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Welcome to part of my take. I think today is Wednesday, October 25th and breaking news Max is a loser.

I was going to start off by congratulating the Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers and the Rangers to the Diamondbacks. They earned it. They're a fun team, nobody roots for him. I think they have like 20,000 fans, but I don't know.

Dan Heron did this, he put this together. Dan Heron is like a long time old friend of ours who has been with us from basically day one. I'm very happy for Dan Heron. We'll try to get him on the show.

The bank.

It's insane. And the Diamondbacks, I was looking at it, so the Diamondbacks and Rangers. If you go back just two short years 2021, the Texas Rangers were 60 and 102. The Arizona Diamondbacks were 52 and 110. It's insane.

So this is awesome for for a lot of reasons. I know people are talking about what the ratings will be. I love that the people get pre-mad ratings. you get pre-mad about how pre-bad the ratings will be in the future.

Game two on Saturday night against College football will be tough.

There'll be people that are like, I'm not going to watch this. This is going to be the lowest rated world series ever. That makes no sense. I'm going to watch it, I'm going to have fun.

I'm rooting for the Diamondbacks.

I'm rooting for Dan Heron. So the Diamondbacks, they have the ninth lowest payroll in baseball right now and they got the last spot of the playoffs. So for everybody that's saying, I mean, Dodgers fans that are saying that the new wildcard format is bullshit, that they should go back. Well, one of the one of the teams got to the World Series.

Okay.

In 2001, Randy Johnson murdered a bird with a fastball. They got to the World Series. Yeah, they won the World Series, actually.

Yeah, they did against the Yankees.

In 2023, Zach Gallin murdered a bird with a baseball playing long toss in the outfield. Do you remember that clip?

Yes.

The Diamondbacks are back in the World Series. Wow, they're bird killers.

They're bird killers, that's incredible.

It's the streak of the bird.

I also love, Uh. On the other side, the Rangers, uh, they spent a lot of money. And Astros fans being extra salty. With the fact they're like, Oh, you will, you bought it and you, oh, you threw a bunch of money at it. Isn't that exactly what every fan wants their team to do? Yeah, I want my team to spend all the money every year, especially in baseball when there's no real salary cap, just spend it all.

Yeah.

Spend it all and get me a good team. Exactly. It was just like a hilarious, uh, cell phone by Astros fans to be like, Well, you guys.

Bought that? You guys paid a bunch of money for good players, losers.

And also shout out Bruce Bochy. Uh, he might, he's, he's his own dynasty, so, uh, he obviously. Had three world series wins with the San Francisco Giants. He is now back in the World Series with the Texas Rangers. Bruce Bochy has been in the playoffs. I think it's, yeah, five times in the last 15, 20 years and he's won three world series and gone to a fourth.

We have another streak going on, too, but that we should keep tabs on, and that's a. The Houston Astros are now the only team to ever lose all four home games in a playoff series. Last time it happened was against the Nationals in the World Series. I remember that pretty well. Uh, but it happened again with the Texas Rangers and Bruce Bochy. Did you know that Bruce Bochy has the biggest head in Major League baseball?

So he's got a big fucking head, huge head.

He wears an eight and a quarter hat. That means big brain, I'm pretty sure, right? If we're going to do phrenology, he's got a big brain in that skull, but eight and a quarter hat is so fucking big.

Here's another crazy.

They didn't have a hat that, they didn't have a helmet that fit him. When he played in major league baseball, he had to get like a prescription hat for him.

Here's another crazy stat you ready for? this one? Um, since Max joined, pardon my take. The Phillies lost a World series after leading two, Oh, the Eagles lost a Super Bowl after being up 10 at half. The Sixers lost the Eastern Conference final after leading three to, and the Phillies just lost the NLCS after being up to. Oh, and then three, two with two games at the bank.

Yes, I do.

I'll start with an easy one. Do you regret not making Game Six a must win every game ever? The rest of my life? That's smart.

That's a good mentality.

That's a really good mentality.

That's the best answer you could have given, cause you failed when you also, yeah, it was. It was not just game six, right? There was another one you didn't make a must win.

Yeah, I think it was game four.

Fuck, I think you went, you went over to a not must win games, yeah.

I said, bring me back two wins, uh, in the desert, and you, you, you didn't write on that weekend, you only brought back one.

I'm not going to cry.

I've been fighting it back.

I can't tell if Hank's high on marijuana or high on just Max's sacks, Maxiwana.

