Pardon My Take - Michigan Wins The National Title, NFL Playoffs With Brian Baldinger, Coach Firings And The Weird Flyers Hockey Story

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

Michigan has won the National Title and Jim Harbaugh has won his way. We talk about Monday night and all the great quotes from Harbaugh (00:00:00-00:29:04). We then talk about Coach firings in the NFL, Mike Vrabel out in Tennessee and more (00:29:04-00:45:21). Max gives us a rundown of the weird hockey story in Philly and we call Whit to weigh in (00:45:21-01:01:59). Hot Seat/Cool Throne (01:01:59-01:16:19). We then welcome on Brian Baldinger to break down the NFL Playoffs, is there a fix for the Eagles? Can the Lions Defense put it back together? Cold weather Dolphins and more (01:16:19-01:47:52). We finish with guys on chicks (01:47:52-02:01:36).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Wolverines are your 2023, 24 national champions in college football. And our close personal friend, Jim Harbaugh has finally done it. He can sit at the big boy table now. He's done it. You think he popped some celebratory milk last night? I've stopped to like champagne slammed it back. He deserves to because a lot of people said bad things about coach Harbaugh. I'm not talking about this year before this year. They said pretty much what you just indicate that he's not allowed the big boys table.

I heard Paul Feinbaum today do something I've never heard Paul Feinbaum do. He admitted he was wrong. Yeah. Paul Feinbaum said, I've never been wrong about anything as much as I've been wrong about Harbaugh and Michigan. They held opponents to, I believe 10.4 points per game this year. They held every single team under 25 points for the first time in 150 years. And that's before the forward pass.

Yeah, so that's before Michigan was playing doctors and physicians in 1900 and counting it to their total wins. They probably played their freshman team against their seniors and grad students, beat the freshman team. They're like, that's another national title. Another win.

A thousand wins. 150 years ago, Minnesota did that. It hasn't been done since it's Michigan's first solo national title since 1948. They were, so we talked about this in the preview on Sunday night and I was like, Michael Panics is by far and away the best quarterback that Michigan defense has faced.

So who knows, maybe Michigan's defense is not been to, that was wrong. Michigan's defense was so good. That tackling, they tackle you to death. That's all they do. Like they missed one tackle all night. I think it was on the first drive every other pass was either contested or if a guy catches it There's a bunch of Michigan Wolverines jumping all over you and the thing like Harbaugh did it his way

That's the part that I love for Jim Harbaugh because you've seen college football change You need the five stars spread off, and all this stuff. Harba said, no, I'm going to build it in the mold of how I love football. I'm going to build the team that leans on you for a quarter after quarter after quarter. And then in the fourth quarter, you're going to be like, no moss. And we break it wide open. And I feel bad for Washington, because this is maybe the peak of screenshots of holding. Yes. There were some bad no calls. because this is maybe the peak of screenshots of holding.

Yeah. There were some bad no calls. And I do think the call was a little ticky tacky on the Michael Pentax to a Dune Zay down the, like that big 30 yard game, they're only big play of the game that got called back. But Washington fans have been watching this sucks right now.

I just wanna say this, Michigan always going to win that game. That is what Michigan does. They make you think it's close and then when you get to the fourth quarter and you're just so sick of getting the ball shoved down your throat and their defense just keeps tackling everyone. They basically bend your will and Harbock gets his way and that's just what they've done all season. What they've done basically for the last three years outside the Georgia and TCU game. And that is what happened last night. So as much as it sucked for Washington, I really truly believe Michigan was the best team by a large margin in college football this year.

There were, and Petics had a bad night last night. Yeah, so we said some very nice things about Petics after the semi-final game. I had to community notes, a couple of people online to remind them exactly what we said and what we did not say. Petics had the game of a lifetime in the semifinals. He was incredible.

He stunk last night. He wasn't good at all. And the defense was getting pressure on him. He wasn't super comfortable. The windows weren't there, but the windows weren't really there against Texas that much either. He just found him. He just had perfectly place balls. Yeah, he had to play a perfect game last night.

And he did for their only chance for Washington to win. He was bad. He was, he was not good. He missed, he missed probably three or four like throws that he should have hit. And it was also just like Michigan. Again, it was a seven point game. I was happy it was close. It wasn't, you know, there was times where it was like pretty ugly, guys dropping balls. But Michigan just always has you like strangled

and they're just gonna slowly strangle the life out of you and that's what happened last night. Like we kept on saying when we're watching, like, Washington get their big shot, they get their big shot and just never came. Washington got back in the game. Yeah, we were in the game to start the second half and then the immediate turnover right after half time.

Then at that point the game was over. Washington's defense played great. They gave him shot after shot after shot to try to tie that game. Yeah, after the first quarter, it felt like Michigan could just do whatever they wanted as long as they ran the ball. No, I think they could have won that game easily without throwing a single pass. They were the first two runs by the backup running back. Conovan Edwards.

Edwards. It looked like Washington didn't have linebackers on the field. He also could just do that. If he hesitated for half of a second, he could just bounce it to the outside, didn't matter which side he was going to go to. And then all the linebackers would get swallowed up in the middle of the field. And he just had 40 yards of daylight in front of him. It seemed like it was over right after it started, but with Washington hanging around,

you're like, well, maybe Pinnix can do something. Maybe he can start playing well in the second half, but I don't think I don't think that the game, there was never a doubt in my mind as to which team was better after the second drive of the game. Right, it was, in Michigan, like that's just, they play such fundamentally sound football where it's like they're not gonna beat themselves,

they're gonna block the fuck out of you, and then they're gonna tackle you, and then they're gonna run it down your throat until you're like, I don't wanna play anymore. And you're right, Michigan ran the ball 38 times for 303 yards, eight yards of carry. Also, I know that like whenever there's a national title, the quarterback gets a lot of the accolades,

Jay Jamacarty, there's some Jay Jamacarty haters out there. I understand that because he's not Michael Panics. He doesn't have a season like Michael Panics. He never season like Jay Daniels. He's not gonna electr not Michael Penex. He didn't have a season like Michael Penex. He never sees him like Jayden Daniels. He's not like going to electrify you with his throws. But he is one of those guys that just makes the big plays when they have to be made that third and eighth scramble run. Yeah.

When he they were on their own eight yard line and he ran, they didn't even score on that drive, but it flipped all field position. Like those were the type of plays that Jayden McCarty, even I think when they took the, when they went from seven points to a 14 point game, he had that big pass on first down. Not like the flashiest quarterback, I think he probably should stay another year. Yeah, but I think he is. And his mental health is, is A.O.K. We, we, we, we learned about his mental health more than any storyline in the last two weeks. He,

he grounds himself before every game. He takes his shoes off and he goes and he meditates underneath the goal post. It's very liver king like he's grounding his body. Yeah, it's basically the verbal meme, the, the arm shaking. It's Taylor Swift and Jay Jamacarty's mental health and it's just whenever a broadcaster has a low in the conversation. Oh, I thought you're gonna say Jay Jamacarty

Taylor Swift handshake, wishing I could see their feet on national television all the time. That too. Yeah, too. But yeah, it was, it was a true Jim Harbaugh national champion like they, they did it his way. And because there was that time when it was the argument was, okay, Michigan can't beat Ohio State. They don't have the same dudes as Ohio State Georgia, Alabama, these upper echelon teams.

Then the last couple of years, it was Michigan has created themselves to a point where they can beat Ohio State, but they can't beat the Georgia and Alabama's, like Ohio State's better equipped to win those type of games. Last year when Georgia almost lost to Ohio State, now he's finally come all the way where it's like, no, he built a team that can just bully everyone in the country and he did it.

He's got the big bullies right now. And they deserve to win. Credit to Michigan. And I do like Coach Arbal. I think he's hilarious. He's a funny guy. College football is better with figures like him in it. Yep.

I also think this proves that cheaters win. Like in the long term, everybody cheats. All right. This is not just Michigan. Every school, every major school in the country, they cheat in certain ways. Michigan found a hilarious over the top, absolutely ridiculous way to cheat

for the last couple of years, and they won. Cheat, if you can cheat and cheat better than anybody, really college football is about who is the best at cheating. And Michigan was really fucking good at cheating. They were really good. And Hank, your number one expert on cheating, what do you think Michigan fans should say when people say, oh, this is a tainted national title?

They are just mad that, you know, Michigan was doing well as something that everyone else in college football is doing. People just try to make a stink about Michigan but as the facts of proven, every other team is doing it as well. And Connors Italians rocks. Yes, he is the most, they're just mad

that Connors Italians was the best at it. Yeah, and he also, like, true haters because they ain't us. And Conor Stallion's rocks. Yes. He is the most, they're just mad that Conor Stallion was the best at it. Yeah, and he also, like, He's true, he had us because they ain't us. And it's really, really good at cheating. Like, and he's funny. He went to the Naval Academy to learn how to cheat. He, he, he cares so much about like,

Conor Stallion's was the big winner last night because Conor Stallion's manifesto turned out to be true. Yeah. He wrote a manifesto and sought through. He did it. Yeah, he literally did it. But he might be the first person to I wrote a manifesto and saw it through. He did it. Yeah. He literally did it. But he might be the first person to ever write a manifesto accomplish all the goals in their manifesto and not end up in prison. Right. Yeah. He went from a vacuum cleaner salesman to a manifesto

checkmark. I would hire a counter stallion to do any job in the world. I wish Barstow would hire him. I wish that was still on the table. I would like to just give him an office black out the glass and just be like, he's our own Ernie Adams. We don't ask him questions. He's just like, hey, I've done some research. This other show is doing this. I want you to take down Bleacher Report.

Yeah, yeah. Like I want Connor Stalin's on my side, but yeah, it was, I don't really, people who are like, oh, this is tainted. Not tainted. Well, not only that, but they won the teams that they played, Penn State, Ohio State, Alabama, Washington, all happened post-conner stallion. Yes.

So it's like, and they basically spent an entire season being like, it's us against the world while also saying they were America's team. There. I mean, cheating and getting away with it, there's nothing more Americans. Yeah, you could see in that like locker room, like there was quotes like guys like the haters are crying right now. Like that locker room, they they had it all together because like the whole world was against them. We also I'm thinking real quick about that run that you just mentioned at the end of the year too. They played great teams going down the stretch. Yeah. I.O.I. forgot. Sorry.

I mentioned I was there were ranked number like 20 at the time. Mm hmm. Big 10 West champ. They not only did they win all those games against great teams, I think they covered every spread. They yeah, yeah, they did. So they're really the last time they didn't cover spread was against Purdue. I don't know why I know that.

Oh no, Maryland. They didn't cover Maryland in the sandwich box. They played Penn State, Maryland, Ohio State. Yeah, so they're really fucking good. You know, they're really, really good. That was 15 and 0. Seeing 15 and 0 too. It's just feels way different than when we saw it back in the day

like, you know, 12 and 0 national title. It's, that's a big number. 15 wins is a lot. And, and next year will be 16, right? I think it would be. Yeah. Whoever wins the national title will be 16 and out. I have a fun little fact here for you big cat or 17 to 15 that doesn't get a buy. Yeah, that's true. Good point, Jake.

So the last time that paid manning and Tom Brady were not in the NFL playoffs. Do you know when that was? Uh, had to be like 1999. It was 98. 98 Michigan was also rating champions. Like interest coach champions, I should wow. So what does that fact tell us? It went Michigan. It just took a really long time to win another one. Michigan Tom Brady Michigan. So it's like Tom Brady has been a champion for 24 years. Yes.

And we should say it be gracious. People here at Barstool Sports, our boss Dave Portner, Michigan alum He went five whole years without Winning a title it was tough and in those five years I think our friend Nick Tarani put it perfectly in those five years He made like four hundred million dollars. So it's been tough for him. It's been really hard so but he is he is he is The drought is over for Dave. Maybe you'll finally stuff some merch around here. Celtics made it to the finals.

Yeah. Ruins made it. Yeah, he's had heartbreak. He's had heartbreak, but here he is. But yeah, Michigan, I mean, it's, I'm just happy for Jim Harboh. I love Jim Harboh. Even, even memes was posting the old Harboh clip when we had him on the show, talking about how SpongeBob is a hero of his.

Yes, SpongeBob is a hero. He talks a lot about World War II. Yep, as well. We're going to get him back on the show, for sure. We actually, so I wanted to mention real quick. I wish the one thing I wish we had was the, we played in his scramble in the face of disgust. It was me, you, PFT, Tony Sheffler.

I, this is before I was, you know, taking golf seriously as a side gig. You've gotten much better, right? Yeah, I can actually hit the ball. I think we were like, you were wearing jeans. I was wearing jeans, I think as a forceome, we were like plus five, plus six, through like 12 holes. And he came running a golf cart. He's like, hey, what's up guys?

How's it going? Like, what's your score? We're like plus five. And the look of disgust. He didn't even hide it. He would just like, almost looked like he wanted to puke and drove away. Yeah, I think he said he's like,

you guys are playing scramble rules, right? Yeah. Like, there's something not computing here. He was better, you guys. He was ready to play last night too in the pregame rules when he was catching passes for his quarterback. He was wearing the cleats as his football.

He is like, and he said it. He's gets to the big boy table, which. He is, he is like, and he said it, he's gets to sit at the big boy table, which you know, like in a weird way, I think obviously winning for Michigan was big, but like just the fact that he can sit down and be like, all right, you got a Super Bowl, I got a national title. Yeah, like it does matter for him.

Who's at the big boy table now? It was his dad won a national title. He said that, his quote was, oh, and I have some Jim Harbock quotes that I wanted to go through. He said, I can now sit at the big persons table in my family. Jack Harbock won the national championship. My brother won a Super Bowl.

It's good to be at the big persons table from now on. Also some great quotes from Jim Harbock last night. After the game, he was, it was like, did he just win the national title or is he on LSD? Because he just looked up in the confetti and he said, there's a story in every one of these pieces of confetti. It's like, I can feel the air. Yeah, I can taste colors. The universe is connected.

That piece of confetti was once a mighty tree in the biggest forest on the earth. Yes, he also, this is, I guess, a new mantra, which I think the team, the team, the team, shout out, Bo Shambakal, because that really is the greatest mantra to come up with. Which you can tell, like, Jim Harbaugh, like Bo Shembaugh, I know that it sounds cheesy, but Bo Shembaugh or what he instilled in Jim Harbaugh, like it is a whole Michigan thing, cult thing that they've got going on.

