25W: Bobby Surprises the Guys with Super Bowl Tickets! + Eddie Claims His High School Teacher Wanted to Sleep with Him + Brandon Marcello on the Scenes from New Orleans from the CFP

Summary

Summary of The Bobby Bones Show Episode 25W: Bobby Surprises the Guys with Super Bowl Tickets! + Eddie Claims His High School Teacher Wanted to Sleep with Him + Brandon Marcello on the Scenes from New Orleans from the CFP

Release Date: January 6, 2025

In this lively and engaging episode of The Bobby Bones Show, host Bobby Bones delves into a mix of entertaining stories, personal revelations, and in-depth football analysis. The episode covers Bobby surprising his co-hosts with Super Bowl tickets, Eddie sharing a jaw-dropping anecdote about his high school teacher, and an insightful discussion with Brandon Marcelo about the College Football Playoff (CFP) events in New Orleans.

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1. Siamese Twins Storytime

Duration: 01:43 - 05:30

The episode kicks off with Bobby and his co-hosts discussing a fascinating story about Siamese twins. Eddie introduces the tale, sparking a humorous and thoughtful debate about the dynamics of twins with differing sexual orientations.

• Bobby Bones (02:07): "There are these two Siamese twins. They're brothers. They're connected. They're not connected to the shoulders. They're connected. Like at the midsection."

• Reed (02:52): "Like one."

The conversation humorously explores the challenges and peculiarities of their situation, leading to creative and funny theories about their interactions.

2. Eddie's High School Teacher Revelation

Duration: 05:43 - 08:38

Eddie shares a personal and controversial story about his high school English teacher allegedly expressing romantic interest in him and his friends during graduation. The co-hosts react with a mix of surprise and concern, leading to a deep dive into the complexities of student-teacher relationships.

• Eddie (06:23): "When I graduated high school, there was a teacher, an English teacher that we had. And once we graduated, at the graduation ceremony, she said, if some of you guys want to come to the house, she talked to me and two of my friends..."

• Bobby Bones (07:25): "What you think if you and your two buddies would have gone over to her house? And she was like, I want to have sex with all three of you at the same time. Would you have done it?"

The discussion touches on personal boundaries, consent, and the lingering effects such experiences can have.

3. Super Bowl Tickets Giveaway

Duration: 15:09 - 21:55

In an exciting twist, Bobby announces that he has four Super Bowl tickets to New Orleans for February 9th. The co-hosts are thrilled but face the dilemma of choosing who among them gets to attend due to limited seats. This segment is filled with playful banter, strategic thinking, and heartfelt sentiments as they navigate the decision-making process.

• Bobby Bones (15:09): "I do have U.S. Super Bowl tickets in New Orleans coming up February 9th."

• Eddie (16:10): "That's cool."

The group debates various methods to decide who will go, ultimately agreeing to involve the listeners in the decision later in the week.

4. DraftKings Pick Six Discussion

Duration: 27:49 - 30:03 & 35:20 - 29:41**

Bobby and Eddie engage in a detailed discussion about the DraftKings Pick Six fantasy sports platform, highlighting its features and Bobby's personal experiences with the app.

• Bobby Bones (27:49): "Let's talk about Pick Six."

• Eddie (28:05): "You can do passing yards over under."

They discuss strategies, state availability, and promotional offers, providing listeners with insights into maximizing their fantasy sports experience.

5. Interview with Brandon Marcelo on New Orleans CFP Events

Duration: 35:20 - 84:42

Brandon Marcelo joins the show to discuss his experiences covering the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans amidst a terrorist attack. He provides a firsthand account of the heightened security measures, the impact on fans and players, and his observations on the College Football Playoff dynamics.

• Brandon Marcelo (35:20): "This past week, I went down to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl..."

• Bobby Bones (37:07): "How did they make the decision to delay the game?"

Brandon elaborates on the logistical challenges and emotional toll of reporting during such a crisis, emphasizing the resilience of the New Orleans community.

Discussion on SEC Dominance and College Football Trends

Brandon offers a critical analysis of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), arguing that its dominance is waning due to factors like the transfer portal and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities. He predicts a more diverse distribution of talent across conferences, impacting team performances and playoff outcomes.

• Brandon Marcelo (46:45): "The era of SEC speed and the athleticism and having that just absolute dominance over the other conferences, that's over."

• Bobby Bones (51:07): "The SEC can't stockpile like they did because it's so easy to leave."

He also touches upon the challenges facing SEC programs in retaining top talent and maintaining competitive depth.

Kickers in the NFL: A Mixed Bag

The conversation shifts to the role of kickers in NFL games, with Bobby expressing his preferences for kickers to maintain a low profile to avoid undue attention.

• Bobby Bones (53:51): "Kickers just need to look standard because just kick the freaking ball."

• Brandon Marcelo (53:57): "Kickers, you have to just do your job. Don't try to stand out."

This segment highlights the unique pressures faced by special teams players and the often-overlooked contributions they make to the game.

6. Football Analysis and Predictions

Duration: 57:00 - 84:42

Bobby and the co-hosts engage in detailed discussions and predictions about upcoming NFL playoff games. They analyze team performances, player statistics, and potential outcomes, often incorporating humor and personal biases.

• Bobby Bones (67:50): "The Titans are one. Titans, Browns, Giants."

• Kevin (67:11): "I don't hate them. I feel like they're..."

They cover a range of topics from Super Bowl odds, team strategies, to individual player performances, offering listeners a comprehensive look at the playoff landscape.

7. Historical Anecdotes and Fun Facts

Throughout the episode, Bobby shares intriguing historical stories, such as the legacy of Jim Thorpe, a legendary multi-sport athlete whose achievements and struggles are highlighted.

• Bobby Bones (80:35): "Jim Thorpe was friggin legit. He played baseball, basketball, football, Olympian..."

• Eddie (81:37): "Thanks for that lesson. I didn't know much about him other than my brother..."

These segments provide educational content interspersed with the show's entertainment value, enriching the listener's experience.

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Notable Quotes:

• Bobby Bones (02:07): "There are these two Siamese twins. They're brothers. They're connected. They're not connected to the shoulders. They're connected. Like at the midsection."

• Eddie (06:23): "When I graduated high school, there was a teacher, an English teacher that we had..."

• Brandon Marcelo (35:20): "I was actually on news duty that day. As a result of that, I had to go down and cover that..."

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This episode of The Bobby Bones Show masterfully blends personal stories, humor, and sports analysis, delivering content that is both entertaining and informative. Whether it's navigating unexpected Super Bowl ticket giveaways, delving into sensitive personal histories, or dissecting the evolving landscape of college football, Bobby and his guests ensure listeners are engaged from start to finish.

Transcript

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[Bobby Bones]

This is a podcast called 25 Whistles. Talking football. And they all wear a whistle yet Stupid. But why did you expect. It's a podcast called 25 Whistles.

[Eddie]

25 Whistles.

[Bobby Bones]

Hello. Welcome to the show. Eddie Bald Whistle. We are back. Eddie was telling me a story at dinner last night about these Siamese twins.

[Eddie]

It caught everyone's attention.

[Bobby Bones]

It did. I couldn't stop thinking about it. So there are these two Siamese twins. They're brothers. They're connected. They're not connected to the shoulders. They're connected. Like at the midsection.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And one of them straight. One of them is gay.

[Kevin]

Oh, no.

[Reed]

Oh, God.

[Bobby Bones]

And we debated for 45 minutes how that goes. Lots of questions about it, but no answers.

[Eddie]

No answers because we don't know them.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And so my. Well, I had lots of theories, but if one's straight and one's gay, let's say the. The straight one is like making out with a lady and it's like. And then she like, does stuff to his stuff and. And there's the.

[Eddie]

Their stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but. But it has to be like thinking about. Because they have one wiener.

[Reed]

Like one.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, they're attached.

[Mike]

That changes everything.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what makes a tricky heads and two sets of shoulders. But then as it goes down to the middle, they connect.

[Reed]

Close your eyes. Close your eyes.

[Eddie]

Yeah, you can close your eyes all you want. Yours.

[Bobby Bones]

So my theory is one of them, as something's happening to him is like. Oh, yeah. And the other one's like. Like trying to vomit the whole time. And then my theory was, do you put up a curtain in between them?

[Eddie]

Like pregnancy?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but. But that goes all the way down. So it has to be like a curtain that has like a cardboard. That goes under the chin. So. So you don't see even though you are feeling. Dude, we spent 45 minutes talking about this last night. And his story started with I saw this on TikTok and I'm like, oh, no, who knows how true it is? And he found.

[Eddie]

He brought it up and I sent you the link just so you would believe me.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's a true story. And I'd love to have him on the show and talk to them about.

[Eddie]

Oh my gosh, that would be amazing. We have lots of questions. So which one would. Oh, you talked to both of them, I guess. Yeah, yeah. I thought I stopped myself in the middle of it because, like, which one would you like to talk to? Well, you're gonna talk to both of them.

[Bobby Bones]

I know, I just. Because they list, like, different things because that.

[Eddie]

You're right. Like, that was a funny conversation. We talked about it, blah, blah. But on the way home, my wife started researching more too. And then she found the other set of siamese twins, which are girls. And she was talking about how one of them wants to go to like, law school and the other one just wants to cut hair for a living. So it's like, what do you do?

[Bobby Bones]

One studies while the other one cuts. But I would say the weird part of that is when she's like, in the courtroom.

[Eddie]

Your honor, what does the other one do?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, like.

[Eddie]

And like, if you're gonna go to law, if your sister's going to law school. You might as well just take the classes, too, because you're there anyway.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you'd not be interested at all. Like, it could literally bore you.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Or just.

[Bobby Bones]

They have two different brains, though. One actually. Maybe. Maybe smarter is not the word, but is better in tune with reading and learning from a book. Yeah. Where another one is. Doesn't learn that way.

[Eddie]

Another one's more creative.

[Bobby Bones]

But to me, it's the straight gay more than it is the jobs.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Crazy, man.

[Kevin]

And imagine being the person on the other side of it.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, but that's already a thing. Like, and that's what Eddie said, too. I said there are fetishes for everything.

[Kevin]

That's true. Somebody would like that.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And because these. I don't know if it's the same two girls, but one of them, like, once married. One of them is married and, like, they want to have a kid.

[Eddie]

And that dude, like, come on.

[Kevin]

One of them is married?

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. To a dude. That's a different set of Siamese.

[Eddie]

And it's a different kind of.

[Kevin]

Oh, okay.

[Mike]

Okay.

[Eddie]

Any dude that wants to marry Siamese twins.

[Bobby Bones]

He didn't. He married one of them.

[Eddie]

I know, but. Come on.

[Reed]

I know what you're doing.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a little messed up, but is it a two and a half? Some. Is it a three? It's not three. Technically, half. It's so weird, you know? So anyway, I can't stop thinking about that. That's. Oh. Thought about it all night, and then it's what I wanted to lead with.

[Kevin]

And I'm picturing it, but I don't even know if I want to look it up.

[Bobby Bones]

Can I do another Eddie story as we start this? Eddie thinks that he has a teacher in high school that wanted to have sex with him. And he was telling us at dinner last night. Yeah, Eddie was dominating the conversation last night. Not because he was like, I must be the person that talks. He was just on fire.

[Eddie]

There were just little things that came up, and I was like, I have something to add to that. And I don't know.

