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Gridiron Gambles: Embracing the Lighter Side of Sports, Decoding NFL Drama, and Forecasting Playoff Fervor

January 11, 2024 D.K. and Tree Season 2 Episode 20
Gridiron Gambles: Embracing the Lighter Side of Sports, Decoding NFL Drama, and Forecasting Playoff Fervor
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Gridiron Gambles: Embracing the Lighter Side of Sports, Decoding NFL Drama, and Forecasting Playoff Fervor
Jan 11, 2024 Season 2 Episode 20
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Ever been so sure of your team's victory that you'd put your dignity on the line? Well, that's exactly what happened to me this week—I'm the guy with a brown bag over my head, owning up to a bet gone wrong. But hey, it's all part of the fun as we charge into our special Week 18 brown bag edition, where we peel back the curtain on the lighter side of sports, fan camaraderie, and the twists and turns of the NFL. We're dissecting the fervor of Dallas fans, the surprising coach retention decisions, and, of course, our unshakeable support for the Ravens as we march toward the super wild card weekend.

Let's face it, the drama behind the NFL's coaching carousel is as riveting as the games themselves. Within this episode, we're not just questioning the Saints and Bears for their coaching choices, we're also tossing our two cents into the ring about Black Monday's outcomes, the legacy of Bill Belichick, and the hot prospects for teams like Seattle. And, because life sometimes throws you a snowball, I'm sharing a personal travel hiccup that's as much a part of this season's narrative as any game on the field. Strap in for a hearty discussion that's peppered with our customary banter and a healthy dose of reality checks.

As we wrap up, the stakes are high, and so are our expectations—anything less than the Ravens hoisting the Lombardi Trophy will have us reaching for the brown bags again. We're not just making bold predictions; we're laying out the playoff landscape with the kind of insight that only true fans (and sufferers) of the game can offer. From Flacco's legacy to potential upsets and the "purple storm" brewing in Baltimore, we're prepping you for every snap, hit, and touchdown dance. Join us for a riot of an episode that's sure to fuel your football fire and maybe, just maybe, leave you a little less likely to make a bet with your own pride on the line.

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Ever been so sure of your team's victory that you'd put your dignity on the line? Well, that's exactly what happened to me this week—I'm the guy with a brown bag over my head, owning up to a bet gone wrong. But hey, it's all part of the fun as we charge into our special Week 18 brown bag edition, where we peel back the curtain on the lighter side of sports, fan camaraderie, and the twists and turns of the NFL. We're dissecting the fervor of Dallas fans, the surprising coach retention decisions, and, of course, our unshakeable support for the Ravens as we march toward the super wild card weekend.

Let's face it, the drama behind the NFL's coaching carousel is as riveting as the games themselves. Within this episode, we're not just questioning the Saints and Bears for their coaching choices, we're also tossing our two cents into the ring about Black Monday's outcomes, the legacy of Bill Belichick, and the hot prospects for teams like Seattle. And, because life sometimes throws you a snowball, I'm sharing a personal travel hiccup that's as much a part of this season's narrative as any game on the field. Strap in for a hearty discussion that's peppered with our customary banter and a healthy dose of reality checks.

As we wrap up, the stakes are high, and so are our expectations—anything less than the Ravens hoisting the Lombardi Trophy will have us reaching for the brown bags again. We're not just making bold predictions; we're laying out the playoff landscape with the kind of insight that only true fans (and sufferers) of the game can offer. From Flacco's legacy to potential upsets and the "purple storm" brewing in Baltimore, we're prepping you for every snap, hit, and touchdown dance. Join us for a riot of an episode that's sure to fuel your football fire and maybe, just maybe, leave you a little less likely to make a bet with your own pride on the line.

Speaker 1:

You. It's what you've been waiting for all year long for me to come on here and actually wear a brown bag over my head. I honor my bets, I live up to my bets and I said that I will wear paper brown bag. I'm sorry we couldn't do it on Tuesday, but that's okay. I'm here right now to explore this week 18 brown bag edition of the podcast. It's your boy under this brown bag and still is still suck. I'm dammit with the DK3 podcast, but it's actually in true fashion. Them sponsors are rolling across the bottom of the screen, but guess what, I got my boy with me too. And guess what? We said we would make this a brown bag edition of the show.

Speaker 1:

If you think that I wasn't, I wasn't gonna be happy or anything like this, I'm happy. I'm here. Listen, I am here. I told you I'm gonna live up to my bet. So I'm here living up to my bet and we are here to get this started. No, you didn't miss it. Let's see what else really. Hey, need chaps? Uh-huh, and look at his tish, his tish, already out there.

Speaker 1:

I was having all these conversations because I was stuck up in Kansas City with that snowstorm and whatever, and I was. She was like oh, you just not living up to anything. No, I'm living up to my bet, I'm living up to my honor. Yeah, go stay. No, still is suck. That's why I have that across here. Look at a boy, there's ready. They come to here with the chat. They is ready. Oh, oh, hey, where the red cup at TJ?

Speaker 1:

Oh, I think I think we have some issues over there, but yeah, but we, we in here, like I said, I live up to my best. I live up to my best. Let me see, we got some audios in here. Audio, little audio issue. We may may have a little audio problem going on over there. That's okay, we would get that song, we get that song. I'm also live across Instagram, also live across Instagram. So all my Instagram people where you at Alright, he'd be back in a second. But, like I said, I came on here. We're gonna get this thing going and popping because we are going in the super wild card weekend and I know, I know, wait, I know where you at tish, where you at, go ahead and give you all bragging and go to rights. There we go. Now we got some audio from you.

Speaker 2:

Hey. There's no red cup no, no red cup on this episode.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's right. I see, I see, I see her, that's right. How about those Ravens? Yes, what, we may have lost a baby up practice squad, but guess what, I'm still here, in true fashion. Honor my bet, honor my bet. Yeah, y'all in it, barely tish. Y'all in it barely. Wait a minute, auntie, you ain't got treat me like that. She said that fits you. You got treat me like that. You said I'm funny. Hey, look at this comment easier. We put them. Raven know, you put the practice squad and y'all barely beat them.

