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Ever wondered if turning 31 feels different from hitting 30? Join us as Cruz shares his amusing experiences of being called "Unk" by his nephew and the new realities of birthdays post-30, from managing backaches to counting calories. We share tales from a work trip to the vibrant city of Vegas—highlighting the memorable encounters and electrifying chaos that make it unforgettable. Whether it's people-watching at airports or unexpected adventures with Spirit Airlines, there’s plenty of humor in navigating travel quirks.
On the sports front, get ready for an exhilarating ride through the Dodgers' World Series victory and Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedented 50-50 season. We explore the hot topics of Juan Soto’s potential free agency and Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of history as he chases Wayne Gretzky's goal record. And if that’s not enough, a light-hearted critique of Dwayne Wade’s statue keeps the laughter rolling as we ponder the aesthetics of modern sports monuments.
Football fanatics, gear up for candid critiques of NFL quarterbacks like Anthony Richardson, whose struggle with injuries has been a talking point. We also give a nod to the surprising potential of rookie Bo Nix and his impressive performance with the Denver Broncos. As we anticipate an exciting college football weekend with major games like Ohio State at Penn State, we encourage listener engagement and fan mail. Don’t forget to follow us on social media at DJ Power Hour for more updates and behind-the-scenes fun!
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What is going on? Listeners Turned the volume up power's back on on this Friday night, november 1st. Can't believe it's already November Time just flying by. This week has fucking flown by. This week has fucking flown by. It's your boy, dylan Gotts, joining me. As always, mr Cruz from Oney Maryland, having a nice little drink.
Speaker 3Hey man. Rum and Coke on a Friday night Never go wrong. I'm glad to be back on the interwebs with you, mr Gots. Got a lot to catch up on. Got a lot of sports to talk about. I'm excited to be back, man. We had a little bit of a hiatus, but it was for good reason.
Speaker 1It was for good reason we said it ahead of time that we were going to be back in two weeks. I had a work trip in Vegas, which, of course, I will recap to the fullest because, holy shit, that was something. You had a time, I had a time. But, as always, check us out for free on all podcast platforms. Five-star reviews from the wind. Check out the link at the top of the episode to send fan mail. Let us know what you think. Reviews, comments, suggestions from the wind. Check out the link at the top of the episode to send fan mail. Let us know what you think. Reviews, comments, suggestions. Whatever the fuck you want to say, I'll say it, I'll read it, don't care. And, of course, you can check us out. Dj power hour on social medias. Cruz, you got a birthday coming up on monday I do man the big old uh-1.
Speaker 331?
Speaker 130. Yeah.
Speaker 3I mean don't get me wrong, man. It's cool, it's my birthday and shit like that. But I feel like after 30, the only birthdays you really get to celebrate are every decade After it's 30, then it's 40, then it's 50, then it's 60. And those are the ones that you go all out for. I was telling you before the podcast, like it's 31, cool, nobody gives a shit. Go to work? Yeah, pretty much, but you know it's going to be a good time. You know you might get into some shenanigans this weekend or next weekend. We'll see what happens, we'll see what's in the cards. But, damn it, it's gonna be 31.
Speaker 1Crazy shit yeah bro, it's gonna be crazy fucking shit. I, we've been neighbors and boys for more than half of our lifetime.
Speaker 3That's crazy that's really crazy to think about. Like, like, 13, 14. Like. Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, Like 8th grade. Some are going into 8th grade.
Speaker 3Yeah, holy shit, that's God damn. You know, my nephew called me the other day.
Speaker 1How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3I mean, part of me is immense joy, but the other part of me is like the fuck did you just say? And he's like what, you're old damn you're my uncle and I was like, yeah, I guess you're right you ain't got.
Speaker 1You ain't got to throw the you old part there, though, like that's uncalled for, he's like you're old, you're old.
Speaker 3You ain't got to throw the you old part there, though that's uncalled for. He's like you're old, you're unk, and I was like wow, damn, let's make that shit out of you Unk?
Speaker 1Not really, no, they're like love that kid to death.
Speaker 3But no, it definitely threw me for a loop the other day and now that I'm finally over the hump of 30, they're going to be it's. Now that I'm finally over the hump of 30 are going to be it's definitely.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's something, man. Yeah, no kidding, you're talking to someone who's 32. Yeah right, these people were old and now we're that and we get it. We fucking get it. It was my co-workers birthday today and she turned 24 and I was like you, bitch, but she, what were we doing for 24?
Speaker 3I'm pretty sure we were at this Sharpsburg house. Let's think no, I think I just moved in with Justice at that point, something like that something like that.
Speaker 1Right, yeah, you may. Yeah, you may have. I know it's crazy, but she uh, she was like Dylan I'm. I got back pain. I'm counting calories. She's like I'm taking my.
Speaker 3I mean fucking pudding, I swear, but it's just 24. I mean, don't get me wrong, happy birthday to your co-worker. Yep, putting, I swear 24,. I mean, don't get me wrong, happy birthday to your co-worker. It just gets worse. Yes, you've got to count your calories. Yes, you've got to stretch. Yes, you've got to hit the gym, just so. You all know resistance training with weights is best for long-term health. Don't get me wrong. Cardio helps, but you need that muscle mass in order to stay good tell them it's just my little two cents there.
Speaker 3You can take it or leave it. I suggest you take it, but anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off did you do some resistance workout today? I did, I did, I did a little bit of back. I did some single arm lat pull downs, you know, did some bent over rows, did some cable pulls, did some tricep, you know, like extensions, where you like, bring it up and you stretch your chest out yeah it was good man, it was nice, especially after a week of, like you know, being sick, not being able to go in the gym.
Speaker 3I made it to like 36 days straight. I know, I mean, I know, dude, I really wanted to hit that 75. I'm starting back, starting today.
Speaker 3I'm going to get back on that horse and fucking hit that goal, because I was pretty much almost halfway there, yeah, and then fucking this viral thing that's going around, you know, just just got me and my girl and fucking, yeah, you know, here's what it is. Get back on the horse, get back at it. It's all right to fall off and stumble a little bit, but as long as you don't follow that path, you can, you can get right back on track and fucking do anything.
Speaker 1That's right. You get right back on track and get to where you want to be at the end of the day. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, hopefully you have a good birthday weekend, you do some fun plans, if not next weekend. I heard it was like 83 degrees in your area yesterday for Halloween. Fuck, you're Halloween, that is. That's absurd. I woke up to I woke up to ice on my car.
Speaker 3I almost would have enjoyed that, because I wore shorts and a t-shirt yesterday and I was still sweating a little bit Like it was, it was and that was, but then, like right around seven, around 7, 8 o'clock, it finally hit like 73 degrees, so it was nice.
Speaker 3But, yeah, man, it's weird. It's weird, man. That's part of why I hate Maryland. You know Fucking. You experience all four seasons a day. I'm going to work it's like fucking 40 degrees. I'm going out work it's like fucking 40 degrees. I'm going out for break it's eight o'clock and it's like 75 and I'm like, wow, okay, this is cool, I'm gonna get sick.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was pretty much. Yeah, it was, it was a. It was a high of 42 degrees yesterday here. Really, yeah, you're all cool. Up in the mountains too, there's already snow on the Rockies, which actually looks pretty fucking beautiful in person, so it is good to look at. But yeah, I mean, we had some snow come in last week into the Aspen like Breckenridge area. They got like four to five inches. We didn't get anything here, it did rain. Wrecking ridge area. They got like four to five inches. Um, we didn't get anything here, it did rain. And then it, you know, turned the night before and turned into ice all over the car, which threw me for a fucking loop, because now I gotta find my ice scraper to be prepared. But other than that, we are good. Um, what was the costume of choice yesterday for you and your girl? Because your girl loves Halloween. I mean, she goes boss of the wall for Halloween.