There works, but he said, what's good for the B is good for the hive and what's good for the hive is good for the B. Not as cool as the team, the team, the team, the team. But still, it's all for one, one for all. Yeah, and then the ultimate gym Harbock quote from last night, he said, someday when they throw dirt over the top of me, if somebody who is eulogizing me, who is on this team, or one of my teammates when I was playing at Michigan,

if they would simply say he was a Michigan man, that would mean everything to me. That's it. I got chills. That's the best. That's all he wants. You know what he wants? Someone's like, and he was a Michigan man. It's also nice to see somebody experiencing their peak and knowing that they're in their peak at the moment. That is like a transcendent drug to be like, well, it's not getting any better in this. This is, I I wanna be known for this exact thing that I did right now. Right, and it's also the Michigan win.

There is something that happens in sports fandom. I call it the flip, the big flip. When a team is down and they have a rival who just rubs their face in it for a very long time, it's as bad as it can get, but the reason why you keep coming back is because the flip is always on the horizon. So like Ohio State fans have spent 20 years

being like, this is the new normal. Michigan sucks, we're awesome, we win national titles, we beat them every year, and then the flip happened, and all that like new normal is now evaporated, and Michigan's on top, and that's what keeps you coming back as a sports fan. You're like, as bad as it could be right now, the flip may happen at any point. Yeah. And I'm not saying this just because I think about it pretty much every day as it relates to

players, Packers, but it is like that is the, if you're a team, if you root for a team that sucks and they get just shit on, the big flip is always there for you. And that's what Michigan did the last three years. What they have to do is Ohio State has to flip it back soon. Because if you don't flip it back soon, then you have to wait a long time because then the expectation, but correct. Like in the back of everybody's mind, I think there's still kids that are getting recruited right now to go to college that still remember the dominance of Ohio State.

Right. And we're supposed to win this game every single year. But if you wait too long, if you wait like seven more years, then you have to get guys that have the DNA to flip. Right. And it'll have the flipping grained in them already. It is a way to make yourself feel better if you root for a team that doesn't win because you can just tell your rival like,

at some point, the big flip will happen, and that should terrify you. Because there is no worse feeling as Ohio State fan waking up today Where you thought that like you obviously knew that Michigan would eventually Probably figure it out, but if you go 10 15 20 years where Michigan sucks You think in your head the bag of your head like maybe we just will beat them every year this from now until eternity And you know though that little piece of your feeling,

I, oh, the big flip could happen and everything could turn. Yeah, out of fan bases that had been considered to be long suffering or underdogs, I don't know that I would put Michigan in that pile. No, because it's mostly them in Ohio state, that's been their underdog situation. It hasn't been like Michigan's the lovable loser. Rich Rodden, the Rich Rodden Brady Hokeers were very, very bad.

I'm more, it's not lovable loser. Rich Rodden, the Rich Rodden Brady Hokeers were very, very bad. I'm more, it's not lovable loser. Michigan has an unfounded arrogance to them as a fan base that is disgusting and makes everyone else want to puke. So yeah, I agree they're not lovable losers. I'm just talking as it relates to rivalries and sports fandom. If you're stuck in a situation where it's like, will we ever get back over this team? Will we ever get back on this team? Will we ever get

back on top of the mountain? The big flip is the is what wakes you up in the morning. Yeah. And Michigan got it. They did it. Congrats to coach our ball. I think I think this means he's going to go. Yeah. Talk to ball. Did you see that one quote? There was one quote that he had with SVP that was a little interesting. He said that SVP, I can't remember what he asked him, but he said that he moved. he decided to move spring ball from February to March. So that's weird that he's, think of the schedule. He's probably planning ahead so that the next coach comes in, doesn't get as much practice. Also, so we talked to our friend Sam Schwartzstein. He played for coach Arbaugh and I brought up the, uh, the sleep thing that Harbaugh had, where

it's like the night before, the night night before that's really your night before sleep that you play on and Sam was saying that they had a big game on the east coast against Wake Forest and this is out at Stanford and so the entire week Coach had them waking up at like Three in the morning practicing at four in the morning He he switched their clocks on the West Coast. It's like staying at the Greenbrother Yeah, he was out in Palo Alto. Yeah. He's like, okay, you're waking up at three o'clock,

you're practicing at four, and then on the plane ride over, he was going up and down the aisles, waking up every player that was sleeping, being like, you're not allowed to sleep yet, we have to conquer sleep, then when we conquer sleep, we beat our opponent, then they lost wake force. But still, like biohacking.

Biohacking. Coach Harbaugh has a bright future in biohacking. We also missed one quote from Harbaugh before the game. A reporter asked him like, what do you guys do to prepare? And he said that he has the whole team sit down and they watch nature documentaries about wolves. And his quote was, we allow ourselves to devolve into a pack of wolves. That's what we want to channel,

probably nature's greatest fighting unit. Oh, I love that. I love that. It's fucking awesome. I love that shit just sitting there. That's the Billy football method. Yeah. Just watching nature stuff or each other.

Yeah, exactly. Tapping to that primal. So he is a primal. The one thing that I would say to coach our box, we do consider him a friend, I would wait on the tattoo. So he said that he's getting a tattoo. He told the team he's gonna get a tattoo of 15 to no.

The last time a coach got a tattoo after winning a national title, Patina, our good friend Rick Patino got a vacated. And that's Ease on the table here. Yeah, I don't know. I actually think I was reading some report yesterday that said in order to vacate a national title, it has to be, they have to take that away from them before the end of the game. But that's not what happened with Louisville at all.

I know, but this is college football. But college basketball will be the same. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Because I was reading a report yesterday that had that brought up that exact same scenario. I feel like they could take it away at any time, and it doesn't think so. I, because I was reading a report yesterday that had that brought up that exact same scenario. I feel like they could take it away at any time and it doesn't mean anything. The vacated national title is the dumbest thing in sports. You have to take down the banner.

Yeah, it's like, who cares? Every fan lived it, every... Rick T.O. has got that too. Yeah. Who cares? I'm gonna look this up, because I'm pretty sure in college football the rules are different. I feel like that was, you read that from like a... a go-blue message board person being like, as long as it hits zero, we're good. No. No, no, no statue of limitations are over. Let's see. I'll pull it up. But yeah, congrats to Michigan. Congrats, Jim Harbott. We will try to get him on again soon. What were you gonna say, Jake?

Can we do some box talk? You guys see that box? Yeah, it's a great box. I was very we were laughing about it when we saw your treat on the gambling stream because everyone was like, what is Jake talking about this box? Like, listen, you got to know Jake Marsh. Yeah. The game is not really important. It's what's going on around the game. But the storyline is not totally,

it's really, it's great. I liked your treat because I am, but we definitely will do a box of the air for the ladies. So talk to us for the box, yeah. Okay, so this box will be one of the nominees. It'll be Michael Jordan, Stephen A. Smith, Eric Geter, and I didn't recognize Travis Scott because I don't know pop culture.

Spike Lee was in there too, I think. Yeah. Okay, you couldn't really tell from the angle. Michael Rubin. Yeah, you saw him, PFT. Yeah, I did. I thought. So we have that box.

I think it was actually Michael Rubin's white party was that that box. Yeah. I just assumed that Michael Rubin's presence was there. Yeah, so that was a good box. We have Taylor Swift's box at Chiefs Games, the Travis Kelsey. Okay.

Or excuse me, Donna Kelsey. Uh huh. Or you could take the one from MetLife. She was with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Mm hmm. That was a good box. Yeah. We have Jimmy Butler and the Beebers and Coco Goffs box.

Okay, now Jake, now I'm confused because that's Coco Goss box. Yeah, but Taylor Swift, it's her box when she's at Arrowhead. Is it not Travis Kelsey's box? It sounds like you just wanna bring up Taylor Swift's box. Oh, that's technically Travis Kelsey's box. We've always thought of as Travis Kelsey's box, but you're such a pervert. You're like, how can I say Taylor Swift's box on part of my tape?

And meant to be Travis Kelsey's box. Got it. Yeah, box of beer. Taylor Swift and Taylor Swift's mom, excuse me, Travis Kelsey's mom in Travis Kelsey's box. Oh, that's freaky. It actually might be Donna Kelsey's box. Yeah, it could be.

Which Travis Kelsey was in at one point. Yeah, and so is Jason Kelsey. Right, that's actually maybe the best box. That is the number one box. Great, and then our fourth nominee will be Joe Burrow's box with Jake Browning. Oh, yes. Yeah. Good box. Yeah. That's a little sneak peek for the 2024 take. He's a first category. What about a black at the Panthers game? Oh, yeah. That was two years ago. Right. What about Brooks when he didn't sleep? Yeah. Yeah. That's a great box. I've seen a lot of good boxes over here. Yeah, this would be a great.

What, nothing really? Are we calling it Taylor Schruzz box? No, no, no. Travis Kelsi was my last name. That was a mistake on mine. Got it. But, yeah. Stay tuned.

It was good box. This summer. Yeah, no, when you followed it up with, we're going to have to do box a year. I thought that was a very good idea. Okay, did you find out? If they could vacate it, I'm looking it up. I, uh, why Michigan's why Michigan football is college football national title won't be tainted.

That seems like an opinion piece. It doesn't like it. I mean, you could be right. I just, it would be weird if it was different rules for college basketball and college football because it would be the NCAA taking away places. It's the college football playoff. Oh, maybe. So it's not, I don't think it's NCAA Well, it's the college football playoff. Oh, maybe yes. So it's not, I don't think it's NCAA. I think it's college football playoff, right? But they could take away, I guess they could take away the AP votes and the coaches votes. They might do that.

Yeah. So I don't know. The answer is, I don't know. Get the tattoo. Get the tattoo. I would love it. What if you get a neck tattoo? I want to get a tattoo of a rib eye.

Just steak. Yeah. Just like right on his bicep. I want to get a tattoo of a rib eye Just steak. Yeah Just a just like right on his bicep. You should get the wolf tattoo like the howling wolves across his chest. Yes Yes, that would be great. Be a wolf. That's what Taylor Luan always says true noted Michigan alum Yes, people are asking is this the year of Harbaugh because now we have John going in the playoffs So if you were to put truth serum and Jim Harbaugh's arm, maybe when he was getting the tattoo, he does not want his brother to get another Super Bowl, right?

I mean, his brother was there on the sidelines, there was a wild scene before the game, they hugged each other. I've been speculating that maybe there's Sharon Connor Stallions this year. Yeah. I think that Jim, if you were to make him be honest, he doesn't want his brother to have two.

So it's a competing thought, because my knee jerk reaction is like, agree with you. But then if John wins a Super Bowl, then they get to be like year of harboh. Like harbohs run football. Yeah, a loyal rule. Yeah, so you kind of get that where it's like,

their power's combined. But then you can't tell the story of 2024 without Harbaugh. It's the year of Harbaugh. It's the year of Harbaugh. But then Jim goes to the NFL maybe and then now he's got two Super Bowls that he has. Yeah.

Does he not get to go to the big, is there a bigger boys table? I actually, he might get to eat Dino Loan at the Kings table. That would be great if John Harbaugh like won a Super Bowl and then Thanksgiving next year like had an extra like the Phil Jackson pillow that he used to sit on. Yeah. And just be like, no, won a Super Bowl, and then Thanksgiving next year, like, had an extra, like, like, the Phil Jackson pillow that he used to sit on. Yeah.

And just be like, no, I don't know. I don't think you understand. I have two. There might be a dad's favorite chair. Yeah. And then he gets that. I think that, I think that Jim probably doesn't want his brother to have two before he gets one.

Yeah, probably. Because then now he's like, oh, now I have to win two. Deep down, but then he knows if he does he does win two and his brother doesn't have a single college football, Maddie. Yeah, then he's king. Yeah, but I think it does go back to like, if you add, if you hit him with true serum, we would normally think of a human being with true serum would be like, you know, very open and selfish to like what, you know, yeah, it's my brother, but I want to have the moment. I think if you hit Jim Harbaugh with true serum He would be like I my my goal in life is for the Harbaugh's to run football

I think that you know I mean like he's like what what do you want like if you could have any wish in the world? It's like Harbaugh's are we renamed football Harbaugh I don't I don't even think that there's such a thing as truth serum for him I think his blood. Yes, he just tells the truth Yeah, he said they were innocent said they were innocent. He stood up That's why they're able to stand up for themselves So vociferously was because he knew that the truth was on their side. Yeah. Yeah, exactly

Okay, other news we have coach firings the shocker Mike Raeble fired by the Titans I don't know I think that's Raible fired by the Titans. I don't know. I think that's a really stupid move by the Titans. I was gonna say dumb as shit, but I'll take stupid. And I think anybody in this room would like to have coach Raible as their coach next year, right? We can say that.

Well, I don't understand is, so I guess you, oh, the last two years haven't gone great. Mike Raible has had insane amounts of success with Ryan Tannanael as quarterback. Yeah. Finding other coach could get the Ryan Tanael to the AFC championship game. Like he's never had a good quarterback. They were the one seed in 2021. Yeah. Last year they traded away A.J. Brown and a bunch of good players. Yep. And this year they had a bunch of dog shit going on. Tanael had one of the biggest cap hits I think in the NFL as a quarterback.

And they were still competitive. Yeah, like they didn't quit. Vrables an awesome coach. And maybe the funniest part, maybe also the most relatable part of the story. Diana Rossini reported this, the Titans believed trading variable was too complicated and would take too long per sources.

They wanted to move on quickly. I was told variable never ask ownership for a trade or ask out of Tennessee. That means that the Titans just didn't want to do paperwork, which I completely understand. Yes. If they wanted to, they could have sat down and probably gotten like, I don't know what coaches go

for these days. Last trade was a long time ago. I think that was probably John Gruden. But you can trade coaches in the NFL. No wait, Sean Payton. He got traded. Did he, did the Saints get a pick for him? Maybe like, comes in.

