at football. Yeah, I don't know. This Jets team is such a bummer. I think their their defenses quit.
Watch, obviously Aaron Rogers back at practice, Okay, is he really going to play for a team? That's like, cause they lose this week, it's they're almost mathematically eliminated, but they they are eliminated means you want him to play.
Why would you want him to play behind this offensive line? I slightly got my hopes up after seeing all those videos.
But why? I know why the videos would make you amped up, cause you're like, Oh, that's cool. Maybe we won't suck ass next year, but do you really want him back this year?
Why would you be amped up for that if they win? He? He's mastered this offense well, How has he mastered this offense? This is the offense, He's always run, okay?
That's all I got. Okay, that was not convincing. Um, you tried, you tried, you tried.
You understand what we're saying, like, he's mastered. Maybe like the diagrams of the plays and where to throw the ball, but the offensive line is really the point. Yeah, that like.
He's going to be on a recently repaired, very recently repaired Achilles. And it's not like they have the easiest schedule, like they have to win out. Memes, yeah, which isn't happening. But what if he got hurt again?
Why would you want to risk that? Yeah, I saw a tweet that said his other, Achilles has the possibility to do the funniest thing ever. Yeah, it's true, that is very true.
It would be very funny. I don't know this game. I feel like the Falcons you have to, it's, it's the Falcons here, but then the Falcons, also like Desmond, Ritter, could so easily throw three interceptions in this game. Yeah, the thing is.
The big question is, how many points is the Jets offense going to give up, right like the Jets offense is one of the worst defenses in the league. Yeah, yeah.
If if they don't, if the Falcons score a touchdown, or even like a short field field goal, I'm going to say if they score a touchdown. If there's any six involved. If they score a touchdown, the Falcons are going to win. If they defense doesn't score a touchdown against the Jets offense, I still think the Falcons are.
So memes are you in? You want to win this game? I'm saying, if we win, I'm all the way back in, got it? I guess five and seven is, look, I mean, five and seven does look not that bad.
Cause you play the Texans, you play the Browns, the Browns, those teams are. I'm just, I'm just saying, like, you have a chance. But Aaron Rogers on like a recently repaired Achilles behind that offensive line against Miles Garrett and the Browns defense. What shotgun.
Yeah, actually, I didn't think of shotgun, I didn't think shotgun. Get rid of the ball in two seconds, I didn't take a shotgun. Aaron Rogers running Shotgun only is better than Tim Boyle, I actually agree with.
That Aaron Rogers, with one foot in the shotgun formation, is better than Tim Boyle? Yes, he can.
Just play and line up like a punter so that no one can touch him from that far double shotgun.
Make the feel longer. But Darren Rogers haven't been 50 cal formation. Sure, uh, memes when he.
Tours Achilles Was he in shotgun?
Yeah, he was, he was doing, Brian was playing, though. Wait, he won't be it. But so your day one offensive star you're, that's better.
Your offensive lines got better, Has it gotten better? It's gotten worse? Okay, I'm trying to.
Has the field gotten better? has the Metlife turf been improved? We're trying to find a place where.
We can maybe agree with something you're saying, and I'm, we're, we're digging deep. We just need them to lose to agree. Okay, all right.
All right, so there, all right, so then, yeah, so like lose, and then it's over, yeah.
Losing it, but winning. It's Rogers when, and it's Roger this.
Could be the this might be the worst win in New York Jets if they win this game and then Rogers gets in. I love this analysis, but I feel like we've had this exact same conversation, we'll do the same about it. And then Memes goes and he watches his Jets score three points on offense.
Yeah, he's like, Well, maybe next week. yeah, maybe they win next week's Rogers time, uh.
Young Way Coup, The kicker for the Falcons is now the all time most accurate kicker in the history of the NFL. Because Justin Tucker's washed now. Yeah, so shout out Young Way coup, Jake, did I?
Get it, No, I know you're trying, all right. What is it? Falcons running back?
