GBF- Christmas All Year

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Episode GBF- Christmas All Year

Release Date: December 13, 2024
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stu Gotz, Mike Golic Jr., Billy Gill, K. Funk, Austin James
Guest: Joe Theisman

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1. Personal Reflections and Family Dynamics (02:33 – 07:07)

The episode kicks off with a heartfelt discussion about the evolving nature of gift-giving within families. Mike Golic Jr. shares a personal story about giving his father a “week off” as a birthday gift, highlighting a shift away from traditional gift-giving:

Mike Golic Jr. [02:44]: “It's more if I see something that I know my dad's going to want, I'll get it for him no matter what time of year it is.”

Billy Gill and Stu Gotz delve into the pressures of producing grandchildren, revealing the subtle but persistent expectations from parents:

Billy Gill [03:30]: “I stopped getting my dad birthday gifts a lot a long time ago.”

The conversation underscores the balancing act between fulfilling parental desires and personal autonomy, with reflections on aging parents and sibling dynamics.

2. Holiday Decorations: Tradition vs. Creativity (07:07 – 15:20)

Stu Gotz introduces the topic of holiday decorations, revealing his minimalist approach punctuated by personal touches such as a sad stocking and a small Charlie Brown-style Christmas tree:

Stu Gotz [07:52]: “Santa's always watching. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. So be good for goodness sake.”

The hosts engage in a lively debate about real versus artificial trees, with K. Funk humorously lamenting the responsibilities that come with real trees:

K. Funk [11:18]: “I am a fake tree person who married into a real tree family and lost all ability to choose for myself.”

Austin James shares his tropical-themed inflatable decorations, adding humor with anecdotes about oversized snowmen and hula-dancing Santas. The discussion highlights the diverse ways individuals personalize their holiday celebrations, balancing aesthetic preferences with practical considerations.

3. Bill Belichick’s Transition to UNC (15:20 – 30:42)

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the surprising news of NFL legend Bill Belichick taking a coaching position at the University of North Carolina (UNC). The hosts express shock and curiosity about Belichick’s motivations and the broader implications for both the NFL and college football.

Dan Le Batard speculates on whether Belichick’s move signifies a shift towards a new career phase or a strategic move influenced by personal and financial motivations:

Dan Le Batard [19:37]: “Bill Belichick got fired. He got shown the door before he wanted to get out.”

Billy Gill adds insights into the potential dynamics at UNC, questioning how Belichick’s authoritative coaching style will translate to the college environment:

Billy Gill [23:02]: “If he could go down here, ask for that and then some, and they eventually gave it to him, and you still have this desire to maybe coach and stick it to everybody to say, all right, you don't want me up there, that's fine, I'll take North Carolina.”

Mike Golic Jr. discusses the challenges Belichick might face, including recruiting in the NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) era and managing the expectations tied to his legendary status:

Mike Golic Jr. [22:31]: “If he really is here legitimately and not just going to dine and dash after one year... it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid-70s.”

The conversation also touches on the potential cultural clash between Belichick’s NFL-centric approach and the collegiate athletic environment, pondering whether he can maintain his competitive edge and leadership style in a new setting.

4. Interview with Joe Theisman: Perspectives on College Football (30:42 – 47:21)

Joe Theisman joins the discussion to provide his take on Belichick’s move and the state of college football. He highlights the prestige and reduced stress of college coaching compared to the NFL:

Joe Theisman [34:09]: “He just wants to be part of this game that has to continue. I think that's really what we're looking at, is it's a different new, exciting challenge.”

Theisman also shares his views on the new college playoff format, expressing opinions on the selection process and the inclusion of non-conference champions:

Joe Theisman [34:57]: “Are you being penalized because you're not in a conference and you have a better record than those that are? That's some of the tweaks they're going to have to do.”

Additionally, Theisman emphasizes the importance of honoring and appreciating those in uniform, linking it to the values of the Army-Navy game:

Joe Theisman [36:55]: “They teach us to keep on fighting no matter what the score is... they're the real heroes.”

The interview provides a multifaceted view of Belichick’s career move, intertwining personal anecdotes with broader reflections on leadership and the evolving landscape of football.

5. Football Picks and Predictions Segment (47:21 – 91:59)

The hosts transition into a spirited segment where they make predictions on various NFL games. This segment is characterized by competitive banter, humorous jabs, and strategic insights into team performances.

Key highlights include:

• Dallas Cowboys vs. San Francisco 49ers Predictions:

  Billy Gill predicts: “Dolphins beat the Texans in Houston by four points.”

• Buffalo Bills vs. Detroit Lions:

  Stu Gotz: “I'm taking the Bills.”

• Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks:

  Billy Gill: “All right, I could have skipped you there. Are you going to the Heisman presentation?”

• Minnesota Vikings vs. Chicago Bears:

  Carl Douglas: “I'm taking the Vikings. Give it the point.”

The segment also features playful debates on coaching decisions, player performances, and team dynamics, with notable quotes such as:

Stu Gotz [74:03]: “Their offense is elementary. We've been saying that.”

Billy Gill [75:36]: “Who do you like in that game? It is a great game. Steelers and Eagles. Who do you like there?”

The competitive nature culminates in discussions about listener leagues, with participants striving for the best betting picks and standings. The hosts inject humor and camaraderie, enhancing the engagement for listeners interested in fantasy football and betting strategies.

6. Advertisements and Endorsements (Throughout)

While the hosts primarily focus on content-rich discussions, brief segments of advertisements and sponsor mentions are interspersed, including:

• Smirnoff Vodka:

  “Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka, is an official vodka partner of the NFL. Enjoy the game with good drinks and good folks. Please drink responsibly.” [Repeated multiple times]

• Amazon Prime:

  “With Prime, I get all my ingredients delivered right to my door, fast and free.” [Multiple mentions]

• DraftKings Network:

  “DraftKings, the home of NBA player props. New customers get $5 to get $150 in bonus bets with code LAF.”

• Simplisafe:

  “Simplisafe is extending its massive Black Friday deal… Protect your home with Simplisafe’s best offer of the year.”

These sponsorship segments are seamlessly integrated, maintaining the flow of the show without overshadowing the main discussions.

7. Closing Remarks and Final Banter (91:59 – End)

As the episode draws to a close, the hosts engage in light-hearted banter, addressing upcoming events such as the Heisman Trophy presentation and teasing future episodes. They also encourage listeners to vote for their podcast in the Best American Football Podcast category, fostering community engagement.

Austin James [82:55]: “Our Charlie Ward is the greatest college quarterback of all time.”

