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Okay, let's go.

Yeah, the first half bills were back, so it's tough to say because the first half bills were definitely back. And their defense played really well, to the point where their offense didn't need to take the top off in the second half. Their main tarp's on, unlike Fitzy, there.

It was, yeah, the Bucs, the Bucs. If you look at that box square, you're like, Ooh, the Bucs were in this game, they were not. They covered the spread, which was a tragedy. Also, shout out the Bills punter. Yeah, what a night from him.

He should have put it on the one, yeah.

So, uh, not the best game.

Yeah, it was football, it was football, it was football, and it was nice to see Josh running around out there, yeah.

So he hurt his shoulder.

Hurt his right shoulder.

And then they reported that he was giving low fives. Yeah, not high fives, yeah, which is a very medical.

It is, yeah, it was um supinated, not pronated at the end of it, which my medical degree tells me. He just fucked up his shoulder a little bit.

He's got a mini buy now.

Yeah, mini buy.

Mini buy. Um, yeah, the the bills they look like, they maybe fixed a little bit of what was ailing them. It did help. The Vita Vea was out.

You know what they did, they stopped the bleeding.

They stopped the bleeding. Yeah, they got a win. Maybe this is what the bills are, maybe the bills are just going to end up being like a 11 win team. And they'll look, Hank, will you? will you make a noise at that?

Yeah, I think I think the bills right now are, um, they're above average and above average team, but I don't think that they're the world beaters. How quickly do you recover from a torn ACL? If you're credavious white? He needs to get on that, Aaron Rogers.

He's Matt Milano, no chance of coming back.

I don't think he broke his leg, so maybe I don't know.

It's better than a sprain, you know what? Better than a sprain, that's right.

A sprained leg is the worst.

The worst thing you could get.

I'm going to say Matt Milano will be back for the playoffs and I've done zero research into it.

Okay, and yeah, the the, uh, the bills. Have the Bengals next, which will be a great game at Sunday night football next week, that'd be good, that'll be a great game. As for the Bucs, they stink.

Yeah, yeah, they're. They have no real running game to speak of, their defense.

I thought my Amazon stream was glitching because it was like a perfect loop of of crowd noise and everyone was standing still. It was like, what's going on here?

It was a very weird into the first half. Um, just Todd Bowles continues to to amaze me as a head coach.

He doesn't amaze me at all, he's just not good.

No, that's how he amazes me.

Todd Bowles is boring and not good, which is the worst combination, but he does find.

Creative ways to be bad Whatever that was at the end of the half was a very creative way to be bad. And the craziest thing about this game is that the Bucs could have easily won on the last play, which is crazy. Credit to Baker Mayfield. He threw a perfect hail. Mary.

That was an insane hail, Mary.

Godwin didn't turn around bucks. Fans are saying Mike Evans had illegal contact at the 10 yard line. Yeah.

They're never going to call that what? Um, Al Michaels didn't make any mistakes tonight. He did have a slight one when he was like, and it looks like the Bucs are going to punt. But he was actually retroactively correct because they came out in the field goal formation. And then, like we described, took the delay game and punted. But he said, it looks like they're going to punt. And Kirk Herbst was like, I think that might be a field goal, Al.

Yeah, I mean, Al probably really enjoys going to Buffalo because there's zero chance that somebody sneaks the vegetable on his plate.

Yeah, that's true. Absolutely. They don't, they don't allow those in the city walls.

CELERY Yes, so get this off my garnish. Jake, Jake, did you hear any, uh, any Al Michaels mistakes tonight?

I didn't hear any mistakes, no.

He does seem bored with bad football, though.

I was going to say the energy definitely wasn't out with the Al Michaels I'm used to growing up.

All right, I'm going to look up real quick, I'm going to look up Al Michaels on Twitter and just play the first video, here it is.

Well, that seems like a very like math play.

Uh, it was Baker Mayfield only almost getting sacked three times and then getting a 12 yard run.

Okay, 12 yard run. Not that you don't need to yell for a 12 yard run.

Or no third quarter.

But I mean, still, I would say, Um, we've had this debate on the stream. Is that a? Is that a nice little chunk that he got? I would say, that's like, Okay, that's a, that's a, uh, an exciting play.

