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Heavily Side Eyeing The Eagles , Week 6 NFL Preview, Salary Cap Propaganda Is Out Of Hand · The Regulars

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  Well, well, well, it is Friday. Major League Baseball.
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  Congratulations. The Brewers saved baseball. A lot of
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  Major League Baseball owners are way richer than you think. And Tanya,
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  Tanya, Tanya, weekend of football ahead of us and so much to discuss
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  and only what, hour, hour and a half to do it? Oh, it's at least
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  an hour and a half. I mean, come on, let's not pretend we're not going
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  to take the people's 90 minutes. We always take the people's 90 minutes. We are
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  the regulars. I'm Tanya Ray Fox. I'm Cody Decker. Cheers.
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  You're welcome.
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  It's a Friday night and we are without mocha, and sometimes when you're without
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  mocha, you gotta make some adjustments. So there might be a couple of times tonight,
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  Tanya, where I might have to literally get up and sprint off camera.
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  So here's what's gonna happen. Anytime you guys are watching live on YouTube and it
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  looks like this It means I had to go do something. It means
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  you're getting prime time, Tanya. Yes, you are.
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  Actually, the show would look better if it— no, no, no.
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  Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
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  No. Yes. It's like at the crowd when they do
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  the— and this one's fine. This one's fine too. But welcome to the show.
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  A lot to talk about today, Tanya. And quite frankly, I mean,
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  I, I love that it's actually somewhat of a baseball-heavy show today because Lots to
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  discuss in the world. Yeah, I mean, it's not— it's funny because we have this
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  one topic that's baseball, but it's our most in-depth topic, I would
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  say. I would agree. And this is inspired by the reaction people had to both
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  you and I using last night's Brewers win
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  as an opportunity to point out that this is a great leverage for the MLBPA
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  to fight against the salary cap. We'll get into
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  all of it. For anybody who is also being driven mad by the
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  Um, comment warriors who apparently just truly love
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  to buy billionaire propaganda, and you need the arguments.
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  We are going to present them in a full segment with
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  very intense— like, intense graphics. I was not screwing
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  around preparing for today's show. Unfortunately, it's not the
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  best show to have a bunch of graphics when we don't have Mocha, but we
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  can't do this segment without it. So we're gonna give it our best shot.
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  If I have to— if it has to be the one shot while Cody's doing
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  stuff, then Then we'll figure it out. No, no, no, make no mistake, we have
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  the graphics. They're going to look great. This is a flawless show. We don't even
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  need fucking Mocha. Fuck Mocha. He's out there in fucking Hawaii right now living his
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  best life. Last time I heard from him, by the way, was, hey Cody,
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  can you send me my Venmo? Didn't even get a thank you. Well, I don't
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  think he said thank you for being employed by us, but that's okay. Didn't get
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  a thank you. Not even a fucking— he was like, thank you,
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  bye. I, I thought it was rude. That's all I'm saying. So we're left here
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  without our— up to our own devices, and anything can happen. It could be a
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  shit show. Honestly, I, I think we're better employers than the, than the Philadelphia
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  Eagles, I'll tell you that much. Oh, she nailed it, she nailed it! Go ahead,
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  Tanya, headline number 1. Yeah,
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  Tanya, why don't you also go ahead and take it away entirely?
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  Hell yeah. Okay, so, um, everybody likely knows
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  by now that Jalen Hurts is experiencing a medical
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  situation where he has been diagnosed with a blood They
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  originally diagnosed it as a superficial blood clot, but I'm not entirely
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  sure that we can fully say what kind of blood clot
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  it is because we haven't really fully figured out exactly—
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  we haven't fully figured out exactly what happened and how it all went down.
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  Jalen Hurts has been diagnosed with this in his calf, and he's been ruled out
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  of the game against the Carolina Panthers. The most concerning detail
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  is the follow-up ultrasound that said that the clot had moved,
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  and that's what decided to have the— like, that's what sort of prompted
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  the Eagles to take it seriously enough to call him, call him,
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  uh, out for the game. I'm gonna go through the quick
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  sequence of events that got us to this point because people are upset,
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  and I say rightfully so. So, so let's
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  be— let's straight out say we just hope that Jalen Hurts is okay. Absolutely.
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  He's good. That it's a huge deal. And like, I just
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  want him to be safe and taken care of. And that's that. We do have
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  to also talk about the, the issues within
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  the— this is not to undermine what Jalen's going through, but like this,
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  this is something we talked about on last week's show. There are huge issues with
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  this front office and with this organization. And this is another indication.
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  October 4th, he suffers an injury against the Rams. He was cleated in the calf
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  during Philadelphia's game against the Rams. And according to the Eagles, this was the
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  injury that preceded the discovery of the clot. October 8th to 9th,
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  he reports calf discomfort. October 10th to 11th, clot is discovered.
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  He's cleared to play in London. An ultrasound
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  after they arrive in London detected the clot and they said, okay,
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  you're good to go, you can play. Hurts plays the whole game.
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  Follow-up scan changes the outlook. That was done in
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  London. Hurts underwent this ultrasound and then they fly
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  him home, which is an interesting choice for someone with a blood clot. Um,
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  why was he allowed to play with a blood clot? Big questions. Yeah. So the,
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  the big question overall is why was he allowed to play with a blood clot?
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  Have you, as a professional athlete, dealt with or experienced
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  anything in this realm? I'm very lucky I never had to deal with a blood
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  clot. I only played with one guy that did. But it's been interesting seeing how
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  kind of blood clots have been a thing that's really popped up a lot over
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  the last couple of years. You know, we saw it with Wemby and his shoulder.
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  We see it with other players in their leg or their hip or whatever.
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  It's, it's fucking terrifying. But, but to find out, because like, that's like
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  a— it's like pancreatic cancer. It's like this silent killer that'll just get you
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  one day. And what I don't understand about this
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  story is basically the question you're posing right out the gate. Who the fuck let
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  this happen? How did— how are we just like finding out about it now?
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  Especially the finding out that they found out before the last game in London.
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  And as you just said, flying to and back over the goddamn
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  Atlantic How— in what fucking planet does that help? Not advisable
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  with blood clots specifically. Like anything, anything blood.
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  And like, that's a huge deal. Why wasn't the public told?
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  That's what you just asked. That's an interesting question. Before the Jaguars
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  game, they, you know, the— it was communicated
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  between Philadelphia and the NFL that this was happening.
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  The league said that teams must make a public announcement if a player's availability
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  is in question or the condition could affect him. Because the Eagles were certain that
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  Hurts would play, the NFL said they did not need to list him questionable.
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  This creates 2 competing sort of arguments. Yeah, the transparency criticism,
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  which is the public and people betting on the game had no way to know
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  about a medically significant condition that could potentially change. Critics argue
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  the NFL's injury reporting rules should disclose more. We've already
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  heard that before. The other side is that the Eagles and the NFL were—
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  had, you know, he'd been evaluated, cleared by doctors. And they
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  were in communication about the fact that there was no expectation
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  that he wouldn't play. The competitive
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  betting angle is really interesting to me. Very interesting, because do
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  I give a fuck about anybody's bet compared to somebody's
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  health? No, not even a little bit. Not even a little. Do I give a
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  fuck that the NFL is in bed with these sportsbooks and these betting companies?
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  Yes. And then stuff like this happens that's a little bit shady that
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  starts to make you wonder what the fuck's going on. Yes. You and I have
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  repeatedly talked about the fact that these questions are going to come up if you're
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  going to be in bed. So this is where— this is where everything gets really
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  fucking gross to me. So when it comes to this, and we just dealt with
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  this on Tuesday, we were talking about Adam Schefter and how he was reporting about
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  a potential trade that was going on. And all of a sudden, all of our
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  fucking bells and whistles go off at the exact same time about the exact same
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  thing. Oh, he owns a lot of points in a gambling thing. Why didn't he
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  put out the teams that are out there? Is he trying to spark the fucking
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  interest in one particular team? Is he trying to get public money in another thing?
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  And these are very realistic and understandable questions that everybody should ask,
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  especially if you know anything about the gambling sphere. This particular one is
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  not just the gambling sphere, because here, you know, one thing about gambling sphere,
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  like the BetMGMs and the DraftKings and all that, it's pretty— for
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  the most part, please forgive me by grossly overgeneralizing,
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  but it is relatively regulated. So you at least know who's behind the bets,
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  who's behind the money, this and that. The Polymarkets of the world,
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  the Kalshis of the world, the predictive markets of the world, however,
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  is not as easily followed. And it's very, very much like
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  the fucking Wild West when it comes to where money is going and how money
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  is getting there. And we're watching it with wars, we're watching
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  it with fucking gas prices, we're watching people make out like bandits anonymously
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  on all of these markets with shit that we don't know as a public.
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  But insider trading more or less is what's taking place. And this feels
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  like fucking insider trading to me in the gambling sphere.
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  And I'll even go a step further. In the fucking fantasy football sphere, which is
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  not probably as big as the fan— as the gambling sphere. But that's everything
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  that I'm thinking about. This made sense to me going like, well, fuck, I have
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  Jalen Hurts as my quarterback in my fantasy league. I wouldn't have fucking started
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  him if I knew he had a fucking blood clot in the league. And you
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  know what? Neither should the fucking Eagles. Yep.
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  That's what's really scary is that it doesn't matter
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  whose fault it is. Was it the doctor? Was it the someone else,
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  whatever it was, whoever, you know, the doctor clears him
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  to play. There's no, there's no world where
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  this, where this type of medical
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  situation should be taken lightly enough that they would clear
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  him to play. And then right after the game, the blood clot,
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  like if there's a, if there's a chance that the blood clot can move to
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  that degree in a single game, and then he's immediately put
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  on the injury list. They're— sorry,
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  you can't convince me that you couldn't have figured out that he probably shouldn't have
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  been playing in the first place. Yeah, I don't think any professional athlete, no matter
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  what they call a superficial blood clot or not, should be playing with any level
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  of blood clot. That's fucking insane. Insane. This is like even a question to
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  me. Like, I can't believe that— I can't— fuck playing. I can't believe
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  he traveled. I can't believe he took a flight Crossed
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  the fucking ocean, diagnose it before. So he had
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  complained about this injury before they left for London. Then they diagnosed it in
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  London and then they flew him back. Then they flew him back knowing it was
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  fucking worse. Like, Jesus Christ, dude. So I'm concerned.
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  Are the Eagles trying to kill Jalen Hurts is my question, because apparently they didn't
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  do a good enough job turning the public against him. Are they now just trying
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  to kill him? I'm going to be honest. I'm, I'm a
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  little freaked out based on our conversation last show and some of the shit.
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  So Dan Orlovsky, always a real fun treat talking about this stuff,
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  made this whole point essentially of like, oh well, how do we know Roseman always
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  knows when it's time to move on from a quarterback? He's talking about this today.
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  Today he's like, then out
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  the other side of his mouth he says, you know, Jalen Hurts has carried
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  this offense and like gotten like this offense that's doing nothing. He's covered up
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  for a lot of his insufficiencies and deficiencies in the offense.
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  I'm sorry. So you're, you're starting to
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  allude to the fact that maybe he's in the Carson Wentz spot of potentially moving
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  on from him while also saying that he's covered up for all of their insufficiencies
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  because he's so solid that they've gotten away with a lot by having Jalen
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  Hurts there. And, and you and I both know that these
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  media men are used as mouthpieces for these
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  GMs and front offices. And this constant conversation around
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  Jalen Hurts. Now all of a sudden they got Tanner McKee coming in for him.
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  Oh, wow. What if Tanner McKee has a good game? You and I both
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  fucking know that if, if Tanner McKee has a good game,
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  exactly what people are going to be saying on Monday. It's a disaster
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  and it shouldn't be. If, if anybody should have earned their
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  spot there, there are 2 quarterbacks that
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  inarguably have earned the benefit of the doubt to be hurt
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  and miss games without people even so much as blinking. Agreed.
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  Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts. It's not even a question to me.
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  That's, that's the thing about this. I just don't get this. And in this particular
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  situation, it's gross. And it's gross because of the extra things that we just discussed.
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  The idea, like the idea— that's, that's actually— thank you. Thank you for saying that.
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  It's not even that I want to believe that there's nothing behind
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  that. There isn't any of this nefarious gambling shit in the background.
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  I want to believe that. Part of me is a little cynical. I'm not exactly
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  getting there. Yeah, but the fact that I even have the idea
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  and the inkling that it's there just shows you how fucked up the system is
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  in general. And it's just set up to fail in terms of giving anybody the
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  benefit of the doubt. This is not on us. It isn't. You don't— you've not
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  earned shit from us. Not at all. You have not earned— the Eagles organization hasn't
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  earned credibility. They have allowed leaks and bullshit about their head coach and their quarterback
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  for years now. No question. They've done this 4 years now, long before these were
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  their, their coach and quarterback. The doctors haven't earned credibility
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  in the NFL. Are you fucking kidding me? Like, the media who,
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  who then start talking about it haven't earned credibility because we know that they
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  take anonymous shit from these all the time. Bought and paid for. It's so
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  like, we already used Adam Schefter as the example, the most bought and paid for
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  guy that exists. Like, we're not even in conspiracy theory territory. We are literally
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  just looking at the facts that we've broken down in Media Corners for the last
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  9 months. So fuck it. Like, I'm, I'm really,
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  really frustrated. I'm frustrated with that team. I think there should
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  be even more scrutiny on that front office ownership and the medical staff than there
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  ever has been before. And I think that, you know, you can
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  scapegoat a doctor all you want, a team doctor all you want, but I have
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  real questions about what that team's intentions are for their quarterback and why they
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  didn't take his health seriously. And we saw this. This is, this is something that
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  the Chargers did to Tyrod Taylor. Oh, God. We there was some weird shit
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  that's happened to Jayden Daniels with his elbow in Washington. It's getting to the point
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  where, oh well, now we can't— we can't discriminate against Black quarterbacks.
