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The Last Time Is Now · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.169 --> 00:00:13.429 What's up, friends? Welcome to another episode 00:00:13.429 --> 00:00:15.929 of Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders. I am your 00:00:15.929 --> 00:00:18.230 host, TB. Thank you so very much for stopping 00:00:18.230 --> 00:00:21.289 in and checking out the 3Ts. We have so 00:00:21.289 --> 00:00:22.929 much to get to, but I tell you where I'm not 00:00:22.929 --> 00:00:25.030 going to start. I am not going to start with 00:00:25.030 --> 00:00:27.649 the Buffalo Bills this week after that dreadful 00:00:27.649 --> 00:00:29.750 performance on Sunday afternoon. They're going 00:00:29.750 --> 00:00:31.809 to be taking the backseat this week. So card 00:00:31.809 --> 00:00:35.250 enthusiasts, hobby fans, you are up first. How 00:00:35.250 --> 00:00:38.390 the heck are we feeling? I tell you what, I am 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:40.869 feeling great. Absolutely great. After diving 00:00:40.869 --> 00:00:45.109 into Topps 2025 -26 basketball last week, I had 00:00:45.109 --> 00:00:47.289 ordered, I'm not sure if I told you, I had ordered 00:00:47.289 --> 00:00:50.310 three Fanatics boxes through the Fanatics website 00:00:50.310 --> 00:00:53.189 a while back. They finally arrived at my doorstep 00:00:53.189 --> 00:00:56.250 last Thursday afternoon. I was super stoked to 00:00:56.250 --> 00:00:59.969 rip these open. In fact, I was so excited to 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:02.630 dive back into basketball that I dusted off my 00:01:02.630 --> 00:01:05.170 old persona. Now, if you go back all the way 00:01:05.170 --> 00:01:07.790 to the first episode, I talked about my old YouTube 00:01:07.790 --> 00:01:11.530 persona, Real TV Rips. I had made videos of opening 00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:13.969 cards, so I dusted off this old persona, Real 00:01:13.969 --> 00:01:16.689 TV Rips. I fired up the old video recorder, and 00:01:16.689 --> 00:01:19.939 I posted a YouTube video of... Me opening the 00:01:19.939 --> 00:01:21.959 three Fanatics boxes. And I tell you what, folks, 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:24.879 I had a freaking blast. The product, in my opinion, 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:27.480 it's great. It's great. Let me start by saying 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.459 this. I know, number one, I know, I know, I know. 00:01:31.069 --> 00:01:33.549 It's overprinted. Yes, I understand that. I get 00:01:33.549 --> 00:01:36.349 the criticism. There is a ton of this out there 00:01:36.349 --> 00:01:38.150 in the market. There are so many variations, 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:41.829 so many different ways to distribute this product, 00:01:41.909 --> 00:01:44.150 whether we're talking about hobby boxes or jumbos 00:01:44.150 --> 00:01:47.209 or megas or hangers or fat packs, whatever. There 00:01:47.209 --> 00:01:49.989 is a lot of this product and I totally get that. 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:53.260 So of course, people are crapping all over it. 00:01:53.379 --> 00:01:55.659 But the ones I hear crapping on it, these are 00:01:55.659 --> 00:01:57.920 the ones, these are the same people who just 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.159 view the hobby as a flip, as an investment, as 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.840 some sort of money -making gig, right? So... 00:02:04.409 --> 00:02:06.030 I think they're kind of missing the point of 00:02:06.030 --> 00:02:07.950 what this product is supposed to be, if I'm being 00:02:07.950 --> 00:02:10.490 honest. I think if you are ripping Topps Basketball, 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:13.229 which is now going to be Topps flagship basketball 00:02:13.229 --> 00:02:15.810 program, this is their product. This is their 00:02:15.810 --> 00:02:18.669 paper product for basketball. I think if you're 00:02:18.669 --> 00:02:20.729 ripping it for the money, I think you're not 00:02:20.729 --> 00:02:22.530 going to be happy. You're just not. There's not. 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:25.020 There's not going to be a huge return on investment. 00:02:25.419 --> 00:02:27.860 But if you're ripping it to have fun and potentially 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:30.960 look into you using it as a way to get back into 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.360 collecting basketball cards, which for me, this 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.400 is what I talked about in my video I made. For 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.680 me, it's been over 30 years since I collected 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.840 NBA cards. And to me, this was a perfect, perfect 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:44.889 entry point back into NBA product. If I'm being 00:02:44.889 --> 00:02:47.909 honest, I kind of think Topps had to go all in 00:02:47.909 --> 00:02:51.569 on this one. They finally regained the NBA license 00:02:51.569 --> 00:02:56.449 after, I think, roughly 16 years or so. So they 00:02:56.449 --> 00:02:58.009 had to come out and they had to make a splash. 00:02:58.430 --> 00:03:01.199 And... In order to do so, they had to make sure 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.840 this product was going to be available to everyone 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.580 who wanted to get their hands on it. So yeah, 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:07.580 you're going to have to overproduce the crap 00:03:07.580 --> 00:03:09.699 out of this product. I get it. If they came out 00:03:09.699 --> 00:03:13.599 and a hobby box was four, five, $600, like most 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.860 panini products we've seen in the last 15 years, 00:03:16.939 --> 00:03:20.039 and they made it so no one could buy it, no one 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.860 could get their hands on any sort of... boxes 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:25.659 at all, retail included, people would have lost 00:03:25.659 --> 00:03:27.740 their minds on that end too. So I think they're 00:03:27.740 --> 00:03:30.060 kind of in a no -win situation, but I think that 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:32.360 this was the right way to go if you were a Topps. 00:03:32.740 --> 00:03:34.900 Overproduce it, get it to the masses, see how 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:37.800 sales go, see what the general response is, and 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:39.879 then make adjustments moving forward. I just 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.020 think that they did this correctly. As far as 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:44.979 Fanatics boxes are concerned, for the price point, 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.500 I paid 30 bucks a box. I think it was perfect. 00:03:48.030 --> 00:03:50.090 If you watch my video, I literally talk about 00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:52.509 there is something for everybody in a Fanatics 00:03:52.509 --> 00:03:54.349 box. You get tons of rookies. You get lots of 00:03:54.349 --> 00:03:56.770 inserts. They have this insert called Power Players. 00:03:56.969 --> 00:03:59.689 The colors pop. I love them. Another insert, 00:03:59.810 --> 00:04:02.469 the Generation Now. The foils, I pulled a couple 00:04:02.469 --> 00:04:04.810 foils. They look banging. The 45th anniversary 00:04:04.810 --> 00:04:09.090 throwbacks. I am a huge heritage mark for baseball. 00:04:09.250 --> 00:04:10.949 It's one of my favorite products. I love old 00:04:10.949 --> 00:04:12.689 school stuff. We talk about it all the time on 00:04:12.689 --> 00:04:15.110 this channel. Nostalgia. I love nostalgia. I 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:17.430 always love throwback stuff. I love these 40s. 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:20.019 anniversary cards. I think they're great. Clutch 00:04:20.019 --> 00:04:22.259 City, this is another insert. Love the art design. 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:26.000 8 -Bit Ballers, this is a card that people crap 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.360 all over, but it takes me back to opening some 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.819 of the lower -end baseball products. The 8 -Bit 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:34.170 Ballers, I mean... This is great. You should 00:04:34.170 --> 00:04:36.629 have this stuff, just like the mascot cards and 00:04:36.629 --> 00:04:38.790 things like that. Appeal to the masses, right? 00:04:38.850 --> 00:04:41.569 Have something for everybody. Yes, the 8 -bit 00:04:41.569 --> 00:04:43.810 baller cards, are they amazing? No, they're not, 00:04:43.870 --> 00:04:46.750 but they're fun. And I just love fun stuff. So 00:04:46.750 --> 00:04:48.990 yeah, the entire product, there's just a lot 00:04:48.990 --> 00:04:54.089 there. And in three boxes, I think I had a memorabilia 00:04:54.089 --> 00:04:57.790 card. It was called a Franchise Fabrics Con Canepo. 00:04:57.930 --> 00:04:59.990 I'm starting to learn these players, by the way. 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:02.959 Because I've been out of the NBA for 30 years. 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:05.379 So I just got back into it. I started watching 00:05:05.379 --> 00:05:08.660 a lot more basketball games. And I mean, some 00:05:08.660 --> 00:05:10.240 of these cards are sweet. I pulled a numbered 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.600 card at 250. I pulled a 45th anniversary pink 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.379 parallel card. I got an aqua parallel. And the 00:05:16.379 --> 00:05:19.180 hit of the box. I had never pulled this in all 00:05:19.180 --> 00:05:20.839 the baseball stuff I've opened. And I opened 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.620 a lot of baseball. I had a wood parallel, which 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:25.800 I've never seen in person. This is a car that's 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.100 numbered to 25. Frankly, it was shocking to pull 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:34.220 that out of a Fanatics box that was, what, $29 00:05:34.220 --> 00:05:38.579 .99. So, yeah, I had an absolute blast. The checklist, 00:05:38.860 --> 00:05:41.439 I love it because they include retired great 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.540 players from the past. It's just great. I love 00:05:44.540 --> 00:05:47.149 the whole set. I had so much fun that after the 00:05:47.149 --> 00:05:49.050 rip, I immediately ordered three more Fanatics 00:05:49.050 --> 00:05:51.730 boxes. So Tops, congratulations. You got me back 00:05:51.730 --> 00:05:54.490 on the hook. I am sold. I love the product. Maybe 00:05:54.490 --> 00:05:56.769 I'm a sucker. Maybe I'm a sucker. I will admit 00:05:56.769 --> 00:06:00.170 it. But who cares? It was a lot of fun. Side 00:06:00.170 --> 00:06:02.269 note and shameless plug. If you want to check 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:04.910 out my full rip and review, go check out my YouTube 00:06:04.910 --> 00:06:08.230 channel at RealTBRips. Yeah, Topps brought me 00:06:08.230 --> 00:06:10.750 out of retirement for this one. So I got to say 00:06:10.750 --> 00:06:13.870 I am back. I am all in. If you're not into basketball, 00:06:14.009 --> 00:06:17.509 that's okay too. Topps is dropping so many products 00:06:17.509 --> 00:06:19.779 left and right. In fact. If I'm looking at this, 00:06:19.819 --> 00:06:21.819 if I zoom the camera out, I kind of think that 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:24.839 they need to take a little break, take a chill, 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.439 maybe spread this stuff out more because number 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.100 one, we're getting close to holiday time. People 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:31.360 are shopping for Christmas already, trying to 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.779 save money, trying to put some things away for 00:06:34.779 --> 00:06:36.839 their Christmas list, for their Santa wishlist. 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.500 And now they're dropping product after product. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.980 And I just don't understand why all these big 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:45.259 products are dropping within not only days, but 00:06:45.259 --> 00:06:47.699 we're talking hours of each other. So last week 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:51.360 to start, 2025 Tops Baseball Black and White 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.259 hit pre -order. And this was on their website 00:06:54.259 --> 00:06:57.899 for just about three whole minutes. I mean, that's 00:06:57.899 --> 00:07:00.220 all the time you had to pre -order a hoppy box 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:02.839 with this one. I was super excited to try to 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.920 get my hands on one of these. And so I was extremely 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:08.660 disappointed. I had no chance of getting this. 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.360 No chance. And if you've seen... Tops black and 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.259 white baseball. I think it's very similar to 00:07:13.259 --> 00:07:16.259 Stadium Club, which I absolutely love. This set 00:07:16.259 --> 00:07:18.720 is awesome. If you like Stadium Club, I kind 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:21.160 of think that this is like Stadium Club premiere. 00:07:21.500 --> 00:07:24.120 It features awesome black and white photographs, 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.100 awesome pictures. I think the pictures look sick. 