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Royal Rumble Time · The 3Ts: Tables, Tailgates, and Toploaders

• WEBVTT 00:00:11.129 --> 00:00:13.589 what's up friends welcome into another episode 00:00:13.589 --> 00:00:16.370 of tables tailgates and top loaders so happy 00:00:16.370 --> 00:00:19.109 to have you all aboard for this episode i am 00:00:19.109 --> 00:00:22.170 your host TB thank you all so very much for stopping 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:24.649 in and checking out The latest episode of the 00:00:24.649 --> 00:00:27.010 3T's. We have a lot to get to. I hope you 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:30.129 all have survived the winter storm that has affected 00:00:30.129 --> 00:00:32.350 pretty much most of the country over the last 00:00:32.350 --> 00:00:35.310 48 hours. But we have a lot to get to. Let's 00:00:35.310 --> 00:00:38.049 not waste any time. Let's dive right in. Wrestling 00:00:38.049 --> 00:00:41.210 Marks, you are on the clock. I apologize for 00:00:41.210 --> 00:00:43.909 neglecting you the last week. But we had a lot 00:00:43.909 --> 00:00:46.090 of Bill stuff to get to, but not this week. We're 00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:48.189 going to turn our attention right to the squared 00:00:48.189 --> 00:00:51.549 circle and talk about wrestling because we are 00:00:51.549 --> 00:00:54.409 officially on the road to WrestleMania. And where 00:00:54.409 --> 00:00:57.229 is the first stop but none other than the Royal 00:00:57.229 --> 00:01:00.409 Rumble coming at you live this Saturday, 2 p 00:01:00.409 --> 00:01:02.810 .m. from everyone's favorite country in the world, 00:01:03.390 --> 00:01:06.670 Saudi Arabia. That's right. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 00:01:06.670 --> 00:01:11.310 is the home for the 2026 Royal Rumble. I, for 00:01:11.310 --> 00:01:13.439 one, am so excited. This is one of my favorite 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:16.040 events. Why not sell it to the Saudis for a lot 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.700 of money and have it over there? Because who 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:21.379 doesn't like a 2 p .m. kickoff time for your 00:01:21.379 --> 00:01:25.239 main wrestling showcase of the weekend? If you 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:27.599 can't tell, I'm a little bitter about that. But 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.060 go back and check out some of the previous episodes 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:34.299 to hear more takes of TB getting salty about 00:01:34.299 --> 00:01:37.239 the WWE selling the Royal Rumble, of all things, 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.859 to the Saudis. Needless to say, we need to turn 00:01:40.859 --> 00:01:42.959 our attentions to the pay -per -view. It's going 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.459 to be crazy. I love it. It's always one of my 00:01:45.459 --> 00:01:48.500 favorites. And the Royal Rumble Elimination Chamber 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:52.219 WrestleMania trifecta for the first three months 00:01:52.219 --> 00:01:55.319 of the year is always the best time if you are 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:59.959 a professional wrestling fan. The recent Raw 00:01:59.959 --> 00:02:02.859 and SmackDown tapings, they haven't really done 00:02:02.859 --> 00:02:06.040 a ton to promote this Royal Rumble event. I feel 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.500 like the build to this show coming up on Saturday 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:12.479 is kind of lackluster. And maybe that's because 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:15.539 they were trying to focus on Saturday night's 00:02:15.539 --> 00:02:17.419 main event, which happened over the weekend. 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:20.219 Maybe we'll see more tonight on Monday Night 00:02:20.219 --> 00:02:22.939 Raw and this Friday on SmackDown. But as of late. 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:25.819 It's kind of been a very slow build heading into 00:02:25.819 --> 00:02:28.639 one of your major pay -per -views of the season. 00:02:28.819 --> 00:02:31.159 And like I said, maybe that was because they 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:33.580 knew they had to get through this Saturday night's 00:02:33.580 --> 00:02:36.560 main event. It was a week before the Royal Rumble. 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.680 And I just think that's bad timing. I think it's 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:42.240 bad planning on the part of WWE. But there were 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.259 significant implications for the Royal Rumble 00:02:45.259 --> 00:02:48.199 from Saturday night's show. And most likely, 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.259 we're going to see some blowback from some of 00:02:50.259 --> 00:02:52.719 the results that we saw on Saturday. just talk 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.840 briefly about what went down on Saturday night 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.919 the show started with a Rhodes Cody Rhodes first 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:00.939 Jacob Fatu match well you can try call it a match 00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:03.020 but they never actually had a match because it 00:03:03.020 --> 00:03:06.419 was a brawl that went all over the arena and 00:03:06.419 --> 00:03:09.219 if i'm being honest this was pretty awesome i 00:03:09.219 --> 00:03:12.740 i thoroughly enjoyed this these two tried to 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:14.580 beat the crap out of each other all over the 00:03:14.580 --> 00:03:17.199 arena up and down the stairs in and out of the 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.699 different areas of the arena first of all the 00:03:20.699 --> 00:03:23.479 security this is the worst security team i've 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:25.780 ever seen there are probably 20 to 30 security 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:29.969 officers and you can't stop two people i get 00:03:29.969 --> 00:03:32.449 it you want it to look good but who the heck 00:03:32.449 --> 00:03:35.409 are these jobbers that you're hiring that can't 00:03:35.409 --> 00:03:37.830 stop two wrestlers when there's literally 30 00:03:37.830 --> 00:03:40.270 of you but they're getting thrown all over the 00:03:40.270 --> 00:03:42.710 place it was kind of glorious uh it takes me 00:03:42.710 --> 00:03:45.819 back to some of the the old school tear parts 00:03:45.819 --> 00:03:48.020 and I love when they do this as long as it's 00:03:48.020 --> 00:03:50.099 not overused because sometimes I think that they 00:03:50.099 --> 00:03:53.280 can overuse this but yeah it was great they brawled 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.379 all over the place and then finally Drew McIntyre 00:03:55.379 --> 00:03:58.520 shows up and he puts both Cody and Jacob through 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.439 different tables and so you kind of get a non 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.580 -finish and so what I think is going to happen 00:04:03.580 --> 00:04:06.039 is this is absolutely going to carry over into 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:09.120 your Royal Rumble event specifically the Royal 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.180 Rumble match that will happen on for the men's 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:15.750 side Both Jacob Fatu and Cody Rhodes are scheduled 00:04:15.750 --> 00:04:18.790 to be entrants in that 30 -man rumble match, 00:04:18.949 --> 00:04:22.089 and I think this feud is going to boil over, 00:04:22.209 --> 00:04:24.410 and they'll probably end up eliminating each 00:04:24.410 --> 00:04:26.670 other somehow, and we're going to carry this 00:04:26.670 --> 00:04:29.529 story on down the road. I am fine with it because 00:04:29.529 --> 00:04:32.189 that means that Cody Rhodes is not going to win 00:04:32.189 --> 00:04:34.449 his, what, third consecutive Royal Rumble match. 00:04:34.649 --> 00:04:37.509 I don't want Cody to win. I don't want him to 00:04:37.509 --> 00:04:39.629 be anywhere near the title picture right now. 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:42.550 It was great to see him lose to Drew. And now 00:04:42.550 --> 00:04:45.009 I would love to see what Drew can do with the 00:04:45.009 --> 00:04:47.250 title. But we're going to get to that in a minute 00:04:47.250 --> 00:04:49.550 because the rest of the card on Saturday night's 00:04:49.550 --> 00:04:51.629 main event, you had a tag team match, a great 00:04:51.629 --> 00:04:54.449 tag team match, I will say, with your champs 00:04:54.449 --> 00:04:57.689 Eos Guy and Rhea Ripley versus Liv Morgan and 00:04:57.689 --> 00:05:00.709 Roxanne Perez. Now, this was a really good match, 00:05:00.810 --> 00:05:03.230 but these four are great at this point. When 00:05:03.230 --> 00:05:07.009 Roxanne Perez is the one with the least amount 00:05:07.009 --> 00:05:09.899 of experience. She's already really dang good. 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.680 You got four superstars in the ring, and they 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.000 put together a great match. Now, this kind of 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:16.740 got a little wonky at the end because you had 00:05:16.740 --> 00:05:20.040 Raquel Rodriguez interfere, but a returning Stephanie 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.459 Vaquer without her walking boot took her out 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:26.759 and evened the score, and then it allowed these 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.180 four to get back into it and finish the match, 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.699 and your champs retain. Just great stuff. That 00:05:31.699 --> 00:05:33.920 was a really good match. Props to all four of 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.819 the ladies in that one. And then we go on to 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:38.519 AJ Styles versus Shea. Shinsuke Nakamura this 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.120 kind of came about on Smackdown with Shinsuke 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.100 basically asking AJ for a match and it was instantly 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:47.819 added to the card out of respect they just wanted 00:05:47.819 --> 00:05:50.360 to wrestle knowing that AJ was kind of doing 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.300 this impromptu retirement tour that everybody 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:55.459 knew about but nobody knew about and now they're 00:05:55.459 --> 00:05:58.139 