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From Darkness Retreats To Division Rivalries: Football Fan Therapy And Week Preview
Rivalry week brings out the spice, and we poured a full shaker. We kick off with a tongue-in-cheek “darkness retreat” before setting the table for our live Ravens vs Steelers broadcast, then sprint into a furious tour of the NFL’s most revealing moments: Detroit’s ruthless dismantling of Dallas, the Eagles’ maddening carousel of three-and-outs, and why some franchises cling to nostalgia while their trenches crumble. If you felt Dan Campbell coaching with receipts, you weren’t imagining it. We break down the route designs that left Dallas chasing shadows, Jameer Gibbs as a mismatch engine, and what that win means for the NFC playoff picture. On the other sideline, we question effort, late-game discipline, and whether the Cowboys’ margin has vanished against top teams with identity.
We don’t spare Pittsburgh. Behind the “retirement home” jokes is a sober point: when your injury list reads like a phone book and the line can’t protect, swagger won’t beat Baltimore’s downhill run game. The Tomlin debate gets real—if you want change, who’s the upgrade who can draft linemen, build an offense, and develop a quarterback? We also follow the money to the booth and call out a high-profile commentary choice that sucked the air out of Thanksgiving. Fans deserve energy, insight, and respect for the stakes. Full stop.
Philadelphia faithful, take a breath—and then take action. With a roster built to bully, leading the league in three-and-outs is a coaching problem. We unpack stale sequencing, first-down predictability, and the case for Sirianni to reclaim the play sheet. Around the league, we flag two dangerous trends: quarterbacks playing through injuries that should sideline them, and contenders treating situational football like a suggestion. Denver’s squeakers, the Rams’ upset loss, and the Bears’ surge all underline a December truth—programs with clear identity and adaptable game plans win the month.
Join us for the live Ravens vs Steelers stream from 647 West Pratt Street in Baltimore—noon to final whistle. Tap follow, share this with a fan who needs therapy, and leave a review with your boldest playoff prediction. We’ll read the best ones on the next show.
Didn't do it alone.
SPEAKER_03:All right, all right. It's your dynamic duel here on a Friday night. Because you know, sometimes works just gets in the way. But it's your boys, is DK and TJ here with the DK and Tree podcast. Hey, how is everyone doing today? What is going on with everyone? Where you been at? Um, yeah, you see my boy down there with the low lighting, right? He has the low lighting. So he said he wanted to open it up. So he's gonna open it up. So go for it.
SPEAKER_02:Look, um, in case anybody wonders uh where I've been on this festive holiday season, um I've been uh in the darkness retreat with uh not Aaron, not the not the ARP Rogers, but um uh I think his brother. I I think I think he's in here somewhere. Uh I I feel like he has uh a pretty big family because I I feel like I get the names mixed up all the time. One day it's it's Peter, the next name is the next day is Eric. I look, I I I get it mixed up all the time, but nevertheless, um because uh of the team I support in the fact that their offense stinks so bad that their offensive coordinator got his house egged. Um here I am. I'm in a darkness retreat. Um the service has been amazing. I want to put that out there. It's it's been amazing. We have uh downed Jose. I don't even know. I don't even think y'all can see it. Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_03:There's there's Tisha already in the room.
SPEAKER_02:She she knows what week it is. Yes, so so uh some some Jose has already been supplied, and then we're already working on uh the classic ENJ for you, for you, uh, for you uh lovely drinkers out there. So um they've been taking very good care of me. This this uh this has been um uh uh a very good stay. I actually would recommend it. I think it's five stars. See, the last time I was in the uh uh Darkness Retreat, uh, for those of you that have watched this show long enough, the last time I was in the darkness retreat, it was very um very bleak. It was very lifeless. Um it felt like there was like no customer service whatsoever. And it just it was just worst-case scenario. But this time around, I don't know if they did some renovations to the rooms or if they made some adjustments to the lighting. I I have no idea. I don't know if they added some new staff, I have no clue, but for whatever reason, um it has put us in a position where I can be enjoying such a a uh dark time being a fan of a team that I support. And um I I gotta admit, man, I I I fully recommend it's it's it's it's five stars for me. Now, I don't know how long I'm gonna be here for. Um, you know, obviously Christmas is coming up, so hopefully, you know, hopefully, you know, if if if a couple wins show up and we win a division or something like that, you know, maybe, you know, maybe you might see some lights again. I have no idea. But as far as I'm concerned, uh until that happens, uh until that is on full display, um, I will be here. And no, this is not jail. This has actually been very luxurious, okay. Again, I I I bring to you uh number one in Jose Cuevo on on full display, and then uh we have ENJ. It's been a process, but nevertheless, we're here and and I'm grateful. Still alive, still kicking, still pushing.
SPEAKER_03:Yep, still live, still kicking. Hello, hello, welcome in, welcome in. Any anyone that wants to tell me about your teams. Hey, when you come in, rep your team, whatever. We just doing some recaps, but I just let you know, just like this, it's about to be fun, it's about to be happy.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, oh yes, yes, yes. Now, they did warn me with me being at this uh at this uh luxurious stay known as the darkness retreat. They did warn me about me making a whole lot of noise, but I also told them that I I I do a podcast where there's a lot of noises being made by default. So um they said they're not gonna they're they're gonna try to make sure that they don't boot me out this time, but they can't guarantee nothing. So I hope that I do a good enough job to where I don't get booted out of the darkness retreat and I'm out on the street. That because that that would just be terrible circumstances. So I I'll try to behave myself tonight. I'll try to. Oh no, the hell with that.
SPEAKER_03:We going we going full fledged. The hell with that. We're going full fledged tonight. Uh uh. You want me out on the street, man? Come on. Yeah, hey, hey, I'm gonna be right there with you. I'm gonna be right there with you. I'm gonna be right there with you. But this, you know, you know what week this is. You know what week this is, and um it's Raven Steelers week. We getting ready for that. I'm excited because um got a friend of mine, she's Steelers fan. So all you Steelers fans is out there, you know, she's your advocate. So I'm actually doing a live podcast from um a venue on Sunday for that game. Live podcast. So just like I'm streaming across everything right now, I'll be streaming across everything there live. It's gonna be lit. It's gonna be uh on Sunday. Um doors open at 11. If you're in Baltimore, 647 West Pratt Street, Ravens Steelers, come on down, rep your team. Again, your boy is gonna be on site for live podcasts. TJ will be in with me remotely, but we're gonna go from that time maybe noon all the way to that game is over. And for some people that uh do come down there, I do have a little special gift for you for just showing up and just coming out. So I still have a couple more of these left. Some mugs, some DK entry mugs, but this is the brown bag award winner because we give out brown bags during the show. So I do have a couple of these mugs left. I will give them out down there to you, you know, that you're coming out. But um, I'm excited for this, but uh yeah, I'm definitely excited for this game. I've always been excited for the Ravens and Steelers because hey, we our rivalries unmatched, you know, it's always come down. But in TJ's case, he said, you know, they got AARP cards over there for the Steelers. So we we got a little bit of problems with that. Everybody's listening on TikTok. Welcome in, welcome in. So, yeah. So again, like I said, my boys in Darkness Street, because the Eagles just ain't doing look. One of our birds has got to get it together. We got two different birds here. We got an eagle and a raven, but one of us birds got to get this together here. But like I said, I am ready for this weekend. I am hyped for this weekend. I hey, listen, it's good, hey, may the best team win. Somebody gonna be crying on Sunday unless it ends in a tie. Oh my god. I don't see that happening. I don't see that happen.
SPEAKER_02:Please don't end in a tie.
SPEAKER_03:I if if it ends in a tie, it's it's it's it's gonna be crazy. It's definitely gonna be crazy. So hey, it anyone's listening, hey, take whatever team you rep, that's what you rep. All right. So where we start at? Uh, should we should we start with uh last night?
SPEAKER_02:We we we should, but unlike usual, because of my location, I'm not gonna take the time into dance or have a parade on a loss by any one of the other teams in the division. So I'm gonna allow you to do the honors, and then I'll like I'll tag team. I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll go in after that.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, all right. Any Dallas Cowboys fans on here? Hey, you you know I'm coming for you first. I'm coming for Dallas first. But first of all, before I even start, before I even start about Jerry's world, because that's all this is, it's Jerry's world. Let me say this. If anybody looked at that is the situation with CD Lamb, I really hope he's okay. Because that looked like it was a concussion. He hit his head, and then you just saw his hands doing like that. That was something that he didn't do. So my prayers are out for him because again, that head that it's nothing to play with, and you know, as you've seen like with these players, they taking shots like that, taking headshots or whatever. It's that's nothing to play with, even with um Tua. You know, my thing was just that's nothing to play with. So, yeah, my thoughts and prayers are definitely out with them. But um, on the flip side of that, let me go ahead and say this Dan Campbell don't forget nothing. If you wrong him in any way, he doesn't forget. And the man is kind of vindictive too. I like it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it because he he don't forget anything. He's like, eh, yeah, well, yeah, I'm just gonna beat you up even more. Yeah, I'm gonna just keep uh scoring on you. Yeah, yeah, even though it's two minutes in the game, I'm gonna score another touchdown. I wouldn't care if it's 30 seconds, yeah, just run up the score. Dan Campbell is vicious. I love the guy, he has a killer instinct, he wants to win that program. The only thing I have a problem with with Detroit is this losing record they have on Thanksgiving. They messed up my whole parlay.
SPEAKER_07:They did, yeah. Because Jesus.
SPEAKER_03:Why can't y'all win? On y'all, y'all are good on a lot of other days when it comes to Thanksgiving. Ah, we'll just give this one away. We'll just give this one away. But Dallas. Oh, I'm sorry. Am I allowed to call them Dallas? Or I have to still call him Alice.
SPEAKER_02:Look, they they've won a they've won a couple games, they've beaten us, so uh yeah, let's let's let's do that.
