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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, November 3rd and the Texas Rangers are World Series champions. I thought we had to start with that because we were obviously on an off day when the Rangers won the World Series on Wednesday night. We just the Rangers fans deserve this. You are world champions. Incredible run.

Yeah.

Never lost a road game.

They were awesome on the road. Congratulations to Rangers fans. First world series in the history of your franchise.

63 years.

Big moment, congrats to all the great ones, Congrats to Nolan Ryan. They were celebrating on top of his statue after the game. Adrian Beltre.

Go go, every. Every team should try to go sign him. He won with the Braves, he won with the Astros.

It is pretty incredible, yeah. Biggest head in baseball, biggest head in baseball, eight and a quarter, eight and a quarter size.

They're going to do it, and they did it.

And all the Mets fans said, like, Well, you know, at least Degrom is just going to take a paycheck somewhere and ride off into the sunset. Thinking that he wouldn't be competing for a world series, right? Well, Jake Degrom, World Series champion, World Series champion.

Yeah, the Rangers, uh, incredible run. I mean, not not losing on the road is just insane. I like, that's that's such an accomplishment, and, uh, I, I know that people will say, Oh, the ratings were so low.

I don't care.

I do not care that the ratings were low. Uh, Rangers fans deserve this. I saw a couple of videos of them, like, going crazy in the Dallas Fort Worth area, it was awesome. I have one last thing about baseball.

Yeah.

Okay, Marlon's man posted this last night after the Rangers had won, he said. Who is the last team to celebrate winning the World Series in their home stadium as the home team? Quick who answer will surprise you?

Quick Who answer will surprise you? Is it the Kansas City Royals?

Red Sox.

It was the Houston Astros last year.

Oh, okay.

Wild trivia that is crazy.

It did.

It's a surprise.

That didn't surprise me, I was like, it's a Red Sox of 2013, that wasn't that long ago.

Literally every reply was like, Dude, last year.

That is the Okie, though. That's a great trivia question.

I think he forgot.

But he definitely did, because you don't ask that question if the answer, I guess the answer did surprise me, though.

It did surprise you, Max, did it surprise you?

I don't care.

Okay, all right. Well, uh, we also had Thursday night football. Uh, I have two takeaways from this game. one is Will Levis is good.

Yeah.

Will Levis is good, he's the guy. That was a game that you thought short rest going to Pittsburgh, tough defense, tough pass rush. I did not think that he would have, uh, the game that he had, he was in that game all the way to the end.

You know what?

Effortless.

The ball looks different coming out of his hand, yeah.

It looks hands in the pocket. He really does, so. That was my first one and my second one was. I kind of love the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fact that they play the ugliest games. But they're a lot of fun because they're always close and it feels like they're always dramatic.

Big difference today. I thought it was Matt Canada being on the sidelines. yeah, it's he's a different play color on the sidelines, yeah.

The last guy who threw him a touchdown was Ben Roethlisberger. Uh, it had been, it had become. It was a joke between us here because Jersey Jerry, our friend who's a Steelers fan, had been telling us to bet Deontay Johnson touchdown for what felt like five years, never scored. But it also had become like a pretty big story because Al Michaels mentioned it multiple times. And like to go to be a receiver like him, who has 20 plus touchdowns, I think in his career, to go, oh, like, a season and a half without a touchdown, I'm happy for it.

Yeah, and also I'm happy for Al Michaels. Al Michaels had a pretty good night.

Yeah, he was a little juiced up.

I think I think somebody got in his ear and was like, Hey, Al, take this eight ball cocaine before you go on the air tonight.

He's in Pittsburgh, got him going. It was wonderful, yeah, so it was good game.

Yeah.

Uh, I, I, I did like, how, how all the obituaries tried to dance around the fact that Bob Knight was a little bit of an asshole. They were, like, controversial, or, you know, like, checkered past mercurial. Bob Knight was a legend in the sports world. If you, if you grew up in the Eighties, Nineties, uh, even, you know, in the early two thousands. Bob Knight was a bigger than, you know. It felt like he was bigger than the sport at times, um, and he was a character.

Yeah, the thing you can say about Bob Knight is people, there's somebody in the world right now that is getting into a fight with somebody else about Bob Knight's legacy. Yes, and that's what Bob Knight probably would have wanted.

He also felt like Bob Knight was a guy who just lived to the extremes in every way, like you could. You read stories about Bob Knight being like, you know, his players, loving him, and, you know, like, helping out other coaches and and giving back to the community. And then you read stories about him being like a tremendous asshole. He just lived at the extremes at all times.

