The Frisky Cowboys, the Next Stafford, KC’s Houdini Act, an NFL Thanks Session, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

25:57It was like, it's cool. I played for the Patriots, whatever. It was like Drake May was the reason I went there. I think you're so right. And the luxury you have being fired as a coach or leaving and you have like a year off, if you're still a football junkie, you get to, like we do, watch those 1 p.m. games. And never does it stand out more that you need a quarterback than from 1 to 4 Eastern, right? So, yes, I think you're right. That was the next step. And I don't think the Bears were on the table because they were fired up for Ben Johnson. But if he had a choice between Caleb and Drake May, that would have, well, maybe we'll find out 30 years from now we would have taken.

26:32I have another thanks. I'd like to thank Sean McVay for saving Matthew Stafford all those years ago. because we just don't have enough good quarterbacks. Matthew Stafford was on Detroit, getting the shit kicked out of him year after year. He had a couple of good receivers. Now you can see him, this awesome offense that's been really fun to watch for half a decade now. So thank you to him. And I hope there's another QB. I don't know who the next Stafford is, like who the next savior QB is because he really checked a lot of the boxes. I don't think there's another one sitting there. I don't think there's anyone.

27:09So what you'd have to look at is, oh, who's stuck up? Who's a great quarterback stuck on a bad team? I guess Herbert had a shot for a minute, but they would make the playoffs though, right? Like, so I don't know. Herbert's had some success. Lawrence is, I think, checks the most amount of boxes, but he's not Stafford. But you could say, oh, he had that Urban Meyer year. He's always been in a bad situation, blah, blah, blah. And you could talk yourself into it. But Stafford, you know, for years, it was always like, oh man, if only that guy could find a good team. I feel so bad for him being with that fucked up plan.

27:43Think about those miserable Thanksgiving games that he had to start. Just get his ass beat every year. It wasn't his fault. What's your next one? You know what? I'll thank Collinsworth, 500th telecast. Yeah. Right? Why not? It's going to probably take him another 500 before he figures out how to pronounce pass rush. But I love the voice. I love the insight. And I'm going to miss it if he ever hangs it up. I watched that Cowboys documentary, and one thing that stood out to me, or one of the things, is Madden and Summerall, how big they made a game, right? I know. Vince Scully in baseball. And then these guys go away, and I don't think AI is going to be ready yet to just throw their voices in the booth after they move on.

28:21That would be pretty cool, but I don't know if we'll ever get there. So good job by you, Chris Collinsworth. Buck and Aikman and Collinsworth probably have the pedigree of, this feels like a bigger game because these guys are doing it. We have some good guys on the horizon, though. I think J.J. Watt's been really good this year. Olsen's been really good for a while. I got to say, I thought Adam Amin and Drew Brees were good today. I couldn't hear them. I think Adam Amin's good. I don't know. They did one of the later games. Yeah. But wait, I have it written down. Did they do? Oh, they did Saints-Falcons.

28:59Oh, the Falcons. They did the Saints-Falcons disaster. Adam Amin. Just to stay awake, I give him kudos. Adam Amin bounces back. The Sanchez thing happens. It's like, am I going to have a partner? And Drew Brees comes flying in. All right, I'm going to thank the guy who came up with the idea that we should start videotaping the locker room post-game speeches. Yeah, smart. This has really been a breakout year. I now actively look for them after games. I can't wait for the Ben Johnson one. And Vrabel, I feel like, has been kind of mailing him in, to be honest. He's just kind of, I think he knows they're videotaped.

29:37I don't think he wants to say anything crazy. Ben Johnson is now doing, like, late 80s Ultimate Warriors. Like, when I see you at the Nassau Coliseum, brother! Like, he's, like, fucking really going for it. I enjoy him. I enjoy your coach. I think he's been really good. He can get, he can start screaming, then he can go low. but I've really enjoyed them all the way around. I think they've been great. I think it's like the best part of hard knocks, right? Like when the coach really goes. Yeah, this is all we have left. And we get it every week. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I don't know, we talked about this like last year.

30:13Like, do they consider this for coach of the year? Like, I don't know. Locker room speech? It kind of sticks in your head. Win losses, then locker room speech? Yeah, like this guy's making a difference. Stefanski had a really good one today for the Browns. Oh, yeah. He went through and he went this guy and then he's like, how about Shadir in his first start? Just immediately went going to the next guy. He didn't like give him a game ball, nothing, because he wanted to get to Myles Garrett because Myles Garrett has 18 sacks. Ridiculous. Yeah. But yeah, I think the next evolution of this is I think we need to also see the losing speeches now.

30:47Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. We need to see like Sirianni after that Eagles game. Like, all right, guys. Can't win them all. no game balls today I'll see you Tuesday I don't even know but we never get to see those in three hours yeah sorry guys yeah I feel like you know the NCAA does that you know when they have their March when they have the they reveal the brackets they show the teams going crazy they don't show the teams that are upset anymore nobody wants to show negative stuff anymore but I think you're right yeah bring that back I got a couple more well you brought up wrestling I don't want to thank Bret the Hitman Hart I mean WWE We Hall of Famer, gossip columnist extraordinaire.

31:28Look it up if you have to. Yikes. Sorry to do that. Let's talk about it. We can. All right. He went on a podcast and it seemed like he was serious. He said that the Montreal Screwjob, the origins were that Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels had a love affair. Yeah. And that's why Vince McMahon was trying to do right by Shawn Michaels. And the host of the, it seemed like a live show. The host thought Bret Hart was kidding. Yeah. And Bret Hart's like, I'm not kidding. I'm serious. He's so angry. He's still mad. It was a whole new meeting to the Montreal Screwjob. I had no idea. He knows it's scripted, right?

32:07He just didn't have it that night? Like, come on. But all right. But that's good, though. It's fun. It was crazy. What else do you have? Brandon Nimmo traded. It was a great Met. I know you're going to laugh at that. Oh, you're switching sports on me? I'm sorry. 13th pick in 2011. stayed with this. How often does a guy stay 14 years? Almost a thousand hits. Big home run against the Filthies last year. Played hard. Likeable dude. And I thank him mostly for sticking around so my kids could wear his jersey year after year, like not replace it. So save me a little money. We'll miss you, Brandon Nemo.

32:42Go ahead. Bob Nemo? What was his name? Brandon Nemo, huh? I was just being a dick. Stop it. Come on. We're about to hit a free agency winner where the Red Sox aren't going to actually do anything. Who do you have? I have bad coaches, I'd like to thank. You know, we lose a Brandon Staley. We lose an Antonio Pierce. We lose a Gerard Mayo. And one of my favorite things is to watch somebody just completely botch, you know, either a fourth and two type of situation, a last two minutes of a half, some sort of game management thing. And, you know, deep down, I want to live in a world where we have six to eight coaches each year who will just fuck this stuff up.

33:28And then you have Aaron Glenn down three points in the second half to the Ravens on his own 42 on a fourth and two with maybe the worst offense in the AFC. I don't know. It's in the top three. And he decides, yeah, you know what? We're going to go for this. And doesn't get it. And all of a sudden it's 17-7 and the game's over. You have that. You have all the stuff Jonathan Gannon did. you have even your coach who's done a good job this year just completely fucking up all the stuff that happened in the last three minutes when they're inside the five yard line did you say Liam Cohn down fourth and two they could go up six the Jags guy was my favorite that was so what was it, there was two minutes left playing Arizona they have a quarterback who's already had four turnovers there's no pass or run play on that fourth and two that I think was going to work for the Jaguars that I can come up with, having watched that entire game.