Hail Mary to end the game. All right, let's listen to it. We're going to give an honest assessment.

As far as you can throw it, jump, ball, coming, crazy stuff. Not this time.

Crazy stuff, not this time.

Crazy stuff.

Not this time.

I don't think you can say crazy stuff in a more boring voice.

Also, what does not this time mean?

As in, it didn't happen this time, compared to other times, it's happened.

Not this time.

I love Al Michaels, he is part of many memories. But if I last week I tried to defend him this week, I think I'm going to say, let's just maybe hope. We can, like, shoot him up with some testosterone and have one last ride here.

Some coke? Yeah, no. I mean, like, Herb Street, Herb Street is a great friend to Lee Corso on Game Day, right?

To old people everywhere.

He loves Lee Corso, they seem to have a genuinely touching relationship.

Correct.

He needs to take that same energy to Al Michaels and bring cocaine into the booth to get Al going during Games for America Kirk.

Okay, well, so.

Take that private jet on one of those Thursday flights, you take down to Columbia and then come back real quick to see Al drop a bag on his desk. And let America have fun.

It's just I love Al and I don't want to see him go out this way. It's, I think, what?

I mean, he's a legend and I'd be surprised if he got back on the playoff game, the NBC second playoff game. Remember, he did the.

Oh, Chirico.

No NBC had two wildcard playoff games and they put Al Michaels with Tony Dungy for the Chargers.

Oh, we can't have that.

Playoff game.

It was like the greatest comeback we got to get Jack Collinsworth out there or Jason Garrett.

Yeah, somebody with some energy it would be. It would be bad for this nation if it was Al Michaels and Tony Dungy calling a playoff game.

Well, it happened last year.

Can he like, like, like, Uh, Jonathan Henderson just gets slapped in the face before the game and just be like, Whoa, let's go old school, Al.

That'd be nice, it'd be an improvement.

Do you think it's a situation where, like, no one just wants to say, hey, cause he is a legend, he's a legend.

It's that you, no one wants to be the guy that has that conversation. And honestly, I think that if it's good football, Al Michaels can still get the job done. And they paid him so much money.

Not this time.

You know what? I'm actually going to defend Al Michaels, I am too. As as a football fan, we owe it to Al to just suck it up and let Al continue. Think of all the joy that he's brought us throughout the years.

I want up you pft. Uh, Thursday night football, we always get excited for it because it is football, it's Thursday night. It's kind of the start of the weekend, kickoff the weekend. Hank, don't say anything.

Yeah, no, that's a good spend zone. Yeah, I liked that, but I was perfect.

Uh, I'm going to take it. Yeah, I'm going to take it.

NFL fans, they're just turning their backs on him.

No, they're not.

So many memories with him. Oh, Malcolm Butler, interception. Now we hate this.

No, no, no, they're not turning their back.

Why would you use a Patriots?

They're just saying because it's one of the more iconic plays and calls by him. Yeah, no, no, no, that was a compliment.

I don't think anyone's turning their back on him, I think it's just simply they're pointing out the fact that it might be time.

There are some people that are clowning him. What have you done for me lately?

That's facts, Hank.

I'm not going to clown out. It's like Al Michaels and Bill Belichick kind of at the same stage in their careers right now. Oh, Bill Belichick signed a three year deal and Bill Belichick coming off a win.

Yeah.

I mean, I'll. Michael has signed a massive contract with Amazon unrelated to any of this.

Get excited because Bears play the Panthers in two weeks on Thursday night football.

Can't wait.

How am I just snore?

I love the TNF on Prime Jingle.

Oh, I don't like how you say TNF, yeah.

Jake I noticed I noticed how you remembered that that, uh, that Patriots Seahawks game was an NBC game. Yeah, do you remember what all Superbowl is like? The network they were broadcast on?

The most, the last, like 10 to 12 years.

Rams, Patriots, CBS, Broncos, Panthers, Fox.

Who was on it, who was on it?

It's been the same crew.

Steelers, Cardinals.

I think that was NBC.

It's a disgusting who was on it, Jake has.