[Bobby Bones]

I was not a part of whatever it was where this came up. I just heard you say, my teacher wanted to have sex with me in high school.

[Eddie]

We were talking. Somebody was talking about how they cheated in high school, and there was a girl that helped him cheat. And I was like, was she hot? And he says. And then we started talking about teachers, and that's how this came up. And now that I'm older, I see it clearly.

[Bobby Bones]

Please explain to the Fellas, here. Why you think you had a teacher in high school that wanted to have sex with you?

[Eddie]

When I graduated high school, there was a teacher, an English teacher that we had. And once we graduated, at the graduation ceremony, she said, if some of you guys want to come to the house, she talked to me and two of my friends, and if some of you guys want to come to the house and have a drink, like, I'll make one for you. And. And at the time, I told my buddies, like, we were talking about, like, should we go? Like, that sounds kind of fun.

[Bobby Bones]

Raider one through ten.

[Eddie]

Six and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

If you're in high school.

[Kevin]

Solid.

[Bobby Bones]

I know. At least.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And as the. She was your superior.

[Kevin]

Exactly.

[Eddie]

At the time, we're thinking, like, that's so cool of her to just, like, want us. Want us to go over and have drinks. Like, that's awesome. We're 18.

[Kevin]

Like, you guys didn't have any other thoughts other than, like, this is cool?

[Eddie]

No, not one.

[Bobby Bones]

But now, you didn't think she would have sex with you? No. Oh, so it's just old. I got it.

[Eddie]

Now that I'm older, it's like, I understand.

[Mike]

It's probably a little lonely, kind of weird.

[Bobby Bones]

Was she lonely?

[Eddie]

Is she single?

[Bobby Bones]

But was she, like. Did she have boyfriends? Do you know?

[Eddie]

Not that I knew of.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Can I ask you the question I asked you last night? I don't know what I asked Eddie. I said, do you think if you and your two buddies would have gone over to her house? And she was like, I'll fix you drinks. And you had no idea. And then she was like, I want to have sex with all three of you at the same time. Would you have done it? Like, all three of you, you're all naked with her, like, doing. Fulfilling her fantasy. Would you have done it?

[Eddie]

And my answer last night was yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, it's a story. It's a story.

[Eddie]

Like, probably.

[Bobby Bones]

I just don't feel like I want to get naked with dudes.

[Kevin]

You have to have a couple of drinks. I know, Bobby. So obviously you couldn't.

[Bobby Bones]

Maybe that's why I've never had enough drinks.

[Kevin]

You couldn't just do that, like, dead sober?

[Bobby Bones]

No, but I appreciate your honesty, where all three of you are just, like, naked with her.

[Eddie]

Let her r. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Even outside of that, like, I don't have a lot of those letter rips. Not even sex, but, like, anything. So I don't have. I wish I had more of letter rip.

[Eddie]

It was kind of my mantra when I was younger. Dude, like, just let her rip. Whatever happens, happens.

[Bobby Bones]

Interesting.

[Eddie]

Yeah. I changed now, though, dude. I'm married, got four kids.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah, for sure. This is at my wife's birthday party last night.

[Kevin]

Oh, nice.

[Bobby Bones]

But again, he wasn't like demanding that he hold court. It was just. The first thing was like, do you have this Siamese twins, one of them's gay, one straight. And then away we went, and he goes. Then I heard him. Because I'm just trying to, like, talk to people. I don't even like talking to people. But he's just. And then Eddie's like, yeah, yeah. I think my high school teacher want to have sex with me. And I'm like, all right, I'm just going to dedicate fully to this because he's on it. Like, give the hot hand the ball. Like, you take it.

[Eddie]

That was just a couple of weeks off.

[Kevin]

I was going to say a holiday.

[Eddie]

Break, I guess, just kind of let it rip.

[Bobby Bones]

Those are good. Good one.

[Eddie]

Thank you, man.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

God dang, dude. What's happening? I cannot believe the Patriots won. You lost the first round pick.

[Kevin]

I know.

[Bobby Bones]

That's your team. I was so upset for you. And then they fire the coach.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like there was nothing. Fire them before the game to make sure they lose.

[Kevin]

So I was thinking about it, and maybe it's like a wishful movie type scenario where Kraft went to him before the game, like, hey, if you win this game, you will not come back. And he's like, I'm gonna stick it to you because I love my players. And then he won the game. And after the game, Craft's like, you know what? You're out, dude. I tried to tell you.

[Bobby Bones]

No chance.

[Eddie]

No, I mean, that's a cool storybook.

[Mike]

Line, but remember a couple years ago, Lovey Smith did that and got fired.

[Bobby Bones]

Cost him the pick. Yeah, he was getting fired anyway.

[Kevin]

Yeah, he was.

[Eddie]

He knew.

[Bobby Bones]

He was for sure out.

[Kevin]

Or not the intern, but the one year coach. Yeah, whatever it was. But yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

That's kind of how I pictured it. And then it's like the reality set.

[Bobby Bones]

In and it's like you had the number one pick.

[Kevin]

I know.

[Eddie]

So how does that happen? Is it the players just being like, we're going to play here?

[Bobby Bones]

The thing about football, which is different than basketball, you can't throws. That's gambling. You can't tank a football game because there are too many players, because everybody's competing for a job for next season, for everything's on film. You're not. You can't tank a Football team, a game so a head coach can make personnel decisions to actually affect the game, but nobody's going to play less hard because also that's how you get injured too. Going 60% so you're not going to have players go 60%, 75%. You can put worse players in, which is what happens in basketball when they tank. They just don't. They're calf strain.

[Mike]

They low management.

[Bobby Bones]

Their best players don't play and they lose by playing worse players. But even those players play hard. But you just put in bad players. But yeah, no, they. They. I could. Dude, I could not. They had. You had the number one pick.

[Kevin]

Unbelievable. And in a draft class that's really not very good.

[Bobby Bones]

So you needed.

[Kevin]

So we need it. And we don't need a quarterback, obviously, which is great. We're in great position. Number one pick. We can trade it and load up because somebody's gonna be desperate for Sanders or Cam Ward, whoever it is, and we go and win.

[Bobby Bones]

So why are you five, six now four. You're four now.

[Kevin]

Pick. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Four.

[Reed]

Four.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Whoa.

[Kevin]

From one to four.

[Bobby Bones]

So Titans are one. Titans, Browns, Giants.

[Kevin]

Browns, Giants, Patriots. Yep.

[Eddie]

Titans need a quarterback.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Titans eat everything.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Defensively they're okay in a couple places, but they don't have it. They have a. They have a couple decent linemen.

[Eddie]

What quarterback would you take? Cam?

[Bobby Bones]

No. Shador.

[Kevin]

Would Shador come here, you think?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't. I don't know. I don't know. Shadur's very Joe Burrow like. Yeah. And. And how he plays a pretty mobile. But not a guy's going to run the ball a lot. He's not a. Lamar Jackson. He's not a. Well, Josh Allen's mobile. He's big. He runs through things more than around things. Great arm, competitor. I mean probably shoulder over. I don't trust Cam Ward.

[Kevin]

I don't either. I think everything he does in college. There's no way that works in the NFL. If Caleb Williams can't do it, there's no way Cam Moore can do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Also, who cares what I trust because I know nothing except I watch games and talk to people who are at times are involved in it. But I'm not here acting like I'm an expert, but I mean I would. They have to have a quarterback. Yeah. They could trade. They could trade that pick and get a quarterback. Like do you go and trade it for three or four picks and take and get a Cousins, you know as it's kind of a stopgap for a couple. I mean because obviously Kirk Cousins was hurt a lot of this year. I don't think what we saw, the bad version of Kirk Cousins we saw was the healthy version of Kirk Cousins. They paid him a hundred million bucks over the whole. And he's not going to get all that. And they're going to cut him before March, I think, to save a bit of money. But they could trade that and take a haul. And if you're missing a lot of parts and you're not trying to win right away. Okay. But if you don't have a quarterback and a coach, you're not going to win.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, period. So I guess it's just what the Titans want to do. The Titans colors are slow, though.

[Eddie]

Just the baby blue, the blues.

[Bobby Bones]

It's a slow color. It doesn't.

[Kevin]

The throwbacks are cool.

[Eddie]

The Oilers Oilers is cool.

[Bobby Bones]

That still looks slow. Those colors are slow colors.

[Eddie]

Earl Campbell was not slow.

[Bobby Bones]

But he wasn't. He's big dude. Yeah, you're not making sense because he's not Drew Hill. Dude.

[Eddie]

He was fast.

[Bobby Bones]

You're talking about Chris Johnson was fast. Oh, yeah.

[Eddie]

Now I'm talking about the Oilers blue guys.

[Kevin]

Drew H. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Singer.

[Eddie]

Nah, he was. Nah, he was a receiver for the Oilers back in the day, I think. I think.

[Bobby Bones]

I. I don't. I could. I don't know. I. They could trade that and get a Cousins. If they trade for Cousins before or who else. Who else would even be on the market?

[Kevin]

It depends what Minnesota does, obviously with Sam Darnold, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Great call there because they're going to have to resign the Steelers.

[Kevin]

Russell Wilson, Justin Fields.

[Bobby Bones]

That's another one.

[Mike]

Justin Fields. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Anybody going through quarterback rehab right now, meaning the Baker Mayfield or the Sam Darnold, because that's like a Trubisky is a backup forever now. Like he did his little. He's a backup forever.

[Kevin]

Yeah. And then even Carson Wentz, he had a shot and it was God awful.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

What about Men shoe? He's down to backup.

[Bobby Bones]

Like all those guys, the men shoes. Aiden O'Connell. Like, I can't think of anybody else going through quarterback rehab. Oh. You know. But they're not going to trade him now because he's actually good again as Bryce Young.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

He played great yesterday.

[Bobby Bones]

They lost a couple games in the past six. But he's like. He looks like the real deal. And I know I'm biased because I like Bryce Young a lot and I've stood by him. Him and Bo Nicks have been my guys when everybody else is like, you're an idiot. I'm like, I know, but still, I like Bo Nixon. I like Bryce Young.

[Eddie]

I like Bryce Young smiling after he scores a touchdown. Like, did you guys see that?

[Bobby Bones]

We also met him and he was so nice.

[Eddie]

He's so nice.

[Bobby Bones]

He was so. We spent time with him. He's so nice. Okay, I guess I'm gonna tell you guys, sadly, Casey, this doesn't involve you, since you're the newest person.

[Kevin]

Oh, no. We've all been there, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

I know you're the newest, but I. I've been waiting to tell you guys this. Oh, but I have a Super bowl tickets.

[Eddie]

No way. No way.

[Bobby Bones]

Here's the thing.

[Eddie]

Oh, no. There's a caveat. Only one of you could go.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no. Pickleball.

[Mike]

Figure it out.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no.

[Reed]

I'm out for 2035.

[Bobby Bones]

I do have U.S. super bowl tickets in New Orleans coming up February 9th.

[Kevin]

But it's New Orleans.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, I didn't. Oh, no, that's not the caveat. There was a terrorist attack.

[Kevin]

Okay, okay. Just making sure.

[Bobby Bones]

So read Mike, Kevin, Eddie and myself. That's five. I have four tickets.

[Kevin]

Oh.

[Eddie]

Sorry, Reed.

[Reed]

You need a camera. I guess you could.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, the thing is, again, the plan is to go down. I know. Well, I know the plan is to go down. And we're going to do the media stuff on Thursday and Friday with all the players coming through all that. La, la, la, dang.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

But I have four tickets for five people.

