The Chiefs Break Buffalo’s Heart, Philly Rolls, and Guess the SB Lines With Cousin Sal
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January 27, 2025
TLDR: Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal discuss the Chiefs' playoff win over the Bills, the Commanders' elimination by the Eagles, predict lines for Super Bowl LIX, and share parent stories in The Ringer podcast.

Episode Overview
In this enthralling episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, host Bill Simmons and guest Cousin Sal dive deep into the nail-biting playoff games between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills, as well as the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders. They also discuss the upcoming Super Bowl and share valuable insights during their Parent Corner segment.
The Chiefs vs. The Bills: A Heartbreaking Playoff Clash
The podcast kicks off with a recap of the intense playoff matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. Bill and Sal emphasize the emotional rollercoaster that Bills fans experience every year as they watch their team come close but fall short once again.
Key Highlights of the Game:
- Game Dynamics: The Chiefs secured a last-minute victory, showcasing their strong performance and the skill of quarterback Patrick Mahomes. The game featured remarkable plays that kept both fans and analysts on the edge of their seats.
- Mahomes' Greatness: Sal praises Mahomes for his ability to lead the Chiefs to five Super Bowl appearances before turning 30, hinting at his potential to surpass Tom Brady’s legacy.
- Buffalo’s Struggles: The Bills, despite outplaying the Chiefs in many aspects, couldn’t seal the deal. They failed crucial plays and turnovers that prompted discussions about their inability to break their playoff curse.
Reflection on True Greatness
Bill reflects on the necessity of having outstanding teams like the Chiefs in sports, drawing comparisons to legendary teams in other sports. He claims that these teams serve as benchmarks for greatness, allowing others to measure where they stand.
The Eagles Overpower the Commanders
Following the Chiefs-Bills discussion, the duo analyses the Eagles' decisive victory over the Washington Commanders.
Game Insights:
- Eagles' Dominance: The Eagles displayed a dominant performance with Jalen Hurts steering the team effectively. Bill highlights Hurts’ strategic plays, especially with AJ Brown and Saquon Barkley making significant contributions.
- Washington’s Cinderella Run Ends: Sal acknowledges that the Commander's journey ended with this loss, offering a brief retrospective on their surprising performance this season.
Guessing the Super Bowl Lines
As anticipation builds for Super Bowl LIX, Simmons and Sal guess the betting lines. The hosts engage in playful banter while analyzing the implications of the matchup between the Chiefs and the Eagles.
Key Points on Betting Strategy:
- Historical Context: Bill reflects on past instances of Super Bowl rematches and their significance in NFL lore.
- Betting Trends: The discussion covers how trending patterns affect betting decisions, hinting at particular wagers that could yield successful outcomes.
Parent Corner: Personal Stories and Parenting Reflections
The episode concludes with a heartwarming Parent Corner segment where Bill and Sal share amusing anecdotes from their lives as parents. They candidly discuss the challenges and humorous moments of balancing family life with their passion for sports.
Takeaways from Parent Corner:
- Family Games: Bill recounts an amusing story about his son’s basketball game, noting the laughter and tears that accompany youth sports.
- Lessons Learned: The segment touches on how parenting shapes one's perspective on sports, competition, and personal growth.
Conclusion
This episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast encapsulates the highs and lows of playoff football and the rich emotions attached to the games. With a blend of analytical commentary, personal reflections, and engaging discussions, Bill and Sal deliver memorable insights as they anticipate the coming Super Bowl showdown between two of the NFL's best teams.
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We are going to be breaking down the two games today and what's coming up in the Super Bowl. And I have a very action-packed parent corner for you. So it's all next. First our friends from Project.
All right, we are on YouTube because Sal is here taping the BS podcast after another magical NFL playoff game. Sal, I've had the worst weekend and I can't wait to talk to you about it. This game really big rated me.
It poured a red ball and a coffee and a giant line of cocaine into my body. I am ready for this podcast, baby. All right. So, okay. So good. That means you took the Chiefs and I had them too. And, but just as an emotional hedge. And then you look back, I'm like, Oh my God, I have so much money on this team as an emotional hedge. It's going to be emotional the other way when I have to explain to the family, we have to move if the bills win. So, uh, wow, what a game. What a game. Do it every year. Who cares?
Yeah. So there's going to be a lot of stuff over the next two weeks about chief seagulls. We had this already. The chiefs are back. Come on. Here's where I've landed. And I feel like I've been here for most of my life, but really, especially as I get older, I really like true greatness.
Like, I really appreciate this chief theme. I bet on them. I really wanted them to cover the bed, obviously, but I also really like the fact that every once in a while in sports, you have this measuring stick, not just for the sport, but for all the sports, right? Like, I hated the Yankees in the late 80s, you know, late 90s. I hated that team, but I respected the shit out of them. When Arizona beat him in 2001, it was like, this is momentous.
Wait, the Pats were able to get that in the mid 2010s and Philly beat them with Foles and Peterson. It was like, this feels momentous. I think you need teams like that when the Warriors lost in 2019. You need teams every once in a while that are truly great. And then you see how everyone measures up and they did it again. I don't know when this stops.
Of course you do. Yeah, you don't want parity in everything all the time everywhere. Like, you know, I think if you ask people, honestly, they would want Washington and Buffalo to have advanced today, right? So that wasn't going to happen because everybody wanted it, right? But other than that, I love that the Chiefs are in it. Mahomes is great. And we saw the greatest quarterback of all time in Brady. And now we're possibly seeing his greatest successor in Mahomes. And that is exactly why I hate when people lead with all the referees screwed and all the
No, I don't like the negative stigma because that then football could turn into your crappy sport. Sorry, the NBA and why everybody's talking bad about it. And like, we're forgetting the fact that we're seeing my homes and he's the greatest or close to the greatest. So stop that talk. You know, yeah, that Buffalo doesn't get the two point.
Yeah. And Casey gets the ball down one fourth quarter and you're just going, Oh, this Mahomes is taking this down. He's going to score. He's going to get the two point and they're going to be up seven. I was already mentally in the stage of, if Buffalo then gets the ball and scores the TD, will they go for one or two? You're like, the Chiefs hadn't even done anything yet. You just knew they were going to go down and do it. I mean, the Mahomes thing, just big picture. This is now five Superball appearances before age 30. He's 20 and three in the playoffs.
He's beaten Josh Allen, who I think along with Burrow, but I think Allen over Burrow and probably over Lamar, Allen says number one rival. He's beaten him four times in a row now in the playoffs. And he just feels like it feels like that Brady versus Mahomes, that first playoff game that the first playoff lost Mahomes had. Brady beats him. And then it's like he just handed a torch to him and he's like, all right, go ahead, take it. And now it just feels like the Chiefs became the pets.
Yeah. He handed the torch and my homes, I think, like played a little game with the bills. Like, look, we don't turn the ball over. We haven't turned the ball over since November. There's been like 280 turnovers in the NFL. And none of them have contributed to the Chiefs. So what do they do? They fumble.
Right covered, but they're off sides, the bills. So it doesn't count like two plays later, like, all right, we're going to give you one more chance. This is it. And even this isn't going to matter. And they fumble. And that was the only turnover of the game, right? And still, they couldn't get it done because you got the Chiefs with the ball last. And that's what's going to happen.
Well, you have on the flip side buffalo, Alan comes out, first drive, he throws two picks that get dropped. Right. Alan Fumbles twice, pulls back both of them, recovers both of them, including on that fourth and one. I did have a moment where I thought to myself, maybe this doesn't happen because I remember in the Patsy Eagles Super Bowl, which I sadly watched with nephew Kyle.
Even in the bitter end, they've all I didn't really remember what the score was. But the Pats did get the ball with like a little over two minutes left and they were on like the 20 and we were all like we're winning this. And then when Brady got stripped, it was it was so shocking. It was like, oh my God, somebody beat us. That's there was a moment in this game. It was when Buffalo was driving, wondering if they were going to go for two or not. And thinking like, what happens if like they go for two, they get it.
And Casey just something weird happens and all of a sudden they're punting and they're down one and Buffalo has a chance to just run out the clock on them. But that's the thing Casey's avoided this. They say, what'd they say? 17 straight, one possession wins. Yeah. It was crazy. And because of that, when they're driving at the end and they're minus 146, I'm crazy about the numbers as you know, I, yeah, you were texting me during every time out.
I don't know what the hell to do with the numbers, but I'm wild about it. I just love it. And it's minus 146. I'm like, wow, that's suspiciously low for this team that's going for a three p.m. and never loses one score of games. And then they were minus 154 when they had the three point lead and the bills were driving or whatever with that last possession there. So it is just amazing what the hell they've done. And I look at the numbers. I'm like, it doesn't even really add up with my homes and the stats and how they keep winning. And, you know,
Right. He didn't have an incredible game. He ran for two touchdowns. He only threw for one. Yeah. The stats, the team stats were pretty even. I know how the bills out rushed them by just 12 yards. Like I don't remember a ton of two. It felt like 200. And my cook wasn't in the game on a couple of big plays. I do think McDermott, who by the way, they found out he's Bill Burr's brother. I didn't even know this. Oh, is he? Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that something?
Um, they talked about it. Yeah. Uh, he got out coached. He got bailed out. I think early when they scored on, on fourth down, but, um, he was out coached and spags wasn't going to let it happen twice in an hour.
