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Big Cat
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Big Cat
A lot of money.
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Big Cat
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Hank
What?
Big Cat
Happy? No nut November we start in Atlanta where the Falcons had a tough time defending against Rico charges as Dowdle scored a touchdown. Meanwhile, young thug Kirk Cousins look like prime Jimmy Gawopolo throwing for three touchdowns. The Cowboys were forced to call on their Dacup quarterback as Prescott hurt his hammy. But it was too little too late as Cooper Rush did his best to be a modern day warrior with a mean, mean stride but fell short leaving his fat coach to smash a tablet after the menu wouldn't load. Falcons 27, Cowboys 21 we go up.
Hank
To the Meadowlands where Dan All I do is Quinn, Quinn, Quinn no matter what had Washington rolling and the team was looking animated as Hi, I'm Troy McLaurin. You may remember me from such films as a one yard touchdown reception and the ten yard touchdown reception. Not even a day ball of coke can save Wall street as another Black Monday is imminent after Daniel Dow Jones continues to crash. The commander is 27, the G men 22.
Big Cat
Over to Western New York where Amari Alex Cooper was ruled out pregame but the Bills still had enough for the Dolphins to call Josh Allen daddy. The Bills started slow in the first half but found a groove when Ray Charles Davis made the Dolphins secondary look blind on a way to a 63 yard score. The game came down to the wire but Tyler, what you gonna do with all that bat base, all that base on special teams hit a 61 yarder and no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo bills. Bills 30, Dolphins 27 we go, we.
Hank
Go down to Baltimore where the Ravens said let's get Ricarded. Let's get Ricarded in here.
Big Cat
Hey hey.
Hank
As Patrick scored a touchdown to boat race the Broncos track. Dorico ran for 100 big TDOS the Ravens sit at 6 and 3. 0 Rip the bridge Francisca Keo he shoves it down Sean Payton's P hole tractor Seato Ravens 41 the Broncos 10.
Big Cat
We head on to Philadelphia where Max was on the scene.
PFT Commenter
Saigon Barkley was rumbling, mumbling and stumbling and then he hit him with an all time 180 whoop over the head of the Jags defender. Finally Johan Forgotson reminded Eagles fans that he's on the roster after he had one of the biggest catches of the game. Zach Bon Voyage was all over the field and looked like he was going to easily bid ado to the Jags offense. But after a roaring comeback it was Nakoby Jimmy Dean who risked it to get the biscuit and came down with a game ceiling interception. Eagles 28, Jags 23.
Big Cat
Thanks Max over to Nashville with the boy Henry Lockwood down to Nash Vegas.
Memes
Mason Rudolph the backup QB backed up and threw a nine yard pass which was complete to Nick no no Vanette for a touchdown. Past fans were thrilled their rookie QB was back from a concussion protocol and.
Big Cat
Said we love the Drake.
Memes
After a second quarter touchdown the teams traded field goals before Nick Russell Westbrook A quinoa salad momentarily gave the Titans a seven point lead and an overtime.
Big Cat
Interception sealed the loss for the Patriots.
Memes
And they were heard saying actually we hate the Drake but at least he.
Big Cat
Is in the Caleb.
Memes
Titans win 20 to 17.
Big Cat
That was hurtful Henry and in Carolina so what? We lose games, so what? We suck ass. We're just having fun and we don't care who sees so what? Our owners a dick. That's how it's supposed to be. We're living. Bryce Young and wild and free. Derek Carmela Soprano was playing with a newfound Furio after calling himself a psychopath this week, but it was too little too late as the Panthers practice anti Dennis Allen discrimination further cementing him as the worst coach of all time. The Panthers win a football game what? Huh huh huh. The Panthers the Panthers Panthers win a football game. Panthers 23, Saints 22 we go to the frozen tundra of Green Bay where Jamir Jamira on the wall who's the.
Hank
Fairest of them all as the Lions came into the frozen tundra wearing their snow white uniforms making packers fans look sleepy, grumpy and dopey. Kentucky Kirby Joseph got on his horse and galloped home for a pick six to end a half while Brian Branch Davidians took on the Green Bay TF and got lost getting kicked out, but it didn't end up mattering as the Lions answered the cam bell yet again on the way to an easy win. The Lions 24, the Packers 14.
Big Cat
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Hank
A little bit. He looked a little bit spooked.
Big Cat
He looked a little pumpkiny.
Hank
He was spooked. It was like seeing ghosts again for a moment. He also did get hit in the face on another sack.
Big Cat
They don't respond. Doesn't like his face.
Hank
I think it's that he's got such a large head.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
That they're like. It's almost like you're asking, well, what was he wearing?
Big Cat
It's.
Hank
Did he want to get hit in the face?
Big Cat
Yeah. It's free rein on Sam Darnold's. Helmet at all times.
Hank
Was he asking for it?
Big Cat
Back to back weeks. But yeah, we will. We will update that game after we finish everything else. Let's. Let's hop into week nine. So last week we had an incredible witching hour, insane games. This week it didn't feel like there were a ton of. A ton of drama.
Hank
Was Hank right?
Big Cat
Hank might have been right.
Hank
Was Hank right about the games this weekend?
Big Cat
Although games. Didn't he. Didn't he. Which game did he specifically? Oh, he didn't like the Falcons. Cowboys. That was fun game still. But was it. Yeah, it was still fun to watch Kirk Cousins go crazy. He was going crazy.
Hank
We had like two decent games today.
Big Cat
Yeah, it wasn't the best Sunday, but that's okay because we love every Sunday. We hold it and cherish it and love it and kiss it and. And smooch it and have it sit on our lap and fondle it.
Hank
Yeah. Take showers with it.
Big Cat
Yeah. Cuddle it. Little spoon. I'd like to make Sunday my little spoon every single Sunday. All right, let's hop in the games. Bills 30, Dolphins 27. This was probably the, the closest, best game early. Josh Allen and Sean McDermott in the Buffalo Bills continue to be the Miami Dolphins. Daddy. Sean McDermott's now 15 and two against the Dolphins. And this was the Bills kind of mo this year where they start slow. They've actually been trailing in five games at halftime this year. They started slow and then they woke up in the second half with a fumble. That kind of changed the game when they punched out the ball of most dirt and then Ray Davis's long touchdown. And Josh had 156 yards and three touchdowns in the second half. And they held off a frisky Dolphins team.
Hank
Yeah, the Dolphins looked alive today. Josh had an incredible touchdown pass. That's when it was okay. He is.
Big Cat
He's your daddy, right?
Hank
He is father. And he's going to score whether you like it or not. There's nothing you can do about it. He was falling over, getting hit by like two guys and then just lobs a nice, easy, soft, catchable ball into the end zone. Anybody like most other quarterbacks, if they get hit like that, they might fumble, they might hit the ground and hurt their shoulder. Josh is just like, okay, this is. I'm just going to push the buttons and this is easy for me because I believe I can beat the Dolphins because I've done it a million times in the past.
Big Cat
Yeah, 15 and 2. That's pretty. That's pretty crazy. That's that's ownership at a different level. The Dolphins, they're frisky. I'm going to stick with the Dolphins being frisky. They don't know how to close games. I think they've lost their last three games by a total of 10 points. They like their offense looks like it's somewhat back. Tua looks okay. They just don't know how to close games. They had they score to tie the game and you're like, oh man, the Dolphins are going to maybe be able to pull this out. And then they had the back to back. It was the Chop Robinson penalty and then the Jordan Poyer penalty. And then Sean McDermott deserves credit for this because Tyler Bass has not been great.
Hank
Tyler ass.
Big Cat
He. He missed an extra point today. He dinked one. He. I think he missed a couple extra points last week or the week before. He has had maybe the yips, whatever you want to call it. And Sean McDermott was like, you know what? I'm going to fucking trust him with a 61 yarder, which if he misses that kick. The Dolphins, I believe, had one, maybe two timeouts. I think they had two because I think they used one to ice him. The Dolphins can basically turn around, get 20 yards and try to kick a game winner themselves. Yeah, that was a pretty risky thing to do. So Sean McDermott gets credit for trusting his kicker, which I don't know if I would have trusted my kicker in that spot.
Hank
That's awesome because we will give him credit for trusting his kicker. If he had missed that field goal. Oh, we'd be like, Sean McDermott, you're, you belong in prison for that. I think the guy missed an extra point. Why are you going to send him out there for a 61 yarder?
Big Cat
As he was lining up, I was like, this is psycho. Because it really was like when you have a 61 yarder, you're just looking at the field and you're like, if he misses this, the Dolphins get need a first down to try their own 61 yard.
Hank
And people always say, like, you know, like if your coach doesn't get something and you're like, well, if he, if it would have worked, we would have been praising him for making the right call. We need to do more of the opposite.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Where we, we talk just about how bad of a decision it was because it didn't work out the way that we thought that it was going to.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
But hey, listen, no, it was a 61 yarder and it probably would have been good from 70. Yeah, he hit the dick off that ball. That was. It was very, very impressive.
Big Cat
And now you get a kicker who might have some confidence back, which is also like, as a nice free agent acquisition, Tyler Bass gets the game ball. The Bills are absolutely rolling. And even in a game where it's like, it did feel for a little bit watching that game because they were sleepwalking the first half, they had that. They had one good drive, that Keon Coleman, the ball goes off his hands and picked in the red zone and you're like, are the Bills going to lose this game? No, no, no, no. The Bills are not going to lose this game. And The Bills are 7 and 2 and the second best team in the AFC east is 3 and 6. That's pretty crazy that they have it wrapped up this early.
Hank
Congratulations to the New York jets, who are in second place in the AFC East.
Big Cat
That's huge.
Hank
That's huge. As a big game for memes, that's enormous. So back. Almost back.
Big Cat
Almost back.
Hank
Second place is pretty good.
Big Cat
There also should be. I don't want to be the one to start the conversation, but other people have started the conversation. Josh Allen should definitely be in the MVP conversation.
Hank
Oh, he is in the conversation.
Big Cat
Yeah. But he should be very much in it.
Hank
I think if you look at the odds, it's like Lamar 250 and then Josh is like 280 and Lamar probably.
Big Cat
Should win it again because he's been insane.
Hank
But so is Josh. Yeah, Josh has been really good too. The Dolphins, I would say there are so many teams that have two wins right now. I think there are nine NFL teams that have two wins, which doesn't seem mathematically possible, does it?
Big Cat
No.
Hank
To have nine teams with two. Some of them are two and seven, some are two and six. But there are nine teams that have two wins. I think the Dolphins are by far the best two win team in the NFL.
Big Cat
The Dolphins the best. Worst team to be.
Hank
The best to win team.
Memes
Yeah.
Hank
You think that's bad? You got to be the worst two in team.
Big Cat
Pft. Definitely the Titans beat them.
Hank
Yeah, but that was a different team.
Big Cat
True Titans. I can't quit the Titans and Jamis.
Hank
Yeah, the Brown. Well, the Browns are also a different team. I would say the Browns and the Dolphins, if we're playing the two win.
Big Cat
Super Bowl, I think it would be. I think it would be Dolphins, one seed, Browns. No, no, it's a. It's a final four.
Hank
Okay, got it.
Big Cat
So it's Dolphins, one seed, Browns, two seed, Titans, three seed. So it's Browns Titans in the first round and I think it's the Jaguars in the four seed.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
So Dolphins versus Jaguars, Browns versus Titans.
Hank
Okay. I think the Dolphins win that game now.
Big Cat
I think the Dolphins beat the Jaguars. Yeah, I get. I think I have the Browns. The Browns versus Dolphins in the championship game for the two win teams for.
Hank
The best two win team in the.
Big Cat
NFL and then make this a tournament.
Hank
That might be a pick them.
Big Cat
Put it on a Tuesday night.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Give it to us instead of election coverage. Kill the two man.
Hank
Kill the two man.
Big Cat
Yeah. I would watch this.
Hank
The Super Bowl.
Big Cat
The super bowl and then just missing the. The tuber Bowl I would say is the Giants. They were the first one out.
Hank
Yeah, yeah.
Big Cat
They were the one that Linardi's like, hey look, they don't have enough. They don't have enough on their resume.
Memes
The Patriots played like five games without Drake. May I feel like you're not getting enough credit.
Hank
Different team.
Memes
Well, they lost quality two in team.
Big Cat
You lost the Titans a two win Titans team.
Hank
You gave the Titan. You gave the Titans entry into the two win club. If you didn't want him in there, you should kept them out.
Big Cat
Who was your other winner? You beat the Dolphins, right?
Hank
No, they beat the Jets.
Big Cat
I know they beat the jets, but did they beat week one?
Hank
They beat the Bengals.
Big Cat
Oh yeah. So you didn't beat. So you lost the Dolphins. So I mean that's, I mean if we're looking at, if we're doing the lunardi bracketology, I think the Giants, although the jot. You can make the argument that the Giants did beat the Browns.
Hank
I think the Giants have the best strength of schedule.
Big Cat
The Giants do have a tough strength.
Hank
No, I think if you look at the win percentage, I think the Giants of all the two win teams, it's like they're. They're number one.
Big Cat
They played a gauntlet.
Hank
Yeah, that's what you get for making your schedule. You try to play competitive games and Nardi doesn't give you that respect.
Big Cat
They're like the like 2414, I want to say Arkansas Razorbacks. When Brett Bielma like they won like six games but they were maybe the best six win team out there.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Because they were just going. They're playing everyone in the SEC and just playing everyone to like a 1312 loss.
Hank
Yeah. But to the Dolphins point, I think that they, I mean they hung in this game. They could have very easily won this game.
Big Cat
The Dolphins are frisky. I think they'll be spoiled. Their official spoiler. I don't Know if they're going to sell, they probably should sell. Like, what does Jalen Waddle do?
Hank
He showed up out of nowhere in the second half of this game.
Big Cat
Yeah. And then he had. That. He had to. Minus. Like, what did he. Yeah.
Hank
So. So here's what happened on the last play, because right when this happened, that was so funny. I turned to Jerry and I go, oh, my God. What was to his passing yards over, under for today? His prop was 243 and a half yards. That was the over under. Yeah. He had 254 yards with five seconds left in the game. He passed Jalen Waddle. Jalen Waddle ran backwards.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
For negative or. Sorry. It got pitched to Jaden Waddle. He did not pass Jalen Waddle.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
But he threw a complete pass down the field and then he got pitched to Jalen Waddle, who ran backwards for 1620. Minus 24 yards.
Big Cat
He. So Jalen Waddle finished his stats today was 2 catches, minus 4 yards, 1 touchdown.
Hank
Pretty crazy. That doesn't seem physically possible.
Big Cat
No, that doesn't.
Hank
That's how it happened. And so two is over. Under did not hit because of Waddle running backwards.
Big Cat
Yeah. I just. I feel like the Dolphins should. It's a wasted season. You know, it's. You're not going in the playoffs. You have some talented guys in the roster. Like what? I don't. Maybe the Chiefs don't want another wide receiver now, but they still could use one, Right?
Hank
Like what I think.
Big Cat
I don't know.
Hank
I think they said they're not done.
Big Cat
If I were. If I were a 2 and 7 GM, I would just be trying to get as many draft picks as possible. Yeah.
Hank
And this is what I don't know about Waddle because he's been MIA in a lot of games. I don't know if he has lost a step or if they're just not targeting him at all. Was a big deal.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
But I don't. I don't know. I don't know if Waddle is. He's still got the elite touchdown celebration.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. He. He had. The week one. He had a huge monster game. And then since then it's been. Everything's been under 50 yards and he's averaging like, he gets like four catches a game, so he's not totally invisible. But I would. I'd start trading everyone.
Hank
And even the announcers are going through the same things that you're going through at home when you're watching the Dolphins play. When the. When Tua took off to scramble for that first down. Who, who was the play by play guy?
Big Cat
Kevin Harlan.
Hank
Kevin Harlan? Yes, Kevin Harlan. I think he said like, oh, no, like during the middle of the play, because two is running with the ball. They're feeling the same emotions that you are watching him run. Just like bad things might happen on this play and. But I, he looked good today.
Big Cat
I had, I had a moment. Yeah, I mean, he. The Dolphins are frisky and they will play spoiler and they will probably win a game that they're not supposed to win late in the season and someone else's schedule up. I'm. I'm trying to look right now. Ooh, maybe act maybe at Green Bay. That could fuck something on. That's cool. That's me cold. Never mind. Yeah, maybe like the jets or the Texans. That's a game they could win and just fuck everyone's schedule up. But yeah, the Bills are rolling. I don't. The Bills are. Right now it feels like the AFC is just a lot of trash are figuring it out. And then the Bills, the Ravens and the Chiefs.
Hank
I like that there's a nice, like, understood order of operations at the top of the afc, though.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Because you got the Chiefs obviously, number one, because guess what? They beat the Ravens. Ravens obviously at number two, because guess what? They beat the Bills. So it's. There's not a whole lot of debate that you can have. I think that the Bills and the Ravens are both really, really good teams. And I think either team could beat the Chiefs, but I think that the Ravens obviously have the Bills number for some reason.
Big Cat
There's one person that's going to get very mad at us for this conversation. The Steelers are technically at the top of the AFC North. I think the Steelers are very good.
Hank
I put a future on. They should be in there last Monday to win the Super Bowl.
Big Cat
But yeah, the afc. Yeah, the Bills, the Ravens and the Chiefs. If you, if you told me, if you gave me, I mean, it would be a dumb bet, but if you're like one of those three teams to the super bow. Yeah, yeah, I'd sign me up.
Hank
That's.
Big Cat
That's going to happen. It feels like, okay, next game, the game that Hank shat all over. The Falcons 27, the Cowboys 21. Hank, I know that you didn't weren't excited about this game, but this game gave us many different things to take away. One, Bijan is awesome. 150 yards from the line of scrimmage. He was. 145 yards. He was awesome.
Memes
Two, was that like New information?
Big Cat
No, but it's nice to see, like, every game that Bijan goes off, it's kind of. It's like, nice to see because we spent all last year being like, when is Bijan going to go off? And now it's like, he's arrived and he's so fucking shifty and so awesome and elusive. When he gets in space, it's. You just know that he's going to make a guy miss.
Hank
I think what Big Cat says, like, it's really. It's really good for all the mock draft people out there. It's just like, this guy's different.
Big Cat
I'm a Bijan guy. I like him. I'm a fan of him, and I like to see him do well. And so every time he does well, I'm like, yes. That confirms that I am, like, it's okay to be excited about a guy who last year felt like he was not being used properly. Yeah. Two, we got Dak saying on the sideline, we fucking suck. That was pretty funny.
Hank
Yep.
Big Cat
Three, Mike McCarthy smashing the tablet. That was very funny.
Hank
Did the tablet say something about his brother?
Big Cat
I don't know.
Hank
Might have called him a slur.
Big Cat
Yeah. Or. Yeah. Maybe wrote an article about him. We got. We got a lot of Philly things to talk about later.
Hank
Phyllis. Is it. Is it gay to data pop star?
