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Speaker 1: Start the clock. Take number one. The Ravens are the
Speaker 1: best team in the world. They just had their best
Speaker 1: game of the year against the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Or did they.
Speaker 1: That's what's fun about the Ravens. You can just sit
Speaker 1: here and lay out their wins out on the table.
Speaker 1: Pick the prettiest one, picked the nastiest one. They destroyed
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, They pantsed the Niners, they crushed the Lions.
Speaker 1: They beat the hell out of the Seahawks. You can
Speaker 1: just keep on going, just keep going. That was an
Speaker 1: annihilation against the Dolphins. The Ravens are so far ahead
Speaker 1: of the field. It's you don't see a team often
Speaker 1: that is this far ahead of the pack. What's crazy
Speaker 1: is the Niners were this team a month ago and
Speaker 1: they got destroyed by Baltimore. It was the end of
Speaker 1: the game, when the game was already in hand, and
Speaker 1: the Ravens just said, who hasn't scored yet? Anybody else
Speaker 1: want a touchdown? I was reminded of my adolescence the
Speaker 1: ninety eight NBA Finals Bulls Jazz Jordan Malone. There was
Speaker 1: a game you can look it up at The Bulls
Speaker 1: won by forty two points, and every single player on
Speaker 1: the roster scored.
Speaker 2: Everyone.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Michael and Scotty and Harper and Luke
Speaker 1: Longley and Rodman. Everybody on the bench scored. Judd Bushler scored,
Speaker 1: Bobby Hansen, Randy Brown, you name it. Keep on going
Speaker 1: because I remember it. There was only one player who
Speaker 1: hadn't scored yet, only one, and it was Bill Wennington,
Speaker 1: their center, who looks like an English teacher, and he
Speaker 1: had a baseline jumper towards the end of the game.
Speaker 1: And I think it was cost Us on the call
Speaker 1: saying the night is complete. That was the Ravens victory
Speaker 1: over the Dolphins. Melvin Gordon one is on the Ravens
Speaker 1: two scored a touch against the Dolphins. Pat Ricard, my
Speaker 1: favorite Raven number forty two, the full back, scored his
Speaker 1: first touchdown of the year. I think it was this
Speaker 1: fifth catch of the year. He doesn't have any carries.
Speaker 1: That was the Ravens. They're going Bill Wennington on a really,
Speaker 1: really good Dolphins team. That's how good they are.
Speaker 2: Take number two. I told you about the Steelers.
Speaker 1: I told you, and I told your friend, and I
Speaker 1: told your brother, and I told your sister, and I
Speaker 1: told your children.
Speaker 2: I told your mother and your father.
Speaker 1: I told you. Don't give up on this team. Don't
Speaker 1: give up on the Steelers. I don't care how bad
Speaker 1: they look. They can trabisky their pants three two games
Speaker 1: in road, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Don't give up on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: They go to Seattle, they have an incredible win in
Speaker 1: which Najie Harris has the best game of his career.
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren is my idol. They destroy He didn't even
Speaker 1: need the big TJ. Watt game. They did it. Don't
Speaker 1: ever give up on the Steelers. Just trust the logo,
Speaker 1: trust the brand. I remember during COVID you might remember
Speaker 1: the same type of thing. There was all kinds of
Speaker 1: crazy things going on, where, oh my god, what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen with the stock market, what's going to happen with finances?
Speaker 1: And you know he's telling you should you should pull
Speaker 1: your money out, you should do this do that put
Speaker 1: it in a mattress. I like to talk to about
Speaker 1: my dad about financial things, and I remember calling him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Dad, I'm hearing some pretty scary things. Should
Speaker 1: you know, should I pull out pull any money I
Speaker 1: have out of the stock market? And he goes, never,
Speaker 1: always have faith, and Uncle Sam, it'll be all right.
Speaker 1: And I was like, always have faith and Uncle Sam,
Speaker 1: that sounds pretty naive and corny, Dad, But I think
Speaker 1: he might be right, and he was. I didn't lose
Speaker 1: all my money, thank god. The Pittsburgh Steelers are like
Speaker 1: Uncle Sam in the stock market and make it really
Speaker 1: scary and make it really ugly. You may lose some
Speaker 1: have faith. Take number three. The Eagles are terrible, terrible.
Speaker 1: Do you understand that they were at home against an
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals team that's gonna have a top five pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, and the Cardinals didn't punt in that game.
