Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key sports
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Speaker 1: Papas and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome everyone. This is Unleashed
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Speaker 1: love saying that another completely unpredictable, wild, weird week in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Oh my gosh, Superman returns. Cam Newton is
Speaker 1: back in Carolina and it was like he never left.
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks for the tenth straight time at lambeau Field
Speaker 1: with two future Hall of Famers on the field, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and the Packers pitched a shutout. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: didn't throw a single touchdown, which is crazy. But just watch.
Speaker 1: We're gonna forget all about this whole vaccine gate soon
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Speaker 1: to play in the Super Bowl this February. Mark my words. Honest, Papas,
Speaker 1: what do you think, Well, you know, Aaron Rodgers didn't
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Speaker 1: Now it's time for us to go off on one
Speaker 1: topic we feel passionately about this week. Let's unleach. It's
Speaker 1: time to leach Rue Olivia might beloved. Oh d you know.
Speaker 1: I love the NFL. Okay, I love football. I love
Speaker 1: having this job because I get to tell my wife
Speaker 1: I have to go to work and I watch football. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I literally will watch any single game, and this weekend
Speaker 1: prove that because we have some straight dumpster fires. What
Speaker 1: a week we had. On Sunday and Monday, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: blew out the Falcons. The Bill straight roasted the Jets seven.
Speaker 1: I fell asleep during that game. The Chiefs cooked the
Speaker 1: Raiders forty one fourteen, and the Patriots embarrassed the Browns
Speaker 1: forty five to seven. This game was so bad CBS
Speaker 1: apologized literally to everyone and went to a different game
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. The third quarter, that's plenty of
Speaker 1: time left on the ticker. There really needs to be
Speaker 1: a rule. I believe if you're up thirty eight points,
Speaker 1: that's the game. That's it. Instead of a rep flag,
Speaker 1: a coach just needs to throw a white flag because
Speaker 1: it's a wrap bubbus. It's over. Just go to another game.
Speaker 1: Some of these teams need to be regulated, just like
Speaker 1: in soccer. This is right. Really, think if you're the
Speaker 1: worst team, uh, you're coach dead lasts so in the
Speaker 1: CFL the following season and you need to work your
Speaker 1: way back up to the NFL. That's right. They should
Speaker 1: send whole teams down, just like players in baseball gets
Speaker 1: sent down to the minors. The Jets should be sent down.
Speaker 1: But what really drives you crazy is why are starters
Speaker 1: still in the game when we're in garbage time? To
Speaker 1: coaches have fantasy football teams. I don't get it, because
Speaker 1: you know, baseball has their unwritten rules and social in
Speaker 1: the NFL, because these guys are still in there playing
Speaker 1: at top speed and these are some of the top players,
Speaker 1: and you know they're playing in meaningless minutes and in
Speaker 1: a game like football that's so violent, you could get
Speaker 1: somebody hurt, and it's happened plenty of times, and that's
Speaker 1: the coach's fault. A few years ago, Gront broke his
Speaker 1: forearm late in the game of a blowout against the Colts,
Speaker 1: Belichick was running up to score on teams like it's
Speaker 1: a bonus in his contract. I don't get it. James
Speaker 1: Conner suffered a shouldery injury late in the game that
Speaker 1: was out of reach. Was when he was with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and all weekend I saw it, including Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford was still playing in the game down thirty
Speaker 1: with five minutes left. Same with Josh Allen and the
Speaker 1: Bills when they were winning. What are we doing? Get
Speaker 1: those fucking guys out of there and give them some
Speaker 1: chunky soup on the bench. Okay, I've had enough of this, dude.
Speaker 1: These coaches, they're so paranmoid about losing their jobs. They
Speaker 1: keep their stars in because of some improbable comeback that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. Put your stars on
Speaker 1: the bench and that's set. I've unleashed. Okay, honestly, that
Speaker 1: was great. I agree. It's just not safe. But I'm
Speaker 1: also gonna stick with the NFL this week. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the Zebras. The refs. They have a
Speaker 1: very tough job, right Their jobs have been made even
Speaker 1: harder trying to figure out what it catches, what is
Speaker 1: roughing the passer, what is a late hit, what is
Speaker 1: helmet to helmet? But now they have to worry about taunting.
Speaker 1: This has been a great topic all season. A lot
Speaker 1: of people have been unleashing on this on their respective channels,
Speaker 1: but it was this clip from Ryan Clark on ESPN
Speaker 1: that really made me think about it differently. Let's roll
Speaker 1: that in. I think you can't make this call subjective.
Speaker 1: If there's going to be certain rules or certain things
Speaker 1: that are officiated in this, they need to be definitive.
Speaker 1: I need to know that I can't stare at people.
Speaker 1: I need to know that I can't flex my muscles.
Speaker 1: I need to know that what I've worked my entire
Speaker 1: life to do, the thing that I've stayed up from
Speaker 1: five in the morning to midnight every single night, the
Speaker 1: thing that I've gotten therapy and needles stuck from my
Speaker 1: neck to my ankles, the reason I've been in cold
Speaker 1: tubs and hot tubs every single morning, and the reason
Speaker 1: I've ran through film eighty million times because so I
Speaker 1: can make that one play. You mean to tell me
Speaker 1: on that one play. I gotta calm all that down
Speaker 1: that went into this because somebody who can't do what
Speaker 1: I do, who ain't never done what I've done and
Speaker 1: don't know what this feeling is like, gets offended by it,
Speaker 1: and I wish I freaking would. That's right. We can't
Speaker 1: have players celebrating and hurting grown men's feelings by taunting.
Speaker 1: It's just horrible. I mean, it's it's these egos we
Speaker 1: have to think about. We saw a critical taunting call
Speaker 1: in the Steelers Brown's game that was just a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago on Cassius marsh and honestly, I'm still not
Speaker 1: sure what he did. I don't know. I've watched it
Speaker 1: back a couple of times. We've seen some taunting calls
Speaker 1: this season that weren't taunting, Like on a playground, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't call that. There are enough rules for the rest
Speaker 1: to worry about in the NFL. Tunting just shouldn't be
Speaker 1: one of them. What's next penalty flags for screaming too loud? Like, Seriously,
Speaker 1: we need to figure this out. And from the honest
Speaker 1: is unleashed, I think I figured this. If your team
Speaker 1: is up thirty on the other team, right, a clear
Speaker 1: and cut rule, you can taunt as much as you want.
