NFL Week 18, Playoffs Are Set, Fastest 2 Minutes, The Jaguars Collapse And The Bears Lose To The Packers Again

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It's part of my take, even about martial sports.

Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, January 8th, Week 18..

And let us be the last to thank you for tuning in to another N.FL season. We start in Wet and.

Soggy Baltimore, where Freemason Rudolph played inspired ball on January 6th. As the Ravens couldn't stop. The Steelers, little Tay Johnson has confirmed he is not dead as he was a sucker for the deep ball, scoring a big touchdown to put the Steelers up. And Mike Tomlin's sanity has lasted 17 years. Pittsburgh is back in the playoffs. Here we go.

Over to our first playoff game, where I spent last night in the house of a team from Indiana, running a couple hundred miles. Nico Collins, Baton Rouge, Jonathan Taylor made used every club in his bag. But the Texans were extremely stroud and incredibly close to wrapping up an unlikely division title. The game came down to the final play, where Tyler Goodson did his impression of tokete the Orca and lost all control of his flippers. When Ursa's team was trying to air it out, the Texans, 23..

For their playoff lives and the dignity of certain short Italian football writers. Tractorcito played his last game in Tennessito, a mini truck like El Camino, much to the chagrin of small Priscopito Tractorcito. Clever Lawrence tried to get the last laugh, but his shoulder wasn't dislocated enough to get the two yards necessary for a late score.

God hates Jags Titans 28, Jags 20. Over to Ohio, where A..J. soprano McCarran never had the makings of a varsity athlete, but he did get in garbage time.

We head over to Foxborough, where we have our reporter, Henry Lockwood, on the scene. Hank.

In a fitting tribute to the weather, James Snow White rang the Lighthouse bell today as the white powder came down in bunches throughout the day in Foxborough. Matthew Kelly Slater and the Patriots couldn't even manage to hang 10 points on the feeble jets as Trevor Sibian and the Jets rode Brees Arsenio Hall to the tune of 178 yards and a touchdown. As the jets were woof, woof, woof woofing, all the white powder falling from the sky to celebrate their first victory verse to England in their last 15 games. Jets 17 Patriots.

3 15 games, huh, 16, huh.

We now head to Philadelphia, actually New York, where Max is there. sad, sad, sad boy Max.

We head over to MetLife, where it's officially time to kill the Philadelphia feebles soon-to-be unemployed ass Nick Siri Mommy may have to move into his parents basement. After this one. Saquon Tony starkly dominated the first half and told all of Philadelphia Everyone wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn't always roll that way.

Eagles 10.

Bears 9. What, what? Over to Ryle John, Maryland? It's the end of a rivera.

10.

Through the playoff schedule, we might as well, right, we can go in order right now. Yeah, and we'll just say for the dolphins, we don't know if they're going to be playing in Miami next week.

It's going to be the candy ass uniforms, the candy ass uniforms. They don't travel well, or do they? Are they going to lose? Horrifically? They don't travel. I can see the candy ass uniforms winning a playoff game in Miami.

Eight, Yeah, it's been too long. It was either the Texan spot or the Bengals. I feel like the.

Bengals play and I remember when they actually played each other and that was great. Collision course. It was the Marvin Lewis or Houston Texan spot. Yes, so Browns at Texans to start Saturday super wild card weekend.

Is J.J. Walk going to score enough touchdowns on defense for the Texans to win this wild card?

Right? But the Texans are playing the first game, then we have on Saturday night the Peacock exclusive. Uh, the Kansas City Chiefs will be hosting the Dolphins or the Steelers, correct? yes.

It the storyline, storyline game. This game, it's going to be like framed. To be a revenge game for Jared Goff and a revenge game for Matt Stafford. It's not a revenge game for Matt Stafford.

This is the Jared Goff revenge. Yes, a hundred percent yes.

You have to take your hat off to the script writers, they did a great job, the script is perfect. This year, as always, it would attribute to Golden Globe Sunday. It was one of those.

It was one of those moments where I had to take myself away because it was Jake was doing nothing wrong. It was my bitch ass self just being like, sad at myself. Well, you were just upset that one.

Of the storylines was going to be Mike McCarthy against the Packers, correct? I also apologize.

For asking you the first drive of the game, Hey big cat, do you think the bears and packers have?

Ever played on CBS? Yeah, that would kill me. Yeah, yeah, Jake was like on CBS and they were playing on CBS.

One thing I picked up on, Jake cares very deeply about initials. Yeah, CBS.

Fox SNF. I I think I just said, said to Jake, I was like, I don't give a fuck, Jake, you did. I was like, I really, the bears are driving. Speaking of the cock, let's.