SPEAKER_03:Go ahead, give them their best due. Okay, okay, so I get to call them Dallas now because we would call him Alice because there was no D in Texas. So, okay, so Dallas, y'all actually was putting up kind of a good fight when they got to 1927. I said, All right, we got something here. We ate this is about to be money. We're about to have a fight on our hands, we're about to be good. Hey, we're about to have a great game. Oh nah, Detroit was like, nah, we ain't having this. Here, I'm around St. Brown. Here you go. Take, take, take the woodshed to him. And next thing you know, the score is all over. I'm like, wow, that didn't uh that didn't last fast. And just the look on their faces of how they were sitting there, like they was just so defeated on that sideline over there. I'm like, and you know, Dan Campbell, cool as a whistle, he over there chewing his gum. And got the little smirk on his face. Yeah, we're gonna beat Dallas down even more. And you in our house, too. Yeah, they put the wood chair to him. I was like, ooh, after that final score, I was like, oh, oh, oh, this is ugly. Oh, this is ugly. If you thought you was gonna go into Detroit and beat them, uh nah, that wasn't gonna happen. Plays of the games is some of the wide open receivers that they had out there. Now, here's one thing that did concern me that they did say that they observed was that they felt as though Pickens just gave up on the team. Hmm. Interesting. Is it because you're not getting your way? Is it because oh, you were getting the ball? CD was gone. You were getting the ball. You you were getting the ball. So, what are you complaining about? What what are you upset about? If you're down, you keep playing. You still on that rookie contract. Remember, you're trying to get paid so you play it out to the end, and then it's not hey coach, I'm done. Just sit me on the bench, just just sit me on the bench, just sit me on the bench. So I have a problem, I have a problem with him just giving up because and well, at least he didn't do Antonio Brown, took his uniform off and just left off the field. So I give him that. I give him that, right? But that was just as bad. That was just as bad. But uh Detroit, hey, listen, I always ride with y'all until y'all play the Ravens. Okay, I don't have any problem with any team until they play the Ravens. I don't, but Detroit I rival from if it's any city that needs a Super Bowl, it's them and they deserve it because they built their program up there. But was the game good last night? Yeah, if you were a Detroit fan, you dallas uh there's like, yeah, nah, like one of my buddies, he had posted the L on his page, like uh, we lost with this game over. So when I saw I was 1927, I texted him, I said, dude, it's not over yet. You got this, it's not over yet. Yeah, he didn't want to hear none of that. He was like, Nope, uh, this game is over. There's the L. So when the game was over, of course, he posted right under my post. He was like, I told you. I was trying to give you some credit, man. I was trying to give you some credit. Now, but we all know what Dallas problem is. It's it's called Jerry Jones. That is what Dallas' problem is. Now, if any Dallas fan in here want to refute that, please let me know. But go ahead.
SPEAKER_02:No, I I was just gonna say that in defense of George Pickens specifically, it was literally just a couple weeks in a row where he was playing like he was a top five wide receiver in the entire league, let alone in the division, let alone in the conference the entire league. George Pickens, yes. So in fairness to what happened as far as how he conducted himself last night, not everybody is gonna be the same every single week. We all know this. Maybe that was just his off week. Now, the only reason why there's there's the truth, there's your truth, my truth, and then the facts. Cause see, that is one side. Then the other side is that you look on the other sideline and you see Amon Ross St. Brown. I want to let everybody in on a little secret. Amon Ra St. Brown got hurt on Thanksgiving and he messed up his ankle, and Dan Campbell, post-game, literally said he's gonna be gone for a little bit. We don't know how long, but he's gonna be gone for a little bit. That man suited up and played last night like that. And he went on to have a wonderful game, he had a fantastic game, and to see the flip side of one and the other, if I am I'm not even gonna say his name, but if I am someone who owns that team in Texas that's not named Houston, especially if I'm having the conversation of trying to figure out if I want to pay the guy yet, or how much I'm willing to pay him and things of that nature. Stuff like that is what I pay attention to. And um it's one of those things where it's like, okay, like, yes, you've had a fantastic season, like at like leading up to last night, you were leading you, you you were doing so great that none of the Steelers receivers were able to do what you're doing combined, you know, so that is awesome, but then you had moments like last night that showed the whole world pretty much, like that's why the Steelers traded them away. That's exactly why. Because we need you to stay to stay being that number one wide receiver you've been all year. Now, all of a sudden, for whatever reason, you just decide to just say, hey, you know what? I don't feel like giving a whole lot of effort. One of the picks that Dak threw, I don't know if you could say it was a good DB play. I I don't know. Um I've I've went I've done watch the pick like a thousand times, not because I enjoy seeing the pick, but because you know it's football. I have to watch it. And um, the pick I initially was like, okay, Dak, you know that's a that's a that's a tight window you're you're throwing into here. But then I watched the replay after like the fifth time of watching it, and you see that Pickens stopped himself. Like he it was a catchable ball, and then Pickens kind of just said fuck it. Like and then Dak is like like on the sideline, like, what the hell is that? What was that about? And so when you see that, and then in contrast, you see Saint Brown, who's going through the middle, like he's totally fine, like he's a hundred percent hitting people, going on deep routes, catching stuff, like like literally doing Saint Brown things as if he never got hurt at all. That like that was a glaring sign.
SPEAKER_03:If I am if I am that team that plays in in in Texas, uh that's not named Houston, um y'all needed this win like bad, like really bad, because now their percentages went down to 9.8 of getting the playoff spot.
SPEAKER_02:And I'm and I'm gonna explain why it went down to 9%. So not only do you have the the Lions who are a wild card team, if you can believe it, they are a wild card team today. You lost to them. Then you also lost to the Panthers as well, which was a brutal loss. Okay. Um now you would have said, okay, well, we did tie against Green Bay. Well well, none of that matters if Green Bay keeps on winning, which they have a very much so of an opportunity to do. Okay. So that eliminates the whole. Wild card by itself. You're not getting you're not getting over Seattle. They're gonna be in it. So it's gonna be Seattle, Rams. Um I don't even know about the team in the NFC East right now. Um and the Panthers. And then you have Detroit, Green Bay, and the 49ers. Okay. Now obviously the 49ers who I've been saying since day one that they've been this shoestring uh McCaffrey's because everybody seems to get hurt on that team. Right. They have they they have a winning record right now. So you're not gonna get over that. You're 6'6 and one now, which means even if best case scenario were to for God to show itself, it's not gonna translate. And by then it'll be too late. Because you either go on for the division or you're going home. And if there's a if there's another team in the NFC East that wins on Monday night, that's out the window. So if you are if you are a team that plays in Texas, that's not named Houston, if the other team in the NFC East wins on Monday night, your season's over. This this is a round. There's no need to do anything. Okay? If I am a Lions fan today, I'm very proud. This game was their backs were against the wall. We saw how they played on Thanksgiving, which by the way, after watching it back, they didn't play terrible. It's just that when they lost St. Brown, it wasn't the same as in offense, um, which was brutal. Okay so you had your backs against the wall at home Thursday night against a team I'd add that the last time y'all played each other, and this is where you bringing up Dan Campbell is a very good point. Cause the last time they played each other, Dak I think the Cowboys beat them. And post game, Dak was talking shit. He was like, We lit, we lit they ass up, and we would do it again. And then the reporter asked if if they can quote him on it. He smiled and said, Yeah, sure. And I think Dan Campbell had that replaying in the in the film sessions all week long, all week long, yep. And that applied. Yeah, oh and I love it. I love it. So they had every right to because that's the thing about Detroit this season. They they have been on and off. On and off. If the defense is playing well, the offense struggles. If the if the if the defense is ass, then all of a sudden the offense is putting up a lot of points. It is right, there's no balance. So they had every right, and I wouldn't say it would be understandable, but we would have understood if they found a way to lose this game last night. But there's a guy by the name of Jameer Gibbs, who, by the way, not even 24 yet. Technically, I'm older than the guy, and he has more touchdowns. He's tied for the most touchdowns before turning my age with Barry Sanders. I I wanna I want to make sure that I make that very, very clear. Barry Sanders, arguably the greatest running back who ever touched a football, is tied with Jameer Gibbs, who's not even 24 as far as touchdowns are concerned. Jameer Gibbs.
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SPEAKER_02:Barry Sanders. Crazy. So crazy, with that being said, right, if I am a Detroit fan, I'm extremely excited, but I'm also very concerned because if this was any other season, they would have been fine. But you just so happen to be in the same division that has the Green Bay Packers who have a running record and have won and have swept you in both games already. You ain't getting past them. Then you got the number one seed in the entire conference in Chicago. Chicago beef.
SPEAKER_03:Wait, wait, wait. Let's say this again the Chicago Bears is the number one seed in the conference.
SPEAKER_02:I'ma stop myself on that one right there.
SPEAKER_03:The Chicago Bears. That is ridiculous. It's it's it's it's not any knock against Chicago. They earned it. They have gone out there and fought and earned that.
SPEAKER_02:So your division no knock on Chicago. No, but your division has the number one seed in the entire conference in Green Bay that's already swept you. So, yes, you are excited that you feel like you have a chance, but you better hope to God that some of these teams lose. And I and I mean like lose, lose. Because the 49ers have like the easiest schedule known to mankind.
SPEAKER_03:Uh like Pittsburgh has lost all those games. Oh, my bad. I'm just throwing shots. Okay, I'm doing shade.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, okay, totally fine. All right. The 49ers have the easiest schedule known to mankind. I think they play like you and me the next couple weeks. So it don't even matter what's going on with San Francisco. It doesn't matter how many people is on injury reserve for them. Okay. Then you have Seattle that you're not catching. You have let me see. You have Green Bay that you're not catching, and you're not winning the division. You're not winning the division. That is out the window. That's out the question. I don't care if if the if the Bears and Packers within the next couple weeks end in a tie for both games, it's not happening. Okay, right. So you better hope and pray that somebody that plays San Francisco is able to cause them to lose a couple of these games coming up. That's all that you're banking on. Because the Packers, even though they're inconsistent, they have a winning record. They can afford to lose a game or two. They already swept you, they're not worried about you. Right. Chicago, bruh. I mean, Chicago's the number one seed in the NFC today.
SPEAKER_03:Chicago. You Chicago.
SPEAKER_02:You make you make of that with Chicago. You're not catching that. You're not catching that. So you better hope and pray that San Francisco drops a game or two to one of these Titans. I think the Saints is after them. Like, you better hope that they play off.
SPEAKER_03:Stop, stop, stop. It's that team in the NFC South member. That team in the NFC South.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no, no, no, no. Oh no. Oh, you know what? I should have said this at the beginning. I'm no longer censoring them because the only thing that needs to be censored is um that's residing in Pennsylvania. Um so as far as I'm concerned, this darkness retreat, that's the only thing that's getting censored until I get out. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Well, it's two teams in Pennsylvania then. You said you said one of them already. You said one of them already. So it's the other one.
SPEAKER_00:What do you mean what?