Speaker 1: In fact, you deserve to be taunted at that point,
Speaker 1: what do you think, jest? Do you think this? Hell yeah,
Speaker 1: hell yeah. I mean, look, let them taunt. It's part
Speaker 1: the theatrics, so like fun for the fans to watch
Speaker 1: the celebrations dances. I mean, it's the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not kids anymore. Like if that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bad influence on kids, then you know, maybe parents need
Speaker 1: to do a better job. You know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. Let them celebrate their grown men.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's so sensitive nowadays. Well, that is top
Speaker 1: of the list of parenting advice that I need before May,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to get more from you. Janes's Pampas,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Another parent and someone who knows
Speaker 1: a lot more about the NFL than us is coming up.
Speaker 1: It is our guest, two times Super Bowl champ, Brandon Jacobs.
Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Brandon. He's a two time Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion and the New York Football Giants all time
Speaker 1: leader in career rushing touchdowns. Brandon Jacobs, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for being here, well, thanks for having me, for the
Speaker 1: honor to be here, and ready to have some fun.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, I mentioned Janice might be a
Speaker 1: little star struck to see you here. He's the biggest
Speaker 1: Giants fan, I know, the honest is the coolest guy
Speaker 1: on the planet. Then, yeah, exactly. Now we're off to
Speaker 1: a great start. I mean, you know, this is like
Speaker 1: a dream come true. You're responsible for two of the
Speaker 1: greatest nights of my life to the greatest games in
Speaker 1: football history. It's just good to see you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thank you, he man, Hey, thank you man. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you for all the support over the years, and even
Speaker 1: though when things were ugly, guys like you said in
Speaker 1: there and we gave you the gift you deserve. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: now johannest is just gonna clip that and and play
Speaker 1: it on repeat around as how Son speakers, you know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of fans and interactions with fans, I saw a
Speaker 1: tweet where you were somewhere with your kids and someone
Speaker 1: asked for a picture and you said, I'm not Brandon
Speaker 1: Jacobs today. I really liked that. Can you elaborate on
Speaker 1: priorities when you're with your family versus your love for
Speaker 1: the fans? You know, depending on the person, that situation
Speaker 1: could get kind of ugly, you know, if they don't
Speaker 1: have a clear understanding or if they don't see people
Speaker 1: like me often, so they never get that opportunity again,
Speaker 1: so they kind of take it in a bad way,
Speaker 1: you know. But I am nice to them. I even
Speaker 1: put my hand on them and tell them, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not branding today. I'm that, you know, because the
Speaker 1: thing that, like some of the things that happened, which
Speaker 1: I don't mind taking the picture, even when I'm with
Speaker 1: my family at times, I don't mind taking the picture.
Speaker 1: But when there's a bunch of people around and I
Speaker 1: noticed all these people looking at me crazy, I noticed that.
Speaker 1: So if I stopped and we were at six Flags,
Speaker 1: so every I was in Jersey, So I'm like, everybody
Speaker 1: really know who I was. So if I would have
Speaker 1: stopped taking one picture with that one person, I would
Speaker 1: have to be there all day taking pictures and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have got to enjoy my family wouldn't have got
Speaker 1: their chance to enjoy some rides and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I just told everyone no because I wasn't in
Speaker 1: that mode right then. You know, I was there to
Speaker 1: have phone with my family. Yeah, and I'm sure they
Speaker 1: got the message real quick. I mean, you know, you're you're,
Speaker 1: as they would say, not a small guy. So it's
Speaker 1: like if you told me, hey, I'm dad today, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like, you know what, I apologize, sir, Yes, sir, sir,
Speaker 1: I apologize, but you get but you get some people
Speaker 1: that's like, you know, how aggressive the New York New
Speaker 1: Jersey people are? They said aggressive people? You know that's
Speaker 1: that's fair enough to say, right and oh yeah, they go, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, some don't mind telling you like all right
Speaker 1: then blah blah blah blah blah blah. Are you stuck anyway?
Speaker 1: You know, you stuff like that, like you hear it all,
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, you know, I mean I just
Speaker 1: gotta keep moving. You know, people got in ti of
Speaker 1: the field of where they want to feel, especially when
Speaker 1: they get opportunity to see someone often and they want
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the opportunity. I get that, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm not screwing up my family time but taking
Speaker 1: pictures with two hundred people and I don't get a
Speaker 1: chance to enjoy my kids and you know, my family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure most of those feedback has been positive though, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want two super bowls against the evil Empire.
Speaker 1: So like, I'm sure you got a lot of Hey,
Speaker 1: I eat old brand, Dad. I love you. Can you
Speaker 1: kiss my wife or something? Would you baptize my child?
Speaker 1: I love you? Thank you for what you did? Come over?
Speaker 1: Can we get some pizza together? Brand? What's the craziest Hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing to my brand to come out
Speaker 1: over to the house? Food? Sit there? Waels. It wasn't
Speaker 1: have fun. It's all kinds of stuff like I like,
Speaker 1: I got it. I got invited to a wedding. I
Speaker 1: got invited to a birth. The child what wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah what they named the kid Brandon Jacob, Brandon Jacob.
Speaker 1: I forgot the last name, but the ding with a oh.
Speaker 1: The last name it ended with oh, Brandon Jacob J
Speaker 1: J A C. O. B. And the last name ended
Speaker 1: with oh. That's all I got to remember. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the birth of that child, I was gonna name my daughter.
Speaker 1: Scored the winning touchdown against Dallas Cowboys in the NFC
Speaker 1: champ I was gonna I was gonna name I was
Speaker 1: gonna name it. I was gonna name my daughter. Brandon
Speaker 1: Jacob scored the winning touchdown against Dallas. That's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna name my daughter and then g just had
Speaker 1: a better ring. Yeah, I had a better ring. My
Speaker 1: my wife wasn't too crazy about it. That's you know,
Speaker 1: and that's a really long name. Yeah, it's a really
Speaker 1: long name. So I'm kind of glad you didn't do that.
Speaker 1: He made such an impact on so many people, Jannis
Speaker 1: included for your time with the Giants, but you also
Speaker 1: made some headlines this summer when there were rumors you
Speaker 1: were thinking of making a comeback as a defensive end.
Speaker 1: Why what and how close was this to happening? Well,
Speaker 1: I kind of backed up off of it. Now, I
Speaker 1: really though, you guys really want to know what it's about.
Speaker 1: So I was we were out training, me and my kids.
Speaker 1: We're out training. It was pushing this lid doing suspeeding agility,
Speaker 1: and I kind of had a moment where I'm like,
Speaker 1: do what. I wish your guys were older, like I
Speaker 1: wish your mom was and I wish you had decided
Speaker 1: to have these guys when we were in college, right,
Speaker 1: which I tried to do that, but she she wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling it. So um, you know, was like why, I said, Well,
Speaker 1: because maybe you guys would have got a chance to
Speaker 1: see me play and how heavy you guys are on
Speaker 1: the sports now like you, I think you've really really
Speaker 1: been impressed what you saw. You watched me play and
Speaker 1: my team, and my youngest son says, go back and play.
