Booger McFarland, Stavros Halkias, The 2023 Bonk List And Dan Quinn To The Commanders

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AirPods couldn't handle it. It was great, though it was must listen. He got like, pure, uh, uncut, stav.

But it's pleasant to listen to. It's exactly what if the awl is when they love. When one of our teams loses and you get to drink our tears, that's exactly what you get to do with Stav. Especially if you're a Chiefs fan, you're going to really love this one. Uh, we're going to talk about some new coaches, we have the 2023 Bonk list and then we're going to finish.

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, February 2nd, and PFT has a new coach.

Alright, Dan Quinn baby. He was number one on my big board and ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

Yeah, so you'll get the actual like instant reaction because the news broke while we were interviewing Booger McFarlane. But Pft, you've now had a couple hours to process. A couple people in this room have been very mean to you. Yes, there's only two other people, very mean.

No, counting the booth as well. Hank's been very mean to me, Max has been very mean to me. Memes is just always mean to me.

The Cowboys defense is going to get worse, right? Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking, and so.

If we get better and the Cowboys defense gets worse, I think that's a win-win for both me and you. It's a quinn-quinn, quinn-quinn all around. Sure, that's good for me.

Did see there was a release, a statement released after, Yep, put it on the bonk list coming up in a second. I saw a statement that was released after the hiring. It reads, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Can I guess who that's from?

Was in the crowd for Hank's stand-up act last year. Oh, got him. I think it's Hank, I think.

That was actually Hank, that was Hank, that was Henry Lockwood, he did a lot of ha's, mm-hmm.

Too many, not enough. I think that was I was trying to tweet what I was feeling, Why are you? why are you so fired up about this? Because I listened here and said, You go, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson.

Work for Washington NFC Championship game participant and, as we discussed, Dan Campbell.

Got in his ear, then his heart. You were like, Well, I'm all in on Belichick. I want Belichick just to rub it in your face. You didn't have to do that. You didn't have to go out of your way to say, I want Belichick. Just just to get, just to rub it in your face.

A coach? What happened in the Superbowl? They had a 28-3 lead. Let me step in here, that's a good.

Coach, Let me step in here. I believe this is my, this is my hire. I would like to address it.

Quick because the Marshawn Lynch thing he did. His defense did give up 14 points in the fourth.

Quarter in the Superbowl? Yeah, that's true, that might be, that might be accurate. I'll have to go back and look at the box score, but you were at that game, hank.

Hand the ball off, or I don't know, he probably could have said all over the headset, don't do.

This, print it out onto the field, Russell, you piece of shit, hand the ball off. Please don't do that. People are, you know, calling him a retread.

Gary Kubiak in the same. He's 53, he got to the Superbowl. Yeah, okay.

Down John Gruden Parcells Actually, let me narrow that down, that was going against what you were saying.

Speaking Russian right now, think about that, Hank, you think about that. Listen, pft. I'm supporting you. Dan Quinn rocks.

Through and through leader of men he is, and all his players love him. NFC champion.

Micah Parsons I have a question, Yeah, going into this search, what tier would you have put?

Dan Quinn at On your wish list? I don't think he would have mentioned his name Tier 1, I think he.

Actually said the other day, Please don't have it be Dan Quinn. I don't recall saying that there.

Were so many names that were thrown out here on this show for the commander's next head coach.

And I don't think one of them was Dan Quinn. Okay, well, here's another thing. We have a rookie GM, right? He helped to assemble the San Francisco 49ers entire roster.

Right now, we actually have a clip from the interview with Pete Prisco where maybe you weren't such a big fan. Oh no, we gotta probably play that, yeah.

Loaded Oh wow, so someone, actually. They did the work here and Quinn go back to Seattle.

Think, probably, but, but you have to, like, at least if you're the Seahawks, you have to have a little bit of concern after that playoff game. I know it's one game. And you can't really judge that based, you know, on the body of evidence that he's done in Dallas. But it would make me think, like, Yeah, maybe we should interview a couple other guys. I stand by that.

