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Maybe, and we don't know what's going to happen by tomorrow. But I am again tracking Arthur Blank's private jet. It's landing in Boston, Massachusetts, right now. Oh, Belichick.

The time this comes out, I would say, you want to break the news, hank, you want to say it.

No, oh, okay, could have been the first. Give it to Leroy, yeah.

Yeah, Mike McCarthy, though, staying. Did you just kill my dog?

No, oh yeah, you killed Blake. I was remembering, What are you, Max? Yeah, I guess I might have.

My bad, let's go team by team. Mike McCarthy is staying. Yes, and you actually saw a bunch people.

To be Jerry Jones still wanted Mike McCarthy. Jerry Jones fell all over himself, fell all over himself to rehire Mike McCarthy for another year.

Yeah, so Mike McCarthy is a good coach in the relative term that, like, what three straight years, 12 and five, he obviously has a Superbowl. People were doing the resume thing where it's like, Yeah, why wouldn't you fire Mike McCarthy like he, you know? Or you got to keep a guy like that around because he's he's done good things in Dallas.

Mahomes is showing up in Dallas. You have dak, Yeah, Dak is actually like, kind of like McNabb in.

That sense, right, where he's like a good quarterback, right? But it's like these two guys together in the pressure situations. Will it, will it falter?

Many men, I'm going to be like, Damn, that was bad-ass. Yeah, it is. It gets your blood going and you see a player. Did you watch it?

More hobbies and become even the busier cat in Texas. He's already the busiest. Yeah, start.

Learning how to do a Rubik's cube? Yeah, start learning a card tricks. I'm happy because it.

Gives us one more chance to bet against Mike McCarthy in the playoffs. Yeah, it's good. So just put a reminder in Jake, we'll just do that and we'll be happy. And then next year he'll probably be fired.

Everything, I'm not sure. I like this new, kinder, gentler. JeRry JoNes Yeah, like being so accepting.

Although, although he kept Jason Garrett around for a very long time, sometimes I think he likes.

To do that, to torture them, right? It's like, working for me is more of a punishment than me.

Firing you, yeah. How long was Jason Garrett the coach for the Cowboys? Because you think of Jerry Jones, you think of the like Jimmy Johnson, we got to move on, like.

Years, 10 years, 10 years, so that's 20 software updates, eight years too many. Yeah, like that.

So he's kind of interim in 2010 and then 11 through 19, nine years. How do you feel, Hank?

As a Cowboys fan, I don't know how people can support this team. I don't know how you can, you know, have the regular students they've had and the playoff performances they've had. Capped off by one of the stinkiest stinkers ever thrown in the history of football. Like that was as bad a performance as you can imagine. That everyone was leaving, you know, with maybe 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, like maybe even before, it was never close. And it's just like, how do you root for them? In the regular season, knowing that, like you have to win in the playoffs and regular season, success means nothing?

I'm done with the Cowboys, so you lost the fan today? You're asking like, how can they keep this guy around if he's not about, like, what Cowboys football should be about, which is winning playoff games? Jason Garrett was two and three in the playoffs.

How can you, as an owner, watch that performance and be like, we're right there? Maybe he's just.

Yeah, maybe Jerry's just like getting old, and he's you get older. You just don't want to have to deal with. Like interviewing new people and talking, learning someone's new name.

There's so many coaches out there you might be getting too much perspective on the world. I was to get older. You're like, you start to realize what's important, that's interpersonal relationships, friendships, what you're going to leave behind as your legacy.

It is pretty shocking if you had asked us on Sunday or no, uh, Tuesday. After the Cowboys, or after the divisional round or the wildcard round was over, would the Steelers, Eagles and Cowboys all keep, keep their coaches? No chance. You said, yes, one of the three would have been.

Gone, yeah, especially considering this is the best free agent coaching class maybe ever, yeah.

So Mike McCarthy stays in Dallas, Mike Tomlin staying in Pittsburgh. He said. He's going to bring in quarterback competition, he's going to change some things or and get a new offensive coordinator. Uh, he's also Mike Tomlin. I feel like the way the Steelers operate. Um, he was on the hot seat for like, one single day because now he's back and he probably will sign an extension.

This summer, yeah. And it turns out that Mike Tomlin was just upset about the loss, right? So when he was asked the question, he just didn't want to address that.

Quarterback Which is hard to do. Yeah. And and we also do have to take a step back. Because, um, we root for bad franchises, the coaching carousel, the revolving door, is always going. Um, it probably is correct for some of these franchises. Specifically the steelers, where it's like, yeah, they have a way and they're going to keep doing their way. And over time, it has worked. And like, Yeah, our reaction is different than how the steelers operate, which is probably a.

