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27:45How? Bo Nix, he said, Micah Parsons is hurt because of Bo Nix. The violence in which Micah Parsons had to chase Bo Nix the entire second half was extremely evident. Oh, so it's almost like a compliment to Bo Nix. It is a compliment to Bonix, but it also is just like, okay, thanks for your input there, Ryan. Yeah, Bonix is watching in tears. I do love RC, how he wears the lapel pin with his own initials. It's like a graphic design of RC. In case you forget. And the dumbest suits ever. Yeah. I think he has a wardrobe before Monday Night Football where he says, how can I make sure that if you turn on the TV, I have to be the first thing you look at and you're going to stare at me because my outfit makes no sense.

28:28It's Ryan Clark time. Yeah. Ryan Clark. I didn't know they made so many suits without buttons or pockets. One, it looked like he was just wearing a towel. Yeah. It was just wrapped around his midsection. That's fashion. We wouldn't understand. Listen, if me or you wore Ryan Clark's outfits, we'd look hot as fuck. Oh, yeah. That's facts. We would be able to pull that off. We just choose not to. That's facts. Okay. let's do Hot Seat Cool Throne and then we'll get to Ryan Fitzpatrick Hot Seat Cool Throne is brought to you by our friends at DraftKings DraftKings it's the fight nobody saw coming Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua live on Netflix December 19th two worlds collide in the ring and DraftKings Sportsbook has the action covered bet on every round every punch every knockout moment with live betting and fast payouts you're always ringside for the action.

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31:13Yeah. The most unfair tournament in all of sports. Also in this rain, he said no one cares about JMU. They just want to see the good teams battle it out. Yeah. How is it the most unfair tournament in all sports? It's the most fair. Yeah. Well, no, Hank, that's not right. The way that you determine who the best team is is you have a bunch of people that get together at a Hampton Inn and they sit in a conference room and they put a bunch of TVs on the ground and then they sit around eating the salad bar. They have a buffet table that comes in that's got probably the driest rolls that you'll ever see.

31:49And they sit there eating finger food for about five hours and then they put out a poll. And then that is who the best team in football is. That's how you play sports. So, Joel Klatt's a friend of ours. We had him on the show. We had a great time when he was here in the studio. So, I feel comfortable being able to do this. I'm going to take his man card. One. Have to take his man card. calling it the dumbest, most unfair tournament, the dumbest tournament. No one wants to see any of the Cinderella's. He's a one-sport Sally. He's a one-point sports Sally. He's getting his man card. I do love Joel Klatt.

32:20Here's where Joel Klatt got it wrong and where he could have gotten it right. He is right in that every single March Madness is the same where we talk about this. A perfect March Madness is upsets early, big dogs late. That part is true. So he is right in the fact that when there are a bunch of crazy high seeds in the Final Four, or what was it, St. Peter's? When St. Peter's plays in the Elite Eight against, I think it was UNC, and gets housed by 40. Yeah, I would have rather had an instant classic Elite Eight game with two of the best teams in the country. So he is right that there's a point where you don't want Cinderella's, but he's wrong in saying that we don't care about Cinderella's because we do love Cinderella's in the first couple of rounds.

33:06And this is why they should go to a 16 team playoff and we should give the Cinderella's a chance. I'm excited to see JMU play. Fuck it. That's why we, that's why we love the tournament of March madness. Yeah. Yes. It would be great to watch like individual, like Notre Dame against Oregon. I think that would have, you know, a much wider audience. People would want to tune in and watch that game, but there's something about a tournament where you've got underdogs and the possibility of them winning. It's harder in football. He should stick to his own sport. Stick to your sport. We love you in football.

33:35We don't love you in basketball. You're Schrodinger's Klatt. You're good and bad at the same time. And you need to stick to your one. Stick to sport, Klatt. Because JMU, listen, I got news for you. We're not Liberty. We saw Liberty play against Oregon a couple years ago, the Fiesta Bowl. We're not fucking Liberty, dude. We have sex at James Madison University. It's encouraged. It's mandatory. Different team, different players. I know it's a big spread, but what if? Just do that thought experiment. What if it did happen? How good would that be? It'd be great for the sport. And you know what? It's almost like the entire future of the group of five is on our back and on Tulane's back this weekend.

34:16Because if we can... Don't get blown out. If one of those teams keeps it competitive, like one score, one touchdown, they might not take away, they might not change the format too much. If there's two blowouts, I got news, they're going to change the format of the tournament entirely we might not ever see another group of five school get in unless they're ranked in the top 15 um it feels like there's a lot on the line but we're not liberty joel you're you're not taking us from our neighbors down the road in lynchburg this is harrisonburg come to harrisonburg western virginia talk that shit i i i just don't really understand loving college football and then again just ignoring half of half of the sport.

34:58Would I like to see Notre Dame in there? Well, not instead of JMU because I want you to have your moment. I'm excited to watch that game. Maybe instead of Tulane? Sure. But they didn't do enough. And we need to, like if you win your games and you're a G5 school, you should have a chance to get in. You shouldn't start the season being like there is 0 % chance that if JMU wins all their games, they don't get to play in the playoff. That makes no sense to me. Stick to your sport, Joel. We love you. But basketball, it's the perfect thing. It's the perfect tournament. And upsets are easier to happen in basketball because there's only five guys on the court.

35:36You can have off-shooting nights. Yes, it's a little more difficult in football. But I will say this as maybe a checkmate on Joel Klatt. When was the last time an eight seed won the entire tournament? Was it Villanova? 1980? 85, yeah. Yeah, 1980. That was when Patrick Ewing, they beat Georgetown. Eight seed won the entire March Madness tournament. When was the last time an eight seed won the college football playoff? Oh, yeah, that's right. It was last year. Good point. Cinderella, Ohio State. Yep. Going all the way to the championship. A little darling underdog, scrappy, nobody believes in us.

36:14Fucking eight seed, buddy. Ryan Day put his name on the map that day. Yeah, it was what a run. Yeah, what a run. Lou Holtz. No one believed in Ohio State as the eight seed. Also, when we came out with this format, what did we say at the start? It's going from four teams to 12 teams. And yes, there will be debates about who gets in. But at the end of the day, win games and you will get in. You have nobody to blame but yourself if you don't get in to a 12-team tournament. That's my biggest problem with all of this is you can't eliminate the fact that the games need to matter. It's why we said that Miami should be in over Notre Dame.

36:49It's why that if you win games, you should have a seat at the table. you can't just say we're going to play this entire sport in this entire season on hypothetical matchups with power ratings from Vegas. Yeah, and you look at strength of schedule and you're like, oh, JMU hasn't played anybody. They haven't played anybody. They haven't played anybody. Nobody cares about you. Win the games that you play. You can't control your schedule. I've said this across the board, whether it's about James Madison football or the New England Patriots in the NFL. You play who you play. You play who you play. I'm not.

37:16That's actually Hank. I've been trying to set you up on that for the last like three weeks. when I dig into the Patriots, it's there. It's there if you want the shot. You want the shot. You haven't taken the shot yet, and this is the last week that you can. Take the shot. I don't think about you. I don't know what to say. I acquire, I have all the space in your brain. I don't care about you. You guys are going to, like you're a relevant team that's going to get beat by 100. Okay. All right. Wow. I like it. 100. But at least we talked about it for like 20 hours on the show for the last five weeks.

37:48Thank God. Listen, listen. Are you coming in in your duck uniform? no rico i would i want like that's the thing despite the fact that like you're you know you you're out to get me and you want my teams to lose and my players to do that i wish jmu would win it'd be good for the show they have no shot i agree with joel clatt i don't know no one cares about jmu yeah i do yeah pft that's the thing is i i think the group of five they care about tulane and jmu this weekend and i think people would change their mind if there was an upset If there was an upset, it becomes a massive story. I agree. It would be good for the sport.

38:23I care about JMU by proxy. I care about PFT, and he cares about JMU. So, therefore, I care about JMU. There we go. Yeah. You have a gun to your head, Notre Dame or JMU. To be in the playoff? Well, yeah, Notre Dame could have won a national championship. But I still stand by the fact that you had the rules, and you need to have a spot. We're not. It's just gun to your head. pick one who can win the national championship rather see in the playoff oh jam you gotta you gotta take you gotta take easy answer you gotta take notre dame if you get shot then it's like at least i went out supporting jesus the uh two lane notre dame should have been in over two lane keep jamu's spot i appreciate the sentiment listen i know that nobody cares about jamu football except like a very small contingent of group of five supporters and if you happen to go to jamu But if it's close, you're going to find yourself rooting for JMU.

39:18I hope it's close. Joe Clatto, he learned to put a bow on this whole thing. He learned that you don't besmirch March Madness. You don't go after the tournament. That's maybe the quickest way to get just a mass of dudes just at your throat. Yeah. Just being like, what the fuck? Yeah, a bunch of burners. You want to get ready to learn Providence, buddy. Yeah. Okay. Your cool throat. My cool throat. I have a couple elite athletes on my cool throne. My first one is LeBron. Yeah. I've spent my whole life hating LeBron, and as time goes by, he's making me love him more and more. Oh, you're talking about the golfs?

39:57He's on the sideline. He's got his interlock grip. He's so retired. He's practicing his grip. He's so retired. And did you see the technical free throw? No. There was a technical game in their game, and he just stepped up to the free throw line. He's shooting like 70%, and J.J. Redick afterwards was like, it should have been Luca. Yeah. But LeBron just stepped up and took it. He was like, yeah, why wouldn't I take it? That's so funny. It's like, yeah, you have Luca. And just, yeah, the golf swing is just, I relate to it. I understand where his head's at, and it's not on work. No. He's gone to the game.

40:32The game has him now. He is checked out. He's got the bug. He's officially obsessed with golf. I would like to see his YouTube stats. I would love to see LeBron James YouTube wrapped for 2025 because I think it's probably a lot of, like, Grant Horvath. I think he's deep into the Bob Does Sports universe. He probably watched the Internet Invitational. Oh, definitely. Fasoli. Fasoli. He knows who Fasoli is, yeah. I wonder what he thought about the ruling. Yeah, that clip made me laugh. And then my other cool thrown co-worker athlete, Biz. This was just, I just, you know, obviously there's a lot of stuff that happens at Barstool.

