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On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Pete Prisco on the show, talking about the N.F.L. playoffs so far, looking ahead, talking coaching vacancies. We're also going to talk about Monday's games, the Bills beating the Steelers, the Bucks beating the Eagles. We're going to get into all of that. We have Hot seat, Cool throne guys on Chicks Great Wednesday show.

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, January 17th and PFT. I don't know about you, but we're done with super wild card weekend. I feel like we just gotta talk about the Cowboys loss more.

Yeah, so that's the good news. If you're a fan of any other NFC East teams, is all the pressure was off you this postseason? We're only talking about the Cowboys. Today. I still think, with the benefit of hindsight and another day to think about it, you gotta extend both Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy. I think, listen, you won 13 games, right?

But that was a debacle on Sunday, and again, there was games played Monday, but Sunday's Cowboys loss was the story that everyone's still talking about today.

And the fallout from it, especially that Jerry Jones didn't go on the radio this week, hasn't said anything inflammatory since the press conference. I think there's a good chance, you know, sometimes stability is your best ability, and in Big D, I think you gotta keep the guys in town. Another guy that was in Dallas for a very long time. Almost as long as Mike McCarthy is joining us on the couch today, he's back. Hank Blackwood is back.

Well, and delayed the taping of this podcast because we are. It's really whatever Hank's schedule.

Hank's Delayed Coming On The podcast is brought to you by Roman Swipes Hank. How did things go with the travel? How are you feeling? What are your thoughts?

Yeah, it was just a hellacious past 24 hours for me. My flight Monday morning got canceled or moved to Tuesday at 6 a.m, so then I woke up on Tuesday.

They had no flights on Monday.

There's flights to, there's two airports in Chicago. I drove my car because I thought I was going to be there for like, a day or two.

But that's a really long trip.

It's very far.

Yeah, I mean, it's an extra two hours plus, and I was like, Okay, my flight's Tuesday morning at 6 a.

I remember one time I-.

And I wanted to watch the Games.

I missed a flight, I think it was in A-.

What do you mean? The games? Dallas was the only game that was played.

No, the eagles and the bills.

Those two teams played.

They did.

Oh, shit.

Great games, yeah, great games. One time I missed a flight at O'Hare and I got into a cab and I went to Midway afterwards.

That's Baller move.

I got that flight and it was only, I think it was only like 30 bucks, I guess that's-.

Pretty easy.

Cabs were cheaper back then, so maybe it was two hours.

Well, watching fact or friction, watching games is important to this program.

Fact or friction? That was it, though, right? Should we do Hot Seat, Cool Throne? Was there any other games, Max?

That's a recap, yeah.

I love the Steelers, showed some good fight.

Yeah, Max, any other games that were-.

I think Hot Seat, Cool throne sounds pretty good.

Actually, we'll get to Max later because we do go in chronological order.

That's true, that's true. So yes, the Steelers and Bills played. It was vintage Bills and Steelers, because it looked like the Bills were going to dominate them. Kill them up 21-0. That Josh Allen run was so awesome, where he just juked everyone out of their shoes, kept on going.

I didn't think the Steelers were going to win, but I did think that the Bills could lose that game, right?

Right, because it was just like they do spurts and then they're like, alright, we're good for a while.

Yeah, it takes a long time for them to refractorate, or whatever that word is, for them to recover from their offensive scoring at the start of the game. That game was almost over within the first seven minutes, six minutes of the game. Yeah, and then there was that one weird fumble that it looked like the bills recovered.

Yeah, went off half-way around his head.

I don't think it hit his head, I didn't see any angle that hit his head. And then I'm sick of the NFL analysts. That they bring into the booth, that they just bring them on there to be like, Yeah, you know, the refs saw, here's what they saw on the field, and you have to kind of defer to what they saw on the field. They just get their old friends to get in the booth and then suck their dicks, yeah.

