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No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo bills.

The Buffalo bills. And two of them got concussed. So we were taping the weekend preview for the second half of the game. We He saw it happen live. It's bad. I really don't remember anyone having as bad of injury luck, concussion luck like Tua. It sucks so bad.

Antonio Brown.

Antonio Brown. Now, I hope Tua is okay. It was bad because the fingers happened again. Yeah, it just sucks. I don't really know what to say other than it sucks. He wasn't playing well up into it. We probably should talk about the game. The bills look awesome. We were saying it during the game. I know that this podcast gets accused of Josh Allen glazing. I don't think there's a guy besides Patrick Mahomes that you would take over Josh Allen.

Yeah, Josh Allen is really good. The knock against him is he's not Patrick Mahomes. Correct. And he's lost tough games to Patrick Mahomes, some of which were on his defense entirely and not on him. But he's very good still. Yeah. So don't worry about Josh Allen. He's going to be great this year again. I hope he stays healthy. He's playing with that giant glove on it. It's like hamburger helper hand died on his wrist. It was massive. I don't think his left hand is healthy, but he's like, You know what? I'm a gamer. I'm going to go out there. I'm going to play.

He played awesome. Yeah, and he's played awesome in two games so far, and this was supposed to be a reset year for the Bills They don't have Stefan Diggs anymore. Gabe Davis is in Jacksonville, all that stuff. He's still Josh Allen. That's what having a franchise quarterback looks like. On the other side, before two of them got hurt, the Dolphins are still the Dolphins in the fact that they can't beat the Buffalo Bills. I don't know. Usually, we don't see this Dolphins' performance until later in the season.

Maybe they got it out of the way. The good news is we're not going to call them frauds.

Yeah, but they did not look good.

Yeah, they looked bad. They did not look good. They looked terrible on defense. The offense didn't look good. The end of the first half was just crazy to me watching what McDaniel was doing with the clock. He gave up. He gave up at the end of the first half. He was playing for a field goal. Well, at that. Originally, I thought he was just trying to run out the clock with three minutes left. Because I think maybe three minutes, 15 seconds went off the clock, and they were down to the 35-yard line, and it was a full field drive. I don't even know. That's a long drive just to gain those 50 yards in general. Not to mention that you have timeouts and it's the end of the half. Just very, very strange the way he was calling the end of that half. Two will look bad in the first half when he played.

First interception was not his fault. He actually threw a perfect pass. The receiver just didn't turn in time. Second one, I'm sure there was a miscommunication, but he airmailed one over Robbie Chosen's head. Then the game was over when they went for it on fourth and 2, the 47-yard line, and he got sacked. It was just like, Yeah, the Bills are just better than the Dolphins.

I will stand with the Dolphins fans and say that the NFL fucked you by having to play the Bills at a night game. You lose the advantage of the sun.

It did look so hot and sweaty.

It looked hot. It looked very humid. Before the game, Tua looked like he had played a full game already. He was just sweating his balls off. Also, I like the Dolphins uniform tonight. Love them. I like the Dolphins uniform, the throwbacks and the throwback in zones. Those are quality uniforms. Very good primetime uniforms. Now for Tua, I am very glad that Tua got a contract this season because now it takes all the financial reasons away from Tua for him to decide whether or not he wants to keep playing football. So if he wants to keep playing football, it's not because he needs it for the money to set himself up for the rest of his life, his kids up, whatever that case may be. He doesn't have to think about that at all because he's set financially. I don't know what's going to happen, but I would not be surprised if he was like, I'm done playing football because this is the third time that we've seen the fencing reflex from him. Yeah, it's bad.

Can he at least wear a Guardian Cap? I don't know if this would have helped here. Also, we should mention it was DeMar Hamlin, which is a weird occurrence.

Crazy that it to his head and DeMar Hamlin's chest.

Yeah, it was weird. But yeah, I agree with you. I don't know what the future is, but this does feel like... And maybe it's because two of them happened in primetime, and that is just part of the psyche of it. We saw it twice in primetime, and you just feel... If it happens on a Sunday, your eyes are everywhere, you miss it. Oh, you see the replay, maybe. But it happened on primetime twice, and we were sitting here being like, Is he okay? There's bigger things in football, and I don't know. He can't make a decision right now, and I hope he keeps playing football, but it's scary the fact that he's been concussed this badly this many times.

I think it's a fair point. You could say that if every game was played in primed time, there would be a lot more guys that would be concerned about because we would have seen all the concussions that happened. With Tua in that other primed time game, didn't he get... It was clear that he was concussed. He was out on a stretcher. Well, it was clear that he was concussed and he stayed in the game, and then he got more concussed.

I think it was the week before he was... Oh, yeah, you're right. You might be right.

Something like that. There's been a lot of very blatant in your face concussions for Tua. I'm just glad that he can make his decision about whether or not he wants to play and not have to worry about having to play to make money.

Yeah, but the bills are good.

Yeah, the bills are good. The bills are still good. Bills are very good. Yeah.

Again, it's impressive that they've done it at least through two weeks. Obviously, it's a very long season, but this It was supposed to be a reset. They were underdogs tonight. Josh Allen didn't have to throw the ball a ton. I mean, the game script is like, if you look at his stats, it's not like he lit it up. He threw 139 yards passing. But if you watch the game, it was more because they were in such control roll, basically from the second quarter on, that they could just run the ball and control the clock.

James Cook had an awesome game. Three touch downs for James Cook. James Cook was awesome. He was great. And the Dolphins defense looked very soft.

Yeah. Okay. The other story before we get to our weekend in preview, Shannon Sharp.

Yeah. Shannon goes live on IG. Now, I guess we should set the table for people that don't know what we're talking about. Yeah. On Wednesday afternoon- Afternoon delight. Shannon Sharp went live on Instagram. Rockets it. It was the sound of what seemed to be a man and a woman engaged in a perfectly natural physical act, healthy physical act, that thousands, if not millions, if not billions of people do. It was live for a couple of minutes, and then it turned off, and everybody got to listen to Ank Having Sex. Onk has turned into Papy. Yeah.

The grunts are what were something else.

Did you think he wasn't going to grunt? Yeah. I had Shannon pegged as a gruntter for me. Yeah.

He sounded like a Denver Bronce. He was like, growling. Yeah, he was growling and grunting and naeing.

That's a passionate man.

He still got it.

Still got it. Still got it. Again, I didn't think it was anything less.

Yeah, because those are sounds I don't know if I've ever heard.

That's a stallion right there.

I like how his instant reaction was to go hacked.

Yeah, no, that just shows that whenever someone says they're hacked, they're not hacked. They just fucked up. I still don't really understand how... Because it is a couple of steps to go live, how he did that.

I listened to his podcast that he did last night with OchoCinco, and his explanation was that he's never been live on Instagram before. He's never done He had his phone and he tossed his phone onto the bed, and then he was having sex. Then his other phone was getting FaceTime calls, phone calls left and right while he was boning. Didn't pick those up, but he picked one up later and they said, Hey, we can hear you. You're having sex. He was like, How? I have no idea how. He went to his phone. He's been live on IG. Now I'm terrified. Now I'm scared that this is a ticking time bomb. You don't have to have sex. Yeah, there's a ticking time bomb. I've got in my pocket. I would be caught doing way more embarrassing stuff than having sex.

I do think it is like... He's old. There's that where it's like he's old enough where it's like he could just accidentally have gone live. But there's multiple steps to going live on Instagram that it's not like you just dropped your phone and it accidentally went live. There's three to four clicks that have to be clicked.

He does have a very, very popular show, and it did get a lot of people talking about it. There's a little bit of- Paul pierce, by the way.

Yeah, he did that to himself.

Well, no. No, Paul pierce. No. Paul pierce, his mistake was he didn't fuck.

Right. He didn't even fuck.

All he did was- Yeah, but I think if you fucked it, it was like- It was a Friday night.

He was having a couple of drinks with some friends.

Yeah, but then you got to fuck who happened to be strippers.

Did you miss the part about perfectly normal, healthy adult behavior?

You got to fuck.

Right. He got fired.

He got fucked.

Yeah.

Paul pierced it.

Yeah.

But his problem was he didn't have sex. He should have gone all the way to sex.

If he had sex, he wouldn't have gotten fucked. Right.

Because if Shannon Sharp stayed with the I got hacked thing, I don't know. I felt bad for Paul pierce.

All things considered- Of course.

That was your big takeaway.

All things considered him getting hacked- His Instagram Live was way funnier. The Instagram Live for Shannon Sharp actually makes him seem a lot cooler.

Like I said, still got it.

Yeah, still got it. Still got it. The man fucks, and he's a passionate guy.

Like I said, those are sounds I'm not familiar with.

Yeah, this is why Skip and Ernestine sleep in separate rooms.

I'm about to say, Skip and Ernestine might have to rebuttal.

Oh, my God. No, that's why they sleep in different bedrooms.

That would be funny, though.

Oh, Skip, he's just fucking... He's only wearing the Ezekiel Elliott jersey?

Yeah, Skip and Ernestine doing a comparable video would just be Skip laying in bed with her. See, we're in the same bed.

I bet you skip. Kissing lightly on the lip. I bet he gets his ass eaten.

Either way, Shannon Sharp ruled 24 hours of internet.

Yeah, it This is great. Walking in a Skip Bayliss's bedroom, he's got his legs over his head.

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Be thankful for football.

It's just like week one, you get all the jitters out. Week two, it's ready to go.

We're ready to roll. Yeah, week one doesn't mean anything.

Week one doesn't mean anything unless you're-No, it doesn't mean anything. Then it means something. We have three games late this week, so we're going to have to really... The witching hour is going to be-I thought they changed that. I think it's coming soon.

I thought they made a whole announcement.

I think they made announcement, but it might have been starting week six or something.

It might have been get off our back announcement thing.

We know this sucks, but we're still going to do it. Yeah.

All right, so let's hop into the games. We're going to do our pics. We're going to have a TD parlay for the people. Let's start with Saints of Cowboys. America's Game of the Week. Cowboys are 1-0 in Tom braided games.

That's a fact. Yeah. Old Tom is going to get another crack at it. I think he's probably taking some of this criticism to heart, and he's going to try to improve. But the biggest winner, actually, in Tom Brady's debut is Tony Romo.

Yes.

Well, Greg Olson. Greg Olson. Greg Olson is the biggest winner.

Greg Olson literally saw dollar signs when Tom braided had his week one performance.

Winner number two would be Tony Romo because it doesn't seem like Tony Romo was that bad.

No. I was thinking about it. What? Continue. Tom braided should Fox has a lot of money. If they were smart, they should just hire Max Kellerman to be on Tom Brady's staff and just be like, Tom Brady's over the hill.

He can't get it done. He can't get it done. He can't get it done as an announcement.

Now, the one thing that was interesting, and it's not in defense of Tom braided, but I don't understand why Fox hasn't fought harder for this. Tom braided is not allowed to do the pre-game interview teams.

Yes, because he wants to be an owner.

Basically, I think Burkart is who he's with? Yeah. Was like, Yeah, that's a big deal.

It is a big deal. Yeah.

It's a big deal not knowing what the teams are going to want to do, talking game plans with the coaches, all that stuff.

It was also unlucky for Tom that he had to do a game where one quarterback was actually playing terribly in his very first game. If that game had been week six or seven, because we want to hear Tom talk about football naturally. We want to hear Tom braided be Tom braided like he was in his living room, where he'd probably be like, This guy can't get it done. But the fact it was his first game probably made It's so much more harder for him to criticize a quarterback that was playing openly, stinkily.

Yes, openly, stinkily.

Openly, stinkily. I have a prediction for this game. Well, not really a prediction because I'm for Saints at Cowboys. This might be a fraud bowl. Because both teams look really good in week one. We don't know where the teams are playing against that bad. Probably.

Well, I don't know if the Cowboys... Yeah, I think the Cowboys are going to win this game because they are the Kings of September and October. Mike McCarthy in September or October is 71, 48, and 3 against the spread. Also, Dennis Allen, after a win, a straight-up win, is 5, 16, and 2 against the spread.

Interesting.

I, though, this game, to me, It's really the Panthers didn't pressure Derek Carr. Derek Carr, who we like, under pressure, it's a big drop off. They have those advanced stats like clean pocket versus under pressure. Yeah, of course, actually, There's a couple of guys who actually get better under pressure. I think Joe Burrow might be one of them. But he goes from a 112.3 rating to 73.1 when pressured. And the Cowboys defensive line is all about the pressure. They're going to turn the heat up.

Yeah, they're pretty excitable last week. They were getting after Deshawn. I have another stat for you. Okay. So Clint Kubiak.

Yeah.

He's going to be on the sideland again, we think. We think. We're not sure, but their offense is a lot different this year than it was last year. So they had 28 plays and the running plays that used pre-stab motion. They got 137 yards on pre-stab motion runs, and that's more than any of their other games in 2023. So they're putting a new wrinkle in. They're doing some new stuff. They're doing new stuff out there. I have a staff here. Let me hear your stat.

Hank's stat of the week. Hank's stat of the week. I think Tom braided is going to be fine. I think it's going to be unbiased. Unbiased. Reversed Tony Roma, where everyone was sucking Tony Roma's dick so hard in the beginning that it made people flip. Whereas now, because Tom braided is so fresh, People are tearing him down so hard. Once he gets good, people are going to love him. Okay.

It's like Ryan Paul is making a really bad trade when he became GM of the bears.Genius move. Then everything that he does after that, it's like, This guy's awesome.

The Chase Claypool was actually... I I'm not going to make the argument that Ryan Paul is trading for Chase Claypool using a second round pick was the smartest trade he's ever made.

Go on.

Because then it led to everyone else being like, This guy doesn't know what he's doing. And then he made all the other trades that have all been dynamite.

Because everyone else thought that they were getting a Chase Claypool type trade. Correct.

Yeah. Pft, I think that you don't like the Cowboys. You've hated the Cowboys your whole life. I think you have to be a Cowboys fan on Sunday.

Why is that?

Jake Ferguson is hurt. The Cowboys have a few different... He might play. They have a few different backup tight ends, but I did some deep diving into what they might do. Brian Schoenheimer, the offensive coordinator creator for the Cowboys said, You guys see the way we're using Hunter Lepke?

Hunter Lepke.

Hunter Lepke.

Hunter Lepke.Former lowman trophy winner.

2022 lowman trophy. He said, I mean, Hunter Lepke does not get enough credit for what he does for our offense. I think he's a steal. We were able to get him where we got him. He then revealed during the season opener that there was a quick toss sweep to the right that Lepke had not even practiced and made it work. One of the more physical players we have, this guy, he is physical. He loves contact. He's a low leverage player. It's not just the initial strike, it's the ability to sustain and stay low with leverage and strain and knock people back. I think he's going to maybe play tight end if Jake Ferguson's out.

He could. He could do it all.

He lined up a tight end a little bit against the Brown.

Hunter Lepke, I love him because he's a great fullback. I hate him for two reasons, though. One, because he's a cowboy, and two, because he demolished James Madison in the playoff. I think it was 2022.

Yeah, that's when he won the Just absolutely destroyed us.

But I do like him as a fullback. I respect his position. I respect his craft. He is the way that he's described right there. I would also describe him as a working man's Carson Steal. Carson Steal is a little more flashy. He's got the hair going. Hunter Lepke is just... He's as North Dakota as they come.

I might just bet Hunter Lepke to score a countdown. They probably won't even list it, but I might do it.

Did he get a countdown last year?