John Robinson needs 62 scrimmage yards on Sunday to secure the title for having the most yards in his first 12 games of any Falcons rookie and franchise history. I think it might be Bijan season.
I do, too. I think Arthur Smith might be. He finally might listen to all the fancy football nerds out there and say, Okay, you want Bijan? we're going to build the entire plane out of Bijan. Go straight ahead, yes.
Um, but that word scrimmage, that's a weird word. why do we call it the line of scrimmage? That's a good question. I've never thought about that, I've been watching.
Football all my life. Are you high right now? No, I wish I was high. A confused struggle or fight, I guess that makes sense.
Oh, I didn't know that that was the that's the, that's the. The. Uh. Scrimmage is a confused struggle or fight. that's the first uh definition, oh.
Didn't know it, cause we always talk about scrimmage being like a practice game, yeah.
But that is where that's where to the to explain what happens in American football on the line of scrimmage. It is a confused struggle or fight. It is like if you watch it, you'd be confused what's going on?
And they're struggling and fighting. Hank has been in a scrimmage against words and reading his entire life. Yeah, uh, okay, before we do the late Games. Chevy, there's a new family with unstoppable grit, and they're the official partners.
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PanTHERs of Bucks Frank Wright gone, Frank Wright gone, Chris Tabor. Did you do some research on Chris Tabor?
He was, he coached one game for the Bears when Matt Nagy had a Covid. He's a fiery guy, so the the fun fact that I.
Found about Chris Tabor is that he coached one game for the Bears. Yeah, that's it. That's all we know about him. Might be. I'm of the mind.
We lost that game that any interim coach is better than Frank Reich right now. Like, just something different is good for the Panthers. He is a fiery.
Guy, he's, I kind of like a special teams coach being named interim head coach because he usually has like a pulse on. Like the dogs of the locker room, you know, the grinder. So, uh, I'm good with that. Also Thomas Brown, who we talked about, Uh, earlier in the season, Cause member Frank Wright gave him offensive play calling duties. They want a game.
Then he took it away. Three weeks later. He's back calling plays. It seems like the players want him to call plays, so that might be good.
Um, and Baker Mayfield's a little banged up. I'm talking myself into the.
Panthers I don't know if you should do that, I know, I don't know if you should do that at all. But the interim head coach bump is a real thing. And the Panthers we talked about earlier with the Raiders and their interim situation.
The Panthers are actually the perfect candidate to do our theory of just putting a different interim coach in every single week. Just somebody front that has, like a tenuous connection, at best, to the Charlotte area. Bringing them in and being like, Okay, now it's your week. Because I think in this circumstance, like players will respond to just a change. Yeah, no matter what, the changes. Anything different, anything, anything different.
I was also thinking about David Tepper more this week. Um, he is a classic example of a billionaire who is used to just having things done. Almost like the wave of a magic wand. If you're a billionaire, your life is so easy that you just say you want something, and then it happens you. Having a billion dollars is a magic wand. For anything like, Oh, I want a new plane, okay?
Here's a new plane I have, and it's not even you have to do it, you just have to tell someone.
Plane Yeah, just be like, Hey, spend my money on this so that I can, and then it just happens. Everything happens for you.
Once you get to a competitive sports league, you no longer have the magic wand, correct? You can't just be like, Wildcard plane. Yeah, I want both playoff appearance.
It's not like that anymore. Clean house, and Tepper is very, very confused with not having.
His magic wand ability work right now. Yeah, no, I agree with you. It's it's very fun to watch because he doesn't seem like the best guy. Nope, not a guy I want to work for.
You know, he.
He bought when he was at Goldman Sachs, he didn't get a promotion, and, uh, eventually he goes off, starts his own hedge fund. His former boss didn't promote him. Yeah, he was so pissed off at his former boss.
He bought his former boss's house. Yes, I remember this in Tour Town, right? Destroyed Ass, raised it to the ground and then built a bigger house where his former boss's house used to be. I'm a David Tepper fan now.
