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SPEAKER_00 0:21

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Bunk and Pick podcast. Pick here with Bunk. We are on an allergy-filled. Allergy-filled podcast today. Holy buckets of cedar fever bad right now. We are. If you don't know what cedar fever is, come to Texas. Come to Austin. Come to Austin, Texas. Brutal. The suburbs of Austin, Texas. It's just been so hot lately. You see the haze of yellow in the air. Purple haze. I like to call it. Remember that song? Purple Haze, all through my man. Yeah. That was uh Jimi Hendrix. I'm well aware. For you youngsters out there. I know it was. All right. Thank you for that. Just musical education by Bunk. I know. Bunk, how are you? I'm doing great. Um, I was gonna ask, do you have any superpowers, Pick? I think my super I think my superpower is being able to put up with you without strangling you. I personally have a superpower. Can you show everyone your superpower? I can freeze. Oh my god. Can't even figure it out. Time with my camera. I can freeze time. You have that pretty cool stocking stuffer. Uh Mrs. B got it for me. Absolutely. Is that one of those? Well, I don't know if my wife is listening, so I'll stop. I think I would hold it right there, sir. One of those shirts you you're obligated to wear once a month. Oh no, I actually love it. I wear it all the time. Actually, she keeps telling me. Obligatory one once a month gift. Unbeknownst to you. I it was worn yesterday at the uh wrestling match. Well, you've had a jacket on. Yeah, but I was happy to take it. I like the shirt. I'd wear it anywhere. I'm glad you like it then. That and my Fleurville Little League from 1990. 98. Cut-off sleeves now. Cut-off sleeves. I don't know if I still have that. Oh, it's in a box, so you know you know it's in a box. It did get thrown away. I wore that first. That would never get thrown away. That's gonna get one of us is gonna get that passed down to you're gonna look on the back and see whose name is on it. And that's who's gonna get it. I think it was Greg. No, I don't think it was Greg. No? I think it was Gary, because I wasn't the head coach. I think it was I was the uh I don't think I was head coach on that one. Oh boy. I don't I can't remember actually. Anyway, it was a long time ago. Oh boy. Long time ago, pick. Very long ago. Hey, I got uh a movie for you since I know you're quite the movie buffer. You know me. I have so much time on my hand to watch a movie. All right, you ready on this one? Is it the bone the bone collector? No better, better, better. Ready? I think it's on Netflix. The Toxic Avenger. With Peter Dinklage. Oh my god, what is it? He's the Toxic Avenger. Don't you don't know The Toxic Avenger? From Days of Lore? It was an old comic book. Old show. He falls in a vat of uh toxic material and becomes the toxic avenger. Oh, it came out two years ago. Well, it just came out on Netflix, sir. Why does he look like a little like toxic material? Oh my lord, I'm just uh Toxic Avenger unrated. The hero we need now. It is unrated because it it's it's campy. It's got Kevin Bacon in it. Oh boy. Yeah, Kevin Bacon. Um the guy who loses who's the guy who loses Nos Elijah Wood. Elijah Wood is in it. It's friggin' hilarious. But he carries uh his weapon is a mop that's uh got all the uh toxic stuff in it. And it hits him like if he hit like you, so let's say you were standing there and pissing him off. If he hit you with the mop in the face, your whole jaw would disappear. And you'd be standing there with half a face. It's the best movie ever. I'm gonna run home and really get on that for you. You gotta watch it, man. It's good, it's good stuff. Will it get rid of my allergies? It will because uh you'll laugh and you won't cry. Only laugh. It's very good.

unknown 4:24

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Hold on. Rewind. It'll get rid of my allergies because I'll laugh and not cry. Yes, that's why. If you cry, you'll have tears and you know, all that kind of stuff. Nope. I need you to talk your way out of it. I have no idea. But anyway, it's worth watching, man. I'm just saying. I'll put it on the list. All right, put it on the list. You can do other stuff while you're watching it. It's not like you have to be like intently watching. It's hard, it's hard when you when you give me movie recommendations because my friggin' recommendations. Wild hogs. It always boils down to wild hogs. Love wild hogs. Terrible movie. You're kidding me. It's unbelievably bad. Wild Hog movie. The one of the best. Yeah. Look at that cast. Tell me that's not good stuff. They were all 60 when they were in there. They weren't. That's great. That's an awesome movie, man. I've watched, I tell you what, I've watched that several times. I'm sure how many times this year already, January. In January. Are you once a month or? And I we were on vacation. I even actually went through the town that it was supposed to be in. I think it was in that little town in like Arizona or something. Question. Yes. Did you purposely detour just to see for wild hogs? I'm gonna go ahead and write your fan mail to Tim Allen. Alright, you guys don't like that. You didn't like that show I told y'all about with Kathy Bates when she was growing marijuana, and uh that was a stupid show. Yeah, it is a really tough show. And then you tell me you gotta watch this Welsh show that I can't pronounce. You don't even know what it's called. Nah, it's in Welsh. And it was only one season, then you gotta unlock it and pay for season two. I'm not gonna do it. It's not good enough to pay for it, huh? Well, it's on some like MHZ channel. I don't even know what it is. Oh my god. No. But it was fun while live. It's like the Samsung channels when you turn the TV on, but not the actual cable box. Um could be. The antenna. My new thing, my new thing is Bollywood. I'm a Bollywood guy now. Oh God. I love watching the Bollywood movies. A lot of good action, a lot of slow motion. There's it's it's so bad. It's like I like it. It's like Microsoft clip art. It it is actually. It is actually. I'm just telling you, I like it. I'm liking it. You know, I'm okay with you liking it. Okay. I appreciate it. I'm not gonna watch it. Toxic Avenger, hit that one. I'll take that one up. I'll put it on my I'll think about it list. All right. I think you hit that one up. Yeah, you'll be a happy camper. You'll be happy and be texting later. Wow. Thank you for that. That's what we're gonna say. Well, I'm glad we hit a positive note, but now we gotta hear some negative things. Gripes, give me a gripe. Oh, god, gripe cracker. Okay, I'm still pissed the Yankees haven't signed anybody. I mean, I knew that was coming. I know it's always a Yankee thing with me. Um, looks like Ballinger's not coming. He wants too much money. I don't know who do we play left field. We can't put Demartian out there. That dude sucks. I'm sorry. He's a trade, he's gotta be a trade bait. Demartian. He's not gonna be. He's not gonna be. Who's gonna pick him up? Um I don't know. His baseball cards still go for a lot. He absolutely has not panned out yet. Yeah, because he's still young. He could. He is, but they haven't they've not been active, and I don't understand it. These guys are coming off the board. I mean, we're what are we doing? I mean, the Diamondbacks made a big splash in the US. Well, okay, let's sit on baseball here. We've got let's start with baseball. Let's we've got it is a good gripe. I did have a gripe too, but I'll get to it at another time. Let's stick on baseball here. Alright, let's do it. Okay. The Yankees are sitting on their hands. The Diamondbacks just went and got a very good third baseman. They got Arenata for nothing because his salary's being paid by 31 mil bucks by St. Louis. It's a good pickup. That's a great deal. Yeah. That is a great deal. That is good. You've got that, you've got the Pirates still making smaller moves now. They're still doing stuff. I like it. You've got the Mets trying to make splash moves. Oh my god, Mets anymore. How do you turn down? They don't want to play for anything. 50 million a year was offered to Tucker. I I don't well, for three years, though, right? Yeah, it was a short-term contract. It's only a shit poor bastard, only 150. Oh, only 150. You can't support his lifestyle like that, man. Come on. God, I'm over here rattling a tin can on the road for money and he's turning down 150 million dollars. He's definitely not going back to the Cubs now. With them signing Bregman. And they signed Bregman. That was a good. I was really hoping we got Bregman at the Yankees. Good, he would have been a you already have a third baseman. No, we have no third baseman. But he's locked in. You had you do because you traded for him. He's locked in. I like him, and he's like a good, seems like a nice guy. His right-hander's great. He cannot touch the left-hander. He bats about 220. That's his average. He has a tough time with the lefties. Brian McMahon. So they're gonna their grand plan here, uh just from the outside looking in and what they've done, they're going to platoon him with Ahmed Rosario at third base. So that takes the average to 220, 25, 225, maybe. What do they do in left field? That means Martian is your left fielder now. I don't know, man. There's nobody else out there. They gotta, I mean, who else is there's nobody uh on the free agent and they're not going to be able to do that. No, you're gonna have to make trades now, and you they do not want to trade that shortstop in the system. But if they're gonna hold on to Volpe. They are holding on to Volpe. They're holding on to Volpe. If you're gonna do that and it's the Yankees and you need somebody in the outfield to only make that move. The only other big guy out there is Bichette right now. And the Yankees are talking to him. They are. He could play third. Or he could he could start it second short. He could play third, he could start it short till the Vulpinator gets better, move to second, and then when the Vulpinator shits the bed halfway through the season, they can move back. Doesn't come back. No, they got the Where's LeMayhew play? Oh, he's gone. He is gone, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, we got um the other guy's second base. Son of a biscotti. Who the hell is that? You've got all sorts of guys. It's it is wild to see a Yankees roster in flux like this. You know, I'm bad at names, man. You ever notice that? Yeah, you're horrible with names. You've always been bad with names. That's why you make up names for people. I could we got a second baseman. We need a third baseman. I could sit here and tell you somebody like somebody's name is Dave, and in three seconds you're gonna Dale? Dale? Who are you talking about? Dale? My favorite. I just call her by Jimmy. Little Jimmy, big Jimmy. Yes, you do Jimmy from down the road. And then you smoke a couple Jimmies. Smoke some Jimmies. The smoking jimmy Jimmy's smoking a Jimmy.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Ah shit.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