Let's talk real quick about the, uh, the playoff game on Peacock. Yes, that sucks, I don't like that. We're going to have to get Jason Garrett in her eyeballs, and we have to pay for the privilege of having Jason Garrett show up.

We've all been trained by Amazon. Yeah, but that sucks too. I don't like, I know, I know, but I'm saying like, this isn't. People were freaking out about Peacock, like we've been doing this now for two years with Amazon.

Oh, I'm not. I'm not saying that I don't have Peacock, I have peacock, I just hate. No, I agree. I hate the experience of watching a game on an app as opposed to watching on TV. Or, you can easily and elegantly and seamlessly flip back and forth and show off your skills. Going back to the game, right as it's about to snap again, be like, look out.

Look how good my timing is. My point was more than the time to complain about having to watch football on apps. Was like two years ago when they first made us do it. And I'm going to do.

Right now to complain about it, cause it's a playoff game, yeah, it stinks, it's over.

Like, the Big 10 is now on Peacock all the time. Like, I just, it's the apps on us, I have apps everywhere you want an app.

My keys and Apple fall out of my pocket. It went. When we moved, I had to download probably 20 apps for different. Oh yeah, everyone has an app, you have to have an app to park.

Have you ever thought about, uh, it was just one app, right? They should bundle them, we just put.

Them all together into an app have, like Xfinity or Comcast, or sell them all to Super App, um.

Have you ever thought about, like, getting your apps on your phone, like, uh, in order and stuff? Because I, I, I think about it a lot, I've never done that. No, I, I, I think about doing it a lot, I have never done as well.

Well, what people do when they do that, they they categorize them all into super apps. And then you have one app for like home, one app for travel, one app for work, and then you just make.

Another app out of it, it's got six apps in it. Yeah, all right, so. And then the finale of Super Wildcard Weekend is Monday night football.

Don't have a show on Tuesday, Max. You can do your solo pod after that game, no solo pod.

Solo pod No solo audit. You're going to, you're going to beat, you're going to beat the Bucks.

Yeah, like, it's a fucking playoffs max. It's get up your favorites.

I was crazy. And a lot of people are asking, Is Hank going to go down to Dallas for his Cowboys game? I W I would personally want Hank to go down. But as I've I've looked it up, I can check again. But on Expedia, um, there's. There's no hotel rooms in Dallas, so if you want to go down there, you have to find a place to stay. I don't know if there's any Airbnbs or maybe somebody down there that has an open bed, but I, I'm looking at it right now.

No hotel rooms at all. I mean, I could probably find a place, but okay, okay, so you want to go, yeah.

Down on Saturday just to see what the what the environment's like, yeah.

You know what you should do? I would rather go to the game as a Cowboys fan, like I want to go and.

See, see, the boys take down the packers. You should go, you should go and wait. And be one of those cowboy fans that runs into. Stand at the front and then leave, and then leave right away. Yeah, just get your spot, take a picture and then get back on a flight.

What if we just record super late? how late, like three? Well, you don't edit 3am.

Do you think I mean, is the button going to get pressed? what if I edit it? Oh, okay, maybe we'll.

Talk, we'll talk, we'll talk. Offline. You could do a solo pod, or if there's somebody else that you're like, you know, is a great big Cowboys fan, maybe you could do a, uh, like a segment.

With them and then upload it. Yeah, I could do that. Yeah, uh, by the way. uh, the Bills did just take the lead. This has been the most Buffalo Bills game.

After all this, after all of this, they would, and shout out to Adam Schefter, who completely cucked NBC. They were supposed to do the schedule announcement at halftime of this Sunday night game, and Schefter, in the 30 minutes leading up to the game, just tweeted out the entire scale.

Yeah, he did it, he did. They've been working on it for this long. He just tweeted it out, Uh, Jake, you ended up four for six.

Would make the Swifties pay for Peacock. Well, that's the genius of it, that's the point of it. Yeah, I thought they would give them something at football.

This is how you get the swifties on the cock. You can't miss Mahomes. Mahomes really gets everything.

Yeah, so I screwed that up. Swifties are going to love that, I think. I think like right now, the swifties might be hesitant to the cock because it's new, but once they get a taste of the cock.

I think they're going to come back for more. Actually, wait. So everything I said that I got chastised for three months ago, I was right. We're going to get to see Taylor swift on the cock.

If she goes to the game, I don't know cause Travis missed out on her big night tonight.

That's cock on swift, and I'm going to get to see it, you think that's swift on cock.

You think that, well, she'll be on the cock. Is that cock worthy?

She'll ride onto the cock. okay, she'll hop on the cock real quick, right? You're playing with fire here.

Saying, I know exactly what I'm saying, you think she likes to get streamed on? she probably gets.

She likes streaming. Oh man, we're talking, we're talking about NBC's app guys, yeah, what the?

