Anything Better? - NFL Preview & Picks | Week 18

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

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What's up everybody welcome back to the anything better podcast show NFL edition I can't believe I'm saying this for week 18. Oh My god, it's over the regular season is over It flew by but we got one more week to go before we get into the show We have to shout out to sponsor its bet MGM everybody. You guys know bet MGM you still got time because playoffs are coming It's bet MGM everybody. You guys know bet MGM. You still got time because playoffs are coming. Bet MGM is offering 1500 in free bets

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and it killed our draft pick was, I took the Giants getting seven and a half, and I said, I think they're gonna lose, but cover, and they fucking outright won and lost the first round pick. They lost. Yeah, but I gotta tell you, dude, the first round pick though, historically. It's true. You know what I mean? It seems like it's two, three guys a decade that come through.

And then also, you know, that's being the number one obvious choice at quarterback is a blessing and a curse. You get a bunch of money and then you go to a team with no offensive line and, you know, worst case scenario is RG3. Best case scenario is Elway or Eli being like, I'm not playing for these guys. So I don't know, dude, like there's been a bunch of guys. I think that'd be an interesting stat.

Are there more people in the first round in the teens that ended up being Hall of Famers or those first guys? Cuz there's a lot of busted quarterback, which I don't know, obviously I'm not always putting on the quarterback as a team you go to. There's a lot of busts. What about like the third round pick? They pick a left tackle. You know, we got to get somebody in here to protect our guy like those guys or a defensive

end. I've seen a lot of those guys not pan out. So I don't think, you know, this whole idea that if you get the number one pick in the draft, you know, you've got a Super you get the number one pick in the draft, you know, you got a Super Bowl coming in the next four or five years is a little overrated. It's just exciting for the fans because you get to pick whoever you want. Yeah, and historically, you're right, because the last like sure shot was Andrew Luck. And like, think about how long ago that was.

They were like, this guy is like ready. And they were right. He was great. But then like, that doesn't happen a lot. So you're right. Then he was too smart to keep playing football. He was like, I'm done. Yeah, I got my money. I'm out. I can go do computer programming. I think he was just a smart guy. And he went to some of these old NFL events. And he just saw what he was going to be walking like and talking like I mean it's fucking brutal. Yeah, he's like an engineer or a scientist like he's like ridiculously so this is brutal by the way last week I brought up the name Virgil Livers I had never even heard of that said he had the the Joe Theismann of testicle injuries and it's not even close like Joe

Theismann anybody in the world would take what happened to Joe Theismann versus Virgil Livers. He wasn't wearing a cup and some guy landed on one of his balls with his knee and it exploded. Like what kind of pain is that? Dude, I did this show. I shot that show. I just think you just go, and then no noise comes out.

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And his teammate looked at him and realized, his teammate goes, dude, what's wrong? His scrotum was shredded and the ball was hanging out of the scrotum hanging down. And there was like fatty tissue and blood. And he just goes like, oh, and then just got it sewn, put it back in and sewn back in and just like kept on. Like it was the toughest shit I ever heard.

I was like, dude, ah, God. I would say that's the dumbest shit I ever heard. You can have that fucking thing sewn up. I mean, you could literally affect whether you can have kids or not. And then you're going to go run around the grass, dirt and mud. Now, that's that's like I would say. I mean, if your family's life is on the line, you can do some Rambo shit like that. But if you're just playing a fucking game and you do that,

that is the reason why men do not outlive women. It's all of that dumb shit of like like how much pain can I take? How dumb can I? Because obviously I shouldn't play right now and I should go to the hospital, but if I want some man points I'll do the exact opposite. By the way what's a cup doing? Isn't how did that guy get his balls exploded? Like what happened with his cup? He wasn't wearing a cup. Oof. I don't know, 250, 270 guy, you know, fucking, oh my God. Oh my God. Well, let's get into football picks.

