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Speaker 1: and I give you ten takes in exactly ten minutes
Speaker 1: and no more. So let's get to it. After another
Speaker 1: incredible week of actually for the National Football League, start
Speaker 1: the clock. Take number one. The greatest tribute to Josh
Speaker 1: Allen is Dan Campbell on sidekicking. You could have any
Speaker 1: highlight package, any statistician, any historian, any fanboy, and none
Speaker 1: of them could do a better job of saying how
Speaker 1: incredible Josh Allen has been than Dan Campbell deciding to
Speaker 1: onsidekick with twelve minutes left in the game, down ten.
Speaker 1: It's just not something you see. It's not something that
Speaker 1: makes sense. The only sense it makes is this. It's
Speaker 1: a seven percent success rate on onside kicks. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: At this point, you can't even sneak it. You have
Speaker 1: to tell them it's coming, they prepare, and you still
Speaker 1: do it. It almost never works seven percent. Dan Campbell knows
Speaker 1: that he has those statistics. The special teams, coaches all
Speaker 1: know that stuff. It's not gonna work. And still he
Speaker 1: thought that that would be a better chance to get
Speaker 1: success for the Lions than trying to stop the Bills offense.
Speaker 1: They're like, coach, we never are gonna get an onside kick.
Speaker 1: It's seven percent, said, I don't care, man, go for it.
Speaker 1: Seven percent. I'll take it. We have zero percent of
Speaker 1: stopping Josh Allen right now. One because Alan is a superhero.
Speaker 1: Two because the Lions defense is so beat up. But
Speaker 1: the crazy thing about is they actually got an awesome
Speaker 1: on side kick. That ridiculous choice to do the on
Speaker 1: side kick was beautiful from Jake Bates. It was that
Speaker 1: hop hop, huge hop, and not only did they not
Speaker 1: get it, the Bills got it and almost ran it
Speaker 1: back for a touchdown. The other take, I hate about
Speaker 1: this and I'm not even gonna this is a bonus one.
Speaker 1: This is part of one. This is take one A.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that that is Dan Campbell again making
Speaker 1: the same decision that he made on fourth in inches.
Speaker 1: It's totally different. Fourth and inches. You turn and hand
Speaker 1: it to your running back who's probably the hardest runner
Speaker 1: in the league this year, David Montgomery. He gets it.
Speaker 1: Onside kicks are like a stupid power ball ticket. You're
Speaker 1: never gonna get the downside kick. It's barely even a
Speaker 1: football play. There's a terrible chance you get that. I
Speaker 1: had it at seven percent. What was the chance that
Speaker 1: David Montgomery gets inches on fourth and inches sixty at
Speaker 1: least probably seventy. It's not the same. It's a really
Speaker 1: weird choice. And if Josh Allen wins the MVP, when
Speaker 1: he does, and if he goes to the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: look back on the twenty twenty fourth season and remember
Speaker 1: that Dan Campbell was so hopeless to stop him in
Speaker 1: that game that he decided to go for an on
Speaker 1: site kick instead of just rushing the passer or hoping
Speaker 1: you can bat down a ball or something. Take number two,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's having an all time great season. If you're
Speaker 1: throwing up with the Josh Allen coverage, this is my
Speaker 1: last take out of the ten. I promise, but I
Speaker 1: don't even know if you understand how good this Bill's
Speaker 1: offense is going into the season. The only story was
Speaker 1: he's overrated. He's not in the NFL one hundred top ten.
Speaker 1: Diggs has gone, Davis has gone. You know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about that for months. Not only do they have probably
Speaker 1: the best offense in the league, they have the best
Speaker 1: offense Josh Allen has ever had in his career. They
Speaker 1: have one of the best offenses in NFL history that
Speaker 1: we're watching right now. Eight plus games of thirty plus points.
Speaker 1: Do you know the teams that have done that ever?
Speaker 1: The Kurt Warner Rams, the Peyton Manning Broncos, and the
Speaker 1: prime Tom Brady Patriots. Now add the Josh Allen Bills
Speaker 1: to that. He has not been sacked in four games.
Speaker 1: He followed up his six touchdown game three and three
Speaker 1: with a four touchdown game two and two with no
Speaker 1: fumbles or interceptions. He becomes the first quarterback in fantasy
Speaker 1: football history to have back to back forty point games.
Speaker 1: It is an all time season. I still don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna end, though, because the defense can't stop anybody.
