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The playoff, the playoff, playoffs, playing for Lombardi talk about playoffs.
We start in Houston.
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Texans fans are in La-La land as D'Amico Ryan Gosling has the upstart team driving to the.
Second round Texans 45, Browns 14. In the frozen Tundra of Kansas City, it felt like it was 30 below, which was also to his quarterback rating. Speaking of Tuna, Tagovaiola got the rest of the dolphins caught up in the net to get slaughtered. Rasheed Condoleezza Rice preemptively invaded Miami's secondary, scoring a touchdown and racking up 130 yards.
And meanwhile, Mike McDaniel Day-Lewis needs to put down the weed and pick up the meth in acting to teach his team how to play man football. Another collapse for the mutter-footing Dolphins Chiefs 35 dolphins.
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Cowboys, 32.
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CoM Okay, super wild card weekend not in the books. Two thirds of the way done. We watched football weekend. it was pretty great.
It was pretty great, most of the games stunk until the end. Yeah, the last game was incredible. We're going to get to every game.
We're going to have Hank on Zoom, uh, his report from from Dallas coming up. uh, real hank, real hank. We. We will talk also about the Bill Steelers being moved and Max's, Uh, he's been waiting, waiting all weekend to give us his preview of Eagles Box. But let's get into it, let's talk ball, cause it was still even the blowout. Games had storylines, and we'll start chronological order. Texans 45, Browns 14,,.
Joe Flacco has turned back into a pumpkin. It was.
Sad to see the clock struck midnight on Joe Flacco. It was a great story. While it lasted. It was very much linsanity. We had linsanity in a bottle for Italians and older people. Yes, it was great.
And uh, and then it kind of all fell apart, then Flacco kind of became Flacco.
It was, um, yeah, like the Browns defense was horrific, which we we. We saw that. Maybe there was some leaks on the road this year, but C.J. Stroud, which we'll get to, like, just carve them up. But it was sad to see Joe Flacco, like you thought we talked to ourselves in it on the show. Magical Run, Joe Flacco. Maybe going to to Baltimore, winning a game there, but yeah, the the first pick six. Um, I actually don't think that was a bad. You knew going into the game that Joe Flacco was going to throw an interception. You just hope that you would be able to tackle the guy before he ran it back for a touchdown.
The first pick six was like, that wasn't a terrible interception, it was just you had to tackle him and not give up six points. The second one was really, really bad and it happened in back-to-back plays. And it was just like all the air came out of the Browns from from that point on.
It's such a funny feeling when when somebody throws a pick six and you know that it's going to be a six, even before they catch it. That was the second one, the second one was like, Okay, that's just going to be a touchdown for the Texans. First one was a little bit longer, nobody was able to catch up to him.
And it was fitting because he's in Houston. He turned kind of into Matt Schaub, Yeah, in the House of the Texans, and it was. It was, though, um.
Like as Joe Flacco did not do enough for them to win the game, but the Browns defense was what just like, fell apart, like, cause they couldn't stop C.J. Stroud at all. I know two pick sixes, but even if you take out the two pick sixes, the Texans probably win easily. Because it felt like C.J. Stroud could do whatever he wanted, yeah.
The Browns defense on the road has stunk.
Pretty much all year, almost all year long, and their their house, their home. Defense has been like the best in the league by far. Yeah, but then you add in the road thing and it becomes like we probably should have seen it coming. A little bit more than we did, but we got.
We got caught up in Flacco we we, we got caught up in flacco. The um, maybe maybe a trend here. Jim Schwartz and Dan Quinn. Being like, I don't really want to move. Yeah, so I'll just, uh, we'll just submit a really bad performance and then next year we'll.
Try to win a Superbowl. So was it. Was Jim Schwartz actually getting those same discussions around his name that Dan Quinn was? I feel like he wasn't, because, no, I don't think he was. He was bad enough as a head coach where people still remember, like, say what you want about Dan Quinn. But he got to he. He was up 28 to three in a Superbowl at one point. Yeah, and.
Then yada yada yada. Jim Schwartz doesn't, uh, he doesn't strike me as a guy who's like, great at, like the shaking hands and playing nicey. Nice. No, no, he doesn't, he doesn't kiss ass, he probably just tells you how he's one of those guys.
Uh, you know, everyone has that one friend who's like, I just tell it like it is like, No dude, you might be a dick.
It kind of makes you an asshole sometimes. My problem is, I'm just brutally honest all the time.
I just sorry, sorry, I just can't hold my tongue and I have to tell the truth.
Yeah, they always say, like, you know me, I couldn't keep my mouth shut, right? Yeah, well, no, you can, you can, you can keep your mouth shut.
Yeah, Schwartz, Probably not. He's not enough of a kiss, he's a he eats ass, he doesn't kiss it.
And he's probably not going to be, um, a head coach, I wouldn't imagine next year. I also feel like they're probably. How old is Jim Schwartz now? Uh, he's definitely not to be in his late fifties. He's definitely not too old to be a head coach, but he, he's got a lot of football years on him.
57.
Nailed it 57. Okay, yeah.
Um, it would take a special type of franchise to be like, you know what? 57 year old Jim Schwartz, let's give it a shot, yeah. And who knows what's going to happen with Mike McCarthy in Dallas? Because we're recording this at 11 o'clock central time. Um, after the games are over, that domino might fall pretty quickly.
And then, depending on what happens with the Eagles, those might be two big coaching, uh openings that we didn't necessarily see coming. Which would probably be way more attractive than some of the other ones that are out there. Yeah, so Schwartz might get one of the like second tier jobs, and as it goes for the.
BROWNS Um, you know, we had, uh, Zoopy, who is a great, uh video editor and producer here at Barstool, and then our friend Jeff T. Lowe. We're sitting front and center for the game. And, um, I, I could sense sadness. But I also think there was a feeling of like this, how are we even here? They made the playoffs with their JV team.
Right, like they, they, they were saying to each other at the end of the game, they're like, next time we watch Browns football, Nick Chubb will be playing stuff like that. So I mean, they they did have like the most injuries. And to get to the point, I whenever you get to the playoffs and you lose in that fashion, it sucks. But in the like suck meter, I feel like the Browns were playing on some borrowed money.
And, uh, it was like a very fun season that looked like it had ended like 17 different times. There's there's different points throughout the brown season where it was like, that's a wrap. This guy got injured, our entire offensive line got injured, Deshaun Watson got injured.
Oh, Myles Garrett had got got banged up and he's playing through something, Nick Chubb's out and they were still there. Um, you, you'd wish for the Browns fans that they could have continued the ride. But, uh, I feel like the future is bright, as long as you figure.
Out a way to just have Deshaun Watson never play? Yeah, have him, for for whatever reason, have it work out where he doesn't have to throw the football. And you can have somebody that steps in for a salary of like $600,000 a year. Every season take you to the playoffs. And they are going to get kind of the most additions in free agency this off season, just getting all their own players back.
And with Myles Garrett, you can even say like, Yeah, the defense stunk. But also Myles Garrett has been injured for the last like month, month and a half. Yeah, so he hasn't really done shit since Thanksgiving, right? And uh, he's hopefully going to be fully healthy, ready to go next year.
And as long as they keep. Uh, Jeremiah Uwusu Koromoa Yep, I say that, right, Jake nailed that, you nailed it pretty much as long as, pretty much.
How do I say, Jake?
I have, oh, oh, so you don't know? No, no, I have it right here. I was planning a TikTok. PFT did that off the dome.
PFT did it off the dome and you said off.
Off your dome that it was incorrect. So yeah, cause it's core, don't check you, what'd he say?
Koromo said Caramel No, I said, Koromo, I'm giving you a plus. As long as they get, as long as they wrap him up, long to, that dude is awesome, he's awesome. The Browns also. Um, very weird year because the pendulum swung as far as it could swing. In terms of, uh, rooting for a quarterback into Sean Watson that you kind of always are like, Ah, he's a really bad guy to rooting for. Like, the greatest story ever in Joe Flacco and the guy who everyone wants to root for.
Yeah, and now, like, I feel like there's a little bit of shit, we got to go. Yeah, Deshaun Watson's better than Joe Flacco right now.