Okay, we've got two fucking ball backstories. Oh my God, dude. Oh my God, when you said exploded, it just ruined my fucking afternoon. I mean. exploded. It just ruined my fucking afternoon. I mean, dude, I'm literally like, oh, Paul, you hate to hear it. You hate to see about it. You just hate the whole thing. Oh, all right. Um, I guess this is week 18. I got see, this is a tricky week because not everybody's playing for something. So you got a lot of spoilers, but then then you got some good ones. Paul, you're not playing for something either. Paul's had his bench in,

picking games for the last three weeks, and then he goes 4-0 again. Yep. Dude, I swear to God, if I actually was watching football and had time to look at this, I would help the podcast out. But I got to be honest with you, you, Andrew, and Jake the Snake, well above 500. Just spanking Bet MGM. Got them over your knee, Paul. Well, here's the deal. If I go, if I can manage to go three and one or better, it'll be the best I've ever done. So I'm in it still. Dude, the fact that it isn't already. Yeah. Very quietly, the Trust Fund kid, Andrew Thamelis, he picks over 40 games right every year. You know what I mean? He's just doing it out in Seattle. So, you know, ESPN doesn't pay

attention. You know, he was picking these games in New York. They'd have a fucking billboard of them, Times Square. Listen, he's listening. He's the Beverly Hills kid. It's the Quiet Assassin. We don't know if his dad has connections with Vegas, though. He does come from money. That's true. I saw some of those characters at his wedding.

He's got some connections. They all got good footage of him. We got to bring in Jake the Snake here. Jake the Snake on the last regular season, regular season, week 18, we got to ask you A, who's playing for the most stuff? We got to ask you B, who's hurt? What do we got, Jake? Well, the team that's playing for the most is on Saturday. Cincinnati Bengals, if they lose,

their season is over. If they win, they still needed some luck. But so that's kind of the big game that's like the dominoes will start falling because if the Bengals win, then Denver has to win if they want to make the playoffs. And also Miami Dolphins, right? Yeah, and they would need the Dolphins to lose as well. So the Dolphins would get in if Denver lost and they won. So that's the other team that could make the playoffs. And then the Sunday night game is for the one seed in the NFC. The winner between Detroit or Minnesota will be the one seed.

Who is gonna be the winner? Yeah, so that's kind of the big game. And then in terms of resting, the most controversial one is probably their Eagles because they're resting Saquon Barkley who has a chance to break Eric Dickerson's all time rushing record. He probably won't get that chance again.

And Eric Dickerson himself came out this week and he act good for him. He goes, I don't want him to break it. He actually said he doesn't want his record to be broken. He was honest about it. Good for Eric Dickerson. Is anybody going to mention that you get two extra games? Yeah, well, that is true too. So but Eric got two extra games from OJ. OJ did it. And I don't mean the murders. OJ did two homicides. He killed one person for every thousand yards he rushed for. What was I'm terrible at math but. I like 170 180 I like that. 70 180 per game which is nuts.

Dude they got 2000 yards for 18 games. 111 for 14 for 14 games. Oh for 14 games. Somebody somebody's got a calculator. 142 142 yards a game. Round up to 143. Insane. They got to stop adding games dude. the game. One hundred forty two yards a game. One forty

three. They got a nine games dude if they go to twenty games a year they got to stop the shit. They're gonna go to a team pretty soon. Which is a lot. Seasons long we're gonna go to president's day weekend you know. Yeah it's like. Yeah concussions was a big deal. I would say that what will probably happen was regular season.

Regular season records will obviously start falling left and right if they get 18 games to do what people used to do and 14, 16 games, 12 games, depending on how old the record is. And then I would would I would think unless they keep making adjustments to how they play the game careers will be shorter but it's weird because you'll be playing more games so like and you know in like nine years you'll have played an extra season or eight eight years an extra season than what somebody else did so that's gonna take its toll plus the playoffs.