He might have, but I think they're going to line him up in tight end if Jake Ferguson... Jake Ferguson is an important piece. I've dubbed him, and it's not biased, but I've dubbed... He is Barry Alvarez's grandson. I've dubbed him next up in the tight end community. Okay. Next year, maybe this year- I think it should be this year. He'll be part of the- No, no, no. Laporto's. Oh, two are just through another pick. Pick six. Yikes. The Laportas, the Kelsies, the Kittles, these guys.

Part of the new breed.

They got like, Hey... Well, I mean, Kelsie, I guess, is an old breed, but still very, very good. But the guys in In the tight-end community, we're like, Man, this guy is awesome.

Yeah, he is good. He's a good player. I'll admit that. I'll be unbiased when I evaluate tight-ends and fullbacks.

Yeah, so he'll be important. Okay, next up. We have Bucks at Lyons. Baker was awesome. Probably played the best of any quarterback in week one.

I think the Bucks might be the best team in the NFL.

Okay, here's the problem with the Bucks, though. They've got a lot of injuries very early. They have a cluster injury at cornerback. They lost their starter, Zion McCollum. They lost They're back up, Bryce Hall. They lost their safety, Antoine Winfield. They're signing guys off the street. They also lost some defensive line guys. I think this is going to be a problem against a team that, one, Lyons showed that Jamieson Williams, he's ready. Two, Amon Ross, St. Brown is one of those guys that I put in the category. If he has a bad game, just bet everything the next game that he's going to be awesome because we've met him, we've had him on the show. He doesn't feel like the type of guy that takes a bad performance performance. Obviously, he does more than just catching. He blocks a lot, and he's doing a lot of stuff. He's very physical week. A performance where he doesn't catch the ball a lot or get a countdown, I feel like he takes that very personally.

Yeah, I would agree with that. He gets pissed off at himself, and he's like, It's not happening again.

I think he's going to have a huge game.

Also, I was being a little bit facetious about saying that the Bucs are the best team in the NFL. I'm just saying that because they beat us week one. No, they looked incredible. I can say to myself, We just lost the best team in football. It's okay. The Bucs indoors just never sits right with me. No. I don't think I've ever bet on the Tampa Bay Bucaneers to win an indoor game.

No. And the Lions are for real, for real.

Yeah, they are.

I actually think they didn't play a great game against the Rams and won that game. I think they're going to… Dan Campbell is in the Monra at St. Brown, where it's like, if you give him some bad tape, he will use it and they will come out firing.

Here's a fun stat. Jared Goff, our friend, three and one against Todd Bulls' defenses. Oh, I like that. Over the course of his I like that a lot. He averages. Guess how many yards passing he averages against TB?

275.

383. 383. Damn. It feels like another dome game for Jared. Yes. Jared loves the dome. Yes.

I know the line has ticked up all the way to, I think, seven and a half now. But if I had to pick this game, I would probably pick the lions.

Yeah.

I'm also... Week 2 is a big trap week where you have to realize that what you saw week 1 is going to change drastically to week 2.

Yeah. Sometimes I just like to erase week 1 from my memory entirely. Yeah. Because week 1 doesn't mean anything. We can agree on that. It doesn't matter if you won last week 1.

Well, it matters if you're one and oh.

We're moving forward.

Because you can't start better than one and oh. We We don't look forward.

We don't look backwards.

What happens every single year with how we follow, consume the NFL, we spend all offseason talking about what these teams are going to look like, have our preconceived notions, week one happens, and then you throw them all out the window and you say, Oh, yeah, it's just whatever happened in week one. Don't do that. Don't do that. I will probably do that, but don't do that. I know I'll do that, but don't do that.

I could see Baker just loving Dan Campbell a lot, too. He seems like he would love to play for Dan.

Baker's the best.

Yeah.

He really is. I root so hard for him. Yeah.

Everyone counted him out. Actually, with the whole Dashaun thing going on in Cleveland, Baker has never looked better before. Yeah. He's, How you like me now? That's what he's saying. Seriously. Baker Mayfield. Seriously.

Okay. Next up, Colts at Packers. Pft, you already have told us that you made a very large wager on the Colts.

Biggest bet of the season. I know it's early, but so far, biggest bet of the season on the Colts. I'm nervous for you. I took them at minus three, then the line moved to minus two and a half.

And all the money is on the Colts.

All the money is on the Colts. But this is strictly a bet against Malik Willis game. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that there's 21 other guys that play football on that team. But I don't think that there are. I don't think that there are 21 other guys. I think it's just an entire team of Malik Willis this week.

I feel like the packers are going to find a way here. I was thinking about it more. The Texans ran the ball very easily on the Colts. It was funny. When we were watching that Packers-Egals game, Josh Jacobs in the first half looked bad. I walked away from that game like, Josh Jacobs, he's not good. I looked back at it. He had four yards on six carries in the first half, and then he had 10 carries for 80 yards in the second half. So he can still play. And I just think that Matt Lafleur is a good coach, and he's going to find a way. There's a difference between having Malik Willis come in at halftime and having Malik Willis have eight days getting ready and being like, Hey, Malik Willis, this is what we need you to do because you're not good. Well, let me tell you a little bit- And just try not to do the bad things, and we'll make it as simple as possible for you.

Little fun fact, though, about that, Malik Willis started three games for the Titans in 2022, and he didn't throw for 100 yards.

But he did cover the spread twice.

That's important. But this is just two and a half. It's just two and a half.

Which is scary because everyone's on the cult, and it went from three and a half to two and a half. Yeah.

That's bad. Really, when I put my biggest bet of the year on a team, that's a pretty good indication. That's probably also the squarest play.

I don't know. I'm not going to bet it against you, but I feel like we're Sunday night, How did the packers win this game? I'll ride with you.

Let's go. Anthony Rich.

I also am not a believer in Anthony Rich. I know people get mad at me for that. He has incredible... I'll say it again. He's got all the tools. I'll say it again.

I watched the tape.

Yeah, There's a lot of wide open guys missed.

A lot of guys that fell down.

A lot of wide open guys missed. A lot of easy throws missed. I think it's three. It's back to three. So there you go. Okay, nice.

It's three.

That's going to make you feel better.

Yeah, it's got to make me feel better.

The Anthony Richardson, I get it. I've said this, Colts fans get upset. I get why he's a project and why you would invest in that type of arm talent. It's just not there yet, at least for me, looking at it. I don't think he's a top five quarterback. No, I guess the problem is he scores a shitload of fantasy points, and he has the wow plays. Then the rest of the game, if you watch the rest of the game, it's like, What's going on here?

We should dive into that and see who the all-time greats in terms of being awesome fantasy players, but not very good actual football players. I want to know who's the goat in that conversation.

Yeah, someone tell us that.

I mean, Trent Williams, not Trent Williams, Richardson. Trent-richards.

I don't think he scored a lot of fantasy seasons.

I think there was one season where he may have led the league in touch down, or he had a lot of touch downs in one year, but they were all two-yard touch downs.

He did have a lot of those. Yeah.

For that year, that might have been one of the all-time great fantasy seasons that did not correlate to football player.

To being a good football player. Yeah, it's got to be a quarterback. It's a quarterback who can score touch downs with his feet, too. Yeah, it's pretty big. Justin Fields, actually. That's the answer. Justin Fields was a very good fantasy quarterback last year and not a very good... He scored 11 touch downs in 2012.

Yeah.950 yards.That probably didn't lead the league, but it was a lot of touch downs.

It was a lot of touch downs. Okay. Yeah, I just don't know. I don't know this. This is a tough game. There's some tough games out there.

What are you going to... Oh, it's never mind. What? It's not a home game.

No, it's at Green Bay. It's at Green Bay. At Green Bay.

Jets of Titans. Memes? How are we feeling? Feeling all the way back.

All the way back. All the way back. That was quick. Let's go. That's also dangerous, though. They went all the way back.

Because if you had gotten 60% back, I would think that the emotional crash if they lost this game wouldn't be as hard. If you're all the way back, we could have all the way out memes like we did the other day. Yeah, all the way out. I'm setting myself up. Maybe find a middle ground.

You know what? I love it, memes. You just love hard.

But the reason why I'm setting myself up because I think this is the correct see where you're at as a team game. Got it. The best comment from Wednesday's episode, someone was like, What do you think is going through Max's head that he's been called the craziest, most irrational fan and of the craziest most irrational fan has been sitting right next to him in the booth this whole time?

Yeah, that's a good point. It was perfect. The thing is when Max loses, it's like, What you see is what you get. I'm going to let all my emotions out, and then I'll be able to just clear him. Then I'll be clear-headed. If it was memes memes, it just consumes him. He becomes a loss after the game.

I don't even think it would be quiet quitting because it was very loud how he quit because we just knew he wasn't here. So memes, you're all the way I'm worried about you for this game. I'm all the way back. See where you're at as a team because obviously, the 49ers, probably the best team in the NFL right now. Titans just came... Bucks. Or the Bucks. Or the Titans defense. The Titans defense is good. That's what I'm worried about for you, Meams. Tovandre Sweat is a monster in the middle of the field. If Aaron Rodgers, which I said it after I watched that game, his arm is still there, but his mobility is clearly limited, having a guy who's just coming up the middle constantly doesn't feel like a good thing for a 41-year-old quarterback coming back from Achilles injury. Correct. But there is a major key on the Titans defense that's returning this week, and that's Jamal Adams.

Oh, okay.

So that means guys are going to be open. Blitz boy.

So Jamal Adams is still in the league?

Still in the league on the Titans.

That's how I found out he was still playing. You guys did You fleeced the Seahawks. Oh, yeah. I guess you feathered them. But yeah, that was a big, big trade for you guys. Who did you get for that?

I believe it's Garrett Wilson and Elijah Veritaker. Two first-round picks.

Okay, so what's the latest on Hassan Redik?

He's not coming back.

Have they talked?

They have not talked. They have both dug in.

He does not care about money.

Yeah, it's weird. I said it earlier, but Hassan Redik, yeah, he's losing $800,000 a game, he is gaining our respect, which is worth $0.

Yeah.

That's pretty much what's happening.

Well, I guess he could do like maybe he could start doing some commercials.

Sure.

Oh, no. Yeah.

What was the 'Oh, no'? Dude was concussed. Who? Tua. Tua? Oh, no. Wait, are you ahead of us? Are you way ahead of us? I can't. Yeah, he's ahead of us. That fucking sucks for Tua.

Yeah.

That was another bad one.

Damn it. Let's see what happened. I don't like what they showed. No, it just got crunched. Was that... That was Demar.

That would be a good talking point. All right.

Praise for Tua.

Yeah. Well, you've heard us talk about it at the beginning of the show. That just happened live. That's a peek into how we tape these things. Okay, we've already talked about it. But to Vondre Sweat, can I go back to him real quick? Wait, what were you saying memes about Hassan Redik? We were saying that he's got our respect, which is worth nothing. Yeah, no, the Hassan Redik thing doesn't make any sense. Okay. Just losing more and more money every single day. They are never getting back. What about our respect? The respect is good. Okay. But it just does- Zero dollars worth. Zero dollars. It might be negative money from us.

Yeah, we're branding him.

If we respect you a lot, people will be like, Oh, that's ironic.

I feel like this is a guy that Aaron Rodgers has to talk to. Aaron Rodgers could get on the same wavelength as a guy that doesn't need money. Yeah.

I think somebody needs to talk to him because I think he just is like, I'm fine, but he owes over $5 million.

Is this bad leadership by Eric?

Well, no, he doesn't owe it. Aren't he being fined? Don't he owe that? I think he just doesn't get paid it.

No, I think he-Oh, he got fined. I think what happens is when you sign the new contract, it's non-negotiable. That money gets taken out. Got it. Yeah, so I think he owes money. But yeah, I would say it might be bad leadership on Aaron Rodgers' part. Yeah, I would say so, too. He's supposed to lead the team, hasn't talked to him, got a no-show. Got to step up. You need some guys to make plays on defense.

Got to step up. Someone needs to talk to him. Someone needs to talk to him. You should talk to him, Memes. Reach out to him. Hit him up on... Dm him right now and be like, Hey, man. Do you need to talk? A Memes from Pardon My Take, I cried on Tuesday. Can you please hit me up? I'd love to talk. All right, I'll do it right now. Yes. All right, here we go. To Vondré Sweat, by the way. Baldy tried to nickname him T-Pane.

Okay.

And he corrected him and was like, Hey, Baldy, just so you know, my nickname is Meat and it has been for my whole life.

That's a good nickname.

I mean, he's a big boy.

I'd say two of our history's all-time greatest singers. Meat Loaf. T-pane and Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf, yes.

They go hand in hand.

Yeah, they should collab together. I think Meat Loaf might be dead.

He is dead. Confirmed dead. I don't know where Levis' head is at because that Brian Callahan quote was interesting.

It wasn't good. He said, If we'd punted on first and 10 every time, we might have won the game.

Yeah, and he's not wrong. Although we did block a punt.

Can we run those stats? We blocked a punt. You might have blocked four punks.

Yeah, that's probably wrong. But yeah. Now, Brian Callen did say that his mentals are in a good spot. I just think this is going to be Titans running the ball and playing Titans football and playing defense and mucking it up as much as possible. If you get three and a half, I'd take them.

This is actually a perfect example of something that happens to every single rookie head coach, which is they say something that's true and that wasn't meant to cause harm. Then when they see it written down online, then they get asked a bunch of questions about it. They're like, Shit, now I'll just never say anything to you guys. Congratulations to Callan for getting out of the way after one week. Yes. It takes coaches sometimes six, seven weeks to get to that point. Now, he's just reached the spot where he's like, I I will not say another word that is remotely interesting to you guys. Yes.

All right, Niners at Vikings. I was thinking about this. The Niners defense was flying around on Fred Warner. He's incredible.

Fred Warner might be, I'd say, probably top 10 player in the NFL when he's actually on the field.

I'd agree with you. It made me think back to last year's Niners, and I memoryhold it because he was used as a scapegoat, but that Niners defense hated Steve Wilkes. Remember all the comments and like Bosa saying that they're just not playing the right defense? And there was the comment that he was a scapegoat after the Super Bowl and all this stuff. I feel like they got their swaggerer back because they hired a guy from within, nick Sorenson, who was there for D'Mico. So he knows the Niner way. And I think the Niner's defense maybe has their swagger back. It did feel like they were playing like they had played when they had Robert Salah and D'Mico Reyes as their defensive coordinator.

Yeah, they looked really good against the Jets.

And they know Sam Darnold.

So Sam Darnold knows the 49ers.

But he knows Steve Wilkes' 49ers.

But he knows the personnel.

He knows the personnel, but he saw someone not use the personnel correctly.

What is a bigger advantage in football? One guy knowing 11 guys or 11 guys knowing one guy? I think it's 11 guys knowing one. You think so? Yeah. I don't know. I think it's 11 guys knowing one. I also think that Kevin O'Neill. We fucked up when we did our coaches draft because Kevin O'Kanaugh fell very, very far. He's a very good coach. I think he's much better than we gave him credit for. I agree. I think that every quarterback should love playing for him.

Yeah, I agree. Remember the Niners lost in Minnesota last year? It was like the Brock Purdy concussions. After one of the concussions, it was a weird game. I think it was a Monday night game. They were seven-point favorites. Maybe a little revenge. I don't know. I I like- Oh, Skyler Thompson's in.

I like the Vikings to cover, but I like the Niners to win. Okay.

Listen, I'm not going to disagree with you. It's not one of my picks.