Stu Gotz [93:23]: “We'll let them fly under the radar a little too much, I think…”

The final moments are filled with humorous exchanges, promotions for upcoming shows, and affirmations of camaraderie among the hosts.

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Notable Quotes:

• Stu Gotz [07:52]: “Santa's always watching. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. So be good for goodness sake.”

• Mike Golic Jr. [22:31]: “If he really is here legitimately and not just going to dine and dash after one year… it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid-70s.”

• Joe Theisman [36:55]: “They teach us to keep on fighting no matter what the score is... they're the real heroes.”

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Conclusion:

Episode GBF- "Christmas All Year" of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a blend of personal anecdotes, in-depth sports analysis, and engaging discussions on current events in the football world. From heartfelt family conversations to the explosive news of Bill Belichick’s move to UNC, the hosts provide a comprehensive and entertaining exploration of topics that resonate with sports enthusiasts. The inclusion of guest Joe Theisman adds depth to the discourse on college football, while the lively picks segment ensures a dynamic and interactive experience for listeners. Balancing humor with insightful commentary, this episode serves as a valuable recap for those seeking both entertainment and information in the realm of sports and pop culture.

Transcript

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[Stu Gotz]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Mike Golic Jr.]

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[Austin James]

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[Austin James]

Billy G God Bless Football, Mikey, Eh?

[K. Funk]

God bless football.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Mike Golic Jr. God bless football Stu Gotz. How we doing, guys?

[Billy Gill]

We're doing good, Mike Golic. Thank you, Mike Golic Jr. It's your dad's birthday, and so we gave your dad the gift of a week off from us.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

It's a great gift.

[K. Funk]

Best thing he's gonna get all year.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

It's better than I got him, which was nothing. So you guys did me a favor in this. Thank you.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, so it's funny, Billy, me and Mikey were having this conversation right before you joined the Zoom, right before Gojo joined the Zoom as well. At what age do you stop buying your parents birthday gifts?

[Austin James]

I still buy my parents birthday gifts. Are you saying at what age of, like, the person, the buyer, or what age the person of the receiver?

[Billy Gill]

I asked Mikey a. What do you think Gojo got Mike Golic for his birthday? And Mikey said, I stopped getting my dad birthday gifts a lot a long time ago.

[Austin James]

But is it because. Is it because of your dad's age, Mikey, or is it because of your age?

[K. Funk]

I think it's because of his age, because, like, there's. There's nothing I'm going to get him that he won't just get for himself.

[Austin James]

Well, how. How old is your dad, if you don't mind me asking?

[K. Funk]

72.

[Billy Gill]

Had to think about that.

[K. Funk]

74.

[Billy Gill]

74.

[Austin James]

Okay.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Sorry. And I forgot how. I forgot if my dad was 62 or 63 this morning when we were doing the show at the beginning. And so I just laid it out so he would say it, and then I remember it on the back end.

[Billy Gill]

So.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Happy 62nd birthday, dad.

[Billy Gill]

If. If you. If you purchase your dad a gift, would he get mad at you? Like, hey, what are you doing? I don't need this. I don't want this.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

No. So here's the thing with me and my dad and gift giving and the way my family's operated in general is we don't like being bound by, oh, it's birthday gift time, or, oh, it's Christmas gift time. Like, again, we're fortunate. We've got plenty of stuff, so we don't need anything. It's more if I see something that I know my dad's going to want, I'll get it for him no matter what time of year it is. And, like, I have something, I'm going to my dad because he's easy to shop for. Because to your guys point, my dad will never go buy something himself. My dad is wearing clothes that either me and my brother or My mom have gotten him almost 24 hours a day because my dad, he'll never ask for anything St. Gots. But what he'll do, like, if he saw this jacket and he liked it, he would never say, oh, I like this jacket. He would walk up, he'd take his two fingers and he'd pinch a little bit of the fabric and he'd go, oh, this is nice. And then he'd walk away without saying anything else and just expect it to show up eventually on his doorstep at some point. So I've got a couple of clothing items that. Because I know I have liked them and I know he would do that and have that reaction if he saw them. I'm going to get him eventually. They're just out of stock right now.

[Billy Gill]

So this is nice is really buy me this jacket.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

100%. 100%.

[Austin James]

I. I can't have helped but notice earlier in the week, it seems like one of your siblings has once again given your father his favorite gift of all. Another grandchild.

[Billy Gill]

Jesus. Yes. The.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

My brother and his wife Jenny had their second child, their daughter Jordan, to join Jackson. A lot of J names in that family. Going to be a real confusing time around the house when it's time to yell at people. But yes, Billy, he definitely my brother shout out to him for continuing to run interference on my life. I don't get questions about getting married anymore. I don't get questions about kids anymore because my brother and sister just keep having them and my parents are so preoccupied, they don't care.

[Billy Gill]

Trust me, the parents are talking about it, though. Mike.

[Austin James]

Well, first, first of all, congratulations to your father. Congratulations to you. To Jake. Welcome to the world, Jordan. Yeah, I was gonna ask though, and it seems as though the answer is no. Is now is the conversation the pressure on you? Like, when are you going to deliver us a grandchild? Because they're fine. Their hands are full. They have a new one, right?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Oh, Billy. No, it's. It's so much worse than that. I'll never forget this moment. This is probably a couple years ago now. Like, my brother already had his son. My sister might have been pregnant at that point. So maybe this is only like a year or two ago. And I was sitting around talking with my mom at one point, and she used to give me grief about the kids stuff in the normal playful way that like parents do. And then at one point, like my mom, I made some joke about it and she goes. And it was like this far away look in her eyes where she's like, me and your father really just want you to find someone. And it was so like, oh, they just want you to have company so you're not lonely in a way that was like, oh, God, all right, I might actually need to do this so they don't feel like they failed.

[Austin James]

Not for me. For them.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yes.

[Austin James]

Is.

[K. Funk]

Is that worse? Is that like, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Like the jokes I could take, but I feel like that line was like, ow.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Well, the jokes assume that eventually it's going to happen and it's going to be okay, so we can joke that was like, oh, they're really considering the possibility that I might just wind up alone.

[Austin James]

Can. Can I ask you. Can I ask you a question? To pivot slightly. But it's also along the lines of sadness here. I also can't help but notice you decorated your set for the holidays with one sad stocking behind your head.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yes.

[Austin James]

Is that.

[Billy Gill]

Is that the extent of your holiday Gojo and going sign? Yeah.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

And the Stugotts book.

[Austin James]

Okay.

