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Podcast Summary: New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce - Episode 118
Episode Overview Title: Playoff Preview, Rest vs. Records, and Blind Ranking the Best Plays of the NFL Season Hosts: Jason & Travis Kelce Release Date: [Insert Date] Sponsor: Audible Theme: The episode features a mix of personal anecdotes, NFL playoff discussions, and a fun segment where the hosts rank notable plays from the NFL season.
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Key Discussions
Holiday Recap
- Personal Updates:
- Jason and Travis share how they spent the holidays and their thoughts on the recent Mayo Bowl.
- Jason mentions his debut on a late-night show, expressing excitement for future episodes.
Travis' Record
- Record Achievements:
- Travis discusses breaking Tony Gonzalez's touchdown record for the Kansas City Chiefs.
- He reflects on the significance of the record and his mentality towards striving for improvement rather than focusing on milestones.
Chiefs' Playoff Strategy
- Resting Starters:
- The Chiefs opted to rest their starters, raising discussions about the strategy surrounding playoff readiness.
- Travis expresses his thoughts on facing other teams in the playoffs, emphasizing he wants to compete against the best.
Wild Card Weekend Preview
- Matchup Predictions:
- Discussion on which Wild Card games will be the most exciting, highlighting the Eagles' strategy of resting players versus Saquon Barkley's rushing record attempts.
- They debate the significance of rushing records in the NFL and the impact of player health on team success.
Blind Ranking Segment
- Ranking Notable Plays:
- The brothers blind rank some of the top plays from the NFL season.
- Highlights include impressive trick plays, touchdowns, and defensive feats.
- They discuss the impact of each play on games and the uniqueness of the performances.
No Dumb Questions
- Listener Interaction:
- The segment includes humorous listener questions regarding the changes in football gear (like jockstraps) and opinions on fall weddings, showcasing their comedic chemistry.
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Key Takeaways
- Family Dynamics: The brotherly banter and personal stories create a relatable and engaging atmosphere.
- NFL Insights: Their perspectives on playoff strategies provide listeners with insider knowledge of team dynamics and player motivations.
- Entertainment Blend: The mix of sports talk, personal anecdotes, and humorous interactions keeps the podcast lively and entertaining.
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Closing Remarks
- Future Episodes:
- The episode concludes with a teaser about an upcoming guest episode featuring Will Ferrell, encouraging listeners to stay tuned.
- Call to Action:
- Listeners are encouraged to subscribe, follow on social media, and consider joining Wondery Plus for early and ad-free content.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like surreal but I gotta say fuck that dude you're the fucking receiving touchdowns leader in kansas city chief fucking history welcome back to new heights ladies and gentlemen happy motherfucking new year how about that that's right too late to say that no it's great i haven't seen you guys in so long wondery show that's what this is a wondery show produced by wave sports and entertainment If you didn't know, and a big thanks to our presenting sponsor, Audible. Because who doesn't like to listen? Audible. Start listening today when you sign up for a free 30-day trial.
0:44What? Audible.com slash new heights. Check it out. We're your hosts. I'm Travis Kelsey and my big brother, Jason Kelsey, out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Heights, Tigers till we die. Yes, sir. Cincinnati Bearcats as well. Subscribe on YouTube wherever you get your podcasts. Wondry Plus is our favorite. and follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s jason tell the people what we got coming up we're back yes yes i hope the 92 percenters have loved the holidays um and a happy new year's uh but what's the cutoff for saying happy new year just whenever you see somebody within the month of january i think it's a good happy new mass maybe two weeks a little far maybe a week and a half two weeks you got to be within the same week of the happy new year no No, no.
1:29I'm a big general like, yeah, yeah, happy new year. Happy new year. That's the 10th. I mean, we still got a good 50 weeks left. We got a lot. Yeah, yeah. All right. I don't know what else to go with it for that. All right. Today we are going to talk about what we've been up to. Wrap up last week of the NFL regular season. Look ahead to the wild card. So much to talk about. And also, we're going to try and rank the plays of the year. Ooh. All right. I'll rank them things. Let's see how that goes. I like that. We did that for the Christmas movies. Ended up pretty good. All right. All right. As always.
2:03And new news. New news. That's right. New news is brought to you by Peloton. All right. Ooh. Oh, nice. All right. We're dropping some new merch from Amage. Yes, we are. It's our ultimate fan favorites collection. I think we got Jets Jake here. He's got some of these shirts. He was in town for the first taping of the late night show. Yeah. As a water boy. And now he's going to show us some of these shirts. How about that? Oh, is this Vanna White or is this Jets Jake? I know which one I think is better looking.
2:44There we go. Out of the house. Couple options. Couple options for out of the house. Dude, I love those. I love those. What do we got? Nice. What else we got? A little new hats. Club 92. Club 92. Nice. little Club 92. So, it's all our Club 92 members. We're bringing back some fan favorites. We got the beard. Ooh, yeah. Is that? That's Travis or that's me? No, that's you, Jason. Stop. Stop it. My beard isn't that dark. El Trevidor. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. El Trevidor. And then we got what you're wearing. Oh, what I'm wearing? Oh, New Heights Film Club. Yes, sir. I like this. Oh, that one's sweet.
3:24I want that one. Do I get any of these? They didn't tell me if you were getting them or not. I'll check the mail. They're at your house. Oh, nice. Well, as you just said, yeah, this is our ultimate fan favorites collection. The official shirt of Leaving the House. Is this official? You did. Do we need a shirt for staying the fuck inside the house? No. As is all of Kansas City right now because of this crazy snowstorm. Yeah, I'm kind of sick of that. I'm already sick of it. So, no. I'm going to say no. we need more out of the house t-shirts, more out of the house mentalities to keep this city thriving.
4:01You know? It's playoff football. We gotta get the fuck out of the house. I'm with that. I'm with that. You can check out our ultimate fan collection right now at homage.com slash new heights. You heard the man. Yeah, let's catch up on some holiday stuff. Did you guys watch any of the college football playoffs? This is Brandon asking us. Jason did you watch any of the college football playoffs I am not going to lie I've watched None of the football playoffs Nice did you watch any of the Holiday football NFL Games I did watch a lot Of the holiday football NFL games Nice including the Kansas City Chiefs yes you did That was a good one that was a good one That was a fun one very good one By the way you had a new pair Of cleats on we talked about this New pair of cleats there's a new pair of cleats Same pair of cleats.
4:50It was a solid red. No, it was a different pair. Oh, a different colorway. Nice. Same cleats, different color. It looked like a little bit higher top. I think it was a different pair of cleats. A little bit more of a boot? Yeah. You're hilarious. I'm pretty sure Jordan makes them the exact same when they make them. They just switch the color out. But no, I hear what you're saying. Sometimes the color makes a difference. You think I looked a little lighter, a little quicker? You looked pretty quick out there. You had some good agile. I am. Somebody said it looks like I'm moving in slow motion. That's a different cleat right there.
