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- Brodie Pod: Welcome back, everyone. Episode 51 of the Birdie Pod. Be sure to like, subscribe over on the YouTube. Turn those notifications helps out a lot. If you want to follow us on Spotify, please rate the show five stars, helps out a lot as well. We're also available on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. If you want to stay up to date on the show, follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter slash X, and Facebook at BirdiePod, at BirdiePod and Everything. And Matt, did you know that you can get notified when someone posts on Instagram? You can turn on the notifications. I just found this out today. So if you're following the podcast, go ahead and turn on the notifications helps out. And I guess we can get into the podcast here, Matt. Yes, sir. What was what was that? What was that look? All right. Well, I guess let's get to the cream of the crop. Let's get to the cream of the crop. everybody's not really let's not really the saying, but we teased it last episode. We are currently watching the Saints and Falcons Monday night football game. As you can tell, my co host Big Saints fan. Has the Ju Bur Ju Breeze jersey behind him. Has the Saints polo on, has the LSU Tigers hat. What are you pointing at? What else you got? Can you see it? I don't know if we can see it. he's got the he's got the Saints helmet. Yeah, signed by who's that is that Drew Brees signature? He's put on the helmet. With the card and the helmet. I think you should just do the episode like that the rest of the way, Matt. I can guarantee you that's not how small Drew Reese's head is, dude. What a great flow. Hey you know, he kinda has a little small head. He is technically like kinda shorter for quarterbacks. He doesn't have any headphones. But anyways. He's back. Yes. that hurt a lot, by the way. That helmet is quite small. It looked like it was a a tight squeeze. That was no fun. But we did so we did record I started the recording as soon as the Saints game started and Bijan already had a seventy yard rushing touchdown. It wasn't seventy. It was a long touchdown for Bijan Robinson. And you know what? I was worried the Saints were gonna be so pumped up with this being the twentieth anniversary of the blocked punt by Steve Gleason, as Matt enlightened me. And turns out B. John Robinson's also a little pumped up right now. So this is actually I think it's gonna be a good game. Yeah. We'll I think we're gonna get a we're gonna get a vintage Matt watching the Saints reaction here. So as as long as this podcast is going on, we will be recording through this game. I do want to enlighten I guess you, as well as the listeners, if they don't know, the lore. The Saints, obviously, New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina happened in was that five? Yeah, two thousand five. Obviously they were put out of their stadium. Yeah, th the stadium was like a sanks a haven, a safe haven for people. it had had some damage where I guess it was so bad the Saints couldn't play there. I'm trying to remember, weren't they playing their game? Well, I guess they were on the road, but didn't they go to a different stadium to play their game? I mean, two thousand five, I mean I was the Katrina impact, the Saints, the the Superdome was a shelter of last resort for those in New Orleans, unable to evacuate. Hurricane struck on August ninth August twenty ninth, two thousand five. Around ten thousand residents would end up sheltered in the stadium. The stadium was obviously damaged during the hurricane's landfall. Stadium remained closed after the storm and would not resume hosting events until late six. When the New Orleans Saints returned to the Superdome for the O six season. it would remain closed until the Saints resumed the two thousand six season. Or until the 06 season happened. But yeah, the the game was it was Monday night football against the Falcons in 2006 after the devastation of Katrina. That was the first game back in the stadium was against the Falcons. Okay. The Dumb coming. The Dumb comes. Yeah, we saw the signs already. People put dumb coming up. The towels. But yeah, Steve Gleason had a blocked punt early on in the game. I heard it was the loudest pop. that whoever the announcer was for that game said it was the loudest pop he's ever heard in an NFL stadium. It was, man. And he as he said, Steve Gleason has a a statue in New Orleans now outside of the stadium. But of him boy. Yeah, like that was kind of the the turnaround, I guess, for the Saints. Obviously, you know, Drees is there. and that's partially why he signed with the Saints was Sean Payton drove him around when he was visiting as a free agent. And they he saw he Sean Payton purposely took him around the most devastated areas. Right. And just showed him how much He could positively impact a city. Not it not just the the football team, but the city as a whole, the state as a whole, really. and so this is the twentieth anniversary of Gleason's block punt. I happened against the Falcons on Monday night football, and here we are on Monday night football and you know, twenty years later. Yeah, I mean this is this is the twentieth anniversary and we actually just saw a punt happen from the Saints as happened, so They tackled him. It's gonna be fun. listen, Matt may not be here. He's gonna be he's gonna be in and out watching this game and it's gonna be I I do want to say like yeah, like if you're not a video watcher of the podcast, if you listen to it, this would be the episode to go ahead and watch because it's it's gonna be some good reactions. It's it's one of my favorite parts of football Sundays and whatever is watching Matt watch a Saints game. I wanna give my full attention to the podcast, but even Brayden knows. This is gonna be good. Recording the same time as the Saints, obviously I'm it worked out, but my attention's gonna be divided. He's gonna be in and out. So just make sure you pay attention. This is gonna be good. Get into a little bit of the show preview here. We're not gonna be talking just about the Saints and Falcons, but just wanna let that know. Everyone knows Matt's big Saints fan. I'm actually kind of rooting for the Falcons a little bit. I am in fantasy football. I'm going against a guy that has a bunch of Saints players. So I'm it it's kinda like devil's advocate here. Matt's, you know, going for the Saints. I'm kind of not preying on their downfall, but like I'm going against him a little bit. So I I I don't want him to do too well. I'm just want him to win because I want my co-host to be happy. But then we're gonna we're gonna get some Brodies of Week, followed by some top NFL reactions and previewing some of the top games for week five that we have picked out. We're gonna get into a little bit of college football, some of the big games that are coming up, some huge games actually coming up this next week in college football. And then we're gonna get into a little MLB October update for you know the baseball with what's happening at MLB, and then we're gonna finish off with one final question. With that, Matt. I can see the eyes watching the game, dude. I can see he's watching the Falcons on offense. But we can get into Brodies of the Week. Matt, if you If you want, I'll go ahead and and lead us off here since your attention might be a little diverted. Either way. Either way. I'll lead us off here. My first Brody of the Week, Alexander Ovechkin, the great eight, or also known as Ovi, has announced his upcoming NHL season will be his final season. He was taken first overall back in 2004 by the Washington Capitals. I mean, he is considered like one of the greatest players in the NHL. of all time. He holds the record, Matt, for the most power