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.379 With the Hobby Box, if you could get your hands 00:07:29.379 --> 00:07:32.019 on one, you were guaranteed four numbered parallels 00:07:32.019 --> 00:07:35.620 to 99 or lower. You were guaranteed one super 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:38.199 short print or one short print, some sort of 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.949 image variation card. and autograph. And I think 00:07:41.949 --> 00:07:44.889 a box was going for right around 200. Now this 00:07:44.889 --> 00:07:47.430 product, the checklist was super short. It was 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:50.790 like 125 base cards, very few parallels, really 00:07:50.790 --> 00:07:53.009 good autograph list. I looked at the checklist 00:07:53.009 --> 00:07:55.730 and I was like, this product is awesome. So I'm 00:07:55.730 --> 00:07:58.290 not surprised it sold out super quick. It's just 00:07:58.290 --> 00:08:00.490 mad disappointing, mad disappointing. And now 00:08:00.490 --> 00:08:03.290 of course. You know, the secondary sites have 00:08:03.290 --> 00:08:05.529 jacked the prices through the roof. Of course 00:08:05.529 --> 00:08:08.129 they did. And now like a hobby box is right around 00:08:08.129 --> 00:08:13.029 $400 at least on secondary sites. So yeah, it's 00:08:13.029 --> 00:08:16.870 complete nonsense. Yeah, I get it's supply and 00:08:16.870 --> 00:08:19.089 demand, but man, it's just so frustrating when 00:08:19.089 --> 00:08:20.930 you literally have three minutes to get your 00:08:20.930 --> 00:08:22.750 hand on a product. And if you don't, you are 00:08:22.750 --> 00:08:24.970 screwed and there's no chance, no chance at all. 00:08:26.619 --> 00:08:29.319 It's maddening. What else? Last Friday, Topps 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:31.620 Chrome SpongeBob Sapphire dropped. They had an 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:34.399 EQL. If you aren't familiar with an EQL, essentially 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.759 you are entering a lotto. You put your name, 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.840 your payment information in. You go into a drawing. 00:08:40.940 --> 00:08:43.460 And if they pick you, you are automatically charged. 00:08:43.700 --> 00:08:45.779 And then whenever the product actually comes 00:08:45.779 --> 00:08:48.620 out, they already deliver it to you. So you enter 00:08:48.620 --> 00:08:52.159 the EQL. And from what I see on socials and whatnot, 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.429 nobody ever gets this. So I don't know who. is 00:08:55.429 --> 00:08:57.950 actually winning these eqls the only one i've 00:08:57.950 --> 00:09:01.470 ever won in my lifetime was the tops chrome wwe 00:09:01.470 --> 00:09:05.250 set i was super lucky to get that one and uh 00:09:05.250 --> 00:09:08.149 yeah but these spongebob sapphire boxes these 00:09:08.149 --> 00:09:11.799 were dropping for the low, low price, the low, 00:09:11.820 --> 00:09:15.120 low price of 320, right around 320. And I know 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.120 you probably think this is crazy, which it is, 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:19.899 which it is, but considering that they're regular 00:09:19.899 --> 00:09:22.440 Topps Chrome SpongeBob, the non -Sapphire edition, 00:09:22.620 --> 00:09:25.879 the hobby boxes are still selling for over $400. 00:09:26.019 --> 00:09:28.940 And this product came out a while back. This 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:31.720 Sapphire set is going to be a sure hit. It's 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.220 going to be a sure hit. So, but of course I missed 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:37.299 on the EQL as most people I saw missed out on 00:09:37.299 --> 00:09:40.480 the EQL. I guarantee the resale on these, at 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.500 least 600, at least, if not seven, 800 bucks 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:47.080 for a Sapphire box, no doubt at all. So say what 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:48.679 you want, say what you want, but the singles 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.320 from that first Topps Chrome SpongeBob set, they 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.039 are selling like hotcakes, crazy high prices 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.179 on singles. Some of the autographs are going 00:09:56.179 --> 00:09:59.100 absolutely nuts through the roof. People are 00:09:59.100 --> 00:10:01.679 going crazy over this SpongeBob set. And, you 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.919 know, hey, whatever. I can't tell people how 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.940 to spend money. I was hoping to grab a box and 00:10:05.940 --> 00:10:08.879 then I was going to maybe either hold it or resell 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.059 it because you could instantly double your money. 00:10:11.139 --> 00:10:12.879 And that would have been great, especially around 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.600 the holidays. Now, this week, I'm recording this 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.860 on a Tuesday. So starting yesterday on Monday, 00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:20.539 Topps is gone and they've. They've dropped even 00:10:20.539 --> 00:10:23.320 more products. So yesterday you had two monster 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.740 products hitting pre -sale and these again within 00:10:25.740 --> 00:10:28.399 an hour of each other. So it started at noon. 00:10:28.820 --> 00:10:32.159 Topps Chrome 2025 Formula One for all you racing 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:34.860 fans, all you F1 fans. This dropped at noon. 00:10:35.179 --> 00:10:38.419 This is always probably the biggest release for 00:10:38.419 --> 00:10:42.919 F1 fans of the year. This is going to be a 200 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.980 card base set. Now you have drivers from F1, 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.860 F2, unfortunately, and including F3, which nobody 00:10:49.860 --> 00:10:53.100 wants to see. I watched a lot of reviews on F1 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:55.580 Chrome last year and people were kind of upset 00:10:55.580 --> 00:10:58.139 that there were so many F3 drivers included in 00:10:58.139 --> 00:11:00.500 this product. But if you didn't like that, you're 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:02.919 not gonna like the fact that there's probably 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.279 30 parallels on each base card, which in my opinion, 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.960 30 is just maddening. It's too many. It's just 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.870 too many. Come on. The inserts though, the inserts 00:11:11.870 --> 00:11:14.490 for F1, these always look great. The photos on 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:17.350 the inserts usually are pretty sick. Allegedly, 00:11:17.370 --> 00:11:20.509 allegedly now, I can't, nobody knows for sure, 00:11:20.570 --> 00:11:22.610 but the autos in this product are supposed to 00:11:22.610 --> 00:11:25.129 be much more plentiful. The problem with hobby 00:11:25.129 --> 00:11:28.590 boxes with F1, Topps F1, you're not guaranteed 00:11:28.590 --> 00:11:31.789 an auto. So people were enraged that they're 00:11:31.789 --> 00:11:34.009 spending a lot of money. I think these were dropping 00:11:34.009 --> 00:11:37.590 for like 240 per hobby box and there's no guaranteed 00:11:37.590 --> 00:11:40.879 auto. That's been the complaint of Topps F1, 00:11:41.019 --> 00:11:43.620 that it's next to impossible to hit autos. Well, 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:45.539 stand by, folks, because I have the odds for 00:11:45.539 --> 00:11:48.539 you on the Grail card coming out of this upcoming 00:11:48.539 --> 00:11:50.820 product. From what I've read, there's only a 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:54.000 single driver who is part of the hobby -only 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.080 on -card chrome autograph set. And that, of course, 00:11:57.139 --> 00:12:00.529 is none other than... lewis hamilton he's the 00:12:00.529 --> 00:12:03.049 only one as far as from what i can see that has 00:12:03.049 --> 00:12:05.710 an actual on -card auto the rest are stickers 00:12:05.710 --> 00:12:08.850 and you have two chances that's right two chances 00:12:08.850 --> 00:12:11.950 to grab a on -card lewis hamilton auto you ready 00:12:11.950 --> 00:12:15.409 your first chance is a red refractor on -card 00:12:15.409 --> 00:12:18.750 auto this is number two five so he signed five 00:12:18.750 --> 00:12:21.860 of these and The odds of pulling one of these 00:12:21.860 --> 00:12:26.179 red refractors, numbered to five, is one in 297 00:12:26.179 --> 00:12:29.960 ,504 packs. So you like your odds on that? I 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.379 think that's pretty good odds. Well, the second 00:12:33.379 --> 00:12:35.960 chance you have of pulling an on -card Lewis 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.559 Hamilton Auto is the one -of -one superfractor. 00:12:39.580 --> 00:12:42.480 This is the chase. This is the holy grail of 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:46.480 2025 Topps Chrome F1. You ready for this? Your 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.159 odds of hitting this one of one super factor 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:54.559 are one out of 1 ,487 ,520 packs. I think those 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.759 are great odds. Good luck. Good luck if you're 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.980 trying to snag the Lewis Hamilton on -card auto. 00:13:01.179 --> 00:13:04.320 But let's move on. An hour after F1 dropped, 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:09.100 you saw the pre -sale drop for probably the biggest 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:13.250 flagship. Baseball product of the year 2025 Topps 00:13:13.250 --> 00:13:15.590 Chrome update baseball. If you don't remember 00:13:15.590 --> 00:13:18.690 this, think back to last year. The absolute madness, 00:13:18.750 --> 00:13:21.929 the crazy story surrounding rookie Paul Skeens 00:13:21.929 --> 00:13:25.990 and his debut patch autograph card. This took 00:13:25.990 --> 00:13:30.259 the hobby industry, the whole hobby by. Complete 00:13:30.259 --> 00:13:33.139 storm. I mean, it took over the scene. You had 00:13:33.139 --> 00:13:35.519 all sorts of bounties come out for this card. 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.960 Now, if you don't remember when the rookie makes 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.419 their debut in the majors, they wear this rookie 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:43.799 patch on the sleeve of their jersey. Well, what 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.080 Topps does is after that game is completed, they 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.740 gain possession of the patch and then they put 00:13:49.740 --> 00:13:52.480 it into a one -of -one card that the player then 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.220 autographs. This is the biggest card there is 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:58.659 as far as the big chase of your baseball products. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.440 Paul Skeens was the huge rookie pitcher for the 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.740 Pirates last year, and everyone was going nuts. 00:14:03.820 --> 00:14:06.799 There were all sorts of bounties for this rookie 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.279 debut patch. The Pirates organization, they came 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.360 out with a less than stellar offer for whoever 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:15.440 pulled it. They were offering like season tickets 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:20.340 for lifetime. And yeah, they didn't really bring 00:14:20.340 --> 00:14:22.700 their A game. And then his girlfriend, Libby 00:14:22.700 --> 00:14:25.039 Dunn, kind of jumped in and she added some sort 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.919 of meet and greet, which if you're asking, if 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:29.700 you ask me, that would have been a little weird. 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.889 Yeah, I don't know. Ultimately, I think some 00:14:32.889 --> 00:14:35.009 kid pulled it somewhere. I can't remember where. 00:14:35.090 --> 00:14:37.429 Somewhere in California. I'm not sure. But the 00:14:37.429 --> 00:14:41.370 card went up to auction and it sold for a crazy 00:14:41.370 --> 00:14:45.570 number of $1 .1 million. $1 .1 million for a 00:14:45.570 --> 00:14:48.529 Paul Skeen's Rookie Patch Autograph debut card. 00:14:48.669 --> 00:14:51.649 So these patches are where it is at. There are 00:14:51.649 --> 00:14:55.179 so many stories, kind of cool stories of... The 00:14:55.179 --> 00:14:57.759 actual player trying to track down their own 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.720 cards, making all sorts of deals with the people 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.759 who are ripping the packs and pulling these patches. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.360 It's kind of cool to see them try to track down 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.779 their own card and what deals either their spouses 00:15:10.779 --> 00:15:13.440 are making or the player themselves is making 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.559 to get their card back. It's kind of cool. It's 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.879 kind of a big deal. So yeah, this year, 200 card 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.039 base set picks right up where Topps Chrome left 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.019 off. Now Topps Chrome, if you remember, this 00:15:22.019 --> 00:15:25.750 is... been the probably dog crap release of the 00:15:25.750 --> 00:15:28.289 tops baseball season tops chrome baseball was 00:15:28.289 --> 00:15:32.309 a huge bomb huge bomb so tops they got some work 00:15:32.309 --> 00:15:35.230 to do to make up for that disaster of a product 00:15:35.230 --> 00:15:37.809 uh there's going to be a bunch of refractor parallels 00:15:37.809 --> 00:15:40.210 lots of inserts the inserts are usually pretty 00:15:40.210 --> 00:15:42.730 cool there are some new ones added to the mix 00:15:42.730 --> 00:15:46.090 this year fortune 15 I'm not really sure what 00:15:46.090 --> 00:15:48.149 some of these are. I'm just kind of going through 00:15:48.149 --> 00:15:51.570 what the names of them are. Fortune 15, Knight 00:15:51.570 --> 00:15:55.309 Terrors are some new inserts, but obviously the 00:15:55.309 --> 00:15:57.429 Chase is the autos, the rookie patch autos to 00:15:57.429 --> 00:16:00.970 be specific. And I think they went a little crazy 00:16:00.970 --> 00:16:05.649 because there are 270 rookie patch auto cards 00:16:05.649 --> 00:16:07.649 out there. Now, obviously these are all one of 00:16:07.649 --> 00:16:11.190 ones, but 270 of these things, I mean, I went 00:16:11.190 --> 00:16:13.299 through the checklist and I... Didn't recognize 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:15.419 half these players. Most of these players you 00:16:15.419 --> 00:16:17.080 have never heard of. Now, obviously, there's 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.860 probably, I would say, what, 20 to 25 that are 00:16:21.860 --> 00:16:24.500 going to be significant. Your main key rookies, 00:16:24.539 --> 00:16:27.379 no doubt, Nick Kurtz. He's going to be the chase. 