41:10People put out a lot of different stuff. but this past weekend I was basically in a biz binge. They put out Peek and him and Wanton Don. Great stuff. Go watch it. It was one of the greatest, greatest series I've ever watched. It was like, again, it's like I forget. I'm like watching it just as a fan. I'm like, oh, yeah, these are our coworkers. Like we know them. It's incredible stuff. Felt like a movie. Really, really good there. I think there's four episodes. British Columbia just seems like it looks like you're on a movie set the entire time. It's a beautiful place. And then I followed it up watching the sandbagger with Paige Sporanik, where he was just explaining piss bombs.

41:44Oh, piss bombs are so funny. To Paige Sporanik. Just fills his foreskin with piss. One of the funniest. I mean, that, Biz, Biz, Whitney, and Yandel are just like the... Yeah. No one could win in a chirp battle with those guys. They're so funny. But yeah, I was like, I kind of realized yesterday. I was like, I think I've watched like eight hours of Biz content in the last three days. They also are like the Avengers of chirping because they all have different skill sets. Yeah. like yans is very sarcastic wick could just go bar for bar with you and then biz is just disarming because he's so goddamn funny and also so so nice and he'll go so far he'll ask you he'll make you so uncomfortable with things that he just doesn't care yeah yeah like let me see your dick yeah a lot of business chirps are in the form of a question so you don't even realize that you want to wear those shoes yeah like he will he will sneak past you and he's so friendly yeah We did a breakdown after the Ryder Cup on Macrodosin because we speculated that the reason that the team didn't have cohesion is because they didn't do post-game showers like every other sport.

42:45And so we asked guys from every sport about the locker room culture. Biz gets on there and immediately starts talking about piss bombs. And he said that there were times when he was in the league that he would be a healthy scratch. This is so funny. And he would watch the game. And then after the game, he'd take a shower with the boys. Like as a healthy scratch. Didn't need to, just to be part of the team. I'm 100 % done that. You've done healthy scratch? Well, not like healthy scratch, but just didn't play second in the game. Yeah, but he would wear a suit on the bench. Oh, okay. Come in the locker room, take his suit off, and hop in the shower with the ball.

43:20He's the best. He is the best. Oh, so funny. That was my cool throw. All right, good job. My hot seat is Dylan Rayola. He's on the hot seat because he's transferring. He's entering the portal. And I don't know if this was a troll graphic or if the university actually made a statement, but Texas Tech does not want him. Is that real? I don't know. Did Texas Tech say like, hey, we're not interested in him? I heard Texas Tech is in the market for like an eight to nine million dollar quarterback. I don't know if that's what Dylan Rayl is going to command. So more or less. Less, I would assume. I mean, he's been good, but he's not the best quarterback in the transfer portal.

44:04You have to think that he's considering Texas Tech. If they offered him, he would probably take it. So what other schools that are primarily red and white are going to need a quarterback next year? That's what you got to look at. Let's come to Wisconsin. Want to be a Badger? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Okay. Yeah, you could do that. Would you offer him the job? I would. I think he's okay. And then I would completely flip and be like, this whole Patrick Mahomes thing is really cool. Guys can't have heroes? You'd have to start dressing like him. Guys can't have heroes? Yeah. My other hot seat is the war on Christmas because Pup Punk is playing a show on Thursday night, Christmas show in New York at the Racket.

44:45Come out, check us out. Got a lot of special guests from the Barstool New York office and some other guys in the music business. There's one guy that works in New York. He's in the Chicago office a lot He's going to be performing with us I don't want to give it away But it will either be the best Well he's in the band It'll either be the best thing you've ever seen Or the worst thing that you've ever seen Should we be doing our It's not Frank Should we be doing our burpees in the parking lot Before to get ready I think maybe you should Do some burpees I saw there was a guy on Twitter Joey Yanks is very excited about it whoever that person could be that's performing.

45:28You have no idea. There's no idea who that could be. No idea. It could be anybody. My cool throne is Sean McVay. So he's coaching Thursday night, had his second child just a couple days ago. So it's been a wild week for him. I don't know. Do we usually put a lot of stock in coaches getting a baby bump? Because I feel like with coaches, depending on how the baby's sleeping, it could be a baby bump or it could be the opposite. it he's got he's got it Sean McVay the Rams money line it's got to be the play you think so yeah new baby absolutely yeah yeah that feels right good vibes yes so congrats to to coach McVay my other cool throne is the haters oh the haters are right haters right congratulations haters gotta take my hat off to you uh Jaden's shut down for the season RG4 injury prone made out of glass it was all right this year and i i went back and i i listened to my worst case scenario going into the season and uh yeah it happened it all happened the haters are right can't say anything to the haters focus on next year i always said people said rg4 oh yeah oh yeah i mean is this is tom frunelli did texas that's fucked up soft benching i heard he did he to ask that question i did hear a lot of rg4 like the second he was drafted to yeah it's because same thing it's like heisman trophy second overall pick um my plan is still the same with jayden you can't deny that this was a back year i've got no spin zone for that this was a a step back i don't even want to say sophomore slump because when he played he didn't play poorly he wasn't great like he was last year but he didn't play great he didn't play great But he wasn't the stats.

47:14Yeah, please. He wasn't like a bad quarterback. He didn't play well, but he was also hurt for the entire season. 32nd in CPO. CPO is a big stat. That's your big stat. That's what you base. That's the money stat right there. You want to do a blind resume? We'll save a blind resume for Friday's show. I want the blind resume. I want the blind resume. I don't think I have it up right now. I'll filibuster. Okay, filibuster for me for a second. Hank, are you looking up Jaden Daniels' stats? This is probably the right thing to do to sit him down and hope that next year he can pick up where he was year one.

47:50Where are you going to rank him in offseason quarterback rankings? I don't care about offseason quarterback rankings. They're meaningless. Because we put him in a lot of top fives. They're meaningless. We put him in a lot of top fives. When your guy's not good, offseason quarterback rankings are meaningless. When he's very good, then it becomes the most meaningful thing in the world to get him in that top five. But the plan was always Super Bowl 2027. so next year's the year next year's the next year's the year all in you got the point i do okay quarterback one eight touchdowns no interceptions quarterback two eight touchdowns three interceptions quarterback three five touchdowns three interceptions quarterback four two touchdowns one interception i'm lost in the blind resume i think there was a it's a it's eight zero i think quarterback i want the eight zero okay that's uh drake may in the first quarter got it the second one was drake may in the second quarter what was that that was eight three okay third one was drake may in the third quarter what was that five to three okay and the last one was drake may in the fourth quarter which was two touchdowns one interception okay so yeah he first half drake may yeah mr first half yeah i mean that's what happens when you win games you're you're not like throwing the ball on the fourth quarter because you're up okay all right oh here's another one fifth one uh quarterback five one touchdown one interception is that overtime no that's drake may in the fourth quarter within seven points oh one what about is there blocking on there.

49:36What do you mean? One great block. I think that was in the first half. No, that was the fourth quarter. Remember you were like, oh, Drake may have a chance to make a comeback, and he did. That was the big run. Oh, the big run. That was a great block. It sounds a little bit like a great handoff, but that's... It was a great block, though, Max. I appreciate fullbacks. Yeah. Low man wins. Fact. Yep. But yeah, congratulations to the haters. I have nothing to say. The haters are right. Bad season. I'm still optimistic about the future. No spinning it. Bad season. Can I spin it for you real quick? The fact that he was in and out of the lineup, if he had just played poorly all season, that would be a lot more devastating.

50:17Yeah. Oh, 100%. This is, you know, it was never, it felt like it was just a bunch of stops and starts. Oh, you should give Terry all that money. Oh, wow. I'm happy for Terry. Me too. I'm very happy for Terry. It is crazy thinking back, like being at those camps, especially the Ravens and Commanders camps because it hasn't gone. There's a lot of smoke right now with John Harbaugh. Yeah. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But yeah, I've gone to some dark places. Maybe last year was as good as it gets. NFC Championship game. It was a great run. Nah. I enjoyed it. These are the thoughts that you have in the seasons from hell.

50:57Nah. We'll be back. and in the meantime my number one team is just rooting against hank is being a status a statistician yeah listen hank you say rent free it's called being a fan he's a diehard fan i'm a diehard fan of hating you yeah okay my hot seat uh nba cup it's on the finals do you guys want to give a prediction do you care zach you're a knicks fan to care about this i think you hang a banner memes you care about zach's a knicks fan yeah zach's a knicks fan. Remember, he went to the Knicks Pacers game. That was when Zach took off. The McDonald's order. Yeah, Carmelo Anthony. Best player ever.

51:37Yeah, best player ever. That was really the take that got Zach on the map, I feel like. Yeah. Just fighting with Brandon. Brandon, yeah, about Carmelo being better than LeBron. I think he just said, who would you take one-on-one? Have you thought about writing a TV show about Carmelo Anthony? No, there's guys for that. Memes. Do you care? yeah because it's the cup you care I care I care how much though I'm trying to understand so I learned last night that this game means nothing towards the standings right so if you score like 100 points that also doesn't matter but I think the mindset of the players is what matters how you prepare for a championship game I think the NBA I think these things can exist in the same world.

52:28The NBA Cup has been a success that it has given a little bit of juice to some of these November, December games, but I just still don't care. There's no way, if they do this for another, if they do this the rest of the time, there's no way you'll be able to be like, oh yeah, 2025, yeah, that was the year the Spurs won the NBA Cup. Who won last year, Lakers? The Bucs. Bucs, who won the year before? The Lakers the year before. Okay. And you technically, you have to hang a banner. You have to? You have to. It's a league rule. Oh, that's bullshit. It's a trophy game. There will be a trophy presented.

53:03I'm excited to watch the game. I just don't care who the NBA Cup means nothing to me. Is the cup in the building? Cup's in the building. Because it's the cup. They get paid too, don't they? Each player gets half a mil. Okay. Yeah, there's, I think it's also just being around Stephen Shea, him being like, the cup matters so much. I love the cup. I got the Spurs. There is something to like preparing for a game that means something. But this doesn't. It does for money. Yeah. It does actually have an impact on your bank account. For sure. But yeah, it means nothing. Do the coaches coach differently in the cup final?

53:40Do they coach like it's a game seven? They got to. I think you have to. Got to. It's mandated. All right. My cool throne is all of us because there's a new study out there that farts cure Alzheimer's. Oh, so that's awesome. All right. So smelling your farts. Good. That'll be good for my dementia, Hank. Yeah, there was a there was also a study. I think it's just I think big fart is putting some funding behind some New York Post articles because there was another one that was just farts make you if you smell your own farts, you live longer. Hell, yeah. Can you guys tell if your fart's going to smell just by ripping it?