I also like the entire narrative of Chris McAfree being a system running back. Yeah. Let's keep that up. Trade him. Because it reminds you of some of the All-Star no-name guys that played really well for Kyle's dad, where they just put a different guy, and after every four weeks, they'd rotate a new guy you'd never heard of, and he would have 120 yards on the ground.

Orlandus Gary?

Yeah, Yeah.

That one of them?

Smaller guy.

I can't remember.

Mike Anderson.

Mike Anderson. Well, wasn't he part of the Mile High Salute?

Mike Anderson? He might have been.

I want to say Mike. Yeah, Orlandus Gary did play for the Broncos right after they won the Super Bowl. Yeah, they had so many of those guys. Mike Anderson.

Ruben Drones.

Ruben Drones? Yeah. Wait, let me see. Football Mike Anderson. I think he was on the Ravens for a little bit. Yeah, Mike Anderson I think he started the Mile High Salute because he was a Marine.

But I thought the Mile High Salute goes back to-I thought so, too, but I'm pretty sure-to Ed McAfree.

Mike Anderson was in the Marines. Yeah. I don't know. Let's see. You want to find out?

We got to figure this out.

Hank, say something.

Hank just rolled his eyes because he's bored with this line of conversation.

Maybe it was just Mike. All right. So, yeah, Tarell Davis did start the Mile High Salute. Mike Anderson, it just meant more because he was a Marine. Because he actually was a Marine. I just remember when Mike Anderson would do it and people Dude, he actually was a Marine.

It hit different when Mike Anderson hit it.

He was actually saluting. Let's see. Tarrell Davis reveals. Oh, it's a video. I'm not going to watch it. What game are we talking about? That was Mile High Salute Talk.

We were talking about the Niners and the Vines. Oh, yeah. Because we were talking about the old-school Mike Shana hand running back system, where it was just, we do a zone system. If you can make one cut and then run very fast, hold the ball, don't fumble the ball, then you'll get 100 yards.

Seahawks of Patriots. Henry. Yes. You will be golfing on Sunday?

I will not be.

Oh, next Sunday?

No. Oh. Maybe.

Yeah.

Can I?

Sure. You can golf whenever you want.

Hank, if you feel like it's a good use of your time to golf during NFL- Ryan Whitney and Paul Bisonet, friends of the program.

Great friends of the program. Ryan Whitney, number two all time?

Number two all time.

And guests' appearances, I believe. It might be one. I think he might be one.

I think he might be one, too. I think it's Bortles. Bortles is one. But he hit me up. He's going to be in town for surviving Barstool. He said he's trying to find some golf. I said I could maybe help out, but I'll have to ask the bossman.

Okay.

Yes. But this Sunday-You don't like football.

I'll be locked in.

That's fine.

And the Patriots and Jets play Thursday night. Exactly. So you and meeps. Primetime. Exactly.

You got to get a mirror's bet for that one. Yeah.

How do you feel about this game? I'm excited. Have you thought about this game? That should have been my first question. Have you thought about... Did you know you were playing the Seahawks? Yes. Have you thought about playing the Seahawks?

Not that much. Okay.

So how do you feel... The little bit that you have thought about it, how have you thought about it?

I'm excited for this game. I'm a little bit confused. I mean, the dolphins are losing, the jets are ass. I obviously went into the season expecting to be-Ass.ass, bottom of the League, rooting for just looking at the lottery pick. Not lottery pick, it's NFL. But- You got it.

You're new to the draft.

Rooting for a high draft pick.

Yeah, it's seven rounds.

We're one and oh now. The FC East is ass.

Ass.

Bills?

Well, maybe not ass.

Well, the Bills are ass. I mean, the Bills aren't ass. The Jets are ass.

I don't know if the Jets are ass yet.

I think we have to wait. You remember when we talked about not putting too much stock in one?

The Jets played the Niners.

The Jets might be the perfect case for not putting too much stock in week one.

Yeah, I'd like to see the Jets play someone other than the 49ers.

I'm excited for this game. If the Patriots win, I'll probably be borderline all in. If they lose, I'll probably be going back to just-Golfing. No, I'm not.

I mean, if you guys were good, it'd be nice to have Judon on the team still, huh?

Yeah.

Your defense is good.

What does all-in mean?

What does all-in look like?

Yeah. Yoffs.

And does it mean locked in on Sunday?

Like excited for games. Yes.

I'll tell you exactly what All-In means for Hank. It means that he will watch every Patriots game until they lose.

Yeah. I was thinking the same thing.

And then he's all out.

If you're All-In, like a loss-If we're all-in, we're going for 10 wins.

All-in means we're fighting, scratching, clawing for 10 wins in the play-off.

No, all in, you're upset about losses. I don't see a scenario this entire year. Until your fight actually in December, every game is a payoff game, you won't care when this team loses.

I want to encourage this behavior, though, from Hank. So if you win this weekend, you're all in.

I just don't believe him. Look at his face. I can't even really see it.

No, I don't see it.

It's hard. I went through this whole offseason. I'm just preparing. He's all out.

You were excited for a football season where you didn't really care about your team.

All right, so if you win this weekend and then you beat the Jets. Yes, look at him. Then you beat the Jets. You're three and oh, you're all in. It's-answer the question.

All right, this is probably Hater Hank. This is probably Hater Hank. This is probably Hater Hank. Hand up, Hater Hank. As much as I want the Patriots win, I just to be better than the Jets and the Dolphins.

Okay, that's a fair answer.

That gets me going.

I'm not going to lie, I thought you were going to say Commanders. No. I thought you were going to say you wanted to be better.

No, because if Drick May was playing, then it'd be like, I want to be better than the Commanders and the Bayers. But That doesn't really matter in this scenario.

Yeah, you just want to be better than at least two teams in your division.

I do love- With the most annoying fan bases, especially in this office and maybe the control booth.

The rivalry that we have cooking right now is... I'm just tickled watching happen.

Because I have it with Max. Oh, no, no, no. I own Max.

That's not what the rivalry I was talking about.

I would love to have memes.

No, that's not the rivalry I was talking about. Beaching the Super Bowl. The rivalry I'm talking about is we've been doing this podcast for eight plus years now We're a football podcast, first and foremost. Our fans are football guys. They love football. They're diehard football fans. The rivalry of Hank not really caring about football versus our fans is so funny to me. The Ken State, Pittsburgh, people don't forget. Being all in, all out on week two of the NFL season, it's great. Be yourself.

Yeah, I always have been. I always will be.

I like you clarifying that if the Patriots aren't good, as long as you can be better than the Dolphins and the Jets, you will get satisfaction. That's funny to me. That's an honest answer.

Hank isn't going to celebrate that hard if they win. But I actually think you celebrate Jets' losses harder than you celebrate Patriots wins this year.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Listen, guilty as charged when it comes to the packers losing in the playoffs, that's a fact. If the bears stink, which they have for a long time, yeah, I get a lot of satisfaction.

I get some sick satisfaction about the fact that I have six Super Bowl. I have all the championships. I've kept the light. I've led the team out of the tunnel.

No, you rang a bell.

I kept the light. Where is it?

Do you have it? Is it on right now? So they didn't let you keep it?

No, but I kept it when it was there. When I was there, I made sure that I kept it. Then we have these Jets. We have these Dolphins fans that are just living and dying with every play, every snap, every game. Talk about football fans. To be better than them would be nice.

Hank wants to be better than the people that care about their teams. Yeah, I get it.

That's Hater Hank, and I know people are going to get mad hearing this, but it is what it is. That's just how I feel.

Because you're like, I just show up and they win, and I don't even do anything, and it's awesome. And you put your heart and soul into your teams, and you study, you read articles about them during the week, you know exactly what's going to happen. You know everybody's number, even the offensive linemen, even the backup D-line that they switch in and out of the games, and you care so much, and then they lose. And I don't have to deal with that because I'm a winner.Yeah. You're such an asshole.

You're so good at being an asshole. I was just going to say you're so good at being an asshole.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I don't want to-No, you have to go. It's good for your brand.

It's great.

What you are doing right now is great for your brand being the fucking worst.

Yeah, right.

You know what he is?

He's a meat shield for us.

Yeah, no, it's great.

Hank is spoiled. No shit. You're so spoiled.

Yeah, I mean-Yeah.

City of Champions. What are you talking about?

So spoiled.

Okay, as for this game, I The Seahawks played so bad in that first half against the Broncos, and I think their defense is good. Mike McDonald is a... I mean, he was a good defensive coordinator. I think he's going to be a really good head coach. I do think that this is one of those games that the Patriots Shox shocked everyone against the bangles. This is a harder game because the Seahawks probably have a better game plan and can run the ball.

Yeah. When a team that's not that good but feisty starts to think that they're very good, that's when they're a good time to bet against those guys.

The Seahawks Seahawks shut down the Broncos run game. So if you take out Bo nick scrambles, the Broncos ran for 3.2 yards, 20 rushes for 64 yards. The Patriots need to run the ball to be able to control this game how they want to control it. I think the Seahawks defensive lines up for the challenge.

The Seahawks probably aren't going to get two first half safeties.

I don't know. I guess.

I actually- Maybe not.

I'm not going to rule that out with the way those things happen and calling a play-action play in the end zone. It needs blocking. They might be the safety bet every single week. Yeah.

I thought more about it, and I think the perfect thing to do for a safety instead of two points, which we agree is not enough points for a safety. Correct. Give the ball to the offense on the one-yard line. It's to the other team. Give it to them on the one-yard line. So if you get tackled in your own end zone, it's a turnover, the other team gets the ball on the one.

I think that's too much.

On the five-yard line? I was saying the 20. No. Red zone.

Start of the red zone. Because at worst, you get three.

Because I want it to be worth essentially five points, but I want the other team to have to do something else with it.

I wonder what the... Someone has a nerd stat where if you start at this yard line, your expected points are this.

Yeah, let me see.

It's probably around the 25 or something. But okay, I'm ready for that.

Yeah, I'm ready for that. Also, the Seahawks are not going to have Marshawn Lynch giving McDonald a massage on the sidelines in this game.

Yeah, neck massages. Okay, next game.PFT.Yes. Giants of Commanders.

Okay, this is maybe the game of the week. I'm not surprised that we don't have Tom braided in the booth for this one. I'll give you some good news if you're a Commanders fan. Where? Emmanuel Forbes is out. Oh, that is good. And he might go on IR.

But how bad is his backup to lose the job to Emmanuel Forbes?

I don't think it's not necessarily Emmanuel Forbes was better than the backup. I think it was- He was drafted out. We have to play Emmanuel Forbes to see if he can be good before we make a decision about him. Got it. So he's got a thumb injury, and you can't play football with a bad thumb. Yeah. So he's out.

Well, he couldn't play football with a good thumb.

Yeah, he might be better with an injured thumb. Yeah. I I think it's a good thing that he's not playing. I am scared of the Giants because the Giants always figure out a way to beat the commanders, even when they're bad.

I'm scared for you because I think the Commander's defense might be one of the worst, if not the worst.

I think they might be the worst. Watching last week against the Bucks, it was a nightmare. There was no point in even trying to play. It would be better if you just let them score immediately when they had the ball.

This is a true ass ball where the team who loses this game, especially if they lose it significantly, they're truly ass.

I'm going to put the done chain on the loser, even if it's me. If the commanders lose this game, the done chain goes.

Well, a loss for you is different than a loss to the Giants. A loss for you, you still have Jaden Daniels, and you're like, We're rebuilding. A loss of the Giants, you're like, We thought we'd be bad, but we're worse.

Yeah, we're worse than we thought we were going to be.

God damn it, that Giants, I don't know why they allowed them to do hard knocks, but that clip is just going to live forever, where they were talking about, I think it was one of the Maras asking the GM, What are we going to do? What's our identity without Saquon? We're going to go all in on Daniel Jones.

He said, literally, I'm going to lose sleep if this guy goes to Philly. Yeah.

And then the GM said, We're going to build up our offensive line and say, This is the year, Daniel. Yeah.

It's not a good time to be a Giants fan. It's especially not a good time to be Daniel Jones because he's already starting up with the the only people that matter are the people in this room. Those are the only ones I listen to. That's early. Maybe the worst sign for Daniel Jones was when Brian Dable announced that he was the starting quarterback this week. That's not good for your starting quarterback. At the beginning of week one, to have your head coach clarify for the media that you're starting.

Yeah, you're the starter.

They just paid you a fuck load of money. Everyone thought you were the starter, and Brian Dable being like, We're going to give the ball to Daniel this weekend. No one asked. No one asked. But he is.

He's a starter. So you think you're going to win? I don't want to- You don't want to pick because I- I don't want to pick because I would like to win.

So that way I can at least say we're the worst team in the division, but the Giants have a way of beating her ass. Yeah. But Jaden Daniel is Rooky of the Week. Rooky of the Week. First of many to come. That's huge.

Okay. Chargers of Panthers. I so badly want to bet the Panthers, but I can't because it's Harbaugh, but I want to because I feel like I'm going to chase that all year. I'm not going to. I'm not going to.

I might. Did you see- I might. Well, not necessarily just the Harbaugh effect, but also the Panthers effect.

The Panthers are so bad. The Panthers are so bad. Hank, go ahead. How bad are they? How bad are they? Like a game show. The Panthers are so bad.

How bad are they?

They did a 9/11 Memorial post on Instagram, and some of the comments are as follows. This team makes me wish I was on those planes. I won't forget how bad... No, our situation is worse than theirs. Saddam Hussein would be a better defensive coordinator. This post is still not safe. Every Sunday feels like I'm reliving 9/11. Our tower has been collapsing since 2017. Never forget 9/8 when they lost the Saints. Sir, a second Saints wide receiver has hit the end zone. You're so bad that your own fans are making 9/11 jokes in your comment section. That's bad.

That's as low as it gets. It's worse than 9/11, Big Cat? What? When Bryce Young goes 9/30, when that's his completion.

Yes. I'm going to take the Chargers because I think they're just going to play man football. We also have the Chargers. A reminder for next week, they're staying out East.

Okay, that's good to know.

They're staying out east, and Jim Harbaugh say, There's no reason why we can't have some fun, bring the board games and snacks. There's no way they're going to have fun.

That's so fun. That's fun. We also had- What board games do you think that Harbaugh plays? Do you guess who guy?

I don't know. I feel like he's just a straight up checkers.

I think he's- Checkers. You think checkers? I think he might be a risk guy. The game is taken like three days. Everybody just gets bored and quits, and then he wins every time.

We also had an all-time Jim Harbaugh quote. He said, speaking about coaching, it was about five or six years ago. My brother and I and dad were talking football, talking, and my brother said, Hey, dad, how long do you go in coaching? How long do you coach in this game? And he said, and I never forget it, You go as long as you possibly can. You go and you coach till you cannot step on the field one more time, till you can't endure one more practice or put one more game plan together. And when you come to that point, you coach for two more years. I love that. That's a great quote.

You play football, you coach football, then you die.

You have to be so sick of coaching, and then you still do two more years of service.

Yeah, I respect that. I respect that. I need to know where they're staying out east, too. I could see Harbaugh taking them on a tour, a history tour.

They're probably just... What's the West Virginia place?

The Greenbri.

Yeah, they're probably just staying there, right?

I could see them going on a Civil War battlefield tour.

Staying east. Chargers staying east. They'll stay in Charlotte.

Okay.

Kind of boring. Yeah, pretty boring. That's a boring answer. All right.

I want to say that Jaden Daniels, he did win the Rooky of the Week. I think Joe Alt should have won it. Joe Alt was incredible. That will never happen. I'm going to take the stand for offensive linemen because an offensive lineman will never win an award like that, and they should.

