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Speaker: You got the vibes?
Speaker: You got the magic?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Welcome back to the Fresh Cakes podcast.
Speaker: Season two.
Speaker: Took a little break, but we're back.
Speaker: I'm fresh.
Speaker: This is Pancakes.
Speaker: Yo.
Speaker: What's up, Pancakes?
Speaker: We're back.
Speaker: We're back at it.
Speaker: We're back.
Speaker: I'm tanner than I was the last time we were on here.
Speaker: You probably can't tell because I'm sitting in a dark room and I'm not much tanner, you know, than a normal person.
Speaker: But for me, I'm tan.
Speaker: All right, well, congratulations.
Speaker: I got a little farmer's tan.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, not much to write home about, but why don't we tell the people what we're talking about today?
Speaker: Probably just like the most exciting thing ever, Fresh, which is football is back.
Speaker: College football, which is my favorite, honestly.
Speaker: We just had week one this past weekend.
Speaker: And we're going to talk a little NFL, too, because that's coming up.
Speaker: And as we have talked about previously in this podcast, I really didn't have an allegiance to any NFL team, but I have taken on an allegiance.
Speaker: And I'm going to reveal that to you because you don't know what I picked.
Speaker: I don't.
Speaker: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker: I'm actually waiting with... I mean...
Speaker: I am excited to see who you picked.
Speaker: And yeah, we've been waiting for this.
Speaker: And that's part of the reason I think we explained it on our last episode.
Speaker: So you can check that Northwestern episode out.
Speaker: But yeah,
Speaker: You know, this is what we really love.
Speaker: We've been excited for the fall.
Speaker: So we're back at it.
Speaker: So, I mean, let's get into it.
Speaker: Who won?
Speaker: You know, we both won.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Everybody won week one.
Speaker: Well, not everybody, but the people that at least matter to you and I won.
Speaker: I'm a Michigan fan by birthright.
Speaker: My father's from Michigan.
Speaker: So Michigan won.
Speaker: Go blue.
Speaker: And then my alma mater, UK won.
Speaker: So go blue times two.
Speaker: You know, go cats.
Speaker: And then your cats won as well.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And they are also blue.
Speaker: So, but I mean, I can't say the thing you said, but like, you know, we are, you can say it.
Speaker: I'm not saying the go, whatever.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'd say we are fed state one.
Speaker: Um, our new quarterback, um,
Speaker: Well, you know, since you have 75 different teams that you root for, I'm going to let you go first.
Speaker: It's not 75, it's still.
Speaker: It's close enough.
Speaker: Until recently, you had to be a manic depressive to watch Kentucky football.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: Only since Stoops.
Speaker: Coming in, has that team been watchable?
Speaker: And Will Levis, who actually literally came from Penn State, he's like kind of what turned the tide for Kentucky football.
Speaker: And he's actually, I don't know if you knew this, he's actually the reason Will Levis is that Devin Leary came to UK, transferred from NC State to UK because he roomed with Will Levis at like a quarterback camp or something.
Speaker: And Will Levis talked about how Liam Cohen was a great coach for him and like offense coordinator.
Speaker: Is that your next, is that your quarterback now?
Speaker: Yeah, he transferred from NC State to Kentucky because, like, Will Lettess just talked to him about what a great school it was and, like, what great coaching he had there from Leon Cohen, who's, like, now back at UK.
Speaker: He spent, like, a season with the Rams last year, but now he's back.
Speaker: So all Kentucky quarterbacks have no loyalty.
Speaker: Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker: They just up and leave their teams and end up in Kentucky?
Speaker: Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker: They're loyal to Kentucky.
Speaker: They're loyal to... I mean, okay.
Speaker: To the blue that matters.
Speaker: Where did...
Speaker: I'm racking my brain here.
Speaker: I'm trying to think about where did Will Levis end up?
Speaker: Your favorite place.
Speaker: Where did we go?
Speaker: Tennessee Titans.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Tennessee.
Speaker: Go Vols.
Speaker: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker: Go Vols right now?
Speaker: Absolutely not.
Speaker: You'll never hear those words.
Speaker: I'm not even going to say go Titans either because Tennessee for never, dude.
