Pardon My Take - Taylor Heinicke, Drive To 405 + Fyre Fest

Episode Date: February 4, 2022

Hank was right and he gets his thank you from Tom Brady (00:02:30-00:09:15). Billy, PFT, and Bubba update from the road to the Super Bowl (00:09:15-00:16:06). We talk Brian Flores and everything else missed the last couple of days (00:16:06-00:29:39). Washington Commandeers QB Taylor Heinicke joins the show to talk about his career, how Blake Bortles saved his football playing days, going full send on the field and more (00:29:39-01:04:10). We finish with Fyre Fest of the weekYou 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

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we have Washington Commanders quarterback, Taylor Heineke, awesome interview with Taylor Heineke. The guy, as some of us have said over the course of the season. Our guy. We are half of the podcast is on the road.

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We got to give it to Hank. Hashtag, Hank was right. Clap it up for Hank. Snap for him. He's got his, since we last recorded, Hank has gotten the full suck from Tom Brady, I would say. The full thing. He got the entire thing.

Hank, you want to, I mean, how do you feel? You got a thank you personally. You got a video that he released today. Hank, you can now rest easy. You can die in peace. I'm a soldier. On his Instagram story, someone put up a picture of the Brady for the Bristol Sports County said soldiers for life.

So I'm a soldier. Thank you, Tom. And then, like I said, the video's coming. It came and I came. It was beautiful. It was a beautiful video. Beautiful, you know, it's a beautiful way to go out from Tom. Billy is so jealous that you're a soldier right now.

So you guys see the video, PFD and Billy. Billy and PFD are in Cincinnati right now. Yeah, we're actually, we're in the mayor's office in Cincinnati. We just spoke with Mayor Purevol about the mayor's bet coming up. So we got a video coming out next week about that. Gave him some advice going into that. But we just finished a big hearty lunch at Skyline Chili. Billy is, Billy's in full Billy mode right now.

He was, he was on his best behavior around the mayor for 99% of the time that we were here. He didn't really talk much. He was very respectful. We sat down to eat lunch and Billy was like, um, Mr. Sir Mayor, uh, thank you for having us. It was like super polite. And then as the mayor was getting up to leave, Billy goes, hey,

I got a dumb question. And the mayor's like, okay. And Billy goes, do you have access to like the behind the scenes security footage of when they shot that kid? Or they shot Harambe in the gorilla enclosure and the mayor was like, what? I was like, Jesus, Billy, come back. It's, it's what, you know, we should have expected. What was the answer?

Yeah, wait, he definitely does. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So actually, he said, he said, he said the city of Cincinnati is separate than the Cincinnati Zoo. And like, there's like, it's different. But like, look, you're the mayor. If you wanted to, you could call up the police chief who definitely has the footage and like, check it out.

Like you're telling me that the police chief isn't just like showing that to people. I mean, I don't know. This is a hilarious moment where I understand PFT where you're coming from in terms of you were there and you had to live with Billy asking that question. It probably was very awkward, but from afar, because we didn't have to deal with that awkwardness.

That question is actually like, I want the answer to it as well. Imagine if I didn't ask that question. Yeah, who could imagine a world where Billy didn't ask me that? I was right there and I didn't ask the question. I'll be honest. Billy has been a pleasure to be around for most of this trip. There was a moment yesterday we were on the road and he did look down at the speedometer and he goes, oh, we're like sneaky.

This truck is sneaky going 100 miles an hour right now. Like he wasn't the one driving it. Like the truck was just going 100 miles per hour. And he's like, well, the truck carries the speed well. Like somebody who's big bone got a big frame, but they wear their weight well, but he's been good. He drove like 11 hours, 13 hours total yesterday actually. 11 hours we got into Cincinnati.

It's raining. It's sleeting. There's a lot of ice going to try to make it to Memphis tonight. So we've been pretty busy, but I did have an opportunity to look at that Tom Brady video today and I was just happy for Hank. I was happy that Hank got everything that he wanted out of his guy. It kind of almost feels though like you guys bullied Tom Brady into making this video.

I mean, you know nothing about video editing PFT, but you can't just whip something up like that in one day. It's just not how it works. Yeah. No, you're right. He only had one day to think about his time in Massachusetts. Well, no, but like if in your, you know, conspiracy theory that we buoyed him into it, that would mean that he wasn't planning on doing it.

And then we buoyed him and then he was like, I have to do this in his to say versus him planning it out the whole way before P boy ruined everything before P boy. Yeah. Yeah. And the conspiracy theory now, which actually is fucked up if this is how it went down is that, uh, and I don't know if we danced around it or said it explicitly that some like PA or someone at ESPN saw the,

the man in the arena and saw and then told Shepter. So Shepter didn't even get it in real ways. He got it, uh, through like someone leaking it to him from the ESPN offices. Oh, are we just speculating on that? Or is that, is that been very theory that I've seen? Yeah. I do have one last stat, by the way. Billy did a great job with the stats.

This one made me laugh very hard though. Uh, Tom Brady, uh, he's second all time in receiving after 40 after turning 40 years old. Jerry Rice has 2,169 receiving yards after turning 40. Tom Brady has six. Brett Favre has minus two. And I'm pretty sure that Brett Favre caught the pass from himself. Yes.

Yes. Yeah. So I mean, that record could be broken though. It fits. He plays another season, right? Yeah. If he catches a couple of balls or he could get on the list, if he just catches a ball and goes even minus three, he'd be number four on the list.

One boya. That's, that's an awesome stat though. I love that. I'm just happy for Hank really. When I saw the Instagram story and Hank, he tagged you personally, right? Sure. Kind of. Yeah.

My name was in it. Ish. Yeah. Your face was in it. Someone else might have tagged me and he reposted it. So on his story, my name was in it. So yeah, he tagged me. So we're officially, we're at peace with Tom Brady.

I've always been at peace with Tom Brady. So yeah. Yeah. I think it's, I think it's retired. I think it's time to move on. The only last thing I had was Skip Bayless. I tip my hat to him someday. I hope to be as good as Skip Bayless because he made Tom Brady's

retirement about Aaron Rodgers, which I fucking loved. He said, if Aaron Rodgers is watching all this, which he probably is, he's probably horrified with the outpouring of emotion and respect for Tom Brady because he won't get anything like that when he retires. I was like, I was like, I just sat, you know, sometimes when you just see a take and you're like, Holy fuck, this guy's in the zone. Like even I'm such a Rogers hater and even I couldn't have connected those dots like incredible.

He was like, he actually said, I think Aaron Rodgers is contemplating retirement, but he can't retire now because he'd be following Tom Brady and everyone loves Tom Brady. I was like, Skip, you've done it again. My man, I fucking love you. Yeah. His brain just switches between thinking about how LeBron would react to a situation and thinking about how Aaron Rodgers would

react to a situation just back and forth. He's the king. Nobody will ever touch Skip. He is. All right. So we don't have a ton because it's we're in that weird zone where we're getting ready for the Super Bowl. We do have Taylor Heineke coming up.

What else you guys got from the road? Like how is I just heard briefly that you were saying that, uh, what do you say Hank? Bubba. Bubba. Oh yeah. We should talk about Bubba's there. Bubba's here.

Bubba's there. Bubba. So on Monday, we have an interview that I like, it's like three years in the making. It's very big interview. We did it on Wednesday. Seven years in the making. Yeah.

