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Big Cat
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Big Cat
On today's part of my take, we have two awesome interviews. We got Lane Johnson.
PFT Commenter
For who?
Big Cat
For the people. Lane Johnson, who's going to be playing in the super bowl on Sunday. We went and visited with him.
PFT Commenter
Friend of the program, friend of the.
Big Cat
Program, future hall of Famer. Also special in that, in that Lane Johnson interview, Max's speech from Monday night from our dinner. Then we have James Winston, one of our favorites, who also stopped by. Great interview with him. We are going to talk a little more. Super bowl week, hot seat, cool throne FAQs. It's Super bowl week, baby, and it's brought to you by DraftKings. Have you played pick six from DraftKings? What are you waiting for? You better get on it. It's Super Bowl 59, the last chance to play NFL pick six this season. And as the official daily fantasy sports Partner of the NFL DraftKings, does fantasy sports like no one else play for better payouts on Pick Six? It's super easy to get started. Download the DraftKings Pick Six app, select two or more players and choose if they'll have more or less of a stat, like which QB will throw for more than two TDs, or which running back will rush for less than 100 yards or which linebacker will have more than one sack. It's just that easy. Pick Six is available in most states, including Missouri, California, Texas, Georgia and more. And DraftKings is making it even sweeter for first timers. New Pick 6 customers play $5 to get $59 in Picks 6 credits. There's no tomorrow. It's the last chance to jump in now to the new, most fun way to play fantasy sports this season. Download the DraftKings Pick Six app. Use code Take that's Code Take for new customers to play $5, get $59 and pick six credits only on DraftKings pick six. The crown is yours. Gambling problem. Call 1-800-G GAMBLER Help is available for problem gambling. Call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org in Connecticut.
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Max
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PFT Commenter
On Monday night and what a night it was.
Big Cat
Yeah. Really the only thing that came of note from it, I think was there was a couple troll questions. Who would do that? Who would do a troll question? Disgusting. To Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes. The Kelsey one, I think he was actually pissed. Did you see it?
PFT Commenter
Well, I saw a couple questions. There was one reporter that asked him like back to back Taylor Swift questions. He was like, back to back. That's nuts. That's crazy.
Big Cat
He or someone said to him, what do you love more Taylor Swift or fan him? 15 yard roughing, the passer penalties. And he just was not happy about.
PFT Commenter
That's a good question. That's fair.
Big Cat
And then someone asked Patrick Mahomes who his favorite ref was.
PFT Commenter
That's also good.
Big Cat
Yeah. And he said he's going to check and find out with the guys.
PFT Commenter
The NFL released, I think at the refs, the NFL Ref Association, I'm pretty sure they have like a union, they released a statement saying they, they take an enormous amount of umbrage at all the accusations that they've been favoring the Chiefs.
Big Cat
Yes. Roger Goodell said it as well. He's like, it's crazy. These conspiracy theories are nuts. Also we found out from Roger Goodell that we might get a flag football league soon.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
So he said they're, they're working on it. And then Florio reported that they're not just working on it. It's like happening. It's already going to league where they hit harder. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
It blitzed the league.
Big Cat
Yeah. What you should have said there, Hank, is flag football league. We already have that. It's called the NFL.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah. But I listen, I, I'm not, I, I've always, I got a big head.
Hank
You don't realize that they're going to event like this is a long game.
Big Cat
Yeah, it's true. This is what they're going to do.
Hank
You like flag football? They're going to be like, well, here's.
Big Cat
All I'll say is that if they do football, if they do it correctly, it would be like a perfect like I want to say may like just do like a three day tournament with all the players.
PFT Commenter
I would watch that for flag football. Yeah, yeah, I'd watch that.
Big Cat
If it was NFL players playing, I would watch that.
PFT Commenter
I, I like where Hank's head's at though. Maybe instead of a league where they hit harder, a league where everyone has weapons. Like you actually have a baseball bat as a linebacker.
Big Cat
They are, imagine if they do actual flag football league and they figure out a way to do, like, a roughing the passer from homes because they took his flag too hard. Yeah, it's max week.
PFT Commenter
Max week.
Big Cat
It's max week. Bird week.
PFT Commenter
My body is probably two thirds gumbo.
Big Cat
Love that.
PFT Commenter
Just swollen. We're feeling good. Yeah, we're exper. We're. We're sitting in New Orleans right now. What could be better than this?
Big Cat
The air was thick today. Just could drink the air. Feels good. Max and Hank, you guys were out on Bourbon street last night. How was that?
Hank
Fun.
Big Cat
Fun.
Hank
Yeah.
Memes
I love this place.
Big Cat
You're just locked in.
Memes
Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying to win a Super Bowl.
PFT Commenter
That's all I'm thinking. So locked in.
Memes
He's.
Big Cat
He's basically doing the marshawn for us now.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I'm just fine.
Memes
No, I said. I said I had fun on Bourbon street, but it's Super Bowl.
Big Cat
Other big story from Goodell's press conferences. We are. We have done it, boys.
PFT Commenter
We did it. Congratulations.
Big Cat
Racism.
Chris
No more.
Big Cat
End racism in the end zone.
PFT Commenter
It only took four years.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT Commenter
That's what's crazy. It's like, it should accomplish how. Since the end of the Civil War. What was that? 18. When that. 1865-65. 1865. Until 2021, we didn't have end racism painted in end zones. And then 2021, we decided, let's do something.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Let's fix this. And we. We painted that shit in end zones.
Big Cat
And we did it, and we put.
PFT Commenter
It on the backs of helmets. And now racism's dead.
Big Cat
Done. Sea of racism. Now I think it's going to say.
PFT Commenter
It takes all of us to do what?
Big Cat
Anything.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Hank
To continue to not be racist, to.
Big Cat
Continue to ignore all the freak events that are happening that Hank is not ignoring.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Takes all of us.
PFT Commenter
One of them says, like, you're the.
Hank
One sending them to me now. That's all you do all day. Yeah, exactly.
PFT Commenter
Is that another one?
Big Cat
Choose love is also gone.
PFT Commenter
Choose love is gone.
Big Cat
We're choosing hate.
PFT Commenter
Okay, I meant. But what about calling a timeout to hate? Oh, we're calling time out to hate now.
Big Cat
Well, when you call time out to hate, you're basically timing out and then being like, let's hate.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So that you can get better at hating when you get back.
Big Cat
Yeah, Time out to hate.
PFT Commenter
That's what Hank does.
Big Cat
Yeah. Time out to hate would be great if it was. If they did that actually in the game where the announcers could just Be like, everything. This is.
Max
All right.
Big Cat
Time back in. All right. And we're back. And it's 14, 13. Great game being played.
PFT Commenter
My guys are a little bit winded up. We need a. We need to call a timeout. They're gonna go out there and they're gonna be really nasty.
Big Cat
The big news, though, the NFL news, is Miles Garrett has requested a trade. So Cleveland Browns fans. Sucks for them. They tried to do a protest. Two people showed up at the stadium, which I actually say, kudos to Cleveland Browns fans because you protesting a guy asking to be traded in the middle of February. Like, good job, Cleveland Browns fan. You're not going to just be like, oh. Because you know what would happen if a thousand people show up? Then it becomes like a viral meme of, look how stupid Browns fans are. So I am. I defend Browns fans in. This is like, don't show up to that. It sucks. I feel bad for Browns fans, but also Miles Garrett. He does probably have a few good years left, and he wants to win a Super Bowl.
PFT Commenter
I would say he's probably in his prime right now.
Big Cat
He's 29.
PFT Commenter
He's still really fucking good.
Big Cat
I saw someone did a stat of like, Aaron Donald. I can't remember who else was on it. Khalil Mack. And it was like, after 20, 29, 30, like, you might get, like, one or two really good years, but they will tail off.
PFT Commenter
But the crazy. He had, what, 14 saxes here?
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And he had it on a team that stunk offensively.
Big Cat
No, he's still very, very, like, he.
PFT Commenter
Was on the field in a lot of, like, you know, late game, pass rush situations. Yeah, he still got 14 seconds. I think he's, like, in his prime solidly right now.
Big Cat
Who's he gonna go to?
PFT Commenter
I think he might be. That boy might be commie. Yeah, I think so. I think so. You don't want that, Max.
Memes
Oh, we're talking about next year.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Talk about next year.
Big Cat
What are you talking about?
Memes
I'm still playing this year.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, but. No, but a couple minutes ago, you were saying that he might be a bird.
Memes
Well, I mean, that's what people are saying, but I'm worried about this year. I'll let you worry about next year.
PFT Commenter
Where do you think Miles Garrett's gonna end up?
Memes
Probably Eagle.
PFT Commenter
That was way easier than I thought.
Big Cat
Yeah, I think it would make sense for the guy.
PFT Commenter
It would make sense for the commanders. It would make sense for the Bill.
Big Cat
It's Bills, commanders, Packers, Eagles. I've seen the Bears run. I don't want the Bears to trade for him. Not that he's not good, but the Bears have too many holes. But it feels like a team more like Packers, Eagles, Commanders, Bills, Patriots. You guys have a lot of holes too.
Chris
Yeah.
Hank
He can be a big, big fill for those holes.
Chris
He keep.
PFT Commenter
That man can fill the hole. I've seen him in the sweatpants.
Big Cat
He can fill hole. And also Cooper cup is getting traded, which that was kind of crazy that he just. I feel like they probably weren't happy that he announced that.
PFT Commenter
Well, no, it was. The team decided to trade him.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And he announced it. And so he was like, they've decided to move on from me.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT Commenter
I'm letting you guys know. It's not my. It's not my call. It's your call.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So, yeah, I was looking at his numbers too. He obviously had that great 20, 21 season. One of the best seasons of any wide receiver of all time. Since then, hasn't really been a top.
Big Cat
Tier wide receiver and He's I think $20 million or something.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know how that's going to work out. I mean, I think he's still pretty good Commie. He could be a commie. Yeah. It spread the love around. Spread the wealth around.
Big Cat
What, Hank? Maybe Patriot.
PFT Commenter
Maybe Patriot.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Well, Belichick's not the coach anymore. He would get Cooper cup in a second.
Big Cat
Yeah. I do feel bad for Browns fans though, because Miles Garrett, you. I don't. I mean, you went to the playoffs a couple times, but you wasted his prime.
PFT Commenter
It sucks. It sucks.
Big Cat
Or just once they go once. Yeah, just once.
PFT Commenter
It sucks if you're a Browns fan because it does tie into the desean Watson trade.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT Commenter
Everything they gave up for that guy and it was as bad a move as you could ever make.
Big Cat
And it's also, I don't know, the cap makes no sense to me. It never will. But they're way over the cap and if they trade him, I think he still carries like an insane cap hit.
Chris
So.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I don't know what the Rudolph about that. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know how that works out, but I feel like two first round picks. That seems like a fair. A fair deal.
Big Cat
Yeah. That was Cleo Mack was two first round picks.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Two first round pick seems like a good deal. I would. I would love for him to be a commander. I would absolutely love that. I want Myles Garrett so bad.
Big Cat
Okay, so sign up.
PFT Commenter
Come to D.C. miles, I know you're listening to the show.
Big Cat
Come on.
PFT Commenter
Appreciate you. Don't listen to your boy Chris Long. He's going to feed you a bunch of nonsense about the birds. Don't listen to him. He's high, he's stoned. He's not making any sense. Not me. I am. I'm clear minded of sound body and mind sober. Miles, come to D.C. we'll treat you so good, buddy.
Big Cat
We also had more reports from the Luca trade, and it just gets dumber and dumber. This guy should be Nico Harrison.
Max
The.
Big Cat
The big report came out, and they basically did what we predicted, where they were like, luca's fat, and he's so fat, and we can't have him signing, like, the. The quote that stuck out to me. They were like, yeah, we didn't know if he was going to sign the supermax, and we were kind of like, half hoping he wouldn't. It's like, what the. Yeah, it makes no sense. So, yeah, Nico Harrison did this all at a coffee shop with Rob Blinkin. Rob Polinka essentially just heisted him and pretended like, oh, man, I. I know this is so difficult for you. Like, we'll keep this under wraps, just the two of us, and like, whoops, we got the best trade ever.
PFT Commenter
Oh, do you think that Rob Pelinka, in those meetings, the thought occurred to him that maybe this is an episode of Punk? Like, is this a hidden camera show? Like, I'm just gonna try to play it cool.
Big Cat
And Rob Polinka did, like, he's like, ah, he's kind of fat. You're right. Yeah. Nope. The whole, like, oh, well, the Chris Paul trade got out when David Stern, you know, you know, put a squash to it. The Anthony Davis trade got out. The first one from the Pelicans. And like, that ruined a lot of vibes. Like, we got to keep this tight. We can't let anyone know just for the sanctity of this trade. And Nico's like, you're right. You're so right. We cannot tell anyone. And then it hits the airways. There was like, they're. The Mavs are giving back $2,000 refunds for anyone who wants to cancel their.
PFT Commenter
Season tickets credit to them.
Big Cat
That's how bad this trade is.
PFT Commenter
That's a good front office that knows how to take care of their fans.
Hank
If I was a Mass fan, I would. I would. I would never get over it. I would never get over it.
Big Cat
No.
Hank
Like, the only way deserves to be in prison.
PFT Commenter
Like, it was.
Hank
It's malpractice.
Big Cat
Yeah. The only way you can reasonably get over it is if, like, Luka ends up being like, £320.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, you got to hope he gets real fat.
Hank
But you want to root against Luka.
Big Cat
You don't want to root, like, you.
Hank
Don'T have nothing against Luka.
Big Cat
It's also insane that everyone Keeps saying the 270. Isn't he like 6 8?
PFT Commenter
Yeah, yeah. 270. Not that big.
Hank
Yeah, no.
Big Cat
Right. You're worried about super, so you're worried about super.
Memes
Yeah, no, he's just upset.
PFT Commenter
I am. I'm upset. I am upset. Yeah. The Luca thing, the fact that that Dalton connect was even tossed out there, and the Lakers were like, no. You know, including Dalton connect, I think that kills the deal. And the Mavericks were like, oh, they're gonna walk away. Yeah, okay, I'll say yes.
Big Cat
Luke is 6 6, by the way, and his listed weight is 230.
PFT Commenter
He is not 230.
Big Cat
That's pretty awesome. But, yeah, he. He. He did his press conference. He was like, I was just as shocked as everyone else. I thought it was April 1st. There was that sad story that he just bought a new, like, 15 million dollar house. So, Luca, that's brutal.
PFT Commenter
It's really bad.
Big Cat
Yeah, he's gonna have to sell that house.
PFT Commenter
It did seem that the gm, Nico was, like, just trying to avoid doing more work this summer and next year. Yeah, you know, it's a. It's a hard conversation. Do you want to commit this much money to him? Didn't really feel like going through that discussion, so I just got him off my table.
Big Cat
Yeah. Didn't want. Just didn't want him to gain a single more pound. There was a funny story that Harold Bob went on a podcast. He used to work for the Mavs, and he said his first time going to the Mavs facility, Luca was working out in a sauna suit. And then after the practice, they got catered by Tex Mex, and Luca filled up, like, a huge, like, jug with just sweet tea and lemonade.
PFT Commenter
It's the. The Burt Kreischer with Kool Aid, right?
Big Cat
Yeah, but it's just. You knew this was gonna happen.
PFT Commenter
I thought you're gonna say queso.
Big Cat
No, I thought when he was telling the story, I thought the same thing. I was like, oh, did Luca just walk away with like a gallon of queso?
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Big Cat
But, yeah, they. They then banned sweet tea and lemonade from the practice after that. So they just. They don't want to let the guy live.
PFT Commenter
You Know, it's interesting, the double standard the media has. When LeBron James puts on nine pounds during an NBA game, we all talk about what a freak athlete he is. When Luca puts on nine pounds during a practice, it's like, oh, this guy's got a problem. This guy's got a weight problem.
Big Cat
Yeah, it's. I. I don't like the slander on Luca.
Max
He's.
PFT Commenter
He did wear a fat guy outfit today. He had the. The button up shirt and then the sweater over top of that. So the button up was holding his physique in and then the. The cardigan was covering it all up.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
It would be very funny if he just showed up day one for the Lakers. It was in the best shape ever. Like, chiseled six pack.
Big Cat
Apparently LeBron called him right away and said, I unders. He said, I understand what you're feeling. How does LeBron understand what he's feeling? LeBron has literally decided every. Every step of his. That's the opposite of what you're feeling. Like, understand.
PFT Commenter
How does.
Big Cat
There was a report the Lakers tried to trade him to the warriors last year, and Rich Paul was like, no. So I don't know how LeBron understands.
PFT Commenter
What Luke is feeling, I guess in the grand sense. Like, maybe he just has empathy or.
Big Cat
Oh, actually, you know what? It was this, because when the story broke, LeBron was at dinner, so he probably was like, I don't understand what you're feeling. I'm full too.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Yeah. You and I were not so different, Luca.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, we. I have to take a. Luca, I understand what you're feeling.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I think if the Mavericks win the NBA title this year, that would be awesome. And then if the Lakers won the NBA championship, like, for the three years after that, that would be very funny.
Big Cat
Yeah. So, yeah, shout out Luca for the 15 million dollar house. That's brutal. You know, he just moved. I mean, moving does suck. I'll say that.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Even as. Even as a guy who makes, like, has over 200 million in the bank. It doesn't matter. Moving sucks.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So $15 million. I thought it. I thought his house would be more expensive than that.
Big Cat
You think so?
Hank
It's cheaper in Dallas also.
Big Cat
I don't know. Like, once you.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. What are mansions like in. In Dallas, Hank?
Hank
They're nice. There's a lot of them. Yeah. Better price for them.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
Hot tubs.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. No, the drywall work is shoddy, to say the least.
Memes
Oil.
Big Cat
Oil.
PFT Commenter
Oil.
Max
Oil.
PFT Commenter
Good point, Max.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
Great job, Max.
PFT Commenter
Was that a fat comment for Luca.
Big Cat
No, I think he was literally meaning oil.
Memes
Like, oil money.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Chris
All right.
Big Cat
Yeah. He didn't complete the sentence.
Memes
Yeah, I was thinking about oil.
Hank
Big oil.
Big Cat
The dumbest. The dumbest trade ever. I. I don't really know how it's. How it could. It's just still, like, I thought that after two days, there would be a little more clarity, and it would be. I was expecting there to be, like, a Luca injury we didn't know about. It really just boils down to Nico Harrison's a moron, and they were scared that Luca was going to keep gaining weight.
PFT Commenter
It also could be trying to get a favor, and then they have to deal with it.
Hank
In the summer, the casino.
PFT Commenter
We'll try the casino that the Mavericks owner wants to build.
Big Cat
Ye. Yeah.
Hank
Or the ratings in LA thing makes sense, too.
Big Cat
There's also.
Hank
But that's a conspiracy, and I don't want to go down that road. But it's like, you trade. You know, league ratings are going down. There's issues. You trade the best player to the biggest market international. That helps. What was the conspiracy? That's bad. To go down those roads. Yeah, but it's not la.
