Super Bowl Preview

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to the Point after show with. [00:00:02] Speaker B: Kyle Maurer, Marshall heslav, and Ian DeWitt. [00:00:05] Speaker A: This is the show where the guys. [00:00:07] Speaker B: Attempt to pick the winners of the weekly NFL games along with some healthy debate about current topics. [00:00:12] Speaker A: Let's go. Hey, what up? [00:00:15] Speaker B: We're all back. [00:00:16] Speaker C: Wow. Gosh, has it been a minute? [00:00:18] Speaker B: It's been a hot minute. [00:00:19] Speaker C: This keeps. We keep saying this sort of thing this season. I think listeners are sick of it. Every. Every episode we open with like, wow, we took another buy. Here we are. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Life. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Life happens. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Life came at us pretty hard this year. [00:00:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Ye lot going on. [00:00:32] Speaker C: We're. This is our version of load management for podcasting. [00:00:36] Speaker A: We are the Kawhi Leonard this season. Yeah. [00:00:38] Speaker C: We are the veteran podcasters right now. You need us. You need to keep us fresh for the postseason. [00:00:43] Speaker A: We won a season and got the MVP in the game seven championship for the Spurs. And they said, your knee hurts. And they said, no, it doesn't. It doesn't look like it's hurt. And we said, see you later. [00:00:53] Speaker C: Keeping us fresh. [00:00:54] Speaker A: That's a Kawhi Leonard place for the Clippers right now. Ian, in case you didn't know. Yeah, Basketball, basketball. [00:01:01] Speaker B: The most I know is the Pistons are good. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Hey. One seed by a handful of games. Shout out to Kate Cunningham, mvp. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Oh, when do they start playoffs? [00:01:10] Speaker A: Don't ask me those kind of questions. Come on, dude. Come on. We got a long ways. I think it's an 82 game season, so I don't even know where we're at. It's gonna be a while. All I know, All Star game. That's halfway. [00:01:23] Speaker B: All I know is there is a High Probability that 3 out of 4 Detroit teams are going to make the playoffs this year. [00:01:31] Speaker C: That's not bad. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Would have loved to have been four out of four. Damn. [00:01:35] Speaker A: So close. [00:01:36] Speaker C: Those darn Wings freaking game away. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah, the Wings are not the problem right now. [00:01:41] Speaker C: It's an exciting year for the Pistons, you guys. This is very cool, though. [00:01:44] Speaker B: It's like they were very exciting last year. [00:01:48] Speaker C: This is a whole nother level. [00:01:49] Speaker B: This is like a. Definitely. They're up there now. [00:01:52] Speaker C: It's like a classic Pistons team. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Totally beef stew. Come on. [00:01:57] Speaker B: I was very. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Actually, you know they have a player named his last names. Well, his nickname is Beef Stew. [00:02:05] Speaker B: I love that. [00:02:06] Speaker A: It's amazing. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Here's what I will say. I'm not a big basketball fan, but I am a Detroit sports fan, so I will always watch the playoffs. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Yeah, always watch if who's the pitcher for the Tigers. There was Scuba thank you. Come on, Scooby Doo. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Very nice. [00:02:24] Speaker A: It was an atypical year for us. Speaking of atypical, let's talk about our question of the day. What are some of your favorite atypical food pairings? And now, I'm not saying, like, I like to have tomato juice when I do, when I eat my pizza, I'm talking, like, them together. [00:02:43] Speaker C: Okay. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Like, smash them. So I'm going to give you mine that I thought I was like, that can't be good. They tried it. I'm like, I'll be damn. [00:02:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:55] Speaker A: Chocolate gummy bears. [00:02:57] Speaker C: Chocolate, like, gummy bears. What do you mean? [00:02:59] Speaker A: Chocolate covered gummy bears. [00:03:01] Speaker C: Okay, so you have to make, like, you dip your gummy bears in chocolate. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Chocolate covered gummy bears. [00:03:08] Speaker C: Oh, you can just order them. [00:03:09] Speaker A: I've gone to the store and bought them. Like, I got them at Hawks yesterday. Oh, I tried them at Gilbert's probably about a month ago. Yeah, yeah, I try. Hey, I'm going to bring them in next time we pod. [00:03:19] Speaker C: I'll eat those. I'll eat the heck out. [00:03:21] Speaker A: You can't have them all, but you're going to have some of it. So that. That's my one that, like, just a lot of people don't do. And then the basic one for me, it's kind of like, I bet everyone does it. How do you not Everyone does the fry with the frosty. [00:03:35] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:03:36] Speaker A: I do the nugget with the frosty. [00:03:38] Speaker C: Wow. Okay. That's. [00:03:39] Speaker A: There's actually. [00:03:39] Speaker C: That's kind of taking it up a notch. [00:03:40] Speaker A: There's a pistons or. Actually, I think he's. I think it might be Jamir Gibbs. Maybe I'm wrong. I think he puts frosty on his cheeseburger goodness. [00:03:50] Speaker B: That's intense. [00:03:51] Speaker A: Like, I'm pretty sure I. I'll have to check that. [00:03:53] Speaker B: That might be too much for me. [00:03:54] Speaker C: I'm kind of feeling like that's too much. [00:03:56] Speaker A: All right, well, okay. How about you guys? You said that you had, like, a bunch right off top of your head, Kyle. [00:04:01] Speaker C: Yeah, it's easy to do a top five. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Wow. [00:04:03] Speaker B: You can do it. Because I actually am, like, sitting. I'm, like, sitting here thinking of, like. Okay. He just said the fries and milkshake is too common, so I guess. I don't really know. I have one. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Give me your one, and then we'll get the top five from Kyle. [00:04:15] Speaker B: And I'm not actually sure how uncommon this actually or atypical this actually is, but I know I like to do it, and I Don't see a lot of other people doing this, which is. I really like blue cheese on my steak. [00:04:28] Speaker C: Okay. This is very good. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:30] Speaker C: You order it every time when we do our. [00:04:32] Speaker B: You get some melted blue cheese on there. [00:04:34] Speaker C: So next week. Is that what you're ordering? [00:04:36] Speaker B: Week is probably what I'm gonna get with some blue cheese on my steak. [00:04:38] Speaker C: Gotta remind everybody. [00:04:40] Speaker A: Preview. [00:04:40] Speaker C: This is great. Ian won the pickups. This. He gets a free steak next week at a year. [00:04:45] Speaker B: That was weird. [00:04:47] Speaker A: I, I, it was atypical. [00:04:48] Speaker B: It was, it was not a typical year, which probably means I got lucky more than anything else. [00:04:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:55] Speaker B: I can't wait for you to analyze the picks this year. [00:04:58] Speaker A: That's one of my favorites. [00:05:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Because I am curious. What did I do differently? Because I did feel like I did anything. [00:05:06] Speaker C: We're all dying to know. [00:05:07] Speaker B: I want to know my secret. I can't tell you. [00:05:12] Speaker A: Blue cheese on a steak. I think that's pretty, pretty common. I think it's probably more comparatively across the board. Yeah, but I'm not, It's your thing, though. [00:05:22] Speaker B: I'm not like a big foodie. Like, I don't. [00:05:24] Speaker A: Yeah, you're not. I can agree. [00:05:26] Speaker B: Big one. [00:05:27] Speaker A: How about you, Kyle? You got your top five? I'll give you a sounder for after each one. [00:05:30] Speaker C: I'm not sure I can come up with. I, I was thinking of at least five, but I think I've forgotten a couple, so I don't know if I can rattle off a top five. How convenient. Real quick. All right. [00:05:39] Speaker A: No sounder for you. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Okay. Let, let me try. Let's see. I think I've got a few. Well, they vary in degree. [00:05:47] Speaker A: He's going to say we're on pizza. [00:05:51] Speaker C: No, everybody likes that. I think I'm okay, so least interesting, probably. I'm very liberal with my hummus usage, so that goes in sandwiches as like a spread. And it's fantastic. So I'll put a lot of different things dipped in hummus and put hummus on a lot of different things. [00:06:10] Speaker B: Wow. [00:06:12] Speaker A: What's the craziest thing you put hummus on? [00:06:16] Speaker C: That's a good question. Shoot. Probably like really, I don't know, Intricate sandwiches. [00:06:22] Speaker B: That's the most nondescript, which is like. [00:06:26] Speaker C: A lot of ingredients. But just like hummus is, to me, the star of the show on a sandwich. [00:06:31] Speaker A: No kidding. [00:06:32] Speaker C: It really carries it. [00:06:33] Speaker B: What's your favorite meat on his. This is a side. [00:06:35] Speaker C: Okay. [00:06:36] Speaker B: What's your favorite meat? [00:06:37] Speaker C: Oh, gosh. Growing up, it was really a lot of salami. But for me I'd probably. These days, I probably go pastrami and. [00:06:45] Speaker B: I was just thinking. [00:06:46] Speaker C: But biting into a pickle loaf is super nostalgia for me. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Wow. Claire has been buying. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Wow. [00:06:53] Speaker B: Claire's been buying pretzel buns. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Oh. [00:06:56] Speaker B: For sandwiches. Lately. [00:06:58] Speaker C: Amazing. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Good Lord. They're so. [00:07:00] Speaker A: Rather have a pretzel bun or an Asiago bagel. [00:07:03] Speaker B: Pretzel bun. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Oh. [00:07:04] Speaker B: It really. It really hits me. [00:07:06] Speaker A: I think pretzel buns move. [00:07:07] Speaker B: She doesn't buy them very often because they are expensive. But. And it's correct when she does. I know there's love in the air. [00:07:14] Speaker A: That's the only time, you know that there's. [00:07:15] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:07:16] Speaker B: No, I never said that's the only time I notice. [00:07:19] Speaker A: Claire let it be known. [00:07:21] Speaker B: She'll buy them for, like, sloppy joes. Like a pretzel bun and sloppy. [00:07:24] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh, Daddy. [00:07:26] Speaker B: I don't know if that's atypical, but that is good recommend. [00:07:30] Speaker A: Oh, great. Okay. Kyle, do you got more on there hummus? Just give us one. [00:07:34] Speaker C: It's kind of okay. It's kind of. Kind of unusual. We order a lot of Coneys. We're here in Jackson. I say I'm the only one I know. I'm sure this isn't that weird, but I'm the only one that I personally know who says, get those onions out of here. I want jalapenos instead. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Oh, I actually. I haven't done that. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Or banana peppers I could do. [00:07:52] Speaker A: I like. [00:07:52] Speaker B: That is intriguing to me. [00:07:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:55] Speaker A: Somebody who doesn't like spice. [00:07:57] Speaker C: I'm a big fan. I'm a big. The. The banana peppers are not that spicy, but they're very juicy and delicious. [00:08:05] Speaker B: I love that. Okay. [00:08:07] Speaker C: I would. [00:08:08] Speaker B: I kind of want to try that now. [00:08:09] Speaker A: Hard pass for me. [00:08:10] Speaker B: I. Because I. I like. Coney's a good cony. Joanie will go a long way for me. [00:08:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:15] Speaker B: But I. I'm not a big onion fan. [00:08:17] Speaker A: I'm on no onion, no mustard. I just meat and cheese guy. [00:08:20] Speaker B: I once went to West Point and I ordered a Coney and I forgot to tell them, like, no onion, no mustard. And it came and I ate it, and it was still. It was fine. [00:08:30] Speaker C: Sure. [00:08:30] Speaker B: It was fine. Yeah. It wasn't, like, blowing me away. I do like a. I'm not a big mustard guy, though. [00:08:35] Speaker C: Can I. I'm a big mustard guy. I used to. When I was young, I put mustard on my pizza, but I don't really like that anymore. [00:08:42] Speaker B: That's atypical. [00:08:43] Speaker C: Yeah, but it was bad pizza. [00:08:45] Speaker A: How about macaroni On a hot dog. [00:08:49] Speaker C: I could. I could jam with that. We used to have the hot dog place here in town. They would have some weird hot dogs. I was into all junkyard. I'll eat them all. [00:08:54] Speaker A: Yep. But right now, International Dog House, the macaweenie. [00:08:59] Speaker C: Oh, okay. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Macaweenie. [00:09:01] Speaker A: Really good, actually. [00:09:02] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:09:03] Speaker A: Till you tried it. [00:09:04] Speaker C: I can mess with that. Yeah. I used to make a different type of quesadilla that was cream cheese instead of. Instead of, like, a cheddar cheese with, like, shredded chicken or turkey in there, and then jalapenos. And that was also delicious. I was big into that when I. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Worked at Buffalo Wild Wings. [00:09:24] Speaker A: You worked at B Dubs? [00:09:26] Speaker B: This was when I was in college. [00:09:27] Speaker A: You went to college? [00:09:31] Speaker B: This was when I was in college. I worked at a B Dubs. And we had to make, like, their quesadilla, but we always got to make our own dinner. [00:09:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:40] Speaker B: We could make whatever we wanted. And I would make a quesadilla, but I would take, like, the mild sauce or the hot sauce, and I would put that right in there with the quesadilla. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. [00:09:51] Speaker C: That's real good stuff. [00:09:51] Speaker A: How about peanut butter and jelly on a burger? Sticky burgers. [00:09:56] Speaker C: Love it. I eat them all the time. [00:09:58] Speaker B: That sounds weird. [00:09:59] Speaker C: When I go out, they're very good. [00:09:59] Speaker B: I'm not a big jelly fan. And peanut butter is fine. [00:10:03] Speaker C: Peanut butter. [00:10:03] Speaker B: But, yeah, peanut butter's just fine. [00:10:05] Speaker C: So fine. [00:10:06] Speaker B: It's fine. Like, I will eat things with peanut butter on it and enjoy it, but it, like. [00:10:13] Speaker C: Thank you for that. [00:10:14] Speaker A: Yeah. The. Check it on your box of the bingo board of us saying that we have a bingo board that nobody actually has. And then Ian making SM ASMR Sauce. [00:10:23] Speaker C: My. My most famous is I'm a big eater of peanut butter dill pickle sandwiches. [00:10:29] Speaker B: This is me putting the peanut butter on the dill. [00:10:32] Speaker C: Thank you for that. [00:10:33] Speaker B: I'm lathering up that pickle. [00:10:34] Speaker C: Okay. Okay, great. Don't knock it till you tried it. Okay. That's all I can say. I've converted a lot of people, some who listen to this show, and they're going to write into this show and say, kyle's right. [00:10:46] Speaker A: So I'll tell you, I don't like peanut butter and I don't like. [00:10:49] Speaker C: Oh, made. [00:10:51] Speaker B: So in my science, when one of my science classes, we made our own dill pickles. [00:10:56] Speaker C: Did you? [00:10:57] Speaker B: So we, like, we had a greenhouse, and we had cucumbers, and we brought in our own cucumbers and we pickled them. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:04] Speaker B: And we like put like, like varying amounts of spice. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Sure. [00:11:08] Speaker B: And some of the kids really went to town on the spice. And they were so good. I was like, that's probably one of the best pickles I've ever eaten. [00:11:20] Speaker A: Top five. [00:11:21] Speaker B: Top five. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Oh, wow. Let's get pickles next time. [00:11:23] Speaker B: Pickles. [00:11:24] Speaker A: And pickles. And we've had. [00:11:25] Speaker B: They were very, very good. I was impressed. These are eighth graders, mind you, making pickles. [00:11:31] Speaker A: And I was like, can I say we're 12 minutes in and this is. We've talked more NBA than we have NFL. Okay. This is an NFL podcast, guys. [00:11:38] Speaker B: And there was games, there was. [00:11:40] Speaker A: We missed the. [00:11:41] Speaker B: You know, we didn't talk about the week before where. Which is okay, but sounds like it's not. No. C.J. stroud. We more than poo poo. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Like, more like Labubu Lefufu. Gosh, that's fake. [00:11:58] Speaker B: What an all time fail by him. He's gotta be. I feel like CJ Stroud has only gotten worse since his rookie year. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Well, that. I think that's categorically true. But I think it's even crazier that the coach was debating at halftime to put Davis Mills in. And, you know, if you put Davis Mills in, you're basically saying, I've given up on CJ Stroud forever being our quarterback. [00:12:23] Speaker B: What drove me crazy about CJ Stroud is he was basically taunting the Steelers fans. And all I wanted to yell at him was, you did not win that game. You were terrible. And he completely caught up to him against the Patriots. [00:12:44] Speaker C: Right? [00:12:44] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. [00:12:45] Speaker B: I just think how much I couldn't leave that alone. [00:12:48] Speaker A: I think. How much does a no Tank Dell impact? How much does Dalton Schultz hurt throughout the year? How much does Nico Collins hurt throughout the year? Impact? But you're right, he played awful. [00:12:59] Speaker B: They were so. [00:13:00] Speaker A: There were a lot of plays that were like, you know, a quarterback could throw a check down. [00:13:04] Speaker B: He just made some really bad choices. It was really. And then on the opposite side of that weekend, Caleb Williams. I was. I felt like I was watching one for two. I don't know. I mean, I think Dan Campbell definitely would have. So Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson didn't learn everything there, but I. I mean, it was safe. They. I mean, they stopped the Rams. They had an opportunity to go and win it and they failed. And it was a bummer for the Bears. But that throw. I think the Bears are leaving that season, walking away with the way that game ended, even though it probably hurt. Feeling pretty good about themselves. [00:13:45] Speaker A: What about Josh Allen choking Kyle. [00:13:49] Speaker C: You're putting me on the, on the spot here. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:53] Speaker C: Poor Josh. Choked poor Josh. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:55] Speaker B: This was. They, they should be in the Super Bowl. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Got his coach fired. [00:13:59] Speaker C: You think? I, the team wasn't that great. [00:14:02] Speaker B: No, but they were the best out of them. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Most pressured. [00:14:06] Speaker B: I feel like they were the best out of them. He was at least the best quarterback out of them. I, and I, I would have rather have seen him, if I'm being honest. I would have rather have seen him in the super bowl than what we're getting. [00:14:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:19] Speaker A: First quarterback to have eight wins in the playoffs and never been to a Super Bowl. [00:14:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Pretty wild. [00:14:26] Speaker B: And, and the, the Bills, by the. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Way. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Just what a disaster they are. What, what a failure they are as an organization. And I didn't really realize this until they fired McDermott, which is like on the surface probably like fine, you really don't feel like you're. But then they, they promote their GM and then the owner gets in on that press conference and then I'm sitting there thinking, wait a second, get worse. Wait a second. AM I. Is McDermott actually the only reason you're good. And we had it all wrong because now that they have peaked behind the veil, they're terrible. That owner is an idiot. [00:15:09] Speaker A: Tell them why. Tell the audience. For those that didn't hear why he's an idiot. [00:15:13] Speaker B: Well, he promoted. Well, I can't remember specifically. [00:15:16] Speaker A: He talked about Keon Coleman. The GM and owner have had this, you know, taunted veil about them that they are the reason they picked Keon Coleman and they have stuck behind that line. There are hard knocks clips of them talking about Keon Coleman being their number one person on their draft board. And the owner said, now hold on, I need to get this out there. He could have easily just said nothing, made it a nothing headline. [00:15:48] Speaker C: Right? [00:15:49] Speaker A: And he said the coaching staff, they were the ones that said they really like Keon Coleman. It wasn't the gm, so it wasn't his fault. [00:15:57] Speaker C: How is it these people have such fragile egos? Say less, you idiot. [00:16:01] Speaker A: He's still on their team. The coaches besides McDermott are still on his staff. [00:16:06] Speaker B: There's. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Their coordinators are interviewing for the head coaching job. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Joe Brady already got the head coaching job. Wow. [00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah. Breaking news. I didn't know that. [00:16:16] Speaker B: I think that came out today that Joe Brady actually did get. [00:16:19] Speaker A: He's sitting there basically degrading his level of being able to look at a player who is still under contract for them. How do you come back as a player after hearing that? [00:16:29] Speaker B: Oh, you don't. I. I don't know if you do. Yeah, they probably do to try to prove them wrong. But. And try to get out of there. Like, I gotta play well so I can get out of here. [00:16:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:16:42] Speaker B: I just. It's hard because sometimes, like I look at the Browns and an absolute hot mess that they are like continuing to be even. Which is hilarious. I didn't think it could get worse. No one wants that job. We can talk about them in a second. [00:16:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:57] Speaker A: Tommy Reese interviewed for it. [00:17:00] Speaker C: Well, did you guys know about the Browns head coach? Because we have a question about this, don't we? [00:17:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Why don't we just bring down to it. Yeah. Tim DeWitt writes in who will be the Browns head coach. So many keep dropping out of their second interviews, meaning a lot of these guys that have interviewed have not wanted a second interview. And from what I read, the reason is. Is because the owner wants to keep Jim Schwartz on as the defensive coordinator. [00:17:31] Speaker C: Yeah. And he's also a candidate for the position. [00:17:34] Speaker B: Correct. He is probably. If we're going to be. All things considered, he is probably going to be the next head coach. [00:17:39] Speaker C: You know what I also heard about there that's unique about the Browns? Actually it was. I think Tom Pulisaro was reporting this on a show that the Browns are unique in their coaching search in what they require of their candidates, which includes them having to even personality test. They do have to write an essay and it's quite extensive, the information that they have. The other teams don't ask for this. [00:18:06] Speaker A: They're very analytical. [00:18:07] Speaker C: The Browns. Yes. Do the Browns believe that they're special in some way? They want to do it different? I think that. Yeah. [00:18:14] Speaker B: That. Because that's panned out for him. [00:18:15] Speaker C: There's a few. There's. I think I would not be shocked if there's a handful of the coaches who go through this cycle and decide, nah, I'm not going to go for that extra mile for this because you're now interviewing me and then saying, okay, here's your homework that you need to do to get this job. I'm just going to go interview for one of the others instead. [00:18:32] Speaker B: Yeah. If anything, the Browns would be lucky to get what they. [00:18:36] Speaker C: What they will get is those. They're not going to get the top candidates. They're going to get the ones who are. Who have something to prove. [00:18:45] Speaker A: Right. [00:18:45] Speaker C: So they're going to get the new people who are willing to do that homework because getting this head coaching job would be a really big deal. [00:18:51] Speaker B: I would not Be shocked within the week if we find out that Jim Schwartz gets the job. He is. Clearly that organization likes him because of what he's done with that defense. Can't blame him if I'm being honest. I can't blame him. That defense is legitimate. [00:19:07] Speaker C: Right. [00:19:08] Speaker B: It's their only like, you know, highlight of that team outside of their Pro Bowler, quarterback, Pro Bowl. [00:19:15] Speaker A: Look out, everybody. Sh. [00:19:18] Speaker B: We're like. [00:19:21] Speaker C: It'S funny every year who shows up in there. I heard they liked Nate Shieldhouse, the past game coordinator for the Rams. I thought he was a. Somebody who intrigued them. But Jim Schwartz seems like a. [00:19:34] Speaker A: They've talked a ton about the, the Browns being somebody who was going to swing for somebody young, knowing that they were going to give him a long leash. I said the name earlier and I, I'm sticking with. I think they're going to hire Tommy Reese. He was their quarterbacks coach or tight ends coach. He was also their offensive coordinator. The second half of the season helped Shador a ton getting in there. And I mean, Shooter wasn't great, but I think that he was a lot better than most people. [00:20:02] Speaker C: He's better. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Thought he was going to be. [00:20:04] Speaker B: He was better than anybody else they trotted out there. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Correct. And I think Tommy Reese is a young player that's coached under Saban. Coached at Notre Dame, was a quarterback there. Like, I, I think that'd be a good young shot. Like, who else is going over there? [00:20:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:21] Speaker A: My next guess is Kevin Stevens. He's gonna get his job back there. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Well, he's already got a job. [00:20:26] Speaker C: I thought he got hired. [00:20:28] Speaker B: He's at the Falcons. [00:20:29] Speaker A: Okay, but. Yeah, just go with my joke. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Okay, well, but it's, it's, it's only funny. Well, it's because he already has a job. He don't like my jobs. No, I don't. But if Jim Schwartz gets hired, he will be the first ex Lions coach to get a second opportunity at being a head coach. No other head coach for the Lions that has been fired has ever had a second opportunity. [00:20:58] Speaker A: That's a great stat right there. [00:20:59] Speaker C: What does that mean? [00:21:00] Speaker B: It means if you've coached the Lions and then have been promptly fired, you will not be another coach again. That's what it means. [00:21:08] Speaker C: Okay. [00:21:08] Speaker B: That's the track record. [00:21:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:10] Speaker B: Jim Caldwell got close. He was interviewed. [00:21:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Wow, that's a great. I just like that. That makes me smile. [00:21:19] Speaker B: But it also. Someone posted. [00:21:21] Speaker A: It's sad, but it makes me smile. [00:21:23] Speaker B: It's depress. Missing someone posted like all of the Lions tenured head Coaches in like, their history. It's like Wayne Fontes is the. Got the most amount of wins. He's like 66 wins and 67 losses. So he doesn't even have. But he was the coach during like the Barry Days. [00:21:44] Speaker C: Okay. [00:21:45] Speaker B: So, I mean, he had some better teams. [00:21:46] Speaker A: Shout out to Barry. [00:21:47] Speaker B: Dan Campbell is the second one on that list. [00:21:51] Speaker C: Amazing. [00:21:52] Speaker B: With 48 wins. [00:21:54] Speaker A: Dang. [00:21:54] Speaker B: Third it was. [00:21:56] Speaker C: So he needs another season or two to pass Wayne Fontes. [00:22:00] Speaker B: He needs at least two. He won't be able to do it next year. Even with. Even if he won out, he wouldn't be able to get there. [00:22:06] Speaker A: Fair, huh? [00:22:08] Speaker B: It's just crazy. [00:22:09] Speaker A: Tim, shout out to you. Let's also talk a little bit about Tim's non excitement. It's really kind of one of my least favorite takes when people say this about a Super bowl. But Tim writes in not super excited. Hold on, let me say it a little less happier. I'm not really super excited about the Super Bowl. Still think the Rams and the Bills are the best teams. Denver and New England are in for a rude awakening next year. By the way. [00:22:38] Speaker B: I will say that is attack the super bowl first. Attack the Super Bowl. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Give me a steak, Widow. [00:22:45] Speaker B: I mean, you're with him. Come on. [00:22:49] Speaker C: Come on. [00:22:49] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. Let me. Let me. Boy, Stanford isn't into super bowl anymore, so I'm not gonna be a fan. I never said I was. [00:22:57] Speaker C: This happens everywhere. [00:22:59] Speaker B: No. [00:23:00] Speaker C: Are you gonna tell me that you'd rather have a rerun? Would you rather watch Chiefs Eagles again? [00:23:05] Speaker B: God, no. I never said that. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Would you rather see the Niners in there again? [00:23:09] Speaker B: Let me. Hold on. You haven't. You guys are attacking. What? I haven't said right now. [00:23:15] Speaker A: Good. Okay. [00:23:16] Speaker B: You guys are attacking me. [00:23:18] Speaker C: Hit the button. To be fair, in our group text you, I did expressed. [00:23:24] Speaker B: I did express my displeasure of this outcome. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:23:27] Speaker B: Now, let me state why I find this displeasing to me. There are two reasons. Reason number one, I was rooting for the Rams. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:39] Speaker B: Once. [00:23:40] Speaker C: Personal bias. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Personal bias. I am not shy about the fact that I have been a big fan of the Rams ever since Stafford went over there. I have. They have felt like a real number two team to me. I have always. Like, the first year he went over there, I was a. I was cheering for that team, probably more than the Lions that year because I knew they were Rams. So I. I was very excited for him. He had a great year. The dude's probably going to win an mvp. I really liked watching that because I Felt like this year he really just solidified. He's probably going to get in the hall of Fame now. You win an MVP in a Super bowl, you're going to find your way in the Hall. It's one thing Eli Manning never did. [00:24:21] Speaker A: Wait till he this well, if Drake. [00:24:25] Speaker B: May wins, then I guess Stafford shot get into the hall of Fame as easily. He's going to have to wait. But you know, what's your second reason? My second reason is I actually just don't think the game is going to be very good. [00:24:40] Speaker C: Okay. [00:24:42] Speaker B: I'm a little worried that the Seahawks, who I actually thought was going to beat the Rams, I was pulling for the Rams, but I had. I already figured that the ran the Seahawks are going to win because their defense is so good. And I just think this matchup is a nightmare for the Patriots. I don't see how they win this. I would love to be wrong. I want to be very clear. I would love to be wrong. [00:25:07] Speaker C: I want to. I want to say something on record. [00:25:09] Speaker B: Okay. To be fair. [00:25:11] Speaker C: Ian, dear friend, under no circumstances are you allowed to root for the Patriots in this outcome. [00:25:22] Speaker A: Why? [00:25:24] Speaker C: Because what do you. What rule do you live your life by? [00:25:28] Speaker B: Defense wins championship. I know what you're saying. [00:25:33] Speaker C: What am I saying? [00:25:34] Speaker B: You're saying that Seahawks have the number one defense in the league right now. So by my metric, they should win. However. [00:25:42] Speaker C: Oh, no, come on, stop. [00:25:44] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no. [00:25:47] Speaker C: I got him. [00:25:47] Speaker A: You did. [00:25:48] Speaker B: You did. Okay. Okay. And one for starters. I said I believe the Seahawks are going to win this. I said this. Okay. [00:25:56] Speaker A: We're talking about rooting. [00:25:59] Speaker B: I can root for. I can root for Vrabel because that's who I like if I want. [00:26:04] Speaker A: He finally pronounced his name right. Three weeks in a row. [00:26:08] Speaker B: I would vote for him more than anything else. [00:26:12] Speaker C: Okay. [00:26:13] Speaker B: That's why I would probably haven't had. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Many moments where I root for the coach. [00:26:17] Speaker B: I haven't either. [00:26:18] Speaker A: I can't really think of many. Maybe, however, the Colts with Tony dungy. [00:26:23] Speaker B: The Mike McDonald situation is also very interesting because if you didn't know this listeners, he will be. If he wins, he will be the first head coach ever, ever to win a Super Bowl. And he never played college football. [00:26:43] Speaker C: Whoa, I didn't know that one. [00:26:44] Speaker B: He never played college football. He tore his ACL in high school and then when he went into college, he actually coached college football or high school football. And then he kind of worked his way up. He got like an internship at the Ravens and he kind of worked his way up. He Never played football in college. [00:27:00] Speaker A: Did you see the NFL Films clip that went viral about him? [00:27:04] Speaker B: It's like the. [00:27:05] Speaker A: A year ago before the NFC championship, he made a speech, his first talk to the team, saying how they were going to be in the NFC Championship, playing at home, bad weather, teams were going to be afraid to come in. They wouldn't be. Our defense is going to be strong. We're going to beat teams down. And I'm just like, I mean, how do you not have watching it? [00:27:25] Speaker B: He was a year off. [00:27:26] Speaker A: I mean, it's just crazy, right? [00:27:28] Speaker C: I have a list of storylines for the Super Bowl. [00:27:31] Speaker B: I'll be honest, there's a lot to like for. Like, who can't root for Sam Darnold finding himself in here. I love the fact that he is the first quarterback from the 2000. Was it 18 draft class. [00:27:47] Speaker C: That's crazy too. [00:27:48] Speaker B: He is in the same for everybody. Keeping track here. He is in the same draft class as Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and. [00:27:56] Speaker C: Baker, me Field and Josh Rosen. [00:27:59] Speaker A: I was just gonna say in Josh. [00:28:01] Speaker B: Rosen, Sam Darnold is the one that finds himself in a Super bowl with quite frankly, a very good chance to win it. [00:28:09] Speaker C: Who would have thought? [00:28:09] Speaker B: And he's played good this season. Yes, like solid, undeniable. [00:28:13] Speaker A: He's turned into a pumpkin one or two times, but in general, he's had a great season. [00:28:16] Speaker B: He. What he hasn't done is he hasn't hurt the team. [00:28:20] Speaker A: He hasn't been like Stidham was yesterday. [00:28:23] Speaker C: Oh. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Stidham. [00:28:26] Speaker B: He had like one series at the very big start of that. [00:28:30] Speaker C: He had that big throw made you think this could be a game. [00:28:32] Speaker B: This could be interesting. And then it was not. Now here's one last thing I'll say and then we can move on. [00:28:39] Speaker A: No, I want to hear the super bowl headlines from Kyle as well. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Okay. The last thing that you can't count out the Patriots is because while everybody has said they've had the easiest schedule to get through to the playoffs and even in the playoffs, people have said they've had a really easy ride. This team has played three of the top ten defenses and won. The LA Chargers were ranked number nine. The Houston Texans were number three. And then the Broncos. Broncos were number two. [00:29:14] Speaker A: Can I share us so that same. [00:29:16] Speaker B: If they. They are now going up against the number one defense and I just think, you know, hey, they have found ways to win. Have they been pretty? Not really. [00:29:27] Speaker A: I just want to review something for the listeners and you. You can rebut this and. And if you don't and you just want what you said to be the rebuttal. That's fine. I'm going to give you the Patriots schedule. Week 1 they played a fired coach Week 2 fired coach 3. Fired coach 4. They played the NFC South 5. Fired coach 6. NFC south again 7. Fired coach 8. Fired coach 9. Fired coach 10. NFC south again 11. The Jets 12 Bengal Bengals with no burrow 13 fired coach 15. Fired coach 16. Fired coach 17. Jets 18 fired coach There is not a team that's played more fired coaches in NFL history. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Well, that's because two of the coaches were Mike McDaniel and Sean McDermott. So I don't know. I take that with a grain of salt. No one's denying that their path has been so cake, so easy and there's a lot of luck involved and I don't have a lot of confidence in them to win. And I so that in that Sense where Tim DeWitt writes Denver New Englander and for rude awakening I don't think Denver is actually I actually think Denver's a an actual good team. [00:30:37] Speaker C: What's the basis for that? [00:30:39] Speaker A: I think part of it from Tim and if I had to guess if he was in here, I think I'd say a conversation you guys talked about of being the number one team having a you're the top team in your division schedule for the next year. It's more difficult. Ask the Lions. [00:30:55] Speaker B: Yeah, Lions had a really hard time. [00:30:56] Speaker A: How many times Ian said I have the clip saved for he said they will win. They have 13 games that they will win next year. At least that was his line that he said about two weeks ago. And I have it for the Lions. Yep. It's in my as a reminder in my phone for a year from now. [00:31:12] Speaker B: See what they do. [00:31:12] Speaker A: 13 wins. Nice. [00:31:13] Speaker B: I hope so because their schedules so much easier. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Again like you look at it and I think we would have thought Washington. It would have been a really hard game. This is a pretty easy win for a lot of teams when they play. [00:31:25] Speaker B: And what what did I say about New England at the beginning of the year? I said they're probably going to get into the playoffs because they have one of the easiest schedules. I didn't actually think they would be here. I'll be honest. [00:31:35] Speaker A: They had a schedule for sure. But speaking of schedules, you know, you. [00:31:39] Speaker B: Have to give them. You don't get to the super bowl because you get that lucky. [00:31:43] Speaker A: What get you I'm excited about the Super Bowl, Kyle. Besides Baboni. [00:31:47] Speaker B: Yeah. What are all these story lines you're talking about bony. [00:31:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Now that we get to it, you know, it's my turn to run the Run the mid the meat of the show. And I have kind of just a grab bag of things. And one of those was I was trying to list out for the sake of our listener. Not really you guys. You know all this stuff. You guys are savvy dudes. But for the sake of any listener, just a reminder. Set you up appetizer. Really with all the story lines. I'm the story guy. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Buffalo chicken dip. [00:32:14] Speaker C: This is why. This is why I like football, which is why I like it. I like the stories. I find the stories very compelling. Yep. [00:32:22] Speaker A: You're a big story guy. [00:32:23] Speaker B: And keep going. But I wanted to add on to that at some point. [00:32:27] Speaker C: All right. So I want. I made a list. [00:32:29] Speaker B: Okay. Now I feel like I just. Because Marshall made a face and now I want to feel like I have to do. Now. I was very close to doing a segment a couple weeks ago about the best storylines of the season because I was going to say something very similar of like there's been a lot of. And it. Because it got me thinking. I was like F1 just like finished their season and they had an incredible storyline. An incredible, like, way that their season was going and ended. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:57] Speaker B: And I wanted to talk about, like, what are some of those incredible moments that are happening now? [00:33:01] Speaker A: Welcome to the F1 after. [00:33:03] Speaker C: Okay. [00:33:03] Speaker B: It's about to be more like the F1 begins. All right, continue. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Okay, where was I? We've got storyline. The story lines. You're so you're just a casual NFL fan. Maybe your team was eliminated. Probably most. Most. All of ours were. That's hurtful. Here's what's going on for Super Bowl 60. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Some. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Shut up. F. Some of the interesting storylines. Super Bowl 60 taking place in San Francisco at the Niner Stadium. And you guys remember where it's at next year. I've forgotten. Doesn't matter. [00:33:31] Speaker B: It's a new stadium, so I don't know. [00:33:33] Speaker A: I'll look it up. [00:33:35] Speaker C: Super Bowl 60 has some interesting stories leading into it. It is historic for the preseason betting odds. The My understanding is this is the unlikeliest super bowl ever or at least in many decades in terms of preseason betting lines. Yeah. [00:33:57] Speaker B: I don't think anybody was pegging this game. [00:33:59] Speaker C: No. [00:34:03] Speaker B: What I mean, like, I don't think anyone was putting these two teams there. I was agreeing with you. [00:34:07] Speaker A: So. [00:34:07] Speaker C: Right. [00:34:08] Speaker B: Why was so funny? [00:34:09] Speaker C: Oh, it's going to. So far next year. [00:34:11] Speaker A: Next year so far LA is going. [00:34:12] Speaker B: To Be one in the rotation from now on. [00:34:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:15] Speaker B: That one in Vegas is probably going to always be in the rotation. [00:34:18] Speaker C: Makes sense. Makes sense. Okay. So in terms of the likeliness, like, there. There was, for all intents and purposes, there was nobody in this offseason picking this outcome. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Sure. [00:34:28] Speaker C: And so statistically, the betting odds are we're very low. We're not dealing with what anybody thought we would be dealing with this year and after. This is actually refreshing considering how many years we've been dealing with what felt like reruns to me at least it felt like we were getting mostly the same stuff at the end of the season. We played an interesting season, and it might be some of these other. At the end of the day, it's the Chiefs on one side and it's. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Somebody else on the side. [00:34:54] Speaker C: One of the other frequent contenders on the other side. We're not getting that this year and it's nice. So tune in for that endorse variety. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Which is funny that, by the way, we're endorsing variety on what is a rematch. Super Bowl. [00:35:09] Speaker C: Yes. That's a. That's my next point. This is a rematch of Super Bowl 49, which was 11 years ago. [00:35:16] Speaker B: So wild. I have students in my classroom that were babies. They never understood beast mode. [00:35:26] Speaker C: That was. [00:35:27] Speaker B: Don't know what it means to fail at the 1 yard line. [00:35:32] Speaker C: Historically, we remember it. We watched. We could never forget. [00:35:36] Speaker A: We watched together. [00:35:37] Speaker B: Seattle. [00:35:38] Speaker C: Did we watch this together? [00:35:39] Speaker A: We did. [00:35:40] Speaker C: Are you sure we watched this? [00:35:41] Speaker A: We probably did watch one together and we watched. [00:35:43] Speaker C: Did you host this at your apartment? [00:35:45] Speaker A: No, we watched the Falcons and Patriots at his apartment. [00:35:48] Speaker C: Oh, we did watch that one at your apartment. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Oh, that went. Tons of people there. And we were going nuts that entire second half. [00:35:56] Speaker C: They might do it. [00:35:56] Speaker B: Was it a catch? Was that a catch? It was a catch. [00:36:00] Speaker C: Oh, my goodness. [00:36:01] Speaker A: Awesome. [00:36:01] Speaker C: That was incredible to watch, man. [00:36:03] Speaker B: I really want to watch that highlight again, but Continue. [00:36:06] Speaker C: Super Bowl 49 was undeniably one of the most memorable Super Bowls we have watched. It was. [00:36:12] Speaker B: It was a good one. It was a good one. [00:36:13] Speaker C: Like, one of the most infamous for sure. When you think of. If I were to say infamous Super Bowls in. In your life, it would be on the short list, I'm sure. So we're getting a rematch of that, although entirely new. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Really looking forward to the documentary that has the real. What was going on in that locker room with. Boom. With Russ, with. [00:36:34] Speaker C: Gosh. [00:36:35] Speaker A: Are they doing one I'm sure down the road they will miss someday. [00:36:38] Speaker B: All I know is out of that game came. Matt, Patricia being like, I drew up the great. [00:36:43] Speaker A: We. [00:36:43] Speaker B: We had that play pegged, man. We had that all drawn up. We knew exactly what they were going to do. [00:36:49] Speaker C: We. [00:36:50] Speaker A: We. We. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Pegged is not a weird word. Why are we acting like this is such a strange word? You're making it weird. [00:36:57] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:36:58] Speaker C: Sorry, audio listeners, I'm sorry. So Drake May faces Drake May is trying to literally step into. Into Brady's shoes here. [00:37:08] Speaker B: He even looks like him. [00:37:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:37:12] Speaker B: Look up a young Brady and look up what Drake May looks like. [00:37:16] Speaker A: All right. [00:37:17] Speaker C: It's interesting. Second season with the Patriots going to the Super bowl bowl as an underdog. [00:37:21] Speaker A: It's crazy. [00:37:22] Speaker C: It is crazy. It's. We're trying to repeat history here with the same team. And Maywood, also, a couple of things about May. You brought up one. No, no, you were talking about McDonald. May would be the youngest quarterback to win the super bowl if he wins. Slightly younger than I think Ben Roethlisberger was when he won his first Super Bowl. There. There are some kind of like, fine, fine. Okay. Show it as pictures. There are some cast offs who get their moment that, you know, we can have like the feel good story. And there's a lot of those. The really recognizable ones are like, variable. Got fired from the Titans and goes to a new team now. He's. He's getting his moment being a Stefan Diggs. Finally getting his moment to play in this. He's had a long career. He's been a big time performer for a lot of teams. [00:38:14] Speaker B: He's been in multiple championship games. [00:38:16] Speaker C: A lot of teams have run their offense through Stefon Diggs and he actually had a good year this year. And he's actually come around to, in a lot of ways to become a leader in that team. And, and also not dating Cardi B. As well. So he's had a big year. [00:38:30] Speaker A: You know, Mike Vrabel has more wins since he was fired than the Tennessee Titans have had since he. They fired him. [00:38:38] Speaker C: That's. That's pretty amazing. The Titans were dysfunctional and they lost that. They lost that outcome. [00:38:43] Speaker B: It does make me feel good to like, peer behind the veil with some of these teams and see how like just a catastrophe the Titans are and how like, awful the Bills are behind the scenes and the Browns. Because I'm like, man, the lines have come a long way. This used to be us. [00:39:03] Speaker A: We used to be. We used to look bad, right? Wonder why we didn't look at them. [00:39:08] Speaker B: And I'm like, you guys are like a Competent organization. I'm sorry. [00:39:11] Speaker C: No. That stuff is fascinating to me. And there's so much of our fandom that we. Stop. There's so much our fandom that we are like, looking at the surface stuff, but really there is a lot behind the scenes. There is a. There's a lot of the, the blame or credit that could be put behind the scenes. For example, credit to John Schneider. John Schneider, GM for the Seahawks is. [00:39:34] Speaker B: Oh, I, I did know about this. [00:39:36] Speaker C: He is the first general manager to return to a Super bowl with a new roster and head coach. There's a lot of GMs completely. There's a lot of GMS that are really good at their job that we have given a lot of credit to. We've praised in some of our discourse and said like, oh man, Howie Roseman or Less need or whoever else is like, assembled great rosters. Belichick was the gm. [00:40:03] Speaker A: I know. He's not their GM anymore. [00:40:05] Speaker C: I know. But. Yeah, but he. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Who is their gm. [00:40:08] Speaker A: He's a new head coach and a new gm. Taking to the court. Taken to the Super Bowl. Same owner. [00:40:13] Speaker C: No, no, no. I'm saying no agm. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm mixing that up. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Keep going. [00:40:20] Speaker C: So no team has ever, no GM has ever been able to do what John Schneider has accomplished. Like complete reset and do it again. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Prove it. [00:40:31] Speaker C: Prove you didn't just get lucky the first time around. Prove it wasn't your coach carrying you. Prove it wasn't some of your star plays carrying you. Assemble another great roster and get it to the super bowl again. Well, John Schneider just did that. [00:40:42] Speaker B: He did that. [00:40:43] Speaker C: No one else in history has ever done that. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Pretty impressive. [00:40:48] Speaker C: It is. And it's fascinating to think about that. Like so many GMs have had long tenures, but none of them have been able to like, replace the head coach and get back again. [00:40:58] Speaker B: It's such a high risk to get rid of your long tenured head coach who had gotten you to two Super Bowls. [00:41:05] Speaker A: One. [00:41:05] Speaker B: One. And to move on from that. And then two years later, find yourself in the super bowl again and to. [00:41:12] Speaker A: Move past what was a quarterback that a lot of people said don't move on from for what? Mina Kime's the most well known Seattle Seahawks fan, the day after Geno Smith and Pete Carol were gone, said this franchise has taken a step back that they will not be able to recover from for at least 10 years. [00:41:34] Speaker B: And to take a chance on Darnold when, I mean, even after what was A great season. There was still question marks of whether or not that was a sustainable thing. [00:41:43] Speaker C: I was a big time skeptic. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Was he a pumpkin? [00:41:44] Speaker B: I was too. [00:41:45] Speaker A: Is he a pumpkin? [00:41:46] Speaker B: He is clearly not. He is clearly just been held back by the jets the entire time. And you know what, when I say that, I'm like, of course that's true. Why, why are we not giving Sam Darnold more credit? Actually like I say that now and I'm like, you know, him being this good actually tracks. [00:42:04] Speaker C: You know, it's right in that if you look at it through the lens that what the teams he played for accomplished was very par for the course while he was there. The Vikings, they Viking while he was there. They won a lot of regular season games and had nothing in the playoffs. The jets, they sucked. The Panthers, they sucked. All these teams, they did what they do. He was on the 49ers and he started a single game. I think if I remember right. [00:42:29] Speaker B: Well, it was funny because he was asked like how does it feel to finally make it to the Super Bowl? And he was like, I've actually already been to the Super Bowl. [00:42:36] Speaker A: Welcome the Commish. The Commish Report. Just kidding. We miss you command. [00:42:41] Speaker B: I actually think Darnold would have been just as good over for San Fran, by the way. Obviously that's here nor there, but we. [00:42:49] Speaker C: Could be able to coin a new, hopefully lasting nickname I'm coming up with now. I haven't heard anybody else say it, but 2 per cup could be 2 per cup. 2 per cup. [00:43:02] Speaker A: Did you hear the reports? Could be a good nickname out there. That Times article that's about him. [00:43:06] Speaker B: That about the Rams? [00:43:08] Speaker A: Yep. About the Rams were apparently telling people to that lowball him, that he should be lowballed because they thought that he should retire. And Seattle was the only team to offer. They wanted a 3 or $50 million. [00:43:23] Speaker B: The Rams wanted him to retire as a Ram. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:27] Speaker B: And he wanted to keep playing. [00:43:29] Speaker A: Right. And there reports that they told other teams to lowball. [00:43:32] Speaker B: And what I love about Cooper cup is in all three of the games between the Rams and them, Matt Stafford and Cooper cup went out of their way to find each other. [00:43:44] Speaker A: That's cool. [00:43:45] Speaker B: Yeah, there was. There was a scene before, like after the game that they lost at the regular season. Stafford's already leaving and Cooper cup is literally running him down. And then in this last game, Cooper cup is out there catching balls with somebody else. And Stafford is the only Ram out there. Goes over there and they hang out and they're Just chilling. And I'm like, man, that's a bromance. [00:44:09] Speaker A: And he's been an awesome. They've talked about the leadership that he's had helping JSN develop into what he is the number one wide receiver in the NFL. [00:44:17] Speaker B: You could argue he did that with Pukua, too, while he was there. [00:44:20] Speaker A: I could agree with that. [00:44:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Keep going, Kyle. That's a great nickname. [00:44:24] Speaker C: Thank you. Reminder that Cooper was the Super Bowl MVP in the year that the Rams won. Not that long. He was. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Imagine that year. He was, like, the two triple crown, too. [00:44:34] Speaker C: That's right. That's right. What a season. What a season. The Patriots would take the lead with this victory for the most Lombardi. They are currently tied with the Steelers for most super bowl wins in history, so they would become the leader. I just want to be on record saying, emotionally, I am not ready for the. For the Patriots to be back. I actually. I don't want this. I don't know how anybody else out there can say, oh, this is fine. I'm not ready for this. [00:45:04] Speaker B: It seems unfair. [00:45:05] Speaker C: It was our. [00:45:06] Speaker A: It was basically Boston fans. You know my stance. [00:45:08] Speaker C: I know your stance. This is. It was our whole life that the. The Patriots, they were good for so. [00:45:13] Speaker B: Long, and then to have, what, three or four years out and then to be back already is like, this is too much. [00:45:21] Speaker C: It's too soon. I'm not ready for this Officially. [00:45:24] Speaker B: Somehow, Palpatine returned. [00:45:26] Speaker C: I can't imagine that's how it feels. I feel like the whole nation has to be rooting against the Patriots. Right? Has to be. The majority of the nation has to look at this and say, no, not you guys again. [00:45:38] Speaker B: Not. Yeah, probably. But the problem is this is a very different Patriots team. It's not the same. [00:45:45] Speaker C: I'm talking casual fans. I'm talking the fans of another team that's eliminated. They're tuning in just for the Super Bowl. They're looking, and they're seeing what. [00:45:51] Speaker B: But you want to know what? After. I think most people, even casual fans, associated Brady with the Patriots because they felt that same way when he was with the Bucks. And even though the Bucks had not won a lot of Super Bowls, and that would have really only their second one, when he made it to the super bowl with the Bucks, there was an immediate fatigue of, like, oh, man, we got to watch this guy again. [00:46:20] Speaker C: Right. [00:46:21] Speaker B: So I think it will. I think even to a casual fan, they'll know that this is a very different team. [00:46:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, maybe. [00:46:29] Speaker B: And I think there is a lot. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Of like, even to us that know that it's a different team, we're still like, ugh, it's a Patriots. [00:46:37] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah. I mean, immediately when I saw this matchup, it was like the first thing. [00:46:40] Speaker C: I was like, oh, to have been born in Massachusetts. What? And to live a life privileged. Yeah. It. That. That's. That's just too much sports privilege. That's just too much. Yeah. [00:46:50] Speaker B: Yeah. They're spoiled over there. [00:46:52] Speaker C: Yes. Born with a silver spoon. Yeah. Vrabel would be the first head coach to win a Super bowl for the same team he played for. That's never happened before. [00:47:01] Speaker A: It's awesome. [00:47:02] Speaker B: I would love that for him. [00:47:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:47:04] Speaker C: It could be kind of interesting. [00:47:05] Speaker B: And this is like the big one is I want it for him because of what the Titans did to him. [00:47:10] Speaker A: That's. That's a fair take. [00:47:12] Speaker B: That's why I'm like rooting for Vrabel and not necessarily the Patriots. [00:47:16] Speaker C: Yeah. You know what I mean? He is an example. Every year, a lot of coaches come and go, and there's always some that I think they weren't the problem. And. And he's maybe like the quintessential example of that. I don't think he was a problem. He had a power struggle with the GM at the Titans. Lost that power struggle the moment he was fired. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Everybody knew that was a mistake. [00:47:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:37] Speaker B: It was like, you're nuts for. [00:47:39] Speaker C: Getting rid of this coach was not the problem in that. That situation. We know it. Everybody, the nation knows it now. Anyway. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Keep going, keep going. [00:47:46] Speaker C: Those. Those. Those are a few of the headlines. [00:47:48] Speaker A: I like it. Those are. Those are good headlines for, I think either casual or for people who love and babon. [00:47:56] Speaker B: Just the other Patriot connection here. That's got nothing to do with the Super Bowl. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Okay. [00:48:01] Speaker B: The news that broke literally before we came into the pod. Oh, Bill Belichick. [00:48:07] Speaker A: Not a Hall of Famer. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Not a first ballot hall of Famer. [00:48:11] Speaker C: Surprising. [00:48:12] Speaker B: He will be in the hall. He will be in the hall, but he will not be a first ballot hall. [00:48:16] Speaker A: Apparently the reports are that Spygate and what's the other gate? [00:48:21] Speaker B: Deflate gate. [00:48:22] Speaker A: Deflate gate are a huge reason. More than the North Carolina debacle has. [00:48:27] Speaker C: Been or his poor record post Brady. [00:48:30] Speaker A: Correct. [00:48:31] Speaker C: Right. [00:48:31] Speaker A: Those are the. [00:48:33] Speaker C: It makes sense. Scandals. Scandals are worse than some losing seasons. [00:48:36] Speaker B: But are they going to treat Brady the same way? I don't think they will. [00:48:42] Speaker A: Brady went left and won outside of it, so. [00:48:45] Speaker C: Right. [00:48:45] Speaker B: I think Brady's issue. [00:48:46] Speaker C: I think Brady is the golden child of the NFL. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Well, Brady's gonna immediately. [00:48:50] Speaker A: He's the only one that can change rules, can't tackle at knees. And also, you can own a team, but then you can't own a team and be an announcer. [00:48:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:00] Speaker B: I'm gonna give Brady some slack at least on the announcer thing because he has massively improved. [00:49:06] Speaker A: Did he improve or did he just suck so bad that now that. Because he's just. [00:49:10] Speaker B: Have you. Have you listened to us? I. He actually has provided some really interesting insight into some of those games that I was like. I found that fascinating. [00:49:20] Speaker A: I'm glad you're cutting him some slack because his face hasn't slacked one inch. [00:49:24] Speaker B: Okay, well, that's since very. [00:49:25] Speaker A: He's had some work done. [00:49:26] Speaker B: This is. This is hilarious. You're just a hater, bro. [00:49:31] Speaker C: You are a hater. He knows he's a hater. I know you do call him a hater every episode. [00:49:35] Speaker A: You were a hater a couple weeks ago. You didn't want to hear it. [00:49:38] Speaker B: Okay, what did I hate on you. [00:49:39] Speaker A: Were being a hater. [00:49:40] Speaker C: The only other things in my grab bag were just things that I found interesting. And I didn't have enough time to turn this into a full blown segment, but thought I still wanted to tell you that the average number of coaching vacancies in the 32 team era is seven. We currently have 10. That ties the record. [00:49:58] Speaker A: That was a lot. [00:50:00] Speaker C: So usually there's about 22% of head coaches that get replaced each year. This year it's 31%. That's high. That's pretty high. [00:50:07] Speaker B: There were some big ones, too. I mean, the Steelers, Steelers and the Ravens both moving on from their long tenured head coaches. [00:50:13] Speaker A: Who would think McCarthy has been the Steelers, the Cowboys, in the Packers. [00:50:19] Speaker B: Three of the most iconic football franchises. [00:50:23] Speaker A: They're the most pretty prestigious, I would think. [00:50:26] Speaker C: I would agree with that. Yeah. [00:50:28] Speaker B: What's wild is I think hiring McCarthy is a mistake. But it's. It's such a safe. It's such a Steeler safe. [00:50:38] Speaker A: You don't want to be the person to replace Tom, however, person to replace the guy that replaced. [00:50:43] Speaker B: However, what I will say in McCarthy's defense is I watched his opening presser and that dude very clearly bleeds Pittsburgh. He was. [00:50:55] Speaker C: He's from Pittsburgh. [00:50:56] Speaker B: He was very emotional about the opportunity to coach that team. And for that I was like, I like that. I like when a coach is like vulnerable or is like, you can tell is very invested immediately. [00:51:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:14] Speaker B: And will I be rooting for him or do I hope he loses? Yeah. [00:51:23] Speaker C: Can I just Say as a. As someone, he's probably the only coach. [00:51:27] Speaker B: That could entice Rogers to come back. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Though I think it's the opposite. [00:51:31] Speaker C: I kind of think. Yeah, I think. I don't think Rogers wants to play for McCarthy right now. I would say as someone who cheered for McCarthy team for many years and saw his house one time because my uncle lives in his neighborhood, his old neighborhood, sick flex. [00:51:45] Speaker B: He's got like a whole road named after him. [00:51:48] Speaker C: Right. Yeah, I think, I think that's true. Anyway. McCarthy to me is the quintessential less with more coach in that I think he takes great talent and does achieves less than their potential very consistently throughout his. And I want to say on the Steelers front, it is very funny to replace this mic with another mic who's probably going to accomplish basically the same thing. [00:52:13] Speaker B: Yeah, they're not any different. [00:52:15] Speaker C: I think McCarthy is kind of a high floor but low ceiling. [00:52:20] Speaker B: I was thinking he is like a floor razor, but he's not a ceiling razor. [00:52:24] Speaker C: It's. It's worth bearing in mind that the Steelers officially did not fire Tomlin and reportedly were willing to extend him for or keep him another season. Tomlin stepped down. [00:52:37] Speaker A: Correct. [00:52:37] Speaker C: And so it is left money on the table. So it's not crazy to look at the team saying, okay, we're not really looking to shake things up right now, but want to replace him with, you know, another can accomplish basically the same thing. But on the Mike McCarthy. Look at his history. He's got an impressive resume. He does. He's won over 60% of his games. And the thing that I would say is when you look at that record, he had over 85% of his games. He had Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers or Dak Prescott as his quarterback and that was far at the end of his dominance. Rogers through most of the most of the peak of his career and Dak Dak a lot of his prime. You know what though? [00:53:27] Speaker B: He's not going to have that. [00:53:28] Speaker C: No. What happens when he leaves? Those quarterbacks do better in each case. [00:53:38] Speaker A: Buy on the Cowboys. [00:53:39] Speaker C: What you're saying the cow I'm talking. I'm saying that. [00:53:42] Speaker B: Well, they were really good this year offensively at least. [00:53:45] Speaker C: Dakota, when McCarthy left, played the best of his career. He played phenomenal. He's excelled post McCarthy. Rogers won back to back MVPs as soon as McCarthy left. The guy does less with the talent than their real potential and I think that he's going to come in and set the ceiling pretty low for Pittsburgh. [00:54:10] Speaker B: They don't even have a quarterback right now. [00:54:12] Speaker C: Quarterbacks you can find. And he's gonna find. They'll find a talented quarterback, and he will ensure that that quarterback achieves less than their full potential. [00:54:20] Speaker B: You know what I would love to see if I'm the Steelers. You know what? I would really love to see us out of God. [00:54:28] Speaker C: I think Russ needs to go running back. [00:54:30] Speaker B: If I'm. If I'm a Steelers fan and if I'm gonna make the safe play of hiring a very safe coach. And I want to shake up my team. No, I want to shake up my team. [00:54:41] Speaker A: Okay. [00:54:42] Speaker B: I am going all in yet either number one draft pick. [00:54:49] Speaker C: Okay. [00:54:50] Speaker B: And take it. [00:54:51] Speaker A: Okay. [00:54:51] Speaker B: And get Mendoza. Okay. Or sell the farm and get burrow. [00:54:58] Speaker C: Oh. [00:54:59] Speaker B: Because then maybe you could do something special. [00:55:04] Speaker A: Spend some burrow to the Vikings talk. [00:55:07] Speaker B: I. I have heard that. [00:55:08] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:55:09] Speaker B: I can't believe we're already selling. [00:55:12] Speaker A: I saw a trade Burrow. T. Higgins. [00:55:15] Speaker B: We've said McCarthy so much. [00:55:17] Speaker A: Addison. J.J. mcCarthy. Two first and a second. [00:55:21] Speaker C: Oh, gosh. [00:55:22] Speaker A: That's. [00:55:23] Speaker C: That's true. [00:55:23] Speaker B: I don't need a gym. [00:55:25] Speaker C: It's insane. [00:55:26] Speaker A: Well, these are some great storylines, Kyle. I love it. What else you got on there? [00:55:30] Speaker C: Everybody's heard this one, but I haven't heard us say it on the pod, so there might be a listener who hasn't heard that. The Raiders. The Raiders are paying five coaches $50 million to not coach for their team right now. A total of $50 million. But the Raiders are still paying Chip Kelly, Antonio Pierce, Pete Carroll, Josh McDaniels, and John Gruden. They are paying all five of them to not coach for them. [00:55:57] Speaker A: Chip Kelly isn't that far. I mean, he was this season. This season. [00:56:00] Speaker C: The middle of this season. [00:56:01] Speaker B: I was just surprised. I forgot he was over there. I was just surprised. [00:56:05] Speaker C: That is an organization that is excelling at firing their coaches. And as it happens, since 2002, the Raiders have had the most head coaches. They've had 12 head coaches, which is more than any other team. The Lions are pretty average at seven, maybe a little more than the average, but there's a lot of other teams that have had that many. [00:56:25] Speaker A: If Campbell is like, he's balanced in. [00:56:27] Speaker B: The top 10 now of, like, longest tenured head coaches. Sean McVay is, like, the second. [00:56:32] Speaker C: Now, that's crazy. [00:56:33] Speaker B: Which is wild because Andy Reid is. [00:56:35] Speaker C: Obviously, you know, Mike McCarthy is the third oldest coach in the NFL. [00:56:39] Speaker A: Now, that doesn't surprise me. That doesn't surprise me. [00:56:41] Speaker C: Only Andy Reid and John Harbaugh are older. [00:56:44] Speaker A: Gosh, John Harbor. [00:56:46] Speaker B: Can we. I know you guys. I'm really excited for the Chargers next year. [00:56:52] Speaker A: So excited. [00:56:54] Speaker B: I am buying hard. Mike McDaniels. That fits. Because that Harbaugh loves the run game. [00:57:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:04] Speaker B: Loves it. [00:57:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:57:05] Speaker B: And that's Mike and McDaniels like bread and butter. [00:57:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:57:08] Speaker B: That offense. I. I just like LA team down. I just like LA teams. I'm finding out. Oh, I love their color schemes. I love their coaches. I love their players. You've been to la. I feel like I got to go. [00:57:26] Speaker A: Now because it's a good time. [00:57:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. [00:57:33] Speaker C: It's fine. [00:57:34] Speaker B: I mean, they just got a lot over there on both teams that I really like and I'm excited about. Just wanted to put that out. [00:57:41] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:57:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:42] Speaker B: Because he did his, like, opening press conference and stuff today, and it was really funny and I'm like, Ah, McDaniels. [00:57:52] Speaker A: Some part of me wanted him to go get the coaching job for the Bills. [00:57:55] Speaker B: So it would have been fun. [00:57:57] Speaker C: Interesting. [00:57:58] Speaker A: Some part of the ultimate hater wanted him to make Josh Allen really great and me become a Buffalo Bill. I would have. I think I would have done it. I would have turned heel. [00:58:08] Speaker C: You guys want to play game? [00:58:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do this. [00:58:10] Speaker B: Let's wrap this up with a game. [00:58:11] Speaker A: We got a game and we got to do our pick. Team, Player. Team. I like that. You just. [00:58:15] Speaker C: I don't know if there is a name for the game. [00:58:16] Speaker A: Oh, we're gonna call it Team Player. [00:58:17] Speaker C: Tim Player. Team. [00:58:18] Speaker A: Okay. [00:58:18] Speaker C: The simple rules of the game, we're gonna try and as quickly as it's kind of an association game, one person is going to name a player. The next person has to within a few seconds. Do you want to say five seconds? [00:58:27] Speaker A: Let's say five. [00:58:28] Speaker C: Let's say five seconds. We're going to be kind of rough. Has to name a team associated with that player. Then the next person has to say a player associated with that team. And so on. We go team player. Team player. Team player. Until someone drops the ball and says something incorrect or fails to say something before the explosion. Let's. Thank you. Okay, that's our sign. You guys understand the rules? [00:58:46] Speaker B: I'm going to be bad at this. [00:58:48] Speaker A: Each of us will start one of the three rounds and we'll go in a circle. We're going to go the same way no matter what. It's going to go myself. [00:58:55] Speaker C: Oh, we don't want to rotate. [00:58:56] Speaker A: Nope. It's going to go myself and then Kyle and Then Ian and then myself and then Kyle. [00:59:00] Speaker C: Okay, okay, okay. You're going to. You're going to kick us off, then. [00:59:02] Speaker A: I'm going to kick us off. We all, before this show, picked a player. And you're going to be able to play at home and see if you're picking the same player we are or the same team. Think who would be the player that you would pick? You're overthinking us. [00:59:17] Speaker B: Yeah, just. Let's just get into it. [00:59:18] Speaker A: In my. In my answer's easy. You ready? We're going to start our game. Geno Smith, Seattle Seahawks. Richard Sherman, San Francisco 49ers. [00:59:32] Speaker C: Let's see. Michael Crabtree, Raiders. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Was he on the Raiders? [00:59:38] Speaker A: Good job. You couldn't think of a Raider? Jimmy G. Come on. [00:59:48] Speaker C: Come on. Derek Carr, face the franchise. [00:59:51] Speaker A: All right. Screw it. Against each other. Do we just. I'm the loser of that? [00:59:55] Speaker C: No, let's just move it now. I'll initiate. [00:59:57] Speaker A: You ready? Kick us off. [00:59:57] Speaker C: Randy Moss, Vikings. Dobbs tops Packers. [01:00:07] Speaker B: He was on the Packers. [01:00:09] Speaker A: Aaron Rodgers, Jets. [01:00:13] Speaker C: Aaron Glenn, Lions. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Crap. [01:00:19] Speaker C: Stafford Rams. [01:00:22] Speaker A: Cooper Cup, Seahawks. [01:00:25] Speaker C: Darnold, Vikings. [01:00:29] Speaker A: Chris Carter. [01:00:34] Speaker C: Did he play for another scene? [01:00:35] Speaker A: Yes. [01:00:37] Speaker C: Who else did he play for? [01:00:38] Speaker A: I don't know. I think it's the Bucks. I didn't lose. [01:00:42] Speaker C: You lost. Okay. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Got mad at me. [01:00:45] Speaker C: You don't even know. [01:00:46] Speaker A: You don't even know. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Okay. [01:00:49] Speaker C: Okay. We're gonna find out who. [01:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we gotta wait. [01:00:52] Speaker A: I hope he played for, like, five other teams at the end of the years. I hope it is. The Bucks. [01:00:57] Speaker B: Probably did. [01:00:58] Speaker C: Okay. He played. Oh, he played for the Eagles, Vikings and Dolphins. [01:01:03] Speaker B: Not the Bucks. [01:01:05] Speaker A: Dang it. [01:01:06] Speaker B: Yeah, but there was options. You could have probably thrown out any team. Who? [01:01:10] Speaker A: I lost when my round started. You lost when your round started. Ian, the pressure on. [01:01:15] Speaker B: Gosh. [01:01:15] Speaker C: There we go. All right. [01:01:16] Speaker B: Indomic. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Sue, lions. [01:01:21] Speaker C: Swift DeAndre, swift, bears. [01:01:24] Speaker A: D.J. moore. [01:01:27] Speaker C: Where did he go? [01:01:28] Speaker B: I don't know. Where did he come from? [01:01:29] Speaker C: Where did he come from? I don't even remember where he came from. [01:01:32] Speaker A: Carolina Panthers. [01:01:34] Speaker B: Oh, that's okay. [01:01:36] Speaker C: I dropped the ball again. [01:01:37] Speaker A: All right, so what we're going to do right now is we have one bonus round. Obviously. I thought we were gonna do better. [01:01:45] Speaker C: I thought we were gonna do better. [01:01:47] Speaker B: I didn't lose. I didn't get bombed, to be fair. [01:01:51] Speaker A: So this round we're going to do, it's going to be a tennis round. So it's gonna be. I'm gonna start us off, and then it can go to either of you two. So I'm just We're gonna say, like, if you both say something, we're gonna take whoever's goes first, and you guys genu flick to whoever the person is. Okay. I have my person. It will make all of you smile. Are we ready? Yes. Don't overthink it. Okay. [01:02:17] Speaker C: Okay. [01:02:18] Speaker A: Tim Tebow, Denver Broncos. Peyton Manning. [01:02:22] Speaker B: Colts. [01:02:23] Speaker C: Daniel Jones. [01:02:27] Speaker A: The Giants. [01:02:28] Speaker C: Jameis Winston. [01:02:29] Speaker A: The Bucks. [01:02:31] Speaker C: Tom Brady. [01:02:32] Speaker B: You're faster than me. [01:02:33] Speaker A: Patriots. [01:02:38] Speaker C: Stefan Dicks. Buffalo Billsa. [01:02:46] Speaker A: Is it the Chargers? Oh, okay. I was gonna say 49. Philip Rivers. [01:02:51] Speaker C: Colts. Colts. [01:02:52] Speaker A: Have we already done Philip Rivers? [01:02:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Them. Don't say Chargers. Was the person that you picked. The wol Say. [01:03:01] Speaker C: No, he said Colts. He said Colts. [01:03:03] Speaker A: I'm sorry. I'm messing things up right now. [01:03:06] Speaker C: Okay, start with the Colts. [01:03:07] Speaker A: Ready, set, go, Colts. We're gonna say Pierre Gossan. [01:03:15] Speaker B: I don't know, 49ers. That sounds right. [01:03:18] Speaker C: Correct. Nice. Good one. [01:03:21] Speaker A: And he played for the Redskins. Jimmy Garoppolo, the patsy. [01:03:29] Speaker B: We already did Digs. [01:03:31] Speaker A: Oh. [01:03:31] Speaker B: Oh. Kyle Van Noy. [01:03:33] Speaker A: I. I don't know. [01:03:34] Speaker C: Ravens. [01:03:35] Speaker A: Okay, thank you. Then we're gonna go Ravens. We'll go Derek Henry. [01:03:39] Speaker B: Titans. [01:03:40] Speaker A: Titans. We could go D.J. [01:03:42] Speaker C: I mean, A.J. brown. [01:03:44] Speaker A: A.J. brown. We could go Eagles. [01:03:46] Speaker B: Saquon Barkley. [01:03:47] Speaker A: You could go to the Giants. [01:03:47] Speaker C: You're a Giants. [01:03:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Thank you, Giants. We could go Odell. [01:03:53] Speaker B: Oh, Rams. [01:03:53] Speaker C: Thank you, Rams. [01:03:54] Speaker A: We could go Cooper Cup. [01:03:58] Speaker B: Seattle. [01:03:59] Speaker A: Then we could go Russell Wilson, Denver Broncos. Then we could go Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts. And then we could go. [01:04:10] Speaker B: Daniel Jones. Oh, we already did, Dan. [01:04:14] Speaker C: We already did. And then we went to New York. [01:04:16] Speaker B: Oh, I did. [01:04:18] Speaker A: That was a good final, right? [01:04:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:04:19] Speaker A: You said the one thing, and then you said your answer to the next. You can't play tennis with yourself. It doesn't work. [01:04:25] Speaker B: Well, watch me. [01:04:27] Speaker A: Well, guys, that was a fun little round of Team, player, Team. And. Or is it player, Team player. [01:04:33] Speaker C: Yeah, it's player. [01:04:33] Speaker A: We'll get back to you. We'll get a better name next time. Maybe we'll do that again to end our episodes. What do you think? [01:04:39] Speaker B: And you guys let me know if Tom Brady as a young one and Drake may look alike. [01:04:45] Speaker A: By the way, can I ask one? I have one grape with you from the pod. I've kept it in my holster. [01:04:50] Speaker B: All right, all right. What's your gripe? [01:04:51] Speaker A: How is Mike McCarthy a floor raiser to Mike Tomlin, who had the longest strike? I never saw 500. [01:05:00] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. I wasn't saying that he was better or would raise the floor higher than Mike Tomlin. That's not what I meant. I meant if you brought in Mike McCarthy to a bad team like the Cowboys, the floor would have been higher than what Jason Garrett, for example, was capable of. Sure, that's what I meant. I'm not saying that Mike McCarthy raises the floor higher than Tomlin. I was hoping anything I would actually say he lowers it. [01:05:27] Speaker A: I was hoping Jason Garrett got hired so that I didn't have to listen to him call Notre Dame games. He's on NBC all the time and he smiles without moving. [01:05:37] Speaker B: If I had to say, Mike McCarthy is pretty much probably the same, if not worse than Mike Tomlin. [01:05:45] Speaker A: I like it. Anything else you want to leave the listeners? What are you gonna have on your steak? [01:05:51] Speaker C: Blue cheese, man. [01:05:54] Speaker A: That's what I like to hear. Anything else that you're excited about? You gonna order chocolate milk? [01:05:58] Speaker C: I will order some chocolate milk. [01:05:59] Speaker A: I was talking to Ian. [01:06:02] Speaker B: No. Now that is an atypical combo. [01:06:07] Speaker A: Thank you. [01:06:08] Speaker B: Chocolate milk and steak. [01:06:09] Speaker A: We're full circle over here, guys. Oh, wait. [01:06:13] Speaker B: Our pick. The Super Bowl. [01:06:15] Speaker A: I picked Seattle to beat the New England Patriots. [01:06:18] Speaker B: How about you? I'm gonna take the Patriots because I don't want Seattle. [01:06:24] Speaker C: You're such a hypocrite. Wanna you live your life? [01:06:30] Speaker B: But the Patriots still have a good defense. [01:06:33] Speaker C: No, they don't. Not as good as Seattle, but it's. [01:06:36] Speaker B: Still ranked number four. [01:06:38] Speaker C: That's not as good as number one, I think if you didn't know how numbers work. [01:06:43] Speaker B: But that number one defense didn't look so great against the number one offense. [01:06:48] Speaker C: But they still won in the end. They shut them down and got to the Super Bowl. [01:06:53] Speaker B: Special teams failures. [01:06:55] Speaker A: Kyle, who are you picking? [01:06:57] Speaker C: I am picking defense because it's what I live my life by. I'm not a hypocrite. [01:07:03] Speaker A: Hater. Hater. [01:07:04] Speaker B: Hater. [01:07:04] Speaker A: We got a hater over here. [01:07:06] Speaker B: Listen. Go Variable. Go get it. Show the Titans why you're better than them. [01:07:14] Speaker A: Buffalo chicken dip.