Jeff Saturday, Week 15 Picks And Previews, And The Chargers Quit On Life

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We talk ball with him, we talk what it's like in that playoff push, great conversation with him. We then are going to preview every single game from week 15. It, I'll say right now, one of our funnier weekend previews of the season, because we were loopy.

We were low on sleep, we took twists, we took turns, we got our picks, we got fuckboys.

We got fire fest.

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He's gone, he has to be gone right now, either that, or we learned today that, maybe.

Big guy, you've seen teams quit before, this is quite quitting right now, they're just not even playing anymore. BraNdOn StAley I guess there's worse places to be fired than Las Vegas.

Seems like if you get fired in Vegas, at least do it before. I have to go to bed, wake up early, get on a flight back the next day, like, just tell me, right now you get a free night in Vegas. You've got checks coming in, you're going to get paid for the next several years, no matter what.

Just let let the boys have a fun night in Vegas.

Yeah, just let us beat the fuck out of you for a full game. If you go along with that, then you can just stay. Yeah, yeah.

We'll, we'll make that deal.

And Josh McDaniels? And then he's got a little bit of money and there's some clown shit going on right now. The Raiders just did a a trickeration play for another touchdown to Davante Adams.

It was it was so bad that they were showing, I think it was. So whose tattoos was it? Max Max Crosby's tattoo? I like? With like 10 minutes left in the second quarter. AlaN KIRK We're already in garbage time, like they started burning their garbage time material.

So goddamn fast. I'm actually worried for our like, I don't know what, I don't know what he's going to say in this fourth quarter.

I think just just having a closeup of Brandon Sale. We don't even need to watch the game. Yeah, let's just watch Brandon Staley for the rest of this game. It's crazy.

And guess what?

Yeah, I'll allow that, we'll call it. Yeah, you were you, you. I tweeted like, I was like, Great job PFT.

Thanks PFT, thanks Shake Shack, and you're like, don't mush it.

My big boys build big belly up, and yes, that shake Shack's doing the trick. Listen, if for nothing else, I'd like to be remembered as the man that got.

Yeah, I got a good line for this, uh, for this deal. Everyone you know it, don't worry about it, let's try to get the lines minus three and a half if that one hits. Free bacon cheese fries on top of the chicken shacks on Monday and hank, what's your, uh, Sunday pick? Rams, Rams, minus six and a half.

And that will be a free classic shake. On top of this, we're trying to go three and O for the people, if all of those hit, uh, you get all three. But right now, PFT has got you the free chicken shack starting Monday, so it's the three for free promotion.

You're welcome everyone. You lunch just got decided on Monday because the Raiders want the charger. So a couple of other things about this game. Shout out Shake Shack, Shake Shack Cam with a max. So root for the Lions, root for the Rams.

And then we get all three on Monday, which we we're going to do, boys, right? Our Monday lunch is planned. We had we had some of those, uh, chicken sandwiches, say, they were so good.

Uh, and thank you for Shake Shack for bringing them by. And the woman who brought him by, that was it was like, Oh, free, free chicken.

And they are really, really good chicken sandwiches.

No, they should have. These are the games that, like, just go for records like a. McConnell had four touchdown passes in the first half. The record is seven, which is tied by a bunch of people. These are the gate, like everyone's been in this game in Madden, or like college football.

Like, just go for records, I want to.

I want Mark Davis to come down on the sidelines shirtless, just dancing around. I want Brandon Staley to get like assaulted by his own team. I want, I want a complete shit show if this is off the rails like this.

Brandon Staley was a good coach for a year. His brain melted. Something happened in the last two years where everything changed. But remember when Brandon Staley came on the scene like he was a breath of fresh air? We had him on this show.

I was, I was jealous of the Chargers, everything, so so I guess my question is, this is Brandon Silly a bad coach or did the Chargers just get into his brain?

Streaming has somehow made it so that everyone in America watches games at different times. I don't think there's one house that's the exact same, there should be one, there should be one.

But yeah, the chargers are now seven, seven second apps, so don't write them off just yet. Brandon Staley mounting a furious comeback. But he was a good head coach, like, don't let, don't let. What's happened recently?