Very long time in the making. We, it's a great interview. Get excited. One of our best interviews ever. Um, and Bubba, uh, which is, it's kind of, you can set your watch to it every six months or so. He'll just sleep in through a very important, uh, thing that's going on. Like he famously slept in for the coach.

Oh, Joe burrow interview after the national championship. He missed a flight when we were going to where Baker Mayfield Baker Mayfield in Cleveland. Um, so it was about time like the clock. If you, if you had the, if we were a factory and it said, you know, days since Bubba has slept in, uh, when we have an important event going on, we were right around like 180 days right around when he needed to do it. So he just didn't get up at 1030, which isn't even late in the morning

on Wednesday, missed it. So his punishment was he had to hop in the car last minute, notice and drive to LA with you guys. Yeah. And, uh, you know, Bubba's been, he's been a joy to have also on this trip. We do need to stock him up with some clothes. So our plan is to, uh, swing by the Bass Pro shop pyramid and just stock Bubba up, just have him rocking like full car heart, duck commander,

Geely suit, you name it. So we're going to do some shopping there because you didn't have time to pack ahead of time, but you're right. I think we should probably look into the astrology factor and see what happens whenever, like what lines up whenever Bubba sleeps in and misses an interview. I'm sure it's something like mercury in retrograde. And when that happens, you know that Bubba is about to be dozy as fuck. It was a very funny moment because we were getting ready for the interview

and PFT like came over me and like very seriously was like, I'm nervous about Bubba. And I was like, I'm not. This is this is about right, right when he should have done this like every six months, no matter what, he's just going to sleep through something. And we're going to be like, well, this sucks, but we love him. So his punishment has got to get in the car. Yeah.

I think we had a pretty good first day though. Well, on the open road, we had some good tunes going. Good playlist. I've been vaping way too much. I I woke up feeling like I had a sinus infection. It's more because I was just nonstop vaping in the car last night. It's it's become a problem on this road trip. I think my only way through this is to just vape my way out the other side.

Just overdo it on the vape on this trip to the point where I get to LA and I never want to look at a jewel again. Yeah, you have popcorn lung. So wait. So you guys, I heard overheard you saying you're going to Memphis tonight and you get the hour back, which is huge and that it's the difference of getting there between nine, like between nine thirty and now you're getting there at eight thirty.

So is are the roads okay to drive? Because it looks like there's a lot of ice. Are we going to just slide our way to Memphis, Billy? So thankfully, a lot of the highways going out into the south are straight. So something that we realized last night is that we had to go slow around all the curves going through Pennsylvania. Then once we hit Ohio, which was mostly straight highway, you can still carry, you know, 70 to 80 miles per hour safely.

Whereas going around the corners, we had to go like 50. So with this ice, the big thing will be stopping. Not many two people around the roads. So no one's going to stop short in front of us. So as long as we just cruise, we're going to make awesome time. Okay. So Billy's never made the drive from Cincinnati to Memphis. I've looked, I looked up. I'm sure we're going to be going through some hills and mountains.

I don't think it's going to be just a straight line. No, but he's thinking it's going to be like New Mexico where you just see an open road and once we get south of Kentucky, there's no ice. If you look at that, but I think what what PFT is saying and he's correct is that Kentucky and Tennessee are they they're not flat, their hills, the Appalachian Mountains are the highway we take cuts right through. I don't think Billy that's right.

I looked it up. At least it cuts straight. It's a straight line between here. DK Metcalf could get there in about, you know, two hours. You know what? I think you could probably if you just hop in the car like almost like a bobsled, you guys can just push it and not even hit the gas and you'll be there like going straight downhill for six, seven

hours. Boom, you're there. Seems like the easiest drive ever to make. Yeah, no, there there will be some turns on this route. I'm pretty confident. And Billy just said that there's no ice in Memphis. I just looked at a tweet that showed icicles hanging off every tree in downtown Memphis.

So again, Billy's just saying things currently ice raining. It's just it's like I see what he's saying. No, he's saying that the ice isn't currently still. It's not raining ice. It's just ice everywhere. Yeah, I also think it's also raining ice. I think it's all the above. And so yeah, this will be an interesting afternoon.

I'm very excited for it, obviously. But yeah, it's good times on the open road so far. We'll see. It was just funny. It was just funny hearing the conversation because it was like we're going to like Billy basically was like we're going to make like perfect time. And I was like, I'm pretty last night.

Really bad. We made amazing time. We did. We made great road warriors. Billy, are you driving all day again? Yeah, I'm pushing it to a limit. Yeah, who's who's got the ox PFT? We switched back and forth a little bit.

Now I took the ox for a little bit. But then Billy, Billy asked me to put on his high school lifting playlist, and I'm pretty sure that all of Billy's playlists are high school lifting playlist, but he had one in particular that he wanted me to rock out to. It was pretty good. It was a flock of walker was on there. We cruised in a Cincinnati at the stroke of three 15 listening to

six nine. So it was wonderful. It was a wonderful little trip. Billy by six nine. Yeah, there we go. Wait, wait. So PFT, you not driving at all? I haven't driven yet.

Billy wanted to do this whole thing on his own yesterday. So I'm going to take the wheel a little bit today and take over. But yeah, he took us all the way there. I mean, all the credit in the world to Billy for just he did it. He said he was going to do it. He did it. He called a shot. I was just I was going to say like you got it.

You got to drive a little bit because it's going to get to Billy's head very quickly. Yeah, for sure. You know, I am a trucker. It already has. Billy Billy thinks that he's the captain right now. He just he took my computer earlier when we were trying to figure out the video and microphone settings.

And I was like, Billy, give me my computer. He's like, no, I got it. He thinks he thinks that he owns me. All right. So before we get to Taylor Heineke, the only other thing we had to talk about is we got more details on the Brian Flores thing because we I know we had it breaking news or breaking moves on Tuesday's show. But since we since we finished, we had the allegation that Stephen Ross

has offered him $100,000 to throw games. I actually looked back and I have I will I'm willing to be the face of any class action lawsuit against the Dolphins for that season because I did lose money. I look back through some bet slips and I found some bets that I had pertaining to Dolphins games that season. But yeah, this is like it's it's weird because the the Belichick Rooney Rule thing feels like it's it's it's the more important and

there's more evidence and it's like one of those things where we've all known for a while. The Rooney Rule was was good in principle, but it doesn't really work in reality because all you have to do is check a box and you don't actually have to give the real interview like the Giants are allegedly doing. But the Stephen Ross thing like if this actually turns out to be true and there might be a witness like this could be a major major

thing for the NFL like fat, you know, match fixing in European soccer type of thing. I I have no idea what's going to happen. I think that they're going to force him to sell the team. I think this is the only way that an owner could be forced to sell because owners have so many skeletons in their closet that they're never going to vote another guy out. If you get caught doing like a Jerry Jones or whatever and

you've got a couple of strippers up in your booth because like that's that's what they do on the daily. They don't want any of that dirt coming out. But when you start involving like changing the outcomes of games and bribing coaches, things like that. I feel like this is this is a great excuse for owners to try to sell the team or try to vote him out. I think it's a two-thirds majority is required to vote him out vote

get him to sell the team and then get a new billionaire come in by the dolphins and all of a sudden all their franchises are worth a shitload of money. So I can only I can only hope that Dan Snyder has also been paying his coaches to throw games for the last 25 years. That that would be the dream at this point. Hugh Jackson said that he was well he implied that he was getting paid by the Browns to do it too.

