New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Playoff Preview, Rest vs. Records, and Blind Ranking the Best Plays of the NFL Season | Ep 121

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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But what's the cutoff for saying Happy New Year? Just whenever you see somebody within the month of January, I think is a good Happy New Year. Maybe two weeks. It's a little far. Maybe we can have two weeks. You got to be within the same week of the Happy New Year. No, no. I'm a big general like, yeah, yeah, happy new year. Happy new year, that's the 10th.

I mean, we still got a good 50 weeks left. We got a lot, yeah, yeah. All right, I don't know what else to go with it for that. All right, today we are going to talk about what we've been up to. Wrap up last week of the NFL regular season. Look ahead to the wild card round of the playoffs. So much to talk about, so much.

And also, we're to try and rank the plays of the year. Ooh, I'd rank them. Thanks. See how that goes. I like that. We did that for the Christmas movies end up pretty good. All right. All right. As always, and new news is brought to you by Peloton. Oh, nice. All right. We're dropping some new merch from homage. Yes, we are. It's our ultimate fan favorites collection. I think we got jets Jake here. He's got some of these shirts. He was in town for the first taping of the late night show. Yeah, as a water boy. And now what he's going to show us some of these shirts. How about that? Oh, is this Vanna White or is this Jets J?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I know which one I think is better looking. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. There we go. Out of the house. Couple options, couple options for out of the house. Dude, I love those, I love those. What do we got?

Nice, what else we got? A little new hats. the house. Dude, I love those. I love those. What do we got? What else we got? Club 92. Club 92. Nice. Club 92. So to all our Club 92 members. We're bringing back some fan favorites.

We got the beard. Oh, yeah. Is that Travis or is it me? No, that's you, Jason. Stop. Stop it. My beard isn't that dark. And Trevidor.

Oh, El Trevidor. And then we got what you're wearing. Oh, what I'm wearing? Oh, New Heights Film Club. Yes, sir. I like this one. Oh, that one's sweet. I want that one. Do I get any of these? They didn't tell me if you were getting them or not. I'll check the mail.

Oh, nice. Well, as you just said, yeah, this is our ultimate fan favorites collection. The official shirt of leaving the house. Is this official? You did. Do we need a shirt for staying the fuck inside the house? As is all of Kansas City right now because of this crazy snowstorm. Yeah, I'm kind of sick of that. I'm already sick of it.

So no, I'm going to say no, we need more out of the out of the house, more out of the house mentalities. Yeah. To to keep this city thriving, you know, it's playoff football, we got to get the fuck out of the house. I'm with that. I'm with that. You can check out our ultimate fan collection right now at homage.com slash new heights. You heard the man. Yeah, let's catch up on some holiday stuff. Did you guys watch any of the college football playoffs? This is Brandon asking us.

Jason, did you watch any of the college football playoffs? I am not gonna lie, I've watched none of the football playoffs for college. Did you watch any of the holiday football NFL games? I did watch a lot of the holiday football NFL games. Nice. Including the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, you did.

That was a good one. That was a good one. That was a fun one. Very good one. By the way, you had a new pair of cleats on. We talked about this. New pair of cleats? There's a new pair of cleats.

Same pair of cleats. It was a solid red. No, it was a different pair. Oh, a different color way. Nice. It looked like- Same cleats. Same pair of cleats. It was a solid red. No, it was a different pair. Oh, a different color way. Nice. It looked like a little bit higher top. I think it was a different pair of cleats. A little bit more of a boot?

Yeah. You're hilarious. I'm pretty sure Jordan makes them the exact same when they make them. They just switch the color out, but no, I hear what you're saying. Sometimes the color makes a difference. You think I looked a little lighter? Little quicker? You looked pretty quick out there.

You had some good agile. Somebody said it looks like I'm moving in slow motion. That's a different cleat right there. That's the exact same cleat that I've been wearing all year. No, that's shinier. It's got like plastic around it. It's patent leather, baby. Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some patent leather on it.

Let's keep those up. Let's keep wearing those. You don't like the other ones? leather, baby. Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some patent leather on it. Let's keep those up. Let's keep wearing those You like the other ones yeah Yeah, well, they didn't like you either. How about those Texas Longhorns? We know who put that in the fucking rundown to shout to the Longhorns I'm not a Longhorn hater. I got some friends and Shit 92 percenters want to know did you you watch the Mayo Bowl, Jason? Your favorite. I watched the clips of all the ridiculousness from the Mayo Bowl, but I did not watch the Mayo, the Duke's Mayo Bowl itself. I think Interim Brandon has a video, the Patent did.

That's not me. Get it off the screen. Wow. I mean, it's just a screen. Oh, wow. I mean, it's just a waste. I'm sweating. Get it off the screen. Oh, it's in his hair. What do you think countries that are struggling? Not again. What do you think countries there that are like struggling for

like food watch something like that, it's just like, how many eggs went into that water cooler of mayonnaise that we decided to dump all over somebody's head? I mean, James, that's what dad mentioned all our childhood is that there's kids starving. Starry in China, which I think China is a lot different spot than it was when we were kids. But I think, I don't know if that one still works. Kids starving in every country at some level. I think it's probably true.

That's probably accurate. It's just kind of how the world goes, unfortunately. Yeah. But it's our job to help them by eating all our food. At least that's the message dad. That's that was what we were told to be grateful. Anyways, no, we did not watch the main. Well, I mean, got out of there.

There's a lot of funny bits that they do with mayonnaise, though. I got to admit to that. No, the best was the the Pop-Tart Bowl. Can we get out of the may? Can we get out of Mayo? God, what the fuck is that? They're like bobbing for something. What are they bobbing for?

I'm not gonna lie, man. I love mayonnaise. This is fucking gross. Like it is just, it's very hard to get this shit out of here, man. God damn it. Oh my gosh. It is fucking. Get this shit out of here man. God damn it. Oh my gosh It is fucking

Going in face first. Could you imagine getting this shit up your nose man? Oh, man? God damn it. I'm gonna shut the fucking computer down if you do anything more with. I mean, that's not a challenge you want to do. I feel like we got another mayo thing coming up. I don't want to know anymore. I'm kind of over it too, but now I just kind of want to see. All right, that's it. All right. That's the last of the mayo.

All right. What the fuck is that? Those potatoes. They were getting potatoes out of there. It's fascinating. I don't know where to even go. Brandon said the Pop-Tart bowl was good though. I thought they had the coolest mascots.

The mascot was fucking around. They had the unveiling of it, like the ripping of the foil. Yeah. What was your favorite Pop-Tart growing up? My favorite Pop-Tart, if we're not counting Toaster Strudel. No, no, no, no, no, no. We're talking, I'm talking flavor of like the, out of the wrapper Pop-Tart, silver wrapper.

