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Oh my God, my... Justin Herbert is throwing such rockets. I thought Elon Musk was living inside his bike. That's what I really did. Meg, I got no fluids left to my body. I got no fluids left, Meg.

If they show those commercials with someone making dirty tacos again, I don't, I don't know what I'm going to do outside so far. I don't know what quarterback I like more, Mark. Yeah. Oh, Mark.

What a game. Chargers, Bengals. I tweeted this with like two minutes left. We've seen that exact Chargers game before. We've seen that exact Bengals game before. We're taping this at nine o'clock. The game just ended and it was just, it was just who's going to do what they do better.

Are the Bengals just going to blow a completely winnable game and kick themselves after? Are the Chargers just going to have a massive choke in a game that seemed over at halftime? And I really didn't know until the until McPherson lined up for 51. I'm like, he's not making this. It's not going to. It's not going in. But then Justin Herbert, much blind, not a lot of clutch moments for Justin. Made some big throws, won the game.

You and he's lucky too because you text and you're like, I'm going to torch this mother effort. He loses this game. So I'm like that. I'm going to do my Justin Herbert progression too as a fan. You know how quarterbacks go through that.

progression tight end slant curl okay i'll throw this right i went through the whole thing like oh my god look how great he is in the first this is how did anyone ever compare him the two he's the best this is ridiculous they're gonna upset somebody in the playoffs to what the hell is he doing how does he throw seven incomplete passes in a row he's crushing us he's overthrowing mcconkey and uh and now he's back to being great i guess well a huge fumble

Yeah. When he was, he was really running around like he used to a couple of years ago and enjoying the studio space. And then he had that fumble when he fumbled for anyone who says that momentum doesn't matter in a football game. That fumble was like, Oh, no, here we go. I mean, this game had five momentum swings as it was going. But so we had that fumble and then just sailed it over my concierge head who was wide open, but then he made up for it. And that last drive with some big plays. Is that

Is that a better win for the Chargers or a worse loss for the Bengals? I'm actually leaning toward worse loss, right? They're all like, they're four and seven now, the Bengals. I know they're done. Well, they're not done. They see they're not done. No, I know. But every game's like this, right? It's like, you know what? They're just like a great sparring partner. That's basically what they are at this point. Oh, I like this. They're like, raise the rhetoric.

Yeah, they are. Yeah, they're going to give you their all and they're going to come up short or they're going to win. But they can't put together three games in a row, I don't think, where they went. I haven't really scoured their schedule, but I guess I'll take a look here. What do I do right now? They're going to get tripped up somewhere. The question is whether it's 10 wins or nine.

Because right now right now they're somehow four and seven where they have Terrible loss this week tail end of the game Baltimore week ten terrible Baltimore week five terrible Washington week three Casey week two They've they've had basically five either or games and they lost their over five in the other games

But I have to sweep the Steelers as a week next week to the Steelers left they have at Dallas at Tennessee home Cleveland and home dead for week 17. Well, that's probably right. So they could get to nine. I don't see 10.

10 means they run the slate the rest of the way. So the Broncos would be the seven, right? That's the one we're eyeing for the seven seed. So that might be for the seven seed, but I don't know. Are they really going to beat the Cowboys? Of course they are. AFC playoff picture. Yeah. They're four and seven. Miami's four and six.

Indies five and six, Denver six and five, Chargers are now seven and three. Yeah, it's going to be that Denver Indies, since he Miami, one of those four is going and since he is the best team out of those four, it's not close.

It's crazy how good they're like, how is this team not going to be in the top seven in that conference? And then I think like, I look at it from a fan's perspective, like, Oh, we got to get him in as a football fan, but I also look like, Oh, I want a shitty team of the seven seat I could bet against, right? And this, this wouldn't be them Denver might be at some point. Hanche has already locked down Pittsburgh two seed Denver seven seed as the shaky Saturday first playoff game of round one game.

Oh, you think? Yeah. Russell Wilson, Bonix, Sean Payton, Mike Tomlin. I don't know if they'll be able to top that for the Shaky's game. Didn't the AFC South sign like a 12 year deal with Shaky's? Like they're, they're in, they're in, told 2038 or something. Like the other day with that BC. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love everyone's AFC South and hopes that four or five. So that would have to be Tampa, like Washington or Tampa, Arizona, I guess. No, Arizona could be south. I was thinking AFC South. I was thinking Houston and, uh,

Oh, yeah. Who would be the five? Houston Baltimore. Houston's going to be a three seed probably, right? Are they? Yeah. No, four seed. Oh, yeah. You're right. Buffalo Pittsburgh, Casey. Yeah. Houston's the four seed. Yeah. So Houston. So Houston chargers or Pittsburgh Denver for shakies, but we're getting ahead of ourselves. That's fine.

This was the day we talked about the kicking was too good. What are we going to do? Should we move the approach closer? And then today happened where it just kickers all over the place, just murdering teams, including McPherson in this game with two long ones where a couple of years ago, it looked like he was just a tucker and waiting.

And then today, it still looks like Justin Tucker. Yeah. Yeah. That's not why they took the new version. Now he looks like Justin Tucker right now. But that's not why they lost. They lost because they fell behind 24 to six and yeah, and dug too big of a hole for themselves. It's funny though, when you watch them, when Higgins is playing and he's missed like four and a half games,

And they have chased on one side and Higgins on the other side. It really is one and Chase Brown, who I think has been really good this season. And you watch and you go, man, this deep, how do you stop these guys? It just feels like it's eight yards to the side. Anytime they want, they can go deep. Even when they miss the deep throws, they like just miss them.

And I don't know. They just seem like one of the best five offenses to me. I don't get it. And then the Chargers did too though, right? And then they, I don't know. Look, I suck as a coach, but you and I were like, why aren't they running the ball? Well, run the ball a little bit. Herbert obviously doesn't have it for this 20 minute segment of the game and give it to Dobbins, who's like the fastest guy in Southern California and see what happens, you know? And we saw. Yeah, they, so.

Dobbins was 11 for 56 and Edwards was six for 27. And then Herbert ran five for 65. But yeah, that both of those guys, Dobbins and Edwards were four and a half a carry. Dobbins ripped off that last one for the winner. But I was thinking the same thing because

As I know the receivers have overachieved for the Chargers, but it's still willed this way. It's still rookie. It's still quit in Johnston. It's still Josh Palmer at a huge drop on the second round. I mean, one of the weird things, the Chargers were like dying to give this game away. They got the ball back with what? 145 up after the Miss Field goal. And you have to run on first down to kill some clock.

And they don't, they just threw it three straight times. They gave the ball back in like 13 seconds to the Bengals, and then the Bengals couldn't do it anything either. But some of the clock management was bad. I usually think Harbaugh's pretty good at this stuff. Zach Taylor is not. I usually have confidence he's going to do the wrong thing. And now we're going to lose middle seat Doug tomorrow. And Zach Taylor is going to move up the, what the fuck are you doing rankings? I think. Interesting. He's got to keep middle seat Doug in a job there. Yeah. Oh, that's going to be fun.

That's it. That's done, right? That's done. I don't know where you want to jump around to, but that game. But yeah, I have a spot for them. We'll get to them. Yeah. So best Collins worth moments. He had that one where Burrow scrambled out and like did the Houdini thing and then hit somebody and Tareka finished his whole play by play for another eight seconds and Collins worth can just hold the laugh now. It's almost like Richard, who is the tantric sex guy sting?

Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. It's almost like I have tantric sex. People can hold the orgasm. Consort can just hold it. Tareka finishes and it is a.

Mike, Joe Burrow just made the greatest play I've ever seen. It's the greatest play I've ever seen, Mike. That's a spectacular playing spectacular. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's good. I hate to brag on him because I really enjoy it. No, I love. We have to love. We love. Yeah. We love your Chris. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of dancers that we've had fun with, I've had more fun than you, but I thought Romo was really good today, too.

Excellent. Like he is step today. He had a couple of rocky years there, but I thought he was excellent today. We had good answers today. Just a lot of little things that people don't appreciate, but like when, you know, when my homes went to the line of scrimmage and was like, definitely not going to draw them off sides. And he's like, he's overacting when a quarterback overacts. They're just letting the client run out. They're not going to run out. It's like, yeah, you're right. That's why we picked that up. Yeah. So big picture with this charger scene, because I think they needed one of these

Feeling good about themselves. They're only giving up 13 points a game like how good is this team. They kind of needed a Nutcrunch game and they got it. That's for damn sure. But big picture. They're not going to catch the Chiefs. They're in the hunt for the five seed.

And I think you want the five seed this year because you go to, you get to go to ad Houston. Sure. And in round one, which is, I think way more palatable than going to Buffalo or, you know, going to Pittsburgh slash Baltimore. So I think they can get to the five seed, right? Did you see anything today that made you worried about them? Other than the fact that they almost choked away an 18 point lead. So you would say, well, they would get there. When you think it's either Pittsburgh or Baltimore in the five,

I don't know. They have the same record. I guess they have the same record. They both have four Baltimore's. Baltimore's eight and three charges are seven and three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I think Baltimore is a harder schedule down down the stretch. Yeah. It's all. It's all a mess there. I agree. And yeah, they're going to go on the road. But the biggest takeaway here is they had fans.

I said last week, we were like, well, here's the one game where they're not going to have fans. That was about as loud of a fan base as we've had in LA, right? Yeah. I feel like we should, there's no way to quantify it, right? But I feel like their approval rating goes up each week. I was impressed. Yeah. Well, I was impressed by the, by the Bengals that they had that many fans. I don't really fully understand it.

Yeah, that's true. That's true, too. But yeah, the Chargers are horrible. But it's for the Chargers. It's kind of good to you almost feel like you're tested because it really did feel like the crowd was loud in the second half. I like this Chargers team. Khalil Mack didn't play today. I like that they can run the ball. And I think that's what they'll probably learn from big picture is maybe run the ball more fun. The Bengals. I don't know how Zach Taylor survives the season.

