Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Whitworth, NFL Week 11 Picks And Preview, Fyre Fest And The Bengals Might Be Dead
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Fuck my side, but, you know, my take, today is Friday, November 17th, and the Bengals season is over. That was a bummer it was.
On Drone Thursday. Nonetheless, oh my God, it was. The pageantry was incredible for me.
And I felt we had Obama, uh, remote controlling, a army of drones. I think we had two that crashed, yeah.
There's, there's, there's two, there's a two drone delays. Mark Andrews went out, Lamar Jackson got his ankle rolled up on, and then Joe Burrow looks to be out for a very long time. Uh, it's a UCL injury. Couldn't grip the football.
Just the biggest bummer, like, I sat there and I was like, this we. We've dealt with so many quarterback injuries this year and the Bengals have no margin for error because of the way they started their season. And now it looks like we will not get the Bengals or Joe Burrow, more importantly, Joe Burrow, in the playoffs and get to see what they could do.
It's a complete and utter bummer. Yeah, it's a huge night for as a blank fan, I'm seeing a lot of. As a Ravens fan, I'm sorry to see what's happened to Joe Burrow as an avid Steelers fan.
I'm sorry to see what happened to Joe Burrow. Um, just support pouring out from across the league.
It's touching to see that. Yes, yes, uh, actually, as we were taping this, Jake Browning did score.
A touchdown, Hmm, yeah. Jake Browning the future and unfortunately for the Bengals, R.G. three has already committed himself to trying out for the Browns if they'll have him.
Yeah, he put himself his name in the hat for that, although there was a picture of Joe Flacco on an airplane going up to Cleveland. How, what a story that would be, huh?
If Joe Flacco came in, handed the ball off for 90 of the time through 12 passes a game and the Browns won the Super Bowl. I think that's what.
I'm rooting for now. Yes, uh, it would be incredible, but yeah, we have to. We have to come to grips with No. Joe Burrow Probably for a long time. I. It does feel like he's going to be out for a while, like he, uh, the body language, he was pissed.
Uh, I think they showed him on the sideline, coming out of the half. Talking to Sam Hubbard, he was like, Can you go? and he's like, Nope, and we. He had a mysterious, uh, wrist brace on that.
The Bengals social media team accidentally tweeted out. And Chris Long did a great job. He actually found the play from last week uh play to. He got squashed, uh, by alignment, and so Chris was all on top of that. Found it, and then so we, we. He might've had a preexisting injury to that hand, he re-injured it or injured it further.
And then we got our favorite guy, Mike Mike Florio, who will be on the show on Tuesday. We figured Thanksgiving got to have your crazy uncle that you don't really agree with, but you love anyway. So Florio will be on the show next week, but, Florio said. Meanwhile, the NFL injury reporting system is a joke, as evidenced by Burroughs wrist injury being hidden. The joke will be on the NFL. When Congress calls a hearing, or prosecutor convenes a grand.
JurY Yep, I would. I would love to see that. I love it when Mike really sinks his teeth into a story and thinks way, way outside the box. I would. And listen. If Congress got their act together and brought Roger Goodell under testimony and just grilled him about the injury reporting process, I actually think that would have bipartisan support.
I think everyone can get behind that. There's like, there's only a few common enemies that we have left in America. There's the NCAA, there's Roger Goodell. We used to have Osama Bin Laden. But the events the last couple of days, I'm not so sure about it anymore. But yeah, if you want to get people behind, you just bring Roger Goodell up and make him testify under oath.
You said Chris Long was the one that found that? Yeah, Chris Long found it, Chris Long, Chris Long. like tape study, Chris Long.
Chris Long went, he saw the the the picture of Joe Burrow that was deleted. And he went back to the Texans game and he found it. Play two in the Texans game. He got smushed in a bang bang play with his offensive lineman, and you can see Joe Burrow like shaking the hand on play two.
Chris Long, your number one source for right wing news.
Yeah, he got it, he's dude, he, he did the work. So, um, yeah. As for the. As for the Ravens, so Joe Burrow doesn't play defense. The Bengals defense have their own issues. I know the game flow changes when Joe Burrow is not in the game, but the Ravens offense looked awesome.
Yeah, they look really good and a banged up Lamar, we're doing it. Lamar went down a couple of times where it looked like old Lamar would have been able to keep running.
So I don't think.
He's going to be a hundred percent. He was protecting himself, it felt like, but he was throwing the ball around the yard. Odell Beckham looks good, 116 yards for him.
They were running the ball, they had. The the Ravens are like all the way back, where they now have many backs who can get you yards. And they said, You know, Keaton Mitchell, uh, Gus Edwards and and Lamar Jackson, all running. I did Justice Hill score a touchdown. No, he didn't.
This might be the in for a play.
I don't know if he scored a touchdown. Remember a couple of years ago when every raven got hurt? I know it happens every year, but a couple of years ago it was like, weeks one and two were just crazy for him at the time. Towards the end of the season, we're like, holy shit.
Are the Ravens actually just geniuses by getting all their injuries out of the way early?
Best free agency signings is getting a guy back from the IR.
So are the Ravens going to be peeking at exactly the right time?
We'll see what happens with Mark Andrews. Hopefully that's not a long-term issue because he is very important to their offense. Like that first drive, they marched right down the field.
Yeah, why do you think Mark Andrews doesn't necessarily get as much credit as, like a Travis Kelsey? because Travis Kelsey is better? Yeah, that's probably true, but Mark Andrews is pretty damn good.
He is very good, I don't think I think he's underrated, actually.
I would, I would agree, too. I also didn't realize until, like a few weeks ago, that he's a diabetic and has to get his insulin tested every time he comes off the field.
Are you serious, like on the sidelines?
Yes, he, there was a, I think it was maybe inside the NFL, he was mic'd up. Every time he comes off, he has to get his his test to see where his insulin levels are.
That's great.
Crazy? So yeah, the ravens look good, though, the ravens look good, and I'm just bummed about Joe Burrow.
Yeah, it sucks.
It sucks a lot.
For every, for a fan of football, it's just bad. It's bad because you want to see like the game is more fun when Joe Burrow is playing because he's awesome.
Yeah, and now the maybe we'll get to. When we do our weekend preview, we got an all-time Memes desperation spin zone. But memes this. Maybe there's a spot open, you got to just jump like six teams, maybe there's a spot open.
Gotta win Sunday.
Gotta win Sunday, all right, we'll get to that. All right, let's do it, let's get to all of our picks and preview. We're going to talk about every single game on Sunday.
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Com Slash running the Eagles and the Chiefs, Super Bowl rematch, everything else. There's some good games. I actually want to say, maybe this is going to be our chaos week.
Yeah, I was looking at the schedule and on paper, nothing that really jumps out to me of being like, Oh, god damn. I can't wait to see that game during the day. But we're getting great primetime games, so let's not forget that. Yep, and you know that some of these games are going to have very surprise endings to them.
Like, there are going to be some teams that get upset this weekend.
Yes, yes, there's going to be some stupid shit that happens, so let's jump into it. We'll get to our picks later, but let's start with the best early game because it means the most. In terms of the AFC North, the playoff picture, all four teams in the AFC North right now are in the playoffs or no. Sorry, the Bengals are not, which that was stupid of me because we just watched Bengals ravens.
You heard us talk about it, but let's get to it. Steelers at Browns Deshaun Watson out for the year, DTR starting. Who is not good? I know that P.J. Walker's also not good. And I guess I could see the reasoning of, like, Hey, you want to see what you got with the young guy?
But DTR's not good, he's fun, he's definitely fun in a bad way for a Browns fan, like he throws the ball backwards. But I think first things first, we should talk about the injury to Deshaun Watson because this sounds like he's the toughest guy on planet Earth. According to his agent that texted Tom Palacero.
