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Thank You Cena · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.310 --> 00:00:13.369 What's up, friends? Welcome into another episode 00:00:13.369 --> 00:00:16.070 of Tables, Tailgates, and Top Loaders. So happy 00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:18.969 to have you aboard for this episode. I'm your 00:00:18.969 --> 00:00:21.850 host, TB. Thank you all so very much for stopping 00:00:21.850 --> 00:00:24.010 in and checking out the 3Ts. Yeah, we are 00:00:24.010 --> 00:00:27.460 back. Last week, I stepped a little bit out of 00:00:27.460 --> 00:00:29.800 my comfort zone, got to admit, with the special 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:32.820 3Ts Christmas Carol episode. If you haven't 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:35.359 checked it out, well, we are still right in the 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.560 midst of the holiday season. So go back, do yourself 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.539 a favor, help me out. It's only 20 minutes. It's 00:00:40.539 --> 00:00:44.479 a fun time. I had quite the adventure putting 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:46.659 that together. So go back and check out the last 00:00:46.659 --> 00:00:50.500 episode. It is the holiday season, so I tried 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:52.399 to do something just a little bit different. 00:00:52.539 --> 00:00:54.600 Anyway, we are back in action. We have a lot 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.340 to get through, so let's not waste any more time. 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:59.859 Let's dive right in. Wrestling Marks, you are 00:00:59.859 --> 00:01:02.759 on the clock. How the heck are you feeling? Out 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.219 of respect for the GOAT, we are starting with 00:01:05.219 --> 00:01:08.260 you. So Saturday night's main event came and 00:01:08.260 --> 00:01:11.700 went. And how did we feel about Saturday night's 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:15.700 main event and the very last match of John Cena? 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:17.819 Now, I have been looking forward to... this for 00:01:17.819 --> 00:01:20.400 quite some time. I'm going to jump right to the 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.939 dessert first. We're going to skip the whole 00:01:22.939 --> 00:01:25.560 meal. We're going to jump right to dessert. We're 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.379 going right to the main event, John Cena versus 00:01:27.379 --> 00:01:30.040 Gunther because I got a lot to say about this. 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.560 Gunther came out first and the DC crowd, to their 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:36.200 credit, they were hot. Gunther was booed like 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.500 Craigsy. He was booed completely out of the building. 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.560 Then once he got in the ring, there was quite 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.969 the long dramatic pause. It was It was kind of 00:01:44.969 --> 00:01:47.849 startling how long the pause was, but I loved 00:01:47.849 --> 00:01:50.430 it because you could feel the tension in the 00:01:50.430 --> 00:01:54.730 building, building. So it was just, it was crazy. 00:01:54.849 --> 00:01:56.609 And then all of a sudden, of course, scene of 00:01:56.609 --> 00:01:59.709 music hits, the place goes absolutely bananas. 00:01:59.829 --> 00:02:03.209 The place explodes, crazy, crazy vibes. And what 00:02:03.209 --> 00:02:05.590 was good, what a little subtle thing I noticed 00:02:05.590 --> 00:02:08.610 was Gunther immediately got out of the ring. 00:02:08.710 --> 00:02:11.189 I think long before his music even hit, he basically 00:02:11.189 --> 00:02:14.030 cleared out because he knew that this was his 00:02:14.030 --> 00:02:17.629 John Cena's moment and to his credit he slid 00:02:17.629 --> 00:02:20.729 out of the ring and let Cena have complete stage 00:02:20.729 --> 00:02:24.210 so Cena comes down the place explodes crazy vibes 00:02:24.210 --> 00:02:26.610 when he comes out he slides and he slides back 00:02:26.610 --> 00:02:30.750 out of the ring to then say hello to all the 00:02:30.750 --> 00:02:33.110 ex -wrestlers who were ringside and there were 00:02:33.110 --> 00:02:35.349 there were a ton of them just a couple notable 00:02:35.349 --> 00:02:38.939 ones Kurt Angle obviously John Cena's very first 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:41.840 feud, first match was against Kurt Angle. So 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:44.060 fitting that he was sitting there in the crowd. 00:02:44.180 --> 00:02:46.340 You had Trish Stratus. You had one of my favorites, 00:02:46.419 --> 00:02:49.099 Mark Henry. I love the fake retirement angle 00:02:49.099 --> 00:02:52.319 that Mark Henry had with John Cena. The salmon 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.460 coat, suit coat, if you remember that. It was 00:02:54.460 --> 00:02:57.919 just a fantastic, fantastic angle. So I love 00:02:57.919 --> 00:02:59.860 it. We are off to a great start. It was great 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:03.599 to hear Lillian Garcia do the ring intros one 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.849 more time. I thought it was great. Great stuff. 00:03:06.110 --> 00:03:09.370 And now on to the match. So, yeah, a lot of people 00:03:09.370 --> 00:03:11.990 aren't too happy about this. But this was an 00:03:11.990 --> 00:03:15.250 old school wrestling 101 paint by numbers match 00:03:15.250 --> 00:03:19.689 for probably a good 60 % to 70 % of the match. 00:03:20.150 --> 00:03:25.069 And admittedly, I was getting a bit worried when 00:03:25.069 --> 00:03:26.969 it was clothesline after clothesline and Cena 00:03:26.969 --> 00:03:29.740 would just get. leveled by Gunther and he would 00:03:29.740 --> 00:03:32.340 lay on the ground and Gunther's barking orders 00:03:32.340 --> 00:03:35.259 at the ref and this is classic like old school 00:03:35.259 --> 00:03:39.539 80s bad guy heel tactics if you are an old school 00:03:39.539 --> 00:03:41.860 diehard wrestling fan it was obvious story they 00:03:41.860 --> 00:03:43.800 were trying to tell from the very beginning this 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.900 was going to be a match this was going to be 00:03:45.900 --> 00:03:48.419 a story that they were going to try to tell about 00:03:48.419 --> 00:03:52.539 how Cena was able to keep coming back time and 00:03:52.539 --> 00:03:55.800 time again just in the crux of this one match. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.840 So beatdown, comeback, beatdown, comeback. It 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:00.800 was clothesline after clothesline. Cena kept 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.479 getting back up again and again and again. And 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:06.319 then the match starts to change. Gunther starts 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:09.599 hitting Cena and putting on the sleeper holds. 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:12.580 And the story they're telling, it's just slow, 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:17.220 incrementally wearing Cena down, hold after hold, 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.860 hit after hit. Just this relentless, slow, methodical 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:25.259 picking apart of Cena, but yet Cena kept fighting 00:04:25.259 --> 00:04:28.819 back, hold after hold, attack after attack. Then 00:04:28.819 --> 00:04:31.079 finally, finally he starts to get a little momentum. 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:34.439 Cena starts to get some offense in. And he hits 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:36.699 Gunther with the AA through the announce table 00:04:36.699 --> 00:04:39.540 on the outside. It was perfect. Perfect timing 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:42.000 of the match because it broke up kind of, some 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.839 will say monotony. I didn't see it that way. 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.000 But some of the monotony of the holds and the 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.939 clotheslines. He hits Gunther with the AA through 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:51.540 the announce table. And it kind of completely 00:04:51.540 --> 00:04:55.740 changes the dynamic, the feel of the match. And 00:04:55.740 --> 00:04:58.079 he throws him back in the ring. And the whole 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.500 place, what was it called? The Verizon? I don't 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:03.930 even know what. what it's called in DC anymore. 00:05:04.029 --> 00:05:05.949 It used to be the Verizon Center, but Capital 00:05:05.949 --> 00:05:07.930 One Arena, I think. But it was perfect because 00:05:07.930 --> 00:05:10.850 the entire arena thought that now Cena's got 00:05:10.850 --> 00:05:13.170 the upper hand, the momentum had changed, and 00:05:13.170 --> 00:05:15.269 he's going to pull out this miracle. He goes 00:05:15.269 --> 00:05:18.410 for the pin and Gunther kicks out. He gets a 00:05:18.410 --> 00:05:20.689 little more offense in and then boom, Gunther 00:05:20.689 --> 00:05:22.790 right back on the sleeper holds, right back on 00:05:22.790 --> 00:05:26.050 the attack again and again and again. And it's 00:05:26.050 --> 00:05:28.649 just... Cena would find a way to get out. He 00:05:28.649 --> 00:05:30.610 would find a way to reverse. He would find a 00:05:30.610 --> 00:05:33.649 way to try to do a little bit more and kind of 00:05:33.649 --> 00:05:35.430 make another comeback and another comeback. And 00:05:35.430 --> 00:05:38.110 it was just hold after hold, just unrelenting 00:05:38.110 --> 00:05:41.009 attacks, especially with the sleeper hold, which 00:05:41.009 --> 00:05:43.649 is in the history of wrestling, like one of your 00:05:43.649 --> 00:05:47.470 classic bad guy submission techniques. And we've 00:05:47.470 --> 00:05:50.970 seen historically with Gunther himself, the people 00:05:50.970 --> 00:05:55.120 that he's submitted to this very move. Again 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.339 and again with the sleepers. Right back in. Just 00:05:57.339 --> 00:06:00.600 locking them in. And then finally we see Cena 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.860 tap out. For what? The first time in over 20 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:06.980 years. Now the camera. And I love when they do 00:06:06.980 --> 00:06:10.759 this. Because it encapsulates every emotion on 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.800 the fans. And the WWE universe. Right within 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.620 your 19 ,000 fans. Right in the arena. So the 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:19.660 camera pans to the crowd. 19 ,000 sad faces. 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:25.019 It's just chaos. It wasn't as crazy. see as the 00:06:25.019 --> 00:06:27.860 Brock Lesnar beatdown at Wrestlepalooza, but 00:06:27.860 --> 00:06:30.720 you see disbelief, you see frustration, you see 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.319 anger, you see an arena filled with unhappy people. 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:40.699 So what are my thoughts? Well, look, I get it. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.420 I get the disbelief. I get the anger. I get the 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:45.920 frustration. I get why people were so angry, 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.860 but a couple of things. After the match was over, 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:52.339 And Gunther kind of goes off to the back and 00:06:52.339 --> 00:06:55.519 he's booed his entire way to the back behind 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.259 the curtain. And Cena's left there and he's given 00:06:58.259 --> 00:07:00.959 his dues and his props and he's bowing. And then 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.860 all of a sudden you see this parade of wrestlers 00:07:04.860 --> 00:07:07.300 and staff and everybody make their way out to 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:09.420 surround the ring. And at some point, Triple 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:11.860 H comes. And when Triple H comes out of that 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:14.939 curtain, the place starts booing the absolute 00:07:14.939 --> 00:07:18.000 crap out of him. They are so mad at Triple H 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.800 thinking that this was his call. I got to tell 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.509 you right now. I have a lot of issues with Triple 00:07:23.509 --> 00:07:26.069 H, a lot of issues with his career, a lot of 00:07:26.069 --> 00:07:28.290 things. I don't like a lot of the things he's 00:07:28.290 --> 00:07:30.750 done in charge of the company over the last few 00:07:30.750 --> 00:07:32.810 years. But I have to tell you, if you're angry 00:07:32.810 --> 00:07:36.110 at Triple H, that anger is completely misplaced 00:07:36.110 --> 00:07:39.550 because this was not on Triple H. I will go down 00:07:39.550 --> 00:07:42.569 with this opinion that Cena, number one, he was 00:07:42.569 --> 00:07:45.069 always going to lose this match. There was nothing 00:07:45.069 --> 00:07:48.819 you could do to stop. this from happening. Him 00:07:48.819 --> 00:07:52.220 losing was inevitable, right? So the fact that 00:07:52.220 --> 00:07:55.639 he, for a brief second, got 19 ,000 people to 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.079 think he was actually going to win, he was never 00:07:58.079 --> 00:07:59.920 going to win. He was always going to lose this 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:02.959 match. And number two, if you don't think this 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.259 was John Cena's decision to get tapped out by 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:08.259 Guter, you're wrong. You're just... plain wrong. 