SPEAKER_03:What do you mean what? Yeah. Okay, y'all have lost the last five of what? Six? Something like that? Five or six, yeah. Correct. Five or six? Yeah, we start censoring people. It's just like them teams in the NFC South. We we're gonna start censoring people. And and and that uh Jets versus game. What do you mean we do too much? We don't we don't do too much. It don't matter, it does matter. Wins and losses matter. They do a lot and after Sunday, somebody's gonna have a lot of bragging rights between us and y'all. And again, it's a live podcast. So from beginning to end, we are streaming it live. And at the end of that game, somebody is gonna have a lot of crow to be eaten. Either it's gonna be me, because I'm gonna be in the lions dance, or it's gonna be the Steelers fans. Oh, I'm sorry. Fans. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Now, now let's let's shift to that game because Tish, I don't know if you've been watching football lately. Um, your franchise is currently a um senior citizen retirement home um led by Tomlin, who they're already trying. I I I'm hearing stuff from Big Ben about them trying to get him to go to Penn State. By the way, Penn State just hired their head coach today. Congratulations, Matt Campbell. But they're Big Ben is looking for them to go. Okay. They're looking for him to go. All right. And then your your senior citizen retirement home is led by AARP Rogers and um an offensive line that's a bunch of turnstiles and a defense who literally I'm I'm questioning their reasoning, their reasonings for staying to play football on this roster. Because everybody's either injured, old, or can't play, or both. And the only reason why y'all have gotten away with it for so long, especially in the season, the reason why y'all have the wins that y'all have is because of the opponents being dumb enough to not exploit it. So again, the the the retirement home that y'all have in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
SPEAKER_03:Not the retirement home.
SPEAKER_02:It is. It is. Okay. Everybody has the ARP card. Rogers has one. Uh Slay, the guy that y'all waived, he has one. He has one so good that when he got to Buffalo, he decided that you know what? Maybe I need to rethink that. So his ARP card is still in service. Okay. Aaron Rodgers, he has one. He's the leader of the pack in that one. And then um it that's the problem. That's the problem. I think some of y'all, I think some of y'all on that roster is already using the benefits. I think that's the problem. Somebody is out two weeks, the other guy's out for three, the other guy has a shattered nose, the other guy has a broken wrist. It that's the benefits y'all are using. Y'all are taking games off. Y'all are taking games off. I you know what?
SPEAKER_03:Not not that she's laughing though.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, because she understands that it's the truth. Um, tell me when I'm telling lies. So look, look at the injury report for the Pittsburgh Steelers today. Not not not yesterday, not not when they got fresh on the plane today. It is a list that is as long as three of my grocery lists combined of people that's hurt, out, or are an injured reserve and can't play. So that is your roster in 2025. And y'all are having the nerve, because yes, I've had I've heard some of these noises too, that some of y'all actually believe that y'all have a chance against Baltimore. Now, to your credit, to your credit, for whatever reason, when y'all play Baltimore, when y'all play each other, y'all act like points are at a premium all the time. I haven't seen a game between y'all where it's been like 35-30. It's never happened. I don't know why. I don't know what it is about that, but when y'all play against each other, it is a smash mouth. You know, somebody's gonna get hurt, somebody's gonna get knocked out, and the game, the final score is gonna be like 16 to 13. That's just how y'all play. So that is the only advantage that y'all have. I want y'all to think about that. It's the only advantage that y'all have. If Lamar in that offense with Derek Henry decides to have fun running the football on y'all, which by the way, another team in Buffalo just this past week showed that they can do against y'all. Okay, that don't run the ball. That does not run the ball. That's not even in their DNA, not at all. Okay, y'all are going up against that rushing offense. You know they're gonna run the football. And you know what? The fact that y'all struggled the way y'all did in Buffalo was nasty. Not gonna lie, it was nasty. Okay, so I just want to get this out the way now so that way no one's surprised or concerned. If you are a Steelers fan and you're watching this and you're hearing this, I want you to I want you to be prepared for this ahead of time so you're not surprised, okay? The Steelers are not winning this game, and it may not be remotely close. And honestly, we should Josh, we should stop allowing old people getting beat up on a weekly basis for the whole world to see. We should not do that. We we should not do that. It it in society, it's it's not legal to do, so we shouldn't do that in the NFL. I I I I completely stand by that. And and because of y'all owning a retirement home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I don't feel like it's necessary for y'all to even play this game.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, quit telling those fairy tales.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my god. You can you can call them, you can call them what you want, you can call them what you want. Cameron Hayward is in front of the podium talking about how he got need. Let me let me ask y'all something. How much we win?
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no, no, no, Tish. This is what y'all gonna win. The brown bag award. That's what you're gonna win. You're gonna win that one. That's that y'all gonna win that one.
SPEAKER_02:Cam Hayward, who, by the way, also has an ARP card, might I mention, went to the postgame after they got obliterated in the run game and proceeded to say that his frustration with Josh Allen was because he got me. Now, look, I understand we're all human beings, certain things hurt, other things don't feel good. I got it 1000%. Would y'all like to take would y'all like to take a guess on how much Cameron Hayward weighs? 330? He is 315 pounds, ladies and gentlemen. A defensive tackle who is 315 pounds is tripping because a quarterback who is 6'6 to 40 needs him one time during a game. That is what he's complaining about. Now, look, again, I I'm not putting biases here or anything like that. The truth of the matter is, one team has some younger feet, the other team is owning a retirement home in a cold owning a retirement home. Yes, oh yes, oh yes, they they own a retirement home, everybody has the ARP cards. Some like Tish, you already know. You mentioned in the comments already. Some of them have already used their benefits, they've been out for games, okay. What are you saying?
SPEAKER_05:Everybody on TikTok, rep your team. Tell me who your team is.
SPEAKER_02:So, yes, so let's just let's just eliminate all that, okay? All right, we have a we have a we we have a retirement home going up against the ravens. You you let me know who's winning that game, okay. I actually don't even think it's fair for them to be playing each other. I really don't. It's not right. You don't beat up old people for the whole world to see. You don't do that, don't do that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, Buffalo did that. Yeah, Buffalo Buffalo did that. It wasn't even remotely close. In the beginning, I said, Oh, okay, they hold them down. Buffalo said, Okay, we're gonna see that's elder abuse.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just saying. The only thing that's keeping them from actually showing themselves as a as a true retirement home is that there isn't a bad smell in Pitts in Pittsburgh. There isn't a um a there's there's not people walking in canes or or walking around with with with jail food given out to everybody. Like they actually have a legitimate concession stand. They actually have, you know, they have they have good furniture, even though it's cold and it's always cold. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:On the 18th of this month, I suppose to be in Pittsburgh. On the 18th of this month, I suppose to be in Pittsburgh. Once we win this game, and on the 18th, I'm gonna be in Pittsburgh. I'm damn sure wearing this up there. I'm about to start a riot, and I'm gonna find that Franco Harris statue like I did the last time I was up there in the airport and take a picture right in front of him with a whole bunch of Ravens gear. Yeah. I'm starting, I'm starting, I am starting, okay? Look, it is on the war, it's on, and then we gotta do this one more time at the end of the season. But then this time we're coming to Pittsburgh, and it's gonna be the same result, it ain't gonna be no different. This is your get Mike Thomas out of town retirement tour. That that's what this is for you all, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And and unlike some teams in the NBA, you may be actually took you actually might be able to complete it. You might be able to actually complete it. You might. You might bring that butt here. I ain't scared to go anywhere. Yeah, I look. I'm just Tish, I'm I'm trying to tell y'all, and you know what? I want to talk about this too, real quick, real fast. Um, y'all, y'all, are y'all sure y'all's future gonna be alright? Because let me let y'all in a little secret. Um, Aaron Rodgers is already planning on making sure that this is probably his last season, unless y'all actually. Absolutely want to bring him back to join the ARP club again, then you're more than welcome to.
SPEAKER_03:He said he retired as a Green Bay Packer.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so so unless you believe that Mason Rudolph is going to save the day, um, that's not happening. Okay, so you're probably wondering, okay, well, we're probably gonna get a solid pick, we're gonna get a quarterback, and well, I want to let you in on a little secret too. Um, outside of maybe two quarterbacks in college, everybody else stinks.
SPEAKER_03:So um wait, wait, wait, let's hold that thought real fast. Let me jump on this one. Y'all had a chance to get Shador Sanders. You can go ahead. Okay. So then they had the like 19th pick, something like that. Yes, 20th or 21st pick.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:You had an opportunity to get Shador Sanders. Yes. That's all I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02:So, okay, you're questionable at quarterback. All right. Now, depending on how the season's gonna go, you're gonna get drafting the teens, I'm pretty sure. You might miss the playoffs. I don't know. Who probably okay? Uh the draft is not looking nice unless you're getting the offensive lineman, which y'all do need, okay. Outside of the question marks on offense, I didn't even go to defense, just the offense alone. The real question is do y'all really think that y'all gonna have a bright future without Mike Tomlin being your head coach? Because the thing is, is that the way it's looking right now, the AARP club in the retirement home is not it. It's just not. It never has it it never has, it never will. Okay, and and and Tish, I I understand that you are living in a world where um you are very optimistic. I I I I get it, I I really do. But that's not happening, okay? It didn't happen last year, it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that. It it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that, it didn't happen the year before that. I actually uh uh I got one more for you. Let me see. It didn't happen a year before that either. The last time that this team has been in the Super Bowl was 2,010. 10 and y'all lost that one, by the way. It's the last time.
SPEAKER_05:You're going back too far, sucker.
SPEAKER_02:It's the last time. So I'll tell you again, that's not happening. The real question is, is what do you do about your future? Because if y'all really think that Mike Tomlin needs to be let go so that way y'all can just sit up there and be like, oh, we we we need some fresh new blood. This is the conversation I've always said, and now and I'll continue to say it, I'll continue to make this point. If you decide to get rid of your head coach, who do you get to replace him? Because I'll tell you right now, there's not a whole lot of head coaches available today that will replace Mike Tomlin on his worst day.
SPEAKER_03:Wait a minute, we talked about this earlier. We talked about this earlier, we talked about this earlier. Hold on, hold on. There's a guy by the name of Mike McCaffey that's still out there. Oh, see, okay, all right. I I do want to I do want to get on you for this. I did, I did, I didn't want to say JG. I didn't want to say him at all. Okay, wait a minute. No, JG, and let me get the censor for him. Yeah, we we're not gonna talk about him.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, I want I want to give y'all a backstory real quick of why he he almost gave me a nightmare before I I showed up on this show. So we we talked earlier today and we were discussing the Steelers. Why? Because the Steelers Ravens, okay, and obviously Big Ben and James Harrison were poking fun, were poking fun at Tomlin telling him he needed to go to Penn State and all this other stuff. Cool. And uh he said, you know what, you know what they should you want to know who who they should hire the former cowboy coach. And before he even took a step further, I said, look, I'm gonna just stop you right there. If he becomes a head coach again, I I'm sorry. This this is this is obnoxious. And and and I thought, I thought he was he was alluding to uh the guy that is on NBC that they make commentate once a year, which I I I think it's once per year, because I literally don't see him any other time during the year in that booth. And literally, he is such an unwatchable product. I uh look to put in perspective of how much I despise him as a commentator, for me, who is trying to ultimately become one one day, I know for sure I will always have a chance if that man is able to commentate games. If he's able to commentate games, then I know I will always have a chance till the day I die.