suddenly making it a thing look this was a really 00:05:58.139 --> 00:06:01.680 good match I think people said this match was 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.279 phenomenal I don't know and obviously AJ's Moniker 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.500 is the phenomenal one, AJ Styles. I don't know 00:06:07.500 --> 00:06:09.720 if this match was phenomenal. I will say it's 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.800 really good. But it just strikes me as odd that 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.319 you're going to kind of rush this match, which 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.500 leads me to believe that he actually is going 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:21.079 to lose his match against Gunther on Saturday 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.439 for his career. He's got this feud going against 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.779 Gunther in which he made Gunther tap, but the 00:06:27.779 --> 00:06:29.959 ref didn't see it. And then there was shenanigans 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.199 and a low blow and Gunther ends up. pinning AJ 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.399 and then there's a challenge issued by AJ in 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:39.100 which you know he wants to fight Gunther again 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:41.740 at the rumble and Gunther makes AJ put his career 00:06:41.740 --> 00:06:45.420 on the line as a result of that challenge the 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:47.699 way the timing of this goes people are saying 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:49.779 he's not going to lose because it's the first 00:06:49.779 --> 00:06:51.600 pay -per -view of the year and he's going to 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:53.439 continue to wrestle throughout the whole year 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:55.860 I just don't know if that's the case I think 00:06:55.860 --> 00:06:59.079 he might actually be done You saw the story, 00:06:59.139 --> 00:07:01.339 or maybe you didn't see the story, where Shinsuke 00:07:01.339 --> 00:07:03.959 posted something on his socials paying a tribute 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:08.399 to his friend and longtime rival AJ Styles. These 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.540 two have had some battles and some great classic 00:07:10.540 --> 00:07:13.360 matches throughout their careers together in 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.740 different wrestling venues and different companies, 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:20.000 specifically over in Japan and whatnot. But they 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.420 have had some absolute bangers. Shout out to 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:25.879 Sheamus. And so Shinsuke posted this. basically 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:29.699 this farewell to AJ, and then it was since removed 00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:34.600 because I think they were trying to avoid a potential 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.339 spoiler to your match against Gunther on Saturday. 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:40.040 There's no reason to have this match. Think about 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:44.759 it logically. Why would AJ go into... this match 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:46.500 on Saturday night's main event, knowing full 00:07:46.500 --> 00:07:48.980 well, not even a week later, he's going to be 00:07:48.980 --> 00:07:51.899 in a career match versus Gunther. Why would he 00:07:51.899 --> 00:07:54.740 agree to a match against Shinsuke, knowing this 00:07:54.740 --> 00:07:57.100 is going to be an all -out war? It just doesn't 00:07:57.100 --> 00:07:59.899 make sense logically, unless behind the scenes, 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:03.060 he's going to go down and lose to Gunther. which 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:06.079 is just crazy. So I'm sorry, I won't get to the 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.379 Rumble preview in a second, but it's not looking 00:08:08.379 --> 00:08:12.160 too good, in my opinion, for AJ Styles come this 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.879 Saturday. And then the main event for Saturday 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.139 night's main event, you had the Fatal 4 -Way 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:18.740 match, and the winner of this match would get 00:08:18.740 --> 00:08:21.279 a title shot against Drew McIntyre at your Royal 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.769 Rumble. So like I said at the beginning... there's 00:08:23.769 --> 00:08:25.829 significant implications coming out of Saturday 00:08:25.829 --> 00:08:27.910 night's main event heading into the Royal Rumble. 00:08:27.949 --> 00:08:30.810 So you had Sami Zayn versus Randy Orton versus 00:08:30.810 --> 00:08:34.350 Damian Priest versus Trick Williams. And, of 00:08:34.350 --> 00:08:36.210 course, this was a really good match. Really 00:08:36.210 --> 00:08:38.649 good match. Sami Zayn ends up getting the pin. 00:08:38.789 --> 00:08:41.990 He pins Damian Priest, of all people, because 00:08:41.990 --> 00:08:43.870 you knew Randy Orton wasn't eating that pin. 00:08:44.009 --> 00:08:46.649 And Trick is your up -and -coming hotshot young 00:08:46.649 --> 00:08:48.669 talent. He's not going to take the pin either, 00:08:48.750 --> 00:08:51.909 so why not just allow Damian Priest to eat it? 00:08:51.970 --> 00:08:54.450 So Sami, in front of his hometown of Montreal, 00:08:54.669 --> 00:08:57.389 pins Damian Priest and gets the win. And now 00:08:57.389 --> 00:09:00.470 he will go on and face Drew McIntyre at the Royal 00:09:00.470 --> 00:09:04.250 Rumble. So can he win? Can he beat Drew McIntyre? 00:09:04.409 --> 00:09:07.919 We will see what happens. this saturday but let's 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:10.759 turn our attention to the upcoming pay -per -view 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:12.940 the first pay -per -view of the year the royal 00:09:12.940 --> 00:09:15.200 rumble as i said this is one of my favorite events 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.019 of the year i love this event i love it i've 00:09:18.019 --> 00:09:21.860 always wanted to go uh in person and it's too 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:24.759 bad we can't go uh because it's in freaking saudi 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.779 arabia so i digress but if you look back all 00:09:27.779 --> 00:09:31.000 the way to 1988 that was the very first royal 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.340 rumble and things have changed a lot since that 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:36.460 very first rumble that first rumble was 20 entrants, 00:09:36.460 --> 00:09:39.899 20 participants, and your debut winner of the 00:09:39.899 --> 00:09:42.259 very first Royal Rumble match, none other than 00:09:42.259 --> 00:09:45.600 Hacksaw Jim Duggan. It was crazy. And I like 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.620 some of the things that they've done throughout 00:09:47.620 --> 00:09:49.799 the history of the Rumble. One of my favorite. 00:09:50.190 --> 00:09:53.309 ideas about the rumble is actually having the 00:09:53.309 --> 00:09:58.049 winner be declared your wwe or wwf champion i 00:09:58.049 --> 00:10:00.629 know that they've done this on two different 00:10:00.629 --> 00:10:02.590 occasions throughout history but i would like 00:10:02.590 --> 00:10:04.950 to see this idea be brought back because i think 00:10:04.950 --> 00:10:08.350 it's great uh in 1992 so four years after the 00:10:08.350 --> 00:10:10.830 debut match the title the championship was actually 00:10:10.830 --> 00:10:14.769 vacated and the winner of that match would be 00:10:14.769 --> 00:10:17.490 declared the champion well the winner of that 00:10:17.490 --> 00:10:20.580 1992 vacated title Royal Rumble match was none 00:10:20.580 --> 00:10:23.340 other than Ric Flair. He went on to, I think 00:10:23.340 --> 00:10:26.399 he lasted just over an hour, so I think he came 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.840 in as the number three entrant and lasted pretty 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.879 much the entirety of the match to claim that 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.980 vacated championship. And then... Fast forward 00:10:35.980 --> 00:10:38.860 all the way to 2016, the only other time that 00:10:38.860 --> 00:10:42.480 the winner was declared the champion. This was 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.799 2016, as I just said. Roman Reigns came in as 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:49.700 your champion. He put the belt on the line, or 00:10:49.700 --> 00:10:52.039 he was forced to put the belt on the line, and 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:55.879 had to defend it in the actual Royal Rumble match. 00:10:56.019 --> 00:10:59.000 And I like this. I would love to see this actually 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:06.539 happen again. I think it would be cool. or put 00:11:06.539 --> 00:11:09.440 them in whatever title match they want at WrestleMania. 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.919 Hey, let's mix it up a little bit. Sometimes 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.360 what's old is new again, and I think we could 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.399 refresh it a little bit. I would love to see 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.080 that. But in 2016, Roman Reigns was your champion, 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:23.539 and this was also flashback, and this is crazy 00:11:23.539 --> 00:11:27.000 to think about. 