You can at the very least just let them know that you have a check that hasn't been cashed with their name on it. That's the proper way to remember. Somebody is like, that guy that just died. I actually own a piece of his memorabilia, and it's not really a piece of memorabilia, it's a check that he wrote.

That was a great moment. He also was the first to call MJ. There's a lot of stories about Bob Knight being like, MJ is the best player he's ever seen when he coached, uh, the Olympic team in 1984. The famous story goes that the Portland trailblazers with the second pick called Bob Knight. And asked them, and they were like, we need a center? He's like, So then play Michael Jordan at center.

That's crazy.

It's nuts, that's Bob Knight, he had a system, uh, Titus, who will have on to maybe do some college basketball preview said that his dad always used to say, cause he obviously grew up in Indiana, huge basketball fan. His dad used to always say that. Bob Knight can take a bad basketball player and make them good, and a great basketball player and make them good.

Consistency. Yeah, I love to hear Bob Knight way. He's the only coach that was smart enough to realize. Well, they have. That's Michael Jordan right there. The only person on earth good enough to lock down Michael Jordan is Dan Dockett.

Yes, so Bob Knight, I mean, he is, he does. Those type of characters make, uh, sports more interesting, guys like they make them fun.

Yeah, maybe he wasn't always the funnest guy to play for. If you were one of his players. Yeah, maybe you loved him.

Bob Knight did the. He knew he was an asshole because he said, uh, many times, that he wants his players to hate him because it gives them something in common.

They're United and the one thing they're United way to bring a team chemistry. Coach, yeah.

So, uh, all right, let's let's get to our picks and preview. We got a big, big week, uh, nine, I keep saying week 10, I don't want to say week 10, week nine.

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You got a Halloween costume?

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I hate that, okay?

But now we get football, football, the real football is about to be played.

You know what I'm going to call this separation Sunday?

Ooh, I like it.

I liked, I just like saying it. And it looks like with these matchups, it might be real, cause we've got a lot of good matchups and then we've got a lot of really shitty matchups. But the nice thing is the good matchups you get one in every block.

I like it. It's it might be fraud. Watch Sunday too.

Yep.

We're going to find out who is for real, so let's start it with the game in Germany. Dolphins at Chiefs.

But the travel, the travel is an issue. Uh, the chiefs are getting into Germany like right now, they're practicing one time.

I think he left Sunday night.

He built in a fun day for them. He's like, you know what? I want you to go out and experience Germany, see what it has to offer, go sightseeing, form relationships with your teammates.

Does he have his passport?

Uh, I don't know, that's a good question. I don't know if they did Passport Day. But he's excited to go over there and play and have some fun out there, per Patrick Mahomes. Oh, but he's also coming off the flu.

He is coming off the flu, nothing worse than having to get on a long flight after the flu. I, yeah, like this game, I would love to bet the Chiefs. But the travel is so far in my head and we've seen it. We've actually been probably the preeminent travel podcast. When it comes to tracking these things, what do we have?

It was a combination of the Titans sleepwalking and the Ravens past game over in, Uh, in London, where they got blown out by like 40 points. And then Harbaugh even said, like, I'm, I'm not doing that again.

And and the bills, I believe, also went late and they they slept. Walk against the Jaguars. So yeah, this is you have to bet the titans, you gotta bet, you gotta bet the dolphins.

We're betting on the clock, we're betting on the clock, that's what we're doing. And I. The only counterpoint is, what time is it in Honolulu when this game kicks off for TUA?

I have a really, really stupid Tua stat that means absolutely nothing, but sounds really cool.

Okay, that's basically the show, yeah.

Tua is 12 and one damn it quarterback.

That's my nugget.

I was so excited, Please don't yell like that. Uh, that was scared the fuck out of me.

I didn't realize how hot I was.

Okay, uh, Tua is 12. And one against quarterback, or, sorry, against coaches that have won a Superbowl. That's pretty good, but it's not that cool because he's beaten Bill Belichick six times.

Six of those times, yeah.

So it's like I went and looked at it. I was like, it's McVay, Belichick, Gruden, Sean Payton, Belichick, a bunch more times, Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin.

Well, per Henry Lockwood, on part of my take, Belichick's not that good of a head coach. That's true. So I don't know what this, that's what you said on the On on Monday's show, I believe. But, uh, that that is like a cool stat to have.

But it's dumb, cause once you look at it, you're like, it's six, six and o against, uh, Bill Belichick, and the only time he's lost Andy Reid.

Okay, that's that's relevant.

That's when it gets relevant.

That's relevant, yeah, but beating Belichick six times is pretty good.

That is pretty cool, but it like, when you say 12 and one, you're like, Damn, he beats all the Superbowl winning head coaches.