It is surprising to see them not. I would I thought they would be more active because how last year ended. I thought they'd be more active. They sign like three third-tier guys. I mean, that aren't I mean, I get it they're signing like bulk, but no uh they need a left fielder. They have to have another outfielder. I don't know who that is, but they're somebody what about the bullpen? I mean, they need well, okay, they need bullpen. Starting pitching, guys are not even gonna be ready for the beginning of the year. So they're not coles. He's like he's got a while in May or June or some shit. It's okay. So back into the bullpen. Who's closing for him this year? Uh Bednar. You think it'll be Bednar the whole year, though? Oh, yeah, yeah. You better hope he? Yeah, Betty. Betty's good. You better hope. I like the Bednarion. Just like you like just like you like that outfielder. What was his name? Doogie. Alex Verdugo. He never went anywhere last year, did he? And then he left the team. I hate him. He sucks. They start talking shit about him, man.

unknown 12:19

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

They leave and talk shit, they're gone. You absolutely love yourself that new uh Boston signing, don't you, bitcher? Sonny Gray. Yeah, yeah. He's a jerk. Good riddance. You're so riled about it. They really are not making much moves. They're not, and there's no I mean, they are literally running out of people. Like free agents. Now, they can obviously they can do some trades, but I mean, who do they gonna who do they have? What they don't have a lot of trade capital. They got Ryan Weathers for prospects. They had to give up four pretty good prospects for him. So he's he's okay, but he's not like a an A-list guy. I mean, he had a 399 last year. Well he's gonna get hit. He's gonna get hit. But he has a ton of strikeouts. Well, we'll you know, these guys I mean a strikeout and innings are pretty damn good. They come to New York and they're either there's no middle of the road for him. They're either excel and can do it, or they fall apart like one Sonny Gray that we just spoke about. That's true. Who sucked in New York, by the way? I don't know. I I just it is surprising to see the Yankees not make any splash. And I wonder, I do wonder if these teams, because overall you're not seeing it's not even close to what we saw last year in the offseason. So I wonder if the new the CBA talk after this year is hampering a lot of those. It might be. Because why would you lock in money and then have because you're still gonna have to pay them next year if the lockout happens. You do. It's a lot of money, though. It's a lot of money. You know what what you don't hear about? Like, what about like Goldsmith? I mean, I mean, he's still got what two years, one year on that contract. He's a free agent. Is he? Yeah, he didn't get re-signed. He was on a one-year contract. Well, yeah, the player, I thought they picked up that option. No, they didn't pick him up. I mean, there's guys like that that'll be late signees, I think. But he can help somebody. He's gonna absolutely help somebody. I mean, if Tampa moved Yandy for prospects, Goldschmidt would fit real well in that lineup. I mean, I think the Yankees are gonna use that they got they're Ben Rice is your favorite. Ben Rice. And they could upgrade at Catcher. What are the what are the Orioles doing at Catcher? They have the number one prospect, and then they have Rushman. Rushman's there. I know, but and the thought, well, remember, the thought was okay, maybe try Rushman out at first, but they just signed Pete Alonzo. So that's not happening now. So what does he move into the DH roll? If you want that prospect to play, you move him to the DH roll. They just they're loaded at catcher because I like I like Rushman. He'd be a good upgrade for somebody. Do not give up on Rushman. No, I don't. Career-wise. Same with pinstripes on, my friend. I don't think he will. He might be a penny. I think he'll go west. He'll be a penny. You watch. We're upgrading, baby. Austin Wells is one of the better catchers in the league. He, I know, he's so hot and cold on the friggin' hitting, no, man. Right, but okay. Name better. Name name me better. Oh god. Name me better, sir. Name you better, sir! Good sir. Son of a bitch. Name me the catchers are better. Dumper. Gotta put him up there. You gotta put Dumpy up there. Contreras. William Contreras. Contreras is better. Um guy from the Phillies that's in the in the uh portal. He's in the portal. Is he is JT Real Muto better though? In the portal. Oh my god. The free agency portal. Okay. So you think Real Muto's better? Um I do actually. I think he's more consistent. I think at this point where their careers are at, I think I would still take Wells over. They're keeping it. At this point. Wells is the guy. I get it. He just needs to hit better. Okay. That's three. Who else? I don't know. You think Rushman's better? Oh, yeah, I do, absolutely. I like Rushman. I've always liked him. I like him. Okay. Good kid. Good people. That's good people. How sad pictures? I honestly think the Oh Will Smith is probably one or two on that list. Yeah, not the actor. The catcher. Yeah. Not the slapper. Yeah, not the slapper. The catcher. He might be a slapper. Who knows? The slapper that wasn't on the golden globes. How about that? The non-Golden Globes Globes. I don't know. Yeah, I don't think they're looking for a catcher. I get that. They need a third, I'm selling you. They need a third baseman and left fielder. We're all set. Ready to go. World Series, baby. They're not gonna get a third. They're not gonna go get a third baseman. I think they signed Bichette. Okay, but you put him at second. No, no, no. You can't put him at second. Why? Because the other guy's there. God dang him. Give me a name. Son of a biscotti burger, you. What the hell is his name? Come on, man. Help an old man out. I'm we're testing. It's good for your memory. It's not good. I didn't take my uh it is. I didn't take my garlic pill this morning. It's a music that you really like. I didn't take my chisel. I didn't take my garlic pill this morning. Oh my god. Jazz is at second. Yeah, but you could play. He could go to third. You could and he could go to the outfield. Um, I don't think he's ever played the outfield. He did play third, though. He's played the outfield. Alright, well. I think I I'm gonna here's my prediction. They signed Bachet. That's my prediction. They're gonna have to give him a pretty big contract. I will say this. I will tell you somebody that signed a bunch of people is freaking Toronto. Yes, they are. They're they're gonna be hard to beat. They are loading up. They are gonna be really, really hard to beat next year. I think. I mean, but here's the thing. It they could they could fall flat on their face with it too. It's a lot of boomer bust guys. They could, and people get hurt in the changes in baseball, but just like if I look at their roster and what they've signed, they're they've done well. And yeah, I don't think they're done. They seem to be they probably have the best offseason so far. What if they get the Tucker Nader? I'm not a fan of Tucker, I gotta be honest, dude. He hits the shit out of the ball when he has protection in the lineup. Not 50 million a year protection. I mean fucking hitting. No, that's crazy. 50 million a year is crazy. He should have taken it and run it. Hell yeah, I would have taken it too. I would go wallow and this is his agent, though, man. Friggin' agent. Yeah. Boris, man. Buddhas. The dude. Okay. Well, I don't know if he's Russian or not, but he doesn't really need to do that. Oh boy. I know team. You know teams when they look at a player and go, oh, God, he's their agent. They know it's sucks. Oh, you know it's gonna be, yeah. You know that you you're they're not signing till the spring? No. Spring training starts. Brutal, man. Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Tampa's making a couple smaller moves. They've made a lot, they have made a lot of moves that are under the radar. We'll see how they're like wee bitty, wee lads. They're like little wee lads when they do make the moves. All right. Tell me that in July. We ladies. Tell me that in July when when they're in the hunt for the division and you're mad about and you're mad about it. But they make wee little and you get mad about it. I do get mad. They signed Cedric Mullins. Okay. That's a big signing for them. For them it is, but come on. What kind of market did he have? He didn't have a great year. I would fight that he had had a pretty good market. Yeah, could have been a Yank, I guess, maybe, huh? What? A good defensive center fielder? He is a good center fielder. I agree with you. That is that is an MO for Tampa, and he hits better than a lot of the other center fielders. I like the Mulinator. He's gonna be good there. We got the claw out in center field. What's his name? Yeah, I don't know what's the name. I'm not gonna tell you either. All right, let's keep this going. I'm gonna let you stew on that for a while. I'm so bad at names. In 45 minutes, you're gonna just remember the name yelling at me. I can sit here and tell you exactly what he looks like, how he hits with his stupid ass mustache and all that stuff. But I I I'm horrible at names, man. If I was on a like a name, this guy I'd be done, which is sad. Come on. Just just try. Trent Grisham. Yes, my boy. Just came to me, actually. I think the uh garlic pill kicked in. The garlic pill? What the fuck is this garlic pill you're talking about? Helps vitality. All right. Yep. That's about it from baseball. Nothing else. I mean, the Bregman move is probably the biggest move. The Cubs are. Cubs are looking good. I mean, we were talking about Pittsburgh, and the I I went and looked through what the Cubs are loading up. They are. They're going to be. They're spending money. I like it. Yeah, they're going to be very hard to beat in the central. I agree. I agree. Pittsburgh has tried to load up too. They could honestly could be a wildcard team next year if everything clicks. It'd be nice to see that. I would love to see that. Because that ownership does nothing for those guys. No. So it's good to see that they actually open the book a little bit. Yeah, I think I think the Cubs are going to be good. How do you with all these additions for the Angels on their pitching staff, which has always been the problem? Do you feel like they'll make a push for anything? Did they sign a manager yet?

