Pardon My Take - Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell, 1 Question With Kenny Pickett, USMNT Advances, CFB Playoffs And More

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

Big Cat has jinxed himself and lost his voice again (apologies). We talk World Cup and the USMNT advancing to the knockout stage (00:01:50-00:09:34). CFB playoff scenarios and rivalry week recap. MNF and Jeff Saturday Vs The Clock (00:09:34-00:37:10). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Liver King using steroids (00:37:10-00:57:23). Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell joins the show to talk about his season, his career in the NFL, Kirk Cousins and more (00:57:23-01:27:50). 1 question with a Quarterback with Kenny Pickett after his big MNF win (01:27:50-01:32:10). We finish with guys on chicks and pick a lottery ball winner from cyber Monday (01:32:10-01:50:38).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

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, I lost my voice again, but I didn't talk for an entire day. So this is the best it sounded in two days. We're going to talk World Cup. We're going to talk college football playoffs. We're going to talk Monday night football. We have hot seat, cool throne. We have a Kevin O'Connell interview that Jake did all my questions for me as I sat behind them. PFT ran the interview. Great interview. We have Kenny Pickett, one question with a quarterback guys on chicks. This is the great, this is the great episode for me personally. Great episode coming and it's

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Today is Wednesday, November 30th. And I know my voice is gone. But the lads are through. It's coming home. It's coming home. We did it. What a what a group result for the lads against Iran, one of the greatest soccer teams in the country was in the world. It was a statement win for the boys. We really won 2 nil, but they only counted one. If FIFA was rigged, they were out to get us Christian Pulisic. If you're out there, thank you. Thank you, sir, for sacrificing both your testicles for the lads to move on to the to the knockout stage. I can't, I can't imagine having to go to the hospital for a nut shot is fun, but instant legend. I mean, he already was everyone already was like, Hey, this guy's, you know,

the best player going to be a legend, instant legend scoring a big goal in a big situation. We did play a little bit not to get too analytical because everyone knows we're big, big soccer heads, but it felt like we were trying not to lose in the entire second half and basically not doing anything aggressive. Weird substitutions. I don't even know these guys names. I saw someone tweet that. I was like, Yeah, I agree, dude. Weird substitutions, bad set pieces, all these things I've read. I agree with all of them. I didn't mind the set pieces, the substitutions. There were some head scratchers there from Burrhalter. For example, Gio Reina, he hasn't really played at all. I hear he's good. His dad was good. Why isn't he playing? He should be out

there instead of these other guys that aren't Gio Reina. It was it was one of those situations where it remind me like we're kind of like the Ravens. So we get out to these leads and then we just stop playing offense altogether. Yeah. And then and then we go to prevent defense. That's the analysis I'm going to do. When you go to prevent defense, the only thing it does, it prevents yourself from winning. So Greg, if you're listening against the Dutch or the Netherlands or the Holland or whatever you want to call them. Don't park the bus. Don't keep your foot on the gas. Be free. Live free. Have the American spirit flowing through you. It was a cool moment. It was like, I mean, obviously we work at a sports company. So everyone was watching. But I it felt like

a lot of people were watching at work today. Like one of those moments, everyone's didn't get behind. We haven't had one of those in a while, because they weren't in the last World Cup. You know, I'm thinking like one's last time, maybe maybe hockey with TJ Oshie, like felt like the last time it felt like everyone was rooting for the same team. It was fun. We get through. We, you know, one of the top 16 teams in the in the world. Can we say that now? Officially? Officially, we can. That's why they play the games big cat. We were undefeated in group play. How about that? Yeah, we never we didn't give up a single goal in regular play because we gave up a penalty kick goal. Yeah, there's a bullshit goal too. And I mean, our defense is pretty good. That that

much is clear. It's just about like, I don't know. Keep your foot on the gas. That's all I can say is because every time we score, I'm like, this is awesome. We're gonna score like five more goals. And then we just we stop attacking and we stop possessing the ball and all the real soccer heads out there listening and they're like, these guys fucking know what they're talking about. This is awesome. Yeah, you're welcome. We've been watching a lot of footy. I read someone being like, why are we subbing these guys in and not these guys? And I was like, dude, reach wheat. Yeah, I mean, the greatest part about the World Cup is it's kind of like the NCAA tournament in that way where America can all take off work at the same time and watch the same thing on television.

That's always that's really what I'm looking for in terms of camaraderie amongst my countrymen. I would like to be watching the same thing on TV as they're watching on TV at the same time. And it's it's also like the NCAA tournament in that I would say those are the two sports with the best crowd reaction shots, the crowd reaction shots of like the agony the agony with who was it was South Korea playing the other morning or they would maybe this morning and like agony the fans had like there's just something about the World Cup. I always just think back about that dude in fucking Brazil who was holding the trophy that old man just crying as as Germany shit down their throat. Like something about the World Cup like it's that one

and then fluke girl with Villanova. Like you have these moments or the Northwestern kid crying. Like you have these moments in the World Cup and March Madness that are so ingrained in your brain of fan reactions, not just plays fan reactions. Yeah, it is great. And the costumes in the crowd are always fantastic. It was just it's good to see the US move on and be like the top 16 in soccer even though as I've been saying, this is not our year this you know what I'm calling it right now this is mission accomplished. Yeah, it's a win. Anything else on top of that is gravy. We won the World Cup today by advancing out of the group stage because it was never supposed to be us this year anyways. In four years, that's when the golden generation

enters there. What's the adult stage of an insect? Like right now we're in the cocoon, right? We're a butterfly. We're a chrysalis. And yeah, there you go. And in 2026, that's when the boys spread their wings and become a butterfly. And that's I'm guaranteeing personally, a United States World Cup championship in 2026. If we if we're leading at any point against Netherlands, that's a base basically just give us the trophy. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't know much about the Netherlands. I know that they're large people. And I know that they they love drugs and hookers. So they're completely opposite for me in every single way. I and also they're one dude the lefty Brian van Robben or whatever. Robin. Now he doesn't play there anymore. Yeah,

he doesn't play there anymore. But remember him for like 100 years, he was so nice with it. Oh, yeah. And then a croif they Holland had the guy that invented kicking the ball behind your own leg. Yeah, his croif and the name the move after him, Aaron Robin. Remember him, the dude who's he was bald, he would just do like one quick move and hit it with his left. I'm pretty sure I'm I think he actually like is living out the perfect dream of an ex athlete. I think there was a video of him. He plays in like the sixth division in Netherlands now. He's like the Chris cellos of the Netherlands, each row of the Netherlands. Okay, so that's World Cup. Let's talk some college football. Before we get to college football talk, let's talk about Norton VPN.

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I understand how it works. I understand that if USC gets blown out on Friday night against Utah, Ohio State will probably sneak in. I understand that TCU, if they get blown out, they probably be out. What I'm going to say though is I think it should be the four that are in right now. I think it should be those four. You shouldn't get penalized for playing an extra game while the other people are sitting on their couch. I would love for it to be this four. It's a great four. New colors, new conferences. We haven't seen the Pac-12 in forever. TCU, new colors, like all these things. It would be great. And you also have the Michigan, Georgia. Could that be a clash in the title? I would love it to be these four right now. Give

it to me. So I don't really understand how you can take anybody out because I'm looking at the rankings right now. Let's say TCU loses. And TCU, they are the one team that I think the committee has looked at basically all year. Just hoping, like give me a reason to take you guys out. They're interesting. They want any excuse to drop TCU out. But what's going to happen? Are you going to put Ohio State in at that point? So I actually think TCU, I would make the argument TCU should be safe because they are undefeated. They've already beaten Kansas State unless they lose by like 70, whatever, and everyone gets injured. The most likely scenario for Ohio State to get in would be USC losing. That would be the second time they've lost to Utah. Then Ohio State sneaking in because

the committee has made it pretty clear they're never going to take a two-loss team ahead of a one-loss team. So that would then fit the bill of USC has two losses. Ohio State has one. You swap them good to go. Yeah, I guess I could see that. And the committee would they would nut themselves over a Georgia Ohio State matchup as well. And a potential Michigan Ohio State national title. National championship game. That would be pretty sweet. I just love how the guy is named Buu. That's in charge of everything. That's that's a perfect name. Like a perfect like, reminds me of that guy Hootie that used to run Augusta and the Masters. Like you need a southern guy named Buu that's in charge of college football rankings. You're never going to argue really with

a guy named Buu. Yeah, and they all probably are sitting in the same like conference room in a really nice Hilton in Dallas or something. They've been eating croissants all day. And they're like, Buu, don't don't make us look stupid, dude. I got this. I got this. They knew exactly who they were going to put in. It was a very easy final four. I think Buu just rounded the boys up and was like, we've got this ballroom that they set aside, shrimp cocktails coming at noon. And then we got some beef Wellington coming at 5 30. So let's really draw this out so that we can get all the free meals that we can have. Because you know, the catering is off the hook for this thing. So instead of debating like which teams you think could drop out, because I do think I think these

final four are probably the right choice, no matter what, Alabama really fucked everything up by losing to LSU for us because then we could have we can have a debate. Tennessee really fucked up losing to South Carolina because Tennessee and Tennessee fans do have a fair gripe not being ranked ahead of Alabama right now because they beat them on the field. So I'll just shout them out for that. But yeah, it's it to me, it's essentially I wish it was just these four. I this is what I'm rooting for. I understand how it's most likely going to play out. If TCU, which is not right, if TCU or USC, which USC you can sell me on a little bit more loses Ohio State will probably sneak in USC loses put Tulane in. That's what I'm going to say. Yeah, Willie Fritz got the boys going.

