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Thanks big cat, happy birthday to you too. Because it's actually today, January 30th, when we're recording it, yeah.

So, um, I was thinking about that as a 39 year old. uh, I thought, And you're, you're only 38.

You're oldest.

Oh, okay, so um, I am older than you right now.

Okay, boomer.

I am older than you right now. I wanted to give you some, some wisdom, some advice. Okay, so here's my advice to you as, uh, the oldest one on this podcast, right? This second. Tomorrow, you will join me in the 39 club.

It's really good advice. Um, and I would like to accept that I wish you had turned 39 one day earlier, so you could give me that advice. Yesterday, it was the worst birthday present of all time.

I feel so bad for you, dude. When I saw that, I was just like, What the fuck do I want? Ben Johnson, though?

Maybe he did us a favor because he didn't, even he didn't even think to reach out to the commanders to say no, thank you to the interview. Until we were in the plane on the way, you know what I'm? I'm starting to think. We actually told him no.

Here's the thing Ben Johnson not good at fourth downs as of late.

Apparently, that was that was Dan Campbell's call, I read it.

No, I'm saying the actual play call, the play calls as of late. He's actually really good this season.

He told Josh Reynolds dropped that pass and he shouldn't have done that.

I was bummed out for you, legitimately bummed out for you, because Ben Johnson does feel like fuck up hank.

I was, No, you weren't.

What if they get Bill Belichick now?

Yeah, you might've played yourself on that one hank.

I have no issue with Belichick. I would rather live in a world where Bill Belichick is coaching than not coaching. Okay, that's fair, that's actually fair. Takes.

You might be a Dan Campbell merchant. I don't. I don't think that's the case because the mess is gone, we don't have the mess. In fact, I would still say that we have, like, okay, yeah, the roster's not great right now as it stands, but if you look at the job, it's actually pretty good.

Right, and we are, we're processed, we're processed by process, a lot of results, so don't judge results.

The process of the process worked maximum, right? They got the number one pick. It's not over.

It's still processing.

We're still processing, okay.

So, uh, as long as Joel Embiid is breathing air on this earth.

The process is still well. Max ran him out of town last year. Remember that that's true? So I think, uh, I think about the Washington job as still being a good job. Because you've got a new owner, new stadium coming, possible new team name, you have the most salary cap room in the N.FL and you have the number two overall pick.

It's it's all happening.

It's all happening to me and it's not good, It's not a good feeling I have. I get the feeling that, um, that Dan Campbell had a little talk with him, that Dan pulled him aside, probably cried, probably told him that when.

Remember when I told the team it's going to be twice as hard to get back here? If you leave, it's going to be 10 times as hard. I think it was just like, please stay.

And I'll tell you what, man, we bled together, man.

I don't know who you're doing right now, I'm trying to think we bled together.

This was us, we were in a room and we were playing together. I want you to come back and finish the job with me, man. Can you do that?

Give him more, give him more. Who is that?

Listen, we went through blood, sweat and tears, man, and no one said we can do it. They all thought, they all thought it was crazy taking this job, they said. Detroit What? They never won anything.

It's we're about to do it. It's kind, you're kind of like constipated Hulk Hogan if he, like, smoked cigarettes and had to get the voice thing.

I just, I just think that we're building right here in Detroit.

Is it dying? Hulk Hogan? We're in Detroit, Michigan.

It's like, Metallica said.

Yeah.

Darkness.

George Bush Closer.

Imprisoning me. All that I see is absolute sorrow. Man, you're going to see if you're gone?

Oh, there's definitely some Alex Jones good call.

I got all the documents right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got documents.

It says that you've got two more years on your contract, man.

It's like it's like Alex Jones and Hulk Hogan trying to do a Dan Campbell impression. I think one of them's dying.

I think Dan, same time, I think Dan had a talk with him, got real emotional, cried and just pumped him up.

You know who I'm very happy for?

It's probably hard to say no to that.

I'm happy for our friend Jared Goff.

Same.

Very happy for our friend Jared Goff.

Like, I can't. I'm mad that I don't have Ben Johnson. I always wanted Johnson to play with. And we're not going to get it next year. Yep, and, uh, at least he's going to be in Detroit. It would have been tough if he had taken a different job.

So what do you make of the report that he's staying because he wants to win a Superbowl?

That's fake news, that's fake news. That was a bad clip.

Interesting tweet.

