NFL Week 8 Picks And Preview, The Brewers Win The WS, Bears Are All In + Robert Lewandowski In Studio

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3:24They close it out. beat the rays four to one in the world series what an insanely impressive team they were pft they were the word i used to describe what the brewers were this year because they were basically just wire to wire just the best team 103 wins in the regular season 11 and 2 in the postseason yep they were relentless they were relentless both pitting they were relentless pitching they just were relentless and they were the best team by far and uh i gave up on on on like having true hate in my heart about two weeks ago because i was like what what am i gonna do they're just relentless and they showed it they lost two games they lost two games in the entire postseason. They did not give up more than four runs in the entire postseason.

4:10It was crazy. So congrats to them. Special congrats to our good friend Christian Yelich. I think we can all agree competing in a home run derby after that, like what's the point? It's beneath him. He has an MVP in a World Series, PFT. Yeah, it's beneath him to participate in like a sideshow. No, no, you got to ring. You don't need to be doing that, Christian. Don't worry about it. Your career, I'd say, is finally complete. You've got the crown jewel, so feel free, retire whenever you want. Yeah, they didn't allow more than four runs in any of the 13 games. Since the playoffs expanded in 69, the only other team to do that, 1990 Reds, 1983 Orioles. The bullpen had a 1.38 ERA. They held everyone to a 173 average.

4:56I believe that's the best of all time in postseason history. And they're just a fun team to watch too. They're relentless, but they're very, very fun to watch. I think, were they in last place in major league in um in total home runs hit i believe they might have been uh the last in home runs but they were the second and run scored so they play very very exciting baseball i like their manager pat murphy seems like a good guy uh and they're kind of set up to to keep this thing going provided we have baseball that continues we are remember we are we decided we are yep yep they're pretty young we are they've got um not not only do they have young superstars they were not uh they were not last but they were they did not hit a lot of home runs

5:41oh i thought they were last in home runs hit this year. I thought I saw that. I'm looking at it right now. Definitely towards the bottom. Yeah, it looks like the Rays hit less, the Cardinals hit less, the Jays hit less. But I don't know. I just also AI'd it, so I have no idea. Okay. Yeah, not only do they have a bunch of really good, talented young players, they also have, I think, the number one prospect in all of baseball that's not on their team. So their farm system is one of the best farm systems in the entire league right now. So they're kind of set up to keep this thing going. Yeah, there was an article that was written after that was basically like they were – we already knew it, but they were very close to getting Scooble,

6:19which they were and ended up not. Yeah, they – listen, they, like you mentioned the bullpen. The bullpen pitched 118 innings. Like that's, or sorry, the team pitched 118 innings. The bullpen pitched 65 of them. 55% of their innings were bullpen. Ashby didn't give up a run. He pitched 18 innings. He didn't give up a run. And like, you know, Miz, who was kind of up and down in the playoffs, he wasn't bad, but he didn't go deep. He showed up for game five and he went scoreless. He was dominant. I mean, yeah, did they need to pamper the mound after every half inning? Yes. But no, like I said, I don't like the Brewers. They are the hammer, the cubs of the nail. But I gave up a while ago because they were just that good.

7:09And honestly, an earnest congratulations to their fans because they had never won a World Series. They had been close. They had some tragic moments happen. I think about the CeCe Sabathia year when they went all in. What was the Pol polar bears home run that was uh what year was that memes p alonzo two years ago yeah like those type of things getting swept by the dodgers last year and they just came back with a vengeance and they were just ready to go and uh they were an insane team. And Sal Frelick is just one of those guys that you just are drawn to rooting for. Contreras was just insane. I think he hit 400 in the playoffs. He won the MVP. He was nuts. The whole team was just, they were just so good.

7:59And then we find out afterwards they were also cool because they were smoking cigs before each game. The story comes out that yelich would just he was like yeah we'd just be walking by the the batting cages guys would be smoking cigs and be like hey if we're gonna get hot here like we're gonna torch one here we're gonna get hot in the in the game so they had it all they had it absolutely all and they were like i said like the the relentless, dominant team. They were never... Weirdly, the Padres were probably the closest. The Padres were the closest to beating them. That was a 3-1 series. And it was just... But that was the only kind of stress it felt like that they were ever really in this entire postseason.

8:40Yeah, so Contreras also, I believe, one of the stats that they pulled up when they were saying why he was getting the MVP was he had an impeccable World Series when it came to the ABS system. Oh, yeah. The challenges. He was dominating the ABS in the World Series. I doubt we'll ever see a performance like that again. Yeah, he was incredible. Yeah, Vogelbeck, their hitting coach, who was very funny when he was a player. It felt like, we talked about it on Wednesday's show, but the 9v1 thing where it's like they just attacked. They attacked, attacked, attacked. And it was like, it's one of those things that when you're watching them play throughout the postseason, you're like, oh my God, they keep getting lucky breaks. The other team keeps making errors., my God, they keep getting lucky breaks.

9:25The other team keeps making errors. No, no, that's not lucky breaks. That's them putting constant pressure on the other team, forcing them to overthink situations, to make base running errors, to send a guy home, try to steal third, to bobble a ball. That's not luck. That's just the Brewers and what they did to you know, send a guy home, try to steal third to, to bobble a ball. That's all. That's not luck. That's just the brewers and what they did to you mentally, where it's like, you have to be perfect. And, and almost made teams like just become of worst version of themselves because of what the brewers were doing to them. Yeah. They forced the more, the most errors in baseball. I think they're also the shortest team in baseball.

10:04Yeah. Short, Short Kings. Yeah, Short Kings back up. Everybody's like 5'9 in that lineup except for Christian Yellich, who's like 6'3. But taking advantage of the – finally they're measuring people's accurate strike zones now. So a short guy gets a little bit of a break when it comes to measuring that. And then they're just deep. Like Pratt came up big. Yeah, rookie. He's super young. And they got, yeah, everybody was contributing to it. And I just think that this is like, as somebody that doesn't have a dog in this fight, I'm not a Brewers fan. I'm not a Rays fan. But the Brewers, like, that's how you should play baseball. That is the perfect way to play baseball. I love watching them. So congrats to them.

10:47Congrats to the city of Milwaukee. And I think they're going to go on a nice little tour of the entire state, maybe the entire Midwest. They're off to a hot start by showing up on Thursday Night Football. That was a no-brainer. Absolutely a shithouse. Yeah, that was a no-brainer. I said it on the stream. I was like, are the Brewers there? Have they shown them yet? And I think Steven was like, why would they be there? I'm like, dude, why wouldn't they? Like, you win the World Series, you go to everything. You just go and get applauded everywhere. Yeah, I actually think the parade, though, is too soon. I know it's a Friday parade. It's probably sick. But it's like, you probably want a couple days to just keep partying

11:21and then do the parade. But Friday parade is awesome. Halloween weekend, Friday parade. couple days to just keep partying and then do the parade but friday parade is awesome halloween weekend friday parade yeah they probably didn't do they probably did it because it's halloween on saturday like we like we we want to celebrate the brewers but we also have kids that need to go trick-or-treating the uh the the are we are we officially so this is the end of the 2026 championships right like we're gonna get the next one we're gonna i guess the dream and valkyrie we gotta wait for that and mls we'll talk to robert lewandowski but can we officially say that 2026 was the was the craziest year in giving out championships because here's

11:55what we had we had usa team usa win their first men's gold medal in 46 years uh arsenal who just lost to fleetwood town which was hilarious uh won their first epl title in 22 years trying me hardest the the carolina hurricanes won their first nhl title in 20 years not that big of a gap the brewers won their first title ever the knicks won their first title in 53 years michigan basketball won their first title in 53 years. Michigan basketball won their first title in 37 years. Indiana football won the national title. And then to put a cherry on top, Sam Darnold won a Super Bowl in his elite. That's pretty nuts. And the Philadelphia Waterdogs became the first multi first multi pll championship winners i don't know

12:46if that's true either but it sounds sounds good yeah it sounds really good i feel like we got one i feel like the archers are some some some fun the redwoods probably some bullshit four yeah yeah but it's a crazy year it's been a crazy year it's awesome i i love i love how chaotic it's been um for all the talk of you know it's uh you only a handful of teams have a chance to win at the start of the year. It's fun to mix it up, to get some new blood in there. I looked up what we were talking about the other night, Big Cat, that the Brewers, they swing at 27.3% of first pitches. So that's the second lowest rate in all of baseball. That's what they do. But when they swing, they hit 377 on swings when

13:28they do take a crack at the first pitch and that is the best in baseball yeah and they let the ball come in deep in the zone they hit it opposite field yeah it's just big hits after big hits we will by the way i there was a lot of people i i i appreciate the awls being like you have to have yelich on the podcast today. I'm going to let him be drunk for a little bit. We will absolutely try to get Christian Yelich on the podcast next week at some point when he checks his phone and wakes up. Because we do want to. He has been one of our friends and a good part of, actually a great part of the history of this show. And so we want to give him his flowers i am very happy for him he's you know he he's been there for the longest he you know

14:12basically they went through a rebuild with him there with him the centerpiece he became the first captain in brewers history and then he delivers them you know he's he's getting a little older in his career he delivers them a world series. And up until Hank mentioned that he hadn't hit any RBIs, he then just went and got hot. You're welcome. Yeah. Zach, last thing about the World Series. I feel like we said all of this year and even late last year, Brewers never lose. Oh, no. I was going to ask a question, but I appreciate you just going with the statement there. Now, you aren't a baseball fan. Fair. Super fair. There's definitely guys who watch more baseball than me. Yeah, you don't watch any baseball.

14:51So you're not a Rays fan. Never pretend to be a Rays fan. You're just a guy who grew up around that area. That is true. Around Rays. You grew up amongst Rays. Yeah. Amongst a plethora of racists. Do you have anything to say for the fact that it was like 90% Brewers fans on Wednesday night in the trop? I-4 East, man. Okay, but so I-4 East doesn't exist for Brewers fans. It might be a little different if you're taking Ubers from the airports, you know? Oh, so are they landing somewhere? Are they landing on the other side of I-4 that's a good point also no maybe there's a shuttle there could from the airport airport travel is different than domestic travel usually uh or you just take your cab to the brewers and say they travel well yeah first of all fair yeah

15:37zach you fill out that seat nicely you look good um second of all you're absolutely right it's the caravan situation they got sprinter vans they got the airport shuttles so they don't have to worry about traffic that's why they were there yeah a lot of families do have sedans as a like a four to five seater if we're doing shuttles who knows how many seats not when they were doing the trophy ceremony though it was kind of crazy because it was not close your eyes you thought that it was in Milwaukee. Yeah. Big time. Max, any last thoughts on the baseball season? You are a baseball guy. By the way, I had Max. It was awesome. Yesterday, I brought my seven-year-old to do some practice, and Max gave him some hitting lessons.

16:16It was fucking sick. He's a lefty. Max is a lefty. Try my best. It was very fun. Yeah. No, Max is a good guy. I've never given a hitting lesson before, so it was an adjustment. The Brewers are the best team in baseball. They were the best team in baseball all year. There's nothing really more to say. I've said everything about the Brewers. They didn't change anything the last few games. They just continued to play a Brewer ball, except for when Bowers dropped that one ball. But other than that, they were the best team in baseball. The best team in baseball deserved to win. Yeah, I was really – so I wanted more baseball. I wanted to watch more World Series. But also, did you guys see Ken Rosenthal's question?

16:55Insane. Insane. Did you see it, PFT? Yep. Who did he ask to? Walls? I think DeLuca. Oh, okay. So he asked a Rays player, after the game four win, is it good to win this one so you could feel like you belong? And he just responded, that's a very disrespectful question. No, it was Walls. Crazy, crazy question. So I was like, this would be such a funny ken rosenthal story arc if the rays went on to win like dude what do you ask you're asking a professional who's in the world series a team that won the al yeah that's the that's the worst part like that question would kind of make sense if it was like a wild card team that's yeah way in yeah like an 82 win wild card team they were the best team in the al

17:46in the regular season and in the playoffs how can you ask if you think that they belong i don't want to get aggregated again with an entire week of me bashing kendra i'll say it that was a journalist coming to his defense yeah and and the fact that he's sitting there like lurking in the background with his little shitty bow tie. Yeah. And that like smirk on his face, like like a puppet version of Pee Wee Herman asking him, hey, he's like looking down. He's like, oh, you poor little thing. Give me a fucking break, Ken. Yeah. Also, shout out that I played it for the boys. PFTL sent it to you after. But there was the postgame news. Local news is always so funny there was this woman who uh i'm sorry yeah yeah she was yeah so people who didn't see that

18:33right now yeah so she would she pulled up a picture they they uh the the reporter came out and she pulled up a picture of her and her dad when she was like three years old and she's like i'm just thinking about my dad right now this is us at the brewer like a brewer's game 20 years ago and the reporter was like so you know oh like that's very nice where's your dad she's like oh he's in waukesha i just couldn't make it home tonight 20 minutes away yeah uh uh sneaky funny part about that was she just tossed in that her dad's single yeah my single dad so ladies if if you're uh if you're interested she was just like yeah i wish i was with him tonight couldn't make it home in time 20 minutes yeah what do you think about pat murphy uh when who was he talking to which

19:14player was it um the guy that was on the yankees uh he was talking to bowers bowers yeah yeah and he was he i think the quote was you're gonna be a rich fucker just remember when you were on that horse shit yankees team and you guys were all playing for yourself just remember say this is the way we used to do it yeah so bowers is about to get paid uh yeah i i don't like pat murphy but he i'll say this that is who pat murphy is and he doesn't change like that is you know the whole underdog like where the you know so that's basically what his message is and he it works he's an incredible manager like it's clear that his message works and you know he obviously the the dynamic of the fact that the Cubs stole Craig Council and then Pat Murphy took over and took him to World Series

20:03I will push back a little on that. I think there were only six guys on the last postseason roster that Craig Council managed for the Brewers. So it's a different team. There's a lot of new players on this World Series team. But Pat Murphy's an awesome manager. He knows how to motivate these guys. And I think that was just him not breaking character. Like he didn't break. He basically was like yeah go get paid like you you know this is what a real team is yeah i think that's one of those things that would be uh like completely appropriate and and very very normal if there wasn't a camera and a microphone on him yeah but the fact that we heard it then it becomes like a spectacle in of of itself and it was kind of weird to hear that, but well,

20:46so I think he's obviously a great manager and the guys love him. Yeah. So he, he, like, I saw some people bashing Pat Murphy for that and I like as much as I would love to pile on Pat Murphy, I think that that interaction is exactly why the brewers were where they are because of his motivating tactics. He is a little bit of a hard ass, but his guys will die for him. why the Brewers were where they are because of his motivating tactics. He is a little bit of a hard ass, but his guys will die for him. And like, that was his message and he can't break the message. So I had no problem with it. It's like, you can't, you can't be like, oh, how could he say that? No, he can say that because that's how they're there.

21:18That's how they're celebrating the world series. Pat Murphy's an incredible motivator and manager pulled all the right strings the entire post season. That's the type of guy he is. He's fucking, he's and manager, pulled all the right strings the entire postseason. That's the type of guy he is. He's fucking awesome at his job. Yeah. All right. That was World Series. Thursday Night Football, real quick. We're going to get to Jeffrey Simmons when PFT is back in studio and then the week preview, because I'm obviously very excited about Jeffrey Simmons. Thursday Night Football, can we please ban NFC South teams from playing on primetime games? Yeah, a motion to include the NFC East as well? Yeah, motion approved.

21:53I disagree, though. I think the Falcons in primetime are fun. Yeah, the Falcons are fun. The Packers are good. They're going to get Micah Parsons back they're good it like you the only thing that I the Bryce Young I don't know what the Packers are doing I think it's actually honestly credit to Jonathan Gannon as defensive coordinator because this is now two games that we've watched in prime time where the team playing the Packers feel like they have zero ability to pick up a blitz. So that's clearly a defensive coordinator. Like Bryce Young just was never comfortable. And I'm talking obviously about the Cowboys game where Dak was just, it felt like there was just blitzes every time, and they just never knew where they were coming from.

22:39And he always had a rusher in his lap. That's what Bryce Young was dealing with tonight. And sometimes it wasn't even on a blitz. Sometimes it was – there was a couple times they rushed three, they rushed four, and they were just getting to him. And when they were getting to him, all you have to do is just grab his shoulder and Bryce Young's going to – he's going to fall down. So he was uncomfortable for most of the night. And Bryce Young, he's definitely improved. He's definitely way, way, way beyond what we thought he was going to be in his first two seasons. But still, when he does have games like the first couple quarters first three quarters um he's a big bummer to watch oh yeah he's not playing well well because he looks tiny he looks

23:14tiny when he when no pass rush is getting home to bryce young he like he's like six inches shorter that's a fact yeah medically it is um and then in terms of the uh the packers yeah they're gonna get better and golden is just he'd probably be up there close to jsn numbers if he could catch like 75 of the passes thrown his way we also should mention christian watson with he literally just went attitude error like wwe monday night raw the the fact and and look i it's out it seemed like he had a chest injury so it's like gotta go get it checked out i don't think i've ever seen that though where it's like a guy goes to the hospital then comes back gets out of the ambulance i joked at the time i was like i half

23:55expected vince mcmahon to be driving that ambulance or the ambulance to blow up he comes out of the ambulance comes out of the tunnel gets back in in the game. It looked like a prop ambulance. You're right. And the lighting in the tunnel, it did look like Monday Night Raw. Yeah, so he goes down the tunnel. I think, did he still have the bracelet on? I was hoping he would keep the hospital bracelet on because that would fuck the rock. You know what? So he goes. Yeah. Not only that, but like the ride back to the stadium, he was riding shotgun in the ambulance. Yeah. And so he gets out shoulder pads on by the way yeah he just popped in for an x-ray put him back on came back to the stadium uh hops

24:32out of the ambulance runs onto the field uh that was awesome and that was great steven chay aptly pointed out in the gambling cave there's no way he could have done the paperwork that fast which i agree with like the i think that maybe this was uh like pro bono at the hospital i don't know but that paperwork sucks like do you think he do you think in his sock like joe horn or joe horn had it under the field goal post but do you think or maybe it was ocho siku had a sharpie do you think he had his uh his his insurance card in his sock to to yeah yeah uh max i want i want to let max rant real quick because Max had a very good point about the end of the game. Max, would you like to? I don't want to steal your point because it was what about the Panthers about both teams.