You can look at you can look at the top 12 right now. Instead of doing the debate of like who's going to drop out because I do think you're right. I think these are going to be the final four. We could just play the bracket game right now and just just imagine what games would be. So it would be Penn State against Clemson. Yeah, and then the winner of that gets Georgia. That's so that's where I am very much in favor of the 12 team playoffs just because I want more college football home games will be awesome. But then when you look at the bracket, I don't want to see Clemson play anymore football. I don't. I'm so sick of like they're they're just not a good team that masses a good team. Like I see the Penn State Clemson one I'm like, oof, that one's a bummer.

I don't really want to tune into that one. Well, you can look at these teams in two different ways. There are a lot of teams that are in this top 12 or even in the top 25 and you can say like that team's back. This was an awesome season for them because they finished where they finished. And then there are other teams where it's like, man, you you fucking suck Clemson. You're number nine in the country. Like big disappointment for them. But then we'd have Ohio State to Lane. I would love to see that game. Yeah, Tennessee Kansas State. I think Tennessee Womps Kansas State. People are asking I have seen people in the media saying is Kansas State the most disrespected team in the rankings right now? They are the only three loss team in the top 10.

So would you think they're getting disrespected? I would not think that they're getting okay, I'd agree. I'd agree. I'd agree. Wait, wait, big cat. Did you say that they've they got one loss, right? No, they have three losses. They're actually the highest ranked three loss team. But some people in the media are saying they're being disrespected. Okay. Yeah, well, it would make sense if they had one loss, but they lost they lost three times. And then you've got Alabama, Utah, that actually I think that's that's my favorite of the opening round matchups. That won't be great. Alabama, Utah would be sick, especially if they played it in Utah, because that's just a funner place to play football game. And the home games would be

so much fun to watch. I'm all into it and on it. I'm trying to think what else like the Saturday Michigan doing what they did to Ohio State. It's crazy when you think about it, like we have always been Harbaugh guys, but we're also honest that we had doubts. Everyone had doubts. It felt like Jim Harbaugh was never going to be in Ohio State. And the patients that Michigan showed and Jim Harbaugh showed for taking less money and being like, I'm eventually going to get there, where I just build this bully and no one has ever been more right in the history of the world than when Jim Harbaugh said Ryan Day was born on third and thought he had a triple because he took Urban Meyers machine that dominated Michigan every single year. And he basically put it back 15

years in a matter of two, like they're back, they're back before trestle. Like it's crazy how that happened so fast. And it was all because Ryan Day just showed up and like was like, oh, I'm going to keep I'm going to keep running the machine how it's run. And it's like, you don't have urban special sauce. Yeah, what's urban special sauce has been spread all over Columbus, Ohio. And I think it's more it's not like something that you can just replicate and keep doing the exact same thing is what makes coaches like Urban Meyer so good at coaching college football, is they figure out new and innovative ways to be weasels and cheat every single year. You have if you're cheating the same way that you cheated last year, you're actually falling way, way,

way behind and you're getting closer to getting caught too. And I also will say this about Urban Meyer. He got dudes from like Florida, California and Texas to actually care about the Ohio State Michigan rivalry. Like when Urban was going in Ohio State, they cared and they cared to embarrass Michigan. Now it's flipped where Michigan, like they broke their will in the fourth quarter, Ohio State didn't want to be there. And it's like, they I don't know, it's just something about it like Harbaugh is just tapped into that button. I'm trying to think one other I mean, South Carolina, Shane Beamer beating Clemson trying to think what other I think the big takeaway from these last two weeks of college football is what's that skip Bayless tweet like I was right originally and

I was only wrong about being right too soon. Yeah, that Spencer Rattler and Bonix are both going to be awesome NFL quarterbacks. And Spencer Rattler basically was awesome for two games. Yeah, but great last two games. Like he was stupendous for these last two games. But yeah, he probably made himself millions of dollars in these last two games because I don't think Spencer Rattler has ever had a stock at a lower point than it was like around Halloween. Yeah. And now it's like, yeah, you know, I could see this guy going first two rounds. And the Bonix, I mean, like Oregon, that was that was such a perfect rivalry week weekend game. I love that last weekend right after Thanksgiving because Oregon was up, I think they were up 3410.

And I was watching the game. And it like everything that you could have to implode, they had like all the bad things happen, including a punt from almost their own end zone, where the punter just like freaked out and just dropped the ball. It was like, I don't want to do this. It was just like the most insane comeback for Oregon State, but all of it like every and then LSU, LSU shitting the bet like LSU could have been the first two loss team to ever play their way into the national champion or the playoff and they go to Texas A&M against a corpse and get smoked. It's crazy. Yeah, the Texas A&M thing was was insane to me. And I saw a stat the other day about Texas A&M how they actually haven't had any good seasons since Johnny Manziel.

No, like ever. They like they have not even had like a blip on the radar where it's like Texas A&M is officially back. So Jimbo Fisher is a fucking wizard when it comes to stealing money for people. Yeah, I really appreciate that about him. And then the other big news that we have, Hugh Freeze is back. And I'm I for one, I'm very excited to see Hugh Freeze, an all time shady guy in college football, get back in the SEC because that's where he belongs. It truly is. It's it's so great. It's so great that he was like everyone deserves second chances. That's like Hugh, you had like 15 chances. But yes, you're right, everyone does deserve a second chance. Also, if you aren't familiar with how the whole Hugh Freeze thing went down at Ole Miss,

it's maybe the best SEC football story because Houston nut who got foiled when he was at Ole Miss or sorry. Yeah, Arkansas, Arkansas. He got he got fired for illegal shit he did. And then he was suing and and he they foiled Hugh Freeze's number and they basically saw him essentially hitting up all these prostitutes and being like, Hey, what's going on here? No, no, Houston nut was at Ole Miss. He was at Arkansas before, but it was the Ole Miss. He was going after Ole Miss and he and he in his lawsuit, they were like searching stuff and they came across Hugh Freeze hitting up prostitutes and they basically got him. So the former coach got the current coach and then Hugh Freeze basically was like, Oh, I mistyled the numbers of some

prostitutes a few times. And then they searched into it more and it was like you that you can't you can't possibly mistyle a prostitute this many times you like this is all you were doing. I'm going to wait till all the facts come out before I condemn Hugh Freeze. He might have mistyled it was only I think it was like 30 calls to escort services. And then and then he goes to Liberty University, which is the perfect place for him to end up. He might have been fucking one of the Falwell's wives. We don't know. But then now he's getting to go back. And now it's like the perfect way to describe that era of SEC football and the head coaches stabbing each other in the back would be like if you took the show billions and just filled it with characters from east

bound and down. And that's they were all like stabbing each other in the back to getting away with all sorts of shit that I'm sure that we don't know about. I'm so glad that he's back at Auburn because he's one of those characters that when you put him in an environment like Auburn where it is literally win at all costs we we are going to do everything that we can to look the up we're going to break our neck looking the other way for you Hugh Freeze. He's going to get away with all sorts of crazy shit there. And the real reason why he got hired and the reason why Auburn was able to look past all this stuff which I always am like yeah if he wins football games Hugh Freeze got hired at Auburn and he immediately becomes the only SEC coach who has beaten Nick

Saban twice. Wow. I did not I didn't realize that. That's it. That's why he got hired. He's beaten them multiple times. He also says that he he covets coverage of the Auburn program. So he's currently coveting us. I've never been coveted before. But he made like a statement today was like I'm coveting the press because I really want you guys to help me out and be on my side. So it just feels nice to be coveted. Well remember Hugh Freeze also told a recruit once that he basically likened himself to Jesus Christ. Yeah because he was recruiting someone. He was recruiting a kid and the kid was like what's going on with all this stuff. They're like you know they put Jesus Christ on a cross too. And then the then the then the recruit told a media person and then

Hugh Freeze denied it and basically was like this recruits lying. Why would a recruit lie about something like that. When they're they have nothing to them. All they have is to lose. Like you basically get your scholarship pulled right. And then they had tape of it and they played it for Hugh Freeze. He's like oh yeah I did say that. Yeah well I mean Jesus Christ hung out with prostitutes too. That's just the fact. Read your Bible. The whole thing's great. All right anything else college football. I mean we talked to Luke Fickle like I couldn't be happier over the moon. I also think we might have to go to Great Week Madison because I talked to the new strength and conditioning coach at Madison and let me just tell you guys one of the I

thought of you PFT when he texted me. I'm gonna find it. He said that on Fridays in the summer what do they do. They do prime time guns and squat fest. So hell yeah I think we should we gotta go. We gotta go. I'm down to go to squat fest. I actually squat fest. He said squat fest has DJ lights smoke machines and heavy ass squats. So he makes it like a rain squat fest. It's like a club. I love that. He turns the gym into a club on Fridays. That's a great way to relate to millennials. They should have like a tick tock station in the curl. Like if you're if you're doing curls get a tick tock out there real quick and then just post that so that everybody can see how jacked up you look. But yeah this is how you relate to the youth of America these days. And he's yeah he's

a great strength and conditioning coach. He brought Luke Fickle obviously brought him from Cincinnati made guys pros like I'm just it's bad that I'm this happy because I know that bad things always happen when I get this happy but it can't be a better hire in my mind. Like outside of Nick said he said that we're going to focus on the 300 mile radius around the state of Wisconsin which I like he's he's doing the Barry Alvarez like let's get as many fat let's get as many fat people as we can like work with what you have and when you look at what he had at Cincinnati and the three star recruits that he had that he turned into NFL players now he's going to be able to get like more four stars five stars and it's going to be awesome but it's he's a good hire I'm

