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Week 18: Philly Finale Finally
Bob and Mike fire up the mics one last time in the regular season to unpack a brutal Christmas loss to the Cowboys, complete with prime rib, Netflix gripes, and the familiar feeling of trailing all game. From there, they dive into one of their favorite topics: player incentives. The guys break down what’s on the line in Week 18 for names like Deebo Samuel, Sam Darnold, Saquon Barkley and more, and imagine how late-game play-calling might change when hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars are at stake.
In their final Can’t Lose Locks of the year, Bob updates the season-long betting battle with “your friend who bets” Tom, while Mike runs through his full slate of picks and overall record. Then it’s on to a big-picture playoff and seeding breakdown around the league before shifting into “Black Monday” mode with a tiered look at head coaches on the hot seat — from Stefanski and McDaniel to Tomlin and even Andy Reid.
They close by previewing the Week 18 Philly matchup, venting about the Commanders’ exhausting 4-win season, quarterback decisions, and expected staff changes, and teasing what’s next: a full playoff bracket run-through, offseason episodes, and a possible road trip to Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft as the start of Season Two of Command the Commute.
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Oh no! We stuck again!
SPEAKER_00:We wound up five and eleven, not very good. Um but there was something worse than us. I guess that's one positive way to look at it. We weren't the worst team in the league. Welcome, Mike. We're finally here, Bob. The last.
SPEAKER_02:We are here. Welcome everybody else to the Command the Commute podcast. Of course, this is the podcast where we press record, leave in the driveway, and we upload it when we get to the stadium. But there is no more home games to be have. We've got one more game left of the season, and that is definitive. Uh and the Cowboys ruined our chance for that sound bite of Steve Spurrier, to be correct, because we are not 5-11. We wish we could be 5-11. We are 4-12, dropping a big old Christmas loss to the Cowboys at home, which we did not attend.
SPEAKER_04:No, we did not, because as we said, we have families and we put them first.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, but I will say this. I'll start this right off the bat. I did watch the game and I did cook on Christmas Day, and boy oh boy, I wish you could have had it. It was a nice big old eight-pound prime rib.
SPEAKER_04:The food was better than the game.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my gosh, yes. Yes. I put the prime rib in the oven pretty much right at the beginning of the game. And cut it off kind of early. You don't need to cook it that long. Left it in the oven for the majority of the game and had dinner right after the game. So it was a prime rib game. I was back and forth from the kitchen to the TV, to the kitchen to the TV. It was it had its highs, it's had its lows, just like all of our other games. They they gave us some hope, like they're used to doing.
SPEAKER_04:There were some moments, but when we ended up playing behind the entire game, I don't think we had the lead once. Uh, you know, it just par the course of the season. So at this point, let's just get the season over.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Pretty much looked like every other game this year. You're you're you're right about that. So just to kind of set up an agenda, we really don't have much more to say uh uh about the Cowboys game in our first quarter here. We wanted to kind of get into uh some player incentives that we that we saw. Uh in our second quarter, we're gonna get into our can't lose locks. We've got our final week of the regular season for our can't lose locks. Then our third quarter, we're bringing in a new segment that we're gonna bring uh weekly throughout the playoffs. And then in our fourth quarter, we're going to talk about our game, our final our Philly finale, finally. Yeah, let's just get it over with. Yeah, oh my gosh, I am ready. For a season like this where you only see four wins, you just I've been wanting the season to be over pretty much since October. Yeah, sounds about right. Yeah, yeah. So um just just to kind of touch on the Cowboys game a little bit. Uh I I could do without being on Netflix. I'll just start that right off the bat. I don't like the streaming games to begin with. Put me put me in the one o'clock window on Sundays on Fox or CBS.
SPEAKER_04:They were showing the game on CBS, though, by the way. Oh, were they?
SPEAKER_02:It wasn't exclusively on Netflix.
SPEAKER_04:It was, but CBS was also showing it, I guess, since it was a local game and there were uh CBS you know broadcasters. Okay. They it it actually was on network television, even though it was a Netflix specific only game.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_02:But I guess in in local markets, you just gotta there's credits to give it to them. Yeah, I guess that's all right well that's that's good to know. Um Debo is a stud. I I really hope he's on our team next year.
SPEAKER_04:He was he was one of, if not the only, high point of that game.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, yes. There was some other things that I liked and I would have liked a lot more if we won, but because we lost, they were pretty inconsequential. So no point in even bringing it up. Uh Debo, he was a highlight, though. He was the reason why you can get up off your Christmas couch and cheer. Um, but outside of that, there really wasn't much to cheer for. It was a hard game to to watch, especially with all the distractions going on in my living room. I had a living room full of family members with uh nieces and nephews playing with their toys and all that stuff. I'm sitting there just trying to pay attention to this game when I'm asking myself, why? Why am I watching this? It's just it's putting myself through more misery. But uh I think one of the reasons why Debo was playing so hard is because he knew he had two games left to go and so many statistical categories left to improve on for his incentives and going into the last week of the regular season. Yeah, there's lots of players with that same mindset. Well, run us through. Well, I'll start us off with Debo just because he's he's on our team. Uh he needs for$1.35 million ten catches for 93 yards and two touchdowns. Now that seems like a feasible statistical line in the box score for a wide receiver to have.
SPEAKER_04:Normally, yes.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it it it's a awesome, it's like the best fantasy day, uh, pretty much for wide receivers. You would have to be pretty much.
SPEAKER_04:Is it likely with our team and who our starter's gonna be?
SPEAKER_02:Well, we're gonna find out because for what what would you do for$1.35 million? I know it'd be a lot.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, we're gonna find out. He's definitely gonna try. Uh it's gonna be tough sledding for him.
SPEAKER_02:If you a card it, because he can still be looking at it from one statistic at a time. He doesn't need to have 10 catches, 93 yards for two touchdowns to get all of it. He can get 650,000 for 10 catches, he can get 450,000 for 93 yards, and he can get 250,000 for two touchdowns. So, and for those of you that don't know out there, these players sign contracts, and in those contracts, not all the time, but some of the time, they put incentives attached to it that basically state that if you get to this by the end of the season, whatever the statistic might be, depending upon your your position, then we're gonna pay you over top of what your contract already agrees upon. Correct. Um so just just for certain players that that makes sense for them. And so I'll sign this contract with those incentives because I'm gonna bet on myself. So this is a that's a big one for him tomorrow. I'm gonna be curious how much it it might be seeming like our offense or our quarterback is trying to force him the ball. I hope it's not a detriment to the team because I do want us to get a win. Um we'll talk about it as we get into the playoff scenarios, but Philly doesn't really have a lot to play for tomorrow. They've already locked in the NFC East, they've already locked in a playoff spot. It really just comes down to which seed, and we'll get into which seed.