Good thing because we're very dumb. Yeah, when something goes bad with our teams, it never gets fixed. No, the instant fix button is fired, the coach.

It's not getting any better, right? And we're talking about three playoff teams. Yeah, so.

It might get better in Pittsburgh, it might get better in Dallas, might get better in Philadelphia.

Maybe, maybe so that's the last one. Nick Sirianni Possibly stay Max.

NICK SIRIANNI Like, bring me a list, a presentation of guys that you think will make you suck less. As a head coach, I actually think it's something different, I.

Think it's give me a list of guys who still think that you're good. Because if you're going to be an offensive or defensive coordinator for the Eagles, you're tying your your future to Nick Sirianni. So it's a kind of a up test where it's like, how good of the coaches think that you're still good.

You know, it's, it's genius. Can you get anybody? Would the entire coaching staff be better with you, or would it be better with a new guy that's bringing in his guy, right? Like, if, if, if, Nick?

Sirianni comes to to the owner and and Howie Rosen with the names like Luke Getsy and Matt Patricia. Yeah, and they're like, Wait, what isn't that showing that you don't have that much?

Faith in your head coach, though, saying like, we don't, we don't really trust you. Show us the guys that you can bring in, that will fix you, yeah.

People in the NFL still think that you're good. That's the list. Because if if Nick Sirianni calls you up, you're making the calculation, like, is this guy dead already? Should I, should I hitch my wagon to him? I like this move.

Is, Well, I mean, it's also a roster, like, what do you mean? Like Curt? Like Cliff? Kingsbury is looking at the Bears because Caleb Williams is coming in, right?

Love this job because of that personnel, but it's always a nerve wracking thing. If you're a coordinator. To be like, am I stepping into a job that I will be gone from in a year?

No matter what happens, yeah, yes, but I think that has just as much to do with the personnel.

That it does, you know, what I would do if I were Nick Sirianni? I would put down a list of guys. The top guys out there, like Ben Johnson, told me that he would leave the Lions to come here as an offensive coordinator. I was wondering and then hope that they don't call those references.

Can he go to like those people have to be in to come if he comes with that name, ideally.

You would want guys that are currently employed. No, it has to be, it has to be a list of names that Nick Sirianni has actually talked to to say that there would be interested in coming.

I don't want to hear interested, like, they're coming, like, if, if, if I. If he goes to Laurie and puts those names down, he's not allowed to. He's not allowed to be like, all right, you keep your job and then him to go back to Laurie and be like, Oh, nevermind, doesn't want.

To come anymore, it would have to be guys that are like quarterbacks, coaches, cause I don't think you could talk to an offensive coordinator that's currently under contract. Play callers.

Yeah, like play callers, because Brian Johnson's a good quarterback coach.

Not a good play caller, just get big Dom to run the defense. So do you think that he's going to?

Get fired.

Think it's for you, I think you guys, cause you said you weren't going to watch an easy must fire.

Can't keep? Oh, good question, Hank. Um, I wait. there's too many, too many questions. Must fire? Can't keep?

Keep It's a very important question that you have to answer. Yes, it is must fire can't keep. Which one is it?

Know, but I? But no, no, no, no, no, because obviously I'm like, if he comes with some exciting coordinator, he's back in exciting coordinator names like coordinator Merchant.

Yeah, he needs, he needs to find, like, the best coordinators. I just think he's so corny, like, right? And so, if this is an office space and you're sitting down in the office, you say, Nick, what? what would you say? It is you do here all day? Does he, just like, leaf through?

Motivational book No. He probably would say, What do you? What do you think Rocky did all day?

I, I want that up the step, I want that there to be a press conference he's going to bring.

Like a frozen meat truck into training camp next year. Be like, beat the fuck out of these ribs.

Yeah, here's a log, but pretend we're fighting the Russians. The the vets seemed like they.

They backed them. So, I mean, who's that? Jalen hurts? Jalen hurts? Has not really.

But like Fletcher, Cox, like Ryder, who's the most important person going forward on the Eagles?

Jalen hurts, for sure. Fletcher Cox, I think he said, That's a clown question, bro, right, he?

Pulled the Bryce Harper on him? Something like that? Yeah, Jason Kelsey also was. Well, he's not.

Going to be on the team anymore, he might be, he doesn't really care, he'll probably be in like.

You know, he'll probably be in the front office or something, he'll be, he'll be attached, he.

Pulled a great move yesterday. If you guys are going through McDonald's drive-thru, I would take Kelsey as my head coach. He gave an autographed jersey to his favorite drive-thru worker. How?

How mad would you guys be if you were retiring and didn't get to reveal it on the podcast?

Well, he did, he's going to, he said. He's not retiring yet, he hasn't made the decision. But that was a Yeah, it's because he wants to do it on the podcast. We would never save.