I would guess Alan Chris, but no wrong madden.

Yeah, I think it was Madden's last full game.

Yeah, but I know the 28 three was Fox Seahawks, Broncos, that was Fox. I think you just said that.

Did I? Yeah, well, no, I said. Panthers, Broncos.

Oh, Panthers Broncos, the CBS Superbowl 50.

Duh.

I think ESPN's in the mix in 2027.

Okay.

But yeah, I think I, I didn't realize I could do that until now. Pretty sad.

Wait, what was Seahawks Broncos?

Seahawks Broncos was Fox.

Okay, I don't know what to do with this information.

He just knows all of them. Yeah, I don't know what to do with it. Jake is a massive fan of networks, huge.

Wait, no, I'm in a booth now.

He loves booths, true and trucks.

It's my new office.

Power rank him Jake Booths trucks How is your booth compared to, like, NBC's booth?

It's great.

We got, we got improvements, yeah.

We can always get better.

I would say Pft. Nothing in the booth can happen without the truck, but the truck comes first.

But would the truck ever be there without the booth, Jake?

What's that?

Would the truck ever show up if there wasn't a booth?

You could, you could technically broadcast the game with no broadcasters.

What? Oh, that's true.

Remember, I'm pretty sure WWE didn't carry the King. Lawler have, like, a health scare. And they just went silent the rest of the broadcast out of respect for him.

They did that, I think, unintentionally at some N.FL game in the last 10 years, where there was like a quarter with no announcers.

Yeah, where? Like the sound of the vultures.

And the announcers got very scared because they realized how much ass football still kicks without their voices.

Yeah, we don't need you.

No, no, we shouldn't go back to that, we shouldn't go back to that. No, no, no.

Get rid of their jobs. Uh, okay, let's get, uh, into the week eight, pick some preview, and then we have Kyle Long in studio and finish up with Fyre Fest, okay?

The NASCAR season is headed for the home stretch. Who's up for a little bit of chaos, a dash of drama? Who's down to take it to the Chicago Streets to bring the tricky triangle to hit the brick yard bricks? Who's game for a little fireworks between France Ha? See, that's a trick question.

Hey boys, week eight, no bi-weeks, so much football.

It's very weird that there's no bi-week this week, right?

I kind of like it just because this is almost. It would be impossible for the witching hour not to be electric this week with, uh, eight, no seven games, seven, eight games.

I just feel like every year that I've played fantasy football, which by the way, I gave up on my fantasy teams in record time this year. It's so liberating. I think it was week five, I looked at all three of my rosters and I was like, No, just not going to do it, just not going to do it anymore. I already stink.

Can I, Can I? I agree with you. And I actually had an idea the other day because I have two fantasy leagues with people I've been friends with for a very, very long time. There needs to be a service, like, you know, like a divorce attorney, where I don't have to tell them I'm going to stop playing fantasy. But someone, some third party, can intervene and be like, Listen, he's dead, so he's not playing fantasy anymore, or like some some excuse. So it's the awkward like, that's the only thing that's keeping me in there is like, I just, I don't I there? These are my friends and I understand friendship and all that stuff, but I do not care at all about fantasy. So much so that one of my friends texted me during week seven.

You know what it was for me, I'm in like a suicide eliminator pool. And I just forgot to do it one week. And when I forgot to do that, then I was like, Okay, I'm just I'm not going to open up the Yahoo app anymore. But that now that you say it out loud, we can learn from ourselves, we can admit mistakes.

Right now, I'm not doing it.

So I'd like to immediately retract that I fucked up, I took, who who'd I take?

Uh, I'm not going to go for it. Ron Butler They're not bad.

They're not bad, they're not right.

Ryan Golden's was 265 pounds in high school.

They're not bad. Emeka Okafor is not bad. I can't offer. Everyone admitted my mistake. I'm going to fix it.

No, they were very good. Yeah, not a dime back.

I'm going to survive before that. That consumes most of my my, my brain. We got to get, we got to get Jim Calhoun back on the show.

We should, I mean the the, the, when, when, the when. The reporter said to him, like, we have a report here that, uh, you make, you know, $2 million and the state is losing this. And he just goes. I make a hell of a lot more than that.

