JB's Sports Podcast
JB's Sports Podcast
From Conference Championship Chaos To NFL Reality: Upsets, Playoff Seeds, And Teams On The Brink
The scoreboard didn’t just change this weekend—so did the story. We walked through a championship slate where Georgia’s control said more than any blowout, Duke detonated the ACC’s clean path, and Notre Dame discovered what happens when head-to-head finally matters. Independence or not, the committee’s late flip for Miami was always baked into the rankings; the outrage makes sense, the opt-out doesn’t. From there we map the postseason: why Oregon’s draw is quietly cushy, how Texas Tech’s defense adds chaos, and which bye teams actually have the easiest road.
Then the film study got real. Ohio State’s 13–10 loss to Indiana wasn’t a fluke; it was a clinic in how red zone choices and protection breakdowns erode a favorite’s edge. Indiana didn’t need a superhero—just stunts, rolled coverage, and patience. We unpack what the Buckeyes fix with 25 days to reset and why the ceiling still looks terrifying if they clean up the tight-area sequencing. Along the way, we address refs, momentum, and how “efficient football” is an elite skill in December.
Sundays echoed the theme. The Bills-Bengals snow game was gorgeous until two Burrow throws tilted the whole thing. Houston’s defense bullied Kansas City while CJ Stroud stayed poised enough to let the defense win. The Steelers edged the Ravens on a late Likely reversal and a suddenly wobbly Lamar. The Rams looked unstoppable with Stafford dealing and Puka stretching the field. And in Los Angeles, the Chargers beat the Eagles in a beautifully ugly classic where Jalen Hurts pressed into four picks and a single play became pick, forced fumble, and turnover. This week made one thing clear: games are being won by teams that manage variance, survive the trenches, and stop lighting possessions on fire inside the 10.
If you’re here for the real: playoff paths, bracket traps, and which teams’ “boring” strengths travel in January—this one’s for you. Hit follow, drop a five-star review, and share with the friend who still thinks conference titles don’t matter. Who’s your pick to take it all?
Welcome back, Jimmy to the podcast. Today is Tuesday, December the 9th, and we're back for the podcast.
SPEAKER_00:We back. A lot of things happened this past weekend. Football, football, football. And I don't know. I'm a little down. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not a little, I'm a little disappointed. Probably not down, but disappointed. But we'll get we'll get to that. Plenty of things to talk about. Jace finally got involved in football a little bit, at least emotionally, all for not. And there's gonna be a lot to talk about.
SPEAKER_03:So let me down again.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and this time it might have actually been at the feet of your messiah.
SPEAKER_03:Dude, is it weird to say that's the worst part about it?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, no doubt. Like it's that it was kinda it was kind of your fault. Your defense is playing pretty good, but like, bro, you like what the fuck was that?
SPEAKER_00:So before we get to that though, college football, plenty to talk about there. We did the comfort comfort championship weekend happen this past weekend, had a talk. We have to talk about that. We'll do a little bit of talk about the playoff and the and the matchups that are happening in the first round. Notre Dame being a bitch, taking their ball, and going, that shit pisses me the fuck off.
SPEAKER_03:And then we'll go over the dollar straight bitch made for that. It's so bad. Are you dead ass?
SPEAKER_00:And then we'll talk about the NFL. We'll do the recap of this past weekend's NFL games, the fall of the Chiefs, the fall of the Bengals, and my team apparently still wants to hang on. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get into it. All these games, not that many to talk about. We have a total of like six games happening during Conference Championship weekend. First one, North Texas and Tulane really only mattered because Tulane was a team that could potentially get into the playoff. They were were they one of the teams? James Madison got in. Oh, Tulane did too. Okay. So Tulane, North Texas, Tulane won the game 34-21. It was a pretty it was almost like Tulane dominated the game for the most part, up until like kind of like the very end where North Texas really started scoring some points to make it look like they can get really be in the game. But honestly, it was dominated by Tulane from start to finish. Um again, Tulane getting to the playoff, definitely a big opportunity for that to happen. But they did what they had to do. Um it was a very entertaining game, though, even though Tulane was never really in doubt to necessarily lose it. Um next one, you got Troy and James Madison. JMU won the game 31-14. That game was a route. The game wasn't close. It was actually it was close for most of it until the fourth quarter, where James Madison really kind of jumped ahead and scored those 14 points. But they went in there against the worst team in Troy, took care of business, locked themselves into the playoff. Actually, they weren't even they didn't even know they were locking themselves in until the actual um rankings happened. So that's about it with that game. Those are both happened on this past Friday. And then from there, go to Saturday, and I don't know. Um BYU Texas Tech was the first game that happened. That was the Big 12 championship game. Texas Tech won the game 34 to 7. The game wasn't close. Texas Tech offensively, defensively, were just was just the better football team. This is the second time they had played each other this season, and it went the same both went the same way both times. Texas Tech did their thing. When their Texas Tech is rolling, they have when they have their quarterback uh Morton, they are a much different team. Heck, their only loss they had was when their quarterback wasn't there. But otherwise, their defense is very good. The linebacker that they have, why am I forgetting that guy's name? He was like, I think it was like Nick something. Hold on, I gotta check. Because he was like a Jacob Rodriguez was the linebacker. He was having a very good season, very dominant defensive player. But like BYU didn't have a chance. They got to keep their head coach. They should be very happy they got to do that, keep him away from going to Penn State. But otherwise, Texas Tech went into that game, dominated, did what they had to do, and won that game without much of an issue. Texas Tech, I really do think is a team that like they do have their issues offensively at times, but as long as like their offense can kind of have good game plan and really score points, their defense is a very they cause a lot of chaos for whatever offense they would have to go against. And they're just a very good team. And they're buying their way to that team, though, because they're throwing money around like crazy when they're building uh when they built that team in the offseason. Next game, SEC champion, actually, yeah, SEC championship game. Georgia, Alabama, Georgia went into this game as long as they won the game. They would stay as a top four seed and get the bye. Alabama being, I believe they were at the nine seed at that point, nine or ten um in the playoff rankings. They were like, hey, if we lose this game, it puts their kind of like lives in the committee's hands as to if they were going to get into the playoff or not. But as it turns out, Georgia's the much better football team. They dominated from start to finish. It was 28 to 7. Bama didn't score until the fourth quarter where they finally got a touchdown to make it look a little bit better. But Georgia dominated that game from start to finish. It was wasn't close. They, even though it wasn't like Georgia blew the doors off of Alabama necessarily. It is just they played more efficient, just good football. Gunnar Stockton, 20 of 26, 156, three touchdowns, zero picks. They ran the football for 141 yards and just made plays offensively. While Alabama was pretty much locked down from start to finish without much of an issue, Ty Simpson went 19 of 39 for 212 yards, one touchdown, one pick. They ran the football for negative three yards in this game. Again, Bama has been a bad rushing team all year long. So it's kind of hard for Bama to go against a even decent defense and realize, like, hey, our whole game plan is off of Ty Simpson having to throw the football every single play. And it just makes it a makes it a lot easier for a defense to go against you, especially a Georgia defense that isn't dominant by any means, at least in comparison to what they've been in years past. But they're athletic. But they're very athletic. And if they have an idea that, hey, we can just tee off on you, they really don't have to worry about stopping the run, it's gonna make your job very, very difficult. And I feel like Bama had no chance in this game off offensively. And that's gonna be Bama's like one big issue is that even if they do get it, like can they string together multiple games of like not being able to throw run the football, but just be on a throwing tear? That's not necessarily possible. So, but Georgia did what they had to do, won that game, and they are I think they're the number two, no, sorry, number three seed because of it. Next game, we'll go with uh Duke, Virginia. This was the one, this was like the chaos type of game, because Duke coming into this game was eight and like eight and four, eight and five, and they had no chance getting to the playoff whatsoever, even if they won the championship game. And you have Virginia, who was ranked number 17 in the playoff rankings, like they were a team that if they won it, they would actually get a playoff spot because they were you know within striking distance of getting a top 12 spot. But unfortunately, Virginia fucked around and let Duke win this game in overtime 27 to 20. And because of that, and again, I'm not gonna sit here and act like I watched the whole game. I didn't. I watched a little bit of it in clips, but like it was again, it is like the antithesis of what the ACC has been this year. It is a bunch of mediocre slash bad teams just kind of dukeing it out with each other. And unfortunately, Duke managed to be on the top of that. You know what's funny? Duke, one of their losses, was a conference game that wasn't a conference game, they just didn't even count it. So that was one of their losses, which is why that they were so high in the rankings, even though they have a lot of like conference losses, but just one of them, one of them was not counted and was counted as a non-conference game. But because of this, ACC was left out of the playoffs. Actually, no, now they weren't left out of the playoff altogether, but the ACC champion was left out of the playoff. Duke, nowhere to be seen. Nobody's even making an argument as to why, as to like may oh, Duke deserves to be in the playoff. Nobody thinks that. The only team that did get in was Miami, and we'll get to that in a second. But it was a it was just one of those things like the AC just fucked around and like it's all Miami's fault. If Miami didn't mess around and lose the games that they lost in the middle of the season, the ACC wouldn't have this issue. But because of that, they were hoping for Miami to get in as an as a uh what is the word I'm looking for? Not it was a at-large bid. They were hoping for Miami to get in as an at-large bid, which they did, but it was just a ACC has just been bad all season long. And then last but not least, we'll get to it. Ohio State, Indiana. Indiana beat Ohio State 13 to 10. I I'm not gonna lie to you, I was not, I was disappointed, but I wasn't this might have been after an Ohio State loss. You know how I am, Jace, obviously. After any Ohio State loss I've ever had in my life, I've been heartbroken, I've been crushed, I've been emotional, all those things, all in all, right?
SPEAKER_09:Yep.
SPEAKER_00:But I think after this game, because all the dreams that Ohio State had was still in front of them, this was not the game against the team up north. This was against an Indiana team that I respected, but I honestly I did think like, oh, if Ohio State shows up and plays their game, they should win this game without much of an issue. And I went into this, but at the end of the day, the problem was with this game was that it didn't have a lot of stakes. Is it for a Big Ten championship? Yeah, for sure. But honestly, in the grand scheme of things, does that really matter all that much? Probably not, especially when it comes to the playoff, because it was pretty much like it was all the way around like agreed upon that the loser of this game is still in the playoff. The loser of this game is still gonna have a top four seed and get a bye in the playoff, and like all the dreams will still be ahead of whatever team loses this game. So we go into this game. I'm confident like the defense is they've kept everybody under 16 points all season. Nobody's really done anything against us, and we start the game. And Ohio State starts off pretty hot, gets a touchdown, kind of gets into it, and they were actually no, they Indiana, I think, scored first, and then Ohio State got the seven points. But in the in the first half, it was 10 to 6. But it was just it was an it was a a rock fight, to be honest, when it came to it, because both teams could like move the ball from 20 from 20 to 20. Both teams are moving it just fine, and it wasn't necessarily be like throwing the football over the place, it was just systematic, just getting the football down the field and doing it that way. Um, for Ohio State, Julian Sand, 21 to 29, 258, one touchdown, one pick. I think this was the most frazzled I've ever seen Julian Sand as a quarterback this year.
SPEAKER_05:I think they did do a good job at doing that.
SPEAKER_00:They moved coverage a lot, like a lot of times they were rolling coverage, they were moving guys around. The offensive line probably had their worst game that they've had all year. The right guard position, Tegra Shabola, he's been off, he's been like up and down all year. He had his worst game he could possibly have. By the time they decided to take him out of the game, Ohio City did have their most two their two most productive drives, being able to run the football and do all that. I don't think he's gonna be the right guard going into the playoff. But the offensive line had a real issue with Indiana's defensive line. It's not like they have an absolute like game wrecker on the defensive line. But you know what they do? They play as a team, they rush with gap integrity, they do what they're supposed to do. They do a lot of stunts and stuff like that to really trick the offensive line into thinking one thing's happening, but it turns out to be another. So, like, the offensive line for Ohio State really had an issue against this Indiana defensive line that they were just and they played with a lot of effort. They were getting after it. I think Ohio State gave up six sacks all year, and they gave up five sacks in this game against Indiana. And because of that, Julian Sand was real tentative. He didn't know what was coming, and then he was like trying to read the defense, they were rolling coverage, so it just made him a little bit slower with the football, and then by the time he was about ready to make make his decision to go ahead and throw it, there was a guy in his lap for most of the night, or he was running for his life trying to make a play outside the pocket. When and he was sacked, like I said, sacked five times in this game. Um Bo Jackson had a great had a great game. Like honestly, running the football, I think Ohio State did a decent job, but it's when it comes to rushing numbers, Julian Stan got sacked so much, it takes away from it because when it when you look at the how the rushing stats work. But Bo Jackson, 17 carries, 83 yards, averaged almost five yards a carry. Um Jeremiah Smith had an awesome game, eight catches, 144 yards, zero touchdowns. Uh Carnell Tate had a touchdown, four catches, 45 yards. Max Claire got involved. Offensively for Ohio State, defenses did the like I said, the defense for Indiana played very hard. They rolled coverage, they did all that. But it was just, and Ohio State was still able to move the football up like up and down the field. But once they got into the red zone, they got into the red zone four or five times in this game and only came away with points twice. On one of the drives, so in the second half, Ohio State was held scoreless and they were in the red zone twice. On one of those um red zone um drives, they were going for it on third and one, fourth and one in the red zone. On one of the plays, they tried to do this heavy package, and then they try to have roll out Julian Sand to throw to Jeremiah and only one route. There was no other guy to throw to, going to his left. And they took Carnell off the field, and it doesn't make sense they did that. And then after that didn't work, they try to go for a quarterback sneak. Julian Sand's knee hits the ground, they get turned over on downs in the red zone. That's a problem. Later on, they get to the red zone again. This was they were down three at this point, and Ohio State had four chances in the red zone to go and get some points, and they didn't do it. And then Ohio State, um Ryan Day chose to let the field goal kicker go out and try to hit a field goal, a 27 fucking yard field goal from the right hat from the right hash, and he hits that shit wide right and misses the shit. And I'm talking about this is the same kicker that's been missing big kicks for Ohio States for the last four or five years now, with one of his most famous ones being against Michigan last year and against Georgia back in 2022, 2021, 2022. Wide left is his favorite, apparently. And you want to watch this nigga on New Year's Eve? I don't want to watch this motherfucker at all. I want to cut his leg off.