Was he still under contract? He was. No, he took a year off, remember everyone. Yeah, I know, but I feel like he still had a year. I don't know if that was a trade necessarily. But the point is, in the NFL, you can trade coaches. And the owner of the Titans, Amy Adam Strunk, basically just didn't want to do the paperwork and the leg work and waste time trying to pull off a trade

Which I completely understand that point of view. Yes, also I can understand that that's probably not how you want to run and enough I'll franchise yes Yeah, I think the oh no, I think the I think the the Saints had to trade or the Saints got a couple picks The Saints will receive the Broncos 23 first round pick and 24 second round pick for Peyton. Oh, okay. And the Saints 24 third round pick. It's big. Yeah, that is big.

Huge. Um, but yeah, I agree. The paperwork is daunting. Paper, I mean, imagine that you have to probably call 30 other teams. You have to talk, and also, you have to, how would you, like if they did a trade, Bill Bellicac is the GM of the Patriots. Yeah. Do you call Bill Bellicac and be like,

hey, we want to trade you, Mike Vrayble, when you get fired? Well, Bill Bellicac would probably say, let's do a trade, I will trade you, Bill Bellicac. Yeah, for Mike Vrayble. That would be interesting. And, but here's the thing is you don't, he would not make them,

you would not make the Titans pay anything. Right. Because then he was gonna go to Tennessee and he wants all his draft. Right, Hank. But he's not GM anymore, maybe. Yeah, Mike Vrable is this open the door? Would love to have Mike Vrable as a coach to the page.

You have a coach. You have a coach. Never talk about another man's job. There hasn't been a lot of news. There was all these reports, fan fiction articles. He's getting his chest puffed out again. No, I just don't know. You just said you went in like,

well, because you guys, you fired me. Belichick. You guys made me do a fucking solo podcast. You were on Bill Belichick. I was based off of a fake article. Maybe an overreaction hand out. Yeah. You guys were like, go do a solo podcast,

which has never been done in the history of the show. Based off of rumor and speculation. You personally just now ran Bill Bellachuk at a town. After all, you guys, you guys gaslit me, I forgot. I forgot we made you do that. Yeah, you guys gaslit me into believing

that there was no world where Bellachuk wasn't gonna be the coach, PFT makes Photoshop, you know, I did not make a change. The whole thing. The whole thing. The whole thing. The whole thing. The whole thing. The whole thing. make a change. The shame to his desk and forces him to not leave the office

until like 10 Bill Bouchek Photoshop's are done. That's what I do. But hey, can someone else do that? Yes, somehow. Also that this, is that's hiring day has passed me Bill Bouchek is actually really going to work for Poryhard because that's exactly what you do to them.

And correct didn't say that. Yeah, always thought I don't make them do anything. I'm the best boss in the world. Oh, man, you should have made Max push the button that time. Yeah, that was, that was sick. Come on. Um, but I told him I, I'm always down to edit whenever he wants to solve Eagles, but yeah, now you want variable and you've, you've written I just don't know like again, I'm, I'm used to winning. I'm used to, you know, late draft picks. I don't understand the draft. I don't understand like coaching

carousel nonsense. If Bell checks gone, when's it happening? Experts. It could happen anytime. What what's today's date? The eighth ninth. No, what's the what's the day? Sorry to stay January 9th. Okay, did anyone get fired today? Yeah. Like I was able to.

Oh, shit. So there's no rules for black Monday also. Also, Ron Rivera got fired on Sunday. So we're out to Smith. Not over there on Monday, Monday morning, Arthur Smith on Sunday. Ron Rivera got fired in November. Also, multiple over there on Monday Monday morning. Out to Smith on Sunday, uh, run very got fired in November. Also multiple coaches got fired before. Yeah. Yeah.

So black Monday is fluid, Hank, try to be fluid for once in your life. So here, here's the thing. If Bill Bell, John, the check said that he has a meeting with Robert Kraft once a week, they go over what happened last week, plan for the future. They just haven't had that meeting yet. What if it happens by tomorrow morning? That would be a huge. Oh, you have to do so upon. I hope he gets fired right before we leave. You want him though, you want to keep course.

Yeah, he's the greatest coach of all time. He got you in this mess. He can get you out of it. Yeah, he said he's willing to take a lesser role with the team, which I feel like is that would it would be bizarre. So funny if his lesser role with the team, which I feel like is that would it would be bizarre. So funny. If his lesser role was to not be the coach anymore, but still be the GM. Yeah. Bring Vabel on his coach. Him is GM. Get the boys back together. Get the boys back together. I it is crazy. Like Vabel, if he wants to coach next year, he should be number one option for every team is looking for a coach. Yes. Yeah. Vabel.

Vabel is a big name out there. But do you have Vrable or Belicechak, PSD? Ah man, I mean Vrable has some Belicechak in him. He learned under Belicechak. So I feel like if I get Vrable, I'm getting Bill Belicechak and Mike Vrable. Also, yeah, like Belicechak has how many rings? Six. But how many of them has he, I mean, some of those are Mike Vrable's rings.

Who's rings are they? As head coach? Well, Mike Raibull was a player's make place. True. Got touched on and super well. So those are actually his. So it's three to three. Yeah, there are.

It's a collective thing. I just think it's dumb as shit to fire Mike Raibull right? Agreed. It's so stupid. There was another report that came back. Will Compton and Taylor won. Both said that it was politics and like Game of Thrones type things happening.

I believe that because they I think they got a new GM last year, right? So he probably is like I want to, you know, I want to pick my guy. I want to pick my guy. Grable was probably too big of an alpha form. They also have a new stadium coming right. Yeah. They build in one house that levis bill. Yeah, you always got to look for a new coach then.

Yeah. Did you see the report about Russell Wilson though in his contract? No. So there's a chance Russell goes back to the Broncos. Oh, that'll be awkward. It'd be very awkward. So George Patten, their GM said that, uh, he never told Russell that he had to take a pay cut or he was going to be caught or anything like that or read, excuse me, readjust his injury guarantee. Um, he said that he went to Russell with a creative and good faith idea

for how to restructure his contract. So he's like completely spinning this into being like, that's not what I said. What I actually just tried to do was have a mid contract re-negotiation with him. He's saying, I didn't do that, but I did it, but it was good. So all the people that are saying this bad, it was actually in good faith that I asked him to readjust his contract. It was just, he just did it, but it was good. So all the people that are saying this bad, it was actually in good faith that I asked them

to readjust his contract. He just did it through Ha Ha, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, wouldn't it be crazy if you readjusted your injury guarantee for after this season, so it made it easier for us to cut you? Ha Ha Ha. Yeah, can you just give me $37 million back?

Ha Ha. Yeah. JK. Yeah. And then wait for the bubbles to come back at you. And then he said that the benching Russell Wilson getting bench was actually unrelated to that. Oh, Sean, Sean Payton, Benchden for because I guess he thought Jared Stidham was the guy. Okay. So they're they're in damage control. And if I'm the Broncos, I you

have to think, is it going to be worse for us if we get hammered and fines and the NFL does, that's not like a lawsuit talk. Yeah, it seems like the cover your ass move would be like, we're actually just gonna have Russell stick around for next year. Yeah, that would be smart. Then maybe trade him after a couple of weeks.

Yeah, to who? Whoever gets their quarterback injured. The UFL happens every year, right? Yeah, that's? Whoever gets their quarterback injured. The U.F. happens every year. Yeah, right? Yeah, that's true. He's just waited out and then trade him be like, no, we wanted him to play. Trade him back to Seattle.

Flip him. I don't think that. I think people would probably be pretty upset. Very upset, very upset. And then so far, we've had Mike Frabel dumb firing, Arthur Smith dumb firing because we're friends with him and that we won't say anything more about that Ron Rivera good firing great great firing of the year anyone else and then

we obviously had the McDaniel's stalee is Frank right that's it it's only six right now we still have like we're gonna get to eight we might we've got some some postseason guys Dennis Allen how have you not been fired so um Shin Sharp said that he would have cut James Winston for mutiny. Then you then you get a real mutant. And you get a serious mutiny because all of his guys have his back. Right. All the players down there have his back, which actually if you're the saints, you probably want a lot of your current players gone somehow. You get a cap hell. Get you out of cap hell. You, what if, okay, now I'm doing some serious fan fiction. Harbaugh to the NFL, he brings in James Winston

because he knows he doesn't have a sex addiction. Not addicted to sex, James Winston. So, James is gonna get blacklisted. He makes James wear glasses, even though he got laced. Yeah, the trans, the transition lenses. You think James got blacklisted? It's going to get. Black Paul, do you mean?

What was he's been black bald? Yeah. They made no mention about how they forced from the plan for crack vertebrae and a torn perioneal tendon. None of that. I'll say this right now, if James Winston doesn't get another job in the NFL, he has a job for life at Barstow.

I don't know how we're gonna financially make that work, but I'm gonna say it right now. It's to be a dude. Yeah, just be a vibes guy. If he was just the vibes guy in the office, imagine walking in like eight in the morning and James is just like, let's go eat a dub. Yeah.

Dude does his workouts with us. Yeah. Oh my God, they'd be insane. That we could make money off of that. We could pay his salary. For sure. Workouts, just a live stream of his workouts. Every day.

All right, James, you have a job for life. But no, James should not be black, bold. He did the right thing. Maybe from the wrong formation, but he did the right thing. I think most teams would be like, that was a great teammate move. But not most coaches. Right, but Deniz Allen's a fucking idiot. Most coaches are probably...

Deniz Allen's idiots. When you think about, the problemation. Dennis Allen's idiot. Yeah. When you think about Arthur Smith and Vraib's teaming up again, that would be good. People are saying it. Yeah, I'd be good. But what do you think? What's the over-under?

So we're at six right now. And what do you think? If I give you over under seven and a half, I think over. If I'll check it and fire it just for now. I don't know. You tell us, you just fired him. They're gonna do a mutual separation. I do not think that Belichock will be the coach

in New England next year. I don't think it'll get fired. Okay. I think they will mutually. It feels like there's so much smoke, right? I agree. I just, I think it would be stupid. I think you should keep them, but it does feel like there's,

there was so much talk about it that at this point, craft might be just, he's like taking time almost as like a, we're really thinking about it hard. He's already made his mind up. Eber Fluse, will he be the coach next year? I don't know. It's been very his mind up. Eber Fluse, will he be the coach next year? I don't know. It's been very quiet, House Hall. He should not be the coach.

I agree, but I think he is. So Ryan Poles, whatever he decides. Would you rather have Eber Fluse or Harbaugh as your coach? Would you rather have Eber Fluse or Mike Rabel Mike Raeble is made free harbored or Chicago merch I've tweeted that hype video a billion times. I watched it when I was city This is a sad thing. I'm about to say folks. I got home last night at like 11 p.m. in my car in my my garage Put the garage down Keep the car on which is not was wasn. People probably like, is he suicidal?

No. And then I watched the video that I made of Harrodish Kago. Yeah, you got to. By myself and my car. And I got excited. I would take variable in a heartbeat. Yeah, you know, fucking heartbeat.

There's almost every coach that's, this is like the biggest stack of coaches that we have that teams should be excited about in the off season. And it's also like, variable would instill man football. I want a culture change. Yeah. You got to either trust that the culture's going the right way or you need a culture change. I would like to Vrable or Harbaugh. Yes, very much so.

I think Harbaugh is going to go to the charge of the Raiders Eagles. What the fuck? You and PFT just showed up in the Harbaugh shit. You have a coach. Yeah, is you do too? Yeah, Max does. You have a coach. Yeah, it's you do too. Yeah, Max does not for you have a coach You're the playoffs. You're in the Super Bowl last year's boy like this God damn it listen big can't spoil if your favorites right now You're you're married. You got a exploration date is not expired you were you were married to Matt Eberfluss

I'm out here single-ready to mingle I want to go on a nice long walk with my coach wife and whoops, she fell off a cliff. Trial separation, my bad. I was to, hey, honey, just go take a picture, go, go, Matt, go, go out there, a little bit farther. Sorry. I'm single, I'm like, I'm like Casey Anthony right now.

I'm just, I'm looking for somebody to tame me. Yeah, but you have like the worst worst the package. Yeah, that's yes That's why Casey answer. Yes, yeah, you're oh no, I actually I would say that my package right now is PFT is just you're if he's going to the bar. He's putting on the spanks He's got a lot of makeup on. He's like I'm hoping that someone gets drunk enough to take me home No, but I that was me that was me three years ago No, I mean I had dance nighter and I had I had all this shit going on the worst stadium in the NFL now I just came into some money. I'm like I'm an older woman

My maybe my parents just died to left me a shitload of money. I got a really nice house Everything's on the up and up. I'm so fertile. I still got my figure. I still got my figure max But it's gonna take a little bit of time for that. No house to get to put on the furniture Yeah, like big head and I got houses that are ready to go no my house is spectacular No, I just brand new house. I just got a new house. It's a brand new house It's feels like a calling coward segment. Yeah, yeah, but because it's about divorce I feel like though if you if you went to your brand new house and you did an inspection like a calling coward segment. Yeah, yeah. Because it's about divorce. No, just to be an out of these. I feel like though, if you went to your brand new house

and you did an inspection, you'd be like, wait, they didn't build this house correctly. But guess what, I'm having my new house built in an even better part of town and it's gonna be awesome. Yeah, but we can also see the new house. We even have a last name. The person who built the new house also has a house down the street and that house isn't doing much better than it was.

Well, my house will be fine once it gets built and I also have, we're gonna change your name entirely so if you don't like the name, it's gone. I really feel like I should be, I got a tremendous package to offer. The house, also cap. I got like so much cap. The owner of your house, you'd be like,

hey, good one, Hank. The owner of your house, you'd be like, hey, good one, Hank. The owner of your house, you'd be like, wait, has he ever built a house before? He's like, oh yeah, a few years ago, he said that he was building this enormous mansion that was gonna be the most incredible house we've ever seen, and then it ended up being just the same house.

Well, he's actually just, the same house is just losing the Celtics ever year in a house. I knew I thought you were going that way. He's built two houses before. Six years are bad. He's got two houses, and we've bat. He's got two houses and we've been talking about the mother, mother,

mother, father and dev devils. Yeah, I'm talking about the devils. Jack Hughes ever heard of him. And we broke his neck and we processed it. We did the process. Some so, Atheon website. Yeah.