10 years ago, this was the debut 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.820 of AJ Styles. He came in as the number three 00:11:29.820 --> 00:11:33.259 entrant. This was his WWE debut. And now 10 years 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:37.240 later, what a sendoff. I think this will be his 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.559 last WWE event this Saturday. So he starts at 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.840 the Rumble and he most likely will end his career 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:46.259 at the Royal Rumble. For this 2016 match. Yeah, 00:11:46.299 --> 00:11:48.480 it didn't work out too well for Roman Reigns 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.299 because he actually lost the belt. And of course, 00:11:51.299 --> 00:11:54.419 who won but none other than Triple H. He came 00:11:54.419 --> 00:11:58.019 in as entrant 30 and eliminated Dean Ambrose 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:01.860 as the last participant and goes on to win the 00:12:01.860 --> 00:12:05.019 WWE Championship because of course he did. He 00:12:05.019 --> 00:12:07.120 always seemed to book himself into the title 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.299 picture and he always seemed to find himself 00:12:10.299 --> 00:12:13.500 with the title. And this was what drove me crazy 00:12:13.500 --> 00:12:16.250 about the end of or for most. to Triple H's run 00:12:16.250 --> 00:12:19.049 and that's why I've never been a huge Triple 00:12:19.049 --> 00:12:22.370 H fan but you can come at me all you want he's 00:12:22.370 --> 00:12:25.889 not one of my faves so let's look ahead to this 00:12:25.889 --> 00:12:29.750 actual match this actual card on Saturday we 00:12:29.750 --> 00:12:32.019 only have four matches lined up right now And 00:12:32.019 --> 00:12:34.539 that's because two of them will be the men's 00:12:34.539 --> 00:12:38.059 and women's 30 entrant rumble matches. And historically, 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:41.860 those matches each take just about an hour, if 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:44.679 not a little longer than an hour. So a four match 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.799 card. And we'll just start at the top with the 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.879 AJ versus Gunther match. We talked about this 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.820 before. AJ. This is going to mark his 10 -year 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:55.580 anniversary, and he's put his career on the line 00:12:55.580 --> 00:12:58.720 against this Gunther career killer, if you will, 00:12:58.820 --> 00:13:01.399 because it seems like Gunther is lining him up 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:03.600 and knocking him down. He's already eliminated 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.539 Goldberg. Thank you very much. John Cena, that 00:13:06.539 --> 00:13:09.139 sucked. That was a sad one. And now we have AJ 00:13:09.139 --> 00:13:11.879 Styles. That's about to be added to this list. 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.049 I mean... What more could you say? I mean, you 00:13:15.049 --> 00:13:19.049 are painting Gunther as the number one bad guy 00:13:19.049 --> 00:13:22.370 on your entire roster by eliminating, whether 00:13:22.370 --> 00:13:25.909 you like him or not, they were historic wrestlers 00:13:25.909 --> 00:13:29.529 in the pantheon of WWE history. So to be able 00:13:29.529 --> 00:13:33.169 to put these as notches on his bedpost, essentially, 00:13:33.370 --> 00:13:36.750 and just eliminate them one after the other is 00:13:36.750 --> 00:13:39.990 crazy to me. So he could literally have the moniker 00:13:39.990 --> 00:13:42.429 career killer if he wanted to moving forward. 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.159 Who's going to win and who do I want to win? 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.080 So I'm going to do that for each one of the matches. 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:51.360 If this really is AJ's swan song, he's not going 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.639 to win. I'm just telling you right now. And all 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:55.980 signs are pointing to him, specifically with 00:13:55.980 --> 00:13:59.399 the Shinsuke stuff that was posted and then removed. 00:13:59.740 --> 00:14:02.179 If he's really calling his own number here and 00:14:02.179 --> 00:14:04.419 going out on his own terms, he's not going to 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:06.559 win this. And it's going to be a classic match 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.759 against Gunther. So I think Gunther's going to 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.460 win and I want Gunther to win. But the next match 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.500 on the card. This is a direct byproduct of the 00:14:14.500 --> 00:14:17.279 Fatal 4 -Way. We have Sami Zayn versus Drew McIntyre 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.639 for the WWE Championship. Drew, I think he looks 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:23.340 great with the belt. And is there a world in 00:14:23.340 --> 00:14:26.960 which Sami Zayn can be your WWE Champion? I mean... 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.639 Look, optics have to play a role in wrestling 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.960 at some point. I understand that we're of this 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.159 age that anyone can win. You know, you're Daniel 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:38.840 Bryan's and you're Jey Uso's. And, well, Jey 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:42.240 Uso, that was a disaster. But you're Daniel Bryan's 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.179 and some of your smaller guys and you're CM Punk's. 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:47.000 And I understand all that. And I'm not saying 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.080 Sami Zayn isn't great. But is he ever? going 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.600 to win the major championship, a major championship. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:55.720 I don't know. I feel like we've been telling 00:14:55.720 --> 00:14:58.720 this story for years now. And if it's ever going 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.059 to happen, it should be here because this is 00:15:01.059 --> 00:15:03.559 kind of his second hometown. So Sami Zayn versus 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:05.600 Drew McIntyre for the title, I could see him 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.159 winning. Do I think he's going to? No, because 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.600 I think Drew is going to find some way, some 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:13.620 way, shape, or form he's going to hold on to 00:15:13.620 --> 00:15:15.240 this belt and he's going to keep it. And who 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.779 do I want to win? Yeah, I think Drew's doing 00:15:17.779 --> 00:15:20.019 great stuff. I kind of want to see him have the 00:15:20.019 --> 00:15:23.059 belt for at least until WrestleMania and maybe 00:15:23.059 --> 00:15:25.679 Sammy gets a second shot at WrestleMania because 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.279 that would be cool there. And you know, you pay 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:30.820 off a real feel good story for the next two months. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.419 So who knows? Maybe this is the start of a three 00:15:33.419 --> 00:15:35.840 month feud between Sammy and Drew. I could see 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.000 that building and building until a WrestleMania 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.240 payoff. That would be great. But as far as this 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:42.740 Saturday, I want Drew to win and I think Drew 00:15:42.740 --> 00:15:45.679 will win. So now let's dive into the women's 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.600 Royal Rumble matchup. Now, as I said at the beginning, 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:51.059 I just don't think there's been that much of 00:15:51.059 --> 00:15:54.340 a build for this year's Rumble so far. And that 00:15:54.340 --> 00:15:56.559 goes on both sides of the card, so men's and 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.700 women's. I know a few... superstars have declared 00:16:00.700 --> 00:16:03.220 for each of these matches but it just doesn't 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:04.980 seem like there's a whole lot of juice to either 00:16:04.980 --> 00:16:07.279 one of these matches so far and like i said maybe 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:09.820 things will change tonight on monday night raw 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:13.419 or friday but usually we have a a lot more feuds 00:16:13.419 --> 00:16:16.340 going into this it's it's anyone's guess how 00:16:16.340 --> 00:16:18.299 this is going to play out so there's really not 00:16:18.299 --> 00:16:21.059 a ton to talk about i do think both of these 00:16:21.059 --> 00:16:23.960 women's and men's royal rumble matches are going 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.639 to be absolutely stacked which historically, 00:16:26.779 --> 00:16:29.159 it hasn't always been the case. I think they 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.639 could easily fill both of these matches, 30 people 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.190 apiece, and just have just... incredible wrestlers 00:16:36.190 --> 00:16:40.509 usually what you see is high teens 20s low 20s 00:16:40.509 --> 00:16:43.070 of actual legit wrestlers and then you have a 00:16:43.070 --> 00:16:45.549 bunch of fill -ins right you have throwbacks 00:16:45.549 --> 00:16:48.350 you have hall of famers come back you have weird 00:16:48.350 --> 00:16:51.269 off the wall usually michael cole or or some 00:16:51.269 --> 00:16:55.169 announcer joins joins the the match at some point 00:16:55.169 --> 00:16:57.190 and you have like kind of these comedy angles 00:16:57.190 --> 00:16:59.809 built in i'm not sure if we actually will have 00:16:59.809 --> 00:17:02.690 that going into these two matches because just 00:17:02.690 --> 00:17:05.259 the quality of the wrestler overall is just far 00:17:05.259 --> 00:17:09.460 superior to what it was 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 years 00:17:09.460 --> 00:17:12.759 ago at this point. So it's just crazy to see 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:14.759 how far we've come. But as far as the women's 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.779 side, who do I want to win? I would love to see 00:17:17.779 --> 00:17:21.859 Lyra, Valkyria. come out of the rumble as the 00:17:21.859 --> 00:17:24.460 winner i don't think she will but it would be 00:17:24.460 --> 00:17:27.259 awesome to see her take a next step and really 00:17:27.259 --> 00:17:31.099 jump from the ic belt to you know something higher 00:17:31.099 --> 00:17:33.180 up i would love to see her get a shot at some 00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:35.839 of the big the big ones right lyra in a world 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:38.359 title picture is there a chance probably not 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.720 but look if eo can do it i think lyra has as 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.019 good a shot as as anyone and uh i would love 00:17:45.019 --> 00:17:47.259 to see her win this this rumble match but who 00:17:47.259 --> 00:17:49.210 do i think is gonna win look there's There's 00:17:49.210 --> 00:17:52.069 no one more over in the company right now outside 00:17:52.069 --> 00:17:54.769 of Rhea and Io. There's no one more over than 00:17:54.769 --> 00:17:58.450 Liv Morgan. I think she is in line for a title 00:17:58.450 --> 00:18:01.289 push to kind of regain the belt after having 00:18:01.289 --> 00:18:04.990 to give it up for injury last year. And so it 00:18:04.990 --> 00:18:07.650 makes sense. It makes sense to have her win this. 00:18:07.710 --> 00:18:10.450 She is well -liked. Whether she's a good guy, 00:18:10.509 --> 00:18:12.289 bad guy, it doesn't really matter. People love 00:18:12.289 --> 00:18:15.329 Liv. And I think that's probably the way this 00:18:15.329 --> 00:18:17.470 is going to go. But I could also see like a Bianca. 