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:11.420 And number three, he, in my opinion, I believe 00:08:11.420 --> 00:08:14.740 that he had handpicked Gunther months and months 00:08:14.740 --> 00:08:17.019 ago, possibly all the way back to the start of 00:08:17.019 --> 00:08:21.459 this very retirement tour, because he knows the 00:08:21.459 --> 00:08:23.839 type of wrestler Gunther is. He knows the persona 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.199 he carries. He knows the history there with Gunther 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.180 taking out other greats. I see you, Goldberg. 00:08:30.379 --> 00:08:32.519 While I'm not putting Cena in the same category 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.399 as Goldberg, there's a history there of Gunther 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.649 being this legend. Tyler not the same as Randy 00:08:38.649 --> 00:08:42.090 but just a different level so he was never going 00:08:42.090 --> 00:08:44.350 to win this match I'm sorry I hate to tell you 00:08:44.350 --> 00:08:46.809 I hate to break it to you and and I really do 00:08:46.809 --> 00:08:48.990 think that this was Cena's decision the entire 00:08:48.990 --> 00:08:51.210 time the only way I saw this match going one 00:08:51.210 --> 00:08:54.750 of two ways number one he passes out which I 00:08:54.750 --> 00:08:57.070 kind of went back and forth on this would Cena 00:08:57.070 --> 00:09:00.490 pass out in his final match and the more and 00:09:00.490 --> 00:09:02.289 more I thought about it the more it just doesn't 00:09:02.289 --> 00:09:06.629 make sense so the other option is he taps And 00:09:06.629 --> 00:09:09.470 does it make sense for him to tap out? I think 00:09:09.470 --> 00:09:12.129 if you look at this match and people are going 00:09:12.129 --> 00:09:14.309 to be like, well, his whole mantra was never 00:09:14.309 --> 00:09:16.789 give up, never give up. But like I tried to tell 00:09:16.789 --> 00:09:19.309 you with the way they painted this picture, the 00:09:19.309 --> 00:09:22.110 way they told this story, it was comeback after 00:09:22.110 --> 00:09:27.309 comeback, despite just relentless, ruthless aggression, 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:31.129 if you will, on the part of Gunther. And the 00:09:31.129 --> 00:09:34.220 key part that makes this match. is literally 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:37.399 right before, seconds before he taps out, he 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:40.059 has a smile. And if you go back and watch, you 00:09:40.059 --> 00:09:42.740 can see him smiling. There's a smile, a slight 00:09:42.740 --> 00:09:45.779 smile on his face right before he taps out. And 00:09:45.779 --> 00:09:49.659 this smile is everything. This is, this immediately, 00:09:49.940 --> 00:09:52.080 I was thinking about this preparing for the show. 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:56.159 That smile is the Shawn Michaels to Ric Flair, 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.840 I'm sorry, I love you, WrestleMania moment, just 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.159 before he super kicks Ric Flair. and pins him 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.539 to retire him. That smile is the same thing. 00:10:07.700 --> 00:10:11.639 We're talking about a very similar thing. It's 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.639 his nod to the crowd saying, I'm going out on 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.279 my own. I'm going out the way I want. I'm at 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.220 peace with this. And this is a legitimate ending 00:10:21.220 --> 00:10:24.909 to a 25 -year banger of a career. And I also 00:10:24.909 --> 00:10:27.450 think the way I looked at it, it brought peace. 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:30.629 I knew he was at peace and I was at peace with 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:32.649 the decision for him to leave because I just 00:10:32.649 --> 00:10:35.940 thought it was just so. It was very fitting for 00:10:35.940 --> 00:10:38.480 the match, for his career. I kind of loved the 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.000 ending. I loved it. And would I have liked it 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.500 as much if he had just passed out and now we're 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:45.820 all sitting there wondering, is he going to wake 00:10:45.820 --> 00:10:48.500 up? And I know they come to because this is make 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:51.519 -believe, right? This is not real. He didn't 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:54.360 really choke him out. But he passes out in the 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:56.559 middle of the ring, the place boos, Gunther leaves, 00:10:56.700 --> 00:10:59.120 and then suddenly he pops up. I don't see that. 00:10:59.259 --> 00:11:02.840 So for this, for him to be... sleeper hold after 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:05.259 sleeper hold he just kept coming back kept coming 00:11:05.259 --> 00:11:07.840 back try after try after try but finally it's 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.120 just like no man i'm good this is like i've given 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:13.220 you everything and that's what he's that's what 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:16.580 he said upon his exits in the last few matches 00:11:16.580 --> 00:11:19.440 he he does the gesture with his hands to his 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:21.360 heart and then extends it to the audience he's 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:23.940 basically like i'm giving you everything i have 00:11:23.940 --> 00:11:26.860 this is all i got i'm at peace with this i'm 00:11:26.860 --> 00:11:31.100 totally okay and I'm good. And he knows that 00:11:31.100 --> 00:11:33.379 he's leaving the company in good hands and he 00:11:33.379 --> 00:11:35.580 knows he's leaving the company better than when 00:11:35.580 --> 00:11:39.220 he started. So I just, I thought it was, I thought 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:41.500 it was great. And so I understand where people 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:43.500 are coming from with the hostility and all this 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:48.039 stuff, but I don't know. If you look back on 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.299 Cena's career, there was never a time, never 00:11:50.299 --> 00:11:52.600 a time in his career when he put himself above 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.620 the company. He has always been the pinnacle. 00:11:55.700 --> 00:11:58.399 You want to talk about the company guy. This 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.590 is him. This is him. I think not only has he 00:12:01.590 --> 00:12:04.769 always put himself first in regards to the company, 00:12:04.889 --> 00:12:07.649 but it's probably been to his detriment. There's 00:12:07.649 --> 00:12:09.870 probably been numerous times that he's been injured 00:12:09.870 --> 00:12:13.769 and he's rushed back from recovery. He never 00:12:13.769 --> 00:12:16.470 takes time off. He's literally carried the company 00:12:16.470 --> 00:12:20.460 or has been the face of the company for. 25 years. 00:12:20.580 --> 00:12:22.519 And that's a huge responsibility and that's a 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.039 huge burden. And he was never going to put himself 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.440 first, especially in the last match of his career. 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:33.159 The match itself, now, while I tried to lay out 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.779 how I felt or what I felt they were trying to 00:12:35.779 --> 00:12:37.620 do, what story they were trying to tell, I don't 00:12:37.620 --> 00:12:40.039 think it was a perfect match, but I looked at 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:45.679 it more of like a tribute to him and to his mantras, 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.610 if you will, and to his... just determination 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:52.850 and grit and perseverance and all that stuff. 00:12:52.929 --> 00:12:55.029 I felt like the match was more of a tribute to 00:12:55.029 --> 00:12:57.309 him and a tribute to one of the greatest to ever 00:12:57.309 --> 00:13:01.110 do it. Full disclosure, six o 'clock, the YouTube 00:13:01.110 --> 00:13:04.129 pre -show started. I turned it on and I watched 00:13:04.129 --> 00:13:06.909 the whole thing as well as all of Saturday Night's 00:13:06.909 --> 00:13:08.970 Mean Event. I saw every video package, probably 00:13:08.970 --> 00:13:11.269 numerous times because a lot of them on the pre 00:13:11.269 --> 00:13:13.769 -show were repeated during the main broadcast. 00:13:14.049 --> 00:13:16.450 I saw all the backstage interviews. I saw all 00:13:16.450 --> 00:13:18.970 the panels. I literally watched everything. And 00:13:18.970 --> 00:13:21.799 I thought it... that the whole package from six 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:25.000 o 'clock to what it got over roughly 1030, maybe 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.899 a little before then. So we're talking for just 00:13:27.899 --> 00:13:29.980 over four hours, just under four and a half hours. 00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:33.320 I felt like the entire thing was a tribute show 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:36.659 that happened to have a wrestling match at the 00:13:36.659 --> 00:13:39.460 end of it. And this match was a passing of the 00:13:39.460 --> 00:13:42.440 baton. And I just felt like the whole thing was 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.259 completely awesome and so well done. The one 00:13:46.259 --> 00:13:49.120 video package that kind of leaked a day or two 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.080 before in which all the guys and girls backstage 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.620 are showing signs and doing the salutes. I've 00:13:55.620 --> 00:13:59.039 probably seen that video now six or seven or 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.120 eight times. It's like three and a half, four 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.519 minutes long. I freaking love that video. That 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.460 video is so well done. I even love the bad guys 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:10.320 in there doing the Drew McIntyre stuff, the Brock 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:12.120 Lesnar thing where he refuses to look at the 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.850 camera. It's just great. It's great. I love the 00:14:15.850 --> 00:14:19.070 show. I love the show. Now, Gunther haters, Gunther 00:14:19.070 --> 00:14:22.049 haters, I am not a Gunther hater. If you ask 00:14:22.049 --> 00:14:24.809 anyone who's talked to me, people know I love 00:14:24.809 --> 00:14:27.250 Gunther. So Gunther haters out there, I don't 00:14:27.250 --> 00:14:29.429 know what to tell you at this point. He is great. 00:14:29.590 --> 00:14:34.169 He is old school at its finest. He is, I've said 00:14:34.169 --> 00:14:37.379 this before in the pod. He is a old school replica 00:14:37.379 --> 00:14:40.559 ripoff who can actually wrestle. And he can wrestle 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.019 any style. He can wrestle against the big guys. 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:45.320 He can wrestle against the luchadors. He can 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:48.320 wrestle some of the smaller sized wrestlers. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.539 He can wrestle any style. And I think he's fantastic. 00:14:52.940 --> 00:14:57.139 And so now, as I said earlier, he's trying to 00:14:57.139 --> 00:15:00.200 establish himself as this career killer. Obviously, 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:05.909 he put away Goldberg. What was it back in? Final 00:15:05.909 --> 00:15:09.350 match was March or something. And now to be handed 00:15:09.350 --> 00:15:13.389 this task of representing the bad guy against 00:15:13.389 --> 00:15:16.409 John Cena in John Cena's last match, it's crazy. 