00:16:27.620 --> 00:16:29.639 He already won Rookie of the Year. I think he 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.539 came out yesterday. This is going to be the chase. 00:16:33.700 --> 00:16:36.500 I wonder if this Kurtz card is going to come 00:16:36.500 --> 00:16:38.860 close to the 1 .1 mil. I don't think it will, 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.860 but it's probably going to be at least half a 00:16:41.860 --> 00:16:43.870 mil. Maybe, we'll see, we'll see what happens. 00:16:44.450 --> 00:16:47.450 But yeah, this card should be insane once it 00:16:47.450 --> 00:16:49.909 actually is pulled and once it sells. They do 00:16:49.909 --> 00:16:52.929 have, I do like these Lava Lamp Rookie Autos. 00:16:52.929 --> 00:16:54.970 They look fire. I think all in all, it's gonna 00:16:54.970 --> 00:16:59.129 be a fun product. I checked after the pre -sale 00:16:59.129 --> 00:17:01.629 dropped and it was sold out within, I know the 00:17:01.629 --> 00:17:05.569 Jumbos were going for like 400 and the Hobby 00:17:05.569 --> 00:17:08.329 boxes were running right around 200 and they 00:17:08.329 --> 00:17:11.420 sold out pretty quickly. It's unfortunate that 00:17:11.420 --> 00:17:14.619 stuff like this is just not readily available. 00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:16.859 You have to be ready to go and you got to have 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:21.259 your pocketbook ready to go crazy. And if you 00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:24.900 had any money left over yesterday, then you can 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:28.660 dive right back in today because today is Tuesday. 00:17:28.700 --> 00:17:31.240 As I said, I'm recording this Tuesday right around 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.720 noon. Well, as of the recording of this, the 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.140 presale just went live for Topps. cosmic baseball 00:17:38.140 --> 00:17:41.700 they are up first this went live at noon probably 00:17:41.700 --> 00:17:44.440 already gone haven't checked but i love the cosmic 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.720 baseball sets i think these these are super cool 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.359 i love the look the design i usually find myself 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.400 trying to buy singles of some of my favorite 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.000 players because the box prices they're kind of 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.880 insane it was like i think it was going for 350 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:01.529 340 350 which and you only get 80 cards Yeah, 00:18:01.549 --> 00:18:03.470 it's crazy. And you'll end up with a bunch of 00:18:03.470 --> 00:18:06.470 crap you don't want. So this is one of the products 00:18:06.470 --> 00:18:09.210 that I just dive into the singles and try to 00:18:09.210 --> 00:18:12.490 find some I like. Usually, once things die down, 00:18:12.569 --> 00:18:14.329 you can get some pretty good deals on it. I love 00:18:14.329 --> 00:18:17.589 the background. They have different, obviously, 00:18:18.029 --> 00:18:20.190 cosmics. We're talking outer space. So they have 00:18:20.190 --> 00:18:22.670 suns and moons and different planets. And I just 00:18:22.670 --> 00:18:24.920 think it's a... Different, cool -looking product. 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:26.960 I'm all about it. All about it. Again, you have 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.740 a 200 -card base set. Lots of parallels. Super 00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:33.480 cool inserts. There's some called Lightspeed, 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:37.500 Ultraviolet Beams, Star Clusters, Extraterrestrial 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:40.480 Talent. That's a hard word to say. And like I 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.740 said, it's just a cool product all around. If 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:45.819 you're not interested in that, 1 o 'clock, which 00:18:45.819 --> 00:18:49.019 is coming up here in a few minutes, you got 2025 00:18:49.019 --> 00:18:52.849 Topps Archives Baseball and Historic. Historically, 00:18:52.849 --> 00:18:55.690 this is a little lower price point than the other 00:18:55.690 --> 00:18:57.490 products we've already talked about. I think 00:18:57.490 --> 00:19:00.150 this is more of a nostalgia rip. So the product 00:19:00.150 --> 00:19:03.009 this year, it focuses on three old school Topps 00:19:03.009 --> 00:19:07.390 designs for this year. They are focusing on 1964. 00:19:08.769 --> 00:19:11.990 1996 and 2005. It's going to be packed with, 00:19:12.029 --> 00:19:14.009 I'm taking this right from the top's description 00:19:14.009 --> 00:19:16.250 of it, which sometimes it's maddening to read, 00:19:16.329 --> 00:19:18.690 but it says it's packed with legends, rookies, 00:19:18.690 --> 00:19:21.829 and fan favorites. There are of course, multiple 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:24.990 variations on each. base card. Each hobby box, 00:19:25.130 --> 00:19:27.029 you're looking at two on -card autos, which is 00:19:27.029 --> 00:19:30.410 kind of crazy. 12 inserts and eight exclusive 00:19:30.410 --> 00:19:33.970 pink foil board parallels. Like I said, this 00:19:33.970 --> 00:19:36.490 is a little lower price point. And last year, 00:19:36.589 --> 00:19:40.289 I know I saw blaster boxes of archives pretty 00:19:40.289 --> 00:19:43.009 much everywhere. Walmart, Target. all over the 00:19:43.009 --> 00:19:46.690 place, relatively cheaper, much more friendly 00:19:46.690 --> 00:19:48.869 price point for those just looking to rip something. 00:19:49.109 --> 00:19:52.650 A Hobby Box is running $130 at presale, which 00:19:52.650 --> 00:19:55.150 is great. The checklist isn't too fantastic, 00:19:55.349 --> 00:19:58.809 but like I said, this is more of a nostalgia 00:19:58.809 --> 00:20:01.779 rip. Um, if you are into heritage is kind of 00:20:01.779 --> 00:20:04.319 in the same vein as that, although you have three 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:06.700 different timeframes, three different years that 00:20:06.700 --> 00:20:09.099 they focus on throughout the whole release. And 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:11.640 lastly, lastly, getting away from baseball for 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.000 a second, GPK, you know, I love talking about 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.759 GPK when I can GPK is on the clock every year, 00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:19.980 right around this time, they drop a special short 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:23.319 set, which celebrates the inductees into this 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:26.039 year's rock and roll hall of fame. It's called 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:29.039 the 2025 garbage pail kids rock and roll. Hall 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:33.299 of Lame. See what they did there? And each special 00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:37.680 short set contains 10 cards. You get five characters. 00:20:37.980 --> 00:20:40.420 And, you know, if you know anything about Garbage 00:20:40.420 --> 00:20:43.680 Pail Kids. They have an A and B variation, an 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:45.920 A and B version of each character. They just 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:49.180 change the name on it. So you get 10 cards. And 00:20:49.180 --> 00:20:52.440 then additionally, you either are given a rock 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:55.960 and roll, a rock record insert, excuse me, a 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:59.279 gold foil rock record, which is numbered to 25, 00:20:59.420 --> 00:21:03.700 or a short print rejected rock star insert as 00:21:03.700 --> 00:21:07.140 well. Hey, it's fun. It's cool. I like that they 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:09.940 kind of honor the new inductees into the Hall 00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:13.380 of Fame. If you're a GPK fan, I encourage you 00:21:13.380 --> 00:21:15.819 to check this out. Relatively cheap. You can 00:21:15.819 --> 00:21:18.299 get the whole set, which totals 11 cards for 00:21:18.299 --> 00:21:21.740 just around $19 .99, which isn't too shabby, 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.759 but these are only available for a very, very 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:28.519 short time. So that's a lot of releases. That's 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:32.059 a lot of stuff. And to be honest, I like something 00:21:32.059 --> 00:21:34.099 about all of these sets. It's a lot of sets. 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:36.339 I kind of want to be in on all of them, which 00:21:36.339 --> 00:21:38.460 is upsetting because there's just no way you 00:21:38.460 --> 00:21:41.220 can afford any of this stuff. I don't know how 00:21:41.220 --> 00:21:45.240 people are in on all of these at the same time, 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.519 because if you're talking about diving in and 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:50.599 getting some of everything, at least. $1 ,000 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.460 to $1 ,500 to grab something of all these. Thank 00:21:54.460 --> 00:21:56.539 goodness I have my If Money Were No Object by 00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:58.920 the Week segment because I'm ponying up to the 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.380 table and I'm ordering me one of everything. 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.519 If I'm venturing a guest, like I said, probably 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.920 around $1 ,200 to $1 ,500 piece of cake. With 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:09.839 all the revenue I am collecting from this podcast. 00:22:12.009 --> 00:22:15.049 It's mere pocket change. So anyway, that's going 00:22:15.049 --> 00:22:18.269 to wrap up the hobby portion of the show. Wrestling 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:20.970 Marks, you are on the clock. How the heck are 00:22:20.970 --> 00:22:24.349 we feeling? We are about three weeks away from 00:22:24.349 --> 00:22:26.930 Survivor Series War Games, which is going to 00:22:26.930 --> 00:22:29.609 be coming at you from sunny San Diego, California, 00:22:29.849 --> 00:22:33.549 Petco Park, to be honest. And yeah, there's a 00:22:33.549 --> 00:22:36.490 little... ways to go to set this thing up if 00:22:36.490 --> 00:22:39.029 i'm being completely honest the war games aspect 00:22:39.029 --> 00:22:41.549 maybe maybe we should table this for a little 00:22:41.549 --> 00:22:43.829 bit if you ask me talk about nostalgia all the 00:22:43.829 --> 00:22:46.109 time talk about my love for old school wrestling 00:22:46.109 --> 00:22:50.849 survivor series was awesome back in the day when 00:22:50.849 --> 00:22:53.549 i was a kid the old school survivor series matches 00:22:53.549 --> 00:22:56.650 i loved this pay -per -view it was royal rumble 00:22:56.650 --> 00:22:58.950 and then it was survivor series yeah wrestlemania 00:22:58.950 --> 00:23:00.990 was cool and that was kind of you know in a place 00:23:00.990 --> 00:23:03.740 by itself but I love the idea of the old school 00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:06.519 Survivor Series matches. And so I just really 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.160 wish they would bring this back. Give me some 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:15.460 of the old sets, the old ways that the old WWF 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:18.240 would set these matches up. I kind of miss that. 