Yeah, it was interesting, because it implies that he's not going to win one, he's not going to win one. In Washington. It's hard to win a Superbowl, it's twice as hard. So by his math, it's twice as hard to win in Detroit, still making it easier than in D.C.

Backwards hat You'll have to podcast in a backwards hat every show.

I'm going to be a sad, sad boy. If that happens. Yeah, I'm going to be the saddest 39 year old bully in the world. That would be sad. I'd be the worst birthday present ever.

Uh, we're not 40, by the way, as some people have reported, Henry and other people online have said, we're 40.

We've had to community notes Hank twice in real life about telling people that we're 40.

Yeah, well, no, we were, we were on the plane. I was like, you guys are turning 40? Yeah, no, that was fucked up, cause now I'm staring at 40..

Listen, this is our last year to have fun. Yeah, okay, once it's 40, it's it's all business.

Yeah, it's all business, then we're getting real jobs. Uh, let's do some cleanup from, Uh, Sunday. I got a couple of things I wanted to to throw out there before we get to Superbowl storylines.

There was legitimate Brock Purdy MVP discussion, correct?

Brock Purdy is better, both with his legs, with taking shots, cause that was the big thing with Jimmy. G is like, he, he can, he can throw the passes that are there, can he take the big shot? Obviously, we know what? The Superbowl when he misses Emanuel Sanders by, you know, three inches.

So can I say I was right?

You were right, thank you. Um, so yeah, I mean, listen, I'm. I'll never shy away from saying I'm wrong, I'll own when I say something stupid. The other part that the reason why it popped in my head was because I think it's fair.

And there were a couple of games this season where he just if he's throwing it, he has interception games where if he throws one, it feels like he'll give you a shot at at least the Ravens game.

Yeah, the the. So. It was more of a fear of Steve Spagnola. With two weeks against Brock Purdy, I think Brock Purdy can still do it. But there's where the fear came from, There's where it's like, Oh, I don't know, I don't know.

The Jimmy G discourse when he was playing was all about like, say what you want about the eye test. But he wins right, and I love that, I love it.

He makes the throws that are there, he's a winner, but Brock Purdy does make more throws, he takes more risks. Yeah, he can run a lot better than Jimmy G.

He throws a few interceptions here or there at an opportune time, so he's not like, obviously you would want Patrick Mahomes over Brock Purdy.

Yes.

But Purdy's had such a good season, especially considering at the end of last year, the way it ended. People were like, is he going to be the starter next year? is he going to heal? how is he going to come back from the injury? He's responded to that and you can say, like, without any hesitation whatsoever, next year, that's brock Purdy's team.

Right, right, they dropped the Trey Lance and then they got four Jimmy G, and then they got rid of him. Yeah, right.

Suggested it, right?

So that's where I made those two mistakes.

I think that I would disagree, I like going forward. At the end of the first half. I know that you don't get the benefit, I understand that there's no benefit to if you don't get it. I just like the benefit of their their short yardage offense was really good.

And I know Dan Campbell, so I have a bigger point I wanted to get to, but for the for the Dan Campbell discourse. I've seen a lot of people throwing out these stats. And I went, and I actually like, this is sad that it took me like an hour to go through his entire game. Log. MICHAEL BADGLeY I'm talking about the stat that people are throwing out there are. Lions are 52.5 on the season in fourth down conversions, and Michael Badgley is a career 77 kicker from 40 to 49 yards.

Say the numbers again 12 for 20, 12 for 20, 60, 60%.

So it's like, 85, 60, I think that's really the story is, you can debate the fourth down as long as you want. They did not trust their kicker and they should have gone into the playoffs with a kicker they trusted more. Because that's really what it comes down to is like, they, their kicker in the playoffs. Was a guy who lost his job in the in the training camp and then got his job back because the guy who beat him out lost his job.

Yeah, and I liked the aggressiveness. That's who Dan Campbell is. I know that you have to understand the team that you're playing against, what they're able to do, and obviously the Niners. If you give them the ball, there's a good chance they're going to go down the field and score. Because they've got a fucking great running game and a good offense.

And I understand people will never see eye to eye on this, and that's part of. That's the best part about sports. Like we, we got, we got a great game and then we got days of people debating fourth downs versus kicking field goals. That's, I love it.

It really, it tricks us into doing way more math than we normally would.