Yeah, it was very weird. And now also, which is unfortunate for the bills, they got even more defensive injuries. It feels like their front four is healthy, and then their back end is healthy, their safeties are healthy, and then everything in the middle is hurt. And then I think they had like three more starters go down, which we have five days until they play the Chiefs. I would say that's pretty nerve-wracking for the Bills who. Their defense has kind of turned around this season and now they're back to like guys who were playing in the preseason.

Yeah, things really turned around for the bills when the 9-11 story came out.

The 6-0.

6-0 since Sean McDermott had to publicly disavow al Qaeda. Yes, if you're keeping stats.

6-0.

I think the Bills Mafia needs to show up. This is a legacy game for Bills Mafia. It is, it is. And last week against the Steelers, it was fun. Do you see the report that came out early in the day on Monday?

Shout out ML football saying that the Falcons wanted or are going to trade for Justin Fields and give the Bears the 8th overall pick. I would like to be that drunk at some point in my life.

Yeah, also I think that they listen to the show and then they just take what we say and then break news from it sometimes.

So I actually heard it was the commanders giving their second pick for Justin Fields.

Is that what it is? yeah.

That's what I heard.

I thought it was the second pick for the first overall pick.

No, it was the second pick, the Commanders get Justin Fields. the Bears now have first and second pick.

I don't like that. Yeah, well, that's what I heard, okay, so? He also said, This is just a wild report. Before the game on Monday, Buffalo Bills Stadium is going to be for the first time in NFL history any seat available for anyone general admission because of the snow.

Well, you can upgrade to A1, A15.

Yeah, that's true.

I do that sometimes.

Yeah, you can pay for it.

Jake probably checks it.

I've never flown Southwest before, and I was so confused when I got on the flight.

Yeah, that would hurt your brain.

Because I had A9, so I was like someone was in the seat, I thought, because I was in 9A. Oh, you tried to move, come on. I did not, I did not. I sat down in F on the other side and texted Tiffany. I was like, what is like, is this just a free-for-all in Southwest?

Wait, wait, you're asking Tiffany Gomez for advice on how to handle yourself on an airplane. Yeah, yeah, I did. What's the etiquette here in seating?

Trust level, yeah.

Well, I was like, Yeah, should I boot this person out? She's like, No, it's a free-for-all. Should I freak out? That's barbaric? Yeah, should I start screaming?

So yeah, the bills march on. Steelers now are in a weird spot because Mike Tomlin after the game was asked about his contract. The reporter barely got the word out. Like, I think the reporter said, you have one year left, and as the reporter said, one year left, Mike Tomlin just walked off.

Yeah.

So I don't know I was thinking about it more because I do rooting for a bad team. Seeing Mike Tomlin 17 seasons, over .500 every single year, going to the playoffs pretty consistently. But then when they said that the Steelers haven't won a playoff game since 2016, it kind of clicked on my head. And I was like, Yeah, maybe Steelers fans are right that it's not that Mike Tomlin's a bad coach. I think he's a really, really good coach, but maybe they need something new.

Yeah, and the fact that he didn't even address it like that. If he was planning on sticking around, you probably coach, speak your way out of that question.

Hey, just do a cliche.

Look, my contract's coming up, big cat. ask me if I plan on staying.

You plan on sticking around your contract's up soon.

Yes.

Okay, so great.

There you go.

Mike Tomlin could have just been like, Yeah, I got one year left on my deal. All you have to say is I have what you can just say, the term of your deal. That's a pretty easy way out of it. I got one year left on my I'm coaching this team for the next year.

I'm currently the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Yeah, and my contract says I'll be here for another year.

Yeah, so, um, it doesn't sound like he's going to stick around, if I had to guess, just based on that answer.

I would say so, too. Um, also, it felt like I now I Kenny was active in the game last night, like I think he was, he was. He could have come into the game because there was moments where I was like, Mason Rudolph, this this is turning back into a pumpkin. Um, he just can't, he can't move, he's kind of a throwback.

John always sees him, he's like, that, that boy's a bronco.

Yeah.