Speaker: I mean, I do like the Titans coach because he's a Patriot legend.
Speaker: But okay.
Speaker: Who'd they beat?
Speaker: I didn't even pay attention to them.
Speaker: Michigan beat Eastern Carolina, which, you know, everybody wants it.
Speaker: This was a warm-up weekend.
Speaker: Kentucky beat Fall State.
Speaker: Season-defining win.
Speaker: Okay, both season-defining wins.
Speaker: Who did Penn State play?
Speaker: West Virginia, actually a real team.
Speaker: Yeah, they weren't ranked, though.
Speaker: They're not really a real team.
Speaker: They're not fucking Eastern, whatever the fuck you just said.
Speaker: Eastern Carolina?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: But win, win, win, right?
Speaker: Ohio State didn't look that good.
Speaker: No, I don't think their quarterback's very good.
Speaker: Yeah, they should have won by legions more than they won.
Speaker: I do want to talk quickly, if I can, Drew Aller, Penn State's
Speaker: Next new quarterback.
Speaker: Okay, sophomore.
Speaker: Number one rated pocket passer in the country last year.
Speaker: Got to play mop-up duty behind Sean Clifton.
Speaker: He came in 21 for 29, 325 yards, three touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker: I mean, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker: We got a guy.
Speaker: He's like six foot everything.
Speaker: Six, six foot six or some shit.
Speaker: Compared to Ben Roethlisberger, I mean, we got a guy.
Speaker: Who do you got?
Speaker: You have a guy.
Speaker: You have a lot, actually.
Speaker: You don't have just a guy.
Speaker: I told you this earlier, a couple days ago.
Speaker: What did your dad say?
Speaker: Yeah, my dad said the only team my dad is scared of this year is Penn State.
Speaker: I mean, we got two running backs that are insane.
Speaker: They both averaged over five yards of carry in the game.
Speaker: You know, Keiondre Lambert-Smith had 123 yards of receiving.
Speaker: I mean, and we have most people consider a top three defense in the country.
Speaker: So, whoops, whoopsie, you know.
Speaker: We're ranked seventh, highest we've been ranked since 2020.
Speaker: So it's only been a few years, but it is the highest we've been ranked to start the season.
Speaker: I mean, we're not two or anything, but, you know, I didn't know we both got to have, you know, I didn't know we had to have two teams each.
Speaker: I didn't get the memo on that.
Speaker: Well, you know, one's by, one's by birth and one's by where I paid money to go to school.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Penn State is both of those for me.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I wasn't lucky enough.
Speaker: My dad didn't raise me to be a Kentucky football fan.
Speaker: He had more sense than that.
Speaker: I mean, basketball, they do all right.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: You know who, speaking of, well, I already brought up our last episode, you know, so if you want to refer back to that, that episode is called the Northwestern episode.
Speaker: Yeah?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I wanted to just do a little review on how Northwestern did in their game after the old, you know, scandal.
Speaker: I don't want to even bring it back up, but they played Rutgers, not a powerhouse.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Not a good team.
Speaker: They lost 24 to 7.
Speaker: And if I'm remembering right, that 7 was they got like a lucky punt.
Speaker: Like they were punting and got a lucky bounce, recovered a frumble, and they had to go like a few yards to score that touchdown.
Speaker: So even that touchdown doesn't really count.
Speaker: Their starting quarterback, a guy by the name of Ben Bryant, who's done some fucked up shit to be their quarterback, which we've already talked about.
Speaker: 20 of 36, 169 yards, no touchdowns.
Speaker: Two interceptions.
Speaker: Also lost two fumbles.
Speaker: So I don't know if that I don't think they were recovered, but he fumbled twice on top of the two picks.
Speaker: Quarterback rating 14.8.
Speaker: On a scale of one to what?
Speaker: higher than fucking 14.8.
Speaker: I'll tell you that.
Speaker: I think it's one to 100.
Speaker: I think it's one to 100 because our backup.
Speaker: So Drew Aller had an 86 rating.
Speaker: This guy, 14.8.
Speaker: Rutgers quarterback, by the way, it bears repeating, Rutgers not a fucking powerhouse team.