It'll be fantastic. Just come visit. Just come for a long weekend and you can, you know, come have a have a night with me, have a can, you know, come have a night with me, have a night with Josh Harris, have a long night with Magic Johnson. That'll be nice. Okay.

And then, and then we'll see how you're walking the next day. One night magic. Okay. Should we transition to Max? What do you got for us? All right, ready? Yeah, so this is what, for people who don't know, there's something going on with the Philadelphia Flyers.

We don't really know what, I've seen some tweets. I saw Witt had to like, I apologize to someone. This is a business with, I love it when they get in their big J game and just start attacking journalists. And did they make a mistake this time? No, I think the only treat I saw was Witt said someone was someone's dad, but it's not as dad. I saw that was a while ago. Oh, okay. They were, they were using that as credibility. God for him talking. Oh, that's bullshit. We

stand with wit and biz. Obviously, but I just saw that one tweet where it was like turns out he's not as dad. I was like, wait, what is, what is with into right? Yeah, this is attacking people's haircuts. Yeah, the best way to show fun Also, Arrega involved too for a little bit. That's the secret weapon. That's how that's how you know shit's R.A. is the war dog. R.A. is the dude from he's Irish dude from Braveheart Where he just shows up. He's like his my island my fucking Yeah, he's like well

This guy's crazy, but we want him on our side. All right, ready? Yep. All right, 2002, fire drafting. Whoa! Underwrites! 2022. Let's take this back to the big bang, Max. 2002. Not off to a hot start. Not off to a hot start.

2022. Fire's drafted. Cutter Goatier fifth overall. Then he went to Boston College. Didn't know you could do that in hockey. Yes. You could draft someone and they could still go to college. Yes. I kind of liked that. They should put that in the other sports. That's old. No, they used to. Like Larry Bird. Like that's like a old

sport. You know that they can also guys who play a full college hockey season can then just go right there. Yeah. I don't have that in this. Yes. Very cool. They should do that in other sports. Um, he kind of rose up the prospect rankings in the past two years. And. Um, he kind of rose up the prospect rankings in the past two years and the hot the climax of that was a couple weeks ago he led team USA in points when they won the world juniors. I was like last week. So everyone in Philly was super excited. They're like this guy just led USA to a goal. He's about to be the future of our franchise for forever. Fast forward the last night out of nowhere, bombshell trade,

Gutea cutter to the duck. Wait, he's American? He is American. His name is what? Cutter gotea. I looked at it, I look at pronunciation. G-O-E-T-A-G. Q-A-T-A-R.

It looks like gothier, G-A-A. Gerta, okay. But I looked up pronunciation. I'm happy we got him on our side. Yep. Okay, so he gets traded. He gets traded last night. There was a video circulating when he was in juniors.

They were asking all their players, their favorite teams growing up. And he was like, I'm cutter, play for the flyers. Don't know, that's gonna work out. Oh. He grew up a huge syndicate of penguins. Huge penguins. Huge penguins. So like in his like draft day, like you know, they all wear like that jerseys and the hats as soon as they get drafted.

They're like who's your biggest like idle growing up and it was Sydney Crosby and everyone in Philly was like, yeah, this is a little weird. Like why would you say Sydney Crosby? He's a huge flyer. What flyers fancy say, or you'd cross? No, but he, whatever. People were like, that's where you shouldn't have said that. But it was like for the most part kept under wraps

since he told the team that he didn't want to play for them. Like three months after he was drafted. So apparently, I want to die hard fan. So apparently he was drafted by the flyers on draft that day he goes, I'm built to be a flyer. I want to be a flyer that a few months later, setting never once a plane Philly ghosted every phone call from Danny Reair the GM. Apparently over juniors the front office of the flyers flew to Sweden to meet with him and try and work everything out. He refused to meet with them.

Didn't even, didn't even see them when they were in Sweden for the juniors. Okay. There's a mission over there. He had a job to do. Yes. Um, and then it turns out that like he just, the rumor is that he just doesn't want to play for Tortorrali. He thinks that he's too much, right?

Right. An old fashioned like hard-ass code. That was going to be my speculations. This could all just boil down strictly to two words. John Torque. Yeah. And that's what it's looking like. And then Torque was asked about it last night.

Great quote. I don't know cutter from a hole in the wall. Awesome. He's like, I'm worried about, I'm worried about this team and Drysdale, who the guy they got back is coming in. Torque's MBS hint. Yes. Okay.

Philly Twitter freaks out last night. As you can imagine. Like death threats, like bad. Like very bad. You had Philly Twitter came out. You went full Philly. I did not go full Philly. Well Philly, I went like full.

You maxed the effort. I understand like when we talk to you, this is us talking to Philadelphia. But not this Philadelphia. Would the representative from Philadelphia please stand up. That's you. Okay, that would be me. So you guys went full Philly on them?

Yes. Okay. That's the delegation of Philadelphia fans. So Max, there's a Philly, there's a Flyers reporter. I can tell, this is right where Max is getting confused. No, there's a Flyers reporter. He's confused first. But the first word.

This is where it really got confusing because you can tell is Kate and slow down He had the beginning nail. No, I think I still got it Okay, well this is where the chicklets guys are so after you threatened his life would happen. No After you through we have a reason is mom We haven't even got to the to the threatening of lives or just like oh that's coming. Oh, yes Yes, okay, so this guy Oh, that's coming. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. He's getting involved. Okay. So this guy,

fucked up, aunt, aunt San Filippo, who was a flyers reporter, okay? Went on a podcast like all as this shit was going on, he goes, I talked to somebody within the organization and Kevin Hayes had his fingerprints all over this. Okay. What? Because apparently Kevin Hayes and cutter, that was like cutter's only relationship within the team.

He like went on a podcast, I guess like a couple years ago and they talked like, are you friends with anyone on the team? The only person he said is Kevin Hayes. So that is why I guess some people thought, we're like, okay, maybe. And Kevin Hayes plays for the blues. Yeah, where did Kevin Hayes go to college, Max? Don't know. Boston College.

Oh, same place. Man that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Not at the same time or they just they just both went to Boston. So I was I was looking at this in real time. So that I saw that podcast. What was that mean?

Like as it was going all going down on Twitter, I first I saw the podcast clip of cutter being like Kevin Hayes is my only friend on the flyers. Kevin Hayes leaves. All that whatever. And then this guy says I talked to somebody within the organization. It's Kevin Hayes is my only friend on the flyers. Kevin Hayes leaves, all that, whatever. And then this guy says I talked to somebody within the organization, it's Kevin Hayes. He like tries to confirm what people are saying on Twitter.

Then the chicklets guys get involved and start saying. They're defending Kevin Hayes. Defending Kevin Hayes. Wiz tweets, I just talked to Hayes. Wiz, Wiz, Wiz, so now Max. Wiz, that's where I was going. What? What I said? Whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz whiz I need to say the tweet. I'm on a roll. I just talked to Aaron here and here not. I'm on a roll. I just talked to Hazy asking his opinion on the guy he said was behind Cutter GoTA requesting a trade. He started laughing and said whoever this is is a complete clown.

And anyone who thinks I had anything to do with this doesn't have a brain. Then a blues reporter also had a conversation with Hazy and he goes, yeah, I think it's complete bullshit, honestly. I think those two guys acted like a complete piece of this shit to be honest, making shit up. Now I'm going to bed and waking up with death threats and people wanting my family dead. Okay, so this aunt San Flippo guy.

Correct. That guy, he's a reporter in Philadelphia. Yeah, he has like a podcast. This sounds like big ant like a guy. Yeah, a cousin. a podcast. It sounds like like big ant like a guy. Yeah, a cousin. Is this cousin? Yes. So which side do you, where I keep going?

And that's basically it. So apparently like filling. Also we're saying they're happy that Carter and his brother was dead. Yeah, what? No, so that's like the family, what my family dead and then he went on to say like, people were saying stuff like shit about his dead brother.

She's a scryce. Filly, that's not great. Not good, not good. Not disavow. So which side do you land on though? What do you mean? Cutter or the flyers? Uh, seems like it's the flyers. Oh, wait.

Yes, so you're against weeks or not with Hayes. No, Hayes had nothing to do with it. No, but you're saying that the flyers are in the right. They're in the right that he got talked at a little bit. The team, the team that the flyers are in the right, they're in the right that he got talked at least. The team, the team of the flyers are in the right for trading in. Right, but are you team like flyers that's misinformation that Kevin Hayes had

somebody to do with it? Kevin Hayes had nothing to do with it. Okay, and the cutter, go T.A. is like, mouth-tent, like which side, your anti-cutter. Right. Anti-cutter. Okay. I think we're pro-cutter. Right. Anti-cutter. Okay. I think we're pro-cutter.

He's anti-cutter. No, because these friends with Kevin Hayes, but Kevin Hayes said he had nothing to do with it. I'm pro-I'm pro-Kevin Hayes. We're anti-I, we're pro-Kevin Hayes. If you're pro-Kevin Hayes, don't you have to be pro-cutter because they're real. No, it's friends.

Kevin Hayes said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah. No, I agree. And we're very much anti- the guy who made up the report about Kevin Hayes. I'm pro Hayes. I'm pro pro Hayes pro cutter. I'm pro Hayes. No, pro cutter and pro flyers. All right, well, I'm gonna call. I think I think everybody's in the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna call it as Wiz is Wiz with this picture is unbelievable. Hey, wow, so we're breaking down this entire Flyers shit right now on the podcast

We the flyers and cut her go to a whatever. Yeah, what do you mean? What's stuff? It's like all you've been talking about the last two days Okay, I won't pay your wife I though. Yeah don't think you'd be a little for that maybe less all right so Max just broke down the whole thing to us all we want to know is can we be pro cutter pro Kevin Hayes anti-flyers is that the right spot to be in that is the perfect okay okay no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,, Max. All right, thank you, Witt. Also, Jersey Jerry was practicing his first hockey skills challenge. I think he broke his collarbone. Up, Jerry McTay, but I can't wait to see you. I see ya, fine. Okay, so we're good.

Yes, we're fine. Broke out her, pro Kevin Hayes, fuck the flyers. I'm, I don't have a problem with the flyers. I think that everybody sounds like they're doing misinformation. I'm a poor kid. I'm, I don't have a problem with the flyers. I think that everybody, it sounds like they're doing misinformation on the short kit. I'm anti the person that made up the story. Yes, that is,

but the story came from someone in the flyers organization. No, he wasn't in the organization. He was like, he's a blogger. No, but he got the source. He's a man. And just made it up. I think he made it up. No, I, yeah, I actually agree now.

I think he made it up. And got the scoop from the flyers. I'm pro flyers trading him. That makes sense, but it sounds like the flyers are maybe doing a little damage control here and sourcing stuff. This guy said he's made, Hayes himself said that that guy was making shit up.

You don't think he talked to anyone on the flyers? Did he say according to a source? Yeah, so I think. Yeah, but I think that was bullshit. There's probably some guy on the flyers that's pissed off that cutter doesn't want to play for them, and then he does some dot connecting, and then he calls the boy Ant.

He's like, Ant, you're never gonna believe this scoop, and then Ant runs with it. It sounds to me like the flyers will kind of rat in the mouth. I'm an anti that guy as well. Okay, so we could be pro flyers, but anti the guy who's putting out misinformation, which might be Mr. Flyer himself.

Is there a Mr. Flyer? Danny Breyer GM of the flyers That's why the flyers are such a shit organization that he doesn't want to play for them Max. That's a good question This type of thing would never happen in DC. No, the fires are doing pretty good this year And they shouldn't be good. That's what that that was other information that I got. Oh But it is kind of embarrassing for you like the black box. I've never had a scandal and they shouldn't be good. That's what that, that was other information that I got. Oh. But it is kind of embarrassing for you. Like the black ox, black ox have never had a scandal.

I'm, it means that they're not too quickly at that. Not with any other prospects. So you, I forgot about that. You, you're not good, not good. You are now Mr. Flyer. And they're being good this year.'re good this year they're better than they should be they were supposed to be the second chief told me they were they have the second worst rost rostr in the n h l black

oxen black hoax and the worst but they were in second place i think they had had had had not not not not a third well so here's what i'm going to say means back me up max means back me up. Max. Me as back me up.

That one point. Paul. Paul. Max as I for third, as a follow up to this, I love the passion. You said yourself, this is the most prep you've ever done for the show. I think as a follow up, Max, you have to now follow the flyers. And hopefully they don't lose in terrible fashion, the playoffs. Yep. I got to learn some guys names.

I was looking at the roster last night. I think I had, there was like three that were going to get cutter go to his name. Well, that guy was never on the team. Where did he get traded to? The ducks. Oh, that's nice life. Quack. Yeah, he didn't, I mean, that guy's a cutter is a pussy.

That's a fact. He was, no, we're pro cutter. No,'s a cutter is a pussy. That's a fact. No, we're pro cutter. No, we're anti cutter. No, I'm anti cutter. No, because he's friends with Kevin Hayes, who's friends with us. No. But I think I can be pro Kevin Hayes anti cutter. Why are you against this guy wanting to play for Philadelphia?

Like, it seems like he, but he told Philly that he wanted to play for Philly and then changes mine two months later. And I actually did a cliche answer. I'd never heard that. No, but what did you want to say? Like a draft prep. I want to play here. Yeah.

Guys do that all the time. You know, shit. Do that. Yes. Isn't that what he like did? Well, yeah, you always had a long time ago. Yeah. Well, all right.

Well, you said that who does that? I just gave you an answer. Bam. Okay. Well, this guy, this guy just said like Yeah, I'll play for whoever drafts me you drafted him and then I actually I understand his point of view like if you know It's not gonna be a fit if you don't want to play for torts and you know that it's not a fit Why not just be like hey, please and if you're and if one of your close friends tells you this this organization sucks and by maybe does

Even tell you that on draft day, somebody makes that up. That they tell Danny Breyer is the one who said this, that he was told by him on draft day, I am built to be a flyer, I want to be a flyer, before they drafted him. This is quote from who? From Danny Breyer. So the GM, the GM said that he really wanted to be a flyer.