Yeah, this was a weird game because Lombardi, shout out to Lombardi, always used to talk about the middle eight, the last four minutes of the first half, first four minutes, the second half. The Chiefs have the ball and they're driving down in the last four minutes of the first half. They get that crazy word they call that.
We do this all the time. I still don't understand the rules of football and I watch football. Neither guy had possession. The ball touched the ground and it just seems like that's a dead play. Nobody gets it. They're back. They should have gone back to the 20 instead of the five, whatever. So they score.
And you start going, wow, this could be a blowout. They're up 21 10. They said they stopped the Buffalo here at the end of the half. They get the ball at the Chiefs at the start of the play and they didn't stop on the bill. But I'm saying before the bills went down, it felt like the Chiefs are going to blow the game open. I got you. Yeah. Right. Buffalo comes back down and he hits back Collins and that touchdown is 21 16. Now all of a sudden, the Chiefs get stopped at the top of this. So they actually lost the middle eight because then Buffalo came down and took the lead.
Um, and they still, and they still win the Chiefs somehow. Yeah. Yeah. It was weird because yeah, you're right. Cause the Chiefs got the ball in the second half. Is that what you're saying? And then they, yeah, I thought they were going to get last position in the first half first position, second half. You score both times. You're up 28, 10. Yeah, they did the bill had the ball and then hook. Yeah. It's, uh, it was interesting. It really was. And I'm like, let's put everything in perspective, but that play that hit the ground and should have been called incomplete.
There was holding on Hamlin, he like mug Chelsea, like back back and jumped on his back. So it would have been first down at the 20. Maybe the bills don't have enough time to drive back and get the six. I don't know that the Chiefs sport either, but yeah. But let's, before everybody points to, oh, the Chiefs got lucky again. No, that turned out to help Buffalo. That's the challenge you've been overturned. I don't, you're right. They probably don't get the first down or staff. Right. That was the one real mistake that the Chiefs made was, uh,
leaving Hollens open on that one play. Hollens ended up having two big plays. His over-under for catches was basically, I think it was one catch. It was around even. It was like minus 130, something like that. If I'm Buffalo and I leave this game, do you leave this game going, how did we not win that game? Or do you leave that game going? We're just like,
three plays short every time we play this team with the fourth. The one the QB sneak where Allen actually gets stuffed with who knows if he actually got stuffed or not, but they called it Casey ball. You have the concade play where I don't know. That was the fourth and five spags caused the blitz. You know, it was coming. Allen makes a great just to jump up and he bit toward concade was great, but they had that wide shot of it. And it seemed like the ball was almost like spinning. It was almost like a.
like when a baseball, when they hit like the pop fly, that just is like has some weird thing to it. And KK dropped it. And I'm sure he's going to take shit tomorrow. But I actually thought that seemed like a pretty tough catch. Did you think that was a drop or a catch? It was rough. There was traffic around him. It was kind of like a moon ball, you know, and he's got to catch it at his feet. Probably should have grabbed it. But in that situation, like that's, he was running for his life and he's just trying to get good positioning on that ball. But
It's the kind of way that a feedback drops over and over again. Yeah. Like the tip play at the line or the flutter. And it's, oh, I can't believe he dropped that. And, but Kincaid was on offense. But to answer your original question, the bills are looking at this, like not that worth replays or what that they should have won. Like they're done losing to this team.
right? They already beat him in the regular season. They're not like us when we could rationalize it and be like, well, they just can't beat him in Arrowhead. It's a different beast. They, they know deep down, they're just as good and they can't take it. This is a demoralizing loss for them. I mean, after a while, you do maybe believe that you can't, you can't overtake the beast. But, um, yeah, another. Yeah, I don't know.
Well, there's, there's the, what more do we have to do? Factor, right? They won time and present. They won the, they won the turnover battle. They out rushed them. My homes had fewer than 20 completions. Right. You know, like, I don't know. They scored 29 and they became the first team to give up over 30 to the Chiefs. Weird.
Well, so the Chiefs have the ball after the two minute warning. The bills don't get it and the bills need to get a stop. Did you think that we're going to get the stop because I did not. And as it turns out, they had two chances to get a stop because the bills scored. They got the first down on second down, but the guy stepped out of bounds. So now they had this fresh set of downs. And each time the Chiefs were able to get the eight, nine plays, conversely, Buffalo had a bunch of chances.
to make a big plan of fourth and one or fourth and five fourth and three. And there was a couple they didn't get. So I would, I would assume that would probably be, yeah, the short driving them crazy too. They did get that when they were down. What was it seven when they got the fourth down play in the end zone to Samuel?
Yeah. That was a nice play. That's why I didn't think they were going to get that one. McDermott need. Sorry. Spaggs needed to dial up what he did for the very last Bill's offensive play for that fourth down play because it came out out of a timeout. They have a timeout and then one play on third down and then that play. So that was bad for the Chiefs defense. But I'll tell you, you're right with the short yardage. And I think we, I think we watched almost three and a half hours of quarterbacks plunging on fourth and one today between the two games.
the most important ones that felt like ever in the history of the week. I like that they don't make it sometimes. I really do. Like maybe maybe teams. I don't like it like when we were growing up in the 70s and 80s where, you know, it was a fourth and one attempt on offense every six weeks or something, but I don't know. Just be a little more creative on the fourth and one. Cook wasn't even in the backfield for a lot of those. So Buffalo missed two two points, right?
two two point. Then they missed a fourth and short. Yeah. And you would think with Allen, they would be the most devastating team in the league with any, any fourth and one fourth and short two point, which was, I don't know, one of, one of the legacies of this game, I was kind of shocking not to see them get certain plays. I felt like the Chiefs were, were slightly better just because I felt like their defense
I trusted their D a little bit more to maybe get a stop when they really, really, really, really needed it. Even that, you mentioned that SPAC splits on the last play, the fourth and five. This goes back to what I was saying earlier about how fun it is to have a team like this that we have a real history with it. You know, we root for these NFL teams and the entire team changes over in two years, you know, or you have these teams, like, look at what's going to happen in the Cowboys. And they haven't even made the Super Bowl, but two years ago.
I don't know. We lost the connection. What did you say? Two years from now, we're at Dax, CD, Lamb, and Prescott all going to be in the team. Probably not. That's usually how it plays out. I know. You're right. You're right. But in this team, same infrastructure. It's my homes. It's always some cast of running backs and ride receivers with Kelsey.
They always have a decent line. Chris Jones is always there. Andy Reed always is doing some funky plays that seem like they're going to work. And then Spaggs, every time they need it, it seems to dial up the perfect blitz. That blitz on Allen was a great call. I was waiting for it the whole game and it seemed like they could find it, then they found it.
That's what they needed before they'll ask for. But you and I, I think, thought we were texting. We thought this game was over. But like you said, that's second. I did. I thought when it was 21 and 10, I thought I thought they were going to blow it out. Well, because that, I mean, they were picking on an Elon guy, like, you know, like Romo said, it was like, you know, um, cover one single safety. It's just going to be the stop right route all the time with worthy picking on this. Great. Yeah. So by the way, the bills, promo crush Brady today, like by 35 points. That was the biggest blow up.
Yeah, Romo, I thought was that was about as good as he's been in a few years. I thought he was all over the game, spelling, spotting stuff, spelling stuff out, telling us what was going to happen. Um, I, with, with the Buffalo piece, the defense had a couple injuries and it was pretty
I don't want to say flimsy, but it was okay. Never like a great defensive game with it. Reminding me a little of what happened to Washington today. Washington probably lost anyway, but when it came out over the weekend that they were losing their run stopping defensive tackle. Yeah. You can kind of pass the point in overturn and it felt like their secondary. I just didn't trust the people that had that poor Benford got two concussions and
a week it looks like. You and I haven't mentioned Christian Benford or the Ron Payne. Ever. All over 23 weeks. Yes. No, ever. Yes, you're right. And those arguably with the two biggest, you know, one, you know, neither both for not being able to play. And yeah, Benford actually got out with the second concussion. And it was like the first series. Yeah. Yeah. But you have these things where you've already decided mentally where you're going in a game.
And it's already like, if you're taking Washington, it's a pretty flimsy case. It's like, they're not going to turn the ball over. Jayden Daniels is going to go up a level. He's going to be able to match Philly and Hertz is going to kind of suck. Like that was the case. The other case was Philly's going to run all over them. Washington's luck going to run out turnovers and Philly's going to blow them out. You can see the two cases. It was like, I like to wash the case more. So I took that one and then you find out their run stuffers done.
when I really like the run defense to begin with. And it's like a 15 year difference when he's out and when he's like, Oh, this isn't a great sign. But yeah, we'll talk about the game later, but Philly was also great. The Buffalo thing. This might have been their best chance because I'll say this. I still think Baltimore might have been the best team from a talent standpoint.
And I watched in this game, I guarantee like the Ravens, the Ravens fan watching this game today, you had to, I was texting Mallory about it. And she's like, still sick. Yeah. Cause you watch what was working against the Chiefs. The Ravens were better at pounding the ball, running the ball, being physical and they had a better defense than the bills. And I'm sure they felt like, shit, if we'd just gotten in there, we could have beaten that team.