I mean, listen, it's hard to go wrong with a strawberry, but the brown, the- Fuck is so good. The brown, what was it, the brown sugar one was like a nice change up. I didn't like it all the time, but when I had had strawberry too many times in a row, it was like a good little switch-up.

It was a nice curveball. Yeah. Was that what that was? Was it brown sugar? I think it was brown sugar, right? It was. There was a brown sugar one. I think there was a s'mores one. I don't fuck with s'mores. For some reason, I am not a big s'mores guy. No, not flavored. And really, if I'm being honest, not even like making them. It's just the messy. I just get marshmallow over my beard. Man, that's fun by a campfire though, dude There's the sneaky one that came in as we were just like getting too old to eat pop tarts every day

You know the blueberry one which the Wild bear wild bear. Yeah, it was like the purple with purple icing. Yeah Dude, it's a good one. It's a very good one. Fucking crack. Could you imagine a childhood without those? I don't know. By the way, I saw one of the most disturbing videos ever of somebody torching Oreos. Torching? I saw that. I saw where it's just like, it's basically flame retardant. Are you fucking kidding me? Listen, man. That's what happens when you eat heavily, it's it's pretty resistant. It's a resistant material

It was torching an Oreo for like fucking 30 seconds Oreo did not fucking even catch on fire. No, it was it was like a heat shield like Was it looked like the Oreo was entering Earth's atmosphere and it was just like plummeting and it was not disintegrating, it was just fighting off. Basically if you threw an Oreo out of the space station, eventually it would land. It wouldn't burn up in Earth's orbit, which is crazy to think about. They should just cover the space shuttles I I don't know why I can't eat them now. I can't I feel like I'm just doing so bad

Something so bad to my body and I used to eat them by the fucking sleet. Oh, yeah, right the sleeve Yeah moving on Jason is officially a late night TV host. That's right. They call it They call it late night premiered last weekend. Yes, it did that it did how'd it go, dude? How did it feel to be live? Just you know didn't look at the camera and played to the audience and did everything that every late night Show told me not to do so that was perfect No, it was good. I mean listen, I think So that was perfect. No, it was good.

I mean, listen, I think we had Charles Barkley. Fuck yeah, you did. Lil Dicky and Brian Baldinger. The crowd was electric. I love that. It was a lot of fun in the venue. And you do that in Philly, right? We do it in Philly.

Yup, Union Transfer. Yeah, I mean, we tried some delightfully stupid comedy bits that were fun to try and we did some panel discussions and we had a fan contest for Chug and Beer to see who won, who got some tickets to the Super Bowl. I love that man. I don't know. I'm learning. It was a good experience.

I talked to my man Scott Van Pelt and he was just like, it's exciting to start something new, right? And you're, you're, you've worked a lot to get there and then you, you just keep on figuring it out. So it was a, it was a great time. The guests were fantastic. The crowd was into it. So just want to thank everybody because I had a blast. As long as you're having fun doing it, man. That's all I'm doing. I can't say it on this because the Wolf Feral thing comes out on Friday, but we're going full send. That's all I know. Oh, yeah. Listen, everybody loves him when Jason goes full send.

We got Joe Buck and Michelle Beisner Buck coming on the show this week. Oh, it's going to be awesome. So that'll be fun. Man, you have to ask him about what happened at the Super Bowl in 2019. Come on. We're not getting into this. You have to ask him about what happened at the Super Bowl in 2019. Come on. We're not getting into this. It felt so bad, dude. Get me out of here, man. Sorry about that, Joe. I love you. Yeah. Are we catching up with what are... What did I... I went... I didn't do anything for New Year's. Stuck working on

New Year's Eve and New Year's and yeah, that's all I got. Well, you went to New York. I did go to New York. I had some delicious food and got to see the big city, which I fucking absolutely love. Love the big city. All right. Well, last bit of new news. We're back with not just one episode this week, but two. Oh yeah. That's right. You're going to get two new episodes of New Heights this week.

This Friday, we will drop a guest episode with the one and only Will Ferrell. Why? Favorite part of the combo. I don't know. I don't know. Dude, I mean, I think his advice struck both of us as like gold. And we'll let you guys catch up on that if they didn't already just completely delete it out of the scene. It was so fun to reminisce about all the characters he's played, like in the here how he got started

in it and just advice on how to be successful and funny. Let's not kid ourselves. The best part of the show was him answering some of our New Heights call ins. Yeah, you're right. You're right, it was iconic. And you guys are not gonna wanna miss that. We got to see Will Ferrell in action,

in person, off the cuff. We got to see, you know. Damn it, okay, I don't wanna talk. No, no, no, off the cuff. We got to see, you know. Anyways, okay, I don't want to talk. No, no, no, no. All right, that's it for new news. It's brought to you by Peloton. Find your push, find your power with Peloton. Hey, Oop.

Moving on to bold topics to wrap up week 18 in the NFL. All righty, week 18. The Kansas City Chiefs are in the playoffs. Yeah, here's what the Chiefs have been up to since we recorded our last episode. Travis is now the all time leader and receiving touchdowns for the Kansas City Chiefs. How's it feel, Bubba? same as when I was tied with Tony G. I've been very, you know, I feel like towards the end of your career, when you hit these milestones of, you know, anybody playing past 10 years is going to hit some type of milestone, whether it's games played or whatever it is statistically. And you know, it's cool, but it's cool, like being recognized for, you know, whether it's just greatness of being out there on the field or touchdowns or something stats or something like that. But I feel like I'm

sitting such a mode of trying to be better than I was yesterday. I'm always thinking of I need to be better. I need to be better. That when I pass or I do something like this, where I hit a big milestone in my career, I'm just like, yeah, but I need to be better than that. I need to be, you know, I'm not about to sit here and think about, you know, how far I've come when I'm still striving to go somewhere that's even greater than where I'm at. Over the past, like when I first got in the league, stats were fucked. I mean, that's everything. That's how I judged somebody's greatness. And I think it just goes so much further than that for me now.

Not necessarily because I'm not putting up the same stats as I used to, but more so is I know how to influence a game more than just what the stat book says. And I've kind of pride myself on that now. And it's just, when I see that I've achieved stats like this, it's kind of like, yeah, man, it's cool to be in the conversations of the great ones like Tony Gonzalez. And don't get me wrong, this is only what Tony accumulated in Kansas City. I'm still like another 100 or 40 touchdowns away from catching his all-time career touchdown

record or touchdowns. It's cool to be in conversations with him knowing that he's been the guy that I've set at the top that I've been chasing in terms of his greatness every single day. I remember the legend of Tony when I first got here, just trying to fill his shoes in terms of how hard of a worker he was. Everyone raved about the time he spent in the building, the focus he had on his nutrition, the amount of hours and the amount of catches that he had on the jugs before practice, after practice, when guys weren't in the building and things like that. And it's just the legend of him was so unachievable that I just started to like every single day try and become that version of myself.