But they got to front load it, right? I mean, you can't go any deeper into. I mean, I guess you can. I don't know. I mean, it's you don't want to be playing and it's just too hot. That's all it is. It's greed. I bet they go to two by weeks to live and then every 19 weeks, they'll just keep stretching it out and stretching it out and buy weeks what's the great thing about the buy weeks is it

adds an extra week to the season already we're already up to like what is it seven 18 weeks a regular season with I think with the buy right yeah you only have one buy I'm not complaining as far as being a football fan, but uh, these players like you can, you know, the owners don't give a shit. They're gonna start wearing those hot air balloon helmets playing for like 25 fucking weeks. I can't believe they still play on artificial turf. It's basically concrete. I thought they got rid of, they got the fake tires that are giving people cancer. Cancer yeah all the goalies in Europe especially goalies that handle the ball. Yeah yeah they're all getting like cancer but then what Europe does is they actually you know

when they're not causing world wars they uh they look out for their people so they got rid of all of that stuff so I guess whatever they treat the tires with has some sort of lead or something in and Oh, he's in treatment. Oh, I thought he was on Ozempic. I knew he was getting a little gone but he kind of looked the same. Anyway, all right, let's do some picks here. Paulie. All right. Here's what the screen up. Put the screen up and let's start fucking picking away. Billy Housewife trying to get 30 wins this year. All right. I, dude, I don't think is Aaron Rogers gonna is Aaron Rogers gonna

spoil the Dolphins season? I don't think so, because the Jets are that bad. I'm going to take the Dolphins playing for their playoff lives minus one. Met like what week of the season do you start saying that you just love you love gun to your head and playing for your playoff life. I do. You know what you love the drama of that. I do. And another summer summertime blockbuster that that just you are a muscle. And they call them. What's that? Another one I say is he's running for his life.

Oh running for his life. I usually use that one when I'm defending a quarterback that has no offensive line. All right, I would say right out of the gate, I mean, 20 and 1.5 points. I mean, what is this? College football is fucking ridiculous. You're starting to get it. Sorry.

My daughter just heard me swear. 20 and 1.5. I'll take the Browns, man. Going downtown with the Browns. You're starting with... Dude I'm almost up by three touchdowns. I mean how do I walk away from that? We've been doing this show for a few years. I've never seen that line. Have you ever seen that? I've never seen that line either. 20 and a half. Hey shout out to these speaking of Ohio, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Everyone laughing when they lost to Michigan. All of a sudden, they're two games away, knocked off number one to Oregon like they were nothing.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you what too, that defensive line of the Notre Dame fighting Irish, man, that D-line looked real good against Georgia. I can't believe they won. I was sitting there going like, maybe Georgia, Ohio State in the finals.

Show us what I know, Paul. I know Jack Squat. I've been riding my wife train. Hold on. Where is this? Where is this game? What's this line? Where are they?

There they are. I've been riding this train. Where are they? There they are. I've been riding this train for four weeks or three weeks, whatever, and I'm gonna, I'm staying on everybody. I'm going to take the Cincinnati Bengals playing for their playoff. Playoff life. Playoff life. Minus two in Pittsburgh.

You know, I don't think the weather's gonna affect either team because both play in cold weather. I'm gonna take Joey Burrow to do his part in getting his team there. Minus two, Cincinnati, I'm taking them. You know, Paul, since you like the Playoff Live so much, the nickname of the team you would have loved the best growing up, if you were old enough, would have been the Cleveland Browns with Brian Sype.

They were called the Cardiac Kids. Oh, that's a great one. Because they would look like they would be losing, and then the last second they would win the game, like in overtime, make your heart stop. The Cardiac Kids. Back when having a heart issue was still kind of funny. You could actually say, now you have to say unalive.

Oh yeah. That is a dumb, that is like, I would love to get to the head of liberals and be like, all of these years of changing the words, but not dealing with the problem, it's so dumb. People are still killing themselves. They're still committing suicide, but oh, we're all staying unalived. Yeah. He unalived himself. He unalived himself.

Yeah. What are we fucking children, Paul? Is that what liberals want us to treat us like children, right? And then conservatives that want to fucking bring back the feudal system. Isn't there a middle ground, Paul? You know what the middle ground I think is Paul is taking the Rams, getting six and a half at home against the Seahawks. Rams are arresting everybody, by the way, because they have nothing to play for. Wait a minute, does the Seahawks have something to play for?

No. What do you mean? The people are playing for next year's contract. They're playing to stay on. Yeah. They're in Hollywood, Tinseltown, where they put on a show. I'm going with the Rams because the game's going to be on TV. I can actually watch that game with my old man cable.