00:18:17.950 --> 00:18:21.160 She has kind of been completely off. Off the 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:23.339 main picture for a while, I'm not really sure 00:18:23.339 --> 00:18:25.880 what the issue is. But yeah, who I think is going 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.200 to win, I think Liv. Who do I want to win? I 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.160 think it's going to be Lyra. I would love to 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.500 see Lyra. But anyway, men's side, I think same 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:35.759 thing. I think you could stack this 30 -man match 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.700 with just top -down great wrestlers. There's 00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:40.819 so much talent on these rosters. It's crazy. 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.240 So I don't think you have a lot of room for filler. 00:18:43.420 --> 00:18:45.440 Ultimately, who would I love to see win this 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.640 Royal Rumble match? I would love to see Finn 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.269 Balor get a Royal Rumble victory. That would 00:18:50.269 --> 00:18:52.970 be fantastic. I mean, coming off the heels of 00:18:52.970 --> 00:18:55.650 his match versus CM Punk, these guys put on a 00:18:55.650 --> 00:18:58.750 classic. It was great. I love to see Finn get 00:18:58.750 --> 00:19:00.730 a chance. He brought back his old music, which 00:19:00.730 --> 00:19:03.829 I love. I would love to see a return of the demon 00:19:03.829 --> 00:19:07.049 gimmick. Can you imagine him going into WrestleMania, 00:19:07.410 --> 00:19:09.910 whether it's a rematch against CM Punk, whether 00:19:09.910 --> 00:19:12.710 it's versus Drew as a good guy, and he brings 00:19:12.710 --> 00:19:15.349 a demon character back? I love Finn Balor. He's 00:19:15.349 --> 00:19:16.869 always been one of my favorites. He's kind of 00:19:16.869 --> 00:19:20.269 taken a backseat recently. I know he's held the 00:19:20.269 --> 00:19:23.569 tag belt for on and off over the last couple 00:19:23.569 --> 00:19:25.769 years with the Judgment Day, but I would love 00:19:25.769 --> 00:19:29.829 to see him get a well -deserved main title run. 00:19:29.990 --> 00:19:32.420 Yeah. I would love to see Finn Balor, of all 00:19:32.420 --> 00:19:34.420 people, win the Royal Rumble because I think 00:19:34.420 --> 00:19:36.039 it would be great. I think it tells a good story, 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:39.279 and I think it's well -deserved, especially after 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:43.000 what he did on Monday Night Raw against CM Punk. 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:45.400 Who do I think is going to win? I think this 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.099 is kind of a no -brainer. Sometimes you can kind 00:19:48.099 --> 00:19:52.339 of see where WWE is going, and it leads right 00:19:52.339 --> 00:19:55.740 into the Royal Rumble winner historically. You 00:19:55.740 --> 00:19:58.410 could kind of pick this thing. pick this thing 00:19:58.410 --> 00:20:00.690 out from a mile away. And I think the writing 00:20:00.690 --> 00:20:03.089 is on the wall that Braun Breaker is going to 00:20:03.089 --> 00:20:07.549 emerge victorious in the men's rumble match and 00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:09.710 then go on and probably have his rematch with 00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:12.890 CM Punk at WrestleMania and take the belt there. 00:20:12.990 --> 00:20:15.369 The story kind of tells itself. So I really think 00:20:15.369 --> 00:20:17.650 that's what's going to happen, but I would love 00:20:17.650 --> 00:20:20.829 to see Finn Balor kind of throw everything into 00:20:20.829 --> 00:20:24.170 chaos because why not? I think 2026 should be 00:20:24.170 --> 00:20:26.309 the year of trying stuff. And what better way 00:20:26.309 --> 00:20:29.170 that you put. put the belt finally back around 00:20:29.170 --> 00:20:32.289 the waist of Finn Balor. And like I said, There's 00:20:32.289 --> 00:20:36.210 just not a lot of room for weird gimmick angles 00:20:36.210 --> 00:20:39.849 in 2026. There's not a lot of room for Hall of 00:20:39.849 --> 00:20:41.789 Famers. I would rather see some of these young 00:20:41.789 --> 00:20:44.730 up -and -comers get a shot at these Rumble matches 00:20:44.730 --> 00:20:46.970 than some Hall of Famer that no one cares about. 00:20:47.069 --> 00:20:49.210 I don't want to see Jerry the King Lawler. I 00:20:49.210 --> 00:20:50.809 don't want to see Michael Cole. I don't want 00:20:50.809 --> 00:20:53.309 to see some of these stupid throwbacks that have 00:20:53.309 --> 00:20:56.130 literally no shot because I think the roster 00:20:56.130 --> 00:20:58.809 is just so great that it doesn't make sense to 00:20:58.809 --> 00:21:01.789 bring some of these jokes back in. for a match 00:21:01.789 --> 00:21:04.589 like this. Who do we think? will be a surprise 00:21:04.589 --> 00:21:06.309 entrant. I don't think there's going to be that 00:21:06.309 --> 00:21:08.670 many, but the talk is, is Chris Jericho actually 00:21:08.670 --> 00:21:11.470 coming back to WWE? That could be a big one. 00:21:11.690 --> 00:21:14.250 Could we see a returning Chad Gable? I mean, 00:21:14.269 --> 00:21:17.170 they could tell a story about the returning Grande 00:21:17.170 --> 00:21:19.589 Americano and then start a feud with the other 00:21:19.589 --> 00:21:21.650 Grande Americanos. I think it would be awesome. 00:21:21.970 --> 00:21:24.650 I would love to see Chad Gable as a good guy 00:21:24.650 --> 00:21:29.690 and kind of go on a good Grande Americano run, 00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:32.730 like a Bueno Grande Americano. I don't know. 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:35.279 But they could do something really cool with 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:38.519 this gimmick with all the Grandes kind of going 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:40.519 at each other. And I don't know. I think it would 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:45.019 be something fun. And Chad Gable is a fantastic 00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:47.380 wrestler, and he's a great comedic wrestler at 00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:48.779 the same time. So I think he could do something 00:21:48.779 --> 00:21:52.420 cool. Obafemi, he was recently your NXT men's 00:21:52.420 --> 00:21:55.000 champion, men's heavyweight champion. He kind 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.299 of vacated the title belt, what, a few weeks 00:21:57.299 --> 00:22:00.099 ago now at this point? I could see him debuting. 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:02.920 That's probably not going to be a big surprise 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:04.920 to anyone that he would debut at this match, 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.140 but he will look like an absolute beast in this. 00:22:07.220 --> 00:22:10.319 I could see him throwing people all over the 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.480 place. That would be kind of badass. So I could 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:15.660 see any one of those. I don't want to see some 00:22:15.660 --> 00:22:17.680 of these old school Hall of Famers, like I said. 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.789 God forbid. I know. We bought Goldberg a house 00:22:20.789 --> 00:22:23.130 in Saudi Arabia. I don't want to see him come 00:22:23.130 --> 00:22:24.990 out of retirement and join this match. It would 00:22:24.990 --> 00:22:27.130 be absolutely terrible. So please, no, don't 00:22:27.130 --> 00:22:28.789 let that happen. On the women's side, who are 00:22:28.789 --> 00:22:30.990 we expecting for surprises? I really don't know. 00:22:31.069 --> 00:22:34.569 Maybe we see a NXT call -up of Blake Monroe. 00:22:35.170 --> 00:22:37.309 She's been doing good stuff down there in NXT. 00:22:37.529 --> 00:22:39.450 It's only a matter of time before she's joining 00:22:39.450 --> 00:22:41.710 the main roster. And maybe this is her opportunity. 00:22:41.950 --> 00:22:44.970 But where's AJ Lee been? Can anyone say? She's 00:22:44.970 --> 00:22:47.009 come back. She's wrestled two matches. She was 00:22:47.009 --> 00:22:48.769 kind of hidden for most of the Survivor Series. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:51.200 war games match and since that match she's been 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.759 like nowhere so i don't know is she back is she 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:55.619 a full -timer what what are we doing with aj 00:22:55.619 --> 00:22:58.279 lee maybe she needs to come back to the women's 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.380 rumble match i don't know and so finally i was 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:03.599 like it's been a minute since we did a crossing 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.240 the t's segment here on the three t's but what 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.940 would we do if we could have certain buffalo 00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:11.619 bills players actually take part in this royal 00:23:11.619 --> 00:23:13.819 rumble that would be sick first of all because 00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:16.990 they're not in the super bowl which is Nonsense. 