So, according to Old TP, he said Watson wanted to be shot up in an attempt to play through his shoulder and ankle injuries. He also reported that Watson received multiple medical opinions. And they told him if he took a hit to the same spot, his shoulder could fall apart. I love it, his shoulder could disintegrate, his shoulder could explode.
It's broken, his body would be broken. It's like Juju's knee, right? Yeah, it could just disintegrate at any given time.
Which, by the way, we're still waiting. It could happen at any time, that's the thing about it. But with the shoulder, he's got like a fracture where it pops back in, like at the very tip of the upper arm or whatever that thing's called. So it sounds to me like it's an injury that he's had.
I know, he says, it's a new one. But you get that injury when your shoulder pops out and then it pops back in, which is exactly how we hurt his shoulder previously.
It also sounds like Deshaun Watson is going to be in the running for worst contracts of all time. Yeah, a hundred million dollars guaranteed has not been able to stay on the field. The Browns have a roster that is Super Bowl worthy. And now he's missing the rest of the year. And they're going to be having to fend off the AFC North with D.TR or P.J. Walker, Yeah.
I have an idea for their.
Offense because the running game's good, the defense is like one of the best that we've ever seen. But as far as, uh, passing the ball, what if they just put Miles Garrett in at tight end or receiver? And David Joke is pretty damn good? But wait, well, here's the here's the twist to it. You throw a jump ball, you let the safe, the safety intercept it, and then Miles Garrett comes down and hits the safety as hard as you can. For it's a positive yards, positive yards every time.
Yeah, this game is, um, I don't know what to think about it because I feel like the Steelers like, they can't really move the ball, especially against a good Browns defense, the Browns are not going to be able to move the ball with TTR, they're gonna load up the box, it's going to be ugly.
It is, uh, one of the lowest totals we've had in the last 10 years. The only one lower was actually the Grapple Game since Browns. Uh, so right now I think it's sitting at 33, which is crazy for an N.FL game that is wild. And I think they, if you had to, if you put a gun on my head and was like, Which side are you going to pick?
It would be the under. You can't take the over in this game.
No, you can't. um, I probably will, just as a personal challenge, but you can't. you can't, like a normal person. Would not, you should not, you should not, not endorse 32 and a half. It's 32 and a half right now, you know what the Steelers are? Nate Diaz.
Yeah, just get the kicked out of them for like three quarters and they get stronger as they get.
Worse, yeah, they just want to be down going into the fourth quarter by one score and they're in perfect spot. Give them a shot. Uh, excuse me.
I also have a really sad stat for the Browns. Uh, in the last decade. This is a 55th time they're starting a backup quarterback. That is very sad. And it's even sadder than that because for two straight years, Baker Mayfield made every start.
Yep, so it's really like eight years and 55 times they've had a backup. Uh, not their week. One starter start a game that's pretty remarkable.
Do you think people are coming around to to the take? That? Baker Mayfield was the best thing that's ever happened to the Browns? And they should never have let them go, they so Browns fans.
I think are thinking that, but more than that, and this is now, I think there's multiple teams who are having the same thought. Giants, Jets, Browns, Browns have a real case for it. Why did they get rid of Josh Dobbs? Yeah, that's like there are so many teams right now.
Being like Josh Dobbs could fix all of our problems. he could if the Jets had Josh Dobbs.
They would be a playoff team, I would say, with Josh Dobbs right now, the Browns would have more wins than they do with Deshaun Watson. Play. Yeah, so.
And they had him on the roster, I think, all the way up until August, right? Yep, so that's it. Josh Dobbs is is basically the guy that everyone looks to is like he could solve everything.
Yep.
You see, uh, they dusted off the old. What if Tom Brady comes back? Take for the Browns? Browns? Yeah, you think you think Tom Brady would want to live in Cleveland? Hank? No, why not?
I don't even, I mean, he's. It's been a while since he's played. I actually think that if LeBron played quarterback for the Browns, they would be better. Yeah, they just run wildcat, yeah.
DTR Sorry, I have a.
Call I can't get rid of. It's like a small cough. I'm not sick, but I can't. It's like you, when you get something stuck in your throat, cough. I can't get rid of it.
I'm going to try to cough really loud. What are you looking at, Max? There we go, yeah.
It doesn't always feel, no. I ate a dumpling a minute ago and it's fucking stuck in my throat. Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun, that's fair, that's fair.
That's fair, okay, Josh Dobbs would fix.
Everything. What kind of dumpling did you eat? Uh, Donnie made them. Damn, that sounds good.
We're getting Chinese in a minute anyway, Uber eats. Yeah, yeah, uh, okay.
So this game's gonna.
Stink, but I'm going to love it, I think it is. It's going to stink in a very Steelers way. Yeah, you know what?
This should actually be a game where the Steelers should outgain the Browns, they should on paper because they've. The Steelers have kind of fucked themselves because their defense is so good that they usually don't have like a full field to work with. Even if they go kick a field goal, right? So now they can put together a drive from like their own maybe 35 yard line and just go kick a field goal. That's positive yards every single time.
Yeah, um, as opposed to just getting the ball on the 35 yard line, kicking from right there, it's a this is.
One of those games that if someone has 10 points, it's going to feel like an insurmountable lead.
It is if you, if you're drunk enough. The Steelers are going to look like Iowa this weekend. Yeah, and um, shout out in the Browns will probably look like Nebraska, yeah.
Shout out to Danny Smith, Danny Smith, all time football guy, special teams coach of the Steelers. You remember? On the last play, they intercepted, it ran to the sidelines and a coach fell over. Yeah, he got just absolutely got destroyed, yeah.
That was Danny Smith, Danny Smith, you might recognize. He's the shorter guy who's always chewing like twice the amount of gum that Pete Carroll is all time gum gum guy. So he tore every muscle in his rotator cuff. Oh my God, pop back up.
He's staying on the sidelines, you can't get that guy, and Deshaun isn't playing and Deshaun's not playing. Danny Smith's shoulder could fall apart at any given moment.
And Deshaun's not playing, and Deshaun's not playing. Uh, Jake, your nerd nugget, Pittsburgh's.
28 victories in one score game since the start of the 2020 season are tied for the most in the NFL. Ooh, also, it's a shame that P.J. Walker's not playing because he tweeted Can't wait to meet.
You baby girl, oh so, he's, he's got him still, cause he's the backup they might.
Odds are going to be juicy. Yeah, so somebody to keep an eye on if he plays the rest of the season.
Okay, uh, that's a good weight now. Is the baby born? I don't know. I think that's a pregnancy.
Announcement Oh, he's just bragging he had sex. Yeah, they might not even know that they're pregnant.
Yeah, yeah, can't wait, can't wait to meet my daughter. Water broke, and he tweeted it.
I don't think you tweet when the water breaks. Oh, no, okay, maybe he's going to be a dad, yeah.
That's like a nerve wracking time where, like, Oh, the baby comes out okay, yeah, not like, let me take the Twitter and be like, can't wait to meet you in like two hours if everything goes okay.
That's fair. Yeah, uh, all right, raiders and dolphins through this on there.
Antonio Pierce got the Raiders two, and, oh, in his interim head coaching, they did beat Tommy DeVito and Zach Wilson. And now we have Miami off a buy. So what you're saying is the Raiders might be frauds. The Raiders are not good, I am.
So I'm ready, I think, and I, it is just a theory. I think I'm ready to take Miami off the fraud list. They won't do it this week, but I I'm gearing up for them to be off the fraud list. Because I'm thinking that their defense is going to start playing really well. Vic Fangio, you know, couple months under the belt, Jalen Ramsey back, guys, healthy.