Big Cat
It's not la. What was it? Casino conspiracy.
PFT Commenter
So the casino conspiracy is that the owner of the Mavericks wants very badly to build a casino in Texas, right? Like, at the site of the Mavericks.
Big Cat
I heard there's two casino conspiracy. Okay, So I want to hear yours.
PFT Commenter
All right, so. So he wants. He's on the record. He's lobbying in the Texas State legislature, which means it meets for six months, once every two years. They do all their work in those six months, and then they just. They just go away and they don't do anything for a while. So if you want to get anything done in Texas, Hank wants to be a legislator, so. Yeah, you should. You should work in the Texas State legislature. Legislature, Hank.
Hank
I'm down.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
Are they on it?
Max
Are they on?
Hank
Indeed.
PFT Commenter
Step number one, get established residency in Texas. You know, any houses that you could live in. He's already got his in there.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
All right. So, yeah, big footprint for Hank in Texas already. They do all their work in six months, then they go away and they off for a while. The owner of the Mavericks has been lobbying to get this casino built and to lobby for, like, legalized sports gaming and for gambling in Texas. The legislature's like, yeah, it. We don't really feel like doing that because we might lose some votes. So we're not going to do the whole gambling thing. That pissed off the Owner of the Mavericks. Now, the conspiracy is the Mavericks owner wants to send a good player to LA to get on the good side of the Lakers because they're like the most powerful voice in the NBA. So in a couple years, he could threaten to move the Mavericks to Las Vegas where they have legalized gambling.
Big Cat
So. So the conspiracy theory that I read kind of blends into that one where it's the Mavs are. The owners of the Mavs are basically trying to alienate the fan base so much that the NBA will eventually add two more teams, and the Adelsons, I think their name is, will move the Mavs to Las Vegas and then there'll be a expansion franchise called the Dallas Mavericks.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, no, that's. That's pretty much the same thing. Yeah, but it's like the NFL used to do this until there was a team in Vegas. It was always great having Las Vegas without a team.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Because any owner, anytime they wanted money from, you know, when the billionaires, they don't want to pay for their own stadiums, you can bleep that out. They would say, yeah, well, we could maybe move to Las Vegas.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT Commenter
And then the local community be like, yeah, I guess we have to give you all the money for our schools.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah, which. Yeah, the la. Yeah, like you said, the LA thing.
PFT Commenter
Which in fairness, would you rather have a good school system or a winning football team?
Big Cat
Winning football.
PFT Commenter
Winning football team.
Big Cat
Yeah. Winning football. I don't know why I paused for so long. I'm not thinking about my kids for a second.
PFT Commenter
And I was like, it's better if your kids are dumb. You can trick them.
Memes
Your kids can root for football.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, just give them YouTube.
Big Cat
They learn football math.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, X. Just log them into x.com.
Big Cat
The better your football team is, the more numbers packets.
PFT Commenter
They are the media.
Big Cat
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Hank
My house is the mlb.
PFT Commenter
Oh, okay.
Hank
And I'm not a, I'm not a, I'm not a conspiracy guy.
PFT Commenter
No.
Hank
I'm never chill. Just, you know, vibe out, bridge. Let life happen. Whatever happens happens. Ceste Lavie Dolph. But if you were a conspiracy guy, you might be like, this is insane. The MLB had to fire a ref because he was sharing a ref. Sorry, umpire. He was sharing a gambling account with another gambler who was gambling on baseball, including the games that he was on firing.
PFT Commenter
Was it his brother or was it just a friend?
Big Cat
I'll say it.
Hank
Professional poker player.
Max
I'll say.
PFT Commenter
Oh, wow.
Big Cat
Yeah, this. They should fire him. You think sharing a gambling account is, Is a felony? Yeah, like, not even just legally. I'm just saying that's the most psycho thing I've ever heard. You having to track everything you bet and then all your. Everything your friend bets. That's crazy.
PFT Commenter
And then if you, if you hit a couple bets, then your friend tells people, like, hey, look at all these bets I hit. That's insane.
Big Cat
Pre crime.
Hank
But he said he never bet on baseball directly or indirectly.
Chris
Don't care.
Big Cat
You shared a gambling account. That's weirdo behavior.
PFT Commenter
But that account did bet on baseball games that he was reffing. Right.
Big Cat
But also, just like, you don't even if the MLB was like, we don't even care about the whole betting part or the baseball thing. We can't have people employed by us who think it's okay to share a gambling account.
Hank
Yeah. It makes no sense.
Big Cat
Makes no sense.
PFT Commenter
I think, I think it's like old.
Big Cat
School when, like, I, like way back in the day when my friends would text me, being like, can you put this in for me? I'm like, no, because then when you win, I'm just gonna have to pay you because I lose all the time.
Hank
Yeah. I mean, shout out to light switch Lou, because I used to not gamble as much money. So he would just let me bet on his account, but then I never really had to pay. Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Baseball umpires are frauds. Anyways, I used to think they were all fat because they wore the chest protectors.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I think they used to be fatter back in the day.
Big Cat
They did. They've gone a little bit in shape, but probably nothing. Yeah, probably nothing.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Wait, no, I, I, there's something there. I don't want weirdos umpiring baseball games.
PFT Commenter
Was he the umpire for any, like, significant games.
Hank
I did not say in the article that I read.
PFT Commenter
We gotta go back.
Big Cat
It'd be funny if he shared the gambling account with Shohei or Ipe. Yeah.
Hank
And you're like, hey, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go umpire tonight. And I was like, yeah, hey, by the way, I'm betting the Orioles.
Big Cat
Like, yeah, yeah.
PFT Commenter
We did all kind of stop talking about the Ipe. Shohei thing.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
PFT Commenter
Ipe. He's. He begged for leniency. I don't know. Justice for Ipe maybe possibly store more.
Hank
To come then My Cool Thrones. Kendrick Lamar.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Hank
After we taped on. On Sunday. But he won five Grammys.
Big Cat
Five.
Hank
Zero. Not like us. Every Grammy that I was nominated for, he won.
Big Cat
Super Bowl Halftime.
Hank
Super bowl halftime.
Chris
7.
Big Cat
A hell of a week.
Hank
The whole.
Memes
The whole crowd sang a minor.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
When they played.
Big Cat
This wasn't from a Drake song where he said, Kendrick opened his mouth. Give him a Grammy.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
That's tough.
Hank
I'm gonna give him a Grammy right now.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
He's wearing a Canadian tuxedo. It's really.
Big Cat
It really is.
Hank
And yeah, it was like, oh, he won five Grammys. Always doing the super bowl in a week.
PFT Commenter
Has there ever been more of a, like, blowout, subjective, loss, insane that. That the Kendrick Drake thing turned into like. Obviously art is entirely in the eye of the beholder, and different people can have differing opinions. But in this one thing where people can interpret it either any way they see fit. Like, this is as big of a blowout as you'll ever see a diss track.
Hank
The record of the, like, this is the best song of the year.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
In. In the entire song in like two minutes.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And here's the super bowl too.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Where you're going to have everyone say probably you're gonna have people sing the pedophile line.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. It was like a 9 nothing soccer victory. And three of them were own goals.
Big Cat
He has to basically release the best song of all time.
Hank
I don't think it matters at this point. I don't think he's. I think he's just cooked. Disappear.
PFT Commenter
I think Drake needs to sue everyone that's listened to the song.
Big Cat
He needs to disappear and make the best song. Best album ever. That's like 10 of the best songs ever. And then maybe he has a chance.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay. Pft.
PFT Commenter
Good job. Hank.
Hank
Are we gonna talk? But we're gonna mention the. The Max story before the Lane interview because he's on My Cool Throne too.
Big Cat
Oh, no.
Hank
Well, we Can Jalen Hurts.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. We went to the very hotel today. What happened with Jalen Hurts?
Hank
We were. We were going to do Lane Johnson in the.
Big Cat
Yeah, we were gonna go do him.
Hank
Going to interview Wayne Johnson.
PFT Commenter
Sorry.
Hank
And Jalen Hurts was walk. Just happened to be walking by us in the hallway. And Max like, like, hid behind a column. Like, he was not supposed to be like, he's. Oh, chilling. And like, hid behind a column and then kind of peeked his head out to, like, look at him walk by.
PFT Commenter
You were like in the bushes.
Hank
It was so funny. So funny.
Memes
I was scared.
Big Cat
He's done merch collabs with us, but it's.
Hank
It was like he saw him and he was like.
Memes
I was nervous. I was expecting to see him. We were. We were standing, right. It started off I just stared at him, and then I think he saw me staring at him. I was like, this is awkward.
Big Cat
And you got the red eyes.
Memes
I just got. I just got scared and went behind this little pillar.
Big Cat
Max with his red eye. Where's your eye going to stop being red?
Memes
I don't know.
PFT Commenter
Case race, man.
Big Cat
So what you think when you saw.
Memes
Him, he looked strong?
Big Cat
Yeah, real strong.
Memes
Yeah, he was walking well.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I analyzed the game.
Hank
He was walking, walking strong, walking, confident.
PFT Commenter
No sight of a limp.
Memes
He's going to up on Sunday.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Wait, in a good way.
Big Cat
That's not really.
Memes
No. Like, I came here to up.
Big Cat
Yeah, but up could go.
Memes
No, I came here to up.
Chris
That's like.
Memes
That's like a saying.
PFT Commenter
He's gonna hand the out of the ball on Sunday and throw the football.
Big Cat
He can do both and run the football.
Memes
And run the football. He could do everything and score the football.
Big Cat
He said he wanted. He said it's not the tosh portions. There's a QB sneak. Yeah, that media night beast.
PFT Commenter
The packers president said he hopes that it gets banned.
Memes
Who? I think I was having this conversation with Jerry. Does he have the best goatee in sports right now?
PFT Commenter
Oh, yeah. Interesting. Embrace debate easily. We don't have a lot of relief pitcher goatees like we used to. No, that was like. It was part of the uniform code.
Hank
These are hard to pull off.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, he really pulls it off.
Big Cat
He does pull it off. You just passed over what PFT said.
Memes
I don't remember.
Big Cat
The packers president is trying to get the tush push banned.
Memes
Yeah, they're.
Big Cat
Yeah. Football.
Memes
Yeah. Be better.
Big Cat
Be better.
Memes
That's all I have to say.
PFT Commenter
If you don't like the push push, don't let him get in touch push situations. Or stop. Or keep.
Big Cat
Stop.
PFT Commenter
Keep breaking the rules until the referees threaten you with a touchdown. Yeah, that's what winners do.
Memes
Like that.
Big Cat
No, he didn't.
PFT Commenter
No.
Big Cat
Okay. Your hot seat. Cool throne.
PFT Commenter
My hot seat is the birds. Birds are on the hot seat.
Hank
Ducks.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, because, like, 300 dead birds washed up ashore. Don't worry about Lake Michigan in Chicago know. They said it's bird flu, maybe.
Big Cat
Oh, no, bro.
Hank
That's the circle of life, man.
Big Cat
Yeah, it is.
Hank
Comes for all of us.
PFT Commenter
Carson Wentz just hanging out. Do you think he just shot all of them? I don't know. That seems like a lot of dead ducks.
Memes
What if Carson Wentz has to play in this game this weekend?
PFT Commenter
You're insane. Max has gone crazy right now.
Big Cat
Oh, my God.
Hank
That would actually believable.
Big Cat
Oh, my God.
Hank
Despite the fact that, like, I need.
Big Cat
The Eagles storyline just dropped.
Hank
I would. I would root so hard just. And that's up to even say. But it would be so funny.
Memes
$30,000.
Hank
You said you in the super bowl would be. And it would also be like. Because then I could be like, well, it's not even Patrick Mahomes.
Big Cat
He's just sit.
Hank
Some quarterback.
Big Cat
We already taped FAQs earlier today, and you were like, it can't get worse.
Hank
Oh, that would be.
Big Cat
That would get worse.
Chris
I would come.
Big Cat
That would be worse.
Hank
You said that, like, in a good way. Yeah, man.
Memes
No, I was just thinking about it. You said Carson Wentz, and I was like, oh, yeah. Carson Wentz plays for the Chiefs.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
What if they roll that little freak out there and he just drops 300 yards on you?
Big Cat
What if he. What if Patrick Mahomes goes out in the first quarter, then Carson Wentz comes in and sprains both his ankles again and then still wins.
PFT Commenter
Tough guy.
Memes
Yeah, that would stink.
PFT Commenter
Would that be the biggest sports story ever? Ever, Ever, ever, ever, ever?
Hank
Bigger than Luca ever?
Big Cat
O.J.
PFT Commenter
No, that's not a sports story. That's crime.
Memes
It's kind of a sports story.
PFT Commenter
Well, he. He was athletic and fast.
Memes
He's a football player.
PFT Commenter
Nascar maybe. Nascar, yeah. Max, that would be awesome. I hope. Now. Now that's what I hope happens.
Memes
Yeah. No, I don't. I hope that that doesn't happen. Sorry for. Sorry for interrupting you there.
PFT Commenter
Carson went super bowl mvp.
Big Cat
All right. What's your cool throne?
PFT Commenter
My cool throne is litigation because Pat Riley has struck a deal with the NFL. So the term 3 Pete is trademarked by Pat Riley from back when the Lakers did it. And anytime a team wants to use the term Three peat. They got to pay Pat royalties. And the Chiefs, as we know, they.
Big Cat
Didn'T get a three peat. By the way. He got it when they had two and they were going for their third and loss of the Pistons.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, so. But he did trademark it, so. Yeah, Hank, it is sick that anytime somebody uses that officially, it's crazy. You got to kick up to the big man, Pat Riley. So the Chiefs, obviously on the precipice of an unprecedented three peat in the NFL, and they struck a deal with the NFL that they can put it on merchandise. The term three. Pete, if the Chiefs win, does that make you do the fingers? Max, the NFL seems like they wouldn't do this if they didn't already know that Chiefs were going to win. What do you think about that, Max?
Memes
I don't know. I'm worried about winning.
Big Cat
And also, yeah, we shouldn't.
Memes
I shouldn't have said that.
PFT Commenter
My other cool throne is style, because I just downloaded the. The Temu app and you can just buy anything on there. It all costs like $12. And so I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna load up on the highest fashion sense ever.
Hank
And you're doing new stuff. I thought you're a new fashion.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, but they got.
Hank
Sounds like you. It sounds like the PSD of old.
PFT Commenter
They got. They got high fashion haute couture on Teemu. Designer brands. I'm just gonna order memes.
Hank
What designers?
PFT Commenter
I don't know.
Hank
The Gap.
PFT Commenter
No, they're not. Dude, you don't know about Timu. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna be so swaggy when I get back from vacation, I'm gonna look like a new man. New clothes.
Hank
Sean John.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, whatever. Echo Unlimited.
Max
What?
Memes
You're growing up.
PFT Commenter
Echo Unlimited. Get some. Yeah, some.
Hank
Like, what was Diddy's?
PFT Commenter
I don't know. Oh, yeah, I'm probably not gonna wear that. Yeah, I did get oiled up the other day, though.
Chris
You did.
PFT Commenter
Smoothest man in the podcast biz.
Big Cat
All right.
PFT Commenter
Pmtv.
Big Cat
My hot seat. Pmtv. Watch it. My hot seat is college football because we have this from. There's a Twitter account called Board Geniuses, which is a great follow because they basically just get all the crazy conspiracy theories and everything from all the mess.
Hank
Dude, no.
Big Cat
Well, hot seat. College football, because I think this is from Pitt Panther. So it's from the Panther layer message board. It's called the underground talent railroad. Step one, self awareness. Pitt, Maryland, Syracuse, BC and Rutgers all take an honest look at themselves and think, wow. As college football programs go we are freaking depressing. Step two, collusion. Well, individually, we make our fans want to bathe with electronic appliances. Maybe we can be something collectively. Step three, teamwork. Let's create a network where we're all transparent with each other. Every fifth year, each one of us can take its turn having the A team. In the first season, Pitt gets to have the 22 best players between the five programs. In the second season, Syracuse gets the best 22, and so on and so forth. We will use unlimited transfers to our benefit, and all players who commit to these five schools will be well aware of the deal in place. Playing on the A team in a given season will be a great privilege. Step four, Natty.
PFT Commenter
I don't hate it.
Big Cat
I love it.
PFT Commenter
I actually don't hate it at all. I love it and love it.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So which is collusion even illegal?
Big Cat
I don't know. Is it?
PFT Commenter
Who's going to enforce it?
Big Cat
I think you can collude.
PFT Commenter
You can do whatever you want.
Hank
Collusion and collabing.
PFT Commenter
Good point.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
They're just collabing. Yeah, it's just a hardcore collab.
PFT Commenter
The most ambitious crossover event of all time. Syracuse Pit. Who else?
Big Cat
Syracuse on it. Minimized it. I think it was Syracuse Pit. Rutgers, Rutgers and Boston College. And I don't know who the fifth.
PFT Commenter
Team was, but in reality, if you were to take, like, the all star teams from those schools and put them together on one team, I still don't think that they're gonna.
Big Cat
Yeah, it would still probably. You probably would just get, like, a.
PFT Commenter
Better bowl game, maybe get into the playoff.
Big Cat
Maryland was the other team.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Big Cat
The underground talent railroad.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I don't know why they had to go there.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Just stick with, like, serious collusion.
Big Cat
Yeah. Well, here's another one for my cool throne. This just happened. Dennis Schroeder from the warriors said the trade deadline is like modern slavery. Luka Doncic deal shouldn't be allowed. I don't know what. How.
Hank
Because he's had to play. He's had to play with, like, six teams in seven years or five years. That's. That was part of it.
PFT Commenter
I'm not.
Hank
I've had to play for five teams in six years.
PFT Commenter
I'm not a history buff.
Big Cat
Mm.
PFT Commenter
So maybe you guys can help me. Did slaves get paid?
Big Cat
No.
PFT Commenter
Okay. Do NBA players get paid?
Big Cat
They do.
PFT Commenter
Probably not that much.
Big Cat
I do. Yeah. I don't know. How is this quote I'm trying to.
PFT Commenter
Find you get dunk settled?
Big Cat
No, no. It's on CBS Sports. It's.
PFT Commenter
It's Quite a quote, I think. I think what he was trying to say is that it sucks to get traded.
Big Cat
It's like modern slavery. It's modern slavery. At the end of the day, everybody can decide where you're going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course. We make a lot of money. We can feed our families. But at the end of the day, if they say you're not coming to work tomorrow, you're going over there, they can decide that. They got to change that a little bit. I.
Memes
Isn't that part of the contest?
Big Cat
Yeah. And that's also how trades work.
PFT Commenter
And there's also a thing. As if you're good enough. You can get a no trade clause.
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT Commenter
Where you can control where you're going.