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:20.160 I just think they should chill with the War Games 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:23.460 aspect because... When you design a pay -per 00:23:23.460 --> 00:23:26.519 -view around a very specific match, I feel like 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:29.579 it starts to lose its luster. You know, you see 00:23:29.579 --> 00:23:31.819 this sometimes with Elimination Chamber when 00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:35.059 you're forced to fill that specific match instead 00:23:35.059 --> 00:23:37.960 of rounding and making a well -rounded pay -per 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:40.640 -view. Instead, now you have to design your show 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.160 around a match. And I don't necessarily think 00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.890 that that's that great. What the heck do I know? 00:23:46.950 --> 00:23:49.549 Right now, I think it's been tough to really 00:23:49.549 --> 00:23:53.009 see if any of these feuds are worthy of a War 00:23:53.009 --> 00:23:57.049 Games double cage setup. Like historically, these 00:23:57.049 --> 00:23:59.309 are matches that have usually been building for 00:23:59.309 --> 00:24:01.390 months and months and months. And War Games is 00:24:01.390 --> 00:24:04.589 like the blow off, right? So it's the ultimate 00:24:04.589 --> 00:24:07.650 finish to a feud. You know, there's no other 00:24:07.650 --> 00:24:09.589 way to settle it. Let's get everybody into this 00:24:09.589 --> 00:24:11.950 double cage, which is cool visually. It's a cool 00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:15.069 concept, but. And we'll talk about the actual 00:24:15.069 --> 00:24:18.190 war games match later as we get closer to reviewing 00:24:18.190 --> 00:24:21.750 the show. I just don't know if the stories are 00:24:21.750 --> 00:24:26.750 suitable to throw these teams into a war games 00:24:26.750 --> 00:24:28.490 match because, you know, they're setting these 00:24:28.490 --> 00:24:33.269 up at a much quicker pace. And yeah. I'm a huge 00:24:33.269 --> 00:24:35.829 old school fan. I want to see old school Survivor 00:24:35.829 --> 00:24:38.450 Series matches. Maybe next week. Maybe next week 00:24:38.450 --> 00:24:40.349 I try to fire up the DeLorean and talk about 00:24:40.349 --> 00:24:42.150 some of the old school Survivor Series stuff 00:24:42.150 --> 00:24:44.150 and kind of the history behind it. I've been 00:24:44.150 --> 00:24:46.549 meaning to go down memory lane. I just haven't 00:24:46.549 --> 00:24:49.170 had a chance to get. back and watch some of the 00:24:49.170 --> 00:24:51.009 older shows but they are some of my favorite 00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:54.430 I mean you had the Undertaker debut at at Survivor 00:24:54.430 --> 00:24:56.750 Series and who can forget the gobbledygooker 00:24:56.750 --> 00:24:59.410 I mean fantastic so you had this egg sitting 00:24:59.410 --> 00:25:03.329 on the set of WWF television for what weeks months 00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:07.430 and then they revealed this character to be none 00:25:07.430 --> 00:25:09.769 other than the gobbledygooker at Survivor Series 00:25:09.769 --> 00:25:12.509 I mean who can't forget that but anyway Getting 00:25:12.509 --> 00:25:14.630 back to current stories, current programming, 00:25:14.829 --> 00:25:16.630 there's stuff that's kind of just getting off 00:25:16.630 --> 00:25:20.250 the ground. But if you watched last night's Monday 00:25:20.250 --> 00:25:23.670 Night Raw, they freaking delivered an absolute 00:25:23.670 --> 00:25:26.650 banger of a show. I was really impressed. The 00:25:26.650 --> 00:25:29.269 whole episode was good, top to bottom. And I 00:25:29.269 --> 00:25:31.410 think they are taking this John Cena retirement 00:25:31.410 --> 00:25:34.009 thing to the next level. It was great. The show 00:25:34.009 --> 00:25:36.210 started with Trips in the ring, Triple H. He's 00:25:36.210 --> 00:25:38.130 giving a long speech about the GOAT, John Cena, 00:25:38.269 --> 00:25:41.460 what it means to be. him and his career and the 00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:43.759 history behind it and he's just praising him 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:46.319 up and down and the crowd this is taking place 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:49.220 in boston john cena's hometown they are getting 00:25:49.220 --> 00:25:52.960 so jazzed up trips finally introduces cena the 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.119 place you know the the roof blows off the place 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:58.359 this is legit the The only reason these people 00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:01.359 are here is to see John Cena. And it was awesome. 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:04.400 He comes out. He gives a speech in front of his, 00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:06.920 essentially in front of his hometown arena. So 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:09.859 Cena comes out. He's given this speech. Triple 00:26:09.859 --> 00:26:12.380 H is there. And then he is essentially interrupted 00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:15.359 during this speech by your intercontinental champion, 00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:19.519 Dom Mysterio, Dirty Dom. And I was so fired up 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:21.859 to see this. These two went at it face to face. 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:24.480 And it was great. Adam Pearce, your general manager 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.420 of Raw, comes out. He sets up an impromptu matchup 00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:31.099 for literally the only belt that Cena has never 00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:33.940 won, the Intercontinental title. And I did not 00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:36.769 know this. I did not know he has never won the 00:26:36.769 --> 00:26:39.529 IC title. Pierce instantly sets up this match. 00:26:39.630 --> 00:26:42.250 It's for the title. Ref comes out and away we 00:26:42.250 --> 00:26:45.329 go. It was a great, fun match. Dom with his shenanigans. 00:26:45.650 --> 00:26:48.269 There's a ref bump. There's some crazy shenanigans 00:26:48.269 --> 00:26:52.430 going on. John is delivering vintage, crazy facial 00:26:52.430 --> 00:26:55.190 expressions, which is just great. And the next 00:26:55.190 --> 00:26:57.609 thing you know, he hits an attitude adjustment 00:26:57.609 --> 00:27:00.369 and he's your new IC champ. And the place comes 00:27:00.369 --> 00:27:04.480 absolutely unglued. It was fantastic. I don't 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:06.240 care what you say. This match was great. It was 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:09.240 so much fun to hear the crowd reaction to Cena 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.579 winning this title was awesome. And sometimes 00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:14.680 you just need to do things because the crowd 00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:17.619 needs it to happen. And this was one of those 00:27:17.619 --> 00:27:20.079 moments. It was awesome. For Cena to come out. 00:27:20.730 --> 00:27:23.029 Have this match, win the IC belt in front of 00:27:23.029 --> 00:27:25.769 his hometown, complete like the whole Grand Slam 00:27:25.769 --> 00:27:29.490 title thing after 20 years, right? 20 years, 00:27:29.589 --> 00:27:32.069 he finally wins this belt. And to do it in front 00:27:32.069 --> 00:27:34.349 of your hometown against Dirty Dom, of all people, 00:27:34.410 --> 00:27:35.769 I thought it was great. I thought it was great. 00:27:35.869 --> 00:27:38.519 And then afterwards. There's a backstage segment. 00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:40.380 He comes back through the curtain. There's all 00:27:40.380 --> 00:27:42.519 these wrestlers gathered around there congratulating 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:46.000 him. Finally, the camera slowly pans to Rey Mysterio. 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:48.559 He thanks him for literally whipping his son's 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.240 ass. And Cena, to his credit, he gives Dom a 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:54.259 shout out. He said, Dom is a good kid. And he 00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:57.619 gives, he gives, he's giving Dom the backstage 00:27:57.619 --> 00:28:01.099 nod. Despite Dom losing the belt. Look, if you. 00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:04.000 Think that this kid is not heading towards being 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.920 an absolute superstar in this company. If you 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:08.740 can't see it, I'm not sure what you're watching. 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:12.579 They are seriously laying out all the breadcrumbs 00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:15.640 for this kid and his path to the top of the card. 00:28:15.740 --> 00:28:19.380 It was great. I think Dom's great. I think this 00:28:19.380 --> 00:28:22.299 was super, super well done. The rest of all, 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.940 we saw two matches kick off the John Cena last 00:28:24.940 --> 00:28:27.180 time is now tournament. Rusev beat Damian Priest. 00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:29.700 That match was whatever. No big deal. And then 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:33.480 Sheamus. Faced Shinsuke Nakamura. He beat Nakamura 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.740 to win his match. They were fine. Two solid matches. 00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:39.660 The shameless thing. As soon as he won, I'm thinking, 00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:41.599 now I know this isn't going to happen, but I'm 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:43.720 thinking, hey, Sheamus is the other guy who's 00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:46.779 never won the IC belt. Could they possibly be 00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:49.039 setting this up for Sheamus Cena? I don't think 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:50.980 it's going to happen, but hey, it was the first 00:28:50.980 --> 00:28:53.779 thought I had after he beat Shinsuke. Then we 00:28:53.779 --> 00:28:56.500 get to the part where the War Games matches are 00:28:56.500 --> 00:29:00.019 being put together. Punk had a promo. He cuts 00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:02.500 a promo. He's calling out Logan Paul, who suckered 00:29:02.500 --> 00:29:05.079 punched him last week on Raw. And of course, 00:29:05.099 --> 00:29:07.779 Logan comes out. The Vision come out behind him. 00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:10.720 There's going to be a brawl in the ring. Punk 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:12.579 is ready to fight. And who comes to make the 00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:15.299 save? It's none other than Jey Uso, whatever. 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:19.200 So it's Uso and Punk versus the three Vision 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:21.900 people. So they're down a man and they're about 00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:24.279 to go at it. And who comes out but none other 00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.640 than everyone's favorite superhero, Cody Rhodes. 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.859 And he's there to make the save and join the 00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:33.599 team. Look, I get it. He just came off this thing 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.940 with Drew McIntyre where Drew McIntyre interfered 00:29:36.940 --> 00:29:40.819 with his match with Aleister Black and hits the... 00:29:41.639 --> 00:29:43.980 Claymore on the referee, which I haven't seen 00:29:43.980 --> 00:29:46.559 in some time. So he essentially gets himself 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.599 suspended. He is written off TV. And then, of 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:51.440 course, the rumors are, well, he's going to film 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:54.160 a movie, so he can't be around anyway. But I'm 00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:56.359 not really sure why Cody Rhodes is showing up 00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:58.500 on Monday Night Raw to help CM Punk and J -Ho. 00:29:58.579 --> 00:30:01.500 So to me, it doesn't really make any sense. He's 00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:04.559 a SmackDown guy. What is he doing on Raw? And 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:06.079 he really doesn't have anything to do with any 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:08.299 of these people. So I don't know. They're probably 00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:10.720 going to push this whole CM Punk and Cody. your 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.099 friends whatever stupid if you ask me so they're 00:30:14.099 --> 00:30:17.259 backstage it's punk it's jay it's cody they're 00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:20.059 talking with adam pierce and suddenly uh punk 00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:22.619 says take it away regal or something like that 00:30:22.619 --> 00:30:24.819 and you they pan the camera to william regal 00:30:24.819 --> 00:30:27.519 looking every bit like he's 80 years old and 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:30.460 then he just screams out war games and here we 00:30:30.460 --> 00:30:32.640 go it's we're off and running so the next three 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:35.470 weeks Hey, we're going to see who's added to 00:30:35.470 --> 00:30:37.410 the vision side. We're going to see who's added 00:30:37.410 --> 00:30:40.609 to the superhero side. Most likely, rumor is, 00:30:40.609 --> 00:30:42.289 Brock Lesnar is going to join the bad guys and 00:30:42.289 --> 00:30:45.470 Paul Heyman. And probably LA Knight is going 00:30:45.470 --> 00:30:47.589 to help the good guys. It's just like, whatever. 00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:51.420 I don't know. I don't know. Does Roman get added 00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:54.519 into this somehow with Jay? And I don't know 00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:56.900 what's going on. If so, if he gets added and 00:30:56.900 --> 00:30:59.660 he's the fifth to the superhero team, who's the 00:30:59.660 --> 00:31:01.220 fifth going to be on the vision? I'm kind of 00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:03.700 more interested in that aspect, but we shall 00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:06.799 see what happens on the women's side. They laid 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:09.319 the groundwork. They had a match with Charlotte 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:12.599 and Alexa Bliss having a title defense against 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:14.799 the Kabuki Warriors. This was the main event 00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.000 of Monday Night Raw. And these four have been 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.319 going at it for a while. As I've said before 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:22.200 in previous podcasts, I love the work the women 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:24.500 are doing. This was a great match. These four 00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:26.539 have been going at it. Chaos ensues at the end. 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.640 You have Nia Jax and her new recruit, Lash Legend. 00:31:30.410 --> 00:31:32.349 They jump out from the crowd. They're interfering. 00:31:32.569 --> 00:31:35.430 And suddenly, suddenly we have brand new tag 00:31:35.430 --> 00:31:39.309 champs, the Kabuki Warriors. So congrats to Asuka 00:31:39.309 --> 00:31:42.950 and Kari Sane, new tag team champs. So we have 00:31:42.950 --> 00:31:46.509 a post -match beatdown. And who makes a say but 00:31:46.509 --> 00:31:49.329 none other than Io Sky. She's obviously had her 00:31:49.329 --> 00:31:51.509 own issues with the Kabuki Warriors. She runs 00:31:51.509 --> 00:31:54.150 out to help Charlotte and Bliss. And then finally. 