00:15:16.570 --> 00:15:18.870 Now, I'm not ever going to compare Goldberg to 00:15:18.870 --> 00:15:21.889 Cena, but you get the point. Gunther has proven 00:15:21.889 --> 00:15:24.629 himself to be such a dependable commodity who 00:15:24.629 --> 00:15:27.389 you can put in there literally against anybody, 00:15:27.649 --> 00:15:30.990 and he delivers time after time, match after 00:15:30.990 --> 00:15:33.210 match. Kudos to him. That's a lot of pressure. 00:15:33.289 --> 00:15:36.240 Think about if you were him. it's one thing to 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:38.720 wrestle goldberg because you know you're gonna 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.120 get a three minute match you have to be able 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.379 to take a spear and a jackhammer and then goldberg 00:15:45.379 --> 00:15:49.340 does nothing so whatever you could put a three 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:51.519 -legged donkey in the match with Goldberg and 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.879 he would look fantastic so but imagine imagine 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.919 being Gunther and being tasked to perform in 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.379 front of 19 ,000 rabid fans who just want to 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:05.019 see Cena win his last match that's a lot of pressure 00:16:05.019 --> 00:16:07.620 to put on him but I think I think honestly he 00:16:07.620 --> 00:16:10.360 is more than capable of handling it and I just 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:13.200 think this sets him up like gold for the rest 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.509 of his career So now let's talk about the rest 00:16:16.509 --> 00:16:18.629 of the show. So a couple of general thoughts, 00:16:18.750 --> 00:16:21.509 a couple of general thoughts. And this first 00:16:21.509 --> 00:16:24.710 one I saw right away, but you all know how I 00:16:24.710 --> 00:16:28.149 feel about the in -ring advertising and Riyadh 00:16:28.149 --> 00:16:29.950 season right in the middle of the ring, like 00:16:29.950 --> 00:16:32.870 blasting you in the face as soon as you turn 00:16:32.870 --> 00:16:35.470 the TV on and you're looking at the ring. I'm 00:16:35.470 --> 00:16:37.490 like, really, do we have to have this in the 00:16:37.490 --> 00:16:39.590 middle of the ring for John Cena's last match? 00:16:40.149 --> 00:16:42.799 Obviously. The closer you get to the ring, you 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.299 could see a couple different other advertisers 00:16:45.299 --> 00:16:49.080 around the outside, around the perimeter of the 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.419 ring. But they were so small and minuscule, it 00:16:51.419 --> 00:16:54.500 was kind of hard to read them. But this freaking 00:16:54.500 --> 00:16:56.320 re -ad season, right in the middle of the ring, 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.960 I'm just like, oh my God, could we just get it 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.460 off the TV for one night? Can we have one night 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:03.820 without this stupid nonsense in the middle of 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:07.079 the ring? Second point, I was doing so well until 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.680 my wife pointed out. The green t -shirt guy. 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.799 And I hadn't even seen him. I don't know how 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.799 I missed him. Maybe I wasn't focused on the crowd 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.299 until she pointed it out. And I'm like, this 00:17:17.299 --> 00:17:20.539 guy. And from that point on, I just proceeded 00:17:20.539 --> 00:17:23.900 to just zone in on him periodically throughout 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:26.640 the night. And it was just so aggravating. Because 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.140 this guy. Y 'all know how I feel about green 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:32.140 t -shirt guy. This guy is in every freaking show 00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:35.019 in the same seat. And there's a story that, oh, 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:38.059 he's not a. He doesn't have connections. Yeah, 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.819 I call total BS. Anyway, let's get to the actual 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:44.160 wrestling of the show. The first match, Cody 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.359 Rhodes versus Obafemi. Now, a lot of the matches 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.640 or every one of the other three matches involved 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:54.759 younger talent up and coming from NXT. And this 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.920 was what John Cena wanted. So right away, your 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.079 WWE champion, Cody Rhodes versus your NXT champion, 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.609 Obafemi. If you've never seen Obafemi in NXT, 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:08.769 you are missing out. This dude is crazy. His 00:18:08.769 --> 00:18:12.230 presence is ridiculous. This guy is ready. He 00:18:12.230 --> 00:18:15.390 can talk. He can wrestle. He's got ring presence 00:18:15.390 --> 00:18:19.750 like you can't believe. He's huge. He's great. 00:18:19.849 --> 00:18:22.690 Call him up immediately. I thought this was good. 00:18:22.829 --> 00:18:24.609 I thought the match was good. I think they only 00:18:24.609 --> 00:18:26.609 had, what, six minutes? Not even six minutes. 00:18:26.710 --> 00:18:28.369 And it was just about to turn the corner into 00:18:28.369 --> 00:18:30.710 something really good. And then we get the stupid 00:18:30.710 --> 00:18:32.849 interference, which kind of sucked if you ask 00:18:32.849 --> 00:18:36.250 me, but I totally get it. Obviously, if you didn't 00:18:36.250 --> 00:18:38.369 see it, Drew McIntyre came out, interfered, started 00:18:38.369 --> 00:18:41.450 attacking Cody Rhodes, and then there's a total 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:44.329 schmoz and DQ and blah, blah, blah, blah, matches 00:18:44.329 --> 00:18:47.500 over. So I get it. I get why they did it to protect 00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:49.880 both of them. Who's really going to take the 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.599 pin here? Obafemi just got the belt back. Cody 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:54.579 Rhodes is your champion. Champion versus champion. 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.180 It's too soon for someone to take the L. So I 00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:01.480 understand. I get it. I understand. It just sucked 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:02.799 because you would have liked to see a little 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.279 more from the match. But additionally, it furthers 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.279 the Drew McIntyre -Cody Rhodes story, which doesn't 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:11.460 matter because we all know that Drew McIntyre 00:19:11.460 --> 00:19:13.240 never wins, so it's never going to go anywhere. 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.900 Anyway. I thought that match was fine until the 00:19:15.900 --> 00:19:17.920 end, and then I was like, of course, this is 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.259 exactly what we thought was going to happen, 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.000 and there we go. Second match, the Soul Ruka 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.519 versus Bayley match. Again, if you are not familiar 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.299 with her and her finisher, the Soul Snatcher, 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:32.069 this girl is crazy good. Now, the match, I will 00:19:32.069 --> 00:19:33.650 say, the match was a little sloppy at first, 00:19:33.769 --> 00:19:35.230 a little sloppy. I think there was a botch or 00:19:35.230 --> 00:19:38.529 two, and it took them a few moves, a few minutes 00:19:38.529 --> 00:19:40.470 to get rolling, and then they were off. They 00:19:40.470 --> 00:19:43.069 were off and rolling. Bayley is great. I think 00:19:43.069 --> 00:19:45.849 she is really stepping up her game with trying 00:19:45.849 --> 00:19:48.289 to help some of the younger talent, and it absolutely 00:19:48.289 --> 00:19:51.309 shows. I am appreciating the work Bayley is doing 00:19:51.309 --> 00:19:53.809 more and more, the stuff she's doing with Lyra. 00:19:54.430 --> 00:19:58.069 and the kabuki warriors i love her as a complimentary 00:19:58.069 --> 00:20:00.789 piece to other stories because she just brings 00:20:00.789 --> 00:20:04.150 and and kind of fills in all the blanks the the 00:20:04.150 --> 00:20:06.309 spaces the holes i don't i don't need her to 00:20:06.309 --> 00:20:09.390 be the women's champion i need her here doing 00:20:09.390 --> 00:20:12.269 all the miscellaneous stuff and it's just awesome 00:20:12.269 --> 00:20:15.630 so I think Soul Ruka is a future superstar. She's 00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:17.650 got a little more work to do, little stuff to 00:20:17.650 --> 00:20:21.130 clean up. Her mic work isn't great, but her athleticism, 00:20:21.150 --> 00:20:23.589 her moveset is phenomenal. And like I said, this 00:20:23.589 --> 00:20:26.430 Soul Snatcher is outstanding. It's insane. So 00:20:26.430 --> 00:20:28.910 great match. I like that one. That was good. 00:20:29.049 --> 00:20:32.109 Oh, and Soul Ruka got the dub. So Bayley taking 00:20:32.109 --> 00:20:35.589 the L, tip of the cap, because a lot of people, 00:20:35.890 --> 00:20:38.210 male or female, would have a hard time losing 00:20:38.210 --> 00:20:41.900 to up -and -coming NXT talent. I give her a lot 00:20:41.900 --> 00:20:44.059 of credit. The third match, the tag match, this 00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:46.559 is right before the main event. You had the WWE 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:49.380 champs, AJ Styles, Dragon Lee against Javon and 00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:52.380 Slater. I mean, these two guys from NXT, I've 00:20:52.380 --> 00:20:54.519 talked about Javon Evans before. He's phenomenal. 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.849 He's had some great matches with Obafemi. This 00:20:57.849 --> 00:21:00.329 guy is going to be unbelievable, and he's, what, 00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:03.269 21, 22 years old? So it's insane. This was a 00:21:03.269 --> 00:21:05.549 good high -speed kind of car crash. It was good. 00:21:05.589 --> 00:21:08.609 It was not great. I don't think any of these 00:21:08.609 --> 00:21:10.690 matches were really giving their time to shine, 00:21:10.750 --> 00:21:12.589 but that's okay because it's not what this show 00:21:12.589 --> 00:21:14.490 is about. There's a very scary moment in which 00:21:14.490 --> 00:21:18.029 AJ kind of goes for his flying forearm and completely 00:21:18.029 --> 00:21:20.569 slips off the top rope, and that looked scary. 00:21:20.750 --> 00:21:23.750 So then it looked like they kind of rushed the 00:21:23.750 --> 00:21:26.829 ending there. They did manage to finish the match. 00:21:27.029 --> 00:21:30.690 AJ and Dragon win, and then that's it. So three 00:21:30.690 --> 00:21:34.410 matches were done by, I think, 9, 10 p .m., and 00:21:34.410 --> 00:21:36.490 you basically said, everybody get out of the 00:21:36.490 --> 00:21:38.869 way. We're clearing the show, clearing the stage. 00:21:39.049 --> 00:21:41.589 It's John Cena time. So all in all, all in all, 00:21:41.609 --> 00:21:43.130 I think it was a good show. I think it was a 00:21:43.130 --> 00:21:45.710 very fitting send -off. And I actually said to 00:21:45.710 --> 00:21:47.950 my wife, As we're watching this, I can't believe 00:21:47.950 --> 00:21:50.890 how fast the time has gone. It seemed just like 00:21:50.890 --> 00:21:53.190 yesterday we were talking about Cena entering 00:21:53.190 --> 00:21:55.890 the Royal Rumble and declaring that this was 00:21:55.890 --> 00:21:58.190 going to be his last year. And how he said, I 00:21:58.190 --> 00:22:00.170 think there were, what, 33 dates for the whole 00:22:00.170 --> 00:22:03.430 calendar year. And then once it's over, it's 00:22:03.430 --> 00:22:05.369 over. And I'm sitting there watching this kind 00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:07.869 of like in disbelief going, I can't believe we 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:10.849 are here already. But all in all, looking back, 00:22:10.910 --> 00:22:15.589 I know I did a pod on the majority of his going 00:22:15.589 --> 00:22:18.569 away tour up to a point. I think I only missed 00:22:18.569 --> 00:22:21.309 the last couple matches. But all in all, I think 00:22:21.309 --> 00:22:23.190 it was a really successful year. I think it was 00:22:23.190 --> 00:22:26.690 a great goodbye tour. We had the heel turn in 00:22:26.690 --> 00:22:29.450 there that kind of didn't really live up to expectations. 