Big Cat
It's kind of crazy that the organization can tell you we want you to be team first, but you're going over there. It's a lot. I feel like Dennis Schroeder just figured out how sports work.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I mean, that's. It's a fair point.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
To be like, yeah, it personally kind of sucks when you get traded.
Big Cat
Here's another thing. If you. I mean, in the NBA, you have guaranteed contracts. So unlike a regular job where you can be fired and just not paid. The NBA, even if you get traded, you still get paid.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it's true. So it's not a bad gig.
Big Cat
Well, you're saying Dennis Schroeder, all time bag fumbler. All time what? Bag fumbler. Yeah. Yeah. He had the 12.4 million dollar deal.
PFT Commenter
With the Lakers and opted out and.
Big Cat
Bet on himself and got like a.
Memes
One point something million dollar deal.
PFT Commenter
That's got to be real. Kick, kick in the dick. When you're like, I'd like to bet on myself. And then the casino tells you, yeah, turns out you suck.
Big Cat
Oh, shit. Bet on yourself. Oh, you're a loser.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Craps.
Big Cat
Damn, Max, you have a hot sequel to him.
Memes
Yeah. Mine are bad.
Big Cat
Oh, no.
Memes
Should I say it?
PFT Commenter
Yeah, yeah.
Big Cat
We're doing a podcast. I actually will. I'm gonna say this in defense of Max. For the first time all week. I think he's actually locked in.
Memes
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I'm a little bit concerned about him.
Big Cat
You didn't let me finish. Locked in on trying to fight off his hangover.
Memes
That's not true. Not true.
Big Cat
I asked him to sport if you would outlast a goes. Oh, yeah.
Memes
End of the show. I was pretty. We did the end of the show this morning.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
I was pretty hungover.
Hank
You look great now.
Memes
Right now, right now.
Big Cat
I feel. Yeah, the red eye is. Is really healing well.
Memes
I have a red eye.
PFT Commenter
Hank has done thousands of podcasts with deep red eyes.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Yep.
Chris
Yeah.
Memes
Yeah. All right, so Hawk seat. Kevin Durant might get traded. Oh, that's. That was my hot seat.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Big Cat
Per. Wow.
PFT Commenter
Max.
Big Cat
That's never happened.
Memes
No, they. They said that they're listening to phone calls on Kevin Durant.
Big Cat
Got it.
Memes
And there's. There's a bunch of guys that are doing that now.
Hank
The week of trade deadline.
Memes
Yeah, yeah, I know. Trade deadline weeks.
PFT Commenter
I'll say this.
Hank
If I got a text from a random number that Jimmy Butler and Jay Rich are going to the Heat. Confirmed. Said this is a random source.
PFT Commenter
It's real.
Big Cat
He's on the.
Memes
On the heat.
Hank
I mean, the Suns. Oh, apologies.
Memes
But Bradley Beal has to waive his no trade.
Hank
Listen, this is what a random ass text sent me.
Memes
Okay.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I trust that guy.
Big Cat
Kevin Durant. There's. There's. There's so.
PFT Commenter
So listening.
Big Cat
So, Kevin, it's the trade deadline, and Kevin Durant might be traded.
Memes
That's what they. That's what people are saying.
PFT Commenter
So Paul George.
Memes
Also, the warriors are trying to trade for Paul George.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
PFT Commenter
If Nico calls.
Memes
And Caleb Martin also got Caleb out of the East.
Hank
Him.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
What? He just signed with the Sixers.
Memes
Yeah, they traded him.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
Memes
Grimes.
Max
All right.
PFT Commenter
But you're just saying names now.
Memes
Quentin Grimes and the Sixers.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Memes
Caleb Martin and the Mavs, but actually.
Hank
Making me feel better.
Big Cat
Yeah, he is. Are you cool to him if you.
PFT Commenter
Get a call from Nico right now, though? If you're a gm, you're like, so. You're so excited to pick up that call.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's true.
PFT Commenter
Like, that would be the best time for Nico to get a great trade off.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Because everyone thinks he's a.
Memes
Everyone said he got fleeced. Quentin Grimes is, like, younger and better than Caleb Martin.
PFT Commenter
That's the big fleecing that they're talking about.
Memes
Celtic killer. True.
Max
All right.
Big Cat
Yeah. Cool. Throwing us. Hank is right, because we're not what you are right now.
Max
Wrong. Cool.
Memes
Throne Giants. Jamis to the Giants. According to Saquon.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's it. Done.
Memes
Benico, play the ads.
Big Cat
Let's get to our interviews. Lane Johnson and then Jameis Winston.
PFT Commenter
One very funny thing on the set. I don't know if you guys noticed this, but they made a license plate for part of my take in Louisiana. And just as PMT licks back there, because it's the Roman numeral.
Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
Sounds.
Memes
Sounds like a dream that might be.
Big Cat
You might, you might reach nirvana in that moment.
Memes
Sounds like a dream.
PFT Commenter
I'm screaming at Jalen Hurts again.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
How much you love them.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
How much you love them.
Big Cat
How much you love them. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Ride the bottle endorsement.
Big Cat
Ride the Baja wave on game day and grab Mountain Dew Baja Blasts for you and your crew wherever refreshing beverages are sold. Okay, here he is, Elaine Johnson. Okay. We now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. It is future hall of famer Lane Johnson.
PFT Commenter
How's that sound?
Big Cat
How's that sound? That sounds pretty good. Future hall of famer Lane Johnson ahead of his third super bowl appearance here in New Orleans. Let's start with that. Three Super Bowls Pretty crazy to go to. You have one. You're one in one. This is the tiebreaker.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
I mean, it's got to feel pretty crazy, especially the fact that you've done it with, like, I think I was reading, it's like you and Jake Elliott and maybe one other person.
Chris
BG and Rick. Yeah.
Big Cat
And so it's just like you guys are the holdovers from the super bowl win, and then you've been to another one and now you're here the third. That's. That's pretty cool.
Chris
Yeah, I mean, it's. The season takes so long to develop and play out, but, you know, by the December, you kind of know that your team's in a. In a good positive state. So. Man, we struggled a little bit early, but after that, man, we were off and off and rolling and. Yeah, man. Third, it's crazy. I mean, you don't plan on it, but hey, while we're here, let's have a good time and win this thing.
Big Cat
You mentioned the struggle because there was that story that during the bye week, you guys who was. It was you and. And a couple other guys went to Nick and were just basically like, hey, like, let's run the ball. We can. We can pound this. And we're like, let's get. Let's get this out of the mud.
Chris
Right? Yeah. I mean, I think it was like, similar to what we did in 21 when we played Detroit and went from like, really throwing the ball heavy to like, a lot of run play action, and then Saquon will bust for like, 70. It's like just. Just tossing the damn ball.
Max
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's gonna feel pretty good.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
First play from scrimmage in the NFC Championship game, it's like, okay, yeah, we're gonna do this. We're gonna roll up.
Chris
Yeah. No. Yeah. I mean, it's. You never planned on it, but his ability to just, you know, and my ability to just head straight to the bench and when it's not even done as an older guy now, so I get kind of criticized from laziness.
PFT Commenter
Your offensive line in that game, it was. It was impressive to watch. Like, you guys are some tough.
Chris
Well, some big. Like, I'm like the second smallest.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Juergens and myself. So we got some monsters.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I mean, the way that, that Cam was playing, the way that Landon Dickerson was playing, especially after getting injured in that first half, like, that was. You guys left it all on the field. It was. It was impressive.
Chris
Yeah, Landon, man, he might be the toughest guy I Know, he's had I don't know how many surgeries, but in college, and then he could do the splits and all sorts. I got a video. Y'all gotta see if I can have time to find it. Him at Jack Driscoll's wedding. Him doing the splits and the worm.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Chris
So, I mean, if we have time, maybe. Yeah, it's kind of not safe for work.
Big Cat
But wait, so when. When. When you see that, when like, Landon Dickerson and then Cam Juergens, who, you know, he. He's got the back injury, Landon goes out, does it make you all as, like, a unit, be like, we just got to be tougher than everyone? Because, you know, guys are playing like Cam Jurgens was. He. His back is, like, broken, and he's like, all right, I guess I'm in.
Chris
I've only seen him on a BOSU ball for, like, the past two weeks, like, sitting on the motherfucker, like. Yeah. Sprawled out at practice.
Big Cat
What' but it's got to make everyone feel like you got to just get even tougher.
Chris
Yeah, man, those guys. Yeah, they are. But I think just how with stout coaches and just guys in the past, like, Kelsey never missed a game, played lots of games, and he always had something that was going on, but almost part is part of the. It's part of the position, I guess.
Big Cat
Are you feeling healthy? Because I remember last time in 2022, when we came visit you super bowl week, you had, like, six different injuries that should have sidelined anyone else.
Chris
Yeah, I pretty much had a C section.
Big Cat
You definitely downplayed it, too. You're just like, no.
Chris
Well, no, it wasn't like, it hurt initially, and then after a few weeks of, you know, kind of died down. But when. After I had the surgery, the groin surgery was not good.
Big Cat
Yeah. And you had your foot, too. It was. You had a foot injury as well, I think, going to that.
Chris
Yeah, but. Yeah, but it was. It was major up there.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
A little bit north. Yeah.
Big Cat
So are we good now, though? We're feeling.
Chris
Yeah, we're good, man. I feel. Yeah. No, no bruises, Dinks, dents. That's good.
PFT Commenter
So it was. You had a hernia?
Chris
Is that what it was growing? I tore my. Both groins, so my left groins. I tore my left one in Dallas, and they did the other side, and they said it was already. So it must have been torn. I didn't know.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
I mean, but my right side didn't hurt. It was on my left.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I feel like if you have two injuries, you can Your body only really focuses on one at a time, but right. Like, it's hard to feel pain in two places.
Chris
I took it one day at a time, I promise.
Big Cat
So, wait, so you wouldn't have known that you, you'd already had torn your groin if you didn't tear the other part of your groin?
Chris
I think because. Because I didn't, like, I wasn't in any pain, but when I felt the left one, it popped and I felt it roll up. It felt like a cramp. And then after adrenaline wore up, wore off. Hey, it's wasn't a cramp.
Big Cat
That's crazy.
PFT Commenter
But you're feeling good now.
Chris
Feeling good now? Yeah, I still got scars.
PFT Commenter
But hey, would you lie to us? We're feeling good now.
Chris
No, I mean, other than this damn pinky I've had for three weeks. I don't. You know, I didn't get it X rayed, but hey.
Big Cat
Yeah, you can't do anything for a pinky.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, tape it up. Give it a bunny finger.
Chris
Money. Tape it.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, yeah.
Big Cat
And are you. How many more years you got left? Because people keep saying, I don't know why that's a story.
Chris
How much money. How much money they got left.
Big Cat
Okay, all right, I like that. I like that. But you're not.
Chris
I'm not retiring after this game.
PFT Commenter
I said, yeah, what if you. No matter what, what if you get super bowl mvp?
Big Cat
That'd be pretty sick.
Chris
We'll give those guys a drug test and see.
Big Cat
That would rock, though.
Chris
Saquon.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, Saquon got three touchdowns, gets 250 yards. But you have like seven pancakes on all those runs. You just dominate people. Offensive lineman, mvp. That'd be fun to see.
Chris
Yeah, I might just take it from him eventually. From his house. You wouldn't even know. You know what I'm saying? He's got so many.
Big Cat
Was there a part of you that wanted Saquan to play week 18? You're just like. Because, I mean, it's pretty damn cool.
Chris
Yeah, no, we talked about it, but then like we had the year before AJ got hurt in that game. We had to go play Tampa and couldn't play. So it's like we wanted the record. But hey, if you go out there and get something happens to Saquon, they're going to be off with your head around here. So your decision.
Big Cat
Yeah, I mean, it's your way I.
Chris
See it, you look at. I feel like carries matter. So he would have had needed 30 something more carries to do what Dickerson did for yards. But either way, it's like we're at a point in the season, it's like, okay, now 2000 in front of us, as close, it's attainable, but it's like nothing that you plan on at the beginning of the season.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
Chris
Until he runs for like 251 game, you're like, hey, he could really do this.
Big Cat
And it's crazy because you. Your rookie year, Lashan McCoy.
Chris
Yeah. And it felt similar like that. But I didn't know they had a Russian record title or. That was a big, A big deal.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Until he bought us some watches. Yeah. I was like, hey, it's pretty big deal.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And to get he. How many yards did he finish up with?
Chris
16 something, I believe for that year.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah, it was like a little over 1600.
PFT Commenter
What about for this year?
Big Cat
For the Sean Shady 2013?
Chris
Yeah, 2013 Saquons would be what, 2003 yards or whatever.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's right.
Big Cat
Stephen Chase 16. 2005.
PFT Commenter
Okay. It is cool that he got in 16 games too. So you can say like, hey, you can stack this up. This is an incredible season.
Chris
Didn't they really just mess with the record book holders at this extra game?
Big Cat
I know.
Chris
I mean, damn it, everything. If it's about to be moved. 18.
PFT Commenter
So.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So they.
Big Cat
That's when you got to get out.
PFT Commenter
They announced. They announced the super bowl dates today. And in 2027, I think it's going to be in LA and it's going to be on President's Day weekend, which means probably 18 games at that point.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
They were scheming.
PFT Commenter
They're scheming. They care about player safety though. Yeah.
Big Cat
Number one.
Chris
Hey, I do have to wear that. The. The mushroom.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
The guardian cap over whenever I'm in practice, but in games I'm good. Does that help scientifically? Probably.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
But I don't know, it.
PFT Commenter
Maybe in practice it reduces some of the like small hits that add up.
Big Cat
But. Yeah.
Max
Yeah.
Chris
But in practice, I mean, we all, I mean, run days like Wednesdays when we pad up, will hit and other than that, it's mostly using hands.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So if you were to compare this Eagles team to the other two Eagles super bowl teams, who wins, like if this team against the Nick Foles team.
Big Cat
Good question.
PFT Commenter
Thank you.
Big Cat
I don't know.
Chris
It's hard to.
PFT Commenter
That's not really a good question.
Chris
It's hard to compete with a man who speaks soft and carries a big stick.
Big Cat
Well said. Do you. Do you want some crazy Lane Johnson stats? Sure.
Chris
Hold on. I gotta finish how they stack up. Well, I feel like we had like a blend to be great for all three teams. I feel like we may be more talented than last year's Super Bowl. I don't know if this is talented at 17, that's still the best team until, you know, if we win this one prove otherwise. So that's how I see it. But both you had like older vets, a bunch of young, like, you know, like Q's, like just super freak rookies and Cooper. So.
Big Cat
And this is also, I mean it's kind of similar. I know that it was a little different that the Patriots won a Super bowl, then lost to you guys and won a Super bowl, but that would have been a three peat and now you're trying to stop another three.
Chris
Yeah. But either way they're, they're, they're in the super bowl every year.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
It seems like of the last six years. So. Yeah, man. With all those teams, they don't make, they don't make very many mistakes. Yeah, they, I mean, you guys.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
What are you going to do?
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I remember we was it week one against the Ravens, the Chiefs, they were calling a lot of those false starts on the Ravens, on the tackles.
Chris
It was mine and Juan Taylor's fault for all this.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Do you think that the refs are going to be out to get you?
Chris
Well, hell, I told him to go talk to my, my pro officer, Jason Peters. He's the one that told me how to read this now. Just called his number.
PFT Commenter
Like Big Dom on the sideline. Just looking at the reps. That'll take care of a lot of that stuff.
Chris
Yeah, just go talk to Dom.
Big Cat
All right. You ready for the Lane Johnson stats?
Chris
Let's go.
Big Cat
On Sunday, Lane Johnson will become only the third offensive tackle in NFL history to make six Pro Bowls, two first team all pros and start in three Super Bowls. And the other two guys did it like 40 years ago. So you're the first guy to do it in 40 years. And then the crazy one. I'm sure you've seen it and I know it's a team game, but since you, since you got to the Eagles, when you're not on the field, The Eagles are 15 and 23. When you're on the field, they're 102 and 55. That's insane.
Chris
And I'm pretty good.
Big Cat
That's insane. It's like the. So there's 6, 650 win percentage with you playing 395 without you playing.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
That's pretty damn good. Do you see those stats? And you're like, oh, okay.
Chris
The stats I care about is the hurries, the. The pressures, which you don't give up any. Yeah. But you do whatever you do, they're tallied. Oh, look at that. So it's like. It's like I'm not even trying to press that no more. I'm trying to get my pff grades so I can party, you know, like, party like I want to.
Max
Yeah.
Chris
But no, man, I feel like I just. Especially over these last few years, like, I felt like when I had the injury, like when I was 29, 30, if, like, I had some really good years taken away from me. So, like, my sense of urgency the past few is like, well, I'm in my 30s now. Let's fucking. Yeah, it's now. Never. So, yeah. Yeah, man, that's really what it is. And we. And we have a lot of fun, but we have a lot of talented guys in the room. Like Makai. Being that big inside makes passing off stunts so much easier. Landon Jordan. And in our style of offense this year, like, so much run play action versus just, you know, straight shotgun rushing the snapper, it's. It changes things for us.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Do you enjoy pass blocking?
Chris
Yeah, when they call it quick protection, some boots. No, I don't mind it, but I do. It's like going to a boxing match. A pass block is you dodging punches and making sure nothing happens. And then run blocking is, hey, I'm throwing a haymaker back. Let's go.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
When you get space like a big angry dog and you just start running down, downhill at somebody, that looks like that's fun.
Chris
Yeah, it is. And especially when we're organized and everybody's on the same page and it just looks like a wave on film. And then Saquon just, you know, he does his own crates, his own waves and lanes. But, yeah, it's fun, man. We have a lot of fun with Stout and I was telling you about him earlier, but he. He's the catalyst to. To everything. I feel like.
Big Cat
Yeah. Were you guys mad at Saquon when he jumped, when he hurled someone backwards? I mean, that was. It was the coolest play ever, but it also was like, don't do that. That's a bad idea.
Chris
I've never seen that. I mean, I've watched all the Barry Sanders highlights, but that's about the only thing I think I haven't seen Barry Sanders do was do that. So I wasn't mad at it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
I was on the other side of the field, and I saw it, like, obviously after the game, but I was looking at the scoreboard, and I was like, holy.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Did you guys happen.
Big Cat
How many times you guys watch it and film?
Chris
Oh, so many times it's like, how'd you see this? But now it's crazy, man. And he's a lot of fun. He's a great locker room guy. He's loves golf. I don't know if you know, he loves golf, and that's all he wants to do. So really, the first day he came in, we all went. A bunch of guys on the team and went golfing, and it went from there.
PFT Commenter
What's his game like that day?
Chris
He played pretty well. There's times where he struggles. He gets super critical of himself, and he comes back the next day like nothing happened.
Big Cat
What do you get you guys this year? What Jalen get you guys?
Chris
They got us. Nice watch.
Big Cat
Okay.
Chris
They got us the golf carts.
Big Cat
Oh, the golf course. That's sick.
Chris
Yeah, sick.