Yeah, I mean, I don't. I would not, I would not want him running my football team. No, however, I appreciate it when, like a billionaire, does.
Cartoon billionaire shit. He definitely has had that conversation in a meeting where it's like, what if we just tear down another team's stadium? Yeah, yeah, would we win the game?
Yeah, what if we bribe? I'll bribe them. Yeah, he's probably tried to bribe his opponent.
We blow up someone's stadium. Would they forfeit? would we win? Have I found a way to a perfect season? Yeah.
Every stadium I need to have, like Bain, I got to have hard knocks. David Tepper.
Oh yeah, that'd be sick, wouldn't it? It's going to be the bears, though, cause it'd be Harbaugh.
What do you mean like Harbaugh is going to come to the bears? They're going to do hard, oh?
Hard knocks Yeah, I mean, like, just following David Tepper? Oh, I would want to, yeah.
Yeah.
I want to see, oh, you're saying that? Yeah? I was saying, like, who's going to be hard knocks next year? If David Tepper was featured would be great, yeah.
Yeah, um, but wait, that's right, that's right. So David Tepper? Oh, no.
They're going to have a new head coach, too.
Shit, who do we want? We said. We need to start thinking about that for next year. Run it back with the Jets could be the Patriots.
New head coach? Yeah, new head coach.
Yeah, okay, we'll, we'll start, we'll start making our predictions. Uh okay, uh, nerd nugget for this game.
I am going to take the the the Panthers and I'm going to regret it.
I just want that. On the record, a duo of Bucks defensive players lead the league and rookie tackle for lost leaders. Kalijah Kansi tied for first among rookies with eight, while Yaya Diaby is right behind with seven. TFL this season.
Yaya. So, the future of the Bucs defense is bright.
Nice, I guess. So, yeah, sure.
Um, yeah, one anonymous Bucs fan. I won't say their name, but they work at this office and they're annoying as fuck. Gave me a tip to bet on Elijah Kansi to win Defensive Player of the Year. And he's like, at the very worst, you'll have a lucrative cash out option later on, okay?
Um, so that was a fucking lie, yeah, and that's that's my nerd.
Nugget He's the top rookie tackle for loss leader.
We could get the spin zone going.
He is the top rookie. You've got eight of them, yeah, eight, that's what I just said.
Yeah, that's.
A lot. Yeah, yeah, wow, yaya Diaby right behind him.
Stop shaking your head, don't shake your.
Fucking head, Okay, I'm going to say something nice about Jalen Carter. Yeah, uh, that play they had where he chased down Josh Allen last week.
We remember, we watched, that was Jordan Davis.
Oh, that's Jordan Davis, that wasn't Jalen Carter, which is more impressive because he's like, 50, I'll say something nice about Jalen Carter. It's still unclear whether he was reprimanded by a police officer or not. Okay?
That's nice. how is that nice? Actually? That's still unclear. That's just like stating a fact that is still unclear, yeah.
Right, so he might not have done it, that's nice, but you're not even saying that he didn't do it. Oh, he didn't do it.
There you go, oh.
He was at a Center City and they were going through a self-checkout line and he appeared, Oh, you know a lot about this case, huh? Yeah, what's going on there? Max, a lady that he was?
With Stole Something and nothing. Did you ever find the bike that hit Kelly Uber? That is weird. I still don't know anything about that or the car.
Yeah, that would actually be funny if it was a bike. yeah, he was holding a bike, but there wasn't talk to the bike. And this was a part of my take segment where we just read Jeff Nadeau's text.
Yeah.
Jalen Carter, defensive rookie Yeah, did they ever find the guy in Mexico that killed all those people in the cartel?
I don't listen, I like Jalen Carter, but how many tackles for loss does he have?
Kalajit kanthi was just named NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month for November of the month. Whoa?
Four hours ago, whoa, and November's over. That's incredible. He did it.
Yeah, so Jalen Carter, get back to me. How many tackles for loss does he have? I don't. He memorized his stats.