This could be another job that's open. And I was thinking like, it's a pretty interesting ballot check job. You get one of these jobs, right? It's an interesting ballot check job. It's a really interesting brable job, but.

Oh, steelers are eight and two. The Ravens are seven and four. I fucked up. So the truck. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. Well, he did cleave one, right? He did, he did cleave one before Belichick, right? So he came back to Cleveland. Yeah. No, no, I'm just saying he could do it. He loves Ohio. Clearly. No, I think this is definitely the best spot for him, but it's not.

I don't know. It's not the offense. That doesn't really matter, right? Like get rid of Lilac and Romo who I don't know. It's been interesting for years now. Yeah. Don't know what that means. I'm just saying if you're going for wins, if you're Belichick, if you're one of the reasons you're coming back is to break the record. I'm no doubt. Burrow is the best quarterback available because otherwise you're looking at Trevor Lawrence. Yeah. Looking at whatever the Giants do. You're looking at whoever the hell the Raiders QB is going to be.

So the big game of the day, this was an awesome football day. I would say this was the best start to finish day we had, right? For sure. For sure. And it gets bad. It gets a little lean next week, but yeah, I love this. They were like six good match ups. I thought what was great was no lending game, no Germany game. So we just were able to start off hot with some really good games, but then Bill's Chiefs became the best game of the day. Yeah. And I was thinking because the bills pulled it out and it was a really good win for them. I think beating KC

Is it, is it the most impressive thing you could do in a regular season than any sport right now where the fans are the most excited? Like, oh, we beat blank. It's got it. They have to be the mountain, right? I think so. I mean, it's so exciting. I read. I don't know if this is true. Like fans were jumping on through tables like before the game, even.

before we even started outside. Yes. And the parking lot. This was happening. Yeah. But the problem is they beat them in the regular season before, right? Last year or maybe even like twice. And then they like, you know, Kansas City's just got that triatt and January chip, but it's going to be a lot easier if they, you know, if they get the one seed and this brings them closer. I think it's a little more special because it was their first loss and it's week 11. Sure. You know, you hang that one on, but I did write down.

And I was texting with the Chiefs fan who predicted this early in the first quarter. Not Nick Wright, another Chiefs fan. Okay. Little Milton Burlesch performance from the Chiefs today.

Obviously they want to win. They're trying to win, but I don't feel like they brought out the kitchen sink. Like Kelsey was two catches eight yards, right? They really was trying to get worthy involved to see what they have with him. They're trying to get Hopkins involved, trying to run the ball a little bit, but for the most part, like there's another gear for these guys and the gear is Kelsey.

And it's not like the bills were like, we've taken out Travis Kelsey. They just, there's games where they put him in the garage. And we've talked about it the last couple of years where it's clearly a Travis is in the garage game. This is a Travis is in the garage game. Yeah. I think if this is in January, he has eight catches for AD yards and a bunch of first downs.

I was trying, I was looking at the box going, you're probably right because it really doesn't make sense. Cause I look at it aside from Allen, they had 49 yards rushing, right? And it's still one time in possession by eight minutes. And the defense was very good. They allowed like 260 the whole game. So I don't know what to make of the.

of the Chiefs. I was waiting for like a bad call towards the end there, but that was a ballsy ballsy call by McDermott. Like they likely lose a game if they go up five and kick a field goal on the fourth and two. They went forward or even more. Fourth and two. They're up to there. It's a little long for a field goal. And I don't think anyone watching the game or in the building thought Tyler Bass was making that field goal.

No. So they go for it. And it turns out to be like a signature or awesome Josh Allen play, but you know, we make fun of coaches all the time. I thought it was clearly you got to go for it. Romo thought the same thing. Yep. And, uh, and then you just put, he was, that's what Romo said. I think before the plate, like you got to put this in Josh's hands. You have to let Josh decide the game, which is what they did. And he ends up coming up with a signature play, but it was a tough one for

Everyone who had the Chiefs and the T's was going to say didn't have to beat him by nine. It was just brutal. I had multiple teases in real life, a million dollar picks. She'll Kapadia our guide tweeted after the game. 124 Mahomes games. How many times has he lost by more than eight points? I know it was 19 before the last loss by nine. No, no, no, no.

more than eight, more than eight points. 15, five Jesus. Wow. That made me worse about my teeth. I had them with Pittsburgh. I had them with Denver. My Detroit minus three, two and a half. Like I just got.

And we needed, of course, I had it too, but we're like 30, 24 will be all right. Casey, these two scores, there'll be a soft Buffalo defense, right? They'll come down, they'll kick a field goal. I don't know who was kick, you know, Buck, you're sat out, which is such a girly thing to do. Good thing he's super secure, but I don't know what they, I thought we were going to cut it to six and we were going to be all right, but we didn't get that. But you know what happened?

This is how you really know the game didn't matter for the Chiefs. Mahomes had that huge scramble to the 30 when they were down nine, where they could have like, you know, either tried to go for a TD or kick field goal, called back, flag on the play, holding on the Chiefs. It was like, Oh my God.

Yeah. Wow. They caught a penalty in the Chiefs in a crunch time moment and pulled back of a home's play. We've made fucking history. And then Chiefs fans get mad when you bring this up. And it's just a fact. Those things never get called for them ever. But for some reason, that one got called. And that was, that was the third thing. Both things could be true. They're a great, great team. Great team that gets crazy. Potentially, and they get calls at the end. Yeah.

I mean, their whole, their whole dynasty started out with the D Ford penalty where they lose to the paths and then that was against them. And since then, they've, uh, they've had some good ones, but Buffalo, I mean, you mentioned it earlier, 19 carries for 49 yards. Yeah. I thought big picture. I said this last week to you and it's a weird point to make.

Good loss for the Chiefs. As weird as that sounds. Like get that undefeated thing over with. I don't have to worry about it. Just, you know, just get through it. You don't have the pressure of it. I still feel like that 0-7 pass, which I wanted them to go undefeated. I'm not saying I would take that back. That was so much fun. I love that season. But they're better off at Baltimore. Beat some in that Monday night game.

The whole season's different in a good way, and I think they probably win the Super Bowl if they lose that game. So for the Chiefs, it's fine. They're going to go 15 and 2, 14 and 3, whatever it is. They're going to win the AFC. You just don't want to lose that one seed, right? Like, where do you think the one seed is more important than the AFC or the NFC? I kind of think the AFC.

But I think in the NFC, it's almost a wrap at this point with the true schedule. I think they'd have to have like five more injuries. I don't think it matters much to the Chiefs because it feels like they could just go and win anywhere, right? I think a matter more for Pittsburgh. Yeah. Pittsburgh got it. Like when you think like how, how, how kind of crummy Russ was today.

And they, you know, we're still able to pull one out. I kind of feel like home field is mandatory. I don't even, not even positive. We'll talk about that game later. I'm not even positive, but they do for the quarterback situation going forward. Cause Russ was not great, but Fields comes in keeps winning. Fields comes in and slides of yard before the barter in a game that would end it. Um, additional thoughts out of this. So. Are the lions officially the best team now? I think they are, right?

Well, Corey and the fans and the odds makers that this is the first, not not only the first time this year, the first time ever their favorite to win the Super Bowl. Is that true? That is true. I wouldn't make something up. Was that one of our, was that one of our fan do people thought it said? No, I just, I'm just looking at. Oh, no, I saw it. I saw multiple people reported it on Twitter, but they're plus four 20 K C plus 500 Ravens plus 650 bill seven and one.

First time ever, they've been playing for 309 years. We have not a small amount of Lions futures. No, right. With the one seed, with the NSC North, with the conference, Super Bowl match up, best record. So the better they do with that. Yeah, so Detroit's plus 420, KC is five to one. Baltimore plus 950 on Fiendal. Oh, 650. No, 650, Buffalo 7-1.

Eagles nine to one. And then the Niners are the 16 right now. I don't understand that at all. They're not even favor to win the division, but they're. Yeah. I don't get that. Plus when you watch them, they're not passing the eye test either. So who's the MVP favorite then? Because.

We'll get to Lamar after the break, but it wasn't like Lamar was letting it on fire. So Josh Allen, now the MVP favorite, plus one 50. Lamar is two to one because he sucked today. He didn't suck. He didn't suck. Tucker missed two field goals. Lamar was fine. He didn't suck. Stop it. He didn't suck.

We were talking about January Lamar is back. I asked, I asked you like, I was like, do you think like at halftime the players have wished him a happy new year? Because it is, it's January all over again for that. He's like, his weight load is starting. Yeah. Yeah. It was January Lamar. It was rare for my home says 12 to one to win the MVP at this point. Justin Herbert at 25 to one. Not, not interesting.

If, if like they ran this slate, I'm just thinking for like long shaft bets. Got to be a top two seed, which is why I think like Jared Goff, he had that pitiful performance last week, but I think he went out and said, Hey, I got five interceptions last week. Can you get me 14 touchdowns today? And so we score in our first seven drives. Yeah. Could I climb back in this race? Just, uh, everyone just be open and they work. We're taking a break for the podcast.

Pittsburgh Baltimore. You mentioned earlier, January, Lamar is back. Um, Chris Boswell, fantasy MVP today, six field goals, 25 points in our league, prompting Hench our buddy to have a connection about field goal kickers and should, should we just eliminate them from leagues and all that stuff? I got to say, I actually kind of like having field goal kickers. Oh, you do? Yeah, I do. I do. I do. I like it.

I like not having to worry about it. We, you know, but had to, to be fair, when like Burrow has 46 points, he wants to eliminate quarterbacks too. So he's all over the place. But it's kind of lucky, but we also, we could have guessed that exact score, right? It was either going to be 18, 16, 18, 17, or 19, 18. Only three options, really. So.