5:21That's the exact same cleat that I've been wearing all year. No, that's shinier. It's got plastic around it. It's patent leather, baby. Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some patent leather on it. Let's keep those up. Let's keep wearing those. You don't like the other ones? Yeah, no. Yeah. Well, they didn't like you either. How about those Texas Longhorns? We know who put that in the fucking rundown. Shout out to the Longhorns. I'm not a Longhorn hater. I got some friends and shit. 92 %ers want to know, did you watch the Mayo Bowl, Jason? Your favorite. I watched the clips of all the ridiculousness from the Mayo Bowl, but I did not watch the Duke's Mayo Bowl itself.
6:00I think intern Brandon has a video. The patented. That's not me.
6:09Get it off the screen. Wow. I mean, it's just a waste. I'm sweating. Get it off the screen. Oh, it's in his hair. What do you think countries that are struggling? Not again. What do you think countries that are struggling for food? Watch something like that. It's just like, how many eggs went into that water cooler of mayonnaise that we just decided to dump all over somebody's head. I mean, that's what Dad mentioned all our childhood, is that there's kids starving. Starving in China, which I think China is a lot different spot than it was when we were kids. But I don't know if that one still works.
6:58I think there's kids starving in every country at some level. I think that's probably accurate. That's just kind of how the world goes, unfortunately. Yeah. But it's our job to help them by eating all our food. at least that's the message dad that's that was what we were told to be grateful anyways no we did not watch the middle of the fuck out of there's a lot of funny bits that they did with mayonnaise though i gotta admit to that no the best was the the pop-tart bowl can we get out of the may can we get out of mayo god what the fuck is that they're like bobbing for something what are they bobbing for i'm not gonna lie man i love mayonnaise this is fucking gross like it is just it's very hard to get this shit out of here man god damn it oh my gosh it is fucking they're going in face first could you imagine getting this shit up your nose man oh man god damn it i'm gonna shut the fucking computer down if you do anything more with mayo i mean that's not a challenge you want to do i feel like we got another mayo thing coming up that's i don't want to know anymore i'm kind of over it too but now i just kind of want to see all right that's it all right that's the last of the mayo all right what the fuck is that those potatoes they were getting potatoes out of there It's fascinating.
8:34I don't know where to even go. Brandon said the Pop-Tart bowl was good, though. I thought they had the coolest mascots. The mascot was fucking around. They had the unveiling of it, like the ripping of the foil. Yeah. What was your favorite Pop-Tart growing up? What flavor? My favorite Pop-Tart, if we're not counting Toaster Strudel. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking flavor of like the out-of-the-wrapper Pop-Tart, silver wrapper. I mean, listen, it's hard to go wrong with the strawberry, but the brown the fuck is so good the brown uh what was it the brown sugar one was like a nice change up i didn't like it all the time but when i had had strawberry too many times in a row it was like a good little switch up it was a nice curveball yeah was that what that was was a brown sugar i think it was brown sugar right it was there was there was a brown sugar one i think there was a s'mores one i know i don't fuck with s'mores for some reason i am not a big you're not a s'mores guy no not flavored and really if i'm being honest not even like making them it's just the messy i just get marshmallow over my beard yeah it's fun by a campfire though dude there's the sneaky one that came in as we were just like getting too old for to eat pop tarts every day go the blueberry one which the uh wild berry wild berry yeah it was the purple with the purple icing yeah dude it's a good one it's a very good one fucking crack couldn't you could you imagine a childhood without those i don't know by the way i saw one of the most disturbing videos ever of somebody uh torching oreos torching i saw that i saw where it's just like it's basically flame retardant are you fucking kidding me listen man that's what happens when you when you when you eat heavily processed food it's it's pretty resistant it's a resistant material it was torching a oreo for like fucking 30 seconds and the oreo did not fucking even catch on fire.
10:26No, it was like a heat shield. It like deflected it. It looked like the Oreo was entering Earth's atmosphere, and it was just like plummeting, and it was not disintegrating. It was just fighting off. Basically, if you... It was a comet. If you threw an Oreo out of the space station, eventually it would land. It wouldn't burn up in Earth's orbit, which is crazy to think about. They should just cover the space shuttles. I don't know why. I can't eat them now. I can't. I feel like I'm just doing something so bad to my body. And I used to eat them by the fucking row. By the sleeve. Moving on. Jason is officially a late night TV host.
11:10That's right. They call it late night. They call it late night. Premiered last weekend. Yes, it did. That it did. How'd it go, dude? How'd it feel to be live? Oh, I just didn't look at the camera and played to the audience. I did everything that every late night show told me not to do. So that was perfect. No, it was good. I mean, listen, I think we had Charles Barkley. Fuck yeah, you did. Lil Dicky. Yeah. And Brian Baldinger. The crowd was electric. I love that. It was a lot of fun in the venue. And you do that in Philly, right? We do it in Philly. Yep. Union transfer. Yeah. I mean, we tried some delightfully stupid comedy bits that were fun to try.
11:53And we did some panel discussions and we had a fan contest for chugging beer to see who won, who got some tickets to the Super Bowl. I love that, man. I don't know. I'm learning. It was a good experience. I talked to my man, Scott Van Pelt, and he was, you know, just like, it's exciting to start something new. Right. And you're, you've worked a lot to get there and then you just keep on figuring it out. So it was a great time. The guests were fantastic. The crowd was into it. so I just want to thank everybody because I had a blast. As long as you're having fun doing it, man, that's all I'm doing.
12:28Listen, all I'm doing, I can't say it on this because the Will Ferrell thing comes out on Friday, but we're going full said. That's all I know. Oh, yeah. Listen, everybody loves him when Jason goes full said. We got Joe Buck and Michelle Beisner Buck coming on the show this week. Oh, it's going to be awesome. So that'll be fun. The Bucks. Man, you have to ask him about what happened at the Super Bowl. Come on. 2019 we're not getting into this it felt so bad dude get me out of here man sorry about that joe i love you um yeah and uh is this are we catching up with what are uh what did i i went uh i didn't do anything for new year's uh stuck working on new year's eve and new year's and yeah that's all i I got.
13:21Well, you went to New York. I did go to New York. I had some delicious food and got to see the big city, which I fucking absolutely love. Love the big city. All right. Well, last bit of new news. We're back with not just one episode this week, but two. Oh, yeah. That's right. You're going to get two new episodes and new heights this week. This Friday, we will drop a guest episode with the one and only Will Ferrell. What? Ah, favorite part of the combo. I do. I don't know. I don't know, dude. I mean, I think I think his advice struck both of us as like gold. Yeah. And we'll let you guys we'll let you guys catch up on that.