I love. I wish I could go back in time and draft him.

They got a lot of questions though. With Pittsburgh, they have good players, but you in Pittsburgh, you need to start winning playoff games again.

Yeah, so I I think, I think Vrabel, obviously, he's the culture fit there.

Be perfect.

Be perfect fit for Pittsburgh. Um, I don't think. I really don't think that Tomlin's going to come back, but looking ahead, I'm just excited about the chiefs and the bills. Yeah, this is, this is good for America.

And they set it up that last game on Sunday.

Yeah.

Um, I'm, I'm. I'm very nervous about our Bills future. I'll be totally honest. Patrick Mahomes scares the fuck out of me for in that respect. And, uh, yeah, I just, I just feel like the Bills defense is so many injuries. We'll see the injury report as it comes out later on this week. But they, they've lost everything.

And shout out to the field, shout out to the AFC for having, like the premier, brand name quarterbacks that they're going to send to the Superbowl. We've got Mahomes, Allen Jackson, C.J. Stroud's Fun and the N.FC. It's like all the unheralded, all like the the Upstart guys.

Our guy, Jared Goff.

Our guy, Jared Goff, the gritty guys, yeah, you got the Superstars in the AFC and then you got the Grinders, your Brock Purdy's in the NFC.

It is funny how the because we watch all this football on Super Wildcard weekend, you just kind of forget that. The Niners and Ravens are in the playoffs in the one seat.

Yeah, there's a lot of bulletin board material. If you're the Ravens, no one talked about us.

No one's talking about the Ravens.

I did not talk about that.

I didn't talk about it.

And you also see a team win a playoff game. you're like, man, this team is hot, they won a playoff game.

Yeah.

What have the Ravens done in these playoff?

Nothing, nothing, no points.

Absolutely nothing.

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So the other game, Bucks Eagles, Uh, first, let's give a ton of credit to the Bucks. BakER Mayfield I'm happy for Baker Mayfield. that was an incredible performance. Uh, you know, he's been cast aside.

Really yup from the Cowboys.

Yep, Dak Prescott from the Cowboys.

Okay, that's interesting, because Baker's he's had how many head coaches in six years, like eight, it was eight, yeah.

Rick Reich, Steve Wilkes. He's gone through it all.

He's bounced around a little bit, it is awesome to see him and he looked good last night.

He looks really good.

Throwing the fuck out of the football.

The Bucks still have good players like they. I know that I know I've been hard on the Bucks because they're in the NFC South. And when you watch NFC South football, you're like, Oh man, this is tough to watch. Like, which team actually wants to win this division? But they still got, really. I mean, Mike Evans is Mike Evans, dropped a couple.

Who knows?

They just beat each other up.

Yeah, they had, I think they were sending five guys on almost every single play, like that's what Todd Bowles does.

Everyone knew it was going to happen.

He blitzes one guy and you don't know which guy is going to blitz. And confuse the fuck out of Jalen Hurts, confuse the fuck out of the entire offense, the Eagles offense looks so disjointed. They were doing all these weird tunnel screens, bubble screens. They didn't attack the middle of the field. Jalen Hurts looked very uncomfortable when he was running the ball, everything looked way, way, way wrong.

He wasn't even doing his favorite play that much of running right and throwing it out of bounds. He did it a couple times.

They stopped a tush push last night.

Yeah, they got safetied.

Well, when they stopped the tush push, they also tried to rip his helmet off. That's true, maybe that's the key.

I wish that safety was just the end of the game. If you get a safety, the game's over.

Here's an actual take down automatic win and I'm dead serious about this. Safety should be worth more than two points, yeah.

And they're so awesome when they happen.

And they're so awesome. The fact that they're only worth two points is just it doesn't make any sense. It's the biggest win that you can have in terms of, like, physical football on defense. Yeah, an interception return for a touchdown is great. A safety. It's like, Yeah, you just you manned up on them.

Yeah, but it's the only thing where you can score and get the ball right back.