Big Cat
You got it. You got it at the Bro Barn. How's the Bro Barn doing?
Chris
It's doing good. Baldies in there. Deadlifting about every Wednesdays and Wednesdays.
Big Cat
Awesome.
Chris
So Sean comes over there a lot. Sean Brady, he trains a lot. So during the season, like, I'm not. I'm in there sometimes, but mostly I'm at the. You know, working out. But my trainer, Gabe. I don't know if you. Gabe wrangle. But anyways, he trains a bunch of guys in there.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I feel like Baldy watches more film than most coaches.
Chris
That's all. He. He loves it. He's like. He's like Gruden.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
He's like one of those guys that. He's not going to watch the weather. He's not going to watch Netflix. He's watching Outside Zone.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
You know, coming up with nicknames for guys. The. With the Saquon hurdle. Did you go up to him the first time you saw it on the video board? Were you like, dude, you just jumped over that guy backwards. Did you?
Big Cat
Like, that's what I'm saying.
Chris
Like, I know in the past I would have definitely. I think I dapped him up, but I probably just went to the bench and just sat down and like, I'm.
PFT Commenter
Glad he's on our team.
Chris
Yes. Because I was on the other sideline a lot when he did that. I remember his first time we played him. The first time we played him in New York and he had a hurdle over one of our guys. And I was going, he could be pretty good.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, good call. Good scouting. We have.
Chris
That was a good. Yeah, it's a good scouting moment by me.
PFT Commenter
There are some. Some NFL analysts out there that said that Saquon was not a top tier running back going in the season. What would you say to those people?
Chris
Put your name to where your quote is, buddy. I hate the anonymous. Just say it. Hey. Who you work for?
PFT Commenter
His name's Stephen Che. He works in sports.
Big Cat
He said don't draft him because he's only had one season in his career that he's gone over a thousand, one thousand and five yards. And I don't know why he picked a thousand and five. Makes me think maybe he had a couple seasons where he had a thousand and three, but then he had a thousand yards more than that.
Chris
So now he's got two or three thousand yards.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So this is also the same analyst that said that the tush push should be banned.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And that he hopes that Jalen Hurts gets injured during the choice.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Well, when I can't find my car keys, you know, after 20 minutes of searching for him, hey, I kind of agree with him.
Big Cat
Yeah. Do you. When they call it or you're just like, oh, here we go again. But you know it's gonna work.
Chris
No, not when they. It. It's like when you have a Washington go line situation that rocked.
Big Cat
Yeah. And they're just jumping over.
PFT Commenter
I mean, jumping.
Big Cat
Yeah, we.
PFT Commenter
We saw a loophole.
Chris
No, it. It is fun. But if you do get rocked or sometimes where you just.
Big Cat
Do you like, though, watching other teams try it and fail because you're like, this is. That's. I think the. The. The part that people miss is like, people say, oh, we want the tush push band. No one does it like the Eagles. Yeah.
Chris
Well, like, mulatto is really good. I'm okay at it. But like, it really starts like the center, the wedge. And having guard like Landon's. You've seen Landon land. It's a monster.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Makai is a monster. And. But I feel like Brady was really good with it with the Patriots.
Big Cat
Yeah, it was really like Josh Allen. They were doing. The Bills were doing it. They were getting stuffed.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
You gotta watch out for Chris Jones.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, yeah. Big stick.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Yes. Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
I don't speak much.
Big Cat
No, no. The.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Landon just got lower than everybody.
Chris
Yeah. Like I said, after I show you this video, I'll show you him getting about as low as you can get.
PFT Commenter
So when. When Frankie Luva was Jumping over. And he. He was doing it a couple times. What was he saying after. After he would let.
Chris
Hey, I'll tell you what. Like, they. They'll talk something to Lyman, but it's mostly like everybody has their fuse going, and, like, the DBs and receivers, they got their own fights out there, and I don't get to hear any of the conversations. And then, like, the running back, Saquan, Frankie, him, Bobby, like, they have their own dialogue going in the game, so. That's a good question.
PFT Commenter
What would it. Yeah. If. If the refs had said, we want to award you guys a touchdown, would you have done the honorable thing and say we decline. We'd like to settle this on the field like men.
Chris
I decline that. I like to sell it with a new, freshest, fresh new set of downs.
Big Cat
Yeah, okay.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, maybe if you do the same penalty, like, four times, we'll give you the first down.
Chris
Go change that in the. In the rulebook in the new cba.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I think we asked you this last time before the super bowl. What color Gatorade do you guys like to drink? Just curious.
Chris
I like the one with all the red threes in it.
Big Cat
Okay.
Chris
I'm trying to get them all in me before RFK gets it about here. That goes for the reds. It goes, I guess for the purples.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Yeah.
Max
Okay.
PFT Commenter
But typically on the sideline. What's in that cooler?
Chris
Yeah, what is usually, like, I think, lemon, lime. Oh, yeah, Usually.
Big Cat
Yeah. Very clear, though, as well. So there's just water?
Chris
Yeah, no, there's definitely water. Then you have Gatorade, and then you have. Thing we called leveling. It's like. It's a hydration specialist. They put, I guess, more salt in it.
Big Cat
But if you were to, like, grab one. Yeah. The game and, like, dump it on someone, would you do, like, the lemon lime?
Chris
Yeah, I mean, that's what's going to be on the cups. I'm not sure what's going to be in this.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, Big Cat brought up all those great stats about you and. And your illustrious career.
Chris
You give me some blue Kool Aid mix or whatever. I can make it blue for you. I'll go. I'll go do that.
Big Cat
Make it a color no one's ever seen.
Chris
We can't even identify this. All bets are off.
Big Cat
All right, so I. I told you this when. When we were texting, but I have a. I was texting along a wrong Lane Johnson number.
Chris
How long?
Big Cat
I think it was. It was a year. It was January 9, 2024. So. But the reason why I. I thought I was still texting you is it started with. In January 9, 2024, I released. Well, my computer released the power rankings. Okay, so there's computer power rankings. The Eagles were in the super ass category.
Chris
Okay.
Big Cat
And you replied on Twitter, dang, bro. And I was like, he's pissed at me. I don't want Lane Johnson pissed at me. So I texted you, and I said, thanks, Brian. I was like, I didn't think you'd see the power rankings. Maybe the start of the championship dvd. And the person replied, this is no longer Lane's number. And I was like, oh, he's just fucking with me.
Chris
He's an asshole.
Big Cat
Yeah, he just doesn't want to reply.
Chris
He's salty.
Big Cat
And then. And then it went on where I was just, like, texted you some more. And then on. On NFC championship game, I said, congrats, seeing Noah. And I sent you a video of Max spitting on the camera. And the guy. And the guy just replied, this is not Lane. And I was like, wait a second. He. I've just been texting the wrong Lane Johnson. And then I texted Chris, and he was like, yeah, he's. He had a new number a year ago, so.
Chris
Did the guy identify himself?
Big Cat
No, he's just not lame.
Chris
Okay.
PFT Commenter
Does the guy. He must get a lot of texts for Lane.
Big Cat
He must.
PFT Commenter
If he's ready.
Chris
I just brought a son of a. This is the last time.
Big Cat
Yeah, right?
Chris
You're gonna ask.
PFT Commenter
Send him a picture of Lane.
Big Cat
Yeah, I will. Hey.
PFT Commenter
Having a lot of fun talking to you right now, Lane. Work my name.
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna send him a text right now and be like, time hanging with you.
Chris
They didn't put Lane on. They put David Johnson, my first name.
Big Cat
So.
Chris
Yeah, I think I'm a fake.
Big Cat
All right, here, Just. Yeah. All right. I'm gonna text him right now. I'm gonna say, great. Great time hanging out today.
PFT Commenter
Well, your first name's. Your first name's David.
Big Cat
Great time hanging out.
PFT Commenter
First name's David.
Chris
Yeah, they probably spent about two minutes thinking of that one.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
No, no, my dad's David. His middle name is Earl, and so they. They built mine up a little bit with Lane, so.
PFT Commenter
Lane Johnson is a much better name for an offensive lineman.
Chris
Yeah. David Johnson would have been 1970s.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, 1980s. Yeah.
Chris
That's an oil field name.
Big Cat
So have other people. Have other people said they've been texting the wrong Lane?
Chris
I got about 500 messages. I don't it is the biggest stress.
Max
But you.
Big Cat
It's so funny because it's like, normally that happens where people have to change numbers, but the fact that it happened right after the power rankings, and I was like, oh, he's fucking with me. No, it's just pretending to not know who I am.
Chris
It's happened with. With some friends, and they're like, you. I've been trying to get a hold of you for two or three years, and you don't ever reply. They see me and they're super pissed.
Big Cat
I love it. I love it. I just was like, damn. I really up Lane Johnson's mad at me. Turns out it was just some random dude who I've been bothering, and he's still mad.
PFT Commenter
So when Big Cat's computer released those power rankings, you were actually mad, though. Like, super ass is not good.
Big Cat
Not good.
Chris
I don't know if you're gonna air this, but I don't run my Twitter. I don't have the password or. So all that stuff is beat Brian Brackey, my. My marketing guy. So he run. He actually runs that as me.
Big Cat
Okay, so Brian was pissed at me, huh? Brian was pissing me with the dang. Also, he.
Chris
He understands traction. He's trying to get it be a part of the algorithm.
Big Cat
In defense of my. In defense of my computer ranking, he's in the matrix. In defense of my computer rankings, you were. You guys were. The computer said super ass, and then you lost to the Bucks in the first round. Like, the computer was right.
Chris
Right. Last year, dead ass.
Big Cat
You guys contenders all year this year? Last year, the computer was right.
Chris
Yeah. No, the only time I, like, gotten mad with art was a couple years ago. Like, ESPN was like, he gets credit for being a noisy player. So for the whole next year, I didn't talk to the media once. Luckily, he didn't find me. But I didn't say I didn't.
PFT Commenter
What does that mean? Noisy player.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
He gets credit for talking a lot.
Big Cat
That's crazy.
PFT Commenter
Well, if you're in the media, you should want guys like that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
Like ESPN should want.
Chris
Well, I didn't think I was. I mean, yeah, I talked a lot of. Way back in 17 when I made some stupid comments.
Big Cat
Well, no, that. By the way, we'll have your. We made those comments. You got screwed by us. It's a testament that you still come on with us. Because I. We played that back. We basically said, like, isn't it more fun to play for the Eagles? And then everyone just took it and we're like Lane Johnson would rather win.
Chris
One super bowl six years later, whatever it is.
Big Cat
So that was our fault.
Chris
I'm sorry about all the nasty things I said. Patriots nation. I was an undisciplined child who. Whose tongue got the best of me.
PFT Commenter
Even if you had said that, what's the big deal with saying that? Like, we had fun.
Chris
Yeah, yeah, they probably had fun, too, putting the rings on. But I don't know, it was my. It was probably because the first time we've. We've done it. And who's this guy to say anything about having a championship mentality when all he has is one?
Big Cat
I, I.
Chris
Hey, we still only have one.
Big Cat
Listen, you know, I want.
Chris
I had to eat some crow, but, hey, so, you know, it didn't taste too bad.
Big Cat
It was our fault, though. If I want a Super Bowl, I'd just talk for an entire year.
PFT Commenter
I'd probably retire if I was a rookie and won a Super Bowl. See you.
Chris
Yes. Yeah, until you get home and your meemaw's there. Damn, those bucks beat the out of you.
Big Cat
Big cat's computer was right. You're super ass.
Chris
This woman. I'm going back. I'm playing next year.
Big Cat
You're not retiring after this game. That'd be fun. Well, not funny, but if you just waited till, like, preseason game one and then retired.
Chris
That would be funny. It's just. Yeah, you got to let the guys upstairs know.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
PFT Commenter
So. So coming in this year after being super ass last year, when did you realize that you were no longer super ass?
Chris
Probably after about four wins after we started. Two and two. But those games, like, you know, the Falcons game was very close. One against Washington was really close there. So, I mean, everything was really competitive for the most part, but we found a way to get out of our own way and hand the ball to Saquon and score some touchdowns.
Big Cat
Yeah. And that Bucks game at the end of September, you guys, I think that was the last time you guys lost a game that Jalen played the full game. Like, so you guys ripped off a ton of wins. Whereas, like, yeah, now they're healthy, they're ready to go.
Chris
Yeah, that's part of it. And, you know, other. Other parts of the season. I mean, you don't know what you don't know far as running play wise. So you got to see what the team's most, you know, comfortable running. And after a few weeks, you kind of find out, you know, what you're doing.
Big Cat
Yeah. Is there a moment in a game where you just know that, like the defensive line is so gas and you're like this fucking rocks. Like, I.
Max
They're.
Big Cat
They're done. They're cooked.
Chris
Yeah. When we're running it, like, especially like four minute, we're trying to run the clock out. We. They know we're running it and we had to get a new fresh downs so we can, you know, nail it or take it down. So.
Big Cat
Yeah. What was that? Was it the Steelers game where you guys had the ball for like.
Chris
Might have been. Might have been a Steelers.
Big Cat
Yeah. 14.
Chris
But it was a battle. I mean, TJ's out there just fucking.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
You know, bringing hell on earth. But their whole. I feel like that game physically was probably the most like tired I was all season.
Big Cat
You guys ran a drive that I think was like 15 plays, 11 minutes.
Chris
But we actually do the ball a lot that game too.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
So we were. Yeah. You got Cam Hayward and her big and Highsmith, so pretty good. Yeah, really good.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I, I went back and looked at some of the stats because we always talk about Dan Campbell as being like the fourth down guy or Dan Quinn too, sometimes. It's like the Dans are known for being super aggressive in fourth down.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Your coach, Nick Sirianni is right up there with anybody and he actually, if you look at, when he goes for it, I think he's secretly a nerd. I think he, he knows, like, he's got the analytics, he knows the numbers and percentages. So, like, does he communicate that to you? Like, here are the exact scenarios where we're going to end up going for it?
Chris
Yeah. Well, I think this analytics, their purpose is to be there for those when those calls come up. So I feel like they do a good job communicating, especially when the calls up. Headset. Hey, let's go. Let's make that decision. Sometimes it's risky, but, hey, that's what makes it fun.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris
You know, and it's got to be until you lose.
PFT Commenter
But yeah, and you can also do the tush push twice in a row if it's like third and five.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Just do it twice down.
Chris
We should do it first down.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Do you think, do you think you go up and down the entire field just to push? Like if you had to. If you had to.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT Commenter
Let's say aj, he, like, he rotate.
Chris
The guys in, just doing a line, just a rotation. But yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I feel like you could if you had to ball, start a tush push.
Chris
Bow.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
That's all you can do.
Big Cat
That's all.
Chris
That's all you can do.
Big Cat
All right, so I told you before the backstory of this video. I'm going to play you. We went out to dinner on Monday night.
Max
All. All.
Big Cat
Like a bunch of people. I took a bunch of people out. 25 of us in a room.
Chris
25 bar.
Big Cat
People. Yeah. Yep. Two women.
Chris
It was a big moment.
Big Cat
Yeah, it was a big moment.
PFT Commenter
Two women.
Big Cat
Yeah, two women. It was a great ratio. So we had. We played a game where we put everyone's name in a hat and we pulled the names out, and if your name got pulled, you had to give a speech. And we did this for, I don't know, probably like nine or 10 people first. Nine people, like, all their speeches really heartfelt, like, love barstool love. Like, this is a dream job. Love everyone in this room.
Chris
Yeah.
Big Cat
Just real nice stuff.
Chris
Just pouring their hearts out.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
Right. We're all a little drunk. Sappy stuff. Then max is the 10th person, and he decided to just give a pump up speech for the Eagles. So I want. I want. I want you to. I'm gonna play it, and then you tell me how you feel about Max's pump up speech.
Chris
Okay.
Big Cat
However, every single person could say that they were bested by Patrick Mahomes.
Max
Yes.
PFT Commenter
Yes.
Big Cat
Every team in the NFL could say that.
Memes
However, it only takes one night to beat Patrick Maho.
Big Cat
Why not this Sunday night? Yeah, we have the better trenches. We have the better running back. Yeah. We have the better defense. At the end of the day, defense wins championship. All right, so Sunday night.
PFT Commenter
We will.
Big Cat
Fight, and the Philadelphia Eagles will return as super bowl champ. Let me get a Goldberg. This is a room full of people that don't care about the vehicles to.
Chris
The room that hates the Eagles. But I thought it was crisp. There was no stutters. Yeah, it was right to the point a little bit.
Memes
I was rambling. I was rambling.
Big Cat
It's fine.
PFT Commenter
I thought the pauses were good. He's like, we got the better trenches.
Big Cat
And then people were like, amen.
Chris
He was educating them.
Big Cat
Yeah. On Sunday night.
PFT Commenter
And he didn't. He didn't know cameras were rolling or anything. He was just where he got the hand gestures from.
Memes
I'm an Italian guy.
Big Cat
I'll send you the video. So if you want to play. If you want to play it for the boys. Boys, on Sunday before the game, I'll.
Chris
Have Brian retweeted from.
Big Cat
Yeah, Max felt like he was playing in the game.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Memes
No, no, I'm. I'm. This week is a work week. This week is a week to Win the Super Bowl.
PFT Commenter
Business trip.
Memes
It's a business trip, but, like, Sunday is the business.
Chris
I feel like they should do like, for each team, if there's like a two point conversion, they should have some random fan called out of a section. You have to be the tail back and you're getting the ball.
PFT Commenter
No, I like that.
Memes
I'm in, I'm training.
Chris
So everybody, everybody can kind of be on watch.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
You know.
Big Cat
All right. So, Max, you got a question?
Memes
Yes, I have one. Or I have two questions, actually. First question. You've been mentioning him a little bit today. I. I've been wondering this. What makes Coach Stoutland the best coach, Best offensive line coach in the NFL? Because I feel like he's getting these guys and he's like resurrecting careers here in, in Philly that other teams just aren't doing.
Chris
Yeah, he knows. I mean, obviously he knows football in and out, but I felt like he's interested in like how people learn. So he knows that like we learn visually so we can accomplish like a lot more. Doing like walkthrough stuff versus, like a 30 minute walkthrough will beat a two hour, you know, classroom section, you know, covering Charles Dickens, tell two cities type. So that's how it seems to me. And he makes. And so he understands that. But he's just really. When we go in there, it's like pop quiz time. Every time he asks guys, what three plays do we have out of this formation? Fred Johnson. And he'll. He asked the question and he points out who he's going to ask it to after. But that's like every day. And he's like, yeah, we're going to find out who knows this in here. Hey, I guess we are.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Seems like the best.
PFT Commenter
Good question.
Memes
All right, second question. How does Brandon Graham look in practice? Is he going to be full go on Sunday?
Chris
He looks good. He looks like. What's the guy in, in Scary Movie three that passed the mashed potatoes with that arm? Hey, he'll be jabbing. He'll be club ripping with that thing. He's ready to go. All right, I know. He used it on me.