Speaker 1: Why go back and play. I think you can do it.
Speaker 1: I said, If I do it, I've to go back
Speaker 1: at the defensive event, a lot of defensive event because
Speaker 1: it's just doing one thing. First, first and second down.
Speaker 1: You're squeezing it down when the tackle leaves to stop
Speaker 1: in the round. Third time, you're getting out of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's simple. I think I'm fastering most of them now,
Speaker 1: stronger and bigger than most of them. Now. I think
Speaker 1: I can do that. And that's how we got to
Speaker 1: where we were. You know, I got made some headlines,
Speaker 1: called my agents. I talked to my agent, you know,
Speaker 1: he reached out to some teams you know, they had
Speaker 1: they Dad asked them playing with it in the back
Speaker 1: of their mind, like the Lions, and uh, the Chargers
Speaker 1: play it with a little bit, and uh it just
Speaker 1: went away and I stopped focusing on and started coaching
Speaker 1: high school football, and that really never looked back. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's an incredible story. It's it, piaqued my interos. Some
Speaker 1: something you said that you wish your kids remembered you playing.
Speaker 1: My husband plays basketball. We're pregnant with our first right now,
Speaker 1: and we kind of sped it up a couple of
Speaker 1: years because of that reason. I said, I want our
Speaker 1: kids to go see dad play a game that's so
Speaker 1: cool to me and so unique. Do your kids have
Speaker 1: any recollection? Like, how's your oldest? My oldest is four team,
Speaker 1: So he was he was great. It was seven years
Speaker 1: old and we moved here. And thank God for YouTube,
Speaker 1: Like they go on there and then YouTube and they
Speaker 1: look at it, you know. But what I want them
Speaker 1: to see they see highlights. I want them to see
Speaker 1: a whole game and how I respond throughout the course
Speaker 1: of a four quarter game with positives and negatives, you know,
Speaker 1: when dealing with adversity, when you think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: cut type stuff, or when you get demoded, or when
Speaker 1: they want to give you a pay cut, like how
Speaker 1: do you deal with it? I want them to see
Speaker 1: that part, but not so much to the football, because
Speaker 1: like I said, it's YouTube. They can see that. I'm
Speaker 1: all out YouTube. So I just wanted them to be
Speaker 1: able to see the stuff I go through. And I
Speaker 1: think if they would have seen that, they would have had,
Speaker 1: like they want to play football in the NFL, right,
Speaker 1: So I wanted them to have the whole game, at
Speaker 1: the whole picture of what comes with that, so you
Speaker 1: could really make a decision off what you've seen and
Speaker 1: what you've learned from watching me go through it type
Speaker 1: of thing. So, I mean, there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: So that's the type of stuff I wish they would
Speaker 1: have been around for. Well, the good news is is
Speaker 1: your stories aren't going anywhere. You can tell them your
Speaker 1: stories forever and so many lessons learned. But that that's
Speaker 1: really well said. That's beautiful. Yea. You've made a few
Speaker 1: tweets I've seen recently where you talked about that defenses
Speaker 1: don't win championships. Can you elaborate on because that's the
Speaker 1: that's the adage that we always hear in sports, is
Speaker 1: that defense wins championships. What do you mean by that? Well,
Speaker 1: when I asked, I said, the defense still win championships,
Speaker 1: meaning these high scoring games you seem like who has
Speaker 1: the last, who has the ball? Asked? These high school
Speaker 1: games you've got you got a team and scored sixty
Speaker 1: two and another team scored fifty eight points. In the
Speaker 1: football game, that's the last person has the ball? Did
Speaker 1: anybody get stopped the whole game? Is the defense even
Speaker 1: relevant in today's football? Is it? I mean, they line
Speaker 1: up in the spread, they're throwing the ball all around
Speaker 1: the field, They're doing all of these different stuff they're adding,
Speaker 1: they're putting all these points on the board really fast,
Speaker 1: like really fast faced offense, and both teams run the
Speaker 1: same thing, and they scoring all these points. Like the
Speaker 1: defense really matters to this football doesn't really? There are
Speaker 1: who when, who get the coin toss, and who get
Speaker 1: the ball a half time, the differend on the game.
Speaker 1: Who turns the ball over here? And then who drops,
Speaker 1: who tips the ball into an accept and who fumbles it?
Speaker 1: Stuff like that changed the game. I wouldn't necessarily say
Speaker 1: that defense wins championships anymore. Wow, Has there anything changed
Speaker 1: in the game that you can recognize that made that so? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, for a team that can put the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground. Let's say, for instance, the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: when they had Derrick Henry. No longer have Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: but when they had Derrick Henry. They wasn't putting up
Speaker 1: these numbers. That was these crazy numbers, like, you know,
Speaker 1: forty five fifty points. They wasn't putting those numbers up.
Speaker 1: They was going, you know, already one point and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. That's normal. That's the only normal football team
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. You asked me to the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. That's why I like watching them play. But
Speaker 1: when people started running the spread and running all this
Speaker 1: West Coast motion and jets and screens to the outside
Speaker 1: and dual threat quarterback, that kind of made everybody kind
Speaker 1: of get away from the old fashioned running game. Right.
Speaker 1: So the way those offenses came about is having the
Speaker 1: bigger guys on the field on defense have to cover
Speaker 1: a small wide receiver in the slot. So now, you know,
Speaker 1: so what do they do. They go out and they
Speaker 1: drive the outside linebacker that six ft three, six ft
Speaker 1: fourteen pounds. There's nowhere in hell when I was playing
Speaker 1: the guy two and in the fifteen pounds is gonna
Speaker 1: stop me. It's just never gonna happen. But those guys
Speaker 1: are effective now because they're not made to tackle. They're
Speaker 1: not made to come up and hit. The league blockers
Speaker 1: in the hole and stop the run. They're made to
Speaker 1: go out blank out to the slot and cover the
Speaker 1: stop wide receiver and have a part of the coverage
Speaker 1: because they can run. They got sized, they got long arms.
Speaker 1: So that's how they drafted guys do linebackers today? You know,
Speaker 1: they drafted fast, smaller defensive endage. That's like six two
Speaker 1: six three, two hundred and forty pounds. That's using speed
Speaker 1: to get up till to get to the quarterback. Those
Speaker 1: guys aren't stopping the run. Those guys aren't going to
Speaker 1: stop a pulling guard from kicking them out. They're not
Speaker 1: going to stop that. So Tennessee Titans have stuck to
Speaker 1: that game plan from the nineties in the early two thousand's,
Speaker 1: which is why they had been successful in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. But it makes teams draft different. It
Speaker 1: makes teams draft different by the way they're playing off
Speaker 1: and especially for defense. Wow, Okay, you mentioned you're a
Speaker 1: high school coach. Now are you the head coach or oc?