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  We can't— we can't like keep them out of the league, right? So half the
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  fucking starting quarterbacks are Black now. How else can we fuck with these dudes?
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  We can't— we can't do race norming anymore. So if they— if they end up
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  with, you know, dementia or something, we actually have to pay them the same amount
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  as we pay the white players. Oh, we were getting away with one of the
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  most racist, one of the most racist policies
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  I have ever read in my life that was still in
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  place until like 2021. So now all
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  of a sudden we've got this rash of fucking quarterbacks with medical
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  malpractice. I, I'm glad
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  you brought up the Tyrod Taylor one because I'll think— I think about that one
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  all the fucking time, puncturing his lung right before he took the field. And that's
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  what gave us Jalen— I mean, gave us fucking Justin Herbert. And by the way,
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  7 years later, it was the greatest thing that ever happened to the Chargers.
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  Can't stress that enough. All right, let's get over to headline number 2.
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  Tanya, uh, we had the displeasure of watching Broncos-Seahawks
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  go to overtime last night. Boy, that was, that was 2 teams with a
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  whole lot of quit in them right now. How bad is the Broncos
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  offense? And really happy that Peyton, uh, that, uh, Sean Payton took over the
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  play calling. It's really made a huge fucking difference. It was, you know, on the
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  broadcast they actually highlighted just how difficult the schedule was for the Broncos in that
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  offense for him to take play-calling duties away.
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  Yeah, he was like, they weren't exactly up against easy defenses and easy teams,
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  and they're winning still. Yeah, like somehow.
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  Here's the thing, um, Vance Joseph— for
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  some reason his name is not mentioned ever when we're talking about this team— that
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  defense has been phenomenal for a year since Vance
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  Joseph returned to the Denver Broncos as the defensive coordinator. They've been phenomenal.
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  He is carrying that— him,
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  that defense, and their special teams are carrying that team to wins
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  every single week. That is unquestionable.
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  It's, it's not up for argument. Sean Payton— I
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  want people to remember, Sean Payton is in charge of personnel.
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  He drafted Bo Nix. Not only did he draft Bo Nix, he wanted
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  Bo Nix. He went after Bo Nix. He made sure he was going to get
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  Bo Nix. But he built the offense around them. He's the personnel guy there.
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  That is his offense. That is what the offense he called
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  with his quarterback. And that was his entire— that's his shit that
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  we saw last night. Yes. So it's what we've been seeing all week, all year,
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  and what we saw last year. To some extent, they're just the same as last
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  year, only slightly worse. Winning these close games, fine.
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  I don't— I, I simply
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  don't think that Sean Payton, I think
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  we'd be, we'd be arguing that he shouldn't have a job if it weren't for
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  Vance Joseph. And I'm not exaggerating. You're probably very right, by the way.
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  And those of you that are wondering, are you just saying that because you hate
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  Sean Payton, Cody? No, I do hate Sean Payton, but I'm also saying it
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  because it's true. Yeah. I mean, I've never been quiet about the fact that we've
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  never been quiet about the fact that we hate Sean Payton. Not a fan.
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  But like, you guys can see this offense. This is your offensive genius. This is
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  somebody that you were putting in the same fucking conversation as Andy Reid.
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  By the way, and dealing with other secondary injuries.
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  Um, Bo Nix completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards with no touchdowns
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  and no interceptions. Uh, Denver's offense only had 168 total
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  yards, so they weren't rushing the ball either. Um, 30 yards of offense in the
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  second half. This is a fucking problem. And we're going to talk about, uh,
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  we're going to talk about Patrick, uh, uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick's insane
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  intense criticism. Dude, he went in on him more so than I've seen somebody on
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  like on a panel at postgame go in on something. Yeah. So we're going to
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  talk about that later in Media Corner because I, I'm I'm really— I
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  have so many weird thoughts about that. But honestly,
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  the takeaway from the Seahawks is that Sam Darnold's seeing ghosts again.
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  And this happened. The Sam Darnold reverting back to seeing ghosts thing is
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  so wild to me. I— he is— he is just stretches
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  of elite MVP-level quarterback. And then we see this, threw for 278
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  yards but had 2 picks, no passing touchdowns, overtime interception.
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  Did nothing to help them win that game. Like, it was— he wasn't as
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  bad as Bo Nix, but against most quarterbacks, he would have been the worst quarterback.
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  And that's— I don't, I don't know what it is with Darnold.
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  There's obviously a mental element to this. I imagine there's a scheme element to it.
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  There's some sort— there's some version, um, that, you know, I really understand
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  football scheming and, and the X's
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  and O's to an extent, but I imagine somebody with more football knowledge than I
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  could tell me what it is that that defenses can do to make Sam
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  Darnold do this. Well, I got to ask you this because like, here's the thing,
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  he's playing with a first-year OC compared to what he's had in the past.
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  He had Clint Kubiak, who had a system that was clearly working pretty damn well,
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  who's now over the Raiders, who's got a pretty good offensive system there now.
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  And then before that, he was up there with O'Connell in arguably the best offensive
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  system that exists. I, you know, I tend— when
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  I see what Darnold was doing last night, like, yeah, this, this,
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  this offensive system could be a little bit different and could be kind of screwing
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  with him, especially Very similar personnel. When I start seeing this
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  from Sam Darnold, who has a lot of like years and years
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  of us seeing him do this, I'm hesitant to immediately blame the OC in
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  that spot. He may
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  not be being schemed perfectly the way that Clint Kubiak was,
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  but that still doesn't— I still see the same stuff
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  that I've seen with him forever. The like the sort of inability
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  to look downfield. He can't make it to the second or third read, like stuff
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  that he's been doing for a long time. Yeah. Um,
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  any other thoughts about that game other than like we just
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  really didn't need the overtime? It was just a shitty game and then the overtime
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  was just as shitty, with the exception of a pretty long field goal that kicked
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  it for the win. But outside of that, yeah, neither of these teams remotely excite
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  me. And that's what I said about the Super Bowl last year. Like, that's the
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  thing. Great, the Seahawks won, but they're fucking boring. Yeah. And I was hoping that
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  we were going to get a tie so that we could, we could see if
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  someone could top John Harbaugh's, uh, postgame press conference. Did you see that one last
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  week? About the tie? No. Oh my God. He got to the podium and deadass
• 20:16
  was like, did we win? No. Did we
• 20:21
  lose? No, we tied.
• 20:25
  I wish we'd won. I'm glad we didn't lose. Fucking nailed it.
• 20:30
  Thanks, John. Kidding. I was like, holy shit. Oh my God, this guy, it just—
• 20:33
  he just talks to hear himself fucking talk. Holy fuck, John. We got to— we
• 20:36
  got to look ahead to week 6. Got a lot coming up in week 6.
• 20:38
  A lot coming up in week 6. Let's go rapid fire or how are we
• 20:42
  doing this? Yeah, yeah. I think we're going to just kind of go through the
• 20:44
  list. There's a lot of divisional matchups and we'll just kind of, we'll just kind
• 20:47
  of see. I've highlighted some of the more interesting matchups. We'll start with Panthers
• 20:51
  at Eagles. This is going to be us getting to see Tanner McKee, who only
• 20:55
  has played in 2 games thus far in his career, starting for the,
• 20:59
  for the NFL. Is he? Yeah. Okay. He had an
• 21:03
  incredible game in one of his starts that he did. I think his last,
• 21:06
  his first start was in 2024. He had like a great game.
• 21:09
  I think it was 4, maybe 3 touchdowns. Like,
• 21:13
  he played really well. I don't— I haven't seen much of him, so I'll be
• 21:17
  intrigued to see that. Here's the thing, the Panthers defense, very weird defense.
• 21:21
  I was, I was like, you know, they have— I keep turning
• 21:24
  to these games and they have these, all these takeaways, but they allow a lot
• 21:27
  of points, a lot of yards. Am I missing something? No, they do give up
• 21:32
  a ton of yards and a ton of points, but are also 2nd in the
• 21:34
  league in takeaways and very good at 4th down stops. So, uh, this is
• 21:38
  a very variable, very, and should be winnable game for the Panthers.
• 21:43
  The big thing I'm worried about is their
• 21:48
  defense. No, I'm not to say, because I just said that
• 21:51
  they, they can handle— I would assume they can. I'm worried
• 21:55
  about the post-game conversation about the Eagles. Oh,
• 21:58
  interesting. You know what I mean? I'm worried about like, does Tanner McKee have a
• 22:02
  good game? I want him to have a good game. I want everybody to have
• 22:04
  good games, but I also don't want to fucking hear it. Oh, I think you're
• 22:08
  going to be fine. I'm not expecting him to have a great game. I'm expecting
• 22:10
  the Eagles to be in absolute disarray because they are in disarray. The only reason
• 22:14
  they were even competing is because fucking Jalen Hurts has willed them to do
• 22:18
  so. Well, maybe Bryce will have a 500-yard game. I'd love that. Maybe. But then
• 22:22
  again, I also don't want that because I don't want to fucking hear it.
• 22:25
  Just like you don't want to. Yeah, but Bryce did that. That'd be on the
• 22:27
  defense. So that's fair. It's not our problem. Fair. Um, Bears at
• 22:31
  Falcons. So this one appears to hinge entirely on whether or not Caleb Williams plays
• 22:35
  and how long it takes for him to get back into regular season form.
• 22:39
  Um, if he's not there, um, and Penix
• 22:42
  is in his normal shape, obviously, because Penix is definitely playing, the Falcons obviously
• 22:46
  have the edge on both sides of the ball. Actually, their pass rush is pretty
• 22:49
  good. Their offense is dynamic. Um, we have no reason to think that it'll fall
• 22:53
  off unless Penix is playing in some sort of injured state that we're not aware
• 22:56
  of. Yes. Um, I need Caleb back for this game so badly.
• 23:00
  Missing Lamar against the Ravens— against the Falcons last week sucked.
• 23:04
  Missing Caleb against the Falcons 2 weeks in a row?
• 23:08
  Yeah, where we could have had these banger fucking teams with these awesome quarterbacks.
• 23:11
  I don't want that. You ain't lying. And here's the thing, I— even if Caleb
• 23:14
  is back, I don't know what Caleb is going to look like right out the
• 23:16
  gate being fresh off this injury. But I do know what the— what the fucking
• 23:19
  Falcons look like with Michael Penix Jr. under center. So, and we also know what
• 23:23
  the Chicago Bears look like with Tyler Badgent. We do. And it looks like shit.
• 23:26
  And then, bueno, and we also know what the fucking Falcons look like with
• 23:30
  Tua Tagovailoa. So, well, we don't have to worry about that. Hopefully Penix can play
• 23:34
  the whole game. Let's hope. Let's fucking hope. Honestly, for,
• 23:37
  for Tua's sake as well, do not put that man back out there.
• 23:41
  Jets at Patriots. Yeah. Hey, Jets have been a little frisky
• 23:45
  lately. Jets are frisky. The Jets are frisky. Um,
• 23:48
  New England's 3-2, Jets are 2-3. Jets are a little better
• 23:52
  than people are really talking about. This could be a closer game than people think
• 23:55
  if Drake May turns mistake-prone again, which, who are we to say, Cody?
• 23:59
  I don't fucking know. I don't fucking know. Whomst among us
• 24:04
  could say how Drake May will look? He can't say, you can't say, no one
• 24:06
  can say, because some days he looks like a fucking worthless
• 24:10
  sack of shit, and other days, against the Raiders specifically,
• 24:14
  He looks like a world-beater quarterback who should be in the mix for the MVP
• 24:18
  for some fucking reason. Like, we're either gonna get like prime Tom Brady
• 24:22
  or late-stage Johnny Manziel. Yes. And we have no idea.
• 24:26
  It's— and there is no in-between, by the way. It's one or the other.
• 24:29
  No. Yeah, there's no like middle of the road. We're doing okay. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:32
  Um, but, uh, you know, Geno has played really well.
• 24:36
  Really well. Nobody talking about it. Divisional games can be really tough
• 24:40
  with the turnovers and, you know, special teams. Like, those are the types of things
• 24:43
  that show up in divisional games. Um, we just saw this with
• 24:46
  the Niners and the Seahawks, right? It was like turnovers and weird special teams plays.
• 24:50
  That shit happens in divisional games. Um, so keeping an eye on
• 24:53
  that. Um, what do you got? Nothing, just seeing the
• 24:57
  comments right now, making sure we don't have anything we need to highlight. Um,
• 24:59
  it says, don't you all know Drake's shoulder is messed up when he's bad?
• 25:03
  That is from, uh, oh my God, Juanita. Juanita. Yeah,
• 25:06
  dude, she's fucking right though. Like That's, that's facts.
• 25:11
  I miss the probable designation, by the way. Do you know why they got rid
• 25:14
  of probable? Why is that? Because of Tom Brady. Naturally. Because Tom Brady was probable
• 25:18
  for like 10 years straight. Oh, how nice is that? How nice
• 25:22
  is that? They had him on the— like, Belichick was just
• 25:26
  trolling. Like, he was probable for like a decade and they were like, you know
• 25:30
  what, we're getting rid of this shit. So Indivision game could get interesting.
• 25:34
  It's worth watching. But— and it is in Gillette. And it isn't Gillette if
• 25:38
  they're— but like, at the end of the day, I, I don't get— I don't
• 25:41
  put anything past the Jets in these divisional games, and I trust Aaron Glenn to
• 25:45
  bring it. So I'm excited. I'm actually excited for the game. Uh, Ravens at Browns.
• 25:49
  Not as excited as I would have been, but I still feel very good that
• 25:52
  Snoop Huntley is going to go ahead and wreck shop. You know what, that's actually
• 25:55
  exciting me a little bit more. Like, of course I want Lamar back out there.