SPEAKER_04:And a win would be nice, but like it's the last game of the season. Honestly, who cares? With a record of four and whatever the hell we are, like one one more win is not gonna make that big of a difference. Like big whoop.
SPEAKER_02:Well, and we'll get into it in our in the playoffs situation uh uh in in our playoffs segment. But it really, this game is pretty inconsequential in terms of the seating doesn't change that drastic for Philly, and our draft pick doesn't change that much. But and for those reasons is exactly why I want us to win. I want us to win just because I want us to always win. I don't care, especially against Philly. It was a year ago today we were spoilers, and it had a lot of playoff implications. And so I'm hoping we're spoilers again, even with next to no implications, uh, is is my my two cents. Um just to kind of go around the league with some other uh with some other incentives. The big one of the week, which I'm really excited for, is Sam Darnold for for the Seattle Seahawks. He's got some really big incentives to hit. Like what? And some of them are feasible here. He he's got up to$2 million worth of incentives. Wow. He needs 4,000 passing yards for the season. He's 150 yards away for that. He'll get that for 500. 150 yards, he'll get that. He's he needs 28 passing touchdowns. He's three touchdowns away from that. Might get that. Okay. He's he needs to finish the season with 67.5% completion rating or percentage. Yeah. 67.5 is what he needs. He's currently at 67.2. So, you know, a law of averages throughout 18 weeks, you know. I'm not sure exactly what his his completion percentage needs to be tomorrow, but I would say that if he's like 70%, it probably ticks up 0.3, because he needs that to tick 0.3. And they I I'm not sure if they round up. Because I said point I I say he's at 67.2, but he's at actually at 67.18. So I don't know how particular they're gonna get with this.
SPEAKER_04:I don't think they round up. I think whatever it is is what it is. Okay, well so if it's gotta be 67.5, then he's gotta go from 1.8 to 0.5. Right. I don't think there's I well I don't think there's any rounding. It is what it is.
SPEAKER_02:The my whole thing is this, though. If if after after they average it all out, if he's at 67.49, is that 67.5 or is that 67.4?
SPEAKER_04:That's 0.49, is what that is.
SPEAKER_02:That's not 0.5. Okay. Uh and then the passer rating, he needs to finish the season with a hundred uh overall passer rating. And right now, throughout the entire season, he's at 99.2. And it's 500k, it's half a million for each of those to total two million at the end of that game. So the the 150 yards away, I think that's a lock unless he gets hurt. And then the three touchdowns, that's feasible.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, the three it's feasible.
SPEAKER_02:It's one of those ones where if he has two passing touchdowns and they're in the fourth quarter and they're like within the five-yard line or the three-yard line where they would typically hand it off, maybe they'll let Sam throw it just because he's in that situation. It'd be worth half a million dollars to him. The other two really come down to, excuse me, really come down to, you know, how he does with his completion percentage.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Um that kind of stuff is unknown. Right.
SPEAKER_02:So I I'm obviously I'm I'm really hyped up for uh for Sam Darnold. The the uh let me see here. That's tonight's game. Seahawks 49ers. So I I'm I'm really pumped for that game. That that's got a lot of implications, and that looks like it's gonna be really good. And another little tidbit that has nothing to do with incentives or anything else, but your boy Brock Purdy, he's on fire. Have you noticed that? I mean, he he looked good. He had five touchdowns last week. He looked great. This is a guy where I was kind of looking in, and you tell me for your perception of Brock Purdy, because he's a he's way out of our market, right? We don't know nothing about what happens on the West Coast or what any of those people think about him. But from over here, I always just kind of viewed Brock Purdy as like an Alex Smith kind of a quarterback, just a game manager, you know. He's not he doesn't have the biggest arm, he's not the strongest arm, he's not Uber mobile, you know. He he just does everything right, doesn't turn the ball over.
SPEAKER_04:Doesn't seem to be the the long-term guy.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know, because there's a lot of teams that can really build around just pure efficiency. You know, he's gonna he he not put himself into much risk, doesn't get not gonna get hurt, you know, the game that he plays. And he can just manage the players and get it to the playmakers on offense. That's really what you want your quarterback to do. Now, if you have a Mahomes or a Jackson or uh John uh Allen or you know, if you have one of these other guys that's also the biggest playmaker on the team, then that's great. But Purdy I always looked at as just this game manager. But last week he didn't look like a game manager, and the week before he didn't look like a game manager either because he's on fire right now.
SPEAKER_04:Um I mean, I know last week's game was a hell of a game. I watched parts of it, I didn't watch the game.
SPEAKER_02:And I had mentioned on the last pod that I had watched Sam Darnold and really for the first time thought, man, this guy can really, really play. Like he's he's legit. He's not we talked about Minnesota maybe having buyers or sellers remorse and getting rid of getting rid of him.
SPEAKER_04:Um Well, they are looking for a a veteran quarterback guy here. I mean, they had one.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know why they let the guy go. He seemed like he was like their Jared Golf, you know what I mean? Right. Uh so I I don't know. Back back to the incentives, just a couple of the other ones that I wanted to kind of go through. And right now we're recording this podcast Saturday afternoon in the middle of the Bucks Panthers game. Let me tune in here. Let me just put on the stats real quick and see if he got it. Nope, he doesn't got it yet. Uh Sterling Shepherd still needs one catch for 29 yards for 250K. Uh Tony Pollard, he's he's within reach tomorrow. He needs 66 rushing yards for 1,100 for the year. That that gets him$250,000. Keenan Allen's got a big, a big day ahead of him. He needs six catches. He needs nine yards. Nine yards, no big deal if he has six catches. But he needs two touchdowns. That gets him paid a lot of money. Um Von Miller on our team, one sack. He needs one sack tomorrow. I think his incentive was nine. I could be wrong, but I think he's got nine or eight. Uh, but one sack tomorrow will give him five hundred thousand dollars. Half a million dollars.
SPEAKER_04:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:If I told you that I would pay you half a million dollars to suit up and get a sack, would you attempt it?