But they didn't. We I mean, we talked about last week, how important so stupid, but how important turnovers are. And we'll get to it in the early game, which absolutely dominated the discussion. But yeah, the Ravens don't turn the ball over. It's a different story altogether. And maybe if they get a home game to against Buffalo, but does it seem like football is just now about
The turnover battle who wins how you did on fourth and one and fourth and two because there's so many of them now and the variance of those is huge. And did you just avoid having a massive fuck up? Yeah. And it seems like in a game like this in Buffalo all season was kind of pulling off games like this and their luck finally.
ran out today. And I know the Buffalo fans last week were pissed because everyone was dwelling on how Baltimore blew the game. And they're like, well, we also win the game. We didn't mess up. We didn't make mistakes. This game, they made some mistakes. Yeah. Well, that's why I took the Chiefs. I'm not going to take a lap because I recognize like whoever had the ball last pretty much when the last six minutes are going to decide this game. But when I was thinking about it, I'm like, wait a minute. I'm going to go against the Chiefs who, like I said, haven't turned the ball over since November and they're trying to repeat. They're an arrowhead and have a chip on their shoulder against Buffalo beat them in the
regular season, like no frickin way. It's a point and a half. That's the line was too low. I think if it was Chiefs by three, it was a different thought process. But the one and a half, how can you not? We did we did this last year. You had the Ravens to last year, right? Yeah. Navecy title game. And that that was my never again moment. It was just like as long as they're in a half. Yeah. Yeah. So as long as the chiefs are the chiefs, it's just not worth it because they're going to figure this out year after year. So.
On the plus side for Alan, before we get to some of the negative stuff, that pass you through to Matt Collins before halftime was fantastic. I don't, the list of QBs who can hit that one with the speed and the accuracy that he hit is not, it's basically him and Drake Mack.
Oh, image. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. I lost consciousness for a second there. That was serious. It was him Drake made a couple of others, but he hit that one. He also had that big drive to, you know, give them the lead in the third quarter. He had the other comeback drive when it was 29, 22. He brought them down again and they scored. And I was thinking like, cause I don't, I don't, I don't blame this loss on Allen in any respect.
He's in that zone now that I'm not sure you want to be in as a great athlete. And I would call it the Tommy Hearn zone.
You're awesome. You're memorable. You're a generational talent. And yet you're the other guy in the sports movie over and over again. And how do you, how do you get out of that? How do you snap out of that? Hearns was in all these great sports moments and he lost most of them, but he was still great. Like he's like one of the best boxers I've ever seen in my life. He was a one on one. Nobody like him. Six foot one, 147. Pretty good. Crazy punchy power. He fought everybody.
And yet his legacy was like he lost the Leonard fight. He lost the Hager fight. So how is he different from Lamar than in that respect? Because the point in the same fingers, right? I think Lamar is a little bit of a different case because he's kind of come up short in these big moments. Allen's had these moments, like in the second game. He's Roberto Duran. Who's Lamar? Drake May. No.
That's a two, who is Lamar? I feel like Lamar's story has an, I want to, I'll answer that next year. Not quite ready to next year. Label him. I see one more. I'll write this down. Well, what it's tougher, like what boxer didn't come through every time it mattered. Is it? I don't know. I don't know who that is. But now the point with Josh is like Dave lost games where he was really good in the game. I was really good in the game today.
Yeah. You know, if you're a bill spinner, like, man, Josh has to do more. It's not why you lost. No, it was a bunch of people. I thought the play calling was atrocious. I thought the OC, I just don't understand some of those third and short, fourth and short. It felt like anytime they play action, they have guys all over the place.
Um, so I would be more mad about that if I were them. Yeah. I think they, the bill fans at least early on, I could see they're very upset with the coaching staff. Yeah. Cause you know, when you can't blame the kicker, when you can't kill the kicker and they can't, it goes right to the quarterback or coaching staff. And it seems like the coaches are getting, we should real quick shout out to James Cook. I mean, that was a spectacular, spectacular play.
On fourth and two by the way, good good job. Another great play by Josh Allen flipping that to him on the quarterback option. With some speed. Yeah. Sometimes the toss is too soft. Right. That one kind of whipped it to the point that cooked by it like whatever, but then it kind of had to get there then right to get there.
Yeah. And for him to be able to stay horizontally and bridge on his hand and without the elbow falling and extended over the goal line with the other hand was really one of the better players I've seen all year. We've had a real resurgence with good running backs. This position that everybody thought didn't matter. And then you look around, it's like Barkley and Jameer Gibbs and Cook and going down the line. It seems like it's more important than it used to be. To set back to the Allen, Tommy Herrmann's thing for a second.
The sad shot at the end when the team's running out the clock.
And they got the losing QB on just sitting on the bench with that like deer in the headlights like, it's a tough one. You don't want that to be legacy. In a weird way from a career move standpoint, I actually think he gains human interest stature. Cause now he's come so close a few, and he just can't get over this. Like next year's Chief Spills game is even more interesting. This year's game was so interesting. Kyle Brant did a Rocky 4, Mount parody.
with him as Sly and Mahomes' drag-out. And I don't even know what next year's version of that is. Right. Oh, maybe he's Clubber Lang, then Lamar. No, Lang won a title. Yeah, I don't know what you do with Josh Allen. That sucks with the cutaways. You need more cutaways of his fiance, right? I mean, he's losing that battle, too. Teller slips. But yeah, he's playing as well as he can and just can't beat this thing.
Well, and then there's the Buffalo piece of it too, right? So even it's always lingering with the bills game. Like even it's 29, 28.
They had just scored a touchdown. They have all this momentum and there's bass and I'm sitting there going, I've watched bass, missed this. Like you're watching the P.A.T. and Tetley. It's like, it's the bills. I've seen bass, missed this. I'm not positive this is going through. I'm thinking about Casey minus one and a half on this one. And he made it, but the baggage of the bills is another thing. This is, there's some franchises like the Lions that playoff loss they had two weeks ago.
or last week last week was the last week. Yeah. It feels like January has been 75 days. Um, that playoff last night, they haven't had a lot of those cause they're never in the playoffs. We know the bills have had, you know, it feels like a hundred of these.
They're racking them up. They got to get this game at home. I don't know. Maybe with Pete Carroll on the division, the AFC West and some of these teams getting better. You know, the Chiefs won't go 15 and two or 15 and one going to the last week. I think it's a hard ass though, Sal. I know. Because you have, you look around the AFC and there's just a bunch of teams that feel like they're poised to maybe jump up a level or teams that had bad luck in 24. What are the Texans going to look like next year?
You know, even in their own division, what could the Jets be better next year if they, if Aaron Glenn turns out to be a good coach, could the Patriots be next year's Washington? Keep my fingers crossed. Could the Chargers make a jump up? Could the Broncos, like you go on down and it's just, I don't, I think the AFC is just going to be better next year. And I can't wait to pick all the over-unders correctly with you again.
You're going to do a good job, though, last year. Yeah, you did. But the Chiefs, as I run that, my mouth on this whole thing, they went through the whole thing on the road, too, last year. So I don't even know what matters. Well, you know, they lose for she rice.
before the season. He's just a non-factor. This guy who seemed like he was gonna be Mahomes' number one target. They're able to patch together. Smith Schuster was so bad in the preseason for the Pats. It was like, can anyone take this guy from us? And then he's making big plays today. Hopkins, who really didn't do that much today. Kelsey, who looked like he was 55. But then Worthy becomes the key guy. This number one pick that they really shrewdly traded up for. They're giraffes.
The way that they've nailed the drafts, this is the difference to them and what happened in the second part of the patch dynasty with in the late 2010s when they just started missing drafts. The Chiefs are getting Carlafthas, they're getting McDuffie, they're getting worthy over and over again. They're nailing guys who are like playing big roles in these playoff games.
And that's, that's how the Pats, that's why it ended. Yeah. Seven, the seven, 16, 17, 18 drafts. They just weren't getting people and that was it. Yeah. Thank God. Um, I, you know, I will say the one thing we, we skipped over it with Chelsea. Like that's another thing that builds and be like, Oh my God, we held that guy to nothing. He had 14 straight games with 75 or more 14 straight playoff games. He was invisible, two catches for 19 yards and
They embarrassed the most of the game and still couldn't get it done. Yeah. It's a lot of, a lot of rough moments there for the bills. Yeah. They felt what was their rushing passing? So they did. They ran the ball. How many times? Yeah. 32 to 22, I think. Yeah. They ran 32. Oh, 32, 34 attempts. 34 passes. 32 carries. Yeah.
And the chiefs were 35 carries, 26 passes. Did some really, did people look at this box score like 75 years from now or assuming the earth hasn't melted yet and be like, whoa, that game, that seemed pretty close. Travis Kelsey, what he did nothing. Oh, one of the bills went by. Oh, well, then Hollywood Brown had that huge brain fart on the, on the play when he was open and didn't realize he was standing out of bounds. Right. That's another thing with the chiefs. Hollywood Brown was supposed to be their big. Right.
You know that this big guy that helped them out and it plants his right foot directly out of bounds on a ball that was a should have been catchable. Yeah. I keep finding little things around the fringes like the kick returner. Mm hmm. Made a couple big plays today. You know, these guys that they owe it, they are always able to locate them. And it's a really it's its own skill because that's the biggest way you can.
Least the Checo and Kelsey, 43 total yards. Like, how much would we pull back on our chief's bed if we had known that was going to happen? Well, don't you think part of it is everybody and their brother had the Kelsey over? Yeah, that is. I think that was that and Dallas got her where the Dow's got her hit his, but those two seem like they were the, they gave everyone free Barkley money. And then they were like, no, no, we got to figure something out.