Fuck, are you guys laughing at? I think technology's funny? You guys are gross, so yeah, Taylor Swift.

On the car, I flip flop. Saturday night and Sunday night games four for six, that's on me. And if the dolphins don't come back here, I will be watching on my phone at a wedding Saturday night. Oh.

If this podcast is canceled, I can go to the game. Yes, you guys, all right.

Hank's going to cut up all this stuff out of order and be like, get these guys.

If this podcast is canceled, PFT and I will just do. We'll just do like daily meetups, where we'll have people just come and listen to it. We'll take it underground, we'll just start a nice.

Beer Hall. We'll just start it, let's start a new podcast, and it'll be on Andrew Tate streaming.

Service. But yes, so Saturday night, that's where the mistake was made that you never thought that.

You'd see Taylor Swift on a cock. I never thought. The game that Taylor Swift is going to be at would be featured on the NBC Peacock application that you can pay for for a subscription.

Here's the deal. She put out a movie of her concert, right? So people had to go pay to see her concert. Then they paid money to see the movie. That was her concert. Then they had to pay more money to see the extra version of her movie of the concert.

I think that's kind of worn off. What like seeing Taylor swift at the game?

No, no, it hasn't. I've never seen her on the cock, not in a playoff atmosphere, right?

This is a totally different situation. Cock moves at a different speed. It really does. I mean, isn't it like it could buffer? Yeah, it could.

Who loves Taylor Swift is listening and wants to, like, cancel you guys. We still have representation.

What the fuck Jake's trying to take her spot? For sure. No, never I actually the funniest part.

About this whole, if we get canceled, we're getting canceled together, we're all go down together and we're going to be at then we can cut. You can come to Dallas with me, we're all.

Doing the Ray Allen tweet together, uh, I probably listened to more Taylor Swift than anyone in this room, because my kids won't get in a car without listening to Taylor Swift. I do it nonstop, I swiftie every day, yeah.

To the ones that aren't Taylor's version, though, Oh, I'm trying to scooter Braun, let's hear it.

Out from both sides, real, the real genius. Yeah, all right, let's get back to football.

Watt tried to get back in the game with, I think it's a grade two sprain on his MCL. Yeah, so it's not. It's not an insignificant injury. Uh, most people probably couldn't play on it. T.J. Watt doesn't get injured.

I think JJ has said that he, he like, concedes it to TJ now, so does that mean that JJ is actually?

The better player because he, he was able to say no, it's just my brother, right? Well, he's a better person, that's why he's a better person.

T.J. Watt Do a frank tank walk. We have not, we have seen JJ. So, um, yeah, this might be Mike.

Tomlin's best coaching job ever, and it's crazy. When they were seven and four, they were also like the most mickey mouse seven and four of all time. But that's because Mike Tomlin is a pretty damn good coach. And so he was able to win all those games. When they were getting out, gained back to back to back.

Might be his best job and his worst job. Okay, because, um, why wasn't Mason Rudolph playing earlier? That good question Do you think like Mike Tomlin actually did a terrible job?

But do you think his great job was only so great because his terrible job was so terrible?

Probably, he said, he put himself in such a hole that he could be like, watch this. He was like, basically he was Harry Houdini, just jumping into a river. All he's like, watch this, watch me.

He was, Yeah, he's playing the game on expert mode. This time. And the entire division finished over 500. That's the first time that's happened in a division since 1935. And, uh, the entire.

Division finished over 500 and three out of four of the teams lost their day one starting quarterback.

Pretty crazy, nuts, pretty crazy. That's how good this division was. So I think we should ask the question The curse of the terrible towel.

The uh evidence is, uh, quite, what's Michael Scott? strong to quite strong? No, he the I can't remember the line, Goddamn, it's late when he has to do the deposition. I just know that somebody.

Disrespected a towel Not to Sean Watson. Uh, but someone from Jacksonville disrespected a towel, and then, about two months later, the towel had its vengeance. Yes, I'd agree. Don't fuck with.

The towel Yes, I'd agree. Um, don't do not fuck with the towel. You expect to get screwed by your company, but don't expect to get screwed by your girl. No, it's I, I, I don't know.

It was so cool, they pretty much stopped the game. I love, I love the incentives at the end.

Of the season, Uh, what? He goes? You said, Can I go to the bathroom? No, I really have to go. I've been drinking lots of water. You went five minutes ago.

To get out of the question.

Yeah, and then the crowd caught onto it. After a while, it was they should make it, like when Cal Ripken Jr. broke the streak, right?

For defensive end and Jadavion Clowney. By the way, uh, I looked it up the other day. He has actually made way less money than I thought he would have made for his career, he keeps doing.