I've I'm now on take Miami off fraud watch, fraud watch. Interesting, so what?
Do they have to do against the Raiders, though, because they got to beat the Raiders by 21 plus and they have to if they hold the Raiders to under 10 points? Yeah, they they I looked at.
Their schedule they have the Jets on on Black Friday, which I will remind Miami fans that I said that the Jets would beat the Dolphins. At that time, I no longer think that, uh, and then they have Christmas Eve, they play the Cowboys.
And then I think the week 17 they play the Ravens. So those are the last two chances to fully get off. Fraud watch, but I'm I'm itching to get them off fraud watch. I think they're going to start turning the defense around and the defense is going to start playing really well and with that offense, I'm ready, I'm ready.
I'm feeling like I'm going to push the button and say no longer fraud. I read a, uh, an article, it was basically.
A long profile of Mike McDaniel and God damn do I love that guy, he just seems like the best dude ever. And did you see? He went up to the podium the other day? And they were talking about how it was raining. And like, one of the journalists said, Oh, you like, with all this rain that we're getting, and he's like, Oh, it's raining.
How fortuitous for Earth. He's like, he's like Mitch Hedberg, if you, if you gave him a little one-liners, little one-liners here and there. A big news for the dolphin. So to a guy, his hair did.
He did, he got fucking drake. Yes, our colleague Nikki Smokes on Twitter. Our QB is fucking drake.
Yeah, huge news to a huge news.
Uh uh, McDaniels, McDaniel, Daniel, this is confusing, I don't care, I'm glad, we'll say.
That I don't care. I'm glad that the Raiders fired. McDaniel. Yeah, I'll say whatever I want.
To say, make McDaniel, McDaniels, um, he. Also. There was a reporter who asked about a chain and he was like, Well, how much money you got in fantasy? and just flipped it on him.
I think he's maybe get them all fraud watch. I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it. The Raiders are not good.
But they're still no under. The new version of the Raiders, The New Look Tommy DeVito and Zach Wilson. Yes, true, the new look Raiders. Antonio is the, uh, he's the only Antonio to ever coach in the NFL.
Oh, how about that? So Antonio's are a thousand percent winning percentage Antonio's.
Stand up, you'll get a lot of Antonio's, you know, it's a it's a powerful Tony or Anthony. Yeah, uh, Jake, your nerd nugget, this is a good one.
Oh, let us be the judge, okay, since the.
Start of the last season, The Dolphins are six and Oh, and I've averaged 41 points per game. With Kevin Harlan on the call to a tongue of Iowa has thrown 20 touchdown passes, averaging 332 yards per game. And he returns to the booth in Miami this week.
I thought they never won with Kevin Harlan, that was Frank's thought. They put up 70, they put up, they put up points. It doesn't make sense at all.
Frank told me otherwise.
Dolphins might be good, they might be off. Fraud. Watch Kevin Harlan 53rd Man. Yeah.
54th man.
Here's a stinky game. Giants and Commanders. Yeah, very stinky. Tommy Devito. We get to watch Tommy Devito again.
Uh, there I've I've become accustomed to, uh, the the insult graphic that goes around. About the former N.FL coaches or the former Washington coaches that are now head coaches in the N.FL. Where you have LaFleur, McVay, McDaniel, now Kyle Shanahan. And then now people are saying that the coordinator slow it from the from the Texans is going to be on that list. Yep, I don't know what happened to make it go reviral again, but now it's. It's everywhere, like every major news publication is talking about it.
Um, yeah, I get it. We had, you know what? Our head coach was Mike Shanahan. You think they were going to fire Mike Shanahan and then promote Kyle Shanahan to be the head coach? That wasn't going to happen, but I have.
To deal with more of this bullshit, which is fine. Yeah, I was going to say the one person, you can't. I can't give you sympathy. Because literally every, I think the CBS Sports account lives like their entire social media plan is to insult the Bears. Yeah, that is true. Do the 4,000 yard passer?
They do the receivers, they do everything. Yeah, but for I don't know who started it, this.
Week But it came out of nowhere. It's usually CBS, yeah, so like sports centers on it, ESPNS all, it's. It's weird that they're taking this week to do it. Um, but at least we get Tommy.
DeVito This weekend he's going to be fun to watch. Tommy Devito Um, yeah, good job, Tommy.
Yeah, there was a, Uh, I don't really have anything to say about Tommy DeVito other than.
I'm rooting for him, I think so. They did a profile on him and, uh, they asked him what his favorite food was. What do you think Tommy Devito's favorite food is it's chicken? It's chicken parm, Chicken, Chicken parm with vodka sauce.
Yeah, uh, his hidden talent. what do you think is hidden talent?
That's racist throwing. No, it's not throwing anything. Yeah, um, no, it's making art.
That's what you say if you're really good at art, well, if you watch Tommy.
DeVitO Listen, Uh, beauty's in the eye of the beholder. A Tommy Devito quarterback game could.
Be considered art, that's true. Uh. Favorite movies What do you think? his favorite movies are good fellas?
No, no, too fast, too fast, too furious and bad boys. Actually. Great taste from Tommy Devito. Fantastic taste. And if he gets three dinner guests, who do you think he'd want to invite?
James Gandolfini Yeah, no, it's Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Al Capone and Floyd Mayweather. Oh, money, money, money, money love that. It's all about the money.
Also, I think the commander's.
Going to win this game, I do think there's the ability. This game could be just some fuck shit happening, like the last one where the commanders. The Giants didn't score for the last 38 minutes of the game and won 14 to seven. Yeah.
But Sam, how the Giants game that game, I bring it up because that might've been the tipping point for him. He had. He took six sacks in that game since then, the last three games he had seven total, so maybe that was the game that he's like.
Hey, I should stop doing this. Yeah, he's got a lot better at staying in the pocket just the right amount of time and get rid of the ball. Um, but I'm not. I'm by no means confident. I think the Commanders are nine and a half 10 point favorites, right?
Right, they should not be nine and a half point favorites to anybody in the I don't care who's playing quarterback. It's nine right now, nine right now, okay?
Well, it's coming, yeah, so it's trending in the correct direction. I believe, uh, I'm. I'm not confident in this game.
Like anybody, either one of these two teams could win. I think we're going to win. Could be some fuck shit, but I am not. I would not be shocked if the Giants ended up winning, yes.
A nerd nugget.
First off, I'd like to correct myself. That's that. With Kevin, Harlan was with two a starting. Okay, that was the the concussion game, the way that where the guy made fun of me.
Dolphins jets concussion fingers. Yeah, that was funny when that guy did that. No, it wasn't.
Yeah, it was so. That's the one game with Kevin Harlan in the last two years where they've lost, but that doesn't count with the two of stats anyways. Commander's quarterback Sam Howell has thrown for 2,952 yards so far this season.
The most by a Washington quarterback through 11 career games more than 500 yards, roughly. Uh, then second place on that list Robert Griffin, the third, Sam Howell, by far the best 11 game quarterback in Washington history.
I might've just I might've just jumped past the hole. Is he the guy? Conversation? I'm ready to ask if he's elite. There's as many insult graphics have been going around, there's a lot of, there's a lot of complimentary graphics going around about Sam.
How he's first and big time throws. Do you know what a big time throw is? Elites? Yeah, it's a big time throw. I actually throw it big time when you throw it big time.
Yeah, I think it's over 20 yards. I don't know what the actual definition areas, but god damn, when, when, like pro football focuses, he's first and big time.
Throws I'm like, that's a great stat, big time throw. Uh, okay, next up chargers of packers.