very happy for you. It's not even like Wisconsin will never get many five stars but Luke Fickle is like what Wisconsin does well on steroids in terms of he can get the developmental part where it's like three and four three stars two stars three stars four stars making those guys NFL players. I think I saw someone had the stat Wisconsin has the eighth most active NFL players right now like that's the type of program it is never going to recruit at a Michigan Ohio State level but getting guys coaching them up getting them into squat fest. Yeah squat fest sounds incredible actually I walked in I walked in on Hank this morning in our studio Hank was having a private squat fest he was Hank was ripping squats on the machine I came in and he just he stopped where he goes

hey uh how much do you think you can squat and I was like I was like I don't know man I gotta go he was getting ready for his his big dozen trivia night in Boston that's where he is right now he had to have that ass popping tonight actually what they should do at Wisconsin they should turn the offensive line they should give them like a private cafeteria and just have it be that grocery store section with the hundreds of thousands of frozen pizzas that went viral a couple weeks ago that should be like just just a troth of frozen pizzas if you come to play at Wisconsin and play offensive line we're going to pack like 75 pounds onto each thigh so just because you just brought it up offensive line pizza slices in they're gonna help us

slice one of our sponsors oh that's great help us so we're gonna do the pizza party coming soon it's great that you mentioned that right now big cat because earlier today I spent $1,200 on pizza ah so I didn't know you were working on that was it just that why I found I was gonna do it today I heard from slice today and I can't talk no I uh I called up tell you I called up the pizza place today and I was like yes I would like $1,200 worth of pizzas so I'll give you 600 bucks I matched well no no no so I said that I do 20 you matched and then Ben D'Nucci Gucci D'Nucci reached out and he said I want to match two boys so Gucci D'Nucci owes us 400 bucks uh we bet he better get that to us

yeah what is Bill Billy your your face you're spending $60 each pie for 20 20 pies for 1200 I got listen Billy here let me explain to you how math breaks down okay uh I got I got 60 pizzas I got 15 cheesy breads extra sauces and I got 20 assorted two liter sodas sprinkled in there because like what's a pizza party without two liter sodas and then because I'm a nice guy I put a $200 tip on there for the delivery driver that math works all right so shout out slice for for hitting us up I'll get what I'll do is I'll have slice maybe we'll do a pizza party for Wisconsin when they do squat fest this year okay that works yeah yeah I mean you need some food for squat fest so count me in on that I'm buying pizza for squat fest um and I'll match before we

do thank you and then we'll have like Scott Tolzine yeah that'll be perfect all right uh before we do hot seat cool throne should we talk a little Monday football and how sad it is watching the Indianapolis Colts and Matt Ryan play football dude he was really sad and I was sad watching it but then I started to feel really bad for him because Troy Aikman had something against Matt Ryan I don't know what they have against each other in the past but like Troy the natural reaction should have been like uh and you hate to see this from Matt Ryan who's had such a great career but Troy Aikman was like they need to figure out how to do something besides pass the ball because they're they're unable to run an offense equipped for the year 2022 I it was I did there was a moment

where I was like Troy what's up with that but then I think it was like halfway through the second quarter when they're like and that was the first pass completion for the Colts or something like that I was like oh I can't I guess he's being fair like they are that bad but he was like mad he was like mad at Matt Ryan which doesn't make sense it's like getting mad at an elderly dog because it's taking too long to go up the steps yeah it's like be patient yeah yeah it is like let's not pick on him he he thought remember Matt Ryan he uh said in the off season that he was the missing piece for Super Bowl and Indy like this this isn't going well let's be nice everyone makes bad decisions let's just be nice about it yeah don't be a dick that's all I'm asking

and at the end of the game oh I'm I'm gonna say something controversial I I don't mind what Jeff Saturday did at the end of the game I don't mind it because he had three timeouts and if that drive had kept going in he probably would have used him at that point right there was still there was still time on the clock how long did it take to run a play anyways like yes five seconds six he had enough timeouts that he could have if his back was against the wall at the end of the game I think it would have been okay but that that still doesn't mean that all of America wasn't screaming at their televisions like dude use a timeout right now you know what it was so he said afterwards if you if you missed the end of the game which I do not blame anyone who turned this

game off the Colts were down seven driving 50 seconds left uh it was second down Matt Ryan scrambled got tackled 50 seconds so the clock's running they're on like the 35 they have all three timeouts they didn't call a timeout they get back on to the line next play they do a running play that goes for like two yards then they call a timeout so like 25 seconds went off the clock and what PFTI kind of agrees like Jeff Saturday said afterwards like time it wasn't really feeling of the essence at the moment because we had all three timeouts that was one of those moments though it was less about the time it was more like do you guys know what you're doing because it was a Matt Ryan scramble to a Jonathan Taylor run so it was like wait are you guys what quarter is it

what's the situation so it's more like you should use a timeout to like figure out what your best play is not a timeout because you need to call timeout yeah so the the rush that they had it was like Matt Ryan scrambled up the middle dove for the first or dove close to the first down then they hand it off to Taylor at that point you assumed that the next play after Matt Ryan scramble was going to be something that would kill the clock that would stop the clock at that point but it wasn't and I was confused for a second because when he dove it looked like he made it past the sticks after he hit the ground and I went back I reviewed the rule book um did you know that it's like it's the same as sliding when a quarterback dives head

first now they changed the rule in 2018 and so you're giving yourself up when you start your dive I don't know how that works though so if you're like doing a high-nikey and you're diving towards the end zone like does that mean that what do you read the rule book and you're like wait this is gonna screw my guy high-nikey up well no I mean just in general if you're diving you're reaching out yeah that stops the play from the point where you start to dive well no I think that's if you're reaching for the goal line it might be dead well you still have to go down so when high-nikey jumps he's like in the air right I don't know I don't know how this works because then I looked up an old article uh from pro football talk and Florio was like watch out this rule is

going to screw some people and then four months later he wrote another one being like see I told you this rule is going to screw people over so I don't know what's going on but I all I know is that when Matt Ryan dove and for a second I was like he might have the first down here I think Matt Ryan might have been playing under like 2016 rules too inside his own head I also think they should change the rule uh when a quarterback slides it should be where their feet end up like no one should get to touch them it's where their feet end up so if they do a really good slide the ball's spotted where their feet end up and I think that defenders should be allowed to slide into the quarterback feet first through yes yes feet to feet foot to foot contact absolutely because

like that way you're taking the head shots out of the game which is the most it's the dangerous part or they could kick their feet mid-slide yeah where they're feeding up they spin around yeah yeah where they're like almost break dancing yeah I like that that's a great idea you know one of the only parts that I didn't like about what Jeff Saturday was doing at the end of the game was uh he doesn't seem to really talk that much to his quarterback no it seems like somebody else is in charge and he's just kind of like on the sidelines at the window dress it seems like he's watching the game with a really good pair of seats yeah he's the he's he's kind of like when Caleb was the director morale for UNC yeah he's there for the vibes yeah he's not doing a whole lot of

coaching right he's just he's just kind of observing the other note that I had was uh can you pick it's good and that Pickens is probably the one wide receiver that I think could catch any ball throw he's got the widest catch radius remember when they had like chateau to a sinko on sports science and it was like he his catch radius is as wide as an African elephant that's kind of what George Pickens is working with okay so Kenny Pickett's coming up and I agree he's good we talked to him about that George Pickens incredible catches he's got to figure out how to do the easy one so because I feel like every all the easy ones he tries to make hard you know what I mean he goes to one hand a lot yeah like he's like dude just like some of them just can be routine catches and some of them

you don't have to like he had that one where he was diving and he like his hands were all screwed up it's like what are you doing but he is he is like he's going to be a very very good wide receiver yeah um okay uh should we do hot sequel throwing anything else I can't uh I just got a notice on my phone it looks like they're I'm one for one on my flex of the year not to brag Jake hell yes you call dolphins chargers I think that's the one that I called yeah and then and they were trying to figure out whether or not it might be called the Eagles Giants but I said it was getting flexed so I'm trying to debate on whether or not I got some credit or not oh that's the worst part about that Colts game too is we get to watch them on some of that as well yep although did you guys

see the ratings from the Cowboys Giants oh dude the Cowboys always do crazy I know this is like double the US England game which just shows how insane people get football powers people always get mad at like ESPN and I get it or they sometimes get mad at us they're like why are you talking about LeBron all the time it's like guess what like the Cowboys LeBron the Yankees these things always play which is they do I don't think that's all that should be talked about but I understand why like they lead they lead first take with it every week yeah I mean yeah Cowboys put asses and seats I I still get bored with them though like I'm sick I'm sick of the Cowboys I really am but I guess they get more average viewers to watch so that's why they put it on okay let's not not like