Speaker 2:

It was the practice for birds, y'all talk about the wrong birds right now the wrong birds didn't get plucked man.

Speaker 1:

Hey, they say you gonna mess around suffocating that plastic bag, you know?

Speaker 2:

it's crazy. You know what's crazy? I told you I had to improvise with this and I thought that I had a pretty sizable head. This bag is showing you that I am absolutely wrong, because there is still. There is still space Like, oh my god, what is going on? Man, look, big brown more than a building.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that's what I'm saying. You're going to build, marvin build.

Speaker 2:

Brown. Brown bag more triple B. Yes, sir, brown bag more in the.

Speaker 1:

Say, a win is a win.

Speaker 2:

I.

Speaker 1:

When was a win? You still be a practice squad, it's all. It's all good in a hood is all good in the hood, it's it. You said you're true to your word. Of course I'm true to my word. If I lose a bet, I will honor my bet. I will make. I make bets all on this show. This is our show. I honor my bets in true state form or fashion. Look, just because we were down there in a tsunami, he planned the game. Hey, we lost. We lost At your house twice. Nope, you only be this once at our house, that's all. Hey, again, y'all won, congratulations. She said you made a bet with our backups. I sure did. I'll make any bet with our backups.

Speaker 2:

I see you on.

Speaker 1:

Instagram, america. It's like you say why? Hey, listen, listen, hey, I support the Ravens all day long. No ifs, no as no buts. It could have been our backups, it could have been our four strings shoot. The coaches could have been there playing. I still would have supported them, even way. Hey, hey, you say you better put a hole in that plastic bag.

Speaker 2:

No, you, you, mr Triple B's Marv, you need to have a hole in your bag, sir. Where is your bag? That's the real question. I got mine, I got mine, he got his. Where's yours? Put a hole in your plastic bag.

Speaker 1:

James Winston for president. Oh, I'm loving the chat. I love y'all, I love y'all. Hey, I definitely keep my word. I wrote it. I definitely keep my word. Hey, ever I said stop yelling for you, faint.

Speaker 2:

I'll take your advice. That's fine. That's fine. I'm very passionate, so my voice Naturally is this loud. But when I got someone like triple B's are that feels the need To have something to say about my brown bag, my, oh, I have a problem and that problem needs to be solved right here, right now, on this show. I refuse to let someone critique my brown bag skills. I refuse. We have a whole segment for it. Don't you critique my brown bag, not just put the habits on the first place.

Speaker 1:

Wait. But he said bass cost you much to put holes in.

Speaker 2:

Forget it.

Speaker 1:

I am good, I am good with this. Then said hey, you know what? I haven't seen coming to chat yet. Came to that. Usually you'll say go chiefs, I need to do this, I need to do entertaining this. But let me tell you why. Because the viewership is going up. Okay, recycle afterward. Wait a minute, there's Kelsey right there. She said wait, tj brown bag looks flawed a bit.

Speaker 2:

Oh, Is that so? Okay, see I, there's another critique in here. So for each critique, there will be a hole in stills in this brown bag. Can we do that? Can we do that? Say yes or no in the chat. How about that? For each critique on this brown bag that I decided to improvise Y'all have something to say about my brown bag there will be a new hole inserted into this brown bag. See, there's another one right there. Boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, hey hey, don't know to be fair, to be fair down now, check this out. I give out brown bags all the time. What is it if I don't get a brown bag for myself? Hey, listen, no one's a no one's safe from these brown bags, include me. Hey, I honor my best. All the time it's Chelsea says she's here and of course, here you go with the goat she's. I See you, pj, you in the building, john's fans in here. Oh yeah, I Honor my bet. That's right, I honor my best. I always honor my bet. She's the real. John showed up for the last game, oh Lord, oh, I see you coming on Instagram. Kelsey can't stand the look. Listen, listen, that week 18 was just fun for me. Okay, it was fun. I was up Marilyn lives and whatever Commanders for all low and we got. We got the common ones in the build.

Speaker 2:

Oh, how are you? How are you?

Speaker 1:

Hey, listen, listen, listen. Here's my hope, here's my whole thing, here's my whole thing, here's my whole thing. And, like I said, matter of fact, let me start off with Dallas. Let me just start off with that. Let me start off.

Speaker 2:

Sure I.

Speaker 1:

Listen, and here's the reason I'm starting off with it, because I got a bone to pick with some of them Dallas fans and he. And here's the reason why it's because if you come, if you come To enjoy the game, which y'all did, y'all came to enjoy the game, but there was more Dallas fans in that stadium, way more than it was more commanders fans in that. That's fine, I don't have a problem with you coming to do this. Did they bring Lana Richie? I can't believe this. Look at this. Y'all Listen, I honor my best.

Speaker 1:

I told you I was gonna be in here, yeah, yeah, dallas, where you at now, here, listen, and me and Rudy, and we work these games all the time. Yeah, I don't mind what. You coming to support your team. I already knew that. Here's the problem that I have. When you get drunk and you want to jump on people's cars, right, I have a problem with that. When you went, when you Supposedly been mooning someone in the suites, okay, then you want to fight all over the plate. Now, this is this. Is Dallas that good? This is Dallas fans. And I know it's not all the fans, it's not all the fans, it's just some. Could you induce an alcohol into talking shit?

Speaker 1:

So I get it and you want to sit up there. It was disrespectful and shameful. Yeah, it was. It was very disrespectful. Yeah, I see you wrote. It was disrespectful and shameful for all the stuff, oh, not to mention all the fires y'all set up there and all it. Now, this is Dallas fans. I'm only talking from what I saw and what I observe. Okay, that's because I was there. This was some of the Dallas fans and I'm telling you I was tired, I wanted to go home, it was the last game of the season and y'all just wanted to cut up up there. So, dallas, you know something? A like you said, I'm just giving a whole goddamn state of Texas Brown bags in that Dallas area for that performance up there. It's not the game, it's the damn fans. Oh, wait, wait, I'm sorry. The claim of mooning was a commander's friend, okay.