[Billy Gill]

You guys do that.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Stugottsbook.com that one out here.

[Billy Gill]

Look at you. Books for me?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yeah, I write. Me. Yeah, I wrote one part of a book. God bless Stanzik and the work that he did putting all this together. But. And everyone else who helped piece this together. But no. Yeah, this is my. So this is my only Billy holiday decoration here. I've got like a couple of tchotchkes I bought at Target I have on my front door. So into my apartment. And this was true in my house in Connecticut. I have one door in my house where I have like a plush Santa face that hangs off the door handle. But I keep that up year round. I never take it down. Santa is always watch because he's always watching. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows when you be bad or good. So be good for goodness sake. Santa's always watching. I have the small Christmas tree from the Charlie Brown Christmas special in physical form up year round. And then a normal siiz tree with a couple of wreaths.

[Austin James]

Wait a minute. Hold on a second. The Christmas tree is up year round also the small one.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

So it's. It's about yay high. And it's, you know, it's the Charlie Brown one, the one before they decorate it and j it up there where it's real thin and sparse. So you can't always tell it's Christmy. But it is.

[Austin James]

I. I'm starting to. And, and I mean, this to be helpful. And I know that you're not going to take this this way. I'm starting to kind of connect these two stories. You know what I mean? Like, the inability to find someone Santa Claus is always watching on your door year round. We have a Christmas tree year round. Like, I feel like if we make slightly minor changes, maybe things will change in a larger way, you know?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

You mean to tell me, Billy, that if you were a young lady and you come back and we've just had a great date, and maybe we're sitting on the couch watching TV and all of a sudden things start to escalate and there's a little bit of kissing that if you looked over and all of a sudden locked eyes with a plush Santa Claus on the door handle, that wouldn't do it for you.

[Austin James]

Maybe this. The sad Charlie Brown tree also is like, hmm, okay, what's happening here?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

There's also. There's also an elf riding a pug under the small Christmas tree there as.

[Stu Gotz]

Like, a lawn or I just put inside.

[Austin James]

Okay.

[K. Funk]

Oh, that's just adorable.

[Billy Gill]

Holiday decoration. The Christian jersey.

[Austin James]

Well, you know what? Now that you mention it, I should. I spruce up. I haven't even considered sprucing up the background for the holidays. Like, I did my decorating, like, in the front of the house. I have very controversial gojo, and I'm wondering. And we'll get to Bill Belichick eventually, maybe. I'm wondering your thoughts on this, because this is kind of like a controversial opinion that some people have on the exterior decorating. How do you feel about inflatables? Some people don't like inflatables. They think inflatables are a cheat code.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

So I think inflatables are great for other people. Will never be my thing. Like, never has been my thing. Never will be. But I appreciate a good inflatable, especially when it. Because, you know, the cookie cutter ones, you get some people that'll just do like the. The reindeer or Santa sleigh or something like that. But when people go above and beyond or have a lot of them. I do appreciate that.

[Austin James]

All right, I. Inflatable.

[Billy Gill]

Are you guys talking about an inflatable tree? Are we.

[Austin James]

No, like, inflatable lawn stuff. Yeah, decorations for the lawn.

[Billy Gill]

So I was gonna tell people, go buy a tree and throw it on the truck. Throw it on the roof of your car and drive it home.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Are you a real. Would you be a Stu Gots? Would you be a real tree guy if you were in the game?

[Billy Gill]

Like, I'd send Someone out to get me a tree. That's what I would do.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

What about. What about you guys? Are you guys real tree or fake tree people?

[K. Funk]

I am a fake tree person who married into a real tree family and lost all ability to choose for myself.

[Austin James]

Wow.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

So you get. You get to clean up the pine needles.

[K. Funk]

Not only do I get to clean up the pine needles, I get to get my ass up on Black Friday, drive to the tree farm and take all those awkward pictures, and then get down and cut the tree down and haul it to the car and wrap it up and all that. I get to. I get to do that knowing full well that I would much rather have the artificial tree.

[Austin James]

Yeah.

[K. Funk]

Welcome to married life. You should do it. Colick.

[Austin James]

Yeah, I'm. I'm a real. I'm a real tree guy, but we don't have tree farms. I went to Home Depot, and I got it out of a tent in a parking lot here. What I did is I went and I cut the little wrapping with, like, a. Like, a little pocket knife. I cut it. I banged it on the floor a couple times so it could stretch out. I could see what it looks like. I'm like, give it a little spin. A twirl. Good enough. This one. This one's the one we're taking home this year. But, like, on the outside. Gojo. And this is why I ask. So. And I'll blame my daughters. That's fine. I have no shame. I'll blame. I'll blame infants. It doesn't matter.

[Billy Gill]

They won't know.

[Austin James]

We are an inflatable family. But a thematic inflatable family. Yeah. So I will have outside. And I wonder if I should give all this information, because then if you pass by, these are very specific. And you'll know where I live.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yeah.

[Austin James]

I have. I have a tropical holiday theme going on because it doesn't get very cold down here. So I have a hula dancing Santa. A Santa outside that actually like hula dances. So I have a dancing Santa. I have a flamingo in an inner tube with a Santa hat on and sunglasses. And then this year, I did my inflatable shopping in July because I said, I'm not. Daddy's not paying full price for this. I'm going to get this when this is on sale and when it's still available. So I started looking. Lo and behold, I found one I've now added to the collection. And I didn't realize the size until I inflated it. And that was. That was. That was part of my problem. But also A pleasant surprise for me and my daughters. My wife, not so much didn't love the surprise as much as I did because I inflated it. I inflated it inside the house just to show my daughters before I did it outside. And I hit the ceiling. Hit the ceiling. Now I have low ceilings in the room where I did it, but I got an 8 foot tall, an 8 foot tall snowman with sunglasses holding a surfboard. And then a giant inflatable palm tree behind said, wow. Oh yeah, we're super tropical. Super tropical outside.

[Billy Gill]

Gojo, don't you feel like when you go buy Christmas decorations in July the person's judging you at the counter?

[Austin James]

No, I did, I did on Amazon. This is an Amazon.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Oh, you hid your shame there is.

[Austin James]

There though down here. And I'm assuming there are these. These exist everywhere. There's a year round Christmas store here.

[K. Funk]

It's a bit of a town in America. Every kitchen town in America has one.