That'd be crazy if we got like three or four different teams that all came out with their own like cheating scandals and that other way the match fixing and then we just had a bunch of new owners take over that be cool. Well Hugh Jackson he ended up walking back some of his comments because I think he saw the story and was like hey wait that that's exactly what was happening in Cleveland but the differences in Cleveland they were very open about the fact

they were tanking like that was they were basically like we are doing a trust the process type of deal. You remember when they hired the analytics guy and everything Sasha and yeah that was the plan. So I think Hugh Jackson looked at it was like hey that looks like my situation like no because they were they were very open about it in Cleveland whereas Miami I yeah if Stephen Ross was offering $100,000 it's it's fucking insane and I did

think it was gonna be a he said he said thing but then it seems like there might be a witness to it which makes it very very interesting. I also think that paying a coach a hundred thousand dollars to lose games as the coach of the Miami Dolphins is a terrible investment like that you that just naturally happens like especially with the Browns if you're paying okay first of all it's the Browns second of all it's Hugh Jackson how much how

much more do you need to incentivize your team to lose than one being the Cleveland Browns and two hiring Hugh Jackson I think that's just Hugh trying to get his name back in back in in the press that he can get another job that's that's my initial take on it but yeah he's coaching at Grambling State. Yeah so Mike. Oh that's right like yeah Hugh Jackson this is the same

situation. No you're right and it's it is it is there like the things around it like the fact that Adam Gates was the coach before Brian Flores like you had the perfect coach to just keep losing games and the Dolphins though that 2019 season that was the season where we did the the dead dolphin jokes remember they started 0 and 7 and then they actually finished they won five of their last nine games so yeah I it's weird

to look at now because you have no idea when this happened exactly but it does look like a situation where they were actively like trying to lose and Brian Flores resisted that and got wins out of a really bad team at the end of the season. Maybe that's actually a masterful motivation technique is to bring your coach and pay him money to lose games that lights a fire on his ass because you're questioning his

integrity then you end up winning games. I think that's just the plot to Major League. Yes it is we're going to move. Yeah we're going to move the team. Yeah they want us to lose. They put together a great bunch of losers. Let's win in spite of them. Yeah Billy did you have a point on that.

You look like you had you had Billy point face. Oh I think we need a like a sports gambling SEC to make sure everyone's staying competitive. I think I think they do have that like a like a gambling licensing boards. Yeah. Yeah. Well yeah there's a but are they investing.

There's a law sports. No they could they could absolutely like this could be federal charges and it actually is the interesting part is that if Flores like the only way that Flores could have been really fucked here is if he actually had taken the money and it had come out because then he would have gone to jail and Stephen Ross probably wouldn't have. Yeah and also Stephen Ross he's tied in with some gambling

stuff too right. That is a fact. So yeah very very interesting. I'd like to see those bets slips from Mr. Ross that year too. What I want to get your guys feedback because we did talk a little bit about the commander's name on Wednesday's show but they unveiled it and they unveiled the uniforms. I've said what I what I think about the piece several times

which is just OK whatever win games will be fine. The New Jersey's are with the New Jersey's are except the black ones I thought look sick until I realized they were just the Steelers uniforms and we just we just copy the Steelers uniforms which admittedly are very cool and I'm sure that our defense will play faster wearing those. But what are your guys thoughts as outsiders on how how the process unfolded.

I'm just curious PFT and I know the answer probably but at any point I know I'm curious how many people are involved in these team names and like studies and all that stuff. Did anyone bring up the point that if we hand out rally towels are going to be called Comrags Comrags like that. There was a lot of those jokes that came out and it's like I was curious if anyone had thought about this before well or if they realized after the fact that we're just going to

be have a bunch of commie jokes even though we're DC and have a bunch of come jokes. Yeah no I mean we're already selling shirts go commies I'm a commie I'm saying it loud I'm saying it proud. There are chance should be hailed to the Red Scare. I think these are all great things that we can do as a fan base but I told I actually told Jason Wright like let me know what the name is going to be I won't tell anybody just

give my Internet troll brain forty eight hours to work on it and I'll tell you ahead of time what everybody's going to say and the different directions the Internet is going to go so no I don't think that they employ enough Internet trolls in the front offices of these organizations but they just they went with a safe choice they went with it the three the three key checklist that Snyder hit it had to be a name that was not trademarked it had to be an

actual team name and then it had to not be a racial slur and that's three for three Snyder's happy it was always going to be the commanders I'm sure about that the Comrax the Comrax thing is very funny and like oh I'm I'm coming I'm going to be saying I'm coming I'm coming all the time whenever we score touchdowns next year so yeah they it was a little bit ham-fisted but I don't think that there's a way that you can unveil a team name in this day and age without

having it leak a little bit you know in the 24 hours to 48 hours before because like Thysman's obviously going to get drunk and going already or show and say something that's just Joe Thysman well yeah and the helicopter was very funny that they they were able to spot it I I thought I mean the team name I think I said on Wednesday show but like people get mad about it for 24 hours known like we'll remember it care then football will be back and we'll be like who cares you

know what I mean like we're it's not going to be I don't think it make it makes or breaks anything could red hogs have been better yeah sure but who cares like once football's on I don't really care what the name of the team is I'm going to be watching it betting it doing all that stuff I did think that in the all-time troll move Dan Snyder should have just unveiled the new logo and it was just the Indians and it was the old Cleveland Indians logo and it was like you guys ask

me to change it here it is I that would have been very funny it would have been great I thought that the bullets would have been a great name to that that was such a cool name for for the Washington Wizards and so if they had just like taken bullets from them that would have been a great great move by by Dan Snyder and when you look through the the team nicknames in the NFL right now there are a lot of ones that if you unveiled today you'd be like what the fuck is that

like can you imagine the Miami Dolphins being like we're the Dolphins I think people would roast shit out of the Dolphins today yeah that would kind of make sense the New York Giants there's any people would roast the Giants if it came out today that one yeah that one would be weird the Browns yeah where he named it after himself just yeah a lot of them are just smart because it's like people like animals they like rooting for animals yeah that's pretty that's it's very basic

right so we're still making an animal making a cartoon animal and we'll all get in line we're still looking at what the mascot is going to be in the theme song is going to be but I'm hoping that since we're the commanders which is the name of one of Joe Biden's dogs the good one major Biden becomes the animal mascot that'd be awesome to have him just patrolling the sidelines biting the opponent pissing and shitting all over himself that's what I want yeah I mean

he would it would be like the Tennessee dog biting the Georgia player or no is the Georgia I think it was the Georgia biting a Tennessee player or Auburn maybe I'm in for that wasn't that a police dog would you say the Billy just thought that Ugo was a police dog. No there's a video of the police dog biting the college football player. I haven't seen that we'll have to fact check that one. I think that I think that might be the Ugo but maybe not. Yeah is it the Ugo. Yeah well I'll

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starting quarterback Washington football team it is Taylor Heineke he is here I have to say this to start promoting his Instagram I mean I just we got the note there was like you don't have anything to promote you just want to come on hang out and you have an Instagram follow Taylor Heineke that's that's some brand building right there yeah I mean it's pretty simple yeah just follow it up what are we at right now I want to see what the with the PMT bump is going to be

because I'm I'm I'm demanding actually that everybody that's listening to this episode goes to follow Taylor Heineke he's at 169,000 followers right now we need new posts though you gotta like you gotta we gotta play ball here we'll get you more followers but you gotta drop something hot for the people I will I will I mean during the football season it's off football but you know now that we're out get a little fun with it okay good good so we're gonna we'll demand the

people follow Taylor Heineke on Twitter but yeah we're very excited to have you on or sorry on Instagram you haven't tweeted it since like 2015 I saw that what's going on there well if I'm not mistaken back in 2017 I played on Christmas Day in Houston and I got a lot of shit from you guys pick hadn't particular saying that Quavo should have a Quavo should have been in there instead of me do you remember that no wait so wait when was this on Christmas Day Christmas

