NFL Week 14! Official Roulette - F1 Finals and More

A heavyweight swing shifted the AFC: Houston kept its nerve, Kansas City blinked, and a fourth-down gamble turned into a referendum on identity. We break down why the Texans’ composure mattered more than highlights and how the Chiefs’ post-Hill era still lacks a clean center of gravity. This isn’t just about one decision; it’s about the gap between confidence and certainty when your offensive line frays and your stars age into new roles.

From there we zoom into the blueprint that actually wins: fit over flash. Think Stafford and McVay, not just arm talent and headlines. We call out the Jets and Giants for shortcut thinking, make the case for coaching autonomy, and explain why alignment from the front office to the field is still the cheapest, sharpest edge in football. The officiating storm inevitably arrives too—two feet, control, and the slippery “act common to the game” standard—because fans deserve calls that pass the eye test, not just the rulebook riddle.

Injury luck rewrote arcs as the Colts absorbed a brutal Achilles blow, while Houston’s schedule looks inviting if they keep stacking boring, winning downs. Over in the NFC, the Rams feel primed, the Lions wobble, and the Bears won’t go quietly. We sketch out realistic Super Bowl paths based on line play, red zone decisions, and how much your coach can own the game plan when it’s cold and loud. Then we jump to an F1 stunner: Lando clinches the title by two points over Max, setting the stage for 2025 with smaller cars, tighter racing, and big-team pride on the line.

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Transcript

Texans Rise, Chiefs Stumble

SPEAKER_03 0:13

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Sports Live with Steve and Justin. Hello, Justin.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Good evening, Steve.

SPEAKER_03 0:24

How is your weekend? What the health do you have on?

SPEAKER_00 0:26

There's a new Sheriff in town, the Houston Texans. Top of the division.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

Yeah. That was the highlight of the weekend for me. I mean, yeah, I mean, you have to say, first of all, he played like Patrick Mahomes used to play. He made those tough passes when time had to be made.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Yeah, I mean, he made some incredible plays. He he played very well in the first half. And I gotta tell you, Kansas City's defense showed up too. They did. And they he played with it himself in the second half. He didn't try to do too much. He made plays when he had to. The Chiefs shut out in the first half at home. Unusual. They did come back and tie the game. Although I thought that, you know, that fourth down play late in their own territory obviously was the difference in the game. I mean, to go for it on fourth, and I think it was like fourth and six. And I don't, I know people were, you know, they weren't okay with the play call, but I didn't have a problem with it because it was targeted for the one guy to get the first down. He put it in his hands, but the pass was defended, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

No, Rice, Rice, Rice's name is, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

He dropped two passes in the end of the game that would have kept the game alive. There are two stupid things that happened. First of all, those two passes were dropped both by the same player, and they were on the money, and they would have extended the play. And the other is, I hate to tell you, they never should have gone on fourth on fourth down. I mean, they are not team. I mean, I want to say everybody must still be delusional. In at this point of the season, we know that they're not the team they once were. And what was more on the line wasn't just a game. It wasn't just the first down. It was the end of the season for it was the end of the season for them. And it really was because they are what a 16% chance they're 10th on a list to make the playoffs. Come on.

Fourth Down Decision And Playoff Math

SPEAKER_00 2:35

I mean, even if they win 10 games, they might not make the playoffs. I agree. You know, they have the extra game. But you know, that was kind of emblematic. You know, this that play is probably a play. They probably punt there at the beginning of this dynastic run that they've had. I think they're still on. I mean, I think they're just gonna find a new way and come back even stronger next year, although this year's not over. But that was, you know, a three-time Super Bowl champion telling you, you know what, we can beat you. We're the champs, and we're coming after you on fourth down, and we don't care about your number one total defense. And they just didn't make the play. And I, you know, kudos to them for going for it, but it I, you know, as a football play, a decision, it was the wrong decision. They should have punted. You know, their defense played well enough. I mean, their defense to that point had only given up 10 points. It was a tie game.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

So their offensive line was in shambles. Everybody, and and I know we were we kind of got right into it, which is what we usually don't do, everybody, but obviously we're talking about the Chiefs and uh Houston game last night. And their offense line was shambles. In fact, one of their tackles, I believe it was a tackle, was a walk-on player who had been released by the best offensive line in NFL, the New York Jets. So he was so bad. He was on their practice squad. I think he got bumped up. He was a walk-on there, he was never drafted, he was a walk-on everywhere. And frankly, I don't think he played so bad. No, I don't think so either. And and good for him. But having said all that, it's definitely an end of an year. I mean, the quarter imagine that you're sitting on the top of the league, whether you want to be Denver, whether you want to be any of the other teams in the AFC. Jacksonville. Jacksonville, you don't have to go through Mahomes, and you don't have to go through Baltimore. Lamar Jackson, Baltimore. So you don't have to go through those two quarterbacks. That's a big deal. In today's game, that's the big deal.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Yeah, it it certainly is. I mean, you know, you mentioned the Jets, the player that they was cut there. The Jets it's it's we always talk about offensive line being so important. And the Jets offensive line has played every game together this to this point this season, and they've got three wins to show for it. It just goes to show you how they're you know, it's they're just a bad football team. It's not worth talking about, but I thought I'd mention that because it was kudos to their offensive line. They're they're healthy and they're playing very well, and they might be one of the best offensive lines of football, but the rest of the team is just wholly worthless at this point. And there's not much bright side. You know, in November they were three and two, and yeah, they have a number one wide receiver if they can keep him on the field. They have a number one running back, they have a legit tight end. I know they have no quarterback, and like you just said, it takes a quarterback to get these teams over the hump. You need the quarterback to play, and considering their offensive line is pretty decent, you know that their quarterbacks have been terrible this year.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

And I, well, with all due respect to Tyrod Taylor, who he's probably at the end of his career, it's not like he's a young gunslinger anymore.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

I have to say, you know, the issue for me, and you always hear me hear the same thing, you all you know I always say the same things over and over, but the issue for me is their inability to draft players. It goes and that is only part of the symptom of the management of both New York teams.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Right now, yeah, absolutely.