Hank
Let's go.
Chris
I love that.
PFT Commenter
I love that feeling.
Big Cat
All right.
Memes
That's all I got.
Big Cat
All right, good job, man. And then. Wait, hold on. You know, I'm gonna try to call the fake Lynn Johnson real quick. Let's just see. It'd be so funny if you picked up. We'll cut it.
Chris
God damn it. I told you, son. This ain't him.
PFT Commenter
You Want to leave a message?
Big Cat
No, he's. He's definitely. I feel like he hung up on me there.
PFT Commenter
Or send him a voice memo. Yeah, I used to have that number and come back for it one day.
Big Cat
All right, Roback question. Last question. Rhobac.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Rollback.com promo code take. We got our guy Ron here. Roan, get up here. Get up here. Get up here, Ron. So Ron and Max are going. They went together to the Super bowl in 2022. They going again on Sunday. Hopefully you'll see them later that night. We already. We already told Big Dom, hey, look out for him.
Max
So I overextended myself in a similar way that Max did, and I sent you a DM.
Big Cat
On Sunday.
Max
I'm going to read it out loud, brother.
Chris
You don't have. You don't have my number either.
Big Cat
You are a beast.
Max
What you're able to do day in and day out is legendary. Others rise and fall. You are the mountain. Year after year, you are that. No one wants to see you impose.
Big Cat
Your will be great sponsor will not fall.
Chris
I like that, man.
Big Cat
That was awesome. When we're doing this interview, you just realized that you just sent that to Brian.
Chris
Funny story, I guess Grant, we both went OU for a little bit before we went to smu, but he was, I guess, hitting me up that summer about, you know, can't wait to see you in Philly B. Teammates or whatever. So I guess Brian, like, texting him a few times back and forth. First day you come in the. In the locker room, I just breeze past him like, who the are you? He's like, bro, you're a dick. I was like, what the are you talking about? Same situation. Hey, it haunts me. Here it comes again.
Max
Well, the only question is, like, how did that. Did that land? Do you know what I mean? Did you get fired up from that? What kind of stuff do you like to hear from fans that fires you up, you know what I mean? How can we serve you? Yeah, we do whatever you want, bro.
Chris
What do you like, man? I see. I see everything you said is passion and all that energy and hopefully some. So in some way it can radiate to me and it can. I can use it for the benefit of this Eagles team.
Max
Yeah, I'm just trying to put some battery in the back. I'm just trying to put some gas in the tank. But my. My X's and O's question is so you look at the Lions this year and you see the crazy installs that they do. They have like, penny, so we'll get in the ball and stuff like that. As an athletic guy, is there any part of you that's like. Like, hey, it'd be cool if I. You know what I mean? We get a swing pass to me, or are you just happy, you know.
Chris
Better be at the goal line for that? No, I. I would like to have. Where I could just launch this across the field to AJ and hopefully it's not into a safety that's going to pick it. But you used to play quarterback. That's what I'm saying. I would love to just like, I missed my last shot and just. And just fling it.
PFT Commenter
You still got the cannon.
Chris
Yeah, it was. I don't know what they call it now, but if I can. And we'll see.
Max
I'm ready for it, bro, if you do it.
Big Cat
Let's go. I love that.
PFT Commenter
I like. I like calling him a mountain. Stands the test of time. Mountains don't go anywhere.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Have you seen what they've done in China?
Big Cat
Yeah. Oh, well, Lane, best of luck, man. We really appreciate you coming on.
PFT Commenter
I hate how much I love the Eagles. Like, they're. You guys are great. I. I have to hate you.
Chris
But.
PFT Commenter
But you and Big Dom make it very difficult.
Chris
Hey, Big Dom. Yeah, he's got to get in this chair.
Big Cat
No, we're coming. We're coming for. So you can't retire because we're coming for training camp. We're gonna do grit week. We're gonna get Big Dom on. We'll all go out to dinner. So we're pumped for that.
Chris
He's the best. Like I said, he's. Yeah. He's been in years of obscurity, but. Yeah. We known about this national treasure for.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Does it. He's got a stack of cannolis in his. In his office.
Chris
His office has. If there's an earthquake in Philly, he's fucked because he has just. All the. Just history of the Eagles on the wall in his office. Everything.
Big Cat
Cannolis everywhere.
Chris
Canolies. Yeah. Everything they send, they just pile his desk up with.
Big Cat
Have you ever seen him not in a tracksuit?
Chris
No.
Big Cat
He said he had a hundred. He said he just paired it down.
Chris
I've never seen his legs. Hey, hey. This mother. This could have steel legs like Lieutenant Dan and I wouldn't know because I hadn't seen them.
Big Cat
They said.
PFT Commenter
He said 131 tracksuits. He's got formal ones. He's got casual.
Chris
In a track meet.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
You know, is he. Is he. Is he throwing the shot?
Big Cat
Yeah, he said he was like, I cleaned out my closet. I'm down to 131 tracksuits.
Chris
He actually said he went to Penn State originally. Yeah. So.
Max
Yeah.
Chris
And so he was the ball player himself.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. All right, well, Lane, best of luck, man. You know, really appreciate you coming on. Future hall of Famer.
Chris
Yeah, man. Hey, let's get a win, man. Yeah. Let's make this weekend complete, man. Man.
Big Cat
So, yeah, man, this is the tiebreaker for you.
Chris
Yeah, man, it's the tiebreaker. It's, you know, just like I said, the roan. Hey, we got to get this energy going and.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Chris
Lfg. Let's go pump you up.
Big Cat
Ron will. Ron will get you going, and we'll.
PFT Commenter
Send you the max.
Chris
Send me a. Don't send me another text, but just text it to Brian and get my number from Big Cat. Now you get my wrong number from Big Cat.
Big Cat
Yeah, I'll give you the wrong way.
Chris
Let's go pump him up some more.
Big Cat
This guy's gonna be so mad. All right, well, thanks so much.
Chris
Lee.
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Big Cat
Wow.
PFT Commenter
He's East Mid East Midi. East Mid Eastman.
Hank
What happened to Beast Mode?
PFT Commenter
East Me. Well, he got rid of the B and the. Oh. So he's just east mid. The scissor lift reminds me of. Did you ever see the injury cart? That bar Sean drove around?
Hank
Yep.
PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
Okay. We now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. Recurring guest. It is Jameis Winston live and in the flesh in New Orleans, his city. Can we say New Orleans is your city? It is.
Max
We. We can say that. My family, definitely.
Big Cat
Okay. Yeah. So you still got your house here. It's going to be incredible super bowl week. You're doing some stuff for Fox, which I'm very excited to see, because it feels like we need more Jameis Winston in our life. And you're going to give it to the people, I'd assume.
Max
Absolutely. We're gonna have some fun, but it's just gonna be showing people the culture of the amazing New Orleans. Like, it's gumbo. Gumbo is popular here for a reason. I'm gonna give them a little bit of everything, but I love it.
PFT Commenter
I'm trying to eat 15 gumbos.
Max
Okay.
PFT Commenter
In the time that I'm here. So I've already had one. We're leaving on Friday or Saturday, so I'm trying to figure out the best places to go. So if you got any recommendations, like, lay them on us, because I love gumbo.
Max
I had to put a list to you, but if you. One of my favorite spots is B spot. It's like Beyonce inspired. I gotta get the street for you. But if you're gonna be having 15 gumbos, like, we gotta make sure we get you cup sized.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Because they're very filling. But I think with. With anybody, Herb saying as well, when I think about food, but when I think what anybody say, like, what can I get the best gumbo? They're gonna say my grandma house.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I'll eat at a grandma's house.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Because any awls that have a grandmother that. That actually will sit down, make the room.
Max
I got. I got a cousin on the west bank, and she makes the. The best gumball I ever had. So I would definitely get you a bowl because she knows that super bowl is a big wheat, and it's Mardi Gras season.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Max
So a bunch of gumbo being made right now.
PFT Commenter
So, yeah, we're very excited for you because this is a great thing I think, that Fox is doing, is bringing Jameis Winston on. So you're going to take people around, show them some food and things like that. What other stuff are you going to do this week? How are they going to be using?
Max
Well, for the most part, it's. It's going to be like a bunch of lifestyle pieces. I'm just going to get a chance to show everybody the culture that New Orleans has. Like, we going to go to Cafe Dumont and we're going to do a nice segment there. Like, when you think about coffee and beignets, you think about that spot off the rip. So what I'm, what I'm doing, I'm giving them the best human experience they possibly can have in the city of New Orleans.
PFT Commenter
I believe that you will be able to do that.
Big Cat
Yes, absolutely. All right, so let's, let's talk about this past year when we've last had you on. You were a free agent, signed with the Browns. You get to play. We thought you should have played more. How, how was this season overall in your career? I mean, we, we need you get signed somewhere. We need you to be a starting quarterback because the Jameis Winston experience is our favorite thing. You had that big snow game that was so much fun to watch. How overall, though, would you say, like, this season went for you personally, professionally, and where you're at going into next season?
Max
Let's start with personally, just because I think, like, I can get sometimes so wrapped up into what I do that we kind of speed past the whole experience that you actually had, the presence of actually being in the Cleveland Browns organization, witnessing some of the things that I witnessed, going through some of the things that I went through. So personally, I would say that it was a season of resilience because we had some unfortunate injuries. We had some people that I poured myself into because my expectations going to Cleveland was to be there to serve DeShawn and be there to provide this support and leadership for him. And it hurt to see him go down quickly. And then the way that people reacted of him going down like me being the person that I am, I had to recalibrate some things and have a complete paradigm shift because of the love that I have for him and also the love and respect that I have for the game and that city that I just chose to go to. Right. So that was challenging because football gives us so much. I mean, shoot, it's giving me everything that I can even dream or imagine. But that moment where I had to get just real, like, from a human experience with, like, some fans, the people that I love the most, the people I like making smile, and that just hurt, because we all are humans. We all have this experience. We all have ups and downs, and I think we all are trying to find a way to cope with those days. And that day wasn't a good day. And that was kind of like a precursor to the season, you know what I'm saying? Because what I was looking forward to was getting that opportunity, being back on the field. And we had some wins early, but at the end of the day, I didn't finish. I didn't finish the way that I wanted to finish. I didn't have the story that we all wanted at the end, so that's how I was personally. But the whole process of being with Cleveland Browns was amazing because this was the first time my family got up and moved out of the south, right? So we were in Cleveland, and Cleveland was way more than what. Way better than what we expected. Obviously, we knew it was going to be, like, gritty. You know, we're gonna see a lot of iron and steel. But being from Birmingham, like, I figured that that's how the terrain would be. But the place that we stayed was. It was in Chagrin Falls, man, in, like, beautiful place.
Big Cat
Yeah, bro.
Max
For a good 90 days, we experienced some of the most beautiful weather.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
That you only could imagine. So it was good for my family in that end. But football wise, man, I'm still focusing on eliminate one thing from my play so that I can be all that I'm capable of being in this league. Yes, I like the new personality stuff. Yes, I like hopping on with y'all. But where I want to be in this league is somewhere where the greats stand. And for me to be where the greats stand, I have to consistently execute and eliminate one thing from my play. And. And that's. That's just fun. That's. It's. It's another resilient side to, like. Like, hey, man, like, you got Lasik now.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Like, what. What. What else. What else do we have to do? What else do we have to learn? What else do we have to overcome and. Or. Or take out for us to be everything that we want to be?
Big Cat
Lord, deliver me from pick sixes.
Max
And the Lord did.
Big Cat
Yeah, I know. I was gonna say. Were you? So you. You said that after a game where you had I mean, I think it was one or two pick sixes. It was the, it was the Monday night key.
Max
Yeah, it was true.
Big Cat
And then the next game, you didn't throw a pick six. Were you like, oh, shit, God, God, he's got me here.
Max
Absolutely. I know he, I know he had me off the rip. When I, when I say that publicly, that, that outward confession, like, like that really was like a. Obviously it was funny, but it was, it was a cry. I was like, lord, like, hey, like, I need you stop these pics. Like, you know, and unfortunately I should have. Honestly, that's why it's so important to be impeccable with your word, right? Because I, I should have said pics.
Big Cat
Yeah, I know. Yeah, I know, because he gave me.
Max
The P. And I promise you, in my quiet place, I promise you, I'm saying pics.
PFT Commenter
But he works in mysterious ways. Maybe just makes you better at tackling. So when you do throw an interception, you knock the guy out, he doesn't score, you're like, I, I should have specified.
Max
Lord, I'm sorry, bro, I'm tired of tackling. You know what I'm saying? I didn't have to tackle too many people.
Big Cat
But that game, was that also, I mean, that game, like, that was like, we should have James play Monday night football. All time quarterback. It was electric. I know that it was the pick sixes, but you also made some insane throws. You had what, 500 yards?
Max
Yeah, I'm grateful for that. But you know, Sean Payne was on the other side. A young bonus Knicks from Alabama. Like, he was the opposing quarterback like in, in my documentary. Like that was supposed to be the time where I'm like Michael Jordan standing right there. Because I got Sean Payton a young buck that I always love. Watching him grow up. I mean, he, he was in Alabama, he won, he won a state championship. I never won a state championship. Being from Alabama, seeing him go to Auburn, he was the kid that went to the hometown school, got to experience all this stuff and went off to Oregon and, and now he's having an amazing year. So I'm just like, well, I gotta show this young buck a lesson, you know? So I'm happy that he had, you know, he had a game like he had that rope to Mims down the middle of the field. So I was like, okay, I want you to do something good. But we also, we got Jerry Judy back coming back to this time, and Sean Payne's on the other side. Like, I want to give it to them. You know what I'm Saying pause. But I want to make sure that we win this game, you know, But. And that's obviously the love and the preparation that goes into that. Like, you obviously can see that competitive side between me, Sean and boy. But I think winning is the biggest thing. Like when you at quarterback, I think that's so important. Like, yeah, you have some turnovers here. Yeah, you have some ups and downs. But eliminating negative plays and winning, it takes you so far because, man, I had the best four weeks of my life just talking to more people, you know, getting those interviews just because you're winning, not because you're having lights out games, but winning.
PFT Commenter
So, like, record, James, we'll talk to you whenever.
Big Cat
Yeah, it doesn't matter. You go 17, you're on the show 100%.
Max
No, I'm grateful for that, but you know what I'm saying, Like, this is my dream.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know, like football, like football is. I'm so grateful that God has given me this sport to steward with what I got, you know, And I want, I want to be the most at it, be the best at it.
Big Cat
Lord, deliver me from pics.
PFT Commenter
That Thursday night game that big cat brought up in the snow, that was a lot of fun to watch too. And seeing it was. I forget, was it Tracy Wolfson? It was somebody that was interviewing you in the pregame and they start talking to you about the snow and you were locked in, very serious. And then all of a sudden it's like something hit you and you just got this big smile and you started looking around at the snow. It's like you got transformed and turned into. I don't know if it just took you to a different place mentally where it woke you up, but watching you just embrace that environment on that Thursday night and go out there and play an excellent game of football was so much fun for America to watch.
Max
Yeah. You know, I have to commend the NFL for their deal with, with the broadcasting networks to have that segment now because that was relatively new to me. Like, typically, like when I go back into the locker room, like, I'm getting ready, I'm focusing on, I'm going over my notes, I'm going over my plays, and I'm putting myself in the place that I think that I need to be for this game. So when I was having those interviews with Tracy and others, like, I was already getting to that place. I was already getting to that place of just presence and preparing for the game. So for me to come back out and just be like, okay, now I gotta talk about who knows what you're gonna ask? Like, I already know what. The notes that I'm going over in my head, so I'm gonna repeat those to you because that's the mode that I'm on. I think I rewarded them with some wise words.
Big Cat
Yeah, it was great.
PFT Commenter
So you'd never played in the snow before in your entire life?
Max
Never in my entire life.
PFT Commenter
What was it like?
Max
It was fun. Like, I think it's like any kid that experiences snow for the first time, like, you don't know what to do. Right? Like, you really don't know how to build a snowman. You know what I'm saying? You want, like, I'm happy YouTube is available, because that was one of the first things. Like, I didn't know how to build a snowman. Like, it was awful. Like, because I tried to build the snow while it was fresh. You know what I'm saying? Like, and that's a story for another day, bro.
Big Cat
You gotta pack it in. Yeah.
Max
Literally, like, I was so enamored with the snow that I was just like, man, can I just. Like, do we have to play? You know what I'm saying? Like, can we play a snow? But we did. We did play a snow. Best snow version of football. But, yeah, it was amazing.
PFT Commenter
It was so, so, so cold. Your helmet exploded.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
That was crazy.
Max
My head hit the ground.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Frozen tundra fro. Not the frozen tundra, I guess, but the frozen Cleveland Browns.
Big Cat
Browns. Wait, so did you. Did you build the snowman?
Max
So let. Let me tell you about the story about the snowman. I actually didn't even build the snowman in Cleveland. Oh, I built the snow in New Orleans.
Big Cat
You did. When it snowed here.
Max
Snow here. Right. So during Cleveland, when it. When it snowed, like, I was away from my babies. My babies were like, they were at school. We didn't have time throughout the day where it still was light weekend. You gotta go outside and build the snow. Right. But God bless us with snow in New Orleans. So I'm outside there trying to build a snow, and my kids. Oh, my baby. He's suffering because we didn't have, like, the. We had all of our waterproof material up in Cleveland. We just got him some gloves from Costco, and we just, like, these are gonna work. Work my portfolio. Like, he out there shivering in the snow because he's trying to. We obviously having a snowball fight. Like, the instance. We're gonna have this. But the snow. Like, these aren't waterproof gloves, so they're freezing his head. So after one good snowball fight, like it's the Winston's, like, we in trouble, right? So we're. So we're trying to make the snow. And right now, like, I just. I'm just making a whole circle in the snow. I'm just like putting snow together. But it was like a blizzard snow. It wasn't like. Yeah, it had stopped. Like, typically people build snowmen, like when it's. When the snow stops and the snow hardens up and you can like, get it on the ground. So I'm trying to build this snowman and I just did an awful job. And it rained in Alabama. And my assistant Nadia, she showed me a picture of her snowman. And like, she had like my trainer, my famous trainer, Otis Leverette, his wife, the one who does all the position specific workout. So he had. They had his football helmet on, like, had like a glove on, like a stick that they had. They had like one of her scarves on. So it was a good looking snow, like, snowman. I have to show y'all this so y'all can have this clip.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
So I was looking at my snowman and it just looked like a snow heel. Like, and it just kept like, it was just not good.
PFT Commenter
You put eyes on it?