It's so great.

Not a dime back.

It's so great. But to my original point, I feel like every year that I played fantasy football, I would always just ignore the bi-weeks and just not think about that. And it was always week eight, I always had players that were on bi-weeks, week eight.

No, no buys.

No buys this week.

No buys. So let's get into it. Uh, we will be in the new gambling cave, uh, watching all the games. I think the idea is, uh, on Sunday night, cause the Bears play Sunday night. We're going to watch that in here while we do the podcast.

I guess so.

He had a revenge game last week.

I guess so all I know. The Jaguars are going for five straight right now, which is, the Jags haven't had a lot of good winning streaks over the course of their franchise. This would be nice for them to get.

Double renegade.

It might be a double renegade game, but he called out the towels.

The the Jaguars kind of own the Steelers.

Well, we remember 2017, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, went in there and put up like 44..

It was incredible.

Um, so I, I lean Steelers here, cause of the Tomlin home dog. I also have a stat. George Pickens, really good receiver, starting to kind of blossom into, is one of our favorite receivers to watch. Deontay Johnson being back is huge for George Pickens and I actually think maybe Matt Canada's offense won't be as bad when Deontay Johnson's on the field.

That's interesting. I know that Tyree Kill had that one stat where kedarious Tony had the craziest one, where, like, every time they threw him the ball. Uh, the Chiefs lost a point in week one. But yeah, I would like to see those stats for our general lives. Just like per step, like per per mile, walked. How many? Uh, how many desserts do I have for? Like, what's the what's the ratio on that?

Farts per per step walked.

Yeah, um, also. 1.2. I agree with you, I think that it matters. Not just like Deontay, Deontay is obviously like a very good guy to have, complimenting George Pickens. But just in general, having two good options helps the other guy.

And they, they do compliment each other well, and I think the Steelers are finally realizing that Jalen Warren is really fucking good. I also was watching some Jalen Warren highlights. And he, uh, people are saying he might be one of the best, uh, running backs in terms of blitz, pickup and blocking. So Jalen Warren, give Jalen Warren the ball more, maybe make Najee Harris like, um, a junior tight end.

I want to know what his, what his war is, his wins above Najee, his one, what's his one? Because not when he. When he touches the ball. It's hard to believe that he is like NFL running back caliber speed. Yeah, he just looks like he's running through snow.

And, and and for the Jaguars, like you said, going for five straight Trevor Lawrence looks awesome. Their defense looks better than than people thought it was going to be this year. Uh, Calvin Ridley, is he getting iced out? I don't know.

Do you think he's getting iced out?

That was weird that he got no targets on Thursday night football. And he, like, he was open sometimes and he just Trevor Lawrence wasn't even looking at him. Do we have an ice out?

Maybe doghouse alert?

Doghouse iced out Yeah, yeah, running back is a fumble and then you get into Doghouse, but you can get iced out as a wide receiver.

You can, um, also fun stat if I were to just ask you off the top of your head, what do you think the Steelers record is in their last 15 games?

Uh, pretty good.

They're 11 and 11 and four.

Yeah, cause they finished the season like, remember they? The whole talk at the first part of the season was, is Mike Tomlin going to go under 500? And they ended up nine and eight, yeah.

So the Steelers have been just good. They've been winning weird games, they've been winning them in in strange ways, but they just win. They figure out a way.

Can you pick? It might be Mr. fourth quarter.

I like that.

He is, Uh, Jake, you're nerd nugget.

Good timing we got because Pittsburgh leads the NFL with three wins this season when trailing after the third quarter. The Steelers have also won 14 games since 2020, trailing after the third quarter. That's also most in the league.

Mr. Fourth quarter.

He's Mr. fourth quarter, I like that, he's Mr. fourth Quarter.

Also, Mike Tomlin met Glorilla this week. Yeah, I'm a big fan, huge Glorilla fan, I know.

Huge, huge, huge hank. You look very corporate today.

Thank you.

Is it the vest?

No, it's Hank. Looks like he got off the golf course today. I wish I would golf, I did not. Uh, this is the perfect vest weather today.