Speaker 3She did, she does, she went ahead and painted her face. She was a half jack-o'-lantern skeleton and you know, I wore all black and wore a headband To me, huh, headband that had witch's legs sticking out the top of it. We kind of fumbled the bag on getting uh, getting costumes this year, but we definitely, definitely have some plans that are going to come true, that we will have better costumes for, I don't know man, life got in the fucking way.
Speaker 1That's fair. It's okay. Look, it's okay. You two typically do have costumes picked out. We're ready to go, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, we just, I don't know, Like a couple years ago we were Vikings, then we were the Chucky and the Bride of Chucky. Yeah, we definitely got to get back on that.
Speaker 1Yeah, you get back on it and look you could do like a cute Christmas card, like little family thing. This year it's dead Because I'm sure the apartment already has Christmas stuff up.
Sports Talk and Record Breakers
Speaker 3We were actually talking about that today, see, but we're going to start taking down all the Halloween decorations that have been up since, like August. Which is absurd yeah. God, I love it I love it, and then we're going to go ahead and put a breakout of Christmas decorations. It'll probably be up by the end of this upcoming week.
Speaker 1There you go, love that. Well, as we celebrate Halloween and transition into Thanksgiving and Christmas, la Dodgers, celebrating today, had their World Series parade as they took down the Yankees in the World Series. Four games to one, yeah, four games to one, yeah, four games to one. They won in New York. Fuck them, yankees.
Speaker 1Shohei obviously signed to the Dodgers in the offseason, gets a ring his first season there, first 50-50 season MVP. I mean just an unbelievable year for Shohei. Freddie Freeman, world Series MVP, hit a home run in six straight World Series games. That's an MLB record. But that's crazy. It's fucking crazy. But Dodgers bullpen did their part. Walker Bueller Did not get the yips in the World Series In the two appearances he had In game five Yankees were up 5-0 In the top of the fifth With the two outs and all of a sudden they gave up five runs. And that was that. I mean it was a good back and forth game to game five, but they uh came up short.
Speaker 1Juan soto's a free agent now, so talk's just gonna be where he's gonna sign, how much he's gonna sign for. He said that every team is in play. That's not true. We all know that it's going to sign for he said that every team is in play. That's not true. We all know that it's about five teams that are in play. Scott Borges is his agent, so he's going to get the most amount of money at the end of the day. Come back to Washington. Oh.
Speaker 1Nah. So congrats to the Dodgers. It's their second title in four years. They were late to their own parade today because of LA traffic. La traffic is undefeated. I mean, it's just, that's fucking wild. Late to your own championship parade because of traffic in your own city? I mean, been there, done that, I get it, it's trash city. I may have been there, done that, I get it, it's trash. Um, you had the capitals. The washington capitals aren't a fucking heater to start the season actually. And alex ovechkin is on a heater as well to uh, kick off the seat. The grade eight man, like last year he was. He was a struggle bus for at least the first half of the year. Then he found his rhythm and finished with 30-something goals. He's on pace to tie Gretzky at the way he's going this year. I'm just saying, I'm just saying, but the Caps are on fire. I think they're 7-1 to kick off the season. They are steamrolling right now.
Speaker 3Dude see, that's the thing. The Caps have always been like that, at least in my lifetime. They've won games ever since they drafted Ovechkin Back in what. This is 2001 or something like that 2004.
Speaker 32004,. Yeah, that's what it was Back when we had the Black Unis. But yeah, that's what it was Back when we had the black unis. But you know, it's crazy to see he's an ageless wonder, of course, like we were talking about it. You know, if he doesn't get it this season, he's getting it next season and he's going to play until he does get it and don't get me wrong like he's not touching that assist record. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody will.
Speaker 1That's fucking insane. What was it? 2,000-plus assist from Gretzky.
Speaker 3I thought it was like it could be 2,000-plus. I thought it was like 19-something, but I could be wrong. I mean, I'm not the best when it comes to NHL stats. Let me check. Gotta love it 7-1 to start the season. You know, if he gets another ring, if he gets another cup, I should say where are you placing him All-time?
Speaker 1All-time man Gretzky, by the way, has 1,963 assists. Yep 1,900.
Speaker 3I knew it was 1,900.
Speaker 1Well done, he was also. Can you believe this?
Speaker 3He was undrafted. What that's life I mean? Like I said, I don't know NHL stats, but that's fucking crazy Undrafted. Undrafted became the fucking GOAT of all time.
Speaker 1Pretty much If Ovechkin gets another ring. You know passing Gretzky's goal record is. I mean that carries a lot of weight. I mean you think of some of the sports records joe dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak wilt's 100 point game. I mean now lebron, all-time points leader in the in the nba. Um, you know baseball bonds and is in the home run record. Say what you want about it, but at the end of the day, like 776 or some shit like that, I mean that's still super impressive. You know Tom Brady's stats.
Speaker 1Due to longevity, you can argue some of those won't get broken. Mahomes might break some, but like, yeah, there's just, I would probably put him. I would probably put him, I'd probably put him top ten all time and I think that would be fair. Due to you know, you get two cups. You play for over 20 years with the same team, by the way, which is also Unheard of. It's just, yeah, it's just super unheard of.
Speaker 1You break Gretzky's record. I mean, look, it's just who you're going to kick out of that top ten list. Couldn't tell you, but I would say you put him top ten. You could probably put him anywhere from seven to ten. Him and Crosby are probably going to be close when it's all said and done. Now, ovechkin he's got the more points in the goals, crosby is the better overall player in terms of versatility of scoring and passing, and he's got three cups. You can absolutely argue them together, but I would say top 10 for Obi and I think that would be completely fair and I think it will be and he'll get a statue as well, outside of Capital One Arena for sure. By the way, speaking of statues, the Dwayne Wade statue is just garbage. It's terrible it's terrible.
Speaker 3I've never seen people that have made a statue do a press conference about their fucking statue they've made. That's when you know it's bad. That's when you know they've just missed the mark. Like I'm sorry if I'm Dwayne Wade, like yeah, you know. Like oh yeah, we're having the celebration, oh, we have this unfeeling. But who the?
Speaker 1fuck is that? Who the fuck is that guy?
Speaker 3number three ain't me like I'm sorry I I get you wanted to capture passion but like like nah, nah, we in 2024, I know and people in 1300s were doing it better with their hand and a chip and a fucking hammer. I'm sorry like it's. It's insane. Do better, especially for D Wade. D Wade bro his family was there. His son was there. They cheered a moment. No, they were trying not to fucking laugh. That's D-Wade, bro. Yes.
Speaker 1I just don't understand how Picasso and Michelangelo and all these people, the craftsmanship of detail and we and we can't get duane wade's face right. We can't get his face right. He was there for 15 fucking years, bro. He's the greatest player in miami-hee history. Like, what are we doing? Yeah, terrible, absolutely fucking terrible. Um, yeah, it's just. Yeah, I just, I can't believe we can't Master the craft of fucking statues Still. And then Victor Wimbe Yamba Became the third player all time Last night with a 5x5 game. What does that mean? It means he got 5. He got 5 points, 5 rebounds, rebounds, five assists, five steals, five blocks or more. Um, yeah, so his line was 25 points, nine rebounds, seven assists, five steals, five blocks. So, wow, pretty fucking impressive for year two. Seven for wemby. Uh, third player all-time to joining Hakeem Olajuwon and Andre Karolinko, ak-47. We all remember Andre Karolinko. Come on, journeyman, absolute sharpshooter in the corner for the Nuggets, went to the Heat, went to a couple players, come on now. We all know yeah yeah, of course.