Speaker: He had an 81.9 quarterback rating.
Speaker: Had a touchdown, no picks.
Speaker: Is he even in undergrad or is he in grad school or something?
Speaker: Is Rutgers just pulling guys from the law school to be on the team?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: It's just like, who's playing there?
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: They lead the country in herpes.
Speaker: That's all I know.
Speaker: So, Northwestern rushing.
Speaker: Their best rusher, Brendan Sullivan, four carries, 11 yards.
Speaker: So, 2.8 yards a carry.
Speaker: Cam Porter, six carries, eight yards.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: They had one guy with two carries and seven yards.
Speaker: One guy with two carries and one yard.
Speaker: And Ben Bryant, their quarterback, eight carries, negative 15 yards.
Speaker: So passing game, not really working.
Speaker: Running game, not really working.
Speaker: Defense not working, obviously.
Speaker: Defense not working.
Speaker: If you let Rutgers gain one yard, if you let Rutgers gain a first down, defense is not working so good.
Speaker: So anyways, I don't mean to pile on.
Speaker: I said that last time.
Speaker: I do feel bad for them, you know, for the people that weren't involved.
Speaker: But I kind of do mean to pile on because that was pretty dark shit that went on at Northwestern.
Speaker: So we can leave it at that.
Speaker: Any insight on this?
Speaker: They're just bad.
Speaker: And it doesn't seem like, you know, what we talked about in our last episode helped out their team any.
Speaker: Well, clearly the whole team listened to our podcast.
Speaker: They did.
Speaker: They left.
Speaker: They all went to, all the good players went to Colorado.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And reports I'm hearing in reports from Rutgers.
Speaker: They also listened to the podcast and they were like, we should win this easily.
Speaker: So they're playing fresh cakes in the locker room before, before the game.
Speaker: And they were like, oh, we can, we can do this.
Speaker: I mean, I know we're Rutgers, but we, we got this.
Speaker: So yeah, all that, all that happened.
Speaker: So there you go.
Speaker: There's your update on that.
Speaker: You did just refer to all the players going where,
Speaker: Colorado, Coach Prime.
Speaker: Coach Prime, who we have talked about before, Deion Sanders.
Speaker: Multi-sport athlete.
Speaker: Maybe one of the best sports careers in history, if you include all of what he's done now coaching.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And so what happened there?
Speaker: They beat TCU.
Speaker: And a lot of people thought they weren't going to beat TCU.
Speaker: And I'm going to say this, you know, like I'm glad that, you know, they did.
Speaker: And I think that what he did is completely brand new to college football, the way that he utilized the portal and brought players there.
Speaker: But I'm not going to say that I'm necessarily like 100% convinced yet because that TCU team that they kind of like hung with only had three starters from last year, the team that made it to the championship game.
Speaker: So like,
Speaker: I want to see them play like USC and see how close like that game is.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: But do you expect that?
Speaker: Like I'm with you on that.
Speaker: I don't expect them to year one, be the best team in football, but based on this, it's kind of easy to be like, okay, what are we going to see in year two?
Speaker: What are we going to see in year three?
Speaker: Is Colorado going to be the number one ranked team in the country in a couple of years?
Speaker: Like kind of right.
Speaker: I think that they definitely could be.
Speaker: How crazy would that be?
Speaker: Especially if they utilize the transfer portal the same way they did this year.
Speaker: Colorado, bro.
Speaker: Like what?
Speaker: It is so crazy.
Speaker: I mean, and if you hear him talk, it's like, I want to play for the guy.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: I'll go be a water boy for the guy.
Speaker: Like, you know, he's just a leader of men and he expects so much out of them.
Speaker: It's, it's awesome, dude.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: He said, um,
Speaker: he only cut like 20 players in the rest of them quit, which ended up being like total around 80, something like that.
Speaker: Colorado has like 80 new players this season.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's like the whole team.
Speaker: Well, cause he went in there and he was like, we, I expect the best out of all of you.
Speaker: If you can't give it to me, if you don't want to beat the guy next to you, like be gone.
Speaker: And most of the team was like, all right, we're out.