Day in 2017 we play the Steelers okay and I was only in there for like 10 snaps I believe I got a concussion and then wait I'm pretty sure coming out saying that I was only slightly better than Quavo in high school and I think a lot of people ran with that oh man I'm pretty sure that big cat didn't know who Quavo was in 2017 what the fuck PFT 2018 we were late adopters come on I knew who he was that's funny I well I apologize for that I did I did look up my like what

other tweets I had about you and it was in 2017 I just said what the fuck is a Taylor Heineke and then I followed it up with like just they should just introduce you as the guy that had us betting on old Dominion football games because that was it's like oh yeah that guy I know him yeah those those games back in college those are all locks man you were coming to spread on all those yeah that's funny I apologize I don't remember saying that but that's a good reason to stop tweeting

tweet Twitter's stupid anyway we're we're gonna follow you all on Instagram that's way better yeah yeah Twitter's Twitter's Twitter trouble man that's the only only bad things come from Twitter all right so we we love watching you play this year I mean you you've gone back and forth from being the guy for PFT which has been a fun watch I your style like you are and did you learn anything from Ryan Fitzpatrick you always been exactly like this because it is fun when you make plays that

are broken down and like I'm gonna make something of this and I have the confidence to do it it's very very fun to watch like has that always just been I feel like I can get out of any situation I can make something good happen yeah that's that's kind of you know my whole life I didn't play quarterback until 8th grade and that's when everything started to click for me but you you mention Fitz and it's funny because I can see myself kind of like him kind of the same ride everything

you know he's he's been a lead for what 101517 year something like that and throughout his career he just jumped from place to place and was back up and then kind of thrown in and back up and thrown in and I feel like I'm kind of on that that track hopefully on that track but you know the way I play I saw a lot of myself you know when he was on the field as well we kind of have the same type of we played the same same type of way for sure yeah you're never out of it when

Taylor Heineke's in the game like you have you have an ability that's I think admirable which is you have a very high fuck it quotient where you can you can yeah you can you can see some bad shit out there you can make a bad play but the very next series you're gonna go out there and you're gonna do something equally as reckless and usually it turns out good you know like if you keep taking those shots sometimes you know that that's the way you can't you can't pick and choose

when you're gonna be aggressive you're aggressive all the time which I loved watching this year so I said a lot of things about you most of them positive this year I think I said you're elite I said you're Brett Farve with a bigger dick I said that you're you're a franchise quarterback as well so but I think there's one you know like this off season is gonna be important for you because Ron Rivera's obviously said we're looking to get a different quarterback he's been

pretty open about that that they are gonna go out there and try to find somebody so but you're at the same time you're gonna have the opportunity to beat out somebody in training camp next year and be the guy so like how are you going into this is probably the most important off season of your career yeah so you know when I saw that and I heard that it's nothing new I was kind of expecting that but you know for me my biggest thing I just try to control what I can

control you know I did I had a year you know it was healthy throughout the year had some bad mistakes has some bad games but hopefully put enough good film out there to you know stick around so for me now it's just getting in the weight room getting that weight back on and and you know working on some things I want to work on I've seen on film this past year so again you know I'm not I'm not worried about it wherever you know football takes me I'll go but my biggest thing is I just

want to keep playing ball that's a good answer so how much weight did you lose during the season. I probably lost about five to eight pounds nothing I mean that yeah that's nice to be like I can put it back on yeah it's like I went in very solid to 15 but you know throughout the year now you can't lift and you know you're getting beat up all the time so that that muscle really turn the fat so I'm trying to try to walk that stuff off right now. Did you see that that Pat

Mahomes pulled a high-nikey on Sunday that's what they're calling it now they're calling it pulling a high-nikey when you reach out and you just tap the pile on with the ball he's been watching film on you. Yeah I was sitting on the couch and I was watching it when he did that I was out that was familiar so and how about that game by the way that was that was unbelievable incredible it was awesome yeah when you're watching that are you like are you able to watch it

as a fan are you like watching it thinking about you know other other things like ways that you could translate you know what's going on in the game to what you do. I try to watch as a fan you know I'm still a big fan of football I'm a big fan of you know good quarterback play and you know especially play off football but at the same time you know when I'm seeing you know some decisions that some quarterbacks make or you know audibles and stuff like that I kind of you

know study that but I you know when I'm not playing I really try and sit back enjoy it you know have a have a nice Bud Light and relax course like you could say course like where's like yeah bleep that out that was fucked up that Heineken didn't give you an advertisement deal like you you put it out there on a platter for them and they turned their back on you yeah I was I was trying to put that hard like the last two years I was really trying for it and they weren't budging

so I don't know if you guys know the story but I was talking about it and you know interviews and press conferences and next you know Bud Light saw it was like hey we're ready to go so that day they sent me a contract and some Bud Light that day damn good for you yeah I'm glad you got paid off it but all-time marketing blunder by the guys over that Red Star beer company yeah you know so so your season this year watching football team had some ups and downs you guys went

on a nice run there in the middle of the season where you know you beat the box you had some some big time wins when that when that's going on are you thinking like okay this is I might actually win this job right here because it's got to be a weird feeling just every week knowing that you're kind of getting graded that's not it's very atypical of a start of a starting quarterback in the NFL does that factor in week to week what you're thinking about now again

you know I I hear it and it's you know I know what's going on but you know again for me it was a dream come true this year just play so you know I went to the facility every day just trying to get better and try to get ready and you know if that was going to be my last game playing I was going to be my last game playing but I was going to go out there and give it my all so you know I don't really think about that stuff again I try and let my play take care of it all

and not worry about it so for me this year it worked out pretty well we had a good run there like you said we were two and six and we came back six and six and we just went through a lot of stuff a lot of injuries and then COVID hit us recommend the division division games and off the field stuff with you know family members you know kind of passing away and stuff like that it's just it was a crazy year and for us to be in week 17 you know driving down the field last

last possession of the game to have a chance to go you know win and possibly make the playoffs you know it was it was pretty special yeah yeah it was it was a fun season definitely had its ups and downs and late like we alluded to you stepped in last year in the playoff game against the Bucks covered the spread against Tom Brady you were the only quarterback to do that by the way in the NFL last year so congratulations and thank you for that but as you're getting

ready for that playoff game it's it's a significant uptick in pressure on what you're used to I would have to imagine like what was that process like knowing you're about to start a playoff game your first playoff game against the best quarterback in NFL history and you kind of alluded to it earlier and excuse my language you know I was in the tunnel and I was coming out and I was like fuck it you know this might be my last game and I'm about to go against Tom Brady

no one's given us a chance so why not just go out there have some fun and and and leave it all out there so yeah that was a special game it would have been really sweet if the fans were able to go I think that would have helped us a lot but you know I go back and look at that film there's only like two or three throws I feel if I complete those things we're right there in it so again you know that was that was a special moment it kind of restarted my career and hopefully I'm just

