Pardon My Take - NFL With Our Friend Sam Schwartzstein, NFL Week 10 Picks & Preview + Fyre Fest Of The Week

Episode Date: November 10, 2023

The Bears are back, sort of and that was kind of football that we watched (00:00:00-00:09:18). Week 10 picks and preview for every game from Sunday with some wild twists and turns talking about Belich...ick's video, Max found a bird video, we have some theories on Kyler Murray and more (00:09:18-01:23:35). Fantasy Fuccbois (01:23:35-01:29:43). We then welcome on our good friend Sam Schwartzstein from Thursday Night Football Prime Vision to talk NFL, analytics, Harbaugh stories from his playing days at Stanford and tons more (01:29:43-02:20:43). We then finish with Fyre Fest of the week (02:20:43-02:34:35).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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, part of my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have a very special guest. It is Sam Schwartzstein. You probably don't recognize the name, but it is a phenomenal interview. It's a must listen interview. Sam is a friend of ours.
Starting point is 00:00:22 Been a friend of ours for many years. He does Amazon Prime vision on Thursday night football He played it Stanford for coach Harbaugh with Andrew Locke He's got great Harbaugh stories. He's got great football intellect. You're gonna get smarter listening to this interview We're then gonna do or sorry before that. We're gonna do our week 10 preview You're gonna get dumber listening to our week 10 preview. For sure. Because we have not slept in like three days with the opening of the new Chicago office,
Starting point is 00:00:50 everything we've had going on this week. So yes, specifically the Raiders, Jets, and Patriots, Colts, previews, you will get dumber. But hopefully you'll laugh. We're going to talk about Thursday night football, whatever the hell we just watched. And then fire fest of the week. Great Friday show sending into a great football weekend. It's brought to you by our friends at proper number 12 rich and smooth proper number 12 Irish whiskey. New smooth to the core proper number 12 Irish apple, new crisp and fresh proper number 12 Irish apple founded by Conor Gregor for every bottle sold to the nation's made to support a brave first responders. Shoot your shot of proper number 12 Irish
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Starting point is 00:01:59 pour the roar, order your bottle of proper number 12 Irish whiskey from drizzly. Okay, let's go It's part of my take. There's no part of my take today There's enough of our sports. Welcome to part of my take today is fri a november 10th and that was football. The Carolina Panthers have the first overall pick in the draft. Yeah, that was football. Is the bears are you guys first in the draft now? Let's pull it up. Yeah, because the Cardinals obviously haven't played
Starting point is 00:03:09 The Carolina Panthers Give the first pick to the Chicago Bears as of right now if the season ended today the Bears now are the fifth pick The Patriots giants have both leapfrog the Bears So updated to the it was the it was the draft bowl frog the bears. So updated to the it was the it was the draft ball where the bears were playing against the team that they had their first pick. It was sort of football. Um, Bryce Young, not good, Tyson Baygent, not also not good. Nobody was good tonight, really. Uh, Carlos Santos was good. Carlos Santos was good. Uh, your punter was supposed to form in as good. DJ Moore had some flashes and the refs are motherfuckers because
Starting point is 00:03:52 we had not only the fake, probably the meanest thing you can do in all football. When a kick return happens against your team and then the graphic shows flag because it's always gonna be like, Oh, it's coming back. They just never addressed it. They never said it. They never said anything about it. They just went right to the extra point, right to commercial. I sat there being like, you can't do that.
Starting point is 00:04:13 I'll never recover from this. And then they did it again where it was a passenger appearance on DJ Moore. But at first they called it passenger appearance on the Panthers. And the rep was like, whoops, wrong team those those rollercoaster of emotions when it comes to flags You can't recover from those false flag. We got all the documents right here exactly Panthers we learned tonight are not really built to come from behind. They're not really built to do anything now They think of it the bears kind of are the bears down 10-10 three definitely built to come from behind They're an air it out team Bryce young.
Starting point is 00:04:46 There's still not a lot to be optimistic about if you're a Carolina panther. It's actually no. I'm gonna change that. We did put them first and are like future misery draft. Yeah. I think that there's a chance that David Tepper fires Frank right this week. So it is micro manager. It is 1029 p.m. central. The game just ended. David
Starting point is 00:05:06 Tepper did not look happy in the booth. They caught they caught him shaking. He said he's a micromanager. He has a pair of brass testicles on his desk. That is a man that will fire somebody for he's fired men for far less than that. Yeah. And I would be surprised. Frank Reich lasted the entire season. It looks like things are not trending in the right direction for him. When he sent his kicker out at the end of the game, Eddie Pinero and the 59 yard fuel goal ended up about what? Four yards, five yards short.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Yeah, it was true. Like it was right down the middle. And then Pinero, like, looked over at the sign kind of shrugged. Like, what do you want me to do? Yeah, what the fuck you guys wanted to do? You knew how long my fuel goals were. I told you what my limit was. You sent me out anyways.
Starting point is 00:05:46 That seemed like a desperation move by Frank Rack being like, maybe I'll just kick it further this time. Frank Rack knew that his kicker wasn't gonna make that. No. And he still sent him out. And he probably knew it because Eddie Pinero played for the Bears, but I was like, no, I've never made it. I can't do this on the shoulder field.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Not in this stadium. Yeah, no. Also, that last drive by the Panthers perfectly summed up the game because it was 15 plays, 50 yards. Yeah. That's hard to do. It was a drive to the left.
Starting point is 00:06:13 That's hard to do to get fit. That means that every first down, you're basically just barely getting a first down, which they did. It took five and a half minutes. And yeah, that was, let's just say this, okay. Let's put it all, let's reset. Even though I was watching, and this was the last time that I was hoping the Bears would win a game this year,
Starting point is 00:06:31 because now it is full tank. This was the one game, because you want the Panthers to have the worst record, so you can have their number one pick. And I do hope Justin Fields gets back, because Tyson Beigeon, nice guy. Nice guy. I'm rooting for him. I'm good at it. He's got a great dad.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Great dad. Maybe he'll be the backup for the Bears for a long time. That'd be great, because I am rooting for him. Awesome story. This idea that he's a starter, let's just stop that. Okay, let's stop that right now,
Starting point is 00:07:01 which I think most people actually stopped it a couple of weeks ago, but I'm gonna stop myself with that right now. Yeah, this was the last time that I was going to be like, I want the Bears to really win this game. Maybe against the Packers as well. But let's reset. We got through the, we got through the shit.
Starting point is 00:07:16 Okay. Next week we get Ravens Bengals. That's going to be nice. And then the Monday night football game after that is Chiefs Eagles. That's going to be nice. Okay. And then we get three games on Thanksgiving as this tradition. And then we get bonus football on Black Friday.
Starting point is 00:07:30 So we got through it. Okay, we got through the first step of whatever this week 10 is going to be. This is hell week. This is hell week. And you know what, hell week, you look back on it, you know, like 10 years after you graduate college and you're like, hell week rock.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Yeah. But when you're in the shit, you think it sucks, but this is football and we love football and I would never say you think bad about football. Yeah, so that's all I'm gonna say about that. Look at this, week 13, C.O.X. Cowboys on Thursday night. There we go. That's good.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Things are looking good if you're a football fan. Then we're gonna do Patriots Steelers. Oh, we can't get too far ahead of ourselves. No, we've got some great games coming up. Yeah, we do have some great games. On Thursday. The December, week 14, December 7. Patriots Steelers and Chargers Raiders.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Well, I'm gonna stop doing this. This is gonna start pumping me out. All right, we got through it. We got through, we got through step one of how weak everyone buckle up. We're gonna get through this together. Also, Al Michaels, good job tonight. Yeah, it was funny when he said, uh, it looks like they're going to try the
Starting point is 00:08:32 push push with Bryce Young, except you doesn't have that much push to push. Yeah, that was good. Yeah, it's vintage. Al. Yeah. So skinny daddy, Bayesian daddy, daddy, Bayesian, daddy, Bayesian, you got a little horny. We got a little Al after dark.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah, daddy, Bayesian. Um, yeah, baby, daddy, daddy, daddy, baby, you got a little horny at the end. We got a little owl after dark. Yeah, daddy, baby. Yeah, that was football. Yeah, and I love football. Yeah, I love football. Okay, that's it, really? Should we do what I put this disclaimer beginning? But yeah, this week 10 preview, buckle up because we take a lot of twists and turns
Starting point is 00:09:02 that go off football wherever it goes. I think it actually is some of our best podcasting. It's the perfect preview to run with Sam. Yeah. Because Sam definitely levels it out. The interview with him is awesome. And I just love talking to Sam. He will make you smart about football.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Yes. He'll undo all the brain damage that we do to you in the first part of this. And everyone, please tweet Sam after and say, great job on part of my take. We need you back on. Yep. Let's boost them up. Uh, okay.
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Starting point is 00:11:45 So order now and get it delivered with Uber Eats. Week 10, week 10, double digits. We've reached over the halfway point. We know what? That means we're just rounding the shape right now. Yes. And so just a disclaimer for everyone listening at home, you heard us obviously talk about the Bears Panthers
Starting point is 00:12:07 to start the show, this is how we do the Friday show. We taped the week 10 preview in the afternoon, and we watched the game, and we finished the beginning of the show. We have basically been working nonstop this week. We are out of gas. It might get a little loopy. That's fine though.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Those are some of the best shows that we do. Yeah, I want the disclaimer. So when we say something stupid and everyone's like, you fucking idiots, it's like, listen guys, I think in this room, well no, Hank sleeps like a baby. Between PFT and I, we're probably sleeping about four hours a night the last four days.
Starting point is 00:12:42 It's loopy season. PFT, we just had a moment where we thought we had to do an ad, we had taped the ad an hour ago and he's like, do we have to do that ad now? We're like, the one we did an hour ago. I completely forgot what I did an hour ago. And it took about five minutes worth of our time to do it, completely in one ear out the other. My brain's not operating, but I do think that sometimes when we get loopy on the show and we get into our dumbest modes, it somehow makes us smarter.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Yes. It's when, yeah, hey, I was at a work of mental to 230 a.m. last time. Oh, yeah, you live in the bar. You live in the dumb zone. Yeah. Yeah, we're, I, yeah, I'm never sharp. I'm always loopy. You were born into it.
Starting point is 00:13:17 We're merely adopting it right now. And it's when we think that we're being really smart, that we're actually at our stupidest. Yes. Yes. So week 10 Hank is wearing a little Mac jersey. I wish he'd take that fucking jersey off. But we're gonna start, the best way to start, culture patriots, Germany, more importantly, Hank's lighthouse presentation.
Starting point is 00:13:41 All right, Hank, here we go. I've been waiting all week. I've actually, I get a lot of feedback from the listeners, which I love. I take all into account. The one thing I got more than anything else is, I can't wait for Hank's lighthouse presentation on Friday. People are setting their clocks to it
Starting point is 00:13:55 and they're excited to an end. So Hank, make sure you turn your clocks back forward this week. Correct, correct. Without further ado, Hank, the lighthouse presentation. All right, cut in. Here. What?
Starting point is 00:14:08 What are you talking about? What are you talking about? And cut out. So you don't have the lighthouse for that? I, I, I will have it today. No, no, no, the day I thought the due day was, no. I thought we were recording later. No, no, you didn't.
Starting point is 00:14:18 No, you didn't. We didn't record later. We don't recording tonight. No, we are recording later. We, we said we were going to do it during the Colts Patriots preview because it's game stinks and you don't have it ready. So now you have to extend it to next week. Not tonight. No, it makes no sense to do it. I thought we were gonna add it into this part of that. I think we're not gonna do tricks for the audience. They're gonna be like, oh, they talked about him not having it. Now he has it. It's a trick. How could you trick the audience?
Starting point is 00:14:45 I think you owe our listeners an apology. Yeah. A.W.L.S. I would like to apologize. I do not have the presentation ready. I don't really have a good excuse. Scumbag. You got that jersey, you went and bought that jersey.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Yeah, bought this jersey. I've actually had this for a long time. I just lost a little bit of weight since I got it. Oh, who's that a joke? If it happens again, you get a soul patch. Yeah, yeah. Who's expecting that joke at? No, just the losing weight jersey you had it for a long time.
Starting point is 00:15:14 It's a three XL. I was, yeah, who hold up a bigger back in the day. So who are you making fun of right now? I'm not gonna get fun to anyone. I'm just people are like, why that jersey's a little bit big on you. It's because it sounds like during your apology, you just instead weight-shamed somebody like, why that jersey's a little bit big on you? It's because it sounds like during your apology, you just instead
Starting point is 00:15:25 weight-shamed somebody who lent you that jersey. I'm not weight-shaming anyone. I let you that jersey. Eddie. Yeah, that's fucked up. Eddie's the nicest guy in that. Eddie is a nice guy. He gave me this jersey.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Look, I wish I was. I was here. I wish Eddie was. That's who else. I'm sorry to you guys. I wish you were back in New Jersey. That's what I wish. I wish you were back in New Jersey. That's what I wish. I wish you were swimming with the fishes.
Starting point is 00:15:49 I have, like, after we finished this recording, I'm free for like six hours. I was very busy this morning. Oh good, that's not true. I'm glad to hear that you're free for six hours after this. You're gonna watch the game? You're wearing a bear's jersey? Well, I'll be watching. I'm like, why?
Starting point is 00:16:03 We're gonna be done in an hour. The game doesn't start for three hours I'm not gonna be on the stream So I'll be sitting on my computer working. Oh Hank doesn't care about the streams when Tiffany's I'm not on the stream Oh pervert pervert my take pervert my take look at the end of the day. I am very sorry You fucked up actually should be called hard on my take. Yeah, you fucked up. I did fuck up So when are we getting the presentation? It'll be done tonight.
Starting point is 00:16:26 I can present it whenever you're ready for it. And I'll do something as a- Next week, atonement. All right, Soul Patch. No. Get a cat. Start the lottery ball, slate clean. You never got it. You never got it.
Starting point is 00:16:41 No. You never got it. No. You know what this is? It's just Hank like high stepping and thinking he's the man because he got it. No. You never got it. No. You know what this is? It's just Hank like high stepping and thinking he's the man because he got the lottery grant. He doesn't think he has to do any work anymore. No. You think you're on top of the world.
Starting point is 00:16:53 You've had a week to do this presentation, Hank. Look, there's there's some things we have had a busy week and and there's a lot of times where I really get to thank my lucky star. Sometimes I don't take it for granted, but sometimes I lose sight of how lucky I am to have this job and to work with you guys. We went to a corporate presentation this week and it started and within two minutes I was like, I wouldn't last a second. Dude, I had the same feeling. I was like, I'll put a bullet in my hand if I have to be in a conference room for more than 10 minutes.
Starting point is 00:17:21 And then when I start, I set, there's been two times where I sat down to like, I have, and the thing is I have the presentation in my head, like I know what I wanna put on paper, but I sit down and I open pages and I start doing it and like my ADHD kicks in and I'm like, I just sing with my hand. I just know you're on UGES. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I'll do this later.
Starting point is 00:17:38 I'll do this later, I'll do this later. And then the deadline comes and I'm like, I have, you know, hat in hand, I'm sorry. So that's it's really just a long way of saying thank you guys for forgiving me. I'll stop. Stop it. Stop it.
Starting point is 00:17:51 I like stop that. That that meeting your professional crafts. It it started in legitimately two minutes and I was like, I I could not last one minute like I. If I had this job, I don't, I truly don't know what I'd be doing with. Yeah, me being a gutter. I really enjoyed the corporate meeting. It was a great meeting, but it's hard to,
Starting point is 00:18:09 I couldn't do that every day. Yeah, I could, if I was, I was thinking myself on the other side. I get it there. I'm doing action items, I'm circling the act, I'm putting pins and stuff. It was, I'm loving every second of it. It wasn't the meeting.
Starting point is 00:18:21 It was the physical act of sitting in like a room with everyone around, being serious. And I was like physical act of sitting in like a room with everyone around being serious. And I was like, I haven't been in a room like this in a long time. If I was in that corporate life, I would just start every meeting or every sentence with per my email. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:36 It's just such a power. Let's now circle. Hank, when can we circle back on the lighthouse? The lighthouse president. That's saying tonight. I'm saying it. It will be done. You guys can tell
Starting point is 00:18:45 No, no, no, no. If you we will address it on Wednesday. Okay, whatever you want. He's not gonna do it. Absolutely not. And he also have no he's totally gonna get done tonight, even though it's not due to last week. As soon as you box by the cost later, it's over. Yeah, I won't go off until I finish it. Okay, well, there is a more important storyline that we can get into the Colts at the Patriots in Frankfort, Germany. I can break this. Colts are, oh, that's in my perspective.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Colts are underdogs at home in Germany. Bella checks leading his guys over there. Both teams are traveling on Thursday after their walkthrough, so there's no travel advantage. Who knows where Bella checks gonna be, like during the night, during the course of the week, he might have some friends houses he's staying over at. Big Cat, I don't know if you saw this video. Culture not underdogs by the way.
Starting point is 00:19:31 The Patriots are one and a half point underdogs. It's two point underdogs. Okay, so it moved. Yeah, this morning. All right, so Big Cat, I'm not sure if you've seen this video that's making the rounds of coach Bill Beliceack, exiting somebody's house that would appear to be, I know, 536 AM in the morning, shirtless, no shirt on, doing the walk a shame, easing his way out of the door, making sure not to make too much noise on his way out, presumably staying over at a young lady's house during the night, living his best life. Hey, when was this video from? Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:20:04 It just came out today. It has to be summertime, right? He's demand shirtless. Who knows where the shirt is? Oh my God. He, I'll say this about the video. Bellicic looks powerful. Yeah, he does, he's always had that.
Starting point is 00:20:17 No, he does, he's got the barrel chest. The back dimples. Like the lines in his back. Yeah, he looks like that man can fuck, that's the back of a man that was up all night in pussy. Wait, is there sound of this video? I don't think so. Because he definitely ripped apart.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Oh, that's the first thing you do when you leave, yeah. Wait. Oh man, it looked like he was gonna rip apart. He kind of like breathed in there. All right. What if you had done like the Steve Belicechak on his way out into the camera, the defensive thing? Did I hear it? Listen, good for him.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Good for him. Barbara might take. Barbara might take, um, is he gonna get fired? He might. Oh, I cannot wait. I listened, I've thought about this over the last couple days because the the Bellicect Chicago Bellicect to Washington rumors keep increasing by the minute. I want a hardball. It seems like okay I'll take Bellicect and I'm gonna be happy for you to get hardball
Starting point is 00:21:16 I think that'd be good for the show all around A lot of people are saying like is Bellicect the right coach if you're a team like the commanders Would you even want a guy that's that old, probably on the downside of his career? I say yes, I would love Bill Bella check, not necessarily, I understand the concerns, but strictly for the purposes of this show to steal Hanks head coach.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Yes. Would just be, that would be incredible for me personally. I've seen a lot of Photoshop's of Bella check recently. Are they Photoshop's or are they real? Where he's wearing commission? Do you commission? He's wearing commanders gear. I thought one of them was real.