54:18Yes. Like by feel? Yeah, the heat. Well, it's also like what you ate. Yeah, what you ate. What you've been doing recently usually will dictate. Let's say you're on a couch. You're not thinking about what you had for lunch. Can you tell? Hank said the heat when it comes out. Like if it's hot, that's going to smell. Yeah. If it's cold, no smell.

54:39I'm trying to describe the feeling. You do know. Like I do know. You definitely know. There's light farts. Yeah, there's some that are just like pure air. Dry. There's a lot, though, where you think it's going to be a nothing fart, and then you're like, oh, shit. Oh, yeah, like the tiny ones? Yeah. Yeah, you're like, oh, this is a tiny one. This will be fine. The post-plane farts usually don't smell that bad. Never farted on a plane. I need to get... Next Sunday, Zach, remind me. when I go up to my office to start prepping for the show somewhere in the middle of the afternoon slate I'll sit and close my office door and I'll rip like three minutes worth of farts I'm gonna record that so fart box next Sunday do you want to do a spaces I could and then somebody has to fart raise your hand gotta rip one only farts so cool throwing us love that Also, I might live forever because I might just be like, as long as I stay alive, I can keep watching a highlight of that Caleb throw.

55:47It was so good. I've watched it so many times. It's getting embarrassing. Yesterday was the first thing that I saw when I opened up the Twitter timeline. And I watched it. I was like, this is the catch. It was the catch. Listen, the stakes for the catch were so much higher. Caleb's throw was better than Joe Montana's. He threw it from the 30. yeah montana threw from the 18 yeah and it was cold weather i i liked it so much i thought it was the catch i i sent it to chris berman i was like this is the catch they were mashing it up i was like this is the catch dude he was like that that's a great point yeah i've watched a lot of the mashups yeah it's it's a problem i gotta it's just all it because i've clicked on it so many times that it's pretty much every other video on my for you i think it was it was a maybe Maybe a better throw and maybe a better catch.

56:37Stakes way higher, obviously, for the catch. So that one we're not going to. Yeah, but it was. What a dot. Oh, man. I still don't know how. He came out of nowhere. Happy for DJ Moore, too. Zach, your hot seat, Cool Throne. My hot seat this week is going to be the rest of the NBA because Cooper Flagg may have fully been activated. Yes. He has reached full activation. He's fully activated. 18 years old, 40 piece in regulation. Full mast for the flag. Yes. Damn. Some beautiful highlights from that game. They did take the L, though. Okay. Some beautiful highlights, though. Yes. If we're talking just highlight tapes, he's looking good.

57:15Is the future of the NBA in good hands? I don't know whose hands it's in right now. I think it's in Wemby's hands. I think it's Wemby's hands for sure. If we say that less, though, is there a chance that goes away? Should we not speak Wemby's hands into existence? Because he's broken basketball. Yeah. Yeah. But I love watching Wemby is the guy that I absolutely love watching play right now If you ask me in 10 years I might be like I hate watching this guy play basketball He's too good Because it's unfair I would say the future of basketball is in Wemby And Sam Presti's hands Yeah Sam Presti Seems like I think the Thunder have like a million picks still Yeah They just have it all But Wemby might just be so good that he can overcome any pick what if they just trade all the picks for Wemby?

58:05That would be a problem. Really big problem. That would be a problem. Huge problem. Oriannis. Oriannis. Yeah. Oh, man. That would be a huge problem. But I do think that we're right in – it's where we were with Patrick Mahomes in his first couple seasons. That's where we're at with Wemby. It's like we love it. We're watching something and being like, damn, this is so cool. But the Thunder are also in Dodgerland. Yes, they are. They are in Dodgerland, which is insane because they're doing it with a cap. Yeah. They are in Dodgerland. Okay, Zach, your cool throne? My cool throne today is, I don't know if you guys are feeling it, but I'm feeling it.

58:41We are in the thick of the Christmas coming up. Holiday season is at full effect, boys. Yeah. How are we feeling about this? The holiday cheer? Yeah. It's like, I know that may sound silly. No. Not silly. Not silly. Like strangers that are usually kind of cold. Everyone's being inviting. The Uber drivers are being nice. The people at the, all restaurants being kind. Yeah. What happened specifically that made you realize this? It sounds like that was a good experience. I'm two for two this week on Uber Drive. You're just being like, so you do anything for the holidays? How's the holidays going?

59:11You have a great rest of your day, man. I'm like, this is beautiful. This is so awesome. Yeah, because I agree with you, Zach, because the way the schedule laid out this year, the fact that we had the latest possible Thanksgiving kind of fucked up my brain, where just the turnaround from Thanksgiving to Christmas felt like the shortest it could be. I feel like the snow is the difference. Yeah. We've had a full layer of snow basically all month, and that has forced you to get into Christmas time. Holiday cheer. Yeah, because you know Christmas is approaching. You look outside, there's snow. It's like, oh, okay, this is real Christmas.

59:46Yeah. But in some winter's past where it's warm going up to Christmas, then it doesn't feel like Christmas time. I love the holiday cheer. It is nice. There is nothing better than going to a Christmas bar and just having everyone be drunk, a little overweight, but happy. Yeah. It's great. Everyone's jolly. I mean, you're searching for Christmas gifts for your loved ones. You're getting into their interests. What will make their day? Hot chocolate's back? You can't really drink hot chocolate as an adult most of the year, but now it's acceptable. By the way, good guy AJ Brown giving that kid hot chocolate.

1:00:18You guys see that video? No, what did he do? He gave a kid hot chocolate. During the game. During the game. There was also an adult autograph seeker right next to him. Yeah. He just wouldn't even look at him. He just gave the kid hot chocolate. Good guy, A.J. Brown. Yep. What do you guys think about getting some holiday cheer in the studio? We could. For Monday's show. We already did this. What? Oh, we still have like 10 more of those dogs. No, we got rid of them all. Oh, we did? I was thinking we'd get more inflatables. Yeah, we could. More inflatables. We could do some holiday cheer for Monday's show.

1:00:45Although. I think they're 1-0 since we got those inflatables. Zach since you've destroyed since you stabbed a snowman I was trying to my memory doesn't work too well I was like here's an idea I wasn't sure if the inflatables were before or after the game it was Monday night football and we got inflatables and then like five days later you won a game here's an idea because I know that we have a pretty crazy week this week and by the way we haven't said this yet next week we're doing we'll have a show Monday, Wednesday, no show Friday because Christmas is on Thursday. We're not going to tape on Thursday night.

1:01:28Then the following week, we'll have a show Monday. So regular Sunday recap. So we'll have a show Monday and then Friday on January 2nd. So it'll be two shows each week for the next two weeks. So we're going to miss a Friday and then we're going to miss a Wednesday. But we're going to have new shows. New Year's Eve in the day after Christmas. Yes. Those will be no show days. Those will be no show days. um zach here's an idea because we were talking scheduling outside and it is a crazy week and i know we have some pm tv ideas what if we pivot and the pm tv this week is you going out and shopping for some holiday cheer for the studio we can do that we can get we get could you holiday cheer it up if you guys are down to get festive i'm not gonna get festive i would love for you to holiday cheer it up let's get cheer for let's get jolly okay i do that for And maybe, you know what?

1:02:21What theme? So it should be like... Christmas. No, but it should be like metal Christmas. You know what I'm saying? Let's give them a little curveball. Indian Christmas. What about cream Christmas? Cream Christmas? Metal cream Christmas. I don't think the Indians do Christmas. Yeah, but you could just do Indian Christmas. I would like to see... Zach Christmas. Hardcore Zach Christmas. Hardcore Christmas? Hardcore Zach Christmas. Okay. So it's your likes and Christmas. Okay. Hardcore. Hardcore. Zach Christmas. Okay. Unlimited budget. How do you feel about trees? Trees? Yeah. I mean, I love foliage.

1:03:03What about you? Like Christmas trees. The smell is so good, PFT. It is. The scent is like, oh, man. It's great. Are you a fake tree guy or a real tree guy? I don't have a tree currently in my current apartment, but I do like a real tree when you can do it yeah so these christmas tree farms are taxing nowadays so sometimes you can't do it but when you can do it great idea i saw the sweetest tradition online uh yesterday this guy posted a picture he said that he's a divorced dad and he doesn't have a lot of traditions with his son and one of the traditions is fine finding the worst possible tree at the lot every year and it was like the stumpiest grossest tree but it was like such a cute tradition that's cool that's yeah we're trying to have some fun with it listen as a former christmas tree salesman you need guys like those to get rid of the last inventory.

1:03:48Yeah. They've got great personalities. Yeah. Okay. Great, Zach. So you're going to hardcore Zach Christmas. We'll get so festive. I want your likes in here. Okay. I want things you like. Okay. My favorite part's about Christmas? No. Your favorite part's about you. Oh, interest. Oh, goodness. Okay. Yeah. All right. I know you're a big LaBooBoo guy. Got to get some LaBooBoo's in here. I never had LaBoo, but I'll get you guys some if you want to get trinkety. Zach. The Cod Christmas? You even know you have some LaBooBoo's. I got action figures, but I don't have stuffed animals. Except for that one Squishmallow.

1:04:17Maybe get some action figures in here. What about Krampus? Remember that guy? Krampus rocks. Krampus? Yeah. It's like evil Santa. Yeah. How do we... That's new. It's the worst. Have you guys seen that Grinch from Universal? No. He's awesome. Let me see. The Grinch from Universal. He's like... The Grinch... By the way, the Grinch... He's so good at his job. The Grinch movie gets heavy play in my house. It's really good. The cartoon. Oh, yeah. It's awesome. The newest one. I've never seen the Jim Carrey version. Yeah, I don't think that's... Where are you? All right, so you're not finding any...

1:04:56No, this is it. This is it. That was twerking Grinch. This is him? He's just very... I mean, this is a long... I'm trying to find the right video. It's a two-minute video. He's good. He's got highlights. This isn't the video I was looking for. Okay. Are you all right, Max? There's people out there that will know. Oh, this is a video. This video rips. Okay, this is Grinch highlights from Max. There's people out there that will know. He's like super viral. Six, seven. Eight, nine. No. Hey, that's actually a good one. Take it, take it, take it. Take it, take it. He's just like the mascot. Whatever.

1:05:35Whatever. This isn't the right crowd. No, no, no. Stay in it. Stay in it. This isn't the right crowd. He's good. The people out there will know what I'm talking about Stay in it They can relate to a video that they like a lot When they're watching it on their phone And then they show it for other people What is up my guys You know what I regret saying anything He's just good at his job Fuck it You know what No one's mad at you You guys are mad at me I can see it on your faces I'm not mad. We've actually had a pretty welcoming tone here. I know, I know, but it's too welcoming because you can feel the room when it's not hitting.