Jets, Giants, And Front Office Failures

SPEAKER_03 6:41

And it's almost like they're trying to keep the fans happy. It reminds me of the uh, you know, sorry for being historical, but it reminds me of the old Roman Empire. You know, when the Roman Empire started, they used to have once a year, they would have these big epics in the in the uh Coliseum to keep the people happy. Well, at the end of the Roman Empire, they were having them every day. Yeah. Because they were reacting to the people. And I think instead of, you know, fans watching management build a team and and saying, wow, that's an interesting player, and and this is what we're doing, they are constantly a knee-jerk reaction to the media and the fans. Agreed. And they're just giving them this, I don't know. It's it's a fraud. It's false hope. It's false hope. Instead of pulling it all back, saying, I appreciate you guys been loving the team for 60 years, but I'm bringing in my guys, and my guys are gonna start here at the bottom and build it to the top. And the only way to do that is through hard work, experience, and biting the bullet sometime. Your example always is a great one, and that's Denver. Denver bit the bullet so many times, made changes, made redrafts. They, you know, they drafted Russell.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Street their quarterbacks.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

You know, they thought they had the greatest deal. They brought Russell in from Seattle, and he was gonna be their savior, and he came in and played like crap. And then he went to Pittsburgh and played right crap, and then crap, and now he's gonna retire because why? He can't play like he used to be. And he doesn't want to be a backup like he is now.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Yeah, and he refused to play within the coach's realm philosophically.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

Did I say he came to the Jets? He came to the Jets. Right. So Russell, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Sorry, you're you're right.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

He came to the Giants.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

So yeah, and I think you know, those teams were kind of guilty of you know, they were trying to find a veteran quarterback that could step in and lead that team or manage it, and it didn't work because of the ph philosophy of the coach. They, you know, Russell wanted to be Russell, he wanted to create and make plays, and you know, it can work, but you can't force a square peg in a round hole. The coach ultimately has to have autonomy. And, you know, he butted heads with Sean Payton right from the beginning, and Sean was like, it's my way or the highway. And he let him go out there and prove he couldn't do it, and he replaced him, and that was it. Sign R. And good for Sean Payton. That's why you hire a guy like Sean Payton to make those decisions.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Absolutely. And listen, if I was smart as a football player, and I sat in a room with Sean Payton, and Sean Payton said, You're wrong, we got to draft this guy. What would I say? I don't care how rich I was. And you know, we've talked about this dynamic of rich men dealing with and and they're trying to make people happy. And there isn't, you know, it's almost like, and I'll give you another analogy of these rich guys, they want to keep the they want to falsify the the stock price so they get these band-aids to keep the public happy, to keep the stock price up, which is all that's happy, and it's false. And all as it is, there's only I shouldn't say there's only one way, but there are many ways to build a football team, and it always is from the bottom up. And you analytics without the right person. If you think analytics don't work in baseball, analytics don't work in football at all, because you never know. Patrick Mahomes is the perfect example. No matter what happened, what the time Tom Brady to, whatever the time was left, it didn't matter if there was a way of executing a team, but you gotta have the players. You had to have the element that's gonna make this crazy catch, you know, or or throw his body in the way. You had to have all these players. And you know, listen, Kansas City started going downhill the moment they traded Hill or let Hill get away to Miami.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

And I'm sure I think they had no choice there.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

I I agree with you because of the salary cap.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Yeah, but that, and I think, you know, it just was like a bad locker room fit. I mean, I know they they they made it work, but they got to a point of you know diminishing returns.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

But that was the beginning of them having to change their game. And they never filled that hole. And they were winning with because of Mahomes runs, you know, and that ship is starting to come to the end of the pier.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

Because he's getting older, right? And he's getting hit more, and they're more sensitive to concussions now than they've ever been before. So it's a new world order, and he's gonna get hit uh, you know, more and more and more, and he's gonna have to throw more and more and more.

Life After Hill And The Mahomes Adjustment

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Yeah, they're gonna have to come up with a new offensive philosophy. You know, they have to retool, but ultimately their offensive line has to be back in shape before they can really consider changing anything offensively. Once they get that down, they're gonna have to find a replacement for Kelsey at tight end. And, you know, philosophically, he's a big part of their offense. So do they move away from that? Do they get back to a run game to help Patrick Mahomes? You know, I mean, we saw at the end of his career, Peyton Manning had a tremendous run game when he went to Denver. They had a tremendous defense, obviously a different era, but the rules still apply. So, you know, the Chiefs are farther away, you know, than anybody else, I think. You know, like when the Jets brought in Rogers, they thought, all right, we got our guy and now we can go forward, but they didn't, they weren't as good as people thought they were. They were not just a quarterback away. You know, the the Rams were a quarterback away when they got Stafford, right? And they still had to go find a couple of plug and play pieces to get them over the hump at the trade deadline.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

But, you know, don't think that they couldn't have taken that team with Goff to the Super Bowl. I think they could have. And I think they knew it, but they I think they also knew that Stafford fit more into their play, how they ran and they and how they ran the team. And they did need some kind of dynamic change there. So it checked a lot of boxes, but Goff is a great quarterback.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

He he's yeah, well, he's got some deficiencies that I think Sean McVay was not able to coach up. And he saw the opportunity to get Matthew Stafford, who was a better fit for what he wanted to do offensively, and that's a no-brainer. It's just the same as like when we talk about it's a no-brainer, it's a no-brainer now, but back then everybody was like, what is that? Two lateral moves? I think it was a it was split. Because I I just maybe I'm biased because I love Matthew Stafford. So do I. And I I just think he's incredibly tough and a great thrower of the football. And when they got him, I was like, boy, that team is really they're set, set for success. I know Goff had success, but I think we see it now with the Lions offense. You know, there's they're loaded on offense. I mean, they have so many weapons on offense, but here they are sitting behind two teams in that division, and they've got what, six losses, I think.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

And you would think that at this point they would have put it together and started to pull away, and they're struggling to, they're on the bubble looking on the outside, looking in. So and they're healthy, right? Last year they had all those injuries on defense and they got as far as they could. It was a tremendous coaching job, and then this year it they kind of fell flat so far. Doesn't mean they can't get in, but I don't think anybody's afraid of the big bad lions the way they were.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Yeah, I don't know. I I think they play well sometimes and play hard like a lot of teams in the NFL today. I mean, so here you go, the top teams. You got the Patriots 11-2, the quietest 11-2 team ever. Right. And you have a quarterback that may be an MVP.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

And they've already beaten teams they need to beat to hold their playoff position.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

Right. So they're 11-til two. Bills are nine and four.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

The Bills' defense can't stop anybody. I know they won this weekend, but they cannot stop anybody. They had a uh pick six that won them that game, in my opinion. That's what put them over the top.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Two interceptions won that game for him. Back to back.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

So, you know, play a team that has a defense and a running game. Guess what? Like we talked about week one with Baltimore. You know, that was a 50-49 game or whatever it was, 51 points. They had a score to win. Now, you could say, hey, they're just gonna go outscore everybody, but with what? Their running back has had some fumbling issues the last three games. They don't have one single guy on offense in their receiving core that stands out as a huge playmaker. Josh Allen is their entire offense. He runs, he makes throws, he throws on the run, he creates, he can get the first down when you do the quarterback's need because he's so big. But when they play a formidable defense, we've seen what happens. Look at the just you don't have to look past the Patriots. They just toe-to-toe manned up and beat them. Nothing fancy.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

But what you know what you did learn in that game this week? That we were right about the Bengals.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:01

Before that injury, toe turf toe, or whatever the heck you want to call it, which is a horrible injury to have as a for a football player. Horrible injury. And a quarterback who has to plan his foot to throw.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Um, so you have their defense is so bad. I think their defense is the worst in football still. Bengals? Yeah. I don't know that their record would be much different, although that division is still incredibly wide open at this point.

