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Happy Columbus Day to all those who celebrate. To all those who celebrate the discovery of the new world and the football that came with it. Our wonderful Italian-Americans. We start in London town where the Jaguars tried to build Hadrian's Wall to contain Rome, but it wasn't enough after Cole Kometgala scored twice and stop me if you've heard this before, but Jason Derulo has just fallen down the stairs again.

Keenan Allen wrench took a right angle for two touchdown scores, further bolting the screws on Doug Peterson's coaching casket. Doug, he's in a box, in a box, in a box. Bears 35, Jaguars 16. Down to Balmer, Maryland, with a battle of the beltway. Don't say gay flowers. Embraced man-to-man coverage as a wide receiver went for 137 yards. Marky Mark Andrews committed some hate crimes against the Washington defense yesterday.

As we were lucky the game wasn't a tie late. Truth or Derek Henry went streaking as the Ravens rolled to another victory. The Ravens 30, the Commanders 23.

Up to Green Bay where they were saying, Romeo, Romeo, where art thou, Romeo? Dobbs reunited with his forbidden love. Jordan, that is, leaning up for two scores. Arizona couldn't hold a candle to Melton Wicks, and the Packers ran up the score, leaving the Cardinals fishing for an answer as their fans are saying, Michael Wilson, king of touchdowns, we lay this hate on you. Packers 34, Cardinals 13.

Down to the big easy where Spencer Giff's Rattler threw very tacky balls to Arian Foster Moreau, who in true communist fashion failed to capitalize on bucks.

God wins again, atheist. Sean Penis Tucker showed everyone he was a man-gina scoring twice. And despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in the cade. As Otten had Saints fans smashing pumpkins early in the fourth quarter. As the Bucs put up a 50-burger. The Bucs, 51. The Saints, 27. We head on over to Foxborough for Drake Mays.

First game, Hank. You looked at me like you weren't ready, but Hank's ready. You mean we go over to Gillette. We're at long last. It was time for the main event.

CJ Sean Stroud took the Texans down, down, down, down, down, down the field and threw a touchdown to Tank. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Dell to get the scoring started. Joe Mixon of water added a rushing TD of his own before October's very own. Drake May found Case Sean booty rocking everywhere for a 40-yard score. Speaking of booty everywhere, Stephon Coach Diggs scored on a glitch play.

as the Texans roll over the Patriots 41-21. I thought I had some more, but I don't know where they went, Boom. That's okay, Boom. I'm talking about homework, Boom. That's all right, Boom. Good job, Boom.

Pittsburgh 32, the Raiders 13.

Over in Denver where B.O. Nix doesn't deserve the axe even though he was body spraying the ball over the field. J.K. Rowling Dobbins was a turf monster scoring a touchdown and racking up 96 yards on the day. The white Bronco himself Riley Moss couldn't go fast enough down the L.A. freeway as he took a few stabs in a big play but ended up on the losing end. O.J. Simpson's dead folks. R.I.P. O.J. Simpson.

A much better player than a human being. Chargers 23, the Broncos 16. In Dallas, there were a lot of anger kicks made, and it looked like a Kareem Hunt video as Tim Patrick starred. And unless you've been living under a rock, the Lions are good. Lion Cowboys, like Enos and Jack, telling their wives there was nothing happening up on that mountain. And much like that film, the Cowboys sucked on D, letting the Lions put up 47.

Dax Delente showed his asshole and his butt crack again. Big fucking deal. We've never seen an asshole before. Lions, 47. Cowboys, 9. And happy birthday to Jerry Jones, the biggest asshole in the world. Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston, Cuyahoga. Such a fine sight to see. Another record loss, the Eagles taking off. Can the Browns just end the season, please? Sirianni, hey!

Eagles 20, Browns 16.

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Okay, week six in the books. We'll recap Sunday Night Football, Snoozefest Sunday Night Football at the end of everything because it's still going on. But boys, scoring might be back in the NFL. Finally. Outside of Sunday Night Football. Finally. We had nine games in week six where a team went over 30 points. Yeah, we had some great, great games if you bet the overs today. The Bucks-Saints game, feel like that in basically the first quarter. That was insane. Yeah. Yeah.

But we also had, it felt like, a bunch of the favorites. One, not a lot of surprises. Some statement games that we had. Maybe the worst birthday. Yeah, for Jerry Jones. Put that in the tickler for the Tiki Awards. Worst birthday. Worst birthday. Yeah. Yeah. So let's get into the games, though. We started with the London game. Bears 35, Jaguars 16.

I very much enjoyed this game. I bet you did. This was a very fun game. This is why people wanting me to freak out after two weeks. This game felt good because Caleb Williams was awesome. He threw four touchdown passes. He ran for 56 yards. He was actually the fourth QB ever to

to have four plus rookie QB ever to have four plus TDs and 50 rushing yards in a game. He also is the first QB pick number one overall in the common draft era to start four and two. Yes. So four out of six, which is a little vindication of when I said that he was going into the best situation a number one pick has ever gone into. Yes, the offensive line, which was bad to start the season, has looked a lot better.

this is kind of what I'm talking about because the Bears defense continues to put, even with all their injuries, elite performances together every single week and essentially gives the offense like they, it's been 12 games that a team's gone over 21 points on the Bears and Caleb Williams,

the Keenan Allen connection, just everything. It all looked awesome. You also had the Travis Hunter of the NFL today, Cole Komet. Yeah. Cole Komet, he had two touchdowns, right? Two touchdowns. He had two touchdowns, and then there was an injury to your long snapper. Yep. So Cole Komet couldn't even celebrate his touchdowns because he had to run to the line of scrimmage

and be the emergency long snapper. Yes. And I don't think he fucked up a single snap either. No, he didn't. He was awesome. Keenan Allen was awesome. That's been like a focus because he obviously started injured the season. Now he's back and he's kind of the safety valve guy

Cale Williams touchdown throw where he hit him back shoulder, which was so perfect. Uh, it just everything like even Cale Williams, one interception, which is a bad throw. He, you saw it. It was like DJ Moore was wide open. If he throws that correctly, it's a touchdown. Uh,

From that point on, he went four touchdown drives in a row. So it's like that's the type of stuff that you see from Caleb Williams. And again, it's just like every week he's gotten better. People will say, well, they're playing bad teams. They're also destroying bad teams. And this is why I didn't freak out after two weeks. And this is why everyone who wanted me to call him a bust and everyone was like, he's a bust.

Now we see the Bears are 4-2, and I feel happy. I'm excited. 4-2 is a pretty good record. 4-2 is a good record. And listen, they've gotten better every week. And Shane Waldron's gotten better. The offensive line's gotten better. DeAndre Swift's gotten better. Get bye week coming up. Get some guys healthy on the defense. Like, we lost three defensive starters this week.

Uh, so get them healthy. Everything feels good. We're not very smart on this show. And I think the only thing that we're smart about is how often we say that we're not smart. We nail that take all the time, but we do know what sleep is and we know how to optimize sleep. Yep. And so when there's a big sleep gap in between the teams that go over to London, now, obviously with the Jags, they got thrown off by the hurricane. Yep. I don't know what their plan was going into the week. If they planned on going over earlier, if they were always going to go on Thursday, uh,

evening or afternoon or whatever they were. Okay. So I feel comfortable saying that's a shitty sleep plan. Yeah. You have to have a better sleep plan than that. The Bears got there on, they left on Monday. They got there on Tuesday. Now they get to catch up on their sleep coming back on a bye week. Yeah. And we got an hour back this weekend.

when we just change the clocks. The Jaguars do do that every time and they are used to obviously going to London. So, and if you watch watching this game, you would think that the Jaguars were the ones that had more sleep because in the first quarter, the Bears were sleepwalking. The Jaguars had a nice 10 play drive to go down the field. And I think it was a field goal to start, but

Then it just flipped and the Bears woke up and it was such an enjoyable watch. I had so much fun. I'm not going to make any crazy statements about Caleb Williams going forward. I'm just going to say I've enjoyed trusting the process of Caleb Williams and watching him get better every single week. He still has ways to go, but it's fun to see him do things that no other Bears quarterback has ever done. And he actually just tied...

uh, through six games tied the record for most touchdowns for a rookie bears QB with Jim McMahon. Nine. That's pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. He low bar. He pretty good. He looks, he looks the part today was a big day. I'm glad that you got to enjoy just like watching him and just being like, fuck. Yeah, this is cool. Yeah. He's everything that I thought he would be. Uh, and yeah, so now the bears get to come back, get more sleep, get caught up on sleep again. Hi, a little bit more. Yup. It's I'd like to apologize to the country of England. Um,

That we send the Jaguars over to them all the time? Yeah, for two weeks in a row. But you know what? Those fuckers, we have to watch Piers Morgan on our TV all the time. You have to watch the Jaguars. I'm going to call that a wash. That's a fact. I'm going to say that's even. So now the Jaguars are staying over there. They're playing a doubleheader next week against the Patriots, right? So, yeah. I have a sad... This isn't really a sad Jaguars stat from our good friend Uncle Chaps, but it's related to the Jaguars. Okay. So this is actually first pointed out by Mark Long.

It was a rough weekend for teams once coached by Urban Meyer. Jaguars 35-16, lost to the Bears in London. Ohio State loses 32-31 at Oregon. Florida falls 23-17 in overtime at Tennessee. Utah loses 27-19 at Arizona State. And Bowling Green falls 17-7 to Northern Illinois. Damn. The stink is still on the programs from Urban Meyer. Damn. All over his fingers. That's bad. His stinky little fingers. He lost them all. Yeah. Yeah, the Jaguars are...

Andre Sisko said afterwards there was a lot of quit, which is that that's not good. And it feels like Doug Peterson is on borrowed time. We've talked about all the quotes he's had. Shad Khan on Saturday did a vote of confidence, which is never a good sign. He said, I still believe in them. I believe in the coaches, coaching staff. I believe in the players. That means he does not believe in them. But

he's stuck in England for a week with them and you probably can't fire Doug Peterson in England, which would be hilarious if they did, which yeah, the Jaguars just, they're bad. They were dropping balls. Like they, their defense, their secondary is bad. Uh, just a really sad team. And it brought me to a thought. Are we going to look back and Max, this is no offense to you because for

flags fly forever banners fly forever you don't apologize for it but are we gonna look back and say Doug Peterson Nick Foles was the craziest Super Bowl winning combo of all time I mean already kind of is it already kind of you consider who they beat in that Super Bowl Bill Belichick and Tom Brady right like it is the craziest thing like Doug Peterson is going to get fired probably midseason here yeah

Is he a Malcolm Butler merchant? It's just nuts. Like, we're going to look back and be like, wait, that happened? Oh, yeah, that did. Yeah. But yeah, it's sad for Doug Peterson right now. I don't know what else to say. Well, he's all over. He knows exactly what the issue is. He says we've got to change the culture.

Otherwise, it just gets out of control. We're on a slippery slope or right on the cusp of that slope. I'm sure at some point we've got to say enough is enough and you've got to have enough pride and figure out a way. They asked him if next week was a must win. He said, I would say so. I would say everything here on out, quite frankly, is a must win. I would say so. I would say that he's already lost a couple of the must wins. Yeah, I would say so.

It's sad for the Jaguars because it just happened so fast where Trevor Lawrence is... Again, there were a bunch of drops. His receivers didn't help him, but...

The regression it feels like that he's gone through has been severe, and you've just locked him up to a long-term deal, and now you have all these questions. And, man, it's sad to be a Jaguars fan. I feel like that changing your flight home at this point, getting an earlier flight home if you're fired, that's a pretty hefty bill, right? Yeah. If you have, like, I'm assuming it's business class, first class coming back, to change that up from, like, two weeks from now to, like, a week from now.

I guess it would be a week from now to tomorrow if you wanted to fire him. You're looking at a $30,000 ticket, I would imagine. Listen, it would be the most Jaguars thing and the funniest thing ever if they did fire him while they're still in England. That would be the most Jaguars thing. Maybe even wait until Thursday or Friday. Really add to the chaos. Yeah, or they say, Doug, why don't you come on home? Come home. You're not going to coach the second game in England. We want to put on a good showing for our British fans over there.

Come back, take the week to regroup, and then you're going to be the coach when they get back in the U.S. Shad Khan should be like, Doug, I want to meet with you in our facility in Jacksonville. And then Doug flies home, and then Shad Khan just on a Zoom. Yeah. And he's like, you're fired. Yeah. Which that would actually be okay because you wouldn't want to fly all the way home and then have to have a meeting and fly all the way back. If they lose next week, they should just give him a boat.

Like make him go out to Wales and catch a boat there and be like, here's your boat. If you can figure out how to get this back to Jacksonville on your own, there's no, no staff, no crew on it. Just you and your other coaches. If you can, if you could land in Jacksonville within like five weeks, then you got your job. You can keep your job. Hank, do you have anything you want to say to me?

About what? No. Oh. Okay, well, I have a clip from last year that our darling Jake had a reminder in his calendar that he texted me over the weekend. Shout out to Jake. Got a score. Got me to that. Jake got a score. Got me. This is when you were peak laughing at me last year at the end of the Bears season. Go ahead. Play it.

I'll say it. It's my Super Bowl. I don't care. This is right before the Packers game. It should be. And guess what? If the Bears win, Packers fans will be crying, crying, crying. And it will be great. And I'll fucking love every second of it. You don't even know that we're playing to bounce the Packers. Yeah, I do. Lions did it last year. Oh. Oh, that's very similar. I know.

All right. You know what? Jake, put a reminder on this exact conversation. Yep. Week six next year when the Bears are four and two or five and one. This is going to age nicely. Oh, I can't wait for this. I can't wait for this. The Bears are going to be good next year. Mm-hmm.

They are. That's on the Big Cat soundboard. The Bears are going to be good in 2024. I'm saying it right now. This team is playing fucking good football. Justin Fields looks good. These guys are playing for each other. The defense is legit. We have all the draft capital. We have all the fucking cap space. I don't care that this might be a terrible soundbite for me next year, but I'm saying it right now, and I believe it.

Would you like to apologize to me? You laughed at me a lot. I don't think I laughed at him. Yeah, you did. I did not say anything in that clip that I would like to apologize for. No, you laughed a lot at me at this point. And I called my shy. I said, week six, we're going to be four and two or five and one. I wish we were five and one, but we're four and two. I think the funniest part of that video clip was the giant family-size thing of Tums that we have just on the desk. It's late in the season. Late in the season. It jumps through January. You don't want to say anything? You don't want to say anything?

I didn't say anything in that clip. No, but you know what happened before that clip. You mocked me and said this team stinks and they'll always stink.

Yeah, you did. I didn't. And I said they're building something at the end of last year and they're going to keep going forward. I'm happy for you, Big Cat. I'm happy for the city of Chicago. Listen, I'm only taking a victory lap for you specifically because the Bears have a lot of season left, a lot of tough games left. It's a very unfinished product. I do not think they're some incredible team right now. I do not think Caleb Williams is some elite quarterback. They're working towards it. But you specifically, just you, I want you to say sorry. I

I will not say sorry, but I'm happy for you. That's fine. I respect Hank not apologizing. Yeah, that's fine. There's nothing to apologize for. Well, you know what happened in the previous part of that clip. Also, I just had to do it because Jake... I'm on the record saying no one wants the Bears to win more than me. Jake sent me the calendar reminder, and it literally said, remind Hank when the Bears are 4-2 or 5-1 after week six. So...