That's true, that's true, you do get the ball back.

Get the ball back.

If Safeties were worth five points, but you didn't get the ball back.

Or you can elect, you can get seven points or no, you get five points, but you don't get the ball back.

I like that.

I get to decide.

At any rate, I think safety should be worth more.

As for the Eagles? Max, you know what? Why don't we play the clip first so people can get a sense of what Max was going through last night? Because-.

This was during the stream.

This was during the stream. And I want to say this because I know there's some people who are like, Oh, Max, like, turn off his mic, you know, we don't want to hear him. Max is pure Philadelphia in the fact that when the Eagles play poorly, Max thinks that that is like his own life. Like people are looking at him as like a pussy, people are being like the Eagles can't tackle. You're soft.

To Max, but no, the Eagles are an extension. you're wrong, they're an extension of Max. No, he's not.

He's not, they're an extension of Max. But this rant was so perfect because it was all his aggression on how the Eagles were playing summed up. And Frank the Tank was sitting laughing in the background. Because, as we've said many times, Max does have early onset fleming. he is a perfect, perfect apprentice to Frank Fleming.

Was it cold there?

Where in Tampa, No.

I thought that might have been a thing, but-.

No.

No.

Maybe for Florida standards, but.-.

No, it was not cold.

I think I just corrected you. It was another missed tackle.

Another missed tackle.

Push the button.

So this is that nice little tackle. No one's getting off their blocks.

Nobody will ever make a fucking tackle, ever, ever.

It's every time how many of you fuckers, how many?

He's your understudy. FRANK Oh man, alright. So Max, that was a great rant. It was straight from the heart. How are we feeling today?

I'll feel better once I hear about a coaching change.

Oh, you want Patricia gone?

Yep.

Okay, so that will make you feel better.

That's one I want. Every one of them gone.

Every single one of them big dom.

Big Dom stays Big Dom has stayed through multiple coaching generations. He was there when Andy was there.

So talk us through the game. I mean, that was pathetic, The Eagles were pathetic last night, their offense was pathetic, their defense was pathetic.

I mean, it's just the worst. I mean, there's so many things that went wrong with that game, but it's everything that you've been seeing for the past five weeks. Everyone in Philly knew it was coming, there was a part of everyone that was like, maybe they'll flip the switch. Just because that's being a sports fan and always thinking that your team has some sort of chance. Even though deep down, every single person knew that that was going to happen. And it sucks, but it is what it is. And now we need a clean slate.

Oh, your mom texted you? No, uh, yep.

It's just like Philly mad libs out there. We just have to have someone who's a football guy who can coach football. Men like Pete Prisco's going to tell us. He kept talking about leaders of men, We need a leader of men on this team.

Not a best buddy who does the cliché and says Rocky and then yells, Remember the game, who'd they beat the Chiefs?

You see that somebody at the game poured a full bucket of popcorn on Nick.

Yeah, no, that's fucked up. Oh, that's fucked up. What, it's popcorn.

Nah, but that's.

No, no, he doesn't, he doesn't. Max is like, I wish it was a full beer, I wish it was more popcorn. He buried him alive.

To be fair, that guy was me last night, and last night I probably would have been.

Alright, so Max, you want everyone gone? Nick Sirianni went to the Super Bowl last year.

He also.

It really is actually, when you think about it, we were throwing out teams and like, shut up what you're saying.

It was a coin flip Super Bowl game, a couple plays go....

You keep crying about the turf.

A couple plays go a different way. The Eagles were Super Bowl champions.

Right, but you keep a coach around because he has to make your team better moving forward. You don't keep a guy around. Because, like, Hey, thanks for that Super Bowl appearance, right? And right now, everything says the way that the locker room looked at the end of the year, players not picking up phone calls from their quarterbacks.

In what way could you go into next year with a positive outlook if he is still the coach of that team?

Yeah.

Like, there's no way to get rid of what happened this year if he's still there next year.

Right, so they started 10-1 and their final point differential was negative 13. Whoa, that's bad, pretty bad.