Yeah.

Well, he just beat Belichick six times.

I got some, uh, I did. I dove deep into the grass at the stadium last night, I ended up watching two 10 minute long videos of the guys installing the grass. They do like a whole behind the scenes of what happens. Because last year, you remember I was at Who played over in Europe last year, maybe the the Bucks, the Bucks might've played there. Yeah, um, the grass was an issue.

We're talking Bermuda.

So we, we. It's a hybrid grass, it's a hybrid, so it's like 90 grass, 10 synthetic woven into it. Interesting. So they put it down a week ago.

It's not like it's like grass with hair plugs.

Yeah, exactly.

Top of Dave's head.

Exactly, exactly, it was, uh. It was grown in Holland, and then they moved the grass to Germany and installed it in Germany.

I'm going to say, right now, the grass is going to suck, you can't move grass from Holland to Germany.

Why not?

I feel like that something, something bad happens there.

Well, if it's grass grown in Holland, there might be some other stuff, that's true.

That's true.

That'd be awesome if they played a game on hemp, on a hemp field.

I hemp was the future for a while.

Oh, it still is.

Everyone's like, hemp, clothes, hemp, this sustainable hemp.

George Washington was 50. Hemp, Yeah, his teeth were hemp.

Horse teeth.

They said, Uh, they did an interview with Tyreek Hill this week and they asked him what to look for going into this game. And he said, You guys get it all wrong. I'm not the most important player on this team. Two is not the most important player on this team, you know who is?

The only thing I'm I'm nervous about, um, so I, I probably will take the dolphins, um. The Chiefs lead the league in drops, they drop more balls against the Broncos, so they, I'm sure their their lead has grown.

Has the NFL figured out Travis Kelsey, finally?

Well, I think it's the. The N.F.L. has finally figured out that the Chiefs might have some work in progress when it comes to wide receivers vision. I am of the firm belief that even if the Chiefs lose this game, I'm not freaking out about the Chiefs. I think they're still a Superbowl winning caliber team. Uh, and the Broncos game was a weird game and they might lose the Dolphins, but they do have to figure out guys who can catch the ball.

It was a flu game.

We can write it off to the flu game and their defense is good and they they should run the ball more. Andy Reed We're back in the full circle of Andy Reed being like, Hey, in the red zone, maybe have Isaiah Pacheco run the ball.

No, he doesn't do that, Andy Reed's not going to do that. He's going to throw some weird screen passes every now and again, and he'll be like, that's basically the same as running. The football running back has the ball in his hand.

Uh, nerd nugget, since you're screaming in our ear, by the way, that that just shows how unbiased I am. Because that was a that was a stat I brought, and I was like, this stat stinks.

Dolphins fans will love that.

Yeah, no, that's that stinks.

It's a great stat.

No, it's not because it's six out of the 12, is Belichick.

So he's beaten Sean Peyton Sean Peyton twice, Sean McVay, John Gruden, John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin. But his own loss against Andy Reed December 13th.

Oh, you didn't find a new nerd nugget? you couldn't think on the fly.

I could've good stat, it was a good stat.

Hank's messing with my headphones right now.

That's good, yeah. I asked him to turn it down. I think the damn that now we're just not on, you know what?

I'm mad at myself.

I apologize, you scared the fuck out of me.

Now I'm going, I feel awful, damn it.

It's okay, Jake, next play, next next play, next play, you know what?

Raven safety Gino Stone leads the N.F.L. with five interceptions. He's recorded a pick in three straight games and four of his last five. His five interceptions tie Ed Reed in 2007, for most by a Raven through the first eight games of the season.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, I do like the Ravens defense, they're legit and very legit. I also like Kenneth Walker a lot. I've realized that every time I look at Kenneth Walker, he's breaking off something special.

Yeah, but all right. So my problem with Kenneth Walker? I feel like in the first quarter of every game he has like a 40 yard run and then he doesn't do anything else after.

He's okay.

This is also just based fully anecdotally on the last game. Just so before Seahawks fans correct me and be like, that's not true, I'm literally basing it on one game.

They also stopped giving him the ball sometimes, yeah, like he should be a bell cow, you know what I'm calling on? Pete Carroll? Make Kenneth Walker a bell cow. Running back well, keep giving the ball.

Pete wants to let Gino cook.

He does, but let let Kenneth walk.

Um, the big story here is we. We had a couple of weird, uh, quotes. We'll get to the Antonio Pierce and the Raiders and the Giants. But Gus Edwards said This week I'm ready for it. I'm hoping I get a big load again this week. Craving those loads? He wants a load.

