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NFL 2023 - Week 13
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Things are heating up - both in the NFL playoff race and literally in Bob's apartment. Join Mack and Bob as they break down every matchup for week thirteen of the 2023 NFL season.
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The Bet and Consequences
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It's getting hot in here.
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I got some B-dub sauce I lost in fantasy.
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I'm gonna burn my face off.
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Let's dive right in.
Introduction to NFL Confidence Pool Podcast
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Welcome back to Making Waves, an NFL confidence pool podcast.
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I'm your host, Mac.
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And I'm your host, Bob.
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And this is a podcast where Bob and I try to win money and along the way we make silly bets that sometimes don't work out in some of our favor and we got to pay the consequences.
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We got to pay the piper live on Making Waves and one of us is about to take that on today in an episode that I am quite excited for.
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I don't know how you feel, Bob.
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I don't want to pay the piper.
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What if I don't want to pay the piper?
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I don't want to pay the piper.
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I don't want to pay the flipping piper.
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Obviously, I think we've made it pretty clear that, unfortunately, Bob is the one that will be paying this piper here.
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Him and I, a few weeks ago before the Thanksgiving break, which, by the way, Wavemakers, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Bob and I made a little bet for the Lions and Bears playing, as well as him and myself playing, don't
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Why are you eating
Bears vs. Lions Game Recap and Emotional Impact
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it?
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I'm just putting one ranch.
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You're already... Oh, some ranch.
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Oh, okay.
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I was like, whoa, whoa.
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You've got to explain the bet.
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I want to give myself something good first.
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Oh, okay.
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Fair enough.
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Fair enough.
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He's over there mowing down.
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So, yes.
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Bob and I made a bet for the Bears and Lions playing as well as the same week, the...
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my team and Bob's team went head-to-head in fantasy football.
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So the bet was if one of us got two of those correctly, so either the Bears won twice, either the Lions won twice, or they split and whoever won in fantasy as the tiebreaker was going to have the opportunity to win the bet and the other person was going to have to complete the hot wing challenge again.
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where we selected five different hot sauces and you're going to have to eat wings all the way up.
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Obviously, as we've, as we've hinted at here, Bob lost that bet because the bears unfortunately lost in heartbreaking fashion two weeks ago, which I don't know if you're ready to talk about that or is it still too soon?
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Um, I'm definitely ready to talk about that.
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Um, since my boys are on a one game winning streak in the NFC North, um, as of a couple of nights ago.
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Yeah, that, uh, that one really hurts.
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Um, the bears had it, the game was over.
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Um,
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The camera person kept showing Lions fans dejected in the stands.
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I was in an Uber from Charlottesville to Richmond, Virginia.
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Just chatting with my Uber driver, having a grand old time, thinking I cannot believe my boys just went into Detroit and...
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saved me from having to eat blazing wings.
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And yeah, I don't want to talk about the end of the game, obviously.
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You know, it's kind of the story of my life.
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Same thing happened last November in Chicago, got pied, lost a big lead.
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You know, the same thing happened again.
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And let's just say this one hurt a little bit more because I was inspecting a lot and the Bears just came out fire and then really kicked me where it hurt.
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So that was not fun for me.
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Yeah, I can't imagine.
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It was a tough loss for some.
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It was an incredible win for some.
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I definitely was hooting and hollering and jumping up and down.
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And I got to say, as that game went on... That's rude.
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Go ahead.
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That's rude.
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You were jumping up and down?
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I would not have done that if the Bears won.
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Oh, please.
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Oh, please.
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You were very respectful.
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But I was certainly getting some chirps throughout the game, but they were very respectful.
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Thank you.
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I thought so.
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Very respectful.
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I was very nice.
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Very nice.
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Because honestly, between me and you, I kept thinking the Lions were going to come back and win by multiple possessions.
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And then all of a sudden, middle of the third quarter, Jared Goff kept throwing interceptions.
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And I'm sitting there thinking, okay, I think we might have a chance.
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It was rough.
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You know, I'm sure you've seen the win probability chart.
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My boys had like a 98 or, yeah, 98.5 with three minutes left.
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That is unbelievable that you have almost a 99% chance to win with three minutes left and lose a game.
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You can't make it up.
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It pisses me off.
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Yeah, and it was, I saw all these stats about how it was the only comeback win of this season that
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for more than 10 points with four minutes remaining in the game or something like that.
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So took a few deep shots, got some touchdowns, got some good stops when we needed on defense.
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And of course the Lions did end up coming back and winning by the hair on their chinny chin chin.
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I got to say, though, throughout that game, I was getting nervous because fantasy, you really don't know what's going to happen until
Fantasy Football Tensions
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the end of Monday night.
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And things are back and forth the whole way.
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There's projections.
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We use the sleeper app and it gives projections.
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And the whole time it's kind of fluctuating back and forth.
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But by the end of that game, it was pretty solid.
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in my favor to win fantasy.
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And then obviously the comeback win from the lion.
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So I was feeling pretty good.
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I think Bob was feeling maybe double down and, and I am sort of sorry for that, but I got to say, I'm very excited for tonight.
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Well, if you're sorry for it, you should put your money where your mouth is and just let's just throw this whole challenge out.
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How sorry are you really?
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I'm sorry, but I would never do that to our wave riders who are sure they showed up today to listen to this podcast because they probably just knew in their heart of hearts that it was going to be you taking on this challenge.
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And if there's anybody that knows you that's listening, knows that you and Spice do not get along well.
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Not at all.
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Salsa is too spicy or pepper is too spicy.
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So today is going to be a difficult day.
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And I hope you've got your Tums, your Pepto-Bismol, your milk, anything you can to try and mask this flavor as you're getting geared up.
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I got my milk.
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I don't have my Tums.
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That might have been a grave mistake.
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I don't have my Pepto-Bismol.
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So the only remedy I have is I have some water.
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I have Hella, excuse me, explicit ranch.
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And I have my vanilla flavored silk.
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So I'm also feeling really good about the fact that I know my boys are going to win.
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in Chicago in two weekends, and I'm going to be getting some payback when we have another head-to-head bet.
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Wait, we're having another head-to-head, but that was wrapped into this bet.
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Yeah, but we'll do another head-to-head Lions versus Bears in Chicago, but we'll talk about that after I enjoy my wings here.
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Okay, well, we will talk about that later on.
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Before we dive into the fun of all of this... It's not fun.
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Let's take a look back and just give everybody an update with where we're at in the Confidence League as well as the Waffle House Challenge.
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So I'll start with the Waffle House Challenge.
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This past weekend, obviously, we took the time off for the holiday, but your girl is silently making
Playoff Chances and Hot Takes
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a bit of a comeback today.
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After this past weekend, I am only down two games behind Bob.
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So I don't know, but watch out.
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The season's not over yet.
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At one point, I was behind six, and now I'm down to two.
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So I will take it.
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Yeah, when it rains and pours, I guess things are not going great for me on any front, as people can probably see.
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But I still have a lead.
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We both still have our double down feature to enact.
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And I have a feeling that this week might make or break some things.
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And I also have a feeling that Bears might go on a big time run.
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And I think that wild card is still well within reach.
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So a lot of good things ahead.
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Don't get that face.
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A lot of good things ahead.
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Interesting.
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The other reason I give that face is because I saw the breakdown of the percentages of each team getting into the playoffs at this current point.
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I think the Bears had like a 0.2, but it wasn't zero.
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So, hey, I don't know.
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Don't count them out yet.
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Is 0.2 as of after Monday night?
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I believe it was a 0.2% chance of making his playoffs.
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Yes, but that's not zero.
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So you're saying there's a chance.
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So I'm saying there's a chance.
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Okay.
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It's not zero.
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We will take that.
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Okay.
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Bears, Bears nation.
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Let's ride.
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Let's go.
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Let's ride.
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Speaking of let's ride, the Broncos, holy smokes.
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We'll get into that later.
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They're kind of ticking me off a little bit.
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Yeah, they really are ticking me off too.
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But real quick, do you have any update for us in confidence pool?
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It doesn't have to be long because we both know it ain't great.
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It ain't great, unfortunately.
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I did not write it down this week, but I'm pulling it up right meow.
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It's fine.
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It wasn't even worth writing down.
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It wasn't worth writing down, unfortunately.
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We ended up with 102 points, which some weeks does –
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Does kind of flirt with winning it all.
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But yeah, I mean, that first game on Thanksgiving, I know this one isn't really good for Mac.
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But we lost a big 13 points when the Lions got beat by the Packers on Thanksgiving.
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So that really kicked the weekend and Thanksgiving off on a pretty bad note.
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That really sucked.
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And I got to say, I take ownership of that because... Thank you.
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But after that, I saw that the Lions have never won on Thanksgiving when the moon is in a waxing moon phase or something like that.
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I saw that as well.
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And it was a waxing moon phase.
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See?
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Fuck!
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We should have... Oh, sorry.
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Explicit.
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Oh!
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Whoa, whoa.
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That was a hard one, too.
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Oh, my God.
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Haja is what I meant.
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No, you said what you said, and I am... Yeah, you said it.
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And we should have gone Packers because of that, I guess.
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We should have.
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And I'm not pointing any fingers.
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I would never do that.
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I'm not saying it's anybody's fault.
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But if my boys were playing, I usually read between the lines.
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I do my due diligence.
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I make sure I know any trends that are going on.
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Shoot.
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I mean, if the Bears are at number one with the waxing moon.
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The one thing I forgot to look at was the moon face.
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I looked at everything else.
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I mean, maybe next year we'll dig a little deeper with the moon phases, where we are in the galaxy at that specific point in time.
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Another little nugget, not that I don't have enough right in front of me here with Buffalo Wild Wings.
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Shout out Buffalo Wild Wings.
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I hope you're sponsoring this.
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But the Lions have now lost seven Thanksgiving games in a row.
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It's true.
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This is turning into more than just a couple.
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So I think we might need to keep that in mind next year.
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This is turning into big ones.
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least favorite holiday.
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What am I doing over here advocating for Thanksgiving when the Lions are losing?
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Yeah, when was the last time your boys lost on Christmas?
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Probably been a while.
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Well, we lost on Christmas Eve last year.
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But was it on Christmas Day?
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No, but I don't know the last time we played on Christmas Day.
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Well, you know what?
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You always play on Thanksgiving and apparently you always lose.
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But I'm getting my dad's one.
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I can't wait for you to eat those wings.
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Hey, you're a sicko.
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You're sick.
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So like I was saying, I'm really trying to push these wings as far away as possible right now.
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I can tell.
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If you didn't know.
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Also, by the way, I promise this is going to be under an hour.
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But loss of Lions versus the Packers.
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And I mean, I'm joking about it, but obviously I was cheering for the Lions.
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F the Packers, F Green Bay.
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Any Green Bay fans, I'm assuming you're not still listening because, you know, we hate you.
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But yeah, everyone was cheering for the Lions on this podcast.
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That was a bummer losing 13 there.
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We missed Saints, Falcons for nine.
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Those NFC South games are impossible unless the Panthers are involved.
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I mean, those three freaking Buccaneers, Falcons, Saints.
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It's just their teams to stay away from.
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They're a crapshoot.
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So we lost nine there.
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Speaking of the FC South, we lost six on the Bucs.
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I don't know why we picked the Patriots over the Giants.
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That was silly.
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Lost two there.
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Lost two on the Texans.
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And yeah, a little last-second switch up.
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We decided to just say F it and go for the Bears on Monday night.
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It paid off.
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So those are the games that we missed.
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And yeah, we didn't win the Bucco Bucs, unfortunately.
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That's okay, though.
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We're heading into our hot season, so hopefully that streak can continue and we can win our Bucco Bucks late in the season like we have the past few years.
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Yeah.
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Was that a play on words that you just said, our hot season?
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Did you do that on purpose?
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Oh, hot season.
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That wasn't.
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But what is a play on words is as we step into today's rundown of games, we also throughout are going to sprinkle in something that we are calling hot takes.
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So I came up with
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five hot takes to match Bob's five hot wings that he has to eat.
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And so when it's time for him to take a big old juicy bite of one of those wings, I'm going to give him a hot take and he's going to take his bite and then explain to us what his thoughts are on the statement that I made.
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So these could be
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rumors from around the league.
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These can be just things that I've heard or maybe people have started whispering about as the season's starting to come to a close.
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So I think that's going to be pretty exciting.
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And I think it's going to be really fun just to try and have you try and talk through these spice levels.
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I think by the time we get to the last three, I'm going to be struggling.
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I do have a confession.
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I apologize.
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Sorry.
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Really not sorry.
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Me and Mac did agree on five specific sauces.
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I did stray a little bit from that path.
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I went with Honey Barbecue for my first one because you know what?
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I took some time out of my day.
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I got on the train.
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It was cold.
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And I was like, I got to enjoy something.
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I got 15 wings and I decided to get Honey Barbecue with the first one.
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So I'm sorry.
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Yeah.
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It's true.
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We looked at the ranking last night of the different sauces and their heat level.
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The Buffalo Wild Wings offers that in ranking of hottest to least hot.
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And I picked out five, starting at mild, which I thought was pretty nice.
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I started at mild, medium, had a Caribbean jerk, which is next up on the level, and then hot barbecue.
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And of course, you know we had to get a blazing in there.
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So that will be the last one Bob tries.
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Yeah.
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I am nervous for you for that.
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But I guess because you just brought it up, he did switch to Honey Barbecue.
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I did.
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So I'm going to try and pick a weak hot take, but let's just start us off.
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Let's get him in his first wing.
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Oh, are we diving right in right now?
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Okay, so... Let's dive in before our Thursday night game, and then we'll move along.
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Okay, and just to give one final little...
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Little insight.
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One final plea to make me not have you go through this.
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You know, I know the pleas are just wasted breath.
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So not a plea.
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I know you far too well to think I got a chance to get out of these wings.
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But just to give a little insight to the Wave Riders, I got these wings naked and I got the sauces on the side.
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Because it would have cost me about $100 to dress all these wings.
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It would have cost me about $100 to dress all these wings in individual orders.
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So what I did is I got 15 wings and I got five sauces on the side.
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So these wings are nakey.
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Nakey wings, nakey wings.
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That's explicit.
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We don't talk about being naked here.
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You're the one that said the F word with a hard CK.
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So that was explicit.
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But what I'm asking for you is how, how much am I dipping these wings?
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And do I need to, do I need to show you before I go?
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Like,
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I mean, honey barbecue, you better be coating that shit.
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Honey barbecue, Caribbean jerk.
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The first couple you better be coating.
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For blazing, I understand if you just do a little, little, just the tip.
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Okay.
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Just talk about explicit.
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Gee, this, this is, there's been three explicit moments on this podcast and they've all been from my co-host.
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Two have been from me.
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No, you also just said, you said shit with a hard IT a couple seconds ago.
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So that's three.
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Okay, fair enough.
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But no, I'll do more than just the tip for these wings.
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I will do it up.
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I'll do it up.
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I'm okay if the, yeah, I mean, don't go weak, but if you want to, I want you to still be able to play volleyball tonight.
00:16:46
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So for the hot barbecue and the blazing, be careful.