So one other thing with, so we'll be talking about the Chiefs going for the three-peat. And I was going through looking who's three-peded in the last 50 years, which is half a century. That's a long time. Jordan's Bulls twice, the Shikobi Lakers, the late 90s Yankees, the Canadian's, four and around the 70s and then the Islanders, four and around the 80s. And that's really it, unless you want to count the comments in the first four years of WNBA. This three-peat thing,
Especially in the age of parody, the Pat's never did it. I can't believe the Pat's never did it. I mean, I looked over to obviously that they haven't and the Steelers. It was the end of the game and the night. The Nick Foles, Doug Peterson game. Yeah. But out of Cowboys, Steelers, Patriots, Niners. It's shocking that there was no three feet. I'm shocking that the Bears only won one. We didn't do a three P in a game where Brady threw for over 500 yards. Yeah. Like think about that.
That was how we didn't get it. But this is fucking hard. And you have these games where it's like, they tipped our pass to the wide open guy and a fourth down. We missed the two point where the guy was his foot was out of bounds. We missed the field goal at the end of the first half and we needed those. There's so many things to get that right for three years in a row. It feels in a league with a salary cap feels impossible. The homes is great, but it's not like Mahomes was like,
You know, throw everyone on my back. I'm going to carry us all through the season. I don't even think he was one of the three best QBs this year. How is my home? So we're 15 and two or 15 and one heading into the week that they sat everyone and he wasn't even a top three or four consideration for MVP. That's, that's insane because it's that's weren't.
Patrick Mahomes asked is the problem. But as a like a Patriot fan and one of the few teams that have had two peats, how much are you rooting for? It's not like 72 dolphins are thrilled and do the champagne toast when one of the team loses. But are you rooting hard? Because I've talked to some people who have been part of like a two-peat and are rooting hard against anyone having a three-peat.
Yeah, it's an interesting one. Like my dad really doesn't like when the Chiefs do well, because he wants the Pats to be better historically than the Chiefs. My thing is like, whatever the Pats did, that's what they did.
the Chiefs belong to this different generation. And I, you know, it's like if the Chiefs went through in a row, it doesn't diminish what the Pats did. But I think other Pats fans are like, really need the Chiefs to lose, need the bills to come through. It depends on your perspective on it. Yeah. I personally was more, I'm probably leading more toward it would be cool if the bill is never won and we were like the last good AFCs team, but I'm more spiteful. Oh, wow. Yeah. That's pretty specific.
Yeah, but if the bills never get one, and then now we're now with for able and Drake May and 130 million in cap space and whoever we get, number four and some, and all of a sudden we can like try to take the AFCs from him. I'm in that mindset, but you're, you're trading that for my homes could eventually pass Brady as the greatest ever in every conversation. You're, you're willing to put that up for today. He is so much is left for him to do that. Brady won seven Brady beat my homes twice.
Brady had the Atlanta game, which is the greatest feat. Probably any quarterbacks pulled off in a game. I it's there's a long way to go. If he for Pete's, yeah, which, you know, he's a game in a season away from doing. Then then the conversation becomes real. I don't know. I'm with you.
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Eagles Washington looks like so long ago. I wrote down Daniels kept trying to throw on a Superman Cape and his teammates kept pulling it off. That's my that's my half of my take of the game. The other take is the Eagles are really talented and just had more talent all over the place and actually played really well. I thought Hertz was good. They used AJ Brown correctly. Barkley was incredible. Their defense made a couple.
You know, we cooked with those yet another punch fumble play, a couple stops when they needed it. There's a different version of this game without a couple of the turnovers that I think would have been really fun to watch if it was the Washington with with in a score with 10 minutes left with the ball. But instead it became an absolute blowout. I don't feel terrible about picking Washington, but you knew in the first quarter it was a bad pick.
Well, except for that first drive, they did everything you could ask for, right? So I wrote for Washington, my big thing was Phil was going to run the ball when the wrong pain went out. I'm like, this is going to be a disaster. And especially because
Washington is one time possession the last two times. I think it was 34 26 against last week against the lions and 36 24 against Tampa. Maybe I mix those two up, but Mike, they're not going to win that. They're not going to win time and possession. It was dead even. I was a little bit wrong about that because it was dead even time and possession, but that first drive, you must have been excited when he's converting fourth and twos and fourth. It was great. Then we sell for a field goal that sucked, but
I also don't know why they went for a field goal. Like they, they were surviving fourth and threes all the way down the field and they have a shady checker. So. Yeah, it was like Dan Quinn ran out of place. I was really surprised they went for it. I know the book probably said it was a watch, take the points, all that stuff. But I, the longer they're on the field, the longer the Eagles offense isn't on the field. Right. I would embark on trusses their spirit three plays later. So. Barkley gets it. Deami Brown is the punch fumble. Eagle score again.
Washington's about to punt. I thought it was the most obvious. I swear, I'm not just saying this. I was watching the line because I was like, this is the most obvious fake punt situation I've ever seen because they know if there are plenty of backbeat. And I'm watching and I was watching the whole play develop. And I'm like, Oh, they're doing it. Like as it was happening, it was in the Eagles were completely blindsided, which I didn't really understand. But then they end up settling for. I thought they were. One guy to cover two guys.
Yeah, but so man, it was such a good throw. I think it was like because it was like two tight ends like going out and he had a judge the way the middle linebacker and he just shifted towards a guy on the right. And then he completed and it was a good throw and everything else. But yeah, they should have been a little more prepared, but
Kudos. So they only got three out of that, right? That made it 46. Yeah. Yeah. I wrote down it was 14, six. Washington to run 30 plays at Philly had won seven. And Washington was losing by eight. Yeah. But, uh, and then Elliot missed the field goal. Right.
It's 14, 12, and Washington goes for two, which I didn't understand at all, even though, like, I don't understand how you're not going for the fourth and three. Yeah, right. But then you're going for the two. It's second quarter. Who cares if it's 14, 13? So they don't get that. And then you start doing the math, 14, 12. Oh, this is going to be a two-square game soon.
Um, and then Philly made a couple big plays like AJ Brown had that big fourth and five catch. I thought Hertz was good. Like if, if Hertz had shown what he showed today in previous games, I probably would have taken Philly, but I didn't, we hadn't seen it.
For sure. I mean, we saw how successful he is with this team in the playoffs when he throws for 130 and 140 and 150. And this one, this is the anomaly or I don't know the outlier game because what did he throw for this? He threw for over 200, 246. Yeah. And a couple big runs running for three touchdowns. So yeah.
I was like, with that, with that field goal miss, I was like, you're playing right into Washington's hands. Like I feel like with this team on third and six, they should run every time on third and six or third and five. They're going to go for it. I'm fourth and one or two and make it instead. Third and six. The one thing he can't do is get sacked and he did. And then what's his name? Mrs. The field goal. And that was, and that was, I was like, all right, they're back in it. But yeah, it was just too much, too much firepower eventually.
2012, under two minutes left, and the guy fumbles the kick off and gives Philly the ball back. Now it's 27-12. It's 2012, minute 44. I feel like that could have gone down, gotten a field goal, and it's 20-15 halftime. Instead, it's 27-15 halftime. And then Philly gets the ball, and they stop on top of the third quarter. But then- So what's the JC? Yeah. Just kind of flamed out. They got the three and out, and then Philly got the touchdown.
That was that. Um, and then right when it seemed like Philly or Washington might be able to drive down and get the, uh, the super fun cover. Echo fumbled. Right. And that was that I thought Daniels was a winner in the game regardless. I thought he was really, really good. And, uh, a couple of the fact that they put that team together with duct tape kind of got exposed, uh, three, great, great season for them though.
It's such a tough spot, right? Rookie just can't just especially in Philly to go to Detroit and Philly and do that and the transfer alignment for straight for straight road games. Yeah, they lose their best guard and they lose their run stuff are going into Philly. And yet I kind of needed to see it from Philly. I wasn't positive. They had it like just in general, like I, you know, were they going to do weird shit?
Um, well, it was good, but then you hear about him showing up in the knee brace and I started getting PTSD from the Tyson Paul fight. I'm like, I'll tie it showed up with a deep brace and I lost a lot of money. I don't know. Maybe this isn't a good idea. Well, then they have this weird center situation where one guy's got the deep brace and the other guy has a bad back and right. And Brady kept talking about it. Cause I think he, you know, he's, he knows how important the center is cause it could be. That never really mattered. Yeah. The touch push and everything.
I hate that we have to say tush bush. My God. So do we need to ban this play? Like is it or is it just not going to be until somebody breaks their back in a tush bush? And then they're like, we have to stop this. Somebody was seriously hurt. So I want to know what year they brought it back because it was bad, right? You couldn't pull a guy. You still can't pull a guy, right? Yeah. Even though they don't call it a lot. And you there was a time when you couldn't push it. So you couldn't
push. So I don't know. It doesn't jive with the current rules about like, all right, we don't want guys hitting each other's heads in the wedge and we want safety. We care about safety. Yeah. Also, it doesn't look like a football play and it's boring. And then they have a little problem on their hand with what Washington was doing. I think the whole world that wasn't rooting for Philly was like, good.
Keep hitting them. Keep hitting them. Keep getting the personal foul. And then the ref admonished them and it's like, we're going to, we're going to spank you. There's going to be a spanking that goes on here. If you do it again, we're going to give them a touchdown. So, so you give them the touchdown. So we don't have to give them a touchdown. It's so weird. So would you get rid of it? Because like Buffalo tried a couple of times and it didn't work. I'm the wrong guy to ask. I hate it. I don't like it either. The team I hate most uses it most effectively. And, but I don't like it.