Yeah, give it to him.

I this is Dk.

We'll do it.

I'm so excited about this game because I ha, I do think the R.A. the Seahawks are good. But I like, in my the back of my head, I'm like, maybe the Ravens are really good and they just smash them and then maybe they just go to you. It's crazy looking at the splits, how bad Gino is against Man and the Ravens can play both. So I, I don't know, I feel like the Ravens. Like last week was kind of a sleepwalk.

Dominant and, uh, the Seahawks. I would feel more comfortable betting on them this week if they if they hadn't taken first place in the division on their own. Now too many people are talking about the Seahawks. I liked it before when we were like, the Seahawks are good. Plus 400..

We were on it, yeah.

Keep your eye on the Seahawks. But now that they're in that top spot, every casual laughter is going to look at the standings and be like, Wow, the Seahawks are good, Seahawks are good. We knew the Seahawks were good, now, they might be too good that there might be bad again.

I do like the letter. Williams, Uh, beefing up that defensive line.

That is a good trade, that is a good pickup. Yeah, I'd say there's a policing.

Yeah, and he was, he actually said it was, uh, it was a situation where they were the who's the GM for the giant? uh shown. Is that right? sure.

Sure.

Joe shown.

Yeah, Joe shown. Um, you don't hear it often. But he went to Leonard Williams. He's like, Hey, we weren't going to trade you, but the Seahawks called you cool with this, and he was like, Yeah.

Yeah, I would want to go.

It doesn't happen often. Hell yeah, I would like, Hey, you cool with this?

One reason I do like the Seahawks, though, is they've got a good secondary. The legion of Spoon, legion of Spoon guys. Yep, and I feel like they're going to do some damage against that. Ravens passing attack, We are on Odell Beckham touchdown watch. But I feel like the I feel like the Seahawks defense is good enough to shut down the passing. But then Lamar just might decide, Okay, I'm going to. I'm going to just run the ball, I'm going to run, run, run it.

I just, I had that Ravens Lions game in my head, where, like, maybe the Ravens are a big game type of team, they play down to their competition. They lost to the Colts, like they, you know, the Cardinals covered the spread, do the Ravens.

Does this count as a big game? I think this is a big game, It's a big game. I think this might be the biggest game of the early slate.

It's absolutely a big game.

Yeah, big game.

Uh, okay, next up Vikings and Falcons. Taylor Heineken time. Yeah, we made it.

We got it, we we, we made it there, guys. He also had a great Halloween costume this week. You see that, No.

I did see that pretty good.

That was awesome. Pretty creative work by Taylor Heineken. Uh, so he would be getting some Purple and gold Jordans if they win this weekend. I'm excited to see that.

I also continue to love Arthur Smith with all my heart. We've talked about his fantasy football fuckery. Uh, he also just tried to gaslight the entire American public because it was one week ago, today, uh, that, he said. Arthur Smith says. Desmond Ritter criticism due to toxic group think a lot of people don't watch film. And then he was like, Taylor Heineken is now the starter.

I think he's using an excuse, too, cause he's saying that ritter, he's not right, he's not like, he's not himself right now. Oh so, Heineken, I think he's still saying that Heineken is a temporary starter, okay?

As for Jaron Hall, QBS making their first career starter 3870 and one straight up in the last decade.

Okay, not great. no, not, not, not what you like to see.

And they're three and 15 straight up on the road.

Do we know if Nick Mullins? Is he still on the IR, Have they brought him off yet? or is Josh? No? I think it's week 10, so Dobbs is going to be QB2..

Dobbs is going to be QB2.

Okay, pastronaut, I love it, I love, I love the Falcons this weekend.

I think I think if Dobbs can get in this game, if Dobbs does get in this game, he'll probably be good, cause it'd be in relief.

Yeah.

And fresh start.

Who was that was that Freeman? was that Josh Freeman that played for? I think he played for the Vikings after, like, three days, he did the Baker Mayfield.

Wait, you love the Falcons in this game.

I do, I do so the only reason I just love Taylor Heineke. I love Taylor Heineke too.

I just don't know if the Falcons can win by more than four and a half against anyone. I think they feel like a team that just will play. It will be a late like red zone, a fun game, like where we're like, Oh shit, get your eyes on this last possession.

Should we have the conversation about Jordan Addison that we had about Justin Jefferson, like three weeks ago? If you're Jordan Addison, should you sit out for the rest of the season?

Yeah.

Sit out for the rest of the season, you're too valuable. Try to get a contract this off season. Just like, have the two of them playing chicken with each other the whole time. It is kind of a bummer because Addison looked awesome.

