Paul Bissonnette, NFL Christmas Day And The Bears New Low, Week 17 Picks And Preview + New Years Resolutions

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prime time game of the year. The final Thursday night football game of the year. Holy shit was it horrific. Six to three Seahawks win. I just want this season to be over so so badly. It's such a complete disaster and mess. And it feels again like there's no way out.

I'm still going to stay optimistic about Kayla, but he was bad. The whole team's bad. Uh, yeah, defense defense actually, I thought the defense was going to give up a million yards and they did like after the first drive and then they didn't. Um, yeah, Brian polls did a, uh, interview before the game and said that, uh, some of the slow starts are some of the things that weren't fixed in, uh, training camp. So he's talking about training. He's playing with training camp in week 17.

fire this whole fucking organization of the sun. I'm so sick of it. I apologize again from the bottom of my heart that that is some of the worst football. Like it's just a perfect fitting end to not only the bears playing standalone games with Thursday night football.

The only thing I'm worried about is like Kirk Herb Street our good friend he's going to get even more aggro after having to watch that. And like he's going to be in just a sour sour mood next week after having to watch that so I apologize to everyone. It was a horrific game. They're a horrific organization. They're a complete joke.

George McCasky should feel shame. He won't feel shame Fans rightfully were booing fans also got Thomas Brown who can't figure out a clock to save his life I think he might have been behind the Detroit collapse on Thanksgiving to go for it on fourth and one or fourth and five With like 215 left. I was like fucking just punted. I don't even care like what does it matter, but it's

This is the dumbest organization ever and I apologize to everyone. Also, the Seahawks are bad. Can we just say that the Seahawks are really bad as well because like you shouldn't. Six to three is not a game you should be in with the Bears. Yeah, you shouldn't feel good about yourself if you're the Seahawks for sure. And it's mean what Roger Goodell keeps doing to my good friend Big Cat and making them play primetime games, right? When you think you're done. Oh no, we've got another Bears primetime game. It's meaner what they're doing a big cat than what he did to Hank and Tom Brady of the Patriots.

Roger, Roger Goodell is a bigger dickhead for making Big Cat be exposed to the Bears in prime time all these times this year. Then deflate gate sanctions? Yep.

I'll say. I mean, it's a next year, the schedule will come out and they'll do it again. It's like, fuck it. I'll do it again. So, um, so big cat, there's some coaching search news for the bears. So, uh, yeah, let's talk about it. So Ben Johnson still like you're going to interview Ben Johnson. He's intrigued. Yeah, he's intrigued by Caleb Williams balls. They whistle and he likes that. Uh, Pete Carroll has also thrown his hat into the ring as he did with the jets.

But he wouldn't mind coaching the Bears, apparently, or maybe it was his agent saying that to drum up interest. I don't know. It depends on which side you fall on in the chef or Florio dispute. Yeah. So this was news, I think, on Christmas morning that Pete Carroll would like a job. Everyone wants a head coaching job in the NFL. I don't like, these are the reports that like, why don't you just put everyone's name? Have a list, have a huge list. Like, hey, listen,

Ben McAdoo wants a job. Matt Patricia wants a head coaching job. Rex Ryan, Ron Rivera, Pete Carroll. Just go down the whole list of guys that want a head coaching job in the NFL because they all want a job because they're the best jobs in the world in terms of like pay and the height of your profession. As for Pete Carroll, he's a very good coach. He's 73 years old. And guess what?

Pete Carroll is exactly what the Bears will do. They would do that, where they'll just be like, you know what, we need someone, we need someone stable to write the ship to be a professional in these, in Halis Hall. Instead of being like, hey, why don't we try to just pay Ben Johnson $20 million and be like, hey, yeah, you know what, Ben Johnson might not work out, but at least we tried to get the best possible hire out there instead of being like, oh, this guy won a Super Bowl a decade ago.

Cool. Let's bring him in. That will be fun. He's 70 fucking three years old. John Fox all over again. John Fox all over again. At least be careful. One is Super Bowl.

Yeah, I think I think there's like a difference between John Fox and Pete Carroll. He's got a little more energy to him. But yeah, it is. It's like a very safe hire for them to do the only safer hire in their mind in their fucked up mind would probably be Ron Rivera because the ties back to the 85 Bears and he was defensive coordinator there for a long time. There was to see that article. It was in the New York Times or the athletic. It said the Bears need a coach who holds players accountable. Look no further than Ron Rivera.

Again, I like Ron Rivera. He's a friend of the show. Great guy. But this is my point that I was just saying every single one of these guys wants this job because you get paid a shitload of money to coach an NFL team.

That doesn't mean like it would just be so bears to go hire Pete Carroll. Like that's what they would do. They would do it and then they'd be like, listen, this guy is stability and we need to get, you know, we need, we need someone who knows how to win in the culture, 73 years old. Go fucking give Ben Johnson every last dollar in your bank account, George McCasky.

And guess what, if Ben Johnson turns out to be a bad coach, I can't be mad that they at least tried. You know what I mean? Like they went and tried to get the number one guy out there. Once you guys say he's the number, I mean, Mike Vable obviously is also a number one guy out there. But go get the number one guy. I would say the safest guy is Mike Vable.

Right. Well, no, Pete Carroll will be the safest in terms of like, uh, like he, you know, Pete Carroll won't have a two-win season. I mean, he's going to be, he's going to be a good head coach. That's almost a guarantee. He might not drive the price tag that Ben Johnson's driving right now because he's going to have a crazy bidding war for his services. But I feel like if you're going to, if you're going to try to save on price, just get for Abel. He's going to be a great coach. Yeah. I love Mike Rabel. If Mike Rabel is the coach of the Bears, I'll be very happy. I just want

I want them to once go and get the, the number one guy, the guy that everyone's like, holy shit, Ben Johnson. And it probably won't happen. I'll say it almost definitely won't happen, but at least go try. Don't say fucking Pete Carroll. I just want, I just want to get to the playoffs. I don't have to think about the pairs. Like I just don't want even, they're not worth, they're not worth anything. They're, they're, they're

They should sell the team. You know what the McCaskys should do? They should sell the team for $100 what their family bought the team for and be like, you know what? We did such a bad job. We're going to sell for $100. Do a lot. You're watching Yellowstone? Someone gets to win the Bears. Yeah. Yeah. Sell it to a Native American tribe for what they stole it for. I like that. Yes. I have not been watching Yellowstone, but I'm in. Okay. Should we talk some Christmas day game? Some actual football that actually matters. The Chiefs,

15 and one and clinched the one seed. They now have like 24 days off. I don't care what you know, people can poke holes in the chiefs and be like, they're not impressive because they haven't scored over 30 points and they've had a couple of close calls.

They're going to win the Super Bowl again. Just accept it. Like, if you don't accept it, I hope it doesn't happen. I want to see the Bills win the Super Bowl. I want to see, you know, a new team get to the Super Bowl that hasn't been to the Super Bowl in a long time. You have to say in your head, like, what's going to end up happening is the Chiefs now with the one seed, their second round game is going to be a team that they will kill.

And then they will play one game to get to the Super Bowl. They will have one tough game to get to the Super Bowl and it will be at Arrowhead and they deserve it because they're the best team in football right now, 15 and one. But just think about it in your head, who they're going to have to play in the second in their first playoff game is going to be like the Texans or the Steelers or the Broncos or the you chargers like one of those teams.

And they're going to fucking demolish them. So you can't even do the rest verse rust because they're going to get a tune up game. And then they just have to beat the bills or the Ravens at home and they'll be in the Super Bowl. And then it's Patrick Holmes in a Super Bowl. That's it. That's exactly. It's going to be probably the Texans or the Steelers in the first round two teams that they've already beaten this year. They decided they whooped the shit out of the Steelers in that second half. They beat the Texans pretty convincingly.

Um, so they're going to have to play one of those two teams to Arrowhead and then they're going to play in all likelihood the bills or the Ravens, but to get it at home. So congratulations to the Chiefs. You guys did it. They've, you've won almost all your games, even though there were a lot of close ones. It's the Chiefs is it? And like I'm, I'm still impressed by the Chiefs. Cause they're off their offenses looking good, like actually good. Patrick, my homes is throwing the ball in like under a second. They're getting the ball out of his hands. The offense looks alive. The running game looks pretty good.

They're just, yeah, it's not even frustrating to me because like, yeah, I would ultimately like to see another team, like a team that maybe hasn't won in a long time when it's Super Bowl, but at the same, they're so good. It's kind of like the Steph Curry effect where you're like, it's still kind of entertaining to watch greatness at this level. So congrats to the Chiefs. I watched the Chiefsaholic documentary today. Have you guys seen that yet? No, I have it. I need to.

I recommend it. We show up in there for about three seconds. It's Billy asking if he can go hunt down Chiefs of Haulick when you skip bail and us saying yes, please go hunt him down. Also, the hard factor guys are in there. Robbie Fox is in there for about a quarter of a second somehow. That part didn't make any sense. But yeah, good documentary. Chiefs of Haulick's going to be very happy and his person sell us somewhere. They're just inevitable. They are. They're just really, really fucking good.

And we've said this before, but if you're someone who is sitting there being like the Chiefs aren't that good, they're lucky to be 15 and one. I can't stress enough how stupid that sounds because they are just the best coach team with the best quarterback and it might not look pretty.

But when they need, like if you make a mistake against the Chiefs, the way they're set up and the guys that they have, they will always capitalize. And every single mistake is magnified by that much because you have Patrick Holmes and Andy Reid and Chris Jones on the other side, who didn't even play against the Steelers. They're just good. They're just really good at football. And to discredit them is silly at this point. And oh yeah, they got Hollywood Brown now.

Yeah. And Xavier Worthy, who we talked about is starting to work his way in like he's going to be a big, big factor in the playoffs. And a pretty rested, healthy Travis Kelsey. And oh yeah, their coach is literally Santa Claus. So good luck with that. Hey, rocks. As for the Steelers.

I'm so happy that I didn't always go all the way in on the Steelers. I always was one foot in one foot out because that team is a fraud. And they just did the same thing that they've done every single year where they win more games than you expect. And then at the end of the season, they start to to to to fall off a cliff and they're limping into

the playoffs here after losing to the Eagles, the Ravens and the Chiefs who are all very good teams. Like if you ask me, are the Steelers better than 20 teams in the NFL? Yeah, they are, but they're nowhere near the top five teams in the NFL. And that's what you judge it on, especially in a town like Pittsburgh. They're just not to be taken seriously in the AFC playoffs. Yeah. I mean, I think, I think they can beat the Texans.

But I mean, the Texans are bad too. Texans aren't looking so good, but I think they can beat the Texans. They might just be right outside that Chiefs, Ravens, Bills kind of. They're not serious. They're not. If they're not, it doesn't mean that they're a bad team. I think that they're a good team actually. They're just, they're not good. They're not to be taken seriously. They're not playing for a Super Bowl. Correct. Yeah. They're just not. They're not playing. There's no world where they're going to win three playoff games in January.

Yeah, it's still cool. Russ Wilson story. I think what do you do with him now? I think you you kind of just let him hang around. We sign him. I think you I think you wait to see if he comes to you and asks you for a contract.