play goals, the most goals and away games, the most overtime goals, the most game winning goals, the most individual goalies scored upon, most goals with one team. And he's the only player to have two hundred plus goals in three different decades, the 2000s, the 2010s, the 2020s, and he's the all time NHL goal scorer with nine hundred and twenty nine. He's actually the only player with over nine hundred goals scored. He's called the the great eight for a reason. Not to be considered with not to be confused with the great one. I think that's Wayne Gretzky. But yeah, he's having his his final season coming up. Who knows? He might I don't know if he'll get to a thousand. That's probably not in the cards, but it would be cool if he got to a thousand. Being the second best hockey player ever is when the the first is Wayne Gretzky it. It's not bad company. I mean it's not bad to be a runner up to that guy. I'm not a hockey savant and people do say like Wayne Gretzky, I think between assists and goals, like he is still that the best. He is the most by like an incredible margin. But if you're just talking goal score, I respect I respect O V for it. And also I respect O V as someone that's a Dirk Nowinsky fan, Matt. As someone you're a Drew Brees fan. I guess Drew Brees didn't spend his whole Career with one team, but I'm pretty much like the Saints. Dirk with the with the Mavs, Kobe with the Lakers. LBC's Drew Reeves is a Charger. I recognize him as a Charger. I thought he was going to go in the Hall of Fame as a Charger. But OV has been with the Capitol since 2004. So like he's just lived and died with the Capitol. So I respect that he did get his Stanley Cup too. So like shout out OV. My Brodie of the Week. Matt, we go ahead and get your Brody of the week out of the way because we both also have like a football related one. So my Brody of the week is Jackson Shirio. Okay. he had a game running two run single last night against the the San Diego Padres. Yeah. Perfect scenario for just the the ideal hit you want to have, right? Bottom of the ninth against the Padres, two outs. You're facing the best closure in maybe baseball history. That's a big history. He's certainly up there, but Mason Miller. You're facing Mason Miller, the frim grim reaper of baseball right now. yeah, he hits it up the middle for a walk off, walk off single, two run scores. yeah, the Brewers are up two o now against the Padres. Jack Cherry was shout out him. But did you see I think it was game one against the Brewers and Padres? They had like a ball hit off the top of the f top of the roof or something. And that ended up being like the game. It was like the second to last out that they needed. But it was going to be a home run for the Padres, but it hit off the the the roof for the Brewers and the guy at Outfitter caught it. And it was kind of as an out in fair play. Everyone was like, that ball was going to be a home run at any other stadium. I think it was the roof? Yeah, it hit the roof of the Brewers Stadium. Talk about a real home field advantage, dude. If this would have been at the pod race, that's a home run wall it's probably a game winning home run. That's insane. No knowledge. So it turns out the the umpires before the game had said like, hey, if it hits off the roof, if it's in fair play, you play it as a fair ball. If it's in foul, it counts as a dead ball. And then the the Brewers manager was like, I've been here six years, I've never seen that happen. And then in the ninth inning, of course, it comes up and it happens. So Shocker that I mean Trio, I think it was a two two count. I don't think it was a full count, but it's two two for sure. See followed off like two or three balls. But hitting a game winning On Mason Miller, that's impressive. Off of Mason Miller. Up certainly the best closer right now in MLB. Easily. He's he's definitely up there all time, but that's to be debated later. That that's that's a debate. It's for a different time, but All right, moving into our next birds of the week, and this will kind of lead us off into the NFL here. So, I'll go ahead and get it out of the way, man. Everyone sees me wearing my cool CD Lamb jersey, man. I listen, I don't own a lot of jerseys, all right. I don't own a lot of jerseys. But I do have me a C D lamb jersey and I do have him on my fantasy football team and I mean, dang, I I could talk about the Cowboys, but let me just give some praise to 88 here, real quick. 17 catches, 189 yards, and a touchdown. I I literally couldn't have asked for anything better from CeeDee Lamb. Cowboys take down the Texans 34 30 in the battle for Texas. And CeeDee Lamb, I just want to say I love you. You're you're the best. Everyone wants to talk about Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson. I don't talk about CeeDee Lamb. I'll talk about the the beads he's got hanging off his dreads. He should play every game with the beads on his dreads. Like he just got back from Brazil or something. You know, what who needs I know we talked about the the Brazil game against the Ravens last week. And there was that whole thing at the end where they were down and they were gonna score and they were trying to get the ball and they were and they were just trying to punch it in from like the two yard line or something. They couldn't get it, they didn't even run the ball. They just kept throwing it. Seemed like they learned their mistake because they hit C D Lamb for the go ahead touchdown. And they go up four, which that seems like that's what we needed 'cause our defense I was just ready for CJ Stroud to torch us and break my heart again as a Cowboys fan. But yeah. It's not it's not like he didn't torture all. Yeah, I'm gonna I'll I'll pray C G Stroud here a little bit, but CeeDee Lamb with his seventeen receptions, a hundred and eighty plus yards receiving and a touchdown in one game, since two thousand, Matt, do you know the only other players to do that? What seventeen and Seventeen or seventeen plus, a hundred and eighty plus, and then a receiving touchdown. I'm pretty sure they have a podcast together. They I've seen a clip of them on a podcast talking about it. I don't know. First one to do it. First one to do it was Terrell Owens in two thousand for the forty niners. And then Brandon Marshall in two thousand nine. Yeah. I thought that was funny because they were just talking about I saw it it circulated on like my TikTok and them like saying like, Well, I broke your record, so am I the goat? And they were debating that. No, move over. CeeDee Lamb's the goat. 88. Dude, that's a lot of catches, man. Yeah. It's actually it's the most by any NFL player since Keenan Allen had eighteen in week three of the twenty twenty three season. It's also second all time in franchise history, only behind the only other cowboy jersey I have, Jason Whitten. Who had 18 in a game. And then also third place on that list was Jason Witten with 16. So it's literally Jason Witten, CeeDee Lamb, Jason Witten from most catches in Cowboys history in a game. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. Shout out CeeDee Lamb. Less tight ends. Shout out CeeDee Lamb, my Brody of the Week. Also, I'll just get in the other shout outs from the game here. Shout out Javante Williams, man. Also had him on the fantasy football team. Three touchdowns, three rushing touchdowns. 