25:16The way that game ended, it acted like the Panthers were winning the game and the Packers were losing the game. Correct. That the Panthers were down two scores with, I think, eight minutes to go and wouldn't stop running the ball to Chuba Hubbard for three yards up the middle. And then taking their good-ass time to get the next playoff. They had zero sense of urgency. And then when I thought it was all done and over, LeFleur just throws three Hail Marys when he gets the ball back, loses 15 yards, and stops the clock on every play. Yeah. It made no sense. It was crazy. What happened at the end of that game. They almost blew it. Like, the Packers almost blew that game. They tried to blow that game.

25:59Yeah. It was crazy. And then he wouldn't try and kick the field goal for the over, which pissed me off. Yeah. Yeah. Which probably would have been a move. I mean goal for the over, which pissed me off. Yeah. Yeah. Which is probably the right move. I mean, they got 20 yards of field position. I know, but smack is so bad. Josh Jacobs, they're just like, we're going to keep running him, and he's going to continue to suck, but we're going to keep doing it, and eventually you'll just wear down. I was not impressed with Josh Jacobs tonight. Well, also, can we just say? The handcuff. Absolute piece of shit to do the handcuff celebration for his arrest for domestic violence as a td celebration you're a piece of shit yeah

26:33what the fuck like that's crazy yeah crazy guy bad guy you didn't want to see the ones that ray caruth had planned but that was this one was bad bad guy he kind of made himself and he's going to try to play like I'm the victim card. Yeah, that's exactly what he's doing. I mean, he didn't show remorse when he came back, and he was just like, remember, I read the quote where he was like, six games feels like it was a lot. It's like, dude, how about you say sorry and be like, I'm thankful that I actually can, this league, if you're good, it doesn't matter how bad of a person you are. I do think they have to do something about the other guy that's known as Smack on that team. The kicker is not – he's going to be a problem.

27:16He is going to cost them a playoff game unless they make a change. Yeah. No, he's really bad. He's really, really bad. All right, anything else? Yeah, Billy Nap he's really bad. He's really, really bad. All right. Anything else? Yeah. Billy Napier is fucking insane. He's actually an insane person. Stop playing Thursday Night Football. You lost the poop. The poop curse is upon us. But also, like, more importantly, I would like to apologize. Hand up to any Florida Gators out there, because I did not understand how bad you guys have had it the last four years. Because he is – like the way that he coaches, he gaslights everybody. He is like – he's coaching and he's making us think that we're all insane

27:58because he's so confidently doing the wrong things, and it makes no sense, any of it. It's an out-of-body experience he should be arrested yeah i don't know i i've never seen coach coach like that and then i i hit up jacob and i was like hey is this like par for the course and jacob's like yeah that's pretty much it jamie you had three touchdowns on their first three drives they went up 21 to nothing and then did jack shit for the rest of the game yeah it was every other drive was three and out to nowhere it was it was terrible football and then the decision making at the end of the game i i need to go back and re-watch it um but it is well hank you were watching i'm just i'm blown away it was crazy yeah jamie just couldn't they were just throwing

28:41interceptions left and right yeah i wasn't i was watching it a little bit, and every time I looked over, Jamie would throw another interception, and then I lied about Troy, and then I couldn't believe that they threw a Hail Mary. And then they almost got it, too. Yeah, they almost caught the Hail Mary. Yeah. No, but Hank, the interceptions were not great, but that's not nearly the problem. The problem is Billy Napier is actually a fucking psychopath. Yeah. Okay. the problem the problem is billy napier is actually a fucking psychopath yeah uh okay we're gonna take a break and then kick it to ourselves in studio jeffrey simmons live reaction because we taped earlier in the morning so it's right after it happened uh and then we're gonna get

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31:46It's always Reese's. That's the answer. The greatest candy ever created. It's Reese's weekend. Reese's is the official candy partner of Barstool Sports. Go get Reese's wherever you shop. Okay, boys. Week eight in the NFL. Before we do the game, should we talk about Jeffrey Simmons to the Bears? That just happened. Yeah. Jeffrey Simmons to the Bears. The Bears trade. Yeah. Jeffrey Simmons to the Bears. The Bears trade their first-round pick this year and next year. All in by Ryan Poles. I love the move. I know that I'm dealing with the allegations of fleece online, and I get it. I'm going to defend the Bears' move. But I truly believe what I'm about to say. Jeffrey Simmons is an absolute game wrecker.

32:27Top three at his position changes everyone around him. The Bears had a weakness in their defense, especially run defense. They made it a strength. And here's where I really come down with the two first round picks. You were going to have to draft defensive line in the next two drafts, at least this draft, but most likely the next two drafts, because we all knew it was a weakness. It's been a weakness for a long time. The whole plan and the build of Ryan Poles was they built up the offense with a lot of really young, good talent. They built up the offensive line. Caleb's on his rookie deal. This next draft was going to be the defensive draft. That's why I always said it was the year before the year.

33:11You were hoping to get a player half as good as Jeffrey Simmons in the first round next year. He's a lead. So that's why you can't draft guys like Jeffrey Simmons. They're so fucking good, and the draft is a crapshoot. So I know it's too expensive. I do not care. I love what the Bears are doing. All in. And you have him for the next, I think he just signed a new deal, and he's the type of position that he's not going to be bad all of a sudden. So he's 29 years old. The deal, I think, was three years, 100 mil, something like that. So you will be paying him a lot, and you gave up a lot to get him. But when he's at his best, he's a dominant force, and he would be worth it. He is the kind of player that if you're going to be playing well into December

33:47or through January into February, you'd like to have a big guy that is more than capable of stopping the run. That's exactly what he does. He makes everyone else good. The defensive line is not a really good unit. He now makes it a good unit because everyone else now gets single teams. We were talking about it because it's been crazy when the Commanders traded Chase Young and Montez Sweat. I was saying that Montez Sweat's a better player than Chase Young at the time. And now Montez Sweat has kind of taken a step back on the Bears. But we think that he is actually a really good player if he's not asked to be the best player on the defensive line. So I think that will make the rest of the defense better for sure i just love also like watching a team with a sick defensive tackle

34:32is such a different watch like i think about one of my one of my favorite bears akim hicks like when you watched him play football and every like the the guy who just basically takes up the entire middle of the offensive line and just absorbs it, and your linebackers are firing and everything. It's just a fun watch when you have a guy like that. Can I poke a small hole in this? Yeah. Can I play devil's advocate? Yeah. All right, so Jeffrey Simmons, great player, great talent. You see him on all the up-and-coming lists, all the top lists of guys that do his job. He is a Mississippi State guy. Do you think that do his job. He is a Mississippi State guy. Do you think that if he moves to Chicago

35:08as a Mississippi State guy, he'll start to make everything about himself and won't actually raise the floor of his teammates around him? Might not even learn the guy's name. Yeah, he'll do the Jeffrey Simmons show. Yeah. I could see it happening. That is a possibility. I just wanted to say I think it's a good it's a good move as a uh as a future ticket holder in the chicago bears i like this and i think it's a good deal for the titans too yeah you know the titans have to rebuild and they've they've been kind of in a rebuild so yeah it's an absolutely good deal for the titans i i listen i get it uh there could be no good deals online ever we joke about about it all the time. So I personally, I'm okay with paying a very expensive price for a very good player.

35:53This is going to be a trade that will be impossible to accurately evaluate until, I'm going to say, three years from now. And if the Bears have won a Super Bowl, then it was worth it. I would say if you haven't won a Super Bowl, then it was worth it. I would say if you haven't won a Super Bowl, then fleece. Yeah. If you give up two first-round picks, that's the expectation. That's the bar for success. Yeah, absolutely. And I do think that it puts you in that conversation. And you go all in when you have your quarterback on the rookie deal. All in my ass. You do. You have to go all in. I love the deal. I love Jeffrey Simmons. It's going to be fun to watch uh so i'm excited i i thought i could win the super bowl before jeffrey simmons

36:30now i really do so uh okay should we get into week eight in the nfl yeah we have some bye weeks saints giants 49ers texans are on a bye this week matthew judon can spend more time with his families yes yes that's important time of year for that um the i i i always look at the bi-weeks just like how is this going to dictate the like the slate not having the 49ers play football is definitely gonna hurt us a little yeah like we didn't have the bills last week yep and it was like oh i noticed an absence of the bills but it was great it was great not having the commanders of the chargers yes true and it will be great not having to watch i actually don't really want to watch the texans and the saints have been a bummer yep say it's

37:13been a bummer okay so speaking of the bills first game up ravens bills bills minus three and a half over under is 53 and a half let me actually pull up because the line has might have changed i think lamar is going to play i think so yeah i think lamar is going to play i'm excited to watch this game this game is getting sound i would agree you guys all agree yeah this is the crown jewel this is the game feels like uh the ravens are kind of in oh it's actually three minus three now because of lamar News, over under 54.5. Feels like the Ravens are in a put-up-or-shut-up kind of game because if they fall to 4-4 in a very tough AFC, they lose to the Bills, what's happening now? Someone in the AFC North, no matter what,

38:02after this weekend is going to be 6-2 because the Browns and the Steelers play each other. Right. So if they're 4-4 and it's like, what the fuck, they've already lost to the Browns, they've already lost to the Bengals. This is kind of a back-against-the-wall game. It is. So the Bills' defense has not been great. They've given up 30 points in four games this season, and they're 4-0 in those games, which is kind of crazy. That is crazy. Because if you look across the rest of the league, if your team gives up 30 points or more, the rest of the league is 8-47, and the Bills are 4-0. That is a Josh Allen stat. I think Ed Oliver is coming back this week. That would be huge. So that would help. That would be very big.

38:38Buffalo has also recently kind of owned this rivalry. They've won four out of five against Baltimore. Remember the game last year, week one game that was crazy? The big comeback? I think what we're seeing, I don't want to completely write the Ravens off, but my thought has been that what we're seeing from the Ravens has been, you know, historically, the fourth quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense, I don't know, maybe Mentor can turn things around, but the defense does not look good.

39:18Yeah. And they're getting old. I thought that Merlin Humphrey retired like three years ago. Yeah. But that's just because he was doing like a whole lot of podcasts yeah and anytime you get a a starter doing a lot of podcasting you think to yourself like this guy's he's he's pre-retired yes but he's still playing and he has not been good this year no he's not i uh your point about the rams that you made two weeks ago like hey you can't really fuck around much more that's how i feel about the raven yeah where it's like i don't think the ravens are a bad team they just have not given themselves much leeway to fuck around anymore because the afc is going to be very tight the afc north specifically yeah has a lot of teams that you know all three all four teams are above 500

40:00and you have the bills this week and the jaguars next week and again maybe you have some games coming after that but those are two massive games that you can't fuck around with and the one thing i will say though but in the ravens favor is lamar yes he misses some games he he's very confusing sometimes with his health with his injury status but when he decides that it's time for him to come back when he feels 100 he usually knows his body pretty well and when he gets back he reminds the world oh yeah this is why lamar jackson's so good yeah uh dj moore should be back uh so that will be a boost to the bills offense which has been phenomenal they're just a fun watch they just score points and give up points what more could you ask for yep it's like really

40:40they're the perfect team to to to bet on to watch Like, hey, we're not going to get any stops, and we're going to, every time we have the ball, we're going to go down the field. Yeah. Okay, Hank, I don't want to bring up Hungry Dog, because you've had a tough Hungry Dog, but is the Ravens? It's been a good year. No, you haven't won. We've been close. Yeah, close doesn't count. All it takes is one weekend, though. It's true. That's the beauty of the hungry dog. I do like the Ravens this week. You do? There's not a lot of picks. I have another gross one, but I do like the Ravens. I'm excited for the gross one. What's the spread here? The spread is three. Three. Okay. Three. Yeah, it's three now.

41:20It went down from three and a half to three. Okay. You have a gross one. Mm-hmm. It went down from three and a half to three. Okay. You have a gross one. All right. The other big, big game. Well, I guess there's actually a few big games here, but one of the other big games in the early window. Vikings at Lions. Lions minus three over under is 46 and a half. This is a fun game because it's a what are these teams type of game i like i like the lions in this game a lot okay i do can i can i i did as well and then i had a memory which i don't know if you guys even have like thought about because it does feel like what was even that i know what you're talking about yeah the christmas day game last year it was it was a bloodbath the lions were the team that everyone

42:10was like don't let them get in they're like hi if they can win and the vikings were playing for nothing and brian flores butt fucked him yeah and i am you know why i'm also thinking about it because i think i want to say the line the say the Vikings were wearing the weird helmets. Yeah. Right? Weren't they wearing, like, all whites or something? It was something weird on Christmas Day. I remember that. Was it Max Rosmer? No. Was it? I don't know. It might have been. I actually think it was Max Rosmer. I just remember it as being the Van Ginkle game. Yeah, I think it might have been Max Rosmer. Was it Max? Yeah, it was Rosmer. It was, yes. Okay. Because we were like, Max Rosmer against against the lions there's no way the lions can win and then brian flores took his

42:50dick out and just slapped him around so that's what's in my head pft that's what has me scared brian flores is he's just on a completely different level every game we say that he's like done he's doing things that no coordinator's done before and then every week he finds a way to one-up it. Last week they blitzed 85% of the time, which is crazy. But the thing is, the Lions are very good against the blitz. Yeah. That's the only thing. Okay, but all right. I was going to say, I got a couple numbers. Against the blitz, the Lions are eighth in terms of lowest sack percentage. They're fifth in terms of lowest sack percentage their fifth in terms of lowest pressure rate allowed their seventh in terms of yards per attempt granted they have not been

43:31getting blitzed by the minnesota vikings that's what i was gonna say they've been getting blitzed by teams that are not the vikings which they're worse at blitzing but it is uh something that the lions have seen and that they've showed that at least they know what to do and they can handle it. I feel like against the blitz numbers just have to be categories in two tranches. It's got to be against the blitz, against the Brian Flores blitz. Because everything we've heard, everything we've read, everything that anyone has said, it's not that he just blitzes. It's that he brings it from exotic places. He brings it so often. He brings it when you're not supposed to, that it just kind of wears you down.

44:07So Max Brosner, by the way, had 51 passing yards in that game. Hell yeah. They won 23 to 10. Hell yeah. So there's, I mean, Kyler Murray. That's in my head. That's killing me. We're forgetting that Kyler Murray is a massive upgrade. To Max Brosner? To Max Brosner, yes. How many yards did you just say? 51. 51. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Ky you just say? 51. 51. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Kyler, he's not making mistakes. He hasn't looked great. No, he has not. Although Max Brosner did average eight yards a carry against the Lions last year. Did you know that Kyler Murray is the only quarterback in the history of the NFL to be the starting quarterback for the last remaining unbeaten team with two different franchises.

44:48Whoa. Think about that. The Cardinals? The Cardinals in 2021, I believe. That's right. Yeah. Don't ask what happened after that. That was the first Kingsbury. Yeah, that was King Tober hit, and then everything went to shit. Hmm. Okay. That's something to think about. hmm just something to think about that is something to think about that's not a fact i would have uh guessed by the way did you guys see uh jmo i think we got to bet if we're gonna bet anything it's got to be jmo because the fit that not only the fit but did you see the uh the sandwich of money yep sandwich cash was pretty cool we should we should sell that in part of my cheesesteak. Yeah. Cash sandwich. He was just a stack of hundreds in between white bread with a fork in it.

45:33I loved it. And I love the pants. The pants were my favorite, though. Yeah. He's just wearing pants with the word sex all over them. I heard that those pants might cost like $20,000. Oh, wow. Okay. I feel like you can make your own sex pants for way less. And he pants might cost like $20,000. Oh, wow. Okay. I feel like you could make your own sex pants for way less. And he's just in a gas station, too. That's the best part. Half of his pics on it, I actually went through his Instagram last night. Half of his pictures are just him in a convenience store. Because the guy just loves convenience stores. That's great. That's great. Alright, do you like the Vikings here, Hank? No. It is such an do you like the Vikings here, Hank? No.

46:05It is such an interesting game because the Vikings are, I mean, they're 30th in offense, EPA. They're first in defense. The Lions have all the offensive weapons. The Lions defense has been bad, but Brian Branch is back. Kirby Joseph, maybe. Yeah. Is he going to play this weekend? I don't know. Because the defense is getting better. Yeah, man. Yeah. Man. Okay. I think I lean. I don't know. Actually, this is one of those games that I feel like no matter which way I pick, I'm going to be wrong. Kirby Joseph did return to practice, but no decision on whether or not he's going to play. So the defense is improving. And I've been thinking more about the decision Dan Campbell made this week. And I think Big Cat's point, the more I think about it, makes sense.

46:52Yeah. That if you're going to give the ball to the other team, you might as well give them the ball closer to your goal line and further away. I understand that. But then I also just keep hearing people be like, this is garbage. The analytics have ruined the game that I used to love. Like, all the old heads are saying that. And in this case, that's pretty much the entire argument. And they also might have a point, too. It just doesn't feel right for some reason. Maybe that's just me struggling with Oh, it definitely doesn't feel right, but that's kind of the beauty of it. That's kind of what Dan Campbell, like, that's where I love watching him because he's just like, you think I'm a meatball?

47:32I'm going to do things my way. And, yeah, I don't know. I think he just has so much trust in his offense. Like, I was watching, I don't know, it came on my algorithm. It was from, I i think last year remember the lions packers game last year where the pack the lions could have kicked a field goal to win the game with like 50 seconds left and it was fourth and one and he decided to go for it yeah instead so that they had zero seconds left and everyone's like what the fuck but like listening to him and golf talk they were mic'd up for this. The confidence they both have in each other, it's crazy. So I think that's just really, they confidently thought they were going to get that one yard. And they knew that the downside, they could live with it.

48:17And the fact that it's Dan Campbell, that he's doing it, and that he always does stuff like this, it's better than if one coach just decided to do that. Because that guy would probably get fired if it didn't work out with dan cable at least he's got a track record and reasons why he does stuff and so yeah i guess just kind of stick with who you brought to the dance and that's kind of what dan campbell's always done so i get it but that's the one example where i just think yeah yeah i just think to myself like that just doesn't feel right yeah that you do it it doesn't feel right but my whole it. It doesn't feel right. But my whole thing with the aggressiveness, don't be aggressive, be aggressive,

48:51just consistency. Be aggressively you and don't waver and change who you are and cower in moments because that's when you lose the edge. Don't switch it up and pick a favorite for the hungry dog. Right. This is who you've been. Right. It should always have a plus sign next. Don't change who you are. for the hungry dog. Right. Like, this is who you've been. Right. It should always have a plus sign next. Always an underdog. Don't change who you are. Always an underdog. Yeah. Be your, as my good friend Matt Nagy used to say, be you. P.U. He should write it to himself. Okay. Titans at Bengals. By the way, Zach,ime in anytime because you are back I think we said it at the beginning of the show How are you feeling?