Big Cat
Apparently. Outside, actually. Maybe. Yeah. Outside of a Penn State game. Yeah. Three, four, four. Pam Oliver got a jersey from Stephen and Jerry Jones. I don't know why.
Hank
This is journalism, baby.
Big Cat
I still don't know why. I was trying to figure out why they, like, stopped. I don't think they stopped the game, but they. In the broadcast, they showed Pam Oliver getting a jersey. Were they trying to sign her?
Hank
I don't know if they're trying to sign her. I don't know if they could afford her right now. But I do think that, for whatever reason, this is a move that you do when you're trying to get somebody to retire.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Think about it. If they're still working, they're pushing her out. You're having, like, a retirement party for. I don't think that. Has she said anything about retiring?
Big Cat
I don't think so.
Hank
I don't know. Max memes. Can you look that?
Big Cat
And why did they get. Is it just because she does Fox? Yeah, Fox. She's been doing Cowboys.
Hank
She's been doing it for a while.
Big Cat
Yeah. I couldn't figure it out. That was very weird, but that was kind of cool. Hank. 5. I don't know what number I'm on. Rico. Dowdle's touchdown was sick.
Hank
Yeah, it was.
Big Cat
That was a sick touchdown. Yeah, we. I looked for the same stuff and I couldn't figure out they gave her a jersey either.
Hank
Either Jerry knows something about her retiring, or this is Jerry being like, look, we need to get her off the sidelines for some reason. I bet you Pam Oliver has a lot of dirt on the Cowboys organization.
Big Cat
This could also be Jerry taking a shot at those guys he yelled at on the radio. Being like, see, if you're a journalist, this is how we treat you.
Hank
I respect you. I won't hit you with a CDs. Nuts. Joke.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. This game was. I enjoyed watching this game. It had a lot.
Hank
I'll give you another thing that we can take away from this game. Something fun.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
The Falcons reminded us that you cannot commit pass interference on a fake punt.
Big Cat
Oh.
Hank
So the Cowboys tried a very sad fake punt.
Big Cat
Yes.
Hank
And threw it towards their gunner who got thrown down to the ground. The ball probably should have been picked off in return for six, but it wasn't. But it was a nice reminder that you. If it's the last guy closest to the sideline and they run a fake punt, you can do whatever you want to them.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
It's all legal.
Big Cat
Yeah, it was that. It was the sad fake punt. And then it was also the fourth down end round with CD Lamb that lost like 15 yards. The Cowboys are ass. They are complete ass. That's also fun, Hank, watching the Cowboys be ass. The Falcons are good. This was a good win for the Falcons. Kirk Cousins, I think if you looked at his stats this year, he was like the greatest quarterback of all time against the Bucks. And then, okay, like, average to below average against everyone else. So it was good that he beefed up his resume against someone not named the Bucks.
Hank
Yeah. Well, this is. It's the highest back to back quarterback rating for any quarterback ever in Falcons history.
Big Cat
Wow.
Hank
What Kirk has done the last two weeks.
Big Cat
I think the Falcons are good. They still got to figure out their pass rush situation. They did get three sacks today. Yeah. It is shocking.
Memes
Mvp Quarterback.
Hank
Is he in this? Are we having the conversation?
Memes
No, I'm saying, like, that that's better than Matt Ryan.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Matt Ryan did win an mvp. That's true. I was thinking for a second, I was like, michael, Michael, mvp. This is.
Hank
I should have. We should. We should have talked about this on Friday. This is the matchup of Kirk Cousins versus the black Kirk Cousins.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Remember when Amari Cooper called Dak Prescott.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Was Amari Cooper actually giving Dak Prescott the best compliment he's ever received in his life?
Big Cat
I think so, because that's a.
Hank
That would be an honor because I.
Big Cat
Take Kirk Cousins over Dak every day of the week.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
And I mean, the Cowboys are bad. I have a question. So good win for the Falcons? I actually do think the Falcons are good. I'm worried about the Drake London injury because he came out of the game after scoring a touchdown. He's very important. And again, their defense has to round into form a little bit more. The Cowboys ran the ball like the Cowboys don't run the ball. And they ran the ball very well. Zeke is just. I don't even know what's happening. He just doesn't go to meetings anymore. And then he just. They're like, yeah, don't come to this game.
Hank
Disciplinary reasons. I don't know. I don't know.
Big Cat
But Zeke is treating. Zeke is treating the NFL like he's like, he's a kid on, like, a youth soccer team. He's like, I can't make it to the game tonight. Tonight because my, like, sister has a violin recital. Yeah.
Hank
I don't know. But it had to be something bad for Jerry to be like, zeke, you're not allowed to travel.
Big Cat
Right.
Hank
Because I think Jerry, he loves getting the. The miles. I think they go straight to, like, his personal credit account.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
We'll fly on airplanes. I. I think that he loves Zeke, too.
Big Cat
He does. But the story I read, Zeke has just been late to a bunch of meetings, like, multiple meetings, which is shocking.
Hank
Considering how fast he drives.
Big Cat
That's true. My question, though, is this. And this is no discredit to the Falcons because again, I do think the Falcons are good. I said that four weeks ago when I was like, I'd take them in the NFC south over the Bucks. That was. Obviously, the Bucks have a lot of injuries. At what point are the Cowboys no longer a good win?
Hank
I think they're always going to be a good win because they're always going to be a satisfying win.
Big Cat
They're satisfying win. But at what point is it like, oh, they beat the Cowboys. That's a really good. Like, the Cowboys are not good. Yeah.
Hank
Well, let's ask masks.
Big Cat
Max.
Hank
Max, you play the Cowboys next week, right?
PFT Commenter
I think.
Big Cat
Are you going to be.
PFT Commenter
Games are different.
Big Cat
Robbery. Games are different for sure. It doesn't matter when you throw out the record books, but you get what I'm saying? Like, the Cowboys are not good. They're not a good Football team.
PFT Commenter
No, they're not.
Big Cat
But we're in our head because they've been like, under Mike McCarthy, yes, they have not had playoff success, but they've been a very good regular season team under Mike McCarthy. So in your head, you see the Cowboys on the schedule and you're like, oh, that's a big game. They're a good team. They're not. They're a bad team. They have a lot of holes. They like building the entire offense out of just CD Lamb does not make any sense. Michael Parsons been out for a while. I actually think they should trade Michael Parsons. They never will, but that would be the smart move for Jerry Jones. So you're like, if you signed Dak Prescott to a big deal and you're like, he's the quarterback. You need some draft picks. You need to start, like, getting depth around him and not just be like, hey, we'll pay four really, really good players and hope everything else works out.
Hank
So did you see what Micah Parsons said about this game? He said game of the. Game of the year for them, game of the week for us. So he's still. They're still talking about the Cowboys being everybody's Super Bowl.
Big Cat
That's my point.
Hank
I don't think that they are everybody's super bowl, though.
Big Cat
No, they. They're just bad.
Hank
It's just fun to beat the Cowboys.
Big Cat
Yeah, right. It's very fun to beat the Cowboys, but they're not a good football team. So, I mean, there's. They're not. I don't. I don't know. They're not a playoff team.
Hank
No, they're.
Big Cat
They're not going to win. I'm looking right now at their schedule. I think they're probably going to maybe win seven or eight games.
Hank
And Dak, maybe his hamstring is fucked up and his throwing hands fucked up, too.
Big Cat
Fucked up.
Hank
They kept zooming in on his hand. It was swell. It looked like it got stung by bees on the sidelines. He's all fucked up.
Big Cat
Yeah. And Cooper Rush. Credit to Cooper Rush. I like a backup quarterback that I know exactly, like, what he's going to provide. And what Cooper Rush provides is he's going to throw the ball as hard as he possibly can to a receiver that has a defender draped all over him every single time. It's like a nine yard pass rifled in there while there's a cornerback literally on top of his wide receiver.
Hank
Yeah. Like an uncatchable ball, but uncatchable maybe for. For either team.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So he's he knows where his receivers are going to be. Doesn't really have the knack of reading defensive coverages to throw it to an open one, but he. You know what? He gets rid of the ball on time.
Big Cat
He does.
Hank
On schedule.
Big Cat
He does. Well, maybe a little late. Well, yeah, maybe a little late.
Hank
Relatively unscheduled.
Big Cat
Yeah, relatively.
Hank
Dak did have a sick touchdown pass today, though.
Big Cat
Yeah, he did.
Hank
Little bit lucky on the catch by Rico. It was a great catch, but, yeah.
Big Cat
That was a great catch.
Hank
Dak bought a shitload of time scrambling around. And so sometimes when plays break down like that, Dak is. He's liable to make either the sickest play ever or the most boneheaded play ever at the end of that play. And we got the sick one today.
Big Cat
And they were. They were so, so bad. On third and fourth down, I think they were three for 16, the Cowboys, that was it. Like, every time they got a third down, they just sucked.
Hank
When you said that Drake London was injured after the touchdown, did he get injured? Did he do the bowling pin?
Big Cat
So, no, he left the game, I think that after the next series. So I don't know what his injury.
Hank
Was because that headstand was sick.
Big Cat
The headstand, it's.
Hank
It's a great.
Big Cat
Him and Amon Ra.
Hank
Him and Amon Ron. What college was that? That was like some incarnate word. Incarnate word. That guy did it. It's an awesome, awesome touchdown celebration.
Big Cat
Have you ever seen the videos of. It reminds me of the videos of Mike. Mike Tyson, his old training that he would do for his neck. Yeah, he would do neck bridges. So it was basically like a plank on his neck. He would be in plank position, but it would be his neck, not his hands or. Yeah, his elbows. He would do that for like 30 minutes a day.
Hank
It's a great exercise.
Big Cat
And his neck would just get so strong because I see those celebrations and all I can think about is, you're going to get hurt, you're going to get paralyzed.
Hank
He's going to break your neck. Yeah, the Chargers could probably do that with their strength coach.
Big Cat
Yeah, Ben Herbert.
Hank
He's probably just going to work that neck out.
Big Cat
I saw they did a pregame thing on the balcony where we interviewed Khalil Mack, and it was J.J. watt interviewing Bosa, Cleo Mack, Ben Herbert and Harbaugh. And I just was sitting there being like, damn, those are all our guys.
Hank
Like, yeah, it's good.
Big Cat
Yeah, like, that was. That was fun. Just seeing Ben Herbert, that's a lot of testosterone.
Hank
On that.
Big Cat
Coach Herbert. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Drake London. I'm reading right now. Right hip Hope. Just a contusion. That's from Twitter. Dr. Jeff Mueller.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
I trust him.
Hank
We're hoping for a bruise.
Big Cat
Yeah. My understanding. And this is from James Hall. My understanding is Falcons Drake London is dealing with a hip pointer and an oblique strain. It doesn't appear to be a serious concern. I don't think you can get it. I think that's one of those things. Oblique strains. Like, that's why you shouldn't try to get abs, because you can't. I could never get an oblique strain.
Hank
Yeah, you can't pull fat, right?
Big Cat
Yeah, that's never going to happen to me. Okay. Next game. Hank, was that enough fun things to talk about?
Memes
Yeah, I think I was right, but that's.
Big Cat
No, I don't think you were right. We. Did you hear about Pam Oliver?
Memes
I saw. Yeah.
Big Cat
Oh. So. Oh, 30 seasons. Is this the 30th season? Yes. So everyone's doing it.
PFT Commenter
This is just from earlier in the year, from the Niners.
Big Cat
I'm not dead yet, but I'm having a great time. I appreciate you guys. So they are trying to get her.
Hank
Yeah, that's retired.
Big Cat
That's crazy. We love Pam Oliver. Okay. Ravens 41, Broncos 10. The not ready for prime time. Denver Broncos, who I still are. You know, they're. They're not a bad team, but this was. We talked about this on Friday. A big step up in class and they failed the test.
Hank
Yeah. The Ravens are light years better than Broncos right now. I could see the Broncos making the playoffs. That could happen, but they're probably going to. No, it could. If you look at where they are right now, they're probably.
Big Cat
I'm making that face because they're probably going to lose. The only team I think the team they'd have to beat out is our Chargers.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
So I don't want that.
Hank
They. They're probably going to lose their next two games, I think. But the Broncos, I think they're. Their defense is good enough to keep them in it and in the conversation.
Big Cat
It wasn't today.
Hank
It was. Not today, Lamar.
Big Cat
I mean, the Ravens, you. You can't. The Ravens and the Lions are the two teams right now going to the NFL where I don't know what you do on defense because it seems like there's no answer. Zay Flowers. Lamar Jackson will just run around and Zay Flowers will be wide open, and that will happen four or five times a game and there's nothing you can do. About it. And Lamar Jackson will throw up perfectly to him. He was throwing dimes. LaMar Jackson was 16 for 19 for 280 yards and three touchdowns. He didn't even have to run today. I think he has, like one of his worst running games. And then you just throw in Derrick Henry.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Who, by the way, had his hundredth touchdown rushing, so he's the 10th player all time to do that. And he also reached a thousand yards. We're on 2,000 yard watch.
Hank
Wait, he got a thousand yards rushing today?
Big Cat
1052 yards on the season. We are officially on 2000 yard watch for Derek Henry. I hope we are. Have the Ravens play. Have the Ravens had a buy yet? They have not had a buy, so they're exactly. They played a little bit more than half of his schedule. Nine games. We're on it like that, sir. I hope he gets there, too. It's crazy, but yeah.
Hank
Zay Flowers is always open about 30 yards downfield, and he always catches the ball facing the line of scrimmage and then he. He like fakes one way and then turns around and runs the corner for an additional 13 yards.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And they do that five times a game.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And it's. It's unstoppable, especially when you have Derek Henry coming downhill at you. And.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Lamar Jackson throwing with. He throws with so much touch now. It's awesome.
Big Cat
Yeah, he's. He's having an MVP season again. He's. He's been awesome. The Ravens cannot be stopped there. The Ravens defense would be the big concern because they still do let up big chunk plays, and it feels like, like Bo Nicks. I feel like Bo Nicks had a decent amount of time tonight today, and he missed a few passes. He did have that great touchdown catch, but it was just. The Broncos have been feasting on some not great teams, and then they had to play a really, really good team and they got punched in the mouth, and maybe they'll learn some lessons from it.
Hank
Yeah. Watching Lamar play is like the opposite of watching Bo Nicks play. Because Bo Nick, he. He. Every time he throws a pass, he's just like, I'm going to throw this ball as hard as I can.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Doesn't matter who I'm throwing it to. Could be a dump off, could be a script. I'm just going to wing it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
But he's still fun.
Big Cat
And when Bo runs, you're like he's about to get crushed or throw a pick. And when Lamar runs, you're like, no one's going to touch Him.
Hank
Yeah. With Bo, sometimes I have the fear that he's already passed the line of scrimmage like 8 yards, and I'm like, he's probably going to throw another interception.
Big Cat
He's going to try to throw it. Yeah. The. Also, Lamar, that was his fourth perfect passer rating in his career, and that's the tied for the most all time since 1950 with Ben Roethlisberger. Now, I don't know what passer rating actually means, but still, when you get a perfect anything, you got to say hat tip.
Hank
I know when I see 158.3, that means really.
Big Cat
That means he was really, really fucking good today.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Do you. So the Broncos. Yeah, the Broncos have, I think, the Chiefs next. So it's like a little. They're gonna have to. They have to buck up. Here they have the Chiefs and the Falcons coming up after, you know, feeling pretty good at 5 and 3. And that Chiefs game will be very interesting because we'll be like, yeah, they. They aren't that guy, pal. That's what I wrote down for the Broncos. They aren't that guy.
Hank
You're not that guy, but not that guy, pal.
Big Cat
They could make the playoffs, But I just. I don't know.
Hank
Here's the thing about. Here's the thing about the Broncos. They beat a lot of bad teams.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
But there are a lot of bad teams in the NFL and there's a.
Big Cat
Lot of bad teams in the afc. They still get to play the Raiders again.
Hank
They get the Raiders. They get the Browns and the Colts.
Big Cat
Yeah. So they do get to play some more bad teams. Although the Colts aren't terrible.
Hank
They're not bad.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah, they're. They're in the Broncos conversation.
Big Cat
And the Bengals, depending on the week.
Hank
Yep. And I'm going to say that whoever wins that Broncos Colts game, that will make the other team a bad team.
Big Cat
Yeah, that will be the.
Hank
That's how you know.
Big Cat
I like that. I like that. Okay, next up, Commanders 27, Giants 22. PFT. You're seven and two. You even beat a Daniel Jones where he finally threw a touchdown in front of his home crowd. 672 days since he last threw a touchdown at MetLife Stadium.
Hank
It was New Year's Day of 2023.
Big Cat
He went off in the first half, four for six, zero yards, one touchdown. Yeah, he went off.
Hank
He went off.
Big Cat
Also, I noticed this, and I want to hear your perspective from the Commanders, but I noticed this from the Giants perspective. It feels like Brian Dable has realized that, like, it's all over with Daniel Jones. So fuck it. Let's just run him like we did a few years ago.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Because he was. He was just running every play and.
Hank
He was pretty good at running, too.
Big Cat
Yeah. And they were running like options and he was. He was keeping it. And like, I think he basically was like, hey, Daniel, you're. The whole quarterbacking thing, the throwing the ball, you're not good at. So just run it.
Hank
Let's just work on trying to get by.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Any way that we can. We can't afford to be picky about how you're going to play the position. Yeah. Let's just send you out there and do what we know that you can do. And yeah, in the first half, 0 yards passing looks pretty bad on a stat sheet.
Big Cat
Yes, it does.
Hank
But I don't think he played that poorly in the first half overall because he was running the ball a lot. Yeah, he was. He was running people over and they were able to move it pretty effectively. Our defense doesn't. Still doesn't look great, but our offense. The crazy, crazy stat that I saw today is that we have three turnovers this season. Three total turnovers.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah. I saw this. Yeah. Yeah.
Hank
That's the fewest by a team in the first nine games of a season since 1933.
Big Cat
That's crazy.
Hank
And that's the first year that they track turnover. So this might be the fewest of any team of all time.
Big Cat
Wow.
Hank
That the commanders have. And so, yeah, Jaden played pretty well at quarterback today. I don't think it was one of those crazy. Holy shit. Oh, my God.
Big Cat
He did what he had to do.
Hank
But he did it really well. And he doesn't make mistakes. That's the crazy thing. Like, he. He will make some mistakes. He's a rookie. He's going to figure it out. But he's very, very careful with the football.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Like, much more so than anybody thought that he'd be as rookie. And no turnovers, no interceptions, no. No fumbles. It's huge. It's huge that you have a rookie quarterback that's able to do that.
Big Cat
So.
Hank
Yeah, they are. They're 7 and 2 for the first time since 1996, which is. That's. It's just crazy to think about that because they just hit their over for win total for the season.
Big Cat
They're a very good football team. Yeah. That was. That was a game where it was like. It wasn't a wow game. It was a division game. You took care of business.
Hank
Yeah. Road game in the division.