You just, you just hope it's an on auto renew. Yeah. Yeah. You just kind of wait them out. Maybe just do that. Maybe just like send them an email. Congratulations. Your contract with a Pittsburgh Steelers says auto renewed for the next 12 months. The same price of $1 million. Yeah. I don't think that you like paying a shitload of money, but I may make him an insulting offer and see how insulted he is at it.

I do feel bad for oh yeah the Steelers also memes just text this they they have a an issue on defense because basically it was like cam Hayward TJ Watt I think Patrick Queen they all have been alluding to there's one guy who's just not doing their job.

It seems like people are thinking this might be Minka, but I don't know. But, uh, Cam Hayward said when 10 guys do their job, one guy doesn't. We are screwed. And there's been these like weird things quotes the last three weeks that it feels like there's a big problem on the defensive side in that locker room and someone's not pulling their weight. So I don't, I mean, Tomlin's a guy who can figure it out, but I also still lose fans. I feel bad for it because

Most of the NFL looks at the Steelers and are like, I want that never going under 500. Mike Tomman, I think is still a very good coach, but the Steelers fans and the city of Pittsburgh, they are one of those franchises that judges on Super Bowls. So.

Like, I can say I want what the Steelers have, but then the Steelers are like, hey, we haven't won a playoff game in like seven years. This is bullshit. And this is, uh, I think it was, it was the fourth time in the past six years of Steelers have lost three consecutive games in December. So this is just kind of what they've been doing. So I, I feel bad for Steelers fans because for the majority of the NFL were jealous of what you have, but Steelers fans are like, no, no, this is not Steelers football. We are not a serious contender.

They've kind of have been dealing with it though. Like, yeah, they're not happy with it. Steelers fans aren't happy with it, but the organization is, is okay with it. They have to be. So the model, I don't know what I just feel bad for Steelers fans because they're, they're like, you can't, if you're a Steelers fan and you complain to a lot of people in the outside world, they're like, dude, shut up. You guys never go under 500, but their standard is different.

So I understand their complaints. And it's definitely Minka. That's the guy that's definitely Minka. Definitely. If you saw the most recent, uh, the last two games, he's just, he's just like completely freelancing when he comes and try to tackle and run support. He's just, yeah.

He'll be in the wrong channel and then it'll be a 50 yard run. And it's all because he took the wrong angle on it. And they're not even like that. That was such a Mike Tomlin spot on Christmas Day. Chiefs don't want to have to go there. Chiefs don't, you know, they all they got to do is win one of their last two games. Underdog at home for Mike Tomlin. And they just got, they got absolutely worked. Like it wasn't even, it wasn't really a competitive game.

No. Well, the first half, at the end of the first half, I thought it was going to be competitive because they put together a nice little drive and you thought maybe, but then second half was just all chiefs. Yeah. And then for the other game, I mean, that was a shit kicking. What was the final score? 31 to two.

Two, not a scoregami, right? Not a scoregami, not a scoregami. The Ravens absolutely killed the Texans. The Texans are in a bad, bad spot. Let's talk about the Texans real quick. And then I want to talk about Lamar and the Ravens. The CJ shroud is regressed. I know there's a lot of things around him.

uh, that are not going well. And you know, two out of his top three wide receivers got hurt. His offensive line is joke, but he's regressed. And I, I don't know what else to say. Like he, he was anointed, uh, and we did, we did it too. We're just, you know, like some of that talk about being like, he's so good and, and his contract so cheap, like he has not been good this year. Who would you rather have? So you just rather Bryce Young, I asked again,

redraft, redraft. Definitely CJ Stroud. But they, yeah, there are sad offense to watch right now. Makes him look like he was going to get into the end zone. And then once he got stopped at the one, it felt like nothing, nothing at all went to Texans way. You're probably not looking forward very much to that opening round playoff game if you're the Texans. No.

It's like you would rather just try to lick your wounds and be like, okay, let's regroup. Try to get people healthy if we can. They couldn't do anything with Derek Henry. Couldn't do anything with Lamar. Also, Derek Henry, I don't know how we missed this. We haven't talked about this. Derek Henry cut his hair.

Yeah, he did. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago after the bye week. Yeah. So he got, well, I guess it wasn't, I don't know if it was a haircut or not, but he turned the giant ass braids into cornrows. So you can no longer tackle Derek Henry. That was his one, like that's a surefire way to get him down. Just grab that, that big clump of hair and jerk his neck backwards. So he can't, that's championship mentality by the way, cause he's been growing that out for probably 10 years. And he's like, I'm going to change it for this playoff run.

I feel like that's that's a good vibe. His heads in the game. Yeah, but they couldn't do anything with Lamar who just passed Michael Vicks record 41 fewer games, by the way. Yeah, it's insane. The defense couldn't do anything at all against him. Also, shout out to Netflix. Shout out to Netflix. The score bug was awesome. Score bug was cool. It felt like it was classic.

minus the fact that they just took away a Steelers timeout to start the game. That confused the fuck out of me. The game hadn't kicked off and the Steelers had two timeouts, but it was a good broadcast. But yeah, the Christmas Day solidified what we already knew, but it was like really crystallized that the AFC is the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. That's it.

There's no one else like those are the those are the three teams and Watching him duke it out and this is why the Chiefs getting the one seat is so important because the Chiefs the bills and the Ravens are gonna have to play and then play the Chiefs So it's but the Ravens are playing great ball and Lamar is out of his mind He said on the 48 year touchdown run. He said he was just jogging he was 21.25 miles per hour and Lamar Jackson has

41 games fewer than Michael Vick all time record. He also has the second highest passer rating in a single NFL season this year. So 2011 was Aaron Rodgers, 122.5 Lamar this year is 121.6. He's been out of control.

see that that after the game, some news broke about Josh Allen's hand. He's been playing with a broken left hand all season. And then people were saying like, Oh, it's Josh doing like some PR work here because Lamar had such a good game. I hope I wish they could both win MVP. I was here. I wanted to be co MVPs like there were is Peyton Manning and Steve McNair, right? Yeah, as a messed up time to be alive. 2004.

Yeah, that sounds about right. But yeah, Lamar, Lamar seems like this was this game was a step towards maybe an MVP for him. I just wish we could find out who was going to win MVP before they played the playoffs because then I would bet on the other side. Yeah. That's it. Well, you're saying Beyonce. Oh, didn't watch your thoughts.

I was in Lego hell in this game. I was in Lego hell. I just want to say that. I did not watch the Beyonce halftime show. I mean, they did this. They made sure they did a Super Bowl halftime show. It was, it was, it was spectacle, impressive. I watched with the sound off. I thought it was pretty good. There's our reviews. I saw people were mad about it online. So she probably did an okay job. Was there any sputanic imagery in this one? Yeah. There was some satanic in imagery. There was some people talking about, uh,

Jay Z and Diddy, so that means she did a good job, I guess. If you get people, if people watch music, halftime music show and then take to what's the app called PFT?

The everything app. Yeah. They take to the everything app and they talk about how America's eroding in our country's going to shit off of a 10 minute musical performance at a half time of a football game. That means they probably did a good job. Yeah, I would. I would agree. As somebody who watched it with the sound off, I think at one point she did that Texas hold him song when it's like down down down. That's a great song. It probably sounded good if you listen to it.

There's another note from the halftime show. They were all wearing Cowboys gear. What? Yeah. Her album's called Cowboy Carter. But it was like the same colors as the it was the same color as the Dallas. You know what it was? You know what it was? It was probably Goodell sending his smoke signal that the Cowboys are going to play a triple header next year on Christmas Day after what LeBron said. They were in Texas. Yeah.

But the Cowboys weren't in the game and they were wearing stuff that said cowboy Carter I was not the only I was not the only one that said that I was not the only one that said that. Oh, yeah. Was it only other Philly? All sitting in your living room?

Did you know until just now that her album was called Cowboy Carter? No. I didn't know that. But it didn't... It's like there were multiple people in my household who were pissed about this cowboy's gear they were wearing. Why did it have to be that color?

If they had the Eagles playing at a halftime show, you think actually, yeah, Cowboys fans would be pissed about that. See, I can appreciate this complaint. This is the this is a complaint more in my wavelength than than being like the satanic imagery and and all that shit. That shit's always over my head, but just a pissed off.

like way too full max with his broken foot, probably leaking farts out of his ass being like, what the fuck are the Cowboys gear on? Also may not exactly be the Cowboys color, but it was the Cowboys font. Oh, whatever that like Houston, blue is their their uniform. Battle blue. I think it was a lot of white. Wasn't it was a lot of white uniforms?

Yeah. How many games do you guys think we're getting next year on Christmas after what LeBron said? I think, I think, I think we get six. No, no, they won't, they won't do a false late. They'll do, they'll do three. I think, but Goodell might just be like, you know what? Fuck you, LeBron. Yeah. I mean, I follow Christmas is the only thing that matters, only support that matters.

Yeah, that no Christmas is the NBA's day. I like how he said that after the game, like, like he knew what the ratings were already. Yeah, just because he felt good about how he played on Christmas. LeBron in LeBron, like, listen, I know that Christmas has historically been the NBA's day.

But strictly it's been Jesus's day. It's been Jesus day, but I'm saying like in the sports world, it has been the NBA's day. LeBron, I don't know if you knew this, but like the NFL, whatever they want, they're going to take and you can't say shit about it because I watched

I didn't watch a second of cause that was the other thing. The fuck you by the NFL is being like, we're doing it on Netflix. So you can't even flip back and forth. Yeah. I watched you can't log out of the app. There's no, there's no channel changing. I basically my NBA watching on, on Christmas day was literally just the sandwich of the football. I watched the first quarter of the Spurs in next game and I watched the fourth quarter of the Warriors Lakers game.

It was just when football wasn't on, I turned on the basketball. Yeah, so I was at.

I was at a party and got, I got schooled by two middle schoolers. The first thing I got schooled by a middle school girl who told me all these stats about Travis Kelsey and how great he is that I didn't even know. And I was like, fuck, you really know, you know, football, cause he's a Taylor Swift fan. And then there was another middle school guy that right when the NBA games kicked off, he goes, can we please change the channel off the NBA? This product is unwatchable.

And I was like, yeah, you guys know ball. Yeah. The Lakers Warriors game was great now. So Max and Hank, you guys went up against each other. You fought on the text chain where it was just, you guys were just congratulating each other back and forth for what felt like a half hour. Any thoughts on the game? Hank, I'll let you start. Max, I'll kick it to you.

No, you can go ahead on this one. Congrats. Congrats. Yeah, Sixers are back. Everyone knows the NBA starts on Christmas. The Sixers are 1 and 0 and the NBA season this year, the Celtics are 0 and 1. That's the only way that you can really look at it. And that's just a fact. All right. Are you back out of the Cooper flag business? Out of Cooper flag, officially out on Cooper flag.

11 wins on Christmas. You got one more than you than you told us you're going to get. We also said that if the Sixers beat the Celtics on Christmas, that counts as 10 wins in itself. Wow. That was part of the stipulation. It's Jolo. Okay. Yeah. It's trip to play great. It's trip to over over a Joe John beat in Bryson D. Shambo. Don't put any ropes near those guys.