49:30I feel good, I'm glad to be back No one gets more sick than you I'm good for once a year I don't mean that in a bad way Because I do actually You texting me being like Hey, I'm so sorry for being sick was a crazy text. You don't have to apologize for being sick. Well, I was just making sure there wasn't anything, anything needed to be done outside that could be done sick. I got a question for you, Zach, because you hit us up on Sunday and you said that you were sick and that you couldn't come in, which understand, well, we don't want you to come in. We would get mad if you did come in while you're sick and then you said that the fever broke and you would be fine and then you missed the next couple

50:07days which again if you were sick i think that's whoa you made whoa whoa wait wait wait wait no i'm saying you made the right choice i'm just wondering if you lied to us initially on sunday about not being sick anymore or if you were uncomfortable saying i'm still sick because we want you to be able to tell us when you're still sick. No, I didn't have a fever anymore. I was just keeping updates. I feel like I made sure to go through proper channels, tested yesterday, all good. Okay. Tested for what? I took a COVID test and a flu A and B test. Wow. Do you still have COVID tests? It was like a combo test. Oh. Which I was a little hesitant because it's just, oh, you can jam all that in one test.

50:49But yeah, there's like a beaker and stuff attached. It kind of felt like a science experiment. Shane's never passed the combo test. No. No. Not once. Okay. Titans Bengals. Bengals are now 11 and a half point favorites because of the Jeffrey Simmons news. Over under is 46 and a half. I don't really want to spend much time on this game i just think the bengals should win this game and they should win it easily and we should move on i agree the titans are trading they traded their best player today they're basically saying we're we're going for the future which they now have four first round picks the next two years yeah it could be a case where everyone like a big letdown spot because everyone realizes we're officially waving the white flag.

51:26But also, it's also putting everybody in that locker room on notice. Yeah. Like, do you want to get out? Jeffrey Simmons got out. Maybe if you play as good as Jeffrey Simmons. We'll let you free. Yeah, you'll earn your way out of Tennessee. Also, what you put on film right now, it is kind of defining for you if you want to continue playing in the NFL next year. But yeah, that's more of something that you get when you have an interim coach, not necessarily starting a fire sale. So I like the Bengals. So we are in week eight. The Titans have played how many games? Have they played? Do they have their bye yet? What's the Titans record? They're one in five. Is that right? One in six. One in six. one in six.

52:05So they played all seven games. Uh, will this be the week that Kim Ward gets a thousand yards right now? He's at 867 yards and eight touchdowns. Yes. Because I, I expect them to be playing from a deficit for most of the game. Okay. So I think they're going to have to throw it. Also, those were JSN stats because that was going viral uh all week where uh this is from patrick simpson he said someone said cam ward stats look like j and jsn stats but seeing it by side by side is nuts and it really is yeah cam ward has 998 yards four touchdowns jackson smith najigba has 867 yards eight touchdowns it's like what the fuck that's wild it's wild yeah he's only he's only 100 yards behind the uh starting quarterback

52:54do you think that most titans fans are they've they've had the conversation with themselves are we at that point or there's still room to go i think for some of them if you're if you were a true cam war day one guy, you're probably thinking to yourself, you're looking up all the stats for every quarterback that was bad through the first two seasons. Yeah. And, and convincing yourself that like cam is still that guy. I I'd say it's probably reached the tipping point where over half the fan base might kind of sadly understand that he might not be the guy. I think the trade of Jeffrey Simmons basically tells you they probably don't think he's the guy. Right. Because they're compiling assets to maybe potentially get the guy.

53:33Right. Right? Yep. So it just has never, it just hasn't looked, I don't know. I haven't watched him and ever been like, oh my God. And the thing is, we don't know what it would have looked like if he went to a stable franchise. For sure. We'll never know. Absolutely. Until he goes to the Vikings, and the Vikings trade him, and then he wins the Super Bowl. Yep. That sounds like it's right. Yeah, the Bengals are really, really good. By the way, what was Dexter Lawrence trade for? Because that actually is a good comp. I know he was probably less because he's a little older, I think. Because if you ask any Bengals fan would they do the Dexter Lawrence trade again oh no he's actually a little young he's 28 would they do the Dexter Lawrence trade

54:13again they definitely say yes right yeah I think the he's been awesome that the defense has made is exactly what they need yeah flip side Flip side would be Quinn and Williams. Yep. Yeah, true. Quinn and Williams for sure. But you got to get the good ones. What? You got to get the good defensive tackles. He's good. Yeah. I think it was just the— Oh, they had to give him a contract extension. That's right. Okay. So just one—yeah. Yeah. Okay. But yeah, I mean, that's—Dexter Lawrence has been a game wrecker. He's been awesome. So— Yeah, it was just one yeah yeah okay but yeah i mean that's that's he dexter lord's been a game wrecker he's been awesome so yes it was just one pick got it uh all right next game cardinals

54:55cowboys cardinals plus six and a half at dallas over under 54 and a half uh anything on this game um cowboys are gonna look good and everyone's gonna like you said they're gonna the conversation 154.5. Anything on this game? Cowboys are going to look good, and everyone's going to, like you said, the conversation is going to start happening. Well, that's what I was thinking, but then I also remembered last year. Remember that? It was a Monday night game? Yes. Cardinals and the Cowboys? Yes. Was that one of the weird animation games, if I remember? Yep. The Cardinals could come out and shock you. I don't think it's going to happen this week. I think this is going to be the Cowboys look right.

55:30Everything's great in Dallas. Jerry's happy. They just beat the, the remaining skeleton of the Eagles and the Cardinals. And everyone's thinking, okay, this is the year that Dak puts it all together. We go on a deep run and then reality is going to smack. I do think I was thinking about it more because I agree with you on the surface of it of the conversation about the Cowboys making this deep run is crazy. I do think the Cowboys, not to steal your Steelers, but I think they could win one playoff game. They've done it before. And they would be home. It would be a home game. We've seen that before. Yeah, for sure. They could definitely done it before. Well, and they would be home. Right. It would be a home game.

56:06We've seen that before. Yeah, for sure. They could definitely lose it, too. But I could see them winning a playoff game and then just getting thrashed by someone in the top. What was your reaction to seeing Jerry Jones and Stephen A. Smith buddy-buddy? I feel like I've seen it a bunch of times. They just do it all the time. Yeah. He's like, Stephen A. will just buddy-buddy with any type of power. Whenever I see that, I just think to myself, like, this is, Stephen A. Smith is just laying the groundwork right now for, he's not actually a Jerry Jones fan. He's laying the groundwork for an elaborate troll. I think Jerry Jones is a Stephen A. fan. Yes. Because Jerry Jones is definitely one of those guys where in in credit to him he doesn't care whether you're saying bad things good things

56:53whatever if you're talking about the cowboys he's happy it does not matter like he he wants he wants the cowboys to lead every show and you could bash him but they're leading the show yeah i'm just saying steven a is about to break out the cowboy hat soon yeah and then we're going to go through that whole song and dance again um yeah i put it like 50 50 cowboys don't have to be good to win the nfc east that's the thing is like they they could look like they're pulling it all together but in reality they might just be winning that division here's a weird stat dak prescott is one in 10 against the spread against the nC West since 2020. Now, the NFC West has had some really good teams, but like you said, the Cardinals last year beat them.

57:34Jacoby. Cardinals also used to be in the NFC East. Yeah. What a weird time that was. Fuck Michael Bidwell. We'll just throw that in there. People are real mad about the casitas. Yeah. I didn't realize that the casitas were a hot button issue, but it sounds like some fuckery. They moved the cheap, basically where fans could get cheap, low level seats close to the field. They're basically like, haha, fuck you. Yeah. And I think the way they did it, too, is they moved him out without basically giving him an option for better seats. So, yeah, the guy's a bad owner. I just can't stand owners that don't want to own it. They don't want to win. They don't want to own a team. They just own a team, and they try to grab, squeeze every dollar out of it.

58:20Give the fans something else. If you're not going to sell a team, hire someone who actually can run it. That would be my other thing. Hire someone and get out of the way. When they had Bruce Arians running the show, that's when it was at its best. Because Bruce Arians is probably not afraid to tell Bidwell, fuck off. Yeah. Bad guy. Okay. Let's see. Raiders, Jets, memes. Geno revenge game. Yeah. Is it revenge? What did you say,ets, memes. Geno revenge game. Yeah. Is it revenge? What did you say, PFC? Is that a revenge game? Oh, yeah. Basically, it ruined his career. Okay. Well, the Jets kind of ruined his career, too, because he got punched in the face. No, that was IK. But are you saying that the Raiders ruined his career so badly that his only choice was

59:03to go and play for the Jets? Yes. Oh. Okay. Yeah. I mean, i can't argue with that and that also that just leads me into my other theory that gino is gun shy this year and he's trying to play for a contract like if you look at his stats he's actually having a really good year but if you look at the film if you look at the film he's so gun shy he's not trying he's trying to purposely not throw any interceptions. Yeah. Even though he did do that last week. But he's only got two interceptions on the year. He led interceptions on the Raiders last year. He's looking at a contract to be the Titans quarterback next year. Yeah. A bridge quarterback. And then he has a good year. They have a young guy that they want to move in and start ahead of him,

59:46and then a team like the Jets picks him up after playing for the Titans. Essentially, yeah. Okay. That's actually not a bad business model, if that's what Geno's up to. He's kind of got it all figured out. Aren't you in must-lose mode now that your season's over? No, not yet. We have so many picks that it doesn't really matter. They have other teams' picks. Yeah, we have the Colts pick. So you're not in must-lose, not in must-win. You just exist. We just exist. We're the Hank of football. No. We're existing. You can't. If you can exist, then you're not me. Hank cannot exist. I would say that the Texans might be We're existing. You can't. No, no, no. You can't. If you can't exist, then you're not me. Yeah.

1:00:26Because I cannot. Hank cannot exist. I would say that the Texans might be the Hank of football, where it's like, oh, all you say is our offense needs to get better. Well, our offense got better, but now your defense is better. Well, I can't exist. Yeah. What were you going to say, Max? I'm a strong believer that unless you need a quarterback and there's a quarterback that you're going for in the next draft, it's better to win games for the future of the franchise. It's better to build a winning culture for the guys that will be there for the years to come rather than going 0-16 and getting the first pick instead of the eighth pick isn't going to change a franchise, providing a winning culture will.

1:01:06Counterpoint. Go ahead. Want to do it on three? One, two, three. It's the Jets. Oh. You can't build a winning culture. Is he going to be your coach? Yeah, that's a good point. Like, the coach doesn't matter. You know what I mean? You can't. Winning games with Aaron. Like, if Aaron Glenn's not going to be your coach, the culture's going to change anyway, and the culture starts with the coach anyway. That's a good point yeah i guess i'm looking at it and you have such a young roster yeah i think it's better to win like i'm i in football i think it's better to win because that teaches it just establishes like an expectation yes well i also think it's there's so many it's too early to talk about.

1:01:47If this conversation is happening in mid to late December, when it's like three games left, if you lose out, you can go up to like the number two pick, and you're sitting at the eighth pick or whatever, then it makes sense. It's not even Halloween. You have to try to win games still. I'm looking at this as a bias of I hear some Eagles fans wanting to lose, and I think that's bullshit. Yeah, no, try to win games. The Eagles aren't going to do anything this year. They're not going to make the playoffs. I still want them to win games. I still want them to change what's going on in the culture of the team right now. I agree. Hank, what were you saying about culture and the Jets? You just can't.

1:02:24It's hard to build a winning culture ever. It doesn't matter what you're doing if you're the Jets. It's a fair point. Yeah. It's a very fair point. Still the Jets. And to that point, we've been picking in the top ten forever, and we suck ass. So win some games. How do you feel about Aaronaron glenn saying he he kind of admitted like hey it actually is pretty difficult to call the defense and manage the game yeah you should probably give one up it's never correct correct he's right about that i just feel like hey guys just a heads up like i'm actually really kind of struggling at my job yeah it's a hard job i'm a little in over my head right now it's such a funny thing like yeah it's him for being honest just like yeah this is actually

1:03:12really difficult for me i thought my job was just going to be to like yell at dudes now i have to be smart and i'm not and that's weird it is it is two different skill sets for a head coach yeah you have to be if you're a defense coach or offense coach you have to be good and understand how to coach a football team and how to install plays like the small details of all that the overall strategy and then you also have to be able to understand game management the clock when to go for percentages analytics it is two completely separate job descriptions and if you're lucky you get one guy that's awesome at both maybe some team is just going to start hiring just like a straight up dork yeah to to be

1:03:50have full autonomy on game day and i'm like aaron glenn you take care of all the football shit this guy is only going to be worried about the clock and timeouts and he has 100 autonomy on what to do but the second that guy fucks up at his job he's fired like we might go through uh two or three of those guys in a year yep um but maybe that would be a better idea for certain organizations i can't find the guy that can do both and i i don't know if this to be true but manage calling defense and managing like the game clock feels those are kind of at odds because it's like when you're on offense you're in control of it and you're that's when you're trying to think about like all right where do we want the

1:04:29clock to be defense you're more reacting so yeah it's probably pretty confusing for them yeah has there been any like straight up defensive coach that has been awesome at game management and clock management probably that's pretty good yeah Yeah, good point. Mike McDonald. Immediate great point. See, Aaron Glenn might not be great. Immediate great point with Belichick, yes. Yeah. It might just be Aaron Glenn. They got to stop hiring first-year coaches. Because Robert Salah did the same thing as opening press conference. He was just like, I probably should have been more hands-on with the defense. I just let everybody do their job. It is a fun, like not fun for Jets fans, thought exercise, but what would be your record?

1:05:09What's your record right now, 2-5? Yeah. What would be your record if you had John Harbaugh? That's a good question. Probably 3-4 at least. Maybe even 4-3. Bears would have been a loss. Yeah. Dolphins probably would have been a win. Like, that was some mismanagement and just, like, not prepared. Lions win. Patriots win. Yeah. So, and Packers win. So, yeah, that's like six and one. Yeah. They're the best team in football. Yeah. No, they would. But you're right. Hire someone who's done it before. Yeah, there's no point because everybody learns here and they're like, oh, shit, I made so many mistakes. Yeah, I got to go somewhere else. Can I throw out just a name? Yeah. Rex Ryan. Nah. Should you have hired Rex?

1:05:54No. Games pass them. Okay. I'm going with my theory. I hate that I'm taking the Jets in this game, but Kirk Cousins outside. You think Kirk's going to last the whole game? I don't know. They're saying maybe trade bait, too. Who would trade for Kirk Cousins right now? Is there a team? I mean, obviously injuries happen. Yeah. He'd instantly become probably the best backup. Yeah. I'm trying to think who's. You know who actually should probably trade for him? The Vikings. I was going to say the best backup. Yeah. I'm trying to think who's... You know who actually should probably trade for him? The Vikings. I was going to say the Bengals, just as a... We have a pretty good season going. Yeah. I can see the Bengals.

1:06:32He would look awesome in that orange. Yeah. But don't they have... Do they have Flacco? Yeah, they have Flacco. So they're good. Oh! I think, honestly, the Vikings should trade for him. The Falcons should trade for him. Yeah. Okay. Last thing on this game. Ashton Gentry did say say the jets don't want to tackle so oh there's some uh red meat on the table red meat yeah love that kind of challenging their manhood yeah it's a beef game that's a big time beef game oh yeah a little lamb game maybe okay same thing uh big brother becomes little brother game or no little brother becomes big brother game browns plus three and a half against the steelers overrunners 39 and a half Okay, Big Brother becomes Little Brother game. Or no, Little Brother becomes Big Brother game.

1:07:05Browns plus 3.5 against the Steelers. Overrunners 39.5. I like the Steelers in this game. I think the Steelers, I've been thinking about it more. I've been ruminating about it more because I have, you know, a lot of our Steelers analysis is essentially they're the same Steelers. I'm ready to say they're not just because of Jalen Warren. Yeah. We alluded to it a little bit on Monday's show, but they are not the same Steelers. I'm ready to say they're not just because of Jalen Ward. Yeah. We alluded to it a little bit on Monday's show, but they are not the same Steelers. I think they are definitely better than the last few iterations. Their offense has more pop. Aaron Rodgers is seemingly taking more risks,

1:07:38like he'll throw it over the middle. And, like, Jeremy Bernard's good. Yeah, I'm kind of buying in on the Steelers. The chemistry's there with Jeremy. I also think DK has had some high-profile drops. And when he drops, it's like he really drops the ball. Like, they're comical drops. But he's also had some really big plays in almost all their wins. DK has made a reception that has impacted the ending of that game in a good way for the Steelers. So it's not like he's really, really bad. It's just he's had some high-profile mistakes. a reception that has impacted the ending of that game in a good way for the Steelers. Yes. So it's not like he's, he's really, really bad. It's just, he's had some high profile mistakes,

1:08:09but overall, I think he's been a big help to that offense. And they're finally throwing the ball more to Darnell in the red zone, which is what we've always looked for. And this is just a history game for me. It's just a history game. The last time that the Browns sweep the Steelers, it was 1988. It's been a very long time. A 37 year old has never seen it happen it's been a very very long time is do you know anyone who's 37 any browns fan who's 37 no jeff d low oh is he how old is dom dom's like 21 is he really yeah he's so young he's very mature he's so much more mature than everyone yeah but actually no he's actually gotten a he he's less mature now because I banned him from wearing black shoes.

1:08:50You can't wear black shoes anymore. Black shoes did make him seem way older. Yeah, in black shoes, you look like a restaurant manager. You banned Zach, too. Yeah, I did. I got some black nobles, and Zach was a little sad. I was like, you like these, Zach? He's like, yeah, those are nice, but I got banned. I'm not allowed. Banned's a place, man. You're not supposed to wear those. I don't know why. This is one of those situations where part of me is like, hey, should you just relent a little? But I honestly want to puke every time I see you or Don. Well, he would wear black. Zach, I feel like would wear them appropriately. Don would wear black shoes and white knee-high socks. Yes. And it would just look ridiculous.