That is lashing out like this because you just lost your defensive coordinator. Good question.

Yeah, I don't know what the cowboys are doing. Oh, I know what they're doing. They're actually going to interview Ron Rivera. If I'm Jerry Jones, I'm finding a way to get Belichick, Brable and P. Carroll on the same staff.

Old dogs? Yeah, yeah, it would be awesome. Adam Sandler should be on it as well. I don't know if he was in that movie, but it sounds like he could be.

Was like, Damn, I should have thought of this first. Yeah, but yeah, they keeping Mike McCarthy is insane with all these other coaches, just not coaching next year, okay?

Won't be the coach by, like, October permission. To be honest, yes, Dan Quinn was not in my first tier of desired coaches.

Might have been a tier two, I think there was, it was Ben Johnson, tier one.

I think tier two, it was Ben Johnson and Slowick were tier one. I remember you saying, Johnson, or.

Belichick Three was, Uh, we'll give you three, Yeah, yeah, we'll give you tier three.

So four was Dan, he was tier one of tier two, that's where he was on my list. Uh, not a very exciting hire. I'll say that now I'm I did a symbol of tier one. But you have to take into account the fact that I am very dumb and I have some extremely bad football takes.

Bad at running, so you don't sell yourself short. Wait. So you might've been the reason why they hired Dan Quinn, you'd be great.

Every single play would be like three downfield laterals, followed by a 65 yard field goal, right? So you should not listen, probably could draw that up. You should not listen to my opinions when it comes to football, and I had the opinion that I wanted Ben Johnson.

Okay, let's do it so he's going to coach up Drake May or Jaden Daniels, we're going to get a good.

Coordinator for that? Yeah, and we do have some good coordinator options. I heard a Kubiak's name being thrown around, and we know the history with the Kubiak, they were on that list.

I can't believe that that was nuts. Mike McDonald was also above Dan Quinn on these.

Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot he had the dream, yeah.

It was a incorrect dream. Hand up, but that's not me, that's my dream.

But when you dream is right, you get credit for it. I think my dreams are three in one now.

I was with you when you found out that Mike McDonald was going to the Seahawks. I don't.

Think you were too happy about that? Yeah, it's whatever, whatever I just, I stay tuned if.

You're watching the YouTube to see his face when he sees the news, it's great. I thought about that.

After the fact, and I'm, I'm pretty sure I heard the news and then I looked down, I took like, a.

Deep breath. And I was like, Okay, he was like, he was like Jerry Maguire. When, when? When they show him getting married and he has that face, he's like, I don't know if I want to do this or like.

An actor getting into character, yeah, but guess what, that's my character. I just I changed myself.

Show right? No, we've talked to him. Oh, that's right, we got to get him on the show now, yeah.

Maybe we'll get him on the show in the combine friend of the program. Soupy, soupy, yeah.

Pressure on Dan, Let's wait until they go. What was it like? Three in one? yeah.

Soupy, Yeah, it was, I think it was two, and oh yeah, but if we'd gone through one, then it would be soupy.

Hank, But listen, Hanks, don't let Hank do this to you. don't, don't let, don't let Max do this to you. Nick Ciaranni sucks, he does suck.

We have a great defensive player as our head coach. Old school football works. Yeah, stop the run.

Run the football. Yeah, we have guys that are better suited for a different job as our head.

Coaches, Yeah, we have great defensive coordinators, rookie quarterbacks coming in, I actually think.

That if the Bears and and the Commanders were in the playoffs this year, we could have done some damage. Damage we're built for January, damage. By the way, I saw Vic Fangio.

A headline that Vic Fangio? It was like Miami players were, uh, got caught in like the Miami scene, and weren't focused on football. And I read it so quickly, I thought it was Vic Fangio got caught in the Miami scene and it ruled. For like those 10 seconds that my brain couldn't catch up, I was like, imagine Vic Fangio out on South Beach being like. That's why their defense fell apart.