1:06:16I'm just disappointed. I'm not mad. I think it's ripping, dude. No. What other videos do you chuckle at late at night while you're laying in bed that you want to introduce the number one sports podcast? Nick Colletti made a video recently that I thought was so funny. Let's see it. Pull it up. Oh, fuck. This one's got a hit. Max's videos Getting viral with Max There is nothing There's nothing worse Than showing someone a video And having it not hit I feel like he doesn't He doesn't post his videos To Twitter Oh no Now we gotta sign in To a different app Instagram's gonna be tough Now you're just googling his name But it got me to where I needed to be Falling apart Okay Okay Fuck I gotta log in Log in Max We gotta see it now The build up is crazy No no we're done Max Max Max I can't log in I don't know my passwords Like this Nick Coletti's at home right now being like, they're about to gas me up, and then you're just going to rug pull him.

1:07:07Friend of the show. You're rug pulling him. Please. Please. Oh, maybe it's on YouTube. Please. Maybe he's a shorts guy. No, he's not a shorts guy. We need this video. Guys, stop it. Stop it. Stop it. No. You brought it up. You asked me a question. Which one is it? Which one is it on his Instagram? I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. All right. Thank God. Here we go. It's on. It's on. It's on. Sounds not working. Oh, fuck. There's no sound. My name is Stug.

1:07:51You guys are just trying not to laugh now.

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1:11:20And now, here's Ryan Fitzpatrick. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. He is our good friend. It is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Thursday night football. We're so excited. Ram Seahawks. We're going to talk about that game because I want to talk about both of those teams. But before we do that, how's your last week gone? Because you watched Phil Rivers come back. You watched Aaron Rodgers light it up on Monday Night Football. Have you gotten a phone call? Because I feel like you're the guy. You've got to be watching this and being like, I might be able to get back out there. Yeah, I have contemplated because I've got one more year before my health insurance runs out.

1:12:03So I have thought about that. That was a big deal for Phillip, as we've seen with the 10 kids. But for me, it just came down to, do I want to reset the clock on my Hall of Fame eligibility? And I think that answer is no. I think next year we'll see what happens there. And maybe after I don't get inducted into the Hall of Fame first ballot, I'll think about it. No, I think America's waited long enough for Ryan Fitzpatrick to get in the Hall of Fame. I think that'd be a very mean thing to do to us. You also, our whole Hall of Fame pitch is always like, you can't tell the story of football without, out and then if you fill in that name it's the truth I actually you played for so many teams I don't know if you could tell the story of football without you no I uh I don't know about that but I do know I was watching Philip I started practicing cadences because I like his story other than you know him being a top 10 of all time in terms of yardage and touchdowns like the guy has been sitting on the couch for five years he looked let's say he looked 30 pounds heavier maybe than when he played and Phillip was a big guy when he played so I put him at at least 260 265 and that's probably being generous but he went out there he ran the offense I didn't ask him to do a whole lot and they had a chance to win that game so it was really impressive to see and I thought he gave a great effort and he's starting again uh week 16 what I mean he obviously doesn't have the same arm but is it is it from your perspective because you obviously could talk about it better than anyone else in terms of like you played for so long in the league and if you were asked to go back out there is it the fact that phil can still think the game better than most that he's able to get away with it a little bit where it's like if you're able if you have played that long and you've seen that many things there's still an ability to see things and yes the arm's not there but you can still get by with the fact that you can think it better than the defense yeah i'm really interested to see this week because Seattle didn't come after him at all.

1:14:09And I think that was out of respect to Phillip's mind. The fact that the only way they thought he'd be able to dice them up is for them to come after him, him to beat him with some of those quick hot throws. And so I have to imagine they're going to come after him a little bit more this week, put some pressure on him and see now that like there's film out there and we can see, you know, how many times did he throw the ball over 10 yards in that game? He had the nice back shoulder to Alec Pierce. He had the interception that he floated at the end of the game, but that ball is going to come out quick.

1:14:41He's not going to take a whole lot of hits. So I think teams can start structuring a game plan around what they just saw versus Seattle. And I don't know that that's going to bode well for Phillip, unfortunately. Maybe not. I hope that it does. We love watching him play and it was great to see him out. I'm cherishing every moment that I get with Phillip Rivers. This feels like it's all, you know, house money that we're playing with. I thought I was out of the Phillip Rivers business, four years ago, and now he walks back into our life, and I'm loving every second of it. I think you could probably play.

1:15:10I think if the Jets gave you a call and they were like, hey, Ryan, for old time's sake, remember that season you won 10 games with us? Why not step out here? I think you could step in for a game and throw for like maybe 200 yards. I think you could do it. Oh, I guarantee I could. My issue was, I mean, look, they're still in the playoff hunt. they're just trying to win that game. Philip did exactly what he was asked to do, which was put us in position to win this game at the end. And he did the issue I would have. And this was kind of me at the end of my career too. But when you're playing with house money, when you're out there having fun, I don't know how many check downs are going to be thrown.

1:15:52Yeah. There's, I love the Yolo ball. And I think me four years removed from playing, going out there, there's going to be a lot of balls flying in the air. So, you know, sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad, but it certainly wouldn't be boring. I got one last question, and it's not about Phil specifically. It's maybe the bigger NFL picture because I saw someone point this out, and I'm curious your take on it. They were like, hey, this is actually not the best thing in terms of – it's kind of an indictment on college football and getting quarterbacks prepped that Phil Rivers at 44 is better than some of these guys in their early 20s.

1:16:30Do you think that's fair? Do you think there is a quarterback? I don't even know what it would be called. A vacuum? Yeah, there's a problem with quarterbacking and how we're getting quarterbacks ready that this can even happen? I don't think so because if you look around the league and you look at your guy Caleb and the way that he's kind of developing this year and Bo Nix, there's a lot of different guys. I think the hard thing is for Shane Steichen, I mean, for all coaches slash play callers, you have trust issues. And so basically the Colts were in a position where they needed a guy to come in that wasn't going to screw it up.

1:17:07And as a young guy, it's really hard. We've seen it in Minnesota where you just have these plays that you're young, you're developing, and you screw it up. McCarthy had one in this last game again, but like Philip Rivers is a guy, he's going to get the motions right. He's going to get the shifts right. He's going to be able to get guys in and out of the huddle. He's going to call the play and he's not going to put the ball in harm's way. So that's all they were looking for. I don't think it's an indictment on young guys. I don't think it's an indictment on Riley Leonard. I do think if you're looking at the Colts situation, the Anthony Richardson thing is just weird.

1:17:44Whether the Colts don't like him or him and his agent are pissed at the Colts by the way everything was handled. It's just weird right now that after, you know, he's six plus weeks removed from his eye surgery um i think that he is probably healthy enough to play so i think there's some question marks there in my mind yeah i think if phil rivers wasn't already talking to shane steik in every week breaking down film i don't i don't think he gets that called necessarily but i can see it's like you're in a playoff push just go and manage the game and again i'm very thankful that phil is back in our lives uh there's one team out there that you uh you killed over the course of your career do you know that you have the nfl record for most wins against a single team team jacksonville jaguars the jaguars yeah you beat them six times the jaguars this year though look really good trevor lawrence looks amazing he's playing the best football that we've ever seen him play he's a guy that's not afraid afraid to do the yolo ball he had what five touchdowns passing last week one touchdown rushing should we believe in the jacksonville jaguars oh so i think you know in developing all these quarterbacks i think trevor is an example of it just like Caleb is this year, just like Bo Nix is, even though Trevor's older than those guys, is you have a team that's playing really well around him.

1:19:02You have a defense that's creating a lot of turnovers. And I would say Trevor's year this year has been up and down. But to be able to have those up and downs and continue to win football games, he's been able to find more consistency as the season's gone on. So I think it's a good reminder that play calling really matters in this league. I think Liam Cohen is a great coach and, you know, we're coming off a game. You try not to overreact each week, whether it's a bad game or a great game. Trevor Lawrence has certainly got gotten better this year. I'm not too concerned about the Jacksonville Jaguars making noise in the playoffs.

1:19:40So, oh, okay. So yeah, we do overreact to everything. That's just, you know, like we, when you say don't overreact, it's like I watched that game for Trevor Lawrence. I know the Jets stink, but it's like he's the best quarterback ever. I think that's fair to say they're probably going to win the Super Bowl. That's how we reacted to Week 15. Yeah, but there's a reason. You know how the Jets reacted to it. They fired their defensive coordinator. True. That's true. He's a coach killer. Yeah, true. I also just love Jaguars games, especially when you get the pool going in December down in Jacksonville.

1:20:09I think that pool might lead the nation in the most T-shirts worn in a pool. I feel like you're at like an 80 % clip down there. I think the Diamondbacks, they also have a lot of T-shirts being worn in their pool. So you can never be too safe with the sun, you know, never be too safe, even though the Diamondbacks roof is usually closed. I just love the ambiance down there. Yeah, I got one bone to pick with you, Ryan. Oh. It's regarding Thursday Night Football, which we love and we watch. We can't wait for it this week. Can you not do the yellowish-orange line of scrimmage line on the screen? It was very confusing last Thursday night.

1:20:47The creamsicle line of scrimmage, it looked like it was the first downline that's displayed on the broadcast. Just make sure that if you have that line, it's not like a yellow or an orange or a cream. Okay, I'll talk to Sam Schwartstein about that. You guys know Sam. Yes. I'll do a little bit. He's real happy. I don't know if you've seen the pocket health thing. Yes. That's Sam's baby as well. So I got to imagine he has something to do with the creamsicle line. I'll talk to him and get him straight on that. Okay, thank you. All broadcast for Amazon is so awesome. Our guy Sam does such a great job.

1:21:21You learn so much when you're watching it. Let's talk about, though, Thursday Night Football. So this is the finale for you for Thursday Night Football on Amazon. Couldn't be better. Couldn't be better. Not true. What's your finale? Well, unfortunately, our finale at the beginning of the year, we were excited about the Christmas game, Denver and Kansas City. That's right. Oh, yeah. All right, that's the finale. That still will mean something in terms of Denver going for the one seed. So that's still an important game. And Bo Nix has been phenomenal. But this, so the penultimate Thursday night football.