14:01If they didn't already just completely delete it out of the scene. It was so fun to reminisce about all the characters he's played, like in the here, how he got started in it. And just advice on, you know, how to be successful and funny. Let's not kid ourselves. That was the best part of the show was him answering some of our new heights call-ins voice. You're right. It was, and you guys are not going to want to, you're not going to want to miss that. We got to see Will Ferrell in action in person off the cuff. We got to see, you know, anyways. Okay. I don't want to. All right. That's it for new news.
14:38It's brought to you by Peloton. Find your push, find your power with Peloton. Hey, moving on to bold topics, to wrap up week 18 in the NFL. All righty, week 18. The Kansas City Chiefs are in the playoffs. Yeah. So here's what the Chiefs have been up to since we recorded our last episode. Travis is now the all-time leader in receiving touchdowns for the Kansas City Chiefs. How does it feel, Bubba? Huh? It feels about the same as when I was tied with Tony G. I've been very, you know, I feel like towards the end of your career, when you hit these milestones of, you know, anybody playing past 10 years is going to hit some type of milestone, whether it's games played or whatever it is statistically.
15:26And, you know, it's it's cool, but I'm it's cool, like being recognized for, you know, whether it's just greatness of being out there on the field or touchdowns or something stats or something like that. But I feel like I'm sitting in such a mode of like trying to be better than I was yesterday. I've just, I'm always thinking of, I need to be better. I need to be better. That when I pass or I do something like this where I hit a big milestone in my career, I'm just like, yeah, but I need to be better than that. I need to be, you know, I'm not about to sit here and think about, you know, how far I've come when I'm still striving to go somewhere that's even greater than where I'm at.
16:06Over the past, like when I first got in the league, stats were, I mean, that's everything. That's how I judged somebody's, you know, greatness. And I think it just goes so much further than that for me now. You know, not necessarily because I'm not putting up the same stats as I used to, but more so is I know how to influence a game more than just what the stat book says. Sure. And I've kind of pried myself on that now. And it's just when I see that I've achieved stats like this, it's kind of like, yeah, man, it's cool to be in the conversations of the great ones like Tony Gonzalez. And don't get me wrong.
16:44This is only what Tony accumulated in Kansas City. I'm still like another 140 touchdowns away from catching his all-time career touchdown record or touchdowns. It's cool to be in conversations with him, knowing that he's been the guy that I've set at the top that I've been chasing in terms of his greatness every single day. I remember the legend of Tony when I first got here, just trying to fill his shoes in terms of how hard of a worker he was. Everyone raved about, you know, the time he spent in the building, the focus he had on his nutrition, the amount of hours and the amount of catches that he had on the jugs before practice, after practice, when guys weren't in the building and things like that.
17:28And it's just the legend of him was was so, you know, unachievable that I just started to like every single day try and become that version of myself. You know, just spend the time in the building, find find ways to keep getting better and find ways to, you know, be the best version of yourself. And I'm just so fortunate that I had Tony G sitting on top of the pedestal and trying to fill his shoes my entire career, because I think that helped me motivate myself. and helped me really appreciate the situation I was in here in Kansas City. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think you and I are both on the same page with stats.
18:08I mean, you coined the whole term LeBron stat. I think that they can be very misleading at times and not telling the whole picture. Yeah. You know, being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like incredibly surreal, especially from like watching him play and knowing how dominant he was. But I got to say, fuck that, dude. You're the fucking touchdown receiving touchdown leader in Kansas city. Jeez fucking history. That's fucking crazy. That's entire franchise's history. You're the number one receiving. And I know that it's been building up. So it's not like, you know, it's come out of nowhere.
18:50But I think when you look back to being a third round pick, When you look back to like in college, you know, having struggles or whatever, playing quarterback, then going to tight end. It's just been a crazy career arc. Yeah. And it's something that I think is awesome. And I couldn't be more proud of you for having that record. Shout out to Tony for formerly having it. And obviously, he went on to have more successful things in other teams. But I ain't shortchanging this shit worth one goddamn second. This ain't a LeBron stat. This is a Travis Kelsey stat. and it's fucking dope. I appreciate you, brother.
19:25Tony G said he'd pay the fine if you did this. You went up and dunked in Tony G fashion on the goalpost. Sort of. Did you get fined? Of course I did. Did the NFL determine it to be a dunk? That's the real question. Who cares what anybody else is? Did John Runyon say it's a fine? He did, yeah. They all did. They said since I touched the goalpost, it was a fine, yeah. When you were doing it, were you trying to throw it up to avoid the fine? Or were you trying to dunk it? I was trying to get my fucking old ass up there, man. Shit. Fourth quarter of the game, my fucking legs are tired after like a 10-play drive.
20:06I'm over here trying to just like, I'm just like, screw it. I'm going to send it one time for old time's sake, man. That looked like a Jason Kelsey attempted dunk right there. Yeah, that was me slapping the backboard. That wasn't me actually flushing it, man. it was the McAfee said it best it was the angle I got to come around I got to hit that thing straight on it was a funny angle it was a funny angle you went from the baseline yeah it was back in the day when I actually had when I had bounce man I could never matter what angle it was we got some clips for sure I don't know where they are but they're out there somewhere they're on a VHS tape somewhere yeah the NFL has announced that it is a uh 14 ,069 is that in honor of John Runyon The 69 at the end?
20:50$14 ,069 for unsportsmanlike conduct. I think repeat offender. I think I'm a repeat offender. That's why it's so high. Ah. Yeah. That'll get you in America. That's where they get you. Yeah, that'll get you. They get you on the repeat offender in America. Oh, and Tony, last thing, you don't have to do that, dude. It was so cool to hear you even say it, dude, but you don't have to help me pay that fine. It's all going to good cause, and Jason said he'd pay it. I did not say that. Dude, you literally just said it. No. We've recorded everything, so we can definitely. Please play it back where I have said that.
21:26All right. I would love to see it. Will do. Good thing there's AI. The Chiefs also clinched the number one seed in the AFC. Resting their starters, or the majority of them, in week 18. Was there ever a chance you guys are going to play in the game? I don't know why I'm asking this. Well, our offensive line started the first drive, and then we kind of. The whole offensive line started? Just about, except for... Tooney? No, Tooney was out there. The fuck? Why'd they do that? Huh? Why'd they do that? Oh, it's because Humphreys is back and they wanted them to get like a... I'm not sure why they did it.
21:59Listen, I'm just here. You know why that it happened? Yeah. I was about to say, yeah. No, I mean, either way, it doesn't fucking matter whether they played one snap or no snaps. We got our fucking asses kicked and that wasn't a fun game to be a part of. well there's there's some people alleging that it was a purposeful letting get your ass i ain't scared of fucking nobody i'm not i wanted i wanted him in the fucking play i'm not alleging this i want to i want to slay every dragon one by one like mortal combat i don't even want this to be like uh we play the lowest seed just give me the best teams i'm not travis i'm just telling you afc nfc give me all of them mortal combat style i'll go through every fucking one of them just giving them my best fucking effort i ain't scared of a single soul man you didn't want to see the bangles in burrowhead or in cincinnati i'll play them at the walmart parking lot i don't give a shit we can we can have our own game in the off season we really duke it out again i listen i love competing against the greatest the bangles were a fun-ass fucking team to watch there towards the end of the season and uh it's a shame they didn't make it in the playoffs because they would have made the playoffs that much fucking crazier and that much more fun did you see they fired Lou and Rumo?
