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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Tuesday, January 2nd, and it is Michigan and Washington in the college football finals in the Championship game next Monday night. We just watched two playoff games that were varying degrees of frustrating and incredible, all bundled into one PFT. I don't even know what to say.

I think they go back and played at the.

Yes, well, no, I, I.

I think this might be the best college football performance from a quarterback I've seen in a very long time. He was going back to Cam Newton, he was dropping.

So that was our first game. It was a tough game to watch for a while there and then it turned into the fourth quarter where it became thrilling. And the reason why I say tough is it looked like both teams were feeling each other out and playing very sloppy offensive football we had. I mean, even the first play, J.J. McCarthy tried his best to throw an interception.

Yeah, should've been picked off, should've been picked off. You had miscues and special teams, and it felt like Alabama had the game in hand.

In that, I think it was the start of the fourth quarter when they were up maybe four, I think, yeah, I think it was 1713 and Jalen Milrow fumbled the ball. And even though Michigan didn't get any points off that, it felt like that was the moment Alabama was going to take control and step on their throat.

And Michigan? It was like a reversal, cause it was at first Alabama was hanging around, hanging around. They got dominated in the first half.

And then it was Michigan. Hanging around, hanging around, just keeping it close enough.

He couldn't even connect on like a five, six yard pass. Everything looked a little bit out of sorts. Michigan was able to lean on him a little bit. Blake Corham's really good.

Players, if we're just talking, it was great line play.

And then Milrow would just be looking in the opposite direction, not see the blitz coming, getting sacked for infinity yards. It happened to to McCarthy, too. Yeah, no, J..J. McCarthy did not look good either.

He had bad pocket awareness today, but yeah, we had. We had a great handshake afterwards between Nick Saban and Harbaugh. Who do you think is the alpha in that handshake? I feel like it's.

But Alabama almost won this game with just special teams because it was their kicker kicking two 50 yarders and their punter. Uh, I think he averaged 50, he had a long of 62, and he had, uh, four of them inside the or five of them inside the 20. And it was like, that was for a while, that was the game.

It was field position in Alabama just doing a better job with special teams and Michigan fumbling. Yeah, and a turnover on.

Jay her, her, bar her, her, Jay Harbaugh Harbaugh. Okay, Michigan Special teams. Yeah, maybe that might be tough.

So yeah, there's any relation. He's probably going to fire him. A very difficult conversation. So after the debacle they had on Special.

If you're a center, you can never blame your miscues on somebody. If you have a bad snap, it's because you fucked up. Yeah, there's really.

The one thing I would change, I would like the.

00 a.m. But did they delay the start of the second game? They might have by a few minutes.

That's just.

That caused one of the fumbles. Yeah, uh, hank you.

The Tom Brady connection?

He's the leader of the expat. Yeah, I think you nailed it. Thank you. Good for good for Jim Harbaugh, though.

Yeah, America's team, America's team, everyone's happy for Jim Harbaugh. I love Jim Harbaugh. I'll always love Jim Harbaugh.

Even if he goes, coaches the Chargers or something, he's, I don't know he, just. I said it before the game. If they just suddenly, right before kickoff, were like, Hey, we have a new rule. Um, head coaches can play, can take snaps in this game, how many snaps do you think? Jim Harbaugh?

And I also love the, uh, the quotes that he was given before, like in the immediate day, where they were talking to him about. You know how he builds his team, his philosophy, and he goes, you know, I think, uh, we model ourselves. After Jesus, he would have been, Jesus would have been five-star recruit. No doubt. in my mind, Jim Jesus was literally a one-star recruit. That's kind of the entire point of the story.

There was a giant star that appeared.

No, they developed them. Yeah, right, no, I'm saying, like the other sites, you know, they'll have like rivals. And then there'll be competing sites. There'll be a competing site that would be like, No, we actually had them. Five-star.

We we look at us like, subscribe to our service, we can pick these.

He's a.

Yeah, they bring them in for trick play, but they.

It's like, we're just a bunch of dudes just sitting around gambling way too much money on these games, eating way too much food. And we're like, this fucking dude who's an incredible athlete playing in the Rose Bowl? Yeah, he thinks he's got it all figured out.