SPEAKER_03:For half a sure, why not?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Right? If I told you you needed 87 scrimmage yards for uh 250k, you think you can get that? Can I get it? No. No, I don't Saquon Barkley needs that for tomorrow. If they decide to play him. If they just Which I think isn't worth a conversation. Do you think when the coach is contemplating sitting his his starters for the playoffs, do you think that there's a conversation that's had between the coach and the player to say, hey, uh, I'm gonna arrest you for the playoffs? And the player's sitting there, like, I just got off the phone, my agent, and he told me I need 87 scrimmage yards for$250,000 and you're gonna bench me, you you're stealing it from me. Because 87 scrimmage yards, for say Colin Barkley, seems like he can do that in like the second quarter. Right. By the second quarter. Right.
SPEAKER_04:So I mean, if there's if there's not a conversation about those kind of things, there should be. Uh, because if I were any player, I would want to at least attempt to get those milestones at least for the first half.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Like give me a shot. Like if it's if it's within striking distance here and I can rest for the second half, please, coach, let me, you know, let me try. Um we'll see. Uh previous player uh John Allen used to be on our team. You know, he's only got three and a half sacks this year. Now, out of the D-tackle, you know, they're not you're not seeing a lot of D-tackles get up to like 15 sacks like you're seeing these DNs get, like the lots of the world. But um if he gets to five total for the year, he gets$750,000. So he needs one and a half sacks uh tomorrow. Um I'd be curious if he if he gets that. But I always that that's all I got for the player incentives. I just thought that that was I always like tracking that. There's probably a few that I missed. I mean, they're all over the league.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean they're um I think on every team you'll find somebody that I was deep diving into the player incentives.
SPEAKER_02:It does seem like there's some teams out there that really like structuring their contracts around the player incentives, and then there's a lot of teams out there that have none. So that like they're like, no. There's either teams that depend on the incentives, and then there's teams that like, no, we don't we don't really do the incentives. You get played you get paid to play wide receiver. We only know what I mean. Interesting. It every every organization's different, everybody structures their cap differently, everybody goes around their contracts differently. And so I'm not smart enough to to deep dive into the finances of the NFL to figure out, you know, dead cap versus what hits what, and uh, you know, that goes over my head to a certain extent. I think it goes over you you really need to have a master's degree in multiple things.
SPEAKER_04:Well, some teams are paying so much in you know dead money for you know ex head coaches. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:There's certain teams that should be uh uh going back to school for for all that. The only other thing that I had for our first quarter here that I I I wanted to just touch on real quick was just hats off to old to old man Rivers. Um, who seems like he's played his last game. We've said that before five years ago, but um it's a it's a done deal now. It's done. It was fun. I think it was it was one of my favorite storylines of the game.
SPEAKER_04:It would have been nice if he got the win.
SPEAKER_02:Yes. But he did he played better than I thought. Um and we had talked a couple podcasts ago about what we think this does for his Hall of Fame, his legacy, you know. He he didn't give India a chance to, you know, win a Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_04:No, but I mean they were already sort of imploding. Yeah. So he talked about an all-time implode, didn't you? So he can't be he can't be held responsible for the end result of that team because he was brought in to at least attempt to salvage. But if it didn't happen, it was like no big deal. You know, there really was no pressure on him.
SPEAKER_02:Right, right. He he finishes uh 2025 with three games played. Uh he went 58 for 92, 63 percent completion percentage there, four touchdowns, three interceptions. Um and you could really see the arm strength in a lot of his games there. When he was throwing it deep, his deep ball was 33 yards down the field. Yeah. It really didn't get much farther than that, especially with his old sidearm. But it was fun watching him play. It was fun seeing him back in the spotlight. Um, but with that being said, I think we should get on to our uh our picks.
SPEAKER_05:Can't lose locks.
SPEAKER_04:All right, let's get into our uh picks. I'm just going right into it. Yeah, man. We're not gonna preamble this yet.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm I'm I'm with you. I'm really curious how you've how how you've been, because uh everybody that's listening to each podcast last couple weeks didn't really make sense by the time we put out the pod um for us to make our picks, but I'm curious. So what's your overall record for the season?
SPEAKER_04:My overall record right now is 157 and 99 if I have everything totaled up correctly. And that that's are you happy with that?
SPEAKER_03:I'm I'm quite pleased with it, I have to say it better than what I thought. You do this every year, though, right?
SPEAKER_02:Uh do you know uh by chance how this ranks for Nope, not a clue.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, there's no I I can't pull up like previous years records, so I have no idea.
SPEAKER_02:Well, we'll know this season how it ranks versus next season.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, we'll we'll have it in the book and we can reference it uh next season. All right. But you know, all season you've been busting my balls about oh, you know, that week's gonna come. You're gonna get your losing record, you're gonna get da-da-da-da. Well, it happened.
SPEAKER_05:Oh shit, it did. It happened last week. Oh no. All right, was it was it a blowout? Seven and nine. Okay. Well so not horrible. But, you know. But it did happen. It did happen.
SPEAKER_02:You know, at this point, I thought that it wasn't gonna happen all season long. Uh, but you know, hats off to you for making it 17 weeks in the NFL schedule without picking uh a losing a losing record. I that's that's pretty good. Hats off to you.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, I think I just got lucky a number of weeks, but hey, it is what it is. Not gonna I'll take a win any way I can get it. But yeah, I ended up being seven and nine last week, so there you go. Okay. Uh but looking at this week's games, um obviously right now uh the Panthers are playing the Bucks, and I went with the Bucs. Uh then we've got an eight o'clock game tonight. Uh the Seahawks uh at the 49ers, and I went with the Niners. And then looking at the Sunday games, one o'clock, you've got the Saints and the Falcons, I went with the Falcons. You've got the Browns and the Bengals, I went with the Bengals. You have the Colts and the Texans, I went with the Texans. You have the Titans against the Jaguars, and I went with the Jags. Uh you've got the Packers against Minnesota in Minnesota. I went with Green Bay. You've got Dallas against New York, and I went with the Cowboys. Uh, the four o'clock games on Sunday. You've got the Jets uh at Buffalo, and I went with Buffalo. You have the Lions against the Bears in Chicago, and I went with Detroit. Uh you have the Chargers at Denver, and I went with the Chargers. You have Kansas City against the Raiders in Vegas, and I went with Kansas City. Uh you have Arizona at the Rams, and I went with the Rams. You have the Dolphins at New England, and I went with New England. Um skipping our game because we'll circle back to that. And then Sunday night, the Sunday night game, because there is no Monday night game. There never is on the last week of the year. Uh the Ravens at Pittsburgh, and I went with Pittsburgh.