Maybe, maybe, uh. But you also have to go back to rooting for Deshaun Watson after rooting for The Nicest Guy in the world and Joe Flacco.
Well, fun fact Joe Flacco has now thrown as many touchdown passes for the Browns as Deshaun Watson has. That is a fun fact. And this was you got the full Joe Flacco experience. Because the old debate on whether or not he's elite goes back to Joe having games and stretches that he puts it together. Like we saw where he's just like, Oh, fuck, this guy can throw the football a mile.
And then he'll have a game like this where he just pretty much quits after the first score and it's like, Okay, it's not here today. Yeah, this is. I'm not elite today, but my eliteness will come back in. It's Baldingers cat being elite and not elite at the same time.
Yeah, so I don't know. I hope that's not the last time we saw Joe Flacco play football because that would be a bummer, because we like watching Joe Flacco play football. He needs to run it back, he needs to run it back.
I got Joe, you got one more in you, you do. Absolutely. Some team with a good offensive line should have Joe fight. Why isn't he like the backup quarterback in San Francisco?
Or just the backup quarterback, like the first one taken, like one starter goes down. Yep, Joe should.
Be the first domino. He should just be on waiver wires. Yeah, yeah, uh, okay.
We got to talk about the Texans, though, because this was the Texans coronation. As next up, I think that's officially, it's officially happened. We'll see how the rest of the playoffs go for them. But the conversation is now. When you talk about like the AFC, and it's Borough, and it's Allen, and it's my homes, it's Lamar. C.J. Stroud and the Texans, and how good they are this quickly is insane, like C.J. Stroud was incredible.
That defense was also incredible. Will Anderson was out of this world. Good Derek Stingly just completely shut down. Amari Cooper. Like, they have a bunch of guys.
And I think the Texans are next up, I think they're the team that everyone's like, Hey, the future, the next five, 10 years, you're going to have to deal with the Texans, I'm going to say.
This sky's the limit for C.J. Stroud. How about that? Oh, listen, he was so, so good and he.
It's crazy because it really is like, Um, you can look at stats and the stats are very, very good, but it's it's such an eye test. With C.J. Stroud, we'll have like three or four times a game where it's. He's so calm and he stands in there. And he'll be like back footed, getting smashed by a defensive lineman. And he'll throw an absolute rope. To like, the perfect placement, yeah.
And like, how is this guy seeing this? He processes it so fast? Fuck that stupid test, uh. And the Texans, like that was, they just demolished the Browns, it wasn't even close.
It was close for that first half and then the second half started, it was over. He throws the ropes.
But he also throws the prettiest little touch passes. Yeah, pretty he's got, he's got such, he's got such good touch to Sean Watson probably wants a massage from.
And it was insane, the little like buckets that he was dropping these high passes into. Like, just let your guy run under it, if your guy has a step on another guy, throw it up in the air and it's. It was beautiful to watch. And I think now it's our responsibility as media figures to, uh, set some unrealistic expectations for C.J. Stroud.
What, what would be, um, uh, how many Superbowls can he win in order for his career to not be a disappointment over two and a half Superbowl? Yeah, you gotta get hammering the over, you gotta get three, or else you suck, or else this, or else. You should have been bad from the get-go, but you were so good at the start.
Now you have to get three Superbowls, you have to play in Houston for 13 years. Yeah, 13 or 14 years probably. Um, yeah.
Three Superbowls.
And probably 11 pro bowls, but it is. It is crazy, though, to consider that. Like, Okay, so you traded Deshaun Watson who? Again, it needs repeating, like the Deshaun Watson shit, the timeline is Deshaun Watson kind of wanted out before that, yeah.
It was weird how it went down.
Like, remember when the report first came out about, like all these masseuses? It was like, right after Deshaun Watson made it known that he wanted, he was playing hard ball with the Texans. And then these allegations came out and we're like, what the fuck? So they're probably related.
Some.
Something happened that was correlated there, but Deshaun Watson wanted out. He was your franchise quarterback. You thought you were going to be in a great place for 10 years. You were next up, you were like, it was, Hey, Lamar, Deshaun, Mahomes, all these guys, the AFC.
Then you're back to just being the worst team in the league and just like that, it's why the NFL is the best, because it can. All it takes is just one draft pick, a couple draft picks. Cause, like I said, Stingley and Will Anderson were incredible. But a couple draft picks and your the fortunes of your franchise can completely turn. And that's what.
Ha, that's what's happened in Houston. They have the right coach, they have an incredible quarterback, they have a young defense. The sky is the limit.
Like Texans, fans went from the depths of hell to back up on top almost instantly. And now the AFC, that was going to be Trevor Lawrence's.
Division Not so fast. Yeah, I mean, all it took was two years of Davis Mills, and that's all you had to suffer. Who got in, who got in for a little bit.
Yeah, so you had to suffer through two years of Davis Mills, now you're back in. The future is like the brightest it possibly could be as a Texans fan. And even if you lose in the next round, which I'm not saying that you're going to. Because I think I've learned a lesson about C.J. Stroud, which is, uh, I'm, I'm not going to doubt him.
Yeah, I'm not going to doubt him ever. no, because he's, I think he's like that fucking.
Good, he is that good and not to brag, but we called it, yeah, stroud boys, boys.
He, Uh, I actually think. C.J. Stroud, you could make the argument now. I went and looked back. Uh, might have the most impressive rookie, uh, year for a quarterback. So there's obviously some, some names out there, like Justin Herbert was very good as rookie year.
His team wasn't great. Uh, Kyler brock, Daddy brock, Birdie got to the Roxy Championship game. Yeah. RG three incredible rookie year.
Uh, Russ Cam Big Ben won a a playoff game his rookie year. he also went 13, and Oh, and Dan Marino also had an incredible rookie uh year. But he. C.J. Stroud now is 23 touchdowns, five interceptions, 4,000 yards plus and he has a playoff win like I think he might. He's in the conversation for best rookie year for a quarterback, yeah.
I would agree with that, I.
Mean, being around for RG three is rookie year. He had like eight weeks where he was unbelievable. Yeah, um, and then it ended in a much more horrific fashion than than I could have ever imagined. Cam Newton had an awesome rookie year.
Cam Newton had an awesome rookie year he was.
He had 21 touchdowns, 17 interceptions, so didn't take care of the ball the same way and his team was six and 10. Like CJ and I know, obviously, if you play on a bad team, if you're high draft pick, you're going to probably play on a bad team. But C.J. Stroud has them with a playoff win.
Now Big Ben playoff wins actually, cause last week was a playoff game. True fact, Uh, Big Ben's.
Rookie year was so funny, too. When he went 13 and Oh, 13 and oh. His teammates publicly questioned his ability to lead the team when he took it over. They're like, Well, no, I'm not excited that they've been starting for us. Why would I be excited about that? He's a rookie.
And then they were just like Ben, just hand the ball off every single play, just hand the ball.
Yeah, he had a 2,600 yards in 13 games and a 17 touchdowns, 11 interception, but I and he won a playoff game. But yeah, I think it's, I think it's a real discussion that he, by the way, I should say. Cam did break the record. He had 14 rushing touchdowns rookie year in terms of play in the regular season and now winning a playoff game as a rookie quarterback, I think C.J. Stroud might be it.
I think the conversation might end with C.J. Stroud. Is the best rookie season in its totality in the NFL. Yeah, I'd be so pumped if I was a Texans fan, so.
Pumped Um, don't let anybody tell you anything. No, no, you, you have our full permission to just be like the biggest dickhead all week, yeah.
If you work with somebody that's a Titans fan, if you work with someone who's a Colts fan. Or really any team in the AFC besides the Chiefs and the Bills and the Ravens. Um, talk all the shit, yeah, just don't do it, real dickhead.
Don't do it with any Astros paraphernalia on no cause. That's the you gotta remember. Yeah, like, I think, like, Oh, I kind of feel bad for Rockets fans.
Cause James Harden fucked them over. As a franchise. It's like, wait, but the Astros, we'll just keep it to Texas. Yeah, no.
Astros jerseys, No Ted Cruz hats. And then you should be good to go. Yeah, Texans, um, a couple.
Notes on Funny notes on the broadcast I know your friend was calling the game. Uh, he did a great job, he did a great job. A couple notes, though.