Speaker 2:

Well, listen, I Gotta say, commanders, if there's a franchise that deserves any sort of mooning on a consistent basis, I hate to say it, but it's y'all okay, okay. So, yes, that is wrong. In fact, I'm not even gonna joke here for those fans who decided to think that that was a good idea. I just want y'all to understand that. You know, this is why we have certain ramifications or certain guidelines when we go to certain, you know, certain rena's or or, because it is like this where we have idiots that that Want to go balls Balls against the wall, want to go insane, and it's okay to be a fan. The root word of fanatic is a fan. I get that 1000%. But control yourselves. We're not gonna catch, we're not gonna act like we're. We're, we're in elementary school. Okay, let's condition ourselves like we know what it's like to be at a sporting event and let's have a good time without having to cause destruction in the process. You fools, come on, man, we can do better than that.

Speaker 1:

Listen, the whole stadium was blue, the whole state, I believe it. But I didn't see, I didn't get a chance to get a picture because, a simple fact, of all the chaos, that was going on up there so but, yeah, wait, wait, wait. Dallas was acting though. They won the Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah, listen, don't get me wrong. They, okay, they tore the fur off the command. It's not that, don't get me wrong. They tore the fur off of them. I get that, but come in there and enjoy yourself.

Speaker 1:

It's always the Dallas game we have the pride. At first it was the Giants and the Eagles, right, but now it was. It was. That is, dallas is giving us the most problems at the stadium. Dallas fans get it together and I know it's not all of you, and so I don't want. I don't want all y'all be coming for me, so you, you had to treat us like that. No, it's not all of you, but the ones that caused all those chaos and problems, you're the ones I'm talking about so they know who.

Speaker 1:

They know who I'm talking about. They know exactly who I'm talking about. So I'm just again, I just I'm glad the game is over, I'm glad I have to deal with that for another season. I'm good with that. But uh, but guess who else was out of there? Not only Dallas had to leave out of there, but so did Riverboat run. Huh, they went playing, they. They be the team that's been tanking since week 10. Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah, I see you, rodi. The last two years it's been a problem with Dallas. Last season, the last game this season, we had a problem with Dallas fans, and then again this season we had a problem with the Dallas fans. It's all good, it's over, but you know, some Dallas fans, y'all better get it together and Kelsey, I would, because she was getting on me, it's not the whole state of Texas. I said that. I did say the whole state, but I said in the Dallas area, yeah, okay in the Dallas area, so I do want to clear that up.

Speaker 1:

I'm giving them brown bags.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

But speaking of firing boy, that sure has been a lot of firing around here, boy.

Speaker 2:

Oh boy.

Speaker 1:

Oh, the Seattle, the great Bill Belichick is gone. Well wait, they said that was mutual. They said that was mutual.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, pete was mutual. Arthur Smith was mutual. Yep, for the Falcons. You know what? That's not even the bigger conversation. Here's the conversation I want to have. Come on, what about the teams that kept the head coaches? These are the teams I want to talk about specifically. Okay, come on Number one, your new Allen Saints. Really, really, really, really.

Speaker 1:

Dennis Allen. Again, I guess Dirk Carr saved his job. Dirk Carr saved his good job.

Speaker 2:

Dennis Allen again, really Okay, okay, okay, let's go. How about another team? See now this team I'm torn between, because I get why they're doing it, but I also don't understand why they're deciding to stick with him. Matt Eberfluss, your Chicago Bears head coach, y'all keeping him again Again, really yeah, you had a half a season, you had one and a half of a season when your defense looked like they were top 10 and he decides to say okay, okay, hey, I guess they're in similar. Enough Kool-Aid up there.

Speaker 1:

But yeah, Dirk Carr should be gone too. Listen, it was just a black, I had to say a black. Firing time around the NFL. Yeah, Black Monday, Black Monday was crazy.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

But what I didn't like is how they paraded this whole thing with Bella Check. They had a press conference. Who does a press conference? Or anybody that's leaving or getting terminated from the organization? Who does that? Who does that? That's the most wait, wait. I got you, I got you. I got you for that. That's the most Dallas thing you could ever do. Ah.

Speaker 2:

So here's the thing, here's the caveat that I would pose as to why that was a thing. Okay, bill Belichick is a guy. Whether we want to, regardless of all the jokes that we've made with him over the last two years, he is still, in my opinion, the greatest coach that has ever lived, and I don't think it's going to be close. Okay, and I do think that, when it's all said and done, I think what today was was a reflection of just 20 years of straight dominance over the entire league by one team, and he helped orchestrate that. And I think that when you are decided to mutually leave that, there needs to be that moment to where y'all get to reminisce on what was. I mean. We joke about the shalaking word all the time.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

I don't think there is more of a consistent beatdown than a Bill Belichick, tom Brady led Patriot team. I don't think it gets any consistent than that. So I think what today was was just a moment to kind of give Bill his flowers for all that he has done. But is it a little bit overkill too? I can see why it could be overkill, but what I'm saying is that's why they did it. They did it because they needed Bill to be shown as okay. We know the last couple years or so has been God awful, but that doesn't change the fact that you have a tremendous legacy in our league in terms of coaching. Forever. You can never take that away from them. So that's what the spotlight was on Bill for today. I applaud them for doing so. I applaud them for doing so. So shout out to Bill oh, my goodness, I just realized this. Bill leaves the day before that Nick Saban leaves Alabama. The day before that Pete Carroll leaves Seattle. The day before that Mike Brable gets fired.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, we talk about that one, mike Brable. Yep, who could be going to New England, mike Brable, who could be going to New England?

