Fantasy Football Preview with Jerry O’Connell, NFL New Rules Refresher, CFB Is Back, Mt Rushmore of Pizza Toppings And Fyre Fest

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On today's part of my take, we have our very good friend, Jerry O'Connell in person.

He flew to Chicago for 10 hours just to do our annual fantasy football

preview with Jerry O'Connell.

Uh, and it delivered, he wrote a poem for Jake at the end.

A lot of laughs, college football's back.

We're going to talk about that.

We have the finale for Mount Rushmore season.

Uh, we're just, we're like, uh, 16 and 15 in one team playing

none of the starters in week 18.

Hank is just, uh, it's sad.

Hank's on cruise control.

Yeah, it's sad.

It's sad.

All right.

So it's actually, it's, it's way more disgusting what Hank did than

what we did in the pizza draft.

Yes, I'd agree, but we're going to run back to pizza draft for real.

Uh, off the dome.

Hank's going for the first overall pick.

He's going for the first overall pick and next year's Mount Rushmore.

We're gonna do fire fest of the week and we're gonna send everyone

on to Labor Day weekend.

Great long weekend and football's back.

I'll give you another bonus in this episode.

Just a prediction off the top.

If you've never heard Hank yawn, I think this might be a hot Hank yawn episode.

Also, I completely forgot.

We have presentations today.

Oh yeah.

We have the presentations, new face, new place, uh, rules.

Are you doing rules?

Rules.

And then you to Hank, a football match.

Yeah.

Hank is going to ace his football.

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Today is Friday, September 1st is the first of the month.

Wake up, wake up, wake up.

It's the first of the month.

We having a wonderful day.

Football's back.

And I love it.

And I love it.

Big cat.

We got to watch multiple meaningful football games tonight.

Um, it's back for most of us.

Yes, we got, we, we, we got to watch, uh, I had Graham Mertz PTSD.

Great kid.

They're just kids.

Just a reminder.

College football.

Yeah.

But, uh, under pressure didn't feel so good.

It was not good for him tonight.

Utah looks great, even though they don't have their starting quarterback,

but they still look really good.

Um, I say it was back for most of us because there was a big, big fiasco

going on with cable service tonight.

Spectrum and ESPN decided to end their contract, terminate their

contract at kickoff for Utah, Florida.

So if you have spectrum, you got treated to the pregame shows and then

a fade out to black at kickoff.

That is terrorism.

These are terrorists that we're dealing with.

And you're making me choose between spectrum, a cable company that

everybody hates because we hate all cable companies, it seems like.

And then ESPN.

And I don't, you don't have a winner.

I don't want to root for either one of these sides.

Cause I'm sure ESPN is charging a fuck load of money to the cable companies.

When they make you pay your cable bill.

And now they're just cutting service off at the worst possible

time to start the year.

Fucking terrorism is what it is.

Injustice.

This should be, we should march on Washington.

Uh, this is bullshit.

I'm boycotting ESPN until next, next Monday night.

Okay.

I was going to say until tomorrow night, I think they have a couple of games.

Okay.

So I'll, I'll boycott until tomorrow.

Yeah.

Uh, the good news is though, uh, people were watching on Fox got to see

uh, I'm talking about Nebraska, Minnesota first half.

Can I read seven possessions, seven possessions, punt, punt, field

goal, interception, miss field goal.

Interception.

There's actually six possessions.

So I think Nebraska is getting it all figured out.

They, they don't need to step it up to compete with the Ohio states of the world.

They just need to drag everybody down to their level and

then beat you with experience.

Yeah.

Get them into the depths.

Yeah.

Drown them to the depths and wait for them to drown.

Yes.

Uh, also the replay official in that game should be investigated.

Agreed.

That was bullshit.

What happened in Brassica at the end of the first half ball.

Don't lie.

They came back, score a touchdown early.

Yeah.

But that also was very much a Nebraska.

Like you can just tell a team like Nebraska.

And I do do think Matt rules a good college football coach.

Notice I said college football.

Uh, when a team like Nebraska has something like that happened to them.

I even said it out loud.

We were all watching.

I was like, they're getting zero points here.

Next play interception.

You know, what I love about Matt rule is that everywhere he goes, he

joins design a smock for him to wear.

It's like the smock follows him.

He won't join your program unless you have a smock designer on point.

There are a few of those guys.

Like I'm sure that Chris would get the custom made sweatshirts where they

went to Heather gray sweatshirts.

Yes.

Um, the, uh, the, uh, John Dorsey, the GM.

Now he's with the lions.

He was with the chiefs and the Browns earlier.

He had those same like gray sweatshirts that he, he gets made, especially

for him everywhere he goes.

And we saw him in Detroit and he was the only one in the

building rocking that sweatshirt.

I think it goes even further than clothes.