Starting point is 00:21:50 You've commissioned them. But Hank, if he loses this game, would you like to see him fired? Absolutely not. That's a crazy question. Okay. But I think they will lose this game. Yeah, I actually don't. I actually actually the Patriots might win this game.
Starting point is 00:22:09 God, so two reasons. One, uh, Garden of Interest has been in the league for a long time. Never played Bell check. Bell check might just not give a fuck. He might not give a fuck. So that might not that video. I don't know when the video is from it probably is from the summer. But like that is like a a it looks like a summer video
Starting point is 00:22:25 That's like a Jersey Shore clip. Yeah Yeah, cuz the house is all next to each other. He's not in Nantake. He's not in a state He's in like taunt. I also think that this is the one chance that Mac Jones can maybe look good cuz the cult defense is bad You got Bradley runs the same defense no matter what all the time this should should be no. That Jones seems like a jet lag. He's going to be like, oh, I'm cranky. Oh, I'm crying eyes. Yeah. I've he allowed to travel overseas. Yeah, I think so.
Starting point is 00:22:52 I have a I have a fun stat that means absolutely nothing. Uh, I saw someone be like, uh, Bilbo check his three and O international games. So he's good with like like planning out the traveling stuff. Or he had Tom Brady. Yeah, that's a good point. That's, travel doesn't really matter when you have Tom Brady. Well, what's Bill Bellicic's record in Super Bowl as big cat? Uh, I don't know. I've got my hands. Is it six and three? Six and three. That's three, four, three, three. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. But he also had Tom Brady in those games.
Starting point is 00:23:26 Yeah, for sure. For sure. For sure. Sure, for sure. So you don't think the pictures are going to win. Will you wake up for this game knowing that it's after a Saturday and Hank gets after it? I will not be participating in any client entertaining activities this weekend. So I will be waking up. Wow. What are you doing Friday? I don't know, probably be here.
Starting point is 00:23:53 I'm trying to get my brain to break. We're in the office for a full swing. There's a lot of exciting stuff happening and I would like to get ahead of it for once. Okay. Okay. You should have like the report that you haven't done. Yeah. Well, one thing. I can't. All right. You guys know me.
Starting point is 00:24:11 The listeners probably know me at this point. No, they know you. They know you too well. I struggle when I'm overwhelmed. And then you factor in a hangover. How is it also? How is a lighthouse presentation overwhelming? It's just like the tip of, it's just like the,
Starting point is 00:24:23 it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Like, anything like I do not do well managing multiple things at once. If there's anything else I have to do, you're in charge of this whole office. No, I know, but there's a lot of shit going on, so it's like, well, I wanna do this presentation, or do I wanna do like focus on something for the office,
Starting point is 00:24:41 and I'm always like, all right, well, I gotta do this, I gotta do this, I gotta do this. I need a clear mind, I need like a full mind. Yeah, and prioritize. That's what you have to do. Hank, let me ask you a question. If part of my take just ceased to exist, do you think that this office would be here right now?
Starting point is 00:24:55 No. So maybe the priority is on the lighthouse presentation. I thought I was gonna be able to sneak it into the tonight and it would be cool. And then once we started the podcast, I realized it's a thousand mistakes. Which we started the same time every Thursday. No, I know, but I just thought like- I just thought like- Just like this one later.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Yeah, we did. Sometimes we do stuff and it's like, alright, we'll do it when we record tonight. You guys are cool. And then once we started, I was like, okay, now this is- Well, because we'd be weird, because we'd be like, why are we doing the lighthouse presentation? Well, I try to do the cut-in cut-out. Okay. Nerd nugget for this game.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Not only are the Patriots, the pre-NL and the NFL's international series, but they've only let up one touchdown in each of those three games. Wow. So it could be a time- I didn't even stop, but also the defense play-ball. I feel like I didn't really, sorry, Jake,
Starting point is 00:25:36 I might have to ask you to repeat that because I was just thinking back about our preview of the Cold Space. Yeah, it was where the fuck is the lighthouse presentation? The B.C. Box. I'll check Yeah, it was where the fuck is the lighthouse presentation? The BBC Bob Bell Check for, and where the fuck is the lighthouse presentation? But you know what, that's exactly the preview you need for this game.
Starting point is 00:25:53 I want to hear some of this game. All right, sorry, Jake, can you repeat it? Like, I'm in high school trying to convince my teachers to give me a passing grade so I can be eligible. This game stinks. That's tough. We should do that every week. The worst game on the schedule will just be like,
Starting point is 00:26:06 make sure we don't actually mention anything about the game. Doghouse game of the week. Yeah, this game is in my doghouse. Yeah, the fact that it's so early too. I'm gonna, I'm gonna game cast this game. I'm just gonna watch the updates of scores. Oh, I'm gonna watch in bed. I'll be up. I'll be here.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Shhh. You're not gonna be here day-to-day.'ll be up. I'll be here. You're not gonna be here today, someday. No, you're not gonna be here. At that time, I'll leave my apartment a half. Well, that's not, yeah, that's different. So Jake, nerd nugget. Yeah, so in those three wins and the NFL's international series,
Starting point is 00:26:37 the pitch rits have only let up one touchdown in each of those games. Oh, okay. Tom Brady is excelled, yes, but the defense has also played well with the pitch. Very cool. Okay, the colds don't stop anybody. Yeah. So I think I'm just going to take the over and just hope that it happens. Yeah, I like that. All right. Now for a good game, which should have been flexed the Sunday night. Hank is off the hot seat. He just let out
Starting point is 00:26:58 a big sigh of relief. Niners at Jacks. This game is going to be awesome because we're going to find out if the Niners have corrected what has been ailing them, which the by-week came at a good time for them. Tivo Samuel back, Trent Williams, maybe back, Kyle Shanahan had a weird press conference where he's like, yeah, he's dealing with Zankel and some other things in his body.
Starting point is 00:27:22 And yeah, I chase young first time in the Niners uniform. I think the Niners are going to win this game. I think they're going to be, I think they're going to look good best effort. Defense of coordinator coming down all out of the booth. Yeah, they need to make it. They need that old school. Demeco Ryan's was obviously on the sideline, pumping people up. They're trying to find that. Kyle Shanahan's going to get more involved in the defense. Yeah. These are all, I feel like they realize,
Starting point is 00:27:46 hey, we're a really good team, but we gotta start taking some shit seriously. There's gonna be a lot of Wilkes Booth jokes going on this weekend. Yeah. I say that like, is the person who's gonna make the Wilkes Booth? No, I already did it. In the room we are right now.
Starting point is 00:27:59 I already did it. If something about Wilkes Booth, a play never ends well. If Wilkes Booth is involved. The 49ers and the Jaguars, I'm holding two separate thoughts in my head. One is that the line is very disrespectful to the Jaguars. There are three point underdogs at home. Being six and two, it's a little disrespectful, especially considering that the Niners lost
Starting point is 00:28:21 three in a row. I'm holding that thought in my head, but the other thought that I have in my head is that the Jaguars might be fraudulent. Well, so I don't think they're fraudulent, but. Well, you gotta be consistent because if you look at their... No, I was gonna say it, I was about to say it. So I don't think they're fraudulent, but I also think that you can definitely do
Starting point is 00:28:43 the tier system with them where the last four wins have been the Falcons, the bills, the Colts, the Saints, and they looked very bad against the chiefs. And if you ask yourself, are the Niners closer to the Falcons, bills, Colts and Saints? Are they closer to the chiefs? I would say they're closer to the chiefs and the Steelers, right? And the Steelers, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:02 I was just saying they're last four games. Oh, yeah, the Steelers. Steelers is October 29ers. Yeah. Yeah. I was just saying there last four games. Oh, yeah, the Steelers just October 29th. Yeah. Yeah. So their best win of the season was the bills. We didn't agree on that. That was in England. The bills might stink. And the bills might stink and travel was an issue. So to be consistent, we have to say that if they lose this game, we have to call the Jaguars frauds. The problem is it's, the dolphins are bigger frauds because the dolphins lost the pills. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:27 There's levels to this shit, man. And the dolphins blowing out the Broncos and scoring 70 points. Yeah. That probably adds to their fraud resume. If you blow out a bad team like that. I'm just saying, like, with the Jaguars, they don't play that many tough opponents this year.
Starting point is 00:29:42 No, I know. I had the same thought where I was just like wait the the Niners are gonna be the closest Thing the Jaguars have or the the Niners is the chiefs and the Jaguars really struggled that game the only scored nine points That's prisco. That's why yeah, the schedule the schedule is everything they play the bangles eventually They play the Texans. Yeah, I'm cool put them on frog watch You you commence and then the Ravens and then besides that they've got it.'m just saying we should yeah, we should put them on fraud watch. I like it They haven't done anything to really earn that it's just that they haven't played anybody No, there are fraud watch and if the Niners go into their house and beat them
Starting point is 00:30:14 I think we have to we have to talk about it if the If the Niners lose this game do they go to fraud watch this might be the fraud bowl But I don't think the since they've lost so many in a row, I don't know if they're fraught. They might just be broken. They're broken. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Because outside of the Cowboys win, the Niners have only beaten the Steelers Rams, Giants, and Cardinals. Those are not sorry Steelers fans, like your team's got a winning record. But yeah, congratulations. You got to win. You get it.
Starting point is 00:30:42 I'm okay with doing a Fraud Bowl. Yeah, there's a Fraud Bowl. But the Niners, I think we win. You get it. I'm okay with doing a fraud bowl in this. Yeah, it's a fraud bowl. But the Niners, I think we can say they're broken. Can they put it back together? Yeah. Because at one point it felt like they weren't frauds. Basically, if you beat the Chiefs, you're not frauds. I agree.
Starting point is 00:30:56 I agree with that. Lions are going to be going to the end of the season being like, we're not frauds, you beat the Chiefs. Okay, nerd nugget. Yeah, first off, I have a reminder from last week that the Jags were on a buy to respect Doug Peterson as a head coach. No, okay. All right. We will. I the chiefs. Okay, nerd nugget. Yeah, first off, I have a reminder from last week that the Jags were on a buy to respect Doug Peterson
Starting point is 00:31:06 as a head coach. No, okay. All right, we will. I'll do that. All right, noted. Six. Trevor Lawrence. Big Hat, do you know how many touchdowns he has this year?
Starting point is 00:31:16 Seven. He's got nine, which it still isn't that much. No. They don't pass the ball for touch. CJ Shara has 14. Also, this season, the 49ers offense has gained at least four yards on 56% of their first down plays most in the league. So that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:31:31 More than half the time is again at least four. That's pretty good. It's really good. The this is this is what I struggle with this all the time. PFT the stats when you get later in the season because you think you're like, oh, it's still early in the season. No, it's week 10. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Nine touchdowns and week 10 is not a whole lot. It's not good. No. So yeah, that is a little shocking, because you know how that happens where you're like, oh, it's still, if you ask me, yeah, we're still early in the season. Season just started.
Starting point is 00:31:59 The league leader is two with 19. Yeah, there's, if you went just on touchdown passes, he is 20th. That's how I do my power rankings, of course, who has the most touchdown passes. Yeah. Sometimes you've got to go backwards and make the stats piece way dumber. Yeah. Don't listen to the same Swords teams of the world all the time. Yeah. Josh Shobbs has 10 elite elite. Okay, uh, this game is gonna be awesome though. I'm excited fraud ball next game Browns at Ravens Ravens defense two best defenses in the league maybe I would say so actually. Yeah, I This division game always tough. AFC North. I don't know I think it was a little misleading the Browns
Starting point is 00:32:44 Killing the Cardinals killing the Cardinals, because the Cardinals are that bad. They didn't run the ball that great. And so it's been Gedrick Will's week after Monday. I said, you know, they're all star or whatever I said. They're great offensive lineman. Browns fans corrected me rightfully so. But now the Browns don't have the two tackles
Starting point is 00:33:06 they started the season with because Jack Conklin went out in week one. Now you have weird situation where they're talking about flipping the guys because they have a rookie on the right side that might move them to the left side. James Hudson who's going to come in go to the right side. I think there's going to be a problem for the Browns. I think like once you get these, you know, couple injuries, the depth issue on the offensive line. If you don't like Jedrick Will's, that's fine. But once you get lower in the depth chart,
Starting point is 00:33:30 it's like, well, kind of wish we still had Jedrick Will's. I agree. The strategy last week was to Fanski was to run the ball as much as possible. They have a 2.8. They didn't do well. Yeah, yeah. There was, I think, one player had like 13 rushes for 2.9 yards per carry. The other guy had like 13 rushes for 2.6 or per carry. The other guy had like 13 rushes for 2.6 or something like that. They didn't run it effectively. They just did a good amount enough to keep the
Starting point is 00:33:50 cardinals off the field as much as possible. And I feel like the Browns like a Marry Cooper has been great and that connection looks like they had a couple deep shots. I don't know if the Browns like to beat this Ravens defense. I think you have to have multiple weapons that can, because I think they can key on a Marry Cooper. So I like the Ravens this game. Also, congratulations to Keaton Mitchell for officially becoming a Raven. You don't have to do that.
Starting point is 00:34:16 Rogue One says you have to beat the Steelers. I also think there's another way you can be a Raven, and that's just be added to the injury report randomly. Yeah. So you've got a hamstring. One of the, one of the guys, that's like, it's like, oh, you're now a raven. You had a great game, but you're also kind of injured. Soft tissue damage.
Starting point is 00:34:32 Yeah. It's Lamar returning to the AFC. He just finished his bar and storming tour of the AFC that he does. And god damn, if the NFC of Lamar Jackson wasn't a thing, is that utopia meme? Yeah. That's what it is. He just, he loves to kick the shit out of the NFC. The AFC's been kicking the show. The NFC overallopia meme. Yeah, that's what it is. He just, he loves to kick the shit out of the NFC.
Starting point is 00:34:45 The AFC's been kicking the show, the NFC overall too though. Oh really? Yeah, that's a, that's a trend that we're doing that. It's like 65% or something. I love rooting for conferences. Yeah, it makes sense. I mean, we keep talking about like who's gonna get the 7C in the NFC?
Starting point is 00:34:58 Yeah, it does. It's a lot of really good teams, the AFC. So I like the Ravens. I think that the Ravens are the best team in football right now. Yeah, I would would I would stake my reputation on that, which is pristine. Yeah, it's uh, yeah, I mean, I the Ravens are playing great ball. I think there's just too much. I know DTR was the starter last time these two teams played and he's not NFL starter, so you can kind of throw out that score. But I think the Ravens are just humming right now.
Starting point is 00:35:25 And they know they got a, they got a like, ANC Norse, not easy. You can't take, people were talking, oh, trap game, because Thursday night they're playing against the Bengals. I don't know. I think the Ravens know that like, they're now playing for the one seed. Like, it's kind of shifted here, you know?
Starting point is 00:35:40 So you can't take a game off. I am going to be basing the rest of my seasons Takes on Doshan Watson off how he performs in this game. I just want to make that very fair, but it's fat. Well, I think it's fair because... Well, the Ravens defense is really fucking good. The Ravens defense is good and also Doshan Watson. This feels like he should be healthy at this point.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Yeah, like fully, fully healthy. Uh, nerd nugget. The Ravens have allowed just 10 points per game at home this season. They've only also allowed two touchdowns from Scrimmage at home. Whoa. Whoa. Okay. Next game, Texans and Bengals.
Starting point is 00:36:14 I'm excited for this game. Jamar Chase, most likely out. That's maybe not the case because I saw that he came out. He was wearing a jersey and pads for practice. Oh, okay See Higgins I think he's probably out because he was not dressed for practice. Yes, so I both are kind of toss-ups Yeah, and we saw it when Jermar Chase took that when he fell trying to catch that ball And I think I think Collins who are said right away is like oh, he's not gonna be a walk tomorrow with that back And that's exactly what happened. So now we have the Texans, the upstart Texans.
Starting point is 00:36:47 I think Texans are gonna be live in this game. Yeah, the other thing is Lou Anorumo. Yeah, defensive coordinate. Coach Lou. For the Bengals, Coach Lou. Him going up against a rookie quarterback, I think I'm gonna go with Coach Lou on this. I do like CJ Stroud, but I'm gonna go,
Starting point is 00:37:03 I'm gonna go with the angry Italian in this game. I was also very impressed with the Bengals home crowd last week, you get bills. The fact that they were able to be organized enough to sit in their sections, because they did Tiger Stripe Stadium where one section was black, one section orange, that shows a lot of discipline at rocks.
Starting point is 00:37:20 That's a promising sign for that fan base. So yeah, I'm gonna go with the big angry Italian Lou M. Aruno. Lou M. Arillo. Rue Amorro. Listen, I can say this. Big Lou. As an Italian father, sometimes Italians have names that
Starting point is 00:37:37 what I am an Italian father. Father, my children. Listen, our a quarter Italian. I am a shirt. It says proud Italian father. Father. My children. My children. Listen, our quarter Italian. I am. I am. I have a shirt. I said, proud, it says proud Italian father. I am one person Sicilian. So I can say this. Big Lou is going to put them in big trouble. Big trouble. I, I just think that I think the, we'll see with T Higgins, Mar chase, I think the Texans, they finally
Starting point is 00:38:02 did the thing where like, oh, CJ Shroud's really good. Maybe we don't have to run the ball in first down every single time. Maybe we should let him just be a baller. So I think they're going to keep, I think the Bengals are going to win the game. I think Texas will cover the spread. If we forget, if we like men and black ourselves and completely ignore the first three weeks of the season, the Bengals are probably right there in the conversation for the S team in the NFL.
Starting point is 00:38:26 Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I did a half time future on them against the 49ers. It's 22 to 1. I was like, they're back. As soon as Joe Burrell ran one time, I was like, they're back. They're back. And they're the scariest team.
Starting point is 00:38:37 They've proven it. It's weird because obviously they haven't won a Super Bowl. But I still think they are the scariest team. Like if you asked the chiefs, who do you not want to play in the last week's January? It's the Bengals. Absolutely. So for that Ja'broney mayor, Travis Kelsey. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:53 Okay, nerd nugget. Last week, Bengals quarterback Joe Barrow played in his 50th regular season game among all quarterbacks in NFL history through 50 games. Barrow is second in completions, first in completion percentage in fifth and passing yards. Okay. He's good at football. He's one of the best 50 game players ever. He's good at football. Okay, next up Packer Steelers. Yuck. I think that this is the week for the Steelers to lose. I think no, I think they're gonna outgain
Starting point is 00:39:19 their opponent. They might lose. They still might lose. They might outgain them, but they might outgain the Packards this week. So, George Pickens has been doing some stuff on social media. Mike Tomlin had to address it in a press conference. He was asked, he said, it's like a pebble in my shoe. Pebbles in your shoe are very annoying. Yeah, was he trying to say it was not a big deal?