00:23:17.210 --> 00:23:19.490 And so they're really not doing anything. So 00:23:19.490 --> 00:23:21.329 the worst part would be just getting them over 00:23:21.329 --> 00:23:23.710 to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And that's the other 00:23:23.710 --> 00:23:25.769 thing. Side note real quick. That's the other 00:23:25.769 --> 00:23:28.230 thing with these surprise entrants. It's not 00:23:28.230 --> 00:23:30.529 as easy as if you're going to New York City or 00:23:30.529 --> 00:23:33.509 you're going to Detroit or Chicago. You have 00:23:33.509 --> 00:23:35.710 to get these surprise entrants all the way to 00:23:35.710 --> 00:23:38.009 freaking Saudi Arabia, for God's sake. And they're 00:23:38.009 --> 00:23:39.990 only going to be in there for two minutes. And 00:23:39.990 --> 00:23:41.730 it doesn't really seem like this is the year 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:44.829 that a lot of surprise entrants are going to 00:23:44.829 --> 00:23:47.609 actually be taken. place. But if we could, if 00:23:47.609 --> 00:23:49.529 we could do a crossing the T segment and we could 00:23:49.529 --> 00:23:52.069 have current Buffalo Bills players make their 00:23:52.069 --> 00:23:55.369 Royal Rumble debuts, who do we want to see? Now 00:23:55.369 --> 00:23:59.130 I know Dion, Dion Dawkins is a huge WWE fan. 00:23:59.289 --> 00:24:00.930 He's always sitting right behind the announce 00:24:00.930 --> 00:24:03.509 table whenever they're in Buffalo. So that would 00:24:03.509 --> 00:24:05.309 be an easy one, right? He could come out as like 00:24:05.309 --> 00:24:07.890 the snowman or something. Who knows? But that 00:24:07.890 --> 00:24:10.349 would be a cool one. Seth Rollins, he said that 00:24:10.349 --> 00:24:12.890 he would love to see Josh Allen make his WWE 00:24:12.890 --> 00:24:15.470 debut. He thinks Josh would be a great wrestler 00:24:15.470 --> 00:24:19.930 just because he can square up with the best of 00:24:19.930 --> 00:24:22.569 them. He loves to go after it, and he thinks 00:24:22.569 --> 00:24:25.349 he's a tough guy, so that would be an easy one. 00:24:25.470 --> 00:24:28.829 Can you imagine Keon Coleman? What kind of awesome... 00:24:29.069 --> 00:24:31.609 redemption story could we tell Keon Coleman in 00:24:31.609 --> 00:24:34.410 the Royal Rumble I bet you he would cut a crazy 00:24:34.410 --> 00:24:37.349 promo maybe it would be similar to like an Ultimate 00:24:37.349 --> 00:24:39.329 Warrior old school promo where you have no idea 00:24:39.329 --> 00:24:41.049 what the hell he's talking about but it would 00:24:41.049 --> 00:24:43.769 be kind of funny I could see him doing like some 00:24:43.769 --> 00:24:46.910 Kofi Kingston ask high flyer stuff maybe with 00:24:46.910 --> 00:24:49.049 all his basketball skills could see him like 00:24:49.049 --> 00:24:51.089 doing some high fly stuff off the top rope maybe 00:24:51.089 --> 00:24:54.069 he saves himself onto the announce table I think 00:24:54.069 --> 00:24:56.190 it could be great how about Dawson Knox anyone 00:24:56.190 --> 00:24:58.599 could we see Dawson Knox make his Royal rumble 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:01.200 appearance i think he would have a similar look 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:04.440 to like a hangman adam page gimmick from aw i 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:06.400 could see him pulling this off i could see him 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:09.619 in a second second career leaving the bills and 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:13.519 going to join wwe but i think the The easiest 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.799 one that we could make a smooth transition would 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:18.599 be none other than AJ Epinesa. He could easily 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:24.599 join the bloodline of the Tala Tongas and Nash 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:28.579 Pak love child fiascos and all this stuff that 00:25:28.579 --> 00:25:32.289 we got with the Tongas. the Solos and the Jacob 00:25:32.289 --> 00:25:35.309 Fatus. It would be awesome. He does have American 00:25:35.309 --> 00:25:38.349 Samoan descent. So that would be a straight, 00:25:38.430 --> 00:25:42.029 easy road to pave there for him, for AJ Epinesa. 00:25:42.170 --> 00:25:45.890 But yeah, I mean, Dion, Josh, AJ, Keon, and Dawson. 00:25:46.049 --> 00:25:48.890 Can you imagine those five being entrants? I 00:25:48.890 --> 00:25:50.809 would love to see it. It would be awesome. But 00:25:50.809 --> 00:25:53.190 yeah, getting them to Saudi, probably not going 00:25:53.190 --> 00:25:55.250 to happen. But I think that's going to wrap up 00:25:55.250 --> 00:25:57.609 the wrestling portion of the program. And let's 00:25:57.609 --> 00:26:00.069 just transition right into Buffalo Bay. Bills 00:26:00.069 --> 00:26:02.869 Talk, Bills Mafia, you are on the clock. How 00:26:02.869 --> 00:26:05.809 the heck are we feeling? Have we decided to calm 00:26:05.809 --> 00:26:09.069 down from the ridiculous emotional letdown of 00:26:09.069 --> 00:26:11.789 the Broncos game? I don't know if any of you 00:26:11.789 --> 00:26:14.049 watched the AFC Championship game. That game 00:26:14.049 --> 00:26:17.390 was terrible. So not only did the Broncos lose 00:26:17.390 --> 00:26:19.970 by only scoring seven points, they lost to the 00:26:19.970 --> 00:26:22.390 freaking Patriots. And now we have to sit through 00:26:22.390 --> 00:26:25.009 a New England Patriots Super Bowl yet again. 00:26:25.210 --> 00:26:27.950 I mean, what are we doing? It has not been that 00:26:27.950 --> 00:26:30.319 long since the Patriots. were in the Super Bowl. 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:33.200 And now here we are yet again. I have to watch 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:36.460 Drake May, which whatever. But oh my gosh, I 00:26:36.460 --> 00:26:39.039 don't know if I can handle Mike Vrabel in the 00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.339 Super Bowl and all these clowns and then seeing 00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:43.980 Steph Diggs. Steph Diggs, really? And all this 00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:46.640 nonsense with Cardi B. I mean, oh my gosh, what 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.079 are we doing? Should he even be allowed to play 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.000 after choking out his chef or whatever the hell 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.319 nonsense he went through? I mean, what are we 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.900 doing? It's just so ridiculous that I had to 00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:59.119 watch that game. It was a terrible game. It was 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:00.859 cool seeing the snow, but nobody could do anything. 00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:03.579 And so for 60 minutes, you watched two teams 00:27:03.579 --> 00:27:06.279 that just couldn't do jack squat. And the final 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:08.180 score was 10 -7. And I'm like, these are the 00:27:08.180 --> 00:27:10.180 two best teams in the AFC. Are you kidding me? 00:27:10.259 --> 00:27:12.880 This is pathetic. I hope whoever wins this game 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:16.180 gets absolutely rolled by the Seahawks. That 00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:18.859 game was actually really good. The Rams -Seahawks 00:27:18.859 --> 00:27:22.220 game. Shout out to Sam Darnold. He freaking balled 00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:24.720 out. I know we don't want to hear it. And Darnold 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.559 ends up being the first quarterback from Josh 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:28.240 Allen's class to actually win. make a Super Bowl 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:30.859 sorry Baker you didn't do it Josh Rosen you're 00:27:30.859 --> 00:27:33.680 not even in the league Josh Allen wasn't your 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.799 year again and Lamar Jackson who knows when the 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.920 heck that'll happen but yeah Sam Darnold of all 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.980 people first QB of that draft class to make it 00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:45.480 to the Super Bowl so tip of the cap to you and 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:48.460 to the Seattle Seahawks Please, please, please. 00:27:48.579 --> 00:27:52.180 I hope you all destroy Drake May, Mike Vrabel 00:27:52.180 --> 00:27:54.480 and the freaking Patriots. I can't for the life 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:57.559 of me stomach. It makes me sick. Like I was literally 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:00.759 like on the verge of. Wanted to puke after watching 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.220 the end of that stupid AFC championship game. 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.180 That game sucked, and I never want to have to 00:28:07.180 --> 00:28:09.640 deal with that again. But have we recovered from 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:12.160 our loss? Probably not. Probably not. I need 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.440 a little bit more time to let the bitterness 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:16.779 kind of fade away. But then right after that, 00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:18.380 we had to deal with the whole press conference 00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:21.859 and the whole fiasco of Terry Pagula, Brandon 00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:25.839 Bean, the whole nonsense press conference that 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:28.190 there was. And I know a lot of you all were mad. 00:28:28.470 --> 00:28:31.450 And I needed a few days to kind of separate and 00:28:31.450 --> 00:28:34.890 step back and really look at it. And Terry Pagula, 00:28:35.009 --> 00:28:38.630 I don't know. Should we ever allow owners of 00:28:38.630 --> 00:28:40.730 football teams to talk? Because it seems like 00:28:40.730 --> 00:28:43.789 whenever they do, they just sound terrible. They 00:28:43.789 --> 00:28:45.630 don't have a PR team that could prep them for 00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:48.289 these big -time events. It's just the same. It 00:28:48.289 --> 00:28:50.609 doesn't matter whether it's Terry Pagula or Jerry 00:28:50.609 --> 00:28:53.829 Jones or Jim Irsay back in the day. These guys 00:28:53.829 --> 00:28:56.690 sound like complete lunatics when they are given 00:28:56.690 --> 00:28:58.690 a microphone. And I think that's what we saw 00:28:58.690 --> 00:29:00.750 at the press conference last Wednesday. And there's 00:29:00.750 --> 00:29:02.650 a part of me, there's a part of me, a small part, 00:29:02.769 --> 00:29:04.609 so take it easy, Mafia. There's a small part 00:29:04.609 --> 00:29:06.769 of me that actually felt bad for Brandon Bean 00:29:06.769 --> 00:29:08.589 during the press conference because he couldn't 00:29:08.589 --> 00:29:11.130 even answer it. half the questions and when he 00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:13.630 did get the answer, he was having