• 25:58
  Yes, I'm glad they're not rushing him back. I'm glad that we can trust Tyler
• 26:01
  Huntley to get the job done. Um, we don't even need to talk about the
• 26:05
  quarterback on the other team, but the wide— young wide receivers, the rest of that
• 26:08
  team has been playing really hard. Um, they lost a
• 26:11
  close game to the Jets last week. If this is going to come down to
• 26:15
  a battle on the ground and controlling the clock, the Ravens are going
• 26:18
  to have the clear advantage. Yes, because they have the run game both with Derrick
• 26:21
  Henry and Tyler Huntley. Um, and the Browns have just been
• 26:25
  really struggling to run the ball. So, uh, Ravens at
• 26:29
  Browns, Sneaky could be interesting. I just
• 26:33
  think you're saying more. That's all. I would have loved to have watched Lamar
• 26:37
  hang 45 on them. The ever-loving fuck. But what if we could watch Tyler Huntley
• 26:42
  do it? But if Tyler Huntley does it, what if Snoop hangs 45? Snoop shows
• 26:46
  up with 45, dude. That's my guy. That'd be great. That's my fucking man right
• 26:49
  there. How do you feel about Bills at Raiders? Not great, Bob. No, not great,
• 26:53
  Bob. Okay, listen, it's because what we've been seeing out of, out of Josh
• 26:57
  Allen these last couple of weeks is, is like, like last week specifically, I'm like,
• 27:00
  oh shit, there's Josh. It was last— so the first 2, the weeks before were
• 27:04
  tough, and then we got Josh Allen back again. And now like, I want to
• 27:07
  hope that the Raiders can get there and do this, but like, we actually talked
• 27:11
  about it earlier today. They were asking me, well, will you feel good if,
• 27:14
  if the Raiders are in the game? Like, no, I already got that moral victory
• 27:17
  2 weeks ago against the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm, I'm out on moral victories now.
• 27:21
  We did that. You sure can't You don't want to see him lose 3 in
• 27:24
  a row. Yeah, but I think they're gonna. It's just the Raiders got a
• 27:29
  tough— it's in Las Vegas. It is in Las Vegas. But after this, the Raiders
• 27:31
  got to face the Rams, so that's probably gonna be 3-4. And then fucking—
• 27:36
  how dare you? We don't know what the Rams are up to. You could beat
• 27:38
  the Rams. I don't know, man. Well, we can't. Maybe we can,
• 27:41
  but I know the Rams can definitely beat themselves. Yes, exactly. Well, there you go.
• 27:45
  Maybe they'll beat themselves against the Raiders. Um, I do think that— I do think
• 27:49
  the Raiders can give them more trouble. I hope you're right, because last week they
• 27:53
  looked like shit. I do. I don't— it's, you know, it's one of those things
• 27:55
  where it's like, I don't think that the Bills have shown
• 27:59
  a level of consistency where I'm 100% sold every week that they're going to
• 28:03
  win their games. And I don't think that the Raiders have been awful enough outside
• 28:07
  it. Like, yeah, they were bad against the Patriots, cross-country game, but outside that,
• 28:10
  they've been great. No, I agree. Good against the Chiefs. And then they were like—
• 28:14
  so like, I haven't seen the kind of like Oh my God,
• 28:17
  they're— the Marpets' heads are falling off moment. No, I agree. I just feel
• 28:21
  like right now, right now you're just being a fan. Right now I'm Jeremy Renner
• 28:25
  in Endgame. Okay, like, you can't— I just killed some
• 28:28
  Japanese warlord, you're behind me saying there's a way we can get them all back,
• 28:32
  and I turn around to you, I'm like, don't, don't give me hope. Yeah,
• 28:34
  yeah, I get it. Just don't give me hope. I've lived with enough hope in
• 28:38
  this team. They've hurt me a lot. You look like you're gonna cry.
• 28:42
  I'm not. You're going to cry. I'm fine.
• 28:47
  Cardinals at Rams is sneaky. Really, really interesting to me because
• 28:52
  the Cardinals are not an easy team to beat. Everybody acts like the Cardinals
• 28:56
  are fucking easy. They're not. They're not easy to beat. Make it hard on you.
• 28:59
  They will put a fucking fight up. By the way, Jacoby Brissett was the— was
• 29:02
  the best thing on my fantasy team last week. We have a— we have one
• 29:06
  of those leagues where you can add a, like, an offensive player,
• 29:10
  like, or whatever. It's like a bonus player, and it's literally anybody
• 29:14
  you want to put in there that can get you the most points. So usually
• 29:16
  people will put in quarterbacks if you can. Yeah, Jacoby Brissett beat out everybody else
• 29:20
  on my fucking team because he was cooking. He was not letting that game go.
• 29:24
  And this is must-win for the Rams. Oh, no question. This is a divisional game.
• 29:28
  You need the fucking divisional edge against— if you're ever going to catch up to
• 29:31
  the 49ers or keep, you know, keep pace with the Seahawks who just lost.
• 29:35
  Like, they need to win this game. And the matchup
• 29:39
  is really like, it's interesting because they're going to be without their left tackle
• 29:44
  and the Rams are going up against Josh Sweat,
• 29:48
  which is not easy. I'm not— I
• 29:53
  don't think the Cardinals are going to make this easy on the fuckers. I don't
• 29:56
  think they're making it easy, but I do think the Rams should win. Now,
• 29:58
  I do think the point spread is like 12 points,
• 30:00
  which I think is ridiculous. And I— and it's It's in Los
• 30:04
  Angeles. So, okay, you're saying it's like really a 9-point spread with the
• 30:09
  3-point home advantage, but Arizona's pass rush like
• 30:12
  can be consistent. I don't know,
• 30:16
  man. Like, I'm just— I should— the Rams win. Yeah, the Rams
• 30:19
  should have won the game last week too. So I
• 30:23
  don't know. I'm— you want to— I don't know. Game. It's this next one.
• 30:27
  Sunday Night Football. No fucking idea.
• 30:30
  Cowboys-Packers. No fucking idea. If you No idea.
• 30:33
  You are the kind of fucking masochist that would bet on Cowboys-Packers.
• 30:37
  You're, you're an insane— I need, I need to know. I need to know
• 30:41
  what kind of crack you use. Yeah, yeah. What do you smoke? What do you
• 30:44
  drink? Who are you sleeping with? I actually want to know everything about
• 30:48
  you. Yeah, because you are willing to wager on Cowboys-Packers. You're a go-getter.
• 30:52
  Yeah, you're a risk-taker. Yeah, yeah. You are a maverick,
• 30:55
  maybe. You are a fucking maverick, John McCain style. You are fucking Hal
• 30:59
  Jordan. Um, like truly, I'm calling it the Micah Parsons Bowl
• 31:02
  even though Micah Parsons doesn't really ever play. Well, he gets to watch it.
• 31:05
  Genuinely intrigued by the game because both teams have shown that they can be exceptional
• 31:09
  and can also melt the fuck down. This is in Green Bay.
• 31:12
  If it were in Dallas, I would expect Dallas to win
• 31:17
  just because Dallas has— if we're gonna really break it
• 31:20
  down honestly, they have shown more. But all of a sudden, like last weekend,
• 31:24
  Jordan Love looked fucking Great. Correct. Out of nowhere.
• 31:27
  And they're going to be back. They're going to be back with a revived home
• 31:31
  crowd that feels a little less fucking shitty about everything. Right. And they're going against
• 31:35
  the Cowboys. This is the Thanksgiving Day game, right? Like, this is an iconic rivalry.
• 31:39
  So, yeah, anybody, if you are in the
• 31:43
  chat and you are a bettor, if I don't know how many bettors are right
• 31:47
  out the gate, Tiger JLV just said, no way
• 31:51
  in hell I'd bet on that. Yeah, which I agree with. Yes. Also said poor
• 31:54
  Cody because of my Raiders, uh, yeah, because he was— sadness. Yeah, yeah, she was
• 31:58
  feeling okay. He just did it again. I didn't do anything. You become like a,
• 32:01
  like a puppy dog. That is not true. Oh, that's actually a really
• 32:06
  good trick. It's a good part. Oh my God, it's freaking me out.
• 32:10
  I can't look at you. Okay. Oh my God. Um, we skipped over—
• 32:14
  this is— oh, Monday Night Football trap game. I'm calling this the trap. You really
• 32:18
  think this is a trap game? I think it's a trap game. Yeah, I don't
• 32:20
  think it is. Because, you know, there's one every— I know, but this is— but,
• 32:24
  you know, you don't— you don't see a trap game coming, so I'm trying to
• 32:26
  get ahead. There's no way this one's the trap game. I can't— I can't get
• 32:30
  on it. There's another one on this list that might be. The Commanders are a
• 32:33
  trap game team. That's like their only function in the NFC.
• 32:37
  I swear to God, their only function in the NFC is to just fucking
• 32:41
  beat random teams a couple times a year that they have no business beating,
• 32:44
  and then tie a team they can beat. Exactly.
• 32:47
  So that then we have to listen to Jon Harbaugh tell us
• 32:51
  what a win is. We lost. We didn't lose. We won. We didn't win.
• 32:54
  We tied. We tied. And he's glad that they didn't lose. He's sad they didn't
• 32:58
  win. That might be what we're in for. Who knows? And then he says something
• 33:01
  like, make America healthy again or something stupid. I just feel like the 49ers are
• 33:05
  like due for maybe a weird moment. And I looked at their schedule and I'm
• 33:09
  like, which one of these teams is most likely to be a trap game team?
• 33:11
  And I'm going with Commanders. That's not me saying that I think that the 49ers
• 33:15
  are like shouldn't be favored in the game. Of course they should be. Yes,
• 33:17
  they should. But, you know, You know, things happen, injuries, they're dealing with a lot
• 33:21
  of stuff. Um, Dre Greenlaw is suspended, all those things. Juanita is really
• 33:25
  feeling herself right now. Since my Brewers won, I'm feeling frisky
• 33:29
  and will bet the Packers to win.
• 33:33
  Congratulations on your Brewers. Okay, well, if you're a Brewers fan and
• 33:37
  you're feeling like a little bit of the vibe in the air, I'm not gonna
• 33:40
  judge you. I mean, I still think you're crazy and I still kind of do
• 33:43
  want to know where the balls come from. But I do understand feeling
• 33:47
  very high on your own supply after a team like— they have not been to
• 33:51
  a World Series since 1982. Since 1982. In fact, that's the only World Series they've
• 33:55
  ever been. This is the first time they've gone to the World Series winning the
• 33:57
  pennant in the National League. And yeah, man, it's fucking nuts.
• 34:01
  I'm looking forward to talking about it because, well, you know what? It's headline number
• 34:04
  3, so we might as well just get into it. Well, let's get into it
• 34:07
  in a second because I think there's another trap game on here that's worth mentioning.
• 34:09
  No. What if— no, just shut up.
• 34:12
  Just let's, let's just do me a favor. Let's Rod Serling this. Let's go straight
• 34:16
  Twilight Zone. Like, imagine if you will a world where Justin Herbert
• 34:21
  with no offensive line and a very disarrayed offense comes
• 34:24
  into Arrowhead and puts up 45 points.
• 34:29
  I will not imagine interceptions. I'm not doing this. No fumbles.
• 34:34
  Imagine if you will. No interceptions. Join me.
• 34:37
  Fumbles into the dimension of the Twilight Zone.
• 34:41
  Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Yeah, it ain't happening. They're going to lose
• 34:44
  by fucking 20. I do not think Chargers at
• 34:47
  Chiefs is a trap game. I don't think— I'm just trying to give somebody the
• 34:51
  benefit of the doubt. Couldn't give a single fuck less about Steelers at Bucs.
• 34:54
  Couldn't care less. Couldn't give a fuck less about Texans at Jags, to be quite
• 34:58
  honest. Yeah, fuck them both. I don't really care. I like the
• 35:02
  Texans and I like the Jaguars well enough. I just like—
• 35:06
  unless the Texans win that game, I'm disinterested, right? So pretty much. So I just
• 35:09
  don't— pretty much because I like— I just don't care about the Titans at Colts.
• 35:12
  Might be the worst game of the year. So that's tough. No, that's a tough
• 35:15
  one. Yeah. So, um, unless you have any other thoughts there, let's do
• 35:19
  it. Headline number 3, let's get to it, because Major League Baseball— congratulations
• 35:23
  Brewers, you have saved Major League Baseball
• 35:27
  from the dreaded Dodgers who are desperately trying to ruin it, from all of— yeah,
• 35:31
  all of the evil doing they're doing. Dude, what can I say? Um,
• 35:35
  I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the Brewers were just flat out
• 35:38
  the better team. And, and I mean this not as hyperbole, not as like
• 35:42
  an after— they beat the Dodgers in every single
• 35:47
  fucking facet. We will be perfect in every
• 35:51
  facet of the game. They fucking were. And I gave this example on Twitter yesterday,
• 35:54
  and I feel really good about it. They're like Seabiscuit. And the reason why I
• 35:58
  say that is because they were behind in every single fucking game. It's like the
• 36:00
  team feels better being behind. By the way, this is very familiar to me because
• 36:03
  This is how the Arizona Diamondbacks made the World Series. Very, very similar.
• 36:07
  Very similar. And this— I honestly think it's better. The Brewers are better.
• 36:10
  Yeah. Um, and so, and I, uh, I think you said you put
• 36:14
  out, and I agree with you, that the, you know, Jake Bowers,
• 36:18
  dude, absolute fucking— what Jake Bowers accomplished. And also the story
• 36:22
  of Jake Bowers. You know about the story? I do. I know. I don't
• 36:26
  know. Like, this is the best thing. So Jake Bowers, 2 years ago, tells his
• 36:30
  wife and tells his agent, I'm quitting, I'm leaving baseball, uh, his wife
• 36:33
  during the offseason gets pregnant and he no longer has
• 36:37
  health insurance. Oh, this— yeah, so I did know this. He basically goes and signs
• 36:41
  a minor league job and yeah, works his way back for health
• 36:45
  insurance so his wife can have a, a good birth for their child.