I was, dude, dude, yeah. I was like, I had to, like, take off my shoes and socks to do this. Michael Badgley Math. Cause it was so fucking hard. I was trying to figure out where he kicked all his field goals.

Yeah, but the third down at the goal line.

That was, that was the dumbest thing ever, that one you cannot defend Dan Campbell on. That was an egregious misuse of his timeouts because he ended the game. Yep, that one. He absolutely deserves all the criticism in the world.

Okay.

I think it's so much worse because the lions and it sounds cliche. They they died on their sword, they did what they do and it didn't work. And the ball bounce, you know, the the weird bounces that happened, the fumble, the the Brandon Iuke, all these things happened, it sucked.

I also think that with Lamar, there was something about him in the playoffs where, uh, he didn't play every single play. Like, it was super important in terms of, like, being able to run the ball, right.

Right, and, and, and so that even adds more to the point I was making, because it's a great point. Like that you're saying about Lamar and his like urgency to run. When you think about the Ravens future. It's not a knock on Lamar to say that. Who would you rather have? a 35 year old Patrick Holmes or a 35 year old Lamar Jackson? Yeah, there will be a limit on his athleticism. I could, you could even make the argument that he's lost maybe a tiny little bit of his explosiveness. That one run where it felt like old Lamar would have taken it to the house when he.

Caught his own pass.

No, no, no, the fourth and one, yeah. He ran and he got like, I don't know, maybe he's dealing with something, but that was like those. He's not going to get younger, he's still got a lot of, a lot of years.

Yeah, it kind of sucks. If you're running quarterback because you get into the league and then everyone calls you a running back. And they like, insult your passing ability, and then you're like, Well, I'm going to show them. I'm going to become like a great passer, then you become a great passer.

Yeah, and at the end of the day, if you're a sports fan, I think that most people would agree. If your team has a bad loss, if you empty the tank in the bad loss, you can get over it a little bit easier. The Ravens didn't empty the tank. You, if you're a Ravens fan, you're sitting back just being like, Wait, why didn't we run the ball?

Yeah.

And that's all you want.

You make the argument that the Ravens had their worst game of the season, correct? They did again. Yes, like this happens in the playoffs, a lot with them.

Right? So I just was thinking about it, like two days removed, that I was like, I think that they're both horrific losses. I'm not to minimize diminishing the Lions.

And I like to minimize, minimizing, good fucking what Lions fans are going through.

But Ben Johnson definitely helps, because that adds into the equation. But it's more like, if I'm a Ravens fans, I would just be sitting there and be like, What, what, why? Why did we do it the way we did it, what happened? why did we not try to do things differently?

Yeah, it's going to be tough to get over, yeah.

Very tough, and the window, the window, the window thing. And just having a home Championship game is a four and a half point favorite.

And holding Mahomes scoreless in that championship.

Right, you? The Chiefs punted seven times. How many times are the Chiefs going to punt? How many games are the Chiefs going to punt seven times?

Never.

Like, it's crazy, so I can have, I do. I do think that Mahomes is good enough, though that, like, if he had to, I know this sounds stupid. If he had to score, he would have liked the Bills game. It was clear the chiefs were like, the Bills can score on us.

They weren't taking huge shots, right?

Right, all right. So let's do Super Super Bowl storylines, you ready?

Yeah, Hank, I just I'm just looking over at you and getting angry. Why? because you're being a dick about. I'm going to, I'm back on Belichick, I'm back on, I want Belichick.

I want Belichick for you, too, I want to Ben Johnson.

Oh, we should, we should say, um. I reached out to an anonymous UH head coach, who does not have a job right now, to inquire whether or not he'd be interested about the UH commanders. Just see if it was a good job.

He also was asked if he'd be interested in the bears in a year.

And yeah, I also asked him if he would be interested in a, uh. Former Tennessee Titans linebacker who also used to play in D.C. and was a captain there. I asked if he anonymous, anonymous is all anonymous. Don't speculate on who it could be, it could be anybody. I asked him if he was willing to coach the commanders.

Yes, Ben Johnson and a new quarterback would have been so exciting.

Would have been so exciting, that's the thing it would have it. It was the perfect time for it to happen, I know, and it's not going to.

Uh, okay, Superbowl storylines should we go? So we should do the the the the obvious ones first. Um, Taylor Swift's going to be a huge storyline.

It's the new, Uh, what time is the Superbowl?

Yeah, or even like, How will Taylor Swift make it to the Superbowl from Japan?