I hate this game so much because the Packers are bad, but the Chargers shouldn't be favored on the.
Road against anyone? Yeah, I was, I was looking at this and I was like, Are we still giving the?
Chargers credit for being the chargers. It's crazy, like, I know the Chargers are better than the packers, but if you tell me, you have to put your life on the line for the chargers. To be able to, like, maneuver a road game and win by exactly three or more, I d. I couldn't do that, no.
No, I was. Something weird is going to happen. This might be the most lopsided fan to fan ratio of all time. Do you think there are any Chargers fans that are making the trip to Green Bay for?
This game probably not. I think there's, uh, no, people still go to, like people still like to go to Lambo, I think the most. Cathedral, yeah.
I think the weirdest like fan to fan would have to be like Chargers panthers, you know what? I mean, where it's like? I don't really care about seeing the stadium. Like, like, if you're a Chargers fan, you definitely circled the schedule and be like.
This one, let's go take a trip to Lambo. Yeah, it's, it's Lambo, but it's also mid November, it's right before Thanksgiving. I think there's a lot of stuff adding up against the charges on that.
I would, I would be shocked if there were more than 500 Chargers fans that, like true Chargers fans from out of town that make this trip. Yeah, or like, trying to think.
What other ones? maybe Chargers, Vikings or like Cardinals, Bills? Yeah, how many Cardinals fans would go to Buffalo, like, in the way, if they played in December? I bet you there are a lot.
Of people that are Cardinals fans that are from Buffalo, that retired and moved to Arizona, though.
I feel like they'd go to Florida, yeah.
I don't know, I feel like East Coast.
Florida and then everything West, maybe chart Zona, chargers, giants, probably not a lot of people.
Charges. But then you're going to New York City, yeah, it's a it's a direct flight. You got to think of the places that, like, have nothing like, you're like, I gotta go to this place.
Are you going to this game? Yeah, I wonder what that would be, maybe it might be chargers.
Commanders I think char, I think chargers, chargers, panthers. yeah, chargers, panthers. Feels like who wants to go to a stadium is even boring.
Yeah, if you're a Chargers fan.
That's going to this game like traveling specifically to Green Bay for this game. Let us know. Very interested in learning about you? Yes, uh, all right, nerd nugget for this.
Game Packers quarterback Jordan Love leads the NF.L. in completions of 30 plus yards. This season was 17. Matthew Stafford has 16, Sam Hallenbrock pretty right behind with 14..
Oh, that sounds like.
A pretty good stat. Okay, uh, all right, uh. Next up bears at Lions, Justin Fields is back.
That's all I got, that's it. No, I have more, but it's it's. I have some things that I shouldn't believe in, but I do. The bears are, the bears are not as bad as people think they are. They are. There are the worst teams in the league, which are the Panthers, the Giants, maybe the Patriots, uh, the Cardinals.
Now the Kyler's back, maybe not. I think the Bears are a step above that, they get lumped in there. They've actually been playing really good defense.
The last five weeks, their run D is ranked one, their total yards against his rank sixth, their explosive plays against his ranked first, and their third down percentage is 12th. Like they're playing good defense, Justin Fields playing competent offense will be the big question mark. And obviously the Lions are much better all over the field, but like, the bears aren't as bad as I probably say they are.
And the media says they are, I would agree with that. They're just a little bit better than really, really bad. Their their defense is good enough.
To not get totally embarrassed anymore. And this is the start of the season. They were back, they were very, very bad, very, very bad. And now what are they?
Three and three in their last six.
Three and three in their last six. And this is the part that makes me nervous, because I am nervous that if their defense plays well and keeps playing well, that they're going to keep.
Matt Eber I don't think so. He's so weird. Have you ever? I know that We've said a lot of things about Eber Floos on the show. Have we ever talked about just how weird he is?
He's just weird looking, He's just a strange guy. He's a cat guy? They asked him. Yeah.
That, that's a great way to describe. That's all you need to know. He's a he's a cat guy. After the game against the Panthers, they were like, What do you have up your sleeve?
Or what do you have up your sleeve? He's like, What do you have up your sleeve? He laughed, like he was the joker. He's a weird guy.
He also, if they keep Matt Eber Floos and then draft a new quarterback, that will be. It's. I think it's 25 years going right now that the Bears have never had a coach, quarterback on the same wavelength. Timeline, timeline like, bring a new coach, bring a new quarterback same time, I don't think there's any chance that keep Eber Floos.
Their defense is playing well, what if they beat?
The Lions, I don't think they will, but what if, what? If they demote him to defensive coordinator and then bring in a head, I'd be fine. I feel like coordinator right now, I feel like he'd stay.
Yeah, no, he is the defensive coordinator, and so his defense, our defensive coordinator, left. No one knows why, his. I do know why. It's very funny. I won't say, Oh, come on.
I'll tell you.
After, Okay, yeah, well, do you know why the running back guy left that one? I do know as.
Well, also not as funny. Okay, both aren't really, I wouldn't say either, are funny, they're funny.
And like, the bears are a joke of a franchise. The defense coordinator was using the women's bathroom and refused to stop. No, okay, that would be funny, though.
I was, I was sworn to secrecy.
I also like, there was so much weird shit that was said during that that I don't want to say anything publicly. Cause then, like, what if I'm wrong? And then also in the weird shit, like the whole FBI and all that stuff. Who the fuck knows on the line side, you know, Malcolm, I also don't even know.
I just said that to say, to sound cool, you gotta be going, yeah, um, I did that on I, yeah. I was just like. I've been telling people like, Yeah, I know why, you know why, and then trying to get them to tell me why. But I don't know why.
It's old trick, hank, you got me, you think I knew? Yeah, yeah.
That was a good prank, yeah, art of the deal. Um, learn it, read it.
Rodrigo, you remember him from hard knocks? Yeah, middle linebacker on the Lions, you know, he switched to fullback.
No, so this is what the Lions did. So they had Cabinda at fullback and then he got injured and then they just took another linebacker, cause Cabinda was also a linebacker that got moved. Yeah, so now Rodrigo is playing fullback and he's like one of the better fullbacks in the league right now.
That guy's a dog, he's a dog, absolute dog. Oh, we should. When should we drop the watch list for the Low Man trophy?
You want to do that next week?
Should we wait till the after the season? No, the watch list, though, oh.
All the watch lists are coming out right now, so like the Heisman watch list, oh, okay, yeah, then we do it.
Next week we'll do that for the for the Low Man Trophy. Yeah, um, so yeah, dipe up, get your diaper on if you're a Lion's fan this weekend.
Yeah, uh, I don't think the Bears are going to win, but their defense is playing better. I want to give them credit for being not as bad as the worst. That's really what it, that's baby steps.
Yeah, no longer the worst. Their their defense is actually good, they have a good defense.
Are you just like I have this stumbling in my throat? I can you get me another water hank? Um, there's five teams that I would say the Bears could, confidently four teams.
The Bears could confidently beat Cardinals, Panthers, Giants, Giants. There's water, right?
There, there's water right there. Giants, commanders, they did beat.
You beat us Raiders, yep, if Joshua Daniels was still the coach, kick the shit out of them. What about the Rams?
I have thought on the Rams when we get to it. Okay, Jake?
Nerd nugget of the week that that's the sound that we're doing. Yeah, I just made it up. Okay, that was the breaking news.
Jingle What instrument was that? I don't know. It's just like when you watch TV, it's like, is that the sound that they used to make when, like nights would?
Come into the arena. I'm mad that I was drinking some water and I couldn't react. I was, I was.
Shocked by it? Yeah, I've never. I didn't hear it. Do it again for Hank Nerd Nugget of the week.
You did your own, you did your own entrance music. I don't know if Hank likes it.