1:21:54You like that, Harvard guy? I like that. That's great. By the way, like, nice job throwing that shirt in our face. We get it. Ha ha. You're so smart. Cinnamon rolls. My kids got it for me. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. That's such a Harvard shirt to wear and be like, hey, you get it? Just like grammar used to make. Oh, no. Okay. That's good. That's a good shirt. But let's talk about this game. The Rams-Seahawks. It's going to be phenomenal. Both teams trying to win the NFC West. Both teams trying to get the one seed. I'll start with the Seahawks. We are believers in the Seahawks in totality. Their defense is awesome.

1:22:32Mike McDonald has done an incredible job. I'm still – I do believe in Sam Darnold. I thought Sam Darnold was one of those guys even four years ago that were like, Like, hey, if he gets another shot, he could be good. But it has been a little up and down this last couple of weeks, and we're getting closer to playoff football. What have you seen? Are you trusting in Sam Darnold? Do you think that this is a Super Bowl-caliber team? Yeah, I think the things that weigh on you with Sam, he's been so good the last two years. I saw a stat yesterday where he leads quarterbacks in wins in the regular season the last two years.

1:23:07You think back to the Detroit game and then the Rams playoff game last year. You think back to the first Rams game this year where he threw four picks, and that has to weigh on you a little bit. What I would love to see out of Seattle, I think, first of all, the weather looks like it might be a factor. There might be some rain, which at Seattle could change any minute, but that'll be interesting. I would love to see them get Rashid Shahid somehow more involved in this offense. He does great with his kick returns. They haven't even attempted to throw a post route to him yet. You know, Sam missed a go ball to Rashid.

1:23:45They got knocked down in the first Rams game. But it's going to be one of those games where they are going to have to rely on Sam to win this thing for them. Because that offense of the Rams right now, I know that they got held to 21 points in that first Seattle game. But the way they're running the football right now is really incredible. And Sam's going to have to show up and win this one. And I think this will go a long way in terms of, can we see a different version of Sam Darnold in the playoffs if he can get the Seahawks through this game? Can you explain to us what's so interesting about the Rams rushing attack?

1:24:19Because I think we watch the games and we watch Puka Nakua. We watch Matt Stafford back there playing almost as good as he's ever played in his entire career. They've got like three different tight ends who are all kind of the same guy that look confusing when they're on the screen. But like when it comes to their running attack, what's so good about it this year? What are they doing well? So I think the fact that it's a two-headed monster, I think Blake Corum's done a great job for them this year. We knew who Kyron Williams was, and he's continued to be a good player. But when you watch them, just watch how many times their running back gets through the line without being touched.

1:24:53And I think this game, that's going to mean a lot because the front four of Seattle is super talented, super aggressive, but they do a great job of getting on their blocks. and the Rams, Andrew Whitworth keeps telling me, is in my ear, like this is the most underrated offensive line in football. Seattle is not very good at getting their running backs to and through the line of scrimmage without getting touched, and the Rams are top three in terms of their ability to do that. So I think that'll be a big part of this game. And then Matthew Stafford from under center, Matthew Stafford opening up the play action with BMO run so effectively.

1:25:29I think the mistake that the Rams made in the first game, even though they won, was they got away from the run a little too much because they were gashing them in the first half and then kind of shied away from it. So I think that's going to be a huge factor in this game and probably the deciding factor for the Rams. When you watch Puka and Stafford, we've been talking about it in such a glowing way the last few weeks, and it's obviously been all season, but it feels like, especially in the last few weeks, they're in a zone that is – you just can't guard it. It's the perfect pass. It's the perfect wide receiver.

1:26:03what do you do to stop it because there's there's some of these balls it's like this defender is in the perfect position yet the pass got there right where it needed to be and puka can make every single catch i don't know what you do as a defense yeah you could see the competitiveness that he has on every catch that he makes uh and somehow these 50 50 balls are like 90 10 balls to puka but the physicality that he plays with i think when you watch him i mean between puka and amin rossst Brown, two of my favorite receivers to watch because they're so involved in the run game too. And they take pride in that and the physicality and blocking, which sets up a lot of their stuff in the past game as well in the play action.

1:26:44But Puka is an absolute savage. And I think Devontae Adams and having him and all the touchdowns that he's scored, they're great friends. But I think that's even pushed Puka to play even better these last few weeks because it's like, look what this guy is doing on the other side. This is what greatness looks like. I got to make sure that I'm still relevant and people remember my name and who I am, which they obviously do. But he's an incredible player and a tone setter for that team. Yeah. What about another team in that division, the 49ers? Should we be talking about the 49ers more? Because they're right in the thick of it.

1:27:18Kyle Shanahan, I made the point that I think Kyle Shanahan should be in the discussion for coach of the year. He's never won the award before. What that team has gone through, both on offense and defense. Also, Robert Salah should get a lot of credit, too, for the defense. Should we be talking more about the 49ers as a team? Here's the thing that people still don't understand about the 49ers. If the Rams win out, they're going to win the NFC West and be the one seed. If Seattle wins out, they're going to win the NFC West and be the one seed. If Seattle beats the Rams and the 49ers win out, the 49ers will not only win the NFC West, they will be the one seed in the NFC.

1:27:57Yeah. Yeah. Which is insane. It's insane that we haven't been talking about them. Mac Jones did such a great job for them. You can tell in the last few weeks, Brock Purdy, he's starting to really warm up. I actually called on the radio first time ever for Westwood one, the San Francisco game versus the Panthers, the one where Brock threw three picks. And it just looked a little bit off. It looked like he was getting his footing back. But you can tell they're getting healthy at the right time on offense. what would this team look like with Fred Warner and Bosa it would be very scary but they're getting healthy on offense and they're definitely a team that has been underappreciated and I think like you said Kyle Hanish Kyle Shanahan should be up for coach of the year because the efforts he's put in do you think there would be a dangerous team in the playoffs I do I think they'd be a really dangerous team in the playoffs a lot of these teams when you can score like they can when you can possess the ball like the 49ers can that really helps the defense out they've been banged up on defense they are a little bit of a mash unit but uh the aggressiveness that they play with flying around when you watch film and you could see the speed and a team rallying to the ball on defense and it pops out to you when you're watching on the little you know all 22 it's really impressive and that's the stamp that robert sala puts on his defenses all the time and these guys are playing really hard.

1:29:21Yeah. Can we play a little game here called Who Do You Trust? Yeah, love it. Okay, top five teams that you trust in the NFL right now. If we're talking about the playoffs, who has a chance to win it all? Who are the top five teams that you trust? Okay. The Rams. The Bills. Houston.

1:29:47New England.

1:29:51and San Francisco. So you trust all those teams? Yeah. Seahawks weren't on there. Yeah, if you ask me next week, if the Seahawks win this game versus the Rams, they'll move into being able to be trusted. But, you know, just like Shane Steichen, I got trust issues. Green Bay. Green Bay is another one. I want to trust Green Bay, but I don't know that I can. Yeah, the injuries, obviously, on Sunday to Micah Parsons is massive. I don't know that I trust the Bills, but I do trust Josh Allen. But that's the thing, right? Yeah. We all trust Josh Allen. So it's like, let's look at the last two games. I mean, after the Bills lost to Miami, every Bills fan was, oh, my gosh.

1:30:32This is, I mean, we're wasting this guy, the prime of his career. And then you see what he did versus the Bengals. And the defense just needs to make a couple plays. And then we saw what he just did versus the Patriots. If you look at the landscape of the AFC right now, and we're looking at the quarterbacks that are going to be in the playoffs, I mean, I don't know who else you can trust. I think Drake Mays getting there, but he hasn't done it yet. And I still think the Buffalo Bills, if they win out, which they're playing Cleveland, Philly, and the Jets, I still think that Week 18 matchup where Miami goes to New England, as long as it's over 40 degrees, there's a chance that the Bills can still win the AFC East.

1:31:15Yeah, so the Dolphins, real quick, because we have a long-time theory, and you played for the Dolphins, it's the jerseys. When they get in cold, they're candy-ass jerseys, and they just don't play well in the cold because of the jerseys. Did you feel that when you got in the cold? Yeah, but did you see they got in early so they could practice at night in the snow? Yeah, I did see that. They're the most, like, this whole iteration of the Dolphins are the most, like, don't say that we're cold. Please do not print that we're cold. I swear to God we're not cold. Look how many times we've tried to beat the cold.

1:31:48And their coach's, his glasses fogging up halfway. The right side of the glasses was tough. He was the coldest man on earth. And the fact that they're called the Dolphins, like a nice tropical aquatic animal, it just all fits together so perfectly. He's like, yeah, Dolphins can't play in the cold. I think we also, when we're talking about MVPs, and we always just point to the end of the year stats, Last night's a great example of when you watch that game and you watch the Dolphins offense for the first three quarters, three and a half quarters, and then you look at Tua's stats at the end of the game, compare those to, say, Josh Allen's stats against the Patriots, Tua's look a lot better than his.

1:32:30And so that's a great example of a game where we have to be careful at the end of the year. Stats obviously matter, but we have to be careful of just relying on stats in terms of quarterbacks numbers. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Quick break from Ryan Fitzpatrick. Talk to you about Chevy football season. We're in it. And whether you're grinding through the week or gearing up for kickoff, there's one ride that's always game ready. It's the Chevy Silverado. The Chevy Silverado is a longtime partner of Pardon My Take, and it's our favorite truck, and it's all about grit. From job site to tailgate, Silverado lets you show up strong and tackle any task.

1:33:06Built for the hustle, ready for the game, Silverado is America's most dependable full-size truck. For J.D. Power 2025 award information, visit jdpower.com slash awards. Head to chevy.com to learn more and build your own Chevy Silverado today. Okay, now we're getting back to Ryan Fitzpatrick. I got a question about my Bears. Caleb has, I mean, that throw he made to DJ Moore, I think I've watched it a thousand times. It was one of the coolest throws ever. But the team in general, like I'm now of the belief that they can compete with anyone in the NFC, especially with their run game. The game that you guys were at in Philadelphia on Black Friday, that was kind of the eye-opening, oh, wow, like this team can compete with anyone.

1:33:53Do you trust Caleb? Do you think that the progression – I know the progression has been there, but has he gotten to a point where you're starting to be like, hey, this guy can maybe win some playoff games? I would just love to see him more consistent in terms of throwing in rhythm and throwing, you know, execute the way the way that the play was called. I would just love to see him get more continue to get more consistent at that. But it was really funny. I think it was two weeks ago. I was talking to my kids and we're watching the game. And I said, this dude throws better than anybody in the NFL on the run.