There's already been a lot of content about how much time it would take after the concert. The flight time correct, she would land in Vegas. Is that enough time? Would you get to spend the night with Travis the night before?

Yes, um, the boring ones, not really boring.

The real one? I actually want to know how many years of livable, survivable life on planet Earth Taylor Swift will be removing from everybody due to her carbon? Someone write that traveling from Tokyo to Las Vegas for the Superbowl. Jake, can you? can you figure that out?

I'll look into it.

I want to know how many years of human life she's deleting from existence.

I want to know how many birthdays I can tell my kids confidently they'll have. She'd be like, Listen, it's Tay Tay needed to get to the Superbowl, so we're looking at like, 55 times.

So I'm not going to be a grandfather.

It's not, it's not going to happen, it's not good for you. Uh, all right, out of the way. First, uh. Patrick Mahomes Goat conversation. We're going to get a lot of that, Patrick Mahomes.

They also didn't have super wide guard.

Um, but so he would, he would be, he'd have, uh, the same amount of. He'd be one back from Montana and obviously a lot back from Brady, but crazy.

It's crazy that he tied Peyton Manning, yeah, like Peyton Manning, arguably Mount Rushmore quarterback, yeah, and he tied him in playoffs.

And he's 28 years old, also. Andy Reid If he wins this Superbowl, he would, uh, be third all time. Tied for third all time with Superbowl wins by a head coach, Chuck Nolan. Bill Belichick The only ones ahead of him tied with Joe Gibbs and Bill Walsh. Pretty crazy. Also Andy Reid. Now that Bill Belichick might not have a job. I did the math.

Yeah.

So he right now, he's fourth.

Yeah, I think you need to zoom out and just say about the chiefs if they win this game. A dynasty, yeah, cause that's a rule, right?

Dynasty Talk.

Three championships in five years, that's dynasty. Yeah, this is crowning them, being the new dynasty, the dynasty of the twenties.

First back to back since the Patriots. So yeah, it would be, it would be that, and then then the other side. It's the Kyle Shanahan, Uh, Redemption arc.

Yep.

Because Kyle Shanahan if you're not familiar, I think everyone who's probably listening is familiar. He was the OC on the 28 to three Falcons when the Patriots came back on them. He was up 10 with eight minutes and 53 seconds left in the Superbowl against the Chiefs. And he also, which I referenced earlier, that, uh, Jaquiski Tartt, as I say his name, I think it's Jaquaski, Jaquaski Tartt. Dropped that, uh interception in the NFC Championship game against the Rams when they were up 17 14 with like 10 minutes left.

And that's going to translate directly to the Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes discussion and Patriots Chiefs. Can you beat Kyle Shanahan in a Superbowl, right? So that's going to add another layer to it, yeah.

I think we did the Joe Montana Bowl the first time, so let's do this one, okay?

This is the Alex Smith Bowl. Yeah, uh, and probably the two most attractive head coaches in the league, going head to head, right? You'd say, yeah.

Ooh, that's cool.

So we'll probably talk about that a little bit, yeah.

There's gonna be a lot of Brock Purdy stories, Brock Purdy story, a lot of Brock. How much money he makes, the fact that he goes farming.

Yep.

All this stuff.

Um, the McCaffrey Shanahan connection, yep, so Mike Shanahan won a Superbowl with Ed McCaffrey, Kyle Shanahan trying to win a Superbowl with Christian McCaffrey? Yep.

There's going to be a lot of Vegas stories, so one that I would like to just hope that becomes a story is just a reminder that John Fisher is a fuckhead. Uh, he is bringing the Oakland A's to Las Vegas. I don't know if you guys saw this, but he was. They had like a big, uh like, welcoming party and he just crickets. It was awesome.

One more time for Mary Beth and John Fisher, please.

The Las Vegas A's, we like the sound of that, right? Vegas. Yeah, yes.

Are we alive back there?

I thought for a second, that was an Ed Cooley situation where they put a sound down on them.

Are we alive back there? Uh, yeah, John Fisher's a fuckhead, so remember that? Um, in terms of the gambling, so NFL players are not allowed, or players in the game are not allowed to step foot in a casino.

Uh, Keishon booty.

Yeah, that's, but that's crazy, right? They can't, they can't, cause. Usually, NFL players can gamble on other sports that are not football, but for this for Vegas, they're not allowed to be in a sports book until after the game.