Just spend the time in the building, find ways to keep getting better and find ways to be the best version of yourself. I'm just so fortunate that I had Tony G sitting on top of the pedestal and trying to fill his shoes my entire career because I think that helped me motivate myself and helped me really appreciate the situation I was in here in Kansas City. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think you and I are both on the same page with stats. I mean, you coined the whole term LeBron stat.

I think that they can be very misleading at times and not telling the whole picture. Yeah. You know, being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like, incredibly surreal, especially from like watching him play and knowing how dominant he was. But I got to say, fuck that dude. You're the fucking touchdown, receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City. Geez, fucking history. That's fucking crazy. That's entire franchise's history. You're the number one receiving. And I know that it's been building up. So it's not like it's come out of nowhere. But I think when you look back to being a third round

pick, when you look back to like in college, having struggles or whatever, playing quarterback, then going to tight end, it's just been a crazy career arc. And it's something that I think is awesome. And I couldn't be more proud of you for having that record. Shout out to Tony for formerly having it. And obviously he went on to have more successful things and other teams, but I ain't shortchanging this shit worth one goddamn second. This ain't a LeBron stat. This is a Travis Kelsey stat and it's fucking dope. I appreciate you, brother. Tony G said he'd pay the fine if you did this. You went up and dunked in Tony G fashion on the

goalpost. Sort of. Did you get fined? Did the NFL determine it to be a dunk? That's the real question. Who cares what anybody else is? Did John Runyon say it's a fine? He did.

Yeah, they all did. They said since I touched the goalpost, it was a fine. When you were doing it, were you trying to throw it up to avoid the fine? Oh, I'm trying to dunk it starting to get my fucking old ass up there. That's it Fourth quarter of the game. I was fucking legs are tired after like a like a ten play drive I'm over here trying to just like I'm just like screw it. I'm gonna send it One time for old for old times sake, man. That looked like a Jason Kelsey attempted dunk right there.

Yeah, that was me slapping the backboard. That was me actually flushing it. It was the McAfee said it best. It was the angle. I gotta come around. I gotta hit that thing straight on. It was a funny angle. It was a funny angle.

You went from the baseline. Yeah, well, back in the day when I actually had when I had bounce man, I could we got some clips for sure. I don't know where they are, but they're out there somewhere. They're on a VHS tape somewhere. Yeah. The NFL has announced that it is a 14,069 is that an honor of John Runyon the 69 at the end 14,000 14,069 dollars for unsportsmanlike condor. I think repeat offender. I think I'm a repeat offender. That's why it's so high.

Ah. Yeah. That'll get you in America. That's where they get you. Yeah. That'll get you. They get you on the repeat offender in America. Oh, and Tony, last thing, you don't have to do that, dude. It was so cool to hear you even say it, dude, but you don't have to help me pay that fine. It's all going to good cause. And Jason said, I did not say that, literally just said it. No, we've recorded everything. So please, you can

definitely please play it back where I've said that. All right, we'll do. Good thing there's AI. The Chiefs also clinched the number one seed in the AFC. Resting their starters or the majority of them in week 18. Was there ever a chance you guys are going to play in the game? I don't know why I'm asking this. Well, our offensive line started the first drive and then we kind of... The whole offensive line started?

Just about except for... Tooney? No, Tooney was out there. The fuck? Why'd they do that there the fuck why'd they do that huh why'd they do that oh it's because they're uh humpfries is back and they wanted them to like get like a i'm not sure why they did it listen i'm not i'm just i'm just here they might have you know why did it happen yeah i was about to say yeah no i mean either way it doesn't fucking matter whether they played one snap or no snaps we got our fucking asses kicked and uh that wasn't a fun game to be a part of

or no snaps. We got our fucking asses kicked and that wasn't a fun game to be a part of. Well, there's some people alleging that it was a purposeful letting get your ass kicked. I ain't scared of fucking nobody. I wanted them in the fucking playoffs. I'm not alleging this. I want to slay every dragon one by one, like Mortal Kombat. I don't even want this to be like we play the lowest seed. Just give me the best teams. I'm not, Travis, I'm just telling you what people are saying. AFC, NFC. Give me all of them. Mortal Kombat style. I'll go through every fucking one of them just giving them my best fucking effort. I ain't scared of the single soul, man.

You didn't want to see the Bengals in Borough Head or in Cincinnati. I'll play them at the Walmart parking lot. I don't give a shit. We can have our own game in the off season. We really do get out again. Listen, I love competing give a shit. We can have our own game in the offseason. We really duke it out again. Listen, I love competing against the Greatest. The Bengals were a fun-ass fucking team to watch there towards the end of the season. And it's a shame they didn't make it in the playoffs because they would have made the playoffs that much fucking crazier and that much more fun.

Did you see they fired Lou and Rumo? I don't know what the fuck is going on over there. That is, that was a wild wild Move I did not see coming because I thought that you know from the outside Their defense was playing really fucking good towards the end of the year. They definitely played better I just think Lou I don't think they had the horses on defense that they've had in the past and Lou got handcuffed I don't know that it made sense. He's proven how good of a D coordinator he is with good players, but whatever. I'm with you, dude. I'm with you. I've always respected the hell out of him. I've also respected

a lot of the players on that side of the ball, you know, given who they had this year. I mean, Burrow put up over like what, like 4,000 something yards. Like it was something crazy. He had a great year. Chase and T. That was one of the wackiest years of football I've ever seen from from a team that I thought was crazy 10 times better than what their record showed. And that and I know that just playing against them. But yeah, we we didn't fucking throw any game. All right, guys were out there competing their ass off

trying to get a win. Unfortunately, we just you know, we couldn't, you know, put drives together, we couldn't stop Denver. And it just, it wasn't we couldn't, you know, put drives together. We couldn't stop Denver. And it just, it wasn't a, it wasn't a fun game to be a part of. And I'm just sitting here on the sideline like, Hey boys, don't let this shit ruin our fucking mojo. When we got our, we got, we got everybody rolling and, and you know, it's a, it's go time.