Speaker: Like,
Speaker: You know what it reminds me of hearing him talk about it?
Speaker: And this just came out on Netflix not long ago, the Swamp Kings documentary that talked about the... Tebow and the Florida.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And it reminds me, it's reminiscent of how Urban Meyer was trying to like condition those teams.
Speaker: He's like, you're going to work like a Navy SEAL basically to be the best.
Speaker: Urban Meyer also a lot of such a lot of such shit going on behind the scenes.
Speaker: But, you know, yeah, that was definitely like a fluff piece for Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer.
Speaker: If they really wanted to dive into that story, they wouldn't have they wouldn't have been a part of it if they actually wanted to talk about what that Florida team was really like.
Speaker: It would be like Aaron Hernandez, you know, feature murderer.
Speaker: Plenty of other guys on that team They mentioned him once in that entire documentary I digress They mentioned him once I digress I wanted to talk about Shador Sanders Deion Sanders' son is the quarterback for Colorado 510 yards Let me go back Ben Bryant, Northwestern 169 yards Two picks And two fumbles
Speaker: And two fumbles.
Speaker: Shador Sanders, 510 yards, four touchdowns, no picks, no fumbles.
Speaker: That's like a video game.
Speaker: Video game.
Speaker: And it's against the 17th team ranked in the country.
Speaker: I mean, no matter what, the experts looked at it and were like, yeah, they might not be a top 10 team anymore, but they gave them 17.
Speaker: Maybe a little bit that is based on last year.
Speaker: You might be right.
Speaker: They might have been ranked a little high, but still.
Speaker: I mean, 510 yards.
Speaker: That's insane.
Speaker: No matter what anyone says about like Colorado, like you or I, that quarterback they have, Deion Sanders' son, is like reminiscent of his father.
Speaker: He's just an insane athlete.
Speaker: Like that's crazy to do to any team.
Speaker: That many yards.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And so we talked about this a little bit.
Speaker: He had a little extra motivation.
Speaker: You guys may have heard of this.
Speaker: He went on Pat McAfee's show, which we reference all the time.
Speaker: And said that TCU offensive coordinator Kendall Bryles was a huge motivation for him to want to beat TCU.
Speaker: I guess Shadour went to a camp at TCU, I think, while he was being recruited.
Speaker: And Deion Sanders said in this interview, the reason, quote, the reason he was so intense and relaxed and ready, not only did he study, but we went to the camp of a certain school and a certain coordinator we just played against.
Speaker: So he's the offensive coordinator.
Speaker: So Kendall Bryles, he was at that school and we went to the school's camp and he didn't pay Shadour no attention.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: You got Deion Sanders' son, and you're just not showing him any attention.
Speaker: Deion also said, I don't think he even spoke, barely even spoke to him.
Speaker: He just pushed him off to the side.
Speaker: So kind of poked the bear a little bit.
Speaker: I don't know how you're going to have Deion Sanders' son there and not even like just because of who his dad is.
Speaker: Give him almost like a nepotism treatment.
Speaker: Be like your father was one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Speaker: Yeah, like you've played in World Series and Super Bowls.
Speaker: That would be like having LeBron James' son at basketball camp and being like, I don't want to see what he can do.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: You know, it's insane.
Speaker: So poked the bear, 510 yards, four touchdowns.
Speaker: Yikes.
Speaker: I mean, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker: And we've seen what Deion's done at other schools.
Speaker: I think it was at Jackson State that he was at before.
Speaker: Yeah, HBCU.
Speaker: Yeah, and made them amazing.
Speaker: And now Colorado.
Speaker: And I think it's so interesting to see a guy that's
Speaker: a leader on the level that he is.
Speaker: And everyone that you hear talk about him is like, he lights up the room.
Speaker: You just want to be around the guy.
Speaker: There's the charisma, the, what he demands.
Speaker: It sounds amazing.
Speaker: And I think it would be kind of cool unless they play Penn state.
Speaker: Like, I think it would be kind of cool to see like a random team, like Colorado, just like all of a sudden they're in the top 10, all of a sudden they're, you know, so they're in the top 25 now.
Speaker: It reminds me, wasn't Colorado pretty good in the 90s?