19 carries, 62 yards. He was close to 100 yards total. Saints just are moving the ball a little bit here. Matt's getting excited. But also shout out to the Cowboys social media team. They had some shots in the chamber ready for the Texans in this battle of Texas. So they put out you know, everyone knows L Langley. They put out a song where they put out a a a graphic and it said choosing Dallas, Texas, by the way. So that one was loaded. And then there was Kings of the State, but it was Kings of the H it was King of the Hill. And it was like Dak, CeeDee, Javante, and George Pickens. So it had all that. And then also I just want to shout out to the Texans real quick. We did talk about CJ Stroud torching us up a little bit. The Texans, the Texans, they're going to be okay. As long as CJ Stroud and Nico Collins are around, because CJ Stroud, 347 yards, two touchdowns, outdueled Dak in this game, I feel like. Nico. I mean, everyone's talking about CD Lamb, but Nico Collins had seven receptions, 118 yards, and two touchdowns. Speaking of which, one of the touchdowns was like on the first drive for the Texans. I was like, great, here we go. Our defense can't stop anything. That's his first game back after missing two weeks. Yeah, and I mean it looks like he didn't miss a step at all. And then just from the running game, they really needed to get David Montgomery more involved. They had sixty two yards total as a team rushing, and David Montgomery was their leading rusher with twenty four yards. So I mean that's something that they need to get back into. Like they were very competitive against the Bills and they were feeding Dave Montgomery. They've kind of gotten out of that. I think maybe that's something they need to feed more. But shout out to our defense. I know they can't stop anything in the secondary. I know we just added, was it Joey Porter Jr. from the Steelers? He was I did see that he was on a a rep restriction. Yeah. I I think it was zero catches he allowed, but he was also against who was the other receiver for the Texans? The one that was come back from the injury. The knee injury. Tank Dell? maybe it wasn't Tank Dell. Who is he basically? Higgins? He was based on Tank. Hutchinson. Higgins, Hutchinson, Tank Dell. it was K Sean Booty. the new ed the new edition. Yeah. So they kinda had him paired up on him, it looked like for most of the game, or just like the number two option. They they didn't I guess they didn't want to put him to the fire yet, but yeah, it looks like he'll be some good it bolster a little bit of the Cowboys secondary. It's where we would need some help. Obviously the the run stopping, we were there and we were able to make it. But I'm interested to what happens with the Cowboys next week. it seems like maybe this could be kind of a a jumping off point to where we could finally rattle off some wins. I know we had a tough one against the Ravens a week ago, but I'm happy to win this. Honestly, for all the Houston people that listen to this podcast, we got you this year. Laugh at you a little bit battle of the state. We won it. But I think the Texans are gonna be fine. They're playing the Titans next week, and they're at the Titans, and that's gonna be the battle of the O and fours. And I think the Texans just have a favorable schedule coming up to where they're gonna be able to battle. I didn't see like week eight, it could be Texans and Chargers battle of the O and Eights if we get that far. See if we get that far, then Texans might be shutting down everything. Certainly both of those teams could get that far for sure. I think the Texans win next week. I think they I think they they take out the O and four, but Yeah, shout out C D Lamb, career day, buddy. Keep doing what you're doing. Welcome on the podcast anytime, Cee D Lamb. Anytime, come on. All right. Jer Brees is in the building. Damn right he is. He's got the beads on. Anyway, so you're talking about a lot of offense. Let's talk about a lot of defense. Okay. Mr. Brian Flores, defensive coordinator of the four and Minnesota Vikings. Surprisingly, four and Minnesota Vikings. He is the reason there four and Held the Packers to twenty-two first game of the season. Held the Bears to three, albeit Kaylee Williams got hurt. But Case Keenum and Tyler Bagent, Bajit, whatever, have both, you know, kind of solidified themselves as competent backups. So that three points is means a lot. Held the Bucks to 16, held the Dolphins to 10. You know, not the best offensive firepower for those teams, but the Vikings are Their first in points per game is allowed at twelve point eight. They're first in touchdowns allowed at three. They're first in total sacks at sixteen. I want to shout out Dallas Turner, who was second in the league in sacks at five and a half. They're fifth in yards per game allowed at two hundred and nine two hundred and eighty nine point three. What was that? Yards per game? Two hundred and eighty nine point three yards. What happened? Chase just Chase just missed a field goal. no. Vikings have allowed the fifth least points two hundred and eighty nine point three yards per game. I mean there's I've I've screenshotted several graphics. I mean I could go on and on, I guess. Right? But but this one is this one is it's really very surprising. It is the list of all teams with a four no start to the season that failed to score an offensive touchdown in at least two of those games. It is the nineteen twenty two Chicago Cardinals. The nineteen twenty three Chicago Cicago Cardinals, the nineteen thirty four Detroit Lions, the twenty twenty six Minnesota Vikings. What a pull there. I mean, that is our Stats Department working overtime. You so you're telling me nineteen twenty was nineteen twenty two, nineteen twenty three, nineteen thirty three? Nineteen thirty four. Nineteen thirty four. We've almost gone a hundred a hundred years. Until that has come up again and we have it with the Vikings. Correct. I d I guess you probably don't have how those teams finished in the season. I I mean you and I and a lot of the viewers wouldn't even know that Chicago Cardinals were a team at any point. Yeah, I I might be the I'm gonna see. I'm just gonna look up sh nineteen twenty three Chicago Cardinals. Chicago Cardinals sounds like a team my girlfriend would would come up with, you know. Okay, so the Chicago Cardinals finished in nineteen twenty three with eight wins and four losses and finished sixth in the league. It's good for them. I mean I just want to say yeah, I mean Brian Flores this could be his head coach interview, so to speak. Yeah, honestly, I'm surprised he's not a head coach. Horrific. I mean, there is that stuff back a couple Yeah. All that. But obviously he certainly deserves a head coaching spot. I'm trying to see. I so I heard something interesting. Let me just double check it here. Okay, yes, I am I am correct here. So in total yards as an offense, they are thirty second. Yeah. And they're undefeated. It's it's a graphic. Did do you know like the three dragon meme Matt where it's like the two mean ones and the one s silly looking dragon? It's like the Chiefs second in total yards, the forty niners fifth in total yards, and then it's the Vikings with thirty two from the undefeated in yeah, thirty second total yards. Yeah, it's I I think I saw that on Twitter today. yeah, it's unbelievable. and that's why he's my brody. Yeah. It's literally because of him and the defense. Yeah. Otherwise it'd be and four, easily. I don't want to t I know we've talked about Justin Herbert or any of these other quarterbacks that have had some just struggles. But it's like, baby, dude, it can Minnesota not just find like somebody that could like They did. They had him. Are you talking Sam Darnold? They had him for a season. They let him go. Are you talking about nine? I'm talking about Fort fourteen. Yeah. Sam Darnold. I did see JJ McCarthy is also four and in his last starts. I actually you talk about the Vikings. This is the Viking I think it's their eleventh time in like the NFL era of starting four and It's one of the most. I think the Chiefs I think it's like the Chiefs, it's like their seventh and it's like the 49ers eighth. Yeah. Like