Maxiwana is the best drug ever. Oh, give me that Maxiwana, I'm an addict.

I just don't understand how this keeps happening. Yeah, it just keeps happening in your deepest, darkest thoughts. Do you think it's you? I don't know how you? I, I don't I, I don't know.

Well, do you think? do you think? Maybe? Cause I read all those very tough losses. We forgot to mention that before any of these losses happened, you did say that you guys.

Were title town, whatever, we're just we're just loser town. We're really good at. Like thinking that we're good, and then all of a sudden it just right in our face. Every time, every like, no City is as good is as good as Philadelphia is at making. You think like something like you're about to be happy, like you're on the verge of you're, you're just so close to being on the verge of happiness.

You did win a soup bowl 2017.

That was eons ago. It does feel like every year I would go a little bit further. Even Maxi, I don't think that any city is as good, like, is actually as good as Philadelphia thinks that it is.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess you could say that.

Yeah, hey, new studio, though, we should have, we should have said that off the top, obviously game seven, but this is the new part of my Take studio. It is not a finished. Excuse me, whoa.

It's also so hot in here right now, I have not figured out the AC in the studio yet.

We got TVs in here so we'll be able to watch games, or we're going to maybe watch Sunday football because the Bears are playing while we record live. Reaction. Um, no, not new studio.

No one dresses better for a big game than you two. I'll give you that credit, all right?

So that's a funny thing that you brought up, Hank. We actually have a clip, so Max during the live stream. Um, it's baseball, you're trying to get rallies going. We kept on telling him, Hey, you got to change this.

Uh, he cut his overalls off and turned it into, like Daisy Duke overalls.

We all took our shirts off for a while.

I actually respect it. Max Max did everything he could to win this game tonight, but, uh, he had a moment when it.

Was getting really bleak that he realized that everything he was doing probably wasn't going to get them any runs. You want to play the clip memes?

This is this can be such a bad night for me and you guys just want it to be so much worse. Please look at me right now, look at what I'm doing for you. I look ridiculous.

He's right.

He's right, I don't think you're doing it for us, though, yeah.

I mean, it's not fucking perfect. Everything you tell me to do doesn't work.

Max thoughts.

I mean, nothing worked. I, I, I, I cut my fucking things. My underwear is showing right now.

I look like a little boy.

And then, and then, I looked like a little girl with my fucking pigtails on. You do look like a kid that's dressed up for Halloween, like as a train conductor. And then I did the shirt off, that was, I mean, that was the worst inning in the history of baseball when we took those shirts off, yeah.

He's, he wasn't here on poster behind you. hank. No, I didn't look. fuck, he's, he's.

Honestly, I mean, the Phillies fought hard to make it to NLCS is is a good accomplishment for a team like Philadelphia. And the most impressive part for me is just the fact that the D-backs were able to go in not one game at the bank, but two in a row. In a ballpark that there's, there's really nowhere else like it. So to overcome that, it's an SEC stadium and to be able to to win two, two games, one, one game away from elimination. And went two in a row, fought back multiple leads, never gave up, never died. That that to me was really like, I don't think Philly lost as much as the dime backs one. It's tough to kill those snakes.

It's tough to kill those snakes. So Max, Um, where? What's the status of the bank?

I don't, I mean, it's a very good question. Is the bank a fraud?

It is a very good question.

I think, is this bank fraud? The home field is not what I thought it was.

Oh, no, cause you really thought it was special.

It was special for a while, just hanging along.

Yeah.

Every song cheering for home.

A-ok, is that what they do?

Yeah, Max, in the six, you're going to be a-ok, Max. I just don't know what, I just don't know where to go because, but it's just gonna like. The fact that the Eagles are good is almost worse.

Yeah, what are you doing with your fingers? I'm worried.

I'm just, you do look like Billy Mays about to sell me a casket. I'm just, I just don't know how, like, how I. I don't want to be excited anymore, like it's like, I don't want to get my hopes up anymore.

It is kind of crazy that the new studio is Game 7.

It is what it is. What about the other? I probably came at you a little strong when I asked you, like, how much blame do you put on yourself for something like this? It would be fair to also ask you, How much blame do you put on us?

Yeah.

I think it's more of the joy that it comes from you. No, the pain from me is also super important.

This is a tough one. This is unstoppable force versus the immovable object.

I'll be honest with you, Max, I don't take any pleasure in Philly sports fans in general, losing things. You are wildly entertaining when you lose.