SPEAKER_05:Real quick, if they're setting up for a kick, time's rolling down, it's about to be 12. I'll be honest, you just turn the game off.
SPEAKER_00:Here's my problem. I think with the next, and I want to get to Indiana because they did win the game. I have to give them their credit. But I don't think there's a whole lot to say about them. I think they just they didn't make mistakes. Yeah, and they hit some big shots when they needed it.
SPEAKER_05:They just capitalized on the fact that OSU wasn't scoring. We don't have to score, right?
SPEAKER_00:We just have to stay ahead of them and hit a couple shots to get us in.
SPEAKER_05:We just have to stay a little bit ahead of them the whole game. Yeah. So I'm gonna be honest, they did nothing special. Their defense, they just kept switching coverages, so he was looking at a whole bunch of different things, never gave him a clear view of anything.
SPEAKER_00:You play this game a hundred times, Ohio State wins this game 90 of those times. Yes. And it just turns out to be one of those times.
SPEAKER_05:They just want to change coverages, make it to where he's because he's never seen as many coverages.
SPEAKER_00:And they were getting a lot of pressure on him, too.
SPEAKER_05:And they just they did exactly what they were supposed to do. They played a good, solid game in a game where this is the worst. I've seen OSU play all year. OSU played their worst game in the at the same time that Indiana played a clean game.
SPEAKER_00:They played a clean game. No, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:And I think that's what a lot of teams just gotta do. The cleaner you play up against a team that is they're better, you are better than Indiana.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no question. But it's just Ohio State fucked around in the red zone. Yes, didn't do what they were supposed to do. If they just score multiple like both of those times.
SPEAKER_05:You score one of those two times, you don't lose that game. Yeah. But Indiana didn't let you score. They kept it clean, and then they capitalized on your mistakes by keeping their game clean.
SPEAKER_00:Fernando Mendoza, 15 of he didn't have a great, he didn't even have an awesome game. 15 of 23, 222 yards, one touchdown, one pick. They didn't they ran the football decently. They had 118 yards. Um, they averaged like 3.5 yards of carry.
SPEAKER_05:This game does not help figure out who Fernando Mendoza probably wants Heisman.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, because he won the game. He had the Heisman moment because Indiana coming into this game, nobody thought Indiana was going to win this game.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Even though they were a four and a half point favorite. So they were given their respect by saying they're a good football team. It wasn't like they were a 20-something point underdog. But so, but he had his moment because he led Indiana to beat the big bad Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. By the way, not really talked about, in fucking Indianapolis. So that game was practically a home game for them. So that was definitely felt when I was watching on television, and it turns out when it came to the tickets, Ohio State going to the going to the Big Ten Championship game had gotten less allotted tickets than they've ever had going to the Big Ten Championship game. I get it. A lot of those guys live in state. It makes it very easy to sell tickets to Indiana Indiana fans. Fine, cool, whatever. It didn't matter. The game was close anyway. Ohio State should have won that game.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but still, like even with the fan press. What a different big team game here. Was did Texas come here this year?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Didn't OSU like allot 55% of tickets to them?
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_05:I think it was like a large percent of the tickets were allotted towards Texas fans.
SPEAKER_00:But that's it's different because when it comes to just like a gate, a regular home game, those tickets are free reign. Like obviously the school take out a few take out a assortment of tickets and they'll give Texas an assortment, but for the most part, the rest of those tickets are free reign. Whoever buys them buys them. Um but in the in the championship games, the Indianapolis actually allots tickets for hey, this is for your fans to go by, this is for Indiana fans to go by, to where at least you can get on your side, your sideline, and do all that. And Indiana absolutely like their fans showed out, they they were a great fan base, they went out and they were allowed. And Fernando Mendoza's had a great game. Charlie Becker was like the big X factor for them in this game because he was just a big receiver that made a couple like three or four big catches along um getting down the field that was the game changer for them. And this is where I do talk about an annoying fucking it's gonna sound like excuse making, but the amount of holding calls that were not called in this fucking game for Kenyatta Jackson, he was being held all goddamn night. Did you did you watch any of those calls? Any of those? Like literally, you could see those clips.
SPEAKER_05:Apparently, it was a pretty bad night for most refs. It was terrible. Yes. All night. Did you ever see the the uh Tulane one?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, I saw that one.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, it was bad. Dude, they were really fucking bad.
SPEAKER_00:And it was like you saw that had the same ref look at Kenyana Jackson getting held. I'm talking like by two dudes, especially on one of the big third downs on their on their touchdown drive. That would have ended their drive. And they just weren't calling it all night. And that's the part that does sucks. I'm like, they were getting pressure on the quarterback, but if they weren't getting held, like they would be getting either pressure on him or they'd be getting set back in their own in their own drives. And it just it just like it sucks that that is something I have to look look at and be like, that is a real reason why Ohio State lost this game. Because it sounds like a fucking excuse, but while watching it, it's like this is the most annoying thing I've ever seen in my life. Those officials were just not doing their jobs whatsoever. But in India, Indiana did what they had to do. Like you said, they played a very clean game. They didn't make a ton of mistakes. They had the one pick early on in that game from from Minna Mendoza. That was a tip pass. But other than that, he played a very clean game. He did what he had to do. They made a couple big passes when they needed to. They took advantage of having all those holding calls not being called. And they let Ohio State fuck around in the red zone. I think I just felt like the week before this game, it was very chaotic. They were doing recruiting classes. They were talking a wide receiver was holding out for Oregon the days before this game was set to happen. The Bryant Hartline news came in that he was going to go coach at South Florida and all that. I just felt like it was a very chaotic week. Oh, I didn't tell you that. I'm sorry. Yeah, he's going to go coach at South Florida. I'm sorry for your lost. He did give us a gift of getting us one last five-star before he goes, Chris Henry Jr., but um former former the son of former Bengals wide receiver. Um but you are no longer wide receiver you. I hope you know that. It's still the Ryan Day offense.
SPEAKER_05:You are no longer wide receiver U.
SPEAKER_00:Obviously, it's gonna be a top office.
SPEAKER_05:You will never get a guaranteed this motherfucker is a monster. I we're I'm about to go watch South Florida have this motherfucker I've never even heard of go out there and catch 3,000 yards because he's playing in South Florida.
SPEAKER_00:The only problem is that they're not gonna have the money to pay these dudes like the money they're getting.
SPEAKER_05:And Brian Hartline, Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson. Uh like what the fuck do you mean? Money, I don't need money. I got stats. That's true. Look, go look at the top 10 highest paid receivers. Check check how many how many of them are mine. No, for sure. What do you mean? What the fuck do you mean the money?
SPEAKER_00:You want to go to the NFL or not? You think Jeremiah Smith ever gonna go to South Florida? Like Jerry, a guy like Jeremiah Smith ever gonna go to South Florida? Jeremiah Smith is an outlier.
SPEAKER_05:You're talking Brian Hartline can go go look at a four-star. He can real quick. In South Florida.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. He's not nowhere. This motherfucker's gonna be a good thing. He's throwing a stone. He's throwing a stone, and there's a talented dude somewhere.
SPEAKER_05:There's a talented dude somewhere, and if there ain't, I can find him. You're talking he's finding a three-star, that's a five-star talent in a small school. He's about to come to South Florida. Yeah, you are no longer wide receiver. You I'm sorry for your loss. Your offenses will be ass.
SPEAKER_00:No, it's not gonna go that far. It's still a Ryan Day offense. Don't do that.
SPEAKER_05:Without Brian Hartline receivers.
SPEAKER_00:It's not, yeah, for sure. There was he brought a run that was unprecedented for sure. I'm not gonna undersell him by saying, like, oh, we can keep that going. But if we can get a wide receiver coach to be 75% of what he brought to Ohio State, the offense will be fine. We may not get as many five stars, but we I think the offense will be fine still. It's still a Ryan Day offense.
SPEAKER_05:Has Ryan Day ever run an offense without Brian Hart Lime or something?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, yes. When? He was running the offense at Ohio State when we had JT Barrett. Oh. So back when And Dwayne Haskins, and we were still having top offenses.
SPEAKER_05:See, that's what you call elite quarterback play?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Ryan Day knows how to bring elite quarterback play to Ohio State. He's been doing that.
SPEAKER_05:So you had the elite quarter, he had the elite quarterback play.
SPEAKER_00:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, see your quarterbacks ain't been elite in probably about four-ish years.
SPEAKER_00:What are you talking about? We had CJ Stroud three years ago.
SPEAKER_05:My bad. See, I didn't know how long ago he had played.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:The rest of them ain't been that great.
SPEAKER_00:CJ Stroud for three. We had three years ago we had CJ Stroud, and then we had Kyle McCord, Honda McCord, terrible, awful decision. Will Howard last year, who was awesome.
SPEAKER_05:Who was propped up by some fire ass receivers.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but he did go on an unprecedented run in the playoff. Come on, you were saying he was hitting some crazy passes. You know that.
SPEAKER_05:There was three niggas on Jeremiah Smith.
SPEAKER_00:It didn't fuck the field open. He was still dealing.
SPEAKER_05:Yes. Yes. There was three niggas on Jeremiah Smith. It's really hard. It's really easy to throw to everybody else when there's three dudes on one dude. And Carnell Tate's like, there's no one here. Or Mec. Oh, my bad. Another Brian Hartline receiver. My fucking bad. You had three Brian Hartline receivers. One who was a first-round pick and the number one on his team currently. Another one who's a first-round pick and gonna be a number one on his team, and probably the one of the best receivers I've seen since Jamar Chase. Yeah. Uh two plus two starting equal four, my nigga.
SPEAKER_00:Look, we're gonna have Jeremiah next year. It's all good.
SPEAKER_03:That's great. Who the f Brennan Ennis? What the fuck? Like that nigga's ass. Yeah. That's not my receiver. We'll have Quincy Porter.
SPEAKER_05:That's not Brian Hartline's receiver. That's a random.
SPEAKER_00:No, Brennan Ennis is another. He was a five-star when he came out.
SPEAKER_05:That's cool. He needed to go take the Jameson Williams riot and go somewhere the fuck else. He is ass.
SPEAKER_00:He's not that good.
SPEAKER_05:He's not!
SPEAKER_00:Jameson Williams was a burner. That's not what Brennan Ennis is at this point.
SPEAKER_05:Brennan Ennis is a big body nigga.
SPEAKER_00:No, he is like a he is mech with flesh speed.
SPEAKER_05:He is a big body nigga. Go be six foot four.
SPEAKER_00:He's not six foot four. What the fuck does he do? He's like six, he's like six foot.
SPEAKER_05:Who is this nigga? Get him off the team.
SPEAKER_00:But here's the thing. We have a Quincy Porter. I know who that is. He's I know who that is. He is an insane freak. As soon as you see him on the field, that guy looks different. Brian Hartline receiver. He's like a Jeremiah Smith type. He's not made the same cloth, but he's in the same section.
SPEAKER_05:Brian Hartline receiver.
SPEAKER_00:I get it. No, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:So, real quick, now now these guys are gonna be a little more tentative about going there because who the fuck are you?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, how is it gonna get a great wide receiver coach? We were gonna again, they're not gonna be Brian Hartline. I get it.
SPEAKER_05:That is When I see a Heisman come out of South Florida as a receiver, I'm going to laugh in your fucking face.
SPEAKER_00:If that happens, I'm gonna ready, I'm gonna castrate myself. But I just don't think that's gonna happen anytime.
SPEAKER_05:I'm fucking using South Florida. I know I'm getting the fucking wide receivers. I know I'm getting receivers. Dude, he's in Florida. What the dude? I need there's no recruits coming to you out of Florida.
SPEAKER_00:No, they're gonna get we're gonna get recruits. Because guess what? He's not gonna have ill will towards Ohio. So like, hey, if you're not Ohio State caliber player, I'll let you go to Ohio State. You should go there. I was there. That's my alma mater. He's not gonna stop anybody from going to Ohio State.
SPEAKER_02:No, you won't stop that.
SPEAKER_00:The guys that guys in Ohio State's going after and the guys of South Florida's going after are very different.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, real quick, for every other position. I'm Brian fucking heartline. Check my fucking resume. You are talking about a dude who has at least eight receivers. Yeah. Being paid in the top 15 of receivers.
SPEAKER_00:Very aware of yes, I'm very aware of that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:You want to go to the NFL? You're not going to the NFL in out South Florida. You're going to the NFL because Brian Hartline's out South Florida.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I just thought if he does well, I don't think he'll be there that long. That's the pro that's the issue. You should be even more scared.
SPEAKER_05:Let this nigga because South Florida's a two-star school. We're gonna talk in fucking.