I'm just going to ignore that. That was a nothing thing that the Twitter got excited about for no reason. One thing that is relevant is Caleb Martin might be the Celtic killer. That might be the difference.

Yo, Caleb Martin, he has been horrendous this year. And all of a sudden shows up on Christmas Day, goes seven of nine from three, and just buries every single shot against the seas. He's a South killer. He's going to be the difference maker this year. We'll always say to Hal, Al Horford, I don't understand why he plays so well against the Sixers every single time.

Yeah. I mean, listen, it was a, it was a good one for the Sixers. Like obviously they're not that good of a team. I wouldn't say it was a championship DVD starting win, but it is like when they're in the playing game in April, like they'll probably have to run some video to start that game and it will probably start with the Christmas game. So like that's, you know, little victories and I'm happy for Max. Congrats. Hank, you're so mad because you don't, I mean, you, you,

You, you're so mad. You just gave them life. They're a let there. There are still six games under 500. Like I have one game. They're one game ahead of their progress report, which was 10 wins on Christmas. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it sucks. Jerry McCain's office season. Cause then then I'd be really worried. But again, I mean, if you're counting on Kayla Martin to black out and hit every shot of her game, like good luck, good luck with that. Like that's, that's not a, I guess it's something she does.

against the Celtics. He, he cooks the Celtics. He's the Celtics killer. Yeah. We'll see the playoffs. I guess if you guys make it. I like that. Go ahead. It's, it's the play in game hype video for the. Yeah. Yeah. It's three in the past 11, sixes or eight and three in their past 11. Two words for you, Max, Mack. Do it. Call him up. Do it. I don't even know if he's still in the organization.

I'm sure you how did that name just come to your I'm sure okay, so at the same Christmas party I was talking to the world's number one Mac McClung fan Probably even more so than his parents and by the end of it. I'd watched all the highlights I was like it is bullshit that he's not in the league the Sixers should bring him back He's on the Osceola magic

I'm like visualizing you sitting at the kids table for some reason during all these discussions. Oh, no. It was your podcast meme from the basement. Yeah. Yeah. It was three kids sitting on the couch. Yeah. Bring him back. Bring him back, Max. I made a promise to a child.

Oh, man. All right. Jason Tatum will just forever be able to get away with pushoffs until the end of time. It's incredible. He was getting every single time. Every single time he shoots a three, he just completely pushes off the create separation every time. And then he winds that he got fouled. Jason Tatum is just as much of a winer as Joellen beat. I will stand on that hill. Jason Tatum push off winer.

Okay, so the Celtic Sixers game had 5.1 million viewers, the Ravens Texans game. Again, we'll score that 31 to two. They had Beyonce. Oh, really? Three million viewers. Yeah.

The only thing I didn't really love about the broadcast was how it seemed like, I don't know what the rules are, but they had people from like every channel. Now it was like the Avengers that they brought in, where it's like they have hosts of people from ESPN, NFL Network, Amazon, they like mixed it all together.

And they're like, here's our, here's our studio. And then they had Netflix rules analyst, Gene Sterator, and I was like, that's not, that's not right. He's not Netflix rules analyst. I don't know what the rules are, but they can just pick anybody off. Shout out, uh, CM Punk, who went on before the game and was like, sell the team. Georgia Caski, you're a piece of shit.

I like that. But yeah, you're right. It was the Avengers. It was like, wait, RG three and Mina kinds. And who else was? Oh, man, Taitel. Manta Teo from NFL Network was on. Drew Brees. Was he on there? Yeah, I think he was. I'm surprised. I was just, I was waiting for a jump scare cut to Tony Dungy to frighten everybody. Yeah. JJ Watts did a good job in the first game. Like it was, yeah, it was, it was both the Eagles.

Yep. Calling the games. But yeah, the, uh, it was good. Listen, football, I'll watch football a hundred times out of a hundred times over NBA. I, I will, I still love the NBA playoffs. And that fourth quarter of the Lakers warriors was awesome because that was throwback stuff hitting that three and then Austin Reeves, terrible defense. Austin Reeves went right to the cup, but that was, that was an awesome game. Like I had very, I had a lot of fun watching that.

Good job, NBA. Good job, NBA. But yeah, I wouldn't pick a fight with Roger Goodell, because I seriously think that the Cowboys might play a quadruple header on Christmas Day next year. What would be the ideal Christmas Day matchup for the NFL? Oh, oh, oh, if you don't think if you don't think that the bills are going to play, no, it's going to be cheese and bills.

And then it might be Cowboys Eagles. Like it's going to be Roger Goodell is going to drop the hammer on the NBA with the mashups because it's also a Thursday game. So it's like it won't be, you know, it won't be as weird with the Wednesday stuff. Like he's going to drop the hammer on, on the NBA. What about Aaron Rodgers comes back jets at Packers. He'll be the Vikings quarterback next year, probably Vikings at Packers.

Nobody, it's going like if I had to predict it, it would be, it's going to be Ravens. Sorry. It's going to be bills, chiefs. It might even be Ravens, Bengals, and then Cowboys Eagles.

Or Cowboys lions like it's going to be awesome. Triple header that Roger Goodell. He's going to drop his nutsack on Adam Silver's face and bet all the away teams because Christmas like if the games are on Christmas, you don't think that the away teams have a big advantage on that?

Oh, yeah. There's my under theory that is no longer existent but worked for like a decade on NBA unders. I think it's a little bit different even with the NFL because the road teams, they don't have to worry about like, yeah, having a big meal, Christmas Eve, Christmas morning. They don't have to. It's like the opposite of the baby bump. When you have when you're a home team and you have your parents in town that you're hosting, you actually play lethargic. Having relatives in town is a detriment to your game.

What did we have last year? Christmas. It was, uh, was it Raiders Chiefs? And if, uh, Eagles played the Giants. 49ers played Eagles played the Giants. Yeah, the cheat, the Raiders won the Eagles did when they were home and then the Ravens won. So two and one road teams. Yeah. Eagles almost blew that game though. They were well, they blew every game last year.

True. True. Very good boy. Hank, can you set a reminder for Christmas next year? The most important thing is to bet on the road teams. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's sad my MBA, Anders. We had a hell of a run. They shoot too many threes now. It was eight years in a row where it was a sound investment.

where it was just every, every single NBA, every single Christmas day, it would go two and one unders for the first three games or three and O bare minimum two and one. Cause they would just all be like, I just ate a big breakfast. I opened presents to my kids. I didn't do shoot around. And now I'm here playing an NBA game. Cause you got, you got to think that the road teams celebrate when they get back home, right? Yeah. Big time. They don't do it early. Big time. Um, okay.

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We've got a few games that mean a lot. Uh, should we start with Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Hank, there is Saturday football again. Just so you know, I know that Patriots are playing. Oh, okay. All right. So he's aware of their Saturday football. So we got that at least covered. Uh, let's start with that game. Chargers at Patriots. Patriots are for me. I'm in San Diego. It's delightful.

oh wow ten a.m. football ten a.m. football. It's a true house divided for Hank. Who are you rooting for? The city of San Diego? They're the LA Chargers or the city of New England.

I, well, I mean, I bet the pay, I had to put all my bets in before I left, uh, Chicago cause they don't have draft Kings in California. I bet the Patriots, but I'm, you know, as usual kind of rooting for them to lose. Okay. So Patriots plus four, what did you get him at? Over on his 42 and a half. Uh, let me check. You might've got him even better cause I think it came down. I think he had some sharp money on it. Did you guys see, uh, Jim Harbaugh had like, uh,

a quote this week that was, you know, sir, we asked if this was your handwriting. He was asked about playing in the cold in Foxborough. And he said, these guys are young. They're healthy and their heart pumps, warm blood. It pumps it from the arteries to the veins, the tributaries to the capillaries throughout their whole body. You just play ball. Now I might have gotten that in the wrong order there as well. Document it. I'm not a doctor.

Yeah, so that was literally my only note on this game besides bust Hank's balls for going up against his home city. Yeah. The only other thing that I really thought about going into this is I'd like to see Stone Smart score touchdown just because he's got a very underrated name. Oh, well, the Chargers do have the best name in football. Jim Harbaugh, that was his other one. He said it was one of the great names in football, DiCaprio booty. DiCaprio booty. Yeah. DiCaprio booty.

Yeah, it's a great quote by Harbaugh. I'm not a doctor either, but I'm pretty sure that young guys and old guys when their heart speed doesn't matter if you're young. It sends the blood through your body, but he's not wrong. Young guys do it too. Yeah, and also he's not wrong. Old guys, definitely the cold weather bothers them more. That's why everyone moves south when they get older in retirement. Yeah, the only thing I had noted in this game was chargers clinch with the playoffs with a win.

I do think the Drake may has been this might be Drake may is like best game. I'm gonna say right now Hank because he's kind of flirting with it. He's had some really nice games. He's had some really nice moments that Bill's game almost taking down the bills in Buffalo last week.

It wouldn't shock me if Drake May just goes nuts in this game because the Chargers defense has been fading a little bit. And you're like, Holy shit, how did the Patriots just beat the Chargers? Is this going to tell us actually whether or not Drake May is a good quarterback because the Chargers defense is very, very good against bad quarterbacks. And they're not so great against good quarterbacks. So this might be Drake May, which side are you on game?

Yeah, this could be. This could be the litmus test for Drake May. What will happen in this game? So Hank, you're rooting for Drake May to go off in the Patriots to lose, but also. I actually, I bet the money line. So I'm actually rooting with him to win this game, which I don't know why I did that. Wow. I got a plus 195 is plus 185 now. Okay. That's huge. Hank, does this have anything to do with you rooting against the Chargers?

No. Oh, Hank would love nothing more than for the Chargers, not even to make the playoffs. He would love it. Because if they make the playoffs, my reasoning on the Chargers future wasn't completely unsound. It was always get to the playoffs, maybe win a game, and then you can hedge out. So if they don't make the playoffs, Hank can laugh in my face and be like, hungry dog, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.

No, I also think I've been pretty honest with the Chargers like I said on when they won that Thursday night game like they show me something like I I did not think that they were a good team I thought they were fraudulent and that there was a dumb bet they show me something with that Thursday night game people can change I I

People can't change. The moment of realization on Hank's face, when you realize that even his subconscious is a troll, when he puts in these types of bets, it's pretty excellent. Well, that was like, I literally was just firing through, you know, it was, it was a week away. Like, I don't know exactly why I picked the Patriots money line, but I did. And maybe, yeah, maybe it was quite subconscious.

The, um, the, the Chargers are going to maybe get JK Dobbins back, not probably this week, but his practice window open. That is enormous. But I mean, I'll be honest, uh, I obviously would love if the Chargers could win a playoff game, but the six and seven seed in the AFC are just heading for like an absolute ass kicking to either Buffalo or Baltimore.

Yeah. Yeah. It's, um, we probably already talked about this with the chiefs or we haven't talked about the chiefs yet. I get confused when we record these out of order, but the fact of the matter, it's really not hard. We were doing a show opening with the chiefs and Christmas day and the bears game. Well, we already talked about it then. So I don't think we did. Yeah. Yeah. But you also could save it. No. Yeah. We, we've already talked about it. We're having a good point, which is really smart. Yeah. It's really smart. We said, I agree. Yeah.