SPEAKER_02:All right. Um I agree with some. I disagree with others. Well, Tom agrees with you on some. Uh so we'll see here. Um now, Tom and I uh all season long have been picking, and Tom is, for those of you that don't know, is your friend that gambles. So me and my buddy from high school, we pick games against each other each week, and I've been tracking his bets against my bets on the pod. So uh I'm within striking distance here going into the final week of the regular season. Well, that's good. My regular season our our our season record will end with the regular season, and we will start anew with the playoffs with a new structure to our betting. Makes sense. But we go an over and under a favorite and an underdog against the spread. Um, I am 36, 31, and one push on the season, and Tom is 39 and 29. So three, two and a half, depending on how you play that tie. Maybe that tie maybe makes it three and a half. I'm not sure. But um I'm within striking distance, but I need a good week of picks against Tom's week of picks. Right. Uh I'm just happy I'm also in the in the green. So if I bet every single one of my bets this year, I'd be in the plus on the money-wise. And so would Tom, obviously. He's 10 games up. I went Seattle minus two and a half. I went Pittsburgh plus three and a half. I went Carolina, Tampa Bay over 43.5. And Tennessee, Jacksonville, under 47.5. And as I'm looking at those bets, and I'm looking at the live score of the Panthers Bucks. I think it's like 13-7. Yeah, it's 16 to 7. Oh, okay. 11 minutes left to go in the fourth quarter, and I bet the over on that. And it looks like that's not gonna hit unless there's a really exciting fourth quarter here. Um Tom went Bills minus seven and a half, lions plus three, Arizona, Rams over 46 and a half, and this was the just the surprising one to me. I was confused with Chargers Denver under 37 and a half. Oh. Really? I can't, I I I I can't figure it out. Are they at they're at Denver? Is it snow?
SPEAKER_03:Is it gonna be snowy? I don't know. I'm not a weatherman.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I don't know either.
SPEAKER_02:Um but or they, I mean, they are in Denver, but but does it those two offenses, unless it's gonna be, unless there's a weather factor in there, that that overunder at 37 and a half with those two, those two offenses.
SPEAKER_04:Because they're both still playing for something, right? In in terms of playoffs, if nothing else, seating, right?
SPEAKER_02:I'm glad that you asked, Michael, because our new segment, we that is uh not named, but we'll just basically just call it our playoff segment, is up next.
SPEAKER_05:Playoff.
SPEAKER_06:So we go to the ship, right?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, we could.
SPEAKER_06:Hey, we want to the ship. We go to the gym, we go to the ship.
SPEAKER_00:Playoff. Playoff.
SPEAKER_03:Last game of the year, Brent.
SPEAKER_04:Can't hold anything back now. You kidding me? I just hope we can win a game.
SPEAKER_02:So I'm glad you asked. So I've got I've got all of the playoff implications going in for all of these matchups for week 18. Because there's a lot of things that could happen, including some, you know, win you're in, lose you go home. Uh but there's a lot here that has to do with strictly seeding as well. Then just run through it. Let's go. So I'll I'll start with the game that's on right now: Tampa Bay at Carolina. Carolina wins, and they win the NFC South. Tampa Bay needs to win and Atlanta lose. Carolina at 8-8, Tampa Bay at 7-9. So this is a situation where if Tampa Bay wins, they need a little bit of help, but they're in the playoffs. The game that we were just talking about was the Chargers at Denver. Not not a big um, not a big do-or-die game there, but if uh Denver wins, they clinch the number one seed in the AFC. If the Chargers win, then their seeding will change between the fifth seed and the seventh seed, but the standings in the division won't. You follow?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I got you.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:It's all about seeding, but the record itself doesn't do anything.
SPEAKER_02:Let's get into the game tonight. Seattle, San Francisco, the winner of this game wins the NFC West and the number one seed in the NFC. Right? Okay. So whoever wins this game is on the NFC side of things, um is gonna have that number one seed. The loser will drop to the wild card, but we'll have the best seed in the wild card.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So there's that.
SPEAKER_03:Makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:The other do or die, the big game, and maybe I should save this for last, but I'm looking at it, I've already started talking about it, is the Baltimore Pittsburgh game. I'm super pumped up for this. It does look like Lamar is gonna play.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, did you hear he finally had his a full week of practice?
SPEAKER_03:I can't wait till they cut him. You think that will happen? Yeah, I do.
SPEAKER_04:Um, I mean He doesn't have an agent. He they're not talking contract. He is falling asleep in team meetings. He's too busy playing his Mario Kart and his Dungeon and Dragon video games. He he's they're done with him. They're done with him. If they have to choose between Lamar Jackson or their head coach, they're going to go with their head coach, which means they're gonna find a new quarterback. You watch?
SPEAKER_02:I I'm I'm really intrigued with this conversation. And honestly, not in I I'm not you've done a little bit more research and all I don't even know what Lamar Jackson's injuries have been all season.
SPEAKER_04:I don't even think he knows.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I know that Tom is is uh a listener and he's a big Ravens fan, so I'd like to have him on and and talk to you uh uh uh about what he thinks will happen. And we'll obviously have a lot more insight as to what will happen there after this game because a lot hinges on this game with with futures of both franchises. I do think and we'll and we'll get into this uh we'll get into our hot seats after we go through each one of these games, but just while we're on this game, um I do think that Tomlin's future is a little bit more up in the air than Harbaugh's future is with their respective franchises at this point. Do you agree?
SPEAKER_04:I would say you're probably right, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um let me just keep going through here and we'll get back to the coaches. Tennessee at Jacksonville. Jacksonville win and they win the AFC South. Tennessee sucks. Jacksonville wins, they're in the AFC South. Let's move ahead to the Colts at Houston. Right? Um the Colts were eliminated, so they win, and Jacksonville lost, they win the AFC South. A loss, and they still make the playoffs. All right?