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about the xf l so that's number one number two is he seems like he's turned his entire life into a living breathing upwardly headline remember that website yeah it's like touching this boy that used to steal candy bars bought the entire store now it's like number one that's probably not the same guy that owned the store when you were growing up and number two like what what does this prove that you're buying every single thing except it's a cool video that you can put out listen i know that my guy stone colds may be gone through some stuff but that's why i've always been a stone cold guy because he's not doing cheap meal pictures and being like look i took my mom to you know on a private plane around the world he's just fucking drinking beers at his ranch

maybe with money problems i don't know but he's living life how an ex-wrestler should this is the difference between stone cold and the rock stone cold would go back to that store and hijack the entire shipment of candy bars in a in a semi trailer and then drive it to mexico and live on the beach eating nothing but milky ways for next month he would drive it he would drive it to canada kid and fucking stick them down vince mcman's mouth and be like vince you piece of shit you're such a pussy for leaving the wwf he would he would he would he would force feed vince mcman candy bars until vince mcman got fat yeah his worst nightmare and then he'd call him a fat ass like you you're a piece of shit so yeah that's why i'm always a cold guy well the rock is

still like probably one of the more likable people in the world i saw this and i was like that's too far you've lost me the rock you've entered the weird online celebrity uh like john legend christie teegan era of uh i have to root a little bit against you now you're too likable yep so is he out of the running for your millionth follower yeah yeah you know what he was a finalist right you're right he was one of the bounties the rock i have i've rescinded the invitation to club 999 you're no longer on the guest list buddy sorry we got to find somebody else to replace him with okay all right sorry rock i'll take nominees if anybody has one what's your cool throne my cool throne is sam heard because there's a new there's a new cocaine bear the cocaine bear movie and it

looks awesome it's a movie about a bear that does a lot of cocaine and that's all i know about it and frankly i don't want to know anything else about it i'm just going to watch the cocaine bear movie about the bear that does cocaine and enjoy the hell out of it also it's ray leotas last role which i have to imagine whoa that's probably how he had it all drawn up it's like okay you were good fellas you made a lot of great movies but cocaine bear is going to be the one that sends you out literally sound a true story literally translate to joey camasta that's true it's very true yeah i'm excited for this now i'm in now i'm in cocaine bear let's do it um right you remember the sam heard story yeah oh yeah of course how much coke did he have it was so much like

five kilos it was that and uh sam heard had so much coke and remember nate newton had like 500 pounds of weed yeah and then he got busted like a couple months later for having like 300 pounds of weed all right what was his what was the actual amount so he had rested i can't remember the real cocaine bear ate 70 pounds of cocaine holy shit that's a ton of cocaine it was a real story a drug smuggling plane dropped off a 70 pound bag of cocaine a random black bear found it in the woods and ate all of it and got so high on cocaine and then died that would must have been a hell of a way to go out though it was probably like the most dangerous animal on earth yeah i i'm glad that they made this movie because i've often wondered what what the last hours of that bear's life would

have looked like big time i can't remember i'm trying to look it up he had he was trying to buy 10 kilos of coke i don't know if he actually if he was had it or he's trying to buy it i remember he was trying to buy like as i remember that was worth the drugs yes sam heard at towards the end of his career he was like i'd like to diversify my my portfolio and one of the options i'm looking into to grow my grow my funds and prepare for retirement is i'd like to get into the distribution of copious amounts of cocaine he did like he did the opposite of like ozark storyline he's like i'm i have a real job legitimate job i want to try to find a way to make it very illegal i'm yeah the opposite of going straight with everything yes all right my also the joey camasa story

i'll save everyone because i know everyone hates hearing my voice like this i'm gonna get it better i only have a hot seat it's that fuck erin rogers who said he's playing on sunday so i this is good this is good big cat as long as jesse fields plays if jesse fields doesn't play then i'm really stuck because not only do i have to watch trevor simian again but the packers are going to kill the bears and then everyone's going to be like erin rogers owns you which he does but it but it wouldn't be because of fucking jesse fields because of trevor simian yeah no this is actually a good thing though this is why i asked you this on uh on sunday night this is your opportunity to beat erin rogers because he kind of stinks now the packers i know but i need just fields i know but

you can this will be what if this is erin rogers last game against the bears as a packer and you beat him that'd be awesome that was uh florio just loves getting dramatic about rogers he was like as rogers is going to the tunnel on sunday night he's like that's the last we'll see a rogers in this game and maybe ever yeah it's like okay it could be this is it could be the last time that you get to see him and you might be able to beat him the last time and that would be awesome i also i need justin fields though i need justin fields for that to be possible did you see the the story with the shan kaiser and they asked him about like when he got to meet erin rogers he said the very first thing that erin rogers asked him was like what do you think happened on 9 11 yeah which is

look into it instead look into it yeah and then like go check out some library books though i think the exact quote was do you believe in 9 11 yeah i i got it right here what do i believe in 9 11 yeah i mean why wouldn't i the funniest part was what he said at the end uh to shan kaiser said what it ended up being was a real thought experiment where he wanted me to go back and look into the conspiracies around it and it provoked a lot of great discussion great conversations and we really bonded over that and we started to share some books and talking about some other things we got into history and business and finance so it was a team building exercise yeah i mean whatever whatever people i'm i'm just shocked that he never wanted to play for peak carol maybe that's where he ends up

that would make a lot of sense yeah billy go ahead your hot seat cool throw my hot seat is liver king the ruse is up liver king no yeah unfortunately uh it's come out that liver king was allegedly on steroids allegedly i don't know how i don't know how he couldn't have seen this coming you know i yeah he i feel like i've been lied to i don't want to believe that it's true he told us we asked him face to face yeah he said what do you say like yeah i'm on pedis like performance excellence destiny yeah something like that but yeah that's i read the thing and apparently he was spending like 50 grand a month on hgh i don't know that much about hgh it seems like a lot he was three shots a day right he was spending 132k on hgh a year and the worst thing was it wasn't working

through his if you looked at his blood work his igf levels were way too low for someone an igf is what hgh creates but the craziest thing this is his exact stack in the way we know this is derrick from more plates more dates a really fascinating youtube channel uh he'd say it again derrick from more plates more dates okay i love it it's a great way to live life if you get more plates on the bar you get more dates that's yeah i i cosine more plates more dates he's a he's a very interesting guy no he's a great youtuber if you're like trying to put on mass he's definitely a good gotta listen to um great natty or not segments but apparently he received he received emails from an alleged bodybuilder advisor who uh liver king had reached out to and sent his stack and

blood work to and then while reading this email he looked back into his own emails and found that liver king had reached out to him several years ago asking for help on a steroid cycle so not only is it corroborated with these leaked emails but it's from his own consultation business that liver king reached out to him so this is what this guy was taking and it's this and this doesn't even make sense for bodybuilders uh he was taking igf uh peptide injections mk677 which is like a sarm uh hgh testosterone deca in winstrel and winstrel's interesting because that's the exact drug that big cat asked him if he was on on and he said no i have no idea what that compound is so it's crazy that we gotta find that we gotta make out a clip it's in the blog uh on barstool

sports i found that exact clip it's crazy because um he's he's making over a hundred million dollars a year on his supplements business wait wait a hundred million dollars a year throughout all Billy that's cap no through all of his no he might be grossing he might be grossing grossing a hundred million that might be one million dollars so then it's a hundred millions a lot if he was netting a hundred million he's confirms like this is dangerous when billy starts using words like confirmed that just i would that means that he saw two people tweet a hundred million a lot of people were saying a hundred million yeah i'm i'm not doubting billy that just that is a lot i think it's i think he was in revenue not probably yeah it might be grossing grossing okay

yeah okay so um that would be why worth it it was profitable but i kind of think it was one of those things where he was so deep and he thought he was helping so many people wait wait when you say it was a lie worth it you actually thought he was natural no i never thought okay all right because it's like one of those things that like i would love to actually interview like the three or four dudes right now whose hearts are broken who are like yeah how how could this be possible i feel like you're in that camp billy a little bit no no i if you look at my blog that i put in the blog where his steroid allegations got revealed i've always said this guy's definitely on steroids if we could find i don't know how we could do it if someone knows if so it would have to be an awo has a friend

who's like heartbroken about this email pmt intern uh at gmail.com like i would love to talk to a guy who's like yeah i followed the tenants i touched a tree every day i ate liver supplements how could he do this so i and preferably the guy is also fat and he's like i followed all the tenants and nothing changed in my life now i understand why i so when i went to time square to his like meet and greet where i simulated hunted him there were tons of dudes like that they were like reciting the nine tenants word by word to him and it was it was crazy but i think he thought like he was just so messiah complex into thinking he was saving people's lives that he just like thought the means justify the ends yeah the the ends justify the yeah whatever but the the point

is like as far as i'm concerned i think that liver king is still fine i like liver king i don't think that he's really harming anybody and frankly until i see more proof i'm i remain skeptical that he was doing so i so i do think that uh he probably is harming some people because he is telling people how to live their life and following all these things and you'll look like him when not being truthful about what he's actually taking if he just says like yeah guys i'm 50 years old like it's pretty hard for me to get it out like you know get it up still like i needed this stuff to like you know come back like if he basically does the i was injured and i want to get back with the team real fast like if he does that i'll take him back i'd like to work it dude

like at least you're honest now but if he keeps pretending he's not doing it he's a piece of shit the the problem i have is if you were cheating if you were taking all these steroids do you really still have to do the musk thing and not shower right that that's the part that puts over the top it's like if you're going to be taking uh a hundred thousand dollars worth of steroids a year you can use deodorant that's fine right right and you're yeah you could yeah you could take a shower please i still like liver king though for the record yeah billy who's your cool throne uh my cool throne uh we went over erin rogers a monks so uh there's a tons of monks in thailand who have been kicked out of the monastery because they're all doing meth

and they've been stealing cars uh and turns out this whole monastery was sort of like a meth house for all these monks so one local who commented on the monks crimes while on meth said he stole my gold nissan navara i left it in the parking lot with the keys in i was shocked so i chased after him with another monk in the car for about 20 kilometers but the monk was going too fast like a race car so these monks were wreaking havoc on the village that their monastery was looking over and they've all been sent to rehab and kicked out of the monastery for meth monk meth house sounds like it just another good movie in the same veins cocaine barrier i'd watch that yes agreed jake wrap us up yeah so my hot seat one of them is myself because i missed i own

the awl as an f bomb for missing a last week's flux so i gotta make that up to him right now well i'll tell you what tune into the kevin oakott all interview yeah that's true but i tweeted out during the black friday sale of that if you sent me your receipt i would shout out uh rupert pupkin he's the fucking best thanks for supporting our black friday sale seven time awl so congrats to you so now we have two f bombs in one part of my take episode from you jake buy one get one slippery slope slippery slope i know um but my real hot seat is uh unfortunately us golf fans because tiger woods withdrew from the hero world challenge today uh he said he can hit the golf ball whatever shot you want he just can't walk