And it, I don't think it was his fault. He's fed a lot of stuff. Uh, it did make me laugh when he said that, uh, they talked to Nico Collins and asked him, uh, what the difference was between last year and this year? And he cited yoga, not going from Davis Mills to C.J. Stroud, but yoga, but yoga is more flex yoga, definitely.
Helped is more flexible. The quarterback plays the same, but he's, he's able to stretch his.
Joints out, it seemed like a very obvious. C.J. Stroud's my quarterback now. Yeah, Namaste.
Yeah, and then the other one that was funny was, and and this is. I hate to do this because Michigan fans have had a hell of a week. But it was very funny when they said on the broadcast. CJ. Stroud Uh, his, he. He stepped up his game in his two biggest games in college in his college career. And they cited the Utah Rose Bowl and the Georgia loss in the playoff. Just completely Michigan, just pretending the two Michigan losses. Yeah, but still, like, you can't say the biggest game, I would say Ohio State is the Utah Rose.
I would actually.
Make the argument that the Ohio State Michigan game is a post-season game. Yeah, I mean.
The last few years, yeah, it has been, yeah, yeah. So um, those were funny, though, but.
But to to his defense, that Utah, Ohio State game was awesome, that wasn't awesome, it was.
So good, that was a great game and the Georgia game was great. But it was funny because Michigan fans were like, wait, what, you can't? You can't say that. He steps up his game in the big moments and then just forget that game.
He's so good, he's so good. I want that, so bad, so bad.
How?
Much, How much do you think it would take for the Texans to trade C.J. Stroud right now?
Okay, so I had this debate last week, like, how many teams say no, yeah, but I'm saying what?
What is the hypothetical package for C.J. Stroud? I think it's like Mahomes and three first.
Round picks Mahomes and two first round packs. It is in his first year. You have another three years to build an entire team, like your window is completely open.
Now you can go spend all this money, stack your roster, you don't have to pay C.J. Stroud for another three years, I think.
I don't think that there's a package you could put together. He's that good, I think, you'd say.
No, I want our guy. Yeah, even when we get to, uh, the Packers game and Jordan Love has been. I think their numbers were actually almost identical today. It was like, four yards off, yeah.
They were, they were exact same completions and everything. Uh, it was, yes. Jordan Love was 16 for 21, 272 yards, three touchdowns. C.J. Stroud was 16 for 21, 274 yards, three touchdowns.
Uh, but even Jordan Love you have to pay like he's now, you have to pay out. Yeah, C.J. Stroud is is the rare. It's, it's crazy. A true freshman, I didn't mention. Andrew Locke also had a good rookie year.
He had a very good year, but, yeah, led him to the playoffs. This is, and who knows? I mean, they're, they're probably, although I'm thinking back to it. Like, they played the Ravens I think week one, so C.J. Stroud's first start and I remember the Ravens won by, I think it was like 26 to nine or something.
But I remember thinking, like, Ooh, the Texans kind of stayed in this game a little bit. I, I'm done doubting C.J. Stroud. It's also a good reminder going in next.
Year, we should, actually, we should probably set a reminder for ourselves about this one. Um, don't judge rookie quarterbacks on how they play in the preseason, or first game, or first.
Month Yeah, he, he was not very good for first three years. Yeah, do you guys want it week one?
Yeah, yeah, because we might. There's a good chance that big. Can I both have rookie quarterbacks? yeah.
Can you remind us like, hey, don't judge them unless they play poorly, but yeah, if they play poorly, if it's good, if it's good, then yes, overreact, then you have to overreact, yeah.
Remind us to overreact, actually, if, if they, if they complete a pass, this also, um.
It really is like, I want it so bad and it makes me think about my own situation. Probably that makes you think about your own situation as well. PFT. Like seeing C.J. Stroud play football, that's a no doubt guy.
You don't have to. We've had the discussion many times. If you ever have to ask yourself or convince yourself even a little bit, the answer is no. Yeah. Because. C.J. Stroud There is no debate, there is no like, Ooh, is he, is he not?
No, he is. We see it with our own two eyes. I wonder if David Tepper watched this game? You think he did? No, probably not.
I don't think he did. Oh, I was one off. 25 nine was, uh, the final score week one when the Ravens played, uh, the Texans. That might be the.
Worst situation to get thrown into as a rookie, too. Your very first game? Yeah, the Ravens go.
On the road to Baltimore, Baltimore, have fun. It's going to be a fun game. Yeah, oh, that was a gammy.
Uh, great, they're haunting us, even in You remember, you remember every gammy. He's got the pictures right behind him, I can actually see the C.J. Stroud one.
That's a different one. Oh, um, do we have a line yet for this game? whose line is it anyway? What's the spread? I'm?
Going to say, Baltimore Ravens seven and a half eight, yeah, uh, we don't have a line, can we?
Find a line Can you find a line? Is this game set? Oh no, it's not set, it's only one set game, which is Packers Niners.
Yeah, which that has to be like niners, 10 or something. Yeah, it's nine and a half, okay?
So congrats to the Texans, sorry to Browns fans. Also. Bobby Slowik probably.
Going to get a job? Yeah, Slowik, he's going to get a lot of interviews, but does he do a ben?
Johnson Where he's like, you know what, maybe I should stay, maybe like, there's what C.J. Stroud going into. Next season is going to be probably the fourth or fifth like odds for for the MVP, yeah.
It's a, it's a it won't be that crazy, like, so you'd be like, Oh, maybe I'll just be.
Offensive coordinator of the MVP. If I were, if I were Bobby Slowik, I would just keep turning down. Head coaching jobs until they can't stand it anymore. And they're like, this guy has to be awesome, right? because he said no to head coaching jobs so many times.
Right, that's the strategy right there, and Domingo Ryan's awesome, but then you never take one, you just.
Stay a coordinator also. We got. We should get credit for that, cause I think we were throwing Domingo Ryan's name around before he became a head coach. Yep, he should be a head coach.
Next up, Yep, yeah, uh, it was our own Rooney rule internal. She had throw it out.
You have to throw out a defensive head, yes, exactly exactly, just to show everyone that defensive and offensive coaches the same. I think it's about time that we.
We used to almost interview more defensive head coaches than offensive because they've had it so.
Bad for so long, it's just it really does show. If you hire a defensive head coach, it's not the worst thing. You just got to nail the office court, and that's really all it is.
And preferably, you have to have an office coordinator that has really good future offensive coordinator, friends that he comes along with. Yes, but that's it.
Cause a lot of defensive head coach is like, Oh man, why are we hiring another defensive head coach? Well, if he gets a great office coordinator, who the fuck cares? Yeah, so.
If you get a great office coordinator, then you have to be prepared to lose them in one or two years. That's a real problem. It's an awesome problem to have. I would love to be in that.
Situation because we keep losing it out the other end when they get fired. Uh, okay, next game. Chiefs 26, Dolphins seven. Oh man, the candy ass uniform showed up in a big, big, big way.
Those pants.
Were a big blinking aqua warning sign being like, not not ready for negative 30 degree wind chills?
Right now, that was like invading Russia in the wintertime. It was so bad. The dolphins are so.
Bad they are. The game would have probably been a little bit different if it was in a friendly confines of Miami, where it was probably going to be 60 degrees. Um, but you just took one look at Tua when he went on the field. Yeah, like, Oh, this guy doesn't want to be here.
And I and I don't blame him. Like, you should not be outside when it's that cold, but I also don't.
Think that it would have been different in Miami. The Dolphins finished this season seven games, uh, versus playoff teams. Actually, let me do it the other way around. 11 games versus non-playoff team. They were 10 in one plus 196 point differential, seven games versus playoff teams.
They were one in six minus 110 point differential. Yep, they just could, they were.
Always this team. I think it would have been different if it was Miami, I don't think it.
Would have been that maybe they don't win more because Miko Hartman wouldn't have just stopped.
Running routes five times there, that was weird. There were some players, uh, on both sides of the ball that just didn't want to be outside. Yeah, they're like, we should. I want to go home?
And it was Miko Hartman that gave up on a route. There was a perfect pass. He thought he got held right and so he just stopped and look for a call in the middle of the play.