If you google how to beat depression, check out Better Help. Yeah, that's a fact. Um, so yeah, Michigan marches on, and then we had Washington, Texas. What do you say? Guess the line.

Uh, I think, I think it's going to be like.

Nope, Mike on, we don't have to race, we'll find it. Uh, I would guess, Michigan around four.

So now we have Washington, who, uh, that was a weird game because it felt like Washington could have won by a million if they wanted to. Penix was just the best player on the field by far, dropping just balls into a bucket, just dimes everywhere they. They kept on trying to run, which they couldn't do. That's the one thing Texas can just shut you down.

Yeah, and then we get like there was two moments, one was when I think it was like eight minutes left, Washington was up, was it 10??

No, they were up a line, someone's got it. for me. were they up 10? No, line's four and a half by the way.

Oh, line is four and a half, okay, so that's what was Washington up before, uh, Texas scored their touchdown.

Cause the situation is they're down 13.

He go, he kicks the extra point to go down six, why not go for two? Best case scenario, you're down five, a field goal.

Doesn't kill you, worst case scenario, you miss it and you're you're down seven, like, that's a no brainer.

Go for two situation that he just missed.

That was so strong I felt bad for.

50, 50 seconds left and then credit to yours. he threw a great ball, but Quinn yours did not play good today. No, I, I started, like, as a joke, we were saying, the gambling cave put an arch. Manning, yeah.

By the end of it, I was like, put an arch, man, yeah, like, let's see what the kid can do. Cause yours did not play his best game, he did have that one nice long bomb.

And then the, uh, the very last play of the game, credited defensive back. That was a great play that he made. It was a great play and it was.

I feel like Texas is going to walk away. Being like that was a game we could have won if we just they just never felt comfortable.

But Texas, it felt like Texas had more the mistakes that you can look at and be like, man, I regret that cause. Washington's defense was phenomenal, that was the big bugaboo all year, Washington's defense, they were all up in the backfield.

Like, they were all over Quinn yours all game. Washington's defense is completely transformed and played great football. Last month, there was something weird with the timing, too.

Nothing bad's going to happen there. Also, there was a there was like a kid in a stroller that I don't know if it was a lady's kid. Credit to her if she was flashing with one hand and pushing the stroller with the other. But there was a baby, like, right underneath her, probably saw that was like, That's, that's dinner.

Yeah, that's dinner, baby.

I've never been in a spacious laundry room before. Yeah, like, they always have the folding door usually has the slats on it. He was just sleeping on a dryer.

Probably every pass worked, except at the end of the game. They.

Clock down every single play and he just refused to do it, so it was kind of weird that Texas got back in at the very end. But the reason they had that opportunity, to begin with, was because the board doesn't understand how time works. Yeah.

And Washington's, I mean.

Yeah, you can't, you can't get hung up on it. I did it because I thought Oregon was better.

We haven't seen in there a very long time. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I I feel like I'm leaning Michigan, but I've also been put that's I've been disrespecting me personally.

If you're looking for somebody in the media that's been disrespecting Washington, hand up, I've been, I feel bad about disrespecting. Yeah, I feel like, uh, everyone's going to be.

It's just every single game and so I might just have to bet on Washington and a shit load of money. Just no, oh yeah, I forgot your go blue, your Michigan fan.

What was that?

Yeah, all right memes.

Bo Nix kind of thing and his injury history and he's a lefty, which some people can't get over. I think it's absolutely worth. Like, I think he could absolutely be a good pro, but he's 24 because of the injury history, right? But you know what I'm saying?

Like, when you're 24 and you're playing against like, 18 and 19 year olds, are you good because you've been playing college football? For this, there's also the school of Thought of.

I'm, I'm, I'm wrapped up in it right now, but I don't know.

He's mocked. Those are always exactly correct. I've been looking on Tank, Oh, where they got them 40, see, they have J.J. McCarthy, 42, and Michael Pennix, 43..

That just feels like it's age and injury because Michael Pennix has played so much better than J.J. McCarthy played well. They haven't gone to the Vikings. That actually makes sense, yeah.