1:09:29Zach would wear black on black and make it work. Dom would wear black shoes, and he would walk around with a plate of pigs in the blanket. And he'd just be like, what are you doing? The only guys that can pull off black shoes are guys that would probably kick your ass if you made fun of their black shoes. Black shoes don't get dirty, though. That's true. That's a very reasonable point, but also... There's cool black shoes for sure, but it's just like the... Yeah, you can't... Black running shoes are never cool. Unless you're fast. Unless you're fast, yeah. Yeah, you make everything look cool. You get the Noble, because the Nobles make good black shoes. So put them on and I'll test them out.

1:10:11Those Jordans look good. The black cement threes are the best black shoes. Those are good shoes. But yeah, I agree with you. History game. I like the Steelers in this game. I think the Browns are a fun story. I do not think the Browns are very good. The Browns are the first team in the history of the league to win three straight games by a field goal in the final 10 seconds. It's never been done before. That's crazy. So yes, they are a fun story and I'm happy for Cleveland Browns fans and I'm happy that we get closer and closer to having a very uncomfortable discussion about Deshaun Watson, which is is he going to win comeback player of the year just just a fun thing to think about yeah that's all kenny it maybe if if it's a new position like

1:10:56quarterback cornerback linebacker running back back yeah he would be the comeback like number one comeback guy would he would he would he be eligible just if he hasn't had any incidents in the last year cleaned up his act yeah like he's already a better person because he hasn't done anything bad in a while like if you if you were actually the worst person in the nfl but you just don't re-offend yes right a year then you've actually made giant strides compared to somebody who was already a good guy that maybe just had like a broken leg they came back the next year yeah uh i also uh i'll say right now i'm i'm just gonna look past the fact that the steelers did play in france and didn't take a bye and are coming back i'm just

1:11:43gonna be like you know what that didn't happen. And that Aaron Rodgers is old. Yeah. Travel probably wears on him a little bit more. He did say it was the best flight that he's ever had in his career. The most fun. Probably my favorite flight back from a road game in 22 years. They did the Kirko chains thing with them. Yeah. They put jewelry on Aaron, took pictures of him. Yeah. Yeah. They said the crew is amazing. They let us kind of take over the hallways, the alleyways. There's a lot of good times we had on that flight. It's actually very dangerous to do that on an airplane. You've got to be safe. International travel. You've got to be safe. You've got to be down. Come on. What are we doing?

1:12:14Okay, next game. This is actually a sneaky good game and an important game. Falcons plus two and a half at the Bucs. Overrunners 44 and a half. I'm going to say it. Boys, I've done some more thinking. And my take that, like, hey, watch out. The Bucs could under 44 and a half. I'm going to say it, boys. I've done some more thinking and my take that like, hey, watch out. The Bucs could win the South. Yeah, I just forgot about Todd Bowles to like its full extent. I think I want to walk back from what I said because I just like it just kept on eating away at me. Like, dude, Todd Bowles, Todd Bowles, Todd Bowles. Like Kevin Stefanski's a very good coach. Todd Bowles is not. That's where this game goes down to.

1:12:50Go ahead, Zach. No, you were on the right track last week. You had some good gaps for the Bucs. We have to forget about the head coach and just think about the guys. We have another week of healthy thumb. Also, I know the Panthers' run defense is not that good, but we established a run last week. We're undefeated in the division. Come on. You've got to give us a little something. Yeah, I think you're not wrong that in order to convince yourself you can't look at a coaching matchup in this. This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. Oh, yeah. This is not a made-up Baker. I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against the fans game.

1:13:28They haven't talked since he left Cleveland. Yes. So this is a, it's a revenge spot for Baker for sure. And remember he, he also had the, the shot. Yeah. The, the, so the tweet you're referring to was someone said, Kevin's fans get a dumpster fire quarterbacks in Cleveland, Baker Mayfield, and the Sean Watson failed, which started a chain reaction to 11 other starters. QB Shudor Sanders closed out last season with seven starts. Baker quote treated said, Failed is quite the reach, pal. Still waiting on a text call from him after I got shipped off like a piece of garbage. Can't wait to see you twice a year, coach. Hmm. That's got fired up a little bit. He's still thinking about that. You know he is.

1:14:06And the rest of the guys in the locker room know that this game means that to him. Yep. We might see some Kyle Pitts action this weekend. He's got 629 receiving yards in eight games against the Bucs, so that's the most against any team. Historically played pretty well against them. He's got four touchdowns in the last three games. He scored six touchdowns against Tampa, which is double his highest total against any other opponent. Okay. I love Kyle Pitts this weekend. I always love Kyle. Every weekend. I love Kyle Pitts. And he's going to probably disappoint you, and it doesn't matter. And it's okay, because I'll keep taking that drug. Yeah. I'll get back on it the next week. It'll be fine.

1:14:41Yeah. This time, the high is going to feel good. I do like michael pinnix on the road as an underdog he's five and oh as a road dog as a starter oh i think yeah he's playing well like what i guess the spread that is yeah what tommy reese is doing with the falcons like the falcons are are a good team uh i i think that i think they're you draw out the first two games of the season and they've been a pretty good team. So I think I like the Falcons in this game. I think I do. And it's almost because this is such a big revenge game for Baker, and I don't think he's 100% healthy. So he's going to be playing like he's 100% healthy when he's not. I don't know. And I also do like the Falcons, so I think I'm going to lean to the Falcons.

1:15:25And we talked about the Bucs at home. It's been the same game over and over and over and over and over. Yeah, but this is the re-re-re home opener. Yeah, it's true. Something to think about. What were you going to say, Hank? Are you taking the Falcons? No. No? Not on the Hungry Dog? Nope. Probably not. Nothing's official when we record this show. There are three teams in the NFL right now with a losing record with a positive point differential. The Bucs, the Rams, the Cowboys. That kind of makes sense. That tracks a little bit. They just absolutely fisted the Panthers. Right. And also they've lost games in horrific ways. The Bucs have not gotten blown out. They've just been really bad at the end of games,

1:16:07which is the Todd Bowles part. That's where it all went back to. It's like, dude, what are you talking about? I do actually believe in the Buccaneers. I believe in Baker when he gets healthy. I believe in the Buccaneers' defense. I think their offensive line is awesome. Todd Bowles. We just got to forget about Todd. He's not there, big guy. He's not there. Todd Bowles. All right, you forget about Todd. Todd Bowles. He's not there, big guy. He's not there. Todd Bowles. All right, you want to do this game quick? Colts at Jaguars. Jaguars minus 10 over under 46 and a half. Colts are... What? Hank? What? Colts. What? Okay. Do you know... What? Do you know the history here? Do tell. Do you know how long it's been since...

1:16:44What? Since the Colts have won a football game in Jacksonville? What? I don't hate this. I don't hate this, Hank. I mean, it's important. I'm glad that you're taking a risk here, but you should just know the last time they won was 2014. It's been 11 years since they've beat the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Jacksonville's not like the hardest place to play in the world. The Colts have just been bad. I'm just saying that's a long time and they play each other every year. That's true. Okay. I don't look at historical. I'm not like oh, I'm picking the Colts. Oh, they haven't won 11 years? I can't do that. The locker room's got to be a little fired up right now. Trading all the guys. I like it. I don't have any leg to stand on because last week I thought he was crazy to take the Giants,

1:17:37and he turned out to be right. He still lost the Hungry Dog just for everyone keeping track at home, but he was right about that leg of it. Hang the banner. Yeah. It's Hank's bet. He can do with it as he chooses. You know the Choctober banner, that's the joke. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But if you're going to be making jokes about the hunger dog, hang the fucking banner. Okay. You want to make a banner? Sure. Make a banner. No, you would. Well, we got to wait until the end of the season and then when you don't win it, we'll say hey, you know, six times he went two for three. Great. Great. You're a hater of the dog. Well, the dog usually. The dog. I mean, I get yelled at for the dog. When I root for my own team, I get yelled at for the dog.

1:18:14The dog is. I'm hopping back in the dog kennel this weekend. I actually did hop in the dog last week with the Giants. No, no, no. You can't pick one game and be like, I hopped in the dog. Well, yeah, I won. You know what the problem is? Yeah, I won. I took the puppy. I'm going to take the Bears first quarter and then for them to lose and be like, I actually was rooting for the Bears last week. No, I took the puppy. I won. You know what my problem with the dog is? I think the dog is more successful when it's Hayter Hank and you intentionally throw in one of our teams to root against. Nah. And you've been too impartial recently. No, I'm never impartial. I like it better when you don't do that.

1:18:54No, you are impartial. Yeah, you're being too impartial. Yeah, I'm always impartial. You are always impartial. There were some times when you would intentionally. No, I actually will back up Hank on this. I think it wins when he does that. I think he just likes what he likes. I think it wins when he does that, though. I don't do that, though, so wrong. And it also doesn't win. It does win. It won last year. It won the year before. Back when you were a real hater, not this new kinder gentleman. There's a lot of year left. I don't think you guys understand the math behind the Hungry Dog. If I win one week, I'm even, and if I win two, I'm up big. Alright, so I'm hopping in. Colts? Yeah. Okay. You said this last week and then didn't.

1:19:34I'm gonna do it. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't, I mean, I'm sorry. I loved the Seahawks last week. I apologize. It's okay. What do you want me to do? It's okay. I gave you your flowers for being dead right about the Giants. That was a great pick. Okay. Colts. Colts. I'm just going to say it. It's so crazy. This is one I like. I think that's the worst pick that you could possibly make for the hungry dog. I love that. I love to hear that. That probably means that's going to win. I love to hear that. I'm so against that pick, Hank. Love it. That it probably means good things for you. Good. All right. So Jaguars off a buy. Right. We haven't seen them. Everyone's getting traded from Indy. You've got players demanding trades that haven't been traded yet.

1:20:13Every conversation about the AFC kind of forgets about the Jaguars when they've been really, really good, really consistent. Ed Dodds. Oh, my God. You're forgetting about the Ed Dodds factor. The Ed Dodds factor is always present in the NFL. Everyone always knows what Ed Dodd is doing. I'd actually imagine that before Ryan Poles traded for Jeffrey Simmons he called Ed Dodd just to be like, hey, I just want to give you a heads up. This has nothing to do with me. Just tapping in. I hope that's cool. I don't want a trade to go down without Ed Dodd knowing. The Bears might move to Indiana. I don't want Jeffrey Simmons to be on your turf if that happens. If you've got a problem with it, you let me know, Ed Dodds.

1:20:48The six words no player wants to hear is Ed Dodds wants to see you. Can I give you a bad stat for this, Hank? Yeah. Daniel Jones, his career as a starter versus teams over 500, he's 10, 28, and 1. So basically, if you're a good team, he doesn't beat you. That's a bad record. I'm just saying, like, the more we think about it, the more stats there are against Hank's bet, the more likely that it's going to hit. Yeah, for sure. I mean, the Colts fought last week. They were. And everything you said about people overlooking the Colts, like the Jag I mean, the Colts fought last week. They were... And everything you said about people overlooking the Colts, like the Jags are too, probably. Yeah, sure.

1:21:32Absolutely. I think that Anthony Richardson should be allowed to play. I would love that. And I think... Then it would be hungry, hungry dog. I think he should be allowed to play stoned if he wants. Yeah. Great. That would be much more fun. It would be very cool. Okay, before we do the afternoon game chevy football season is here and whether you're grinding through the week or gearing up for kickoff there's one ride that's always game ready it's the chevy silverado there's a reason chevy's called the heartbeat of america and silverado keeps that heartbeat strong whether you're towing hauling or tailgating silverado lets you show up strong and tackle any task with best in class standard torque the most functional bed in the advanced tech.

1:22:07That's football guy approved. Check out current offers on the 2026. Silverado at chevy.com. Okay. Next up. Afternoon. So we don't have. How many games do we have in the afternoon? We have three games in the afternoon? Oh my God. Am I reading that right, boys? Oh, my God. This is what I... What did you guys say? We've talked about this before, but on Pick'Em, I did a rant about how the NFL is... They're ruining their scarcity thing, where they're just... The Tuesday, Wednesday games... I have a take. Yeah. I have a take yeah i have a take um did you see the report that came out adam schefter publicized it today there's been a lot of this bouncing around recently but the nfl has acknowledged a study that like 75 percent

1:22:56of players that died between what year was it like 2008 and 2006 i forget the exact bit is a multi-year study okay 75 of the players have some form of cta yeah at the time of death not good stuff um i almost think that the nfl should play less games yeah i'm going to say it i think that 17 games is too much i like the scarcity i like if you brought it back to 16 because the nfl has also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find uh safer looking ways to do a dangerous activity which is like oh okay you know what we'll put in another game um but if that's the case we'll let you guys smoke weed yeah we'll we'll make sure that we have uh concussion spotters and we'll have a blue tint that you have to go into in exchange for doing one more game

1:23:45of the thing that is actively hurting you yeah and it's all to cover their ass against litigation the only the only way at this point i think they can actually say with a straight face that they care about player safety is to reduce and go backwards 16 games i think is a good schedule i don't i i did not mind 16 games when jumped to 17, all it did was confuse everybody because now no team finishes 500 anymore. I think that's what the NFL should do, and I also think that it would make for a better product on the field. And it would be just, like I said, it would be the right thing to do if you really do care about the player's safety. They don't, yeah. I have no problem with the 17 games. I'm just more the the way

1:24:25we're trending the florio theory last week where he's like they're gonna play on tuesdays and wednesdays i think that's the biggest mistake of all time i think that's where i just get i start to i will still watch but when you take games away sunday's supposed to mean something sunday's supposed to be special and they're now making it so that every day feels like an nfl day the part of the reason why the nfl is the best is sunday's a religious day for the nfl i would imagine that we love football more than 90 95 of football fans yeah and i'm okay like 16 games is good that's a good schedule yeah that's a lot of fucking football there's a lot of football i just don't think now that the talk of going to 18 well it's gonna's going to go to 18. It was always 17 to go to 18.

1:25:05It's impossible. If they go to 18 games, they're going to be signing themselves up for a future lawsuit. They're going to go to 20. What are you going to say, Max? I think just do more bye weeks. Yeah, two bye weeks is great. Would be great. Keep the same amount of weeks. Keep the same amount of football that you get to watch throughout the year. Just give the guys more break. Yeah, I agree. Two bye weeks. Universal bye. No, I agree. Two bye weeks. Universal bye. No, I don't want universal. I want universal bye bad. Because you would miss it so much. It would make you grow. What would we do? Would we just not do an episode? No, I'm saying give it to college football. Give that weekend a vacation.

1:25:42If we got universal bye? Yeah. No, give it to college football. Nah, whole by, whole weekend. Hank, thoughts? No. No? You need your football. All right, Hank, so let's talk about it. Patriots-Dolphins, one of the three games in the afternoons. Main TV? This afternoon is going to—Ch Chiefs and Broncos has to deliver because Patriots, Dolphins, Chargers, Rams, Chiefs, Broncos. It could stink. Main TV. Yeah. I don't really care. I'll be upstairs getting ready for the show. Great. Sure. Thoughts on Patriots, Dolphins. Dolphins plus 7 over and there's 43 and a half I could see the Patriots not covering just because it's in Miami and they always play weird in Miami I appreciate them playing this game in the afternoon

1:26:34so it's not like a bajillion degrees they get a little shade but Patriots, Drake Mays 16-0 and he's a 3 point favorite of Moore like 12-4 against the spread I think this is just a take care of business win maybe not cover but win move on try not to get hurt are you happy that the dolphins won i don't yeah actually yeah yeah it makes it way less likely that this is a trap for you yeah yeah yeah i i think that's definitely fair because at the very least variable is going to have some some film to cut up and be like, these guys are good. Look at these plays. Yeah. Make sure to take them seriously. Extra rest coming off a loss in a game they could have won. I think they're going to come out ready to go, fired up, and just belt ass.

1:27:21Mm-hmm. Drake May, weeks one through three, one touchdown, seven giveaways, average 12 points a game since week four, 14 touchdowns, three giveaways, 31 points a game. So he's been, the yips have been solved. Turn it around. He probably spent the last week and a half doing that simulator. The simulator online where you can figure out what happens when you throw it here, what happens when you throw it there. Does Glenn have anything for us today? Well, there was no game. He already broke down the film last week, so I can't imagine that he had anything. I actually do have something from Glenn. He already broke down last week's game. Oh, this is great. I haven't watched it yet, but I do have something from Glenn.

1:27:57Bonus Glenn. Okay. I wonder what he's going to talk about. It's six minutes long, too. Yes. Are we good for six minutes? When I go to a movie, I'll always look up the run time, and if it's over six minutes long too. Yes. This is when... Are we good for six minutes? Dude, this is the... Like, when I go to a movie, I'll always look up the run time, and if it's over two hours, I'm like, I can't see this movie. I'm the opposite with Glenn. If it's over four minutes, I'm like, oh, I really need this Glenn. I hope if it's six minutes, at least he has something fresh to talk about, and it's not just like film breakdowns all the time. He's got something, right? It can't just be like a football film breakdown. He is a film guy.

1:28:26He is a film guy, that's true. Okay. Alright, let's take a look. Welcome back to another Tape Watch with Glenn. We're going to be breaking down some very, very valuable film and hopefully learning something today. One thing I always share, especially at the Glender Gardner level, is you don't want to make kids specialize in things. We want well-rounded athletes. If we want well-rounded athletes if you want a good quarterback if you want a good football player good football mind is important and healthy to be well-rounded and to diversify your skill set don't just focus on one sport we do love football in fact i've got some friends we like to have a little fun with it and say in the fall if you're getting married uh don't invite me to your wedding because i'm gonna be

1:29:07watching football instead of going to your your marriage so it's kind of a little joke that we have about you know we're kind of sickos but um we do like watching football but it's important to watch on the sports too so in the spring i say don't let me in that stuff because i'm probably watching golf i'm a bit of a golf sicko i'm a pervert one thing that i didn't understand until just the other day is that the origin of the word pervert, it means you're per, like as or of, and vert is French for green. So it's like of the green pervert. It's kind of like one of those things where if you really, if you enjoy golf and watching golf and playing a lot of golf, it means that you're kind of a sexual freak. So

1:29:44yeah, it's kind of one of those funny things so don't really trust anybody that uh makes golf like their favorite hobby so anyways i'm saying all let's say we do have a spot available in the upcoming glinner night glinda tasel in fact special announcement it's now being co-hosted but we've hired a a fundraising chair uh ben mentz so if you are looking to get into the it's now called the Glirnet Benvitational, Ben Mintz is going to be happy to take your money in for that last spot. He's doing the keynote speech. So just let Ben know and I'll hope to see you out there. Now I'm saying all that to say, we're going to be diversifying a little this week. We're not just sticking to football on my page as much as I love football, because I've got some people behind the scenes at Burswell Sports, and they sent me a sneaky link to apparently a match between Hank Lockwood and PFT.