Perfect. Perfect. Perfectly scripted. All the Steelers scores are scores that sound like they were a world war or an American war from the 1700s or 1800s. I wrote down, 2020 for Steelers, the most likely team in NFL history to win 18 to 16. It just, it just, it's the most Steelers these score you can get. But so Russ,

through a red zone pick that was among the worst passes of the year. That felt like it was going to flip the game and did not. He was two for nine in the red zone for seven yards. When he escaped that sack, he had an escape of crazy sack to get there. And I was like, wow, that's 2014 rush and a rush. And then it's like, oh, that's 2022 rust right there with that interception. That's post COVID rust.

So they're eight and two and yet, and their defense was really good today, even though they got some help with the field goal kicking. But the rust thing combined with only really having one receiver, I just worry about them in January. The fact that they're eight and two with all the Pittsburgh, like I have a bunch of futures for them. They have it seems like they have a really good chance to win the division now, but just big picture.

It just feels like they're not going to be able to get to 20 points in a playoff game like this. It feels like 18-19 is probably the limit for them, right? Well, is there any scenario where he's not the worst quarterback in the AFC playoffs? Oh, now that Bo Nix is looking like he's coming out of a sports movie. This is a big one for you. You have a lot of Bo Nix stock. I think he tightened that offensive rookie of the year gap there. Yeah, I just do something interesting before we move on from Baltimore Pittsburgh.

Burrow nine touchdowns against Baltimore combined in two games. Didn't walk away with a win. Steelman said no touchdowns today. Yeah. 2016. No. No touchdowns. It's a fun. It's a fun league. Russ was 23 for 36 for 205, but it's that second receiver thing. So Pickens was eight for 89 and made his every week he makes just an unbelievable catch that you just can't believe.

Number two receiver was Washington two for 42. Fryer Muth was two for 14. Calvin Austin was one for minus one. Scoronic was one for four. And that's it for their receivers. Yeah. And at some point, that's going to come back to bite them. But they're, you know, their defense was great. The queen got an awesome, awesome, awesome turnover for them that they really needed. And I hate to say phrases like this, but they kind of have Lamar's number.

He's won it for against the now and it feels legit, right? Yeah. I don't know what like, I don't know. This is the team Lamar doesn't want to play in the playoffs. I think he's going to get his wish too. And he's going to have to do it on the road because they can't beat him. And you know, but Henry didn't go for one 15 either. That was another thing. Like this defenses.

is damn good when they need to be. But they really do have to figure out the quarterback thing. I feel bad for Tomlin. When Fields is sliding, you mentioned it. Like the thick white 40 stripe is the first down and he's sliding like two yards short. Like it was like a Johnny Knoxville fail video or something.

They're two running backs for 27 for 104. It felt worse watching it. It felt like they were having trouble getting unlocked, but, you know, they moved the chains enough, I guess. Just detox is great. It didn't get defense, field goal kicking.

Good special teams home field advantage for a couple rounds. They're going to be heard from I have a lot of questions about them winning on the road though with what we've seen for most of the last two weeks. Yeah. And Fields isn't going to be any better. All right. Next one. Oh, speaking of that game. RIP.

Justin Tucker as the guy you're afraid of for big kicks. We already knew it was coming, but today kind of submitted. Afraid of them. If I bet the Ravens, I'm afraid of them. But yeah, this, but I guess last year he was maybe not just as bad, but really bad from 50 plus. So they can see the writing on the wall with this guy. One other thing. So the Christmas game, one of them on Netflix is

Pittsburgh, Kansas City, which we were talking about last week, maybe not mattering if Casey had this crazy record. But now it's probably going to matter. And that is suddenly an amazing Christmas game if they're separated by one game. It's going to be like the opposite of Mike Tyson against Jake Paul.

Oh, that was pretty good. I don't know. I don't know what you were watching. We're saving that. Just for people listening, Sal and I will be talking about that fight. We watched it together. Yes, we did. Yeah, that's a good one. Our family's going to hate us on Christmas. We're going to be glued to that one. I'll be good. Still. Yeah, I felt like my family already didn't like me that much on Christmas, but I feel like this could be taking it to the next level. Another game that really jumped out. That was awesome. San Francisco, Seattle.

This is the one the old San Francisco on a money line parlay all over the power. Yeah. What do you mean? Oh, no, they had a was my money line parlay that you want to get you to lost and miraculous in one. Yeah, which we'll get to. But yeah, Gino seventh game winning drive in the fourth quarter of T since 2023. What?

Well, how did they do that? I know Bosa went went off and they were helpless, right? But yeah, how about contained Gino a little bit? It's like he shouldn't be running around like 2006 Michael Vick, right? But that he's wide open on the runs to nobody's they only blitzed him once today. I don't know if they're going to keep that up if Shanahan's yeah, they kept it up and he just went for whatever he wanted to run through the end zone.

I really respect, you know, the confidence he has after it goes right for him, how he behaves after. Yeah, right. Yeah. He's like really, really a lot of charisma about it. And it's like, but what about those 10 terrible throws you made earlier in the game in that fumble or the internet? But it that like all of it gets wiped away in the crunch time. Yeah, just does. And yet that's crazy, crazy.

So we're, we have not only the year from hell for San Francisco, but we're now in a situation where Arizona is six and four. And the other three teams are five and five in the NSC West. And it feels like that division sending two teams. You think shocking. Yeah, I think so. So who's out there in Washington or Green Bay?

Detroit, Philly, Minnesota, Green Bay, Washington, Arizona, Atlanta. Oh, shit. You're right. Come on. So somebody who have to take Washington spot, but yeah, I feel like somebody could take Washington spot. I mean, there's seven and four and should be six and five and they're error pointing down.

Yeah, so they do play the Cowboys. Do you feel any difference between Washington, Seattle, San Francisco and the Rams after watching football for the last four weeks? San Francisco is going to be the team that's maybe not that good that I'm going to hold on to it. I'm going to keep that. I'm going to figure out a way to bet them in the second round of the playoffs, even though they were eliminated like two weeks before. So there's no more dangerous football team than the team that you keep waiting for them to figure it out because you know how much talent they have. And then it's weak.

week 19, and you're like, oh, they're not in the playoffs. And they went five and 12 against the spread this year. Yeah. And I had them in nine of the 12 games they didn't cover. And you shake me in my sleep and I'm like, I'm a calf reach back, my calf reach back. Like, yeah, it doesn't matter. I can't beat anybody. Arizona's favorite. Now the wind of division plus 100 nine is 270 Seahawks five to one and the Rams five to one.

When Arizona was favored to win the division the last time, like, like, oh, it's a quick question. Carson Palmer, 2013-14 range. Yeah. So after one earlier, right? Yeah. Yeah. Right in there. That's a good question. San Francisco. I mean, San Francisco is like, what? You're about to read it, but six of the last seven or dogfights. Yeah. Well, they're the bigger problems. They're one and three in the NFC West. Yeah.

the worst record and they only have two games left, but they got at Green Bay at Buffalo next to home Chicago home Rams on a Thursday at Miami home Detroit at Arizona. Those are all rough. I mean, I thought that last game would mean something, but it really might not. It might be wrapped by them for them. So they'd have to go five and two with all those games.

I mean, you go through all the West that the NFC West teams and really the only team that seems to have a semi easy schedule is Arizona. Yeah. And they're next to our at Seattle, at Minnesota, not exactly easy, but at least they have home Seattle, home paths at Carolina, at the Rams, home San Francisco, like there's a path to go four and three for them and get to 10 wins. But yeah, they're the only ones with Panthers on their schedule, I think, right?

I could see you texting me on Monday with some NFC West division bet that we'll probably do. And then a week later, we'll have a different team will be done, which is keep, keep that in that dumb division over and over again. Well, here's the thing that, so Seattle and the Rams are similar in that they're going to kick you in the gut if you sleep on them, right? But then if you bet, they're going to lose, right? They're just like,

They're going to come back from the dead and you're just going to lose your mind trying to catch up to which zag they're on or zig it or not. I 90% agree with that. And yet.

When I watch Seattle sometimes, I'm like, why aren't these guys better? Yeah. I think Kenneth Walker is good. I think their receivers are excellent. I think Gino could move the ball. I feel like when they're down four with three minutes left, I feel like they can actually go down the field and score. I feel like that too. Who's even say that about holding a 49ers parlay slip? I felt the same way. Yeah.

couple more games that really stood out in a delightful day. So Detroit Jacksonville was beautiful because there were eight games early and this one allowed Detroit to immediately come off a TV. Yeah, I had the multi view and the big TV. I had Green Bay Chicago by itself. And then I had the other TV with the three games. Detroit Jacksonville just got to come up. I left it all on because I wasn't sure if they were going to escort coach middle seat out or not. I didn't want to miss that, right? Like getting fired at halftime.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've just pull up and like some kind of just like a hearse and just to cart him away. My goodness. Here I go. Here lies coach middle seat. He beat Bowchek and Brady in the Super Bowl, Nick Foles, and then became one of the worst coaches of the last 10 years. There's no memories to it. And then it's reported yesterday.

that this is probably his last game. So he's been walking in Jacksonville response by giving up touchdowns on their first seven drives against them. And it was 52 to six. Yep. I'm going to say he's going to get fired tomorrow. The GM needs to see you bring your boarding pass, please. You're here in 27 B.

On Greyhound, by the way, you have the middle seat on Buzzback. But you know what they should do? Because he has that statue outside of Philly, right outside the stadium. They should have to punish him. They should have the guy who did Dwayne Wade's statue redo his statue. Like that should be the FU for this miserable, miserable Jackson built in. Oh my God. Well, this could be better checks next thing. Yeah.

We've talked about it for a new stadium coming. I guess it depends how excited you are about Trevor Lawrence. We have learned that Mac Jones, maybe it wasn't just New England situation. He just might not be a starting quarterback. So what was the, what was the tweet we saw about all the, all the big spread lions bets that hit? Oh, yeah. Escalator thing. I could find it. Yeah.