riding on these coattails right now can you walk me through the I think I remember this correctly the Falcons game this year when you have that touchdown throw at the end of the game it was one of those throws that you did essentially everything that you're taught to do as a quarterback and you just ignored it all and you're like you're like late throwing all the way across the field like would is there any moment where you're just like I'm just a playmaker I'm gonna make

some plays and who cares if this does not meet like anything you're supposed to do. Yeah so that's you know again that's my game you kind of do some some things you're not taught to do and it there's a very fine line you know there's there's some times where coaches love that you make it play and then there's some times with like what the hell are you thinking and you know that's the line I'm kind of flirting with right now and I'm trying to get on the right side being

consistent there but yeah that game was fun there's a lot of family was kind of a homecoming for me and yeah JD made a great play diving the end zone there it was that was a special moment. Yeah it was it was an all time like oh God what is he doing what is he doing what is he doing oh fuck it worked holy shit Taylor Heineke like that's I mean those are the those are the guys we love watching the most when you don't you know they can pull those plays out of nowhere

have you thought at all about the headband I have a I don't like when when guys wear headbands when they're losing have you thought about ditching it when you're losing well the whole story about the headband is an OTAs this year we were really working on our play action pass and coaches like we really need to get better at you know good fakes so they're going to walk through period you know I really get into it put my head down the running backs really get into it you

put this elbow up and he nicks me right in the head and I have a huge you see the scar oh yeah busting me open the guy had to get seven stitches so you know they're trying to get me back in a helmet pretty quick there so I just had to put the headband on to kind of give it a little bit of you know protection and it kind of just stuck so the headbands deal now oh okay thought about going like full do rag like Deon Sanders style yeah I'll see I'll see how that goes the guys

next year but we'll see how that goes I understand how how like old and like curmud curmudgeony I sound when I'm like take that headband off when you're losing but I you know it's just one of those things like you when you win when a team is losing it's like there should be no swag no pieces of swag I hear you saying have you thought about making any changes to like your post game wardrobe depending on whether or not you win or lose because I feel like I don't want to tell

you to do the Cam Newton thing because you know it look weird I think for you to go out there and have like a fox sitting on your head but you could actually pull off the wife beater and and jean shorts combination like a chain at the podium I think that'd be a good look for you yeah um it was funny because you know obviously fits was in the room and we all know that influence picture of when he took a Jackson's chain and in his sunglasses and he was up there with his his

chest hair flow out and it's hard to it's hard to follow up with that so I got a couple ideas next year with with Logan Thomas I think we got a little good thing going for next year but you know we'll see I got a feeling you know there's going to be some fun next year yeah I was I was reading some stories about you and you you were admittedly you said you were kind of close to like being done with football what how real like close were you because I'm sure that's obviously a very

hard decision you played football all your life you've been on some you know NFL teams XFL was it really like oh man if I don't get picked up here it's over yeah and it was a it was a really tough time so you know obviously we're in the XFL COVID you know cancels all that so I'm I'm going home and I'm thinking what am I going to do now and you know I call coach Scott Turner you know ROC and ask him if he has any coaching positions open so you got to go finish finish school first so

I came back down to Georgia started taking online classes I was living with my sister at the time you know living on her couch and sitting there just watching watching football maybe an injury happens maybe some COVID stuff happens maybe I'll get a call and I think it was week 10 or 11 and I still haven't got a call and I was like you know what I might have to start looking for that next that next uh you know that next chapter in life and sure enough that Denver River and

Denver had all those quarterbacks go down and then even play portals yeah yeah that's the only reason Washington called me up just to get a emergency COVID quarterback just so play boarders could kept you in football yeah domino effect like verbal meme Blake Bortles being in a room with the other quarterbacks without a mask on dot dot dot dot dot Taylor honey he covers in a playoff game against Tom Brady yeah I love it yeah yeah so it was it was wild man and then

you know obviously some things happen with uh Haskins and and uh with Alex Smith and there I am playing Brady in the playoff so it was it was a wild ride that's that's awesome shout out Blake I we're we're friends with Scott Turner and he uh I loved his quote about you when he was basically defending you like listen every time if Taylor has a bad game people just like oh well he shouldn't be here and it's like that's that's not how it works it doesn't go like game

to game like that like it's the body of work and you can't just judge where he's from and where he ended up he's a good player so yeah we love Scott and uh that's that's an awesome story man that that you then started pretty much the whole season this year yeah and I was and the big thing for me this past year was you know the big question mark was uh is he durable enough to get through a whole season and I think I'd check that box off this year and that was huge for me um so

yeah we just gotta keep it rolling yeah counterpoint to that though if you had gotten like next year if you if you start the season and you play like three good games in a row we're I mean this reveals a lot about me and big cats uh moral character but we would fake like an injury to our non-throwing shoulder yeah and then hit the free agent market cash in big time you know like that's just something to think about I want you to win football games and I want I want the

football team to win but um just I'm for you to you know just keeping the back of your mind if appropriate yeah okay remember that yeah I see the durability thing I I I also read a story that you uh sometimes at the gym will get like people like introduces a NFL quarterback and guys like no way he's too small is there is there something that you do then to like a exercise or anything where it's like look at this because that's kind of a cool almost like a pool shark

moment where it's like oh we don't think this guy could play in the NFL and then you do a workout or lift or something like oh fuck we totally underestimated him yeah so I hope you guys followed um my trainer's name is Joel Seaton he does a lot of different crazy wacky stuff um so yeah it's it's funny because a lot of the guys that don't think I'm in a full quarterback or high school kids like you ain't you're not you're not a NFL quarterback and you're just

talking shit um so then we'll start working out and we start doing this crazy stuff that you know they can't do that I've been doing for five six years so I'll do it pretty easily and they're like holy shit you know and so the more they're around and the more guys they see around um you know they start having more respect for them but you know you know how those high school kids are man they uh they like to talk shit like to roast yeah I I just love the idea like that's that's got

to feel like the all-time flex for someone to doubt that you are a NFL quarterback and then you do something in training or something like oh yeah because you can always tell like it's it you know when we're around athletes or even if you've you've ever been around anyone who's a really good athlete they could do anything like it could be swing a golf club or shoot like some hoops they might not play basketball you're like oh that's the difference between regular

people and exceptional athletes like the way they move is just so off the charts so I you should just start doing that at random gyms just go to like LA fitness and just start having everyone doubt that you're an NFL quarterback that's what I do keep a football in a bag with you at all times and if anybody doubts you be like let's step outside and then just just walk out in the parking lot and just throw the football as far as you can be like any questions yeah sometimes

I you know it's it's kind of you know as as kind of it pisses me off sometimes when they say that but the same time it's kind of it's kind of compliment you know I was I'm six foot and 200 pounds and here I am making it so it's it's kind of more of a credit to how hard I've been working but you know those those kids can you know talk shit all the way you're playing the game on expert mode right now as a six foot 200 pound guy anybody can do it if they're six foot five and and