unknown 21:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Who did they get? Do you remember? Yeah, they got they signed a first-time manager. Okay. Um love to see them do good. It's I I hate when teams are down for a long time. There's some teams I actually would prefer they were down for a long time. Talking to you, Boston Red Sox. Okay. Um here. We're gonna play. Oh god. Wait, it's Lavulo. No, it's not. Not Tony Lavulo. No, it is he was all right. Clue number one. Yes. He played catcher. Recently, recently, whoa, whoa, whoa. He played for a lot of different teams. Okay, okay. Did he play for Yankees? He started with the uh he started with the A's. I don't know if he played for the Yankees. Okay. Okay. Number two. Yes. He is an Asian man. Oh, it's Kurt Suzuki. Kurt Suzuki. There you go. There you go. Hey, look at that. Yes. I'm pretty damn, I'm pretty impressed with myself. That was pretty damn good. I think that's a good hire. I think that's a great hire. I think he's good. I I didn't think their last manager was a good hire. Ron Washington? Yeah. Not Washington. This guy's had a lot of problems in his career. I know. He I don't know, didn't understand the whole thought process around nothing against him. I don't like I didn't they needed a younger guy. He took he took the Rangers to the really far. But I think the Angels need somebody with a little more vigor. Vermin vigor, as we call it. I think Suzuki's a good hire. I'd like to see him do well. I don't think they will. They could. They're they did get pitching. I they did focus on pitching. They have netto back. They have trout, hopefully healthy. They honestly they're going to be pretty good hitting. They always are good hitting. Their pitching has always been the problem. I hope Trouty plays a full season. I if I was a betting man, I would slam the under on him. I would too. I would too. Which is sad because he's it's he's a great player, but he just can't stay on the field. Nope. For whatever reason. I know he'd probably disappointed too, but I don't know. I think he's constantly trying to carry a team. Well, maybe. Plus the restructure of Rendon and getting him off the books. That was massive. That was massive for them. Now he can go on vacation with his money.