We got to flip that switch and know we're the biggest, baddest team out there. Well, I mean, you guys went 15 and one, so you guys technically are the biggest, baddest team in the NFL, record-wise. 15 and 2. 15 and 2, oh yeah, I forgot. So now you are tied with Detroit. 92%ers reached out and asked us, please write the script for this week, a section Travis can talk about being stuck in a plane. I want to know what it

was like in there with grown men, probably two bathrooms. I guarantee Travis will just say I was asleep. How did you know? I mean, Jesus Christ, she called. I'd text you right at the beginning of it. You text me right after you guys took off. Dude, I was fucking... When I get on these planes, I eat my Chick-fil-A and I fucking recline my seat and I put on my headphones and I fucking am out. I could sleep at a fucking rock concert. It doesn't matter where I'm at. I don't know how I got this trait, but I am literally, I have the ability to sleep anywhere

at any time. As long as I'm comfortable, I can just shut it down. I was out for about three hours on the runway while everybody was kicking it, having a grand old time. I heard some old linemen were wrestling. I heard everybody's telling war stories and having a good old time. And I woke up as the plane was taking off and I was like, what the fuck? It feels like I've been asleep for forever. And I looked at the time and I'm just like, where the fuck? What just happened? And yeah, got briefed and I think there's,

there might be some pics and some videos of me just absolutely. Just completely knocked out. Yeah, somebody might've got me. They might've sniped me. I think the more frustrating part with not being able to come back to Kansas City, we had to stay in Denver for another night.

Not that Denver isn't a beautiful city and I don't love Denver because I do find that city really cool. But it's not fun sitting around in a hotel room. You guys didn't go out and celebrate? Dude, if I would have been stuck in Denver, I would have been out. Vibes weren't real high.

We just got waxed like 38 nothing. So, we kind of felt bad for some of the young guys and some of the guys that we were rooting for to try and have a good game. And Coach Reed doesn't fucking like losing. I know going out and fucking having a grand old time and maybe getting caught on a video doing something stupid wasn't the best idea. So we all just kind of hung out and just grabbed dinner together. All right. Well, congrats. You guys have to buy much needed rest.

It's coming at Dubai and the playoffs makes such a big deal. So that's a, that's huge. It is huge. It is huge, but it's a, it's a lot of time off. I've, uh, I've had already, I think a week and a half, almost two weeks by tomorrow. Because of the Wednesday game? Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully we can get into the shells, put our helmets and pads on over the weekend, get some good contact in and work our craft and find out who we're playing next week.

Fuck yeah. Get ready to rock and roll, baby. Nothing better than playoff football, man. A punch start ticket to the dance, and now it's time to fucking dance, baby. I love this shit. I fucking love it. Perfect.

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which somehow created created some controversy. Barkley only needed 101 yards to break it. I don't think you guys realize how fucking hard it is to get 100 yards rushing in the NFL. It is not just like, Oh, you put them out there. He'll get it like that's just not how that happens. Yeah, he would have got it. New York Giants draft. He would have fucking blew that thing out the door. Yeah, but instead the Giants came right up and played.

He'd fucking play. Good point, good point. I think he definitely gets it if he plays. But I think, look at Ball, did they release what Zay Flowers' injury is yet? Did they release whether he's coming back for the first week? They said that it's not season ending,

but that it is a serious issue. So they don't release whether he's coming back for the first week? They said that it's not season ending, but that it is it is a serious issue. So they don't know if he's they said it's I think it's a doubt that he'll play this week, but hopes that he'll play next week if they advance. I mean, listen, I think what did I want Barclay to go for the record? You're goddamn right. I think it would have been awesome to watch it happen because it's a fucking rushing record. Why would I not want to watch it happen? But I think that it's the right move to not play him.

It's always going to have an Astrich. Why would it have an Astrich? Why? Because it's 17 games. He's got less carries. He's got 40 less carries than Dickerson did. See? No. Yeah. You're right. Yes, he does. He got me. Yeah. And if he would have had the same amount of carries Dickerson would have had through 16 games, he would have set the record there too. And we don't put an asteriskness to Dickerson who broke OJ Simpson's record at 14 games or whatever it was, who broke Jim Brown to 12 or whatever that was. I just, dude, I think the rushing record is awesome, but I think it's obviously the right call. He gets hurt. You got to put the alignment

out there. One of those guys get hurt. The aspirations of the team are Super Bowl. They are not just like sneaking in, they're legit contenders. And it's, you know, they needed this buy. They didn't get it from being the number one seed. If they would have had the buy wrapped up, I could see maybe making the argument to go for it. But because they didn't, they got to rest. They got to get healthy and make they got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl. Right? Well, one at a time, but they got to get healthy and make, they got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl, right? Well, one at a time, but they got to put their best feet forward. They're starting to play great ball right now. They're rolling.

They did put their backups in and still beat the breaks off of the Giants. The other thing that I want to say about Saquon in this, and I do think the rushing title is the coolest record in football. I don't think there's anything better. And I don't know, it's because we grew up in Cleveland with Jim Brown, but like there's something about the rushing title record in the NFL, like passing yards leader, don't give a crap, receiving yards leader. Why?

I don't know. I mean, it's cool, but it's not cool as rushing yards leader in a season. I don't know why it's not, but it's not. And then maybe it's because of all the office alignment. You earn more of every yard. Yeah, like there's something about it that is cooler. Like you're the baddest dude in the NFL if you got that stat.

And he had a chance to set that record. He had a chance to do it in the city of Philadelphia for the Eagles. He had a chance to do it against a team that literally did not pay, like did not value him. They let him walk in a bunch of, I guess a bunch of fans that were burning his jersey just earlier that year. Like he's playing in the game before they're burned his jersey in the parking lot. Like this could have been an all

time storyline, historic moment in the NFL. So yes, I would have loved to have seen it, but it's the right call. It's the right call. I want to emphasize that. It still is a storyline. And honestly, if, yeah, I think it's more of a slap in the face that he didn't even have to play in the game. That's true. That's true. But it's not the storyline. This is why we should have kept it at 16 games. Looking back at the rushing titles, there's so many guys, there's a few guys that have broken 2000 yards. You forget that they even like Derek Hammey broke 2000 yards.

I didn't even remember that Derek Hammey did it until we started talking about it this week. You're insane. I'm pretty sure I played him. That's why. Yeah. Then freaking, he almost did it again this year. I think he's the first back to ever have over like two, something like that.

Did Chris Johnson do it? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I, something like that. Did Chris Johnson do it? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I remember all of these. Like, I just feel like none of these, but none of these are like notable. I'm just being honest. Like everybody thinks of Dickerson. I'm just being honest.

Adrian Peterson is the only one because he was like seven yards away. Dude, when Chris Johnson was, dude, that year was insane. You're crazy. Nobody's saying it wasn't an insane year, but it's not historic because he didn't break the record. I think it was more than-

That's all I'm saying. Unless you get the record, it's just another great year. You get the record, you're the best, you're the baddest dude on the planet ever to play the game. Regardless of what anybody says about 17 games, 16 games, you get, hey, I got the all-time record, brother. But, either way- I hear what you're saying.