34:23And it was fourth and two. It wasn't even fourth and a half, fourth and one. We could entertain a quarterback sneak. It's that play where the quarterback rolls right and the tailback releases. And if they pick up the tailback, you are screwed because now you got nowhere. And they threw it deep to the end zone. The guy's like twisting around and it didn't work. Yeah, that sucked. That was real. By the way, you have a kicker who could nail a field goal from Tucson. And you pass up on it. It only would have been a 45-yard field goal anyway. Well, it speaks to how little faith they had in the special teams.

34:55Because it's like if we go up six, we're going to kick the ball off and they're going to have the ball at the 40, go 60 yards and beat us. Right. If we get this, we can win. The problem was that Lawrence was very close to five turnovers. Yeah. Who's there? Any other ones you want to thank? Not really. I want to thank my Dynamite legal team I've assembled to sue Pablo Torre. I'm not sure what my claim is going to be, but I'll figure it out later. He hasn't done a podcast about you yet. Whatever. It's a preliminary. I just want to let him know I'm suing him. You proactively get to sue him before he does anything.

35:30Thanking my attorneys ahead of time. I'd like to thank everybody who hires old coaches from now on, going forward. Any head coach that's 74 and over, I think if somebody hires them, the comedy that's going to come from that is going to be great. Like the Raiders today fired Chip Kelly, their offensive coordinator. He lasted 11 weeks. Somehow all of this was his fault. But between that and Belichick going four and seven, I think we might have hit a wall here with old coaches. Yeah, I think mid-70s politicians and head coaches, that might be it. Because they want another year at them. Yeah, the Chip Kelly thing is interesting.

36:09Tate and I predicted this in the beginning of the week. And now he's probably, yeah, like he's going to be gone. Like they have to get rid of somebody. And I think they want, they want Pete Carroll to stick around another year. And Chip Kelly will probably get one of these big college jobs. Who knows? Florida, who knows where he'll go. But yeah, that's just, I felt for, I felt for Gino today, right? Like 10 sacks for minus 77 yards. Give me a break. But you can see it coming from the Monday night game. Your entire defensive line was in the backfield every time. Yeah, I don't think Gino's moving like he did five years ago either, which is another.

36:49Five months ago. Yeah. Yeah, or maybe he's taken some hits. I feel bad for Pete Carroll, though. This is, I guess, how it ends. We've seen a lot of great head coaches over the years. Either they stay one year too long or they take that one last job. People don't remember when Joe Walsh came back. when, not Joe Walsh. Bill Walsh? I think I'm getting old. Joe Gibbs. Life's been good, Joe Walsh. When Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh came back. No, Joe Gibbs. Jimmy Johnson came back. Parcells had that last run in the Cowboys, but it seems like that last go-round. Even then, I think you could maybe pull it off with Parcells and Jimmy Johnson.

37:30The players are just so different now, and the salaries and every other structured thing, and not allowed to practice. And I feel bad, especially bad for Carroll, because he's not one of these guys who's collecting a paycheck. Like after their fifth sack, it was a TV timeout, and he ran on the field. He's like, we can't have another sack. It's like, well, there's going to be five more. Sorry, Pete. Yeah, but yeah, that's a mess. Real mess. Get ready. All right, let's talk about some of the other games. Chiefs Indy is the big one that we didn't talk about yet. Cheats are down 20-9, threatening to go five and six for the season.

38:04Offense looked a little choppy. And two things happened. Rice got going. I think Rice had 111 yards. I think they might have all been in the second half, but Indy ended the game with four straight three and outs. Last four times they had the ball, including overtime, three and out. They only had 10 first downs for the game, the 11 penalties. In a 68-minute game, they only had the ball for 25 minutes, 255 total. They're on the road outdoors. this was the scenario that we wanted to see with the Colts and they couldn't do anything. And I do think it meant something because this was like, if you're going to tell me you're going to do the 99 Rams and you're just going to be indoors the entire time or the 09 Saints, we're never going to have to worry about you outdoors in cold weather having to do something.

38:50It's one thing, but I don't think they're going to be a one seed. And it didn't seem like they trusted Jones. And they couldn't run the ball and put the game away. Like I thought they could. What did you see in that second? Well, I want to give all-star positive. I want to give the defense credit. I mean, you went over it, Casey, but they held Indy scoreless in the third quarter, the fourth quarter in an overtime, right? So Spags really stepped up and he had to, but yeah, I thought I love the Chiefs today and they didn't cover, but I thought the Colts, I was like, well, this is going to be a game like when they went to Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago and it was like a must win for Pittsburgh and they kind of no-showed and they got pushed around.

39:27It wasn't that at all. Like they jumped out at that and Mahomes, he's definitely a little off, right? Like he's, he's not bad, but he's not exceptional. He's not, he's, he's, I guess you're not supposed to roll left as a righty and complete a 30 yard pass in the middle of the field. Right. So now he's just like overthrowing guys a little bit, but he's getting it together. You said, you said those receivers stepped up and that's what they need. Whenever they need like a big run out of Kareem hunt on third and three or whatever, they get it. So, um, and they want to one score game, which they haven't.

39:57So maybe this gets them going. Doesn't seem like he's connecting on those deep balls just anymore. It almost feels like it's now surprising if he hits one. He's moving really well, though. Like his scrambling is still really good, I think. I thought he had a couple of big scrambles today. And, you know, the inside, either the red zone 10 or zone 10, just weird shit has happened with them this whole season. Like the turnover today. Yeah. You know, these are like Trevor Lawrence type of turnovers that I just don't remember seeing from him before. But, you know, I thought that was a good win for the Chiefs, but I thought that was a horrible loss for the Colts.

40:34They really could have, especially like with what happened with the Patriots today and some of the injuries to the offensive line, the Colts could have, they could have locked down potentially a one seed and the momentum for it because they win the tiebreaker against Denver. You know, the Pats, who knows when Will Campbell is going to come back. And instead it's going the other way. We were texting middle of the week about Colts to miss the playoffs. It was what, plus 720? Something like that, plus 710. And the scenario was just who they have the rest of the way here because now they're 8-3. Well, they have both against the Jags and both against the Texans left.

41:11That's the weird part, right? Houston next week, yeah, they play their four rivals four times, and they're at Seattle and they're home for San Francisco. and we were saying like, what if they go one and five? Right. You know, what if they only win one more time? Could nine and eight, is that even a playoff team? I guess they'll win two, but they're not leaving themselves enough error for a team that, enough room for error for a team that seemed like they were going to be the guaranteed. What's the, it's asking a lot that they don't make the playoffs, I think at this point, but the division, the Texans at seven to one, they have some work to do though, right?

41:50But you talk about impressive units like that. Texans defense is the most impressive unit in that division, for sure. So they're 7-0 in the division now. The Jags are plus 270. The Jags are the worst of the three. I don't think there's any question. They're just a ridiculous team. But I will say this with Houston, and I was glad I listened to your show with the Bundle and Heifetz on Friday. I felt the exact same way. I do think we overreacted to the Thursday games. because I was flying back from New York. So all the shows were on. I was watching Get Up. There were six people on Get Up at one point.

42:26Schrager is just, he was like Tom Castaway just drawing help in the sand as Bart Scott talks for a minute straight followed by another two-minute Ord Lapsky monologue. Schrager got his pocket picked. He lost his wallet and there's no telling who because there's just so many people on set. There's no telling where, who got it? Can't find it. But I was watching those shows for, I had just had them on JetBlue. Right. And you would have thought Buffalo blew their season. It's like, dude, they played three days rest. They were going into Houston, playing the best defense in the league. And FYI, they were on the 10-yard line trying to score.