Something for the podcast? I respect that, I respect that game. Oh, of course, yeah.

A day one podcast guy move Yeah, it's still upsetting. You wait to announce your girlfriend on the podcast, you break up with your coach on the podcast, that sort of thing.

The head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles Oh, okay, yeah, I like that leader of men.

Leader of Men Leader of Men Pete Briscoe has completely changed Max's outlook. He's just he's just been walking around, being like, we need a leader of men. I love that you had the.

The wrongest guy on the show this year? And you're like, Yeah, you know what he's right about that.

No something about those words. I'm like, you know, what is it? The leader, leader of men?

Is it the men that you like? I like the men. Nick Sirianni might actually be a perfect college.

Coach his corny shit would work, yeah, cause those guys can leave after a couple of years.

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Okay, yeah, this is the game big time narrative, right?

Specific game I understand that, you know, Lamar needs to win a Super Bowl to get in that next level, but this specific game. Because, you know, if you play the Bills or Chiefs next round, that's a coin flip game, anything can happen. You're a 10 point favorite, nine and a half point favorite at home against the Houston Texans. Rookie head coach, rookie QB. You have to win this game if you're the.

Baltimore Ravens Yeah, I said that I was going to stop doubting C.J. Stroud. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not going to doubt C.J. Stroud until he gives me a reason to. So, um, I I think.

Been biohacking with the trip to London? Maybe he biohacked this week, I don't know how biohacked the two weeks in a row. I don't know how he would do it, but maybe he did it.

To doubt. C.J. Stroud Uh, so I'm not going to, Uh, we've got D'Amico Ryan's and there was a clip of him. Did you see the clip from the Browns game? Where he was talking to his linebacker? And he was saying, Hey, the quarterback, when he moves to this side, slide right in front of his receiver, yeah. And then there was a clip that they edited in of of D'Amico back when he played undercutting his guy against Joe Flacco.

I am going to doubt them, well, I'm not going to doubt C.J. Stroud, but I'm going to more. Stamp and approval of the Baltimore Ravens and the style of football they play and their entire team. Cause it's not, you know, Lamar has receivers. Now, Mark Andrews is going to be back.

Watch out playoff Dalvin. Yeah, playoff D is back.

He practiced questionable, but it likely has been great. So, you know, it might be. We're going to wait another week with Mark Andrews. The Ravens defense, though, is what I'm betting on in this game. And, uh, I'll read you a quote from Patrick Queen, and I'll then tell the context behind it.

Going to kick the shit out of them. Do you think that I would not say that the Texans offense is?

Candy ass or gimmicky, it's not, but there's some concepts that are the same. And I think that the Ravens defense what they can do to confuse people. You know they have they, they move safeties around, you know, they get pressure with four, they get pressure with blitzes. I just I think the Ravens defense is a Ravens defense statement game. Take Lamar out of it.

Rooting the hardest for the Texas this weekend. The S2 Cognition Test. People, yes, the ones that said that C.J. Stroud couldn't process things quickly, yes.

It's I just think that this defense is going to. I think they're going to swarm them, I think they're going to confuse them. I think they're going to do a lot of stuff that. Like, again, this is like, the Texas have been incredible and C.J. Stroud is incredible. I've said at many times, I mean, best rookie season ever.

Baltimore, Uh, 27 as the high, and it's going to be winds of up to 17 miles per hour. Run the football, Lamar's going to run a lot. Also might fuck with the Texans kicking game because everyone always talks about three or not three rivers. But Heinz Field, whatever it's called now being the hardest place to kick, Baltimore, very, very hard to kick to unless you kicked.

There all the time. Yeah, yeah, um, anyone else like anything in this game? Lamar over.

Russian I like that, I like, uh. Odell, over 50 receiving yards is paying out two to one because their Stingley is going to probably match up against Safe Flowers. And last week, the Browns, I think they, uh, they stayed away from, uh, their number one receiver, Cooper, I think 80 of the time. So I like, I like the balls going to Odell this weekend.

Yeah, uh, all right. Do you have nerd nuggets? I do great for the Houston Texans last week.

Quarterback C.J. Stroud passed Justin Herbert for the second most passing yards. Oh oh, for the second most passing yards ever by a rookie, including post-season. Stroud now only trails Andrew Luck for the record and can break it by throwing for 303 yards on Saturday. Okay, meanwhile, for the Ravens, do do, do do nerd nugget of the week.

Five years as N.F.L. head coaches, that's pretty cool. Good for the Harbaugh's. Yeah, Jim did it in his first three.

Respected mind that I take a lot of info from, said that playing in a dome versus playing outside, different game, different game. A hundred percent. That was Benjamin Mintz.