I sometimes I wonder if that's the thing that we're fucking up the most out of every year on football. Yeah. And just like identifying who the best team in the league is. And they always win at least three games by 30 points. And why aren't we just playing that because you could have taken lines over jags plus.

put 30 and a half, whatever. And all of a sudden, that's 12 to one. And all you need to do is take one of those and it covers 12 bits of bets. So yeah, minus 27 and a half plus plus 520, minus 32 and a half, 10 to one, minus 38 and a half, 20 to one. If you bet the team total adjusted over 44 and a half, that was 850. Yeah, we missed out on a lot of free money. They're damn good. Cold jets.

You know, Rogers has a Netflix special coming out in December about like a it's like the last year where they're in Rogers. I'm waiting for the Joe. Good. I did. That is the joke. Really? Yeah. You think they were they were thinking, uh, oh, well, this would be good. The jets will be good. And then we'll drop this Rogers thing. Like does anyone want to hear one minute of Rogers at this point? Like even do you think McAfee wants to talk to him for an hour? Who wants to hear from him?

If you're ever going to have buffering issues, that's the time that flicks. Go get it. Do it during the try to get the same buffer guy from the Jake Paul Tyson fight. Use it for your, uh, he, he just looks like he doesn't want to get hit anymore. And it's the final stage of QBs. We've seen it a lot of times with older, older, uh, guys who used to be good and, and that last stage where they're just getting rid of the ball before somebody thinks of them. That's it. Doesn't come back.

Right. He's I know you're like a pig and shit right now. I was just like, I won't do this every week, but just let me or you can cut it out of the pocket. I don't care. No, we're not. And what's for live on YouTube? Go do your thing. Well, they have eight losses. They're not going to go over their wind total, which is nine and a half, which I thought was preposterous anyway. Right. I mean, my team sucks, but I knew the Jets weren't going over nine half. They can't make the playoffs. So, um,

a couple numbers for you. Winning percentages, Jets starters, Zach Wilson, 364, Sam Donald, 342, Aaron Rodgers, 273. Sit down, you phony. You led New York to believe you could lead them to the playoffs and you're the fraud of all frauds. You brought all your friends in.

Yeah, who couldn't catch a pass. You got the coach fired. Somehow the best defense and football isn't excited to play for you. And now they're middle of the pack or worse. There's got to be some accountability. There's got to be, you know, well, of course, there's a personal stuff where he alluded to the idea that my cousin was on the Epstein Island flight log and the list comes out. And he, of course, wasn't, but the guy Rogers, like we voted for was so

classic classic douchebag. And now we're going to see a phantom injury in the next couple of weeks. So how's that for our conspiracy theory? You're like, wow, what a really sorry. Sorry, take it. Take it smart guy. He's so damn smart. So well read. He's got to tell us all about it all the time. What's he going to do now? I'd be surprised to be played next year.

Right next year, he's, he's going to find something to sit out next week. I think. Oh, you think it'll be the, the calf strain. Yeah. They're worried it could be a comatorna. If he steps on it wrong again, I don't even know what their backup is. It could blame, uh, it could blame the bad field there at MetLife, whatever, whatever's next. Well, didn't think about a third round pick for, for Adams.

No, it was. Was it third? Was it three? Yeah, I think it was. That might be one of the top six picks of the third round. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. Good. I like. I love it. As I've said many times, I have a kinship with the Jets fans because the Pats and the Jets were the two sad sacks of the entire AFC, like for the most of them 30 years of my life.

Um, and I think we were wired the same way DNA and in a lot of ways. Then the past fans life changed. The Jets fans did not, but this was like, yeah, honestly, this two years of Rogers, it was almost cruel starting with like him blown out as a kiddies immediately. And then all the other stuff. And I just can't think of it's one of the worst free agent, or I guess it was a trade. It's one of the worst veteran acquisitions in the history of the NFL.

Right. And they felt for it again. Right. Like they're trading assets for you to help them and they're firing people and everything. He had everything laid out for him. And Shane Steichen tried to blow that game today. Like how many times can we talk about that? I asked Lombardi. Lombardi is the master of the nicknames. Yeah.

He came up with the clapper. He came up with this jockey Mike McCarthy. I was like, right? I was like, can you, what's the Shane's like in nickname? And he's texted us back. He's like, he put, he coaches like he's playing somebody online in Thailand.

So we were on Thailand Shane, like, oh, the guy, the guy I'm playing on Twitch stream went out in Thailand. So do it. Thailand Shane, I think the key thing for him is that there seems to be

I was thinking like he's in a dark room just shouting at plays and doesn't know the score. The downs are the situation. He's just like, uh, he wrote 45 has no idea what's going on. The best of all of them was the two point conversion with Richardson. They go up by one. They need the two points. Yeah. It's like, I wonder if Richardson can wait for a guy to cross the middle and then loft a beautiful touch pass. I'm like, I am positive Richardson can't do this.

That would happen in practice. No way. There's no way this is whatever. But at the same time, Richardson, which is what makes him so interesting, he can't throw a four-yard screen pass. He has no touch on a pass like that. And yet he'll rifle a 25-yarder perfectly or he'll nail somebody down the sidelines or he'll run around and he looks like giant Cam Newton. And you're like, this guy is clearly something. He's not a bust.

Yeah, but how about you recognize that change, right? Like you're with them all week. You don't just inherit them at 1 p.m. Eastern on a Sunday, right? You see the limitations and everything else. And it's like fit them in where it's like, I don't know. I don't love golf, but you wouldn't use a sandwich to hit a ball that was 10 feet from the hole, right? Like just figure out where he works best. And they eventually did. It took a minute, but then one.

Yeah, it's in the middle. Yeah, Lombardi's podcast is the GM shuffle and I'm sure he's going to talk about this tomorrow. But one thing he said that I'm going to steal, but I'm giving him credit.

He calls the game exactly the same, whether it's Flacko or Steichen. That's what Lombardi, I'm Flacko or Richardson. That's what Lombardi said. And I was like, that's such a great point. But you have Richardson, you have this massive guy that you would think you could run QB draws with. You could roll him out, like almost like a giant fullback, like he's Bronco Nogursky. And yet they're running these goofy plays. I don't, I don't get it.

I support the benching from a couple weeks ago because I really thought Richardson looked terrible, but obviously they worked as confidence back. Can I? What's their record now? Because they're they're yes, but they're five and six. They're only plus one forty eight to make the playoffs. Are they? They don't really scare me.

They're five and six. Basically the case for them would be. They must have an easy schedule, but I don't even know what that would look like. Well, there's two pieces. One is their game beyond Denver. Do you trust Denver? The other is there are only two games in the lost combine Houston who keeps losing guys and just seems like they can never get all their guys healthy at the same time and haven't been that impressive to begin with. You know, Houston's six and four. They've scored 224 points. They've given up to 26.

Yeah. So maybe the odds factor into that, but maybe they, they, they, yeah, I guess they have a couple of easy ones. They have, and they play at Denver. That's another one. Denver's going to have an interesting way of controlling their own destiny here. They have the Colts and they have Cincinnati. Let's take one more break for the podcast. Couple more quick games, Bears Packers.

So Caleb was good today. Yeah. And they changed a lot about him. He was getting the ball, getting rid of the ball a lot faster. I thought he was way more involved, but just as like a quarterback and a leader and he just seemed like he had more energy. I thought they outplayed the Packers.

I would be alarmed if I was a Packers fan because you should have lost and you didn't lose because the Bears drove down inside what the 30. Eber Flus just decides to I'm going to be careful here. I'm going to try to play for the outdoor 46 yard field goal. The Bears fans all hate Eber Flus and this is why because he does shit like this. He's just not a terrible game management coach. But I thought they should have won and I'll go further south. Chicago's

They lost that Tennessee game in week one that I think you bet on. Yes, I did. Yeah. Right. Oh, no, they won that. No, they won. They won against Caleb Williams in his first game. Yeah. So they lost that Hail Mary game. They lost someone today. So they could at least be six and five. Sure. Maybe it evens out with that they shouldn't have won the Tennessee game. I don't know. But whatever it is, their record should be at least one room better.

that yes and and I really think I mean that Hail Mary really spooked out of I don't know if it what do we call like the haunted Hail Mary the curse of Caleb the windy city whisperer like really I don't know

the ghost of Shane Waldron. Like that was that really, they can't, and now nobody blocks on field goals, field goal attempts. Like the Hail Mary, the Hail Mary was almost like, like the whole team had a car accident. It was like a traumatic event. It's like, hey, get over it guys. Just three weeks ago.

But, um, but there's also the part of it where, what are they lost 11 in a row to Green Bay? Like eventually they had to be like, all right, we got to get, by the way, they shoved this rivalry down our throats. The league does the greatest in football, even though you and I can't remember a good competitive game that we cared about between these two in the last quarter century, but, um, but I think the reason it's special is just because the teams have been around since like the,

19. That's fine. Whatever the fuck. That's it. But I'm not saying I agree. And we can't we can't we can't remember any good game from that. But you know, so we had a great mat in the floor moment in this game too. This was not I wouldn't have called this a chess match today. They have first down and go from the eight. They're trying to score to take the lead late in the game. Some out ends up being fourth and six. They're still like, I don't know, 10, 11 minutes left.

Kick the field goal, cut it to two, try to get a stop. Nope. He goes for it on fourth and sixth, doesn't get it and traps the bears of the one yard line. But unless there's like two minutes left in the game,

It's just idiotic. There's no other way to say it. That's just idiotic. It's so hard to get a fourth and two, much less a fourth and six. So many, you're basically hoping for like a pass interference or a defensive breakdown or some sort of like gimmick play that the play broke down and your quarterback rolled out and created something.

I, that, so it's, I just didn't think Green Bay deserved to win that game. For the most part, you got to take points in these rivalry games, right? And the division games, again, at the rivalry, whatever, but in division games, we saw the Steelers do it against Baltimore and, you know, you don't have to be super careful, but would have helped the 49ers. A lot of these teams. I thought the Packers had a chance to be better than maybe they're going to be.