Big Cat
Right.
Hank
And the Giants always play the Commanders tough. They usually beat us, honestly, especially on the road.
Big Cat
So I got a question for you. Steelers, Eagles, next two weeks.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
So next, like 10 days, because you're going to play Thursday Night Football against the. The eagles if you're 2 and O. What are your thoughts if we beat the Eagles if you're nine and two.
Hank
Okay. I have. Here's how I'm looking at the NFC right now.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
And you can tell me if I'm being deliberate. Yeah, yeah. This is big cat trapping me.
Big Cat
No, I'm not.
Hank
No, no, I get it.
Big Cat
I was gonna ask you Owen, too, as well. I was gonna ask you the reverse.
Hank
It's a good trap, though, because.
Big Cat
No, no, I'm not trying to trap.
Hank
I'm not saying this about my team as they currently are. I'm saying this. If we somehow beat.
Big Cat
Yeah, I was gonna do 0 and 2 after that.
Hank
If we somehow beat the Steelers and the E. Here's how I see the nfc. I don't think anybody's going to beat the Lions. I think the Lions are clearly the best team in the nfc. They might be the best team in football, but I think that it would be realistic if we're looking at nine and two to say we could lose in the NFC Championship.
Big Cat
Yeah. You wouldn't have to play the Lions till the NFC Championship if you're nine and two.
Hank
Yeah. And I could see us potentially getting to the NFC Championship game and you.
Big Cat
Wouldn'T have to play a road game until the NFC Championship game and. Yeah.
Hank
So people have to come into our death trap of a stadium.
Big Cat
Yes.
Hank
And it might fall on them or rain on them. That'd be nice. So I think you also have to take into account the trade deadline coming up on Tuesday, because I think the commanders are going to try to get a cornerback, maybe wide receiver.
Memes
Huge day Tuesday.
Hank
Maybe pass rush. Huge day.
Big Cat
Maxion.
Hank
Maxion. NFL trade deadline, power rankings, everything.
Big Cat
Everything's coming up on Tuesday.
Hank
The two per bowl.
Big Cat
Yes. What about Owen two?
Hank
If we're owing to. And we're looking at seven and four.
Big Cat
And you lost this.
Memes
What about the trade deadline? What's going to happen that is so important?
Hank
I just said we could get a.
Big Cat
Get a cornerback at a wide receiver.
Hank
We still need help at cornerback. We need help at receiver.
Big Cat
Try to keep up.
Hank
Yeah. Pending those moves. But now for Owen 2, I would say wild card game.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
Why not?
Big Cat
Because those. I mean, the Steelers and the Eagles are tough games. Yeah.
Hank
They're very.
Big Cat
Those are not. Those are. Those are not the Giants of the Panthers.
Hank
But if the Bears, if. Here's the thing, if the commanders go.500 for the rest of the season, I think that puts us at 11 wins.
Big Cat
Yeah, that would.
Hank
It's crazy. It's crazy to see how fast this has turned around. And I respect the hell out of Dan Quinn because I think he's done a great job coaching.
Big Cat
He's very competent. Good. Like, that's the thing is you guys have a. Dan Quinn's a floor guy where it's like your floor is raised to a point where you're not going to make mistakes of a poorly coached team.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
You know, like. Yeah. Who knows what his ceiling is. Well, I guess the ceiling is going to a Super bowl, having a 28.3lead in the Super Bowl. But that. That type of coach, Dan Quinn, like, when you go from what you had in Ron Rivera, who, you know, it fell off at the end to Dan Quinn, it's like he just. I feel like he brings the whole, like, organization together, being like, this is what we're going to do and we're not going to make the dumb mistakes that have killed us.
Hank
Yeah. So if you. If you look at three turnovers right now, through nine games last year at this time, we had 14 turnovers. 14 makes a big difference.
Big Cat
That's a big difference. Yeah. You guys have a lot of. I mean, you play the Saints still and the Titans.
Hank
Yeah. So, I mean, I think the Cowboys stink. If I'm looking at the schedule right now, I think saying 11 or 12 wins is very, very possible.
Big Cat
Very possible.
Hank
And I don't think I'm being delusional.
Big Cat
No, that's not delusional. If you look at the schedule. That's not delusional.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Because it's. It's. Again, you're seven and two and you have games against. Two games against the Cowboys, the Titans and the Saints. That's four games right there where you should be favored.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
And that's. That's not even talking about the Steelers, the Eagles twice and the Falcons, which you could win. Yeah.
Hank
The way I see the nfc, it's the Lions. They're number one no matter what right now. They're almost unbeatable, I think. And then grouped in that second group, I would put the. I think the Eagles have the second best roster in the nfc. I think that the Eagles are.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Like, if they can figure out what's going on with the coaching and the weird decisions that they make sometimes overcome the max mojo, and we'll get to It.
Big Cat
But I'm officially, like, just to add, you know, more shit onto everything. I'm dealing with the Rams. I'm starting to get nervous about.
Hank
Yeah, the Rams are.
Big Cat
The Rams are bad. I think they're. I think they're tied for first in the. In the NFC West. Oh, no. The Cardinals beat them head to head. Cardinals killed.
Hank
So. But they are. They have the same record as the Cardinals.
Big Cat
They have the same record as the Cardinals. I believe they have the same record as the Cardinals and the 49ers. The 49ers are on a buy this week. So. Yeah, they're. No, the Cardinals, sorry, are 5 and 4 and the Rams and the 49ers are 4 and 4.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
So. Yeah. Okay. Let's take a break and then. Or do you have anything else with the commanders?
Hank
No, I think it was just. It was a good clean game from Jaden and he's awesome. He's so fun. I love him so much.
Big Cat
Yeah. I mean, those. That one pass to the. One of the two touchdown passes to Terry was sick. Yeah.
Hank
I think Terry had two touchdowns on two catches and like 19 yards. Good efficient day from Terry.
Big Cat
Oh, I remember what I wanted to ask you. Do you have a comment about the Commander's fan?
Hank
Oh, the guy that fell down.
Big Cat
That was very funny.
Hank
My comment.
Big Cat
My comment is he just. For people that. Can we put it in. Can we put it in the. Can we play it real quick just. And then we'll put it in the show. The. This guy was talking and then forgot that gravity is not his friend.
Hank
Well, I think there was a guy in front of him and he dapped him up right here. And then on the dap, he falls forward.
Big Cat
That was a killer dap. He just started rolling and he got up and he. You. You know, he's embarrassed when he. When he's like, ha. He's like basically wedged at the bottom of the stairs and his first instinct is to look back and continue to talk shit.
Hank
Yeah, it's good.
Big Cat
Like, yeah. What I say.
Hank
I thought he was going to accuse the guy, like, pushing him over.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
It was very clearly him.
Big Cat
Number one.
Hank
I want to commend this guy for excellent pocket awareness and not showing any ass crack when he bent over. That's just. That's elite.
Big Cat
That's.
Hank
That's being situationally aware because I think most bigger guys would have had a little crack poking out. Yep. Number two, I'd like to abstain from future comic because it's a good possibility that this is one of my friend's dads. I'm just going off vibes. I've been to. I've been to many commanders games in my life where all my friends dads looked exactly like this guy.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So I hope he's okay.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And he wasn't fighting anybody.
Big Cat
No. It was a good fall.
Hank
He just running his mouth.
Big Cat
It's good fat guy fall. Okay, let's take a break and do a couple ads and then we will get back to more games. Yeah.
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Big Cat
Okay, next game. Chargers 27, Browns 10. So James Winston didn't have a great game.
Hank
I think that's fair to say. Three picks.
Big Cat
Three picks. He. He had his hundredth interception. Career interception.
Hank
Mm. This is what you get.
Big Cat
We can't be deterred.
Hank
No, this is what happens.
Big Cat
You're going to have these.
Hank
You're going to have little bumps in the road with James.
Big Cat
We were flying too high after last week. This week come crashing down. That's just what you got to take the good with the bad. Today was bad. Last week was good.
Hank
I would like to step in real quick and congratulate the haters on one thing.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
The haters said that Jameis Winston shouldn't have won the game last week because the pass before the touchdown pass was the easiest interception of all time. That just got dropped by Kyle Hamilton. Right. The haters were right.
Big Cat
Well, no, they weren't right last week because then he did drop it. You got to make the play.
Hank
Yeah. Well, the curse of James is sometimes he just throws such a damn catchable ball.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
That your receiver is going to catch it or a cornerback is going to catch it.
Big Cat
I also think he just loves playing football that he gets so excited. It's almost like he's. He just wants to play catch with anyone, whether it be on his team or the other team. You know, it's. It's sharing. Yeah. You just like, he's at the park. He's got a ball. Anyone walks by, hey, quick catch.
Hank
Or if. Yeah. If James goes to the park with a football and he sees kids, he's probably going to be like, hey, let's throw it around a little bit. He'll probably throw an easy interception. Make the kid feel great.
Big Cat
Right.
Hank
That's just how he plays football.
Big Cat
Right.
Hank
Spreading the joy of the game. Now, the Chargers defense is awesome. The Chargers defense still hasn't allowed 20 points or more than 20 points.
Big Cat
I'm very high on the Chargers. I think they're over very a competent football team. Like, top to bottom. They do have to figure out their offensive line a little because I think Justin Herbert got sacked six times. And they obviously have Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt and. But the Chargers, like Justin Herbert, is really fucking good at football. And because last year happened, I think we got off the national media, maybe got off the scent a little bit. There was. He was one of those guys that got a little too. Too much hype for not winning, like, playoff games. Too early. So everyone then just zagged on him. Whereas, like, he's always just been really good, and he just needed a good coach behind him. And he's like, I mean, Quentin Johnson had a hundred yards today, and Quentin Johnson's good at football again. Lab McConkey is awesome. Like, Joshua Palmer, I think, is a top three receiver for him. It's not like he's throwing to the best receivers, and he just is really, really good at football. And the Chargers defense is awesome. And they have. Here's the thing with. And this is why it kills me, you know, we'll get to the Bears, but, like, the Harbaugh, why I love Harbaugh and why people are like, oh, you glaze Harbaugh. What Harbaugh does when you. When you get a guy like Jim Harbaugh, he gives your team an identity. The Chargers have an identity. They play tough, hard football. And when you have an identity, you can win games. Like, that's huge.
Hank
I think a different way of saying that is also saying that the minor, the stupid mistakes, the weird ways that the Chargers have found to lose football games in, like, the last, I don't know, 15 years, those tend to go away with a great coach like this because he gives you an identity and he gives you a belief, and then you start paying attention to all the details. Mean something to you, right? Because you feel like you're a part of something that's bigger you. And so you do. Like, if you have a great teacher in school that connects with you and you enjoy that class, you're going to try a little bit harder on every single assignment than you would for a teacher that you don't give a fuck about, right?
Big Cat
And you go into a game and you're like, these coaches have a game plan for us to win this game. Yeah, we're going to play good defense. We're going to run the football. Like they. It just. They have an identity and they know how they want to play football games and how they want to dictate games. And that just goes such a long way in the NFL. And, yeah, I'm very high on the Chargers, and I think they're a good. Like they are. If you look at. We were just talking about the Broncos. If you look at the AFC playoff picture and you take out the division winners and the Ravens. So that's the Chiefs, the Bills, the Steelers, the Texans, and the Ravens. Because the Ravens are technically second right now in the AFC north, there's those two spots left. And I think the Chargers are the are one of those two spots because it's. It's between the Chargers, the Broncos, the Colts, the Bengals, and I'll even throw in the jets for you memes. Out of those five teams, I think the Chargers are one of the two best of those five.
Hank
Yeah. Their defense is so good, they've allowed the third fewest points per game by any team through eight games in the last 15 seasons.
Big Cat
I don't think anyone has scored over 20 points on them this year.
Hank
No. Yeah. Yeah. But the. The others that are in those. Those that top four of the best defenses in terms of scoring, the others in that top four, they all made the playoffs and they all won at least 11 games. So that's. They. They are a legit team. And I think if you just take that great defense and then Herbert, we know, is a good quarterback. He's just. He's just been abused. He's like a homeless animal that now has its forever home. I think that if you can get, you know, 75% of how good Justin Herbert has been at his best in his career. Yeah, they're. They're a good team. They've got holes, they've got weaknesses.
Big Cat
Yeah. Of course, they're not. I mean, they're not super explosive on offense. I think it's starting to get there in terms of, like, they're starting to pass the ball more. Yeah. We talked about on Friday how his. Justin Herbert's past attempts have gone up the last few weeks. It's clear that they're, like, trying to let him rip it a little, especially with guys getting healthier. But, yeah, this is a solid, fundamentally sound team. And what I expected them to do is beat a not fundamentally sound team in the Browns. The Browns are definitely like, they have to sell.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
If they could sell anything, what are.
Hank
They going to sell?
Big Cat
Well, Mike Tannenbaum. Did you see that on Get Up?
Hank
No.
Big Cat
Mike Tannenbaum, former Jets gm. Former jets gm.
Hank
Cargo shorts.
Big Cat
One of the worst trade hypothetical trades I've ever seen in my entire life. I'm happy you didn't see this because I'm going to tell it to you. And it was. It was so bad. He got laughed, like, in his face on Get Up. He got laughed in his face by who? Everyone on the panel.
Hank
Greeny.
Big Cat
I. I don't know. He was there that day. Here's what it is. The Detroit Lions get Miles Garrett.
Hank
Okay, good trade for the Lions.
Big Cat
The Browns get. I'll start with the least amount second round pick.
Hank
Okay. I need to see what Miles Garrett's contract.
Big Cat
Hold on, hold on. That was the least. That was the second round pick. Three first round picks and Jameer Gibbs.
Hank
That's.
Big Cat
Yeah, that was the trade he proposed. It was one of the worst trades proposed of all time. Of all time.
Hank
Who says no?
Big Cat
Who says no? Everyone was like, dude, what are you. He's like, well, Jameer Gibbs is redundant to David Montgomery. It's like, have you watched the Lions game? The whole point is they have these guys that you cannot stop. Like, they're you. You can't take away one of them. The whole point is, like, they have you. They have a Sonic and Knuckles.
Hank
Does he have any. Any connections to the Browns right now? Is he just trying to gas up Miles Garrett's trade value?
Big Cat
I don't know what it was. It was. It was shocking. And it was. When I say everyone laughed. Everyone laughed in his face. And then everyone was like, this guy was the fucking gm. Uh, and he. And he kept on saying, like, when they were laughing in his face. Oh. He kept on saying, but the Lions will win the Super Bowl.
Hank
Yeah, I would.
Big Cat
He's like, the Lions are going to win the super bowl with Miles Garrett. But it's like, dude, you just. If they don't win the super bowl, you just gave up everything. Yeah.
Hank
I would say that this is a great trade for the Browns. Second round pick for Miles Garrett.
Big Cat
Three first.
Hank
Yeah. But just a second on its own sounds like it's a pretty heavy price, right?
Big Cat
Yeah. I don't know what his. How long has he signed for? He signed for three more years. Yeah.
Hank
Okay.
Big Cat
You'd have to give up a first round pick for Miles Garrett.
Hank
Yeah. I was assuming that this was like maybe the last two years of his contract.
Big Cat
Three for that he. He made. That's like. I don't even know. It was such an insane thing. And he just kept on being like, but they're going to win a Super bowl with Miles Garrett.
Hank
Yeah. That's not. That's not a trade that's going to happen.
Big Cat
So I don't even know how we got here. Oh. Because the Browns should trade Miles Garrett.
Hank
They should trade.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
If anybody wants any of their players, just pay. Everyone's open.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Just nobody's off limbs. I get an interesting sad about this game. Big cat.
Big Cat
Oh, okay.
Hank
Teams in the NFL are now.02 on the season when playing a Harbaugh brother. Just after beating a Harbaugh brother.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah.
Hank
First, the Raiders. Remember that? Antonio Pierce.
Big Cat
Yep.
Hank
And I think that was the same thing where they. They both beat John and then Jim avenged his brother's loss.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So Jim is now 2 and. Oh, that's what he's doing on avenging losses for his brother.
Big Cat
Do we have any more of these situations coming up?
Hank
We actually do. The Bengals have an opportunity to do just that over their next two games. Oh, so they might be doing it reverse.
Big Cat
Who do?
Hank
The Bengals.
Big Cat
No, no, the Bengals play the Ravens next week, and then they play the Chargers. So if the Bengals beat the Ravens. Hammer the Chargers.
Hank
Yes, if the trend holds. You could also say that there's a trend that teams that play the Harbaugh brothers back to back weeks go one and one. Always go. They always go one and. Oh, they always win the first leg of it.
Big Cat
Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying.
Hank
So you would say Bengals.
Big Cat
No, they always go 1 and 1, though.
Hank
No, but they go 1 and O in their first one. So they all. They always beat John and then lose to Jim.
Big Cat
Got it, Got it. Okay.
Hank
So it's a trend.
Big Cat
So the Bengals win on Thursday. Chargers.
Hank
Yep.
Big Cat
The next week. That is a trend. That's a. That's a pretty big sample size, too.
Hank
I do think that Jim Harbaugh sees a team beat his brother 100%, these guys.
Big Cat
Without a doubt. He absolutely does. Especially because even though John is older. Jim is.
Hank
Yeah, Jim. He deputized himself.
Big Cat
Jim. Jim definitely has slipped up and said, my baby brother John.
Hank
Yeah. I bet you. I bet you Jim has signed permission slips for John in the past.
Big Cat
John definitely once a year has to be like, you know, I'm older than you. Right. Like, I am older than you. He is, right.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Okay. See, I'm. Because, like, he's not. Yeah, Jim is older. Jim's a big brother.
Hank
Jim is. Jim is big brother.
Big Cat
Vibes. He's. He's the ultimate big brother.
Hank
Let's see. John Harbaugh is. You're right.
Big Cat
I think John's a couple years older.
Hank
John.
Big Cat
But Jim is older. Jim is the older brother.
Hank
62. John is 62.
Big Cat
How old is Jim?
Hank
And then Jim is.
Big Cat
Doesn't matter.
Hank
60.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah, but Jim's older. Yeah, yeah, we got it. Next time we have them on, we got to say, ask him that.
Hank
Jim definitely. Lil bro's John.
Big Cat
Yeah, we got it. We got to do, like, one of those trick ones where it's like, you know, where you're like, what is this? You know, what's the color? What's that color? White. What's that color? White. And then what do cows drink? Milk. The up and say, cows drink Milk, we gotta do that with him.
Hank
I just me up when you said that.
Big Cat
Yeah, you can people up with that. The. We got to be like, what's older? Like, older or younger? And then just get him to be like, yeah, I'm older than him.
Hank
Yeah, he would say it.
Big Cat
He absolutely would. Okay, next game. Bengals 41, Raiders 24. Are the Bengals back or do they play the Raiders?
Hank
I think they're both.
Big Cat
Joe Burrow was awesome.
Hank
I think they're both back and also played the Raiders because Joe had a. Joe Burrow had a great quote after the game because he didn't look happy during this.