It's fact, it's fact, it is fact. There was, I think, they asked Todd Bowles that this weekend about going up to Detroit. They're like, How are you preparing for the weather?

Well, it's inside. And then, of course, like every story that ever happens online, then we had a bunch of people being like, it's fucked up. People are making fun of this reporter, she probably isn't covering this. Be just shut up.

Lines were playing outside. Leave it, that's it. I think we can laugh about that, yeah.

It's okay, we can just have a moment and then move on. No one's crucifying her, no one's saying anything bad, just it was a funny moment.

They're pretty good, niners are also pretty good. So the Packers game against the, Uh, the Cowboys was very similar to the 49ers game again, also against the Cowboys, correct?

Nightmare for Green Bay. I also think the bigger difference between the Cowboys and the 49ers when playing against the Packers is the Cowboys couldn't run the ball all year. And like, they just couldn't they. Tony Pollard had a disappointing year. They were never able to get a good ground game. Guess what the 49ers can do?

Did you know the history between Lafleur? And you have Sean McVay, who was, I guess, kind of referring to Lafleur as his older brother, even though Sean McVay was his boss? Back in 2017, when they were on the Rams, they got into a fight after practice. I think there were 10 and one at the time. They got into a fight, spilled over into the coach's office, they started screaming at each other.

WeeK Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan? Uh, this was Sean McVay and Matt Lafleur and Matt Lafleur.

Yeah, but what I'm saying is like, they've got. We're going to get the fucking graphic this weekend of the Kyle Shanahan coaching for you, which has somehow crept to include Chris Forrester, the offensive line coach in San Francisco. He's the yeah, Chris Forrester was the guy that snorted all that coke on that video, and then he's been rock dudes.

All the time, and I hate it. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's. It's haunting for you. I understand, because they really just show it all the time, yeah.

Packers I am going to take the niners on this. Okay, yeah, yeah.

Like the Niners do have the Packers number, they've beaten them, I think, three times in the playoffs in the last four or five years. Yeah, great, they're, they're my Lord and savior.

You know, lean on people. If they play with a lead, I think they can win. But their run defense has really good stats this year. That's only because they always play with the lead, right? So teams only get. Aaron Jones is good.

Alexander going to play, he's doubtful, I saw, so we don't know, yeah.

After last week's humongous performance three touchdowns, Packers running back Aaron Jones is now the franchise leader in rushing touchdowns in the post-season. With seven of them. He's also now tied with Devonta Adams with eight total post-season touchdowns. And one more on Saturday night would put him at number two in franchise history. That's surprising to me that that he's.

Their franchise leader with seven. You said, rushing, yeah, in rushing touchdowns, considering how many times I've been to the playoffs. But they always had, like, a revolving Eddie Lacey.

Guys, Eddie Lacey China China food.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah, oh, we couldn't. yeah, go ahead.

Season start to finish. Did you know that? He also finished with 2023 all purpose yards, and he's the first player to ever finish with the same number of yards as the year. You're joking, I swear to God.

The stat of the year, I think it's Saturday, the year of the year, the year, the other three.

Running backs to lead after each week Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton and O.J. Simpson. Oh, okay.

MurD Nugget of the Week Yeah, good company, minus one. Uh, okay.

It would be very sad, it'd be heartbreaking, yeah, especially if the Packers win. And then you could have, you could have hosted the NFC Championship game.

Of Moon. I'm rooting for the Lions to beat the box, but I'm nervous that the way the lines play football with their secondary, it feels like every team can always get back in the game.

Can I give you a an addition that they're making this week that you might not be thinking about? Okay, James Houston Oh, James Houston was very good when he was playing last year. Uh, he's been injured.

For everyone out there, uh, from my guys at Sports Info Solutions. The Lions defense allowed, uh, the third most completions and fourth most yards to the slot receiver position. Okay, Chris Godwin, maybe look at him, okay?

I don't know about the six and a half, maybe Lions first half, take that bet, yeah.

I don't hate that. Probably a winning bet of arrest advantage for the Lions. They get an extra day and they don't have to travel. Yeah, hmm.

You know, for the for the uninformed. My original Cowboys fandom came from a future. My Future is a season War. The Dolphins and the Cowboys. Those are my regular season futures that.

I had was fraudulent teams in the world. But wait, you, you rooted for the Cowboys last season?

Because of the future, that's how this whole thing started, which is how I preface this.

Cause, remember he last year he put a future on on the Cowboys, cause he was like Tom Brady is.

Washed. So the Cowboys are going to beat him. Nope, that was not true, I put it long before the playoff matchup.

Been thinking about that. I want both those teams to win somehow, but I don't think I want to see.