• 36:48
  And then he fucking gets back to the big leagues and now he's the fucking
• 36:51
  NLCS MVP, deservedly so by the way, because his
• 36:55
  at-bats, like what he did I love
• 36:59
  those. I, I was so impressed with that before the home run that I texted
• 37:03
  you. I was like, that was dirty, dude. Like, nasty. Anybody who can just really
• 37:07
  grind— like, I grew up a Dustin Pedroia fan, right? Like, I— like, anybody who
• 37:11
  can just take someone for 9, 10, 11, 12 pitches and just grind them out
• 37:16
  just to fuck it— oh God, it was so good. And then, and like,
• 37:19
  every one of his walks that he grinded out, like, he, he wasted pitches for—
• 37:24
  on Yamamoto. Wasted pitches on Snell that led to a fucking huge home
• 37:27
  run. That was a pimp job. That was like such a badass pimp job because
• 37:30
  it was like not even his pimp job. He didn't make that moment about him.
• 37:33
  He took to his dugout, fucking flipped to his dugout.
• 37:37
  It was like a team bat flip. It was hot. I've never fucking seen that
• 37:41
  ever. Yeah. And I was just like, this team's winning the fucking World Series.
• 37:43
  And you could fucking feel it. Like, yeah, feel it at that at-bat. Like,
• 37:46
  Snell was losing it, and I was like, oh my God, dude, it was just—
• 37:49
  it killer. And sometimes you just get fucking beaten. The Dodgers got beaten in everything.
• 37:53
  The starting pitching was better for the Brewers. Offense was better for the
• 37:57
  Brewers. Power was better for the Brewers. The bullpen was better for the fucking Brewers.
• 38:01
  They were just fucking better at everything in this series,
• 38:04
  top to bottom, everything. And it was fun to watch, by the way. I'm looking
• 38:07
  forward to this World Series. Yeah, I know a lot of people— you guys,
• 38:10
  you can carry this message on. Please do.
• 38:13
  This is going to be the lowest we're in a World Series compared to last
• 38:17
  year. Yes, I'll agree. Watch. Tell people if they like baseball
• 38:21
  to watch the World Series. Watch fucking baseball. Just because you aren't
• 38:25
  New York or Los Angeles or, you know, Texas or
• 38:29
  Chicago or whatever, like, guys, this is fun baseball. So fun.
• 38:33
  So the ratings are dictated by fans. Tell your friends
• 38:37
  to watch the World Series. It's going to be really fun whether they play the
• 38:40
  Rays or the Guardians. It's gonna be a great fucking series. Um, we gotta talk
• 38:43
  about the conversation that happened after Milwaukee swept
• 38:47
  the Dodgers. Handedly, by the way. The Dodgers. Not beat them.
• 38:52
  Swept them out of the NLCS. Beat the ever-loving fuck out
• 38:56
  of them. The unbeatable Goliath of the Dodgers. Okay.
• 38:59
  Yes. Despite a looming World Series that will feature 2
• 39:03
  small market teams, billionaire propaganda pawns continue to argue that
• 39:07
  not enough small market teams have the chance to legitimately compete.
• 39:11
  Compete. So once again, let's break down and debunk the most
• 39:15
  common rhetoric from the this is an outlier situation
• 39:19
  crowd, because you and I both talked about this. We've talked about it several times
• 39:23
  together and separately. Every time this comes
• 39:26
  up, it's like, so, you know, last night the whole conversation
• 39:30
  was, oh, okay, so, oh, finally somebody makes
• 39:34
  it for like the third time in 15 years. It's not a top 10 payroll.
• 39:38
  All right. All right. So we're going to just, we're going to break it down
• 39:41
  segment by segment. We are going to lay it out for you start
• 39:45
  to finish on why the idea
• 39:50
  that this league needs a salary cap to be competitive, interesting,
• 39:53
  to create revenue, to create viewership is fucking bullshit.
• 39:58
  And it's billionaire propaganda. And you are a mark.
• 40:01
  It is bullshit.
• 40:04
  Okay. Number 1. Number 1. Number 1 we're going to address is a small
• 40:08
  market team making the World Series an anomaly.
• 40:12
  Let's take a look at World Series teams outside
• 40:16
  the top 10 in payroll over the last 20 years,
• 40:21
  up until 2025. Let's take a look, shall we?
• 40:24
  So this is teams that reached
• 40:29
  the World Series ranking 11th or lower in MLB
• 40:33
  payroll since 2006.
• 40:37
  Interesting, guys. Interesting. So we've got 15 total
• 40:42
  appearances in 20 years by teams outside
• 40:45
  top 10 in payroll. We've got 6 championships and like, what are we fucking
• 40:49
  talking about? Right? Okay. Okay.
• 40:53
  So, so that one is immediately debunked. And by the way, one of them was
• 40:56
  like, like literally 4 years ago that the The Diamondbacks
• 41:00
  were in in 2023. The Braves won in 2020. Like, what are we doing?
• 41:02
  And by the way, 2006, let's get to the very top of that with the
• 41:05
  St. Louis Cardinals. Yeah, 2006. Like, you have to understand, at that time, the pay
• 41:09
  discrepancy was actually so ridiculous because the Yankees had such a high
• 41:13
  payroll. The closest to the Yankees was like roughly 40% of
• 41:18
  what— yeah, it was like, it was like the Red Sox. It was the Red
• 41:20
  Sox. They weren't even spending close. Like, I remember those years so distinctly because
• 41:24
  the Red Sox were like like always still competitive
• 41:28
  in payroll and couldn't fucking win. By the way,
• 41:30
  before they won their first World Series, the Yankees were way
• 41:34
  ahead of everybody. Way— they were ahead of everybody in a way the Dodgers haven't
• 41:39
  been. Yeah, Dodgers aren't even close because like, yeah, the Dodgers have the highest payroll.
• 41:41
  And if you really add in the collective bargaining— not the collective bargaining, the,
• 41:44
  uh, this luxury tax tax on top of it— it's like fucking
• 41:47
  astronomical. Because really what they're, they're paying this year is like
• 41:51
  $350 million, but they have to pay another $100 and like $30 million because of
• 41:55
  the tax, but they don't give a fuck. They're making billions every year,
• 41:58
  which we'll get to. So we
• 42:01
  have established that in that 15 out
• 42:06
  of 20 of the last 20 World Series feature— and now it's going to be,
• 42:09
  by the way, 16 of the last 21, right?
• 42:12
  Have to have payrolls outside
• 42:17
  the top 10. Okay. Yep. Great. Is number
• 42:21
  2 of the questions that we are going to address, is it true that certain
• 42:24
  teams cannot afford to compete? This is a big one.
• 42:28
  I cannot stress this enough. No, but that is the narrative
• 42:31
  that very much so because the Dodgers have so much unlimited money. And I
• 42:35
  will tell you, the Dodgers do have some, some balances
• 42:39
  in their, in their books that do benefit them a little bit. But it's
• 42:44
  also a tad disingenuous for how much money actually the Dodgers are actually paying every
• 42:48
  other team. Team because the Dodgers are paying more money to certain teams than their
• 42:51
  actual payrolls are. That's a problem. Yeah. And these other teams
• 42:55
  are benefiting, benefiting from the Dodgers in that way. They're welfare queens.
• 42:58
  They're welfare— they're the actual welfare queens of America. Yep.
• 43:02
  Yeah. We don't actually have welfare queens, but they are trying
• 43:05
  to create it. Yeah, but billionaires are our biggest welfare queens.
• 43:09
  100%. 100%. So we've,
• 43:13
  we've really harped on this. The entire time we've had this
• 43:17
  show, which is that nobody who owns a professional baseball
• 43:21
  team, a Major League Baseball team,
• 43:24
  can't afford to compete. And if they are genuinely
• 43:28
  in a situation where their only investment is the—
• 43:32
  is their MLB team and they can't afford to compete, they should sell
• 43:36
  their team 100%. It's one or the other, guys. Like, it's so fucking weird
• 43:40
  that these capitalists that made billions of dollars get into this system
• 43:45
  and they decide— they determine and discern that, wait a second, this is not an
• 43:49
  organization or corporate entity like what I've worked in my whole
• 43:53
  life. This is its own thing that clearly is a socialist
• 43:59
  platform for billionaires. So I shouldn't have to actually treat
• 44:03
  it as something I should reinvest in. It should just pay me out like
• 44:06
  an ATM, which is what a lot of these fucking teams do. And they,
• 44:10
  and they basically tell us that. So I want to do a
• 44:14
  quick little exercise. Yes. And I want to take a look at the top 10
• 44:17
  richest owners in baseball currently. Let's— okay,
• 44:22
  here we go. So Steve Cohen for the Mets.
• 44:25
  Don't know if you've noticed, the Mets are not good. They're not good at all.
• 44:30
  We got Rogers Communications for the Blue Jays. Yep. Worth about $18 to
• 44:34
  $19 billion. These are all estimated. It's very hard to find these, but these numbers
• 44:37
  are pretty consistent. We got Mark Walter
• 44:40
  there for the Los Angeles Dodgers. We got the Lerners who own the
• 44:44
  Nationals. John Henry, the Red Sox. Charles Johnson, who owns
• 44:48
  the Giants. Artie Marino. Well, the Angels, by the
• 44:52
  way, the Angels are now at the top of this list because they just got—
• 44:55
  yeah. David Rubenstein, Baltimore Orioles.
• 44:59
  Paul Dolan, who owns the Guardians, and John Middleton, who owns
• 45:03
  the Phillies. I want to draw your attention
• 45:07
  to, let's say, specifically a team I'm really familiar with,
• 45:10
  which is the Boston Red Sox. Let's do that. Now,
• 45:13
  the Boston Red Sox have not
• 45:17
  been back to a World Series since 2018. Correct. They can
• 45:21
  spend as much money as they— as any of these teams on the list.
• 45:24
  No question. They can outspend everyone that's on this list right
• 45:28
  now. They haven't been. And while they haven't been, John Henry has been investing in
• 45:33
  Roush Racing, in Liverpool,
• 45:37
  in all kinds of stuff. Every single one
• 45:40
  of these owners, all the way down to the bottom of
• 45:44
  these owners, have investments. They buy other teams. They use
• 45:48
  the capital that they earn by buying a team to leverage,
• 45:52
  to then invest in other things that aren't their team, and then turn
• 45:55
  around and tell you they can't afford to invest in their team.
• 46:00
  Do you guys understand that? Do you understand that they are leveraging the
• 46:03
  wealth that they accumulate from your team and the capital
• 46:07
  they accumulate by leveraging the team as
• 46:10
  essentially collateral in their financial decisions to then go
• 46:15
  invest in other things for themselves? None of these owners,
• 46:18
  none of them anymore own just one. Like they're just the team owner.
• 46:22
  And the ones that do actually usually spend decent money on their team.
• 46:27
  But you look through that list and who are— I'm sorry, where are
• 46:31
  all these fucking— where are all of the titles that are being hogged by
• 46:35
  the Mets and the Blue Jays? So the Nationals, okay, great.
• 46:39
  They won in 2019. Great. Red Sox,
• 46:42
  2018. Giants, when was their last
• 46:45
  one? 2015. 2015. Sorry, '14.
• 46:48
  Angels, Lord knows, 2002. Orioles,
• 46:52
  the '80s. Guardians, 1947.
• 46:56
  Phillies, 2008. Okay. Oh, and by the
• 47:00
  way, I'm glad you brought up the Guardians. I want to point that out.
• 47:02
  Guardians right there, who are currently in the ALCS, currently fighting for a World
• 47:05
  Series spot. 9th richest owner in all of baseball,
• 47:09
  2nd lowest payroll in all of baseball.
• 47:13
  Their payroll is $86 to $93
• 47:17
  million. Their payroll is $86 to $93 million.
• 47:21
  Their owner is worth $4.4 billion.
• 47:26
  Their payroll is $93 million. They are 2
• 47:30
  wins away from the World Series.
• 47:33
  And so when you say that some of these teams can't
• 47:37
  afford to compete with Steve Cohen
• 47:41
  and Mark Walter and the Rodgers family,
• 47:45
  I'm wondering what the fuck you're talking about. No idea
• 47:49
  what these— The Rodgers Corporation is like Verizon and AT&T combined.
• 47:54
  Them paying the $500 million contract over to Vladimir Guerrero is
• 47:57
  not even a goddamn drop in the ocean to them. I, I don't know what
• 48:01
  to say other than all of these teams can do it. Every one
• 48:05
  of them can financially compete. Some of them are doing it, are competing
• 48:09
  without fucking spending a dime. Like, you have no idea. I can only
• 48:13
  imagine how much money the Cleveland Guardians are just making hand over fist. They spend
• 48:17
  nothing on their payroll. In fact, their payroll is entirely subsidized by the Dodgers and
• 48:21
  the goddamn Yankees. Like, that's just the truth. The Dodgers, Mets, and Yankees
• 48:25
  pay for that payroll that's about to go to the fucking World Series. They do
• 48:28
  do a great job with their developmental, their scouting, their all of
• 48:32
  that phenomenal, but they won't spend money on fucking players. I, I would—
• 48:36
  I, I would have hung myself years ago if I was a Cleveland Guardians fan.
• 48:39
  I don't know how they deal with this. And the, and the crazy part is
• 48:43
  the dude who runs the team and owns it, Paul Dolan, son of the guy
• 48:47
  who bought it. He's a nepo baby. He inherited
• 48:51
  the team from his father who bought it through a family trust, by the way.