23:09I don't know what the fuck is going on over there. That was a wild, wild move I did not see coming because I thought that from the outside, their defense was playing really fucking good towards the end of the year. They definitely played better. I just think Lou, I don't think they had the horses on defense that they've had in the past, and Lou got handcuffed. I don't know that it made sense. He's proven how good of a D coordinator he is with good players, but whatever. I'm with you, dude i'm with you i've always respected the hell out of them i've also respected a lot of the the players on that side of the ball uh you know given who they had this year i mean burrow put up over like what like 4 000 something yards like it was something crazy he had a great year chase and t that was one of the wackiest years of football i've ever seen from uh from a team uh that i thought it was crazy 10 times better than what their record showed uh and that and i know that uh just playing against them but yeah we uh we didn't fucking throw any game all right guys were out there competing their ass off trying to get a win um unfortunately we just you know we couldn't you know put drives together we couldn't stop denver um and it just uh it wasn't a it wasn't a fun game to be a part of and i'm just sitting here on the sideline like hey boys don't let this shit ruin our fucking mojo when we got our we we got we got everybody rolling and and you know it's uh it's go time uh we got to flip that switch and know we're the biggest baddest team out there Well, I mean, you guys went 15-1, so you guys technically are the biggest, baddest team in the NFL, record-wise.
24:38Oh, yeah, I forgot. So now you are tied with Detroit. 92 %ers reached out and asked us, please write the script for this week, a section Travis can talk about being stuck in a plane. I want to know what it was like in there with grown men, probably two bathrooms. I guarantee Travis will just say I was asleep. How did you know? I mean, Jesus Christ, she called. I'd text you right at the beginning of it. You text me right after you guys took off. Dude, I was fucking. When I get on these planes, I eat my Chick-fil-A and I fucking recline my seat. I put on my headphones and I fucking I'm out. I could sleep at a fucking rock concert.
25:19It doesn't matter where I'm at. I don't know how I got this trait, but I am literally. I have the ability to sleep anywhere at any time. as long as long as i'm comfortable i can just shut it down i was out for about three hours on the runway while everybody was kicking it having a grand old time i heard some old linemen were wrestling i heard everybody's telling war stories and having a good old time and i woke up as the plane was taking off and i was like what the fuck it feels like i've been asleep for forever and i looked at the time and i'm just like where the fuck what just happened right and uh yeah i got briefed and i think there's um there might be some pics and some videos of me just absolutely just completely knocked out yeah somebody might have got me they might have sniped me i think the the more frustrating part with not being able to come back to kansas city we had to stay in denver for another night uh not that denver isn't a beautiful city and i don't love denver because i i do find that city really cool oh but it's not fun sitting around in a hotel room and you guys didn't go out and celebrate dude if i would have been stuck at that vibes weren't vibes weren't real high we just got waxed like 38 nothing so you know we kind of felt bad for some of the young guys and some of the guys that you know we were rooting for to try and have a good game and coach reed doesn't fucking like losing i know going out and fucking having a grand old time and maybe getting caught on a video doing something stupid wasn't the best idea so uh we all just kind of hung out and just grabbed dinner together.
26:52All right. Well, congrats. You guys have Dubai. Much needed rest. It's coming at Dubai in the playoffs makes such a big deal. So that's huge. It is huge. It is huge. But it's a lot of time off. I've had already, I think, a week and a half, almost two weeks by tomorrow. Because of the Wednesday game. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully we can get into this. in the shells, put our helmets and pads on over the weekend, get some good contact in, and work our craft and find out who we're playing next week. Fuck yeah. You're ready to rock and roll, baby. Nothing better than playoff football, man. I punched our ticket to the dance, and now it's time to fucking dance, baby.
27:39I love this shit. I fucking love it. Perfect. Let's keep this thing moving to the rest of week 18, an action-packed week 18 that uh decided some teams on whether or not they were going to cancun or fucking going to going to the playoffs yeah eagles also rested their starters instead of trying to uh get saquon to break the nfl season single season rushing record which uh somehow create created some controversy um barkley only needed 101 yards to break it i don't think you guys realize how fucking hard it is to get a hundred yards rushing in the nfl it is not just like oh you put him out there he'll get it like that's just not how that happens yeah he would have got it the new york giants draft he would have fucking blew that thing out the door yeah but instead the giants came right good point i think he definitely gets it if he plays but i i you can't i think look about did they did they release what zay flower's injury is yet did they release whether he's coming back for the first said that it's not season ending but that it is it is a serious issue so they don't know if that he's they said it's i think it's a doubt that he'll play this week but uh hopes that he'll play next week if they advance i mean listen i think what did i want barkley to go for the record you're goddamn right i think it would have been awesome to watch it happen because it's a fucking rushing record why would i not want to watch that happen but i think that it's the right move to not play him it's always gonna have an astridge against why would have an asterisk why because it's 17 games he said it in less carries he's got 40 less carries than dickerson did see no you're right yes he does he got me yeah and he could if he would have had the same amount of carries dickerson would have had through 16 games he would have set the record there too and we don't put an asterisk next to dickerson who broke oj simpson's record at 14 games or whatever it was who broke jim brown's at 12 or whatever that was i just dude i think the rushing record is awesome but i think it's obviously the right call.
29:38He gets hurt. You got to put the O-lineman out there. One of those guys get hurt. The aspirations of the team are a Super Bowl. They are not just sneaking in. They're legit contenders. They needed this buy. They didn't get it from being the number one seed. If they would have had the buy wrapped up, I could see maybe making the argument to go for it. But because they didn't, they got to rest. They got to get healthy. They got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl. Well, one at a time. But they got to put their best feet forward. They're starting to play great ball right now. They're rolling.
30:10They did put their backups in and still beat the brakes off of the Giants. The other thing that I want to say about Saquon in this, and I do think the rushing title is the coolest record in football. I don't think there's anything better. And I don't know if it's because we grew up in Cleveland with Jim Brown, but like there's something about the rushing title record in the NFL, like passing yards leader, don't give a crap. Receiving yards leader. I don't know. I mean, it's cool but it's not cool as rushing yards leader in a season i don't know why it's not but it's not and maybe it's because of you earn more of every yard yeah like there's something about it that is cooler like you're the baddest dude in the nfl if you got that says that's that and he had a chance to set that record he had a chance to do it in the city of philadelphia for the eagles and he had a chance to do it against a team that literally did not pay like did not value him they let him walk in a bunch of against a bunch of fans that were burning his jersey just earlier that year like he's playing in the game before they're burning his jersey in the parking lot like this could have been an all-time storyline historic moment in the nfl so yes i would have loved to have seen it but it's the right call it's the right call i want to emphasize that it still is a storyline and honestly if yeah i think i think it's more like what's the slap in the face that he didn't even have to play in the game what's that's true that's true but But it's not the storyline.