Alright Broncos at Bengals this game actually means something means a lot means a lot the Bengals though are probably fucked because The Broncos have to lose out for the Bengals to have a chance. They also need the Colts in the in the Dolphins to drop a game Now the Chiefs can rest everyone

It looks like that's not going to happen, but they're going to try to win this game, obviously. And Riley Moss should be back. Do you guys know what? This was actually courtesy of our friend and future recurring guests because we have to have them on at some point, Ben baby. The Cincinnati Bengals have not beaten a QB one this year.

I did not know that. Yes, the QBs they have beaten are Andy Dalton, Mac Jones. Oh, I guess, was it Deshawn? Deshawn Watson, I guess, would be one of the QB ones. So one, yeah. Well, so maybe it's not maybe it's not just QB ones. It's just really bad QBs because Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshawn Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper Rush, Will Levis and DTR.

Yeah. So, so Will Levis is QB one. Yeah. Was QB one. Yeah. And just Sean Watson was QB one. And there was another one that you mentioned. Carter, I think was. So I miss quoted Ben baby. It's just, oh, sorry, not being a current QB one. So current QB one, which is fact, but also if you list all those QBs, they're terrible.

Yeah, pretty bad. I did not realize she's the best one. Cooper Rush is the best quarterback I listen. You don't think about the Bengals that way because they do score such a fuckload of points that you think, oh, it's not just, but their defense is just that bad where they have to have a bad quarterback that they're going against if they have a chance about scoring that person. I looked up the stats for Burrow and Chase and I did not realize that the Bengals, their quarterback leads the league in passing yards.

their wide receiver one re leads the league in reception yards. And they also have the number one sack getter in the NFL this year on defense. And they still who yeah, and they still suck because their pass rush as a whole is bad, which makes you think that bone X might have a Oh, bone X is good game because bone X basically has bone X is good games when he has a clean pocket. And then whenever he has a little bit of pressure, it's Oh, the Denver Broncos defense is good.

Yeah, we're going to figure out whether or not Lou and Arumo's got a little bit of Greg Williams in them this week, because with with my homes being out, like, would you be surprised if they hit bone X a little extra hard?

Yeah, they, I mean, they have to figure out some way to get pressure on them because they can't get pressure. They're 22, 22nd in the league in pressure rates. So yeah, but I'm saying figure out something if they, if they also need the Broncos to lose the Chiefs next week. Yeah. What would Greg Williams do? That's what I'm saying. Like we'll see how old school and a room always. You don't think Zach Wilson could beat the Chiefs? Hmm. Well, it's going to be Carson Wentz, right?

Yeah. But Zach Wilson, the Broncos back up. Yeah. Anybody can beat Carson once. Yeah. Maybe Zach Wilson carrying the Broncos to the playoffs. Here's another crazy stat for you. Patrick Sartan this year has allowed a passer rating of 39.1 when targeted. A QB's passer rating would be higher if they threw it in the ground on each pass.

39.6. So it's smarter just to throw it into the ground than test Patrick's or 10. And Riley Moss should be back, which makes a huge difference because the Broncos defense without Riley Moss, they basically are fucked because they don't have another corner.

Yeah, they're forcing us to learn the names of all the anonymous crush like John Gruden calls him. We're up to what three now? Yeah. It's just three. It's three's good because you can't come into their defense if you can't name any more than that. And you just know that they're fucking awesome. Yeah. And you don't want it. I mean, anonymous crush is a great nickname. If we learn too many, you can't do that nickname anymore. Yeah, I had several anonymous crushes back in my day.

Um, the, uh, I want the bangles and the playoffs. I don't think the bangles are going to make the playoffs. It doesn't look good for them. I was hoping for the Steelers to do their part just because I feel like the playoffs will be that much more chaotic with the bay. They might not win, but you know, you can circle that one and be like, that's going to be a fun ass game. Yeah. I wait. I got to find it because, uh, our good friend, Mike Florio, go get his book. Uh, it might not be free anymore, but you should still buy it. He had one of the dumbest hypotheticals ever. Um,

Oh, yeah, here it is. Ready? If you're the Chiefs, would you rather have the number one seed, but the Bengals make the playoffs or the number two seed and the Bengals don't make the playoffs? That's a very interesting hypothetical. I think I'd rather have the buy and home field advantage and not worry about the Cincinnati Bengals who can't beat a good quarterback all year. Yeah. Would you rather play the Bills or the Ravens in round two or the Steelers?

or let's see, I guess it would be the Steelers, the Texans.

Well, I guess his thought process was the Bengals would win their first round game, so then the Chiefs would have to play the Bengals in the second round, because they've re-seen it. I don't think that the Steelers would win a first round game. They would make an entertaining game. It would be very, very fun to watch. But we've seen enough. There's enough body of evidence out there on the Bengals this year to know that they're just not that good of a team. Overall, their offense is electric, but their defense is so, so fucked that it's beyond hope.

Yeah. Here at this quarterback's again, Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshawn Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper Rush, Will Levis, DTR. Literally, the Cooper Rush is the one I would take out of all those. Yeah, I think Cooper Rush might be QB1.

Yeah, he would be. Yeah, you're right. We, we started that debate last. People are having the discussion is Cooper Rush, really the guy in Dallas, not dad. You know me, big cat. I'm a results guy. Yeah, he's got, he's got him playing hard. All right. Uh, next game. This is the Saturday night game. Cardinals, it Rams, Rams minus six and a half over under 48.

The only note I have from this is the Cardinals are dead. The Rams are look like they're going to be in the playoffs. They control their own destiny. I would like to just say to Jonathan Ganon, shots, explosives, pew pew pew.

Treat this game how it should be treated. Treat it like a bowl game, not like Pat Narduzzi. All time coward moved by him in the whatever bowl that was Toledo verse pit. Treat it like a bowl game where you have nothing to lose and do just empty the clip.

You know, get Trey McBride a touchdown, do trick plays, go for it on fourth down, fake puns, just empty the clip. Like just let them just be loose and just go nuts. I just want to see a coach do that once. Just fucking go crazy. Jeff Olberg did it, but he did it in the most like boring way ever where the jet scored nine points in an entire game and never punted.

I wanted to find Kyler Murray's the perfect guy to just empty the clip and do a bunch of fuck shit Yeah, I'd like to say that you remember what happened week two of these teams It feels like it was forever ago week two the Cardinals won 41 to 10 against the Rams which seems yeah, absolutely insane right now But the Rams did not have puka in that game and puka I feel like puka is a wide receiver that like gives I don't know what his what his war is like how many wins he adds just by starting but I feel like it's a lot and

Because I feel like everybody in the secondary is thinking like where's Puke all the time. Yeah. And he's obviously a dynamic pass catcher and great running with ball. So it's going to be a different game. I feel like it's going to be a shit pumping. But I do agree with you that you don't have anything to lose. Like the Cardinals fans are pissed off right now because of the collapse that we've seen the second half of the season. Like at least give them something exciting. Give them a team that does not give a fuck that will let their balls hang a little bit.

Right, and it's not like there are a lot of teams that have nothing to play for. But there's a lot of those teams don't even have the ability to do the fuck shit I'm talking about. Like the Saints don't have anything to play for. They're not going to be able to do anything crazy with Spencer Rattler.

The Cardinals still have an offense that could go crazy and nuclear. Just do it. Just like whatever crazy play you've always dreamed up that you're like, now we can't try that. It's two nuts. Do that play on Saturday night. Do it. Just go nuts. They're not going to have James Connor though, I don't think, right? No, I don't think so, but still. I think they might even be down to their third string running back.

Get Trey McBride five touchdowns. So that is his season looks like he had a really like good season touchdown wise. Yeah, they tried to last game. They drew something up for him in the first half. Didn't work out. But yeah, just it. Okay. So either do all the fuck shit, all the pew pew pew explosives. Don't let anybody name it. They hear that. Or you just make the entire game plan, feed the ball. You're Trey McBride. Yes. Yeah. That's one or the other. Cause listen,

It's a Saturday night game. We're all going to be watching. The Cardinals have nothing to play for. Let us, let us enjoy something crazy. Give it to us. I'm asking you, Cardinals. We deserve it. Saturday night football. John is again and I will, I will forever have loyalty towards you and never say a bad word against you ever again.

If you go for it on at least three, four downs and there's at least three trick plays in this game. That's what I'm, you get, you get full pardon my take immunity for life. That's it. Like we'll never say a bad word against him. Maybe even citizen of the year. Citizen of the year. It's up there. Okay. Sunday, Jetset bills, bills minus nine and a half over under 46 and a half. Now the bills,

Don't have anything to play for they kind of do they have to still get the two seed they have to win one more game at the last two I don't know if you saw but Josh Allen he had a quote Last week I believe it was maybe after the Patriots game where he essentially was like We're in this like weird zone where we know we're not going to get the one seed but

We did so we don't want to show too many things so we basically was admitting that the game plan is probably going to be a little vanilla. And this game I don't even know what's like the jets have a million injuries and Rogers needs hurt so I don't even know what we're going to get out of the jets. I don't really have any thoughts other than I'd probably take the under that's it.

Yeah, I don't want to speak too much because bricks definitely listening right now. Also, shout out bricks. I hope it gave you more responsibility last week. Let's get to work, buddy. I think that the bills definitely do have there. They're going to try to play vanilla unless it's close and then they will because they have to get the two seed.

And ideally, you would like to be able to use next week to rest up. Correct. So this is a game where I wouldn't mind seeing them open up the playbook a little bit if it's even remotely close, just so that they can make sure that they don't have anything to worry about going to next week. Also, Shadow Jack, we always forget Jack. Jack, Brix, trying to outshine you. You're actually the real GM. We stand with Jack. You just say the word and we'll go against Brix and be Team Jack. But we're not trying to divide him.

Wait, so his name is Jack Johnson. I'm pretty sure, right? I think we looked it up. Brick and Jack. That's amazing. Yeah. Memes, thoughts on this game? This game, I thought was going to be good, but I checked the weather. It's going to rain. So it's going to be bad. Okay. Right. So who does the rain favor, Memes? The rain favors the bills. Jet's going to play in the rain.

But the bill's defense has been playing bad. Jets offense is electric. So it would have been over city, but now it's going to rain. So now it's under over. So then nine points last week. It was windy. It was windy. And also that first drive and the first drive was sick. Yeah, first drive was so sick, but Joe Brady smart. So they're probably just going to run for 300 yards.

Yeah, I feel like that's exactly what's going to happen. And it's not even going to be James Cook. It's going to be Ty Johnson or whoever and just like run it down their throat. We might even see some Mitch. Yeah, it means do you think that when this game kicks off, are you going to be rooting for the Jets? I'm rooting for no injuries. OK, OK, what? No more injuries for rooting for health. Oh, Lou got hurt last week. I just want no more injuries for people for next year.

Can I say something real quick? I agree with you. No more injuries for next year. But I'm of the mindset that next year is so far away that no injury matters. Like even, I mean, Tank Dell, it came out in his rehab. He might miss all of next year, but in my head, I'm like, no, no, no, he'll be fine. Because I just can't even comprehend next year yet. You know what I mean? A 12-year recovery, yeah. Yeah. A 12-month recovery. That's not a football number.