Speaker 2:

Mike, mike, mike, mike. Listen to me through this brown bag. Okay, mike, listen to me clear, man, there are so many other options than New England. You don't have to suffer there, man. You do not have to suffer there. You can literally go anywhere else. You can go to Seattle, you can go to Seattle now you got, I mean Seattle. I was shocked with Seattle. I was shocked with Seattle. Tennessee I thought Brable was going to leave. I didn't think they were going to fire him, but there was this whole commotion about they were trying to trade him but it was going to take too long and all this stupid stuff, all this nonsense. Again, it's Tennessee being Tennessee, whatever.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

Seattle by far out of all the stockers. That is the most shocking opening out of everybody. Because when I tell you you look at that roster that is a top 10 roster in the NFL. Veteran Y receiver two good to great running backs running to say healthy, but two to good to great running backs. Your defense has not one, not two, but three players in your secondary. That is going to be on that defense for years to come. Your front four finds a way to always get pressure and oh, by the way, they added somebody by the name of Leonard Williams during the middle of the season. He's going to be there for a little bit. He's still young, believe it or not. That is a good roster. I wouldn't be shocked if there is a premier head coach that goes to Seattle out of all these teams. It wouldn't stop me at all.

Speaker 2:

If Jim Harbaugh goes there, it wouldn't shock me. If there is a, if Vrable goes there, like I said, that wouldn't shock me, but it's the fact that they're even open to begin with. It's insane, insane.

Speaker 1:

Hey, marvin agrees with you with that. But hey, remember, if Jim Harbaugh comes back to the NFL because now he has interest in the Raiders but also the commanders is even trying to chomp at him. But the commanders also want our defensive coordinator, mike McDonald, they're trying to get him for an interview for head coach. Yeah, they're just doing a whole re-ramping up there. They're trying to get our vice president or president of talent, something like that also.

Speaker 2:

They're going after our whole staff in Baltimore. Yeah, so so you know, seattle, if we have to rank, if we have to rank in terms of, like, best destination spots, Seattle would be number one. I think you would have to put a team like and I can't believe I'm saying this Oakland number two.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Only because, only because they won't, they just continue to budge against not giving Antonio Pierce a chance, which I don't know why Because he has shown that that is his job. He has shown this year that that is his job. He's earned it. Okay, but for the sake of the argument, Raiders is second, I think. Third, you can make the argument for Atlanta. You can make the argument for Washington because they have a top five pick. You can make an argument after that to be the chargers, the only reason why there's multiple reasons why the chargers are so low in my book. But it's very simple to me. Yes, you have Justin Herbert. The problem is outside of Justin Herbert.

Speaker 2:

Your office line is old for the most part your Ken Allen. I love him. He's still producing, but he's getting up there in age. He's getting hurt. Mike Williams, your other wide receiver he got another year of a torn ACL. Okay, there's questions. I can't believe. I don't want to say this, I don't want to say this, but this is an honest conversation. Mike Williams might be in a conversation to where he wants to retire.

Speaker 2:

This is now three out of four years to where your season has ended with a lower leg injury. We're out for the year. You can ask someone that is six foot four, 200 and something pounds, where most of your catches are having to topple over somebody and having to brace for someone and not go at your knees is concerning. So you have that question mark. Then you have the defense. That is old. Joey Bolsa is getting up there in age already. Khalil Mack is getting up there in age already, when James needs to be gone. Your secondary has gone awful.

Speaker 2:

Now that you mentioned all these things about the charters, they don't become the promising destination that everybody was touting them to be when Brandon Staley got fired. It's not the same anymore, so that's why they're low. Then after that, you have your Tennisies of the world. You have your New Englands. New England has a better shout because there are top five pick this year in the draft also, but outside of that pick, you have no one else on that team. You really have no one else on that team. So unless you are a coach that's willing to be there for the long haul, you're going to be in for a long.

Speaker 2:

What two years? I think craft is. You Think that? So that list is very, very. It is levels to this, it's levels to this. So I don't wanna hear the conversation of oh, you know, this team looks promising with this head coach, maybe, maybe. But if you're gonna tell me that there is a more promising job than Seattle right now on top of the fact that they're in the teens in this upcoming draft, so they could very well get one of these quarterbacks and have that restarted clock for the future.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

I mean that on top of what you already have is awesome.

Speaker 1:

And if you're looking at the draft also, they're a whole bunch of great wide receivers and quarterbacks in that draft that's about to come out. So of course in this rebuilding process you know they're probably gonna be doing all kinds of picture trades to get some of these top tier talent.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So it's just like Z-Flowers and I give the Ravens all credit. That's the only rival receiver they've really ever got out of the draft. That's really been like really something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, right, right, right right.

Speaker 1:

So you know Tori Smith, he actually walked up to him and said, hey, I wanna come on, but to me it was just like he wasn't really really like all around. He was just your deep threat Z. He go across the middle, they go deep, he. They do it all. And that's what I like Mighty Mouse 2.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. I'm not even gonna lie. He might mess around and get a little bit faster in year two or three. We may have the same conversations that we had with Tyree Kill, with Z-Flowers Cause when I tell you he is fast and game speed does not do it justice, it does not do it justice. Z-flowers can turn a slant route into a touchdown by himself off a speed alone. Give him a cookie.

Speaker 1:

I gotta answer this. All right, lady B, would you click through on here. It's someone that lost a bet and I have to honor my bet, so this is what you click through on here. This is the brown bag episode of the podcast and I'm just getting through it so I can get this over with.

Speaker 2:

Yep, and I am wearing a brown bag to not only join not only join my fellow brethren in this bet, because one is not in it without the other, but also because there is a certain team in the state of Pennsylvania that warns me wearing this brown bag also, and so he was not gonna be alone on this endeavor without the Eagles looking the way that they did. So there you go, the brown bag episode.

Speaker 1:

Yes, this is the brown bag episode. This is great. I love this. Hey, listen, and Val was over here. She was stealing his fan and she was like this bag looks scary. Good, it should, and I'm gonna keep this bag. This is the bag I will always wear on this show if I lose a bet.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, oh my goodness.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's right, I forgot yeah.