Speaker 1Of course.
Speaker 3That's the first time we remember.
Speaker 1We all fucking know. Don't get me wrong, that's impressive.
Speaker 3And the crazy thing is is he's only going to get better.
Speaker 1He is only going to get better.
Speaker 3And he's only going to get more muscle. Yup, and he's going to just fucking be dude. He's going to be a problem.
Speaker 1It's going to be crazy, and right now Boise State is up 28-10 on San Diego State.
Speaker 3Of course, they will Of course they are.
Speaker 1But Ashton Gienti is doing nothing. Really. He has 15 carries for 37 yards Wow. And they just scored a touchdown to go up 35-10 going into the half. Their quarterback, Maddox Madsen, is 20 for 25, 261 and four touchdowns.
Speaker 3I mean I.
Speaker 1That hurts, that hurts.
Speaker 3I'm sure Ashton Gienti is a team guy and he doesn't care, because if his team wins then that means they have a better chance at the playoffs. But like damn.
Speaker 3Damn I thought you were saying damn, I'm sorry, don't get me wrong. Travis Hunter is doing crazy things this year. I'm not going to sit there and say that the fact that he's averaging 130 snaps a game isn't noteworthy, but what we've seen from Ashton Deanty we haven't seen since the 80s. I've never seen somebody go on somebody else's podcast to hype up their own Heisman season. That's what I'm saying, and Travis Hunter has done that a lot.
Speaker 1He has.
Speaker 3And I'm sorry that just to me screams even more why you shouldn't win the Heisman, but the fact that homie has 35 yards going into the half like you said, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts.
Speaker 2You need to come out Now if they're up so much.
Speaker 3Hopefully, like you said, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts. You need to come out Now. If they're up so much, hopefully he'll get more rushing attempts, hopefully you know the line will start helping him out a little bit, because who are they playing? Is it San Diego State?
Speaker 1San Diego State, yep, and it's at Boise State. Come on, I know, I know.
Speaker 3I know I still think he'll finish with over 100 yards rushing, but you need at least 150 plus to just get in contention. At this point I feel like, with the season that Travis Hunter is having, you have to break Barry Sanders' record At least. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3You do, don't get me wrong. I feel I'm sorry you do, don't get me wrong. I feel like I don't like Colorado. I don't like what Deion is doing over there, only propping up certain players. I don't like any of that. That's going on, but you can't deny it. Travis Hunter is fucking balling out.
Speaker 1I understand, but they just cracked the top 25 rankings for the first time this year and Boise State is sitting at 13. I get that, and they're going to finish top 10. They're going to win the conference and get an automatic bid in the playoffs. That one, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 3But we also haven't seen the players split reps.
Speaker 1I know, I know, since Charles Woodson I get it, but we don't. I didn't even split it like that. Well, when you lose 55 players in the transfer portal after year one, I mean, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3I don't like what Deion's doing down there, but he's propping up the players he wants to prop up. But who do you think goes first, shador or Travis?
Speaker 1Probably Travis.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1I think Travis, who will be drafted as a corner, not as a wide receiver, but Shador, will go shortly after. Yeah, I mean, the Giants are going to have a top five pick. I mean, that's just what it is.
Speaker 3Poor Daniel Johnson.
Speaker 1Well, poor Shador, you think him and Deion aren't going to race hell to be like man. My son ain't going to play New Jersey Jersey. We're talking Jersey, yeah.
Speaker 2Let me just walk around with no no, no, no, I'm going to say that.
Speaker 1My, my boy needs to go with with a lot, a lot of lights on bright.
Speaker 3I mean, there's no brighter lights than New York. I guess, but New York is a cold beast that they want you to win now. That's the only thing.
Airport Observations and Vegas Luxuries
Speaker 1Correct 100%. Anyway, we'll see. All right, so we're going to get into the Vegas trip. So I was in Vegas for a couple days last week for a work conference slash event. Um, it was a merge. It was, uh, two companies joining together for the first time with a conference, so there was like 2000 people that got that got brought out. It was fuck it was. It was in fucking sane. Um, it was in, it was in fucking sane. So I I always, I always find it fascinating observing people at the airports cruise.
Speaker 1I know you don't fly or travel as much as I do, but, like, airport people are fucking hilarious to watch. Let me, let me just say that they you could tell. You could tell who's either a bad planner or just doesn't travel, just sheerly by the amount of bags and the amount of like fucking running around like a chicken with their head cut off does. It is very fascinating to me like it is. So it is so entertaining to see.
Speaker 1And I just dropped my bag off, got my headphones, got my wallet and my phone and I'm just going through security, easy, easy peasy, let me fucking squeezy. Um, it's, it's interesting. But then here's what I, here's what I would never understand how can you sit in the airport and and take your shoes off and just sit your feet up on like your luggage or your or like the chair, like just fuck this shit. And like and like straight and like bending your toes and all that shit, like do you know how? And yet you're going to wear like two masks and like a fucking biohazard suit for your flight. Whatever people's choices, it is what it is Not going to get into that. But like airports are filthy, like first of all, that's fucking backwards the shit.
Speaker 3You're just gonna let your feet all hang out while worrying about other people's germs crazy right that because, like never in my life would I ever sit there and think, let me take my feet off in a or my shoes off in a fucking airport. The only way I'm taking my shoes off in an airport is if I'm going through tsa yes they tell you, so that they can check correct and they can do the scanner to make sure that there isn't a bomb in it or something.
Speaker 3Even then, I feel dirty as shit. If you're going to sit there and you're going to fucking do it on your own accord.
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying. It makes no sense.
Speaker 3Do better. Do better, Because that's like wow.
Speaker 1And then you get on the plane and people take their shoes off of the plane too. I'm like yo, oh my god, that fucking irritates me. It makes no sense. It absolutely makes no sense.
Speaker 3I'm in this cramped ass fucking seat and I gotta smell your stinky ass feet, bruh, exactly bruh.
Speaker 1Cramped ass fucking seat and I gotta smell your stinky ass feet. Yup, bruh, bruh, exactly.
Speaker 3Nice Bruh. And by the way, I'm gonna say this just to kind of get it out there Spirit ain't that bad.
Speaker 1That's all I've heard. Spirit, you don't fuck spirit. I've never flown spirit. I'm not trying to joke on it, I've never flown so, like spirit, they give you what they advertise.
Speaker 3They get you in the air. They get you to where you never uh, where you need to go. You've never heard of a spirit plane crushing. That's all I'm saying that's true, it's always united.
Speaker 3It's always fucking, but unfortunately that's the only thing I can think of right now is United, but it's spirit, and then plus you know I'm a little bit of a bigger guy and the fact that they don't have the cushions, I can fit in a seat better instead of being all fucking hunched up. But anyways, that's me to hear. But no, I can't believe that you saw some dude with a mask on and his socks all out on a fucking.
Speaker 1No, no, no. By the way, I see it every time I travel, it's bare feet, it ain't just, it ain't socks, it's bare feet. There's a certain type of person Not going to go any further than that detail White, nope, but Nope, nope, nope, don't we're any further than that detail, nope, but um, nope, nope, nope, don't. We're not gonna go there, we're not gonna go in that game, we're not, we're not playing the game. Um, white people are part of it, but it's not there predominantly, but bare feet. Yeah, it's bare feet, bro that's crazy like airports are fucking filthy.
Speaker 1They're disgusting.
Speaker 3They're disgusting like I don't even like getting food at their fucking cafeterias and eating on the table center there like that's yeah, I know, it's just, it's crazy.