00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:56.990 Finally, to even the odds, we have the return 00:31:56.990 --> 00:32:01.369 of the female superhero, Rhea Ripley. She's running 00:32:01.369 --> 00:32:03.430 down. She's wearing a face shield. Obviously, 00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:05.670 she just had her face and her nose busted up, 00:32:05.730 --> 00:32:07.930 so she's now wearing this face mask kind of thing. 00:32:08.049 --> 00:32:10.849 She slides into the ring and joins the side of 00:32:10.849 --> 00:32:13.769 the baby faces, and they clear the ring. The 00:32:13.769 --> 00:32:16.410 good guys are standing tall. Rhea Ripley grabs 00:32:16.410 --> 00:32:19.250 the mic and screams, war games, and that's the 00:32:19.250 --> 00:32:21.369 end of the show, and away we go with the female 00:32:21.369 --> 00:32:25.369 side. Within an hour, you have set up your two 00:32:25.369 --> 00:32:28.609 War Games matches, minus a few participants here 00:32:28.609 --> 00:32:31.289 and there. But all in all, I would say, hey, 00:32:31.390 --> 00:32:33.529 Monday Night Raw, they freaking delivered. After 00:32:33.529 --> 00:32:37.230 kind of like two months of just blah, lazy, kind 00:32:37.230 --> 00:32:40.170 of boring, repetitive shows, I think that this 00:32:40.170 --> 00:32:42.170 was great. It was a really good show in front 00:32:42.170 --> 00:32:44.809 of an awesome, awesome crowd in Cena's hometown. 00:32:45.369 --> 00:32:48.750 Speaking of John Cena, I wanted to check in with 00:32:48.750 --> 00:32:51.859 the... Saturday night's main event ticket prices 00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:54.859 for December 13th in Washington, D .C. I wanted 00:32:54.859 --> 00:32:57.299 to jump on the old SeatGeek app and see where 00:32:57.299 --> 00:33:00.619 we're standing for the cost to get in the building. 00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:03.500 The cheapest ticket to get into the arena, I 00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:05.920 don't even know what the arena's called. It's 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.319 where the Caps play, where the terrible NBA Wizards 00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.559 team plays. The current cheapest seat to get 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:15.259 you in the door is $358. And that's way up in 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:19.559 the 400s. Not many 100 -level seats. uh, cheaper 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:23.200 than 800. So yeah, I would say this is a pretty, 00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:26.160 pretty hot ticket. In fact, it's actually cheaper. 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:29.380 to go to WrestleMania in Vegas next year than 00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:32.640 to get a ticket to John Cena's last match, if 00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.720 you can believe it. I'm really digging the path 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.720 that we are on to get us to this Saturday night's 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.500 main event on December 13th. Super excited, super 00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:42.400 excited for these tournament matches. I can't 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.380 wait to see where they go. I'm looking forward 00:33:44.380 --> 00:33:47.539 to SmackDown. Now I have something to kind of 00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:51.329 invest in for the next. three weeks heading to 00:33:51.329 --> 00:33:53.970 Survivor Series and then what two weeks after 00:33:53.970 --> 00:33:56.750 that we have Saturday night's main event and 00:33:56.750 --> 00:33:59.410 John Cena's last match so it's crazy but all 00:33:59.410 --> 00:34:01.710 in all a good week of programming we shall see 00:34:01.710 --> 00:34:03.990 what happens but that's going to wrap up the 00:34:03.990 --> 00:34:07.089 wrestling portion of the program and now last 00:34:07.089 --> 00:34:11.409 but certainly not least oh boy Bills Mafia Bills 00:34:11.409 --> 00:34:14.469 Mafia you are up you are on the clock I am not 00:34:14.469 --> 00:34:16.550 even going to start by asking how you all are 00:34:16.550 --> 00:34:20.070 feeling because well let me start with this i 00:34:20.070 --> 00:34:22.030 wanted to get the first two segments out of the 00:34:22.030 --> 00:34:24.730 way because they brought me joy and this bill 00:34:24.730 --> 00:34:27.130 segment is going to bring me nothing but sorrow 00:34:27.130 --> 00:34:29.809 so i know how you are all feeling because i'm 00:34:29.809 --> 00:34:32.690 pretty miserable after the last game sunday afternoon 00:34:32.690 --> 00:34:35.510 from miami florida there's so much to get to 00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:38.460 So much to talk about in the world of the Bills. 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:41.159 I'm not sure where to start because every aspect 00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.420 of this is so frustrating. But what I do want 00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:47.099 to start with is the report that came out, I 00:34:47.099 --> 00:34:50.099 think it was like Sunday, and then further details 00:34:50.099 --> 00:34:52.699 kind of trickled in as the week went on. The 00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:55.460 report came out about the Jalen Waddell trade 00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:57.940 and the Miami Dolphins. And I kind of want to 00:34:57.940 --> 00:35:01.420 jump right into this. It came out, the report, 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:03.860 the rumor, whatever you want to call it. that 00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:06.260 the Dolphins were willing to trade Jalen Waddell 00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:08.920 to the Bills. The Bills were offering a first 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.099 round pick in 2027 and a third round pick in 00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:15.179 the upcoming draft, 2026. So a third and a first, 00:35:15.340 --> 00:35:19.119 the third in 26 this year or next year, and the 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:21.719 first in the year after. Well, the Dolphins came 00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:24.500 back and said they wanted a first and a third 00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:26.820 in next year's draft. They're pretty similar. 00:35:26.900 --> 00:35:30.559 Like those two deals. I mean, if you ask me, 00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:33.579 that's the same deal. So that was the sticking 00:35:33.579 --> 00:35:35.360 point. The Dolphins wanted a first and third 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.659 in the 2026 draft, but Buffalo only was willing 00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:41.039 to go a first in 2027 and a third in 2026. Now, 00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:44.119 that in of itself is super frustrating, and I'm 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.920 going to get to that in a minute, but there were 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:48.780 rumors to how this came out, how this narrative, 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:51.219 how this story was leaked. Most of the signs. 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:53.760 Most of the signs, most of the stories, most 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:55.800 of the things I'm hearing are pointing that the 00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:58.019 Bills themselves, the Bills were leaking this 00:35:58.019 --> 00:36:00.260 story because they were attempting to control 00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:03.940 this post -trade deadline narrative that we didn't 00:36:03.940 --> 00:36:07.099 get anything. And I told you before, before the 00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:10.179 deadline, we talked about this on numerous podcasts. 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:12.900 I told you before how the natives, the Bills 00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:15.519 Mafia, they were getting restless. And what did 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.059 Brandon Bean do as the GM to the Bills? He did 00:36:19.059 --> 00:36:22.550 nothing. He did nothing. Not a single thing. 00:36:22.710 --> 00:36:25.590 So the way I see it, this whole story was released. 00:36:25.610 --> 00:36:28.190 And from what I'm hearing, I have no choice but 00:36:28.190 --> 00:36:30.449 to believe it. But this story was released as 00:36:30.449 --> 00:36:32.650 a way to show the fan base that Brandon Bean 00:36:32.650 --> 00:36:35.940 and the Buffalo Bills tried. That they just tried 00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:39.900 and oh, so we tried, but the price was too high. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.760 We couldn't get anything done. Hey, PR team. 00:36:41.820 --> 00:36:44.280 Hey, Brandon Bean. You should all be fired if 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:46.460 that's the case. If this is really the case and 00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:49.559 you chose to release this information on your 00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.099 own, this is terrible. Brandon Bean and company, 00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:54.940 shame on you. You had a deal in front of you 00:36:54.940 --> 00:36:57.800 and you blew it. For what? What are we talking 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.559 about here? The same pick a year later. Are you 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:03.440 kidding me? Are you kidding me? It's absolutely 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:06.980 brutal. brutal to know that we could have had 00:37:06.980 --> 00:37:10.500 the very player who then went out on Sunday afternoon 00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:14.719 in Miami and torched us. He balled out, caught 00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.340 a touchdown, did the whole tutty -sully, the 00:37:17.340 --> 00:37:19.920 whole thing. It was unbelievable. Unbelievable. 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.860 So for me to hear this story, number one, before 00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:27.360 I even get to the game, this story is maddening 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.139 to me. Maddening. You know who else balled out 00:37:30.139 --> 00:37:33.420 on Sunday? The other topic that I talked about 00:37:33.420 --> 00:37:35.780 for what? A month prior to the trade deadline, 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:38.280 Chris Olave and the New Orleans Saints. You know 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:40.460 what he did? He balled out five catches, 104 00:37:40.460 --> 00:37:43.739 yards, tutty, great, fantastic, awesome. Had 00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:46.739 we made a trade for Chris Olave, I would have 00:37:46.739 --> 00:37:50.300 been extremely happy. Nope, he goes out. I think 00:37:50.300 --> 00:37:53.219 he made some sick touchdown catch or some ridiculous 00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:56.199 catches in that game, just adding to his highlight 00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:58.940 package. And what did Brandon Bean do? Nothing. 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:01.800 oh i couldn't give up a 2026 first round pick 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:03.539 that's too much but i would have given you a 00:38:03.539 --> 00:38:07.460 2027 pick get off your freaking throne dude i 00:38:07.460 --> 00:38:11.840 oh it's so upsetting have we made the trade for 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.280 waddle would we have lost on sunday i don't know 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:17.059 but you know it would have been really nice to 00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:20.000 find out how demoralized do you think the dolphins 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.159 team specifically the offense and tuho would 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:24.699 have been to see their best pass catcher suit 00:38:24.699 --> 00:38:27.340 up for the opposition So now they come into the 00:38:27.340 --> 00:38:30.380 game. Literally, Waddle takes his stuff from 00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:33.059 the home side to the visitor side. He probably 00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:34.800 tells the Bills, hey, I'll just meet you down 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:36.880 here. I'll suit up for you. I'll just have my 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:38.860 locker ready. He probably just walks across the 00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:42.699 hallway and slides right into Keon Coleman's 00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:45.860 locker. He goes, you know, move down a couple, 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.719 whatever. But you know what I'm saying? How to 00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:51.760 moralize with this Dolphins team, my Ben. Now, 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:54.340 what they have. Would the Bills have won the 00:38:54.340 --> 00:38:56.719 game? I don't know, but I would have rather at 00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:58.400 least tried. It sure would have been nice to 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.539 find out. So to see your best pass catcher suit 00:39:01.539 --> 00:39:04.340 up for the opposition and maybe he goes and doesn't 00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:06.699 do much because I'm not expecting much, but he 00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:08.800 goes and runs a few go routes during the game. 00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:12.409 I'm not sure which makes me more upset. The details 00:39:12.409 --> 00:39:16.349 of this potential trade? Because that just fires 00:39:16.349 --> 00:39:19.130 me up and just it's infuriating to know that 00:39:19.130 --> 00:39:23.269 that deal was right there. And he said no. I 00:39:23.269 --> 00:39:24.889 would have much rather the story come out that 00:39:24.889 --> 00:39:26.949 go, the Dolphins flat out refused to trade in 00:39:26.949 --> 00:39:29.570 the division. Hey, if that's the story, I get 00:39:29.570 --> 00:39:32.269 it. I totally get it. Same thing if the Bills 00:39:32.269 --> 00:39:33.869 tried to go get Garrett Wilson from the Jets. 00:39:33.889 --> 00:39:36.150 If those are the stories and the Jets and the 00:39:36.150 --> 00:39:38.530 Dolphins are unwilling to trade within the division, 00:39:38.690 --> 00:39:43.000 hey, I understand that. I get it. But to have 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.139 the deal at the table and Brandon Bean turns 00:39:45.139 --> 00:39:47.019 his nose up at it and goes, ah, that's too much. 00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:48.500 I'm not going to do that. That's ridiculous. 