Stafford, Goff, And Fit Over Fame

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Anybody got the Steelers are in first place with that after everybody wrote off Mike Tomlin last week. Yeah, well, you know what? They shouldn't have won. I don't believe they won that game. I don't believe they should have won that game. I I really, I really believe that um I know you said the game is fixed, but I saw two plays in that game that I scratched my head how the officials came to both those conclusions in the same game by the same officials. Yep. And I'm sure most of you have seen the last one. Maybe you haven't seen the first one where Aaron throws the ball, it gets batted down, and he catches it, and then he gets tackled, and then they say it's, you know, and he drops it, and and all of a sudden it's an incomplete pass. That's how they rolled it, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Yeah, it's just an incredible blunder.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

And you're like, huh?

SPEAKER_00 18:30

You're looking at the play, going, what just happened? What did they call?

SPEAKER_03 18:33

And I grant it was a little people were rolling and pushing and stuff. But when you look at it, you're like, what? I mean, you guys were right there, right? You were standing right there. So I see you in the picture.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

We say it every week. You have one job, you're standing right in front of the play.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

So, okay, I'll give you a break on that one. I'm not giving you a break on the last one.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

No chance.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

The last one, the last play of the game, pretty much, if it wasn't the last play of the game. Um Well, they called it a touchdown on the field. Right? So to be a touchdown, you have to be in possession of the ball, and it has to cross, you know, into the goal. They complete a pass, it's in the guy's hands. You're gonna tell me he didn't have to troll that ball? At that moment, it's no longer a pass play, it's a touchdown. Everything stops. The clock should stop, everything should stop. But and he knew that player, obviously he knew that player was there, gonna try to swat the ball, and he literally held it out to try to keep it away from him. Yes. He is an unable to do it. The player, the defensive player swats it away, and all of a sudden, incomplete pass. And everybody's like, What?

SPEAKER_00 19:54

An act common to the game. So holding the ball out, knowing. That someone's trying to swat it away after you make the catch in the end zone is not an act common to the game. We've seen that before. This is this is what you said before about the NFL and coaches and having knee-jerk reactions. This rule was retooled so many times, right? They added that oh a football move, which is now and called an act common to the game. Or a third foot down. Since when have you had to have three feet down to complete a catch? So how would this rule apply to Santonio Holmes's touchdown catch to win the Super Bowl? He caught the ball, his two toes were right at the line, he falls out of bounds. He never made an act common to the game.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Right. So, in my opinion, that's a touchdown in the Super Bowl. Yesterday that was a touchdown. It's a touchdown. This is what I oh, it's a famous qualifier with my friends. It's a touchdown in the turkey ball. Right? When you're playing with your friends on Saturday, whether it's that or you're juggling the ball as you catch it going out of bounds, it's a catch in the turkey ball. It's a catch on the field. I know that they can't institute a rule like that, but how you could come away from that not seeing catch, control, and two feet, and the act common to the game is him holding the ball away from the defender.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

So so let me answer this.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

They got it wrong.

Officiating Controversies And Catch Rules

SPEAKER_03 21:28

Everyone thinks the game's fixed. I understand. I understand you could say that, but the chances of that happening and anyone foreseeing that happen is slim and none. But on the other hand, right? Your hand, the other hand you're about to say, you have to say to yourself, why are they robbing people of games, of wins? Is it because you know they've made a bad decision, but they didn't make a bad decision? It was called a catch on the field, right? That's right. And then they reviewed it and changed it. And then they made some cock and bull story, like I'm in the principal's office, and I'm saying trying to cover their ass. Trying to cover their ass. But why did you change it? Why was that change made? And don't tell me, listen, a football.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

I'm gonna say this this is gonna come back and haunt the Steelers. That's what I'll say about it. There's gonna be a play against them where you're gonna hear that soundbite of Mike Tomlin, soundbite of Mike Tomlin saying, oh, these things happen, and that's why we have if that went against the Steelers, he would have been, he would have lost his mind. Period. So yeah, it's it's it they have to fix this because that's a that's a catch. That's a touchdown. The the reading that rule just makes it more gray. Uh move common to the game.

SPEAKER_03 23:07

That's a that listen. A football move makes sense to me. Uh uh common to the game. Well, what's common to the game?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

It's that was their that was their death that was their excuse.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

I understand.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

If you want to talk, I'll tell you, well, I mean, I think Dave Portnoy went off off the rails calling for Pete Carroll to be shot, but he he was obviously.

SPEAKER_03 23:28

I didn't see the play, though. So I didn't see that play. I saw the video. He looked like he was wasted, and he's screaming at the television.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Screaming at the television, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:39

And I'm like, dude, with all that money, you can't have a bigger screen in your in your living room. I would have been in I I'd have uh a 30-foot scream in my basement for watching movies and watching sports, but maybe he has that too.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

And time's gonna run out. The defender for delay of game for sitting on the ball or sitting on the receiver or whatever. You know, so yeah, all right, that's a rule. But it was like it was almost like it, it looked like it was scripted. They they call delay of game, stops the clock, which should have run out, and it allows the Raiders who are down 10 uh 10 points, right? To run another play. So why are you not running, you know, why are you not throwing it in the end zone? They ran it out and kicked a field goal, right? So time's gonna run out, you'll have no chance to win the game. There's not gonna be a kickoff, there's not gonna be so you kicked a field goal. It's inexplicable. Why would you why would you kick a field goal? Why? What was the what was the spread on the game? Eight and a half. Broncos had it covered, they kick a field goal, seven-point game. Raiders cover. So, you know, I don't know. Was that the late game? Maybe they called it in late game. That's somebody had a big problem.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

That's what he was screaming about, boy.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

That's what he was screaming about.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

He was screaming about the the uh Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

And you know, I love when the degenerate gamblers go crazy and lose their mind over stuff like that because they they deserve it, because you only ever hear about the the big losses and the bad beats or the big wins, right? You don't hear about how much they lose regularly.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

To me, to me, he's not a degenerate gambler because yes, he bets hundreds of thousands of dollars, but in his left hand he's making millions of dollars every day. Yeah, so it I mean, am I a degenerate gambler because I I make$10,000 a week and I bet a thousand? I don't think so. You know what I mean? Uh or I bet$500. I mean, he he he could bet all the time. And and I don't really and and part of and that's his business too. Yeah, well, I I mean that's like advertisement when he talks about his Yeah for sure. So I in, you know, I Sound Bites so I've lost track of what his business really is. But I I don't, you know, I know he had a show, I know he had this, I know he had gambling, you know. I I don't know what it is anymore. But whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

He's a front man now.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

Yeah. Well, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

And good for him. I mean, he built the empire, and kudos to him.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

Other than him being a New England fan, you mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Well, I he's gonna he's gonna be in some hot water for the comments he made. He was calling for death.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

Yeah, no, that's not right.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Daddy's not gonna escape. I mean, I know we all feel that way in the moment.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

I'm sure he'll make an apology.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

He yeah, he he probably he's gonna have to. But you know, that's he's treading on thin ice there.