Speaker 1Yeah, people just yeah, they're just chill, put their feet on their luggage. I'm like, oh my god, what's wrong with you? But got to the yeah, I mean, got to the airport, got to the gate, no issue there there was a mouse running around at our gate and it's the first time I've ever seen a mouse like in an airport. And then I started thinking like I'm like, well, I mean, airports are fucking filthy. I mean, there's food crumbs left everywhere. I'm not surprised that there's a mouse everywhere, but I also couldn't imagine being overnight patrol and just seeing fucking rats come out of the woodworks. Oh my God, that would just be terrible.
Speaker 1Gross it would be terrible. So get on the plane, no issues, flight was easy, I'd land. I had a chauffeur waiting for your boy. At the airport I had a guy who was probably 6'4. If Hitman and Walter White had a hybrid son, that's basically what he. That was basically him right there. Clean shade, clean shade, bald head glasses. Like walter white, goatee design like walter white, skinny as fuck, like he he had. He had my name on his phone like waiting for, like I was blown away. And I walk up to him and I'm like hi, this is me. He goes, I'm your chauffeur, we, uh, we headed to the liquor store, we headed to the weed store, we headed right to the hotel and I'm like, yes, I'm like let's get my bag first. Um got got my bag, he Got my bag, he led me through the airport.
Speaker 1I've been to Vegas before so I know how to get out of the airport. It was legit three-piece suit, bodyguard type shit. He took me out the back private entrance way. There's an all blackout Cadillac SUV there waiting for me out, cadillac suv, they're waiting for me like I. I was like yo, this is what this is what ballers fucking feel like. This is fucking vegas. This is vegas it was. I was surprised and I came to find out that I was one of the only few people who, like, had a chauffeur waiting for them. Everyone else had to take the bus or a shuttle. So I don't know. Fuck yeah, kudos. Whoever booked my travel, well done. Just a round of applause there. It was fucking great. But got there, got to the hotel it's at the Hilton. Got to the hotel it's at the Hilton, right on the strip. Um, I think I sent you guys pictures from my room. I mean, the view was fucking spectacular.
Speaker 1It was yeah, it looked amazing it was, it was absurd. 19th floor, yeah, I mean, just view the strip at night, sunrise in the morning, right there looking at big ass Trump Tower right in front of me. But you know, whatever the hotel was at, I mean it's a Hilton. So you know, hilton's are, you know, usually good hotels. I mean it was my God, it was absolutely. It was baller. It was absolutely fantastic hotel. Of course, they had a casino. They have fucking slot machines everywhere. Um, oh yeah, it was. It was absolutely crazy. They had a nightclub in there. They had a fucking restaurant in there, big ass, it was crazy, just absolutely crazy. But, uh, I did not gamble. But, um, I know I didn't. Yeah, I didn't, I did not gamble um two be fair.
Speaker 3when I went to Vegas for my brother's wedding, I didn't gamble either, but it was because I was broke. Oh, okay, yeah no. I feel you. I feel you, but damn man Fucking. Yeah. No, we got to go back to Vegas one time. But so like beautiful old Hilton Hotel. Yep Got all the like literally every hotel, especially like were you part of the new strip or the old strip.
Speaker 1Well, it depends on what's the new strip and what's the old strip, I guess, is my question. I was on the north, so I was on the north side of the strip, so it's, it's, it's quieter. You have to, you have to walk down towards like the venetian, and then you get to caesar's palace of bellagio and all that shit. So I was on the, I was on the quieter side is the way I would describe it. Um, did see the sphere, fucking magnificent. Holy shit, what. What a beauty that thing is actually. Yeah it, yeah, it is dope, 100%. They do daytime shows. You can purchase tickets and walk in and check it out. It's pretty awesome. I will say you want to go see a Knights game.
Speaker 1Dude, you know what? I didn't even check the sports scheduling, which is unlike me. I knew the Raiders were playing at home that Sunday, that I was there, but I was leaving that Sunday anyway, so it didn't matter. I should have checked the Knights game. That would have been actually fucking sick to check out. Carrie Underwood was in town, had a couple colleagues go see her. They invited me to go out, um, but I I declined um, which is fine. I've seen. I've seen carrie underwood. She's a pretty fucking amazing, but it was a. It was pretty cool that she was there but had the had.
Speaker 1The first first night was like a retro Vegas theme style. So I had an old school bowling shirt with a deck of cards down one side, yeah, and of course it was free food, free drinks, had the pools and cabanas reserved for all of us. So that was a nice first night, kind of seeing people and introducing myself to people in X, y and Z. The second night had conferences all day and then the second night was our white-out soiree, which I sent pictures to you guys. This was decided before Diddy got arrested. Let me clarify this was determined before Diddy got arrested. Okay, let's just get that out there. So, white-out soiree they rented out a nightclub and the pools and cabanas and, like I said, there was like 2,000 people and it was just a bunch of fucking sardines. I mean it was jam-packed, uh. But there were two, there were two artists appearances that had no idea what's happening. Um, jason derulo came out and performed for like 30 minutes, just unexpected. It was pretty good. I will say he's a good performer In such a small-ish setting too. It was pretty good, super surprised by that. And then the Chainsmokers brought it home and I was probably at one point I was probably 10 feet away from the Chainsmokers on stage.
Vegas Adventures and Football Frustrations
Speaker 1Yeah, you said that video, man, you were right up on them, dude, 100% I was right up on them. I mean just the music, the lights, the smoke screens that they were doing. I mean they played for like two hours. That's right, absolutely. They did a collab with Jason Derulo for a few minutes before he walked off and went to the high stakes poker room, which I ran into him later that night Just casually, just by himself with his boy.
Speaker 1No one was coming up to him. That's crazy, dude. It was wild. Yeah, we just walk in casually and he's just sitting right there at the table. I'm like huh okay, just him. Huh okay, just just you, just just him. But the chain smokers were great. I mean they, they, they brought, they brought that shit down. And yeah, I mean I was, I was uh hanging out with one of my colleagues, kind of babysitting as well. Um, they were a little drunk, very drunk. It was Vegas. I told you, I was drinking old fashioned the night before like none other and I never fucking drank old fashioned but damn, I don't know what the fuck they put in them.
Speaker 3But they were great, dude Vegas has that aura when everything you do Is just better. Yeah, I'll never forget the one time I went to Vegas. We went to a place to go get food and they were like, oh no, we're booked up, it's going to be a two-hour wait or no, like a 45-minute wait, and it's Vegas. So you're like, well, is that worth it? We're sitting there, we have a big group and we're contemplating, and as soon as we're about to walk away, they're like, oh wait, wait, wait, wait, we actually have room Now. Part of me thinks that's by design. Part of me thinks that's by design. So you could think, oh shit, we're lucky, we got a big group in, you know, yeah. And oh like we could go ahead like, oh, let's take this, look elsewhere to the slots or to the tables or something like that. But even if it's by design, there definitely is an aura about Vegas.
Speaker 1There's an aura.
Speaker 3Yes, and it's nice. And don't get me wrong, man, you sound like you had a hell of a time. You got some chain smokers. You got to see Jason Derulo.
Speaker 1All free, by the way, all free, all free, All inclusive, all inclusive. Fucking murdered out chauffeur, like that's crazy Dude. They, yeah, I got taken care of very well, you know. Yeah, I mean chain smokers were great, like I got to hang out with a really gorgeous co-worker of mine and just take care of her and then, um, what you know what, just making sure she, make sure she got back to the room, okay, that's all. Um, yeah, I mean food was great, the drinks were flowing, I mean it. Just, I just didn't give a fuck. I mean mean margaritas here, shots here, just dancing there Like having a hell of a time.