Joe Alt and Rashaun Slater on both sides of Herbert, that's Harbaugh's wet dream. He just knows they can do what they want to do, and they're going to shove it down the Panthers throat.

Yeah, I think that's going to happen. The Panthers have their best defensive player maybe out for the year. Yeah. So I think it might get worse before it gets better.

It couldn't be a more different vibes game between the two teams. The Panthers' vibes are as low as low gets, and the Chargers are the new regime. Going from Brandon Staley to Jim Harbaugh has to be just a complete shock to the system in a great way. You can't get different than these two teams, organizations right now.

Yeah, very optimistic in LA right now. Yeah.

Okay, next up, Browns of Jaguars. Speaking of bad vibes, everyone hates Sean Watson. That was one of my notes. David Njoku's out for the game. A little quiz for you, when was Deshawn Watson's last 300-yard game? His last 300-yard game.

His last 300-yard. He had one or two decent games last year, but I don't think he threw for 300. So I'm going to go back a couple of years and say 2021.

So partial credit, yes, because it happened in 2021. It was a 2020 season. So it was January 2021.

That's why I said 2021. Yes.

But that is a long time.

That's a very long time.

That's a long time.

He used to be so good.

He used to be incredible. So I don't- He had that one season where he carried the Texans and was out of this world good.

I don't know what happened. Well, obviously, a lot of stuff happened.

We do know what happened.

But there's some stuff where Physically, he doesn't even look the same.

I think he just doesn't like football anymore. He's going to quit on this season or the Texans... Or sorry, the Browns will find a way out of this. Something is going to happen.

He used to be so good. And last Sunday, he got sacked six times. Guess how many of those sacks were on the offensive line by pro football focus? One. Zero. Zero. They were all his fault. They were all quarterback sacks. Damn. And then there was a clip that went around of one of his linemen not wanting Deshawn to help him up. Did you see that? Yeah. One of the linemen were on the ground after the play. Deshawn went up to him, stuck his hand out. The linemen batted his hand away and said, No, I can do it. He just doesn't want Deshawn touching him. It leads to bad things. Yes.

And Deshawn Watson, yeah, you don't want him around. I'm just looking it up right now.

I don't know where that hand's been.

Probably...

No, it's not his hands.

I think his hand has probably went a few places. Yeah, not a good guy. Yeah, that 2020 season, he threw for 4,800 yards, 33 TDs, seven interceptions.

It's crazy.

Pretty damn good.

You could definitely make the case at that point that Deshawn Watson was a top five quarterback.

Yeah. And since that season, I know that he's been a bunch. He has not thrown for over 1,500 yards.

Yeah.

Okay. So this game to me is I love that we get to watch every game and see how every game flows because the Jaguars should have in the Dolphins, and I think you're getting them at a little bit of a price here because they lost. The Jaguars were winning that game. Etienne doesn't fumble. They go up 24/7. That game's over. It goes completely I was really south on them, but I didn't walk away being like, Man, the Jaguars are bad.

No, they did some funky shit in the second half. They did some very jaguar stuff. They panicked. Yeah, they did panic after the turnover. I think that they looked good enough in the first half, but are the Dolphins good? So when they look good against the Dolphins, are we counting that as a good-The Bills really good. The Bills might be really good. I do also like the Jaguars in this game.

Yeah. Okay, Raiders of Ravens. I'll say this. This is one time Actually, Jake, he should still do this for us. I didn't know this. Maybe no one knew this. Alexander Madison's wife went into labor before the game on Sunday.

He scored a countdown. Yeah, we did not know that. But wait, when was the baby born?

That night.

So After the game.

But he had, Oh, my God, my wife said labor. Yeah, technically, this would be the first baby.

This is the baby bump because our theory is that everybody else in the locker room is pumped for the guy, especially if they're a new dad. That's their first kid. So if he had the baby after the game, then This week, it's all, Congrats on the baby. Congrats. I'm so happy that you got a baby. Let's give you the rock. You got dad's strength now.

What'd you name the baby?

Congrats on the sex. Yeah.

Let me kiss the baby.

Yeah. All that shit. Is it kiss the baby bet?

Yeah, kiss the baby bet. I do think the Ravens, though, are going to play better than they did. It's crazy. We walk away and the Chiefs win that game, and it really was a couple inches or an inch on Isiah Likely's foot. Because Harbaugh is going to go for two. So there's a reasonable way that the Ravens win that game if his foot is in bounds, and we think about it completely different, and we're like, holy shit, what a gutsy performance from Lamar. The Ravens are still that team. They just didn't have the result week one. I think they are going to beat the Raiders.

Yeah, I think they're going to spank them.

Antonio pierce, we like you, but goddamn, that was the dumbest decision ever.

The punt, it looks even worse with the light of day. After a couple of days to think about it, I've been thinking about that punt all week. It just makes zero sense at all. He's a new coach. He does not have a guy that's giving him advice on analytics. That much is clear, because if he did, that person probably resigned because you're not being listened to at all in that case. But It was really, really bad. He should get somebody whose job is just to stand next to him, be like, Use your time out here. Go forward here. That's the job. Get a nerd. Very simple. Find a nerd in Las Vegas.

Just find anyone with glasses song.

Yeah, maybe David Blaine. He could probably figure it out. Anybody in Las Vegas that is smart, that likes numbers.

David Blaine could absolutely bend time.

Yes. Have that person stand next to you, and he's only allowed to say five words. He doesn't even have to talk. He can just have a mat that's in front of him with five different options for buttons, and he pushes those, and then you look at the iPad, then you do that thing.

He should actually make it even simpler for him. It should be like when you go to Fogodei Chou and you have the coin that you flip over when you want meat or when you want to stop eating. He should just have a coin, and the guy should just hand him like, Hey, red side up.

Red side up, don't. Pun.

Green side up, go. That's as simple as it could be.

What was the chest scandal from a while ago? The butt plugs? The anal beads, the Rating Anal Beads. When I hit those, that should stimulate you to go for it.

Yes, go for it.

I don't know if this is a record or not. I think it might be the first time. Do we have a noise for a weird stat alert?

Yeah, Hank.

Hank, weird stat alert.

Get it on the soundboard, please. Nice.

Okay, so if Antonio pierce and the Raiders lose this week to the Ravens, I think he might become the first head coach in NFL history to lose back-to-back games against brothers.

Oh.

I can't think who else it could have been.

Well, it could have been the Harbaugh brothers.

The Harbaugh brothers? Or were they- Have they ever- Rob Ryan was never an interim coach, right? Oh, man. I I don't think he was. I wish he... I would have bet the fuck out of him if he was.

Yeah. Fuck. We got to find out if that's true.

I think it might be true. The Double Brother loss.

The Double Brother loss.

Never been done before.

He's been just bodied by the Harbaugh.

Now, the other question would be, has a team ever played against Two Brothers in Back to Back weeks? Probably. They're probably already making history. Yeah, probably. It's Brother Awareness Month.

Was there ever a time where the Harbaughs played each other, and then the next week, the losing Harbaugh made a terrible mistake and beat himself? So he got beat by Harbaugh back-to-back weeks?

By himself? Yeah. I don't know.

Did Jim Harbaugh ever lose to Jim Harbaugh?

Well, Jim Harbaugh lost to John Harbaugh in the Super Bowl. Right.

But I'm saying, you know what I'm saying? Then the week yourself.

What do you do week one after that? I don't know. He might have beaten himself.

Might have beaten himself. Okay, that's a good stat. Good weird stat. Afternoon Slate, three games. Rams of Cardinals, Rams injuries are bad. 2022 vibes.

Very bad. Pukun Naku out, and also their line. Their entire line. Their line is probably... Like, Pukun Naku is the name that everybody knows, but their line, all being injured, probably has a bigger impact. They're signing guys off the street. Off the street? Off the street. Like homeless people?

Off the street. They're signing guys off the street.

That's concerning. Yes.

I just love that saying, off the street. So I don't know. I can't trust the Cardinals defense. Sean McVay does own the Cardinals, so we should at least note that. That's part of our trio in the NFC West. I just feel like the Cardinals are healthier. Well, they know they're healthier, and Kyler might be able to get something going.

When is the double XP weekend?

October something, right?

Okay, so we're way too early.

We got to wait on that. And Marvin Harrison Jr. He will... Welcome to the NFL, Marvin Harrison Jr. I think that's going to happen this week.

Yeah. Well, after what happened last week, they can't target him any less. Correct. They were saving him for this game. Correct. I feel like maybe the Cardinals were saying the Bills, really good team. Buffalo, tough environment to play in. They're going to sacrifice somebody to the pit before the game. Probably lose that game anyways. But divisional game, now let's actually try to win, and let's throw the ball to Marvin Harrison Jr. A couple of times.

Yes, agreed. Stealers are Broncos.

I'm mad about this game. Why? Because Russell Wilson is not playing. Yeah. And I really wanted to see Russell Wilson against the Broncos.

I do. If you're a Stealers fan, I think you should be happy, though. Why? I think Russell Wilson would have tried so hard to do a revenge thing that he would have fucked it up.

You would have made a big revenge game spectacle.

He would have tried so hard to be like, This is my moment to stick it to Sean Payton, that he would have fucked up and it would have been a bad situation.

That might be true.

So I think you're better off with Justin Fields. I want to take the Broncos simply because Because of the go against yourself week one, switch it up. Also, Mile high when it's still hot is always a tough place to play. I just don't understand how Bo'Nicks is going to survive against the Steelers defense.

Yeah, Bo'Nicks. I But you're not saying that he might be the next up, Jameis Winston. He was funny when he played. I'm not saying that he's going to have this spectacular high that Jameis gives you.

Yeah, he doesn't push it down the field like Jameis does.

But in a slapstick type of way, watching him play quarterback is very funny to do. Correct. And watch how he tries to run around and throw across his body. That part is still funny to me. You're probably right about Russell Wilson trying too hard.

He definitely would probably have some weird video. They would show when they go to the game, Russell Wilson actually was here fully patted at 6:00 AM running around the field.

It would have been very funny for him after the game to talk about what a great welcome the Denver Broncos fans gave him. It was a great homecoming. It's just to see the guys that rooted for me and be able to thank them for everything they did for me while I was in town. That would have been 100% a lie. I wanted to see that, though. I wanted to see him try too hard as an outsider. If you're a Stealers fan, probably a good thing. But for the rest of America, we wanted that comedy of the revenge game.

Correct. Okay, so Big game. Afternoon game. This one will be, obviously, the sound, bangles at chiefs. Bangle's got to figure it out. I'm worried, though, about Joe Burrow.

Yeah. So the video of him trying to pick up a water bottle went I know that he's saying that it's not a big deal. I think it's a big deal. I think Joe Burrow is a tough guy, and he wants to play, and he was so competitive that he's like, I'm not going to miss the first couple of games of the season. I think it's fair to say that he's not healthy.

His wrist and his arm might feel okay. I don't know if mentally he trusts it yet because watching back some of that game, some of the tape, no big deal, we watch tape on this show. He was a check down king. He actually was third ranked lowest in the NFL on week one with throws going to the stick, so 27.6. He basically was just checking down. I think he just doesn't trust it yet. There were some plays. I was watching this one play that people were breaking down where Jamar Chase had a one-on-one on the outside, and he had a clean pocket. All he had to do was wait a couple of seconds, and he had predetermined he was going to check it down. It's not as much that he might... It might not be that his wrist is so fucked, he can't make throws. I think he just is not ready for the game speed yet. I think he will be there Eventually, unfortunately, they have to go up against the Chiefs, and that is a big, tall task. You're going to have Chris Jones coming down your throat, and the Chiefs know that he is not 100% there.

If Joe Burrow can't throw it deep and take those shots, it's just different.

I think I'm going to- He also has always been a little bit of a slow starter and always started in this way, so it could also just be that. I disagree with you that it's mental, not physical. I think it's physical.

No. The only reason I'm saying mental is because when Joe says that he's Good. I trust that he's saying that in good faith. I do think there's some physical part, but I think there's also the mental part of... It happened with Kirk Cousins, where when you come back from an injury and you get thrown into a live NFL game, it's going to look different than it did in preseason, which I don't even think Joe Burrow played or practice.

It just is different. No, but I think it is 100% physical in that when Joe Burrow says he's good, he knows he's not good, and he's pissed off that he's not good.

He was flexing it a lot, too.

Yeah, but he doesn't want to say, I'm not feeling good because that would be making an excuse. Yeah, no, he's a fucking tough ass. I think that if it was physically good, Joe is so mentally tough that he would just be like, I'm not worried about it. Let's just play football. I don't think that he can't play football 100 %. So I don't I want to see Joe play good this year. I want to keep the narrative of Burrowhead going. It'd be fun if he went into Kansas City and won. They also gave the Chiefs a little bit of bulletin board material. Oh, no.

You see that? I love doing that. Oh, the Xavier worthy?

Yeah. So Taylor-Britt said on Xavierworthy, he's got speed. That's about it. He can run straight, run jet sweeps, and just run straight. He can't do too much else. So that's about it. That's bulletinboard.

That is bulletinboard. I also don't fully disagree if you're just basing it off his first game because we were victim to this for Xavier worthy is not fair. He had that big end-around run, and he had the play where the Ravens just didn't play defense on what looked like a wheel route. I don't know what it was, but there was just no one even close to him. It's not like he caught 10 balls and had 150 yards. He caught two balls and had 47 yards, and I think 30 of them were on that one play. So 35 of them were on that one play. So I do think Xavier worthy. I think that's bulletin board material. I also don't think it's totally wrong yet.

Also, if he can just run straight really fast, that's a pretty good thing to combine with Patrick Mahomes. That is good. And on the end of round, if you're like 0.01 second slower, you don't score that touch down. You get tackled. It was a great run.

Here's my thought starter for you. If Xavier worthy was on any other team and had his stat line from week one, would anyone care?

No, he'd be a speed merchant.

That's my point. It's not that he's not good. It's just that because he's on the Chiefs and he's so fast and we saw it, everyone's like, This is not fair. This is not right.

Well, there's another part. It's because he replaced Kaderius Tony. True. It's a big, big upgrade.

That's the biggest upgrade ever.

I think he's good.

I just think we're more pissed that the Chiefs have another weapon.

Yes. Taylor Bridge should update this and say he can't do too much else. He can run straight. And be better than Kaderius Tony. So he's a two-headed monster.

Then everyone would nod in the locker room like, Yeah, he's actually right.

That's very right.

Okay, we have Sunday Night Football to wrap it up. Bears, Texans. We'll be streaming. I'm very nervous about this game. Here's what I've done because everyone does this as fans. You do mental gymnastics, try to figure out a path to victory, how it's going to work. The one thing that I have uncovered is Is that we talked about meatloaf, to Vondré sweat for the Titans. Absolute monster. The Texans don't have a to Vondré sweat in terms of the middle of the interior defensive line shouldn't be as big of a problem as it was against the Titans. That's where the bears had a lot of trouble blocking. I'm hoping Caleb Williams doesn't have those plays where there is a 350-pound man jumping on top of him within half a second of the ball being snapped.

Yeah. And when he spends, he should spend away from the person and not just stop.

Do we need a defensive countdown and maybe a special team's countdown to win this game? Yeah, maybe. I'd take it.

Or if they punted every first down. I'd take it. Then you could win that game, too. I'd take it.

But yeah, I think it's going to be a very interesting game to see where everything's at.

All right, walk me through this, Big Cat. I know you'll be happy with a win regardless.

No matter what, you tell me- Okay, let me ask you a hypothetical. Taking out injuries, win, no matter what.