Right, it's not the city of Philadelphia, because I do feel bad for the city of Philadelphia and I've. Hank's shaking his head, Don't shake your fucking head. And I have a lot of friends from Philadelphia. But just watching your pain, I mean, I feel like a sicko. But this is what people do to us when we lose.

But you guys?

We're losers, I know we're losers in the truest sense, you're a win win, win lose.

He's lost more in the last 18 months than you guys have for the entirety of the show. No, he's had so much hope the last 18 months. Yeah, that's the thing.

You wish you could just be losers like us, just regular losers.

You can just go and enjoy a nice ball game, play some wagers. It stinks to lose money, but it's just so much more. You just think that I can't stress enough how much....

Yeah, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

And it never changes. I didn't want to scream into the mic and hurt people's ears there, but it just never changes. It's just I don't know why. I think things are going to change. I don't know why I think that this is different, but everything pointed to that with this Phillies team.

They were so cool, they made Philadelphia likable. People were just saying that.

They were like, How is this, Phillies?

No, you weren't.

I was rooting for him. That's a lie, Hank. It looked different and then it just all came crashing....

Game three.

I think it was Game four, that was absolute heart, that was Super Bowl-esque, that game was worse than I feel right now.

And the bats? Yeah, the bats didn't show.

Bryce Harper just has had so many, so many, so many clutch moments for the Phillies and.

He just knows so.

When Trey Turner and Bryce Harper both flied out, that felt like it was over at that point. Trey's had some clutch moments, too, he's had some really like for in the World Baseball Classic, yeah.

If you want to cry, you can.

I'm not doing this whole game again where you just ask me to cry.

No, but you look like you're going to.

I'm not going to cry, it's just it's just I don't like. it's just going to keep happening.

Yeah, they probably are, Hank's smiling again.

Do you remember how magical this October felt? and like late September, it felt so magical? And then it just wasn't meant to be, it was never meant to be.

It doesn't get cold in Chicago anymore. It killed a bird.

It was never meant to be.

I got one thing to maybe cheer you up.

Is it looking at boobs?

We could look at some boobs. Do you want to look at some boobs?

I did not want to see the boobs when you tried to show me the boobs.

I was trying to cheer you up and they were nice boobs, Max doesn't really like boobs.

This is not boob time, it's not boobable.

Alright, well, just.

Read it out loud.

Read it out loud, read the whole thing out loud.

I don't know why you keep doing this to me. You just now put $3,700 on Villanova to win the national championship. Let's go, cats.

Like, I don't know why you.

40 to 1, that's 150 gs.

You're just throwing.

Like, we can't keep doing this.

I am the drill tweet. It's like, someone do the math for me. I spend this much on my car, I spend this much on my house, and then it's like $170,000 on Philadelphia Sports Team's futures.

Just for these moments.

Dude, you told me they were going to be good this year.

They are going to be good this year.

They are, that's a good bet.

I don't know, I don't, I hate....

I'm riding with you, dude, I'm rooting for Villanova.

We just keep losing when you ride with me.

But I get as far I know, and it's worse. I keep saying it's worse. I just keep saying it's worse, I'm not crying.

His eyes are just watering a little bit, it's so hot in the studio.

I'm sweating so much, I'm sweating so much. You need a snack. Do you need a snack? No, I'm never eating....

Do you have any last words? Hank? Do you have any last words?

No, I'm just happy it'll be a good first studio memory.

Look at him, Max.

I'm not looking at him, Max is a content machine he is, and I'll always appreciate him for that.

And he rides and dies very, very hard with his team, it's not schtick, he's riding as hard as he can.

Max will be doing this exact same thing. If the cameras weren't on right now, you might be crying, you might be holding back tears, actually.

Memes just sent us the Kevin James memes with tits that'll cheer you up.

Thanks, memes, What do you think about Cassianos?

You need more barrels.

Go for 21.

My guy, Stucky just tweeted this out that Arizona would have missed the playoffs if Suzuki had caught that ball in Atlanta.

Wouldn't have mattered, heartbreak would have just went somewhere else. Yeah, what do you think about Blooper coming at you? Pretty strong, huh?

Sounds like you care a little.

How much do you not care about? Blooper? Not much, but what are we doing here? What is this?

Alright, alright, Max. Any last words?

No.

Okay, good, well, said, you're dismissed to go to the studio where you'll be for the shows now. What a game.

That was.