1:34:24And then the announcers immediately said, boy, he really struggles throwing on the run. Because again, I think the stats say, and maybe he has a bunch of throwaways or overthrows, I don't know. But the stats say that he's not as good as some of these other quarterbacks on the run. But to your point on that touchdown to DJ Moore and a bunch more examples, the velocity that that dude can put on the ball and the accuracy that he throws with when he gets outside the pocket. And I don't think people realize how fast he is. He runs away from people. So I think the brand of football that the Bears are playing right now is really good.

1:35:00I think their defense creates a lot of turnovers. I'm a little like I think their defense scares me a little bit in the playoffs in terms of being able to trust them. Yeah, they're not generating turnovers. And then the offense, what have they done? They can run the crap out of the football, which is a winning formula. Their end of the season here with Green Bay, Sam Fran and Detroit. is an absolute gauntlet. So we'll see how they finish up these last three weeks. Yeah, I'm excited to watch this home stretch. And you're right about the Caleb. Like, I think similar to the Tua in that if you look at the stats, you can see one thing.

1:35:39And if you watch the game, you see another where the completion percentage has been a big talking point. Ben Johnson's brought it up. Caleb's brought it up. I agree that, like, there are definitely some times where it's like, hey, just take the check down or, you know, make a little bit better of a pass. But I think what people miss on the completion percentage is he's so elite at getting out of harm's way and not taking sacks and throwing the ball away and not throwing interceptions that that's such like the he has not been putting the bears in a lot of negative spots where last year that happened all the time yeah and i think i think the other thing when i watched them you know i when ben johnson said we don't throw 50 50 balls i actually think that mentality hurts caleb on the his deep passes because there's a lot of deep passes that he throws that get overthrown that he's nervous because we don't throw 50 50 balls so it's either got to be the perfect ball or it's got to be too far and incomplete I think that mindset and mentality actually does hurt him a little bit because he's a much more accurate passer than he's showing on some of those deep balls yeah yeah there's a couple quarterbacks actually two Eagles quarterbacks that I'm thinking of when I watch Caleb and he's getting out of these sacks and he's throwing the ball out of bounds McNabb used to be awesome at that and Jalen Hurts he's also when he's playing at his best, like avoiding those big negative plays and getting the ball out of bounds.

1:36:59Those are actually good plays. It sucks that it gets lumped in the completion percentage. And we look at that, but it means a lot on a drive for the Eagles. How much, how much better is their offense or did they just play the Raiders? They just played the Raiders. I mean, they have issues. They've had issues up front all year. I think that's been the biggest thing. And, you know, there's been a lot of finger pointing at all kinds of different things, trying to figure out, you know, is it the line? Is it the quarterback? Is it the play caller? But I think the one thing that we know is they are not the same team, even though they have a lot of the same playmakers.

1:37:36They're not the same team they've been in the past in terms of consistency on offense. So can they find it? Maybe. But you realize that that was not a team that I mentioned that I trust in the playoffs. and I think all of us football fans are I hate that Patrick Mahomes got hurt but I don't think any of us want to see the Eagles and the Chiefs in the no play or in the Super Bowl again like let's get some fresh blood in there let's see some new teams play yeah great speaking of Patrick Mahomes how he got surgery right away you never tore your ACL but you obviously have been around a lot of guys who who had that injury like in your estimation is he going to are we going to see him next year and is it something like talking to other guys because I've always thought that yes ACL surgeries have gotten way better guys come back nine months or whatever it is but they're still not the same guy for probably another year in terms of like their peak level they need to be able to trust it and everything did you did you do you feel that anecdotally at all uh I think I think first of all it is amazing this strides where you know 20 years ago it was like oh no he towards ACL will he ever be the same guy I think the advances that doctors have made in the ACL surgery a lot of guys are coming back and they're just the same as they were before so I don't think there's any doubt as long as you're rehabbing the right way which like Patrick is obviously going to rehab the right way he's going to do the right things and it's always unfair to put timelines on guys but nine months does seem to be the right timeline in terms of that's when we can at least start to maybe expect that he would be ready nothing before that so he's going to come back better than ever and uh next year i bet you we won't even notice yeah so this was not a passing of the torch season to bo nix in that division the torch remains with patrick yeah i mean they've they've got some stuff they got to figure out in kansas city and i think you know last year they won so many close games and this year they were in a bunch of those close games they're on the wrong side of it but if i'm kansas city first of all we got to figure out what's travis kelsey he going to do and it you know i would guess that he's going to retire but i have zero inside information on that so we've got to replace that production somehow and then i would love to see them address the running back room and you know when they it can't just be the same two guys and then when somebody gets hurt bring the same two guys back like i would love to see some new blood in there and some some youthful uh energy and speed in the backfield i think that'll really help them you're right about the uh close game thing because i i think we do we just look at the wins losses at the end of a season and we're like that team's good that team's bad but there are so like last year they were what 15 and 2 they probably weren't a 15 and 2 team last year they were probably more like a 12 and 5 team this year they're 6 and 8 they're probably better than a 6 and 8 team but that's just kind of how the ball bounces and some of these games go against you and then you look up and you're like, holy shit, we're 6-8.

1:40:39I mean, think about our guy Baker right now. Think about 7-7 and the way they started the season, winning those games with no time on the clock. Think of all those games went the wrong way. Yeah. They would be sitting at 3-11. Right. I mean, it's absolutely wild, but you're right. At the end of the year, you sit there, and that's why some of these guys get paid the big bucks too. You've got to be able to do it. You watched the guy last week on Thursday Night Football that might get paid the big bucks this offseason, Kyle Pitts. He finally showed. Yeah, and Kirk Cousins. I would love to see Kirk Cousins get one more contract.

1:41:16Let's get him to a half billion dollars. He's so close to 500 mil. Why not? But Kyle Pitts, I think everybody's watched Kyle Pitts for the last four years and been like, he's so good. Why don't they throw the ball to him? his first four years in the NFL he had in a row one touchdown two touchdowns three touchdowns four touchdowns now he's at four touchdowns right now so we're projecting him to score one more before the end of the season but I was watching him and I was like I think I want Kyle Pitts I I think he's finally figured it out it's a small sample size based on on one game the Kyle Pitts game but that's how we are as NFL fans we watch it we're like they've unlocked Kyle Pitts do you think that he's actually a guy that that could be like a superstar tight end or is this just recency bias blip on the radar he'll go back to Kyle Pitts yeah I mean I'm gonna tell my kids this story one day I was there for the Kyle Pitts game yeah he's there I was watching um I think there's a large body of work I think that he has gotten better he's certainly been more productive with Kirk as the quarterback um I also think that's come with Drake London being injured He's received more targets, more looks, but he's a very specific guy.

1:42:29And so, you know, he's not a guy that you're going to be able to put at the end line, end of the line and block, which, you know, they do have to do that a little bit. But you look at a guy like Darren Waller, who came out of retirement and the success that he's had in Miami and the things that he's done. And the biggest thing I see with Kyle Pitts that I wish he would be able to get better at is he's a little bit awkward catching the ball over his shoulders. There's some awkwardness there. And so to be such a big target in the red zone, I think that's why you don't see him get a ton of touchdowns is because he's not great at that.

1:43:07But somebody's certainly going to pay him. And I don't think I would be in that business, though. Yeah. As we get later in the season, there's obviously a lot of teams that have been eliminated, a lot of teams that are not playing good football. You were on a couple of those teams. How bad did the vibes get? And as a team, are you able to get up for it? Because especially week 16, 17, 18, it does feel like the quit factor is in there. and I know guys are playing up for tape and maybe their next job, but can you feel it in the room on Sunday where it's like, all right, we got no chance because no one's head is in this thing?

1:43:46Yeah, I think every team is different. I was in that situation a lot of times, but I think back to like 2019 when I was on the Dolphins and that was the tank for two a year, and that was the year we started 0-7 or whatever we started, and at the beginning of the year the Patriots beat us by 45 points. and I think you have to take on the mentality at the end of the year of like all right we got we still have the ability to be relevant we can screw the season up for some of these teams and so in that season we played the Patriots in week 18 went up to New England if they beat us they were going to have the first seed in the AFC and we ended up beating them at the last second Kansas City got the first seed in the AFC Kansas City ended up winning their first Super Bowl and so So I think those are the things you have to think about.

1:44:35Yes, you think about, okay, my statistics, my play, these things are going to help me make money. But the other part of it is like we still have – like we're still relevant. Now the tough games are when you have, say, let's say Arizona and the Giants were playing. Yeah. That is when it gets tough. When everybody's – you're like – it feels like preseason game number four back in the day where you're looking at the clock and you're handing it off and you're trying not to throw any incompletion so that clock keeps running those are the games that are tough yeah that i think the raiders and giants play next week there you go that's going to be a tough one the bangles are going to have some tough games going down the stretch uh have you have you been able to like look at joe burrow and and and put yourself in his shoes and uh i guess i'm kind of asking you to read another guy's mind which is a tough situation to be in but based on his comments last week it seemed like he was either frustrated with the organization or just uh kind of frustrated with with getting hurt all the time and going battling back through injuries it has to like weigh on you mentally what did you think when you saw joe uh talking about you know his love of the game but i was interested in all the pokemon guard talk that he was going with but i also think that i think that he's a little bit like prisoner in the moment you know it's been a bad year for him.

1:45:56He had the toe surgery. He came back. If you want, I mean, he was having fun in that Buffalo game. He was playing lights out and then it was two plays. Benford jumps up and picks off the pass and then his next throw gets batted and Epinesa picks it off. I think it's prisoner of the moment and Joe's a different guy. Joe certainly is a different guy. So I don't think anybody can try to you know read his mind but he's either person in the moment upset or he's playing chess and he's trying to set something up to where he doesn't want to be in Cincinnati and this is part of that long play where maybe in another year you know he gets traded somewhere a little bit warmer with nicer weather yeah he did seem like he was having fun on Thanksgiving too after that game it seemed like it meant a lot to him and he was smiling he was liking hanging out with the boys uh so yeah It might be a chess match.

1:46:48He might be, you know, trying to set something up. Historically, it hasn't been so easy to play chess against a guy that doesn't want to spend the money on a chess board. But he might be trying to trying to set up a move, whether that's to Minnesota or, like you said, some warm weather place. But it is like without trying to sound too cheesy, like the amount of work that all these dudes put in to this season. And like this, this is their entire livelihood and they pour so much into it. And so when the season doesn't go the way that you want it to go, and even with Joe, think about him this offseason and getting the contracts with the boys and he had his receivers there and they're all set up to have a great year.