Speaker 2:

Hey, but y'all didn't think, y'all didn't think I forgot about last week's episode, did I See? Because there was a certain thing that transpired at the bank that should raise some eyebrows again. Oh, here we go, here we go.

Speaker 1:

Uh-uh, that was not fault, that was not fault.

Speaker 2:

Grin it, grin it, grin it. It was not by the case of the Baltimore Ravens, but it happened on y'all field. It happened on y'all field yet again. And so, ladies and gentlemen, in all cats, on all platforms, say it with me hashtag BrownieGate at the bank, browniegate at the bank. Oh, I didn't forget, I didn't forget. Hashtag BrownieGate at the bank. Yes, sir, it was not our fault. Yes, sir, yes sir, yes sir, browniegate at the bank. Yes, sir, hashtag that right now, hashtag that right now. I know it wasn't your fault, I know it wasn't your fault, but it happened on y'all home field. So, hashtag BrownieGate at the bank by your Baltimore Ravens. They did it again. They did it again, and we're about to find out in two weeks. We're about to find out in two weeks if something like that transpires again. Granted, it didn't happen till quarterback, but you know what? I don't even do one. Even better, they don't discriminate what position it is. As long as it helps them, that's all that matters. Hashtag BrownieGate at the bank. Hashtag BrownieGate at the bank.

Speaker 1:

Yes, if that was not our fault with TJ, tj got hurt on himself. Yeah, tj got hurt on himself.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, Hashtag BrownieGate at the bank. Yes sir, yes sir.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my God, let me say I want to say the Steelers fan need to take several seats. Uh-oh, because naturally the Ravens nation did y'all favor by not pulling the starters and let y'all get to another level about beating the second and third drinks.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Listen day one. I gave him props. I was at Merrill Live. I gave him props. I say, listen, it's all good, it's all good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it better be. It better be because, again, hashtag BrownieGate at the bank, hashtag BrownieGate at the bank, it's to be.

Speaker 1:

It's to be. See, there's Marvin. See, Marvin agreed with me. We had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 2:

Hey, I bet y'all, I bet y'all didn't, I bet y'all didn't and y'all didn't. I said y'all didn't, but again, this is another big time injury. This is another big time injury that happened on y'all field, hashtag, browniegate at the bank.

Speaker 1:

Hashtag BrownieGate at the bank. You see what this says. She said don't do that, we need him yeah.

Speaker 2:

You should tell the Ravens that. You should tell the Ravens that they did it. They did it. It happened on their field. It happened on their field. Yeah, yeah, hashtag BrownieGate at the bank. Yes, sir, yes, sir yeah.

Speaker 1:

It got me on here like a Halloween decoration that must be another, that must be another hole.

Speaker 2:

Ok, there it is, there we go. Yeah, listen, listen, listen. Browniegate at the bank.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, sir, yeah, like I said that wasn't our fault, but hey, and I wished them a speedy recovery. But then I was talking with this and I said to the stuff and I said, hey, tj won't be playing, he won't be playing when y'all play the bills. And she was like, oh, you, just like you brought this snow up here, you bringing bad news up here. Yeah, I brought it all up there.

Speaker 2:

The Camp City, same, same. And then what happened at the bank y'all? It would happen at the bank y'all, just saying, just saying, just saying.

Speaker 1:

And you know something. You know something, though. I know we usually say brown bag to the end of the show, but you know something, though. I'm going to give another brown bag right now to the Kansas City. Let me tell you why. And it's not the chiefs, I'm just talking about Kansas City. Period. How you going to close the airport?

Speaker 2:

because it's snowing up there.

Speaker 1:

OK, and we have to circle for an hour to come into the airport. Yeah, I'm giving Kansas City a brown bag for that Left me in the air for an extra hour.

Speaker 2:

Oh my goodness, that's ridiculous man. That's ridiculous man. Oh my god, that's not OK. L Kansas City L.

Speaker 1:

L. Everybody getting L. Hey, if I got to wear this brown bag, I'm giving out a whole bunch of them.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1:

But wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2:

Did not need to happen, y'all. I want to make this profoundly clear we had one job. Our teams had one job.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, one job, Win, Win. And we didn't. We didn't, hey listen. He said y'all had enough gas and the plane hushed. Wait a minute. He said you brought that mess with you. No, it was there before I got there.

Speaker 2:

Terrible man.

Speaker 1:

Terrible. Listen, listen, listen. Like I said, I came over here honoring this bag. I am glad everybody is enjoying this, because I am too. It doesn't make me sad to wear this bag. It actually makes me happy Because, like I said, steel is stuck. That's why I put that up there Steel is stuck. I made sure I'm going to keep this bag, because this bag will always be ready for this show.

Speaker 1:

Oh there's an oxymoron wearing the brown bag with the signature. That's right, show him. Yeah, that's cool. No one denied that we lost. Hey, we lost, we lost, we lost. Oh well, it happened. We won't lose in the playoffs, though.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, oh, all right, yes, you, you walked into this one.

Speaker 2:

All right, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I got to talk to you all about something real fast. Ok, I brought this up to my fellow brother, mr Dave, here and I told him when they had, when the Baltimore Ravens decided to sign Dalvin Cook onto their roster, I said this very thing, and the fact that this man continues to give me cliches is not OK, and y'all shouldn't allow this either. This year, for the Baltimore Ravens is a super bowl winning team or bust. Oh, it's falling apart. You know what I'm feeling? Hulk-hulking now, because y'all are doing way too much.

Speaker 1:

That's OK, I still got mine, I still got mine.

Speaker 2:

I got it. Y'all are not going to keep retaking this brown bag. I done put a lot of effort into this improvisation. How dare you? But I said this Ravens team is super bowl winning team or bust. There is. There is nothing more. There is nothing less. Ok, y'all better not lose this super bowl. If y'all lose at any point in time before the super bowl, if y'all lose during a super bowl, this year was a loss. It was a loss. It was a loss. It was a loss. How do you have the best roster on this? Entirely, this entire playoffs, y'all had the best roster. Y'all better not go down. Y'all better not go down Because, if y'all do, you want to go into a frenzy, you want Facebook to go into a frenzy, you want YouTube to go into a frenzy, watch them lose. They better not lose. They got the best roster in the entire playoffs. They better not let me down. They better not let me down. Super bowl win or bust.