Starting point is 00:39:38 Yeah, but I was like, wait, no, pebbles in your shoe. Pebbles in your shoe is like, you have to stop and take off your shoe and be like, oh, there's a pebble in my shoe. Yeah, you use it. It's a serious issue. Yeah, if untreated it leads to an infection It's been like it's like a pee underneath my mattress. Mm-hmm. What's that? What is that the princess in the pee? It's in the pee Yeah, George Pickens. I feel like that's not going great Yeah, so he unfollowed a lot of his teammates on Instagram. Uh-huh. He scrubbed his Instagram of references to the Steelers. Najeh Harris had a word with him about it and they talked to two of them
Starting point is 00:40:10 talked and then pick into dress the media. He said, I don't mix social media and football. I was just clearing out my page to be honest. It had nothing to do with the Steelers. Nothing. So he's I he might be right though. If he's calling his teammates out for just posting weak shit on Instagram. This is put your posting bad content., I'm gonna unfollow you. This is the new excuse, whenever someone deletes everything
Starting point is 00:40:30 and they're like, no, I'm just living my life, it's the new, I just got a smoothie and I don't know how these steroids got in my system, excuse. Yeah, this one is, it's a little bit harder to track, but I think at the end of the day, he's saying like, can he pickens, doesn't post fire picks on Instagram?
Starting point is 00:40:45 Right. Like, when it was last time, you cleaned out your Instagram. Never. It's been a while. Yeah. But maybe, maybe he's just like a social media connoisseur and he just realizes that his teammates aren't that great at it. Why am I following this guy?
Starting point is 00:40:58 Just because he's my teammate? No, you want to follow people that you care about. People who, who's content is fine. Post better shit. Yeah, exactly. Perfect booties. LeBron James. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Did he post that or he just liked it when he was zero dark 30 23. To me, that's a that's an indictment of his teammates. His teammates need to step their Instagram game up a little bit. Yeah. I so the only reason I kind of like to packers in this game is the weakness for the packers is they start insanely slow in every game. We had this stat a couple weeks ago where they had five straight games where they did not score a first half touchdown. Guess what? The Steelers don't exactly jump on opponents.
Starting point is 00:41:35 Oh, Kenny Pickens is a Mr. Fourth Quarter. They keep it close. I just feel like this is going to be a close game no matter what. Like I can't see either team winning by more than three. And now that I said that, one of these teams will blow out the other. At the end of the day, it's gonna be good uniform matchup at least. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:50 Oh yeah. Jake. Nerdnugget. Mike Tomlin has guided the sealers to a 12 and four record on nine days rest. That's the best winning percentage. Second ice in the NFL since 2007. Anybody is there.
Starting point is 00:42:02 What happened with the best there? I miss red. Oh no. But still really good. Nine since 2007. Anybody. What happened with the best there? I miss red. Oh no. But still really good. Nine days rest. Yeah, I mean, did you see best or do you write, let's break down the situation. I'll read what it's on my computer.
Starting point is 00:42:15 Okay, ask him witness. Mike Tomlin has guided the Steelers to a 12 and 4 record on nine days rest. Pittsburgh 75% winning percentage under Tomlin on nine days rest is the second ice in the NFL since 2000. So best was never in there. Nope. Damn, but it's still really good. You went row. It's all best. Yeah. You just jumped ahead to best. That's up. It's all man. Man. Sorry. Maybe you can just tag on to Hank's notes out for the presentation you. Yeah. I do like the miniby though. Yeah. I like Tomlin on a miniby.
Starting point is 00:42:42 I like Tom. He is an on he's a favorite, which is not good, but oh, no. I like their defense a lot. I like the Steelers. They're the back half of their defense is not the best. Yeah, just get TJ home. Yeah. Uh, okay. Let's say quick break because we have a delivery that just showed up from Shake Shack. Shake Shack is one of our favorite game day meals. And right now, they're doing a special promotion. If any player celebrates a touchdown with the chicken dance this Sunday, Shake Shack is offering free chicken shacks for a week with eligible purchase. Their chicken shack is the sleeper of the chicken sandwich game, but it really surpasses the others. It's got crispy white meat chicken breasts over lettuce pickles
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Starting point is 00:45:10 Treat your players. Treat your favorite players. Let's get it going. Okay. Next up, Tennessee, Tampa Bay. We're slogging through. Yeah, slogging through. Yeah, um, coaches really hate benching bag quarterbacks. That's what I'm taking out of this week. Mike variable. I think he cried when he said that he was going to have to bench Ryan Tannel. Yeah. We'll love his kind of forces handle that. We'll love us as good. He is good. We'll love us as good. Some people asked many questions for the body. Billy
Starting point is 00:45:36 football. Yeah, that people ask many questions about will love us back in March saying, is he too weird and jacked up to be good NFL quarterback? I think those questions have been put to bed. Anybody who wrote those questions should be executed. Will loves is just good. He's just really good. And guess what?
Starting point is 00:45:52 The box may really stink. Although I think Vita Vaze back. Jamal Dean got a concussion. You saw their secondary just completely evaporate when he went out against Texans. This feels like. Yeah, this feels like... Yeah, it's a line in the sand game. Yeah, yeah, I like, I love the Titans. I almost said I liked them.
Starting point is 00:46:12 I love the Titans. This is a line in the sand game. If Tennessee wins, they are thinking, hey, what was the last season? Let's try to get to the playoffs. If Tim Bay loses this game, it's over. I know it's never over in the NFC South, but they stink stink. That would be four or five straight losses. I think five. This would also, this should be the start of tractor sito season. It should be. Although it's warm weather. It's mid November, but it's
Starting point is 00:46:38 there, but it's the season. Yeah. Tis the season for tractor sito. Get there. Can we run on the football? We'll love us at the very least if you're the Titans. You have a lot to look forward to now. Yes, you've got a quarterback. Oh, I know it's early. It's like he's played one and a half games basically. Yeah. Um, I've seen enough will.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Evis will be in late quarterback. Yes. Uh, okay, nerd nugget. Speaking of Derek Henry, round number alert. He needs 64 rushing yards to become the 38th player in NFL history for 9,000 career rushing. Round number alert. I love that. I didn't know he had those.
Starting point is 00:47:09 I like that. Round number alert. Round number alert. Fellas, you see a round number. Round number alert. Big cats back at 260. Booty got me like four yards on the ground. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:19 Give me a nice solid, like 1,000. Oh, fellas. 10,000. 10,000 gets a goal at 10,000 if you hit 10,000 anything yeah I actually think a hundred thousand is better than 10,000 I know but 10,000 seems attainable 100,000 seems so like you know obviously money you'd rather have a hundred thousand but 10,000 like things that you did like I've taken 10,000 shots 100,000 shots like dude you got a problem 10,000 hours your expert. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:47:46 It's a lot of yards. Remember Malcolm Gladwell wrote an entire book being like, Hey, people who practice at something get good at it. Yeah, it's crazy. 10,000 hours book over. I've unlocked a secret. Beethoven played a lot of music before he got good. Oh my god. You'll never believe it Wayne Gretzky played 10,000 hours of hockey and then he got good. Oh my God, you'll never believe it. Wayne Gretzky played 10,000 hours of hockey and then he was good. It's crazy. Also, maybe I just didn't understand that book. All right, Saints at Viking. Did you spend 10,000 hours reading it? I did not. Yeah. Well, then you don't get it. Well, uh, Saints at Vikings, Josh Dobbs, learning
Starting point is 00:48:19 the players as teammates names, Saints. Who the hell are they? Lot of game. Lot of questions. Lot of questions. I do love Vikings fans shaving off their eyebrows and solid areas with Josh Dobbs. You didn't see that from Cardinals fans. Didn't see that from Jaguars fans, Steelers fans, Browns fans.
Starting point is 00:48:37 This feels like a place that could embrace Josh Dobbs. Yeah. I like Josh Dobbs. I read a stat briefly. I did not double check it. So Jake, maybe you can double check this Josh dobs is the second leading rusher in terms of all NFL quarterbacks. Whoa. That's kind of crazy. Who's number one? I'll be Lamar Lamar Jackson where Jackson is Josh dobs is also the reigning MVP. He got slimed this week. Oh,
Starting point is 00:49:02 That was cool to see that you can't watch Josh Dobbs play quarterback and not be happy. Yeah, he's just like a nice little shot in the arm. I think I would like to see Josh Dobbs get his forever home stay put, maybe in Minnesota. We'll see if it's a benefit of him learning his players, learning the plays. Kevin O'Connell doesn't have to like tell him what routes the receivers are running this week. I have a dumb thought. Is it actually bad for Josh jobs to learn the place?
Starting point is 00:49:29 Yes. Too much information. Yes. We saw it with the Cardinals. He showed up in the Cardinals, you know, like what was late summer had a nice September. Mm hmm. Maybe learn the offense too well. Fell off the cliff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:41 Yeah. No, I think that there's something to that. So we go out there. You don't know the guys names. You're just playing right. You're just playing backyard football So at what point maybe it's not this week, but the next week or the week after that where it's like he actually knows the plays too Well, I think we should start having the question big cat Are the Minnesota Vikings better without Jordan Jefferson? Hmm. He's not coming back to Justin. Oh, when I say, we're loopy, we're loopy. Yeah, Jordan.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Jettis, are the Minnesota Vikings better without Jettis, without Jettis. Without Justin Jefferson. No, not even close. Tell me their win loss record this year, Hank, with and without Justin Jefferson. No, factor, factor, factor. I don't know what it is.
Starting point is 00:50:20 Well, they've won a lot more games without him. And it's the dumbest question you could possibly ask, but we're gonna talk about it They trade him. He's not coming back to these 100% from the Sam's drink fair. Yeah, I agree with it I also feel like a guy is that fast you should wait. Yeah, cuz you'll just get hurt again Agreed so I don't know. I'm kind of feeling the Saints in this game stupid Stupid thoughts the coin has the Saints the only reason I like the Saints it really comes out in the fact that Brian floors loves to blitz and Derrick car loves to just dump it off to Alvin Camarro. It looks like a perfect
Starting point is 00:50:52 Marriage yeah between the two. He'll just be like I'm gonna bring an extra russure and Derrick cars We like oh good. I wanted to throw it within three yards of the line of scrimmage anyway really quickly. So there is yep It's it's set up nicely. Okay, nerd nugget. First off, PFT, you are correct. Josh jobs 324 rushing yards. He's right ahead of Jalen Hertz with 316. But Jalen Hertz isn't himself. He's not himself right now. So Jalen Hertz from last year would be well ahead. Yeah. And then Patrick Maholms is right behind them. All right, so last week, St. Corderback slash Tide and Taisam Hill recorded his 10th career reception touchdown. He's the fifth player in NFL history
Starting point is 00:51:28 to have 10 passing, time receiving, and 10 rushing touchdowns. The other four players are on the Hall of Fame. Whoa, wow. Taisam Hill is all a fame. Future all a fame. I agree with that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:38 Also, can't tell the story of football without Taisam Hill. Yes. Also, bonus third nugget. Oh, sound the alarm Hank So rewinding back to Wednesday's episode there's a ton of drama entering this weekend's NWSL final Which is Saturday night 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and I dove into this match up between the OL rain and Gotham FC Rosalvelle recurring guests. Yes, the goat queen. She unfortunately is not scored yet this season. She's taking eight shots.
Starting point is 00:52:07 I'm calling my shot. She's scoring here in the championship game. I like it. So if you thought we could bet that. Yeah, if you could thought college football was on the big screen this weekend. NWSL soccer. That's actually why I'm not going out.
Starting point is 00:52:22 Because you're gonna watch NWSL? I'm gonna bet that. I've got a lot of Rose Rains. Not to brag. I've got several TVs in my house. I'm gonna have this on yeah Though the one TV people are gonna be coming out you big got oh to the one TV people like how many times are that I think actually people are just doing it Just because they want to get dunked on But yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy that people can't figure it out like I am watching Everything at all times. I'm like the I'm like Morgan Freeman and Batman At that room where it's just TVs everywhere every every sport you can think of I have it on
Starting point is 00:52:56 I'm watching Cult basketball NBA Into USL also this is right after the SEC on CBS 330 game, which is Tennessee, Mizoo, and this championship game is right after you don't even have to change the channel. Why did you say the treadmill thing, Hank? I just just, I just remember you talking about it. I did put four TVs in my home gym and I have not been in my home. That's what I was, hell, as a follow up.
Starting point is 00:53:21 Well, it was like, hey, just set it up as best as you can to try to work out and it still isn't sticking. Working out, it's hard. It's hard, man. It's not- It's rhythm. Yeah, you know, I've started to do because I haven't had a lot of time to work out recently.
Starting point is 00:53:37 I got a sauna, so I just get in my sauna and I sweat for 15 minutes. And then I'm like, yeah, that was a workout. I'm trying to be Joe Rogan. I'm just gonna start lying about how hot my son is. Yeah. 230 degrees, 45 minutes. That's my routine.
Starting point is 00:53:52 When we get the squat rack in this office, it's gonna be like every space I ever occupy has workout, like gear, and I just don't do it. Like I could trip into workout stuff equipment and I still won't work out. I think we talked about the bench press in the old studio for like four years before we got in the studio,
Starting point is 00:54:10 and then we got the best. It was just Steven J. Breathing heavy in our studio when I'd come in at like 10 a.m. I think if you're in the same room as weights, that kind of counts as working out. Yeah, you look at them, maybe just pick up one every now and then. Yeah, because I think your body has a physiological response
Starting point is 00:54:24 you're looking at a heavyweight, and it gets you in workout mode, increases your heart rate. It's like step up like all right, let's go. Yeah, not actually. I'm gonna start though, now that we're here, now you're not. You can't even do a fucking presentation.
Starting point is 00:54:40 Thousand pound club. Thousand pound club, Max and I will be joining. Yes, so you're gonna have to. I did get to like, when I said I was gonna do it last summer, I was like in the 850 range, but then that's the range where I'm gonna get hurt. I think I can do it right now. Oh, no, you can't.
Starting point is 00:54:55 What's your bench? 24 or three? I mean, if you could deadlift 450, then yes, you can. I got to deadlift a ton. I could probably deadlift. Trap bar. So we got to do trap bar. You keep saying that.
Starting point is 00:55:09 Because straight bar is so much easier to get hurt. Okay, so we'll do trap bar. Trap bar. I think I could do 400. Okay, right now. That was the last time that you did a deadlift. College baseball. So no, you could not deadlift 400. baseball. So no, you absolutely could not.
Starting point is 00:55:25 That's not true. That's not true. I forgot that I belonged to a nice gym in New York City that I was in a great powerlifting routine, but then I, but Max, we will hold ourselves accountable. We will get to the thousand down club. Yes. By, by what, by what day? Let's say New Year's 2024 New Year's 2024. New Year's 2024. Yeah, so that two months?
Starting point is 00:55:47 No, no. 14 New Year's Day 2024. Yeah, New Year's too much. No, no, New Year's Eve 24. No, I'm gonna say Memorial Day this year. New Year's Eve 2024. Max, I'm with you. Memorial Day this year.
Starting point is 00:55:57 I'm gonna be in such good shape. I'm gonna have abs. I'm gonna be bitch pressing 325. It's gonna be sick. Okay, next game for the troops. Great game, afternoon game, lions at chargers. I think the lions are gonna kill them. I agree with you on this one.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Lions are healthy, finally, they're offensive lines. So they got Frank Ragnall back, Jonah Jackson back, David Montgomery back. Grim Blasgow is gonna get, I think he's gonna get the start. Yeah, so the strength of the lions's offensive line is now healthy back off a bi week. I am the chargers. The charges are not good. I know that they beat the chance. I know they've won a couple of games around. They beat the bears who cares. Everyone beats the bears. I don't think the chargers are that good. I don't think they are either.
Starting point is 00:56:45 And so I do think Justin Herbert is a good quarterback. He's a fun young man, good quarterback. Does he have the dog? Actually, I'll put to you a different way, Big Cat. If you told Justin Herbert that there was a button that he could press. And if you press the button, the chargers win the Super Bowl, but somebody dies. Mm. Do you think you pressed the button, the charger's when the super bowl, but somebody dies.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Do you think you pressed the button? Yes. I don't think you pressed the button. I think you pressed the button. I don't think he's the kind of guy that would press the button. I want a quarterback that would press the button. I don't even think it's a Justin Herbert issue. So they beaten their wins are the Vikings when they were bad, which they won by four.
Starting point is 00:57:22 I mean, the Vikings are playing well now. The Raiders, the Bears, the Jets. I think it's actually more of a, the Chargers are going off a little bit of reputation with their offense. And now that both you lost Mike Williams, what week three or whatever it was, Josh Palmer's not out now out. It's like, okay, Keenan Allen's really good.
Starting point is 00:57:45 Austin Echo is really good. Who after that? And so I think that we think, oh yeah, the Chargers offense, it's electric. They got all these guys. I don't think they have that many guys right now. So I like the lines in this game. Their defense isn't that great.
Starting point is 00:58:00 They're not as good as they looked against the jets. Right. That's for sure. And going from the jets align to the lines offensive line is going to be a completely different type of football. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I do. I do like the lines this week. All right. Nerd nugget. There are 59 defensive players with at least four sacks. Meana fell this season only the chargers and dolphins of four players in that group. Okay. Okay. Falcons at Cardinals. Kyler Murray back. Okay, okay
Starting point is 00:58:24 Falcons at Cardinals Kyler Murray back He's playing Kyler 2.0 beta comes out this weekend. I knew he was gonna play. Yeah, I knew he was gonna play He wants to play. I don't know if he wants to have his job as a cardinals starting quarterback for the future But he wants to play football players play but maybe the best way for him to not be a cardinal in the future is to play and play well for the Cardinals. Yes, yes. Um, well, no, if he plays and plays well, he will be the Cardinals future. He also might get, he might be very attractive in a trade. But if he plays well enough that they don't have the first pick, then he will most likely be okay. It's going to come down to whether or not the owner bid well. It feels like paying him all that money or wants to try to roll the dice. No, remember, he, yeah, he did, he gave him a contract. No, I know. I'm saying like that's why he would potentially trade him. Yes. Yes. Uh, I, this game for me, the entire analysis
Starting point is 00:59:14 is the line makes no sense. Cause it was one and a half. Cardinals are one and seven. I think they're one and a half point dogs. The Falcons. They're begging you, take the Falcons. I feel like you have to, even though I think Colourmar will be rusty, it just, it makes no sense to me. In my head. Do you think Kyler knows his teammates' names? Yes, I think you probably does. James Conner, maybe not back right now, but coming back soon.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Close, he's getting closer. Soonish. I do, I like Taylor Heinecke in this game. Gotta get it done. Gotta get it done. Fal. He's getting closer. Soonish. I do. I like Taylor Heinecke in this game. Gotta get it done. Gotta get it done. Thalconzita win bad. Has Arthur Smith officially, officially, Bench Desmond Ritter?