00:16:50
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Okay, I'll be a little careful and I will not touch my eyes after I do it.
00:16:54
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All right, so here we go.
00:16:55
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As Bob is dipping the honey barbecue week sauce, I'm going to give him my weakest hot take of these five.
00:17:06
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So some rumors have been spreading about he who shall not be named a quarterback that neither of us like very much.
00:17:13
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His name is Aaron Rodgers.
00:17:15
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And there have been some rumors flying around that he is planning to return on December 24th.
00:17:21
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Talk about Christmas Eve.
00:17:23
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against the Washington Commanders.
00:17:26
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As of today, the Jets have started his practice window off of IR.
NFL Rumors and Predictions
00:17:31
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And I'm just curious, Bob, what's your take on those rumors flying around?
00:17:35
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What do you think is going to happen with Aaron Rodgers?
00:17:38
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And give us a scoop.
00:17:40
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Okay.
00:17:40
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Speaking of scoop, I just got a nice little scoop of Honey Barbecue here.
00:17:44
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All right.
00:17:46
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Oh, boneless wings he got.
00:17:49
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Wow.
00:17:49
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That's really good.
00:17:50
Speaker
Can I have all five in this?
00:17:52
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No.
00:17:54
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But you can save the sauce for the rest of your wings.
00:17:56
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Ooh.
00:17:56
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Sorry.
00:17:56
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I just tried to swallow too fast.
00:18:00
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Don't tell me that's spicy.
00:18:01
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No, not spicy.
00:18:01
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I just tried to swallow too fast.
00:18:02
Speaker
I got heartburn.
00:18:03
Speaker
Oh.
00:18:04
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Oh, God.
00:18:05
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Heartburn already?
00:18:06
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How long is this?
00:18:07
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Am I just chewing right in the mic?
00:18:08
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No, it's not that bad.
00:18:09
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It's not that bad.
00:18:11
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Okay.
00:18:12
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So, sorry.
00:18:13
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If I can't hear your hot takes already, I haven't even had a wing.
00:18:15
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That's a bad start.
00:18:16
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Oh, my God.
00:18:16
Speaker
She said, what's my hot take on Rogers getting cleared to practice?
00:18:20
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Yeah, what's your thoughts on Rodgers getting cleared to practice and the rumors that he's going to return on December 24th against the Washington Commanders?
00:18:29
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I think it's a load of booty.
00:18:31
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Why is that?
00:18:32
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So I think it's amazing.
00:18:35
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So first and foremost, kudos to Rodgers.
00:18:36
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I know you've been enemy numero uno on this podcast since it was birthed a couple seasons ago.
00:18:44
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Now you're a Jet.
00:18:44
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We really don't care about you.
00:18:46
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But yeah, I mean, it was tough to see him go out for the season, four plays into the year.
00:18:51
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And tearing your Achilles is one of those injuries that it's like a hard, like you're out for the season.
00:18:56
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It just goes without saying no one's ever come back from an injury.
00:19:00
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If it happens in season that season, it just, it just doesn't happen.
00:19:02
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So the fact that there's been murmurs about him coming back was like, wow, that's like amazing that he's walking without a boot and he's throwing a football.
00:19:10
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He's on the sidelines.
00:19:12
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Now that he got cleared to practice, it's like,
00:19:16
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A little golf clap.
00:19:17
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Like, that's amazing.
00:19:18
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You just tore your Achilles 11 weeks ago, and now you're cleared to practice great.
00:19:23
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But Rodgers is, I don't know how old he is, upper 30s, lower 40s.
00:19:28
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The Jets have lost like five games in a row.
00:19:30
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They're on the outside looking in.
00:19:32
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He wouldn't be able to play for three more weeks.
00:19:34
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And I was looking at the Jets' schedule earlier, and it ain't easy.
00:19:36
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They're going to lose at least two of those three.
00:19:38
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They're going to be mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
00:19:41
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They're not going to risk Rodgers coming back.
00:19:44
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possibly ruin his 2025 season.
00:19:47
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They're just not going to do it.
00:19:48
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:48
Speaker
If they were in the playoff hunt, I think it would be an outside chance for him actually to play a game.
00:19:54
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As of now, I don't think it's going to happen.
00:19:56
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Okay.
00:19:57
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Fair enough.
00:19:57
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I would have to concur with that assessment on that hot take or somewhat hot take.
00:20:03
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I guess it's that matches the, uh,
00:20:06
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The sauce that you chose there, it's a little weak, but that's all right.
00:20:08
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We're going to ramp it up.
00:20:09
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We're really going to ramp it up.
00:20:10
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Are we going like back to back to back to back?
00:20:12
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Like right?
00:20:12
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Like all right now.
00:20:14
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Okay.
00:20:14
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We're going to dive into the Thursday night.
00:20:16
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You're just not going to know when it's coming.
00:20:17
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I'm just going to tell you wing time.
00:20:19
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And we're going to, but first we're going to jump into the Thursday night game, 8, 15 PM Seattle Seahawks at Dallas Cowboys.
00:20:27
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And this is my game.
00:20:29
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And I, I struggled with, I guess, where to put this in the confidence space.
00:20:35
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levels, I didn't struggle with who to choose.
00:20:38
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The Cowboys, especially at home, have been, speaking of hot, they've been hot, hot, hot at home.
00:20:44
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Dak Prescott has been hot, hot, hot.
00:20:46
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And it's typical for them, right?
00:20:47
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Regular season, they really ramp up and they look really good heading into the postseason and everybody's so excited.
00:20:53
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The playoffs, oh, it's finally the Cowboys.
00:20:54
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Woo, they're going down.
00:20:55
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And then they choke.
00:20:57
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So we'll see if that happens again in the playoffs this year.
00:20:59
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But as for the regular season, I think that's going to stay strong.
00:21:03
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They're hosting the Seahawks this weekend.
00:21:04
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Seahawks have been making a little splash there right now.
00:21:07
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They're on right on the cusp.
00:21:08
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They are in the playoffs.
00:21:09
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If it started today, they're going to be a little splash there right now.
00:21:12
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But again, I feel like they've kind of been battling a few injuries.
00:21:15
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DK's been in and out questionable.
00:21:17
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Geno hasn't necessarily looked like himself.
00:21:20
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He's starting to write back a little bit more and more as time progresses.
00:21:23
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So ultimately, I'm going with the strong defense here and also the strong offensive play in the Cowboys.
00:21:30
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And I have them kind of scary high at 12.
00:21:33
Speaker
12?
00:21:33
Speaker
12.12.
00:21:38
Speaker
Holy smokes.
00:21:40
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Holy heat.
00:21:40
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Holy hot.
00:21:41
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That, I thought I had them scary high.
00:21:44
Speaker
You've got them like, that's the second highest game of the week.
00:21:48
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It is the second highest game of the week.
00:21:50
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Hot damn.
00:21:51
Speaker
Okay, well.
00:21:51
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Hot damn.
00:21:53
Speaker
Yeah, you kind of threw me a little bit of a curveball there because you were saying some things about the Seahawks.
00:21:56
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You said, sight 12 Cowboys.
00:21:58
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But I said the Seahawks have been kind of meh.
00:22:02
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You did say that.
00:22:02
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The Seahawks have been kind of mad.
00:22:03
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They were making the splash.
00:22:04
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I agree with that.
00:22:06
Speaker
I think they've lost like three or four in a row, though, including a couple games against.
00:22:09
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They lost to the Rams twice this year, which is crazy.
00:22:12
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One of the games was without Maddie, ex-Super Bowl champion Maddie.
00:22:15
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But, yeah, I agree.
00:22:16
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The Cowboys all of a sudden out of nowhere have been looking like a bit of a juggernaut.
00:22:19
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They have been...
00:22:21
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playing unbelievable.
00:22:22
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They've been beating, I mean, much less, less skilled teams, but beating them like a drum.
00:22:27
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They've been taking care of business and Dak.
00:22:29
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:22:29
Speaker
He's my quarterback in like three leagues right now.
00:22:31
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And he is freaking carrying me.
00:22:32
Speaker
He said, hop on, Bob.
00:22:33
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I will carry you.
00:22:35
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He's throwing for about four or five touchdowns a game.
00:22:37
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He is, he's playing like a, like an MVP.
00:22:40
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He's playing like a stud.
00:22:41
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So this game's in Dallas.
00:22:43
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I have no doubt in my mind that the Cowboys are going to stay hot.
00:22:47
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And yeah, I have been beating the Seahawks at home at what I thought was scary high, but,
00:22:51
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Compared to my co-host, pretty low at a confidence level of seven.
00:22:56
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Okay, that is pretty low compared to me.
00:22:59
Speaker
Wow.
00:22:59
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I am really interested to see who you put higher because I was texting Bob earlier and as I was looking at these games, my confidence levels were really hard this week because there's a ton of 50-50 games in my opinion that could absolutely go either way.
00:23:15
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Yeah, I agree.
00:23:16
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There's a lot of tight games.
00:23:17
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I'll be really interested.
00:23:19
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I'm excited to tell you.
00:23:20
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I'm really interested when I'm going to eat my next wing, but I have a feeling you're going to really... It's in a few games.
00:23:23
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Don't worry.
00:23:24
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I've got some markings on the paper here.
00:23:26
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The thing that makes me feel a little better is I have no doubt you'll want me to eat the blazing one with some time to go to see the reaction.
00:23:33
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So I don't think you'd have me eat the blazing at the end because you want to really soak that one in.
00:23:37
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So I feel like it's going to be soon here.
00:23:39
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Oh, okay.
00:23:40
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That's a good point.
00:23:41
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Well, we have to rearrange some stuff.
00:23:43
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Oh, God.
00:23:43
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Shoot.
00:23:44
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Okay, well...
00:23:45
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Never mind.
00:23:45
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Whatever you're doing, I'm sure it's going to be great.
00:23:48
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Not just yet.
00:23:49
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First and foremost, we're going to go Sunday, 1 o'clock p.m., the Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans.
00:23:56
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Yeah, this game just kind of stinks.
00:23:58
Speaker
I don't know if I'm being a little sassy because I got to eat a lot of wings or I'm in...
00:24:02
Speaker
I'm in an annoyed mood because my boys blew a 12 point lead with three minutes left against the lions or the fact that I lost a Mac and fantasy to have to do these wings.
00:24:10
Speaker
And then I promptly put up 175 points last week to lead the league.
00:24:14
Speaker
I mean, there's so much to be salty about.
00:24:17
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And this game included.
00:24:19
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So yeah, we got the Colts.
00:24:21
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They screwed us over when they beat the box.
00:24:22
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We got the Titans.
00:24:23
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They always screw us over left and right.
00:24:25
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Will Levis, he's putting mayonnaise in his coffee.
00:24:28
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Gardner Minshew is he good is he okay but ultimately I think the better team here is the Colts now injury update um Jonathan Taylor is out for a couple weeks which is screwing me in one of my leagues it's also screwing me in our league oh thank goodness yeah that's good for you it's good for me as I sit in second place but uh
00:24:51
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Yeah, John and Taylor's out for two to three weeks, so he will not be playing, but Ford has been a pretty good backup.
00:24:56
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Or no, not Ford, Ma, sorry.
00:24:58
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Thinking about the Bengals backup.
00:25:00
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But yeah, this is just... See, I'm already thinking about Blazin'.
00:25:04
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I'm already thinking about Blazin'.
00:25:05
Speaker
He's so nervous.
00:25:06
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He's so nervous, folks.
00:25:08
Speaker
Man, I know my football.
00:25:10
Speaker
I swear, I'm just thinking about the Blazin' Wings.
00:25:12
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But...
00:25:14
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this is an ugly game.
00:25:15
Speaker
Neither of these teams are good, but I think the Colts are less bad.
00:25:20
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Even without Jonathan Taylor, I think they're going to be able to win, but I wasn't very confident in it because the Titans have won four games this year and all four in Tennessee.
00:25:28
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Nugget.
00:25:30
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Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.
00:25:31
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But I'm going with the Colts, and I'm going with them at 4.
00:25:36
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Not too far off.
00:25:38
Speaker
I agree.
00:25:39
Speaker
Honestly, the Jonathan Taylor news to me was a pretty big blow to the Colts.
Key Player Updates and Team Strategies
00:25:44
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Obviously, Zach Moss has been doing just fine.
00:25:46
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But I don't know.
00:25:47
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I feel like Jonathan Taylor just really gives them that boost, that extra boost that they need.
00:25:52
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But, yeah, I have the Colts at 2.
00:25:55
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So not too far off.
00:25:57
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Yeah.
00:25:57
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But hey, speaking of that nugget about the Tennessee Titans playing at home and winning those games, it's time for another Hot Take Nugget.
00:26:07
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Shoot.
00:26:07
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So we're going to move on the next sauce.
00:26:10
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You're not certain, right, if it's mild or medium, or were you able to figure out it is, in fact, medium?
00:26:16
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I think this is, I think I said medium.
00:26:20
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I think, no, no, no.
00:26:21
Speaker
What did you say in the text?
00:26:22
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What did you want me to get?
00:26:24
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Mild and medium.
00:26:25
Speaker
But I think you swapped the mild for the honey barbecue.
00:26:28
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Yeah, I think I did.
00:26:29
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I really wish I could do another Honey BBQ.
00:26:30
Speaker
That was awesome.
00:26:31
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But I will do this.
00:26:34
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I think this is going to be right on the edge of what I can handle.
00:26:36
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But as I'm doing this... Are you prepared to listen as I give you this next hot take?
00:26:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's a lot.
00:26:42
Speaker
See?
00:26:42
Speaker
A lot.
00:26:43
Speaker
Oh, that is a lot.
00:26:44
Speaker
Okay.
00:26:46
Speaker
As we go into your next hot take, I have heard some rumors.
00:26:50
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I've seen some rumors.
00:26:51
Speaker
Speaking of hot...
00:26:52
Speaker
That Chargers head coach Brandon Staley is on the hot seat.
00:26:58
Speaker
If the Chargers don't turn it around, they are in trouble.
00:27:01
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What's your take on that, Bob, as you eat that medium wing?
00:27:05
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That was right at the edge of what I can handle.
00:27:08
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That's kind of affecting me right now.
00:27:10
Speaker
You're in trouble.
00:27:12
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That's kind of affecting me, not going to lie.
00:27:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:16
Speaker
So can you repeat it?
00:27:18
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Just kidding.
00:27:19
Speaker
Just kidding.
00:27:20
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So Brandon Staley.
00:27:21
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Yeah.
00:27:21
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I think his job is as good as gone.
00:27:24
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What he has done with this team is very underwhelming.
00:27:28
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The offense that he has with her, the offense that he has with Herbert and Eckler and Keenan Allen, Keenan Allen.
00:27:39
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I can't even think.
00:27:40
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is impressive.
00:27:41
Speaker
And they've got Khalil Mack and Bosa.
00:27:44
Speaker
They should be consistently winning games.
00:27:46
Speaker
They should be consistently in the playoff picture.
00:27:49
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And they're four and seven right now.
00:27:51
Speaker
Not to mention, I keep saying the word sassy because I feel a little sassy today.