That'd be good. Same colors, so with lefty quarterbacks.

It's harder for your wider. I know that's not, but they don't think about the fact that it's hard for safety to catch the spin of the spin of the ball. Yeah, I'm looking at Tankathon right now, it's a it's a beautiful site.

Yeah, there's some, I mean, bears first, Commander's second, Patriots third, yeah.

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That we do. Don't worry, we will not do the Eagles recap without Max. Uh, so if you don't hear him, that's why I didn't. I was, so we were still in Arizona.

PFT and I flew back this morning, uh, I was able to set up it was. It was like I felt like a real degenerate because I basically took my kids to the park all morning, went to party. City. Got. I feel like I got robbed because they just walked in. It was like my two kids, and then I had my niece and my nephew, and they walked in, grabbed so much stuff.

I was like, let's get out of here. It was like $200 worth of shit and not one actual like item that was worth anything. Yeah, you know, like, like beads and like the fucking noise makers. So anyway. So I get back at 11 o'clock for the kickoff mountain time and I went into my bedroom.

I had a TV on, I had my laptop open, I had, uh, six different little tiny things on YouTube, TV, and then an iPad as well, so I was able to see all.

It was like, there's a there's a ghost running through the Philadelphia Secondary. Yeah, but so you went red zone, I went red zone. I went over to my old college professor's house, professor majors.

Uh, he's my comedy writing professor at JMU. He lives in Arizona. Went over to his house, hung out with him, watch Red Zone with him and his wife. I, Um, I, I had to make a call. It's like, Okay, we were supposed to go out for a hike, but then I remembered, Oh, yeah, it's Sunday.

It's NFL Sunday. He was very understanding, so we were like, Okay, let's just watch Red Zone. But as a compromise, I'm not going to be on my phone tweeting the entire time, okay?

I will be present in the review while I'm staring at the red zone screen, right? that's good, but being, Yeah, doing red zone, it's it's nice, man, it's football.

Like, games are starting, mountain time. Um, Scott Hanson, you could tell, he's like, we got 10 games, so much action. There was a few games that you could just not pay attention to. Yeah, there was a few games that you just could could be like that.

Game is over.

Um, which was great, cause we were basically doing a podcast we're making fun of Jerry Jones, like we were doing a live podcast. Just the two of us in the.

Yeah, we were. I was holding the iPad, which is just as dangerous as driving. Well, listen, the the the Arizona highways are.

What is it the ring of?

They shouldn't get anybody that cool and likable. But it was such a good moment when he went out there and he made me like, he made me like the.

But we so we watched the game. Controversial game. We should just jump right into it. Dan Campbell At the end of the game, a two point conversion. They the the the Lions go down the field.

It was actually a really well-played game. Like both defenses showed up, like I thought the Lion's defense was very impressive and the Cowboys defense, uh, was pretty good as well. But anyway, the two point conversion with Taylor Decker, uh, the play that works.

And 70 reported, and not 68.

And essentially, everything I've read from this is the refs just got confused by Dan Campbell's own trickeration that he tried to explain to them.

And number 70 runs at the ref too, and the ref kind of looks at him and runs away, and then the ref immediately says over the loud speaker. Number 70 has reported reported as eligible before they snapped the ball, so the ref was confused by everything, even though Dan Campbell did explain it. Um, but if you look at the formation, Taylor Decker was eligible, the eligible guy at the end.

So it was a great play. Ballsy call, it worked, and then the crazy part, which I actually like, yes, they backed it up, yes.

They backed it up because of the, uh, ineligible receiver, and Dan Campbell said, Fuck it. I'm going to go for two again. Crazy, crazy thing to do from the seven, it's insane.

It's there's no way that it makes sense, except for the fact that he's letting his players know.

I think Dan Campbell It's crazy to all of us. I don't think it's crazy at all to his players. No, because I think he tells his players before the game. Here's the plan. If we're ever in this situation, we're going for two, we're trying to win this game. This is how I'm coaching.