Okay, hypothetical. Would you rather The bears win, and Caleb Williams, he throws for 90 yards passing. Caleb Williams runs for 17 yards with a fumble, and he's got an interception, no touch downs.

Was he hit on the fumble?

No, it was like Jalen Hertz in the Super Bowl. Okay. Just slips and they run it the other way. Would you rather that or Caleb throws for 350 yards and the bears lose 20 to 32?

I would take the win.

Take the win over progression from the quarterback.

Yeah, because the progression will come. Winning games is the best.

I don't care how it happens. If there's two games in a row without 100, then now we're talking narrative.

But what you just said, so I was actually almost with you until you said 32, and then I'm like, then that means the defense stinks.

It's a weird score. Yeah, you could delete.

But the thing that I was feeling most confident in is now not a source of confidence, and now I'm questioning everything. Get me to 2-0.

Okay, let me change that. Get me to 2-0. What if Caleb throws for 350 yards, a shutdown, no interceptions, and you guys lose 7-10?

350 yards, a countdown, no interceptions, 7-10. I still want to win.

You probably have kicking issues at that.

I still want to win. 2-0 would be awesome. Were you going to say something, Max? Would you take 2-0?

Yeah, I'll take 2-0.

Yeah. I want 2-0.

I want my quarterback to have a good game, too. I do.

You and I-Best Well, best case scenario, both things happen. Yeah, that would be awesome. But if he doesn't have a great game, having a win is a nice consolation prize. It's actually the main prize.

What's fun is at that point, if he has some stinky games and you guys win, then you can just be like, he's a winner. He's got Jimmy Garoppolo.

It's also if he doesn't play well on Sunday night and we use defense and special teams to win the game, it's no different than the bears in entire history of everything.

That's true. He's just a perfect bear's quarterback.

He's just a turbo-charged rex grosser.

The best game manager you could have.

I think he's going to play better, though. I really do.

No Romadunze, right?

I believe he is out. I don't think he's officially been ruled out, but it doesn't look like he's going to play, which stinks. All right, so the countdown parlay. I screwed it up last week. Then we'll get to our picks. I screwed it up last week. I had Dalton Kincadi to not score, so I'm out. So what we're going to do is we're going to do three I'm out because I lost. If you guys win, all three win, we go to the next week. We want people to win. If one of you loses, then you're out. If two of you lose, we'll figure out how to do it. But go right now to DraftKings. Draftkings has you set up. They have not one but two special offers to AWLs who want to bet the PMT Parlay this week. First, DraftKings is giving all customers a no sweat, breakdown bet for each football day this week. That means you'll get a bonus bet back if your touch down bet doesn't hit. Second, any customer who chooses to use their no sweat, touch down bet on our four to score parlay, which is now three to score, will also receive a profit boost.

So head to the app now to claim those offers. We're going to have the parlay up. It goes up Friday night, so you have all weekend to bet it. I'll bet it. I'm going to ride with the boys. I'm going to be out, but I'm going to ride with the boys. I also will have Big Cat parlay, which is one and no, no big deal, plus three units. Okay, Hank.

Going Tony Rich.

Tony Rich. Anthony Richardson.

Okay, good. To score a countdown.

I like that. To score a countdown.

T. Rich. Anthony Richardson.

Okay. I'm not going to make any comments because I can't because I lost.

No, please do. It worked last week.

I'm not going to make any comments.

But if you were going to make comments, you would say...

I can't believe that the Falcon scored one countdown. It was to Kyle P. It's crazy. All right, Tony Rich. I like that. Tony Rich on the board. All right.

I'm going to stick with my What was that?

No, I want to go a quarterback, too, and I'm nervous about going two quarterbacks.

Who are you going to take?

I'll let PFT go.

You just made a noise when I started to go.

No, I just started to stress because that stress is...

No, you made a noise. You want to go?

No, I want you to go.

You go first. No, you go. I'm not going to talk.

I want you to go. I'm done.

Nope, I want you to go. Everybody get mad at Max for ruining the podcast.

Get mad at Max.

Fine, I'll go. Fuck it. I'll go. Jaden Daniels.

You ruined the podcast.

Jaden Daniels.

Good pick. That's good. There you go. Great pick, Max. I like it. You brought the podcast back.

Giants Defense sucks. Great podcast. The run the ball to Jaden Daniels for a countdown is a great play for the.

It's a great play.

I Actually, I like Daniel Jones to score in this game. Okay. He plays really good.

Are you going to do both? No, we can't do three quarterbacks. Three quarterbacks?

No, that's not my pick. I'll give my actual. But bonus pick, Daniel Jones. Okay. But my real pick is J. K. Dobbins. So my formula is take a running back on a team that's playing against the Carolina Panthers. I like that. It was good in week one, and I think it'll be good in week two. Okay.

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Okay, let's do our pics. The four weddings and a funeral pics. Which have we thought about it more? Someone If someone did throw out that we should do a bachelor party. I don't know if any of us could survive, or I don't know if PFCI could survive.

Well, the problem is- That's what's exciting.

All right, should we do this? That's what's exciting.

Well, here's the problem. If- The funeral is a bad idea.

I'll speak for myself.

Why?

Because how do you schedule that?

What if we did What if the loser had to do just life? So they had to go to a birth of a baby, maybe a quinceañera.

The funeral is bad. No funeral. I'm for all of this except for funerals.

No, we're going all. We got to go the full circle.

The life would be incredible. Imagine loser has to do life.

How about this?

I can't do funerals. How about this? A 50th birthday party.

A bachelor party, a wedding. Someone said they were going to kill themselves. I had to go to their funeral.

A divorce proceeding?

A divorce proceeding. We can't do funeral.

Okay.

The problem with the bachelor party would be I would want to do things on the bachelor party that I should not be doing in front of AWL. No.

Yeah. The problem with the bachelor party is we just basically produce blackmail.

Yes.

On ourselves. Yes. If we didn't do stuff to produce blackmail, then they'd be like, What a snooze.

I can't believe this guy came to the bachelor party, didn't have any fun.

I think we could do it if we just said no phones. People would be so pissed if Hank or I lost. Yeah. Or memes.

I bet Max would be fun on a bachelor party.

Max would be great on a bachelor.

If it was a golf trip, Hank would be in a good mood.

All right, so we'll figure it out. But I do think there's something there with... I had a lot of people hit me up and they were like, It would be an honor to go to my funeral.

Yeah, me too. But I think in the sake of a bet, you guys having to go to bachelor party because you don't want to is the entire point. Yeah.

I also had a lot of people hit me up be like, Thank God somebody thought that that was a bad idea.

I had a lot of people hit me up saying that was a great idea I heard the other one. He's a pussy. He doesn't realize that death is part of life. All right, so we'll evolve it. But I think we're on to something. It's going to be something like that. Can we all agree? Whether it be a wedding and a bachelor party, maybe a birth of a baby, a quinceanera Sarah. Life would be awesome. What about...

I know it's hard.

We had to go to a birthday party of every age.

I know it's hard because it's- It's a never-ending punishment. It's right in between- It takes 99 days.

A high school graduation I know it's hard because it's right in between the semesters. A Division 1 College graduation? Yes. Or like a 7,000.

Wait, Division 1 College graduation?

Well, no, or like a state school, a state school graduation.

It would be funny if we could move somebody into College. We're the dads. We show up on campus with a truck full of shit. We help them load up their dorm room.

That's what I'm saying. Just do life.

That's too many things.

We could pair it down.

Okay, what about... Okay, what about this? We probably have some high school AWLs, right? You think? Okay. So if you lose, you have to commit to somewhat adopting that kid for the rest of your life.

I can't take another kid.

I can't have another kid. So you have to go to their high school graduation. No, I can't have another kid. You have to go to their high school graduation. No, I can't have another kid. You have to help them move into college. You have to go to their wedding when they get married. I can't have another kid. You have to be there after they have their first child. I can't have another kid. Then they're for their funeral, God forbid.

That would be fine because then you would develop a relationship. No. It would actually be-No.

I'm out on All right.

Then when they die, you go to their funeral?

Yeah, then I would go to a funeral. If it felt like I was going because it was out of respect and not out of a punishment.

Not just for vibes. All right.

We got to figure this out soon because somebody's going to start to fall behind.

By next week, we'll have a lot of place. By next week, I'll put my... I'll think about some stuff. All right, so I think Max, PFT, and Hank all went 2-0. I went 1-1. It feels good to be 2-0. Oh, and Memes went Owen, too. So, Max, you have first pick?

Do I? Yes. Because Hank went first last time?

No, Memes went first last time.

Okay. I am going to take the Seattle Seahawks minus three and a half against the New England Patriots.

Oh, nice. Hank doesn't even care.

I think that was like a... He doesn't care at all. I think that line's too… I think the Patriots still fucking suck.

Okay. All right. I am going to take my Indianapolis Colts minus three. Okay.

I'm going to take someone's Jacksonville Jaguars minus three. Jaguars, kid. What? You're taking the Browns? Yep. Oh, do it. Do it.

That's stinky. I like it.

Yeah, do it.

The Jaguars are stinky.

Why? Well, you didn't watch this game on Sunday.

I did. I was sitting next to you.

It was on the same time the Patriots were playing.

The Patriots, I couldn't even fucking watch the game. Small TV. They gave us the fucking- Small TV. Okay. 22 inches of screen. It was the R.

Kelly TV.

The Jaguars just blew that. They absolutely choked that game away. They have no business.

I'm not disagreeing with you whatsoever, but I don't think they're that good.

And Deshaun Watson has the tools.

Has the tools. As we just went over. Yeah. Which one tool he has?

Arm talent.

Yep. Does he?

Yeah, we just went through it.

Arm didn't look that good last week.

It's somewhere in there.

It's somewhere in there.

It's somewhere in there. Is it snake? Yeah.

I'm going to go. I have the Browns plus three against the Jaguars. Excuse me. And then I am going to take the Under in the New York Giants Washington Commanders game under 43.

Nice. It's not your pick. It's snake.

It is snake. It's memes.

Got it. Stealers minus two and a half, and then the Under in the Giants Commanders game.

Nice memes.

That was huge memes. Huge.

All right, I'm going to take the over in the New York Giants Washington Commanders game over 43.

I love it. I love it, Hank. That's a good move.

That's a spite move.

Why do you like that over, Hank?

Just two dynamic quarterbacks, explosive offenses.

Don't lump me in with Danny Dimes.

What do you mean? They're high-flying quarterbacks.

High-flying quarterbacks. All right, I'll take the over in the senior.

I shouldn't have done that.

Staines Cowboys, 46 and a half.

That was dumb.

Okay, that's a fun over to take? 43 is so many points for that game.

I thought about that one.

High-flying, Hank.

It's an impossible amount of points. That was a throw away. I just threw away a pick.

Think about this way. Pick sixes. That helps.

Yeah, that was dumb.

Okay, that's right. You know what? I'm going to take the over on that game because Hank thinks it's so dumb. No, he's got it.

Oh, you're saying in- To say in real life, yeah. All right, so your last pick.

I'm going to Jags Browns over 41.5. Okay. I don't think that Deshawn is going to be as bad as he was last week. I hope. Then I think that the Jags, again, a fluky game that they gave up last week. They're at home. Home opener. I believe in Duval.

Hank thinks they stink.

Hank thinks they stink, yeah.

Okay.

I took such a stanky under last time. I'm going to try and go with a fun over this time.

I love that about you. Just get fun with it.

I'm going to go Lion's Bucks over 51.5..

Lynes Bucks over 51.5..

That is a fun one.

It's a lot of points. Very funny. A lot of points.

But fun.

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It's Von Trapio, Arrivederci.

Hey, Von Trapio.

My start on this week, the Pac-12.

Yeah. All the way back.

Who are the teams?

Merging with the Mountain West, Boise State, a bunch of other Mountain West teams.

Yeah, all those Mountain West teams.

The teams you don't want to watch when you got a golf outing on Saturday.

The Pac-12 is all the way back. That's a fact, Jack. I said them, eating dogs.

Eatin' dogs. Don't eat dogs, people. Don't eat it. You hear that? Yeah, Max.

I know you want to fucking eat some dogs.

Max would eat a dog in a second. God knows you don't want to pet him.

No, I love dog. Get that glissy going. You can't even fucking say it.

Make that dog a meatball, and Max would eat it all day.

I love dogs. I got a good friend that likes eating cats. His name's Steven Che.

My sleeper. He does. He loves eating pussy.

You were racist. You were racist. I didn't say it.

Wow, he was making a pussy. Very, very. You idiot.

Very racist, man.

Holy shit.

My uncle Jr. He might be part Haitian. Hey.

My sleeper is Josh Allen's Pistachio Farm.

My Did you guys see this? Did you guys read about this? No, I didn't see it. I didn't read about it.

I saw it on the big screen on the television during the game. He's got a pistachio farm. I don't even know what the fuck that means. I love it.

I remember hearing about that. He was doing an interview on part of my take, and he talked about that pistachio. I want to go.

Thanks for listening to part of my take. Great podcast. Okay. Is that it? Yeah. All right.

Hey, what's up, guys? My name's Chinona Sharpey.

Chinona Sharpey.

I'm starting This week, I'm sitting… Hey, Papi.

Oh, Papi.

To Papi Moneno. My sleep is John Bonjovi. Great guy. Yeah. Saves somebody from jumping off a bridge.

Hey, Dom. What's up, guys? My name's DiCaprio Boodle. Hey, Boodle. My stardom is the Los Angeles Chargers because they just signed me off the practice squad to our practice squad. Let's go, Boodle. That's actually my name, DiCaprio Boodle. Boodle, Boodle, Boodle, Boodle, Boodle, Boodle, Rocking everywhere. My Sinema is the Texan's defense. They don't know what they're going to get. Kael Williams is going to throw for over 100 yards. Over 100. Over 100.

He's joined the-Stamp it. The three-digit club.

I'm putting my personal guarantee on 100 yards plus. There we go. My sleeper- You're going to be like, Will Chamberlain after the game, holding that sign up. Yeah, 100. My sleeper is Antonio Brown's Twitter account because it's being run by a random white dude from UCF. Like the- No shit.

It was obvious call.

Yeah, it was obvious, but it's funny seeing the guy's picture. Cracker of the day. Yeah. A lot of slurs.

That guy liked to say the N-word. Yeah.

And the F-word. Yeah, so that- That came out. Yeah.

Then the account that tweeted out, clarified after an hour, I just talked to Antonio Brown. It is actually him doing it. That's just his manager that helps run the social media. Got it.

He curates. It's It's all alleged. It's all alleged.

It's all alleged. I'm going to go on a limb and say that it is the guy from UCF that does it.

It's very funny because we all thought it. It was obvious. It was very obvious, but it was also like, there's no way some white dude is running this because someday we're going to find out that it was a white dude running this, and then we might have found out that it was a white dude running it today.

This makes me look at Ctespn is not a trusted news source anymore.

Does he keep tweeting? Yeah.

He has.

Oh, okay. So he's got a power. I think that's the right move. Because if you stop, then you're guilty. If you don't, then you can just always be like, Yeah, it was Antonio Brown all along.

I was going to say we need to run it through one of those AI language analyzers, but I don't think that... That would probably just break the AI machine, trying to analyze Antonio Brown's thoughts. Yeah, I'd agree.

All right, let's get to Brooks Kepka and Taylor Gooch.

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Okay, we now welcome on a long-time recurring guest, a nominee for Blake of the Year. Then we also have a new guest, Taylor Gooch in the studio, Liv Guys. Welcome. I was going to ask the first question. It's going to be about Blake of the Year, but I think that probably is going too hard, too fast. Taylor, my first question for you was your last name.