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So even now we're kind of seeing like what happened with Adrian Peterson's knee. Now that's happening with guys that tear their Achilles where it's like, oh, they can be back in eight months.

Who's dog is barking? That's James. No, that is Blake. Yeah. I thought memes. He's Blake's mad at me. I farted on Blake by accident on the couch earlier and he stood up and he barked at me and he left the couch and went and laid down. He won't even look at me now. He broke. I didn't mean to. I was on air. Broke code. Broke code. Um, okay. Memes. So memes official statement on this game is he thought it would be electric and then it's going to rain. So it won't get out of stake.

I'm going to go talk to Blake real quick. Okay. Okay. Uh, memes. I started watching the Aaron Rodgers documentary. How do you like it? I don't like it, but that's not like, I think it's well done. It just, I don't, I mean, I, I just when he did, I'm still in the packer stuff. So it's like, I still hate it. You know what I mean? Like it's just him telling his side.

Yeah, no, I like that part. I mean, he's an interesting guy. Yeah, he's an interesting guy. I just, I don't care for Aaron Rodgers highlights in a Packers uniform. It's not my cup of tea. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Raiders and Saints.

Saints plus one over under 38. The only note I have in this game is I feel like there's a chance the Saints might win because and this is no, there's no insider information. I don't have any insider information on the Saints. I feel like Darren Rizzi probably cried in front of the boys after the shutout. I think you got embarrassed. Yeah. And he cried.

I would have liked to see him take it out a little bit on the floor after Monday night, like give him, you know, one of the drive-by handshakes or like yell something at him. I seem very under and rizzy like that he didn't say anything during that. Like you're an interim coach dude. What do you have to lose? Like just, just fucking lay into him. You got embarrassed on Monday night. Uh, the fact that he didn't do that, he bottled that shit up.

So he either took it out on the team or his family and he might be looking for a little retribution. But I just think that, I don't know, there's something about the Raiders where they are like anti-tank. They, I feel like they are trying to win as hard as they can every single game. They're preparing like it's their Super Bowl every week, even though ultimately they would, they would much rather lose.

Yeah, no, they said they like Antonio Pierce was like, I mean, he's coaching for his job. So well, his job is to coach, but he, he, uh, he was like, yeah, I don't care about the number one pick. They did so much damage to their future by winning last week. And if they win this game, it's going to be even more damage. Um, but yeah, I, I, there's something in my head that I'm just like, I can, I can close my eyes and see it. Like Darren Rizzi got in front of the team.

Probably Wednesday morning and he cried and he just cried and The guys are like man. I can't believe we made coach cry and they were manly tears just so we're clear They weren't like whimpering tears. They were manly tears like I love football so much and what happened on Monday night like you know hurt me to my core So I just I think they're I guess it wouldn't have been Wednesday would been Thursday because Wednesday was Christmas Day day I think the Saints might come out hot because of the cry

Yeah. Also the seven fishes probably did something to him. Yeah. Maybe Antonio Pierce is just fucking Tom Brady over one last time. Maybe that's why he's winning these games. That's true. Okay. Cult of giants. Giants plus seven and a half over under his 40. Uh, Colts are still alive.

They need the Broncos to lose out as well. Everyone's hoping the Broncos lose out. We are on Tebow. Tebow washed for Anthony Richardson, which we mentioned on Sunday. He's at 47.7% completion percentage. Tebow finished the entire season at 46.5.

This is a game that's just going to stink. This is going to be one of those. I don't even know the weather. Maybe it won't. Maybe it will be rainy, but it just feels like you always mentioned a PFT sun shining so bright and that life stadium in this game is going to suck. Yeah, the sun shining bright as fuck and the temperature being like 25 degrees.

Uh, one of those late December games that's just very, very depressing to watch. I'm pulling up the weather right now. Uh, Sunday. Oh no, it's going to be rainy. It's going to be rainy and like in the 50s and 40s there. So that's, that is going to suck. That's this is going to be a bad game. This is going to be, this is going to be a really bad game. They should not televise this game.

Yeah. Give us the updates. And if Anthony Richardson throws or runs like a 50 yard run or a 50 yard bomb, then like give us a live look at that, Scott Hanson. But yeah, this is it's going to be stinky. They do have a lot to play for. But did I hear that Anthony Richardson might not play? Joe Flacco is getting some reps. So well, that's what I'm rooting for. Yeah. I mean, Joe Flacco coming in would be awesome.

maybe they know that Anthony Richardson's on Tebow watch. So they're like, let's not get, let's not leave this up to chance. Let's just get old Joe Flacco in there. Yeah, it would be nice. Yeah. That's why they did because he can play in the rain. Yeah. And you got, you, you basically were like, all right, Anthony Richardson, like we, you got, you cleared it. You went seven for 11 last week. We don't do the Tebow thing. Let's just get Joe Flacco in and we'll finish off the season. Yeah. This is,

Like, I know that week 17 and 18 are always kind of tough, but there are just so many bad teams this year that it's just, and I know the Colts are technically still alive. So I'm not even putting them in the bad team, even though they kind of are a bad team, but like the Raiders and Saints, the Giants and Colts, like the Titans and Jaguar, some of these games, man.

And we're going to watch them all. And they're going to help. They're going to outright LeBron in his little league, his little basketball league. No, their ratings are up 84% in the NBA, big cat. You see that? 84% year over year. And they got smoked by like five times by the NFL.

Yeah. Okay. Cowboys and Eagles, Eagles minus seven over under 38 and a half. Max will be there. Max, I saw the saddest tweet of all time earlier today, I believe, although I think it's been updated. Um, this is what it was said with Jalen Hertz and Kenny Pickett banged up former Eagles QB Ian book paid the team a visit today. That is gun in the mouth stuff.

Yeah, gotta get healthy. There's nothing else really to say. Quarterback room is not looking great. Tanner McKee, Tanner McKee is underrated ballplayer though. I wouldn't hate to see Tanner McKee get a shot out there. Yeah, I think I'm afraid of Tanner McKee just based on the fact that all of the guys, I'm always terrified of like a third string quarterback that the hometown absolutely loves. And Tanner McKee seems like that guy.

Also, Pug loves Tanner McKee, and he's been hiding himself from this Zoom this entire time. And I said, Tanner McKee, he went off of hiding himself, gave me a fierce nod, and then went right back to hiding himself. All right, Pong, can you give us the category report on Tanner McKee?

He's been the Eagles third string. He lights it up every preseason and he's just the best kept secret in the NFL. He played it Stanford. He looked like if you pull him up, he just looks like a guy who should be doing your taxes. It is not a

He looks like the nicest like he is the number one like guy who you want to date your daughter because he's he's just gonna like you get him like a like a Peter Millar shirt. He's got a hundred fusives. Yeah. He's a baller though. Tanner always Tanner McKee will always put a coaster down before putting a drink on a wooden table. Always. Tanner McKee and the son of Tanner McKee Tanner.

Why? Why? Why? Just from preseason? Yeah. No, he looks. He throws a nice spiral. Okay. He throws a nice spiral. He beat cancer. Stud. That's huge. Stud. Max, where do you stand on the latest Nick Siriani on the field incident where you had to be separated from Zach Earths by Big Dom? Good question. Passionate guy. Passionate guy. Fiery guy fights for his team.

You like it? You like that stuff? Yeah, I feel bad. I mean, Dom at this point, because it's like Nick, seriously, I'm on the word on off of people and then he has to have the rock come in and pick him up and escort him away.

The since since I mentioned a bad florio tweet, I'll give him credit for a good one. He said Nick Siriani gives him the vibes of of a Eagles fan that won a contest to coach the team. And that is exactly right. I came getting in a fight with Zach hurts and Big Dom having to break it up. What are we talking about some point Big Dom has to be like Jesus Christ. I got to I got to go manage this guy's emotions again.

Big Dom has the hardest job in the world. He literally just is living the meme where it's like big guy goes out to bar and the little friend always gets into shit that the big guy has to get him out of. Yeah. I don't know what you're saying. But I will say for that we are now. We're defending Big Dom. Next year, he's the problem. We'll be giving like, isn't Zach, or it's a Eagles legend? Like, is there no respect? I don't even worry about your basketball team over there. All right, buddy.

I'm just asking questions. I think what Hank is trying to say is that we love Big Dom so much that at one point does it become a distraction for Big Dom where now his full-time job is just have a leash on Nick Siriani. Yeah.

He also had to walk CJ Gardner Johnson to the to the locker room the other day. So that was that was awesome. He looked awesome. He looked awesome. Yeah, I just don't like like the Eagles should be very thankful for Big Dom like Big Dom say what you want about he earns his paycheck. We can imagine what the Eagles would be like without him.

Also, he's kind of big Dom's relationship with Dixiriani. He's kind of proving that the old saying there are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners is wrong. Because like, Dixiriani is a bad dog. Big Dom's not doing anything bad as his dog owner.

I was getting in a fight with Zach Hertz. What are we talking about? How you treat your champions, your former champions come into Philly and try to beat up by their coach. He tried to beat him on max. He tried to beat him up. Sometimes you know Italians just

the words get misconstrued by the other guy when he was just trying to have a conversation. Well, that's not what you heard. I didn't hear that it was misconstrued. Also, put some respect on Julie Urch's husband's name. That's a goddamn national hero. What I heard was that Nick Sirani initiated a Zoom call with Zacharz where he apologized to him via Zoom. Oh, if you have to Zoom call someone to apologize, you did some fucked up. Yeah.

That damn, not even FaceTime. He's, he's sent him an email invite for the apology. Sometimes family members fight. It's Christmas. It's Christmas. I apologize.

All right. I feel like the Cowboys are live in this game, even though CD lamb is out for the rest of the year. So that's that's their one awesome player on offense. But Cooper Rush might be their second awesome player on offense. Cooper Rush might be awesome. Dowdle is close to a thousand yards, I think, which is pretty cool for him, I guess. Yeah. And then there are other wide receivers. Who's the guy that they that they got that they traded for with the Panthers when they were going all in this trade deadline?

Is it Mingo? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So now they got Mingo and Flournoy. Dave Flournoy is a playing receiver for them. That's going to be sick. Are you now, Max, you have nothing to play for, right? Like there's nothing just, just get healthy. I mean, I guess Saquon, Saquon Yards is what you're playing for, but like you're going to this game. Are you, you always want to beat the Cowboys, but are you like, there's nothing to play for, right?

Technically, we're still playing for the NFC East, but we would just own one out of out of the next two games. Wait, what? You could you could not win the NFC East. They're going to win the NFC East, but they did not if they lose the giant giant. The giant if the giant if the giant is one next week.

It would ruin their franchise. Did you yet? Chef D actually had that as a little wind horse moment on NFL countdown. He's like, watch out for the Eagles week 18. They're going to try to throw that game. So the Giants don't get the one pick and the Giants stay in the cellar. Hmm.