Yeah, kind of giving up on them a little bit as, but we have seen around Thanksgiving, somebody comes out of nowhere to sense heading into playoffs. Can't rule them out because they're talent, but I think it's been, it's a disappointing. I thought they had a chance to be the second best team in the NFC and from what I'm watching, I don't see it.

Well, it's two, right? It's like, oh, they should be better. But also, like, you know, if you live predicted their fate after, like, love went down and get in Brazil. True. They're like, well, how are they going to be? They can't be seven and three. And here they are.

I texted Kyle Brandt in the first half because Caleb really did look good. I was like, Caleb, exclamation point. And he's like, don't worry. We're going to lose late. He's a bear spin. There's just no question. Really. Speaking of coaching scared, uh, Jerad Mayo, the Patsy had again lost the game that they probably could have won. The play calling was like,

You're upset about this. I thought we were doing better. No, because Drake Bay is really special. And I feel like if you had just switched quarterbacks, we would add the same result. Maybe he would have done better. But there's a thing in ESPN about all the coaching mistakes, like not going for the fourth in goal, doing a PAT instead of a two point when it was 20, 19, et cetera, et cetera.

And then this is what the article says. Such decisions are always easy to second guess, but none worked out for the Patriots. Mayo has said he's taking notes throughout his first season and plans to learn from his experience. This game presented multiple decisions from which he can learn. Wow. It's week 11. Yeah.

This sounds like something you, um, if, if you get an F on your report card, you come home and tell your parents like, yeah, I'm taking notes though. I'm going to, I'm going to kill. Yeah. I think my son said this last year when you're struggling with 10th grade, like, Hey, I know my grades are bad, but I'm learning some good stuff. They're over here. Yeah. I think that's what happened. It's so far. Like Kyle and I were going nuts because they just don't, I just,

Here's my advice for the Patriots. If anyone from the Patriots is listening, no, I'm sure they aren't. Go and watch like the 50 most successful Josh Allen plays and the 50 most successful John Elway plays. Just study what those plays were and then run some of them for Jake May.

Cause every time he rolls out to his right, he can throw it across his body in the middle of field. He can zing it down the sideline. He could throw a deep. He can take off and run. Uh, any QB draw with him. He's dangerous. The teams are so terrified. He's going to take off. They hand off on every first down. It's like that. We have to start out. So it's second and nine or second 11. Like that's a must. Um, I did the receivers at one point. He was 10 for 13 with three drops.

All of his receivers suck. They spent a second round pick on a guy who all he does is get a false start whenever he's on the field. Meanwhile, McConkie went nuts again today. But it's just like they have this incredible asset. It's like watching a team that has a diamond and they're like fucking playing Thanksgiving catch with it outside.

Yeah. Wow. This is more biting than my Aaron Rodgers. That's frustrating. No, but I think Drake May is really good. This is going to make it feel better. But at some point, talent matters and not his, but the supporting cast. And that's why the Rams were so good. Pooka Nakula almost broke both of his elbows, making that crazy cash that first touchdown. And they also, I don't really care because that was my best bet. The Rams might as four and a half.

And you somehow fucking covered your son. Yeah, baby. Somehow we're up to touchdowns. Nine and two on the year. Best handicapper on TV, radio podcast, YouTube. McPhey said he looks like a stud. Blah, blah, blah. You can just see the impact that he has on his teammates, the way people talk about him here. He looks like he's going to be a special player for a long time and he gave us fits today.

Thanks, Sean. You're in a good spot. Why do you want to go? You want to go seven and 10? You want to go with the nine? My dad said that today. It's perfect outcome. He Jake did enough good stuff to make you feel great. Right. The team did enough terrible stuff to end up losing the game. And perfect. There you go. Broncos Falcons. Bonix. It's beginning of October.

Only two picks, 13 passing touchdowns, over 1600 yards passing. And he was awesome in that game today. Didn't it seem like some of these teams, they wear these uniforms and it's like, oh man, it looks so fast. Like Denver was getting, he was hitting these guys in stride. There was no doubt that they were open. Yeah. Like, is Atlanta that bad? Like we know we know that junk division, but my God, that was my favorite pick of the week.

I just think the Falcons, whatever their record is that could easily have been three wins worse. And I think the Broncos are, I've said this for weeks that I think they're the good bad team. Yeah. If you put another like mediocre or worse team in front of them, they're probably going to win. That's a really nice bounce back for them after what happened last week. But here's, here was my takeaway after watching that game. Can you guess what Atlanta's odds are to win the NFC South?

I think I might have seen them by. Is it minus 400 or something like that? They're minus 550 to win the NFC South. Yeah. Look at Tampa's schedule. Tampa's five to one.

And their schedule is super easy down the stretch, right? Yeah. And by the way, New Orleans somehow has four wins too with the clogger. The clogger is doing now. He's the best unclog and Cleveland all over the place. So Tampa is at the Giants at Carolina, on Vegas next three. Look at those three. Wow. So that could be.

They can have seven wins in three weeks. Keep going. At Chargers, at Dallas, home Carolina, home Saints, six and one. We're betting this. Let's do it. We're betting Tampa five to one. I said I wouldn't do it, but I guess 12 weeks is long enough to hold out there.

This is like Seinfeld, the contest, like how long can you last without that in the NFC cell? I'm in. Pennix came in and it was super exciting because it doesn't look like he was 130 years old. I thought that was the dumbest line of the week. So two weeks in a row as we've done, guess the lines.

And there was a line and I was like, that's absolutely addict. So I wonder if that happens again this week. I'm in a bit even more. I think you're right. Because two weeks ago, they had gotten blown out by the Ravens. It could have been easy for them to pack it in. And then they lose on that dumb field goal to the Chiefs. And then they, they just light it up today. But yeah, they went over there. Their wind total of five and a half already. Two weeks ago, Cardinals jets was the dumbest line. So we'll see if we have a dumb line this week.

Saints Browns. So, James is 21 and 33 and his last 54 starts. Did you think that would be better or worse? I might have been wrong about him. I thought he would turn this franchise around.

He might cut me a winning QB. Yeah, I got really excited about, um, this is a revenge game and the Saints should have started him nine weeks last year over Derek Carr, but, uh, no, that didn't really matter. You can't screw with the clogger. Clogger. Clogger's 55 31 outscored as opponents. He's the only undefeated coach in the league this year. Clogger's got great energy in the bench too. Yeah. Definitely better than what Lombardi calm Thailand Shane.

Thailand, Jane. Yeah. He's beating a 14 year old and bad internet. The clock was mad. He wants to be called a plunger. But no, we're sticking with the clock. Sorry. This tastes some hell fantasy conundrum thing is weird. Well, it's a conundrum. How many times? He's eligible for tight end and right, suiting up as quarterback. We've never really figured this runs the ball. Yeah. Random stuff really quick. Why don't teams QB sneak anymore?

What happened? The Chargers, Herbert, six, six, and they won't keep you sneaked with them on first-in-goal from the one. Six, six. Brady, would he not convert two QB sneaks out of 1,500 in his career?

Yeah. You're six, six. That should be automatic. You should be able to get a yard. I'm with it. What happened? Is it because my home's got hurt that time, everyone was afraid now? So we know, well, we know why he does it and, uh, or doesn't do it, right? We know why he hurts does it because it's an automatic. He's going to get launched six yards. But yeah, you would think it'd be a hardball thing, right? Hey, we're going to get our offensive line to be disciplined enough to get this giant forward half an inch.

Tennessee Minnesota, I watched zero plays of. Yeah. I was thinking, what's the opposite of a multi-view game? Interesting.

It's like a, like a multi-view blackout. I didn't know what it is. A radio game. Yeah. I had it on a small screen, like a, like, like a post it, like a big post it. Like that size screen. That's basically what I had. I'm good with not watching Tennessee again this season. Well, even the Vikings are boring. Like, I don't know. We see Detroit kill these garbage teal AFC South teams, like, you know, Jacksonville and Tennessee. Vikings don't feel like they're eight and two.

Miami Dolphins, four and six. We talked about this snare two weeks ago and now it's, now it's a, or one week ago because we did it before the Rams game on Monday night and then won two games in six days. They play the Patriots this week and they could be five and six. They're at Green Band of Thursday, home jets at Houston, home San Francisco, a game that suddenly seems a lot easier than it was on the schedule. And then at Cleveland at the Jets last two weeks,

could get to nine wins from four and six. The fights for the seven seeds are going to be good in both conferences, right? I don't know that they have a chance against the two seeds, but it's going to be good. Well, I mean, that really could be five. Sorry to jump. Good, but also not good because then we have to watch them when we're all together for round one. And then it's a lot less good when we're watching the Dolphins in a playoff game.

Right. Yeah. I'm just thinking as an NFC West division, where everybody's five and five, I could see all three of those other teams going three and three the rest of the way. Right. And then it's all going to come down to the next week. Well, I hope the Dolphins at least get a little more exciting because I think our friend, John Gistremsky, who hosts the ringer Sunday, the game show, the king of the underdog.

He did it today. I think your number one, I've known you a long time. I moved to, I did an Instagram thing. I'm 22 years in LA now. So we've known each other 22 years. Your number one thing you hate over really anything else, including cancer and pestilence, like name all the worst things in the world is when people claim an underdog pick.

And either they're not an underdog, which the Fox guys used to do. They're like, I like the Browns. Meanwhile, the Browns would be minus one and a half and Bradshaw's taking them as an underdog or somebody who takes an underdog that's like a plus 105 or a plus 108, which is what JJ did today on the show.

The Fox guys, the Fox guys are 80 years old. So you're teaching them how to, um, you know, you're, you're, you're teaching them how to stay in the text and the brains are spinning out of their heads. JJ does 17 podcasts a week on gambling. And he's very proud of his bangles plus one away. By the way, good. I'm glad he lost. Now I'm thinking, I didn't care about the game. Now I'm, I'm going. Yeah. Like how's the house? How's the Steelers plus 158? Like, yeah.