So, like all those guys are gung-ho, ready to go like it was. It's not a surprise to them when he says, get back out there, go for two again. So I think it's weird for us, but for them, they're like, No, this is how our coach coaches. And my whole thing is. Because people kept on bringing up like, well, you didn't like it. When Brandon Staley did it, Brandon Staley stopped being consistent.

Brandon Staley was awesome his first year, cause he was aggressive, and then he started doing like a wishy-washy. When Dan Campbell is aggressive and consistently aggressive, I'm all for it.

Cause you know what you're, you know the type of coach he's going to coach. It's when guys go like, back and forth and they're like, Ah, maybe I won't be aggressive. He went for the fake punt, he went for it on fourth down to goal line, or in the first half, he goes for it for two, twice. Cause they actually ended up going for it.

What it was offsides, it was offsides. Then it was like the third three yard line. Yeah, I think it was. It was half a play that almost worked as well.

So yeah, we're on the same page. Like, as crazy as it seems, I think, Dan Campbell in that locker room. They know that this is how they're, they're getting coached, they know they're going to be aggressive, like, go for it.

You can live with that if you're a Detroit Lions player. You're happy. You're not happy with the way it turned out, but you're happy with the way that you competed until the very end of it. And yeah, Dan Campbell, you know that he's going to call that fake punt in the first half. He doesn't care if it's on his own 23 yard line or wherever he's got that ready to go.

It's probably going to work. If I'm a Lions player, I'm not. I'm not looking back on this game and saying I wish we could have done certain things differently. It's like, you have the valid excuse that they got fucked right, and and so the.

The ref deserves 95 of the blame. But there is like, 5 of me. That's like, we'll just like, if it's that confusing, that you have to explain to them, and then they still got confused.

Yeah, I want one, a tomato slice on there, and then the person that's making $7.25 an hour comes back. There's three tomatoes and you're like, what the fuck?

Like, stuff is liable to get messed up when you're dealing with NFL refs who.

Like, as a human being, the last person who ever talks to me, I'm going to be like.

So he's usually the guy they throw it to. So they're trying to confuse the other team by having all these people go up to the refs.

Oh yeah, yes, it's been doing it. They called in a hit because out of nowhere, Schefter just starts tweeting the greatest hits of this officiating crew, the previous mistakes they've made this season.

I think there were the refs at the end of that Kansas City Green Bay game on the egregious pass interference call that they missed. And then there were multiple other calls that happened earlier in this game that Schefter started tweeting out like the All 22 before the All.

Right, but it was, it was more like a overkill. But that was a hit. You should be mad at the lion. Yeah, that was a hit.

That was basically like Schefter saying that the refs didn't affect the outcome of the game. Well, they did, but it are. They already had fucked over the Cowboys, so the Cowboys were the rightful winner. This is it's butterfly effect. But that's what he was, that that leg tripping tweet was literally him tweeting.

I think the N.F. I think Adele probably called him personally. It was like, Hey, we can't have people like Mike Florio taking us to the Supreme Court saying that this, uh, whole game should be overturned. Oh, say that the trip happened so that the cowboy we can be like the cowboys would have.

Both teams played pretty well for the most part. There was there was the C.D. Lamb like 92 yard touchdown pass, which was incredible, and then C.D. Lamb fumbles through the end zone. Yep.

It's called for a touchback. Everybody out there tweets. The same thing. Is the worst rule in sports. Fuck you, it's not, it's actually a great rule.

I hate it, it's a good rule, I'll explain to you. Hank, I agree, yeah.

It's a good rule. Well, I hate the rule because it would be a disaster.

Then?

In football, there's different rules. In the end zone, a player can reach a ball over the line, and if it crosses the line and then they fumble, guess what, it's a touchdown.

It's a special zone, okay, so the rules of the regular field don't apply to the end zone. Every rule change that's been put in the last 30 years has been trying to help the offense. There's nothing that helps the defense at all.

This is one that encourages guys to play down to the one inch line, and it actually is a rule that helps defense a little bit. Also on kickoffs. What happens when the ball is not possessed by anybody and it rolls through the back of the end zone? That's a touchdown.