Speaker: I feel like I remember Michigan playing them in a bowl game, I want to say, or something like that.
Speaker: I think they beat Michigan.
Speaker: I mean, I was probably four.
Speaker: Didn't Colorado win the first national championship ever?
Speaker: Didn't we reference that?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Maybe you and I were talking about that separately, but I don't know if we referenced that.
Speaker: It's something like that.
Speaker: He's going to return them to former...
Speaker: glory days glory yeah it's crazy and it's like cold as hell you it's like not it's not like going to usc and you being like a soft kid and you're like i want to play in the sunshine all day snow in colorado yeah oh yeah um and that speaking of that you know usc the whole pac-10 thing have you heard about that it's like gone yeah conference realignment is kind of um
Speaker: We didn't even plan on talking about this, but the Pac-10 is basically done.
Speaker: Everyone's going to the Big Ten and SEC and wherever else, like Big 12, I guess.
Speaker: So whatever.
Speaker: Welcome.
Speaker: Speaking of playing in the cold, again, can't wait for USC, UCLA to come play it.
Speaker: Michigan or Penn State.
Speaker: The Big House or Beaver Stadium.
Speaker: USC doesn't know what it means to play in a stadium like the Big House or Penn State.
Speaker: They've had it too good.
Speaker: They can't play in a wideout.
Speaker: To them, that's like playing in a national championship, and that's just like a regular weekend in the Big Ten.
Speaker: Yeah, and they're even like, oh, we made it to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker: Where is it?
Speaker: It's like our home stadium.
Speaker: It's like, what?
Speaker: They've had it too good for too long.
Speaker: No sympathy, USC.
Speaker: We'll see you in a blizzard.
Speaker: I can't wait for that.
Speaker: Come on, sunshine boys.
Speaker: Any other teams lose that you're happy about losing by chance?
Speaker: I am thrilled.
Speaker: Fresh.
Speaker: Clemson got beat by Duke.
Speaker: One, I think every single year, and I don't know how they do it, and I'm so glad that we kind of have like a playoff style, a little bit of football.
Speaker: I think Clemson has snuck their way too far into the top 10 for too long, and I do not think that they are that good.
Speaker: At all.
Speaker: I think they're overrated every year and they got beat by Duke.
Speaker: And I'm going to be honest, fresh.
Speaker: I didn't even know Duke had a football team.
Speaker: I live in North Carolina and I wasn't even aware that they had a football team.
Speaker: Well, it's kind of like Kentucky having a football team.
Speaker: If we're being honest, if we're being honest, actually worse.
Speaker: It is worse.
Speaker: It's actually worse than that, but.
Speaker: I can see that.
Speaker: It's not worse anymore, though, because Kentucky has been in the top 25 the last few years, and Duke has never.
Speaker: No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker: Duke is worse off than, you know, even like you guys have made some noise and just had a QB that was being talked about in the top 10 of the draft.
Speaker: He got drafted first in the second round.
Speaker: And so explain that to me.
Speaker: Why Clemson?
Speaker: Is it a basketball thing?
Speaker: It's not.
Speaker: They don't like, you know, Kentucky's an SEC school.
Speaker: Michigan's a Big Ten school.
Speaker: I don't know what it is about Clemson.
Speaker: I just can't stand them.
Speaker: It's like Kentucky never plays them.
Speaker: Michigan never plays them.
Speaker: They're just one of those schools that like get...
Speaker: under my skin and I don't know why and I think it's because I think they've been like severely overrated every time they almost bother me a little bit like Notre Dame does how I think Notre Dame stays way overrated because they don't want to you know join like a real conference and they want to schedule all year I think the same with Clemson a lot and you know like
Speaker: What are they, ACC?
Speaker: Yeah, they're ACC.
Speaker: Which is like not even a real... You know, you play Duke.
Speaker: And I just don't think I have a lot of respect for him, honestly.
Speaker: All right, serious, very serious question coming at you right now, okay?
Speaker: This is not a softball.
Speaker: This is high heat, okay?
Speaker: If we flip sports to basketball, what are your feelings on Duke?
Speaker: Hate Duke.