It's pretty memorable.

Yeah, it's pretty memorable. It's just the elephant in the room.

I don't know why I have a first name.

Yeah, you're just the Gooch Man. Yeah, just the Gooch. It's not a bad golf nickname because it means that you're always close to the hole.

I don't think you can say anything that I haven't heard already on the golf course. Yeah.

At what point were you like, Oh, was it 10, 11 years old? Where you were like, Oh, this sucks.

I feel like maybe in a movie or something, they said Gooch when I was 10. I'm like, Hold on a second. What are they talking about? Then you quickly learn what they're talking about.

Yeah, because that had to be a big life-changing moment where you live your first 10 years being like, Oh, my life's totally normal. Gooch. Then the minute it clicks, you're like, Well, this changes everything.

Correct. But like I said, it's memorable.

Yeah. Also in your defense, you're a professional golfer, so it's like you're beating everyone else because being a professional golfer, the one sport that it feels like all these dudes play late in their life and being better than all of them, that's got to rock.

It does until it doesn't, and then everybody beats you, and you're like, Well, I suck now, which has happened a few times this year. I mean, it's a humbling game, but it is nice going back home with the boys and cracking a few cold ones and beating them with one hand, basically. Yeah, right. That makes it fun.

Do you still golf for fun?

Soberly, no.

Yeah, smartCorrect answer.

It's the only answer. It's practical. Yeah, because it is the one thing that I think most people, I'd say 50 or 60% of at least adult males that have good jobs, they do your job as their vacation. They plan their entire vacations around what your job is.

One of my good buddies is the catcher for the Philies, his name is JT Realmuto. We grew up together, and we have a bunch of buddies back home that are still tight, and we still get together in the off seasons and stuff. For years, The debate was who's got the better gig, the baseball player or the golfer? I always used to say, Dude, when was the last time you paid for a flight? When was the last time you carried your bags? When was the last time you went over and your game check wasn't there? But then his argument was always, Dude, people work their whole lives to be able to retire and do what you do for a living. I'm like, Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

Jt Ruyo Mutoh is in my fantasy league, or I'm in his fantasy league. I got to talk some shit. You got to give me some dirt on him.

I got you. Okay.

We'll talk after. Yeah. Being a professional golfer, that feels like everyone's dream. I wonder, does podcasts are going there at all?

No.

I'm watching football all day. Yeah, the watching football part- Rookes is jealous of us. Yeah. He texted me every now and then being like, I wish I was just sitting in the gambling cave.

Yeah, that's one spot I do wish I was on Saturdays and Sundays.

There are a few people that work for the company where their primary job is just to sit down on live streams and watch games. Yeah. And those people, that's a great kid. That's the best job.

They just got to hire me.

It's simple.

You guys don't have any history?

No, no. Perfectly fine.

All right, so we got to talk about the big elephant in the room. Your Blake of the Year performance this year was abysmal, no-showed. There's a lot of people out there like, Does he want it? Is he invested in this? Now, in your defense, every single time we do Blake of the Year, you are somewhere abroad, which doesn't help, but a lot of questions and wondering if your heart's still in it.

I set out when I woke up that day, I was ready. I was ready to answer the phone. Then there was, I don't know, 15 tequila shots in between then. Then somehow forgot about my phone, don't even know where it was. It was a pretty poor performance.

I might argue on your behalf, though, because one could make the argument that that's the most Blake move of all time to get so drunk during Blake of the Year that you forget about Blake of the Year.

Correct. I agree. That's the way I was thinking. Exactly.

This is our Barrett Robbins moment. Remember when the guy on the Raiders went to Tijuana right before the soup bowl and just got drunk and pissed off? That's what you did in this case.

That's what I did. Next year is my redemption year.

It's like Bortles and Griffin It's been a try-hard move. True. Being ready to answer their phone and hop on the Zoom call immediately. True. They're quick, too.

I think we had to wait three, four days before I even remotely looked at my phone again. Yeah. Before I responded.

The thing you have going against you is that your name is not actually Blake. I don't know if you could say that if you're not a Blake and you're partaking in this type of extreme Blake behavior, is that Blake appropriation?

That's a good point. Might have to legally change it.

You'll have a chance, yeah. Actually, if you did, you wouldn't even have to tell anybody. You just go to the courthouse and do that on your own, and then you just have a certified document that says that your name is officially Blake Kepka.

We'll keep it in here.

Yeah, we'll keep it in here.

You have another kid named Blake. That's true. Yeah. Are you getting excited for the President's Cup?

It's this weekend, right?

Is it?

Yeah. Wait. We might air this I think it's two weeks from now. I want to say the 20th, sometime around that. Is that when it is? Yeah. There's a two on it, somewhere in the 20s.

Who decides you guys can't be in it?

The tour.

The tour runs the President's Cup?

Yes. I think the P. J. Tour actually does run the President's Cup.

Now, I don't want to give you any tips, Gooch, but you need to make a big stink about it being like, This is bullshit because I would have been in it. You'd be like, They're holding me back. You're basically getting- Just put an asterisk. Yeah, you can argue that.

I don't like causing any chaos or anything, so I'll just let them do their thing.

That's a good headline, though. Gooch makes big stink.

Yeah, he did. The asterisk. You had to throw an asterisk everywhere. Wait, do you think they're going to change that? It feels like they're going to change it, but I don't know. I feel like they're- You're on the Ryder Cup.

Yeah. I feel like over two years from now, I think we'll all be laughing about this and I'll be playing somewhere. It might be a live versus PGA tour thing. Who knows what it could be. We'll see.

Yeah. I mean, there is a merger in place, right? Isn't there? Yeah. A framework? Yeah. First, I heard there was an outline, and then I heard that there was a framework, and then I heard-There's a bunch of deadlines that come and go.

We got to hit the deadlines and then miss a couple of deadlines.

Do you know where the another one? Have you heard anything as players in the live tour of where this framework is right now? No. Or any of the points from the framework?

Have you looked around? It could be in the locker room somewhere if there's a framework. It could be. If there's a framework. You never know.

Is there a framework in the room with us right now?

It might be. Might be a few frames.

Maybe the big sticking point is whether or not you guys can wear shorts. That seems like a non-negotiable to me.

Do you guys like the shorts?

It's so much nicer.

But you do look ridiculous.

I mean, I always look ridiculous.

Yeah, but it does. There's something about golf where it's like, why are these guys wearing shorts? You should play golf in shorts, but for some reason, because we're so conditioned to watching guys in pants, when you see the shorts, you're like, This is not what's going on here.

Yeah, Mickey Mouse golfer.

Yeah, but it has to... How many strokes does it affect being in short?

I'd say at least two. Really? Yeah.

Gooch?

I mean, it affects Gooch.

It bunches you up.

Yeah.

When you're in places like Singapore and you are sweating your nuts off, it is a game changer.

Yeah, I imagine. Because I don't think I've ever... Unless it was raining outside or 50 degrees, I don't think I would ever wear shorts. Or excuse me, I ever wear pants on a golf course. It's always shorts.

You don't even want to play when it's 50 degrees in raining.

Yeah.

Wait, so, Brooks, why can't we win a Ryder Cup on the road?

That's a good question. It's tough. I did lose what? Nine and eight? I thought you won the last-I did. I lost my one match with Scottie Scheffler, the best player in the world. We both no-showed. Nine and eight. It was a quick exit. I had to spend a bunch of time on the couch drinking.

But then on that Sunday, I feel like you came back, right?

Yeah, I did already on Sunday.

You and Max basically just tried to protect America.

Yeah, Max led the charge.

Yeah. But is it really that different playing on the road in the ride? Because it feels like it just flips back and forth whoever has home.

I don't think it is. I mean, two teams, somebody's got to win. Obviously, home field advantage, probably a little bit, but I don't know. I don't think it's anything.

Do you guys talk about it before the matches? Do you have a team meeting where you go over strategy like, Hey, we need to be good today at golf?

Yeah, we definitely have a few meetings. It's just sometimes you think you might be playing with one guy, and then all of a sudden it switches up. You never know what's going to happen.

But there's no pump-up speech in the locker room?

No, there's no ra-ra speech. We're not headbutton guys doing stuff like that.

That would be cool. Maybe that's what we're going to change.

We could start that in New York.

You could Saban in there. Coach O from the Ryder Cup. Was there any point when the whole... Was it the hat controversy? Was it a hat?

Yes, the no hat.

Was there any point where you were like, I'm ready to fight. We're going to go fist fight this thing out?

I couldn't believe it. I didn't even know what was going on. I think I was back in the locker room just chilling and then getting in the car and all of a sudden, everybody said that Rory had a lot of pull me back energy.

Yeah, he did. That's what it was. Yeah, he did. Yeah, with the hat.

He was upset.

That's such a golf thing, too. How'd this fight start? One guy had his hat.

I mean, that's sports in general.

It's a lot of pull me back energy.

Come on, man. You're golfers. You have no chance you're fighting.

I mean, there has been some beef, but you did squash the beef. There's no more beef at all with Bryson. I mean, you guys are going to be teammates, right? Yeah. And the match against Rory and who?

I don't know. I don't know. He might be in prison.

Rory and Scotty. Scotty. Rory and Scotty.

Hopefully, he's not arrested on the way to the course.

Rory and Scotty versus you and Bryson. It's safe to say that the beef is way over and gone with between you and Bryson. Yeah, we're done. Was there a moment where you guys shook hands and you said, Okay, beef ended?

Yeah, I think it was. I think, obviously, the live conversation, that was the big turning point. It's like, Hey, we got to work together with this. But also, for five years, All right, finally, we'll just move on. It ran its course. I didn't want to beat them up too bad.

I think we were the last two people who were still beefing on your behalf. Then we had to put down the flag where everyone's like, No, Bryson's actually not that bad guy.

But the Brandy Shambles, that stuff, that's still going.

Beef still going with that. That's still going.

I think he has to be blocked. We're going to keep that one for a long time.

I'm going with Bryson right now, but I just want you to know there is a hair trigger where if I even get nudged in the direction of rebeefing with Bryson, I'll do it.

I just think you should go back to the paper boy hat.

Yes. Yeah, agreed.

I think we need a little bit of that.

Yeah, a little bit of flair.

Yeah, we're trying to get Bryson on to officially squash the beef here because you've squashed it, but we need to squash it because we did a lot of- We need evidence. We were on the front lines for you for a very long time. You were. I will say that. We have some battle scars that we need to probably talk through. Be like, Hey, we said some things, you said some things.

Yeah, we need to get them on. Yeah.

I don't think he ever said anything about us.

I think he thought about us.

Yeah, he definitely thought about us. Yeah, I think it. It wasn't hard to get that had.

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Yeah. So how But is team golf? It's so weird to me. I still don't really understand. I know how team golf works, but did it take a little time to get over like, Hey, this used to be a sport that we just only care about ourselves, and now we're trying to be actual teammates?

I think it's one of those things where if you go out and you go do what you got to do, and then you're just looking at the leaderboard hoping Gooch plays well or G-Mac if he's playing. Then Co-Crack, you just hope they're playing well, and then just add them up at the end of the day.

It's like Belichick says, the same as it, just do your job.

Do you guys, though, ever fall for the trap? When we go out, Hank, PFT, and I, and we are trying to do something as a three-man scramble, it's within maybe two shots, we just blame each other. Do you ever like, Hey, we lost, but I won. I played better than you?

If we start playing scramble golf, maybe, which would be fun.

We start our own tour.

Yeah. I mean, a scramble on the tour would be very fun.

I think so. That's what I'm saying. We got to start our own league.

You want to do it? Let's do it. Okay. What are we going to call it? The Goosh. The Goosh. The Goosh. Yeah, I'm down.

The afternoon Goosh.

There we go. I thought a good format for golf would be if you just took your best nine holes, no matter what holes those were, and just score at the par. You just pick? Yeah, you score at the par. I'll go out there and I'll probably have seven or eight holes where I just take the max, and I'm like, Fuck it. But it's okay if you do that because you're only counting your top nine holes. Halfway through a hole, you can be like, I'm not going to use this hole anyways. I'm going to pick my ball up I go on my way.

Just go sit in the cart and have a beer.

Go sit in the cart, have a beer. The round moves along a lot quicker. We're in, we're out in three hours.

I've always said 18 holes is too many.

Yes. What's the perfect amount of holes?

I think it's 12.

That's a great question.

I've said 12.

Yeah, because 13 through 17. Because 12 also is you could go golf and be done in two and a half hours. For me, personally, I would love to golf more, but I can't be like, Hey, to my wife, Hey, I'm gone for the next five hours. Going for 6 hours? Yeah. Good luck with that. Yeah, right. It doesn't work. But two and a half hours, you could do that and just be like, That's not a huge time commitment.

Perfect time frame right there.

Even more 12. I think there are a couple of 12 hole golf courses.

What do they call those? Executive courses? Yes. It's such a cool name. That is cool. You're like, Yeah, I'm a CEO. I'm skipping work to come golf here. I'm a CEO. My time is important. I can't do 18 holes of golf.

When was the last time? You guys have played so many courses all over the world. When When was the last time you were wowed by a course? This place is insane.

It's been a while. Augusto go every year, and it's in perfect shape. It's phenomenal, but there's not many.

Shadow blew my mind a few years back. When we played on tour there, it took me six holes to find a divot. It was in such perfect shape. I was like, Did you play that?

Where is it?

Dude, in Vegas.

In Vegas, so it was a little blurry.

Yeah. Okay. Got it.

It literally took six holes before I found a divot in the fairway, and I was just like, This is insane. Yeah. Insane. That's crazy.

I don't know the difference between any of these golf courses. So if you took me to Gus, I'd be like, This looks same as all the other ones.

No, the green. You would notice the green. It's a different color there. Yeah.

You can go play the one we're playing this week.

Yeah, we are. We are.

It's perfect. Are you a little bit afraid to see me back out on the course after what I did?

Yeah, the beat down I got last time was pretty good, so we're going to have to figure out something new.

You're also in trouble because on Instagram, I found a driver that doesn't slice. Oh, yes. I think it's illegal, but I have it.

Yes. It goes left?

No, it goes straight every time. It only goes 200 yards, but it goes straight every time. That's perfect.

I have a bunch of buddies that would want that, by the way.

Yeah, I'll hook them up. All right, so Florida State sucks.

Yes, very bad right now.

What's going on there? I don't know. Is it a lack of N-I-L?

It could be. Because you have money. We can get the piff involved.

Yeah. Can we bring the piff?

I know the piff was supposed to- Was it Deon trying to do that or somebody in Colorado? Yeah. I saw. Bring him to Florida State. We'll be fine.

I mean, 0-2 after last year. What are you going to do?

Yeah, I don't know. Find more NIO money. I guess that's the answer. I don't know.

I think it's not the coach.

I think it's a bit of both. Yeah. Dj U, Ravel. I don't know. It's not great right now.

The vibes aren't good. And Gooch, you're a big Oklahoma State Sucks that Oklahoma is out of the Big 12, but your season is going okay. I love Gunde.

Gunde is the man. Yeah. The man. Did you see what he was saying earlier? Maybe it was yesterday. They asked him about they had some transfer in, and They were like, So why did you pick him? He's like, Do you want me to tell you to coach talk or do you want me to be real? And they were like, We want you to be real. He goes, He was affordable.

Yeah, right.

I love Gunde.