00:27:55
Speaker
But Brandon Staley has been getting pretty sassy with reporters.
00:27:58
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He needs to suck it up.
00:27:59
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He needs to answer questions.
00:28:01
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He needs to pull his pants down.
00:28:02
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He needs to put some egg on his face.
00:28:04
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And he needs to know that he's been messing up.
00:28:06
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Brandon, I'm talking to you.
00:28:08
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Be better.
00:28:09
Speaker
Your job, gonzo.
00:28:11
Speaker
Sorry, that seemed a little harsh, but I'm a little –
00:28:14
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I think that's fair.
00:28:15
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I think the NFL is a little bit harsh, especially with head coaching jobs.
00:28:18
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If you're not getting it done, you're out.
00:28:20
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And there has been a lot of hype around the Chargers coming into every single season that this is going to be their year.
00:28:25
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They're going to be great.
00:28:26
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They're going to do awesome.
00:28:28
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And they often fall short.
00:28:30
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Well, not even often.
00:28:31
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Every single time so far they have fallen short.
00:28:33
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So I agree.
00:28:35
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I thought of a perfect pun.
00:28:37
Speaker
This is for Brandon.
00:28:38
Speaker
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
00:28:40
Speaker
Boom.
00:28:41
Speaker
Oh, he's on fire today, folks.
00:28:50
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All right.
00:28:51
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Love it.
00:28:51
Speaker
So glad that you made it through that one.
00:28:53
Speaker
I saw you chugging some milk.
00:28:55
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That's good.
00:28:55
Speaker
Keep on that.
00:28:56
Speaker
I needed it.
00:28:57
Speaker
You might want to dip into a little honey barbecue in the meantime while we move on to the next game.
00:29:01
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Yeah, I think I might need some.
00:29:03
Speaker
Speaking of the Chargers, next up we have the Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots.
00:29:10
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And although we were just saying all that stuff, Brandon Staley's on the hot seat.
00:29:16
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They're in trouble, the Chargers, da-da-da-da-da.
00:29:19
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There's another team that is in serious trouble at the moment, and their quarterback is in serious trouble at the moment, and that is the New England Patriots, Mack Jones.
00:29:30
Speaker
Is it true?
00:29:31
Speaker
I believe I saw this, that he was benched in Sunday's game.
00:29:36
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Yeah, he was benched.
00:29:38
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He played the first half very poorly, I might add.
00:29:41
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And yeah, Bailey Zappi came out for the second half, played the entire game.
00:29:46
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Matt Jones, great name.
00:29:48
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He is just, he doesn't have it.
00:29:50
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He doesn't have it.
00:29:52
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And obviously tell me if you think I'm wrong here.
00:29:54
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I put him in the same category.
00:29:55
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This might be a little harsh, but I'm sticking to it.
00:29:58
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At this point, I put him in the same category as Zach Wilson.
00:30:00
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I totally agree.
00:30:01
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Unfortunately, I just don't think they have what it takes to play at this level anymore beyond just like a backup.
00:30:10
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And clearly their coaches don't think that either because they have been benching them left and right.
00:30:15
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And it's just not looking good for the Patriots.
00:30:17
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It's not looking good for Mac Jones.
00:30:19
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I just don't think that Bailey Zappi is going to be enough coming into this game against the Chargers.
00:30:23
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I get that it's at home.
00:30:25
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It's in New England, but...
00:30:26
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The Chargers, despite their losses in these close, close games, I mean, I think all of their losses have come within like one possession games.
00:30:35
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Despite that, I don't even think this will be close.
00:30:38
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So I don't even think they need to worry about that.
00:30:40
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The Chargers still do have a solid offense.
00:30:43
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They just haven't been able to close things out.
00:30:45
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So I have the Chargers and I have them also very high.
00:30:48
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I have them at 11.
00:30:51
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Okay, very, very close to our first ding-de-la-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
00:30:57
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So close.
00:30:57
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Ding-de-ling-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
00:30:59
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Very good.
00:31:00
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That sounded awesome.
00:31:00
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I like that.
00:31:02
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Excuse me.
00:31:03
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Oh, man, I'm struggling.
00:31:04
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A little medium sauce still stuck in there.
00:31:06
Speaker
A little medium sauce, not really agreeing with the stomach too well over here, but it's okay.
00:31:11
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I'm pushing on.
00:31:12
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I'm a big boy.
00:31:13
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Yeah, I agree with everything you said.
00:31:15
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Chargers have had some struggles, but nothing like what's going on in New England.
00:31:19
Speaker
I mean, it's gotten so bad in New England that people are saying that Bill Belichick is going to be on the hook and he's the greatest NFL coach, Super Bowl and winning-wise, of all time.
00:31:27
Speaker
So, you know, things have gotten bad when they're hanging Mr. Belichick over the fire and the coals.
00:31:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:33
Speaker
Yeah, but Chargers are going to have no problem going in New England.
00:31:36
Speaker
Not an intimidating place to play like it used to be about 10 years ago when the GOAT was there.
00:31:41
Speaker
So I got the Chargers winning at a dozen.
00:31:44
Speaker
All righty.
00:31:45
Speaker
Right at 12.
00:31:46
Speaker
Very, very close.
00:31:49
Speaker
All right, looking ahead to the next game, we have the Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints.
00:31:55
Speaker
And this is a little shout out to someone who we just recently learned is listening to our podcast because she supplied me with a pack of hot sauces that she thought we could use.
00:32:08
Speaker
I couldn't get them to Bob in time.
00:32:09
Speaker
He is very lucky that I couldn't get them to Bob in time because I think they're like a...
00:32:14
Speaker
million or something on the Scoville scale, that like hot sauce scale or the, sorry, that pepper, hot pepper scale.
00:32:21
Speaker
So they are way hotter than these sauces that you are trying today.
00:32:24
Speaker
But shouts out Patty.
00:32:26
Speaker
She and Steve are going to the game this weekend.
00:32:29
Speaker
Steve is my wife, Nikki's dad, and his girlfriend, Patty.
00:32:33
Speaker
They're going to the game this weekend down in New Orleans, down in the Bayou.
00:32:39
Speaker
So hopefully they'll be able to get the win, but this is your game.
00:32:41
Speaker
Just want to give a little shout out
00:32:43
Speaker
Cause I know she's been listening.
00:32:44
Speaker
Thanks Patty.
00:32:45
Speaker
Shout out Steven, Patty.
00:32:46
Speaker
We really appreciate the support.
00:32:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:50
Speaker
The more wave riders, the better.
00:32:51
Speaker
And we couldn't do it without you guys.
00:32:53
Speaker
So shouts out.
00:32:54
Speaker
And just because of, of you two, I'm going to be cheering for the lions this weekend in the Bayou.
00:32:58
Speaker
Cause you'll be there.
00:32:58
Speaker
So here's a, here's to the lions on Sunday.
00:33:01
Speaker
Wow.
00:33:02
Speaker
You heard it here first, but this is your game.
00:33:06
Speaker
So sorry.
00:33:07
Speaker
Hey, great.
00:33:09
Speaker
So hopefully that means you're also picking the lions.
00:33:13
Speaker
You know what?
00:33:13
Speaker
You guessed correctly there.
00:33:14
Speaker
I am picking your boys.
00:33:16
Speaker
The Saints, just a team that you can't trust.
00:33:19
Speaker
Your Lions have had a couple sketchy weeks in a row between my boys and obviously losing on Thursday, as we have already mentioned.
00:33:27
Speaker
And yeah, the defense definitely has been looking a little sus.
00:33:30
Speaker
But this is going to be a get-right game for sure.
00:33:33
Speaker
The Saints, they've got dozens of their own problems.
00:33:38
Speaker
Your boys are still 8-3.
00:33:39
Speaker
Is it 8-3 or 8-4?
00:33:42
Speaker
Yes, 8-3.
00:33:42
Speaker
8-3.
00:33:44
Speaker
Your boys are still 8-3.
00:33:46
Speaker
Thanks to my boys beating the Vikings on Monday night, you still have a full two-game lead in the division.
00:33:51
Speaker
And yeah, I mean, I don't think there's going to be any problems or trouble in New Orleans from the team in Honolulu Blue this Sunday.
00:34:01
Speaker
Not to mention, obviously, you played on Thanksgiving, so you had an extra three days to rest and prepare.
00:34:07
Speaker
And I think Olave got a concussion on Sunday, so he is questionable.
00:34:11
Speaker
Other than Kamara, he is their biggest weapon.
00:34:14
Speaker
Oh, that'll be big.
00:34:15
Speaker
That'll definitely be big.
00:34:16
Speaker
Yes.
00:34:17
Speaker
So that would be a huge loss for a team that just doesn't have a good offense.
00:34:20
Speaker
Losing him is like something you just can't come back from.
00:34:23
Speaker
So I got your boys.
00:34:24
Speaker
I got Steve and Patty having an awesome weekend down south.
00:34:28
Speaker
And I am very confident.
00:34:30
Speaker
That's why I put them for 10.
00:34:31
Speaker
Wow.
00:34:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:34:32
Speaker
Double digits.
00:34:33
Speaker
You are very confident.
00:34:35
Speaker
I have them pretty close, a little bit lower simply because they are scaring me a little bit.
00:34:39
Speaker
My boys need to get their asses in gear and clean it up a little bit.
00:34:46
Speaker
Looking at you, O-line, looking at you, Goff, we need to clean things up a bit.
00:34:49
Speaker
Looking at your defense, looking at everybody, really.
00:34:53
Speaker
Things were gone really, really well for us.
00:34:55
Speaker
I hope this will just be a real kick in the pants and get us geared up for the postseason if we can get it together.
00:35:01
Speaker
But yes,
00:35:02
Speaker
Bobby, you have something to say.
00:35:03
Speaker
I see a hand raised.
00:35:04
Speaker
Yep, Bobo is his hand raised.
00:35:05
Speaker
I had a question for you speaking about your boys.
00:35:07
Speaker
So I know people are really talking about Super Bowl, and I mean, there's some crazy things that have been said by Lions fans, which, hey, it's been looking like it's a pretty special season.
00:35:17
Speaker
In lieu, awesome, awesome word.
00:35:19
Speaker
Thank you.
00:35:20
Speaker
In lieu of these last two weeks with just about losing to my boys and losing to the Packers, do you still think this is a Super Bowl contending team, or have your expectations been brought down to earth a little bit?
00:35:32
Speaker
Great question.
00:35:33
Speaker
Let's go ahead and leave the hot takes for the other hosts today.
00:35:37
Speaker
I asked it.
00:35:38
Speaker
People want to know.
00:35:39
Speaker
That may or may not tie into a hot take that I have later on.
00:35:43
Speaker
So we'll go ahead and put that on pause.
00:35:45
Speaker
We're going to put a pin in that and we will definitely address that later on.
00:35:49
Speaker
How's that for an answer?
00:35:51
Speaker
I'm not very happy with it, but I'll accept it.
00:35:54
Speaker
It will be discussed.
00:35:56
Speaker
Don't you worry.
00:35:57
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:58
Speaker
I'll accept it.
00:35:58
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:59
Speaker
All right.
00:35:59
Speaker
But yeah, that's a great question.
00:36:01
Speaker
Clearly great minds think alike because we both are thinking along the same lines with some of these teams here.
00:36:06
Speaker
Love it.
00:36:07
Speaker
Love it.
00:36:07
Speaker
Sorry, we didn't get your confidence.
00:36:08
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:08
Speaker
Sorry.
00:36:09
Speaker
So all that being said, a little lower than you, still fairly high.
00:36:12
Speaker
I've got them right in the middle at eight.
00:36:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:16
Speaker
You're, you're very, I've noticed with your boys, you're very, you're very careful with me.
00:36:21
Speaker
If my boys were so good, I'd be putting them at like 13, 14, 15, 16 every week.
00:36:25
Speaker
I'm consistently putting your boys higher than your boys.
00:36:28
Speaker
You are, you are.
00:36:29
Speaker
I try to be careful with them because I feel like when we put them high, hence last week, it bites us in the butt.
00:36:35
Speaker
And then it's like a double shot to the heart.
00:36:37
Speaker
Not only did we lose 13 points last week, but my boys also lost.
00:36:41
Speaker
So,
00:36:42
Speaker
Putting them at eight, I think I'm more cautious for my own sanity than anything because it's like it just extra, it hurts extra when they lose at such a high confidence.
00:36:54
Speaker
You know what?
00:36:54
Speaker
And I know none of Nick's family is listening into this, but on top, just to add insult to injury, not only did your boys lose, not only did we lose 13 points, but you know, you got to be with your in-laws.
00:37:03
Speaker
I mean, come on.
00:37:05
Speaker
It's crazy.
00:37:07
Speaker
I know.
00:37:08
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:37:08
Speaker
The worst.
00:37:09
Speaker
Had to be with the in-laws.
00:37:10
Speaker
Had to deal with that.
00:37:12
Speaker
Oh, that was awful.
00:37:13
Speaker
Man, what a trifecta.
00:37:15
Speaker
What a trifecta.
00:37:15
Speaker
Hopefully Steve and Patty turned the podcast off by now.
00:37:20
Speaker
Otherwise, you are in the doghouse.
00:37:22
Speaker
Otherwise, I'm not getting any more gifts for Christmas.
00:37:24
Speaker
You're going to get returned ASAP, Rocky.
00:37:29
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:37:30
Speaker
Moving along, I got to move forward.
00:37:35
Speaker
We have the Atlanta Falcons at New York Jets.
00:37:39
Speaker
And man, I don't know.
00:37:41
Speaker
We were just crapping on the Jets so hard.
00:37:43
Speaker
I don't know how I could possibly pick them at this point.
00:37:45
Speaker
Falcons aren't much to look at either.
00:37:49
Speaker
They haven't been doing very good, but they did have that nice win last week.
00:37:53
Speaker
weekend against the saints that's what we just said right against the saints and saints have a solid defense so they they could you know potentially still put up points against a solid defense which is what the jets have that's really all the jets have is a solid defense so yeah i'm not super confident in this game because this is a game with
00:38:13
Speaker
two not great teams, which that could really go either way.
00:38:17
Speaker
Any of these games could go either way, but especially it being in New York, I don't know.
00:38:21
Speaker
The Jets find a way to have lightning strikes sometimes.
00:38:24
Speaker
I'm just hoping it's not this weekend.
00:38:26
Speaker
So that's why I'm trusting in the Falcons, and I've got them at three.
00:38:31
Speaker
Oh man, we have got some serious discrepancies here.
00:38:34
Speaker
Awesome word.
00:38:35
Speaker
Discrepancies.
00:38:36
Speaker
Wow.
00:38:37
Speaker
Maybe this sheet is making anything clearer.
00:38:39
Speaker
I have them really high.
00:38:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:41
Speaker
Almost double digits.
00:38:43
Speaker
Sorry.
00:38:44
Speaker
What were you going to say?
00:38:44
Speaker
No, I'm curious to hear why.
00:38:47
Speaker
Mostly just, I don't know.
00:38:48
Speaker
The Falcons are a crap team in my opinion.
00:38:51
Speaker
Well, they are in first place right now.