Fool you. He was a good coach that first year. What always has sucked about him, though, is his defense, which is weird because he's a defensive coach and he his defenses are always in the bottom. Like five of the N.FL, they've had some bad injury. Luck more.

I will say that the Chargers seem to be more injured than any other franchise, but with maybe the exception of the Ravens. Yeah, but but they all, they always get guys like banged around. They never have the best players out there. But Brandon Staley is is not a good off, he's not a good defensive coach at all.

The fourth down thing that that is great if you're winning, but if your defense is such shit that you don't even have an opportunity to flex your fourth down. Analytics muscles, then it, then it's a big issue. Plus, really, you could say Brandon Staley has set the analytics community back like 40 years. Yeah, yeah, he's known as the analytics poster boy, the wonder kid of the analytics movement.

And the fact that his teams have fallen apart so so terribly really makes you think like, I don't want my head coach ever look at a number again.

It is giving me flashbacks, you mentioned at the start PFD, that we've seen this before for our teams. Um, it gave me a flashback that Hank's going to have a chuckle for, Uh, remember that, Hank? I'm pretty sure. The Packers were up 42, nothing on the Bears. And it was like it was like Aaron Rodgers was playing a video game. And I was sitting in a hotel room in Arizona. And Dave and Hank were with me. And they just sat next to me and just laughed in my face for an entire half.

There's been some bad ones. This is, you know, you just got to regroup. Maybe Easton Stick will get hot in the second half and then you can trade them to someone for, like, a third round pick. Well, that's the thing you.

He look a little bit like a really bad video game rendition of Derek Carr. He's like, they don't get the pixels just exactly right. And then they've got Easton stick, and what are you going to do? sit Easton stick down?

So it's it's a shit show for the Chargers right now, it's an absolute shit show. Yeah, put in. Max Duggan Uh, I. If I were a player, I'd want not want to come out.

I'd want all the stats.

Say mercy rule, take your ball, go home, shut out the Indiana pacers. It's just there's no point in continuing this.

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He stayed in Kansas City ahead of this weekend's game.

Let's, let's really.

He can't make time to visit her. I did see a picture of her birthday party, so I've got a picture right here, she got a big. It looks like a cookie cake. And um, in the background, there's a guy that looks a whole lot like Jeff Darlington back there.

Oh, I don't know if, I don't know what's going on. We've been putting the pieces together with Jeff, she has a thing for him, I don't know.

Yeah, like, lean into it. This is a shit show, everyone should have fun with this. I know people like, when, when these games happen, it's like it just becomes a roast.

Let's just have fun with it, like, just do weird shit, too. This is actually a perfect.

Yeah, weird way to get experimental with it. I the more I think about it, it's not. It's not the craziest thing that we've ever said. That. Brandon Staley has given this game to Mark Davis. Yeah, no, I, I it will.

It'd be pretty tough, that would be like a perfect score. It'd be pretty tough. But maybe Brandon Staley is that good, he's a savant. Oh, chargers are starting to come back.

This would be the funniest thing ever. It actually someone had a perfect tweet. I can't remember who it was. I apologize, but they're like this. This won't be a real Chargers game until they tie it 42 42 and then lose on a safety.

Yeah, so yeah, that's that's always in.

And then Giannis stormed into the locker room, like sprinted into the locker room to try to get the game ball.

So I, a worldwide Wob, I think, broke it down. I'm pretty sure the Bucks trainer got the ball that he had that last dunk from, so he had the actual game ball. He just didn't see it.

No, it was a serious question. Cause in in football you've got a bunch of different game balls, and in baseball, obviously, tons of them, but in basketball do they do? They just keep the ball for as long as it stays relatively inflated. I know they have backup balls. The pictures of the hallway is so.

Giannis is kind of a psycho, huh?

Solomon, Solomon, Which one Samson's is the hair, right?

The hair.

I got a very important push notification from the Athletic on that one. His dog's name is Hang on, let me pull this up, so I don't mispronounce it. His dog's name is Decoy. But in Japanese, I think it's deco pen, and that means to flick one's forehead.