SPEAKER_00:No, I would say the group of five, they are like a I would say like a top five of a group of five school.
SPEAKER_05:Two lanes are two group of five school.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, that's one.
SPEAKER_00:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_05:Uh I you you know you're wrong, right?
SPEAKER_00:Give me a group of five schools.
SPEAKER_05:JMU.
SPEAKER_00:South Florida's a better place than JMU.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, which one of them is in the playoff?
unknown:Crazy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but if you're talking about recruiting base and all that, like South Florida is a good player. Okay, fine. That's two.
SPEAKER_05:Uh South Florida plays in the Sunbelt? No. Where the fuck's South Florida?
SPEAKER_00:AAC. A A. A. C. Yes. I don't know who the fuck's in the AAC.
SPEAKER_05:My apologies.
SPEAKER_00:But while you do that, let me just get to the rest of Indiana. I decided to give their credit. They showed out for the game. They did what they had to do. The players really wanted it, and you can tell they were very hungry for this win. And that was the one thing I could say about Ohio State in general when I was looking at this game. It is Ohio State did not seem inspired. Offensively when it came to play, like when it came to like how they were playing on offense. The players were didn't necessarily seem all that inspired, but again, it's kind of hard to be when this doesn't have an impact on what your eventual goals are going to be. So with that, I hope that now with this with the time with the time away, they're gonna be gone for they're gonna be off for like 25 days.
SPEAKER_05:They're not as good as SMU.
SPEAKER_00:SMU's in the Big 12. Group of five school. They're in the Big 12.
SPEAKER_05:That's a group of five school.
SPEAKER_00:But they're in the Big 12.
SPEAKER_05:Who the f who the f fucks in the Big 12?
SPEAKER_00:Like Oklahoma State, Texas Tech.
SPEAKER_05:Those are group of five schools.
SPEAKER_00:BYU. Group of five school. They're not. Um, so I I just think all in all, Indiana played a very great game. They won the game. They were legit. And I think they really showed Ohio City a lot of things that they need to get better at over these next 25 days. And Indiana is a deserving number one seed overall in the playoff. Kurt Signetti, give him a lot of credit. Friend Mendoza, he's gonna be a Heisman winner. Credit to him. He played an awesome season. Um I would yeah, I think they'll have a better year this year, but I think overall, Southward is a better place, better school. Um, and then Ohio State, like I said, learn from this mistake. Hopefully, now with Ryan Day not having to do recruiting or anything like that, he'll be able to lock in and be the offensive mad genius that he was that propelled Ohio State in the last year's playoff. And they'll fix the issues. Brian Hartline will, I think they said after the day after they lost, Brian Hartline was going to South Florida to go try to get his stuff started down there. But they said he'll be back at Ohio State, be ready to be locked in to help Ohio State try to go after this national championship. And hopefully it won't be too much for him to go back and forth and having to deal with both jobs at the same time.
SPEAKER_05:South Florida looks like the Michigan State of their conference. They were like they were two and ten the year before. The year before that, they were fucking seven and six. Yeah. And now they're okay. Yeah. Um is better than them year in and year out, though.
SPEAKER_00:SMU is in the Big 12. They are not a group of five.
SPEAKER_05:SMU is right fucking here.
SPEAKER_00:In the AAC, you fuck ass nigga. They are in the Big 12. They are not in the they're not in the ACC anymore.
SPEAKER_03:That's SMU.
SPEAKER_00:They're not in the AAC anymore.
SPEAKER_08:Nigga. This is it's SMU.
SPEAKER_00:They're not they're AC, they're in the Big 12, my boy.
SPEAKER_07:They're right here.
SPEAKER_00:You're looking at a past ranking or something.
SPEAKER_07:They're not in the nigga, they're right here. They're right here.
SPEAKER_00:Tweaking out for SMU. They're in the Big 12.
SPEAKER_07:Okay. They were in the playoffs last year for being.
SPEAKER_06:Whatever. Fuck, nigga.
SPEAKER_00:I think I'll I think Julian Sam will learn from this. Ryan Day will learn from this. They'll lock in. They'll be better. I think the defense, too. I think the defense still, even with this, the defense still did their jobs and held Indiana to 13 points. So I have a feeling if they meet again, I think Ohio State will have the upper hand. And I think Ohio State of everybody, I think, will like they still I think they're still the betting favorite. Boise State's not in the group of five.
SPEAKER_05:Nigga. What?
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah, they are.
SPEAKER_05:They are. The fucking Mountain West Conference isn't group of five. They're not, yes. They're cracking out the colour. They're in the Mountain West. They're in the Mountain West.
SPEAKER_00:That's three.
SPEAKER_05:What about the pack two? No, no. The independence count.
SPEAKER_00:Independence count. No. No.
SPEAKER_05:They're not better than Coastal Carolina.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they are.
SPEAKER_05:Colsa Carolina's only been an FCS school for six years and they've been better.
SPEAKER_00:I just think overall, I'm trying to trying to get to this. Ohio State will be on a good. This is a good starting point, just like last year. You know what's funny? When they lost to Michigan last year, it was this you know what the score was? 13 to 10. And then Ohio State turned it around and do what they do. I think Ohio State set up to do that once again.
SPEAKER_05:How the fuck is a team this this is Delaware's first year in the FCS and they made a bowl game for Michigan State, did? Yeah. What the fuck?
SPEAKER_00:Um Michigan State's playing a much different schedule.
SPEAKER_05:Conference USA is definitely the worst football uh conference.
SPEAKER_00:They didn't they didn't lose a few teams. Cincinnati used to be in the Conference USA. They moved to the Big 12.
SPEAKER_05:They're good enough to be in the Big 12.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, for sure. Um they went and got destroyed at this this actually they were they were lost two teams. They were fine. They lost two teams. And then who was the other one?
SPEAKER_05:I don't know, but they they would have had to have because they added two teams.
SPEAKER_00:Okay. Um so those are all the games.
SPEAKER_05:Those are absolutely dog walk conference USA.
SPEAKER_00:Let me get to the playoff rankings real quick. I think so. Alright, so this is what I want to do with you, Jace. Um, while you're still freaking out about the group of five schools.
SPEAKER_05:I've named more than more than enough.
SPEAKER_00:Four. Four that we agreed upon. Um fuck you. So now the rankings come out this past Sunday.
SPEAKER_05:Navy, motherfucker. No. Ranked above South Florida this year.
SPEAKER_08:Ranked above South Florida last year.
SPEAKER_00:But Navy's Navy, they're in a different category, dude.
SPEAKER_08:Ranked above South Florida the year before. Damn, they were both out of the same. We're ranked above them.
SPEAKER_00:Can I get to the rankings now?
SPEAKER_05:Navy's been ranked above South Florida for the last seven years.
SPEAKER_03:Of which of those seven years, South Florida's gone two and ten.
SPEAKER_00:So those games happen Saturday night.
SPEAKER_03:Don't ignore me, nigga. That's five.
SPEAKER_00:I'm not putting Navy up there.
SPEAKER_03:Fuck you, that's five. What?
SPEAKER_00:I'm not putting Navy. Five! No.
SPEAKER_03:What?
SPEAKER_00:I'm not doing it.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, so a team can be better than them. Year in, year out, over the last. I'm in 2019, 2020.
SPEAKER_00:It's not a better football school. It's just not.
SPEAKER_05:I'm in 2019-2020. And they've been ranked above them. My bad. I'll go back to 2018, 2019. Oh, you got lucky. South Florida made it to 7 and 6 that you're fucking.
SPEAKER_02:I was college DF word.
SPEAKER_00:I'm glad you didn't. Thanks. I just want to get to the rankings, man. I want to get going. They're not. They're ranked better. They're above them.
SPEAKER_05:Above them. South Florida went 2 and 10. The fuck? Doesn't fucking matter. It I'm sorry. It clearly fucking does. Or they were 11-2. And 2018-2019. But 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2020, 2021, 2022 21, 22, 23, 24, 23, 24, 25, and 25, 26, Navy's been better. Of which they play South Florida. They're in the same conference. So of all those years, South Florida's been better than them. Twice. And Navy's been better. But but Navy's not better.
SPEAKER_00:I think South Florida is a better football school.
SPEAKER_05:I think you're fucking wrong based on statistics, you bitch.
SPEAKER_00:They may not have produced as well as they probably should.
SPEAKER_05:Statistically speaking, they're not going to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_00:But I would still contend that it's a better football school than Navy.
SPEAKER_05:Uh I if I pull this up from this year and they fucking Dog Walk South Florida, get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_00:Can you just get through this so I can get to the rankings?
SPEAKER_05:No, admit I'm fucking right. Dog walk South Florida. Dog watch. Dog walked.
SPEAKER_00:What was the score?
SPEAKER_05:28-7.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, fine.
SPEAKER_05:My bad. That was last year's. Oh, South War got close this year. 41 to 38.
SPEAKER_00:There you go. It's a back and forth affair.
SPEAKER_05:28-7 the year before, you bitch.
SPEAKER_00:A back and forth affair. I'm saying if South War does run right, they're a better place than in the Navy. For sure. I can I can I can I can die on that hill, for sure. Rankings. Kalswell playoff rankings happened on Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_03:I'm pissed now. No, no, I'm stuck on this. You are Navy's a better school. Fuck you. Navy's a better school.
SPEAKER_00:Better school for producing soldiers.
SPEAKER_05:Better school for fucking playing football, clearly.
SPEAKER_00:I guess maybe.
SPEAKER_05:It Nick. You're making me angry.
SPEAKER_00:I wanted to be done with this so bad, and now you're forcing me to want to be petty and be egging you on.
SPEAKER_06:It's fucking wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong. You're wrong.
SPEAKER_05:There's nothing else I can do. You are wrong. Okay. That's five.
SPEAKER_00:That's five.
unknown:Fucking bad. Fuck yourself.
SPEAKER_00:Playoff rankings. Happened Sunday morning. It was announced. I was watching. I think it happened right at noon. The rankings came are as follows Indiana at one, Ohio State at two, Georgia at three. They just flip spots. Again, it's the best loss in the country.
SPEAKER_05:I know, but like I was, I I feel like I said this earlier. I was like, no matter who loses, it's the best loss in the country. Yeah. It won't matter. Yeah. And it like I all I expected to happen is just go from one of you is either going to stay at one, you know, it's going to stay at two, you guys are going to get vice versa. So what the fuck's it matter?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Sorry.
SPEAKER_00:Again, I think the the the main story of all this is that people are saying conference championship games should just be going bye-bye. But guess what? It's not not going to happen because these school because these conferences make too much money off of selling these games to the television partners. So it's never going to go away. But I think I do think they should change. I think instead of it being for the conference championship, it should be a playing game. It should be seeding for the three and four, for the three and four in the Big Ten or the FCC, they should be playing to get into the playoff because that would make. A lot more sense because in the in the SEC, neither team was going to get done dinged for losing that game. Alabama sure didn't. Even though it was their third loss. I again I kind of I actually agree with that, especially with the way they got dog walked in that game against Georgia, with that being their third loss. Ohio State, Indiana, neither team got dinged for losing that game. Again, they were still still both top two seeds. But as an as an argument, I just think overall, I think the conference championship games should definitely go away. Like I said, Ohio State is at two, Georgia's at three, Texas Tech is at four. You have Oregon at five, Ole Miss at six, Texas AM at seven, Oklahoma at eight, Alabama at nine, Miami at 10, Notre Dame at 11, and BYU at 12. But that is just the rankings because that does not take into account the actual teams that are going to be in it, because two teams got in that weren't were not necessarily ranked in the top 12, and that would be JMU and Tulane. I'm right, right? Yeah, Tulane and JMU. Both of those teams got into the playoffs because they were the conference championships. They were the conference champions of their group of five conferences. So they both got in and then Notre Dame got kicked out. Notre Dame BYU got kicked out. So those were 11 and 12 when it came to the rankings and how it's going to go that way. And so let me get to the Miami versus Notre Dame thing of it all, and then we'll get to the actual the first round uh matchups, and we'll just give a quick synopsis of them real quick. All the Notre Dame fans that were pissed about it, I kind of understand to a certain degree them being pissed. I don't understand shit. Because I think the playoff gave them blue balls. The playoff committee gave them blue balls because when Miami beat them earlier on in the year, that should have been it. There was an on-field thing that happened. But when they first started coming out with the rankings five um five, six weeks ago, they put Miami at like 16. And then it was it kept creating this opportunity for this to happen because Miami, even though they had already had their two losses, they were still high enough ranked to where if things start going their way and they kept winning games, that this eventual thing was going to happen because there was no reason Miami should have been behind Notre Dame from the get-go. Because by the time the first rankings came out, Miami, they were kept pretty much the same record, and Miami was a uh had the on-field win over them. So as the season went along and the more and more rankings came out, they were just getting closer and closer and closer together. And then it finally came down to the last weekend, and the committee decided to pull the Okie doke. Neither of those teams played this past weekend, and they flip-flopped them to where now Miami is ahead to Notre Dame, even though they probably should have been from the get-go. So now Notre Dame's fans are pissed because hey, you've been telling us all year long you think Notre Dame is a better team until the last weekend when neither of us played, and you let Miami jump over us when neither of us played, and Alabama got to stay where they were when they lost. And that is their third loss, even though it was in the SEC championship game, they lost their third game of the season. You're letting them in, but kicking us out when we only have two losses and we didn't even play. So like that's the part about for Notre Dame fans I do understand them being pissed about. But also, that's the problem when you have your bless you. That's the problem when you have your your top two games early on in the season, you lose them both. So all in all, I would just tell Notre Dame, just don't lose to both Texas AM and Miami. If you just win both one of those games, you're in the playoff.issue. Or you could just sack the fuck up and get into a conference, truthfully, to where you don't have this issue. Because if you were just in a conference, you'd be playing in a conference championship game anyway. So pick one of those two things because if you want to keep depending on your independence and saying we want to be by ourselves, this is gonna be the bullshit you're gonna have to deal with. But apparently, there's a clause in the contract for the playoff that if Notre Dame is gonna be in the top 12 starting next year, they're automatically gonna be in the playoffs. So how in the hell did they get negotiated that? Some stupid shit. But decide. How do you think that's the way that's the same? And then they so coming off of that, I understand the fans being pissed, I understand the school being pissed. But coming off of that, Notre Dame decided to take their ball and go home because they were like, hey, they were gonna ask to be in a bowl game. They said, hey, we don't want to play in a bowl game, we're we're just gonna not gonna be involved. And because we're pissed about this whole thing, and they called to play off a farce and all this, and I'm sitting here like you like, don't be bitches. Like you said, they were being bitches about it. They were they were being annoying, they're being babies. Just don't lose those games you're losing. Don't shake your phone like that. I don't like that. Is that your camera? That's gross. Need a new phone. Funny how that funny how that works. Yeah, that's shaking. So, like, I just think they're being bitch made. The fact that they opted out of the playoffs, opted out of the bowl games was stupid. And I just I totally understand that it's annoying, and I get the fact that they kind of gave you blue balls by telling you you're gonna be in the playoff, kind of presenting a false set of security, and then they'd pull the okie doke at the very last second. For sure, it's stupid, but at the end of the day, it's how it should probably should have been from the get-go. They should have never been ahead of Miami in the first place, even though I totally agree that Notre Dame is probably one of the five teams that could actually win the whole fucking thing because they are having a very good run game, obviously, with a Heisman candidate at the running back position and um and Jeremiah Love. And they have a decent quarterback, their defense is very good. So, like, I think they were actually one of like the of the like five teams that could actually go and win the whole thing. Notre Dame's probably one of those teams. But the the lesson in this whole thing is win the games that you have on your schedule and you don't have to deal with this issue or join a conference. One of those two. So coming off of that, other than that, I really don't have any big like I think I think Notre Dame probably should have gotten in over Alabama too. I don't think Alabama deserved to be in because then they were never gonna let ding Alabama for losing their third game in the SEC Championship game that they earned themselves to be in. But the problem is that they got thumped by Georgia in that game, and then they went and actually and they lost to Oklahoma, who's in the playoffs, so it's not necessarily a terrible loss, but they lost the first game of the season to a terrible fucking Florida State team. And nobody talks about that shit. So I do understand, like, I think Notre Dame should probably should have gotten over Bama, but it was never gonna happen. The whole thing is controlled by ESPN, who is an SEC product, and they weren't going to have any situation where the SEC co-champ, like sorry, runner-up, is not being the playoff. They're not they're not gonna make it, it's not gonna happen every time.