1:30:31Hank is doing call-outs where he calls out his friends and his co-workers and tries to embarrass them on the golf course by beating them. I don't really understand it. It doesn't really sound like content that I would care for, but I'm a big Hank fan, so I thought maybe I'd give it a shot. I did watch some of Hank's previous videos this week, but he's for some reason stopped putting out the match against PFT. My contact, who's very, very big over at Barstool Sports, had access to the footage behind the scenes that Hank wasn't going to put out. Sent me the link. And so we're going to break it down right now. We're going to put that out instead of football. We'll get back to football next week.

1:31:08Six hole here, par five. PFT is a shot to right, come play in Bryson's strategy, way off in the woods, but go down near the fairway. Hank loves this one. Look at that pose. I think he just knows how good he looks in the sun. He's kind of on a tree. Oh, he loves it. Nope, he does not like it. Hank is pissed off because he sucks at golf. PFT hitting his second shot down the wrong fairway. Just normal guy stuff. Hank making up for that bad second shot with probably a worse third shot. Here's four. Don't you back out to the fairway from behind a tree. PFT again with Stu Farner playing their own hole. Made their own rules. There's another golf. That is the golf cart path in between the two holes. So that's

1:31:44how far out PFT was. Hank hits another bad shot. The ball still running across the green. It just kept scooting. PFT with a little chip up there, a little tour sauce. He's going to have a par putt for five coming uphill. And Hank, I believe that is for his sixth shot. Still off the green. Now he's on the green. PFT for his par. That putt by BFT. Hopefully he cleaned that one up. Here's Hank for his seven. Oh no. Oh no. Don't worry. He'll make the eight. Oh no. Alright. Well he gets a nine on the last putt. Oh no. He missed the nine. That's a ten. That's a quintuple bowie. Hank didn't even record PFT making his last putt. Now it's back to back par fives. Here is the next hole. PFT kind of in the fairway-ish. Hank on the hill. Let's do a bucker out of Bucker Hill. He's at a New England die. Here's PFT second shot. Oh, looks like he stuck that one up hole high. Hank. Yeah, a little tour sauce from Hank right there. PFT with a chip up. That is a green regulation called Eric Sullen Ferger. Fairway regulation,er regulation. Hank with a chip, he loves it.

1:32:46A putt from Hank. Yeah, I missed it, but don't worry. At least Hank, when he's playing bad, he plays fast. So you don't have to worry about getting stuck out there with him. He'll just go ahead and clean this one up, and we'll be on our way. No, he's my step-off. He doesn't like it. He's going to wait. That putt for double is going to have to wait. PFT, really terrible putt. And not a bad par for PFT. And Hank, let me just break down Hank's swing. That'll be my lesson film. One thing I want you to see with Hank's swing is as he comes down to the ball, what is this? What is this move that his shoulders are doing, that his crotch, that his butt is doing. It's almost like he's shitting and puking at the same time as that club comes down at the ball.

1:33:32Just so much going on with that upper body. We're going to have to figure out a way to straighten this out, Hank. My advice to you is if you want to improve this swing, is you should probably quit. And then it'll be better. Because it won't exist anymore. That's, you know, or maybe just go back to being right-handed. Maybe it should go back. I think God meant for you to be a righty. For a long time, they would kill left-handed guys. And maybe we should bring that back. I don't want to go too far, but after watching this swing, I'm thinking maybe we should bring that back. I don't want to go too far, but after watching this swing, I'm thinking maybe we should just bring back executing left-handed individuals because they're probably witches.

1:34:13So that's the end of the round. It looks like Hank got the call out reversed on him. Good news for Hank is he can always go back to golfing right-handed, and he is invited to the Glen and Ip Invitational. So, Hank, if you want to reach out, Thomas sent you, and we'll see you out there on the fairway. That's actually informative this time. We can use that video this week, too. Yeah, break down the golf swing. What was it like watching? Well, I haven't signed. I haven't signed anything. No, no. He can use that. What was it like seeing your swing broken down like that? That was interesting. He made some good points. The swing looked disgusting. That swing, I didn't realize how ugly it was until I saw it from that.

1:34:54Yeah, it's tough. That view. It's tough. Man, good shot. Good shit from Glenn. He's the best. He makes a good point about not specializing in one sport. That's where we go wrong as a society. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And fall weddings. So Patriots? Yeah, true. Patriots. Cover? Mate, no, I'm... Oh, okay. The Dolphins are... It's always a weird game. Yeah. Like, I'm not going to say the Patriots are 100% going to cover, but... Okay. I will be betting on the Patriots. I do believe in the Patriots this weekend. I think they're going to win pretty easily, too. Dolphins got their win. Yeah. Okay. Chargers, Rams. Chargers plus 6.5. Over-unders 45.5. No, Hank, right? Oh, no. I feel like I've said this.

1:35:44They were just on a bye week last week. Chargers are in the hungry dog until they win. They're coming off a bye. Yeah. Oh, no. So not only are they losing games, they're also 0-8-1 against the spread in their last nine games. So do. Yeah. The Rams are a little dinged. Yeah, they're such a bummer of a football team. They're such a bummer. I guess credit to Mike McTaylor. He kept his job. He didn't get fired. Well, they said, like, we're going to spend the bye week. No stone will be unturned. Yeah. And then they came back, and Harbaugh was like, yeah, we looked everywhere. It turns out we're going to keep turns out We're going to keep doing We're going to keep doing exactly what we've been doing

1:36:29Yeah Doesn't make a lot of sense Sean McVay's 30 and 12 to the under Is a home favorite since 2020 I kind of like that because I do think the Chargers Do not have an offense and their defense isn't So so bad Yeah but that's one of those things That's going to run out, too, if the offense continues to be dog shit. Yeah. Also, Devontae Adams apparently is Wolverine. That's a quote from Sean McVay because his 6-10 week injury is closer to 6 than 10. So that's good for the Rams. Great. They can just – I mean, it is a must-win. They're in must-win territory right now until they get above 500. Then maybe they'll just run the ball like they did against the Raiders. That'll be big. Okay. Last one in the afternoon.

1:37:14Chiefs-Broncos. This is a huge game. Broncos plus 1.5. Over under 40.5. This is main TV. For sure. Yeah. Of course. I mean, duh. I know, but you entertained it because you said you weren't going to be here. I just wanted to make it clear this is main TV. No, I was trying to get Hank to be like, oh, thank you so much in the moment. There was never. Okay. It was never going to be. Okay. I just want to make sure. Yeah. Come on, Hank. You knew that. Yeah. Yeah. You knew it, too. We all knew it. We were playing a dance. Yeah. As Stu Fodder said, we were being performative. I don't think that Denver's going to do what they did on Monday Night Football, which is forget how to tackle. I agree. I think they've learned how to tackle since then.

1:37:56I also think that Bo Nix, more mobile, big deal. They're 4-0 when Nix rushes for 35 yards or more. I love the Broncos in this game. I've loved the Broncos all week. My only concern, huge locker room addition in Justin Tucker. I agree. I agree. I think this is actually, it's a chess move by the Kansas City Chiefs because now all the fans are like, Harrison Bucker's the good guy. Yeah. True. Yeah, he gets to be calm again. Yes, exactly. So maybe – because he's been bad for the last couple years. I think he's missed more field goals than anybody. Yeah. So this is going to be – it's just essentially a big magnet for all the hatred that Bucker was getting is now going to be laser focused on justin tucker

1:38:46do you think they're uh like he just walked in and immediately it was the stepbrothers like did we just become best friends possibly yeah the uh i i saw the tweet too the chiefs would sign a song but line if he ran a four three so we're getting there but that's listen they have they can afford to do this shit because they have a locker room with patrick holmes and they're coached by andy reed i'm not saying it's right or wrong like you know right or wrong i'm just saying when you have a locker room like that i mean i'll say it would be wrong to sign osama bin laden no no not osama what i'm saying is you know what i'm talking about like the teams that have an established coach and head in and quarterback

1:39:25will take risks more often than the other team. And Andy Reed has always been a guy that he does not care. Yeah. He'll sign you if he thinks you can help him win a football game. And the Chiefs are well served by having Reed, who is like a relatively clean cut guy. And, you know, oh, shucks. That's just old red run on the show. Yeah. That type of image. It does allow him to get away with stuff that I think a lot of other teams couldn't get away with. My question is, why? Why Justin Tucker? I don't understand it either. And why to the practice squad? Like, you could sign anyone. Why would you sign him? Are you worried that somebody else was going to sign Justin Tucker and then you wouldn't get to use him?

1:40:01It's very bizarre. It would make more sense if you just signed him to be your kicker. actually do think your theory is correct like they're taking the heat off harrison butker yeah like you thought our kicker was a bad guy oh we got a way worse guy yeah the uh did you guys see the there's some very funny memes but one of them i don't know if it's avengers or something two guys fighting and it's just got a word bank and it says r a blank ist and it's the letter c and p fighting each other got it justin tucker got it i don't know where this is from this is basically also a trade for you you know what oh hmm Hmm. Want to put up your fingers for a second? Chiefs looked really bad on Sunday Night Football, right?

1:40:52That was one of the worst games I think Mahomes has ever played. Like, straight up, it was a really bad game. People start talking like, hey, is something wrong with Mahomes? Is Mahomes not what he used to be? How do we change the discussion about Patrick Mahomes? We just sign Justin Tucker. It's like, yeah. No one's talking about Mahomes right now. It's the Phil Jackson technique. Yeah. I'm going to distract from any criticism of my players by me being a weirdo. Yep. And in this case, it's just like, let's sign who would probably be like the biggest headline guy that you could bring in to get people not talking about the stuff that actually matters. Cause it doesn't, it does. The move doesn't make sense,

1:41:29especially like Harrison Bucker. Not has not been that great. The last couple of years was a really good kicker before that. Same thing could be said for Justin Tucker too. Like they're both kind of old and washed kickers that used to be great. So if you're going to do, I don't mean it's an iron sharpens iron thing. Yeah. I don't know. Okay. So I'm buying on the Broncos. I've been buying on the Broncos. Broncos are five and two. I think they played the toughest schedule. So that's something. What are you guys laughing about in the booth? Nothing. I have a question. Literally nothing. One last thing regarding Justin Tucker. Yeah. Are we waiting for Queen to make a statement like her silence is low-key signaling really good point kind of signaling uh being complicit whoa i'm just saying whoa i think

1:42:19she owes it to her fans and to the millions of support this team little girls and boys who look up to her as a role model. Wow. Just silence is violence. Because if you support the team, you support everyone on the team. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Does it all agree? He's going to be showing up to the Christmas parties. Oh, interesting. Something to think about. I was looking at the Broncos schedule, by the way. So they have the Chiefs this week. But then they have the Raiders twice, the Chargers, the Dolphins, and the Jets. That's five of their last whatever games. So that's nice. They got a nice schedule coming up. They have a very – this is a start talking to everyone about maybe the broncos becoming the one

1:43:06seat again territory and jonathan cooper's back yeah there's also that is certain back i don't think so i don't know i mean the chiefs don't have a wide receiver to stretch the field anyway right so rishi rice is coming back in the next couple weeks i think i don't know he's not playing this weekend no and then yeah i've read a lot of other stuff that they will be looking to make an addition at wide receiver if they can yeah okay uh last one boys eagles commanders okay that was our eagle preview yeah this would be the first nba nbc's first sunday night football game outside of september that features two teams with a win percentage below 300 it is possibly nbc's worst game on paper to date since they started airing Sunday Football in 2006.

1:43:50Yeah, I don't like it. You're not getting any arguments from me. No, I don't. I don't like it any more than anybody else does. No, I really don't. We all agree that they should have been flexed. What are you going to do? You got to just live with it now. Agreed. The only thing I will say is that Jaden Daniels might have a fro. Oh. He's probably just going to get his hair done before the game or at some point between thursday and sunday but right now he does have a fro and i think it looks awesome and i could see fro five making a little run here there's that and then um i just i i do want to win this game. I'm afraid that we go on a little run, and then my hopes get brought back up, and then I just get, right now,

1:44:30my expectation that I'm at right now is actually perfect for where it needs to be. But if you let us fuck around and win a couple games, I know myself, I will allow myself to buy into winning this division at 9-8. Yeah. Going on a little run, and then anything can happen. And that's not going to happen, but anything can happen. So I do want to win this game. That I am certain of. I'm just afraid of what that will do to me. You also can't go 9-8. Oh, yeah, true. We have a tie. That's true. Yep. Fair enough. Valid. 8-8-1. 8-8-1 might win this division, and that would be the funniest record of all time max that's idiotic of you to say there's no way the commanders are winning the division there's also no way that the eagles are

1:45:15winning the division i just like i said earlier i want them to keep i want them to start winning some games to not just become a loser franchise yep which is what you should be thinking but you're not well i'm also thinking that your franchise i'm a loser i personally myself i personally pft am a loser franchise yes but if we win too many games that would mean that the current head coaching staff that's good stick around and then i think that would make us be more of a loser franchise in the long term that's good as opposed to wasting the dynamic uh easy cap years of uh your young talented quarterback that's what i'm that's that's what i'm concerned about that's what i'm weighing but i will allow myself to buy back in speaking of coaches jeffrey lurie has fired

1:46:04four coaches uh he might have fired more no i think that's all the four that he has he's fired four coaches since he's been the owner of the eagles since 1994 all of them have happened after a five plus game losing streak and i believe doug peterson was fired after a sunday night game against the commanders this would be the fifth game for Nick Sirianni to lose. Remember that, Max? Yeah. The Nate Sudfeld game, right? I don't think they should fire Nick Sirianni, but I'm just pointing it out that Jeffrey Lurie, somewhere around five games, he starts to get a little gunch, you know, like a little crazy. I have something to say. Oh, please. I don't want them to fire Nick Sirianni. If they do, I wouldn't hate it being in the middle of the season

1:46:52to see what you got in Sean Mannion. Ooh. As head coach? See what you got. Like, if you already know that you're going to fire him, if you already know, like, why just go through the, like, there's no hurt of knowing, of seeing what Sean Mannion would do as a head coach. That's famous last words. Why? There's no harm in seeing what Sean Manion can do. Memes was making a face... But I've never seen from a man before. I'm just saying... He looks like you just shit in the booth. Memes, what's going on? Yeah, I don't think you want that either. But what's the harm? Tell me the... I don't even care if it's Sean Mannion. If it's anybody else. I'll tell you what I think the harm might be. If you're already – I'm saying if you already know that you're going to fire him after the season.

1:47:35Right. What's the harm of seeing what somebody else – you just get like a free trial. You're just running through the system for no reason if that's the case i think when you put it that way if you're are if you've already made up that's what i'm saying i'm saying i would not fire nick sirianni to roll the dice for the rest of the season see what sean manny has because i do think that it'd be very short-sighted because nick sirianni for all the weird shit and and easy stuff to poke holes in he had he's a super bowl head coach and he's gotten to two super bowls and he's doing something right this is you're forgetting how I started that season from hell you're forgetting how I started started that discussion I might be is that I said that I was like I don't want to

1:48:13fire Nick Sirianni okay I'm saying if you've made up the decision to already do it after the season don't wait for an interim head coach yeah but but why not like why not why like because basically what big cat said he was like you know jeffrey lorry gets gets gun shy and he and he doesn't itchy finger whatever he gets and if that's the case then then just do it then just do it now yeah yeah i agree with that that's that's that's all i'm saying see what you got. To be clear, I don't think that they should do it. I don't either. But I'm saying if that were the case, just do it. I agree with that. I don't think they should fire him. Neither do I. Okay. I'm excited to watch this game. No, you're not.

1:49:03Don't say that. I'm excited to watch you game No you're not, don't say that I'm excited to watch you Watch you two watch this game Yeah, this is like The least amount of juice that we've ever had Going into an Eagles-Commanders game Are we going to record the show during the game? I think we should I'm a little bit, there's parts that I'm excited for But it's going to be a bummer I don't think anyone who's not a computer user. What are you excited for? I'm excited maybe Jade looks good again. Yeah, I mean, I guess. He's been playing well, so there's a possibility that he does some exciting shit and that I feel good for like two hours. I'm excited for nothing. I'm excited for absolutely nothing.

1:49:42Nothing. There's no... It's a practice squad team. We're just playing with... We're just doing practice squad on an NFL Sunday. All right. Do we have Jerry? We have two videos from Jerry. He just updated one. Why? He said this one is funnier. So we're in a funnier situation. Do we want to watch the funnier one? Yeah, let's watch the funnier one. I think everything Jerry does is funny. That's the problem. What's what? What's our record? We still know I'm locked out. It's been a full-on mutiny. Oh, fuck. Wait, I saw some activity in the group chat. Was it Jerry? All right, here we go. This is the funnier one. Oh. Okay. This is not how I thought this was going to go. He's wearing a painter's jacket. Breaking Bad. He looks like Breaking Bad right now. Yeah, this was gonna be He's wearing like a painter's jacket

1:50:47Breaking Bad, he looks like Breaking Bad right now It's a hazmat suit Fresh lettuce bag salad, big huge one Okay What the hell is this Hey what's up guys Happy Halloween, start the music memes I'm the poop lettuce from December Remember the lettuce that made you shit your pants? That's what I am this summer. Okay, we're going to start PFT for that lesson in Latin. That was really cool. Percent, part 100. We're going to sit PFT for that weird peptide take that he had. Save that for macrodosing. Big Cat, look at me. Off your phone, Big Cat. I'm actually the only one not on my phone. We are going to sit you guys for having such a weak take on Pat McAfee. Come on, man. We're going to stop McAfee, who's doing a big new kickoff in Indiana.

1:51:45But careful, weird vibes there. Dillinger was shot there. Careful. We're going to stop Mac B, who's doing a big new kickoff in Indiana. But careful. Weird vibes there. Dillinger was shot there. Careful. We're going to start Jacoby. We're going to start Chiefs defense, Jags defense. And I guess Josh Jacobs is back. I guess so. I did it. One minute. FU Big Cat. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Oh, God. Let's see. That was a funnier one. That was really good. I also want it on the record, Jerry. I was the only one not on the phone. Hank and PFT were both buried in their phone for that fantasy. That was really good. I also want it on the record, Jerry. I was the only one not on the phone. Hank and PFT were both buried in their phone for that fantasy.