Speaker 1: Right now, take number three. The Chiefs should sit Patrick
Speaker 1: homes for as long as it takes. I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: I'm recording this on the morning of Monday after the action,
Speaker 1: So if reports come out that the ankle injury isn't
Speaker 1: as bad. It's actually encouraging. This might be moot, as
Speaker 1: they say, but if there's anything negative whatsoever, and it's
Speaker 1: really not looking very good and he needs rest, sit him,
Speaker 1: sit him. He has a game this weekend. He has
Speaker 1: another game against this against the Steelers on Christmas under
Speaker 1: which there's probably a lot of pressure for him to
Speaker 1: play because it's the Netflix premiere and all that Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: I would much rather the Chiefs lose the one seed
Speaker 1: then mess up Mahomes or exacerbate an injury. You want
Speaker 1: to take your shot with a healthy Mahomes. You do
Speaker 1: not want to just for the sake of the buy,
Speaker 1: run him out there and make it worse, make it bad.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you they didn't have to have to buy.
Speaker 1: Last year they played in the wild Card. Last year
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. They went to Buffalo. Last
Speaker 1: year they won the Super Bowl. If you don't have
Speaker 1: a healthy Mahomes, you got nothing, especially this year with
Speaker 1: that offense as weak as it is, as underwhelming as
Speaker 1: it is, as much as it needs him. Rolled the
Speaker 1: dice with Carson Wentz. He's won a lot of big
Speaker 1: football games it's been a minute, but at least he
Speaker 1: has that in him. I would hate seeing them say, well,
Speaker 1: Patrick wants to play, so we're gonna let him do
Speaker 1: the smart, prudent thing. It's not sexy. I don't give
Speaker 1: a damn super Bowls are sexy. You are not gonna
Speaker 1: win the super Bowl if you go into the playoffs
Speaker 1: and Mahomes has got a bad ankle. Not this year.
Speaker 1: Take number four. The Eagles are starting to represent a
Speaker 1: very specific kind of couple. One, maybe it's just a
Speaker 1: couple from Philadelphia who likes to fight and just get
Speaker 1: it all out and scream at each other. Or two
Speaker 1: it's the makeup couple. What I mean by that is
Speaker 1: everything is always nasty with this team. They've won ten
Speaker 1: games in a row. No Eagles team has ever in
Speaker 1: history won more games in a row. But there's always
Speaker 1: some fight, there's always some discord. Last week, you know
Speaker 1: the storyline. Now we have Sirianni going over to talk
Speaker 1: to a player and he's physically stopped by the player's position.
Speaker 1: Coach and the damn bodyguard is involved. It's like they're
Speaker 1: not happy unless they're unhappy, and yet it always works
Speaker 1: for them, so they're like the couple that fights and
Speaker 1: has this terrible dramatic fight and then they make up
Speaker 1: and it's really hot and it works, and it's hot
Speaker 1: in a different way than if you hadn't fought. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Because they had a great win
Speaker 1: against the Steelers yes day, which they look very good,
Speaker 1: but they're screaming at each other on the sideline then
Speaker 1: hugging afterwards. They are obsessed with being unhappy and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be this way all the way till the end
Speaker 1: because it works for them. Do you know a couple
Speaker 1: like that at the wedding wherever they are not there
Speaker 1: on when you're attending a wedding with them, maybe they're
Speaker 1: at your table and they're always fighting and there's this
Speaker 1: drunken screaming by the elevators. Then at the end of
Speaker 1: the night, it's going great. That's the Philadelphia Eagles, and
Speaker 1: I kind of respect it. Take number five. Either Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell or Nick Sirianni is going to do something crazy
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I don't know who's more likely. I
Speaker 1: wish they were posted odds on this. You could bet
Speaker 1: on the Sirianni mind blowing decision or the Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: mind blowing decision. I don't what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: I just know that it's gonna happen. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: like fourth and six and they're on their own fifteen
Speaker 1: yard line in the second quarter and Campbell says go
Speaker 1: or something like that that Sirianni does off the walls completely.
Speaker 1: All I know is it's not just gonna be two
Speaker 1: run of the mill ends to the season for the
Speaker 1: Lions or Eagles, in which Campbell and Syrianna do nothing noteworthy.
Speaker 1: I would give probably Campbell the edge, but Syrianne's gonna
Speaker 1: come run in two. Take number five, Take number six.
Speaker 1: What am I now on six? My mind's a blur today.
Speaker 1: Take number six. The Tampay Bucks are hosting a playoff game.
Speaker 1: That's happening. This is an incredible thing. They bottomed out.
Speaker 1: Evans was hurt. They couldn't win a game. They have
Speaker 1: since won four in a row. They just beat the
Speaker 1: hell out of the Chargers. The remaining schedule is easy.
Speaker 1: Baker's great. Mike Evans is gonna get that one thousand yards.