Speaker 1: I am the assistant head coach, and our coached the
Speaker 1: running backs at St. Francis High School, a really small
Speaker 1: private school in Alpharetta, Georgia. We just lost the first
Speaker 1: round of playoffs on Saturday. That was our first time
Speaker 1: having hosted the home playoff game in school history. So
Speaker 1: we're going up for men. I think we're gonna win
Speaker 1: the state championship the next three years. Well, I like
Speaker 1: that that you're giving me Friday night light vibes. I'm
Speaker 1: loving it. I would think coming from your position that
Speaker 1: dealing with high school talent and no disrespect to your guys,
Speaker 1: that would be really infuriating when you're playing with the
Speaker 1: best of the best at every position. Yeah, but you know, like,
Speaker 1: I think in our region we kind of have that.
Speaker 1: I think I think in our region, the region that
Speaker 1: we're in, I think we got the best quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think about the best running backs. I think we've got
Speaker 1: the best officer line. I think about the best players period.
Speaker 1: Here's the issue. They're fourteen years old. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: to go out and compete against eighteen year old So
Speaker 1: we had a we had a rough season. We went
Speaker 1: five and five. We lost the first five games, that
Speaker 1: came back and ripped off five straight in our region
Speaker 1: and when got a second that we took second in
Speaker 1: the region and ended up getting home playoff game. And
Speaker 1: I think because we had eighteen freshman seventeen eighteen freshman
Speaker 1: team or twelve, and there were those guys were starting
Speaker 1: out of party players. We're only losing. We have four scenes.
Speaker 1: Two of them really played, so we wanted losing two
Speaker 1: guys coming in the next year. And we've got the
Speaker 1: same young team that we're bringing back. We got two
Speaker 1: top office alignment and that that got office from all
Speaker 1: kinds of people. And we're just gonna keep building and
Speaker 1: like January come, we're gonna hit the weight room. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get stronger, we're gonna get faster, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: after it. We're gonna I want to see how I
Speaker 1: want to see how bad they wanted. Boy, you already
Speaker 1: sound like a coach. He's something you've been doing this
Speaker 1: for years. Well, this is my fourth year coach in
Speaker 1: high school football. This from my fourth year. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I got a great head coach, coach
Speaker 1: Frank bar And um, great guy, older guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he's an old fashioned guy. So I'm the bridge between
Speaker 1: him and the kids. I'm the bridge he thinks you
Speaker 1: gotta do this and to do it on our coach. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, these guys are different, it's a different error.
Speaker 1: Let's go at it like this. Yeah, you're important, and
Speaker 1: we worked together on it. You know, I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: more coach Coughlin, right, you know, so I'm the bridge,
Speaker 1: so I kind of tell them what coach expected. You remember,
Speaker 1: head coach, we worked pretty good together. Speaking of Coughlin,
Speaker 1: as everyone knows, you were part of the two of
Speaker 1: the most exciting Super Bowls ever came out on top.
Speaker 1: He seemed to have Belichick's number. What was it that
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin prepared? Like, what was it in the preparation?
Speaker 1: How was he able to take down that goliath two years? Well?
Speaker 1: Discipline and toughness, right, and what we knew the Patriots
Speaker 1: had the discipline, they had that what they did not
Speaker 1: have the toughness. Wow, And Coach Coughlin would always say,
Speaker 1: look at the guys that throw the ball all around.
Speaker 1: Nobody hit him in their mouth. Why receiving the catching
Speaker 1: the ball fall into the ground and they're touching them.
Speaker 1: How about somebody spear his ass when he goes down. Now,
Speaker 1: how about somebody to do that. How about somebody laid
Speaker 1: some helmet and show the pads on somebody out there. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's get Tom Brady thinking if he really want to
Speaker 1: drop back and throw the football, hit him at all
Speaker 1: calls any opportunity to get to hit him, hit him,
Speaker 1: hit him, cut the office a linement down like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, create a whole like toughness. So that's what
Speaker 1: we did. We went out there and we hit him.
Speaker 1: We hit him and hit him, We bumped into him
Speaker 1: after the place, we pushed him. We talked on as
Speaker 1: soon we did all of that. So I think it
Speaker 1: was more like more like putting our toughness down and
Speaker 1: more intimidating because there was the head hunter of the NFL, like,
Speaker 1: who's gonna talk and treat the Patriots this way? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I dare they had to do that to
Speaker 1: the Patriots, right, So we didn't care about that. We
Speaker 1: didn't care about that. We we just know we had
Speaker 1: to go out and be tougher than him. We had
Speaker 1: to get about the ground every time. Did you ever
Speaker 1: try to kick a field goal between Michael Strahan's Keith? No? Never.
Speaker 1: I never tried to do that. But the money that
Speaker 1: gap has made that man is crazy. It's crazy like
Speaker 1: that that like that dude, it was born with a
Speaker 1: with a with a bank yeah, and not. It's just
Speaker 1: the gap when Straighthand is one of the Straighthand is
Speaker 1: the astronomical man, great leader. He's busted as to be
Speaker 1: where he is. He's gotten everything he deserved going. We
Speaker 1: went through a lot of stuff early on, and he's
Speaker 1: just bounced back from it. Man. I mean, straight hand
Speaker 1: is the epitome of that dude. You know he is
Speaker 1: that dude. Yeah, Yeah, I'm really fascinated by Michael Strahan.
Speaker 1: I listened to him anytime he's on another podcast because
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when the man sleeps with his g
Speaker 1: m A obligations, hopping back forth, coast to coast, his
Speaker 1: you know, suit line, all of this, And I mean,
Speaker 1: what was he like back in the day as a player,
Speaker 1: Like do you think as an entrepreneur and media personality,
Speaker 1: it's even dialed up sharper than ever. Was he always
Speaker 1: like this? He was always like this? But I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I can't I'm not I can't tell you whether he
Speaker 1: was working on this stuff when he was playing or not.
Speaker 1: Because he was dedicated to us. Yeah, he gave us
Speaker 1: him for three years. He gave us him every week,
Speaker 1: gave us him, gave us everything he had so I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if he had anything extra going on at
Speaker 1: that time, maybe has some stuff set up to jump
Speaker 1: right into. But he gave he gave us him. He
Speaker 1: gave us the guy we needed. So, like I said,
Speaker 1: and if he was doing all of that while giving
Speaker 1: us the guy we needed, the straight hand that we
Speaker 1: need it. And he's always have been busy. No, I
Speaker 1: think the least busy he ever was was when he
Speaker 1: was playing football. The man is crazy busy now right right,
Speaker 1: So he's earned everything he's getting. You mean, a guy
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of who I want to be. Like.