43:04Like, they almost won the game. Right. And I know Allen got sacked and he didn't look great, but I just, we can't overrate those Thursday games. Like, the Rams lost to the Mac Jones in overtime on a Thursday. The Thursday games are stupid. They are dumb. And more than that. Just be careful. Yeah, it's like you can't count the bills out. Like it was a couple years ago they won six in a row, right? Didn't have to win six in a row against tough teams down the stretch to make the playoffs. So as long as Josh Allen is healthy, you know, it's just a slap in the face for people to count these teams out.

43:34They have the same problem they had a month ago where I don't really know what they're doing on third and eight. We've talked about it, I feel, like multiple times on the pod, but they don't have that one, like Devontae Adams, what he's become on the Rams, what Diggs has been for the Patriots all year. They don't have that one guy. I know where they're going. But, you know, Josh Palmer's like, they're easing him back in because he was injured. I wonder if maybe he, I'm just, I'm not even close to counting that team out yet. That's a great defense, that Texans defense. So the Chiefs, amazing, basically saved the season today.

44:10Although I think maybe seven losses is it. So that would have been six today. But now they have to play Thursday. They have to play your stupid team. And your team's going to throw the ball on them. Yeah, I don't know what to expect, honestly. I know I'm going to have odds of watching that game. But I don't know if we have like a 10-point lead and blow it or how it turns out. But I think Spagnuolo's going to pressure Dak. And that's what we haven't seen too much from a lot of these teams. and whether he could withstand that is going to tell the win or not. I don't know. It's probably going to be a close game.

44:45We'll go over the spread, but it surprised me. Brutal. Lions. Chiefs are minus 240, by the way. I think I texted you when they were down five. I was like, they're minus 102 to make the playoffs. So now everything's right in the world. Minus 240. Lions survived the Giants. They won an OT. And they basically won because Jake Gibbs had a 59-yarder. 10 regulation. Did he? How did that get in? It made it by like this much. It just got through, and then they win an OT. Lions 7-4. Now Laporta's out for the year. I don't know. Something's missing with that team. I thought the Giants should have won. That was the most interesting game to me, where it was like the Giants clearly should have won, fucked it up, left the game on the table.

45:36but you know, did you talk about that coach too? Did you say that? That was a terrible thing. And I liked him too. Like he had these trick plays. I was like, this is a guy Kafka wants a job next year. This is what you do. You don't sit there like a lame duck, you know, like you, but he could have taken three points from the six yard line. I would have put them up six with a couple minutes left. It's a little too maverick there. I think that's kind of sealed the deal for him getting hired. I don't think, I don't think it's happening now. Yeah. It almost seemed like he felt good. even if they didn't get it, that Goff would have to go basically 70 yards.

46:09And guess what? Detroit went 70 yards.

46:15I feel like we have this exact podcast discussion every year. I just feel like Jameis has to be one of the 32 starting QBs. It might have to be like a law. We watch like there's six shitty QBs every week. It just needs to be a law that Jameis has to be one of the 32. He's just too much fun. He's fun for both teams. Today, 366, he caught a TD. He did a weird TD dance. He threw multiple almost picks and just did, it was the full Jameis. I loved it. I was watching Mahomes and Jackson struggle, Lamar, and I was like, all right, it's one thing if the great quarterbacks want to take a week off, a couple weeks off, whatever.

46:56But one of the bad quarterbacks is going to turn the ball over. Like, Jameis didn't really do it until the end. And he had 10 receptions of 10 catches of 20 plus yards. Like that's insane against that defense. How does the Lions defense look so soft at home after a win? You know, we have the good, bad teams. Yeah. I always talk about it. It's probably Jacksonville this year. I think the Giants are the bad, good team. They're two and 10. I have them in five either or games and they lost all five. They've blown five double-digit leads on the road. They've played the Lions. They played tough. The Packers, the Bears, the Broncos.

47:37They played tough. The Chargers, they played tough. They played your team tough. And they've had a bunch of injuries too, but they, I don't know. Out of all the bad teams, that's the one. I was even nervous about putting the Lions in a parlay as it got closer to Sunday, thinking about like, ah, why did I trust the Lions so much? Are we sure they're even good? And then it turns out. They have this graphic where the Giants lost all these games. And it'll show like one game they were up 17 with six minutes left. One game they were beating the Cowboys with like 40 seconds. Like, oh my God. When it looks side by side, it's crazy.

48:11But the good thing about them is they're a little Patriots-esque. And that you know they're going to be. There's promise for next year, right? You get Neighbors back. You get Scadaboo back. You get Dart back. You got that good front seven for the most part. You know, they pressure the quarterback. So I could see, well, who is it, though? That's what they deserve a good coach. And I think a good coach will bite there. So that's what's going to be interesting. It's a little different than last year where Vrabel and Ben Johnson were clearly the best two guys last year. And this year, I don't feel like there's people like that.

48:45It's a pretty good job, though. A guy like Dart. You just have to tell Dart to not try to run into seven guys at once. And they have some good blue chippers on both sides of the ball. But yeah, the Lions, we'll find out this week. They're playing the Packers. You know, the Bears keep winning. And it's turning into a, if the Bears just, it's just going to be one of those goofy seasons where they go like 12 and 5 and nobody understands how. Then that means it's Lions versus Packers for one playoff spot. So here's what I think they have. They could decide it. Going for them, the Lions, they have the best player in the division.

49:18I mean, Jameer Gibbs is phenomenal. Like, I don't want to compare him to Barry Sanders, but he's that electric. you know? And you could tell within a second if he's going to score from the 40-yard line. I went against him in fantasy. He had 69.8 points. I mean, they should cap it. It should never be 60, 70 points. That's 50? Yeah, yeah. It's like when you're golfing, like, all right, you can't get a 12 on this hole. Everybody gets, it's just not fair. But I think he needs to touch the ball every three plays. And you could convince me that it's every play, honestly. 264 are all purpose for him.

49:52Yeah. And then the Bears, out-voodooed the Voodoo Steelers. Pittsburgh, they got the fumble TD. They were playing all the hits. Right. The fumble TD, they got another dumb turnover. They ran for 186 yards. They're running these stupid plays. You're like, oh my God, how did that work? Mason Rudolph's the quarterback, and then the Bears ended up pulling them off. Eight and three. The Bears fans are pumped. I'm happy for the Bears fans. I think even they know this is a little smoke and mercy, But at some point in the NFL, this is what happens during a season. Sure. You start winning these week after week, you start believing you're going to win them.

50:29It worked out. They got the good coach. They got the quarterback who's not screwing up. Then they're right there. They're in a, you know, their division is wacky this year, right? This was, we thought for sure this was the best division in football. And now week to week, we don't know which team is going to survive January. It was the best division in football. Yeah. The problem is they have one stinky team in the division, and it's a stinky team because they just completely missed on this quarterback. My God. McCarthy was 12 for 19 for 87 today, two picks, five sacks. And Lombardi always used to talk about this.

51:04When you stay with the QB, who clearly you can't win with, and you move into that, you could lose the locker room territory where all these guys, football is this violent, brutal sport. You're just week after week. you're just killing yourself to get out there and you're lifting and you're just taking these hits and playing with concussions and injuries, all these different things. And when you have a shit quarterback, it's just, it's not like in basketball where it's like, Oh, our point guard is kind of a shithead. Like, all right, fine. I'll just shoot some threes. Like in football, you can't.