SPEAKER_03:And if you don't know who we're talking about, it's the former Dallas coach. We we don't say his name because he may appear like Joe Hendry for all my wrestling fans. This is so we we we don't say his name, but his initials is JG. Yeah, we're not if you know who I'm talking about, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we're not even we're not even going to do that. So I thought that he was alluding to him. And I said, look, if I can't stand him on television, I damn sure can't stand him being on the sideline. This can't work, this can't work. Then he stopped me and he said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about McCarthy. And I said, actually, that's not a bad idea. If you get McCarthy in there, you get whatever rookie that he decides to pick, okay? Have the whoever the defensive coordinator is take care of the defense, what whatever they need as far as the defense is concerned, have that get figured out. Have him figure out the offense. He's he's shown in Dallas that he's a very good play caller. You may not like his time management, but he did win quite a bit in Dallas, and he also was very productive as far as his offense is concerned. So if you put him in there in Pittsburgh, okay, have them start fresh. All right, now we're talking. But chances are the Pittsburgh retirement home that um I am aware of, and I know they're not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_04:The Pittsburgh retirement home.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Someone, someone is gonna use their ARP card and say, hey, one of my benefits is I get to you, I get to keep call, I get to keep Tomlin for one more year. Someone's gonna use that ARP card. And I'm not gonna blame them. Because again, outside of McCarthy, who do you trust to replace Tomlin? Right. Who? Right, Robert Salah. Uh I I I mean, shoot, I didn't think he did a bad job in in New York, but you know, his team was always ass. Like so I I I I I tell Steelers fans, be careful now. Be careful what you wish for. Damon, I say the same thing to you about Harbaugh. Be careful what you wish for. You want a new voice, you wanna, you wanna duh da, you wanna this, you wanna that, okay? All right, okay.
SPEAKER_03:I I get it. I get it, I get it, I get it. But the thing of it is Harbaugh needs to change, he has to change his program, man. But um, it's sometimes you just gotta inject new life and new blood into there because things get stale. Like I said, Mike McDonald should have been the damn head coach here. He should have been the head coach, bro. Because look, look, look what's going on in Seattle. Look what's going on in Seattle and taking names and taking names. That defense is bitches to the tune they beat the brakes off someone last week, 26 to nothing. Shellacking. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, no, no, no. Wait a minute, that team up Minnesota, wait a minute. They get this too.
SPEAKER_02:They get a sense of all the things. Oh no, no, no, no, no. That is doing a disservice, sir. I need you to I need y'all to understand what they did to Minnesota on Sunday. They they played a game where the quarterback threw more passes to the Seattle defense for a touchdown than Justin Jefferson had for catches, period. I need y'all to understand that he threw more passes to the other team than Justin Jefferson had catches the entire game. By the way, just to put in perspective of how crazy that game was, you know Jackson Smith and Jigba, that guy that's been, you know, killing defenses all year and is right and and and broke the the uh Seattle receiving record just a couple games ago. Yeah, they held him to 15 yards. Okay, they held him to 15 yards, and Sam Donald didn't get over 200 yards passing, and yet the final score was 26 to 0. Zero. That's embarrassing.
SPEAKER_03:I I I feel like not every franchise should have a like any team that gets shut out in the National Football League should be embarrassed. Should be embarrassed.
SPEAKER_02:I I man, so when you see what Seattle's doing, yes, I I agree that if y'all had somebody in house, y'all should have just made made him the head coach. I agree with that that that point. Um, but that's oh, that's another thing about Pittsburgh. They can't say that. They can't say that. Their offensive coordinator, would you want him to be your next head coach? No, no, Shadiva's the coordinator. No, no, everybody, everybody is in the Pittsburgh retirement home. Everybody has ARP cards, everybody's either ready to retire or they're getting ready to just call it quits as a whole, like like they're ready to be in Malibu somewhere with their family and grandkids. No, I yes, I'm talking about these men having grandkids, those are the guys that are playing on the field on Sunday and have been playing throughout this season. What are we what are we talking about?
SPEAKER_05:What are we talking about?
SPEAKER_02:What are we doing?
SPEAKER_03:What are we doing? So yeah, and if you dis that's it, if you disagree with us, please tell us because the video that TJ sent me earlier and reference and it was a Steelers fan. Oh, I I was no more good after seeing this. He said, You can dig up OJ Simpson and he'll get yards against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They said if his ashes were out there, he said they would get a hundred yards just blowing his ashes. OJ Simpson now. Oh my god, bro.
SPEAKER_02:That was nuts.
SPEAKER_03:But I love it. You say you disagree. So, okay, who in that organization could take over as head coach? Because you say you disagree. Who who in that organization?
SPEAKER_02:Tish, you don't work for the Steelers, by the way. You're a fan. I'm gonna make that clear in case anybody was wondering. Okay, that's enough on my team. Okay, see, all right, so you understand. So again, tell me when I'm telling lies. I I know PJ, welcome. Yeah, everybody on TikTok, welcome, also. Yeah, I'm not I'm not talking out the side of my ass here. That's that's literally the truth. There is literally no one in-house that could be there to replace Tomlin. It's not happening, it never has and never would. Ever. Ever. There's never been one to come close. No one. No. So that's the real question about the retirement home in Pittsburgh. Is your future is looking very, very bleak because I man, look, I don't I don't know what y'all do. I don't know what y'all do. Hey, look, Tish, let me tell you something. I smell like straight dove and and and and uh what is it? Is it cocoa butter? Yeah, I'm smelling pretty good. Yeah. I'm telling I'm I'm trying to tell y'all. This darkness retreat has been giving me good times. I'm trying to tell y'all. Look, okay, they done gave me all different types of shower equipment. Man, I'm trying to tell you, man. It's good stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You said hate. It's not hate. We're we're not hating. I never hate. We're just calling us facts. This is all facts. This is facts.
SPEAKER_02:It's not hate. I am forbidden from from spewing hate being in this location. So you don't have to worry about that on my end. Okay. It's a the the whole purpose of the darkness retreat is to reset, to you know, to to recalibrate and and to think good thoughts, have you know a nice positive outlook on life again. You know, that's the whole purpose of it. So I don't have space for me to hate. I think that might be a bar. I might need to put that on my album or something. I don't know. But nevertheless, okay, I don't I don't have space to do that. I want to make that very, very clear. The truth of the matter is your team is screwed, and we don't know what else for y'all to do because it's not like y'all have all the draft capital in the world. And if y'all want to keep going nine and eight, nine and eight, nine and eight, so that way y'all don't have a losing season, then guess what?
SPEAKER_03:Wait, wait, wait, wait. Can't replace Tom and but Steelers organization is loyal to him. I yeah, well, I yeah, I couldn't tell after Sunday. Man, I couldn't tell after Sunday the way they was chanting fire him in that stadium. They said I think they played the renegade song and they even booed that up there. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. I listen, listen, listen, and then it's made big news. It's made big news. Hey, Thomas could be fired. Hey, you think about fire Thomas? You think he should go? You think this? And people have took it up for him and says, hey, listen, the man hasn't had a losing season. I get that. I do, I get that. I completely get that. But whereas you as an owner, put yourself in the owner's shoes. Only thing that matters is championships, right? Championships. That's the only thing an owner wants to see. How many Lombardi trophies can you bring to this organization? You know, it ain't because what we had in the past, what we need now. What are you doing to bring us prestige right now? Making us the top organization in the NFL right now. It ain't what you did in the past. That's history. Right? You can't take away that history from your teams. It's what can you do right now? And right now, as it stands, the Philadelphia Eagles are your current uh champions. Your current right until something else is decided this year, whether they're gonna repeat or if they get eliminated. It's gonna be someone else. He's gotta follow what the big wigs say. Oh, he does? Oh, so the big wigs are telling him that uh we're gonna be mediocre this year. No, he's the head coach. The only person that has total dominance over a team is uh in Jerry's world. That's a he comes down on the field, he gets involved with that stuff. That's uh no, he has dug it. Look, uh uh hey, she said his name. PJ said his name. Look how long uh JG was the Cowboys and they suck for a long time. Hey, we we don't say his name because we don't want him to appear. He likes Hentry, he might appear.
SPEAKER_02:PJ, PJ, I I love you. I I I love you. Please, for the love of God, make that the last time you leave a comment that involves that name ever again. I need y'all to understand, okay. My beef with him is not so much of him being in my division, I can care less about that. People leave and they come and go all the time. That that's okay. But this guy on television? Television? When your job is to be entertaining and the best you got is to be a frail, stale Donald Trump 2.0. Are you serious?
SPEAKER_01:That's the best you got? No, no, no, no, no, sir. No, man, no, it's shade. It's no, it's not shade.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not the only one. Literally, early Thanksgiving night, I told Damon they had the Ravens and the Bengals playing a game that any other time I would have been watching from beginning to end. The moment I saw that man in the booth, I texted him verbatim. I said, nah, I can't do it. Can't watch it. Wait, BJ said you're right. I can't do it. I genuinely can't do it. Let me know how the game was. I'm not gonna watch it back. Don't just just let me know how the game was. Now, thankfully, to Damon's point, he he went on to let me know what happened. I appreciate it, but I I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I still can't do it. That's why he only gets one game a year, and in that one game, it's about as nauseating, as disgusting, as nasty as it could possibly be.
SPEAKER_01:No, thank you. That's Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_03:They gave him Thanksgiving. Come on. They gave him Thanksgiving of all games. Man, come on, man.
SPEAKER_02:Remember, not the devil. I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to tell you that that that's that frail, stale Donald Trump that just so happens to work for NBC. No, sir. No, ma'am, no, sir. Ain't no way you can tell me that I'm supposed to tolerate him at any spin in at any expense of the word that involves football. No way. Not Mr. Aiden 8. No way, no, sir. No, ma'am, no, sir. Not Mr. Aiden 8. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. No way. So, no, that's the last time I want to see anybody comment or say anything about that man. Because that man is a frail, stale Donald Trump, Donald Trump 2.0 on full display for the whole world to see. And I've had enough. I've had enough when he got on there the first time. And ever since then, it's been an ongoing surplus of straight up shittiness. Straight up surplus of straight up shittiness. Yes, those are multiple S's I just made up on the fly. I do not care. I despise that man being in a booth. There could be literally anyone else in this world that I would want to be in that booth talking about football, then him. Can't do it. No, not this, not the frail still Donald Trump 2.0. Absolutely not. Not Mr. 8 8. Not Mr. 8 8. No, sir. No, sir. No, sir. Oh my God. Oh my God. Hilarious. Hilarious. I just wanted I just want to make sure everybody understands my stance on this. This is not from a sake of hate. I'm literally in a location where I'm not allowed to do such a thing. This is just purely facts. I cannot watch that man talk about football. And he has experience doing the thing. No, no, not Mr. Aiden A. No, sir. No, ma'am, no, sir. No, cut this. No, and you know what? Better yet, whoever, whoever is the executive for NBC, okay. First of all, exclude him. Let me get me out the way. Look, if you're ever watching this, I love you. And I hope that you view me as an asset one day. Okay? Now that we got that out the way. All right. That guy should not be employed by any company. ESPN, Fox, CBS, uh, uh, prime, um, uh, ABC.