And then there was Elliot on, uh, on the dolphin side, that just did not look like he wanted to tackle anybody at all. And again, I don't blame you like that. It probably sucked being out in that weather, but it definitely affected, you know who? It didn't affect at all. It was. Andy Reed, Yeah.
Andy Reed with the icicle mustache. It looked like he just finished off Frosty the Snowman it was. It was, uh, the one of the best football guys sites of all time. Just getting icicles building up on your upper lip and you're so focused on calling plays that you don't even.
Wipe your mouth off. He probably, I mean, he needed to get a full towel when he got.
Into the locker room, probably blow dry, blow dried, his mustache ripping everywhere.
So the question is, what are the dolphins do? Because I like to, uh, but this is now been a couple of years and obviously last year he didn't. I mean, Skylar Thompson played better in the cold in the one playoff game, yeah, the dolphins played in.
It's been 20 years since they won a playoff game. Do you say? Well, we had so many defensive injuries, which is true. The Dolphins were just a shell of themselves defensively. By the end of the year, they lost like their best players, on almost every single level. Uh, or do you say we got to figure something out?
Because, and maybe it's Mike McDaniel play calling, and like Mike McDaniel was, he's a great coach. But like, how many? how many stupid screens in, like, they just don't have that second level of like, Hey, the elements are here. We got to just run the ball down your throat, or we got to play a different way, even the passing plays.
That they're running like you're saying all the screens out to the side. They were afraid of the middle of the field, which isn't like the dolphins have been all year long, right? They have thrown.
The ball to the middle of the field a little bit, but um, and the Chief was incredible. So I. We got to give them credit like they were, they were all over the place. I have to assume that there.
Was something about the conditions that made him not want to throw the ball like a normal human?
Being would, but you can't. So so is the answer for the dolphins that they have to get home, yes.
Advantage That's the only way that they're going to win. Spin zone Uh, losing the division was actually good for you. Because now you get to play an easier schedule next year, which should be which should be. Now. Maybe you can play 13 teams that don't make the playoffs, you get home field.
Advantage to the Super Bowl? Yeah, I don't know what the answer is for the dolphins, but it does feel I would assume. You know, you had a pretty successful season. You were playing for the division in the last week of the season, which was actually kind of a collapse and you shouldn't have been in there. But, uh, your team is good, you have good players. But it feels like if they just run exactly the same thing back, they're going to just have the same thing happen. When they play a team that has, like, more grit and piss and vinegar to like Mike Frabel in the fourth.
Quarter of a game. If they'd close out that game against Tennessee might be a different story. It would have been hosting the bills. Probably, yeah.
Yeah, so I, yeah, I don't know. If you blow, they're not in blow it up mode, they're not, but it would take balls to blow. I feel like Mike McDaniel is, uh, too nice of a guy. And he's probably close enough friends with some of the players on the team. Or at least they've. They've formed that relationship, which is good that you want a coach to have, but I feel like he doesn't have the balls to blow it up right now. It's not.
Blow it up, It's definitely not blow it up because you can't blow up a team that has that much talent. And they won what? 10 games, 11 game, 10 games 11 and six? You can't blow up an 11 win team, especially when it feels like they're on the rise. But what are the tweaks that make you not be a team that can't play other good teams?
I don't know the answer. Got to add some pieces and free agency, you got to add some toughness. I know that sounds very, uh, we're like minimizing everything, but the dolphins do lack toughness, yeah.
How could you?
Add toughness in one off season. Richie Incognito Yeah, bring them home, bring them back home.
Sometimes you got to go very good way to add, sometimes you got to go backwards to go forward. Bill Romanowski, Linebackers coach I love that. Danny Woodhead, running back consultant.
These are ways to bring toughness. Yeah, John Kuhn, just have John Kuhn in the building.
Yeah, just to hang out, just have Frank in there and just rip every player. Yeah, change the logo.
Yeah, change the logo, bring back the dolphin that's wearing the helmet, yeah, and then put the dolphin on that, on the helmet of that dolphin.
Yeah, they need to do something different.
Something's got to change. That's the name of the dolphin, yeah, TD, and he was stolen.
Since her pet detective, that's fact. Well, his name was Snowflake in that movie, that's.
FacT Bring back Ray Finkel also Okay, here's one easy one.
They could do, uh, get Chase Claypool off your team. Yeah, okay, so chase Claypool. Here the numbers, the Steelers, uh, the season they traded, chase, chase Claypool. Before they traded them, they were two and six.
After they traded them, they were seven and two. The Bears then got Chase Claypool. Um, before they got Chase Claypool, they were three and five while having Chase Claypool on the team.
They were one in 13.
The minute they got rid of them, they were six and five, one in 13. And then the Dolphins started the season six and two traded for Chase. Claypool finished five and five.
Yeah, probably got to get them off your team, not good, probably got to.
That might be the simple fix. What is the what's his career war? I don't know, I want to, I want.
To know which is plus minus the one in 13 stretch the Bears with Chase Claypool. And I don't think he was even active for the one which was against the Reds, yeah, he was out there.
Yeah, here's.
What you do in free agency? Uh, you add Chris Jones. Oh, you just get Chris Jones from the Chiefs. I would actually be really nice, that would be very, very smart.
If you could get him on the team, uh, what about? What about this? Let me just dingle this one out here.
Dingle I like that, I don't think I've heard that before. Yeah, uh.
No, I'm dangling, I'm dangling. I'm dangling, I'm dangling, cause it's like I'm ringing a.
BelL And I'm seeing if you react, it's like a hank in a cold pool. A dingle. Yeah, dingle.
Dingle.
Kirk Cousins Yeah, oh, I don't hate it. I think I think I would kick the tires on Kirk, I really.
Like to. And I wish it didn't go that way in the last two games, because the last two games, the. The. You know, the Dolphins offense in the second half against the Bills and then all Saturday night just did nothing. You know, it'd be really good. One broken play to Tyreek.
You'd be really good in that offense. Joe Flacco, Joe Flacco would be Cheetah, would not be able to.
Outrun a Joe Flacco pass. I actually know exactly what they need to do. This is a real one, cause we throw out some fake ones, although Richard Incognito was a real one.
Yep, they the Dolphins desperately need, like a a big athletic tight end, like a, like a dude. Yeah, it feels like that is missing from their game.
Kind of like what the bills had before, you know, before they got Dawson Knox and Dalton Kincaid, and now they have that middle middle of the field. But like they need, they need one of those guys. Maybe run, the be able to run the ball, trade up, catch the ball in the middle. Brock Bowers Yeah, it does feel like if they had that, their offense would would be a little more cohesive because it did.
The dolphins are are pretty much predicated on like, you got to hit those big shots and on Saturday night.
There were, there were none, yeah, and the running game was so good this year, that's what makes it even more frustrating, yeah.
But they told us they never, yeah, they never had like a physical power run. Yeah, yeah, and h, yeah.
HM was so good. No, there's, there's.
I want to see training camp fights from the Dolphins next year, I want to see just an angry football team. Yeah, if they're angry, then they could win a Super Bowl.
They should build a a, an igloo, or a reverse dome. Yeah, practicing the Colt do training camp in Mystery, Alaska. Yeah, I like that.
All right, we got to talk about the dangerous chiefs, who are very dangerous. That was basically, uh, everything that, uh, all chiefs fans were like, just wait, just wait, just wait. Rishi Rice, just wait. Worked because he was his. He had, uh, eight catches for 130 yards and a touchdown, which I think that combo was a record. For all of 24 hours until Puka Nuku'a played his first, uh, playoff game, that was a rookie record.
Um, but Patrick Mahomes is now 12 and three in the playoffs, 12 and three in the playoffs. He's played six seasons. First season he was, I'm not counting, because he didn't play. He played that week 17 games, 12 and three in the playoffs.
Patrick Mahomes has more playoff wins than Troy Aikman. Patrick Mahomes has the same amount of playoff wins as Aaron Rogers, and he's one playoff win away from tying Ben Roethlisberger and Brett Favre. Patrick Mahomes again 12 playoff wins in six seasons Peyton Manning got his 12th playoff win in his 17th and final season.