I think like if Dabo ended up somewhere else, he would be like, let's build a

hill so I can run down first in front of everyone because this is about me.

I've noticed that the kids urban Meyer, he just spends everywhere he goes.

There's some college girls around him.

There's some buttholes kind of wild ready to get figured.

Yeah.

But college football's back.

It's great to see all the games out there.

Um, it's, it's, it, I don't really, I was thinking about it earlier today.

I love the NFL.

The NFL is obviously the best sport in the world, but there's something about

the chaos, chaotic nature of college football that you can't expect what

you're watching sometimes just isn't football, like devolves into some other

type of sport, even that Nebraska plays a perfect example that it's

just, it's so entertaining.

It's so entertaining.

Like NFL is like, uh, you go in and you know, it's going to be like a nine

out of 10 movie every single time college is like, you could be watching

a five out of 10, then it's an 11 out of 10 out of nowhere.

10 games are the best football, right?

Yeah.

Nebraska's touchdown that they had.

Uh, it was on a, uh, like a pass back to their quarterback who then batted the

ball forward in a touching tribute to their, their volleyball team that filled

the stadium with like 90,000.

That was incredible.

It was awesome.

92,000 people.

Yeah.

92,000 people will watch women's volleyball is awesome.

Women's volleyball doesn't get enough credit.

It's a fun sport to watch.

It is.

I, every time I watch it, I get fooled watching from like the camera angle.

I'm like, no jump in the air now.

Jumping to spike it.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

It is a very fun sport to watch.

That was very cool.

First televised broadcast I ever did ACC network, extra women's

volleyball, Syracuse, Georgia tech.

Wow.

Okay.

People put that, put that in your Jake trivia, shout out liberos, shout out

liberos, the ones who were the different color.

Oh yeah.

That's right.

That's what they call them.

We just call them the captains.

Yeah.

We complimented women's volleyball.

We don't have to, we spent a lot of time talking about women's volleyball.

Yes.

Diggers only.

Uh, okay.

So now that football's back, we have a couple of presentations we're going to do.

Okay.

Uh, we're going to Jake has new memes.

Did this right?

Memes of the memes and I collab.

Okay.

So are you gonna be able to put this in the YouTube or we're gonna be able to

put this in the YouTube for the people?

How are we going to be able to see this right now?

Um, I sent it to them.

I sent it to Evan.

It'll be in the YouTube.

Okay.

But what about us right now?

I can just like, okay.

All right.

Put it right there.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

We could put on TV too.

Let's do that.

Yes.

Memes.

Jake joint.

Okay.

A memes and Jake collab.

Do you want me?

I noticed that you just put by Jake Marsh though.

Yeah, that was okay.

Great.

So memes has been completely erased.

Well, you're part of this too.

Me?

You're doing a quiz with, with Hank.

Well, yeah, that's what I have as part two of the presentation.

Yeah.

Okay.

This is to get everyone ready for football season is very important for

um, I'm sure you nailed this, uh, PowerPoint right off the bat.

I like two things, Jake.

One, you did part one, part two, part three in Roman numerals, which is great.

That's like football, you know, Superbowl stuff.

And then you say all information courtesy of the NFL.

Yeah.

Got it.

Thank you for doing that.

Okay.

And Jake, make sure you explain each slide for the podcast listeners.

Obviously we're going to put this on the YouTube as well.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

So starting with how many sides are there by the way?

Um, I'm already bored.

22, but

tell me now.

10 of them are just like bang, bang.

You guys guess.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Jake.

Yeah.

I say that they're pictures.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Whew.

22.

That was like when you like go, like a trainer works you out and they're like,

we're going to, we're going to do like eight different things and

then we're going to run a mile.

It's like, well, I can't do this.

You've got to, you should have told us there were five slides and then just

kept on surprising us with more.

There's only three parts.

You got to understand.

You're one of them.

Okay.

Yeah.

Hank, uh, 14 plus three, 17, two, two touchdowns in an extra point.

What?

Two touchdowns in an extra point.

Two touchdowns at one extra point.

Two touchdowns in an extra point.

13.

Okay.

That was slow.

That was very slow by you.

You had to ask it twice because his mind went to like, wait, is it

touchdown with seven?

Yeah.

Yeah.

28 plus 14.

42.

Okay.

All right.

See, I think it's getting better.

All right.

Hank, what is the difference between these two scores?

31 to 17.

14.

Yeah.

It's pretty nice.

That's nice.

In my opinion, that's the biggest 14 point lead in football.

Are you guys going to sprinkle those trivia questions in throughout?

Yeah.

We'll just do that.

Yeah.

Four touchdowns, four extra points, three field.

Come on.

Four touchdowns, four extra points, three field goals.

Four times six.

Come on, 24.

Why don't you just do four times seven?

28.

You're 28.

37.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's hot.

He's hot.