SPEAKER_05:Everyone knew that it was gonna happen anyway.
SPEAKER_00:For sure, but I was hoping that the way they got thumped was gonna finally kick them out, and it just didn't happen that way.
SPEAKER_05:If it lost by 40, they would have been kicked out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you're you're probably not wrong. I'm not gonna lie to you. Um, they're the only team in the playoff era that has not dropped after losing their conference championship game. They actually went up a spot. Actually, they stayed where they were at. So that that part was very annoying. So, coming out of that, let me get to the playoff games, and then I have one question to ask you, and then we'll go on to the NFL stuff. Um let me write, let me get this in real quick. Because apparently on ESPN, it's not very easy to find just the playoff bracket. CFP bracket. Alright, so the playoff bracket goes as such. So you have the four teams with a bye, Indiana with a bye, Georgia, Ohio State, and Texas Tech. So here are the first round matchups. Oregon plays JMU. Dog walked. How do they get such a the five seed is the easiest fucking shit of all time because you get a cakewalk as your first game, and then you get to go play the four-seed. Insane how that works out. Bama plays Oklahoma as a nine-8, and whoever wins that game goes on to play Indiana. Um, I think it probably loses. I would think so too, because they're there's they're I think it's the same, they already played earlier this year, and Oklahoma won that game. So the fact they have a rematch is kind of crazy. Ole Miss Tulane is playing each other. Um, that game actually happened earlier on this year as well, and Ole Miss beat them by like 20-something points. With their coach. With their coach. No, they don't have that. Now they don't have their heads.
SPEAKER_05:Basically, no offensive staff.
SPEAKER_00:They did they did get to keep the offensive coordinator. Lane Kiffin let the offensive coordinator come back and at least coach them throughout the playoff run, and then he'll go back to LSU after they're done. So at least they'll have that, and they'll have all their play. None of the players have opted out or anything. So, like, I still think Tulane has no chance to win this football game, be totally honest with you. Um, but that whoever wins that game will go on to play Georgia. And then you have the 10-7 matchup will be Miami versus Tech San M. This is probably the best first round matchup that you have in that first round. Um I think I would probably lean towards Tech SM because Mario Chris Ball as a head coach is ass at Miami. And do I believe that Miami's defense can slow down Tech SM's offense? I just don't think so. And then whoever wins that will go on to play Ohio State in the second round. So if I had to, if I had to give you this question, Jace, and this is the last thing I'll talk about it before. Um not the last thing. Who do you think has the easiest draw? Like if you're amongst the four, amongst like the four teams with a bye, who has the easiest, who has the easiest draw so far? I think Ohio State, Georgia being at the bottom of the bracket, eventually have to play each other is probably the tougher route to go. Indiana and Texas Tech are like, oh. I think it's probably.
SPEAKER_05:I guess maybe have to deal with Oregon will be a problem. I think it's Texas Tech.
SPEAKER_00:I don't think Oregon's that good. Yeah, but the Oregon will have to face Texas Tech in the second round. So Oregon can beat Texas Tech.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know. I think it's Texas Tech.
SPEAKER_00:You think so? Yeah, I don't think Oregon's that great. I think Indiana obviously is the favorite for sure, but like again, I just think this the obviously the harder spot is the one with the two and three seats, of course. But um, and then here's my other question. If I gave you a choice of whether you'd pick these teams or the field, if I gave you a choice between Ohio State and Indiana for the ch to win the championship or the field, who would you take? What does that mean? So if you had to put your bet on who would win the championship, would you put your bet on either Ohio State and Indiana winning it? Or would you put your bet on the rest of the teams in the playoff winning it? No, Ohio State, Indiana. Why the fuck would I bet on everybody else? I don't I wouldn't either. I that's why I would think it'd like so if you had to do Indiana against the field, would you do that?
SPEAKER_05:No.
SPEAKER_00:Would you do Ohio State versus the field? Would you pick Ohio State?
SPEAKER_05:I think you're gonna bet against a team that has now seen what you could do because what Indiana did was again play that game a hundred times, they win it ten. Yeah. Now that same shit's not gonna work again once. So now you're playing that game again, and not a hundred that ten times has now gone down to fucking one, and you just took it. It's that that don't happen again.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So no, yeah, no, no fucking shot. I think so too. I would pick Ohio State and Indiana against the field, and I wouldn't take Indiana against the field because Ohio State would be on the other side, but I would take Ohio State against the field because again, I'm an Ohio State guy, I'll eat that. But also, I just think Ohio State, when they have all their ducks in a row, I think they're by far the best team in this whole thing. And um well, I guess we'll just have to see it make we'll have to see them make it happen in order for it to be proven out to be that way. But that's just how I think on the whole situation. Alright. So that's about it for the college football stuff. We've gone long long enough on this stuff. Let's go ahead and move on to the NFL. Um let's get to that. We have a bunch of games to react to. Let's go ahead and run through them all, and then we'll um uh is there a story? I don't think there's really any stories. We'll do that at the very end. So we'll go ahead and go on to the first game. Seattle and the Falcons. Seattle won it 37-9. JSN had another amazing day, seven catches, 92 yards, two touchdowns. Falcons had no chance. I really do feel bad for them. I think the Seahawks have turned themselves into a top five defense on top of having Sam Darnold and JSN going crazy offensively. And the idea that like the Falcons had no shot. I feel bad for Kirk Cousins. Like they came into this game without much of a chance of winning this game whatsoever. Seahawks just ran away with this thing. The game wasn't close. Like, sorry, it was close in the first half, and then the Seattle just got to turn it on in the second half and scored like 31 points in the second half to Atlanta's three. So this game was just a route in every sense of the word. And as long as they can kind of keep things going with JSN and running the football pretty decently, and that defense is going to be able to be so to smother anybody because they just have so many crazy athletes on the field. I just think Seattle is like one of the best teams in the NFL, and I just think as long as Sam Darnold doesn't have his Sam Darnold bad day, I think they're gonna be a they're a very hard team to stop by all sense of the word. Um, next game Bengals, Bills. Bills win the game 39 to 34 in the snow. This is an absolute snow glow game. If you did if you don't even think about what actually happened on in the game, it was a beautiful game to watch, to be honest with you. It was beautiful, the snow's coming down, it wasn't too bad. Both teams, it wasn't the snow wasn't so bad that it was stopping their offenses from doing what they have to do. I think it was like 300 yards worth of offense in the first half. So both of these teams went absolutely apeshit in this game, scoring the football. Joe Burrow, 25 of 36, 284 yards, two interceptions, four touchdowns, two interceptions, two interceptions, one of those interceptions being a pick six. One of those interceptions, both those interceptions losing this game. But those that really was the difference because offensively nobody was stopping anybody. And it was just at that point, all again, the Bengals got had a huge lead going into the second half, and they let Buffalo score those 21 points in the fourth quarter to really come back and be able to catch a lead in this game. And again, but what seven of those points came because Joe Burrow threw a terrible pick six where he got the ball, didn't have full grip of it, tried to shot put it over the defensive player. He jumped up, grabbed it, ran it all the way back to the house, and that was all she wrote. I think that's what put Buffalo up seven, and then managed to get another touchdown on top of that to kind of go up even more. But it's just but Burrow had an amazing game. He did what he had to do. T. Higgins was great, six catches, 92 yards, two touchdowns. Um, Giseki, six catches, 86 yards, and a touchdown. Jamar Chase was kind of quiet in this game, five catches, 44 yards. Um, again, it was just one of those things where Burrow did what he had to do. He made those mistakes. Again, it's like very few mistakes Joe Burrow makes where you're like really questioning what the fuck are you doing out there? And he made those two mistakes the worst possible spot. But again, what you were talking about coming into this is like, do I even like again you're gonna want to be uh Josh Allen at any time because it's just Josh Allen, and he's you're just his you're his generational op to a certain extent, and because of that, like that you weren't mad about that part, but you were coming into this game, like, hey, we probably need to lose this game because you want to get a better draft pick to help your team out for the future, and that is a totally reasonable thought to have. And let me get to Josh Allen real quick before I get your your just total thoughts on it. Josh Allen, 22 of 28, 251 yards, three touchdowns, zero picks. He didn't make the bad mistake. James Cook, 18 carries, 80 yards. Um, Josh Allen had another 78 yards rushing in this game in a touchdown. He went ape shit. Um catching, receiving guys, Dawson Knox, leading receiver, six catches, 93 yards. Oh my fucking God. Dalton Kincaid, four catches, 41 yards, and a touchdown.
SPEAKER_06:God damn, dude.
SPEAKER_00:James Cook had the 31 yard reception. That was a big one to get them in the red zone to get take a lead in that game, or at least keep the game close. And then you have the other touchdown catch being made by Khalil Shakir with two catches, 16 yards, and a touchdown. Buffalo dude, they had to do their defense wasn't able to stop Cincinnati at all, except for those two big interceptions. And that was a difference in this game, to be totally honest with you. So Jace, I'll hand it over to you. Feelings negative, positive.
SPEAKER_06:I wanted to lose.
SPEAKER_00:Isn't that a crazy feeling when you want to lose, but when you're I wanted to lose watching him play before those interceptions, I was like, oh, there's something here.
SPEAKER_05:And then watching my defense get stops, and then the Bengals capitalize on those stops.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Your defense played relatively well. I'm not gonna lie to you.
SPEAKER_05:They were getting stops. Yeah, and the Bengals were capitalizing on that. I was like, I've seen this before. And if we can beat the Bills, there is no one in the FC that can stop us. Right except the Patriots. God, I hate having to say that again.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you're telling me, you're telling me. But it was just I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:Uh it was long-term plan. So it's okay, but I wanted to be Josh Allen.
SPEAKER_00:Because Josh Allen's a bitch, like you always say. You know, just Josh Allen did his thing, and I just think it the again the mistakes are what the difference was in that game. Burrow just he's just going out there being a baller dude in that offense as long as they can do that. But it's just they can keep losing games and just keep being fun. I feel like that's gonna be the best way to go for your team and for your future, so you can at least get a pick that'll help out your defense. But you know, it was an awesome game to watch, though. It was awesome, and uh, I'm glad you got to feel a little bit of that that hope again when you're watching it, be like, hey, we that's the job, that's the Joe Burrow magic. But it just sucks they came along with those two big mistakes that kind of like made you question it for a little bit. Next game, next game, third uh Titans Browns, Titans win the game 31-29. I do have to eat Crow a little bit in this game. It was against the Titans, so I don't want to get too carried away with this whole thing. But Shiloh, uh Shador Sanders, I said Shiloh. Shador, 23 of 42, 364 yards, three touchdowns. Did he have a pick in this game? He did have a pick. Harold Fannon Jr., the tight end, absolute monster of a weapon. The fact they have bet hey, they have both him and they have David Njoku still.