John Elway got his 12th playoff win in his 16th and final season. He has 12 playoff wins in six seasons 12 and three. It's insane. Every single year it's Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs. Do it on the road, though, Pat.
Oh, we should do it on the road. He's an arrowhead merchant. We should have put a disclaimer here. Uh, for all the Chiefs fans that think we never say anything nice about Patrick Mahomes, please don't listen to this next, uh clip because, uh, it will just ruin everything that you've.
Thought about us. The running disclaimer for Patrick Mahomes on this show is that, like everything that we say, every word that comes out of my mouth, it could be prefaced by. Patrick. Mahomes. Is the best quarterback in the NFL. But and then I say, whatever I'm going to say anyway, right? Like, cause it's understood he's the best quarterback.
Again, six seasons.
12 playoff wins, He, it's, it's not even like a question anymore. Uh, like he, he. Obviously people will expect him to get to Brady in terms of Superbowls. But like, he's going to pass some of the best quarterbacks of all time in his sixth or seventh season. Yeah, it's insane.
Yeah, and there's a reason why it hasn't had to go on the roads. Cause he's really fucking good in the regular season, too. Yeah, so they don't have to worry about that.
Did you see after the game the exchange between Tua and Patrick Mahomes? Yeah, Tua went up to Patrick Mahomes and he said, Hey man, great game. Um, you want to do a jersey swap? Can I have your jersey?
And Mahomes looked at him, was like, Uh, you know what? I'm supposed to give this to somebody else, but hang on, you know what I'm supposed to give somebody else? Can I send you one instead?
So, uh, he's going to mail Tua a different jersey. You have to have that lockdown, you can't.
You can't ask for it after a playoff loss where you get completely embarrassed. Well, there's that.
But also, you have to know that if you do ask for it, you're going to get the jersey. Yeah, like, it's, it's like asking a hot chick to homecoming. You have to know that the answer is yes before.
You embarrass yourself, you can't, you can't, you can't propose unless you know the answer.
Is going to be, Yes, exactly. And he and he did it on the Jumbotron, he did it on the Jumbotron and Mahomes.
He was polite, but he said, I've already promised this to somebody else. I just you should ask for the helmet. So that is fucking tough. Right there. It was so cold outside that their equipment was breaking.
His helmet shatters and he keeps playing and they're like, Hey, no, you have to get your helmet switched out. And um, that right. There is why I'm not a football player. Yeah, I could not do that.
My helmet wouldn't have shattered.
Yeah, too much. I would've been sitting on the side, well, you would avoid the hit, you'd be in the end zone.
My helmet would be on on the heated chair, yeah, you'd be in the. yeah, you'd be taken.
Off, cause you just scored another 99 yard touchdown. Yeah, the um, it's crazy, though.
Because the Chiefs are so alive in these playoffs. Like you would not stun me whatsoever. After all this happened this season, it's still Patrick Mahomes, he's still the guy that you trust more than any other quarterback in the NFL. But you saw a couple of those passes to Kelsey.
Kelsey had a couple of big drops, Kelsey looks old. But if Rasheed Rice is going to start being good, like Rasheed Rice has been good, I should. I should say that he has. He has come along this season and you've seen it like he has grown a lot as a receiver.
So if Rasheed Rice is like, Now is my coming out party, now I'm going to be a world beater. Like that is what their offense is needed, and Pacheco just runs.
So fucking Pacheco was built for that game last night. yeah, Pacheco weather, Pacheco. Actually. Like, I think there was a dolphins that didn't want to tackle him, just seeing him stomp around, yeah.
He was the only.
One that was getting any traction in the ground because he was just stomping like tiny little knives into it. Yeah, he probably broke the coils underneath. I love it when you're. He just moons, he curbs, stomps the ground when he runs, and it's, uh, it's very funny because sometimes he does it for no real reason.
Like, the best, the best is when Isaiah Pacheco gets in the open field. And then he just starts stomping the ground upright while he's running away from somebody like that. That's not how physics work. You're supposed to be like, leaning forward and running, um, but yeah, he was, he was ready for the cold. And I think that Rasheed Rice is, uh, he's the one guy on the Chiefs, where he's the one pass catcher. That hasn't fucked up badly enough this year that it's cost them a game.
Yeah, he's been at least consistent across the board and he's young. Yeah, everybody else has been like, Well, that guy can't trust him.
He has an excuse. Yeah, all these other guys don't have an excuse, I think I trust.
Rasheed RICE Right, I don't trust MVs Travis Kelsey, he's still harman.
I don't trust, he's still very good, Travis Kelsey is still really good, but he has a lot of drops now. Yeah, tired fingers.
Yeah, very tired fingers. What'd you think about the box, Jake? I saw the swag surfing.
Yeah, Taylor was into that, yeah, the box was blurred out a little bit, yeah.
It was very cold, it was a blurry box, yeah, but for the kids at home, she, uh, wore a jacket that was made by.
Kyle Uschek's wife Oh yeah, Uschek, can you please say her name? Say her name, Jake?
Yeah.
I have to look it up, I will say that. Christian Uschek Yeah, okay, Christian Uschek's wife.
She.
Makes everyone's jackets and shout out Kyle because he's ride or die. He was just replying to everyone online. I think Kyle, made by my wife, yeah, he might be the wife guy of the year.
Yeah.
He was replying to every tweet that was going viral. He was just like, Yeah, my wife made that, and then he would tag his wife and everyone. Yeah, he made a jacket for someone on the Lion side.
Yeah, she made her, uh, whatever, that guy is no lautner there.
It is okay. Taylor Lautner, I.
Don't know who he is, uh, team Jacob.
What's it called? Twilight, twilight?
Oh, but yeah.
So she made, she made that jacket today, and then Jushek was gassing her up too, he was like.
Yeah, she did this one too. Yeah, I want one. yeah, I want one too.
What would be the funniest?
Kyle, Who would be who would be the funniest player to get a jacket like that made of Jameis?
Winston I would like one that's just Justin Fields and Caleb Williams split, yeah.
Duo One?
Yeah, I like both of them. Yeah, yeah, I want one.
That's just a second overall pick.
I'll take first overall, back to back, first overall pick. Yeah, give me that. Um, Ray Lewis.
Would be pretty funny. Yeah, Ray Lewis, if you see somebody wearing the, uh, the Ray Lewis custom jacket run, yes, run.
They will fuck you up. Yes, um, but yeah, the chiefs are as alive as.
I mean, that was that was an ass kicking, and they they did it defensively, they did it with my homes being my homes. I still just can't get over 12 playoff wins in six seasons, it's a joke.
Yeah, I mean, Brady's the only one who's come close like Brady. I think I think Brady surpassed it, cause he obviously won three Super Bowls in his first four years. Um, so it really is Brady. Than my homes.
Like, he will pass everyone, he will. He's, he's four away from Montana, like, it's crazy, he's, he's out of this world good.
And and just when you, when you talk about big playoff moments, he's the number one trust guy. It must be so, so nice to be a Kansas City fan. Yeah, damn, he even had that big run.
He does those runs in the playoffs where, like he gets faster and homes runs in the playoffs have never not worked. Yeah, they just always work, and they always, and they always go for about seven to nine yards farther than you.
Think they're going to go for. He's also the best quarterback at running out of bounds. Yeah, when he sticks the ball out, he'll just like, tuck it out at the last second, yeah.
Always gets you an extra like yard, yard and a half at the very end of it. And he'll also do a thing where he'll, like, run to the sideline. And then teams will assume that he's going to go out of bounds. Then he cuts back in and doesn't get hit at all and goes down on his own terms. Yeah, really good, really good performance by my homes.
I think the chief, we said, like a few weeks ago, that the chiefs are in a position where now they actually do have doubters. Yeah, but now they now they can actually harvest all that, all that doubt. And because they've done it in the past, when they've had to invent people that say that they can't win. Now, they're a hundred percent right when they say that everyone's overlooking them and they have been overlooked.
And you're in in the people.
Who do that are just as dumb as the people who decide to pick the Broncos or the Raiders or Chargers to win the AFC West. Every single August. Yes, like I, Yes, the Chiefs could lose next week, they can lose the AFC Championship, losing the Super Bowl. I'm not going to be the one who's being like.
The chiefs are dead and we should, we should count them out of the playoffs because.