The gauntlet I told you about the gauntlet.

Yeah, I mean, no. But the 10-1 was halfway through the gauntlet.

Not all the way through.

But like you keep saying the gauntlet, like, if it was at the beginning of the gauntlet, it would make so much more sense.

No, the gauntlet took it out of them, that's what a gauntlet does.

No, but you would have said, up until the gauntlet, and then they played all the good teams, they beat more than half of the teams in the gauntlet.

So your offense, like your defense, stunk, your defense looked like, I mean, you heard the rant where you were screaming at them? Yeah, soft, you're probably right.

No, they were soft, they were soft.

But their offense was so bad last night. On 3rd and 4th down, they averaged there were 11 plays. They had 11 3rd and 4th downs. They averaged 9.2 yards to go.

The play calling is so bad. There was one play that was to the middle of the field and it was the Devontae Smith 60-yard catch. Like every single one is a bubble screen, or Devontae Smith go-route. Hoping he can come down with it. That's been the playbook for the entire year. A.J. Brown Try and come down with it, or bubble screen.

One stinking time.

From week 1 to wild card weekend, how do you not make an adjustment? It was so bad. How can you go into this game? Being like, Hmm, we're just going to do it again. And I told myself I wasn't going to get mad.

No, it's okay, let it out. So Nick Sirianni is a problem. Also, Jason Kelsey is retiring. Hall of Fame career, Incredible career. That's sad. Some older pieces on your roster?

Oh, because he played for Alabama.

What? Oh, he did play. No, I'm not talking about Devontae Smith, he's pretty skinny, true?

What?

He didn't play that well this year.

I know what you're trying to do, I'm not going to do it. What are you talking about?

I don't know why, don't you tell me what I'm talking about?

How could I know what you're thinking?

Because you know exactly what I'm thinking.

I have no idea what you're talking about, you could be talking about anything.

What was the elephant in the room? That was a little clue.

Devontae Smith He went to Alabama.

Yeah, sooner, no, think sooner than that.

I get it.

I know what I'm trying to think of.

No, he knows 100 what I'm talking about. Is that an issue?

We don't want to get to the second round of questioning on this.

I don't think Jalen Hurts is an issue, but is he an issue? He did not look as good this year.

You guys said it all year, he didn't look himself. I think the knee was a serious thing that was lingering him all year.

I don't think I've ever told you that.

Almost like two guys were sitting here every single week this year. Being like the knee doesn't look good.

I agree, I think he's a tough guy, he battled it out this year, I think that he was not 100. I think there are things that are going to come out about his medicals.

Led the league in least easy passes.

I didn't know that is a stat and I was trying to find it again. Someone sent me this graph of the most difficult passes thrown in the league. It was like one of those....

A graph, a square graph.

It was some sort of graph, there's like the line, a line graph. It's like a diagonal line, that's the base, and you want to be above the four quadrants.

This is a great segment, Max explains. A graph.

It said that he was throwing the most difficult balls in the league this year.

But that doesn't mean he has the least amount of easy.

No, it did.

By his average, his average easiness of balls thrown was harder than most other players.

He was completing the most difficult passes in the league and not throwing the easiest passes.

Got it, but would that be? Is that his fault? is that the offense's fault?

Maybe he should throw easier balls, maybe he should change the shirts to be Jalen Hurts throwing club to Jalen Hurts passing club.

Check down club.

I mean, that's a good shirt in the barstool store. I don't know why you're saying anything about that.

Sounds like he's more of a thrower than a passer.

What?

And he's getting paid a lot of money now.

Yeah, Jalen Hurts is still a good quarterback. I agree, I agree. I don't know why we're even talking about it. We're all trying to find the guy who did this.

Max You over the course of the season have said many times, don't pay a quarterback.

I think that's more of a N.FL thing, you're starting to see that around the league.

Is anyone in this room with us right now? Have they paid a quarterback you were talking specifically about? Jalen Hurts?