Paul, I'm not clicking on a bunch of fucking apps and getting passwords and all of this shit. I'm not doing this anymore to try to fucking... Dude, you know what my son said this morning? What? He got upset at me and told me he was gonna call Kojak. That's awesome. Yeah, he loves that show, man. Oh, dude, that's so awesome. We have, uh, we have dad and son black leather jackets. Showed up at a Christmas party, dude. That's awesome, dude. Yeah. dude. That's awesome, dude. Yeah. Oh, god. That's awesome. Yeah. All right. What do you got here?

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it because they're gonna ruin it again. They're gonna ruin the fourth pick. They already ruined the one. They're gonna ruin the fourth pick. The Eagles are sitting, everybody. I'm gonna take my New York football Giants to bury us in the draft even more plus three. I like that. Eagles are playing for nothing and the Giants are playing for pride. Take the Giants. I'm gonna take the

Washington commanders. Okay. That's a good one. Lay in six going into Jerry world and I'm hoping at some point those Dallas Cowboy fans stop complaining about GMs and coaches and players. And they get to the real problem. On the 50 yard line Paul. Looking like he's going through a wind tunnel. You know what another one I like Bill? Another one I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like

that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one.

I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that one. I like that. Let them hang around. Paul. I use that to put them away. But they hang around. Not dead yet. Showing signs of life. The Giants were the only underdog that won last week. All under favorites were 14 and one. That's why I went one and three last

week. All right, Jake, the snake. What is going on with your chargers? Are your chargers in it still? Yeah, they've clinched the playoff spot. The only thing they have to play for is if the Steelers lose to the Bengals, then they could, then if they beat the Raiders,

they would move up a spot. So they'd play at Houston instead of at Baltimore, which would be much more ideal because Baltimore is gonna blow us out. Right. Houston will give it, Houston we can beat, Baltimore we cannot. Baltimore, which would be much more ideal because Baltimore is going to blow us out. Houston will give it. Houston, we can beat Baltimore. We cannot. So it would just depend on Saturday. If the series wins. Jesus, Jake, why don't you just make the fucking pick for him? How much information you're

going to give him? That was incredible. You did everything but break down the scores per quarter. I'd love it if the Raiders won, just so they could fall out of the top 10. Every time I see Jake's window, I just picture a girl getting up, imagine she's like, Jake, you're never that thoughtful with me.

He just throws a shoe at his head. Jake, why can't I quit you? Jake, why can't I quit you? I come over here, you just treat me like a hooah. You care about your football show more than me. It's been three months. I've never been outside with you. Jake's just wiping off his glasses. Eh, so it is, sweetheart.

It's week 18. That's why. It's week 18. You can wait one more month. I'm going to go to the football team. I'm going to go to the football team. I'm going to go to the football team. I'm going to go to the football team. I'm going to go to the football team.

I'm going to go to the football team. I'm going to go to the football team. We got wild card weekend next week, sweetheart. Football season's over. She's like, can we go out now? Where do you think that money comes from? All right, all right, don't cry. Okay, here we go. Here's a little bit of cash.

Go out, go get yourself something, calm down. I'll take you out for a coffee later on today. Jesus, every woman in my life. I'm gonna go to the bathroom today. Jesus, every woman in my life. All right. Who's picking next? Look, we established the free some early in the relationship.

You can't take that away now. The charges are road dogs, honey. They're road dogs. If they don't cover that trip to Cabo, you can forget about it. That's the kind of pressure I need you to understand that I under every week. I don't get to live in your fantasy land of having another adult take care of you.

Oh my God. Look at me, I'm still in my robe. I gotta be on the air. Oh God. This might be a short movie we got to make. All right, let's go. What do you got? Okay, for my fourth and final pick, I think I got to just end it with the team I think

that's going to win the Super Bowl. And I think I'm going to take the Lions at home with something to prove against the Vikings. I think Jared Goff is the best. And I'm going to take them to against the Vikings. I think Jared, Goff is the best. And I'm gonna take them to beat the Vikings. I got the Lions at home, laying three. All right, Paul, I'm gonna tell you why I'm gonna take the Vikings. Ooh, you know why?