00:38:53
Speaker
Record aside, five and six, they're in first place team.
00:38:56
Speaker
Must be nice to be in the NFC South.
00:38:59
Speaker
The NFC South is just like a crap show anyway, but I don't know.
00:39:02
Speaker
I just feel like the Falcons are not great.
00:39:03
Speaker
Desmond Ritter, he ain't it.
00:39:07
Speaker
Man, sorry, Mr. Ritter.
00:39:08
Speaker
Jeez, we just came at you.
00:39:10
Speaker
Guns a-blazin'.
00:39:11
Speaker
I agree, though, between me and you.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:16
Speaker
Have you heard the saying OTJ?
00:39:19
Speaker
No, I have not.
00:39:20
Speaker
Only the Jets.
00:39:21
Speaker
I don't know when that started circulating, but I heard on NFL Live.
00:39:25
Speaker
I was visiting my sweet mother for Thanksgiving, so I was at Nancy's house.
00:39:29
Speaker
She has cable, so I was watching NFL Live on ESPN.
00:39:32
Speaker
And a couple times they said, OTJ, only the Jets.
00:39:36
Speaker
And these things just keep happening to the Jets, and it only happens to the Jets.
00:39:39
Speaker
The butt fumble.
00:39:41
Speaker
Aaron Rodgers tearing his Achilles four plays in the season.
00:39:47
Speaker
Sorry?
00:39:48
Speaker
I'm mostly just laughing because I thought you were just going to end it at Aaron Rodgers tearing his Achilles.
00:39:52
Speaker
And in my head, I'm thinking, I'm like, Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles.
00:39:55
Speaker
Jalen Phillips just tore his Achilles.
00:39:57
Speaker
OTJ.
00:39:57
Speaker
All these Achilles injuries.
00:39:59
Speaker
Only the Jets.
00:40:00
Speaker
Only the Jets.
00:40:01
Speaker
OTJ.
00:40:02
Speaker
And then most recently, did you see in the Miami game on Black Friday when the Jets were trying to just throw a Hail Mary in the end zone from the 50-yard line?
00:40:10
Speaker
The Dolphins picked it off in the end zone and literally returned it for 100 yards.
00:40:15
Speaker
And that's never happened.
00:40:16
Speaker
So, yes.
00:40:17
Speaker
OTJ, and I think this game is just going to be another example of OTJ.
00:40:21
Speaker
Falcons, I think they finally unlocked Bijan Robinson.
00:40:24
Speaker
He had an unbelievable game.
00:40:26
Speaker
He had a rushing touchdown.
00:40:27
Speaker
He had a catching touchdown.
00:40:29
Speaker
Drake London, they're finally starting to utilize him a little bit.
00:40:32
Speaker
The defense is putting it together.
00:40:33
Speaker
They got a nice three-headed monster in the backfield with Bijan.
00:40:36
Speaker
Sorry, I didn't mean to flick you off there.
00:40:37
Speaker
I was trying to say one.
00:40:38
Speaker
Yeah, whoa, whoa.
00:40:40
Speaker
Bijan, Algier, and Cordell Patterson.
00:40:45
Speaker
And then Kyle Pitts is starting to turn it up a little bit too.
00:40:47
Speaker
So I just think the Falcons, they're tied for first.
00:40:50
Speaker
Yes, they're five and six, but a first place team just is a little hungrier.
00:40:56
Speaker
And the Jets, OTJ.
00:40:58
Speaker
So that's why I got the Falcons winning at nine.
00:41:01
Speaker
Whoa.
00:41:02
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:03
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm saying that and I'm sticking to it.
00:41:06
Speaker
Okay, you're very confident in that.
00:41:07
Speaker
Well, yeah, we will definitely discuss a little bit more offline.
00:41:11
Speaker
I mean, honestly, the Jets, Tim Boyle, who is a backup quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a while, he is trash.
00:41:18
Speaker
And he is currently starting as their quarterback.
00:41:20
Speaker
Sorry, Mr. Boyle.
00:41:21
Speaker
He's currently starting for the Jets.
00:41:23
Speaker
So, offensively, they're just not going to do well whatsoever.
00:41:26
Speaker
Their defense just still scares me sometimes to be able to, like, make plays.
00:41:31
Speaker
But...
00:41:33
Speaker
All in all, I definitely think the Falcons will win.
00:41:35
Speaker
So I'm totally willing to look at going higher there.
00:41:38
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:38
Speaker
I appreciate that.
00:41:39
Speaker
We'll talk offline and I'm excited to keep the Falcons at nine.
00:41:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:44
Speaker
Well, I don't know if we'll keep them at night, but we'll keep them somewhere in the middle.
00:41:47
Speaker
Let's meet in the middle.
00:41:49
Speaker
I'm already getting a little heartburn.
00:41:50
Speaker
I'm burping over here.
00:41:51
Speaker
We're in the middle.
00:41:52
Speaker
I think it's time for your middle wing because we have already done two.
00:41:56
Speaker
And we're going to do our third hot take of the episode.
00:42:02
Speaker
So explain to us real quick, Bob, what is this next sauce?
00:42:05
Speaker
It's Caribbean jerk, right?
00:42:07
Speaker
Caribbean jerk.
00:42:08
Speaker
And you're a real jerk.
00:42:09
Speaker
Which smells sort of sweeter, you had said, right?
00:42:12
Speaker
But I think on the spice level, this is higher than medium.
00:42:16
Speaker
So we are going in order.
00:42:17
Speaker
It is.
00:42:18
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:42:18
Speaker
I got a lot on this.
00:42:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:19
Speaker
All right.
00:42:20
Speaker
I'm ready for the question.
00:42:21
Speaker
All right.
00:42:22
Speaker
The hot take that I have here for Caribbean Jerk is that the Chiefs will not make it to the Super Bowl due to their wide receiver woes.
00:42:35
Speaker
What's your take on that statement?
00:42:37
Speaker
He looks like he is currently in pain.
00:42:41
Speaker
Just to narrate a little bit for everybody.
00:42:44
Speaker
That was not good at all.
00:42:45
Speaker
That was too spicy.
00:42:46
Speaker
I don't like that.
00:42:51
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:51
Speaker
You said the Chiefs will not make the Super Bowl because of their wide receiver woes?
00:42:56
Speaker
Yep.
00:42:56
Speaker
There has been a lot of talk about the wide receivers being so bad, dropping passes, and...
00:43:03
Speaker
that is going to hinder them.
00:43:05
Speaker
What's your take on that statement?
00:43:09
Speaker
I think that's a pretty, I think that's a pretty accurate take.
00:43:17
Speaker
I don't know if it's going to cost them a spot in the Superbowl.
00:43:23
Speaker
Because this, this Sunday they played the Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders.
00:43:27
Speaker
And it looks like they might've unlocked something with rice.
00:43:33
Speaker
Rice had a really good... It's not funny.
00:43:37
Speaker
Rice had a really... He's struggling.
00:43:41
Speaker
He's struggling, y'all.
00:43:42
Speaker
Every time I'm trying to talk, it's like I'm breathing fire.
00:43:45
Speaker
Sorry, I need to drink milk real quick.
00:43:48
Speaker
This is literally like...
00:43:49
Speaker
To give everybody another reference point here, this is literally like halfway up the Buffalo Wild Wings scale of heat.
00:43:58
Speaker
And the next two are pretty high up there near the top.
00:44:03
Speaker
Isn't Blazin' the hottest?
00:44:04
Speaker
Blazin' is the hottest.
00:44:05
Speaker
But the hot barbecue is like two or three behind it.
00:44:08
Speaker
And absolutely after the Blazin'.
00:44:10
Speaker
I know I'm going to be, sorry, excuse my French, explicit.
00:44:14
Speaker
I'm running to the bathroom after I do the Blazin'.
00:44:17
Speaker
All right, that milk helped.
00:44:18
Speaker
Silk for the win.
00:44:20
Speaker
Yeah, that's a really good one.
00:44:23
Speaker
Okay, you are heating them up with these hot takes.
00:44:25
Speaker
I got to pick a side.
00:44:26
Speaker
Don't play defense, Bob.
00:44:27
Speaker
Come on, just pick a side.
00:44:30
Speaker
I think their wide receiver is going to cost them a spot in the Super Bowl.
00:44:33
Speaker
Yeah, so I'm going to say yes.
00:44:35
Speaker
Between week one against your boys with Tony dropping a couple big passes and then against the Eagles with Valdez-Stantling just dropping an absolute –
00:44:46
Speaker
Perfect pass by Mahomes, which, by the way, I was happy about because that helped me in the Waffle House challenge.
00:44:50
Speaker
Thanks for all this, Gantling.
00:44:51
Speaker
Send in your swag.
00:44:53
Speaker
And Kelsey dropped a couple of big passes that night, too.
00:44:55
Speaker
I don't know if he's got Tay on the mind or what, but if he's dropping passes, the Chiefs are in trouble.
00:45:03
Speaker
So, yeah, I think it's going to come back and bite him in the arse.
00:45:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:06
Speaker
All right.
00:45:07
Speaker
Hot take.
00:45:07
Speaker
You heard it here first.
00:45:09
Speaker
The Chiefs will not make it to the Super Bowl due to their wide receiver woes.
00:45:12
Speaker
They better get that together if they want to make it.
00:45:16
Speaker
Yep.
00:45:17
Speaker
All right.
00:45:18
Speaker
How are you feeling?
00:45:20
Speaker
My mouth is definitely really hot, and I'm really scared about the next one because of the next one.
00:45:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:25
Speaker
How far away is the next one from the top?
00:45:27
Speaker
I will take a look at how far it is.
00:45:29
Speaker
And while I look at that, we can go into the next game, which is the Arizona Cardinals at Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:45:36
Speaker
And I've got it right here on my phone, so I'll pull it up.
00:45:39
Speaker
Okay.
00:45:40
Speaker
And this is my game, correct?
00:45:41
Speaker
Correct.
00:45:43
Speaker
Yeah, this game is pretty easy if you ask me.
00:45:44
Speaker
This game is in Pittsburgh.
00:45:46
Speaker
Tomlin is just the GOAT.
00:45:48
Speaker
He is, if he was a hot sauce, he'd be blazing because he just always has the Steelers ready to play.
00:45:54
Speaker
He's always winning games that they shouldn't be winning.
00:45:56
Speaker
This is a game they should win.
00:45:57
Speaker
It's at Heinz or whatever the heck Pittsburgh stadium is called now.
00:46:01
Speaker
And the Cardinals just, sure, sure, sure.
00:46:07
Speaker
But yeah, Cardinals are currently the second worst team in football behind the Panthers.
00:46:11
Speaker
They've won two games.
00:46:12
Speaker
It's going to stay that way after this week.
00:46:14
Speaker
Steelers fired their OC the week of Thanksgiving.
00:46:17
Speaker
Brutal.
00:46:18
Speaker
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Matt Canada.
00:46:20
Speaker
But right after they fired him, they just put up 400 yards for the first time all season.
00:46:23
Speaker
So it looks like the new OC might be figuring something out with Pickett, Pickens, Najee, and Deontay.
00:46:31
Speaker
So yeah, I got the Steelers winning this game, and I got them at eight.
00:46:35
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:36
Speaker
Not far off at all for all the same reasons that you said there.
00:46:40
Speaker
I won't go too much further into it.
00:46:42
Speaker
But yeah, I have the Steelers and I have them at six, slightly lower.
00:46:46
Speaker
I think the only reason is because Pickett scares me a little bit.
00:46:50
Speaker
I think he's got a lot of things that he needs to improve.
00:46:53
Speaker
But hopefully under some new leadership and some new direction, new offensive coordinator, that will come to fruition for him.
00:46:59
Speaker
So I totally agree.
00:47:00
Speaker
Steelers are going to win it at six.
00:47:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:47:04
Speaker
I really want to ding-dilla ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
00:47:06
Speaker
I know.
00:47:07
Speaker
I hope we get one.
00:47:07
Speaker
I bet we will for our top game.
00:47:11
Speaker
I hope so.
00:47:12
Speaker
Real quick, so back to the hot sauces.
00:47:15
Speaker
Hot barbecue is actually only two little notches higher than the Caribbean Jerk, but Blazin' is five higher than that.
00:47:25
Speaker
All right, and I got to make sure I'm doing the right one for the next one.
00:47:27
Speaker
Obviously, we got some time.
00:47:28
Speaker
We're sorry, four higher than that.
00:47:30
Speaker
So you have, so Blazin' is six notches higher than Caribbean Jerk.
00:47:37
Speaker
And Blazin' is darker, correct?
00:47:39
Speaker
Blazin' is the darkest one, yeah.
00:47:40
Speaker
Okay, good.
00:47:41
Speaker
So I got this correct.
00:47:41
Speaker
And Hot Barbecue should be dark, but like a little orange, like a dark orange.
00:47:45
Speaker
I got this absolutely correct in that case.
00:47:47
Speaker
Okay, so we can continue.
00:47:48
Speaker
All right.
00:47:50
Speaker
Speaking of a potential ding-da-ling-da-ling-da-ling-da-ling, I'm hoping it's this next one.
00:47:53
Speaker
We have the Miami Dolphins at Washington Commanders.
00:47:58
Speaker
And this is my most confident game of the week.
00:48:03
Speaker
Ding-de-la-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
00:48:05
Speaker
Booyah!
00:48:06
Speaker
Okay, we got a match here.
00:48:07
Speaker
Let's go.
00:48:08
Speaker
I don't think much needs to be said.
00:48:10
Speaker
I know there's been some talk about the dolphins.
00:48:13
Speaker
Are they really as good as everybody thinks they are?
00:48:16
Speaker
All these different things.
00:48:17
Speaker
But the commanders, as we've talked about a couple times, they really kind of are...
00:48:22
Speaker
doing themselves dirty by trading away their top two edge rushers on defense.
00:48:27
Speaker
And I just don't think, especially with that, there's not going to be a lot of pressure that's being put on Tua.
00:48:33
Speaker
That offense is firing on all cylinders.
00:48:35
Speaker
So I've got the Dolphins going in to Washington, D.C., taking on the Commanders and beating them at 13.
00:48:42
Speaker
Oh, wait.
00:48:42
Speaker
So this is an opposite.
00:48:44
Speaker
You have the Dolphins beating the Commanders?
00:48:46
Speaker
Oh, shoot.
00:48:47
Speaker
This is an opposite ding-dilla ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.
00:48:50
Speaker
JK, LOL.
00:48:51
Speaker
For 13, the commander's beating the dolphins.
00:48:54
Speaker
You really had me fooled, Bob.
00:48:56
Speaker
I had you.
00:48:57
Speaker
I could tell you I had you there for a second.
00:48:59
Speaker
You really just had me tricked.
00:49:01
Speaker
Absolutely worth it.
00:49:02
Speaker
Yeah, I agree with you here.
00:49:04
Speaker
Dolphins good.
00:49:05
Speaker
Commanders not good.
00:49:06
Speaker
Commanders traded all their good defensive tackles.
00:49:08
Speaker
Dolphins did not.
00:49:10
Speaker
Dolphins are finally healthy.
00:49:12
Speaker
Jalen Waddell had a good game.