It is, it is beautiful vest weather.

And it's not. There's not a lot of time for vest weather, like it's about to be cold, vest weather's over.

No, but you can go vest under the coat, because then you go coat off vest in the office.

I saw my opportunity, I took it, yeah.

You, you, that's, that's it, right there, you, you just grabbed it. Vest weather. Yeah, what is it?

Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.

He was prepared for vest weather.

I'm woefully under prepared for vest weather. I don't think I own a single vest, I have two and I never wear them. So I saw my opportunity and I took them.

I had a vest phase, and then when, like the entire Wall Street accounting Bros. took over vests, I, I ditched it, but I might get back in a vest.

I might be a vest guy this winter.

It's fun, especially puffy vests. I don't really like Hank's look right now. he looks like trash, but a puffy vest, oh sorry.

I like the ones that have the like ribs on them, you know what I'm saying, the seams that go down the side, Yeah, yeah.

The puffy vest, yeah.

That's good, that's good. They make you look jacked up, too. Yeah, who looks great in a vest is Vrabel.

Vrabel is a big time vest guy. Okay, next game up rams at Cowboys. I have a theory that I would like to throw out there.

I don't know what they stink.

Okay, that's my theory, and I'll explain my theory.

Were they ever good?

Well, no, they were never good, but here's what happened.

The Rams are mid, they're decidedly mid.

I think they might stink, and here's what happened. We every year there's like one or two teams that have a great week one and then it sticks in our head for a while, maybe too long. The Rams beat the Seahawks week one. They were like, maybe 6.0 underdogs.

Yeah, I'm not saying that they stink, though. I'd say that they're probably going to lose this game. I'm going to bet on them to lose this game. Especially cause McVay's got he's, he had the baby, the baby. He can't score a touchdown.

It's just a working theory that they might stink because it is, you know how we do do that, where it's like, week one, bad or or good. I mean, what? When, uh, the Cardinals killed the Titans? Week one, whatever it was a few years ago, Titans, I think, ended up being okay, it's just week one. Always has one of those weird things where you're like, Oh, fuck that.

Was the Taylor Luan game, right? yeah.

I didn't want to bring that up, yeah.

Well, yeah, it's a very important part of NFL history. Yes, um, yeah, I do think. I think that the Rams are perfectly average. I think the Cowboys are an above average team. And I am a believer in the triplets, though. That's what we're calling Matt Stafford, Puka Nakua and Koopa kup, Koopa kup, Koopa kup.

Koopa Kup would be cool.

Koopa Kup is a good puka, and Koopa that puka that's a, uh, an event in Mario Kart.

Koopa and Puka Yeah, I like that. That sounds like that could also be like a Disney movie with two, you know, a fat animal and a small animal like Pomona and Tumba, yeah.

Timon and Pumba.

Yeah, yeah, you got it. Thanks Hank. Is that correct?

Put this in tickler. Nakua Matata.

Ooh, I like that. Yup, that will be on boomers. Uh, you mentioned that the Cowboys are can absolutely beat a mid or bad team, uh dak versus bad teams.

Yeah, I also think that McCarthy looks like an opportunity coach against McVay. Like, if I, if I beat this guy, I'll finally get that respect. Yeah, you know.

Good points, we'll see, we'll see points. Uh, Jake, your nerd nugget.

Cowboys rookie kicker Brandon Aubrey is one of six kickers in NFL history to begin a career with at least 16 straight field goal makes and is closing in on the NFL record. And there's a straight 16 of 16 on field goals and 12 of 13 on extra points.

Can we bet on him to miss a kick?

We should be able to.

Cause that was the jinxiest jinx of all time.

The Cowboys.

Well, you said it out loud.

Yeah, but they wrote it down.

A jinx, I don't think, a written jinx in a in a media playbook versus a spoken jinx.

The percentage of announcer jinxes is probably so low because they say it every time.

You always remember it happened, you always remember him.

Jake, This you're bringing stats into an equation that absolutely does not need. We just need to go with our balls on this one. That's anytime an announcer says that a kicker is good, right? He's the worst guy.

He's like, all announcers lives matter. This is bullshit.