00:22:29.670 --> 00:22:32.529 But I give them credit for giving it a shot. 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.880 back to full scale, full baby face at SummerSlam. 00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:41.759 I think that the rest of that was just awesome. 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:46.420 So yeah, I felt kind of sad that it was over 00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:49.839 on Saturday night. It made me feel old watching 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.450 it Saturday because... Old and sad at the same 00:22:53.450 --> 00:22:56.329 time, if I'm being completely honest. Not just 00:22:56.329 --> 00:22:58.569 because he's retiring, and I do think he's a 00:22:58.569 --> 00:23:00.930 man of his word. I think we've seen the last 00:23:00.930 --> 00:23:03.849 of him in a WWE ring, which is rare for retiring 00:23:03.849 --> 00:23:06.990 wrestlers. But it just kind of made me feel old 00:23:06.990 --> 00:23:09.670 and sad because father time really is never lost 00:23:09.670 --> 00:23:13.029 to anyone. Yeah, so all in all, great show. It 00:23:13.029 --> 00:23:16.109 was a fitting tribute show to John Cena, like 00:23:16.109 --> 00:23:18.250 I said, that just happened to have his last match 00:23:18.250 --> 00:23:22.200 at the end. And I get why people are upset. I 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.559 get why people are disappointed. But just zoom 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:27.660 the camera out a little and really try to break 00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:32.519 it down and see what story not only was WWE trying 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:34.940 to tell you, but John Cena too. So it's interesting 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:37.859 to see where we go from here. Interesting to 00:23:37.859 --> 00:23:40.599 see if there's going to be any major pivots heading 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:42.819 into WrestleMania season. I mean, we are almost 00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:45.710 to 2026, which... Royal Rumble is going to be 00:23:45.710 --> 00:23:47.529 right around the corner. So congratulations, 00:23:47.849 --> 00:23:50.089 Saudi. You are on the clock. I can't wait to 00:23:50.089 --> 00:23:52.210 have Royal Rumble from Saudi Arabia. You all 00:23:52.210 --> 00:23:54.109 know how I feel about that. But maybe we could 00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:56.970 do a flyover of the country and look down upon 00:23:56.970 --> 00:23:59.190 Bill Goldberg's house somewhere. But anyway, 00:23:59.309 --> 00:24:01.849 I don't know. I digress. Anyway, I think that's 00:24:01.849 --> 00:24:04.309 going to wrap up the wrestling portion of this 00:24:04.309 --> 00:24:07.470 show. Okay, Bills, Mafia, you are on the clock. 00:24:07.710 --> 00:24:10.690 How the heck are we feeling? Just like I said. 00:24:10.970 --> 00:24:13.369 the game turned out just like i said right right 00:24:13.369 --> 00:24:15.970 i think i gave this game a three on the stress 00:24:15.970 --> 00:24:18.869 meter if you listen to my game preview of week 00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:22.029 15 bills versus patriots i told you all i was 00:24:22.029 --> 00:24:24.349 not stressed at all i gave this game a three 00:24:24.349 --> 00:24:26.450 out of ten on the stress meter now i did warn 00:24:26.450 --> 00:24:29.369 you i did warn you however that the stress meter 00:24:29.369 --> 00:24:32.109 is notoriously broken and maybe sometimes can't 00:24:32.109 --> 00:24:34.789 get quite dialed in but uh this game went just 00:24:34.789 --> 00:24:38.210 like i expected right holy freaking crap another 00:24:38.210 --> 00:24:42.930 roller coaster to epic Epic proportions. I was 00:24:42.930 --> 00:24:44.470 thinking about this, putting my notes together. 00:24:44.970 --> 00:24:48.190 It's unbelievable the range of emotions that 00:24:48.190 --> 00:24:50.410 I go through during some of the Bills games this 00:24:50.410 --> 00:24:53.210 season. Now, Mafia, you got to let me know. Are 00:24:53.210 --> 00:24:55.349 you all going through the same range of emotions? 00:24:55.430 --> 00:24:58.450 I think we all are to some extent, but... Do 00:24:58.450 --> 00:25:01.490 fans of other teams go through the same kind 00:25:01.490 --> 00:25:03.829 of range of emotions? If you're like a middle 00:25:03.829 --> 00:25:06.069 -of -the -road team, let's say you're, I don't 00:25:06.069 --> 00:25:08.029 know, the Dolphins, right? Do you go through 00:25:08.029 --> 00:25:11.670 the same type of emotional rollercoaster on a 00:25:11.670 --> 00:25:14.089 game -to -game basis or even during the game, 00:25:14.150 --> 00:25:16.109 quarter -to -quarter basis that we do as Bills 00:25:16.109 --> 00:25:19.809 fans? I don't know. If I'm watching Tua Tungvaluwa, 00:25:19.809 --> 00:25:22.900 like loft. lame duck pass after lame duck pass 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:25.160 am i really that much invested in my team or 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:27.420 do i think i got no chance of ever winning anything 00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:30.579 with this guy so my expectations are set to zero 00:25:30.579 --> 00:25:32.519 but i don't know i'm watching this game and just 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.880 the range of emotions it's just unbelievable 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:38.059 and it's completely evident through the text 00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:40.579 threads i have with my kids and my buddy mike 00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:42.720 and who i share season tickets with it's just 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:44.809 like we're kind of all over the map it's just 00:25:44.809 --> 00:25:47.549 some of the now some of the stuff we talk about 00:25:47.549 --> 00:25:51.450 i will never repeat uh on some of these podcasts 00:25:51.450 --> 00:25:53.589 try to keep it a family -friendly clean show 00:25:53.589 --> 00:25:56.829 but um yeah i mean i think if you're a bills 00:25:56.829 --> 00:25:59.369 fan it's hard to not ride this wave of emotion 00:25:59.369 --> 00:26:02.269 and i just wonder are we going through this roller 00:26:02.269 --> 00:26:04.529 coaster are we are we are we going through this 00:26:04.529 --> 00:26:07.410 range of emotions because we simply have josh 00:26:07.410 --> 00:26:10.039 allen I mean, if we had another quarterback down 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:12.740 21 -0, how many people out there would have turned 00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:15.460 the TV off and just said, it's over, done, forget 00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:18.720 it? I mean, the minute it's 21 -0, I stood up. 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:22.240 I was really kind of mad. I think I went to get 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.619 a drink or something, and I said. Something to 00:26:24.619 --> 00:26:27.119 the effect of, well, I'm almost ready to turn 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:29.240 this TV off. Or if they score again, I'm going 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:30.960 to turn the TV off. Something to that effect. 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:35.019 And lo and behold, here comes J17 leading the 00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:36.740 team right down the field. And it's a tutty. 00:26:36.779 --> 00:26:40.200 So speaking of Josh, right off jump, he's back 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:43.259 in the MVP mix. And this whole Drake May is leading 00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:45.299 the charge nonsense, yeah, thanks for coming, 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.960 bud, but you're out. So there's no chance Drake 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.880 May is winning the MVP right now. He turned into 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.500 a turtle and threw for 42 yards, got sacked three 00:26:56.500 --> 00:26:59.700 times, and had an interception or something in 00:26:59.700 --> 00:27:02.259 the second half of that game. So we have so much 00:27:02.259 --> 00:27:04.220 to talk about, so much to talk about. This game 00:27:04.220 --> 00:27:06.980 was literally two completely different halves. 00:27:08.539 --> 00:27:11.480 Nightmare start everywhere you look. It was absolute 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:14.619 chaos, absolute terrible play. Offense, defense, 00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:17.539 coaching, just every aspect of this team. Outside 00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:19.799 of special teams, which I'll try to hit on later, 00:27:19.900 --> 00:27:22.220 but offense, defense, coaching, you all were 00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:25.690 terrible, terrible. The game starts, you miss 00:27:25.690 --> 00:27:27.529 Sean McDermott. I don't know what you're doing. 00:27:27.569 --> 00:27:30.670 You missed a challenge on the bootay catch. I'm 00:27:30.670 --> 00:27:33.730 like, are you asleep? Did we fire the guy in 00:27:33.730 --> 00:27:37.289 the booth whose one job is to review plays? Like, 00:27:37.289 --> 00:27:40.849 what is that? What the hell was that? You allow 00:27:40.849 --> 00:27:43.549 the Patriots to get up and get the next playoff? 00:27:43.630 --> 00:27:45.849 And this whole nonsense with replay assist? Can 00:27:45.849 --> 00:27:49.069 anyone out there listening? Can anyone not listening? 00:27:49.130 --> 00:27:51.470 Can anyone tell me what the hell replay assist 00:27:51.470 --> 00:27:53.349 is for if it's not for that play right there? 00:27:54.059 --> 00:27:56.559 How do we have something called replay assist 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:58.759 if it's not going to assist you with getting 00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:01.799 the call right? Put that to the side. Sean McDermott, 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:03.880 what are you doing? Are you trying to save your 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:06.759 timeouts? That was a game -changing play, potential 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.039 game -changing play in the first series. And 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:12.380 you could have stopped them on third down and 00:28:12.380 --> 00:28:14.319 gotten the ball back. But instead, they go on, 00:28:14.339 --> 00:28:17.099 get that nonsense, which in my opinion was not 00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:18.880 a catch, by the way. And then they go and score 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.539 right down the field for seven. And I'm like. 00:28:21.930 --> 00:28:24.269 So what do you have challenge flags if you're 00:28:24.269 --> 00:28:26.369 not going to try it on that one? Now, I know 00:28:26.369 --> 00:28:28.829 he has a history of not winning, but give me 00:28:28.829 --> 00:28:31.069 a break. You got to throw that flag on the field. 00:28:31.150 --> 00:28:33.630 So we get the ball. And what do you know? Our 00:28:33.630 --> 00:28:36.650 brand new wide receiver, Brandon Cooks, he bobbles 00:28:36.650 --> 00:28:39.710 it 16 times and can't catch it. Or maybe he did 00:28:39.710 --> 00:28:42.000 and maybe not. And then the next thing you know, 00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:45.740 within two seconds, we hear a replay assist says 00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:49.619 it's not a catch. And I mean, holy crap, that 00:28:49.619 --> 00:28:51.339 was lightning quick. I don't even think we saw 00:28:51.339 --> 00:28:54.240 the replay before a replay assist comes through 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:58.140 the loudspeaker and says, nope, no catch. So 00:28:58.140 --> 00:29:01.059 your brand new great addition, Brandon Cooks, 00:29:01.059 --> 00:29:05.200 went 0 for 3 in the game. Second possession, 00:29:05.420 --> 00:29:07.700 I'm sorry, first possession, we get down to the 00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:11.000 Pats 45, and what do we do? When was the last 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:14.039 time we saw this on the plus territory in the 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:17.740 opposing team's 45 -yard line? We punt, and I'm 00:29:17.740 --> 00:29:20.579 like, are you kidding me? That was a scared, 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.779 cowardly, ridiculous Sean McDermott decision, 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.009 and I can't believe. that we had to watch that 00:29:27.009 --> 00:29:29.710 crap because that was terrible, a terrible display. 