to defend himself 00:29:13.630 --> 00:29:16.789 from stupid comments that Terry Pagula was interjecting 00:29:16.789 --> 00:29:19.009 left to right. I'm like, this press conference 00:29:19.009 --> 00:29:22.029 is a fiasco. But at the end of the day, I'm thinking 00:29:22.029 --> 00:29:23.730 about it and I'm like, does this press conference 00:29:23.730 --> 00:29:26.490 really matter? If you take out the Keon Coleman 00:29:26.490 --> 00:29:29.329 narrative, right? So for those of you who are 00:29:29.329 --> 00:29:33.089 living under a rock for the last five days, Terry 00:29:33.089 --> 00:29:35.269 Pagula out of nowhere, literally out of left 00:29:35.269 --> 00:29:37.470 field, interjects in the middle of the press 00:29:37.470 --> 00:29:40.740 conference. Interrupts. says, I got to talk about 00:29:40.740 --> 00:29:43.740 Keon Coleman, and then goes on to say that Brandon 00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:46.059 Bean wasn't the one who wanted to draft Keon 00:29:46.059 --> 00:29:48.380 Coleman, and it was all on the coaches. And then 00:29:48.380 --> 00:29:50.720 Brandon Bean later on, like 15, 20 minutes later, 00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.500 says, well, actually, it was my pick, and I drafted 00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.400 Keon and whatever. So I'm like, what is going 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:58.920 on? But if you take the Keon nonsense, throwing 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.640 him under the proverbial bus, if you remove that 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:04.299 from the press conference, was anything he said 00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:07.140 actually that bad? And I'm trying to think about 00:30:07.140 --> 00:30:10.220 it objectively. internationally, a couple of 00:30:10.220 --> 00:30:12.480 things that really kind of stood out to me. It 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.960 almost seemed like Terry Pagula has some sort 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.940 of beef with Sean McDermott. And maybe that kind 00:30:18.940 --> 00:30:21.680 of happened over the last year because some of 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.380 the stuff he was saying just didn't make sense. 00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:26.279 And I know that that kind of is funneled through 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.000 the, well, he's just an old senile grandpa lens, 00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:31.359 right? And the stuff he's saying doesn't make 00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:32.960 sense, but it really seemed like he kind of had 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.180 an ax to grind with Sean McDermott. It's like 00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:38.119 how quickly He forgot what a good coach he was 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:40.279 and what he did for the team and for the franchise 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:42.839 and for the city. There was no thanking of Sean 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:45.259 McDermott. There was no like, oh, we're really 00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:48.359 appreciative of everything he's done. But put 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:50.039 all that aside, it just seemed like he had some 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:52.480 sort of ax to grind. And look, right or wrong, 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.460 I think there was some sort of power struggle 00:30:54.460 --> 00:30:57.349 that took place. either between Sean and Brandon 00:30:57.349 --> 00:31:00.769 or Sean and Terry or who knows. But at the end 00:31:00.769 --> 00:31:03.470 of the day, Terry's rationale for why he decided 00:31:03.470 --> 00:31:07.930 to ultimately move forward and move on from Sean 00:31:07.930 --> 00:31:09.950 McDermott, I didn't have a problem with it. He 00:31:09.950 --> 00:31:11.690 said he walked into the locker room, he saw everybody 00:31:11.690 --> 00:31:14.589 crying, and he decided, well, I can't deal with 00:31:14.589 --> 00:31:16.190 this anymore, so we got to make some changes. 00:31:16.309 --> 00:31:19.089 And then he kind of went back and... expanded 00:31:19.089 --> 00:31:21.470 on that a little bit and said you know it's just 00:31:21.470 --> 00:31:23.930 not good enough we've hit the proverbial playoff 00:31:23.930 --> 00:31:27.049 loss wall and we need to move on and if you take 00:31:27.049 --> 00:31:29.210 that in and of itself I don't have an issue with 00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:32.289 it but show a little like courtesy show a little 00:31:32.289 --> 00:31:35.450 sympathy show a little I don't know thankfulness 00:31:35.450 --> 00:31:38.950 to the guy who literally helped turn your franchise 00:31:38.950 --> 00:31:41.430 around and so that was the weird part about it 00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:44.599 but you know the further away from the The press 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:46.640 conference I get, the less mad I kind of get. 00:31:46.819 --> 00:31:48.859 And the more I think everything's going to be 00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:51.779 fine. And if you've been on socials, if you've 00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:54.220 been listening to the radio over the last five 00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:56.799 days, it's been crazy. We're breaking down this 00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.259 coach and coaching candidate and this person 00:31:59.259 --> 00:32:02.720 and this OC and this DC and this head coach and 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.839 this retread. And it's just like everyone has 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.519 their opinion. Everyone thinks this guy's great 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.440 and this person sucks. And oh my gosh, if we 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:11.400 hire this person, it's going to be a debacle. 00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:13.779 And if we go this way, oh, we're never going 00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:16.240 to win. And I'm just like, listen, is the roster 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.880 awesome? No, the roster is not awesome. But the 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:22.319 roster is not a bottom 10 roster. We still have 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.609 a top half of the league, a top 10. roster in 00:32:25.609 --> 00:32:27.970 the league right because at the end of the day 00:32:27.970 --> 00:32:29.930 we still have the best player on the planet if 00:32:29.930 --> 00:32:32.450 we make a few tweaks if we change a little of 00:32:32.450 --> 00:32:34.309 this change a little of that if we get a freaking 00:32:34.309 --> 00:32:36.869 wide receiver for gosh sakes if we could get 00:32:36.869 --> 00:32:38.589 him some weapons to actually throw the ball to 00:32:38.589 --> 00:32:41.509 if we can get dalton kincaid right who side note 00:32:41.509 --> 00:32:45.390 who who knew he was playing on a torn pcl for 00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:48.380 the whole year i mean Dude, go get your freaking 00:32:48.380 --> 00:32:51.460 knee fixed and be ready to roll for the season 00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:54.619 opener, and then we can unleash the beast. This 00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:56.859 is what I talked about last week. Get some wide 00:32:56.859 --> 00:32:59.259 receivers, unleash Dalton Kincaid, and we're 00:32:59.259 --> 00:33:01.579 going to be just fine. I don't know if the coach 00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:04.140 is going to have that big of a drastic impact 00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:06.579 on it. Pick whoever you want. Pick the worst 00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:08.799 coach you think you could have hired. Thank God 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:12.440 we dodged the Mike McCarthy bullet. Steelers, 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:14.259 shame on you. How do you go from Mike Tomlin 00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:16.299 to Mike McCarthy? That's the same guy. There's 00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:18.579 no risk. There's no reward for either one of 00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:20.740 those guys. So you got rid of Tomlin. Congratulations. 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.740 People were thinking you were turning the corner 00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:26.720 and you hired probably the same exact vanilla, 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.680 boring, nothing good is going to come of this 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.059 ever. You're going to be mediocre at best for 00:33:32.059 --> 00:33:34.059 the rest of eternity coach that you could find 00:33:34.059 --> 00:33:36.680 in Mike McCarthy. So let's say the Bills decided 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:38.700 to go with Mike McCarthy. What do you think the 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:40.210 record would be? I mean, we're still going to 00:33:40.210 --> 00:33:42.849 win 10 games. I mean, come on. You have Josh 00:33:42.849 --> 00:33:44.490 Allen. You're still going to win 10 games. So 00:33:44.490 --> 00:33:46.450 really, we're going to argue over this guy and 00:33:46.450 --> 00:33:52.269 this guy. And it's Kubiak. And it's Mike McDaniels 00:33:52.269 --> 00:33:54.589 who decided to back out. And it's, oh, people 00:33:54.589 --> 00:33:57.809 lost their minds over the Philip Rivers interview. 00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:00.619 He just had an interview, guys. Take it easy. 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.700 Now, if we ultimately landed on hiring Phillip 00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:06.200 Rivers, would I have lost my mind? I don't know. 00:34:06.420 --> 00:34:08.860 Does it matter, though? I don't know. Maybe a 00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:11.019 coach is worth an extra couple wins here and 00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:14.099 there. And I hope we get an offensive genius 00:34:14.099 --> 00:34:16.539 to come in here and just redesign everything. 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:19.199 But at the same time, they have to be in lockstep 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:21.860 with Brandon Bean. Brandon Bean has to be way 00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:23.739 better than he was last year. He's got to make 00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:26.280 better signings. He's got to go get some players. 