Didn't, uh, the Rams had Mar, right? Yeah, they had the former kicker of the Cowboys. That missed the revenge game, that missed nine field goals or whatever, and they cut them this week. That's that's tough. I wanted to see a Mar revenge game.

Yeah, um, okay. Next up Vikings at Packers. I only have one SAP for this game and I have a feel the stat is, uh, how many touchdowns, rushing touchdowns the Vikings have this year?

Zero.

Zero is correct, that's pretty crazy, it is zero rushing touchdowns. My feel is I think the Packers stink and Jordan loves not good, but the Viking just beat the Niners on Monday night. Football in front of the world.

I don't know about that because the Vikings, the Vikings, seem like they're kind of rolling into form right now.

Why would you say that?

Monday night football against a really good team that was kind of banged up and injured. Yeah, but I'm big cat, come on.

I saw Monday night football and I went, I went. I was like, Oh my god. The Vikings are are what a one point favorite against the Packers and Lambeau like this is a hammer time on the Vikings. It's like, Nope, Dan, you do this to yourself all the time. You watched one awesome game and you're like, the Vikings are awesome.

I'm going to hot tip, Okay, and by hot tip, I mean. I was walking around the halls earlier and just heard someone in the room. I don't know who it was. And I didn't listen to the full conversation. But as I walked by, I overheard someone saying 78 of the money's on the Vikings.

It's a hold your nose pick. The packers stink.

They do stink. And I think I'm going to ride with Creed though, because before the last game. So we talked about Kirk Cousins, loving Creed, the Texas Rangers loving Creed. I didn't realize this at the time. Kirk Cousins has replaced the team Prayer, which means a lot to Kirk Cousins, with everybody listening to Creed in the locker room.

That's nice.

So for the last two games, they've been on their creed shit. I might wait to find out how much Scott Stapp is being played in that locker room before I make my final pick. But I am right now, I'm currently square as fuck and I'm going to.

Ride with the Vikings. Yeah, I just I. It's a total feel, cause I really do think the Packers are not good, but it any given Sunday. Uh, Jake.

Packers quarterback Jordan Love leads the NFL in second half passing yards per game. Is tied for number one in the league in second half passing touchdowns per game and number two in the league in second half offensive touchdowns this season.

Yeah, cause they're behind.

Mr. second half.

Mr. Second half Yeah, yeah, when you play from behind.

Mr. second half.

Mr. Second half Okay, um, all right, all right.

All right.

Patriots Tyreek, Tyreek, Tyreek is going to play damn.

And everyone's like, Huh what?

What'd you just say?

It is, it does feel like a get right game from Miami, doesn't it?

Okay, I agree.

It's also a super look ahead, cause like, that's a lot of travel they have to do, yeah.

That's a lot of travel. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, there's nothing worse than having, like, a really long trip ahead of you.

That's a super. I hate that feeling that's hanging over their head even more.

That's when I'm at my lowest.

Do you think they've packed all their shit, getting ready to go over to Germany?

Wait, do we know their plans?

We don't know yet, we gotta, we gotta find out.

We're only betting it on that.

Because?

Whoever goes later, yes.

Fade them. That's what we've learned. That's a Germany's a long ways away, but I feel like it. They probably already have their shit pack going into this game. If they're leaving on Monday, you don't have time to, you know, go home. That's a big suitcase you got to bring over there if you're going on Monday.

Oh, oh, wait, wait, you hear this one? Congrats to Hank and Mac Jones for winning the Week Seven Super Bowl.

Oh yeah, congrats. I had heard that it was big.

You guys, you loved doing that to everyone.

You needed one.

The last 20 years.

You needed one big time the bill, it's the fucking bills. We beat the chiefs, that's, that's the Super Bowl, oh.

I like that.

You didn't you bet on the bills last week, Hank?

You did.

Yeah, I did, I lost, I'm doing bad in my picks.

No longer hungover, though.

Nah.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I'm just a little foggy. Yeah, we got to have some day beers on Friday, yeah.

Okay, till the get right spot. Yeah, that's your get right spot Tuesday.

Back in the gym Tuesday.

Everyone tweet Hank next Tuesday, be like, Get right spot, welcome back, let's go, yes.