If the ball is not possessed, or a touchback, if the ball is not possessed by anybody and it goes through the end zone, that's a touchback. Not just on fumbles, on on kickoffs, on punts, on the whole thing, I like the rule and there's been some awesome plays that have happened in N.FL history like that. You remember Ben Watson when he corner flag champ Bailey? Remember that play? That was a sick play.

Calvin Johnson against the Seahawks, I think there's been some great plays. I like the rule, the people that are complaining about it are the same people that are saying, wait a second, how come we? We make every single rule change to the favorite quarterbacks and wide receivers?

Let the defense have something counterpoint.

Uh, this has been on.

You're just shaking a fucking. I'm like, What is that? a troll dog? No, it's a some company I don't know, it's, I think it's, I think it's pug's pen.

It was a good, it was a good speech. It's pug's pen, I agree with you.

You, you can't just be willy nilly throwing the ball, like to the end zone. Yeah, it's a.

When we do our back of the head for every team, it's Mike McCarthy in the late game. Clock measurement. Because hit that pass play where the the the law. He gave the Lions 40 extra seconds to drive down the field and then he went into prevent defense. Well, it was a mix up big cat and on top of that, the one thing that completely gets lost. So there's, I think, 26 seconds left when the Lions score a touchdown and they're going for two. Mike McCarthy, you have probably the best kicker in football right now.

The guy they were talking on the broadcast, how he has a 70 foot range or 70 yard range, right? Mike McCarthy used a timeout before the two point conversion, like, if they get the two point conversion, you have two timeouts. You can easily get into 70 yard range with a couple pass plays and a timeout with 26 seconds left. He is so fucking stupid.

So fat he will be the downfall for the Dallas Cowboys.

Mix up as a mix up, and these things happen to Mike McCready, he does get mixed up. Uh, it was bad it was really, but the play calling was just atrocious at the end.

I have no. It's like he's never been in a.

Other than that, if you took the long run that Tony Pollard had out, I think he averaged like 1.

6 yards per carry. So he spent the whole game trying to run, and then the moment he was supposed to run, he's like, Nah, fuck it, let's pass, yeah.

Yeah, and.

He got saved big time. Yeah, big time.

Maybe he runs out of gas, he just gets tired. Cause, look like when we did the Arizona Bowl, when we were up in the booth, we had to stand the whole time. I was fucking gas by the fourth quarter, yeah.

Like, standing is if you're overweight, is might as well be running a marathon. Who are they going to put?

Why can't football coaches sit in chairs? Well, coaches do. It's in a bed. Yeah, why not? But yeah. Dak has been playing while C.D. Lamb broke the record for yards and receptions for the Cowboys, which is insanely impressive given their history at the wide receiver position.

And he did it in in a regular 16 games.

Being like, the Lion's defense played a lot better than I expected against a Cowboys offense that did look like it was rolling. And yeah, I go back to it. But the N.F, the N.F.L. playoffs are so wide open. Yep, and I know this. This was devastating for the Lions because they were still in line to possibly sneak into the number one seed. If they had won this game, they would have been the two seed, which would have meant two playoff games at home.

If they had won the first round, that sucks. I've also seen a.

He was all over the place. And so they were saying that two of the sacks would be considered hip drop tackles. You can't hit the quarterback below the knee, you can't hit them above the shoulders, he hit them around the waist. Get your pen up on defense and up for defense, which came with that one.

Aiden Hutchinson hit Dak Prescott in the midsection. The only place where you're allowed to hit a quarterback and then his body takes him to the ground. Because that's how the fucking laws of gravity work. Okay, so if you're going to sit here and tell me that the the. The hip drop tackle is going to get added to the list, with the below the knee tackle and the above the shoulders tackle. Well, guess what?

Just put flags on these quarterbacks. Okay, yeah, so just turn into flag football, cause there's no such thing as a sack anymore.

Yeah, hip drop tackles a figment of your imagination. It's not real, it's not real. Let the boys play.

Let them tackle, let them tackle. rant over tackle, boom. Congrats, Hank.

They're going to get to home playoff games, we'll get to the Eagles later, but they're going to get to home playoff games. They've only looked like a Super Bowl contending team at home. Uh, and now, yeah, I mean, hopefully we get Lions Cowboys part two.