Speaker 1: All he needs is eighty five yards a game over
Speaker 1: the last three games. The Bucks are gonna host the
Speaker 1: playoff game. It's gonna probably be on Saturday. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: order pad tie from Uber Eats to sit there on
Speaker 1: my couch in my sweatpants. I can't wait. Take number
Speaker 1: seven players dropping the ball at the goal line is fascinating.
Speaker 1: I was texting with some friends about this. We saw
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor do it. There's multiple guys who did it yesterday.
Speaker 1: We've seen it for years. It is so weird that
Speaker 1: this happens. It's especially weird with Taylor because Taylor is
Speaker 1: not a look at me guy. Taylor has scored countless
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the pros going back to college. He's very
Speaker 1: familiar with this. This is not some guy who's green
Speaker 1: at crossing the goal line. Also, someone like Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: at this point grew up watching DeShawn Jackson and others
Speaker 1: be put all over Sports Center for making that mistake
Speaker 1: and getting mocked for it. You know the deal. So
Speaker 1: why do they do it? I think it's one of
Speaker 1: two things. I think it's either you're kind of showing
Speaker 1: how easy it was to score, and you're so relaxed
Speaker 1: and so chilled. You just dropped the ball casually, like
Speaker 1: you're tossing something into the hamper at home, No big deal,
Speaker 1: fifty yard touchdown, whatever. There's something with your body language
Speaker 1: that you're trying to look cool and maybe show your
Speaker 1: teammates how cool you are and how easy that was.
Speaker 1: I think the other part of it is you just
Speaker 1: start going through this five to six second eight second
Speaker 1: burst of aggression and intensity, and as a running back,
Speaker 1: it's it's Carrie carry carry, two yard loss, four yard gain,
Speaker 1: five yard gain, six yard lost, one yard gain, boom
Speaker 1: popped to run, and it is this amazing adrenaline surge
Speaker 1: and this aggressiveness and run, run, run, and then when
Speaker 1: you get to the goal land, there's this sort of release,
Speaker 1: this psychological release where I did it, I scored, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna drop it all right here, and you
Speaker 1: anticipate it and you time it wrong, but there's something
Speaker 1: that clicks in your brain that says, drop it. It's
Speaker 1: really hard to explain, but I see some of that
Speaker 1: in Jonathan Taylor. We can get more into it, but
Speaker 1: it's only a ten minute podcast. Take number eight. I
Speaker 1: want the Bengals in the playoffs. I don't care if
Speaker 1: they're six and eight. I don't care if there's six
Speaker 1: and one. Hundred. We need that team in the playoffs
Speaker 1: because now Joe Burrow's not just throwing five touchdowns a game,
Speaker 1: He's like bad mouthing his coach right to his face
Speaker 1: or whatever the hell was going on the sideline. The
Speaker 1: entertainment quotion is too high for the Bengals for them
Speaker 1: not to make the playoffs. I just don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to There's no spot take number nine. I'm that Justinabaudi, Ventura.
Speaker 1: It was an incredible experience. Nice to meet you, Kyle.
Speaker 1: You hear that voice from out in the green room
Speaker 1: when he came on the show, and you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can hear it through the walls. I
Speaker 1: grew up obviously Predator, running Man, all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: just watching him doing WWF announcing, he was my favorite announcer.
Speaker 1: Him and Guerrilla Monsoon. He shows up really cool, really big,
Speaker 1: very outgoing, still huge personality. He's wearing this jacket about
Speaker 1: Ventura Farms or to Think grows Cannabis, which is completely
Speaker 1: on brand. He tells stories about living off the grid
Speaker 1: in Mexico for years with no power. No, it's just incredible.
Speaker 1: It really lived up to the hyjested the body you're
Speaker 1: the man. Take number ten. Sleepover parties are hell on Earth.
Speaker 1: My eleven year old had one this weekend. We had
Speaker 1: several of his friends in the house. It's really hard.
Speaker 1: They stay up till two in the morning. The next
Speaker 1: morning is so horrible with your kid because they're completely
Speaker 1: emotionally hungover and they can't play their basketball game. I
Speaker 1: have more to say about it, but I amount of time.
Speaker 1: We have rules here in society. We have rules on
Speaker 1: this show. There's a bell ringing in my ear telling
Speaker 1: me that it's time to stop, and I must abide
Speaker 1: because it is not Ten takes an eleven minutes. Have
Speaker 1: said this many times. Ten takes ten minutes. My son's
Speaker 1: still catching up on sleep. He's going to be catching
Speaker 1: up on sleep at New Year's Eve and which will
Speaker 1: also stay up till midnight. Hell on Earth. Guys, you're
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