See, I don't know that Sirionny is capable of pulling off that type of mastermind. I think Sirionny is more likely to just give sake one of the ball 40 times. Yeah. And have him try to get the record against the Giants. Yeah. Did you also see Chefty got community noted yesterday? Oh, no. For what? He reported jail and hurts did not practice today when none of the Eagles practiced yesterday on Christmas. Oh, but wait. So he was right, though.

Correct, but he still got community noted. He did not practice on Wednesday. I didn't practice either. Could it be in there? Yep, neither did I. Wow. So you think you just owned Chefty and really, like, community notes just proved it was wrong.

I don't know what you want. I didn't own anything. I just told you what happened. And what sounds like you were the one who did the community notes. Yeah. You do. You filled out the community notes. What I heard is that Jalen Hertz was absent from the team facility on the day when Ian book paid them a visit, which is actually a good move by Jalen Hertz. I saw, I saw a report that Ian book was seen in the parking lot, dapping up AJ Brown. Yeah, they're great friends. Good. I love everyone in the locker room to be friends.

I would like everyone in my locker room to be dapping each other up. No, man. As an Eagles fan, you still got to hope that you destroy the Cowboys. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Always embarrassing. Yeah.

especially with you in person. Okay, next up Panthers at box box minus eight over under 48 and a half. Did you guys see that Xavier Laguette brought leftover raccoon to the locker room from Christmas Day? That rocked. Nice guy. What a good dude. I love Xavier Laguette. I wish you had caught that pass against Max, but besides that, awesome dude.

Yeah, I also I think the Panthers are live in this game. I think they're just full on like the Panthers and the Cowboys are the two teams that stink but are playing actually good ball in the last month and feels like they're just ready to play spoiler.

Yeah, if there's a team that starts out the season and they suck their playoff chances are over in like October, but then they get hot at the end of the year That's actually a team that will they'll have a ton to play for even though they don't have any playoff hopes or aspirations like they've turned something around So they're trying there's gonna be a lot of guys that will probably be back next year for the Panthers and so they are actually like they're looking at this as a preseason for next year so

I like to pant. I like to pant. There's in the points. I don't know if I like them. Money line against the box, but I feel like that's a lot of points for this team. A lot of points. They're factoring in weeks like one through eight in this spread. I think a little bit. Yeah. And bucks. Figure it out. We want. I want to see the bucks in the playoffs. Like I know offense to the Falcons. I would like to see the box in the playoffs. That's a personal choice of mine. I want to see Baker in the playoffs. You see bucking the playoffs.

Yeah. Okay. Titans and Jaguars, Jaguars minus one over under 39 and a half. Do you guys have any New Year's resolutions?

I do. I've got I've got a couple New Year's resolutions. Okay, lay them on me. I'm going to drink more water again this year. I'm going to get a six pack by the summer, back summer. And I'm going to spend I'm going to get a couple new planes and and hit the flight simulator backup now that I've got the virtual reality 360.

Hell yes. Hell yes. Yeah. I have to. Oh, let me hear him. Get a physical. Okay. Go to the dentist. Okay. That's good. That's huge. Same week. Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, having a New Year's resolution be go to the dentist. That's something that you should do every year.

That wasn't a question. That's literally every 12 months. All right. It's every six months. No, my actual resolution is to get my drive about like 15 yards longer so that Hank will owe me more money. I love that. I love that. Yeah, tune into the last episode of the doc. It's out. Go watch it. My New Year's resolution is there's a there's a dive bar or like maybe, I don't know, like,

three blocks from my house that I want to try to become a regular at. Now I don't really have time to go to the bar, but I'm thinking if I can get there like six or seven times next year and just kind of really show face, it's my goal. That's my goal. I'll let you guys know how it goes. Maybe I'll bring you guys once. Maybe like a, yeah. Maybe become like a morning drinker. Ooh, just a couple pops before work. Yeah. It's not too far from my son's school.

Yeah, there you go. Just tell them that you didn't know. I'll stand out like all the bartenders will know your name. Like, Oh, that's there comes Dan. Yeah, he just dropped his son off at 7 45 in the morning. The office real quick and do some paperwork before he drops off. That it's a great move. Being a regulars is so fun.

I walk by it all the time. I'm like, damn, I really want to go there. So that's my goal. And now I crushed my goal last year. I looked at my Uber Eats app and I ordered blizzards 27 times last year. So pretty good. Pretty good. That's a lot. I said, I was going to eat more blizzards. I ate all the shitload more blizzards. I think I had two the year before. So I like that. Yeah. Anyone else? Anyone else got New Year's resolutions for the Titans Jaguars preview?

Yeah, I got to. I would like to lose a lot of weight. Also learn how to make bread. So those two things aren't going to go super hand in hand, but I'm pretty confident that I'm going to be able to do at least one of those. And I think it's going to be the bread. You've been talking about it for a while.

Well, no, we'll be I brought it up to chef Donnie a couple months ago and now he he got super excited and He's like trying to get it sold and we're trying to do a series out of it But me and Donnie will be the bread boys in 2025 And I'm gonna learn how to make bread, but I'm also going to lose weight. Learn weight. Yeah lose weight and lose bread Okay, you didn't say that you were gonna eat more bread you were you're gonna make it for other people and

True. But you know, part of my trial and error is like you got to taste at least some of the bread. Yeah. But I mean, this is like just the next step for Max's deli at work. You got to. I know it's all bread. Max, what about it? What about when people say don't trust a skinny chef? How can I get bread from a skinny Max?

No, see, here's the thing. I think that I could still lose 30 pounds, but also be fat. So that's where I want to get to. I want to get you a point where I lose weight, but I'm still fat. Yeah, I think I've lost like 15 pounds. And if you if I typed it into the obesity thing, I'm still obese. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. By the way, I forgot. I'm also going to read a book. I haven't read a book in a decade. I'm going to read a book.

Oh, does this count? No, read with my two eyes. It might take me the entire year. I'm going to fucking do it. I feel it. This is the year I'm going to read a book. It can't be a movie. You should read the art of war. Can I read? All right. If it can't be a movie, can I read a Michael Lewis book knowing that it eventually will be a movie?

Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. You just want to tell people you read the book that the book was bad. Yeah, that's that's why I've read like every Michael Lewis book because they always become movies and I can be like, oh, yeah, I have the money ball. Read that. Big short. Know it. All right. Memes. Any any new year's resolutions? I'm going to go to a doctor. I don't know which one, but I'm going to go to a doctor and I'm going to get at least two more TVs.

Okay. I like that. Fuck yes. Fuck yes. The boys are up. Boys are up. All right. Shane, anything? Um, I think I want to try an apple. Try an apple. Try some fruit. Um, I think I want to go to Italy this year. So hit up Duolingo. Get a nice Duolingo street going.

you can bring that you're gonna bring back a bride aren't you she's gonna have a kid yes i love it i love it she's gonna be walking in and being like a

I need a, can you talk to HR? I have an Italian wife and child. Now I have to put on health insurance. Like what dude? You went there for three days. We got to get you one of those. You know how the NFL coaches wear the shirts and the hats with a flag zone? We got to get you a Chargers Italy sweater. Yes. Yes. Yes. And a little one of the toddler one for your kid. All right. Pug glass one.

So they played more NFL Blitz for sure. Okay. Once a day, because I play like sometimes every other day, but I got to stay committed if I want to be good and cook for myself more. Oh, okay.

Look, this is, we might have the best year of this podcast with all these new year's resolutions. Yeah, we're going to be sitting pretty. Yeah, we're going to be be, I mean, we're going to get max skinny bread making, shaded as Italian kid memes. All he has to do is go to the target once.

He's got a wallmark. Get your blood pressure test and get your two TVs. Boom, you're done.

done on January 1st. It really should be like a doctor's office for guys where in the same doctor's office, they have the doctor, they've got your dentist, they've got like a secondary doctor that does like blood work and all that and maybe like a place for lunch. One of my ideas that I pitched to Cuban is we got to figure out a way to get a dentist on a plane. So it's like, you know, you know, you're stuck on a plane. You know travel sucks. Just have a dentist do your teeth then.

It's a little bit turbulence. I haven't been able to figure that part out, but everything else makes sense. Like, why aren't we doing more of the shitty things we have to do in life on planes? Like, imagine getting on a flight and being like, yeah, this is actually the accountant's flight. They're just going to do everyone's taxes coast to coast.

Yeah, it's not a bad idea. They've already got the oxygen mass things that come down, just put nitrous in there, knock it out on the plane. Right. Any, any shitty thing you have to do, like, imagine if you have to get like, oh, yeah, you got to get divorced. Oh, okay. Get on this flight to Hawaii by the time you land will have you divorced. And then here's Hawaii single. There should be an airline that has like professors that are the, the stewards and the stewardesses and they just teach you like a college class. If you fly in there like six times,

Yeah. And you can get a diploma. Pass the bar. Yeah. Pass the bar. Yeah. Pass the bar. That's four. Teach you Italian if you take four plane flights. Teach you how to fucking Italian. Yeah. Just figure out a way. Traveling sucks. Planes suck. Figure out a way to double it up. All right. That was our Titans Jaguars preview. Dolphins at Browns. Browns plus six and a half over a hundred thirty nine and a half.

I don't find, I mean this is DTR, I'm gonna bet against DTR. If he plays, if he starts, I know he's got like maybe a calf injury, but I'm, I'm, I'm a, I have faded DTR I think in every single one of his starts in the NFL and I'm gonna continue to do so.

Yeah, I read I read one update from where I think his direct quote was like, I've got a sore little calf. That didn't really give me a lot of inspiration. So we're probably not going to get James, even if we don't get DTR, right? Because his shoulder is still banged up. But yeah, I saw I saw James eating chicken wings online this week. And the man just he he just needs to be in front of a camera at all times. That's that's my only note here. This is going to be a poopy game. Dolphins, I guess still

entertaining at times. But yeah, it's fish. I don't even know like they don't even do the like crazy explosives anymore. So he has a bad game. All right. Here's a good game. Packers of Vikings Vikings plus one over under 48 and a half this game can rock. They flex this game to the afternoon.

The Green Bay Packers is a hurtful stat for myself and anyone who hates the Packers, they have now made the playoffs 13 of the last 16 years, which is the most in the NFL in that timeframe. They also obviously were the first team to pitch a shutout against the Saints on Monday night football.

Yeah, I mean, the Vikings are going for the one seed. Have you seen PFT the discourse? This is like NFC North fans are now doing the like, hey, we got to change the rules because it's not fair. We're going to have to go on the road. It's like, come on, guys, like the whole point is division should matter. That's the fun of it. Like if we get rid of divisions and it's just the four best records, divisions won't fucking matter anymore.

Yeah, and we do have divisions for a reason because it's good for the game to have rivals that you play every single year, year in and year out. Not like playing an unbalanced schedule or anything. Right. And yeah, it will suck for the Vikings if they end up being like a great, great, you know, wild card team and get that first wild card spot. That's going to suck to have to go on the road. But I mean, that's such is life.

get it. So yeah, for both of them, it would suck. I mean, for the Packers and the Vikings, they're going to have, no matter what, they're going to both have more wins than the team they play in the first round because they will be slotted into the, you know, obviously the Lions can also get one of those spots, but two out of the three NFC North teams will be the fifth or the six seed and they're going to have to play against a team that did not win as many games as them. But that's, that's just what, how it works. And I kind of like how it works. Good divisions matter.