235 you know yeah yeah I was watching Josh Allen play being 642 40 and he's running over DB's and just throwing the ball 80 yards on the field my man you know I wish I could do that nice yeah are you sure you're six feet come on now I usually say six one so oh because I would have guessed when if you said six one I would have been like oh he's probably six feet so are you are you sure you're six feet being six foot half inch so you know in between okay okay six foot how much

definitely you just looked up what was that who'd you look up at TV how much you bench you bench not anymore the highest ever got those I think about 335 340 in college that's pretty good for a collegiate like yeah I was built like a linebacker I was like Tim Tebowist ask and college I read that you punted in college too right yeah so that's actually funny because we didn't actually do like a pump formation it was like we're at the 50 yard line we went on the fourth down a lot and if we

didn't get the type of coverage that we wanted all kind of just back up three yards pretend like I'm calling it audible and then the center would snap it to me I would punch on it so I'm still pretty sure I'm the leading punter in in OD history though yeah I saw it was it wasn't like it wasn't like once or twice it was like something like 600 punt yards that you had so that's that's hilarious that you guys I love that I wish I wish more teams did more teams should be the put

should do the pooch kick Ben Roethlisberger used to do that back when he was able to move he had a sick pooch kick where he'd he'd down it inside the five every single time you talked about OD you some call it the Harvard of southeastern Virginia and then it's so it's you from OD you I'm a CAA guy myself too so like I'm James Madison used to kick our ass all the time and then you're you're sharing a locker room with with Fitzi obviously the Harvard guy in the NFL what was

your relationship with him like just on on a one-on-one basis because Big Cat and I got to meet him over the summer we came to train camp he's just like a cool he's just like a bro just like a cool guy down to earth so what was your relationship like was he was he helping you as like you know a mentor of sorts or was it just more like two guys that were you know forming a friendship you know at first it was it was a friendship we wanted to get that established and then you know once we

started getting comfortable with each other and we're out in the field and kind of see my strengths and weaknesses he would help me out a lot so you know during training camp there was one one week where I just for some reason I was not accurate throwing my left and you know he's like I've had this problem in the past you know this is where I did fix it and it helped tremendously so you know every time he saw something that I need to work on he would kind of give me his his take

on it and it most of the time it worked out great so it was unfortunate he got hurt in that first week you know it was it was a pretty bad injury especially at that age and he wasn't around too much because he was getting a lot of treatment but when he could come around he was around he was helping us so now he's gonna be sorely missed yeah yeah we love Ryan Fitzpatrick we're gonna get back to Taylor in a second before we do want to talk to you guys about sling TV if you love

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so go to sling.com slash barstool to sign up now and try it for free and now here's more Taylor honicky what should we call you I know that we should call you like a when you were on the Vikings you were Viking when you were on the battle Hawks were battle Hawk are you a football team what do you refer to yourself as well we'll figure out here in a week that's right yeah yeah I actually saw I so not to brag Michael will bond name drop I text back and forth with Jason

Wright sometimes and he told me that the name is going to be Red Hawks that'd be kind of cool Red Hawks. Have you heard that I haven't I've heard of I've heard of one other that I'm pretty positive it is but I will okay so that was a test because he actually didn't tell me well you've eliminated Red Hawks I not not to brag but I text back and forth with Dan Snyder and he said it was gonna be Red Hawks did you like that I like that oh I actually I text back and forth

with Tony Snyder who as you know is the owner of the team Dan Snyder is no longer he's he's off doing his own thing and she said that it was red tails yeah it's red tails cool to cool to it's rock and tell by the look I like red tails hail to the red say some of the guys on the team saw the uniforms and they said they're super clean very good looking and a lot of people are going to be pretty pumped about it so the Unies are going to be nice wait so you some people on

the team saw the uniforms they didn't show you the uniforms no I think only like two or three guys you know the top franchise guys got John Allen Terry McLaurin Chase Young those three got to see it all and they got to know the name and had some input on it but you know they've been doing a good job of keeping their mouth shut about that at all you brought up Terry I think that Terry McLaurin is easily a top 10 receiver in the NFL some of the catches that he was making

this year were just unreal the guy doesn't drop balls it's insane how much easier does he make it you can do the thing where I know you like to point down the field a lot like when you're scrambling around you like to do the point and it's the fuck it Terry's down there somewhere and you air it out and you just know he's going to come down with it how awesome is it just to throw him footballs yeah you know he's he's a special talent and you know I wanted to give him the ball

more this year you know obviously he's he's he's our he was our best player but again you know defenses are good too and they got game plans but you know it's cool when you get the ball on his hands and to see what he can do with it it's really special you can throw him a five yard stick route and you can make it into a four yard game so you know when you got a guy like that you try to give him the ball as much as possible and let him do his thing you always hear about like top tier

receivers like that always thinking that they're open always demanding the ball but Terry his personality he feels like he's more laid back but I don't know you know a lot better than I do does he have that mode that he gets into where he's ultra competitive and he's like give me the ball every play he's a very competitive guy but he's he's never going to say that and you know his his character is huge you know let's be real you know receivers and DB's are usually the divas of the team

right you know they they want the ball they want attention stuff like that but Terry is not like that at all and it's huge for us because he's our best player so whenever your best player like that it just trickles down to everybody and no one else can can be like that so he's a great leader for us he's a great player and again hopefully he just keeps doing his thing I had one last question in this one kind of sucks but I'm always curious about this the game against

cowboys what gets said in the locker room after that is it just like well that sucked like what do you even I mean that sucks yeah there's not much to say after games like that you know the biggest thing that that we had to realize is you know that's kind of like life you know things are going well it's a roller coaster and next you know you get punched in the mouth and things aren't working well for you you just got to keep getting up and then fighting and you know for us you

know we got we got our asses whoop by them twice this year but we didn't let that affect the next game which I think is the biggest thing so you know we kind of just try to rub it off as quickly as possible and go on to the next opponent I think that's where I would fail as a teammate because I would definitely try to make a joke right after the game and people would be like what the what the hell dude like I wouldn't play I'd be on the bench and then I'd just be like man we were so

close one play away or something like that and they were like are you serious dude yeah you know the the thing that helped us kind of cope over it pretty quickly was those Dallas equipment guys that were helping you know get all the the jerseys and stuff situated they knew where the beer was so they were having a beer to people so you know we were we weren't too mad after the game that's smart I mean a part of me almost thinks like if you're going to get beat you might as well get

your ass kicked because you can burn the film and be like listen there's really not a lot that we can learn from this whereas if you lose it you know in a heartbreaking fashion on the last play that tends to linger that can that tends to stick around a little bit longer absolutely yeah you hit you hit on the head right there you know when you have a game like that you kind of come in on a Monday and you're just like there's no reason to watch this film we just got our ass is

hooked let's just move on and and forget about it so and I think we did that you know we went out to Philly and and we almost beat them at home and unfortunately we didn't but you know I'm proud of the guys they did a good job handling all that stuff yeah I had one last last question actually I think pft has one after me but the are you still tight with the old Dominion football program I am the head coach and the coaching staff when I was there isn't there anymore yeah it's a new guy

but I've met him a couple times went to dinner had a couple drinks with him and you know he's a young very energized guy and hell you know that his first year playing they went six and six went to a bowl game so it's huge for them the future looks bright so about that bowl game real quick what happened with that guy who just led up and got got got the ball knocked out of his hand going in the end zone you know you know the play against Tulsa I had old Dominion plus 8 it was 20 it was