One-year deals. I think he just likes to travel. How much money do you think Jadavion Clowney's made in his career? Uh, he was the, uh, first overall pick, so I'm going to guess he's made.

About $56 million. He's actually made more than that, so he's made 83, but he's been in the NFL for 10 years. First overall pick. You'd think that's a lot of money.

Years and then he just started jumping around. It is kind of cool, though. He's doing the N.FL way different than anybody else, except for, like, Josh Johnson, which is just go see the world.

Right, go travel, see the United States. Robert Woods Yeah.

Yeah, if it was playing Pittsburgh, they'd have something to wipe off the lens with.

That's true, but no, you can't disrespect terribly, you can't do that. Uh, but yeah. So the Ravens one seed Steelers in Can't believe my Tom. And like, I, I get it because Pittsburgh, they judge everything on Superbowls.

Well, cause to me, what that would mean would be getting like 10 weekends a year where you feel.

Superior to everybody else on earth and all these extra games you're making the playoffs every year.

You get a week of anticipation for the playoffs, usually two weeks, sometimes three weeks. That'd be so much fun, but then you become like a victim of your own success, and now all of a.

Sudden, it's not good enough anymore. You need to win the Superbowl. Uh, okay, next game I have a.

Question for you, Yeah, Mason Rudolph. is he going to be the quarterback in Pittsburgh next year? He might be.

Rooted for Mason Rudolph We've always been Mason Rudolph guys, we've never, we've never said anything bad about him. Nope, he's wearing a nice like smokers jacket walking into the stadium.

And three, yeah, it was. We thought this is really. We thought they broke football, it was that tight and they scored 70 against the Broncos. Where it's like, these guys have figured out how to.

Play football on a level nobody's even thought of yet. Yeah, yeah, anytime. That's a good reminder, Jake.

Broke football, it's never real. You're like, Mike. McDaniel got so high that he figured out how to do offense in a way that the human mind has never comprehended. Or he just had really fast guys.

And when one of the fast guys isn't playing, they don't look as fast. Yeah, maybe that they have a lot of injuries. dolphins have had a shitload of injuries, okay?

He's just so goddamn good right off the bat, that deep bomb to Nico, Oh yeah. The first thing I thought of when they did that, I was like, This is the Monday night football game with Mike Vick against the Redskins all over again. And then I found out later, they got the inspiration to run that play from that Monday night football game. Where it's like, let's why are we going to wait to step on the throat? Let's just step on the throat with the first pass.

Hard time with Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor was incredible with C.J. Stroud. One last thing I want to say about C.J. Stroud, C.J. Stroud. If you had someone watch their first game of football and they watched C.J. Stroud, they would immediately be like. That quarterback is elite. Because, like the calm and poise he has in the pocket, in the throws, he was making like no leverage. Back back foot. Just darts right down the middle, in the middle of the field, like, like crazy throws, and he's just awesome to watch.

Uh, the bills, the chiefs, I think it's four, I think it's the Bangles and the Ravens, Ravens, I.

Think that's it. I think every other team would probably say yes, yeah, especially given his contract, cause, you know, first year, what about the Eagles?

There's four guys, maybe the, maybe the Cowboys. Because I could see Jerry Jones being like, I found that guy, I took a flyer on him, he's my guy and he would be an idiot, yeah.

He might be an idiot. I mean, this is C.J. Stroud is like, in one year has gotten into this territory where it's like, this is. This is a guy that is just he is that dude, and he is just like a sure fired slam dunk guy. I actually think that if you made somebody watch.

Their first game of football, and it was C.J. Stroud playing, they'd be like, football is really easy.

Yeah, playing quarterback is simple. You just stand in there. And right when they're when, when the big, uh, strong, fat guys are about to jump on you, you just throw it a million miles.

An hour right to your receiver's hands, pretty easy and I. There was a great postgame interview that SVP did with him, where he was trying so hard to get C.J. Stroud. To, like, open up about something, get fiery. He's like, very, very guarded and cautious with the media, yeah.

Guy Yeah, and I'm, I'm. By the way, I'm happy for Texans fans because they obviously we were alluding to earlier. Like they went through many, many years where they just. It was a carousel of guys. And then they got a surefire no doubter in Deshaun Watson, and then a lot of shit happened.

Shout out to the Texans and Lovey Smith. Yeah, and that in that one play that we all thought was, you know, consequential for different reasons, actually ended up helping out the Texans a lot. Also, I completely memory hold the coach that was there before, Lovey Smith. Do you remember his name?

Uh, yeah, fuck. He was there for one year, I had to look up his name earlier today, yeah.

An old guy, old guy, big collars on his shirt, give me the first letter of his name, D Dave.

Yeah, I don't remember David David, I got it.