Maybe he got caught up in, like the hardcore shuffleboard scene, and they're like bingo halls.

So yeah, all right, listen, we're all in the up and up. Yeah, I basically got a three-time.

Superbowl champion as my head coach, so I'm happy with that. Yeah, all right, what else before we do?

The bonk list I did see, I'm actually I'm going to change a take. I liked the NBA doing the MVP rules for, you know, you have to play 65 games. We're now finding out there might be some.

Unintended consequences? Well, so there are some really good players out there that are I guess they're injured or scared to play some games and then they're not going to be eligible.

For the MVP at the end of the year, correct? So well, Joel Embiid did get. He was out on Saturday, he was out on Monday and then he tried to play on Wednesday and got re-injured. This is your guy's fault.

Is pretty important, right? Like when you win the MVP, you usually win the NBA finals, you guys.

Aren't allowed to do this, I'm stopping this right now, you're not allowed to do this. Because you just the whole time. Against Djokic, you said he ducked because he wasn't hurt, and he just didn't want to play Djokic, and now you're saying, Oh, he should have never played.

Got to be one or the other, it's got to be one or the other. He might be right. Did you see, Max?

Did a Villanova podcast? Did he really? He squashed the beef with me and Alan Wright, Nova legend. Shout out reign and threes. They're going to be really pumped.

Guy who got his eye popped out, Yeah, that's an all-time picture, he called me a clown for saying.

That I wanted Kyle Neptune fired and then there was a beef, and then he asked me to come on the.

Show I like that. He understands how the podcast ecosystem works. You just you're like, you call someone a clown and then you bring them on your show to refute the clown allegations, yeah.

We're friends, so you're no longer a clown, no longer a clown. Yeah, no, now we're friends.

Did you go on the show and tuck your tail between your legs and be like, Hey Alan Wright, I'd just like to be friends with you because you're a legend. Or were you like, Why did you call me a?

Clown, did you hash that out? I mean, we hashed it out. But I still said that I think Kyle Neptune should be fired. No, and I definitely didn't do that all right.

Talking Nova hoops, I did watch a clip and Max for anyone who ever accuses Max of doing a schtick. He told a very funny story that the day that Jay Wright retired, Max was going on his third date with his current girlfriend. And he, like, met her at a restaurant and was like, Listen, I just want to let you know I've had the worst day of my life and the vibes might be off for this date.

So that is who he is through and through. Yeah, and then I was talking to my girlfriend about it later later, that night ended, it was a it was a sixers playoff game.

Watching the game, this is good, this is how good relationships start. You set the precedent. It's like, if you're going to, if you're getting, if you love to golf and you like, get a girlfriend, like, make sure you golf a lot.

To the date, Oh, nice, classy playoff game. But yeah, she was like, Oh, yeah, I remember that.

You were a lunatic. Well, they let that you can wear a Sixers windbreaker to a quiz nose.

That's no problem. It was some nice Korean barbecue place. Oh, okay, uh, maximum podcast.

Means doing standup, pug, sitting courtside or going home. All the boys are going Hollywood.

Pug was courtside of the Uh, Seton Hall DePaul game, which I think they paid him to sit that.

Close. It was a good look, though they were right behind the camera, making some funny faces.

It's just pug. yeah, good, clean pugs love pug life. Uh, all right.

Ferrari's back, Ferrari Dance back, Yeah, Live, PGA merged, and then there's some other stuff.

Going on, too with them, I can't keep track of all of them. I mean, it's not a done done deal.

There's regulations and shit. Um, there there was a unfortunate picture of Patrick Mahomes that came out, and yeah, that was. He was upset, he said. They did him dirty, He was rocking the dad bod, he had a little, he had a little bit of a pouch.

Pliability Exactly, Lamar Jackson should get fat. Did you see that clip, by the way of talking about pliability? Someone did a clip of Patrick Mahomes like off season workouts. And he was doing the exact same, like knee bends that he did in that sack, where it looked like he was going to tear both his legs and he, like, got out of it.