Max
I did put eyes on it. So my. My cousin again, she. She gave my wife, like. My wife went over to get some gumbo because she prepared us where she was like, you can't be in the snow without no gumbo.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
So she went over there get the gumbo, and she gave us a fake carrot nose and some things to put on the snowman because she knew that we were gonna build a luxurious snowman. She didn't know that I had no idea how to build a snowman. And I'm calling Nadia. I'm like, Nadia, like my babies, they gonna laugh at me because I don't know how to build no snowman. YouTube, I got this, this Wi Fi not working. I can't look it up on YouTube. Like, chat GPT ain't working. So I'm just like, I'm gonna build this now. She said, just build a ball and just roll it in the snow. Do you know I was. I almost had frostbite trying to roll that ball in the snow because it was too soft. It kept coming off and I couldn't build a snow. And my child, he just looking at me like my oldest Malachi, he just looking at me like, dad, I can't even tell my friends I can build a snowman because you don't know how to build a snowman. I'm like, well, you supposed to be helping. All right?
Big Cat
So you gotta. So that's something we gotta still check off the list.
Max
Yes.
Big Cat
Maybe if you get signed. So what are we thinking?
Max
Where.
Big Cat
I mean, there's gotta be people who want Jameis Winston. You have to stay in the league. You have to. I want you starting.
Max
Yeah.
Big Cat
You need to start.
Max
Yeah. What. That's what I. That's what my heart desires. Like, I'm. Obviously. I'm looking for opportunity where it's kind of like bridge opportunity, where I get to go in there, lead another young guy and, man, go in there, have opportunity, dominate. Where I'm supposed to dominate. Win some football games and have a GM and have an organization. Hey, like, man, we believe in you, James. Like, but I need that opportunity to show that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Because that's why I feel like I'm in that position again where, like, man, I have to get in that position and show that.
Big Cat
Yeah. Because I, like, your game is not. You know, there's a lot of backups in the league where they come in and it's a lot of checkdowns. It's a lot of, like, hey, we're going to just, you know, try to tread water.
Max
You.
Big Cat
You push the ball down the field, you're making the throws, and that's always what's so fun when you get in. Like, I even think about that Ravens game where you're throwing the ball downfield and you beat a really good Ravens defense.
Max
Right.
Big Cat
That's.
Max
But that stuff that I do, I can do in my sleep. The biggest thing is winning.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know what I'm saying? Like, I. I try to shift away from the interceptions because, like, those matter, but those also accumulate to not winning.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
So whatever I need to do that's required to win and be focused on winning, if that's going 20 for 28 for 17 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. But a win, like, that's doing it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know, whatever is required for us to win the game is, like, my focus, because obviously, I get hyped up and I place so much trust into my teammates, into my coaches, and we're out there executing this thing together. But at the end of the day, the quarterback position, I got the last say, so with that peel in my hand.
Big Cat
Do you. Have you thought about, if you do throw a pick, maybe bringing back the squint and being like. People like, oh, the lasik maybe isn't working anymore.
Max
It gives you.
Big Cat
Buys you a little Time.
Max
Yeah, well, I try to eliminate any thoughts about picks.
Big Cat
Okay.
Max
You know what I'm saying? And focus just on winning every single rip.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
Max
You know, like, because I tried to create humor with the picks. Right? Like, hey, like, it's still a completion. Yeah, not really.
Big Cat
Well, listen, I. I just played the video game, which I brought up to you last time, how I might have thrown some picks with you when I played the video game back in 2020, but I just played a full college football playoff and I threw nine pick sixes in four games.
Max
Well, yeah, well, not with me though, right?
PFT Commenter
We're eliminating that.
Big Cat
No, not with you. Not with you. But I'm just saying, like, still won the national title, so you can still find a way to win.
Max
You can, like, but it's all that matters is winning.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
And that's you playing the game. So, like, maybe when, when you playing the game, start visualizing me.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
And record me doing that. Winning the National. Winning the Super Bowl.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
With that Super Bowl.
Big Cat
We gotta do the Super Bowl.
Max
That' that's what got me because I won so many Heisman trophies, so many national championships on ncaa. When it was out, you know, I never really played. Maddening.
Big Cat
Gotta get it. We should start playing Madden, like literally visualizing it.
PFT Commenter
We'll record the entire season.
Max
You better ask my wife. Like, I got Madden.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Like, and I'm visualizing and like my brother is whooping my butt religiously and Madden every time I get on the sticks.
PFT Commenter
Have you thought about doing the VR thing? Virtual reality, man.
Max
So I've experienced that what Jaden.
Hank
Yeah.
Max
Was doing. So I, I experienced that. I'm curious to see what brand he had.
PFT Commenter
It's a German company.
Max
Okay.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I don't know the name of the brand, but they, they found him at Louisiana.
Max
Right.
PFT Commenter
They were trying to sell their technology to any school that wanted it. And LSU was like, yeah, we want this. So I don't know if it's like an exclusive thing that he gets. I, I don't know what it is, but it seems like it's a great idea.
Max
I remember when, like, when I first got to the Saints, I believe they tried to bring that to us. And like they talked about building. I think they were gonna build a room for that because they had it, they had it in Louisiana. But we should have did at lsu. We should have did it. Yeah. But I believe at Tampa we did an experience like that where I did have some virtual reality related training at Tampa early on in my career. But I'm sure That the. It's better.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
I would love to see what kind of training exercises you can meet them up with while wearing the virtual reality helmet too.
Max
Me too. At Cleveland, we had some. Some type of virtual reality type sensors, but it was not like I wasn't immersed in the game. It was just like take mobile players moving around like slow motion.
PFT Commenter
I'm gonna get you on the good stuff.
Max
Like, this is not gonna work.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
If you're a German VR company. Listen to. Right now you have a potential client here in James Winston.
Max
Whatever's required.
PFT Commenter
We were talking to Andrew Luck earlier today, and he had very nice things to say about you. And he asked us to ask you about how close you were to going to Stanford.
Max
Man, I was. I was very close to going to Sanford in my mind, right? Like, Sanford was the dream school that I've always thought that I would be at playing baseball and football. Because you just think about John Elway, right? So academically and football, athletically, I thought that was the epitome of going somewhere and playing football. But I knew that I could not be that far away from Alabama, you know, so Stanford, Florida State and LSU were. Were my options. Like, they were my final options. I wanted to go to Texas. I feel like Texas, like, like Texas Longhorns. I feel like that would have fit me well. Like, I even had like this. My mama got me this Fossil Texas watch because I told her that's the school I wanted to go to. It's cool. I still had a watch to this day, but back to Stanford. Stanford was. Would have been an excellent opportunity for me because Nora Davis was there. Andrus Pete, Aziz, Shazur, he was there. So I built some great relationships with. With some of the recruits that still were there. So I really was close to going. If I would have had the courage to take that trip out west.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Long distance to go for sure.
Max
Well, it was like more of a dream. Like, when I went out there on my official visit, Coach David Shaw was there. I got a chance to speak with Condoleezza Rice. Like, the experience was unmatched.
PFT Commenter
What was that like, talking to Condoleezza Rice?
Max
Well, it was. It was amazing just to get a chance to know that she was from Alabama. I didn't get a chance to have a meeting with her face to face, but having to be able to speak with her and hearing them talk about how her office had only looked some place on the campus, I think that was amazing.
Big Cat
How was the. Were you injured at the end of the year? We just kept on being like. Like, put Jameis back in. I know that the last couple of games, they gave other guys a shot, but how is the injury now?
Max
It's good. I did something to my SC joint, and that's kind of like my inner collarbone because of the callus of my AC joint. I require movement from there in a way. So for a period of time, it was very challenging for me to throw the ball. And if you can't throw the ball. Elite in the NFL, it's just.
Memes
Just.
Max
It's not really gonna work out. So. So it was. It was kind of. It was after the Kansas City game. So I'm. I'm good now. Like, I can. I can spin it.
Big Cat
Okay.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So. Yeah. When does that happen in the NFL? When do. When do teams start to reach out to you?
Max
I. I think.
PFT Commenter
I don't want to get you in trouble.
Max
I think. I think the period is going on. Not now, but I think as they're. As agents are talking about other prospects getting into the league, especially the draft, senior bowls, the strong bowl.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
I believe they, like strategically placing in some of their free agents for this upcoming year. But I believe it starts. But when. When you really released, like, the first part of March.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So I'll just say some cities. I think we might have done this last time. Yeah, but just. Just cities. Random cities. And you tell me what you think about each city. New York City, or I guess northern New Jersey, but really New York City.
Max
I mean, I love it. The Big Apple.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. You look. Is it. Is it big? Is it giant? Is it the giant apple?
Big Cat
Yeah. Would you fly there on a jet?
Max
I love it. I. I would do. I would do both.
Big Cat
Okay.
Max
Okay.
Big Cat
That actually would be awesome. If you were.
Max
I would fly on a jet. Apple.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Italian, you know, at that.
PFT Commenter
What about Pittsburgh? I know they were kind of, you know, rival city to Cleveland, but what about Pittsburgh?
Max
What's your vibe there, Man? I love Pittsburgh, you know, because I admire coach Mike Tomlin so much. You know, the first super bowl ring that I ever held in my hand was a 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers super bowl ring from Bruce Arians. So that is definitely aligned with my vision. But. But I don't know. I don't know what my Browns fans would say about Pittsburgh. That'd be challenging. But, you know, it really doesn't matter. Honestly, that opportunity presents itself. Yeah, I would love. I would love to team up with coach Mike Thomas.
Big Cat
What about. And I know we want you to be a starter, but there are some teams that it Feels like maybe they should invest more in a backup. What about Miami? Like that city, man, I would love.
Max
I would love Miami. And you know what? But again, back to my whole Cleveland Brown story, right? Just how it was. Like, how about Tyler Huntley? I'm just gonna give him a shout out, man, because he was with like that was the quarterback room in Cleveland. Tyler Huntley, Dorian, Thomas Robinson, desean and myself, right? That, that was a training camp. And for him to have a situation where he and Dorian are competing and to stay present and go back to Baltimore and then go to Miami, where he from, down South Florida, that area and play some good games for Miami. I'm so proud of him for that. But Miami would be good because I got a lot of respect for Tua and his family. And if it's one man that I would like to serve, it would be him and his family because his dad and my dad have developed a great relationship. So I'm definitely pulling for him and his health to remain, to remain strong and to remain in a healing state because he works a lot to stay healthy. Yeah, like, and he's a tough, he's a tough player. So he gonna be good. But I would like to go to Miami.
Big Cat
Okay, what about.
PFT Commenter
How about Nashville? Country music guy?
Max
Nashville, man, listen, I do, I do love country music. Like back to the days when Jake Owen and Luke Brown used to come and visit Tallahassee. Like I've always had that, that southern drawl. I'll be able to, to break down the country music album soon.
PFT Commenter
But you would make so much money from CMT if you were in Nashville.
Max
You think so?
PFT Commenter
You would be a correspondent. Yeah, immediately.
Max
Man, I would love it. Nashville is, it's pretty cool.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah. What about playing baseball, man?
Max
If, if I can get Colorado Rocks signed up, man, I gotta call my guy. David Dahl, like he played for the Colorado Rockies. But wherever.
Big Cat
Have you thought about like maybe doing a spring training? I know that you're. That kind of conflicts with, you know, where you're going to sign, but I'd love to see you back on our baseball.
Max
Yeah, I would love to have that opportunity. But when my focus is focused on, you know, football and OTAs and whatever's required in that, I don't believe that I will be able to. But man, like, like I can just go to the band cages like somewhere down to the Yankees in Tampa Bay. Yeah, like, and just hit some BP there.
Big Cat
Did you know, have you done like batting practice against like 95 mile an hour fastball since you got Lasik, have you. Do you?
Max
I have not.
Big Cat
Oh, you might. What if you're just. What if you're Barry Bonds and you.
Max
Don'T even know it, man? I'm definitely not Barry Bonds.
Big Cat
But what if you're a righty?
PFT Commenter
You might be. You might be Shakespeare. Better, like, if he was also a great football player.
Max
So I trained baseball last year. My brother's head coach, his name is. Man. It's removing right now, but my brother's head coach, who is a scout for the Atlanta Braves. We actually trained for the first five weeks in after the Super Bowl. Every Thursday, we hang ground balls. We were over at Gerard park in New Orleans, hand in the cages, like training, like catching fly balls, feeling ground balls. Because I think that is a direct correlation to playing the quarterback. When you see how Patrick Mahomes does it and Josh Allen, how they come up from these different angles. Even Jalen and his wing, his RPO games. Being able to throw from different angles is so important. And being able to squat down and move around the pocket. You see how extending the play is as big as it's ever been in the NFL nowadays. Like, if you can't extend a play, like, from a regular routine play, like, you're gonna have a tough time.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
What about. What about right here? New Orleans?
Big Cat
Got a house here.
Max
Oh, my gosh. I would love to be here.
PFT Commenter
Just family.
Max
Not. Not just family, like just this city, man. You know, And I. And I. That's why earlier, I didn't say it. I. I don't feel worthy enough to say this is my city because this is this Drew Breeze city. You know what I'm saying? That's true.
Chris
That's true.
Max
Because what he did for this city with this champagne. Champagne city. This is Mickey Loomis city.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know what I'm saying? I had put making out there because, Mickey, if you listen to this, I will. But no, like, I would love. I would love to be a New Orleans saint, man. Because, like, just. Even the energy here.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Like, it just. It's the same energy that I. That I possess.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know, and. And I love. I love my people. So I ain't gonna say, you know, my. They might feel like these my people.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Down here. And then you can it. You gonna definitely see it on fox. You'll see me with my people, in a word, you know what I'm saying?
Big Cat
With.
Max
In the words of some. A Baton Rouge legend with me, you know what I'm saying? I got my people with me.
PFT Commenter
Do you. Do you Visualize where you're going to be next, at your next stop in life. Like, do you sit down, close your eyes and let the vision come to you?
Max
Man, I'm still, honestly, my vision, my visualization and desire is still with being a Super bowl winning quarterback for NFL franchise, you know, and that's where there are times where in my quiet time where I think about, you know, what my heart would desire. And one of those things right now is just becoming a better father to my children. My oldest is about to be seven now, and me and my dad always discuss how the age of seven would be that time where I would have to bunker down putting more intentional time into to lead my children, lead my son to what his heart desires. Because he felt like my aunt, she always told me that the age of seven is when the kids, they lose their subconscious and they start to really take in every word that you say and they start making decisions on their own. So when I'm in my quiet time, that's the things I'm thinking about. Like, man, how can I serve my son who's about to be seven, because I know it's his own time. Like, I can't be like when he cry. Like, I can't be like, oh, baby. Like, like I'm gonna be pushing him to the limit, you know, but also loving him and guy him. Yeah.
Big Cat
But is that true about the age seven?
Max
Yeah. I mean, I know there are a lot of pediatricians out there or people that process this information.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
The age 7. I don't know the scientific term, whether they lose their subconscious, but seven is a prominent age for child development. And in terms of how they think, how they learn and how they go about.
Big Cat
So I got like another year and a half that I can keep swearing around my oldest.
Max
Yes.
Big Cat
Okay, then I gotta stop.
Max
Yes.
Big Cat
Because I do. I do find myself having to.
Max
Well, you just gotta develop a swear jar.
Big Cat
Well, no, my problem is my, my kids, when they repeat swears, I laugh.
Max
Yeah.
Big Cat
And then they're like, very funny laughing. I'm like, because you shouldn't be saying that. And then they're like, he's laughing. So then they, they keep hitting the or the button and I'm just like laughing. I'm like, no, stop saying that.
Max
My wife would be mad at me because she did an experiment to just see how, how far our children would go with, with those words.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
And, and it wasn't, it wasn't the experiment that we thought that we were going to be getting. We realized that our children, they do listen to us.
Big Cat
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. My son thinks stupid is a bad word. He's like, don't say the S word. I'm like, he's like, no, stupid. Oh, whoops. Right now we got two that we got to work about. Right? All right, so. So we gotta find you a job. Here's an idea. What if Jameis 1 of 1 became your agent? I think you'd probably get a max deal, man.
Max
Listen. I don't know Jameis101, but I really appreciate him. The time he's fighting every day, the work, the energy that he puts into, like, repping me. Like, if you are my long lost cousin or something, man, Brother, I love you.
Big Cat
I do. Imagine one day you'll meet him and he'll just be like, hey, I'm genius 101.
Max
I know I am. But this is. I feel it. Like, you gotta have people that fight for you. Yeah, like that. Like, and, and, and. And I view it from a terms of just my prayer angels. I have so many women in Tampa. Miss Connie, my. My. My mentor. Got Cynthia Hob, my auntie, Aunt Vonda, my mother, my aunt, my aunts. That's Loretta White, Auntie Bernice, Auntie, like my. I have so many prayer warriors that are showering me with prayer, lifting me up all the time. So I don't want their prayers to go as they're unnoticed. But when you have people that fight for you and that lift you up and that are there to encourage you in your toughest times and are consistently doing it, like, man, you just got to get them they flowers and you got to be grateful for them because you don't know how much their energy or what they're doing is actually keeping a lot of things away from you and provide a better opportunity for you in some way, shape or form or fashion.
PFT Commenter
And then in turn, you don't wanna let them down because you know that they have this deep belief in you and you're like, I gotta prove them right. If anything, you know?
Max
Absolutely. And proving them right will only just do it more justice for the fact that, like, man, that's your people. You know what I'm saying? You.it doubles down on. It's bigger than you. You know, what we do from what I do from an NFL perspective, from a father perspective, from a husband perspective, is small to the grand scheme of things, of the impact that I can have on lives everywhere across this entire world. Right. Obviously, within my household, like, that's the most important thing right now. How I go within how I'm doing, treating my own family is how I'm gonna go about doing the rest of the world.
Chris
Right.
Max
Because what I want for myself, I want for everyone. But I think it is important when you are around people that are giving you positive energy to just give them their flowers and be grateful for them.
PFT Commenter
You impacted Big Cat and myself when we did those drills with you. Keep the ball high. Yeah, I think about that all the.
Max
Time, because that was our dream, y'all. I always wanted to be there on that arena.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. So what are you. What are you doing? You got any new. Any new workouts that you've been working.
Big Cat
Like a dog that's gonna attack you or like some.
Max
No, no, no. No dog is.
Big Cat
There's been dogs.
Chris
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
There was a Belgian Malinois, my dog.
Max
My sister.
Big Cat
She.
Max
She is one of my best defenders, and she's not going to attack me.
Big Cat
Okay.
Max
Right. She just.
Big Cat
But you have had dogs in your videos. The big ball. What was that thing, the machine you were running in that was like. It was like a big. I don't even know what it was. You got so many crazy videos out there.
Max
Well, it's intentional.
Big Cat
These are. I like it.
Chris
I want.
Big Cat
I want your. I actually would love for your trainer to come up to our office in Chicago and send us through something.
Max
I know you would love that, but I don't know if you're ready for it. I'm ready for it. I don't think y'all ready.
Big Cat
All right. So does he have anything new this year, you think?
Max
No, we. We don't. We don't have anything new.
Big Cat
That's such a lie. I'm gonna. We're gonna see a video in, like, a month.