unknown 23:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

Do what he really does. Doesn't have to have a job anymore. Hey, you know, the other thing, and I will say I'm a big fan of Clayton Kershaw. Like I love the guy. I think he's great, great for baseball. But I saw he was joining the uh Midsummer Classic there. USA team. Not quite sure. I think his time is. I'm hoping he's like more of a He already retired, didn't he? He did, but I'm kind of hoping he's like a uh like their raw-rah guy and not actually because he's getting a leap. Honorary No, he's taking a roster. He's on that, unless he's like a coaching role, he's taking a roster for him. You can double check me. I hope not. I know you will pick. But um, I'm not crazy about that move, man. Kershaw to represent USA and Classics. Yep. So um I don't I don't like that move. I don't know if I like that move either. I'm not really sure why he's doing that. Um he's gonna cap his hallworthy career. I don't know. Light just died. It happens. I like that. I like this little one. It's okay. We're good. Can't see you. So good lighting. We got good lighting. Oh, we got hell. Oh man, we've improved lighting friends. All right, we got we gotta get past baseball here, bunk. All right, let's go to uh can we go to the NFL and talk to you about please don't talk about them. Who? Who am I talking about? Uh the Jacksonville Jaguars. No, no, no. I was gonna start out with somebody else. Oh, you're probably talking about the new manager in New York. Yeah, one of my new favorite coaches. New head coach. New Harbaugh kid. Yeah, you fucking hated him last week. You like absolutely hated. You like dragged him for 10 minutes last week. Kind of enjoy it. I'm gonna I'm gonna like him and as a giant coach. Why would you take that job? Um if you're if you're between that and the Atlanta Falcons. I wouldn't take the Falcons job. Why? I I think he has a better deal with the uh Giants. I think they have next year they got a bunch of draft picks, not this year. They have a good quarterback, running back, receiver. Um and now he's kind of one of my favorite hogboss. You're a waffler, you know that fucking waffler over here. I think it's a great move. Waffling all over everybody. I think he's gonna take it. I think they're pretty sure. I think they're negotiating the money. It already is there. I love it. He yeah, he is going to be love it. And he will be out in three years, just like Dayball. Um, I think I will have to do Giants horribly run. Horribly run organization. He'll fix it. He's a hardbaugh. He's a hard bah man. Can't fix the organization. He can. He's a he's a good man. No. Good man now. Didn't like him with the reasons. He's a good man. What okay. Here's a fun here here's a hypothetical question for you. Jackson Dark gets hurt, whatever. Yeah. Lamar Jackson goes on the trading block. Oh man. Lamar Jackson ends up as a giant. I think I like him as a giant. I think I just don't look as well. You waffling SOB, man. You are a waffling SOB. I think I just don't like that. You're a flip flopper. I don't know. I don't know. You are a flip-flopper. He'd be a great giant. He goes in a free agency, he might uh maybe that's the plan. Oh my god. Imagine what that contract's gonna look like. Um he's gonna be like an o the Otani of football if he goes free agent. Uh yeah, I guess he would. He will make a shit ton of money. I think he would personally do better outside. I think he's well, yeah. You look at like the highest paid. So Dak is the highest paid quarterback right now, right? Yep. Lamar Jackson is better than Dak. He is better. He is better. I don't disagree with you. I'd like, hey, come to the Giants. Be one of my new favorite guys. Oh boy. You are a waffling SOB. I know. I know. Harbaugh's back in the good graces, baby. All right. I love me some Jim Harbaugh. Jim. John Harbaugh. Johnny. Johnny, sorry. Johnny H. Jim, you're dead to me. Yeah, he's kind of halfway dead. He just kind of didn't win. Rough game. Oh, dude. We gotta talk about the games. How I will say this incredible football was played. Some incredible games besides the last one. The last game was not. Yeah. The Texans defense is gross, how good they are. Yeah they they are, but Pittsburgh's anemic. They were anemic on Oscar. Oh man, Earthworm Jim looked rough. And now he's saying he's coming back. No, he's not coming back. Not because Tomlin's out. He's not coming back. Not to them. He didn't he signed a one-year contract. The turtle. I thought turtle would. He had, you know what? His defense gave him a lot of opportunities to win that game. Yeah. And they could not score. No. Not even actually, not could they not score, they they never even like came close out outside of the two field goals. I mean the Houston offense did nothing for until the fourth quarter. No, and that's gonna be a problem with them next round. It is gonna be a problem with them, but their defense is so freaking good. Defense is good. Well, let's talk about the uh the Chargers. They blew it. God, Herbert couldn't do anything either. But he was on He was running for his life. He got I think he got sacked like seven times. It was ugly. It was very that offensive line needs some help. They do. And that even when he has some time though, he he missed some guys. But when you're number one, he I think he was hurt anyway with his hand. The other thing is you're he's probably just constantly waiting to get hit. Holy shit. They they beat him up, man. The the Patriots are the real deal, man. They are the real deal. They might not make the Super Bowl. They are the real deal. They're building something quite powerful there. They are. They are. Uh Matthew Stafford just put that team on his back. Okay, why was that game close? What the hell? Carolina played a lot better than I thought. They did. All right. I if it was gonna be close, I thought the score would be low. But Carolina scored a lot of points. They did. Bryce, Bryce Young looked good. I think he rejuvenated himself. Well, he he he played himself into that option on his contract. They picked it up. Did they? Yep. Yeah. I mean, he did play well this year. It took three years to get there, but he he made it. Can we just stop for a say Puka Nakua is is gross how good he is. He's really good. He might be, yeah, he's probably the best wide receiver in the league. I think he is. I definitely think he's good. I know Jamar Chase is out there, Justin Jefferson. But I would take Puka over them. You do because you have to you have to factor in the quarterback. Yeah. And Puka's good, dude. He is really good. He's like half crazy. I think that's what helps. All of those guys are. All of those guys are. He's really good though. He catches everything. And he's not afraid to go over the middle. He's not trying to get hit. He's not a big guy either. Um, but man, he's really good. And you match him with Devontae Adams, who had just like just rejuvenated that career. Your word, rejuvenated. He did. He got rejuvenated after playing with the turtle last year. Oh well, anybody anybody that goes to the Jets's. Yeah, well, we'll talk about that. Yes, we will. And how about the Jacksonville Jaguars absolutely choking? They choked. How the fuck do you play 10 yards off the receivers? You know what? The last played good. Their defense killed it. They had a great defense all year. I know. I know. Trevor Lawrence had a great game. He did. They should have won that game. The defense let it go. That was oh my god. I was screaming at the TV. I know. Just play press coverage and put two safeties out there. I know. They outthink themselves, these guys. Play press coverage. I know. Jam him at the line. Don't like what how the Bills have struggled on offense all year this year. I know, but you could see it coming. You could. Josh Allen started hitting those passes over. But you're right. You got to contest them. And they they they blew some coverages. Holy shit. Really bad. Those are you can't. Wide open people down the field. And Josh Allen's not missing those guys. No. I mean, he's a top five quarterback, right? He's not missing that at all. They literally should have won that game. I mean, they really should have. Yeah, all credit to the Bills, Buffalo Bills. They're seven. They won. That's not the Bills are not a team that shh is gonna make a run. I don't think so. I just don't think their defense is good enough. So bad. Yeah. And Jacksonville absolutely crapped their pants. Uh I know. That was a winnable game, unfortunately. I was quite angry, my friend. I'm quite angry that game. The ocean was angry those days. Oh my god. All right. Uh 49ers Eagles. The Niners stepped up. Thank you, Niners. Yeah. Well, thank you, Niners, as well for all Philadelphia fans because Patula's finally gone. Patulli. Patula. That second half. Holy crap. Like how do you have that many? It doesn't matter what you call. Just get the ball to the playmakers. They were doing these long developing plays. The line hasn't held up for that. Can I ask you this though? How are you not running Derrick Henry every other play? Derrick Henry. No. Nope. Shit. Well, you're not playing because he's not uh not there. Rewind, rewind. He's a raven. You mean Saquon Barkley? Saquon Barkley. Well, son of a bitch. Strike one bunk. So I was going back to two weeks ago and I was like, how do you not pull? Yeah. Um, I meant Saquon. You gotta run him. I mean it worked so well in the first half. I know. I'm happy they lost. I mean, I know you are, but it just They shouldn't have. No. But they've been in like that's been their year, though. Let's be honest. That has been their year, and that's kind of what happens at the end of the day. Yes. I mean, it's not they didn't come into the playoffs like, oh, you know, big you know, they're gonna dominate. Every everybody had questions about them, especially on offense. Um I mean, you blow that game and you get two picks off of Purdy, you hold McCaffrey to 50 yards on the ground, but my God, they just torched that secondary. They did. How about that trick play? That was pretty good. That was a pretty nice now. Huge loss for San Francisco. Kittle's out. I know. But they played without Kittle the whole second half, right? Yeah. He is really good though. He is really good, but he's hurt a lot. He is hurt, but they have a lot of playmakers, and and Purdy's actually he's pretty calm and collected back there. Um I don't know. I think I think they're gonna do pretty darn good, to be honest with you. It's gonna be a good game against Seattle, though. Does this like that's kind of the first cracks we're seeing on the Eagles, right? Overall, they've been pretty solid. I know there's been locker room problems, but really how much that doesn't worry that much. Now we're starting to see some cracks. How much of the antics does that fan base put up with from that head coach if they keep losing? No. Yeah, they don't play that shit. Siriani. Well, what do they get in an argument on the sideline with their constantly getting an argument? AJ Brown during the game. I mean, I didn't even honestly, I don't even know what I was they had to play, Nettie showed it. It's like, I don't know, what's he jumping on his ass for? Nobody knows. All you do is piss the guy off. Yep. And he is literally he is now that guy, AJ Brown's friggin' amazing. Yes, and he's huge, he's a big physical dude. And he flips a switch if you piss him off. And he was pissed. Yeah, I don't I don't didn't understand that. I I thought that made no sense. If you're gonna do something, whatever it was, uh you don't do it during the game. No, you not on televised national TV. You know, that pissed him off. Yeah, that's that's not I don't even understand that. Um I think you know, here's the thing though. How long can you keep that defense together? I mean they're gonna have to pay some guys soon. They're gonna either do that or guys are gonna just start leaving because they have a really good defense. But amazing defense. But you saw this year, they had to make secondary moves last year and it hurt them this year. Yep. Their secondary was not up to snuff, as they said. So I I am interested to see where the Eagles Howie Roseman is an amazing GM, so I'm sure they're gonna concoct something that's really good put on the field. But they gotta they gotta do better. Their offense wasn't pretty friggin' anemic. It was not good this year. Uh it was not good. Yeah, I would I mean the Bills were using the put tush push better than the friggin' Eagles were this year. But there's some good offensive coordinators out there floating around. Oh my god, Mike McDaniels? McDaniels. Uh I think Kingsbury too is a good. Here's the question, though. Do you want to go work under Sirianni? No, I I wouldn't. I mean, that's gonna be God. I can't see him and McDaniels together. That doesn't seem like a good match. I think I think McDaniels is gonna he's gonna land somewhere just fine. He might even get a head coaching job. I'd I'd like to see him go to uh to Detroit. I think that'd be a great place for him. I think that'd be very good for him. Um the other guy you got, you got uh Arthur Smith, I think is maybe possible to go somewhere. Yep. And Stefansky's definitely getting a job. Stefansky will get a job. I mean, that's probably the next coach that gets hired, honestly. You know what's kind of funny is the Harbaugh just basically lost his job, and then he's gonna be the first one hired. Um there's a lot of jobs out there, man. There are, and there's a lot of coaches too. Let's see, see what happens. Do you think uh Tomlin's gonna coach next year? No, he already is out. He's done. Yeah, they mutual like they mutually split up. I don't think he's why would if you were Mike Tomlin, you set your legacy. It's like Bill Cower, right? He set his legacy, stealer for life. Yeah. Tomlin's Steeler for Life. Why I don't think I would uh if I was him, I've made the money. It's not like I'm hurting for money. I don't I don't uh they they're saying like get a booth job or something. I don't why do they here's the thing why do they have to do anything? He doesn't have to go in a booth, he doesn't have to coach, but he would be good like on that Fox pregame replacing Jimmy Johnson. Yeah, and I don't know what kind of time commitments those guys have to have on those things, but um yeah, that'd be a good transition. Yeah, I like him. He's a good guy. It's gonna be interesting to see what other who goes to like Miami, what do they do with Tua? It's a lot of stories. Is Quinn gonna be the guy? Probably not now. Probably not, not with a new coach. I don't think so. But what do you do with Tua? Tua? God is come back next year and give it another shot because he's making so much. His arm is done. Yeah, he is like friggin' he's like spaghetti arm guy. It is it is wild. Yeah. Because when he was in college, he was throwing 60 yard bombs. He can't do it. His his arm's done. Yeah. It is wild. Well, let's get to the weekend games. Hang on. We didn't we didn't talk about the last game. Which game was that? Bears Packers. Probably the most entertaining game. Oh my god, dude. The Packers coach needs to be gone. I think it's I think LaFleur. He lost the game. He lost the game for him. That was horrible. Jordan Love had a great game. That was horrible coaching, horrible time management. It was the time management was so