Yeah, they should wear the green and teal.

Ooh, yeah, they have some sick uniforms.

The green, teal and purple.

I like their mascot, too, their mascot gets no love. Because he looks like a rabid wildcat. I think he's like a bobcat, maybe some sort of desert animal, but he's awesome.

Other things before we get to college football and Dan Orlovsky Kirk Cousins was fucking awesome. Yeah, Monday night football. The Niners have now lost two in a row.

Who's back is Creed? Yeah, you got the Rangers making the World Series, you got Kirk Cousins winning games on Monday night. This is going to be an insult stat, so prepare yourself big cat.

He only beats the bears.

He's 3-10 on Monday night football. This is the first win against a team not named the Bears.

Yeah, oh no. We propped up his schedule a lot, actually. I'm looking at their schedule right now. Fuck.

Yeah.

They could easily rip off 4-2 there.

They look real good. They had a flash of old Vikings where they missed a pretty easy field goal. And then everybody was like, Well, I've seen this movie before. But Addison is awesome, Addison once they get Jefferson back, and you have Jefferson and Addison and Kirk cousins playing great. And he loves Hockinson, too. That's going to be a good offense, I think.

And the moment that it was like, Oh shit, Kirk is like, really balling and playing different, Kirk is that big throw he made at the. It was probably like seven or eight minutes left in the fourth quarter when he looked like he was going to get a sack. And it was like the whole line was collapsing on him and he stepped up and he just threw a strike.

If we're on Justin Jefferson, will he play again this year? Watch. I'd say that now it's increased from being no, he won't play at all to yes, he definitely, definitely will play. Over the course of, like, two weeks, that that stock has turned around quite a bit.

And now the 49ers are, I don't know, I mean, that is two losses, but I think they're fine. They got to get guys healthy. But it is like, we're going to talk to Daniel LaSky about quarterback play.

So next week it's going to be the 49ers and the Bengals. Oh, I'm going to say this is a must win for the 49ers. In that, if they lose it, they're frauds, they're on fraud watch right now. They are, they are like, just hovering above that line.

I don't, I don't agree with Fraud watch just because of what they do to the Cowboys.

But they will be they we are going to call them frauds if they get beat by the Bengals.

Yeah, they have the Bengals and the bills.

I'm just letting you know, like, I'm getting ahead of it. I do think that the Niners will be fine. I think that they're built in a way, that they're built in a way where I think they're a legitimately good team. I think you'd be dumb to say that they're not a good team, yeah.

Yeah, I was wrong. The Bengals play the 49ers, then the Bills, the 49ers play the Bengals, then go to Jacksonville. Those are two tough games, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you're right, I mean, besides the Cowboys win, they beat the Cardinals, they beat the Giants.

Steelers, That was a big one.

And the Steelers, yeah, week one, and the Rams, they always beat the Rams.

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The OK Boys college football, the biggest game of the weekend, was also the biggest snooze fest. Uh, and so I've broken down this week's college football recap in a tale of of three coaches. We have the losers Dabo, James Franklin and Lincoln Riley, and the big winners in my mind, and we'll get to the Jim Harbaugh stuff later. Kyle Whittingham, Nick Saban and Ryan Day.

Ok.

So follow me along here or follow along here. James Franklin, I would add.

Lou Holtz to the losers.

Lou Holtz to the losers, while he keeps losing James Franklin loser because he can't win the big game.

Yeah, I mean, that's who James Franklin is. This game sucked, this game stunk, it was. it was painful to watch from start to finish.

Gus Johnson is terrible at football announcing. I've said it, I've been roasted for it. I think he's awful at football announcing basketball, fine.

Does anybody call him Maserati Marv?

Gus Johnson does.

Just Gus Johnson.

All day, uh, but that really was the difference. It was just basically, if you had to write like a recap of the game, it was. Ohio State has Maserati Marv. Penn State does not.

Yeah, that was, that was the game. Penn State's offense looked terrible, it was just it was a boring, boring game to watch. And I have to think that, like, Well, you know, it's really funny now. And we'll get to, as you said Jim Harbaugh, in a second, I love, I love Penn State on their high horse about integrity.

James Franklin now is 1-9 versus Ohio State, 3-16 versus top 10 teams, his Penn State Nittany Lions. Their defense is incredible, their offense is very, very bad, so bad, they're historically bad.

But also the refs fucked them, we have to make sure to include that they did.

But they were never going to score.