SPEAKER_03 26:45

So it's so you got the Steelers at 7 and 6, not to get back to where we were. You got the Ravens at 6 and 7.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Now, I mean The Ravens go if Lamar goes. It's that simple. You know, and he's playing with an egging injury, and he's not the same, you know, he doesn't have the the explosives, explosiveness that he had when he's running the football. I'm not blaming him because he's you know, he sucked it up. He missed what, four games, three and a half games, whatever it was. So, you know, they go as he goes. And and again, when we talked about the coaching, people ready to jump ship on Harbaugh, and I I just think that's ridiculous. Now I know you know Lamar's only 28. For running quarterback, that's old.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

They want to fire him. That's fine. We'll take him over at the Giants any day of the week. Yeah, I think it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

He's made to the eating. Another guy that if you he's available, you gotta go get him. Absolutely 100% agree. This is a man who took them to a Super Bowl, then retooled, changed their entire offensive philosophy, really changed the whole organization's philosophy, and still found a way to win. I know they haven't gotten over the hump with Lamar, but I wouldn't bet against him.

SPEAKER_03 27:57

So then you got, you know, the Bagels are four and nine. We already talked about them. Browns are done. So then AFC South, you got the Jaguars are nine and four.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Browns are done, but Shador Sanders looks pretty good so far.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Swinging it all over the field.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

You think what they're paying him on a rookie contract on a fifth-round draft? Not that he needs the money his father's rich.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

They're gonna run him out there every week now.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Yeah, well.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

I don't see why they wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

I think he could be there. He had one good game, but that game was pretty outstanding. And if you could do it once, you could do it again.

Gambling, Optics, And Endgame Weirdness

SPEAKER_00 28:31

They also inexplicably took him off the field last night or yesterday. What was that? I don't understand that. The kid was playing great. He let him go win you the ball game, and you take him off the field. It just makes the defense be less accountable for that guy.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

It was at the end if I correct me if I'm wrong, I saw it and then I moved on from it. They were going for two points to win the game.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Going for two to win the game.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

And they pulled the quarterback that got you there through the whole game, and you're in a game, to be honest. Doesn't matter if you win or lose because it isn't going to change anything, except that if you lose, you move up the draft.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

You you take well, there's that. That that could be a factor for sure. Not that if that's the if that's the case, then you know, it's not like they sabotage the entire game. They they sabotage one play. I mean, the defense knows there's no quarterback on the field. What's coming? It's it's a trick play of some sort, and they're not throwing the football unless it's a a halfback option pass, which he's gonna roll out anyway. So you did the defense a favor for sure.

SPEAKER_03 29:39

So look, I mean, you could add Cleveland to the list of the New York teams. How many first round, if not very first, pick have they had over the past 10 years?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Uh the last 20 years.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

How many players are still on their team from that? And how many, and even worse for them, how many players signed with other teams and are really successful?

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Every time they make a draft pick and pick a quarterback, they sell another 100,000 jerseys plus. And I think that's all their ownership really cares about in that market. And their fans are incredibly loyal. And when they had success, they had absolute heartache and heartbreak in the playoffs. But this is a team that does not develop talent at all. They haven't been able to develop a quarterback in forever. And, you know, they're they're at the bottom for a reason. And, you know, when you watch them draft and you look at their drafts, it makes you think that it makes me think that they should, the NFL should consider flipping how they do the draft. Because a team like that, a team like the Jets, some of these other lowly organizations that just can't get out of their own way, their first round picks, they're even if they get it right, are costing them money that they don't know how to replace. And they just can't, they can't win.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

Well, how how do you have some thought on how they should do the draft? Be careful, your your horn is is falling.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

I'm gonna fix my no. Well, I thought that a fix would be to avoid tanking and plays like we saw last night, etc. Give the first round pick, give the first pick to the best team. And I know everybody's gonna say that's crazy, but if you have Tom Brady, you're not drafting a quarterback. If you have Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson or any of those guys, and you have those top 10 picks, no one's taking a quarterback. So they might take a skill position player, they might take a corner, they might take an offensive lineman and retool somewhere, but it's gonna cost them money also. But and then snake drafts so that a team like Cleveland, they have the 32nd pick, they get the 33rd pick right behind it and go from there. It would it would change the dynamic, and they would spend as much money on two, maybe even three players, as they would have to spend on that first that first top pick. And it goes from there.

SPEAKER_03 32:15

But isn't that gonna just get those teams to draft those big players and then trade them for things they need to the highest bidder?

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Well, the ri could the rich get richer? Sure, but they're gonna choke on it. I mean, would you you're not gonna do them any favors? Um, and you know, the NFL could could step in and say, you know, when you draft somebody, they have to play under contract for a minimum of three years before they're tradable. It's a it's an easy fix, in my opinion. It would hold teams more accountable. It would, it would, it would prevent teams, I think, from hiring guys like Joe Shane.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

I think it would I think it would turn into a new dynamic where the player where they would trade those picks to to those teams and get more out of them than they would.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Yes, savvy general managers would certainly vulture and take advantage of something like that. But on the NFL could prevent that from happening.

Draft Reform And Accountability

SPEAKER_03 33:13

I don't want to give the NFL more power. That's fair. I want to give them less power. I want l, you know, Adam Smith's version of uh Wealth of Nations 1976, in case you want to look up what year that book was written. I'm sorry, 76. And where the level hand of capitalism controls everything. And and that's what the real issue is. There is no capitalism, and or there's more capitalism than we need in the NFL. That uh you don't have to have a good team to make a heck of a lot of money.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

No, you don't. And that's essentially the crux of the issue is that it's it's run almost like a social program, but under the realm of capitalism. And the the owners are happy to walk away with you know their profit at the end, whether they win one game or or or ten. It's it's you know, the revenue sharing is great, but at the same time, there's a lack of responsibility from some of these organizations, and it shows in the in their hiring processes, right? Like you can't hire. I yeah, I was looking at Joe Shane's, you know, resume, and I'm like, how did this guy get a general manager's job? Where are you know, where is it in his resume that you're like, wow, that's the guy, right? And the Giants being the organization that that they are, they need somebody that understands this market, as well as somebody who can put together a team and find a coach that's gonna not only manage this team and cultivate players and winning, you know, et cetera. There's so much more that goes along with it. The personality of the team has to come from the head coach. And the Giants are a team that had personality when they were winning. It's that simple. Whether you like Bill Parcells or not, he had a certain personality and a winning attitude. Whether you're not, you whether or not you like Tom Coughlin, he was a hard ass. But did they win? They won. And that was undermined when they switched general managers and Jerry Reese took over and he completely undermined the entire organization. How do you prevent that from happening? You know, the NFL doesn't have a protection for that. They can hire whoever they want. Like you said before, it's you know, it's free markets.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