So he named his dog Boop. Well, no, flick is not a boop. I think, like, flick tap, probably the same thing.

Yeah, it's good, I actually look. I'm looking forward to that moment, that's going to be a great day.

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I just, I've been doing that every Thursday morning, just a nice like, Hey, football's back. I get 10 bacon, egg and cheese Uber eats that gets here. The minute I like it, I sync up.

So it shows up when I show up and then I just put them on the front and anyone who wants them can have them. That's for everyone. Yeah, and usually, Stephanie, it's like, nine of them, I got some, I got some.

We're in the fourth quarter of the football season. Well, here's the thing Pft, we, we, we have this discussion. Um, we cherish it.

The minute Saturday football shows up, it's it's usually like, in your head, you're like, Oh yeah, NFL Saturday, I love NFL Saturday. But it is a Pavlovian response of like, I shouldn't be watching this NFL Saturday.

Yep.

It's, it's America's game again, we are, we are.

We're probably, yeah, there's a Brazil game. Tom Brady had a retirement to woo back. Giselle, I like that idea. Belichick loves big asses, Yep.

That's facts. Down there, we're about two years away, I'd say, from our first Saudi Arabia game, yeah.

Probably the.

It would just be for for some, uh, you know, Sultan's son, it would just be for MBs and his boys. Yeah, he'll just be hanging out, all right.

So let's get into the Games week 15.

We're gonna. This is the week where, like last week was crazy, cause we had a lot of bad teams on paper, beat good teams, uh, and win games. But this is the week I think that we're going to get a very clear here is what the playoffs.

They're shrink, they're going to shrink down to maybe eight teams instead of right now. In the AFC, there's like 11 teams, NFC there's eight or nine teams. Once we get through this weekend, I think it's going to be pretty clear who's going to be most likely in the playoffs because.

It shows you how much your your chances improve if you win this weekend versus how much they decrease if you win this weekend. So it looks like the Broncos have the most to gain this weekend with a win. Um, and the there are some teams at the top, that obviously doesn't really matter, or not, I'd say Broncos, Packers, bucks, that's going to be a good game.

The Bucks and Tampa Bay. Yeah, because whoever wins that one, I think you should be in a good spot, like.

That's why I'm not.

Jake Browning has been playing well versus Nick Mullins. Josh Dobbs is now QB three. Uh, probably for the better, probably for the better. The Josh Dobbs. It was fun. I think that if you want to tell the story of the 2023 season, you can't leave out Josh Dobbs, but it was time.

But I would argue that, uh, the Bengals and the Vikings are top five in terms of weapons on either side. So the backup quarterbacks are set up pretty well, Justin Jefferson's back, so Justin Jefferson, Jordan, uh, Addison and Hawkinson. And then on the other side, you know, T. Higgins, Boyd, Jamar Chase, Joe Mixon and this.

Yeah, it's a new name that everybody should know. Yes, uh, yeah, talk to us about this game.

What are you thinking? Okay, so is Jake Browning? is he really a backup at this point? Because I feel like Jake Browning has played his way into being like. This team has a chance, this team has a chance.

I think the I think the Bengals actually have a chance, they could make some noise in the playoffs. How about that? I don't think that they have a chance to win the Super Bowl, but I could.

Blitz is just, you know, multiples, you got to say multiples when you, when you talk about this stuff. He's doing a lot of multiples. He's got guys at every level, every single level. Um, so, yeah, I I think that this is going to be Jake Browning's first test, true test. Uh, because the Colts and the Jaguars aren't great defenses.

The Vikings have been playing like a great defense. That's going to be tough and you're getting points. Yeah, I kind of like the Vikings in this game. Probably going to be confusing.

She's turning 105 years old on Saturday, okay, and she's celebrating with her three favorite things. This girl can party uh, firefighters, watching football and whiskey, she's drinking fireball, having a bunch of firefighters over to a birthday cause.

She's horny for firemen, How old is she? and watching the Bengals, she's turns. She turns 105 years old on Saturday. Hell yeah.

And she's having a let me see a picture, Okay, I'll show you a picture you want to see it. Thank you.

I'll put it on the bonk list. Florence Hackman When are we doing the?