00:49:13
Speaker
Tyreek had a good game.
00:49:14
Speaker
He's still on pace for 2,000 yards, which is bonkers.
00:49:16
Speaker
So, yeah, Dolphins 13.
00:49:18
Speaker
Bada bing, bada boom, baby.
00:49:20
Speaker
Bada bing, bada boom, baby.
00:49:22
Speaker
Next up, we have a game that we disagree on.
00:49:25
Speaker
So I'm interested to hear what you have to say about the Denver Broncos at Houston Texans.
00:49:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:49:35
Speaker
Spoiler alert, we do have this one different.
00:49:38
Speaker
This is big in the Waffle House challenge.
00:49:40
Speaker
I need this.
00:49:41
Speaker
And I'm going with the team that I think is younger, I think is better, I think has beaten better teams this year, and I think has a better quarterback.
00:49:50
Speaker
And it has a home field advantage.
00:49:52
Speaker
Spoiler alert, once again, I am going with the Houston Texans, the up-and-coming Houston Texans.
00:49:57
Speaker
The team that Bobby came out of left field and said, I think they might be pretty good.
00:50:01
Speaker
And Max said, home field.
00:50:02
Speaker
Huh?
00:50:03
Speaker
And I said, just you wait.
00:50:05
Speaker
And here we are.
00:50:06
Speaker
Texans, six and five.
00:50:08
Speaker
Broncos, six and five.
00:50:10
Speaker
Broncos, red hot.
00:50:12
Speaker
Texans, scuffling a little bit.
00:50:13
Speaker
I'm going to tell you exactly why I think the Texans are going to win this game.
00:50:17
Speaker
First.
00:50:18
Speaker
They're in the big H. They're home in Houston.
00:50:21
Speaker
They're very good at home.
00:50:23
Speaker
CJ Strout is very good indoors.
00:50:25
Speaker
Number two, Texans have been losing games, very, very tight games to good teams.
00:50:31
Speaker
I don't know if you saw how that Jags Texans game ended on Sunday.
00:50:36
Speaker
I did not have an opportunity to watch that game.
00:50:40
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:50:40
Speaker
You missed an instant classic.
00:50:42
Speaker
Basically the Texans were in field goal range for like a 58 yarder.
00:50:46
Speaker
Amendola, their kicker kicked it and it hit the bottom crossbar like halfway.
00:50:51
Speaker
Oh, I did see, I did see a clip of that.
00:50:54
Speaker
Yep.
00:50:54
Speaker
So they were literally inches from taking the Jags to overtime.
00:50:59
Speaker
And if they would have won that game, they would have been in first place and they already beat the Jags this year.
00:51:04
Speaker
They have already beaten the, who did they just beat a couple of weeks ago?
00:51:08
Speaker
They beat the box a couple of weeks, weekends ago.
00:51:10
Speaker
I'm just going to pull this up real quick, but yeah, the Texas, they beat the Bengals and they beat the Cardinals.
00:51:16
Speaker
Correct.
00:51:16
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:17
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:17
Speaker
So they've won some good games.
00:51:19
Speaker
They've lost some tight ones.
00:51:20
Speaker
They beat the saints as well.
00:51:21
Speaker
And yeah, the Bengals was with burrow.
00:51:24
Speaker
So yeah, they are just, I just feel like this team is ready to make some noise or some waves.
00:51:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:30
Speaker
But yeah, Broncos are a fun story.
00:51:33
Speaker
I'll give it to them.
00:51:34
Speaker
I'm not a Russell Wilson fan.
00:51:35
Speaker
I'm not a Sean Payton fan by any means.
00:51:38
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, the Broncos, kudos to them.
00:51:40
Speaker
They were dead in the water after they gave up 70 points and they have gone on a five game winning streak to put themselves in a playoff position since.
00:51:49
Speaker
And they've been beating some solid teams.
00:51:50
Speaker
They beat the Bills.
00:51:51
Speaker
They beat the Chiefs.
00:51:52
Speaker
They really struggled against the Vikings two weekends ago, though, and Josh Dobbs, which my boys just proved very beatable.
00:52:00
Speaker
And then this last weekend, the Broncos struggled once again.
00:52:05
Speaker
Who did they just play?
00:52:06
Speaker
They just beat the Browns, but they didn't struggle.
00:52:10
Speaker
Like I said, they just beat the Browns.
00:52:11
Speaker
You're taking my arguments for me.
00:52:13
Speaker
Oh, shoot.
00:52:14
Speaker
I just broke my pen.
00:52:16
Speaker
But yeah, I just think the Texans have a better quarterback there at home.
00:52:19
Speaker
I'm not confident about it, but that's why I got them.
00:52:20
Speaker
And the mic is yours, if you will.
00:52:24
Speaker
Sorry, what's your confidence level?
00:52:26
Speaker
My confidence is a nice field goal straight through the uprights.
00:52:29
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:30
Speaker
Confidence level of four then.
00:52:34
Speaker
All right.
00:52:36
Speaker
Yes, so I have the Broncos, obviously.
00:52:38
Speaker
Bob made that clear by choosing the Texans, and we said that we were choosing differently.
00:52:42
Speaker
And honestly, you kind of stole some of my arguments.
00:52:45
Speaker
Yes, I understand that the Texans have been also a fun story, in my opinion.
00:52:49
Speaker
You made a great call preseason on them going to be looking pretty good with CJ Strout, as well as who did they draft second?
00:52:58
Speaker
Anderson Jr. Oh, Anderson Jr. Yep.
00:53:01
Speaker
And so, yeah, I mean, they're a cool story for them to come back this year from being competing for the number one pick last year and come back this year and come out six and five.
00:53:11
Speaker
Honestly, been looking really good.
00:53:13
Speaker
And obviously, yes, that loss to the Jags, that's a great team.
00:53:15
Speaker
The Jags are a great team.
00:53:16
Speaker
So that's an unfortunate loss, but one that they actually could have won.
00:53:20
Speaker
But when I'm looking at the last couple weeks, I mean, the Cardinals, man, they barely beat them by five points.
00:53:27
Speaker
They did beat the Bucs, but only by two, and Bucs have kind of been sputtering.
00:53:30
Speaker
And yes, you make a good point about the Bengals.
00:53:32
Speaker
That was a great game.
00:53:33
Speaker
They won by three.
00:53:35
Speaker
They did beat Joe Burrow.
00:53:36
Speaker
But again, the Bengals kind of not on a great streak this year.
00:53:40
Speaker
I'm like, I'm impressed by their wins, but I'm not like, whoa, that's crazy.
00:53:44
Speaker
But when I look at the Broncos side, when I see who they've beaten and beating the last five games, the Chiefs and the Bills, notably in those, as well as the Browns, which I'll remind you of a thing about two weeks ago, you said like the Browns are one of the hottest teams in football right now.
00:53:58
Speaker
So Browns,
00:54:00
Speaker
Defense has been looking good.
00:54:01
Speaker
Obviously, offense has really sputtered with Deshaun Watson out of there.
00:54:04
Speaker
But ultimately, when I look at their momentum, this five-game win streak, what they're doing under Sean Payton, I think that's why I'm leaning towards the Broncos in this game.
00:54:15
Speaker
They just have the momentum, in my opinion.
00:54:17
Speaker
And I think momentum is huge in the NFL.
00:54:19
Speaker
And I think they're really rallying in behind this team and trying to bring it to the next level.
00:54:25
Speaker
So I've got the Broncos, and I've got them at four.
00:54:29
Speaker
Also a field goal.
00:54:31
Speaker
Wow.
00:54:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:31
Speaker
Two field goals, two fours.
00:54:33
Speaker
Incredible.
00:54:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:36
Speaker
That's pretty far apart though.
00:54:38
Speaker
In all seriousness, seven apart, four for me, three for you.
00:54:41
Speaker
Seven apart is big.
00:54:42
Speaker
We're going to have to chat.
00:54:44
Speaker
I'm usually pretty lean.
00:54:46
Speaker
Oh, geez.
00:54:47
Speaker
Mild.
00:54:47
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:47
Speaker
I actually did not feel good.
00:54:49
Speaker
Um,
00:54:50
Speaker
Yeah, usually I'm pretty lenient on the teams that we're disagreeing on.
00:54:54
Speaker
Out of the, I don't want to spoil anything, out of the three we're disagreeing on, I might put my foot down the hardest on the Texans.
00:55:00
Speaker
So we'll have to chat.
00:55:02
Speaker
But you made some very valid points.
00:55:04
Speaker
All right.
00:55:04
Speaker
Well, we will certainly chat.
00:55:06
Speaker
And like we said, seven apart.
00:55:08
Speaker
And you know what's two apart from the last sauce you tried is the next sauce you tried.
00:55:12
Speaker
It's time for our next hot take.
00:55:15
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:55:15
Speaker
I'm actually really, really scared for this one.
00:55:18
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:18
Speaker
So we're moving on to hot barbecue, which, if I'm honest, didn't want to reveal this.
00:55:24
Speaker
But Bob actually got a tiny bit on his finger before we started recording and touched it to his tongue.
00:55:29
Speaker
And it didn't go well.
00:55:31
Speaker
So just remember that.
00:55:32
Speaker
And be cautious of how much you're putting on this nugget.
00:55:35
Speaker
That's a lot.
00:55:35
Speaker
That's a lot.
00:55:36
Speaker
Oh my God, Bob, that is so much.
00:55:38
Speaker
That's not the whole wing.
00:55:39
Speaker
It's just one bite.
00:55:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:42
Speaker
Yeah, I'm doing it.
00:55:42
Speaker
I'm doing it, okay?
00:55:43
Speaker
Are you ready for your hot take?
00:55:45
Speaker
I'm ready, yep.
00:55:46
Speaker
All right.
00:55:46
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:55:48
Speaker
Hot take is that Justin Fields has only five games left as a Chicago Bear.
00:55:58
Speaker
Oh my God.
00:55:59
Speaker
He is in pain, folks.
00:56:00
Speaker
I'm seeing his face.
00:56:02
Speaker
It is bright red.
00:56:04
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:56:04
Speaker
He is rocking back and forth in the fetal position.
00:56:07
Speaker
That one really hurts.
00:56:09
Speaker
Oh.
00:56:10
Speaker
That one hurts?
00:56:11
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:56:12
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:56:13
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:14
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:18
Speaker
He has his hands over his heart.
00:56:20
Speaker
Are you concerned about a heart attack?
00:56:22
Speaker
Don't worry, everybody.
00:56:23
Speaker
We've got him on video.
00:56:24
Speaker
I'm keeping an eye out for him.
00:56:25
Speaker
If I see any signs of anything, we will be contacting emergency services.
00:56:30
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:56:31
Speaker
No, no, no.
00:56:31
Speaker
That's getting worse.
00:56:32
Speaker
Shit.
00:56:36
Speaker
I need some silk.
00:56:37
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:56:38
Speaker
Holy smokes.
00:56:40
Speaker
That is... I like going out of my... I like going out of my comfort zone in everyday life, but that was way too far out of my comfort zone.
00:56:47
Speaker
That's...
00:56:48
Speaker
That was too spicy.
00:56:49
Speaker
My lips are a little chapped from sub 32 degree.
00:56:53
Speaker
The last couple of days, they're hurting really bad.
00:56:56
Speaker
My throat hurts too now.
00:56:58
Speaker
Justin Fields.
00:56:59
Speaker
Oh, shit.
00:57:00
Speaker
It's getting worse.
00:57:02
Speaker
I say that's... I just touched my nose.
00:57:04
Speaker
Shit.
00:57:06
Speaker
This is probably such an unenjoyable listen for everyone right now because I'm just going, shoot, shoot, shoot.
00:57:11
Speaker
Justin Fields will not...
00:57:14
Speaker
not be a Chicago Bear next season.
00:57:18
Speaker
He has more than five starts.
00:57:20
Speaker
He's the guy.
00:57:23
Speaker
He's the guy.
00:57:24
Speaker
He has shown it the last two weeks against your boys and then against the Vikings on Monday night.
00:57:30
Speaker
He can run the ball.
00:57:31
Speaker
He can throw the ball.
00:57:32
Speaker
As long as he's protecting the ball, he's the guy.
00:57:37
Speaker
I feel like I'm drunk.
00:57:39
Speaker
It's freaking five o'clock on a Wednesday.
00:57:42
Speaker
I'm not drunk.
00:57:44
Speaker
There's a lot of spice in my mouth right now.
00:57:46
Speaker
No, we're going to go with Marvin Harrison Jr. for our number one pick.
00:57:49
Speaker
We're going to do an offensive lineman.
00:57:51
Speaker
Justin has not had a good situation.
00:57:53
Speaker
Our offensive coordinator is inept.
00:57:55
Speaker
Good word, even with your face burning off.
00:57:57
Speaker
Thank you.
00:57:59
Speaker
And we're going to keep him.
00:58:00
Speaker
He's going to be a bear for hot take.
00:58:02
Speaker
Oh, my God.
00:58:03
Speaker
Hot take.
00:58:04
Speaker
He's going to be a bear until 2027 and beyond.
00:58:06
Speaker
You heard it here first.
00:58:08
Speaker
Wow.
00:58:08
Speaker
Okay.
00:58:10
Speaker
He got through it.
00:58:11
Speaker
Good job.
00:58:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:13
Speaker
Yeah, just because I'm done talking doesn't mean I got through it.
00:58:15
Speaker
It's getting worse.
00:58:16
Speaker
I was going to be an absolute savage and go straight into a sponsor, but I will skip that because of how much you are doing today.
00:58:25
Speaker
That would have been very savage.
00:58:27
Speaker
I'm throwing the rest of these wings out, by the way, after this.
00:58:28
Speaker
I'm not eating them.
00:58:29
Speaker
You could just have them plain with the ranch.
00:58:33
Speaker
Don't want any more wings.
00:58:34
Speaker
Don't want them?
00:58:35
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:58:35
Speaker
Send them my way.
00:58:36
Speaker
I'm actually so jealous you're eating wings tonight.
00:58:39
Speaker
Lucky Bob.
00:58:40
Speaker
Lucky Bob.
00:58:42
Speaker
All right.
00:58:42
Speaker
Well, we can go ahead then and go into our Sunday afternoon slate of games.
00:58:45
Speaker
We've got the Panthers at Bucs.
00:58:50
Speaker
And this for me was pretty easy to pick.
00:58:52
Speaker
Again, somewhat harder to choose confidence just because the Bucs, we just cannot seem to get that game right.
00:58:58
Speaker
Whenever we pick the Bucs or pick against them, they do the opposite.
00:59:01
Speaker
We pick the Bucs, they lose.
00:59:03
Speaker
We pick against the Bucs, they win.
00:59:06
Speaker
Is your tongue okay?
00:59:07
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:07
Speaker
Sorry, it feels like it's not fire, so I want to see if it was a different color.
00:59:10
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:59:13
Speaker
He's leaning so close to the camera, just touching his tongue over and over.
00:59:16
Speaker
Is it numb?
00:59:17
Speaker
It hurts.
00:59:18
Speaker
It doesn't feel good.