They didn't actually fuck them. That was it was an ass kicking. It was like, I wouldn't say it was an ass kicking. Now I would actually say it was just like.

They had 167 yards in 57 minutes, yeah, and then they scored a garbage time touchdown. And for James Franklin, it's like, all been building up to this. Where he's like, I have the team now, I have the team. And then he wakes up on Sunday morning, he's like, Oh, shit. Yet again, I'm the third best team in the Big Ten East, which Penn State's better than probably 95 of the teams in NCAA football.

So this is the conundrum you've found yourself in. If you're a Penn State fan, you have a good team every year.

Very good team.

You have a very good team every year, you get to play meaningful games. You get to have that moment in the offseason where it's like, Oh, Drew Eller might be actually one of the best quarterbacks in college football. This might be the year and then you lose big games and then you get depressed about it.

They've been close a couple years. Yeah, they just can't, we can't break through.

But that's James Franklin, he'll get you close. Yeah, yeah, so if you're, if you're happy with being close, I personally would be happy with being close.

There was the year that they, obviously, they had a gripe. They've never led a two loss team into the college football playoff. It was the year that they beat Ohio State and then they lost to. I believe Pitt in the non-conference, and that was the thing that kept them out. That was the Big Ten Championship game against Wisconsin. Here's here's why you gotta stick with James Franklin to answer your question.

There's a question about has he ever won a playoff game? Yeah, and now he can be like, Yes, he has. Also, you get to root for upsets in the playoffs.

They just keep running into a wall. And Drew Aller is a five star quarterback and he is young, so maybe he becomes the guy, he said himself. He sucked and he was crying after the game and was very emotional. Like they sucked their offense, sucked, so that was the one loser.

Yeah, and Utah is always a tough team.

Well, Kyle Winningham will get to him, is one of my winners. Jake, did you see that Lincoln Riley did not let anyone on USC talk to the media?

I did not.

Yeah, he didn't let any of his players talk to the media, right?

There's different rules for student athletes versus professional.

I would like to hear accountability after the game. Jake As a member of the media, I want to hear 20 year olds tell me how sad they are. Fair.

Lincoln Riley is like that defense and now people are saying, like, Caleb Williams, could he sit out for the rest of the year? It wouldn't be the craziest thing.

It would kind of confirm what a lot of people already think about Caleb Williams.

But it doesn't matter because one team is going to sell themselves on Caleb Williams, and it does not matter. That's the thing is he basically can make the bet like, oh yeah, one team will take me.

Yeah, if Drake May, who would never lose a big time college game? If Drake May happened to go off the board number one, there would be a team that didn't plan on taking him. But then they get that last second itch where they're like, we could change this franchise, we could all maybe extend our jobs for two years if we just drafted. That's the thing about Caleb Williams.

Easily right off the.

Bat on that easily, yeah, U.S.C soft on defense.

It is, and they're like, I don't want to sound like an old guy, but it feels like they're, uh, like, millennials. Not right? Gen. Zers, they're a team of Gen. Zers.

Zoomers.

Yeah, where they're like, Hey, come to USC Nil, all this stuff don't have to tackle, it's gonna work out, uh. Other loser, The last loser was Dabo.

I thought that played, I thought it was funny.

I hate he had to take it back.

I hate to stand up for Dabo. Yeah, um, that joke was, it wasn't a great joke, but I don't think it was it was bad enough for people to get mad about.

Yeah, so if you missed it. They asked him after if there's like a mental health or a mental coach on staff, and he said, Yeah. He's probably looking for the suicide hotline right now.

Which is funny because he's implying that their mental coach needs a mental coach.

Right, exactly so he did walk it back. He realized, like, it's not a funny joke. Whatever I I, I was not offended by it personally. But Dabo, he's getting his wish.

Yeah, they were the New Alabama, yeah, they beat Alabama, they they took the crown from Saban. I love I, I'm a sicko when it comes to just enjoying Dabo, being uncomfortable, having to go through these situations.

And then so working in reverse because I feel like they match up perfectly with each other. Uh, Saban is like the anti-Dabo, where Dabo was supposed to be the new Saban, and Saban we, we, including all of media, wrote. Uh, Alabama off first half against Tennessee, they look like they're not prepared second half. They go back to old school Alabama. And Saban is the perfect example of, like, what Dabo would dream to be.

If I was a Tennessee fan after that second half, I would be. I would be counseling with, U.H. Clemson's mental health coach for advice. Uh, that was. It was so bad, so painful to watch. I did bet on Tennessee.