51:35And he's so bad. I, I actually, I didn't bet the Vikes this week, but I did, uh, I did put small money line and parlay on them. I was just curious. Like, oh, what happens if he is good? This was the week where it's like, this guy, I don't see it. It's probably never happening. Can I tell you, speaking of shitheads, what I did? I can't really make fun of these coaches for making dumb decisions. When I do the same, as a better, as an avid gambler, I'm making the same dumb moves every week. Why take the Raiders minus three and a half against anyone? I don't care if they're playing Austin B, right?

52:11Short week, no less. You know, why take the Saints? Oh, everyone's got the Saints. You like Chuck. Okay. Everybody was on the Saints. They lost. I had Minnesota on a three-team teaser plus 16 and a half. They lost 23-7. I'm the biggest idiot in the NFL. 10 first downs. He's completely murdered Justin Jefferson's fantasy season and maybe his life as a fantasy guy. Addison too. Nothing. Yep. what was on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 is Larry Fitzgerald for like three years on the Cardinals. Right. Jefferson's like an 8. Because it's the combo of not only are you not going to make big plays if this guy's your quarterback, but he also might decapitate you.

52:53Sure. That second pick he threw, if the guy wasn't going to pick it, he was going to completely lay out the receiver if that guy was going to catch it. Can I read you the best J.J. McCarthy stat that actually would have saved those receivers? J.J. McCarthy would have had a higher passing rating if he would have just spiked the ball on every play. He would have had a 39.6 versus the 34.2 he carried. He should try that next week. Who knows? Maybe it'll work. I sent you that locker room clip. That's brutal. I sent that locker room clip of him after week one. This guy, we'll follow him. It's like, uh-oh.

53:35So a quarterback who, I don't know what's going on with, is zombie Lamar Jackson. Yeah. He just, it looks like he's been replaced. It was like that story of the lady who claimed she saw people on the airplane. Remember that story? Right, right, right. Yeah. She's like, they're there. And everyone thought she was nuts. And then she gave an interview three weeks later and she looked different. Yeah. People thought she'd been replaced. I'm in the Lamar might have been replaced. It might be Tavares Jackson. Like one of those type of backups from over the years. I don't know who it is. There are a lot.

54:14Any Jackson. Lamar Jackson. Yeah. I don't know, man. This is one of those games where I scratch my head. Like I was saying on another text chain, like maybe these teams we're hoping are good just won't get there. Right? Like there's a chance, right? The Ravens and the Chiefs and the Bills are just not two out of three. I've been saying that with the Ravens. I don't think they have it. I really don't. I don't think they're good enough this year. Because I have some Pats fans in my life who are like, oh, this is going to suck if we get two seed and the Ravens get the seven. I'm like, what good game have the Ravens played this year?

54:44Like, at some point, it's Thanksgiving. We haven't seen them play good yet. They are not good. When he can't scramble and when he can't do his thing, they're not good. Their receivers are idiots. Zay Flowers is getting knocked over by passes that are hitting them in the chest. And yet, they're like, I'm looking now. they're minus 425 to win the division. This team was, they were one in five, and they're going to have this division wrapped up before Thanksgiving? Are you kidding me? They won five straight. Yeah. Well, one of the teams they're going against is the Jaguars, who beat Arizona in OT.

55:16We talked about it earlier. Lawrence had the full DeLome in play. He had four turnovers, including a fumble TD. I couldn't remember if a DeLome was, the full DeLome was, there has to be a defensive TD, and it has to be five turnovers total. And it could be four picks and a fumble or five picks, some combination, but it has to get to five. So he had the full DeLon was in play for a good hour, but he got out of it with only four turnovers. The announcers, at one point, he threw another terrible pick, and they cut to Liam Cohen, and he was doing this. He thought there was a flag, but it wasn't. He was like, what the fuck did he just see in that pick?

55:56So they come back, they get the ball again, and he throws a completion. And the announcers are praising Lawrence. He's like, now that's a pro right there. You got to shake off that last pass. Trevor Lawrence shook it off. And I'm thinking like, who has more experience shaking off a terrible pass than Trevor Lawrence? That guy's got 10 years of experience of shaking it off. The pass after his interception, he hits 65 % on that one pass. But then it goes back. He'll throw another one. But yeah. Of course he shook it off. He throws interceptions all the time. Shake your hair out. I think he, if we put aside the first-year quarterbacks or the quarterbacks who are completely washed, I think he makes the worst decisions out of any quarterback.

56:41Right? If you're not in that new quarterback or just done quarterback bin, that's the nicest thing I could say about him, honestly. I had him in Ringer 107. I had the Jags, plus I bet on them. Yeah. And it's just a rollercoaster ride for three hours. Yeah. Every time he goes back to pass, you don't feel like anything good is going to happen. Right. So I was thinking about him versus Jameis. Lawrence's career record now is 29 and 42. Jameis is 36 and 52. Lawrence has one playoff win. Jameis has zero playoff starts. Lawrence has 83 TDs, 54 picks. Jameis has 154 TDs, 112 picks. And Lawrence has 6.7 yards per attempt.

57:28Jameis was in tougher divisions, I think, right? Wouldn't you say? He was in that AFC North for a while. I guess the Saints. Jameis' career was longer. I think he was more entertaining. But they're basically the same QB, is my point. Yeah. And I didn't realize that until I was watching both of them today. And I was like, what's the difference between these two guys? Something really good might happen. Something really terrible might happen. Well, Jameis is more entertaining. Jameis is like a better hang. Yeah, right. When the good thing does happen. But yeah, I hated this game. I was like, how is this game still going on?

58:03I know we don't have cross-offs for coach of the year, but I'd like to guide my Sharpie right through both these guys' names. Unbelievable. Well, Gannon might get fired. Yeah. Yeah, Liam Cohen, pretty tough. And then the only other one was Saints-Falcons, where everyone had this on Thursday, and by Sunday it became clear that something horrible was going to happen. Everybody loved the Saints. The Saints missed two field goals. They fucked up two different first and goal from inside the two situations. So they actually left 20 points on the table. And Kirk Cousins, who was mostly Kirk Cousins, but did have a couple good plays.

58:45Here's my question, Sal. Yeah. Is this our first cross on, our first uncross off the Falcons? For who? So we crossed them off. What do we do? Because of the Baker thing? Like Mayfield might be hurt. I know. I know. They're four and seven. They're two behind Tampa. They're two beyond Carolina who plays San Francisco tomorrow night. They play the Jets in New York next week. Atlanta plays home Seattle, at Tampa, at Zona, home Rams, home Saints. They might get to eight wins. Could eight and nine win the division? I think they're one of those teams that for years and years, you just shouldn't pay attention to them.

59:25Don't bet on them. Don't bet against them. It's like a dog, like a neighborhood dog. You know, he has a few bites under his repertoire. And you're like, just don't make eye contact with him. Stay away. It's like my dog Murph. Yeah. So, boy, I mean, because if Baker's out, you got that division, Teddy Two Gloves, Two Gloves, Cousins, Mother Shucker, and Bryce Young, who before last week had three straight games under 150 yards. I can't believe this division now. Well, Carolina plays Tampa twice. They have it tough. Yeah. If Teddy Bridgewater is the Tampa QB the rest of the way, I think all bets are off with this division.