1:47:30You know, the disappointment after putting everything that you put into it really weighs on you towards the end of the year. So to me, it was more of a, you know, reflection on how the year had gone. Yeah. I hate to bring this up, Ryan, but you guys, you know, the Harvard-Yale game means a lot to you guys. Didn't go so well for Harvard this year. Are you considering maybe being the GM of Harvard football, trying to figure it out? What do we need to do to take Harvard to the next level? You got to win that game. we got to win that game and and the hardest thing too is so for black friday we had the eagles game i was in philly harvard first time in history and ivy league school was allowed to play in the one double a playoffs the fcs playoffs uh yale got the automatic bid harvard got an at-large bid and they were playing at villanova well i was in philly already i went Harvard lost 52 to 7.

1:48:26Oh, were you up 7-0 at least? Weren't up 7-0. We dropped eight passes in the first half. Wasn't their best showing. We'll get the boys rallied. We'll get the boys rallied. We're going to have a better year next year, and we've got to beat Yale. Next year, Harvard-Yale at Fenway. Oh, that's big. That'll be big. Yeah. Massive. You have to win that game. You have to win that game. It's the most meaningful rivalry in the world. we all we all care deeply about it it's i tell you the i could tell you a quick little story about the fan base at harvard um my son is now a freshman there and so he's he's going to the games he's cheering he's excited well i got a picture from a friend that saw my son at one of the opening games and he brought his laptop to the game and was doing homework uh so i told him We can't do that anymore.

1:49:17It doesn't matter if you've got a paper due during the game. We've got to get it done beforehand. We've got to manage our time a little bit differently. So we've also got to get that fan base riled up a little bit. Yeah, I mean, that also is – I mean, you've got to be at least a little proud that your son is such a good kid that he's also taking care of it. He's football but also knows that he's got to do work too. There's worse things that your son could be doing. Yeah, you're right. He's on that grind. Yeah. How do you get into Harvard? Did he know anyone? Well, mom and dad both went there, but he's also a very bright kid.

1:49:51Good test. All right, Ryan, this has been awesome. We love having you on. I got one last question. It's a Roback question. RHOBACK.com, promo code TAKE. 20 % off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Thursday Night Football, Amazon Prime, Ram Seahawks. We're so excited for the game. Like we said, they do a great job pregame, halftime, postgame. Sam Schwarzstein's alt cast is awesome. It's just a great product all around. My last question, though, we talked about Mahomes with his ACL. The other big one was obviously Micah Parsons. When you lose a guy like that, what happens to a team where is there a little bounce where it's like, hey, we got to all chip in here even though that is our best player and we just lost him?

1:50:34Or how does that work where it's the mentality in the locker room going to the next game and being like, hey, we're still alive. It's not like the Chiefs who were eliminated and they lost Patrick Mahomes. the Packers are still very much alive if they beat the Bears and the Lions lose they can clinch a playoff spot on Sunday yeah are you you're as a Bears fan you're asking me this yeah I'm nervous I'm nervous about the like uh the nobody believes in us card that they're gonna try to throw out there yeah it's a lot like you know after a coach gets fired or you know you put a you bench your quarterback and put another guy in like there's there's a rallying cry for one week and then reality set and and it's like oh okay so this could be the week there's the rally and cry i hate to tell you i know that's i i've been thinking about the whole time and it's like the packers fans being able like we beat the bears twice in the second time we had no micah parsons like god fucking damn it yeah well and you know how much ben johnson enjoys beating lafleur twice a year yeah yeah we gotta i that was the it's the only mistake he's made as a head coach is name dropping Matt LaFleur.

1:51:42He's been perfect otherwise. I like that LaFleur went and just did like a quick handshake because he's got to wait for the second game. If he beats him a second time, then he can go over the top. Yeah, I love it. I want them to hate each other. I think it's so much better. I hope that both coaches are coaching a very long time against each other. It feels good because the Bears have not been really a participant in a lot of the rivalry in the last decade plus. It feels good to have a team like, hey, I feel like they can beat the Packers. Yeah, and the NFL is so much better when the Chicago Bears have a good team too.

1:52:16So very happy to have them. Yeah, yeah. All right, Ryan, you're the best. I don't know when we'll see you again. Maybe in Lake Tahoe. Super Bowl, probably. Super Bowl, yeah. We'll see you at Super Bowl. We'll see you at Super Bowl. Also, can you just tell Whitworth, like, we get it, dude. You're the sweatshirt guy. It's a little much. No, you know what? No, he hasn't been wearing them lately. It's been like six or seven weeks in a row. of no sweatshirt underneath the the jacket no hoodie yeah what's he been wearing he's holding out he's trying to get more money from roback no he's trying to do the hot aspen dad look every week it's like the hot aspen dad look so he's wearing boots now he's i mean the guy is beautiful but yeah he's kind of shied away from it the last like month and a half it is funny watching uh old lineman you know retire lose that weight and then they start dressing like the hockey like Because that's not – he spent his entire life being a big guy, probably wearing sweatpants, sweatshirt, just wearing – no one knows who he is, and now it's like, ooh, this guy's a hot body.

1:53:13Wow. Well, he went from growing up in Louisiana to playing O-line at 340 in Cincinnati to the real glow-up, which was the L.A. Rams, Walter Payton Man of the Year, Super Bowl, lost all this weight. He's less than 300 pounds, hot Aspen dad. he's real glow up but we're we're also very proud of him yes yeah it's a fun show we like watching thursday night football and you guys do a great podcast together too so uh two of our favorite dudes and uh yeah we'll see you super bowl all right sounds good guys i'll be there to take a picture of josh allen for you yeah oh yeah we should i heard you told that story so that story um i don't know if we ever said that it was you who's taking the picture and the best part about the story is that you so i was like hey ryan can you take a picture of us and josh which we know each other well enough that i didn't feel uh weird asking you but then i did feel like an asshole being like hey my tits were out can you take it again not that was the part yeah not realizing the whole time that the real problem with the picture were my eyeballs and i should have i should you should you actually fuck you you should have said hey take pft's glasses you need him more than him today oh i need the glasses too yeah yeah yeah he but you could ai the photo anyway right just like change your eyes in there well no that's a good point though yeah big cat's pupils were pinpoint because of ai that's actually not a real picture somebody ai'd that photo to make your pin pinpoint pupils it was just so funny because i was so nervous about the bitch tits and then i posted the picture and all the responses went a different way and i was like oh boy it was an exciting night for everybody i think yeah maybe hey listen when we see when you see super bowl week just you know maybe bring an extra pair of sunglasses for me i'll probably need it all right sounds good all right thanks man fitzy was brought to you by fox one where you can stream your favorite live sports so you never miss those did you see that moments that means fox college football saturday is now on fox one and now every saturday morning you can catch dave portnoy and big cat as part of the big noon kickoff crew only on Fox one.

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1:56:51Besides losing weight? Yeah. We actually do have some big plans. Big news. So this is big news. Major news. Yeah, major news. So in 2026, January, we don't have the exact date, but we have come to a deal with Netflix. So pardon my take. Ever heard of it? It is going to be on Netflix. So here's how it's going to work. The podcast video will be exclusively on Netflix. That's where everyone who watches the AWWs. Yeah. Award-winning watchers can watch it on Netflix. They can be AWWs, award-winning lookers. Yeah. If you are a listener and you're listening to this on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to it, literally nothing is changing.

1:57:34If you consume us by listening, nothing is changing. if you watch us we are going to be on Netflix um and we're very very excited it's going to be a it's a big deal for the podcast surreal it's surreal it's I think it's going to open some more doors for us it also allows us to uh compensate and let some of the behind the scenes guys guys in the booth Shane Pug all these other guys uh share in the success of the podcast so we're very excited about that part Hank PFT and I you know talked about it and we're like yeah if this means that everyone can have more pie let's let's make some more pie we want more pie and more pie for them and cake and we want to eat the cake too yep uh yeah netflix sounds like they're going to be a great partner we talked about all the all the uh details behind it and we went through it pretty closely we sat down we very rarely do a uh like three-way podcast meeting where we talked about whether or not this would be a good thing for us to do and we came to the conclusion that it seems like it's going to be a very good thing for everybody involved yeah so I'm excited.

1:58:36I'm very excited to be on Netflix. So, and then in terms of where everything's going to live. So, like I said, the actual podcast, the viewing experience of the podcast, that will be exclusive to Netflix. Our PMTVs, if we do Doug Streams, our golf videos. Zach Streams. Zach Streams. Those are coming in 2026. Those will be on YouTube and they will eventually, we're working on it so that everything can live on Netflix, but those will be on both places. so um we're we're excited i think it's going to be a huge opportunity for us the this has been a crazy you know journey and and obviously the the podcast is doing very well and it's it's cool to have an opportunity like this so we're pumped and we'll have more details when we get closer we don't want to over explain something that we don't have we don't have a place for people to go right this second i think in the next coming weeks we'll have some more details so that everyone can feel like they're in the know.

1:59:31But yeah, we're pumped. One thing that I've really liked over the years is when we find out about parents and their kids listening to part of my take and it becoming something that they bond over, whether we say something stupid and they want to talk about it and say, wow, PFT is really dumb, isn't he, Dad? Yeah, he sure is, son. Things like that, it's nice to hear. I feel like even with Netflix, that's going to be a good barrier to clear with parents. Yeah. Like trying to explain to my mom how to get on YouTube or to watch the podcast. Kind of difficult. She's locked and loaded on Netflix. Yeah.

2:00:05It's right there. Everyone's got Netflix. And nothing is changing in terms of content because, you know, Netflix, we talked to them. Great partner. So it's not nothing's going to be changing. It's just that's where the podcast is going to live now. And we're excited. Yeah. For the first, I don't know, five years where there's no video at all. Yeah. People kind of forget that. That we literally didn't have a video. It was behind a paywall. It was on Barstool Gold for the first two years. And then after Barstool Gold, I know we just started posting it on YouTube. But this is kind of, you know, it's just going back to what I guess the video started as.

2:00:39Yeah. And finally. I mean, everyone has Netflix. If you don't have Netflix, you should have Netflix. Netflix is the one. And finally, Mincy can Netflix and chill. Yes. That's going to be very, very important for him. Very important. So, yeah, more details coming. But it is a big deal for this podcast. We're really excited. I mean, Netflix is a very big company and big deal, and they made us feel special, and we're going to be a big part of their vertical to grow their podcast. So all those details will be coming out. And yeah, it's a win for everyone. So we're excited. Very excited. They told us we're pretty, and we agreed.