People are doing real underdog. I have the Raiders. Yeah. Yeah, the Raiders. Yeah, exactly. You want to take Jake Paul to JJ? I'm sorry. I don't know. He's is that an underdog? Like, come on. So then he gets defensive about it. He got upset. Jesus JJ plus 108. Here's here's my courageous underdog pick. I was sending him cowardly lion pictures.

He wasn't responding towards the end. Bro, that plus symbol, that plus symbol is all you need to see, bro. It's a plus symbol. It counts as an underdog, bro. Good. Good for you to pick on. Just hell hath no fury. If I get one photo on the Red Sox, the amount of tax I'm going to be sending to you. Oh, that'll bring me right back with the Red Sox. The sabbatical be over. They won't go. Yeah. So playoff picture. Casey Detroit is the one seeds.

Buffalo Denver is one match up to seven Pittsburgh Chargers Oh, no, I'm sorry Pittsburgh ball tomorrow would be the three six And then Houston Chargers would be the four or five if it ended today, right? So that's probably the shaky's game Houston Chargers Houston Chargers. Yeah, AFC South is locked in the the other one

We would have, let's see, I'm too confused by the NFC. I guess the most important one is right now would be Arizona hosting Minnesota.

in round one. Another possible shaky's game. Then all that. That's the four or five. That would be the four or five because it looks like Minnesota's got the inside track on the, uh, on the five seed and the screen bator. Well, Atlanta is a worse division winner, right? That's six and five. When they'd be the four.

Yeah, you're right. Cause those teams are going to go backwards. Oh yeah. So it could be Atlanta, Atlanta, Minnesota. That's a tough one to the NFC. I knew it was a tough one to bat though. I don't like that. Hmm. One more break for the podcast. And then we'll do guess the lines.

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Visit workday.com to learn more. All right. Guess the line, Sal. What's the, what's our record for the year? All right. So I won last week. So you're up 641 through 11 weeks. So you're like a plus 107 underdog. Could you bet you JJ's all over it.

And then Rahim, who's also on the show, who's been doing well lately and just can't, can't resist telling everybody about how well he's doing it. He's, he's in the dugout being like, Hey, we're throwing a no hitter for five innings, no hits by the other team. I love it. We're just Brad. A bunch of characters.

then Joe House. Joe House, you know, that pregame show is an hour and a half and he holds the microphone for an hour. It's a heavy ass, but it's not, you know, this is not, you know, you're not hosting like, holding like a calendar here. It's a pretty hefty microphone. He has to get right in there.

Yeah, house did million dollar picks with me after the Washington game on Thursday night. And he's like, I might have a few drinks. I'm like, great, people love drunkhouse. He was actually pretty subdued. And as we're doing it, I'm like, this actually might be drunkhouse because he's not loud and like fun drunkhouse. He actually seems like he's had a few. So then today he's like, yeah, the Browns. I was probably a little drunk on Thursday night. I probably shouldn't suggest that one because he gave me the Browns.

You're blaming him, but you're betting a million dollars on these picks. They really should come from you. I don't know why you're so trusting. I know. Thursday night, Steelers, speaking of the Browns, Steelers in Cleveland. It's really rough for the Browns. Maybe we should have seen it coming when they traded one of their past rushers for the trade deadline. And then they traded a bar and Cooper, their best receiver. That should have been a red flag.

Steers actually went on a Thursday night and to me this has to be steers by three and a half. Really?

You're still going to get it. I said six and a half. It's a four. It's four and a half. Why is that even that low? Eight and two against two and eight. I just think the Thursday night. You got a docket for the road game, road team coming off an emotional physics. I mean, that Baltimore Pittsburgh game, we didn't talk about a physical. I guess so. I'm going to talk and there was that game. That game was awesome.

Right. These games are awesome today. Pittsburgh, Baltimore. The Buffalo game was great. This charges game was great. And this round's game would not be great. Yeah. Yeah. Sunday, marquee game. I think it's Packers Niners. Right? Yeah, I think so. It's in Green Bay. But that's it. Yep. I had a lot of trouble with this one because the Niners seem like they're getting a lot of respect.

based on past performance, potential of what the performance is. And I really think this line should be at least Packers by one and a half. So I'm going to do that. Packers by one and a half. Well, you said Elise, you want to go a little higher and go higher if you want. Motherfucker. I said too, it's one and a half. Hmm.

You think that flips? Is that nine or minus one and a half? George Kittle's back. Oh, yeah. Oh, they love flipping a lot of healthy and love the one and a half is so dangerous. Right. And now we're going to add six and make a nice teaser and it's not going to make any sense. Did you see there was a thing going around today about it? I don't know if it accounts for today's games or not. Somebody sent this to me. Active NFL coach records in one score games.

And the worst coach is Eber Flus at five and 17 in one-square games. Zack Taylor's 21 for 32, 21 and 32. Peterson's 32 and 43 and Kyle Shanahan's 29 and 33 in one-square games. Kind of feels that way, right?

Yeah. Shanahan feels that way. Cause we, I think we examined this stat a couple of like a year ago with Shanahan. You're telling me Zach Taylor's 121 one score games. Yeah. Where were they? No, no, college. What is it? Thomas, 107 and 68 in one score games. He's the man adds up. Yeah. Le Fleur is 33 and 21.

And then your guy McCarthy, 73 and 65. But he had Rogers before Rogers. That was a fair. That's a fair. But yeah, the Iberfluze thing jumped out to me and then Shanahan, 29 and 33 with all the talent they've had. I thought that was notable. Yeah, you think when you go for an extension, they show you that tweet or whatever you saw. It's not good. You know what else is a good sound?

I only have two watchable games after the marquee game. And one of them is the Lions just because I think Lions Colts will be fun because I really enjoy watching Richardson. You just don't know what's going to happen in Richardson. Right. Every pass is exciting. He might sail it over somebody's head. He might bounce it. It might be like one of the best 20 yard in passes you've seen. Still no. I have the Lions favored by six and a half in Indianapolis.

All right. Finally, I get this. I had seven and it's seven and a half. Hmm. They're just crushing teams. Oh, they have to, they have to put it north, north of seven. This can't go lower. Feels like a tease. Right. Yeah. They're not ready to lose yet. Detroit. There'll be a time that's not yet. Campbell's, Campbell's definitely got the, uh, Drogo's trainer face going during these games. He just wants to like pour it on.

Yeah, no. Seahawks Cardinals in Seattle. And I was going to go one and a half. And I'm going to say Seahawks minus two after the day. You get it. It's one and a half. I said in four wire. Cardinals. Cardinals about a really good. No, they're getting a little too much credit here, little too much.

Two fairly watchables Vikings at Chicago is the first one.

Something is not watchable about the Vikings, and I can't put my finger on it. But I'm never like, oh cool, the Vikings are on offense. And they have guys I like watching. I just, something's missing. Yeah, we don't like when you have a big play guy, the top three fantasy guy, Justin Jefferson, and who never seen you as the boss, struggling to score. Like I think they averaged 30 over their first four games in the last two or three, they've averaged like 15 or something.

I'm gonna say Vikings by three in Chicago. You're gonna get this. I said four and a half, it's three and a half. I think that ends at three. Did they play yet? No, they play week 15. Think that goes down? Yeah, I think that gets the three. Dolphins home for the Pats is the other one. And I swear the Pats aren't bad.

You swear you wouldn't lie to me. I swear they're not bad. And you can't tell me you weren't fucking sweating out that Rams game. No, I was. I was. Yeah. I'm glad they kicked. Pat's lose to Seattle 23 to 20 in a game that they coach scared and they had percent instead of May. They lose week five to Miami when they should have started. May. I think they would have won that. They lost that one 15 to 10. They lost that stupid Tennessee game in week nine by three and they lost this Rams game today.

It's a three and 18 that could, like they really could be six and seven.

a couple of plays. They're not bad. Whatever you say, I don't know how that three and eight get good to six and seven. Like they really could have played two more games. I didn't know. I wasn't asked to do math. Well, the question is, do they have any, how many blowouts do they have? Like I look at the Cowboys. I'm like, Oh, we have at least three or four. You have none. You have no blah, like receiving end of a blowout. I'm saying, Oh yeah, we got blood on a couple of times. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. Coming up, like, are you going to have two or three or?

You know, you have what? Seven games, right? Miami, Indiana, Arizona, Buffalo, Chargers, Buffalo. Six games left. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I have that. Pat's over under four and a half and they have three wins. You're fighting that out. End of the summer, for sure. But think about it. At Miami home, Indy, at Arizona, at Buffalo, Chargers, Buffalo, like probably only one win left with this coaching stuff.

You got this exact. I got this exactly. You did? I'm going to say Miami by six and a half. Oh, you should have said seven. Very close. I would advise people not to tease that. Hmm. I just don't. That seems like a classic Miami looking ahead game. Who does Miami play the week after this? They play. Well, that's Thanksgiving week, right?

Yeah, they're at Green Bay on Thursday, that next week. So this is a classic. Hey, it's the past. Let's just, we'll get by this. We got Green Bay on Thursday. And then all of a sudden we're up 10 nothing. You played tough with them last time, right? Well, it wasn't like 15 10. So he said, yeah, I think we can play with that team. Now the reason these games are so shitty is because six teams are off, right? Yeah, we forgot to mention that Buffalo Cincinnati, fantasy locations. Yeah. There's some like teams with fantasy guys. So,

The poop factor is loaded. We might need the clogger to unclog it. Really subdues these. There's five bucks giant set in Jersey. Bucks minus four.

Yeah, you get it. I said five. It's three and a half. Stupid. That's dumb. Except that we're going to bet Tampa to win the division. So they're definitely going to lose the time. Yeah. So we kind of need to do that because I need I need to be interested in week 12. So maybe that's the first way to do it. Let's do it at the Bucks. Washington is home for the Cowboys. Well, I definitely know it's how bad you're going to look tomorrow. Watch out.