Them play each other. But again, remember, we would get to dunk on everyone for the I know there's, there's that factor to it. Yeah, like we had, we had the Superbowl before, everyone else, yeah.

With, Uh, Ed and Alicia Detroit Don super fan, that would be, that would be, we wouldn't even.

Have to get guests with Superbowl and sprinkles four of them together. Yeah, now here's something I've been tossing around and I don't want to get ahead of myself. But if the Lions somehow win this game and then they go to San Francisco, so let's assume that the Niners win the lines. When we're just again, nothing set, just hypothetical.

Their reaction? We'll be with a delay, with a delay. Do you think I feel like they probably have a bar that they go to every weekend for every game? No, they strike me as a living room.

Set up guys. So I wouldn't want to mess with it, I would offer it, but I would not want to mess.

With it, also with those guys, it's like, what's in it for them? I mean, it'd be great stream.

Content But this is how many runs do you get? It actually would be mean, cause you'd have to like, Yeah, you're right, you're right. I w. I want to be with them.

Mincy to do some field reporting with them in Detroit. You want to get their reactions, but they should be in there, they should be allowed to be in their element. All right, I'm.

Happy we talked it out. You're absolutely right. Yeah, cause if they were on the live stream.

Chances are, I mean, the 49ers would be favored by quite a bit that weekend. So you likely to be inviting them to broadcast and live stream their own funeral. Which people?

Love to see Max, he's died about a hundred times. Yeah, he's a star, I love it.

Yeah, who are you rooting for in the playoffs, Max?

Um, I'm Lions all the way. Yeah, Corey has also asked me to not do that. No, the opposite, he wants me to be like his emotional support.

No, I said, I, I, I have one for you. I thought he's dressed up as a lion. I have a jumpsuit.

You can wear on Sunday. I don't, I don't like this, I don't like this at all. Why are we trying?

To beat you like respect, like, you know they're the better team, I want the team that beat us.

There's a real fuckload of Lions fans out there that are like, keep Max away from our team. The real thing, Dan Campbell said. He doesn't want you what he's.

But I'm not like a real fan, I. The real thing is, I need the Niners to lose and there's no way.

The Bucks can beat the niners. I really need the niners. Oh, I know, I really need the niners to lose. This is great.

Yes, like, if brock, if brock, Purdy has a minor injury, right? Let's say there's something small happens minor ankle injury. Can't play in most of the game and the 49ers beat the fuck out of the Packers.

Without Brock Purdy, that would be good for me. Yeah, that'd be good for him, cause he would be.

Like, we were that good, yeah, then they would be like, all right, what's your argument, what's?

Your argument last year, if you just did it this year, I just thought, I, I go back to saying you.

Should not root for the Lions. No, he needs. We need the 49ers to win and and win big, and so that way we can be like, retroactively, the 49ers should have been in the Super Bowl against the.

Chiefs got it, yeah, stay away, stay far away.

From your children, you guys gave me life. I love this, I'm I, I'm going to be Niner's Dan.

Should have been back to back champs. You said we, you, you. We haven't played the interview yet, but you said we should be supporting our boys in 2024. You never support your boys, we don't.

Want you supporting our boys? Yeah, well, Joe Flacco is our boy, you're not our boy. And also rooting for the Eagles last year.

The interview There's a lot of South Philly guys around Flacco that doubt them. We need you to also doubt people to give them motivation. Yeah, have you ever thought about that? Maybe you're just such a powerful force that having you root against somebody gives them so much to overcome.

See this angle with the Niners, and now that he said it out loud, it's fucking on the Niners.

Are a wagon and that'd be a double win for you because max the Packers losing. Oh yeah, well.

It's already rooting for the Niners, but I'm saying like, I'm rooting for them to get to the Superbowl now. Because I want, I want it to be erased. That's double misery, we need to make it. He's going to deal with 49ers fans being like you never would have beaten us.

So that, uh, when the Niners eventually win, they use Max in their in their postgame. You like to?

Do with Floria. Yes, yes, yes. And if he doesn't say anything, we can just do the AI.

Max So you're saying that if the Niners play the Lions in the in the conference Championship?

You're going to be rooting for the Niners, I'm saying that I don't want you rooting for.

Either team, in that case, I'll be rooting for whichever team wins. I'm rooting for the Lions, I'm rooting for whichever team ends up winning that way.

Winner We're going to root the, uh, the over on that game. well, we're going to root for our.

Personal friends to just crush it have the games of their lives. Uh, all right, wait.

Did we do Nerd Nugget? Not only have the Buccaneers won a bunch of playoff games since 2020, but Tampa Bay has won a good chunk of them with some breathing room. They're, plus, 64 playoff points margins since 2020 is the best in the NFL. And we're not going to talk about who was responsible for that.