It's such a weird rule. Goodell probably has Calvin Ridley wearing like an ankle monitoring system, right? Yes, just like, let me know that you're not, you're not even allowed in Nevada, yeah.

I can get arrested, yeah.

I was saying, Who do you think?

Terry Bradshaw Terry Bradshaw.

That would be that'd be very. Fox doesn't have the right.

So I don't know if he might just show up.

Yeah, he might. Just that might be how he gets arrested there. Like, Terry, you're not doing the Superbowl.

Emmanuel Acho he might call in a bomb threat on a dispensary there.

Greeny, Tony Romo.

Greeny Getting arrested would be something else.

It'd be awesome, great story.

Jaywalking If anyone, if anyone wants to set Greeny up, that'd be amazing. Human trafficking Mike Greenberg.

Now I have one weird storyline that I don't know if it actually would be discussed, but I was thinking about it. This is the worst possible matchup for a Las Vegas Raiders fans. Because they have the Niners, who they used to share a city with, kind of Oakland and San Francisco, right next to each other. Hate them and they have an AFC West rival. It would be like if they did the Superbowl in Philadelphia and it was Cowboys Patriots.

Yep.

They have to deal with this. So sorry. I guess the Chargers Niners might be worse for Raiders fans. I feel like Raiders and Chargers fans always fought.

No, I think it's, I think now it's the chiefs. Yeah, now it's the chiefs, that's the they're, just they really don't like them. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know how many Las Vegas Raiders fans there are, I mean, there's a lot of Raiders fans. But that they're just like having a huge party of your two teams you absolutely hate, right in your face.

Oh, we can also do like. This is kind of for the crown of who the best tight end in football is. Yeah, this is the tight end bowl.

This is the tight end bowl.

Kittle Kelsey.

My vote is for Kittle.

I agree, kittle, you should bet on them.

Should, should? Um, yeah, we're going to get so many Kelsey, we're going to get some Donna Kelsey, Jason Kelsey.

Colin Coward is going to have the best time. Yeah, he's going to be in like Old Vegas, yeah.

Swingers?

Yeah.

Not the movie.

Yeah.

And it was actually going to be, yeah.

I'll have a nerd Nuggets of the Super Bowl next Thursday.

Oh nice.

With a new jingle, Oh, special jingle for the Super Bowl.

Oh, okay, what's the jingle going to be?

Find out next Friday.

So what's the CBS theme song? I can, by the way, when they do those things where they say, how quickly can identify the N.FL theme songs? It's like two, quarter, quarter of a second for each one.

But it's only impressive when babies do it.

Yeah, off the top of my head, I don't know what the CBS one is, but if I heard it.

This has nothing to do. This is not related whatsoever with the fact that we have the Super Bowl. Nerd nuggets with a new jingle next Thursday. I was actually thinking about this independent, but it does kind of relate. I don't want to die today, but it would rock to die on your birthday.

Would it? Yeah, yeah, it would at the end of your birthday.

No, but it would, it would, it would rock to have like your, your grave. People would stop and be like, Oh shit, but I just went out the way he came in. You'd go out as a 39 year old, but you didn't really live 39 years.

But not again.

I don't want to die right now.

No, but technically, you're not, you're not 39, right? because you were never zero.

No, you're 39 after you. Whatever time you were born, I don't even know what time I was born.

No, but you were born in the morning, you were never zero years old. Oh, it's like the argument of the millennium, yeah.

I can't do that math, but I think it would rock to die on your birthday again. I don't want to die today, but if I did, please play the jingle and my ghost will come back and haunt everyone.

If I had to pick a day to die, it would be the day after a Super Bowl. Yeah, that's true, like it would suck to die the day before the season started.

Or the day I wish you were a really safe flight.

Yeah, why'd you say it was so creepy?

He cause he wanted us to die that day, I don't know what it was.

Yeah, what was happening, what was happening?

I didn't know that was me just trying to be polite.

No, weird.

It was not being weird. I wanted you guys to have a safe flight.

No, it was weird, you're weird. it was weird, you were weird. Uh, any other Superbowl storylines?

Yeah, this is the uh, NFL rigged is getting a lot of content. yeah, let's go around. yeah, NFL is rigged, uh, for views for money.

Uh, they made us download Peacock for money.

Yes.

I think every single team that loses in the Championship game spends like a week or two. Being like, rigged they get this week. yeah, they get this week to be like, it sucks.