surprisingly the Vikings four and seems to be their home. Now how they're gonna finish the season that's we'll see what happens. But Brian Flores is absolutely having offenses in a blender. To be fair The Bucks haven't won a game. The Dolphins are horrible. The Bears Caleb Williams got hurt that game and the Packers kinda suck right now, but still, NFL offense is holding them to twelve point eight points per game. Well I don't wanna we're gonna look ahead to who they're playing next, but we'll get into that in the previews. Moving on to some sack. Yeah, Zayn's got a sack. Here we go. Getting on to some other stuff that's happening in the NFL. Matt, where do we want to go with it first? We want we want Panthers, Lions? That one's fresh in our mind. Let's do Panthers, Lions. Let's do Panthers Lions. All right. Let's go ahead and get this out of the way. Tedro McMillan and Bryce, Bryce Young is gonna be a problem in the NFC South. that looks like they have found a real connection between those guys. What did Tet finish with? He finished with Fourteen catches for a hundred and ninety two yards and two touchdowns. I mean, we talked about CeeDee Lamb torching. It seemed like Tenro McMillan is just which an absolute dog. Let me put that in perspective a little bit. He ties Machine Mohammed or Mushin Mohammed for second most receiving yards in a game from the Panthers. At a hundred and ninety two. actually Mohammed did it against the New Orleans Saints in nineteen ninety eight. and Tet finished nine receiving yards shy of the Panthers record, who I assume you know who has it. is it I'm gonna imagine it's Steve Smith. It is Steve Smith. Okay, I was gonna say that's the only notable Panthers like correct receiver. He had he had two hundred and one and two thousand and five against the Vikings and only eleven catches, which I thought was very impressive. Yeah, no. Not to mention one of the catches he had to put the game away. Did you see that sideline catch? The toe tap? The third down? That was insane. He was a first round pick too for the for the Panthers. Like I think I believe he was either first or second round. He was there for like the walkout of the draft. And then Bryce Young obviously was the first overall. Who, Tedro McMillan? I was gonna ask you this question because I know it. I know it. I know it. How do you know it? I know because he played against my team. Well, I don't know if he actually ever played against tech, but he was Arizona. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think listen, I know I was gonna ask you. I'm actually we're we're on such a good con I was gonna ask you the same question. I love ask I love just speeding out a little bit of extra knowledge. I've been I've been like waiting to ask you that question all day. I was like, I'm gonna ask why where Tedro McNullen went to college. I know you love that. To be fair, I didn't you said it first, so I Could just be No, but I know I know you know you could say. You're a you're you're a psychopath. But I know you're like Dan Campbell. You're he's also a psychopath in this game. fourth and twenty just decides we're going for it. There's a hook and ladder. Just gotta respect it, man. Yeah, I mean they had a chance to I mean, what this f the final score was it was twenty six thirty two. They would have kicked the field goal whenever they went for it on fourth and twenty. They would have been only down three. They could have kicked another field goal. They ended up going four and out on their final drive to have a chance. They would have had to score and go for two. Or no, they wouldn't have had to gone for two. They could have just scored and then won the game that way. But I think he was just d thinking like we weren't gonna have enough possessions. So I think that's what ended up happening there with Dan Campbell. but honestly, like the Lions, I I put a panic thing for another team, but like should the Lions start to panic a little bit? I mean, they now go to two and two. Yes. I mean, they've lost to The only team they've lost to is the Bills and the Panthers now. They did beat the Saints and the Jets. They beat the Saints alpha bullshit. Yeah, I mean that was a game they probably should have lost as well. And they the Saints had a fumble, a clear fumble. Yeah. A fumble six. And it seems like every game that they've been in has like a high scoring affair. Like I'm having the same problem with the Cowboys, where it seems like every game besides the the commanders has been a close, high scoring affair. Lions kind of seem to be in that same boat of like their defense just is not there. Of like what you need. And then like it just seemed like Bryce Bryce Young was having himself a day. something just happened. Was it a fumble? Yep. But not to get carried away by that. But to put in perspective how bad the Lions defense has been, the leading quarterback in fantasy is Josh Allen. And the second leading quarterback is whoever faces the Lions defense. These last four weeks. On average. On average. I think Josh Allen has like 28 point something per game. And whoever you add all the quarterbacks who have Fates Alliance, you average that over four. That is just under Josh Allen's points per game. Also, they've allowed the fourth most points through the first four games. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's just been high. They've allowed the most The the Lions defense allowed them the most points ever in the first four games. Of their most points ever? Yes. Even more so than the the eight Lions. I think that went owned sixteen. Yeah, they're allowing thirty one point eight points per game. Or the most yards, I think. I guess probably both, but definitely the most yards the first four games. Well, you just want talk about most passing yards too. Bryce Young is leading that stat. Yes. I've heard I've heard from clips that he is like one of the smartest quarterbacks in the NFL. Like, yeah, people want to talk about Bryce Young and his like short stature and stuff, but like he is seems like a very cerebral quarterback. And it seems like he's just now getting to the point now where he's it almost looks like the game's getting easy for him. Like where he's actually understanding like NFL defenses, NFL timing. Like he's starting to pick it up a little bit. Like we're almost seeing the same thing. with Brock Purdy. I mean we could see like a a small quarterback battle for the V P this year. I don't want to overreact to I mean it seems like every every week we're talking about an V P candidate, but like it could be Those two are they're up there. I mean I think it's right now it's like Mahomes or it's it's Josh Allen, Mahomes, Purdy, and then I maybe move Young in there. Quarterback wise. Maybe. I mean his comp has been Breeze in the past. Bryce Young. I mean, obviously that's kind of any NFL quarterback's comp who's shorter and smart with the football, that's they're just true Breeze. That's just their comp. Even though he's a top five, top thirty, top the best quarterback of all time. I mean it does make sense however you want to put him. Bryce Young we're at number nine. Maybe there's that connection. And the NFC South as well. okay cool. So I mean yeah Panthers are looking like a real, you know Real solid team here. Let's move on to the next game here, Matt. Rams overcome a 10 point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Eagles. Final score that game was I had it. Where'd it go? There it is. 24 20. They score 14 points in the fourth quarter. Eagles didn't score in the second half. Puka was back for the Rams in this game. Saquon did go down early. He scored two points. You have been fantasy. I apologize. It At least not like me in one of my leagues I drafted Saquon and Devon A Chan where it's just