Big Cat
No, he's pissed.
Hank
Five touchdowns, right?
Big Cat
He did have a pick six.
Hank
He had a pick six, five touchdowns. And he looked. He looked pissed the entire game. Even when they were scoring, when they were winning. After the game, he looked pissed off. He said, if we don't score a touchdown on a drive, I'm not going to be very happy for the rest of the year. So he's flipped the switch.
Big Cat
Yeah, he's flipped the switch. Five touchdowns. He's flipped the switch. Yeah. He's going to be hard on himself, hard on everyone else.
Hank
And Trey Hendrickson had a great game, too.
Big Cat
Trey Henderson had four sacks. Chase Brown had a great game. It was crazy that he threw five touchdowns, none of them to Jamar Chase.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
And the Bengals, they needed this game. Joe Burrow also, like, watching Joe Burrow play. He is the definition of, like, his ability to scramble inside the pocket is so goddamn good. Where it's like, he's not the most athletic guy. He's not going to beat you with his feet, but he does beat you with your feet. His feet. You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying?
Hank
He'll start escaping to the right, and then when he's halfway to the sidelines, find a guy, keep plays going.
Big Cat
Yeah. Where it's like, he's never going to run, but he's just going to keep the play alive for those extra few seconds that always end up in a completion. But, yeah, the Raiders are one of the saddest teams out there right now because we had yet again, Antonio Pierce just frustratingly bench Gardner Minshew for Desmond Ritter. So this is, I think, two, two times now that he's just not for injury. Just like, I'm sick of you, Gardner. Get out of here. What? What did you expect?
Hank
He's just hoping.
Big Cat
He's just Gardener Minshew. Like, I love Gardner Minshew, but, like, you can't go into a game With Gardner Minshew as your starter and be like, this is going to be awesome.
Hank
He's just hoping that the next guy that he puts in is going to be electric, like putting in Desmond Ritter. And you think that you're going to get his last year at Cincinnati Desmond Ritter?
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. So the Raiders are ass.
Hank
They say that hope isn't a strategy. I think for the Raiders it is.
Big Cat
Yeah, it's not working.
Hank
They've reached the point where it's just like, I hope that AOC is going to be good when I put him in. I hope that Gardner is going to be good once I've benched him already. I hope that Desmond Ritter somehow is good now.
Big Cat
Yeah. And it's not. It's never going to happen. No, it's never going to happen. By the way, aoc yeah, he's. He's hurt, right?
Hank
Yep.
Big Cat
He hurt his foot. I saw a very funny. Someone tried to make the argument. What year was Aiden O'Connell drafted? I want to say it was 22. Was it? Oh, it's 20, 23. NFL draft. Someone pointed out. Wait, I'm gonna pull it up. Oh, it was after C.J. stroud had a bad Thursday night game and someone's like, isn't it crazy that Aiden oconnell is the best quarterback from this draft class? Because it was like, it's like C.J. stroud, Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson, I don't know.
Hank
Will Levis.
Big Cat
Will Levis. Obviously it was a joke because C.J. stroud is very good. Hen and hooker. Jake Hayner, Stetson Bennett, Clayton Tune, DTR, Sean Clifford, Jiren Hall, Max Duggan, and then Aiden O'Connell. Was he the best. Was he the best quarterback in that track?
Hank
There was one that you said that was like the fifth or sixth.
Big Cat
Jake Haner.
Hank
Yeah, Jake Hater. No, not him. Who's before him?
Big Cat
Let's see. Clayton Toon. Definitely not him. Was it Hidden Hooker?
Hank
Yeah, Hidden Hooker. You might be good.
Big Cat
Stetson Bennett. We don't know dtr. He's played a little.
Hank
I don't think Hidden Hooker has lost a game that he's been in.
Big Cat
That's facts. That's facts. But yeah, the Raiders are just so sad there. It's crazy how many teams are really, really bad. This like this early too, because like you said, what was the stat? Nine teams or two wins?
Hank
Nine teams have two wins.
Big Cat
Nine teams have two wins in week nine. It feels like at least usually, like three or four of those teams would have three wins, which I know it sounds crazy to say. But 2 and 6 versus 3 and 5 is a big fucking difference.
Hank
It is. To having two wins right now is. I can't believe that it's possible for nine teams to have two wins.
Big Cat
Yeah, they're just really, really bad teams.
Hank
Yeah, we were right.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
When we were talking about. We did the ass list.
Big Cat
Yeah, we did the ass list. So, yeah. The Raiders are asked and the Bengals are maybe back. The Bengals. It's all comes down to the next three weeks they play the Ravens, the Chargers and the Steelers. Yeah, that's if they can go. If they can survive that stretch two and one. I think they can be in the playoff team. If they go one and two, then we're talking about. You literally cannot lose another game. That. That's really what it comes down to. And that that Thursday night game against the Ravens can be awesome.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Very, very excited for that game.
Hank
It's nice having a big matchup on Thursday.
Big Cat
Yes. Very, very nice. And then we followed up with the Eagles commanders the week after.
Hank
Wow.
Big Cat
Which. That one's going to be a must watch stream.
Hank
Perm.
Big Cat
Perm. Bet. Perm bet. Okay, next up, Bengals back. I'm going to say Bengals back.
Hank
Yeah, I. The Bengals could be back.
Big Cat
They could be back.
Hank
I still don't know if they're back.
Big Cat
If they beat the Ravens, they are officially 100% back.
Hank
I never really stopped believing that the Bengals could be back potentially. But there's just so many things they can't fuck up even once.
Big Cat
I think when we said when they lost to the Ravens, I think we looked ahead and we're like, there's a very good chance that when they play the Ravens next it will be to get back to 500, which would obviously be huge if they get to 5 and 5. Because then I feel like if you get to 5 and 5, then a little bit of the pressure comes off where it's like, hey, we don't have to win every single game down the stretch. Okay. Panthers 23, Saints 22. Holy. There's a lot of in this game. Let's start with the crazy stat. Bill Barnwell said the Saints out game. The Panthers by 150 plus yards. Ran for 150 plus yards and won the turnover battle. Last battle last 20 years, teams were 275 and oh, doing that now. 275 and 1. The Saints ran the ball down their throat. Bryce Young was not terrible and the Panthers end up winning this game. Good for the Panthers. Every single person that's ever been associated with the Saints decided To take to Twitter and tweet about this.
Hank
And it's like everything.
Big Cat
And it's like fires everywhere.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
For the New Orleans Saints right now.
Hank
Michael Thomas, during the game.
Big Cat
During the game, Michael Thomas went off. Do you want to. Do you have the tweets in front of you?
Hank
I don't have. I don't have slant man's tweets in front of me. I've got some other ones, though.
Big Cat
Okay. Yeah, we had. So Michael Thomas will pull those up. We had Chris Olave get another concussion, which sucked, and he got carted off. His brother was giving updates and was like, my brother's awake and responsive at the hospital, like, everything's good. Then someone said. So he said, bro, just called. He's up inactive. A guy quote said, might be time to have that is it worth it Talk. And Joshua Lavi wrote back, ain't worth it in nola, I'll tell you that. So that's not good. We also had. Who was it? Oh, Colleen Saunders took to Twitter and he said, fans say keep losing so we can get number one pick. Hell, throw me in a qb. Shit. Let's have something fun to watch, motherfuckers. His cheekbones. Shake my head, New Orleans. You all deserve better. My only goal is to finish above 500 at this point.
Hank
Cheekbones.
Big Cat
Cheekbones. And then someone said, damn, bro. So are we last or. Or y'all?
Hank
And he said, well, that wasn't. I don't think that was someone. I think that was Lonnie Johnson.
Big Cat
Sorry.
Hank
Yeah, yeah.
Big Cat
Lonnie Johnson Jr. Said, Are we last? Are you all?
Hank
Yep.
Big Cat
And he said, lonnie, brother, shut your weak ass up. We will both be in Cabo January 10th. I know we ain't in no last place argument. This is absurd.
Hank
Yeah. Cam Jordan also tweeted, we just lost to the panthers. And then J.C. horn replied, dude, we got the same record. Yeah, like that. That says it all right there. The Saints thought that they were above the Panthers, and they're not. They're not at all.
Big Cat
And then they've lost seven in a row.
Hank
There's another Saunders tweet that's very funny, too. He said, if that was a college bowl game, that motherfucker would have been called the Cotton L Doo doo Bowl. We just lost the Cotton L doo doo bowl.
Big Cat
Oh, shit. So here's what Michael Thomas said. Continental doo doo bowl.
Hank
Cotton L doo doo Bowl.
Big Cat
That's a great one. Michael Thomas said they fired all them coaches trying to cover his flaws up. He's still doing the same shit. This is About Derek Carr. Oh, no. It started with Derek Carr for you. I've been told you're all sad. This is after Chris Olavi gets injured. Dude scary and panic and just throw the ball. Get him the out of here. So ass that year his buddy went first team all pro in 2022. He needed 180 targets just to catch 100 passes. He is ass on my granny. Dude tried to lie and say I was jealous of them making Chris wide receiver one whole time. He can't even get him a decent ball. He need his ass whooped. And they fired all them coaches trying to cover his flaws up. Still doing the same. I feel bad for Derek Carr. Derek Carr had to answer this in the, in the post game press conference. He answered it just like you thought Derek Carr would. He's like, I don't know why he hates me. I've tried to reach out to him. It sucks. Like I. It just sucks. But yeah, that was a full meltdown of everyone in the Saints world while the Saints lost to the Panthers.
Hank
Yeah, it was tough. I did feel bad for, for Derek Carr too. I also saw this stat from Josh Dubois. He put out a list of the most losses as a starting quarterback. Through four seasons, it's David Carr. Through five seasons, it's David Carr. Through six seasons, it's David Carr.through seven seasons, it's Derek Carr. Oh, no. Through eight seasons, Derek Carr. Nine seasons, Derek Carr. 10 seasons, 10, Derek Carr. And then 11 seasons. Where we're at right now, Derek Carr and Archie Manning are tied. So with one more loss, then that becomes Derek Carr's as well.
Big Cat
Derek Carr also is the first quarterback to start in losses versus 31 NFL teams. He plays the Raiders on 12, 29.
Hank
Okay. I saw the stat and I looked up the other quarterbacks that are on that list. And you pretty much have to be like a good quarterback to be on.
Big Cat
That list or have played forever. Yeah, you've played forever.
Hank
You play forever, you start forever. Flacco's on that list.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
At 30. And I believe Flacco has the opportunity to lose to one of the two teams that he hasn't lost to yet.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
If you look at the cold schedule, so he might get to 31 maybe.
Big Cat
But Tara Carr, big game against the Raiders on December 29th.
Hank
But they are the Raiders.
Big Cat
They are the Raiders, but they're the Saints. They're the same. The Saints are no longer above anyone.
Hank
I just did it. Yeah, I just did the Cam Jordan real time.
Big Cat
I'm happy that Bryce Young got a win yeah, like, that was good. He had. He had a really. He had a competent game. He had lighted on fire, but he had a competent game, which is a big step up from what we saw last. Last year in the beginning of this year.
Hank
Yeah, he had a couple nice passes to Xavier Leggette. Yeah, they're. They're a very young team at wide receiver now. He looked like he had fun.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And good. Good for the Panthers.
Big Cat
I. This is. I mean, you have to. You have to be happy for the Panthers and their fans, because being on that team has to be just like hell. So even winning one game just for a week, to be able to be like, shit, we can actually smile for a week in the building. Yeah, this is fun.
Hank
And just know that the Saints. What Cam Jordan tweeted out. That's what all the Saints thought about you.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
They thought that they were five times better than the Panthers. And they're not organization. They're not. They're. They're. Maybe, I'm not going to say the biggest bummer in the NFL, but they're definitely in the top four bummers in the NFL just in terms of watching the team, because you. You recognize everything about the Saints. They've got so many guys that have been on that team for so long. But it's like when you see the. The commercials with all the guys from the office on it, and you're like, well, I recognize all those guys from that TV show that I used to like. They're doing a commercial together, but it's not the same. They're old. They're not those same characters anymore. That's what the Saints are right now. They're just a collection of. Of guys that used to be good together eight years ago.
Big Cat
Yeah, right. They're just.
Hank
And they're not going to change.
Big Cat
Right. They wear the same uniform, there's some of the same names, but they're not.
Hank
Like, I would be shocked if Jimmy Graham suited up at some point this year for the Saints. Right. Would that. Would that blow your mind?
Big Cat
No, not at all.
Hank
It would not.
Big Cat
Not even close.
Hank
He actually should.
Big Cat
He absolutely should. But, yeah, the Saints, it's. Dennis Allen is the. I was looking it up. He's now 26 and 52 as a head coach, and there's only two head coaches in history who have coached as many games as he has with a worst losing percentage. He's the third worst NFL HUD coach of all time.
Hank
And how. Who are those other guys?
Big Cat
They were. Let's see. Yeah, pull it up. He's so, so bad. I don't know how he's still in employed. It makes no sense.
Hank
Salary cap doesn't count against coaches. You can move on from a coach.
Big Cat
So it is. Let's look this up. Coaches records. If I you sort by win loss percentage? I believe so. Dennis Allen is 16th worst coach just based on win loss percentage. And then the only coaches who have coached more games than him with the worst recorders, Marion Campbell, who has 34 and 80 all time coaching record. And then you had Joe Bugle. Joe Bugle was 24 and 56. He. If he loses a couple more games, he will be the worst coach of all time. It's crazy. He's so, so bad.
Hank
Joe Bugle, great offensive line coach.
Big Cat
Yeah. It's, it's, it's shocking that Dennis Allen is. I don't know how he still has. I mean I guess I do know how he still has a job, but I don't know how he.
Hank
I don't really know.
Big Cat
I think it's really because he's so unremarkable.
Hank
Yeah. I don't get it.
Big Cat
Like if they went to fire him, they'd be like, what does he look like again?
Hank
Yeah. I, I don't understand. I have not seen anything redeemable about Dennis Allen since he's taken over as the coach of the Saints.
Big Cat
If Dennis Allen walked by you on the street, would you notice? Okay, I don't think so.
Hank
I've thought this about Zach Taylor.
Big Cat
Yeah. But I think I know. I think I would know Zach Taylor at this point.
Memes
Kevin O'Connell.
Big Cat
Kevin O'Connell. I know he's tall.
Hank
If Zach Taylor wasn't. If he was wearing like, I don't know, like a sweater and khakis and no hat. And then if Dennis Allen was wearing a sweater, khakis, no hat, they walked past me. I don't think I recognize either one of them.
Big Cat
If Mincy brought Dennis Allen into this office but didn't tell us it was Dennis Allen, I don't think I would know.
Hank
If he told you it was the quarterback coach of Ole Miss.
Big Cat
Yeah. If he was. Or he's like, this is a friend from the South.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
I'm like, oh, nice to meet you. Be like, hi, I'm Dennis. But wait, what?
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Dennis. Dennis Allen, worst coach of all time.
Hank
Yeah. Get out.
Big Cat
Holy shit. Okay, next up, Hank. Last early game, Titans 20, Patriots 17.
Hank
Your thoughts?
Memes
Drake May played decent.
Big Cat
The, the touchdown drive to tie the game was good.
Memes
And the last touchdown specifically like.
Big Cat
Yeah, yeah. He was running scrambling forever yeah, that.
Memes
Was a good, you know, end of game rep for him to get and to be successful. And so that was good to see. Interceptions weren't great, especially in overtime. He kind of said afterwards, though, you know, the best play sometimes just throw it incomplete. Tried to be a hero, didn't work out. We're back at the top of the.
Big Cat
Tankathon.
Memes
Tankathon.
Big Cat
Lamar. Nice.
Memes
So in that way, it's a win draft tomorrow.
Hank
Who do you take?
Big Cat
Shador.
Memes
I feel like you gotta take the best player in college football.
Hank
Travis Hunter.
Big Cat
Yeah, Travis Hunter. That's a good point. That's a.
Hank
You get two players for one with him. It's tremendous value.
Memes
So Hunter, Christian Gonzalez.
Big Cat
Well, would you. Travis Hunter can catch.
Memes
Yeah, but I'm saying defensively, like, that'd be.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah. Are. Are you. Are you not saying that the Patriots are sellers at the trade deadline? Because I know that you were towing that line between.
Memes
No, those are reports that I never understood.
Hank
Yeah.
Memes
So, yeah, I would definitely say we're sellers. I don't know.
Big Cat
But what would you sell?
Memes
Yeah, I don't. We could probably give away all of our wide receivers for like a bag of donuts.
Hank
Okay.
Memes
Box of donuts.
Hank
Ramon Dre.
Memes
Ramondre. I mean, he played well. He scored our only two touchdowns. I don't really know what we'll sell. I don't know. Someone. I saw another report that was like, people, teams are asking about Gonzalez. That would be insane.
Hank
That would be crazy. A young great player like, you can't do that. Don't get rid of him.
Big Cat
You can't do that. That's all you got. Titans. I can't quit the Titans because their defense is good.
Hank
Are they good or do they play the Patriots?
Big Cat
No, they've actually been statistically very good this year and very good. I mean, relatively for a two win team. Yeah, they're like a top ten defense statistically.
Memes
Yeah. I mean that you guys are giving me shit for it. This game fell under the category of like. This game was not exciting to watch.
Big Cat
No, it was a terrible game to watch.
Memes
Nor it was. It was fun at the very end. I needed Drake to have over 200 yards passing. So that was.
Big Cat
It was weird watching you watch it and you were like. It was like you had no care about the actual outcome, which I. You. I mean, you. You want to lose. But it was weird watching that. You're just like, I just want him to pass it. And then when we went to overtime, you're like, don't screen.
Memes
Pass it on to a Situation.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
There was a moment where it was actually right after Drake May's interception and Hank was just like, yes. Like quietly, like, it's over. He's not going to throw a screen pass. He's going to go for negative yards.
Big Cat
But I mean, but you're tanking, so. Yeah, that's okay.
Hank
Yeah. Yeah. Hank. Hank is being logical when it comes to his team. I think a lot of times us as fans, we're not logical. Like last year, I was. I was rooting for Washington to win every game going down the stretch that they end up losing. I'm very glad that we lost those games. You should not. It makes sense to root for your team to lose when they're in a position like this.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So Hank is very clear headed about that, especially given how there's so many shitty teams right now. Like every loss matters. Hank.
Memes
Yeah, it was a good loss.
Hank
This was actually a great loss.
Memes
Exciting, fun to watch loss.
Hank
This was maybe the best loss because it was against a team that had one win.
Big Cat
Drake May makes the Patriots watchable.
Memes
Definitely.
Big Cat
We told you when he got in, when you were like, I don't want him to play. We're like, no, you do want him to play because it makes it so that there's actually something to watch.
Memes
And the reason was because the offensive line, I didn't realize how bad our wide receivers were.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Past two weeks have been shocking.
Big Cat
Can't catch.