00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:32.170 And then the defense comes back on the field, 00:29:32.210 --> 00:29:34.250 and it's missed tackle after missed tackle. They're 00:29:34.250 --> 00:29:37.029 getting gashed on the ground, and next thing 00:29:37.029 --> 00:29:40.529 you know, it's 14 -0. So, okay, offense got to 00:29:40.529 --> 00:29:43.789 get going here, right? Nope. We march down. We 00:29:43.789 --> 00:29:46.329 get the ball down to the 41 this time of the 00:29:46.329 --> 00:29:49.609 Patriots, and we do what now? What are you suggesting 00:29:49.609 --> 00:29:52.710 we do, Sean McDermott? You want us to punt the 00:29:52.710 --> 00:29:55.380 ball on the 41 -yard line? And I'm like, What 00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:58.339 the actual hell are we doing? What are we doing? 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:01.579 I couldn't believe the decisions he was making 00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:04.900 in the first half. It was just so cowardly. These 00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:07.160 are like Mike Tomlin decisions. This is what 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.180 the Steelers do. This is not what Sean McDermott 00:30:09.180 --> 00:30:11.539 and the Josh Allen -led offense of the Buffalo 00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:14.279 Bills do. You don't punt from the 45 and from 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.119 the 41. I was shocked. So, okay, here we go, 00:30:18.180 --> 00:30:21.079 punt. And then, again, Patriots right down the 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:23.420 field. Missed tackles all over. Can't cover. 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.819 Wide open, guys. And it's 21 -0. And this is 00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:28.740 where I stormed out of the room and like, I'm 00:30:28.740 --> 00:30:30.660 about to turn this nonsense off. This is pathetic. 00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:33.440 Pathetic. But then the range of emotions start 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.440 to flow back the other way. And finally, we get 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:39.839 it going. Josh Allen gets, you know, we get things 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:41.720 rolling and it's a tutty. And then what's the 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:44.160 very next thing that happens on the ensuing kickoff? 00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:46.599 We kick the ball into the end zone. And I'm like, 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.000 I thought that this whole landing zone thing. 00:30:49.849 --> 00:30:53.190 was there to prevent you from kicking it into 00:30:53.190 --> 00:30:55.750 the end zone. And you don't want to really do 00:30:55.750 --> 00:30:57.609 that now because now the team gets the ball at 00:30:57.609 --> 00:31:00.630 the 35. So I'm like, we are right before the 00:31:00.630 --> 00:31:02.730 half and you kick the ball into the end zone 00:31:02.730 --> 00:31:05.210 and they get the ball at the 35 yard line. Now, 00:31:05.210 --> 00:31:08.190 to their credit, the defense held the Patriots 00:31:08.190 --> 00:31:11.109 to three, but 24 to seven at the half. And I'm 00:31:11.109 --> 00:31:14.250 looking at the stats, almost 180 yards on the 00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:18.329 ground. The Patriots had 180 yards rushing against 00:31:18.329 --> 00:31:20.950 the Bills in the first half of football. And 00:31:20.950 --> 00:31:24.269 Josh Allen passing yards in the first half, 35 00:31:24.269 --> 00:31:28.390 yards through the air. What? What is going on? 00:31:28.490 --> 00:31:31.710 I asked and I talked about in my game preview 00:31:31.710 --> 00:31:34.369 of not waiting to the second half to actually 00:31:34.369 --> 00:31:38.130 wake up and get off the plane or the bus or whatever 00:31:38.130 --> 00:31:40.690 mode of transportation the Bills took to get 00:31:40.690 --> 00:31:43.500 to this game. But I'm just like, what? Why is 00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:46.319 this the way it is? Time after time, the first 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:48.660 half of these games, some of these games are 00:31:48.660 --> 00:31:51.160 just absolute trash performances. I don't know. 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:55.759 Halftime comes and goes. It was brutal. I'm ready 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.220 to turn the TV off 24 -7. And then here comes 00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:04.180 the kickoff. Ray Davis takes a huge return. What 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:06.920 do you have? Like a 60 -yard return? Some craziness? 00:32:07.380 --> 00:32:10.640 And here we go. Ray Davis, by the way. Kick returning 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.400 gem. Just an absolute. diamond in the rough who 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:16.940 would have thought in the preseason or in training 00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:19.200 camp that we would go oh you know who can we 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:21.500 put on special teams to be our kickoff specialist 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:25.099 how about ray davis but anyway he does he's been 00:32:25.099 --> 00:32:29.279 fantastic so down the field we go tutty offense 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.660 starts to gel we get rolling cook starts to find 00:32:31.660 --> 00:32:34.779 his rushing rhythm the o -line Seems to wake 00:32:34.779 --> 00:32:36.480 up. They're protecting better. They're picking 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.359 up blitzers. They're doing whatever. And it's 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.460 five straight drives with a tutty led by Josh 00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:43.700 Allen, led by James Cook. It's unbelievable. 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:47.619 The defense, suddenly they are waking up outside 00:32:47.619 --> 00:32:50.180 of this one stupid, ridiculous play where the 00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:52.900 guy cuts back from the right all the way to left 00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:55.740 and scores on this ridiculous run. But outside 00:32:55.740 --> 00:32:58.319 of that play in the second half, the defense 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.140 was locked freaking in. Locked in. So you have 00:33:02.140 --> 00:33:04.660 Josh Allen, James Cook, and the tight ends. Two 00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:07.700 catches by brand new daddy. Congratulations, 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:10.220 Dawson Knox, and you and your wife on the birth 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:13.240 of your daughter. Two huge tutties by Knox. Big 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:16.039 catches by Jackson Hawes. Big catches by Dalton 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:19.400 Kincaid. This tight end room, holy cow. So Josh, 00:33:19.500 --> 00:33:21.940 Cook, the tight ends. But now we get to the bad 00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.980 part, the wide receivers. Oh my gosh. I've talked 00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:28.180 about this so many times at this point. during 00:33:28.180 --> 00:33:31.259 the season but these guys oh my gosh it's just 00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:34.440 as bad as always as bad as always gabe davis 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.799 doesn't even dress so now it's josh palmer and 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:40.160 keon coleman keon coleman doesn't even get a 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.559 target this game never heard never heard the 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:44.740 name tyrell shavers during the the broadcast 00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:48.279 so between josh palmer and brandon cooks six 00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:52.000 targets one catch and palmer palmer thank thanks 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.829 for Thanks for being healthy enough to play. 00:33:53.970 --> 00:33:57.789 You missed a huge crucial block on the second 00:33:57.789 --> 00:34:00.250 to last possession and probably, in my opinion, 00:34:00.349 --> 00:34:03.069 the absolute worst play call of the entire game. 00:34:03.230 --> 00:34:06.150 We have a third and 15. And what does Joe Brady 00:34:06.150 --> 00:34:08.809 call? Well, just look up the four or five plays 00:34:08.809 --> 00:34:12.070 of Doom at this point. He calls the great screen 00:34:12.070 --> 00:34:16.429 pass to Shakir and pray play call. Palmer is 00:34:16.429 --> 00:34:21.219 the outside wide receiver. Comes in to make double 00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:25.079 block and he gets blown up and Shakir gets two 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.300 whole yards on the play. Just absolute brutal 00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:30.420 play call by Joe Brady. Terrible play call. Thankfully, 00:34:30.579 --> 00:34:33.380 thankfully the defense bails them out. Matt Milano, 00:34:33.500 --> 00:34:35.719 welcome back. You balled out that game. You played 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.000 awesome. He had a huge sack. There's a big fourth 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.539 down stand. I was kind of shocked that the Patriots 00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:43.360 decided to go for it because they still had all 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:45.559 three timeouts at the time. But they went for 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:48.400 it on their own, what, 20, 25 yard line? Bill's 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.000 defense makes a huge fourth down stand, and that's 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.780 the ball game. We need one first down, we convert 00:34:52.780 --> 00:34:54.940 it, and the game's over. It's just crazy. And 00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:57.360 then looking back, some of the key points, did 00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:00.940 you all see the visual of the James Cook touchdown 00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:03.980 where he dives and he's literally hovering an 00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:06.460 inch over the ground, not touching anything, 00:35:06.619 --> 00:35:10.360 and the tip of the ball goes across the goal 00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.559 line? That was an unbelievable picture. I turned 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:14.679 to my wife, I go, that's the... Christmas present 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.420 I want next year. I want you to find me that 00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:20.039 picture and frame it because him literally levitating 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.079 an inch off the ground and floating through air. 00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:25.099 Some of the stuff he does, I'm just, it's mind 00:35:25.099 --> 00:35:27.500 blowing. And here we are, what, six months ago, 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.460 all arguing over not paying him. The dude is 00:35:30.460 --> 00:35:33.230 phenomenal. Yeah, he has an occasional fumble 00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:35.510 here and there, but the dude is phenomenal. His 00:35:35.510 --> 00:35:38.449 ability to miss tackles and break through tackles 00:35:38.449 --> 00:35:40.050 is just, I don't know, who's better than him 00:35:40.050 --> 00:35:42.550 right now? Josh Allen, he's back in the MVP talk. 00:35:42.630 --> 00:35:44.590 I talked about this. How much does he actually 00:35:44.590 --> 00:35:47.769 carry this team? Probably 90%. I know James Cook 00:35:47.769 --> 00:35:51.269 is ridiculous, but oh my gosh. And then tip of 00:35:51.269 --> 00:35:52.929 the cap to Dawson Knox. We already talked about 00:35:52.929 --> 00:35:55.949 that. And the wide receivers are just so terrible. 