that's not ideal same yeah that's my yeah that's a good you should use that poll quote but yeah you said like the mic was i got i could hit the golf ball hit whatever shot you want i just can't walk we should just let tiger woods use a golf cart who says no to that yeah wasn't there that guy remember that guy kasey hampton yeah yeah yeah the lakes yeah like tiger woods should get to use a golf cart for the rest of his career i don't care yeah no one would care no right he's earned that exemption maybe maybe give him a breathalyzer before he hops in but nobody would care well pills don't always show up on a breathalyzer that's true well that's yeah that's true but let him drive let hashtag let tiger drive okay a cars that can only go 20 miles per hour

or slower maybe you have to stop when anyone's even close well he could tiger can ride yeah we can ride in the golf cart and then let somebody yeah let john daily drive make sure everybody's safe and tiger just a shotgun jake i love how jake had that being like i love tiger we just okay jake your cool throne um my cool throne is the Blake of the year Blake Griffin yes sick dunk on uh monday night yes so Blake Griffin can dunk scored nine points four rebounds and the Celtics are 17 and four they put up 140 on monday night yeah shout out Blake when he when he dunked i i gasped me too it was an incredible i didn't like no disrespect to Blake Griffin i didn't know he had that in him still it was like a vintage Blake Griffin dunk we got to uh jake figure out

when he's coming to new york or brooklyn we got to have him back on in person um okay oh sunday oh uh there's sunday at brooklyn does he know that there's football thing going on so yeah uh yeah that's not gonna work yeah is he gonna be around when there's not football on yeah monday february 27 boom combine combine all right combine shit all right let's kick it to kevin o'Connell uh kenny picket and then guys on chicks apologies again for my my throat i'm going to shut it down tomorrow if it's bad again so that thursday i guarantee big cat guarantee i'll be back fully throated on thursday the throat goats on this way back this interview with kevin o'Connell is going to be brought to you by chevy playoff pictures are starting to emerge but one team has

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worst point differential of any team in nfl history that's nine and two it does not it does not sting one little bit uh i i just know what it does is it allows me to keep coaching these guys really hard because we know our best football is hopefully out in front of us but we're able to have those conversations and those moments as a team where uh we found a way to win a lot of close games which i also will think uh help us as as kind of the season progresses and hopefully we get to play some bonus ball yeah okay jake do you have a question for big cat here i do hey coach jake march part of my take podcast this question is on behalf of big cat a lot of media members have called your team fraudulent because you've gotten blown out twice and want a bunch of close games

also because kirk cousins is your quarterback what would you say to those people you know i don't uh i don't say a whole lot i think that kind of goes along with that tough question we started with um at the end of the day we're gonna hopefully put ourselves in a position uh to either get a chance to play against some of the teams we maybe didn't play that well against and lost football games or um we're gonna be playing other good football teams like you tend to do a lot in this league at this point you know everybody seems to have certain aspects of their teams that provide challenges uh but what i will say is like i said the the close games we've won hopefully uh we can call back upon you know those experiences to win some close games as we progress and move forward

but uh it's going to be a challenge every week especially if we're lucky enough to get in the playoffs here um which was you know one of our you know our main goal coming in this this year was to try to win our division we've put ourselves in position to try to do that um you know in the end you know once you're able to do that it's about playing the best possible football when it matters towards december and then on into january so hopefully we're continuing to get better it is what it is as far as what people will say about our team but i know that we've got an incredibly close group we've got uh you know everything everything that you want to play winning football i believe we have in our building and now we just got to be able to go

a week in and week out and go do that i will give you credit too because the the close wins that's something that a lot of times a uh a first year head coach has trouble with with some of those in-game situations game management clock management timeout management challenge management things like that at the end of games is there anything in particular that you did to get yourself ready for being a head coach because we've always said like if we were if we were going into being a first year head coach we would play a shitload of madden over the summer just to get those reps in for like late game scenarios so is there anything in particular you did to get yourself ready for that well i think first and foremost i you know i brought somebody here with me a guy named ryan

cordell who i had worked with before he kind of handles a lot of our you know situational prep he helps our team throughout training camp in the spring we do two minutes every day any chance we're on the grass we try to do a competitive you know end of half end of game type situation and then just let the you know the natural kind of clock scenarios and the different timeouts and things different plays you want to run at different points of situational football we let them kind of manifest themselves organically so then our players have to react even in those moments we're practicing them what i've found is is when you do it like that you're way more likely to have guys you know playing in those critical moments in games with kind of a quieted mind

know what to do and know how to do it and then just you know hopefully your playmakers and your best players are at their best in those moments to help you get it done and that's kind of how some of our wins have played out you know i i imagine you know as you as you played madden and you play some of these games scenarios come up sometimes that you can't predict and i think that's the hardest thing with trying to be quote on quote prepared for those moments is the preparation comes long before they ever happen year if you're in reactionary mode and everybody's kind of just wondering how things are going to go or how we can approach these situations i probably haven't done my job as a coach preparing my team for those moments and i think in the end when those

moments have come about this year we haven't been perfect but i think that's been a major story of our season is how we've kind of flipped the script in a lot of ways from maybe years past and found ways to win some of those games by just executing and being at our best when it's required and at the end of that game that you had a couple weeks ago against the commanders did it ever occur to you when they called that penalty on the field goal attempt like hey maybe i should decline this penalty be the bigger man in this situation and let's let the boys decide on the field not have the refs decide that the vikings are going to win this game well maybe under some different circumstances but we did have an official tackle one of our dbs on a 47 yard touchdown um so i'd had you should

have been lucky should have had his head on swivel it should have had its head on a swivel but that does happen it does tend to happen a couple times a year i i don't know the last time it's happened directly impacting a touchdown uh for the other side but uh we overcame that you know as well as some other things in that game and uh ultimately uh i think it was a moment where i'll tell you what it's never pretty in some of those situational moments when you're telling doubt and cook don't score um from the one yard line it'd be awfully nice just to punch that thing in and and get add seven more points to your total and and say go figure it out defense but the right thing to do in that moment was uh to kill as much clock and as many timeouts of of the other side as we could

and make that uh you know make it less less of a chance for us to possibly lose that game i personally would say it's a coward's move to not let the other team have the ball but that's just that's just me jake do you have another question for big cat yes i do this is on behalf of big cat so coach just a hypothetical you're down by 14 you score a touchdown do you kick the extra point or do you go for two i do fourth quarter this is yeah this is one i've come around on i think uh i think you go for two um just because uh you then know exactly uh the circumstances that you're you're kind of going into games with and i'll tell you this much nowadays uh you have to have more two-point plays available to you than maybe uh i remember when i was playing or even going back

to college i just don't remember the volume of two-point plays you really need because you just never know uh if there's a scenario where you've gone for two in the first half a couple times and then all of a sudden you are in the scenario you speak of a lot of people are now going for two um in that moment because now you get two opportunities uh to to get those two points and if you're able to get them uh on the first time now you obviously know that you're you're uh you're six points down with the ability to score and win on the that next extra point uh since they moved the extra point back it's absolutely not a given um anymore that that's going to be an easy one point anyway so i think you're going to continue to see more people go for it uh brandon staley

doug peterson i thought those were uh you know really great moves by those guys to go win the game the way they did at that point in time um and i think that as a young head coach you're just constantly looking at uh situational football every single week from around the league and how you can take those scenarios and apply it to how you would handle it with your own team uh depending on the circumstance and there's a follow-up another hypothetical for you you're down by eight it's fourth and goal from the 10 there's three minutes left in the game do you kick the field goal or go for it say that one more time sorry yeah so you're down by eight it's fourth and goal from the 10 yard line three minutes left in regulation do you kick the field goal to potentially go down by five

or go for it how many timeouts do i have left three timeouts three timeouts three timeouts a lot of which would probably go into the feel of you know how we've done how we moved the ball how we finished drives in that game um i i would more than likely probably uh go for it knowing that if we don't get it we've got the three timeouts and we do have the ability to then score and uh you know also coach tom brady's the quarterback you're playing against and it's the nfc championship game and your name's matt will floor that's uh that's scenario sounded a little too familiar yes not that one i mean i think is a valid question um you're i i was looking through your your history here um as a player as well as as a coach and usa just scored go lazo usa there we go

boys are up boys are up one nil let's go uh okay wait i gotta recenter myself um are you the fastest nfl head coach you know i would like to think so but i coached with the guy the last couple years that he's got these little short strides out there in los angeles no way cover a lot of ground i'm just telling you man former state football player of the year option quarterback sean mcvay actually beat out calvin johnson i think for the player of the year in georgia his senior year um i'll tell you what he can move but his problem is uh you know the the stress of being a head coach and all the success he's had it's catching up with him he tends to pull a groin or a hammy anytime he opens it up so uh i'd like to think that i'd be a little bit more uh prepared

to uh you know maybe long stride him and and try to get him but it's i can tell you this much there's not that very other than sean maybe a couple other guys i think i got a good chance yeah because we always talk about which coaches would win in a battle royale if everybody was fighting each other and in that case it's probably verable dan camel maybe andy reed if he's just like sumo style but in terms of like a foot race i think it's i think it's probably you and uh who else who else would you think would be up there i'm trying to think let's see um you know i i still think dan camel could probably move he still looks like he probably he mixes in like 15 minutes of cardio a day besides that it's it's a not many not many speedsters coaching on the sidelines and