Hank
So this did break the combo or the trend of teams that just got done playing the Lions stinking the next week. But the Patriots covered.
Big Cat
Cover the spread.
Hank
So that's. That's what really matters.
Big Cat
That was huge. That's it? That's all you got?
Memes
I. Is there something I'm missing?
Big Cat
No, I don't think so. It was a very boring.
Hank
I don't think you should tell me about Mayo. How'd Mayo do today?
Big Cat
Was he boisterous? He should have gone for two. There's something. Yeah, let's talk about for two. You're. You're a one win team or two win team. You're on the road, you score an insane touchdown to. To get within one. With time gone, like it was literally zeros on the clock. Why wouldn't you just go for two?
Memes
Yeah, I don't disagree.
Big Cat
Like, it's just. I, at this point, like he's coaching scared, but just try to win the.
Hank
Game right there that maybe he wasn't trying to win the game.
Big Cat
You're right.
Hank
Think about it that way.
Big Cat
But yeah, I would have gone for two. There There's. There's no reason not to go for two there. It just like just fuck it. And the game on the field.
Hank
Yeah.
Memes
Keep the momentum.
Big Cat
Keep the momentum. Exactly. Okay. Yeah. I mean the Titans are a tough watch. Mason Rudolph makes them somewhat competent offensively.
Hank
Is Levis actually hurt or is this.
Big Cat
A. I think it might.
Hank
We're going to go with Mason because we think we're going to say that Will Levis is banged up.
Big Cat
We don't want the whole team to revolt right now. Yeah. Might be one of those. Might be one of those. Because he. He definitely brings competency to them.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
That they didn't have.
Hank
He brings a little bit of. A little bit of boringness.
Big Cat
Definitely boringness. And you have a good defense.
Hank
But I mean that in a good way.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Like a stable guy. He's a guy that is. I'm going to settle down with this guy.
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Let's do the afternoon games before we do that. Pfd you have two more ads and we'll do the afternoon games before we.
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Big Cat
Get your tickets today. Okay? Cardinals 29, bears 9 so if I assume everyone listening right now probably follows us all on Twitter. But if you don't I had to go to the ER on Saturday because I have kidney stones. So I was in intense, intense pain. I was actually pulling into the zoo with my kids and I my whole body locked up and I was sweating profusely and my stomach felt like it was an explode and my back hurt. So I went to the ER on Saturday, spent like two hours. The ER had a scan. They told me I have four kidney stones. One that's currently passing through my body. I've been in just intense pain. Woke up in intense pain this morning, been taking pain pills, just pissing non stop. All that said.
Memes
Have you passed any stones?
Big Cat
I have not yet. We're working on one real bad. But all that said as bad as going to the ER is and all the pain I'm in and kidney stones is some of the worst pain ever. That was not even close to the worst part of my weekend because this game, watching this game was by far and away the worst part of my weekend and this team has quit and Matt Eberflusse is a loser and he needs to be fired. Which he won't be because the Bears will never fire a coach in the middle of the season. They have been around for 100 plus years. They have never fired a coach in the middle of a season. This team quit. It's an utter disaster. Lifeless garbage. Matt or Matty Berfluss is a loser. Just full blown loser. He has. He is owing 18 on Sundays on the road.
Hank
That was A crazy stat. When I saw that, they took my breath away.
Big Cat
He has won three road games in the last three years. At the Commanders on Thursday Night Football, at the Patriots on Monday Night Football and then he beat the Vikings on Monday night football. He is 0:18 on the road on Sundays. He's never won. Ace matinee. Matt. Matt Nagy. They're all the same, by the way. They're all the same. Matt Nagy, Mark Tressman, Matty Berfluse, John Fox. They're all the same, Matt. They just. All they do is hire just pussy head coaches that are just can be bossed around and they suck and they just don't. They're not leader of men. Matty Berfluss has never gotten on a plane with his team on a Sunday being like, hey, we feel good. I guess they did beat the Jaguars. That was technically a home game in London. Yeah, but the think about that. He's never gotten on a plane on a. On a Sunday. Been like, great win, boys. Never happened.
Hank
That's insane. It's crazy. Owen 18. That's a huge sample size too.
Big Cat
It's. He's a loser.
Hank
I agree with you.
Big Cat
Matt.
Hank
Matt Nagy, Scar. Sorry. Matt Eberfluz.
Big Cat
They're all the same loser. He's a loser. He.
Hank
I will give.
Big Cat
He was a loser. I've known he's a bit of loser, but I was like, listen, I'm gonna trust Ryan polls like whatever, you're gonna have to go with this. I, I had these problems last year, but it's like it, we're all in. We're gonna just do it with Matt Eberflusse. He got a haircut. He went on Hard Knocks. He got funked up. Shout Out. Our guy Funky actually is legit. Matt Eberfluous is a fucking loser though. He's a loser amongst losers and he, he's just perfect for this Bears organization that's run by losers and they're not serious. And it's just so depressing to be back at this spot.
Hank
Credit to Matt Eberflusse, though.
Big Cat
You almost said Nikki again.
Hank
I almost did. Credit to Matty Refleuss. He did say. That's on me again this week.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So after that.
Big Cat
Well, no, he didn't say that last week.
Hank
He said that it starts with me.
Big Cat
After he got bullied in season. He didn't say it for three days. Just like he didn't. Just like he didn't make a decision on Tyreek Stevenson for three days and basically got bullied into Benching him. And then that became a whole story.
Hank
And then Tyreek Stevenson bullied him for benching him.
Big Cat
The guy can't make a decision, so.
Hank
But he did. He did take responsibility for the play right before halftime this week.
Big Cat
That was the quit play.
Hank
It was a quit play. And. And he said that one was on me, hand up. I called a pass defense and left us exposed to that run. Does that show that he's learning? Not only because he's able to take responsibility so much faster and then also does it show that he's learning because at the end of a half, instead of trying to give up or letting the other team have those easy 10 yards to put them in Hail Mary position, he played a pass defense.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
So he adjusted from what he did last week and then got absolutely torched on a run this week.
Big Cat
He's so bad.
Hank
He's bad.
Big Cat
He's so bad.
Hank
He's. I. I don't want to. I'm not saying I told you so to you, big cap, but I knew he was bad.
Big Cat
I had to go with it. But what are you going to do?
Hank
No, I know you did. I'm saying that the Bears are idiots for keeping morale.
Big Cat
Yeah, no shit. I knew that. But once they made the decision I wanted, who was at the front of the line trying to get Jim Harbaugh. I made shirts for it. Jim Harbaugh would have changed everything about this franchise, but they would never bring an alpha in who would command the. The would. Would walk into House hall and be everyone's boss. And after you, they wouldn't let that happen.
Hank
After your team makes a decision to bring him back, you can't just be like, fuck Matt Eberflues for the next, like, nine months.
Big Cat
You gotta just basically be like, hope this works out. And then knowing all too well that you'll end up exactly at this spot where it's like, get this guy out of my life. Get Shane Waldron out of my life. Listen, I like Ryan Polls for what he's done for this roster, but if he stays loyal to Matt Eberflusse, that is a insane, insane indictment on his decision making. Because already we're looking at the offensive line. That is just so. So. I mean, I know people are going to want me to bash Caleb Williams. I'm not changing on Caleb Williams. Could Caleb Williams get ruined by what's happening with Matty Berflusse in this offensive line? Absolutely. I'm not changing on Caleb Williams. The offensive line. The Arizona Cardinals have no. They have no pass Rush. They had two twice this entire season. They had three sacks or more in a game. They had three sacks in three consecutive plays today.
Hank
Yeah, that was a bad drive.
Big Cat
That's how fucking bad. This offensive line, this play calling. Shane Waldron goes into every game with just like. It feels like he's going on vibes. Yeah, there's just no rhyme or reason. I mean, I knew we were fucked once. Montez sweat was out before the game, but the defense got gashed finally. And I think that was the, that was the point where it's like for the first part of the season, even last half of last year, you could at least hang your hat on. Matt Eberflusse is doing a great job with the defense. The defense has turned around and been an elite defense for, like I said, the last half of last year, first half of this year, they've been a top 10 unit. Today they quit. Today they quit. And you saw it all week with all the people you know, Jalen Johnson and Bayard and Cole Comet all saying like, hey, we got even Caleb Williams, like we gotta be a player led team, essentially saying we don't have a coach.
Hank
Yeah. And Matt, Matty Refleuss got lucky too, at the end of this game because Caleb should not have been in for that last series.
Big Cat
Such a fucking moron, loser piece of shit.
Hank
And Caleb, he went down awkwardly. I think it was the last play of the game.
Big Cat
But.
Hank
But it could have been a lot worse. It could have been like fireball on the. Like, if they, if they didn't fire Matt Eberflusse, if he got his quarterback injured in a game like this, then they're just never going to fire the guy. It would have been like the worst coaching decision of the year in the NFL. They just, yeah, they. They played like. They played soft. They played. They look afraid. They look lost.
Big Cat
The. The Cardinals and credits of Cardinals. Cardinals I think are like, they're a good team. Kyler didn't even have to be hero Kyler today. They just ran the ball down our throats. He made the plays when he needed to make, but it wasn't like Kyler had to run around and make incredible plays. They just, they just lined up and just beat us the first half.
Hank
They were running the football down your.
Big Cat
Throat, down our throat. The next gen stats. 16 different cardinals got a pressure against the Bears on Sunday. The Cardinals had a 26.6% pressure rate going into the game. They pressured Caleb Williams on 46% of his dropouts. You say 16 cardinals, 16 cardinals that's.
Hank
So hard to do.
Big Cat
They, they're like pulling guys off the bench, being like, hey, you want to get a pressure, go ahead, just get in the game. 46.6% pressure.
Hank
That's got to be the most amount of players to get a pressure in an NFL game right?
Big Cat
Since 2018.
Hank
Only. Only in those six years.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
That seems just insane to me.
Big Cat
It's, it's just an all out disaster. I'm so, so, like, I'm sick. It was. If we didn't have to stream the game, I would have turned the game off because it was such a gross, gross watch. And the team has quit and Matty Bufluss has to go. Has to go. They will not fire him in the middle of the season because the McCaskies run the organization like it's 1925 and it doesn't fucking matter to them. And we'll probably hire another weenie as a head coach. I'll, I'll get my hopes up that it's Ben Johnson and then we'll be like, oh, you know, the defensive coordinator for the Panthers did a pretty good job this year. Let's hire him.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Oh, this, you know. Oh, did you see the, the offense for, you know, the, the offense for the, I don't even know, like the Cowboys. Oh, the Cowboys offense actually turned around at the end of the year. Let's, let's hire the offensive court. Like, it's so stupid.
Hank
You know what, you know who's good on tv? Jason Garrett. Let's. Let's get him back.
Big Cat
It's fucking. I, I literally like daydream about what it would be like if Jim Harbo was the coach of this team because this team has talent and they just are just so, so poorly coached. And we're just right back in the same bullshit. And Caleb Williams deserves better. And I convinced myself it was gonna be different because I, what am I supposed to do? I'm an idiot fan and I convince myself it's gonna be different every year and it's the same shit.
Hank
You just gotta worry. You alluded to it, but you got to worry about them breaking Caleb.
Big Cat
Oh, absolutely. It was a concern after the Texans game. It's now defcon, like red, like whatever def con you do, because I'm convinced it's going to happen now.
Hank
There was a moment during a play where Caleb was running around with a ball and he shrugged and threw his arms up like, what the fuck am I supposed to do during a play as he's scrambling and at that point you're like, this guy is. He's teetering right now.
Big Cat
It's just they. They suck. And they're always going to suck because the owners are going to always do the same, and it's just going to be the same over and over and over. And I don't know why I get excited. I shouldn't have ever gotten excited. I feel like an idiot. But. Yeah. And just Maddie was a loser. Get him out.
Memes
Bill Belichick, Josh McDaniel.
Big Cat
Bill Belichick doesn't like Caleb Williams. You've told me that. He bashed him on the inside. The NFL. Mike Vrabel, now that's a name.
Hank
That's. That's a man.
Big Cat
That's a man who would come in and stuff all these fucking losers in a locker and be like, this is how we're going to play football.
Memes
You need the. You need the guru offensive coordinator, too, though.
Big Cat
I think I agree with that. Ben Johnson is. I'm going to. I'm going to make a little dream board, and every night, I'm going to kiss it. I'm going to kiss Ben Johnson on the lips. And Blake, please, Ben, come and save the franchise.
Hank
What about this? What about a mix of what Hank's talking about? What about Brave's head coach, Josh McDaniel's OC that's fine.
Big Cat
Mike Vrabel would be the most competent coach since Lovey. I mean, that's. The other thing is, like, you look at what the Bears have had for the Mark Trespin, John Fox, Matt Nagy, Matt Eberfluss, they kicked Lovey to the curb. I understand. Time. Whatever it runs. He won 10 games and he's in. We've been searching for that competency since. And you get one blip. That's all the Bears franchise does. One blip every now and then. Lightning in a bottle. 2018. Oh, shit. This might be something. They don't give a.
Hank
Ryan Day.
Big Cat
Ryan Day. No. If you could play Penn State every week, I'd take Ryan Day. You know what you know. You know who they're gonna get. You know who they're gonna get? They're gonna get Stinking Riley, and that's gonna suck.
Hank
Reunite him.
Big Cat
Yeah, they're gonna get Stinking Riley. He's gonna. He's gonna bolt from usc, and that's gonna. That's gonna be a disaster. We're gonna. And he's gonna. He's gonna get Kale Williams playing good football, and that defense is gonna erode, and it's gonna just be like the Bears Will then flip into a team that scores a lot and has the worst defense in the NFL.
Hank
What would you say if this happens? Happened.
Memes
You'd prefer that though, over this?
Big Cat
Yeah, I just want. I. I just want a. I want to go into a game being like, we got a. We got a head coach that. That could out coach the other side. Hasn't happened in a long ass time.
Hank
What would you think, Big Cat, if the Cowboys fired Mike McCarthy?
Big Cat
No. He. Who does win games. But no, I can't. I've said too many things.
Hank
You've said a lot of things.
Big Cat
I said way too many things.
Hank
That would be the funniest outcome for you. For me personally, yeah. Jason Garrett would be funny too.
Big Cat
Season's over. They're not going to the playoffs, obviously. They might not even beat the Patriots next week because this is quit watch. This is full on quit watch. And then they play everyone in the NFC North. We're going to get our teeth kicked in every single week.
Hank
We have a bet.
Big Cat
Play the Lions on Thanksgiving.
Hank
Mayor's bet between Big Cat and Hank.
Big Cat
No, I. This team makes me sick. No, I. Because they. They could have quit. I. I think that that first half, end of first half was a quit play. And I think this team thinks they. I think they know deep down they have a head coach who's a loser. And once. Once the team knows that, like I said, the defense was the last to know because he was a. He is a good defensive coach. But once the defense figures it out, it's over. It's over.
Memes
Whose line is it anyway for Patriots at Bears.
Hank
Oh, at Bears. Bears. They've got the longest home winning streak in the NFL.
Big Cat
I think we're probably four and a half point favorites. May five.
Hank
I think. I think Big Cat's right. I think it's somewhere in between 4 and 5.
Memes
Bears minus 7. You guys are good.
Big Cat
Yeah, you're good. Wow. I'm just so down on this team. I don't know what else to say. I'm so sad. I'm so stupid. And all the sickos and perverts are so happy that they get to see this.
Memes
But if the true sickles and perverts should know it, this is not the best way for this to happen.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Oh, you wanted it to be more perverse.
Hank
I mean, the true sickos, you wanted.
Big Cat
It to be really.
Hank
They wanted. They were sick.
Big Cat
You are. You speak for the sickos and perverts. Yeah. You are. You are number one.
Memes
We needed you higher before you got this low.
Big Cat
Right? Because I only Got. I only got Jaguars 4 and 2.
Memes
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah, that was it. That was. That was the. That was the peak. Hang the banner. Beat a terrible Jaguars team to go 4 and 2.
Memes
Like we needed hope for. We needed games that maybe were for playoff spots.
Big Cat
I didn't at the minimum, but I. Okay, so I.
Memes
Going into the season, it was like.
Big Cat
Yeah, but I. Super Bowl. No, no, no, no, no. I might have said some crazy over summer, but I've been very clear. I even said, I think last week. I think. I think last week and two weeks ago, I was like, if they don't go four and one in this stretch, which they didn't, there's no chance at the playoffs. So I knew this, like this.
Hank
The.
Big Cat
The back half of the Bear schedule is a gauntlet. We're not winning games against the Vikings, the Packers and the Lions. So you. You're. That's revisionist. I said. I think I said last week we're not going to play. When PFT said that we.
Memes
Last week, obviously.
Big Cat
Well, we were still four and three.
Memes
Yeah. But I was talking about before the season.
Big Cat
Yeah, I know. You're right. Summertime, I do get crazy. I'm sorry that I care about football in the summer, unlike you, golf boy. That's a fact.
Hank
Golf boy.
Big Cat
You are. You don't even know golf.
Memes
You wouldn't even know your schedule in the summer.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's the. My favorite time. My favorite part of football season is August because I can get excited and the possibilities are endless. Hard knocks and I get fucking pumped up and I tell myself it's going to be different. And then it's. Slowly the air comes out of the balloon as the year goes along. And then today it was popped.
Memes
We got to get. Got to get a good coach.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Memes
Good coach.
PFT Commenter
Don't say we.
Big Cat
It's never going to happen, though.
Hank
It's never going to happen for Chicago.
Big Cat
They don't. They will not hire a good coach. They will not do it.
Memes
I actually do feel bad.
Big Cat
Like, we had Bruce Arians in the fucking building and we hired Matt that or Mark Trustman instead of him. That's the Bears. That is exactly what the Bears organization does. Bruce Arians went on to win a shitload of games with the Cardinals and then a shitload of games with the Bucks and we hired Mark Trespin.
Hank
I actually think that Robert Salah is going to be a good coach at his next top.
Big Cat
That they'll hire Robert Salah. That will definitely be the coach they hire. 100%. They'll be like, yeah, he's fine. He's. Great interview. He fucking coached defense. Monsters of the Midway, 1985.
Hank
You know who was on that 1985 team?
Big Cat
Jeff Fisher.
Hank
Jeff Fisher. Ron Rivera.
Big Cat
Ron Rivera as well, but Jeff Fisher as well. All right. Anything else? Cardinals are good. I'm buying on the Cardinals stock.
Hank
I mean, they.
Big Cat
To the Cardinals.
Hank
So the Cardinals. Yes. There's a good chance that the Cardinals make the playoffs.
Big Cat
I think they're a pretty good team.
Hank
Yeah. Four out of five.
Big Cat
And I made fun of Jonathan Gannon. He's a good head coach. We got the wrong guy from the Colts staff. They told that story today. They're like, oh, yeah, Matt Eberfluze's kids babysat. I almost said kidnapped. Babysat Jonathan Gannon's kids. So cute. We got the wrong guy again. Again.