Starting point is 00:59:52 Or is it still like, this is not a performance-based benching? Yeah, I think you just play like your hurt, so we're gonna put Taylor in the game. I think he's in the same category as Bijan. Yeah. It's like, we could play him, but we're not going to. Doghouse.
Starting point is 01:00:04 Yeah. Uh, nerd nugget in this game. Cardinals, water, seep, remark, keys, brown has a touchdown catch and all four home games this season. If you get one again this week, you would join Malcuttener, Larry Fitzgerald and Amquan Bolden and Sonny Randall is the only players in franchise history with a touchdown catch in five straight home games. Wow. People always talk about the Cardinals franchise history. Mm- history. No, Larry Fitz. Larry Fitz.
Starting point is 01:00:26 Great. Is he retired? Yes. Officially officially. Maybe not officially officially. Uh, okay. This one, uh, Cowboys, giant, giant's a Cowboys. I just wrote down on my notes. Tommy DeVito, what are we doing here?
Starting point is 01:00:39 Yeah, so this is the Tommy DeVito. Tommy DeVito definitely presses the button. He would kill everybody. Tommy DeVito is, um,ito definitely presses the button. He would kill everybody. Tommy DeVito is the human white flag, we can say. It's gonna be bad. If you're a Giants fan and you have no other plan but Tommy DeVito, what purpose do you have for waking up on Sunday?
Starting point is 01:00:59 It's very rare in the NFL. You see like spreads over 14. It happens probably a handful times a year. Uh, and I actually think like the Cowboys minus 17 is too low because I just don't know the Cowboys defense. This is what the Cowboys do. They kick the shit out of teams like this. They are going to demolish the giants. Yeah. This is going to be bad. It's going to be really bad for giants fans. I feel I feel sick knowing that you have to watch this knowing that we have to watch this game. Yeah
Starting point is 01:01:30 It's disgusting. It's disgusting that we have to do this is Brian table on the hot seat you won coach of the year last year But this has gone bad Very quickly and we already have I think I saw One of the giants defensive players called out wink martingale, like by name. And he was like, that's never happened. That's weird. Would you rather be the coach of the giants? And you're going into the Cowboys game with Tommy DeVito, or would you rather be the offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills? Mm. Last year, yeah, the giants were
Starting point is 01:02:03 they were fun. And yeah, I don't think that Dave will became a bad coach. That doesn't happen overnight. No, there's a good coach last year. No, but it's like, it spiraled fast and it's more, maybe it's just fired the GM for giving Daniel Jones all that money because now what, like, the Giants, we've done our bleakest draft and it was the Panthers last week when we're talking about how they don't fix and Bryce Young doesn't look like the guy.
Starting point is 01:02:27 A Giants might have taken the place for the Panthers because they paid Daniel Jones all this money and now he has a 20 ACL and it's like the roster needs help everywhere and how the hell you're gonna get help everywhere. And now Sequan's gonna be expected to do everything on Sunday. Oh, I feel bad for Sequan. Yeah. For anybody else. Seek an injury, Sequan.
Starting point is 01:02:44 Yes. Be sick. Get food poisoning. sake one. Yeah, with anybody else. They can injury sake one. Yes. Be sick Get food poisoning get diarrhea. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, some you should you should like find the nearest muddy pond and just fill up a pint glass within Chugging till you poop. Yes. Okay, nerd nugget. The first half has been a major concern for the Giants this year outscored 125 to 42 and nine games. They've only had two first half leads It's crazy that this game. What was the line in this game week one? Was it like Cowboys minus three? I forget. It's it's it feels like ages ago. It was a different team to it. Of course. Of course. We're going into it being like put the Cowboys killed them in that game. That I think was a 40 to nothing.
Starting point is 01:03:24 40 to nothing in week one. Was that what it was? It was either 30 or 40 because I remember they played giants and jets back to back, right? Or first few weeks. Three points. The Cowboys were three point favorites, week one. They're 17 point favorites, week 10.
Starting point is 01:03:38 Life comes out you fast, real fast. Okay. Last afternoon game, commanders at Seahawks. I've said some shit about Geno Smith. I said I was done with him. I have a bad update. I'm back in on Geno Smith for the week. I did some soul searching with my Geno Smith. I'm done with him. I am done with him in a like he's never going to win a soup bowl. Uh, that that was I think we I probably should have been done with done with him for that a long time ago. Uh, but I'm gonna give Gino a slight pass in the fact that he did play the Browns and
Starting point is 01:04:16 the Ravens and those are the two best defenses in the NFL and there's a two best defense at defenses at playing man coverage, which always kills Gino. So I expected big bounce back week from Gino this week. Yeah, I think it's fair to say that this is a very winnable game for the Seahawks. Yes. And Gino could look good against the secondary, which has had a lot of questions. Most of which is like predicated on the past rush and the whole scheme of just sending four guys at the quarterback and hoping that they get home for the commanders. And it worked against the Patriots because the Patriots are anemic on offense.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Yeah. Now you have to play the Seahawks who have a lot of talent. So yeah, I think the Seahawks get right in this game. Yeah. And I have reached the point with Sam Howell. If you look at the last, I think four games that he's played. He is statistically in the top five in most important categories in his most recent game. So Sam howl. I'm fully in. Sam howl is the guy. He's the future.
Starting point is 01:05:12 If he has a stinker of a game this weekend out in Seattle, I'm willing to just say, okay, learning opportunity. The last time he had a shitty game was against the bills, where he threw those four interceptions. Yep. And he learned a lot from those and tough game. So I actually saw that Sam Howell has stopped taking sacks in the last like four weeks. He's had like a huge improvement. I think he was by far the worst quarterback through the first few games of the season.
Starting point is 01:05:35 I think through the first five games of the season, he was taking all kinds of sacks that he shouldn't be taking. And since then, he's become a top five in terms of getting the ball out, not taking sex that are his. Sam Howell. So he's learning the guys learning. I love Sam Howell. I am. I'm sold to Sam on Sam Howell as the future. The one thing that could ruin Sam Howell. Washington. No. Just the vibes. If not eating beef. If the commanders hire Bill Bellicic, according to Hank, that would ruin Sam.
Starting point is 01:06:05 How? He takes a step back in Cody from Ron Rivera. Coaching. Yeah. That's fair. That's the one thing you have to be afraid of if you're a kid. That's fair.
Starting point is 01:06:14 And I mean, I'll be totally honest. It is all according to Hank, by the way. False. I think Bell Check will be fine coaching Sam. How Hank disagrees. Hank knows Bell Check better than us. 99% of the reason I want Bill Bell Check is just a fuck with Hank. They has nothing to do with what's going to happen on the football field. I just want to fuck with you
Starting point is 01:06:28 And it'd be great for the show. It would be great for the show But yeah, Sam how regardless of what happens this weekend. I'm ready to say it. He is the guy. Yeah, I agree with you Nerd nugget Washington loves Seattle the commanders have a seven and one record on the road against the sea hawks They're 13 and six all time. Whoa. Really, Compton's not walking through that door though. We're not talking about playoffs though. Are we?
Starting point is 01:06:51 Because I know for a fact that we've lost two playoff games in Seattle in the last three years. Also, baby bomb. Oh, John Bates back up tight end for Washington. That was a baby bump. That was a key bump, Hank. Yes, maybe quit dumping sack and start dumping some power points together. So maybe you've dumped sack, you'd get the power point done.
Starting point is 01:07:13 It's true. Here's your formal reminder to PST got him in a ready. Yep. I got him in. He's a plus 900. He hasn't scored the season, but he got some targets. Well, he scored at least once. He just had a baby. But it't scored the season, but he got some targets. Well, he scored at least once. He just had a baby.
Starting point is 01:07:26 But it wasn't this season. True. Yeah. Fair points all around. True, yeah, we're next to him. Next to him stand up for true. Okay, so yeah, Bates, he's a long shot to score definitely. This is a good, I guess, test case for whether or not
Starting point is 01:07:40 the baby bump is real, because he's the backup tight end. Doesn't get a lot of red zone targets. If he scores this weekend, it is, it's pretty clear that the baby bump is an actual thing. Uh, okay. Last game, night game, the Jetset Raiders. I got to say the stat, the sad stat again. This will be the 34th night game for the Jets and Giants since 2018. They are combined four in 29 straight up.
Starting point is 01:08:07 Joke. That's crazy. Joke. Joke is a city. Two in 25 straight up and they're last 27 night games. Yes, bad. It's bad, at least they're playing the Raiders. I like Antonio Brown's Pierce, Antonio Pierce's. Lupi.
Starting point is 01:08:21 We're Lupi's. Speech that he gave where he was just saying that they're gonna play against a bunch of physical gentlemen this weekend. Yeah, I believe that was his phrase. The jets are physical gentlemen. Yeah, they are for sure, but that's major interim coach vibes. Yes, give a quote like that. So I like I like that. The Raiders are just I'm going to bet on them based on vibes. Their vibes seem high. Jets vibes seem low. I feel like last week was the vibes game. This week might be the what is Antonio Pierce doing game.
Starting point is 01:08:49 Yeah, what's I mean, I do think that they should put a different interim coach every week. Yeah, just get reduced, just keep getting the vibes. And so they smoke cigars after the game. Yep. Is that the lowest bar ever reached for cigar smoking? Beating Tommy DeVito? It has to be, right? Yep, is that the lowest bar ever reached for cigar smoking beating Tommy Davido? Mm-hmm. It has to be right but it's also
Starting point is 01:09:10 For getting rid of Josh McDaniel's right that's really what the media is beating Tommy Davido being like we smoked him Let's smoke these cigars like smoke cigars like Alba and a Tennessee Mm-hmm new baby You know maybe like hole in one, your White House intern, just hung out in the Oval Office for a while. All these things are higher than beating Tommy DeVito. Yeah, it is a pretty low bar. It's a low bar. But you got to celebrate your wins anyway, you can. Yeah, so I think the jets are going to win this game. Meams, Connor. What's up? What are you thinking? I think the Jets won this one.
Starting point is 01:09:45 Yeah. Yeah. Oh, memes. Follow up. Follow up. Which GFT conference are part of my take? Follow up question. If the Jets are getting their asses kicked,
Starting point is 01:09:56 do you have the Twitter password written down somewhere? So you won't lose it again. I do have it written down. Okay. And I'll be in office. So memes. Wi-Fi it written down. Okay. And I'll be in office. So memes. Wi-Fi should be good. Okay. Follow up question, follow up question. Big cat part of my take.
Starting point is 01:10:10 We're going to probably be taping during this game. Can you see a TV from your seat? I can see a TV from my seat. Okay. Thank God. Thank God. I don't, I still don't understand why we have the the the arch heli TV up there. I got to be on our side. What is that possible? Why is that? That's a small TV. That was designed and we're gonna have to get a picture of that. Was that for Zoom? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:32 What? That was for Zoom? Yeah. That looks like a security. It's a 12 inch TV. It's a 12 inch TV. Yeah, that's like, yeah, you sit, if you're like sitting in a parking garage
Starting point is 01:10:45 and you're keeping security overnight, and you sit there and you just watch your little TV. It's a Michael's got TV. Yeah, I like when he walk in the CVS and you see the security. Yeah, like that. It should be blurry, it should be stop motion. That was supposed to be for Zoom.
Starting point is 01:11:00 Yeah. What the fuck? I thought there was, so is this one gonna stay? Go off means is this one going to stay right in front of us? I think so we got to get the social corner going. I don't want to the I mean we're The tech guys are still don't let us settle. No, we're not I want to settle bad. No, I know me. We I'm like we're done No, we need we need a no, no, we might be done if this if this stage here if this That's not here for long enough. Yes, I'm talking like five more days. I'm then it's just gonna be I'm gonna fall in love with it I think I'm gonna be honest when you try the zoom maybe you maybe like it
Starting point is 01:11:38 No, if we get like 4k I didn't get my car fixed in the first three days after I ran it into your pool My car is just gonna to be like that. Yeah. When you keep something, it just stays and it's like part of our existence, I don't want to change it. Like the Lenny Dykeshtra poster that's just sitting not hung up, I never want that hung up. It's perfect where it's at. It's really you only have like maybe a week until until we feel I feel settled in don't you PFT
Starting point is 01:12:06 It's is where we live I feel so settled it once the rug gets put down and we'll have that'll wait There's a rug. They're gonna sick blue rug. Yeah, it's gonna be nice rug What do you think about the walls and the booth? I don't like change we decorate the wall Scusting here empty. Yeah, you guys should put some shit up Yeah, I told you put up my hole in one certificate. No, we don't know I'll smash it if it's out No, we need like you get a certificate for your hole in one. Yeah, I'm a fridge. Yeah, do not Jake all right I can't be I can't be held responsible for this if I ever see that thing
Starting point is 01:12:38 I will smash so you have to make sure I never see it like if you invite me to your house one time Yeah, you put it in the closet maybe like like a rack of ties right there, Jake. That'd be cool. Yeah, I do have that. No. What do you guys think? No, you could put up something. Something that's like funny that the people will like,
Starting point is 01:12:55 you could maybe that, well, no, the Lenny Dykes shirt, that has to stay. That really puts together the whole room, sit in the corner. I don't know, we'll find something. I think it should be a giant montage of Max's most sad moments. That would find something. I think it should be I think it should be a giant montage of Max's most sad moments That would be cool
Starting point is 01:13:09 There's enough to choose from oh should I start I have an idea a Wait Jake ideal alert anytime you guys say writer reminder. There's a physical reminder. We tried the big calendar reminder we tried the big calendar once we made it one week Nevermind got it no big calendar suck They suck We'll put it on the calendar put on the calendar fuck that I think if Jake was in charge of the calendar though that it would be I won't respect the calendar though. That's the problem Screw it right And I don't like to see my reminders. I wanted to be surprised by my
Starting point is 01:13:47 reminders. Like I had no idea we had to respect Doug Peterson's a coach today. That was like five weeks ago. Again, I had no idea. Jake, I don't know what I did yesterday. This is all blur. Every football season is just one big blur. Yeah, we got to find something good. Maybe a poster. Merch, Merch, poster. Maybe some hot chicks. Maybe we do a part of my take player of the week. What about the what about the pink Floyd butts? College it up. Do the kiss. Yeah, Bob Marley.
Starting point is 01:14:16 Boondock Saints poster. Yeah, John Belushi with the college. Yeah, that'd be good. Really, really, really, try to, you know, make everyone think we're really cool. Couple 40 year olds with Bob Marley posters. Yeah, we burn. You guys burn. Look at this. Look at this view right now, PFT.
Starting point is 01:14:34 We are so settled in this. I don't want anything to change it. By far, the craziest thing about this office is that we have a TV that dies every, every hour. There's a way to fix that. Don't go up like I have to, there's a way to fix that. You don't go up, like, I have to, there's a way to fix that. How did we get here? How, what do you mean?
Starting point is 01:14:49 That's what I mean. Right here on the podcast. We're talking about this. We're loopy and we're just talking about things we're seeing. Hank, I like that though, because it actually makes you like, you have to do something. I'm always doing stuff.
Starting point is 01:15:00 What does Hank do? He clicks a remote every... He presses another button. Every 20 minutes. Hank literally has a job that could be done by one of those birds with a water. He just steps over. He just sets that up and he just automates it with the bird. Especially that bird on TikTok that just says materials.
Starting point is 01:15:20 What? What? I don't know why. I think about it all the time. But it like, it like, that's what's going on your brain. It's just a bird. Yes, it like, go bird something. It'll be like glass.
Starting point is 01:15:30 It'll be like metal. And it just says what the material is. It's sick. What? You got to send that to me. I'd like to see. That should also be a segment. Max explaining tic-tocs.
Starting point is 01:15:40 Yeah. Oh, I thought you were going to say max telling us what metals there are. This weekend there was max licking objects and telling us what they're made of. This weekend I was just randomly it would just pop into my head and I would say out loud metal because that's what the bird sounds like. You got a lot going on up there. Okay, did we do a nerd nugget on this game? No, but this is my nerd nugget of the way. I think if you're listening like Colts, Colts Patriots, Jeff Raiders, two of the best previews ever done in podcasting. You feel super informed going into this.
Starting point is 01:16:12 Uh huh. It's like we try to make you smarter as a football fan. Yes. Yeah. So you said nerd nugget of the I always have not tell you guys. That's really cool. All right.
Starting point is 01:16:19 I'm going to grade it on biased. Yep. So far they've been good, right? Yeah, but you did mention the whole in one. So it's not going to be totally unbiased. Raiders punter, AJ Cole averaged 64 yards per punt last week with a minimum of four punts. It's the highest average in NFL history. Oh, that's that's pretty good. Best punting game ever. AJ Cole, how many do you need? That's fine for boomers. Five, take.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Oh, okay, guys, what about Thomas Moore said the other day? I don't know, but it wasn't a 64 yard average. That's I understand, but that's also field position. That is a high average. I'm just going to have to take into this nerd nugget for a second. Okay. So far, I'm starting with like a minus grade, but I need to,
Starting point is 01:17:04 I need to let me see. You know I miss his market king the old hunter for the years. I should have no need marked it. I know. That was bad. All right. I'm looking it up right now. Thomas Morstead in that game. The giants and the jets. Let's see. Ponds kicking, Punting. Thomas Morse. Yeah, we keep in mind. They want the Giants. So it didn't really. Yeah, see, all right. It's going down to B plus. Okay. Because I like it, Jake. Anytime you say an NFL history plus, I'm going to be impressed.
Starting point is 01:17:36 It's like single game NFL record. But but Thomas Morse had 11 Punts for 529 yards. So it's 48.1 average in four inside the 20. So like it's feel like where if they're punting three inside five. It does depend on where you're inside the five and where you kick from. Right. So it's a good, it's a pre plus is a good. Yeah, I'll take it. That's your nerd nugget of the week. Okay. Last game. Let's do some picks. Yeah. I'll show runs bird. Oh, he's going to show us the bridge. Hell yes. Wait, I thought Let's do some picks Oh, he's gonna show us the bridge hell. Yes, I thought I
Starting point is 01:18:17 You thought he's I know I said that to the booth because we could talk it. No, we heard everything you said We heard you fart too. Sorry. I'm sorry next shows the bird shows the fucking bird No, don't cut it shows the bird. We'll just hear it Yeah, right. So you this is this is a looking at Max's brain. It's like this grace video ever You have to watch you have to watch it. It's cool. I can tell I want to kill that bird. I sent it to you. You can see it. What's this made of hollow tip? Yeah, that's right, bitch. Last thing you see. All right, cyanide. Okay, let's do some games. Let's pick some games. Let's do some records. Yeah. Who goes first?