So someone's gonna have to get hurt though, I think. I think that's the problem with this, right? Eagle's big picture. Do you feel better about them than you did a week ago? Or do you feel like Washington out kicked its coverage?
and gave a valiant underdog effort, but this is what happens. This is the March Madness team that made the final four. Now they're playing UNLV in 1990 and it's Larry Johnson and Stacey Ogman. Oh, all right. This is running out now. I like that. You're such a Colin basketball fan. I have a little of both.
Definitely Washington, the Cinderella thing. It came to an end, but I do feel pretty good about Philadelphia and the trenches there. So, and they could, you know, I'm not saying I'm taking Philly, but they could present problems like Tampa Bay did to Kansas City and that Super Bowl, where it's Mahomes is just running for his life. And there'll be one highlight where he's horizontal to the ground, completing a pass, but otherwise it's a long night. So they were, they were excellent. I mean, when they have 229 on the ground, average like 6.4 a carry.
Well, Sequin, who's, if they win the Super Bowl, I think we'll go down as the most popular Philly athlete, just moving into that, basically taking the Bryce Harper spot, but in the pantheon of like guys that the Philly fans left, he was 15 for 118 and three TDs today. The touchdown was spectacular, the first one. Last week it was 26 for 205. So in the two games, he's 41 for 323 with five touchdowns.
And it's like, you remember in the late 90s, when Torel Davis was just ripping off like these crazy post seasons, like with the stats, you go back and you look at like, holy shit. That's why I made the Hall of Fame for those two years. And this feels like a very Torel Davis see. Yeah. It's a question you had posed earlier. Did he do a good deed for all running backs or just for himself and Derek Henry?
I mean, it's going to be a tough decision for GMs the rest of the way. But he did make a difference. I mean, the Eagles were much better because they got Barkley. And he only had, like you said, 15 carries. Like, that's bizarre. They could add another 100 yards if he had another 10.
His rookie season, I think I said to you on this podcast that I thought he was the best running back I've ever seen and we fought about it. And then it became a clip that got, no, we just argued about it. I was like, this is the best running back I've ever seen. I'll send out the, it's somewhere on Twitter and we cut a social clip about it. And then when he heard his knee and then he was in the Giants and it became one of those like, Oh my God.
That was one of my worst takes. But now I think I think I'm back. I'm back in it with the take. Like what running backs that you've seen in your life.
I guess the one thing with him, the past catching, like even dropped the one today, the past catching is a little iffy with him. I still have Peyton is the best running back I've ever seen. But only Barry Sanders, Peyton, and for a small stretch, Terrell Davis, like he brought up. I don't, I don't. Yeah, Terrell Davis is in there. I still think for one game and it has to be discussed seriously if it's like, yeah, that's 22 degrees outside. Yep. And I need a running back who will rush the ball 35 times today. Who's your pick? I'd probably take Emmett.
So I guess it would depend. Terrell is still the most dominant running back on a good team I've seen. Just thought like it was six yards every time. Peyton was the best all around, just special running back. But Barclays, wait, it's a little video game-ish with him.
This is a crazy year. Like this is, you know, I know they're not going to give them MVP, but 2000 plus. Yeah. Is he going to get 2000 in the playoffs also? I don't know. Could he get to 2,500 for the regular season? Oh, yeah, combined. Oh, yeah. I think so. Yeah. That's in there, right? Well, no, it'd be, he'd eat like 150. And what's interesting is he gets screwed because of the, no, the one yard plunge by Jalen Hertz, right? He had three of those. Otherwise, like, bark, we'd probably have like 30 touchdowns.
Oh shit, I forgot that they played... What did they have in the Green Bay game?
Oh, 25 for 119. Yeah. So he's. So he's been over a hundred in the three games. So yeah. Two or three before that, the last regular season games. So he'll get over 2,500 combined. Yeah. So who's your number one running back ever? Is it TD? Well, I don't know. I mean, just from what I've seen, I think we missed a lot of Walter Payton greatness, right? But I'll trust it. And if we want to keep going back to him, he wasn't on. I promise you, he wasn't on the East Coast more than twice a year for his entire prime.
But the clips are amazing. The NFL film stuff was amazing. And then the way everyone talked about how he's the best blocking runner back ever. He's the best pass guy. Like he checked all these boxes that nobody in that era was like that. Thomas and hit some of that stuff too. But the Peyton stuff is the most fun NFL films to me other than Barry Sanders.
For sure, but like short yardage is so important now. I would say Davis and Barkley over like a Barry Sanders, but Barry Sanders is spectacular in his own right there. Well, my Barry Sanders take, I've done this before, but my Barry Sanders take is probably in your wheelhouse. Yeah. I'm like in them probably the minority, but I would rather have him as with the Barry Sanders. Yeah. I'd rather have the four or five, six yards a pop than the guy who every once in a while can run for 70.
But what was always looking to break the big play? I've had a million arguments. Oh, I would use to get them fist fights over this when I love them. It's more than Barry Sanders. And I don't think anyone has as many negative carries for negative yards as Barry Sanders. But yeah, there was something. I mean, you just go by sports and our highlights were so important back then, you know. So we have Jaylen Hertz in the second Super Bowl, which is twice as many appearances as
Matt Stafford, Drew Brees, Dan Marino, Aaron Rodgers. Wow. We have Nick Seriani in the Super Bowl, where it looked like he was going to get fired in September and early October. And since then, I think they've lost once.
Um, again, Sandy Reed, who is now 28 and 16 in the playoffs in his sixth Super Bowl and starting to really legitimately breed down bell checks neck and his, his breath smells like barbecue. What's do guest lines? Because guest lines is brought to you by Hookah and Bondi nine, their new daily trainer, Bondi nine. What was your favorite Bondi?
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Um, my team has noticed a lot, a lot of talk with this win. And now we're, we're rededicated for next season. Oh, I made a nice little breakout clip of it. And yeah, I don't know what the NFL can do. I won like 10 years in a row. And I, I just sheepishly accepted my trophy and just kept my head down. My fans shouldn't have done that.
You won once and you're talking a lot of shit. So this is a big freaking deal. And I don't know. Like I said, the NFL has a problem because now this is a waste of a week. I don't know what they could do scheduling wise to make this interesting with me having won the title, but.
Well, you know, it's really annoying. The NBA has their trade deadline the Thursday of Super Bowl week. Oh, really? And it should either be this week or next week, like just for content. The NBA just shoots themselves in the foot over and over again. I've never seen anything like it. All right. Why would you have your trade deadline during Super Bowl week? It's so fucking stupid.
Are they announcing it in the parking parking lot of media day? Like how close are they getting? How much attention do they need? I don't understand it. Like by Thursday, everyone is either at the Super Bowl or talking about the Super Bowl. I just don't get it. I don't understand how they screw up shit like this. That doesn't matter. You think Jimmy Butler's going to the Dodgers? Yeah, they get everybody. Um, guess the lines. Chiefs.
Eagles. And I'm going to say to New Orleans, I'm going to say Chiefs by two and a half. Okay. I said, I've not seen it yet. Swear. I've said, it has to be one and a half because every line has been one and a half this year. And I'm going to say Chiefs are favored. So now let's look.
I pulled out my starters. By the way, Joe Milton made that guess. Yeah. Well, it is one and a half. Of course. It's the biggest practical joke in sports gambling. Chiefs of everyone. Why did the football scores get so weird? How did we never had 29 versus 20 29 29 in the fourth quarter? Never happened the entire childhood.
Like everything's weird, the lines are weird, everything's weird. And not only that, I was like, oh, 29, 29, all right, the one and a half is going to come into play. And then like what you may enhance, we listed like 10 ways, the one and a half can come into play. Oh, the bills can miss the actual point. Oh, the, the, the Chiefs could go for two and then like, oh, yeah, I forgot. It's the NFL. One and a half.
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about the Bondi 9. Wow, they got everything up already. What's everything up? Well, let's talk about it. Well, Barclay Overunder, our y'all. Let's do a quick tour. You want to guess? Yeah. For our fans on YouTube. Yeah. On the YouTube's. Barclay Overunder, can I guess somebody do it? Yeah. Barclay Overunder, I'm going to say 85 and a half. No. 114 and a half.
What days? You just read his stats. I can't give that to him. He's playing the Chiefs. That means cook could almost add that, right? Where did James Cook have today? I don't even know. It was 70, 70, 80 somewhere in there. What else do you want to see? James Cook had 85 yards. Yeah. Why was that a bad guess?
114. That means you're probably winning if you rush 14. They can't give him 15. They can't give him the ball 15 times. Plus, the Chiefs can kind of try to jam the line and make him. I'm betting the under. Okay. Um, do they have my homes? They do rushing attempts yet? Cause that's my favorite bet. Oh, okay. You got 11 rushes today. That bet hits every single time in the homes of the playoffs.
Rushing attempts is the safest prop in sports. I'm not seeing a rush of temps yet. Yeah, I do see it. Okay, what do you think? I think they jack it up to like five and a half because it keeps hitting. Oh, they jacked it even for other six and a half.
I still like it. The over's a plus, but we'd like this bet more than we're home. My home's rushing yards, right? Cause of the kneel down. Facting takes. Yeah. The kneel down factor kills the rushing earth thing. They got to figure that out, but you get three free. We didn't talk about that, that moment today when the official was slapping the, uh,
slapping the Washington with the newspaper because they kept jumping off sides. And he's like, if this happens one more time, we're awarding a score to Philadelphia. So what would have happened from a gambling standpoint? Who gets the score? Oh, right, right, right. We were trying to figure that out.