31:31This is why we should have kept it at 16 games. Looking back at the rushing titles, there's so many guys. There's a few guys that have broken 2 ,000 yards, and you forget that they even – like Derrick Henry broke 2 ,000 yards. I knew that. I didn't even remember that Derrick Henry did it until we started talking about it this week. You're insane. I'm pretty sure I played him. That's why. Yeah. Then freaking – he almost did it again this year. I think he's the first back to ever have over like 1950 or something. Yeah, something like that. Did Chris Johnson do it? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I remember all of these.
32:05Like, I just feel like none of these – but none of these are, like, notable. I'm just being honest. Like, everybody thinks of Dickerson. I'm just being honest. Adrian Peterson's the only one because he was, like, seven yards away. Dude, when Chris Johnson was – dude, that year was insane. You're crazy. Nobody said it was an insane year, but it's not historic because he didn't break the record. I think it is more than – Unless you get the record, it's just another great year. You get the record, you're the best. You're the baddest dude on the planet ever to play the game. Regardless of what anybody says about 17 games, 16 games, you get, hey, I got the all-time record, brother.
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32:40But either way. I hear what you're saying. I think all those years were equally as memorable as this one. Yeah, they are. Equally memorable as in not being historic. What? You think people are just going to not remember Saquon's story of going to a new team? They're going to remember it, but they're not going to remember it as if it was the record-breaking year. It's not going to be this heralded season by the entire NFL standard. It's just not going to be that now. Yeah. Which is whatever. That's the point of the record being the record. Yeah. Yeah. And eventually, though, the record will get broken.
33:15And the more important thing for Nick Sirianni and his entire job, the entire staff's job, the entire organization, the entire city's job is to try and put themselves in the best position to win a Super Bowl. because that's the ultimate goal. And I get that. I'm not negating that. All I'm saying is it would have been fucking awesome to have that record. That's all I'm saying. And I would have loved to see the Eagles have it, Saquon have it, and Jeff Stoutland and the O 'Brien have it. That would have been something that would have been cool. I don't know. Maybe if Jason Kelsey was out there, he would have got it in the 16 games he played.
33:45Listen, Cam Juergens did just fine. As a matter of fact, Cam Juergens made the Pro Bowl if we're – Juergens are fucking dope. Yes, he is. I fucking love watching those dudes, man. Three Eagles, Cam Juergens, Jalen Carter, and Zach Bond also made their first Pro Bowl. Shout out to the boys making their first. Yeah, baby. Jason, how does it feel to see the Kelsey replacement get his recognition? I don't. I'm not calling him Kelsey replacement. I think it's awesome. Listen, we've known Cam Juergens is a great player in the Eagles organization. He's got all the tools. He's athletic. He's strong. He's got long arms.
34:21He's big. He's smart. He's explosive. I fully anticipated Cam having a phenomenal year. And now he's been awarded the Pro Bowl, which is amazing. It's hard to do that your first year. Usually it takes you – you usually get on your second year. But he's had that good of a year. The line has been that good. Saquon was the rushing leader. All of these things. And he's been dominant. He has a big reason this number is where it is at. And I think he's rightfully been awarded the Pro Bowl. So could not be happier for Cam. Listen, there's similar traits, but everybody's going to be their own unique player.
35:02And he can't try and be anybody else than Cam Juergens. And that's the way every player's got to play the game. And there are things that he is much better at than I ever was at. And there's always going to be – every player is unique, no matter how similar the traits are. He's the replacement for anybody that ever played center for the Philadelphia Eagles. I just don't think that that's the way you look at the job. You look at the job like he's the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. Next man up. How are we going to move forward with a line that operates successfully? And I think Cam's done a phenomenal job of being Cam Juergens, the dog that he is, and the tremendous player and teammate that he is.
35:44So couldn't be more proud for him. I got to say, very happy for Cam, Lane Johnson, Landon Dickerson. It's a fucking joke that Jordan Malata didn't get the Pro Bowl. And listen, there's great tackles in this league, and I don't know who he would have made it over. I'm not trying to make that statement because there's Lane, Tristan Wirfs, and oh, my God, the third one's a great player too. Sewell. Sewell, Penny. Gosh, why did I blank on that? So, like, it's in good company. But I think Jordan Malata has been the best tackle in the NFL this year. He's so freaking good. But anyways, they should have had four guys in there, which is crazy to think about.
36:21That's how good these guys have been. Yeah, I hear you, man. Everybody that's in it, as far as I'm concerned, deserves it because they got voted. That's the way the thing works. It's in some ways a popularity contest, but it's also reflective on who you are as a player and what your career has been and season. I don't believe in this like snub. Like there's so many snubs every year because there's so many guys that deserve to go. And unfortunately, there's only so many slots. Moving on, it's officially playoff season. let's talk a little about wild card weekend okay playoff picture are we going to display this graphic intern brandon so that people can see it okay so obviously the chiefs have the bye detroit lions have the bye dude by the way i was a little bit i was kind of questioned in dan campbell's decision to play his starters versus the 49ers i'm like why did he do that like they're going to be on a short week now they're going to have to play oh you're talking like the Christmas week.
37:17Yeah, like they're going to be on a short week now. Then they're going to have to play the Vikings who are peaking right now. And then they might not get a bye. And they go out and beat the living donkey dick out of the Minnesota Vikings. Like just pummel them. And I'm like, okay, well, I should just shut the fuck up because Dan Campbell's clearly got this shit figured out. He's got to figure it out. Yeah. He's got the boys rolling. Kansas City Chiefs with the bye. Detroit Lions with the bye. Eagles, the number two seed in the NFC, face the Green Bay. Packers at home. The Buffalo Bills are number two seed and the AFC West face the Broncos at home.
37:51Packers and Washington had some interesting things shake out to see who was going to be the sixth or the seventh seed. Bucks moved up to the three seed because LA lost. Yeah. So there was a little bit of shuffling here. What team are you most surprised didn't make it? Surprise? I think going into the season the team I'm most surprised didn't make it is probably the Bengals with Joe Burrow, T. Higgins, chase healthy. You thought they'd probably be in the playoffs. The team I'm most surprised made it in his first year as the coach, I'm the most surprised with the Chargers. Maybe Broncos. I'm not really surprised.