Speaker: Okay, so flip back to college football.
Speaker: We're happy?
Speaker: I'm happy that they got beat by a football team that probably, you know, many people didn't know existed.
Speaker: A lot of people probably didn't even think Duke even had enough people that wanted to try out for the football team.
Speaker: Okay, so Duke football, no threat.
Speaker: So fuck it, beat a team that I don't like.
Speaker: Duke basketball, different story.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: I could imagine feeling that way.
Speaker: No, I want Duke to beat Clemson in basketball, too.
Speaker: I want them to win as many games as they can so that they're overrated and fluffed into the bracket like they are every year by the NCAA and then Kentucky to beat them there, too.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: Duke is Ohio State to me in basketball.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: That's where I'm coming from.
Speaker: I'm like, I've seen.
Speaker: Ohio State's still Ohio State to me in basketball.
Speaker: I can tell you Ohio State don't have a good history either.
Speaker: You know, like I hate them for a lot of reasons.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker: You're celebrating a Duke win, but it's basically, you know, I don't know, a JV team and it's football.
Speaker: It's like a high school team.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, I'm going to be happy for those kids because, you know, they're playing football Duke and.
Speaker: 28-7 or something?
Speaker: Was it 28-7?
Speaker: So they beat the shit out of them.
Speaker: It's not like they just beat them.
Speaker: It was embarrassing.
Speaker: And Clemson was ranked ninth?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or something like that?
Speaker: They were way overrated like they are every single year and Duke
Speaker: beat him, which is awesome.
Speaker: And then Florida State beat LSU, which is crazy.
Speaker: Dude, I know.
Speaker: I don't like Florida State at all.
Speaker: I don't either, but that was an insane game to watch.
Speaker: I just don't like Bobby Bowden because he was always competing with Joe Pa for the wins lead, which Joe Pa won.
Speaker: So Bobby Bowden, go fuck himself.
Speaker: But yeah, it was an insane game.
Speaker: It was an insane game.
Speaker: I think LSU has to be overrated because Florida State hasn't
Speaker: I mean, have they even been ranked in the last few years?
Speaker: They've been nothing.
Speaker: They could be a sleeper team this year.
Speaker: Watch them come and just be like the TCU of last year.
Speaker: I can't have it.
Speaker: I can't see those colors.
Speaker: I can't see those colors.
Speaker: The Marine, like the gold.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Stop with your chant.
Speaker: No one cares.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Okay, but good for them.
Speaker: They beat LSU, whatever.
Speaker: They jumped Penn State.
Speaker: LSU fell behind Penn State.
Speaker: We didn't move.
Speaker: So, whatever.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So, really quick, because I'd like to shift to NFL.
Speaker: I'm pretty stoked.
Speaker: I picked the 49ers defense relatively early in my fantasy draft, and then Nick Bosa re-signed
Speaker: So boom, boom, boom, right pick.
Speaker: I probably just won my fantasy league.
Speaker: Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
Speaker: Yeah, your defense is going to do all the work.
Speaker: I mean, they're pretty sorry.
Speaker: I mean, come on.
Speaker: Nick Bose is a beast.
Speaker: And I'm not a 49ers fan, Patriots fan.
Speaker: But, you know, game recognized game.
Speaker: Nick Bose is, you know, he's a big boy.
Speaker: Got to have him in there.
Speaker: So I'm pretty stoked about that.
Speaker: I'd be scared of him.
Speaker: Any of the bosses, they're all psychopaths.
Speaker: So just had to throw that in there, a little pat on the back to myself, to my brother.
Speaker: Let's call him Fred.
Speaker: Brother Fred.
Speaker: Sorry about it.
Speaker: I play him week one too.
Speaker: So sorry, buddy.
Speaker: Sorry, pal.
Speaker: 49ers defense is going to be the same against me.
Speaker: Yeah, and that's like his wife's team and shit too, so it's like all up in your face.
Speaker: But we'll see what happens there.
Speaker: So let's get to the finale here.
Speaker: What's the team?
Speaker: Is there any story behind this?
Speaker: Is there any setup you need to give us on this?
Speaker: What's going on with the team?