Hank gave me a look when it happened. That would suggest strongly otherwise.
Hank's headnog was, That's a thing. I'll have some awls who like it okay, and some who hate it.
But hey, yeah, that's podcasting. Some people love it, some people hate it, that's a fact. For the first time since 1979, three pairs of brothers are set to appear in the same N.F.L. game.
Laman Ron, Equinimia, St. Brown, Romeo and Julian Acquara and Penny and Noah Sewell.
Whoa, that is, that is wild, Jake. That is why it's the Nerd nugget of the week. It is very cool. Do you think? When they named them Romeo and Julian, that's like a little bit weird.
Yeah, well, they expected it to be a girl. Yeah, for sure, fuck.
It's like, maybe they'll still fall in love.
We only had one name. I was supposed to be Jackie if I was a girl, Jackie. Yeah, now we're just.
Going to have to Jackie Marsh?
I'd fuck you. I kind of like, Jackie, Yeah, I'm thinking about it.
I mean, I was a woman in the in the commercial. Yeah, yeah, you look good, yeah.
I'd fuck you for.
Sure, Jackie Marsh Yeah, so I think that's a pretty sick, uh, nerd nugget. Yeah, that is.
It is so, three brothers, huh? same field, three brothers, assuming they're all in the active.
Roster? But it's like saving, yeah, I was going to say, if if two of them get injured, we gotta.
Get the third set out, yeah, yeah, uh okay, next game.
Cowboys at Panthers All I wrote for this.
Game is maybe take the Panthers question mark. Yeah, so, um, my my only note on this game was we've got, uh, uh, coach taking back. Play. Calling duties because Frank Reich, uh, much like Mike McCarthy, used to do he, uh. You pass around the play calling duties, like it's the talking stick when it's your turn to speak, uh, whenever your job is somewhat in jeopardy. So he gave the play calling duties to their offensive coordinator, and then that's not working out so well.
So he's taking it back to fix the team. Um, this is, did you see the picture of Frank Reich?
His opening press conference and now today, and he is aged in presidential years, it's so bad, it's bad. Dog years as David Tepper and David Tepper also had a very bizarre. I don't know where he was speaking, it was like he was like at the side of, maybe the podium or something. Talking about the draft day trade and how there was a trade for them to be the second pick with Houston, three-way trade with Chicago.
And then he's like, but then we decided to go. One essentially saying like, he's trying to cover up the fact that maybe they didn't want Bryce Young, but I, the whole thing is confusing. It sounds like he just is an idiot. And Houston was like, Wait, they're going to take Bryce Young. We can just not trade, yeah.
There were all sorts of stories that came.
Out as the draft was happening of, like, why they like Bryce Young? Again? It's the scallops dinner. Yeah, I went to dinner and they were super impressed with this young man. So then the owner, Tepper, was like, Yeah, I want this guy, this is a guy I can build around.
And I'm, I'm almost ready to say, like, I know that. We've been comparing Stroud to Bryce Young this entire season and that's going to happen for the rest of their careers, no matter what. But like, Give, I want to see Bryce Young play somewhere. Fun, Yeah, I'm. I'm now mad at the at the Panthers. Uh, for potential, maybe not the organization as a whole, but, like Reich, for sure, of making this potentially fun guy not as fun to watch. So this is not a fun.
Place for Bryce Young to play. But I had a thought shower thought, Dumb thought. What if the Bears traded the Panthers number one pick back for Bryce Young and Brian Burns and next year's number one from the Panthers? I like that, so we got bright, the Bears got Bryce Young. I just was thinking about it.
It's kind of like, a, um, like a toddler, you give a toddler a piece of candy and like, they won't eat it right away. Cause they're like, I want to hold the candy, I want to see the candy, If I eat the candy, the candy's gone. That's how I'm feeling about having two number one picks.
I don't ever want to not have two number one picks, I want to have two number one picks for the rest of my life. So I don't want to use both of them. I want to trade and get another one and just keep kicking the can down the road and having two number one picks, it's so fun.
Having two number one picks. And you're also seeing another kid holding like, black licorice, and they're like, Ooh, this is so gross. But you see another kid holding a piece of candy, you're like, I want that, yeah.
So I wonder, what that candy? That's my thoughts on draft picks.
But, yeah, uh, David Tepper. He also had the awkward moment where, uh, a boss that's a piece of shit, like, makes a joke and everyone has to laugh. So he was like, Yeah, we're going to do the trade three way trade on Wednesday, and you know, I'm impatient. I'm in from a world of trading.
So I was just texting our GM over and over, like, When's the trade again? And the GM had to, like, laugh and be like, Oh, yeah, you did do that. My fucking life sucks. Yeah, he seems like a.
Guy to work for? Yeah, just stroke that, those brass balls. If you're looking at the Mount Rushmore of ways that coaches try to save their job mid season, it's gotta be one like benching a quarterback, right?
Yeah, that's gotta be the first, um, taking, I think, actually passing, play calling duties, probably. I think that's first, you think that's number one, I think.
Benching quarterback is usually last resort, or one of the last resort. What about firing your offensive coordinator? That is definitely one of them, definitely one hiring anyone on the staff is one of them.
Like you special teams coach, yeah, we got to change something. Frank Reich.
He should coach from the booth, he should be head coach from the booth, that's just move up there, or just not even head coach. Honestly, coaching from a booth would kick ass, yeah.
You can see everything all 22, and you get your dip cup right there, you got your diet cokes. Hang out and be.
Like, Oh, I can't, can't come down at halftime too long. The bathroom's right there. Yeah, way better, way better.
Uh, okay, yeah, so I don't know. I I think maybe I'll end up taking the Cowboys, but I I, the thought crossed my mind, maybe I'd take the Panthers.
This seems like one.
Of those games where the Cowboys just beat the shit out of an inferior opponent they like to do.
That all right? Jake Dallas is the only team in the NFL this season with three 40 point games since head coach Mike McCarthy arrived in 2020. The Cowboys have the most 40 point games among NFL teams, with 14 of them 14 14, 20 20. Raise the banner 40 40 Plus.
Okay, that's a lot of.
Right, what do you think about the conversation going on out there about, uh, that we should use that same energy every time? Josh Allen throws interception as we did when Dak threw interceptions last season. Uh, I would say that we're biased. Yeah, I would say I would agree with that.
Also, be my counterpoint. Also, we're biased. Josh, Josh's interceptions just look cooler. Yeah, I mean, come on.
Yeah, they look awesome, Josh.
Also won a playoff game. Has Dak won a playoff game? Wait, did he? He did, yeah.
Oh, yeah, they.
Beat the box Josh has won two playoff game. How many NFC Championship games has Dak been? Josh has?
Won two playoff games, right? Yes, yeah, also Josh won multiple playoffs, also Josh has been thrown.
Interceptions since day one? Yeah, that's kind of his thing, right? Josh, You know, Josh is going to throw interceptions, That's what he does.
You just hope that the cool shit that he does, that's not an interception is way cooler than the interceptions are. Dak doesn't throw.
Interceptions against bad teams and then when they play as a good team, he's like.
Fuck, I'm going to throw an interception, yeah, and when he throws interceptions, the cool shit that he does afterwards isn't cool enough to outweigh the interceptions. Yes, yes.
So that's easy. And we're biased, we're very biased. Uh, all right, Titans and Jaguars.
I think this is a get right for the Jaguars, I think they're going to kill the Titans. I was looking at it. The will have us who we believe in. Uh, he went up against the Falcons, the Steelers, the box, all bottom of the half in the league in terms of coverage.