[Austin James]

Year round Christmas store. I didn't go to it because it's kind of far. And also I don't really believe that this stuff is as on sale as they say. I worked in retail. Okay, guys, let me tell you something about Black Friday sales and about retail oftentimes. And now you'll see it on Tick tock and the Internet. Same exact price. They'll just put a sticker with like new, like oh my gosh, look, Christmas balls. New, low price. You just move it to the sign like, oh, this is more expensive than it was last week.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Billy, thank you so much for illuminating what I've assumed for years because I'm the biggest mark known to mankind. The gas stations, when you go inside and you go over to the drink section and it's Powerade and it says, oh, you can get these two for six bucks or whatever. I never know and checked what they were before that. I have no idea if I'm getting a deal. I just see the little sign. I'm like, well now I have to buy two Powerades for this road trip. I'm just being economical. And I have no idea if I'm saving money here.

[Austin James]

Here's another game that, that grocery stores in particular will pay.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Austin James]

And this is, this is where I noticed it. And you're kindred spirits.

[Billy Gill]

Mikey, have you noticed this? We know Mike Go junior for a while. I've known Billy forever. You've known Billy for a couple of. For like a year now. These two are kindred spirits. We're the same age, Mikey, but Mikey, they have common than me and Gojo have in common than you and Gojo have in common than Gojo has in common with anybody.

[Austin James]

Well, you, you're closer to Gojo's dad's age than you are to his age.

[Billy Gill]

I know. I just don't want to accept it. Billy.

[Austin James]

Yeah. Okay. So Gojo, this is where I realized that, that bogos are a scam often which was I buy cookie dough and sometimes I like to just eat the cookie dough raw. You know what I mean? But not, it's not good for you I guess because of the eggs in it or something. So now they quote unquote make edible cookie dough that it's fine to eat before you cook. So I will go and I'll buy the edible cookie dough to just go and I get the ones that are like the pre cut like 20. You this makes 24 cookies. And I'm like nope, that makes 24 bite sized snacks for me because I'm not going to make those into cookies. So I'll go and I'll buy the edible cookie dough and. And then I notice on the bogo it's like oh, you know, buy one get one free. And the price for the buy one get one free is like 549 or something like that. And it's like well hold on a second. One of them last week was 369. So I'm buying one and getting one free. But the one that I'm paying for, you've increased the price from one week to the next about 180%. That's how they're getting you on these things. You think you're saving money and like you are if you wanted to. But also you're paying like a lot more for the one than you would normally. I'm onto the groceries.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Oh the grocery store is right. I listen, I have a fridge with 10 yogurt packets in it right now for that same reason to get you on this stuff.

[Austin James]

Yeah, I'm, I'm going to start an Excel dog and I'll spare everyone but I'll share with you on what I found in terms of pricing. Scojo. Don't worry, we're going to get together.

[Billy Gill]

I love Gojo on the power. A two for $6 not knowing if one is like 2:20.

[Austin James]

Dude. No, like, like, like you should be.

[Billy Gill]

Getting two for 450, you know.

[Austin James]

Well okay, that's a whole nother thing. Like it used to be like you could get two for like 250 and now it's like two for $7 and it's like, what is happening here? And don't get me started on shrinkflation where a 24 ounce bottle turned into a 20 ounce bottle. I'm on to you guys. I know what's going on here.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

The thing that Powerade still has at its disposal and the only one that's really coming for the crown on this is body armor, is especially if you're going on a long drive, very pissable bottle. Like some of these other ones here. Not as pissable of a top of the bottle here. Body armor right now number one in the P Power rankings of bottles that you can pee in after you've used them on a long road trip.

[Austin James]

I'm not sure that's how they market them, but they could.

[K. Funk]

They should.

[Billy Gill]

They should.

[Austin James]

I don't even know if it's they should, but they could.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I feel like if you put a wide mouth on a beverage that is sold at a gas station, you kind of know what you're doing.

[Austin James]

Everyone knows. Got it.

[Billy Gill]

I love you looking at the width just to check to make sure it's. It's big enough for you. Yeah.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

To be clear, it doesn't have to be that big, but you know, it's comfortable. You don't want to worry about the splatter of the spray anywhere while you're doing this at 55 miles an hour, which is definitely safe. All that good stuff.

[Austin James]

God bless. Football is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, N.Y. gojo.

[Billy Gill]

Bill Belichick to North Carolina. What do you think, huh?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I just can't believe this is real. Like, I saw the official graphic from North Carolina, but like plucking Bill Belichick off the Pat McAfee Show, Michael Lombardi, who's, you know, done stuff at DraftKings and the GM Shuffle and at Visa and going to be as G. It feels surreal in a way. And I'm still trying to figure out Stu got what the motivation is for Bill Belichick behind this in an off season where we thought he'd take another stab at some of these NFL jobs, where we thought the Don Shula record was the sole thing preoccupying him. I know Seth Wickersham's got a piece out and it kind of says, hey, that's something, but it's not the only thing. And maybe he felt slighted by the process, but that's the one thing I can't figure out is, is Bill Belichick doing this with Eyes and going back to the NFL eventually, or is he just going to kick up his feet and try something completely new at this point in his career and see how it fits?

[Billy Gill]

It's. It's super interesting because if you're going to go back to the NFL, Mike, I have to think that no NFL teams were interested in Bill Belichick. Like he. Well, like, he made it clear that he was interested in Carol. What was that?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

There's only three jobs open right now. More are going to open up, more than likely.

[Billy Gill]

No, I know, but I'm thinking, like Belichick put some. The news was out there that he was interested in Carolina. Carolina was interested in him. It sat there for a few days. I think Bill was probably going through the process. Who's going to call me? Who is going to call me and make. And make, you know, some sort of assurances that, hey, I know we have a coach now, but at the end of the year, you're going to be our guy or we're interested, whatever. I don't think he got anything in the way of that. And so I think he was forced to go to college. And if you're asking me, his motivation, I think his motivation is to make sure his family is secure after he's done coaching. And his name doesn't mean as much as it does right now. Is that. Is that fair?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I guess it could be, especially with the, you know, the Steve Belichick stuff baked into that where, you know, whether or not you believe the coach in waiting rumors, as it seems like he's going to go there and be the defensive coordinator. And I mean, listen, five, five years and $50 million is nothing to shake a stick at. Now, Bill Belichick's got more money than God, so I don't think that's really a motivator and all this. But the other part of this, too, is just these guys are sickos. Like, you guys know this. We've all been around and worked with guys that take the year off coaching and come do this. Not all of them are Nick Saban, where, hey, you do it after you totally exhausted your competitive desires in a field that you've dominated here. Bill Belichick got fired. He got shown the door before he wanted to get out. And so if there is some competitive fire left in there and you've got an outlet for it, then I can understand it. Because as much as the rest of us would say, man, if I had all that money, I would go just off somewhere and you wouldn't hear from me anymore. These guys crave this in a way that they just can't quit, no matter how old they are.