Am I a Ferrari fan? I can't remember, I think, the red car, the red car, it was cool to just wear.

The Ferrari, yeah, the red car. it's the red car. people think that you own a Ferrari.

Guy Lewis Hamilton Sir Sir Lewis Hamilton.

Anymore, I'm like, negative seconds, negative seconds. Yeah, that's how fast I am off the start.

Night we didn't go whoops. Tickets were very expensive. How expensive?

Know when Sabrina UNSQ is coming out again? Sabrina UNSQ? Uh, by the way, that's the other.

Thing, Uh, we'll. Once football ends, we're going to be getting into basketball. Uh, we have a N.BA preview, we're taping with Ryan Russo during Superbowl week.

This weekend. But they're, they're prime. Yeah, I, I actually think Zach Edie just doesn't want.

To play basketball anymore? Yeah, he's just so tall, he's so tall. I've just been taking his over points and rebounds every game.

Yesterday, shit, we should have gone to 30, yeah, 230 people.

All right, of course, it was. Let's do before we do the bonk list. Uh, our friends from Top Golf are back. It's golf, it's not golf.

Yeah, and there's usually one or two things that Hank puts on this list that aren't horny but Hanks, and he interprets them as being horny. So it's the reverse it will make Hank that actually goes on your list, yeah.

Hank, Do I have a month on the Bonk list? We're going to get, We're going to get into the origin story on this list. Oh no, uh, okay.

Way of just saying, you just didn't do your job. No, I have all, I have them, I have them here. But you realize, that was a classic Billy football, yeah.

You could tell me, Jake, like it means that I think I was supposed to back you up and I stopped after.

February he's got a semi, so you have a two month list. Yeah, I see that.

That's Billy, Um, I was also backing you up. Yeah, it sounds like you weren't, yeah.

No, you're, you're. That's what you're doing right now, is Billy, cause you're blaming Jake for not doing a good enough job of doing your job for him.

Okay, but you also were, because it was in secret and you don't want to do it so obvious, you stopped.

No, I just didn't realize, like, again, the first bunk list was all me. He didn't task me. The assignment. I was like, there's something I'm going to do, cause it'll be funny. I thought that the shine wore off a little bit and it wouldn't be as fun.

No, there's no shine wearing off. He did it one time to great commercial and critical acclaim. It might not as much doing it. Yeah, I'm not a seller.

Shark One time only, Uh, starting off hot. I don't know the context for this, and I don't think this is true. maybe it is, I don't know.

He got delayed at the airport. That was, oh, and we probably were like, Fuck yeah, yeah, all right.

Yeah, that makes sense. One six, Uh, January 6th, PFT asked me if I had a squirter in my bed. Okay, uh, January, PFT says. Major Tutty needs a bigger ass.

Oh, it was the jawline picture. Okay, remember that in the playoff game? Yeah, yeah.

The neck concussion thing, a cock ring for your neck? Yup, yeah, which I was brought up there, I.

Was proven correct on that. Yeah, same science, and I think you also told us that you put on a.

I, Yeah, I admitted to at one point in my life, I wore cock ring during intercourse, yes.

Grats on the sex Thanks, uh, January. Still, PFT has Julian Edelman if he's ever hung out with Jules, who works on inside the NFL, just cause they have the same name.

Okay, who's Jules? I think a producer who works on inside the NFL, is that a public figure backup?

I think, I think Julian mentioned Jules, I have, that's all I have. It was from the January 27th.

Julian Edelman interview Oh wait, no, that might not be her.

Bonk I think Julian Edelman brought her up several times, and then I, I as a journalist.

I inquired, Got it okay? Uh? PFT says the first thing he would do as mayor of Cincinnati would check out the Nancy Reagan files. First things first, yep.

Hmm, okay, okay, that's not really a bonk. I'm observing things.

I wish I had more context for these and I might've messed up the grammar. Who should, who should be blamed for that? It's my fault. This is exactly what I did the first year, so shut the fuck up.