Starting point is 01:19:04 Let's pick some games. Let's do some records. Yeah, who goes first? Hang? Oh, I think Jake. Oh me. Yeah. Um, so first up. Yeah pancakes. Yes We are getting in a tight race right now Hank is still dominating with 34 and then big cat max of 21 Okay, memes of 20 can be in PFT with 18. Oh, I like it. So it's a lot of Yeah, what do you want not to lose just just yeah? Yeah, getting tight memes of 20 can be in PFT with 18. Oh, I like it. So it's a lot older than right now. Fuck. Yeah, what do you want? Not to lose. Just, yeah, it's getting tight. What do you mean?
Starting point is 01:19:30 But Hank's, Hank's dominating. And what's the punishment again? Zero, three, six, 12, 18, 24. Yeah, for the pancakes as it goes. Placement. Do I have anyone injured? Yeah, we did say one ad drop. I'll read you your roster.
Starting point is 01:19:47 That's not gonna help. Yeah, it's not. I can't yeah, on the fly. No, no, I'm just saying like I, it's not gonna, I don't know. I'm not sure. I think Ezra Cleveland, did he just get traded? Yeah. Yep.
Starting point is 01:19:59 He did. It's not a real person. We know, we know this. We know he got, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it a real person? We know. We know this. We know he got, yeah, yeah. Sounds like it's basically Vikings the Jaguars. Well, since the past. Yeah, that's why I said yes. Pro football talk.
Starting point is 01:20:13 He's on the Jaguars now. Yeah, exactly. From the Vikings. Right. His name does sound like a 90s sitcom character. How does he not play for the Browns? It's all looking through all the injury updates. Okay, yeah, let us know about the injuries.
Starting point is 01:20:25 Sorry. And then for the picks, halfway home, for the opening act, 15 minutes in Las Vegas, I'm 10, 7 and 1, max is 10 and 8, memes eight and 10. So two and a half from top to bottom. Oh, for the main event, you guys one hour, big cat, 10, 6 and 2, PFT, 10 and 8, Hank, 7, 10 and 1. Oh, there's a little distance there. So 18 Picks. Oh, no. Oh Hank, you have a power point. I do points by the way and you got to do an hour maybe we got to start doing it
Starting point is 01:20:56 So rating it by points. Okay, we can 11 10 7 1 2 half for you guys. Okay, that makes more sense 10 1 1 1 2 10 8 for us. Okay, that makes more sense. 10 and a half, 10, eight for us. Okay, that makes more sense, because I can't do right now. I'm sorry, Mike, how much am I up? Yeah. All right, you're in trouble. Yeah, but I'm on my Joe Barrow shit.
Starting point is 01:21:13 This is when I turn it on. He turned it on like three weeks ago. I thought you were going to turn it on in September. You couldn't even find your computer for a week. All right, she's going. I'm going to take the Cleveland Brown plus six and a half out the Ravens. Okay.
Starting point is 01:21:29 It's a close game. I have seen North. Everyone's good. I will be taking the Jaguars plus three. Oh, I got 49ers. Okay. I will be taking the over and the minds chargers game over 48 and half. Okay. Hank. Hank. I will be taking the Patriots plus two and a half. Oh, two back in the saddle.
Starting point is 01:22:01 Plus two, two and a half. I'm looking at two and a half right now same Who stopped trying to cheat you different different are you are you on the Barstle Sports book? I am at Barstle Sports book com score. I'm on the Barstle Sports is two and a half is two and a half on the Barstle Sports Refresh got a refresh I pulled this tab up at the beginning of the show. Oh Come on, dude. They knew Hank was gonna change his pick. All right. I'm gonna go with the commanders Seahawks over 44 and a half. Okay. I'm going to go with the Dallas Cowboys minus 17. Wow. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it
Starting point is 01:22:40 And then it's me again. Yeah, that's a giant Yes, he gets the giant's thank you. I'm going to go with the Falcons cardinals over 43 and a half points Okay, I will take the Detroit Lions minus three I will be taking the Steelers Packers Whoa over what is it? Yuck 38 and a half. Yuck. Gross. Didn't bite you got a yuck.
Starting point is 01:23:08 You got a yuck. You got a yuck. You got a yuck. Memes. Did somebody take the Niners? No, max off the Jags. This could be a huge high to have match up. Hold the trigger.
Starting point is 01:23:18 Oh boy. You doing it? Niners minus three. Wow, that's huge for our two warm up. Wow. That's huge. Wow, that's huge for our two arm up. Wow. Act huge. Wow. I will be taking the Texans Bengals over.
Starting point is 01:23:31 Oh, I like it. What do we got? Texans Bengals. I'm looking at 46 and a half. Okay, and Jake finishes off. I am going to take Titan's box over 39.5. We'll have this.
Starting point is 01:23:48 He can put up 40 on his own. Okay. Good job boys. Should you do some fantasy buck boys? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's up boys? What's up boys? My name is Jameson Javolin.
Starting point is 01:24:02 Yeah, James. Three judges. My start-up is the lotto boom machine. My name is James and Javolin E Three judges my start them It's the lot of poor machine big cat you ever got this Pickass down the room right now, this is the fancy fuck boys. You're talking to Christy's put the Lentay right now My sit-em is big cat I can't pick a lottery ball to save his life in my sleeper I can't pick a lottery ball the same as life in my sleep
Starting point is 01:24:26 Khalil Mack I'm gonna have a big game this is again for the job. What's your name again? James and Javillini sounds like James and Javillini didn't do another part of his job and come up with some fantasy fuck boy What do you mean? I said a song just saying shit in front of him I don't think that a guy like James and Javillini would ever neglect doing something that he was supposed to be prepared for For Friday podcast. Yeah, that was fire. Yeah, okay. That was straight fire. I was not straight fire Hey, what's up? It's Tommy DeVito I'm starting this weekend for the New York Giants. I'm gonna really sticking up out there might throw upwards of 15 yards My stodom I'm starting about that. I might throw upwards of 15 yards. My stardom, I'm starting Uganda.
Starting point is 01:25:06 Uganda in the part of my Africa bowl. They're playing against Kenya on Sunday. It's a rivalry game like you wouldn't believe right now. We're running the Uganda offense. Quarterback, Marv twist. For yeah, great quarterback name. Wow, little small. We've got some great coaches on the Uganda team. Look for a dude update from Donnie
Starting point is 01:25:26 Does after we stopped this shit out of Kenya I'm sitting Dylan Brooks. You might be the dumbest Canadian going up there. Yeah, he got LeBron's face last night LeBron was just laughing I'm just great great data. It'll don't and't. NBA doesn't start to Christmas. I'm sleeping. That's fuck you. I'm sleeping fireplaces. That's my sleep of the week. Fireplaces. Fireplaces. Fireplaces. Fireplaces. Fireplaces. Got the fireplace going. Love it. Make sure to clean out your fireplace. It's a before starting to fire.
Starting point is 01:25:56 It's a gym. It's sweep your gym. It's keep the carbon monoxide out because that's a sleeper right there. Knock your ass right out. Love a good fireplace. Love fireplace. It's the best. All right, what's up guys? It's Crystal for the Lent Day. Hey, Chrissy.
Starting point is 01:26:10 My stardom is bats. The Nevada game got delayed because of bats. Have you seen that TikTok with a bat that keeps saying words? Yeah, it's awesome. They spend five minutes of a podcast talking about it. Yeah, he hits a bass boy, he says. Basketball. Mm-hmm. He hits it. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna spend five minutes of a podcast talking about yeah, he hits a bass boy said It's a button he says I forget to push this he hits a fist. He's like is that man who geno bleed?
Starting point is 01:26:39 My sit-em is the white socks how the fuck you let Jason Bernetti good a pally and guy Leave the organization He's going to the tiger 1906 all over again insane and my sleeper is Henry Lockwood because I'd like to fucking put him to sleep For a good I'm talking kill the guy Murder I could take in that I'd like that wait is that is that Hank aren't our podcast downloads would go crazy if I murdered Hank. Live on the air? Yeah, no, no. If I murdered him, but it was like a murder mystery. Yeah, it was like, how do we, we don't know if Hank's,
Starting point is 01:27:12 how did Hank get murdered? We do true crime on it. And then like a month later, like, oh, big cat murder him. Like, you don't think that podcast would pop? If we're all about Numbies, I actually do think that we should record a podcast together in case one of us dies. Yeah, and then we drop it right after the fact.
Starting point is 01:27:28 I'm down for that. We should do three then. Yeah. What do you mean? Like one for a big cat dies, one for a pft dies. Yeah. Like our podcast funeral? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:27:38 I actually love that idea. Just do them all at once. Yeah. I love the intro. Imagine the numbers. It's like your final gift to the rest of the guys. Yeah, it's a huge episode I would say so many slurs But that would be funny. You just like you can't cancel me up dead. I'm dead bitch. This is ghost pft talking right now
Starting point is 01:28:00 All right I wrote that down on Wednesday. My brain just stopped. Oh, Sam Schwartz scene. We have an awesome interview. So people probably don't know the name Sam Schwartz scene. He's been a friend of the show for a very long time and he is so goddamn smart with football. So I'm putting a must listen tag because we're going to have him back on again.
Starting point is 01:28:21 He is so good at talking football, understanding the game. We probably should have had him on a long time because he has been a good friend of both mine and Big Cats for I think like seven years. Yeah, long time. So he's great. We're gonna, finally he was in Chicago, so we're like, all right, let's do it. And then now he's in the recurring guests. So we'll definitely have him back on. I think people are going to really enjoy this interview. Great Harboss stories. Great Harboss stories. Before we do that, PFT. Before we get to Sam, he's brought to you by Cores Light. Cores Light is so awesome. Especially in the fall, in the autumn, fall doesn't have to be a buzzkill. Cores Light helps you find
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Starting point is 01:30:00 Sam Schwartzstein. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He's a personal friend of mine and PFTs. He is Sam Schwartzstein who, for people to set the stage, Sam, we've been friends with him for a very long time. He actually was very helpful in the early days of PMT, getting us one of our first interviews when we had DeCastro on when we went to the Steelers So Sam quick resume played college football at Stanford Blocked for Andrew Luck and Jim Harbock and Jim Harbock will block for we have some Harbock questions He worked for all over luck at XFL
Starting point is 01:30:40 When it first came out and he was doing the rules, everything. Now he is at Amazon and he works on the Thursday night football prime vision, which is awesome. For any football fans out there who's pretty much everyone listening, watch the prime vision. Sam's little baby there. It shows you football like you've never seen. So it's the coolest experience. And Sam is a true football guy. And we wanted
Starting point is 01:31:05 to have him on to talk football, talk prime vision and whether or not Harbaugh knew we can start there. Harbaugh knew. Yeah. Uh, I don't think he knew. Oh, yeah, I don't think he knew. You think he isolates his information. He's he keeps himself in a silo protected. Oh, yeah, I he'll do anything to win, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be the one right to execute everything. He will say, Hey, guys, we have to do anything we need to win. But I don't think he's going to get down and dirty right. Right. So does he? I remember listening to Jim Harball, like I think it was a year ago, he started talking about like protecting Michigan football from all enemies foreign and domestic. Does he actually believe that whatever football program he's coaching is a sovereign state?
Starting point is 01:31:47 Yeah, his entrance was to Stanford was well, approaches with enthusiasm and no domain kind and I support no cause foreign or domestic other than the greatness of Stanford football. And so that is all it is. It's all about the bubble creating this atmosphere that nothing matters. We weren't allowed to be in any frats. We were each other's brothers. He made us himself the enemy.
Starting point is 01:32:07 So it was all like, you guys will have to like each other. You can hate me, but just like each other. So it's all it cares about is winning. Yeah. All it cares about is doing whatever it needs to do to win. So I don't think he knew,
Starting point is 01:32:20 but it's not like he's not going to bend the rules. Like, he had found things about officiating that we manipulated at Stanford. He wasn't going to go out and maybe do all the stuff that is reported from Connor Stallions, but I don't think he knew. Right. I think he just liked Connor Stallions, liked to cut off his jib. You can kind of sound like a mini gym harbor reminds. He reminds, oh, you have a manifesto.
Starting point is 01:32:39 Mine's actually a thousand pages. Yeah. Oh, you wrote yours in a Google Doc, interesting, mines in Excel. Yeah, right. It's a game up. Yeah. He just, he wants. We're going to take initiative and go the extra mile. I think that's about it. So I mean, we are harbock guys. Uh, what was it like playing for? Because you've told us some stories and it's it feels like as long as you can realize like, hey, he all he does want to do is win. I'll go through hell for him, because he will get us there.
Starting point is 01:33:05 Yeah, one of my, one of my favorite harboss stories was after practice, he would always do wise words. He would do something and then another player ran him and picked a guy. And he was like, I heard someone say I'm playing favorites. Of course I have favorite players.
Starting point is 01:33:19 Oh, the best players are my favorites. Oh, and Marisa, he's the best player. He's my favorite. Andrew Luck, he's the best player. He's my favorite. Andrew Luck, he's the best player. He's my favorite. If you wanna be my favorite, be the best player. So like, you didn't know where you stood. He didn't really want you to talk back.
Starting point is 01:33:33 So like guys like Richard Sherman and Doug Baldwin, publicly, I'm not sharing anything new. Didn't get along great with him in their time at Stanford. And it's because they already kind of stood up for themselves. But if you were one of the best players at contributing, he would like you. So we didn't have the best relationship when I was at Stanford because I got hurt early. But that's weak.
Starting point is 01:33:50 That's weak. He definitely was like, you're not actually hurt. Yeah, I broke my hand in one-on-one. So I had the scar still. And then I went and did another rep. And I went up to the trainer. I was like, my hand kind of hurts. And he was like, he shifted my bone.
Starting point is 01:34:04 And I was like, is it broken? He was like, are you an idiot? Your bone moved. And I went there and was like my hand kind of hurts and he was like he like shifted my bone and I was like is it broken He was like are you an idiot? And I went there and I had my hand wrapped up and I was like I don't think it's broken. I was like yeah, it's not broken You'll be fine, Sammy. You'll be fine I went to the next board and I was like I have to get surgery and He was like all right. I'll see you in six weeks I told you wasn't broke Yeah, because we had this conversation last night. How did what
Starting point is 01:34:26 happened? Yeah. So he obviously will do whatever it takes when he is a true football guy. Would he still practice with you guys? Would he take reps at quarterback? He would teach us how to do under center snaps. So it was all about the fourth knuckle at the center's but hole. So he used your but hole. Yeah. Or like he would have for you. Like when I was working with Andrew, he would like lay underneath me to make sure Andrew was in there, right? Right. Right.
Starting point is 01:34:52 So he's like, he's on the ground looking up. Like he's working on a car, you know. And so it's like, you know, and, you know, it's been great. I still have relationship with, with coach. Yeah. He helped when I was doing the XFL rulebook, helping, you know, he had actually some really cool ideas about overtime. And I saw him at a wedding this past year. Trent Murphy got married. And we were going in, going into it. I was like, Hey, coach, remember when you helped me
Starting point is 01:35:13 with that, you know, overtime rule, he had idea to make it a fifth quarter. So just a quarter change instead of a half change. So the whole game was still part of it and then do seven death from there. And it's a great idea, just makes two minute warning, not matter as much, the final two minute drill. And so I told him that and he was like, why didn't you do it? I was like, well coach, we're doing it. And so in the middle of this wedding,
Starting point is 01:35:31 we're both going at it, just like we did five years ago. I love it. Going back and forth about this overtime rule. What is he wear to a wedding? Kakis? No, he wore suit, he was respectable. Yeah, he might have wore Kakis. Yeah, I'll go to, I'll go try and find it.
Starting point is 01:35:44 Check the tape on it. I, I, yeah, I mean, the way you khakis. Yeah, I'll go to I'll go try and find a check the tape on it. I Yeah, I mean the way you talk about Harbaugh, you can tell like there's true love there And it's like you went through wars for him and his time at Stanford was incredible because I think people they know Jim Harbaugh from NFC championship games from obviously what he's doing at Michigan now He made Stanford a great football team for a long stretch. Yeah, I mean, him, Coach Shaw was able to maintain and Coach Arba will come in, he'll shock the system. He got rid of all traditions at Stanford. It was one of the funnier things he said, it was before I got there, but he goes,
Starting point is 01:36:16 yeah, you guys can't do any traditions because you're such losers. See, this is why I won him on the Bears. I don't know what makes you guys losers. So I have to get rid of everything. Yeah, and so it was board. I don't know what makes you guys losers. So I have to get rid of everything. Yeah, yeah. And so it was changing everything. I don't know what makes you losers.
Starting point is 01:36:28 Right, he's like, I'm changing every. Your traditions aren't working. Yeah, and, literally. And it reminds me of Dion. Right, like Dion comes in and he's like, you might not agree with everything. Not everything was perfect that Harbund did that first year, but like, come in, the blue collar shirts.
Starting point is 01:36:41 We all have blue collar shirts. And, you know, Stanford has a lot of private school kids. Right, you know, like even, even when I went to a public school, it was in a nice town, right? Like it's like, but he's like, everyone wear a blue collar shirt and he was like, you might not have worn one, had a blue collar job, your dad didn't, your grandpa may not have,
Starting point is 01:36:55 you know, but somebody at one point had to wear this shirt. They got us playing tough. Like Stanford's not traditionally tough team, but by the time I left, we were the toughest team on the block. Maybe we were working state in Utah, but like we were like one of the tougher teams in the pack 12 because he instilled that mindset And it carried through with you know shifting from a grudent offensive running zone scheme to downhill power football Getting guys like we used to call it the Trees company where we had three tight ends in the field all time or having eight offensive linemen
Starting point is 01:37:24 I love that. I Just trying to pound the whole thing. That's my favorite formation in football. Yeah, by far You're so right to about the toughness of Stanford because it would be like One of the dumbest things I would do every single year is watch Oregon score like 90 points a game and then in like early November play Stanford and I'm like they're gonna score 90 points a game. Nope They in Stanford would just be, we're tougher than you. We're not gonna let you do this. We're gonna play the game on our terms. And that was Harbaugh.
Starting point is 01:37:50 And that whole era, we had Vic Fangeau as a coach. Yeah. And we kind of knew Harbaugh was really good at getting replacement coaches. We had DJ Durkin. There was about 11 coaches I had that became NFL or professional head coaches. That's crazy.