That happened. You were right. You called your shot. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well. Congrats. Thank you. Congratulations are in order. No, listen. The Bears haven't played. They've played bad teams. I get that. But they've also killed bad teams. All your wins are against teams that are. Here we go. Is that true? I like this. I like this. Go. You have the stat. Go ahead. No, you tell me. I can't remember. Listen, the goalposts keep moving every single week. I'm not sure if the stat is true. I don't. I'm not.

I was asking you. What's the set? I don't know what the set is. I believe all the teams the Bears have beat are 1-5.

No, I don't know if they're one. I think one of them is one in four because they had a bye week. So wrong. Wrong stat. That was wrong. That's a very funny stat. Listen, you can't apologize who you play. No, absolutely not. When other teams light up bad defenses, everyone says they're incredible. And when the Bears do, it's the goalpost move. I'm not saying the Bears are an incredible team. They're beating the teams they should beat, and they're actually beating the fuck out of them. Beat the Rams. How many wins do the Rams have?

They have one. The Rams have only one win? Yeah. The Panthers and the Jaguars. Yeah, it's true. Listen, when Jaden Daniels plays well against bad defenses, we get happy. I'm saying you play who you play. Right. When Drake May plays the Jaguars next week and he looks awesome, you should be happy. I will be. Yeah, exactly. What am I supposed to do? They're killing them. Yeah. They've killed the Jaguars. They killed the Panthers.

Cole Komet, beast. Cole Komet is a beast. He is a beast, yeah. He is a beast. But yeah, still, they got a fucking really tough schedule. These were the games they had to win. Every game this week, or last week and this week, I said were must-wins. Because if you don't must-win them and you lose them, then you're going to be stuck in a situation later on in the season where you're like, how did we lose to the Jaguars? How did we lose to the Panthers? They're not stuck in that situation. Yeah, and so next up, Commanders. Yeah, will be a great game. After the bye week. Tattoo bet? Yeah.

Yeah, I'll do a tattoo. Tattoo bet. Let's do it. I'll get a tattoo. I don't know what I'm going to get. Warthog. No, you get a plane. I'm not going to get a plane of my choosing. I'm not going to get a warthog. I don't know what I'd get. I'd probably get something. I don't know. Maybe just like an insult tattoo of Hank or something. Maybe Hank without a beard. Hmm.

on the palm of my hand and I'll just do every podcast just like this how sick would that be Hank would look like yeah like powder in Voldemort yeah I just had it right here and I was like hey Hank question you want to apologize you're just looking at yourself you don't see too many palm tattoos um okay well alright I feel like I'm being reasonable but uh no it's 4-2 is great I feel like I should at least be I can be happy people trying to steal my joy should be thrilled

The goalposts do keep moving, but that's fine. That's just the... Not from you guys. I'm not saying... Yeah, I honestly didn't know the stat about them beating one-win teams. You know we play bad teams, but we've killed them. It's just interesting that it's all the one-win teams. The defense also has 13 takeaways this year. They just...

They're taking the ball away, which is important. You've got to respect the ball. You know what? The Jaguars have played a lot of games this year, and you guys are the ones that made them quit. Yeah. They tapped. Matt Eberflus, the fumble that we had to start the second half, I believe it was right after. I can't remember who was doing sidelines. Talked to Matt Eberflus. He said at halftime,

We have to honor the football. I like that. I like it. Yeah, respect it. I still don't love Matt Iberflues, but guess what? His defense plays hard, and Shane Waldron has done better. Cherish it. Love the football. Honor the football. Yeah. Okay, next up, Ravens 30, Commanders 23.

Do you want to start? I mean, Ravens are really good. I'll just say the Ravens are really good. Their defense played a lot better today than it has in the past. Dean Pease. Yeah, Dean Pease is back. Dean Pease makes a difference. Dean Pease makes a big difference. And yeah, the Commander's defense is just bad. We're very bad on D, and there was really no way that we could have won that game considering how our defense played.

Hank just kept on saying, this defense is the worst I've ever seen. Yeah, they're bad. They're very bad. Very bad. St. Jude's had a really tough game today. They just forgot to use middle linebackers. Yeah, the middle... Zay Flowers was just going everywhere. Middle of the field is wide open. Zay Flowers is doing the thing where he somehow catches a dig with, I don't know, 10, 15 yards of open turf around him. And he does that little spin move right after he catches it and gets another seven yards. Mm-hmm.

That was all day. And they could have run... They could have beaten us any way they wanted today. They could have gone to Zay Flowers. They could have gone to Bateman, right? He's their other receiver. They could have had Derrick Henry run for 300 yards against us. And it probably would have worked out for the Ravens. So the commanders, we got a lot of holes, especially on the personnel side of the defense. But...

I will announce that the Super Bowl window for the Commanders is officially open. Oh, nice. This is the start of the Super Bowl window. Wow. We're not a Super Bowl winning team this year. I'm not thinking soupy this year, but I know when I see it, we have a Super Bowl window. We got a fuckload of cap space. We have a great quarterback.

Yeah. Yeah.

draft, whatever it is, just focus on the defense because I think the Super Bowl window is here. What about the Yachts? This year? Yachts, yeah. I'm thinking Yachts. I don't think the NFC is as good as the AFC is. I think that we should be able to get, well, the NFC North is really, really good. It's insane. Actually, the NFC North, if you want to talk some like

crazy stats right now i have them as well we'll go okay yeah we can get to those when we talk about it let's do it when we talk about the packers because the packers lead into the crazy stat that sounds good so there's no torch passing today no torch passing but if you're looking at a measuring stick game which by the way i love the fact that they they said that to dan quinn he was like no we're not we're not doing measuring sticks measuring sticks i like that because that implies that they're not as good as the other team um

It actually was a measuring stick game. It was. And you guys measured okay. We were okay. The Ravens offense is the best offense in football. Yeah. Maybe the Lions. The Ravens are the best offense in the AFC for sure. Lions are looking like they're absolutely insane right now. Wow, the Bengals just scored a touchdown and possibly a cover. That was big. Chase Brown. But the Ravens are just...

They are the first team since 1971 Raiders, John Madden's Raiders, to have 150-plus rushing yards and a rush TD in all six of their first games. Mark Andrews, which we said on Friday was going to get unlocked for the first time this year, scored a touchdown, likely is a B. Safe flowers everywhere.

Imagine if they had Devontae Adams, which is... There's still a team that's in the talks to it. Could be the Raiders. Like Schefter said, he might just stay. He might just stay because he likes Aiden O'Connell, which is weird. But yeah, they're an absolute monster of an offense, and I feel like that's a game you guys were...

your defense just needs to get better but also the Ravens are gonna do that to every defense they did that to the Bills defense they did that to the Bengals defense they they're gonna do it to every defense we never had a chance in that like we got that the interception off the Mark Andrews drop on the first uh first drive and there was that fucked up snap that we didn't recover on defense and if you're gonna win that game you have to you have to get very very lucky multiple times yeah and so yeah Ravens just a very very good team Ravens are awesome I think the Ravens

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Chiefs-Ravens playoff matchup.

Yes. I'm looking very much forward to that. Maybe the Ravens will realize they should run the ball. Although the Chiefs have a really good defense, too. But I think having just a giant on your sideline in Derrick Henry, it's kind of hard to forget about Derrick Henry when he's that much bigger than everyone. Yeah. You know, like if you have a small guy, if you've got a little guy that's like 5'10", 5'11", you can get lost and be like, yeah, you know, let's just keep passing. But Derrick Henry is physically so big that I don't think that Harbaugh would ever forget to run him.

Yeah, he's... Derrick Henry is on pace right now for 1,979 yards and 22 touchdowns, which would be his best season. He did go over 2,000 one year, but he had 17 touchdowns. So he is 30 years old, and it's...

I mean, we've seen it in the last couple weeks where even at the beginning of the game, maybe he's not getting these big runs and then just lean on him, lean on him, lean on him. Lamar's feet, Lamar's throwing, all of a sudden it's like, fuck, now we've got to worry about Derrick Henry in the fourth quarter? Yeah. And he salted that game away basically just running it through you guys. They could have beat us in any number of different ways. But yeah, Derrick Henry at the end, nothing you can do about it when you have those personnel out there on defense. But yeah, Ravens, very good team.

Super Bowl window open. Act accordingly. All decisions should be made from this point forward.

that we're going to win a Super Bowl in the next five years. Yep. Or at least try to, which is, it feels good. I like that. It feels good to say that. Yeah. And mean it, that I believe that this is our shot. So you just said Super Bowl window now open. What was the crazy shit you were going to say if you won the game? Oh my God. I was going to say MVP, Jaden. I was going to say, yeah, Super Bowl this year. I was going to say, I'm never going to lose another game again.

I was going to say I'm six feet tall. I was going to get fucking wild with it. Yeah. But yeah, mostly I was going to say Super Bowl this year. Yeah.

Super Bowl this year. But I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. I'm thinking the offs. And you did say at the beginning, which I agree with, like, the Ravens, it felt like their defense after what happened with the Bengals, maybe just the Dean Pease effect, it's not that, like, Jaden Daniels didn't have a bad game. It just wasn't ever easy for him. You know what I mean? Like, they let up touchdowns, but they made you work for them. And that's...

that's kind of all they need to do with their offense is just have a defense that is a little bit better than what it has been a couple of these games this year to be Super Bowl champs. Yeah, for the Ravens on offense, everything looked exceptionally easy today. For the commanders on offense, everything looked pretty hard, but we still managed to score a decent amount of points against that defense. Yeah.

But yeah, the Ravens defense, much better. I have a question for you. And now, I like Dan Quinn, recurring guest, friend of the program, backwards hat, love it. It always does look a little funny when he does the backwards hat halftime interview. Yeah. Because he's like...

Like, whoa, this guy's a little too chill. Yeah. Like he's for some reason when you see it from afar on the sideline, it makes sense. But then when he's talking, it's like, hey, man, I don't want to sound like coward, but maybe put your hat forward just for this interview. So sometimes during the games, he like he gets nervous and he starts turning it around. I like that. So, yeah, I think it's just however you manage to catch him.

I think he needs to put the hat on forwards when he's talking to the refs. Yeah. Because when he's talking to the refs, they're like, is this a drunk fan that got down on the sideline that's just screaming at me? Or is this a head coach? Yeah, listen, Dan Quinn, I think he's doing a great job so far. I do too. I think in a couple games, the defense has looked okay, and that's kind of the best that we can hope for this year. Our floor is like the worst defense in the NFL, and our ceiling is like –

15th. So if we can settle around like 20 to 22, then I think we'll make the playoffs. Yeah, and you get to play the Panthers next week. Which is great. Which is a lot of fun. I don't know how I can get rid of this jinx because when I looked ahead at the schedule, I was looking at when the Bears game was. I was like, oh yeah, that's right. We got the Panthers next. I think I said out loud, we have a bye next week because we play the Panthers. You did. I regretted saying that the instant that I said it.

Is there any way that I can retract? No. I was doing satire. Don't be worried. I'm not worried. It's the Panthers. I'm not worried. It's the Panthers. You also, I mean, the schedule is, I think you guys are your playoff team. Like, because you have to play a lot of NFC East opponents, but the NFC East doesn't look that great. Yeah.

Whereas the Bears have played all the NFC North, and the NFC North is just kicking the shit out of everyone. We should say that this is Lamar. Now he's, what, 22-1 against the NFC? Yeah. So 23-1. 23-1 against the NFC, which is a stat that makes no sense, but it's awesome. Someone wanted me to point out, I just saw this scrolling on Twitter on Friday. They wanted me to point out that whenever we bring that up, we have to point out that the one loss is to Daniel Jones and the Giants.

It's fascinating. But that's fair. Yeah. To be like, hey, can you believe the one loss was to Daniel Jones and the Giants? Well, he's faster than Lamar. Remember that? That's true. He ran like 26 miles an hour. That's true. Okay. Next game. Eagles 20, Browns 16. Max, I want to talk about the Eagles and Nick Sirianni in a second, but we have to talk about Deshaun because I have a thought.

Maybe we're thinking about the Deshaun Watson thing the wrong way because everyone obviously says he should be benched. He should be benched. He's bad. He actually played like a little bit better today, but he was still really bad. I saw a tweet that Austin Gale wrote that Jamarcus Russell lost minus 63.8 total EPA on dropbacks in weeks one through six in 2009.

Deshaun Watson has broken that record from the quarterbacks they've charted since 2000. He's 734th through the first six weeks of the season. He's got a minus 66.2 total EPA on dropbacks. That's how much he's lost. I don't even know what EPA is, but when I saw this, he listed them all. It's Deshaun Watson, 734th.

David Carr, Mark Bolger, Josh Rosen, Achilles Smith, Jay Fielder, Blaine Gabbert, Jamarcus Russell. That's the list he's on, and he's at the bottom of that list. You know what's crazy is that he's played against bad defenses. Yeah. He hasn't played against good defenses yet. He hasn't played against good defenses. And so I've been thinking about it. Maybe – so everyone thinks he should be benched, which he should be benched. But what if –

We're just thinking about it wrong. What if this is just the Browns actually doing justice in a public shaming way? They're like, he's so bad and we know he's so bad. He can't play quarterback.

We're just going to make him continue to play quarterback and publicly shame him because that's the only justice he'll ever have. Smoke the whole pack of cigarettes. Yeah. Go out back and smoke a whole carton of Browns for me. Like he's never going to like he's paying people off in his lawsuits. All that's going on. What's the only way that the league can punish him? Make him continue to play quarterback.

Yeah, that's one way to look at it. I was just trying to find a new angle for, I mean, he's just so bad. Well, I think it makes you feel good that a guy with all that sketchy shit in his background is having to go out there every day and do the thing that he is the worst at. Yeah. And do it publicly. Yeah. And have everybody know how much money that he makes. Yeah. He's not having fun. At the end of the day, you can at least be like, if you're a Browns fan, you can probably say confidently, Deshaun Watson is having less fun

than I am watching. Yes. I think that's probably true. That's what I'm saying. He basically has to go to a job that he's so bad at and he has to keep going to it and everyone's going to watch him. It's torture, which I'm for.

Yeah, pro torture. Yeah, I'm pro torture in this case. What about Browns fans? Yeah, Browns fans, that's unfortunate that you have to be a part of this. Well, you have to put on the rose-colored shades and say it. Yeah, you have to Guardians. And also, if you're a Browns fan, it's not like your coaching staff is playing him because they think he's the best option.

No. You kind of have to deal with this. Yeah. There's nothing else you can do about it. Just let us keep going with the torture for a little bit longer. Yeah, so Deshaun after the game said, me being the quarterback of this offense with Kevin and Ken Dorsey, we have to do something a little bit. I don't know what we have to do, but we need to do something to lock in so we don't cost ourselves any more games because we've got to really turn this around. So there...

They know that they have to do something. Yeah. Which is a good step to know that this isn't good. He's admitting publicly. They're finally realizing it. Something needs to happen. Do you think it was... Field Yates tweeted this out. The Browns are the first team in 10 years to score under 20 points in each of its first six games...