Because you've gone big on all of these. Playing for their playoff lives. Playing for their playoff lives. Yeah. Playing for their playoff lives two times. And then you said something else that they're running for their lives. All right. But then when you pick the lines, you go,

you know, I think they got something to prove. You know? And it sounded like you were talking about a first time female director. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed. So what was it like to be behind the camera?

Legs up off the floor and on the couch. It's so empowering. It's so empowering. It's such a great message. It's a story that needs to be told. And we were like one on set. We were just like one. It just, everything was-

Oh my God, you're gonna make me cry. You're gonna make me cry. I'm gonna take the Vikings. Oh, head to head. To remind the Lions who both these teams are. They neither have a Super Bowl. Both of these teams, I swear to God, if there's a way, if they played each other in the Super Bowl, it would somehow, the the game. Yeah. That would Jake the Vikings beat them already right this year. I

think the Lions won the first game- okay. Paul okay. Oh yeah Paul yeah okay so wait a minute like that answer Paul so wait a minute whoever wins this game gets the first seed the first week by and home field Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, huge game. Huge game. Yeah.

That's why you go. And it's our Monday night or it's the Sunday night. There's no Monday night game. So that's the last game of the regular season. Hey, Paul, did did bet MGM call you like, you know, like when you lose an election and you call

and you congratulate the other candidate, have they called you yet? They have four years in a row. They made the phone call? Bet MGM, like when are you just gonna man up and realize, you know, your guys in Vegas, they're just not gonna beat Paul Burzy. I just don't understand why they don't just call me in to Vegas and have a meeting with me.

You know what I did? You know why, Paul? Because you're Italian. Yeah. You have prejudice against Italians, believe this? You believe this day and age? This day and age? Prejudice against Italians. Three years in a day and age. Prejudice against Italians.

Three years in a row. You believe it? What if they called you up and said, Paul, we would bring you in, but we spent 40 years trying to get you people out of these casinos. If you were a little more WASPy, we'd get you in there. I'd be like, I get it. I get it. I get it. Some of my guys messed up. What do you want? Dude, I was talking about that kid last night, Luigi on stage. I go, this guy's a hero. We should be down there

trying to bust him out of the jail. I go, this country never in the history of it has ever gotten a Luigi out of jail. All the way back to Saco and Vanzetti, Paul. They've let you guys twist in the wind. I lived in a neighborhood with two or three Luigi's, okay, growing up. They were Cavaricci, Z Cavaricci with the black feelers and the feelers had the strap. I thought you were saying that was their last name, Luigi Cavaricci. I was like, oh my God, that's gotta be in a movie. No, you remember the Z cabericchi, right? No, I remember them.

I wore them. I didn't even have Z cabs. I had side big puffy pants that were tan like Carol. If he was backing up MC Hammer. And then they had this lime like labels like right above your dick to let everybody and then they tapered in like like a little thing around your ankle Oh, dude, and they were their hair was perfect and they literally did this shit with the comb They had cologne they had chains over the turtleneck and when they would pull up in the cat in the um in the Camaro

You were just here. You're my dream boy And don't you know that song. You know that song, right? Is it a pop song? Come on, sing it. Sing it. I want to hear it. You're my dream boy. How does it go? You don't...

Oh, shit. Hold on. I got to get it. I'm going to get knocked off YouTube. Don't play it. Oh, okay. We're getting dinged. All right. Oh, okay. Oh, really? Dinged. Uh alright. Oh, it'll be uh was that by

Banana Rama? Wasn't that like? I don't know. You remember you remember Stevie B. You remember Stevie B. Spring love you remember, right? Hey, Paul, if you're in a group called Banana Rama, like how much are you saving your money when

you're on tour? You're like, I don't I don't see this going longer than three summers. Yeah, but dude, they had cruel summer for Karate Kid. Big one. I know they did, but their name was Banana Rama. Yeah, it's true.

That's a tough one. That's a tough one. Yeah. That's like, we're getting knocked down. We get up again. What was the name of them? Chumbawumba.