So let's move on to the AFC South. You got the Jaguars who are nine and four. And in first place. In first place, who'd have figured. And then the team quietly moved to the top. You got the Texans and Colts that are eight and five. Now, we talked a little bit about the Texans, but the story is really a sad one, is what happened in Indianapolis yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Yeah. You know you hate to see that happen.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

You know, you hope here's a guy that you can come back from that. Here's a guy that's still going through giant with New York Giant withdrawal from what happened to him. He's still in rehab from it, from you know, he's he's uh by how he was treated and and what happened. He ends up in Indianapolis, he plays, as far as the Giants are concerned, above his head, and it's not really above his head, it's right at his head. And he plays really, really well. And he's on the verge. You figure at the end of this season he has the possibility of getting a big contract because he's playing that well. And what happens? He tears his Achilles.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

On grass, too. Um we don't know if it's tears injury.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

I didn't hear today what what the end results are.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

I think I think they're waiting for the MRI results, but I think everybody is is pretty confident that it's torn. Which is, you know, that's a nine-month minimum recovery, probably a year. Um so that, you know, he's out next year. And that's a big loss for the Colts because it looked like, you know, they were on their way. You know, they started 7-1. I know they're, you know, now they're they're behind Jacksonville after the loss, but you would think that, you know, they they could right the ship. Maybe they win that game yesterday if he doesn't get knocked out, um, because it happened early, I think. So uh it's a crushing blow. But uh now Notre Dame fans have something to root for because uh the backup is uh from Notre Dame. So since they don't want to go to a bowl game, consider considering they're a bunch of crybabies, uh, they can watch and root for the Colts right there in Indianapolis.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

Right. So you have Dano Jones suffering Achilles tended tear, serious non-contact injury, season ending, requiring surgery and extensive rehab with the typical time taking nine to twelve months, but puts his availability for next year in question.

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Yeah, I I don't think he's gonna play at all next year. That's not from an injury like this.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

I don't think so either.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

And I think that means that also means that his his his stop in Indianapolis is over. I don't I don't think they're gonna wait for him to recover. I mean, I I know, you know, they'll they'll allow him to rehab and everything, they'll take care of him. But if he comes back from the injury, we'll see. You know, because this was a contract year for him as well. So maybe they give him an extension one-year deal because they can take advantage of that and save a little money, but who knows?

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

Their schedule is it really comes down to whether or not this quarterback can play.

SPEAKER_02 38:50

Let's see how much he's making.

AFC South Shakeup And Colts Injury Blow

SPEAKER_03 38:55

He said following off season he signed 2022. Let's forgot he signed that big contract with the Giants. I forgot about that. First postseason 2011, he signed a four-year$160 million extension. That's it. That's all, that's what he's on, so I don't know how much time is left. But so he's not a pauper by any stretch imagination. If he never played football again, he still made a lot of money.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Oh man, I'm reading now that the backup has a a knee injury. I didn't see that before. That's a disaster if that's gonna hinder him from playing at all. But their schedule, I mean, listen, their schedule is not easy. Right? They have to go on the road to Seattle, they have to go, they play home against the 49ers, then they play Jacksonville again, and then at the Texans. Oh, forget it. They're done. Yeah, their season is.

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Their fans must be Losing their mind.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

It's a shame. It's a real shame because they were playing very well and they were getting production out of Daniel Jones. They had a great running game. Their offensive line is good. You know, I don't know that their defense is a top of the league defense, but they're probably in the top half, I would imagine. So you have the schedule in front of you?

SPEAKER_03 40:19

Who who uh who are the Texans playing in the end? Last part of the season.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

The Texans are playing. They play the Colts at the end. Alright, week eight week 18. So that could be a gift. Yeah. So you play and they play. Where is it? Come on with this. I figure you're gonna load now. Let me look on my phone. And who who Jaguars are playing? You could be good to see both those. Yeah. Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

The Texans play they have a pretty reasonable end here. They play Arizona, Las Vegas, and the Chargers in LA. So home against Arizona and Las Vegas, two very winnable games for them. And then at the Chargers, which, you know, I know the Chargers are playing tough, but it's certainly a winnable game. And then they get the Colts again. So they could easily go three and one.

SPEAKER_03 41:24

The Chargers may need that game, though.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

So they Oh, the Chargers are definitely going to need that game. Chargers, I think, are in a position where they have to they have to win out now, I think. I don't know why my computer's not loading. That's right. And and then the uh what did you say? The who? The the Jaguars. Jags. So the Jaguars, you know, that that's an incredibly tough team. I mean, it's it, I'm I'm happy that they're at at the top of the division and they won and they have a shot here because it's, you know, Trevor Lawrence is incredible talent, and you hope that he's come along because I know he was taking an he was taking an incredible amount of criticism, and there's a lot of pressure on him to win, and their defense is good, but I hope that they can they can find a way in. But I'm still rooting for the Texans. Let's see. The Texans play at the Chargers. Then they play the Colts again. Oh no, I'm sorry. They play first they play the Cardinals. Is it the Texans? This is the Texans schedule. Did I just Texans play the the Cardinals, the Raiders, the Chargers and the Colts. Isn't that what I just said before? Is that looking at the wrong schedule?

SPEAKER_03 42:41

No, I think.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

Texans play the Cardinals, the Raiders. I think Cardinals, the Raiders, the Chargers, and the Colts.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

I think it's pretty much the same team. It just happens they're in the same division. Speaking of that, not to change the subject. Yeah. So the Cardinals pull their quarterbacks. Right? Cardinals put a new quarterback in, and guess what? They look so much better. They're like a brand new team.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

I don't know if you're Kobe Bursett has been playing very well. I mean, I you know.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

I think I lost it for a minute there, so hopefully we're still hearing you. Regular, but oh you lost it for a minute. That doesn't mean your your end still records, so it doesn't really matter.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

Yeah, my clock's still running. So um Texas have I mean they can they can easily win. I think they're gonna win the next the next four games. At the Chargers is gonna be their toughest opponent, but they play home against Arizona and the Raiders. Then they go on the road to play the Chargers, and then they finish the season at home against the Colts. So another one could go three and one, you know.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

Right. So and now you look at the West, and you got the Broncos who are who are 11-2. I mean, no one's coming near them. You got the Chargers, they're gonna be the number one seed.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

By the way, against the Jaguars. They're one-on-one against one another.