Tell me she doesn't look good for one. Oh, five, oh, she's hot, she's real.

Don't make a lot of Florence's anymore.

No, I need fucking material. No, you could, that's not, you can't do that. The Bonk is a podcast, buddy.

No, the Bonk list. You can replay it, you know what you could know? Here's what you could do. I can replay it on the show after I do it.

No, no, no, you can replay it on that, you can do a visual bonk list in the in the set, that's fair. So hank, how much cross?

Tell Hank to release the bonk list, tweet him and say no, but you have to do it on the show. I will, No, I will. This is bullshit. How much crossover is there between?

JAKE Nice, Uh, you will figure out something to do, but I will, I will help make you you know what, what if I do this? okay?

You release the Bonk list, I will make you a slideshow for the show. for the with the Bonk list deal, I'll make you a slideshow.

He's not going to talk for the next like month and a half. Yeah, saving it for the show.

He's not even talking right now.

Okay, we'll talk.

Yep, two for two in the last show is spilling, Jake. Remind, Uh, us when we go to Vegas, when we PFT. And I need to buy somewhere between. I'm going to say a thousand and 2000 tomatoes that we can pass out to the crowd, just full tomatoes, yeah.

Yeah, there'll be a segment. Well, I mean, the tomato you should. If you're doing bad, you should get tomatoes thrown at you, or or I'll start throwing them back, I'll bring a fucking gun. Here's a, here's a, here's a fun compromise.

I'll do no tomatoes. you can't do the bonk list. no fine. all right tomatoes on.

If you don't think I'm throwing them back out directly at you and everyone else, I'm not going to throw them. Other people are going to throw them. You can't throw them at me. I will, okay.

Well, I'm not even going to be there.

That's.

No, you said gun, we'll clip that.

He's goofy brain also if you're in Las Vegas.

Nerd.

I mean, the ones last time they played four years ago, probably yeah.

Steelers at Colts next game Um, I'm going off vibes in this game. Pft. I got stats for some games.

This one's a vibes game, I got some stats for this one. okay, you want to go stats and then I'll tell you my vibes, that's.

It's only going to be 50 degrees, you can bring a gun. We might get. Yeah, he could. Well, I don't know if he's legally allowed as his charges. Uh, but it's going to be 50 degrees outside.

The roof could be open in Indy this weekend. So that's what I'm hoping for. Another stat T.J. Watt has been cleared by an independent neurologist. Uh, probably in Pittsburgh, probably with a terrible towel.

I think in Big Ben's mind, the Steelers tradition was Big Ben playing quarterback.

So it's essentially like it couldn't. It's it's the shittier version of the Packers and Jets pipeline.

They could make the play I kind of believe in, just because you look at the change between Mitch and Kenny and the offense looks entirely.

The Steelers have looked really bad, you have to bet the Steelers.

There's no Jonathan Taylor, no Jonathan. The Colts do run a lot of cover three.

Mitch does do well. Historically, that would be the one defense he would pick.

I know that it doesn't look likely that he's playing right. Yeah, we made this mistake with no, no, no, oh yes rap sheet.

That was at the Royal. We, we as a podcast, we all. You didn't stop me. We made this mistake. As a group, we are collectively responsible for Tank Dell.

No, you get to, just we don't want to do that again. With Jonathan, you get to expand the circle when you're wrong. Barstool Sports as a whole made a mistake about Tank Dell Sports journalism, yeah.

Yeah, the industry, let's go 10,000, 10,000 foot. Do you know what our generation made a mistake about? Tank Dell, saying like, we'd rather be first than write about it?

Yes, we don't want to do this.

One year left on his contract. That'd be such a sweet job if you just got hired by the Steelers.

You'd never get new coaches. Yeah, like the Steelers can't. What? What's that? There's been no followup from that.

We'll get to the page, we'll get to the Patriots. Okay, but yeah, the Steelers, they, they, they have, what three?

Either that, or, like Ben Mintz, Job, yeah, job for life, job for life.

On defense, the defense that the Colts had when they sucked and then they ended up making a Superbowl run. Was that the same year where where Bob Sanders came back changed the entire? Just tell yourself that C.D. Deuce is the missing link. It's Bob Sanders, he's, he's Bob Sanders.