bad. That's what cost him. And there is no way the Bears should have come back and won that. But no. Good, you know what? Good for them. 21 3 it happened. It was 21 3. And they God. That was bad. I mean, you have a quarterback that goes for 325 yards, four touchdowns, a QBR of 80.3, and you lose. You lost that game. That it it's mind-blowing. They only played one half of football. That's literally it. And the defense was actually playing pretty good, but they were on the field the whole time. So many injuries. You knew it like so many injuries throughout the year of that defense. If you kept them on the field for as long as they did, it's bound to happen. And what's up with the kickers this year? Missing everything. Well, it was pretty windy. But I mean, extra points are getting mixed, missed, and that was bad. That's I mean, those are Dicker. It was Dicker that missed the extra point, wasn't it? For maybe that was last week. That was the week before, yeah. I it is interesting. It is interesting to see kind of there's like a it almost feels like a changing of guard in the NFL. I I think the pack, um, I you know, they haven't said anything yet, so maybe they won't move on, but that was bad. Why not go get a bigger coach? I mean, you could there's guys out there. Why is here's a question why is Mike McCarthy not get a get mentioned in any of these? I saw he was uh on the list for the Giants and got but I don't know. I mean he won a good coach. He won a Super Bowl. He's a really good coach. Um I don't know, but there's a lot of openings still, so I you know I but you don't hear his name anyway. No, you really don't. I actually don't see him at all anymore. No, he's that guy that just went and did his thing, right? So yeah, and all credit to the Bears. I mean, Caleb Williams turned it on there. You know what? You do have to credit them, and they've been doing it all year. Um now the question is can they keep doing that? I mean, their defense is okay. I just I don't know. They're not they're not gonna win with Caleb Williams throwing for almost 400, having to try try and throw for 400 yards a game. And let's be honest, in the second half he played well, but his his he's like hit and miss on his accuracy, though. I mean, he did turn line when he needed to. I'll give him all the credit to him. He was he was missing in the scary spots too high. Yeah, he was missing over overheads. So we'll see. And they play in Chicago, which is probably gonna be cold as crap again. And Wendy. And Wendy, Wendy Chicago. All right, let's go. Let's get into the games here. All right, let's go. All right, so we've got my God. We've got Bears Rams. Bears-Rams. Honestly, man, that's going to be a much better game. You know, I would I initially I probably would have said the Rams are gonna kill him, but the Rams barely freaking won. I don't know. That's NFL. I know. Um, I think it's gonna be a closer game than just because Chicago has a good defense. 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No, I thought it's it's in Chicago. I think it's in Chicago. The Rams do have the money line, though. Three and a half. Um, I'm gonna go with the Rams, but I think it is going to be a close game, and depending on the weather, that could actually affect it. Yeah. Who has a better run game? It's gonna come down to it. Whose offensive line gets the push? Because both of them have pretty good defensive fronts. They do. So we'll see. Should be close. I I trust Stafford more than I trust Caleb Williams. I do too. I think Stafford's I trust Nakua more than Odinze. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you. So I'm probably going Rams on that, but I think it's going to be very close. Like that's almost a toss-up. I would not put money on that at all. Be a good uh rematch of Niners Seahawks. That's gonna be a tough one. I'm gonna have to go with Seattle, though. I think you have to. Seattle's good, man. I think it's gonna be another, I I do believe that's gonna be another close game, though. Right now, that point spread is seven. For Seattle? Oh my god, that's that's crazy. I would probably bet the under. Ah, that's that's a crazy line. Um I think it's gonna be close. And I think San Francisco could definitely win win this one, but I'm going to Seattle. No, I'm going Seattle too. I think we're together on those so far. Texans Patriots. I'm I'm gonna go. Um, boy, that's another tough one. Here's the thing with Houston. I don't trust their offense. I think New England wins. I just trust their defense so much. I do too. I think Houston wins it. But I mean, they had three turnovers. And honestly, if Pittsburgh if Pittsburgh could have done anything on offense, they and right, but Pittsburgh has a great defense. Pittsburgh does. New England has a pretty good defense. I I'm going New England on this one. There's our first uh that pains me. Our first uh that does pain me. Difference there. I'm I'm saying I think the Texans win. Okay. I really do. I think it's the lines three and a half New England. I I think Texans outright. And I'd be honestly, I'd be okay if the Texans won. But I I think New England will win. It's in New England too, which is tough. All right, last one here, Bills Broncos. Ooh, man. All of these games are very, very we they should be, right? They should be. I'm gonna go it's a one and a half point spread to the Denver. Yeah, well, I assume they're playing in Denver. I'm going Buffalo. I think I'm going, I I go Denver. Just because I I Josh Allen needs to friggin' win. I do not trust that defense for Buffalo. But here's the deal: Denver doesn't have like a blowout offense. I mean, they don't have an offense. No, but they will sit there and grind that game out. They will shorten the game and keep the ball out of Josh Josh's hands. I'm going with Buffy. I'm a Buffy man. I think that's gonna be probably I that might be the closest game we have. That one and the Bears Rams are gonna be incredibly close. I think they're all gonna be really good games this weekend. I do looking forward to it. Get your popcorn out. Yep. Let's go. All right. Last thing to touch on here, NFL. Jets just uh got dealt a nice blow. All this talk about Dante Moore being their their quarterback. Dante Moore's going back to Oregon for smart move for him. I think he needs another year personally. He's only started 20 games. What? What? What the hell is gonna do? Guaranteed 50 million a year, so you know he really didn't want to go play for the Jets. No. Which they weren't, you know what? If he went there, he'd get no development. He would get crushed. And I don't blame him. I mean, the money's one thing, but it his longevity would not be he would turn into another Justin Fields and get crushed. So a good move. Great move. I don't know. I think the Jets at this point probably trade that pick, is my opinion. Okay, but then who do you put under center? Well, I mean, if they trade it, they may trade it like for one of the backups out there. Right. So no, right now, okay, I see what you're saying, but I mean who? Well, I'd like to say Kirk Cousins, but I don't think um I don't think Penix is gonna be ready for the beginning of the season down there. So I I think Kirk Cousins is gonna play a lot next year. Yeah. I think he's gonna get a better coach in and play a lot. And I gotta be honest, I I'm not impressed with Penix personally. He when he is on, he is laser focused on. But he it's when is he on? He's hurt all the time. He's I don't know. I I don't I don't know what who else is out there that could be a starter for the Jets. Here's the thing with Penix, they're gonna have to make a decision on if if they they really think he's the quarterback moving forward. He came out of college 25-26 years old. Yeah. He's already almost 30. So if you're if you if you're sticking with him, you stick with him, you get rid of cousins. You have to do, yeah, you can't. I don't think you can go through the season again with both those guys. You can't. Because cousins are gonna get frustrated. He's gonna want, I mean, he wanted out this year. And I'm I'm sure he still wants out. Um I don't know what the you know, I don't know what the Jets do at quarterback, to be honest. What who else is out there? Let's see that I mean they're talking about if you're gonna draft a quarterback, they're talking about the number two being Ty Simpson. Do not that's not that's not an upgrade from what you have on the roster right now. He's I you know, I think he's he's good and stuff, but I don't think he's you he the Jets need somebody to come in. They have no quarterback, it's not like you can come in and got time. You have to come in and play immediately. I think they're gonna have to trade for somebody. I just don't see one of these young guys doing it. That's my opinion, but God, I don't know who it is. Yeah, you're gonna have to take a flyer on somebody and hope it works out. I mean, I honestly I think they're just going to tank a bit next year. Not on purpose. No, it's not gonna be purpose. Nobody's gonna want to go there. They're gonna get the number one overall pick, if not close to it. Next year's in next year's quarterback class is better. It's loaded is a lot better. Um I don't know what they do. I honestly don't know what the Jets do. They're probably wondering too. I don't think Dante Moore was the answer, to be honest with you. Not this year. Coming out. He he he would not have it wouldn't have been good for him. I think he did the smartest thing he could and returned. Um, I don't know. Be curious to see what the Jets do. I just yeah Philip Rivers thought. Oh my god. Well, okay, if we go on that, Joe Milton's out there. If you want to go get him from if you want to take a flyer on somebody, Joe Milton's out there at at Dallas. You could go to um I mean, who else? Colts, you can go to the Colts. You could go to Colts, go get Anthony Richardson. I mean they already said Danny Dimes. They're they're Colts came out and said that's our guy. He did, and he did he did it. Yeah, he should be their guy. He was great. I don't know. I don't know what uh the quarterback situation in the NFL is gonna be interesting. Uh, there's not a lot of great backups right now. You know, you know who they could get, uh Mac Jones, maybe. He did actually pretty well for San Francisco. He did. That's uh that's that's that San Francisco system, though. It is, but I mean, he's not a bad quarterback. I don't know. I don't think he I he's probably one of the better ones out there. He had a rough go of it in uh New England because he had nothing. He had no support there. But I think I think he he's probably one of the top backups right now out there. Yeah, so okay. So you make that move, you trade down. I mean, you're giving up your one for Mac Jones at that point. Or you take the number two pick and they have a lot of holes. Offensive linemen. My God, a bunch of tackles. They get somebody and then just pick somebody up in the second round or something. Just pick nothing but offensive linemen and figure that out and then let Brees Hall run the frickin' ball. Yeah. They have some players, they just they suck. They do have players. I don't know. Their defense is bad. I I I you and I talked about Dante Moore not probably not coming out. Yeah, it is the smartest move that could have done because he would have gone to quarterback purgatory. He would have, he would have gotten a lot of money up front, but his career would have been short really short. Yep. So good for him. Yeah. All right, that's a good segue into the college football world, my friend. And can we say that Kurt Chignetti did wipe you? He wiped he wiped a poo-poo face on me. Holy shit. I gotta give credit where credit's due. That was Greg. Hands up. Look, the hands up. That was a fucking ass whooping. That was an absolute crushing right there. That I did not expect that. Was wild. I didn't expect that. Okay. So I I did a little research in it. G2? G2? A little G2. Alright, what do you got? I think I figured out Signetis how he's he constructs a team. I think I figured it out. Alright, what is it? He takes the route of man against boys. He goes and gets a bunch of 23, 24-year-old dudes. There you go. Seasoned 23, 24-year-old dudes and goes and just I like it. I think that's his play. Nothing wrong with that. Here's the thing. It's double-edged sword, because if it goes bad, it could go real bad. Like if Hoover's not good next year, Josh Hoover, it could it he could be real bad. Just two for two, though, so far. He is two for two. One of them came with him from James Madison. And Mendoza was nobody was. Nobody was saying anything about Mendoza. No, I'm I'm with you there. Um I don't know. Whatever he does, he's he's it works. I Googled him. He wins. I will say this about him. He the the team is well coached. Absolutely. I mean, it's not, you know, I know it's like a lot of the stuff is about him, but he they're they're very well coached. So um does Miami have a chance? I mean, you they have a chance, but Miami always has a chance. I I don't know, man. I I'm not betting against Indiana. I wouldn't bet against Indiana. Not anymore. I don't see it. I did it all year. I know you have. I'm done. I've turned. I don't uh I don't see it being. I waffled. I'm back. Crawfish. I'm like a crawfish. I'm a Yankees fan over here. Huge Harbaugh fan? Johnny Harbaugh? Love him. My new man. Um best Ray Lewis special assistant. Love Ray Lewis. I don't like Ray Lewis. What if he came in as a defensive special assistant? I I'm gonna be honest with you. That's one I I would not. What if they brought back old LT Lawrence Taylor? I like LT, baby. He just does a bunch of crack on the body. If he wears the three-inch earring. Of course he was one ear. It's the cross. I love yeah, he's quite the religious man. Um yeah, I just Signeti is a monster, man. He is. Um, yeah. I I I don't think it's gonna be a blowout. That was I don't think it's gonna be a blowout either, but I think it's gonna be comfortable. I don't think it's gonna be last minute. Like that seven to ten number. I that's what I'm thinking. I don't I just don't know if if they can get in on back, I I think it's gonna cause issues. I think they'll get a couple scores. I um here here's my prediction. I think Miami scores between 13 and 17 points, and I think Indiana is probably closer to 28, 31 points. Sorry, this is a better this is a very good defense in Miami. And that's been carrying them back. All you have to do is get to back. You get to back, but man, I gotta say, Mendoza is way better than I thought he was. That dude makes some things to rest. You know what he is? He's Tom Brady, but in college. Yeah. He he makes them just and his receivers, honestly, they make it. Surat a monster. Yeah. But his throws are pretty damn good. Yeah. Um I give I give I give them all very a lot of credit right now. Yeah. I'm gonna say I I think it's gonna be like 28-17, something like that. Somewhere around there. 