Are the Eagles in the NFL?

Yes, well, they might get relegated after last night.

I don't regret that, I think that's just the way of the league. Now. A quarterback gets good, you have to pay them and then it hurts your team. We talk about this all the time.

What about if you just have a really good quarterback and it takes less money to help your team?

Yes, Tom Brady, I get it.

You can pay a quarterback a lot of money, they just have to be special.

But every quarterback is going to get that deal.

You've got to know that they're special before you pay them that money.

I still think Jalen Hurts is a very good quarterback. Every quarterback needs a coach that is going to put them in a situation to win.

We're good, I actually agree with you, I do too. Jalen Hurts is still a very, very top 10 quarterback, for sure.

I will 1000 say that I think he's top 10.

There was an interesting video that came out, I think mostly sports. One of our shows here at Barstool with Mark, Titus and TJ tweeted this video out. It was before....

Ebo's on that show, too.

Oh yeah, and Ebo and Conor Griffin, Conor Griffin's mom. When they showed this video of Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni at the Super Bowl, Nick looking across the field and flipping somebody off.

I think that was the Seahawks game, wasn't it?

Was it the Seahawks game?

He was yelling at Pete Carroll in the Seahawks game.

I thought, for some reason, it was at the Super Bowl.

You could also say that was the moment it fell apart, too.

Yeah, but he did have a back and forth with Pete Carroll this year. That was him being like, what the fuck?

Yeah, but in that video in particular, you can definitely see a look on Jalen's face. Like, I'm the leader of this team.

Yeah, I'm sick of this dude.

Nick is a clown. That was the Nick's a Clown moment.

I didn't chime in when he was talking about it, but he's going to talk about your need, your head coach, to be leaders of men. I don't know how you look at Nick Sirianni and be like, I think this guy is going to motivate a team through adversity, I'd agree.

Alright, so a couple other questions.

It was the Super Bowl.

It was the Super Bowl. He had another one where he went after Pete Carroll, that was like, What are you doing, dude?

I think in this one, they showed a shot of Mahomes, right? and then they showed a shot. People thought he was flipping off Mahomes. I don't think that he was, he was flipping off somebody on the Chiefs.

Yeah, why are you doing this? One other question. And we'll get back to coaching. Did Quez Walkins not bring his phone last night? What happened?

QUEZ Walkins is not a good wide receiver, like, he's just not good.

But he wasn't ready for the call.

No, he was not ready for the call.

He was not ready for the call.

No one was ready for the call, except for Devontae Smith.

Devontae Smith was fantastic.

Devontae Smith Very good.

He's awesome, alright, so Nick Sirianni, if they don't fire him, how angry will you be?

So angry.

Furious.

I just won't care about anything going into next year if he's still the head coach.

You said that you would stop watching Eagles Games if Nick Sirianni was coach next year.

I have to watch Eagles Games for my job. You said you'd stop. If you guys will allow me to stop watching Eagles Games. I will stop watching Eagles Games.

I think if Nick Sirianni is the coach, you have to stop watching them, but you can listen to them.

Are you going to close your eyes every time they show Nick Sirianni?

No, because the only reason I'm not watching it, that I would do, the only reason I'm not watching it is so I. Because I know what's going to happen and I don't want to be emotionally invested into that team.

I mean, how great would that concept be, though, if Max was in the gambling cave with us, just with the Steve Bartman earphones on, just screaming because the Eagles fucked up again?

Yeah, I do love Merrill.

It's a disaster, it's a collapse of epic proportion. He looks like a clown. Now, the question is, who do you want?

There's one guy I want for all of the right reasons.

And one bad boy that you want, for all the wrong ones, tell me about the bad boy. He sounds more fun.

I mean, it would be so good if Phil Belichick was on this team.

Yeah, it would, it would be awesome story.

Story of all time Hank would be....

That's what you do in bed at night.

Yeah.

Were you thinking about Max this weekend?

I was not, I was not.

Who else do you want?