00:59:19
Speaker
It hurts.
00:59:21
Speaker
We only have one more, my friend.
00:59:22
Speaker
It's the worst one.
00:59:24
Speaker
But the hottest one of them all.
00:59:25
Speaker
Shoot.
00:59:26
Speaker
My stomach hurts.
00:59:28
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
00:59:29
Speaker
I can't believe we don't have any Toms or Pepto.
00:59:31
Speaker
I have silk.
00:59:32
Speaker
Silk.
00:59:35
Speaker
All right.
00:59:35
Speaker
Sorry.
00:59:35
Speaker
As I was saying, we can't seem to pick the Bucs correctly.
00:59:38
Speaker
I'm pretty sure we're going to be able to do it tonight.
00:59:42
Speaker
I feel pretty confident in that assessment.
00:59:46
Speaker
So I've got the Bucs beating the Panthers at home at a confidence level of seven.
00:59:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:57
Speaker
Pretty dang close.
00:59:58
Speaker
Um,
01:00:00
Speaker
Yeah, man, the honeymoon phase with Baker Mayfield sure fizzled out, sizzled, sizzled out pretty quickly.
01:00:10
Speaker
Yeah, he was off to a molten hot start.
01:00:14
Speaker
He was 3-1.
01:00:14
Speaker
He's getting delusional.
01:00:17
Speaker
I honestly think I am.
01:00:18
Speaker
He was 3-1.
01:00:20
Speaker
I don't know what the record is now.
01:00:21
Speaker
What's the Bucs record now?
01:00:23
Speaker
The Bucs record is, I would have to look, hold please, four and seven.
01:00:30
Speaker
Okay, so they're one and six in their last seven games after a 3-1 start.
01:00:34
Speaker
Bucs are going the wrong direction fast.
01:00:37
Speaker
Panthers have been going the wrong direction the entire season.
01:00:40
Speaker
They just fired their head coach, which is just gross incompetence.
01:00:44
Speaker
I thought the Bears general management and the people in power were –
01:00:51
Speaker
out of the know and just didn't have a clue.
01:00:53
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:00:54
Speaker
The Panthers management makes me feel like the luckiest boy in the entire world.
01:00:57
Speaker
Even with this tongue that's literally on fire right now.
01:01:00
Speaker
They not only traded my boys, as I've said a lot of times, I'm going to say it again.
01:01:05
Speaker
I don't care.
01:01:06
Speaker
They traded my boys, DJ Moore, and their number one pick to get Bryce Young and pass on CJ Strout, who is far and away the better quarterback.
01:01:15
Speaker
So they traded away their future in picks and their best wide receiver to get a young quarterback that hasn't panned out yet.
01:01:22
Speaker
They hired Frank Reich from Indianapolis.
01:01:24
Speaker
He's like a QB guru to take Bryce Young and put him under his Buffalo Wild wing.
01:01:31
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Yeah.
01:01:32
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and kind of just show him the way and they're not even giving him a full season.
01:01:36
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So nothing, not to mention they traded McCaffrey away last season.
01:01:39
Speaker
How do I forget about that one?
01:01:41
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:41
Speaker
So just nothing in Carolina makes sense.
01:01:43
Speaker
Um, I make sense and I'm in, and I'm in North Carolina.
01:01:48
Speaker
I make sense.
01:01:49
Speaker
Oh, shoot.
01:01:50
Speaker
That was really rude.
01:01:50
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I'm sorry.
01:01:52
Speaker
You do make sense.
01:01:53
Speaker
Mac makes sense.
01:01:54
Speaker
But other than that, not many things in Carolina make a lot of sense.
01:01:58
Speaker
Sorry for all my other Carolina fam listening in right now.
01:02:00
Speaker
What about Nick?
01:02:02
Speaker
Nick makes sense, but let's be real.
01:02:04
Speaker
Your wife doesn't listen to this podcast.
01:02:06
Speaker
Good point.
01:02:07
Speaker
Unless she's on it, she ain't listening.
01:02:09
Speaker
Thankfully, her dad's listening though, so we appreciate it.
01:02:13
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Shouts out.
01:02:13
Speaker
Shouts out.
01:02:14
Speaker
Shouts out.
01:02:15
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:02:15
Speaker
My brain hurts.
01:02:16
Speaker
Shouts out Steven Patty once again.
01:02:18
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But yeah, I got the bucks.
01:02:20
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Panther stink.
01:02:21
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Bucks do not.
01:02:22
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So I got the bucks at five.
01:02:26
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Five.
01:02:26
Speaker
Okay.
01:02:27
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Yep.
01:02:27
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Not far off at all.
01:02:30
Speaker
Love to see that.
01:02:31
Speaker
Wait, was that not my game?
01:02:32
Speaker
Was I just doing that for not my game?
01:02:35
Speaker
That's correct, but that's okay.
01:02:36
Speaker
That was some great insight.
01:02:38
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I appreciate that.
01:02:39
Speaker
I was just rambling a lot.
01:02:39
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But what is your game?
01:02:40
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And actually, I think it's also a game that we chose separately, is the Cleveland Browns at Los Angeles Rams.
01:02:48
Speaker
The Browns versus the Rams.
01:02:50
Speaker
This is a tough one.
01:02:51
Speaker
This is a tough one.
01:02:52
Speaker
I was not surprised that we chose differently in this one.
01:02:55
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Yeah, I mean...
01:02:57
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Rams are tough to gauge kind of like the temperature on my face right now is tough to gauge because you don't really know what you got.
01:03:03
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The Rams have won a couple of games.
01:03:05
Speaker
They were a Superbowl champ, just a few years removed.
Game Previews: Rams vs. Browns, 49ers vs. Eagles
01:03:09
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Um,
01:03:10
Speaker
They just got Tyron Williams back who went absolutely crazy on Sunday.
01:03:14
Speaker
I think he was the highest fantasy running back points getter.
01:03:17
Speaker
He went ham.
01:03:18
Speaker
He went ham.
01:03:21
Speaker
Yeah.
01:03:21
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I mean, having him back, they still got Cooper and Puka, even though they've been very quiet and they still got staff, not to mention Aaron Donald.
01:03:27
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So, and this is in LA.
01:03:29
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So I'm giving you a lot of points here, but the Browns defense,
01:03:34
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I mean, I think it's the best in the NFL.
01:03:36
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They are still in the playoff hunt.
01:03:38
Speaker
I think they're still, what, 6-5 or 7-5, something like that.
01:03:41
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So they're a great squad.
01:03:42
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Yeah, they're struggling with their quarterback.
01:03:43
Speaker
But I did see that Joe Flacco has been taking some first-string reps.
01:03:49
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He's a guy who knows what's going on in the NFL very, very...
01:03:54
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you know, just decent backup that can kind of run the offense.
01:03:57
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And other than him, they're pretty healthy.
01:03:59
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So I got the Browns winning a tight game and I got them going into LA and winning at a field goal too.
01:04:07
Speaker
Okay, this is another pretty far apart for us.
01:04:11
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I have the Rams winning this game for a lot of those reasons that you mentioned.
01:04:15
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I mean, the Rams did not look good for a while.
01:04:18
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Honestly, since their Super Bowl season, they've really kind of been downhill.
01:04:22
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Stafford, obviously a bit older in the quarterback pool.
01:04:27
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And he's been dealing with a lot of injuries.
01:04:29
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He's been in and out of the past two seasons over and over again.
01:04:32
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This season is no exception.
01:04:34
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He has missed a ton of games, but he's been back the past couple and they've honestly been looking pretty good.
01:04:40
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As you mentioned, they beat Seattle, they beat the Cardinals, which yeah, Cardinals not great.
01:04:46
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But they've been doing pretty good in getting back in their rhythm as they've been getting healthy.
01:04:52
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I think they've just been really unhealthy, which has been not good for them.
01:04:56
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But
01:04:57
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Heading into this week, they are looking healthy.
01:04:59
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They are going against a Browns team that is not so healthy, a Browns team that just put up or just led up 20 plus points to a Broncos team.
01:05:08
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So I feel like the Rams are going to be able to get it done.
01:05:10
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I do believe it's going to be close.
01:05:12
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Obviously, I am a little nervous about that Browns defense, but the Rams also have some of the best defenders in the NFL season.
01:05:20
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As you mentioned, Aaron Donald being one of them.
01:05:21
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So that's why I have the Rams, and I have them at five.
01:05:26
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Also a field goal.
01:05:28
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That's a big field goal.
01:05:29
Speaker
I wish the Bears could get some five-point field goals.
01:05:30
Speaker
Man, okay.
01:05:31
Speaker
So seven away again.
01:05:34
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Again, another seven away.
01:05:36
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So these ones that we've chosen separately have been seven away.
01:05:40
Speaker
But as we head into Sunday afternoon, this should be the Sunday night game.
01:05:46
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But the last game on the Sunday afternoon slate is, in my opinion, the best game of the week.
01:05:52
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It is a rematch of the NFC Championship game last year where Brock Purdy tore...
01:06:00
Speaker
his tendon or tore something in his elbow and had to leave the game for a while.
01:06:06
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He tried to throw left.
01:06:08
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Then they were running the ball the entire time.
01:06:10
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It just wasn't good.
01:06:11
Speaker
But since then, there's been a lot of chitter chatter of when they, these two teams play each other again, who is going to come out on top.
01:06:19
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And I'm talking about the San Francisco 49ers at Philadelphia Eagles.
01:06:24
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For me, this is the hottest game of the week.
01:06:26
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So it only makes sense to try the hottest sauce of the week as well.
01:06:32
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And I hear, hold on, before we do that, I see you raising your hand.
01:06:35
Speaker
Would you like to say something?
01:06:36
Speaker
I was going to try to make you do a freaking advertisement, but that has come and passed now.
01:06:42
Speaker
Oh my God, I'm gonna throw up.
01:06:46
Speaker
I had you trying this way later, but you're the one that said maybe you should do it earlier.
01:06:50
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So I thought perfect opportunity, the hottest game of the week.
01:06:54
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Let's try the hottest sauce and the hottest take.
01:06:59
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This is the hottest sauce at Buffalo Wilds.
01:07:01
Speaker
I have no business.
01:07:02
Speaker
Okay, before you take that, let me tell you the hot take because it's a long one.
01:07:06
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Let me tell you the hot take before you eat it.
01:07:09
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So that way you can pay attention.
01:07:12
Speaker
Okay.
01:07:12
Speaker
Can I, can I make a statement here before you start?
01:07:15
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Sure.
01:07:15
Speaker
I have no business even being in the same room as this sauce.
01:07:18
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I mean, I'm by myself in my studio apartment.
01:07:21
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There's health concerns all over the place with this.
01:07:25
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So this may be the last couple sentences anyone hears me say, just saying that, but I'm going to keep doing it, but continue.
01:07:32
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Don't do that much.
01:07:33
Speaker
Don't do as much as you did for that last one.
01:07:36
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Okay.
01:07:37
Speaker
That's plenty.
01:07:38
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He's got like a quarter of the nugget covered, folks.
01:07:41
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That's plenty for the hottest sauce.
01:07:42
Speaker
Okay, hold on.
01:07:43
Speaker
Let me do the hot take while you can still listen.
01:07:45
Speaker
Do you smell it from just being right there?
01:07:49
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Absolutely, I do.
01:07:50
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:07:52
Speaker
Okay, you can wipe some of that off.
01:07:54
Speaker
That's kind of a lot, Bob.
01:07:56
Speaker
It's okay.
01:07:56
Speaker
I've just got to do it.
01:07:58
Speaker
Okay, hold on.
01:07:58
Speaker
Here's the hot take.
01:08:00
Speaker
Ready?
01:08:01
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:02
Speaker
These have actual been whispers that I have heard around the league.
01:08:07
Speaker
Because I'm so involved with the league.
01:08:09
Speaker
Yes, you are.
01:08:10
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The Dolphins, the Lions, the Cowboys, and the Jags have almost all of their wins against teams with a losing record.
01:08:22
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The hot take is that none of them has what it takes to contend down the stretch of the playoffs.
01:08:28
Speaker
Can you say to those teams one more time before I take a bite of this?
01:08:31
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The Dolphins, the Lions, the Cowboys, and the Jags have most of their wins against teams with a losing record.
01:08:38
Speaker
Write those down.
01:08:38
Speaker
None of them have what it takes to contend down the playoff stretch.
01:08:42
Speaker
You said Dolphins, Cowboys, Lions, and Jags.
01:08:46
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Dolphins, Cowboys, Lions, and Jags.
01:08:49
Speaker
Eat that blazing and tell us your hot take, Bob.
01:08:51
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:08:52
Speaker
Tell us your thoughts on that hot take.
01:08:55
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:08:56
Speaker
No.
01:08:58
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:08:59
Speaker
My eyes.
01:09:00
Speaker
My eyes hurt.
01:09:02
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:04
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:05
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:06
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:07
Speaker
Are you okay?
01:09:08
Speaker
No.
01:09:11
Speaker
Oh, I might have to go.
01:09:13
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:15
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:16
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:19
Speaker
You can step aside if you'd like for a minute.
01:09:22
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:23
Speaker
Just stay on the camera where I can see you.
01:09:26
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:27
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no.
01:09:28
Speaker
No.
01:09:29
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:32
Speaker
He's chugging silk vanilla milk from the carton.
01:09:36
Speaker
He couldn't even get it into a glass.
01:09:38
Speaker
Are you okay?
01:09:40
Speaker
Oh, that's so... Oh my God.
01:09:44
Speaker
It's getting... Are you actually okay?
01:09:51
Speaker
Oh, that's so spicy.
01:09:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:53
Speaker
All right.
01:09:54
Speaker
You can walk around.
01:09:54
Speaker
Just stay where I can see you, please.
01:09:57
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:09:57
Speaker
That's...
01:09:58
Speaker
That is... That might be the spiciest thing I've ever eaten in my entire life.
01:10:07
Speaker
Oh, gosh.
01:10:08
Speaker
He's throwing things around.
01:10:10
Speaker
Are you sweating?
01:10:13
Speaker
My tongue hurts so bad.
01:10:14
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:10:16
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:10:17
Speaker
Nothing's helping at all.
01:10:19
Speaker
What about some ranch?
01:10:21
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:10:21
Speaker
I don't want to eat any more wings.
01:10:25
Speaker
I don't know if that's...
01:10:27
Speaker
That's the worst thing I've ever tasted in my head.
01:10:34
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:35
Speaker
I'll keep talking.
01:10:37
Speaker
Sorry, it's been so silent for our listeners.
01:10:42
Speaker
It's getting... Getting worse?
01:10:46
Speaker
Oh my God.
01:10:49
Speaker
It's getting sore.
01:10:51
Speaker
It feels like... Oh my God.
01:10:55
Speaker
Oh my God, I'm not crying.
01:10:56
Speaker
I'm laughing.
01:10:57
Speaker
It's getting so much worse.
01:10:59
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:00
Speaker
It feels like I just put my tongue.
01:11:01
Speaker
Don't eat anything then, I guess.
01:11:03
Speaker
Maybe that makes it worse.
01:11:05
Speaker
Oh, I got to get everything out of here.