Stadium and look, what happened, right? The Bucs, the Bucs are different, they're different. I don't hate the Bucs.

No, he was in Cleveland. They, they, they pulled a come back. It might be a stretch.

They pulled a philly on them, they ran them out of town. Yeah, also, they just won by 23, that's plus 23 with Baker.

Their first season? Great player, great player. I would never let him walk out that door, nope.

The run Nope, uh, all right. Last game. Chiefs of Bills.

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All right, chiefs of Bills. I don't know if I'm emotionally ready for this game. Oh, I am. I'm very ready for this game.

So, um, Taylor is going to the game, I heard, and she better be careful every time you say.

That I'm like Taylor one, and then I remember that, oh yeah, that singer, whatever her name is.

Yeah, uh, Taylor, um, swift. Oh, I recommended wig nuts to her. Haven't heard back, yeah.

That would be sick if they lit her on fire and she broke a table she's been so like.

You know, uptight, proper little miss Hollywood for the longest time. She's going to see some real men in Buffalo. It's going to be like, I didn't know that, I know this was even an option.

Some beefy men with a with a Buffalo wing hat on. It'd be, Oh, it'd be great if she over.

If she did go to the Pinto Ron tailgate and she just got browsers with ketchup and mustard, yes, right to the face. I'm looking out for that. I'm a race. Buffalo Taylor on the field.

Of these calls do a good job of getting, selling them, they both do a good job. Yeah, well, yeah.

They're very good at at making sure the ref see roughing the passers. I feel like Sean Hockley.

Is going to have a legacy day. Yeah, I, uh. So I'm very nervous for this game for the Bills. Their defensive injuries have been insane. I've they're so bad. I've started following this account called Banged up Bills, which it could be like a porn site, maybe being up bills.

Against the spread in his career, I would imagine that most of the games he's been underdogs. It's only by a couple of points, though. Yeah, but yeah.

To go to our friend Hank here because he can probably speak to this. Um, if Patrick Holmes wins this game, it doesn't feel like this is the part of the brady legacy that he's doing. Where it's like, there's some really great quarterbacks that just can't get through Patrick Mahomes.

Yeah, on the road to, that's been a common, you know, the knock. You can't win on the road or they don't go on the road. I can't win on the road. I like that.

Game we will say he can't win on the road, but it would be a double whammy, right? Cause it's like, you know, you think, like Phil Rivers, Big Ben, Peyton Manning, like these guys who probably would have had multiple super. I mean, Peyton Manning obviously has multiple Super Bowls. One, the second. With the Broncos, Big Ben has to fill. Rivers has zero. Like they would have had more if Tom Brady wasn't sitting there in the AFC every single year.

Snatching super bowls from them? Peyton couldn't until he did, yeah, and then he could, I feel.

Like, that's what's going to happen. I hope, I hope you're. I mean, I'm rooting, I'm root my dick off for the bills. Uh, but I, I. I'm very nervous for this game, for the bills, just cause they're defensive injuries.

Uh, Jordan Poyer, or should I say his actual name, which is a DJ Polio? Oh, have you heard? I can't believe we didn't talk about this when the story came out, like a month ago. JorDAN Poyer He, uh, he went to, I think, Costa Rica. About a year ago did Ayahuasca, and he changed his personality to no longer being Jordan Poyer. It's DJ Polio. Oh, I liked that.

Polio DJ Polio Polio told Jordan Poyer Like, good job with the wife. Yeah, he did, yeah.

Also, you need to change some things in life. But, uh, stick with Rachel, Rachel Bushes. Yeah, you did a good job, nice work, yeah.

It's love, uh, yeah, they do have a poyer, and, uh, what's the name line? They're two safeties, uh, fuck.

Would you play? Yeah, yeah, I'd walk that shit off. I don't know of the guys I listed.

Like, maybe two will play there, one of them, um, has a concussion, so I feel like concussion. I feel like, uh, for some reason, the science and concussions, the the protocol, and coming back from concussions. It becomes lesser amount of days as you get to the playoffs, it's, yeah.

It was something about science. It was like 10 or 20 in the regular season. But the cold weather sets in. You know, cold is an anti-inflammatory, right? So your brain in the cold, is it actually?

Recovers much quicker. That's a fact, that's a fact. All right, Jake Sunday will mark Chiefs.

Patrick Mahomes his first ever road playoff game. In six seasons. He's played 13 playoff games at Arrowhead and he's 11 and two. The former Texas Tech quarterback has only worn a white jersey one time in his post-season career. It was last year in the Superbowl against the Eagles.

The Superbowl and Phoenix. I'm just saying, Is he an arrowhead merchant? That's what we will be.