Yeah. Two good quarterbacks, very good quarterbacks in this game. I saw a stat that they're both, I think they're two or the top three quarterbacks against man to man so far this year. And they are two of the five worst, I believe, against zone this year.

The Vikings, I know they do a lot of zone blitzing and shit like that. I don't know if they'll be able to get in Jordan, but I feel like Jordan Love does better when he's off his back foot anyway. So I'm truly, I'm just like excited to watch this game. It's going to be this is going to be a playoff game. Yeah, this is going to be a great, great game. And like you said, the Vikings.

They're still going for that one seed. They play the Lions Week 18 and the Packers, I guess you're rooting for the Vikings PFT because you can still jump the Packers, right? Yeah, it's still possible that we could jump the Packers, but then you start getting into, there's a lot of other stuff that has to shake out too. So we could jump the Packers and get that six seed, I believe. But then you'd be looking at maybe playing at the Rams.

in the first round, which is not really, there's no good place to play in the first round. I guess if I had to draw it up, I would want to go to Philadelphia and beat the fuck out of Max. So that's what I'm hoping for. And Max said he'd do it with Kenny. Yeah, he said he'd beat you with Kenny. He said he'd actually doesn't want Jalen Hurst to start. He wants to beat you with Kenny. Listen, I would like to know if I can tell you. You want what you know about Tanner McKee, bitch?

Um, all right. Last game Falcons and commanders PFT commanders minus four over under 47 and a half. Oh, man, the bears fourth and one and they just. They're so fucking bad. I'm sorry, America, uh, PFT thoughts on this game. Get it. You're ahead of me. No, they want to fall started. Oh my God.

I am bummed out. I'm bummed out that we're not going to get Kirk Cousins. Yeah. I had mentally prepared myself to face Kirk Cousins at home. I don't know what we're going to get with Pennix. I don't think anybody really knows. We had like a little bit of a clue last week, but not really. So it's kind of like the unknown that we're going into.

I think I like the commanders they've been their offense played pretty well last week against a really really good Eagles defense kind of embarrassment in the fourth quarter But I'm always afraid to see the commanders in prime time Oh, and I always will be there's those scars run very very deep where it's just like I'm always thinking the back of my head This is about to be the most embarrassing thing ever but I don't know I

I don't know that I truly believe in Michael Penn. How can you after one week? So there's a chance that he goes out there and just lights us up because our defense not that great. We've been playing a little bit better with a lot more. I actually went back and watched the tape grinded. Yes. All 22 on a lot of more.

Uh, he didn't play that bad. He had some good plays. He played much, much better than you. You did the all 22 on Lattimore. I did the all 22 on Lattimore. Uh, he's getting worked. Uh, he made, he had a couple PBUs. Uh, again,

If you're you're all twenty two is I feel like broken he was getting destroyed if you watch ball if you what you're exposing yourselves as non ball-knowers right now because passenger fairness penalties not always a bad thing for cornerbacks it means that they were in position to make a play. Oh my god bears picked it up there's my win this game.

need it. Sorry. We already talked about this. Good. Pifty, uh, continue on. You're also ahead of me. So Marshall and a lot of more. All right. Also known as listening to you, cause you sound like an idiot, but continue. Oh, here we go. Max, you don't know ball max. You don't talk to somebody that watches ball for a living. They'll tell you that that pastor, Chris Pinnell, he's not always that bad. Keep coping. Yeah, but that one drive when he basically gave up a hundred and seven yards of pastor appearance, that was bad.

I agree with you PFT. By the way, on, on Monday, and I said how bad that was. And then, and then Max said, well, first of all, you go to say that Jane Daniels threw two interceptions in addition to his five touchdowns. First, you have to say that. Well, I agree with you PFT. It's kind of like the, you know, you, like quarterbacks, not all interceptions are bad, like passing a fear and sometimes it's not a bad play.

Yeah, I mean, it gets penalized, but and don't get me wrong, like it's not good that he got called for passenger fairness, but it also means you can't get called for passenger fairness if you're five yards away from a guy like a manual Forbes used to be. And there's times when you actually getting called for a passenger fairness is good because you would have given up a touchdown easily. Right.

That is not good. If you were going to give it a touchdown, that is bad. That is bad, but that's good to then get a passenger fare. It's instead of a touchdown. Right now we have a Bears fan arguing that interceptions are good for quarterback and a Washington fan arguing that passenger ferences are good for corners. That's just what's going on. Kill Williams doesn't throw interceptions. So I actually wouldn't mind if he threw a couple more. So I stand by what I said. Yeah. Yeah, I seriously do. I stand by it.

And I stand by what I said to Max. I think it. Okay. It sounds stupid and it probably is stupid to start. But if you talk to ball-knowers, real ones out there, they'll be like, yeah, that's a bad stat to ding a cornerback for. Also, now it's probably a good time to mention that Marshawn Leidemore might not even play this week. Oh, no. What happened? Yeah. He's got a look. Everyone's deal with something this time of year. His hamstring was cleared up. He was great. Okay.

Okay. Um, all right. So you're worried about this game? Yeah, I'm worried because I think there might be like a post cousins bump. It's the fear of the unknown. It's the fear of the unknown. And I feel like the, the Falcon skill players, when they're not like deflecting passes that get intercepted and return for six points, they're probably pretty excited to have somebody that can throw the ball and, and hit somebody outside the numbers. It's also you guys went through like that, that game was, uh,

I mean, it was an incredible game against the Eagles. Incredible win. Guts. He asked for Jaden did throw two interceptions, big cat. That's true. But he, but like off of that divisional game that you didn't expect to win, there might be a little bit of a letdown. I don't know. I'm just, I like the commanders in this game. I'm just, I'm just for fodder. That would be why I would like, if you want to get scared, there's things you could get scared about.

I don't think Dan Quinn's going to let him get scared like that. I don't think he's going to have him. He's going to have him ready to play, but I I'm not like Supreme. We're not a great team right now. We're we're capable of doing great things. And when everything works for us, we are a great team, but it's it's nothing that you can count on. I can't bank on beating the Falcons, especially in prep time. Yeah. Okay. Pics. What are those standings memes? I think we crushed the week 17 preview.

He wouldn't talk about every game. It's tough with this time of year, but we did it. Hey, 17 and a half points, me and Big Cat 16, PFT and Max 14. Hank just needs one win and he clenches. He doesn't have to do the punishment maximum amount of points for PFT and Max is 18. We're not doing playoffs. Are we doing playoffs? We didn't last year. Yeah, that's true. We didn't last. Nobody was tied.

I think it's a regular, it's normally a regular season thing, right? It's all regular season. I just wanted to say that because it would piss Hank off because he'd be like, I fucking had to do an hour stand up. This is bullshit. You guys are trying to find a way for me to lose. Well, this one doesn't even matter. It's like I, I, you know, I picked the bad ones to win. You're way, you're, you're run away from winning. So, so basically it's a two way race and maybe a four way race.

It looks like it's going to be me and Max. Yeah, good Max. Okay. Who's up first? PFT's up first. Okay. PFT. I love that. I'm going to go with the Eagles minus seven. I think they're going to spank the Cowboys. Oh, spanking. Max and now. Thank you. One. All right. I'll take the Panthers plus eight. I will take the.

New York Jets plus nine and a half. Packers Vikings over 48. I like that. I am going to take the Giants Colts under 40 and a half.

That's okay that you do that every time Max was in the cave last Sunday being like you guys fucking made sounds after my pick and I won and we're like dude we make those sounds after every pick you've ever made I Didn't realize it's a bad pick even if it wins you should know that it's a bad pick

If you like, you'd be like Josh Allen to get one yard passing and we'd be like, ugh, gross dude. Also Max, we all suck. All right, what's your second pick? But I suck the most. My second pick will be the Rams minus six and a half against the Cardinals. After we just told Jonathan again and do some fuck shit? Dude, the Cardinals beat him 41 to 10. Yeah, he wants immunity for life.

Uh, okay, who's up next memes? Oh, we take the lions minus three and a half. Hmm. I like that pick. I think Dan Campbell like basically was like, yeah, we're not sitting anyone. We're, we're out for revenge. Yeah, it's gonna be like that Cowboys game earlier in the year. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to take one of the most slept on backup QBs to just go the fuck off. Give me the Eagles Cowboys over 30 and a half. Tanner McKee. Tanner McKee Tanner McKee go nuts. Okay. I am going to take. I have to do an over under and they all suck. Did anyone take the under in the Jets bills? I will take the under in Jets bills 46 and a half thinking maybe

We get Mitch in the second half, run out the clock. That'd be bad. Mitch the Mac. Yeah. Okay. PFT. Okay. Uh, I'm going to take the over and cold giants. Oh head to head. Head to head. I like that. I like that pic. A lot. This is flacko. He loves the rain. He's a mutter.

Yeah. Um, okay. Uh, we need a TD parlay, uh, brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. We need to win this TD parlay. I'm out. I missed, I missed mine last week. You did? Yeah. Mike Evans.

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I don't know about you guys, but on Sunday... Well, I thought Christmas was Sunday, because there was football on TV, and so I've been referring to Thursday as being Monday, and Friday as being Tuesday. Yeah, all fucked up. It kind of reminds me of when we changed our clocks in two weeks. My sleeper is ZV Lookette, because he brought that raccoon with him to locker room. Oh, that shit. It actually looked kind of good. It looked like pulled pork. Yeah, that guy's a gamer.

Teddy Bridgewater, by the way, being back is awesome. It is very cool. I love that. So he just won a state championship coaching his high school team, right? And then he's like, you know, I'll just come back. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay. Let's hire that they're making just because he's a good guy that people like to be around. Yeah, I like that. That's a culture changer. Culture. Okay, let's get to our interview with Paul Bissonette. PFT, you got a couple quick words before that.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very very good friend of ours. Recurring guest, it is Dwayne the Rock Johnson. It's Paul Bissonette, the man who has been, I don't know, I don't really know where to start. You're my hero. I've told you that over and over that you're my hero. You've lived basically every guy's fantasy, nonsexual fantasy in terms of like, man, if I could be so tough that I could take on seven dudes,

Let's start with this, how you doing overall and maybe like a little background for the people that don't know what we're talking about.

I'm doing fine. I got conquered, obviously. I was just kind of on the IR for a couple of weeks there, but I've been getting some good time massages recently, and it's been working out the kinks in my neck. So I'm not as fucked up as I was, but for those of you who have no clue what's going on, I went to eat at a family restaurant called Houston's that I normally go to. I go there like three, four, five times a week, sometimes when I'm back.

and just these drunk Irish travelers, I don't know people who are listening to what Irish travelers are, basically like modern day gypsies, but they were in there causing a ruckus, they got in the manager's face, they assaulted them, they harassed them, and then finally I'd seen it up, I go over and I said, hey, I said, if you guys keep doing that, I'm gonna bring in the parking lot, we're gonna have issues, and then they just started swinging. So that fight went from inside the restaurant all the way over to the CVS, it was a

three minute round, and I was gassed by the end of it. Took a couple boot fucks to the head, but all in all, doing good. Doing pretty good, boys. Some gave some more is my favorite line. Yeah, you fought seven dudes in a parking lot, and you held your own. Again, you're my hero. You're my hero.