Speaker 1: You know, I started doing this stuff with ESPN this year,
Speaker 1: calling college games and stuff like that. I was hoping
Speaker 1: I get another opportunity next year. I want to start
Speaker 1: my own podcast. I got all this equipment right here
Speaker 1: in my basement right now, and I just never happened
Speaker 1: to come down and set up anything, light, uh, speakers, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like everything to set up for my podcast.
Speaker 1: I just just procrastinating. I guess yeah, you'll you'll get
Speaker 1: around to it. You're a busy man too. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about calling college football games. I've been
Speaker 1: at ESPN last five years doing the same as a
Speaker 1: sideline reporter. And this year I'm only doing that CC
Speaker 1: Championship and I'm really really looking forward to that. I
Speaker 1: went to Georgia. But what people don't realize about a
Speaker 1: game broadcast, and I'm curious if you didn't know this
Speaker 1: until you got into it, is all the people it
Speaker 1: takes to put this thing on air and all of
Speaker 1: the prep it takes all week to put this thing
Speaker 1: on air. What were your biggest surprises when you finally
Speaker 1: got in the booth and did it, realizing how easy
Speaker 1: it really was because they've given you all of this information, right,
Speaker 1: And when I was watching looking for don't tell I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get that, I'm gonna get that promise, give it
Speaker 1: these cards and stuff with every player and bold on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's for the season. You know what they did last
Speaker 1: week and it's right here on the table in front
Speaker 1: of you and not me, and the broadcasting both I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing on TV until then from the beginning to
Speaker 1: half time, right and maybe the end of the game,
Speaker 1: so I can sit there and read and rip this
Speaker 1: stuff off. Rip this stuff off. Now. The difficult part
Speaker 1: that I did not know happen. The men in the truck.
Speaker 1: The men in the truck. Now, for us, when I
Speaker 1: did the two games that Texas Tech, we didn't have
Speaker 1: the man in the truck. Our broadcasting was off site.
Speaker 1: There was in so that created a little bit of
Speaker 1: a delay from the TV to us talking. So we
Speaker 1: have to wait. And all these different buttons that you
Speaker 1: have to press for replay, play bad your your cough button,
Speaker 1: you press your cough like, all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 1: I had like ten different people in my head says
Speaker 1: telling me, Okay, Brandon, you talk about this when we
Speaker 1: come off of commercial. Are talk about that play when
Speaker 1: we come out of commercial. Go back and look at
Speaker 1: this and which angle you wanted? Well, I wanted at
Speaker 1: the end zone, shot behind the defense. It was a
Speaker 1: passing touchdown, so I need to see and be able
Speaker 1: to analyze how that touchdown came in the passing game
Speaker 1: to break down in the coverage, so I needed behind
Speaker 1: the defense. So they're giving you all of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and you gotta ask for this stuff while the game's
Speaker 1: going on, and you gotta press all these different buttons
Speaker 1: and all these different people talking to you. It's crazy
Speaker 1: that the amount of people that it takes to be
Speaker 1: able to do that in all of these games on TV,
Speaker 1: they got to have a bunch of people working because
Speaker 1: I mean I probably had we probably had about ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen different guys working out. Again, that's just one game.
Speaker 1: It's one game. So that's a small crew. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's a small crew. So think about all the other games,
Speaker 1: all the other games that they may have that may
Speaker 1: be dirty guys thirty five guys working in. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work, you know. But what I meant
Speaker 1: easy is it's like to give you the information to
Speaker 1: talk about. So that's so that's just about it. But
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, and I wish, um, you know,
Speaker 1: coming around the next year I get another opportunity. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I never got those cards with all the stats
Speaker 1: on it. I always had to do my own. You're
Speaker 1: a sideline reporter, though, Like you're a sideline person, Like
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on TV and stuff like that. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get information from you know, just doing like before
Speaker 1: the game and half time and put them on life
Speaker 1: like that. Your job is kind of hard. It's hard.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can do your Some would say
Speaker 1: it's really hard. I think you're honestly just letting this
Speaker 1: episode is. Yeah, I think I'm gonna be I think
Speaker 1: I want to be a sports reporter after this. Anyone
Speaker 1: can do it. I'm gonna stop doing comedy. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be a sports reporter. Make sure you go in to booth.
Speaker 1: That not easy. Yeah, let me ask you before we
Speaker 1: get to uh giants questions, because we got a few
Speaker 1: of those. But you mentioned Derrick Henry. You guys were
Speaker 1: too big, fast, bruising backs. If it was between you
Speaker 1: and him and you were in a sumo wrestling contest,
Speaker 1: who's pushing who out more, who's winning? Who's winning between
Speaker 1: you and Derrick Henry, Well, I gotta be honest, I
Speaker 1: think he would win. Here's why I think he's tougher
Speaker 1: than me, because I don't think that's the case. But
Speaker 1: he trains like no one I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: I've never trained like that. I've never did some of
Speaker 1: the things he does, the type of training he does.
Speaker 1: You know what, you know what My training was making
Speaker 1: sure I had goodwin, make sure I was strong. I
Speaker 1: didn't run up hills with resistance. I didn't have a weight,
Speaker 1: best song, jumping over stuff. I wasn't doing the type
Speaker 1: of stuff that he's doing to get ready for a season.
Speaker 1: I was just making sure I was in shape and
Speaker 1: my weight was down and make sure I was strong.
Speaker 1: So I gotta give him the edge when it comes
Speaker 1: to that. Now, boxing wise, wouldn't he be close? You
Speaker 1: tag him up, you touch him, you stretch. He probably stronger,
Speaker 1: you know, have leverage because I'm installer than him. So
Speaker 1: I'll give him to some more wrestling match. I'll give
Speaker 1: him that one. I'll give him that one. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's talk Giants and those Super Bowls because just for me,
Speaker 1: it really is nice to think about. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: They were the two biggest upsets maybe you know of
Speaker 1: all time. What were some of your favorite moments in
Speaker 1: those games leading up to the game. When like right
Speaker 1: away in the first Super Bowl when we beat the
Speaker 1: Packers in the NFC Championship game, the fun stuff started
Speaker 1: to come started getting all this information about Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, having a go and stay in Arizona full
Speaker 1: week and use Arizona Cardinals facilities, and you know, so
Speaker 1: on and so forth. That that stuff was really fun.
Speaker 1: But coming leading up to the week and you know,
Speaker 1: going through practicing and everybody's excited and you know, coming
Speaker 1: out to the game, these interviews these guys started doing,
Speaker 1: and you know Tom Brady talking and Randy Moss talking
Speaker 1: and Practical Birds doing his thing. It made it so
Speaker 1: much fun for me because I was that guy who
Speaker 1: was talking. So okay, I've got other people talking. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's about to be fun, you know. But the Super
Speaker 1: Bowls were no question, man, that's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: times in my life. You know, going through the week,
Speaker 1: just spending time with your teammates off site from your
Speaker 1: regular facility, going around Phoenix, you know, has just haden fun. Man.