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So Houston's in. Right. But it it just their division is still up in the air, uh, depending upon who goes where between Jacksonville and Texans. Jack Jacksonville at 12 and four, Texans at 11 and 5. Uh both surprising records. I think a lot of people had the Colts pegged to win that division. I think a couple people might have picked Houston to win that division. Uh not many people were picking the the Jaguars. Um, but neither here nor there. Moving on, Miami at New England. Of course, Miami's got no uh playoff implications there. The Pats have already won the AFC East. Um this game really just comes down to if they win and Denver loses, they have the number one seed. If they lose, worst case, New England only drops down to the number three seed in the AFC. Okay. Okay. Um We already talked about the Chargers in Denver, Rams, Arizona, Rams are in. Rams can only either be the fifth or the sixth seed. Okay. Similar situation with the Bills-Jets game. Uh sixth or seventh seed, the Bills are in. The Bills are the scary wild card team because they're the team in years past that's typically up there in the top three seeds.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Typically getting a bye, typically fighting the the the And they're like 11 and 5, right? Right. No, the Bills are. Yes, you know, you're right. The Bills are eleven and five. Uh, but the Patriots are the sneaky good team in the middle of the state.
SPEAKER_04:It's crazy that eleven a five team is going to be like a fifth or a sixth seed.
SPEAKER_02:Well, the Bills have lost some games that some people didn't think that they would. The Bills can lose games to bad teams.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah. No argument. We've seen that all season. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh well, all season, but they've got they only got five losses, but the losses that they have have been not all of them, but some of them have been been surprising. But they're either going to be a sixth or a seventh seed. That leads me to our game, Philly Washington. Um the playoff implications are that Philly either is the uh number two seed or the number three seed. And some of that hinges on what the Bears do. If they win and the Bears lose, they'll be the number two seed. If they lose and the Bears win, they'll be the number three seed, but they don't drop to the fourth seed because the fourth seed goes to a division and they've got a better record than either the Panthers. Um they've got a better record than either the Panthers or the Bucs. So they don't really move that much. If we win, and this is where I defer to you, if we win this game, then, and obviously it depends on all the bad teams. We don't look at it from this perspective, but from a draft pick perspective, we're either looking like uh six or seven. Six or seven, win or lose.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, I mean right now for my nephews, I think right now we're gonna cousin's kids that listen to the pod, they'll appreciate the six or seven. Um that goes over my head, but it's worth saying that we said it. So I don't mind having the six or the seventh.
SPEAKER_04:If you I think we're sitting at seven right now.
SPEAKER_02:I'll take the seven.
SPEAKER_04:Look, but it doesn't matter to me. Six or seven.
SPEAKER_02:Give us the win. Just give us the win. I want to play sports. I never want.
SPEAKER_04:You think we're gonna win? You really think we're gonna win tomorrow? No. Okay. Go with that.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think we're gonna win. There's been nothing to lead me to think we could win. But it's any given Sunday. This is the NFL. Any team can win. And and true, but not gonna be tomorrow. So, okay, but I but I'm not allowed to say that I hope we beat the beat the Eagles that are sitting all their starters and have nothing to play for, basically. Because when I said earlier in the pod that this was inconsequential, we're it's looking like they either have the second seed or the third seed, and it looks like we either have the sixth draft pick or the seventh draft pick. Win or lose. Or tie, pretty much. Right. So if those are the difference makers leading into this game, then give us the just give us the win. Let us let us win. You guys, you the Eagles have all the wins. Let us just get our all we're asking for is our fifth win. I would just enjoy seeing it tomorrow. I'm going to watch the game. I'd love to see a win, is all I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03:You know what I'm saying? I don't disagree, but I don't think it's going to happen.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I'm not saying it's going to happen either, but I can I can also say that I hope it happens. Um all right, as we kind of get into our our fourth quarter here, which we are going to talk about the Eagles game, whether you like it or not, it will happen tomorrow at 4.25. We will be watching it every play. So we're going to talk about that game and what we think the predictions are going to be. We'll go through who's going to sit and who's not. But before we get into that, I did want to kind of talk about uh Black Monday. You know, people have heard about Black Friday. Um if you don't know about Black Monday, Black Monday is quite the opposite.
SPEAKER_03:It's when everybody gets canned.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, it has nothing to do with shopping.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, I mean, they're gonna be shopping for new jobs.
SPEAKER_02:I guess you're right. In some ways, the coaches that are gonna get fired are gonna be looking for new jobs, and the teams that fire are gonna be looking for new head coaches. So they're gonna be shopping.
SPEAKER_04:Uh so I guess coaches, coordinators, the whole gamut.
SPEAKER_02:Right. So I have developed a list of the hottest of the hottest coach coaching uh seats right now because Black Monday around the NFL is notoriously known for the day that all the head coaches that get fired. Usually starts about 9 a.m. Now I've got ten names here. I don't think that all ten names are gonna get fired. Okay. But if one of these names does get fired, then the name behind them all of a sudden just gets just a smidge warmer. You follow? I do. Okay. So first name on my list is Kevin Stefansky, Cleveland. Man, he has been hearing all sorts of stuff this year. He's gone. He's just another Cleveland head coach.
SPEAKER_04:Um I mean, I don't honestly nothing good comes out of Cleveland.
SPEAKER_03:He's gone. Yeah, he's gone.
SPEAKER_02:Pete Carroll, which is a surprise to me. I thought hiring Pete Carroll was by design. They knew what they were getting out of him, but it's not going how they want there in Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_04:I think it's seems like it's surprising because it's only the first season and he's already on the hot seat.
SPEAKER_02:That's that's what's so surprising. If you why hire him if you're just gonna fire him. One year later. But it does seem like they're gonna fire him.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, unfortunately it does. I don't know what went wrong there.
SPEAKER_02:I I don't either. Because what what didn't you know? What what didn't you know a year ago that you know now about Pete Carroll? Right. You knew what you were getting when obviously the team didn't perform, but you know, you give a little longer lease to a first year head coach, right? He's I mean, normally, unless you're in like Cleveland. He's inheriting the last the last people's players, you know? Yeah. Um, but who knows? Maybe he walked in the building saying, I don't care who you give me. Where the w who who I've seen you guys already got, I can build into a a championship team. And if he can't talk in a big game, then maybe that's why. Um Aaron Glenn with the Jets. I think that's an awesome. Another guy that just seemed like he got the job.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, it's like Cleveland, you know, Cleveland and uh the Jets, you know, they're two bottom feeding teams and have been for years now. So like you almost you have to pray for anyone who who coaches those teams because they're going to be short-lived.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Jonathan Gannon, Arizona head coach. Um I mean, it just seems like they're ready to restructure there. There's been talk of uh about Murray. The the team hasn't pl performed up to standards over the last uh couple years, so it just seems like they're ready to make a change there. Uh this is where it starts to get a little bit iffy. Uh Raheem Morris, they brought him in, I believe, before they they uh drafted Penix.