I think all those years were equally as memorable as this one. Yeah, they are. Equally memorable as in not being historic. What? You think people are just gonna not remember a Saquon story of going to a new team? They're gonna remember it,

but they're not gonna remember it as if it was the record-breaking year. Like, it's not gonna be this heralded season by the entire NFL standard. Yeah. It's not going to be that. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's the point of the record being the record. Yeah. And eventually though, the record will get broken. And the more important thing for Nick Sirianni and his entire job, the entire staff's job, the entire organization,

the entire city's job is to try and put themselves in the best position to win the Super Bowl because that's the ultimate goal. And I get that. I'm not negating that. All I'm saying is it would have been fucking awesome to have that record. That's all I'm saying. And I would have loved to see the Eagles have it, Saquon have it, and Jeff Stoutland and the O-line have it.

That would have been something that would have been cool. I don't know. Maybe if Jason Kelsey was out there, he would have got it in the seven sixteen games He played this cam jurgens it just fine a matter of fact cam jurgens pro bowl if we're Jerries a fucking doll. Yes, he is I fucking love Watson those dudes man three Eagles cam jurgens Jalen Carter and Zack bond Also made their first pro bowl. Shout out to the boys making their first. Yeah, baby on. Also made their first Pro Bowl. Shout out to the boys making their first. Yeah, baby. Jason, how does it feel to see the Kelsey replacement get his recognition?

I don't, I'm not calling him Kelsey replacement. I think it's awesome. Listen, we've known Cam Jergens is a great player in the Eagles organization. He's got all the tools. He's athletic. He's strong. He's athletic, he's strong, he's got long arms, he's big, he's smart, he's explosive. I fully anticipated Cam having a phenomenal year and now he's been awarded the Pro Bowl, which is amazing. It's hard to do that your first year. Usually it takes you, you usually get on your second year, but he's had that good of a year, the line has been that good. Saquon was the rushing leader, like all of these things. And he's been dominant. Like he has a big reason this number is where it is at. And I think he's rightfully been awarded the Pro Bowl. So

you're in line. Could not be happier for Cam. Listen, there's similar traits, but everybody's going to be their own unique player. And he can't try and be anybody else than Cam Juergens. And that's the way every player has got to play the game. And there are things that he is much better at than I ever was at. And like there's always going to be, every player is unique, no matter how similar the traits are. He's the replacement for anybody that ever played center for the Philadelphia Eagles. Like I just don't think that that's the way you look at the job. You look at the job like he's the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles this year.

Next man up. How are we going to move forward with a line that operates successfully? I think Cam's done a phenomenal job of being Cam Juergens, the dog that he is and the tremendous player and teammate that he is. So couldn't be more proud for him. I got to say, very happy for Cam, Lane Johnson, Lane and Dickerson. It's a fucking joke to Jordan Malatka didn't get the Pro Bowl. And listen, there's great tackles in this league and I don't know who he would have made it over. I'm not trying to make that statement because there's Lane, Tristan Wirfs and oh my God, the third one's a great player too.

Sewell, Pena. Gosh, why did I blank on that? So like it's in good company. But I think Jordan Malone has been the best tackle in the NFL this year. He's so freaking good. But anyways, they should have had four guys in there, which is crazy to think about. That's how good these guys have been. Yeah, I hear you, man. Everybody that's in it, as far as I'm concerned, deserves it

because they got voted. That's the way the thing works. It's in some ways a popularity contest, but it's also reflective on who you are as a player and what your career has been and season. I don't believe in this snub. There's so many snubs every year because there's so many guys that deserve to go. And unfortunately, there's only so many snubs every year. Yeah. Because there's so many guys that deserve to go. And unfortunately, there's only so many slots. Moving on. It's officially playoff season. Let's talk a little about wild card weekend. Okay. Playoff picture. Are we going to display this graphic, intern Brandon, so that people can see it? Okay. So obviously the Chiefs have the buy, Detroit Lions have the buy. Dude, by the way, I was a little bit, I was kind of questioning Dan Campbell's decision

to play his starters versus the 49ers. I'm like, why did he do that? Like they're going to be on a short week. Now they're going to have to play a big game. Oh, you're talking about like the Christmas week? Yeah. Like they're going to be on a short week now. Then they're going to have to play the Vikings who are peaking right now.

And then they might not get a bye. And they go out and beat the living donkey dick out of the Minnesota Vikings. Just pummel them. And I'm like, okay, well, I should just shut the fuck up because Dan Campbell's clearly got this shit figured out. He's got to figure it out. Yeah. He's got the boys rolling.

Kansas City Chiefs with the bye, Detroit Lions with the bye, Eagles, the number two seed in the NFC face the Green Bay, Packers at home, the Buffalo Bills are number two seed and the AFC West face the Broncos at home. Packers in Washington had some interesting things shake out to see who was going to be the sixth or the seventh seed. Bucks moved up to the three seed because LA, one to two. Because LA loss. Yeah. So there was a little bit of shuffling here. What team are you most surprised didn't make it?

Surprise? I think going into the season, the team I'm most surprised didn't make it is probably the Bengals with Joe Burrow, T. Higgins, Chase, healthy. You thought maybe, you thought they'd probably be in the playoffs. The team I'm most surprised made it in his first year as the coach. I'm the most surprised with the Chargers, maybe Broncos. I'm not really surprised that, I mean, after playing the Broncos earlier in the year. I'm talking about early in the season. From the beginning?

Obviously, all of these guys aren't surprised that they made it as the course went on. But before the season started, which teams has surprised you the most? The most? Actually, I'm gonna take this back. Washington is the most surprising to me. Yeah, I mean, the two rookie quarterbacks, Washington and Denver.

Denver, yep. Honestly, I didn't, I don't know why, I didn't think Minnesota was gonna be, you know, that big. That dominant? Yeah, that dominant parent, I mean, Sam Darnold's playing his tail off. Yeah. Just playing Washington over the last few seasons. And I mean this with so much respect for Dan Quinn and even respect, like I think Rivera is a phenomenal coach as well. But

that team with like the whole organizational thing happening with Dan Snyder, they felt like it was going to take some time to rebuild that culture and chemistry there in Washington. And it just goes to show when you hire a great head coach, and you hit on a rookie quarterback like that, who's playing at this level, how fast it can happen. Like they're already in the playoffs. I do think that they lack some of the pieces to really compete for the Street Bowl this year. That's my own opinion. But I think it's remarkable

that they're in the playoffs that quickly. And it's a testament to Dan Quinn, Kingsbury, and all those players. They went out and hired some, they went out and signed some really good veterans, Bobby Wagner, Zach Ertz. I just think that they really did a good job of getting pieces to help shape that culture with some veteran guys, bringing in the right coaches, hitting on draft picks.

And it's just been a remarkable year for the commanders. 100%. I'm right there with you. Bigger rookie surprise. I'd probably say Bo Nix, man. I think Jaden Daniels, Heisman winner. You kind of saw the flashes. Yeah, you saw the flashes.