38:30I mean, after playing the Broncos earlier in the year. I'm talking about early in the season. From the beginning? Obviously, all of these guys aren't surprising that they made it as the course went on. But before the season started, which teams has surprised you the most the most actually i'm gonna take this back washington is the most surprising to me yeah i mean watching the two rookie quarterbacks washington and uh denver denver yep honestly i didn't i didn't i don't know why i didn't think minnesota was going to be you know that that dominant yeah that dominant yeah i mean uh sam darnold's playing playing his tail off yeah just playing washington over the last few seasons and i mean this with so much respect for Dan Quinn and even respect, like I think Rivera is a phenomenal coach as well, but that team with like the whole organizational thing happening with Dan Snyder, they felt like it was going to take some time to rebuild that culture and chemistry there in Washington.
39:31And it just goes to show when you hire a great head coach and you get a, you hit on a rookie quarterback like that, who's playing at this level, how fast it can happen. They're already in the playoffs. I do think that they lack some of the pieces to really compete for the Super Bowl this year. That's my own opinion. But I think it's remarkable that they're in the playoffs that quickly. And it's a testament to Dan Quinn, Kingsbury, and all those players. They went out and signed some really good veterans, Bobby Wagner, Zach Ertz. Ertz. I just think that they really did a good job of getting pieces to help shape that culture with some veteran guys, bringing in the right coaches, hitting on draft picks.
40:16And it's just been a remarkable year for the commanders. 100%. I'm right there with you. Bigger rookie surprise. I'd probably say Bo Nix, man. I think Jaden Daniels won a Heisman winner. You kind of saw the flashes. Yeah, you saw the flashes. Not that Bo Nix didn't have any flashes. I just think. No, but there are a lot more. To your credit. Sorry, I did not mean to cut you up. No. There are a lot more people doubting the Bo Nix pick than the Jaden Daniels pick. So I think that's the reality of it. When you look back on it, though, man, I mean, you watch Bo Nix in college, man. That dude can fucking ball.
40:52And I'm telling you, the moment I saw him fired up on the sideline throwing it back at Sean Payton, I love that. I mean, in the right amount, like it can't be all the time. Yeah. And there was something about throwing. Yeah. You know, who knows how fiery that even was, but you already know. Who cares? All I know is that he cares. That's why I like to see it. I give a fuck. Yeah. Because like, you know, not that it's the right way to hand. You got to be controlled as a quarterback and you got to be poised. So you can't do it too much. But every once in a while in the right moment to do that, it's like, oh, okay.
41:26And it's not like over the top. It's not a ridiculous amount. It's just like you can tell he wants to win games. He wants to be great. And that's a huge part of it. And if it is over the fucking top, realize it in the fucking moment. Talk to whoever you just went above and beyond with and fucking get it right. And let them know, listen, man, I just fucking want this shit. I'm with you. I'm with you. He's a killer, man. And you can tell he's competitive as hell. And, dude, when you take great traits and you take a competitive individual, usually that leads to a good football player. I hear you.
41:56Okay, of the teams with home games, what's the toughest place for a playoff game to play at? Ooh, that's a good one. I think you got to go Arrowhead. I will say. No, this is wild card. This is wild card. Okay, if we're just going this round, Buffalo's obviously got crazy home field advantage, one from the fans, but also two from the weather. I'm a homer. I'm going to be a homer. I think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in, and I think it's been that way. All these games, the link is probably the one that I think is the most hostile environment. It's fucking loud. Yeah. It's cold because it's in the Northeast.
42:32So some of these Southern teams come up, although Green Bay is not going to be dealing with too much. They're not going to be nervous about the cold. I think the link is hard to win a football game in. Yeah. Especially a playoff game. I mean, we lost in Tampa Bay last year, but I think it's I'd probably go Buffalo or the link or my top two. What's harder, the link or Arrowhead? I mean, Arrowhead gets a fucking rock and dog. Don't even go. You want to step into the loudest stadium in the world? I think it's equal. It's like the loudest, nicest stadium in the world or the almost loudest and you just got a bunch of fuckers.
43:07People are just going to tear you apart. Just a bunch of motherfuckers. You're going to throw rocks at the buses. All right. Hypothetical. Please don't do that, Philadelphia. Hypothetical. All the games are on at once. what games are the youtube tv quad box okay well this is um shout out to youtube tv and the quad box no doubt i'm going i think i think that bucks washington game is going to be fun to watch i think that fucking vikings rams game is going to be fun to watch as much as i think buffalo is a you know is a better team i think denver right now is is playing really fucking good football so i'll probably watch that one and i think for me the game that i'll probably end up like playing the winner of is uh the chargers versus houston game so i'm gonna watch that one oh man i don't even know i'll probably so i'll definitely watch eagles green bay they're gonna fucking blow them out.
44:10I'm not going to watch that game. I mean, dude, Green Bay is surprising. Matt LaFleur sometimes can dial up some stuff. Dude, I got all the respect in them. Yeah. I just don't see it. Jordan Love, when he's on, he can sling it. I think that game, I don't think it's going to be a blowout, but I do think the Eagles win. I'm definitely watching Baltimore versus Steelers because I'm an AFC North kind of guy, and I think that that matchup is always intense, even though the Steelers are floundering right now. They are struggling. They're limping to the finish line. but I can't help myself. Bills, Broncos, and I'm probably watching Tampa Bay, Washington.
44:49Really? Yeah, I mean, the Vikings LA one is interesting to me. The one that I'm definitely not watching is Houston versus Chargers. I don't know why. That one's like not even – that's the least interesting game to me. Is that fair? I'm watching it because I think that's the two teams I'm going to play. Yeah, right. Yeah. Well, this is – Just based off the seeding. The reality is I'm watching all of these games because playoff football is the fucking best. But if they all played at once and I have to watch only four, that's probably the forum goal. That's probably the best way you can answer that.
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49:49I'm kidding. I'm back. and we're doing some blind rankings of plays of the year that's right already let's uh let's move on and we want to take a minute to recognize some of the uh most incredible moments from the regular season um this year and uh what better way to do that than our new favorite game blind rankings yeah this blind rankings is uh brought to you by our friends at intuit turbo tax wonderful love that make sure you do your fucking taxes all right here's uh here's how it works in case you missed us doing this on christmas episode uh we'll blindly rank 10 of the best plays from the nfl season and this is as about a true blind ranking as possible because i really don't remember a lot of the great plays we haven't even discussed season we will only see uh one play at a time and place it on the list uh before seeing the next one so one by one we'll just throw it uh one through 10 on where we think it resides and uh one change uh me and jason will have one veto each all right so we can veto each other one time you can veto the play like we can say like it doesn't belong in the top 10 i'll give you one veto each of this is not a top 10 play i have backups ready to go one change is me and jason will be able to veto one play out of the entire top 10 so if we think this play is dog shit and brandon did a terrible job of bringing 10 plays in uh we will i'm here They can hear me on this recording.