Speaker 1And then I won't get into names, I won't get into positions, but the after party that my colleague and I stumbled upon was wild and it absolutely consisted's famous man, I know and it absolutely consisted of people in very, very high positions in the company. And then the two of us and within about 10 minutes there was about 14 bottles of champagne at our table and about four rounds of shots that made their way had a good time. I was drinking my Fiji water, kind of kind of simmer it down, just observing, just watch, watching and observing these, these higher people, you know, absolutely get hammered and eat French fries. And you know my, my boss showed up and we shared a bottle of half of champagne. Then I just chugged the whole thing that was that he may or may not have face planted into a table and said we're not going to talk about this, things like that.
Speaker 3But Like you, back at the Sheriffsburg house Facts. You know, it's just things like that.
Speaker 1But I did, and I was, and I was, I sat down, man, you can't sit down, you can't sit down you can't sit down, you can't stay sitting down, that's correct, that's where it was faceplate around the fucking sunroom floor yep, 100%.
Speaker 1And that's when you go to bed, that is when you, that's when you know and you did. That's exactly 100%. That's exactly what I did. Hey, you don't fuck around, but yeah, I mean the the white out soiree, that's exactly 100%. That's exactly what I did. Hey, you don't fuck around, but yeah, I mean, the white-out soiree was great. Got to meet my colleagues in my region, great performances. Then we had an 8 am meeting the next day Fucking trash, fucking trash. They did the show on purpose. Yeah, it was Really good time. Watched so much college football After that. It was great. I mean, it was fucking Nirvana For me, honestly.
Speaker 1Then I came home, got back into the work week and can't wait For the next conference in March. That's what I do know. I don't know where it's at, but I will be there. That's what I do fucking know. Fuck, yeah, dude, yeah, bro, it was a great trip. Vegas, it's a place where you just want to be there three days, maybe four at max, and then you're done. It's over. Yep, correct, like if you do a week in vegas, like you gotta, you're, you're struggling correct, correct.
Speaker 1So I was glad to get there for wednesday night, be there thursday, friday, saturday, leave sunday. It was just more than more than enough time for me. Um, so it was great. And then you talk about being tired. I was tired because I was traveling and drinking and working and all this other shit. A 22-year-old quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts was tired and tapped himself out the game that Sunday and tapped himself out the game that Sunday. Anthony Richardson, fourth overall pick in last year's draft, played, I think, four or five games in his rookie year and then got hurt for the rest of the year. Shocker has had injuries this year, comes back in Rushes for like two plays it's like a third and goal in the third quarter, taps his helmet to take himself out and now he gets benched for the foreseeable future with Joe Flacco Cruz. I'm going to turn it over to you because I know you also wanted to talk about this Anthony Richardson debacle.
Speaker 3Boy. Mr Gottschall, I wanted to talk about this. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. You know, in the group chat between just you and me, we have talked a lot about Anthony Richardson. I know you're not a fan nope. I know, to be honest, you're not a fan of Florida players that's besides the point but true. So that's besides the point. That's besides the point.
Speaker 1But true.
Speaker 3So what was he Like? 3 for 14 In the first half.
Speaker 1He was 2 for 15 In the first half.
Speaker 3Even fucking worse than I thought 2 for 15 in the first half. Now don't get me wrong. He was at Florida. I'm pretty sure his career completion percentage at Florida was like 46%.
Speaker 1I got you, you know what I got the stats right here. Hold up, hold up, go ahead.
Speaker 3Drop what he did at the SEC.
Speaker 1In the SEC. So 2020, he only appeared in four games. He had two pass attempts. He threw a pick on one of them. In 2021, he appeared in eight games. He had a 59% completion percentage, six touchdowns, five picks, and then 2022, which was the only year he started, he had a 53.8% completion percentage for 25 and 50 yards, 17 passing touchdowns, nine interceptions and nine rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3So pretty much this inaccurate quarterback was hyped up essentially as an ex-Cam Newton. Yep. Yep, okay. So besides the fact that he was inaccurate as fuck in college, he was taken fourth overall.
Speaker 1For playing one year For playing one year. For playing one year.
Quarterback Criticism and Scouting Issues
Speaker 3For playing one year. Don't get me wrong. You see these players coming out that play one year and they fucking light shit on fire. Don't get me wrong. They go to the NFL. They have a pretty good and even a great year or a great career, yeah Cool. I'm sorry. I don't know what Jim Ursae and the Colts saw when they took Anthony Richardson. Maybe they were just jumping on the. Oh, he's a bigger version of Lamar because he can run and he can pass. Maybe, Maybe I mean Jim Ursae. Wow.
Speaker 3You know what I mean. Like, like, maybe that's when he made the allegedly. But the thing is is if you're the fourth overall pick top five, you're making good fucking money, not great, not like, not top 15, not top 10, but you're making good fucking money top five if you're getting picked in the nfl draft and quarterback and a quarterback yes supposed to be franchise leading, supposed to be taking you into the future for at least at least the next seven years.
Speaker 3At least you're supposed to make it to that next contract and play that next contract out If you're going to take top five as a quarterback. Yep.
Speaker 3You are literally fourth quarter, third and goal and you could take the lead for the game and you take yourself out of the game. You take your quarterback in the National fucking Football League and you take yourself out of the game because you are fucking winded. Yep, I'm sorry. I am sorry. A quarterback is supposed to be a leader of a team and set a fucking example at this point and what you're telling me is that you're fucking gassed out because you didn't do enough cardio in the offseason. We're in week fucking eight.
Speaker 3I am I'm not fucking sorry and you fucking said that shit so nonchalantly Like I'm sorry. I'm pretty sure that play you got hit in the like like below near the knees he did. You're gonna fucking fake that shit. You could have sat there, you could have taken a while to get up and you could have fucking limped off the field, come out for a play and then went ahead and come back in and catch your breath. No, you just were like I'm going to get on. Hey, come in, joe Fucking. First of all, joe, just go with Joe. Never bet against Joe. The fact that Joe Flacco is still relevant right now.
Speaker 3I fucking love it. I'm sorry, we've been talking about it a lot in the group chat. Fucking love it. Never bet against Joe Flacco, no matter where he's at, he will fucking make it a game. It's smart. It's smart that they're going to go ahead and they're going to bench Richardson, because obviously his heart isn't in it. His heart isn't in it. And one thing that I think of when I think of the fact that Homie ran too much, that he was so tired that he couldn't do the next fucking play is the rookie season of one Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 3And don't get me wrong. They went 0-16 the year before to get one, matthew Stafford, and he comes in and they're down and he gets hit and he dislocates, he pops out his shoulder. Yep.
Speaker 3And he sits there, he waits, and this dude is crawling and begging to not get taken out of this game and he goes ahead, does one more play comes out, there's a timeout, he says get the fuck off me, I can throw the ball, I'm going to go in there and win this fucking game. When he had Dante Culpepper as a backup, who is very accomplished in his own right. Sure is, he's at the tail end of his career, but still this man went in and won the game and made everybody in Detroit believe in him, detroit which all he had was Calvin Johnson, and I'm sorry that was it.
Speaker 3Not much work for the dude, but a concussed job at best yeah. That is how you win over a team and how you prove that you're a leader. You're gonna fucking tell me, as a fourth overall draft pick, that you're a leader. You're going to fucking tell me, as a fourth overall draft pick, that you're too fucking tired to do the next fucking play. To take the lead. You deserve to get benched and I hope to God that Joe Flacco takes your job for at least the next two to three years.