And they have one touchdown in the last 29 offensive drives. They also, through six games, do not have over 200 yards passing in any of those games. Yeah, it's crazy. Their only touchdown today was on that blocked field goal that got returned. It was. And then we were watching the game, and...

We're in the gambling cave and people got all types of different action. I had the over, so I was hoping for a tie 2020 game knowing that I would then get it because it was over 42. And I kept on saying people were freaking out because they wanted the Browns to score. I was like, the Browns are not going to score from goal line. They got to the three-yard line. And what did they take? Two penalties? Went backwards? Ran some plays that...

had no chance of getting in the end zone, that's the Browns. It was the most obvious. I wish I could have bet my life in that moment that the Browns would not score a touchdown because they are incapable of running like a real offense when a real offense needs to be run. Because what happens is Deshaun gets the ball in his hands and then he runs around for like

five seconds and he looks like he's lost. He actually looks like he gets lost on the football field and then there's three guys that sack him at the same time. Yeah. He's the most sacked in terms of like bodies, number of bodies that have hit him. I would put that up there right with the David Carr rookie year. Yeah. Because when he takes a sack, he gets hit by like the entire defensive line and it's crazy.

Maybe Kevin Stefanski is just a really good ally. Maybe he's seeing all these lawsuits. That's what I'm saying. And he's like, you know what? I'm going to have Deshaun get the shit kicked out of him. That's what I'm saying. Offensive line, you guys pretend that you're injured. We'll put your backups in. I'll tell them not to block. And so we'll intentionally just get Deshaun Watson, just have the shit kicked out of him. That's what I'm saying. It's torture. They are publicly shaming him and hurting him every single week that he has to remain the starter. And again, sorry, Browns fans, that does suck. But...

It is. If you look at it that way, it makes sense why they're starting him. He's a bad person. Let's make him fucking play quarterback because he can't play quarterback. Is

Is Deshaun Watson getting sacked a million times a game and looking like a complete bum on the field, doing more than the Me Too movement ever did to protect women? That's what I'm saying. Because all the youngsters out there, I've talked to several, the youngsters are watching the games and they're like, I'm never going to sexually harass a woman because I might end up playing quarterback for the Browns. See? It does make sense when you flip your whole viewing of the Deshaun Watson incident because it makes no sense that he's still playing. Obviously, Haslam is saying that you have to play him, but...

It's every week that everyone just goes online or on like football night in America, Florio and the gang. They just have like a they're like, all right, a block Cowboys B block. Deshaun has to be benched. That's all they do. That's it. That's the whole show. You think Tony Dungy even looks at Deshaun is like, I could fix him. Yeah, I could fix that guy. They don't realize that they need to just stop.

Like, don't even bring up that he should be benched. Just use the whole B block and just talk about how awful he is at playing quarterback and continue the torture. It's scared straight. Yeah. Kids, kids, watch. This could be you. Yeah. You don't start respecting women. It's brutal. And I do feel bad for Browns fans. But Guardians. Guardians. It was funny seeing the back-to-back days. Fanta going crazy for the Guardians and then in his unfinished basement talking about the Browns. There's another part of this game.

that we should talk about. The Philadelphia Eagles are back. Win this game. It was a close game, but they were better than the Browns. We knew that. Max Jalen Hurts started slow. A.J. Brown, which we told you on Friday, he was going to eat. He's back. He looked great. 116 yards. Also that crazy play at the end where they just salted the game away by throwing a 40-yard bomb was sick. So it was...

Good game. Eagles back off a bye. Nick Sirianni after the game or while the game was still going on.

into the crowd and started basically getting in an argument with the Eagles crowd in the weirdest like way possible when you win by four points against Deshaun Watson who's again he's playing quarterback as torture it was so bizarre and then Nick Sirianni goes to his post game press conference and basically was like here all my kids don't ask me any tough questions what the fuck is going on Max hey

Has he lost his mind? He also shaved his head. He also shaved his head, which is a classic sign of losing his mind. Yeah, so it is actually, if you look it up, a lot of times when people are going through nervous breakdowns or they're trying to reclaim control in their lives, they shave their heads because they feel like it gives them a fresh start because they feel bad. Sirianni's showing up today. I think that everybody thought the same thing. We saw what happened with Britney Spears. Is Sirianni in a conservatorship? What's going on? I have no idea. He's acting bizarre right now.

The city of Philadelphia doesn't like him. Obviously doesn't help when you're jawing at the team for booing. And apparently some people said there was fire Sirianni chants going on in the crowd. Some people were saying that. Some people were saying I was at the game. There were no fire Sirianni chants. So I don't really know what to believe there. And then after the game, he was asked about it. And he said he was...

I was just excited to get the win. I appreciate the link support. So like, I don't even know what that means when they were asked about him yelling at the fans.

So he definitely yelled at Philly. It was definitely Philly fans saying fire Sirianni after a win. And he was like, we just won. I'm mad. I'm going to go yell at him. And he did this with like, I'm sure that's what happened. Kids in his laps. Yeah. Talking to his kids during the press conference, which listen, I'm not kid shaming him, but it was, it felt very deliberate for him to bring his children to

to a press conference when he knew that people were going to be like, hey, what was that, dude? Why were you yelling at our fans? Yeah, and then when asked about the boos, he goes, we thrive when the crowd cheers for us. That's all I say. We hear them when they boo. We don't necessarily like it. I don't think it's productive for anybody, blah, blah, blah. But when they cheer, we like it. Like, what does that...

He's losing his mind. He's losing his mind. He can't be here. He can't be here. He can't be here anymore. If that's the way you're going to react to the fans acting like the fans have acted in Philadelphia for 100 years, that's not going to do anything, dude. Do you know who would never react to the fans in that situation and bring his kids to the press conference after? Mike Vrabel. I was going to say Bill Belichick.

Yeah. That's a good point. Either or, right? His kids are coaching at Washington. Yeah, I don't know. I think his time is... Honestly, I feel like it's going to, at the end of the year, be a mutual parting of ways. Yeah. Do you think there's a chance it happens? So about this game, you were down on the Eagles. Yeah, I was down on the Eagles...

They didn't look great, but realistically it should have been a 23-9 game. Right. They should have dominated that game. They had the fluke block field goal, which was a 10-point swing. I don't know. Jalen Hurts didn't look bad. He looked bad to start, but then he figured it out. Yeah, he started over five, but since then he was very good. No turnovers, which is a rarity in a Jalen Hurts game. Yep.

I don't know. This was a spot where you would like to see them beat the shit out of a team, and they just can't do that. They just can't do that. Yeah. Max, I know you're really down on Sirianni right now, but you don't want him fired right now, do you? Wouldn't mind it. I'm indifferent to it. I understand not firing him. It's the middle of the season, and...

We're still fighting for a playoff spot. Hank, you have an inquisitive face on? No, I'm just trying to hear him out. Yeah? And what do you think? I feel like this is max Sunday night max, and then the second that a game starts...

Yeah. And one bad play happens. It's like, get him out of here. Which is that... For sure. To me, it's like not, you know, drunken words speak sober thoughts, but the passionate thoughts that you have during a game, like, that's what you think. Yeah. You want him gone. You want him gone. You want him gone right now. Saying him now that I get why they're not, but like, you want him gone. You want there to be a press conference tomorrow and have it be Jeffrey Lurie's like...

When you disrespect our fans, you disrespect the organization. You can't be here anymore. Disrespect the city. No, no. I wouldn't hate that. Yeah, right. I wouldn't hate that. You want Jeffrey Lurie to be like, I have the fans back no matter what. They pay your salaries. Don't ever forget it. Nick Sirianni, there's the door. He's been so dumb this year. He's actually, I think, having a mental breakdown.

That was so bizarre. Yeah, everything today was bizarre. It felt like the Eagles were on a road game, the way he was yelling at the fans. Yeah. And he's always kind of been like that. He's always been super emotional, too. Yeah, oh yeah. Even going back to his first year in Philly. I mean, the Super Bowl, when he cried. Yeah, he cried. I mean, that's the behavior of somebody who's on edge. Can't control it.

Yeah. You can't control their emotions. Big Dom. Big Dom. Italian men. Yeah. Big Dom slap him in the face. Act like a man. Yeah. He was he was standing right next to him in the beginning of that clip, too. And then Sirianni went rogue. Even Big Dom couldn't anticipate going after the fans. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't. Lines you don't cross. I wouldn't. Yeah. I've been shocked at Big Dom. Just decked Sirianni. He's like, those are my people. Yeah. What are you doing? They could. Pictures of assholes. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't show your ass crack during this game.

Yeah, I'm sure somebody will go through every... No, you came in dressed as baggy as possible. Correct. You were... Can you stand up and show your fit to the people? No. Why not? No. The best way I described it was Max came in looking like it was...

He was like a Sopranos character who his wife hired him a personal trainer and he skipped out on it, but he still had to dress. And then he went to the Bing to hang with the boys. Watch the game. He's wearing like baggy shorts and a baggy shirt. And he's like, yeah, my fucking wife got me this personal trainer. I ain't going to there. That's some fruit stuff. Yep. You're covered up.

That's fair. Max, if you look at your schedule, though, you've got the Giants, the Bengals, the Jaguars, the Cowboys coming up next. Oh, those are winnable. You could win all those games. Yeah, they're winnable games. And then you win all those games, and then Sirianni's dug in like a tick. I think we probably lose next week to the Giants. Three-and-a-half-point favorites on the road. Damn.

I wonder, is there a time that an NFL coach has ever been fired after they won a game? Like in the middle of the season. Obviously, some coaches win the last game of the season, they're fired on Monday. But like in season, you win a game, you're fired. It would work here. Yeah. It would work here. If there were ever to be a spot. Yeah. Yeah. It would work. This is the perfect spot for it. Doug Peterson next week if they win. Maybe Gruden. Did Gruden win his last game? Oh, that's a good question. I don't know. Because his was all off the field. Right. Right.

He insulted Commissioner Goodell. Let's see. Called him anti-football pussy. So you're just, what are you out of a 10 right now for the Eagles? Five. Five. Oh, man, that's sad. That breaks my heart to hear you say five. Five. Five. I mean, that's where I'm at.

Mike Trout was at the game. Yeah. He needs to be in Philly. He needs to be in baseball in Philly. Max, if we're doing multi-sport city trades, would you trade Joel Embiid to the Lakers for Mike Trout to the Phillies? No. Talk about a guy who can never stay healthy is Mike Trout. Well, Mike Trout and Sean McVay. Hey, Mike Trout's a friend. Yes. Mike Trout, Sean McVay. I love Mike Trout. I want him to be... For Embiid and playoff pee.

We got to find this stat if there's ever been. It doesn't count. It doesn't count winning the last game of the season. Yeah, that's what I said. In-season firing, yeah. All right, find it. Find it, memes. Oh, he resigned. He wasn't fired.

Yeah, we've got to find it. We've got to find a coach who's been fired midseason after a win. I doubt it. I can't think of one. I mean, if any team can do it, it's fair. It would be so great. And it would be great if it was just like, yeah, we have the fans back. Yeah. Can't do that. Can't be yelling at the fans. Disrespect of the city. And they lost that game before Gruden too. Oh, okay. To the Bears. Oh. Oh, yeah. Was that in London? No. Maybe. No, we lost them in London, I think. Okay.

Okay, next game. Bucs-Saints. This was a fucking crazy game. Bucs 51, Saints 27. This game had the following scores. Bucs up 17 to nothing. Saints up 27-24. Bucs up 51-27. So it was... The Saints scored 27 points in the second quarter and didn't score...

in any of the other quarters, and the Bucs finished this game on a 27 unanswered points. Yeah, it sucked for the Saints that Olave got hurt, and so he was knocked out for the game. Their offense kind of didn't do jack shit after that. Spencer Rattler looked good for like a quarter. Yeah. Second quarter Saints will always have that. I think what happened was, so he looked good in the first half, and then Todd Bowles was like, what the fuck am I doing? He's a rookie. Let me just blitz him. Yeah, so Todd Bowles, if you knew the game plan going into it, was that Todd Bowles was just going to do offensively

all the crazy shit that Spencer Rattler had never seen. Yeah. And he did that in the second half. And he did tricks on it in the second half. Yeah, he did tricks on it. And Baker had the most full stat sheet ever. He had 24 for 36, 325 yards, four touchdowns, three interceptions. Yeah.

And also throw in just an injury that we thought was very serious, that he's such a tough dude that he was fine. And like three downfield blocks, too. And three yelling in someone else's face. Yeah. Baker makes me want to play football. It's the best. He just goes out there and plays football. What a day for Lincoln Riley, by the way. Yeah. Watching all the protégés, all the prized pupils get starts here. A lot of people are going to have to apologize to Lincoln Riley. Yeah. Was he wearing a House Divided shirt? Yeah. It was...

Spencer Rattler probably doesn't like Lincoln too much, though. I'm going to guess. I would say no. But yeah, Spencer Rattler, fine enough. But the Bucs offense was crazy.

Chris Godwin deserves to be given more credit for being awesome because I know he was awesome when they won the Super Bowl. He was awesome before that. He got hurt a couple years, but he's having an awesome, awesome season. And he had, I think it was like 105 yards after catch today. And he's just, you kind of forget about him because Mike Evans is so good. I was going to say, he's like Mike Evans compared to other elite receivers in NFL history. He's the same as like Chris Godwin compared to Mike Evans during the Chris Godwin era.

Yeah. Like, he's very, very good. But we just need to throw some more respect on Chris Godwin's name because he's been very good this year. He's had a very good career. And I think he got kind of forgotten a little bit. And, yeah, Chris Godwin needs more respect. I have an insult stat for you for Dennis Allen. Okay. So Dennis Allen, head coach of the Saints. Guess how many teams he's beaten as coach with the Saints that have a winning record. I think he's at 40 games now. Four. Four.

Three. Three? He's got three, and two of those were in September. So they were at the start of the year. Oh, 1-0. There was a Seahawks team that was 1-0. The Cowboys he beat this year, 1-0?

Oh, that's not on the list then. Oh, yeah. The Cowboys were 1-0 at the time? Yeah, because they beat the Browns. Yeah, good point. So now let me amend that. It's four. Nailed it. But of those four games, two of them are from September. Excuse me, now three of the four are from September. And two of them are Gardner Minshew teams.

Oh, wow. Which is just an interesting, fun little. That is very fun. So he can beat he can beat a winning team if Gardner Minshew is starting like on a short week where he's a backup quarterback coming in. Dennis Allen just gets forgotten as like, hey, that guy stinks. He stinks. He stinks. By the way, I just looked it up. How old do you think Chris Godwin is? Chris Godwin. Thirty four. No, he's twenty nine. Twenty eight.

Still young. Yeah, it feels like because he's just been around and won a Super Bowl, you feel like he's been good ever since he got there. But yeah, he's having an awesome year. He's 500 yards and five touchdowns through six weeks. Yeah, pretty damn good. Chris Godwin needs more respect. But yeah, Dennis Allen.

I guess what you could say about Dennis Allen is people just forget about Dennis Allen. That's probably his best asset. So why is he so forgettable? Is it because he looks like if you took every NFL coach in history and combined them all into one composite sketch, he looks like Dennis Allen? He's the most average appearing guy? It's his appearance. I think it's...