00:34:26.500 --> 00:34:28.550 And we have to get Josh. some weapons and that's 00:34:28.550 --> 00:34:30.349 the bottom line I mean there's so much that we 00:34:30.349 --> 00:34:32.070 can talk to I'm not going to sit here and dive 00:34:32.070 --> 00:34:35.030 into each and every coach I frankly at this point 00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:36.989 I don't really care I was getting kind of burnt 00:34:36.989 --> 00:34:40.150 out with the whole coach fiasco talk after the 00:34:40.150 --> 00:34:42.010 firing and after the press conference it was 00:34:42.010 --> 00:34:44.789 just I was almost on overload and I'm kind of 00:34:44.789 --> 00:34:46.530 glad that we were in Royal Rumble season because 00:34:46.530 --> 00:34:49.449 I needed to take a step back from the bills because 00:34:49.449 --> 00:34:51.650 it was just becoming too much but at the end 00:34:51.650 --> 00:34:55.679 of the day Look, if we hire Joe Brady, that would 00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.880 be bad, in my opinion. But who knows? Maybe he 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.519 was kind of held down by Sean McDermott saying, 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:03.980 this is what I want, and design your offense. 00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:05.960 If you take the training wheels off and you let 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.159 Joe go, could he be completely different? I have 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:11.199 no idea. And the truth is, no matter who we hire, 00:35:11.340 --> 00:35:13.500 we're not going to know for a year or two. We're 00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.900 not going to know until this time next year, 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:17.900 until this time in 2027. I mean, what are we 00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:20.059 talking about? So we could sit here and we could 00:35:20.059 --> 00:35:22.980 scream and yell and kick our feet up and complain 00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:25.420 about everything. But I just don't know if it 00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:27.059 really is going to make that much of a difference 00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:29.599 right now. Yeah, the Seattle offense. What's 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:31.579 his name? Kubiak. That would be pretty cool, 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.079 right? But the OC of the Jaguars, look what he 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:36.800 did to Trevor Lawrence, who you know how I feel 00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:38.369 about that. He took down on his luck. Look, Trevor 00:35:38.369 --> 00:35:40.250 Lawrence, he made him look like a freaking pro 00:35:40.250 --> 00:35:43.389 bowler. So imagine what he can do if he gets 00:35:43.389 --> 00:35:45.530 Josh under his wing and he actually gets some 00:35:45.530 --> 00:35:47.289 more offensive weapons. So I'm fine with that. 00:35:48.070 --> 00:35:50.469 I don't even know half these people's names. 00:35:50.710 --> 00:35:52.670 But people were losing their minds over possibly 00:35:52.670 --> 00:35:54.889 going with McDaniel. And I'm just like, look 00:35:54.889 --> 00:35:56.949 what he did with Tua, for God's sake. Tua's terrible. 00:35:57.190 --> 00:35:59.050 He can't throw the ball further than eight yards 00:35:59.050 --> 00:36:02.429 down the field. So imagine him with Josh Allen 00:36:02.429 --> 00:36:04.949 and being a make. Every throw on the field and 00:36:04.949 --> 00:36:07.170 just designing an offense around that, the possibilities 00:36:07.170 --> 00:36:11.230 are endless. So I am completely open and I'm 00:36:11.230 --> 00:36:13.469 actually excited about the prospect of a new 00:36:13.469 --> 00:36:15.789 coach because... It's not that I'm not appreciative 00:36:15.789 --> 00:36:17.929 of Sean McDermott. But as I said before, sometimes 00:36:17.929 --> 00:36:19.750 you get to a point in life where you just need 00:36:19.750 --> 00:36:21.409 to make a change. And I think that's where we're 00:36:21.409 --> 00:36:24.170 at. So I'm not going to lose sleep over who the 00:36:24.170 --> 00:36:26.210 next coach is. Look, it's not going to be Rex 00:36:26.210 --> 00:36:28.630 Ryan. So I'm happy with that. It's not going 00:36:28.630 --> 00:36:30.690 to be Chan Gailey. Dick Gerrard's not coming 00:36:30.690 --> 00:36:32.730 back through the door. So maybe we just need 00:36:32.730 --> 00:36:34.409 to pump the brakes a little and see how this 00:36:34.409 --> 00:36:36.150 plays out before we lose our collective minds. 00:36:36.650 --> 00:36:38.329 I think we're going to be just fine. I think 00:36:38.329 --> 00:36:40.769 we're going to be just fine. But who knows? Maybe 00:36:40.769 --> 00:36:43.989 this coaching search. I won't even get going 00:36:43.989 --> 00:36:45.969 until the Super Bowl is over because I know there's 00:36:45.969 --> 00:36:50.429 some coaches on the – well, they're not hiring 00:36:50.429 --> 00:36:52.269 anybody from the Patriots. But, yeah, the OC 00:36:52.269 --> 00:36:54.469 for the Seahawks, we can't even talk to this 00:36:54.469 --> 00:36:56.289 guy until after the Super Bowl. So now it's two 00:36:56.289 --> 00:36:59.090 more weeks. Look, I don't want to come on this 00:36:59.090 --> 00:37:01.150 podcast and talk about coaches for the next two 00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:04.260 weeks. That's not – fun at all so i don't know 00:37:04.260 --> 00:37:06.440 maybe i need a break from the bills now that 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:08.460 this season kind of took a terrible nosedive 00:37:08.460 --> 00:37:11.039 against the broncos and we're living in purgatory 00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:13.079 it seems like because here we are back with the 00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:15.179 patriots maybe i'll have to come up with some 00:37:15.179 --> 00:37:17.179 some other stuff to talk about for the podcast 00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:19.000 but i think that's going to wrap it up for the 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.820 bills section Cardboard enthusiasts, hobby enthusiasts, 00:37:22.099 --> 00:37:24.679 how are we feeling? Let's talk cards for a minute. 00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:27.099 If you missed it, last week saw the pre -order 00:37:27.099 --> 00:37:32.300 of 2025 Topps Stadium Club Baseball. And if you've 00:37:32.300 --> 00:37:34.360 never seen Stadium Club, I probably have talked 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.280 about it before, but it is one of the coolest 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.739 looking cards that they release because the photos 00:37:40.739 --> 00:37:43.929 are just such high quality. And it shows the 00:37:43.929 --> 00:37:46.170 players in kind of a different, I don't know, 00:37:46.190 --> 00:37:48.630 form. If form is the right word. It shows them 00:37:48.630 --> 00:37:51.409 just in different atmospheres. I don't know. 00:37:51.530 --> 00:37:54.739 It's different angles, different. positions kind 00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:57.340 of sometimes it just has them doing funny stuff 00:37:57.340 --> 00:38:00.099 maybe whether it's in the dugout or or hanging 00:38:00.099 --> 00:38:02.519 out before a game or whatever the case may be 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:05.539 but it gives a unique look a unique photo to 00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:07.639 some of this stuff and it's not all these action 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:10.699 stuff and it's it's cool but this year it's going 00:38:10.699 --> 00:38:13.619 to be a 200 car base set and there's going to 00:38:13.619 --> 00:38:15.539 be a you know same as always a bunch of different 00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:18.019 cool parallels a bunch of different inserts some 00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:20.440 of the inserts are cool uh they have a beam team 00:38:21.019 --> 00:38:23.639 insert which kind of is a throwback to the original 00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:28.579 1992 -93 stadium club basketball set it's not 00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:31.619 bad it's not my favorite it's not bad um some 00:38:31.619 --> 00:38:33.599 of the inserts this year i don't know they're 00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:36.639 okay some of the they have a die cut insert called 00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:38.480 going yard and they've had this for a little 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:41.619 bit it's it's not bad but what i've noticed and 00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:44.019 i really hope this isn't the case i'm noticing 00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:47.050 a lot of sticker autos which Sticker autos are 00:38:47.050 --> 00:38:49.929 whatever. They're fine. But everybody wants an 00:38:49.929 --> 00:38:53.630 on -card, on -card auto. So don't get your sticker 00:38:53.630 --> 00:38:55.650 nonsense out of here. And what I've noticed, 00:38:55.690 --> 00:38:58.929 again, is there's only one guaranteed auto per 00:38:58.929 --> 00:39:01.090 hobby box. And I think last year they were at 00:39:01.090 --> 00:39:03.829 two. And this is across the board. All Topps 00:39:03.829 --> 00:39:06.349 products, all their hobby boxes, they're lowering 00:39:06.349 --> 00:39:09.289 the amount of hits. They're lowering the amount 00:39:09.289 --> 00:39:11.730 of autos. And it's a shame because prices are 00:39:11.730 --> 00:39:14.469 going up. So I think for a hobby box this year 00:39:14.469 --> 00:39:18.119 on pre -sale, They were at $129 .99, so $130, 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.460 which, look, $130 is fine. And I'm absolutely 00:39:21.460 --> 00:39:23.699 okay with that being a price point. And I think 00:39:23.699 --> 00:39:25.260 it's a fair price point. I think it's a good 00:39:25.260 --> 00:39:29.510 price point. opens the door for most people to 00:39:29.510 --> 00:39:32.230 get their hands on it. So a hobby box, you're 00:39:32.230 --> 00:39:35.969 looking at 16 packs, 18, I'm sorry, 16 packs 00:39:35.969 --> 00:39:38.829 per hobby box, eight cards per pack. So what 00:39:38.829 --> 00:39:43.010 is that? 128 cards for roughly 130 bucks. That's 00:39:43.010 --> 00:39:45.570 not bad. Plus a guaranteed auto. I have zero 00:39:45.570 --> 00:39:47.869 complaints about that other than the autographs 00:39:47.869 --> 00:39:50.449 being down. The only guaranteed one. And I just 00:39:50.449 --> 00:39:52.550 really hope that they're not, the majority are 00:39:52.550 --> 00:39:55.340 just not sticker autos. The good thing about 00:39:55.340 --> 00:39:59.039 Stadium Club, it mixes old school players with 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:02.039 rookies, with current players. So some of the 00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:04.900 old guys, you have Cal Ripken Jr., you got Nomar, 00:40:05.019 --> 00:40:07.699 you got Frank Thomas. I'm trying to go through 00:40:07.699 --> 00:40:09.699 the checklist real quick. Mark McGuire is in 00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:12.320 this, Barry Larkin, some old school guys. And 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.260 then of course, some of your rookies, Chase Dolander, 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.059 Jace Young, your rookie of the year, obviously, 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.820 of Nick Kurtz. But some of the photos, look, 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.039 you're diving into Stadium Club for the photos. 