Speaker 3So you can learn to see what it is to be a fucking quarterback. Now. Granted, if that Joe Flacco takes your job for at least the next two to three years, so you can learn to see what it is to be a fucking quarterback. Now granted, if there is an underlying injury issue, you know I could somewhat give you a little leeway. But fucking say that. Don't say, oh, I was too tired, I ran a lot. Fuck out of here, bro. Fuck out of here. I am sorry, bro, like you are in the National Football League, if you didn't do your fucking cardio.
Speaker 1What the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm sorry, man, like it blows my mind. It blows my fucking mind that anybody that's leading a football team in the NFL will want to come out, because he needs to catch his breath.
Speaker 1I agree especially in the fourth quarter and, by the way, it was a division game too a division game wasn't against.
Speaker 3Who was it? Jacks the way, it was a division game too. A division game, who was it against?
Speaker 1Jags, jags or Texans won too.
Speaker 3Texans, it was Texans.
Speaker 1Yeah, a division game. I had money on the game too.
Speaker 2I had money on the game too. It would have been hidden though.
Speaker 1It would have been fucking down, it would have even fucking hit. Hey Devontae Adams, any time. Td hit last night, though it hit late. It was about to hit eventually, man, but it hit.
Speaker 3Jared Wilson had one of the greatest catches we've ever seen in the past fucking five years.
Speaker 1That's true. Look, I do not. I don't like players from Florida. You're right. Maybe because I'm an LSU fan, who the fuck knows? Maybe because Tim Tebow went there, I don't know, who the fuck knows. I'll tell you one thing I was right about Anthony Richardson so far. Nail that shit right to the fucking wall. He was drafted.
Speaker 1It blows my mind that the same people who are criticizing him Now, granted, I don't think in our lifetime, cruz, I don't think we've ever seen a quarterback tap their helmet to come out the game. I don't think. I don't think anybody. Yeah, I don't think anybody. It was a very interesting sight, especially with quarterbacks and how players like played in like the 70s, 80s, 90s and even just the early 2000s, like when shit was just tougher. But it's an absolute joke that he is the fourth overall pick in last year's draft and he is too tired and needs to come out of a game. Now, I don't want to say I hope, but I would rather it be for an underlying injury issue which would come out in the next week or so, and then everyone's going to apologize for being too critical. Or Anthony Richardson, yada, yada, yada, yada. But it's a fucking joke that he was drafted fourth overall. Because the same people that are saying that he was a, he's a raw project, he's a, he's got the potential to be a leader, are also the same people who rode that man's dick through the entire offseason and the draft preparation around his athleticism and he's just a specimen and a human freak. And a strong arm and the way he can move and just the raw tangibles that he can come up with in just his physicality. I mean it was unbelievable how he got hyped up. Yo, what up Haley? What up Haley? What up Pancake? I see you back there too, girl. What up Haley? Ah, um, it's.
Speaker 1The same people that criticized him were the same people that were like, oh my god, you gotta draft this kid. He is a human freakazoid. He is Cam Newton 2.0. He could be a combination of Cam Newton and Lamar Jackson. He is 6'4, he's 235, he could throw in 60 yards. I mean slurping it, slurping all of potential, Not production. I mean they were hawk two in that thing Like it was no man's business.
Speaker 1And then I just read off the sass for Florida. You can't draft someone at four and sell me on his athleticism and his potential. What about his production? What about the eyeball test. What about the tangibles? He's not accurate at all. He has a 44% accurate completion percentage this year in six games. He's fucking terrible. He could throw the ball deep and drop it in the bread basket for 60 yards and make it look amazing Like they kept showing that fucking highlight from like week one. Ooh, okay. What's he done since? He's done fucking nothing. He is terrible. He's done absolutely nothing. He's a bust right now in the, in the, in the NFL and everyone. There was some guy who tweeted like Zach Wilson, trey, lance, anthony, richardson, bryce, young Stroud, like and gave their age and it's like maybe the NFL has a QB development problem. No, people can't fucking scout for shit when it comes to quarterbacks. Man.
Speaker 3So I will say this on that I don't think it's the NFL has a quarterback problem. I think it's high schools and colleges have a quarterback problem. I think it's high schools and colleges have a quarterback problem. Nobody knows how to play on their center anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 3Everybody takes 80% of their snaps from shotgun and, I'm sorry, in the NFL you cannot be 100% relied on. If you're a quarterback, you need a running game to kind of balance it off and take the load off. Now, since that is also that everybody's taking snaps from a shotgun position, is that they dumb down the game and they turn it into 7-on-7. That's pretty much what the game has begun is 7-on-7. Now that hurts quarterbacks and it hurts future teams and that's why we see such shit quarterback play, especially because I mean don't get me wrong like yeah, you could have the fucking 18-worded play per play in each playbook, like X right, v, z right, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1Spider-Y banana yeah.
Speaker 3X, x, Y, z, 2, 4, fucking Spider-Y fucking on 2, on 2, ready, go Like you could sit there, you could have those plays. You don't need to have all that. I'm not saying that it's not the early 2000s, it's not the 90s, but they have dumbed down the game and at the next level it just doesn't work like that. But scouting has been fucking terrible lately.
Speaker 1It's been terrible. It's been terrible, it's been terrible at the most important position in the game.
Speaker 3That's crazy. That's crazy. You see some mediocre play with a little bit of flashes and you're like, oh, they could go to the next level with better competition. It makes no sense to me. It really doesn't. They say the SEC is the closest thing with better competition. It makes no sense to me. It really doesn't. They say the SEC is the closest thing to the NFL. In college, wow, and this dude was mid at best.
Speaker 1Correct.
Speaker 3In the SEC Correct. He was mid at best and he was able to run in a couple of touchdowns and you're going to take him top four. That's a lot of trust. And then he's going to fucking bitch out. I'm sorry he's going to bitch out on you. Yeah.
Speaker 3If I'm his teammate dude, he's going to frag the fuck out Like what is that Facts, dude, like you have to go in, you have to put in work, you have to grind like you've never grind before for me to ever trust you again as a teammate, especially in a division game, especially Like what are the Colts right now? What's their?
Quarterback Performance Evaluation and Critique
Speaker 1record they're 4-4. Like you win that game, you're 5-3. The Texans lost. So like you're a game back in the division, you own a tiebreaker like exactly and you're gonna fucking bitch out on third and goal. Bro, come on yeah, like you better, you better like tear your ACL and then like come back in and like finish the play to like get my respect we'll go fucking Matt Stafford, bro.
Speaker 3That's what I'm saying. That's why Matt Stafford is going to be considered for the Hall of Fame when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I think he will.
Speaker 3No, no, he should. He should for sure. I mean, he made freaking champagne out of beer money in Detroit.
Speaker 1Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3He had Calvin Johnson, but Calvin Johnson left, he retired, and Matt Staff he still continued to fucking throw 4,000 yards a season.
Speaker 1I think it's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, like with Richardson, like his passing numbers are fucking terrible. He's got four touchdowns and seven picks and it's like, oh well, what about the rushing ability? Okay well, he has five fumbles in the six games that he fucking appeared in this year. He's just bad. And we can't sit there and say, well, we knew he was going to be a developmental project and we knew that he was going to be a raw talent, but let's take him forth overall, because what the possibilities that you can have with this guy, that's, if he fucking pans out, my guy.
Speaker 3Bro. That's crazy too, Because like all he's been is hurt.
Speaker 1Correct All he's been is hurt. All he's been is hurt and he got hurt in. Correct All he's been is hurt and he got hurt in.