Saying about him after this game, Yeah. And then for the Bills Elite protection for Josh Allen. The Bills allowed 24 sacks this season, the fewest in the NFL, and four fewer than the Chiefs, who are next on the list.

Their 2011 team, What's the Lake doing this weekend? Do we know? I think they dumped more snow, uh, like this week, middle of the week. Who Darpa?

The lake did, the lake did. It's a great lake. yeah, the lake.

Park weather Uh, for Sunday, it's going to be a low of 15.

Handoff to early spring can be increasingly above average temperatures for many. Who? I cause, I just went to Weather.com. That's good. Oh, for us, yeah.

We had El Nino, I didn't know it was El Nino rocking with El Nino this year, Oh.

Warmer than average temperatures developed deeper into the new season. Okay, okay, uh.

We ever find out if that video from last week at Arrowhead was real or fake. The one where they they had the bottle of water that instantly froze. Uh, I think it might've been real there.

Was like, 10 people that went to the hospital for hyperthermia. That kind of rocks, yeah, I hope.

They had a special wing in the hospital and, like red and yellow, decked out for them especially.

Rocks. If it was any of the guys with their shirts off, yeah, that's just like real meta genius shit, yup.

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Joe Flacco.

Yes, it was 39.

1985 guys as well. Yep, so there we go. Yeah, so we're, we're. We're turning 39 at the end.

Of the month How's 39 feel? I'm scared to get there, I wouldn't be. It's all good, man, you know, the older we get, and you know, the better it is.

Every day. So I'm hoping that once I turned 39, I'll just magically be better, well, eventually.

When the older you get, if you feel like, shit, you're just supposed to, so you know, it starts.

To match up, Yeah, so I was reading, actually before he came on, Um, I saw an article back from 2021. I think about how your kids used to give you shit after Jets games because you were losing. And they'd be like, Dad, you stink, you can't play quarterback. I'm curious to know, were your kids watching the Browns this year?

Were they a little bit nicer to you after games?

Though you got just a group of haters in your house, keep you motivated. Listen, true, true.

South Jersey slash Philadelphia. Uh, born kids, that's for sure. uh, just natural born haters.

Yeah, all right, so so obviously, uh, the playoffs didn't go your guy's way. How are you feeling, though, like we? It was an awesome run.

Honestly, man, that's the last thing I want to do is be doing interviews to get myself behind the camera. So, uh, I'm going to try to do this as long as possible and and diminish those possibilities as much as I can. Um, but yeah, I mean, of course, uh, I think anytime you have a a, a two month, um, you know, period, where you're able to play a lot of football and just, you know, have a ton of fun doing it. I just how lucky was I to just get on a team that was ready to make a run like that and just be around a bunch of great guys. Be back into the locker room.

You made a lot of GMs look stupid this year because this was the year where a lot of quarterbacks got hurt and we saw a lot of guys get their shot. And then you show up and it's like, Wait, yeah, Joe Flacco is really goddamn good, like, why? why wasn't Joe Flacco getting the call?

Yeah, it's, it's, it's tough, you know? I think when you're around the league, you see a bunch of things happen and not everything makes sense. Some things do, it just is what it is. You have to be able to keep your head up and go with the flow to a certain extent. Um, you know, listen, I honestly. For me, it's tough to think about the calls that I didn't get. Because I did end up getting one and it ended up being a really good one.

Lucky enough to be put in that situation. So what is it exactly about Cleveland that made it such a?

Good fit for you, I'll tell you what, man, that city? Um, it's interesting. Um, I don't know why it ends up being a fit the way it was, but it's, it's, it's obvious. You can, you can kind of figure out why you fit in the locker room and with the coaches. Because you're around those guys every single day and it's just awesome to, kind of, you know, make those new friends and make those relationships.

Did you feel a little bit weird playing for the Browns, playing for a division rival, the Ravens? Like when you went into the facility the first time, you had to be like, Am I, am I a traitor?

Oh man, uh, what a way to put it. Uh, am I a traitor? Um, you know what I think?

Work out, yeah, the um. So I want to take it back a little bit because you're an all-time confidence guy. Even this year. Like the stories about how you know you're out of the league, but you're still practicing, you're still, you're going out with your family. Uh, throwing balls. You, you know, the the famous story about betting on yourself and the year you win the Superbowl free agency all-time confidence guy.

Maybe I should just play baseball. Is that true? Uh, I always, as with every story, there's like truths in this in the story. Um, by the end of my junior year, I mean, no, I didn't want to quit football, um, the first year, I had a Delaware. But when I was looking at colleges, coming out of high school, playing baseball at some point was something that I had entertained. And at least wanted to leave the option open to whether I could have played college baseball or not.