• 48:55
  Like, what are you— what are you saving? You inherited this
• 48:59
  shit. None of it's yours. Like, oh my God, it's the fucking worst. And by
• 49:03
  the way, they are apparently going to have a new majority owner in the next
• 49:06
  2 years. And from what I've been told, The majority owner who is already in
• 49:10
  the ownership group hates this, wants to spend money. And supposedly
• 49:15
  what I've been relayed is he's going to. Okay. That's what I've
• 49:19
  been relayed. Well, Guardians, to your point, Guardians fans deserve that. All right.
• 49:23
  Let's move on to our number 3 bullet point. Is the MLB,
• 49:26
  after all of this, less competitive or does it feature less parity than
• 49:31
  the salary cap leagues? Parity conversation. Everybody says,
• 49:35
  oh, Oh, but there's not enough parity. Look at how
• 49:38
  the Dodgers can just run it up. We need parity, baby.
• 49:42
  So I figured, why not look into that for the people?
• 49:46
  And we got fucking receipts. Let's check it out. All right,
• 49:50
  championship parity across the 4 major men's sports, last 20 championships.
• 49:55
  Major League Baseball has had 12 different championships,
• 49:59
  which is the same as the NBA. The NFL has had 13
• 50:03
  different championship teams and the NHL has had 14.
• 50:08
  You can see there that the parity ranking has,
• 50:12
  you know, the MLB right there with every other team.
• 50:16
  The only difference that throws people for a loop is
• 50:20
  that while the NBA has a team that's won 4 titles in this stretch,
• 50:24
  the MLB has 3 teams that have won 3 titles. The,
• 50:28
  the NFL has 2 teams that have won 3 titles,
• 50:32
  and the NHL has 2 teams, uh, 3 teams that have won
• 50:36
  3 titles in that span as well. So people
• 50:40
  look at the Red Sox, Giants, Dodgers, each have 3 rings
• 50:43
  each in that span. Basically everyone outside of them has been a,
• 50:46
  has been a new champion, and we're about to have another new
• 50:51
  champion this year, 2 of which have never fucking won a World Series,
• 50:54
  and one hasn't won one since 1947. And so here's the
• 50:58
  thing, even, even in baseball, a lot of these,
• 51:02
  these titles are spaced out like a straight up— we
• 51:06
  haven't really had a straight up run the table type dynasty in a minute.
• 51:09
  The Red Sox won in '07, '13, and '18.
• 51:13
  So we've got 4 or 5 year stretches in between. We've got a couple of
• 51:16
  year stretches between the Dodgers first and the second. They had back to back,
• 51:19
  but like, you know, and same thing with the Giants. They had that space.
• 51:22
  They won every other year for 5 fucking years. So meanwhile,
• 51:28
  in the hard salary cap-ass NFL,
• 51:33
  we went third. I'm sorry, there was a— what was it, a 15-year
• 51:37
  stretch where in the AFC, the quarterback
• 51:41
  in the AFC Championship Game was either Tom Brady,
• 51:45
  Peyton Manning, or Ben Roethlisberger for like 15 years?
• 51:49
  Yes. Okay, but baseball's got the parity issue. But baseball's got a parity issue.
• 51:53
  By the way, same amount of teams with 3 titles each in
• 51:58
  this stretch in the NHL.
• 52:01
  NHL: Blackhawks 3, Penguins 3. Oh, I'm sorry, it's, it's 2 each. Sorry,
• 52:05
  Blackhawks and Penguins both have 3 in that stretch.
• 52:08
  Warriors full-on fucking dynasty. I,
• 52:11
  I'm tired. Like, this is fucking exhausting. There's nothing— there is
• 52:15
  no— it's literally right in front of you. This salary— the salary cap has
• 52:19
  not created more more parity for the NFL, the NBA, or the NHL
• 52:22
  in any way, shape, or form. They just fucking haven't. It just hasn't.
• 52:27
  We, we saw earlier in this, in the, uh,
• 52:31
  show, with 15 of the 20 last seasons
• 52:35
  featuring a team with an outside top 10 payroll. It's— you're
• 52:39
  making this up. You guys are making
• 52:42
  this up. They sure are. I— every once in a while there
• 52:46
  are going to be teams that get studs on their team and they stay good
• 52:49
  for a while. It happens in every fucking sport. Why are you acting
• 52:54
  like the Dodgers are something new? By the way, it's not new. I just dealt
• 52:57
  with like some callers today and all this fucking panic around the Dodgers. Well,
• 53:00
  the Dodgers are too old now so they can't do it. Like,
• 53:03
  it's so weird how you guys can't have it both ways. It's like they're either
• 53:07
  too old and they can't compete anymore, or they're ruining baseball because they can't
• 53:11
  be beaten, period, stop. Like, now, now if I'm everybody, I'm worried about the
• 53:15
  Brewers because the Brewers are fucking young and this core is going to be together
• 53:17
  for like the next 3 years. That's gonna be a really fucking good team.
• 53:19
  Like, it's just all fucking nonsense, guys. It fucking— the
• 53:24
  fact that any owner is able to play on your fucking emotions
• 53:28
  that the players are greedy, or now the big bad— and by the way,
• 53:31
  congratulations, I'm really thrilled about this, that this happened exactly this way,
• 53:35
  because now your owners can't sit around blaming the Dodgers for all your fucking worries.
• 53:38
  Now you just can't. You're incapable of doing it because now look at
• 53:43
  what the World Series is going to be. And yeah, Major League Baseball, this is
• 53:46
  honestly for Major League Baseball itself worst case scenario because they're losing
• 53:50
  two— they're killing two birds with one fucking stone. They're losing their massive argument
• 53:54
  that the Dodgers are insurmountable and cannot be beaten, and they're about to get a
• 53:58
  fucking low-ass rated World Series. It's literally punch
• 54:02
  after punch, and you brought it upon yourself, you bitches.
• 54:05
  Yeah, you know what, maybe if those teams invested in spending I
• 54:10
  mean, the reality is you guys can't have your cake and eat it too.
• 54:13
  Milwaukee is the smallest media market in baseball.
• 54:17
  But like, the— that's— looked it up, made sure
• 54:20
  I knew— the smallest media market in baseball.
• 54:23
  Very much so. Okay, very smallest. That's gonna happen. Do you
• 54:27
  just not— do you just not want small—
• 54:31
  like, what— which one do you want? That's the thing, they don't know what they
• 54:34
  want. It's all bullshit because they're like, we like parity, and then we give you
• 54:37
  fucking parity and you don't fucking watching you bitch about it, and then you don't
• 54:40
  watch the games. So like, so you know what's funny? Like,
• 54:43
  uh, the guy that runs Marvel, um, television said
• 54:48
  something the other day, and it's one of the few times that an exec says
• 54:50
  something that's kind of callous, but he's absolutely fucking right. That I even had
• 54:54
  to be like, he's not wrong. Fuck, he's not wrong. Because when
• 54:57
  Daredevil was at, uh, Marvel— I'm sorry, at Netflix—
• 55:01
  everyone really wanted to bring Charlie Cox's Daredevil over, and there was talk about it,
• 55:04
  and then Then we finally got him. We, we found out that Daredevil: Born Again
• 55:07
  is gonna happen. And then he has his cameo in that Spider-Man movie. Like,
• 55:10
  fuck, they're doing it. He's fucking back. This is so cool. And then you get
• 55:13
  a couple seasons of Daredevil: Born Again, which is fucking amazing, by the way.
• 55:17
  And now they've announced the 3rd season is going to be its final. And everyone's
• 55:19
  like, no. And the hashtag starting, Save Daredevil. And the head of,
• 55:23
  of Marvel Entertainment, or, you know, television entertainment,
• 55:26
  said, he's like, I can't stress this enough. I love, I love Daredevil.
• 55:30
  I don't want to cancel Daredevil. But if you guys can do me a favor
• 55:34
  and change the Save Daredevil hashtag to fucking Watch Daredevil,
• 55:39
  I can greenlight it. Not enough of you are watching it.
• 55:43
  It's the same thing in this fucking thing. Like, you want— you tell us you
• 55:46
  want this, you're getting what you want, and now you're
• 55:50
  not gonna watch. Nobody can compete. Okay, well, they did. Here's 2 fucking
• 55:54
  teams that competed. You're not gonna watch? Well, fuck you.
• 55:57
  This year they did. And now you're like, low ratings. Actually,
• 56:01
  I'm not going to watch. It's Milwaukee. Milwaukee can't carry the fucking
• 56:04
  ratings on their own. Every person in Milwaukee could watch this and it wouldn't fucking
• 56:07
  help if you don't. So which one the fuck is
• 56:11
  it? Final point.
• 56:15
  Is the MLB willing to institute a salary floor, which almost
• 56:18
  everyone wants, without a salary cap? Never. This has been something that
• 56:23
  has been sold to me in my comments So often I feel like I'm going
• 56:26
  insane. People have been like, what we really— saying to me as if,
• 56:30
  as if I'm a fucking idiot, have been
• 56:34
  like, well, they don't need a salary cap. What they need is a salary
• 56:38
  floor. Yeah, no shit. We're aware. Holy fucking shit. You think
• 56:42
  I, I think that there should be a— no guys,
• 56:45
  the whole thing is that the owners will not agree
• 56:50
  to anything. Anything, let alone
• 56:54
  this, without a salary cap and a salary floor
• 56:58
  with a salary cap that are as close as they're proposing is
• 57:02
  insane. Let's talk about it. Please. MLB's position.
• 57:05
  Commissioner Rob Manfred has consistently argued for a salary cap and a floor.
• 57:09
  MLB's initial proposal set the 2027 cap at $245.3
• 57:15
  million and the floor at $171.2 million. Million, a possible
• 57:19
  ongoing for negotiation in September of 2025. Manfred said a salary
• 57:23
  minimum could be more important than a cap in some respects, but he also described
• 57:26
  the floor as a necessary element of the cap systems used by other
• 57:30
  leagues. That is not an indication that MLB is willing to abandon the cap.
• 57:33
  The union's position is that the MLBPA opposes a salary cap
• 57:38
  and has criticized the league's proposals because the proposed benefits, including the floor,
• 57:42
  are conditional on accepting the cap system.
• 57:46
  There is no world right now with where negotiations
• 57:51
  are at where we can even guarantee that we will get baseball if
• 57:55
  the players don't agree to a cap. If you think truly at
• 57:59
  this point, if you are at the point where you are suggesting that the players
• 58:02
  just ask for a floor and not— and without getting a
• 58:06
  cap and that their owners will just agree to it, you are I don't know
• 58:10
  what world you're living in. That's not even on the table right now. Would I?
• 58:14
  Yeah, yeah, universe. You know what else I would love? I would love tomorrow
• 58:18
  for someone to just offer me a million. I would actually just like to wake
• 58:22
  up to it in my bank account. That's how fucking realistic this bullshit is.
• 58:25
  Oh, oh, you think they should have a floor? Oh my god. Well, I think
• 58:28
  everybody should have free healthcare too, but here we fucking are, guys.
• 58:31
  Holy shit. What kind of pie-in-the-sky bullshit are we fucking talking about?
• 58:35
  I, I, it's maddening. Now, I agree, by the way. There should be
• 58:38
  a floor. Yeah, yeah, obviously. I just love how people
• 58:43
  are like, I'm thinking no cap, definitely a floor. Yeah, bro. Boy, if there's one
• 58:47
  thing those billionaires are gonna— billionaires won't even agree to be taxed at a reasonable
• 58:51
  rate. You think they're gonna fucking just offerly willing a fucking
• 58:55
  floor that's gonna be like $170 million? If I
• 58:58
  just told you the fucking Guardians are going to the World Series with the $85
• 59:01
  million payroll, you think the Guardians are gonna fucking spend a penny more unless
• 59:05
  they're forced to do it, and you think that Rob Manfred's gonna be the one
• 59:08
  that's gonna usher it in? Sadly, guys, in case
• 59:12
  you don't know this, and I've said this on this show before and I'm gonna
• 59:13
  say it again until I'm fucking blue in the face and likely dead because saying
• 59:16
  this phrase is going to fucking kill me because I just fucking hate saying
• 59:19
  it so often, but I need you guys to hear it. I need you to
• 59:21
  understand. I need to fucking get in your goddamn soul, and I need it to
• 59:24
  be fucking imprinted like it's the fucking ring from Lord of the Rings in Elvish
• 59:28
  fucking writing. A commissioner of a league is not
• 59:32
  a commissioner of a league. The commissioner of a league nowadays
• 59:36
  has one function, and that is being the union head chief for
• 59:40
  the owners that hired him. That's the job. That's what
• 59:44
  it is. That's the goal now.
• 59:49
  Is that— you just did Tucker Carlson. No,
• 59:53
  I did not. Is that the goal? That's what we're doing. That's the goal
• 59:57
  now. Is that what we want? Is that
• 1:00:01
  what we want? Hmm. Hmm. So just
• 1:00:05
  to be— yeah, just to wrap this in a bow, there is no world
• 1:00:09
  where, where we are getting a proposed salary floor with
• 1:00:13
  no cap. We can barely get the owners to like back off on the cap.
• 1:00:17
  It could be really ugly if the players do what they're
• 1:00:21
  supposed to do and push back on any cap whatsoever.
• 1:00:25
  We are looking at losing a lot of baseball. And this,
• 1:00:28
  by the way, is an excellent bargaining chip for them. An excellent bargaining chip
• 1:00:32
  for them is that Milwaukee did what they just did.
• 1:00:36
  Point blank, it does help the negotiations. We— everything
• 1:00:39
  we just pulled up, by the way, all the parity in this league with no
• 1:00:43
  salary cap is only— that's all going to be in this negotiation.
• 1:00:47
  Yeah. So anybody— when I— I'm very rarely as
• 1:00:51
  as ridiculous as I am and as much as I will argue, argue with people
• 1:00:55
  on the internet. Yeah, I will rarely like turn my comments off so
• 1:00:59
  that you can't weigh in because I know I'm that right and I know that
• 1:01:02
  you're that misinformed. I did that last night. Yeah, I was like,
• 1:01:06
  you don't get to spread billionaire misinformation in
• 1:01:10
  my— I know more about this than you. I know more
• 1:01:14
  about this than you. You are wrong and we are right.