Max
It's gonna be. It's gonna be new to the world. It would not. It would not be new to us. We. We don't. We don't function in surprises. We don't. We don't function this in, you know, in conspiracies. We just go. We just put the work in and we lock in and do what. What's required to. To be done.
Big Cat
Is there ever a day, though, that you show up and it's like, you know, maybe it's, you know, the backyard, and it's like, there's a bat. There's, like, boxing gloves. There's, like, a bunch of towels, and you're like, what. What's going on here? What are we doing today?
Max
So if. If you want me to get you a picture.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Of that exact setup. I can give it to you.
Big Cat
I got.
Max
I gotta. I got a heavy bat right here. I got. Got a Bosu ball in the middle. I got a trampoline right here with some towels on there, and I got some boxing gloves and a half round.
Big Cat
I need that picture.
Max
We got to get you that picture. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
How often do you work out? Do you work out like five days a week?
Max
So in the early process is just three days a week. In the early process means like directly after the season, toward the super bowl when I get the opportunity to play in an extended long period of time. I'm continue to do what I've been doing in the season. But three days, three days a week, sometimes five. If I'm just like, man, like, I gotta get it. You know what I'm saying? If my. If I didn't got a big stomach just sitting around.
PFT Commenter
You gotta watch what you eat.
Max
Yeah, absolutely. So after the season, like, I really. I really. I eat what I want. Yeah. For the most part. And once I got here, it being Mardi Gras season and King Cakes opening up on my birthday, you know what I'm saying, On King's Day, and I got a granddaddy that always wanna give me praline and stuff like that. Like, it's just too much. Too much good food.
PFT Commenter
When's your birthday?
Max
January 6th.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Chris
Okay.
Big Cat
January.
PFT Commenter
Happy birthday. We missed it.
Big Cat
We're January guys as well. Yeah, our birthday was last week. Yeah.
Max
Well, happy birthday. Thank you.
Big Cat
Yeah, 30th. He's the 31st back to back.
Max
And my cousin birthday is my favorite cousin, the 29th. I can't forget y'all birthday.
PFT Commenter
There are gonna be some other cousins that listen to this, that think you're talking about them. That's not my birthday.
Max
Everybody know I'm talking about Tay Tay. Everybody. All my family know who I'm talking.
PFT Commenter
Ok. Why is Tay Tay your favorite?
Max
I think what he has overcame, man, when we grew up, he was always the person that people didn't mess with. But in terms of school, he was always misunderstood, whether it's from grade school all the way up. And I took just a leap of faith because he had numerous medications to like, hey, Tay, when I go to Tambolite, man, you coming with me, like. And actually it ended up like this. It wasn't like you coming with me. It was more like, hey, Tay, you come on down here, spend a good time in Tampa.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Max
Then Tay ain't want to leave. You know what I'm saying? And then I was just like, man, nah, you deserve this. You deserve to experience this with me. And like, man, he doesn't take all those mans that he's been taking, man, he's. He's finding him a job. Like he has a one bedroom apartment. Like, he's living a life that, that a lot of people would have never thought that he would be able to live through sustaining himself. That's awesome. So I'm just proud of him. And that's why I'm a firm believer, like, you never let people place limitations on you, right? There is a right situation for you, There is a right scenario for you. But as long as you continue to desire that, no one trying to place that hold or that lack on you can stop.
Big Cat
Shout out. Tayta.
Max
I appreciate it.
Big Cat
Hey, I got a random question for you.
Max
Happy birthday.
Big Cat
Yeah, Happy birthday. Who'd you vote for? For the Heisman?
Max
Who did I vote for? Well, I voted for Shador first. No, he was, he was, he was on there. I voted for Travis and I. I voted for Cam Ward. That's. That's who I voted for. No, no, no. Order. But I know Shadur was. He was just high on my mind just because of what he has encompassed with throughout his whole collegiate career. And it's similar like to Bo. You right, because I got a chance to be in the same state as Bo and see him show up. But we all got to witness like Shadour's maturation process, even when Dion was coaching the high school team in Dallas. Like they had a TV show back then. Because I'm. I mean, I know Prime Time is some of y'all favorite athletes out there. So just all he encompassed as like his whole collegiate career, we got to see it. And he never played a bad game. All he did was ball. You know what I'm saying? He had a few losses here and there, but he balled out for the most part. So I had to make sure that he got him a trip up there to New York. I don't know if he did, but I'm glad Travis won. I'm glad Cam Moore had the year he won it. I just wish he would have went to Florida State with this stuff is crazy.
Big Cat
Probably good that he didn't. That was a bad season for Florida State. At what point in the season were you like, oh, man, I never.
Max
I never lost faith.
Big Cat
You should have.
Max
I never. I never lost faith. I just. I just refused to text anybody back that was talking to me about Florida State.
PFT Commenter
You know, did you hear about the guy that wouldn't eat the dog poop?
Max
He Would.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Oh, you did this. This is why. This is where me and big cat lost faith.
Max
Florida State.
PFT Commenter
He said he would eat poop if Florida State lost to Georgia Tech in Ireland. And.
Big Cat
No, it's Boston College, second week. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
They were like 17 point F. So they lost week one in Ireland, and then they were 17 point favorites week two. I think there was that Monday night game, and he was like, if we lose outright, I'm gonna eat. I'm gonna eat dog poop. On camera. Camera. And then he didn't.
PFT Commenter
And then he didn't deactivate. Left the Internet. And then. Yeah, just loss after loss kept piling.
Big Cat
That's. That's why your season went so poorly.
Max
Oh, my gosh.
Big Cat
He should have eaten the dog.
Max
He shouldn't have said that he was gonna eat dog poop.
Big Cat
But don't you agree that he should have eaten the dog poop?
Max
But don't we all agree, like, when we're walking our dog, like, Tussie just did this today and she sniffs other poop and bites the poop.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
I'm just like, why did you do that?
Big Cat
Like, she's probably trying to get Florida State back on track.
Max
She. She. She did it for the nose. But I'm just saying, like, do we not think about that with our dogs?
Big Cat
Like. Like, I'm on the lips.
Max
You know what I'm saying? I'm in your face, and I just witnessed you eat dog poop.
Big Cat
But for the record, you think that guy should have eaten the dog poop, right?
Max
I think he definitely should have stood on business.
PFT Commenter
I agree.
Big Cat
I agree.
Max
I think he's definitely should have.
PFT Commenter
Oh, man. We didn't ask you about this last time. We were. We were, like, getting to know each other. And then after we got done with the interview, you said, I thought you were gonna ask me about the crab legs.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah.
PFT Commenter
So we didn't do that last time.
Big Cat
But.
PFT Commenter
But I feel like now we have to. We've always had your back, by the way, on this. There's never been any judgment coming from us.
Max
No. Thank you.
PFT Commenter
To the crab leg story. But if you want to. If you want to speak on the crab leg story and educate people about the truth behind some misconceptions.
Max
I just want to educate everyone about the new addition of nil and the things that it allows our young athletes to do or not to do. And before nil, if you did anything illegal, you would get suspended, you would lose your year of eligibility, and your career would be over. You know, So I don't condone anything bad happening from a collegiate athlete. That was done between 2016 through before that, you know, but when Nil started, a lot of opportunities and doors that were already open were reopened with the birth of a collective saying, we gonna give you money to do that. You know, so that is the best political way that I can put that situation. But, you know, I am grateful that the crab legs have provided me with so many opportunities to talk about crab legs. Get crab legs thrown at me. And you know what? Get free crab legs from Fulton Fish Market.
Big Cat
There we go. There we go.
Max
That's the biggest thing you would have.
Big Cat
Made so much money in nil.
Max
Oh, my goodness. Like, that crab leg thing would have never been like, oh, my gosh. Like, I would have had so many crab legs.
Big Cat
You would have been living in crab legs.
PFT Commenter
You think back to, like, Ohio State and the huge scandal, the massive scandal. It was the biggest story in sports at the time because some guys got tattoos, right? They got free tattoos for giving their jersey to somebody. And that was the only thing that we talked about for, like, three months. And if that happened now, it's like, not. Nobody cares at all. Nobody would care. And the same thing, I think with the crab legs, it's like, okay. By the way, there are worse things to be thrown at you for the course of your life than crab legs. Yeah, crab legs are delicious, but I.
Max
Can eat them in my uniform. It's not really fun to be thrown when you walk into the tunnel, you know? Crab leg. Oh, I'm hungry. Thank you, Lord.
PFT Commenter
So. So we. We hope you have a long, fruitful NFL career. We hope that you fulfill your dream of being a starting quarterback, winning a Super Bowl. Hope all that happens. But when the time comes to hang them up, I predict that you will have a massive podcast.
Big Cat
Yeah. Hopefully a partial sports.
PFT Commenter
Hopefully. Yeah. But if. Yeah, if not you, we have to be invited on occasionally because we're. We're going to need some shine from the Jameis Winston podcast.
Max
I don't think people that me and.
PFT Commenter
Big Cat are still out.
Big Cat
You better at least call us.
Max
I want to give y'all. Yeah, like a lot of people talk about, James, you should do this. You should do that. I don't think people know about the sweat equity that you guys put into this, that your team puts into this. Yeah, obviously, big names can get a mic and say their opinion, you know, but the intentionality and precision that you have, the thought of y'all. Guess what y'all doing, what RC Is doing with the pivot like, it's unbelievable, and it's really changing lives. You know what Jay Shetty's doing with own Pro? Like, this is a new wave that our fans are able to really get the quality information that they need from what they want. And y'all do that with the best of them. If not, y'all gotta be the best, because that's why I came on here first. Appreciate it.
Big Cat
Yes.
Max
But nah, man. I don't think people know the sweat equity in the team that you gotta have to produce something great. Like, yeah, I can get a mic, but I wanna be great, you know, I just don't wanna do this just to be able to have y'all on the show and say, hey, you know, I had, you know, big cat and pft on, like, what y'all. What y'all think about that? You know what I'm saying?
Big Cat
I'd listen to that. Not even with us. I'm just saying how you intro that. It could be anyone. I'd listen.
PFT Commenter
No, I just watching film. You've been studying podcasts.
Max
Well, I've been studying y'all. Right. Because y'all are great. Right? And I think that's one thing that a lot of great people do. They study greatness. So if this is one avenue that I decide to take, like, y'all are gonna be a part of it, because y'all great.
Big Cat
You better give me a call. I listen the Fox thing, I'm happy for you. I didn't like that I found out on Twitter because I was just like, I just. When you do decide to hang them up and you're like, this is my next career, just give us a chance, okay? Give us a chance to make an offer.
Max
Well, thank you. I'm. I'm grateful that you.
Big Cat
You and Gruden in a podcast together, the Elite.
Max
I'm happy to say that online.
Big Cat
Gruden, oh, my gosh.
Max
That really mean that you care about me?
Big Cat
Yeah, no, I need. I need to get. I need to get a call. Being like, it's time. And then we just. We hit the button. Jameson Gruden, and it just go to the moon. Oh, James Strap in.
PFT Commenter
James Gruden and Fred Smoot.
Max
Oh, man. Do you know one of the first football camps that I went to was Sam Shade and Fred Smoot?
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Did he talk in kids?
Max
He did, but that put something in us. And another fun fact. Me and my wife was at the same camp. Oh, that's crazy. So it's. That's how destiny work, man.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Like, nothing is done by coincidence, the fact that we sit here again on the pre Super Bowl Sunday, you know, and with a beautiful background, beautiful cast, like nothing is done coincidentally.
PFT Commenter
Did you say you. You met your wife at Fred Smooth's football camp?
Max
Oh, my gosh, please don't put that out there. No, I didn't.
Big Cat
She just happened to be there as well.
Max
No, she. She was a camp.
Big Cat
Oh, okay. Nice.
PFT Commenter
So we are here for the Super Bowl. Max is. If you talk about, like sweat equity that you put into a podcast. Max has been sweating this entire week. He's very nervous. Give us a preview for the game.
Max
Man, I'm. I'm in a win, win for this situation because we, we're. We're witnessing Patrick Mahomes do something that we haven't really witnessed be done from another quarterback this early on in their career. So I'm so proud that he is executing to the level that he' executing with his team. And we all get to witness Travis Kelce have the most beautiful, popular woman in the world win the super bowl with them. I think that's amazing as well. Just a storyline, just what everything the NFL encompasses, I think that's amazing. But we also. I grew up a Philadelphia Eagles fan. Right. I've always admired Jalen hurts and what he does from the quarterback position because I think a lot of people shortchange him. And what he does and what he does is he does the most important quality of a quarterback, and that is to win. So I'm excited to see him step onto this stage. Him being four hours down the road in Houston, Texas, this being a home like game for him, you know, two Texas boys with their second matchup together in the dome. The city of life, the city of resilience. Will Jalen make the most of his second opportunity? Will the king rise again? And how was the halftime show be this year? Yeah, like, how about.
PFT Commenter
How about that when Drake tried to sue, he tried to sue everybody to make them not do not like us. Yeah, he's gonna play that song, right?
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, man.
Max
You know, I'm a huge Kendra Lamar fan, but like, I, I think, like, I don't want. I want to know what y'all opinion would be about if Lil Wayne brought the culture of New Orleans and all the artists in New Orleans and perform. Because most of the fans there at the super bowl, like, they're not. They probably not Kendrick Lamar fans.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know what I'm saying? They probably not Lil Wayne fans. But I think understanding the culture and experience of this city, what Lil Wayne would have been able to do. I know Kendrick is gonna rock the house. I know that for a fact. But I think, like Lil Wayne, he wanted that super bowl experience to be back home.
PFT Commenter
I'm a no, I'm a no limit soldier.
Max
Yeah. You don't die. Yeah. That's all.
Big Cat
We keep rolling.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. No, I know.
Max
The block would have been hot for sure.
PFT Commenter
It's going to be a great performance. I kind of agree. I like to see a little bit of the local flavor wherever they're at. Like when it was in Los Angeles, that was incredible what they did there. It would have been. It would have been cool. But also when. When not like us drops, it's going to be the best.
Max
People are going to like that. I think that's definitely the most popular song. Song that we've been accustomed to.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Like that's. That's Summer Heat.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
You know, but I don't want no beef with any of them. I just want. I just want my franchise quarterback opportunity.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
To be the winning quarterback that I'm capable of being.
Big Cat
Yes. I love that. All right, so last question. Roback question. R, H, O, B A, C K.com promo code, take 20 off your first purchase. I'm wearing it right now. Roback.com promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. So we said, Max, he's a die hard Eagles fan. Last time in the super bowl two years ago, he drank champagne the night before and he got a little ahead of himself. Can you give Max just some words, some James Winston words of wisdom on how he needs to act going into this super bowl knowing that, like, you can't lose twice to him. You can't have that happen.
Max
Max, I promise you, it wasn't the champagne that lost the game.
Big Cat
But it might have been.
Max
But Max, one Eagles fan to another Eagles fan. We gotta get this one. Okay? So lock in, do whatever's required for you to have the best day that you possibly can have. Okay?
Big Cat
He's not locked in. I'm locked in. I'm locked in. He drank champagne and lost his phone the night before the Super.
Max
Oh, you lost your phone?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Max
Oh, it was that time. Oh, my. My goodness. Well, please don't drink no champagne in New Orleans because I promise you, it won't be pretty.
PFT Commenter
He got sick all over himself in the back of a cab, too.
Max
In the back of a cab. Oh, my gosh.
Big Cat
All right, well, Jamis, you're the best man. Love having you on. And let's. Let's hope someone gives you that chance. We want to see you starting in the NFL. And when the day does come that you hang them up, you better give.
Max
Me a call, man. Thank you, brother. All right. I appreciate y'all.
PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
That's my favorite.
PFT Commenter
Strawberry Smash.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT Commenter
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Big Cat
Yes.
PFT Commenter
Having a few ice cold trulies here in New Orleans.
Big Cat
Shout out Truly for supporting the boys.
PFT Commenter
I'm very pumped.
Big Cat
Yes. So let's support Truly. All right. Let's do FAQs. Before we do that. It is the end of the show. So, Max, super bowl score update.
Memes
What was the last one I did?
Big Cat
How you're feeling right now? How are you feeling?
PFT Commenter
Minute.
Memes
All right. 3,000, 824.
Big Cat
Okay.
Chris
Wow.
Big Cat
So that actually has got. So it was 3,224 on. On Monday's show. We're now. The Eagles have gotten better from Monday to Wednesday. They have gotten significantly better. I like that.
PFT Commenter
So what is that? Another touchdown misstep point?
Memes
Something like that?
Big Cat
I think it's actually. No, because 32. We got 32 from four touchdowns and four two point conversions. Yep. I think the Eagles just tacked on three, six safeties.
PFT Commenter
Oh, I like that. Yeah, I like that.
Big Cat
Yeah. It was a safety fest.
PFT Commenter
Patrick Mahomes, zero awareness in the pocket.
Max
None.
Big Cat
Yeah, none.
Memes
Jalen Carter, just eating back there.
Chris
Eating.
PFT Commenter
Just eating.
Big Cat
How you feeling, Max?
Memes
I feel great. I feel great. I'm ready to go. I'm ready for Sunday.
Big Cat
Lane, it's only Tuesday.
Memes
We haven't. We haven't interviewed Lane yet, but I'm sure he was great. I'm sure he was dialed.
PFT Commenter
Did you read that article today? I think it was on MMQB about. About Italian culture. And the Philadelphia Eagles.
Memes
No, but it sounds like a good reason.
Big Cat
Max.
PFT Commenter
They did not mention Max, but they mentioned, like four coaches on the team. How they all go to this one restaurant with this paisan that kisses them on the lips, sits them down. They yell at each other. But some people are like, oh, they're fighting. No, we're just Italian. Yeah, this is how we communicate.
Memes
Did they mention Big Dom?
PFT Commenter
They did. Big Dom was, was featured heavily in this.
Big Cat
Max should have been mentioned.
Memes
No, no, no.
PFT Commenter
Big Dom's father, bricklayer.
Big Cat
Love that blue collar. He's the best. Use his hands. All right, FAQs.
Hank
Long time listener, first time caller. Question for Dan and Eric.
Chris
Whoa.
PFT Commenter
Oh, it's a bit familiar.
Big Cat
What government names, what tabs do you.
Hank
Generally have open for every show, Max?
Big Cat
The ads I have usually espn and it's usually like, like NFL standings because I just forget what every team's record is.
PFT Commenter
I. I'll have one page that's open to some league standings.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Usually not the NFL, but I'll just have like the random NBA standings pulled up so I can remind myself, oh, yeah, the Rockets are somehow good.
Big Cat
And then I'll. I'll usually have Twitter because I've been starting to bookmark tweets that I want to bring up, which has been very handy.
PFT Commenter
That's smart.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
So I'll have X.com the everything app, and really that's the only app that you need to have open. Open at any time.
Big Cat
It's still Twitter on my computer.
PFT Commenter
Bleep that out. Okay. Don't say the T word. Yeah, we. Yeah, I. I'll have the ads pulled up and then I'll have a Google Doc that has like links to the tweets and stories.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
That I want to talk about.