Speaker 3Florida. I'm sorry. Like if you're a mobile quarterback and you get hurt, your game's gone. Don't get me wrong I loved RG3. Once he got hurt, he wasn't the same quarterback.
Speaker 1Now you got that Jane Daniels over there.
Speaker 3Take care of those ribs. Please Don't make me worry like that. But all I'm saying is that you know, mobility does elevate your game. I'm not going to sit there and say it doesn't. At this point it's almost sought after to have a mobile quarterback. It is Lamar's done in Baltimore. You see him that. He's a what two-time MVP could possibly be working for a three-time? That is very, very elite-like accolades, I know.
Speaker 1Two playoff wins.
Speaker 3It's great for a running back. Don't get me wrong I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I am kidding a little bit.
Speaker 1But Need a Super Bowl appearance. But whatever, hey man, you know yeah, he does. But whatever, hey man, you know yeah, he does. But we want to chalk up first-round buys as an accomplishment. Whatever, continue, yeah, no, we can talk about that.
Speaker 3No, but I will say this Last year they didn't go because it was part of the script, because why the fuck are you going to be the number one rushing offense and not rush the ball against the Kansas City Chiefs? That is dumb as fuck. It was fucking 100% scripted, in my opinion. Now, granted, you don't have to agree with that and that is perfectly fine, but it was scripted because they want to prop up Patrick Mahomes as the better next version of Tom Brady, and that's why the fuck he is like six for nine at the Tuddy's to Interceptions right now and they are fucking undefeated. Anyways, fucking. You know, mobility is sought after as a quarterback, I agree, nowadays. That's why Jaden Daniels is getting all the hype. He's getting MVP votes and all this stuff. He's a little hyped up. In my opinion. As a Commanders fan, he needs a little bit more passing yards and a lot more touchdowns to be considered, because, in my opinion, jared Goff Jared Goff should be MVP.
Speaker 1Jared Goff, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care what Grimm and Rich and all that. No, it should be Jared Goff.
Speaker 3Jared Goff is fucking dogging it right now, like in the last three games he's had 86% completion percentage Like it's fucking insane.
Speaker 1He's had more touchdowns in the last five games than incompletions. What the fuck else do you need to know?
Speaker 3That's insane. Jared Goff should be MVP, but you, you know, anthony Richardson just got hyped up too much. Man. It was just like Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson was mobile and he had a couple of great throws as his pro day.
Speaker 1And now just like Trey Lance.
Speaker 3I mean, don't get me wrong, it's cool that they can do both, but, like, look at the competition and look how they're actually doing against that competition. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1I'm just saying watch the fucking games and watch with your eyeballs, and you have to be just really honest with yourself. What you're seeing here, can it translate and be elevated to the next level? I don't want to hear about possibilities. I don't want to the next level. I don't want to hear about possibilities. I want to hear about potential. I don't want to hear about his athleticism, his specimen. I don't want to hear any of that shit. If you're not accurate and you can't play under center and you can't fucking control the ball, then what good are you? What good are you as quarterback?
Speaker 3You're really not.
Speaker 1You're just not worth the damn. Yeah, and you're halfway through your second year and you've lost all the respect of the locker room and, like you're going to go into year three next year and I'm a visionary I can already tell what the future narrative is going to be. Well, you know, he hasn't had enough action in the NFL. He just hasn't had enough game experience under his belt.
Speaker 3You know, really, and then he doesn't get his fifth year picked up.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then year three he'll have like what? 20 touchdowns and like 13 fucking interceptions or some bullshit like that, and they're going to blame the offense. Or they're going to do this and that and make trades and blame the offensive coordinator All this other bullshit. Versus just taking accountability that he was not the fourth overall pick talent that we thought he was, we fucking failed and messed up. That's just like just come out and say that it's just, it's mind boggling and I'm with you, it is a hell of a lot easier. And like yeah, yeah, you own it. Like 49ers traded up for trey lance and got him at three and he fucking gone. Like they know they messed up. They know they messed up, yeah, and yeah, I'm with you. I I think flackers should be started for the rest of the year, like none of this foreseeable, none of this foreseeable future shit. Like put flack room for the rest of the year. I guarantee you go probably 10-7, get into the playoffs and you make wild cards yeah.
Speaker 1And then you never know what the fuck happened at that point Like it's just Right and then evaluate next year.
Bo Nix
Speaker 3He didn't perform in the fucking playoffs too. So it's like, I mean, you know he had that one hell of a 2012 fucking NFL playoff run, but you know talking about other teams that you know have fought, they've done wrong when it's come to quarterback and turns out that you know they're performing. Are your Denver Broncos Mmm? And it turns out that you know they're performing, are you a Denver Broncos Mm? And you're Denver Broncos? Yeah.
Speaker 3Have a young quarterback, that is well. I mean he's middle-aged at this point, especially as quarterbacks can turn. He's like what, 24?
Speaker 1Yeah, he's old-aged at this point, especially as quarterbacks can turn.
Speaker 3He's like what 24? Yeah, he's old. He's old. Went around Auburn Oregon, you know he went ahead and did his thing. That's Mr Bo Nix.
Speaker 1It is. It is Mr no Nix Bo Nix.
Speaker 3No, yes, and I wanted to bring him up quickly to talk about the fact that. Could he be a dark horse? Offensive rookie of the year candidate.
Speaker 1I mean he did win. Offensive rookie of the month for October he was tied for the.
Speaker 3He did, he did and you were like minute Right. He's tied for least amount of interceptions by a rookie so far this year with three. He's leading all total touchdowns in rookie quarterbacks right now with 12. Jaden Daniels is one behind with 11. Don't get me wrong. I still think Jayden Daniels has that rushing ability and has portrayed it enough to where Jayden Daniels will probably win. He has a lot of hype around him but Bo Nix has the Denver Broncos at 5-3 right now Hold on, hold, on hold on hold, on Hold, it ain't Bo.
Speaker 1Nix. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3The defense is a big part of it. Don't get me wrong, because Bo Nix likes to show up in the past, in the back half of the third quarter of the fourth quarter. That's where he's getting the majority of his stats Drives me fucking insane. Usually he doesn't come alive until the back end of the second half, until Sean Payton gets his head out of his ass. Yes, exactly this is the thing, though. Bo Nix is showing leadership quality.
Speaker 1He is.
Speaker 3He's arguing with Sean Payton over these stupid-ass fucking play calls.
Speaker 1Russell Wilson would never.
Speaker 3Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1But you know what, but you know what. Good for Russell Wilson. He is balling out in Pittsburgh right now with Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 3He is, he is, he's looking like it's 2016.
Speaker 1He's looking like what he should have looked like in Denver, but whatever, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 3You know, Bo Nix is young and, I'm sorry, fucking Sean Payton likes his white quarterbacks. What? Am I going to say? But? That being said, Bo Nix has been a surprising success.
Speaker 1Question mark.
Speaker 3Question mark. Don't get me wrong. He won a game with 63 passing yards. I get that, don't get me wrong. You went viral critiquing him the very next game. Like, don't get me wrong, I see it, I hear it, I understand it, but the Broncos are 5-3. They are, they have a top, in my opinion a top four, maybe top three defense.
Speaker 1Top three statistically.
Speaker 3Top three defense Yep. If they could get him another receiver and a secondary back, they could do some damage. Bo Nix has done well, 12-3 on the year so far. Now don't get me wrong, these rookie touchdown numbers are kind of low this year.
Speaker 1They're so pedestrian, that's true.
Speaker 3He's very pedestrian but he's leading the pack.
Speaker 1He is.
Speaker 3Now we'll see after this.
Speaker 1We'll see Sunday.