• 1:01:18
  And I, and I really don't say that with that much
• 1:01:22
  authority that often. And again, I know the argument's going to come because,
• 1:01:25
  listen, I live in the same world that you guys do. I live in the
• 1:01:28
  same economy that you guys do. I see gas prices, I see food prices,
• 1:01:30
  I see everything that's taking place right now. By the way, vote in November.
• 1:01:33
  Vote in fucking November. Vote in November. Anyways, the point—
• 1:01:37
  reason I'm bringing that up is I know what the new argument's going to be,
• 1:01:39
  because now the owners aren't going to be able to bastardize the Dodgers
• 1:01:44
  anymore, and they're not going to be able to villainize the players, but they're going
• 1:01:46
  to try to villainize colonize the players. That's going to be the old playbook because
• 1:01:49
  the players are just too damn greedy. And you guys who are spending so
• 1:01:53
  much money on this, your hard-earned money that you're spending, this can't happen. Because someone
• 1:01:56
  in the comments said that they were— they were like, I had someone tell it,
• 1:01:59
  blaming middle relievers for why they couldn't afford to
• 1:02:03
  take their family to a game. Like, you're right,
• 1:02:07
  it's fucking Tanner Scott is why you fucking can't
• 1:02:10
  go to a game. Oh my God, like, this is Like, they've made
• 1:02:14
  rules to mitigate how many guys get called up. They've mitigated— they made rules to
• 1:02:18
  mitigate how many times— how many guys can actually get their tenure. They've made rules
• 1:02:21
  to get less people in the big leagues. They've made rules to make sure they've
• 1:02:25
  stopped specialty pitchers from existing. That's why you don't see as many left-on-left
• 1:02:29
  matchups anymore, because the left-on-left, uh, relief pitcher like doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:02:32
  It still happens, but like now they have to face 3 batters because
• 1:02:37
  of the rules. So now you've basically just killed an entire
• 1:02:41
  entire job that existed 20 fucking 9 or 30 years ago. We don't even have
• 1:02:43
  the knuckleball anymore. And by the way, different issue, but I'm still mad. But you
• 1:02:45
  know what we really fucking need? We need more of these billionaire owners to accidentally
• 1:02:49
  fuck up the way Dave Rubenstein did today talking to the media. Because here's
• 1:02:53
  what Dave Rubenstein, owner of the fucking Baltimore Orioles, said, and he said this out
• 1:02:56
  loud, which probably something he shouldn't have. But if I'm the Players Association,
• 1:03:00
  I'm going in there on fucking December 1st with this smack dab
• 1:03:04
  in the middle and be like, hey, by the way, this is your 5th fucking
• 1:03:06
  richest owner. Anyways, this week the Baltimore owner's owner admitted
• 1:03:09
  that yep, the team owners make a ton of money,
• 1:03:13
  which is perhaps not the message the league wants to convey weeks before
• 1:03:17
  the owners are expected to initiate a lockout for the work stoppage. The collective— here
• 1:03:20
  is the phrase: a lot of my friends were buying teams and
• 1:03:23
  I realized they're making money. They're making more money than I'm making
• 1:03:28
  in private equity. I'm going to say that again.
• 1:03:32
  A lot of my friends were buying teams and
• 1:03:36
  I realized they're making money. They're making more
• 1:03:40
  money than I'm making in
• 1:03:44
  private equity. He also went on to
• 1:03:48
  talk about the fact that he never went into owning a team
• 1:03:51
  to make money because when he bought the team, it was like, hey, I just
• 1:03:54
  like, I have the money. I want to buy the Orioles. I want to do
• 1:03:56
  something for the city, whatever else. And then he found out, holy shit. And now,
• 1:03:58
  and now he's sort of in a spot where he's like, Damn, like people are
• 1:04:02
  now— his point was kind of like people are now buying teams to
• 1:04:05
  make money. That was really the point he was trying to make, was that this
• 1:04:09
  has become a way to make money, which I know seems crazy to you guys.
• 1:04:13
  It seems obvious, but it— for a long time,
• 1:04:17
  for a long time, owning a team was— yes, you had to be wealthy,
• 1:04:20
  you had to do that, but it was mom-and-pop shop. It was also like,
• 1:04:23
  yeah, like you, you had, you had systemic power and you had
• 1:04:27
  like all of these other things. You certainly had money. But it wasn't this like
• 1:04:30
  you could not flip a team for profit in 5 years. That was not
• 1:04:34
  something that fucking happened. No, you definitely couldn't do it anymore. Being bought as investments.
• 1:04:38
  We saw. Yes, we've talked several times about the fact that not
• 1:04:42
  only are they ballooning the valuations like they did for the— for
• 1:04:46
  Mark Walter and the Lakers. So Mark Walter buys it for $10 billion,
• 1:04:50
  flips it the next year for $12.5 billion. That's fucking insane.
• 1:04:54
  That's all of that stuff is happening. So to lose
• 1:04:58
  the plot so much that you actually side
• 1:05:02
  with making sure billionaires can get socialism is
• 1:05:07
  fucking amazing. Is nuts. That's just— this is the fucking
• 1:05:11
  craziest part of this. I can't believe it. It's like you guys don't
• 1:05:15
  want socialism, but you're going to let the billionaires have
• 1:05:20
  it, live in socialism. All because you don't understand how unions work. There are people
• 1:05:23
  who have been like, oh, these people aren't real labor.
• 1:05:26
  Athletes aren't real labor. Baseball, NFL, these players
• 1:05:30
  who grind out, sacrifice their bodies. You of all people know,
• 1:05:33
  like, what are you fucking talking about? These unions— I don't care that the
• 1:05:37
  average person in the MLB union makes more than you could possibly imagine
• 1:05:42
  making at your job. It is a labor union up against billionaires.
• 1:05:46
  They make less money, they have less resources, they have fewer assets,
• 1:05:49
  and they're also representing a bunch of fucking players who don't make nearly that much
• 1:05:54
  money, both in baseball and also, by the way, in the
• 1:05:58
  NHL and the NFL specifically, where these
• 1:06:02
  are like— you have the AHL, you have lower-paid players in that league, and then
• 1:06:05
  you also have in the NFL a bunch of practice squad players
• 1:06:08
  who may be going city to city, season to season,
• 1:06:11
  in-season, whatever else, who never even fucking hit $1 million a year.
• 1:06:16
  So enough. In any situation,
• 1:06:21
  it's just— it's a really easy calculus to do. If there's
• 1:06:25
  a billionaire, or a group at that,
• 1:06:28
  if there are 30 to 32 billionaires against a union,
• 1:06:31
  a labor union of any sort, I don't care if
• 1:06:36
  it's a union of fucking like rock shavers
• 1:06:40
  or NFL famous NFL players, you never
• 1:06:43
  side with a group of billionaires ever.
• 1:06:47
  They are lying to you about everything. Why would
• 1:06:51
  they be telling you the truth about this? You know, it's funny you
• 1:06:54
  say that. I'm going to make graphics so I stop having to get this stat
• 1:06:57
  that I know your mom loves so much. But I— but since I've given the
• 1:06:59
  stat before and we do have more viewers now than we did at the time
• 1:07:01
  when I used to give this stat all the time to really kind of paint
• 1:07:04
  the picture, I would like to paint you a picture, Tanya. How many days
• 1:07:08
  is 11? How many days is a
• 1:07:12
  million, a million seconds? 11.7 days.
• 1:07:16
  11.7 days is 1 million seconds.
• 1:07:20
  1 million seconds is 11.7 days.
• 1:07:24
  Tanya, how long is a billion seconds?
• 1:07:28
  32 years? 37 years.
• 1:07:32
  37 years. Actually, no, you were right. It's 32.7.
• 1:07:36
  32.7 years. That's just— that's seconds. Now think about
• 1:07:40
  money. That's a lot different. So that's the difference between $1
• 1:07:44
  million and $1 billion is 11 days to 32 years. If you don't understand that
• 1:07:48
  difference and you can't then calculate it, that on top
• 1:07:52
  of everything else, the, the money these, these owners are making is begetting
• 1:07:57
  money, and that just like what they do in every single other sector and industry
• 1:08:00
  is what they're doing now to these sports teams. And you're, you're siding with—
• 1:08:05
  yeah, but like, that guy makes so much money and it makes me jealous.
• 1:08:08
  Yeah, get a life. That's fucking— get a fucking life. Fucking bad. Too fucking bad.
• 1:08:12
  Because you— sorry you couldn't. You didn't— not even couldn't, you didn't.
• 1:08:16
  You didn't even try, probably, most likely. But again, yeah, I never even tried to
• 1:08:20
  be an NHL player. I know. Well, that's fucking on you, man. I know.
• 1:08:23
  Fucking toughen up. I should have tried. Toughen up. Um, so yeah, you guys,
• 1:08:26
  you could, uh— well, I'll probably— you know what I might do is I might
• 1:08:29
  just clip this whole segment as a separate video on our YouTube so that
• 1:08:33
  people can just share it. Absolutely. I think it's very important for us to school
• 1:08:36
  all you fuckers. I am so tired of your stupid
• 1:08:39
  asses. God, I'm telling you this, I have never had it. I have never had—
• 1:08:43
  outside of like the way people talk about like Black quarterbacks,
• 1:08:47
  I've never had a single issue that has pissed me off more in
• 1:08:51
  my— because like at least with the Black quarterbacks thing, most people
• 1:08:54
  who follow me get it. This one throws people for
• 1:08:58
  a fucking loop. The billionaire, they've broken their brains.
• 1:09:02
  Media Corner. Let's go to Media Corner because something happened last night that
• 1:09:06
  I will say it didn't shock me. I just, I was caught off guard by
• 1:09:10
  it though. Okay, so Ryan Fitzpatrick went off
• 1:09:14
  on Bo Nix after Bronco— after the Broncos beat the Seahawks
• 1:09:18
  on Thursday Night Football. He, he had
• 1:09:23
  literal disdain in his voice. We cannot play the clip because obviously we don't want
• 1:09:27
  this taken down on YouTube. But I'm going to read you what he said,
• 1:09:30
  a clip of what he said. He said, I'm glad they scored the 2 touchdowns
• 1:09:35
  in the first half, but they were in 4-minute mode when the second half started.
• 1:09:38
  It was really frustrating to watch. And part of it for me is Bo Nix
• 1:09:42
  is not playing competitively. It is almost disrespectful to the quarterback position
• 1:09:46
  how he's playing football right now. He elaborated on why he's so disgusted,
• 1:09:50
  saying, first of all, the guy doesn't want to throw the ball.
• 1:09:52
  That's fine. He's throwing to the flats, he's throwing behind, but he has no trust
• 1:09:56
  from his coach. Then the disgust seeped into Ryan Fitzpatrick's tone.
• 1:10:01
  In overtime, he's got 2 chances to be competitive, the last one being
• 1:10:04
  a designed run for him to run, make somebody miss, and get a first
• 1:10:08
  down for your football team. Now they're in the locker room right now. They're excited.
• 1:10:11
  They won. He's not playing competitive football right now.
• 1:10:15
  Ryan Fitzpatrick wasn't alone in his criticisms of Nix, as Tony Gonzalez jumped in to
• 1:10:19
  note that the only thing that's protecting him obviously is the wins.
• 1:10:23
  Offensively right now, it's anemic. If I'm a Denver Broncos fan,
• 1:10:26
  I'm looking at this going, hey, if this keeps up, maybe even a good benching.
• 1:10:30
  I'm just saying, to get your attention, to put Jarrett Stidham in there or something,
• 1:10:33
  because right now offensively you cannot be happy about this. Yeah,
• 1:10:37
  yeah, dude, I was, uh, I was actually kind of blown away by it,
• 1:10:40
  but I got a question for you. It was harsh.
• 1:10:43
  What was wrong? So I did a lot of thinking
• 1:10:47
  about this because I have no problem with Boniek's criticism.
• 1:10:51
  In fact, I am happy to see quarterbacks criticized that
• 1:10:55
  deserve to be criticized. I think it's fair. I do have
• 1:10:59
  a problem, I think, with this odd
• 1:11:04
  sort of self-righteousness coming from former
• 1:11:09
  quarterbacks specifically about other quarterbacks in the league. Like,
• 1:11:12
  there is a boom or bust ability to react to these
• 1:11:16
  quarterbacks that's sort of rubbing me the wrong way. It's either—
• 1:11:20
  this is always white quarterbacks. The rules are different for the way people talk about
• 1:11:23
  Black quarterbacks. We'll fight that fight apparently till we fucking die.
• 1:11:26
  But the way that they'll talk about somebody like Josh Allen or
• 1:11:30
  even Justin Herbert compared to somebody like Bo Nix
• 1:11:35
  is like, where is the middle ground?
• 1:11:38
  Because I think Ryan Fitzpatrick is not wrong that Bo
• 1:11:42
  Nix is playing poorly. I also am
• 1:11:46
  not seeing a, a,
• 1:11:50
  a head coach who has ever been a
• 1:11:54
  likable, easy to get along with, believe in your
• 1:11:58
  fucking quarterback type guy. He fucking inherited it.
• 1:12:01
  He brings in Drew Brees, has 15 years of one
• 1:12:05
  of the best, you know, passers in the league in a fucking
• 1:12:08
  dome, calls it— by the way, gets suspended for a year by being a piece
• 1:12:12
  of shit in charge of a piece of shit. Was then comes back into
• 1:12:16
  the league, can't get along with Russell Wilson, shit talks him straight out
• 1:12:20
  of fucking Denver. Then he brings in Bo Nix and he,
• 1:12:25
  he clearly isn't like— clearly isn't doing what he needs to do for the quarterback
• 1:12:29
  he fucking chose. And now we've got Ryan Fitzpatrick like
• 1:12:34
  kind of, kind of saying on broadcast that like he doesn't
• 1:12:37
  believe Bo Nix is even trying. Yeah. And I don't know
• 1:12:41
  how much I love that coming from a quarterback.