It's Patrick Mahoney, you know, what's crazy is if you, if you talk about like, is this season a disappointment? And for the Browns, it's not a for the Texans, it's not the Dolphins, it is for the Chiefs. Depending how they play next week, I could see a world where the Chiefs lose in a close game. And Kansas City fans aren't, like, super dejected about it, because you know what you have.
You know what you have to fix? I do think, though, the chiefs are, and there's a compliment to them. They are kind of in that patriot zone, where it's like AFC Championship is like marked on their calendar every year, they're also in the zone. What are they been to?
Five straight, six straight. you're right, you're in the right straight. You don't want to wait. A year since 2018, yes.
So.
Six straight. You don't want to waste a year in the homes, right? So that that's where the disappointment would be. But in terms of how far can this team go, you know that there's some flaws in the team.
Your defense is great, you've got real problems at wide receiver. Uh, if you, if you compete next week and you play well, you score a few points. Oh, I think there's you, you're going to be, you're going to be pissed off, don't get me wrong.
Yeah, thanks here.
This is a I think she Hank, am I right? That's a loser talk. Oh, shut up, Hank, I am right, though.
The Chiefs fans have every right now, like they have it penciled in, like playoffs starting the.
Championship, Yeah, you have the best quarterback in the world, like you have one of the best coaches in the world. It's very similar to Patriots.
Like, you have a banged up team, you have injuries, you don't have the best receivers like that sounds like the Patriots.
Run. But you still expect to go to the Super Bowl. And if you lost when the Patriots did lose in the divisional round, you're like, that was a huge disappointment, huge. And if you get to the AFC Championship game, if you lose the AFC Championship game, those games are tight. Those games are tough, but you have to get to the AFC Championship game.
Yeah, Mahomes and Andy Reed, there's no excuse. Yeah, I do think that's how they, and it's.
Again, it's it's a credit to them that that is what the standard is. Like. The standard is has gotten so high that they can every year be like, Hey, we will be playing in the last.
Weekend in January every single year, but if you go back, if you rewind, like five weeks, you weren't. You were looking at a team and you're like, I don't expect us to win a Super.
But that happened to the Patriots a bunch of times, too. They would win Super Bowls. Those years where it's like, Oh yeah, everyone's written us off and they just find a way to round up.
No receivers. Yeah, I just think my my theory is that your team at least isn't constructed to a point right now where you're expecting to win the Super Bowl. No, they're not, they're not.
A superpower like they've been other years, but they have Patrick Mahomes and that makes them.
The most dangerous team in every playoffs. But Hank, we want to, we want to use your time wisely.
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I couldn't. Yeah, it was. I was happy you were here for that. Can you just move the the the mouse on Hank's face?
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Company Golden Colorado Okay Packers 48, Cowboys 32. We have Hank in Dallas, he's sitting in a basement, it looks like with a sign saying, Wish you would behind him, Hank. Can we just talk about the game? And then I want to hear all your thoughts.
Is that okay? Of course. Okay, I'm here for you guys. I want to start with just real quick, the packers.
JORDAn Love is really fucking good. I've just accepted the fact that he's probably a future Hall of Famer. I'm hoping that, I'm hoping it's just one Super Bowl like the last two guys. But I also am starting to kind of connect some dots.
Aaron Rodgers won Super Bowl was week 17. The Bears lost to the Packers. The Bears were in the playoffs already. Bears lost to the Packers.
Packers were able to get in with that week 17 win, went on a miracle run to win the Super Bowl. As the sixth seed the Bears lost to the Packers in Week 17 or 18 this year, Packers get in last seed. Jordan Love.
Okay, I've done the dots connecting and it doesn't look good, but either way, the Packers were awesome today. They kicked the shit out of the Cowboys. Jordan Love is so calm, cool, collected. Everything we said for C.J. Straub goes for Jordan Love.
Like, he's, you can just see it with your eyes, it's just there. His back, his back foot throws, his calmness in the pocket, moving around. He has just gone to the Aaron Rodgers factory and just.
Remade Aaron Rodgers so he had the first perfect playoff passer rating in the history of the stat today, which is crazy. C.J. Straub didn't, which is nuts.
Yeah, I mean, going back to Aaron Schatz from last Friday, he said. That stat really doesn't take everything into account that's important. But still, it's a big number and he's the first person to ever have that big number of playoffs. Obviously played really well, The Packers now have two playoff wins.
We talked about this on Friday, too. Packers have two playoff wins in Dallas at AT&T Stadium. Uh. The Dallas Cowboys also have two wins in the playoffs at AT&T Stadium. Three, three. They won a Super Bowl there.
Yeah, it's technically, oh yeah in the venue. So so against the Cowboys, they have two.
They.
Won? They beat the Steelers, but they beat the Steelers there, so really, yeah, they won the biggest thing there, they own that building.
They literally own that building, it's crazy.
Yeah, but. But Jordan love, to your point, like he is the most calm person that you've ever seen, like he is staying completely medium the entire time. You can get guys face. He's making throws off his back feet where he releases and you're like, Oh, that's a bad throw.
And then it just.
Travels 35 yards on a rope, right? It's crazy, it's nuts. And the Packers defense played great.
Like, they were obviously the the the side of the, uh, the the part of their team that everyone was saying, like, well, their defense is trash. Um, I know that they gave up a lot of yards in half and garbage time. They made Dak look terrible in the first half. Pick six Another interception, they got them a short field and a touchdown.
Um, I'm not going to let myself get worried until if they beat the 49ers, I will officially be worried because the 49ers are my savior. They do kick the shit out of the Packers every single time they play them. Uh, so I'm not that worried. But this is we were talking about wins of a season. Oh, Texans have a win of a season, the Browns have a win of a season.
Even though they lost, the Dolphins have a loss of a season, Packers have a resounding success of a season. This is a rebuilding year and they just went and won a playoff game as a seven seed.
Uh, it's, yeah, they're, they're good, like Jordan. Love is going to be good for a really long time. I have to just come to grips with it and I have to be like, hopefully the bears could somehow find someone better because there's no other way around it. He's a really good quarterback.
And it hurts me to say it.
Yeah, and you know, who's also a really good quarterback, Dak Prescott, 400 yards passing. I feel like you have to extend the guy, right? He shows up in the playoffs.
He delivers when it matters, he doesn't, he doesn't play defense. Big cat Dak Prescott. You got to give him a massive, massive contract extension and keep him in that division for the next seven years. Am I right? Max? A hundred percent.
If you look at that stat.
Line today. How could you think otherwise? You couldn't, you couldn't. What do you have? 400?
Yards, 400 yards. He only had three touchdowns and two interceptions, so that's more touchdowns than interceptions. He's a gunslinger, he's going to throw, he's going to take chances and throw a couple, you know, bad ones that he gets unlucky on.
Yeah, it was the Dallas defense that really let him down.
Dak showed up and I think that people need to put more respect on Dak Prescott's name and and keep him around. That is, that man is the face of your franchise.
They don't grow daks on trees. There's one person who disagrees with us, not Hank Lockwood, who's shaking his head, who's a noted Cowboys fan. Skip Bayless had this to say after the game Get rid of Dak Prescott. Enough of the suffering. He was a fourth rounder for a reason, that's.
That's mean, that's mean to bring up your draft grade. Uh, I threw his jersey away for a reason. He's now two and five in the playoffs. Big moment loser, not a Dallas cowboy quarterback.
Fourth rounder For a reason you don't do that, he is bring up, bring up his crew.
What Skip's doing is saying, like, we were right about DAK, Yeah, the media was right about DAK.
Skip got bodied by his smart trash can. It was awesome, he did his his annual. I'm going to throw my cowboys paraphernalia away and his, uh, smart trash can. Just kept on closing on him after every time he tossed something away and he had to go frustratingly open it again. While Ernestine was held under hostage, taking yet again another video.
It's very concerning to me that that Skip no longer has the groin level microwave in his. In his kitchen, he has, like, an, uh, upstairs microwave, he has to go into the cabinets. Terrible backsplash, by the way, bad backsplash.
The kitchen needs a lot of work.
Also skip, Uh, be a man, burn your fucking shit. Well, I'm so sick of you just taking it out of the trash and doing it again next year. Be a man and burn it. So he's two and five.