1:00:06And right now it says, is this right? Panthers are a half game up now, right? Or they're even right now. No, they're even. They're even. Yeah. It says on Fando, it says Tampa's minus 360. Oh, they have hearts. Carolina's plus 310. And Atlanta's 55 to 1. How's that possible? Like 8-9 might win the division. They could get to eight wins. With the Falcons. So Kirk Cousins would have to win. I mean, House and I were saying. I would bet it. 55 to one. It is a upside down division. Yeah. I was thinking this was his last start ever before the game. House and I were talking about it. But nope. Looks like he's a top two quarterback in that division now.

1:00:49All right. Well, let's play it out. Tampa loses to Arizona next week. They're six and six. Carolina loses in San Francisco and home to the Rams. They're 6-7. And then Atlanta wins in New York against the Jets. They'd be 5-7. They'd be a game back. They're right there. And by the way, Panix wasn't any hot shit. It's not like he was awesome. I didn't like betting on Panix. I think I've lost more money on Atlanta this year than all the other teams combined. I think I'm like 1-8 on Falcons games this year. They're the A-hole neighborhood dog. Don't look at them. Just don't even make eye contact. Yeah, I mean, Drake London being out is rough, right?

1:01:34Like, you don't want to pair, all of a sudden introduce Kirk Cousins to an offense that doesn't have its best receiver. But, yeah, you're right. It should have been a red flag when all of us like the Saints. Like, pretty much everybody who picks games bets on them. Yeah. We all love the Saints. they're 2-8 and they had Tyler Shuck as their quarterback and we're just like, Saints, lock it in what could go wrong? A lot of stuff went wrong. It's cute to have Tyler Shuck when it kicks off at 10am on the West Coast but when he's down like 10 points in the third quarter, you're like, ooh, boy this couldn't be more done this bet.

1:02:11You're excited to see Taysom Hill. Browns, Raiders we talked about this. Just quickly on Shador, because he was terrible last week Like we talked about it. He came in cold. He had a couple good plays today. He did. He had a couple bad plays. But I thought for the most part, it was a little more encouraging than Dylan Gabriel because there was at least a little bit of explosiveness. He had a bad pick. Missed a couple guys. That 50-yard pass was great. Yeah, it was a nice play. The touchdown they keep showing is like, that might have been a backward pass. I don't know. The screen pass, yeah. But no, look, he didn't get sacked as much as his counterpart did, and that helped.

1:02:54That was nice. And then Seattle held off Tennessee in a game that everybody had in the T's. Right. So I watched a little of this just because I had T's interest. Cam Ward reminds me a little of what Drake was like last year on just an awful team with an interim coach, basically. And having to play from behind, but makes good throws, and you can see the seeds of, oh. I can see a really smart, good coach being like, I want to back that guy. We can put some weapons around this dude. I don't know. I just like how he's played the last couple weeks, even though they're losing. He was good today. I bet them over 13.5 points, which I thought was like a home team, 13 and a half total point scored.

1:03:43But he has that play, and he's done it a few times now, which makes me think it's actually in the playbook, where he rolls right, his right foot is almost out of bounds, and he slings it deep across the middle, and he hits on it. So, yeah, he's fun too. JSN, 13-13 receiving yards, 2 ,000 in play. The record is 1964 for Megatron. So that's 80 receptions. So they have six games left. 687 yards. It's like a little bit doable. He is, I think he's plus 130. I don't know if the odds went away for Offensive Player of the Year. Do you give it to him or do you give it to Taylor? Taylor's slipping. Yeah.

1:04:27Gibbs has to be in there too. And then the only other thing is we have 12 cross-off teams because we're adding Minnesota is officially added today. Good. Unless you want to uncross Atlanta. Do you want to uncross Atlanta? I don't like uncrossing. That's a bad precedent. It's not a good example for the kids. All right, so we have 12 cross-off teams. Jets, Browns, Tennessee, Miami, New Orleans, Vegas, Giants, Arizona, Washington, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Minnesota. 20 teams still in the mix. 10 in each conference. Your team has the worst record of 5-5-1. But you have Tampa falling toward you. Basically, there's going to be one in that division.

1:05:06Then you have to hope Detroit Green Bay, one of those falls. Lots of hope. Lots of hope. It's going to be tough. Yeah, you're going to need probably a Niners collapse. You need them to beat Carolina and then collapse. Some things need to happen. All right. Guess the lines. Hold on. Do we skip a game? What did we skip? A pretty important game in your life. Oh, yeah. I guess we did. I'm fine with it. I'm okay. I didn't really want to talk about it. Really? That's a win. You said you liked the adversity. I don't know how long our left tackle is out. We lost the entire left side of the line today before halftime.

1:05:48And the Will Campbell thing looked bad. And if he's out for the year, the team doesn't... There's no way. They're sprains, though. Aren't they sprains? I thought they already said it. Seems like it, but I don't know. We're taping this. It's 9-18 Pacific time. it was really dark today. It was the worst. It was one of those like your team wins, but you just have a pit in your stomach. They're not going to be able to block without those guys. And I don't know how long Campbell's going to be out. They might have banked enough wins to get the one seed. Wow, listen to you. You're really down on this.

1:06:19Well, the offensive line was like barely good to begin with. It was probably like a C or a C-minus offensive line with Campbell, who was the best guy on the line. Right. And, you know, it's just they didn't have any injuries. He did okay in the fourth quarter without him. Not great, but he converted some third there. But Cincinnati has a terrible defense in that, you know, they left a lot of stuff on the red zone. It wasn't a great Patriot game. They weren't lucky. They deserved their better team. But, you know, it's a game they should have won double figures. When Drake threw the interception, you went down seven or ten, actually.

1:06:57I was like, all right, I could be snarky here. No, it's fine. They've done that all year. I'll be right about Drake maybe for the next 45 seconds, or we could be smart and live bet the Patriots at minus 102. So I did that. I mean, he does things that the other quarterbacks don't do, like third and 11 from his own seven. He'll throw long downfield, but a high percentage pass. Like he's not afraid. And the next play, you threw a long pass interference, and now you're on the five-yard line. So you can move down there. I'm not telling you anything you don't know. So the play to that throw to Pop Douglas, which was the best play of the game that he had.

1:07:35There's basically three people. He has like this one little window to hit him in. He hits him perfectly. And then the next play was a touchdown. The interference was actually a great interference because it ended up like screwing them up. And I think they had to settle. Right. I think they might have had to settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown. But it was like, it was clearly going to be a touchdown. Was that when they didn't QB sneak them? Or was that the other way? No, that was. Yeah, they finally did QB sneak and then they didn't get it. So after all the complaining I did, they have to figure out the short yardage thing by January, and I don't know how they're going to figure it out.

1:08:06Did they maybe retire the quarterback sneak in Brady's honor? Like, we'll never do the quarterback because no one was better than him at it. You know? I just... I talk about this all the time. It was... I think he was like 842 for 845 on QB sneaks, Brady. Like some crazy stack. God only knows what it was. It's like in wrestling, they said wrestlers couldn't do the chop anymore in honor of Ric Flair. Remember that? Like the chop went away? It's like, oh, that seems like a pretty aggressive stance there. They got to figure it out because it's going to cost them one of these games when it actually matters, when they can't get these third and ones or third and goal from the one-yard line, fourth and two.