It was a good play call. it was a great play call. The play call worked. The timeout before the play call was bad, was stupid. And and not enough people are talking about that.

Defending the timeout and being like, Well, you're going down with the ship, right? Then, I don't care that. Like you, you know, you need that play, you have to give yourself as many opportunities to still win the game. And if they had kept that timeout, they would have probably gotten the ball back with about 45 seconds.

Fell flat there. So when they say, like, that's do or die time, you want your guys to be in do or die mode. No, not at that point. You don't, you want your guys to be in do or do or die mode, yeah.

Out, you made it do or die. yeah, you made it do or die, yeah. And then we got the fun safety at the end, which I always love.

Have he? He could have just one second last thrown the ball or kicked it out of bounds, and.

Waited until it hit the ground. I just love a punter just running for their life because it's just that's another one. If you had someone watch their first, first game of football, they'd be like, what's going on here? Yeah, you wouldn't have a guy just running backwards for.

His life. You remember when Harbaugh did that a couple of years ago, where he had everybody hold yeah on the last play and then just hope that their punter didn't get their ass kicked, yeah.

That was awesome. Yeah, I just I just love a random safety at the end, cause you can always just be like, that was a smart move. Yep.

Tush push did not work, although he kind of did a jump, though he did, like, kind of also put his.

I was far out. He also kind of got it. I don't know that they're happy like that. The ball right there is is past the first down line.

No, yeah, come get your boy, come get your cell phone, cell phone.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are out of the playoffs and all time, all time meltdown. They were sitting, uh, in week 13 at eight and three, going up against Jake Browning and a Bengals season that felt like it was. They were just going to play out the string and not try, uh, and then they went and they lost, uh. Five games out of their last six and their only win from the eight and three.

Was against the Panthers, yeah, they lost to Jake Browning, lost to Flacco, Lamar Baker and then Tannehill to end out the season. Uh, they were the one seed at one point, and Jags fans were feeling pretty happy. Uh, Pete Prisco was dancing.

Pretty, cause we even said on Friday, we're like, we think the Titans are going to win this game. Because it was Rabel and it was, you know, Derek Henry's last game. And it's just so perfectly the Jags to have this type of game. Where, even like how it ended with Trevor Lawrence not being able to get that. Remember, that play he did against the Chargers was against Chargers, where he did the Superman lunge last year in the playoffs.

I hit the the play call was like, Trevor, just stick your arm out and then hope that it grows. Yeah, like Michael Jordan and Space Jam, and it, uh. It did not work out for him. It was, it was a sad ending.

Fired for this meltdown, their whole offense was just clunky, their defense failed them. It was just a very. It was a meltdown of a season and it was a step back because they were.

That we're going to get the post-mortem on the Jaguar season and it's going to be Trevor.

Lawrence was actually super, super injured. And that is the AFC title. The bills have and the bills. Oh no, did he get hurt?

You have a future, too. Yeah, well, mine's only 20 to one because I had at the start of the year.

But, uh, all right, well, let's talk about this game after we finished the Jags real quick. um, so the Jags, uh, join. It was the 2021 Ravens, which I think they. I think Lamar got hurt, right? yeah, he got hurt. So they started eight and three. Uh, the Eagles did it in 2014, but they were also. That was also before.

In a 17 playoff, it's really tough, it's really, really hard, hard to do. I just I feel bad, I, I actually doubt that Jags fans are listening to this podcast.

Too, because the Jaguar, there are some, like I. W. I was saying that, you know, we were talking about which teams we wouldn't want to see in the playoffs. And I said, I don't really want to see this version of the Jaguars because they're just injured and hurt and everything. And I realized, as I was making that argument, I was essentially making the Florida State argument. And there are Jaguars, Florida State fans that have just gone through hell. Like, if you talk to a Jaguars Florida State fan and you could be like, Hey, remember early November? Like that was awesome.

Titans uniform. It looked like he took the mic after the game and said thanks to all the kids out there that looked up to me. So when you drop a thanks, youngsters, I feel like that's probably good indication. That you played your last game there. And he went out in a hell of a way, yeah.

158 yards, or 153 yards touchdown ran all over him. You could tell he was like, he had that, that that extra bounce, that Derek Henry bounce. Um, and the Titans, they got a lot of questions going into the off season, but if you're a Titans fan like you have.

Mike Variable You have to feel good about that. Yeah, and I I've heard some stuff about the Titans, maybe not bringing them back next year. It's still up in the air. It would be crazy.

Max would take them second in a second. Fuck, yeah, I take him, he's a fucking awesome coach. Uh, so yeah, Jags done.

Chiefs, If the chiefs, you know, like, depends if there's receding or not, but yeah, but two.

Home games for where the bills were when they were six and six and six going against the Chiefs.