Now they're going up against Jaguars, who are actually good in coverage this year. I can just be a long day for the for the Titans, I think the Jaguars. This is kind of a uh, who are we? game like we? We got embarrassed by the Niners, who are we?
Uh, Trevor's injured, that news came out.
This week, like, Uh, yeah, Doug, Doug Peter heard it in the Saints game. Yeah, Doug Peterson mentioned it specifically. He's like, we're limited in what Trevor can do because of his knee.
Huh, um, so I guess it's worse than we had all thought. Which would make sense, cause Trevor hasn't been playing like exceptionally well this season, he's been okay, and he always. The thing about Trevor Lawrence is, even if he's injured, he just looks like a quarterback. So much that you're like, Okay, this guy's still good, but apparently he's been injured.
My only Mike Vrabel has been taking drills this week, he's been put, he's been in the drills, he's been love that part of the drills. So, you know, that's great. And then, uh, also there should be a Thursday night game.
Yeah, and Jaguars, we get one of those every year late December.
Thursday night game Yep, uh, okay, nerd nugget for this game.
The Titans are the only team in.
The AFC, who are still win lists away from home this season and in those six losses.
They're averaging just 12 points per game, yikes one neutral. Their offense is tough to watch. Uh, okay.
This is going to be a fun game. Cardinals and Texans Kyler Murray looks really good for someone who hadn't played football for a year. He was very fast.
You were all kind of shocked. I thought there was gonna be a lot more rust. C.J. Stroud is incredible. Um, I'm a little nervous about the Texans in this game because didn't it feel like the Texans were we we've been on?
The Texans being like, Texas are good, the Texas are good. C.J. Stroud's good. Uh, the win against the Bengals, it hit that critical mass of. now it's M.V.P for C.J. Stroud, Texas in the playoffs.
It might be a read your press clippings type of game, I would agree with that. Um, when they?
Started immediately after the game, saying that C.J. Stroud, MVP Yeah, that's when I was like, If I had C.J. Stroud stock right now, I would, I wouldn't actually sell it. But I would. I would look at the price and then do the math on my calculator and be like, man, if I sold this, right?
Now I could be rich. That's the only thing that makes I think the Texas will win, but that is.
The only thing that's making me nervous about this game and the Cardinals get paid to play football too. That's facts. Those guys are pros, uh. We also have Stroud Boys shirts live in the Barstool store right now.
I'm gonna try to find it underneath, find it, find it now.
Find it, he's finding it, he found it. Stroud boy shirts.
Barstool Sports Nice find. Thank you stroud boys with the outline of Texas. How perfect is that?
Show your support, stand, stand proud, stand back, stand by, throw it up there.
Thanks Max. Now I have two of them. Unbelievable.
Stroud Boys, Stroud Boys, Stroud Boys stand up a nerd nugget for this game.
With field goals of 51 and 56 yards last week, Cardinals kicker Matt Prater now owns the franchise record of 17 field goals of 50 plus yards. Despite despite playing in just 40 games with Arizona. And he has 76 career field goals of 50 plus yards, that's 18 more than any other.
Player in NFL history? Damn great kicker. Yeah, great kicker.
Damn, who's kicking? wait?
Say that again, Jake, he has 18 more 50 yard field goals than any other player in NFL history.
That's kind of insane, like, that's, that's a lot more. Yeah, I think Vinatieri is second or.
Someone else, my guess is he would be 18 behind. Yeah, yeah, he'd probably be second.
Yeah, yeah, that's nuts, okay, good nerd nugget.
Thanks, uh, afternoon games bucks at 49ers.
I hope the 49ers kill them. I think they will. 49ers are back, they are back, they're so back.
It turns out having your best players play helps. Did you see the replay when they put together the, uh, the various clips of Trent Williams? On that one play where he pulls out to the left and then the cornerback just runs away from him. He's a monster. He's like, No, I'm, I'm taking myself out of this play, I opt out.
Yeah, he's got cornerbacks opting out of plays instead of trying.
To actually make a tackle when Trent Williams and Devo Sam are on the field. I know I think the problem is the 49ers have so many dudes that you think, Oh, you lose these two guys, you're fine. But you also have to remember the drop-off of someone that good is going to be larger because he's that good.
Like the backup to Trent Williams, no offense to him, Trent Williams is the best.
Yeah, um. Also, if you're the backup to Trent Williams, you probably just think the entire game, like, Fuck, I'm not as good as Trent, like, what would Trent be doing? Like, I don't want to.
Get in because then they're going to see I'm just we're different, like species. Yeah, you.
Miss a block and you think you're something, man. Trent would've had that. He's so good, yeah. Also, Brock Purdy is back to being, uh, I would say, top 10 quarterback.
Yes, absolutely.
Borderline elite? I, Uh, yeah, I I. The box just bummed me out, I don't know like.
What do they do that makes you excited? Mike Evans, Mike Evans dropping a ball because he's thinking about which fan he's going to hand it to you. That's kind of cool, Mike Evans.
BAKER Sometimes running around Todd Bowles is a bummer. Vita Bay is fun. Yeah, I just.
I the box bummed me out. Their offense coordinator is like, a little too attractive. Yeah, they always show him in his tight shirt, showing everybody up. This is also biased, because.
Steven Chase is so annoying, yeah, but uh, all right, nerd Nugget 49ers running back.
Kristen McCaffrey is averaging 121 yards from scrimmage per game this season, second in the league, right behind Tyree Kell. Ooh, that's pretty good, pretty damn good. Couldn't score.
A touchdown last week and get America chicken. I'm not going to forgive him for that, that hurt. Well, he would still have to do the dance, yeah, but he was going to do the dance.
You don't think he was going to do the dance, he was going to do the dance. Wait, Jake, why do you think he?
Doesn't like chicken? No, I think he does, but anyone could have done it. So why are you blaming?
Him, Okay, he was going to do the dance, he was going to do the dance, he was 100 going to do the dance.
I would have done the dance, I would have, I would have scored, and then I would have.
Right, they? If you give me four opportunities from inside the 10 yard line, like he had at the end of the game to score a touchdown, and you don't. I mean, I, I would score at least two of.
Those yeah, oh wait. Shake Shack tweeted that Taylor Lewan's chicken dance was good enough.
Oh, done now. Through 11 19. Taylor Lewan He did one, yeah.
He did one from the bus and with.
The boys account and they said, That's good enough for us. Free chicken shacks, let's go.
The golf podcaster Taylor Lewan did it. Let's do it. That's wild. Yeah, okay.
Sure, let's go.
I don't know what it has that has a footballer. Um, all right, jets at bills, memes.
Hello.
Wait, Jake, Jake, do your entrance for memes.
He gets the same entrance you do. I would think that if you, if we're going to do a trombone as his entrance, it should just go, yeah.
Just imagine you're walking onto camera.
Memes Hey, give us one.
Okay, thanks, Hank.
Oh, memes, memes, memes. Hello. I didn't really have anything to ask you. I just see that you're paying attention, I'm paying attention.
Hello, how are you feeling about this?
Game.
Uh, izzy season. what? izzy the running back, izzy. I can't pronounce his last name.
Izzy, They cut my, they released Michael Carter, right, and they're giving Izzy a shot, so it's Brees Hall.
Brees Hall is still there, but it's but why Brees Hall is good. Brees Hall is amazing.
So then what? What do you mean? Izzy season? Now? Izzy steps in to do what he's going to be the second back.
Okay, that's not third. What about Delvin Cook? I don't like Delvin Cook.
I know you.
Don't. But, like, what are we talking about memes if we're talking about the New York Jets? Why would a a borderline backup running back have anything to do with whether or not you'll be a better team this weekend? Because the bills can't stop the run. But you just said that the third.