1:08:48They're just not getting them. But yeah, the Will Campbell thing, not great. And then they lost a guard too. They lost the whole left side of the line. Jeez, you're so down. An hour into the game. I was bummed. You got 14 wins. You're going to be fine. 10-2. Officially hit the other over. Yeah, yeah. So we hit that one. Yeah, it's going to be adjusted over. It's going to hit a lot of them. All right, guess the Lions. I won last week. Yes, it's not good. I'm up for the year. What is it, 7-4? It's more. It's 8-3? 8-4. 8-4. Yeah, week 13. Week 13. Thanksgiving. Lions home for Packers. This will be under three.

1:09:27I have Lions two and a half. Nope. I hit it exactly. I said three. And that's what it is. Yeah. Vegas hasn't been trusting Green Bay. Not sure they should trust Detroit after that game. I think that ends at two and a half. Chiefs at Dallas. I don't want to touch it. I mean, I know it's impossible to not have money on the first game, but I'm looking at this for 20 minutes. I was like, I'm not going to take either team, I don't think. right I just feel like it's such an advantage to be home yeah on that early early Thanksgiving game if the teams are even and each team played on Sunday I don't know I'll probably lean Detroit this next game though I have no idea Chiefs at Dallas and you know this will be either Chiefs by three or Chiefs by three and a half I'm gonna say Chiefs by three nice that's what I said It's three and a half.

1:10:25Ah! Well, let's think about this. So they were home to the Colts in three and a half and at Dallas, three and a half. I think this will go down. Don't you? I like your team. I think there should be... I mean, honestly, this should be Chiefs two and a half with the way the Chiefs have played this season. Yeah. The Cowboys money will come in. The Eagles were three and a half all week and then it changed this morning to three. Ravens are home for the Bengals. Joe Burrow will be the QB. I'm not sure that's going to affect... It seemed like it affected the line two points for the Pats. When Burrow was going to play, it was five and a half.

1:11:04When it became Flacco, it was seven and a half. I think the Pats have played Joe Flacco like 80 times, by the way. I just feel like every year we somehow play him twice. The league's got your back. I mean, they played... They're like, all right, we're not taking the training wheels off Patriots just yet. They get the Bengals, but no Joe Burrow. Oh, we're going to suspend the best receiver for spitting in the playground. Don't spit in somebody's face. And then I don't think that's good advice to give out. And then T. Higgins gets a concussion. Give me a break. That was tough. Yeah. I have the Ravens favored by nine over the Bengals.

1:11:42I said eight, and it's seven and a half. Oh. All right. It's a little low. Not a lot of respect for the old Ravens. Maybe they deservedly. if they don't solve that their offensive woes this week I don't know if it's going to happen to be honest Black Friday Eagles Bears it's in Philadelphia I can't think of a better candidate for the Vegas zone I put this Eagles 5.5 at home that's what I had, it's 7 oh, okay they went to full 7 here Oh. All right. Well, so we got a little teaser with... I can't put the Ravens on a tease. It's all right. There's more during the weekend. There's some big numbers.

1:12:31The Cowboys, three-team, seven-pointer. You got to settle it. It has to settle Thursday. What do you do? Just... You're going to quit betting after that? No, I'm trying to tie in the Black Friday. Eagles, Cowboys, 10 and a half. Bengals 14 and a half oh you're going three teams oh boy who blows that don't put McCarthy on it McCarthy's on the DNB list if they had Sam Darnold what would their record be I think he could but he'd be in this mix to take them to the playoffs like that's a I'm not going to say it's an underrated F up because now everyone's talking about it but because they also had the Wentz games too yeah right I mean, a lot of this, remember they kept the high ankle sprain for McCarthy?

1:13:23It's like, wow, that's a long time for a high ankle sprain. Right. Now it's clear they were like, fuck, should we bring him back? Yeah. And then Wentz got hurt, but they obviously know. He wouldn't have 10 interceptions for this team, I don't think. Too watchable. Oh, by the way, the other thing with McCarthy, I think he might hold the ball the longest of all the guys who hold the ball too long. Oh, yeah. Right. Like, he has a shattered internal clock in his head. he goes back and he's just like, Hey, that guy. Boom. And then he just gets nailed. He needs a father like yelling or a family member yelling from the sideline or something now or now, you know, you know, when you do that with your kid, like swing or, you know, or yeah, go ahead.

1:14:03Kick it. I don't know what you would do, but he needs somebody. You'd have to turn the headset off, right? Yeah. Yeah. But like a really loud family member. Could he wear an Apple watch? And they like, Oh, They hit some alarm where it's like all of a sudden the alarm goes off. It's like, ah, like a Manchurian candidate. Or maybe one of those silent disco headphones. Anything. Anything would help, honestly. Sunday marquee game. This might be the first time we've had a Sunday marquee game in the AFC South since like 2009. Colts-Texans in Indianapolis. Big stakes all the way around. Best defense in the league against a very good offense.

1:14:42It's a fun one. do we see CJ Stroud? David Smills is 3-0. I know. It's not bad. If you look at his career numbers, they're not bad either. Yeah. But I say if Stroud's ready, yeah, he's in it. Okay. It's Indianapolis, and I have the Colts by three. We split it. I said four. It's three and a half. Hmm. Can't hit any of these. I was thinking about, we talked about the Shakey's game, and if there's three AFC South teams, like Shakey's is not going to know what to do. They may have to just close for the day. There's three AFC South teams. So if three AFC South teams are in the playoffs, Shakey's has to close on Saturday because it's just too much for them.

1:15:28I think so. Yeah. The customers are just going to lose their minds. They can't have chaos. What do we do if we've made all these Shakey's jokes over the years, but Shakey's is like spending all this money. They've had this reinvention, rejuvenation. Do we need like a new depressing place to go? Because I don't know if Shakey's is depressing anymore. Oh, no, it's still disgusting. And I say it in the nicest way possible. The one we have at Hollywood. Yeah. You got to clean that joint up a little bit. Well, we went to the one on, what was it on, Sunset last year? That wasn't bad, right? It wasn't bad.

1:16:03Yeah. Sometimes you look at these and the mojo potatoes are crawling on the floor. It's like, is that being carried by a rat? I don't know.

1:16:15Two watchables games. Rams-Panthers in Carolina. How did this happen? It's the Vegas-oniest Vegas game I can imagine. I have Rams by four and a half. Oh, wow. Well, I should get two wins for this. I saw them annihilate a team today, and I put them at seven and a half, and it's nine and a half. Wow. Yeah. Is that the most I've missed a game? I think so. I think so.

1:16:49Well, every time this happens, I always say, that line's too high. Yeah, that's good. That's ridiculous. And then the team covers, so it was high for a reason. So if I'm off five points, maybe we should just start betting when I'm that far off. Yeah. Maybe Vegas knows. I mean, yeah, it's like you built in a whole teaser for yourself there. I mean, it's outdoors. It's in Carolina. where weird shit always happens. It's coming off of an awesome win. It's going to be a whole week of Matthew Stafford MVP stuff. This checks 19 be careful boxes. I guess. Everyone's going to have them in a parlay. They could get tripped up.

1:17:27Short week for the Panthers, but a little high. Do you think, how many days could Aaron Donald be ready to play? Like if he's like, I want to come back for week 16. You saw when they showed him? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What if he's like, I'll come back for five weeks to try to win the Super Bowl with you guys? Interesting. Like, they're not hanging up. Right. I think he would need three weeks, though, still. So he starts right now, comes back for, like, week 18. Yeah, I don't know. Some of these guys are lunatics. They just, right? They're training like they're still playing. So maybe it wouldn't matter.