been the last couple of weeks have been very tough. If you're Saquon has been horrible all year. Yeah. So left I think he pulled his hamstring or something, but it just seems like he's becoming injury prone this year. So that might be, you know, a storyline that continues. but Matt, is it time to press the panic button for the Eagles? I mean, I think what now they're they're two and two on the season. Yeah, two and two on the season. I think when they won the Super Bowl in twenty twenty four, they also started off two and two. But it seems like maybe their defense isn't up to what that twenty twenty four team was. No. And just the the trajectory that Jalen Hurts is on is not a good one. I do have right here the notes, Jalen Hurts is in all caps awful. In this game, 111 total yards, ninety three passing yards in four quarters of NFL football, ninety three passing yards. In the past two weeks In the second half alone, he's eight of twenty one passing, fifty-two passing yards, zero touchdowns, albeit zero interceptions. but and this this game's this game specifically he had ten passing yards in the second half against the Rams. Yeah, if anyone ran this Matt, we we can go ahead. There's pass interference. No, the Saints holding on fourth and four. Defensive holding, automatic first down. This is exactly how I'm this podcast episode. On the Saints on the Saints best corner in Kool-Aid McInstree holding. Jesus Chr he tackled him. What the f are you doing, bro? I'm sorry. What are you doing? You you have help inside. Like he like Traikman just said, you have help inside, man. Here to talk about pressure button. Yeah, let Bichon in. There you go. Bijan Robinson, 70 yards, two touchdowns. Congratulations, whoever has him. Looking great on Monday Night Football. Eagles, though. it's they are going on the road next week. They're going to London to play the Jaguars. Jaguars team of London a little bit. Might be a home game for the Jaguars. live in London now, dude. The the NFL Most every London game it's the Jaguars. Yeah. The Jaguars, I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and sleep on the Jaguars anymore. They're a good team. Very good. They're very good. They're g I mean like the Jaguars of old. This isn't your grandpa's Jaguars. This is the new Jaguars. This ain't a David Gerard led Jaguars. This is Liam Cole. This Travis This is Trevor Lawrence led. Travis Hunter led Jaguars. He had an another interception for up to Yeah, I was about to bring that up as well. I'm sure you all saw that. Crazy. That was I mean, T. Higgins, I believe, is possibly he might be out this next week. I it may have come from that play. I mean, you want to talk about a cheat code at corner? Travis Hunter who can play who has won the Bolitnikoff at wide receiver college. Obviously he had wide receiver. But he's won the Bolitnikov in college. Yeah. You want to get the ball in his hands on defense? He'll make every offensive player miss. Let's let's let's move it on here. I had one more thing just from the Vikings Dolphins game that went down. Jacob Rodriguez, eighteen tackles in that game. He might be the only bright spot for the Dolphins this year. He broke he broke the rookie record, single game record that had previously been held by fellow Texas Tech great Zach Thomas, who recorded sixteen tackles in nineteen ninety six. Also, Miami Dolphin. Ma also a Miami Dolphins. So it's just history is just repeating itself a little bit. moving on here, Matt. I had some power rankings or like Monday morning top ten rankings. Would you like to take a guess at the number one team? For NFL? Yeah, for NFL. I'll say the top three are undefeated. Chiefs. Chiefs are number two. Niners. Niners are one. Vikings are three. I mean they have to be. Yeah. Even though they probably shouldn't be, though. Number four is the Jaguars. Number five is the Seahawks. Yeah, I'd probably foot those. Six is the Bills. Fair. Seven is the Bears. And is the Ravens. Nine, surprisingly, here is the Browns. Ten is the Raiders. I guess not that surprising. Browns have been I gotta The Browns good this year. Obviously. Yeah. Browns are Raiders. Yeah. I mean Browns are leading the the division right now, the the AFC North. At three and one. And then, yeah, that's just that's disgusting to me. moving on here, Matt. we did talk about the teams that are four and the Chiefs, Vikings, and Niners. Who did you pick for the team that was gonna be undefeated last? Chiefs. You took you took the Chiefs, I took the Niners. So thank none of us Neither of us took the Vikings and then obviously the the Bills lost, so Neither of us went out on a limb and took the Raiders. there goes Olave. Go, baby. Olave to the ten. Ten yard line. Liz hey, listen it ain't over till it's over. This is this is gonna be good. Cut to the end of this podcast where Matt's either super sad or super happy. Just a forty yard bomb. I mean, my god, it's like he didn't even throw it. What an arm. Someone's getting shucked tonight. I mean, how are we leaving the lobby wide? Let's see. who's that? Who's Okay. 18. Is that Trey Lance's brother? It's Bryce Lance, yeah. Is that actually? Yeah, Bryce Lance. Here we go. In the same college quarter. End of the first quarter, fourteen zero Falcons. Welcome at No Third Quarter State. All right, Matt. That kind of le let's get into the week five preview a little bit here. So we have kind of the top games here. First our two teams here. So we got the Bucks at the Cowboys, Thursday night football. You know, both these teams gonna be a short week. Cowboys obviously at home. I like them against the Bucks here. Bucks are still gonna be without Baker Mayfield, I believe. He's still dealing with that dislocated thumb. So I'm not listening if we want Jalen Daniels. If we beat the Texans and then lose to the Bucks, go ahead and just wrap up the season here. We don't need to we don't need to play anymore. We'll we'll be done. Fair enough. But also I wouldn't be shocked if we did lose this game because everyone likes to put their best foot forward against the Cowboys. And I know what I'm not sure Jalen I'm not sure Jalen Daniels has a best foot right now. Well j Jalen Daniels is gonna like, I'm playing Thursday night football against the Cowboys, time to be prime time Lamar Jackson and endus. Right then and there. Moving on to the Sunday noon game here, Matt. Vikings at the Saints. We're gonna get to see what this undefeated Vikings team's all about when they come to the dome. When they come to NOAA. Are you worried about I mean? Not to be biased, but this will be the best offense they faced. This will be the best. Like, you're talking the Vikings facing the Saints off. Yes, this will be the best offense they have faced for sure. Objectively. Statistically I think that's I think that's a fair statement. I think Shuck is second in passing a lot of his second in receding yards. Yeah. Brian Flores as we're recording this. I can't wait to see what Brian Flores has cooked up for Tyler Shuck. He's probably watching this game right now too. Licking his chops. No, he's like, you know, here we go. And then the best game that I saw this week, go ahead and cancel your plans in the afternoon. Forty Niners at the Seahawks. NFC West bat battle here. We finally get to see everyone saying Purdy for MVP. Not everyone, probably just this podcast. We're gonna get to see Purdy in a hostile environment with a good defense. And we're gonna get to see a good matchup here. once again, being like the division foes, that alone that along that alongside the storyline should be enough there. Yeah. But also forty nineers coming into this undefeated Seahawks, you know, Super Bowl champions. I'm more worried about being wrong on this podcast of maybe the Fort Dinners won't be the the five and