it's all right now who's that mcdaniel mcdaniel no no no no no it's either it's yeah it's mcvay it's mcvay if it's anybody and i'd like to think i could maybe get him he would tell you the other he would tell you absolutely no chance but um he never got to see me open it up too much what about cliff you think cliff could move it no i don't think cliff uh cliff would uh cliff would not be uh he'd be on the podium if it was only the three of us racing he'd be he'd be worried that the wind would mess up his hair if he was running so he probably he's got enough to walk between him and mcvay they have they both have enough product their hair is not going anywhere uh jake you have a question for big cat yes via big cat coach you opened your

playing career in the nfl with the new england patriot since 2008 with that being said to tom brady ever view you as a threat and was he open to sharing his process with you or was it competition all the time no he was great um i still uh i that's one of the biggest regrets i have not only not being able to be around coach bellicek and josh mcdaniel's a longer period of time but um tom was phenomenal to me um he's always been really great to me even since moving on to you know playing for the jets in the division and then getting into coaching uh he's always been great to me um i at that point time you know coming off of a season in 2007 where they didn't lose until their very last game i don't know if he thought of me as much of a threat um as much

as he was just focusing on continuing you know that you know the dominance he had had up until that point then unfortunately that was the year that he tore his acl matt castle played for the majority of that year but tom was still around all the time and and very much available and and uh you know i i can't say enough about what he was like to share a quarterback room with it especially at that point in time in his career um and then obviously where he's taken it from there is is you know one of one yeah uh we're always curious when when new coaches get a job whether or not they're a ping pong table guy if you're a guy that like takes the ping pong table out of the locker room if you're a guy that moves the ping pong table into the locker room build cohesiveness

where do we stand on on ping pong tables you know what where i stand on it is if the players and our leadership want to have a ping pong table you know they can have a ping pong table i think it goes so much beyond that i think culture and a building and a winning culture um should be able to overcome um things like ping pong tables and anything else like that if you're building it the right way and these guys want to be in the building um you know outside of the required time that they're required to be here uh whatever it is that gets them to come together as a group i think is a positive um i i just think uh across the board in this league you know with just all the different variations and very you know types of personalities and backgrounds you know there's still something

so unique to me about a nfl locker room and when it has that feeling and that close knit group like i know our guys have downstairs um there's really nothing like it and i know i you speak to a lot of players that move on and no matter what they do in their next career even as a coach uh shoot you never quite feel uh you know that that same feeling of just being part of an nfl locker room it's it truly is one uh when it's right and and when it's been built the right way and you got the right kind of guys there's really nothing like it yep jake you have a question last one yes coach this is on behalf of big cat is justin fields the most dynamic player you've ever had to game plan against and if the answer is no why do you insist on lying i'll tell you what he is uh he's a special player

i i you know there's a there's a lot of really talented quarterbacks in our league that affect the game so many ways but i can just tell you um this goes back to i got a chance to watch a spring practice before the ohio state pro day um shoot that might have been back in 2019 um and i just remember watching him walk on the field just the the size the the athleticism the ability to throw the football i knew he was an nfl quarterback the first time i i saw him even went but going into that next season when uh he obviously had such a special year um and he's carried that over i think that you know coach ebert fluss and those guys in chicago are doing a great job with him and and putting him in an offense where i just think he's going to continue to get

better and grow as a player uh you can tell that the guys on the team absolutely love playing with him and and what he means to that team um it's something i think a lot about because i think he's going to be uh you know a franchise changing quarterback for that organization and something we're going to have to deal with two times a year uh for hopefully a long time if i get to be the head coach of this team for a long time so i can't say enough good things about where he's at and his development this year and i think he's only going to get better so the answer is yes he is the toughest guy to game plan against thank you the answer is he's a very very good player you know who another very very good player is somebody that we we love very deeply on this

show and and have a tremendous amount of respect for is your quarterback kirk cousins and uh there was a moment after the Thanksgiving game where you made a comment i think it was in the locker room we were saying uh how 7 30 p.m this is a prime time game let's give a game ball to kirk cousins great job kirk how do you go about game planning with kirk cousins are there way are there things that you can do during the week to simulate the fact that the game is going to be played later on at night versus being the new nightmare when he takes the field in the early slate no i think it's just every game is its own and regardless of when you play what time of day um you know i think playing at home obviously at us main stadium i think we got one of the best home

atmospheres in the whole nfl in the whole league sometimes those prime time games are going to be on the road in tough environments and it's your entire team having to play well and play a real clean football game to give yourself the chance to win those games and when sometimes that doesn't happen it tends to fall on the quarterback's plate um and and i think it was just a moment the other night uh let's not forget four days off after not playing even close to the level that has become what i believe is uh where we're heading as a football team we didn't play well we had four days to kind of uh you know ask a lot of questions look inward and try to be at our best against a really good well coach football team and uh love the way our team responded but that was spearheaded

by our quarterback and uh he deserved every bit of not only that turkey leg with the game ball he got right afterwards now did you notice that india in the game against the bills when they did the old buddy ryan polish goal line defense when they put 12 guys on the field when you were trying to get in do you think that was intentional because i think it was because it makes a lot of sense to try to get away with having 12 men on the field if you get away with it then you get away with it and if you get called for a penalty then what it's like a yard and a half distance that they take away from you do you think that they were doing that intentionally you know what i hadn't thought about that but considering it was a time when i could not throw a challenge flag um you know it

was up to the replay official up up top or possibly new york to stop the game and and try to count them up um it definitely is possible that uh you know the the staff there was thinking that uh it was it was maybe a time you could try to manipulate the the circumstances of the game but i can tell you i'm still searching long and hard for uh you know a run that we like when there's uh 12 guys on the field uh to try to stop the uh you know the 10 guys you got blocking especially uh you know when you're handing the ball off to daven cook and your quarterbacks not gonna have a chance to run it himself so uh that was a tough down there was a tough sequence i would have loved to be able to end that game um by scoring a touchdown but how about patrick peterson finishing it with a pick and uh

you know helping us get a huge win jake you have another question yeah coach when you're on the sidelines do you ever say in the headset fuck it i don't have a play just find justin jefferson because he will make a play well uh those exact words weren't exactly maybe what i was thinking on that fourth and 18 but my mind went to where's the best place to put them uh how do i try to find a one-on-one when i know there's more than likely gonna be multiple defenders around him responsible for him um but uh i did tell i did tell kirk what i was thinking with that play call and to give him a chance in that moment but that was as close uh you know to uh you know me ever phrasing something like that in my mind at that point time that was probably as close as i've

been uh fourth and 18 you know with the game online it's a good play honestly like he's down there somewhere just just just throw it up i don't know how much you are familiar with the things that we've said on this show um about the vikings we like the vikings i'm a big i'm a big ham fan i love cj ham i love uh i love the full back position um but we have agreed to get kirk cousins tattooed on our ass if you guys win the super bowl so i don't know if that's if that counts as bulletin board material if you put up just a giant pig for me and big cat's ass in the locker room probably the exact opposite of that but i don't know like do you like do you like having haters out there do you like having people that don't believe in you or would you rather have

people saying nice things about you the rat poison no i actually think you know in my role um i try not to allow the good or bad to really affect the way i talk to the team you know i try to make it about the game and what it's going to take to win each and every game but um it's it's definitely easier um you know when when dealing with the negative things being said about your team because you could always use it as motivation in those moments during a long 17 game season where uh you know it definitely can't hurt to let the guys know hey no matter what we've accomplished this year no matter what we've been able to build here together you guys have taken and made all this come to life uh you know there's still a lot of people out there that maybe don't think we've earned the

right to be considered uh you know one of the better teams in this league regardless of our record and the beauty of that is we get to play more football we get more opportunities to go out and potentially be at our best and and have a chance to continue our season when that time comes so uh as i've told our team uh you know a couple times they'll be talking about us uh when it matters if we continue to handle our business yeah so you're welcome so like your haters are your best motivators so without us who knows where you guys would be right now um so we'll continue to do that we'll continue to provide some fire to your team i appreciate that you know no problem we're happy to do it and it's just because we want to see you succeed that's the only reason why we do this

Jake yeah coach when you get blown out does it feel like a double loss because personally i counted as a double loss and that's happened twice this year you know what i can tell you my wife always gives me a hard time because she thinks that i don't enjoy when we win um but i can tell you that uh winning winning a game uh in the nfl is absolutely it's it's it's great anytime you can do it but the losses um tend to have a five times more negative effect on you just food doesn't taste as good and nothing about anything uh really can provide joy when you lose a football game it is as hard as it comes to win to win in this league but when you believe in your team and uh you know not only our team here but coming from a pretty winning organization where i had been before you

know the the losses tend to sting a heck of a lot more so um however you want to put it a loss is a loss just like a win is a win one point uh wins mean the same as a 40 point win in my mind and the same goes for losses i can tell you this thing is absolutely uh something that i you know we take very very seriously and it's hard when you when you're not able to win a game did we score again we just scored and then they called it off sides it's bullshit that's bullshit he was on side i like how we're all you know as as much crap as we give uh the viking sometimes in the show we're americans first and foremost right rooting for the boys to bring it home um this is a question that or a game that we play with every guest that we have on coach um do you talk to like a lot of

kids i'm sure that a lot of kids uh want to know like you know i have questions about football for the coach of the viking so we're doing questions from a third grader so um this is from mrs joyce's third grade class in dripping springs texas uh the first question they want to uh coach what's your favorite color my favorite color is blue okay all right good choice and then timmy in mrs joyce's class want to know when you were a kid what did you want to be when you grow up i actually wanted to be a pro football player uh and to be more specific i wanted to be randall cunningham it was my favorite player growing up uh playing quarterback for the eagles that's very cool very cool and then amy she says coach do you really really trust kirk cousins when it comes