It is crazy to think, and this is, this is a perfect microcosm. You're right down to the fact that they won this game at the end, it's crazy. The Bill season has been nuts, they've been dead.

Slightly buried them after week one. But we've also revived them. Because we did give the whole speech before the Chiefs game, like if you like, if you, if you think the bills when that Chiefs game. Bet them to win the Super Bowl at 35 to one because they're the AFC is so wide open. And the bill's best is just as good as anyone else. The bill's worst is really, really bad.

What's crazy is we got Josh Allen's worst in this game. Like this was bad Josh. They managed to beat. they beat the Miami Dolphins with bad Josh Allen tonight.

Yeah, and I think they they Resual Douglas might be hurt, which that's a big loss for them. Uh, Gabe Davis got banged up. Dolphins also, like, I know it's a meltdown for the dolphins.

Yeah, to look very confused and hurt tonight, that was sad to see, sad to her.

And now they have to go to Kansas City and it's going to be Tyreek's return Saturday night. Peacock What a storyline, wow.

But he already played against the Chiefs in Germany, in Germany, Germany, yeah.

And the bills are the AFC champions. They're going to be double digit favorites at home, right? Oh, definitely. I think there'll probably be 10 if T.J. Watts not playing.

Yeah, how many points do you think T.J. is worth? Probably a field goal, right?

Nah, not a field goal. Maybe like one and a half to see if the spreads up yet. Well.

Guess the spread? I'm going to say, nine and a half. Yeah, yeah, I think I think it will.

I think it might go, I'll say, I'll guess nine, I'll go with you nine and a half, and I think it.

Will end up being 10, 10 and a half. People are definitely going to bet on the bills. Yeah, yeah, and a.

The Steelers because I do think that the Steelers had a chance of maybe beating the Chiefs, because the Chiefs like the the Chiefs match. The Steelers matched up well with the Chiefs. And the fact that the Chiefs offense is so broken that they're not going to blow anyone out. And you could play like a low scoring, grinded out game and maybe beat the Chiefs.

Bills have an offense that could blow someone out if. If T.J. Watt plays, though, I could see a world where the linebackers and the defensive ends on the Steelers. Just make Josh's life hell true and force them into some weird plays, true, or just like standard Josh Allen weird plays, yeah.

Yeah, but uh, what about the Dolphins Chiefs line? Oh oh, good question, I'm going to say.

Chief Six. I have them both here, and they're actually both surprising, I'm going to say.

Chiefs I thought, I thought 10 was too much, I think it's, I think it's six and a half.

Four, and I think it's chiefs. what is it? Chiefs? three, one and a half to open? Oh, I would, I would hammer the chiefs and Bills seven and a half.

We're bad, I know it's already changing, it's changing live right now. Yeah, cause it just.

Dropped three. Yeah, Bill's still seven and a half, okay, so I was right about the chiefs.

I changed quickly. I the dolphins are just, I guess it depends on if most are in waddle play. Like, if most are in waddle play, then I would see it being like, yeah, three or four. If they don't play, the the Dolphins offense is just not as scary as it was. Also the temperature.

The temperature dips, lower temperature matters every time. With the Dolphins in the playoffs, they had a scholar, Thompson last year. A few years ago, they played at Pittsburgh and Matt Moore had to start. It's just crazy. Oh wait.

KANSAs CITY, Missouri, Saturday High of 14, low of four. I imagine it's probably going to be like nine degrees. We're about to have a cold snap, boys.

That's all you gotta say. It's Patrick Homes in the playoffs, you don't want to bet against that guy. Uh, okay, let's keep going.

Worst so so. Dan Campbell said that it was not as bad as it looked, but it's still not good. So I think that probably means like a two, three week injury, so probably not going to help.

Really, really bad for their offense. Um, the Lions were I, I don't know, would you say, like, I know that they were still alive. For the two seed. And I think it's kind of playing like Hindsight's 2020. I have no problem with Dan Campbell, like trying to win that game, especially because the Cowboys and the Eagles don't play till later.

You have to get your team back into winning mode, right? You have to get bad taste, and Dan Campbell, I think he's the king of bad tastes. I don't think that the, uh, the lines have lost back.

To back games, yeah, so they're consistent, yeah, and the Lions also just won their 12th game.

That's very good, so there you go. It's also the first time ever that the Browns Lines and Texans have all made the playoffs. Wow, and that makes all history.

In Like 2001.

The packers went there on Thanksgiving, beat the shit out of them, so that would be bad news.

But it would just feel like all this, we made all this progress and we're just right back here.

I still would feel very, very bad for Lions fans if Matt Stafford comes and wins that game.

That would be tough, neither one would be great. It wouldn't be good either way, yeah.