00:35:56.309 --> 00:35:58.650 They're terrible. Nobody can get open. Nobody 00:35:58.650 --> 00:36:01.420 can catch the ball. Joe Brady still clinging 00:36:01.420 --> 00:36:04.139 to the same terrible play calls. You feel it's 00:36:04.139 --> 00:36:07.760 the worst time for him to have these awful, awful 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:09.699 play call moments. But I feel like they're there 00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:12.699 with the inside handoffs and the end arounds 00:36:12.699 --> 00:36:15.780 and the Shakir screens. It's just he calls these 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:18.000 plays at the worst time in the game. It just 00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:19.719 doesn't make any sense to me. Defensively, I 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:21.239 already talked about it. Matt Milano, I think 00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:23.340 he had his best game in a very long time. But 00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:26.920 the missed tackles that I said needed to. Not 00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:29.199 rear their ugly head this game? Well, they reared 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.940 their ugly head because there were missed tackles 00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:33.420 all over the freaking field. Shaq Thompson, I 00:36:33.420 --> 00:36:35.659 gave you mad praise last week. You played like 00:36:35.659 --> 00:36:38.780 crap this week. Joey Bosa is the key. If he's 00:36:38.780 --> 00:36:40.340 not there, we are screwed. We are screwed because 00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:42.780 I think he is the key to this pass rush. And 00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:45.760 even when he's there, the pass rush isn't that 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:47.949 great. A couple other things I saw, the whole 00:36:47.949 --> 00:36:51.389 Patriots doing their chest bumping, chest bumping 00:36:51.389 --> 00:36:53.769 nonsense before the half with Stephon Diggs and 00:36:53.769 --> 00:36:57.210 Matt Collins. Yeah, I see you two. I see you 00:36:57.210 --> 00:36:59.170 two acting like fools, thinking the game was 00:36:59.170 --> 00:37:02.170 over at halftime 24 -7. That's okay. That's okay. 00:37:02.949 --> 00:37:05.949 I probably was right there with you thinking, 00:37:05.969 --> 00:37:07.690 well, we don't have much of a chance, but it's 00:37:07.690 --> 00:37:10.530 kind of funny. to watch it from the other side. 00:37:10.610 --> 00:37:13.449 And the Bills, to their credit, they just stayed 00:37:13.449 --> 00:37:15.349 steady. They never got too high. They never got 00:37:15.349 --> 00:37:16.909 too low. They just kept going. They just kept 00:37:16.909 --> 00:37:19.349 going. The announcers in this game, I originally 00:37:19.349 --> 00:37:21.369 thought it was Greg Olson, but then I got corrected 00:37:21.369 --> 00:37:23.570 that it was J .J. Watt. Did you all hear this 00:37:23.570 --> 00:37:26.349 nonsense? J .J. Watt on this game, I thought 00:37:26.349 --> 00:37:28.250 he was playing for the Patriots. I'm like, have 00:37:28.250 --> 00:37:30.769 I mysteriously switched the broadcast to the 00:37:30.769 --> 00:37:34.710 New England home radio announcers? Because J 00:37:34.710 --> 00:37:37.590 .J. Watt went crazy. especially on the cutback 00:37:37.590 --> 00:37:40.269 run and you see drake may running down the field 00:37:40.269 --> 00:37:44.030 he's like oh my god he's screaming in the he's 00:37:44.030 --> 00:37:46.349 screaming in the microphone screaming like oh 00:37:46.349 --> 00:37:49.309 this is amazing i can't believe it drake may's 00:37:49.309 --> 00:37:52.090 unbelievable first of all yeah he's fast but 00:37:52.090 --> 00:37:54.630 he acts like he put like this crazy block on 00:37:54.630 --> 00:37:57.250 trey white no he just got in his way and then 00:37:57.250 --> 00:37:59.489 trey likes trey white's like yeah forget it i'm 00:37:59.489 --> 00:38:02.289 not gonna catch him but jay -jay is like ridiculously 00:38:02.289 --> 00:38:04.469 screaming into the microphone, like, are you 00:38:04.469 --> 00:38:06.429 paid by the Patriots right now? Because you sound 00:38:06.429 --> 00:38:10.690 like a complete childish moron. It was so aggravating 00:38:10.690 --> 00:38:13.349 to hear him, that game. So my apologies, Mr. 00:38:13.510 --> 00:38:16.429 Olsen. I thought you were the victim of that, 00:38:16.510 --> 00:38:19.630 but as it turns out, J .J. Watt, yeah, not too 00:38:19.630 --> 00:38:21.690 pleased with your announcing skills. So what's 00:38:21.690 --> 00:38:23.989 the fallout of this game? Bills now are sitting 00:38:23.989 --> 00:38:26.780 in sixth place. I know we still got one game 00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:28.980 to play tonight. It's Miami. It's Pittsburgh. 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:30.679 But I don't think that's really going to alter 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.300 the standings for the AFC. So Bills are currently 00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:36.480 sitting in sixth place. Yeah, we got one game 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:38.460 closer to New England in the division. But as 00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:41.599 I said, even winning this game, we weren't going 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:44.840 to be able to overtake them. But now I think 00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.980 it's great because now it forces New England 00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:48.940 to have to play out the rest of the season. And 00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:53.579 they really need to win. all three games to clinch. 00:38:53.579 --> 00:38:56.320 And let me tell you right now, Baltimore, Baltimore 00:38:56.320 --> 00:39:00.380 played way better on the road in Cincy on Sunday 00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:02.519 afternoon because we had that game on at the 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:04.480 same time we were watching that. I don't know 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.000 what the Ravens did to hold the Bengals to, what, 00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:11.880 zero points, but they balled out against the 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:14.639 Bengals and Joe Burrow. And this game is going 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:18.019 to be next Sunday night at home in Baltimore 00:39:18.019 --> 00:39:20.920 for the Ravens. I think the Patriots are in trouble 00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:22.860 in this game. I think they're in trouble. And 00:39:22.860 --> 00:39:25.139 I would love to see the Ravens just smack them 00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:27.219 square in the mouth, give them back -to -back 00:39:27.219 --> 00:39:29.599 losses, and then really have to sit, think, and 00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:32.599 sit in it for the next week leading into the 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:35.300 Miami game. It would not shock me. I have little 00:39:35.300 --> 00:39:37.119 to no hope that the Jets can actually beat the 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:39.139 Patriots, but it would not shock me to see the 00:39:39.139 --> 00:39:42.059 Dolphins give them a fight. So good, good. They 00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:44.920 have to actually play out the rest of their schedule. 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.760 I love it. They can't do this baked -in bye week. 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.179 They can't just coast. And they sure as hell 00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:53.619 weren't going to be putting on the hats and t 00:39:53.619 --> 00:39:57.000 -shirts that they all were expecting 24 minutes 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.440 into the game. So yeah, next Sunday, huge game 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.619 for the Pats in Baltimore. And I hope the Ravens 00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:04.380 smash them. What else do I want to talk about? 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:06.059 I made the mistake today. I made the mistake 00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:09.000 of getting on Twitter and looking at some of 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:11.780 the Patriots stuff. Patriots fans are just... 00:40:12.110 --> 00:40:14.309 I know Bills fans are bad, but Patriots fans 00:40:14.309 --> 00:40:18.329 are so ridiculous. So ridiculous. Coach Vrabel, 00:40:18.349 --> 00:40:20.469 I see this clip. It's like a three -minute clip. 00:40:20.750 --> 00:40:26.130 Coach Vrabel is on WEEI, which WEEI is the local 00:40:26.130 --> 00:40:28.590 sports radio station coming out of Boston. So 00:40:28.590 --> 00:40:31.309 they cover the Patriots team. I see him on this 00:40:31.309 --> 00:40:33.650 show. And what is he doing? He is complaining 00:40:33.650 --> 00:40:36.489 about the officiating. He basically said the 00:40:36.489 --> 00:40:38.469 Bills commit the most offensive holding penalties 00:40:38.469 --> 00:40:41.630 in the entire league. And how shocked he was 00:40:41.630 --> 00:40:43.429 that the Bills didn't get called for a single 00:40:43.429 --> 00:40:46.150 offensive hold yesterday during the game. Well, 00:40:46.170 --> 00:40:48.789 coach, before you open your stupid mouth, maybe 00:40:48.789 --> 00:40:51.230 you want to fact check yourself because they 00:40:51.230 --> 00:40:53.090 did in fact get called for an offensive hold. 00:40:53.190 --> 00:40:56.369 It was on the Josh Allen tutty run that got called 00:40:56.369 --> 00:40:59.550 back. Osiris Torrance got called for holding. 00:40:59.849 --> 00:41:02.570 Touchdown nullified. So before you start flapping 00:41:02.570 --> 00:41:04.969 your stupid gums, because all it seems like I'm. 00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.320 Just constantly seeing you complain about everything. 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:10.219 He goes on there and says this nonsense. You're 00:41:10.219 --> 00:41:13.139 wrong. Then he continues. He continues and complains 00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:14.920 about the defensive pass interference with the 00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:17.559 crazy Shakir catch. Now, was it me? Or did they 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:21.420 never show a replay of this? That madness happened. 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:23.920 Defensive pass interference, interception, catch. 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:27.019 No one knows. Then they just moved on. They never 00:41:27.019 --> 00:41:29.159 showed it again. And I'm like, could someone 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:32.179 please tell me what just happened? Because everyone's 00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:34.960 arguing over it. And he... goes on this radio 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:38.139 show the next day and is complaining about the 00:41:38.139 --> 00:41:41.019 defensive pass interference. And to me, to me, 00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:44.000 it just seems completely salty. And I hope that 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.659 this is the attitude that's kind of permeating 00:41:46.659 --> 00:41:49.760 through the locker room right now because I want 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.159 them to all sit in this. I think that they were 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:54.179 ready to be crowned. And then they go out and 00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:56.460 they get whooped in the second half. So to me, 00:41:56.460 --> 00:41:58.739 that was a salty take. You got crushed in the 00:41:58.739 --> 00:42:01.000 second half. Your team had a complete meltdown. 00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:03.179 And now you go on a radio show and you go on 00:42:03.179 --> 00:42:05.099 and you just blame everyone else. Sure, sure. 00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:08.119 Go ahead. Did you talk about this in the first 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:11.320 game? Because the Bills were penalized literally 00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:14.119 out of Orchard Park in the first game in week 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.210 five. We had a ridiculous amount. penalties. 00:42:17.610 --> 00:42:19.630 So get out of here with your complaining about 00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:21.829 the refs and the penalties. I never want to hear 00:42:21.829 --> 00:42:25.309 a player, a coach, an owner, the towel guy. I 00:42:25.309 --> 00:42:27.210 never want to hear a beer vendor, the parking 00:42:27.210 --> 00:42:30.869 enforcement agent, the guy who inflates the footballs, 00:42:30.869 --> 00:42:33.869 a janitor. I never want to hear anyone ever from 00:42:33.869 --> 00:42:36.510 the New England Patriots organization ever complain 00:42:36.510 --> 00:42:39.510 about officiating ever. After 20 years of getting 00:42:39.510 --> 00:42:42.369 every single call and literally having the rule 00:42:42.369 --> 00:42:45.230 book rewritten on behalf of you and your stupid 00:42:45.230 --> 00:42:48.010 team. you can't ever complain about officiating. 00:42:48.090 --> 00:42:50.650 So take your attitude and your saltiness and 00:42:50.650 --> 00:42:52.630 go pound sand. I don't want to hear about it. 00:42:52.670 --> 00:42:55.690 Oh my gosh, that frustrated me so much. But good 00:42:55.690 --> 00:42:58.030 thing, at least, like I said, this game at least 00:42:58.030 --> 00:43:00.530 delayed their crowning for another week or two 00:43:00.530 --> 00:43:03.969 and it makes them play out the regular season. 00:43:04.090 --> 00:43:06.429 So good, good. Another thought I had, can the 00:43:06.429 --> 00:43:08.750 Bills possibly put a complete game together? 00:43:08.929 --> 00:43:11.469 I mean, a complete game from start to finish. 00:43:12.110 --> 00:43:14.030 Come out of the locker room. Come out of the 00:43:14.030 --> 00:43:16.369 tunnel, wherever the hell you are, whatever stadium 00:43:16.369 --> 00:43:18.530 you're in. Come out actually being ready to play 00:43:18.530 --> 00:43:22.090 at the opening kick. No turnovers, no penalties. 