SPEAKER_05:That they've used like not enough.
SPEAKER_00:No, they use him a lot. They do. He's a dog. He is insane. He's very good. Harold Fandon, eight catches, a hundred. 114 yards and a touchdown. Jerry Judy, three catches, 76 yards and a touchdown. David Njoku had one catch, one yard, one touchdown. Perfect. One catch, one touchdown is all you need. Yeah, it's a very bad tight end number.
SPEAKER_05:Fucking fullback number. Yeah, crazy. Any double number, fullback number.
SPEAKER_00:I yeah, I don't other than 88. And 77 is a lineman number.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you're a fullback. You're basically a lineman that can't, but that's too small.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, okay. I got you on that. 88, yes.
SPEAKER_05:I know three players who wear 88.
SPEAKER_00:99 is a defensive lineman number.
SPEAKER_05:Absolutely. I know one dude that wears 99.
SPEAKER_00:Uh uh JJ Watt wore 99, I think.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Name another.
SPEAKER_00:I got nothing on that one.
SPEAKER_05:I know three niggas that wore 88. All on the same team. Yeah. Michael Irving, Dez Bryant, CeeDee Lamb. Yeah. If it's a double number, fullback. And no one wears eleven.
SPEAKER_00:Quarterbacks wear eleven.
SPEAKER_05:Name one.
SPEAKER_00:Levis. Will Levis wore eleven.
SPEAKER_05:Name somebody who plays.
SPEAKER_00:Not anybody in the plays right now, no. But wide receivers wear eleven.
SPEAKER_05:No, they don't. If you're a receiver, you're good. Yeah, you're not wrong. Okay, wear one, zero, or like a number that means something to you, and it's not above 15.
SPEAKER_00:This game was a back and forth affair, and it got to a point where Cleveland, did you see the play where they tried to do the two-point conversion? And they took Shador off the field and then put and then tried to make Quinch on Juckins and the Wildcats. Yeah. This was the do like a double pass.
SPEAKER_05:This is the most retarded shit I've seen in my life. Kevin Tefansky, you are losing your fucking job. Yeah. You are losing your job.
SPEAKER_00:No doubt. Um, Cam Ward was fine in this game. 14-28, 1-17, two touchdowns, and a pick. They ran the football very effectively. Tony Pollard had 161 yards rushing in this game, 25 carries, had two touchdowns. Um and it was just it was back and forth. The fact, okay, so this is where I want to get to Shador. He had an awesome game. And I do feel like he is making enough plays to prove that he can be an NFL starter. Will I make any cases to say he will ever be a top 10, top 12 guy? No, probably not. But if Shador keeps progressing at this rate, I do think he can become a guy at least you can give your football team to, and he won't totally lose you football games. But do I think he's a franchise quarterback, the guy that you can't lose? Probably not. And if I had to make a case that the Browns keep losing enough games and they have a first-round pick and they have a chance to get a quarterback, guess what they're gonna fucking do? They're gonna go draft a quarterback. So how I look at it is like they have announced that he is gonna be a starter for the rest of the season. So, again, but this is in their hardest part of their schedule.
SPEAKER_05:He is fired. Fired. Fired. Probably. We watched Joe Flacco and then Dylan Gabriel and then Shador Sanders. This nigga just threw their 394 yards.
SPEAKER_07:Fired!
SPEAKER_05:It was against the Titans defense. Fired! Titans are Dylan Gabriel would have thrown four interceptions because he can't see over the O-line and his arms weak.
SPEAKER_00:Look, I do think he has proven one thing that Dylan Gabriel should not have gotten as much playing time as well. Why was Bailey Zappy above me at one point?
SPEAKER_05:I'm him. I'm going to the front office. I'm gonna fuck from your future. I'm gonna fuck from your plan. Fire that motherfucker. He is tanking this team on purpose. Fired. That's the fired. Joe, no, you can't tell me that this motherfucker throws four touchdowns. What, four? Yeah, three three and plays a clean fucking game. He throws one interception. Cool.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, he had three touchdowns passing and he had one, another one rushing.
SPEAKER_05:But he he plays a clean fucking game. He does. And you go you're going for two. Let's run a wild cat. They can't stop him at all throwing the ball or running the ball. But let's run a wildcat formation.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, you're not wrong.
SPEAKER_05:This motherfucker. I'm surprised he got out of the stadium.
SPEAKER_00:With with what they did and how bad it looked, they could have just as easily just handed the football off to Quinshawn and had a better chance of getting it.
SPEAKER_05:It would have worked better. Yeah. I get I get that. That's not true. In something like this, you're like, well, there's no way they're throwing the ball.
SPEAKER_00:Right, yeah. Once you take Shador off the field, there is no chance of actually throwing it for sure. I Shador has given me enough to feel like they so they get they're giving him the rest of the season. He's gonna be the starter. Would you like to know what he has to deal with for the rest of this season?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:At the Bears. The Bills, Pittsburgh, and at the Bengals.
unknown:I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_00:So throw him to the fucking Wolves. If I was if I was Shador and if I was really like advising him, I'd be like, hey, go throw Dylan Gabriel out there for the rest of this season and let him get beat up for four games. Because he's kind of get thrown out to the Wolves. But again, every little bit counts for him because what he's trying to prove is that they don't need to draft a quarterback going in into the draft next year. I don't think that's going to be the case. I think they're going to draft a guy no matter what. But I do think Shador can make this very if he keeps improving, I think it'll make it'll make it interesting.
SPEAKER_05:And I have to eat that because I was definitely I was never down on him. I was down on is he I don't think he's a star.
SPEAKER_00:Can he be a Kirk Cousins in the NFL?
SPEAKER_05:But I think he can be a guy. You were more on like, no, he's not that good. He's a backup at best. Um I was more on of I think he can be a guy. Better people around him, a decent defense, and he can probably get you somewhere. Yeah. Give you a Joe Flacco type of run. Of heat up a little bit. Okay, my bad. Joe Flacco could sling a football. My fault. Kirk Cousins.
SPEAKER_00:Like literally, he can be a Kirk Cousins in the NFL.
SPEAKER_05:But I I that's the thing.
SPEAKER_00:He probably won't make it make money in the bank like Kirk Cousins.
SPEAKER_05:No one will make money in the bank like Kirk Cousins. He is a phasant. He's so good at that. But again, I think I think he is closer to Joe Flacco because Shador could do something that both Flacco and Kirk Cousins couldn't do. I could run a little bit.
SPEAKER_00:Just a little bit. Real quick. Just a smidgen. Enough to extend a play, but he's not running around.
SPEAKER_05:How many rushing touchdowns they got? You can probably count him on one hand.
SPEAKER_00:Kirk probably has a few more.
SPEAKER_05:Exactly. But again, Shador's I'm out the pocket. Sneaky quick. Up a seam to five, ten yards.
SPEAKER_00:I think Sneaky Quick might be a little might be a little generous.
SPEAKER_05:What is Baker then?
SPEAKER_00:Baker is a ferocious competitor in a way that he just makes shit happen.
SPEAKER_05:I just don't like Shador, bro.
SPEAKER_03:This is just what you're doing.
SPEAKER_00:I don't because he gets one touchdown when they're down 14 points and goes up to what is the guy's name? Jeffrey Simmons. Jeffrey Simmons and does the watch shit, and I'm like, as soon as you do something good, you do something that makes me fucking hate you. He's like the fucking rich kid that doesn't know how to act in public with like normal people. I agree.
SPEAKER_05:No, I I know he's he's not likable. I'm not fighting that with you.
SPEAKER_00:You know what's crazy is that when you talk when you see him in an interview, when he's trying to be charming, he can be, but he just does some rich, some rich, rich kid shit. And that's the part that pisses me off. Like that's the part. As soon as he does something nice, he's like wanting to flaunt in somebody's face. I'm like, dude, you could just as easily just walk off the field and prove your point because you're a fifth round draft pick. Was it fifth round?
SPEAKER_05:Sixth. He was a sixth round draft pick.
SPEAKER_00:So like you were picked that late. So what you're you're trying to prove is just you're you can be a dude in the NFL. So like doing the extra shit's not necessary. If you're Patch Mahomes, you can go do that extra shit. Like yet, you have the Joe Burrow, you can do that extra shit. Josh Allen, but you are the guy.
SPEAKER_05:You are those guys. Yeah, like you're just not that.
SPEAKER_00:Right. That's the part that pissed me off.
SPEAKER_05:The best part about being a top flight quarterback is you don't gotta do that extra shit.
SPEAKER_00:Right. It's almost like it's the same thing as talking about Ryan Day when they beat Michigan. The fact that he didn't want to do the flag shit. We don't need it. Hey, we're gonna handle this like better than them. We're better than them. This is this is not something big for us. We're gonna handle this like it's a normal game. That was more cold than doing the crazy shit and planting flags and all that.
unknown:I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:Same thing for a quarterback. It's pretty cold when Baker did it.
SPEAKER_00:Fuck you.
SPEAKER_05:That boy was running around the stadium. You got a flag. Nobody should be doing that shit. The only thing that shit was cold. Another thing though. I real quick, I love you. I do, I don't hit as a high set as much as I used to. That was fucking cold. Here's my only that real quick, they came in as true underdogs. That boy Baker put y'all put fucking. They were both top five teams that year. Yes, and you were better. You were better. They were top five. You were number one.
SPEAKER_00:Can I contend something real quick? Fuck you. Planting flags makes no goddamn sense because all these teams are using fucking turf. The flag ain't going shit.
SPEAKER_07:It doesn't. It always falls over.
SPEAKER_00:It falls over.
SPEAKER_05:But the symbolism of I remember that. Cause you had walked away and you left the game on. Remember watching that video?
SPEAKER_07:And then he slammed it. That was so good. That was good.
SPEAKER_00:But yeah, Shador, he just he just does some rich kid shit and it pissed me off. It pisses me off.
SPEAKER_05:No, I agree. It's truly what I think got you picked in the sixth round. Um no one doubts. I you're you're not a first round talent, but you were a second third round pick, for sure. You were the second best quarterback in your draft. I agree. Yes. What was the draft again? Exactly.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Cam Ward. He was he No, he Shador is not better than um than um um Jack uh nope. Dart? Jackson Dart. He's not better than Jackson Dart. I think Jackson Dart has Dartrick. He'll play longer. He might. He will. That boy is. But I think Jackson Dart's actually a better player.
SPEAKER_05:I think he has some real juice. You know, after four concussions in high school, they tell you to stop playing football. Just so you know.
SPEAKER_00:No, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:But how many you think he's on? He's like two. In the NFL. Yeah. How many you think he's on total? Because that boy does not know how to slide.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:But I think they're unfortunately he's not six foot five.
SPEAKER_00:Now that Dayball ain't there no more, they're not gonna use him to run like that. And I think they'll actually try to protect him to a certain degree. I'm just saying. I just think Jackson Dart has a lot more juice to him in a way that I don't think Shador has.
SPEAKER_05:I think Jackson Dart has a higher ceiling.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:But his floor is bottomless. I think he could be ass. I think he could be god-awful.
SPEAKER_00:But is that because of the player he is? Because of the situation he's in. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:But here's the thing. I see Shador of floor ceiling. That's what you are. That is what you are to me. I'd say I'd say he's probably the most done. As long as he as long as he can get used to the speed of the game, he's then he's fully baked. Right, yeah. But again, the worst you get is a bad Kirko.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:The best you get is a good Kirkho. That's it. And you know what? For some a team like the Browns, where you kind of just need somebody to run the fucking offense. Yeah. Your defense will win you the game.
SPEAKER_00:I just don't think I just don't think they'll be okay with that. I think they're gonna go draft another quarterback again if they have top five pick.
SPEAKER_05:I think there's better quarterbacks out there. I think there's I think if you have the top five pick, there's quarterbacks with ceilings that are out of this fucking world. Like Kate Klubnick may have played like shit and he's probably not leaving this year.
SPEAKER_00:No, he is. He's he's done. He has nothing.
SPEAKER_05:He played like shit. His ceiling is crazy high. Yeah. It is crazy high.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Now, again, he played so bad, he'll be there in the second, third round.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no question.
SPEAKER_05:That's a guy you can snag and just see what he needs to do.
SPEAKER_00:But here's the problem. They have a top, they'll probably have a top five, top ten pick. And they also have another first round pick because they traded with the Jags last year. So they'll have ammo to straight up.
SPEAKER_05:You need kind of other what do the Browns need?
SPEAKER_00:When it comes to for the team?
SPEAKER_05:You need a receiver. Yeah. Jerry Judy's buns.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Jerry Judy's buns.
SPEAKER_00:Jerry Judy's bad. Uh they have tight ends. They're offensive, they need offensive linemen. They have too many tight ends. They need offensive linemen.
SPEAKER_05:Oh fuck. We're gonna lose to the Browns. They need defense they need defensive. Oh my fucking god, we're gonna lose to the fucking Browns.
SPEAKER_00:And Shador. Crazy enough. No. He's gonna do that. Watch it in front of it while you're watching the game. It's gonna piss you off and you're gonna be pissed.
SPEAKER_05:Dude, I'm dude. No. I'm not. I'm about to lose a fucking Quinson Judkins, David Njoku, and Harold Fannon, because they're gonna all go off. Yeah. Because my linebackers couldn't stop a fucking leaking faucet. God damn they're bad. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It is what it is.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, he's gonna do this wash shit to somebody and I'm gonna be like, kill this nigga. I need Geno Stone. Go ahead, Hunting. Fuck you're bad enough anyway. You are not getting another concept. I know it's not gonna be.