Speaker 1: It just you know, knowing you you you got this
Speaker 1: mission that you have to complete, you know, and it
Speaker 1: was it was awesome, man, it was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a time in my life that probably a lot
Speaker 1: of people won't ever be able to experience. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: I know we talked about straight hand. I also wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about another teammate, Eli Manning. I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of your high school players ask you about
Speaker 1: Eli or the Mannings in general. What was Eli like
Speaker 1: in the huddle and what was he like super Bowl Week?
Speaker 1: Eli in the huddle, he's you know, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that comes in hey man, okay, let's go no mistakes.
Speaker 1: There's minimized the mistakes and tunnel overs. Let's just do
Speaker 1: what we need to do. Everybody to do their job,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna win the game. Right. If everybody to
Speaker 1: do what they're supposed to do on every play, we
Speaker 1: don't win the game. Right, That's the way it goes.
Speaker 1: Eli was a guy was kind of called calm, low
Speaker 1: key demeanor. He wasn't that vocal leader unless he was pissed,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's somebody just keep doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Like he got on me one time I missed a
Speaker 1: blitz and practice and I'm like, all right, I got
Speaker 1: your a goot your goot, you bro. It kind of
Speaker 1: discussed coverage a little bit on that Sunday I missed
Speaker 1: the same blitz. Man. He went on like he was
Speaker 1: like he didn't do mean like he didn't to me,
Speaker 1: my person, you know, my character at all, but he
Speaker 1: just made sure I knew that he was upset with me.
Speaker 1: And Eli, like I said, he's a quiet leader. He's
Speaker 1: a quiet leader. He don't say much. He gave that
Speaker 1: to me. I was the vocal leader. I was emotional
Speaker 1: leader of the team because that's just what, you know,
Speaker 1: just what it was like after Straighthand left. He didn't
Speaker 1: have that vocal guy and I kind of took that over.
Speaker 1: So but Elies, Uh, this calm guy. You want to
Speaker 1: think straight? You know, he ain't got time for the
Speaker 1: rale row. I ain't got time for none of that.
Speaker 1: You guys go over there and do the rod. I
Speaker 1: go get this clipboard and see what we got next.
Speaker 1: You know, Yes, he's an awesome guy like me when
Speaker 1: my personality, I don't think I could have played with
Speaker 1: any other quarterback other than Eli. I couldn't play with
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, right. I couldn't play with a guy like that, right,
Speaker 1: because I'm seeing him grab his teammates us even push
Speaker 1: your teammates to underste him, do all of that. I'm
Speaker 1: not cough of that. So he lies demeanor was perfect
Speaker 1: for me to have as a teammates. And why wow,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't pick no other person to play to be
Speaker 1: my quarterback other than him. What do you think of
Speaker 1: the Manning cast? And is the curse reel? Because every
Speaker 1: player that goes on their team loses the next week.
Speaker 1: They're all the new Madden, they say, they're all the
Speaker 1: new Madden cover. But I think that show is hilarious.
Speaker 1: People keep telling me that I need to try to
Speaker 1: get on that show. Yeah, I'm like, well, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be somebody that they want on the show. They gotta
Speaker 1: you know, I can't just say, hey, let me know,
Speaker 1: let me get on, like people think that I could
Speaker 1: just make these calls and just make stuff happen. In case,
Speaker 1: I think the show is hilarious and I think they're
Speaker 1: doing an awesome job, and I think they definitely have
Speaker 1: some longevity with that show for years to come. I
Speaker 1: think they'll be out there and they'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of views. I love watching them Giants coming up at
Speaker 1: your old nemesis, the box they're about to play. Do
Speaker 1: the Giants have a chance well this coming week. Well,
Speaker 1: from the looks of things right now, I think Temple
Speaker 1: drop their last two and I'm not sure if the
Speaker 1: Giants have won their last two, So I'm not quite
Speaker 1: sure if Tamplin is going to be in the mind
Speaker 1: frame of an easy game or not because of the
Speaker 1: Giants record and how they started this season. But I
Speaker 1: do definitely think if we can move the ball offensively
Speaker 1: on the ground, I think we've got a chance to
Speaker 1: win outside because I don't think I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I mean there's all I receiver
Speaker 1: still hurt. I don't know if Sterling is. But I
Speaker 1: saw running back Quan's practicing this week. And the Giants
Speaker 1: are fresh off of bye and they beat the Raiders
Speaker 1: the week before, so a little momentum in you, a
Speaker 1: little momentum. They went down to the wall. They want
Speaker 1: two in or own anything. Went down to the wire
Speaker 1: with Kansas City, Yeah they did. Which Who's a really
Speaker 1: good football team and I'm not sure what's wrong with
Speaker 1: their team right now this point, but really good talented
Speaker 1: football team who played in the Super Bowl the last
Speaker 1: two years. I think the Giants. I think they played
Speaker 1: with them pretty well. I think they could be Tampa
Speaker 1: and they can get Brady on the ground, right, I
Speaker 1: think they can get Tom Brady on the ground. I
Speaker 1: think we'll be okay. He's been throwing a ton of
Speaker 1: picks lately. They look kind of vulnerable. I gotta say
Speaker 1: that would be quite the upset if the Giants could
Speaker 1: pull that one up. Speaking of the Giants, we have
Speaker 1: a little game that we want to play with you.
Speaker 1: Are you game to play our game. Game to play
Speaker 1: your game. Okay, cool, it's a it's a quick game.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar at all with the late eighties early
Speaker 1: nineties Brooklyn alt rock band called They Might Be Giants? No,
Speaker 1: we can't play that game. I'm not familiar with I've
Speaker 1: never heard of him. I was born in and never liking. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not important. We don't need to know who they
Speaker 1: are because in this game, since you spent a majority
Speaker 1: of your career with the New York Giants, we are
Speaker 1: going to test your knowledge of their players. So we're
Speaker 1: going to give you a name. You'll have to tell
Speaker 1: us if they were a Giant or not. So the
Speaker 1: game is called they Might be Giants. Okay, let's go. Look,
Speaker 1: let's start with an easy one. Hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner. It was a Giant, absolutely, two one, two
Speaker 1: thousand and two. No, it was just one season two
Speaker 1: right before Alien Manning came in. Okay, you got it
Speaker 1: all right. He lost the heavyweight championship to a guy
Speaker 1: named Hulk Hogan and his first name was Andre. He's
Speaker 1: a giant, but he was in a New York Giant,
Speaker 1: right he had giantis um. That's okay, Okay, what's about
Speaker 1: cornerback Antonio Cromarty was in a giant? Very good or
Speaker 1: two for my take. Antonio played for the Chargers, Jets, Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and Colts. Okay, how about this one Hall of Fame kicker,
Speaker 1: and I'll try to say this Swedish Martin Anderson. No,
Speaker 1: he did play with the Giants. But I remember Martin
Speaker 1: and when he was with the Saints. Yeah, one season
Speaker 1: two thousand one he was a giant. Who dog one?