Don't let the boy cook up.

I thought we had this math conversation three, three touchdowns, two extra

points, one, two point conversion and a safety is the worst podcast ever.

Right.

We didn't even get through one Jake slide.

I was hoping that if we did enough math, Jake would just leave and we

wouldn't have to do this.

All right, here we go.

We got the rule changes.

I feel like I'm back in school.

Rule changes.

First rule change, instant replay reversal under two minutes.

If something is reversed, the play clock is reset to 40 instead of 25.

That's when the guys are all going like this.

Okay.

That's the razor thing.

Okay.

But there is a little like specific fuck that pass through it.

Okay.

Uh, also, uh, inside two minutes, if there is a reversal, um, they will

potentially do a 10 second runoff or charge a team timeout.

I'm confused.

Go to the next slide.

All right.

This one's actually good.

Okay.

If you fit all failed fourth down conversions, all failed fourth down

conversions are automatically reviewed.

Like touchdowns.

I like that.

Oh, okay.

That is good.

Yeah.

We would have known that.

Exactly.

But, um, if it's successful and a team wants to review it being

reversed, you have to challenge.

Right.

Got it.

On the defensive side.

Okay.

So, and head coaches are prohibited from challenging a

failed fourth down conversion.

Right.

Cause it's automatically reviewed.

Yeah.

Got it.

So you don't need to burn a challenge.

Okay.

So I think that benefits everyone.

I actually really liked that.

They want to clarify the use of the helmet.

The biggest thing I got, um, what was his background choice?

It's band-aids, uh, yeah.

PowerPoint like auto-generated some of them.

I feel like this one fit injuries.

Um, the biggest thing with used to the helmet is helmet to helmet

is obviously what we know, but you can get penalized for a helmet

to any part of an opponent's body.

So if you look at this next slide, you see those two examples I pointed out.

Technically helmet to helmet, but if you use your helmet as a weapon, correct.

All right.

So maybe I'm naive here, Jake, but you might be penalized every single play.

You could find something that a defensive player does.

It could have resolved a bigger gray area.

What about running backs?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Fuck.

Can't do it.

Hank, the total is 50 and a half.

Give me a w a winning score for your over 25, 26.

Nice.

That's good.

Good job.

All right.

So we'll see.

But yeah, you guys are right.

Like your helmet's used almost every play.

Yeah.

Okay.

This is going to be a disaster how they call this.

Um, but it's just point of emphasis for the season.

Uh, tripping is now personal file, 15 yard penalty.

I'm not exactly sure what it was before, but it wasn't this.

So now it's even worse.

Was tripping 10 yards before it doesn't happen often, but okay.

Yeah.

The first thing that comes to mind is that Jets coach against the dolphins.

Yeah.

On the sidelines.

Yeah.

Old heads would know Mike Tomlin.

Although he didn't fully trip in the way he tried to Kobe Jones.

What about, what about when Aaron Rogers takes his teammates down to Costa Rica?

Uh, he did there.

Nice tripping.

Yeah.

Uh, you're tripping Jake.

Yeah.

Jake's not familiar with that.

No, he's not.

Um, you guys have talked about this a little bit.

Um, the new Jersey number categories.

Uh, you may think, oh, it's Heidi Bridgewater war 50 preseason.

Apparently you're allowed to wear whatever you want.

Okay.

So regular season, uh, zero is obviously in play and a few other changes.

Okay.

This is, this actually makes sense.

So linemen are 50 to 79 defensive linemen, 50 to 79, 90 to nine.

They kept it.

I like this quarterback wearing zero.

It'd be the legendary.

I don't know if anyone is, but no, but that'd be badass.

A kicker wearing zero would be terrible.

Worst running back number 47.

That would be a pretty bad running back number.

That seems like fullback.

That is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's like each back, I think.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, and these are the last two rules of note that, uh, I thought were important.

Uh, if you're penalized on the last play of a half, the offense doesn't get

the benefit of replaying the down.

Okay.

Yep.

Okay.

That's lame.

Yeah.

But if Hail Mary's, they're fun.

And then lastly, I really think this is a good one.

It's the Brock Purdy rule.

Yeah.

Teams will now be allowed to carry an emergency third quarterback on the

part of the 53 man.

That's why I need the Peterman.

Got keyed.

Got dropped back.

It's like the goalies on the stands.

Yeah, pretty much Hank.

So like the Patriots, for example, they could be doing it, but they only need to

have, uh, Matt Jones on the 53 man and just have a game day quarterback as the

backup.

You guys got Matt Corral, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So he might be cunning him.

Yeah.

So Matt Corral, he might not have to be on the 53 man.

He can just be the game day.

Do the Patriots have too many good quarterbacks?

Some are asking.

Yeah.

Uh, so those are your rule changes.

Okay.

Thanks Jake.

Very cool.

Good job.