Real good with eight and a half points.

What they should have done is scored a touchdown off one of those turnovers that they had, and they should have tried to run the seven point play. Um, Squirrel White was so much fun to watch, too. Oh, that catch you made. Yeah, the first half, it was like Joe Milton, Squirrel White, unstoppable.

They gotta beat LSU first. But yeah, I agree, it's, I actually think so. We were the first to report it when people start with this take, remember, we were the first to report it that this is Nick Saban's best coaching job ever.

It's a new problem to fix.

Well, it's also he probably loves it so much when people write him off and then he's like, Oh, okay, I'll go 11 and 1.

So basically, what he did was when he lost to Texas, that was that was planned, yep, that was in the that was in the game.

And the USF bad performance.

The U.S.F bad performance, where they scored like zero points. And then he probably, he probably created burner accounts, email accounts, emailed a bunch of college football reporters, leaked some stories that weren't true. Just to get some rat poison. Yeah, to get some some bulletin board material going that he can then put on the bulletin board and say, Hey guys, nobody believes that you can win. Boom.

Yes, so, uh. NICK Saban Yeah, big winner this weekend. And then again, working in reverse. Kyle Whittingham is the opposite of Lincoln Riley in every way. He is. Mr. Consistency.

Yeah, I just want to see them playing a big game at the end of the season. Utah in a bowl game is always must watch. Yeah, people have this, this outdated vision in their minds of Utah football, which is probably from like 20 years ago, that they held on to for a while. I know I probably did, but Utah is just fun to watch year in, year out.

Well, they just it's. It's great when you see like Kyle Whittingham is Lincoln Riley's daddy, and he's beaten him three times in a row. And in basically a calendar year. And it's the contrast of the two teams couldn't be more stark. When you're watching him like Utah, you know. Guys at the ball, like attacking the ball, ton of attack, like tough, tough guys hitting holes and then USC trying to do it with finesse.

Yeah, the Gen Zers out in Southern California are the perfect team for that, for that city, yeah, for Los Angeles to root for, and Utah is the perfect team for that state.

All right, and so working it all the way around. Ryan Day also big winner not only because he beat Penn State and his team looks tough and it looks like it is. Their offense is not great, but it looks like they. He has molded his team to be a good foe for Michigan in the last week of the season.

Great name Conor Stallions.

Conor STallions He makes fifty five thousand dollars a year, Conor Stallions, on his LinkedIn profile, says that. His skills are identifying the opponent's most likely course of action and most dangerous course of action, and identifying and exploiting critical vulnerabilities and centers of gravity in the opponent scouting process.

Is that a real LinkedIn profile? Yes, because that sounds to me like something that you would like. Somebody just padding their resume and very clearly alluding to, like, conducting illegal activities. Yeah, it's like, if you sell drugs.

I go to, I go to opposing games and I videotape it, yeah.

He's identifying that's actually his LinkedIn profile.

Identify He's deleted everything, uh, huh? Identifying and exploiting critical vulnerabilities and centers of gravity in the opponent scouting process. So the the story is, Conor Stallions has been buying tickets to a bunch of Big Ten games.

And the reason for that is because not every school has the same resources to be able to afford to buy tickets and send somebody to games. Also, it's just like anytime it goes back to the Astros thing. Like when you bring in electronics into cheating, that's to me when it feels like it starts to be really cheating. If it's just done with, like a notepad and a pen, that, to me feels like it'd be a much lesser degree of cheating. But yeah, so not every school can send advanced scouts to games and do that to the extent that Michigan was allegedly doing.

And there's now video of him standing next to the defensive coordinator against Ohio State, like calling it out.

Well, I saw this one screenshot with a coach that had diagrams of hand signals on them on the sidelines. And, as we alluded to last week, nothing you could tell me about the lengths to which Jim Harbaugh would go to win football games. Would surprise me. The fact that he had his own private NSA set up where he had guys going around the country and videotaping things. I would not be surprised at all to learn that.

So I have a theory and this is this started as a joke, and then the more I thought about it, I'm now believing my own joke. I was going to go with the theory that Jim Harbaugh had no knowledge of it. And that Michigan is going to get sanctioned. And Jim Harbaugh, because he had no knowledge of it, has to recuse himself from Michigan and go coach the Chicago Bears. That is what I'm going with. Jim Harbaugh is innocent.