SPEAKER_03 44:12

So you have the Chargers at 8-4, the Chiefs at 6-7. We already said they're out. So you got the Chargers, you got, I mean, Broncos are 11 and, you know, they could win out. They could they could probably lose all the rest of the games and still be in first place.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

Yeah, I think the Broncos have it locked up at this point. They would, you know, you win 12 games in an 18-game season, 17-game schedule, you're going to the playoffs. You're gonna win that division.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

All right. So let's look at nationally.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

I just want to look at did uh Cardo's lost five in a row.

Texans’ Run-In And Chargers Test

SPEAKER_03 44:52

Oh my god. Um, all right, so we'll start off with the the weakest team leading a division. I know that's hard to say given the people that are leading divisions. The Eagles, they're eight and four. Cowboys are six and six, nobody knows who they are. The commanders got fried again, right? They went, they were shut out yesterday. Um, Giants are two and eleven, working on their number one draft pick, which I'm sure they'll screw up before the end of the season.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

Well, they've got to fire the GM. I it's it's I know it's uncommon to fire a GM in the middle of the season or even with a few games left, but he's got to go. And he he had his press conference last week and he slipped up and he said the word or the name Dan. And we've been speculating all week, Dan Who. And that means that he's already found his next coach. So it's one of two, maybe three people that it could be. And I I'm gonna tell you now, out of the three of them, there isn't one worth of salt as a coach. So I'm not gonna say who they are. I'm just gonna leave it at that. But that he's already thinking that far ahead, it's it doesn't look good for the Giants. And if they allow it to continue, and I think, and I don't mean to throw this in the face of Giant fans, but I think John Mary's health plays a significant role here. I don't think they're gonna want to move on now from this GM. If they if they think that he can write the ship, they're gonna give him an extra return here.

SPEAKER_03 46:21

Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 46:21

Which is gonna be costly costly, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 46:25

So So the Eagles eight and four, I don't know. I mean, I think any good team could beat them, no problem.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

I don't know if there is one in the We're still waiting for the Eagles to write the ship, and it just doesn't seem like it's coming. No, what's coming is all these other teams are are throwing haymakers at one another. The Eagles are healthy and they're gonna go to the playoffs, and they're probably gonna get a top seed.

SPEAKER_03 46:53

Yeah, well, let's hope they don't have to play the Rams, because the Rams will destroy them, I think, in the playoffs. I mean, listen, they end up playing maybe the Cowboys. Who knows? The Cowboys beat them before. I don't know, they probably beat them twice. I don't remember. I think they they they I know they beat him the last time. So I don't know about the Cowboys. People say it's the best defense and all that stuff. I don't buy any of that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 47:18

The Cowboys might get in because of that tie with the Packers. That might just give them the winning percentage advantage at the end of the season. If they end up with, you know, 10 wins and they're looking behind at somebody else with somebody with 10 wins, the the winning percentage might get them in over somebody else, like uh, you know, who knows, San Francisco or one of these teams from the from the NFC North, because they're all bunched together.

SPEAKER_03 47:44

So, yeah, let's go to the NFC North. If I gotta listen, I said this last week, to one more week where I gotta hear Love looks amazing, he's playing amazing, the team, the defense is lights out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't buy any of it. I don't buy any of it.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

I don't buy the gotta play the Bears again in two weeks.

SPEAKER_03 48:07

The Bears, you know, they lost the game, whatever. We know that we know what happened there um with the Bears. Um, I don't I don't know what to say, but uh the Lions, they're another. They come and go too with the wind. I mean, they won. I mean, the Bears lost the game, obviously, but the Lions won a game. So, you know, you're looking at Packers 9-3, Bears 9-9-3-1. You look at the Bears 9-4, look at the Lions eight and five, and the Vikings five-eight.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

Vikings are cooked.

SPEAKER_03 48:44

Vikings got cooked the other days.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

And they yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:50

So NFC's I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 48:53

The Lions, the Lions have to go on the road to the Rams, then they play at home against the Steelers, then they play at the Vikings, and they finish the season with the Bears. So the Bears, I know, have to play the Packers again in two weeks, but even if they win that game, even the records, the Packers are still gonna have a winning percentage because of the tie with Dallas. So I think that's going to it's gonna play, it's it's a big factor here. So, because otherwise they might, the Bears might have the tiebreaker.

SPEAKER_03 49:26

Right. Usually it hurts you, but it in this case it's gonna help help.

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Yeah. So my gut is that the Bears are gonna win that rematch some way sooner.

SPEAKER_03 49:38

My money's on the Bears. My money's on the Bears.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

I know Roman Dunes was hurt. I did he break his hand punching the ceiling when they were celebrating when the coach took his shirt off. I I don't I have to look at the injury, but that's a significant injury for their offense. But outside of that, if they can find a way to beat the Packers and they end up both with the same amount of wins, then the big the biggest game for the Bears, the Bears are gonna be they're gonna fight, I think, right up until the end because they played the Lions the last last week of the season.

NFC Picture: Lions, Packers, Bears

SPEAKER_03 50:09

So And let's not forget, there may not be a wild card from from NFC South. It may go to the West because you have 10-3, 10-3, 9-4, right? And even though the 49ers have kind of fallen off, you're still, you know, but they still won their last three games, and maybe they've gotten a little weaker in a lot of people's minds, they're still winning, right? And um, and so the Rams won one and the Seahawks won three. Yeah. So, you know, who knows?

SPEAKER_00 50:40

It's a big week coming up. I mean, the Lions are gonna play at the Rams, you know, certainly a game they they could win. I mean, they could just as easily lose, but it's that's gonna be a battle. And that, if the Rams win, I think that pushes the Rams ahead and they end up winning the division. But if the Lions win, they're they're still alive for the division, and they'll have at least, you know, I mean, their record won't be as good, but they'll they'll be one up if there's a tiebreaker with the Rams, if the Rams don't win the division. So it's a huge game this week. That's a big, big game. That should be uh I wonder if that game will get flexed. Because that's on Fox at 4 o'clock on Sunday. I wonder if that'll get flexed into the Sunday night game. Um the Lions play the Steelers, the Vikings, and then again they play the Bears. So it's getting it's crunch time. I like that these division games are still relevant late in the season, and it's not over. I like that part of the schedule. It's the nitty-gritty.

SPEAKER_03 51:47

Um I mean, I really think the Chargers are not to change the subject, but the Chargers are really gonna go out there and play the Philadelphia Eagles tough tonight. And and that is going to, I think Harbaugh's looking to rattle everybody's cage about how good they really are. And and I I mean, both Harbaughs always have a good team that underperform just a touch. And you always sometimes wonder why that is. Sometimes it's just life. Sometimes that the other team just happens to be better, right?