Speaker 3Yeah, we got the Giants, Y'all got the Ravens. You know it's going to be very different to see Like this is going to be the true test for it.
Speaker 1And then we got the Chiefs. We got the Chiefs right after that.
Speaker 3So y'all could be 5-5 real quick.
Speaker 1Just like that.
Speaker 3Yeah, just like that.
Speaker 1Correct.
Speaker 3We got the Giants, and then we got the Panthers, so we could be 8-2 real quick. That's what and that look, not the Panthers. I'm sorry, we already played the Panthers. Who do we got? We got the Giants and then the. To be honest, I don't even know.
Speaker 1Look to the question could Bo Nix be a dark horse for Rookie of the Year? Yes, he can be a dark horse for the Rookie of the Year. I already said that if they beat the Ravens or the Chiefs, I'm going to get a Bo Nix jersey at the end of the day.
Speaker 3In the cream circle.
Speaker 1Yes, in the orange crush. Got to, always got to go orange crush. The last four games has been a consistent evolution as far as the play calling and the production on the offense. Now they play trash opponents. You play who you play and if you didn't put up 34 plus on the Saints, who have just fallen apart, and if you didn't beat the brakes off the Panthers, we got problems. But he's done his part. He got Quentin Sutton involved last week.
Speaker 1Finally, garrett Bowles is trash. Need to get rid of him. Tired of him bitching and always getting a holding call and a false start Like you're done. Been here nine years, you've done nothing. Yeah, I mean Boenix has done better Than I gave him credit for and that I criticized him for. Fair enough Now, at the time of criticizing it was rightfully so. But no, don't get me wrong, you're right. But he's getting wins. They are 5-3. They do go to Baltimore and the Ravens lead the nfl and average yards per play. The broncos lead the nfl and average yards given up per play, only 4.4 yards given up per play. That's number one in the nfl and traditionally we have seen offense defense matchups. The defense usually comes out on top. But I do believe that Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry are just going to beat the piss out of that defense.
Speaker 1Yeah, unfortunately, yeah, we go from 5-3, and I think we go to 5-5 real quick, and then it's just like eh well, you know, we're in a better spot than we thought we'd be. At the end of the day, you can still fight for that wild card. You can still fight for the wild card. You just got to fucking do something in the first quarter, bro, Like you can't wait until you're down 20.
Speaker 3It just doesn't work right. It doesn't work against the better teams. Let's put it that way it doesn't work.
Speaker 1Yeah, it doesn't work against the better teams and the chargers aren't the better team. I don't fucking care that they beat us like that shouldn't have happened. It just shouldn't have happened. Should be six and two right now because we fucking gave that game away. He could be Dark Horse Rookie of the Year Right now. I am wrong. Right now I am leaning wrong on the Bo Nix-Sean Payne thing, and that's okay. It can't be right about everything.
Speaker 3By the way, we're playing the Steelers after the Giants.
Speaker 1Ooh, Okay so.
Speaker 3Yeah, so that might be a game of the week type thing too, especially with how hot Russ is and that defense is fucking firing on all the players behind A-Watt and fucking Bishop at cornerback. You know they're doing big things over there, so that'll be a very good game to watch. That'll be a very good game to watch.
Speaker 1That will be a very good game to watch. Emmy Commanders are going to be 6-2. Either you're going to be 7-3 or you're going to be 8-2. Now, if you're 6-4, now they're now. Now they're now.
Speaker 3Just because the Eagles are heating up now.
Speaker 1Just because the Eagles are heating up, now they're starting to put something to good. Work. Aj Brown's back. Let's be honest. The Eagles are hitting up because of AJ Brown. Devontae Smith is also doing his part, but I still think it's Jaden at the end of the day for Rookie of the Year. It's going to be Dan Quinn for Head Coach of the Year Hell yeah, man, I love Jaden Daniels, it's no secret here. But, um, I will. I will right now take my lump sums. Um, people still keep commenting on my viral video about how I have terrible takes and that, like, the game changes after I make a video. Maybe it's my calling, maybe that's just what it is like you're critiquing that man.
Speaker 3Fucking, keep critiquing.
Speaker 1They win, they win, they win, fuck it. A win's a win, a win, a win is a win. So we'll see Either Knicks will be average or Knicks will be terrible this Sunday. That's really just going to be up to Payton in the play calling. But you cannot dick around with the Ravens. I've said it all week I don't care how bad their defense is, I don't fucking care about any of that. Like I know what I see for my team and they take forever in a day to get going. It's just not going to work.
Speaker 3Best against the Ravens and the Chiefs. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Like it gets the Ravens and the Chiefs. Ravens and the Chiefs yeah, it gets the Ravens and the Chiefs. You got to have one of those games. If we get one of those games, I'll be very thrilled with going 6-4 with one of those games. It's hard to be Andy Reid and John Harbaugh with a rookie quarterback. I don't know, we'll see. We might need a Hail Mary like some team had last week.
Speaker 3Bruh, I lost my fucking mind. I'm not going to even lie to you. I was on Discord with some homies. We were watching a show. It's called the From or something like that. I looked away for like a second on Discord and I went back to Discord and then I looked up and I saw Touchdown and I was like what, what?
Speaker 3And then I saw the replay holy shit, to be honest, it was just bad coaching execution straight up, it was horrible the fact that Matt Eberflus fucking deflected tells me that the Bears are going to fall into shambles now because he lost the locker room after that. First of all, when we got that little like 10, 12 yards and out to Terry.
Speaker 1Can't give up the sideline, can't give up the sideline. You can't give up the sideline, can't.
Speaker 3Fucking can't that set up? And then the fact that first of all, that one player, stevenson, was sitting there fucking taunting the fans.
Speaker 1Funny as shit. Funny, funny, funny. If that isn't karma and it's fucking fighters right there. I mean, I don't know what is.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm sorry, after that you're getting pinched, but you know it was just added to the Jane Daniels hype. Man, it really is Like this dude's just a winner, he's a baller. He never counts himself out or his team out. He trusts them unconditionally. He never counts himself out or his team out, he trusts them unconditionally. And I'm sorry, these off-season pickups between Noah Brown fucking Zach Ertz, they are balling out when they need to. They are coming up reliable. You know, in my opinion, if we go ahead and we pick up and either D-end or a defensive back before this trade deadline, we can make a serious push in the playoffs. Man, I really think so. Now am I saying Super Bowl contender? No, am I saying getting to the conference championship? Maybe, maybe. But you know, if our Super Bowl window's open right now, that Hail Mary has shown me it and at this point it's kind of hard to deny that Jane Daniels, led by Dan Quinn, are making noise in Washington.
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Speaker 1Yeah, I mean nothing can't be nothing but pleased at the end of the day. I mean first-year head coach, first-year quarterback super tough to win with one, super tough to win with both, and they're winning with both. I mean it's just in Kingsbury, his offensive play calling has taken off. That's come to life. Now we're about to enter the second half of the season. Let's see if it keeps up.
Speaker 3Let's see if it keeps up.
Speaker 1We're going to find out in the next five weeks or so how this team really is going to be.
Speaker 3Yeah, should be alright.
Speaker 1Should be alright, but we're done for the evening. Heading into the weekend, heading into Cruz's birthday weekend, we will be back next week to recap some of the college football, nfl and more Big game this week Ohio State at Penn State. I'll watch the game. It'll be a really good game. Penn State's ranked third Probably will be a whiteout game. I think it's the night game with Kirk and Chris Fowler, so I'm going to watch that. James Franklin is one in I think he's like one in 16 all time against like top ten opponents since like 2016. It's not great, like it's just.
Speaker 3We'll see how it goes.
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