51:15Oh, they can't. Perfect. Nice. I just really hope I remember these plays. All right. Let's let's take a look at the first play. Then Brandon. First play from week 16. Lions Bears. Oh, oh, my. The fake stumble. Oh, pretty good. Pretty good. I mean, the only reason I want to I want to almost veto this because like I don't think the stumble affected fucking anything like i mean can we rewind it let me see what the linebackers do does anybody react to this thing i mean they definitely don't react they definitely don't just retreat you know what all right i'll leave it in there i mean it's low though the entire sideline was screaming too i think it deserves to be up there just for the creativity and the amount of like bought in from like everybody including the sideline jared like all of that jared golf that's a great trip.
52:10It looks like he's falling. It looked like he was falling. Yeah. It almost looked like the week before where he did fall to win the game on fourth down. I just think that the lateral to Penny Sewell is a much better Lions play that never ended up going in. The lateral to the tackle, the hook and lateral to the right tackle. All right. Anyways. Okay. Where do we think this is? We can't put it too high. You can throw it at 10. I think 10 is a solid. Right? It didn't determine a game. It's a fun trick play, but it wasn't like that. I'm with you. We'll go 10. 10. Throw it in. 10. Lions had some awesome plays, so I think there's going to be another Lions clip up here.
52:47There better be. Pretty soon. Play number two from week 13, Bills Niners. Oh, this is a great one. Lateral. This is a good one. Love this play. Just backyard ball right here. The old snow game. And Josh, this was the first time a player ever threw and ran. and what is it he had a he had a completion and a receiving touchdown yes all on the same play right yeah and it was the first time that's ever happened yep i think i think you got to put no no no no no no it's not no it's not marcus mariotta did it against the chiefs in the playoffs he threw a ball uh to somebody darrell revis smacked it down and he then caught it and went into the end zone.
53:32Yeah, but that's not a rushing touchdown if he smacked it down, right? No, this was a receiving touchdown, I thought. This was a receiving touchdown. Oh, yeah. Okay, either way, rare that this happens. Semantics. Yeah. I think this is an awesome play. I think... Can't go too high? Can't go too high. Can't go too high. I mean, they're winning 21-3. They're beating the piss out of them. Yeah, it's only the first half, though. It says third quarter right there. Third quarter. Okay, let's go. What do you think? Three or four, maybe? What? No, let's throw this at five. Let's not get too bold. I'll go five.
54:07I'll go five. Let's not get too bold. Yeah, leave some space. Leave some space. I think this is a dope playoff. There were some other Josh Allen plays this year. I could feel it. Week 10, Broncos Chiefs. Oh, that was fucking electric. Yes, it was. I mean, you got to play that. You didn't even let us watch the entire thing. Oh! But the Chiefs have won! Kevin Harlan on it too, dude. Shout out to Harlan, man. It's so good. It is so good. So epic, dude. His boy, he might be one of my favorites. I mean, he's up there as one of my favorites. He is really good. Dude, honestly, a little bias, but I think that goes above Josh Allen's lateral.
54:52I kind of agree. It's a dude blocking a field goal to win a game as a walk-off. and not only like kind of getting lucky, but like they like knew exactly what they were doing. They knew where like it was like thought out. I'm pretty sure Chanel called it, like said, like, we're going to go block this. He did. So all around, I think it's just a fucking crazy play. There were a few big block field goals this season, though. So I don't know if I'm just being biased. Do you want to go four or three on this? Or do you want to go higher? I think it's either four or six. It's either four or six. I'll let you call it.
55:30Just because it ended up in the only reason the Chiefs won the game and Josh Allen lateral was like up 21-3, I'll put it at four. If we're going four or six, I'll go four. All right. From week 12, Cowboys, Commanders,$99 kick return. Oh, my God. I mean, it's a turpin is fast. Hit that B button. Hit that B button on him. Oh, shit. Yeah. Dude, this was electric. It's a dope play. I mean, this has got to be up there. This has got to be up there three or two. It's got to be up there, if not one. I don't know. I can't remember what play would be better this season. You think this is better than that block kick to win the game?
56:13Dude, a kick return with three minutes left in the game? Yeah. I mean, it's a dope play. He fumbles the ball. He picks that shit up on the one-yard line with everybody 10 yards from him. All right, I'll go three. I'll go three. Oh, my God. I don't think it's as good as a Josh Allen play, if I'm being honest. I'll go three. You're insane. Week eight, Washington Bears. Walk off? Yeah. Well, it's the fuck up. The only reason I can't give this one that high is because, like, it's an insane amount of luck, and the Bears fucked it up more than they even got it right. So it's like.
56:53that's a good shot taken listen he did his job he did his job he was everybody did his job he was right where he needed to be this is what this is teach tape right here if you're uh if you're in a football locker room and it was to win the game so it's i mean yeah i'll give it a nice solid seven or eight seven sounds good seven sounds good from week 15 let's go believe this is you You can just put the Saquon hurdle at one already. There it is. That's what I was thinking of. I do love a big man. Oh, that was electric. I mean, it's a great play. It is a great play. It's so good. It's so good. Dude, a big man pick?
57:38Are you kidding me? Is that a pick or is that a fucking strip? Yeah. Oh, that's stiff arm. Do you know how hard it is to stiff arm a 300-pound fucking offensive lineman? I just love he hits him with the shush-shush at the beginning of that. Go back to the start of that. Get that shush-shush in there. Bink, bink. He goes right here. He hits it. And then right away, he gets the ball. Oh, shush-shush. Whoop, whoop. Gets it. Whoop, whoop. Stiffy. Set up the block. Set up the block. Hit the highway. Oh, so good. Goddamn, that's good. It's a great play, but we can't put it up. We got to hold two and six.
58:11I think eight is a solid spot for it. I think it's an eight or nine play. Nice. All right. from week nine, Jets, Texans. Week nine, what happened on this play? Oh, this catch was great. That's a great catch. It didn't count. It wasn't a catch. Jets, Jake, Jets, Jake, rule. It counted. His shin goes down. Yeah, I thought it got overturned, right? It did. It did. It counted. It counted his what was it? His shin. His shin was down. They called it a touchdown eventually. I mean, if that's a catch, that's a two. You got to throw it at two. That's a fucking insane catch. god damn that's insane i mean if that's in the for a touchdown too god damn that's nasty we're going to yeah we got to go to that was a fucking unbelief that's yeah you're right yeah all right you've been waiting for it from week nine hold on eagles jags slide number one there's no there's no way there's any crazy it's so crazy i could watch this shit all day this is fucking over somebody backwards the spin move alone would have been in the top 10 this list oh god all right keep it going yeah week five this is saints chiefs oh being sir Binky.