[K. Funk]

How much of this is that? He asked for the moon and stars from unc, thinking there's no way they're going to give me everything I want. I'll give him a 400 page document that says everything I want, how I want the university to run, including making my son the coach in waiting who probably doesn't belong getting that kind of job.

[Stu Gotz]

But they did it.

[K. Funk]

They're like, yes, yes, we'll do all of that. And he's just like, okay, well, if you're going to do everything, it reminds me of when Phil Jackson went to the Knicks because they just kept badgering him with money.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

That could certainly be a part of all this. And I do think what you mentioned there, the level of control he can have in college where, you know, we start before this ever really became real. Dad and I were talking about it in the show and we'd made the obvious points. Now it feels like where it's, hey, the college level has certainly changed structurally, but it still a place where even with the gms that are coming into college football and full scouting departments, the head coach in this sport has always wielded a level of power very similar to what Bill enjoyed at the NFL level that's atypical for that level of football. And it certainly doesn't seem like anyone's going to ever give him that much control over an NFL organization again.

[Billy Gill]

Right.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

And so you're right. If he could go down here, ask for that and then some, and they eventually gave it to him, and you still have this desire to maybe coach and stick it to everybody to say, all right, you don't want me up there, that's fine, I'll take North Carolina. This place that in. So many people have been talking about it as a dormant power at a basketball school that's got the geographic location working for it, the young alumni base, the resources and stuff and say, I'll take this place and I'll do with it what no one's been able to do in the 21st century with that school, despite everyone else. I wouldn't rule that out for a guy that competitive.

[Billy Gill]

Do we have to accept? Because, I mean, clearly there were no other offers that Bill Belichick may have coached his last game in the NFL. I think we're probably there, right, because he's only getting older, Mike. He's going to spend a couple of years at Carolina. If they're not going to hire him now they're not going to hire him then.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I do feel the age in that thing, because my initial gut reaction was, no, we probably haven't, because this still seems like a guy that that record does mean enough to get talked about the way it does, and only being 14 shy of tying, 15 shy of beating. But you're right. I mean, he's walking into college football already, is the oldest coach there was in the NFL. All of his peers have been forced out or retired. Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Mack Brown at North Carolina. And so, yeah, I just don't see how if he really is here legitimately and not just going to dine and dash after one year, which if he's got the tie in with his son, I don't know how that would work. All these different things that maybe say he'd be here for at least a few years, then. Yeah, I do think it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid-70s to come there and try and lead your franchise.

[Billy Gill]

Do you think he has an outclause, like, he can leave whatever the hell he wants? Like, if someone offers him an NFL job in a month, he can get out of there.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I'm. I'm sure he could get it figured out.

[Billy Gill]

Just all that stuff and. Got it.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

It's in the Bible.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. I mean, listen, if it's just a month, Gojo, we could agree. No one has ever taught this much Carolina football in their entire life. Right. Like, they're getting bang for their buck right now.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

That's the funniest part about this, though, is because the attention economy is loving this right now. Everyone's going to be like, oh, this is like Dion in Colorado. No, it is not like, it is certainly like. Like it's a spectacle in the same way, but you're not going to get Bill Belichick hosting his own talk show on Tuesdays. And inside the North Carolina Tar Heels, like, looking the way they had on Amazon Pride. And just in general, Dion is a showman by nature. That is who he is at his core. Bill Belichick. I mean, maybe we get the version of Bill that lets his hair down now he's got the young girlfriend, he's away from the NFL and all these parts tied to his legacy. So maybe he does just relax a little bit, but more than likely, he's going to be the same guy he's always been, which is not going to grab people by the horns the same way Deion did, or people off quite frankly, as much as Deion did on the front end of his time there.

[Billy Gill]

Billy, can you imagine a 17 year old kid wanting to play for Belichick? Like, is that, is that something? I guess if he's the guy that can get you to the NFL, right? He's the guy that can get you to the NFL. Gojo kids aren't going to care as long as he's the guy that can get me to the professional level, to my dreams.

[Austin James]

It does, it does seem weird, right? And when is the last Patriots? I mean, it's pre Covid, right? Their last Super Bowl. When was their last year that they won the Super bowl? Because now a 17 year old might have been what, 11, 12. I'm wondering when Bill Belichick was dominating and was Bill Belichick and even then was like on the back end of it, right? So I don't know who Bill Belichick is, obviously, right, But I don't know that bill. I just.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

2019, Billy, for what it's worth, I.

[Austin James]

Cannot imagine Bill Belichick strolling into someone's house to recruit them. Like, that is another part of it, right? Like you assume he's going to put in all the work to get everything done, right? He's bringing on all these people. He's going to have his army of consultants and assistant coaches and all that. But like, I don't see Bill Belichick just driving around making house visits for some of these recruits and sitting on your couch being like, like, we'd love to have your son come play for us. Like, it just, I don't see it. I don't, I don't know why. Also though, like, we used to think that about Nick Saban, then would see videos of him doing the Cupid, the Cupid shuffle, right? And like he, he seems like he liked to have a good time and he knew how to get the recruits. So we'll see. Maybe this is a new Bill. We also never thought we were going to see Bill leaving someone's house on a ring camera, right? So like, yeah, Bill gets down.

[Billy Gill]

I think there's a lot we don't know about Belichick.

[Austin James]

Yeah, I'm kind of with you.

[K. Funk]

When you go on a recruiting trip, bring your girlfriend and your super bowl rings.

[Billy Gill]

That's it. There you go.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

That's it.

[Billy Gill]

Like that, all eight of them.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I did wonder twofold to Billy's point, how much Bill's son and his experience, because Bill was up at Washington a bunch. Like he was around there. They talked about it. Jed Fish, I think has Belichick ties somewhere in his past, the head coach now at Washington, but then also what Nick Saban's told him. Like Bill and Nick work together. They obviously have kind of been in lockstep their whole careers. And Nick Saban left for all the reasons that were curious why Bill Belichick would go to college for.

[Billy Gill]

I can't believe there wasn't another offer for Bill Belichick. Or maybe there was and Belichick, he just wanted to go to North Carolina.