I'll take Harbaugh if he's available.

Okay, which one? Oh, good question, both.

I don't know, I could be convinced there's a plethora of men out there.

Mike McCarthy.

No, not Mike McCarthy.

You want a plethora of men.

Ron Rivera Not Ron Rivera, I'd maybe take Ron Rivera as D.C.

No, you wouldn't.

Why not?

Okay, yeah, no, you should.

As long as it's not Nick Sirianni.

There are so many good coaches that are available right now. Like the fan fiction that we're all writing in our heads.

And the Eagles still have a good roster and a desirable place to go for a coach. So I think that we should be in a good situation to get somebody good.

You're running out a guy. After three years, he went to the playoffs, every single year, went to the Super Bowl.

I like that framing. You're running him out of town.

Doug Peterson won a Super Bowl, got ran out of town.

Andy Reid got run out of town.

Nick Foles won a Super Bowl, got run out of town.

Andy Reid was there for ten years.

Chip Kelly, great coach, run out of town.

Chip Kelly was a really good coach.

Rich Kotite ran him out of town.

Ran his ass out of town.

Buddy Ryan, What'd they do to? Buddy? ran him out of town?

You know what would be great, though, outside of Bill Belichick being the coach?

Ran him out of town.

The Cowboys hiring Nick Sirianni. I would love to see him just have to flip right away.

Oh my God, I would love that.

With a ten-gallon hat and just be like, I've always loved Dallas.

How'd you do it?

Yeah, like, tell us a time.

Did you feel bad at it?

Tell us a time that you faced adversity in your job. Yeah, like, well, there was this one Super Bowl.

So we talked about the interview possibility with Belichick on Sunday Night Show, where it's like, what do you even talk in an interview with this coach about? Regardless if it's the Falcons, that's crazy, but if it's anybody else....

Whitney said Belichick should interview them, yeah.

That's correct. So what they're doing? The Falcons flew up, picked him up, and then flew him down. I believe to Antigua, Love it and interviewed him on Arthur Blank's Yacht. So if you want to interview Bill Belichick, you have to take him on a vacation with you.

It's no different than a recruit coming to town, you gotta make sure that you got everything set up.

Nil deals everything have him meet with the boosters.

It's he got game.

So we talked about.

Hey, Allen gets into that dorm room.

I'm all over Arthur Blank's jet. We reported that he was going to be interviewed by the Falcons before it broke. I'm telling you right now. Next up hasn't been reported yet. Harbaugh will be interviewed by the Falcons. Ooh, I like it. The plane, I believe, just picked him up and is flying back to Atlanta with him right now for the interview.

Love that no antigua.

Harbaugh doesn't want to go in.

It looks close to.

Although Harbaugh probably is like, I don't want this frills, just get me in a room.

Yeah.

No, no windows. He wants to be just in a room, talk some football. I think Harbaugh's going to end up going to the Chargers. And then, yeah, Bill Belichick to the Eagles would be great for this show. Bill Belichick to the Cowboys would be great for this show.

Belichick, to the Commanders, would be great for this show, but I only want him to fuck with Hank.

I also want Hank to talk about if that were to happen.

What do you mean? He would become a diehard Cowboys fan?

No eagles.

No eagles for Hank. Good point, Max. You hate the city of Philadelphia so so much.

Yeah, honestly, it would be tough. I want to say I'd be a fan. I don't know that that would be true. Max would be so annoying.

Oh man, the record.

Anyone else?

So you would agree at that point that it's Brady, not Belichick.

No, that's it, it's Philadelphia.

No, you would have to.

You think Philadelphia can bring any man down?

Yes, they've proven it time and time again.

They have run a lot of people out of town.

They ran that kid, I already forgot his name.

They ran Hitchpot out of town.

Hitchpot They kicked the shit out of Hitchpot.

That rocked hit the bricks, cyber boy.