SPEAKER_00:You're gonna react that way. I know it.
SPEAKER_05:I know it.
SPEAKER_00:But yeah.
SPEAKER_05:If I see that watch at the start of the game, I'm gonna be instant out if they leave. Stop playing with me, boy.
SPEAKER_00:But they have a whole coalition outside the city ready to take him out. Next game. Vikings commanders. Fucking throw the watch at his car. Vikings won the game 31-0. This game wasn't close. Honestly, the commanders lost, but they lost in more ways than just losing the game because Jane Daniels reactivated his elbow injury, got pulled out of the game because of that injury, came back. Again, he shouldn't have never fucking came back and played. Their season ain't worth shit. And I get it, but here's the thing when Joe Burrow does it, he's a big old boy. He can handle a little bit of punishment, even though he probably should not have come back either. But they still had an outside chance of making the playoffs. The commander season was fucking done. There was no reason for him to come back. And he comes back, plays in this game, reaggravates the injury, and then it's all coming back. Not to mention the fact he's very thin. So like he like all these injury things are only going to keep piling up for him. And on top of that, um Zach Ertz also had a very gruesome looking knee injury where that thing was flopping, dude.
SPEAKER_05:That was bad. He's 36. His career's over.
SPEAKER_00:He was he's been good for so long, and it that might be the injury that kind of ends his career potentially.
SPEAKER_05:He was injury prone for so long, and then like the last five, six years, he stopped getting injured. He's been very good. He's 36. Yeah. That's why that's middle of the field merchant. Merchant all over middle of the field. You want to add some extra boost to your bets, throw Zach hurts on that motherfucker.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You get it. He was he's a he's an insta. Catches, yards, but it his career is most likely over. And the commander's defense was so bad in this game that they made JJ McCarthy actually look good. He went 16-23, 163 yards, three touchdowns. I think get zero picks in this game, which is great for him because usually he's throwing picks all over the place. Um, they ran the football for 162 yards with Aaron Jones being the leading rusher. Um, Jordan Addison, four catches, 62 yards. Josh Oliver had a couple touchdowns, the tight end. Hawkinson had a tie had a touchdown as well in this game. And Minnesota was just needing something to kind of stop the bleeding of all the losing that they that they've been doing as of recently. And they finally got it because Washington had been so bad and they were so bad in that game, and then on top of losing all their guys they lost in the middle of that game. So Vikings, definitely a big win there. Next game, Dolphins, Jets. Dolphins won the game 34-10. This game was a straight up route. The Jets not only came to this game with Tyler Taylor being their quarterback, but he got hurt very early on in that game. And guess who they had to bring in as their quarterback? Brady Cook, who is a rookie quarterback from Missouri.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, yeah, he was ass.
SPEAKER_00:And he 14 of 30, 163 yards and two picks. Again, it wasn't like their offense is all that great anyway, but like he was out there trying to swim and he was drowning in the fucking ocean. Um Jets weren't good in this game. Dolphins came out, had a very good game. They didn't even need to do anything in this game. 13 of 21, 127 yards and a touchdown.
SPEAKER_05:I can name 21 quarterbacks better than two.
SPEAKER_00:Probably. That's yeah. I'm out, yeah. Um, they ran the football like crazy. They ran for the football for 239 yards total in this game. Jalen Wright was their leading rusher for 24 carries, 107 yards, and a touchdown. Devon HN had seven carries, 92 yards, and a touchdown. And then he also had another like 13 yards received. He had like 100 yards in the first half, and then he got hurt in the second half and wasn't able to come back. Um, Ollie Gordon had a touchdown. Uh a la Oli Gordon, the touch the touchdown guy. You said he wouldn't get a touchdown. He got a touchdown this game. Funny enough. Oh, how many of your bets hit? Fuck you. I hate you. I hate you so much.
SPEAKER_05:I hate losing money, which you continue to make me do.
SPEAKER_00:And I lose money too.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, that's great. Real quick, I could just go to the casino, put it all on black, and hope for the best. And it'd be better odds than what the fuck you're giving me. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_00:I'm just saying. I have been on a bad run as of recently. Even yeah, I've been on a bad run for sure. Um, but no, Dolphins ran away with that game. Game wasn't close. Um, again, it was just I thought the Dolphins were gonna have trouble with that game because, you know, going to the cold and all that. But apparently the weather is pretty nice and the Dolphins came to play. Next game, Saints Buccaneers. Saints won the game 24-20. This is a bad game if you're the Buccaneers to lose. It was bad. Tyler Shuck, the quarterback for the Saints, had went 13-20, 144 yards in a pick. But then on top of that, he had seven carries for 55 yards and two touchdowns. And that was the difference in this game. Like, those two touchdown runs were like really what gave them the win in this one. Um, Devin Neal there's had 19 carry the running back for them, 19 carries, 70 yards and a touchdown. But like, that was a difference, and it was like it was a rainstorm. I will give Tampa Bay that. Like, that was a game with a lot of variants because of how bad the weather was. But Baker Mayfield, 14 of 30, 122 yards, one touchdown, and one pick. They're used to playing in the rain. They're in Tampa. They live there. The fact that the offense went that to ass with the weather being as bad as it was, was kind of an issue. Bucky Irving has, ever since he came back the last couple weeks, he's been making a lot of plays. He had 15 carries, 55 yards, and then he also had another 26 yards receiving and a touchdown off of two catches. Brashad White had 50-something yards. Eight Brand for the Buffalo Football for like almost 200 yards. Um, but it's just the Tampa Bay offense was just total, total buns in this game altogether. And it's against the Saints, you just can't have a game like this. It almost seems like the Buccaneers are kind of falling apart. And again, they're in a bad division, so they're probably gonna still gonna win it, but it's just they're not playing good football at all. And Baker's playing on one good shoulder right now. Obviously, the non throwing shoulder is the one that's kind of hurt right now, but still I feel like that is impacting the way that he plays. Um, next game, Colts, Jags. Jags win this game running away 36 19. Trevor Lawrence, do what he had to do 17 30, 244, and two touchdowns. Travis Etienne. Um, 20 carries, 74 yards, two touchdowns. Brian Thomas Jr. had 87 yards off three catches. Tim Patrick, five catches, 78 yards. Jacoby Myers had a touchdown catch. Honestly, the biggest news coming out of this is the Colts, them being now eight and five. Daniel Jones starts this game, but he gets hurt very early on. It turns out to be an Achilles injury. He comes in with his leg being busted on the left leg, still going out there playing. I think it was like a broken fibula that he had and he was still playing on it. And then he ruptured his Achilles on the opposite leg in this game. And I feel very bad for him because he was having, even though he was kind of regressing a little bit and not really playing as well as he had was to start the year, he was playing well enough to think like, oh, he actually can be a long-term starter for the Colts.
SPEAKER_05:Revivalization.
SPEAKER_00:No, I totally agree with that. And now, because of the time he got this injury, now he's gonna be out for all year next year, too. And I'm just like, this totally sets the Colts back altogether. They made the trade thinking that Daniel Jones is gonna be the guy. They made the trade for Sauce Gardner, going in all in on this year thinking this is gonna be the year.
SPEAKER_05:He was on the Colts. I totally forgot he wasn't fucking Colts.
SPEAKER_00:Again, he didn't even get a chance to do a lot because he ended up um having an Achilles injury last week. It wasn't a ruptured Achilles.
SPEAKER_05:Didn't even know. Didn't even know. Real quick. Uh the life, the shelf life of DBs in the NFL. Insane.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I know. I get it. But they traded for him and then he got an Achilles injury last week. It's just a strained calf. But guess what happens? Now they have to treat him as if he has a ruptured Achilles and not play him for the next three weeks to try to make sure he doesn't rupture his Achilles. So like they made a trade to go well all in and get good go get Sauce Gardner, and it's just turned out to be total garbage for them this year, and it's going all to ass.
SPEAKER_03:They overpaid.
SPEAKER_00:You overpaid. Oh no, they overpaid, but it's just like they were going on all in on this season, and it just all has went to trash. And it that that part I feel bad for them. And it's gone so bad is that they have no other quarterbacks on their roster. In this game, they had Riley Leonard, the rookie quarterback from Notre Dame, come out and play for them in this game. 18 of 29, 145 yards, and an interception. Wasn't necessarily ready. Jonathan Taylor, your favorite running back, 21 carries, 74 yards, and a touchdown. A decent day.
SPEAKER_03:Against who?
SPEAKER_00:The Jags.
unknown:Step out.
SPEAKER_00:The Jags are 9-4. They're a good team this year. Step out. But it's just the Colts, it's so bad that they're going to have Phil Phillip Rivers come back and play for them this year. Because they have no other quarterbacks on their roster. They were supposed to have, what's his name? The um the one quarterback that you Richardson. Yeah, but his face is all broken, so he can't come out and play. He's on IR because he broke his nose while they were warming up before a game like three or four weeks ago. And his face was so messed up. It's like an orbital bone or something like that. So he can't even come back and play. And now they're probably gonna have to rely on him to start for them next year, and hopefully he can play some good football and figure it out, which I just don't have any faith in. But the Colts are just in dire straits for sure. And the Jags, good credit on them. They're eight and four, nine and four right now, having a very good season. They're on top of the AFC South as of right now. And Trevor Lawrence, he may not be tearing up the NFL, but he's playing good enough to win football games. And I think that is a lost start in the NFL in general, and you have to give him a little bit of credit for keep winning football games. Next game, Saints, Ravens. I mean, sorry, Steelers, Ravens. Steelers won the game 27-22. Rodgers 23-34, 284, one touchdown. They have they ran the football for 34 yards total in this game. The Steelers did not run the football whatsoever. DK Met half had it finally had an awesome game in a Steelers uniform, seven catches, 148 yards. Jalen Warren had three catches, 49 yards, and a touchdown. And that was like the big difference in this game. And I like I said in this coming into this, is that I really wanted the Steelers to lose because I'm done with the season and like winning this division, making the playoffs and all that doesn't fucking matter to me. Because they're not going to go actually go do anything in the playoffs to make it worth it. And I made the case that as long as Lamar can play just good football, they should be able to win this football game. But guess what didn't fucking happen? They Lamar did not play good football in this game. 19-35, 220, 219 yards, one touchdown, and one pick. He's been fucking trash last few weeks.
SPEAKER_05:And I just don't get what happened where he's been playing like fucking dog shit.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe he's still injured, but it's just even like even that, I'm like just sitting there like he's out there playing and he's he keeps saying he's fine. So you have to take the man at his word and just he's just playing like ass right now. This the Ravens ran the football for over 200 yards in this game. Derrick Henry, 25 carries, 94 yards. Keaton Mitchell, their backup running back, six carries, 76 yards. Lamar had another had seven carries, 43 yards, and a touchdown. So like they ran the football all over the Steelers and they couldn't get the win in this game. So my question is the Ravens were driving at the end of this game with like a minute left, and they got a touch they they thought was a touchdown to Isaiah Likely in the end zone. Did you see that play? Where he caught the football and then it got knocked out. Yes. And they called it a touchdown on the field and then it got reviewed, and they came down and said it wasn't a touchdown. How do you feel? Before I tell you what I what I've been told is the rule, how did you feel about it in the moment? Do you think that was a touchdown? Do you think it wasn't? I didn't think it was a touchdown. I didn't think so either. But again, maybe I had rose-colored glasses on on that, so I was like, as a Steelers fan, I didn't want it to be a touchdown. Because in the moment I'm competitive and I want to win that game. But as I think with Shadow Chosenko talked about it as a wide receiver, he would know more than most. He says the rule is that when you're in the end zone, you have to catch the ball and you have to have three steps in order for that to be considered a catch. And he only had two steps. And the way I see it, I'm like, I think it's totally insane they they reviewed it and took it away. I think they should have called it a touchdown. What they called it on the field, I think should have stayed that way. But the fact that they called it a touchdown and then did a review and took it away was definitely an issue. If they would have called it not a touchdown, I think they should have stayed with that. But unfortunately, they called it as a touchdown. I think it should have stayed that way. But you know, all's well that ends well. Ends with the Steelers winning that game and making enough plays to win it. But again, what does it fucking matter? The Steelers are now seven and six, the Ravens are now six and seven. Steelers on top of the division. It doesn't fucking matter. They're not gonna do anything. It doesn't like it. I don't fucking care. I don't fucking care at all. But again, in the moment, I was happy to see them win because I'm a sucker for trying to see wins. That was the only team in mine that did win this past weekend, so I have to be happy with it. Um, next game, Broncos, Raiders, Broncos win the game 24 to 17. This was the most dominant seven-point win I've ever seen in my life. It was very obvious the Broncos just wanted to win this game and go home, not have anybody get hurt. Take care of business. Take care of business. Like the game ended up looking close at the end, but it really wasn't close at all. Brock Bowers, he just keeps everybody knows he's getting in the football, and he keeps finding ways to make plays.
SPEAKER_05:He can't set up it.
SPEAKER_00:He keeps finding ways every single time. Um Geno Smith is trash. He's not good. He's not good. Again, I already I've already I've already owned that as a guy that was a Geno Smith believer to start the year. He has been nowhere near good enough to be play really playing in the NFL at all. And the Braiders have been totally garbage. Oh, Gente, also garbage. Might be the worst first-round running back I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_05:Their O-line is also bad.