Speaker 1:

OK, ok, and I already told you I was like look, one game at a time. One game at a time. One game at a time, yeah, one game at a time, yeah, all right, let's see who we have to play. And then, once I see who we have to play, I'm going to start sipping a little bit of Kool-Aid. Just a little bit, just a little bit, because I think this is how what's going to happen. Now people are treating us like the favorites, sorry, hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 2:

We on this, though, we've been saying Baltimore was number one for what Better half of the season, oh yeah, so if you're talking about ESPN and all of them, sure Let them have that. They just now paying attention because they feel like, ok, I'm not even going to get into that, but they know how they feel about the ball they sipping different.

Speaker 2:

Kool-Aid. They know how they feel about the Mar. That's just what it is. That's just what it is. It's just the Mar. It's nobody else. It's just the Mar. But we've been saying that Baltimore is the best team on the league for weeks now. This is nothing new. All I'm saying is now that you have a healthy running back, you have a running back, that's complete to you. They're going to use they're going to use you better, not lose. You better not lose, that's all I'm saying. You better not lose.

Speaker 1:

Like I said, better not lose. This is what I've been thinking, and I've been thinking about this. This is what I'm thinking. Okay, so for some reason, I think Kansas City's going to make it to the AFC championship game. I don't know what's giving me this. I don't know. I don't know what's giving me this vibe, but I think Kansas City is going to make it to the AFC championship game. And if they got to come through Baltimore, it's almost like a changing of the guard when we beat them. It's like I'm giving you the keys to the ship. Yeah, there you go. So you said you don't want to see Cleveland on Pittsburgh. I would love to see Cleveland on Pittsburgh because it would prove who's much mightier. I would love to see him. Now, the Browns supposed to be the problem. We'll see, because Flaco's good for throwing about two or three interceptions.

Speaker 2:

Okay, okay, okay, okay, not too much on the Browns now. Not too much on the Browns now. Not too much on the Browns because, ladies and gentlemen, if y'all have not been watching this show, y'all know that we are living in the Flaco Sons. Okay, not too much on Flaco. Not too much on Flaco. Okay, this is the same man which, by the way and I checked this, I checked this he, out of all the quarterbacks in the playoffs, is the second most winningest quarterback in the playoffs right now, right now, right now. He's number two behind my home.

Speaker 2:

Not too much now, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much, not too much. On Flaco, not too much on Flaco. Listen, listen, listen, yeah, flaco, he has a good record in the playoffs. Remember when he was even in a rookie? That was one drop, pass away from them going to the Super.

Speaker 1:

Bowl beating New England. Yeah, they haven't dropped that ball in the end zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One drop pass when I'm going to the Super Bowl. Yeah, it was one drop pass and they would have been the Super Bowl. But guess what? This is a totally different team and, as you know, having conversations out there, check this out. So remember, what does Lamar have now that he didn't have in 2019, a receiving core Right? Obviously, coordinator Better. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, offensive coordinator, and he has a hell of a defense that's supporting him right now. Hey, marvin, I get what you're saying, but guess what? That defense is on a totally different level. Now. The Ravens defense is on a totally different level. The way they just blowing out teams oh yeah, they're on a totally different level. Jack's texting some of the weak teams, you know.

Speaker 2:

So my name is there.

Speaker 1:

I want the Ravens to play these tough teams because I don't want the question marks anymore. I'm like, okay, all right, you said we wouldn't do this and we did it. Okay, what did they say? They said Detroit was going to come and hand beat us. That didn't happen, right? Oh, they said the 49ers was going to beat the crap out of us. Look what happened. What? The Ravens make statements. They make plenty of statements and they have made some statements. So here's the thing you can count us out, keep counting us out. Count us out. That just fuels them anger down there. I told you, rokron Smith reminds me of Ray Lewis. He reminds me of Ray Lewis.

Speaker 2:

Because yes.

Speaker 1:

Side line to side line and then, if you look the way he walked, images Ray Lewis, let's see. Question what happened to all the New England fans? Yeah, what did happen to all the New England fans? Where are all those New England fans? They got to sit back.

Speaker 2:

I mean, you know they're still stuck at the Boston Tea Party All those eons ago. So it's cool. It's cool, not too much on the Patriots fans. Man, oh man, oh, do I? It's cool, it's cool. Man, I went from the waves to now I got away. I'm making this brown bag work. I'm not going to keep coming for me. I can only make so many holes on here. Come on.

Speaker 1:

But here's the thing. Now we in playoff mode and I read you already saw my predictions and everybody saw my predictions. They saw my predictions work. I believe there's going to be some upset and one of the big upsets I picked was the Packers to beat the Cowboys. I picked that. I picked that. Wait but wait. Mom said you look like a Jew.

Speaker 2:

Here we go man, here we go man Stop it. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, looking for new homes. Yeah, listen, listen this. Playoffs starting Saturday. I am glued to the TV on Saturday. I'm glued to the TV on Sunday. I'm glued to the TV on Monday. I can't wait for this.

Speaker 2:

I'm not. I'm not for Monday, I'm not for Monday All right To Marvin.

Speaker 1:

No, he said listen, he said he picked the same upset. Like a lot of these, like I said, a lot of these teams ain't going to get through and I don't believe that Miami is going to be Kansas City.

Speaker 2:

No, they shouldn't, that shouldn't happen.

Speaker 1:

And then they're going up to. It is cold, as I don't know what, in Kansas City right now.

Speaker 2:

Okay, it is zero degrees, with snow, if I'm not mistaken. With snow, yeah, nah, sorry. Then the same thing with Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1:

I get Pittsburgh plays in cold weather, but being in Buffalo is a different type of cold you up in there, Canada, and that's a different type of cold up there. And John Allen is still that guy. You know I'm not going to be in the same place, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I feel that guy.