down to it like actually you really trust that guy seriously i do i do amy i uh i absolutely trust kirk cousins and uh you know he's continuing to not only he doesn't need to gain it but he continues to show on a daily basis that uh he's doing everything in his power to be ready to help us win every football game we get the opportunity to play that's cool they're gonna love that mrs joyce's class is gonna be just tickled for that jake do you have do you have a question then we'll do the roback question i do this is actually the roback oh it is a roback yes okay coach you can use code take roback dot com for 20 off your first purchase i'm rocking the hoodie right now they have great q zips t shirts golf shirts uh we'd like to give you a roback performance

hariana so awl is good a roback rhoback dot com use code take for 20 off your first purchase personally i have kirk cousins ranked as the 16th best quarterback in the national football league your thoughts i think uh i think uh that's probably a little high in my opinion or not low enough i should say i don't want to get into where i believe he is but i can tell you he's gonna get the opportunity to prove uh hopefully uh you know as the season goes on he continues to do some of the things he's done uh maybe i'll circle back with you on that rankings and hopefully you're wearing a nice sweatshirt like you are it's very very nice have you and have you unlocked him because that was all the talk coming into the season it's like they're they're hiring kevin o'Connell to unlock kirk cousins

and his full potential how unlocked is he i can just tell you you know last thursday was an example of him starting to master our offense and really uh have the ownership of it where i think we've got a chance to be really successful as a group uh because of that because of his ability to lead our group um and and i think he's gonna just continue to improve and um bring out the best parts of our team around him and it's got some great players around him on offense and great skilled players and uh and a and a really good offensive line when it all comes together we can we feel very strongly about our group and it perks a huge reason why okay excellent coach thank you for joining us i've won last last question and then we'll let you go it's kevin o'Connell thank you

for your time former uh washington redskins offensive coordinator and your hat on wikipedia your in your wikipedia picture you're actually still wearing your redskins gear somebody needs to change that because that's the last thing it's the last thing i need is another reminder that a washington assistant is somewhere else and thriving so if somebody out there is an admin please please change that right now this is an easy question for you though what's your favorite play oh man um i can tell you uh my favorite play it's got to be some sort of play action shot type of play uh where we're uh we're curc's turning it loose to jesson jefferson down the field for a for an easy touchdown we call him laughers uh here in minnesota when we can find a way to get a

laffer meaning somebody's wide open in the end zone doesn't matter how far away it is uh we're hunting laffers at all times here i kind of like that hunting laffers it's pretty good and then if you win the super bowl you got to make a promise like you're going to gritty right i actually i actually told our guys that uh you know i originally said the super bowl and just then immediately started negotiating for uh nfc championship game so if we if we make it to that after the divisional round i uh i've told the guys that i'll i'll join them i'll join them in a gritty i'm not going to go solo but uh a group effort would be nice all right well america is looking forward to that and to seeing big cat and i with kurt cousins face tattooed right on her

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because you are good that's not a question uh kenny thank you for joining us my first question very important question our mutual friend our co-worker your friend jersey jerry constantly talks about how he took a shower at your house what shower was it in your house and how weird is that yeah so we we got done golfing and then we had like an hour before dinner and i didn't want to go there like in what we just golfed in the middle of the summer so i was like all right i'm gonna go home a shower and then i was like jerry want to come hang out he's like yeah and i was like you can shower if you want to you don't have to go to dinner like that so i think he went up to the guest room and showered and i think he left his sneakers there and i don't think i ever gave him

back so they still might be in my parents house right now sitting in the garage or something oh okay all right i think that's funny that you mentioned that you tweeted that because i actually texted jerry last night i said jerry i think i think kenny is good yeah and then he said he is very good he's the future i said the same thing with jerry this is all off the record too so it's like this is a real conversation guys being dude it was just a simple kenny is good yeah like i've seen it he's good um kenny uh my question for you is i think that i've noticed that your hands look bigger did your hands get bigger are they still growing let's let's push the narrative now you gotta start in draft process i'll say they're hitting a growth spurt yeah they were really

enveloping that football last night i was like i was like damn those are some like that's a that's a legit hand right there some normal size hands man just going playing ball yep love it normal size hands yeah that's a hell of a tagline normal size hands jake go ahead hey kenny this is jake march from the part in my take podcast my question is since you're a two-hand quarterback with gloves what was the last time you got a blister on your hands oh a blister probably you know god i that's a that's a crazy question um maybe baseball i used to swing a baseball bat maybe i got a blister playing baseball in high school so junior year high school wow it's been a while crazy tough hands too big big normal very normal tough hands yes yes okay uh speaking

of uh soft hands pilly what's up kenny uh quick question what happens when you throw a football without a glove on oh oh you know i do that in the walkthrough and everybody on the offense is just amazed at and how i'm able to do it so it's not too different but i i managed during the walkthroughs without the gloves okay good question you have a question max a question hang on max you got a question i don't think any of us texted you just gotta ask question off the rip i want max wait wait max i have a question max you got this big cat can you stall for one second while i text it to max i'll stall tell him to stall don't ask him to stall i'm asking big cat not kenny oh yeah no he's telling me and he's asking me yeah big cat can i get some stellar blue coffee man i haven't

tried coffee or yes coffee out and that's your question all right so that was your question yes yes yes all right um text me your address i will have some sent to you what type of coffee i can't ask that um we'll just take a guess just text me text me everything you want and your address well i'm not a big coffee guy so i'm kind of i'm really putting all my eggs in this bag all right i got you i got you i was gonna say do you have a coffee machine i don't know he probably yeah he's a he's an NFL player he's the facility we got one at the facility okay all right i got you i'll send you a bunch i'm gonna send you a bunch you'll be ready to go all right max last question all right this is an important one um does it feel better when you don't use a glove like skin on skin

i like i like the glove man okay that's why you haven't had a blister ball security for a very long time protect you get good protection of the pocket not even a blister scare yeah nope yeah i love it love it okay well kenny thank you for doing this man we appreciate it good luck rest of the season and uh hopefully we see you soon awesome appreciate it boys one questions with kenny pickett is brought to you by crumble cookies crumble cookies is about bringing friends family and fans together over a box of the best cookies in the world these cookies are the perfect addition to a game day spread a lot of times people forget about cookies they forget about dessert when it comes to any sort of tailgating or a game day snack atmosphere don't be that person don't forget

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i sound like shit i'm sorry again i won't talk if anybody out there has a has a throat that big cat can use a pristine throat i did let us know i did jinx this i jinxed it and it's football season killed me football season killed me it's okay it's a battle you know what this it's always darkest before the dawn facts this is the start of the championship dvd all right hank hey big cat pfp at least i can still read that's a good point wait can you say numbers yeah i will in a second okay all right okay hey big cat pft henry cake william and back girl my husband loves you guys so i'm hoping he'll listen to you said by the way i haven't even read these first so you know oh it's like it's like a freestyle yeah uh since he won't pick up my hints

in 2005 he was in seventh grade he had a terrible atv accident broke his face orbital sockets really bad had to be airlifted have titanium plates lucky to be live he claims that this was the last day he ever farted and claims has been almost 17 years since the last time he farted what i hear him every morning in the shower ripple add one and he will be blaming on our nine-month-old son blaming on a frog that got in the house or me moving furniture what can i do to get him to admit i know he's farted i believe him i don't i don't know why i do but i mean i don't know what having like a face accident has to do with your butthole but i i tend to think that i i like the lie this is the greatest lie ever it's a fantastic lie this is like um i uh my old car the avalon that got totaled because

i got rear-ended i had blown out the speakers like a year before and when it got totaled i went into the car place and i was like yeah when they when they rear-ended me like the speakers haven't been the same since the guy was like yeah that's just not true yeah there's no way that that works out yeah and i was like well i tried yeah no listen i just it sounds at this point like he's so far into the lie that it's become a deep part of who he is so just kind of let him have this one guys you know what the modern-day alpha male doesn't have a lot of things that we can do to make us feel manly but getting away with lies is one of those things speaking of alpha males hey boys my boyfriend of three years has become obsessed with his identity being stolen about six months

ago his credit card was flagged for some suspicious charges and he is convinced they got his information by going through our trash that are that had our mail in it so now before he takes the trash out he poops in the bag to deter anyone from going through its contents he claims this is foolproof and anyone that opens our trash i think it's a lie we'll learn a hard lesson this guy's more of a liar than the last guy keep telling him it's a ticking time bomb when the trash bag ultimately gets ripped but he says it's just the price we pay for protecting our livelihood hunter should have done this to his laptop he's just taking a crap on it yeah this is a lie but also a very funny idea yeah i don't hate i don't hate the the effort that went into writing this question

yeah that's like you you get credit for being a little bit interesting and different yeah pooping in the trash it all goes the same place is that the new now that uh john macrophy is dead allegedly should we be protecting ourselves by pooping in our trash i kind of like the idea that people have like there's this one dude out there that's in favor of voluntary human extinction where he's just trying to get everybody i saw that guy yeah he's trying to get everybody on earth to stop fucking yeah probably because he just can't get laid he's an insult so he's like we should probably all just stop having sex but for the planet not because i'm a loser and so uh this is like maybe the next step for those guys to save the world like stop flushing

your turds quit putting your shit into the ocean yeah just start pooping in your trash yes yes i like it hey boys and happy tuesday i have recently moved in with my boyfriend of almost seven years and i've discovered he has a horrendous drooling problem when he sleeps he drools so much that it leaves a terrible stench on his entire pillowcase i avoid cuddling with him in bed because the smell makes me sick and i don't want to get fresh wet drool on me every time i bring up this problem to him we get in a fight i suggested some different ways to potentially stop the drooling for example i saw tiktok of someone taping their mouth at night or proposing that he put on a pillowcase covered to sleep there's there's a new thing i don't know if you guys got this instagram ad