59:33I'll go nine. I love the play. Sir Bink. Get up on the hop. Look at it. I fucking love that dude, man. Shout out to Sir Bink. Top 10 play of the year. I go nine on Sir Bink. It's right below the sweat play. I feel like that's a good spot for it. All right. And this will be number six. If it holds, this is from week 16 Chargers Broncos. The free kick. yeah we'll veto this genius use of the strategy but no veto who's using the veto I'll use it this shit was buns alright the guy just did a practice kick listen you only see it every 60 years it was a great job by Harbaugh to utilize a stupid rule but Okay.
1:00:31We are going to our first backup play of the year. It is from week 16 Bengals Browns. It is the Burrow Horizontal TD. I mean, that was a fucking hell of a throw. I want to veto this one, too. This isn't that like. Yeah, shout out to Joey B. It's a great. I mean, listen, Joe deserves to be up here, but. I don't know if that's the one. That's not better than the Washington Hail Mary. So I got to veto it and hope that something better than these ones are in there. I mean, I know one Bengals play right now that's better than everything. All right, well, let's get to our next two alternates. Next two alternates.
1:01:07Give me a break here. How is Lamar Jackson not on here anywhere? It wasn't on the list that I stole from. Dude, you're ridiculous. His fucking touchdown like two weeks ago. The one that he had where he stiff-armed the Bengals. Against the Bengals? Yes, that one should definitely be on here. And this would be the perfect slot for it. All right, do it. We can't. Brandon, that's not how the blind ranking works. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. No. Let's hear it. Let's see what you put up here now. All right. All right. All right. What are we stuck with? From week two, Vikings, Niners, 99-yard touchdown reception.
1:01:46Jefferson. I mean, it's electric. Yeah. I think this is good. I'm fine with this. As a number six. I mean, it can be up there. I don't know if it's – I think we're leaving out some other top ten plays. We 100 % are, but it's a blind ranking. Of the ones we presented, I feel very good about this list. I feel better about this list now, yeah. Yeah. I'm with you, though. The Josh Allen lateral probably could have been a little higher. Very solid. Solid list. Some plays that could have probably been up here. We just talked about the Lamar play. Bengals cornerback interception week two against us. I don't know how the fuck Britt even caught that fucking ball.
1:02:21I'm still confused on how he caught that fucking ball. that was one of the best interceptions I've ever seen in my life yeah other than that shout out to everybody please send any play that we missed to at jchat85 on Twitter and who knows we'll do this again good luck with that one his DMs are open guys get in there let him know what he got wrong they're not open they're not open and that was Blind Rankings brought to you by Intuit TurboTax Hey. Now this is taxes. Before we get out of here, let's answer some not-dumb questions that came in to the New Heights Hotline. That's right. No-dumb questions is brought to you by Mint Mobile.
1:03:06Shout out to our guy Ryan Reynolds. All right. Hello, brothers. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. I have a very, very important question to ask. I'm here watching some football and hanging out with family. and we started talking. And I have a very, very important question to ask. And I think you two are the only ones that can answer. What happened to the jockstrap? Seriously. I don't think you boys wear them anymore. You just see everything hanging and moving and running. And oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. What happened to the jockstrap? All right. Take care. Not as aware. Enjoy your show immensely.
1:03:48It's a lot of fun. Bye. Not as aware as this woman at what's going on with the genitals throughout the game. But watch the game for wherever you watch the game for. I'm not here to judge why someone's watching the game and whether or not they're checking out which guy's got what jockstraps on. What happened to the jockstrap is they invented compression shorts. And they're just way more efficient at holding everything in place and better. And it eliminates the chafing that could possibly go on. Correct. So it's like you knock out two birds with one stone. you got a fucking gold powder your gooch and your your thighs every fucking day you could just throw on some compression shorts i still wore the jock strap i like there's something i liked about the jock strap nice i mean and i only wore it on game day though and i would walk around the locker room making my pre-workout and nothing but my jock strap and i thought it was funny so maybe that's the reason i wore it but
1:04:45i also thought it like cupped my butt cheek nice and it made my butt look better i didn't realize you were going for a nice look i needed help because i don't have a great ass so all right there you go i think uh yeah the the compression shorts came in and uh nobody nobody's well and also the not a lot of guys wear cups anymore and the jock we always use it but i do think there the jock strap was also utilized before compression shorts to hold the junk but once you have compression shorts you didn't need that yeah i hear you all right glad we could help you out by the way get your mind out of what was that woman's name do we remember no she just said merry christmas merry christmas to you just watch some football you know you get a free she's she's acting like she's not happy about it it's so disturbing seeing everybody's junk just jump around on the tv all of this phallic meat bouncing from thigh to thigh i'm gonna throw one at you that i just hate this question and i hate people who ask it so i want to see how you guys feel perfect hey guys this is william from montgomery william montgomery montgomery where what your opinion is on fall weddings fall weddings uh me and my girlfriend have talked about getting married and um she paid she wants a fall wedding and i told her good luck with that i'm gonna be at a football game um so i just want to know you guys opinion on that is appreciate it sounds like this marriage is gonna work out great i actually don't know people who have gotten married in the fall because the all the weddings I've been to and all my friends always do it in the summer, I guess.
1:06:41Yeah, we can't go usually. I think Jason's pretty spot on with you guys got to be more in sync on things. You got to be willing to find a weekend where the team isn't playing anybody good, maybe. Also, if you really do have a problem with that, maybe it's in her best interest to not have it in the fall so that she knows you're invested in the anniversary every time it comes around. I think you guys should duke that out. I don't think we have any say on what you should be doing here. And, yeah, I mean, I've seen weddings in fucking February. I've seen weddings everywhere but the fall. So I'm not sure if the fall is a good wedding season.
1:07:22Brother, I'm going to tell you right now, do the fall and the wedding and avoid this frivolous fight that means absolutely fucking nothing. You can watch the football game, like record it and watch it again. I don't know what you want me to say. There's certain things that are more important than football, and if the wedding isn't more important than football, we got some bigger issues here. I get what you're saying. You can do it another time. Just speaking from experience. Unless we got a big parlay. Unless we got a big parlay, and we got a fucking, sweetie, we got to make this money. That's how we pay for the wedding.
1:07:56Unless that's how you're paying for the wedding. How do we pay for the booze at the wedding if I can't make sure this parlay hits? I just don't get there's a lot of days in the fall that there's not football. We can't find a light name one. Well, depending on whether he goes to college and NFL games on Sunday, like you can go on a Friday. You can have a wedding on a Friday. Yeah, but did you? It's a weekend thing. It's a little inconsiderate for travel. Don't make my friends have to not go. They go. Everybody's got season tickets. All right. Don't make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their tickets that week.
1:08:33There's a lot more important things in footballs and weddings happen to be one of them and not arguing with your wife is high up there with more important than football. So I would just do the wedding whenever she wants to, because that's kind of your job now. Football is life. Football is life. All righty. That was no dumb questions brought to you by Mint Mobile. And that wraps up another episode of New Heights. That's right. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube, the New Heights channel and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. We will be back Friday with our Will Ferrell episode.
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