SPEAKER_03:Uh oh, uh-oh, we got a flag on the play.
SPEAKER_02:We got a flag. Look, I I done I done got my 15 yards a long time ago. I don't care. I'll do it again. This man is not allowed to work in ESPN Prime uh um Thursday night football uh on NFL network before they gave it to Amazon. Don't don't don't don't don't do don't have them on ABC, don't have them on Fox, NBC, no, no, CBS, no, absolutely not. I do not understand who in their right mind that as an executive decides to say, you know what, let's keep him there. In fact, he's so good, let's make sure that we give him a game to commentate during the season. No, sir, not Mr. 8 and 8. No way, no way, no way. No company should employ Mr. 8 and 8 to be their commentator. Ever. I don't even care if it's the 8 and 8. I don't care if it I don't care if it's the Jets and the Bengals with both backup quarterbacks. You better not let him commentate that game. I don't care who's on the field. The answer is no. He shall be exiled from talking football in a booth. That is not allowed.
SPEAKER_05:Not allowed. Swear to God.
SPEAKER_02:So I say that.
SPEAKER_03:Wait a minute. What's his name again?
SPEAKER_02:We don't say his name. Tish, Tish, as a fan of the Pittsburgh retirement home, I suggest you stop. That's enough. There is no way that someone's employing him to be commentating anything, let alone a Thanksgiving game for the whole world to see. Especially when it involves one of the best quarterbacks playing against each other for the whole world to see in Baltimore. Which look nice, by the way. Okay? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not Mr. Eight and Eight.
SPEAKER_01:No, absolutely not.
SPEAKER_03:No way. Wait a minute, I got you. I got you. I got you. We don't say his name around here. He is permanently banned. Hold on. I got you one. We refer to him as yes.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Because there's no reason, none, besides the fact that he is a frail stale Donald Trump 2.0, that they have to have somebody orange to talk about football every single week. There's no other reason. None. None. But yet he gets to commentate on a Thursday night Thanksgiving game? No way, no, sir. Absolutely not. And that is the last time I want to hear anything about Mr. ANA. The last time I want to ever hear about still frail Donald Trump 2.0 on full display. The absolute last time. I want to make that clear. I don't care if I'm in the darkness retreat. I don't care if I'm back in the house. I don't care if I'm on the street. That should be the absolute last time that I should see him on my screen. Ever. Ever. Ever?
SPEAKER_03:Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever? Yes. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:The last time, Mr. A. Absolutely not. Oh my God.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_03:Absolutely not. That guy has him fired up. He has him fired up.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think y'all understand. I don't think y'all. Okay. All right. Look. I understand. Okay. I understand everybody's version of entertainment is subjective. Okay. I got it. All right. Some people like, you know, some people like this side of comment uh commentary where there's a lot of jokes being made. Some guys like the actual play-by-play guys. Some guys actually enjoy, you know, people who are, you know, somewhat entertaining, but they don't act, they don't add anything extra. Some people actually enjoy that stuff. But one thing's for certain, and two things for sure, yes, I mix it up on purpose. Yes, I mix it up on purpose. There's no way stale frail, Mr. Donald Trump 2.0 should be commentating because he's not good at entertaining, period. And the whole purpose of you being in that spot, you being in that booth, is to entertain as the game is going on. You're supposed to act like you're one of the boys on the couch with a beer in hand, talking football. And yet, this is what he sounds like every time he comes up on the screen. Yeah, that seems like a pretty good play by Josh Allen. Oh my god, what a play by Lamar Jackson. He should do it again. And you know, oh man, he's he's at it again. It's it's it's it's we're at it again. We're at it again. That was that was a that was a great play call right there. You know, when I was in Dallas, that's something that we would call it was an eighth, it was an eighth bunch, 87 tight route. Oh my god. Please! Please. So, no, no, you you can't be bad and not entertaining. You can be bad, you can be Tom Brady last year and still have a little bit of entertainment to you. Tom Brady had some entertainment to him last year, okay? No, not many people want to admit it, but he had a little bit of entertainment to him last year. He just couldn't say shit because they literally mandated in his contract that he couldn't go to certain teams because he was a uh a minority owner of one of the worst franchises in the entire NFL, which I thought was stupid to begin with, but they decided to do it anyway. Now, this year, when you hear Tom Brady, he actually sounds like he's enjoying himself having a good old time. He's actually kind of entertaining. You cannot say the same thing about Mr. A8, stale, frail, Donald Trump 2.0, and Mr. uh uh cow former cowboy coach, and and no, no way, no way, can't say the same, can't say the same. So, this is the last time, this is the last episode I want to hear anything about that man. No way, he's starting to at this rate, he's starting to get close to to the nasty man. That's where he's getting to right now.
SPEAKER_05:He's getting to the we got a couple around here. All of them, all of them, all of them.
SPEAKER_02:That's enough. That's enough. Whoever's executive for NBC, that's enough. Oh my goodness. That's enough, and it's the last time I want to hear his name on full display. No way, no, sir.
SPEAKER_03:I needed that laugh. I needed that laugh. I oh my god, I definitely needed that laugh. Man, I definitely needed that laugh. I cringe when I hear what Russell Wilson would sound like.
SPEAKER_02:Oh god, yes, yes, yes, actually, PJ, that's a perfect example. Just imagine Russell Wilson being in the booth, and all you hear whenever the Steelers play is here we go. Or every time he has to sit up there and comment, uh, commentate a Broncos game, all you gotta hear is let's ride. What are we doing? What are we doing? What if every single game the Giants played, all he had to sit there and commentate was go blue? Like, are we serious right now? Seriously, that's who we're paying money, millions of dollars to to for people to commentate for the whole world to see. Are we serious? Be serious, be serious. No, no, that's enough. That's enough. That's enough. My toenail could have put a more entertaining product on Thanksgiving night than he did. My toenail, and those things get cut routinely. Oh Mr. A. No way, no, sir. I don't even care about nothing else we gotta talk about. I don't even care about nothing else. That is ridiculous. The fact that people feel the need out of everything, out of everything, out of everyone that's ever worked in that industry, that he's the one that has to commentate. Why could it be Collinsworth's son? What it could have been anyone hell, Tariqa could have called the game by himself.
SPEAKER_03:Wait a minute, wait a minute. Yeah, we probably would have had a lot more better entertainment.
SPEAKER_02:I'm just saying, I'm just saying, that's enough. That's enough. No one should be allowing him to be in front of a camera and actually be on live television for the whole world to see. No way. No way. No, no, no. And you know what? Now that I got that off my chest, I would like to talk to my lovely Eagles fans. Let's talk, let's talk about the Eagles real quick. Go for it. Go for it. Since I'm since I'm at it, since I'm at it right now, okay? Now, number one, for all of those people on the outside who's like, oh my god, y'all are eight and four, y'all are so dramatic, every single loss is such a big deal. What is the problem? I want to let y'all in on a little secret. If you have a Super Bowl MVP at quarterback, if you have a running back who rushed for 2,000 yards last year, if you have a wide receiver who had a thousand yards for three years in a row since he's joined the team, if you have another wide receiver who's had a thousand yards since he's been in the league, if you have another tight end who gets 800 yards receiving, if you have one of the if you have arguably one of the best offensive lines, one of the best offensive lines in the entire NFL, okay, in a defense that was so great that everybody thought that they should have they should have won MVP because of how many times they kept sacking Mahomes over and over and over and over and over again. That is the team that presided itself last year. And yet, we fast forward to this week, and yet we still can't figure it out how we can have a sufficient offense. We are leading the league in three and out. I'm gonna say it again. We are leading the NFL in three and out. And you expect for us to just be singing kumbaya, and everything's gonna be okay. Absolutely not. No way, no, sir. No way. Our offensive coordinator who's acting like he's Brian Johnson 2.0, just someone who's play calling like he's a he's a hidden terrorist that don't nobody know about. Okay, every single play call is about as predictable as it can be. Now, in fairness, Brian Johnson was much worse because on a third and 18, he'll call a screen pass to the wide receiver and only get two yards that he lost. So instead, it'll be fourth and 20 that they got the punt from. Right. But in Petulo's case, it's three and out, and three and out, and three and out, and three and out, and three and out, then hope and pray the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is able to give some life to the defense, and the defense gets a stop. Then it's another three and out, then it's a three and out again, then it's a three and out again, and yet here we are, and I'm having people tell me, Well, y'all are eight and four, y'all should be fine.
SPEAKER_03:It's okay. No, no, it's not okay, it's not okay. No, somebody's going in that locker room, and they're telling it it's really messing with their game big time. Yeah, they're not telling it, yeah, yeah, it is. There's something going on in there, it it it truly is. Because let me I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go back to the Dallas game for a second. I'm gonna go back. Yes, how you dominate a whole first quarter and then you come out second quarter and don't score one point, not one point, not one, not one. There's no way y'all should've lost that game. None. No way y'all should've lost that game. And again, again, okay?
SPEAKER_02:We are talking about a franchise who has found a way to make sure that every possession is a three and out. I need y'all to understand that. How many you know what? Okay, let me let me let me simplify this for everybody to understand here. This on average, every offense in the NFL gets around 30 to 35 possessions a game. Okay, good or bad or indifferent. They get around 30 to 35 on average. We are leading the league in almost every single possession, beating a tweet out. I need y'all to understand that. That is absurd. Now, for context, okay, now that offensive line I was talking about is not healthy, all right? I get that, and that's why the running game sucks. I get that, but for the love of God, why in the hell on first and ten do we see Saquon Barkley running up behind that offensive line that is heavily injured, that has me and you blocking for Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley. Why are you running it first and 10, second and 10? Why? Why? I watched the Bears game, unfortunately. I had to watch the game back because I missed it when it went live. I watched it back. The amount of times the offensive linemen were sitting up there doing oh, there was somebody in front of me. Oops, my bad. Over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_01:That was all game long, all game long, and yet, and yet, we could have beat that team that is the number one seed in the NFC, but no, but no, but no, we had to go three and out again.