[Kevin]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

So more people can go. Only four people can go to the game.

[Bobby Bones]

That's what I'm saying. To the game.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't have a solution. And I'm not. This is not a joke. I don't have a bet. There's not a bit yet.

[Kevin]

Yeah, there will be a bit.

[Bobby Bones]

There'll definitely be a bit. They'll definitely be a bit. But what I would. Here's the promise that I would like to hear from. Because I'm going. There's no chance. I'm not going. Okay?

[Kevin]

So you're out of the question because.

[Bobby Bones]

I got the tickets.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't even know how good they are. If it doesn't matter if you've never been to super bowl, it's fun to go to.

[Eddie]

Never been to a Super bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

And it's in New Orleans, so it's not cold.

[Eddie]

Who's been to a Super Bowl?

[Bobby Bones]

Only me, probably. Yeah.

[Mike]

No, definitely not me.

[Bobby Bones]

What I want you to do. And please do not talk to each other about it. I want you to pick who you think should not get the ticket, and we're going to do that on the show later this week, and you're going to talk. You're going to talk it out.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Okay.

[Mike]

Dang.

[Eddie]

I mean, I'm ready to go now.

[Kevin]

Yeah, me too.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, really?

[Kevin]

Come on.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay.

[Reed]

Because you always pick on me.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that why? Because I don't watch football.

[Kevin]

Is that why?

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't think about that. Reed's talking himself down. I didn't think about that.

[Eddie]

I'm writing that down.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my God.

[Reed]

You were gonna say that.

[Kevin]

Keep going.

[Reed]

You were gonna say that.

[Bobby Bones]

Hold on. Kevin. Who do you think should not get the F4? This is. I want to say one more time, I do not have a fifth ticket. I'm not coming out of my pocket with a fifth ticket. The end. So this is not a thing where I'm like, just kidding. There's not a fifth ticket, Kevin, of you four who should not get the ticket?

[Kevin]

Well, I did think about Reed for a second, but I got to go with Eddie, I think. What? Listen, listen, listen, listen. Okay, Eddie. And you know, you deserve everything you've ever gotten with Bobby, but you do everything with Bobby, right? And rightfully so. The right hand man to Bobby. And I just think. And Reed, he's got to go out with a bang here. He's going out in a few months.

[Reed]

Okay?

[Eddie]

So charity.

[Kevin]

I got like, a little bit of send him off.

[Bobby Bones]

He's penalizing you because I feel you're talented and. And your performance.

[Kevin]

No, it has nothing to do with that.

[Bobby Bones]

Is at a level that I feel like it also elevates my level. Like, he's jealousy hating on you, I guess, man.

[Eddie]

And like, now he's wants to throw a bone to Reed because he's quitting. Like, he's quit. You're forgetting that Reed is quitt.

[Bobby Bones]

That's an interesting strategy, though, to go ahead and put people up that you don't think should be where you're only one of the ones left on the chopping block. So you. You're putting Eddie on the chop. You think Eddie should not be able to go to the he's at because you're gonna have to go. Everybody's going. We're going to New Orleans because I got a whole thing we're going to do. I got a bus. We're doing a whole thing.

[Kevin]

Oh, my gosh.

[Eddie]

That sounds like so much fun.

[Bobby Bones]

It's gonna be awesome because we, you and I are gonna do a couple raging Eddie shows on the way Down.

[Eddie]

Oh, my goodness.

[Bobby Bones]

For, like, markets. I've turned it.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Can I change my mind?

[Eddie]

No. No, you can't.

[Bobby Bones]

By the way, I'm having to pay for the whole thing, which sucks. Just everybody knows.

[Eddie]

Hey, thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

You're welcome.

[Kevin]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

But we're going to do a couple stops because some local markets have been crying that we're not there. We don't go anywhere right now. But I'm like, we'll take a bus. We'll do podcasts. On the way down, we'll stop and do we have a friend of ours who plays music who's also going to go with us on the bus but.

[Eddie]

Not going to the game?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't have ticket for them.

[Eddie]

Okay.

[Bobby Bones]

I literally don't have a ticket for them.

[Eddie]

So whoever's not going to the game in this room can hang out with that artist. You guys have fun in New Orleans.

[Reed]

Who is it? I want to know who I want to hang out with.

[Bobby Bones]

It's. I wouldn't allow it if it wasn't somebody that we were close to. I'll say it's not George. Not George Burch. That would be the instant. Because we're super close with George. It's not George, but it is somebody that I feel comfortable enough being on a bus for two or three days with.

[Reed]

Oh, that's good, Garth.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah, I do it.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so Kevin picks Eddie. Eddie.

[Eddie]

I mean, this is easy now. I had an answer.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, don't do. Don't do. That's why I want. No, you need to fight.

[Eddie]

No, I can't pick Kevin now because he's such a jerk.

[Bobby Bones]

Pick what you thought initially.

[Eddie]

Initially, I had to read and I had Reed because he is leaving us. He's quitting.

[Reed]

So that's why.

[Bobby Bones]

So why would we reward him like that?

[Eddie]

See ya.

[Bobby Bones]

His sadness. We're not gonna be around it.

[Eddie]

Yes.

[Reed]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Eddie]

It's simple.

[Bobby Bones]

That's the whole fight, the whole answer.

[Eddie]

That's it.

[Bobby Bones]

Mike. I will say that everybody here deserves to go. So it's hard to pick someone.

[Eddie]

Mike, just say it.

[Bobby Bones]

And being in my position, I'll just say me. Whoa.

[Eddie]

No, Mike, you're not understanding the game.

[Reed]

That's funny. I was gonna say me.

[Bobby Bones]

No, you weren't.

[Reed]

Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was.

[Bobby Bones]

You know, King. As King Solomon said, you both get to go now because you picked yourselves.

[Reed]

Well, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm just kidding. Right, Mike? You're really, like, going. You're punning the ticket. No, I would love to go. Okay, then you're in. Pick somebody else. Okay, I'll go read.

[Kevin]

All right. I'll go.

[Reed]

Mike.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, man.

[Eddie]

This is a mean game.

[Kevin]

Should have written it down first.

[Reed]

This is. No, it's a cool experience.

[Bobby Bones]

I want. Okay, here's what I want. Read. Who are you gonna pick?

[Reed]

I was gonna pick myself 100%, I swear.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, but you can't pick yourself. It's like Mike couldn't pick himself. So pick. Who else would you pick? Not you.

[Reed]

Well, then I would only just pick Mike because he likes going home and.

[Bobby Bones]

But no one's going home.

[Reed]

I know, but I mean, usually on trips like Mike. Mike usually doesn't stay out and, you know, go do things.

[Bobby Bones]

What do we do?

[Eddie]

What do we do?

[Bobby Bones]

I like going home. I like going to the Super Bowl.

[Reed]

That's what I'm saying. I don't have an answer.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. So I don't have an answer either.

[Eddie]

I think we got our answer. Reed picked himself.

[Bobby Bones]

Nobody picked Kevin.

[Eddie]

I had Kevin but my original.

[Bobby Bones]

No, your original. You didn't have Kevin. Kevin was. You picked when you got pissed.

[Eddie]

Yeah. It's stupid. He picked me.

[Bobby Bones]

I have. I have no conclusion. We're gonna have to do something that is fair and probably, like, drawing or something.

[Eddie]

This is crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

Like some game of skill or something.

[Mike]

Super bowl trivia, maybe.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't even want to do that because some people have an advantage. I would still. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Reed would not.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Reed]

I think about this, though. I will probably never get to go to a Super bowl in my entire life because I will never purchase tickets because I don't watch football.

[Eddie]

You know that none of us would purchase tickets. Like, I don't know.

[Reed]

You might.

[Eddie]

I don't think so.

[Reed]

You don't be given tickets.

[Bobby Bones]

What I'm going to think about and consider, because I. I don't want anybody to back themselves out because all four of you guys deserve to go.

[Eddie]

Thank you, man. Not sweet of you. Thank you.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm going to come up with some sort of game or challenge.

[Eddie]

It better not be pickleball.

[Bobby Bones]

No, no, no. It's fair for everyone. It'll probably be a game of chance. Oh, some game of chance. Or, like, awkward game or, like, somebody dies or, like, operation or something. Right?

[Eddie]

Oh, dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Like a old kid or something.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

But I'm gonna say this one more time. I do not have a fifth ticket. This is it. I got him. I got four tickets. Okay.

[Eddie]

Holy crap. This is crazy.

[Bobby Bones]

So four of us will be in the Super Bowl. That's all. Dab's. Back in with Giants. See that? They re hard. I mean, they kept him on. Nobody even cares.

[Kevin]

Who cares?

[Eddie]

It's funny because, like, every season, there's a team I just forget about that even exists. And this year is definitely the Giants. Like, I haven't watched one Giants game. Don't care about much.

[Bobby Bones]

So, yeah, I need to mark off. My Eddie thinks his high school teacher wanted to have sex with him. I keep notes of everything I want to talk about. I watched the murder of Air McNair. Have you guys watched that? What's that? What's that on Netflix? Oh, you haven't watched it?

[Eddie]

I mean, I've watched documentaries on it.

[Bobby Bones]

But I haven't seen this. No, it's part of that series.

[Kevin]

Yeah. The Untold. Is that Untold?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. You watch it?

[Kevin]

Yeah, I watched it a few months ago.

[Mike]

I watched it.

[Bobby Bones]

You have watched it, Mike. You watch it, Reed. Oh, okay. Well, you're not going to Super Bowl. That was the test.

[Kevin]

There we go. Casey.

[Reed]

I'm going now.

[Kevin]

Casey's.

[Eddie]

Casey's is.

[Bobby Bones]

So Steve McNair played quarterback for Alcorn State. Titans drafted him third overall, I believe third or fourth overall. Came was a really good Titans quarterback. Made it to the super bowl, couple AFC championships. Was murdered after he retired. Turns out he had, and you guys can correct me if I'm messing this up, he had, like, an apartment that he was either renting or owned that he would, like, have chicks right down the road. And so then.

[Mike]

And one of them was all cuckoo.

[Bobby Bones]

He gets murdered.

[Eddie]

It was a mistress. Did you say that?

[Bobby Bones]

I'm in the middle of speaking a sentence about it. Yeah. So. No, I haven't said it yet, but it was in the sentence that I was currently.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I thought you maybe skipped over it.

[Bobby Bones]

He was murdered. And when they came in to find his body, they also found the body of a woman with him. Turns out it was a woman he was dating, but that there was all this drama between her and him before that. And so it looked like a murder suicide, meaning she killed him, then she killed herself. But during this documentary, that dude that got on the gun. Oh, yeah, there's something happened that's not that something happened. I don't think she. I don't think she did it. And documentaries can sway you. I'd be terrible.

[Mike]

Owed him money. And then something happened. And then just.

[Bobby Bones]

I've seen too many movies where they put the gun at someone's head and make them shoot themselves in the head. Like, where they're like, okay, well, Stage of suicide. You put the gun in their hand. They're, like, drugged, and you make them shoot yourself. The dude lied to the cops about the guy. He's like, I know she was. He sold her the gun. And the cops are like, well, you lied to us. He goes, yeah, my fiance was next to me. I couldn't say the truth. Right.