Speaker 1: They didn't punt in that game. That is something that
Speaker 1: the Kurt Warner Cardinals never did a puntless game, that
Speaker 1: the Carson Palmer Cardinals never did puntless games. Those teams
Speaker 1: that went deep in the playoff since to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But Kyler Murray just walked in there to the link
Speaker 1: and didn't punt. You know, the Cardinals at thirty two
Speaker 1: first downs, do you know that is the second most
Speaker 1: they have ever had in the history of the organization,
Speaker 1: an organization that's only been around since eighteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: God, the Eagles suck. I said this yesterday.
Speaker 1: The city of Philadelphia and their sports fans got more
Speaker 1: defensive intensity from James Harden while he was a seventy
Speaker 1: six er than they're getting from anybody on the Eagles
Speaker 1: right now. You could bring in James Harden, put a
Speaker 1: pads and helmet on him and say James play middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: and his effort in tackling and intensity would be an
Speaker 1: increase over what's out there right now. Thirty two first
Speaker 1: downs to the Cardinals. Ugh, take number four Dolphins Bills.
Speaker 1: Is an awesome Week eighteen game. Awesome Week eighteen game
Speaker 1: at night in Miami. It's gonna be in the air tonight,
Speaker 1: the Phil Collins Miami. I don't know how Miami's gonna
Speaker 1: stop Josh Allen. And I hate to be such a
Speaker 1: homer or a honk. I'm not can't be a homer.
Speaker 1: I'm not from Buffalo about Josh Allen A bet I'm
Speaker 1: not being Just look at the stats. Look at his
Speaker 1: record against the Dolphins, look at his record against the
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel Dolphins. The recent Dolphins. He throws a ton
Speaker 1: of touchdowns, very few interceptions, and the only perfect passing
Speaker 1: game of his entire career Josh Allen was against the
Speaker 1: Dolphins this year, just a couple of months ago. It's
Speaker 1: like the best game he's ever ever played. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they're gonna do it because no Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 1: no Jalen Phillips. Those are the wranglers. Those are the
Speaker 1: guys who get Allen down. They're gonna need an Outlandis
Speaker 1: game from their offense, I think because Allen will Cook
Speaker 1: take number five. Quick time out to talk college football.
Speaker 1: I watched the Rose Bowl. Was that the worst play
Speaker 1: call ever? At the end of the game? What was
Speaker 1: Alabama doing? That sucked? I really like Tommy Reese Saban, Saban.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there and they need to score. They have
Speaker 1: a fourth and goal. They had about twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: think about it. There were timeouts and timeouts and interminable
Speaker 1: commercial breaks in that game, and then they're like here's
Speaker 1: what we should do. Let's take our quarterback, line them
Speaker 1: up in the shotgun behind the center who can't do
Speaker 1: a shotgun snap? Who has proven it to us for
Speaker 1: three hours, And let's just have a crappy snap, have
Speaker 1: him pick it up off his shoelaces and then dive
Speaker 1: headfirst into the back of that same lineman who can't
Speaker 1: do a snap. That'll be the game. What a terrible call.
Speaker 1: The Michigan d line had eaten them up all day,
Speaker 1: all nights. They didn't even sprint the guy out, they
Speaker 1: didn't get him. Just take the ball, the shotgun, snap
Speaker 1: off the grass and run and dive into the line
Speaker 1: and let's go home.
Speaker 2: God, that sucked. What a great game. What a terrible,
Speaker 2: terrible call. Take number six.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields and his future is the most interesting story
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The games are the most exciting, the
Speaker 1: games are the most topical. Justin Fields is the most interesting.
Speaker 1: Fact is the Chicago Bears locked up the number one pick.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Carolina. They have the number one pick for
Speaker 1: the second year in a row. It's done. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what happens the next week. What the hell did
Speaker 1: they do with Justin Fields? I've been asking this for
Speaker 1: two months. Do they take a quarterback and say Justin
Speaker 1: we're done with you. Do they trade it for this
Speaker 1: second year in a row and say Justin, we love you.
Speaker 1: Do they do something really nuts and take Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: as the number one overall pick in the draft. It's
Speaker 1: so fun, And you know what, I still don't think
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing with Justin Fields. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this. The Bears go to Lambeau. They go to
Speaker 1: against the Packers, the Packers who are fighting for a lot.