Speaker 1:

That has been rappers burger 3.0.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1:

Because you don't have TJ right now. So one side is going to be open and you know he's going to be looking for digs and they're probably double covered, so he's going to find someone else.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean your, that's your, that's your upset. If I have to pick an upset for me, oh, I had another one.

Speaker 1:

I had another one Before you say it the Texans. I'm picking them to beat the Browns.

Speaker 2:

I don't. I don't me personally. I don't consider that to be an upset, because that's such a 50-50 game. Okay, um, cj Strahl didn't play the last time the Browns played. Um, the Browns haven't looked this good all year and I just think that it's going to be a toss up.

Speaker 2:

I really do. I think it's going to be a toss up of like it's going to go to the final final possession. I really do that game. I hope the final score is like we going over time and it's like the final score is like 30, 31, 34 or 31, 37. It got it in. It got it in that way Right it is to. It's to 50 50 for me, I would say. Upset for me, though, would be I would not be shocked If I woke up and realized that, um, who, that the Steelers beat the bills. It would not shock me at all. It would not shock me at all.

Speaker 1:

It wouldn't shock me. It wouldn't shock me. I just be like we'll bring them on because they're still the lowest seed, so you know where they got to come.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but I just think that, out of all the teams that are feeling way too good about themselves, the bills are definitely up there in that conversation.

Speaker 2:

And all it takes is, like we've been saying for weeks although the last couple of weeks has shown that that's been a outlier that all Alan needs to do is throw a one in a section Um against that defense. That's about as opportunistic as it can get. Um. It would not shock me if we find ourselves in a position where the Steelers beat the bills, and if that transpires, I would do that when Mason root off. Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing somebody have something to say about my topic.

Speaker 1:

I really do Let me hear Cause member member early part of the season they wanted to fire right? Yeah, they wanted, yeah they, they wanted him. And Matt Canada yeah man.

Speaker 2:

So, um, that would be the upset for me, because I know, but flows at home, I know they got momentum, I know they won five of the last six, but I don't know, man, pittsburgh is that type of team that, like, all it takes is one opportunity. It really does, it really does. So that's my upset. I know I had to go to a whole another conference, but you know it is what is, it's cool.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was. It was a a, a, a, a, a a. Don Ellen Kelsey was going to chat about, you know, the chiefs throwing the 360. They can't catch the ball. Do a 360. I'm just saying you know I'm doing 360. Listen, listen, butterfingers make. Bob is up there. He has more drops than anyone in the season. Anyone just like Melvin Gordon has more fumbles than anybody in the season.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, yeah, that's, that's just bonkers. But if there is one team that could turn it around out of nowhere, I hate to say it, but it's Kansas City man.

Speaker 1:

I'm just, for some reason, something's telling me that they're going to make it today and wellής, это дllo mm. So I'm telling me it was not shocking.

Speaker 2:

It was not shocking, not one bit.

Speaker 1:

And they're gonna go down Playing the simple right, they said. Cuz that I'm sipping the Kula, it hit a little bit now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they're gonna go down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I get it, the chiefs are always scary, absolutely. But guess what? Our defense is too, and so is our offense.

Speaker 1:

That's true, because you had someone that's a coordinator that's the one two national titles and then came in here and completely turned this offense around completely in one season. Yeah, completely turned the offense around. Wow, oh, they just did a Butterfingers commercial. Listen, listen, listen. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. We all getting ready for these playoff games and we go and we know we gonna see some good stuff. But hey, here's what I'm counting on more than anything. They got them refs. They got them refs who they gonna sway a game for. Who's Vegas cut a look. We need you to call on this.

Speaker 2:

Dallas.

Speaker 1:

Dallas oh. Yeah, and I've been getting on them about that and I'm going back to that Detroit game because Detroit was ripped off. I don't get any Dallas fan agrees with me, you know, because we've been battling over this issue. The Troy was ripped off in that game and if y'all got to play Detroit again, it's gonna be a different outcome. It sure will it's gonna be a different outcome. It's gonna be a different outcome.

Speaker 1:

And now y'all got the number one, number two, c, so at least y'all get at least two home games, at least two if y'all can win them. So If we don't get now away, nobody can keep up. Yeah, nobody, absolutely. If we don't get now away, I totally agree with you.

Speaker 1:

That's true, that's true though, but it is, it is all good. It is all good. I know you have to go do something. In a few I'm gonna go hit wine and showdown. Oh man, you know something. You know one thing we didn't do. We talked about a whole bunch of different issues. We talked about one of these games. We talked about not one, and I'm good with it too.

Speaker 2:

These games are the reason why we had to put these bags on, so they shouldn't be talked about.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we're not even gonna talk about it. Yeah, we will definitely talk about super wild card weekend, though, cuz I know we gonna see some plays, I know we gonna see some people stepping up, I know we gonna see a whole bunch of everything, and so, hey, I'm good with just coming over here. Honor, my bet, we all having a great conversation, having a great dialogue, unless you were a Dallas fan at the stadium, oh sorry, oh wait, wait, wait, I'll pull that one back.

Speaker 2:

I'm sorry, oh boy, oh boy, I'll pull that one back. They know who they are they know who they are. They know who they are, but hey, listen.

Speaker 1:

We embrace, enjoy Saturday, sunday and Monday. Hey, if some of our predictions came through this, fine, if we come out, be shot like oh my god, I didn't see that one coming. We'll see. But hey, just know, we're sitting on, we're sitting on a couch waiting for you to come, because then we come and pick up Two games. That's all. We need two games. Two games to get the February to divisional AFC championship. So, whoever it may be, bring it on, cleaners, we waiting for you. Bring on, please, as we're waiting for you. All right, who are brown bags going to In? Chat and chat and chat, as you say, marvin, hey, best quote of all bounty gated the bank. I'ma get you a t-shirt with that one.