We'd love to see it as the lines would, if if if all the higher seeds one, the Lions will be, the three seed, the Cowboys are, the two seed. Lines would go to Dallas. Uh, as long as Dallas doesn't blow this against the commanders, and we can. Yeah, they can still blow it, they can still blow it.

They can still do it last year.

Max is here, oh.

Yeah, it was crazy. It was a good win, good win.

Can you give? Can you give a key to the game that we didn't talk about already? Uh, no, I also did not watch it. I, I was at a concert and then I was. I was at the bar after, and I was like, sitting next to my friend, I was like, Oh, we need a Cowboys win.

We need a Cowboys win. Saw it there one by one, it was like, let's go. And then yesterday, on the way back, I was reading about what happened. I was like, Holy fuck.

What a win.

Hank.

If we're, we can do three, well, no, if I'm, I think I'm like six or seven games ahead of you. I might just do seven and you. I'd have to go, oh, and seven, you'd have to go seven, I'll give you. I might give you that just for fun.

I'm ready, I've been preparing. Okay, uh, all right, next game.

Ravens, 56 Dolphins, 19 Ravens, the one seed. This was an ass kicking. Lamar Jackson, MVP happy.

We can be done with that discussion. All right, Hank's going to Duffy's right now for.

The Ravens are what I thought the 49ers were a couple of weeks ago, right? They are beating great teams. They've beaten three division leaders by a combined 62 points. Yeah, it is like.

And their offense looks like the Todd offense is finally clicking, throwing the ball deep. We also had, um, one of my favorite tweets of 2023, cause it actually happened in 2023, from Joe Shad. I'm sure you saw this PFT. But he tweeted, Uh, that's pretty terrible. That. John Harbaugh and the Ravens just passed for another touchdown, up 49 19 with a few minutes left. And moments after Bradley Chubb was carted off with a potentially serious injury, it's 56 19. Disgusting. He wrote an article about it, too.

Huh, interesting? Yeah, listen, you're, you're going to. If you're playing against a really good opponent, you're going to step on their throats. Who cares?

Yeah, who cares, it sucks that Bradley Chubb got.

Yeah, he shouldn't have been. I agree with that, yeah, but the the Ravens are playing on a on a, on a different level.

And, uh, now they get the one seed. They probably won't play anyone next week. So now we get the rest, cause we might get a two week ravens, you know, letting everyone get healthy.

Yep, yep, so.

I don't know if that's coming from his dad's film breakdown. I want to hear a film break, like a PFF style grade from Odell's dad. Comparing this team to the Rams team that he was on, yeah, uh. But I think he's probably right. Because, uh, if we're going to get into some nerdy statistics. We like Dvoa, even though we're not exactly sure what it means.

Um, the Ravens have become the first team in N.FL history to put up over a hundred percent dvoa in four games in a season. No team had done it three times, so the Ravens just became the third team, or the first team to ever do it three times in a season. And now they're the first team to do.

And Sam was taught a lot of stuff going on with that. Also, uh, Lamar now has as many perfect passer ratings as Tom Brady. Ooh, damn three 158.3 again. No idea how they calculate that.

So I think I should be a little bit safer. What do you mean? Max isn't a Ravens fan, but why does that matter? because he all he does is finish second place and lose.

But he?

This is Max is finally learning how to fight fire with fire. Yeah, I don't think it matters, because.

The Purple Camo.

You could tell there were some things that Stavi wanted to say as Ronnie from Dundalk. And he was like, Ah, fuck, I can't say that. I'll just say he built a homemade weapon and let everybody else fill in the blanks. It does feel, though.

Okay, yeah.

Yep, I think that it's, it's a legacy playoff, I would agree with that. Yeah, uh, okay.

Next game Saints 23 Bucks, 13. Uh, this was. This was such a classic case of just always, always bet the bet that makes you so uncomfortable. We talked about it on Friday. I was like, I kind of love the Saints this week just because they look so bad and the Bucks look so good.

And then the Saints played better than they've played all year, their defense was all over the place. Their first, the first eight bucks drives were four.