Is there a way we could have bet on this somebody that could we bet on this at the Super Bowl fillies? No, no player on Philly scores and touchdown. Yeah, the scolding score. The center get it? I'm not sure. That's that's good because it's like an own goal find there, right? Have you ever seen a ref say that before? I didn't know that was not even close. They made that up. Yeah. It's not a lot of brotherly love being sent that way. One other play was that the measurement. And again, the Chiefs won because they're better and everything else.
The measurement on that fourth down where the line judges. The two refs could be disagree. And they just don't measure anymore. They don't take those chains. They're embarrassed of the chains. Like, why don't they measure? So like they guessed and then that guess has to be conclusively overruled.
To change, like measure it, but put it down. First of all, that there's not a chip in the ball. I think the ball was in hitting the hash mark and the chain was actually on the hash mark. The hash mark just missed it. Interesting. All right. This is a $500 billion league. Put a frickin chip in the ball. Like it's one thing if the guy's knee is down, but if we're really just measuring to see where the ball furthest the ball got,
I think we could do that. Wow. You're put a chip in the ball guy. Well, what are we doing? The chain. Do you get along with the make the gold post hires guys? Do you guys have meetings together or you're like, rival gangs? There's a big meeting. It's also an AA meeting. So yeah, it's a hell of a bringing chains out there. Like these guys are surveyors in the 1650s. So stupid. So what do we have for the over under? Can I guess that one? Oh, yeah. Sure. That's easy. That's right there. I mean, not 49 and a half.
Now I lost it. 49.5 is exactly right. You know what? I'll give you that win for that. I got one. Yeah. So the two games today went crazy over. Oh, yeah.
I mean, by over by 15, 20 points, usually there was a lot of dialogue about, well, Eagles, Washington, each team only get seven possessions. They'll be these slow games. I was like, nope, that's wrong. And then Casey Buffalo just, they kept moving the ball, but down the field. And last week was it the over four and out? No, Chiefs Texans went on there, but we had Eagles Rams had 50, Bills Ravens had 52 and the Lions commanders had 76. So yeah, you had like five out of last six go over and cold weather. Most of those games.
So for Super Bowl rematch, there's not a lot of those either. Pat's Giants was probably the most famous one of this century, but we've had some other ones. When we were growing up, Steelers Cowboys,
was like an exciting rematch. I think I get the feeling people now don't like rematches as much as like the Casey Philly. And we've already done this. I wrote it in the Jalen Hertz thing. People like to complain. Yeah, it would like Buffalo or Washington being in there would have been content fodder. Right. But I think this is a really good game. It's great. And first of all, Fox is delighted and the NFL is delighted, right? Because you got hurt, you got Barkley, you got Mahomes, you got Taylor, everything. If the Rizzler shows up again, I don't know. But I think casual fan
probably is bummed about this matchup a little bit. Like I think like maybe Cowboys chiefs would bum them out a little more. But other than that, I think this is right up there.
My son who follows football on TikTok and through YouTube shorts, he watched the most of the second half with me and at one point he turned to me and said, Dad, isn't every football season the same? Like the bills come super close and then they lose. The Chiefs make the Super Bowl. They play somebody from the other team. It seems good. Then the Chiefs win. And I was like, Nope.
You're wrong. I'm going to lie to you right now. Nope. No, that's not true at all, son. Every season is way different. There's a chip in the ball. Of course, it's the same. Yeah. Now, Jayden Daniels, you never know, son. Jayden Daniels, last week in Detroit, you shocked the world, son. Yeah.
McDermott's not going to blow this game. Well, you could just tell him that every year he could rely on a great AFC title match, right? Like seven of the last nine have been seven points or if you decide by seven points or fewer. My son, I always impressed my son by predicting what plays are going to happen. I've been playing a lot of Madden lately. I'm like, oh, empty back. I think he's going to end half the time. That's how predictable some of these plays are though. I think it's actually a bad sign if I'm on my couch and I could figure out where the ball's going.
Yeah. At the time. Like the, the, uh, especially on those like swing screen passes, you can kind of see, do you do that when you're watching the games? Do you try to predict what they're going to do? Sure. Yeah. Everyone wants to be like Romo in that regard. I just can't. When I wasn't doing it anymore.
Yeah, I think he's you know, I don't know because people are assholes and they're like we don't want to hear what's about to happen so stop circling the screen I think I don't think he was told to stop But I think he's just like forget the one I got wrong I would have bet my life on it was before the same he'll touch down with Buffalo tied it Yeah, it's like third and goal from the five I would have bet my life that Alan was gonna do the QB draw on that one take off Yeah, I just think it's been it's been so obvious
They bet they've been relying on it to the point that I think they even they realized they probably can't do it. I can I ask you when the shotgun from the one started with this and you know that's when you know my least favorite ways are. Fourth and goal or fourth and fourth and short fourth and one the QB not over the center. To me you're like just throwing away an advantage who started it to start in college was like Vince Young or like Tebow like it wasn't that long ago I mean it wasn't you know it wasn't like in the 70s or 80s I really feel like it's.
It's the cousin of it's a tie NBA game with under 10 seconds left and they do the ISO or then the guy does a step back three to win the game. But it was a tie game. It's like we just need a basket. Doesn't need to be a step back 27 footer. Yeah.
Same thing for the shotgun snap. I don't understand it. I also don't understand why Mahomes does the sneak, which we always talk about. He's got hurt that one time like five years ago, like they can't sneak him anymore. They can't. He can't just like lean down and burrow in and go for half a yard. Yeah. Although I'll say that fourth and two where they rushed up to the line after a timeout and he rolled right. It's like, wow, this guy's got it, man. This is why it's so freaking hard to beat them.
It's really impressive. We have two weeks to talk about the Super Bowl, a third podcast on my podcast. People are going to be in New Orleans, a whole bunch of things. You have a new Cowboys coach. Oh, we can skip. We can go right to Para Corner, right? We'll have to talk about this. You hired Marty Schottenheimer's son, Brian. They are related. I had a feeling. I wouldn't say Brian was a red hot coaching candidate.
which might be a good thing or a bad thing. He's the kind of guy I would have expected. Oh, the Patriots have hired Brian Schottenheimer as the QB coach for Drake May. I'd be like, good hire veteran. He's your head coach. Yeah. I don't understand it. Why didn't you hire Cliff Kingsbury? At least he's like from Texas and he's young and you could make excuses for the first job. It's like maybe he didn't get along with Kyle O'Bury. Like I don't understand Brian Schottenheimer at all.
I don't, I don't understand it either. And nothing against the guy. I'll, I'll give him a chance. I hope he does well, but I really think Jerry Jones is fucking with us. I mean, the way he's even introduced him. He's like, ah, he was known as a career assistant. It's like, yes. Yeah. Great. Jerry. That's what career assistant. That's what he said. That's how he was not just Brian anymore. He's the head coach. I'm like, you just don't care about us. You don't care about this team. This is just a joke.
Um, I, I kind of want to enter the fan trend. You know, the portal. I really want to get the into the portal and pick a different thing. Like, no, you're a house did. No, look at the Washington fans this year. You got to keep, you got to stay with your stay with the marriage house. Stay with your bad, unhappy marriage. Hate. Watch the, the Washington team until they switched ownership. And now he gets a seat in the luxury box courtesy of Washington. I'm like, all right, I'll do that. Like, why can't I just?
Watch from afar. This is disgusting. Brian Schott and Hammer, like you said, wasn't on anybody's list. It's like in fantasy, if you're doing like a snake draft and someone drafts like in the seventh round, drafts like Ray Ray McCloud. And you're like, oh, wait, hold on. I'm still looking down my list to cross. Right. You're making the joke. I got to get to page 12. Keep going. Got to keep going. Like there's something to be said about at least going through the motions and interviewing a Kellen Moore.
Or is Jones broke? What's like, is it possible he doesn't have as much money anymore? Because he paid McCarthy to the last minute of the contract. Yeah. And then just let it expire. And then he's obviously trying to save money with this coaching hire. Really weird. He's a better people. There are better versions of this guy out there. Maybe the land man thing. I think he said that. He's like, I'm an actor. I can fall back on that. If the team's bad and the team will be bad. No.
Well, it was an interesting one because the Jets interviewed, I think 230 possibilities for their head coach. And I don't even think he cracked that list. And they were interviewing people that you didn't even know were still professionally working. Yeah. He's our guy. He's been in the building three years and they still have to interview him. The fact, the funny part is that they actually interviewed him. Like, yeah, I think you know what you're getting with him. It's fine. But
It is the interview start like Brian. What went wrong with your career?
Why are you still here, Brian? Why did it peak five years ago? Conversely, I'm on an absolute high with the Patriots again. Like this, for able, for able to put together this awesome coaching staff that's like the complete opposite of what we had last year. We have all these over, like we have Doug Morone. Doug Morone like almost beat the Pats in a play in a round three playoff game five years ago. Like he was a good head coach. I'm really pumped.
I really feel like I think the Washington thing has given all the Pat's fans so much energy that it's like, they did this in a year. They just, they hit the quarterback. They did all that. So now I'm going to be more into this NFL draft than I was last year. It's so funny how Washington has affected other teams. They're the bottom, right? And the exact opposite effect on Dallas, because now we have Jayden Daniels in our division for anywhere from next year to the next 12 years, right?