Gunde is a perfect example, too, of you got to know what you are in college football and not try... Having Gunde, you know you're going to have a good competitive team every year. Yeah, maybe you won't win a national title, but there's still some fun in it. I'm going through that right now with Wisconsin where it's like, We've made these transitions. I just want to go back to winning nine games, 10 games. That's cool.

Eight or nine games at Oklahoma State is a fun season. Fans go, they have a good time. You could win any game at home. Gunde is always... He's just so fun to watch during the games. I saw him just screaming the refs in that game against Arkansas. And you can't tell me that the refs don't think about that in the back of their head. They're like, I really don't want to piss off Mike Gunde.

A hundred %. They don't want to get hit with the mullet. No. Like, plan simple. No, he's the best, man. So he grew up where I'm from. I have a funny story about him. So I'm from this little town right outside of Oklahoma City. And so my freshman year at Oklahoma State, the golf team was great. They had Peter Ulein and Morgan Hoffman, Kevin Thway, all these all-Americans, and I'm just this little freshman showing up. I kept joking with all of them. I'm like, Man, you all are like small fish in a big pond. Where I'm from, I'm a big fish in a small pond. Everybody knows me back home. I'm just messing with them, right? I kept saying, I'm like, Man, I'm a hometown hero. You all know nothing about that. Gunde brought a recruit on a visit to Carson Creek, the golf course, and we were there that day. I hadn't seen him since I was a kid. He comes, introduces the recruit to all golfers and the coaches and stuff. Then he comes to me, he goes, Oh, fellows, this guy is a hero back home. This is the man. I was like, I've been telling you guys.

Hell, yeah. I've been telling you. Yeah, Gunde's my dude. Yeah.

It's crazy. How old is he now? Because I feel like he's always 40. I think he's not. That's going to be a big one if you're old when he turns 60.

I think that was 2007, maybe, the I'm a man, I'm 40. Yeah, he's getting He's 17 years. Yeah, he's 57 years old.

Yeah, that's going to fuck me.

That's going to fuck me up bad. But then we get to say it starting next year. That's true.

We're about to turn 40.

We're men. We're men. Finally, we're a man. One of my favorite things about Oklahoma State is the mascot. His name's Pete, right? The different cartoon drawings that they do of Pete for every single sport. So cool. It's the best. The golfing Pete one is pretty good.

Swinging Pete.

Swinging Pete. That's the name of it. Swinging Pete. Swinging Pete's awesome. What are the other crazy sports that they have him playing? I think there's a wrestling Pete. Oh, yeah. Where he's grappling with somebody?

My favorite one is the baseball one. It's sweet. He's got a bat and he's just swinging. It just looks sweet.

He is a great mascot.

I haven't seen. They should have one like The equestrian is big at Oklahoma State. I bet there's an equestrian Pete somewhere where he's riding a horse or something. Yeah, there's some good ones.

It's a fun sports university. I always say that the sky in Stillwater, you will never find a darker sky anywhere in the world than still water at night. For a home game, the sky is neon black. It's a different shade of black than you'll see at any other college atmosphere. When the students are wearing, sometimes they do the black out there, too, it's one of the most intimidating places to play, I think, in college football.

There's about seven stoplights in the town, so there's not a bunch of light illuminating the sky. You're right. It gets dark there. It does.

Look at wrestling Pete. That might be my favorite one.

Oh, wrestling, Pete's a fucking monster.

Look how jacked up this guy.

I love that.

Oh, yeah. That guy's awesome. That guy's pretty solid.

I forgot to say congratulations on the Panthers.

Yeah, thank you.

Where were you when they won? Were you there?

No. I was in Nashville. I promised my wife that I would stay in Nashville. She went to school there and lived there for about two years. So I stayed there. I actually went to the Barstool bar. Oh, nice. We had some fun.

How long did it take for you after they won for you to blink?

Probably about three hours.

Yeah. That was an awesome run.

It was phenomenal. It was so cool.

The fact they almost blew it, too, was nerve-wracking.

Yeah, it was close. I was sweating it between the bets and watching it and not wanting to blow. 3-0 lead was a bit nerve-wracking, but we had a few drinks to ease the pain.

Did you feel like it was all the world against you at that point? Because I think everyone wanted to see Edmondson make that comeback.

Yes, I think everybody did. I think there was all of about everybody in South Florida, or at least that goes to the games that are fans. It was fun to see. Yeah.

Gooch, who do you root for in NFL? Cowboys?

Man, I love the NFL. I don't really have a team, though.

That must be nice. It's nice. You just get to watch it stress-free.

No heartbreak. Yeah, and I can just talk shit about everybody's team. Yeah. They suck. Most people from Oklahoma are either Cowboys or Chiefs fans just because it's closest to- That's a big difference in the last 10 years.

Yes. Can't be a Cowboys fan.

Yeah.

You're You're a Packers fan. Yeah. You're a loser. How are you a packer?

You're actually a loser. You're a loser. I love Brett Favre growing up.

Do you love him still?

Could do without the photos, but yeah.

Photos, Give me some funding. Yeah. He's staying out of trouble. Were you saying he could come back and play while Jordan Love is hurt?

Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what happens in the next few weeks.

Do you want Malik?

You don't want him. No, I don't.

I'm not a huge fan, no. The fact that they're not going to be able to play anybody but Malik Willis this weekend. I want to say, for the record, I launched the biggest regular season bet of my life on the Colts minus three for next week. Did you? Yeah, because I just don't think... Have you seen Malik Willis play football? Yes.

Really good guy.

Great guy. Really good guy. Cares about the homeless.

Yeah, we're in trouble, I think.

Are you a Oklahoma City Thunder fan? No. Or Gucci. Yeah, sorry. You have glasses. Got you. It happens. You're a big Thunder fan?

That's my only professional team, Allegiant Thunder.

You got to be excited, right?

Bro, I just got my season tickets.

I'm pumped. I scheduled out all the games I'm actually going to be home for. I'm locked in.

It is a crazy crowd. We talk about all the time. It's like the closest a professional sports team has to a college crowd. Everyone wears a shirt. When they put those free shirts out, everyone wears a shirt.

It's unbelievable. No doubt.

Very, very fun. All right, so wait, how many more weeks is there in the live season? And how does it end?

This week is the last individual championship that we're going to have. Thirteen events, Gooch won it last year.

Oh, congrats.

Yeah, so this is the last one. And then the team championship is next week in Dallas. Oh, okay.

So that one, are you guys in? Is it cumulative?

Yeah, we're in fourth right now as a team. But yeah, we've got all our guys back this week, so hopefully we'll be able to move up. And that's what? First three teams.

If you If you guys win, we'll raise a banner. We'll put up a banner.

We're going to get one. We're going to get one bigger.

A smashed banner in this studio being like, Look, we root for winners here. Yes.

I'm in.

What do you get if you win? Do you get a ring?

You should.

You got one last year. Don't look at me. I didn't win anything.

I'm going to say the team's, though. Oh, the team?

Yeah, the team, right? Yeah. I mean, we deserve six of them. You guys deserve one, too, right?

Yeah, I would say so.

Hank is a fan of your rival, though. He's a big fan of the Four Aces. Hank, who are the Four Aces? Who's on the Four Aces, Hank?

The Dustin Johnson.

He prepared for this.

Oklahoma State, Peter Uline.

Mm-hmm. Wrong.

Fuck. Is it bad? I know. You were one for one.

Varner.

Yeah.

Is Perez still on there?

Yeah.

Was Uline on there last year? Yeah, it was.

Wow. I'm not aware of this. Fuck.

Sounds like you're a Fairweather fan.

Wow. Who is it? Who is it? P. Reid.

Patrick Reid. Oh, man. He's a diehard Four Aces fan. I know.

That's what he's got. He's got a swag down in the gear, I'm sure, and everything. Yeah.

All right. Well, I got one last question. Roback question. Robackquestion. Roback. Com. Promo code, take 20% off your Purchase, Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback. Com. I have to bring it up so that A WLs can hear it. Have we had any further discussions with Jenna about her feet and Jerry?

I have not.

I did Gooch, we're asking, yeah, that Jerry is interested in getting pictures of Jenna's feet. He does a foot competition where a bunch of participants come and females show off their feet, and he would like Jenna to participate. Normal stuff.

You participated?

Yeah, I did participate. That was the funny thing. Yeah, he didn't know I was a girl. It was like there was a big drape in front, and I got my nails painted and everything, and I made it through the first round.

No way.

Yeah, it was an all-time clip. So I did participate.

You went against me.

Oh, yeah, that's right. I went against Max. I forgot. I went against Max.

Yeah, I think we got to get her this year. Yeah. We got to get her in.

Has she Can I talk to you about that? Or you just saying that.

She asked me what I was trying to sign her up for. I think this was a couple of months ago. Then I showed her the Big Cat's Feet clip, and she was like, I think I could beat that.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think Jenna's in. We'll get her Yeah. We just need to- We couldn't get Baby Blake, but we can definitely get to feed in.

We need to get some pif money. A cash prize would be huge. Imagine if we feed the streets for $10 million.

I don't see why we can't. It's a quality competition for that. Yeah. Yeah. Brooke, so I have to ask you about the suit that you wore on the red carpet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the black suit.

Yes. I brought it back. I was trying to get drafted in the '03 draft.

Yeah, that's what it looks like. Old school, man. It looks like Carmelo Anthony on draft night.

I was the most comfortable guy in that whole theater.

Were Were you trying to send a message? Were you trying to set a tone for fashion, be a leader, or were you just like-I'm trendsetter, yeah.

I was trying to set the trend. I was the most comfortable guy, I promise you. Everybody showed up in the tight suit, and they didn't look comfortable sitting down. Meanwhile, I was just chilling with popcorn and a beer and was happy as could be.

It looks like either a Stephen A. Smith suit. I've seen him wear pants like this and a jacket like that. It looks like if Chet Hayes was playing Johnny Cash in a movie. That's the vibes that you give it right here.

Yeah, that was.

Taking some fashion chances. It did It looked comfortable, though. It looked like it was. It was.

It's great breathability.

All right, well, go win a championship for us. Hey, we're trying. We're diehard Spanish guys. The banner, we will raise a big banner in the office being like, Smash Champions. I love it. If you don't win it. We'll wait till next year. Yeah, we'll be a next year, guys. We'll be like, Next year is our year. There's always next year. Yeah, there's always next year. Are they going to break up to Smash?

No.brook.

Maybe you should do a last dance thing. Tell the guys right before. Hey, they're talking about breaking us up.

See, that could be good.

Yeah. Get them all juiced up.

Instead of that Netflix thing, we could do this.

Yeah. Wait, are you... You're not in the Netflix thing again? No.

I passed on that to you.

Yeah, I mean, the last time you were in it, they shouldn't film anyone around March Madness. That was unfair for you.

I thought it was.

I had more important things to do. If you put a camera in my face, March Madness, you're going to get the worst version of me. Yes. Not that you came across well, but it would be bad for me.

The funny thing about that I didn't even participate in season 2. It was just Jenna. Jenna just did a couple of the interviews, and I was like, I'm good. But then they still made the episode.

I don't really know what was going on.

I was like, All right. That is fucked up, though. You were upset for reasons not having to do with golf. Right. Yeah. That's been hit.

Yeah. It was a low blow, but you know what? We move on. Yeah.

All right. Thanks, boys. Best of luck for the Championship. Go win it. Yeah.

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Okay, Firefest of the Week. To wrap up the week, sending you into a football weekend. Henry. Daniel.

Hank.

Give it to us. P.

Aha. Monday?

Yeah, that's the day of the week.

Mondays are fire.

Days of the week. Days of the week. Days of the week. Days of the week. Days of the Week. Days of the Week. Days of the Week. Days of the There's Sunday and there's Monday, there's Tuesday and there's Wednesday, there's Thursday and there's Friday, and then there's Saturday. Days of the week. Days of the week. I've listened to that too many times.

I don't think I've I've never heard that. Yeah.

That's how they teach the kids' days of the week. My house is just Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Donuts. Donuts. When is Donut Day?

Speaking of donuts, I went to the grocery store Monday, eating healthy, trying to get some groceries, Just get my week started off right on the right note. I was in an aisle. I saw milk, whatever, grabbed it, didn't think about it. One of those half gallons. Got home Monday night before I went to bed, had a bowl of raisin bran. I like to eat cereal at night. Not a cereal in the morning, guys. Cereal? Late night snack. Okay.

Making them at night.

What?

You know the Shane Gelate, he's making them at night.

Making them at night.

Then in the morning, woke up early before I went to the gym, made a protein shake, used the same milk, started driving to the gym and had never had to shit my pants as bad in my entire life. Legitimately- You shit in the Audi?

Please tell me you didn't shit in the Audi.

I was driving. Did you shit in the Audi? I did not shit in the Audi. I didn't even make the gym. I came to the office because the gym that I go to has one stall. Sometimes if you have to take a shit, there's a chance that it's occupied. I couldn't even run the risk. I was passing cars, driving borderline to get just to the office. Yeah. Disaster. Disaster. Stomac disaster. For two hours, disaster. I got home and I was like, What could it possibly have been? All I had today was just a protein shake, I bought lactose-free milk.

Oh. Okay, so you're lactose-intolerant. Which basically did the reverse.

Yeah, I got reverse lactose-intolerated.

Yeah.

Damn.

Which I didn't know was a I don't know what lactose-free milk is, why they sell it, and why they sell it near the regular milk.

Let me jump in real quick. It might not have been the milk. It might have been the massive protein shake that you had.

No, because I had that every morning.

Okay. No other ingredients, no creatine?

I have creatine every morning.

Because creatine can make you have the shit bad.

But it was unlike anything I've ever experienced. I've had shit. You drink coffee in the morning, sometimes gives you the shit. You pre-work It gives me the shit. It was a disaster. It was a disaster for a while. It wasn't like your morning clear off the- You never recovered. For three hours. It was pain. It was sitting on the toilet contemplating life thinking you're never going to smile again type situation.

Are you addicted to milk? You got a milk problem?

No, I like regular milk. Lactose-free milk is crazy to me. I didn't know what existed. You didn't read the labels? No, I didn't even subject myself to the I do that all the time. Hand up.

Not lactose-free milk, but I don't read labels ever when I'm shopping. I always come back with one thing that was incorrect.

You know what it is? It's the red carton that they sell it in. It was the blue carton? Yeah.

Oh, man. Fair life.

They do try to get you.

And they got me. And they got me bad. If that's what happens to people that are lactose-dolerant, then I sympathize with them dearly. I have a take. Wait, what did Max say?

I think I used to drink lactose-free milk all the time growing up. I had someone in my family who was lactose, then we would only have that. Oh, good.

I have a take. Yeah.

That's a good comment, Max.

No, I don't think that that's what that was.

I think that you You have that because I have a take off from that.

Max is like, I only shit myself when I was drinking regular milk.

Yeah. No, but I would drink regular milk, too. It was fine.

What I'm about to say is probably going to offend some people, and people are going to tweet me and be really upset. I think lactose people are just pussies.

I used to think that.

I just... Come on. When people are like, I can't eat that ice cream. Shut the fuck up.

Eat the ice cream. I think that there are people that's not true for the most part of lactose-intolerant people, but there are some people- People that become lactose-intolerant when they're 18 plus. Yeah, there are some people that claim stolen valor off lactose and tolerance because it becomes a personality trait.

There are allergies I respect. Peanut allergy, respect that. You could freaking die.

B allergy.

B allergy, respect the fuck out of that. Don't respect people who say, Oh, the trees have buds on it, and I'm sneezzing in the spring. Don't respect that, and don't respect lactose.

Don't respect pollen?

No, I don't respect that.

No, I don't either.