Yep.

Yeah, it's totally fair. They they, they deserve that time. Um, there will. It's funny because you say that the people have to jump off the whole color scheme pretty quickly because it didn't come true. So they got to find something else.

Well, guess what it is. What are the primary colors? That's a lot of red, right? Taylor Swift, Does she have any albums that feature the color red prominently?

What about? what about Usher maybe getting sick and Taylor Swift doing the halftime show?

Oh, you think Cadell is going to get on the horn with Fauci? Be like, give Usher a little cocoa.

What do you think?

I think they may just bring her out for a song, no way.

I don't think she'll do it, you know what?

Usher should be on state, he should have a guitar, and after a song, he should be like, who wants Taylor to sing a song and hold the guitar up and be like, Come on, Taylor, there she is, everybody, tell Taylor.

The one thing I am rooting for is I hope Travis Kelsey proposes Taylor Swift on the field after. Not for the reasons you're saying it's awesome.

It would break the internet.

No, but I don't, I don't, I don't root for that reason.

The show is on the internet.

I root for it because all the swifties would have to do mental gymnastics to be like, that's so cute that her boyfriend proposed to her at a football game.

Well, that's not cute. They'd also be like her boyfriend proposed to her in front of live cameras with all this pressure on her. Yeah, oh, you're like, Yeah, that's like she was, Yeah, she didn't give it. True Swift.

But I want it to be, I want it, like to be on the Jumbotron, and then swifties have to be like, that's so beautiful. It's like, I don't think so.

What if it wasn't even on camera? What if it was just like in between the third and fourth quarter? And it's like, it's like, proposals sponsored by course, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I'm rooting for.

Actually, how much would it cost to get something on the Jumbotron? Because now the wheels are turning? Will you marry me? I would like to incept, I would like to insert a proposal to Taylor Swift from Travis Kelsey on that Jumbotron during the game. Can we try to find that out?

Or someone else do it for us, we don't care how it gets done.

We don't care how it gets done.

Just has to say, Taylor, will you marry me? Travis Kelsey?

Yeah, it must be impossible for somebody named Travis and Taylor to get engaged at a football game. yeah, at an N.FL game these days.

I bet you they're probably going to deny those.

Why?

I don't, I just feel like the Jumbotron people they need, the Michigan State Jumbotron people. You'll let anything for. Yes, they will.

I, uh, I denied an opportunity for us to take out a full page ad in the Superbowl official program at the beginning of the season. It costs six figures. So I didn't even run it by you guys.

Yeah, I would've said no to that. Thank you.

I would've said no to that. I ran it by Max and he's like, Yeah, no shot.

Yeah, that was a good no shot, that was a good decision by Max, no shot.

No shot.

Yeah, that's pollution right there, yeah.

I think we landed good with the Miami of Ohio Student newspaper.

Yep.

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You're actually going to be doing standup tonight at the Laugh Factory in Chicago.

Yeah, which I'm I thought about not doing, just because if it goes really, really, really poorly, then it's just going to make my fear and anxiety worse. But I'm I'm sucking it up, I'm doing it tonight and we'll see.

Let's let's practice, tell me a joke.

Or have me, I'm the joke. Have you thought about trying to break the record for, uh, like, longest time underwater and just be carted off in an ambulance? That's not a bad idea. Yeah, that would be a good idea. Just be like, Hey everyone, we're going to break a record tonight.

Yeah, undertaker moment.

And if you don't come back, you don't have to do the rest of the show, right? Yeah, that's a good idea.

Um, the endorphins are going to be show high when you're done, though. Yeah, like, you're, you're going to get like a runner.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to be, I'm going to be a new man, I. It truly is like a second, a second take on life.

Yeah.

You got this cause I won't have. I've never really had like, anxiety, anxiety, and and or, you know, I have moments of anxiety at different points, but I've never had something that's like, hanging over my head. The way this, this has, yeah, and it's not fun. I envy people that that suffer from daily anxiety.

Yeah, this time, next week it'll be over, yeah.

Yeah, that's how you got it all, right. What's your cool throne? Um, my cool throne is Gardner Minshew.

Oh, pro bowler.

Oh, hey, huge. I always like with Jalen Hurts as well. I like the NFL. That was such an insult that, like, throws in the worst quarterbacks for Pro Bowl. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It was, it was very funny being like, Oh yeah, Jalen Hurts didn't make the Pro Bowl this year. I'd forgotten about that.