I like this because there's so many scenarios in weeks, week 18 now, like, so many different things can happen. So I like the fact that it's mixed up a little bit. But yeah, Mike Evans, Baker, Mayfield, they weren't on the same page in the first half. Um, I still. I still think that the Bucks are good, I think that they're an above average team and that they're better than the Saints. Regardless of what happened last weekend, just kind of a weird, a weird scenario.

I think they're average, I think they're average.

And now, going into week uh, 18, they don't control their own destiny, which sucks because that. You could see. The Saints maybe put together two great games at the end of the season, and then Saints fans would be like, Where was this all year?

That's what I'm saying, that's the torture part where they look at it and they say. We were playing good football at the end, literally at the end, cause it was the last two weeks and we don't get an extra football, but I think that would be good.

The Bucks got to like the NFC Championship game because then you could say.

Okay, we'll get to that later. Um, yeah, the the Eagles and the box, yeah, I just think the bucks are, yeah, they're perfectly average.

I don't think they're very good. I think on their on their A Plus game, they could be everyone but the Niners and probably the Cowboys. And then. But they're very, very easily could could throw out a uh, like, Uh, there's their. Their C plus is very bad. I think they could lose to anybody, right?

There's C Plus is bad, whereas, like, you could say, like, Oh, the Niners C Plus could win a playoff game, still, yeah. Or the Ravens C Plus could win a playoff game. If the Bucks throughout a C plus, they'll lose by 20..

Yeah, uh okay. Rams giants, this was an ugly win for the Rams. Stafford didn't look great.

And we said it the special teams is a problem. But the Rams have clinched a playoff berth in a season where they were supposed to be rebuilding. In a season when they're over. Under was six and a half. Sean McVay is a very, very good coach, Matt Stafford is still very good and I'm even though they struggled with the Giants.

The cap might not even really exist, but the way that they're managing it is. Let's get some mid round guys, start a bunch of them, hope we can coach them up and do well, and they've been really good. Also. Nakua That's been a hell of a bonus for him. Kyron Williams.

Kyron Williams He's how many games in a row now? does he have a touchdown? He's just it seems like he scores twice every single week. But yeah, the Rams are awesome, the Rams, the Rams are very, very good. Compared to what the expectation for the should have been going into this year.

Yeah, so this was scary. Uh, the punt return was really, really bad. Um, and the kicking game obviously is going to be an issue. I don't know who they're.

Yep, those are the two ways that you can succeed despite winning championships. That's it, just just get your.

He is, he has to be, so it's. It's pretty crazy to think that, like those two guys, that's good drafting, good scouting. Yeah, way to go, boys.

Less neat Fuck them picks so hilarious name, Uh, the other part of this game, Tyra Taylor I do I actually think in the in the season of backups, I might put Tyra Taylor as.

And then she, Then he should've caught the other one.

You overthink it. It was like, you're right, they were standing next to.

Yeah, next year he's owed 35 million, they can cut them after the after next season, so at least they have an out there. But that's such a bummer to be like, Oh, we gotta go, we're just going to do Daniel Jones again.

Yeah, he's lurking back there.

Like, there's the universe is not real. If Ron I'd agree, I'd agree. So is it Sirianni or is it going to be Dable?

Who's this? who's the interesting one? Cause I don't, I think McCarthy say the quote again, it was a I don't have the direct quote in front of me. But it was like there are two teams that are expected to make coaching changes. One might be surprising.

McCarthy McCarthy, maybe, but maybe Sirianni, maybe Dable.

You might get hired somewhere. Yeah, who would be the other?

There's some more bird teams out there.

It's gotta be Sirianni, has to be Sirianni.

Okay, sounds like you're a little mad.

Shane Steichen should be Coach of the Year. He's got my vote, he's had my vote for a while. Colts were over under six and a half wins. They're now going to play for a win and get in with the Texans on Saturday night.

Also, Shane Steichen's coach of the year entire resume should happen with the Eagles in conjunction how bad the Eagles have won. Like Shane Steichen was the mastermind, Yeah, Shane Steichen was the coach that got away, Max.

That's a fact. Shane Steichen.