Because he's gonna about to draft this kid and he wants everyone to think that it's okay. Yeah. No. He said that. What? Yeah. We're saying Danny Breer probably lied. Yeah.

I wish I knew more about this, but because this guy's bad. Cutter pussy. Okay. For sure. Phil, he's coming back out. But at every Philly fan who's been meaning to Kevin Hayes is a piece of shit garbage Low-life human being. I would also like Max saying cutter pussy on the soundboard. Mm-hmm Thank you. Thanks. All right. That was good Max. I'm proud of you. Thanks

I did a lot of research. I know it I it was taxing I can tell I was excited. Yeah, it was fun You got it you got sometimes you get ahead of your words. I know, whiz. Sometimes you get behind your words. And I said 2002. I whiz in 2002, those were my two slip ups for sure. Would you almost rather the flyers be inconsequential so you don't have to worry about them? No, it was kind of fun. I was like excited to read about the drama and kind of get some filly.

For like an hour and a half, but I'm talking about the chemistry started. And I don't like what to be like in your real life. Do you want to expend any emotional energy on the flyers when it's six or season? Oh, no. Yeah. Playoffs. Also, flyers don't get enough credit for having a very unique color in pro sports. Orange black. No, you don't really see that that two of orange in pro sports. Kind of the bangles a little bit, but the bangles are and gritty just as much. Yeah, gritty school. Black is orange, right? Like the I'm talking about the actual jerseys

are they pop the flyers have a good logo to yeah, they like the wings. San Francisco giants meme said yes, but that also is a little bit more like they the flyers have a lot more orange. It's called flyers orange. Flyers have a ton of orange. MS 172 C. Thanks Jake, very cool. Okay, good job Max. Let's do hot sea cool throne then we'll get to Baldi Talk some more football. It's brought to you by Friends of Coors Light. Hot sea cool to own brought to you by Coors Light. When you're juggling work family and life in general things can feel chaotic. That's why Coors Light helps you find moments to reset and refresh all year long whenever you need to hit reset reach for a Corsair Light. It's made to chill. There's

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Okay. Hank hot sea cool. It's wrong. On the hot sea is the NBA. Yeah, they're doing some funky shit with the Celtics only team without double digit losses last night against the Pacers. As I'm sure most of you were watching during the National Championship game. Jalen Brown had a game tying shot attempt that they called a foul.

They reviewed the tape. He clearly got hit in the head. They reversed it, gave the Pacers the ball back, Celtics lose by one. Very questionable. Jalen Brown who is the head of the players' association, was going after them. And then LeBron James, who is a known speaker of facts, went out of his way on Twitter to say, suit him saying, JB clearly got hit in the back of the head.

They reviewed the play, just reversed it, and say he didn't. Man, what? Good-ass game to have an ending like that. And y'all see why I'd be going, ape shit out there when it happens. Very questionable. Very, very questionable. You know it's a bad call when Hank, I'd be going, apes shit out there when it happens. Very questionable. Very, very questionable.

You know, it's a bad call when Hank, I saw him quote tweet, LeBron saying facts. Yeah, and he, and when LeBron's dropping the gorilla emoji and then the poop emoji. Yeah, apes shit. Yeah. So yeah, very, very questionable. Very, very questionable.

Also consider it. Makes no sense. LeBron got, he got fouled on that one plate. Remember, was that Tatum that got him on the arm on that layup and papev took the camera. Yeah That was holding that play that was very funny Uh, but it's one thing. Yeah, I said that was one of the funny things of all time that pap out for sure But it's one thing to knock off out that that happens, you know, even like last night with the the Michigan holding and stuff like that. If you, if you call it, or don't call it whatever, if you go to the tape, look at a clear foul and then reverse it.

Very questionable. Fact or fiction? Fact. Would we ever find out how long Tyree's her hell burns out for? That was, oh, did you see him get like carried off? He the splits yeah Lord carry him now maybe pooped himself like Paul Pierce that was bad that felt like a groin very very bad and then my cool throne is movies that are catered directly to me on the past couple days gonna whale movie coming out there was no that would really that would be the trifecta apple TV is coming out with a documentary called the dynasty the New England Patriots

Bellichecks and it braids in it the whole the whole cruise in it because you know there's been sometimes it's like the Brady documentary But Bellichecks down in it this is coming out. I don't know February I think there was a working theory someone had Online I can't remember who it was. So I apologize that craft was waiting to fire Bella check to the end of the season so we could put it at the end of the documentary. That's very 16th. That actually when I saw this, this came out today, Tuesday, the trailer, that made me think that it was over for some reason. It was just like Bella checks and it braids in it because there are there are there's has there has been documentaries, you know, the past few years where some of them are in it, some of them aren was just like, Bellet checks and it braids in it because there has been documentaries,

the past few years where some of them are in it, some of them aren't in it. But this one being everyone made me feel like this is kind of like the- The closing chapter. The heirs tour movie. Yeah. But to be, you know what Taylor Swift did,

she then released the movie with bonus features on it later. Maybe they released the movie, Bellet check comes back, then they re-release it next year with all the footage from the next season Yes, the bonus footage of the 6 and 11. Yeah Yeah, I'm excited for that and then on here Sunday Yeah, although I might have got got on this one Should be good 21 Savage there's people being like who who wants a 21 Savage movie me?

This is this is me it was it's Lucas from Stranger Things playing young 21 Savage me. This is me. It was its Lucas from Stranger Things playing young 21 Savage, Donald Glover playing old 21 Savage. It's called the American Dream. It's coming out July 4th. I mean, I couldn't be more excited for that. My life loved Donald Glover, loved 21 Savage. That trailer was weird. But then today, 21 Savage announces album, which is also called the American Dream. So there's a chance that it was just like an album promo rollout. Which, like it was a movie, yeah. So that would suck.

But I was so excited for the movie. They thought people would be like, no one wants this, who wants a 21st Avenue movie, I do. They might still be an episode. They might still be an episode. Like, that's literally, that's catered directly to me. Yeah. So I hope it's real.

I'm leaning towards it not being real and just being towards like an album rollout thing, but I'm hoping it's real. Okay. I would want to see it Takashi 6'9 biopic. That would be interesting. Yeah. Just good fellows.

He's a rat. Crazy shit. Okay, good job. I think. My hot seat is the sopranos. Yes. The sopranos think. My hot seat is the sopranos. Yes. The sopranos are on the hot seat

because they're releasing on TikTok a 25 second and under per episode summary. Which is so... It literally just releasing part of my take. They're doing part of my take. I just don't know how you would include the entire scene where Tony Kills Christopher by suffocating in the car after they get to the accident.

Was that before or after Adriana got caught? I think that was after she got caught. Or is that about when when Silvio drove her out to the woods and then took her out of the car and shot her in the head because she was a rat? Or how do you do the scene where Bobby Bacala gets shot in the train shop? The Soy Trains shop? Yeah. That was really... Philly Atardo's head got rolled over? Yeah, that was tough. Cr crack is head splattered it. Or the one at the end where in the very last scene where it cuts to black and you don't know if Tony Dodd or not. They're gonna have to fill this all in.

They're gonna have to fill this in. Like that's I don't know if you can do that in 25 seconds or less. Hank, would you be watching? I would actually like you to watch and give us a review. It's 20 seconds. It's episode. It's like do what I did the first time to get to season 3 and then you'll spoil it We would never spoil it. We would never spoil it for you Okay, I'm excited for that. My other hot seat is Boeing Boeing airplanes. Did you see the the news about the 1737-9 max? Mm-hmm It had a door that got blown out it had an explosive decompressurization at 16,000 feet and everybody was

buckled in. It was before you were allowed to unbuckle and go to the bathroom. Okay. But if people were walking down the aisle when that happened, people could have been sucked out of the window and like just thrown out 16,000 feet full of earth die. But nobody was what do you mean? What did they land on water? Good point. What about the two people sitting next to the window? They were buckled up. I thought it was. No, I think it was an open seat.

I think that was a conspiracy theory that people were throwing out there now. What, there was two people who just didn't show up for the flight. Oh, is that true? Check where did you hear this? I saw somewhere on Twitter that it was an open seat. The one right next to the window.

Yeah, no, I don't think so. I think that if you're buckled up and that happens, chances are you're probably gonna stay in your seat It's gonna suck a lot of out of the open seat like the iPhone got sucked out I think two people's iPhones got out so they found the door Boeing was also the maker of the 737 8 max that had all those crashes a few years ago So if it's I don't know what kind of flights we have planned soon, but if it's Boeing, I ain't going Hmm. I'm out on Boeing

So you know before you can find out. Oh, okay. I don't want to fly in a on Boeing. So they drove before. You can find out. Oh, okay. I don't want to fly in a Boeing anytime soon. What's the other one? You've got a couple other airbuss. Airbuss. They're big competitor.

Airbuss. My cool throne is Mac Jones. Mac Jones of the cool throne. He put on seven to eight pounds of muscle in the last couple weeks. Wow. We put that report on that. So he might be back, no muscle. No, muscle muscle. Muscle. Like everybody else, the seven to eight pounds of muscle in the last couple weeks. Wow. We put that report on fat. So he might be back, no muscle. No, muscle muscle.

Muscle, like everybody else, the seven to eight pounds that we put on over the holidays, it's all muscle. It's all muscle, not fat. So Mac Jones looking for, he's looking for landing spot next year, much like Boeing. Yeah, yeah. Okay, my hot seat is EA Sports. I don't, this started as a rumor online,

but I just read rumors and I'm like, oh, that's a fact We were supposed to possibly get an announcement about when the NCAA football game was coming out last night and we didn't So I'm mad. I want to know Doug's is coming back whenever it comes back. I'm getting back in the lap Where the fuck is this game? Is it gonna come out this off season? They said this summer, but remember it was delayed a year already Yeah Suspect. Yeah, something weird is going. I just hope that they don't fuck around with it too much.

Just give us the exact same thing. Don't make it like madden, like where it's hard to control the players. Give us the exact same game as it's going to be maddened as 2014. But let us let us do like modern NIL shit. It's you not understand what I just said. I said don't. But they will. But I said don't. But they will. But I said don't, but they will. Okay, well, if they're listening to this, don't please. My cool throw on his Memphis Grizzlies. Unfortunately, John Moran is out for the year. Torne Labrum sucks, but.

Big Cat, is that a shooting arm? That was a mincey joke. That was great last night. Mincey was like, I was gonna say that. Yeah, so we found out about John Moran on the live stream. And I was like, I wonder if that's a shooting arm. And then Minty goes, oh, I was about to say, I wonder if it's a shooting arm. Like, PFC, you gotta give him a few seconds.

Credit to Minty. Minty had it first, I will say. Uh, but not the worst thing, because the Grizzlies are bad. And they are one of the worst teams in the league right now. So maybe you get a really good draft pick. Like, that's how you got to think with these things. It sucks, it sucks though. It sucks, but like if you get a lottery pick out of this, someone to pair with John Morant, that's pretty cool.

Have you seen the lottery this year though? We got what a Euro guy. Yeah, we got like two Euro guys and Ozzy guy. Okay, that's about it. Cooper flag next up, yep. Next year. Sag for flag, yeah, that's what you gotta do. All right, hot seat, cool's about it. Cooper flag next up, yep. Next year. Saga for flag. Yeah, that's what she got to do.

All right, hot seat, cool throne, Jake. My hot seat is Nike. After 27 years, Tiger Woods is a free agent. Oh wow. A paralyze. I was, I was a little confused by the, the people who were like, like this is so devastating, like all the memories.

Like, it's Tiger Woods is the memories, not Nike. Golf fans are weird. Like that, I just didn't really understand that. Like, yeah, I get it. He was wearing a Nike shirt when he hit all those shots, but it was Tiger Woods. It's the swooshes, Big Cat. Like when I think of Tiger Woods,

I think like best golf forever, I'm not like Nike. When I think of Tiger Woods, I think of father to best golf forever. Charlie's next. I wonder if Nike needs room in their budget for Charlie. So you get a tiger. Were you one of these people who was like, man, end of an era?

No, I think he should join either team rowback or the barstable store. Yeah, we sponsored that. I was saying like, what if he won the masters next year in an A-nish shirt? That'd be great. The awesome. Yeah, we have great golf shirts on our store.

I thought he should go to big dogs. That'd be great, right? Big dogs, we've seen the meme. They haven't done anything with it. Had it meeting about it too. Big dogs is fantastic. If you can't run with big dogs, stay on the porch. I literally had a meeting with them.

I was like, I want to buy it. And they're just like, we're rebranding. And I was like, well, to what? Getting on the target. Big dogs work. That meme came out of nowhere. Yeah. Big dog meme from Tiger Woods.

Yeah. I feel like that's gotta be an industry plant. My theory was, because when Nike first announced it, that they were moving on, they never officially said like, we're done doing business with Tiger Woods. It was all like, we'd like to thank Tiger for all the work that he's done with us

looking forward to the next chat, things like that. Is there any chance they just make a Tiger Woods brand, like Jordan brand? Oh, they could. Yeah. That he owns and then, and then that are Uniglo. Uniglo?

Yeah, what's that? That's like the Chinese one that Roger, Roger Federer has it. Okay. You saw my bronze, right? Yeah, I did. It's awesome. I did.

It's my brunch once. Where else could he go? Yeah, Tiger Woods, listen, Tiger Woods should just make his own brand. Yeah, just be cool. Tiger Woods brand. Yeah, I'm right. And speaking of Tiger, my cool for throwing

is our friends at FourPlay. They have a video with Tiger coming out today. Very happy to check that out. It was their white whale, big, big moment for them. Go watch the video I know that like rigs Frankie Trent Rapport lurch. I don't know if he's in the video, but like they're all the biggest tiger fans ever Yeah, Trent said today that this he would never be golfer if it wasn't for Tiger Woods the podcast would not exist

I mean, I think that's a lot of golfers in the world. Yeah, yeah, sure. That's awesome Yeah, I would be a golfer if I was in the foreplay. Yeah, they they inspired me by getting inspired by Tiger. You also wouldn't be a golfer if you never realized that golf is a way to get out of work. No, I just like to golf. Oh, it does. The zombies. Good times with the bull. That's zombies. It does. But yeah, go watch it because it's going to be great. Uh, okay, let's get to Brian baldinger. Baldi, before we do that, PFT, go watch it, cause it's gonna be great. Okay, let's get to Brian Baldinger, Baldi. Before we do that, PFT, you got a quick word for one of our sponsors.