Dan Campbell says that he's an X man the way that he's recovered. I love that, which is just a great term to say about somebody. Yeah, unless you're a female swimmer.

Um, I think that he's been. Should we edit that out? No, no, no, let's keep it in. Uh, we're, we're, we're loopy. He's been medically cleared to play football. Uh, which?

No doctor should ever medically clear somebody to play football. If you're a good doctor, you should never be like, Okay, you can go play NFL football.

I think a lot of people thought that he would be a big upgrade on defense. So just tell yourself that I'm still rooting for the Lions. I want them to succeed, I want Detroit fans to be happy. You got it.

You just have to have some form of hope right now. And I feel like that might be the one to zero. And I, uh, I think the Lions are going to win.

He's an indoor cat, um, he's, you know, 5 better completion percentage, 14 touchdowns, six interceptions, uh, seven and four outdoors. Everyone's been shitting on. The lines, have been really bad. I was thinking about it more. The bears are kind of in line.

So it's we'll agree with this. The bears kind of are, uh, do have the lion's number in the fact they don't win all the time, but they they play them really tough. Yeah, and so the Lions have played three out of the last four games have been division games, which are tough games to play, especially later on in the season. Teams know you so well. They went, you know, packers, bears, saints, then then bears again.

Now they get to play the Broncos, the Broncos can't, aren't great against the run. I also, um, I have a stat for you. this is a nerd stat. maybe it's my nerd stat of the week.

Oh, I like that, I like that name. Should nerd stat of the week? Yeah, nerd, nerd stat of the week, dude, dude, dude.

Oh, I hate that. Oh yeah, that was bad. Uh, from from my, uh, guys at Sports Info Solutions, they have, like, all the all the charts and stuff. Uh, the Bron or the Lions play middle of the field, open defense, uh, six months in the NFL.

Russell Wilson is the third worst in the league. Against that, I can't throw over the middle, too.

Like, they're going to get home, they've, they've, they've not looked good. And I also, like, I know that Broncos are a really good story. It's incredible how they turn their season around. I still think there's a little bit of smoke and mirrors going on.

I like the lines, I think they're going to run the ball. I think Jameer Gibbs, I used to be big Jameer Gibbs game, yeah.

So um, since week six.

What week was that from? Uh, since week six, week six? So that's when they kind of turned it around, became these Broncos, not those Broncos. Uh, I do like the lines indoors. I think anytime you see your quarterback wearing two gloves when it's outside, yeah, you have that feeling. Like I don't think he's ready for this unless you're Teddy Bridgewater.

But, um, I do like the Lions at home in the Dome. I do think that the Broncos are still going to make the playoffs. Even if they lose this game, though. I think they're back if they, if they win this game. And I've been fucking around with the playoff machine on ESPN all week long. It's the best piece of technology that's ever been invented. And, uh, yeah, if they win this game, they are in the playoffs as of right now, which is crazy, crazy to think that about.

He did have the flu a couple of other games. They played DTR and smushed them, and they played Easton Stick and smushed them. So, but that's why I like, I think the Bronx is a great story, I just think.

The Broncos defense? I don't think that it's all luck. I think that they've actually turned it around. SEAN PAYTON Well, they got a year, yeah.

Comeback coach of the year, he might be.

Uh, all right, nerd nugget reminder.

Russell Wilson He played pregnant, that's that's really impressive, that's like Serena winning whatever.

Maybe I'm on the Broncos now, they've turned.

Yeah.

Let's show respect to the mother. What was that look?

So that was like, that was one of the first examples of us being so wrong that we're actually right about a take. When we said that being her, being pregnant was a competitive advantage. Because when a woman's pregnant, they don't menstruate anymore. So they hang onto all that blood, keep all that blood for themselves. And then actually a study came out, there was like, a a legitimate article that said that. Their red blood cell count increases when they're making oxygen travel around, like, more efficiently in the body. Um, I don't know if that has anything to do with the period or not, but we were, we were technically right about that.

Yeah.

Running back Jameer Gibbs and tight end Sam Laporta. Okay, uh, all right Sunday.