Speaker: There is a story behind it.
Speaker: I'm going to tell you why I picked them.
Speaker: after I show you because I have a hat.
Speaker: It's basically what I'm creating here is like a college recruitment type deal, you know, where the kid signing picks like what college he wants by putting on the hat.
Speaker: I'm going to do that right now.
Speaker: I'm interested in that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Because right now you have a University of Kentucky hat on now.
Speaker: That hat's about to change.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Let's do it.
Speaker: And I'm taking my headphones off, but I guarantee I'll still be able to hear.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Am I going to be pissed by the way, real quick?
Speaker: Oh, boy.
Speaker: I feel like I'm going to be pissed.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: That's not real.
Speaker: That's not real.
Speaker: Yeah, it is.
Speaker: It's not real.
Speaker: Go birds.
Speaker: E-A-G-L-E-S, eagles.
Speaker: We did a whole episode on how much I hate them.
Speaker: Fly, eagles, fly, baby.
Speaker: Fly, eagles, fly.
Speaker: So what dumbass ignorant reason could you possibly have come up with to pick fucking eagles of anyone just to hurt my feelings or what?
Speaker: What is it?
Speaker: Well, that played a part in it.
Speaker: No, that wasn't the only reason.
Speaker: I'm kidding.
Speaker: Dude, I actually did a spreadsheet on this.
Speaker: I don't have it anymore, but I did a spreadsheet, and I had like five or six teams that I was considering.
Speaker: The Patriots were one of them.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I scored them on things like standout and like pop culture, you know, team, like player notoriety, location, colors of the uniforms, you know, because that's like a big deal to me.
Speaker: You don't want to like.
Speaker: Pretty good patriots.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So you hate America.
Speaker: Got you.
Speaker: What else?
Speaker: No.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: And I'm going to tell you why I picked the Eagles.
Speaker: Like what made sense for me.
Speaker: And I can't believe I'm seeing this.
Speaker: One.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Both Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan are Eagles fans, so boom, easy.
Speaker: Two, there is a very popular movie, fighting movie, that is set in Philadelphia that my name is in that people yell at me all the time.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: This is a city that built a statue for a fake person.
Speaker: Well, he's a real person, but yes.
Speaker: Rocky Balboa.
Speaker: Okay, so that's it.
Speaker: Pop culture, movies and music, nothing to do with football so far.
Speaker: And then three, which is I feel like the most important reason, which is what really made me pick up.
Speaker: No, I don't know.
Speaker: I mean, I don't know if we've ever mentioned this on the podcast before, but I had a heart transplant.
Speaker: And my donor heart, like my donor, um, was, came from Philly.
Speaker: She lived right outside Philly.
Speaker: And I feel like it's just like a little bit of an homage, you know, cause like, I'm going to assume, you know, that them like living in Philly, like her and her family or, or Eagles fans or are Eagles fans.
Speaker: So, uh,
Speaker: That's the main reason I picked it.
Speaker: You couldn't have led with that one?
Speaker: Now you're making me look like it.
Speaker: Come on, man.
Speaker: I'll give you that one, I guess.
Speaker: But I don't want to have to look at this hat all the time.
Speaker: And my favorite show in the world is Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Speaker: It's a good show.
Speaker: It all lines up.
Speaker: And that'd be fun for us too to like have a little bit more of like a, we can't agree on too much, you know?
Speaker: Here's my narrative for the whole season is that you picked them because they're in the Superbowl.
Speaker: All the other shit out the window, except the hard thing.
Speaker: But like, you know, I can't believe you saved the haymaker for the third one, man.
Speaker: The first two were both Taylor Swift.
Speaker: Like some, come on bullshit.
Speaker: But you know what?
Speaker: Don't they, don't we have a matchup week one?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This Sunday.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Look.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: We'll see how it goes.
Speaker: We'll see how it goes.
Speaker: Because you picked the team that was just in the Super Bowl to be your team, you know?
Speaker: Ah, God.
Speaker: That's not why I picked them.
Speaker: Because you know who else I was considering was the Chicago Bears.
Speaker: Because my brother lives in Chicago.
Speaker: And I have other family.
Speaker: Like, I have cousins.