Chumbawumba. Fucking Banana Rama. I mean, you're just just all gonna end up on the same cruise ship. Dude did you hear Dave Grohl talk about Foo Fighters? He goes, dude, he goes, we didn't even know. He goes, we thought it was the dumbest name and we thought like, oh if it gets serious we'll change it. Like they actually did Foo Fighters as a goof, like he thought it was so stupid. Oh yeah, stupid all the way to the O2 arena. Oh hey, all right so here we go. We got the last game of the year. We hit, I think we tied the record for Monday Night Specials this year. So we got Viking. After, post in the open era when they made it more difficult.

In the modern era. Yeah, now with wooden rackets how we did it the first. All right. What are we going to do? Because Bill likes the vikes. Hey, I'm doing a podcast here. Let's try to keep it down. All their friends are over. Oh, the kids.

The kids are we got to wrap it up. That's the best? The kids are over. We gotta wrap it up. That's the best when the kids are over though, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Yeah. It is. They... Because I'm the cool one. Because I'm the cool one and they fucking know it.

And I, you know, let's my wife know. Sometimes it's good to remind them. It's good to fucking remind them who the fucking easy one is, you know, you know, because I'm fucking because that Scandinavians are old. They're fucking they've got that Viking in them. They're fucking cold. I'm warm. I'm fucking warm. I hug her fucking family, dude. You go in and it's like it takes forever to even greet. My family, it's a hug. It's, hey, how are you? Oh my God, get in here. Fuck, God bless you.

Over there, it's like, what? Slips a sandwich in the pocket as you hug him. There you go. This is a pressure. It doesn't take much to be warm, does it? How do the Vikings hug, Paul? They don't. They don't hug.

Hey, how you doing? Hey, Merry Christmas. It's like, just tell me what's going on. It's good.. Hey, how you doing? Hey, Merry Christmas. It's like, you just tell me. That's good. Things are good. Work with kids. Scandinavians have this thing where like when you first get into the house, it's not like the way like if I see you get in here, they have like, I was everything goes going on. It

just looks good. And then like a, hey, how's everything? Does it go? No, it just looks good. And then like then two drinks in, they're happy. You know? What is it? You know? What's the sadness, Paul? I mean, they don't get as much sun. What is it? What is it? My cross to bear?

What is it? What are you, how do you say that? What is it? My cross to bear? That's you got it right. Hey, week 18. Look at you. My cross to bear. What are you gonna do? That's my cross to bear. Well, yeah, Paul, you knew what you got it right. Play week 18. I crossed the bear.

I crossed the bear. Well, yeah, Paul, you know what you were walking into opposites attract Sophia. My daughter Sophia goes my friends love you. They say Oh, Sophia's dad so nice. And I just look over at today's. No, my wife. Listen, my wife is

great. She's a sweetheart. Just a little colder. Now my wife, listen, my wife is great. She's a sweetheart. Just a little colder. You're excited to have the friends over to now I just use as a bragging tool for my life. They know.

Well, in your marriage, you got any any but any good review that you get, you know, it's so funny. Your wife pretends like they don't hear it. Do you look at him? You look at him like see? Dude, I saw a get, you know. It's so funny. Your wife pretends like they don't hear it. Dude. You look at him, you look at him like, see? Dude, I saw a wife. You know what I am, Paul? You know what? Oh, now you got me going. You know what I am, Paul? I am, who I am as the person is the sum of all my faults. Oh. That's how they do it. That's how the math works. I can't get anything in the positive side

of the ledger. Never, never, never. Hey Paul, never did, never did. It's set in stone. The other day I heard a wife go like this. Somebody went and gave her husband credit. She goes, don't give him the credit, don't do that. Don't give him the credit. No, it's psychological fucking warfare.