Hmm, I like, I like the bucs in this.

He broke his. Aaron Jones might be back, he could be back. Yeah, he could be back. A.J. Dylan's been pretty good.

Uh, and he has a pretty much broken thumb. Lafleur won't confirm or deny how broken his thumb is, meaning it's probably broken. Okay, that's why I took from that.

Uh, and Christian?

The Packers, the Bucs defense is pretty banged up. They've had a ton of injuries, I think some guys are coming back, but they've had a ton of injuries. And, uh, I think that there's something that LaFleur can do in the middle of the field, cause they've had a bunch of, uh, linebacker injuries.

I also think that the the weakness of the Green Bay defense is the run defense and the Bucs aren't the best running game. And then here's the here's the big one for me. I went back and I looked and I was like, let me just look at what the Bucs have been doing this season. Cause I know, you know, they started out hot and then they've cooled off so they have three wins outside of the NFC South.

Three wins outside of the NFC South, week one against the Vikings, you remember started what? Oh? and three on four, week two against the Bears.

That's September Bears, one of the worst teams ever, and Week nine against the Titans not exactly the best teams. No, so I don't know.

They that like, So this is going to tell us what Green Bay is, right? We'll tell us what Green Bay is, and I my. My guess is that Green Bay is better than the week one Vikings, a week two Bears and the Titans. Well, their defense stinks.

Yeah, they carved them up, I know they need, they need to put they. If the Packers are going to play well because they they had that two game stretch, or they were playing well for a while, but the Lions chief stretch, Yeah, I think that's right.

Was it Lion's chiefs? Back to back, they were getting the their defensive line was playing really well. Like the guys in the Kenny Clark, who I think Packers fans don't like, cause he's the classic all hype and then pay him a lot of money.

And then he'll have like a couple of really good games, then no show, a bunch of games, but that's going to be. The key. Is like, their, their defensive line has to get after Baker Mayfield. Cause you saw it on Monday night, Tommy DeVito Like they weren't doing anything.

Very sus.

Lafleur against bowls is another thing I'm thinking of. I think Lafleur is a much better coach. I would agree, much, much better coach, but I still, I could really do anything against bowls. I think I like Tampa Bay in this game. The Battle of the.

And then afterwards, Mike Sherman was like, that was bullshit. Warren Sapp just stood in the middle of the field but put a jersey on.

Let's never get to eight I had thought about.

Yeah, I think he might be. Yes, I think. I think there's not enough talk about Baker Mayfield being comeback player of the year, yes.

That's not happening.

But it's gotta be to a Russell Wilson, to a fingers. Yeah, it's harder to have.

It could be, but with with a player like Russell Wilson, you're just giving him comeback. Player of the.

Yeah, I agree. No, actually, we should give it to.

Okay, I'd actually say, missing the entire season because you got injured is the most human thing ever. Was he injured? Scenes? That was, I mean, he's, he's literally showing.

Yeah. Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield has played at Lambeau Field in each of the last two years, also both in December with the Browns on Christmas Day. In 2021, he lost, throwing four interceptions at the Rams last year.

He lost and was sacked five times. Yeah, unlike Lambeau, so that was.

Is it Greg Allman a U M N Is it Allman brother?

Owlman That's actually bird nugget of the week.

That'd be a good joke. Follow that away from loopy episode, loopy episode, folks, hank.

Dude, I was rock. What if you did an hour of just straight up? Like anyone here from Detroit, uh, anyone here from Sacramento, and just did every city in America? That's actually not a bad idea.

All right, no one from Sacramento cut this, let's try San Jose Albuquerque in the house. Uh, all right.

Next game bears at Browns. Um, I've dubbed this Gateway game, which makes me very nervous, cause I think I'm, oh, four in my life in Gateway games. And when I say Gateway game, it's not only a gateway game. For the Bears in like, what the rest of the? Because if they win this game, they have the Cardinals and the Falcons at home. And you can start thinking, Ooh, you know, they're, they're getting spicy.

It's also a gateway game for my happiness. I am very, very excited for this game. If the Bears win this game, I will be a very, very happy boy. Uh, it is a gateway game and again, my record in gateway games.