[Austin James]

I mean, I think, I think the one big difference, I think the one big difference though, Gojo, is that like, so Bill's NFL coaching experience is closer to what college is now than Nick Saban's college coaching experiences to what coaching is now. Right. So like he's more, I, I would almost say like somewhat more prepared and maybe more equipped for this new nil environment than old school college coaches were.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yeah, I would agree in general and I think your point, the relative standard of this, because that's the thing I've talked about with like Kenny Dillingham and Dan Lanning and a bunch of these young coaches who got their first head coaching jobs during all this change. Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame, they don't know a world as head coaches without the current things that they're balancing in this job as the standard. If you are Nick Saban and the rest of these coaches that have been around for decades in the sport and have watched it more from this thing you knew how to do very well to something that feels totally foreign. Yeah, I could understand that. And so Bill coming in without any priors and a skill set that is closer is a reason I thought, hey, this is less far fetched than it originally looked on the surface.

[Austin James]

It's also like a really strange situation because like if you read into kind of how it all played out, it doesn't seem like they ever pursued him. He just kind of was like, you know what? I'd like to coach here.

[Billy Gill]

And this is cross practice one day and just decided he wanted to stay.

[Austin James]

I mean, and this is how I'd like it to go. And I'm going to give you this manifesto. If you believe this is how it went down, I'm going to give you this manifesto and if you agree to all these terms, I'm going to come here. And then some people at the, at the university were like, what? And then like some boosters are like, like, hell yeah. And then there seems to have been some disarray even within the, the, the university as to whether or not he was going to coach there, who's making this decision. So, like, Bill seems to be coming in, and it's not like he has to conform to some standard because he just created his own, and he just found the people that were going to pay the bills and make it happen, and they made it happen. So, like, how are you even going to control this man at this point?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

That is the one part that worries me. Not not being able to control him, because, you know, you. You ceded control to Bill Belichick for all the things that we've mentioned. But. But it's the fact that, like, in the NFL, when you look at teams that are bad for a long time and do they have their house in order organizationally, we're watching that play out for the Bears in real time right now. And when you hear about the supposed rift or, like, infighting or however you want to label it, between Bubba Cunningham, the athletic director at North Carolina, and their board of trustees not being on the same page on how they wanted to handle the dismount of Mack Brown and not being on the same page for who they were going after for this next candidate, that's what worries me. In this day and age, where you've got so many cooks in the kitchen, between the board of trustees and the athletic director and the collectives all trying to go and govern these things, that if you have fracture and dissent among there, I think those are the programs that are going to struggle the most in a world now that requires more organization and unity on that level than ever before.

[K. Funk]

To Billy's point, the way this came about was kind of out of nowhere, like, bill Belichick's not going to college. Hey, Bill Belichick might go to college. Oh, my God. Bill Belichick's going to college. If this was more well known, if Bill Belichick was like, I want to go coach in college.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[K. Funk]

How many other of these college teams do you think would have been like, you know what? Maybe we should do this. Maybe we should go get Bill Belichick. Let's get rid of our guy and do that.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Like Florida State.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Stu Gotz]

Now Ohio State.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Well, and that one like this. This all makes me wonder, like, all right, now, if Bill Belichick is looking at college, because, remember, we went through all this last summer when Jeff Halfley and a couple of those guys left for NFL jobs, and people were like, oh, look, you're driving out these great leaders from the college game by giving players rights and money, and it's so scary. And we're going to lose all these great men, and now Bill Belichick's going the opposite direction. It does make me wonder, like, hey, for Ohio State and all the conversation they've had there about Ryan Day, Mike Vrabel's pie in the sky for them. Like, you talk to Ohio State fans and they want Mike Vrabel bad around there if it's going to be somebody. And you do wonder now if a guy might look at it and say, all right, this is a little more accessible to me coming from the NFL than it's ever been because of these changes in the sport. I don't know. Rabel's still younger. He's probably going to have plenty of suitors, so I don't know if this would apply to him the same way, but your alma mater can do strange things to you.

[Billy Gill]

I like Pete Carroll going back to usc. How about that, huh? Oh, yes.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

As a Notre Dame fan, I hate it.

[Billy Gill]

Gojo, we love you. We have to let you go. Go Joe and go look 8 to 10 on the DraftKings network. Wherever you get your podcast. We have a Notre Dame quarterback who's on hold right now and it's Joe Theisman. Just so you know.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Enjoy that.

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[Billy Gill]

Joe, we'll get to what you're doing with army and Navy. That game is this weekend. It's our super bowl here on God Bless Football. It's our national championship. It's a great game. It's a great tradition. But I am wondering, Joe, you hear the news, Bill Belichick is going to the University of North Carolina. And your thoughts are what?

[Joe Theisman]

I'm not surprised. You know, everybody, everybody obviously thought that he would be, you know, back in professional football. But to me, you know, I think there was a time back, I remember Coach Shula. There was a lot of talk about him really wanting the Notre Dame job. I think there are certain jobs in football that coaches really, really look forward to. Certainly is going to be a heck of a lot less stress than there is in the professional part. I would say that the season is shorter. But now when you start to look at the addition of the playoff games, I mean, we've got colleges playing almost 15 weeks of football, so that really hasn't. Isn't going to change that much. But I think he just. It's a new, exciting challenge for him. I think that's really what we're looking at, is it's a different new, exciting challenge.

[Billy Gill]

Joe, have you been a fan of. Of the new college football playoff format? Have you enjoyed this season? Is. Is. Are there too many teams? For me, there's too many teams. So I'd be interested in your thoughts.

[Joe Theisman]

Well, I enjoyed the season. I just. I just didn't necessarily like the way they, they made the selections. And the reason I say that is I know it's difficult. I know this is the first year. I understand that totally. But from my perspective, if you're an 111 football team, you have conference champions getting automatic buys. Well, what happens if you're not in a conference and you're a really good football team? Are you being, you know, questions. Are you being penalized because you're not in a conference and you have a better record than those that are? And, and that's, you know, I think that's some of the tweaks they're going to have to do. But as far as foundationally goes, getting started with a college playoff, this is a great place to start.

[Austin James]

Joe, Joe, Joe. One of those 11 and one teams that you, you mentioned maybe participating in our national championship this weekend, army. And you may not like this, Joe, because you do a lot for the armed services you have for the years. It's great what you're doing this weekend. But one of. One of the disgraceful things that you did was in your college career, you beat up the Armed Services four games to none, three times.

[Billy Gill]

How dare you. Thighs, man.

[Austin James]

It's incredibly disrespectful. And we get on Mike Golic, senior, about this all the time because an argument can be made that your Notre Dame team is to blame for why army is not in this playoff right now. And when we say, because we do our own rankings around here, Joe, we say that wins against the Armed Services should count against your eligibility for the playoffs.