27, 28, 31, 17. It's just it depends if that if those linebackers get to Beck, that game's over. Because once Beck starts feeling pressure, he throws picks. I don't think Miami can score a lot of points. It's gonna cut honestly, it's gonna come down to the the Miami offensive line. It is, but Indiana's defensive line is good. It's very good. Yeah, they are there. It's gonna be I think it'll be a good game. Hopefully it's a good game. The Oregon game was not a good game. No, it was over quick. I was actually, as much as I crap on you about Oregon, I was shocked. I think they just it just kind of got away from the first throw, pick six. I think it was I think it got away quick. It got away quick. That rattles you and that fan base traveled. They did. They did. And they're gonna travel to Miami. Oh absolutely. Yeah. Well, good. Hey, let's talk. Let's talk about the uh portal for a minute. Yeah, can we this it's getting ridiculous? I know. We're talking about we got offensive linemen now getting offered four or five million. That's crazy. It is crazy. Um the whole portal thing, I'm I actually try to keep up with it. It's just like every day somebody news in the portal. It's like, holy and what what's the cutoff tomorrow, right? Tomorrow, tomorrow's the last day. Except two teams, yeah. You know, you're gonna get a whole bunch more go in. Well, as soon as somebody signs, somebody goes in. Yep. I mean that's that's what happened to Texas. Christian Clark went in after they got the Smothers brothers. I know, Smothers brothers are in, but Texas up. They did well. Now, there's a whole on offensive line. And if they go get out Jordan Seaton, they get him? Holy shit. And you said what they offered him five mil? The reports are the teams are offering him up to five mil. Texas is one of those teams. Texas would be a great place for him. You know, Texas Tech's gonna throw so much money at him. I mean, Texas signed some dudes, though. Texas Texas has signed some dudes. The problem is the offensive line. They have to they have to figure out the offensive line. I think they'll be okay. I think they will. One thing I will say, last year they were replacing four of the five starters, right? Including a new center. This year they're they need guards. Yeah. So they have the tackles were both coming back. Baker on one side and Goosby coming back is massive because that dude was probably back in round one in the draft. Connor Robertson's coming back at center. So you have an established veteran that has that connection with the quarterback there. Who plays guard? That's the problem. Now we gotta figure out the interior offensive line. If they go get Seaton, Baker kicks into the guard spot, massive move for him, really good for his career, and then Seaton's your right tackle with Goosby on the left. You have two first round tackles on on your line. They could be scary good next year. I I'm guessing Texas is gonna get their guys. Um, they've been so far, they've pulled one of the Smithers Brothers away from I'll tell you who's not getting anybody's Alabama. They are very losing people. The Smothers Smothers Brothers arrived. So do you do you know any of the rumored backstories around that? This is all hearsay. I don't know if it's completely true or not, but it's that he enrolled in classes and everything at Bama. But they were waiting because there was he was offered a number, and then when the contract came in, it was a different number. Oh, wow. And so he didn't sign the contract. And Texas saw that he didn't sign, went after him, pulled, got him, and he got out of all his classes, and they already rolled it. It it's a crazy but you know, I mean, the the two running backs that one-two punch for Ralique Brown gross got in space, he's gonna be a monster. The one thing you and I complained about is like no running game last year. Yep. Zero running game. And they addressed it. Now the offensive line needs to get fixed. I think they will, and they got a upgraded at receiver. Oh my god. Um can you and Wingo just signed back so you're gonna have Wingo on one side, you're gonna have Cam Coleman on the other. Yep. You're gonna have Emmett Mosley in the slot. They're they're loading up, and not to mention what they've got on defense. They picked up a defensive nose nose guard, a one tech or a zero tech. He is six five, three hundred and eighty pounds. Oh my god. Just eats up space. He's just gonna eat he is he's Tavondre sweat. It's gonna be good. I'm looking forward to it, man. I think I know we get excited about it. I mean, linebacker could be a little bit worrisome, but they did sign, I mean, the all first team all ACC linebacker. Yeah. And they got guys coming back. The secondary, they went out and got Bo Masco, who was uh he was uh I think he was all Big Ten cornerback. They got Derrick Williams back, they have good secondary the defense is gonna be stout in Must Champ running it is gonna be great. Well that's the upgrade right there. Coach's the upgrade. You know what we're gonna see? Press coverage. Man, they're not gonna sit back and zone. You're not gonna see Colin Simmons. Well, he's the biggest upgrade for the defense. Oh my god, massive. If please just don't let your defensive ends go back, they don't need to be in pass protection. Yeah, he'll fix that. It's gonna be good. Yeah, the portal is is a crazy, like by the minute. It is wild. Crazy friggin' thing, though. Um and the money getting thrown around is crazy. It is, but uh, you know what? I'm over the whole thing. I it is what it is. Texas winning good. But I mean, all the teams are I mean, there the the sad part is you have a team. Let's let's talk. So Campbell goes to Penn State. Yep. Iowa State just goes to Penn State, Iowa State immediately loses like half their team. That that part of it sucks. Okay, but the guy that went to Iowa State is bringing along all of his guys. I know, it's just it's it's weird. It is weird. And I don't know. It's just that's the part I'm not crazy about. And you know, if you remember a couple years back, as much as I bitched about Sanders, um, you know, prime, Coach Prime, hell, he's just a minor dude now. Remember, he was made when he brought his son over and all those things, and everybody's oh god, that's like that's nothing. I think I think what's panned out with that, he tried to run an NFL organization where you there's not a ton of development on the NFL side. It's either you can or you can't. You you have to develop these guys in the college rings, and I'll set aside the antics, whatever. Yeah, if you don't go through and develop these players, they're never you're never gonna do anything. No, but I mean his his whole thing, do you remember when he he came basically redid the whole Colorado team? Yeah. And everybody's oh god, everybody's now everybody's doing that, and and he's not even a player. Honestly, Colorado's not even a player anymore. They picked up a couple of Texas guys, they picked up the linebacker, and DeAndre Moore. Yeah. Wide receiver went there. And they have. I mean, he has, but it's not it's not like I mean, come on, it's not like the bigger teams. All the teams are in on it now, even Clemson. LSU is spinning godly. Well, yeah, because they they ungodly. Did they confirm yet that they signed Levitt? Yep. Yeah, okay. So he went there. Um I mean they they loaded up. They loaded up, and you know who I know uh Tennessee was in the the running. Tennessee's kind of they don't they're losing people now. There's yeah, because they don't have a quarterback. They gotta find a quarterback. Don't have a quarterback. So it is weird. It's a weird landscape. It is a weird deal, and nothing's gonna be I mean, once they're in the portal, when do they have to sign day? You just have to declare for the portal by the 16th, right? Right. A lot of it has to do with semesters when you can enroll, when does school start at that school? Yeah. I mean, if you want them there for spring ball, they gotta be there for spring enrollment. There's a lot of kids in the portal, though. Oh my god. Thousands. It's crazy. Thousands. And you know what? We're gonna see more. You know there's people on the at least on the Miami team, maybe not Indiana. I feel like all those guys are all old and leaving every year, anyways. But you know there's guys on that Miami team that are gonna be in the portal. Yeah, I agree. Well, I mean, what what Beck is gone next year? Yep. What do they do at quarterback? I mean, I don't know. I don't know if they've have I haven't seen that they've signed anybody. And I don't know who they have behind Beck. Um, Indiana already got their quarterback. Yep. So, I mean, it's crazy, man. LSU got their quarterback, Tech got their quarterback. Yep. I mean, everybody that needed one of the bigger players that we've seen lately got them. And then there's teams like Arkansas getting picked apart. Well, I know. That's kind of that's the part I don't I don't particularly like. I mean, I get it. The tampering shit sucks. It's that I don't like that. And you know, you recruit kids, you kind of develop them for a year, and then you think uh you that's not the thought anymore. It's a one-year thing. There's no development, there's no it's that that sucks. Yeah, and the schedules. How they when they open the portal is a terrible timing. Yeah. Here's here's a fun fact for you. Right? It's a 14-day portal window that they opened up, right? Do you know? They have a three-day dead period in the middle of that. Oh no, I didn't know that. They have the coaches convention. Oh. And during the coaches' convention, it's a dead period they can't have people on campus. The camp kids makes no sense. So you're telling me you have 11 days to figure that shit out. That's crazy. Well, that that's why there's tampering. Because there's no way you can do your due diligence without no, they're calling the agent, and the tampering is above board because they're calling the agent now, talking to, hey, do you have anybody that's in that's interested in this? We can offer this. And you got agents calling them. Oh, hell yeah. I mean, you know you do guys, so it's a weird time for people. And the best part is like the agent could be an actual agent. Could be the roommate, like Mulligetta, or it could be a cousin on a couch somewhere. Me and you. It could be. That's gross. No, we ought to offer FR services, by the way. Yeah, we would make somebody zero money. You and me both know that. Nah, we'd crush them, crush their faces. Okay. So it is interesting. It's a weird, it's a weird world. They need to put some guardrails on this shit. It needs to happen. They need to re-evaluate their schedule. I'll tell you another thing, schedule. I'm griping right now. Gripe. Why the fuck are we waiting 10 days between I'm done? I'm to the point where I'm like, okay, college football's over, whatever. If I see the game, I see the game. You know what? You're right. The interest is gone. On me too. I mean, it's I know the game's coming up Monday, which is still a few days from now. It's even Saturday or something. Ten days is crazy. It's ridiculous. The interest level is is not there. You gotta you gotta condense that. You can't put even for the first round of the playoffs. Look, you gotta roll right into it, man. Let's go. Right. Don't don't give them three weeks off. No. I I hate it. I I'm sure the coaches hate it. I think that's why all the teams that got the bye except for Indiana end up losing. Yeah. Um, I mean, it's it's bad. Take away the bye, make it all home field. Yeah. I love the bowl games. I know the bowling. This is never gonna happen. But just get rid of the have the bulls be the last three games, right? Yeah. The two semifinals and the final. That's fine. Neutral field for the rest of the way. Have home field advantage up to that point, especially if you're gonna expand to 16. Have home field to that. That's funny you said that because I feel the same way. I I actually looked at the schedule and I said, holy shit, they don't play till Monday. Monday. I mean, I'm I'm like you. I I mean, I'm sure I'll watch it, but I'm not like to me, college is over. I'm in the portal now. Like, who's going where? Right, it's so it's more fascinating. It's way more than like, oh, there's another game left. Who can who gives a shit? They need to fix that. Yeah, they gotta fix that. They have to fix that. I agree with you. Agreed. There's so much good, there's so much great about college football. It's never going anywhere. It's probably, I mean, honestly, it's a top three, top four sport in America. It's a money generator, but this whole fucking setup needs a rework. Agreed. Agreed. From how they pick the teams that are in this shit all the way to when they're playing. It's it's it's crazy. Yeah. And I'm sorry. I know I'm gonna get flack for this, but JMU and Tulane, they didn't know, they did not need to be in that plan. It's what are you doing to those teams? Well, I mean, I know we've talked about that before. You got maybe you gotta have tiers of playoffs. I mean, you know what? You know what's more exciting is like the FCS playoffs. Hell yeah, that was way freaking fun. Do that for the group of five. And they've been done for like two weeks now or something. Yeah. And you know what you can implant in that? A promotion relegation style thing where okay, yeah, you won that title. Okay. Shorten the season for those group of five teams, have them play a playoff. That one team that won it all, they get in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah. There, there's your one. And then they get it's one game. No, I I I agree. I it's not you're not doing them. I mean, if I was playing at those schools, I know you're like excited to play, but you you want an opportunity to wait. They you I don't care what you say. It might be on the odd year, somebody might, but in general, those guys can't compete. They just can't, especially now with the stuff that's gonna be. Not on the line, not on the line of scrimmage. It's a college football is a line of scrimmage game. And now you got the whole with all the portal stuff. It's like they're who's picking JMU over friggin' Texas? Nobody. Right. I mean, leaving JMU. So I agree. They should have just another tier and let them have a playoff. There's nothing wrong with that. And if they really want to tie that in, give them that last spot. Right? If you're gonna go 16, have the top 15 make the playoffs, and then they have the the group of five play in. Yeah. I I agree. Like I said, the FCS playoffs, that was fun. Right. I mean, the group of five. Honestly, the group of five playoffs could be just the five best teams, the five conference champions. Yeah. Like boom, play. One gets a bye, then they go through. Yeah. Top top team goes in. They gotta fix it. And then goes against fucking stomped by number 15. They they can't. They gotta fix, they gotta figure something. I don't know what it is and when, but by expanding it, you're not fixing it. You're just keeping those teams in. Yep. So we'll see. Yep. But if they would have expanded it this year, you're looking at a hot Texas team getting in. You're looking at Vanderbilt getting in. Notre Dame. You're looking at Notre Dame. We don't have that asinine argument that happens. I that pissed me off this year. You've got BYU, the runner-up, so those conference champions, the runners-up, actually make it. Yeah. If I was the Big 12 and BYU guys, fuck that. Boom. No more conference championship game. It's done. Well, yeah, because you you they don't they don't allow the SEC or that that champion together. Of course. That yeah, that that back that that runner-up is always gonna make it. They will. And they'll always say, well, they saw that with Alabama this year. We did. And we saw that too.