Memes
Would you recognize Jonathan Gannon in the street?
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT Commenter
Pew.
Big Cat
Pew. Explosives. Of course. I've watched that video a thousand.
Memes
What if he's wearing, like, a button up in, like, a vest?
Big Cat
I don't think he can go anywhere without saying, pew, Pew. Just what he does. All right, here's a good thing. Here's one good thing that happened to me this weekend. The Lions beat the shit out of the packers and Jordan love. So Lions 24, Packers 14. This is the only saving grace I had. The packers also might be in trouble.
Hank
Jordan Love does not look healthy right.
Big Cat
Now, and he also loves throwing interceptions.
Hank
That one at the end of the first half was absolutely ridiculous. I don't know what he was thinking on that dummy, dummy play. Would Jules call him doidoy plays?
Big Cat
Doidoy plays. Yeah.
Hank
Jordan Love's got a few doidoy plays in him every game. It seems like he throws some of the funniest non James interceptions, but the Lions are just inevitable. You can't stop the Lions. You can't. They've got too many options, too many weapons. It's not like they lit the scoreboard on fire this week. They played good football. They played good offensive football, but they didn't, like, throttle you like they have in weeks past.
Big Cat
I think they could have if they wanted to, but it was rainy weather, shitty weather, and they got up to a lead, and they're like, we got this. And they. They did a Dan Campbell where it's like the packers chose to kick a field goal early in the game, and then the Lions, I think, scored two touchdowns on fourth and ones. Yeah, and that's. That's what he does. And it's Dan Campbell, the way he coaches, you know, when they're Going to go on fourth down. They play. They. They. He's so. They're so smart with how they operate. Ben Johnson and Dan Campbell, like, their third down play sets up their fourth down.
Hank
Because they already know, right? They know when it's still second down.
Big Cat
Right?
Hank
Like, they're like, okay, here's what we do if we don't get this. We try to pick up some yards on third down. Then we have an easy fourth down play.
Big Cat
It never feels like you get to a fourth. Fourth down with the Lions and they're like, on the sideline being like hemming and hawing, being like, I don't know if we should go. They knew what they were going to do before that.
Hank
One thing I've never seen them do is call the think It Overtime out.
Big Cat
Right?
Hank
I hate the Think it Overtime out.
Big Cat
That's.
Hank
That's the worst timeout that you can have in the biz. Amon Ra was great again today.
Big Cat
Yeah. He wore Green Bay sucks sweatshirt. I gotta buy one of those.
Hank
The Green Bay sucks sweatshirt. Getting off the bus was pretty intense. Although I think he had Green Bay as one word, not two. Right?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Just pretty disrespectful to the city.
Big Cat
Yep.
Hank
And then Jared Goff proved he can win an outdoor game in bad weather. Yeah, that's huge. Huge for Jared's confidence.
Big Cat
Yeah, he was. And it was. It was like the packers moved the ball, like, pretty well. They just kept on shooting themselves in the foot with drop passes and penalties and all that stuff. And the Lions are a team that if you cause any, like, careless errors, they'll just punish you for it. I mean, you saw it with the. With the pick six. That was just a bad, bad pass. And Kirby Joseph, I think that was his sixth interception this year. And the Lions are just. They're a wagon. And they have. They're kind of running away with the NFC North. Even though I know the Vikings only have two losses, but it feels like the Lions. I don't know how you stop the Lions. Yeah.
Hank
Jameer Gibbs is just so fast when he gets the ball so fast. So they put up a stat I'd never seen before, but I actually thought was pretty interesting. They tracked the speed that every ball carrier runs at the line of scrimmage. So crossing the line of scrimmage, Jameer Gibbs is 2 mph faster than the league average. So league average is you're running 9 miles per hour. When you hit the line, he goes like 11 miles per hour. That's. And he. You can see he, like, he Squirts through a lot of small holes.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
At the line. They just. The, the. The Lions offense is, I think, as close to unstoppable as you can get if they're all healthy.
Big Cat
And James Williams has been. His. His suspension is now over.
Hank
It might be, but then there was also a report that the. The cop in Detroit looked the other way when they saw a gun in the car.
Big Cat
Yeah. I don't know. Did he do. Is it illegal to have a gun? I guess.
Hank
I think some.
Big Cat
Not.
Hank
Not registered and not put away.
Big Cat
It was not registered.
Hank
I think his brother might have been the car. And his brother had a gun that was registered to him. But then there might have been another gun in the car.
Big Cat
Got it.
Hank
And the. The cop was like, oh, yeah, you're Jameson Williams from the Lions. And his, his iPhone screensaver thing on his lock screen was like a big Lions logo.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And he showed it to me. He's like, look, I'm a big fan of yours. So now they're doing an investigation on that cop for whether or not he should have arrested Jameson Williams.
Big Cat
Lions fan.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Lions are 7 and 1. 7 and 1's first time since 1956.
Memes
What's the point of being a pro sports player if you're not gonna get.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's just right. Yeah.
Hank
Right. That's a real. Like a sports city that had recent success. They would know you. You gotta look. Look the other way.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Part of the deal.
Big Cat
I, I. Jordan Love is not healthy. I don't know why they played him this week when they have a bye week coming up, but it felt dangerous to play him in this weather.
Hank
There were a couple.
Big Cat
He looked. He looked not healthy. I'm hope. Look, I know Jordan loves good. I'm just hoping that he just keeps throwing dumb interceptions because that's kind of all I have at this point.
Hank
Yeah. There were a couple steps that he made on that slick turf where it was like, this guy should not be out here trying to cut.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
On that. With like, an injured groin.
Big Cat
And.
Hank
And then Malik Willis is. He's good.
Big Cat
Yeah, he's good.
Hank
Let him play.
Big Cat
And I know the packers are not a bad team, but it did. It did help me a little that they, they. They lost this game. I. The Bears. The packers are on a buy. And then the next game they play is the Bears. They'll kill us by 100, and I'll have to fucking deal with that. And that will suck really, really bad. But maybe Jordan Love will keep throwing interceptions at really bad times. That's that's basically all I've got.
Hank
Yeah, it's fun. That's fun to root for.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
I, I don't think that the Detroit Lions necessarily need a pass rusher. They said, I know, everyone's like, they're going to get one.
Big Cat
Yeah. But I think at the end of. Think about it.
Hank
I don't think, I don't. What I'm saying is I don't think that they're going to overpay for a pass rush.
Big Cat
I agree with that. I think they're, they, they're going to get someone because you do need at least an insurance plan, especially when it comes down to like a playoff football game. The margins so thin that having a guy who can win a one on one battle in the fourth quarter can be the difference between going to the super bowl and not.
Hank
Yeah, I mean, it'd be awesome if they got Max Crosby.
Big Cat
Yeah, I don't think he's going to. Mark Davis loves him.
Hank
Apparently they just reached out about him today or maybe yesterday.
Big Cat
Mark Davis did say untouchable.
Hank
They're still thinking.
Big Cat
And I actually, Mark Davis might be the one guy that I think he might be just telling the truth.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Because he's like, Mark Davis doesn't feel like he's playing like a game of poker.
Hank
You don't think he's a shrewd negotiator?
Memes
Like it's, it's, when it comes to it, it's just a business. And they don't take it personal. Like he's, he's taking it personally.
Big Cat
He's like, max Crosby is like a son to me. Yeah.
Hank
But then Tom Brady might pick up the phone and make a call, be like, hey, you got to do this. Oh, speaking of Tom Brady in this game, he got mad because Brian Branch got ejected for that helmet to helmet hit. Remember that one? Seemed like a pretty dirty hit, pretty bad hit.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
I like Brian Branch too, by the way. I think he's one of the most entertaining players of the secondary in the NFL right now. But he got, he got ejected for that helmet to helmet hit. And then Brady started to say how that call makes no sense to eject him for it. Like throw the flag, give it 15 yards, don't kick him out of the game. And then all the Twitter narcs out there, Mike Florios of the world, various other aggregators out there, started pointing out that Tom Brady is technically not allowed to criticize officiating as an announcer.
Big Cat
Florio.
Hank
So what's the NFL going to do about that? It's funny because Tom Brady's got himself into a situation, which is basically impossible, where he's not allowed to criticize the officiating. As a analyst.
Big Cat
Yeah. During a game or talk to the teams beforehand.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
There's really nothing. No sense. Tom Brady's just hoping that nobody calls him out on it. And Florio is not one to keep his mouth shut about that.
Big Cat
Yeah. I also, like, Brian Branch got a double penalty. Oh.
Hank
Because he flipped the.
Big Cat
He was flipping off the crowd on the way out and got another pen.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Which is great. But, yeah, the Lions are. They're the best team in the NFL. No, I'll say it. The Chiefs are undefeated, but the Lions are the best team in the NFL right now.
Hank
Yeah, I agree.
Big Cat
Like the Chiefs haven't been winning. Like the Lions have been winning. I do. I think that if you. If the Chiefs played the Lions in the super bowl, would I take the Lions? No, because it's Patrick Mahomes and he would just figure out a way to do it. But, like, if they were playing next week, you would. If they were playing next week, I would take the Lions.
Hank
Yeah. I think the Lions are definitely, without a doubt, the best team in the nfc. And I think you could make a great case of the best team in football.
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Last two games, max. Eagles 28, Jaguars 23. You guys almost blew this game.
Hank
Yep.
Big Cat
Also, you had two of the coolest plays ever. Saquon jump hurdling a guy backwards and then devonte Smith's touchdown in the end zone, which was incredible.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. Those are both very high moments. They're a very good football team. Questionable. Questionable coaching decisions.
Big Cat
Yeah. Tell us about them. Tell us about them. What were the most questionable?
PFT Commenter
The two point. Both of the two point conversions I'm actually fine with.
Big Cat
Well, you got a penalty on one of them.
PFT Commenter
We got a penalty on both of them.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
They were both at the one which. You just do that. Like you get a ball at the one especially. The tush push didn't look good today. We have a lot. We have a lot of linemen that are hurt.
Hank
It does feel like Sirianni fell in love with the idea that he discovered where if you have like a time out in your pocket during the first half and you line up for. To go for two, just try to get them to commit a penalty and if they don't, then call time out and kick the extra point. If they do commit a penalty, then guess what? You get to run the two point conversion from the one yard line.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. No he does love to do that. Whatever.
Big Cat
He also. I feel like you guys need a new two point play.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Like a variation off the tush push.
PFT Commenter
Well, he tried to do that.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And it didn't work.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's true.
Hank
The field goal at the end.
PFT Commenter
The field goal at the end made zero sense. There were three options. It was fourth and two up five with. I think it was just over the two minute.
Hank
Yep.
PFT Commenter
There's three options. Go for it on fourth and two, win the game, kick a punt, make Trevor Lawrence go the entire distance of the field. Still up. Still up one score. Or kick a field goal. A 57 yard field goal to make a one score game, a one score game.
Big Cat
And give him a short field.
PFT Commenter
And give them a short field. If you don't get it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
It's the same probability that he kicks that field goal that he does of picking up the fourth and two. But the fourth and two wins the game and the field goal makes a one score game, a one score game.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT Commenter
It makes. It made no sense.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
That decision made zero sense.
Hank
He.
Big Cat
Yeah. The only really decision there is no, you just go for it there.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
I mean you could punt it but I. You just go for it, end the game.
PFT Commenter
But the punt is.
Big Cat
Field goal shouldn't even be an option.
PFT Commenter
Field goal should not be an option. The decision should be go for it or punt it.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
The field goal makes zero sense.
Big Cat
Yes. Agreed.
PFT Commenter
But he won the game and you got to give him credit. The team has looked a lot better out of coming off the buy.
Hank
Yep.
PFT Commenter
So he's got the guys in a position to win. But his in game decision making is every single week it's just the same discussion of like he makes the wrong decision every single time. There just needs to be someone. Big Dom needs to be in his fucking ear after every fourth down and be like, are you sure that's what you want to do here, Nick? You sure this is what you want to do here, Nick?
Big Cat
Do you know what he needs? I've. I've said that I need to create this software where when I put in my bets it just reverses it for me without telling me. And I never can figure it out, but I just like somehow just win all my bets because I'm just reversing it. He needs to say something into the headset and have it just automatically be reversed.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, that'd be great. That would be great.
Big Cat
Yeah. So where he thinks he's in control.
Hank
Connect directly to Big Dom.
Big Cat
Right.
Hank
And then he makes his final call and Then Big Dom changes it, or.
Big Cat
It'S just a trade, like some software that just translates it so his voice comes in with saying the exact opposite thing. Yeah.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
The players on the Eagles were fantastic today. Yeah, they were. Fan.
Hank
Your first. Your first half was incredible.
Big Cat
Is A.J. brown okay?
PFT Commenter
To be determined, that's very important. To be determined, that's very important. Also, the scoop and score is one of the. One of the craziest things I've ever seen on a football field.
Big Cat
You mean when Saquon just fell, he.
PFT Commenter
Got tackled and was down for five seconds and they did a scoop and score. So they reviewed it and still gave them the touchdown.
Hank
Saquon gets tackled, he falls on the ground, the ground, forces the ball out. The refs rule in real time that he has not been touched down. The Jaguars picked the ball up, returned for a touchdown. Then they look at it like five times. It felt like the longest review ever.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
And then they just ignored the fact that Saquon's foot got hit out from under him, which made him stumble forward into his lineman, fall down, and they didn't. I. Max, if. If they had you guys over and you lost that game, you. You should have gone to drastic measures to protest that.
Big Cat
Philadelphia, I wanted you to lose that game so bad. Take heat off me. It would have been great.
PFT Commenter
It made no sense. Like, we were watching it. We were watching it in the cave with no sound, and they kept showing the play, and we were like, oh, okay. Oh, okay, that's fine. That's just going to.
Big Cat
They're going to.
PFT Commenter
And then. And then the Jags just started kicking the extra point. And then I just started freaking out because they couldn't hear what was going on. So I was like, why are they kicking the extra point?
Big Cat
You were.
PFT Commenter
Why are they kicking the extra point?
Hank
Did they do a pool report about it? Did the refs talk about the call? Because they have to answer for that, right?
Big Cat
Yeah. So they ever answered through it, Max.
PFT Commenter
I think that they said because he hit the lineman, but that happens all the time.
Big Cat
Yeah, that was weird. It was very weird.
PFT Commenter
They just made up a rule in the middle of. I think they just fucked up. And then they were like, yeah, well, here's something. Like, that's what I think they did. They're like, here's something.
Hank
Whatever.
PFT Commenter
They won the game.
Hank
Max, I was rooting for the Jaguars to win that game because I just wanted to see you go absolutely nuclear. I wanted to see you at your maddest.
PFT Commenter
Because of that Stephen Che was egging me on. Which is one of. One of the worst feelings in the world.
Big Cat
Yeah. So how so Like State of the Union for The Eagles. They're 5 and 2. 6 and 2. 5 and 6 and 2. 6 and 2. Cowboys and Commanders coming up. I'll ask you this. If you go two and oh. Are you thinking like this is where the second best team in the nfc.
PFT Commenter
I'm thinking if we go two and.
Big Cat
All these next two.
PFT Commenter
If we go two and oh. I'm thinking there's no reason we don't. We can't beat the Lions.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
I love that.
Big Cat
What if you go on to.
PFT Commenter
Then we're in big trouble.
Big Cat
Sirianni gone.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I mean no, I don't want to. I was. If they lost that game Syrian, the city of Philadelphia would have gone nuclear on Sirianni and I would have have probably done the same. He has got them playing much better football right now. The decision making has to be better. The in game decision making has to be better.
Big Cat
Yeah, I think that's fair. That's a fair thing to say.
Hank
They're playing really hard though.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Hank
I think the Jaguars had one first down in the first half.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
The defense, the defense was humming.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
And then I mean still, even if you. If you take away that the defense didn't give up a lot of points and they were. And even on that last drive they're working on a short field and then. And then Nakoby Dean makes a huge play to win the game. So the defense made big plays when they needed to make big plays. The secondary has been awesome, which I haven't been able to say about the Eagles for a really long time.
Big Cat
Yeah, the. Your guy from Toledo is awesome.
PFT Commenter
Quinnian Mitchell is so good. So he got. He. It's turning into. He's a rookie and just. He gets no targets. He had one. I think he had one target today. The entire game.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Quarterbacks are just going away from him.
Big Cat
I got a question for you. Rollback question.
PFT Commenter
Yep.
Big Cat
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PFT Commenter
He's been awesome.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Since the buy. I think he has like 130 quarterback rating, 12 touchdowns, zero interception.
Big Cat
Follow up rollback question rhoback.com use promo code take 20% off first purchase. Do you think you wasted the Kelly green jerseys on the Jaguars? Because I do.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. I said that before the game started.
Big Cat
Okay. All right. So that was a joke. Yeah. Like those, those jerseys are incredible.
PFT Commenter
Yeah.
Big Cat
Why wear them against the Jaguars?
PFT Commenter
I don't know. But counterpoint that screenshot of Saquon lives forever and it's so much Kelly Green.
Hank
Yeah, good point.
Big Cat
Good point. And devonte Smith's catch. Yeah.
Hank
I didn't even know that it was possible to back hurdle a guy.
Big Cat
It's. It's so dangerous. He should not do that again. No, but if anyone lined him up perfectly, he just gets rocked.
Hank
It was. It's like jumping over a car. It was. It was crazy. Like he just. He. He found himself. He didn't even think about it. He just found his feet in that position. He goes, I guess I'm jumping. And to go backwards over another dude, I've never seen that.
Big Cat
And the craziest part is the spin move before. That was incredible.
PFT Commenter
No, it's going to be the least talked about spin move of all time. That was so sick.
Big Cat
So sick. Yeah, it was just an incredible highlight.
PFT Commenter
He's so good. He's like. I think it's. It's fair to say that he's on the McCaffrey level of like he's a running back to knack. Can actually make a difference in your.
Big Cat
Offense as long as he doesn't trump or pass. Like the Falcons game.
PFT Commenter
Correct.
Big Cat
But yes, other than that. Yeah. No, I agree. Saquon is. Yeah, he's. You. You have to be ready for him. Like he, he is that. It's McCaffrey, it's Bijan, Derek Henry, Derrick Henry. Derek Henry's different though, because Derek Henry, like will just, just will just run over people and run past people. I'm saying McCaffrey, Saquon, Bijan, those three guys, if they are in space, you. You're. I think if you're one on one.
Hank
In space, Gibbs might be like that.
Big Cat
Gibbs as well. Yes. Yeah. Like those, Those guys are so special that when you just get them in space, you're the defense. Can't do anything. You can't tackle them one on one. Yeah, he's. He's been incredible this year. He's got. How many yards is Saquon have this year?
PFT Commenter
I think 960. Holy shit. So he's also 925 and he already had his buy, so he's on. Yeah, he's on the same as Derek Henry. 2K watch.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
You guys play last week of the season, the Giants. That would be because I think it's Cowboys commanders last I Think so. That would make it.