team. Chiefs are on by, so Matt, you're safe. Chiefs and Panthers are on by. Safe for a week. Yeah, which I which I don't know. I would go I go see that year, probably. No, I'm going, I'm rocking with the Forty Niners. You have to. No. We could see. Hopefully, it could it could just be like Vikings Chiefs is the last undefeated teams. That would it could be. Yeah. We'll see. Or it could be Fort 49ers Chiefs. That's what Matt would like to see. but yeah, that's pretty much it for the NFL. Next we'll come back and we will do some top college football. Camara Alva Kamara scores a touchdown. There we go. Dude, I knew it. He turned back at the clock. What a play call, man. What happened here? I was about to There's a little motion Olave over. like it was gonna be a wet as she for a little dump off. Faked it to Olave, pitched it to Kamara up the middle. We'll see here. Yeah, it's a run. Little motion to Olave. Take the hando. Yeah. Come on, Kellen Moore, man. Got a running back battle here. You know how good Kellen Moore is. Yeah. They call in offensive plays. There we go. All right, we'll come back just with college football. All right, and we're back to do some college football. Some if you can hear from that side, the Falcons just scored again. The score is now twenty one seven Falcons. Hey, listen, the Saints aren't out of it. We're not even at halftime yet, Matt. You're fine. I I I am rejoicing in having this on recording, but Matt, let's get into here a little bit week five that went down. So Alabama kind of put a whooping on Mississippi State. I did watch this game just because I was excited to watch Mississippi State's quarterback work and I had a fumble and a pick six in this game, didn't look too hot. Maybe that was just because I was watching the game, he got a little nervous or something, but Alabama ends up winning fifty six twenty three. Texas Tech All my Red Raiders listening to this podcast. yeah, we won twenty nine to seven. But I mean it was it was an ugly twenty nine to seven. w it was nothing to do with our offense. Offense isn't looking too hot. I know tech moved up in the A P pole pay A P A P roll A P I know tech I know tech moved up in the A P poll rankings, but I don't believe we're our ranking should be accurate. It hasn't looked too pretty these last couple of weeks. I know it was Colorado and it's one of those teams you probably should put a little bit more thumping on. It should look a lot more dominant, but like at halftime it was seven three Colorado. Yeah, if you look at the at Texas Tech's like second half stats for the entire year. Incredible team. Yeah, I mean we did have a pick five team in in college. Yeah, and thank God Zach Wilson's brother was playing quarterback because we it was one of the best pick six you you've ever seen in your life. It was a it was like he I think it was Curry intercepted the ball in the end zone. Amazing stuff there. But like, yeah, the defense has looked absolutely great. The offense has just been a little left to be desired, but the kicky game's looking strong. So, you know, we're we're moving along there. Ohio State takes down Iowa thirty one fourteen. Iowa did show some fight in this, but once again it's Iowa State. Just, you know, they're they're kind of they're kind of moving along right now. Jeremiah Smith did break a bunch of records for the Big Ten in this game. I think it like most receptions, most touchdowns, most I think he's at most yards. I don't know exactly. I know he's if he's not there, he's gonna be there. Like dude is looking absolutely dominant. And yeah, probably the biggest shocker here that happened was number twenty five Missouri taking down number eight Florida. Forty five to seventeen Matt. Florida had a fun run in the top ten, dude. I mean, that was a fun week if you're a Florida gator being in the top ten. Just getting absolutely beaten. it looks like the SEC is just kind of like eating itself alive right now. I think it was like Mississippi State beat Missouri, who beat Florida, who beat Ole Miss, who beat LSU, who beat AM. Just goes down the line. Yeah, I mean Jordan Baugh. Quarter's running back, my he was my Heisman candidate. Held the twelve carries for thirteen yards. That's yeah. That's tough. It's it's kinda bad. Yeah, so that was one point one yard per carry, by the way, if you're curious. Yeah, and I get it was a hostile environment, but like that's a huge like if you're Florida, if you're gonna be a top ten, that's a game you have to win. And shout out to Missouri, that's a huge win for for the Tigers. Not those Tigers, Matt. but yeah, get into the A P poll rankings here. People have had all types of gripes about the A P poll rankings. I'm ready for the college football playoff rankings to come out because A P poll has not made a little bit of sense. Like I people are just kind of like Notre Dame's floating up there at three. I get it they're undefeated, but like I don't know about Notre Dame at three. Miami at four feels maybe right. House State at five. I agree. Like These rankings don't matter. And I I never I don't my mom I will say people like my mom care about A P poll rankings. It's a good temperature check. Because she doesn't realize that the rankings up until the college playoff rankings don't matter. Yeah. It's it's more as Only thing that matters is when the first college playoff rankings come out. That's when the rankings start to matter. Yeah, it seems like the AP poll rankings are more for like TV, so they can say ranked on ranked matchup and stuff. I really wish they would put the college football playoff rankings out there the whole year, but I get it. We have to wait. That'd be so hard. I mean, what else are those guys doing all year? He dropped it. This is I'm so happy we got this going. Vele. that was a crazy catch though. Yeah, usually catches that shit. but yeah, so I mean, Florida drops all the way to sixteen. They were at eight. Fair. Mississippi State only dropped to seventeen. I think that's, you know, they lost to Alabama. Now they did get kind of whooped by Alabama, but you know, I'll they lost to a team that they were supposed to lose to. Yeah, he's I mean, I he's got some he's got some sauce a little bit to him as a at the quarterback position. Oklahoma State is up to eighteen now. Iowa only dropped back to twenty. So I mean it's just good temperature checks. Texas obviously had a bye week this week, so they're gonna say the number one team. But Matt, let's get into some of the games that are coming up this week. I have the top five games of the week. Tell me where you would put these teams. Put these games. So starting off here, we got number twenty one UCLA taking on number thirteen Oregon. Don't care. Where would you put it? Out of what? Out of five. Five. Okay. Four. Okay. We got it's Dylan Rilo. Dante Moore isn't even playing. So Yeah, we got number nineteen USC taking on Penn State. that's five. That's five. Okay. We have what was it? we have number seven, Indiana at Nebraska. Battle of the Unbeatons, both at the top of the Big Ten. Where would you put that one? I'm actually surprised Nebraska isn't ranked. I did see there's some Big Ten undefeated matchup. Yeah, that that's this one. Indiana and Nebraska are both undefeated. I thought it was Okay, yeah. What's a minute, I'm on top of it, dude. I got the I mean, I know. No, no, no. I'm not And also sh for Nebraska, I mean, you're undefeated. This would be a good Good win at home for the big red. I mean, granted, the competition they've played up to this point hasn't been the craziest, but this is a spot where if they win this, I think they jump inside that top fifteen, taking on Indiana. Depending on the fashion they win this game too. Could jump even higher. All right, Matt. Those are the you so far you're right. Three through five. Those are that's that's where I started off with those games. Let's get to the top two games and tell me which one you would put above which. Yeah. We got Texas number one Texas taking on Oklahoma and the Red River rivalry at two thirty on Saturday. Me too. At number two, all right. And then we got number two, Georgia at number six, Alabama, the night game. He's saying that's number one. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, Texas will be W, but is it gonna be that crazy of a blowout? I don't know. I don't think so. and I and honestly, I'll stop you there before you talk yourself out of it. You're right. You got the the top five, it's it's ranked in order. You got all right. So John Mateer hasn't been the greatest, but like compared to Arts Manning. Yeah. Stats are a eerily similar. This might get clipped here. This I'm saying they're strangely similar. One's a Horrible quarterback and the other is high as been helpful. This is for all the OU people listening the podcast. I'm gonna go ahead and say what you're saying. There's a chance. This is a big rivalry matchup. Because you're wearing the jersey. I didn't even think about the CeeDee Lamb connection. Yeah, you're right, Matt. Yeah. I maybe that maybe it's CeeDee Lamb telling me, but I I feel like there's a chance here. Like Oklahoma, your season's been a disappointment up to this point. But if you took off number one Texas in the rivalry game, like You're jumping back up. This I mean, not even jump like your season's still probably over, but you would consider it a success if you take down Texas and spoil their season. You're playing you're playing spoiler now, probably. Yeah. Before you get upset, Drake Lynn, I see there's a flag on it. I there's passion. If that's not a flag on the Falcons, you're gonna see something that you don't want to see. So it wasn't. You're about to see something. You're gonna see something you don't want us. I mean, Jesus man, like what do you mean? Let's see here. We got we got It's a thirty yard, forty yard catch, and you're gonna throw a flag on the Saints, brother. Where's the legal contact? He's just he holding everything on the book and he falls down. The corner, Koolid does. Okay, this is this we need we need the Saints. It's ever bro. I mean, dude. I wanna give listen. Falcon college, I'll give respect to the Falcons. We'll I'll take it back to NFL for a li a little bit. Respect. Like very good players. Drake London, Bijan, Bijan. Good players. Michael Peenis is a decent quarterback, right? He can get the ball to the the playmakers. I'll give him that. I didn't think it I didn't think the Saints were gonna blow him out. I didn't think The Saints would get blown out. Especially given the scenario of the game and the Yeah. But Bijan Sorry, I just focus on the podcast. We don't even have to look over there anymore, Matt. We don't have to look over. I'm not gonna look. I'm not gonna look. and then as far as Alabama, Georgia, they have Alabama as a one and a half point favorite in this game. I like Alabama. I like Alab I haven't seen much Georgia this year. Yeah, I've s I mean like listen fair, listen, Ryan Williams Didn't really nothing last year. but season prior to that, really good. So maybe this is his he's like, my god, I'm about to get drafted. Let me turn it up a little bit. No. He's been very good this year. And then Keelan Keelan Russell for Alabama has been playing pretty well too. I don't even know who Georgia's quarterback is. Is it Gunner? Yes. Is it actually Gunnar still? Yes, Gunnar Stockton. Gunner Stockton, yeah. Yep. So we'll I mean we'll see exactly what happens here. But I I like Alabama this one. And Urban's been very quiet this year, I think. Yeah. I think they've just been handling teams. But I wouldn't be I would be shocked to see Alabama win. And I wouldn't be super shocked to see I mean I would be shocked if OU beat Texas, beating like Texas looks like a juggernaut going in. But just the rivalry, like it's almost like just throw it out. I know Texas is like a seven and a half point favorite in this game, but I'm telling you, there's there's Something about these these rivalry games where teams just will show up and be like, you know what? Screw the number next to their name. We got a shot here and we're gonna do it. So maybe it could happen. Yes. Especially with the especially with the Red River rivalry. Yeah, we we said it right this year. We're not gonna mess it up. I gotta say it slow. It's a tongue it's a tongue twister. It is. But yeah. Maybe it happened though. All right, moving on to some MLB here, Matt. Our playoff update, we got our final eight. Unfortunately, the Chicago Cubs went home pretty early. I it sucks for the like the wild card. Like I I don't like that series being three, but I understand like you can't just do one game and you can't do like a seven game series for a wild card. But three threes is is weird. It doesn't feel like a series. But now we're in the AL ALDS and NLDS. We're in the division divisional series. And those are best of five. Currently in the ALDS, the White Sox have a two lead on the Guardians. The White Sox are so fun, man. I that's that's we were so low on the White Sox, man. Yeah. I am so We I mean we said they were fun too. We're like, dude, if we if we could have our pip, we want the White Sox to win. We said Yeah, it's been such fun interviews coming out of the White Sox. They seem like they've found some magic. That's almost what you need a little bit going into October. And then the PCA didn't have a hit. Yeah, that's just two and out for him. Like he's AL Well the Easy and I'm casual N L A L. They were N L. A L. They were N L. The Company. L V P. Yeah. And L V PC didn't have a hit in the playoffs. Well, I guess the MVP hasn't been announced yet. He's a finalist. But I don't know. The MVP and the Cy Young don't get announced until the week after the World Series. He's got over nine hundred OPS, forty five home runs. He's probably gonna win MVP. Yeah, you can't even bet on it anymore. Yeah. They took it they took it off. Fair, but no, it's crazy. Yep. And then Yankees Rays. Tampa Bay currently leads in that series one but I'm looking at it Live right now. It's tied one one at the top of the fifth as we're recording this. So that series seems like it's gonna be a little bit fun too. It seems like those teams are a good matchup for each other. I know they're division foes, so it's been a good matchup there. And then on the NLDS side, we have the Dodgers and Braves. That series is tied one one. And I said that is the stars versus superstars. If you are just a casual baseball player or casual baseball fan and you watch that series, you'll know people on those teams. It's you know, showy tiny monkey bets. Matt, our guy from the Rangers is on there now for the Braves. there's Ronald Ocuna Jr., but then there's Jake, is it Jake Berger? No. No, Rowdy Telez. Rowdy Telez is on the Braves. Yeah. Texas Ray. I was I was like, what the heck Rowdy Telez doing? I didn't know where he went, but I didn't know he was on the Braves now. I don't think we're missing him that much. No, but I just I was just I noticed that. I was like, I mean, do the Braves have Chris Sale coming on the pen? Yeah, I mean I feel like that's I mean that's I don't think there's any more frightening of a sight than Chris than than Chris Shale coming out of the bullpen. Yeah. And I tell ya, I I was telling someone this the other day, would I be upset if the Braves three Peter? No. But would if they went home, I wouldn't be that upset either. Like I'd like to see a new champion, but also like I could respect it like the Braves. They're kind of the the super villain and everyone wants them to lose and stuff. But like I I