The Raiders were off sides so it went from. It was, uh, they. They had cut it to a seven point game. They missed the kick, get to re-kick, hit it. It's a 10 point game. Raiders cover in the back door with like, a minute left.

But yeah, the colts controlled this.

Yeah, the Raiders fought to the.

That's true, just do it.

Yeah, how's Jimmy's physical looking? Oh, that's that shoulder looks fine to me, that ankle looks good. The Yeah, you're right.

You're right, and.

Um, but yeah, I the Colts like, I'm kind of it's tough because Colts, Texans like. I kind of want to see both teams in the playoffs now, they're both great stories if you're playing against those teams.

Coming up, that would be a nice matchup. So the Texans Titans was the other game. This game was so bad. I'm actually happy that it was bad because I said in my head I was like, this game's going to be bad. I don't really have to think about it too much.

Yeah, and then it completely delivered, because.

He must know there's another.

There's a guy that plays on the Eagles that's pretty good, too, oh.

He's probably going to win, he is a record man, will Anderson, though, making big plays in important.

I think I think there's a look ahead game for Mike Vrabel. He doesn't give a shit if the if the Texans win this game. Yeah, I'd agree. All right, let's take.

I mean.

We have some good players. Um, Terry McLaurin looked better today, we got him the balsam that was great. Sam Howell didn't look so hot.

I still think he's here. Also, shout out Jacoby Brissett for I think he just pretended to have that hamstring injury. Yeah, and he was like, let Sam start it. It was like in Rudy, where they bring their jersey into coach, and Ron Rivera was like, Ron Rivera probably got the call from upstairs.

Bench Sam Howell put in, Jacoby Brissett. Ron Rivera probably went to. Jacoby said. Hey, you know, if you had a hamstring injury, it wouldn't be the worst thing ever. Yep.

Uh, I don't know what actually happened, but um, it doesn't really matter, because this game didn't really matter. We knew that the Niners were going to win, the Niners losing to the Ravens. Just solidified in my brain and most people's brains, they were going to destroy the commanders. So, um, basically all I did was watch the game, nodded my head in approval when we went down, uh, and stayed down.

And then I kept refreshing the tank-a-thon. And, uh, just looking at the second overall pick and thinking about Marvin Harrison, thinking about Drake may think about Caleb Williams. You're taking a quarterback.

I think you need to understand that Sam Howell is probably hurt. Maybe yeah.

I want, uh, we got a new owner, I would like a new head coach, new general manager, uh, new showers in the facility, new team.

They were watching the Eagles Cardinals the end of that game, and they were, you remember that R. Kelly TV that he was watching? Yeah, that's kind of what we have in the locker room, which actually, I don't hate. The fact that our opponents have to watch that TV if that's the same TV situation that we have in our own locker room.

It probably is that's an issue. Uh, but yeah, just everything, everything different. I I've actually even thought about a different color scheme. Who now?

I don't want that just buy you those shoes. I don't. yeah, they're great shoes, thank you.

I don't want that, but I'm okay with everything. I want to wipe Dan Snyder's memory from my brain entirely. What's a good quarterback? Yeah, maybe. What color scheme would you like in a perfect world?

Uh, I, I'd have to think about the probably burgundy and gold, still, like, that's that's my ideal, but why I'm just?

Yeah, just everything needs to change. Everything in D.C. that's happened in the past 25 years needs to be done exactly the opposite. So, Hank, can you look up what the opposite colors of burgundy and gold are? Uh, that's more of a Jake project.

Jake, Can you look that up? Yeah, the. As for the 49ers?

Like his boss bitches, Yeah. It's just like it's kind of the the stepbrothers when the stepbrother scene, when they fart and they're all this. Just it's kind of fucked up now. It's kind of like, it's like, kind of weird, I don't know.

It's like, Yeah, okay, you beat the commanders soundly. Yeah, they did what they were supposed to do.

Right, like, you can beat teams when you get a lead, yeah, and they're.

Next week is going to be tough for you. Fucked, you have Christian McCaffrey? I have Christian McCaffrey in three out of four of my leagues, that sucks.

You probably have Lamar, too, right? I do have Lamar. Is he not going to play? Probably not, god damn.