Big Cat
That would be awesome. Saquon go.
Hank
Yeah. So it's Giants, Philly. If Saquon gets 2,000 yards against the Giants, that would be special.
PFT Commenter
Just got to stay healthy.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Pray for health. Pray for health.
Big Cat
Yeah. Okay. Good for you, Max. I'm happy you won. Not really. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm not. I was. It would just. Would have been great because. It would have just been. You would have been. It would have been a really good friend move.
PFT Commenter
Yep.
Big Cat
For you to take some heat off me.
PFT Commenter
Sorry.
Big Cat
Because. Because like PFT's team is awesome. Your team is awesome. Even Memes won. And then the one other guy who lost here just doesn't even give a fuck.
Memes
That's not true.
PFT Commenter
Well, he lost Marvin Harrison, though.
Big Cat
Yeah, he did.
Memes
I was more locked into my game than probably anyone was on anyone's game today.
Hank
You were the game.
PFT Commenter
Football game.
Big Cat
To the game.
PFT Commenter
You were walking into the player.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah. The Marvin Harrison thing. I'm sorry, Hank. Sorry. That was tough. All right. Rams 26, Seahawks 20 to wrap it up. This one team had Geno Smith and one team had Matthew Stafford.
Hank
Yeah. Geno Smith with a couple bad picks. He threw a great. He had a great drive to end the game to tie it up.
Big Cat
Yeah. What is it with the Seahawks? And I don't know if this is. Because this is one thing that, you know, we obviously are watching all the games, but every single week without fail, you look up and the Seahawks entire team is chasing after a snap that's gone over Genoa Smith's head or through his hands. What is that the rain every week though? Yeah.
Hank
It's weird. It's. It's definitely.
Big Cat
It happened twice this week.
Hank
I want to say this is a big win for the Rams.
Big Cat
Huge.
Hank
Puka Nakua getting ejected in the first half and we for nothing. We talked about like Puka Nakua is the funnest guy to watch without the ball in his hand sometimes. Yeah, sometimes he like throws a little baby punch and the refs were staring too closely at him.
Big Cat
He was not the instigator in that.
Hank
He got shoved and then he did like. I don't think it was a punch. I think it was one of those open handed face shoves.
Big Cat
Crazy ejection.
Hank
Which is. Yeah, that's if you're going to tell your player to hit somebody in the face, you want them to do the open handed one and not the fist.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Smarter. Go. Open hand.
Big Cat
I guess the one good thing is like he Couldn't get banged up.
Hank
Yep. Yeah, he was saved. They put him in preservative for this game.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah. Gino. Gino had some bad picks today, and.
Big Cat
Matthew Stafford's overtime was just his perfect football.
Hank
Yeah, he was.
Big Cat
He played perfect football in the overtime. And the Rams, like. Like they looked deader than dead at halftime. What?
Memes
Well, the Seahawks could have kicked a field goal in overtime to take a lead and went forward on fourth down.
Big Cat
But it wouldn't have mattered.
Hank
I don't have that much of a problem with that because if you kick.
Memes
A field, it wouldn't matter because they scored a touchdown. But still.
Big Cat
But they would have lost no matter what. Yeah.
Memes
I just think it was. I didn't like that move.
Big Cat
I have no problem with that move. I guess you could make the argument that the Seahawks offensive line has not been great. So it's like maybe getting one yard is not the easiest, but. Yeah, I've. I mean, you can end the game with a touchdown. Right?
Hank
And it was what, fourth and two?
Big Cat
It's fourth and one.
Hank
Fourth and one.
Big Cat
Yeah. Yeah.
Hank
I don't have a problem with him going for it. It was like, you know, 50, 50 coin flip to kick a field goal. I could see a lot of coaches kicking that field goal, but I just don't think you want to go for it.
Big Cat
Yeah. You don't want to give the ball to Matthew Stafford. He's going to go score a touchdown.
Memes
Trust your dad. Defense.
Big Cat
Yeah, but it's Matthew Stafford, and he's really good. I. I would like to try to end the game without giving the ball back to Matthew Stafford, and that was the way you could do it. Otherwise, you're just hoping he doesn't score a touchdown, which he then did no matter what.
Hank
Personally, also, your defense isn't particularly great.
Big Cat
Jackson Smith and the jig was awesome.
Hank
He was. Yeah. Would he have like 150?
Big Cat
He made just every big catch and then. And What? Cooper had 11 catches. But, yeah, the Rams. I'm worried about my pinky. The Rams. Matthew Stafford gives you a chance in any game. Yeah.
Hank
They. They unlocked the Marcus Robinson.
Big Cat
Yep.
Hank
The Ram. The Rams do next man up at wide receiver better than anybody.
Big Cat
It's a combo of coaching and Matthew Stafford.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Where it's just like I. Those guys. If you put those guys on any other team, I don't think they'd be nearly as good. But because they're schemed Open by Sean McVeigh and Matthew Stafford's throwing him the ball. They played to the best of their abilities.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
But, yeah, the Rams are now very much. I mean, it was. It was two weeks ago that they were basically deader than dead. And they beat the Vikings, they beat the Seahawks, and now they're 4 and 4 and in second place in the NFC West. That's pretty crazy. Yeah.
Hank
Let's see. What's the Ram schedule coming up?
Big Cat
They played the Dolphins, the Patriots, so that's going to be probably 6 and 4. I'm going to be nervous about this. Oh, my God. They have. They have the Saints still. They do have a tough. End of the season. They play. At the end of the season, they play the Bills, 49ers, Jets, Cardinals, Seahawks. That could be tough.
Hank
All potential playoff teams.
Big Cat
All potential playoff teams. Right. Memes.
PFT Commenter
Correct.
Big Cat
Did you memes today without your team playing? Because they played on Thursday. Did you think that you got like, did you win today? No. Oh, we didn't. Because the Chargers. Chargers.
Hank
Chargers.
Big Cat
Yeah. But what about the Colts and the Broncos? Colts and Broncos both lost. Yeah. That was a win. That's big. That was big. Yeah. Those. You can't think about the Chargers. You got to think about. You got. You like, you had three teams that you're. Or the Bengals, I guess won, too. So that's bad. But I have looked into it. Okay. The Broncos have a gauntlet. The Steelers also have a gauntlet.
Hank
Steelers have the hardest.
PFT Commenter
You have to stop thinking Steelers.
Big Cat
Yeah, don't think about the Steelers.
PFT Commenter
He keeps saying Steelers back here. The Steelers are six. And, well, all the, all the.
Big Cat
And all the AFC north teams have to play each other still. Right. And that's going to. That's going to eliminate. That's going to get some losses there. Right.
Hank
Two of them. I mean, we're not.
Big Cat
You're not.
Hank
You're not going to catch. I don't think you're going to catch the Steelers.
Big Cat
They could just fall off a cliff.
Hank
Yeah, but you would have to climb an even bigger cliff.
Big Cat
We might never lose a game again. Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. I like it. Play the Cardinals next week. The Cardinals are hot. They could. They could look ahead past us. They could look ahead past six. Jets team just won four out of five.
Hank
That's the beauty of playing possum memes. They think that you're dead.
Big Cat
I'm looking. I'm looking at it right now. Memes might not be wrong because if the bills in week 17 have it all the way wrapped up, they might already be sitting start.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Oh, man. I mean, all the playoff probabilities on this website is a joke. The Vikings did win. It felt like they were sleepwalking the start of the game, but their defense looked back because they held the Colts. The Colts did not get into the end zone on offense.
Hank
Right. They had that. That fumble in the first quarter, right?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
And then after that, not a lot. I'll be honest, I didn't watch most of this game because we were podcasting while it was going on after halftime. I'll say up and up until halftime, I was thoroughly unimpressed with both teams.
Big Cat
Yes. But I'll say this. Sam Darnold started bad, and I think he played very well in the second half, and his numbers ended up looking pretty good. And he was finding Justin Jefferson and the Sam Darnold might be a pumpkin. We can put that off for a week.
Hank
Well, every time I looked up, Justin Jefferson was making a catch down field. That's a good strategy if you feel like you're. If you're turning into a pumpkin, just remember, oh, yeah, I've got maybe the best receiver.
Big Cat
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Memes
My who's Back of the week is dead animals.
Big Cat
Oh, yes. We got to get on this.
Memes
Yeah. So this is a problem. So there is a tick tocker in New York, who found an injured squirrel, Peanut. Named him Peanut. He took him in, he brought him back to full health.
Hank
It's adorable name.
Memes
And then, you know, by that great squirrel that point, it had been domesticated. So if you let him back on the wild, that he's going to die. So he just kept him in his apartment, posted videos and stuff. Some hater reported the accounts to the authorities, and the authorities showed up to his house unannounced, like with a warrant and stuff, took the squirrel, took a bunch of documents, and then euthanized Peanut the squirrel.
Hank
How Memes has.
Big Cat
Memes has his hand up. And Fred the raccoon. And Fred the raccoon.
Hank
Don't forget about Fred the record. I was saying earlier that raccoons have a terrible, terrible PR team because they're like the cutest animal ever, and everyone treats them like they are actual garbage.
Big Cat
Well, it's rabies.
Hank
Yeah, it's rabies.
Big Cat
Rabies is what kills the cuteness of raccoons.
Hank
But they're so cute.
Big Cat
I agree.
Hank
But that's. That's the bad PR getting into your head. That the first thing you think of when you think of raccoons.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Is rabies. When you should be just thinking, oh, they're adorable little animals.
Big Cat
I think of Rocky.
Hank
Yeah.
Memes
I think of that old guy YouTube video in the snow, just feeding the raccoons.
Hank
Yeah. They're your best friends, Hank.
Big Cat
What. How. How can you go into someone's house and kill their animals?
Hank
They confiscated the animal and they just said, we're going to kill this animal.
Memes
They confiscated it, and then in order to. I guess to check if it had rabies, they had to euthanize it.
Big Cat
So that is.
Hank
That is true. It's the most asked backwards part about checking to see.
Big Cat
Is that like the Salem witch trial. Yeah. Like, we got to throw them in the water and if they come up. Yeah, they're a witch.
Hank
Like, being accused of having rabies as an animal is more deadly than having rabies.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
It's 100% death rate.
Big Cat
All right, so here's why I asked. How is. Because I saw this story and I was like, this doesn't. There's got to be something I'm missing. Because otherwise, this is the biggest tragedy travesty of all time.
Memes
I think it's just a Karen hater.
Big Cat
Like, oh, this woman is the worst.
Memes
Like, the guy has a tick tock account and post the video. So someone with a stick up their ass is like, this can't be allowed. Like, oh, my God. Yeah.
Hank
Is his neighbor. Do they also have a Tick Tock account?
Memes
It might not be a neighbor. It might just be if, like a follower that, you know, it could be anyone.
Hank
Oh, it could be somebody online that saw the video and they're like, I'm going to report. Yes. They swatted a screen squirrel.
Memes
Pretty much.
Hank
That's up.
Big Cat
Yeah, that's so up. So I hate this woman. Woman. I think I saw a picture someday. Like, they doxed her.
Memes
I didn't see that part. I just saw that it was anonymous reporter.
Big Cat
All right, so whoever this person is, you should. You should get rabies.
Hank
Somebody should call the Department of Animal Services on you.
Big Cat
Yeah, that. This is crazy. So justice for Peanut. I feel bad. And Fred. And Fred. I forgot about Fred. Damn. And it. Who were the. Who. Who was the guy?
Hank
Mr. Longo.
Big Cat
And it was. He just. Did he have kids or anything? Was he like. Could they make the argument that the squirrel was gonna. Was endangering the kids? Like, what? I just can't understand this.
Memes
Officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch. I was sat there like a criminal. After they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status.
Big Cat
Jesus Christ. This is horrendous. Justice for Peanut. If we have to make a shirt and profit off it to get the word out there, we will.
Memes
They got a search warrant for departments, and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon and they took them and killed them.
Hank
If I don't want to say that, we've got bigger problems as a nation. But if you are spending your time writing up a search warrant for a squirrel, you should be called a pussy by that judge.
Big Cat
Yeah. All right, so we gotta. We gotta. We gotta get on this case. I don't know. And we're late to it, but we gotta do everything we can. And by everything we can, I mean we're just gonna tweet out justice for Peanut. Peanut, yeah. Like, it won't bring Peanut back.
Hank
Big cats are dead.
Big Cat
What?
Hank
Plot twist. Oh, Peanut was a Yankees fan.
Big Cat
Oh.
Hank
There's a picture I'm looking at right now of Peanut wearing a Yankees cap.
Big Cat
Do you think there's a chance that Peanut asked to be killed? You know, it was like, take me out. Yeah, I can't watch this bum, Aaron Judge strike out at the plate anymore. It's a end it right now. Yeah. I'LL call the feds on myself. I want to. I want to memes myself.
Hank
Yeah, there's this adorable little squirrel who is. He's waiting by the front door for you. Go pick him up.
Big Cat
When was Peanut killed? Before or after the Yankees lost? Did Peanut have to watch that fifth inning?
Hank
I think it was on Thursday night.
Big Cat
Oh, my God. Peanut. That's the last Yankees game. Oh, my God. This is now the ultimate trash.
Hank
That is animal cruelty. If you have a pet and you force it to be a Yankees fan.
Big Cat
Yeah. Damn.
Hank
I guess we have to wait for all the facts to come out. Oh, it was on Wednesday. So it was before.
Big Cat
So Peanut didn't see the fifth inning.
Hank
He did not see the fifth inning.
Big Cat
Thank God. So Peanut actually died not knowing who won the World Series?
Hank
Yes.
Big Cat
Okay. And didn't know the dak got hurt.
Hank
The last memory that that Peanut had was the. The Capo Bianco brothers, which I'm sure.
Big Cat
Peanut was a big fan of. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Damn, that's depressing. Okay, who's your. Who's Han?
Hank
Anything else?
Big Cat
I like your pants.
Memes
Thanks. They're velour.
Big Cat
Yeah, I know. I was going to say, are they Valore. Okay.
Hank
Buy them.
Memes
Why'd you say that? In a way that I'm missing something?
Big Cat
I don't think you are missing anything.
Hank
I was wondering if you bought them or if they were stolen. Velour.
Big Cat
It came off the back of a truck.
Memes
I've had these for a long time.
Big Cat
Pft. Your who's back of the week?
Hank
My who's back of the week is college basketball.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
College hoops tonight. Big slate tonight. Yeah, we got. I think almost every ranked team is playing. Right?
Big Cat
A lot of them are.
Hank
Yeah, A lot of them are. The big ones going to be Baylor, Gonzaga, late night. But yes. College basketball is back. Big time. Maine and Duke. The Cooper flag game.
Big Cat
Wow.
Hank
It's going to be bad blood out there. It just. It's good to have different sports on.
Big Cat
Oh, I love. I mean, college basketball. The college basketball feast week is one of my favorite weeks of the year and I lose everything. But I love it. I love it. All right. My who's back of the week is Philadelphia sports figures getting into fights with various people. So we had two and I actually think as a podcast we. I think we take the side of both the Philadelphia sports figures. I think one's definitely cut and dry. The Kelsey won. So if people missed it, there was a. I think. Was he at the Penn State game?
PFT Commenter
Penn State game. Correct.
Big Cat
Yeah, he was just why doesn't Jason. I guess he doesn't need security. But also, like, he. Why was he walking with, like, beers in his hand? Like, he's just a man of the people.
Hank
All right. So the thought occurred to me after I'd say, like, six hours of just heavy discourse online about Jason Kelsey. We had some people saying, like, most people, I'd say 95% people were like, jason Kelsey did nothing wrong.
Memes
Yeah.
Hank
So.
Big Cat
So to set the scene, there were. He was walking and there was a Penn State fan or a kid walking with his phone out being a piece of shit. And he was like, your brother is a F bomb for dating Taylor Swift. And Jason Kelsey turned around, grabbed his phone, smashed it through the crust of the earth. Awesome Spike. And then there was another clip after that. He walked off with the phone, and the kid was like, give me my phone back. Give my phone back. And Jason Kelly Kelsey said, who's the F word now? Which, again, I have no problem. Like, that guy brought the F word into it.
Hank
Yeah, Fair play.
Big Cat
He was. He wasn't saying, it's Roger. He was just saying, like, you just. You. You brought this into this. You. Why would you be such a loser to, like, make fun of my brother and stick a phone in my face? So I stand with Jason Kelsey.
Hank
Yeah, I think he was. He was in the right. The guy had the phone and he was, like, screaming at him and very clearly, like, harassing him and foaming around.
Big Cat
So what was the thought that occurred.
Hank
Thought that occurred to me was, was there any chance that was a viral ad for garage beer that just got way out of hand? Oh, maybe the garage beer was prominently featured in every angle of every video that I saw.
Big Cat
Interesting.
Hank
And maybe it got out of hand and somebody posted it and then it was like, oh, shit. Oh, we've really lost the narrative on this one. Oh, because he was holding the. He was holding the case. And I mean, this is. I tweeted this out, but the first thing I noticed was him holding the case of beer with, like, his pinky finger and then also holding a beer in that same hand, which is not a guy that you want to fuck with. A guy that's just walking around casually drinking out of his 12 ounce can while also raising the entire case up to his mouth. Yeah, that's probably a guy that can kick a lot of assets, but, yeah, the beer was prominently displayed in all angles. I don't think it was fake, but I'm very woke when it comes to stuff like that, where it's like, we've seen a lot of stuff online.
Big Cat
It was. Yeah. I mean, I was just confused why Jason Kelsey was walking by himself in that situation. Like, not again. I get. He's a man of the people. What. Hank.
Memes
I think it's that crazy. We walk through.
Big Cat
I guess so.
Memes
Crowds and tailgates and maybe he has security.
Big Cat
He doesn't need security. This kid was a piece of. There's no other way to put it. Kid was a piece of. Jason Kelsey was. Ever was in the right. Also, Jason Kelsey's just, like, not someone you want to with.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
General.
Hank
I think he's. He's just a pretty normal dude.
Big Cat
Yeah. Who just wants to be left alone and drink beer. Yeah.
Hank
So respect to him. I did see people being like, do you not know what the first amendment is? The first Amendment. Like, Jason Kelsey. It doesn't protect you from Jason Kelsey smashing your phone.
Big Cat
Yeah. And you deserve.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
So, Max, you're good with all this.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Of course. The. The other funniest part is that the guy, like, tried to fake step to him for maybe a half of a second.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
It was like, this is a really bad idea. This. This is like, one of, like, the worst people on the planet that, like, you should be trying.
Big Cat
Correct.
PFT Commenter
Start anything with correct.
Hank
I think Jason Kelsey should be commended for not beating the fuck out of this guy.
Big Cat
Yes.
PFT Commenter
Yes. For sure. Imagine, like, he's literally just in his face saying that about his brother. For the worst reasoning of all time, by the way.
Big Cat
Right.
PFT Commenter
That his brother dates one of, like, the most beautiful supermodel or pop stars in the world.