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by going to rocketmoney.com slash take way by going to rocket money.com slash take that's rocket money.com slash take rocket money.com slash take now here's baldie. Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite guests. He is a true football guy through and through it is Brian Baldinger. Brian Baldinger, Baldi, you can see him on an NFL network, Fox Sports, Compass Media Network. He's everywhere. Also, his film breakdowns are the best if you don't fall on Twitter. It's Baldi NFL at Baldi NFL. Baldi, we're here. It is playoff football time. I'm actually going to let you lead us in the first question.

What is the game you're most excited for, the matchup you're most excited to watch? The Rams. The Rams come into Detroit because that's like, this number two seed, six seed, it's like seven seed. I mean, this game to me has upset written all over it. And I think because of the way the Rams are playing, I mean, even the way they played against San Francisco,

forget about them winning the game in cars of wins. Just way they played the game up front on the offensive line, they played their starters up front. They got a good days of work. We talk about Puca, Puca as, you know, this sensational rookie, which he is, that guy's blocking is unbelievable. And they asked the receivers to block like tight ends at the line and it really helps in the run game. They did it two years ago. Cooper Cup was excellent. Robert Woods, all these guys that played on the edge.

If you play for the Rams, you're going to block at the point of attack. And the way that they do it, it's crafty. But it's really effective. And that showed up on Sunday. Yeah. So about the Rams, uh, the side of the ball doesn't get talked about their defense. What are you seeing? Cause it's a lot of guys that people don't know. It's a young defense is supposed to be a rebuilding

year. What are they doing that gives you confidence that the Rams can win the game maybe on Sunday night, but also make be a dangerous team in the NFC playoffs and make a little run here. Well, you got to look at these rookies Kobe Turner Byron Young young guys like Bobby Brown like people don't know those names But the only do is they they line up every week and they play and all they're doing has gotten better And so they still do a lot of things moving Aaron Donald around. He's still Aaron Donald Like you don't cut them off on the back side. He's gonna make every tackle He's gonna be around the quarterback. He's gonna be like just that

nasty freaking knot. You can't get rid of. He's there. But they attack. They attack. They play a lot of different coverages. They're good enough on the outside. You're not gonna shut teams down on the outside, but they're good enough with whether smooth and what they have. Kobe Bryant. They're good enough out on the outside because they can still pressure you on the outside, but they're good enough with whether it's food and what they have. Kobe Bryant, they're good enough out on the outside because they can still pressure you on the inside. So they do that and then, you know, they just got this coach that just knows how to, like, you know, if he was, if we were playing pickup basketball, you'd want him on your side. He just knows how to organize.

Like he's demanding. And yet at the same time, like he's encouraging, like all the things you got to do to be a great coach. He definitely insists on being skins right off the bat. He claimed that one. Um, would, would you say that they've changed something about their team? Like I feel like, uh, month, month and a half in the season, nobody was really impressed with the Rams that much. And then they got dangerous. They got hot. So what changed? Kyron Williams So if you're looking Kyron now, they didn't play last week, but you know, he leads all running backs, including McCaffrey

With 95 yards of game Like that guy is just a total back And I know he's fit around at a Notre Dame and guys I know that watch the Notre Dame football never thought he was going to be this guy But he's he's everything you want and running back. I think he's the best running back make me face hat. And so I'm not that it's a long list or anything, but this guy is a difference maker. And what you see now is like staffers underneath the center.

I like my quarterback under center. I don't want him in shotgun every play, but he's under center a lot of play action. DeMarcus Robinson has come in, given a big lift down a stretch. And so they've got four guys to do at well, Higby. They got enough to go carve you up. But now the running game has really taken over. Yeah, and Karen Williams blocking is also out of this world good. Yes, he is everything. Now you're doing your film study. I was like, that guy's's you got to protect your quarterback. They're going to like, there's an old thing like

the bomb, the back on backer. Like we're going to blitz our backer because he's going to beat the running back. Well, okay, that guy's stout. Now he's stout is going to get right underneath your chin, give you a little chin music. Like he's excellent at in protection. Yeah, yeah. So I mean, I'm very excited for that game as well. Bouncing around, so the Eagles, their defense has been much more lined that that has been the story. I have been of the mindset that their offense is really what's like kind of letting them down

because it just looks clunky. It doesn't, it has felt like there's been no rhythm. I know they're dealing with injuries now. what is it though when you're watching scheme wise or uh... what when you're just sitting down and look at the tape what are they doing wrong and why are they why do they feel so different than last year on the offense i feel like if i was playing defense against the eagles that i would just be calling their plays out like this like i don't see i i know

guys at the bar south South Philly that are calling the same plays out like they're just very predictable that's one and they like look they played weight Martin Dale last weekend's giant all weight does is pressure you like he was pressuring Aaron Rogers and free season when the jets you know played the giants so and they acted like they weren't prepared for because they had no like when they came after them, Isaiah Simmons coming free, like they had no answer. Like what's your answer? What should jail and hurts do if they've got a free hitter coming out? Is there a hot

read? Is there a sighted just? Is somebody cutting their out off? Like their answer is jailing getting out of the pocket and scrambling and running, which was a disaster last week. They didn't make one good play down the field. And so they look underwhelming and underprepared for what these teams are gonna do to them. And look, that's all Todd Bowles does. Like that guy is drawing up pressures right now at Tampa. Like they better be ready for it because I don't think Tampa's a great team,

but I know what Todd Bowles can do and what he has done. And you know, it's like you old saying like sometimes you get the bull, but sometimes the bull gets you. Well, the bulls getting the Eagles offense right now and they better be ready for it because it's coming. I don't care who's playing receiver. It doesn't make any difference.

Jaylen needs an out if they're going to come after them the way they can, whether it's single blitzes or overload pressures or zone pressures, like they have every single pressure you can get to speed up the quarterback's process. Yeah. So it sounds like you're saying it's mostly the coaching and not the player's execution. Well, I think, well, I think it's the coaches from the standpoint like, like, Jamon Hardgrave came out yesterday the day before and said, he couldn't believe the difference between how they practice in San Francisco and how they practice in Philly. Nobody wants to hear this in Philadelphia, but he said, we practice so much harder in San Francisco

because I couldn't even believe it. Like in Philly, like we were just getting, you know, making sure we were fresh for game day. And I think some of that shows up. They have some of that shows up. And I'm not here to criticize Nick, Nick, how to team in a suit bowl last year. Got to have four to 11 one team in the playoffs. And actually, he's done some great things. But I don't know how demanding they are of some of these players. And sometimes you just got to play football. That's, that's a fact.

The, just, that's the only recipe is you got to play some more football. I got a crazy stat for you. And I want to know what you're seeing and if there's a remedy, if the remedy maybe is Mike McCarthy has to do a better job advocating for his guys. Did you know that Michael Parsons has not had a holding penalty called on him in the last 11 games and he's getting a ton of pressures, but there's been no holding penalties. What is, is it that he's so fast that he can't be held? Or is it that Mike McCartney needs to be like, hey, you guys gotta start looking for this

because my guy gets held and he's dominant. So I play, so I'm gonna answer the question because I do a video of Mike every week. Sometimes Mike can just stand up there and he goes, look, don't ask, just go watch all these videos and he'll show you what I did. Because the guy, there's nobody else that compares to Micah in this league.

Nobody is as frequently fast, changes direction, the guy was a great wrestler, like he's a cat on a marble tape. Like you can't get him off his feet. So, but, you know, when I play with Reggie White, they held Reggie all the time. And so they didn't throw the flag, you know, when I play with Reggie White, they held Reggie all the time. And so, they didn't throw the flag. And so, what happens though is, going look on the other side and see if they're all calling

Holy calls against Terence Steel or Tyron Smith. Like sometimes, they just even it out. And they don't, because Mike is, so so I don't know like that'd be the next stat to look at how many holding calls they're actually getting on that side of the ball. It's sometimes it just sort of cancels out. Yeah. But I think Mike, it does wince. There's this weird thing right now because I know everybody's screenshots of these holds and like I did one on Max Crosby, I said I'm like just ridiculous. Like they got two guys just blurring arms around them and There's the Empire right there nothing's coming out, but I think sometimes

There's this thing and TJ what was telling me this year that when these guys Do this arm under rip moving their turn to corner and these guys got them like by a arm like this around their neck They're not calling it right if you got it. It's a clear hole So there's there's a clear hole. So there's a fine line between at a hold, because sometimes there isn't a hold and they call a hold on some stupid things and some things look flavorant, they don't call it. But still, 11 weeks, and Mike is not getting a holdy call.

That's absurd. It's crazy, I looked at it and I was like, wait, maybe he's just so fast no one can hold them, they can't get their hands on them No, they can get their hands on that's part of the problem. They get their hands on yeah, I'm gonna slow you I do a better job acting just start to flail the arms and just fall down Yeah, I hate that though like that's the flop thing right and I see guys get it the guys are getting it. Yeah, they're getting that fall Yeah, but I hate flop thing man

Yeah, I hate like I like if I if somebody did that to me like I'd I'd be on them like hard. Give them some to flop about on the next play. Yeah. Yeah. I want to go out to Kansas City real quick. We got the dolphins the chiefs. It's going to be like 10 degrees out there.

It's going to feel like it's zero degrees. Everything seems to be going against the dolphins right now. I saw crazy stat two earlier today that said that the the Patriots actually beat more teams above 500 than the dolphins did this season, which is crazy to think about. I mean, the dolphins, they blew some teams out, but they haven't really beat any good teams yet. Do they have any chance going to Kansas City and beating Pat my homes? homes. They do. Like if they get they're like they get their 4x100 meter relay team healthy of Tyreek and Waddle and H&M if they're reasonably healthy. Like that speed changes things. First of all, two gets a rid of the ball a lot faster when all those guys are out there. And then you look at the things that Mike

McDaniel does and they're so subtle but but just some of the, even the play that they ran last week over and over where, two is like faking a handoff and there's nobody to fake it to yet. The defense is biting on the face and then he's flipping it up behind him to the back going the other way like they got a lot of yards on that play last week. Like he's going to have some new plays, some new formations. He just does. He's just, he's just innovative. He's like, okay, what do we have this week? Who will we going against? Oh, they, they quarter cap. He's just, he's just innovative. He's like, okay, what do we have this week? Who will we go against? Oh, they corner cap blitzboard anybody

in the league in Kansas City. Spags is coming after us with this corner. Well, we're gonna catch them on one of these corner blitzes and it's gonna be nobody out there with one of these track stars to go run. So I actually, and Matt is down on the dolphins. I know the stats and I know the teams they beat, but I'm not as down on them as other people are because I know when this thing clicks, like I don't care what

defense you're in, they can make you look bad. Yeah. Yeah. This is a dumb question, but I'm wondering if you've ever seen it. When you're watching film study, can you tell when a team can't deal with the cold because we have obviously a theory with the dolphins, the candy ass uniforms going into the cold. It just doesn't look like cold weather football. Can you tell the team like, oh, that guy, he doesn't really want to be out there. That guy, he's maybe not feeling comfortable.

Can you see that? Is that a factor? I think it's more of a factor with teams and tackling. If they want to be as aggressive tackling, that's what I would look for. You can see it. You can see it because some guys don't want to, you know, it's a business decision. Or, you know, I can't, my hands are numb. Like I'm, I'm just going to throw my body in there and I'm not going to wrap up. I think you see it more on defense. I was one of those idiots that refused to ever put a long sleeve shirt on no matter

how cold it was. I like that. Like I was just a mentality like I'm not going to be cold. Like I remember Reggie White told me this story one time like he was playing the state championship in Tennessee and you know he was from an inner city school and and they played this bunch of country kids that were in Terroway jerseys and they came out there on a field where it was 18 degrees outside, and he knew we were going to get beat. Like these kids just handled the cold better than we did. Some guys just bundle up and they got the Vaseline on themselves and they got their gloves on and they got their Fanny packs on and their hand warmers, and you're like, it is football. Like your

body's going to get, it's not going to feel it. Like if the adrenaline's running right, you're like, it is football. Like your body's gonna get, it's not gonna feel it. Like if the adrenaline's running right, you're not gonna feel the cold. Yeah. That's the mentality of just saying, I'm better than the cold. And you start the game and you're one and oh, against the cold, you've already beaten the cold.

The other guys get an earthquake. Like, you know, like what Grant never loud heaters on a sideline with a sort of like, yeah, like this is, and by Grant never wore jacket, you know, like he set the tone. And there is a mentality to that when, like I, I hear it might be as cold as 17 below in Kansas City with the windshield.

Yeah. So who knows? I mean, we get fascinated by, by temperatures and stuff. But look, the ground could be frozen. Maybe that's a factor. Yeah. Like you have any footing, like I, you know, there's a lot of factors that go into it.

How's the wind blowing? How's it going to affect the ball? Like I always think this, windy conditions to me are worse than freezing conditions because you can't hear when it's windy. You can't hear signals, you can't hear snap counts, you can't hear the quarterback yet. You see these guys, they're turning their ears,

their ear hole to whoever's speaking to them. So otherwise the wind just, you know, basically clouds all the sound. He also feel like Andy Reed against McDaniel in the in the cold, like Andy's built for the cold. And he doesn't get he'd wear shorts. If he could, yeah, he's he wears shorts every single practice. Yeah, Daniel's going to bumble up. He's going to have six coats on. Yeah, he's going to have his off lights on. Yeah, that's true. Off lights are they're traveling.

That is true. That's very true. Yeah. Um're just gonna have his off-white zone. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, off-white, they're traveling. That's true. That's very true. Yeah. So I wanna talk about some of the job openings in the NFL right now. What are the most attractive openings? Well, I think the Chargers is attractive. You know, I mean, it's a good place to live.