Oh, for lifetime.

The the. There's another guy that got banged up on the Browns defense.

Uh, I, I kind of liked the.

He gets a $75,000 bonus per win and then the playoffs. I think it goes to like a hundred thousand, two, 50,000, 500,000, and then I think it's $2 million if you want to make that a.

If the Browns win the Super Bowl, that would be a great.

We were in Aurora for a uh, deal with Penn, where we we did a watch party and we did a member, we did a promo. Uh. It was 1985 last time the Bears won the Super Bowl, I don't know if anyone knows that year.

Uh, we did a promo that if you bet $1 on the Bears against the Browns, uh, you would get $1,985.

And, uh, it was a promo that was like, I remember it was one of the first big promos to do with Penn. And they're like, if so many people have bet this, that if the bears cover like, we might all be out of jobs. It was the game that, uh, Justin Fields, I think, got sacked seven times. It was his first start and, uh, they scored six points and he looked absolutely miserable.

He was six for 20 for 68 yards. So yeah, this is they. The Bears had 47 total yards in that game. Um, so yeah, I'm I'm a little nervous about this game. I have that flying in my head. Like the last time I saw the Bears on this field, it was the worst game I've ever.

Then you get smoked. first round of the playoffs by the Eagles. Oh yeah, think about that. the Eagles can't run the ball in the Bears, you get smoked.

No chance you can run the ball and then Max gets the biggest revenge of his entire career on you. It wouldn't, so if that happens, I don't, actually.

It's house money and you would be like.

I still think it's on the table that I.

CoM Uh, the financial still makes sense to to start with a rookie and and build a defense and everything, so.

And the potential for disaster are is even higher. Yeah, I, I'd be.

Uh, nerd nugget.

Next game, a game that no one should bet, uh, but it's happening, cause no one knows what's going to happen. Uh, with all these injuries. Texans, the Titans is C.J.

Yup, uh, Neagle Collins probably out, I would assume I think so I'm.

Yes, okay, matchy playing, um, this is one of.

Yeah, yes, he tweeted that before me yesterday. Did he really? It's a good take, good take, Taylor.

Yeah, he did. It. Was that on the bus.

I mean, sometimes you got to take your hat off. And he also, though I felt bad for him because, uh, Titans fans, like, went like, jumped on his throat. Cause they're like, fuck that. Like, we know that they're not actually going to play for a jersey, we're just speaking in hypotheticals. So I back up Taylor in that.

No, that's Houston, those, and also you had so many iconic players that played in those uniforms in Houston. It feels like it should be Houston. The Texans should just like, fight.

We're the two where the Houston Bluegrass, yeah, the country boys from Texas. Uh, okay, nerd nugget.

Titans Running.

Three starters, right? Yeah, and the jets, or maybe the jets defense is good, very good, and I think they might be looking at this game.

So if you're the Jets and you've had a bad season, you've lost a lot of really shitty games where your offense could do shit. We've talked about how the defense at some point has to be like, I'm tired of this shit, I'm sick of this shit, I'm tired of this shit. Yep.

Uh, will you play against a good team that's got all the accolades and a team that people are talking about as being possibly Super Bowl contenders? I feel like that's a good natural shot in the arm for the Jets defense to go out there and have something to prove.

Maybe the play is actually Jets first half because the the they're going off of what Zach Wilson looked like in the second half last week. So they're like, Oh, he's going to be good. It might take a half for them to be like, No, he's still Zach Wilson, Zach Wilson again, yeah.

Uh, it might be.

If Jets win this, we're all the way back. I've created a path to the playoff for the Jets. The worst part about me asking memes this is that I'm laughing at them. But it's no different than when I talk about the bears. We're both five and eight. Yeah, the N.F.C. is more what Max.

Okay, so you're right. thank you Max. So I'm crazy.

I'm crazy we have, but there's a lot of six and seven teams. I'm crazy, but I'm not as crazy as memes. Thank you Max. Uh, memes give us the path.

So if one of the does any team have to get hit like, like, have a plane crash? No. I literally said that this afternoon. Good, good, good, good, all right.