[Kevin]

Oh, the only thing is, they didn't go. From what I remember, they didn't really go much further into that, did they?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't think that they went for much further into it back then, so there's not a lot to go on unless you're investigating it now. I don't think it happened like we were told it always happened. That's too shady. Where some dude just happens to sell a gun, lies to the cops about it, Got all he went to jail for, like, maybe murder.

[Mike]

Something else, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Assault.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Eddie]

They talk about Dave and Busters at all on this one?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, yeah. We're short Dave and Busters. Yeah. All the players are going.

[Eddie]

It's crazy because, like, now my kids, they have birthday parties at Dave and Buster's. And every time I go in there, I look at that bar, I'm like, it's crazy. McNair was right there. Like, just his chick right here.

[Bobby Bones]

So the boyfriend, the chick that killed him, we'll call her the murder. We'll call her the murderer. We don't know. I think officially, she's the one that murdered him. According to the police reporter, sure.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So we'll say her. Although there's something up there.

[Eddie]

But it's a closed case, right?

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But things can be reopened. I've seen enough csi.

[Eddie]

They pull the thing and the box out of the shelf.

[Bobby Bones]

So what was funny was this dude's talking. He's like, man, I was the biggest Titans fan. He goes, I have my favorite players. He goes, I get autographs. I didn't miss it when the Titans came to Nashville. Blah, blah. His girl is her. And all of a sudden, he's like, we broke up. We were still living together because we couldn't afford rent. And all of a sudden, she was my favorite player.

[Eddie]

Oh, weird.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And he's like, how I'm supposed to like my favorite player? And you're. Then you start to kind of feel bad for him. And you should feel bad for him because, like, his girl and she's dead, and she killed him and her. But mostly I'm like, yeah, that suck. If your ex, like, was with, like, your favorite wrestler or your favorite Ballplayer, like, you can't even like him as much anymore.

[Eddie]

Dallas Cowboy.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, my wife, like, your wife and Dak are together. That's the weird. I started struggling with it.

[Eddie]

Crazy.

[Kevin]

Then you can't even, like, watch the team and everything reminds you of it.

[Bobby Bones]

And didn't it look like a different. And it was a different Nashville, but the Nashville, when the Titans moved to town, look like Mountain pine.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Not much going on.

[Bobby Bones]

Nothing. Yeah, nothing. So you should watch it, though. It's not long. It's like 50 minutes.

[Kevin]

Yeah, it's not long at all.

[Bobby Bones]

The murder of Eric McNair, I believe, is what it's called. Super bowl odds are out. I was. Take a break. We'll come back. Michael, take a break real quick. We do have Brandon. We'll do super bowl odds, all that. All right, first, let's do this. Do I have a spot to read?

[Kevin]

There's just a pick six.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, cool. All right, let's talk about pick six. Oh, you played it. You had to. Texas and played.

[Eddie]

This is awesome, man.

[Bobby Bones]

It's the most fun because what happens.

[Eddie]

When I leave Nashville and I go, like, on vacation or whatever, I try to get all my bets out of the way, you know, and there were just obviously too many NFL bets that I could not make when I left.

[Bobby Bones]

Because our state allows DraftKings.

[Eddie]

Correct.

[Bobby Bones]

Texas does not.

[Eddie]

So when I realized I was down in Texas and I can play pick six. Let's go, baby. It was awesome. Dude. You can even do kickers on pick six.

[Bobby Bones]

A lot of states that you can't do normal draftkings, you can do pick six, which is. And I can't really say anything more than that.

[Eddie]

Yeah. Thank God.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, it's. But in Texas, you did. It is awesome. So now picks. So you pick players and then you picked over and under on stats.

[Eddie]

You can do as little as two players or you can do 10 players. The more players you do, the more money you get.

[Bobby Bones]

Obviously you do passing yards over under.

[Eddie]

A certain amount, rushing yards, receptions, interceptions, sacks, field goals made, field goals attempted. Dude, it's awesome.

[Bobby Bones]

So if you are a listener and you're like, I can't ever do DraftKings and do the bets they do because it's not allowed in our state. Hey, go download the pick six app.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Did you ever feel more confident in that than you do, like, a line or something? I feel like I'd be like, oh, so and so is going to get receptions for sure. Compared to, like, oh, I don't know if they're going to win this game.

[Eddie]

I felt so confident every single time I placed bets.

[Kevin]

Nice.

[Eddie]

I didn't win much, but I felt confident.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh dude, I'm on. I'll tell you in a minute. Let me finish this. Download the new DraftKings Pick Six app. Use the code Bobby Sports Gambling Problem.

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[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, sometimes you get on a heater and like it doesn't matter the game, it doesn't matter the spread, doesn't matter the player. You're just like, I am so confident. It's rare. But sometimes you get on that heater and I tend to not believe that my heat's gonna last. So then I start to get a little timid. But you just on it and everything wins. Rare. That is exactly the opposite of what's happened to me lately. I've been in the friggin freezer this month because all my draftkings you now look and see. My favorite thing is what they call the stat sheet this month. Dude, it's the seventh. It's the sixth. It's the sixth this month. I'm negative $4,299.

[Eddie]

Meal.

[Bobby Bones]

I've missed every game I've missed, which is literally not true because I've wagered 5,246. So you've won some and won 946. But I'm telling you, I.

[Eddie]

You're in the freezer.

[Bobby Bones]

Call Coats for kids. Because I need some sort of charity, because I am. I'm frozen.

[Eddie]

Are you. All kinds. Live bets.

[Bobby Bones]

Let it go. Let it go. Frozen. I. Can somebody get a Chip me. Ding, ding, ding. Chip me out of this thing. Yeah. No, dude, I've tried everything. All kinds. And so I just don't know what. I don't know what's up. I don't know what to do except just saying the game.

[Eddie]

I was gonna say, okay, I'll say.

[Bobby Bones]

Take a break, but okay, I bet. And I'm like, you know what? I can't be that frozen. Yesterday it was the Chiefs minus ten and a half. And I thought maybe the Chiefs with. It's not like their quarterback doesn't have any starting experience. And I know Chris Jones was out and most of those guys, but I was like, they're playing The Broncos about 500 team. Chiefs were plus ten and a half. About a thousand bucks. Chiefs plus ten and a half. First quarter, I was like, let it go. Let it go. I'm begging for a coach, dude. It was awful. Every college football playoff game, big losses all the way around, it's been terrible. So when people are like, oh, you only talk about your wins. No, I don't. I've had pretty successful runs in the past six months. Don't get near me in case I'm contagious. Because going around, there's flu, there's norovirus, there's Covid, and then there's what I have right now, and I'm going to affect you. That's rough. It doesn't matter what I pick. I lose. I even reversed myself on a game yesterday. I bet 250 bucks it was the Cowboys plus two and a half. And they were winning.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And I was like, I've never bet on the Cowboys playing the Commanders, because whatever. So I said, so I'm going to bet on the Cowboys. And they lost by four. I couldn't even reverse my reverse.

[Eddie]

I lost on that one, too. It's freezing in here.

[Bobby Bones]

It's freezing. Reed's been sick. Read Sitting by himself reads like, no, I'm good, man.

[Reed]

I know, I know. I got really sick on Friday.

[Bobby Bones]

Vomiting.

[Reed]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And so I was like, hey, man, you don't got to come in. He's like, no, I'm all good. I've not heard of a virus that's all out of you by Monday.

[Eddie]

No.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Reed]

I'm probably going to skip workouts today and tomorrow.

[Eddie]

I think you should.

[Bobby Bones]

I don't.

[Reed]

I don't want to get you guys.

[Kevin]

Probably all the way to February 9th.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Reed]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Kevin's like, February 10th, come back. So. Okay, so there's that. I just wanted to make sure we all knew what was up. We're gonna talk to Brandon Marcelo now. Writes for 24. 7Sports. Check out his articles, 247.com follow him at. Brandon Marcelo. He is the college football guy. And why I restate. Because then you'll hear early in this, I'm like, hey, we're here with Brandon Marcelo. I think a lot of people. Not so much Brandon, because he knows me, but it did happen here. I think a lot of people don't realize we're doing the interview because I talk the same in real life as I do in the interview. We've had coaches that have been, like, pretty vulgar. Not mean, but, like, insane, like, hilarious stuff. And then we realized, oh, they didn't know they were doing the interview yet. And so Brandon comes on, and you can leave all the intro, the beginning stuff on after. But I say, hey, okay, here. Brandon Marcelo. So he knows that we're in. It's official. Because I just think people hear me talk and they're like, oh, the interview's not going. He's talking like a normal human and not even that well. So that's why. Yeah, that's why I. I say, hey, where's Brandon Marcelo? But we talk about a lot of New Orleans stuff, so we're gonna do some Brandon and we'll come back after this. Hey, Brandon, the last couple weeks, it seems like you were in a lot of different places. Where did you go to games?

[Brandon Marcelo]

This past week, I went down to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. I was there for a few days, a couple days longer than I thought I was going to be.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, because of the guy that the terrorists that drove into the truck.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah, yeah. I was actually on news duty that day. As a result of that, I had to go down and. And go cover that had to go to police headquarters and everything. So a little bit of a wild, wild situation.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, Brandon Marcelo is on with us. Will you talk about that for a second?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah. You know, I. I woke. I was planning on sleeping in that morning. You know, I think like a lot of people in New Orleans, and I got a call from my boss asking if I was okay. It woke me up and I was like, yeah. I immediately thought. He was thinking, like, Brandon must be drunk. He's like. So I. I thought, I thought he was asking me if I was hungover. But no, he's like, no. Are you okay? There was a terrorist attack in New Orleans last night, and I immediately shot out of bed and, like, ran over to my window because I didn't know what that meant. And then he filled me on the details and, you know, he said, you know, you know, you don't really need to go out and go cover that, so to speak, but, you know, look into the game, see if the game's still going on and everything. So I got up, went down for breakfast and found out there was going to be like a press conference at the police headquarters. So I just said, you know, screw it, I'm gonna go down there. Went down there, did some reporting, ran into a congressman, ran into sheriff of Orleans Parish, and then we had a press conference, I think at 1 o'clock. But during that time, a lot of information was starting to leak about the game, whether it was gonna be played, it was gonna be delayed. And it was a weird scene just because it was. The FBI was there, Homeland Security was there. Obviously the police force was there. About 400 police officers were on the streets at that point. The place was just crawling with uniformed officers.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And then they delayed the game, which obviously was not the most important part of that day, but still a lot of moving parts. Right. And I would think it may even be easier to delay it a week than a day. Like, I don't know, you were a part of that situation. Like, when did they make that decision and what did they do differently in that one day time? Did they, like, bring in people to make it more secure?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah, so I guess about like seven and a half, eight hours before the game was supposed to kick off, they made the decision to delay it. One game, one day, and they still hadn't set a time. They just said 24 hours. And so at that point that started leaking and then they finally confirmed it. Right. Right after 1:00 local time. And, you know, a lot of fans were scheduled to leave that next day, fly out and everything. So a lot of fans did leave. The. The attendance for the game only ended up being 57000 something and change. And the capacity there is well over 70, 000. It was still a great atmosphere, but a lot of people just had to go home because of travel. Interestingly, all the airlines decided to refund tickets or whatever, give them travel credits for free. No cancellation fees if they had to do anything out of New Orleans. So a lot of fans were able to stay as a result of that, just financially. But I talked to several families and stuff at team hotels about it and some just didn't feel like safe staying there. But it was incredible just how much more security was in that. In that city. You know, less than 12 hours after that attack happened. I mean Canal street, which is where I was staying on, which is right off Bourbon Street. I was about 1100ft away from where the attack happened. It was just. You couldn't get anywhere without seeing a police officer about every two seconds in your field of view and sirens are going off everywhere. And I guess what was so really, really crazy about all of it, such a tragic situation, obviously just terrible was that, you know, in the morning hours they're telling everybody to stay indoors because they were still sweeping the city for explosives. They didn't know if there were other explosives in the city. And so they're telling everybody stay in. And meanwhile, I left my hotel room obviously, to go to that press conference. And you know, there was a lot of people just walking around the streets like it was a normal day. And you know, that's just New Orleans for you. You just. You can't slow people down there, whether tourists or locals. But you know that I can't imagine the. The pain and everybody's going through in that city because it's so resilient. Anyway. That's kind of. It's in its DNA. That's New Orleans. It's a Crescent City. It's a big easy. You know, it's party all the time. You know, it never sleeps. But you could tell like later that afternoon when everything started settling in, people were kind of shaken up a little bit about it. Not as many people on the streets as you would expect.