His name. Yeah. His name is very formulaic to AI. Yeah. Dennis Allen. Yeah. She's like, okay, what is that? All right. Dennis Allen. And yeah, he just kind of he's been around forever, but never done anything that would make me be like, oh, Dennis Allen. That guy's good. He doesn't even really have anything that he's good at. Right.

No. I'm not talking about just as a head coach. He doesn't have a specialty. Like Todd Bowles, you're like, yeah, Todd Bowles. Dial it up. He'll blitz the fuck out of you. Dial it up. He'll do weird shit. He'll have dudes coming at you from angles that Deshaun Watson can only dream of. But with Dennis Allen, it's like...

There's nothing where I think Dennis Allen blank mastermind. He also, yeah, no, there is nothing. And he also, because the Raiders have had a history of just cycling through coaches, he's just in that list of Raider coaches that happened. You're like, oh yeah, that's right. And then he just ended up on the Saints because he was with Sean Payton and got that job. So I think that's also, I think that's part of it is that there are certain Raiders coaches that just keep

Every two years they would fire one, so you just kind of forgot about him. Yeah, that's probably true. And he doesn't really get that fired up. Yeah. It looks like his job is to sit on the sidelines and just accept losses. Yeah. And he's very good at it. Yeah, I don't really know. What does Dennis Allen do? He doesn't do anything, really. 4-12, 4-12.

0-4 were his three years with the Raiders as the head coach. And he's doing a lot better with the Saints because he's 7-10, 9-8, 2-4. He's 26-50 as a head coach. 26-51. That's crazy. He's so bad. He's so bad. And this team feels like this was kind of a quick game because the Bucs were just...

It just kept on scoring. Kept on scoring. Yeah, it was one of those games where it's like, okay, the Bucs hate the Saints. They fight them all the time. Yeah. They're not going to stop scoring through this game. Remember two weeks in? The Saints did win the first two weeks of the season. They did. They were the Super Bowl champs after two weeks. So if Derek Carr... But it was against the Cowboys.

The Cowboys was like the convincing one. Yeah. Yeah, well, they beat the Panthers and Cowboys, but we were all like, oh, the Cowboys are good because they're always... Because they beat the Browns. Yeah, they were good last year. And we didn't realize how bad the Browns were. Yeah, but this is definitely the win where you're just like, how did this...

The Saints, oh, they're good? No, they're not. Did Spencer Rattler show you enough to be like, I want to see more Spencer Rattler? Yeah, I just like Spencer Rattler's name, so I always want to see more Spencer Rattler. Yeah, I love his name. Love his arm. Yeah. The arm works. I like Spencer Rattler. I want to see more Spencer Rattler. Why not? You're not good. The Saints are probably not going to be good this year. You might as well see what you got. You might as well see what you got. Okay, let's take a break. Let's do a couple ads, and then we'll get some more games from Sunday. PFT.

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Colts 20, Titans 17, Joe Flacco. Is he the starter?

So today, I think he kind of was the starter. I think that Anthony Richardson was healthy. Yeah. And they were just kind of like, we're going to go with a hot hand with Flacco. And yeah, Flacco, he didn't have his best game today, but I did. I had a moment this morning. I don't know if you've had one of these, Big Cat, where you see Joe Flacco is going to start and you just stop. You just stop in a moment in time and you take a mental snapshot. Just remember, today is a day where Joe Flacco will be playing football because it's not going to last forever. Yeah.

We're nearing the end of that road. And the NFL, just the world is so much sunnier to me when I know that Joe Flacco is still a part of it. He said it after the game, too. He's like, being out here on Sunday never gets old, and I'm going to cherish it for as long as I can do it. It's the best. I do feel like I was lied to by the Colts because all week I picked the Titans on every show we did. And Joe Flacco, because I was thinking Anthony Richardson was going to play. I also didn't think Michael Pittman was going to play because he's

He had like a broken back five days ago, and then he played, and he made the two biggest plays of the game. The jump ball touchdown, and then the third down to ice the game. So I feel lied to by the Colts, but a good win for the Colts. And Joe Flacco, I think, might be the starter because, like you said, Anthony Richardson...

I'm pretty sure it's healthy. Yeah, and Flacco, he makes a couple mistakes, but they're no worse than any Anthony Richardson mistake. Yeah. And then when he's at his best, that jump ball that he threw up, that was vintage Flacco. Yeah. Just being like, you know what, fuck it. I think I got a guy down there that's taller than their guy is. So I'm going to throw it towards him. Michael Pittman made a great catch. Yeah. And I was like, damn it, I feel lied to because Michael Pittman is good. So Flacco now has the longest streak of two touchdowns in starts.

In the NFL of anybody. Yes. So no other quarterback has as many consecutive starts throwing two touchdown passes as Joe Flacco does. He has as many touchdown passes now as Deshaun does, Deshaun Watson does. And he's only started two games. Yeah. So things are going good for Joe. Again, don't know how long he's going to be the starter. At some point, they're going to want to see Anthony Richardson play.

and just see what they have. But for now, just enjoy every Sunday that you wake up and Joe's getting a start. I agree. I 100% agree. It does feel like one of those situations where we just need to make a mental capture of just like Joe Flacco. He's having the best time, and his career was over like five years ago. Remember when he was on the Jets and the Broncos? And the Eagles, yeah. And it just, he's back and he's playing great, and the Colts should keep playing him. I agree. I know that it probably doesn't make sense long term, but...

But it also doesn't probably make sense long-term Anthony Richardson. Yeah. I mean, I think if you're trying to win football games, that's what you're supposed to do. Then you should start Joe. Yeah. It's that simple. Yeah. Okay. Titans. I feel bad for Titans fans.

Because shit's getting crazy for Calvin Ridley. He said, I need some targets in the beginning of the fucking game, too. Shit's getting crazy for me. Yep. He had eight targets today, zero catches. In the last three games, Calvin Ridley has two catches for 14 yards. Shit.

Not great. It feels like if you're handicapping receivers that might end up with the Chiefs by the end of the season, Calvin Ridley's probably up there with his teammate, DeAndre Hopkins. Yep. Yeah, I'd say so. Will Levis, friend of the program. Love Will Levis. I think you got to bench him for a little bit here because the problem is the Titans are not a bad football team in its totality. Every game they've basically been in. Their defense is good.

He just feels lost out there. Like, he feels lost, and at some point you keep losing these games by three points or, you know, four points, you know, just a random interception or a missed pass, and everyone in that locker room is like, fuck.

We should have three wins already. Yeah, he did the Spider-Man celebration today, too. That was awesome. It was a cool celebration. He also, this is a stat from our friend at StatHole, who does a great blog every Monday morning. Everyone check it out with all the sad stats. Will Levis is the first QB to throw an interception in the first five games of the season since... Jameis?

Patrick Mahomes six days ago. Oh, there we go. Yeah, that's a fun stat. That's a great stat. Use that stat. Go around to the bar and tell people that. Yeah. Will Levis threw an interception the first five games.

Also, the last person to do it was Patrick Mahomes this year. Yeah, good for Will. He's in a good company. Hey, listen, we just put Will Levis and Patrick Mahomes in the same sentence. When I watch Will Levis play, he gives me big-time Jeremy Shockey vibes. He's that emotional after every single play, which might not be the best thing for a quarterback. You want your quarterback to not scream in people's faces, shoot webs at them. Also, Will, if you're listening...

I would have liked for you to say hello or hey, I'm sorry to the guy whose knee got taken out on the sidelines. I think that guy had to just have better presence of mind. He just watched him roll. Like he watched the play come at him. Yeah. He did give a thumbs up. I'm sure he reached out after. Yeah. That guy was in an air cast. He was on the stretcher for what felt like a half hour. He was wearing receiver gloves, which I loved. And then he gave a thumbs up, which I love. But yeah, I don't know.

People on the sidelines. It feels like it's happened a few times this year. He was staring at the play. Yeah.

I don't know. You just gave feet up. I think you lose track of how fast these guys are coming at you. Yeah. It's kind of like being at the dog park. You got to always keep a little bend in your knees. Keep your knees bent. Because you don't want a Labrador just running into the back of your knees if you have stiff legs. Wear pads. I want to see a guy in full kit, shoulder pads, helmet, knee pads. Was he holding the chains? I think he was. He's a chain guy? Maybe walk around with a tiny little wall right in front of your legs. Yeah. Or a dog. Or a dog.

Actually have a dog with you. Yeah. Yeah, but that guy, that was tough. But I just wanted to work out for Will. I just think you probably have to... Like, if you're Brian Callahan, again, you lost week one to the Bears. That was a winnable game that Will Levis made those mistakes late. You lost to the Jets week two. That was a winnable game that he fumbled in the red zone. You got killed by Malik Willis. That made sense. And then today, that was a winnable game. So...

At some point, you don't want the rest of the team to be like, hey, what the fuck are we doing here? Yeah, and if the Titans keep losing, then I think that's actually going to make Joe Flacco keep starting. Yeah. Because the Colts can make the playoffs. Yes. It's not out of the picture to think that they might be able to. Yes, absolutely. Their division's not great. Obviously, Texans are the best team in that division. But, yeah, Colts could be a wildcard team. Colts could absolutely be a wildcard team. Let me look right now. I mean, they're, what, 3-3? Yeah.

Colts could be a wildcard team. Joe Flacco takes... Yeah, they're in the wildcard right now. They're seventh seed. Love that. If he took the Browns and the Colts to the playoffs in back-to-back years as the backup, that might be more impressive than a Super Bowl. I actually think Joe Flacco has the opportunity to become back-to-back comeback player of the year. Yeah. That's a record that'll never be broken if it happens. That's crazy that he could...

Yeah, keep playing Joe Flacco for us. Okay, next up, Packers 34, Cardinals 13. Packers kicked the shit out of the Cardinals.

We said it on Friday, Jordan Love's going to be under center more, and he was, and you saw it. That Christian Watson touchdown, that was vintage Jordan Love under center play action pass. He had four touchdowns. He looks all the way back. For the first two games back from his injury, he had slow starts. He did not today, so it feels like the Packers, that's totally taken care of.

The Packers, though, we alluded to this. The NFC North is so good. The Packers are the first team ever through six weeks to be 4-2 and last in the division. Yeah, every team is 4-2 or better. Right now they have the four highest point differentials

In the entire NFL. Yeah. All in that division. Yeah. So the Vikings are plus 63, the Lions plus 60, the Bears plus 47, the Packers plus 41. The second best division, when you add up all those numbers together, the second best division is the AFC West with a plus 20 total. Yeah.

I just said the Packers are in last with a plus 41. On aggregate, the NFC North is 17 and five overall and a plus 211 point differential. Yeah, it's crazy. It's nuts. Iron sharpens iron. But yeah, the Packers. And here's the thing with the Packers too. Their defense is really good. And that was a smart move. Jeff Halfley bringing him in. Last year, the Packers had 18 turnovers forced on defense and

That's the entire season. This year, they have 17 through the first six weeks of the season. It's pretty wild. They're taking the ball away. They had three fumbles in the second half, forced fumbles on the Cardinals. And, yeah, they're a scary good team. Like Jordan Love looked fine in all his receivers. Dobbs, obviously that was a weird situation last week. He comes back, two touchdowns. Christian Watson comes back faster than we expected. He scores a touchdown.

They're good. I don't know what else to say. They're good. Jordan Love's very good. Packers are definitely good. No interceptions today, though. Have they fallen off?

That defense. That's true. Yeah, think about it. Yeah, the Cardinals are – that was a very classic Cardinals spot of the biggest win they've had in a long time against the 49ers that second half last week, having to fly all the way to Green Bay, and then just an absolute stinker of a performance. 13 penalties, three fumbles, just a stinker. So because they lost this, it doesn't matter what they do in their next game.

the Cardinals will have gone three years without winning back-to-back football games. Wow. Three calendar years. That's insane. Pretty crazy. I admire the consistency, actually. Yeah. Consistently inconsistent. You win a game, just don't watch the next... Next week doesn't matter. Just bet against them. Yeah. But yeah, I didn't... I'm worried about the Packers. Well, I'm worried about every... I mean, the NFC North is just really good. Had they not...

been NFC North games there have that's why the Packers are last they lost the Vikings so the Packers are four and two but they're own one in the NFC North that's why it's technically their last the Bears are also four and two the Lions are four and one and then the Vikings are five and oh so but yeah no it's crazy the schedule the Bears don't play their first NFC North game until week 10 and they play all six of their NFC North games down the stretch end of the year that's why you had to win these games Hank

That's why they were must-wins. That's why these are... And we got a couple more must-wins going against the Cardinals and the Patriots after the Commanders game. Got to must-win them. Got to put the tag on them. These Packers are really good. I don't know what else to say. It hurts me to say it. Jordan Love, under center, is a weapon. He's doing his fuck shit where he throws off his back foot doing fadeaways. And he's the best in the NFL at throwing fadeaways. It's so frustrating because when he throws the fadeaway, it just...

100% of the time ends up being a touchdown. There's always somebody down there. Him and Kirk Cousins have the two opposite fadeaways. When Kirk Cousins does a fadeaway, he turtles as he throws it and starts running away from the guy that's going to sack him. When Jordan Love does it, he fades away off his back foot and throws it at a perfect angle that lands in his receiver's hand. Then he can catch it. Here's a good one looking ahead. You want to play whose line is it anyway? You want to pull up DraftKings, Hank? Again, your phone is dead. I got it.

It's out there. What do you mean it's out there? It's out there. No distractions. Oh, you're doing that as a thing? Oh, I like that. A digital cleanse. Oh, this is a great game next week. Packers versus Texans in Green Bay. Whose line is it anyway? DraftKings. In Green Bay, Packers versus Texans. I'm going to go Packers minus two. I'm going to say two and a half. Okay.

Find it for us, BFT. My phone's loading. It's been loading. Also, the hot... I have it. Yeah, go ahead. Give it to us. Give it to us, Max. BFT, you want to do a guess? Yeah, so what's... Okay, they're in Green Bay. Yeah, Texans at Packers. I'm going to say Packers minus one. It is the Packers minus three. Wow. Okay, the full three. Packers are good.

The hot new play, the Packers did it, the Bears did it, and then I saw that the Rams had done it last week as the play-action pump fake and then just throw it to the wide-open tight end in the middle of the field. It's pump fake left, pump fake right, tight end down the seam. Yeah, the Bears scored a touchdown with that to Cole Kmet, and then a Packers fan was like, oh, we did that last year. I said, cool, dude, you want a fucking cookie where you can't fucking do the same play?

They invented it? Probably was McVay. McVay probably invented it. It's probably a college play. Yeah. It's a hot play. Packers fans fucking suck. They just steal all my joy. Hank, I want to hear what your best plays are. Shark Wheel. Hotest plays. Flea Flicker. The Julian Edelman. Mm-hmm.

The Tyler Warren play on Penn State. Tyler Warren. Yeah, that was rad. That was awesome. Four verts. I like rugby. I'm with you on the rugby. Did you see that play, Hank? No. Andy Koldenick, he drew up. Tyler Warren, the tight end for the Penn State team.