More or less than eight. How many defensive Rookie of the Month has he won? Let's see. Okay, go check that.
Zero kalajit kanthi. He's built different, he is, he really is one of one.
Was it with a C?
Or A. K. Kalajit, I believe no C. C, and his last name is K.
His last name is K. Yeah, I thought.
You were asking about his last name, you had a 50-50 shot. I thought you were asking about his last name. It's a K. I don't know if he has any.
Let's see what the lucrative cash out options.
Are like, right now, I think it's like $3..
All right, he doesn't have any, I don't think he has any. Zero. Kalajit kanthi with a K.
Your boy has zero tackles for loss, and you think, No, I was talking about rookie of the month. Rookie of the month. He has four sacks, no a sack.
Well, it's at least four, then that's a tackle for loss. Yeah, so he's got no rookie of months and kalajit kanthi with a K has at least one.
One, Yeah, that's correct. Okay, six for.
DyLan CARTER Okay, not eight, it's not eight, it's not eight.
I'm looking at my cash out.
Cash out unavailable now. Oh, that's because they know it's about to pop, about to pop. All right browns at Rams.
Joe Flacco, Joe Flacco, baby, is it? Is it Joe Flacco? I don't know.
It is.
It is from what I'm hearing, it is, hell, yes, DTR still in the protocol.
Usually you don't recover, you don't get out of the protocol. In a week. It's happened like one time, so he's still dealing with that. And I don't think that they have any designs on going back to P.J. Walker.
No, I think this is very funny that the Browns fans have to root for Joe Flacco.
It is very funny. Per the offense coordinator of the Browns, Alex van Pelt, he said Flacco still has an elite arm, so listen, I've staked my entire reputation on Joe Flacco possibly being.
Elite This is going to be a great test, too. Like Joe Flacco's well well past being old, he's very old, and he when we last saw him, he looked terrible. But like, could a terror? A once good quarterback who's now old, be better than a 22 year old that doesn't know how to play football?
It's a possibility we're going to find out. Here's the thing with Flacco is when we last saw Joe, he looked like he couldn't move at all. Yeah, I don't know if he's gotten better at moving around.
I think, basically, Joe Flacco was like, I've got seven kids or six kids. It kind of sucks being in a house all the time. Yeah, it'd be nice to just get out of there for Sundays at least, yeah.
So, uh, I think that was his big motivation on getting back to the NFL.
But the arm looks good. Elite, in fact. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm in on the Ramso this week. The Browns defense is very good, but they also have had a few games where they've really feasted on some unfortunate situations.
Kenny Pickett Matt, Canada, Clayton Tune Remember Clayton? Yeah, I remember him, that was wild.
Uh, so there's three or four games that they've held their opponents at 10 points or less. Joe Burrow Week One When You Still Hurt Ryan Tannehill, Bad Clayton, Tune, Bad Mac Canada, Kenny Picket. Brown's defense is still very, very good. I'm just saying more. The point is Matt Stafford is better than the four I just list is much better.
Joe Burrow, Clayton Tune, Ryan Tannehill, MacKinac, Kenny Pickett. I just hope that.
Joe Flacco and Aaron Donald don't get to meet each other at all because that would be bad. Yeah, that would be. I can tell you who's going to win that. I want to, I want the Browns to hold.
On and get to the playoffs. So bad, I just don't know. It's, uh, you never know, though.
Flacco, he's still got that arm, Flacco could? I do think Flacco will have at least a game that surprises?
U.S. Yeah, you remember that comeback that he had on the Jets was that Jets against the Browns.
Yeah, dude, Flacco still might have it. They played the at Rams, Jaguars at home, Bears at home at Texans, that's okay.
All right, come on, come on, Browns, you know where it got real bad with?
Flacco was when he was on the jets, he was struggling to to backpedal and turn around and hand the ball off, that that movement was tough for him. Yeah, he's got to stay loose.
He's got fresh legs, though, he's got fresh legs. Uh, okay, nerd nugget.
Before the nerd nugget I.
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