1:18:05It'd be funny if McVeigh just talked to him all the time. He's like... I'm ready. Yeah, I mean, our D is so fast. I mean, I don't even know if you could play with these guys now. Like, it starts doing like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Starts fucking with them. I mean, it's just different than when you played because these guys are just really locked in now. Another road dog, I think, it's going to be Pittsburgh hosting the Buffalo Bills. This is another matchup where I feel like these teams play every year. I have the Bills favored by one and a half. No, it's higher than that. I said four, and I believe it's four and a half.

1:18:41Wow. I'm off. That's usually a bad sign for my gambling. Yeah, four and a half. Well, I don't think the Bills should be favored by four and a half in Pittsburgh. What have you liked about the Bills? Nothing. Really nothing. Other than that they just have to start winning. That's really it. But I guess the Steelers are in the same boat. The Steelers, what are they? They have the Ravens twice. They have the Bills and the Lions. Yeah. They really screwed this up today.

1:19:12Fairly watchables. Niners at the Browns.

1:19:19You know, this Cleveland where they're – Cleveland at home is like a different animal, but I still feel like this is on the higher end of the Vegas zone for me. I got Niners by five and a half. All right, you get it. I said five. What is it? Sorry, it's six and a half. Okay. I don't know. They're pretty damn good on the road today. I guess the Raiders are just everyone's get-right game. Put their defense against a team that can't block and has Geno Smith and an offensive coordinator that's about to get fired. Bucks, Cardinals, that's in Tampa. Oof. I mean, we don't know. Is there even a line on this?

1:19:55Hold on. Let me change mine because I did this before the game. I'm not going to look.

1:20:03I dropped mine by three and a half points. All right, go ahead. What do you got? I had seven before the Baker injury. Now I have Bucks three and a half. I had eight and a half. So I went to five and it is two and a half. You get it. Oh, wow. Wow, that sucks for them.

1:20:26That's rough for them. I feel bad for that team. They've got the borderline year from hell from them with the injuries. It doesn't feel like they've been healthy for two weeks. I hit the Ibuka over last week. I bet on his receiving yards in early August. It was like 674. It hit. Oh, nice. It hit on November 15th. That's my offensive. It's the only prop I did the whole year. It is? Really? The only player over under prop I did was Ibuka. Oh, I did. Yeah, so I'm 1-0. Batting 1 ,000. I only did like 93, 94 player props. Yeah, I figured. I'm right behind you. But I have him for Offensive Rookie of the Year, and the longer Dart sits out, the better off I am, I guess.

1:21:14Seahawks home for the Vikings is another fairly watchable. And I just think Seahawks defense against McCarthy, it has to be at least 8.5, so I'm going to go 8.5. Wow. I said 7.5. It was 8.5. It moved to 9.5. Yeah, that makes sense. This is a Seahawks defense could win your fantasy week single-handedly kind of matchup. Yeah. If Minnesota wins this game, I might be done watching football. I'm just telling you now. So we do Seahawks. Seahawks money line. Eagles money line. Cowboys adjusted. Cowboys like eight and a half. Yeah, you could just put 10 on everybody. That's fine. Okay. Who wins? So this is a Sam Darnold bowl, right?

1:22:04So my mailbag, somebody, we were talking about Sam Darnold, nicknames for an evil Sam Darnold shows up. And a reader or a listener suggested Benedict Darnold. It's good. Yeah. It's good for this game especially. Poop fact of four games. Jags at Tennessee. I really wanted to Vegas own this, but I bumped it right above. I have Jags minus six. I said 8.5 and it is 6.5 Damn I'm coming back Hold on, what's the score here? 7-2 Yeah, it's 7-7 including the ties Dolphins, Saints, Miami home They should never be favored by 6 points against anybody in the league but I'm going to say Dolphins by 6 Get it again I said 7 It's 5.5 Come on, the Saints on the road aren't getting a touchdown, they break.

1:23:01That was one of the first, I've talked about this before, but one of the first gambling rules I ever remember in Gus's picks pool, which you're in. Yeah. Which he had since he was at Rollins College in the 80s. His friend John Oaks, anytime there's a team that was favored by seven or more and he didn't think the team was good, he was like, I just blind have to take the other side. No, but that team should never be favored by seven or more against anybody. So Gus would call it the Oaks roll. So Oaks will take the Saints here? No, because it's not seven. But I think this does get to seven by Sunday.

1:23:35I think this gets to Dolphins minus seven. And they should never be favored by seven over everybody. So this is an Oaks roll game. Falcons at the Jets. Kirk Cousins may be scouting his team next year. This has Falcons minus three written all over it. You get this one too. I had Falcons one and a half. It's two and a half. I mean, this doesn't sneak into the tic-tac zone. No, the Jets are pretty awful. Oh, man. The Jets can look good for about an hour. Yeah. That's fair. What 80s wrestler are they? Like SD Special Delivery SD Jones? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's an insult to SD. They can throw a couple.

1:24:17They can throw the guy in the ring a couple times. Yeah. That's about it. Chargers home for the Raiders. All right, I'm going to get this one. So, I forgot to ask you this earlier. The Raiders are the worst team in the league, right? They have to be. They're number 32 now? So, they beat the Titans is the only thing, right?

1:24:41I think they're the worst team in the league. I trust, as far as gambling goes, I trust Tennessee more than the Raiders. Yeah, so I think this had, I had Chargers by 7.5 here. Oh, okay. I get this. I said, no, I said 10.5. It's 9.5. Oh, yeah. Vegas is done with the Raiders. Yeah, so that kind of proved my point. Yeah. Odds-wise and probably proximity-wise. So what's the score now? Are we tied? I think you're up 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 8, 9, 8, two left. And I was pretty close on these. All right. Broncos at Washington. I think is it Jaden Daniels? Do we get him? Maybe? I think it's just a maybe.

1:25:31I factored that into my guess. I have the Broncos by five and a half. Vegas zone in it. I get it. I said seven. It's six and a half. We're tied. I was off one point on the last one. I think I'm going to hit this. Okay. Monday night. Patriots home. probably without Will Campbell against the Giants. And I had the Patriots by 10.5. Yes. 8.5 is what I said, and it's only 7.5. Oh. Wow, they really factored in the lousy offensive line. There's your teaser. Let's see how much you like Jameis. I want to see who my left tackle is. Man, those night favorites really look good. Denver and Patriots. I'm going to lose so much money this week.

1:26:22I can't wait.

1:26:46See you next time.

1:26:53Let's do parent corner. What do you got? No sponsor. We don't have a sponsor this week. All right. I guess we don't have a sponsor this week. So my son Harrison plays flag football. He's played since he's 12. He's played since he was five. And the team won the flag championship. And this league is, it's Friday nights. There's crazy. There's a DJ there blasting rap music. And it's sponsored by Snoop Dogg and TJ Houshmandzada. And yeah. So he plays with his team. They won. They played six seasons together. They have three titles in the last four years and they just wrecked everybody they played this year.

1:27:29Right. So it's flag football, but they're pretty good at like, they don't drop balls. Like that's why I watch on Sunday. I'm like, how would they put players dropping? I know it's a different thing, but so they win the game. They win by like 24, 25 points. And the coaches tell me, Hey, we're going to give Harrison the MVP award and we're going to present it, uh, him with it. And I'm like, uh, really? And they're like, yeah, yeah. Why? I was like, well, you don't have to do this. There are like three kids more talented than he is. And he would tell you, like they have better stats. And they said, no, no, no.