No.

Oh, okay, no.

What's the weather forecast? Do we know? hot? It's going to be hot in Miami, I'm sure.

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

That's true, yeah.

They always say that I just, I don't know, Rain, Oh.

Potential?

That would maybe probably help the Patriots, help the Pats.

Yeah.

Jump up a little bit. Mac Jones is 0-5 against the Spread in his career versus the Dolphins. Yeah.

We've never beat tua.

You've never beaten tua, no damn.

Surprising? That's tough. I think that's a good sign though, you know, cause, you know, Belichick is like, we got to beat Tua.

Yeah, you got to beat Tua, so are you going to bet on?

Moneyline, Yes.

Oh, wow, have to okay, I like, I like, like.

I don't, I don't. I don't feel good going into the game, but then before the game, I'm like, why won't we just win this game?

Oh, you really are. We really are a tanking team. Welcome to the welcome. That's exactly that's every single Bears game.

Yeah, this is, yeah, this is a great opportunity to play. Spoiler It really is.

Yeah.

If we beat the bills and dolphins, I'll have been dead accurate about it.

And guess who's next?

And the jets, too.

And guess who's next?

Jets.

No Commies.

Oh nice, that'll be good. Yeah. Good luck spoiling that one.

Uh, jake your nerd nugget.

Well, first off Tyreek Hill. When he faced the media today regarding his hip. He said I just wanted some attention, man, because my mom wouldn't talk to me, so I needed some attention from somebody. Okay?

I respect that.

Yeah, I get it.

I get it. Miami has had a player record multiple sacked in four straight games by four different players. Week four at Buffalo Andrew van Ginkle, week five against the Giants Zach Seeler, week six against the Panthers Christian Wilkins.

You remember Bradley Chubb?

Yeah.

Last week.

We stopped talking about old Chubb for a while, didn't we? yeah.

He's good, he is good, he's good.

He's good, so with Tyreek Hill, it's funny. That's like a dog that pretends to have an injury. I had a dog that for about two years would only have a hip injury when it was at home with my parents. And then I took it to college a couple of times.

Yeah, okay, so Tyreek Hill's playing next up Eagles of Commanders, The Little Boy off.

The little boy was never a that was never anything said by anybody that game.

Oh, it was little you small.

You little small, is what was said.

Little you small small, little you small. yeah.

I think little boy was said, Yeah.

Because you were saying, big boy, little boy.

I was saying, we were doing big boy plays on you, yeah.

They'd be like, that was a little boy play, correct? There was definitely that thrown around, for sure. There's a lot of boys.

This is bigger than a little boy game, this is a perm game.

Oh, yes.

This is a perm, oh, beautiful, so one of us is going to have to go to sport clips and get our hair permed up.

I love it.

So Max, what are we going to do? Because it can't, you can't do it straight up, right? Because the Eagles are what six and a half point favorites.

Should we just do the spread?

Oh, I mean, Max, that would suck for you. Like, if you win by three, you won the game and you got to get a perm.

Yeah.

No, that's true. I think you almost got him there.

What about three? what about three even?

Deal fine, okay?

That was a great negotiation. Yeah, because he just two seconds ago said no to three.

You should have just said straight up, dude, and then he agreed to three, you should have just said straight up.

So Max is going to buy a car soon and he's like, I suck at negotiating. Can somebody help me out? I told him I'd negotiate for him because I love doing that, Max. I just ran circles around you.

That was so bad, dude.

Yeah, I'm not a good negotiator.

Jesus Christ, how are you doing, Max?

Good, this game's must win for the Eagles.

No, I meant, in general, how are you doing? It's fine.

Okay.

Fine, the episode popped off.

Popped off. I told Max too, Max, I think with this last recent tragic loss and clips and everything, I think Max has actually crossed the threshold. And that if the Eagles win the Super Bowl, people would be legitimately happy for.

I don't think so.

I do.

Well, right now some.

Not you, hank, you're forgetting, you fucking hate him.

Right now, you're right. If the Eagles won the Super Bowl tomorrow, people would be like, Okay, good for Max, he deserves one, but you're forgetting that. To get to a Super Bowl, they'll have to endure, like three months of Max being obnoxious.