Snapped the ball from... He was basically the... The tight end or the tackle. Yeah, he was the tackle. He was the left tackle. He was all the way on the end and he snapped the ball and then went and ran down the field. How is that legal? He was eligible receiver. He wasn't... Does the center have to snap the ball? No. Anyone on the line can snap the ball. You have to have a certain number of players that are on the line of scrimmage. It was crazy. Look at the play, Hank. What the fuck? Yeah. Yeah.

It was awesome. It was also such a cool play that they didn't even, it got overshadowed how sick the catch was. It's a great play. I think he was technically the center in this play. That's what they did. They have five guys on the line of scrimmage. Yeah, he was the center because they listed it. He was like all the positions he played and they're like, yeah, he played center. It's crazy.

Yeah, he was in the middle. They didn't have anyone on his left side. Yeah, exactly. It's sick. So is that one of your favorite plays? Yeah. Okay. Hanks-Hop plays. Nice one. What about the fake punt-punt? That's never been done. But it's still going to be one of your favorite plays? My dad says this all the time about punts. I don't have a meaning to say it. Every time I watch a football game with my daddy, he always says, why don't they just kick it without catching it?

So if a punter... Oh, I like that. They just hit it out of the air. I like that. Like a snap? Yes. Like a volley. Kind of like you're hitting a pitch. Yeah. If he just threw it high? Yeah, you hit high and you just kick it. I like that. I don't think it would work, but I like it. Yeah, I like it too. Is there any advantage to doing it?

Get it off quicker? Yeah, get it out quicker. Unblockable. Unblockable punt. We also had in the Oregon-Ohio State game. I like this. I like this a lot. Which doesn't work anymore in the NFL because they changed the rule, but I don't think they did it on purpose. They kind of took credit for it on purpose afterwards, but the Oregon kicker just tried to kick a squib kick and kicked it so hard off of the Ohio State player that it ended up being an onside and they recovered it. I think they might have done it on purpose. I don't know.

When you watch how the kicker runs up to the ball and then his reaction afterwards, I think it was executed perfectly. It hit the guy right in his chest. It's a hard thing to do on purpose, though. I think he just did a great job of taking credit for

something awesome happening. Putting 12 guys on the field on purpose. That's on purpose. That's also on purpose. That's the old Buddy Ryan Polish goal line. Yes. Okay. Next up, Texans Patriots. Texans 41, Patriots 21. Mayday. Hank, what do we think? It was a fun game. Did you have fun rooting for a rookie quarterback? I did have fun. I did have a moment of fear when Drake May went down. He did get pressured a lot. He did...

You know, get thrown into the fire, but he threw a couple really nice deep balls, a couple mistakes, but it was exciting. Give him a grade. I process things by hearing grades. So Hank the Scout watches Drake May today. What's the letter grade? I'm going to give Drake May a solid B-. I thought he was more like a B, B+, because...

Bad interception. Bad interception, but that's rookie quarterbacks. He threw three touchdowns. The touchdown to Keishon Butte was sick. Also, he just proved what my thought was that Jacoby Brissett, everyone's saying the Hanks of the world being like, can't put in Drake May. He's going to get hurt. He's going to get hurt. Yeah.

Jacoby Bursette was so bad, that was why he was getting hit so often and looked like he was getting hurt every play. The offense looked way better. It did look better. He was still not getting a lot of time to throw balls off. He got hammered on that one. He needed to step up and move around a lot, but yeah, it looked better. But he can do that, so the line looked a little bit better than it has with Jacoby Bursette where he can't throw it. Yeah. I thought he obviously made mistakes.

And yeah, the interception, the one that he just floated was bad, but he's a rookie quarterback and he's getting his feet wet. This is what you want, Hank, because now the more like lumps he takes, he's going to win a game sometime in the next couple months or so where it's going to be like, oh shit, he's starting to put it all together. And then next year you have all the excitement being like he played and he did okay.

So right now, here's who he's got next. He's got the Jaguars, then the Jets, Titans, Bears, Rams, Dolphins, Colts, Cardinals. Not a bad run. Not a bad run. Not a bad little stretch. Not a bad little stretch. I would say he played pretty good. And you should be excited. You should be excited. You got a new toy. You get to watch your new toy every Sunday. Three touchdown throws in the first start is pretty crazy. Yeah. You guys know what that's like. Stop it.

We're just fine. We're trying to gas you up. Big Cat, what's your record? Four and two. Yeah, me too. We're trying to gas you up. Hank, are you still drafting first? You're not to get ugly. Yeah, we are still drafting first. Okay. You're definitely going to ruin the vibes of like...

trying to be civil about all of our quarterbacks. No, you know what's going to happen? He's at one game and he's already doing it. You know what's going to happen? Hank's going to try to play spoiler. You guys are too old. Yeah, you can't exist, right? Hank, you're going to try to play spoiler. Me and Big Cat are going to be fighting for the offs down the stretch, and you're just going to be trying to psych us out and hope that one of us doesn't make the playoffs.

No, I want success for both of you guys. I've always said that. Yeah. I thought he played well. So did I. Looked clean. Jerseys looked great. Love those jerseys. They need to bring back the 90s Scott Zolak blue ones next. It was a fun – it was a better Sunday than –

Yeah. All the other ones this year. Think about what would have happened if Jacoby Brissett started this game. Probably would have scored like seven points. We also just had two really bad fumbles by receivers that not Drake May's fault, but it could have been closer. Yeah, and the Texans... I feel like the receivers aren't used to running with the ball because they haven't had...

that many catches with Jacoby. Yeah. It's a foreign concept. They're getting used to it. Like, what is this in my hand? Can I hold it? My idea that the Texans might actually end up benefiting long-term for Nico Collins being out. Tank Dell had his best game of the season. Joe Mixon was awesome again. He missed a few games. He looked fast out there. Yeah, he had 103 yards and a touchdown. So I think the Texans are going to be better off. Two touchdowns. He caught one, too.

Yeah, I mean, the Texans are a very good team, and their defense is ferocious. Did Will Anderson have three sacks? He had three sacks, a bunch of pressures. Another fun stat here, the lighthouse. The lighthouse has not won a game since Hank has touched it. Sorry. The rebuilding season. Memes also just pointed out a stat back here that they are 1-11 since they built the lighthouse. The new lighthouse. No. And the old lighthouse is the most successful lighthouse in the history of lighthouses. And that's not even up for debate.

Tear it down? No comment. Yeah, I mean, at least we have a stadium where people aren't getting injured every time they play there. What are you talking about? He's talking about my turf. Talking about my grass. Soldier Field is nothing. Yeah, no, it's not great. It's not great. So if you want to make fun of a couple little knickknacks, that's fine as long as the playing surface, which is what our franchise top five draft pick is going to be playing on and what really matters, that's fine. So you admit the lighthouse is just a little knickknack? Yeah, he's deflecting.

No, I think they're just trying to, you know, the reason the Patriots haven't won a game in the past couple years at home is not because of the lighthouse. But I, you know, I understand it's a good little diss, good little dig. You're being a hater right now. We'll see what happens at the end of his career. I'm going to call timeout to Hank's hate. Timeout. Timeout. Timeout. Timeout. Okay, time in. You can resume hating. No, I'm not hating. It's fine. It's fine. I get it. You got to get your digs in when you can.

Yeah. Listen, Hank, you know me. I want the Patriots. Drake May, as far as I'm concerned, Drake May is 0-1 at the Lighthouse. The previous record does not count. Got it. Nobody wants the Pats to be successful more than me and Big Cat. We want Drake May to be good. The NFL is better when the Patriots are a dynasty and nobody else is having fun. That's good. We gave him a B+. You gave him a B-. How many other NFL teams have TV shows made after him? It's a great show. Exactly. Who would play Drake May?

I feel like Tim Tebow would. That would really fuck everyone up. Tim Tebow plays Drake May. The Texans are really good. I'm excited for this. This Texans-Packers game is going to be great. That's a measuring stick game. It's going to run for both of them, I think. Yeah, I know. Because I do think both are Super Bowl contending teams. And the Texans are, I mean, in the AFC, it feels like right now it's them, the Chiefs, and the Ravens.

Maybe. Am I wrong? Am I missing someone? Bills, maybe, but they didn't look good. Bills have to. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Bills have to win on Monday night for me to be. They've had two bad games in a row. So, all right. The afternoon games. Lions 47, Cowboys 9. Jerry Jones 82nd birthday.

Pretty bad birthday. Oh, boy. Do you think he had different sets of strippers to call for, like, happy birthday strippers and then sad birthday strippers? No, I think he just called them all. Yeah. He's going to spend way more money when he's sad, probably, than if he was happy. Such a shame that he had such a bad birthday. But holy shit, the Cowboys, I think, are just bad. Yeah. And we'll talk about the Lions. The Lions are very, very good. But the Cowboys, they're just ass. Dak is ass.

Especially at home. Yeah. At home. They, since, I don't want to bring Hank up again, but since Hank went to Dallas, they've gotten their ass kicked at home. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. Kind of a losing touch. Rich Eisen treated out the last four home games for the Dallas Cowboys at halftime. These are halftime scores.

They were down 27-7, 35-16, 21-6, 27-6. That's 110-35. Yeah. The last four halftime scores. When was the last time Hank was there? He was there in the playoffs. The 27-7 one, I think? Yeah. Duck boats. Got it. 27-7-1. So in their last four home games, the Cowboys have allowed 167 points.

That's the third most over four games spanned at home in NFL history. In the history of the league. You just hate to see it. You hate to have to throw these stats out. Here's another one. The Cowboys have 117 points this year. Brandon Aubrey has 60. He has more than half of their points. Here's another... Dak his ass. Here's another interesting one. We should just say Dak his ass after every one of these stats. In 2010...

He's not paid that much. No. So it's not like you expect much out of that. No, that's true. In 2010, Wade Phillips got fired after he lost to Green Bay by 38 points. It was 45-7. And the Cowboys just lost at home by 38 points. Now, Jerry Jones... Dak his ass. Dak his ass. Jerry Jones says that he's not considering it. He told the press several times he's not considering firing Mike McCarthy after this game. He hasn't even thought about it. The...

Him saying he's not considering means he's considerate. You have to come up with that. You have to use your brain to say the words, I'm not considering it, which would make it you're considering the thought of it. But you didn't let me finish. He said twice, I'm not considering it. And then he said, so we're clear. I'm not considering it. Ah.

But he has considered it. He's considered it at least three times. It's my old think about it. I want to patent the phrase think about it because when you tell someone to think about it, the first thing they do is think about it. They got to think about it. Yeah, you own them mentally. So it was his 82nd birthday, and he said afterwards, I think the worst part was just the feeling of the team having fun at our expense. Detroit having fun at our expense. Yeah, so one last thing. I wonder...

Dak is obviously not... He's ass. He's ass, but he's not... You could do worse than Dak, but he's had some big-time games where he's been ass...

And he had another one of those weird, like, not on the same page as CeeDee Lamb jump balls in the corner of the end zone that kind of started the whole... Jump balls. That's the thing, though. It's like his numbers were bad today. But remember in the Packers game when everyone was like, oh, well, the playoff game. Oh, well, his numbers weren't so bad. He put them in a hole that basically they weren't able to get out of. He was horrible. The Cowboys defense is bad. The Cowboys defense got absolutely torched today.

but, and you pay Dak to, to stay in these type of games. Yeah. Big time plays. He hasn't been doing it. I think it's valid to say that their defense is dealing with a lot of significant injuries. Like their defense shouldn't be as bad as it is right now. They were on quit watch. If they had their starts, they quit today. Yeah. They were on quit watch. Everyone was standing. There was one run. I think it was Jameer Gibbs in the third quarter. Cause this was the longest game ever where everyone was standing upright and no one was trying to tackle him and the lions. So yeah, the,

they were having fun. Ben Johnson was emptying the clip on them. They had three different plays. None of them actually ended up working. One of them was called back for penalty. Three different plays where a lineman was targeted for a pass. They even had Dan Skipper line up as an actual wide receiver, which was awesome. They had Dan Skipper report as eligible on the first offensive play of the game. Yeah. And that was a big fuck you. Yeah. They had,

They tried to throw a touchdown pass to Panay Sewell. That one was called back. But it was... They were doing all kinds of things. They were scoring touchdowns when they were already up 40 or whatever it was, 35. The Lions are...

Offensively, so fucking good. And Jared Goff has basically played perfect football the last two games. He is, last two games, 36 for 43, 601 yards, five touchdowns, zero interceptions, passer ratings of 155.8 and 153.8. This is the first time since 1962 the Lions have 40 points in consecutive games. Yeah, I think they're the best roster in the NFC by far.

far offensive offensively because obviously Aiden Hutchinson getting hurt was a big part of this game which sucks immensely that was bad it looked like it was it looked in real time like it was a compound fracture I don't think that it was I think he snapped his tibia they did like emergency surgery he's out for the year which sucks because he was probably he was on track to be defensive player of the year and he's having that kind of an impact and he felt he can't replace him yeah he's like the heart and soul of their defense he's the motor behind it all so that was like

One part you're watching this game, and the Lions uniforms, by the way, pop so much. I know they changed them. Well, I didn't know until I asked our Lions fan, Matt Henkel. I was like, are these brighter? He's like, yeah, we changed them. I missed that. They look awesome. Yeah, especially when the Cowboys are wearing their very drab blue at home. Yeah. The blue of the Lions just shits on it. Did you guys see this one? Did you hear about this one? The Cowboys logo. Someone sent me this meme. It's actually...

It's a rating. One star. Oh, no. One star out of five. You know who else made people wear one star? Yeah, I do. Jerry Jones. Obama. Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones. But yeah, Aiden Hutchinson. Also the sun in the stadium that Jerry Jones designed. It's the dumbest thing ever. It's so funny. It's ridiculous. Jerry Jones designed basically just a huge monument to himself in the middle of Arlington, Texas.

And he didn't stop to think, like, what time do we play football games? Where's the sun when we play football games? Oh, yeah. It's going to be directly in people's faces. Yeah. Yeah. Directly in people's faces. I saw someone say, too, and they have events there, like concerts that aren't football. They have curtains. Curtains. Yeah. Why wouldn't you do that? The pictures look sick. Well, he wants Scott to watch the Cowboys. That was the old stadium. Yeah. They had the opening there. It sucks really bad, though, for the Lions with Aiden Hutchinson. I...

Fun trade that I don't think is even possible but would be awesome. Why don't they trade for Max Crosby? Yeah. The Raiders are going to be... The Raiders are bad. We'll get to the Raiders. They're... They're son-reddick. Son-reddick. Max Crosby has ties to the area. You always have to think about that. Like, it's... Aiden Hutchinson going down is obviously devastating for the Lions defense. And fans, as good as this game was, you're walking away being like, damn, what just happened? Eastern Michigan...

Max Crosby coming back to Detroit area, but

I guess the only silver lining is it happened before the trade deadline, so maybe you can figure out a way to do something because you are a Super Bowl-ready team right this second. Yeah, you can't replace him. He's so good. He's playing at such a high level. You're not going to find anybody out there that is going to replace Aiden Hutchinson. I mean, Max Crosby is probably about as close as you can get. He's elite at what he does. I still think that the Lions are good enough to still – we can still say I think they have the best roster in the NFC. Yeah, I just don't – I think their defense is going to be –

Their defense is going to struggle. Like, that is the heart and soul of their defense. Yeah. And they were a little thin on the defensive line anyway. Their offense is just so loaded. And Tim Patrick has basically just become Josh Reynolds, which is funny because Tim Patrick was on the Broncos, and now Josh Reynolds is on the Broncos. But we, going into the season, were like...