Two and five. Dak is two and five. In his playoff career. I'm pretty sure that that skip. Bayless has thrown away the same jersey five times.
Five times.
Five times. Um, fun stat though about Dak this is, Yeah, it's kind of a hater stat. I personally I consider myself to be a Dak Stan I like, I like Dak Prescott.
I'd like to see him stay around for a while, love him. Um, he is two and five. In his playoff career, he's tied for the lowest post-season quarterback win percentage in the Superbowl era, with a minimum of five starts. Um, I'd also like to play a quick game, uh, that I just invented right now, called Dak-er fiction.
Okay, you want to play? Yeah, all right. So um, dak-er fiction?
Dak Prescott has as many playoff wins as Nick Foles.
Fiction.
That would be, yeah, that would be fiction.
Because Dak and Tony Romo combined have as many playoff wins as Nick Foles does. Uh, dak-er fiction. Dak had over a half yard passing in the first quarter.
That's fiction.
That's fiction. Yeah, the undercashed on that one, yeah, cash the tickets.
Um, dak-er fiction. The Dallas Cowboys are the first team to win 12 games in three straight seasons and failed to make the conference championship in any of those years.
That is fact.
That's a fact that one's a dak, okay?
Yeah, they have not made the conference championship in 29 years, I believe.
Yeah, yeah, not since they went to the Superbowl.
Yeah, I think it's 29 years. It's been a long ass time for the cowboys. Every year we hear about the cowboys, watch out for the cowboys, and then they're bounced.
And this one is seven and a half point favorites against the Packers, who were the seventh seed at home. Where they had not lost this year, Dak-er Fiction The Cowboys had not lost this year.
Daked.
Daked they had not lost this year at home. Uh, they got absolutely pantsed, looked like idiots, um.
Little boy ass play I do. I I think most people are agreeing with us now that dak like this is enough. Now, where it's like, Okay, something's up. One in six against the spread as as a, uh, playoff quarterback, two and five overall.
And I had said this one in six against the spread, and, uh, Max just, I had never heard this before, but Max or no, sorry, it was Steven Shea. Steven Shea was like, Well, they stole all of our signs last year. I didn't know that that was something that the Bucks community was claiming.
That sounds like something that Steven Shea read on a message board.
Yeah, so, uh, I guess we'll put an asterisk on his one. But if you watch that game and you say the DAK was not the problem, yes, the defense sucked, the Cowboys defense sucked.
Jordan Love carved him up. Dak Prescott How he came out in that game, it was over, like he looked so bad to start the game and two interception in the first half. He put them in such a hole that they there was no chance they were coming back.
And then when they're down 25 points or whatever it was, he's tossing the ball all over the yard. Like, you can pretend that that wasn't a DAK loss, that was a DAK loss. He did not show up to start the game and they got punched in the.
Mouth, and they could never recover. And Jerry Jones was so upset after, like the first quarter, he was slamming his paper around up in the booth. Turn around getting Bill Belichick on the phone. Mike McCarthy has got to be done, uh, or as as Jerry Jones said last week. We're gonna take this on a game by game basis, so we have one game to go on in the playoffs.
Busiest cat in Texas. I would say that Mike McCarthy did not really show up for this one.
Either Greg Olson did say we love Greg Olson. he's a great announcer, um, good friend of the show, but this was idiotic of him. He said that, uh, people would be like calling Mike McCarthy right away to hire him.
I think, he said, falling over them, falling over themselves. I think there's going to be a little cooling off period with Mike McCarthy, cause this was a like, you just can't look. They looked so bad, so bad on offense and defense, couldn't run the ball.
They've been able to run the ball really all year. And the cow and the packers just took it to them like they ran it down their throat. The cowboys are the quintessential front runners.
Yeah, build the offense around Jake Ferguson and C.D. Lamb. There was, there was some people saying that that CD and Dak were were mad at each other during this game, mad at each other going into the game. I don't know if I buy that.
I feel like Dak just played poorly today.
He played poorly, he, you know what he did, he. And I don't know if this is. I hope I'm not getting got, but the Louis Vuitton thing. Oh yeah, I've got the quote right here.
That was so bad.
Go ahead, give it to us. So Dak Prescott has set up Dak Prescott has set up reminders for himself about reaching this year's Super Bowl. I've got a lot of Louis Vuitton stuff.
It's because of the LV is Las Vegas. if I look at my bag, it's all LV, literally. I just went and got my girl a bag the other day. I'm like, the only one I'm getting is one of these ones with the LV logo on it.
That was an easy, simple reminder. So I think there's some, some Louis Vuitton bags that don't.
Have LV on them? Either way, there was too much pressure in his house by the backs. Yeah, you got.
Like, the bags were too much for him, he was just staring at at. Reminders of of how his season will be a disappointment. If he doesn't make the Super Bowl, he should have all year long, yeah.
He should have gotten. I don't know what's a brand, that's WC wildcard? Yeah, try to win the wild card once.
And now he has to throw out all those bags, he has to throw them all out, like.
If you keep those bags, then you're the biggest fraud of all time. The only reason you got those bags is because they say Las Vegas, nothing to do with anything else. So they gotta be, they gotta go anywhere else, but your house. If he keeps those bags, he's the biggest fraud of.
All time. Also shout out our guy Stink, uh. Mark Slares, who called this all the way back in September, when, Uh, Jerry Jones traded for Trey Lanson. Didn't tell anyone. Um, Stink said, Uh, that that's not how you run an organization and that they suck. And, uh, he said back in September. Oh, they may win a bunch of regular season games because they're talented, but they'll get in the playoffs and they'll shit in their helmets like they do every year.
That's the cowboys. Yeah, that's a perfect quote. Stinks, right. Stink was right.
No shit in their helmets. Uh, okay, so the important thing here? Hank your cowboys, you went down to Dallas. you were so excited to get to Jerry's world, see your cowboys in action. Tell us how to, how, how. How did the game go from your point of view?
I have never seen in person witness someone had the YIPS, like Dak had the YIPS. Obviously I wasn't watching the broadcast, I was watching the game. The first interception was a terrible throw.
And it was like, you could, you know, we had good seats. You could see it happen in front of you, and you're like, you could see he was telegraphing the past. It was a bad throw, poorly thrown ball, got intercepted.
And it was like that was a bad throw there was. He got sacked on the third down when he just didn't get rid of the ball. He held onto it for for too long, got sacked and it was like he has the Yips before, even through the pick six.
I was talking to the people around me, I was like, Dak has the Yips, he can't throw, like he literally cannot throw. The defense didn't show up, but Dak Prescott, he had the Yips.
There was no other way to describe it. After, like, after the interception, and after watching him get sacked when, like, he had a bunch of opportunities to throw the ball away and he just held onto it and got sacked. It was like, he doesn't like he, he doesn't know what's going on right now.
Yeah, there was a look on his face after the first pick where you could see him thinking, Oh, no, it's happening again. And then once you start thinking that way, then it's going to.
Happen again and again and again. So what do you do? He was missing, he was CD lamb dropped, They're like he had that one drop early.
Like, that was bad, Juju, but he was missing everything it was. It wasn't even like they were, it was never close, it was never close. There was one holding call on Micah Parsons in that first Packers drive.
That was like how they miss his.
Call, but everything else, the Packers just shit on. Yeah, so how? Um, as a as a diehard Cowboys fan, what do you think? The future of the team? What do they got to do?
I think you gotta get rid of Dak, Okay, you got it, you can't pay Dak. Disagree? CD and Parsons, Okay.
Gotta get rid of Dak, you gotta get Bill Belichick in their clean house, let them let them run the show, uh, or if they don't do that, I don't know if they don't, if they don't get Belichick guys. I don't know if I can be a cowboy.
He, Uh, this was. It was a tough, it was a tough. I was also like, not death threats. But I'm not going to say that Cowboys fans were the most welcoming to me. Oh, at the end of the game, what happened? Like at halftime? People were, people were, they weren't, they weren't nice. I'll tell you that.
What were they saying? You're wearing a DAK jersey? I was wearing a DAK jersey, and they were like, dude, like, why are you here? Like, This is all your fault? I was like.