00:43:22.590 --> 00:43:24.929 Look, I know you're not going to go a whole game 00:43:24.929 --> 00:43:27.409 without penalties, but no really dumb, stupid, 00:43:27.510 --> 00:43:30.530 I'm not in the game, I'm checked out, stupid 00:43:30.530 --> 00:43:32.650 penalties. No turnovers, no kicking the ball 00:43:32.650 --> 00:43:35.789 out of your own hands. No nothing. Tackle people, 00:43:35.949 --> 00:43:38.619 block people. Put a complete game together. Catch 00:43:38.619 --> 00:43:40.679 the ball when it's thrown to you. What would 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:42.440 the score have been if the Bills had come out 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:44.000 of the locker room and actually played a complete 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.980 game? 60 -14? I don't know. Is it possible? I 00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:50.159 just feel like the Bills are their own worst 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:52.820 enemy. And I'm just not sold on any of their 00:43:52.820 --> 00:43:55.019 opponents. I'm not sold on any of the opponents 00:43:55.019 --> 00:43:58.070 in the AFC. Maybe I should be. Maybe I'm underestimating 00:43:58.070 --> 00:44:00.630 Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos. And God forbid 00:44:00.630 --> 00:44:02.489 we have to play the Texans again. I don't really 00:44:02.489 --> 00:44:04.469 want to see that game. But I'm not sold on any 00:44:04.469 --> 00:44:06.210 of these guys. Josh Allen is the best quarterback 00:44:06.210 --> 00:44:08.510 in the AFC, hands down. You can't convince me 00:44:08.510 --> 00:44:11.030 otherwise. And if you think someone else is, 00:44:11.170 --> 00:44:13.849 you're just wrong. You're wrong. So if the Bills 00:44:13.849 --> 00:44:15.989 show up and they don't beat themselves, they 00:44:15.989 --> 00:44:19.710 can win the Super Bowl. But, but, this is a caveat. 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:22.260 They can't play 30 minutes. They have to play 00:44:22.260 --> 00:44:25.179 60 minutes of solid football. And they have yet 00:44:25.179 --> 00:44:27.679 to prove that they can do that with any sort 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:29.739 of consistency. I think maybe the closest they've 00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:32.519 come is played like 40 minutes of football. I'm 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:34.820 saying start to finish, come out and just crush 00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:36.340 it. Is there a team that could stick with them 00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:39.460 if they actually play complete football for 60 00:44:39.460 --> 00:44:41.380 minutes? I don't know. Maybe the Rams. I'd love 00:44:41.380 --> 00:44:43.320 to see it. Love to see it. Love to see what could 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:44.760 happen if we actually put this thing together. 00:44:45.099 --> 00:44:48.690 Anyway, other NFL news after. After the crazy 00:44:48.690 --> 00:44:53.309 week 15, the Chiefs have been eliminated. What 00:44:53.309 --> 00:44:55.630 does this mean? That means that they will not 00:44:55.630 --> 00:44:59.170 be the AFC representative in the Super Bowl and 00:44:59.170 --> 00:45:02.590 the Buffalo Bills record of being the only team 00:45:02.590 --> 00:45:04.630 to appear in four straight Super Bowls is still 00:45:04.630 --> 00:45:07.610 intact. So sorry, Casey, you've been eliminated. 00:45:07.769 --> 00:45:10.869 Now, I didn't like seeing Mahomes get hurt. I 00:45:10.869 --> 00:45:13.050 didn't want it to go down that way. I never like 00:45:13.050 --> 00:45:14.909 to see anybody get hurt. No matter how much I 00:45:14.909 --> 00:45:16.829 despise him, no matter how much I despise the 00:45:16.829 --> 00:45:19.329 Chiefs, you don't want to see that. So that sucks. 00:45:19.670 --> 00:45:22.510 I hope he has a speedy recovery because it's 00:45:22.510 --> 00:45:24.510 better when we can beat them at full strength. 00:45:24.610 --> 00:45:27.150 And clearly they had a down year. Yeah, we'll 00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:29.210 see what they do coming back next year. But the 00:45:29.210 --> 00:45:31.250 Broncos, the Broncos keep on rolling. Bo Nix 00:45:31.250 --> 00:45:33.429 was great. That Packers game was kind of crazy 00:45:33.429 --> 00:45:35.829 because Micah Parsons is gone for the year now. 00:45:36.170 --> 00:45:39.369 That was their big trade during the season. He's 00:45:39.369 --> 00:45:42.610 gone to the... Another ACL injury, another ACL 00:45:42.610 --> 00:45:44.610 tear. But the Broncos, holy cow, they're sitting 00:45:44.610 --> 00:45:48.389 at 12 -2. 12 -2. Would anyone think this was 00:45:48.389 --> 00:45:51.150 possible with Bo Nix leading the charge? They 00:45:51.150 --> 00:45:53.949 are 12 -2 and the one seed. Craziness. Now they 00:45:53.949 --> 00:45:55.849 got three games left. They play Jacksonville, 00:45:55.889 --> 00:45:58.989 which, holy cow, Trevor Lawrence. I see you and 00:45:58.989 --> 00:46:01.630 your six tutties sitting on my bench in fantasy. 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.699 But holy cow, the Jags, they play the Jags next 00:46:05.699 --> 00:46:08.079 week. That's going to be a banger of a game. 00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.340 Then they play the just eliminated Kansas City 00:46:10.340 --> 00:46:12.960 Chiefs without Mahomes. And then they finish 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:17.639 with the Chargers. So two of those three games, 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:20.159 those are going to be important games. Could 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.900 they lose two of those? It'd be great. It'd be 00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:24.840 great for them to go, what would that be, 13 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:27.360 -4? But Jacksonville's on fire. Trevor Lawrence 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.420 just, he balled out. That was insane. Never would 00:46:30.420 --> 00:46:32.000 have thought Trevor Lawrence would have had six 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.420 tutties. Would you have ever predicted Jacksonville 00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:38.059 finish ahead of the Bills in the AFC at the beginning 00:46:38.059 --> 00:46:40.420 of the season? Never, never. Who else? Baltimore, 00:46:40.539 --> 00:46:42.159 Houston, they both won, so they're coming on 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:43.960 strong for that seventh spot. I think it's going 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.099 to be a crazy final three weeks. I think it's 00:46:46.099 --> 00:46:48.380 going to be crazy. So, Bills, you've got to get 00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:50.239 to Cleveland, you've got to get focused, and 00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:51.539 you've got to go in there and you've got to take 00:46:51.539 --> 00:46:53.639 care of business. Now, the story is going to 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:55.820 be Myles Garrett looking to get that all -time 00:46:55.820 --> 00:46:58.619 sack record. I would hate for it to come against 00:46:58.619 --> 00:47:01.480 Josh Allen, but hey, most likely it will. He 00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:03.619 needs like one and a half sacks. He's averaging, 00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:06.780 what, 18 sacks a game? This dude is just a monster. 00:47:06.940 --> 00:47:09.880 I would have loved to see the Bills trade everything 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:12.440 for Miles Garrett and Justin Jefferson and just 00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.460 put the pedal to the metal. But hey, Uncle Scrooge 00:47:16.460 --> 00:47:19.719 McBean didn't, if you listen to my Christmas 00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:23.139 Carol episode, Uncle Scrooge McBean didn't deliver 00:47:23.139 --> 00:47:26.000 this Christmas. Anyway. That's going to wrap 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.300 up the Bills portion. Hobby enthusiasts, hobby 00:47:28.300 --> 00:47:30.739 enthusiasts, how are we feeling? Card marks, 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.179 what's going on? Because I got to admit, I am 00:47:34.179 --> 00:47:37.420 having a hard time getting excited or getting 00:47:37.420 --> 00:47:40.300 any level of excitement about some of this crap 00:47:40.300 --> 00:47:42.900 happening in the card world right now. It's been 00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:45.480 insane. Last week, we saw Topps Chrome Baseball 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:48.579 released on Wednesday. I have talked about it 00:47:48.579 --> 00:47:52.469 before. about how the prices are absolutely insane. 00:47:52.610 --> 00:47:54.369 They're through the roof. And then Wednesday, 00:47:54.710 --> 00:47:58.449 we saw chaos happen on your socials and your 00:47:58.449 --> 00:48:01.510 breaking platforms because as soon as the break 00:48:01.510 --> 00:48:03.489 started happening, specifically, I'm talking 00:48:03.489 --> 00:48:06.449 about you, Filth Bomb Breaks. So if y 'all don't 00:48:06.449 --> 00:48:08.829 know anything about breakers, a breaker is basically 00:48:08.829 --> 00:48:10.889 someone who does like a live stream and opening. 00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:15.219 hobby boxes and jumbo boxes and specific breaker 00:48:15.219 --> 00:48:18.480 boxes after people pay ungodly amounts of money 00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:22.019 to either pick specific teams or players or randomized 00:48:22.019 --> 00:48:25.820 spots. Anyway, Filth Bomb is one of this ginormous 00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:29.820 breaker companies who basically manages to gather 00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:32.920 up, I don't know, some ridiculous percentage 00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:35.880 of the product market and then they jack their 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:38.079 prices through the roof in order to get people 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.019 into their rooms and... What did we see in the 00:48:42.019 --> 00:48:44.760 first seven hours of them opening Tops Chrome 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.800 Baseball? Now, the chase in Tops Chrome Baseball, 00:48:47.860 --> 00:48:49.559 if you don't remember me talking about it, this 00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.380 is the rookie debut patch autos. This was a huge 00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:54.480 deal involving Paul Skeens last year and the 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.900 Pittsburgh Pirates. This was the card that everyone 00:48:56.900 --> 00:48:59.920 was gunning for. Well, I think the checklist 00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:03.440 was something like 200. Roughly, I don't know, 00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:06.420 give or take 10, 15. I don't know what the total 00:49:06.420 --> 00:49:08.619 number of debut patches were in this year's product. 00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:11.079 But within the first seven hours of them breaking, 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:14.760 they hit four rookie debut patch autos. And then 00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:19.199 in the totality of 24 hours, they hit six. Six 00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:21.920 rookie debut patch autos in 24 hours. Really? 00:49:22.260 --> 00:49:24.920 Really? And people are going, people are getting 00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:28.230 mad about this. Mad. And you're probably asking, 00:49:28.289 --> 00:49:29.989 well, why is everyone so mad? Because someone 00:49:29.989 --> 00:49:33.130 did the calculations about the odds of them pulling 00:49:33.130 --> 00:49:36.190 so many of these day rookie debut patch autos. 00:49:36.429 --> 00:49:38.409 And it was something ridiculous. It was like 00:49:38.409 --> 00:49:41.269 one in 39 billion were the odds of them hitting. 