The Lions have all these weapons. Everything should work. They don't have that third receiver that should be able to get some of these yards for him, and Tim Patrick looks like that guy for him. Yeah, Jamison is never going to be that guy that's like a possession receiver. Although he's starting to run different routes. Although if you've seen him the last few weeks, he has learned how to turn, which is important. And so he is doing a couple comebacks. They're using him in different ways besides just like

an end around a reverse or just a deep shot they are mixing it up a little bit yeah they had him on like a slant for about 10 yards today it was like oh that's interesting they're slowly introducing him to turning that's what they did with DK yeah it worked out pretty well for him so far but yeah the lines on offense today the shit that they were doing it was like part trolling but I think it's like

Dan Campbell, he tells Ben Johnson what plays he wants to see, like what guys he wants to see featured. Like he is mapping his entire offensive game plan around who he wants to give the game ball to in an emotional ceremony afterwards. Well, the crazy thing about today and how good the Lions are is they had six guys go for 50-plus yards on the line of scrimmage, and Amon Ra wasn't one of them. Yeah. That's how talented they are. Yeah, it's nuts. And the play to Pene Sewell.

This is what we said. I think we said that last Wednesday after Travis Kelsey did his rugby shit in the Monday Night Football game. The next iteration is going to be doing that play but hitting a lineman that's running downhill. Yeah. That's what they tried to do with Pene Sewell, who, by the way, looked like a running back when he got it. Tucked the ball, dove for the goal line. That firmly stands as one of those plays that's like, it was so cool. Pick the fucking flag. Yeah, pick the flag up. Pick the flag up. You deprived us of a football moment. Yeah. Yeah.

And the flea flicker to Laporta. The flea flicker was sick. Yeah, the Lions are a juggernaut on offense. They're very fun to watch. Also, it was nice seeing Cooper Rush is still around, getting in for whatever the opposite of a victory cigar is. Yeah, Cooper Rush and Hennon Hooker. Yeah. It was the end of this game. Hennon Hooker got in at the end. And I realized when I saw Cooper Rush out there, Jerry Jones has a thing for ginger backup quarterbacks. Yep. He's got Brandon. He had Brandon Whedon. He had Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton, Cooper Rush, and Jason Garrett.

The man just like he looks at a redheaded football player. He's like, that's my backup quarterback. Yeah. Such a shame they lost his 82nd birthday. I know. And in this way, they're not a good football team. No. I don't. 167 points is what they've allowed at home in the last four games. It's crazy. I don't know what. Maybe it's. I mean, they don't have depth. They have a lot of injuries. They pay a lot of top end guys. But yeah, they're just not a good football team. No.

And it's such a shame. I hate to see it. I hate every second. I hate to see it. I hate to see it. Is that – imagine like being – well, I guess you can't really say imagine being Jerry Jones for a million different reasons. But imagine being Jerry Jones. You buy the Cowboys. It's hard to skip about this on Friday. You buy the Cowboys. First five years that you buy the Cowboys, you win a Super Bowl. Then you win two more.

Never again. Yeah. That's what he's facing right now. Because after the first five years, you think that it was you. And you think that it's going to happen all the time. Because you ran Jimmy Johnson off after he won a Super Bowl, and then you go back and you win another Super Bowl. With Barry Switzer, yeah. With Barry Switzer. You think that it's you. You think that you're a system owner. You can plug and play anybody. Imagine telling Jerry Jones in 1995, hey, buddy, you've won your last Super Bowl. I actually think he would memes himself. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, he would. He would block everyone on Twitter, delete all his apps, except Raya. All right. That was, yeah, Lions. Lions are a juggernaut. Lions are a juggernaut. How are you feeling about the Cowboys sucking Max? You love it. Yeah, it's the best. I love when Dak just has these games where he just looks horrible. Some days he looks, some games he looks pretty good, and then there's games like this where it's just like, holy shit. It's what's so weird about Dak is he does have games where he looks like one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

And then he just looks like, shh, ass. But you can set your watch to it. Is that Eddie? Yeah, Eddie's on TV right now. Wait, no, that's not him right there. Oh, it's not? I thought that was Eddie. Definitely not Eddie right there. Oh, okay. What? I just caught him out the corner of my eye and I thought that was Eddie. What?

Eddie does do TV on... Oh, wait. Were you talking about there? Yeah. Oh, we thought you were talking about there. You thought I was talking about Dave Wonstad? No, I know. No, the guy with Dave Wonstad. Oh, no, no. That's Eddie, right? Yes, Eddie's there. Eddie's having a good time. Yeah, he's doing Fox Chicago. Yeah. I was like, if that's not Eddie...

Yeah, Eddie's been doing, for people who don't know, Eddie's our co-worker. He's doing, I think he does the Monday mornings I used to do like 10, 12 years ago that was brutal because I'd get hammered watching the Bears and then I would wake up at 5 in the morning and go do five minutes on Fox Chicago at 6 a.m. Yeah, it's tough. And it was, I'd put on a sweater and I'd look so fat and stupid and I'd just be like,

Eddie's looking good. Yeah, Eddie looks good in this. Yeah, he's on Fox Chicago. Where were we? Oh. We were just talking about how Dak is ass. Dak is ass. Hank? Belichick. Belichick's going to fix it? Yeah. Max, are you... Because you really hate the Cowboys. Of course. They're the worst. Yeah. So this has got to feel good. Yeah, no. It was...

Every time the Cowboys have one of these games, it's just funny to just laugh at them. And they're just like, oh, this team fucking stinks. But obviously, no, but Micah Parsons' defense is going to look worse. Yeah, but they've had three of these games this year. I know. And they've all happened at home. It's crazy. And Hank was there. Well, that was the fourth. Oh, right, right. That was the playoffs. Right. As a fellow Cowboys hater, Max, does it worry you at all that

In a season like this, the Cowboys defense playing this poorly, the team not looking good, Dak looking like ass, we're going to be deprived of having Cowboys fans think to themselves, like, this is our year, our team's awesome, and then having them shit to bed in the playoffs. No, I want pain all the time, always. Because they'll still get themselves up each week that, like...

We're the Cowboys. We're the better team. We're going to win this game. We're supposed to be the Cowboys. Yeah. So I don't worry about that. And Hank was there four games ago. Yeah, he was. He put his stink on them. It was a great time. They have not won a game since. So the lighthouse. Yeah. Hank touching the lighthouse. Duck bolts. So what's the memes? Can we get the full stats tomorrow maybe in an image? Hank's teams. Hank's teams. Since going to the Cowboys, they're 0-4 at home.

Since being the keeper of the Lighthouse, they haven't won a game at home. And then the picture of the graphic should be me and Missoula. No, no, no, no. This is a football show. This is a football show. I know you don't like football, but this is a football show. I don't know if you know this, but you don't know this anymore. And we got 40-piece by Iowa.

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Okay, last three games. Chargers 23, Broncos 16. Jim Harbaugh has an arrhythmia of his heart, and thankfully he's okay. So Harbaugh himself said after he's 2-0 in arrhythmia games. Yeah, 2-0, and he said I'm medically qualified to talk about it. That's what he said. I just love that Jim Harbaugh, like it was weird because we obviously saw the reports. Then John Harbaugh left his press conference early. So we're like, shit, is something really wrong?

I just love the fact that Jim Harbaugh went to the blue tent before going into the locker room. Yeah, he's a player. He's a player. He's a guy you get checked out by the guys. Yeah. And so I also love the fact that he's keeping track of his record in arrhythmia games. Yeah. 2-0 against him. Not the first time he's beaten AFib. If you talk to the NCAA, it's been a little bit dicey recently, but he's come out on top every single time. Yep. Now, it is...

In a sick way, it's funny that now the Chargers have their coach that's also listed on the injury report. Yes. Because it's very Chargers. Yes. The way that their franchise has gone recently. But today was a good day for the Chargers. Yeah. Good day. At least a good first half. Justin Herbert back looks – I mean, he hasn't missed any games, but he didn't look like he was hampered by the ankle like he was last we saw him against the Chiefs. Mm-hmm.

Started really fast. Also helps Bo Nix was so bad in the first half. He was 3 for 10, 22 yards, 1 interception, 0.0 passing rating. And I also...

Like, there was a bunch of injuries. Did Rashawn Slater go down again? I think he might have gotten banged up again. He might have come back in. I know Patrick Stratan went out for the game. He got a concussion in the first half. Which, that's a big loss for the Broncos defense. Yeah. Because he's probably the best corner in the league. But...

But Bo Nix kind of put them in a hole that they didn't get out of, and the Chargers stepped on them. Yeah, they put them away. Yeah. But the Broncos, they look better in the second half. I can't figure out the Broncos week to week. I think they're the most confusing team in the NFL. I think Bo Nix just does half good, half bad every week. He's an exophrenic. Yeah. He just can't. If it's the first half and the defense is firing, you're going to win the game. If it's the second half...

You might be in a hole that you can't get out of. It's crazy because they beat the Bucs. They beat the Bucs in Tampa, right? I don't know if the Bucs are... I don't have the Bucs rated that high. I think the Bucs are pretty good, though. I think they're good. I wouldn't say they're like... I wouldn't say...

I'm not like, oh, they beat the Bucs like they beat the Chiefs or they beat the Lions or they beat the Ravens. I would say they're just below, like, yeah, they're below Lions. Whatever that tier is. The second best tier in the NFC. That's where the Bucs reside. Even though the Bucs beat the Lions. They're below that tier. You think they're below that tier? Yeah, if you did tiers in the NFC. Yeah. Lions and Vikings. Yep. Packers are in the next tier. Commanders might be.

and 49ers. I think the Bucs are below that. But they beat the Lions. Yeah, I think they're right below that. I'm not saying the Bucs are bad. I just don't think the Bucs are... Imagine that Steve and Shea did not exist. I was just about to say that. What would you say about the Bucs? I would have the same feeling about the Bucs. I think they're the second best team in the NFC South. I think the Falcons are better. No, they're not. They beat them. I don't think they're better. Well, they literally played a game and they beat them. Would you say the Niners are better than the Cardinals?

The Niners are better than the Cardinals. The Niners are better than the Bucs, too. But they played a game. Yeah, but the Niners also have a better record. Cardinals beat them. The Niners have a better record than the Cardinals. The Falcons have a better record and they beat them. I think that the Bucs or whatever that's... Regardless...

I wouldn't say the Broncos being the Bucs. The Broncos having a road win in Tampa Bay, rookie quarterback against Todd Bowles and doing all the weird blitzes and shit, that is a pretty impressive win. So the Broncos are capable of pulling these wins out of their asses against good teams. Their defense is good. Their defense is very good. But they also scored a shitload of points against the Bucs. Yeah, but their defense is very good. I just can't figure out the Broncos.

I don't know. Bo Nix. I've seen a lot of Bo Nix. I've watched a lot of Bo Nix football. Yeah. I mean, he's been, we've watched Bo Nix on Saturdays since basically the start of part of my take. Yeah. He's been like a constant, uh, but he's still fun to watch. I still stand by that take that Bo Nix is he's, he's electric. He's erratic. He makes mistakes and successes going a hundred miles an hour. Yeah. Um,

I guess any given Sunday. So who knows with the Bucs? I mean, that was a game that... The Bucs-Broncos game was a game that the Bucs came out very flat any given Sunday. Yeah. This game, the Broncos came out flat, and the Chargers were the better team. It's because of the jerseys. The jerseys were an issue for the Broncos. That was a mistake. Compared to last week, where they were the best uniform in the world, and then they come out wearing these muted oranges and blues. It sucked. Let me ask you a question. Do you think the Chargers are better than the Broncos? Because I do. So, like, I...

I think the Broncos are like a frisky team that is probably not a playoff team. They're probably the third best team in their division. They are the third best team in their division. I think the Chargers, they...

are certainly riddled with injuries, and they don't always have their most talented guys on the field, but I think that they're a more consistent football team. Also, it's a rookie quarterback, which I'm like, Bo Nix deserves. He had a bad first half. He played well in the second half. That's what I'm saying about the Broncos. I'm not saying the Broncos are good. I'm not saying that at all. In fact, I'm saying I can't figure them out. I don't know what the Broncos are.

I think they're exactly like a 500-type team. They're like crazy inconsistent. And when they're bad, they can look like one of the worst teams in the NFL. Yeah. And then when they're at their best, it's like, holy shit, this team is feisty. And I do think the Chargers are good. I think the Chargers were really banged up when they lost to the Steelers and the Chiefs. And now that they had a bye week and got healthier, I think the Chargers...

I would feel more confident being like the Chargers will be a team that's in the playoffs than the Broncos. So I have a question for you, Big Cat, about our good friend Jim Harbaugh. Now that he knows that he's 2-0 in arrhythmia games, he's not going to try to give himself arrhythmias before games, right? I don't think so. I think it's a pretty serious medical thing. He had a...

He had a procedure in 2012 that fixed it, so he can do that again. Okay. My doctor, who's just... He's not my doctor, but he tells me stuff. Dr. Dan, who once put Roan in a cast, even though he didn't have a broken arm for something we did on the axe. Dr. Dan said that he had a procedure, he can do it again, or he can go on medicine. So he had an ablation done, where they shocked some of the... I'm going to pull up Dr. Dan, because he actually gave me the full breakdown that was very...

Very much needed. Too long didn't read Harbaugh. Most likely has a random heart palpitations, rapid heartbeat, which he's had in the past. He might need to get a minor procedure and miss a day of practice or go on. He won't miss practice or go on medication for it. But since he came back on the sideline, it's unlikely it was ever dangerous or life threatening situation. Yeah. So that's good.

2-0. 2-0. That's why I'm concerned. I think if they got to the Super Bowl, he would maybe think about 2-0. Yeah. If it happens, like if this was a playoff game and he had the arrhythmia beforehand, he'd be like, you know what? Let's just ride this out. Yeah. All right. So let's play this game. Broncos at Saints. Oh, yeah. This is the Thursday night game. Broncos Saints. Whose line is it anyway? Sean Payton. Sean Payton on the graphic for this one. Kevin James. Hank, do you got your phone back?

So that lasted a while. Wait, it's Broncos at Saints. Broncos at Saints. I'm going to say Saints. Minus two? Saints minus three. I would take the Broncos if I could be guaranteed Patrick Chetan was playing. What did you say? Oh, wait, no, Hank, you got it. Sorry, sorry. Two. DraftKings. It is Saints plus one. Oh! Oh!

I think we got to hammer the Saints. We got to take the Saints. I guess, yeah, that makes sense. Dennis Allen. Really good defense against a rookie head coach. I mean, rookie quarterback. I guess you can make the same argument for the Saints, although the Saints did not look good defensively today. You couldn't say the really good head coach part for the Saints. Yeah, that too. Yeah, it feels like maybe the Broncos will win this game and keep us off the... Keep us off the scent? Yeah. Keep us off the scent. What would you expect the Broncos to do in this game? I'll tell you right now, they're going to beat the Saints and then they'll lose to the Panthers.