kinda like the Dodgers a little bit. I know obviously like I'm a Rangers fan, but like I had an assignment back in college and I I chose the Dodgers for it. So I kind of learned a lot about their franchise and stuff. And if you if you're saying Dodgers are Yankees, I want the Dodgers to win. But obviously like I want to see a new champion. I'd love to see the White Sox win it or like the Brewers or somebody, someone different. speaking of which we already talked about the Brewers Padre series a little bit. Brewers are leading that series two zero and then yeah, there was that roof controversy and and everything going on there. But I think that's gonna be a good series too. I think honestly, like out of the out of the two divisional series, I think the NL has the better series. Yeah. You said the the Braves repeating? No, the Dodgers. Okay. Did I say Braves? You said Braves. If I said Braves, I mean the D I I want the Braves to take down the Dodgers on the three P. We know what you meant. Yeah. We know what you meant. You didn't know what I mean. Stop listening to the podcast. You you're casual. Fair. The Dodgers, yeah, obviously. Nobody likes the the heavy favorites to win. Yeah. And I think I don't know if you are a fan of the heavy favorites. Who are our World Series predictions? I know I think I said White Sox Cubs, but I think I would now go with White Sox Brewers. I think that was you. I think you said White Sox Brewers is like your matchup you'd love to see. Yes. Yeah. So honestly, by the time this episode comes out, we'll probably know. Do remember our favorites. Honestly, we'll save it for we'll save it for next week because we should know the seven-game series have a little more time in. But yeah, Matt, I guess with that, we can get into one final question. This game, the Saints. Falcons is almost a halftime. It's twenty four seven. We'll probably come back right at the end, or if it's just a blowout, we won't come back at all. But Matt, let's get into one final question here. I came up with a fun one this week. It was build the worst fan of all major sports. So an example, people would be like they hate Cowboys fans. They hate Yankees fan Lakers. So if there's someone's like a Cowboys, Yankees, Lakers fan, people would be like, just a casual whatever, but it's all major all major sports here. Got the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, college football, and the NHL. And you don't have to if you don't know NHL or whatever, you don't have to pick that. if this is you, I'm sorry, but I hope we don't meet because these this would be my worst fan if I ran into them on the street. If this is you, you suck and you're a bandwagon. Unfortunately. So my worst fan that if I ran into would be they're an Eagles fan. huh. They're a Thunder fan. Yeah. Yankees, Longhorns, and the Golden Knights. Valid. Yeah. I think you know, I I think I'm a fan of all the other teams that are rivals to those. So I think that's why obviously like the Yankees fans, you know, just you've won enough. You're fine. Thunder, I think that goes back to just the Shea and the the foul baiting a little bit. and then Eagles, obviously I'm a Cowboys fan and just Listen, I like the Eagles team, the players. I've just the fans, you know, kind of rub me the wrong way a little bit, so probably the worst fans in football. Yeah. I do respect that I do respect that they boo their team and I like the Kelly Green jerseys, but Ooh Yeah they got the top three. They're cool jerseys. Those might be the best. Just the fans. Fair. Matt, who would be your worst fan if you ran it? obviously Falcons I'll I'll agree Thunder. I hate the Thunder man. MLB, I would go Astros, probably. I was in between the Astros. You the bang of the trash cans kinda leaves a sour taste in my mouth. College football, you know, Alabama. And then NHL, not really that adept for sound sense. I mean, I'll go Gold Knights, yeah. All right, Gold Nights. I have a friend Josh. He's a big Golden Knights fan. Talks a lot of shit. That the Knights are you know better than the stars, which they are. But I was in between the Golden Knights and the Avalanche. yeah, give me Avalanche. Actually, that's where I was in the I have a a friend that's a big Colorado fan. Like Nuggets, Avalanche. I'm sure like big big fan. I talks all he talks so much shit, dude. I'm sure I am like one of the fans of like someone else. Like I'm a Cowboys fan. I'm ma I I don't think there's anyone that hates the Mavericks. No. Can't. MLB, Rangers. Maybe the Diamondbacks. Maybe someone in Arizona doesn't like me. college football, Texas Tech. So obviously I think Austin, someone Texas Tech, really, buddy? That's that's that's my I that's from Alabama. All right, fair. I mean obviously I like Alabama too. That's I grew up an Alabama fan, but of course, of course. which honestly that's why me and Matt get along so well. He's an L SU fan. I was an Alabama fan. That's we we That's why we love each other. Yeah. It's a good matchup every year when we play. NHL that I'm a stars. I'm sure there's I'm sure the Golden Knights and Avalanche also hate the stars as well. Okay. So I mean, so Saints fan hate the Falcons. Mavs fan. Also, I mean, just I just hate the Thunder. I just don't like SCA. Like you said, falibating. I hate that solid play. Even though Luca does falibate sure. Maybe I can for sure, but he has beat he has beaten the Thunder seem behind him. So okay, I guess let me take let me take this back a little bit. NBA, if I'm gonna say like I don't like the I like the Eagles team, but I hate the fan like not hate the fans, but like I don't like the fans. Hate the fans. The Thunder, I mean they have very nice fans. I don't like the Thunder, the basketball team. So maybe I gotta choose a new NBA team. Well, yeah. I mean that's a thing. Well, I guess. So like who would be a bad NBA fan? I mean I Philly is just no notoriously. Celtics. Yeah. 'Cause they beat the Mavs in the final. I did I did. I I did. I also I thought of Lakers. Yeah. Because they have our our sweet prints and they've I've seen Stuff on Twitter talking shit about Luca. Yeah. Like you're fucking lucky to have him. Yeah. Where would you be without Luca? You don't have LeBron anymore. Where would you be without Luca? You'd be nothing. I tell you what, we didn't we'd be Austin Reeves. That'd be it. We haven't talked much NBA, but I mean the I there's been so many funny storylines that have come out of the NBA. I guess their media day that they had with with LeBron and the Sick It seems like it was just LeBron and Sixers. Then Anthony Davis said he's gonna go crazy this year. His medical team is gonna go crazy. Yeah. But yeah, that was just a interesting question I had. Thought it might be a fun little, you know, just a little wrinkle of the podcast. obviously we don't hate you if you're a fan of those teams, but we just don't wanna meet you. We're coming down the wire. We'll come down to the wire on on the on the halftime. Well with that, we'll get into closing out the show. If the Saints are coming back, we'll come back and we'll get Matt's final reactions to it. But thank you everyone. Thank you everyone for listening. Be sure to like, subscribe on the YouTube, turn on notifications, it helps out a lot. If you want to follow us on Spotify, please rate the show five stars. Helps out a lot as well. While it's available on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. If you want to stay up to date on the show, follow us on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter slash X, and Facebook at BirdiePod at Birdie Pod everything. With that, we'll see everyone next week. Take care. God bless. And Matt. Love y'all. Unless you're unless you're a Falcons fan. Yeah, unless you're a Falcons fan. See y'all next week.