You see what that is? Don't give him the credit. Dude, I was smoking a cigar with a buddy of mine. Yeah. He did one that fucking was the west coast version of Never Did. I was going like, I was going off and then she says this, then she says that so I blah blah blah and then I do that and then I'm fucking, I'm getting all fucking amped up and he's just sitting just goes, that's how it is. My favorite thing ever. He didn't even debate it. He didn't debate it. There's no solutions. It just that that's how it is. Dude, I had

how it is. It actually made me feel better. It's like I'm yelling about something that just is. It actually made me feel better. It's like I'm yelling about something that just is. Um, I had a, I had a friend back in the day, we lost a little touch or whatever, but his dad was so incredible. Like his dad was just, you want to talk about filter off? And his dad would say things that were so abrasive and you would even be like, and like one time we're in the kitchen and was like yeah, she doesn't care and he just goes oh Like it was so no, of course not no no They don't they don't they don't they don't man. They don't I was joking with my wife Going this is how you compliment me or say something nice. You go, I do love you.

I do respect you. Like it doesn't, I do care. And it all has to be like, you don't give a fuck. Yes, I do. It's like, well, why don't you just fucking say it every once in a while? No. Whatever, Paul,. It's like, well, why don't you just fucking say it every once in a while? No. Whatever. Paul, let's get to

what we're good at the Monday night special. Because anything positive for them, this is because anything, anything positive for us, they take as like it's a it's a slight on them. Like they don't it's on it's sick.

No, they're worried that you're gonna feel good about yourself, which will make you attractive to another female and then they will lose you. They don't even know they're doing it. So they psychologically got to keep you down the whole time you're in

it. It's fucking unbelievable. Then meanwhile, Oh Christ, I spilt another glass of water. This day's gonna suck. Um, I know and then you got to sit there and fucking constantly another glass of water. This day's gonna suck. No, and then you gotta sit there and fucking constantly tell them that they look good in whatever dumb shit they just bought. I mean, it's not...

How awkward a question is that? What do you think of this? Do you think this looks... Oh, dude, the other day, I'm not gonna lie, the other day, Stacey had gonna lie. The other day, Stacy had one boot on her left foot and a different one on her right. And I go both of those are bad. And she goes to your right. She goes to your right and she put on nice ones. She

does it to me. You you address like a guy who gets traded for a player to be named later. Oh, that's a lot of water. All right. All right. Let's do the Monday night special so I can clean up this mess over here. So Bill likes the Vikes.

I like the Lions. It's minus three. Let's do this. Let's do. Do what you want to do. Don't listen to me. I'm the housewife on the Lions. It's minus three. Let's do this. Let's do. Do what you want to do. Don't listen to me. I'm the housewife on the show. No, let's do Donald. Let's do Donald to throw one for the Vikes. Let's do golf to throw on for the Lions. It's going to be a shoot 48. 47. 46. I think it was 56. Whoa. Is it really? That's insane. What? Dude, is this not the modern NFL?

Bill, you just called it. You just said shoot out. But I think... And then both of these teams are Super Bowl favorites and they can't fucking keep the number collectively the two of them under 56. Having said that, one of the great Super Bowls of all time, the Cowboys the second time versus the Steelers, that was like a 35-33 affair or whatever. I mean they went over 60 points so more like usual Paul. I don't really know what I'm talking about. Alright so I like both stock quarterbacks. I like the under. To throw a touchdown and Paul likes the under.

Which I never like. You like the under usually. I don't know about the under. You like the over. All right, let's go over. You want to root for points? I don't want to, I fuck 56. I don't want to, I don't want to even look at that number.

I hate that number. What is that? That's each team scoring scoring 56 is each team scoring 28 points? Yeah. Dude, that's eight touchdowns total, dude. They ain't doing that. All right. Hey, Paul, you got the magic touch. You got the touch. You got the power. I say we take the under, Goff to throw one, Darnold to throw one. the book. You got the power. I say we take the under to throw one to throw one. He beat the

book. He's having fun. He's a winner. Um and then we got wildcard weekend next week. You guys cool with that? Yeah, yeah, 100% alright. So our final special will be golf to throw one Sam Donald to throw one and under 56 points for the game last game of the regular season to be top in the NFC is going to be a great one. Thank you guys so much for watching week 18 will be back

next week with wild card weekend. Download the app, use our code. BURR that's burr, you put $10 in you get if the bet loses, you get $1,500 in bonus bets. First touchdown is a player prop bet. If the player gets the first touchdown, you'll win any game if you don't and they get the second, you'll get your cash back. There you go. We'll be back next. But they coddle this generation anymore. You get your money back. Paul, when the fuck was that back in the day back for the book?