Starting point is 01:38:01 So do you think Harbaugh can fix the bears? Oh yeah. He would just immediately just stuff everyone in a locker and be like, we're doing stuff differently. Yeah, I know he would do something different. Cause you know, one of the things that he did at Stanford was he saw that Nevada rushed from more yards than us. It was like, how could someone rush from more yards than us? So we're pounding the rock. We have Toby Gerhardt. Well, Colin Capnick was running the pistol offense. Mm hmm. Back when the pistol was like a three and a half yards,
Starting point is 01:38:25 they ran all this weird stuff with it. So he sent Greg Roman there, go steal that offense, and bring it back. So our first year when he was coaching it up, it was like all the blocking schemes were backwards. Like we didn't understand what was happening, but Andrew would run out for 65 yards at the gate, or it was stuff on Taylor would run up the middle for 14 yards.
Starting point is 01:38:43 It's like, we didn't even know what we're doing. And now we see that, you know, that leads to them drafting cavernick, Greg Roman going from all these different jobs, you know, getting quarterbacks at the level that they need to be. And so it was like, we had that, we had Vic Fangio, the first time he was running cover six was with us.
Starting point is 01:38:57 Now it's taken over the NFL. Like, there was some weird history of random chance because Harba was willing to try new things as a effort. That's a great point because I think we sometimes put some of these coaches in a box, like even Sabin, we just taped our college football. Well, actually, he's gonna air Friday. So on Wednesdays, we talk for college football and it's, Sabin doesn't get enough credit for always adapting because you think like, oh, he's an old guy. He's got the best players. Like,
Starting point is 01:39:20 no, he went, he won national titles with Greg McElroy and running the football and playing defense. And then he went and got the best wide receivers, the best quarterback spread offense. Now he's going back to something different. Like, these guys that seem like they are so rigid, they are the best at adapting. Oh, yeah. You have to be fanatical. That's what I love about football. That's when doing the rule changes, analytics is like, how can we innovate?
Starting point is 01:39:40 Right. How can I see something new each week? And that's what makes it different than ever other sport where we kind of know 3 and D is the best thing to do in MBA. If you could shoot like the wars, shoot like the wars. Now we have Wembee at least he adds another element but like football. There's so many different ways to win so many unique things you can do. Okay, so off of that, you watch obviously everything you watch the tape, you have Thursday night
Starting point is 01:40:01 prime vision, who's innovating the best right now in the NFL? I mean, it's hard to go away from the dolphins. Yeah. So they have a few things that I love so much, like they run the cheat motion, right? Everyone's cross formation motion, everyone wants motion to go laterally. Now they start doing the motion outwards
Starting point is 01:40:16 and they kind of move the way from it as not as much, but still a lot of motion. They also do something interesting. Tuha has one of the shortest time to throws and one of the furthest air yards per target. Meaning, he's taking not that long to throw, but he's also pushing the ball down the field. So he's throwing over 10 air yards,
Starting point is 01:40:31 maybe that's changed since then, but he's like, at that point. So they're like, third and tenths not as big of a deal because we're always trying to get 10 yards. We're always trying to get extra yards, but they're also not putting them in the harm's way, which usually, hey, you're taking a long time to get these guys down field.
Starting point is 01:40:45 Let's get the fast guys, get them sooner, and then throwing the ball there. Yeah. They're also manipulating data because everyone looks at, you know, people don't think of football as hard-quran analytics, but it was one of the first analytics sports. Tendencies, probabilities, you look at their shift in motion data, it's like 80%. But they'll get up to the line of scrimmage and run a lazy shift at the start of it. And that still counts in the data as a shift. Right.
Starting point is 01:41:07 They'll not do it. So you're not like, oh my god, I have to practice all these shifts. So they know what other people are looking for and they're fucking with the data. Oh, that's fascinating. That's fascinating. That's a lot. You know, Bella chick used to do it a lot where if they were up by a lot, they'd run a ton of cover zero.
Starting point is 01:41:21 Because now teams are like, oh, I'm looking at the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the Patriots. I have to practice all this cover zero. Because now teams are like, oh, I'm looking at the school, the, the, the, the, the, the Patriots, I have to practice all this cover zero, but they were up 20 point situational. Yeah. And so they're like, you're actually not, they're not that heavy of a cover zero team. So it's, it's the ways you can use the data knowing they're looking at it. It's like a lot of what Shanahan does is looking at what other people are going to adjust to their adjustments. That's where you start seeing the little intricacies of the game. And that's what understanding the data now lets you go, how can I predict what the behavior
Starting point is 01:41:48 will be next, not necessarily what I've already seen, but how do I predict what will they do next? That's fascinating. And you're behind the scenes and a lot of the status stuff, and you can just watch prime vision see like the fruits of your labor, what you put together. You also dropped a bomb on us. I think it was, was it last year or two years ago where you said you casually mentioned
Starting point is 01:42:06 the fact that there was a chip inside the football. We have a chip inside the football. There's a chip inside the football. There's Zebra has shoulder pad chips and every shoulder pad. There's a chip inside the football. It's in the middle of a football in the football, but we can still calculate to the front of the football, next gen stats powered by AWS. They're the ones who manage all of the data that comes from the on field tracking data.
Starting point is 01:42:30 Okay. So a lot of people have asked, why don't we get the chip of the football to determine a first down, determine, you know, if a ball, you know, if it goes over and upright or if it goes in for a fuel goal, I personally like, I think big cat personally likes the chain and the stick. It's good to see just dudes running out there with hardware figuring out if it's the first down or not. Guy, rough does the two little fingers together, then you meme it, being like, look at my dick. Yeah, the tiny little guy.
Starting point is 01:42:54 And one rough goes like, this is like, yeah, that's what they all say. Yeah. So even though you're a big, like, analytics guy, big science guy, technology guy, you also agree that change in sticks are really the way to go, right? I love chains. I'm like, I'm one of the biggest proponents of chains because when I was at the XFL,
Starting point is 01:43:11 this was my job to try and solve it. And you know, if you ask anybody what they would do when they change football, I had green field to do whatever I wanted the XFL within reason on budget. And I was like, okay, let's solve it. The people keep asking for this. Then you realize it's like maybe 0.75 times per game
Starting point is 01:43:24 or we actually taking the chains out. And it's fewer times now. I think there was one in the first 20 games in the NFL. So it's like, you're really not seeing it that much. And so, you're not you're solving a problem that doesn't happen all that time, all that much. But then here's the beauty of chains. They're always 10 yards.
Starting point is 01:43:43 Yeah. The 10 yard chains are 10 yards. Now, I think there's a lot of cool things that we can do if we can get there. With the defensive alert model that we now have on prime vision, my eyes have been opened up to what we as Amazon can do is a lot of unique things. So I don't know where we're going to go next
Starting point is 01:43:58 on or I can't release where we're going to go next, but the sky's the limit on what is solvable. I'll say for right now, though, what I did at the XFL is we would start every new set of downs at a new yard line. And you'll see college football does this. I think sometimes the NFL will do this where if you got 11 and a half yards, they'll just started at that 12th yard. So now you're seeing fewer measurements because you're going off of the other line. 10 yards. Yeah. So we already see oh, we have to get to the line. The hardest part of measuring the stuff is you have to, possession is a weird thing.
Starting point is 01:44:28 No other sport has possession, quite like the NFL does. So you have to get possession, then you have to get which body parts down, then get where the ball is in that moment. And we're doing all these other plays with human eyes. Now you're going to add one play to say that the computer's gonna solve the problem. It makes it more difficult, but there's a lot of cool things we can do throughout the process trying to solve
Starting point is 01:44:50 that bigger problem. So what do you want to solve? What's the next big advancement football? I think what we're doing now for those who haven't seen Prime Vision, defensive alert is kind of how I watch the game. It's when I was a center, I watch what's likely to blitz, which players are gonna come.
Starting point is 01:45:04 That is how we're now showing the game based on machine learning. We will show which players are likely to blitz. Now, you know how to watch defense. There's so many different things we can do to give a guided viewing experience, whether it's helping you understand coverage or help you make you smarter about the game. Where could the ball go? We have prime targets showing which player is likely to convert it first down if they got the ball.
Starting point is 01:45:24 So, we highlight that player with a green orb So there's all these different things to do about how do we make you a smarter football fan understand it We've talked a lot of schematics over the years about how to understand certain things I had to put some respect on Blake Bordel's name probably five years ago because everyone's talking about him But other teams are still respecting him as a thrower and we can show that Prime vision we want wanna make people have that same conversation, but automate it. Right.
Starting point is 01:45:48 I come in every now and then and give you analytics about how to watch the game in a unique way, but so many things we can do with automation and graphics that are in real time, which is one of the cool parts of it is I'm not selecting any player to blitz, I can't control anything on the defensive alert model. It just happens, we just let it run. What about the flame coming out of the back of football when they throw deep?
Starting point is 01:46:07 See, we want to do more fun stuff like that. You and I have talked about ways to highlight defensive lineman. Good jump. I think my suggestion to you was if a player is running really fast, have their shoes light up like it's NBA jam in their unturbo. Yes, you had that one you had. If a player jumps off the line of scrimmage really fast, show them there. And I actually did a bunch of research on that. It's something I hope to get in soon to identify guys like guy like Miles Garrett when he jumps off the ball. If you go a certain speed you're gonna increase your chance of getting a sack. So how do we watch that player? How do we highlight the unique things the players do? So you know what you need to do? I mean these are all fantastic for your own fraternity of offensive lineman. I think one thing that football fans get wrong
Starting point is 01:46:46 and I count myself as getting it wrong all the time is when a sack is the offensive lineman's fault and when it's the quarterbacks fault. Cause there's, I think it happens a lot more than people realize that the quarterback where they'd be holding onto the ball too long, getting a stepping out of a clean pocket, all these things that you can just,
Starting point is 01:47:04 it's one of those easy tropes that we all use all where our offensive line is bad. Well, maybe the quarterback is playing in a way that's not helping your offensive line. Yeah, North Carolina just had an earthquake because Jeff Schwartz has jumped it up and down. Yeah, I'll ask you for that. Yes. Shout-out, Jeff. But like, yeah, this definitely something and data is shown that quarterbacks attribute account a lot more for sacks than people think is a quarterbacks behavior will create sacks Whether or not play collar is involved in that too. So there's a ton of different things that go into the sack
Starting point is 01:47:32 So there is a solvable problem that could be something we're trying to do as as much as we're trying to recreate my brain watching the game Yeah, yeah, that's a solvable problem It's it's just so fascinating because there's so many little intricacies to the game and like watching a quarterback not be able to manipulate a clean pocket. It's like when you think about the greatest quarterbacks, like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, these guys, like the little stuff that people don't even notice
Starting point is 01:47:56 is why they were great and being able to always step up in a clean pocket and shift and never like leave and leave your offensive line and just stuck on an island and having to block for seven seconds and all this shit. That's it. It didn't really matter for Brady, who was calling plays and who was blocking for him,
Starting point is 01:48:13 as long as guys like Dante Skaernekia, who was probably the best position coach of all time, the O'Line coach at the Patriots. As long as he was there, Brady was being protected. It didn't matter when he went to Tampa. Right, he was. So now it's like, it's not like seem to be when he went to Tampa. Right. He was. So now it's like, it's not seem to be a heavy QB staff.
Starting point is 01:48:28 Right. Right. You still can't, you know, drop back seven step drop a max protect when you've got a lot of fifth rounders and undrafted guys in front of you. It's, it's, it's funny just like thinking about Brady because we always, we have this debate now with Bella check and it's the more time passes. It's like pretty apparent that the Patriot Way was just Tom Brady was really fucking good at football.
Starting point is 01:48:48 And I like that, like all these things fix it when you have a really fucking good quarterback. I think Matt Maholam is kind of doing the same thing where it's like, he's just really fucking good at football. You know, what data can't really measure is that human nature of football and what a locker room does, but I had this feeling that Stanford from Toby Gearhart to Andrew Luck, and then I had like eight all Americans on defense. I always
Starting point is 01:49:10 knew I had the best player on the football team on the field every single game in college. Yeah. You know, we still lost games, but at least I knew that when you have that guy in your room, everyone else will step up. Right? Like even though it's like Dante High Tower, who's probably the most underrated defensive player in history. What he did for that defense, now COVID year, he sits out. All of a sudden, we're seeing that team change because he's not the one, he's the one who commanded the entire defense he'd play on the ball,
Starting point is 01:49:40 off the ball. Manipulate tight ends, he could cover every position. Now they don't have that either. So if you don't have the superstar player that then will rally everyone, that matters. Yeah. Yeah. It does elevate everyone. Like that's just the nature of sports. If you have one guy, you're like, all right, he's going to be the guy for us at the end. You play more confidence. Right. I think I can do more, I can do more in the weight room. I can do more watching film. I feel confident. It's not dumb hustle going out there every week. It's a great point. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:50:04 Yeah. Yeah. So we talked about the dolphins before being the one team that innovates more than any other team. What team or coach do you think is at the bottom end of that? Ooh. And does his name rhyme with Rod Knowles? No, it does not. Because the thing about Todd Bowles, I think that's the one
Starting point is 01:50:23 that we're going to rhyme. I didn't even talk about Ron Rivera. But Todd Bowles actually I think that's the one that we're right. I didn't talk about round review. But Todd Bowles actually does a lot of unique blitzes. We actually are the defensive alert model didn't pick up a lot of it because he breaks blitzing rules. There's unwritten rules of blitzes and our model was like, why is he blitzing? Well, they also got beat doing that. So he does do some exotic blitzes and he will try new things.
Starting point is 01:50:42 I think there are some teams out there. I'm not going to name names. So I'm going to avoid the question. But you can say not like rhyming names. Dweeber Flues. Some teams roll the ball out there and just pray. Okay. They take history lessons and they're like, Oh, look, this cover three from the Legion of Boom. That was a big defense that doesn't exist anymore. Let's keep doing that. That's not the game anymore.
Starting point is 01:51:10 That was when it was under 50% pass. Now 60% of plays are passes. Almost every team's at 11 personnel every time. You can't just roll the ball. And we see the Seahawks don't even run. The Gus Bradley, the Pete Carroll, Monty Kiffin, cover three defense anymore. Yeah. So, so you mentioned something there.
Starting point is 01:51:27 And it's something I love about talking football with you because there's been an analytics shift. I think people are getting smarter in football, but there also is a feeling from some of the analytics crew like, Oh, well, passing is just, you get more yards, just pass the ball. And you always tell me you have to run the ball. You have to run the ball because you have, like, you have more yards, just pass the ball. And you always tell me, you have to run the ball. You have to run the ball because you have, like, you have to have your offensive lineman going forward and running the ball is just as important as passing the ball. What, to tell everyone who thinks
Starting point is 01:51:56 that the answer is always just passing on first down, what, why is that not the case? We've talked about physics, right? Like, you need to be able to go forward so that the other, the defender will be on their heels, a little bit. If they're allowed to fire off every play, there's, you know, exponential returns.
Starting point is 01:52:11 If you have Miles Garrett who's just launching off and that, you know, when you look at what big band at the end of his career, we're just calling straight drop back to running place. All right, you know, David Acastro was a college roommate in mine, right? And you left the half-eaten Tum in his car when you did that interview. Yes. And he would be like, if Miles Garrett just to get some launch off every play, I'm where we're screwed. Yeah. Right? Like,
Starting point is 01:52:33 we can't let him put his hand on the ground, get the white knuckles and launch off. We have to make him think at some level, we're going to come at him. Yeah. And so there's diminishing returns. And that's the funny thing about analytics is it's still learning the game of football. Is it we're still trying to be all identify. Okay, what is real and what's not? If we just chase that North star, you'll be like, why doesn't every team just run the same offense that Shanahan and Patrick and my homes run? Well, they're always going to top. Right. You can draft Patrick and homes every year, which we know multiple teams could not draft Patrick and his. But like. But like, you're not going to worry.
Starting point is 01:53:06 We could. We could. We didn't. But like, now look at all the air raid quarterbacks that have been drafted since him. And then one of the things I loved about my homes is my biggest stat with him is Baker Mayfield left. Kyler Murray wouldn't go there to transfer with.
Starting point is 01:53:22 He wouldn't go and take that spot when Cliff Kingsbury, who was his guy, went there. And then Davis Webb also left. So like his best stat wasn't his game or whatever. It's all these other first overall picks or second round picks that got beat out by him. Right. And so it's like, but you can't chase that from analytics stamp. You left the fine, what makes you great and what makes the 49ers great is they're able to surround Brock Pertie a guy who can execute the game almost as well as anybody just a game plan with amazing talent right but are they gonna be good in the playoffs if they
Starting point is 01:53:55 get down to touchdowns right there often just built around having a lead so they've gotten better shenanigans adapted but there's all these different things that you can't just be Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. You can't just throw it on every down. And it's like, why don't you just be Patrick Mahomes and run his place? Or why don't you pass every down? Because that is analytically most efficient. Because you have diminishing returns.
Starting point is 01:54:15 Right. Yeah. You also can take credit. You like dance around a second. I want to give you credit though. You had Patrick Mahomes as your number one quarterback in that draft. Absolutely. I always did.
Starting point is 01:54:24 Never thought about anything else. Of course. Of course, you'd be an idiot not to. Yeah. I also had Brady as a first-rounder. Smart. Oh, nice. I had a 12-year-old. I had USA over Russia in 1980.
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Starting point is 01:56:28 Do you think Andrew Luck could play right now? He's your friend. I'm assuming that you talked to him on a daily basis and you call him up every morning like Andrew, how's the arm feel today? Could you step out there? Do you think he could step back in and play right now? No, out of the he wants to. Yeah. He has to play a certain way. Right. And so, and he doesn't want to. He's like super dad. So we go to the Stanford tailgates. We still talk about Stanford football all the time. He helps me with both the models and prep for every game because I want to go out there. If I want to talk about a quarterback or a scheme that, you know, I want to make sure I'm doing it right. And you know, half the time is like, you can never say that. I could say
Starting point is 01:57:02 that. You can say that. Right. Right. But like, he still loves the game of football. I just think that's passed him by. Uh, I still think he's the greatest player of all time. Oh, you guys didn't get to see it. That's the spicy take. I like that. Yeah, no, I like that. He could do absolutely everything and would do anything
Starting point is 01:57:17 for his teammates. Best leader we had. My, my, my, my, his last year at Stanford, we had only two captains. Now college teams have like eight captains. And we had him and Michael Thomas, who's on the Bengals now. And it's like, he was an unbelievable leader. He would do everything from the moment he stepped
Starting point is 01:57:31 on the field of Stanford, even with Toby Gehrhard and all these all Americans. He was by far the best player on the field as a freshman. Actually, this is a funny story. There was a weight game competition, a hard-bought-of-weight game competition. Love it. Some are there.