String quarterback is is your takeaway for this game izzy season. Yeah, I'm going to have to bet on him to score a fucking a. Memes you put us in a box.
He's going to score, I mean, you guys do.
Have Josh Allen's number? We do. I don't. The the line on this game is scaring me a little bit.
Exactly that's. I love the bills because the jets feel so easy. Like, I looked at this and I counted it as a win because I was going to take the jets. And I was like, Wait, what, you got it?
You got to take the bills. Yeah, the seven, the seven is scary. seven scary memes. Too many points.
I'm a. I'm going to declare that every game for the rest of the season is a must win for the.
Bills, I would say, so I think they need they might be able to get one more loss.
But I'm going to say it's a must win, though you can't. The margin of error is too small.
It's a must win. Yeah, they have to look good, cause it's it feels like I was just thinking about, like, sad bills, fans walking out of the stadium. Dark out. Late game, yeah.
You got to.
Win this game, you have to win this game. That sucks, doesn't it? I went outside.
I was out at the park with Blake at four 45 in the afternoon yesterday, yeah, and it was dark out. It sucks.
It fucking sucks. Just end this stupid charade. I saw one person tagged me and was like, Big cat should have told you about this. In Chicago, it's like, wait, in New York, it's it gets dark at the exact same time.
It actually gets dark earlier in New York. What are we talking?
About all the buildings, Yeah, so the sun kind of sets, it's just just change the fucking.
Whatever it's called, no, my problem. Daylight savings. Yeah, I can't remember.
Is it daylight savings or is it the other thing? uh, daylight losings? No, what's the? what's the what's the spring? One leap back?
What do we have to do not do daylight savings or do daylight savings?
Not to we want the one in the spring, we want, I know, but do we do?
Are we done with daylight savings, or are we keeping it done? Done with it? Okay, great.
Done with it, I'm done with that shit, it sucks, like, I know my my quarrel.
Why is it called daylight savings when we don't save any daylight? I don't know, because I think.
When they put it in, that's when we get more. Do we just lose daylight savings? No, it's.
It's the morning is when it gets the it's so fucking stupid, it's the stupid. Farmers also.
Boston moved by the state of Arizona. Yeah, they do what they want, yeah, someone told me once it.
Was someone told me it was the farmers? Once? I'm just going to blame the farmers, I shout out the farmers, I like farmers. But this thing is stupid because they said, farmers don't want to wake up and farm in the dark, so now it gets light.
The sunrise is six 30, but it sets at four 40.
Who wouldn't want to take the sun? Rising at seven 30 and setting at five 40? That's way better?
It's so much better, and I know that we do have some farmers that listen. So if you're out on your tractor, I love the pit. Like whenever they send a picture of them plowing the field, I like that. But I would like you to explain to me how come we have to change our clocks just for you?
Right, I want to know that lights exist now. Yeah, just. yeah, just set up Christmas.
Lights in your field everywhere. Don. Uh, all right, yeah, I kind of like the bills in this game only because of the spread.
Like, it's, it's scared me off the jets. This does feel like, uh.
Everything inside the Bills facility this week was probably just straight business. Oh yeah, I think they're about that business this week. I also don't want to get my hopes up. I really don't, cause we can't score a touchdown. But if they, if the Jets win and the Dolphins lose, Black Friday is for the first place in the division.
Ooh, so you're still, you're still thinking, yeah.
But Kevin Harlan's on the call for the dolphins. Yeah, I mean, the dolphins are not going to lose.
The Raiders means anything that happens, I think it's time for an intervention.
I mean, Izzy was really the rock bottom. Yeah, is he was as low as we can't score a touchdown, and is he's the is he I'm going to again. I'm going to have to bet on him because you fucking said this guy's name and now he's never going to score a touchdown. Probably won't be on a roster next year, but now I have to bet on him.
No, he's a good running back, played a pit, okay, but if he's a good running back, why wasn't he playing?
They they signed Dalvin Cook. So memes, all right is he is, he's the guy, is the guy.
But do do you really want to win this game? Like you've already said that, you, you don't want Aaron Rogers back this year? I did say that, but the division confused. He's so confused. The division is also right there.
If you win a.
Couple of games, he's so confused. Play the Dolphins twice, they're not. the dolphins are not going to lose to the Raiders Means.
Ain't no Connell, Okay, I don't see you lover. see you sound like Max right now. I just want. I just want like a.
Shittier Max, because, like Max does this, but his teams are good. Yeah, how are you comparing the because you do this thing where you start the Eagles? Oh man.
Regardless, you do the thing where you start talking yourself into circles, then you get like.
Confused with your own words? When you said that you remind me of Max right now? Both of them got offended for opposite reasons. It was great, Max is like, when you said, Uh.
Philly's almost title town, all right, fair. Do you remember when you said that? yeah?
I remember.
No, you guys have never mentioned it again. Oh, we haven't. No, oh Max, speaking of, I don't know if you saw this, if this came across your desk yesterday. But the new rankings for most popular dog names are out in the United States.
Max A second, Oh so funny. Yeah, no, it was number one, it was number one for like, seven years in a row.
Yeah, that was like, Oh, it was a fun fact that I had growing up that it's the most popular cat and dog name, but now it's number.
Two second place. Yeah, damn, all right.
Uh, Seahawks at Rams. Oh wait, nerd nuggets, sorry.
Bill's quarterback Josh Allen has thrown a touchdown pass in 18 consecutive games and needs one more to break Jim Kelly's club record. Set in 1980.
Biased? Why is that? Oh yeah, you're the.
AWS Yeah, no, that was biased. Yeah, congrats to Josh, but yeah, no, but it's biased.
It's biased. There have been some people in, like the Analytics community, that have been like Josh Allen. Like, if you actually look at the tape, he's been playing great and he doesn't have many turnover worthy plays. Yeah, I'm in for that.
They're doing the, they're doing the bad.
Turnover luck, right? Well, this is this is kind of Josh, you're always going to get some turnovers. The real difference if you, if you watch the tape slash, uh, look at the box score, is that Josh isn't running the ball as much anymore, which is good. Which is, I think that's one of those things that we talked about with Justin Fields, where it's like, Josh is a great quarterback.
We want to limit the number of hits that he takes. Let's have him run the ball less and then guess what happens when you run the ball less. With your dynamic running quarterback, you're not as good anymore on offense. Throw more, yeah.
You throw them, but, like, let Josh run.
Free, you know what? Free Josh, Josh. Free Josh. Uh, all right. Seahawks at Rams.
So I was correct when I said that. The Rams stink and then they went to stink really bad against Cowboys and then they lost three in a row. I think I'm ready to buy back in on the Rams. Healthy Stafford. This also is one of those spread games. It makes no sense to me.
Uh, Seahawks are six and three, whatever the record is, they're good, the Rams are bad. The Rams are one point underdog, huh?
Yeah, somebody knows something. I just, I. I think the Rams are going to win this game. I, uh, and it doesn't.
McVeigh own Carol McVeigh Let's see McVeigh owns Carol. I don't know if that's true. They all own the Cardinals coach.
We forget this every single year. Kyle owns McVeigh, right, so then it would make sense, I think Carol might own.
He's eight and five against Pete Carroll. Okay, who does Pete?
Carroll owns Kyle. Yes, I think I think so. And then they all need to make a chart for us, please.
So, um, I'm upset because we got a Carson Wentz signing out in Los Angeles on the bi-week, so we didn't get one appearance of Carson Wentz. Once you have Carson Wentz, you just want everybody else to be afflicted with full-blown Carson Wentz. Yes, you want to spread the disease around.