Not that Bo Nix didn't have any flashes. I just think... No, but there are a lot more, to your credit, sorry, I did not mean to cut you off. There are a lot more people doubting the Bo Nicks pick than the Jaden Daniels pick. So I think that's the reality of it. When you look back on it though, man, I mean, you watch Bo Nicks in college, man, that dude can fucking ball. And I'm telling you, the moment I saw him fired up on the sideline, throwing it back at Sean Payton, I love that. I mean, in the right amount, like it can't be all the time. Yeah. And there's something about throwing. Yeah. You know, who knows how fiery

that even was, but you already know. Who cares? All I know is that he cares. That's why I like to see it. Because like, you know, not that it's the right way to handle it. You got to be controlled as a quarterback and you got to be poised. So you can't do it too much. But every once in a while in the right moment to do that, it's like, oh, okay. And it's not like over the top. It's not a ridiculous amount. It's just like, he, you could tell he wants to win games. He wants to be great. And that's a huge part of it. And if it is over the fucking top, realize it in the fucking moment. Talk to the talk to whoever you just went above and beyond with and fucking get it right

and let them know, listen, man, I just fucking want this shit. I'm with you. I'm with you. He's a killer, man. And you can tell he's competitive as hell. And dude, when you take great traits and you take a competitive individual, usually that leads to a good football player. I hear you.

Okay. Other teams with home games, what's the toughest place for a playoff game to play at? Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah, I think you got to go arrowhead. I will say no, this is this is wild card. This is wild card. OK, if we're just going this round, Buffalo's obviously got crazy home field advantage, one from the fans,

but also two from the weather. I'm I'm a homer. I'm going to be a homer. I think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in. And I think it's been all these games. The link is probably theer. I think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in. And I think it's been that way. Out of all these games, the link is probably the one that I think is the most hostile environment. It's fucking ruckus. It's fucking loud.

Yeah. It's cold because it's in the Northeast. So some of these Southern teams come up, although Green Bay is not going to be dealing with too much. They're not going to be nervous about the cold. I think the link is hard to win a football game in. Yeah. Especially a playoff game.

I mean, we lost in Tampa Bay last year, but I think it's, I'd probably go Buffalo or the link or my top two. What's harder, the link or Arrowhead? I mean, Arrowhead gets a fucking rock and dog. Let's move on. Let's move on. Don't even go. You want to fucking, you want to step into the loudest stadium in the world? I think it's equal. I think it's equal. It's like the loudest, nicest stadium in the world or the almost loudest and you just got a bunch of fuckers.

People are just going to tear you apart. You're going to throw rocks at the buses. All right. Hypothetical. Please don't do that, Philadavians. Hypothetical. All the games are on at once. What games are the YouTube TV quad box?

Okay. Well, this is a hypothetical. Shout out to YouTube TV quad box? Okay. Well, this is a high shot on the YouTube TV and the quad box. No doubt. I'm going. I think I think that Bucks Washington game is going to be fun to watch. I think that fucking Vikings Rams game is going to be fun to watch as much as I think Buffalo is a, you know, is a better team. I think Denver right now is, is playing really fucking good football. So I'll probably watch that one. And I think for me, the game that I'll probably end up like playing the winner of is the Chargers versus Houston game.

So I'm going to watch that one. Oh man, I don't even know. I'll probably, so I'll definitely watch Eagles, Green Bay. They're going to fucking blow them out. I'm not going to watch that game. I mean, Green Bay is surprising. Matt LaFleur sometimes can dial up some stuff. Dude, I got all the respect in them. I just don't see it. Jordan Love, when he's on, he can sling it. I think that game, I don't think it's going to be a blowout, but I do think that he goes win.

I'm definitely watching Baltimore versus Steelers because I'm an AFC North kind of guy. And I think that that matchup is always intense, even though the Steelers are floundering right now. They are struggling. They're limping to the finish line, but I can't help myself. Bills, Broncos, and probably watching Tampa Bay, Washington. Really? Yeah. I mean, the Vikings, LA one is interesting to me.

The one that I'm definitely not watching is Houston versus Chargers. I don't know why that one's like not even, that's the least interesting game to me. Is that fair? I, I, I'm watching it because I think that's probably who you're playing. The two teams I'm going to play. Yeah. right. Yeah. Well, this is a suit just based off the seating. The reality is I'm watching all of these games because playoff football is the fucking best. But if they all played at once and I have to watch only four, that's probably the form. That's probably the best way you can answer that. Yeah. All right.

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See Mint Mobile for details. Oh, man, now I'm done. I'm kidding, I'm back. And we're doing some blind rankings of place of the year. That's right, now I'm done. I'm kidding, I'm back. And we're doing some blind rankings of Plays of the Year. That's right, already. Let's move on and we wanna take a minute to recognize some of the most incredible moments from the regular season this year.

And what better way to do that than our new favorite game, Blind Rankings. Yeah! This Blind Rankings is brought to you by our friends at Intuit Turbo Tax. Wonderful. Love that. Makes you do your fucking taxes. All right. Here's how it works. In case you missed us doing this on Christmas episode, we'll blindly rank 10 of the best plays from

the NFL season. And this is as about a true blind ranking as possible because I really don't remember a lot of the great plays I we haven't even discussed season We will only see one play at a time and place it on the list before seeing the next one so one by one will just throw it a one through ten on where we think it resides and one change Me and Jason will have one veto each alright, so we can veto each other one time You can veto the play like we can say like it doesn't belong in the top ten

I'll give you one veto each of this is not a top ten play I have backups ready to go one change is me and Jason will be able to veto one play out of the entire top ten So if we think this plays dogshit and Brandon did a terrible job of bringing ten plays in They can hear me on this recording. Oh, they can't. Perfect. Nice. I just really hope I remember these plays.

All right. Let's take a look at the first play then, Brandon. First play from week 16, Lions Bears. Oh, oh my. The fake stumble. Oh, pretty good the fake stumble. Oh Pretty good pretty good I mean the only reason I want to I want to almost veto this cuz like I don't think the stumble affected fucking anything like I mean

Can we rewind it? Let me see what the linebackers do. Does anybody react to this thing? I mean, they definitely don't react They definitely just retreat. You know what? I mean, they definitely don't react. They definitely don't just retreat. You know what? All right, I'll leave it in there. I mean, it's low though. It's low though. The entire sideline was screaming too. I think it deserves to be up there just for the creativity and the amount of like bought in from like everybody, including the sideline. Jared Goff. That's a great trip. It looks like he's fallen. It looked like he was falling. Yeah. It almost looked like the week before

where he did fall to win the game on fourth down. I just think that the lateral to Penesul is a much better Lions play that never ended up going in. The lateral to the tackle, the hook and lateral to the right tackle. All right. Anyways. Okay. Where do we think this is? We can't put it too high. You can throw it at 10. I right. Anyways, okay. Where do we think this is? We can't put it too high. You can throw it at 10. I think 10 is a solid. Right?