You got a quarterback that I don't think we've seen the best of. You know, so I think, you know, that's always a starting point. Quarterbacks get coaches fired when they can't play and they can't perform. So that's like the depth of a coach. But I think, you know, the chargeers jumps out at me, a team that has vastly underperform,

that needs a dose of toughness all the way around. Like, that team I think could be fixed up pretty quickly. Yeah, I'd agree with that. It does feel like if you're signing up for Justin Herbert, that's a pretty good bet for a coach coming in. But counterpoint, couldn't having a quarterback like Justin Herbert, if you don't have things available around, if you don't have cap space, which they kind of don't, if you don't have necessarily the most support from ownership, couldn't having a pretty good quarterback be a detriment in fact, in the fact that it would get you fired more quickly. be a detriment in fact, in the fact that it would get you fired more quickly. Well, I mean, I'm coming in there and packing a running game. I'm going to, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to find runners, I'm going to find, you know, if I have to upgrade right tackle, different positions, like I'm going to get the running

game going with the chargers, just the way the Rams did. And it's going to make life for Justin Herbert a lot better, no matter who he's throwing to right now. Yeah. All right. Another dumb question. Joe Flacco, Josh Allen, I'm mentioning those two names because this is the dumb question. Obviously, you don't want turnovers. But if you're the browns and you're the bills, is there a part of you that's

like, this is what our guy is, we can live with one, maybe two, but because we know the upside and then pushing the ball down the field will get us to maybe three. Is that ever a thought or is it you guys got to take care of the ball better because it's playoff football and we can't have these mistakes anymore? I'm with you. I'm with you and I don't think it's a dumb question. Like I think you just got to you have to attack.

You can play fearful. You can't play not to turn the ball over. You have to attack. And that's what both of them do. And I think like the first interception that Josh Allen threw to Gabe Davis is an option route. He threw it one way, the receiver went the other way. That's going to happen.

Just going to happen when you're throwing the ball on timing. You got to live with it. The second one where he's rolling to his right, look, the line broke down. He was flushed and he makes his throw on the end zone, Elliot intercepts it. I just have to live with it. The second one where he's rolling to his right, look, the line broke down. He was flushed and he makes his throw in the end zone, Elliot intercepts it. I just have to live with it. Yeah. Cause he made so many other great plays. Freaking knuckles are bleeding out there. He's leaving it on the field. Like I just think you have to live with it. Same thing with Joe. Joe's going to throw some interceptions. Um, you just got to tell your defense. Like you go do your job, you know, either get off the field, let me tell him a field

no matter where you are. like you got to play transition defense. But he's going to help win us the game too with his rocket arm and how he sees the field and I don't know, and Joe who seems like he's always open, he's going to find it. So I would say live with it. And don't live in fear of it. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, there is definitely

we were joking earlier in the season. C.D. Shroud obviously is an incredible season, but when he had that stretch where he didn't throw an interception, I was like, I kind of like my guy to throw one every now and then, because you know that he's taking risks. That doesn't really apply for C.J. because he does push the ball down field, but you see sometimes where quarterbacks were like, oh, no intercepts like, yeah, but was he ever taking risks? Right. No, I mean, look at my homes. Look at how my homes plays. Like he turns it all over. He doesn't thumb a lot, but he throws in receptions. But like, look at all the plays that he makes. And so to me, I mean, that was the problem, honestly, with that exactly what you're describing was what Alex Smith was.

Alex Smith was a very good quarterback, good leader, prepared, made good plays, but he wouldn't make the big play. Because he didn't want to turn it over. And he was cognizant of that. And so there's been quarterbacks that have played, they don't win championships like that. You have to attack. You're gonna have to make,

and the bigger the game get, from Wild Card, the visual championship, the bigger the game gets, the bigger the throws gets, the more, the bigger the throws you have to make, because you're going to see better defenses in tighter spots and more pressure moments. Yeah. I think Alex Smith went what like a year and a half without throwing a touchdown to a

wide receiver at one point. Yeah. He was just, it was an insane step. That's not good. That's not, but there was still, there were winning football games somehow, but never any real important ones. What about Baltimore? So you were just talking about like the difference in, in, in the's still, there were winning football games somehow, but never any real important ones. What about Baltimore? So you were just talking about like the difference in the playoffs and, you know, as you play

better teams, the windows get a little bit tighter to fit into. With Lamar, the knock against him so far has been he's not really able to do in the playoffs. Do you think this is the year that Lamar Jackson, the Ravens, they can put it together, get to the Super Bowl? I do. I do think it is. We're going to see, you know, it's always that thing of rest versus rust, you know, at this time of the year when you're sitting and not playing. So he's going to go basically three weeks without playing football game and you're going to come out.

And, you know, the last time we saw him, he was awesome. So I think the difference this year with him is I used to say, even when he was winning the MDP, unanimously winning the M MVP and he was running for all these yards I'm like I don't care if you beat Cincinnati 35 to 3 like you got to work on the passing game and they weren't working on the passing game and under the old offensive coordinator they were just winning games like I think they've really improved the passing game these receivers are all involved um even the loss in some ways the loss of Mark Andrews is hard as it is for that team to overcome such a great player. It has forced Lamar to go

elsewhere with the ball and he's finding Rashad Baikman now and Aguilar and likely and he's thrown the way like there was a time I remember it didn't break down on him a couple years ago and he had thrown like six interceptions in a short period of span and all of the interceptions were passes to Andrews like he was forcing it to him and now I feel like Lamar is actually seeing the field better and and getting the ball to to different guys and different parts of the field including Z-Jones and and Odell Beckham and the whole group so I he's improved to the point where he should win playoff games now and a lot of playoff games. Yeah. This might be an easy answer because it might just

be the two one seeds, but this has been on my mind after watching the national championship on Monday night because I thought the thing that was most remarkable was Michigan tackling. They were so good at tackling. I think they missed one tackle all night. All they did was if you catch the ball, you're tackled. And like sometimes football is that easy where the team that tackles better can win the game. So give me the best tackling team in the AFC and the NFC. I think the 49ers is the best tackling team. I mean, you know, it just starts with Fred Warner. Like he's just a machine,

attacking machine with Dre Green law. Like, both, they're excellent tacklers. You don't get, you don't get anything beyond when they hit you to play ends. And so I think they're an excellent tackling team. Baldwiers is a great defensive team. They, they play defense a little bit different than everybody else.

Like this matchup zone is very difficult to figure out. You don't know what they're gonna do and who's really gonna stick to you until the ball snapped, but they give you a lot of looks. But Rokuwan's not missing a tackle. Yeah, he's just not, you know. And so I think the two number one scenes are number one scenes for a reason.

It isn't a funny too, because the linebacker position has kind of like there's been a little bit of a phase out just in terms of pay. And obviously Rokuwan was a bear. And then you know, the bears were like there's been a little bit of a phase out just in terms of pay and obviously Rokwan was a bear and then you know the bears are like we're going to go different direction but it is so funny when you when you get down to it's like the teams with these elite linebackers still matter so much because of the tackling and the tone they set. No doubt and the impact they make in the like he said the most valuable real estate in a football game is the middle of field. That's where the middle linebackers live.

When your middle linebacker, Fred Warner is not the fastest one, but his decision-making is as fast as anybody. So he's always flying to the ball. And then Rokwan might be the fastest. So when your middle linebacker is fast, your defense looks faster. If you make a mistake and teams make mistakes, whether it's in communication or breakdowns, whatever, like you can clean up the mistakes quicker. And that's what those guys do. And I think that we have missed out on the linebacker play, Philadelphia desperately needs linebackers. Their best linebacker starts with the Chicago

Bears in T.J. Edwards. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that's still their best lineback. And they made a decision not to pay him. And they have paid for it all year. Yeah. Yeah. What about the Dallas Cowboys? So the book on them is you can run the ball against them. You know, preferably if they're not at home, if they're on the road, you can beat them. But you got the Packers coming to town.

Do the Packers have a chance? I'll ask you this way. Which seven seed has a better chance at winning in the first round? The Steelers or the Packers coming to town. Do the Packers have a chance, I'll ask you this way, which seven seed has a better chance at winning in the first round? The Steelers or the Packers? Good question. Thank you. The Steelers go into Buffalo without TJ Y.

They're going to be challenged. The way Buffalo plays defense, I think Mason Rudolph is going to struggle a little bit. I would say the Packers because Aaron Jones right now missed about a month in the middle of the season, but nobody's run for more yards last three weeks there are Jones. That guy's, that guy's an unbelievable player. Like that draft of McCaffery and Fornet and all those guys that came out, Camera, like nobody scored more touchdowns in his league than Aaron Jones over that span of time. That guy doesn't miss a hole and he's precious can be right.

So I feel like and the last time Aaron Jones went He's from El Paso, Texas. He owes his pride himself the 915 in El Paso But the last time he went to Dallas. He did something nobody's ever done in the history of the Calibur He ran for four touchdowns against it. Like just a big deal some of these kids come back to Texas all their friends and family And it stands like that kids Dallas has their hands full with Aaron Jones. Now Jordan Love and defense, all this other stuff is real. It's gonna be a great game.

But if you ask me, who has a better chance of an upset, I'd say Green Bay has a better chance. Yeah, yeah, that's, I mean, they are live and Jordan Love is playing incredible football. It's much my sugar and it's it's a fact. He looks, he looks like Aaron Rodgers and some of the throws that he makes. It's much my sugar and it's a fact. He looks like Aaron Rogers. And some of the throws that he makes. It's crazy. Over and over again.

Yeah, over and over. In fact, he threw a couple plays last week in Chicago. It was classic Aaron Rogers. It was these smoke routes with a corner 10 yards off. The hell of it. I'm just getting it out there to Jaden Reed. Let him go get six yards.

Yeah. Like, you know, you get 12 men on the field. Like he's the balls being snapped. Like some of the little you get 12 men on the field, like he's the ball's being snapped. Like some of the little tricks that Aaron had, he's adopted, he's using. Yeah, so we talked about the Rams. Let's talk about the Lions real quick because the Lions, obviously their defense

has been the big issue this year. They did get a little healthy. They got a lean McNeal back who's very important. They got CJ Gardner Johnson back. Do you think the Rams or the Lions? Sorry, can kind of put it back together defensively. I thought they were pretty good against the Cowboys on that Saturday night game. Do you do you see are you optimistic that this is a team? It's funny. We always go back to that Colts team that won the Super Bowl where they were terrible

on defense. Then they just get collect and Bob Sanders and all that stuff. Is there something that could be happening there for the Lions where you could see it kind of come back together? I can see it, but I haven't seen enough of it to just convincingly say it. Right. Like I haven't seen it enough. You know, you think about Thanksgiving day, you know, against Green Bay and you know,

they got carved up. So you just look at, they went to Baltimore and they didn't show up. You know, so you just see some of these games where they just get picked apart. And this passing game, you know, the passing game has to be as precise as any diamond cutter out there. So like, that's how the Rams passing game is and how it operates right now. You know, they better, they better play really fast. I know this, if you have to, Melafon will, Metalfall for new,

like pronouncing his name right, he's made a big difference. He's come in there, got a lot of takeaways. They look a lot better when they're taking a ball away. When they're not taking it away, they look very susceptible. Yeah. I do love your film breakdowns.

I love how excited you get about guys. There's some guys that you just watch and you're like, that's a ball to you guys. So give me, give me a guy that's in the playoffs right now Maybe not a superstar, but a guy that you've personally gotten excited about Like this left guard like left guards are people too. Let's face right? So this left guard of the Rams of rookie Steve a villa is from TCU I nicked in the wine because all he does is just watch stuff up like he's

He's super wide and he's super powerful and like I just watched the last week take watch him take to bond hard grape is a pro ball like right off the ball like it's hard to find earth movers like I watch Steve available 73 left guard and I go that guy's going to play football in the sleep for 10 years. That guy's going to play football in the sleep for 10 years. And we're probably never going to mention his name, because he's just, he doesn't commit penalties, doesn't make bad plays. He steadies can be exactly what you want. And yet, like he's so young, he's like he plays a good pad level against underneath guys, and it just moves people. And they're hard to find.

Yeah, I like that. The what? That's a great nickname. Yeah. I also want to know from your perspective as an offensive lineman What are the mechanics of reporting did the lions do anything wrong against the cowboys by trying to like you know Confuse either the the opponent or you know they had an interesting Substitution, but it seemed to me like it was pretty straightforward. It was it was like I was that guy

You know that would go and play tight in at times, you know, in certain situations that go for guard to tight end, I had to go report. Nothing like that's 40 years ago, 30 years ago. Like none of that has changed. You go to the referee report, you like make sure he sees you. And that's what Taylor Decker did. Now what was, you know, was all the other guys necessary to be there, you know, probably not, but at the same time, and maybe that was some subtle fuge on Detroit's part, but only one guy reported, like, I'm eligible.

So you can probably, because Ben Johnson has all these different formations in Detroit all the time. So sometimes you just go, I've never seen that before, it happens all the time. But like in that situation, he reported, Brad Allen reported that different guy reporting. So he didn't get it right from the very beginning. Whether it was just because he'd already forwarded in the game,

he was just writing it down, he wasn't really paying attention. I'm not here to, the referees have a tough job. But that to me was about as clear cut as you can get. Yeah, yeah. All right. So I have one last question. I know you got to run ball. We love having you on a rowback question, R-H-O-B-A-C-K dot com. Use promo code take 20% off your first purchase, Q-Zips, Polo's, hoodies, joggers, shorts, everything. Rowback dot com. They got fleeces as well. The best rowback dot com. Give me your super Super Bowl and then maybe give me the,

ooh, this could be crazy Super Bowl. Like you see it like the, you know, so who you actually think and then give us a crazy one where it's like these two teams, people aren't really talking about them. They could be there in February. Good, no, I'll give you just chalk, San Francisco Baltimore. I think they've been the two best teams all year. So that's that's

How I'm thinking, but if you wanted to crazy here, I go Rams I go Rams right now and I mean I'll go real crazy. I'll go Rams Miami dolphins. Oh, okay. That is crazy That is crazy. You're crazy ball day. That is crazy dolphins having to win having to win two cold games. And then the third maybe, that's crazy. Well, you know, like sometimes players just need to have that carrot dangling in front of them. Like Tyrie kill going in there to Kansas City. Like that kid, like first of all, he's motivated to begin with. I don't think the cold weather is going to bother him. I don't know how his legs are right now. I mean, he was a candidate until three weeks ago for the MVP of the league. So, and who knows what happens,

but like that guy is gonna be, he's gonna, like there's nothing more that a player needs than to go show the team that you made the biggest mistake in your life. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I have one last last question here. So we both want Coach Harbaugh

as our coach for next year. Oh, PFT decided this last night. I've won a coach Harbaugh forever. Well, I love coach Harbaugh. Always have loved the man. And if we can't get, if we can't get Bellicic, I think Harbaugh would be a great addition to the commanders. Do you think that Harbaugh is more or less likely to leave Michigan after winning a national championship? Oh, he's gone. He's gone. He's going to win a super bowl championship. It's already like his mind's already like they might celebrate today and have some fun in an arbor they should, but I think he's on his way to the NFL.