[Joe Theisman]

So if you beat one of the academies, it becomes a minus.

[Austin James]

Correct? Absolutely correct. Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Golic likes to couch it under, hey, we help them up when we tackle them, but I mean, they don't want that. Mean a lot of wind.

[Austin James]

Exactly. Right.

[Billy Gill]

They.

[Joe Theisman]

They teach us how to keep on fighting no matter what the score is.

[Austin James]

Yeah, they do.

[Billy Gill]

They.

[Joe Theisman]

They. They teach us to. And this was one of the things when playing the academies, and, you know, we were bigger at the time when I was at Notre Dame, I think Mike, you know, probably felt the same way as we were bigger and as the game went on, we managed to wear. Wear them down a little bit. But, man, I'll tell you, from the first kickoff to the final whistle, you better be ready for a fight, because they are. There's no quitting. These guys, they're not giving up. They're going to keep on coming at you. And that's, you know, all part of the military. And, you know, that's what's so exciting for me, being part of the, you know, the Army Navy game. If army was in the playoffs, would they still play the Army Navy game? This, this. This to me is a. Is a game that has to continue. I don't know what would happen if army was in the playoffs. And, you know, we don't have to worry about that right now. But, I mean, the USAA does such a tremendous job with our game here. The Army Navy game. I'm excited. I've never. And I'm looking so forward to the opportunity to be able to be there. The pageantry to see everybody in uniform, to watch these two teams play 8 and 3 and 11 and 1. This is going to be different than, I think, Army Navy games before, where basically they ran the ball a lot. Army wants to control the game. Navy wants to put points up through the air a little bit more. So there's so many wonderful things that are going on with it, and it's really a chance for the country to come Together, it's the only game of the weekend and I think it should remain that way. And that's what makes it special. And these are men and women that are leaders. Here's the other thing too is, you know, people come up to us as athletes all the time and they call us heroes. We're not heroes. We're just. And appreciate it, believe me. But, you know, we're just somebody God gave a gift to, the ability to run, jump, throw, whatever it might be. And from my perspective, those young men and women that are playing in this game and at the academies and those young men and women that are in uniform around the world, those that put that uniform on are out there defending us. And any chance you get to be able to say thank you to someone in a uniform, let them know how much you appreciate them. So to me, they're the real heroes. Because, see, we go to work and play ball, no matter what it is, you come home. When they go out and do their job, there's no guarantee. And that's why they should be celebrated and appreciated. And it's an honor to be a part of this particular game.

[Austin James]

It's also a cool year because it's in Washington D.C. which it isn't always. And you're obviously a Washington D.C. legend. We can ask you about the commanders in a little bit later because they've had a surprising season. But you and RG3, both Washington commanders favorites, are having a cool giveaway that you're doing in conjunction with the game. The Recycled Rides giveaway.

[Joe Theisman]

Yeah, we are. What they're doing is the retrofitted vehicles. It's going to take place 11 o'clock on the National Mall at the National Mall on Friday tomorrow. And we're basically giving away vehicles one to Matthew Walker with the Navy and Caleb Dooley, who's a with the Army National Guard. And they're going to be receiving these vehicles. And so much work has gone into it, so many people have contributed to it. Like I say, USAA is the driving sponsor for this. And it's, it's just, it's special to be able to provide someone wheels to be able to do the things that they need to do instead of having to figure out a way to get to work, they'll have the opportunity to get in their car and be able to drive. And like I say, Robert's going to present to the army and I get to present to the Navy.

[Billy Gill]

Joe, before I get to the commanders, because I know you're excited about the success of the, of the Washington Command this year. Being a former Washington commander, me and Mikey were saying earlier, we have stopped getting our dad's birthday gifts. I don't get them holiday gifts, Mikey. I'm not certain if he gets some holiday gifts. Are we bad people, Joe? Oh, no.

[Joe Theisman]

I think they know how much you love them and they appreciate it. And the fact that you just don't want to spend any money on your dad, I mean, that's, that's up to you, unfortunately.

[Billy Gill]

Why are you making me feel bad if I do?

[Joe Theisman]

See, now, here's the thing. This is the thing. If I'm making you feel bad, that means that you should get gifts.

[Billy Gill]

So he gets mad at me.

[Joe Theisman]

My, my, that's okay. Let him get mad. Let him get mad. Believe me. Let me tell you something. Parents are something special. I, I, I've lost both, both my mom and my dad, and they're, you know, they're just a special part of your life. And to me, even, you know, they'll tell you all the time, don't get me anything. I don't need anything. I don't want anything. Yep, okay, fine, fine. But I'm giving you this anyway because you deserve it and do whatever you want with it. But I want you to know I appreciate you. So in all honesty, and not joking around.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Joe Theisman]

I think, I think you should give them gifts. I really.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, they're bad people that way.

[Joe Theisman]

You're not bad people.

[K. Funk]

Well, I feel terrible.

[Joe Theisman]

You just honor them that way.

[Austin James]

Joe, have your children stopped giving you gifts yet?

[Billy Gill]

No.

[Austin James]

Okay, good. I was gonna say the first. It seems like the first time it's gonna really hurt. And then after that, they just expect, like, okay, my children are just in grades. They're not going to give me anything anymore.

[Billy Gill]

Terrible.

[Austin James]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I buy my parents, Joe, for the record, I buy my parents gifts. Still good.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Austin James]

Good.

[Billy Gill]

He does. Yeah. He's a good person, Joe.

[Austin James]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, I think. Well, what's the greatest gift you've ever received, Joe?

[Joe Theisman]

Hugs.

[Austin James]

Hugs.

[Billy Gill]

Hugs.

[K. Funk]

I'll get my dad one of those.

[Austin James]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Way out, though. That's what I do. I don't buy him a gift because I don't. As Joe pointed out, I don't want to spend money on my own dad. So I give him a hug and I say, that's your gift. You know? Know.

[Joe Theisman]

Well, that's a gift.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, it is. I feel better now, Joe.

[Joe Theisman]

Why, why, why, why attach a price to a gift, right? You know, you can, you can. A gift can be Knowledge a gift be, you know, a hug. A gift can be a look. There's so many ways you can define what a gift is. And to me, you know, I think parents earn the right to be able to get one in some way, shape or form.

[Billy Gill]

A gift can be the team with the first pick and the draft taking Caleb Williams and not Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels has been amazing. Joe, how impressed with Jaden Daniels?