SPEAKER_02:We're probably in the midst of this podcast right now. They're not even on the field, they went out three, three and out again. That's how bad it is. But yet, we're supposed to sing Kumbaya because we're eight and four. I want to let y'all in a little secret. Remember those playoff teams I was talking about earlier? Yeah. Um, as of this second, today, let's see how many teams would beat what would the Eagles beat today. Let's see. Right. The Bears, right? We already lost to them. That's already been proven. I don't know if we were to play them again if we beat them, because they had no problem running up and down the field on us. The Rams, it took a it took not one, but two block kicks for us to beat them. Let's not forget that. Okay, right, right. The Packers, okay, we beat them, but they're inconsistent as hell, so we might have a we might have a chance at them. That's cool. Whatever. Seattle has arguably one of the best offenses in the entire NFL, led by Sam Darnold, who, even though he he can he can, you know, uh uh shit the bed when it comes to primetime games and big matchups. Okay, cool, that's whatever. We may have a chance, but even then, guess what? The ray, the, the, the, the Ravens is um what is what is the Achilles Hill for y'all? The team that that for whatever reason y'all struggle against. Who's that city? Kansas City. Okay. The Seattle Seahawks are our Achilles Hill. The Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are our Achilles Hill. So do you think that we're ready to face them in the playoffs? I'll let you know a little secret. I'm gonna channel my inner uh Michael from my wife and kids. Uh uh uh uh uh uh no. That's the Seahawks. Okay. I just talked about the Rams. I didn't even get to the point, who we already seem for whatever reason, we we always in a dog fight, so we may or may not have a chance against them. That's cool, I guess. Panthers, I would have said. You know what? We got we we at least could beat the Panthers. Are you sure about that? Those are the same Panthers that just beat the Rams last week.
SPEAKER_03:The same Panthers. The same Panthers. Who the ever thought that would have happened? Who the ever thought that would happen?
SPEAKER_02:Exactly. Exactly. That so, do I trust my team to be able to beat them on a one-game basis? I do not know. And that's a problem. That's a problem. Be serious. You're going three and out on offense, asking and praying the Lord Jesus Christ Himself for the defense to have enough energy to outlast the entire game and hope and pray that they can keep a lead while we're kicking field goals every single possession. Or punting it. And thinking that we're gonna have a chance. No way. No way. And oh my god, do not let us face Detroit, and we have to go to them. The only reason.
SPEAKER_03:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Because you know Dan Campbell has a killer instinct. Killer instinct. He don't forget anything. And he will keep running it at you. Like, yeah, we're gonna make this happen. And with all quarterbacks, Jared Goff. With Jared Goff. I'm not gonna say Jared Goff is even in the top ten. Not even top twenty. But they make plays for him to be successful. As long as he doesn't get pressure, as long as he doesn't get pressure and get rattled, he does everything. We can go back to this game. Remember when he threw five interceptions and they still won the game?
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. Still won the game with five interceptions. Okay. Yes. That team. The true that team.
SPEAKER_02:Exactly. I I do not I I everybody's talking about all these other teams. I better not see Detroit. I hope they don't make it. Because I swear to God, if we have to go up against Detroit in any round, we are cooked unless we're at home. That's the best shot, is that we're at home, and Jared Goff is sitting up there shivering like he don't know what to do, like he's 2 or 2.0 in the cold with two gloves. That's the only chance we have. So no, we're not happy. No, this is not okay. No, this is not acceptable. And you know what? What makes matters worse? I keep talking about these injuries. We literally have an injury that we have to deal with, and Lord knows how long that's gonna be. And Jalen Carter, who decided to get surgery on not just one shoulder, but both during the regular season. Now, look, now again, if this was week five, if this hell, if this was week eight, and he did that, okay, cool. Hey, look, at least we get you back before the the season's over. We can get you into the playoffs. Okay, cool, we're good. We're gonna be flying all cylinders. We'll try to make it work. We might lose a couple games, cool, whatever. Both shoulders, so you're gonna be out on Monday. Which, by the way, I wanna let I wanna let y'all in a little secret. He is our only defensive presence on the front line that's actually going to do anything against a chargers offensive line that is blocking, led by me and Damon all over the map. And he's not playing in that game. He's not playing in that game. And look, I thought for sure, okay, if Herbert has a broken hand, he can't do anything with a broken hand, especially if it's a story hand, which that is the case, we're gonna be fine. The problem is apparently the dude is made from fucking cyborg of a team titans, and his hand is fine just enough to play us on Monday. So, no, we don't even have to worry about having to see Trey Lance. Instead, we still gotta see Justin Herbert. And I'm pretty sure with us not having to get any pressure on him, he's going to light us up like a Christmas tree. Like the Christmas tree I just posted on my Instagram just two days ago. That is exactly how Justin Herbert is gonna treat our defense because we got no pressure, we got uh a Dory Jackson who is 35,000 years old trying to cover your number one wide receiver, getting cooked on every single route on the route tree, and we're literally hoping and praying that either the the ball isn't accurate, or literally there's enough pressure to where he could actually get involved in the play. And in case you're wondering why that is not a good idea, because anytime he gets involved in the play, it's a fucking pass interference, it never fails, it never fails. So, no, nothing about this is okay, nothing about this is acceptable, and I swear to God, I swear to God, if our offense is led by Saquon running up the middle with an offense that with an offensive line that is led by me and Damon being the entire offensive line blocking for him, we are going to lose on Monday night, which would mean that we would go from whatever it was in one to now we're eight and five. Do you really want to have this conversation with me today? I do not think so. Enough's enough. Enough's enough. We are trash. I'm not in this darkness retreat by accident. I'm not in this darkness retreat by accident. I swear to God, this is not by happenstance. I swear to God, it's not. This is the byproduct of a team that doesn't know how to function on offense. And in result, the defense has to keep saving its ass over and over and over and over and over again. No way. No way. No. So, yes, as an Eagles fan, no, I I do not stand the fact that we have lost a we I want y'all to understand how we lost these games, okay? We have lost to the Giants, and we see the record they got. Hell, their season's going so bad, they can't even get a kicker to kick the football. Okay? That's what we lost to. Okay. Then we had a 21-point lead going into halftime against Dallas. We lose that game. And then we have Chicago, who literally decided, hey, our quarterback is inaccurate, but you know what? We're just gonna run for 280 yards on y'all and beat y'all that way. So, no, this is unacceptable. And no, this is not gonna keep being tolerated. And the only number one question I have is Mr. Nick Siriani. I am going to give you a pass because you have brought us a Super Bowl championship. That is the one thing that we can say is not easy to do. You helped eliminate a repeat, uh, a three-peat in in Kansas City going down, okay? Oh man, thank you, Jesus. Okay, so thank you. So thank you for leading the charge in that regard. However, you got into the NFL being an offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts, and then you became an offensive coordinator. No, I'm sorry, you went from offensive coordinator, then when you got to be a head coach for us, you started calling the offensive plays, and then you realize you were shitty at doing that, so you gave the play calling to somebody else, and then the following year we stunk. Then, next thing you know, we had Kellen Moore, we won the Super Bowl. Fantastic stuff. I have one question, Mr. Siriani. When are you going to be the Dan Campbell for this team? When are you going to take the fucking clipboard from our offensive coordinator and say, you know what, sir? You need to go home. You need to go sit down, enjoy the game like the rest of us fans, and sit back and watch from abroad because your play calling stinks. It stinks. And I'm taking over play calling. When are you going to be the Dan Campbell for us? Because I promise you, I know you've learned your lesson from the last time you put you were you were calling plays for this team. I know you have. I know you have. Otherwise, we would have fired your ass too. So when are you going to become the Dan Campbell for this team? Because I promise you, if you don't do nothing about it, and Mr. Patulo sits up there and calls another three and out possession for this offense that has AJ Brown in it, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, Devontae Smith, and Dallas Garter in it, we're gonna have a problem. Now, just to put in perspective of how much of a problem it will be, I'm gonna let you in a little secret. If the office of the coordinator, as it was reported this week, has his house getting egged by fans.
SPEAKER_01:What makes you remove from anything different? That's all I'm gonna say.
SPEAKER_03:And I didn't even get to that one.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't even get to that one that he egged his house. Yes. Now, I uh Damon, I told you this. I want to make this very, very clear. Okay, no one, I'm not condoning the action, but damn it, I understand the reasoning. That's the only thing I've been saying about this whole egging situation. I I I don't condone it, I don't condone the action, but damn it, I understand the reasoning. Your offensive play calling stinks, it is bullshit, and that needs to change. And if putting eggs on your house does that, then so fucking be it. But this is enough. This is enough. And we have literally nothing but injured players on that defense, too, might I add, and we lose that game on Monday. I promise you, whenever we have this show again, whether it's Tuesday or Friday, I'm either going to stay in this darkness retreat or something's gonna explode because I've had enough. I've had enough. It's about to be Christmas time, okay? This presence under the tree, me and my lovely girlfriend, we made the tree. We got presents underneath already. We're ahead of schedule, we're already beating the game. The only thing that is not happy in my life is my fandom of this team because their offense cannot function because their coordinator doesn't know how to call plays properly. The only thing, y'all better find a way to win this game on Monday. Because if y'all don't, y'all give another thing, y'all give another team in the division life again, and it gives them a chance to actually find a way to somehow somehow overtop us in the division and win the division. No way, no, sir.
SPEAKER_01:Fix it. Right. I'm gonna say it again. Fix it.
SPEAKER_03:That's enough. Or we're gonna be this.
SPEAKER_02:They already are, they already are, they already are. This is ridiculous. That week in, week out, we have to sit up there and go to Madden to figure out what is in their playbook and switch it around so that way they can put up points on the board like they did last year.
SPEAKER_01:Why are we going to a video game to fix off as a play calling? Why? Why?
SPEAKER_03:Why? It makes me curious to see what is on these play sheets. What what plays are on these play sheets?
SPEAKER_01:What? Like, what do you think you are? Andy Reid? You need to just sit there and and and and come with a play call called Chicken Nugget and score a touchdown?
SPEAKER_02:No, no, you need to actually come up with a script that means that we're gonna put points on the board, and that means that for the rest of the game, you're able to either chew the clock by us having a lead and we can maintain it, or we can pass indifferent past concepts to where we can score over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_03:Wait, wait, wait, you could be that team up there where Tish is, and it's like, oh hey, 62, oh, this shit not gonna work, and then run the play anyway.
SPEAKER_02:Like, it's gotten so bad that there is a meme. There is a sound on TikTok. I I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna send it to you. There is a meme, and for those of you that are watching this, you know what I'm gonna say. The sound literally goes first and ten, run up with Saquon, second and ten, run it with Saquon, third and ten, run it with Sequan, fourth down, Debo Incomplete, throw the AJ. That is literally a TikTok sound that went viral for Billy fans. Are we serious? Are we serious? Be serious.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my god, be serious. Oh no, no, that's almost as worse than that Steelers video earlier, okay? TikTok send that to you so you can see it.
SPEAKER_02:Fix it. Because this is ridiculous. There's no reason why I should be hearing noise from people in this state feeling like this team that they are a fan of having a chance to over to surpass us in the division. No way, but yet I hear it anyway. You want to know why? Because the offense stinks, and the offensive coordinator doesn't know how to call plays. And if this means that we have to egg his house for him to get his shit together, then so fucking be it.
SPEAKER_03:So be it! Y'all, y'all Philly fans out of control. That's why I said I will never, I will never attend a game in that stadium. Never. Never. Never.