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Yeah.

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Interesting. They ran into the buzzall that is Indiana. Oh my god, I'm giving credit to Indiana. Yeah. Honestly, I don't even know why I'm saying that they won't blow these guys out, but they've pretty much destroyed everybody. But we'll see. But you know what? The I don't think the long layoff helps anybody on either side. So no. We'll see. See how that works out. All right. Those are my grumps and gripes. College football is it's in a weird place. Man, it's the wild west right now. I love watching it, and but it's it is and of course we we follow a team that's one of the richest teams. So yeah, they could throw as much money as they want at these guys. They can. I know there's the salary cap and shit, but there's Lamborghini deals on the side and shit. Yeah, they do it. Like they're making other money. Yeah. They're not it's I know the caps are all the bigger doing the same thing. That's in Texas. Oh, I know. And Texas Tech threw their hat in the ring. They're very upfront. We are absolutely doing away like oil rigs and shit. Good. I mean, honestly, why would you not? Why wouldn't you? Well, I mean, you get the you want to compete. Right. You have to. Right. And everybody's gonna complain, oh, that's the most money. Yeah, you're right. They did spend the most money. Well, good on them. They have the money. Tech spent the or Ohio State spent the money. You know what? They every year probably not gonna happen, but that I mean, billionaire boosters want to win money. Money's not a thing to them anymore. It never you know what? It never has been. It's just a lot of it was under the table. So I don't know not this kind of money, I don't think, but God, no. No chance it was this kind of money. No. But you know what? That's where we're at. Yep. All right. Very passionate about it. I know, I know. Hey, little guy. I asked you last week if you were gonna watch the thrilling sport of arena golf that's uh indoors. Did not watch it. Oh well, you missed out. I think I saw one picture of one dude hitting into a screen, and I was pretty much done. Looks stupid. It's pretty cool. Looks stupid as shit. I'll be honest with you. I think it's fun. It's freaking stupid. Do they wear golf shoes? Or tennis shoes? Golfing. They wear golf shoes. It's real grass they're hitting off of. Oh, okay. All right. Just checking. Oh my god. They wear their whole getup. Oh god, they have like they're all their sponsorship shit on. Of course they do. They're getting paid by those people. Okay. I just think it's a good one. Why would you not? What's it called? Live? What's it called? Not live. What is it? Live is crumbling a little bit. Uh it is called the TGL. TGL. Tiger Golf League. Gork League. Gork Gork? Gork. Is it Tiger? Tiger Golf League? No. Son of a gun. He's always making money, ain't he? Man's got a lot of money. Good for him. Yeah, good on him. Good on him. I just think it's stupid to watch. Just FYI. That's fine. Uh Live Golf Brooks Kepka left live and just re-signed. Did you see what the damages like what how what he had to go through to get back on the PGA for? He has to pay five million. Which is stupid. He doesn't get he's not part of the equity plan for uh uh what five years. So that's up to 80 million dollars he could lose. But that's stupid. Why? Well, why penalize him? He wants to come back. Because he went and took money, like a massive he went for a money grab. He did. Why I would I think it's great. I'm just joking. I knew it I knew it'd get you fired up. Yeah, that's bullshit. There has to be, it has to hurt to come back. He was in the portal. He just re-signed it. He wasn't in the portal, he re-signed with the PGA tour. Best part about the PGA tour is it's a meritocracy. You want to make the money, go win.