I mean, I want you singing the National Anthem at a rough and rowdy in which I'm beating the fucking wheels off this Danny Bradley puke, the kid who was caught on video an hour and a half before that altercation, sucker punching a guy at Raven's golf club, and then moseied on over to Houston's to do the exact same thing to that manager. But before he was able to cock his right back and swing,

I went over there and then the rest of it ensued. And on top of all of what has gone on, now Glassbanger ends up in prison. All your foes are going down. You're having an insane run rate. So what's going on right now with the legal proceedings with these guys? I saw one clip of one of the dudes who said, yeah, I'll try to make it back. And the judge is like, well, you have to do better than try.

Have we got an update on that guy? He never made it back. Oh, shock. Hired a lawyer named Larry Kazan, a local Scottsdale guy whose kid Ben Kazan, ended up DMing the Shea Stevens guy who's been doing all the undercover work on behalf of spit and chicklets, bar stool, and then our side of it. It was just some random chicklets fan who's also a private investigator who has been uncovering all this crazy shit about these Irish travelers, like how they scam

all these guys records in the past, the fact that they have affiliation to these people who have caused or who have been involved in murders for insurance fraud scams. The list goes on and on and on as to how big of a dirt bag or how big a dirt bags these guys are. So shout out to Shea Stevens, but that Ben Kazan kid ended up sending him a DM basically being like, eat a bag of dicks, fuck you, you Canadian, because the Shea Stevens kids Canadian. So now we got this slimy lawyer in the mix.

That's why he didn't have to show up because he hired this big wig lawyer and he ended up taking the standard as far as his defense. They know they dropped three of their charges to enhance them to felonies. I'm going to end up going after these guys civilly. We're probably going to have to wait till all the legal proceedings from a criminal side end up going out and about.

I don't even want my hospital bills recovered. I want my physio and all that paid for because my neck's still jacked up and I dealt with concussions. But I won't go after him that hard civilly if that Danny Bradley is willing to fight me.

So that's basically what I'm going to present to their side saying, I won't ruin your lives if you end up paying the piper inside of a ring. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I feel like you could take them all out one by one rough and rowdy, just biz versus the Irish. Do it one night only and then just give them three rounds and everybody steps up. You beat the fuck out of them. You beat the next guy, but you're such a nice guy. You're willing to say that you just want one of them. You just want one of their scalps.

So Danny Bradley was the guy in the lime green golf shirt who you see at Raven's golf club who suckers the employee. He ends up clipping one of the girl waitresses too. He was the instigator in that one. He was also the instigator who was getting in and putting his hand inside the manager's face. Like, go give it one of these ones. Right. And hacking them up onto the back bar. That's when I kept turning around in my seat.

like I smoke a bad batch of weed here like am I going fucking crazy like we're at Houston's restaurant and these nine drunk golfers are getting in these guys face and the lime green golf shirt guy was the guy who was the antagonist in both situations.

They're just all scumbag piece to shit who rip off everyday Americans anybody's grandparents who were listening who live in Texas They're going around knocking on their door saying they're gonna perform asphalt jobs They say hey do half down if you don't like it. We'll give you all your money back See you later never see never to be seen again. Go to the next deposit these guys are absolutely scumbag

It's a wild, wild story. So when I heard about, like obviously I heard it, I was very concerned for like, cause you know, you hear seven on one, that's scary, you know, like a guy could get knocked out and then get hit in the, you know, kicked in the face, they tried to kick you in the head. Like that, you know, like bad shit can happen in a street fight. And when I thought about it, I was like, oh, it's probably just some like random, you know, college bros or something. But then to find out that they're legitimate, like,

Uh, like criminals, traveling criminals that go around and do this. You're, it's crazy. The whole story is insane. The way that it unraveled, because the next day I was expecting maybe like, like officers call and say, Hey, these guys want to reach out to you about what happened where we could all just kind of go our own way and

Even though they kicked me in the head, it's a second. Well, maybe they just had one too many drinks. It was a one off and a horrible mistake they made. And I understand that those types of things happen. But when I end up seeing that other video, when that Shea Stevens, who the undercover detective or whatever the PI, whatever you want to call them,

He'd been getting messages like crazy from people from their town in Fort Worth, Texas, being like, these guys show up to bars and restaurants, and they'll get so rowdy to where they rip flat screen TVs off the wall. They go and terrorize small businesses.

So the exact opposite of basically what Barstool stands for, and Dave Portnoy, what he does for small businesses, these people are terrorizing them, and then ripping off everyday civilians in order to buy their G-Wagons or escalates. These guys are cruising around like living life very lavishly by ripping people off with other people's money. So these guys, they need to pay the piper this.

We finally got these guys. We got him pinned down and including not only that Danny Bradley kid, but that Sean Daley kid who I mean he's got a rap sheet as long as fucking a Sandalist and he ended up having a military ID on I'm a fake one

so he could get discounts at hotels and restaurants and then they go do that at these places. And then when he got caught after kicking me in the head, because keep in mind, so at the Raven Golf Club about an hour and a half, two hours earlier, it had been called in, but they didn't catch them. So they were off and running around town. And apparently they stopped at a roost Chris before they ended up getting to Houston's. So, um,

The cops were aware that these guys were out and about. So the minute that Houston's called in, and they kind of were like, okay, it's probably the same guys, they were over there in like three minutes because by the time the fight ended, some of them had been caught. Some of these guys were able to like run away and avoid police.

the camera operators. There was a camera across the street. They were operating it because they heard the call and they're like, okay, it moved outside. And then they followed it along. So they were able to identify what the guys were wearing and then call out to the cops being like, this is what these guys are wearing. And then like a few of them were caught a few miles down the road, which included that Sean Daley kid with the red shirt who boot fucked me in the head three, four times.

At one point his his foot where he missed me ended up getting to the probably the height of his shoulders So they were if I would have if I would have gotten knocked out out they would have kept boot fuck Yeah, they would have like like it would have they would have maybe killed you that that's the craziest part These guys are the absolute scum of the earth pieces of shit and like date the other part about it is

They do this all around, and they find people, and they take advantage of people, and they are able to do it because they do it to anonymous, regular civilians. They just happen to do it to someone who has a huge following that's tremendously well-liked across the internet, and now they fucked up, because now the world knows about them.

So I feel like it's my duty at this point. I don't care about getting kicked in the head or any of that stuff, but I just feel like it's my duty now to publicly humiliate these guys. If they're willing to pay the piper and go through the legal system and pay their dues, not only criminally, but somewhat civilly. As I said, you sign the documentation, we meet in a ring somewhere, I'll make an example of you, and then we can all move on from this.

But if they don't, and I said to them, on the podcast, I've said it in clip, I'm going to smoke them out. I'm going to use every resource I got. There's some bad people out there. Irish travelers are not the only bad people out there.

right? Yeah, that's true. You might know some bad people out there some bad. And the their own Irish, the other Irish travelers are probably not very happy. They're doing this and they're doing going until they fucked with the wrong guy. Yeah, just that's my understanding is there's an Arizona chapter and a Texas chapter and

It's just ridiculous. Because we had never heard about the subculture until you got into a fight with seven of them. And now it's like I'm obsessed with funding. I'm more about these. It's really trying to boot fuck you outside the CVS. That's what I'm saying. So apparently the Arizona chapter is very angry being like we're doing these small petty crimes under the table and you guys are bringing us all this negative attention like fuck off. So I don't know. It's it's a gong show, but it also seems like something that like

like the government or the feds need to get involved in like from a bigger scale in order to take these guys down like they like it's you know I think that you know immigration and people coming over is great man like you know North America is the land of opportunity but to come over here and then do that like come on here what are we talking about this isn't people that we want inside of our country is it no let's get the feds involved

Let's get the FBI monitoring the Irish travelers. It boot fucked the wrong guy. They did. They stepped in it. That's a fact. And I love the fact that you're formally offering a retribution challenge for yourself. I will drop everything if I can just beat the fuck out of one of them. Have you figured out how do you send that offer to them? Do you send that to their attorney or are you just faxing a document over and be like, you want to go? Paul Bissonette. You want one? Yeah.

Especially you want one. It reads, tap on the shin pads. You want one. And there's a circle yes or no. Yeah. But you laugh. That is exactly the way you do it. Yes. We slide over the number that we want to cover my hospital ambulance and all the bullshit bills. And of course, the lawyer fees or whatever it is. And it's like, this is going to be a lot less painful financially if you just meet me in the middle of a ring somewhere. Yeah.

do it in a boxing ring, I want to do it in an MMA ring. I want the punches to curve. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there you go that you love. Arm bar them. Yeah. Biz, I want to, I want to just pin down a couple of details because I've done a lot of reading about this and I've been, I'm, I'm so happy that you're okay. And I think it's, it's a, it's ended up being one of these stories where Paul Biznet becomes a legend. You're like Paul Bunyan. You can tell me anything about Paul Biznet. It's like, okay, you guys would have done the same thing. No, no, no, no.

I would like to say that I would have. Hold on, PFT. If I ate it, it used since four or five nights a week, maybe I would. Well, so that was one of the details I wanted to clear up here. So Houston's this place is a, it's a family restaurant. Yes. And how many times a week do you eat there?

I would say at the height probably, I would say four to five times at the height. I've only been there back twice since the ordeal in the last month, just because I just don't, it just doesn't feel as comfortable and cozy as it once did, and maybe a little PTSD. And just like, I don't want to go in there and just have to talk about it every time.

I've hit up a few other local spots where I just moved into my place not too long ago, my newer spot. So I haven't gotten back into my cooking routine like I was when I was renting my apartment the last few years. So you eat there, you said four to five times a week. Yeah.

Yeah, at the height of it, yeah. Okay, so you get the same thing every time you go. I switch it up a little bit. Okay, because I've heard that their salad is outstanding. Traditional salad, yeah. How would you know? It's a good Kickstarter. It's a family restaurant. It is a family restaurant. You confirmed that. Yeah, but there's so 39 locations. Have you ever eaten at a Houston? No, I have.

Okay, it's very military-like. They are hardcore. The process to get hired there, they don't fuck shit up. Everything's always cooked perfectly. The service is incredible. They run a tight, tight ship. So that's why I go there. I usually get the rotisserie chicken. I do the fillet sometimes. If I'm feeling extra wild, maybe the French dip. And yeah, that's usually the extent of it.

Okay, and then in the fight, I saw the video several times. I'm pretty upset. I know that you're upset about this. The part where you clock the guy, you're behind the tree. So you don't get to see like the full on clock. Can you tell me just about that punch and how good it felt and seeing that guy get knocked out?

So yeah, so I kept getting backed up through the parking lot. And I don't know how many people who are listening. The videos are everywhere if you go search them online. Like if you go on my Twitter timeline, if you back it up a little bit, Shea Stevens has them, the local Fox station posted it. So probably like three quarters through the distance of the fight. Because remember, this started inside the Houston's and it made its way all the way over to CVS inside the same strip mall.