Yeah, all right, good. Gardner Minshew, Yeah.

Uh, interestingly enough, my hot seat is Mac Jones. Oh so, did you see the story about Mac Jones this season? How he was complaining? So when he was going like, back and forth. Is he going to be benched? Is Bailey Zappi going to be the starter? Belichick not saying who the starter is going to be.

So if you're the Patriots starting quarterback, who would? who would be the list? Dan Shaughnessy?

Yeah, Mike Florio, maybe a reporter, maybe Albert Breer, maybe family members.

Oh, okay, family members.

Um, yeah, Mac Jones actually, uh, complained to the jets. Oh, about it, so yeah. The Patriots quarterback was on an island, according to team sources, the communication had broken down and he was demoted to third string. And leading up to this game, the quarterback reps were split. And he called it a broken relationship, and then he apparently talked to people on the jets about it. As per Jerry Horton on Marstolsports.com, So Jerry Thornton, Jerry Thornton, Jerry Thornton.

Here's a who, yeah.

Load. I'm sorry I dropped the t for him. Uh, but yeah, so I don't. I don't know what that says about about Mac and his future on the team. Probably nothing good.

Well, the guy that hates the jets is gone.

Yeah, that's true. You think the new guy's going to like them? No, probably not. Yeah, probably not.

I also saw a report that looked like it was from Mac Jones camp. That said he got benched and then tried to be as helpful as he could and got shunned. Oh, but it read like a Mac Jones mom wrote that report. Yeah, yeah.

What do you mean? what do you mean like? Shunned him.

Like, they were like, No, we don't want you to speak to him. Yeah, we don't want your help. Shunned.

Hmm.

Like, he was like, Hey guys, no problem being benched, how can I help? and they were like, No, get out of here, okay.

Uh, yeah, it says sorry real quick. The Patriots quarterback was so bothered by his team's lack of communication. He told a member of the jet staff that he appreciated how their organization handled, handled. Zach Wilson Hmm.

So, run the ball.

Big, big gear coming for him, I'm happy for Arthur.

Yes, me too.

I feel like that's a good spot for him, he's a good offensive coordinator.

He's a great dude, too.

And a good guy. And, uh, my other cool throne is going to be, uh, anonymous scouts, because they're back. It's getting into being draft season. Caleb Williams, presumed number one overall draft pick this year, has been, uh, the trashing has started, oh yeah, with Caleb Williams.

I will not be deterred.

Saying things like, Uh, you remember? He paints his nails? Yeah, that's fine, vulgarity. They said he had a panic attack in a public breakdown, a mental breakdown, and cried.

No chance.

Uh, and then he answers questions at the podium by saying weird things like I'm going to go home, cuddle with my dogs. Yeah, these are all big red guy, these are all big red flags for any team.

And I would rather be a dog guy than a cat guy.

If you're drafting number one overall and you have a quarterback that loves his dogs. I would be like, I don't know if I want this guy on my team and let some other team get him.

I want him, he's a dog.

So, yeah, they said that he is having a mental breakdown after losses this year. And it's definitely. There's some connection with a team that wants Caleb Williams that is putting this out there. But I choose to believe all this, and if I were the Bears, I'd take a very long, hard look at Caleb Williams.

I would be more concerned about the guy who doesn't get any negative press because that means he's just not good enough to get that.

Is that how it works? yeah.

Drake May has no negative anonymous sources about him. That means everyone just thinks he stinks. I don't know, I don't think he stinks.

What is the? I think it was Eminem? That said, if you ain't got no haters, you ain't popping, right, yeah.

So Caleb was popping, Yeah, definitely not a Stephen Chase. Haters, you don't have fans.

Yeah, haters are a marketing team. Yeah, you also said that.

Um, all right, my hot seats. It's a little bit of a weird one. It's New Panthers head coach Dave Canales, so congrats Dave Canales for getting the job.

Hmm, and we would never have found this out if he didn't become a no chance, yeah.

And it was actually published, I think, two years ago, so somewhat recent. Um, it sounds like his wife made him write a book.

Yeah, if you're if you're co-authoring a book with your wife, talking about your porn addiction. Or you say like, This is my big gesture to prove to you that I'm over. This is I will write a book with you, and we'll each put our name on it. Just talking about, what a bad husband.