1:52:08I wasn't paying attention. You're right. I was looking up the fantasy group chat. I was waiting for you guys to laugh. I did. Which part? The poop lettuce was very funny. It's very topical. It was also like, who would ever wear that? It's poop lettuce. You know? Everyone remembers the poop lettuce. Hank, do you remember the poop lettuce? Yeah. There you go. Okay. Jerry. Good job, Jerry. Keep going, Jerry. You got this. I love Jerry. Hank hates him. I love him. I love Jerry. Hank hates him. I love him. You don't. I do. I love him. Me too. By the way, we talked about it on Pick'Em, which is obviously it's appropriate to bring it up again here. But DraftKings, you can bet in any state. There's prediction markets in California and Florida.

1:53:05So we are going to, PMT, we are going to do a stream at some point, a Sunday stream, full Sunday stream at some point at Rosillo's house in California. We got to have Jerry come, right? God, I'm down. Yeah. God, of course. Hank? God. Yeah, I have to. Sit next to you. Yes. We have a course. Hank? God. Yeah, I have to. Sit next to you. Yes. We have a message from Jerry for Hank. Mames, go ahead. He said, shut the fuck up, Hank. Okay. Yeah. Agreed. All right. That's over time. Let's do our picks. Football has a way of turning one game into a full week of conversation. DraftKings keeps you close to all, but the DraftKings Sports app is now live in all 50 states. That means from Texas to California to Florida. Every fan in on the excitement follow the teams you love keep up

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1:55:15You want to go night game? You want to pick a commie? I do want to pick a commie. Pick a commie. We'll go with Diggs. Okay. Stefan. Let's go, boys. That's going to be a juicy one. Let's do our picks, and then we'll get to Robert Lewandowski, one of the best soccer players of all time, and we'll finish with Firefest, where we'll be in costume. What do you got, Max? What is it? If you place $10, you will get $123. Whoa. Okay, love that. Nice. Alright, picks time. Zach? Well, no, it's not your pick. You're 3-11. Yeah, sometimes guys get hot, guys get cold. This is a temperature check week. Here we go. So, Max, if we go points, you get a point for a win or half a point for a push. Max has 9. PFT has 8.

1:56:20Memes, myself, and Hank have 6. Zach has 3. Zach, I just, like, roll out of bed and you lose. It's crazy. There's so much season left. And you're not even close. Get ready to roll back into bed. You have six. How did you do last year, though? I started very bad. I started very slow. But, like, I'm saying literally roll out of bed. You had the over in the Saints Steelers game. Oh, yeah, timing-wise. Yeah, I lost. Oh, that's over. Yeah, all right. That's fair yeah i take back what i said about your roll mecca to bed no no yeah timing wise no i haven't been good either but you also said he has six he has double the amount as you yeah i do i've doubled the amount you that's a weighted you that was a weighted fraction you

1:57:00pulled and i'm pretty sure i started i i'm almost positive I started 0-4. So I was. Yeah, guys, ebb and flow. You're flowing. Guys, get high. I'm ebbing. You're flowing. All right, who's up first? Max. Max is up first. Is there any AWLs who are just fading, Zach? Because that would be smart. I know one of them. Zach was 17-23 and won who, Shane? Nope. Colton? Nope. Jacob? Nope. Colton? Nope. Jacob? Nope. Memes? No. No. That sounds like a yes. You don't want to admit to it? I'm reading Jerry's text right now. What did he say? He's spiraling. It was memes. Okay. Wait, what? What did he say? Last Sunday night, you were like, oh, I'm taking the Seahawks because Zach has the Chiefs. Yeah, that's right.

1:57:49Look, that's a good strategy. You should continue to do that. Hank should have done the same thing. That wouldn't be a hungry dog. I'm going to take Ravens-Bills over 54.5. Yeah, that was one that I knew people were going to want to take. I'm going to take the Browns in the Browns-Stewards game. Browns plus 3.5. I'm going to take the Vikings and the Lions under 45.5. Shoot. Shoot. All right, I'll take a gross one. I'll take the Commander's Eagles over 40 and a half. I feel like both your defenses are worse than your offense. I bet on that the second to like. Yeah, the offenses are not great, but they're better. Yeah. You're giving a little too much credit to the Eagles offense. They had one decent week last week. You're giving too much credit to the Commander offense. They had one decent week last week.

1:58:48You're giving too much credit to the Commander's defense. I might be. No, Max's. Yeah, yeah. I'll take a sucker pick over 40.5 in Chiefs-Broncos. Okay. Feels way too low. Cardinals-Cowboys over 54.5. Jacoby! And plus 6.5 for the Chargers. This is a week. I'll take an easy one because I'm taking a money line. So Colts plus 10. I'll take the Broncos plus 1.5. I'm going to take the Cardinals. Is it 6.5-a-half or 7? 7. 7, nice. Cardinals plus 7. I'm going to take the under-in-the-cowboys Cardinals game at 54-and-a-half. I am stuck between two. Come on, Max. I'm going to go with Lions minus three. Did anyone take that? No. Okay, Lions minus three. Okay. Let's get to our interview. Robert Lewandowski, when we come back,

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2:02:18of the chicago fire uh former fame all over europe but i i'm going to say it. You're one of the best soccerers. How many goals have you scored in your entire career? You don't have the number? You're a humble king. More than 700, but it's tough to say exactly. Probably if you Google, then you know better than me. Do you have a favorite goal? Like one goal that you think, when you close your eyes, when Robert Lewandowski puts his head on the pillow at night, he's like, I think back to this goal. Directly when I heard the question, in my mind was like, because I scored five goals in nine minutes, the fifth goal, I think that was like something special with the amazing volley that I was like, not only because I scored five goals in nine minutes, but the

2:03:02last one's like special. Was special? I'm seeing over 750 senior career goals, somewhere anywhere between 716 minimum to over 750, depending on what games officially counted. That's a lot of goals. I'm still counting, huh? You said five goals in nine minutes? Why didn't they just foul you on the line? After four goals, shouldn't somebody have just taken you out and been like, we're not letting this guy score again? I have to say, because in that game, or during the game, because I was on the bench, I was injured a little bit, so I couldn't play for the first minutes. But still, I was a little bit angry that I didn't start from the first minutes. But okay, the coach, the Pep Guardiola, decided.

2:03:42And we were losing 1-0 in the first half. So I came in, in the second half, direct in 45 minutes. I was so focused just to score one goal and the second goal because I want to win the game. Because that was a very important game for us, like in the league. We were playing against the second in the league. That was very, you know. But that time I scored the first goal and I talked to myself, OK, we need one more. Then I scored the second in the league that was very you know but that time i scored the first goal and i talked to myself okay we need one more then i scored the second one i say okay if i score the next one that will be the game will be it's going to be easier and i scored the third one

2:04:16and then i fourth and five and i i have to say that after the game i didn't know what i already did i was like okay we won the game I scored the goals and that's fine. But no, everyone was like in euphoria, some ecstasy. But I didn't know what's happened exactly because I was in a different world. I was so focused. I want to just score the goals. But the first time, that was on, I think, October, something like the game. But the first time that I was starting to thinking about what I achieve that was the Christmas time the first time that I was sitting with my family on the table and was a couple of days off because normally we're playing all every two days you know we don't have time to thinking about what's going on what's happened but the next game and that

2:04:58was the first time the Christmas that I was thinking oh yeah you could say you could say that's something is special that probably staying with me all life, my entire life, because nobody did this and probably nobody's going to do it. Because if you're starting to think about this, it's impossible to break this record or make this record. Yeah. It takes them long enough just to take the ball out the back of the net and get it back to midfield. That's so tough to do. Yeah. And then when you get your next game that you play did you feel like a real loser because you didn't score five goals and like but i scored three goals i think that's not that yeah i think i think in this week because we play every two days i

2:05:36think in the next in three three games i scored 12 goals so that was like not only probably this game but this game was five goals in nine minutes. But the next game I scored two, the next three, and next game, maybe four games, 12 goals. And the next game also two goals. So I was like some different world. I was like in matrix that's just focused on my job, you know. Can I give you a little critique on how you should answer this question going forward? If you want to be the greatest soccer player of all time, when someone asks what's your favorite goal, you've got to say the next one. Just let everyone know you're not done. I did this so many times, so I tried to figure out something new now.

2:06:15Also, I scored so many goals, but that was something that was legendary, I think, not because of one goal, but because of the game and the minutes that happened. I'm fascinated with, especially European soccer, how skilled you guys are and how skilled you are at a young age. Was there a moment when you were growing up where you're like, oh, yeah, I am different? And was it someone noticed you and it's like, oh, this guy is going to be incredible. He's on the path. Because the soccer academies and how it all works like it feels like they they can find guys when they're like nine years old it's like yeah this guy's about to be the best uh because i'm the football guy yeah this means soccer in us but you have to

2:06:58stay humble because it's tough it's it's in this sport is it's not important how good you are when you are 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, you know. Because it changes a lot, not only physically, but technically, skills, performance, mentality. You know, in soccer, everything is important. Not only how fast you run when you are young or how good with the feet you are with the ball when you are young. No, because you are growing you are you have to develop every skills every performance every year every second every single game so in the end the first time even that that you want to ask me exactly when i want that the soccer is going to be my future that probably i know when i was 18 19 years old so okay quite late yeah because before

2:07:43i won it that was my dream. But I wasn't sure that's going to happen on this level that I want to be. You know, the high level, staying on the big stadium, the big club, starting to earn more money. But even that time I didn't think about this because you want to just play soccer. But, you know, you have some players who start very early, but you have also some players who start very early but you have also some players who start late bloomers late yeah because it's not in the soccer it's not depends how you start but more important is how you finish what what was how old were you when you started playing professionally in Poland you're a teenager right yeah the question what does it mean professional

2:08:24but I think I was if you compare generation now and my, that was like 19 years old, 18, 90s. Now the kids starting playing with the professional team, like the best team, the number one, like 16, 17. Yeah, I mean, Jamal was, I mean, he was. I was trying with Flamin when he was 15, you know. That's crazy. For me, that was like, I'm two years older than his dad. Oh, my God. So can you imagine that I'm starting to play with some players who is like, he can be my son. It's like, oh, that's going crazy. But he was, from the beginning, some different players, some special players. But in the end, I think that for him that will be a challenge to staying on the top for the long term because if you start earlier,

2:09:10it's more tough, more difficult to stay on the top like if you are 28, 30 or 32 because it's like, especially now, they're starting to earn money. Yeah. Not like, we need, we have to be more patient. Now it's like you score a couple of goals, okay, go up, give me money, pay for the transfer fee, you know, and it's much more easier, you know, before you have to achieve something that someone pay not to you but to the club to transfer you. So it's like a different time. But, of course, it depends on the players and the club what they need. Was there somebody that helped you along when you were young, emerging as potentially a future superstar that kind of showed you what worked for them, what didn't work for them?

2:09:56Was there anybody that you were close with that helped you kind of navigate that transition? My case was a little bit tough, difficult, because I lost my father when I was 16. And of course, my family, my father, my mom, that was my biggest support at that time. And they drive with me to put me on the training, like, one half hour one way, then one half hour by car the way back, you know. And my dad never saw my professional game, you know, because he passed away before I started to play for the professional club. But even now I know and I see, I feel him that he's watching on me on the first line in every stadium that I'm playing. So I feel that he's still looking on me from up and for sure he's very, very proud from everything what I do and what I achieve

2:10:47but in the end that time especially that in my country I didn't have any players before that I could look forward, look up that he achieved some level so I can follow him not one to one everything but some way. In my case I had to do myself everything to open the door that even was closed everything, but some way. So in my case, I had to do myself everything, you know, to door to open the door that even was close, you know, to crush the wall that was from from me from the people from my country from because nobody from my country achieve what I achieve. Yeah, in entire, you know, history. So I was the first one probably. And it's I think it's easier if you can follow someone not do it the same but you said oh he achieved so i can i can do this the same it doesn't matter where i came from

2:11:31it's more important when you want to be and in my case was like so many difficult moments that i could i could fell down you know like even that way when i lost my father, that was, I have to wait to leave the soccer, to say, okay, it's too much. Maybe I had to go to be more focused on my study, education, you know, and going that way. Or like, no, don't do this. Keep doing what you love, what you want to do and keep, probably the second one one also because i forgot it was like the one club let me go when i after my injury so i i didn't know what's going on i my contract was left so i was asking that you want to renew my contract you want to keep doing with me or not i was 16 or 17 years old that was like after one year after my my father um passed away so

2:12:29from one day to the second day i got the information from the secretary of the club that they don't want to renew my contract what idiots especially that was after injury so it takes time to a little bit i i need more time to coming back on the right track. But the doctor that time say that I never come back on my level that I had before. So I don't know exactly who decide this in the end because nobody tell me that in my eyes. But from the young guy who lost father like one year ago and now he's like, oh, fuck, what's going on? I don't have club. I don't have contract. So I'm 70 years old so that was the second time in my life that um that the life of the world wanted maybe check me yeah if i believe myself and i want to show them that they doing mistake or like guys yeah maybe

2:13:19you're right no but i choose the the right do you remember that doctor you should you should be like i mean 750 goals after that doctor was like should be like, I mean, 750 goals after that doctor was like, yeah, he's never going to be good. Maybe that was an excuse for the club. I don't know exactly. We should look up that doctor and be like, what's up to you? Maybe they have too much confidence on doctor. But, you know, it's like, especially the young guy, I remember when I choose the next club, I was running with my leg because that's the muscle injury. That was it. So I couldn't run, you know, like I run like a little bit, like my leg because that's the muscle injury. That was it. So I couldn't run.

2:13:46I ran a little bit like my leg was behind me. But even that, the club that gave me the chance, we believe in you. We believe that you're coming back. You show us the best performance. You score for us a lot of goals. And then you're going to do the next step. You might not remember that guy, but I promise you that guy probably thinks about you every day. Oh, yeah. He's like, I really fucked that one up. Yeah. He probably got fired. You know, I am the guy that... You probably made him quit medicine. I'm not thinking too much about past, you know. It's like, okay, it's your problem, not mine in the end. If you feel like that you're doing mistake, okay. I'm doing myself. I'm showing you that you was wrong, but

2:14:23in the end, it's my life. So I have to take care of my life. I'm not thinking about that you was wrong, but in the end, it's my life, so I have to take care of my life, not thinking about that you're, or if you say something or you decide something that for my life, my life changed. No, I have to be the person who take responsibility for myself. But PFT's right. Like, five goals in nine minutes, that must have been the worst day of his life. That guy, he probably quit medicine. He's watching that just being like, oh, shit. That kind of felt mean when you scored five goals in nine minutes. That must have been the worst day of his life. That guy, he probably quit medicine. He's watching that just being like, oh, shit.

2:14:47That kind of felt mean when you scored five goals in nine minutes. That's very mean what you did to that doctor. Oh, you won a Champions League? That guy's watching it? He's definitely a soccer fan. He already knew that he screwed up. But then with the five goals, he's like, okay. I think that the five goals was 10 years after this, probably. Yeah. So he was like, maybe I was right. And then boom boom there you pop up yeah it's very impressive though that you like you mentioned you didn't have anybody that had done it before so you had to make your own way did you always did what what did you believe was possible did you set goals for yourself at a young age and and you then would would check them

2:15:21off like how how big did you think that you were capable of getting when you were 16 17 years old i think there's so many things what i did um i didn't analyze too much you know i just okay my heart tell me a lot of things my you know intuition that okay you can go you can go in this way because someone tell me that i did i could i cannot explain you why i did this why i choose this way you know sometimes you why i did this why i choose this way you know sometimes you have to listen your voice you have to listen your hearts and after i lost my father's i knew that okay so many i have so many questions without answers so i try to find this answer during my life during my career life you know um and of course that so

2:16:05many times i want to speak with someone you know but not like son with mother because it's like different connection you know always with son with the father it's like something special i don't want to say which one is better because both are amazing even that i i know that my for my mom for my mom also was the tough um tough moments and that time when we lost um my father i know in 16 years old i have to take care responsibly for my family even probably they didn't want they didn't expect this but i stayed like the only one man in our family so maybe it's like something um that i knew it i didn't want but i had to yeah so the end, I tried to do my best. Of course, I did many mistakes for sure,

2:16:49but I'm trying to do my best. I'm trying so many things that in the end, when I look at myself in the mirror, I say, so long you're trying, it means that's a lot, you know. And yeah, it's like in my entire career i had so many so many like tough moments that i had to jump on this and prove myself that i can do i can achieve my goals i can achieve what i was dreaming you know to win the titles to win the champions league to score goals to um to win everything what is possible even that time i didn't know that can happen yeah but i believed yeah can i ask you a couple dumb questions oh it's not i don't think that you have dumb questions oh buddy they're gonna be some dumb questions uh can your wife kick your ass if she wanted probably yeah she's a three-time

2:17:44karate champion yeah that's badass so she ever like like if you're like don't do the dishes she's just like hiya like get ready yeah she she's like yeah she can um she she had this in blood you see some some situation that she was ready to you know to kick maybe not me but you know that situation. That's super impressive. Yeah, you know, I know this sport because my father was also judo. Okay. So we train a lot of times at home, but he didn't want that I'm going that way because he knew how tough is it. You know, it's like you have to spend so many hours, like you have to wait in the end before the tournament, before some championship. And he decided that I should go to soccer because I loved the sport from the beginning when I was young.