• 1:12:45
  Okay. Can you give me some sense of what Bo Nix might be
• 1:12:49
  experiencing? Can you give me some sense of where you think the breakdown is happening?
• 1:12:53
  Can you? Because I can get on here and say exactly what, what Ryan
• 1:12:57
  Fitzpatrick said as somebody who's been in the media and who's a fan.
• 1:13:00
  I— he didn't say anything that any of us couldn't have said
• 1:13:04
  after having watched that game. And if, if Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to
• 1:13:08
  exist as a former quarterback in media, I would like to think that he
• 1:13:12
  can bring some sort of dimension to the conversation that is not reactionary
• 1:13:16
  screaming about how bad a quarterback is being. If you're going to tell
• 1:13:20
  me how bad he is, explain to me what you think is happening. Is it
• 1:13:24
  a coaching thing? Is there a mental block? Is— have you heard reporting
• 1:13:27
  on Bo Nix that he doesn't take his training seriously? Are there
• 1:13:31
  personnel issues? Is there a miscommunication with the offensive
• 1:13:34
  coordinator and head coach? What's happening? Because you're
• 1:13:38
  giving me nothing. And this is not a sports debate show. This is
• 1:13:41
  not First Take. This is the postgame. And I learned nothing from you
• 1:13:45
  other than that you think Bo Nix is a piece of shit who's not trying.
• 1:13:48
  And I'm not going to lie, I I mean, that's a conclusion that any random
• 1:13:52
  dude on Twitter could make. I got to say, you've actually
• 1:13:56
  swayed me on this a little bit because I was like thinking that his,
• 1:13:58
  like, rage was borderline kind of refreshing. But you
• 1:14:02
  do make a good point that he's missing a real opportunity to,
• 1:14:05
  like, really kind of analyze this from a quarterback's perspective
• 1:14:08
  rather than giving the criticism from a quarterback's perspective. And that
• 1:14:13
  is, honest to God, a very fair point that I hadn't actually heard or considered.
• 1:14:17
  Like, you know, it's just— I guess I found
• 1:14:20
  it refreshing because I found it so— it caught me so off guard. Sure.
• 1:14:24
  So I think that might have been part of it. I understand. I, like,
• 1:14:26
  I agree with you, and that's why it took me a second to sort of
• 1:14:28
  get my bearings. But no, your assessment of it I do think is quite
• 1:14:32
  fair because, like— but here's the thing, I'm also
• 1:14:36
  looking at it like I've never seen Ryan Fitzpatrick be the clickbaity guy on
• 1:14:40
  the show. But like, in his— like, but in his torching of somebody? Not like
• 1:14:44
  that. No. I mean, I've never seen him do that. How about that?
• 1:14:47
  Not on broadcast. He's been that dude on podcast for
• 1:14:51
  years. Okay. Yeah, he's been a dickhead talking shit for years. Um, and I
• 1:14:54
  like Ryan Fitzpatrick well enough. I think what he does in the
• 1:14:59
  style— like, he's not always for me, but he has been kind of a dick
• 1:15:01
  on a— on podcast for years. Um, and that's his, his blunt sort
• 1:15:05
  of delivery and his, his, uh— he's never been afraid to say how he feels.
• 1:15:09
  This is somebody who's also like, like He's like shit-talked Tom Brady,
• 1:15:13
  who like used to just ass-whoop him on every fucking AFC team he's ever been
• 1:15:16
  on. Like, he, you know what I mean? He's like one of those guys.
• 1:15:18
  Okay, fine. All right, I get it. But yeah, I just like, I just feel
• 1:15:21
  like we're at this point where it's like, you know, you get a quarterback in
• 1:15:24
  this spot and they're on TV and they're talking about, you guys don't understand what
• 1:15:27
  it's like in there, how hard it is, how hard it is for these decisions
• 1:15:30
  to be made. And they'll defend all the dudes that they like and whatever else.
• 1:15:33
  And then like, we've got like a serious question, like character question
• 1:15:37
  at head coach. Right? We've got serious, like, questions about a
• 1:15:41
  lot of— about what that offense looked like now under 2 different quarterbacks.
• 1:15:46
  And I'm just now— I'm, I'm just a little hesitant
• 1:15:50
  to continue to do this with discussing
• 1:15:54
  this position. I don't— I think Bo Nix has played really
• 1:15:58
  poorly, and I don't think he looks like he can be a long-term option as
• 1:16:02
  a franchise quarterback. I would agree. I don't. But I would love to hear some
• 1:16:05
  more insight from these motherfuckers whose job it is to give me that. You know,
• 1:16:09
  I actually don't need you to like him. I would actually love to hear more
• 1:16:12
  critiques of white quarterbacks who are failing us.
• 1:16:15
  But his, like, real anger about Bo Nix specifically
• 1:16:20
  while Justin Herbert continues to get passes in year 7 is confusing.
• 1:16:24
  That is fair. Okay, that is fair. No, you've, you've, you've actually
• 1:16:28
  kind of swayed me on this a little bit because I did not have that
• 1:16:31
  take or really have that perspective and you've kind of legitimately made me think
• 1:16:35
  about that. That's what I wish Ryan Fitzpatrick had done for us. Well, there you
• 1:16:38
  go. Well, he didn't. He caught me off guard and I was scared. Anyways,
• 1:16:42
  let's get over to headline number 2, because this is interesting because, you know,
• 1:16:46
  Troy Aikman's been a guy over the last 35 fucking years, I'd say 40
• 1:16:49
  years, in fact, where he's gotten a lot of shit from a lot of fucking
• 1:16:53
  people. Very famously, Skip Bayless and all that fucking nonsense. And he's got
• 1:16:57
  a lot of shit throughout his whole playing career. Through his college playing career.
• 1:17:00
  And on top of that, both at Tennessee and UCLA,
• 1:17:04
  also took an absolute beating as a player, took an absolute beating. But like,
• 1:17:08
  very much a legendary quarterback and has done a really good job in the
• 1:17:12
  role he's been in for Monday Night Football for many years. I mean, you know
• 1:17:15
  how people are and, you know, I'm sure people in the chat, like the one
• 1:17:18
  thing that like even my friends who follow me and stuff, they don't fuck around
• 1:17:22
  with is they mostly hate all these dudes in the booth. They hate everybody.
• 1:17:25
  I'm a lot lighter. I'm— my critique of people in the booth has gotten
• 1:17:29
  like way less over time. Easy on people in the booth. Um,
• 1:17:32
  I really like Joe Buck. I have always liked Joe Buck. People think I'm insane
• 1:17:36
  when I say that. I like Joe Buck. I like Joe Buck. Always liked Joe
• 1:17:38
  Buck. Troy Aikman, especially now that we've seen some of the turnover at color over
• 1:17:42
  the last few years, has been an institution for a long time. Been solid.
• 1:17:46
  Has done the job. Um, I, I— when I,
• 1:17:50
  I watched the, the Cowboys Netflix documentary complicated,
• 1:17:53
  you know, relationships throughout his career in Dallas,
• 1:17:58
  has, you know, very clearly, like you said, I mean,
• 1:18:02
  been through it, but also like has had a real cush,
• 1:18:05
  beautiful, amazing media job for a long time.
• 1:18:09
  Yep. So we are now on the precipice of, as ESPN
• 1:18:13
  has the Super Bowl coming up, they are going to be calling it Joe
• 1:18:17
  Buck and Troy Aikman. We've now got drama with him potentially leaving
• 1:18:20
  ESPN. Joe Buck,
• 1:18:25
  his broadcast partner since 2002, just signed
• 1:18:29
  a very lucrative extension with ESPN. And that obviously
• 1:18:33
  set off alarm bells for Trey Aikman, who was like, oh, I'm not
• 1:18:37
  in contract negotiations. That's weird. I'm also in the last year of my
• 1:18:41
  contract. You guys just— what's going on here? So on Wednesday, Ryan Glasspiegel of
• 1:18:44
  Front Office Sports reported tension between Buck and Aikman stemming from their respective contract
• 1:18:49
  talks, which came to a head in the form of an argument before the Bills
• 1:18:52
  went over the Rams on Monday night. Buck signed a contract extension report,
• 1:18:57
  and The Athletic reported that ESPN remains noncommittal to Aikman
• 1:19:00
  beyond this season. Aikman and Buck have manned ESPN's Monday
• 1:19:04
  Night Football booth for 24 years. Come Thursday, Aikman appeared
• 1:19:09
  on KTCK The Ticket in Dallas and addressed the swelling the swelling
• 1:19:13
  rumors, Aikman chuckled and a loaded pause followed
• 1:19:16
  before he finally responded. We actually
• 1:19:20
  grabbed some— a video of that audio. So let's play what
• 1:19:24
  he said on the ticket in Dallas.
• 1:19:43
  It's been made public that Joe has a new deal with ESPN
• 1:19:48
  and you don't. And there's been some
• 1:19:52
  stories the last couple of days that that's now causing tension between
• 1:19:56
  you two. We just wanted to get your perspective on this. And are
• 1:20:00
  these reports true and what's going on?
• 1:20:04
  Uh, well, I think there's a— there's probably a time and a place
• 1:20:09
  to— for all that to be discussed. I don't know if now's the
• 1:20:12
  time. Uh, I don't know that it's hard to figure out kind
• 1:20:16
  of what's happened, but, you know, I'll, I'll broadcast through this season
• 1:20:21
  and, and I'll be a free agent at the end of the year and kind
• 1:20:24
  of see what happens. But, uh, uh, I'm looking forward to whatever
• 1:20:28
  the rest of this year does hold and with the Super Bowl and all that,
• 1:20:31
  and, uh, where my next landing spot might be. It's been made public
• 1:20:36
  that Joe has a new deal with ESPN and you
• 1:20:39
  don't, and there's been some, uh,
• 1:20:43
  stories the last couple of days that that's now causing tension between
• 1:20:46
  you two. It's me. Oh, it's just me. Okay, so anyways, later Thursday,
• 1:20:50
  um, Jimmy Traina followed up with Aikman on where he stands with ESPN.
• 1:20:54
  Aikman doubled down on his earlier comments. He said it just seems be where
• 1:20:58
  they're going. They're, they're going in a different direction because there's been no
• 1:21:03
  talks, no contract negotiations. Aikman told Traina, we're in a Super
• 1:21:07
  Bowl year, the Super Bowl is February 14th, my contract ends in March. It just
• 1:21:10
  doesn't seem logical that if we were gonna— if they were gonna keep me,
• 1:21:12
  that something wouldn't be in place long before that. Um,
• 1:21:16
  I don't know how much, like, you know, I don't know if that audio
• 1:21:20
  was like— did you play it in full? I did, I played the entire thing
• 1:21:22
  in full. So he is clearly, like, frustrated. I got to be
• 1:21:26
  honest, like Troy Aikman or not, this is a fucking awful
• 1:21:30
  way to be treated in this particular spot. And I am so
• 1:21:34
  fucking horrified. Like, I— this is crazy.
• 1:21:38
  This man is a Hall of Fame quarterback. Yes. Who has
• 1:21:42
  been your color commentator for 24 years.
• 1:21:46
  You are entering in him calling the Super Bowl and
• 1:21:50
  you are ghosting him on contract negotiations while he's
• 1:21:53
  entering his final stretch here with you.
• 1:21:57
  I am, I am fucking so sick
• 1:22:01
  of this network. Yes, like, I, I am so
• 1:22:05
  sick of this network. I, I ever— so bad. Every day they do something that
• 1:22:09
  seems more egregious than the last fucking thing they did. So bad. And it's everybody.
• 1:22:12
  It's like everybody that has talent there. Like, I, I guess they're just gonna force
• 1:22:15
  us to to fucking watch Pat McAfee as the host of fucking— as a color
• 1:22:19
  guy there. Repeatedly said he doesn't want to be in the booth. Cool. So I—
• 1:22:22
  so that's— they're gonna make you do it. Or are they? Because like,
• 1:22:25
  you have to also remember Joe Buck just signed his extension.
• 1:22:29
  Is Joe Buck gonna call games with Pat McAfee? Oh boy,
• 1:22:32
  I don't want to see it, but okay. Like, and, and if it's not
• 1:22:36
  Pat, which of course we all agree it shouldn't be— it should not be— are
• 1:22:41
  we getting Dan Orlovsky? Oh boy,
• 1:22:45
  now I'm hoping it's— never mind, give me Pat.
• 1:22:48
  I'd like more Pat, please. More Pat. You know it's not
• 1:22:52
  gonna be good. Holy shit. I don't know a lot of that. Like,
• 1:22:55
  now I think, and I'm like, that should have been Ryan Clark's job, right?
• 1:22:58
  Or that should have been like— Ryan Clark would have been good. Like, I'm just
• 1:23:01
  trying to think about like, it's like there's some people here that aren't—
• 1:23:05
  don't work for the company anymore that it probably should be. And there's other people
• 1:23:07
  that work for the company that decide to go out to dinner with fucking Kid
• 1:23:10
  Rock and fucking Bill Maher and the president yesterday.
• 1:23:14
  So is that what— Stephen A. Smith. Oh, Stephen A. Smith went to dinner with
• 1:23:17
  Kid Rock and the president and Bill Maher.