Speaker 1: He was a giant? Yeah, okay, I remember from the point.
Speaker 1: But you know what I get it though, kickers are
Speaker 1: easy to forget. Oh man, I wouldn't I love my guy.
Speaker 1: I can tell you all those guys I played with.
Speaker 1: I play with Launge times and I played with j Feely,
Speaker 1: both two great guys. Hmm I like that. Okay, this
Speaker 1: one's kind of a trick question. Hall of Fame cornerback
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders. No giant, well kind of. He never played
Speaker 1: for the New York Giants. He played for the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants. Oh so you know if those kind of
Speaker 1: twists in this game is okay? Okay, Josh, you never
Speaker 1: see the New York Giants, Okay, all right, let's go
Speaker 1: see if you're paying attention. Okay, okay, how about this
Speaker 1: one running back and Madden twelve cover athlete Peyton Hills
Speaker 1: beat hillis they played with the Giants. I played with them?
Speaker 1: There is, yeah, my last season okay. Linebacker James Harrison, no,
Speaker 1: very good by Steelers, Bengals. Patriot's very good. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. And with the Bengals that might
Speaker 1: have been one season alright final there they might be Giants.
Speaker 1: This is another trick question here, so I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: giving I'm giving you a little help there. This is
Speaker 1: buster Posey Buster Posy Buster Posy posy buster Buster pose
Speaker 1: trick question. Then you got me with that one. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. Yeah, I guess we're just testing your
Speaker 1: baseball knowledge because he was a recently retired catcher. Uh
Speaker 1: he was on the San Francisco John Yeah that now,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. When you see a trick question,
Speaker 1: I know, but I just, like I said, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, because I don't know a lot
Speaker 1: about baseball. Yeah, who needs to? I didn't know to
Speaker 1: make all of this money. Yeah, yes, I was about
Speaker 1: to say the two things I learned about you is
Speaker 1: you don't like rock music and you do not know
Speaker 1: or like baseball. I've been Atlanta Braves fans since the
Speaker 1: nineties every tense I can remember anything about baseball, and
Speaker 1: I've been liking the praise ever since. And we are
Speaker 1: world champions obviously. Yes, so that's the only team I
Speaker 1: really pay attention to. Well, I would say you do
Speaker 1: know your giants, Brandon. You played really well in that games.
Speaker 1: So thanks so much for playing along with us. Everyone.
Speaker 1: You can follow Brandon Jacob's on Twitter at Brandon Jacob's seven. Brandon,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. This is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Hey, thanks for having me. It was fun. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Time to get to this weekend's action. Let's bring in
Speaker 1: bet MGM, Betty Expert, Peter Andrew, Peter, Peter, Peter Peter.
Speaker 1: We have got to get to this last weekend of games.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, was it crazy. I think the craziest
Speaker 1: games for me were Monday Night Football, forty Niners whooping
Speaker 1: the Rams, Cowboys blowing out the Falcons for three Chiefs
Speaker 1: cooking the eight or Who's Bills and the Jets with
Speaker 1: that one. I guess we could have seen coming but
Speaker 1: what did you see in last weekend's games. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we took a little bit of a beating for most
Speaker 1: of the weekend. So everything went the better's way, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Last night saved us a little bit.
Speaker 1: Pretty impressive by my Niners. Just let you know Aaron
Speaker 1: donald Owen five since he made that comment asking to
Speaker 1: Samuel was so uh, just saying, just saying maybe maybe
Speaker 1: time to start recognizing. But yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a crazy week. I think you looked at the green
Speaker 1: Bay game. Green Bay looked fairly impressive. Obviously, Chiefs came
Speaker 1: into Las Vegas and blue the Raiders out of the water,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys game, the Bills game, there was there're some
Speaker 1: interesting scores last week. So it was exciting. And again
Speaker 1: we had a couple of good weeks on our hand.
Speaker 1: It's nice to see the customers get one back on us.
Speaker 1: So it was a fun week. Do you think the
Speaker 1: forty Niners are gonna be calling O d B and
Speaker 1: just thanking him for going to Los Angeles? Is there?
Speaker 1: Is he the Carmelo Anthony of football? One thousand percent? Yes,
Speaker 1: once I saw that they signed him, and then obviously
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate Robert Woods Paring, he's a c L. But
Speaker 1: once I saw them get Ill Dell back them, I
Speaker 1: knew we had that game under under control. Niners now
Speaker 1: a game out of a playoff spot, which is really
Speaker 1: intriguing considering how bad they've played. And they go into
Speaker 1: Jacksonville next week, which is obviously a winnable games. So
Speaker 1: they're back. So I'm excited again. And wait, Jannice, you're
Speaker 1: gonna love this. You know why the Chiefs won? Did
Speaker 1: Jackson Mahomes he was he wasn't there, he was in Scottsdale.
Speaker 1: And also Patrick's fiance. See, this is what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: This is all the juice. Patrick's fiance, Brittany took down
Speaker 1: every picture on her Instagram with Jackson in it, So
Speaker 1: something's going on. They probably listened to Unleashed and they
Speaker 1: figured that they need to make a change. But that's
Speaker 1: why the Chiefs are back, baby. Yeah? Is that why
Speaker 1: the Panthers smoked the Cardinals because Jackson Mahomes was in Arizony? Yes? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. Yeah, we can probably do it.
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation to whoever is connected
Speaker 1: to Jackson Mahomes or Odell Beckham Jr. He's just gonna
Speaker 1: start losing. I wouldn't mind if this podcast just became
Speaker 1: at Jackson Mahomes Roads too on. All all in good fun,
Speaker 1: like never want anything actually to happen in the family,
Speaker 1: But man, is he annoying? That's all it is? Okay, Pete,
Speaker 1: Let's get to this weekend's games. Have you picked your three?
Speaker 1: We have no idea, punishment picks, no idea. I have
Speaker 1: three good ones here and I think it's a really display.
Speaker 1: It's some boy at the game. But first one I
Speaker 1: have on the list Cold plus Steven on the road
Speaker 1: versus the Bills. So at at Buffalo. Jonathan Taylor looks
Speaker 1: like a new man these last couple of weeks really
Speaker 1: really impressive. But you got to see the Bills, albeit
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Stefon Diggs looks like he's coming out
Speaker 1: of the shell a bit um. He had a hundred
Speaker 1: sixty five in a touchdown. So it's an interesting matchup
Speaker 1: and I think two of the better teams in the
Speaker 1: a f C. What do you guys like there? M
Speaker 1: I like the Bills why because they looked so good
Speaker 1: they you know, they took their loss. They bounced back.