Speaker: And, like, my aunt that lives in Chicago, my grandma.
Speaker: And I was, like, I considered them for that.
Speaker: But I was, like...
Speaker: Why not the Lions?
Speaker: People are liking the Lions.
Speaker: I did consider the Lions, too.
Speaker: But, like, just never... Not a good enough record last year for you.
Speaker: Not in the Super Bowl last year, huh?
Speaker: Is that the problem?
Speaker: I'm already, like, a big Tigers fan, as you know, so I can only handle so much heartbreak out of Detroit and out of Michigan.
Speaker: You know, like, Michigan keeps breaking my hat, so I don't... My hat.
Speaker: Yeah, so if...
Speaker: Kelsey, Travis Kelsey, who just hyperextended his knee.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: If he doesn't play week one against the Lions, you think they have a chance to beat the Chiefs?
Speaker: That'd be pretty awesome.
Speaker: That would make me so happy because you know how much I hate the Chiefs.
Speaker: And another reason I picked the Eagles is I really, really hate the Cowboys.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Really hate the Cowboys.
Speaker: I agree with you on that.
Speaker: How much is it going to cost to never wear that hat again, though?
Speaker: I'm going to wear it for every episode this season.
Speaker: I can't happen.
Speaker: That can't happen.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Welcome back to season two.
Speaker: It's our first and last episode of season two.
Speaker: This asshole over here picked the Eagles to be our team.
Speaker: But here's what I'll give you.
Speaker: I'm actually glad you didn't pick the Patriots because it would have been so lame if we were like, we agree on everything, you know?
Speaker: I know that's not picking the Patriots.
Speaker: I'll give you that.
Speaker: You couldn't have picked the Patriots.
Speaker: Cause you know, that's my dad's favorite team.
Speaker: Is it?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: My dad's favorite team is Patriots.
Speaker: Cause you know, Michigan, Tom Brady, like he loved, loves Patriots.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Well, and so did you not want to, you know, you could have talked to him about it.
Speaker: You know, maybe he could have.
Speaker: He doesn't watch NFL really, but like he likes the Patriots and he will like the Patriots and he'll watch it, but he's a college football guy.
Speaker: We're still going to have a good defense this year.
Speaker: We'll see.
Speaker: Go Birds.
Speaker: So honorary, because we're about to wrap this up, but I did want to mention, because we do have to mention this every episode, my third QB on my team, Aaron Rodgers, drafted him.
Speaker: I drafted him.
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: Just so that we'd have to talk about it.
Speaker: I actually didn't even think about it, but he was there and it was just a bench quarterback.
Speaker: And I was like, I mean, if you're going to let, if I can pick up Aaron Rogers for my bench.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: You know, so you can't, I can't get rid of this guy.
Speaker: You know what I mean?
Speaker: So no.
Speaker: I'll tell you what, I didn't have to do a darkness retreat to figure out if I was going to draft him or not.
Speaker: I just did it.
Speaker: I don't know if, like, you know, maybe he could learn something or two from me because it didn't take four days in the fucking dark to make a decision about that.
Speaker: Yeah, I was like, you're playing, bro.
Speaker: Get in.
Speaker: Good enough.
Speaker: I'll take it.
Speaker: He's on the bench, though.
Speaker: He's on the bench.
Speaker: Don't hold it against me.
Speaker: I won't.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Well...
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Well, disappointing finish here with this Eagles bullshit, but yeah.
Speaker: Fantastic finish.
Speaker: Yeah, fantastic.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Then I got a ready break for the Pats then right in your face.
Speaker: And I guess you're going to ready break for whatever bullshit you're doing over there.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Who's going first?
Speaker: You go first.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Pats.
Speaker: Red, white, and blue America.
Speaker: Patriots.
Speaker: Ready?
Speaker: Ready?
Speaker: Break.
Speaker: Break.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: I only had two words.
Speaker: Ready?
Speaker: I'm playing Fly Eagles Fly as our outro right now.
Speaker: You are not playing Fly Eagles Fly.
Speaker: I am just playing right now as we're talking.
Speaker: I can't have it.
Speaker: Don't do this to me.