I think pollen is just a sign of weakness. If pollen affects you, sign of weakness.

I don't respect pollen allergy. I do respect the lactose thing. I don't. Unless it's borderline people that are like, Yeah, I drink lactose-free milk because sometimes my stomach gets upset if I have lactose. Oat milk?

Don't respect it.

I respect lactose-free. If you've been lactose-free Have you been lactose for your whole life? If you're 18 plus and then decide to become lactose-intolerant, I don't respect that. I just don't respect it. But now I do.

Answer this.

Because if the reverse of what happened to me is what happens to them, then I would also be lactose-intolerant.

Are some babies lactose Is that lactose-intolerant? I don't think so. Because you got to get that milk, right?

When it comes to things people are allergic to, if it could kill you, I'm fully on board. Respect you. People have shellfish, something weird like that where it's like, yeah, I could die if I eat that. That's no joke. That's no joke. If your tummy hurts, shut the fuck up. My tummy hurts every time I eat ice cream. I'm lactose-intolerant.

I like it when people go to a doctor that specializes in treating a lifetime treatment for being gluten-intolerant, and they give them a test. They're like, Oh, surprise. You tested positive for the thing that I actually solve, and then you have to keep coming back and seeing me for it.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like, Oh, the only medicine is just give me more money. Yeah. I'm happy I got to take off my chest.

You just scrapped Big Pharma, bro. Yeah.

I've had that take for a while. I've never felt safe to say it, but I'm going to say it. I know there's going to be people who are like, You don't know, man. You don't know.

I think of all... Other than peanuts, I respect peanut allergies. Yes, because it kill people. All food allergy.

No, shellfish is- Shellfish is.

Shellfish is- That could kill you.

Anything that's like- I just don't like going out to dinner with people who have food allergies.

It's basically very clear that if it's shellfish, you can legitimately...

Shellfish, yeah.

If you need an epipen, I respect you. If you're like, Oh, I got a little diarrhea, dude, that's my whole life is eating too much ice cream and getting diarrhea.

Shellfish and peanuts, they can take you out. Yeah, they can kill you. At a moment's notice.

Yeah, exactly.

Tree nuts. T. J. Watt.

Yeah, tree nuts. I feel like that's an happy pen. Yeah, it's an happy pen. That's an happy pen, which... My fault, T. J. Sorry, again. Wait. I thought only tree nuts were just nuts that literally dropped from a tree. Didn't realize it was literally all the nuts.

I'm reading up right now that cow's milk can cause life-threatening anaphylaxis. No.

Never heard that word before. Yeah, and that would be they'd have to drink an entire cow.

We can get it to what a lottery ball. Pug is this person.

He's lactose? I feel like Pug-Get him in here right now. Right now? Get him in here right now. Get Pug in here right now.

You know what? I respect Hank more that he's intolerant of things that are lactose-intolerant. Yeah. You just got a man's stomach.

I'm reverse lactose-intolerant. Yeah, you need it. Yeah, I'm lactose-tolerant as fuck.

Yeah.

Jerry claims that doing one of the challenges, drinking a lot of milk, has made him lactose-intolerant.

That sounds like-That's a Kamala voter.

That's a Kamala voter. Pug. Puggy. Our dear Puggy, our lovely Puggy. We love you so much, Puggy. We want to boop you forever. Pug, you're lactose-intolerant?

Yes. Like, actually lactose-intolerant.

What happens when you eat ice cream?

I just get very bloated. Oh, that's not intolerant. I rest my case.

And I rest my case. Thank you, Pug. You're dismissed. Appreciate your time. You have done exactly what I needed in front of the jury. What a moment. What a moment. So perfect. What happens?

I fart a lot. Yeah, get in line.

That's every time I eat ice cream.

Or pretty much anything.

But like, yeah, dude, if you give me a whole bowl of queso, I'm not going to feel great after it.

Well, I've noticed one thing since I've been eating more salads recently, I get bloated on salads. I might be allergic to vegetables.

I just eat too much. Yeah, thank you, Pug. That was great. All-time moment. I'm going to need a on top of that. Pug, my take was that lactose-intolerant is just not real and that people are just pussies.

I think it's everyone's a little bit lactose-intolerant, and no one should actually eat as much dairy that That was my point.

I eat so much ice cream, my stomach hurts almost every time. That doesn't mean I'm lactose-intolerant. It just means that I like to go to the limit. I eat ice cream to the limit. Pft, Good Firefest, Hank.

My Firefest of the Week is that I was watching clips of old football games earlier this week, and there was an old Washington game, an old Redskins game. And watching the game, I felt excited to see that team. And it made me realize that the Commanders is just the worst name for a team you could possibly have. They're not bringing the old name back. It's not going to happen. Josh Harris has been very clear about that. You can't go back to Redskins. But just seeing those colors and the logo, it actually made me feel for the first time like, goddamn, this new logo sucks so bad.

It's the same color.

I don't feel anything. It's different colors, though. We got a different shade of burgundy sometimes. We We got the black jerseys.

It used to pop more.

It used to pop more, and it looked so cool. It looked cool. That's the only thing I care about. It looked cool, and it made me feel something. Now I'm just depressed that we have the shitty name, and they have to change the name. You need a mascot. They have to change it. Hank and I were talking about the mascot.

Be the Red Hogs.

Okay, let's just say, hypothetic. I hope they change the name, but if they keep the name, we need a cool logo that's not just the letter W that's on the side.

Every time you wear that hat, I think it's a Wisconsin It's a bad logo.

I don't like the name. If they don't change the name, Hank was saying that they should actually have a cartoon president on there. We were saying it'd be funny if they took every president's name, put it in a hat, and then picked one out, and then the cartoon of that one president was going to be our logo.

Man, it would rock if you got Garfield.

It would rock if we got- If you got Van Buren, it'd be tough. If we got William Howard Taft, there's a big fat guy on there. Fdr would be funny, too. Teddy Roosevelt Obama.

Teddy Roosevelt would rock.

Teddy Roosevelt would rock because everybody loves Teddy Roosevelt. He saved football. He absolutely plays as a cartoon character. Yeah. Be great. Hank will appreciate this. He actually got shot during his speech, Hank, so you can get behind him. Allegedly. And he finished his speech, yeah.

Allegedly. I agree, though. I think you need to be the Red Hogs.

Yeah, the Hogs would be great. The Red Hogs would be great. But it sucks. It's such a bad name. Nobody likes the name. People that root for the team like for the name. People that happen to catch on the bottom line of ESPN, the word Commanders, they don't even watch the game. They see that word and they're like, eeu, bad name. It makes everybody's football watching experience worse. It's a shitty name. Change it to something else and also give me a fun logo to look at because the W sucks.

I agree with you. All right, my Firefest, I got two. The first one's quick. I feel like I'm headed into an all-time bad football weekend because the The Badgers are 16-point underdogs to Bammer. I'm going to that game, and then the Bears play Sunday night football against the Texans. Let's just say beware of hackers. I think I'm going to be in a world to hurt late Sunday night. So all the people who just love just soaking in my misery. I had a lot of packers fans be like, It just didn't hit the same on Monday. Having to listen to you be happy about one and all.

It's one thing to be- You're going to get it. It's one thing if your team's bad and you watch them and it's buried in an early game slate and nobody really pays that close attention to it. It's another thing if your team sucks and everybody watches.

And I'm doing the bookends. The Badgers play at 11:00 AM on Saturday, and then the bears play the last game of football on Sunday. So I'm basically bookending what could be a disaster for me.

You're going to get a lot of potentially, if you lose, not ready for primetime. Yes.

And then my other one is we went. So we had Brooks and Taylor Gooch on the show in studio because The Liv Tour is here. If you're looking to go watch some Liv golf, bowling, Brook, that's where they're playing. We went out and played with Brooks today. Video should be out by what? 07:00 PM tonight, Max? No. Oh.

You're not going to press the button? All right.

Well, just tell Max to press the button and the video will come out. But anyway, we went. We had fun. Tbd. Video will be out. Tbd. Got back, hour and a half back. A lot of traffic, rush hour. Got back. Jerry, my catty, who I drove with, as we were leaving the course, Ryan Polls was playing in the program as well. So I went to go say hello to him and I said, Jerry, here's the valet ticket. Here are my clubs. I'll meet you at the car in 10 minutes. Just make sure my clubs get in the car. Got all the way back to the office. Hank had gotten a call from the LiveTour that my clubs are in Bollingbrook. And if you know how I like golf, I don't think I'm ever getting them back. I don't care enough to get them back.

I thought when I found out the news, I I was like, Big Cat is just going to quit golf now. The clubs are too far away. Too far away.

Those are lost clubs.

They're gone.

I'm never getting them back.

That's the universe telling me I'm not going to go off anymore.

Unless someone gets them back for me, they're never coming back.

To be fair to Jerry, I was talking to him afterwards, and he said that Hank went up to the car, too, and sat in the car for a second.

That was another part.

Wait, Hank. Let me finish. He said that you went to the car and that you sat in Big Cat's car, and then left, and then you got in your own car and drove home. That makes you equally responsible to Jersey Jerry for not picking up the clubs.

What Jerry didn't mention is the reason why Hank had to go to my car is because Jerry couldn't figure out how to put my car in park.

Yeah, but you're not seeing- There's a button that you just press for park, and Jerry had been sitting in the parking lot with his foot on the break for 10 minutes waiting for Hank to save him. Yeah, you're missing the force for the trees, though. Hank, at one point, was next to the car that was supposed to have the club Isn't it? That Jersey Jerry should have loaded into the truck. Then Hank left that car, so he's equally to blame as Jersey Jerry. Yeah.

So they're gone. Oh, well, that's it for me in golf. That was my golf career. Clubs left 45 minutes away. Death. Maybe we'll play that course in the spring or something. Maybe they'll just hold my clubs.

You just treat it like a country club.

It would be like a giveaway.

Yeah. I mean, they're just there.

Just do a scavenger hunt and leave them around the course.

I told Jerry that it's his responsibility to get him I don't have high hopes for him to get him back. I don't really care. But I'd prefer to have them back. But yeah, in terms of losing things, golf clubs, whatever.

That's almost like a canceling plans rush that you could get. I'm not golfing anymore. My clubs are 45 minutes away. I don't have clubs. You could just put them outside for the live tour event with a sign that said, free to a good home.

We'll figure it out. When I say we'll figure it out, we won't. Someone else will. If they don't, then it's figured Okay, Max, finish this off. You got one?

Yeah, it can be quick. It's basically a continuation of last week's Firefest when I said that I was snoring. Oh, no. I just got told maybe In a serious note, probably 5,000 times. My DMs forever will just be remedies on how to stop snoring. At the end of the day, they're all just doctors telling me that I'm fat.

Yeah.

I actually had a doctor, Dr. Dan, hit me up and say, You're fat? He's fat.

Yeah. That was basically the whole thing. Then I'm saying publicly now that I am going on a diet at the start of football season to get ahead of football season.

Listen, me and Did you see I've been dieting. Yeah. Yeah.

So let's go.

No, I know. I've been lifting.

But today, when we get meals together, we have to get healthy meals.

I think what we need to do- That's never going to happen. But we need to But we're all in the same boat. Here's what we got to do. Are you trying to eat factor fiction?

You were on the phone today and you were saying, I want to eat something healthy.

Yeah, we're not on the same. In the same boat.

In the same boat of wanting to eat healthy. Also, Hank, fact or fiction, you're shitting your It rains out constantly. Maybe you could mix in a salad. In the same...

Here's the solution. Here's the solution.

Obviously, me and PFT are not in the same boat. Well, he's got high cholesterol.

I have high cholesterol, Max. Don't say I'm not fat.

Here's the solution.

That's not what I'm I'm saying.

Here's a solution. It's very easy.

Why am I getting worked up?

This isn't a- Sundays are a no-fly zone. We can't do it on Sundays. Thursdays, we eat healthy. That's fair. I'm willing to- Because it's really like, Sundays are my cheat day. I'm just like, I don't give a fuck. We're going to sit and watch football. I'm going to eat whatever I want to eat. Thursdays are the unnecessary. Let's try to be as a group, try to eat a little healthier. Maybe we have Donnie start cooking us meals on Thursday. I doubt that. I'll pay for it. I don't care.

I think we just order from a place that has salads as an option.

Yeah, but sometimes we'll get a place that will have two salad options. They're both shit salad. Yeah, no, we need to- There's nothing worse than getting food from a good place, and you're just eating shit salad.

All you got to do, and I say this as someone who fluctuates weight more than Oprah, the only time it's ever worked for me, which I've been doing recently, is just during the week, it's no carbs.

No, that's bullshit.

Okay, well, that's the way you got to do it.

No, but I. No. Calories are the enemy.

I don't think carbs are the enemy. It's easy.

Calories in, calories out.

Because I need my Oats. You got to have the Oats.

If you eat, if you don't eat carbs, the weight will come off.

But that's Because you just have to put your- I eat chicken and steak every night during the week. Yeah.

No carbs.

But that is not how I will be doing it.

Okay.

I'll eat sweet potatoes.

All right, then you just stay fat and snoring.

Yeah, no, you eat sweet potatoes. Fuck off.

You're not the fucking king of weight loss over here. I'm not, but I'm telling you- You're the only guy who's ever lost weight on the fucking planet.

No, I'm telling you the only time I've ever been able to lose weight is because I just go no carbs.

But people can lose weight in different ways.

But I've tried every way in the only way.

But you are different.

It's not like you are the only way. But also, Big Cat says that he fluctuates more than Oprah. When he's not eating carbs, he loses weight. And the second he has a carbohydrate, he's back up.

I Mike Pugg in ice cream.

I think Max is right. There's a lot of different diets that can work, and they can work in short term. But, Max, we just got to be healthy overall. Correct. Let's just be healthy overall.

I don't know why. I wasn't expecting to get this fired up during this.

I'm just trying to help you. No carbs. It's worked for me. For you.

But it wouldn't work for you. That wouldn't work for me because it wouldn't be sustainable.

What about a treadmill?

Max walks. Yes, it would because what you got to do is you got to eat a lot of no carbs. No, because I wouldn't do it. I I eat hard boiled eggs every morning.

I wouldn't do it. Then on the weekends, you can eat whatever you want.

Tim Ferrers decides. Let's start doing suicides before the podcast.

Tim Ferrers diet.

You can do whatever you want. I'm going to do the way that I'm going to do it.

Anyway, I'm down for Thursday night's health.

Yes.

Thursday night's health.

Cheat Day Sunday.

Cheat Day Sunday. Sunday, we can't fake it.

The problem with me doing a Cheat Day Sunday is that I also want to treat myself to another cheat day during the week. So sometimes I'm like, Oh, it's Saturday. It's my cheat day. I forget that I've got my regularly scheduled cheat day coming on Sunday.

I'm not going to go full Cheat Day Sunday because I drink on the weekends and you guys don't.

Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Yeah, you do drink a lot. That's vodka.

You drink a lot.

No, that's also a myth. Tequila. No, also a myth. They're the same amount of calories as Coorsolight.

Max, do you think that maybe if you drink less, that would help the snoring? Yeah, no, that's definitely it. Max, it's a mystery why he keeps snoring. All right, we got to drink. I drink 60 beers a week. There's so many weddings.

I have another wedding this week.

Yeah, that's true. You are getting weddings. Also, at weddings, there's not a healthy option. There's appetizers. I love Appetizers. Yeah, the walking, but you eat those standing up. Yeah, it's true.

All right, let's- I'll see you dance at weddings, so you exercise.

Yeah, that's true.

I'm a big dancer at a wedding.

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