Yes.

It's like a self flagellation, being like, I'm a bad guy, I used to be a bad guy. Is this okay, honey? Is everything cool now?

Yeah, see, see, I apologized in public.

Yeah, he told everyone.

He told everyone.

It was also kind of a weird move. When did you write this book?

2022.

Okay, so he was, he was the offensive coordinator. Yeah, yeah for it.

Or maybe not the bucks. I think he might've been with the Rams then.

It'd be it'd be a little bit weirder if he didn't have a prominent job at the time. And he just wrote a book about how he sucked as a husband. Up until then, yeah.

Yeah, he was. No, he's Seahawks quarterbacks coach.

So it sounds to me like he wasn't addicted enough to pornography, right? He was cheating on his wife, right? If you're completely addicted to pornography, you got no bullets left in the chamber.

Um, I'm sure no rival fan base will use that against him.

No.

Uh, all right, my cool throne is, uh, Dylan Brooks, he's back. You thought he'd be de deterred, uh, by being publicly humiliated by LeBron last year? Uh, but nope, he's not.

He was seeing two rims, three rims, three rims, so he hit the one in the middle afterwards.

I'm just happy because Dylan Brooks, like I didn't want him to just stop being a total asshole.

No, he's the LeBron stopper. Yeah, this is what he does.

Yeah, every. He does everything but stop. Yeah, he's a LeBron stopper. He shows you all the ways to not be able to stop LeBron.

My hot seat's heat culture. I have to be accountable here and say, Uh, the heat. Have lost seven games in a row, they've lost every game since they extended. Eric Spolstro And this is really a crossroads for your season.

I mean, scary hours, yeah.

You, you have to bounce back here, this is where the documentary starts, or this is where everything.

So yeah, Kyle Lowry, what do you think about him?

Well, he's out.

Yeah, that's, that's what I'm saying, yeah.

All right, so you were correct on that.

Like, was he was, was he a big part of heat culture?

He might've been.

No, I thought he culture.

Yeah, so like this is where Jimmy Butler has to rally the troops and say.

He culture.

He culture, culture. Or you can just become the eight seat again and do what you did last year.

That might be the roadmap, actually. Yeah, just like Stink in the regular season, and then you get to the playoffs and you flip.

None of these losses during this streak have been particularly close. I was in the garden, uh, Saturday, and the Knicks, Knicks were playing well.

Yeah.

Uh, they looked good and my cool thrones. The Three Point challenge. We have a new contest coming to the N.B.A. All-star weekend. it is Steph versus Sabrina Yonescu in a three point contest.

So how many did she make last time?

You know, Sabrina, Sabrina from Oregon, Kobe.

Oh, yeah, New York Liberty.

No, you definitely know her.

She was, she was her mentor. I support women, I definitely knew Sabrina, I know who she is.

So this is going to be a cool challenge. We're going one-on-one.

Yeah, I mean, stop laughing. Well, she is like trying to make underrated faces to the camera. Stop laughing.

I'm shocked, you don't know who that is.

I'm sure I do.

Yeah, she's one of the best players in the world.

Yeah, yeah, duh, I knew that Sabrina from Oregon, there was a bunch of great three point shooter.

There was a bunch of media around her when Kobe died because her and Kobe were like best friends.

Yeah, oh yeah.

Caitlin Clark.

I know Caitlin Clark.

Occupies all the space. Angel Reese. Yeah, Angel Reese, Fuck yeah.

Yeah, but they're going head to head, so this'll be cool to watch.

From the same three point line.

No.

Uh, Steph will be shooting for the NBA line, Sabrina will be shooting from the WNBA line.

Swap it, let's Steph go for the WNBA line.

What about the balls?

Uh, NBA balls and WNBA balls.

I like this just cause it's going to make some some people very upset online, that's going to be fun to watch.

If she beats him, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right, all right, or. Or listen, they can, they need to add more stuff, so I'm good, I'm in on this.

It's really a win for content. Because if she, if she beats him, then people are going to get very angry about some things. If she gets blown out, then people are going to be very angry about something, right? So either way, we're going to have a lot of people pissed off in this country, yeah.

The only way it can work is if Sabrina, like, has an incredible like, misses like three shots, and the Steph misses like two. And everyone's like, Holy shit, they're both incredible.

Yep.

Yeah.

Uh, I predict if she wins, Joe Biden will issue a tweet congratulating her.