Yeah, that was a year ago, yesterday your birthday Pft. Yeah, thanks.

He didn't say happy birthday, he said on your birthday, so thanks. No, no, I'm saying, right.

Then, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he said on your birthday.

Not playing in the U S Open? Oh yeah, there's a guy that called, Yeah, oh, wait, no, we already talked to him.

Second, Big cat decided to have another kid. Yup, yup, okay, fair.

Times on my time in the show in our defense, she's hot. I don't really know what you want us to say. He comes up like every six months, uh. And she swears that she took my heart when she swore in front of me.

God damn it, uh. February 5th PFT quote It's bad to go all the way in. Sometimes just the tip is better talking about the Nets trade after Kyrie.

See, they did, by the way, uh, the tribute video for Katie? Yeah, Katie asked them not not to.

And he still did. But this is a crazy stat right now. The big three on the sons, Beal, Booker and Katie, have played more games together than the big Three. I believe that's.

Ever did? Yeah, I believe it isn't that crazy. They never played.

Okay, uh? Pft asked JJ Watt. What his wife's at? is okay, fair, big cat? says to JJ Watt. You can always just throw a nut in him to slow him down.

He does have a nut allergy. That's more of a bonk on you, I mean, you told the guy you can.

Always throw a nut in him to slow him down. But it's factual. I hear both sides of this. Uh, I want to fuck the AI chat bot. Which one of you said that PFT had that for a micro I was?

Asking them, Oh, I thought, I thought you didn't have the Microsoft one? Oh yeah, no, the Microsoft.

AI Chat bot is a baddie. Yeah, she's cool. How about the girl on the train? you ever see that?

One, the movie No, the AI, I read that book.

Tried out my alley. Yeah, uh, Mark Titus, why? cause you like women in transportation?

I have a box for you that's on Mark. Mark's a horny motherfucker. That's one thing I've learned the last six months working with him. The dude is rocked up all the time.

Why nobody wants to guard him? That's why he's so good at basketball. Spoken you with his boner?

PFT makes up a Pineapple trophy in college basketball. Okay, swingers, uh, big Cat says.

The CBI is golden pineapple. Yeah, thank you, Jake. Learn ball hank.

He would fuck Sister Jean, Yeah, I would. PFT says stories, PFT says he would fuck Princeton Stadium.

Okay, oh, I would, too. That basketball court is so sick. Jake says he loves sitters when talking.

About basketball wedgies Oh, that is awesome. Yeah, they are. At first, that tournament was.

Magical, yeah, uh, big cat, says Mrs K. would look great in sweaters, comma sweater puppies.

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, she's not in heaven, yeah.

Billy thought Tiana Taylor was Tiana Trump. Okay, that makes sense.

Spit it in PFT's mouth. She's so hot, I don't care what is she like? 80? yeah.

Done hard time. Yeah, my mom loves Martha Stewart, so do I. There's a picture like in my house.

Yeah, because he didn't get that kiss after the Writer Cup in that old picture, so I would like.

To see him have a redemption story. Big Cat Things Lane Kiffin. Super hot he is.

Weight He's gotten hot, he's always got a tan and like, I don't know something about Lane Kiffin.

Just does it for me. He has definitely worked himself back into shape. Remember when, when I?

Said that when he came on last time and I was like, you look good, you look like you've lost weight. And he's like, That's a weird thing to say to another guy. I think he kind of liked it. He's playing hard to get, no one's ever talked to him like that before.

From lane, Uh, this is August. Big Cat tweets out a video and the caption was Slap Lee going next level. It was literally just a video of asses getting slapped in slow motion, yeah.

Day of JFK is assassination. She was, she does, she's got a fucking dumper, she knew what she was wearing, yeah.

September 8th. She had that, that old dude Zapruder. She was like, Hey, just make sure to film me when we're going down the highway, because I'm, I'm, I've got it all hanging out.