1:27:58And they both said this. They're like, you don't understand. He makes our job simple. He does all the little things. He's the easiest to coach. He's a great teammate. He has tremendous field awareness, breaks off his route without flooding the zone. He does a million little things. And I felt good because I was like, well, he watches games with me and my stupid instruction based on, you know, playing high school football. and watching on TV for 100 years, it kind of paid off, right? So they give him this giant gold necklace. Snoop would think this was tacky, I think. He wears a giant gold necklace and this ring, and he's taking pictures and everything.

1:28:37And our cousin Jimmy was there, and Jimmy takes a picture of him and our little cousin Michael, who was also on the team, is a stud flag puller, and he texted to Snoop. He's like, they're in your league. This is cool. They've won three out of four years. So I'm not sure if Snoop responded. I'm not sure if he even knows he runs a flag football league, but that's it. So congrats to team Bolt Up 12U. And thanks to Jamie and Bruce, the coaches. They're great. Either one of them can coach the Arizona Cardinals right now. So good job by them. And if they did this just to get on parent corner, it worked.

1:29:12There you go. Now, see, you should have had the necklace. Oh, right. I can run and get it.

1:29:22My daughter came back today. So my wife was in Hawaii. I was in New York City. And then my daughter was in college, but came back today. So each day somebody new has come home for my dog Murph. And I was trying to think like, what do dogs think when people just come and go? Because he's gotten to the point, like I was packing on Monday to go to New York and he gets really bummed out when he sees the suitcase. He thinks that's going to be bad. The suitcase is here. That means I'm going somewhere. So he just gets really sad. And then when I come back and I have the suitcase and I bring it up, he's like, oh, you brought it back up.

1:30:00But now you're taking the stuff out of the suitcase. Like, I think he gets it. But then when Zoe comes home out of nowhere, I just wonder, like, do dogs have a long-term memory? What does he do? Does he lose his mind? Well, he gets, yeah, he goes crazy. He's so excited she came back. Did he think she was ever coming back? Like, did he forget about her? Like he goes and sleeps in a room sometimes. Right. But he must like hope she's going to come back. But he also has an IQ of like 30. Right. So I just would love to know what's going on in his brain. I think about it because they look so sad, right?

1:30:34When they're just laying there. And like, so if Melissa goes away for the weekend, the dog will just sit there and look sad. And I think I'm like, oh man, he's sad because she's gone. And then I'm like, no, it's a dog. What's he going to do? He can't have, he can't have like a Jameis Winston type life where he's just dancing around. Right. So he hangs out in the window and looks out in the street and waits for people to come back. So he clearly is like, if I hang out here long enough, somebody's going to come back. So I have that. And then I have some texts from my mom. Oh, let's hear it. My mom's been just on fire the last couple of weeks.

1:31:09This is her review of Beast and Me with Claire Danes. She said, I'm already finished with Beast and Me really good. Do you think whenever a part comes up for an emotionally imbalanced substance abuser female, everyone shouts Claire Danes exclamation point. The lesbian part was new at least. That was her view of beasted me. Then she said, tell Chang, I already ordered the book by the 11 Madison Somalia. Chang should take over the Andrew Mac Bon Appetit wine videos. My favorite. He loved to be a winemaker. Chang could do a wine food segment, which he is great at. That's her career advice for Chang.

1:31:47Good. she saw the story about Bill Maher not wanting to stand up comedy tours and texted me back, narcissistic phony, never watched him after his big dinner with Trump, unfollowed him on social media and YouTube dead to me. So that's her take on, on Bill Maher. And then, and then this is the coup de grace. She, she watched Frankenstein on Netflix. I can't believe I'm even reading this one. She said, my biggest disappointment in Frankenstein was that he didn't get to at a monster erection in the scene when Elizabeth first finds him and starts touching him from the face moving downward. Then she goes, ha ha.

1:32:28So what do you write back? How about I have that responded to yet? Yeah. I decided I don't know. But anyway, those are some of my mom's texts. That's great. She should get a job writing on page two. I think these are good observations. Page six, page two. Yeah, so listen. So Claire Danes got some props. Chang needs to do videos. Frankenstein needs an erection. And Bill Maher's dead tire. Oh, poor Bill Maher. That's what I got. My mom's on fire. And then my dad hits the big 7-8 on... Really? I think on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Is he out here or... No. No. You have to see him soon. He does. My dad does this new thing where he has these secret medical procedures and doesn't tell me.

1:33:16Oh, no. And then my stepmother mentions them in passing. He's like, well, your father got that shot in his neck. Like what shot? Oh, he had arthritis in his neck. He's having injections. My kid didn't tell me. She's like, well, he didn't want to worry you. It's like, well, what is this with the parents when they don't want to worry us? Like, how about just give me the information. Let me decide if I'm going to be worried or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what is the point of hiding medical shit from us? It's so funny. There's like nothing in between, right? Either they're over the top, going to bother you or me in this case with medical stuff, or they keep it from you.

1:33:52It's really weird that there's no in between. I feel like when we get older, I'm going to want to worry my kids all the time. Sure. Yeah. I would want them to be thanked because otherwise they're probably not going to think about us. And they're like, yeah, I got to go to the doctor. Yeah. We'll see. Could be bad. Right. And also maybe you've heard of like a solution that they haven't run by, right? So why don't you send him a sauna and a, and a t-shirt that could help.

1:34:21Maybe I should. I don't know if my dad would make it in a sauna. All right. That's it for a parent corner. Anything else we got before, before we go other than, other than the Cowboys are, are two and O. No, that's it. They're two and O. What do you mean? With, with Cleto, like going back to Vegas. Yeah. Two wins this week. I don't know. Really magical comeback. Keep it going, Cleto. Doing a good job with these Cowboys. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah, we're going to have a Ringer gambling show. We're cramming a lot of shows in the first three days. Tate and I are going to go over the massive college football games coming up.

1:34:56House and DeBundo are going to make fun of each other on Wednesday. The 107 picks. I think we need to spice this up a little. Everyone's in first and last place. Yeah, I'm going to do that this week. We need to put, I think we need a booby prize and we need some sort of actual press. I had for it. Yes. I think a booby prize, because this ends around February, the loser has to stand in Bourbon Street for a whole day. I heard you say this. Why Bourbon Street? Well, because only because I'm near here. No, I know. So what? You don't have to make it easy for the person. But how is it a prize where you get flown to New Orleans?

1:35:28No, it's not a prize. This is the last place. They have to stay in the street, the filthy street, for a whole day without moving. I don't know. We'll come up with better. It has to be something. Am I allowed to fire house after 12 weeks or no? Am I stuck with him the whole year? I don't know. I feel like he, I don't know. He said you wanted him to take New England or something. We did. They didn't cover by a half point. It wasn't like it was a bad pick. They won. Okay. His big pick was New Orleans. Oh, we all had New Orleans. Mad at house. So bad. So bad. Oh, and I think I'm doing something with you tomorrow.

1:36:02Are we allowed to say? Yeah, we're doing rewatchables. We're doing two for the money. Okay. All right. I didn't know. Yeah. That's going to be fun. I've watched it twice in the last four days. It's really just a wonderful, wonderful movie. I watched it one and a half times. I'm like, this movie sucks. I have to watch it again. I was so excited. Anyway, we'll talk about it. I don't know why there are more sports game movies. All right. I'll see you tomorrow. Cuz, good job by you. Good job by you, buddy. Thanks to everybody on YouTube. Thanks to Eduardo and Gahal as well. And I will see you later in the week.

1:36:39I don't have periods with them.

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