00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:52.079 And you leak that story? How do you think the 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.420 restless natives are going to react now? This 00:39:54.420 --> 00:39:57.380 is insane to me. Insane. So I'm not sure which 00:39:57.380 --> 00:39:59.739 makes me more upset, the details of the potential 00:39:59.739 --> 00:40:03.179 trade for Waddle or the absolute, absolute turd 00:40:03.179 --> 00:40:05.579 sandwich they dropped on the field on Sunday. 00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:08.239 And I have so much to talk about with this game, 00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:10.500 so much to talk about. And I'm not really sure 00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:12.320 where to start, but I'm going to try to start 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.460 with maybe the best part of the game. Well, the 00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:18.019 best part of the game by far was the punter. 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:19.800 So congratulations, the MVP of the game was a 00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.059 punter. I'm going to just get that out first 00:40:22.059 --> 00:40:24.599 and foremost. The punter and closely followed 00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:28.739 by one -armed bandit Joey Bosa. Seeing the pictures 00:40:28.739 --> 00:40:31.320 of him with his club hand, I'm like, dude, what 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:33.760 is happening? This guy's taking the field and 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:36.179 he's trying to ball out and he's got one hand. 00:40:36.539 --> 00:40:38.559 So the punter and Joey Bosa, congratulations, 00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:40.840 you balled out. You're off the hook. But the 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.219 defense, I'm going to start with the defense 00:40:42.219 --> 00:40:45.000 because there's people out there that want to 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.280 blame the defense. You look at the final score 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.480 and it was 30 to 13. And you say, well, the defense, 00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:52.800 the defense, the defense. And I'll hear that 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.699 for a few minutes. I will hear that for a few 00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:57.639 minutes. But a couple of things. This defense 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:01.280 is decimated by injuries, decimated by injuries. 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:04.699 Your defensive line, your interior defensive 00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:06.880 line, we're playing guys that literally are, 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.940 like, working at Burger King. I don't even know 00:41:09.940 --> 00:41:11.659 who these players are. They keep bringing players 00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:13.440 up from the practice squad and signing them, 00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:15.420 and then they're playing the whole game. We're 00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:18.059 taking Daquan Jones. We're moving him around. 00:41:18.219 --> 00:41:20.840 Like, Daquan Jones just came off the injured 00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:24.050 list and all this crap. People are playing out 00:41:24.050 --> 00:41:26.650 of position. So you want to talk about decimated 00:41:26.650 --> 00:41:28.590 by injuries. But I thought Cole Bishop played 00:41:28.590 --> 00:41:30.969 well. Yeah, he made a couple mistakes. And I 00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:33.050 already talked about Joey Bosa. They played well. 00:41:33.110 --> 00:41:35.869 They played hard. I would rather see Cole Bishop 00:41:35.869 --> 00:41:38.510 fly around, make a few mistakes. Same with Maxwell 00:41:38.510 --> 00:41:41.070 Hairston. Yeah, he got beat. He gave up the tutty 00:41:41.070 --> 00:41:43.329 to waddle. But you know what? Let's bump the 00:41:43.329 --> 00:41:45.730 brakes on this. This is literally like his first 00:41:45.730 --> 00:41:48.860 kind of full game. kind of full game so you want 00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:50.980 to talk experience NFL experience this is his 00:41:50.980 --> 00:41:53.739 third game I'm going to give him a pass because 00:41:53.739 --> 00:41:56.139 had he been on the field since week one this 00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:57.559 probably would have been a different outcome 00:41:57.559 --> 00:41:59.260 and maybe he doesn't make the mistakes he made 00:41:59.260 --> 00:42:01.019 in the Miami game but I'm willing to live with 00:42:01.019 --> 00:42:03.179 the mistakes he made because he plays hard and 00:42:03.179 --> 00:42:04.820 he gets back up and he doesn't make the same 00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:06.739 mistakes twice he's your rookie he's going to 00:42:06.739 --> 00:42:08.860 make mistakes especially against people as awesome 00:42:08.860 --> 00:42:10.539 as Jalen Waddle I wish we would have freaking 00:42:10.539 --> 00:42:12.780 had him on our side of the field Brandon Bean 00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:15.860 but I digress you're talking about a rundown 00:42:15.860 --> 00:42:20.809 defense and Yes, they gave up points. It's definitely 00:42:20.809 --> 00:42:23.690 not perfect, but I give them credit. I give them 00:42:23.690 --> 00:42:25.610 credit. Who I will not give credit, however, 00:42:25.769 --> 00:42:29.150 is our linebackers. The gloves are off at this 00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:31.889 point. I have tried not to talk trash about Terrell 00:42:31.889 --> 00:42:35.409 Bernard and Matt Milano. I love Matt Milano. 00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:37.650 You have heard me say this numerous times. He 00:42:37.650 --> 00:42:39.590 has historically been one of my favorite defensive 00:42:39.590 --> 00:42:42.190 players, just favorite players on this Bills 00:42:42.190 --> 00:42:45.750 team. But you too, I don't know what I'm watching 00:42:45.750 --> 00:42:48.710 anymore. I don't know what I'm watching. They're 00:42:48.710 --> 00:42:50.889 missing tackles left and right. They're running 00:42:50.889 --> 00:42:53.469 bad routes. They're out of position. I feel like 00:42:53.469 --> 00:42:55.590 Bernard, who's the one running the plays and 00:42:55.590 --> 00:42:57.909 calling the plays, he's not running the plays, 00:42:57.949 --> 00:43:00.010 but he's the one that relays the plays and makes 00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:02.789 some of the line adjustments. I feel like, I've 00:43:02.789 --> 00:43:05.489 said this before in earlier podcasts, he's not 00:43:05.489 --> 00:43:07.570 looking at the play as the ball is snapped because 00:43:07.570 --> 00:43:10.349 he's barking orders and making adjustments to 00:43:10.349 --> 00:43:13.730 the defense right up until the, and sometimes 00:43:13.730 --> 00:43:17.250 after the ball is in play. And I'm like, Bernard, 00:43:17.409 --> 00:43:20.230 what the hell are you doing? Pay attention. Can 00:43:20.230 --> 00:43:22.989 we do this two seconds before, three seconds 00:43:22.989 --> 00:43:26.489 before? Get ready. He just seems like he's never 00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:28.690 in position. I don't know what has happened to 00:43:28.690 --> 00:43:31.110 him. This year, he is playing terribly, just 00:43:31.110 --> 00:43:35.190 terribly. And Matt Milano, ugh. And it's so upsetting 00:43:35.190 --> 00:43:39.110 to see Matt Milano just be a shell of himself. 00:43:39.349 --> 00:43:42.059 Can I get linebackers? that know what they're 00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:44.159 doing. Can I get linebackers who can tackle? 00:43:44.340 --> 00:43:47.079 I get they're kind of at a disadvantage with 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.800 the fourth, fifth, sixth stringers we have playing 00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.619 interior defensive line. So I get that some of 00:43:54.619 --> 00:43:57.380 those gaps are going to be out of place. And 00:43:57.380 --> 00:43:59.119 I get that sometimes they're going to be at a 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.760 disadvantage when it comes to making the right 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:04.480 read and whatnot. I understand that. But this 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.619 is unacceptable. You guys are playing like dog 00:44:07.619 --> 00:44:09.909 crap this year when you're on the field. But 00:44:09.909 --> 00:44:13.570 having said all that, having said all that, you 00:44:13.570 --> 00:44:16.889 gave up 16 points to the Dolphins team in what, 00:44:16.969 --> 00:44:20.530 50 minutes of play? 50 minutes of play, you held 00:44:20.530 --> 00:44:24.510 this Dolphins team to 16 points. What did the 00:44:24.510 --> 00:44:26.550 offense bring to the table on Sunday afternoon, 00:44:26.690 --> 00:44:30.510 folks? They brought absolutely nothing. Nothing. 00:44:30.630 --> 00:44:35.190 We got nothing from the offense. So we can blame 00:44:35.190 --> 00:44:38.420 the defense. But those last two touchdowns, those 00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:39.920 were at the end of the game. The game was already 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:42.780 over. Forget about it. I'm looking at the majority 00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:46.679 of this game. 92, 93 % of the game, the defense 00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:50.820 held the Dolphins to 16 points, and we didn't 00:44:50.820 --> 00:44:54.820 do anything. So let's look at the, I call it 00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:56.619 the offensive triangle. I've talked about this 00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:59.159 before, the offensive triangle. Allen, James 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:02.079 Cook, Dalton Kincaid. What did the Dolphins do? 00:45:02.260 --> 00:45:05.079 What was their defensive goal this game? They 00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.500 were going to stack the line. They were stacking 00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:09.739 the box to stop James Cook. They basically said, 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:11.860 James Cook, you are not going to beat us. We 00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:13.800 are going to do everything in our power to hold 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:15.380 you in check. And they did. To their credit, 00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:17.460 he had, what, 50 yards rushing? Right around 00:45:17.460 --> 00:45:20.460 50 yards rushing? They said, Josh Allen and your 00:45:20.460 --> 00:45:23.480 weapons, you cannot beat us. Joe Brady, you are 00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:26.059 incapable of calling a game through the air that 00:45:26.059 --> 00:45:29.320 will beat this terrible Dolphins defense that 00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.809 just gave up 28 points to the Ravens. That was 00:45:31.809 --> 00:45:34.650 without key components. Their starting cornerback, 00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:37.309 Russell Douglas, he didn't play. Bradley Chubb 00:45:37.309 --> 00:45:40.030 didn't play. But they made it their goal in that 00:45:40.030 --> 00:45:42.710 game to stop James Cook and dare Josh Allen and 00:45:42.710 --> 00:45:45.449 the wide receiving core to beat them. And the 00:45:45.449 --> 00:45:48.949 Bills did nothing. Nothing. So you take James 00:45:48.949 --> 00:45:51.289 Cook out of that triangle. What's the next option? 00:45:51.489 --> 00:45:53.670 I've talked about this before. The passing offense 00:45:53.670 --> 00:45:56.710 runs through Dalton Kincaid. When he is not on 00:45:56.710 --> 00:45:58.849 the field, what happens? It throws everything 00:45:58.849 --> 00:46:03.170 into chaos. Shear. Chaos. And nothing runs right. 00:46:03.289 --> 00:46:05.769 For some reason, they think their tight end, 00:46:05.889 --> 00:46:08.349 who is only on the field a maximum of 40 % of 00:46:08.349 --> 00:46:10.250 the offensive plays anyway when he's healthy, 00:46:10.429 --> 00:46:13.010 they think that this is the key to running the 00:46:13.010 --> 00:46:15.349 offense. Well, guess what? Hey, have we seen 00:46:15.349 --> 00:46:17.670 this story before? Dalton Kincaid, who I love, 00:46:17.710 --> 00:46:20.110 who when he's on the field, balls out. He gets 00:46:20.110 --> 00:46:22.530 hurt. A hamstring injury. He can't get on the 00:46:22.530 --> 00:46:25.750 field. So now you have James Cook, who's been 00:46:25.750 --> 00:46:29.090 nullified. And now the other... third of your 00:46:29.090 --> 00:46:31.989 triangle, Dalton Kincaid is off the field. What 00:46:31.989 --> 00:46:33.489 happens when you have two legs of a triangle 00:46:33.489 --> 00:46:36.150 and one of those legs is stopped? Not much of 00:46:36.150 --> 00:46:38.090 a triangle when you only have one side. So now 00:46:38.090 --> 00:46:40.289 you got Josh Allen running for his life and he 00:46:40.289 --> 00:46:42.289 becomes a turnover machine. Now I'm going to 00:46:42.289 --> 00:46:45.389 talk about Josh in a minute, but holy cow, they 00:46:45.389 --> 00:46:48.250 stopped Cook. They stacked the box. They dared 00:46:48.250 --> 00:46:51.269 Allen to throw and Kincaid got hurt. We are screwed. 00:46:52.070 --> 00:46:55.349 Screwed. Which turns my attention to Joe freaking 00:46:55.349 --> 00:46:59.739 Brady. Oh, my goodness. There's a reason why 00:46:59.739 --> 00:47:02.280 I talked about the Bills at the end of this podcast. 