Speaker 2:

Oh, um, first round bag. You know what I'm gonna do? A visual. I've never done this before, but my first round back is I Warned y'all I did one, y'all, I did one y'all that this is what it was gonna come to. I, I keep getting. I got some arms. Yeah, yeah, this, this team, right here, get the biggest brown bag of all time. Oh god, 24 nothing, no man, no man. I don't even think, I don't even think I Can do it justice by even talking about them anymore, so I'm gonna just do what I've been doing the last half of the season. This Eagles team as of right now is Stingy Brown bags y'all. What a piece of garbage was transpiring in that life. And if our plans get hurt, wait, no world is going on. Man, oh man, I Can't, I can't. I told y'all I want y'all, I want y'all, I Want y'all. This is gonna happen.

Speaker 1:

Here is my immediate welcome. Believe it, even okay. Okay, I got one for you, but we forgot some. We forgot somebody that got fired. We forgot someone that got fired and I'm sorry to see my boy go, cuz he had the best facial expressions, but I'm gonna give it to the Atlanta Falcons for letting the Saints coming there and beat the brakes off of it.

Speaker 2:

We deserve to forget, we deserve Forget. Must add somewhere else, man.

Speaker 1:

The best facial expressions ever. Hey listen, he was better than Riverboat brawn just standing there looking like yeah well, that was a bad play.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, man terrible oh.

Speaker 1:

My goodness, who's your next one?

Speaker 2:

go to my next one. I Can't believe I feel like this might understand the vision commanders. Look, man, like yeah, I mean I appreciate the fight in the first two drives, but after that you just thought the game was over. Like come on, man, really, really. Now you got Dallas. Then I didn't want a Super Bowl. Now you got Dallas acting a bunch of fools as fans and now you got Dallas Having the win at the east. Thank you, thank you, commanders, for making sure that you give them the biggest Airhead there is an NFL because of y'all. We not to hear. That's what we have to keep here, if it wasn't for y'all. So brown bags to the commanders for what a terrible job for not holding up your end of the bargain. Ah.

Speaker 1:

And why we want it and why we want it and why we want it. I'm gonna stay with Dallas too, and every day, and I'm gonna say all the fans that knew how to act, right, I'm not giving y'all brown bag. But the ones that didn't all of, y'all get brown bags, yeah. And for the ones that came all the way here the Texas, the cars, all that chaos y'all get brown bags too man what oh, wait a minute. All the coaches that got fired these brown bags.

Speaker 2:

Now all of them. There are some that didn't need to be fired, but I ain't against it idea either. Um and again, because my last brown bag is gonna go to a coach that didn't get fired, but this is also gonna go to a franchise Mom. I'm sorry this is now the second week in a row to where this team is catching strays for me, but it's fine, your new Orleans Saints.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, cuz their costume been fired. Oh, I should be gone.

Speaker 2:

Dennis Allen again, again, again, really, really again. Why. Why does he ever? If you pull in a brand of Stanley, is there some blackmail going on behind the scenes that we need to know about? Cuz all the Texas a blowout and he could be get fired. We saw, that's what happened. Brand of sale we can definitely do that. We can. I don't know what team it would be to get them to blow out, but we can definitely Orgustrate that for next season. Okay, this island again again. The players don't even respect this man. The players don't even respect this man. The players don't respect this man. This coach told him. This coach told him Don't run the play in. The players flat out sat up there and said, ah, what y'all want.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna agree with Don L on this one the Jaguars need brown bag oh yeah, I have one job to do in beat Tennessee but you let. Henry won a hundred ninety million yards on y'all.

Speaker 2:

Oh, my goodness, the Jaguars. I Thought for sure they were going to play offs. Yeah, I miss it all together. What?

Speaker 1:

what right? Yeah, wow, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, don't help. Thank you for that one.

Speaker 2:

That was a good brown bag.

Speaker 1:

That was a good brown bag that was a good one. Yeah, we have one job to do, one job, oh. But hey, one of my viewers over here I gotta give a shout out because it was their birthday on Tuesday. What we supposed to air the show and I get chance to air. So, chanel, and if you're still listening, I want to say happy birthday to you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I know your birthday was Tuesday.

Speaker 1:

I wanted to give you a birthday shout out, so happy birthday to you. Hope your birthday was good. Sorry we couldn't do it on Tuesday, but hey, better late than never. Hope you got some good cake and some good wine and something, because you see I'm wearing a brown bag.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he's wearing the brown bag and I'm wearing out the brown bag. Totally fine, happy birthday, happy birthday. Yeah, I know I can't sing better than that y'all, but but hey, we're not gonna do that right now. We're not gonna do that right now. Shout out to now for the birthday. Yes, yep.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. So it's all, it's all good. It's all good. Well, we gonna wind the show down. We get ready for these games on Saturday.

Speaker 1:

Hey, the stealer still suck, hey. But hey, I honored my bet. I said I would do it and I won't mind taking this bet. I'll keep taking these kind of bets because that's just type of guy I am. Take that.

Speaker 1:

Hey, if I lose some money, I lose some money. If I lose some pride, I lose a pride. If I lose some dignity, I lose some dignity. But I'm not losing any of that because I enjoyed doing it. No fun for me. I Appreciate each and every last one of you tuning into the show. We always have fun, we always, you know, just wrap it up, hey. But listen, hey, I maybe I'm see if I can straighten out my bag a little bit, Cuz this looks like almost like an iron mass, Almost look like an iron mass. But I'm all, I'm all good, I'm all good. We appreciate each and every one of you. We will be here on Tuesday. We're gonna see who wins, we're gonna see that playoff picture get a little bit better and we gonna see who gonna make it to February, because there's a purple storm coming. Watch out for those Ravens. Cuz we coming, we would see y'all later.

Brown Bag Edition of the Podcast
Dallas Fans' Disruptive Behavior
NFL Coaches and Potential Landing Spots
BrownieGate at the Bank
Super Bowl Hopes and Expectations
Predictions and Upsets in the Playoffs
Ranting About NFL Games and Teams
Wrapping Up Show, Looking Ahead to Games