You want to take, you want to take joy in the misery of others that have to deal with it, too. I don't. I feel like those who have not had Carson Wentz play for your football team are missing out on a. Uh, a very painful experience that I want to commiserate with. You just had a baby too, yeah.
Carson Wentz You got signed and went right home to to have a baby and then came back shocked.
The sperm didn't get picked off. Uh, Max, when we got Carson Wentz, were you happy for me that you got to see another franchise like, Deal with the bullshit that is Carson? Um, yes, but there's also still a part of me that's that thinks that Carson Wentz could be good. So, yeah, yeah, I'm glad you admitted that because I was texting with somebody the other day about Carson Wentz signing with Rams. And I was like, also, if he has one good throw, I'm going to be like, Fuck, Carson Wentz is still good.
I'm going to fall back into the trap so fast, but I do want other people to experience having full blown Carson Wentz. Because I fought for him so hard, for so long and then obviously all shit hit the fan and then you, and then everyone hated him so much. But enough time has passed where I fought for him longer than I hated him. So now I kind of I'm like, he could, he could be good as a former quarterback for you, is not unlike being a zombie. So you got it.
Now you want to spread it to somebody else. I want to bite, I want to bite the rams, I want to watch them curl up into a little puddle and then go hunting for somebody.
Else to bite, it could be good. yeah, it could be. it could be good. All right, nerd nugget.
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is set to play in his 200th regular season N.F.L. game. He needs 198 passing yards in this one to surpass Matt Ryan for the second most ever by a player in his first 200.
Season games. Okay, Matt Ryan, there's a name have we talked about? Matt Ryan? I zoned that one out.
I didn't even listen to it. Sorry, it's all right, say it again. Rams quarterback, Matthew Stafford.
Sets plans 200th regular season game this weekend. He needs 198 passing yards in this one to surpass Matt Ryan for the second most ever by a player in their first 200 games. Oh, okay, yeah, so.
With Matt Ryan, though, have the Browns kicked the tires on all Maddie ice? There was a tweet.
I think that said, like it was like the Browns should call him awful announcing, said the Cleveland.
Browns best option for replacing Deshaun Watson might be in the broadcast booth, and it was a picture of the booth and Andrew Cattle. On Play by play, Guy said It's a good fit, I used to run.
Stefanski system in my backyard now, that's funny. So with Matt Ryan, I think he has a clause in his contract where he can get out of the booth to go play for an NFL team. Oh, which tells me that, like.
He's thinking about it well, remember watching Matt Ryan last year? He's sitting by the phone. That was really bad. What about Phillip Rivers?
Get all the old. He's got a, he's got a playoff.
Game on Friday. Oh, yeah, and for the high school team, yeah, that was reported on that.
I would say that Matt Ryan would be a better option than DTF DTR, I'm just going to call him DTF. It's a.
Cooler nickname? Yeah, Okay. Vikings at Broncos Sunday night Football Josh Dobbs, Russell Wilson. I'm excited.
I am excited. Josh Dobbs baby, Yeah, Josh Dobbs is fun, he's so fun.
And you know what Russell Wilson might eat back into fun as well? Maybe I also think the Broncos like that when it gets the bills, Russell Wilson playing a lot better. They started at like the 50 yard line every single drive and then they got like 15 yards.
I know, so I'm going to take the Vikings.
In this game, most likely so on on Monday night, Russell Wilson was good. not, he was great, no, he was good.
He is good, he did what he needed to do. Correct. They're four and five. Uh, everyone was going to laugh at the start of the season about the AFC West record.
And, uh, you know, outside the Chiefs, every other team looked like dog shit. But now that the Raiders have ripped off two in a row against the Jets and the Giants, um, the whole division looks a little bit better. And the Broncos are not out of it, they're in the hunt, they're, the Broncos are in the.
GraphiC They are in the hunt graphic. Yes, they'd have to pass some pretty good team.
Yeah, they're one one game behind the Bengals and the Colts, I guess, one and a half behind the.
Colts and a half game against Behind the Bills, right? I know they have the tiebreaker, but they're four and five. The bills are five and five, yep.
So, yeah, they got some work to do.
Would be crazy if the Broncos made the playoffs. It'd be awesome. would be that'd be fun. I think it'd be. It'd be good for ratings. And that's what we were for, yeah.
Uh, okay, Jake, History says.
This will most likely be a close game. 10 of the 15 games between these two teams have been decided by four or fewer points, including each of the last four matchups. Oh, okay, um, let's do some picks. Where are our standings?
Do it, do it, points, points, points, points. Yep, uh, big cat or sorry.
We'll start off with the warmup, 15 minutes, 15 minutes in Las Vegas. Uh, Jake. 11.5 max 11 means 10. Ooh, race one and a half spicy, separating all of us in the main event, one hour between the three of you.
Oh, ain't just side big cat 12 and a half pft 12 hank eight, oh.
Eight half is a big half point there. Hank. Next week we will do three picks hank if it's yes.
Just know that your your powerpoint on the lighthouse was so good that. I have full faith that you'll be able to put together a full hour on whether or not this presentation is actually real.
Still 16 17 picks left. So yeah, and the next week we'll do, we'll do three, so we'll do, we'll do around. Uh, maybe we'll figure out with the lottery ball who gets to go first. But we'll have one pick. Everyone has to one pick for, uh, Thanksgiving day or Friday or Friday.
Yeah, no, Thanksgiving Day, then you can do Friday or Sunday. I think I've noticed that you've been.
Quiet What are you upset about? I'm not upset, I'm just not looking forward to doing an hour of.
Standup, you got this, you're a big boy, all right. Who's going first?
I believe it's Max. Yeah, just pick some winners, Hank, don't pick the losers.
I don't know who's going to confirm it.
Somebody I don't think, I don't know. Well. We started with PFT and then I think I went last in this studio, sure, I don't remember.
Yeah, whatever. We rarely see each other.
I am going to be taking the Bears plus seven and a half, I like it against the Lions, yes.
I like it. They're not as bad as people say they aren't hank or no memes.
Eagles Chiefs over 45 and a half. Oh, that's fun, that is good, that is fun, yeah.
That's very damn, that's so fun, that's fun. Fuck, I just want to. I want to take that picture so I can smile.
Uh, this is not going to make you smile. it doesn't make me smile, but I'm going for it anyway. Titans plus seven against the Jaguars, that's not fun. What's your strategy on that?
Injury I think, uh, jags are banged up. Will Levis bounce back? Game? Brable coaching going to keep it close.
Okay, uh, I'll take bucks.
Niners over 41 and a half for my first pick, that's a good pick, that was going to be mine. The 49ers might get that on their own. Yep.
I'm going to go. I don't have anything that I love. I'll be honest with you, guys don't have anything I love, but I'm I'm going to go with the Steelers.
Road dogs, plus one against the Browns. Yep, let's do it, okay.
I'm going to go with the Dolphins minus 13 and a half against the Raiders. Okay, Harlan, and I'm going to go with Dolphins Raiders over 46 and a half. Oh, double dip.
They love to score at home, they love their.
Crush teams at home, double dip. All right PFt. I'm going to go with the Cowboys.
Panthers over 42 and a half points. I think C.D. Lamb gets like 21 points on his own. Okay, I will take, I have.
To do a spread now, you know what? I'll back it up, I'll take Rams plus one.
Back up what I said.
Fury.
I'm going to take the Bears, Lions under seven and a half, Justin Fields coming back, little rusty. There's defense playing well, there's defense playing well.
Lions defense.
Non-existent bounce back game. Oh, I like that. You can just say, like, if a team's good at something and be like, Yeah, they're good at this. And if they suck, I'd be like, they're looking at bounce back, yeah.
They're fired up, you got it. Oh, this is the dumbest.
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