2:18:32And even that, I met my, at that time, girlfriend, now wife, and we were starting to talk about judo, karate. And I saw it in her eyes that she has this something special that she knows what it means to be an athlete. She knows what does it mean to win the titles and three-time world champion yeah it's like a european champion as well it's like unbelievable yeah and if i saw her first time i saw that she trained ballet or tennis yeah because she was very skinny you know blonde hair that time and i was how is possible that she that this kind of girl can be like yeah kick your ass yeah but in the end I I saw a couple of tournament and you know it's like I saw that in in her eyes that she she she loved this and in the end she has to decide you know to

2:19:19to to wait to do this different way not anymore karate because she know that also she has to more focus of of, of us, and she supports me a lot, and she helped me a lot also in my career to achieve this level that I achieved. Okay, all right, next dumb question. What's it like being a god in Poland? Oh, I don't feel like a god. No, but come on, you're a god in Poland. But I'm very grateful, you know, because… Can you walk down the street? In Europe, the soccer for the people is different. I know, I know. For some people, it's religion. Not like in Poland, but even if you're talking about the soccer in Spain, in Italy, in South America, you know, they love soccer. You know, it's like the culture, especially that when we lived in Barcelona,

2:20:11that the fans are amazing. They love soccer. They support a lot. You know, it's like, of course, if you walk on the street, that so many people coming, asking about the pictures, autographs, it's like something normal. Even here in Chicago, you have a lot of also the people not only from Poland, but like from South America, autographs. It's like something normal. Even here in Chicago, you have a lot of people, not only from Poland, but from South America. You feel that they know a lot about soccer. Of course, in Chicago, you have so many different sports. I think you have six different teams in Chicago. So you can enjoy many different sports, so many athletes. So for the people, some daily work to see someone on the street

2:20:47probably that, okay, you play baseball, okay, you play football, soccer is like something normal. And I enjoy a lot, I have to say. It's got to be nice to be a little bit more anonymous. Yeah, that's true, that's true. But I expect that even more than this. But I have to say that the life here is really, really special. Alright, that was a very humble answer for being a god in an entire country. I mean, say that the life here is really really special alright that was a very humble answer for being a god in an entire country because you're the I mean you're the best ever in your country's history that's pretty awesome yeah but in the end I'm like what I achieve as an athlete is different I'm in the end

2:21:18personal I would have answered it different I would have been like yeah it's fucking awesome being a god yeah but I don't have built my you know ego to be like – You sure? Even I know that I have the big ego if you are talking about the soccer and everything what is going on the field. But off the field, you have to stay – it's like we are all the same in the end. Even that, of course, I achieved some goals that probably from many millions is like the dream. But I achieved my dreams also because that was my dreams as well. Yeah, you should kind of feed the ego a little bit. Like every now and again, maybe go into a nice Polish restaurant here in Chicago. A lot of Polish people. Yeah. And just walk in

2:21:53and just stand there. Yeah. And then when they're like, oh my God, can I get a picture? Like, yeah, sure. Yeah, but I don't need to have more. You know, he had a growing up to feel that I am a special one. It's like I feel so confident in myself that I don't need extra, you know, some situation that yeah, I am already here. You're the man. I'm the man. Even though I know I'm the man. So what? This is the difference. Nobody can change my mind. You know, even that talking about the bad way or the good way, you know, I know my value. And this is the most important thing for me. Yeah, you actually did even that talking about the bad way or the good way, you know, I'm, I know my value. And this is the most important thing for me. Yeah. You actually, you actually did answer that perfectly because if you're the man to be like, I know I'm the man, but I don't have to

2:22:34flex on everyone. That's the true side of the man. Yeah. Of course it's nice to hear so many, you know, good words about me, but in the end I'm coming back to home and I want to feel natural, you know know it's like not that someone the difference between the of the of the pitch and of the pitch you have to be different you cannot be the same person on the pitch than at home for your family because that's gonna be crazy yeah i i have a dumb soccer question for you yeah um you're a pretty good penalty taker right or were you better for the national team or for your club teams? As a penalty taker or as a soccer player? As a penalty taker. Oh, probably the club I scored more penalties, you know.

2:23:17So probably I had more opportunity to miss some penalties. But in the national team, you have less games. So in the end, probably I scored less penalties as well. What is the secret to being a good penalty taker? Because we saw in this most recent World Cup, the pressure just makes some people crumble. And you can see it in their eyes. They say, I don't want to go. Don't pick me. Yeah, every club you have like 90% of the players that they're afraid to score penalty because it's not for everyone. You have to show your balls in the end. If you go to take the penalty and you not only on the stadium watching on you like 70 000 80 000 and come knowing berson almost 90 000 you know 95 000 the new stadium is going to be 150 000

2:23:57so you you take the ball and you are you and your and goalkeeper and everyone watch on you and television couple of millions you know expectation that everyone believe in you that you have to take responsibility in the end it's not about your skills you know it's about what you have what you had in what you have in the in the head right now so mentality things is like in this moment probably the most important thing to take everything out of your head. Even you probably you missed a couple of shots before the penalty. And your self-confidence going a little bit during the game going a little bit down. But the penalty came. I have to be ready. You have a couple of seconds to prepare your mentality,

2:24:40to prepare your head and to know what you want to do that you have to in the end to score the penalty. But it's that you have to, in the end, score the penalty. But it's like you're fighting with not only the opponent, you're fighting for yourself. Everything what you have inside your head. And it's like you have in a couple of minutes, seconds, sorry, not minutes. If you have minutes, that would be great. A couple of seconds, you have to be calm. You have to be very focused. And for you, it has to be like slow motion because if you have this movement, if you run, if you kick how you kick what kind of power you put on the ball which side you choose and also your opponent is only goalkeeper if he chooses the same side that you scored

2:25:21that you want to score, that you want to put the ball, it's like a little bit game also between the goalkeeper and the kicker but in the end yeah it's like so many different point of view of if you're looking if you are if you are talking about the penalty that in one second couple of seconds you have to take in right place in right moment so in the end it's not easy but of course it's not for everyone for sure because even that in the club in the national team you have spoke how many players want to take the penalty. You don't have so many. Because it's not everyone to be in this moment front from rest of all. Was there one goalkeeper that had a lot of success against you in penalties? No, no, I don't have one.

2:26:03It happened that I missed penalty, but because I did something wrong, you know, I don't know that I scored amazing and the goalkeeper take this ball, keep it the ball, you know, I probably that I miss, I didn't score exactly close to the post, you know, something or maybe to less power. But in the end, if I miss, always in this competition the winner is only goalkeeper because the kicker has to score and if he doesn't score then goalkeeper is winning if you score for goalkeeper nothing happens everyone expects it you're supposed to score so your transition to the MLS and the Fire and the fire are gearing up for the playoffs, which we're excited about. So like when you get over here, was there anything that shocked you about the game?

2:26:54Because I love like you're, you're so accomplished and you were so good in Europe. It's you come here. MLS has come a long way, but was there a part of you that's like, I still can be better than everyone because I can think the game better. And i have this skill that maybe they're not up to my par what is that transition been like um you know on the on the beginning i was uh still i am very excited because i expected exactly in this moment my life something different you know so i didn't compare the european mls one to one because uh of course you have salary cup but for me was to not only enjoy the life but enjoy playing soccer in this team i know it on the beginning can happen that the team needs a little bit more time this is like the process yeah and

2:27:40of course that maybe takes time that the team need more time to use my performance the skills that i'm the best one in the in the area finishing you know to to bring my to me the ball that i can finish that i can score the goal in different position but also i know that i have to take care of the different things um not only when we play the the game because i have experience I have knowledge right and not only about how to score the goal but how works that in the club in the team tactically things you know so many different things that if I can I can help and I give my advice I can give the people in the Chicago fire also my my knowledge about what I saw with what I know experience as well but in the end of course now we're going to

2:28:25play in the playoffs. I know that is the moment that I have to be ready. The team has to be ready to use my best performance, even that a couple of games I didn't score the goals, but we won it. Okay, I don't expect that in the regular season that I'm going to score many goals. Of course, that will be amazing, but you have to be patient in the end. Soccer is the process. Especially now that I'm feeling really well in Chicago. I love Chicago as a city. Now it's like to use how the club, the team can use me, the best option, the best performance that I can give back to the team. I think, the best option, the best performance that I can give back to the team. And I think when the playoffs start, that also, that will be the difference level.

2:29:12Yeah. Not only in the soccer, but in the football, in the NBA, everyone. And I think that we're going to be ready of this and playoffs starting to be for the real men, you know? Yeah. And I hope that... You're going to start being the man. Yeah, you have to be on the man. Yeah. I hope that you're going to start being the man you have to be on the band so it's like in the end that you see the difference between the teams that are ready to achieve something or not yet. Is there anything about American culture that you've really enjoyed or something unexpected that you weren't ready for and you're over here now and you're like wow this is actually really amazing in Chicago the first thing are people the people that are very kind

2:29:48helpful you know it's like for me that was even that in barcelona the people about them the people from spain the toki they are very open very warm but here in chicago the people that they want to help me direct you know with the smile on the face you need this what do you need you need some contact you need some help that was no problem everyone want help me with different way you know it depends so that is the first things also this chicago is a city you know it's like i was surprised so good city chicago is and so many opportunity you have during the summer time even the weather temperature that you know it's like you have, like, Michigan. I love the area in Chicago, West Loop, the River North.

2:30:30It's like you enjoy the life. And my kids also are very happy in the school. Oh, that's awesome. So I think this is the most important. The kids are happy. That is the first step for the adaptation. But, of course, the wintertime is still in front of us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I'm from Poland, so I don't forget how it's a little bit colder course the winter time is still in front of us yeah yeah but i'm from poland so i i don't forgot how it's a little bit colder in the winter time but you moved at the right time let's say that you moved in the spring right yeah you've got all the good months now i'm three months in chicago you know until now the weather is really nice yeah i'm really surprised positive

2:31:00way and you know it's that you have so many restaurants you know I couldn't see not yet everything you know still I have time to visit a couple of places but also the different sports yeah I enjoy to watch the baseball the Blackhawks still my dream oh because when I was young I woke up at 4 o'clock a.m. to watch the Chicago Bulls you know that time the Scotty Pippen, then you saw, of course, Michael Jordan, because it was at night in Europe. Yeah. And, you know, I've never been on the NBA games, and I hope that I can soon go for the one NBA game and see how it looks in life, you know, to see the players, how they're playing. And that is my dream. And also, when I was in baseball, and I have to

2:31:46you know to go into pitch you know to make the first through and that was I was a little bit stressful yeah when I was staying front and I was how far is it I was thinking oh fuck it's far I cannot miss you know and I never did this i never and that was like in a couple of seconds i have to go going down you know and okay do easy but not too easy because i didn't want that looks like oh yeah i put the ball just you know it's but in the end that was amazing experience to watch the baseball game in the life and when i see that the people enjoy a lot not only like the game, but before the game and during the game, because it takes time sometimes. The baseball takes two and a half hours or even longer.

2:32:34I came to the stadium at 6.30 and the game was finished at 11. It's like, whoa. It's not like soccer. But the people like to spend the time watching the different sports. Are you Ronaldo or Messi? You know, it's like... You've got to answer. You could say Lewandowski. I say always Lewandowski. But for me, that was competition. Yeah, right. It's different. It's hard for me to ask you that. You compete against these guys. I know that I don't want to compare myself with Leo Messi and Cristiano that oh I was on the same level but you know I I was the best player in the world in two times two years in a row at the time that Cristiano and Messi and I won against Leo Messi of course he won against me

2:33:20a couple of times I won against him as well I try try to be close as possible, you know, to them, you know, not only score the goals but to play. Of course, it's hard because they're a legend. They're like the best players in the world since years and this competition between them that was like the last 15 years that was amazing and I was a couple of times I was there, you know. Maybe we got to beat Lewandowski. Even I want to beat them a couple of times, you know, and it's like and this is for me the proud. I never imagined that I could beat them and win something or win the titles to be like on the top three, like the best football players in the world. And I was on the first places. Not only

2:34:03one, but two times in a row. So it means that I did something special and I have to be proud of myself. All right, that's a good answer because, yeah, that's a tough one. Do you have, is the biggest what if of your career when you almost played in Europe and then the volcano, Aja Fuccaloco? Yeah, but it's like, I think that is more story, but that was the plan to travel to England. to see 2010 yeah to see the club to see the stadium but to be honest i didn't want to go there that was i was young so i was i was very open guy to see how looks like the professional club in different country how looks the stadium how looks the training facility you know so for, this kind of experience was nice to visit the place,

2:34:47but I knew that I'm not going there. Only one time that I say yes to the Premier League club was 2012, that Alex Ferguson called to me. And no, his accent, he's from, he's not from England. He's from, I not from england he's from uh i think irland or scottish scott yeah so you know the accent is like tough to understand you know and i was very young i didn't speak well in english that time so he called to me and he's starting to talk um to me i understood stood couple of words only you know and say i want you yeah i understand and that our um the our conversation later was like i say yes yes yes yes yeah i didn't even know what he told to me but i was you know so excited because this is like legendary coach in the soccer he achieved so many

2:35:39titles he achieved really that was the first coach in in the soccer that he won everything and he was like so many years in manchester united so that time I say yes and that was I think only the first and that's the last one that I say yes to the Premier League club but the Dortmund my club that I was playing for they say we never we cannot sell you because even that we sell you for I don't know 30 40 millions that time we cannot replace your place. Nobody on the market. You cannot. It doesn't matter how much we can spend for one place. We cannot replace you. So we prefer that you stay because you earn much more money for us than we're going to sell you now. Yeah. It's interesting in high-level European soccer

2:36:20because you do have so many different languages being spoken on the field at the same time. Would you guys depending on what team you're on default to one language as what you would typically speak and would you change that depending on who your opponent was and it's like hey i know that they they don't have anybody on their team they're like i don't know yeah he speaks italian or whatever so let's move over to that like how did that work out yeah sometimes we use this because you know if you play in europe you have of course if i played um 12 years in german so i had to speak in german language yeah with the players but sometimes the new players that doesn't speak german so we have to find how to speak with him

2:36:56english spanish you know and it's like sometimes also with the players in especially by i think in bayern munich we're starting to speak Polish, but very easy, like one, two, three, four, because we know that nobody understands the Polish. So I'll teach them how to speak in Polish a couple of words, you know, especially in the set pieces, that we didn't want to say, you go to first post, I go second post. So we say, I learn, go like in Polish, P.F. Szydrugi means first, the second one, you know. So we changed the language because we know that nobody in the opponent's team speaks Polish or understands what we're going to do. But even in Spain, I had to learn Spanish as well because I knew that nobody there,

2:37:39maybe a couple of players speak English. Two players speak German, but in the end, so many players doesn't speak any any different language than spanish so i had to i knew that i had to learn also the spanish language so i took the teacher the the first three months i starting to teach with my um i starting to learn with my teacher and after three months i starting to okay i know how basically speak in Spanish. So I started to learn myself during the travel in the plane when I was at home, evening before sleep. So after a couple of months, I could speak Spanish. And if you speak English, if you speak Spanish, you have already half a word that you can speak or make the conversation in these two languages.

2:38:24Because, of course, the main language on the world is English, but the second one, probably the Spanish. And for me, that was much more easier. You know, even now, I have so many friends in different countries. I can speak many languages, so it's easier to communicate with many, many people and understand also the culture. For me, also, when I decided to go somewhere, first to Germany, then to Spain, now to US, for me it's always to understand the culture, to know how, I'm not the guy to, for me it doesn't matter, I'm care of this, because I want to feel better in this country, I want to feel that I'm in the right place, that I feel like at home, so also in Chicago, I'm open for many things,

2:39:05because I want to feel at home. And so long I'm now, I have to say that every week, every day, I'm feeling much more confidence. I feel almost like at home, even that I don't know how long I can stay here in Chicago. But for me, the rest of the life, that will be also my city because I'm living now. And when I started thinking about Chicago, hey, this is my city as well. I love that uh all right so i had one last question this has been awesome we're excited for the playoffs you're gonna you're gonna be the man in the playoffs you just got to be the man uh last question is roback question r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-zips polos hoodies joggers shorts roback.com what is the toughest stadium to play in the world because some of these soccer

2:39:48crowds are just insane yeah um toughest so i have to play you know an away game yeah yeah I have first of all I say three the best stadium for me so it's Camp Nou also National Stadium in Warsaw because it's amazing yep maybe I say four okay Allianz Arena where's that Bayern Munich okay and Santiago Bernabeu is maybe I say four. Okay. Allianz Arena. Where's that? Bayern Munich. Okay. And Santiago Bernabeu, which is Real Madrid. Okay. But there I was playing as opponent, so you know. Yeah. That's an unreal stadium. It's incredible. But for me, I like the Camp Nou because that was, when I came in through the stadium, Camp Nou, but not only as a Bayern Munich player because I was playing in the Camp Nou already before,

2:40:51but as a Barcelona player. And I saw that 95,000 people sitting and they watching us. And I feel that so many legend or like legendary stadium and everything what's happened in this stadium. I feel this. That was like like i feel in the air that's still is there there and when i score first goal there it's like was for me something wow the feeling that i thought that i'm different world i'm some somewhere somewhere that i shouldn't be but i'm enjoy a lot. And it's like, you know, you feel your name in the end. That's 95 fans. It's like speaking or like, you know, after the goals, it's like you feel your body's going through something, special energy. And that, for me, if I score the goal, that gives me more power.

2:41:40More power to run, more power to, okay, next one, next one. Every goal gives me more power, you know. It's like, for me, like the goals, like the foot. If I score the one, okay, next one, next one. Every goal gives me more power. You know, it's like, for me, like, the goals, like, the foot, if I score the one, I want second one. If I score the second one, I want the third one. Many players, if they score the goal, it's like, I've scored the goal, it's enough, okay. I'm, like, the winner already. But for me, it was always something, no, if I score one, okay, I want more. You want five in nine minutes. I didn't plan this, you know. You cannot plan this, you know. You cannot plan this. It's impossible.

2:42:08Oh, one last, last question. When you're living in Germany, what's the fastest you ever went on the Autobahn? No speed limit, right? You had a real answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not going to answer honestly. No, no, I can answer. You just stopped yourself. You had an answer you were about to give. It's allowed. It's allowed. It's allowed. There's no judgment zone. Even, no, I can answer. You just stopped yourself. You have an answer you're about to give. It's allowed. There's no judgment zone. Even many highways are, you know, it's like under construction always, so you cannot drive. But when I bought my first Ferrari. Okay. First Ferrari. That's such a cool thing to say. F12 Berlinetta, you know.

2:42:39Okay. On a test, you know, how fast I can drive. And I remember that was was i cannot say miles because the converter yeah i think that was almost 300 kilometers per hour so 292 i think 300 kilometers 292 kilometers per hour 292 that is 180? That is 180 miles an hour. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's awesome. That's like scoring a goal in front of 95,000 people. Yeah, but the highway was empty and it was so big. But in the end... You're allowed to. The way it was, so, you know, that was my time that I keep it, you know. Holy shit, 180. That's awesome. I'm happy I asked that. I do have one last, last, last question. Because you are a fellow broth head. You like soup. I'm happy I asked that. I do have one last, last, last question. Because you are a fellow broth head.

2:43:28You like soup. You're a big soup guy. When do you eat soup? I'm not a huge fan of soup, but the culture of Poland that we have, like chicken soup, it means like roast soup. It's like very popular soup in poland but um probably i'm i know why you're asking me about this about the next question well because i do that too yeah he eats soup at the end of his meals oh no that was that is incorrect no that is like news no because i explained different way because i explained that when i because they're probably the the um about the dessert you know it's like um if you want to eat dessert i never eat like direct after the lunch you know because the i try to eat first like carb then protein and then if i want to eat the

2:44:18dessert i prefer to eat this or like one hour before the the lunch for example before the meal because you have the takes time and this is like the sugar you know it's like it's not the best way to finish your day um day like evening with the sugar you know before you go into the sleep to the bed so i disagree so i so i explained that i prefer to eat the first dessert you know like waiting one hour half an hour before i started to eat lunch and i didn't spoke about the soup, but probably there's some journalists, you know, use this that maybe that is the opposite side. So dessert, then I don't know, protein, carb and soup. That is not correct. It's like, I mean, I was speaking about the dessert.