Big Cat
Not a lot of stuff. Not a lot of high level stuff.
PFT Commenter
Or if it's like a Friday show, if it's a preview show.
Big Cat
Oh, I'll put my notes.
PFT Commenter
I have my stats that are. That are pulled up.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
DraftKings odds.
Big Cat
DraftKings odds. Yeah. Friday show will be. DraftKings will be all my notes. Notes. But I do like writing notes by hand. That's what I do on Sunday nights because I think I just, I absorb things better when I'm writing them down.
PFT Commenter
I also have flight tracker pulled up sometimes.
Hank
So have you got simulator.
PFT Commenter
No, not flight simulator. Flight tracker. My. My laptop doesn't have the gaming power to process flights.
Big Cat
You have to only place flight simulator on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that's when there's A squadron event. I have to contribute to my squadron.
Big Cat
And he used to have a guy named KKK in the squad.
Max
Roger.
PFT Commenter
Yep. I was. For a while. I was afraid that I had somehow gotten into a white supremacist flight simulator group. And that. That took some years off my life trying to think that through. Eventually the guy named KKK made him change his name.
Big Cat
Got it. Got him kicked out. Yeah. Pfd.
Memes
You told us you got him kicked out.
Big Cat
Yeah, you said you got him kicked out.
PFT Commenter
I don't know if he left or if he changed his name. Yeah, I. I don't know.
Big Cat
I was like, that's my boy. He got him kicked out by way to stand up. You know, if. If you stand up even in the small spaces like your flight squadron.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
That making a difference.
PFT Commenter
I took a stand. Yeah. He might still be a white supremacist. That is in my online flight community.
Big Cat
Just change it to White Lives Matter.
PFT Commenter
He's just undercover right now. Yeah. But. Yeah, that was a. I don't have that. Pulled up during. During the games. But you know that there's been that helicopter that's been flying real low this week. I think it. It was like flying over the Yak yesterday or flying over. Brandon Walker was pissed off about it, but I've noticed it a few places.
Big Cat
That's not saying much off about everything.
PFT Commenter
I looked it up. You know what this helicopter is?
Max
What?
PFT Commenter
They call it a nuke sniffer.
Big Cat
Oh.
PFT Commenter
It's a radiation detection helicopter that's been traveling back and forth across the city of New Orleans every morning.
Hank
Just chill out, man.
PFT Commenter
It's scanning for nuke. Would you rather not have that?
Memes
Nah, dude.
Big Cat
I want the new.
Hank
Don't worry about it.
Big Cat
What are you doing? Doing?
Memes
I don't know. This is.
Big Cat
Do you think.
Max
Wait.
Big Cat
Can I ask a question that's mean. That might be an insult question. Can I ask the insult question? Do you think the nuke sniffers alarms go off when Max farts?
Memes
I knew.
PFT Commenter
That's a good question.
Memes
I knew that was gonna come.
PFT Commenter
That's a good question.
Memes
I knew that was coming.
Big Cat
Okay. What was this?
Memes
I don't know. Some of the conspiracy theory. So I was looking at Hank and doing this.
Big Cat
I would rather prefer the nuke sniffer to be out there.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it's here. It's checking.
Big Cat
I. I like that.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I like it too.
Hank
There's nothing to be worried about.
Big Cat
What, you don't want the nuke sniffer?
Hank
Nah, there's nothing we're worried about, dude.
Big Cat
Well, we never said there's nothing to worry about. Are you.
PFT Commenter
Wait, are you so woke and you're thinking that the, the helicopter is there to make us scared and make us think there might be your guys advice.
Big Cat
No, no, you keep it moving to our advice. No, the advice is the world is shitty and shitty things happen, but if.
Hank
You don't worry about them, if you.
Big Cat
Spend all day thinking about a bridge that collapsed six months ago, would I.
Hank
Don'T think about anything.
Big Cat
We know that.
PFT Commenter
Just keep it moving, Hank.
Hank
Yeah, just keep living, man.
PFT Commenter
Keep it moving. If there's a nuke here, who cares?
Hank
Yeah, exactly. This is crazy. This guy should probably be arrested.
Big Cat
Oh.
Hank
I live in Philadelphia with three other diehard Eagles fans. We've been dealing with a.
Big Cat
That's the arrest.
Hank
We've been dealing with a rat issue out front and on the back patio with our trash cans, which we have to leave out there. If the Eagles lose, we decided we would massacre them to take our anger out.
Big Cat
Okay. Yes.
Hank
How should we do it?
Big Cat
Don't.
Hank
It won't matter. Cuz we will win by a lot. And should we feed them a big meal if we win?
PFT Commenter
I think yeah.
Hank
Yeah, of course.
Big Cat
Italian food.
Hank
Your thoughts?
PFT Commenter
Here's what you do. If the Eagles win, if the Birds win, you need to reward those rats, and they are your, your new God right now.
Big Cat
Party sub.
PFT Commenter
If the, if the Eagles lose, party sub out there, you just got to get some cats.
Big Cat
Rats. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And just let nature take its course. I don't think that you should, like, kill the rats.
Big Cat
Are the worst.
Hank
No, I know, but like, just saying like, thinking like a rat massacre, that's crazy.
Big Cat
Just, just, I mean, that's what they do every time they nuke the alleys in Chicago. That's a rat massacre.
Hank
But do they say, we're gonna go massacre these motherfuckers?
Big Cat
I mean, if you look at the signs, it says like, this alley has been like carpet bombed with poison. Yeah. So, yeah, I, I, I'm kind of okay with it. Rats suck. True massacre, though. Please take video and send it to us.
PFT Commenter
That implies that you're using your hands. I don't think that you should use your hands.
Big Cat
I think you should use your hands. I think that's the only way that you're allowed to do it.
PFT Commenter
If you can catch the rat with your hand and choke it out.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Rats never tap hypothetical.
Hank
For Max, you're out at sea with Jason Kelsey, Big Dom, and Nick Foles.
Chris
Oh, wow.
PFT Commenter
Who you first.
Max
Oh, wow.
Hank
When out of nowhere, they're all captured by pirates. You Must choose one to set free, one to live out their years as the pirates hostage, and one to be executed on the ship.
Big Cat
Oh, my God.
Hank
What will you do? Nick Foles, Jason Kelsey, Big.
Memes
So one to let free?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
What does that mean?
Hank
Let, like captured, and then they're no longer captured.
Memes
So I'm a pirate in this.
PFT Commenter
In this scenario, you're the spokesperson.
Hank
Your friends are captured by pirates. You're negotiating with them, and they said, you can set one free. One of us is staying with us forever. The other one's dying right now.
Big Cat
I think this is easy. I think this is easy.
Memes
Why?
Big Cat
I have an answer.
Memes
Give your answer then.
Big Cat
Jason Kelsey's a pirate. He was born to be a pirate. He would, like, probably enjoy being a pirate.
PFT Commenter
I think also if we just. If we got rid of Jason Kelsey, it eliminates competition. The podcast game.
Big Cat
Yeah. Nick Foles, you'd unfortunately have to kill Big Dom. You set free, and then he'll get vengeance.
Memes
Big Dom is. Big Dom was for sure being set free.
Big Cat
Yeah. He'll get vengeance. Yeah. Yeah, he will find.
Memes
That was the only thing I knew the other. I couldn't figure out the other do.
Big Cat
We'll figure it out right now.
Memes
I think this is good podcasting.
Big Cat
I don't know.
Memes
I don't want to answer this question. They're my guys.
Big Cat
I love all those guys. Answer the question.
Memes
I love all those guys.
Big Cat
You have to answer the question. Huh?
Hank
If you don't. If you don't answer them, they all die.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
So I have to kill one?
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT Commenter
No, you're giving.
Big Cat
Not killing them.
Hank
The pirates.
PFT Commenter
Telling the pirates. Execute. Execute him.
Memes
But the pirates. That doesn't necessarily. They could beat the pirates.
Big Cat
Sure.
Memes
I think Nick Foles is such a winner, he would just beat the pirates.
Big Cat
Oh, so you. So you're executing Nick Swoles, the one guy.
PFT Commenter
You think that Nick Foles would stand a better chance going toe to toe with pirates than Big Dom would?
Big Cat
Oh, I actually have his number. Should we call him right now and tell him that you executed him?
Memes
I didn't execute. Was he. I mean, he beat Tom Brady.
PFT Commenter
That's true.
Memes
You would have said the same thing about that.
PFT Commenter
You know, Tom Brady didn't punt in that Super Bowl. That's crazy, huh?
Big Cat
You just executed him.
Memes
I didn't execute him. I said I. I believe in him to be a winner.
Big Cat
Okay.
Memes
Defy all odds.
PFT Commenter
That's a good faq. Nick Foles, very frequently asked question.
Hank
All right, last one. If the Birds win, how much do you think Max is going to give Everyone. For finally being a champion while on pmt.
Big Cat
I actually don't think. I think he's going to be so happy with himself that he doesn't. I don't think he's going to be thinking about us that much.
PFT Commenter
There's nothing that we can say to. To hurt him in that moment.
Big Cat
I think it's going to be more like a residual thing, like two months from now. Aside, comments made, and he's like, super bowl champion. Like, that's where you're going to see it.
Memes
Two months, full year.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
He's not going to do back for like a year.
Big Cat
Two months. Like, I don't think you're going to come on. If the Eagles win. I don't think you're going to come on just, like, straight talking. You're going to be so happy about the Eagles, and then, like, in two months, there'll be, like, a random comment. You'll be like, I'm a Super bowl champion. I don't know what you're talking about, but, yes, that will last for a long time.
Memes
It'll change everything. Or it would change everything.
Big Cat
And what happens if you lose?
Memes
It's the same.
Max
We've been.
Big Cat
We've. Now.
PFT Commenter
It's worse. It's worse.
Memes
Why is it worse? It's just the same thing.
Big Cat
It's worse, but it's.
Memes
Again, I'm already looked at as second place guy.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it re.
Memes
And then it just. Yeah, that's it.
Big Cat
No, but you get even more second place.
Memes
Add another one to the tally. It's fine. Like, that's.
PFT Commenter
You're underestimating how bad it will be.
Big Cat
It's going to be really bad.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it'll be bad. I hope you win for your sake.
Memes
No, you don't.
PFT Commenter
You're right. I don't.
Memes
You don't at all.
Big Cat
I hope you win for my sake.
Memes
Yeah.
Hank
I hope you win for my sake.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Bad.
Memes
No, it'll. It'll just be. It'll be the same song and dance.
Big Cat
Should we cash out and just bet the cheese? No, No.
PFT Commenter
I mean, I. The one good part about the Eagles winning this would be Max just constantly shoving it in Hank's face all the time.
Hank
That's fine.
PFT Commenter
What?
Memes
I wouldn't. Hank. Hank is my brother and my brother. And birds.
Max
Okay.
PFT Commenter
All right.
Big Cat
Way to use your words there, Max.
Memes
Think of what I was. I was gonna say brother and arms and. I don't know. Brother and birds.
PFT Commenter
So birds. Yeah. Max, if. If you lose, it'll definitely be bad. I think it'll be worse. You're underestimating how bad it's going to be. But if you win, you're going to do that thing where you get so happy that you're angry.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Oh, yeah.
PFT Commenter
And you'll be screaming no matter what. Screaming. But you'll be the happiest you've ever.
Big Cat
Been in your life, no matter what. Monday's show is going to be incredible.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
Monday show is going to be. We'll just see. Okay. Okay, let's kick it to ourselves. We got lottery ball. There was actually a. AWO tweeted me today, said that he's been. He's been guessing the number since the beginning of the lottery ball machine. He's never gotten it.
PFT Commenter
That's crazy. Do you have anybody like that?
Big Cat
Well, memes. Listen, credit to Memes, he didn't guess it for the first what year. So this guy is somehow worse. This is Chris. CM, Marcia51, shout out. He said he had to come clean because it was bothering him. Him. For the entire history of the lottery ball machine, he has never gotten it right.
PFT Commenter
That's pretty crazy.
Big Cat
Let me know if you ever get it right, because I. I am now invested in this. So. All right, let's kick it to ourselves. Okay, Numbers memes. If you get the number during super bowl week, I mean, this is Max's week, but if you get. No, we've upgraded from Eagles week to Max week. Oh, okay. Max week. I like that. It's Max versus the Chiefs numbers. 80.
PFT Commenter
85.
Big Cat
I'm gonna guess 2.
Memes
11.
Max
I'm thinking of players on the.
Big Cat
Come on, Memes.
PFT Commenter
Eagles.
Big Cat
You're not gonna get it. All right?
Max
77.
Big Cat
You're never gonna get it. 30. 30.
PFT Commenter
Love you.
Podcast Summary: Pardon My Take
Episode Title: Eagles Lane Johnson, Jameis Winston, Day 3 In New Orleans And Listener FAQ’s
Release Date: February 5, 2025
Introduction
In this episode of "Pardon My Take," hosts Big Cat and PFT Commenter delve into insightful conversations with NFL stars Lane Johnson and Jameis Winston. Set against the backdrop of Super Bowl week in New Orleans, the episode also features engaging discussions on team strategies, trade rumors, and answers to listener questions.
Interviews
Super Bowl Appearances and Achievements
Lane Johnson joins the show ahead of his third Super Bowl appearance with the Philadelphia Eagles. Highlighting his illustrious career, Big Cat notes:
"[44:18] Big Cat: On Sunday, Lane Johnson will become only the third offensive tackle in NFL history to make six Pro Bowls, two first team all-pros, and start in three Super Bowls."
Impact on Team Performance
PFT Commenter emphasizes Lane's significant impact on the Eagles' success:
"[54:50] Big Cat: When you're not on the field, the Eagles are 15 and 23. When you're on the field, they're 102 and 55. That's insane."
"[54:57] PFT Commenter: Yeah, that's insane. It's like the defense turns into a steel wall when he's playing."
Leadership and Team Dynamics
Lane discusses his role in fostering team resilience and unity:
"[55:23] Chris: But no, man, we talked about it, but then like we had the year before AJ got hurt in that game. We had to go play Tampa and couldn't play. So it's like we wanted the record."
"[56:20] Big Cat: Yeah. Are you feeling healthy? Because I remember last time in 2022, when we came visit you Super Bowl week, you had, like, six different injuries that should have sidelined anyone else."
"[57:06] PFT Commenter: What's his vibe there, Man? I love Pittsburgh, you know, because I admire coach Mike Tomlin so much. You know, the first Super Bowl ring that I ever held in my hand was a 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl ring from Bruce Arians."
Season Overview and Personal Resilience
Jameis Winston reflects on a challenging season marked by injuries and team dynamics:
"[85:56] Big Cat: So you would never have known that you, you'd already had torn your groin if you didn't tear the other part of your groin?"
"[86:00] Chris: How much money they got left."
"[89:16] Max: And that day wasn't a good day. And that was kind of like a precursor to the season, you know what I'm saying?"
Training and Performance Enhancement
Winston shares insights into his training regimen and efforts to improve his game:
"[94:03] Big Cat: So you gotta. So that's something we gotta still check off the list."
"[96:00] Max: But I don't wanna do this just to be able to have y'all on the show and say, hey, you know, I had, you know, Big Cat and PFT on, like, what y'all think about that? You know what I'm saying?"
"[97:05] Big Cat: Have you thought about like maybe doing a spring training? I know that you're. That kind of conflicts with, you know, where you're going to sign, but I'd love to see you back on our baseball."
Future Aspirations and Personal Growth
Winston discusses his aspirations beyond his current NFL career, emphasizing personal growth and family:
"[100:08] Max: Because what I do from what I do from an NFL perspective, from a father perspective, from a husband perspective, is small to the grand scheme of things, of the impact that I can have on lives everywhere across this entire world."
"[100:43] Chris: So you push the ball down the field, you're making the throws, and that's always what's so fun when you get in."
Super Bowl Week and Team Discussions
The hosts engage in lively discussions about the upcoming Super Bowl, analyzing team strengths and potential outcomes:
"[33:47] Max: Patrick Mahomes does something that we haven't really witnessed be done from another quarterback this early on in their career."
"[34:17] Big Cat: We keep rolling."
"[43:00] Max: But no, he did it on me."
Discussions around potential trades, including the high-profile trade request by Miles Garrett, highlight the strategic maneuvering within the NFL:
"[09:51] Big Cat: And we put. And we put on the back of helmets. And now racism's dead."
"[12:41] Chris: So."
"[14:52] Big Cat: Yeah. That was Cleo Mack was two first-round picks."
The hosts delve into various conspiracy theories and league changes, including references to a potential flag football league:
"[05:54] Big Cat: So he said they're, they're working on it. And then Florio reported that they're not just working on it. It's like happening. It's already going to a league where they hit harder."
"[16:19] Big Cat: Yes, he just doesn't want to reply."
Listener FAQs
The segment features a mix of serious and humorous questions from listeners, providing entertaining and insightful answers:
Q1: "Who would you set free if captured by pirates: Nick Foles, Jason Kelsey, or Big Dom?"
A1:Big Cat: "Jason Kelsey's a pirate. He was born to be a pirate. He would probably enjoy being a pirate."
PFT Commenter: "Nick Foles would stand a better chance going toe-to-toe with pirates than Big Dom."
Memes: "I think Nick Foles would beat the pirates."
Hank: "If you don't answer them, they all die."
Q2: "How much do you think Max is going to give everyone if the Eagles win the Super Bowl?"
A2:Big Cat: "I actually don't think he's going to be thinking about us that much."
PFT Commenter: "There's nothing that we can say to hurt him in that moment."
Memes: "He's gonna be the happiest he's ever been."
Q3: "Do you think the nuke sniffers alarms go off when Max farts?"
A3:Big Cat: "I would rather prefer the nuke sniffer to be out there."
Memes: "Do you think the nuke sniffers would detect Max's farts?"
PFT Commenter: "That's a good question."
Closing Remarks
The episode wraps up with the hosts expressing their excitement for the Super Bowl, reflecting on the insightful interviews, and maintaining their signature humor throughout the discussions.
Notable Quotes
"[44:18] Big Cat: On Sunday, Lane Johnson will become only the third offensive tackle in NFL history to make six Pro Bowls, two first team all-pros, and start in three Super Bowls."
"[54:50] Big Cat: When you're not on the field, the Eagles are 15 and 23. When you're on the field, they're 102 and 55. That's insane."
"[100:08] Max: Because what I do from what I do from an NFL perspective, from a father perspective, from a husband perspective, is small to the grand scheme of things, of the impact that I can have on lives everywhere across this entire world."
"[141:02] Max: I think he's definitely should have stood on business."
Conclusion
This episode of "Pardon My Take" offers a blend of in-depth interviews with NFL stars, strategic discussions on the Super Bowl, and humorous listener interactions. Big Cat and PFT Commenter successfully navigate through sports analysis and personal stories, making it a must-listen for sports enthusiasts and fans alike.