Yeah, yeah. Tell that to Al Capone. You get your money back. You get a do-over. You got the touch. Imagine you went to Al Capone in Chicago back in the day. No, Al, they said they're going to give you my money back. It was. He would be like that guy in the Richard Private. You know what he said? He wants the money back. When he pulled the gun out.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's a stick up. What a great fit. All right everybody, there you go. Week 18, regular season is over. We did it again. We'll talk to you guys next week. Paul did it again. Oops, he did it again. So did Andrew.

Well, the show collectively made him. The show collectively made money. Come on, guys. I'm the weak link in the show. I don't like this angle. Look, we have man boobs. Oh, now I'm dreamy. You gotta hold it up.

Right? There you go. To the ladies at the fucking, what was that stupid fucking yoga place they shopped? Lululemon. Yeah. Let's go to get some coffees and go to Lululemon. Talk about keeping our husbands down. You know, we gotta get more female listeners

on this podcast. Yeah. No, they listen, they like it. You know how we gotta get more female listeners on this podcast. No, they listen. They like it. You know how we can get less is if we start covering the WNBA, we'll probably get less. Oh, shots fired from Athens, Greece. Dude, them asking for the same amount of money with zero ratings in half-filled stadiums is gotta be the epitome of female behavior. Did you see Kaylin Clark got named female of the year, times female athlete of the year,

and then one of the owners goes, the whole league should have been female of the year or something. Like, how are they hating on her like that? It's ridiculous. Are there also Jews in her to try to promote the whole league. I don't look, I don't mind the WNBA. Just fight a badge. Fight a badge. I would be watching.

But, you know, I don't. So, you know, just lower the rim. They can't do it. If it's just they can't do it. No, they're going to be fine, Paul. They're going to be good. Look, look, look at the UFC. Some of the best fights over the last 12 years have been the women And I remember when they first came in I was like I don't want to watch this shit And then I saw like oh my god. They're amazing. They're gonna get better at it Paul. They just haven't been hooping

They've been fucking basketball players dude now. That's playing hoop You got to get a chance to catch up But the women got to go out and support them and they're not gonna do it Paul because they don't want to build something They want a way to rebuild it and then, because they don't want to build something. They want to wait till we build it. And then they show how we get to us. That's what it is. Here's what I think they do. You have a WNBA All-Star Weekend Women's Dunk Contest.

You lower the hoop to eight feet and you just have these ponytail chicks cocking back, yoking it on people. They'd be nuts. But if the dunks aren't good, Paul. Yeah, I would definitely see what they can do first. That's true. That's true. In seventh grade, gym class, I had a crush on this girl. And I remember I started to do a layup and I thought it looked awkward. And I was just like, man, not anymore. Yeah, because you're like, I don't want to put my seat in that.

Because I want my kid, I want my kid to run like that. I was all about procreation in the seventh grade. Like, yeah. Oh, by the way, did you guys see Kenny Pickett? Ken has always been looking down the road. Did you guys see Kenny Pickett do the thing where he held the football and it looked like it weighed him down and he just fell forward?

So I said, I go, this is the white like I go, I go only a white guy can manage to do this. And somebody goes, Hey, Paul, why not like stop with the racist stuff with white athletes and everything. And I'm going, dude, the one white guy who dunked and he held it on and his body flipped over Daniel Jones tripping over his own feet. Kenny Pickett, Kaka Baker falling. You know what the black guy version of that is fake, intercepting the ball, faking out everybody on the field and then dropping it at the half yard line.

That's the only time black athletes act like white guys. That's perfect. All right. All right. That's it, dude. I got to go to the, I got to go to the gym. See you guys after, man. Enjoy football. I'll talk to the gym. See you guys after man, enjoy football. I'll talk to you guys soon.

All right, congratulations again on a great season to all of you. Thank you for letting me hang around with you guys. All right, I'll see you.