Wow. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, Baldi, thank you. As always, play off football. We'll talk to you again, maybe before the Super Bowl. Love having you on. Appreciate everything and we'll see you soon. All right. Thanks guys. Thanks for having me. Okay. Let's wrap up with some guys on chicks. Friday show, by the way, we're going to talk some more football. I think we're going to have a short Italian writer on the show. You have to answer for his misdeeds. Mike Floria?

No, I said short, not short face. And maybe also, I'll say this, I'll tease it this way. And answer to a question we have asked many, many times. Another football person. Yeah. What was that look? We're going to find out the answer to DVOA. Got it.

Yeah. Hey, part of my take draft, Gods. I've been with my boyfriend for a little over two years. We haven't really talked about marriage, but we live together and I think we're probably headed in that direction. How do I tell him if he ever does want to propose that I don't want an engagement ring because I think they're kind of a waste of money? I'm worried it's too forward to tell him that if marriage is not a surrising currently, or what if it is and he already bought the ring. Should

I just let the cards fall where they may, Ryan Poles is running the number one pick through big cat. I figured I should do the same with my important question. Yeah. So I think might be overthinking this. I think all you have to do is just be like, I don't want an engagement ring and it'll be like awesome. Yeah, you could do a soft launch too. You could just be like, you see this person got engaged. Yeah, engage in rings are so tacky. I would never wear one. That's pretty easy. Watch blood diamond together. Yeah, oh, I can't believe all this all this stuff that goes on across the world for diamonds. I would never want one of those I wouldn't go direct though

And say I don't want an engagement ring because then he's gonna freak out and be like what the fuck? I don't think so think about it. I mean, I wasn't even thinking about engagement ring I don't think so I think after two years. It's an appropriate amount of time to just put that out there I said dumb soon guys are dumb. Yeah, they got to remember guys are dumb like no I'm saying he might not, he might just be like, this is my girlfriend. She can be my girlfriend for a really long time. I think two years is long enough though to say, I don't want an engagement ring.

And then he'll be like, good, you weren't going to get one. Yeah, then, then win win. Breaking up. Also, just get a dog and then that gets the whole thing going faster too. Hello, big cat and PFT. My boyfriend and I go to a Ohio State. Both huge Ohio State fans. We are both seniors so we've never seen a win against Michigan while being at school here. However, my boyfriend is also a diehard Lions fans. He keeps talking about after that Michigan National

Championship that if the Lions lose his playoff game to Stafford, he'll be done with sports. I guess I'm asking what should I do for him? Should I comfort him and watch with him or let him watch alone? I'm just scared if they do lose how crushed he'll be. Blumpkin. Give him a sympathy, Blumpkin. This might be a game that you start with him, and then if it's going well, just like slowly inch your way out of room and be alone with its thoughts at the end because he's going to be in a dark place. You got to read the room. Read the room, try to figure out where it's going. Yeah, that's socks because he probably knows a lot of people that are Michigan fans are rubbing and facing it, but then they... Yeah, that's bad.

You have to prepare for the worst. So I would say like if they lose that game Get ready to just have him stay home from work Call in like seamless Uber eats take air of all his food He's just gonna be one lot be locked in like a dark Sad room and be sad for a long time. That's a tough week Yeah tough tough week sad for a long time. That's a tough week. Yeah. Tough, tough week. Tough, tough. Stafford. No, I just win the game. Just win the game. How about that? Mm-hmm. Store the roar. Win the game. It's also Jared Goff for Venge game. I don't know if people are talking about that. No, that's a fact.

Big time. Buy him tickets to the game. But, but if they lose. But you won't, you won't have to deal with being around them. Buy him two tickets to collect. If you're a college student, you buy him two tickets again. Think you should got money like that. Sell some blood plasma. Dude, what do we all did? Sell some calm. Buy two tickets again. Can girls sell calm?

Yeah, probably it's probably worth way more than guy-com. Yeah, squirt. Yeah. It's a popular soda. Take a bath and then put the bath water into bottles and then sell that on a... Sell some feet picks. Hey PMT, I recently asked my ex-boyfriend

if he thought one of his best friends would be interested in going to a co-ed volleyball league with some of my friends. The question seemed to backfire once he said, IDK and I wish someone would ask me to do those type of things. Before ghosting me, I'll add, I broke up with them and it was a little messy. Wait, what, start that again? Sorry.

Wait, it's, she asked her ex-boyfriend. Oh. If he thought one of his friends would wanna play on a co-ed volumpt. Terrible person. Terrible person. Terrible person. Was I wrong for asking if his good friend wanted to play on our volleyball. Terrible person. Terrible person. Terrible person. Was I wrong for asking if his good friend

wanted to play on our team? Terrible person. Yeah, it seems like you should have at least asked, like, hey, do you and this person want to play? It is a very tricky situation. And she broke up with him. Co-ed sports are fun. And you're like 20s is like, hey, let's play some co-ed sports,

go to the bar after. But then you do run the wrist. Like, I know that I've been on softball teams where one of my teammates broke up with this girlfriend. His girlfriend was good at softball. And we're like, can we still have her on the team? Can't, but you think about it. He's definitely also thinking in the back of his head, you're asking me for my

friend to join your team so that you can hook up with him. Yeah, 100%. 100. But also he's really good volleyball for sure. Cause he's definitely also doing it cause he's probably a ringer at volleyball. Yeah, he's probably tall and strong. Hey, can I have your tall strong friends number

so I can ask him to play volleyball with me? Probably can carry my girlfriend. Yeah, can carry a woman. Yeah, toss her around. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fucked up. All right, last one. How big of an age gap is too big?

I'm 32 and I've been seeing a guy who's 24. I don't feel like I'm still, but he asked me if I remember 9-11. I do, he doesn't. And that kind of set me into a spiral. Oh, Sean McDermott. Am I overthinking? Hank, what do you think is too big of an age gap?

Yeah. I think like 10, I think 10 years, that's too much. Less than 10. Anything less than 10. Does it matter if it's like, it would, 22, how is it 24 to 32? Is that a bigger eight years than 30 to 38?

No, definitely. I think anything within 10. Do you think that also like the age gap doesn't matter as much if you guys root for the same football team? Yeah, I mean, listen, age truly is just number as long as, you know, well, you can't say that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I literally don't know, let me know, let me know, let me know, I can't say that, Hank, you can't say that. You can't say that. 10 years does matter sometimes. You didn't let me finish. You didn't let me finish.

I literally said age is just number as long as it's above 18. Like, that's what you guys cut me off. Next time is Wander Franco, shit. Yeah. You guys cut me off. I wander fronco shit yeah you guys cut me off um I actually this is kind of like I feel like the older woman that was fucked up And you said it you cut me off an older woman

To younger guy like that So that's all big deal. Yeah eight years Eight years that's the 9-11 thing is true. I remember I moved nine year old and 11 year old dating? No, nine, when I moved to Williamsburg into an apartment that had an overview of New York City. And my roommate was 40, I think I was 22, and he was showing me the apartment. It was a random roommate.

And the view was sick, and I was like, I don't know why I said this, this makes me sound bad. But I don't know why, I still don't know why I said this, because it me sound bad. But I don't know why I still don't know why I said this because it was like a small talk. It was the first time I met this guy. And I was like, Dan, it must have been crazy up here on 9-11 because you could see everything happening and he goes, it was.

I was like, holy fuck, dude, you're so old. Yeah. Cause I was in third grade. Yeah. So that, I can see that sending you in a spot. But that's, you gotta lean into it. There's gonna be eight years is enough for different cultural thing. I mean, that sending you a spot. But that's you got to lean into it. Like there's gonna be eight years is enough for different cultural thing.

I mean, that you're eight years younger, you drop at Ed and Eddie. Love it. No idea what that was when you said that. Yeah, you're really into 21 Savage. They did, you did one, the monster's in one. The Jerry dropped that and I was like, everyone was laughing and I was just like,

I don't know what they're talking about. Eight years, eight years is big. I'd say that like the eight year age difference, like me and Big Cat are almost 39 and Hank is 30. That's sometimes Hank is just so mature. Yeah. So mature. But also his young body is supple.

Yeah, he does have a good beard for 30. He's got that young, young bowl energy, he keeps us young. Also, he's 30 and he's strong and he works in a job that's flexible that allows him to travel a lot, which is a big bonus if you're looking at 30 year old and your 38 or 39. PFT and I have had discussions where we're like, you know, we're getting up there, Hank's getting up there because you were our young guy for a while. Do we need to go out and look for a young boy? And then we had to stop and be like, wait, we've talked about, what did we just say?

We've talked about getting a young boy. A young boy. Yeah, we've talked about procuring a young boy. Doing some sort of talent search for a young boy. It's got to be the younger, the better. Yeah. That was 19. Young boy talent search for you.

He's such a fucking boy. We might do that this summer. Yeah, and yeah, the logo be just like a mustache and sunglasses. Yeah, we're boy towel. Are you a young boy? Yeah, we're looking for you. We want you. We want you as young as possible. Come meet with us. Yeah. We'll get it all on camera. Young boy talents. We could use young boy. Yeah, I'm done for some youth. Yeah, I mean, we're getting all maxes into a little boy. Yeah, like mean, we're getting no maxes into little boy. Yeah, like we, although it's like we watch Billy,

we saw that turned out. No, there's downsides in young boy. It's like it's like getting a puppy. The puppy's going to annoy you sometimes, but it still keeps you young. True. Yeah. Yeah, what's crazy is Hank is about the same age

that we were when we started the podcast. I pulled up a video of you the other day. Who's talking about Big Hat? We were talking about the horse jumping video and I pulled that up and you said you're 28 and it and that sent me for a spiral. Shit. And I was thinking about telling a story

in my standup set from your 30th birthday, which when I said it was out. And I was like, fuck, that was this 30th birthday. I thought you were so old then. I know. That was a long time. You should tell that story though. I'm going to.

Damn. It's a good story. I don't even know the story. Tune into the standup final. You know the story? I know the story. It's the first time I met that it's it's. There's a good reason why maybe me or Big Cat

would not remember the story. And why it's not. A lot of things going on. I haven't been told. Yeah. A lot of things going on that night. A lot of things going on that night. There's some might say the reason why I work at this company to this day. Yeah.

Okay, now I'm remembering. Yeah, okay. Yeah, tell the story. Fuck it, I don't care. Yeah. We, we, we don't tell it to like,

we gotta cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it. Ugh. Bleep that. Don't keep it, but bleep it. And then we'll hear the story. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Pug, I got bad news for you. Shane's a young whipper snapper. My one pick tonight. Georgetown plus seven and a half. It's ugly. I said, ugly, ugly. Go pirates. They're so bad, but I looked at it and I was like, see the halls won two big games.

We'll find out. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's hard to hear. Oh, 10! 10! Yeah! Let's go, shame! Welcome to the winner's circle.

Right, shame. If you don't know, shame, shame, from the famous A that's ever been drawn, shame. Hello. Welcome to the winner circle right shame if you don't know shame shame from the famous a that's ever been drawn Shane Hello Shane so Shane is a Chargers fan is also the young is young. Yep young supple charge Chargers fan Justin Herbert Justin Herbert number 10 Shane. Yeah is is the famous graphic designer behind the greatest A that's ever been produced.

I actually would like a one-of-one shirt that just said Shane with the A for this moment. That'd be great. That sounds good. Yeah, that'd be great. So Shane, anything else? Shane also is like, Shane has not tried a lot of things in life and it's fun to watch him.

What was it? Did you have Chinese food for the first time? He grew up without internet on a phone. No, I have. Yeah, like a chick, chickful age, a Chipotle. Yeah, you've, you've been out to. I didn't have to. I went to New York City. Yeah, Chipotle, I remember that first order.

Yeah. He never had milk that wasn't, he like sucked from the cow. Yeah. What? Is that true, Shane? Shane, how are you a charger fan? Just grew up and LT was just the best. The best. He didn't really have a lot of sports around him, so he kind of picked his teams.

Yeah, the closest to me was like the Patriots, and I wasn't going to be a Patriots fan. Yeah. No offense. Thank you. You uh, I mean, Chargers is great. We need Chargers representation. Yeah, for sure. We might have to have you start. Shane also, like, he sits in here on Sunday when we bring up the chargers He just shakes his head the whole time. He's just like this sucks. He's the Photoshop guy. Yeah, he's responsible for every Photoshop Congratulations, especially the ones that make us look fat. Shane works very hard. So, uh, yeah, and we'll now Shane maybe we'll get some more Chargers thoughts from you going forward because people now are gonna be like, we you've had a Chargers fan So you can speak up for your people. Sounds good.

Yeah, okay. Good job Shane. Hell yeah. Good job Shane. Glad to be Shane. Glad to be here. All right, see you everyone on Friday. Love you guys. Today's another day to find you, shine it away I was coming for your love of pain

Talking away, I don't know what I'm to say I'm sad anyway Today's another day to find you, shine it away I was coming for your love of pain I'm coming for your love of dreams Take on me Take me on I'll be gone You've got to have to Take on me Take me, take me up, I'll be gone, let the whole team

I keep dancing on my own Need less to say, I'll say it But I need to really not wait Better land into life is okay Say it after me I least know better to be safe than sorry To tell you, to tell you, to tell you I least know better to be safe than sorry To tell you, to tell you, to tell you, to tell you

The better to be safe and sorry, it's all you can tell you, it's all you can tell you, it's all you can tell you Follow my phone Take on me Take me on I'll be gone The better I'll be Take on me, take me on, I'll be gone, take on you