If my husband's brains get blown out, just make sure you get that ass shot, hey John.

You know, there's going to be some cameras out on the parade route today. Let's, let's, uh.

Pull the top down on the convertible. Do you actually can see that? She has her, uh, the the heel move that girls do to show their ass? she had her heel up? Let's play, guess who? tweeted.

This okay. Every time I'm in an airport, I've got my head on a swivel to see if Tiffany Gomez.

Is there, too? I think that was me, yeah, interesting, yeah.

Text By the way, that's nice, very nice. Uh, I just wrote down Lauren Bobert.

Yeah, oh my god, that was the hottest. It was so good, I'm going to watch it again.

It was getting felt up. Yeah, it was, she was vaping and people were getting upset at her.

Because, yeah, there was maybe some little kids around, but hot is hot and it was a first date.

She's freaky like that, yeah, and then she when she was walking out, she was making sure to pass by the security cameras. Yeah, dumping them out a little bit.

Big Cat says he would watch Tyreek Hill in a porno would. Big Cat says he needs to see a penis and vagina in order to believe Travis and Taylor. I didn't sound like I don't remember that at all.

You're sick for making that up. We make a clip of that and just cut out my part, the big cat part.

Say it again, Big Cat says he needs to see P and V in order to believe that Travis and Taylor are.

Real, I don't remember any of that. So did I did, I did. I say I need to, yeah.

That I wrote to Quote says Big Cat says he needs to see. No, no, no, I need to. That's what you.

Said No, but you should. It's a quote, it's I said I need to. You did say you should say the quote. no, you said it, but say the full quote. Which is. I need to see P and V with Taylor and.

And Travis All right, that's the quote. Okay, wait, big cat.

Dolly Parton still has it. Oh, yeah, she still does. That's just respect. Oh, was that? that was?

At her performance on Thanksgiving. So we haven't said anything bad in the last two months, Hank.

At all.

And I need to see P and V in order to believe Taylor and Travis are real.

Oh, hank, why would you say that about Taylor? I was quoting big cat, that's that's extremely misogynistic of you. Well, how so?

I got one, uh. Hank said that Midway and O'Hare are four hours apart so that he could stay an extra day at Tiffany Gomez's house. Oh yeah, that's a good one, I have a few more.

During it was during football. Oh, okay, uh, January 3rd hank imagining big cat giving head to a hose, maybe because you're talking about, like, hose water, okay?

No, no, no, we had an entire day at the combine. You were second, though you're walking through.

The entire rundown of the Kay Adams Show, All of Kay Adams Show, that's a fact. Oh man, the gaslighting's crazy.

Yeah, that video that was last year at the Superbowl, right? all time video, yeah, her.

Trying to close her suitcase? She's lovely. The show is great. I just don't watch it every day, but maybe I'll see you watch it most days. I see clips on Twitter occasionally.

The algorithm gets that for you. Yeah, you watch one, keep going. That was a good bonk list.

Hank Yeah, thank you. Until the last two months, yeah.

Okay, maybe with context, you want to start off no, no, shut the no, no, I'll do you make your own bonk list, buddy.

There, don't listen to it again. I'm not familiar with the clip. So why don't you make a bonk list? I think the people like to hank bonk list, though.

Can't do just a little bit of work, I did the whole fucking thing. Wait.

Can I see the video?

Hank and I got a little bookmark battle today about the Dan Quinn situation. The ha ha ha ha. I've never bookmarked a tweet, but I bookmarked Hank's ha ha ha ha and I can't wait to rub it.

In your face, Hank, but he's good. I bookmarked him bookmarking me and I can't wait to.

And then I bookmarked that back marks, and then we got. We started doing screenshots of the bookmarks to bookmark more things. You're going to owe me Bookmark Battle, I love it, you're going to owe me $20,000 on the Patriots.

Don't make a Super Bowl. Yep, that's that was one of the dumbest bets ever. I in the moment I was like, don't do this, hank, I think I was drunk.