Starting point is 01:57:44 Andrew got second to me. So he's listing off the names and he goes, Andrew luck. 15 pounds of blue twisted steel. Look at it. Andrew stand up, turn around for everybody. And then Andrew, like, and then I got next, it's like Sam Schwartz team, 20 pounds.
Starting point is 01:57:59 I don't know how much of that is blue twisted steel. Stay down. But like, he would do anything for a team and then he can make any play. Now, I think so much of football is, you know, scheme, coach, the teammates you're surrounded with. Look, you know, could he have won those Super Bowls with the Seattle Seahawks in Russell Wilson if they switch places? I think so. I think if you put him in the right scheme, in the right location, he could done anything on an unilaterable field.
Starting point is 01:58:27 Yeah, yeah. What about, it's been a pet project of mine. We've talked about it as well. Downfield laterals, designed downfield laterals in the NFL. We've seen it a couple of times this year. Houston did a really cool one on Sunday where CJ handed the ball off,
Starting point is 01:58:41 then ran like an outside option route got the ball pitched back easy first down. Am I in saying is this just something that like I'm obsessed with that I'm ultimately wrong about or am I on to something that if coaches watch more rugby tape, they can figure out how to safely implement design downfield laterals and like greatly increase their offensive efficiency. So much of the rulebook is not being utilized. Almost thing, and like we talked about passing,
Starting point is 01:59:08 teams couldn't think you could pass 60% of the time. There was just a stat, I think. And Reed could. Right, Sam Monson put it out there when he was at the Eagles. It was like, he was, Andy Reed was laughed at because he passed more than he ran in the red zone. Yeah. It's like 15 years ago.
Starting point is 01:59:20 It's like, there are these things that aren't taking advantage of. I'm a firm believer in a downfield lateral because it's just you need to practice it. Why ever put a TASM Hill in a quarterback or Darren McFadden? Why would you do the Wildcat? Ronnie Brown. Doesn't make any sense, but it's manipulating the defense, something they haven't prepared for. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:40 It gives you opportunity. I am 100% on board. I actually put a, the double-forward passing, one of the rules in the XFL. Yeah, I love that. It's screwed up like every data thing we try to do, because it's like how do you calculate a forward pass that hasn't been, like, it's not the end of the forward pass. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:55 Opportunity. But it was to try and make laterals and get coaches more comfortable with later so ultimately get to these down-field laterals because it's such a unique part of the game that especially if you're talking about explosives, right right now teams are struggling to get explosive plays. The defense are letting you move down the field and then let you fail in the red zone. Yeah, scoring down. I think it's going to be the first time scoring to be down in like 12 years or something.
Starting point is 02:00:17 I was trying to chase 50 total points score because that was the NFL average in 2018. That when I was making the rulebook I was like, how do I get the game faster but also reach 50 total points score now it's like 45 yeah it's crazy because teams are letting that happen they don't there's There's stopping the run with six guys in the box. Mm-hmm. Right you're having these run run stuff specialists, you know, and so Downfield laterals is great what it create explosives and if you fail one time and then you limit them to a field goal Gate football's a drive-based game. You're gonna have have between 10 and 14 drives. Maximize those drives. Try and have explosive plays. Parker Fleming, I think you guys have used his data before. That's a war, yeah. Shout out. Shout out Parker Fleming. He has the echo, which is how often are you getting good positive drives, getting to the opponents 40 from your side of the field. But also, how many explosives did you have flipped
Starting point is 02:01:03 field touchdowns? These are all different things to help you like in the downfield lateral. It's probably the next way that we're going to see more of these explosive plays. Thank you. Thank you. It's just it's like any innovation with football. I agree with PFT. I always thought it would work. It's just coaches are scared that if it doesn't work, they'll look like idiots.
Starting point is 02:01:22 It's like how fourth and one used to net. You always put on fourth and one and then slowly but surely it's like, oh, I won't get criticized for this. Okay, I can go on fourth and fourth and one because it's stupid as it could be, but that really is kind of how innovation happens where coaches have to feel comfortable with not being like completely blasted for their decision making. And they're like, all right, now we can do this. It's wild to me to see some of these like single back runs, no attached tight ends, like the eagles are running, no attached tight ends. It's like, we were running that in high school 15 years ago. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 02:01:53 That's when he's a happened. Like, the wild cat was a high school offense. Gus Melzahn was running it. Then it gets put into college football, right? Then we see the NFL. Now it's fizzled out, but there's some remnants would take some hill. These coaches need to go back and watch a lot of high school film, because that's where you'll see innovation take place.
Starting point is 02:02:09 Yeah, trickles up. It always does. It might take just some coach who's basically fired that they know that they're going to be fired by the end of the season, and just to be like, you know what? Let's fuck around, have some fun. Doesn't really matter. I'm playing with House Money anyways.
Starting point is 02:02:22 Or brand new coach, you have a four year deal. Like I talked about this all the time with my coach to the XFL. I said, go for it on every fourth down. Yeah. I have nowhere in my business plan to double pay a coach. And if I fire you, I have to pay two coaches. Right.
Starting point is 02:02:35 Give two year deals. If you have four year deal, coaches should be going for it more because it's hard for a coach to own it, to go, I can't wait to double pay another coach. Yeah. I mean, whoever coach to the Raiders next should actually try to do this because you're not gonna triple pay a coach Yeah, you're not gonna have offset language
Starting point is 02:02:50 I mean the Niners were paying for coaches at one point between Harba Thomas Sula chip Kelly and then the first year Shanahan Like Shanahan can't get fired right right right. There's only so much buddy right no, it's a good point It's that it's just all fascinating. Everything you're doing is awesome. I want to go back to one thing. Uh, you mentioned Vic Fangio. Why is Vic Fangio the best?
Starting point is 02:03:12 Because I, I've, obviously didn't go well as a head coach, but some guys are just not meant to be head coaches. And they're just insane defensive coordinators. And, you know, I obviously he was on, he was a defensive coordinator for the Bears when they add a great defense a Few years ago feels like everywhere he goes the defense instantly gets better Shane Scove made a nickname form called Lord Fangio because we called him the dark Lord Because he's like we had the worst passing defense in college football there before and we had four NFLers Richard Sherman
Starting point is 02:03:40 You know he's gonna be a hall of favor one of the best ever. He was on our team and we were just getting torched. We were running cover for every play. We get Fangio and he was a mercenary. He didn't get out of the team hotel. He never bought a house. Like he knew he was the original one and done. You know, and he was just so meticulous about finding unique ways to beat defenses or offenses.
Starting point is 02:04:02 And one of the things in practice, we would, in training camp, it was awful because we would have a protection call. And then he would call a blitz to beat that protection. Then we'd stay up till, you know, 11 o'clock at night and we'd be adding new calls. Okay, if we see the safety walk down in this gap, we're gonna call stinger, stinger, stinger. We're not going to shift the protection. Then they're going to hear stinger and go through. And so probably about like two weeks of this,
Starting point is 02:04:27 he walks into our O-Line room, he sees our coaches, hair is all crazy, and all of us guys were like pulling our leg hairs out to stay awake and he goes, what are you still working on that Swiss cheese 58 protection? Like he just like, he just reveled and just ripping us apart. Because he was always willing to look for a new thing.
Starting point is 02:04:45 And he was one of the first coaches to do the 3-4 with 4-3 spacing. So you'll see a lot of stand-up D-Ns. But it's not, it'll be, it'll look like a 3-4, but really it's 4-3 spaces here getting different body types in there, make it a faster defense, being able to do more zone blitzes. He was one of the first zone blitz guys.
Starting point is 02:05:02 I think he was a Carolina years ago when they were expansion teams. So it's like, he's willing to do a lot of different things. And I talked to him a little bit last year at Stanford tailgates. And you know, he says like, when he's given people the defense, he hasn't given everyone everything. He still has kept some stuff in there. So he's still a little bit crazy saying, I got a little bit of a special sauce. Even guys I've coached, I haven't given them everything. Right. Right. What about on when they bring up the AWS stats for catch probability, they'll say like,
Starting point is 02:05:30 Devonte Adams, 11% chance making this catch, you guys just make that up, right? No, no, next-gen stats powered by AWS has a ton of great people working there, guys like Keganabdo, Mike Bande, Connor Quiston. How do you do like 11% he's gonna make this catch? It's a stack rank, so that's one of their stats and they're looking at what makes all the hardest passes.
Starting point is 02:05:49 The further you throw the ball, the harder it is. How much distance is there between them and the closest defender, distance to the sideline, and you stack rank all these things and you look at every pass that's taken place over the past few years. And you're trying to evaluate what's the likelihood that those passes based on all these different attributes
Starting point is 02:06:04 then you get there. Now, the thing is it's completion probability and so it's not taking to account who that wide receiver is and that's something I've learned from data this year is I think having superstar wide receivers changes everything because they are that other part of that catch and if you can maximize those timer chlorine, he's like the best at tight window catches.
Starting point is 02:06:23 Mike Williams, if you can maximize those guys to make catches that your quarterback either doesn't have to be perfect or nobody's open and you can get a positive play out of that. Yeah, it's extremely valuable. Or like even like, I think one of the most underrated things that we just completely look past for wide receivers is like their body control against the sidelines
Starting point is 02:06:40 where it's like, if you asked my body to get two feet and bounds and some of the positions that are in my abs would rip and I would just fall flat on my face. The way they're able to manipulate their body and keep their core strength while they get two feet and bounds is out of this world. The fact that it's two feet, the XFL I made at one foot and bound because I was like, I gotta get these crazy catches. And there's probably even more amazing catches in the NFL. The talent level of the top wide receivers in the NFL to the rest is probably a bigger disparity than people think as when people and things about O line it's so hard to find alignment.
Starting point is 02:07:13 Those guys that come around a 4, 3, 4, 4 and do those body control catches those are the special specimens in the NFL and we've seen what happens with just moving AJ Brown off the Titans and onto the Eagles. How it's changed the fabric of both organizations. Yeah. It runs now in first place all the time. And it's one guy who gets maybe 10 catches a game. How has that changed the game so much versus his gravity making it easier for everyone
Starting point is 02:07:36 else, as well as breaking case of emergency, and then go to AJ Brown, it is a game changer to have a super. There was a play in the Cowboys Eagles games that was just so perfectly like summed up AJ Brown and was in completion. And it was maybe we should put it in our best in completions of the year. It was a deep shot to AJ Brown. And he was triple covered. And I think that Jalen Hershey just like, no, at least once a game, I'm just going to see if he can make one of these crazy catches because like he probably will more often than not and like it didn't work that time But he's that type of player where it's like it doesn't matter if he's fully covered He can still make a play calling the perfect play every time is impossible
Starting point is 02:08:15 I hardly actually used to have this quote this funny is like hey if you look at your playbook None of the plays are scripted for five yards right their touchdowns all of them So if you just look correctly you'll score score a touchdown. Like a big, but the reality is, getting the guy open, making sure you can predict it, because they have superstars on their team too, and you can go screw it, I'm just gonna launch it to Agen. And my work, and it probably will. And then also like, passing your clearance spot foul
Starting point is 02:08:38 is the only play in football where the offense doesn't have to do something good. Yeah, you get to have that opportunity. There's fewer of those calls now, but because the in phase rule change last year, but it's like, that's still an opportunity for you to gain some yards. And it's like, my guy's down there. I'll trust him.
Starting point is 02:08:53 Yeah. Do you know who the all time goat is in terms of throwing past interference? I actually think it's Eli Manning. I did a research study on this about five years ago that the two Super Bowl seasons that they were two standard deviations, meaning very, very high away. First downs by penalty on third down.
Starting point is 02:09:09 So that is like the nerdiest stat I could give right now. Yeah, I love those two Super Bowl seasons. They were like astronomically more, and it was because I think you was just saying, Mariam Annie and Hamplex go burrs. Let's just make something happen. Underthrow him just a little bit. We were hoping you were going a little flack of it.
Starting point is 02:09:26 Well, flacko is the one everyone knows about, but like if we wanna go sneaky into the tape, and the data, Eli Manning is one of those guys that sneaky part of that, but flacko's like known for, Corson Wentz perfected at the end of the, and that's another thing about trying to track these stats, EPA gained by penalty or,
Starting point is 02:09:44 or a first down by penalty How you can manipulate that or put yourself into Highly likely to have not converting by penalty those those penalties can change the fabric of the game There's maybe like six of them per team per game But they are game changing when they happen. Yeah, can you diagnose how to stop the push? You're like the smartest football you love the to push right you love it You love it. I do love the push because fourth down conversions like the smartest football player. You love the touch push, right? You love it. You love it.
Starting point is 02:10:06 I do love the push push because fourth down conversions is a big part of why I have a job. So I like it. We, again, we talked about this. I had a similar playing college, 64 lead dive. We would hand it off, but we'd have two upbacks that would jump over the top, me into cash versus the low shade.
Starting point is 02:10:21 And as a center, it is terrible because, you know, when we were doing it it we'd have the collision and then our guys jumping over the top they're guys jumping over the top all landing on top of me. I definitely don't think there's a way to stop it and converting and that's not unique in the CFL there's a one-yard neutral zone so QB sneaks are nearly guaranteed every time. They just have only three downs versus four downs. So like there's gets like a two yards every time. I think the push is so unique. Cubie sneaks in general converted 72% of the time.
Starting point is 02:10:51 They're at like 85 90% with the with the push. It's super hard to stop it. And that's that's okay. You know, I think that if they wanted to get rid of the play, I wouldn't be against them getting rid of the play. It's not the first time that the NFL rule book has limited. There are rules in the current NFL rule book against the T formation.
Starting point is 02:11:10 So there are limiting some formations you can already run. So I'm not saying it's brand new that they would get rid of. It's not impossible. I won't stop it. He is leaning with the crown of his helmet. But I support it because it's fun. And it's fun to say, Tush push, get a little yiddish on the end. That's always good for me. So it's all did just mention like that it might already be
Starting point is 02:11:28 against the rules. Yeah, because you're like any quarterback any team. Any quarterbacks. You're like the crown of your helmet. So I honestly think that if they got rid of it, the Eagles would still convert it like 90%. I think they're better without the Tush.
Starting point is 02:11:38 Yeah, like that. It's not just the middle finger. You know, yeah, in college one time, we ran, it was called incredible. It was a rush the ball play called power kill power against USC because coach Harbaugh wanted to score more than 50 points. The earlier possession, we went for two to get to 50. Then we got the ball back and we ran the whole the play all the way down because it was a big middle finger. Well,
Starting point is 02:11:59 it was a big hey, you can't stop it. We're going to run it. It was a middle finger. Yeah, maybe two. And that was like, I think that's what they're doing now, is they could run the QB sneak or they could run all their fun plays, the fly sweep off of it, a pop pass, there's all the things, but I think right now they take so much pride in it that they're just saying we're gonna do it. It was that to play, because you told me,
Starting point is 02:12:20 maybe it was the bowl game against Oklahoma State where Harba called the same run play like 13 times in a row. No, that was incredible. 2009, it was the What's Your Deal Game. Pete Carroll came up to him after the game was like, What's Your Deal, What's Your Deal. Yeah. I love Stanford athletics. Actually made a special ticket package the next year called The What's Your Deal Deal. Yeah. So that was that game where you ran at 13 straight times? 13 straight. We ran a play. It was very funny because you know, Stanford, we had a very unique play calling system where it was a play, a kill and a alert. So we had three separate plays
Starting point is 02:12:48 And then Andrew could get to a fourth play on every play and that was like our unique thing. We'll always run the perfect play And then for the fiesta ball we had 400 plays Scripted so I wore two wristbands and Andrew wore two wristbands and then we ran play, like a goal line play in the middle of the field, probably 15 times. It's like, why did we have all these plays scripted up? I'm like, we're spending four weeks trading for this game, but it's like, we're just gonna run goal line off into the middle of the field.
Starting point is 02:13:15 I love it though, because that's like so classic harboh, like we're just gonna run it down your throat, and there's nothing you can do about it. It gets me pumped up. It just smells weakness, you know. That's why I need him to be the Bears coach. It's so much fun when it's working.
Starting point is 02:13:27 Yeah. You know, the chaos that he brings that did make it on edge, like every guy in the team, but probably Owen and Andrew thought they were going to get kicked off the team at some point. Because you like it was there's so much chaos. Like he would have us doing four-hour practices. And then what sometimes you'd have us give it the night off. And so you never knew like one night he actually planned
Starting point is 02:13:45 we had a movie night. Oh, watch out. You almost get by. I'm out. Killed by a mountain. New office. We're still working progress. Yeah, P.P.
Starting point is 02:13:53 Yeah, that's also Hank. He was just sitting there second. Yeah, Chas Estella. Yeah. But there was all a harbott would give us the night off for a movie night. And so the rumbly and started happening that we're going to be done there movie night. And so the rumbly and started happening that we're gonna need on their movie night.
Starting point is 02:14:06 And then he came in, he goes, anyone ready for a movie night? And we all start cheering, he goes, no, we're gonna watch some good films. We're gonna watch probably Oregon State. And our DFO, Matt Doyle, standing with all the tickets like, uh oh.
Starting point is 02:14:20 He'd already bought the tickets and already planned. Our boy just said, nope, you guys know the movie night's coming. I'm not letting you have it. It's great. Who's one coach in the NFL right now that you think is like priming themselves to break out? Like is there a guy that's not getting the recognition
Starting point is 02:14:35 for whatever the circumstances are that you think could actually be a great coach if given the time? I love Ben Johnson. You know, I don't know how he is a leader, but from a play car standpoint, his parents were both math majors. So he uses analytics and data.
Starting point is 02:14:47 He actually coded a fourth-founded book for one of the teams that he was always a young guy. And he's doing such unique things with the lines. Part of me wants them just to keep the game together, you know, and be like, hey, what if we were legends and brought a Super Bowl here? But Ben Johnson is, if I were an owner, he's a guy I would go after as a potential head coach. Eric B. N. E. probably deserves a head coaching job at this point.
Starting point is 02:15:11 I think he's proven he can do enough. And he does a lot of cool things. I mean, they take a lot of sacks there, but you know, he's doing unique play calls. Those guys work probably harder than any other team coaching staff wise, because B. N. E. is so committed. So, yeah, no, Sam Mal legit. Probably harder than any other team coaching staff wise because BNME is so committed so Yeah, no, Sam out legit, but I I think I know I think I was more of a Ron Rivera positive thing coaching staff works
Starting point is 02:15:41 My fiancee Kelly Kelly Kelly I have to give her a shout out. She always Kelly. I love you But my fiance mom went to to, oh, big sim, big sim. Her mom went to high school with Ramavera, so we're a Ramavera household. Okay. That's fair, but you should do like an on-screen analytics for Ramavera in terms of time spent on camera not saying a single word. I can't unsee that after you started talking about that. It's unreal. And he's been more talkative recently.