And he even took a win today. I felt like I thought he was, you know, he maybe a couple passes were a little low, but for the most part, like his poise and the way he kind of kept them at that two point conversion he had was great. I just thought he's very, very cool. It's very cool. Never freaks out through a couple bad passes, but it's to be expected. I mean, how many, how many weeks are going to do this for?
Well, the cool thing for us selfishly, just like for the Sundays where we're trying to watch all these games at once, we just want as many fun QBs as we can get. And now it seems like at least May and, and, uh, and Daniels are two more to the list. Hopefully Caleb can get there. You know, hopefully Herbert will take some sort of leap. Hopefully the new Jacksonville coach will resuscitate Lawrence. Like we might get into a situation where,
Half of the teams have a fun QB. Wouldn't that be something? Yeah. I think JJ McCarthy is good. Fun QBs and Dax coming back and bad coaches shut up or what's going to keep just the lines going for another 17 years. Well, the one thing we know is we're always going to have bad owners.
Oh, yeah. Bad coaches. Yeah. By the way, the, the Celtics, here's a little, here's a little tidbit. The Celtics, they have, they, it was the first round of the buyers that they had to cut down all the prospective buyers and like, oh, I don't know, five people made the first round, four or five people. One of the people was the Eagles owner.
Really? Jeffrey Lori, who's apparently from Massachusetts. So he was, there's been a couple like, hmm, I wonder who these guys are. And there was a couple I couldn't figure out, but that's one that,
Do you like that? Do you like that? I mean, that happened with your Red Sox too, right? Isn't there like the whole? So the precedent is Josh Harris own the on the Sixers and then bought Washington's football team. The Croc is on the nuggets and he on the Rams. So there's been a couple of NBA NFL things, but I mean, I always thought the Eagles were one of the best run
Football teams, right? So if, uh, if he bought the Celtics, that's a decent outcome. There's a couple of decent outcomes in this. And it's so funny how there's only like a few owners. There's only a few quarterbacks to get and there's only a few coaches. If you don't get them, you're kind of screwed.
Yeah. And you're way more likely to have a mediocre to bad coach and a bad owner. All right. Anything else where we hit parent corner? Oh, did you hit the sad point of the season yet? Yeah. You're just going to like wrestling tournaments on a Saturday and thinking about how you have no game. It's pretty sad. I told you, when you can't make a three team teaser, unless you use the over on there, that is a, that's a. That's the official sadness day. Really bad. No, he's sad.
And after next week after we do our prop podcast, that'll be sad too. It's a step. We're gonna do it.
Parent corner, you go first. All right, I'll go first, speak in a wrestling tournament. So wrestling season's coming to a merciful end for me. And so that's my middle kid. And my youngest kid has traveled baseball and Wreckley basketball. So Saturday I have to go from Jack. Wreckley basketball. Yeah. Oh, he's all about basketball too.
It's fun. It is fun at that age and run around. So Saturday, I have to go from Jack's tournament to Harrison's basketball game. I'm about I'm going to catch just the end of his basketball game. So I walk in there. It's the fourth quarter. And I see my wife's there. And again, it's 18, 17. And she's talking to this woman seated next to her. And I have no idea who the woman is. And I mentioned that I was like, wow, the gym seems tense. And my wife's like,
Yeah, the refs aren't calling anything. These kids are really going at it. And then she goes back to talking to this woman that I don't know. So, um, and then it's clear to me. I'm like, well, she must be guessing that the refs aren't calling anything because she's not watching a second of this. And so I'm starting to get annoyed. I'm like, it's 18 sec 17 with like two and a half minutes left, like Harrison's taking shots and he's playing defense and everything. But anyway, okay. So.
Uh, she's still talking to this woman. There's eight seconds left. We're up by three. The opponent in bounds it dribbles down the court, runs down the court and just before he pulls up for the three Harrison hard fouls him.
before he goes into shooting motion. And I was like, that's fricking smart. That's like one of the smarts. The dancers must have loved it. The dancers loved it. The gym did not love it. The referees didn't love it either. And everyone's like, oh boy. But now there's like 0.6. What was the hard power? Was it like a shove or was it like a karate shot? Right. Right. Shove to the chest, maybe a little elbow. Kids of balance.
This is great. Before, before, way before the shot, definitely before the shot, but he saw that the kid was about to pull up. And there's 0.6 on the clock. And there's like no, it's not a shooting foul. And they're just going to inbound it. And the ref like mildly scolds Harrison, much like the refs did to, to, sorry, who played Philly today or already lost. Wow. Well, Washington, when they were jumping off the sides over and over and over, but he's like games over.
And, uh, and so that was it. And everyone's like, Oh, man. Oh boy. All right. So I was like, Oh, geez, he's like, I can't wait to high five of them and private later. Like like a small fist pump. Yeah. And then the kid who we shoved is like crying after the game. And I say, and I'm like, now I'm by my wife and this woman. I'm like, Oh God, look at this. This kid's crying now. And she turns to me and mouths.
That's, that's this woman's son. His name is Bob. I'll say Bob, uh, cause I don't want to say the real name, but that's all by one letter. That's Bob and this woman's son. I'm like, Oh shit. Now she's looking at me. And so now I have to eat shit a little bit. Like I left like a minute pass and I go up to her after the game and I'm like, Hey, I just like, you know, Bob played a great game. Okay. And she's giving me to look like, yeah, I fucking saw you walk in like with four minutes left in the game. Don't give me this crap. You don't even see him play.
I made it work. She didn't say that, but she gave me that look. But anyway, talking to Harrison afterwards, I'm like, look, you know, you're not supposed to films like that. We lost a game like that last week. I wasn't going to let him get the shot off. That's my boy. That's hard. No stuff. I like it. That's it. So I'm the jerk again. You know, I so 10 and 11 your Harrison's 11. Yeah.
Those are really emotional ages for boys sports. There's a lot more crying than I was ever prepared for, like in the baseball, in the basketball, like kids really melt down.
Yeah. It made me think how funny it would be if like we did this as adults, like if it was like in the game today, like Don Kincaid drops the pass. He's just sobbing on the sidelines. I would, when did they grow out of that at age 12? We do like 12. Well, it's interesting with basketball from 10 to 11, which makes it even more intense at 11. They start, they start calling double dribble a lot and they start calling travel and you can play back court defense. So it gets pretty rough and stupid.
Yeah, 10 and under. You couldn't play defense until like crossed half court. Yeah, because I was visiting our cousin Jimmy yesterday. Yeah. In South Bay and
I called you to see if you were around, and I just heard whistles in the background. And I'm like, oh, I forgot on Saturday, you're just driving around to different. My son gets burning events. Yeah. My parent corner. So my wife went away for a couple of days with some friends. She still lives here. It's not a Michelle Obama thing. And I was left alone with me and Ben and the dog.
Murph who if you've noticed has not been really on parent corner. Oh, yeah. All year because he's four. Like he really is blossomed into a great dog, mature, no accidents. We have no gates in any of the rooms in the house, anything like that. Well, my son had a friend over and they made a cake. Oh, and it was a female friend.
And he left the, you know, there's the frosting. I think he left the frosting on the counter, but maybe not enough distance for Murph not to get it. So I come home on Thursday and in the TV room,
There's just the remnants of something and it's like white. It almost looks like somebody spilled cocaine powder. And I'm like, what is it? I'm smelling it. It just smells like icing. And I'm like, Oh my God, Ben. So now I'm on Murph Watch. Nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. And then Saturday morning, the apocalypse, I noticed him sneak away a couple of times. Usually he's always where I am. Right. If I'm home and I noticed him sneak away a couple of times. Like that's where Murph are you going? And he's like, I'll be right back.
It was a poopocalypse. My office that I'm in right now, multiple shits. I could smell it. Our living room, which we had a gate so that nobody could go in there. That was a dog for months and months. And finally, we don't need the gate. It's ugly. Murph never goes in there. Double shit on the rug in there. What was the other place? Oh, and then the TV room.
Like ruin the rug. Like so like three different shits. And I had already closed the doors. So anyway, we have this machine that I would recommend anybody as a dog who likes to shit in their house. This water tank machine where you can scrub it and it picks the shit up. And I saved two of the rugs, but I haven't saved the third one.
And, uh, and he ruined it. And so last night, I was like, I, so I didn't have a good night's sleep Friday night. And I'm like, last night, I'm like, that hopefully the shit's done. I lock all the doors. He's locked in in our bedroom. There's no rug for him to pee on the bathroom, doors, clothes or poop on bathroom, doors, clothes. There's nothing he can get to. And I'm like, now I can just get a good night's sleep. Got the pod tonight with the two games. Like I just want to be like rested and prepared. Fall sleep at one o'clock.
Like 245, I just hear him circling around in the room, which means he has to go. So bring him down, it's pouring rain, goes out, he does whatever, comes back, towel them off.
hour and a half later, we repeat it again. 545. Let's do it a third time. And now I'm up. And I've been up since 545. So I don't know what I look like, but, um, but three shits. And I haven't told my wife because she's away. And so I guess this is, if she hears this, this is just going to find out. So who will get in person? Well, did you reprimand your son or no?
Oh, he's like, it wasn't my fault. He shouldn't have jumped on the counter. I'm like, no, it's 100% your fault. If you leave something on the counter, like if you left poison on the counter and he ate it and he died, it's that his fault or yours. He's a dog. He has an IQ of 20. So I've been mad at him all weekend. Right. And just like, I've never picked up this many shit. So it's like he had never shit in the house. And then it was like a year and a half of shit saved up. Jesus. Just dropping them everywhere.