2:01:16Yeah, exactly. Like, you know what? We are pretty. Yeah. Just think about it. Like, Zach on Netflix. Yeah. You ever think that, Zach? The team on Netflix, PMT. A lot of people are going to be watching you on Netflix. I think it's a beautiful thing. Maybe you could do the Netflix and chill with a date. If you ever take that girl out on a second date. Have you called her back? We're uh yeah We have them talking a little bit. You know, seasonal. We've got a lot of football going on recently. Seasonal. It's a seasonal thing. Yeah. You're married to the game. That makes sense. A lot of ball out there to watch.

2:01:46Yeah. It's a very seasonal thing. Ball comes first. But yeah, that's the big news. And yeah, that is the big news. I'm excited. Netflix on PMT. Not starting January 1st. Not starting January 1st. When we get the exact start date, we will definitely let everyone know. We will give you more details as we get closer. it's you know we we try not to to do big big announcements when we don't have an action that you can take so we're not there at the action yet but i think this is going to be something that gets released um by netflix and you know uh a press release at some point on wednesday so we wanted to make sure we told the awls first and again if you're listening to this i mean i think because we were so early to the game.

2:02:3180 % of our audience is just listening to this, and like I said, nothing changes for them. But actually, go watch us on Netflix, please. Yeah. That would be awesome. Just turn it on. Turn it on for your dog. Don't turn it on. If you have to commute and you can't watch, turn it on for your dog. That was a good, Hank, that was a really good effect. What's up, fellas? What's up? What type of rehearsals are done prior to shows, if any? Rehearsals. We got two rehearsals. It often seems like part of the shows are ad-libbed while those are well-structured. No, we got the table read. Rehearsals? First of all, we do the table read about two hours before.

2:03:05Then we do the dress rehearsal. That's when we change into our costumes. We usually wear polo shirts, khakis, belts to work. But then we change into what you see now. Do you imagine if we rehearsed? The most rehearsing we do is when we start a conversation, then stop it and say, save it for the show. or walking by, like, one of us will walk by the other saying, I got something I want to say to you, but I'm not going to say it until we get on the show. Imagine, like, scripting some of the stupidest things that we've ever said. People thought this show was, like, actually written down and scripted at the beginning.

2:03:37I think that was a Dave rumor. Sometimes either me or Big Cat will sit down with a lot of the guys in the corner and we'll just, like, start throwing out some takes. Yeah. It's directed at the one person that's not there at the time. just like it's a feel it out a little bit yeah because this you think he's gonna be mad about this you think he's gonna be upset about this and then that's a little bit of a yeah or like a rehearsal where it's like you see you guys are just you're just talking about me and Hank yeah it's like if Hank is there and I'm not no it's about me if I'm there and Hank's not it's about it no rehearsal like you see a tweet and then you are sitting next to Max and PFT and you say hey look at this tweet that one yeah yeah that's and people get angry at rehearsal I guess Actually, you know what?

2:04:20Maybe the most rehearsing that we've done recently was after the Eagles-Chargers Monday Night Football game, where we just, being big catches, texted the group thread like, hey, we should get a bunch of inflatable things to bring in for Max. And then we're like, okay. The secret group thread? Secret group thread. Oh, no, you left. You left. Oh, yeah, true. I did leave. I did leave. But that might have been, yeah, that might have been me PFT and memes. sometimes hank also did have someone from another part of the company text me and say i have to be in it was a fake request oh yeah i know we're there for that yeah i had nothing to do with that was awesome distraction yeah i'd even think twice about it too she was like you need to be out on the basketball court and then i just kept being like what am i doing here she's like just wait and it didn't it didn't register in my head at all she came over to me and then she was like I'm running out of stuff to pretend to tell Max to do.

2:05:09I don't know what to say. She said nothing. She was like, you just have to be here. And then at one point, I guess she got the okay that you guys were all set up. Then she was like, actually, you know what? You don't need to be here. And I just believed it. This will be productive. Do a quarterback redraft for Drake May, Caleb Williams, and Jane Daniels. Oh, okay. All right. All right, Big Cat, you got the first overall pick. I'm taking Caleb Williams. All right, PFT, you got the second overall pick. I'm going to take Drake does this include the fourth quarter I'm going to switch it up Jaden Daniels yeah Bo Nix Bo Nix has got to be in there it was a three person draft I think memes should have to make the list alright memes tell us your list you got the first pick no he's got all the picks if I'm the Bears did I interview Drake May this time no I'd still go Caleb I'd probably do Drake at 2 maybe Bo at 3

2:06:16I'd do Tyler Shuck are you going to throw out 9? don't throw out 9 put Tyler Shuck in there we'll go Tyler Shuck at 3 or 4 so you just didn't draft Jaden Daniels just remember that put that on the bulletin Memes hates the commanders my preemptive take of the year was right What was your preemptive take? Commanders will miss the playoffs and Jaden Daniels will be the worst out of all the quarterbacks in 2024. Michael Penix? He looked pretty good before the injury. I don't know about that, memes. I don't know about that, memes. You're slinging it. Money Night Football. You take nine over Jaden? Right now.

2:06:54Best ability is availability. That's true. That's true. Hey, listen. Like I said, the haters are right. Congrats to the haters. They got you this year. Yeah, haters shot up the power rankings board this year. All right, last one. Can someone explain how Max is both a Nova fan and a PSU fan? This feels illegal. Well, no, Nova doesn't have Division I football. Villanova does not have. People are so mad at me. Villanova is an FCS football school. It is impossible for Villanova and Penn State to play in a postseason format. They can play in the regular season. They did play in the regular season this year, so that's where people got mad at me.

2:07:37But, like, Villanova losing to Penn State doesn't affect Villanova's season in any way whatsoever. But Villanova beating Penn State still does not really affect their season. Yeah, Penn State's. Oh, no, but it doesn't really affect Villanova's season. It'd be an all-time win for Villanova. Yeah, Max actually, to Max's credit, he is very straightforward with his Penn State. Like, it is at the bottom of his rankings. and he does not – like, we could never – if Penn State lost in a national championship, we could not, like, get a rise out of Max. He'd just be, like, mad. But we couldn't get, like, an Eagles or a Phillies rise out of you.

2:08:16We could, like, tease you a little, but it wouldn't – you just wouldn't be that – you wouldn't be as upset as you've been with others. It wouldn't come close to watching Max, like, if you lost in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament with Villanova. So the difference is, like, going into the Penn State football year, I have no idea who's on the team. Like, I learn it. I, like, watch each game, and I learn, guys, as the season goes on. You're always learning. Yeah, and even then, like, I still don't know many guys on the Penn State football team. They're the team I root for, but it's like I don't really know Penn State football that well.

2:08:49Villanova basketball, I'm, like, I'm following the recruiting, like, every single week, every guy that we get, as soon as we get them, I'm looking at their highlight tapes. getting excited for how they're going to fit in the system. Like, Villanova basketball is my thing. And also, I went to Villanova. People don't know that I went to Villanova. You're smart. Wait, is Villanova a smart school? It's pretty smart. Okay. It's pretty smart. But, yeah. You're smart. People, because it does get confusing because I went to Hofstra out of high school. Okay. And I transferred to Villanova, graduated from Villanova.

2:09:26What did you study at Villanova? communications, media production. Do you think there's ever a chance we'll have a March Madness where all three of your teams are in? Hofstra, Villanova. See, that's the thing. I don't care about Penn State basketball. And you don't care about Hofstra. Actually, I do kind of. If Penn State basketball is in the tournament, I would root for Penn State basketball to win that game. Not that I would really care. Who's the white guy who hit all the threes? Fuck, I loved that guy. Oh, for Penn State? Yeah. I don't know. See, I don't even know. Oh, what was his name? It was like two years ago.

2:09:58I thought for a second you were talking about Dante. No. Yeah, I was going to say the one guy who hit all those three. There's like ten different guys that that could be. No, what was his name? You got to get Hofstra in. This is going to kill me. Hofstra's good this year. Hofstra hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 2000. And then the one time they did was 2020. It got canceled. Yeah. Okay, wait. Go pride. Hold on. We can't. Shep? That's our one mutual... Was it Shep? No. Is Andrew Funk? Yes, Funk! We got Funk. Remember when we Funked? Yes, yes, yes. Dude, he was whapping. Zach, what a pull. There it is.

2:10:36Did you look that up? That was all Google, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, still, good pull. Funk. What was your search? Dude, Funk was awesome. Penn State white guy who hit all those threes. And it was Andrew Funk. Yeah. He was... Oh, he's on the Nuggets? He must be on the... I wonder if he's on the G League. Andrew Funk, Penn State. I want to see what it is. I want to say it was against Texas A &M, maybe. They might have lost, but he was lights out. He was so much fun. Andrew Funk. He was a full tournament type of guy. Okay. Good show, boys. Great show.

2:11:23I'm looking at funk right now Three is right in the middle Front and center To start this show It is? I'm looking at it I think that's three Right Hank? Can you see memes? Here let's zoom in on it I'll do it Zoom in on it You have an ad right? Memes Zoom in on three I don't have an ad I mean, zoom in on it, dude I'm locked in on this guy Zoom in on it We can see it Oh, yeah, here it is Stop talking, Max The Texas A &M game, he went 8 for 10 Those some good number 3 I think that was PFT Good quarter of a second, gotcha I think that was PFT 8 for 10 for 3 That was such a fun game Oh, Pug has made his analysis And?

2:12:14PFT It is. The one that he pointed at, you know. I wasn't going to go for it until Memes did his draft. And then now Memes, I had to. Oh, your team sucks. Wow. Memes hates the commanders. Oh, yeah. 22. 100. I'll go six.

2:12:39What number did Andrew Funk wear? 99 pug. I'll go 12. 44. 8. 10. Andrew Funk. Shout out to Andrew Funk. Whoa. Whoa. See, I said that that happens sometimes. Someone gaslit me and being like, no, that was just a reflection. I think it was you that was gaslighting me? No. Da. 15. 15. Tebow. Should we do one more? Tebow. Just one more. One more. We're currently 36 guesses away. One more. This would make it. This could be it. This could be it. What are you? Six? Six. Come on, memes. 100. Six is the number I got. Yep. Is it? Yeah. Oh, I could see it being six. Nah. 57. Anyone? 57. 57. Love you guys.

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