I have washed in by eight. Oh man, you're edging me out here. I had seven and a half. It's nine and a half. That's too bad. That's too bad. Washington hasn't looked good in a month. Well, that was having looked good six years in a month. So fair. It should be interesting. Oh, you don't think the schedule can get worse? Can I offer you Chiefs Panthers in Carolina? Yeah. You could offer me a three team teaser. Well, that's why I'm checking this up.

because they're gonna have, this will be in the teas range. So I'm gonna say chiefs by 11 and a half in Carolina. I can't get one of these. I had 12, it's 10 and a half. They can't lose that. Put that on any teaser from now, whenever, however long you think you're gonna be betting 15, 20 more years, 40, just try to get them on whatever fan to hold out.

I had another 14 or 13 pointer, by the way. Oh, I saw that. Wait, Chargers, plus 11, Chiefs, Lions, and then the Eagles on Thursday night.

Oh, you must have won. Oh, you sent me something else with, uh, with, uh, the two. I think that was it. The UFC, uh, no, you have to see. Yeah. Everything. Okay. Yeah. Everything. Bone nickel with John Jones who could not have been more amazing in that fight. And then the lions and the Packers was basically even on it's John Jones figured out how to do a liver punch as a spinning back kick. Right. Yeah. Like I've never seen UFC move that looked like it hurt more than that move.

Yeah, you know, they didn't ask us what would happen to us. I would still I would still be I would say I'd still be in the ring, but I think they would carry me to my grave. So I don't think I would still be in the ring. Yeah. That is like five ribs, right? It looked like it really like he was going to have trouble getting his foot out of that sternum, right?

I thought he was so good. Steepay was terrible. Steepay looked like he was kind of washed. But John Jones was like, he played all the hits. Like he did the ground and pound in the first round. He's just like, he has this ways of just like, it's like 20 elbows and 19 of them land. He was so good. Someone gave Steepay around, which was insane. Jesus. It's one of the judges. Two more terrible games Texans, Titans. This is in Houston. And

I really, I thought about getting this to nine because I don't, I know they're going to think everyone's going to tease it, but the Texans just haven't been good enough. So I'm going to say Texans eight and a half. Hey, when you're, you're explaining it and I know I'm, I, you have me dead to rights, but I have to still have to listen to the whole thing. It is poker face. Yeah. That is, it's, I had nine and it is eight and a half.

This is disgraceful. That's a slightly dangerous game for Houston because Tennessee's defense isn't bad. Sure. For Houston. Yeah. For Houston. Battle. That's going to be a battle against the Cowboys. Very physical. You know, this one might not be a poop factor game with the way Bonex is playing, but Broncos in Vegas playing the Raiders and Bobby Bockola, Antonio Pierce.

Yeah, I was saying to you in Lombardi that Bobby Bocklow was Uncle Junior's driver for two years and then like somehow a couple of people died and he became a captain. Right. And it was like, how is this guy captain? He was like getting, getting the, getting Uncle June, Uncle June of Baba Ghul. Yeah. What do they call that? Gaba Ghul. What's that saying about that? Gaba Ghul.

But they call Baba Ghul. That was Karen's last was on your junior. I've never heard of Gaba Ghul before. You're not saying it right. It's okay. Gaba Ghul? Gaba Ghul.

It was like your daughter's first words. Now, I don't even know what it is. Not in the Connecticut, Massachusetts area. But yeah, it's like Antonio Pierce, they just cut to him on the sidelines and he just says, this look like, what if I'm going to be able to do TV next year? What if there's going to be a college job? Broncos, I'm going to say minus four in Vegas. All right.

You got to do the way. But this, I said three, it was three and a half. It went to four and a half. What kind of injury could there be on Vegas for them to move this line? I know they're running backs. Both got hurt, but it was like a mirror Abdul or whatever. But why did this move within an hour? Did you see any of the Vegas game? Oh, I know they're terrible. Yeah. But once you had a play where

in the fourth quarter, he rolled out and he threw it past. And I think it was Jalen Rams that he fell down, so he was on the ground. And the guy was open and Minchu somehow threw it to Jalen Ramsy who caught it when he was lying on the ground for an interception. I didn't ever seen that before. That's good. Yeah. Tough times for Minchu. Jesus. I love, I just want so badly to bet that team, but they got to be a stay away for the rest of the year. Sunday night, Eagles Rams, you know, hey, not a bad game.

I have a crowd prediction for this. There's a lot of Philly fans that live here. Oh, yeah. You put a lot of Philly fans together. And if the game becomes frustrating or disappointing in the first or second quarter, the vibe slash energy in that arena or stadium completely changes and gets super weird. And I feel like that's going to happen in this game.

You put 50,000 Eagle fans who are furious because Sirianni went for it on fourth and three and Jalen Hertz got sacked and just that you can hear the grumbling all around the stadium. I'll never forget the Super Bowl Eagles, Pat's like, it was the weirdest energy I've ever felt in it in a game. It's just that the Eagles fans are so mad. They was like in the second quarter, they're furious. But those are Eagles, Eagles fans. These are going to be LA Eagles fans, right? You think they're going to be more mellow because of that, because we have good weather?

No, probably not. Yeah, no, I don't think so. I love it bad. But this means more to the Rams for sure. I do not have the Rams' favorites out. I have Eagles minus one and a half. Yeah, I said two and it's three. Eagles are a full, full field goal. Wow. They've rarely seen three. I think they're counting on what you're talking about a lot of, a lot of Eagles fans showing up. There's a lot of Bengals fans. We're going to a lot of Eagles fans. Am I, did I clench yet or is this still up in the air? Well, you want to quit? No.

Yeah, it's like nine. Pull my starters. Yeah, full mall nine to three. You're up. Last game. Monday night. We get to watch the chargers again. Oh my. Ravens at chargers. Ravens at LA. I wonder if Mallory Rubin will be in the house. I bet she. Yeah. She doesn't leave her own house, but she might be in this house. I'm going to say Baltimore by one and a half.

Uh, are they checking on an injury? Because it's not on fan. I pulled it up before and now it's not on. You look there, but what you saying? We both said one and a half anyway. It's, uh, it's three. It's the last I saw.

But is Herbert, yeah, Herbert or somebody? Herbert might, Herbert might be maybe got hurt when they ran that play when he just got that option play when he just got annihilated and cons were it's like, please don't ever run that play again. Oh, his right arm is tight. He could throw left handed if he wants. He's still handsome either way. Like, of course. All right, you want seven, four, one after 12.

Thanks again to Workday for sponsoring this segment. Be a finance and HR rock star with Workday to learn more, visit Workday.com. So we watched Tyson Paul together at our cousin, Jimmy's. Yeah. One of the most depressing sporting events I can remember you felt by the second round.

It felt like it was over. I went back, because I remember, I remembered writing a column about some fight that felt like the end of Tyson's career. And it was the Lennox Lewis fight, which was in 2002. Wow. And that was when I wrote a whole long column about, it was so sad to watch. It's over. It was literally 2002. This Drake May was born in 2002. Yeah. So I don't know why we were surprised. Well, I got to see his ass, and that's all I really want. I told you before the night.

I just want to see his ass. I don't care who wins the fight, but it bums me out because you were smart. You were the only one in the room who didn't have money on Tyson. And yet the way we broke it down on against law, I almost called it exactly. I'm like, he's going to show, he'll have like a flurry in the first couple of rounds. And then these gloves are too big and Paul's going to realize that Tyson can't hurt him. And so he's just going to jab, jab him the death and that. It wasn't even that much. And I didn't even count on the knee brace. When your fighter goes in there looking like Bill Walton,

at like 46 years old. The knee brace is just automatic. I wish I didn't bet on this guy thing. So what, how many years was I off by? I know you wrote that column, but does he beat him at 48? Does he beat him at

30 40. I don't know. I had, as we're watching the Chargers game today, I put on ESPN on the smaller TV because I thought Sports Center was coming on and they were running Mike Tyson's greatest hits volume two. And it was just him destroying the best one is the Donnie long, I think is my favorite. He's like, I think you might have killed daddy log. Oh, yeah. He's just over and over. And you just see how fast and crazy good he was back then. And then there's been this revisionist history since like,

Oh, no, he was just he was both at the moment Douglas hit him like anyone could there's No, my answer to that is no like him Really through the Sphinx fight was the most unstoppable heavy weight ever ferocious. Nobody's just don't know how anybody beats that guy He's a fucking maniac. He's thrown uppercuts. He's talking. He's round both hands. He had 17 different punches and

Yeah, for sure. And in the Jake Paul fight, he really only had like this weird lazy left hook. He never threw his right, never threw up our cuts and had no legs. It was awful. And the Jake Paul fight, he had 17 different punches too, but those were over eight rounds. So total he had 17 punches. But I feel like betting on it. Like I'm going to ask like it's dumb going into it. I knew

But it's, it's, we don't want to admit we're old, right? Like this bet was basically like getting a facelift, right? Like it's a risk. And I know it's going to happen here and the surgeon got paid either way, but I can't admit that I'm old and, uh, Mike, you just killed us. It just killed. It was so sad. Couldn't move forward. In the training video. He has 30 seconds spurts. Like it's nice. I know. Well, he pointed the seat after about it. He got.

Hurt or whatever happened on June and he had that blood transfusions and he lost weight. So I felt like they're paving the way for one more. Oh, one more. Well, we need one last one more fight. Really? I don't know. He's been like 20 million for this. I know. He got 20 million. That's when you really feel like George Foreman. We're not going to all get together if it's like him versus George Foreman versus Evander. Holyfield Tyson three.

Yep. Jimmy Carter could get sanctioned. I think they could do this. It's all about like the, it's the walk up. It's the anticipation of it. And then the actual fight is like a bonus.

Yeah, I had buzzed Adam Corolla in my ear saying he's 58. What do you expect? I think I heard that about 25 times. Yeah. That's going to be his go to point. He's right. It was brutal. The women's fight was great, though. That should have been the made event. That was tremendous. I, of course, lost money on that.