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

But but that's it.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

So who's our who's looking at the crystal ball, who's uh who are our Super Bowl picks now? We're we're off the Chiefs and the and the and the Eagles?

SPEAKER_03 52:43

I don't remember picking that. We remember picking up the.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

Well, at the beginning of the season, I think we said we were it was hard, we were hard pressed to get away from it.

SPEAKER_03 52:50

Really? I thought we talked about Cleveland. Um Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_00 52:56

Cincinnati was one. I think NFC rep was. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 53:03

So it was the Lions. I would say the Rams. I don't think there's anybody better than the Rams. I mean, they may get beat, but I think the Rams are the best team out there.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

They got the best quarterback and the best coach.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

I believe it. In my opinion. And he's gonna have them prepared. Or at least the best combination of of the two. If I had to pick another team, I would say the Bears.

SPEAKER_00 53:32

I think the Bears will lose to the Rams in the championship game.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

But I think the Rams, I think the Rams are the better team, but if I had to pick a second team that I think is really good out there, I would say the Bears.

SPEAKER_00 53:45

And then in the What about the 49ers?

SPEAKER_03 53:48

I I don't I don't I think the road is gonna be too hard for them. You know, they're gonna end up having to play somewhere cold.

SPEAKER_02 53:56

Yep. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 54:00

And to be honest, the AFC championship game is is Broncos and Patriots. And I'm taking the Patriots.

SPEAKER_00 54:14

And um, if that's possible. If I'm allowed to, because I wrote them off at the beginning of the season. And um listen. We'll have to go back and watch that that episode.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

I think boats coaches could do, it's got their team playing at the level they need to play to win games.

SPEAKER_00 54:34

No question. I mean, the Patriots are you said before they have 11 wins? 11 and 2, they ripped off 11 in a row. They're playing some really sound football. And uh I don't think it I don't think it's beyond the head coach 10 in a row. It's too big of a stage for him. I don't think that exists in their persona, that they would be overwhelmed by the moment or that they couldn't play. They're gonna they're it looks like they're gonna have home field advantage throughout the way they're going. So I I would imagine that that's gonna that's gonna play a huge factor. Denver can play in the cold, obviously we know that. Sean Payton is even though he won a Super Bowl, he did have some incredible misfortune uh in the playoffs with New Orleans, so you don't want to see that creep in, especially against the Patriots. But uh if there's one team that historically had the Patriots number in the playoffs, it was Denver.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

I don't know, we'll see. But I I I I think that's the way it'll play out. Um I I I think it's it's pretty evident that that's what it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 55:44

Um I have I um and Rams Patriots, that would be a Super Bowl rematch, wouldn't it? Wouldn't they play each other?

SPEAKER_02 55:54

They did. Yeah. I don't remember what Super Bowl.

Rams Ascendant, 49ers Questions

SPEAKER_00 55:59

So I can't remember anything past 2012.

SPEAKER_03 56:02

So, all right, F1. You ready to change the subject?

SPEAKER_00 56:06

Yeah, let's do it, man. So Lando Lando Norris.

SPEAKER_03 56:10

Incredible. So as we know, all kinds of crazy stuff happened last week and the week before. Lando Norris, Oscar Panestri, and Max Verstappen, those are the top three. Max was on the pole for Red Bull. He gets makes a great move in the beginning of the race and really just just wins. He had a win to give himself a chance at the championship. He ends up Lando comes in second or third. Third. Lando Oscar comes in second, Lando comes in third, giving Lando enough points to win the championship. He wins, he beats Max, who came back a hundred points, and but he still won his eighth race, which is more than anybody else this season, but ends up losing to Lando for the World Championship by two. Two points. And what's interesting is as we said last week.

SPEAKER_00 57:06

A month ago, this looked over.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

Yeah. And and what we said last week was that Mercedes driver Kimmy Antonelli let Lando pass him at the last minute to gain two more points, and he wins by two. So in some ways, some ways you could say if they were tie. I don't know how it works if you're tie. I just don't.

SPEAKER_00 57:31

That was gonna be my next question.

SPEAKER_03 57:33

I have no idea how it works.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

It probably goes to wins. I would imagine it goes to wins.

SPEAKER_03 57:37

I don't know. I don't know how you give it to somebody that has the exact same points. So that's really what it is, and it's not that Lando doesn't deserve it, he does. It's just the way racing is. In the beginning of the season, people are so far out in front, and it's all gonna change next year. It's all gonna change new cars, new things, new drivers. Some driver switched, Red Bull let go Yuki, Yuki Sonata. You know, Yuki's a good driver, just really hasn't come through this. He has a huge future. I'm sure he'll be back. He's not racing for anybody this year. They brought up somebody from the Red Bull team. Uh, they have two teams and bump somebody up. So um that's that's really how it went. Uh, you know, everybody had a great year. Everybody made, I don't know what you get to win. I'm not sure, I'm not sure if it's anything to win the world championship, but these guys, like, you know, I was looking at Lewis Hamilton who had a horrible year. Uh, he made he has a contract with Ferrari, he makes$50 million a year. So, I mean, uh, even though he had a bad year and they couldn't get off on the right foot with the car, and he couldn't, there's been a lot of changes in that team already. Uh, old man Ferrari kind of had some words to say too, like, guys, get it together. And I'm sure when Ferrari speaks, he doesn't really have to say many words. There were some complaints by the CEO to um that uh LeClaire, who's the other Ferrari driver, and Hamilton had too much to say. Well, they had too much to say because they couldn't, nobody was listening to them, that they had to get things straightened out with the car. And it just never got done. And and you could easily say, I mean, Mercedes, the two biggest, like we said, the two biggest teams are Mercedes and Mercedes and Ferrari. And you you have to believe that they're gonna be back. There's no way they're spending all that money and not and not planning to win uh and and only had a couple of podiums, two or three. I don't think LaCalera, I don't think I I don't think anybody won a race besides Max, Oscar, and and uh Lando? Lando this year. I think was one of them uh either one of them. So I mean that's how NFT and I'm looking at.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:04

Changing the cars next year, are they changing the the tracks or the tracks remain the same?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:08

Tracks remain the same. They may they some they can add a track, but the tracks remain the same. Once in a while they're changed, but very, very rarely.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:17

And these tracks are not, these are not like uh going to Indianapolis. You're these tracks are all inside a city, right? They're racing at C.