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:05.420 I'm just so frustrated. Joe Brady. You ready 00:47:05.420 --> 00:47:07.780 for Joe Brady? He has five plays. This playbook 00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:10.679 is five plays. You all know these plays. It's 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:13.280 a cook run of some sort. So we'll just say, number 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.340 one, the first play in the playbook is a cook 00:47:15.340 --> 00:47:18.099 run. Most of the time, it's right up the middle. 00:47:18.239 --> 00:47:20.940 And to their credit, most of the time, the offensive 00:47:20.940 --> 00:47:23.260 line decides to show up and actually play. They 00:47:23.260 --> 00:47:25.420 didn't today. And he didn't make adjustments 00:47:25.420 --> 00:47:28.179 knowing the Dolphins were keyed to stop James 00:47:28.179 --> 00:47:31.599 Cook. So play one, you gave the ball to James 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:33.880 Cook. Okay, what's play two? Well, we know what 00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:37.239 play two is. It's a Shakir screen and pray. You 00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:39.880 throw the ball at the line of scrimmage to Khalil 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:42.280 Shakir and you hit your knees and pray. And this 00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:44.940 has become... A joke because everyone in the 00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:47.340 stadium knows this play is coming. Not only does 00:47:47.340 --> 00:47:48.880 everyone in the stadium, but everyone in the 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.039 league knows this play is coming. Okay, so let's 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.619 go. What's play three? Okay, we're ready for 00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:55.960 play three. It's an end around to some unknown 00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:59.639 bum. Sometimes it's Dawson Knox and he fumbles. 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:03.840 Sometimes it's Elijah Moore and he fumbles. I 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:06.019 don't know what's happening. This end around 00:48:06.019 --> 00:48:08.159 play, I said it before, this should be shot to 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:11.159 the freaking sun. Get this. Out of the playbook. 00:48:11.260 --> 00:48:13.059 So you don't like that. Okay, that's play three. 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.940 What's play four? Play four is a 50 -50 ball 00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:18.679 thrown to Keon Coleman somewhere between 15 and 00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:21.780 30 yards downfield in which he's completely blanketed 00:48:21.780 --> 00:48:24.340 by coverage from the cornerback. And you drafted 00:48:24.340 --> 00:48:26.599 this guy because he was allegedly good at catching 00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:29.659 50 -50 balls. What's a 50 -50 ball? It's a play 00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:32.460 where you throw it to the outside on the sidelines 00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:35.599 downfield, number one, downfield, and you're 00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:38.099 expecting your wide receiver to fight through 00:48:38.099 --> 00:48:41.110 the cornerback coverage. and essentially snagged 00:48:41.110 --> 00:48:44.630 the ball from their cold, dead hands. This was 00:48:44.630 --> 00:48:46.690 supposed to be his bread and butter coming out 00:48:46.690 --> 00:48:49.329 of college. It wasn't getting separation. It 00:48:49.329 --> 00:48:52.150 wasn't running clean, crisp, awesome routes in 00:48:52.150 --> 00:48:54.789 which he can dust the corner off the line. His 00:48:54.789 --> 00:48:58.909 key to success was this 50 -50 ability. Well, 00:48:58.949 --> 00:49:01.889 guess what? This is play four in the Joe Brady 00:49:01.889 --> 00:49:05.090 playbook. Keon Coleman was targeted eight times 00:49:05.090 --> 00:49:08.630 in this game. Eight times. He caught three balls. 00:49:09.230 --> 00:49:13.030 That's less than 50%. So your star wide receiver 00:49:13.030 --> 00:49:15.650 who you drafted to win 50 -50 balls is winning 00:49:15.650 --> 00:49:18.449 50 -50 balls less than 50%. Is that a good percentage? 00:49:18.710 --> 00:49:22.070 Maybe I'm bad at math, but that sucks. Now you 00:49:22.070 --> 00:49:23.710 want to say, well, he caught a touchdown. Congratulations. 00:49:24.269 --> 00:49:26.610 He caught a touchdown. You know who he beat on 00:49:26.610 --> 00:49:28.690 this touchdown? He beat the fourth or fifth or 00:49:28.690 --> 00:49:30.929 sixth freaking cornerback on the Dolphins team 00:49:30.929 --> 00:49:33.670 because their secondary is decimated by injuries. 00:49:33.989 --> 00:49:35.969 So congratulations. Your number one draft pick 00:49:35.969 --> 00:49:38.170 beat their fourth best cornerback. We're going 00:49:38.170 --> 00:49:40.670 to give him praise. Yes. Great. Congrats. You 00:49:40.670 --> 00:49:44.039 caught, you caught a ball. So you don't like 00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:45.940 that one. You don't like the 50 -50 ball to Keon? 00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:47.960 Okay, I got one more for you. Play five in the 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:51.440 Joe Brady playbook. Play five is Josh drops back 00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:54.239 and then runs around like a lunatic, like a crazy 00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:57.500 person, begging, practically begging for anyone 00:49:57.500 --> 00:50:00.519 to get open. He scrambles around. Sometimes he 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:03.000 takes a sack. Sometimes maybe he gets close to 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:04.980 a first down. Sometimes maybe he gets the first 00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:07.039 down, but then he fumbles. Sometimes he's so 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.019 excited that the wide receiver is open that he 00:50:09.019 --> 00:50:11.260 launches the ball over the mountains. And he 00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:13.940 misses his open receiver completely because, 00:50:14.019 --> 00:50:15.920 as I said, it's like a mirage in the desert. 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:18.059 And he's so shocked that a receiver is actually 00:50:18.059 --> 00:50:20.119 freaking open that he launches the ball to the 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:23.039 next stratosphere. So there you go. And everyone 00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:26.519 in the world, every coach, every team, everyone 00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:29.000 on their schedule knows the Joe Brady playbook. 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:31.539 You take the legs out of this triangle and the 00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:33.440 bill's got nothing. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me 00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:35.539 I missed a play in the Joe Brady playbook. And 00:50:35.539 --> 00:50:37.780 he had the nerve to come on in his press conference. 00:50:38.510 --> 00:50:40.130 I'd say that there was nothing wrong with the 00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:42.650 passing game a few weeks ago. Nothing wrong with 00:50:42.650 --> 00:50:44.489 the passing game after the Panthers. Nothing 00:50:44.489 --> 00:50:47.909 wrong with the passing game. Okay. Okay, Joe. 00:50:48.269 --> 00:50:50.849 I really hope some college comes calling, maybe 00:50:50.849 --> 00:50:52.789 Penn State, because I know they're in coaching 00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:56.110 turmoil. I really hope some college team comes 00:50:56.110 --> 00:50:58.849 calling and offers you $50 billion to go coach 00:50:58.849 --> 00:51:02.429 some joke of a college program because I just, 00:51:02.530 --> 00:51:05.880 I can't take it anymore. I try not to. I try 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:08.440 not to come after the coaches and I get it. Like 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:09.940 the talent is just not there. And we're going 00:51:09.940 --> 00:51:11.940 to get to that in a second. You can't scheme 00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:15.280 these players open. You're telling me the key 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.619 to offensive success is Josh Palmer. Josh Palmer's 00:51:19.619 --> 00:51:22.820 long awaited return to the offense. This is what 00:51:22.820 --> 00:51:26.539 we're waiting for. Oh my God. So here you go. 00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:29.400 You got Keon Coleman, Elijah Moore, Curtis Samuel, 00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:32.519 and Tyrell Shavers. The only time I saw Samuel 00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:36.570 during the game. was when he was trying to corral 00:51:36.570 --> 00:51:38.869 the fumble. It was either James Cook or Josh 00:51:38.869 --> 00:51:40.429 Allen. I don't know. Somebody fumbled. And the 00:51:40.429 --> 00:51:42.849 only time I saw him on the screen was when he 00:51:42.849 --> 00:51:45.010 was trying to pick up the loose ball. And we 00:51:45.010 --> 00:51:47.530 already talked about Keon. I can't defend him 00:51:47.530 --> 00:51:49.369 anymore. And I want to defend him. I want to 00:51:49.369 --> 00:51:51.510 give him a chance. I don't think he's being used 00:51:51.510 --> 00:51:53.769 properly. With this 50 -50 ball nonsense, that's 00:51:53.769 --> 00:51:56.809 just a terrible way of using him. And then I'm 00:51:56.809 --> 00:51:58.769 seeing plays where there's lack of effort. There's 00:51:58.769 --> 00:52:00.889 zero separation. And I'm just like, what are 00:52:00.889 --> 00:52:04.000 we doing? And so congrats on the... Tuddy against 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.139 a four -stringer. Like, are you serious? And 00:52:06.139 --> 00:52:07.920 then post -game press conference, the press conference 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.539 yesterday for McDermott, and people are asking 00:52:10.539 --> 00:52:15.119 him about Keon's preparation attitude, hustle, 00:52:15.340 --> 00:52:17.579 whatever. And he's like, well, Keon knows when 00:52:17.579 --> 00:52:20.000 I'm not happy. Okay, great. Well, you got a rabid 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.780 fan base. The Natives are restless for more than 00:52:22.780 --> 00:52:25.500 one reason. And Keon's a part of the problem. 00:52:25.739 --> 00:52:28.219 So I don't know whether this has to do with play 00:52:28.219 --> 00:52:32.400 calling, but brutal. I just can't defend him 00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:35.460 anymore. I can't. And so our offense now that 00:52:35.460 --> 00:52:39.699 Kincaid's hurt, you think defensively teams are 00:52:39.699 --> 00:52:41.900 going to come in here and not stick to the same 00:52:41.900 --> 00:52:44.400 game script that the Dolphins just had? Stack 00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.239 the box and know that no one on this wide receiver 00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:50.559 room is going to beat you. No one. And what do 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:52.739 we see Sunday? The Shakir screen isn't working. 00:52:52.940 --> 00:52:57.960 We're not praying enough. If Kincaid can't... 00:52:58.110 --> 00:53:00.329 stay on the field, and they stack the box against 00:53:00.329 --> 00:53:02.110 Cook, we're screwed. Because our wide receivers 00:53:02.110 --> 00:53:06.449 are absolutely awful. I don't know. I can't defend 00:53:06.449 --> 00:53:08.980 them anymore. And Josh Allen, look. Josh Allen, 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:12.460 he's not without blame either. But he looks absolutely 00:53:12.460 --> 00:53:15.639 miserable. So good job, Bean. You have failed 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:18.960 once again. You have found a generational superstar. 00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:21.519 And you hang your hat like you have it in your 00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:24.059 trophy room. I drafted Josh Allen. Congratulations. 00:53:24.179 --> 00:53:28.460 You got JA17. And he is a franchise once -in 00:53:28.460 --> 00:53:30.519 -a -generation talent. I'm never going to see 00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:32.239 a player like Josh Allen again in my lifetime. 00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:34.780 Never. And you have failed to surround him with 00:53:34.780 --> 00:53:37.659 playmakers. You have failed to support him. Because 00:53:37.659 --> 00:53:39.909 of what? What is the reason? Don't sit here and 00:53:39.909 --> 00:53:41.909 tell me that you tried because I don't want to 00:53:41.909 --> 00:53:44.730 hear try. Everyone knows the Yoda Star Wars quote, 00:53:44.889 --> 00:53:47.630 do or do not. There is no try. I am sick and 00:53:47.630 --> 00:53:49.829 tired of hearing about how you try. Just go do 00:53:49.829 --> 00:53:53.170 for God's sakes. Go do. And my question is, I'm 00:53:53.170 --> 00:53:54.730 sitting there watching him on the sidelines and 00:53:54.730 --> 00:53:56.469 people want to talk about his mannerisms and 00:53:56.469 --> 00:53:58.670 how he's not getting pumped up and getting in 00:53:58.670 --> 00:54:00.110 people's faces like we saw a couple of years 00:54:00.110 --> 00:54:03.630 ago. Well, why? Why? Who's he going to get in? 00:54:03.710 --> 00:54:07.130 And whose face is he going to get in? The offensive 00:54:07.130 --> 00:54:10.349 line, they held. I think the stat was for the 00:54:10.349 --> 00:54:12.230 game, he had over three and a half seconds per 00:54:12.230 --> 00:54:15.210 drop back, which is more than enough time. Your 00:54:15.210 --> 00:54:16.889 wide receivers can't get open. You're going to 00:54:16.889 --> 00:54:18.570 go scream in Keon's face? What's he going to 00:54:18.570 --> 00:54:21.050 do, pout? You're going to go scream in Elijah 00:54:21.050 --> 00:54:23.849 Moore's face? Elijah Moore's face? Curtis Samuel's 00:54:23.849 --> 00:54:25.510 face? He could scream in Curtis Samuel's face. 00:54:25.550 --> 00:54:27.010 He might fall down and get hurt, and then he's 00:54:27.010 --> 00:54:29.269 out. He might not even recognize Elijah Moore 00:54:29.269 --> 00:54:32.130 because he's never on the field. What is he going 00:54:32.130 --> 00:54:33.650 to do? Go scream in these guys' faces? Great. 00:54:34.110 --> 00:54:35.409 Congratulations. What is that going to accomplish? 