I think the Vikings are going to, like, be a little galvanized, like, Hey, we're playing good ball. The NFC, who's going to be the seventh seed in the NFC?

It's the biggest question, somebody bad.

Somebody bad.

Somebody really bad.

It might be a second team from the NFC South.

Yeah.

Which is crazy, cause if you go through it, it's like, no doubters. Obviously, things can change. Niners, Eagles, Cowboys, Lions, uh, N.FC South Representative, Seahawks, Seventh.

I like how we put the Niners first as a no doubter above the Seahawks that are beating them right now.

But but seventh is going to be a combination of like Saints bucks.

Falcons Vikings, Bad, bad, bad team.

Commanders if they win a couple.

No, no, we're not doing that.

Rams.

We're not going to do that. I could, I could be talked into. I know I was pretty down on, like fire cell, get rid of every everybody I could still be. I could always be talked into. The commanders, maybe squeaking.

Yeah, if they win this week, all right. What's the nerd nugget cause?

Vikings rookie wide receiver Jordan Addison joined Elite Company last Sunday. He became the sixth player in Superbowl era to catch their seventh touchdown in the first eight games.

You just shut it down, shut it down for the season, you're too valuable.

Shut it down. Uh, all right, Commander's Patriots, how we feeling boys.

I mean, we have an opportunity to beat a Superbowl winning coach. Uh, it's, it's very hard to do in this league. This would make Sam Howell, I think, one in one, one in two if he can beat Bill Belichick again. Super lifetime coaches and coaches. Oh, no, wait, no wait.

Uh, this is a win-win for me. I think, you know, if they lose, it's better. Draft, draft capital.

But then you lose the PFT, and if we call you small.

We beat PFT and I can just hold that over him forever. And in a year where we're tanking, we can still be the commanders.

And we're not tanking, it's a tank off, really. The loser of this team, of this game wins.

Winner takes Belichick. Is that what you're going to, you know?

Oh yeah, there's some fan fiction out there.

Since you brought it up, Hank, I mean it. This is funny. Because usually we just take Mike Florio's fan fiction run with it on the show, just to piss Hank off. I think Florio took our fan fiction that we came up with on the show. Which is that Josh Harris wants a big splash, he wants a big name, coach, Belichick, probably at the end of his tenure in New England, why not get him to D.C. He can coach lacrosse at the Naval Academy.

It was a Florio fan fiction special. Cause, the report basically just said. Like, when the year ends, the commanders might reach out to Belichick or reach out to Kraft to see what it would take to get Belichick.

I think these conversations are happening.

Which means nothing.

I think, you know, you know, who's making this? No, no.

Hank, hank, Josh Harris are like, we need to get a big coach.

Yeah.

Who's the biggest coach? Bill Belichick? That'd be cool.

Well, thank you, Florio.

Conversation over.

The entire article was basically Florio saying it would make sense in my mind if this happened. Which is a great way to, like, put a report out there without putting a report out there. Um, here's how it's going to happen, though. Hank, What's the common denominator between Josh Harris Bill Belichick?

Bad handshakes, awkward guy.

There's a guy that's been on part of my take.

Ruben.

I feel like Ruben is going to.

What does Ruben have to do with Belichick? Ruben and Kraft are aligned.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, Ruben is going to be the go-between. Ruben's going to make this deal happen for me.

Would this just destroy you if PFT got root for Bill Belichick every week?

I would become the biggest Bill Belichick apologist ever.

I don't think so, like I would, I would, no. It's like when people said, you know, to destroy. Brady won a Super Bowl, I was rooting for Brady, I'd be rooting for. I would. I would like to, you know, join up with my guy PFT and and see Belichick bring a team to their first Super Bowl in forever.

No, it would destroy you, you, you got low-key destroyed when Brady won that Super Bowl. I didn't.

I bet like I made the biggest bet of my life on the Bucs.

Yeah, but ever since then, what if, what if we got McDaniels and Belichick, get the gang back together in D.C?

All the whole squad.

Fuck it.

Whole squad, so how you you, you feel confident in this game.

No.

Okay.

I wouldn't either, cause Kendrick Bourne being out for the season. It feels like that's the one bright spot that you guys had.

Defense is banged up, offense is bad.

And Washington just traded their whole defense. Which, by the way, uh, can't feel good to be Chase Young right now, because it feels like everyone was pissed that Montez Sweat got traded and everyone was kind of happy. Chase Young got traded.

Yeah.

With some like leaks and being like, Yeah, you didn't play team defense and all this stuff.

That's kind of what I've been saying about Chase Young. I actually think it's good for both the Bears and the Niners. The Niners get like a rental. I don't think they're going to extend them.