SPEAKER_00:Tang carries 30 yards. And again, the Denver Broncos defense is really good. I'll give them that credit. But Tang carries 30 yards. Like, come on, dude. Like, it's awful. And the Raiders are just awful in general. But again, Broncos did what they had to do. Bo Nick's 31 to 38, 212, zero touchdowns, zero picks. RJ Harvey had a touchdown, um, 17 carries, 75 yards rushing.
SPEAKER_05:Genty.
SPEAKER_00:Their line is bad. But here's the thing. Like we were talking about beforehand, if you were going to pick a running back, you better have an offensive line that can help him hit the ground running in his NFL career. And guess what? Guess what's not happening? And unfortunately, he is not a running back of the level of, you know, a Saquon goddamn Barkley that can have a terrible offensive line and still go out there and make plays.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So if you're not that type of running back, you probably shouldn't have been picked in the first round, the first top ten pick anyway. But he was, and he's out there not looking good. And that is something that the Raiders are gonna have to fix, or he's just gonna be ass and not really have a real NFL career, and they're gonna have to eat that. Who knows? But the Broncos went out there, did what they had to do. Um, a few more games here. Bears, Packers, probably the best game of the day. Packers won 28-21. Bears, Caleb was very good, very bad in the first half. Second half, he came on strong and played very well. Jordan Love, a very good game. 17-25, 234, three touchdowns. Josh Jacobs, 86 yards and a touchdown, your favorite running back. Um, Christian Watson, he is healthy. He is playing football, and he is playing, he's like their big deep threat now, and it's really opening up the offense for them in general. He had four catches, 89 yards, and two touchdowns.
SPEAKER_05:He's probably what I would call the number one receiver.
SPEAKER_00:I would say so. And if nothing else, he does, he just he just opens up the offense for everything else.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, he eats up a safety DB.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and just like I said from the get-go, if Jordan Love can just play good football and not turn the football over, their defense is good enough to where they should be a real contender in the NFC. And if they keep playing like this, they will be. And the Bears, they finally had a spot where, like, you know, people start to have expectations, and then you lose the game like this. Again, Caleb is showing real flashes as to what he can be in the NFL, playing some good football, but it's just not consistent enough for me to believe that they can really make some noise in the playoffs this year. But they're a very good 9-4 football team, the Bears are, but they're just not consistent yet. Next game, Rams Cardinals. Rams blew out the Cardinals 45 to 17. Matthew Stafford, I think, is the MVP this year.
SPEAKER_05:You think the Rams win another Super Bowl?
SPEAKER_00:Probably. He probably wins the MVP and they probably get to a Super Bowl, if not win it.
SPEAKER_05:If he if they win it, he's up first battle Hall of Fame.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah. I think it's like a guarantee that every quarterback that has has two Super Bowl wins in an MVP is automatically in. Like every single one of them are in the uh Hall of Fame. He went 22-31 this game, 281, three touchdowns, zero picks. Blake Coram was our leading rusher, 12 carries, 128 yards, and two touchdowns. Don't forget Kyron Williams. He had 13 carries, 84 yards, and a touchdown. Puka, seven catches, 167 yards, two touchdowns.
SPEAKER_05:And this man only wants to play little 30.
SPEAKER_00:He's insane. He really's so good in this game. He's so good as a player, and he's just so unstoppable. Um, Cardinals had no chance in this game. It was kind of laughable to watch this because it's just, you could just tell it was a stark difference into caliber football teams. And the Cardinals just can't match what the Rams are as of right now. Final two, starting with the Sunday night football game. Needed a drink, dry mouth. Um, Texans Chiefs in Arrowhead, Texans went into Arrowhead and beat them 20 to 10. Texans defense is a monster. CJ Stroud actually made enough, he outplayed Mahomes in this game and made again. The offense wasn't amazing, but he made enough big plays throwing it to um Nico Collins to keep their offense going, score enough points. They turned Patrick Mahomes over three times in this game. Um, Mahomes went 14 of 33 for 160 yards and three picks.
SPEAKER_05:Who the fuck that is? That's not Patrick Mahomes.
SPEAKER_00:It's not, but again, I'm not gonna put it all on him because he did have guys just straight up dropping the football. One of the picks was Travis Kelsey literally fumbling the football in his hands and just gives it right to a uh Texans defender.
SPEAKER_05:Travis Kelsey just go and marry his billionaire and then go be a trophy husband.
SPEAKER_00:The fuck are you doing? Go practice your vows. That sounds like a great life to me. I'm not gonna lie.
SPEAKER_05:Like, go do something else.
SPEAKER_00:He just don't got it anymore. It's okay. It's okay. He's 36 years old. He's had a very good NFL career.
SPEAKER_05:It is okay. You are probably you are a Hall of Famer. No question. Guaranteed. No question. You are a first ballot Hall of Famer, go retire. Go go be rich. Go be forever rich. You are going to be so rich that your kids don't even have to be good at sports because you are that fucking rich. And they won't be. They won't be. So like just go be rich. Go be a rich white guy. Yeah. Just it's real simple. All you gotta do for the rest of your life is don't fuck it up. Don't cheat on her. Yeah. Be nice to her.
SPEAKER_00:True.
SPEAKER_05:Don't fuck it up.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:He is washed.
SPEAKER_00:So the rest of her kind of team is too. Mahomes was the leading rusher in this game. Seven carries, 59 yards. But it's just the Chiefs can't do anything on offense. Again, against a very good Houston defense of what really was going to happen in this game. It was going to take a Herculean effort to really go ahead and win that football game. But there was a time in that third quarter going into the fourth where the Chiefs defensively had kind of figured the Houston out and they were really getting after CJ and stopped. I think there was like seven straight a span of like five straight punts from the Houston. But it's just even when that happened, it's like the Chiefs just could not get enough done offensively to win this game. Like I said, CJ, 15-31, 203 yards and a touchdown, just made enough plays to win. Woody Marks, 26 carries, 68 yards. Agumba Wale running back had for them had one carry, five yards, and a touchdown. Nico, four catches, 121. It just the Houston defense can control football games, and if their offense can just hit a good stride, there is a chance that CJ may go into this playoff run with only Josh Allen being the more veteran quarterback in the all of the AFC. Think about it. Aaron Rodgers. You'll have Drake May. Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers. And then you're dealing with potentially the Jags with Trevor Lawrence.
SPEAKER_05:One of those quarterbacks. The Chargers. One of those quarterbacks has a Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_00:But he's not good enough anymore. I don't know. But if you're CJ going into the playoffs, you're like, hey, all I have to deal with is Josh Allen.
SPEAKER_05:Like all I have to deal with Josh Allen and my O-line letting a free defender in.
SPEAKER_00:Like there's a real chance Houston can really like take control because there's really there is no monster in the AFC this year. So I just think that their offense can hit a stride. I think they really can make some noise this year. Because that defense is legitimately scary to have to deal with on an everyday basis. Every down basis. Last but not least, Monday Night Football. Eagles Chargers. Chargers are at home. They win the game 22-19. This was the game was bad. But it was between two good. You know, you watch two good teams play bad football game, so it's hilarious. It's different than watching two bad teams play each other, and you're like, it's obviously a bad game. I really shouldn't be watching this. But these are two good, decent football teams having a very bad outing. Jalen Hurts, 21-40, 240 yards, and zero touchdowns, four picks. God damn, what the fuck was he throwing to? What the fuck was he throwing to out there? I'll give him credit. One of the picks was him throwing to AJ Brown in the middle of the field. AJ Brown sees the linebacker coming about to destroy him. He short arms it. The throw was above his head. He short arms it, tips it up, defender takes it. Real quick.
SPEAKER_05:Was that a hospital? Yeah. I saw this one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:That is Jalen Hurt's fault. That is, yes.
SPEAKER_05:I'm not going for that motherfucker. If I'm going like this, and I see this big old six foot three black man running at me.
SPEAKER_00:No, he's even worse because he's catching it. He could literally see the dude coming at him. He was he was going to short arm that thing. Bump that. But again, if it's on you as a quarterback to protect him, get the ball to him. Protecting me to catching that ball. Yeah, you're not going to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_02:That's a hospital. That was a hospital ball. I saw it on Twitter. I was like, he would have died.
SPEAKER_00:And the pick that he threw in the in overtime, he just tried to sling it in, thinking that he was going to get it to the um to Devontae Smith. He thought he was that guy. And the defender was covering not only the flat where the tight end was, but he was just kind of playing in the middle of the field. He's like, as soon as he saw him try to make that pass, he tipped it, get to a Chargers player, he picked it, and that was the end of the game. But Saquon played good, he ran the football well. 20 carries, 122 yards, and a touchdown. AJ Brown can't fucking complain because he had a great game, six catches, 100 yards. Dallas Goddard, eight catches, 78 yards. But it's just they were getting up and down the football field, but it was just too many mistakes coming out of Jalen Hurts, and it's a real problem. Like his decision making, like he's always been a guy that's not trying to push it. But if this is what happens when he decides to really push the football and like really tries.
SPEAKER_05:It was a quarterback duel. And yeah, he's Justin Herbert's probably one of the greatest throws of football I've ever seen. Yeah. Of I can make that throw. Yeah. Jalen Hurts is I can make that throw.
SPEAKER_00:Pick. Yeah. It was a pick. Yeah, no doubt. That's how he felt like he felt like, oh, I can make it. And it just didn't work out at all. Never worked out. Justin Herbert didn't necessarily play all that great either. He was he he did come into the game with a broken left hand, though. He literally just got surgery on it last Monday. So he came into that game. He came into that game last night, hurt, but he was going out there playing. He went 12 of 26, 139 yards, one touchdown, one pick. 12 of 26 with a broken left hand is pretty fucking good. Herbert was also leading rusher for them in this game.
SPEAKER_05:That boy ran. 10 carries, 66 yards. I'd be damned. I'm not running nowhere. He must have been on the greatest strucks in the world.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, but he got sacked seven times.
SPEAKER_05:Like he was getting beat up in this game. I am suing the entire Chargers O-line for damages.
SPEAKER_00:They have lost like three different off offensive tackles this year.
SPEAKER_05:Rashawn Slater and Joe Old.
SPEAKER_00:Lost both of them, and then they lost their backup offensive tackle, too.
SPEAKER_05:So like real quick, I like if I'm Joe Burrow, like y'all motherfuckers have not gotten a good old lineman for me. If I'm Justin Herbert, I'm sitting back like somebody must fucking hate me. This divine punishment for this shit. They got offensive linemen. Two elite first round offensive linemen.
SPEAKER_00:And they both get hurt every year. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:They real quick, Joe Ot and Rashon, Rashawn Slater, when he's playing, best off one of the best offensive line, left tackles in the NFL. Yeah. And Joe Ot, they got his big Over there playing right tackle. No, and damn more he can play left tackle in a heartbeat.
SPEAKER_00:He ain't quick though.
SPEAKER_05:He ain't quick. He don't need to be.
SPEAKER_00:He's a big old boy.
SPEAKER_05:I got a seven foot two arm reach. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Unlike fucking old boy from the Patriots.
SPEAKER_05:Unlike Mr. Shortarm who Miles Garrett whooped his ass. Yeah, he did.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it wasn't pretty.
SPEAKER_05:He was grasping at Miles Garrett. Yeah. Couldn't even get to his shoulder. There's a difference, Joel, is I am six foot seven. My wingspan is seven foot three. You are never getting close to me. Yeah. I you are going to the ground. I'm gonna touch you before you even get close to me.
SPEAKER_00:You gotta go around me. You can't go through me. And there's nowhere to go. Right. I don't gotta be fast when I'm bigger than you.
SPEAKER_05:Right, yeah. And that's again, it works at right tackle because it's like there's nowhere to go. You can't get around me. Yeah, no question. But again, if I'm Justin Herbert, I'm praying every night. Like, please. Yeah. Bring him back. Justin Herbert's elite.
SPEAKER_00:They ran the football well. He ran the football for 66 yards.
SPEAKER_05:I can't give him the elite until I see you win a fucking playoff game. Yeah. My back.
SPEAKER_00:No question. Yeah, I agree with that. Hampton, they've their running back finally came back and played their rookie, their rookie running back. He's good. 13 carries, 56 yards. Their Kamani Vidal, their second string running back, had 44 yards off 14 carries. Vidal also had a 60-yard reception as well. But Hampton also had a touchdown catch. But it's just like in this game, do you know on one Jalen Hurts? Getting back to him real quick with how bad of a game he had. It was on one singular play. He threw a pick. The ball got knocked out of that Chargers defender's hands by one of the Eagles offensive players, knocked it out, went back to Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts then fumbled it back to the Chargers. All in one play. All of this happened in one play. That's how bad of a night it was for Jalen Hurts. All of that happened in one play. That's why this game was funny, hilarious to watch. It was like everything that was bad was going to happen, happened. It was insane. It was very fun. It was a fun game to watch. It was so fun. But Trey Harris got involved. Lad McConkie only had one catch for 12 yards.
SPEAKER_05:I'm so confused where he just doesn't exist anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Do you know what happened? Huh? This is one wide receiver that Cooper DeGine can be a black cornerback against. This is the one wide receiver that Cooper DeGine can be a locked down corner. They put him on Lad McConkey all night long, and Lad McConkey was locked the fuck down. I have no doubt that he that Cooper DeGine looked at um Lad McConkie's like, nigga, you ain't got me today. That was a night that he had against Lad McConkie. Like that was it. That is the one wide receiver he can do that to, and he had an awesome night. He knows he thinks. And I'm faster than you. What wide receiver can you really say that against? Again, he's a very fast corner, even though he's Cooper DeGene is a very thick corner. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I never noticed that until there was a video of like him walking out. I was like, damn, that nigga looked like a safety.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no doubt. He is. Hence why they haven't played nickel corner.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it makes sense. I think he's a good nickel nickel corner.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's a good real nickel corner, but it's just the fact that he was able to lock down Lat McConkie. He had an awesome night. Awesome night last night. I have to give him that.