If we're going to go on this. Yep. Yeah. I could see that. And then somehow maybe beat the Ravens. Sean Payton is going to break out all that, you know, the weird shit that he pulls out every now and again, where he has like a kick returner lie down in the end zone to try to blend into the letters. Yeah. So they can't see him when he's returning it. Yeah. Yeah. Sean Payton is going to empty the bag. And I, Bo Nix could end up being good because I do think Sean Payton is

is good at coaching quarterbacks. I just, this game, like the first half, Bo Nix put them in a hole that they couldn't get out of. And that was, that was kind of it. Cause they kind of, they made it interesting at the end. It was very interesting. Yeah. They were double on side kick. Yeah. So I don't know. Broncos. I still think their defense is elite, especially if Patrick Shutan comes back. All right. Next game, Falcons 38, Panthers 20. I got a question. Why don't the Panthers just put Bryce Young back in?

Yeah, at the end of the game when it was pretty far out of hand, I thought the same thing. They were just kind of driving for no real particular reason. Like Andy Dalton is, the offense isn't really the problem with the Panthers. It was when Bryce Young, I get that. Their defense is so bad that I don't really know who can play quarterback that would be able to have them win games. They're not going to win games.

Why wouldn't you just have Bryce Young and see if maybe he can get somehow better? I know that it's probably, you know, you're wishing on a lottery ticket, but what's the point in not playing him when you're not going to do anything this year? I have a theory. I think that the Panthers might be holding out hope that they can get something for him at the trade deadline. I don't know what it would be. In my mind, since I've gone so long without watching Bryce Young play,

I don't think he's as shitty as I did in his last game. Yeah. Like he's gotten better in my dumb brain over the last couple of weeks. Cause I haven't seen him play. I think the Panthers are hoping that other GMs around the league forget how bad Bryce Young was. And then they're willing to give up. I don't know, like a fifth round pick for him. Yeah. Dude.

Did you see the clip of Andy Dalton teaching Bryce Young how to do fist bumps? No, I didn't see it. That was very cute. He was showing him how to like, don't go up, you go like this. I saw them joking around a little bit on the sidelines. Yeah, they were frisky in this game in the first half. Bryce was smiling. Yeah. I don't think I've seen Bryce Young smile in the NFL before. I just don't understand. It's not a Colts situation where the Colts could conceivably go to the playoffs with Joe Flacco.

The Panthers are not going to go to the playoffs with Andy Dalton. That's not a knock on Andy Dalton. He played okay today, and their offense did okay. Their defense is just so, so bad. So why wouldn't you just have Bryce Young play if you're probably going to get rid of him anyway?

like the gambler in me would be like, what if one in a hundred chance he just something clicks and he's good? I think what they got to do is put them in for like a special, special design trick play that you know is going to work. Get his confidence. Get one good play and then take him out again. Yeah. Be like Bryce. We're now in the business of hearing offers for Bryce Young. Yeah. I don't think that there's any real, they're not going to bring them back in to try to just like win football games. I don't think.

I think that they're going to... But you're not going to win football games without him. Right. Well, this was like the whole argument for should you bench Bryce Young to begin with. Right, which I kind of understood to begin with just because it was week whatever, three, and you're 0-2, and you, hey, maybe Andy Dalton is so good that you start winning games, and they won the first game that Andy Dalton played. Now it's week six. You're 1-5.

You're not going to do anything this year. You're further down along the line. Put them back in. I think they might be taking calls. Yeah. The Falcons, by the way, are the second seed right now if the playoffs started today. The Falcons, they get a lot of weapons. I think the Falcons are good. I don't know. I mean, their pass rush still doesn't get sacks. They should have beat the Chiefs. They should have beat the Chiefs. But then you could also do the argument that they should have lost to the Eagles. True. And maybe the Bucs.

And maybe the Saints. I guess the one good thing about the Falcons today is they played a game that wasn't a heart attack. Yeah, it was good for them. Also, the drum got broken again. Oh, no. And I think now that brings the Panthers to 0-3 in games when the drum gets broken. They keep pounding the drum. Oh, no. Yeah, the Saints offense, two good running backs.

Falcons, yeah. Sorry, Falcons offense, two great running backs. Drake London is a beast. Kyle Pitts is getting the ball sometimes. Sometimes. So that's good. I'm out on Kyle Pitts. It's nice to see that. Not DJ Moore. What's his name? Mooney. Yeah. Mooney looks good. He looks better than he has. Ray Ray. They're doing everything. Yeah. And Kirk looks better. It feels like every week.

Kirk Cousins looks like he can, I don't know if it's put more pressure on that foot or just move quicker off that foot. He looks healthier. This was a game too where I felt like the Falcons could easily lose this game if they were the old Falcons just because that would make sense. Like a Thursday night thriller and come back to beat the Bucs and what happened? They just lost. And the first half it kind of,

I think they were down 7-0 in this game, and it was within one score in the first half all the way to the third quarter. But yeah, they took care of business. So good for the Falcons. They took care of business. They ran the ball well. They scored, I think, more points today than they ever did in the previous regime's era. So their offense is... I mean, the Panthers can do that. You're going to love playing the Panthers, by the way. I can't wait. It's so much fun. I can't wait. It is. And...

I did see one person say to me on Friday, they're like, can you just please be a little nicer about the Panthers? Because it's so bad. Yeah. I think we've been pretty nice, though. Yeah, I don't know what to say. We've sympathized with Panthers fans. Your owner sucks. Knowing just what a shithole you're in right now. It's not your fault. It's definitely not your fault. It's not your fault. You have your first round pick this year. Yeah. That's your fault.

That's huge. You don't have your second, but you still have your first round pick. And things can get better. It's the NFL. Teams go from worst to first all the time. All the time. And listen, I was stuck in a hellhole with an owner that I thought I would die before he died. Yeah. Things can change. Things can change. Things can get better. All right. Last game. Steelers 32, Raiders 13.

Steelers defense back after kind of getting run on by the Cowboys in that game they played in Indy two weeks ago. But they were all over the place. Three turnovers, block punt. TJ Watts a monster. The punches today. Punches were incredible. Najee Harris was running harder than I think I've ever seen him run. It was the White Sox. It was the White Sox. That was the first touchdown by a running back for the Steelers this year.

Was it really? Yeah. That's wild. Crazy. And it was a long one, too. Yeah. He had 106 yards. But he... Yeah, the Steelers... It's just Mike Tomlin just needs to be in a spot where...

Like, there's adversity. He can never get too far. The 3-0 start for the Steelers, Mike Tomlin was not comfortable. So he's 5-2 now against the spread when he's a road favorite over the last four seasons. That's good to know. Good for Mike. Russell Wilson looked like he was – he thought that his number was going to get called at any given snap. I thought his number was going to get called. Maybe that was because Jerry kept on yelling to us that it's time. This time he had his helmet on for the entire game. Like, he was ready to go. Like, he had been told, hey, Russ, you're in.

Go get it. Justin Fields did enough with his feet. And Najee Harris, like I said, was running the ball. And they had some short fields. And the Raiders, it's bad.

It's bad. It's bad. I've got an interesting stat here for Mark Davis coaches. Yeah. So the coaches that have been hired by Mark Davis, non-interim coaches, 64 and 102. That's a 38% win rate. Interim coaches are 17 and 18.

So basically 500. But that's still a lot better. That's a lot better. The Raiders need to have just an ongoing cast of interim head coaches. If you win, you stick around. And then when you lose, we'll just hire another interim coach. Yes. So we've made the connection before that the Chiefs are the new Patriots. And we've talked about all the different ways. Thief of Joy, Patrick Mahomes. Doesn't really matter how they look in the regular season. They won a Super Bowl last year where they didn't look good in the regular season.

We've got another one that we're going to throw in there for the Chiefs being the new Patriots. This is the theory that's going around. When the Patriots were really running well, it was always something would happen and they'd be like, Belichick again. Even if he had nothing to do with it. His coaches would go and suck somewhere else. He would send them to sabotage other teams. Belichick did it again. Right. The new theory is...

The Chiefs did it again because if they don't lose that Christmas Day game to the Raiders, Antonio Pierce probably doesn't get hired. Yeah. So they basically got Antonio Pierce hired and now the Raiders are in this spot.

I kind of like it where it's like they're the boogeyman, whatever. You can just spin any bad thing that happens to the Chiefs. Actually, that was them playing the long game. Galaxy brain shit. Yeah. Andy Reid was playing seven dimensional chess. He's like, if I lose this game, they will have to hire Antonio Pierce. And the Raiders will still be bad. Yeah. Or if the Chiefs don't lose that game, who knows if they win the Super Bowl? True. Who knows if they are just complacent going to the playoffs? Yeah.

Yeah, it's tough for Raiders fans because not only do you have a team that's no fun at all to watch, you probably have the least interest in quarterback controversy in the NFL. Yeah. And I don't know what you do about it. I don't either. You said Devontae Adams likes AOC. Yeah.

Do you know why? I don't know why. I just heard that. Did you see anything today where you're like, yeah, I could see... Nope. If the Raiders had Devontae out there, this is a different game. Nope. Do you want to play a fun game called Let's Find the Next Raiders Win? Yeah. Okay. By the way, for the first part of the season, I think we all could agree...

that the Patriots beating the Bengals week one was going to be like the what the fuck happened in that game it's definitely the Raiders beating the Ravens yeah that's the game where we're going to look back because the Ravens are going to be go probably the AFC championship game and the Raiders are probably going to win like three games four games and one of them is going to be at the Ravens well it is kind of nice if you're playing the Ravens you get to say like you're never out of it because remember the Raiders beat them yeah it's true all right all right

At the Rams next week, Rams off a bye. Getting healthier. Yeah, Rams. Then they play the Chiefs at home. They do play well against the Chiefs. I don't... Yeah, well, but that was because Andy Reid threw that game. Yeah. Antonio Pierce already got a job. That's not the game. He won't lose to the Rams until they need to keep him. No, but if they beat the Chiefs, then Antonio Pierce will have more job security. That's the next time they play. Okay. Later on in the season. Agreed. At the Bengals...

No. At the Dolphins with two are back? Yeah, I think they could win that game. Maybe. To me, if it's a bad weather game, that's a uniform matchup. Yeah. You got the candy asses and then you got the old school Raiders. Broncos at home. I think they could beat the Broncos. They could. And then at the Chiefs, at the Bucs, and Falcons. It's going to be tough. It doesn't feel like the Raiders are going to make any noise. Not a great schedule. Yeah. Doesn't feel like they're going to make a lot of noise.

Free Max Grosby. He likes AOC. I don't know. Maybe that was just a rumor I heard from the Walls. The Walls do talk around here. Antonio Pierce, he's reached that point as a head coach where he's just trying anything different. Yeah. Like, he knows what I just saw doesn't look good. Let me see if I can change something, even put in a worse player, and maybe somehow we'll get better. Yeah, just change up the look. Can we lose in a different way this week? Yeah, he's basically...

He's basically just rearranging his living room. Yeah. It's still his living room. The deck chairs on the Titanic. Yeah. He's like, oh, I'll put the couch over here. Maybe give me a different look at the TV. Oh, shit. We're still losing. Maybe if the band played a better song, this iceberg would go away. Yeah. All right. Last game, Sunday Night Football. Bengals with a must win win. And they needed that game. Their defense showed up.

Giants only scored seven points. That was big. And their offense, it was crazy because you'd think the offense has been so lights out, kind of struggled, but Joe Burrow made the big plays when he had to. That touchdown run was awesome. Chase Brown, they also got a little lucky at the end. Chase Brown fumbled out of bounds. I saw that, yeah. And then scored a 30-yard touchdown to ice the game away. But, yeah, that was like a hard-fought game that the Giants – the Giants are frisky. Dexter Lawrence is a fucking –

I feel like he's sacked Joe Burrow like 100 times. Their defensive line is good. That's not like a fluke. They've got...

We have Thibodeau was out today, right? Yep. But he's probably going to be coming back in the next week or two. Yep. The defensive line is very, very good on the Giants. And when they get Malik Nabors back, that's going to be big too. Yeah. And credit to the Bengals defensive line because they finally showed up too. Trey Henderson played well. B.J. Hill played well. Like that's what they've been missing is their defensive line has been bad, injured, but also bad. And now the Bengals, I mean, we still believe in the Bengals too.

two and four what's their next must win i mean next week is i think all of them yeah they they kind of all are but this one was a real must win because it's like you're better than the giants even though the giants aren't the worst team uh so wait is that is that oh they play at cleveland oh there you go there you go there you go that's a good that's a good that's a good one so is that is that same lamar jackson stat about beating nfc teams um

Is that what we're looking at with Daniel Jones being 1-14 now in primetime games? Yeah. Whereas one win is against Lamar Jackson? No, that was the afternoon game. I remember because the Ravens were off. So, yeah, but Daniel Jones is 1-14 in primetime. Yeah, not great. Something to think about. Not great. But, again, I say Brian Daybol looks great.

Yeah, he does. He's got the glasses on now. He's been doing Pilates. He looks smart. He's definitely not been doing Ozempic. It's Pilates. That Joe Burrow run was crazy. I want to see the All-22. There was no one on that side of the field. He's fast. He's just like, fuck it. I'm out of here. I'm gone. Good for the Bengals. Yeah. Bengals needed that win bad. And now I am not writing off the Bengals. There was a guy who...

I shouldn't even been looking at it, but a guy on Twitter said tomorrow on PMT, big cat hates on the Bengals once again, which I don't think we've ever. I think we're pretty pro Bengals. I think I've been more pro Bengals than you, but that's,

Also partly. I said Joe Burrow MVP two weeks ago. But I think that's also partly in the back of my head so I can convince myself that Monday Night Football game meant more because we beat a good bank. I literally was the one who was saying Joe Burrow MVP is playing incredible. But then I saw his other tweet was Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth have a mouthful of cum over the Giants. So that guy's just doing well. He's doing real well.

he's he's he's dealing with this that's the only guy in america that's like enough with the giants glazing we get it you guys love the giants i like to do that sometimes when i see like a rogue tweet like coming at us for one of our opinions just go check out what else they're saying yeah you're like all right that makes sense i my favorite is when somebody's talking shit and i look at their recent replies and they're replying to porn stars yeah that's that's the best yeah they're like uh

Yeah, show me your feet. Show me your feet. Hey, PFT and Big Cat, you guys are fucking idiots. Show me your tits. Yeah, hey, you stupid little short midget. I like that shit. Hey, midget. And then the next tweet is like a reply to Rochelle Ryan being like, come to Sheboygan. Yeah. Hey, I'm your biggest fan. Would you ever go on a date with a fan? Yeah. Would you ever go on a date with a fan? Yeah. I believe in the Bengals still, just for the record. So Pope Jacob.

Just chill out, man. Is that a real Pope? Yeah. He was very upset about the broadcast. All right, so the Bengals sit at 2-4 right now. Yeah. But they're playing the Browns, right? Yep. So let's say 3-4. Yep. Then they're playing the Eagles. I'm telling you, I think the Bengals might make the offs. I said it. I said last week, I think there's a chance the Bengals are going to, next time they play the Ravens, they'll be above 500 because then they play the Raiders. This was a...