2:44:59So you dessert before your meal? Yes. Because it's like, and then I try to carb and then finish with the protein, you know, because it's like the carb needs, the protein takes time for, you know, your belly, you know, takes time. That's why in the end is for the recovery. But I say that the dessert, I don't like to eat after my dinner, for example, in the end of the day, because in the end, if you finish your sugar, even that you don't put the sugar, but still you have like, like, like the fruits also, they have like natural sugar, but still it's not good for the body. Of course, that was a couple of years ago. So it's like now you say something and three, four years, some professors say, I found it, you know, that way is better that way.

2:45:39And I'm changed also. My idea is not that I did something 10 years ago. I'm doing still the same. Because it's developed a lot. You see that in this case, something what you did three years ago doesn't exist anymore. So you have to be also flexible. But that time I explained this way. Even that still I'm trying to, if I want to eat dessert, I prefer to eat during the day, not in the end of the day. I think it's just a good mentality. Life's short, eat dessert first. You never know what's going to happen. Yeah. All right, well, Robert, thank you so much. One of the greatest goal scorers of all time. The man, God in Poland, and his wife can still kick his ass. Thanks so much for coming by. Thank you very much, guys.

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2:48:25He's got to take off his red satin gloves. Those are fancy. Spicy gloves. Take them off. I'm Lord Farquaad. Yeah. From Shrek. It's an unbelievable costume. And he also went pantsless. I wanted to see if that was true to character. It's not. That was a creative choice. Is that a skirt you. Oh, he got pantsless. Is that a skirt you got there, Mitch? I thought he went pantsless in the... No, I like the creative choice. Judging by everyone else's costumes memes, you are 100% winning the PMT costume competition. 100%. Low effort on everyone else except for yours. Yeah. Well, PFT is kind of funny. I mean, that's low effort, though. It was here. I like yours. Yeah, but it's creative. PFT, what are you?

2:49:15I'm Madison Beer. Oh, okay. Got it. I didn't see the beer costume. Yeah, it's a little combination. It's a little combination of the costume. Combination! Combination! Iination. Combination. I stole Justin Herbert's powers. 0.0 from Zach. I'm going to try to keep it twisted. Yeah. We love our sponsors. Zach, you have costumes. He's been sick. I was inside. I fucked up. Yeah, I was inside. That's on me. All right, Max, what are you? You're always inside. I am a medieval pawn from and yeah low effort i went to medieval times a couple weeks ago with my same costume by the way i'm low effort too i'm i'm the flash i've never seen the flash the flash is what like the seventh best guy flash was my favorite as a kid you gotta watch the flash show it's so good yeah it is but where

2:50:02does he rank on the he's up there in the Justice League. So he's in Superman Squad, right? Justice League, yeah. He's with Spider-Man and shit? Nope, that's Avengers. Batman. That's Marvel. You know this stuff. I actually have never seen The Flash. I don't know what the... Is The Flash a movie? You didn't watch Justice League? No. They did make Flash movies. I can't say I've seen them. I think the actor is a bad guy. Where's The Flash ranked? But as a kid, Flash was goaded. Give me Flash's ranking. There's no ranking. It's not like... I'm looking at a ranking 45th, dude. That's a dog shit superhero. I don't know what... IMO. What's the top three of this? It's probably some Avengers freak. Who plays the Flash?

2:50:44Is there a famous actor that played the Flash? It's a cartoon, bro. It's a comic. They haven't done... Oh, yeah. There's been no human actors. Number one, Spider-Man. Number two, Black Panther. Number three, Batman. Batman's not even a superhero. That's top three according to the Ankler. You can do everything with super speed. You go back in time. Like I said, I didn't see the Flash movies. The guy that played the Flash, I think, kidnapped someone. Really bad guy. Okay. Ezra Miller. But that's... That's a new Flash. I'm talking about the comics, like when I was a kid, like the Justice League. Good guy. Flash. Flash. Okay, where are you, Hank? It's corn. Hank's corn. Topical. Yeah. It's corn.

2:51:36Very topical. That kid's in college now. It's corn. All right, Hank, Fyre Fest, let's go. Yeah, Glenn kind of spoiled my Fyre Fest a little bit. Oh, no. But yeah, the grudge match versus PFT was pretty much just a recreation of... Every other time that we played on camera. Every other time we've ever done a grudge match. Same place, Jackson Park, same time of year. I kind of realized I was like... I was... I came back down to then we played a par five i made a 10 i missed two tap-ins from under two feet in this video uh just a complete disaster i was leaving jackson park driving home i had like road rage anger like not real rage but i was just like so fucking mad driving and then it kind of dawned on me

2:52:26two years ago that's where we did the video with bob does sports in the fall yep i choked during that video and i was very upset when i left last year at the same time of year as when me and pft did the the 1v1 for six grand where i choked and i left there they're being mad, and then it happened again this year. So I just think I'm never going back to Jackson Park in the fall. It's my home course. With PFT. Just a complete disaster, complete choke. Golf season's over. I'm good with talking about golf, and just I'm going to take a break. I love how this has worked out where Hank beats me every single time when there's not a camera, and then every time there's a camera, I beat him. Yeah, we played with the DraftKings people like two weeks ago.

2:53:12I beat him like 10 plus. No, no, not 10. Now we're getting away from each other. We'll also never know. I know. No, I know. It's bad. I'm well aware that this is bad. And then Big Cat, the next morning I come in, it's like 9 o'clock, and Big Cat was like, oh, yesterday was bad, huh? It's like, you're a sicko.'s like nine o'clock and Big Cat was like, oh, yes, it was bad, huh? It's like, you're a sicko. Well, I texted PFT and I was like, hey, how'd it go? Why didn't you text me? Because... He knew. Yeah. Deep down inside. I knew. And then PFT responded. He said, it went exactly how it always goes. I killed him. Yeah. It's just one of those things. Some people, they step their game up when the cameras come on.

2:53:45And that's okay. Enter an invitational. I don't know. Stu Feiner was there as well. We got the whole thing filmed for PMTV. So go watch it, I guess. I don't know. Actually, don't go watch it. No, watch it. You already watched it because Glenn did it. Well, and you also already watched it because it's literally the same video every time PFT plays Hank in golf. Yeah. Were there any ands? Kind of. Oh, yeah. He almost anded it. I didn't and, but I did. I didn't. No, but I didn't and. I just, we had to do some math. We did. Oh, I wish you and him. We did have to do some math, yes. All right, PFT. My, who's back, or no, my Firefest of the Week. did have to do some math, yes. All right, PFT. Who's back?

2:54:28Oh, no, my Firefest of the Week. Jesus. Shut the fuck up. You're dressed up as corn. You sent Zach into the costume closet because you were late, and you're like, hey, Zach, pick me out a costume. Corn. Corn. That's not true. I think it's a little bit too true. It's 100% true. My Firefest of the Week is I got a new phone and was pretty happy about it because it's the iPhone Duo. Yeah, that's exactly right. Hank's showing you what a phone looks like. It's like one of those, but it's an iPhone Duo, and I was excited to get it because my battery has been dead, as I've said on the show, for the last three months. I've been somehow operating it with magnetic batteries that I charge over. It's been a long thing.

2:55:06So happy to have a new phone. Got it delivered on Monday. I like it. It folds out. It's a pretty good phone. I was excited to have it. Everyone's like, what do you think about it? And I haven't been able to give anybody a truthful answer yet because somewhere along the lines, not Apple's fault, I don't think. I'll say it. I think it's my carrier's fault they didn't put that phone that individual phone into their database of phones that this carrier can manage and the guy was like this happens every time there's a new phone with like half of a half of percent of all the new phones where you just get almost like a ghost phone that's not in their system so then they have to put the phone into their system which

2:55:46takes like three or four days so i've been having to dual wield phones for the last couple days because the new phone doesn't hook up to the cellular so i can't make calls on it yeah but i've been using the new phone also as my alarm clock phone and it went off this morning and the alarm situation is different in terms of like where you have to slide, what buttons you have to press. And I got got by the snooze this morning. Oh. And I was late for a wake up bar stool because I accidentally turned the alarm off instead of hitting the snooze button. And so I've been just dealing with that. We've been going through with it. But I like it overall. I just can't. I can't give a full assessment of it yet.

2:56:23Do you know what you did wrong with it? When did you get it? I got it on Monday. Yeah. You need to get a new phone on a weekend day with nothing going on, which I guess is hard in the fall. But you need a full day to basically fuck around with your phone before you're ready to go. I still haven't had that chance yet. I was like, oh, what do you think of this feature? I'm like, I have not had the dick around time on my phone yeah which i can't wait for it's gonna be good dick around time um all right my fire fest uh if you've been watching on netflix there's something sitting in front of me uh do you guys have any idea what this might be it looks like a toilet banner a child pete rose so i have uh i'll fully admit i've gotten into the collectible game and

2:57:09it's it's becoming a problem because it was funny when it was you know maybe the blue turf or the bills trough then it's a pete rose uh uh coffee table and it's a chair that taylor swift sat in for one game this one might be the moment that I have to reassess and be like, hey, guys, what are we doing? So do you guys want to see what I purchased for this studio? I don't know if we can figure out exactly how to install it, but I would like to have it in this studio. Install. Install is a tough word. That's not like hanging it up on the wall. It's a urinal. Okay. It's a urinal. I'm guessing it's not just a urinal. It's a cola. You'd be guessing right. This urinal sitting right in front of me right now has been peed in by Jim Calhoun,

2:58:09probably Kevin Olley, and definitely Dan Hurley. This is the urinal from the UConn men's basketball coach's office that I bought for $4,000. Wow. That's a special urinal. That's the urinal that he scoops his piss out of before the games. That's, I think, five national championships. What do you guys think? Maybe, yeah, Kevin Olley we shouldn't even talk about. No, you had me at Kevin Olley. Kevin Olley. Hank, five national championships. What do you guys think? Maybe, yeah, Kevin Olley we shouldn't even talk about. No, you had me at Kevin Olley. Hank, you don't think that's a good purchase? Nope. Why? It's a fucking urinal. You bought a used toilet and you want to put it in the studio. Who cares?

2:58:44I will admit also that UConn, like, they were doing a big sale because they were doing renovations, and I wanted to buy something else. They're like, what about this urinal? I was like, fine, I'll take the urinal. What else do you want to buy? What else did you get? It was like some, I think it was a piece of. Court? It was a piece of the quarter. It was like an old school, like, trophy banner thing. But then they ran out of that, and they're like. You just got a urinal. You want a urinal? I was like, who pissed in it? They're like, Jim Calhoun and Dan Hurley. I was like, yeah, I want that's worth four grand that's 100 true that's a hell of a salesperson do you have the certificate of authentication authenticity

2:59:14authenticity i no i don't think so i was hoping that it was a different urinal a used urinal i was hoping it was a urinal that ed sheeran pissed in that would have been or didn't piss it didn't piss that would have been so sick sounds like you guys don't like my urinal? I was hoping it was a urinal that Ed Sheeran pissed in. That would have been so sick. Or didn't piss in. Didn't piss. That would have been so sick. Sounds like you guys don't like my urinal. That one might be. That's what I'm saying. That would be a special urinal. This one means nothing to anyone in this room. I think it's installed in the perfect place as it is. I applaud Big Cat for this purchase. Because it sounds like some people here respect greatness and some people don't.

2:59:46And anything that is adjacent to greatness can make us better. That's the way I look at it. I applaud Big Cat for this purchase. Because it sounds like some people here respect greatness and some people don't. Right. And anything that is adjacent to greatness can make us better. That's the way I look at it. Let's look at a reason why this is going to take us to the next level and not for a reason to put this down. Are we pissing in this room? Yes, that's what I'm saying. This room is going to smell like piss. No, because it's a urinal. It's going to be installed in this room and the pipes and everything. It's actually going to smell less like piss because we have a proper location to put our piss.

3:00:08That's not possible. How do you flush it? There's no top button. Yeah. There's no way this thing is getting installed in here. You guys are fucking haters. That's the problem. There are. There's a million reasons not to do things. If I get this installed in this room, you guys are going to complain? If it smells like piss? One, you won't. Two, yes. What are we going to tell again like uh i'm gonna say that's for you hey hey you know you know dan hurley pretty good coach he used to piss in that urinal what is that that's a hell of a story you're friends with dan hurley does he know that you bought this urinal no i've been waiting to uh till he comes back on the show to tell him what do you think he he's gonna be a little creeped out. He's going to think it's a little creeped out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

3:00:46I won $200,000 in back-to-back years because UConn and Dan Hurley won national titles with Futures. I owe it to him to buy his urinal. You've since lost all of that money. And more. And actually, next question. Go. Not a dime back. Not a dime back. Great use of not a dime back. Not a dime back. Great use of not a dime back. All right. What urinal game are you going to put at the bottom? Oh, good question. Is there maybe a basketball one we could find? That would be cool. We could maybe source that. Yeah. If you want it installed in there, you could do it. Thank you, memes. Memes and PFT are my guys. Those are the only two guys that back me up. Memes also clarified in there because it's going to smell in there

3:01:34and not in here. Put it next to Hank. Hold on. Are you guys telling me that if I don't make Zach's part of Zach's job to refresh the urinal with ice every day you won't be pissing on it. Zach just goes back here. He goes, fuck. Yeah, I'm on urinal duty now. Yeah, you are. You're going to be filling it with ice every day. Just have a bathroom attendant in here. Have some cologne next to it. Maybe some gum. You know what? Fine. If you guys want the urinal, we don't do the urinal. That's fine. I thought you guys would be excited. I'm into it. I think I have to take a break from buying shit because when you buy a urinal, it's just a really tough moment. This is kind of like when a drug addict realizes that they're a drug addict.

3:02:14I bottomed out. The intervention is imminent. I should give it to Max for his new home. You want it? No, I don't want it. Dan Hurley used to piss in it. That would be so cool. No, that would just... It's a Yukon urinal, so you don't like that part. Yeah, but you could put it in your man cave. I'll pass on that. Dude, think about the excellence that's pissed in here. Kevin Holley. Winners. Kevin Holley. I have to... Kevin Holley, sixer. When we have Dan Hurley on next time hopefully he's like actually we took that out when Kevin Olley was coach and now it's back so it was only Jim Calhoun and Dan Hurley I have a certificate somewhere Zach finish this off certificate now I'm kind of in I have a certificate

3:03:00if it's authenticated I'm in you gotta get a Dan Hurley to sign it well no what I need to do is I need to install it Dan Hurley comes to Chicago whenever they play DePaul, have him piss and be like, recognize anything? That's your urinal. He'll probably, the groove of his penis will fit right in it. Have they ever graded a urinal before? I don't know. That's a pretty good condition. Yeah. PSA? I should probably get it graded. All right, go ahead. Between the urinal and the trough, do you think you have the most pissed memorabilia? Yeah, I'd say so easily. For capita. And I'm looking for more. 100%. I wasn't even looking for this. But again, UConn was like, hey, we don't have the things you actually want.

3:03:37What about a urinal? Knowing that I'm probably the only person in the world that would have bought this. So I was bidding against myself. It's a high price, too. Listen, it's the cost of doing business when you're in the uh large rare collectible game it is a kohler you can get a urinal for how many national champions have pissed at it all right go ahead zach that's american standard that's a kohler up there zach uh my firefist of the week uh honestly, my Firefest of the Week is I missed you guys. Oh, good. I missed you guys. Wasn't the same without you back. Yeah. How sick were you? Yeah, pretty sick. Like probably a 7.5. That's pretty sick. Not too bad, though. How many guns have you leveled up?

3:04:19Four. Nice. Did you work on PM Town? PM Town is a realm that wasn't a realm. Couldn't get in. It was one of those things you're outside the club in line, but now we can get in. Okay. We can pay cover now. We're in. Very cool. Okay. Miss you, too. You ever see a line at the club, three friends get in, one friend's left outside? Yeah. I thought the friend outside the club all week. Yeah. We miss you. And, yeah, the group chat's still going. Not being here on a Sunday sucked. I missed you. You guys rule? Get better, dude. Numbers. Pick number three, my lord. 23. 29. We got more costumes coming in. Everyone announce their costumes shane looks like don johnson from miami colton looks awesome i don't know i have wrecked me uh colton is a tarp

3:05:13i'll go 98 i'm the blue medical tent he's blue oh that's good that's a really good costume Jacob. Ask me about my wiener. Nailed it. Ask me about my fucking wiener. Shane, you just look good. Shane does do this thing every year where he wants to be a hot guy. Yeah, you look good. You're not even dressed up. Miami Vice. Yeah, no, but you just look good. Thanks, man. Yeah. You too. Nice flash. With a urinal. Yeah. What's your number? It's great. Number three. Yeah. You too. That's flash with a urinal. Yeah. What's your number? Number three. 85. Colton, the blue medical tent is 69, and the wiener is nine. I'm 23. Meme's creative choice of no pants. I'm three, my lord. Oh. 62. Ah. Memes creative choice of no pants And three Malou

3:06:06Oh 62 Ah 62 Nothing I love that Colton's a blue medical tent Blue medical tent actually That push it It's close between blue medical tent And Lord Farquhar And Colton And blue medical tent Is strong Between Blue Medical Tent and Lord Farquhar. And corn. And Blue Medical Tent is strong. It's corn. The Blue Medical Tent is so loud. He also has a bunch of concussion tests from Madison Beer. I don't understand that. Oh, would you smash? Yeah. Love you guys. Happy birthday to White Sox Dave. Happy birthday, Devin Booker. Happy birthday, Marcus Mariota. Happy birthday, Jalen Coker. Happy birthday to Dick Vermeule. Happy birthday to Mike Napoli. Happy birthday to Fred McGriff. Happy birthday, Nick Saban.

3:07:05Happy birthday, John Candy. Happy birthday, De McGriff. Happy birthday, Nick Saban. Happy birthday, John Candy. Happy birthday, Deami Brown, Jalen Warren, Bruce Irvin, Stephen Castle, Coco Crisp, John Anderson, Gary Player, Eric Spolstra. Love you guys.