SPEAKER_04:That sound that seems right.
SPEAKER_02:That organization's always been a little bit tricky there. I actually heard rumors the other day that Matt Ryan is being looked at for a front office position. I saw that too. Whether that be GM or assistant GM or head of scouting or whatever.
SPEAKER_04:Seems like some executive position in the front office. Right.
SPEAKER_02:Then I've got Todd Bowles, who's currently coaching the game right now as we speak. Let's flip on over to that. That doesn't still there's about four minutes left.
SPEAKER_04:That doesn't seem possible. I mean, that just doesn't seem likely to me. He he's done well.
SPEAKER_02:As I'm going through the list of the hottest seats and looking at what all the other people are saying, there was a there seems like there was some legitimacy to where his seat might be hot. I think he's safe. I got Mike McDaniel next, which why don't I have him higher on the list?
SPEAKER_04:Because I felt like if he was out the Because the mini win streak that they've had has, in essence, saved him until the end of the season, but they've already given up on Tua, so he's next to go. It's gonna be Publishers Clearinghouse down there in Miami.
SPEAKER_02:Well, he's gone. I mean, he's on my list for a reason, so I don't disagree with that.
SPEAKER_04:And the rumors I've seen is he's gonna end up in Cleveland. So that's gonna be short-lived too. So in about three years, he'll be bagging groceries at Cain.
SPEAKER_02:All right. Well, we'll see how that all plays out. I I was You heard it here first. I was just gonna say he's so far down. The reason why he's not one, two, three on this list is because I just felt like if he it was an inevitable, he'd already been fired.
SPEAKER_04:If they didn't win those what, six games in a in a row.
SPEAKER_02:Well, if you remember, I called that he would be fired by like week six.
SPEAKER_04:I I think I said week seven, but they gave him a mercy till the end of the season because they fired the GM instead. So they just postponed his his walking papers. He's gonna get it. He's gone.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Then I've got Zach Taylor. He's Cincinnati's head coach. Now, a couple of years back, everybody was looking at him like, man, this guy's a good one.
SPEAKER_04:Doesn't seem like Burrow is very happy.
SPEAKER_02:So there's some turmoil up there. I think it that whole division's got some some shakeups happening soon. Yeah. But like I don't really think he's too much to blame. I did see that his record without Burrow is seven and sixteen.
SPEAKER_04:Well, our record without JD isn't much better. So, you know, that that's kind of the victim of like when your marquee starter is out, you you know.
SPEAKER_02:Right. I got Mike Tomlin coming in at number nine spot here. You can't say that his seat's not warm.
SPEAKER_04:So it's probably it's probably, and I think you said this off air, it's probably the warmest it's been in quite a while.
SPEAKER_02:And I'll give you the logic and the reasoning behind it. I if we if we rewind four years ago when the first fans started saying, I'm not sure one of the first Pittsburgh fans started saying, I'm not sure about Tom. Oh, we should fire him. And everybody else was like, You're crazy. Who are you gonna replace him with? My Tomlin's good.
SPEAKER_04:Well, that's that would be a legitimate question now. Who are you gonna replace him with?
SPEAKER_02:But but but hear me out. So four years were like, you're crazy. Three years ago, because they finished just one game over 500, right? Three years ago, you're saying, okay, I can see, but still, you know, he's a good coach. You guys just hit some player stuff. Two years ago, it's the same way. You're like, okay, well, all right, maybe you guys are just maybe you got something here. Maybe this guy is just average, but has a good organization backing him to make him slightly above average. And now into this season, it's kind of like, all right, what's going on with Thailand? Because it does it does seem to think that he's a 500 guy. You know? Uh I mean, he played above his potential maybe early in his coaching career, and now he's kind of just playing at his coaching potential. Uh have were we fooled to begin with, and now we've I don't think we're fooled.
SPEAKER_04:Maybe it's just like anything else when you've been a head coach for one organization as long as he has what 15, 16 years at this point. I think there's inevitably just a point where you you just get tired.
SPEAKER_02:Well, and I don't know if tired's the right word, but I hear what you're saying. I am going to uh like it does get to a point where the coach has been there so long to where you've run your course, you can't restart here, right? Right, you can do that someplace else and be the same coach you were, which is the tenth name on my list, Andy Reid. He's safe. Of everybody that we've just said, obviously, this is a 10. Uh there's a little bit of shock value. I'm putting his name at the end there. He did not have the season that he was hoping for.
SPEAKER_04:No, it was their worst season in 10 years.
SPEAKER_02:But look what he did with Philly. Look what he did with Kansas City. Right. He did basically the exact same thing. And so maybe he's run his course. Maybe that he built his team, he drafted his players, he found his team, he brought them to the championship, he won them Super Bowls, and now it's time for him to go do that same exact thing for another organization. Nobody's saying you're a bad coach, Andy Reid, Mike Tomlin, right? You've just run your course. You've run your course here.
SPEAKER_04:And and that logic makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it does legitimately. So, like, could Mike Tomlin pick up and go to the Jets and turn in the Jets to something. Maybe not the Jets. But could Mike Tomlin go to Tampa, maybe, or or you know, uh Arizona or Las Vegas?
SPEAKER_04:But to your point, uh a coach of that caliber is not going to, in essence, waste his talents in the cesspool of Cleveland or the Jets. Okay. You're going to go to another high-dollar, big media market.
SPEAKER_02:Well, you're going to go where it makes sense for you to go, which is like a Vraybill, right? Like he identified that the job that I want, the job that's right for me, isn't available right now. He didn't even interview with us. Right. Right? Because he was just like, no, that's not for me. You know, I I don't want to come into like a new situation. Whatever, what whatever his reasonings was, or maybe he just knew from the get-go, I I'm a I'm a patriot. I just gotta let this guy, I forget Mayo. I gotta let him go through and now, and then I can be um, but it it does take the right fit and the right organization. Um and trust me, like there's these guys out there that are looking at these jobs and ranking them, you know, as the same way that the organization is looking at coaches and saying, I would rather this guy over this guy over this guy. These coaches are saying, I'd rather this organization over that organization over this organization. And rightfully so. Yeah. Well, so that's my odd seats. I know some of them are a little bit of a hot take. Uh, we did talk a little bit off air beforehand just about the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game. And, you know, you could argue that John Harbaugh is sitting in a in a similar situation as Tomlin is, but why is his seat not as warm as Tomlin's seat? I don't know. Because it does seem like they're similar. Harbaugh has had some more recent uh success. You could have to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I think the I think the drama with Lamar is overshadowing any issues with Harbaugh as the head coach. Yeah. Like, and that's kind of the thing with Tomlin. Tomlin is the focus right now because they don't have a starting quarterback. You know, for the last couple of seasons, they it's just been a carousel of quarterbacks. Yeah. So if Tomlin had a a solid starter, his seat might not be as hot.