[Bobby Bones]

Did they do anything security at the game or. They're like metal detectors or anything when you got there. That again, because they only had a day. That's why I thought it would be harder to get it flipped over in a day than a couple days or even more than that. What about when you got there?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah, they. They up security. I mean they had a lot more officers there. The. I mean I saw Homeland Security there. I saw FBI Agents there, special agents with Homeland Security, and then, of course, the police force, they had bomb dogs outside sniffing every vehicle that was parking in the parking garage, as well as any team buses or even media buses that were coming up. So we had to, like, stand on the bus for about five minutes as the dog was going around. Metal detectors at the entrances. Nothing like, too out of the ordinary as far as, like, just going through the entrances. Because if you go to the games now, anywhere really, and everybody knows this, it's like security is pretty amped up anyway, with metal detectors and people and all that stuff. So, you know, for the media, it took us maybe five minutes to get through security, which wasn't too outrageous, but it was a very good thing to see, especially the. The K9 officers. And then when you walk through the stadium, I mean, it was. I don't know how many law enforcement were there, but it was substantial because I. I've never been in a college football game where I've seen the FBI and Homeland Security just walking around among the crowd.

[Bobby Bones]

With Mardi Gras and then the super bowl in February, you were just there as that happened. Would you think twice about being a part of one of those events in New Orleans, personally?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yes, because, I mean. But the thing is, it's just like any big city is going to have security issues anyway. You can't keep an eye on everything at any time. And because of the way New Orleans is structured, all the small streets, side streets and everything, I mean, it's pretty much just foot traffic anyway. So, like, anybody can come and go. And with that attack, you know, the big question there was the security measures as far as just the. The bollards, the security bollards that would go up at the end of Bourbon street or some of these party roads, I would call them, where, you know, people can just walk on the roads like Bourbon Street. And those security ballers are just like. If you go to a, you know, the shopping mall or. Or whatever, you see those metal posts, like yellow posts or whatever in the parking lot, they're like those. But they raise up out of the ground. They can come up and down. And they also have these things almost called, like a wall, almost called, like, it looks like a snow plow that comes out of the ground as well at the end of the road, so no one can get through it. But those bollards, the smaller ones, are supposed to be on the sidewalks that come up, so they're staggered. So you have like, one here and then one here behind it. And so if Someone was to try and drive a car through there. There's absolutely no way for them to do it. But the issue there is that New Orleans, they've been under repair since November, and they weren't working. And so they've had to put temporary structures up, whether it's just a. One of those metal steel gates that you see, like at, you know, boxing events or old wrestling events in the 80s, or they'll park a police car at the end of the street and just kind of block it with their car. And obviously, they didn't have anything really on the sidewalk to stop this attacker this past week. So they say they're going to have this all fixed before then for. For the Super Bowl. But, I mean, you know, you can't be safe really anywhere. Anywhere these days. And personally, as I get older, I just want to avoid large events unless it's work. But it would definitely be in the back of my mind if I were to go to New Orleans and go to one of these big events, and for that matter, any big event in any city, but probably especially New Orleans, because, as I said, there's just so many little small roads and nook and crannies around the French Quarter that, you know, you just never know what's going to happen there. Plus, as you know, Bobby, you walk around. Every time I'm in New Orleans, I hear stories about people getting mugged or getting followed around or whatever, because it's such a hotspot for tourists and the pickpockets are always looking out for you.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, and in drunk cities, too, it's easier to. If I were a pickpocket, I go to drunk cities because people are drunk.

[Eddie]

No clue.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's talk about that game specifically. I was talking about Parker Jones for a second, so. And again, we can get to the game. But that, first of all, if I'm a walk on, I'm not getting right on the sideline anyway, because I don't deserve to be. And I feel like they're going to be like, hey, walk on. Move back. Like, I feel like I would just know my place. Aside from his toes a little over the line. He hit the referee. The referee wiped out, threw the flag. He's also. He's a walk on. Don't wear such a bold white undershirt. I thought that was problematic, too. Why are you drawing attention to yourself? Walk on. All those thoughts happened. Now, what are your thoughts about the Parker Jones situation as a whole? Should the ref have thrown the flag? The reaction. Does he transfer? What do you think about that, Brandon?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Well, I can see why the ref threw the flag because it's against the rules. But also if it's one of those situations where it didn't necessarily affect the play and it also didn't affect your, your involvement with the play as a referee, you had other officials to help you. I probably wouldn't have thrown the flag also if, I'm sure if you looked at the replay of it, he would have seen how much of a, you know, an accident was. It wasn't like the kid was legitimately like three feet into the white zone, you know, along the sideline. He was just there on the edge and it was just a huge play and it was the first big play of the game for either side really. And so everybody was excited. I feel bad for the kid just because, yeah, I was there in the stadium, but I had the broadcast on my computer on the side, whatever. And every time I looked down they were still, it looked like they were still talking about the kid over and over and over again. They were making him a superstar without him really wanting to be a superstar. And I, you know, that's part of the, you know, part of the problem or part of what you signed up for as a football player, but not necessarily as a walk on football player. The other thing is, is that because of these playoffs now you're able to dress out everybody who's on your roster. So like 100 and 525 kids or whatever. Whereas if it was like a typical road game during the season, you'd only have like 60 something players on the sideline. So that walk on would have never been there. But because the playoff they allow you to travel your entire roster. And I'll tell you, it was so many kids for Georgia that a lot of their walk ons were in the press conference room because I was having to do some TV before the game is the only quiet area I could find. But then it wasn't because there was about 25, 30 walk ons in there getting dressed out for the game because they didn't have enough room in their locker room, an NFL locker room of all things too. So they should probably, they should just look at like not allowing that many kids on the sideline. I know they want the kids to have the experience and reward them for being there at the game, but that doesn't necessarily mean they need to be on the sideline for the game and getting in the way. So maybe we cut back on that and just for that three hour period of time they're not with the team, but the rest of the week they are and they're enjoying the festivities.

[Bobby Bones]

I did a deep dive on him. I think most people did. He was a no star recruit. How do you even get on as a walk on at Georgia? As a no star recruit? Do you know anything about his story?

[Brandon Marcelo]

None. I didn't really look into him all that much. But, you know, sometimes it's just a matter of, you know, somebody who knows somebody. And then also a lot of these teams, including Georgia, they do open tryouts for walk ons. I'll do walk on tryouts every preseason. I mean, every team I've ever been around, they do that sometime the middle or early part of August camp, they'll do tryouts and like maybe bring on a two or three guys if they've got room on their roster. But I'll say this, in the new era of college football that's starting up here this upcoming year with the scholarship limits and all that, you're not going to see a lot of Parker Jones is out there anymore. It's going to be kids that can actually contribute.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, also, with a haircut like that, you're not a cornerback. He's a cornerback. You can't. I've never seen somebody fast with that haircut. He's white and with that haircut, no chance.

[Brandon Marcelo]

He reminded me a lot of like Will Muschamp because Will Muscamp looked like that, like playing football as well. And he was. He was a good football player. Same with Kirby Smart. Kirby Smart is a really good linebacker at Georgia. But like you, linebacker, that's not a cornerback.

[Bobby Bones]

This guy is supposed to be a cornerback. Like Cooper. Dejan's the only white. I mean, when he came out, they're like, why he's white? We cannot believe it. There's no chance his kids get. And I hope he like bounces back and has a good career. I'm sure he'll play if he wants to play. He'll play at a smaller school. I think maybe he's a legacy kid though. Like maybe his parent or something played there. But. Okay, let's talk about that game for a second. Now. It's right. Everybody's just jumping all over the SEC and they have their chance now. Okay, if you're going to take your shots, take your shots because everybody's doing it. Not you, but everybody's doing. SEC sucks. SEC sucks. Does the SEC suck?

[Brandon Marcelo]

No, it's just not as good as it once was and it hasn't been the last two years. And for that matter, college football this year, when we look at the quote unquote elite team, say the last four teams in the playoff right now, I wouldn't say that any of those teams, maybe one of them, Ohio State, matches up really with any of the previous teams we've seen in previous years, even the most recent years. I wrote this in my column about Notre Dame after that game that I, I believe, and I know a lot of other people are saying this too, and I don't think it's hyperbole that the era of SEC speed and the athleticism and having that just absolute dominance over the other conferences, that's over. And not necessarily because it's the fault of the sec. It's because of the transfer portal, because of nil. It's spread out talent more than ever. As I've said before, there's more talent than ever among the big schools, but it's more spread out than ever. So what you're going to get is games like this where Notre Dame beats Georgia because Georgia's just not as good as it was in the previous years. Same with Alabama, four losses this year. And you look at Notre Dame, I think they got great coaches. But look at every point that was scored in that game, it was by transfers. Like Notre Dame's never been that type of program in the last couple of years to just go, let's get transfers in and depend on them. No, they, they had to do that. And that's the way college football has been trending. And every player that contributed significant moments in that game were transfers. And in fact, most of them, I think, if not all of them that scored in that game are transfers that just arrived this past offseason. Got Riley Leonard a quarterback. Jaden Harrison, the kid who returned the pun, the kickoff for a touchdown, he was at Marshall, you know, Bo Collins, who caught the touchdown pass transfer from Clemson. Times have changed. And the SEC's days of having exclusivity to the athletes in the south are over. Those kids now are going up north even more than they have in the past. And I think that will continue. And what's really going to hurt the SEC, in my opinion, even further potentially, is that all the money in NIL with boosters and everything is up north in these Big Ten schools. They have the bigger boosters, they have the bigger NIL collectives than anybody in the sec. And that is what's going to attract this talent even more so over these next two or three years, because now everybody's paying 20, 22 million dollars a year. And then on top of that, people are going to be paying nil money on top of that. And the Big Ten schools have the deeper pockets, the bigger donors. And I think that could potentially sink the SEC even further.

[Bobby Bones]

And the SEC can't stockpile like they did because it's so easy to leave. If you're like the old Georgia teams, they had three NFL running backs, the might even go back. We could do this all day with all these SEC teams, the Georgias, the Alabamas. You can't do that because if you're third string and you're awesome, you're just not going to sit, you're going to go somewhere else. And so again, the depth will not be there anywhere, but everywhere will have better ones because the big schools aren't able to hold three ones.