What you're describing is entrapment. So he goes to the Michigan head coach and he said, Or he goes to Michigan. Let's say, like, defensive coordinator, or one of the maybe an offensive coordinator says, Here's what I can do for you. I can go ahead and send me out to these campuses. I will videotape every single hand signal, I'll decode them all for you and I'll give them to you.

Well, I think there probably were other guys involved just because he, it seems like someone was funding him. He makes fifty five thousand dollars a year, yeah.

Maybe he's just a big college football fan, maybe he just wanted to go to every big ten game.

But I, weirdly enough, and I know this is sounding ridiculous. People gonna be like, you're so stupid. You're just trying to keep for Jim Harbaugh because you want him to coach the Bears. Yes, that is true fact.

Knowing what we know about Harbaugh, though, yeah, that part does. Kind.

Of fall apart.

Harbaugh would definitely love this scheme, this would be, this would be perfect for him, because one John Harbaugh, or, excuse me, Jim Harbaugh, does think of Michigan football as being like a sovereign nation with its own military. He's like, pregame speech is always like, We're here to protect the University of Michigan against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He loves to break that out. He does think that they're their own branch of the military and having a military guy stealing signs.

And my entire theory falls apart very quickly when I'm like, No. A lot of people knew, but not Jim Harbaugh.

Yeah, no, Jim Harbaugh.

I'm like, I'm like, No, no, wait, wait, I don't want it. I don't want it to be known that I think he's a lone wolf. I think the whole Michigan program knew Jim Harbaugh was left in the dark.

So what might save Jim Harbaugh's ass is they might go to his computer to look for documentation about this. Yeah, they'll search his emails, right? they'll search his Microsoft Word documents, but they won't search his Excel spreadsheets, which is where he keeps everything.

Yeah, hank.

About that, it seems like this is right in line with the culture in New England and how they do business. Do you disavow coach Harbaugh? or do you think, hey, this is an up-and-comer that would look really good in Foxborough? I disavow. You can't be.

Cheating? The worst part about this entire controversy is Dave, our boss. He has obviously gone on the defensive of Michigan and the part that sucks is he makes a little bit of sense that it really is obviously as soon as Michigan gets good. They're like, Oh, they're cheating. That part sucks when you can basically say, well, yeah, of course, and it is true.

And if you look at their post-season opponents, where they can't go in advance, scouts, where they don't know who they're going to play next. They haven't really done so well in terms of that, so I honestly believe it's true. I think it's funny.

I do. There have been multiple Big Ten coaches who've been asked about it. I saw Matt rule notably, and he was like, I'm not going to comment about someone else's stuff. So that I do think you open Pandora's box.

No, it's actually I'm cool.

With it, I'm cool with anything.

It's actually great for you if you want him to coach in the NFL. It's like, this is a perfect scenario, because I don't think that Michigan, Michigan is probably going to get hammered with some serious, serious.

He's already got three games or a couple games.

Still, take away scholarships. They're going to, they're going to be. The program is probably going to be affected by this if it's true. So Harbaugh will probably be punished by the administration in order to get a lesser sentence.

The Yeah, I'm basically working under the theory for this entire controversy, I'm I'm I'm going to the conclusion and just trying to work my way back. Harbaugh on the Bears.

I think, I think this is very good for anybody who hopes that Harbaugh would coach their NFL team, yes.

I need the Chargers to now make the playoffs because I feel like that's the other team that he could potentially go and.

Coach I don't know.

I mean, he played on the chargers. They got Justin Herbert, L..a.

He coached in San Diego for a while.

San Diego like that history, so I think I'm rooting.

You think Harbaugh is an L?

I may maybe I should put in a parlay. Michigan to win the Michigan to win the national title, Chargers to make the playoff.

I don't think he would go to to San Diego, I think, or L..A.

I think he would, I think that's, I don't know. He also has some history with bears ownership, I don't know.

Virginia Beat U.N.C.

That was a great, great.

Great win for Virginia and for teams that have beaten Virginia this year, yeah, really improves their outlook on things.

The I saw one person there like, we UNC should just never schedule a home game during fall break again. That was why.

Oh, that's why. Yeah, because the crowd wasn't. That's why. Listen, UVA might be the worst.

So that's, I'm trying to think, Michigan State is Michigan State's bad, Michigan State put Hitler on the board.

They did, they did, they lost by a billion. It was a third party Hitler.