Did you remind the Cowboys? I've never lost a playoff game until Lockwood Gun? did you also?
Remind them that, like, stay in the concourse, do the three different, the Patriots, right? And I was like, Yeah, I did. I was like, All right, I'll try it. That didn't work either.
Yeah, did you remind them that it wasn't like being like, it wasn't friendly? He was like, basically like he didn't block the entryway or like, back to my seats, but he kind of like, stepped in front of me. You're staying in the concourse, right? That's what you did for the Patriots.
I was like, all right, yeah, I guess. yeah, like I didn't. I didn't feel that way. I didn't, you know, the Patriots times. I did it, it was, it was a feeling thing.
I was like, you know, someone from above was speaking to me and being like, go on this concourse. I didn't get that feeling, but I felt obligated to cause this guy basically like, threatened me if I did.
Wait, like God, you're saying that God told you to stay on the concourse.
Yeah, I was just like, it was just like, you got it, you got to, you got, you know. See what happens if you go on this concourse and good things happen.
So, Hank, I got something good for you.
For the Patriots Games, not the not not.
Our, our, our e-sports reporter Darren Revell, by the way, shout out Darren Revell. I know MLK Day is a big day for him. Hopefully he can show us all his paraphernalia and collectibles.
I like memorabilia, I like paraphernalia. I get a bond signed by MLK.
Oh, he does, he literally does. He's like, Look, I have this sheet that MLk, uh, signed his name so he could get his mail when he was. When he was arrested. He's like, look at this guys in this cool.
Uh, either way, yeah, so Darren Revell, let's see, let's see some of that stuff. MLK Day, I know it's a big day for you.
You have over nine, over nine.
I think it's over nine, nine funny on today of all days. Also see big cats trying to be a hater on Revell right now, but he's forgetting the fact that Revell very clearly stated he has many Black.
Many Black friends on today of all days, Uh, either way, he did have a good scoop. Or e-sports reporter? This will make you cheer you up, uh, hank, he treated. Soon after Bill Belichick was let go from the Browns in 1996, he ran into Jerry Jones at a ski resort.
I can coach Beltech, Belichick told Jones. If you ever get an opportunity, don't forget about me. Jones said on radio in 2019 that he often thought about that conversation.
Also Bill Belichick single So Jerry Jones and Bill Belichick just getting on the bus together.
And the scrippers up there, yeah, the thing that people aren't talking about. Like, I was, I was kind of talking to people around me and I said it. I kind of I. It just hit me and I said it. And then once, the more you say it, the more you believe it. But like McDaniel's available, too.
Wait, what? Yeah, oh, to bring in with Belichick. Yes, you don't mean as a head coach.
No, oh.
I'll check in. McDaniel's together, Yeah, and you're and you're back. Bill O'Brien probably to Dak Prescott, No, but like Bill O'Brien, like, but. But McDaniel's and Belichick, like, they were dominant.
You can't deny that it honestly wouldn't be the worst. Brian was part of the coaching staff, but he was never, like, when he was offensive coordinator, he wasn't as good. I'll check in McDaniel's head coach, offensive coordinator. We're literally like the greatest tandem in coaching history.
It'd be so funny if they did that. They're both available and they.
Like, get to a Super Bowl, Jerry Jones has the money and then Josh McDaniel's gets hired again.
As a head coach somewhere else, yeah, someone would do that, that'd be awesome, all right.
Well, Hank, we got some other important stuff we want to talk to you about. So you went to the game with our friend Tiffany Gomez. How was that?
It was fun, we had a way to get to town. As a Cowboys fan. What's it like leaving in the third?
Quarter.
We actually stayed.
But I don't, I don't, I don't. I'm not going to call anyone else specifically, but we did. We'll, I'm sure we'll get into the pool thing. We did make the bet and then Tiffany was like, if the Packers cover this on their own, I'll also jump in the pool.
So we stayed because we were like, maybe the Packers are going to get 54 points on their own.
Right, who left, though? After the game was over, you were about to say somebody left.
And yeah, no, we stayed, I'm saying we stayed, but you know, Cowboys fan die hard, we stayed. And then pictures were like, Well, let's take some pictures. And in my head, I was like, if I just watched the Patriots get fucking waxed, the last thing I would be doing is taking pictures.
But there was there was a lot of pictures being taken by Cowboys fans down on the field after that performance, which was stunning.
It was Jerry World, you got to go, you got to go see it. Sometimes the stadium is bigger than the team, okay?
So this pool we stayed for the whole game, so explain the pool bet for us.
So we were in the game and and Tiffany was her idea. She was like, we got to do a bet, and I said, like, you know, she was like, what should we do? Like it was, it was. It's 30 degrees, it's like it's colder now.
And obviously, growing up in Massachusetts, being in Chicago now, where it's way, way, way colder. You know, 25 degrees is cold, but it's not that cold. People in Dallas were freaking out, like Tiffany was like, freaking out, she's like, it's so cold, it's so cold.
It's so cold, we should do a bet where one of us has to jump in the pool. Uh, and I, you know, as you guys know, I've been doing the ice, ice, ice, ice buckets, whatever you call it, cold tubs, buckets, cold tubs. So I was like, Sure, ice bucket challenge.
Yeah, the ice Bucket challenge every day and I was like, let's do over under, but we kind of were talking about it. We didn't make it official until I think it was after the Packers score their second touchdown. So I just looked at whatever the live total was, which was 54..
And I told her I was like, pick over, under, like, it's your choice. The total is 54. You pick over and I'll pick whatever you want, I'll take the opposite. And she picked over, obviously, that catch.
There's 80 points scored. Yeah, so she.
Thought there would be a lot of scoring going on this weekend, you weren't quite so sure there.
Would be as much scoring. Well, I just said, whatever you take, I'll take the opposite.
Okay, all right, nice, so so. Then the pool bet happens, so you have to jump into the pool.
Let's put the clip in, and I actually want to put it in for even podcast listeners. Because if you haven't seen the clip, this should make you go watch the clip. Because, uh, you won't get to see it if you're listening to this, but you'll get to hear it and you have to go watch it. Um, Hank jumps in this pool and Hank, I gotta say so. So Max and PFT came running in and they're like, you got to watch this video. I didn't know what was going to happen, but the minute you said I'm going to run on hardwood floors with wet feet, I was like, Oh, I think I know where this is going. But then it's even a better plot twist, so let's play it.
Cowboys Lost Everything, Lost Over Hit I Want to die.
It's 30, maybe 20 degrees in Dallas, this pool is probably colder, 14 14 degrees. Oh my God.
So he's running, they're throwing towels on him. yep, he's drying off his jeans.
Here comes the problem he's going on hardwood floors with wet feet. here he goes, Oh.
And if you're listening to the podcast, like I said, go watch the video because that sound you just heard. Was Hank slipping on the floor and his knee going into the drywall and putting the biggest dent? It looks like it looks like a a a frat boy after losing some beer pong. Just, you know, fist through the drywall, Hank. Talk us through this moment, please.
Yeah, you, you just watched the clip. As you can see, I was I in my head. I was like, I, I'm going to dry off before I go in into the inside, and Tiffany was behind me, she was like, just go just go in.
She said that in the clip, she's like, just run in. So I was like, all right, I'm just going to sprint, get to the showers as quick as I can. And I didn't realize like I, I'd hurt. And I think my scream got blocked by the sound of the wall because I thought I screamed pretty loud. But. And then I just ran into the shower after, and I was in the shower and I was like, Did I, did I actually fuck up the wall?
Like, and they were like, Oh yeah, oh yeah.
My knee is pretty fucking sore.
And yeah, it was, it was.
It was, I guess it was good, I don't know it was, it was. it was, I mean, it was, I'm just.
Content fact It's an all time, it's an all time video. So I assume, being the gentleman you are, you've been plastering Tiffany's wall since then.
Uh, yeah, we're going to, we're going to go to Home Depot tomorrow, got it? got it? We're going to. By the way, my my, my flight got canceled.
Oh shit, I'm not even joking.
Shit, you're going to be in Dallas till Tuesday, you're going to have to damn no choice.
You could do some cock, yeah, that could work. What about the wall? Have you thought about cocking your wall?
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