01:11:07
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:08
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:09
Speaker
He's kicking things.
01:11:10
Speaker
He's taking his clothes off.
01:11:12
Speaker
He's actively taking his clothes off.
01:11:14
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:14
Speaker
I think that feels like I just put my tongue.
01:11:18
Speaker
I'm going to try to answer your question.
01:11:20
Speaker
No, you're fine.
01:11:21
Speaker
I can just keep.
01:11:22
Speaker
I'll just keep moving along.
01:11:24
Speaker
And when you're ready.
01:11:25
Speaker
Between the Dolphins, Cowboys, Lions, Jags.
01:11:30
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:11:32
Speaker
I don't know.
01:11:32
Speaker
People, side note, anyone who eats those for pleasure just to eat them, sick.
01:11:37
Speaker
You're sickos.
01:11:38
Speaker
I don't care if that's offending anybody that's listening.
01:11:42
Speaker
Nobody should be eating that.
01:11:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:46
Speaker
I don't think any of the... Okay, I think there's two of these teams that...
01:11:56
Speaker
Three.
01:11:56
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:59
Speaker
I think there's three teams that I think can make some waves out of those four.
01:12:06
Speaker
I think the Jags have such a weak schedule in that division between the Titans are so bad.
01:12:13
Speaker
Who else is in that division?
01:12:14
Speaker
The AFC South?
01:12:15
Speaker
The Texans.
01:12:16
Speaker
Colts.
01:12:17
Speaker
And the Texans.
01:12:20
Speaker
I think they could do something.
01:12:24
Speaker
The Dolphins, they just, I think they're so, their offense is so powerful.
01:12:30
Speaker
I think they can make some noise.
01:12:31
Speaker
And then I think the Lions, maybe it's because I'm like drunk from these wings.
01:12:39
Speaker
I think they could do some things just because they're so, they're so good on offense.
01:12:46
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Cowboys are just the Cowboys and they're going to choke in the playoffs.
01:12:51
Speaker
Just like I'm choking on this freaking... I gotta spit.
01:12:55
Speaker
Okay, no, you're good.
01:12:56
Speaker
You answered it.
01:12:57
Speaker
And how about I explain my team that I chose while you take a moment to yourself?
01:13:04
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Yeah.
01:13:04
Speaker
Okay.
01:13:05
Speaker
All right.
01:13:05
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Bob's going to step aside for a moment.
01:13:08
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Just stay where I can see you, please, Bob, on camera.
01:13:10
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So that way I know if you're okay.
01:13:14
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Goodness.
01:13:15
Speaker
I was not anticipating it to be that spicy.
01:13:18
Speaker
I have never had a blazing wing.
01:13:19
Speaker
I don't know if anybody else that's listening has had one, but apologies.
01:13:23
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Oh, he just popped up off of the ground.
01:13:26
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Don't do it.
01:13:27
Speaker
Okay.
01:13:29
Speaker
We have the 49ers Eagles, the last game of the four o'clock sleep on Sunday.
01:13:33
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And for me, like I said, I think this should absolutely be a Sunday night, a Monday night game.
01:13:37
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This should be a primetime game.
01:13:38
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This is a great game, a great matchup.
01:13:41
Speaker
And oh my God.
01:13:42
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry.
01:13:44
Speaker
It's okay.
01:13:47
Speaker
No, okay.
01:13:47
Speaker
Sorry, continue.
01:13:48
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Do you hear that?
01:13:50
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I'm so sorry.
01:13:51
Speaker
I think my neighbors heard that.
01:13:55
Speaker
In case it doesn't go through on the podcast, Bob just absolutely belched his heart out.
01:14:00
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That hurt.
01:14:00
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Okay, sorry to continue.
01:14:02
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Okay.
01:14:03
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The reason that I chose this team, and I was really back and forth, but there were a couple reasons.
01:14:08
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Number one, they're at home.
01:14:10
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So they have been playing really, really well at home in Philly.
01:14:15
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They have an absolute rowdy ass crowd in Philly and a crowd that has been watching them win these close games, watching them succeed and is fully behind them.
01:14:26
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And the crowd provides a lot of extra momentum and a lot of extra strength to a team.
01:14:31
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So
01:14:33
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That's one reason that I'm going with the Eagles.
01:14:36
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Next is just plain and simple their record.
01:14:39
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The 49ers, yes, they had that skidding issue when they had a lot of those injuries and things of that nature.
01:14:45
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But the Eagles have proven time and time again that they can win these close games.
01:14:50
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Their team is just so solid in so many different ways.
01:14:55
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I honestly want them to start struggling, but I also need the 49ers to struggle so my boys can have higher seating.
01:15:02
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But ultimately, I just think the Eagles have a very complete team and arguably the most complete team in the NFL.
01:15:08
Speaker
Shouts out Big T. And I think them being at home, winning these close games, that game against the Bills was incredible the way that they won that.
01:15:19
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in the overtime.
01:15:20
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I don't know.
01:15:20
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There's just something about the Eagles that feels to me right now that they are unbeatable.
01:15:25
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We'll see if that's proven this weekend or not.
01:15:27
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I think this is going to be the toughest test and very well could, again, be the NFC Championship game this year that you will be here in Asheville watching and potentially will be these two teams.
01:15:39
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So I'm excited to see a preview of it, but ultimately I'm giving it to the home team.
01:15:42
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I'm giving it to the Eagles, but I'm only giving it to them at one because this is such a good matchup.
01:15:47
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And I'm excited to watch it.
01:15:50
Speaker
I'm excited to watch it too.
01:15:51
Speaker
Did you answer the question about the Dolphins, Cowboys, Lions, Jags, by the way?
01:15:55
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I didn't because I was just moving into the game just to give a little bit of time for you.
01:15:59
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But we can circle back to that.
01:16:02
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No, it's good.
01:16:03
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I would love to.
01:16:04
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I don't want it to be too all over the place, even though I think that's kind of out the window after that last 10 minutes.
01:16:11
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Just to give a quick wellness update on me.
01:16:15
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I'm not, I'm not passing out anymore.
01:16:17
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Um, my tongue is still fully on fire.
01:16:20
Speaker
Um, I don't think I'm dying anymore.
01:16:22
Speaker
Is it getting better though?
01:16:23
Speaker
It sounds like it's getting a little bit better.
01:16:24
Speaker
You sat back down.
01:16:25
Speaker
So that's good.
01:16:26
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I sat back down.
01:16:26
Speaker
I don't feel like I need to rip my clothes off anymore.
01:16:29
Speaker
Um, my tongue is still very, very uncomfortable in it.
01:16:32
Speaker
Every time I swallow it, like intensifies, I'm trying not to swallow any of this, um, whatever's going on in my mouth.
01:16:38
Speaker
But, uh,
01:16:39
Speaker
Your shirt was actively coming off for a moment there.
01:16:42
Speaker
Your shirt was actively being ripped off of you.
01:16:45
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I had to.
01:16:47
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It was holding in all the heat, but thankfully I was able to lock it back in.
01:16:52
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Yeah.
01:16:53
Speaker
Shout out Buffalo Wild Wings.
01:16:55
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It's called Blazin' for a reason.
01:16:57
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That's no joke.
01:16:58
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That's effed up.
01:16:59
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Y'all are sickos.
01:17:00
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Yeah.
01:17:02
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And quick apology to the listeners.
01:17:03
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If there's a lot of silence in that, I genuinely was concerned for Bob's health and safety there for a moment.
01:17:09
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So I that's why I was not really continuing the conversation along.
01:17:14
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Just wanted to make sure that Bob was okay.
01:17:16
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I appreciate the concern.
01:17:18
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I was very, very concerned with myself there for a couple of minutes.
01:17:21
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I didn't think I was going to be okay, but I think we're through the worst of it.
01:17:24
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It is getting better, but it's still really, really bad.
01:17:26
Speaker
So I think I'm going to be fighting this for the foreseeable future, but getting back in football, I'm doing this for the wave riders.
01:17:32
Speaker
I'm putting on a brave face for you.
01:17:34
Speaker
We love you so much.
01:17:36
Speaker
Yeah.
01:17:37
Speaker
As Mac alluded to, I can still say the good words.
01:17:39
Speaker
This is our third and fun.
01:17:41
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
01:17:42
Speaker
Yeah.
01:17:43
Speaker
And final game that we, oh my God, third and final game that we don't agree on.
01:17:49
Speaker
Can you mute me for a second so I can just.
01:17:50
Speaker
Yep.
01:17:50
Speaker
Yep.
01:17:51
Speaker
Go ahead.
01:17:51
Speaker
Let it out.
01:17:52
Speaker
So this is the third and final game that we don't agree on is what I believe Bob is going to say.
01:17:57
Speaker
And you're going to have to re unmute yourself.
01:18:00
Speaker
Okay.
01:18:01
Speaker
There I am.
01:18:02
Speaker
Okay.
01:18:02
Speaker
So yes, that is what I was going to say.
01:18:06
Speaker
Yeah, I think the Niners are going to win this game.
01:18:08
Speaker
Like Max said, I heard her say that they went through that little weird three-game losing streak in the middle of the season.
01:18:14
Speaker
I think they're fully back on track.
01:18:15
Speaker
Ever since they got Chase Young on that defensive line, they have been completely unbeatable.
01:18:23
Speaker
Between Bosa and him, and then the offense, Purdy has hit the ground running again.
01:18:28
Speaker
Debo is healthy.
01:18:31
Speaker
Brandon Ayuk playing great ball.
01:18:32
Speaker
CMC back on his touchdown streak in terms of games in a row with touchdowns.
01:18:38
Speaker
So yeah, all's well in San Fran lands.
01:18:41
Speaker
Eagles, yes, they've won two games in a row very impressively against two of the NFL's best the last couple years with the Chiefs in KC and then the Bills in Buffalo.
01:18:50
Speaker
But they're not doing it pretty.
01:18:52
Speaker
They're not doing it easy.
01:18:54
Speaker
Bills have been losing to just about everybody.
01:18:56
Speaker
So the fact that
01:18:57
Speaker
They took Philly to the very end, and it took a 60-yard field goal to force overtime.
01:19:01
Speaker
Eh, a little sus.
01:19:02
Speaker
And then the fact that the Chiefs were one catch away from the Eagles being on a two-game losing streak here.
01:19:07
Speaker
So, yes, they're winning games.
01:19:09
Speaker
I don't think this state-and-by action can go on for too much longer.
01:19:13
Speaker
I think Sam Fran's going to put down the hammer.
01:19:15
Speaker
That's why I've got them at one.
01:19:16
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:18
Speaker
Fair enough.
01:19:19
Speaker
You make great points.
01:19:21
Speaker
What's that?
01:19:21
Speaker
You have the Eagles at...
01:19:23
Speaker
One as well.
01:19:23
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:24
Speaker
Yes.
01:19:25
Speaker
Yes.
01:19:25
Speaker
I could not put that any higher.
01:19:27
Speaker
That game is just too close for comfort.
01:19:29
Speaker
It's two incredible teams.
01:19:32
Speaker
And absolutely, it's a 50-50 game in my opinion.
01:19:35
Speaker
I agree completely.
01:19:37
Speaker
All right.
01:19:38
Speaker
Well, now that we are getting through the blazing and getting through the afternoon slated games, we'll move into the Sunday night game, 8.20 p.m.
01:19:45
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We have the Kansas City Chiefs at Green Bay Packers, who are kind of making a bit of a playoff push here.
01:19:55
Speaker
They're turning some things around here behind Jordan Love, starting to mix and mingle and match up and make some things click here.
01:20:03
Speaker
So I'm interested to hear what you have to say about this game Sunday night.
01:20:07
Speaker
Yeah, I'm interested to tell you what I'm thinking on this game, but I think I'd be remissed.
01:20:11
Speaker
And I think all the wave routers would be really upset if we went a whole episode without any ads.
Humor and Advertisements
01:20:16
Speaker
And I feel so bad about doing this right now.
01:20:18
Speaker
I haven't been struggling at all.
01:20:19
Speaker
So, Mac, without further ado, we would love to hear a spicy ad.
01:20:24
Speaker
An advertisement, huh?
01:20:27
Speaker
I thought you were going to let me, you know, get away with that because I didn't make you do an advertisement.
01:20:33
Speaker
Oh yeah.
01:20:34
Speaker
You haven't made me do anything this episode.
01:20:36
Speaker
You're right.
01:20:37
Speaker
I haven't.
01:20:38
Speaker
You agreed to the bet.
01:20:40
Speaker
No, I didn't.
01:20:41
Speaker
You made me.
01:20:42
Speaker
All right, fine.
01:20:43
Speaker
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01:20:55
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01:21:03
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01:21:05
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01:21:08
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01:21:10
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01:21:13
Speaker
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01:21:21
Speaker
Whoa, are you trying to get some brownie points right now?
01:21:25
Speaker
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01:21:29
Speaker
We've got them on our kitchen table.
01:21:31
Speaker
Am I going to get one?
01:21:32
Speaker
Maybe.
01:21:33
Speaker
Were you good this year?
01:21:35
Speaker
I thought so.
01:21:35
Speaker
I thought it'd been really freaking good, man.
01:21:38
Speaker
Well, shout out Shutterfly.
01:21:40
Speaker
I've got a lot of Shutterfly pictures in this apartment.
01:21:42
Speaker
Um, great product and really good save.
01:21:45
Speaker
You really screwed yourself with the in-laws earlier and now you're, I can tell you're, uh, doing a little bit of, uh, sucking up there.
01:21:51
Speaker
So nicely done.
01:21:53
Speaker
I've got some work to do, you know, did you think of that prior or did you just think of that on the spot?
01:21:57
Speaker
Yeah.
01:21:58
Speaker
I just thought of that on the spot.
01:21:59
Speaker
I have on one screen, I have the ESPN NFL schedule up and one of the advertisements on the top is Shutterfly.
01:22:07
Speaker
And so I saw that.
01:22:08
Speaker
I was looking around and saw that and that's why I went Shutterfly.
01:22:12
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
01:22:12
Speaker
Well, great, great rhyme.
01:22:15
Speaker
And I love the bye, bye, bye.
01:22:17
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:18
Speaker
I didn't really know if it was a rhyme, but that's okay.
01:22:21
Speaker
Sounded like a rhyme to me.
01:22:22
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:24
Speaker
Nicely done.
01:22:25
Speaker
But yeah, this was my game, Chiefs Packers.
01:22:27
Speaker
Yes, sorry.
01:22:28
Speaker
This is your game, Chiefs Packers.
Game Predictions: Packers vs. Chiefs, Bengals vs. Jaguars
01:22:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:30
Speaker
And I'm finally starting to lose this spice, by the way.
01:22:32
Speaker
So I'm actually... Oh, good, good.
01:22:33
Speaker
Do you want to have another one?
01:22:37
Speaker
No.
01:22:38
Speaker
Okay.
01:22:39
Speaker
Hilarious.
01:22:40
Speaker
I will be throwing that out in a dark, dark place in a...
01:22:44
Speaker
Who's barking?
01:22:45
Speaker
Is that Summy?
01:22:46
Speaker
That's not Summy.