it's called i think it's called hostage tape and it's supposed to make you sleep better you put tape over your mouth and it like it's crazy do you cover your eyes with a blindfold dude it's fucking sleep have you seen a max sleep upside down with water pouring in your nose it helps with snoring too yeah mike yeah yeah oh do you uh you're a snorer aren't you i snore yeah my girlfriend is like you need to get this you need to get this yes so hostage tape uh i'm a drooler i i i got to admit that although i don't think it smells i'm not oh it definitely smells it smells it's like your own sneezes smells like chicken parm for you in your case um what i don't i don't doubt that hangs a drooler based strictly on his yawns that's the hostage that's fucking creepy that's almost

like problematic it's so creepy so creepy that looks like a Balenciaga i'll see it all the time on instagram being like whoa jesus christ just get a fucking sleep apnea machine does your child snore here put this hostage tape on them thanks for shopping at Balenciaga also my my yeah my brain is so dumb i probably would just die yeah you put it on your you accidentally cover up your nose when i was in katar i was sleeping with so donnie and i shared a bedroom because michael angela said that he was a snore and donnie was like yeah i don't snore don't worry about it we can we can share a bedroom we had two separate beds uh at about six o'clock in the morning after we go to bed at like four a.m that first night i just look over at donnie and he's he's a moaner

he's a sleep moaner he's going nice fucking and then i was like yo you know the old hanks story about how you went to was it latvia latvia never had met clemen his life and this is the first time out of the country right we're in twin beds no i've been out of the country but i was in we were in latvia he had never met that i had never met in person and it was our first night and he's doing a video by the way where clemm was just trying to find porzingus his family yeah it was it was it was like he sent out a tweet that was a joke like hey dav can i go to latvia to like become one with chris house porzingus and dav was like yes hank you're going and i was like this is fucking ridiculous it was fun but although the weather was miserable it was

not not the best time to visit latvia um in january the very first night and clemm is like the nicest guy in the world love clemm we had a nice evening i ate a bunch of pb and jakes all the food there was trash and then we're in bed and he started screaming bloody murder like i i've never been i i think i left the hotel i'm like i had to go for walks i was like i'm gonna die like he was and then he was like yeah my bad i should have told you beforehand night the night terrorist yeah i think so it's crazy like as you get older your body starts to take away the one thing that's always the most peaceful part of your day which is sleep yeah and have you guys ever had sleep paralysis yes where you're in a dream and and you can't move at all yes it's fucking

terrifying i think someone's like in your room yeah and you can't move and then you start shaking because your body's from yeah i've slept walk before too it's not yeah anyways just yeah it sounds like he's a sleep drooler whatever he just needs just reinforce the fact to him that like hey it's disgusting to sleep in your drool so i'm gonna i'm gonna have my own pillow put a dog cone on his head or just just invite the dog into the bed yeah and convince yourself that it's dog drool and then it's actually adorable there's no way this girl yes she said yeah if she because like if you have if you're a dog owner drool is just drool it's the best yeah you're fine with drool dog owners and parents like you just deal with drool all the time right yeah

all right last one uh my boyfriend hey guys my boyfriend wants a ps5 but i told him he better reciprocate the money spent on me or more if i get him one he didn't like that so now i think that shouldn't have been said opinions i think that's completely fair if he's raising the gift threshold to ps5 levels then you have every reason to ask him what would that be like a diamond what do girls want that's like four thousand dollars ps5s aren't that expensive but you have to do also add in the fact that you're buying something that he basically is just going to ignore you by using that's like so it is like there is a cost to the relationship as well yeah you're giving him a means to like you're basically giving him a means to just excuse himself from all relationship things

you're giving him a hobby yeah in addition to spending money now does it maybe you want him to have this hobby maybe he's spending too much time with you in which case that would be a very good move what do you say no i don't really want to i don't i can't really tell the anecdote no anecdote it it's an anecdote someone i know uh was telling me about how they got their boyfriend to ps5 and or like they said they were going to get it for him they were drunk they got it for him and then he used it all the time but he plays on their main tv in the living room so she can't even watch tv yeah i was like you got it you got to have a monitor separately yes he can go in the room and play the ps5 and you could be on the tv but the fact that she was like it was the biggest

mistake in my life because now i can't even watch tv and he just plays ps5 yes yeah that's bad that sounds awful yes it's bad it is really like i can understand how our parents felt when i was a child growing up and like my dad didn't want me to have a super nintendo for the longest time because i was just going to take over the living room and not pay attention to him when he was telling me to do shit it's really a terrible gift to get anybody it's it's very bad and i i think about it like when i used to play video games all the time just how much time i used up every day playing video games and they turn you into a little shithead too right like your your parents would come be like we need to watch television right now you're like no yeah just started yeah i just

started let me play let me finish this game i'm in the water level but i think i think if there is a separate area where it's like all right you can go in there and then i can do my thing like there's there is some level of that where it's like maybe you're hanging out too much and it's good to have some separation but if it's going to be like in your living room and it's just going to take up your whole house like that's a problem yeah yeah okay uh good questions before we do numbers Hank have you ever gotten it no okay uh jake you have a list of all the people who bought something on cyber monday thank you to everyone who supported us how many how many emails did you get i'm going through the exact number right now it's north of 2000 okay okay

so the only fair way we're gonna do this is jake is gonna just start saying names and pft and i're just gonna pick the name that we most want to have guessed this number but i got to look at each email to see if they set a number so they might start on friday yeah friday's when they'll start okay pick the name right now friday's when they'll officially start and the rule is if they get it before hank they get five thousand dollars okay so i'm just gonna rattle off you guys tell me when to stop yes i just went to the middle of the submission list okay okay apologies if i mispronounce your name anthony briggs no john just go with first go go first name sorry anthony briggs you just got dogged bro nice name bitch okay john tyler jackson michael jack spencer

sebastian joey joe hannah i don't hate sebastian i don't hate sebastian that's got my vote for right now but yeah keep going we'll we'll have some more okay joey joe hannah jared sam kevin darcy sam jake jackson evan frank hosey john tito devin tito so tito so tito and hosey this sucks for everyone who's like who yeah their name is like kevin or yeah or ben so we'll start tito but keep going yeah sebastian or tito i also like hosey up there too no way hosey yeah that's pretty cool sebastian tito okay devin daunte katie tyson tyler carlin ed brady andrew brian jones savannah matthew logan victor jackson will tom patrick ben colton with a k andrew austin sam colton with a k no he he's just gonna end up being like a middle reliever for the a's

victor would be would be a good one just if he beat hang yeah okay keep going josh p benjamin brian Wyatt jonathan jasper collin jasper don't get any jasper's is it did a dog by either he's either a dog or he's like an extra on yellowstone at 84 okay collin mathew christian matt blake jake brian brian there's a blank in there how do you spell the brian bryan no who's en i would have maybe done it bry en this guy's parents just cost him five grand yeah sorry bro now they're not gonna win anyway stewart evan chris noa daniel tyler anthony ryan alex matt ryan anthony patrick alex denis travis jamie noa chef chef timothy daniel will okay i'm just gonna say i i like tito and sebastian okay i think flip a coin for tito or should we go like

one through 50 no no no just flip a coin flip a coin we know that if we ever get further into the tennis well that's this is not even close to a coin it's exactly the same on both sides it's just great it will flip the row back tag dog side up tito okay white side up sebastian that didn't really fly the lens cap that's like the aeronautsers coin flip we're at the what about a what about a weight i'm gonna break the floor i have a lens cap i flip it oh yeah i got the dive from this one through 10 11 through yeah it's one through 20 yeah it's one through 20 all right so evens tito gets evens tito gets odd smashing his evens sebastian kick his ass seabass sebastian is officially the guy did he a guess a number no he

did not he bought the part of my take short sleeve hoodie that's it yeah wait what did tito buy what's the fuck tito hoodie is a very cool hoodie though tito bought the row back donut golf shirt we should have just done it on the most stupid all right next year we'll do that all right sebastian uh email jake or jake email sebastian we're gonna get a number from him i think you should just have his own number that he just picks and that's can he switch every show or you can but that's it that's up to that no that's up to you have to deal with that oh yeah yeah you have to check the email now if he doesn't send a new submission then we're just sticking with the previous number yes so one because his name is sebastian yeah pretty much yeah pretty much and

he won the the the dragon's die yeah uh okay numbers thank you've knocked on this i have not i'm going with four andy b ashley sup i don't like this i'm gonna go with jay j ready 17 okay i'll go with 64 20 18 what that's pft is just a bad person he did he do it i would have done it 17 is an open number hank you didn't take it ocean break he took four yeah because he's a follower in honor of his great friend brett farth 64 is such a great friend jay jay wrote such a clown move to win with someone else's great just dookie of all time everything is someone else's number no it's a true 17's mine 20 25 25 i can't wait for sebastian to win if he wins that's your money you know that hank you little sebastian is that first time okay yeah but so it's you're not getting the 5k

what it's your money no i'll open we'll come out of our pockets don't worry about it but you're not getting it oh well i guess we could both win no no no if you get beaten then it's over for you it's over for you no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no that was my point i'm not doing this sebastian doesn't get 5k and then you get it the next time you get 5k yes what do you mean no it doesn't work like that it's exactly how it works no it's a word it's a race to win hanks no no no that that that's insane i have that i have i'm fine you already been started i have only 15 shows left let's not let's not even get in he's never gonna i have so let's not even bother ourselves we gotta look you know what hank no problem no problem love you guys

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