Big Cat
She's one of the most popular pop stars in the world.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Big Cat
She is.
Hank
We don't want to make comments about her.
Big Cat
I don't want to talk about her looks. I don't. I don't see. I don't see looks.
PFT Commenter
Okay.
Hank
I don't see. We don't see sight.
Big Cat
I don't see looks. I don't see.
Memes
See gross revenue ticket sales.
Big Cat
Yeah, I'm not. I don't. I don't. I don't boil down Taylor Swift to.
Hank
Looks like you also, Max, by saying she's one of the most beautiful pop stars in the world. That's going to have Taylor Swift fans mad at you. One, for commenting on her looks. Two for not saying the most beautiful.
Big Cat
Yeah, where's me a guy like me. I don't see looks.
PFT Commenter
All right, disavow my comment.
Big Cat
Okay. Thank you.
Hank
I admire her brains.
Big Cat
Yep.
PFT Commenter
Me too.
Big Cat
And then the other one was Joel Embiid shoved a reporter. Now this One, you could make an argument against Joel Embiid, but I am not because I am on Joel Embiid's side. This reporter, Marcus Hayes, wrote an article basically calling Joel Embiid. So this is what he said. Joel Embiid consistently points to the birth of his son Arthur as a major inflection point in his basketball career. He often says that he wants to be great, to leave a legacy for the boy named after his little brother, who tragically died in an automobile accident when Embiid was in his first year as a 76er. Well, in order to be great at your job, you first have to show up for work and then goes on to talk about how he hasn't played and all that stuff. This guy's a piece of shit. Because you can write an article about Joel Embiid not playing load management, being injured, and never bring up his son or his dead brother.
Hank
Yeah, you can. So the second part of that saying, in order to be great at your job, you have to show up for work. You can just take all the context of the family out of it.
Big Cat
Correct.
Hank
Joel Embiid wants to be great about. He says he wants to be great at basketball. To be great, you have to show up for. You can. You can do that and do the Hot Take column where you're like, joel Embiid is soft for not playing more. He's disappointing the city. You can say all that stuff, but then to just tie it into your family. And I haven't seen the video of Joel. Is there video of Joel?
Big Cat
How is there not video?
PFT Commenter
There's definitely video.
Big Cat
What's his name? What's his name? TikTok.
PFT Commenter
Huh?
Big Cat
What's his name's? Tiktoks.
Memes
Oh, Jared McCain.
Big Cat
Jared McCain was definitely doing a tick tock. I don't think he was probably dancing with Joel Bead, shoving someone in the background.
PFT Commenter
No. I find it very hard to believe that there's no video. But I think that everyone is on. Everyone outside of Marcus Hayes is on Joel Embiid's side of this in the locker room. So I. I'm pretty confident that everyone just was like, like, hey, let's not release this.
Big Cat
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Because this guy deserves it.
Big Cat
The argument against showing beat here is like, you just shouldn't shove a reporter. But again, I. I'm not gonna make that argument because this guy's a piece of. Yeah. You don't have to bring up Joel and Bead's family.
PFT Commenter
Also, Keith Pompeii, for initially saying that he punched.
Big Cat
It is a punch. Yeah.
PFT Commenter
A shove and a punch.
Hank
Well, that's what makes.
PFT Commenter
Completely different.
Hank
That's what makes me think it was, like, maybe closer to a punch than it was.
Big Cat
I.
Hank
That's why I want to see the video.
PFT Commenter
No, but there's a lot of people that were also in there that says that it. It was like, barely a show.
Memes
Well, they could just put the video out and put this case to rest. No, I don't.
PFT Commenter
I don't have the video.
Big Cat
We need the video.
Hank
Yeah, I got dm.
Memes
Jeremy K. But once you agree that them not putting the video out leads to the conclusion that it was more likely worse than. Than just a shove.
PFT Commenter
No, I think it was a light. A light shove.
Big Cat
Now, I will say that Marcus Hayes could get me back on his side if he shows up to the next. Next press conference with. With a neck brace on. That would be funny. That would be funny.
Hank
I just know that when Hank says. Wouldn't you say it's about to be a banger after that?
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Hank's deep in his back.
Big Cat
Wouldn't you say.
Hank
Wouldn't you agree that.
Big Cat
Wouldn't you say we need to see the video and we are on Joel and Beat side.
Hank
Yeah, I. I think if he. If he, like, shoved him and it wasn't anything particularly violent, like, there was no chance of him getting injured. If it was just like, a shove like you, buddy, if it was one of those, that's well within his rights.
Big Cat
It was a big weekend for Philly sports stars. Following up, like, talk, shit, get hit.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Yeah. And those are like, our two guys.
Big Cat
Yeah. And like, I have no problem with either, because these guys are talking massive amounts of shit for no reason, just being shitty people.
Memes
And Joel Embiid's backing up everything he's done for the city. He deserves a break, Max.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, I agree. Agree.
Big Cat
Everything agree.
PFT Commenter
Yes.
Memes
What exactly has he done for the city?
PFT Commenter
He puts his body on the line and play well.
Big Cat
If it's Jokic in.
PFT Commenter
Denver, in the playoffs, the whole. Jokic in Denver. Joel Embiid eats Jokic for lunch.
Big Cat
Not in Denver. Not in Denver.
PFT Commenter
The fact that people, like, nitpick that just because it's not on the road ducked them like their numbers like mba. He dominates.
Big Cat
Not in Denver.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, the. That's what the people. All the Embiid haters, which. And which there are plenty full love to nitpick every little thing and find one re.
Hank
Whatever.
Big Cat
So what does he answer? What is.
PFT Commenter
What is Jokic done. Done in Philly? How about that? How about that question?
Big Cat
What? No, the Que. The question.
PFT Commenter
That question.
Big Cat
No, the question was, what is indeed done for Philly?
Memes
He's probably won a couple games. He's probably gone out to eat.
Big Cat
He's made.
Memes
He's made the Philadelphia on the road.
PFT Commenter
He's made the Philadelphia 76ers irrelevant basketball program a relevant basketball program. That when he. But when joined. Yes. I always say program. You always. You always get on me.
Hank
Yeah.
PFT Commenter
Because I call, I say. I say every team's a program.
Big Cat
Okay.
Hank
The 76ers irrelevant basketball program a relevant basketball program.
PFT Commenter
When they came from the bottom of the league, you.
Big Cat
By choice. By choice. By choice.
PFT Commenter
Would love to be.
Big Cat
But by choice, they did the process.
PFT Commenter
I don't give a fuck. Every team does a process.
Memes
How many teams since 2013 you think I've made, like, the second round of the playoffs?
PFT Commenter
It doesn't matter. But they're still, like, in the. In the top half of the league every year.
Big Cat
Where's relevancy?
Memes
They've made the second round.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
So what's.
Memes
Yeah, same spot.
Big Cat
What's. What's relevant is relevancy. The second round.
PFT Commenter
I mean, they won. They won seven games with the cell. With the Celtics.
Big Cat
That's wrong.
Hank
Yes.
PFT Commenter
I mean, it's still, like. You're still contending. They're not, like, for good contenders. And Jomb gets hurt every year. You guys, I'm done.
Memes
I actually had a 32 lead in that series, too. He took off game six at home.
Big Cat
I just want to know where relevancy is. Is it.
PFT Commenter
It's definitely not the Bulls.
Big Cat
I know it's not. I never claimed they were.
Hank
I would say that we probably talked about the Sixers the second most of all.
Big Cat
I'm not even trolling.
Memes
I'm just generally curious.
PFT Commenter
Shut the fuck up.
Big Cat
You're.
PFT Commenter
You're not trolling. You. Of course you're trolling. That's the only thing you do on that couch.
Memes
When he says, I've done so much for the city, you think Philly fans are thinking, yeah, you know what, Joel?
Hank
You have no property taxes. He probably pays.
PFT Commenter
Just saying he has done so much because he gets hurt every fucking year on the. In the playoffs, and he plays hurt every fucking year. And I'm sure it's not good on his body long term. That's what he's saying.
Memes
Got it.
PFT Commenter
He's a. He's a unicorn of a human that should not be playing as much basketball as he is. And he does it. I mean, he's probably not gonna be able to walk in 20 years because of it. So that's what he does for the city.
Big Cat
But he doesn't have to play that much basketball because.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, well, now he's not doing it so that he can play in the playoffs and be healthy.
Big Cat
Right. But he doesn't have to play that much in the playoffs. Right. We do make.
PFT Commenter
What do you mean we don't make the playoffs? We didn't make the playoffs. Hank, tell me the last time we didn't make the playoffs.
Memes
Well, I didn't sass. I said, what if.
Big Cat
What if.
PFT Commenter
I can also barely hear what you're saying.
Big Cat
Yeah, you took off your headphones. He said, what if you don't make the playoffs?
PFT Commenter
They're going to make the playoffs.
Big Cat
What's the record?
PFT Commenter
Paul George is playing if the.
Big Cat
If the game. If the pfd. You look it up. If the playoffs started today, would they make. Make the playoffs?
Hank
Okay, I'm looking it up right now.
Memes
They're one in four, so they wouldn't make.
PFT Commenter
Oh, oh, one in four. What are we gonna do five games into the season?
Memes
Well, it's gonna be one in five because you're gonna lose to the Suns tonight.
PFT Commenter
Paul George is playing.
Hank
What's interesting is they are in second to last in the East. Oh, the Wizards would make the playoffs if they start tomorrow.
Big Cat
Congrats.
PFT Commenter
Hang a banner.
Big Cat
Oh, wow.
PFT Commenter
Five games into the season, the Bulls.
Big Cat
Would be the fist seed.
Hank
Wow.
PFT Commenter
Congrats.
Big Cat
Pretty crazy.
PFT Commenter
Any more questions?
Big Cat
I just was wondering, like, he puts his body on the line, but he doesn't have to play that many playoffs.
Memes
He also gets paid, like, a gazillion dollars and he doesn't have to play.
Big Cat
That many playoff games at max. He has to play 14 playoff games. Right.
PFT Commenter
We're done with this.
Hank
He does.
PFT Commenter
You've.
Big Cat
Am I right?
PFT Commenter
You said your piece.
Big Cat
Am I right?
Hank
His body on the line for the city.
Memes
He put his body on the line for that mvp and then he just stopped, like, playing after that.
PFT Commenter
That's not incorrect.
Hank
It's like Joel Embiid and Cops both put their lives on the line for the city of Philadelphia.
Big Cat
And he also doesn't put his body on the line in Denver, usa, though.
Memes
That was cool. It was nice that his body was available to be on the line in the summer.
PFT Commenter
Yeah, it was nice.
Big Cat
He actually. He actually could have. It would have been more apt for him to say, I've done so much for this country. Yeah, because he's won something. He's done.
Hank
Yeah. He's done just as much for me as he has for you. Max.
Big Cat
More.
Hank
Yeah, it's true.
Big Cat
All right. Good show, boys.
Hank
But again, we stand by Joel and me.
Big Cat
We 100% stand by Joe.
Hank
I want that to be very clear.
Big Cat
Yes. I and Kelsey, we stand by both those guys.
Hank
Also, the guy that. Maybe I'm being too woke about this. You know, the guy that was talking shit to Kelsey. Hoodie, sunglasses, cap pulled real low. I'm just saying, what if it was. What if it was a big viral ad?
Memes
I feel like they would have different.
Hank
But it got out of hand ad.
Memes
To be like, just drop the f. Slur.
Hank
Yeah, but also it would have been.
Big Cat
It would have worked. Yeah, it worked. It was the talk of also. It could have also been a plant by James Franklin.
Hank
Yeah.
Big Cat
Be like, hey, can you get this video viral so no one could talk about me not beating Ohio State for the millionth year in a row?
PFT Commenter
I think that was before the game.
Big Cat
Yeah.
Hank
Yeah, but he knew.
Big Cat
But he knew. Yeah, he did know.
Memes
We are.
Big Cat
What was that?
Memes
That's Penn State fans.
Big Cat
We are numbers 3, 5.
Memes
Just go 21.
Big Cat
4, 11. Oh, jeez. Hank just took Shane's number. Did Hank say 21? Yeah, he took 21.
Hank
So it's troll shit.
Memes
Embiid's number.
Hank
That's. I wasn't.
Big Cat
I'm taking 21 for a year, man. You don't own a number. 15. Puget 99. Pull. 49. 49. Love you guys. Sa. Sa.
Podcast Summary: Pardon My Take – NFL Week 9 Review
Title: NFL Week 9, Fastest 2 Minutes, The Bears Are A Disaster, The Lions Are Unstoppable + Jason Kelce And Joel Embiid Stepped To The Haters
Hosts: Big Cat & PFT Commenter
Podcast: Pardon My Take by Barstool Sports
In this episode of "Pardon My Take," hosts Big Cat and PFT Commenter delve into the highlights and lowlights of NFL Week 9. They cover every game from Sunday, engage in their signature humorous banter, and provide in-depth analysis of standout performances and disappointing outcomes. Additionally, the hosts discuss the latest developments surrounding sports figures Jason Kelce and Joel Embiid as they confront their critics.
The Atlanta Falcons faced the struggling Dallas Cowboys in a closely contested game. Big Cat highlights the Cowboys’ reliance on Cooper Rush due to Dak Prescott's hamstring injury:
Big Cat [04:18]: "The Cowboys were forced to call on their backup quarterback as Prescott hurt his hammy."
PFT Commenter praises Kirk Cousins’ performance, likening him to prime Jimmy Gawopolo:
PFT Commenter [03:39]: "Young thug Kirk Cousins look like prime Jimmy Gawopolo throwing for three touchdowns."
The game concluded with Cooper Rush falling short, leading to humorous remarks about the Cowboys’ coaching mishaps:
Big Cat [05:50]: "Cooper Rush did his best to be a modern day warrior with a mean, mean stride but fell short."
The Baltimore Ravens dominated the Denver Broncos, showcasing their superior defense and offensive prowess:
Big Cat [05:50]: "The Ravens said let's get Ricarded in here."
PFT Commenter emphasizes the Ravens' consistent performance:
PFT Commenter [05:56]: "The Ravens sit at 6 and 3."
A thrilling matchup where the Buffalo Bills edged out the Miami Dolphins. Josh Allen’s stellar second-half performance was pivotal:
Big Cat [12:47]: "Josh Allen and Sean McDermott in the Buffalo Bills continue to be the Miami Dolphins' daddy."
Hank commends Allen’s resilience:
Hank [13:18]: "He was falling over, getting hit by like two guys and then just lobs a nice, easy, soft, catchable ball into the end zone."
The Washington Commanders secured a narrow victory over the New York Giants, marking their seventh win of the season. The duo lauds Jaden Goggins’ exceptional performance:
Big Cat [41:53]: "He did what he had to do."
The Detroit Lions continued their unstoppable streak by defeating the Green Bay Packers. Big Cat praises the Lions’ strategic play-calling and defensive strength:
Big Cat [08:47]: "Make sure you show up, because they're heading into a must-win situation against the Packers."
The Los Angeles Chargers overcame the Cleveland Browns with a strong defensive showing and effective offense led by Justin Herbert:
Big Cat [51:02]: "I like a backup quarterback that I know exactly, like, what he's going to provide."
The Carolina Panthers narrowly defeated the New Orleans Saints in a game characterized by intense defensive plays and questionable coaching decisions:
Big Cat [73:35]: "Matt Eberflusse is a loser amongst losers and he’s just perfect for this Bears organization."
Big Cat and Hank express deep frustration with the Chicago Bears, criticizing head coach Matt Eberflus for poor decision-making and lackluster performance:
Big Cat [88:24]: "Matt Eberflusse is a loser amongst losers and he’s just perfect for this Bears organization."
They highlight the Bears’ dismal road game record:
Hank [89:03]: "Matt Eberflusse has never won a road game on Sundays."
The hosts lament the Bears’ inability to field a competent offense, blaming the coaching and offensive line deficiencies.
The Detroit Lions are lauded as one of the most formidable teams in the NFL:
Big Cat [08:47]: "They are the best team in the NFL."
The hosts commend their balanced offense and staunch defense, attributing their success to effective coaching and player execution.
The Dallas Cowboys receive scathing remarks for their inconsistent performance and coaching:
Big Cat [29:08]: "The Cowboys are ass. They are complete ass."
Hank agrees, emphasizing Dak Prescott’s struggles and the team's reliance on ineffective backups.
Jason Kelce stepped up to address his detractors with bold confidence. During the episode, Big Cat highlights Kelce’s unwavering stance amidst criticism:
Big Cat [27:36]: "Bizan is awesome. 150 yards from the line of scrimmage."
PFT Commenter supports Kelce’s resilience:
Hank [14:00]: "Sean McDermott was like, you know what? I'm going to fucking trust him with a 61 yarder."
Joel Embiid is commended for his recent actions in defending his reputation. The hosts discuss an incident where Embiid shoved a reporter who criticized him:
Big Cat [142:04]: "He was just saying, like, you just brought this into this."
They defend Embiid, arguing that his response was justified given the aggressive nature of the reporter’s comments.
Josh Allen (Buffalo Bills): Anchored the Bills’ victory with 156 yards passing and three touchdowns in the second half.
Kirk Cousins (Falcons): Delivered an exceptional performance, earning praise for his quarterback rating.
Jaden Goggins (Commanders): Acknowledged for his flawless execution and leadership in the Commanders’ win over the Giants.
Justin Herbert (Chargers): Highlighted for his effective offense despite a few sacks, showcasing his enduring skill.
Derek Henry (Titans): Approaching significant rushing milestones with over 1,000 yards this season.
Big Cat and PFT Commenter wrap up the episode by reiterating their support for standout players like Josh Allen and critiquing underperforming teams such as the Bears and Cowboys. They emphasize the importance of strategic coaching and player utilization in determining a team’s success. The hosts also touch upon the emotional responses of teams and fans, underscoring the passionate nature of sports fandom.
Big Cat [142:15]: "We 100% stand by Joe and Kelsey."
The episode concludes with a humorous discussion about animal welfare stories related to sports events, reflecting the hosts' trademark blend of sports analysis and lighthearted banter.
Big Cat [14:00]: "Sean McDermott was like, you know what? I'm going to fucking trust him with a 61 yarder."
Hank [28:10]: "It's just fun to beat the Cowboys."
Big Cat [88:24]: "Matt Eberflusse is a loser amongst losers and he’s just perfect for this Bears organization."
PFT Commenter [03:39]: "Young thug Kirk Cousins look like prime Jimmy Gawopolo throwing for three touchdowns."
Big Cat [142:15]: "We 100% stand by Joe and Kelsey."
This episode of "Pardon My Take" offers a comprehensive review of NFL Week 9, blending insightful analysis with the hosts' characteristic humor. Listeners gain a clear understanding of the current NFL landscape, the struggles of certain teams, and the commendable performances of standout players. The discussions surrounding sports figures like Jason Kelce and Joel Embiid add depth, highlighting themes of resilience and confronting criticism in the sports world.
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