And they get a guy who's not the dude and he has to slot in underneath Bosa.

Yeah, he's going to go there and he can't be acting like he's the baddest dude ever. On the defense, he has to kind of humble himself a little bit and he can still make some splash plays.

Which I also still think is true.

I still think he's going to be extended, but Montez Sweat said yesterday that he's not close to making a decision on that. Ideally, you would want the deal to be basically done by the time the trade goes down.

Okay, so people were running with this quote, What the fuck do we think? Montez Sweat is going to say he has leverage right now? Why would he be like, Yeah, I'm here and we're about to sign a long term deal. Ryan Poles came out and like, we're working.

Yeah, he's fired, he should be, he should be, if he doesn't get clearly fireable, of course.

So that, like it was, it was, I understood it. But it was also maddening that everyone was running with just Montez Sweat's comment and not Ryan Poles.

So I went from a hundred percent. He's going to be extended when the deal was done to now I'm like 95, he's going to get the extension done.

He's going to get it done, cause Ryan Poles job is literally on the line. It is okay. He might have to overpay him, I don't know.

And if anybody out there is saying, wow. The Bears should be embarrassed that they gave up a second round pick and the Niners only gave up a third rounder for Chase Young. You're telling on yourself that you don't watch ball. Yeah, you don't watch ball. I've watched every snap that those guys have taken.

Not only that, but Chase Young has not been able to stay on the field. Yeah, that matters. Uh, let's see where was the exact quote? Uh, Ryan Poles.

Okay, good.

So, like that, that was ignored somehow by everyone online.

It's the 5 when I say 95 chance the deal gets done, the 5 is my personal delusion. Because I have considered a world in which Montez Sweat is just such a fan of Washington that he's like, You know what, trade me? And then I'm not going to do the deal.

Everyone's fan fiction about every team that ever trades anyone.

What if it happens? it could? what if it? What if Juan Soto comes back to D.C. too? It could? Um, also, the Commanders are 1-0 this week.

Yeah, my idea is, uh, we're obviously still, you know, decorating the studio. It's still active, things are moving around, you'll probably notice in the background things are changing, kind of episode by episode.

Now, if the commanders win, are you willing to admit I want a full written apology, maybe even a powerpoint, on how it's a fraud? Lighthouse?

No, that has nothing to do with it.

No, because that should be only stakes on my side. What about yours?

Well, I'm open to stakes.

Okay, so there it is.

It's just a bet with me and PFT, all right.

I'll talk to PFT, PFT. You should make him admit that it's a fraud lighthouse to do a powerpoint and apologize.

I think you, I think you should admit it's a fraud. Lighthouse.

Good idea.

And you should do a Powerpoint and apologize, and you should change your X.

And maybe also on your hinge profile, too.

You're not a Rhea.

They won't let me on.

It's crazy.

Uh, so you have to do, I don't know.

I've gotten recommendations. They probably think you don't have a job because they don't want me. Uh, I will do that, my only condition is that I, I'll just I'll let me. I'll just acknowledge Cape Hatteras as the tallest lighthouse in the world, or whatever.

No, you have to say you have a fraud lighthouse.

I'll do the I'm going to do that via PowerPoint.

And in your X?

Period.

End of sentence double period. I love it all right, and it has to stay up there for the entire football season.

Now is this spread or straight up?

I mean, it's gotta be straight up.

Yeah, straight up. I mean, the Patriots shouldn't be favored by three points against anybody right now. Okay, also, we're going next man up in D.C. you forget about next man up.

It is actually, I mean, it's a real thing that there's guys who have been backups who now get to play for a contract, yeah.

That's real. If this was, if this was, you know, my team aside, I would love the commanders in this spot as a hungry dog. Watching Sam Howell's first half last last week was like the Patriots game was on and they were playing ugly. And then the The Commander's game was the other TV. And Sam Howell was just throwing dime after dime, after dime after dime.

Yeah.

Sammy Dimes.

And Belichick's going to see this team up close, he's going to fall in love with it, he's going to be doing the binocular meme. Just looking at our guys on the sidelines, like, Man, damn, I wish I could coach for the Washington Command. And they can use them.

Like some dogs on their defense.

Yeah, yeah.

Only difference between Mac and Sam Howell's coaching, though.

Remember that that's true.

That's true. Good point, Max.

Uh, all right, nerd nugget.

Commander's quarterback Sam Howell eclipsed 2000 passing yards and 200 completions last week, becoming the 10th quarterback all time to reach 200 completions through nine career games. The fastest in franchise history. Wow.

Wow, we've got a lot of 200 great quarterbacks in our history. Wow.