I would love to see it. By the way, who sent that? Jake? might have sent that in a team meeting today. Mike Tomlin told Steelers players the speculation about him stepping away is unfounded and he plans on coaching the team in 2024. Sources say Tomlin, who is entering the final year of his contract, is expected to address the media later this week.

Yeah, it's kind of weird now, you have to think, maybe Vrabel?

Vrabel would be great in Philadelphia.

I would take Vrabel, for sure.

Leader of men.

Men.

You've got some old guys on your roster, Max.

For sure, you've got a lot of holes.

I also was thinking about it more. I think the strategy for the Eagles to draft a bunch of Georgia players is smart. But then when you give them to Nick Sirianni, they're all like, Who the fuck is this guy? It went from Kirby Smart to Nick Sirianni. That's where it falls apart.

You think that's why Sirianni wears the visor just to remind them, yeah, a little continuity in their life.

Kind of like Kirby, it looks like a Halloween costume, he's Kirby smart for Halloween, so what else have we got? Anything else?

I'm a huge Lions guy.

That would be so tough for us.

Yeah, well, you would prove grit week, right, after all the complainers.

Very true, yeah.

Yeah, we had the Super Bowl before everyone else.

Yeah, Bill's Lions, that'd be awesome for America.

Yeah, but the Bucs Baker Mayfield's just a dog, he's a true dog.

That's an old-time run-out-of-town guy, too, yeah, in Cleveland.

Yeah, he's now watching them.

Never knew how good you had it.

Okay, hot seat, cool throne then and then we'll get to Pete Prisco talk a little more ball.

No joke. I think I might have a cane sauce problem. I was braising canes the other day, getting my bucs combo with extra sauce on the side. Like usual, I have an order when I eat my canes, it goes. Crinkle, cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw.

Hank Hot Seat, Cool Throne.

My hot seat is myself.

Oh, why?

I delayed the taping of the show.

Yes.

I feel terrible about that.

No, you don't.

I do.

You don't at all.

I really do, no, you don't, I feel really bad.

You wanted to be back here?

I did.

So bad you didn't get another flight.

I did get another flight. Yes, I did.

I thought it was the same flight that got delayed.

No, that flight this morning got canceled, that got delayed again until tomorrow, so I had to get another flight for today.

Oh, but you couldn't have done that yesterday.

I'll show you the screenshot.

You took screenshots.

Jake was trying to track my flight and snitch on me, he can confirm.

That's not true, Jake was.

I'm hearing rumors, Jake, I'm hearing rumors.

Well, the rumors are false.

It's disgusting how you're invading another man's privacy by tracking his plane.

I just like tracking planes the same way you do. Yeah, why do you guys just hop on my interest and shut them down?

Jake, That was.

And I just heard that, you know, Jake was on you.

Jake, were you looking at his flight?

Yeah, he was mentioning Southwest. I had an interesting Southwest experience last week, so I just wanted to see.

I like that actually, Jake, I'm going to say, I'm going to actually go reverse of everyone here. Every time Hank flies, I want you to track it, and I want you to give me updates on what's going on with his flights.

He's just got to give me the info.

Yeah, we'll get it, don't you worry.

But yeah, I feel like I've been on the hot seat the past couple of days. Everyone's tweeting at me New York Post, writing articles questioning whether or not Tiffany and I are dating. So I would like to set the record straight that we're not.

Oh, we're not dating, no.

Yeah, we watched the Cowboys. That was kind of the one thing that really bonded us together the most was our mutual love for the cowboys. We did spend a really nice weekend together. She has a lovely house, great dogs.

Yeah, yeah.

We were just kind of bickering, it was one of those things where we kind of just said, let's just call a spade a spade and go our separate ways.

Oh, that's brutal. It's like when a couple breaks up because they can't decide if they want to have kids or not.

Yeah, we're still friends, but yeah, I just think romantically it's not going to happen.

So are you going to see her any time, ever again?

You never know, you never know what the future holds. Big Cat. None of us could be here tomorrow.

Oh yeah.

Oh, you're going to go that route.