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I like it, yeah.

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I saw the other guys didn't Rom and those guys said, no, we ain't leaving. Yeah. Yeah. Guess what? None of them have extended that contract, and it's one year left. The only one that did was Dustin Johnson. He's 41. They're still paying him a lot of money, aren't they? Oh, a gross amount of money. Yeah. Well, you know, whatever. I mean, I don't blame them for taking the money at all. Not one bit. I mean, you're trying to make a living. So that's that's not a living, my friend. Dying ain't much of a living, son. That's a little bit more than a living. That's a a couple livings. As Josie Wales would say. It's a family full of livings. Yeah, it is. It's a gross amount of money. Yeah, I I mean, I I know I you say you would. I I I think I would they make good money in PGA too. I but you have to win. You have to win. If you don't make the cut in the PGA tour, you don't get paid. I know, but like the 50th place guy makes more than friggin' most people. It's like 20. 20 mil? Grand. Well, that's not bad for a weekend. Absolutely not. So I know. I get the money. I do get the money on Liv. If someone was offered, okay. If you are doing good, you're one of the top players, you're probably making on average 10 to 15 a year. And Liv comes and offers you a contract for 200 million dollars. Alright, I'd sign. I'm fucking taking that money. I will do whatever you need. Take that money. Of course you would. I would. That's why the portal baby. That's why I'm not I don't I I think the Liv setup is stupid. I don't like how it it plays. I I don't watch it because it's hard to watch for me. I don't fault those guys for taking the money. No, I don't fault them. It's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. That's life-altering money. It is life-altering. I don't disagree. That's where I'm at. All right. Alright, Bunk. What else you got? Tiger Golf looks stupid, though. Okay, um. You know, I don't let's see. Do I have anything else? I have anything else. You know, make sure you watch Toxic Avenger. Yeah, I'm gonna work on that for you. Toxic Bastard. You watch TGL, I'll watch Toxic Avenger. Come on, man. At least what I'm asking you to watch is entertaining. What I'm asking you to watch isn't three hours long. God. Three hours. Oh, how fast is TGL? Like an hour. That's a lot. It's about 45 minutes a little too much for me. Oh yeah. I don't have anything else, man. Hey, um, nope, don't have to. We're getting some good Instagram uh traction out there. Some some more uh things going out. Check us. We've been dormant for a while. We have, we have. Check our Insta and our ex. We're making a roaring comeback. I'm making a different call out for you today. Who do you got? Not Portnoy. Okay. I'm a is a Yankees fan. Big Yankees fan. Oh, Bernie Williams? No. Okay, who? You don't know who this person is. I'm gonna call out the one Robert Berger. See if he'll come on. Bobby Berger, Bobby Fairways from Bob Does Sports. I bet we could probably swindle that, maybe. I don't know that one. Oh my god. I'll check it. It might be one of the funniest YouTube channels I've seen in a lot of time. All right, let's call him. It is golf, though, so you don't like that. No, I like golf now. Bob Does Sports. All right. I like that. Good call out. Yes. Good call out. I like I'm not giving up on Matthew McConey. Here's the best, best part of that. It's him. He's got a ragtag bunch of people with him. Okay. He's got one guy called Joey Coldcutz. I like that. Okay. He's got Fat Perez. Okay. Wow. He's got The Jet. Okay. He's got The Big Ticket. Everybody's got a nickname. He reminds me so much of you. I love it. I gotta be honest with you. I love it. Yeah, but they're really bad. Like Fat Perez, he is a big, he's pretty like he's a scratch golfer. He's very good. Oh, okay. Then the Joey Cold Cuts guy is probably like an eight handicap. And Bob is he's up there. It's it's it's he has a tough time going on. And they do bagel things. Oh, he loves bagels. Wow. Watch the Halloween episode. He got he dressed, he got the face paint of a clown. He's a full clown costume. I like it. Okay, I'm liking it. I like the nicknames. I know you are. I think you would get along with this person. Big Judge fan. Let's shout out. Oh big judgy guy. Don't you tease me? I'm teasing you. All right. Let's do shout-outs then. There it is. That's my shout-out. Okay. I like it. I like it. Come on, Robert Berger. Hey, check our Instagram, check our ex, which is stupidest shit you ever have to say in your life. Check my ex. Check my ex account.

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Okay.

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