You're at Delaware and people are like, Hey, you're going to get drafted? at what point? were you? like, Wait, I actually am going to get drafted in pretty high. I mean, being a first rounder like, cause I would imagine the process of transferring being it. Like you said, one double A, you're thinking, like, all right, maybe I'll get drafted like late in the draft and have a shot.

That's the thought process is when I go, like, okay, when you come out of high school and when you're a little kid like, man, I want to be a first round pick, I want to do this. And then you're transferring down a level and you're like, all right, I'm going to have to, like, you know, get picked late. Maybe if I play well here, maybe I'll be a free agent and like, after seeing how all that works, I mean, that's a tough path, especially even if that is the even. If that does happen and you do find yourself, you know, in a mini camp or whatever it is, that's a tough path.

I you never really know. Yeah, it ended up being the perfect fit with the Ravens. I heard that they loved you because of your arm and your ability to play in adverse weather conditions. Which you have to do, you know, certainly in that division, so you get to the team. And, uh, I don't know if you have a chip on your shoulder or what your motivation is at that point. But when did you first realize, like, Yeah, I belong here?

Things like every time you go up a level, there's a little bit of time where you have enough, you have your your. There's uncomfortable, you're uncomfortable, and I think that's necessary. To get to that next level, you have to be able to deal with that uncomfort and like, you know, not being comfortable. And I think it makes you better when you kind of can go through that and get and get to that next level. So by the time you're a fifth year senior or whatever you are, you're the guy in college, you're feeling good.

You know, became real. Yeah, what about meeting Ray Lewis for the first time? Was that intimidating?

Oh my God, I tapped him on the shoulder. I I think I was in the hot tub maybe the first time, and I just remember watching him walk by. I didn't say shit.

Ravens teams were interesting because you were obviously the leader of the offense, but you're more of a reserve guy. You're more low key, you kind of, you never get too high, never get too low. And Ray is probably the most intense person to ever be created on planet Earth.

Dude, it's incredible, everything that he did was just incredible and it's so funny. Because, like, I think a lot of people see the the the leaders that were on that team and they know me and they're like, and they kind of there's. There's a little bit of a push for people to try to, like, get me to be like that. And it's like, dude, like the guys that are like Ray Lewis, they respect people for being themselves like.

Yeah, it was iconic, it was iconic. All right, I have a dumb question for you.

You're like, Wow, I'm, I can throw it, you know? It's funny, cause people have been asking me these questions recently. I think everybody at some point has a throw where they were like, Uh, you know, you come to the sideline and you say to the other quarterback, Oh man, you know, I don't know. I felt pretty good about that one.

That's awesome. I mean, that was, yeah, your dad got to see the first Joe Flacco throw.

Like that guy, that kid can, he's going, He's probably a little upset, he's like.

He's better than I am. Yeah, I mean, that was a little bit like, for sure, I'm a father now.

Have you have your kids ever? have your kids done a flacco throw yet where you're like, Oh?

I see that, uh, my oldest son is getting better and better at throwing the ball. My second son is very natural at at throwing the ball. Uh, he's obsessed with wide receivers, they're, they're all obsessed with wide receivers.

I think he's just too natural of a thrower. Oh man, another line of flaccos would be awesome.

It'd be good for the world. Yeah, I mean, we got the flag football and the Olympics coming up.

I don't know, man, these, these kids. My kids are growing up a little bit different than I grew up, so I don't know. If we want to see what they're all about, that could be trouble for everybody.

So, um, another hypothesis that we've had. I don't think we're the only ones to point this out. But you, at your peak, were very, very good at throwing, um, slightly under thrown balls to draw pass interferences. And we thought that sometimes you would do it intentionally, I don't know if you ever did intentionally, but it was actually a great. It was a strong suit of your offense, where even if you had a miss throw, there was still a pretty good chance that you guys were going to get like, 30 yards on a pi. Did it? Was that ever something that?

You actively thought about, you know what, I wish you could think about that, because that play works. Every single time. You're watching, you're sitting at home on the couch and you're watching these NFL games and you're like, man, they got to do something about that rule. That's such a shit, you know, situation for those defensive guys.

Have a bunch of those, yeah, I would assume. Your favorite throw was the touchdown to Jacoby Jones, like the 70 yard touchdown against the Broncos in your Super Bowl run. Was that run, though, like, could you feel like you were kind of in the zone?

I think when you're in the middle of the run, you're just trying to take it week by week. Obviously, when you, when you, when you win a game like that, I think in the back of your, the back of your head. There is a little bit of like, man. Like. I've seen guys win games like that, like teams win games like that, and then they go in the Super Bowl. I think we all probably had that, you know? Listen, with that team, we had been through so much.