SPEAKER_03:I watched Kabini and go like it's against me. Air this bitch out. Stop playing with me.
SPEAKER_00:But yeah, he had an awesome game, but it's just this game was a comedy of errors in all sense of the word. Eagles lost the game, and it's just, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:It's see yeah, I I want to like they didn't even have Jalen Carter in this game.
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_05:Which is the crazy part. Y'all got had y'all hit him, y'all got him six times, seven times. Seven times without your best defensive.
SPEAKER_00:And y'all lost. That's crazy. Like what like what do you like? You turn the football two last times and you win this football running away. But it's just again, like you said, Jalen Hurts went into last night, saying I can make that pass, and it has never worked out that way. Again, the pick to fumble all in the same play. I think he had negative uh fantasy points last night.
SPEAKER_05:If that happens to me, hey coach, take me out. I'm done. I'm done. I'm gonna it's not my night. It's a dumb it's calling. Yeah, no doubt. I don't want to. You have to come out. There's no reason you are out there for no fucking reason. It's not your night.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it was it was a very bad night. And it's it's a it's a sucky one, but you know, it is what it is. Um, Chargers got the win there, and it's an oh, by one last thing. How insane, how fun is it gonna be to be able to watch the playoff games without having to worry about the Chiefs? Again, it would be better if your Joe Burrow was playing and he was healthy and they were like one of the best teams.
SPEAKER_05:If we have beaten the Bills, then you would have got a different answer for me. But personally, I don't give a fuck. I'm not gonna go.
SPEAKER_00:You don't care? You don't care no more.
SPEAKER_05:Football has college football ended for me six weeks ago. Uh when we lost to fucking UCLA, and I was like, it's going downhill. And then the NFL started up when we beat the Steelers.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And it's now ended that we've beaten that we've lost to the Bills, and I may watch the Browns game to see if we get dog walked or not. You're not invested.
SPEAKER_00:You'll keep an eye on it, but you're not gonna be emotionally invested. The Steelers can't decide if they're fucking ass. They're ass. I I can tell you that right now.
SPEAKER_05:They can't figure that out. They're gonna win the division.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but they're ass. That's but that's the thing.
SPEAKER_05:The Bengals could make noise, they could win a playoff game. Yeah, but they're not gonna make the playoffs. So what's the point? Yeah, I I agree with you. Because again, the Steelers can't figure out if they're bad or not. The Ravens are in a constant state of what the fuck are you doing, Lamar Jackson?
SPEAKER_00:Right.
SPEAKER_05:And the Browns are Browns.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And the Bengals sit like right on the cusp of we're almost better than the Ravens. But we're not as good as the Ravens or the Steelers. But the Steelers aren't as good as the Bengals, and the Steelers also aren't as good as the Ravens.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's all ass.
SPEAKER_05:None of us know which one of us is the best, and we're everybody's starting to think it's fucking none of us, because we're all just ass.
SPEAKER_00:The best team that I think has a chance is the Ravens to do something in the playoffs, but they're hoping for the Steelers to fall apart in the rest of the season so they can make the playoffs.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, and Lamar Lamar Jackson figure out the game. And Lamar's been ass.
SPEAKER_00:Lamar's been total ass. I think their coach gets fired. I think he's done. Like he's one of the most high high high standing head coaches. I will take him. But like, I'll take it. If they're gonna find they have to get rid of somebody to try to fix this issue, they're not getting rid of Lamar. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:I will I will I I'll take him.
SPEAKER_00:I'm saying this is a guy that I think Tom would should be probably be done too.
SPEAKER_05:So I'm just I will take what is this, John?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, John Harbaugh.
SPEAKER_05:I'll take John Harbaugh.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:He's a very good head coach. You want a Super Bowl with Joe Flacco, see what you do with Joe Burrow.
SPEAKER_00:That is true. That's the thing. As just fire your head coach, and there should be no shortage of guys wanting to be the head coach of having a team with Joe Burrow at the helm. As long as they get to choose who their GM is and they actually get a like actually get some really good players in, there should be no shortage of guys like, hey, I'd want to be the head coach of a Joe Burrow. Literally makes your job so fucking easy.
SPEAKER_05:Here's your billion dollar offense. The defense does not matter to us. We don't give a fuck about it.
SPEAKER_00:We'll keep drafting guys. Hopefully, one of them will hit.
SPEAKER_05:But like won't, and we'll just draft another first round receiver when T. Ingham's leaves, and we'll just keep going from there.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm just like, it should be a job everybody wants.
SPEAKER_05:It is the most clean and cut. Defense is not your fucking problem. Yeah. It's never been anybody's problem.
SPEAKER_00:If anything, a defensive head coach would be awesome for you right now.
SPEAKER_05:I I wanted Mike Frabel.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Give me one reason why Mike Frabel wouldn't want to come fucking two years ago before the Bill the Patriots fired their coach when I was like, get Zach Taylor the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_00:Or imagine if you had like a Mike McDonald, the uh Seattle head coach. He's a defensive guy. Imagine if you had one of those type of like defensive masterminds and then Joe Burrow up for the offensive side. Let's see what Luna Arum is like. You could build yourself a new Patriots, like literally.
SPEAKER_05:I I bring Luna Rumo back as a fucking head coach. See what he can do that doing that. Yeah. Because he was not the problem. No. You could fucking tell. And I at this point, he's probably one of the people up for a head coaching job coming up this year.
SPEAKER_00:Probably, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh and I don't even know what the fuck. He Loonarumo can put together a defense. He can. And I think we have enough.
SPEAKER_00:I don't think he'd come back because I think he was that hurt by them using him as a scapegoat. He was a scapegoat.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. But again. I agree with you. I've always said this. I was like, we don't need an offensive minor head coach. We just need a like a Mike McDaniel.
SPEAKER_00:A leader of men or like a defensive guy. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:A Mike McDaniel would be a great offensive coordinator.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, a great coach.
SPEAKER_05:No.
SPEAKER_00:Mike McDaniel?
SPEAKER_05:Which one is that?
SPEAKER_00:I was thinking from the Dolphins. Oh, okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah. I see what you're going for. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:He'd be a great offensive coordinator for the Bengals.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it'd be awesome.
SPEAKER_05:And then we can get a defensive mind ahead of coach.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Because Mike McDaniel can call play. He calls the players.
SPEAKER_00:Oh yeah, no question. He just can't he just can't lead men.
SPEAKER_05:No, and real quick, the Bengals have a great thing going of we don't have a culture. The culture is Joe Burrow.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_05:Mike McDaniel. Make sure the ball gets to if not Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, or T. Higgins. Or one of the four tight ends. And Ilias Hovis when he decides to catch a ball.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no question.
SPEAKER_05:And that's all you have to do. And then we get into the defensive mind headed coach, be like, hey, figure out everything else that's going on. Yeah, I totally agree. Your ass everywhere else. Go figure that out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:I think it'd be great. I don't want Mike McDaniel on my team, though. I don't like him. That's the only hiccup I have. I don't like him. Yeah, no way.
SPEAKER_00:He's not likable. It just comes like again, he's being him. I don't think he's being fake. It's just be someone else. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I might like you more. Yeah. Because I don't like you. Yeah, he's just he's a little nerdy. He's a little nerdy.
SPEAKER_05:He is. He is. But he's also kind of like one of those guys that I feel like if I was to talk to you, he'd kind of be like an asshole. Like he'd almost think he's smarter than you are.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Is the vibe I give you?
SPEAKER_00:I just feel like he's like socially awkward to a certain extent.
SPEAKER_05:No, I think he's a pretentious asshole who's smarter than you.
SPEAKER_00:I don't think so.
SPEAKER_05:I think I no. He gives me I'm smarter than you vibes. Of he believes he is smarter than you.
SPEAKER_00:We might have to disagree agree to disagree on that. I think he's more of like a socially awkward dude that all he knows is football and he's a football nerd. So he just comes like he's just like I think he's a pretentious dick. Maybe. Maybe. But again, we've seen other coaches that are in the Miami lifestyle and they look totally different. I like he dresses like he's an asshole, but like otherwise, I think he's just a football nerd.
SPEAKER_05:He dresses like Sean McVeigh. And Sean McVeigh isn't an asshole.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and Sean McVeigh works out a lot, so he looks a lot different in the clothes that he wears.
SPEAKER_05:And Sean McVeigh looks like a dick. And everybody's like, no, Sean McVeigh is the greatest person ever.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's just a very energetic football guy.
SPEAKER_05:Football guy. He is um what's his name? From the Lions.
SPEAKER_00:Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um uh yes, Dan Dan Campbell.
SPEAKER_05:Dan Campbell but can win a football game.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I agree. I agree. He's more of a he's way more of an X's and O guy than Dan Campbell.
SPEAKER_05:But like I said, he can win the football game.
SPEAKER_00:Dan Campbell's like a me head coach, which is great. You can there there is room for a meat head head coach in the NFL, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:He's a team guy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Exactly a culture guy. Yes. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:I'm gonna get the team to buy into everything I want. I need a good coordinator and good good offensive, decent defense coordinator to do the rest.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, where it goes wrong is where he thinks he he thinks he can be the offensive coordinator, which is like, eh. It kind of works for a little bit, but like does it a long-term answer? Probably not.
SPEAKER_03:Why are we running a flea flicker on fourth and eighteen?
SPEAKER_00:Look, man, I don't know. Sometimes he's just like the field goal. It's like he's trying to prove he's a smarter, he's a more of an X is an O guy than he is.
SPEAKER_05:It's like he was trying to prove he didn't need Ben Johnson. Yeah. But he was like, nigga, you need Ben Johnson. Yeah. Ben Johnson is 94.
SPEAKER_00:No doubt. He's he's yeah, he turned to that Chicago Bears team around.
SPEAKER_05:Ben Johnson, I would have fucking came if we hired Ben Johnson. We'd be the best team in the NFL.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no doubt. And bringing that offense to like what Joe Burrow can do, like they could have killed. They would have killed.
SPEAKER_05:We would be a Super Bowl champion.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, probably. Probably. You know, it is what it is. Alright, last but uh last but not least, Thursday night football game coming up this Thursday. Um we get to that game real quick so we can make our pick. You beat me by splits wise. I think I you beat me by two games last week. No, you beat me by a game last week. We had three splits, you won two out of the three. Um surprise, surprise. No, shut up. I hate you. Yeah, you're like six games ahead now.
SPEAKER_05:Clue you can't pick games or pick bets.
SPEAKER_00:Shut the fuck up. I hate you. Alright, Thursday night game this week. Atlanta at Tampa Bay. I'm taking Tampa Bay.
SPEAKER_05:I'm taking Tampa Bay because I don't trust Atlanta with a fucking anything. I wouldn't trust him with a goddamn dollar.
SPEAKER_00:I wouldn't trust him but again, if it becomes a rainstorm again on Thursday night, it could go terrible again, and Tampa Bay could fall apart. But I'm gonna take Tampa Bay as well. That's gonna that could be it could be a good game, but it could just be an awful game altogether. He's kind of tailed off over the last few weeks, but like what other like oh no? What other rookie of the year could you even pick? Because they split it up offensive, defense, rookie of the year, right? There's nobody else I would pick for rookie of the year offensively.
SPEAKER_05:No, Harold Fannon's been good, but not that good.
SPEAKER_00:Not good enough. They haven't won enough games.
SPEAKER_05:I can't think of a back.
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, Lyman don't win that bitch.
SPEAKER_00:Nope. Cam Ward has been with a bad team. So, like, really, there's nobody else. It's it's mech. It's mech without issues. Um, defensively? I don't know. There's nobody like obviously tearing up the NFL right now when it comes to D like rookie defensive players.
SPEAKER_08:It's not Shamar Stewart.
SPEAKER_00:It was never gonna be Shamar Stewart. It was it was bound to fail before it started. So ass. It was bound to fail. Um, but yeah. Alright, that's the Thursday night game. Let's go and get out of here. We're close to two hours at this point. So let's go ahead and end the podcast here. If you listen for a while, we appreciate you. If you're just now joining on, hopefully you like us and enjoy us enough to join us on this ride of talking about sports in the dumbest way possible. And if you like us like we do, we'd appreciate you if you could do a couple things for us. Like our podcast, subscribe to the podcast, rate the podcast five stars. Wherever you listen to us, we're pretty much available on all audio platforms out there. Um make sure. Okay. Um, we're pretty much available on all audio platforms. Oh, okay. He's been playing pretty well. He did get hurt in the middle of the season, though. Yes, that's also a good one. Um, we're pretty much available on all the audio platforms. We'd love if you could do all that for us. Share us, friends, family, enemies, anybody you feel like can enjoy the podcast we put on a weekly basis. Two times on um during football season. We'd love if you can do that. And then last but not least, if you could follow us on Twitter and or X, whatever you'd like to call it, at JB Sports Pod is the podcast handle. At Javante Boozer is my handle, at Jace Boozer1 is Jace's handle, and I'll hand it over to Jace so he can finish off the pod.
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SPEAKER_05:Like two interceptions. Okay. One and a half sacks, two and a half.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_05:Not as good as maybe more.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, for sure.
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