It didn't determine a game. Like it's a fun trick play, but it wasn't like that. I'm with you. We'll go 10. 10. Throw it in. 10. Lions had some awesome plays.

So I think there's going to be another Lions clip up here. There better be. Pretty soon. Play number two from week 13, Bill's Niners. Oh, this is a great lateral This is a good one. This is backyard ball right here the old snow game and josh. This was the first time a player ever Through and ran Yeah, he had a he had a completion and a receiving touchdown. Yes all in the same play, right?

Yeah, and it was the same play, right? Yeah. And it was the first time that's ever happened? Yep. I think you gotta put this high. No, no, no, no, no. No, it's not. No, it's not. Marcus Mariota did it against the Chiefs in the playoffs.

He threw a ball to somebody. Darrell Rivas smacked it down and he then caught it and went into the end zone. Yeah, but that's not a rushing touchdown if he smacked it down and he then caught it and went into the end zone. Yeah, but that's not a this is a that's not a rushing touchdown to be smacked it down, right? No, this was a receiving touchdown. This was a receiving touchdown. Oh, yeah. Okay. Either way, rare that this is semantics. Yeah, I think this is awesome play. I think can't go too high. Can't go too high. Can't go too high. I mean, they're winning 21 to three.

Is there just a heads up? But it's piss out of them. Yeah, it's only the first half, though. So says third quarter, third quarter, second. OK, let's go. What do you think? Three or four, maybe? I mean, for now, let's throw this at five. It's not good to go five. I'll go.

I get too bold. Yeah. Leave some space. Leave some space. I think there was some other. There were some other Josh Allen plays this year I could I could feel it week 10 Broncos chiefs. Oh, that was fucking electric. Yes, it was You got a play that you didn't even let us watch the entire thing Kevin Harlan on it too, dude Oh, blocked! The Chiefs have won! Kevin Harlan on it too, dude?

Oh, shout out to Harlan, man. So good. It is so good. So epic, dude. His voice, he might be one of my, I mean, he's up there as one of my favorites. He is really good. Dude, honestly, a little biased, but I think that goes above Josh Allen's lateral. I kind of agree. It's a dude blocking a field goal to win a game.

Like as a walk off and not only like kind of getting lucky, but like they like knew exactly what they were doing. They knew where like it was like thought out. I'm pretty sure Chanel called it like said, like we're going to go block this. So all around, I think it's just a fucking crazy play. There were a few there were a few big block block field goals this season, though. So I don't know if I'm just being biased. But do you want to go for three on this? Or do you want to go higher?

I think it's either four or six. It's either four or six. I'll let you call it. Just because it ended up in the only reason the Chiefs won the game and the Josh Allen lateral was like up 21-3. I'll put it at four. If we're going four or six, I'll go four. From week 12, Cowboys, Commanders, 99-yard kick return. Oh my God. I mean, it's a turpentous fast. Hit that B button. Hit that B button on

them. Oh shit. Yeah. Dude, this was electric. It's a dope play. I mean, this has got to be up there. This has got to be up there. Three or two. It's got to be up there. If not one, I don't know. I can't remember what play would be better this season. You think this is. Dude, better than that block kick to win the game? Dude, a kick return with three minutes left in the game? Yeah. I mean, it's a dope play.

He fumbles the ball. He picks that shit up on the one yard line with everybody 10 yards from him. All right, I'll go three. I'll go three. I don't think it's as good as the Josh Allen play. If I'm being honest, I'll go three. I'll go three. Oh, my. I don't think it's as good as a Josh Allen play if I'm being honest. I'll go through. You're insane. Week eight. Washington Bears. Walk off. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The fuck up.

The only reason I can't give this one that high is because like, it's an insane amount of luck in the Bears fucked it up more than they even got it right. So it's like. fucked it up more than they even got it right. So it's like. That's a good shot taken. Listen, he did his job. He did his job. He was the tip guy.

He was in the back. He was right where he needed to be. This is what this is teach tape right here. If you're if you're in a football locker room and it was to win the game. So it's I mean, yeah, I think it's a solid seven or eight. Seven sounds good. Seven sounds good from week 15 Let's go

Believe this is you can just put the sae Kwan hurdle at one already. There it is. That's what I was thinking of I do love dude. I do love a big man Oh, I mean, it's a great play. It is a great play. Oh, so good. It's so good. Dude, a big man pick. Are you kidding me? Is that a pick or is that a fucking strip?

Yeah. Oh, that's stiff. Do you know how hard it is to stiff arm a 300 pound fucking offensive lineman? I just love you hit some of the shush shush at the beginning of that. Go back to the start of that. Get the shush shush in there. Bing bing. He goes right. He hits it. And then right

away he gets the ball up. Shush shush. Set up the block, hit the highway. So good. God damn, that's good. It's a great play, but we actually we can't put it up. We gotta hold. We gotta hold two and six. I think eight is a solid spot. I think it's eight or nine play. Nice. All right, from week nine, Jets Texans.

Week nine, what happened in this play? Oh, this catch was great. That's a great catch. It didn't count. It wasn't a catch. Jets Jake, Jets Jake rule. It counted, his shin goes down. Yeah, I thought he got overturned, right?

It did, it did. It counted. It counted his what was it out. Yeah, I thought he got overturned. Right. It did. It counted. It counted his what was his shin. His shin was down. They called it. They called it a touchdown. I mean, if that's a catch, that's a two. That's you got to throw it to you. That's a fucking insane catch. God damn. That's insane. I mean, if that's in for a touchdown to God damn, that's nasty. We going two? Yeah, we gotta go two. That was a fucking unbelievable, that's, yeah. That's pretty insane.

Yeah. All right, you've been waiting for it. From week nine, hold on, Eagles, Jags. Slide. Number one, there's no way there's any play. It's so fucking crazy. It's so crazy. I could watch this shit all day.

This is fucking poetry. You jump over somebody backwards. The spin movie alone would have been in the top 10 of this list. Oh God. All right, keep it going. Yeah, week five. This is Saints, Chiefs.

Oh, Sir Binky. I'll go nine. I love the play. Sir Bank! Get up on the hopper and look at him! Yeah! I fucking love that dude, man. Shout out to Sir Bank. Top ten play of the year. I'll go nine on Sir Bank. It's right below the sweat play. I feel like that's a good spot for it. All right, and this will be number six if it holds

This is from week 16 Chargers Broncos The free kick Yeah, we'll veto the Genius use of the strategy, but no veto. Okay, it's out, it's out. Who's using their veto? I'll use it, this shit was buns. All right. Sorry. The guy just did a practice kick

that he did a warm up, so I'm freaking out. Listen, you only see it every 60 years. God, it was a lot of time. It was a great job by Harbaugh to utilize a stupid rule, but. Okay, we are going to our first backup play of the year it is from week 16 Bengals Browns it is the burro horizontal td i mean that was a fucking hell of a throw i want to veto this one too this isn't that like yeah shout out to joey

b it's a i mean listen jo Joe deserves to be up here, but. I don't know if that's the one. That's not better than the Washington Hail Mary. So I got to veto it and hope that something better than these, than these ones are in there. I mean, I know one bangles play right now that's better than. Go ahead. All right, well, let's get to our next two alternatives.