Uh, okay, bears at Saints next, uh, we talked about Montez sweat. I have to just quickly say something about, uh, Matt Eber Fluss.

Why do they keep saying HR was involved in this, in this firing? That's such a weird go-to line to say.

He also, Uh, right, or Matt Eber, Fluss said that there's a bunch of guys, or no, I think Ryan pulls that. There's a bunch of guys with integrity here and it's like, how do we have one guy who has all the integrity? That's raising the average, cause we've fired two coaches.

Eber Fluss said We set the expectations day one. You have to treat everybody with respect and be on time. Yeah, so he did one of the two bad things that you're not supposed to do, yeah.

He, um, so eber, Fluss said the culture in our building is outstanding, noting that the Bears are two and two in their last four games, just forgetting the fact that they were three and 18 before that.

Two and two in their last, that's that's a massive, massive upswing.

Ryan Pulls also credited Matt Eber Fluss for, Uh, uh, taking on adversity and overcoming adversity. I don't think you get credit when the adversity is being a bad coach.

If you bring on your own adversity and then you overcome it.

Yeah, like, he's, he's doing a great job coaching a bad coach team.

Yeah.

But he's the coach.

Outperforming expectations that he set for himself with his past history.

Like, imagine having to coach a bad coach team that you made a bad coach team. It's hard, that's adversity.

It is it's like, when Dogecoin pops like, 5, you're like, Wow, it's really overcoming some adversity right now, yeah.

There's also some weird things going on that people in the Chicago media think that, uh, the bears were leaking bad stories to NBC on Sunday football about Justin Fields trying to, like, basically, uh, start to move away from him, hmm.

Did they make him wear sunglasses on the sidelines?

That might've been it. Yeah, we can at least get big cat to be mad about this.

Yeah, that was very funny when you were angry for like, 15 seconds.

I was, it's the loss, I talked about it with Max after. It's really just the loss. Like when you lose, it's just you, you have to. You can't wear sunglasses when you lose.

You don't want to stand out at all, right? It's like when a quarterback, when Cam Newton would give his postgame, um, like, media availability. And he'd step up to the podium. And he'd wear, he would be dressed like a lamp from the seventies. It's like, Hey, dude, um, you should have a winning outfit that you wear and then losing outfit that you wear. Because if you lose, everyone's going to talk about your cowboy hat with tassels on it.

Like, remember when Fitzpatrick went on his winning streak with the box? And he was wearing like the, you know, the chest, hair popping out and everything? If he did that after a loss, I'd be like, What the fuck is this guy doing?

Yeah.

Just go in sweats after a loss. Uh, okay, so yeah, I, I I mean, maybe Tyson Bajent. I don't know the bears, just they keep making lines that are like, ooh, eight and a half.

Yeah, these guys get paid to play football. The, uh, the stat about Derek Carr I'm looking at, though, is he is the worst quarterback against the spread when he's a favorite in the NFL right now. Ooh, so this is lifetime for Derek Carr.

I've told everyone, if you want to, if you like the Saints this week, which should cause they'll beat the Bears. Bet them to win the, uh, the division. Now's the time. It's a free win bet. Every team will play, every team who plays the Bears. just bet that team to win the division.

That's a fact.

It's a, it's a it's a fail-proof, uh way to go about this gamble.

And I am rooting against the Bears. Nothing personal, but I want to pick, I want to pick now and then. I want Montez sweat back in the off season.

I understand, uh, all right, nerd nugget.

New Bears defensive end Montez Sweat is one of six N.F.L. players to record at least five sacks and 10 quarterback kicks in each of his first five seasons. Joining Brian Burns, Max Crosby, Chris Jones, Myles Garrett and T.J. Watt.

Those are pretty good players that he's. Ideally you would want a guy like that on your team. Do you think you think we could hang out with him? MONTEZ Yeah.

I hit him up.

Yeah, he's a good guy, yeah.

I can follow him, I mean, I did follow him, I could hit him up.

Yeah, hit him up.

His DMs.

Let him know like, hey, if you, if you're looking for some good dive bars, if you want to go drink some malort with me, I'll show you the ropes. In Chicago to D.C. guys that are new to the city.

Credit to me, just want to say this has nothing to do with uh, uh, Montez sweat. There's a kid who's seven, three who's deciding between Purdue and Wisconsin to play basketball next year, he's deciding on Friday. And I wrote, the DM didn't send it.

That's good, yeah.

17 year old.

That's good, that's progress, yeah.

That was progress, cause I started the DM and I was like, Wait, what are you doing?

This is bad. Where's he from?