So we went through all the iterations and it's like, and the cheese have to like all.

Okay, Lions beat the Broncos. okay, Vikings have to beat the Bangles, okay.

Bears have to beat the Browns. Wait, are we doing this for every week? Yeah, well, no, no, no, just week 15..

Okay, all right, play, what's in front of you? Titans beat the Texans, Cowboys beat the bills.

All right, send me that, cause I'll put it in as a parlay for you, okay? And then teams most likely to fuck up this path are the Bangles and the Jets.

I'm looking at that graph that I talked about.

Actually means you know what you should do. Just say, like, if the Jets make the playoffs and Aaron Rogers starts, you'll do Iowaska in. Okay, it is funny.

I just looked up the standings.

Next game up Uh oh, nerd nugget, this is the first time.

As as a Patriots fan on this podcast, I'm just going to say that that seems like fake news to me. It seems like a fake news. Media report from Tom Curren You know, the media has been out to get us since 2000, it feels like.

No, they hate us because they ain't us. No, hank, you're, you're doing fan fiction. They weren't right about that. Okay, Belichick didn't do anything wrong.

What, I can't believe that you're going against my patriots like this. So they were wrong about that. Then after that, there was the tuck rule, right? the tuck rule, everybody knows that was bullshit.

That was a great call by the refs after that. I don't fit at the Patriots. No, I'm just saying, but then people complained about the tuck rule and said, Oh, the Patriots are cheating again. I'm just saying, like, the news media has been against us for so long, like what you're saying right now. Everybody hated the Patriots after that call.

They thought that it was bullshit, it wasn't, it was a good rule. Was it after that call or after?

What's going on with that? Then there was messing with the injury report and like Brandon Spikes and being like, Oh, you guys are cheating that way. And then after that it was, Oh, you're fucking with. The in-game communications between Mike Tomlin and his players on the field, on the sideline, that was also fake, that was fake news.

Then there was deflate gate, oh, Tom Brady's cheating by deflating all these balls. Then there was, uh, Robert Kraft getting sucked off at the day spa. No jerked off allegedly.

Okay, there was mouth contact, it might've just been a tongue, but then that was a bunch of bullshit too. They were just coming at us for that. Then there was the fake lighthouse thing that everybody got upset about.

I don't care now.

And this is just a normal report that I would expect.

Yeah, that's our guy, that's what Jerry would do, That's our guy, that's Robert Kraft, Mr.

Positions. That's what Jerry would do. That's just a sign of a great owner. Yeah, that's true, your guy, Jerry.

He definitely would. No, Jerry would go anal. Yeah, for sure, he goes anal, he wouldn't get the massage.

But yeah, the report that came out on Tuesday night was that Patriots expected to move on from Belichick that had been reported or had been discussed. After the Germany game. We all remember that one where Mac Jones threw like the worst interception of all time, and yeah, Mr. Kraft was embarrassed.

Belichick said Okay, well, then then we're done here.

Do you believe it? No, as a Patriots fan, there's no chance, zero, zero percent chance. I don't think Belichick would leave.

I think the Patriots might win this game. Spoiler spoiler spoiler for the Chiefs. And then, oh, it'd be kind of crazy, too.

That was Goodell Goodell night, the Kiel Harry. that was Monday night game. the Kiel Harry was recently the I believe that was the night everyone had the Goodell towels.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that was when Dave cried, and Fidelberg was like, Enjoy your heirlooms, or?

BFT knows all that. Yeah, yeah, this is like, I've lived, and.

We win.

I think the Chiefs are going to win this game. Because that Patriots Steelers game, like Bailey Zappi, was incredible for two quarters and then they went right back to the Patriots offense. Not good, they just built up a big enough lead.

Right, so okay, but we forget that we're like, Bailey Zappi played good last year, yeah, right.

So I I think this is like everyone in the Chiefs, you know, locker rooms like this. We have to win this game easily because we this is time, it's time. How sick would it be if Travis Kelsey did the lateral again?

That's a highlight.

They should, Yeah, they should.

Yeah, they'll lose close. Oh see, hungry dog, hungry dogs for winners. Oh, okay.