And you were, you were just feeling yourself well. He was very, very hungry that day. Cause?

He hadn't basically got to eat at all. Yeah, yeah, keep you from eating, Max.

You're going to fucking make me not eat dinner. You act like you're not the mom of the show that's running the show, like, you make the agenda, you're like, all right, this is the day-to-day schedule.

Goes. I just wanted to know when we could record the show, I know, but I saw the core out of the.

Corner of my eye, hank was like, They're not going to let me dinner again. You can eat at any.

Time you want, I will keep that in mind. Okay, see, when, when that. Well, no, you, I mean, there's.

There's times when we're working that you could eat before we work, you could plan it, you could, you could eat whenever we're not scheduled for stuff. I think we were together as a band of.

Brothers on the road, we do everything together. That's how I like to operate with my. You know, you're become a little more of a diva. You do everything on your own and it's like, you don't want to eat with. What do I do on my own?

Eat with the people. I don't even think I ate breakfast that morning. We should start packing.

Snack bags for Hank? Yeah, it's like granola bars, peanuts. Uh, yes, it's a great bonding experience.

The only, the only diva thing I do is that when you guys want to go to the bar. I'm like, I have one night where I can go to sleep and I say, I'm going to go to my room and go to sleep. That's like the opposite of diva. And you're like, No, I want to, I want you to be here so you can tell me when to eat. I'm basically your dominatrix. You walk in the hostess table for six and one, please.

Actually, Hank should just eat at the wind buffet every meal. Yeah, that should, that should be what.

You have to do just do that, just schedule it out. You can three hours a day to eat, great.

I'm glad everybody's doing well. I feel the same way, man. I mean, if you think about it, it's a grind off football season and we look forward to the grind. But at a certain point, the grind kind of wears on you. Like, man, I can't wait till this travel ends, I can't wait until I stop getting on and off of plane. Having to sit there and talk about the same old topics over and over and over.

Yeah, you get down to the last game and I do, I agree with you. At the end of the season and maybe to a certain extent at the start of the playoffs, it's the same topics over and over again. Dallas Cowboys, Losing is Dak The Guy, et cetera, et cetera. Um, but then you get to that one last game and you're like, I really want to squeeze every drop of football juice out of this one game. So I'm going to get way too detailed in my analysis of the Chiefs and the 49ers.

Yeah, way too detailed. But before we go any further, let's stop. I feel I feel like I would be doing a disservice if I didn't say happy birthday to my guy. Um, I was in, and hopefully I got this right.

I did, yeah, it was, it was yesterday. Thank you Bogan. it's very nice of you.

Well, I just want to say happy birthday. I didn't get a chance to say it yesterday. I was going to text you, but I knew we would be talking this morning. Happy birthday. Uh, how old are we?

I'm 39.

Well, first of all, he looks older, you just look fatter, that's kind of the way I look at it.

I was just getting even meaner and meaner. Booger, do you know?

Is there anybody else that you'd like to wish a happy birthday to?

Yeah, oh, it was your birthday. I'm a day older. I'm a day older than PFT. I actually, you know what, Booger?

That's a fact. This is true, men, the only person's birthday, you should know, uh, family members, kids, and your wife like anybody else. Like, if you, if you know, your best friend's birthday or your homeboy's birthday. To me, that's a little weird, because even though we're best friends, like, we're not going to exchange gifts.

I'm saying, yeah, right, kind of Sus, I just need one.

Like me anyway, but thank you Booger, I really that was really nice of you. Um, first of all.

You're welcome. Second of all, I do like you, I only tease you about your weight and about your ability to control your donor cravings because I do like you. And at some point, 20 years from now, when we're done with all this stuff we're doing. I want us to be able to sit back, drink some Stella Blue coffee and reminisce about the good old days. When I, when I ripped you to.

Death, Yeah, so you'll be able to do that, you'll sit, you'll be sitting at my gravesite, and you'll be able to talk to me, and it'll be fine. We'll have fun.