Uh, I don't know.

Okay, but yeah, but he's, he's tall.

He's seven, three.

He's tall and he could go to Wisconsin.

I was going to, like, the the DM was like, you know, congrats on deciding. Enjoy the day. If you have any questions about Madison, let me know. And I was like, stop it, this is a 17 year old.

So, Daniel Jacobson.

Yeah.

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What about Barron Trump? Where are we at with Darren Barron Trump's playing soccer process? Yeah, I mean, just think about how good he'd be on the court.

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We can't wait. Oh man, I can't wait. what a great game this is. Um, I've talked myself a little bit into Clayton Toon, though.

P.J. Walker's never lost a start at home in professional football. Okay?

XFL and NFL Kevin Stefanski stinks when he's a favorite. Okay, stinks 10 and 20 against the spread.

Clayton Toon has to go up against the Browns defense.

I think also the Cardinals are injured, the Browns. I keep going back to P.J. Walker. The game plan for Stefanski should be what we talked to him about this off season. Run the damn ball, run the damn ball.

That's all you got to do, run the damn ball, and that's our Browns Cardinals.

That's really all we need to say for it, yeah.

I think the Browns are going to kill him, that's all I got I do. I just think the defense, like Clayton Toon, having just started his first game against the Browns defense, not going to be fun. And what's the spread now?

Is it seven and a half? Yeah, if it gets up to eight, I'm going to bet the cardinals, that's your, that's your Bible. Oh, it's eight, eight.

Yes, cardinals first, keep riding it, keep riding it, all right.

Run the damn ball. Indeed, this is a matchup between two of the top five rushing attacks in the league. Cleveland, second, Arizona's fourth teams have combined eight players who have rushed for at least a hundred yards this season.

I'm shocked that the Cardinals are fourth in the league. I guess James Conner was getting off to a pretty good start. Yeah, they've got demarcato, yeah.

So maybe make it like an Army Navy game just run, just run the damn ball, just run, all right.

I still like the Rams. I feel like Sean McVay. If you get a shitty quarterback, Sean McVay can make the most out of it. That's a fact, right? And Matt LaFleur, he's had eight weeks to work with a shitty quarterback. And what Gudenkuz, or whatever his name is? The GM, the GM said about Jordan Love, which is like, Jordan love is not quite what we're looking for just yet.

Well, listen, I think Jordan love, you know, doesn't have a lot of receivers, offensive line stinks. You got to give him some more time. He's a young prospect, he's a young prospect.

I mean, he's basically a rookie. Where are you going, hank?

Oh, he's turning on the TV again, he's basically a rookie right now.

He's basically a rookie, yeah, but he stinks, Uh, I also.

The Rams can't run the football and that's where the packers are kind of can be gashed, so yeah, I think I should keep buying low on the packers.

I'm also interested in Brett Rippon, I'm interested in from like, a that's that's a curious guy to maybe watch play football because he loves to turn the ball over. No, no, but Hank, I know you're shaking your head. He takes a lot of change.

13 for 2,712 yards, No. no one touchdown.

You don't watch ball. Brett Rippon is going to go 17 for 25 and he's going to throw one touchdown, two interceptions, and he's going to have 228 yards. That's gross. It's still fun, he's still going to throw two picks.

He has four touchdowns and eight interceptions on his career. Yeah, yeah.

He loves picks, he does love picks, yeah.

It seems like he very much loves picks. Uh, okay, oh, he had one game. when was this? Oh, did he come into relief?

He came in relief last week. I think, yeah, I remember he started the, uh, the game when Blake Bortles got Covid, you remember that one, yes.

Blake Bortles gave the entire Broncos Covid.

I was trying to spin it the other way. Yeah, or Blake Bortles got assaulted by Covid all time, all time.

Blake Bortles move. We love him for that. Yeah, uh, yeah, no, he had. He had a game, uh, where he went 19 for 31, 242, two touchdowns and three interceptions. Yeah.

According to Spotrack, the Packers and Rams are the two youngest teams in the NFL. The Packers have an average age of 25.3, Rams 25.8, Packers 24 rookies, Rams 21..

Is it good if your rookies stink? Probably not.

If you stink and when we're young, they have to get even younger. Yeah, the Packers are like, as close as you can get to having the debate of if the best college team could beat the worst N.FL team. Yeah, they did in week one.

They're young. Uh, all right, the Bucs at Texans, this is going to be a fun, is it? This is a decide what you are game like the Bucs are are. If they don't win this game, that would be four straight losses after a three in one start put a fork in it.

About a team that when it's first and 10, okay, run the ball, run the ball and they get three yards, now it's second and seven.