• 1:23:21
  Bill Maher, Kid Rock, Donald Trump,
• 1:23:24
  and Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. Where was I? See,
• 1:23:28
  this is my— my internet community is looking out for me. They're like, you don't
• 1:23:32
  need to see this. Yeah. They're like, you know what? Tanya doesn't need to see
• 1:23:36
  this today. She's dealt with enough. What are you fucking talking about,
• 1:23:39
  Cody? What? What are you fucking—
• 1:23:42
  that's what happened. First of all, Bill Maher can literally
• 1:23:47
  sink to the 7th circle of hell. There's not many people in the world that
• 1:23:51
  I fucking think are more worthless than Bill Maher.
• 1:23:54
  Cannot stress that enough. Disgusting human being. Gross human being.
• 1:23:59
  At least Kim has no brain. I know, but what was the line?
• 1:24:02
  Hey Drake, heard you like them young. Yeah.
• 1:24:06
  Yeah. Replace Drake with other people. Mm-hmm. So, you know, I mean, well,
• 1:24:10
  and also I didn't say Bill Maher, but like, we are talking about him.
• 1:24:13
  It's just if you make that connection, that's kind of a you thing. Plus he
• 1:24:15
  hangs out with Donald Trump, so. Oh, he hangs out with Donald Trump. That must
• 1:24:18
  be fucking cool. Yeah. I just like, just so we're all clear,
• 1:24:22
  this is not normal to handle negotiations this
• 1:24:25
  way. We did actually used to live in a society where this type
• 1:24:30
  of stuff did not— it didn't happen like You would never leave.
• 1:24:34
  Like, you know, when, when we were growing up with John Madden
• 1:24:38
  and like Brent Musburger or whoever, right? Like these guys were institutions.
• 1:24:42
  And when they were ready to move on, it was this big deal, right?
• 1:24:45
  And this, this thing, this unceremonious
• 1:24:50
  ousting of legends for their company
• 1:24:53
  is so gross. Now, I know Troy Aikman came
• 1:24:57
  over from Fox. I realize that ESPN is
• 1:25:01
  not the longtime employer of Troy Aikman and Joe
• 1:25:04
  Buck, but they're Troy Aikman and Joe Buck.
• 1:25:08
  Like, what are we doing?
• 1:25:13
  Just know this is a company that doesn't give a fuck.
• 1:25:17
  Like, it— they're the grossest company that exists now. They just— they are.
• 1:25:21
  I honestly think they're the grossest fucking— they make me proud
• 1:25:25
  that they're one of the few companies I haven't worked for. That's how I work
• 1:25:28
  for me either. And it's funny, I can't believe now looking back, I can't believe
• 1:25:31
  I almost worked for them in 2007. I can't believe it. Really glad I didn't.
• 1:25:35
  I have worked for so many companies and I've been— but like, I am actually
• 1:25:38
  proud that I worked at Fox Sports instead. That's how
• 1:25:42
  I feel. And by the way, Fox Sports has its problems, but like, I'm very
• 1:25:46
  happy that I worked there. Like, I actually really liked working there.
• 1:25:50
  I liked— even the problematic people that like shouldn't be in the industry.
• 1:25:54
  I even got along with them. Like, the only gripe I've ever had with how—
• 1:25:58
  with the experience of walk— working for Fox Sports as a
• 1:26:01
  corporation— I had plenty of gripes dealing with people at work, we all do.
• 1:26:04
  Yeah. But was the way they handled the layoffs.
• 1:26:09
  And like, the way they handled the layoffs was corporate bullshit that I don't think
• 1:26:12
  my direct bosses were in charge of. So there's that.
• 1:26:16
  Um, but this is disgusting, and I'm completely over,
• 1:26:19
  uh, a lot of this. Um, All in all, I just—
• 1:26:23
  I think that Troy Aikman deserves better. Yes, he does. And like,
• 1:26:27
  yeah, he hopped from Fox. Maybe he ends up back at Fox. Maybe. Listen,
• 1:26:30
  human decency is not high on ESPN's list, period. Stop. That's just the way
• 1:26:34
  it goes, unfortunately. But, Tony, before we go. Yeah. Can I convince you in a
• 1:26:38
  quick, quick pop culture conversation? Yeah, of course. Pop Culture Corner, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:26:42
  And the reason I want to bring this up is because you just brought up
• 1:26:44
  the name John Madden. I wanted to ask you, have you watched the Madden movie
• 1:26:48
  trailer. Well, I've seen the trailer. You see the trailer? Yeah. With Nic Cage.
• 1:26:52
  Yeah. This— what the fuck
• 1:26:56
  is this? I feel like it's, it's giving the same vibe
• 1:27:00
  as Digger. Like, I'm like, what am I— what is anything anymore? When I
• 1:27:04
  see trailers, I don't know what anything is anymore. Like, truly,
• 1:27:08
  who is this for?
• 1:27:11
  I don't know, because it doesn't look like it's for football fans. It's not.
• 1:27:14
  It doesn't look like it's for Nicolas Cage fans,
• 1:27:18
  which— that's a weird thing to say out loud in general.
• 1:27:23
  Who truly— is it funny? Is it supposed to be fun?
• 1:27:27
  Because John Mulaney's in it and it looks like he's trying to be funny.
• 1:27:30
  Is it supposed to be funny? I, I don't think it's supposed to be funny.
• 1:27:33
  That was not what I was getting. I wasn't getting that it was supposed to
• 1:27:36
  be funny. What the fuck is this? I don't know. It looks like And
• 1:27:40
  who made it? Isn't it David O. Russell? Is it David?
• 1:27:43
  I think it's David O. Russell. That sounds right. Listen, I— listen, I, I know
• 1:27:46
  no one goes— I, I appreciate anyone that makes a movie. I can't
• 1:27:50
  stress enough, no one goes to make a movie to purposely make a bad movie,
• 1:27:53
  unless the goal was to make a purposely bad movie, in which case it's probably
• 1:27:56
  amazing. But this looks
• 1:28:00
  like shit. Speaking of movies that are like bizarre though,
• 1:28:04
  so Digger, that whole— yeah, I still don't know anything.
• 1:28:07
  So we've watched the trailer, whatever else, right? So Ben Affleck
• 1:28:11
  gets on some interview show. Oh, he's making the rounds right now. Yeah, because he
• 1:28:16
  did— I actually watched his movie. How is it? It's, it's, it's a situation.
• 1:28:19
  I love it, but like, I don't— it depends on the kind of films you
• 1:28:23
  like. Like, I like a, like a, an intense sort of stuck-in-one-place
• 1:28:27
  crime thriller. I thought it was great. But, uh, him and Kerry
• 1:28:30
  Washington are great. But he's Gary Washington, uh, interviewing,
• 1:28:34
  and he's sort of taught— he's sort of talking about how people are
• 1:28:38
  really giving the movie Digger shit for not making a lot of money at the
• 1:28:42
  box office. Oh, it's a flop and blah blah. And he, he's essentially saying like,
• 1:28:44
  you guys should be supporting like this type of movies. If you want movies and
• 1:28:48
  you don't want everything to be superhero and whatever else, then you're going to come
• 1:28:51
  out and fucking shit talk and blah blah and whatever else. And he's kind of
• 1:28:53
  like, he's just defending cinema. It's what Ben Affleck does. Yes, don't blame him.
• 1:28:57
  But I commented underneath it and I was like, he's afraid of Tom
• 1:29:01
  Cruise. And I was just making a lighthearted joke because
• 1:29:05
  I'm like, he was like really going hard to defend this movie that like,
• 1:29:08
  I don't know, whatever. Maybe it's good. Maybe it's not. I don't fucking care.
• 1:29:10
  But like, I was like, he's just afraid of Tom Cruise.
• 1:29:14
  Because, and then I had maybe like no less than like 20 to 25 people
• 1:29:18
  be like, have you even seen the movie? It's so good. It's a fucking masterpiece.
• 1:29:21
  It's amazing. It's not what you think. You have to give it a chance.
• 1:29:23
  And I was like, cool, yeah, no, none of that means
• 1:29:27
  Tom Cruise isn't scary. Yeah, Tom Cruise is insane. Like,
• 1:29:30
  people in Hollywood are afraid to piss off Tom Cruise. Did you not know
• 1:29:34
  this? Oh, I'm sorry, you're such a fucking cinephile you didn't know that Tom Cruise
• 1:29:38
  is an absolute psycho who scares everybody? Well-known fact. And that my joke
• 1:29:42
  was funny? I'm sorry that you're so out of the loop. I don't give a
• 1:29:45
  fuck about Tom Cruise's Digger movie. It comes on and I'm around,
• 1:29:48
  like, I'm not gonna be mad about it, but I'm not like It's so weird
• 1:29:51
  how people get when I was very clearly not
• 1:29:55
  reviewing the movie. Yeah, you have to understand, like, this is actually true about Tom
• 1:29:58
  Cruise. He's like the last of like an aged version of Hollywood.
• 1:30:02
  Like, he's like the last movie star that can still like
• 1:30:05
  summon people in the way like that people used to be
• 1:30:09
  summoned. Yeah, like Tom Cruise is like the only one
• 1:30:13
  that's still— Will Smith used to be able to do that, can't do it anymore,
• 1:30:15
  but Tom Cruise still can. He's like the very last of like
• 1:30:19
  old Hollywood. By the way, Tom Cruise could have slapped Chris Rock and he'd still—
• 1:30:22
  and he'd still be able to sign. Scientology is terrifying. Yes, they,
• 1:30:25
  they got, they got a lot. They got pictures of everybody. So many pictures,
• 1:30:29
  so much money. They got all— so anyways, uh,
• 1:30:33
  don't say Tom Cruise is scary on the internet. Apparently that's— I,
• 1:30:37
  I literally thought about it and I was like, these are probably Scientologists. Probably like
• 1:30:40
  they— oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Oh, fucking Fuck,
• 1:30:44
  I was like, well, I don't want to get on the wrong side of these
• 1:30:46
  idiots. I wonder how many of their bot factories are fucking shut down in fucking
• 1:30:48
  Russia. They come straight out of Clearwater, babe. Straight out
• 1:30:52
  of Clearwater. Uh, um, gross.
• 1:30:56
  Yeah, so I might be on— if you see some
• 1:31:00
  sort of khaki-wearing man with a still
• 1:31:04
  camera outside your house taking photos of me, it's probably a Scientologist.
• 1:31:08
  Oh, or just a fan. You know, one of my fans. Yeah, what are you
• 1:31:11
  gonna do, guys? Well, listen, we've done it again, Tanya. It's another fucking Friday
• 1:31:16
  night. Did a full 90, baby. Full 90, baby. Hey, told you,
• 1:31:20
  told you. Most importantly, fucking like, share, and subscribe wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
• 1:31:23
  And when I say that, I actually mean Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Leave us a
• 1:31:26
  review, share with your friends. We're growing this bad boy. We're in the midst of
• 1:31:30
  a fucking pirate ship, and you guys are in on the ground floor, and we
• 1:31:33
  appreciate you guys being a part of that right here on YouTube. Of course,
• 1:31:35
  Pay, pay attention to all our clips. Tanya's, uh, you know, TikTok page,
• 1:31:39
  and of course @theregulars_pod on
• 1:31:43
  Instagram. And of course follow me and @DeckerSticks and @AntiheroBaseball.
• 1:31:47
  Yes, because Cody's starting to do Threads, and a lot of my friends
• 1:31:50
  on here found us through Threads. Cody's starting to do Threads. I pimped
• 1:31:55
  you out on the post today. Did you? I'm on Threads, dude. I'm throwing out
• 1:31:58
  thirst traps and shit. I took your thirst trap post. Should I do my shirtless
• 1:32:01
  photo? Oh dude, I got a good shirtless photo. I don't have a lot
• 1:32:05
  of good shirts, but I have one good one. I was like, this is my—
• 1:32:08
  yeah dude, I'm such a harlot. Yeah, so I dressed like a whore yesterday.
• 1:32:11
  You were, you were a whore at the gym. I was a slutty gym whore.
• 1:32:14
  And, um, by the way, I have my announcement,
• 1:32:18
  um, on Monday for what I'm doing. Let's go!
• 1:32:22
  So that'll be announced on Monday, which I'm excited about. Very excited for you,
• 1:32:25
  man. Um, may involve last-minute travel, which I'm very annoyed by, but we'll see what
• 1:32:29
  happens. And not annoyed that I get to travel, annoyed that it might be a
• 1:32:33
  little last minute. You need to make that clear. I fucking love getting opportunities to
• 1:32:36
  go do stuff and having people pay me to do it. So please keep that
• 1:32:39
  in mind. Phenomenal shit. So, uh, yeah, uh, once again, I just want to
• 1:32:43
  say thank you guys for joining us today. As always, like, share, and subscribe
• 1:32:47
  at The Regulars Pod on Instagram. And, uh, we will have some new clips
• 1:32:51
  that are going out. Check me out on Threads at Antihero Baseball because, uh,
• 1:32:55
  Thirst trap fucking city. The ladies love it.
• 1:32:58
  The ladies actually— I was, I was blown away with how many really lovely comments.
• 1:33:02
  Threads is thirsty. Threads is horny. I did not know how fucking thirsty Threads
• 1:33:05
  was. Horny on Threads. We're horny on main on Threads and we're
• 1:33:10
  going to keep it that way, dude. I'm not letting— we are not letting the
• 1:33:13
  fucking incels over on Twitter take over Threads. We're going to be horny
• 1:33:17
  and weird and we're going to embrace it. It's very horny on Threads.
• 1:33:21
  All right guys, that's it for us. Like, share, and subscribe. Hey, hey, hey,
• 1:33:23
  hey, hey, how dare you? I don't give a fuck about the fake-ass bloody sock.
• 1:33:27
  It didn't happen. He's a liar, and I hate that you ever ruined it for
• 1:33:30
  me. Every single thing that you just said outside
• 1:33:34
  of it's fake is true. It's true. The bloody sock
• 1:33:39
  was real, but he is a lying piece of shit and not a good person.
• 1:33:42
  And so we don't ever end the show without saying fuck Kurt Schilling.