00:54:35.610 --> 00:54:37.849 And my question is, and I hate to talk about 00:54:37.849 --> 00:54:39.710 this, but how long is Josh Allen going to put 00:54:39.710 --> 00:54:41.989 up with this if this continues? If year after 00:54:41.989 --> 00:54:44.610 year, season after season, Brandon Bean doesn't 00:54:44.610 --> 00:54:47.539 do anything, you think? He's just going to keep 00:54:47.539 --> 00:54:50.260 signing extensions to stay in Buffalo? I know 00:54:50.260 --> 00:54:52.320 he loves it. I know he loves the city. I know 00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.340 he loves the community. I know there's a lot 00:54:54.340 --> 00:54:56.119 going on. And maybe he never leaves. I hope to 00:54:56.119 --> 00:54:58.360 God he never leaves and we never have to have 00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.579 this conversation. But how long is he going to 00:55:00.579 --> 00:55:04.219 be okay with this crap that Bean is surrounding 00:55:04.219 --> 00:55:06.699 him with? And Coach McDermott, he's not without 00:55:06.699 --> 00:55:08.800 blame, but there's only so much blame I could 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:12.820 put on him when this is the team he's given. 00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:15.239 And now he has a defense that's held together 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:17.179 by duct tape. There's a bunch of young players 00:55:17.179 --> 00:55:19.219 who are kind of learning on the fly, which I'm 00:55:19.219 --> 00:55:21.340 fine with. I'm fine with growing pains with young 00:55:21.340 --> 00:55:23.800 players that have talent, that go after it, that 00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:26.360 try. I'm fine with that. But the offense is completely 00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:28.539 ruined and there is no one coming to fix it. 00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.460 No one. No one. Because Bean blew it. So yeah, 00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:34.480 I'm super excited to be in the stands Sunday 00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:36.739 against the Tampa Bay Bucks, who just lost at 00:55:36.739 --> 00:55:38.960 the last second to Drake freaking May. And here 00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:40.760 we go with the dang Patriots again. 20 years 00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:42.710 of my life, I had to deal with Boo Boo. And now 00:55:42.710 --> 00:55:44.869 Drake May is already leading the charge. And 00:55:44.869 --> 00:55:48.010 we are toast in the AFC East to winning the division 00:55:48.010 --> 00:55:51.690 because he has far achieved his timeline. He's 00:55:51.690 --> 00:55:53.889 standing as the MVP front runner for the freaking 00:55:53.889 --> 00:55:56.409 Patriots. Are you kidding me already? It's going 00:55:56.409 --> 00:55:58.829 to be such a happy, calm, understanding crowd 00:55:58.829 --> 00:56:00.889 at Highmark Stadium come Sunday against Tampa 00:56:00.889 --> 00:56:03.090 Bay because Baker Mayfield is going to be pissed. 00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:06.219 I don't know. And then you hear things after 00:56:06.219 --> 00:56:08.820 the game that, oh, the Dolphins wanted it more. 00:56:08.940 --> 00:56:11.860 They wanted it more? The two and seven Dolphins 00:56:11.860 --> 00:56:14.699 who literally just fired their GM and were on 00:56:14.699 --> 00:56:17.000 the verge of trading half their team, they wanted 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:19.380 it more? What do they want? You know what they 00:56:19.380 --> 00:56:21.159 wanted? Because I talked about it in my game 00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.400 preview. This would have been the eighth straight 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:25.860 victory the Bills beat the Dolphins. Eight straight. 00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:29.079 So yeah, maybe they did want it more. They didn't 00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:31.420 want to be the laughing stock of the East. They 00:56:31.420 --> 00:56:34.500 didn't want to be Josh Allen's They didn't want 00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:38.039 Josh Allen to be their baby daddy, like to own 00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:40.079 them because historically he's carved them up. 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:41.800 Some of his best games are against the Dolphins. 00:56:42.019 --> 00:56:44.059 So maybe they got sick of losing to the Bills 00:56:44.059 --> 00:56:46.739 and they're like, screw this. I'm watching that 00:56:46.739 --> 00:56:48.539 game and it seemed like the Bills didn't even 00:56:48.539 --> 00:56:51.260 want to show up. It seemed like they quit. They 00:56:51.260 --> 00:56:55.099 quit. Oh, it's hot. It was too hot. I don't know. 00:56:55.219 --> 00:56:58.739 I don't know. First round, bye. Yeah, kiss that 00:56:58.739 --> 00:57:01.679 goodbye. The first seed in the AFC, not a chance. 00:57:02.219 --> 00:57:04.820 Not a chance. Yeah, yeah, we're still in the 00:57:04.820 --> 00:57:08.480 mix for a playoff seed. I get it. But what confidence 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:11.380 does anyone have moving into the playoffs with 00:57:11.380 --> 00:57:13.619 this? Oh, don't worry. Gabe Davis is coming back 00:57:13.619 --> 00:57:16.159 and Josh Palmer is going to be healthy. Fantastic. 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:22.079 Nothing helps me rest sounder at night than the 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:24.280 prospects of Gabe Davis coming to help this wide 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:26.730 receiver core. And maybe he will. Maybe he'll 00:57:26.730 --> 00:57:29.789 be, maybe him and Josh Palmer will be the saviors 00:57:29.789 --> 00:57:32.190 we need. But I don't know. I don't know what 00:57:32.190 --> 00:57:34.389 to think. I'm just so frustrated with the last 00:57:34.389 --> 00:57:37.730 week, with the trade nonsense, the Brandon Bean 00:57:37.730 --> 00:57:41.050 stuff, his lack of doing literally anything to 00:57:41.050 --> 00:57:44.570 help Josh Allen, who is one of the greatest players 00:57:44.570 --> 00:57:47.849 I will ever see in my lifetime. It's so frustrating. 00:57:48.110 --> 00:57:51.889 Anyway, I got to get away from the Dolphins game. 00:57:52.010 --> 00:57:55.480 But normally I put out a game preview. before 00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:57.599 the week the weekend hits well i'm not going 00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:00.280 to be putting out a game preview this week i'm 00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:01.679 going to take a few days i'm getting away with 00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:03.139 my wife we're heading up to the finger lakes 00:58:03.139 --> 00:58:05.980 and then fortunately maybe unfortunately we will 00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:08.099 both be in the stands for the bills bucks game 00:58:08.099 --> 00:58:10.000 on sunday so i'm just not going to have time 00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:13.619 to do a game preview podcast so so here we go 00:58:13.949 --> 00:58:17.110 I figure I would spend as much time on my game 00:58:17.110 --> 00:58:19.510 preview against the Bucs as the Bills did preparing 00:58:19.510 --> 00:58:22.670 for the Dolphins. So I'm going to add it to this 00:58:22.670 --> 00:58:24.429 episode. I know we're running long. I appreciate 00:58:24.429 --> 00:58:26.789 y 'all hanging with me. But here we go. We're 00:58:26.789 --> 00:58:30.230 going to do a quick game 11, week 11 game preview 00:58:30.230 --> 00:58:33.690 of Bucs at Bills coming at you Sunday in Orchard 00:58:33.690 --> 00:58:35.809 Park, 1 p .m. We're going to start with the news 00:58:35.809 --> 00:58:38.090 and notes. It's just how I always start my game 00:58:38.090 --> 00:58:40.780 breakdowns. Well, we already hit on this. The 00:58:40.780 --> 00:58:44.000 Bills suck. The defense is all in the ICU and 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.179 the offense is nowhere to be found. So that wraps 00:58:46.179 --> 00:58:48.559 up news and notes. Next, we're going to get to 00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:52.019 the injuries portion of the game preview. Injuries. 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:54.559 The entire defense for the Bills is hurt. Anything 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:56.340 else we want to talk about? The entire defense, 00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:59.340 they're all hurt. The Bucks, who knows? X -Factors. 00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:02.039 I like to talk about X -Factors. Number one, 00:59:02.059 --> 00:59:04.000 this is what I wrote down. Number one, X -Factor. 00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:06.800 Can any wide receiver on this team play football? 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:11.780 Anyone? Anyone? I'm waiting. X Factor number 00:59:11.780 --> 00:59:14.320 two, can Joe Brady call more than five plays? 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:17.199 Can he call more than those five plays we already 00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:18.900 went over? Because the entire league knows what 00:59:18.900 --> 00:59:20.920 the playbook is, and they are ready for each 00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.280 and every one of those five amazing plays. Number 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:25.099 three, X Factor number three, and I love this 00:59:25.099 --> 00:59:27.659 one, can we punt or kick field goals on first 00:59:27.659 --> 00:59:31.440 down? and I'll let the field position dictate 00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:34.500 which is warranted. Frankly, I don't care. The 00:59:34.500 --> 00:59:36.280 punter, as I've talked about, the punter was 00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.340 the MVP of the Dolphins game. So are we allowed 00:59:38.340 --> 00:59:41.260 to kick field goals or punt on first down because 00:59:41.260 --> 00:59:42.960 I don't want the offense to take the field? So 00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:45.139 there you go. Those are my three X factors. I 00:59:45.139 --> 00:59:47.000 always talk about this in my game previews, stress 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:49.460 factor. It's going to be really hard to be stressed 00:59:49.460 --> 00:59:52.019 when I have no expectations. So I'm going to 00:59:52.019 --> 00:59:53.539 get away for a few days. I'm going to unplug 00:59:53.539 --> 00:59:56.289 from this disaster that is the current. state 00:59:56.289 --> 00:59:58.949 of the bills. And so I'm not going to be stressed. 00:59:59.349 --> 01:00:00.849 My wife and I, we're going to show up. We're 01:00:00.849 --> 01:00:02.289 going to tailgate. We're going to eat some food, 01:00:02.389 --> 01:00:04.329 maybe have a few drinks. We're going to walk 01:00:04.329 --> 01:00:06.969 into the stadium and I'm going to have zero expectations 01:00:06.969 --> 01:00:09.929 that anything can be fixed before Sunday at one 01:00:09.929 --> 01:00:12.949 o 'clock against Baker Mayfield and the Bucks. 01:00:12.969 --> 01:00:15.110 So my stress, uh, let you, you want to throw 01:00:15.110 --> 01:00:17.469 a number on it? Sure. My stress is a two because 01:00:17.469 --> 01:00:19.130 the only thing I'm really worried about heading 01:00:19.130 --> 01:00:21.550 into Sunday is getting a good spot to tailgate. 01:00:21.630 --> 01:00:23.880 So there you go. Two. And then finally, the game 01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:26.199 prediction. This is what I always get down to, 01:00:26.300 --> 01:00:28.880 break down this incredible matchup. Here you 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.079 go, folks. It comes down to this. The 6 -3 Bills 01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:33.039 are at home going against the Tampa Bay Bucks, 01:00:33.059 --> 01:00:35.559 who are also 6 -3. They are coming off a tough 01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:37.679 loss to the best team in the AFC East, the New 01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:39.820 England Patriots. That's right. They are the 01:00:39.820 --> 01:00:42.440 talk of the town, if you will. Baker Mayfield 01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:44.619 is looking to bounce back. He's looking to carve 01:00:44.619 --> 01:00:47.420 up this infirmary unit that is the Bills' defense. 01:00:47.940 --> 01:00:50.829 Somehow, somehow, if you can... think about how 01:00:50.829 --> 01:00:53.550 crazy this is the bills are favored by five and 01:00:53.550 --> 01:00:56.869 a half points at home i have no idea how this 01:00:56.869 --> 01:00:59.550 is the case but regardless the bills will be 01:00:59.550 --> 01:01:02.210 rocking whatever jersey they want i don't even 01:01:02.210 --> 01:01:04.989 care at this point no one cares maybe mix and 01:01:04.989 --> 01:01:07.050 match maybe have each player wear a different 01:01:07.550 --> 01:01:09.809 of a different jersey especially the wide receivers 01:01:09.809 --> 01:01:13.250 maybe we can kind of confuse uh joe brady confuse 01:01:13.250 --> 01:01:15.429 the bucks defense nobody will know who anybody 01:01:15.429 --> 01:01:17.289 is josh clearly doesn't know who any of these 01:01:17.289 --> 01:01:18.989 wide receivers are so wear whatever the hell 01:01:18.989 --> 01:01:20.590 you want it won't matter because they can't get 01:01:20.590 --> 01:01:23.050 open anyway i see the bucks coming into orchard 01:01:23.050 --> 01:01:28.219 park crushing the bills 415 to 6 the bills The 01:01:28.219 --> 01:01:30.400 Bills are going to drop to 6 -4, and then they're 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:32.280 going to fly to Houston on a short week and play 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:35.079 the Texans on Thursday night football. It doesn't 01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:37.719 get much better than this, right, Mafia? Right? 01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:39.739 So there you go. That's going to wrap up the 01:01:39.739 --> 01:01:42.500 week. That's going to wrap up the podcast and, 01:01:42.579 --> 01:01:45.139 of course, the game preview. And that's also 01:01:45.139 --> 01:01:47.840 going to conclude this episode of the 3Ts. Thanks 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.159 for sticking with me. I know it was a longer 01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:51.340 episode. Hit that like. Hit that follow. Hit 01:01:51.340 --> 01:01:53.179 that subscribe. 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