00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:26.320 If you really like cool photography, this is 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.460 the set for you. What else do we want to talk 00:40:28.460 --> 00:40:31.639 about? Topps Midnight Basketball is coming out, 00:40:31.699 --> 00:40:34.639 and this is the 2025 -2026 set. Now, Topps Midnight 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:36.900 Basketball, I don't know the price on this, but 00:40:36.900 --> 00:40:38.860 this would probably be my If Money Were No Object 00:40:38.860 --> 00:40:41.719 by the week. These cards look great, but I know 00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:45.039 it's going to be... crazy expensive. Topps Midnight 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.000 Basketball has been around for a little bit, 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:49.099 but they kind of lost the license. And now that 00:40:49.099 --> 00:40:51.280 the license is back, these cards look fire. To 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:54.420 have the logos, to have the actual jerseys in 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:56.880 the cards, I think they put this product out 00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:59.159 last year and it looked terrible. So now that 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:02.659 they actually have jerseys and logos, it's crazy. 00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:05.039 But here's the thing. This is like a high -end 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.079 product and you're getting a single... pack box 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:11.239 that only gives you seven cards. Now you're averaging 00:41:11.239 --> 00:41:13.920 out of those seven, you're averaging three autos, 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:16.489 seven cards. I have no idea how much this is 00:41:16.489 --> 00:41:17.789 going to be. It's probably going to be hundreds 00:41:17.789 --> 00:41:19.949 and hundreds of dollars. Here, the autographs 00:41:19.949 --> 00:41:21.610 are on card. So get out of here with your sticker 00:41:21.610 --> 00:41:24.869 nonsense. And you have rookie jersey autographs, 00:41:24.869 --> 00:41:27.590 including patch variations. So these are going 00:41:27.590 --> 00:41:31.489 to be huge, people, huge. The Cooper flag, rookie 00:41:31.489 --> 00:41:34.570 patch debut. Like, oh boy, look out. This is 00:41:34.570 --> 00:41:38.730 equivalent to the Topps Chrome update of the 00:41:38.730 --> 00:41:42.219 baseball. the rookie patch autos so i could see 00:41:42.219 --> 00:41:44.679 these cards going for crazy crazy amounts of 00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:48.110 money so look for look forward That coming out, 00:41:48.170 --> 00:41:51.110 I believe it's, let's see, I believe it's Wednesday 00:41:51.110 --> 00:41:54.809 or Thursday of this week. It's an EQL, so it's 00:41:54.809 --> 00:41:56.829 a lotto. You put in, you put your name in the 00:41:56.829 --> 00:41:58.869 hat. We've talked about the EQLs before. If you 00:41:58.869 --> 00:42:00.769 are interested, it comes out the 29th. Check 00:42:00.769 --> 00:42:03.409 it out on the Topps website. That's Midnight 00:42:03.409 --> 00:42:06.309 Basketball, Topps Midnight Basketball. It looks 00:42:06.309 --> 00:42:08.929 to be fire. And then sticking with the NBA, Topps 00:42:08.929 --> 00:42:11.829 is also releasing Topps Finest Basketball. This 00:42:11.829 --> 00:42:15.179 is back. This is fully licensed for the first 00:42:15.179 --> 00:42:18.320 time, I think, since, what, 2007? This looks 00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:20.900 great. There is so much color. These cards pop. 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:23.099 Now, Topps Finest has been around in baseball 00:42:23.099 --> 00:42:27.159 for a while. The WWE did their own Topps Finest 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.840 release. And so you're looking at eclectic, kind 00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:33.539 of just art -inspired cards. Some of these look 00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:35.679 really, really cool. Just colors popping off 00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:38.079 the page. It looks awesome. Different geometric 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.820 shapes, different swirls, different things going 00:42:40.820 --> 00:42:43.420 on. This is a 300 -card base set. The inserts 00:42:43.420 --> 00:42:47.159 and the amount of stuff in this look pretty cool. 00:42:47.710 --> 00:42:50.550 The autographs, on -card autographs for the most 00:42:50.550 --> 00:42:52.369 part from what I'm seeing, but they have die 00:42:52.369 --> 00:42:56.030 cuts. They have really cool rookie inserts. I 00:42:56.030 --> 00:42:59.030 don't know the price because nobody tells you 00:42:59.030 --> 00:43:01.050 anything on the top site. Like I've said, the 00:43:01.050 --> 00:43:02.969 top site, you don't know how much this stuff 00:43:02.969 --> 00:43:04.929 is until it's in your cart, and it's kind of 00:43:04.929 --> 00:43:07.889 a disaster. But for a hobby box, 10 cards per 00:43:07.889 --> 00:43:09.909 pack, and you're looking at six packs per box, 00:43:09.989 --> 00:43:12.050 so not a lot of cards in one of these hobbies. 00:43:12.110 --> 00:43:16.610 So 60 cards in a hobby box, yikes. bet i bet 00:43:16.610 --> 00:43:20.269 you these are probably at least 280 to 300 a 00:43:20.269 --> 00:43:22.530 hobby box hopefully i'm wrong hopefully they're 00:43:22.530 --> 00:43:24.769 a lot cheaper than that but what you can expect 00:43:24.769 --> 00:43:29.389 is or hopefully you can uh expect two two autos 00:43:29.389 --> 00:43:32.530 per box it looks like two autos per box so i 00:43:32.530 --> 00:43:35.030 would say if i'm betting man probably these are 00:43:35.030 --> 00:43:37.369 going to come in right around 300 but some of 00:43:37.369 --> 00:43:39.590 their other products like the tops chrome product 00:43:39.590 --> 00:43:43.449 was uh off the chart expensive so maybe i'm completely 00:43:43.449 --> 00:43:45.670 wrong and maybe these will end up being 500 in 00:43:45.670 --> 00:43:48.070 which case there's no chance anybody should be 00:43:48.070 --> 00:43:50.530 buying that but who knows the checklist is pretty 00:43:50.530 --> 00:43:54.059 nice but some of these inserts i love One called 00:43:54.059 --> 00:43:56.659 Finishers. It just looks really sweet. I don't 00:43:56.659 --> 00:43:59.019 know. They're just really cool. There's a new 00:43:59.019 --> 00:44:02.780 super short print one called the Pulse card, 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:06.239 which just looks fire. I mean, some of the stuff 00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.659 that they're coming up with with the design work 00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:11.440 is just great. So it's a little different if 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:13.840 you like different artistical things. If that's 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:15.920 a word, artistical, who the hell knows. But they 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.760 look cool. I like them. And, yeah, so check it 00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:21.659 out if you're interested in 2025 -26 Topps Finest 00:44:21.659 --> 00:44:24.989 Basketball. And then last but not least, going 00:44:24.989 --> 00:44:28.030 into the Bills -Broncos game, I kind of went 00:44:28.030 --> 00:44:31.309 all in on my Keon Coleman love. And I made one 00:44:31.309 --> 00:44:35.570 final purchase and said, hey, I'm going with 00:44:35.570 --> 00:44:38.650 my boy Keon Coleman. I'm getting one more card 00:44:38.650 --> 00:44:42.289 for my ridiculous PC. I've invested a lot in 00:44:42.289 --> 00:44:45.389 Keon Coleman. And yeah, with all this talk of 00:44:45.389 --> 00:44:47.730 him getting thrown under the bus time and time 00:44:47.730 --> 00:44:50.889 again, this obviously happened before. Right 00:44:50.889 --> 00:44:52.559 before the game, I said, he's going to have a 00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.360 big game so what did i do i went out and bought 00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.059 a 2024 tops inception rookie autographed on card 00:44:58.059 --> 00:45:00.820 mind you on card keon coleman now this was before 00:45:00.820 --> 00:45:04.719 this was before tops got the football rights 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.920 uh i think they will be releasing this year with 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:10.300 the logos and licenses i'm not sure if it's this 00:45:10.300 --> 00:45:12.559 year or next year but it's still a cool card 00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:14.639 if you haven't checked out any of the tops inception 00:45:14.639 --> 00:45:17.489 for baseball or football Obviously, baseball 00:45:17.489 --> 00:45:18.769 is a little better because they have the logos 00:45:18.769 --> 00:45:21.809 and the licenses. But I did manage to get a Keon 00:45:21.809 --> 00:45:25.010 Coleman. I spent a whopping $12. So that's how 00:45:25.010 --> 00:45:27.530 much I'm invested in Keon Coleman for this card. 00:45:27.789 --> 00:45:30.849 And, yeah, it's fire. It's a rookie card. And 00:45:30.849 --> 00:45:34.550 hopefully he can drag himself out of the tire 00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.429 tracks, the tire wheels that Terry Pagula threw 00:45:37.429 --> 00:45:40.929 him under. last week, but I got faith in my boy. 00:45:41.309 --> 00:45:44.230 You get a new coach in here and maybe he gets 00:45:44.230 --> 00:45:46.130 a fresh start and it's exactly what he needs 00:45:46.130 --> 00:45:47.909 to find some success. I think that's going to 00:45:47.909 --> 00:45:50.550 wrap it up for this episode of the 3Ts. 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