So I was the most exciting moment for me though, is Baby Doll. Jimmy had this big fire pit with the fire going. Baby Doll sees it and it's just like a cheetah seeing its prey. He just has to sit next to it.

and have at least two Marlboro Reds in a row while flicking it into the fire and then eventually throw a cigarette in there. Even though it's not a fire, it's like one of those glass things shoot up. It's now there's cigarette butts in there. Yeah, trash in there. Yeah. But he makes it like a carnival game. Yeah. But he he was. And I know what I'm doing, baby. I got to get through these three packs before I open the other one.

What do you got for parent corner? All right. I got a good one. So on Tuesday, this past Tuesday, my son Jack has a wrestling match, right? And it's a dual meet against another school. So he's on JV. And when you're on JV, like if you're on varsity,

You pretty much feel the full lineup. And you know, the opposing team is going to have probably one guy at every weight class. So it'll match up. But if you're on JV, you never know. Like if the other team only has five extras and you have 20, you're not going to get a match. So I have to go and have to wait, whatever. So we get there.

He comes in, he's like, I don't have a match. And my wife has worked in the concession stand. And she's like, oh, well, then you should eat that. And I'm like, well, the only way is like, no, I don't have a match. So she's given him like Costco pizza and like peanut M&M's. And I'm like, all right, well, I guess that's it. We'll stay and watch anyway. 15 minutes later, he comes out. He's like, I have a match. I'm wrestling varsity, the regular varsity kid. He's out with Ringworm.

I was like, you got any ringworm. The only thing you can get from wrestling, there's no other way to get ringworm unless you're wrestling for somebody. Yeah, guess what? He's also his partner. So he probably has it too, but anyway, efficient. We probably have it. Yes, we all have it now. So I have to talk to him now. So I'm like, all right, shit, this is crazy. You're wrestling varsity. You know, so like if you're losing, you're probably going to be losing because you're a 10th grader on varsity, you know, much experience. You got to save your team point. So

If you lose him by five, don't give up. Don't go to your back. Cause if you lose by 10, it, it costs a team more points than if you lose by six. So anyway, all right, whatever. So, um, he goes out there and it's a wild first period. It's like 10 to eight. There's a takedown or reversal every 15 seconds. The gym is pumped. It's sloppy. The other school probably not their regular varsity kid too. Like maybe their guy had scurvy. I don't know what it is, but anyway, this is a sloppy match.

I have no idea. So it's actually nine to eight right before the end of the first period. Jack's on bottom and he throws up the Domino's pizza. He throws up on the mat. Yes, because he overdid it because he didn't know he was going to have a mat. And then they come out and they clean it and they have to spray it. And it's like a five minute, you know, like intermission there. And that's supposed to be it. Like they don't really

They probably figure you're sick, right? And then that you have to like leave the match, right? Not that you had too much Costco pizza. Doesn't get the boom, by the way. And is there video of him puking or no? I'll send it to you. Yeah. It's pretty better than when you puked or no. It's three or no. The kids got some ways to go, but it was interesting nonetheless, but I'll send it to you.

He convinces them to let it keep going. And so he goes and he actually escapes to make it 10 to eight. So now the second period, same thing back and forth. They're exhausted. Jack's about to get thrown, but like leg trips the kid right onto his back and the kids exhausted. He pins the kid and the gym goes bananas. And the team eventually wins by six points. So he made a difference. So wow, that was it. That was it. And it was, uh, it was pretty freaking great. I have to say, it's like, uh,

You know, I could lose like a lot of like a lot of bets and this would make up for it for sure. I like it. Yeah. So when they make a movie or be called like vision puke. Yes. Vomit Quest. Vision crust brought to you by Domino's.

That's parent corners brought to you by Domino's Pizza. Check out their app. Domino says a great app. My parent corner. My daughter's boyfriend, Tommy, who's a great kid. He's been dating him for like a year. And he was playing like a touch football game. And some kid fell into his leg and he heard his leg. Like he broke like the top of this tibia. So he was like in a cast for four.

So he ends up moving in because my dad is like, like 12 minutes from where Zoe goes to school. So he moves in with my dad and my stepmom because it's too hard for him. He's like, has an apartment in Austin. It's too hard for him to go back and forth. You know, like, so it's just, and then my dad's excited because he is like a live body to watch sports with. So Tommy's been there for like a month.

hanging with my dad watching games and stuff, which of course led to, I insisted that he mailed me videos whenever my dad fell asleep during sporting events, which was every single night. So I'll be, I'll just be home and I'll just get this video from Tom and it's just, it's some exciting like fourth quarter of like, you know, Lakers, Warriors, and then the phone will cut to my dad and my dad's like, he's like, like he's dead.

That's to him. So I really wanted the morning for like, right? That'll stay up for all this stuff. And then I'd put all these apps on my dad's TV, including NBA League Pass, which of course, he has no idea. It's like, oh, you press the Apple TV. Yeah.

The league pass him up quick on that. The games will be there and it's like too much for him. All he wants to do is turn on the TV and go to cable and then the smart TV part has Netflix and that's all he's capable of. It's not Tommy's in there and he's telling me how they're watching NBA games. He's like, yeah, Tommy knows how to get to these NBA games.

And I'm like, you mean the NBA games that I put on your TV and was telling you, like you could cook on this. And it's like, so it's like, he made it. See my Tommy's like red and Shawshank, like Tommy's a man in a set to get things. It's like, you be Tommy just knows how to press the Apple TV menu. The things comes up, but he presses the thing. Why can't our parents, why don't they understand how to use remote controls?

Like, do your parents have trouble with this? Like getting to the worst. My father's fingers are big. So he's he's he's breaking the shit out of whether it's a phone or a little apple remote or something. So it's just not for him. But yeah, it seems like it should click. It's not they couldn't make it easier. They can't get it. My every time my mom goes to see her mom lives here and every time she's over.

The first 20 minutes are her fixing smart TV or something that happened. I was thinking, I said to fantasy.

I actually think the wringer we might have to launch a podcast for every episode is somebody telling stories about interactions with their parents and technology if you have parents over 75. And it's just like, all right, here's my story of when I went over to help fix my mom's internet. And it just goes, my mom couldn't get on spectrum for like two weeks and called the guys and the guys came like that. She thought there was a serious problem. And all the guy did was just turn the box off and on and the spectrum worked.

Right, right, right. Like the guy who was like a house call came in and that that was the solution was, have you tried turning the box on and off? My mom was like, what do you mean? And get it and all of a sudden it worked. It's, it scares the shit out of them. Why do we think what are we going to be like 30 years from now? Like AI, are we going to be just as idiotic?

Oh, we're going to be fine. We're going to be fine. We could navigate Fandal. We're good. We're good. But no, these people, like my father had to take him to DMV and you have to fill out all the shit on the tablet. You don't write anything. I'm like, right. If I wasn't there, he would be, he would be there. There wouldn't be cars. There'd be flying cars by the time he got out of there.

It wouldn't be that. Yeah, it's tough. But the bigger point is you're jealous of Tommy, aren't you? I am a little jealous. It made me think of when I lived in Boston, and I could just hang out and watch games with my dad and then he would fall asleep in the fourth quarter or whatever we're watching. Yeah. Now, Tommy gets it with his grandfather in law. But here's the other thing. Tom is a huge heat fan because my dad watches every South of the game if he doesn't go. So he feels like he has to like

you know, kind of join the Celtics thing a little bit, but he's also a Heat fan. So what he does is he bets on the Celtics every game. Oh, interesting. All right. See, this is why this guy could be the one for my daughter. Like he's like, that's kind of outside the box thinking. He's left and this is a crazy relationship set up here, isn't it? Well, it's only one more week. He's got these guys moving around in a week. Yeah. All right. My dad's like, I'm bummed out. We love having him here.

He's paying for the wedding. That's great. Anyway, that's parent quarter. That would have got to plug. Well, I just came off the Ring of Pregame show where I'm nine into the long day. Yeah, nine and two and your best bets. Come on. Wow. You were plus 108 to be nine and two of your best bets.

It was an upset. Who knew I could do it through the ring with Tate against the lads. We had a nice same game party with the fellas Thursday night and cousin Sal's winning weekend with the great Jim Nance on Friday. What should I ask? Hello, my friends. Yeah. Hello, friends. I think you have to make him rank his top three.

things he's ever called from three to one. All right. You got to get the bronze medal, silver medal, gold medal, greatest, greatest things he's called. I have to, you know, he has his top three. Yeah. I also want the top three, most annoying things about Tony Romo. I want, I'm going to get it out of him.

What he finds in life. Definitely say like, hey, three years ago, were you mad at Romo when he just was or memorizing the numbers of the guys and that they did you get, did you give him a pep talk? Right. To yell at him, what happened? I love him. It's very exciting. Those are, those are good guests. Yeah.

Yeah, we do. All right. We have a Sunday pregame show. Let me sorry. Let me shout out Alison Turner, the terrific booker for the ringer. Oh, we love Alison. Great job. She's great. I almost don't like that you shattered her out. Now I'm where it's going to try to hire. What do you mean? Oh, I should have our favorite employees. Yeah. No, no, no. Her name is actually really bad.

Yeah, she's not good. Um, I had to yell at her a few times last week. Yeah. Joe House is the one you want to book your guests. Bring your Sunday pregame. We came up with this new idea of the, uh, what do we call the hot fudge Sunday with a Y where everybody has to do a parlay of plus or a pick of plus 200 or higher, put them all together. And today's was like 42 to one. How many likes did we hit?

I think we hit two. No, one at one or two. I had the under 31 and a half hit one of them. Tennessee, Minnesota. Yeah. Yeah. We need to reach out. JJ breaks out in hives because he doesn't like anything over plus 200. He's like, what can I even find this? He wanted to do it. It has to be plus one 10 or higher for this Sunday. All right, Sal, we'll see you next week. Good job. Good job by you, buddy.

On the way so I never want to say I don't have a feeling as we can On the way so I never want to say