[Brandon Marcelo]

You can't hold them. And you know that thing with Georgia and Alabama is they would hold them and develop them in their system so that by year two, year three, not only are they obviously ready to play, but they also understand the system. They've been playing in it in practice for two years. So they're ready to start. And not just start, but excel in the system. Now these kids are going, I'm not starting after a year, I'm going to go transfer elsewhere. And they don't quite get the development. I mean, you could say I've been coached the last two or three years, but you're being coached by two or three different coaches. Everybody does things differently. And I think that's going to start showing up too, Bobby, is that we're going to see players that just aren't as refined, technique wise and fundamentally as some of these programs. And if you're a program like Georgia, what Georgia's trying to do right now is they believe that they can bring the kids in. And maybe not like they have in the past where you say got three guys, three deep and keep them on campus all three, four years. But they believe that they can just do two. They could still do that. They're still focusing on maybe we can keep enough kids here and develop them and bring them up the system. But man, that is so difficult to do without paying those kids more. I mean, if you're going to do that if you're a Georgia at this point, you're going to be like, we got to pay our backup, you know, you know, two times what he's going to be potentially making elsewhere just to keep him on campus.

[Bobby Bones]

Let's go to the Texas game. And I'm a big believer that kickers need to be like CIA agents. They don't need to be noticed for being any different. Because when they mess up and this auburn guy has long hair, curly hair, it's just too much. It's too much if you're a kicker. Because when you mess up as a kicker, you need to be normal. You need to be like 5, 9, 5, 10, skinny. We don't need to know what your face looks like. You need to stay to the side. Because when it's not, when you have something about you that stands out physically, we will never forget it. I will never forget Sideshow Bob's hair coming out of that helmet, that Texas helmet. So my rule would be, like, the New York Yankees. No facial hair for kickers. No long hair, no big, bold glasses. You're not wearing one sock up or down. You look as generic as possible, like a CIA agent. And you kick the ball because that makes you like. It makes me not like them. I don't know. I don't like Texas anyway. I hate Texas. But your thoughts on kickers just need to look standard because just kick the freaking ball.

[Brandon Marcelo]

That's a problem. Like, kickers, as soon as they can walk on a field, you automatically hate them. Even if you're a fan of that team. Because you're just like, don't screw this.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, he's gonna run it for. You're right. Yeah.

[Brandon Marcelo]

When a quarterback goes out there, you know, gets subbed in or whatever, you're not going, oh, man, here comes the backup. No. Sometimes you're thinking, oh, yeah. You know, because the hope is always something's better with the kicker. It's always worse. We're always assuming the worst.

[Bobby Bones]

And kickers don't have swags. Kickers don't have swag at all for any reason. A quarterback can have, like, he can have something about him. They're like, dang, he deserves long hair, earring net chains. That quarterback, like, that's what he's about. The greatest kicker does not deserve that auburn guy's hair.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Not. Yeah, well, that. And, you know, it didn't help that his coach was like, got up in his face and gave him a little.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, Tony Robbins, let's.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Let's kiss here moment. Yeah, I. I was funny. I was in the Georgia team hotel in the lobby watching the end of that game with a bunch of Georgia fans and player parents and everything. And, man, they were cheering hard against Texas. They're like, we do not want to see Texas for a third time this year on the football field. If they advance in the playoffs. And of course, Georgia don't have to worry about that now. But. But when Bert Arbor Auburn was missing those kicks, it was as if they were Texas fans. They were going, oh, my God. Like, even though they wanted him to miss those kicks, they're like, oh, my God. So it's just something inherent in all of us. I think with football, it's just like, it just changed kickers, change our attitude. Because I almost think we see them as like the nerd on the field. Like this band nerd doesn't deserve to be on.

[Bobby Bones]

Be the nerd though. Yes. You need to be the nerd and not the long haired. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so let's do this.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Hey, so real quick, I want to bring this up.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, go ahead. I'm ready.

[Brandon Marcelo]

See this? The kicker. I don't know what team it was, so forgive me. I just came to my mind. The kicker went out during halftime this past week to warm up while the band was still on the field.

[Eddie]

I saw that.

[Brandon Marcelo]

And he was kicking, trying to kick balls between like the, the drum line and the tuba section.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Brandon Marcelo]

And the fans went nuts on him. They went after him. Usually everybody just hates the band. They'll attack the band. But they went after that kicker. So again, kickers you have, like, you can't do anything right. I mean, but if it was a defensive tackle out there warming up and he knocked a trombone player down just as a tackle.

[Bobby Bones]

Showbiz, baby. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Hell yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah, that's showbiz, baby. It's like pun and just. We'll stay on this for just one more second. Like, I hate the worst job would be a punter because nobody ever wants to see you, even your own team. A kicker. Yeah. You're like, you're going to ruin this. We know it. There's a negative feeling, but if you ever have to see your punter that's in a negative situation, like, think about that. You're only on the field whenever your own team does not want to see you. That sucks to be a punter. I'd probably be a punter and a kicker and I would have my hair cut short and I'd be in contacts. I'd be as low key generic as possible. Okay, so Ohio State looks ungodly good now. Like they figured it out. I don't know. They're going to dog walk Texas, I feel like. But yeah, if Ohio State just plays to what they're kind of capable of, can anybody stop them?

[Brandon Marcelo]

I like Notre Dame's defense potentially against.

[Bobby Bones]

Them, their cornerbacks are really good. Notre Dame does. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Brandon Marcelo]

That. That's the one, like, matchup I see remaining in this playoff that could challenge Ohio State. I don't think Penn State matches up well at all with Ohio State. They played earlier this year. It was a quote unquote low scoring game. Ohio State won 20 to 13. Penn State missed a lot of opportunities that game, but so did Ohio State. And I think that got overlooked. And with that being, quote unquote, a neutral site in the national championship game, instead of being at Happy Valley like it was early this year, that's just not a good matchup. Also, Ohio State wasn't playing anywhere near as well as it is right now. I think this Ohio State team, Bobby, reminds me a lot of, say, like a superstar NBA team that just goes through the motions in the regular season and then once it comes playoff time, they just go off. They tap into that something special that's in them. And we all know, oh, yeah, that's why they're the richest roster in college football, because they've got the best players and they've turned it on when they had to. And you know, I reversed a week or so ago, my. My pick for Oregon, Ohio State, because I saw how State played in that Tennessee game and then also talked to some people around the program about how they were doing some dang things differently offensively. And they were just like, we're just got to stop shying away from throwing the ball to Jeremiah Smith. He's the best player in all of college football. So we're throw it to him even though he's a freshman. They got away from that a little bit near the end of the season and boy, he's. He's tearing it up now. And Oregon just had no answer for him. And no one in this playoff, I think, is going to be able to slow him down other than made in Notre Dame. Notre Dame's got the best corners in all of college football, not just this playoff, and they could slow them down. My question, though is, can Notre Dame actually score enough points if they were to meet in the national championship game? Because that offense, it's good for maybe three touchdowns in a game, but good luck getting four or five out of them. And I think they'll beat Ohio State at this point. The way they're chugging along, you might end up having to score that fourth touchdown late in the game. And I don't know if anybody's equipped in the playoff remaining to do that.

[Bobby Bones]

I feel like Penn State and Notre Dame is A better matchup for Penn State to actually win the game and then get run because I think Penn State can beat Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame's a one and a half point favorite. Is that right? Are they a point favorite? I think I looked last night. I think that seems to be a pretty good matchup. The Ohio State, Texas game. I hate Texas so much and I think what's, what has avoided Ohio State from being the big bad villain is those two losses during the season and it's kept everybody off of the $20 million. Then it comes up occasionally but because they had two losses because they lost to Oregon semi middle of the season they lost again to Michigan. It's kept them from being the big villain because had they been undefeated the whole time I think that would have been the storyline. 20 plus million they're on. But those losses have made them, I won't say likable, but not near as hateable.

[Brandon Marcelo]

Well also you have a program under a head coach who hasn't won the big one. Ryan Day, he has struggled in top five games and now they're finally winning them. So in a lot of ways he's as much of an underdog as you can be at a blue blood program that's paying football players 20 plus million dollars. And you just lost three weeks ago or four weeks ago against rival Michigan at home. So people are just like this Ryan Day is not good or whatever. I mean he's good. It's just that he kind of gets in his own way at times and he's not getting in the way right now. He's letting that talent play loose and play the style that they need to play to win. And you know, it's, it's just so crazy. I mean back in June or July, you know the question for me and I talked to Ross Bjork, the Ohio State ad about this and wrote a column on it and it was what happens if Ohio State loses the Michigan for a fourth straight year? It was thought of, unheard of at that point because Michigan was we thought was going to be average or bad. Ohio State had the richest roster in college football and it he said very much kind of what he said after this last lawsuit against Michigan that you have to take the big picture into consideration. It's not just one loss against Michigan anymore in this 12 team playoff era. You can lose to Michigan and still make the playoff. And so what if you want a national championship? I don't think a lot of fans will care about them losing to Michigan. But the problem Is is that Michigan fans can still hang that over your head all off season. Yeah, you won the national championship, buddy. But guess what? We beat you and we got you at the big house this upcoming year, so.

[Bobby Bones]

And they won it the year before too. Yeah. And they want it the year before, which also it's like semi sweet chocolate chips to me. Like, I like chocolate chips and if I see them in the fridge, I'm like, oh, I'm eating these chocolate chips and I'm like, you know, I like I found chocolate chips and I get to eat them, but they're kind of like semi sweet. That's kind of like if Ohio State wins a national title, they got chocolate chips. That's pretty cool. But they're semi sweet because Michigan beat them and had won the title the year before. And you're right, I don't hate Ohio State as much as I should. I hope they beat. I hope they stomp. I hope Texas quits. Oh, Texas folds the program. They get beat so bad next week. Okay, final thing. And you can push back on my, my theory. First of all, everyone's like, you don't want the bye week because it the rest. But three of those teams that lost were the underdogs. So more so than it was the bye week. I think mostly it wasn't the bye week. It was they got beat by better teams. Your thoughts on the rest and the people going the bye weeks, what lost it for them?

[Brandon Marcelo]

Yeah, the favorites won for the most part. I mean they did. And even in a game like Notre Dame and Georgia, it was like a one or two point spread. So who won one in that game? I don't think the buy affected anybody substantially. And in fact, I could argue that Notre Dame, if they had the buy, would have beaten Georgia worse. And the reason why I say that is because Notre Dame lost their best defensive player in the first round against Indiana. Riley Mills, their defensive tackle, led them in sacks and he's a big piece for them, not just defensively but also strategically and schematically against a team like Georgia that was going to try and run the ball up the middle. They didn't have him in that game. And I think if he's in that game, that's probably even worse for Georgia. So yeah, I don't buy into the buy thing right now, but what I do buy into Bobby, is that we got to receive the bracket. We can't do this crap where we reward the four top conference champions with the first round buy. So you get like the number 10 team or whatever. With the first round buy with one of the top four seeds. Don't do that. Just put the teams in and rank them 1 through 12. If you're number four and you're Notre Dame, you get a first round buy. We, we gotta get rid of that. I mean, in the insulated men's basketball tournament, they don't give conference champions a first round buy. They just go, you have a spot in the tournament. They don't say, you have, you'll have one of the top four seeds or one of the top eight seeds or anything like that. They're just saying, you're guaranteed a spot in the, in the playoff. Do it that way. Now. Guarantee them a spot in the playoff, but rank them the way they are. And if they're outside the top 12, have them bump out that last team at number 12. Because usually it's going to be a team that we're all wondering should be in the playoff anyway. So that's, that's what they need to do.