Speaker 1: You know, the momentum. They just looked too good against
Speaker 1: the Jets. I mean, granted they would play in the
Speaker 1: Jets and like we said, maybe the Jets shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in the NFL anymore, but um they I just they
Speaker 1: just look good. I'm going with the Bills, baby, I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Colts, um Merril Hodge. He even said
Speaker 1: they were one of the most impressive teams that aren't
Speaker 1: getting a lot of attention. The Colts are, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned Jonathan Taylor, but they've got some weapons and we've
Speaker 1: seen every week they can pull off upsets, they can
Speaker 1: put up points. I like the Colts because you never
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get with them. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: it all comes down to Carson Wentz. If he makes
Speaker 1: that terrible interception, they go as far as he does.
Speaker 1: But great defense, obviously, great great running attacks. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: second matchup we just mentioned cam Newton Washington football team
Speaker 1: plus three and a half at Carolina Can three debut
Speaker 1: back home, three and a half point favorites. What do
Speaker 1: you like there? Do you want to go beauty beauty
Speaker 1: before before, greekness, beauty before what I'm not entirely sure
Speaker 1: on this one. The line's three and a half favor
Speaker 1: in Carolina. This is tough. I love Cam Newton. I
Speaker 1: loved watching him last week. Superman's back. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know any time as a quarterback switch they always
Speaker 1: are successful because the team didn't scout for him, did
Speaker 1: a plan with him. He signed with Carolina kind of
Speaker 1: later in the week, So I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: Washington will be ready for Cam Newton. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: going to take the underdog Washington football team. Okay, damn,
Speaker 1: let's go with You know, this one's a three and
Speaker 1: a half. You know, this one's a toss up for me.
Speaker 1: So I'll just disagree with Olivia and I'll go with
Speaker 1: the Panthers. I loved the way Washington look, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go with the return of Cam. He's not ready yet,
Speaker 1: but he'll come in and run. He'll, he'll, he'll, He'll
Speaker 1: be Cam. Yeah. I think it would have been interesting
Speaker 1: Chase Young Obviously, he's an ending injury. It would have
Speaker 1: been interesting to see him against Cam this week. Won't
Speaker 1: get that, obviously, but I think that'll be a really
Speaker 1: intriguing game. Last one as usual, close to home, for
Speaker 1: for Olivia Cowboys. I think was this game of the
Speaker 1: week Cowboys plus two and a half at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: What do you guys like there? I think I know
Speaker 1: what one person likes. This should be the Sunday night game.
Speaker 1: This is not This is a man Jannest you go
Speaker 1: first Cowboys that Chiefs? Oh Man. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a giant fan. I can't. I can't pick
Speaker 1: the Cowboy. I just can't do the Cowboys. I can't
Speaker 1: do it. I you know what I'm going with. We've
Speaker 1: been making a lot of fun about Jackson Mahomes, but
Speaker 1: you know what, the Chiefs actually look like. They've pulled
Speaker 1: it together. They are starting to play like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: of old. I would normally ask where some homes is
Speaker 1: gonna be before I make this pick, to find out
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be in town. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs. That's where I really need to get
Speaker 1: my journalist had on is I need to do some
Speaker 1: investigative reporting to see if you've landed back at m
Speaker 1: c I Airport yet and see I am going to
Speaker 1: take the Chiefs. I do think they look so impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean Dallas looked impressive last week too. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is tough, but I think the Chiefs got it together.
Speaker 1: I feel like they are a winning team. And it's
Speaker 1: been such an operation. There's been drama, there's been confusion.
Speaker 1: I think they're back now and I like it. Hey, Peter, Also,
Speaker 1: there's something I have to tell you, because I was
Speaker 1: texting you this weekend about my amazing bet that I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna like put my house on this one,
Speaker 1: and it didn't hit. Listen to this you honest at
Speaker 1: twelve to one odds plus twelve hundred. I was driving
Speaker 1: through Iowa as Sam when I were driving from Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and Kansas City, and I was a legal gambling state.
Speaker 1: So I whip out my bed MGM map and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing where I can put some money, and I put
Speaker 1: fifty bucks on Baker Mayfield to score a touchdown but
Speaker 1: the Patriots to win. Well, the thing is, it happened,
Speaker 1: and I thought I was gonna win six fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: but it had to be a rushing touchdown, and as
Speaker 1: you know, he scored the first touchdown of the game
Speaker 1: was a passing touchdown. And here I am celebrating, Thank God.
Speaker 1: I wasn't in a bar then got him knocked up.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't like drinks on me. I would have
Speaker 1: Uh so I am so mad about that. But Peter,
Speaker 1: I was texting you, I said, does passing touchdown count?
Speaker 1: I was midflight and I think I saw that message
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh boy. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I have, Like, how do I tell her? No?
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think I could tell her
Speaker 1: this bad news. But that's a tough one. Um, it
Speaker 1: should say rushing touchdown, don't you think? Yeah? I agree,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. We'll give you a winner this weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll get you back in the in the green. So
Speaker 1: I'm confident we'll give you something. Maybe we'll share it
Speaker 1: on social Peter, Olivia had to tell you something, and
Speaker 1: I have to tell you something too. I'm pregnant. We're
Speaker 1: all pregnant. This show is completely I got a baby
Speaker 1: inside me and the father is Sam. I'm sorry, Olivia,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to tell you this way. I'm sorry. Men
Speaker 1: can get pregnant, and somehow, with his magic piece, he
Speaker 1: got me pregnant. I gotta make sure that fiance doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast. We might we might look to
Speaker 1: go for the jealousy right here. So I don't know
Speaker 1: other ones what to say. They're but congratulations, I guess
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I will say pregnancy is contagious.
Speaker 1: Once one friend does it, then another one, then another one.
Speaker 1: Pregnancy is contagious. So you guys have been warned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially with that sexy Wisconsin kid. I mean, yeah, you
Speaker 1: stand next to kid, you get pregnant. He's like covid.
Speaker 1: I did just see that Boygan ad for the food drive,
Speaker 1: so I can agree with he thought he you thought
Speaker 1: he was just emoting sexiness and the Boygan food Bank commercial.
Speaker 1: I didn't even look at the left side of the screen.
Speaker 1: I was just staring at sad Oh. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see if our producers cut that part too, because
Speaker 1: we have gone off the rail. Okay, well, that is
Speaker 1: our show. It's weird. Every week it's weird, and we
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys being weird with us and listening to us.
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Speaker 1: This is my least favorite part of the show. This
Speaker 1: is because I lost our punishment picks. Janice gets to
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