Speaker 1: If Justin Fields goes and plays well and wins that
Speaker 1: game and ends the Packers season, wins in Lambeau, I
Speaker 1: think you have to bring him back. If he goes
Speaker 1: and he throws two interceptions and fumbles, then they lose
Speaker 1: thirty one to sixteen. They may not bring him back.
Speaker 1: They may say it's enough we were drafting a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I really think it's like a playoff game for his career.
Speaker 1: It's that big. I don't think they've made up their
Speaker 1: mind either way. I think they're standing there and the like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna watch one more game. This organization purportedly is
Speaker 1: about beating the Packers. Let's go to lambo and see
Speaker 1: if he can do it. It's amazing. Take number seven
Speaker 1: tough to slam. The take on the Lions call into
Speaker 1: our very tidy format here at the end of the
Speaker 1: Lions Cowboys game has been talked about for days. The
Speaker 1: one thing I cannot abide is the take where they
Speaker 1: were too creative and they were too slick, and you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have gone up there with all those linemen and
Speaker 1: you confused the official just like you were trying to
Speaker 1: confuse the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Well, too bad. The officials' job is.
Speaker 1: To not be confused, don't penalize the Lions, or don't
Speaker 1: blame the Lions because they were too creative amidst the
Speaker 1: most creative era in the history of the sport, in
Speaker 1: which you're nothing if you're not creative. They nailed that thing.
Speaker 1: The referee was overwhelmed. He should have slowed down and said, well,
Speaker 1: whoa hold on a second, let's make sure of this.
Speaker 1: He assumed it got away from them. They didn't do
Speaker 1: everything perfect, the officials didn't do everything perfect, But don't
Speaker 1: blame the Lions were being too creative because they nailed
Speaker 1: that thing. Take number eight Lions Rams is the only
Speaker 1: playoff game. I really really really really want do you
Speaker 1: understand that this La Rams dumped Jared Goff after he
Speaker 1: got them to the super Bowl, after a Super Bowl run,
Speaker 1: they dumped him. They said I'm out, I need an upgrade.
Speaker 1: And then the best part about it was that he
Speaker 1: didn't even meet with Jared Goff.
Speaker 2: It was done over the phone.
Speaker 1: It was not done directly, and Jared Goff double back
Speaker 1: and said, no, Sean, we're going to I'd like to
Speaker 1: talk with you face to face. Can you imagine them
Speaker 1: going into Detroit, the Rams with Stafford his upgrade, facing Jared.
Speaker 1: What if Jared lights them up? It's so so so good.
Speaker 2: I want it.
Speaker 1: Take number nine. Lamar's gonna win the MVP. It's done,
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna do it necessarily statistics. He's gonna
Speaker 1: go the avenue of best player on the best team,
Speaker 1: which I respect. I think Christian McCaffrey has had a
Speaker 1: hell of a season and you could say he is
Speaker 1: the best player in the best team, but he's not
Speaker 1: the best team. They got hammered by Baltimore. I just
Speaker 1: think it's funny. I've got to talk to Christian a
Speaker 1: few times about this exact topic. When awards come up.
Speaker 1: No matter what the award is. He always kind of
Speaker 1: rolls his eyes and laughs because he never wins awards. Said,
Speaker 1: he's like, I never win anything. I don't win the Heisman,
Speaker 1: I didn't win Rookie of the Year. I didn't want
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year. I don't win a Comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. He lost it last year to
Speaker 1: Gino Smith. He had a thousand and a thousand season. McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: not only do he not win MVP, didn't even win
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: He won't win.
Speaker 1: Take number ten. I reached the height of laziness this
Speaker 1: past couple of days. My wife and my family are
Speaker 1: out of town. I did an Uber Eats order and
Speaker 1: I specified on the order in the little comment section,
Speaker 1: please come in the front door, Come on in. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see if I could get the delivery driver.
Speaker 1: It's come all the way in the house into my couch.
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to get off the couch.
Speaker 2: He came in. This guy's name was Brian.
Speaker 1: He drove a Subaru and he delivered and knocked on
Speaker 1: the door and he said, hello, Hello, is anybody here.
Speaker 1: He made me get off the couch, but I still tried,
Speaker 1: and I regret. Nothing that's ten minutes doesn't take ten minutes.
Speaker 1: We talked about food, college football, pro football. We talked
Speaker 1: some nineties bulls. It was really fun. Twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: is going to be a great year. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining me. Let's get out tight. Episode ten takes ten minutes.
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