As, as even though the offense did not look like it's looked the last three weeks where Joe Burrow was just on fire, uh,

This was the game that you needed from the Bengals where the defense showed that they still have life. That's what I've been saying is that Lou is going to figure it out. Yeah. He's going to figure something out. It did help their plan. Daniel Jones. And guess what? It helps their plan to Sean Watson next. We figured it out. Yeah. Okay. I have. So that was that was all the games. I have a row back question. RHOB. Ack. Com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q's, it's polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com promo code take 20%.

Mets-Dodgers game one memes. The Dodds. Just flush it, move on. Game two is must win. Oh, must win. What did happen? They just got absolutely smoked. What was the score? Dodgers. 9-0. 9-0 while we were taping Mookie Betts. Yeah. Drove in three more. What would you say to somebody who hypothetically said that the magic has run out for the Mets? If there was somebody like that in your life that was close to you.

physically close to you i would say it's a long series uh and that hypothetical person uh blew their load too early last time as well oh but it did feel like there were some plays what was it who who got thrown out at third jesse winker yeah that was like uh last week that would have worked it's just one game it's just one win game two and you in in your head of schedule

Yeah. You got Minaya on the bump? You got three at home. You got three at home. The Dodgers, though, they're like the anti-Phillies. They have guys that will get big hits. Everyone says that about the Dodgers in the playoffs. Well, I'm just saying, so far, they've gotten guys that have gotten big hits this year. Have they not? Yeah, but it's the Dodgers. Okay. It's not like...

Oh, the Dodgers are historically good in the playoffs. No, I know, but this year they're getting big hits. They have won a World Series more recently than the Phillies have. That's true. That is a good point. Oh, so baseball counts, but not basketball. One was a bubble. One was self-contained in a bubble in a hotel in Orlando, Florida. If COVID was such a big deal, would they have let Magic Johnson down there for the trophy ceremony without a mask?

Max, question. You're right. You got me on that, that the Dodgers have been chokers in the playoffs. They have Shohei now. Yeah, this is his first playoffs. And he's been pretty good in these playoffs. He's been okay. I mean, he's been pretty good. He went two for four tonight. You can be unbiased. You can be unbiased. I am. This is being unbiased. But I just wanted to... The Dodgers lineup is scarier than the Phillies.

On paper Yes Total lineup And also But like going But going into that Phillies-Mets series You would say the same thing When the manager Hands in the lineup What does he Usually write that on? She's on paper

Yeah, I mean, you guys say something's better on paper in every show. What's your endgame here, though? Is your endgame, you're rooting against... Don't you want the Mets to lose? I do want the Mets to lose. So then what are you doing? He's rooting against the Dodgers because he wants the Mets to lose in the World Series. No, you started talking shit, and I wanted to, you know... I'm not talking shit. You were talking shit. I'm just saying the Dodgers, like Shohei is a game changer. So is Bryce Harper. Okay. Bryce Harper's out of the playoffs. Correct. But he was talking shit.

But Max, you want, I think I know what you're saying. You want the Dodgers to lose so that the Mets can make it to the World Series and have an even more heartbreaking loss. No, I did say that going into this game. Then I watched the game and I was like, I can't have Mets fans. I want Mets fans to cry. Out right now? I was watching all of the clips of that cave being so happy.

They were fighting with each other. It was the best. That's got to make you feel good. There was one part where... It's not going to bring your friend back. You could just hear the... Excuse me? It's not going to bring your friend back. Who's my friend? He's saying we don't have to bring others down to build ourselves up, Max. Oh, that's...

That's exactly what you do. 100% you have to do that. It's all you have left. That's what sports fandom is. That's why Hank is just rooting against every single team in this podcast. Yeah, he might be rooting. No. No. No one wants the Bears and the Commanders to do better than me. And Hank might start rooting for the Mets just to stick it to you now. Right. I think so. No, I was rooting for the Phillies.

The Padres went outside, though. The Dodgers just squashed them. 24 scoreless innings. And so the Tigers went outside, too. Scooble, that grand slam. That was hurtful. So the Guardians now play the Yankees game one. It's all eyes on New York for today. Columbus Day. Yeah, Columbus Day. It's the Mets, then the Yankees.

than the Jets and the Bills. Pretty good day. Pretty crazy day. Also has the potential to be a pretty bad day. What were you going to say, Hank? It's impossible. What? You can't parlay all four to lose. Oh, you want to parlay the Jets and the Bills to lose? Tie. So you... Let's look at your rankings real quick. What a tie is? No, no, yeah. He wants to do... The Dodds? He wants to do the Dodds, the...

That's what L.A. fans call them, the Dodds. The Dodds. Sanjulus. The guards and a tie. That's what you're rooting for? No, Bills. That's what you're rooting for? If you're really being a hater, which we should call timeout for, but if you're truly hating, then you should root for the Bills. Plus 649. That's it? No, no, not tie. The Bills, the guards, and the Dodds. All right, I like that. Plus 649. But I'm rooting for you, memes. The hater parlay. Yeah.

I'm just engineering ways to figure out how bad you're going to suck. Playoff baseball has been great, though. It has. Max, are you calm now after Ask Greg? Yeah, I feel great. I mean, it was an electric show.

I'm happy that people were happy. Between Skip and your ass crack, it was a Hall of Fame episode of Pardon My Tears. It was crazy that more people were talking about the ass crack. My fucking asshole. But you have to understand. I watched that clip a thousand times. I was showing it to random people. I was like, look at this. I just woke up on Saturday morning. It was like the gambling account tagged me. Or not gambling. College football show. It was like Philly Mace still catching strays. And it was just.

Big catch, putting the phone right in Dave's face. Like, look at my boy back. He was so upset about his ass crack. Yeah. I was like, look at my guy. He gets so angry. He's so Italian. Have you thought about throwing out those underwear? Yeah, I still haven't unpacked that bag, to be honest with you. I got to do that. Like, mentally? Yeah, I was going to say, it sounds like you're talking about your psychology. Can we frame it and put it in the studio? Please. Frame my... Yeah, I would like to frame your underwear and put it in the studio.

Why don't we just get a picture of his ass crack? Can you say what Pug said to you? What did Pug say to you? He was like, why don't you just rip a really good belt? That's a good question. Those pants don't have belt loops. And you've dealt with it by just becoming the baggiest person in the world today. Yep.

Let us know. I watched the clip a bunch. I was thinking about designing maybe some t-shirts that say my fucking asshole question mark. If you guys would buy that, let me know. Reach out. We'll try and make that happen. No one would buy that. Maybe just a picture of his face right before he hits the camera out of Duke's hand on the front and then just his ass.

Oh, what if we sold it? Maybe it's just M-F-A-H. I wonder if our merch team could figure out a way to sell boxers that are just... Max's ass? No, it's the ass and the rip. Yeah? So they're like... See, the thing about Max, Max, 100% of the time that you're on a stream with a team that you care about, you provide a moment that is just like, what the fuck is this guy? It's awesome. It's the best. You have a secret talent. You don't try to do any of it.

It also is. Talented guy. You remember when he spat on me? Max. That was bad. It also is the curse of. No, no, this is. I think it was the Phillies against. Was it Phillies and Nats? Yeah. No, it was Phillies in the playoffs. It was last year. Yeah, it was last year? No, two years ago. And he got excited because I think they had a home run. He stood up and he said something. Wasn't careful with the lips and a big thing. Yeah, just spit all over him. I think it was in this gambling cave. Yeah. I thought it was in the New York game. It was in New York. Uh.

It may not have been Phillies. It may have been Eagles. Max, you also, I mean, you know this, but last week was a perfect example. The curse of working in partial sports is when your team has epic heartbreak, it's actually like good for your career in a weird way. It's fucked up. Don't shake your head, Hank. Don't fucking shake your head. That does not apply to you. That does not apply to you.

But people love our sadness. So when we have ultimate sadness, it somehow does wonders for us. Hank Giggler is making me so mad right now. He's the only one who can't say this. He's making me so mad. You're right. I was shaking my head like, yeah. But it doesn't apply to you. Spit. Preach. Everyone except for Hank, if your team loses, it's good. Yeah. For the longest time, the highest rated episode of Pardon My Take was a Mike Florio episode. And we're like...

Florio doing numbers and then I realized it was right after the double doing yeah all right let's do who's back in the week we'll finish up

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NBA preseason ramping along. I will say I have been watching. There's a lot of episodes, so I'm not finished with it. But the NBA starting five show on Netflix, that's like their F1 version of their Drive to Survive. Who's in it? Very, very good. It's Anthony Edwards, LeBron, Jimmy Butler, Tatum, and...

What's his face from the Kings? De'Aaron Fox? Sabonis? Sabonis. And I've had to tell myself this because remind myself it is an uninterrupted production. So it could be very biased, but I do find myself liking LeBron. Oh, what? He's just funny. He is a funny guy. He's funny. Yeah, no, he is funny. He's just a big goof. But again, it's like, this is what they want you to think. But...

Whatever. So, excited for NBA to come back. Today, the Knicks played the Timberwolves in MSG right after the first time they met since the DiVincenzo trade. Yep. And I don't know. That's why I was checking my phone. I don't know how things went with the postgame pressers after, but it looked from tweets and stuff in the video that were basically lip syncing, so you don't know exactly what was said, where DiVincenzo was basically talking shit back and forth with Tibbs

As he was shooting a free throw, being like, this is what happens when you let me run the team. When you run the team. Yeah, they were just basically just like John in the middle of the game. Yeah. And he did... Someone asked, like... They asked him who, if he could hit a game winner over one of his former teammates, who would you choose? And he just said, as long as it's in front of Tibbs. Oh. That's not... He said, I can't finish, though, Tibbs. There's like...

He also got into it with Jalen Brunson's dad, Rick Brunson, who works for the Knicks. Did you see that? Postgame, they had to be separated? No. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. This league. Yeah, this league big time. So he said, I was talking to Tibbs to Rick Brunson. Yeah. When he was saying that's what happens when they let you run the show. Yeah. But it feels like maybe he was talking to Rick Brunson. Yeah. Which is kind of awkward for Jalen, who was like, wow. All right, go ahead and play it.

He says, I can't finish, right, Tibbs? I can't finish, right? Oh, I like that. This league, big time. So he says, my relationship with Jalen, that's my brother and my best friend. That's a separate relationship. Weren't people saying that he was the last of the friends? Like, not as close? No. Dante and Jalen Brunson were roommates in college. Dante and Josh Hart didn't like each other. Got it. Got it. This league. But why'd they get rid of Dante?

He, I think, I think he didn't like being like looked at as the fourth guy. Yeah. As the fourth guy. He was going to probably be off the bench again after being, but is he going to be, he might be off the bench in Minnesota too. Yeah. Yeah. Either way, this league, good. Who's back. I had it written down. Good job, Hank. Uh,

P.S. Hockey's back. Yeah. Hockey's back, and the Utah Hockey Club is good and fun. What is it about hockey that makes the new team so much better? The draft. I think they changed the expansion draft this year, didn't they?

I know the Vegas one they did, I always thought was crazy. Where you can protect like two players, basically. Yeah, so they got Fleury, which is wild. But yeah, it feels like expansion teams in the NHL are just... They don't go through those same growing pains that other sports do. But my other who's back is the U.S. Men's National Team. Because on Saturday night...

During the College Football Madness, we had our debut with our new coach. We won. Dos a cero. Who? Panama. What was the tournament? It was a friendly. It was a friendly. But we won 2-0. And then we got in Mexico in another friendly, I think on Tuesday night.

And we look good. We dominated just in terms of time and possession, everything. They had a couple counterattacks. But overall, I think he looks like a good coach so far. We're not playing our best players against Mexico. I think Pulisic is going to sit out because he wants to see what the bench looks like and give them more playing time. Got it. I'm back. I'm back in on this. What do we get if we win? No, it's a friendly. You get friendship. You win friendship. Why are they doing it during football season? Because they also play sports.

It's a different sport. But like during Saturday football, Oregon, Ohio State? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if the guys that run U.S. soccer are looking at the slate. They should probably figure that out. I would have maybe tuned in if it was like a Wednesday afternoon. I had that on alternate screen.

But it was good. It was good. You should be excited. If you're an American and you like beating teams in sports that the rest of the world cares about. I do. Yeah. Like when we win the presidential cup in golf or whatever that we don't give a shit about and we beat the rest of the world, that feels good as an American. I want this guy to be good. My whole take has always been if this guy, if the U S men's national team doesn't get good,

Are we going to keep blaming the coach? Are we going to be like, hey, maybe we're just not good? No, this is just on us not being good. If we don't turn around. Okay, yeah, then I'm in. I'm all in on him. I'm still all in on the idea of somehow getting this guy to make Messi a temporary citizen or get him like a passport. Yeah. And then Messi will play for us in the World Cup. Let's do that. Let's do that. If he wants to win another one. He does have a World Cup victory. Ronaldo could never. Mm-hmm.

All right. My who's back is Rick Pitino. Yeah. Went back to Kentucky. They were doing a celebration for the championship team. Obviously, Mark Pope is now the coach. He was on that team. It was cool. It was cool. I think our guy, Matt Jones, also got an interview with him. Yep. So, like...

felt like it was kind of all coming back together. It was nice. I like that they're just letting Rick kind of help out coaching the Kentucky basketball team, even though he's the coach of St. John's. I think there were some St. John's fans that were a little upset, but they were... They were celebrating...

A championship. Yeah. Hey, St. John's fans, you can sit in the corner of this hotel room and watch. Also, Coach's Kentucky. Also, Rick Pitino's back because there was a New York Post article that said St. John's, New York's largest Catholic university, has canceled Columbus Day, and he just said fake news. So I'm not going to read the article. I'm just going to go with Rick Pitino and say fake news. Yeah, we don't need community notes. We got community coach. Fake news. That's fake news. They can't take that away, can they, Max? No.

no not for italians no that's a are you gonna take tomorrow off you can have tomorrow off no i'll be here i the italians would want me to be here the italians would want you to work yeah how bad i'll be i'll be late how okay all right yeah that's what columbus would want enjoy your heritage uh okay anything else another great week of football we're

officially a third of the way through the season, which is nuts. I hate it when you start saying that. I'm just saying that it's crazy that we're a third of the way and it feels like we're starting to figure some things out. I think we've figured some things out. There's a lot. Listen, we got tears. We know what the tears are. It's exciting. He's the worst. Isn't that exciting? We're better than alive, Hank. I've never been so alive in my life. It is kind of crazy that this desk has the best record in the podcast.

the podcast yeah you deserve it we do what's your record max three three and two you guys have played four and two that's four and two ken palm came out today oh where's ken i love that that's i'm just i'm just how's nova how's nova looking better than people pre-season polls are saying where's wisconsin ranked not good probably let me look i love 46 nova's 20 got some work to do are we thinking future on nova no

I actually think they're going to be really bad this year, but maybe that's when they'll be good. UConn's five. Yeah, they're going to be good again. All right, let's wrap up. Numbers, three. 20. They'll go eight. There you go, memes. We're moving it around. 11. Memes, you're going to get this. No, you're not. He's going to get this. Actually, today will probably be the day he get it. He's never going to get it with three. He's done three for, what, three years straight? You've got to get off three. 21 minutes.

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