[Bobby Bones]

Brandon Marcelo. Follow him on Instagram at Brandon Marcelo. You can read his articles at 247Sports.com 24 7Sports.com Brendan, talk to you soon. Thank you so much for talking with us and we'll, we'll see you next week.

[Brandon Marcelo]

All right, see you, Bobby.

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[Reed]

All right.

[Bobby Bones]

NFL playoffs. Chiefs and Lions getting the 1 seeds deserving. I kind of. Minnesota would get it just so they'd last longer. So that story be longer.

[Mike]

I wish that game was better last.

[Bobby Bones]

I know.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. It's kind of a letdown.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. But okay, I'm with it. Like, just looking at the matchups, Broncos and Bills, that should. That should be a steamroll, right?

[Eddie]

Should be.

[Bobby Bones]

It's in Buffalo. You can always say, you never know.

[Eddie]

He lets that ball fly.

[Bobby Bones]

It's your boy.

[Mike]

It's your boy.

[Bobby Bones]

Still, this isn't even one that I would. Dude, I'm so cold, though.

[Eddie]

It's like you don't even know who to pick.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, that's a 2 7. So that's the best of this round and the worst of this round. So Buffalo probably right. I don't. We pull up the spreads. Kevin.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Because I would. I would guess that one's probably at touchdown or more for Buffalo.

[Kevin]

Nine.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Yeah. So we'll just. We'll just do winners here, but I do want to hear the spread. So Buffalo is the two. Let's just say they get that. Okay. Chiefs obviously get the buy the Ravens and Steelers. Those games are oddly. Always good.

[Mike]

Always good. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

The Steelers kind of suck, though, now again.

[Kevin]

Yeah. All of a sudden they're 10 and 7.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. And. Yeah. After starting so hot. Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

But those games are. I still am picking the Ravens. But what's that spread?

[Kevin]

Five, nine and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

Wow.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Not even based off their previous games, huh?

[Kevin]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

Good for Lamar. Okay, so we'll put Baltimore there. So that means Buffalo and Baltimore, if that's the case, would play in round two because they do the receding. The Chargers in Texas is interesting.

[Eddie]

We need a coin for this one.

[Bobby Bones]

What's the spread there? That one Is it Chargers One, two.

[Kevin]

And a half Chargers.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

I definitely see the Texans winning that game.

[Eddie]

Sure.

[Bobby Bones]

They've not played well recently. The Chargers are just consistent. Yeah, they're just consistent. But I think Kansas City's hoping the Texans win. They've already had to play the Chargers twice.

[Kevin]

Yeah. And the Chargers always play them tough.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I'm going to. Who do you think? Who wins that one?

[Eddie]

I go Texans.

[Bobby Bones]

Any reason?

[Eddie]

Just because I don't. I mean, I don't think the Chargers are there. I think the CJ Stroud still has.

[Bobby Bones]

A little bit of no Tank Dell.

[Eddie]

No Tank Dino. It's tough, but I mean, I think.

[Bobby Bones]

No Arian Foster.

[Kevin]

Andre Johnson.

[Eddie]

No David Carr.

[Kevin]

David Carr.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay. Texans. I can't. I mean, they're both you. Yeah.

[Kevin]

I'm going to go Chargers. I think I'm going to go Chargers, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Just because of Harbaugh and Herbert. Better quarterback, better coach when it's close. Casey.

[Mike]

I agree. Chargers. So Read.

[Bobby Bones]

Read football.

[Reed]

Yeah, we're gonna go Vikings.

[Bobby Bones]

Okay, so then let's say it's the Chargers. Well, Case, Kansas does not want that to happen. You know, they're rooting for the Texas.

[Kevin]

Yeah, you have to be.

[Bobby Bones]

But it's Kansas City and then the Chargers. Baltimore and then Buffalo. We're just run the AFC side. Let's just say it's Baltimore. Buffalo. That's a good game. Yeah.

[Mike]

You think playoff. Lamar shows up. He kind of shrinks in the moment Josh Allen pulls it out.

[Bobby Bones]

I think that. But it's in Buffalo. It is in Buffalo and it's cold as crap. And that definitely helps.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

So that's one of those two where I'm like. I'm like, who care? I'm not going to argue with you because. But I go Buffalo. The weird thing about the MVP race is that Lamar has definitely the stats. Josh Allen's team has the wins.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

But he does not have the stats that Lamar has. Josh, he's having a great statistical year, but they're using the. Well, Josh Allen's team is winning. Lamar has the stats, but his team isn't winning. But if you're saying Lamar should beat Josh Allen, then you got to put Joe Burrow in, who also doesn't have the wins but has the stats. So if you're going to penalize. If you're not going to penalize for losses, then you got to put Joe Burrow in. In the mix. They finished seven and six.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Came on.

[Mike]

I think it's also the Bills have a better record, but Josh Allen doesn't have, like, a Derrick Henry. He does Jamar Chase, so I feel like that's really what's also, like, bolstered his case. Also just the narrative that Lamar's already won twice.

[Bobby Bones]

But I hate when someone doesn't win because that crap gets held against me for awards all the time, and I hate it.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

They're like, you don't need another CMA award. You don't need another. And I'm like, I don't need it, but I deserve it, right?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like, look at my balls. Give me the award. I say that to people. Yeah, yeah. Because Joe Burrow stats like crazy.

[Mike]

Closest one to 5,000 yards.

[Bobby Bones]

If you're going to penalize Lamar, it's.

[Eddie]

All to Jamar Chase.

[Kevin]

No.

[Bobby Bones]

T. Higgins. T. Higgins.

[Kevin]

Beast.

[Bobby Bones]

Tegan's awesome. Yeah. You see him say, take less money to stay in Cincinnati.

[Kevin]

I hope not. Come to New England.

[Mike]

I think he's going to New England. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Gaseki had a good year, too.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. They have no defense, though. They play with 19 guys on offense and two on defense. So Buffalo and Kansas City again, probably. That's fun because that's the new Brady Manning.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Is the Josh Allen. Patrick Mahomes. Let's go to the NFC side, man. The Rams are actually coming on. The Rams are pretty good guys, and they have. If you're going to have. You have to pick Stafford or Darnold. I'm picking Stafford.

[Eddie]

Yeah, for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Even though Darnold's been really good this year, I'm picking Stafford.

[Eddie]

And he's won a Super Bowl.

[Bobby Bones]

He's won a Super Bowl. Vikings or Rams? Eddie?

[Eddie]

I'm going to go Vikings.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm going to go Vikings.

[Eddie]

I think the Vikings kind of gave us a little glimpse of, like, okay, maybe we're not there yet, but I think they really are, especially coming after coming off a loss like this. Yeah, they're going to Win this one.

[Bobby Bones]

What's the line there, Kevin?

[Kevin]

It is Minnesota minus one and a half.

[Bobby Bones]

You know what's interesting about this game is that LA does not have a. Like a home field advantage. So they have the home field. So I guess the advantage would be they sleep in their own beds.

[Eddie]

They drive to the.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. They don't have to take a flight to the game. But there's no rabbit. La. Yeah. I'm gonna. But if it's like quarterback and coach.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Which is when it's close is usually what I will do. I guess I'll go Rams, even though that means Vikings alone. Because I'm on. But I would take Stafford and McVeigh right now over Kevin, O'Connell and Darnold, even though that's all four of them are good. Like, that's not. Yeah, I guess I'll go Rams. Huh? Did you go, Eddie?

[Eddie]

Yeah, I went Vikings.

[Bobby Bones]

What'd you do, Kevin?

[Kevin]

I'm going to go Rams.

[Bobby Bones]

Your name.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

But I love it. I will watch a Vikings game just so I can hear his name over and over.

[Bobby Bones]

Got it spelled the same way.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah. The exact same way. Just so I could be like, you know what? If I was ever an NFL coach, this is what it would sound like.

[Bobby Bones]

That's weird.

[Eddie]

That's cute.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Who are you picking?

[Kevin]

I'm going to go Rams.

[Bobby Bones]

We're to pick the Rams after the storybook season of Vikings.

[Kevin]

I hope the Vikings win, but I think the Rams.

[Bobby Bones]

Me too. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Okay. We got. This game's terrible. We got Baker and then the Redskins.

[Eddie]

The Commanders.

[Bobby Bones]

Whatever, dude.

[Eddie]

Get it right.

[Bobby Bones]

Whatever, dude. Again, that's got to be a close. What's the spread on that? 1, 2, 3.

[Kevin]

Tampa Bay. 3.

[Bobby Bones]

They're playing in Tampa.

[Kevin]

In Tampa.

[Bobby Bones]

I never trust a rookie. He's had his down, then kind of back up and I'm going to go Baker. I'm going to go. I'm going to go Baker. Over the Redskins commanders. Kevin. Yeah.

[Kevin]

I'm going to do the same every time. You don't believe in the bucks. They just somehow keep staying alive.

[Bobby Bones]

Eddie.

[Eddie]

I'm trusting the rookie on this one. Jalen. Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Conference.

[Eddie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Conference foe. But I think. I think they have the team. And then an ex Cowboy coach. Yes.

[Bobby Bones]

Packers. Eagles. Good game for seven two. Yeah. Like two actual teams.

[Mike]

That rematch of the Brazil game at the start of the season.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, yeah. When I forgot about that. This turf will be coming off with every step, though. But I like the game. What's the spread? On that one.

[Kevin]

Yeah. It's Philly -4 and a half in Philly.

[Bobby Bones]

Definite home field advantage. So they do see them on a neutral site. Pretty close. What is it, two points now? Used to be three, I think. Now it's two. Yeah. I think Philly. Probably.

[Eddie]

Eddie Saquon's gonna have a heyday. Philly.

[Bobby Bones]

You just love the NFC east, huh?

[Eddie]

I mean, there are people. We're not there.

[Bobby Bones]

Is that how it works for the NFL? Because that's how the SEC works, for sure.

[Eddie]

I mean, kind of, sort of. You don't ever root for the Eagles? Like, never.

[Bobby Bones]

As a Cowboys fan, I would think you would never. I think you hate.

[Kevin]

I feel like it's the opposite.

[Bobby Bones]

I would think that, too.

[Kevin]

The jets were actually relevant. I would always root against them no matter what. The bill's pretty much the same for the most part.

[Bobby Bones]

They've been losers for so long.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

It's kind of hard to hate them. It's like hating the Cubs, and I'm a massive Cubs fan. But nobody hates the Cubs. Because we sucked forever.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Even if you're like the Cardinals and that was like your rival. They didn't really hate that we. Because I played on the team.

[Eddie]

You're part of it.

[Bobby Bones]

They wanted to beat us always. But I think everybody. It's hard to hate the Cubs because we sucked. Same thing with the Bills. They suck forever. And so it's kind of hard. It is kind of hard to hate them. And they still.

[Kevin]

I don't hate them.

[Bobby Bones]

And they have to play in that weather.

[Kevin]

Josh Allen's cool cold weather.

[Bobby Bones]

Eagles. Eagles. Kevin. Yeah.

[Kevin]

Eagles.