SPEAKER_03:Or hotter, depending upon the decision.
SPEAKER_04:And same thing as I'm saying with Harvey. If he picked the wrong quarterback, it'd been hotter. Right. Because uh Lamar is probably on his way out and has had some off-the-field antics in the locker room and stuff. I think he's kind of getting a pass because Lamar is the focus, because Lamar isn't committed to the team. I don't care what Tom says, I'm probably right. You know, if they could get the quarterback situation figured out and get a decent starter in there who's committed to the team and the direction they want to go, maybe that makes Harbaugh hotter next year, depending on how, you know, that transpires. You know.
SPEAKER_02:I I really think like the big decision that any head coach or GM is going to make, uh, depending upon the organization, depends upon how much say they they give the head coach or the GM. But the the starting quarterback decision is a big one. And you could be fired over whether or not you're right or wrong about it. And I think as a head coach should be. Right. And I think Harbaugh has teetered on the side of being right more often than he than on his quarterback decision, even though right now we're scratching. The only reason why his seat might be warm is because we're scratching our heads over Lamar. But if he gets an opportunity to pick the next quarterback for the organization like you think he's gonna get, then it just gives his leash so much longer. You got he gets three years at least to see what that decision, how that decision comes out. Um now with Tomlin over the last four or five seasons, basically ever since Rothesburg, which I do think there's probably four or five seasons, right? He's been out.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. But you're right, since since he retired.
SPEAKER_02:So Tomlin has kind of made like these cop-out decisions on quarterbacks. He just pieced it together. Yes, just kind of pieced it together. But it's like he hasn't made a definitive, we're gonna trade up in the first round to select this guy as my guy, and I'm gonna bank my reputation on it. He hasn't done that. Even the Aaron Rodgers decision, even the Russell Wilson or the Justin Fields decisions weren't definitive, you know, on my record. Right.
SPEAKER_04:And it's never a definitive decision when you go with Justin Fields. Okay. That's what I'm saying. Leonardo that's that is an ultimate company.
SPEAKER_02:We're basically both saying the same thing that he he I'm saying that he's not made that decision important enough to be fireable. And you've kind of said that he's just piecing stuff together. It's the same thing. Yeah. Um but at a certain point, it's like, how many nine and eight seasons are we or is the Pittsburgh Steelers and their fan base going to put up with because you know they're used to having all the Super Bowls and they're starting to see all these other teams.
SPEAKER_04:Right. And just having an ab just having an above 500 record is not good enough for them because all they know, like we've been saying, and like you said, all they know is to win. Where us, okay, all we have known for the past 20 years is to lose. So when we have last year was the annoying. When we have the above average season last year, it's like, oh crap, this is what winning feels like. This is what it's like to have a franchise that actually has, if now for only one season, has their shit together. Like, this is really cool. This is awesome, this is fantastic. But Steelers and the similar franchises, they're used to winning every year. So anything short of an AFC title or an AFC championship game appearance is a complete and utter disaster to them. I mean, look at Kansas City.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. This is their worst season in 10 years, and everybody's like a mixture of like, well, thank God they're not in the playoffs, but ooh, what's what do they have to do to rebuild? Yeah. You know?
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:It's because when you're when you're winning so much every year, and you're a for sure thing, and then the wheels come off and you lose. It's like, well, what happened? Why'd it happen? Why didn't we see this coming?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I think a lot of the really good teams, they just get to a point where it's hard to identify your issues when you've been on the top for so long. You don't really internally, you don't see it as dwindling the same way as everybody else is opposed to the other.
SPEAKER_04:But on the outside, you can see it when people leave and they they don't replace the stars with the same caliber of player. They always go to a lesser degree of player, and it's like, well, they're not gonna be that good in this position anymore because, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Well, once once you become good, they gotta pay you. And then there's only so much money to go around. And you think that they can certain talent can overcome other areas of the roster, but the we're and we found out that depth is everything. You really need to spread the season full of injuries.
SPEAKER_04:You find that out real quick. We found it by the end of game one.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Okay. So to transition from our coaching talk just quickly into our our fourth quarter talk, but kind of keep it on us. Um I I think it's safe to say, in terms of firings go, as far as the commanders are concerned, it seems like Joe Witt's days our number.
SPEAKER_04:I would look for a new offensive and defensive coordinator.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I'm only starting on the defense here. It seems like Joe Witt's been packing his bags since he got demoted mid season, right? So he's not going to be shocked or surprised. I'm sure that him and Dan have already had some conversations like, yeah, you know, like this is like we should, we're probably gonna be
SPEAKER_04:Anytime your head coach takes over your duties, you're done for.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. And then Cliff, I mean, with all the head coaching positions, and he was in talks, and with the season that we just had, uh, he's a candidate that is gonna go in for interviews. Uh, you seem to think, and I don't disagree, that the Giants seem like a good fit for him. Seems like a good I mean, I hope it doesn't happen because it's obviously within our division, and he would know a lot about our team like that.
SPEAKER_04:If he goes to a team like the Giants, they might have one good season and then he'll end up like he did in Arizona and he'll be fired within three years.
SPEAKER_02:I hope that for some reason he thinks that Shador Sanders is the answer and he ends up going to Cleveland. Jesus. You know what I mean? That's what I hope happens. But it it does seem like the writing's on the wall here. I've I heard some reports that him and the GM don't necessarily click was the question of the case.
SPEAKER_04:I saw the same thing.
SPEAKER_02:So it it does seem like our coordinators um we're gonna have some new coordinators. So that's good.
SPEAKER_04:But after a what, four and twelve record, we need uh we need some fresh blood. So whatever they need to do to get us a winning record next year, by all means do it. All right.
SPEAKER_02:All right, so that brings us into our fourth quarter. Uh just quickly, we'll talk about the Eagles. I don't wanna I don't want to depress you guys too much because Mike just tells it how it is, folks.