01:22:47
Speaker
We are watching our neighbor's dog.
01:22:50
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
01:22:50
Speaker
I was going to say that.
01:22:51
Speaker
Did that sound like Summy?
01:22:52
Speaker
He is barking.
01:22:53
Speaker
Wow.
01:22:53
Speaker
That was a loud bark.
01:22:55
Speaker
He did not like you being rude and saying, well, I like another wing.
01:22:58
Speaker
I know.
01:23:00
Speaker
He said, enough of that.
01:23:01
Speaker
This man is hurting.
01:23:03
Speaker
He said, help my mans out.
01:23:05
Speaker
Please.
01:23:06
Speaker
No more wings.
01:23:06
Speaker
Please.
01:23:07
Speaker
Stop making me eat the spicy wings.
01:23:09
Speaker
Doyle.
01:23:09
Speaker
Well, I appreciate doggo.
01:23:10
Speaker
What's his name?
01:23:11
Speaker
Ramsey.
01:23:12
Speaker
Thanks, Ramsey.
01:23:13
Speaker
Oh, like Jalen.
01:23:14
Speaker
Yeah.
01:23:15
Speaker
Well, Ramsey, go Dolphins, go Noah.
01:23:18
Speaker
Ramsey, appreciate you.
01:23:19
Speaker
And things I don't appreciate, good transition, is the Packers.
01:23:24
Speaker
I don't appreciate the Packers ruining my best friend's Thanksgiving.
01:23:27
Speaker
I don't appreciate the Packers winning games and all of a sudden being back in the playoff hunt.
01:23:32
Speaker
And I don't appreciate the Packers thinking that they have a chance against the Chiefs because, spoiler alert, they don't.
01:23:38
Speaker
This game is in Green Bay.
01:23:39
Speaker
And I kind of love how things have changed
01:23:42
Speaker
kind of, I guess, center themselves because Jordan Love and the Packers have gotten their fans back in a place where they were in a dark, dark hole a couple weeks ago thinking, wow, it's going to be a long, cold winter in northern Wisconsin.
01:23:56
Speaker
Packers are out of it.
01:23:57
Speaker
And all of a sudden, they've got a little glimmer of hope.
01:23:59
Speaker
There was a day of sunlight in December.
01:24:01
Speaker
People are going, oh, my God, maybe it's not going to be a cold winter.
01:24:04
Speaker
Maybe we are going to make the playoffs.
01:24:06
Speaker
Mahomes is going to come into town.
01:24:08
Speaker
three months of snow, no playoffs, no sunlight for you, Green Bay.
01:24:12
Speaker
You guys are screwed.
01:24:13
Speaker
He's the groundhog saying winter isn't over.
01:24:16
Speaker
He's popping his little head up the hole saying, wait, what's the shadow?
01:24:20
Speaker
If he sees the shadow, it's more winter?
01:24:21
Speaker
If he sees the shadow, he gets scared and hides for winter, which never made sense to me because if you see your shadow, the sun is out.
01:24:27
Speaker
So wouldn't that mean spring is coming?
01:24:30
Speaker
But if he gets scared back into the hole, winter is longer.
01:24:35
Speaker
Well, you know what?
01:24:36
Speaker
Mahomes popping out.
01:24:37
Speaker
I'm banging pots and pans together.
01:24:40
Speaker
Scare them back down there.
01:24:41
Speaker
Watch out.
01:24:42
Speaker
The shadow is here.
01:24:43
Speaker
Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob.
01:24:44
Speaker
Shadow envelops Green Bay.
01:24:47
Speaker
They lose big time on Sunday night.
01:24:49
Speaker
National TV.
01:24:49
Speaker
Big time.
01:24:50
Speaker
Big time.
01:24:51
Speaker
And they are not going to be in the playoff picture.
01:24:53
Speaker
I think, all jokes aside, the Chiefs are the better team.
01:24:57
Speaker
They are going to have no problem beating the Packers on Sunday night football.
01:25:00
Speaker
I think it's going to be a very, very one-sided affair.
01:25:03
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That's why I'm going double digits with this game.
01:25:05
Speaker
I don't care if people think that's crazy.
01:25:08
Speaker
I'm going 11.
01:25:08
Speaker
Long hair, don't care.
01:25:10
Speaker
Long hair, don't care.
01:25:12
Speaker
Spicy tongue, I don't... Trunks.
01:25:15
Speaker
So...
01:25:17
Speaker
Chiefs, and I'm going 11, baby.
01:25:19
Speaker
Okay, okay.
01:25:21
Speaker
Not too far off.
01:25:22
Speaker
I'm also going Chiefs.
01:25:23
Speaker
I've got them just slightly lower at 9 because of this little push the Packers have been making.
01:25:28
Speaker
It's in Green Bay.
01:25:29
Speaker
The Chiefs unfortunately lost that game to the Broncos in the cold snow.
01:25:33
Speaker
Who knows if there will be cold and snow up in Green Bay.
01:25:36
Speaker
Something to consider.
01:25:37
Speaker
Still think they're going to win.
01:25:39
Speaker
I've got Chiefs.
01:25:39
Speaker
I've got them at 9.
01:25:41
Speaker
Nine.
01:25:42
Speaker
Okay.
01:25:42
Speaker
I like it.
01:25:44
Speaker
And... Ooh.
01:25:46
Speaker
Did that hurt?
01:25:47
Speaker
Yeah.
01:25:48
Speaker
Didn't feel good.
01:25:49
Speaker
Another belch, and he immediately grabbed his chest and stomach.
01:25:53
Speaker
Ugh.
01:25:54
Speaker
No, don't take your shirt off again.
01:25:56
Speaker
Okay, okay.
01:25:57
Speaker
It's on, it's on.
01:25:58
Speaker
Oh, my gosh.
01:25:59
Speaker
Okay, last game of the week.
01:26:02
Speaker
We have Monday night, 8.15 p.m., the Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars.
01:26:09
Speaker
And preseason, you would have told me this matchup, I'd have been like, oh, this is going to be a great matchup here.
01:26:14
Speaker
We've got the Bengals.
01:26:15
Speaker
We've got the Jags.
01:26:17
Speaker
Wah, wah.
01:26:18
Speaker
Unfortunately, the Bengals with Joe Burrow's injury –
01:26:21
Speaker
They've got, I don't even know his first name, but his last name's Browning in there.
01:26:26
Speaker
On top of it, the Bengals already weren't looking great.
01:26:28
Speaker
They really struggled to protect the quarterback.
01:26:31
Speaker
That's not going to be good.
01:26:32
Speaker
That's not going to continue to be good for this Browning guy.
01:26:35
Speaker
He's going to learn quickly, but...
01:26:37
Speaker
It's just not a recipe for success there.
01:26:41
Speaker
It's in Jacksonville.
01:26:42
Speaker
Again, like you said, the Jags have been doing all right, and they really have opportunity to shake things up down the stretch potentially.
01:26:50
Speaker
So I've got the Jags, and I've got them at double digits.
01:26:55
Speaker
Sorry.
01:26:56
Speaker
What?
01:26:57
Speaker
Shoot.
01:26:57
Speaker
I was raising my hand, and I was going to say, can I make a bet?
01:27:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:27:00
Speaker
You can make a guess.
01:27:01
Speaker
You can make a guess because I know there's no way you know what I'm picking here.
01:27:07
Speaker
Yep.
01:27:07
Speaker
Okay, good.
01:27:08
Speaker
Just to let everyone know, I have no idea what her confidence levels are.
01:27:11
Speaker
And I have a one in 13 chance, really low odds.
01:27:14
Speaker
So if I can guess what you're, and I can tell that you're looking at the games right now to try to figure out what I'm going.
01:27:19
Speaker
I'd like you to stop looking at your sheet right now.
01:27:21
Speaker
I am looking.
01:27:22
Speaker
But if I can guess you're confident on the nose, then you have to do something.
01:27:27
Speaker
Okay.
01:27:28
Speaker
No, what do I have to do?
01:27:30
Speaker
Um, something crazy.
01:27:31
Speaker
I'll figure it after we make our bet.
01:27:32
Speaker
I'll let you know.
01:27:33
Speaker
Wow.
01:27:33
Speaker
You have this a bit lower than me.
01:27:35
Speaker
So I'm going to say you have this at 10 is good.
01:27:37
Speaker
I'm just going to go on a limb.
01:27:39
Speaker
That is, that is a pretty good going out on a limb.
01:27:41
Speaker
And I'm going to say you have this at six.
01:27:44
Speaker
Um, incorrect.
01:27:44
Speaker
Good guess though.
01:27:45
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:27:48
Speaker
So yeah, we'll, we'll, uh, we'll take votes on our Instagram page to see what you have to do.
01:27:52
Speaker
Um, but yeah, I don't have to do anything.
01:27:56
Speaker
I can't believe I guessed that.
01:27:57
Speaker
That was awesome.
01:27:57
Speaker
That's a good guess.
01:27:58
Speaker
It's making the spice feel a lot better.
01:28:00
Speaker
But yeah, I don't know how you guessed mine.
01:28:03
Speaker
I am going Jags with six.
01:28:05
Speaker
If Burrow is playing in this game, it would be a different story.
01:28:08
Speaker
He's not.
01:28:09
Speaker
Trevor Lawrence, Lord Farquaad is.
01:28:11
Speaker
This game is in Jacksonville.
01:28:13
Speaker
I feel like Jacksonville is kind of like a place like Detroit.
01:28:16
Speaker
Up and coming teams, really exciting young players.
01:28:19
Speaker
And no, this is not a slight for you.
01:28:22
Speaker
but a place where there hasn't been a lot of recent primetime games.
01:28:25
Speaker
When the Lions had that Monday night game against the Raiders, it was a madhouse.
01:28:30
Speaker
I think when the Jags have this Monday night game against the Bengals, it's going to be a madhouse.
01:28:35
Speaker
And it's no Burrow, like I said, and the Jags, I think they're currently a half game back of the first seed in the AFC.
01:28:41
Speaker
So I got them and I'm very confident, even though my confidence level doesn't show it.
01:28:47
Speaker
At six.
01:28:48
Speaker
Whoa, it's almost as if I guessed that.
01:28:53
Speaker
So how come you don't have to do anything, but I have to do something?
01:28:56
Speaker
Because you didn't say- Riddle me that.
01:28:58
Speaker
Because you didn't say, hey, Bob, if I guess your confidence, you have to do something.
01:29:02
Speaker
Then you have to do something?
01:29:03
Speaker
Hmm, you're right.
01:29:04
Speaker
So if you would have said that, it would have been something, but I said it.
01:29:08
Speaker
Stinks to sink, sucks to suck, and I'm excited to- It really does stink and suck.
01:29:13
Speaker
Collaborate with some of the wave riders.
01:29:15
Speaker
Collaborate.
01:29:15
Speaker
Yeah.
01:29:16
Speaker
And figure out what your punishment is going to be.
01:29:18
Speaker
I'm excited to co-wabble-weight.
01:29:20
Speaker
I'm excited to co-wabble-weight.
01:29:22
Speaker
Okay.
01:29:22
Speaker
Well, that sounds good.
01:29:23
Speaker
We did a lot here.
01:29:24
Speaker
We covered a lot.
01:29:25
Speaker
We had a lot of hot takes.
01:29:26
Speaker
We had a lot of hot wings.
01:29:28
Speaker
We had a lot of spicy nugs.
01:29:31
Speaker
Thanks to you, Bob.
01:29:32
Speaker
You came in guns a-blazin' with those nugs.
01:29:36
Speaker
And so appreciate that.
01:29:38
Speaker
But yeah, three games different this week.
01:29:39
Speaker
This is a big one for the Waffle House Challenge.
01:29:42
Speaker
And I'm honestly considering doubling down this week.
01:29:48
Speaker
Okay.
01:29:49
Speaker
Let's see.
01:29:49
Speaker
Let me take a peek.
01:29:51
Speaker
Okay.
01:29:52
Speaker
I feel confident in all three of mine.
01:29:54
Speaker
I am hereby.
01:29:55
Speaker
I'm doubling down this week.
01:29:58
Speaker
I was about to double down.
01:29:59
Speaker
We can both double down the same week.
01:30:02
Speaker
But doesn't that cancel each other out?
01:30:05
Speaker
Well, it could.
01:30:06
Speaker
But if I win like two games.
01:30:08
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:30:10
Speaker
Shoot, that kind of sucks that I said it before you did.
01:30:12
Speaker
All right.
01:30:12
Speaker
Well, I guess you said it first.
01:30:14
Speaker
So Bob is doubling down this week.
01:30:15
Speaker
That's fine.
01:30:17
Speaker
I'm fine with it.
01:30:18
Speaker
Shake on that.
01:30:19
Speaker
Bob is doubling down.
01:30:20
Speaker
Did you not want to double down?
01:30:22
Speaker
I was going to double down.
01:30:23
Speaker
No, you can double down.
01:30:25
Speaker
No, no.
01:30:25
Speaker
It's okay.
01:30:25
Speaker
It's okay.
01:30:26
Speaker
We'll hash this out offline.
01:30:27
Speaker
But hereby, Bob has doubled down for this week.
01:30:30
Speaker
So this is big for the Walthouse Challenge.
01:30:32
Speaker
This is a big week.
01:30:33
Speaker
So that means all three are worth two.
01:30:35
Speaker
And side note, if you double down as well, it's the same thing.
01:30:38
Speaker
But if you won two out of three, you get two points.
01:30:41
Speaker
You're right.
01:30:41
Speaker
I would get four points instead of.
01:30:44
Speaker
Right.
01:30:45
Speaker
Right.
01:30:45
Speaker
Okay.
01:30:46
Speaker
Well, we'll look at that.
01:30:47
Speaker
But I don't know.
01:30:48
Speaker
I feel like that kind of cancels each other out.
01:30:51
Speaker
Yeah.
01:30:51
Speaker
We'll talk offline.
01:30:53
Speaker
I'm really happy I said it first.
01:30:54
Speaker
I'm really happy I said it first, though.
01:30:56
Speaker
All right.
01:30:56
Speaker
Sounds good.
01:30:57
Speaker
Well, in that case, we will see you next week.
01:30:59
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Bob, eat some Pepto or take some Pepto, eat some Tums, drink some milk, and hope you don't have too much time on the toyty later tonight.
01:31:08
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I'm going to be on the toyty.
01:31:09
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And do me a favor, just keep your phone on loud because we're in this together now.
01:31:12
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So every time it's 2 a.m., 3 a.m., I got some problems going on.
01:31:15
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I'm going to give you a call and we can just chat during that.
01:31:18
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So I'm not alone here in my studio apartment.
01:31:20
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Will do.
01:31:21
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Okay.
01:31:21
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Appreciate that.
01:31:23
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We're so happy to be back.
01:31:24
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We got some fun things coming up.
01:31:25
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We got Christmas chaos in a couple of weeks.
01:31:27
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We got a lot of fun updates and we got lines beers again next weekend.
01:31:30
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So, um, do not stop listening.
01:31:33
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Now we got a lot of fun ahead.
01:31:36
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Peace.
01:31:48
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Shart in the shorts.