23 10 or something and and they get a perfect pass he's running in the end zone he just lets up with like three yards left boom stripped touch back game over I did not see that well tighten it up that's all I'm never going to get to talk to anyone else who's old Dominion so I want you to send that message to fundamentals you know I got you that that one's gonna stick with me like when people say unfortunately for you like gamblers brains like Taylor Heineke will not be

you the first thought of old Dominion will be that play for people so was that part of a parlay was it straight up straight up I loved them I they had a great year they what they started really bad right and they were they they were really good down the stretch I thought they were gonna they were playing Tulsa like those type of teams always old Dominion being in a bowl game super exciting I love them I love their style and everything and then they totally let me down

so fire that coach one and six to start with five straight so I thought yeah I was I was I was feeling good about them too yeah my last question is I know that you're a fan of busting with the boys will Compton our co-worker do you think it was a coincidence that the Raiders waited to sign will Compton until after you went there to kick their ass yeah not big fan of his and you know it would been cool if he was on the team so I got to meet him I'm trying to get

on that bus and talk to those guys but we'll get you on the but just just a tip when you go on the bus like maybe like wear a mesh jersey or something because they don't they do not have any air conditioning they try to sweat you out they try to kill you on that bus that's what it looks like on their Instagram clips those guys are sweating bullets out there every time it's like a son on that thing crazy and how long are those shows you should go for they had me trapped

in there for like two hours oh my god yeah I think you're trying to kill me for real we might just go all jolly and take the shirt off yeah sweat lodge in there Taylor Luan just like lights a bonfire in the middle and starts burning incense and he just waits you out he knows that he can last longer now that we're done recording we actually stopped the tape what's the name going to be yeah tell y'all you guys are gamblers man come on I'm not

gonna say anything I just want to know I just want to I want to know I don't want to find out okay and you can get you guys can go from there and start to the sea. Oh it's the commanders that'd be awesome if they just went to chiefs and they just use the same Indian logo like after a long discussion what we change the name this is what you wanted.

Wait last last question we could this doesn't even have to be in but did Tom Brady ever learn your name. I don't think so man because you run the practice right for a little bit yeah yeah so I got there my first day there I was like I'm gonna be the first one facility I'm a good impression I got I come in at like 515 going the quarterback room and he's up there with his feet up watching film already. How early does he get that's perfect.

I mean his feet up with the coffee in hand at 515 I'm guessing he was there at 445 Jesus psycho that's insane I feel like there's like limited returns to getting there that early like what how much film can one man watch if he goes to sleep as early as he does I feel like that's you know that's just a different world like imagine going to sleep at like 730 p.m. Yeah that's what he does. Yeah is his his whole diet deals crazy man he didn't use

drinking all types of shakes and all types of shit it was it was pretty impressive to watch I guess it's worked for him. Yeah a little bit alright well Taylor thank you so much everyone follow follow follow Taylor on Instagram we appreciate it man best of luck and what was the team name the Washington Commanders commander guessing for the chiefs that with an O or you that would be cool too if they did the chiefs and it's like we got confused.

Actually like it would have been very when he did the study on whether or not the name should be changed he commissioned like a big study dance I didn't it would have been very funny if the result of the study was Redskins is not offensive turns out the Washington Cherokees yeah and he's just like we're just going for it. Yeah all right well good luck I'm hoping that I'm hoping you stick around I'm rooting for you you were the most fun

quarterback to watch for the Washington football team since RG three back in 2012 so I hope you stick around and huge compliment big compliment don't look at who played between that at all because then the compliment kind of loses shine Kirk Cousins was electric for a long time. You're the exact opposite of Kirk Cousins which is the highest compliment I can pay a man but yeah I hope I hope if you don't get a chance to start for Washington next year I hope you

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input on your audio he just hears us all right my mistake I wanted I want to clear the air Bubba was not asleep Bubba was reading the back of his eyelids Bubba what's what's your firefest of the week Billy almost broke a cabinet with his chair Bubba what's your firefest of the week my firefest of the week is just I forgot to ask Sam Hubbard a certain question you know catching up with him I wish I just reconnected with him earlier good firefest it sounds like a

rough week for you Bubba are you can you ask this is like a PFT's down on the sidelines because Bubba doesn't have headphones that he can hear me right PFT can you ask him is he is he feeling rested they want to know Bubba are you feeling rested the game never sleeps no I don't sleep the game never game never sleeps you heard he just takes catnaps all right thank you Bubba game never sleeps unless it's a very important thing that needs to happen then maybe

sometimes it sleeps Hank your firefest of the week my firefest of the week besides the fact that like you know I don't get to enjoy life on the road like these guys I just have to get on a measly plane later and you know probably fall asleep and wake up in San Diego so I kind of I don't get the thrill of being on the road that these guys do which sucks but my other firefest is that my building hasn't had hot water in like two weeks it has like luke warm water for

like maybe a minute and then it gets cold I feel like I'm in like the military you know what does take hot showers you know it does have scalding hot water is hotel rooms really hot yeah the shower this morning was almost too hot actually you know what else it has what soup oh he got you got the soup Hank we got the soup the best the best part is you guys are saying this to Hank who's going to be in a hotel for like the next two and a half weeks yeah but

we are right now yeah that's the difference God his ass but yeah I don't really know what's going on another guy that we work with lives in my building it's the same he's got the same problem but just like got cold and our hot water to shut off you stop hang rent rent strike I should yeah yeah alright PFT your firefest my very first of the week is pretty self explanatory we're about to get into a car right now after all having eaten skyline chili for lunch and drive for seven

hours we do need to pick up some skyline chili on the road though so I don't know because we're gonna be flying I want to bring some skyline chili to Los Angeles and I want to have it ready on ice if the Bengals win but we're not going to be in LA we're gonna have to fly to Louisiana on Super Bowl Sunday so I don't know if I'm going to be allowed to fly with skyline chili because I don't know if it's considered a liquid or a solid I I think you'll be okay from from LA to

Louisiana you because we're flying private oh okay nice okay great yes I did know that I had forgotten actually but yeah the skyline chili in the stomachs on the road that's going to be it will definitely test the strength of our friendship and of our unit because so far so good but this is really going to get to learn a lot about each other in the next couple hours here fortunately I did stock up on ax body spray not for me but for the car so hopefully that'll just overpower

any sort of the skyline residue what what number did you get isn't it isn't skyline in numbers place yeah we got a we got a three way today and a bunch of coners and Billy like skyline really like literally fire so to be honest he does didn't have skyline from Cincinnati before I had it from the cans and I didn't really like it got some fresh skyline it's absolute gas it kind of tastes like Mediterranean food literally like the chili gives off like what's called hero vibes did

you have to you say that like it's a shock like Billy we've seen Billy cook we know his palate that's true he just dumps beer on everything like we've seen this man eat we've seen this man cook like you can give him anything and he'd be like it's low-key gas if it's free Billy like everyone for everyone at home when we order food on like Sunday nights Billy will be like you know throw a couple extra and then he'll walk out with like all the leftovers like Billy if free food is on

the table Billy it's gas for bill he has a garbage disposal yeah it's actually very good right right that's just my two cents on it but yeah that was my that was my firefest just being in a truck with a bunch of guys that are slamming chili for lunch it's going to be a long day PFT you need to get can you get a few cans for me as well because I did say I think I I tweeted maybe during the Raiders game that if the Bengals win the Super Bowl I will bathe in skyline chili so I mean I

need like probably like three cans I was thinking I'd just get a bath and I'd put the skyline chili in the bath and just take a bath with skyline chili so I just get me a few cans yeah for sure I'm going to stock up because I I'm also I'm planning on chugging a bunch of it I may be doing some beer bongs of skyline chili it's listen I think America's rooting for the Cincinnati Bengals so we got to get behind that we should know by the way because we do keep saying