SPEAKER_04:We're gonna lose 27-14. There you go. There it is.
SPEAKER_02:27-14. Uh okay. Um I don't want to give a prediction. I I'm I'm gonna say it's gonna be 21-10. Uh I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be low scoring because the Eagles are gonna sit some players. Uh like we talked about earlier. I'm curious what they do with Saquon, whether or not he plays or not.
SPEAKER_04:But he what he was 80-some yards short. He should play. I mean, he can get that in his sleep, okay? Especially against our defense.
SPEAKER_02:So uh it it the reports are that Hertz is gonna sit. Uh AJ Brown is gonna sit. Uh Saquon is a question mark. Uh Devontae Smith is gonna sit. I didn't get any names on defense, but I'm sure there's a handful of defensive uh players for the Eagles that are gonna sit. Uh Tanner McKee is the backup quarterback for the Eagles, so he'll be the one playing. And I'd love to say that we have, you know, with all those players sitting, you'd like to think that we should be a little bit more optimistic about this nothing burger of a game, Michael Berder.
SPEAKER_04:But we don't have much starters.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, our our our our a lot of our starters are out. Uh Jack Johnson is starting to be.
SPEAKER_04:I was optimistic until we saw that he was gonna be our starter.
SPEAKER_02:You really wanted to see Hartman start that this game, didn't you?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, why not?
SPEAKER_02:I I I don't disagree.
SPEAKER_04:I I I I would have liked to see him start. And I'm not like a huge fan of Hartman, but like we talked about last week, it doesn't make sense to me. He's been on your team the entire season. Your one and your two quarterback are out. And why aren't you letting him start? I could see maybe he doesn't start last week because uh he doesn't know the offense because he's been on the practice squad. But uh why not the last game of the year? You already saw what Josh Johnson can do, not much. And even though Hartman isn't that great and he did struggle in the preseason, like can't do much worse.
SPEAKER_02:You're looking at it from the perspective of like let the seniors play.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Because I don't think he's gonna be on the team next year.
SPEAKER_04:I don't think he is either. I think that's obvious. If you're not gonna start him in the last two games of the year, he's must just be a really good teammate.
SPEAKER_02:I know that him and Jaden are friends and they got drafted the same time. They're rookies, right? They're friends, they're in the quarterback.
SPEAKER_04:Remember, they cut him at the beginning of this season, too. If you're not and then signed him to the practice squad.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean but look, you so if if a guy's gonna get signed to the practice squad, he needs to be cut, and other teams need to have the opportunity to sign. But um But no, I agree with you. It it it if you're not gonna start a guy in this situation, then why is he on your team? Exactly. Exactly. It doesn't matter. As good of a teammate as he might be, there's other guys that are just as good teammates that could be a third string and actually play when their number is called. But when your third string guy is actually your fifth string guy, because you would much rather pull up some random Driscoll off the waiver wire.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, like what's the Something is not adding up there. I don't know what it is.
SPEAKER_02:I think I really do think I think it's a it's just that. I think he's a good teammate. He he's good in the quarterback room, he's friends with a lot of players, he's good for morale, but they're they're just they were thanking God last year that he just didn't have to start. And then as soon as Mariota went down, it's like, well shoot. It might we might be put in a situation where he actually might take snaps. And now they're like, dang. So I I that must be what's going on there, or else I don't know what else it could be.
SPEAKER_04:So that you would you're probably right.
SPEAKER_02:Unless you just want to see his pretty ass face up on the jumbotron, because they like can you tell me another time a practice squad quarterback was shown on the jumbotron? Spoil's just got a pretty face.
SPEAKER_03:Ah, I I I don't think I could.
SPEAKER_04:I don't I don't think I don't think a practice squad quarterback has ever gotten this much attention.
SPEAKER_02:So no, no. Look, let the guy let the guy become a model if he wants to become a model. If he wants to play football, then and he's on your football team, then he better play football when it's time to play football. That's my point. Yeah, that's my point. Um yeah, so I'm glad for the season to be over. It has been such an exhausting one. And it's not as though we haven't seen four win seasons before. It's just with all the hype from last year and being 60 minutes away from the Super Bowl, it it has just been one of the more disappointing seasons of my life. And that's saying a lot because we have seen some rough ones. Like it we it it it's just been exhausting. And I know our fan base feels the exact same way that we do. Uh Adam Peters, Dan Quinn, Josh Harris, they all need to figure this thing out this offseason because you're gonna lose us even more. Like you got to the point last season where you the fan base started using your stupid commander's name.
SPEAKER_07:Right?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Because you went to the NFC championship game and we had an awesome rookie quarterback.
SPEAKER_04:Now And because we had that great of a season, they said they weren't gonna change the name. We haven't turned any corner yet.
SPEAKER_02:If you can't replicate what we saw in year one and year three, which is next year, I mean you've got a big offseason ahead of you, and it starts on Monday.
SPEAKER_04:Uh and they've had all season to prep for it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Because they've known since halfway through the season that the season was over.
SPEAKER_02:So all right. Well, I got 21-10. You said 27-14, which I think if I went back and really looked at each podcast and heard your prediction for the score for each game. I think that's your default. It could be, who knows, you know?
SPEAKER_03:Um crying.
SPEAKER_02:I will say uh we're gonna continue to put out the podcast through the playoffs. Uh once this season or once the the regular season ends here in the playoff bracket is uh complete. Mike and I are gonna put out a bracket. We'll pick our games, we'll track everything um as the as the season progresses all the way into the Super Bowl. And then before this season ends, we'll give you guys a a look at what our what our our thoughts are going into season two of the Command and Commute podcast and and what our off-season schedule uh might look like. I know that we're planning on, I don't know if we're actually gonna go. I hope we're gonna go, but I'm planning on driving my ass up to Pittsburgh for the draft.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, we're we're hoping things come together for that.
SPEAKER_02:I would love if our our episode one of season two of the Command the Commute podcast was our commanding the commute to the draft. We might make it a two-parter, uh one on the way there, one on the way back. Uh, but that's kind of where our heads are at. But we appreciate all of you guys listening each week, uh being a part of the misery that is the Washington Redskins football team commanders uh for another tough season ahead of us, but we're gonna be cheering them on tomorrow, uh, like we do every week, and I know you guys will too. So give us a like, give us a review, give us a share. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll see you guys next week.
SPEAKER_07:I said give me a hell yeah!
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