Um, the game, this is actually spin zone. It's just a great week in general to be in Michigan. You have the potential to win a national championship tonight, Monday night and then stay drunk until the Detroit Lions get a home playoff game. Yeah, that's a great week.

They got a lot of questions coming up, but I was looking at it. The Vikings are the 11th pick they could bring back Kirk Cousins and draft a quarterback. Like. I don't know where Michael Penix and Jaden Daniels are going to go, but those are pretty two pretty good options.

Jaren Hall happened something, something, with him trying to find the hot hand, although Nick.

Mullins I think, I think that game did pretty much end on the almost an identical duck.

Yeah, well, Nick Mullins is going to give you one or two of those. But this also puts Dan Campbell six and O against the spread against the Vikings. So Jake, just remember, Uh, we're going to auto bet Dan Campbell against the Vikings next year. Both times, or just the first time, both times.

Auto bet Uh, okay, so. And the Lion's defense is getting healthy. So they had Aleem McNeil back, who is one of their most important players, defensive lineman, and C.J. Gardner. Uh, Johnson, I think, is back too, yeah.

I don't know if he's going to. Can we see how badly he got hurt?

That sucks so bad that Sam Laporta got hurt. I know like week 18 injuries turn injuries off, you know what they should do, they just turn injuries off.

Brian Branch Branch has a wrist injury. My guess is he probably just played with that. Dan Campbell would look at that and be like, I'll cut it off, yeah, I'll bite that wrist off.

Yeah, what was the what was the stat that was just sent on our text messages?

It's not true, it's not well, technically, it's true. But the 49ers wouldn't have set all their starters, but the Lions finished 12 and five tie with the 49ers and Cowboys. If they hadn't blown that call against the Cowboys, they would have been the one seed, but if they hadn't blown the call, the 49ers would have played to the rest.

Correct, but they still would have been ahead of the Cowboys. correct they would have had.

The two seats. Yeah, you should feel bad. Yes, yes.

Yeah, so it wasn't just Jameis, though. So what happened was, uh, at the end of the game. They got the the Saints got the ball on the one yard line and they got a pick. They got a pick. The ball was at the one yard line going in and they they lined up in victory formation.

Well, so I actually don't think Arthur Smith was was wrong in in being upset because of the victory formation. That was the weird part, like he was mad, that they were lined up at the victory formation and then handed the ball off. But Jameis turns out like he. He was asked about it afterwards, and he's like, Yeah. We as a team decided we wanted to get Jamal Williams a touchdown and there was a reporter who was really sassy with Jameis.

What's this guy upset about? Like, Oh, maybe the next time the Saints and the Falcons play each other, they're not going to like each other. That's essentially what he was saying. I think that's probably baked in, yeah.

Yeah, uh, yeah. He was like, Jameis was like, Do you do you disagree? or the guy said, I disagree with your decision? and he's like, you mean our decision?

Yeah, and also Jameis had been brought in numerous times this year just to take knees right at the end of the game.

So if people were mad, I guess the team, our Saints insider Ben Mintz, Uh, said.

I agree with that. Yeah, I agree, so I don't have a problem with what Jameis did.

If they had lined up in a regular formation and scored a touchdown, I honestly don't think Arthur Smith would have had a problem. I think it was the victory formation part that was weird. And he watched it and was like, What the fuck is going on here? I also think that in your in the moment, you don't know that Jameis in the the huddle, they all decided to do that in the moment.

Well, what happens next time is they get on victory formation and then you have your defensive line, just crush them. Yeah, so, and then that opens up a whole new can of worms where there'll be another fight. I agree.

The Saints probably had to do that because if they had lined up in a regular offense, Dennis Allen probably would have taken a timeout. Maybe yeah, and been like, What the fuck are you?

Guys doing it just seems to me like they don't, they don't respect Dennis Allen as one of us.

Yeah, also happy for Jamal Williams, that was cool, like your whole team to ride for you, like.

That it's very cool. And so now the Falcons have, I think they've got the eights, the eight pick wrapped up, they're picking eighth in the draft. That just means they're going to get another awesome receiver.

Entire season, the Falcons are in the playoffs. Yeah, I was going to say, and we'll get to this when we get to the draft, because the draft does run through us, we're one, two and three. Um, I would maybe take it from Marvin Harrison Jr.

I think I do it, it does, it does feel good having the top three picks. What are you going to do?

We'll get to it, uh, all right. Jets, Patriots memes Congratulations. big win for memes.

The New York Jets. My. My enduring memory of Bill Belichick as a patriot is going to be him wrapped up. Like sub zero in the snow. Or like a six-year-old going to preschool, or whatever grade you're in when you're in sixth grade, kindergarten. And, uh, just getting bullied, what, what?