00:49:41.730 --> 00:49:45.650 And so here come the thoughts and the conspiracy 00:49:45.650 --> 00:49:48.070 theories. And I'm not sure that these are conspiracy 00:49:48.070 --> 00:49:50.469 theories at all because it seems absolutely ridiculous 00:49:50.469 --> 00:49:53.050 that one company can hit so many of these cards 00:49:53.050 --> 00:49:56.550 in such a short time span. You're asking, well, 00:49:56.690 --> 00:50:00.170 are these loaded boxes? Is Fanatics literally 00:50:00.170 --> 00:50:04.889 handing them hits so they can drive market shares 00:50:04.889 --> 00:50:08.889 and people to their breaking sites? Who, hey, 00:50:08.909 --> 00:50:12.670 guess what? Filth Bomb gets to break on the Fanatics 00:50:12.670 --> 00:50:16.190 platform. And who owns Fanatics but Topps? Or 00:50:16.190 --> 00:50:20.030 Topps owns Fanatics? I don't know. Topson Fanatics 00:50:20.030 --> 00:50:22.250 are essentially the same company. Who owns who? 00:50:22.309 --> 00:50:24.889 I can't remember at this point, but one of them 00:50:24.889 --> 00:50:27.070 owns the other. So Fanatics has their own breaking 00:50:27.070 --> 00:50:30.989 platform. All these big time breakers are showcasing 00:50:30.989 --> 00:50:34.929 the product. And lo and behold, these huge rookie 00:50:34.929 --> 00:50:37.769 auto patch cards are being hit on this platform 00:50:37.769 --> 00:50:40.409 that is owned by Fanatics. So the question is, 00:50:40.489 --> 00:50:42.389 and everyone's thinking this, and everyone's 00:50:42.389 --> 00:50:44.309 saying the same thing, is Fanatics is literally 00:50:44.309 --> 00:50:47.849 feeding these hits to their own workers. And 00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:49.829 people are mad, and rightly so. People are getting 00:50:49.829 --> 00:50:51.909 fed up with it. And the byproduct of this is 00:50:51.909 --> 00:50:55.030 that these breakers are jacking the prices up 00:50:55.030 --> 00:50:57.670 for the consumer who wants to buy into their 00:50:57.670 --> 00:51:00.590 spots. And they're going, well, you gotta buy 00:51:00.590 --> 00:51:02.550 in because this is where all the hits are coming 00:51:02.550 --> 00:51:04.969 from. So if you want a chance at winning these, 00:51:05.170 --> 00:51:07.489 you better shell out the cash. And they're paying 00:51:07.489 --> 00:51:11.590 way, way, way, way over market price to get a 00:51:11.590 --> 00:51:13.969 spot with these breakers. And people are getting 00:51:13.969 --> 00:51:16.429 completely... Fed up with it. And I can't say 00:51:16.429 --> 00:51:19.030 I blame them. Because if you look at it. I always 00:51:19.030 --> 00:51:21.070 tell you. Zoom the camera out. What are you seeing 00:51:21.070 --> 00:51:23.750 from the 10 ,000 foot view? And it's just freaking 00:51:23.750 --> 00:51:26.429 maddening. It's maddening. I don't know what's 00:51:26.429 --> 00:51:29.210 going on. But this breaking nonsense. Especially 00:51:29.210 --> 00:51:33.150 the big time. The big scale stuff. It's just 00:51:33.150 --> 00:51:36.389 insane. It's insane. I don't know. I don't know. 00:51:37.289 --> 00:51:40.730 It's really hard to get excited about some of 00:51:40.730 --> 00:51:44.400 this card stuff. 2025 Tops Heritage High Number 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:47.400 hits the shelves this Wednesday. Y 'all have 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:49.159 heard me talk about Heritage before. I've actually 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.579 opened some of it, some of the small stuff, some 00:51:52.579 --> 00:51:55.559 of the value boxes on my YouTube channel. I love 00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:58.619 Heritage High Number. I'm big on nostalgia. Y 00:51:58.619 --> 00:52:01.179 'all know this. This is a 225 card base set. 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:04.280 It picks right up where Heritage left off earlier 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:06.079 in the year. Now this product I opened a lot 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.639 of. I love heritage. I really enjoy it. It's 00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:11.300 a much cheaper entry point. It has a huge high 00:52:11.300 --> 00:52:13.940 nostalgia factor. You know, I love that. Lots 00:52:13.940 --> 00:52:16.760 of throwback inserts, a lot of old school players 00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:18.900 in there. And I think this high number variation, 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.199 like I said, it continues right where tops heritage 00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:23.920 left off and you got a lot more of the same. 00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:26.809 Now this is not for everyone. Not everybody enjoys 00:52:26.809 --> 00:52:31.869 this because the hits are a lot lower. It's a 00:52:31.869 --> 00:52:34.550 lot harder to get good stuff, but I do tend to 00:52:34.550 --> 00:52:37.230 enjoy it. I love the crazy variations. They have 00:52:37.230 --> 00:52:40.670 a red ink on card auto that I've gotten a couple 00:52:40.670 --> 00:52:43.269 of little lower end tiered players, but that's 00:52:43.269 --> 00:52:47.190 okay. I love the red ink. They're not stickers 00:52:47.190 --> 00:52:49.050 either, and they usually number it according 00:52:49.050 --> 00:52:51.889 to what. year the product is based off of. So 00:52:51.889 --> 00:52:55.530 this year it's 76, 1976. So every one of these 00:52:55.530 --> 00:52:59.170 Red Ink Autos is number 276. And so if Topps 00:52:59.170 --> 00:53:02.170 has any left to actually go live with on Wednesday, 00:53:02.269 --> 00:53:04.590 I think these hobby boxes are going to be probably 00:53:04.590 --> 00:53:08.690 around $130, $140 for a hobby box, which I think 00:53:08.690 --> 00:53:11.070 when they first got released on pre -sale, they 00:53:11.070 --> 00:53:14.429 were probably around like $110, $120. So not 00:53:14.429 --> 00:53:18.489 a terrible markup. But yeah, I love Heritage. 00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:21.380 I really dig the product. It's a good thing. 00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:25.860 So I probably will try to buy maybe some retail 00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:28.679 of this one if I can find it. Also hitting the 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:31.440 shelves this week, we got a huge, huge basketball 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:33.920 release. Topps Chrome Basketball. Look, I've 00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:36.059 talked about this before. The prices are absolutely 00:53:36.059 --> 00:53:38.920 insane. At the time of the pre -sale, the Hobby 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:41.880 Box was about $399 or so, and I think the jumbo 00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:44.079 was crazy high. It was like $700 during the pre 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.860 -sale, and that sale was available for about 00:53:46.860 --> 00:53:49.559 five seconds, literally five seconds before it 00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:51.880 was completely sold out. And lo and behold, hey, 00:53:51.940 --> 00:53:54.000 shocking, now the resale is three times the amount. 00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:57.500 So the Hobby Box is going... I don't know. I've 00:53:57.500 --> 00:53:59.860 seen the jumbos around like $1 ,200, $1 ,300 00:53:59.860 --> 00:54:02.099 on the secondary markets. Are you kidding me? 00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:04.579 What are we talking about? I've seen mega boxes. 00:54:04.780 --> 00:54:06.739 These aren't even released yet. And Topps is 00:54:06.739 --> 00:54:08.460 selling mega boxes of Topps Chrome basketball 00:54:08.460 --> 00:54:12.260 for $100. $100? You can get right out of here 00:54:12.260 --> 00:54:14.920 with that nonsense. A value box? They're labeling 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:18.920 a $50 retail box as a value box. This is one 00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:23.050 that is historically... 24 to 29 .99. These are 00:54:23.050 --> 00:54:27.349 now $50. In no world is there a value box for 00:54:27.349 --> 00:54:30.610 $50. What value is it? You're not getting any 00:54:30.610 --> 00:54:33.090 value out of this. If you're lucky, if you spend 00:54:33.090 --> 00:54:35.590 50 on this, you might get five, six bucks back. 00:54:35.869 --> 00:54:39.289 So this is just getting completely out of control. 00:54:39.429 --> 00:54:42.630 This is a disaster in every way imaginable. And 00:54:42.630 --> 00:54:43.969 I'm sure there's going to be people out there 00:54:43.969 --> 00:54:45.750 and be like, oh, this old man's yelling at the 00:54:45.750 --> 00:54:49.090 clouds. It's just, we have totally lost sight 00:54:49.090 --> 00:54:51.030 of it. And this is kind of what drove me into 00:54:51.030 --> 00:54:54.409 the 3Ts Christmas Carol portion and just talk 00:54:54.409 --> 00:54:56.090 about some of this nonsense. But it's just like, 00:54:56.190 --> 00:54:58.230 what are we doing? I'm not going to participate 00:54:58.230 --> 00:55:00.710 in anything with this product, which is so disappointing 00:55:00.710 --> 00:55:03.449 because the cards are awesome. Some of the inserts 00:55:03.449 --> 00:55:06.489 are super cool, but there's no chance in hell 00:55:06.489 --> 00:55:09.769 I am paying $50 for a freaking value box. So 00:55:09.769 --> 00:55:12.170 I'm sorry, Tops, but you lost me on this one. 00:55:12.269 --> 00:55:14.969 I am out. I'm out. It's just so frustrating. 00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:17.500 That's why I said at the very beginning of this 00:55:17.500 --> 00:55:19.820 segment, it's like I'm having a hard time getting 00:55:19.820 --> 00:55:21.659 excited about this card stuff right now. Really 00:55:21.659 --> 00:55:24.380 hard time. So what am I buying? I told you last 00:55:24.380 --> 00:55:26.760 week, I think, or a week ago that I'm looking 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:28.940 for off -season baseball stuff. I actually got 00:55:28.940 --> 00:55:33.920 a Corbin Carroll SGC 10 of his Topps Chrome rookie 00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.840 card. I know SGC got bought out by PSA, but I 00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:41.340 still love, I think for the money, the SGC label, 00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:45.860 the... The casing for SGC is far superior to 00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:48.840 PSA. I know PSA rules the world right now, which 00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:51.579 is nonsense too, if you ask me. At no time do 00:55:51.579 --> 00:55:53.500 I think any company should literally try to have 00:55:53.500 --> 00:55:55.519 a monopoly over everything. I just think it makes 00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.860 it terrible for the whole industry. But SGC, 00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:01.179 these are things that I'm going to hold on. These 00:56:01.179 --> 00:56:03.400 are from my personal collection. Corbin Carroll 00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:05.539 is one of my favorite players. I wanted his rookie. 00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:08.500 I found it in a 10. I love the tuxedo look of 00:56:08.500 --> 00:56:13.460 this. holder and i got it for like 19 i mean 00:56:13.460 --> 00:56:15.679 it would cost me 20 something just to get it 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:18.239 graded by myself if i had the card so are you 00:56:18.239 --> 00:56:21.199 kidding me i think right now if you are deliberate 00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:23.400 with your searches you can find some good deals 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:24.880 especially if you're looking for graded stuff 00:56:25.739 --> 00:56:27.760 So I'm looking at some of that. I got my eye 00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:30.019 on some Gunnar Henderson stuff, some Adley stuff. 00:56:30.179 --> 00:56:31.960 I think Adley Rutschman of the Orioles is going 00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:34.460 to have a huge bounce back here. Pete Alonso 00:56:34.460 --> 00:56:36.500 is getting added to that team. I was a little 00:56:36.500 --> 00:56:40.039 upset that he didn't re -sign with my Mets, but 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:42.780 if he's going to any team, I was super happy 00:56:42.780 --> 00:56:44.599 to see him go to the Orioles. I do like watching 00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:46.599 the Orioles. They have a ton of good young talent. 00:56:47.019 --> 00:56:48.920 Jackson Holiday, I'm looking for stuff. I got 00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:51.880 a couple things in my watch list for some of 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:53.900 these Orioles. I think now is the time to jump 00:56:53.900 --> 00:56:56.590 on some of this baseball. stuff, guys. The winter 00:56:56.590 --> 00:56:58.690 meetings are winding down or they just finished 00:56:58.690 --> 00:57:02.289 and you're seeing some players sign. So if the 00:57:02.289 --> 00:57:04.110 players you're searching for are not involved 00:57:04.110 --> 00:57:06.329 in some of these brand new high -end signings 00:57:06.329 --> 00:57:08.530 or trades, I think now's the time to jump because 00:57:08.530 --> 00:57:10.469 people are going crazy over some of these other 00:57:10.469 --> 00:57:12.929 products with the basketball and whatnot. So 00:57:12.929 --> 00:57:15.389 anyway, I think that's going to wrap up this 00:57:15.389 --> 00:57:17.530 episode of the 3Ts. If you have enjoyed this 00:57:17.530 --> 00:57:20.690 episode or any other episode of the 3Ts podcast, 00:57:20.949 --> 00:57:22.329 do me a favor, share it with someone you know, 00:57:22.389 --> 00:57:24.550 whether they are a fellow mafia If you're a member, 00:57:24.630 --> 00:57:27.030 a card collector, or someone who just loves wrestling, 00:57:27.130 --> 00:57:28.469 it doesn't matter. I'm trying to grow this thing 00:57:28.469 --> 00:57:31.110 one episode at a time. 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