SPEAKER_02:You can you can say you can call it what you want. I'm trying to tell you, this is not by accident. This is not I I promise you, this isn't this isn't us being like, oh, we just we just hate we we we just hate the oh yeah, expensive eggs are for your house to get egged.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you're bad. Yeah, you're bad. You're so bad.
SPEAKER_02:We're in an economy where certain eggs are costing fifteen dollars and dozen. That's the economy. They may have had their own chicken, even better, that makes it even more expensive, and they had no problem giving those eggs up and throwing it at somebody's house. Get it together. I need to see efficient offense against a team that does not have a healthy defense, please. For the love of God, because I promise you, if we find a way to lose this game on Monday night and give Dallas life again, it's going to be a problem. The only Christmas gift that anybody that is an Eagles player is gonna get from me.
SPEAKER_01:From me is Madden 26. Featuring Saquon on the cover.
SPEAKER_02:Y'all go ahead and figure that shit the fuck out. Figure out what players you need to be calling. Every single player would get one. Everyone, everyone, y'all can watch Saquon do the hurdle every single time, and y'all sit up there and y'all figure out how that can happen again. That's the gift that I would be giving to them. My broke ass will find a way for every single Eagles player on that roster to get Madden 26 so that way they can figure out what play costs they actually use legally. This is enough. I've had it. This Darkness retreat was not necessary. This Darkness retreat did not have to happen, but yet the offense has been so ass, it's been so cheats that I have been put in this spot. I've had enough. It's enough.
SPEAKER_03:It's enough. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Our teams have sucked here lately. We have our teams have sucked. Our teams have sucked. And I feel the same way you do when it comes to our play calling. I'm like, why in the hell they call that play? Why'd they do this play? Why'd they do that play? Oh my god, why wh why'd you take him out the game? Hey, but I guess those guys get paid a lot more the big bucks than what we do, right? They do. But they make a lot of dumb decisions. A lot of dumb ones. A lot of dumb ones. Because when you figure three and out, three and out, three and out, three and out, that's not that's not the recipe. Because you can't be giving teams multiple chances. Because they know they can keep you on the goddamn field. If they can keep your quarterback off the field, they're gonna win the game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yes, y'all. Team sucks. Big time. Wait a minute, y'all. Wait a minute, y'all. You is at the top forefront.
SPEAKER_02:Tish. Tish. We got a future. That's the one thing I won't say about this team. We got a future. I may not like it, but we got a future. Y'all can't say the same. Y'all can't say the same. Y'all literally have a whole roster residing in a retirement home. Be serious. Be serious. Oh my God. Hilarious. The only thing that sucks is the staff that works in that retirement home. Because apparently, whatever y'all are doing behind the scenes, it ain't working. Somebody's benefits is not working. Somebody is not doing their job. There's been a couple people that's already been fired. Y'all already waived somebody so bad that the next team that they went to, he decided, you know what? I might have to rethink this whole football thing. That's how bad your establishment has been this season. So please, please, be serious.
SPEAKER_05:We talking about them birds. Be serious. Don't gas up me. The birds are gonna be fine. Don't don't don't don't mistake me for a fool. No way.
SPEAKER_03:I gotta, I, I, I, I, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get bring my blood, my man's blood pressure down. Oh fun! Here's the thing. Here's the thing. This season has not gone the way anyone has thought. If it's anyone that needs to be really mad, it's goddamn Vegas. Because Vegas, Vegas didn't predict this one. No, not at all. Vegas didn't predict this one. That you would think that the Chicago Bears would be number one in the whole conference. Wait, that the Indianapolis Colts would have had the start they had with Daniel Jones. Oh, right?
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. I almost forgot about them. Can we talk about this whole little issue they got going on?
SPEAKER_03:Absolutely. Absolutely. Their downfall started up in Pittsburgh. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:You can have that. I don't want to discuss the elephant in the room with the Indianapolis Colts today. Oh, yes. I need y'all to understand. For those of you who are watching this, the Indianapolis Colts are starting Daniel Jones. We all understand that. That's been the case all year. Okay, fine. Here's what y'all don't know. Or if y'all do know, great. If y'all don't, let me let y'all in on a little something. Two to three weeks ago, a report came out, and yes, it has been confirmed already, that this man, Daniel Jones, has a broken leg. I'm gonna say it again. Daniel Jones is starting as a quarterback in the NFL with a broken leg. And they decide to keep starting him. And I don't even want to hear what he had to say this week. Apparently, he got some friends from Duke that that have the they have this 3D printing uh brace or sleeve to put on his leg so that way his leg stays intact. Bullshit.
SPEAKER_00:You as an organization are putting a guy who has a broken leg out there week in to weekend.
SPEAKER_02:What's the big problem is back? And Anthony Richardson, y'all must think the worst of him. Because basically, what y'all have said to the public, to me, to Damon, anyone who has ears to listen, that we have a better chance of winning a football game with a quarterback that has a broken leg than someone who has two. Are you serious? Are you serious? Be serious. You mean to tell me with a straight face, you have more confidence in a quarterback that is playing on one leg that can snap off of any step. You have more confidence and more faith in him playing quarterback for your team than someone that has two healthy legs. That's a problem. Yeah, yeah, they do. That's a problem. And they're still starting him, by the way. They're still starting him.
unknown:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, yes, yes. And look, I ain't trying to be funny. I I I wish that this isn't the case, but Anthony Richardson, my boy, let me tell you something, dog. Um, mm-mm. Your career is done, buddy. I I not not not not indie. Not not indie. You you cannot be there. No, sir. No, no way. I I don't know who takes you, I don't know who picks you up, but no, sir. No, no way. Mm-mm. Indy is not it. Because it basically said, you are so bad that we'd rather have somebody play out there with a broken leg than you're an accurate ass. That's basically what they said. And that is a shame. Terrible. That's terrible. That's a shame. That's terrible. That's the Colts. That's one of the teams that have a good record in the AFC. Yeah, exactly. That team. Yeah, exactly. And the Broncos, don't even get me started with Denver because I can't stand Denver, but yet they're 10-2 today. And you were there. You were there.
SPEAKER_03:They almost lost that game. They almost lost that game. Almost lost that game. Almost lost that game. And I had to be out there on Sunday night football. I had to work that game. Sunday night football. I'm out here in this cold, right? For a game that went into overtime. Went into overtime. I was like, you got to be kidding me. Of all nights, decide y'all want to play. Y'all both want to give each other the business. Y'all go in the overtime. So now I gotta stay here longer and deal with this. Because now no one's leaving. Right? Generally, people might start skating out or whatever, but no one's leaving. They're all staying there because this game done went into overtime. Now, I love the new overtime rules because of the simple fact that at least both of you get a chance to possess the ball. So right? Denver goes down the damn field. Touchdown. Oh, I said this game probably gonna be over. What Washington do? Come on back down the field. Oh, yeah, we got it, buddy. Ooh, touchdown. Oh, we're going for two. I said, Oh man, here we go. Here we go. I was like, this place's gonna go crazy if Washington pulls this game off, right? What happens? Gets pressured, the guy was wide open. He would he would have walked in there, no one was near him, but the gone ball got batted down. And I was like, Oh my goodness. So for the price of admission, that was a damn good game by Washington. I had I I I give him all the props in the world with Mariota. Mariota, let's say this again. Not Jalen, but Marcus. Who are they talking about? They're bringing Jalen back next week.
SPEAKER_02:Uh yeah, yeah, Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, like he didn't have one of the worst. See, this is what I don't I don't get it. I don't get it. Your season is over.
SPEAKER_03:Had a dislocated elbow. Your season is over. You're not gonna make the playoffs. Your last two games, your last two home games is against Philly and Dallas. You're not gonna win even one of those games. I'm just calling the spade a spade right now. Your season is over. It's no reason to put your your franchise out there on that field. No reason. Mario, you're finishing out the season. Yeah, seriously. And and then they was already announced that they have an overseas game next year. Is it really? I can't win for losing. Oh boy. Can't win for losing.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I can't win for losing. I can't win for loser. Okay. But so uh a hell of a performance by Washington. I I give it to him. Hell of a because I didn't think that game was gonna be close at all. But it was. It was so hell of a performance by Washington. I give you much props on that. But um if they would have won that game, oh, it would have been crazy around here. Crazy that y'all had me go into overtime to work to get me home later. Yeah, I wasn't happy about that. I wasn't happy about that. But no, go ahead. What you what you gonna say?
SPEAKER_02:No, so Denver, okay, almost lost to that team. Let me know if you heard that one before. Okay? They're 10 and 2. Be serious. Right. Okay. Right. That's your AFC. We just saw the Rams lose to the Panthers in a in a shootout, might I add. Which I absolutely Okay. Chicago is winning by the skinning their teeth with an inaccurate quarterback, which I didn't think was possible. Philly is gross. The Panthers, I guess, are leading the division right now. If I'm not mistaken. Okay? Yep. Uh yeah. Yeah. Um when's the last time that they have uh been on top of the NFC South? Oh, uh, I'm gonna let you in a little secret. Um how about 2015 when Cam won MVP and they went to the Super Bowl? That's the last time. The last last that is the last time they have been on top of the division.
SPEAKER_03:The Panthers. The Panthers, and who did and and and and right on right honestly, who'd they lose to? The Broncos.
SPEAKER_02:The Broncos.
SPEAKER_03:The Broncos.
SPEAKER_02:See what I mean? So please understand my frustrations are valid by default anyway, but with the context that I'm providing to y'all, y'all understand that this is obnoxious. Okay, now certain things are are are unforeseen. I didn't I didn't see the Ravens starting the year one and five, okay. I I didn't see that. I didn't see the the the Chiefs be six and six going into Thanksgiving or whatever their record was. I didn't see that, okay. But come on, like are we serious? So even the good teams we had to have questions about because Drake May in the Patriots, who by the way, I think this is so fucking stupid. Out of all the nicknames you could possibly give a quarterback, the nickname that you have for him is his own name. Really? How unique? How unique? Drake, Drake May, May. Are we serious? Are we that's his nickname? Yep, that's his nickname. Okay, the Patriots. I I'm gonna say the top teams, okay? The Patriots, the Bears. What? Okay Rams, Colts? No, I'm sorry. Rams, Broncos, okay, right? Philly, Colts. Panthers and what what what are we doing? What are what is this? What kind of football are we watching right now? What are we doing?
SPEAKER_03:No one knows. And and and then just the thing, when these games happen on Sunday, stuff gonna shift around again. Stuff gonna shift around again because we got two hard games with the Patriots and um who else we gotta play? Who's the other hard team? Um, Patriots and someone else. That's that's th those games ain't gonna be easy.
unknown:Right?
SPEAKER_03:Y'all play did y'all play Tampa already? I don't think we played them this year.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so not Tampa.