Super Bowl Paths And Coaching Edges

SPEAKER_03 1:00:26

No, some of them are on the outskirts of regular racetracks, and some are inside Las Vegas, that was a disaster, is in a town. Monaco, the world famous one, is in a town. And then there's some uh, you know, in Florida, the Miami one is also in a town. I mean, there are there are some racetracks out there that that that are raced on, but you're gonna have extra teams, and the rumor is they may even put more teams on. You're gonna have uh you're gonna have GM or Cadillac team, uh, and then you're gonna have the Audi team, which is I forget who they're coming from, and there's been a couple of changes. So there was uh a whole to-do a little while ago with one of the principals who runs the team for Red Bull, and he was let go for maybe some sexual harassment or something. I I don't know the details. I know he's loaded. He lived in a beautiful farm with a drop-dead, gorgeous wife and their daughters, and I don't think that exists anymore. And the farm, and but I don't think the wife does. And so he's looking to come in on another team, and he's a very good, he runs a good team. You know, there's always somebody, it's just like in football, there's always somebody that's gonna hire somebody that can make things happen. So that's it for F1. I'd I'd leave it there. It's really not going to all the other rumors and things. I mean, it's or whatever. You're gonna have cars. I don't know if they're gonna be faster, they're gonna be smaller, they're gonna be narrower, so the little bit more wheel-to-wheel racing. Um That's incredible. I I think they're gonna be at those speeds. At those speeds.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:09

I mean I look forward to it.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:11

Yeah, as some good there were no real ac you know, no real accidents yesterday, but you know, that's it for F1. I enjoyed the season a lot. I watched all the practices, all the qualifying, and watched the races, included the sprints. So, you know, that's that's really it.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:35

I'll give a quick shout-out to the New York State football high school football champions, but specifically section one, who sent five teams to the semifinals: Tukahoe Ride, Bronxville, Sleepy Hollow, and Mamarinek. Four of those teams won their semifinal. Tuckahoe fell to uh Section 4 champion Tyoga, uh 42-31. Um, and Sleepy Hollow, who had a tremendous run with a tremendous running back, uh, unfortunately got clobbered. They lost 34-0 to uh Section 5 Monroe. But uh Rye, class A final, took down Brighton 28-14 to win the state title, and uh Bronxville, 42-25 over Shenango Falls, Class C. So congratulations to those kids because that's an incredible run. It's incredible for Section One to have five teams uh representing the section in the state semifinals. That's uh uh doesn't happen often if it's ever happened at all. Um that's an incredible run. Um I coached with Edgemont many years ago, and I've been on that bus, and I've taken that bus ride and that car ride up to the dome, and it's an incredible experience. So kudos to them, Ryan Bronxville, for bringing home those trophies and really nothing to be ashamed of if you Tuck a hoe, Sleepy Hollow, or even the Marinek to get that far. You know, that's an incredible feather in your cap and something those boys will remember for the rest of their lives. So, congratulations to all of Section One and the two state champions.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:16

That's crazy. You know nothing like high school football, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:27

It's pure, it's still it's still a great sport.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:30

I mean, all my coaches played when I played football, all my coaches had played in the NFL. And and and they were one of one of my coaches did.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:42

And they were a workout.

F1 Title Twist: Lando By Two

SPEAKER_03 1:04:46

You know, there was no fooling around. And I was certainly not. And I and I was a classic fooling around her. You know, I remember they had Institute of Rule, nobody could wear black socks because you come in, you forget your white socks. Uniform was there, forget your white socks, you wore black socks at the school, you know. So and the days before the game, you had to wear a suit when I was a kid. You had to wear a tie and shirt. So you'd wear nice pants and a pair of shoes. So you always wore black socks. So it started out because of me. If you wore black socks, you have to run two laps. After practice, run two laps. The color of your socks. You didn't have white socks, you ran two laps. So the so of course, I said, no big deal, I could do two laps. He then said it increases exponentially every time. So next time somebody wears black socks, it's four laps. Then it became eight laps, then sixteen laps. You so you would team have to run or just you? Just I don't remember that. I remember there was something. I I know this that if I didn't have white socks, I went out barefoot.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:09

Boy.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:11

Yeah, I our coach set the tone on the first day of practice at you know, seven o'clock in the morning. We're out there stretching, and somebody started laughing while we were stretching. We weren't 30 seconds into our practice and we had a run, and it was miserable. But you know, did you have double sessions? So they didn't did you have we had we had, and I'm not trying to make it sound, yeah, but we we had triple sessions. We had the morning practice at seven, from seven to you know, they kept us on the field all until almost 11 o'clock. And then we got a break for the heat of the day, right? So the second practice was not until six o'clock, but there was special teams practice at five o'clock, which really was at four o'clock. So you had the four o'clock practice for special teams was an hour, you broke, and then you you you had your your late practice at six. So some guys would go home in between that hour. I couldn't, I didn't have the energy for that. I just either went in the locker room or found a shady spot to lay down for an hour, and it it was well, it was miserable.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:17

We had double sessions, you would start at eight o'clock in the morning, you would go till noon, you took an hour at one o'clock, we'd do a whole nother practice today, and you'd be done at four or five. And I lived two miles, my mother didn't have a car, and I lived two miles from the from the school. So I used to walk, I I I usually got a ride there, but I'd have to walk home. Yep. And it would the shortcut was through the woods, and over the rail over the river, you had to jump rock to rock, across the railroad tracks, all right, go under the underpass of the highway, and then that was the short way. If you went the long way, it was straight down a hill, down in town, did straight up a hill to your house.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:01

So we stayed on the field a long time, and he ran those late practices because he didn't want anybody going out at night after practice. And, you know, that was like the you know, if you if you had enough energy to go out after practice, then you weren't practicing hard enough. And God forbid he caught you or found out or you got in trouble in those in that two-week period, the whole team had to run. And if we weren't running, we were doing, you know, uh, I guess they call them burpees now. Back then we called them grass drills or up downs, whatever you'd want to call it. They're just miserable. We did hundreds of those.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:39

In in the wrestling, we used to have to run the stairs. You sprint the stairs in the hallway. Oh, I never would have made it. Up and down, up and down. And that was after you had to run like, I don't know how many miles it was. There was the length of this long road that went out from where the school was. And you want to say, I don't know, it was four or five miles or something. You had to run out and back, and if the coach caught you, you had to run it again.

unknown 1:09:06

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:07

And I am the slowest guy in the universe. I was the same.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:10

If we did something like that, the whole team would get punished. And you were damn sure you never were gonna do it again.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:16

I remember there was only one guy slower than me, and but he started working on it and getting better. And I started after work on it too, because I was slow as could be. Slow as could be. I mean, my legs didn't move that fast. It just wasn't I've been there. So that's the way it is. But so another week has come and gone. Another week we're here. I I I think we could kind of end it there unless there's something else you want to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:41

No, I think we're good. It's it's been fun. It's I enjoy coming every Monday to do this. It's a lot of fun. And we're gonna have some special guests maybe next week. Yeah, I'm working on it. We'll try and get Mark or Coach Herman in here, or maybe both. We'll see what their schedule prices are.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:58

All right, cool. For sure. So that's where it is. Let me figure out what I gotta push here to get us out of here. And there it is. So thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, Justin. So always a pleasure. Football another week, F1 in the spring.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:20

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:23

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