Starting point is 02:16:03 I saw him twice on Sunday. He was talking, which is a record for him. I think he misses Cam Newton, because he's doing the towel thing that Cam Newton does. Sometimes I'll put the towel around his neck and I'm like, I think he misses. Yeah. He probably does.
Starting point is 02:16:14 He does. All right. I have one last question. Robac question, rhobac.com. Use promo code take. 20% off your first purchase. Qzips, polo, sodis, joggers, shorts, everythingrobac.com promo code take. You want to give us a Super Roll Pick?
Starting point is 02:16:29 You watch the games, you're dialed in more than anyone, you're watching all the film. There's your computer brand say about this. Yeah, give us the computer picks. Baltimore. Yeah. Complete team. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:40 They might not get to my ears. The probably the easiest thing to do is like, who's going to get the first, who's going to get the buy? The buy is so valuable and then home-filled advantage is so valuable. But they might not because they're in higher divisions in the playoffs right now. But Todd Monk and offense, I'm a big Greg Roman fan. He was a coach of mine. But Todd Monk and has taken Lamar to the next level.
Starting point is 02:17:00 Lamar is playing at a different speed. But the fact that their defense is playing in Shadow's Rowquan Smith, maybe sometimes you should pay inside linebackers who can do a lot. But, um, I think you had this great concept, pay your best players. Yeah. If you have good players, keep them. Everyone talks about you can't find good players in the draft. It's hard to do that.
Starting point is 02:17:19 But if you do it, you might want to keep them. Yeah, keep them. Hold on to them. Even though, you know, maybe not pay inside linebackers, but who knows? Now the middle of the field is such a big place people try and go. I don't want to keep him. Yeah, keep him. Hold on to him. Even though, you know, maybe not pay inside linebackers, but who knows? Now the middle of field is such a big place. People try and go. We see Fred Warner, real quantum.
Starting point is 02:17:29 But those are great defenses and their best players are mics. But, you know, I think that, Yeah, I mean, that's another classic like he would, they wouldn't have worked for the Bears. It wouldn't have worked. The Ravens are a professional organization. Unlike the Bears.
Starting point is 02:17:41 Yeah, analytics organization too. Yeah, great. But yeah, I thought you were going to ask me who the most famous person I cell phone was. Oh, yeah. Okay. Who's the most famous person who cell phone? Andrew Luck. Oh, my call. Yeah. It's gonna go. Why isn't he on? Right. Yeah, that's I mean, that was the whole thing. You've been promising Andrew Luck for, I mean,
Starting point is 02:17:58 you're a day one AWL. So I think you've been promising Andrew Luck for seven plus years. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. I actually didn't set this up. I should have set this up. He can come through football with us. Yeah. Play some catch. He's going to be very mad about this. He's not going to pick up. He's not going to pick up. Didn't the Castro call you Sam and said it was Andrew Luck? Well, I All right. My old boss is going to get upset at this. He didn't pick up. Maybe he will call back.
Starting point is 02:18:23 But I had when we set up the De Castro interview. I had set up this is very 2016 with a soundboard to have the most famous person phone be Hulk Hogan and I would be a Hulk Hogan Excited I had booked a conference room acting like I was at a sales meeting To uh, uh-huh and Andrew called me because he used to not have an iPhone He has an iPhone now so now we now we text more, but Andrew called me because he used to not have an iPhone. He has an iPhone now, so now we text more. But he called me and he's like, hey man, I set Dave up with the part of my take guys. Don't call him, because I know you're gonna call me
Starting point is 02:18:54 and then you're gonna call him. That's your habit. He goes, okay, okay, okay. So then I'm getting ready to the thing. And I finally get the call from David. And I'm ready to do the whole Cogan thing. And you guys acted like it was whole Cogan.
Starting point is 02:19:06 And then you like, hey motherfucker. You trying to break us, we're going to break you man. And then what I listened to, Andrew, just like going through the motions called him during the podcast. He technically had him on. Yeah, we had him on sort of, but this has been awesome man. We want to have you back on Breakdown the League as long overdue, long, long overdue.
Starting point is 02:19:30 Everyone watched Prime Vision. I can't recommend it enough. And you're getting great as an on-air personality as well. Thank you. You told me, please smile. Yeah, last year. Yeah, because I think there was a couple of times when you went the first time, you're like,
Starting point is 02:19:42 you watched and let me know. And you were like, just so serious. I was like, just mix in a smile, show people you're having fun. Cause football's fun. You like this, right? That's what my producer says before I go on. You like this, right?
Starting point is 02:19:53 You like football? Yeah. Football's fun. It's crazy how much people watching other people smile or laugh is like infectious. And like that's basically the genesis of the show is having a good time with your boys. So yeah
Starting point is 02:20:05 I found you guys are used to read both of you But then the podcast was because like every young man's life You're going through and you're listening to local sports talk radio Yeah, and they had an actual argument over and because I lived in the bay Who's more important to the world is Stefan Clay? You can't be serious You can't be serious. He has his clay. Right.
Starting point is 02:20:23 Clay plays clay. He's defeated. Yeah, I've seen him. He's a player. And he doesn't waste up all the time dribbling. And then you guys started the podcast and I was like, this is what I needed. I needed my palate cleanser from local radio. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:20:35 That's such a great discussion to have too. It's great to have. Because you can make yourself feel so smart by finding reasons why it's actually clay. Yeah. And then you're just rooting for yourself at that point. You're like filling in there. It's like, no, it's the guy you can shoot from half-court. That's right.
Starting point is 02:20:46 That video game had to make him worse at three pointers because it was unfair in the video game. Right, and it's very, it's like just having those sports debates but being like, we are dumb and this is a dumb debate makes it a lot more fun. Oh yeah, that's why you guys are the best. Yeah. All right, well Sam, thanks so much, man.
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Starting point is 02:22:05 Head to Chevy.com. Check out Chevy Silverado and the family of Chevy ZR2s, the official trucks of part of my take. All right. Let's wrap up, FireFest of the Week. Hank. Yeah, I mean, we kind of covered mine pretty extensively. What was it at the beginning of the podcast?
Starting point is 02:22:24 They did into your job. They didn't do your job? I did not do my job. I thought- It's a very unbilled bell check of you. I could get, it is, some would say it's very bill of me though. Do your job. Yeah. In fact, for fiction, that's the one mantra they've had. No, I'm saying bill, e.
Starting point is 02:22:39 Oh, bill e of you. Got you. So there's that. That's good deflection. Anything else? That's it. That's it. You just apologize.
Starting point is 02:22:54 I lost my laptop again. You guys hit my laptop. We did not hide your laptop. It just disappeared under the lottery machine. That's where you last were. I guess. Other, wait, stick cat. There's only one person in this room that's gotten a lot of ball correct, right? So wouldn't that stand to reason?
Starting point is 02:23:14 That's where he would put his laptop? Like, I have no reason to be over at the last. Also, who snitched? I, old interrogation tactic. I just went up to Max. I was like, I know they hit my laptop. to Max was like I know they're in my laptop And he was like how do you know? What the fuck Max? You're so stupid like fucking dumb bird Well, I I wanted him to do his job. No, that was the point
Starting point is 02:23:36 He was just gonna not do his job you can tell me I was a shame him for not doing his job And that's the perfect crime, but then I tried to be like, I tried to play it off. I tried to be like, I lost my lots of Max just snitched on me. He's like, no, he didn't. I told you where it was. Oh, yeah, he doubles. Yeah, he doubles. I tried to. Well, that I didn't want him to I didn't want him to have that out. You're not. You're not. You're not. If you ever get trust me, yeah, you're going to sing. Hey, don't say that. Yeah. You also didn't even tell me. I was just sitting on the ground cross-legged and I looked to my right and I was like, why are you sitting on the ground?
Starting point is 02:24:12 I was like, why is there a laptop underneath the lottery ball machine? So it's not even like you trusted me with that information. Yeah. Also I guess my other fire fest, I mean it's not really a fire fest, I think it's funny to an extent. I just, the whole tiffy Gomez, I took a couple harmless pictures kind of as like a continuation of the podcast and it's been stunning how much people seem to care about that. No, the rule of the internet is,
Starting point is 02:24:38 if you take a picture with somebody, you're fucking. Yeah, no. But yeah, that has been a little bit of a lot. I've had a lot of people reaching out to me from all walks of life that are like, what's going on? I'm like, nice. We're just pals.
Starting point is 02:24:53 Yeah, but now new chicks are gonna be like, damn. Yeah, just like Travis Kelsey, he's been pictured with Taylor Swift a lot. He just stepped up his entire game for after they're no longer a thing. It's true, I just like the, you know, I like the private life, private, that's been a good last couple of years doing that.
Starting point is 02:25:09 And I kind of, you know, dipped my toe back on the other side and I realized, I don't like it. Okay, PFTU Fire Fest. Yeah, my fire fest is, so I'm still dealing with a rib injury. And I went to the doctor last week on Friday. They gave me an X-ray. They basically told me I was a bitch and said that I had
Starting point is 02:25:28 like a fractured cartilage thing or separated cartilage. So they gave me prescriptions and I've spent the last week trying to get a prescription from a pharmacy that rhymes with mall greens. And pharmacies just, yes. They just don't have prescriptions anymore. Is drugs your steal gotta steal it. COVID.
Starting point is 02:25:46 Of everything. COVID. So I couldn't get my prescription and then they told me the doctor didn't call it in. The doctor called it in a second time. I went back to Walgreens, waited in line for another 45 minutes. And they said, yeah, we still don't have the prescription. So I had to wait till Monday to call the doctor back, Silk Road. I call her back on Monday. That's right, the doctor's female. I saw the shocked look on your face Hank you sexist
Starting point is 02:26:09 Doctors the mother my doctor quit oh, and so now so sick of you So now the other doctor that's there is like yeah, I can't give you that prescription because it's for controlled substance Yep, and the previous doctor wrote it so Just kind of rub some dirt on it. So I haven't really been sleeping well because on my side, my repair, it hurts to breathe, sneeze, laugh. So I've just, what's wrong with pharmacies in America? We don't carry drugs anymore. China. I've had ADHD my whole life and I've had prescriptions of my whole life and it was an absolute war when I moved Chicago trying to get it, like, trying to get it.
Starting point is 02:26:46 It's China. It's easier to get a gun in Chicago than it is to get a pill. It's China. I just want to fall asleep. Let me sleep. Sounds like you're abusing pills. I haven't had the opportunity to. I would love to be abusing pills right now.
Starting point is 02:26:59 Absolutely, they know you're gonna pre-abuse. I'm doctor shopping. I had the same thing where my doctor sent it in and then I went to the pharmacy two times and they were like, your doctor never sent it in. And I talked to my doctor and they'd be like, we send it in. And then I went like a third time
Starting point is 02:27:15 and they didn't like send anything else. They were like, oh yeah, we have it. You just haven't picked. I'm like, what's going on here? Yeah, it is also. Would you get prescribed for idiot pills. Technically, yes. I can say things. I also have that 80d my whole life. It sucks because I'm actually at the point where I think that pharmacies are a racket now. Yeah. Where they just try
Starting point is 02:27:36 to get you to come in to pick up your prescription, knowing they don't have the medicine and they just want you to buy all the other shit that's in the store. It's like, oh, while I'm here because I did that last week. It's like, well, I'm here. I need some milk. Yeah. Might as well pick up some milk. Well, I'm here. I need some magnums. Might as well pick those up. You know, normal stuff like that.
Starting point is 02:27:52 I once had an in college, I had a convenience store guy. I went up to get nightquill and the guy looks at me and goes, let me guess. Magnums. Oh, rock. Hell yes. Hell yes. Yeah. Did you have a tip jar? No, you showed it. You showed it. I'll tip the fuck out of them. I think about I think about that a lot too. If you're in the service industry, fastest way to get a quick tip is to go. Whoa, you look like
Starting point is 02:28:16 you got a huge dick. Well, I got to give this guy 20 bucks. That was great. All right, my fire fest, I don't really, I'm just tired. Yeah. Really, really tired. Me too. Football season just wears us down, we're at that point. I have a fire fest that I'll give you now. What was already your turn?
Starting point is 02:28:34 I was doing my fire fest. It's big cats. For you, no for you. I have one for you too. What? Yeah. Does everyone in this room just think of it as the same one?
Starting point is 02:28:41 What the fuck did I do? That's all the time? It's a fuck that I do. do actually I have one for you to What did I do you miss pronounce the mr. B. State coach wrong? Oh fuck that guy S ID yeah, so for people who tune in the bar show invitation. Well, thank you. I called Chris Jones Chris Jones I said Chris Jones over and over and The SID came over to us and was like, Hey, you're saying his name wrong.
Starting point is 02:29:06 And then the guy didn't even realize, but then Dave spent the next 10 minutes just blasting the SID's like, this fucking squid. So it was awesome. What's my fire for the help? I do not care. That's not my fire. Press by the way. I also did.
Starting point is 02:29:20 Oh, that might be my fire. Press I fell in love with Mississippi State basketball so much. I put a future on them $2,000 to win 300 grand. They can shoot the three. Shoot the three. I was like damn this team is good. It's even college basketball might be the Arizona States. If Michigan state had Mississippi states outside shooters, they would win the champion. Yeah, for sure. What's mine Hank? You owe me a thousand dollars, but I will I will for what? Recend that out of my bad performance today and lack of for what? presentation we made a bet
Starting point is 02:29:54 On the Joe Buck episode calling the Demar Hamlin incident we made a bet where you're like I can't wait for this new lottery ball machine I was like I'm gonna get it first. I want to bet. Oh fuck we did a thousand bucks. Fucked up. I'm saying I. I was like, I'm gonna get it first. I just want to bet. Oh fuck. We did a thousand bucks straight up. Well, that's fucked up. So I'm saying I'm not gonna, I'm gonna resend it. I actually thought we have the old lottery ball machine. I was gonna bring it back in. To New York. To throw this one away.
Starting point is 02:30:15 This one's worthless. Also, I guess my real firefests are fucking, I let me back up. That was me getting triggered by being tired. I was gonna say something really mean about Pete and the fact that he can't come, but I didn't. The fact that we built this whole office in the fucking rims or 10 feet, two inches, is driving me insane. It's thrown off my whole job. We went to win trust last night and I shot around. I hit everything. I'm like, it's crazy.
Starting point is 02:30:45 That's I get that's the worst firefest ever because everyone's like, oh, you built a fucking office with the basketball court. The rims are a little off. But you can lower them. Those are real problems. I don't know. I keep asking, how do we lower them?
Starting point is 02:30:55 How do we lower them? Like, oh, we called the guy. We called the guy. Just fucking, I might have, Pete's trying to do the, they're not that low. Yeah. They're not that high. It's like, dude, it's 10 feet.
Starting point is 02:31:03 It's Hoosiers. Ever seen it? Max, after this, maybe I get on your shoulders and I just jam and lower myself. They're not that low. Yeah. They're not that high. Dude, it's 10 feet. It's Hoosiers. Ever seen it? Max, after this, maybe I get on your shoulders and I just jam and lower myself. He's nodding his head. Speak, Max. It's a podcast.
Starting point is 02:31:14 All right, Jake. I spoke too much. You spoke too much. I didn't. This has been a weird episode. Weird episode. I feel bad about my performance. Yeah, I'm deep-boggled. I like you, Paul. I could also like you. Paul, I like you. I've been, this has been a weird episode. Weird episode. I feel bad about my performance.
Starting point is 02:31:25 I like you, Paul. I like you. I think you gave a great performance. I've had fun. I, I want to clip of both the Colts Patriots preview and the Jets Raiders preview. Let everyone know how, how our football intellect is going. Uh, the suit that PFT so generously bought me a few years ago was big a year ago when I tried it on and it fit last night. Bad news. Oh, yeah, I've been thinking you'd be getting fat. Jake Marshback maybe, maybe mixing a salad.
Starting point is 02:31:50 But now we have an office of the basketball hoop. So I'm going to sweat more. Jake did go fucking turbo mode and dodge ball. That was sick. Alpha. Alpha. He looked like he was in the matrix. He just went and is like, I'm going to kill everyone. Is the Jake Jake Jake bricks Yeah, they look close. There's another stream today right close with all home renderer be tune. Yes. Yes, tune in Yes, so we're so we're streaming we're gonna start streaming stuff It's a work in progress. I think everyone's gonna love them But we're testing them out. So right now we're testing them out just running them at the end of the yak soon
Starting point is 02:32:23 We'll be doing them all on the Viva list toolstream streams tool streams. We'll be doing one the tool streams YouTube So we're we're testing everything out. It's test progress. We have ideas. Let us know well for everybody Also asking about the baseball stream that we did the video we shot last week Max is working on that it should be out. No on Friday. No Friday max no Max is working on that. It should be out. No, on Friday. No. Friday, Max. No. Memes just like won't let me talk. No, it is not out.
Starting point is 02:32:52 It is not going to be out. Oh, wow. Really? Correct. Why not? There's multiple reasons that we don't have to talk about. When are we doing your fucking stream? 24 hours.
Starting point is 02:33:04 Oh, wait, it was supposed to be about. When are we doing your fucking stream? 24 hours. I don't know. It was supposed to be on Thursday. Should we do a Thursday? This upcoming Thursday? Yeah. For because it's Raven's Bengals Thursday night football. It's a really good game.
Starting point is 02:33:16 It's a really good game. I got it. This is my last week. No tattoo. Are you really good game? I think we should do it this Thursday or next Thursday. Well, no, next Thursday's Thanksgiving, is it not? I'm down.
Starting point is 02:33:29 Yeah, I think we're recording early. No, thank you. That Tuesday, right? I think we should do it this Thursday. We gotta sit down and... Sit down, what? I mean, oh, or we could do it next Monday, Eagle's Chiefs. That's... Oh! That's like... what I mean, oh, or we could do it next Monday, Eagles chiefs.
Starting point is 02:33:46 That's like. You can still watch the game, right? We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. I think you should get to listen to it on, on head phone. We'll figure it out. Voice of the Eagles. We're the voice of Eagles. Okay, we'll figure it out. But it could be this, it would start Wednesday night at like 10 pm and then we just run it all Thursday. I'm down.
Starting point is 02:34:11 Sounds good to me. Who we're gonna have narrate over we need to get Frank back out here though. For what? I have to just narrate the like two to six a.m. It's sleep shit. We're gonna talk tomorrow. We'll talk tomorrow. Okay, all right. We'll figure out. All right. Numbers.
Starting point is 02:34:28 18. 17. Eight. 20. 77. Three. I'll go five. Shane has 10.
Starting point is 02:34:37 Shane has 10. August 5. 66. I don't know. 66! Love you guys. Love you guys. Today's a hot day, the party shayah away I'm coming for you, love, okay I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming
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