I die at like 55.

Guys shouldn't know, it's not friendship, it's not about knowing each other's birthdays, It's about knowing what to make fun of the other guy for. Yeah.

It's really when it comes to like, I don't know if you have this booger. But like, I'll go, like, I'm done with the bachelor parties, but like, I'll go on a guy's trip and at the end of the guy's trip, I'll actually sit my friends down and I'll just ask him like three or four questions that I can bring back to my wife. Cause I know she's going to be like, what's going on with this person? what's going on with this person?

Of questions, my wife asked me like, Well, well, why do you do that? like, I don't know, I never.

Asked him, Yeah, right, like, what's going on with this? I don't know what, I don't even know what my friends do for a living.

What are we going to eat? hey, how much of it are we going to eat? and when are we going to do it?

Again, that's it. Oh, that's, yeah. The the. The eating part is like, like, like family vacations, it's like, if you didn't have the meals like you would, you can't go on a family vacation.

Dinner, Okay, day's over.

Uh, all right, I like this adult male friendship is, uh. It is funny that the quirks that we all have, that we all share and we don't realize until we say it out loud. Uh, booger. I wanted to start was we're going to talk a little Superbowl, but I want to start with something you're hot on on Twitter. Uh, I saw this yesterday.

To be a trend, yeah, you know what, I don't know what the fix is, I can throw out a bunch of ideas.

And I want to keep that the same. I agree, I wholeheartedly agree.

Absolutely, and you're right. I think that college football was broken for a very long time in terms of the money that was going to the schools, to the organizations, to the conferences. And then the players weren't getting anything, despite the fact that they were the product and they were putting all the labor into it. And now it seems like the lack of any rules whatsoever is making it so. It's much harder to enjoy the sport, enjoy the identity of the team that you used to be so deeply, emotionally involved in. And I don't know what it is.

If we do something that they don't like, the NCAA is useless. It's like me talking to Big Cat about a diet, it's just useless, I'm serious.

Then we're fooling ourselves. Yeah, and I agree with you, and I also think that like, why why isn't there? I know we've we've tried to make it the 12 team playoff, we're going to get some more group of five teams involved.

Different playoffs? Well, I think you could have that, but don't you think UCF and Danny White would kind of feel a little, you know? Yeah, that's fine, but they would still get to play.

For a national title, it would be a little bit different, but I would, I think people would.

I think people would be in on it, so okay, people might be in on it. So if we did this, let's play this hypothetical out. Does UCF have to turn in their championship they won a few years ago, or can they roll that forward?

They can keep that one and you can definitely claim a national championship if you win the.

Group of five, yeah, by all means, and kids get to play playoff football, that means something to be like, this is the best group of five team. And it's, you know, it's just kind of weird to me that, like, I understand that we want everyone to be involved, but like, let's actually make it. So, the group of five is playing for something that's meaningful instead of playing for a playoff seed. To get killed by, you know, an Alabama or an LSU or like. And it's again, it's not saying they're not good teams and they're not like really good football players. But there is a point where it's like, there's a, there's a, there's a levels here, you know?

Though, because, again, we live in a society where we want to be. And I'm all for exclusivity, I'm all for making everybody a part of things. But at some point, you have to ask yourself, how many times? If you put Tulane in this year, you put SMU of? Liberty, like Liberty played Oregon this year, and everybody knew the moment the game kicked off, Liberty had no shot.

Basketball We're like, oh well, upsets happen in college basketball. That's a lot different when it's when it's five on five and a guy can get hot. Or a team can shoot bad in a one game situation. And it's not like, Hey, these, this offensive line is 320 pounds and this defensive.

Line is 260.

Right, all right. Other thing that I want to talk about, and I don't want to do too long on it. Because it has been a few days and we've, we've talked about it ad nauseum. We defend Dan Campbell.

You don't? Yeah, I don't. And here's why Dan Campbell has made his name based on his style of coaching and the culture that he has built. We're going to go far more than anybody else.