America's rooting for Cincinnati Bengals and I have people correcting me America's rooting for Cincinnati Bengals except whatever like a few people in LA all of Detroit and then the AFC North we don't give enough credit like how much all these teams hate each other so like people have said that yo I'm a Steelers fan I am not rooting for the Bengals so also the cities of Baltimore Cleveland and Pittsburgh are not rooting for the Bengals also I kind of feel like there's

a couple people in St. Louis rooting for the Rams a few probably as many probably as many people in St. Louis as in all of LA yeah yeah listen we are the biggest pro St. Louis sports podcast in the world and I think I speak for all St. Louisians when I say go Rams we miss you lunatics St. lunatics is what you're looking at shout out Nellie proper name yeah all right my firefest is seamless change the color of their app and it's fucked me up really bad so

that's it pretty simple oh you just updated it's orange now I yeah I just updated and I keep scrolling past it being like where the fuck is the seamless app and then I get back to it I'm like oh there it is he hasn't moved on my phone but we're all like dumb first graders and you just do the apps off of colors yep so it should be illegal for an app to change their primary color I agree I don't know if you've experienced this but when mine changed over I noticed I got worse at

determining my location when I was ordering food where there was a streak of about three or four days where 75% of the time I would order food that would go to either my apartment when I was at work or to work when I was at my apartment yeah not I mean yeah it happens it throws you off also think of other brands that have done it Instagram had a huge change they used to have the the brown camera let me say oh yeah I remember them Facebook bottom yep yep yep that's a

big one you just shouldn't be able to do that you got to keep the same colors also my firefest is the ACC refs are fucking bullshit ACC's rigged I'm going to get an investigation what they did to Louisville on Tuesday night will not stand so I stand with with with Louisville and all the people who are angry about that game we're going to throw it in the class action lawsuit with Brian Flores it's going to be a whole fucking thing well I just like for it'd be great

if we just had like a class action lawsuit just for gamblers that are just they're just mad that they lost the bet like have you lost a bet that you're mad about in 2021 or 2022 okay join this class action lawsuit there's really no specific thing that we're suing for we're just getting our frustration out Antonio Brown you're on notice yeah yeah alright Billy your firefest then we'll wrap up with Jake's so in order to get the precious cargo to Cincinnati in a timely matter I had to

consume a huge amount of black rifle coffee and after getting into Cincinnati at 3am after making great time great time I could not fall asleep until about five and in that time I wrote a blog was productive but now I'm in absolute shambles I had a great supplement mixture to stay alert during the drive El Theanine and lion's mane mushroom that combined with mass amounts of caffeine in the black rifle coffee made me absolutely locked in for the drive highly recommended it

also turned him into like a junkyard meth head right now so yeah you can see what we're starting to deal with there I'm eager to read what Billy's blog would have been because he didn't post it he just got in at at 3.30 in the morning after drinking probably like four black rifle coffees and doing all these supplements and then drinking two course lights and then just blog something I'm I'm curious to know if it even resembles English because he's like

embarrassed to publish it honestly I think my grammar is better than normal on this blog all right oh wow yeah nice and then one funny thing that I hope sorry keep going then it's totally unrelated so when I asked the mayor if he had access to the Harambee death tapes he looked at me and I realized in that moment that I really live in a totally different world than most of America because he was like like he looked me like what kind of sick person was to see a gorilla gun down

oh listen I mean we all do so you shouldn't feel bad about that Billy I had the same moment but it was for a different reason because we've had like with this Brian Flores stuff we've had different people releasing statements like John Elway just released one Steven Ross released a statement and memes has forever corrupted my brain because Steven Ross's statement is with regards to the allegations being made by Brian Flores I'm a man of honor and integrity and cannot let

them stand without responding and I'm just waiting for the Cassianos part to get there and it didn't show up and I was like wait what the fuck so memes has completely broken my brain anytime there's any apology after the second sentence I'm just like okay so where's the joke I don't want to we kind of gloss over a little bit of the Rooney rule stuff that's going on with Flores but there's I think big cats right in that it hasn't worked you can look at the numbers of black

head coaches in the NFL and it hasn't improved since it was put in because there are all these sham interviews but I did actually because we make fun of a lot I wanted to give credit to Bruce Arians for being like a guy that I think we need more of guys who will hire minorities and then proactively be like hey you have to interview this guy you have to give him a shot he's been he's been very good at doing that I think that's really the only ways to just have more people

that aren't just like in the old boys club being you know able to be good people yeah yeah advocate for it and yeah it's I mean it is it's one of those rules that in principle seemed good but it's been 20 years now so they have to revisit it and try to figure out a way to actually make it work because it's not Jake your firefests to wrap us up yes so last week I dropped off my suit at the dry cleaners well in the lobby for the dry cleaners to pick up on Friday they said to be back

Saturday Saturday the snowstorm happened so I figured they closed Monday hadn't heard back from them and it turns out they just never picked it up what so where is it eventually got picked up okay yeah I was close that's a story also close boy yeah so very well-dressed thief running around Manhattan yes also a many firefests is I reached out to Urban Meyer for comment on the Sam Hubbard story that I'm starting and he hasn't responded yet oh yeah he's probably

got his hands full back maybe maybe like call call like a Columbus area like Tji Friday see if they've seen him working on it yeah okay is urban there so stay tuned for that next week you should you should honeypot him we should find someone who can go like wherever urban's at like imagine if we just sent like an attractive young woman and then he like you know started doing his finger in the butthole thing and then she just like whispered sweetly into his ear hey is

it true that you found Sam Hubbard at Muller High School and he was just a lax player care to comment yeah I like that idea it Jake if you want to do remotely though you should just use one of those face app things where you turn your face into a chick yeah and you call yourself I don't know like cake Mars or something like that and you just you email him and he can see your avatar and then he'll probably be more likely to respond to you yeah all right all these things work we get

say Hank one other quick road trip funny funny anecdote I came in the studio today and was looking around and I noticed that the barbell was gone and I was like who the fuck would take the barbell out of our studio like that's such a that's a crazy move and then I realized that Billy took the barbell in the truck right the big ass he'll be working out all trip it's basically the it's it's bringing your your sneakers on the road to work out in the hotel gym on steroids he's

literally bringing the hotel gym with him now Billy's going to actually do it though I have confidence and he also brought two forty fives and two twenty five pound plates and it's in the truck bed which as Billy pointed out is very good for traction when driving over ice. Yeah weighs it down that's huge how's it gonna I mean there's no way we're gonna see that again. The barbell and weight yeah yeah. You didn't think about coming back that that moment that you saw right

there on Billy's face was the look of a man getting shipped back to that did not think about the return trip. The no he there's no way he thought about it he thought that it was just gonna like magically appear back in the studio like you the trucks coming back but do you know where it's going it's not coming they're not gonna drop it out like on Seventh Avenue. He's like hey the trucks back. I might drive the truck back. Okay you should. Yeah. Yeah that's what he planned this

whole time. I welcome that. That's that's actually a good idea that's a good use of your time. That'll be Billy's job pro that'll be Billy's job from now on is just driving aimlessly around the country and checking in with us from the road. Put a go put a GoPro on it and we'll just you know just fucking send you on your way. I actually think that's actually a great idea. All right numbers and then we'll see everyone on Sunday night. We know a 17. Let's go 21. 69.

Bubba is he sleeping. No Bubba's been awake. I'm gonna pick a number 610 for Dylan. Steve throwing Steve says for 68. Oh now 68 68. Yeah 68 to bad omen. Silverback gorillas are alpha. Love you guys.