What? Whatever grade you're in when you're in sixth grade or whatever grade you're in.

When you're six years old, yeah, yeah, and getting bullied, I'm sorry, but Belichick?

Got bullied today? Yeah, that is true. That was a weird way to say it. Yeah, got bullied in the snow.

Yeah, they got smoked. Was that it? I don't know, I haven't heard as much as as much rumors.

Which is, oh, what if he? what if, what if Belichick quits before he can get fired?

That, I mean it, probably. It was a sad day. McDaniel's was there, uh, it was Slater's last game, Belichick's last game.

Dance is over, it's probably. And it didn't go out well. No, it did. We'll get a better draft.

Right? But like, the product on the field was not great. You can't have that much success for that long. It's nothing lasts forever, big cat, unfortunately, but the last five years they made the playoffs.

NFL Why was he deactivated today? I don't know. That didn't make a lot of sense. How many more?

Games over under six and a half over, I would take the under NFL look, who was starting, look, who plays a load of quarterbacks coming into the draft. A lot of injuries, though.

Yeah, didn't start, didn't start, that's true, didn't start the whole Vikings season.

Uh, by the way, congratulations Bill Belichick. UH. Tied the record for most regular season losses and also most losses overall, so pretty impressive. Sure, just means you've been doing it for a long time. I mean, it's, it's, it's a hundred and 165 losses. Dan Reeves and Jeff Fisher.

I do hope he quits, though. That'd be great, wouldn't it? It would be awesome, he's just.

Like, fuck everyone, you guys are, you guys are not thankful for what I did. You'd be walking away from a ton of money, yeah, but he. But with that offset, if he gets a new job, it probably has offset language.

What are you going to do? I? I asked you first, I need to see what you're going to do. No, no.

You got to do, no, no, we're definitely not trading up, you can throw it around.

We're definitely not trading up, we're not going to just tank the future for Caleb Williams. Okay, wait, what? It's the opposite of tanking the future.

Do that, but you need a quarterback also. Hey, but they're, like, you just said, there's a lot.

Of quarterbacks in this draft, one thing you're not realizing, though, is the guy that doesn't do.

That is Bill Belichick, True, I don't, I have no idea. I've never been in this position where I have never paid attention to the draft, I've never cared.

You don't have a plan, sounds like you don't have a plan, you have to have a plan. I've. Sounds like you might not even get your draft card in on time. I'm down for Marvin Harrison.

JR Okay, and he's going to slip right, cause you're going to take Caleb Williams, you're.

Going to take Drake, I don't know. I don't think you understand how this works. Why would you not take Caleb Williams? We, we, we hold the power, the picks in front of you.

Make me an offer. Yeah right, we're not doing that. Oh, we're going to see who's available when we're going to see who's available.

They're gonna do, why do you keep asking me what I'm going to do, cause you are in a spot where?

You're like, just feel just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Williams is a franchise quarterback. No, you were smart. no, you would take the Caleb Williams and get rid of Justin Fields.

This is another situation. Listening to me, what have I said? You, you, I swear to God. You have not listened to the show in the last month. Well, you flip flop every show, which I was the one show.

It, I've been saying that for a month. Do you have, like, a an idea of, or do you, you know?

What do you think he'd win? We're going to win interesting, we're going to make moves, we're going to fucking make bank.

Best for the future of the Chicago Bears, whatever Ryan Polls decides to do.

And then what would you do? I would trade every single pick and try to do my dream of having every single pick in the first round in 2028. Okay, just drop the super team, I would, just I would start tanking for Arch.

These picks and like, look at all these picks. It is nice looking at at the draft order, right?

Now I'm addicted to it, I'm addicted to the first pick. Uh, okay, so Hank, you have no idea what you're going to do.

But what if you don't take them? We would trade in. Washington loves you and you're, you're.

You don't, you don't understand. Hank One UNC. Here's something, here's something I'll explain to you. That's very simple. If Ryan Polls decides Justin Fields is the guy, he will trade the first pick to someone who was going to pick Caleb Williams.

Marvin Harrison Jr. with the first overall correct. All right, then I'm down for it. Give.

Me, Marvin Harrison Jr. The Titans, the Falcons, the Giants, the Titans, they might, the Falcons, the the Giants, the G. Not all drafted Vikings, the Giants, the Broncos, Daniel Jones. A bajillion dollars. I'm giving you all these teams that would possibly trade to number one the Broncos, the Raiders, the Saints. Could you could maybe talk the Command Seattle, the commanders, like there's so many teams that would trade up to one.

I'm I'm dumb, I'm stupid, I don't know football that well. I didn't like the crying thing with Caleb Williams, uh, personally, so like that wouldn't make me want to trade up for him.