[Bobby Bones]

Casey. Eagles.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Bobby Bones]

Bucks. Eagles would be that one. Hey, I think the Bucks could win that. I don't think they will, but I think the Bucks have a shot to actually get to the NFC Championship.

[Mike]

And they beat Philly this year, too. So that's interesting. There's that.

[Bobby Bones]

I do not think they will. I would pick the Eagles in that game. Happens. But I think the Bucks would actually have a shot to win either one of those games that the. And then Lions and whomever.

[Kevin]

Lions.

[Eddie]

Lions.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Lions and anyone else in the nfc.

[Bobby Bones]

I mean, if I feel like the Eagles are going to have to beat the Lions or nobody will.

[Mike]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

And I don't think they will, but I think that's really the only.

[Mike]

Right.

[Bobby Bones]

Read you with me?

[Reed]

Yeah, for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. I feel. Does anyone feel different? Like, if there's a team to beat the Lions, it's probably going to have to be the Eagles.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Because you have to Put up points. And I feel like Phillies actually got the offense, so.

[Kevin]

And their defense and playing really good.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

And then who cares about afc and it's a championship game so. Far out from that. But, yeah, I'd love to see. And I hate dynasties while they're happening. I like them when they're over. I like to. It's pretty cool. I like the Patriots won all those, but I was rooting against them during the games. But I liked it after they won. I was like, it's pretty cool to get to watch greatness. I get it. But I. I hope the Chiefs want it all again.

[Kevin]

They'll get it.

[Eddie]

Are they the favorite?

[Bobby Bones]

No, the Lions are.

[Eddie]

The Lions are the favorite, actually.

[Kevin]

Have an easier road, probably.

[Eddie]

Wow. Yeah. I guess they don't have to.

[Mike]

It just looks better, too.

[Kevin]

Yeah.

[Mike]

I mean, even though the record would say otherwise, I guess.

[Eddie]

I mean, the AFC is very competitive.

[Bobby Bones]

Quarterbacks.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah. Or like all the.

[Mike]

All the legacy elite quarterbacks.

[Kevin]

Because even as good as the Eagles are, Jalen hurts isn't. You know, Josh Allen.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Kevin]

Lamar Jackson.

[Mike]

And he's still banged up, so who knows?

[Eddie]

He still hurts.

[Bobby Bones]

Thank you for asking. The Lions are at plus 285. They're the favorite at Kansas City at 2, Baltimore at 3, Buffalo at 4. And Baltimore and Buffalo are about the same, but just barely off. Philadelphia's at 5 at the very, very bottom. Who do you think's the worst, Eddie?

[Eddie]

Texans.

[Bobby Bones]

Steelers.

[Eddie]

Oof.

[Bobby Bones]

Then Texans. And then next is Commanders. Rams. Backward. We're going backward. And the Broncos College Football Playoff wise. Odds on those four teams left.

[Eddie]

Ohio State's got to be the heavy favorite.

[Bobby Bones]

Plus 110. Heavy, heavy, heavy. Then Texas. Notre Dame at plus 380, tied for second, and Penn State at plus 450, which, by the way, that's the targeting. That was for sure targeting the Texas. It was for sure targeting. It was.

[Kevin]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

I've never seen more targeting in my life. Those referees are pansies.

[Kevin]

Yeah, that was bad.

[Bobby Bones]

And the other play earlier on this, I was not targeting. That was elbow.

[Eddie]

Elbowing.

[Bobby Bones]

Well, when he went up is whatever. I hate Texas. They're about to get run. Yeah.

[Eddie]

Dude, that poor kicker, though, man. That was like. That was just rough.

[Bobby Bones]

And we wouldn't remember anything about him unless his hair was that long or.

[Mike]

Whatever, though, on Arizona State.

[Eddie]

Oh, scatter boots. Dang, dude. Who is that guy?

[Bobby Bones]

That was awesome. Maybe it was one of the greatest games by a player that I've ever seen.

[Eddie]

By a player.

[Bobby Bones]

Yeah.

[Eddie]

Unbelievable. Because I was annoyed at the beginning of the game, like, he was staying outside the locker room giving everyone high fives.

[Bobby Bones]

I was annoyed too, A bit, yes.

[Eddie]

But then after the game, I was like, you know what, man? You give everyone a high five, you can be the leader of that team.

[Bobby Bones]

You gave him the mvp. They came during the press conference on a losing game. He was like, I'm the best running back and I don't always get annoyed at that. But I felt like his was coming from a place of insecurity.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

Like they didn't even get invited to the Heisman ceremony. And he's like, I need to be. No, no. He. And he thought that I had. You say whatever you want, dude. Yeah, it's awesome. Like catching.

[Eddie]

It's pretty amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Running, passing, throwing.

[Eddie]

All of it, dude.

[Bobby Bones]

Everything.

[Eddie]

He was Jim Thorpe.

[Kevin]

All of it while throwing up.

[Bobby Bones]

Dude, I just read a book on Jim Thorpe.

[Eddie]

I don't know much about him other than he played a bunch of positions.

[Bobby Bones]

Oh, my God. Like crazy Native American.

[Eddie]

Yeah.

[Bobby Bones]

His dad ended up sending him to a. In Pennsylvania to a. What do you call those schools where they send kids in high school? A boarding school. And the guy, because he was in trouble a lot and the guy noticed how athletic he was and so played football, old school days, leather helmet, Ivy League type stuff. Went to the Olympics. And these decathlon and pentathlon, I don't know, they were massive back then. But it was the multi thing. 12 gold medals, by the way. It had him taken away from him.

[Eddie]

Because he was Native American?

[Bobby Bones]

No, because he had played professional baseball and you had to be amateur. But he didn't even know he played professional baseball. He played for some crappy, not for real, minor league team where he made like enough money to buy food. It wasn't like he was playing major league ball. He was like surviving. He was playing baseball just to live. They stripped the medals from him. They didn't give him back to after he was dead.

[Kevin]

Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Bones]

But dude, just a why? And then died in poverty.

[Eddie]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

But greatest athlete, like, did it all. Baseball, basketball, football. Olympian.

[Eddie]

Amazing.

[Bobby Bones]

Just. And yeah, his dad sent him up to a boarding school because of the trouble he was in. And then the coach there was like, dang, like, you can kind of do a lot of stuff. Hey, I believe this is. I hope I'm not getting my athletes mixed up on this one. Will you Google this? Mike? I think there was a high. They were doing a high jump. We got to the school and he was in like regular pants and went and saw the guy doing it like, can I do this? Can anybody do it? And jumps it. And the coach was like, that's the school record. Like, you just did that for fun.

[Mike]

And shattered in the record.

[Bobby Bones]

I'm fairly certain that was. I watched a lot of shows that I read a lot too over the break. Let me see if Jim Thorpe. Yeah, that was him. That was him. Jim Thorpe was. Was friggin legit.

[Eddie]

Thanks for that lesson. I didn't know much about him other than my.

[Bobby Bones]

I didn't either.

[Eddie]

Well, my brother, I think, lives like 30 minutes away from his hometown. So when I went up there to go visit him, he's like, yeah, Jim thought we should go see Jim Thorpe's home hometown. Like, okay.

[Bobby Bones]

Even if you like go find like a McDonald's podcast on them or you'll be. It's. It's really more than. So than just learning because I spent this break learning mostly about. I spent a lot of time reading about prohibition because I didn't understand why they would. And now I completely understand why they did it.

[Eddie]

It was stupid why they did prohibition for sure.

[Bobby Bones]

And they needed to do something. I won't walk you down that.

[Eddie]

I love that stuff.

[Bobby Bones]

13 years probation was 13 years. No alcohol.

[Eddie]

Whoa. Well, there was alcohol.

[Bobby Bones]

And I was reading about the smuggling and how they'd smuggle get it in from the island. So I spent my book reading time reading about prohibition.

[Eddie]

Dang.

[Bobby Bones]

Super fascinated with that. I don't even drink, but I wonder why. And then Jim Thorpe wrote a book on Jim Thorpe. And then I read a book about a technology book. And Eddie, we're talking about talking about this at dinner last night about motion pictures. And I brought it up to Eddie. Eddie fricking knew it. I was like, yeah, the first ever motion picture. And Eddie goes, oh yeah, the horse. And I'm like, how did you know that? The debate was. He's a former governor of California, super rich, he had horses and he argued with his boys that a horse, when it gallops, all four feet come off the ground at once. But there's no way to prove it in a gallop. There's no way to prove it because you can record it. And then on our iPhone, stop it there.

[Eddie]

And then they only had photographed cameras, just still cameras.

[Bobby Bones]

So he got a guy to set up all these cameras and every time the horse, they took so many pictures and basically you could flip book. It looks like the horse is running. And then Thomas Edison got involved is the whole thing.

[Eddie]

And turns out, guys, that the horse does lift all Four of its hooves in a run.

[Bobby Bones]

Regular run confirmed.

[Eddie]

Okay. All right. And now we have movies because of it.

[Bobby Bones]

There you go.

[Kevin]

Wow.

[Bobby Bones]

Jim Thorpe. Really interesting story.

[Eddie]

That's cool.

[Bobby Bones]

Crazy. They stripped his freaking medals from a not even real professional baseball career. But he was so good at everything.

[Eddie]

All right, you know, back to Scatter Boo real quick. His mom did say that she knew to hear this when Scatter Boo was, like, in, like, a crowded place, he would get claustrophobic, so he would run around people's legs to get out of it. And the mom said, that's what I knew he'd be running back.

[Mike]

That's running back.

[Bobby Bones]

Did you see the thing where he'd put on pads and run into telephone poles? Yeah, that was another part of it.

[Eddie]

Awesome, man.

[Bobby Bones]

All right, that's it. Thank you, guys. You can follow if you go over to. At Bobby Bonesports and then the YouTube.

[Reed]

Is clips also at Bobby Bone Sports, baby.

[Bobby Bones]

At Bobby bone Sports. On YouTube, Reed is really begging that you follow the page.

[Reed]

That's why I said, baby, hey, I already paid Thomas. I paid Thomas for subscribing. So go subscribe. You make it a little.

[Eddie]

What's he talking about?

[Bobby Bones]

I don't know.

[Reed]

He was just a small.

[Bobby Bones]

Subscribe. Is that like a thing? Like, there's a glory hole on 3rd Street. He goes, I paid Thomas. Hey, do you know Thomas? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I paid Thomas.

[Reed]

No, I was just saying, like, you know, back then, I was like, if you subscribe and comment, I may, you know, send you some money on Venmo. And I did. I paid Thomas. So you never know.

[Bobby Bones]

Hey, bro. Yeah. At Bobby Bone Sports. Thank you, guys. And we will see. We'll see you later on this week. All right, boy Daddy. Theme song written by Bobby Bones. That's me. And performed by Brandon Ray. Follow Brandon on Socials at BrandonRay Music. You can follow the show on Instagram @BobbyBoneSports. Thanks to our crew, co host, producereddy, segment producer at Kickoff Kevin, video producer at Reed Yarberry, and executive producer at Mike Distro. But most importantly, thank you for listening. I'm Bobby Bones. We'll talk to you next time here on 25 Whistles.

[Dr. Joy Harden Bradford]

Hey, y'all. I'm Dr. Joy Hardin Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls this January. Join me for our third annual January Jumpstart series. Starting January 1st, we'll have inspiring conversations to give you a hand in kickstarting your personal growth. If you've been holding back or playing small, this is your all access pass to step fully into the possibilities of the new year. Listen to therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.