Not true. So you need a team to just start their first game, being, Yeah, that's a lie. you need a team to start their first game in the Super Bowl.

I guess I don't know, yeah, I'm a different man. I'm a different man right now.

I think you've developed a big fan base of people that really enjoy seeing this content. So it's like, that market now exists. Yeah, you created the market, No.

The sadness market is booming.

There's also a market that really dislikes it.

Yeah, but you know what, those guys?

That's jealousy.

And they also just completely over exaggerate everything. It's the guys who are like, Max is on the show for two hours, this is, it's crazy.

That's just the anyone that's on the show that's not named Big Cat or PFT market, correct? We've all experienced it and everyone's had their fair share of the ire there.

You've been in big moments and Max. I had my brain kind of switched a couple of years ago when I realized, like, people are going to complain about everything. And it's actually a compliment. Because it's what we do with our sports teams, where it's like, you root for your sports team and you're like, fire, that guy, that guy sucks. That's no different than people who are like, I listen to every PMT.

Yeah, yeah, fuck it.

Yeah.

How's your? has your mom said anything to you?

My mom was, my mom was good, um, my dad thought it was really funny. My mom was also. My mom's also a huge Phillies fan, like that's her number one team.

So you're providing a useful service to Phillies fans. I feel like your parents had to have loved the the movie clips. Right now. I don't know if those were just those. Anyone can watch that and find humor in them.

I haven't watched any, any, any last thing. Max, any word on people throwing out the idea that you might have early onset fleming? Yeah, so people were saying this online. Uh, that Max's hand motions, the the fist, the screaming when he was tenting his fingers. Just like, just like people are saying Max. Like, Hey, Max, are you looking in your closet and being like, Ooh, that's a good shirt, I want you on that?

Yeah, that's, that's really. The biggest worry for me is you have early onset fleming. The biggest worry for me with early onset fleming is I do like to, like, chew on water bottles. The biggest red flag of anything?

Well, Frank is we love Frank, Frank is the absolute best, so it wouldn't be the worst if you got full bled, a fledged fleming.

Yeah, yeah.

Full blown fleming.

Maybe someday, okay?

Okay, yeah.

Uh, I got. I got a question for you, big cat. Yeah. Do you think that the Eagles Commanders series is that becoming a throw out the record books?

It might be.

Because they do. The commanders are always way worse than the Eagles. Except going back to what was it 2020? Yes, when Doug Peterson pulled all the starters in week 17. Um, they are always worse, but they always play them very, very tough.

I agree with you, I agree with you. I also think, uh, oh, by the way. Sackwatch, Uh. Sam Howell 40 sacks on pace for 97. He went the other direction.

It's insane how many sacks he's taking, like, like David Carr, when he was in the league, it was nuts for 76 sacks. People were like, will somebody please step in and help him? Sam Howell is on pace to just dust David Carr.

Dust him, uh. And it's not even the 17 game schedule, cause not that he's on pace for 21 more sacks. Uh, Max, last question for you, are you worried about Jalen hurts knee?

Uh, no, they said. It's like a pain thing. He's just going to play, throw it, he's a warrior.

It's just a pain thing.

He's an absolute, he's an absolute dog. I trust my guy out there.

I think you should be.

Why does the human body experience pain? Max is it cause everything's fine?

Yeah, he's fine, he's fine.

Okay, yeah, he's fine.

But I will say, Kevin Byard game.

Yeah, yeah, dream team, yeah.

Dream team.

Not dream team, but you love having guys, yeah, talking about guys.

I think the Jalen hurts knee is a problem. He's wearing a brace on it. And he also was asked about it. And they were like, is it a concern? Would it affect you going forward? He said. I hope not.

Yeah, it's going to affect.

That was on Sunday.

And then the No. That was his press conference, he said. I hope not.

Yeah, that was after the game on Sunday.

Oh, okay.

And then, like, going forward, they're like, yes, it won't be an, it won't be an issue for that.

But the fact that we're even talking about it is kind of an issue.

Yeah, but but some guys are built different. He's a dog.