Yeah, it was third party Hitler, just so we're clear.

You never want to get third party. Hitler.

Well, Michigan state like that is just comically. Everything could have gone bad. They were like, you know what, let's throw Hitler on there.

You think they'd be able to blitz a little bit better if Hitler's up on the Jumbo truck, yeah.

Got him? Yeah, No, Michigan, that was, that was hard. I love watching when Harbaugh knows he's got his guys and he knows it like his rivals suck.

Right, right, so with the Michigan thing real quick. I don't think that Harbaugh is ever going to be sorry about this. I think that he's, he's.

The only problem for Michigan is they beat Ohio State two times in a row.

They flew too close to the.

If they don't beat Ohio State this past season, because I like, hell, hath no fury. Like an Ohio State fan that can't accept the fact they're worse than Michigan. They probably spent. There's probably hundreds of Ohio State fans that have spent the last year trying to figure out a way to prove that Michigan is cheating. Yeah, and they found it.

Congrats.

Yeah, like that, that's really what your problem was. You basically activated entire army of college football fans that had been sitting back and being like, you know, we beat Michigan every year, two years in a row, one year is fine.

Is it going into the season? If you were to be told that there was one coach that was running a massive, like nationwide surveillance program on their future opponents, it would be horrible, right?

Well, I would say Jimbo, but his team suck. Um, I could see Brian Kelly, maybe.

Yeah.

Brian Kelly could do that, but yeah.

Camera guys, yeah.

It would be he'd be the top of the list.

Yeah, definitely, it's horrible, like this is this? It falls perfectly in line with what we know about Harbaugh, and it actually, in a sick way, it makes me like him more. Yeah, oh yeah.

And also kind of like this Conor Stallion's guy, cause he was a Michigan super fan. He's like, How can I be on the staff?

Yeah.

I know I'll cheat.

Listen, if somebody wants to work for part of my take and volunteer to go behind the scenes and sabotage Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift relationship so that they're no longer a threat on the podcast charts? I'm not going to say no to that, no, bring me a plan, and I will entertain it, yeah.

We will, we will just be like, we didn't know, just don't send us emails, yeah.

I don't want, I don't want to be included. Uh, Hank will take care of all that for us, yeah.

Hank will be our fall guy, he's our Conor stallion.

It was all Hank's idea.

Yeah, all right.

As far as names for fall guys go, Conor Stallion's is pretty good one.

Great name.

Because you don't forget it, yeah, so it's like, Yeah, okay, I could see a guy named Conor Stallion doing this.

Great name. Um, okay, should we do hot seat, cool throne? Let's do some hot seat, cool throne. Uh, it is brought to you by our friends at Coors Light.

My hot seat. Speaking of Bill Belichick and the Patriots, are the haters, the fan fictionists that were spreading rumors that he was going to be done after this year.

Oh, we covered this on Monday. Sorry, we don't need to talk about this now.

I assumed you didn't talk about it, you know, as like, Hey, we fucked up his extension. Oh, you didn't listen to the show? No, because they leaked that, because he is definitely like, under the microscope, yeah.

Reverse hot seat.

I appreciated the wires very much. Big Cat. But on Monday I was out out late after the wedding. I slept on a friend's couch, didn't charge my phone, got to the airport, My phone was about to die.

So that's your fault, that's not the wired headphones fault.

Well, it'd be nice to do two things at once.

Well, did you see Aaron Rogers on the Manning cast? He had a terrible microphone, then he switched to wired headphones.

I did not see that. Yeah, he could have just played on speaker on the flight, yeah.

Let everyone know what's up, but yeah.

Are you ashamed that you would be listening to part of my take? No, I just think that's a very rude move. And if someone did that next to me, I would, if it was part of my take, complain after the fact forever.

All right, well, we did cover it.

And did you apologize? apologize for what we covered? The facts as they are, which is that the New England Patriots leaked this news because their coach is on the hot seat, so they wanted to make it seem like he was not on the hot seat. Because what year was it that they also did this?

Right after the Spygate stuff.

But he remained coaching, right, he did, yes.

Also, I had some people hit me up and we were way off. On Bill Bonacic's salary, they said. It's north of 20 million. What, yeah?

That's awesome.

Good for him.

I respect a man that can get paid 20 million dollars a year and then just go into work miserable and scream at everybody, Yeah, that's a lot of money. Yeah, good for him.

For two and five, yeah, are you back in?

No, I don't know.

Oh, you're back in.