So anyway, Murr's back. What are the what they make a wedding cake? What the fuck? How much ice? I don't understand. And then I was like, do I have taken in the vet today? Yeah. And I'm like, I'm not fucking taking the vet. The games are about to come on. If he dies, he dies. I was like, rock, it was like, it's a treat. But but it was just
And I actually felt bad for him because last time I was like, I'm not even bringing it in. Just stay outside for two hours. And then I kind of forgot about him. I was watching a movie for Rewatchables. And then I heard him bark and came back down and I brought him in. And he was like, so emotionally destroyed. So you left me out there. I didn't think you were going to come get me. So anyway, it's been a roller coaster weekend. And I've had, I think, three hours. Wow. Can I say something you said? The lesson is don't get a duck.
No, yeah, wait on a dog or at least get that rug cleaner for sure. You said the dogs have an IQ of 20. This might sound like a smart dog. Like when you say like the dog left the room to do all this, he knew he knew like that makes me think sometimes that dogs are smarter than humans. Like he had the wherewithal to be crafty enough or embarrassed enough or whatever it was to do it in another room.
for a just it's like it's almost like a cheating spouse where it's like I'll be right back. I just got to go to the bathroom and then they're have they're on a phone call. I thought you said she went away with her friends. The dog. The dog. The dog. Yeah. Yeah. Now he's he's like I'll be right back. Just going to go get some water. It's like he's he's like what broke? I haven't a shit on yet. So anyway, I'm looking at our chat. What are they saying? People
Chris Shimmer says, I love how Bill Snow contends he's never done below. I've never done cocaine. I swear on my kids. I'm not even positive I've been in the same room with it. I'm like very virginal with cocaine. I'm not gonna ask you if you... I've not done it. And I had the opportunity, because I had gambling money once to loan my roommates who were dealing with money. He was like, you give me $150 and you can make 600. But he ended up, I was like, I don't even, I don't know why I said no.
It was starting good. It wasn't even doing that. Yeah. So anyway, Murph ruined my weekend. Yeah. And it looked like the two bets were going to ruin my weekend. And then the Chiefs came through, which brings us full circle. Yeah, we go. Can always count on the Kansas City Chiefs to save your weekend, especially when they're the second team.
I thought Romo was outstanding today. I want to mention that as well. Really good. I really thought he did a great job. Romo, we were in rough shape with him a couple of years ago. It just didn't seem like he was putting in the work, but it feels like he is. Well, I like it because even last week, a little tiny bit wishy washy. I was like, oh, man, is he just not a cold weather announcer? But now he came back. I think he did okay. Like two. That's it for, uh, that's it for Paracore.
That's it. So next time I see you will be next Sunday. We're going to be doing our annual Super Bowl props podcast. I love that there's like 150 up already. It's not even Monday. This is terrific. We always used to have to wait until the second week. I have a quick NBA thing for you. You know, we had that Pacers bet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Tell everybody what that is. Tell me. No, we did. Well, it's Pacers over.
Minnesota under Sacramento. We did like four weeks ago. Now it seems like Sacramento might screw us because we need them to be under 42 ends. I think the Pacers
are about to make a little run here. I'm just talking about from a gambling standpoint next couple of weeks. I like what I'm, they have other guys back. I just think there's something interesting about them that I've been monitoring. I have a lot of the teams at each conference. That's, and I think Golden State's on the flip side. I think, did you see this, that Golden State is one in 20 after the third quarter when they don't have a lead? Like to me, Golden State, if they don't make a trade, like this is, this is a punt. Yeah. What did, what did we get the patience at?
Oh, we're going to hit that one. We got it at like 40, 41 and a half. Okay, so it's 46 and a half, but you wouldn't double back on it, would you? That's too much. Oh, for regular season wins. Yeah. What's the record? That doesn't matter. Yeah, no, I don't know. The record.
25 and 20. So 47, they'd have to go 22, 22 and 15. Yeah. That's pretty good. That seems like it comes out to the last week. Yeah.
Yeah, they said, well, we already have that. Yeah. Yeah, I was just wondering, I mean, so when you talk about how you play them at this point, what more? 46 and a halfs high. So we, so we definitely hit that one. Golden State is 41 and a half now. And unless they do a desperation trade, that one might be going under. Um, the only other one.
that I think, I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Lakers look good in that Salty game. I know. And then they look good against the Warriors and I'm starting to wonder if maybe they found a little something because there's a physicality to them. I wrote them off. I thought they should have traded Anthony Davis and it's only two games. I'm not zigzagging, but I'm just watching them because I saw a team in that Boston game in person that
just seemed like they were figuring out an identity that I didn't think they had. And then they did the same thing. It's gold state. This was a tough track. Physical team. Yeah, like they threw the next four games or they're in that four game run that where it was going to be tough. And I bet them to make a play in. I'm like, oh, they're definitely going to get into play. And could you could do that on Fandal? I'm like, now they're minus two. They could actually make it. Well, now they're minus two 25 to make them to make the playoffs. So yeah. Yeah, there's seven games over 500. Right.
I wasn't even considering them potentially being good until those last two games because they're defending way better than they did. They have enough shooters now, Gabe Vincent's given them something.
Um, that he was not giving earlier in the season. So I, it's, I don't want to put plan a flag on it yet, but I'm, I might have been wrong about them. Well, I thought for sure. Once they let Bronnie go to the G league, I'm like, that's a mistake. They're going to regret sending that generational talent somewhere else. And, uh, and who knows if he even comes back if they want them.
No, Brian is the best thing that happens to go into Laker games now because people want to, they want to see him, but they usually the games over. Right. So we, I took catch to the Laker game. We got out of there. We were out of the garage in like 30 seconds. Cause every, it was like the easiest time to, yeah, everyone says, usually people are fleeing, but everybody kind of wanted to stick around. Nice. Um, I don't want him to punch the lead, I think. Oh, he was in rare form.
Uh, yeah, the only other one is Cleveland. I was thinking about this for next year, that team that starts out super hot. Yeah, they're ridiculous. And then around the 40 game mark, they're huge favorites in every game, but they, they relax a little bit and they lose a couple. And I want to remember that for next year. They added some is minus four 70 for coach of the year. What would they have to, what kind of, what kind of claps would they have to have for him not to win at this point? Wow.
What's crazy is the Thundercoach is 30 to one, and that guy's doing an amazing job. He lost Holmgren for the whole season, basically. Yeah. But he won last year, though, right? I mean, I'm all for the guys that get votes, but I think that's, I don't think they give it two years in a row too much. Joker at plus two 30 for MVP on Fandals seems like really good odds. As you know, I'm not allowed to. All right. You promised me you'd get the vote. You have the vote. No, but I'll tell you, here's why, because
First of all, it's only game 45. Second of all, there's really only two candidates right now. But Denver's a four seed now. Like you can't win the MVP unless it's either a shitty year or you're like a top three team. They're probably going to be a top three team in the West.
which puts him in play, and he's having this historic offensive season. And it's at least an argument. So that's the hedge on Shay, because I have SGA because of you, your house and Russell, because I got like plus 350. Now he's minus 350. Oh, when we were, we were telling people early that, yeah, if you're just talking value. Yeah. It's a two person race. No one else. I would be really surprised. Oh, man. I mean, Janus is 120. Yeah, everybody's triple figures.
Anybody else? Now, it's those two. So if you wanted to hedge it, I would hedge it with the Oak Ridge. The rookie of the year is funny because all of a sudden, where on Miami became the favorite because it was good for two weeks. Like that's how bad I still, I still think castle plus three, 10 is probably a little. I have SAR from the beginning of the year.
Yeah, and then most improved. That one always changes right around like mid February, all of a sudden, people get excited. Same for defensive player of the year. I think six man's a little more open than Pritchard being minus 170 because he hasn't been.
Like just looking at those ads, I'm in Thompson, who's been incredible, especially lately. He's eight to one. Yeah. He's, he's having a, I think a more impactful year than Prichard is. You could argue, Thompson's the best rocket right now. I mean, remember Westbrook was a big favorite. Oh, not Westbrook. Who'd they make? I was a Westbrook with six men. Did that make sense? Like a few years ago? And then like he became a starter and then they screwed it up and went away. So that's what you have to avoid. Like which one of those top four could be getting the starting lineup?
Cause what do you got to plug? Uh, what do I have against all odds? A couple of times this week through the ringer with Tate Frazier cousin Sal's winning weekend at the end of the week and a frontier wireless blows and their customer service reps are a fucking liars. That's it. Bye. See you next week. Um, are you doing content with Tate this week? Yeah. What do you want me to ask? Is he focused yet on Charlotte trading for curry?
That was always his dream scenario. Oh, interesting. I don't know. I don't think Golden State's ever trading curry, but Tate's Tate's dream was Golden State was going to become mediocre. And at some point, the move is just a cash and curry before during the last stretch of his career. What does that look like? He goes back to Charlotte. First round pick. You grew up there. The number one, no, I know, but what do they have to give up? I think La Melo's in it. Yeah.
I don't know what the trade is. I never want to play. That's a great trade. Anyway, that's Tate. See what he thinks. All right. Thanks to Kyle Gahal. Thanks to Sirudeev those down here. You can watch all of our stuff on YouTube. Please subscribe for us. And I got a movie. Watch what's coming to us. So that's about it. Sal, congrats on the guest alliance title again. Good job, buddy. Good job, buddy. And good job by the Chiefs. Thanks, everybody.
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