Next two alternatives. Give me a break here. You got, how is Lamar Jackson not on here anywhere? It wasn't on the list that I stole from. Dude, you're ridiculous. His fucking touchdown like the one that he had was stiff arm. The bangles. The bangles. Yes, that one should definitely be on here.

And this would be the perfect slot for it. All right, do it. We can't. Brandon, that's not how the blind ranking. Not how it works. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. I'll give you one. No, give us your fucking shitty play.

Let's see what you put up here now. Alright, alright. What are we stuck with? From week two, Vikings Niners, 99 yard touchdown reception. Jefferson? I mean, it's electric. Yeah, I think this is good. I'm fine with this. Is it number six? I mean, it can be up there. I don't know if it's electric. Yeah, I think this is good. I'm fine with this. As a number six?

I mean, it can be up there. I don't know if it's, yeah. I think we're leaving out some other top 10 plays. We 100% are, but it's a blind ranking. Of the ones we presented, I feel very good about this list. I feel better about this list now, yeah. Yeah.

I'm with you though. The Josh Allen lateral probably could have been a little higher. Very solid. Solid list. Some plays that could have probably been up here. We just talked about the Lamar play bangles cornerback interception week two against us. I don't know how the fuck even caught that fucking ball. I'm

still confused on how he caught that fucking ball. That was one of the best interceptions I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. Yeah. Other than that. Shout out to Airbody. Please send any play that we missed to at Jchat85 on Twitter and we'll do this again. Good luck with that one. Good luck buddy. His DMs are open guys. Get in there. Let him know he got wrong. They're not open. They're not open. And that was Blind Rankings brought to you by Intuit Turbo Tax. Hey. Now this is taxes.

Before we get out of here, let's take some not dumb questions that came in to the New Heights hotline. That's right, no dumb questions is brought to you by Mint Mobile. Shout out to our guy Ryan Reynolds. All right. Hello, brothers. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. I have a very, very important question to ask. I'm here watching some football and hanging out with family. And we started talking. And I have a very, very important question to ask. And I think you two are the only ones that can answer. What happened to the jock strap? Seriously. I don't think you boys wear them anymore. You just see everything hanging and moving and running and oh my goodness. What happened to the jock strap?

All right. Take care. Enjoying the show immensely. It's a lot of fun. Bye. Not as aware as this woman at what's going on with the genitals throughout the game, but watch the game for whatever you watch the game for.

I'm not here to judge why someone's watching the game and whether or not they're checking out which guy's got what jock straps on or. What happened to the jock strap is they invented compression shorts and they're just way more efficient at holding everything in place and better. And it eliminates the chafing that could possibly go on. Correct. But I, so it's like you knock out two birds with one stone. You got a gold powder, your gooch and your thighs every

day. You could just throw on some compression shorts. I still wore the jock strap. I liked, there's something I liked about the jock strap. Nice. I mean, I only wore it on game day though. And I would walk around in the locker room making my pre-workout and nothing but my jockstrap. Nice. I mean, game day though. And I would walk around the locker room, making my pre workout and nothing but my jockstrap. And I thought it was funny. So maybe that's the reason I wore it. But I also thought it like cup my butt cheek nice. And it made my butt look better. I didn't realize you were going for a nice look. I needed help because I don't have a great ass. So All right, there you go. I think, yeah, the compression shorts came in and nobody's well,

it also not a lot of guys wear cups anymore. And the jockstrap was initially to hold the the cup. Well, that's how we always use it. But I do think there the jockstrap was initially to hold the cup. Well that's how we always use it, but I do think the jockstrap was also utilized before compression shorts to hold the junk. But once you have compression shorts, you didn't need that. Yeah, I hear you. Alrighty. Glad we could help you out. By the way, get your mind out of it.

What was that woman's name? Do we remember? No, she just said Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Just watch some football, you know, you get a free. She's acting like she's not happy about it. It's so disturbing seeing everybody's junk just jump around on the TV.

All of this phallic meat bouncing from thigh to thigh. I'm gonna throw one at you that I just hate this question and I hate people who ask it. So I want to see how you guys feel. Perfect. Hey guys, this is William from Montgomery. William Montgomery Montgomery. Montgomery. Where your opinion is on fall wedding fall weddings.

Me and my girlfriend have talked about getting married and she wants a fall wedding and I told her good luck with that. I'm getting out of a football game. So I just want to know your guys' opinion on that. It's pretty ridiculous. Sounds like this marriage is going to work out great. I actually don't know people who have gotten married in the fall because all the weddings I've been to and all my friends always

do it in the summer, I guess. Yeah, we can't go usually. I think Jason's pretty spot on with you guys got to be more in sync on things. You got to be willing to, you know, find a weekend where the team isn't playing anybody good maybe. Also, if you really do have a problem with that, maybe it's in her best interest to not have it in the fall

so that she knows you're invested in the anniversary every time it comes around. I think you guys should duke that out. I don't think we have any say on what you should be doing here. And yeah, I mean, I've seen weddings in fucking February, I've seen weddings everywhere but the fall. So I'm not sure if the fall is a good

wedding season, brother, I'm gonna tell you right now, do the fall the wedding and avoid this frivolous fighting that means absolutely fucking nothing. You can watch the football game another like record it and watch it again. Like, I don't know what you want me to say. Like there are certain things that are more important than football. And if the wedding isn't more important than football, we got some bigger issues here. Like I get what you're saying. You can do it another time. Just speaking from a experience. We got a big parlay unless we got a big parlay

and we got a fucking sweetie. We got to make this money. That's how we pay big parlay. Unless we got a big parlay. And we got to fucking sweetie, we got to make this money. That's how we pay for the wedding. Unless that's how you're paying for the wedding. How do we pay for the booze at the wedding if I can't make sure this parlay hits? I just don't get, there's a lot of days in the fall that there's not football. We can't find a Like name one. Well depending on whether he goes to college and NFL games on Sunday,

like you can have a wedding on a Friday. Yeah, but it's a weekend thing. It's a little it's a little inconsiderate. We travel. Don't make my friends have to not go to they go. Everybody's got season tickets. All right. Don't make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their the tickets that week.

There's a lot more important things in footballs and weddings happen to be one of them and not arguing with your wife is high up there with more important than football. So I would just do the wedding whenever she wants to because that's kind of your job now. Football is life. All righty. That was no dumb questions brought to you by Mid Mobile. And that wraps up another episode of New Heights. That's right.

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