SPEAKER_03:But it's somebody else.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm about to tell you because our schedule does not get easier. Right. So after the Steelers, we have to play the Bengals again, right? Then after that, we go play the Patriots. Right? Then we got the Packers in Green Bay, right?
SPEAKER_02:Then we end with the Steelers. Oh, that Packers and Lambeau is not pretty.
SPEAKER_03:But you see, uh here's the here's the thing after the Steelers play us, they go play Detroit.
SPEAKER_02:Which have something to play for. They have something to play for.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so that's right. The thing of it is that this is not an easy stretch going down. That's why those games in the beginning of the season was very, very important. Very, very important. Try to knock them off. That we lost the teams that we had no business losing to. Now we're getting down to a stretch that every game is important. Every game is important. Yep. So every game's a playoff game. Every game's a playoff game. Every game's a player game. Yep. Every game is a playoff game. So oh my god. I think we've done enough ranting for tonight.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you know what? I'm not done. Because we got my favorite segment, and and I and I think I I have one that that's gonna call for it's gonna call for it again. It's gonna call it again.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah, go for it.
SPEAKER_02:Cause I got one that you're gonna love. Well, go ahead. Okay. Now, obviously, the Minnesota Vikings have had a season from hell given the fact that their quarterback that they decide they decided to invest a top 15 pick in doesn't know how to throw football, apparently. Terrible stuff. The brown bag it goes back to the quarterback that played in place of him on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. This guy went 19 of 30 and threw four picks, two of them were pick sixes, and he had more completions to the Seattle Seahawk defense than Justin Jefferson. In that same game where the Vikings defense held Sam Darnold under 200 yards passing and Jackson Smith Ninjigba under 80 yards receiving. And yet the final score was 26 to zero. Be serious. Be serious. And if I am in that if I'm in that Vikings organization, I'm ashamed because I am watching Sam Darnold, the guy we could have paid money to, by the way, that Seattle had no problem paying. That guy, who didn't even have a great game by the standards that he set this season, did not have a great game, and yet still shut y'all out 26 to nothing. That guy could have been your quarterback for this season. And y'all don't have him. Instead, y'all have a quarterback in JJ McCarthy that can't throw over five yards without it being picked off, let alone get a handoff right without it being fumbled. Y'all have a backup quarterback that is acting like he's Will Levis 2.0, and the only time he gets the ball out of his hands is if he's throwing it to the other team more than three times. He's acting like he's never played football before. It's almost like he shouldn't have been playing quarterback. It looked like he should have been in the UFL somewhere. That's how bad it was. Okay? I was shocked he was able to get 19 to 30. It was that bad. So the brown bag alone is gonna go by it. I don't even know the name of this of this guy. I really don't. It was that bad. I don't even know his name. I'm gonna just call him no name for the sake of this segment. The no-name quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings on this past Sunday, you, sir, get a brown bag because you clearly need to know that the only way you get a completion is if you throw it to your teammates. That's the only time it causes a completion. It does not count if you are throwing it to the other team for a touchdown. He threw more touchdowns to the Seahawks than he threw for the Vikings. Oh, hilarious. Hilarious. No way. No way. That's a brown bag within itself. You know what? I'm gonna even do a little bit different. We we we we we're in the Christmas spirit. I'm a little bit festive. This is a grunt, this is a grinchy brown bag, okay? You get to hold this one because I I I don't care if this looks like it's a it's it's a Halloween. Forget about it. Don't pay attention to what's on here, okay? It's a Grinchy brown bag, and he deserves it. Because ain't no way you can be that inaccurate, but yet so accurate to the other team. Ain't no way.
SPEAKER_03:Be serious. I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you, I got you for this one. I got you, I got you. So, we talked about this earlier in the show. Everything say his name, and he might appear. And we don't say his name on the show. His name was said twice on this show. We're not doing the Beetlejuice special at all. So, this is a dual brown bag. NBC and the guy we're not gonna mention, JG. We're not gonna mention his name. They're both getting brown bags because NBC number one, you're airing this guy that has no kind of personality, none whatsoever. You let the man do commentation on Thanksgiving at a Ravens game where we got shellacked by the Bengals. Okay, no big deal. We'll we'll see him again in about another week or so. But we got shellack, and you put this man on national TV to say one or two words. That's it. And you had my man calling me in distress, you know something? I'm not watching this game because of him. So, NBC, you need to get yourself together because putting this man on TV is not TV. You know something? I would prefer for Maria Taylor to do commentary than him. Okay. She would have done it, she would have known. Probably would have knocked it out the park. I would have preferred that than preferring him. On our national TV to end our Thanksgiving. That ended our Thanksgiving. Just about that you had all this good food that you ate. And you're sitting there and you're watching the games. You watch Dallas take down Kansas City. You watch Detroit lose like they always do on Thanksgiving. Which so you know you're doing all this, and then all of a sudden you get to that game, and like he's commentating. You know something? I quit. I quit. And this guy got to commentate the game, okay? So NBC and the guy's name we don't mention. Y'all both get brown bags. Matter of fact, give me an address, I will mail it to you, okay? I'll mail y'all both some brown bags.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay. Have another one. You know, usually we talk about teams having bad games. We talk about players who individually had a bad game. I'm gonna talk about a player who had a bad moment. Monday night, we watched the New York football giants and the New England Patriots play each other. And when the game was 17-7, with the opportunity for the Giants to make it a one-score game, their kicker and young Wake Yeah, I guess I can't say this name without getting it censored. Okay. Young Young Hoku, okay. Hope I said it right without me getting uh blacklisted. Okay, he who has already been shipped around the league so many times because he couldn't already kick a football in Atlanta. He is lining up to kick a field goal to trim the lead down to a single possession score for the Giants. It's a 46-yard field goal, so it's a little, you know, it's a little bit, you know, a little ways away, but not too far. And this man proceeded to line himself up and run and to hit the field so hard with his foot that it didn't kick the ball at all. I need y'all to understand that. It's a field goal where literally the the heebie jeebies of somebody coming off the edge to block it off is is slim to none. And this guy proceeded to do his own version of a fake kick by kicking the ground instead of the football. Hung young Hoku, you sir, bro. I don't know if you still have a roster spot, but if you don't, it's understandable. Because off of that moment alone, that is the biggest brown bag I have done since Tua. Okay, this man ran up and Shannon Sharp said this, and and and and I can't unsee it now. He said, I haven't seen anything like this since Charlie Brown. And then Charlie Brown trying to figure out what he was talking about. And then I said, Oh, that are you talking about the part where the for those of you who who acting like I don't know what I'm talking about, there is a there is an episode where they're playing football and they're rolling the football to Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown is running. He's getting ready to kick the ball. And literally, he missed the ball so bad, he did a front flip. He did a front flip, it's a cartoon, but he did a front flip. And then to see that on full display, all these years later, with a real human being to not kick a football as a kicker.
SPEAKER_03:As a kicker. It's your only job. Your only job.
SPEAKER_02:You don't get signed for nothing else. You don't get signed for nothing else, and that is what you had on display for the whole world to see. You sir, young hoku, you're saying his name is so funny. Young Hoku, you sir, get a brown bag, not for your foot acting like a hoe, but literally everything else preceding that, your whole career for the most part has been a little hoe-ish. So that being said, you get a brown bag off of that alone, sir. That alone.
SPEAKER_04:That was ridiculous. Hilarious. Hilarious. I'm out of bags this week. You're out of bags? I'm out of bags.
SPEAKER_02:Do I have another one? I do have another one. Let's go, let's go to Washington, D.C. And let's also, I'm gonna do a two-team on this one. Let's go to Washington, D.C. and let's go to Indianapolis. Two organizations that would rather have people who are dealing with injuries to start for them than the backups that is behind it. Now you know you're wrong for that. You know you wrong for that. Yes, absolutely. And you know what? For for Jaden Daniels and Daniel Jones alike, all I all I'm gonna do in this darkness retreat is they are blessed me. I'm trying to tell you, they bless me, y'all. For y'all, I'm gonna just I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna pour I'm gonna pour one out for y'all, cuz y'all should not be out there. Y'all should not be out there, and y'all gonna be out there, and y'all gonna get hit, and y'all gonna get hit again and again and again.
SPEAKER_04:And listen, listen, listen. That's sad.
SPEAKER_02:That's so sad. That's so sad. I'm just I'm I'm and look, I'm pouring, I'm pouring one out for y'all. That that's it. That's it. That's it. That's all I got. I I think I think I am, I think everybody else I have dedicated a lot of time and effort and energy into. And um it's not enough energy because I'm still in the darkness retreat. So the the lights aren't on. I don't even know how I'm having connection with you right now, but I think I I think I got that out the way. I think I got everybody I need to get out the way, and and and and and that'll be that. I got you. I got you. No, no, no, no. The lights don't work in the darkness retreat. I appreciate you, but they don't work. Shout out to my shout out to my girlfriend Terika behind the scenes trying to trying to make life a little easier for me, trying to shine some light. No, trying to shine.
SPEAKER_04:We think each of every last one of you.
SPEAKER_02:You win all those games, yeah. You you win all those games in a row, yeah. You better have a light on. We we can't say the same. We can't say the same. So our lights aren't working over here. But the darkness retreat is cool, by the way. Five stars, five stars. I fully recommend y'all should try it. Just putting that out there, y'all should try it. They hey, they take good care of you now. They take good care of you now.
SPEAKER_03:Right, yeah. We thank each and every last one of you, each and every last one of you for stopping in your comments. Uh, tick tock, I just integrated you in also. Uh, I think each and every last one of you again. Live podcast on Sunday for the Raven Steelers game. We're going live at noon and we're going all the way through the game. So we're gonna have all the emotions. Anybody want to come talk about it? It's gonna be live, live stream. We are gonna have so much fun. If you're in Baltimore, 647 West Pratt Street, that's where the location is. Hey, Steelers, Ravens fans, come pour in there. We want all the energy and I want all the smoke. Because once the dust clears, Pittsburgh leaving up out of here with a loss. No ifs, no ands, no buts. I'm a big man, I'm gonna be live. So if we do lose, I'm willing to crow sandwich, but it ain't gonna happen. I'm just letting you know right now. They're leaving, and then y'all gotta go play Detroit. Not looking good for y'all.
SPEAKER_02:They gotta fix up that retirement home first now. Come on, they they look, they gotta go, they gotta go deal with that retirement home first. Let them figure that out.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, ain't no butts, ain't no butts involved. Ain't no butts again. We're gonna catch you either Tuesday or Friday. One of them two days ready to catch you, and we're gonna do this whole recap of the week. One of the days, Tuesday or Friday, somebody gonna be crying on Tuesday or Friday. Won't be me. I'm just saying, it won't be me at all. Won't be us.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my goodness. We thank you.
SPEAKER_07:We'll see you next week.