[Joe Theisman]

Extremely, extremely impressed. I'm impressed with everything about him. I've had a chance to be with him at, sat down at lunch with him, get to know the young man a little bit. He's as great a person as we've seen him as a player, and he has. He has great composure. Throws the ball extremely well, and this is something we haven't had in Washington for a while. Throws the ball down the field extremely well. And that's really what you look for, is you're looking for chunk plays in our game. You're not going to go 10, 11, 12 plays all the time. And it's very difficult to do it on a number of occasions. Occasions. But if you can get those big plays, which he's able to do, I. I think it makes a world of difference. And you got to give Cliff Kingsbury, I think, a lot of credit because, you know, like, what Caleb's going through in Chicago, turmoil as a coordinator, turmoil everywhere around him. There's stability with Jade, Jalen, Jaden. There's stability in what he's able to do. And I love the way Cliff starts a game with him. He gets the ball out of his hands. I remember when Peyton Manning first went to the Indianapolis Colts, Tom Moore was the coach. Coach Tom, Pittsburgh coach. Now he's in Tampa, still coaching. And I sat with him one day, we were doing a Indianapolis game, and I said, how do you. How do you deal with Peyton? He says, first of all, you have to keep giving him stuff because he continues to want to get better and better and better. You. You have to have a bucket full of things to present to him. But I made my mind up that I didn't want to get him beat up physically or mentally. So in his first year there, the routes were short, he got the ball out of his hands, and he developed the ability to be the hall of Famer that he is, to be able to get the ball out, to be able to not take negative plays. And what I see so often now in the. You mentioned Caleb in the Chicago situation, managing a game, and people would say, oh, this guy's just a manager. That's not an insult, guys. That's a compliment, because it means that you're not making. You don't start changing plays when there's 30 seconds on the clock. You don't start throwing the ball into when you have a chance to score, throwing it in places where you're not going to get a chance to put points on the ball board. You're sliding to protect yourself. You're getting out of balance. You know, that's a manager. And so if somebody called me a manager of a game, hey, I'm thrilled, because that's my job. If you look definition of a quarterback, manage the game. That's your definition. And Brady was a manager.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, Peyton was. He was at the beginning, right? Brady was a manager at the beginning. People forget that even at the end, you know.

[Joe Theisman]

Even at the end. You know, the last. Peyton won the super bowl in Denver. Denver, Great defense, but he outmanaged the game over Cam Newton.

[Billy Gill]

Right.

[Joe Theisman]

Cam was on the other side of the. You know, he was. He was quarterback Carolina. And. And Peyton managed the way he. Peyton couldn't throw like he did when he was younger. He knew that, but he managed it so well. And this is. This is just, you know, classic Peyton.

[Billy Gill]

Yep. Joe, we'll get you out of here in a second. We always appreciate the time. I do think I want to run. I want to run this by you. If Notre Dame wins the National Championship, we at God Bless Football believe they should then have to play Northern Illinois. Do you agree? No, not really.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Already done that.

[Joe Theisman]

They already did. No need.

[Austin James]

Joe.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Austin James]

You're afraid what's happening here.

[Joe Theisman]

I'm not a rear view. I'm not a rear view mirror guy. I'm looking through that windshield, seeing where we're going now, what happened behind us.

[Austin James]

Right?

[Billy Gill]

You kind of want to get that off the resume. That blemish, though, you know what I'm saying?

[Austin James]

Get a second crack at them, double or nothing.

[Joe Theisman]

There's no eraser on it.

[Billy Gill]

That's the problem. It's there.

[Joe Theisman]

It's not like you have this giant eraser. It ain't going away.

[Billy Gill]

All right, Joe, one more time on the way out here. Tell us what you're doing with recycled rides. Giveaway for the Army Navy game coming up this weekend.

[Joe Theisman]

Usaa, who's been actually a title sponsor for the Army Navy game for over 100 years, as providing an opportunity for two servicemen at this point to be able to receive vehicles. They're retrofitted vehicles. And the presentation will take place on the National Mall at 11 o'clock on Friday the 13th, oddly enough. And they're going to be given an opportunity to have vehicles because they need rights. And that's basically what USAA is doing, is they're providing them an opportunity. I'll give one to the young man representing the Navy, and Robert Griffin III will do it for the young man representing the Army.

[Billy Gill]

That is. That is fine work you're doing, Joe. We always appreciate the time. Happy holidays to you and your family. You look fantastic, man. You really do. You look amazing.

[Joe Theisman]

I appreciate it, guys. Thanks so much. Thanks for taking some time with me.

[Billy Gill]

It is time for this week's edition of Studio Gods, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. College football 4 and 2 last week. 76, 66 and 2 on the season. One game this weekend, our national championship. Army. Navy. Navy. We never select this game. We just thank them for their service. But if we did select the game, we would take army minus six over Navy. We don't, though. We take army and Navy and we give ourselves a 2, 0. How about that? NFL Week 15. 5 and 2 a week ago. 61, 38 and 2 on the season. Here we go. Dolphins plus 3. Take it on the Texas. Texans buy it up to three and a half. The Dolphins win the game outright. The Dolphins beat the Texans in Houston by four points. Colts plus four. Take it on Denver. Denver wins the game. The Colts cover Denver by a field goal. Bills plus two and a half. They're ticket on the Lions buy it up to three. Bills win the game outright. They win by seven points at Detroit. Steelers plus five and a half. Ticket on the Eagles. Buy it up to six. Eagles win. Steelers cover. Eagles buy a field goal. Bucks plus three. Take it on the Chargers. Buy it up to three and a half. The Chargers. They're going to lose the game outright. Baker Mayfield gets a big W. The Bucks win by six points on the road. Packers minus three at Seattle. Buy it down to two and a half. The packers win. They cover the packers by 10 points on the road. Vikings minus six and a half. Half. They're taking on the Bears. Bears are bad. Vikings are good, but no one thinks they're good. Vikings buy it down to six. They win. They cover the Vikings by 10 points at home. And finally, the Falcons at the Raiders. The Raiders don't need it. The Falcons do. It is minus four. The Falcons win. They cover Atlanta by eight points on the road. Over the Raiders. Those are the picks, everyone. 1 Good luck, Stu Gat here. Right now, my friends over at Simplisafe, they are extending their Black Friday deal for our God bless football listeners. Simplisafe is the home security I trust to keep my home and family safe. I've been telling you that for years now. This is your last chance to protect your home at Simplisafe's lowest prices of the year. Simplisafe is a new way to protect your home that stops intruders before they break into your home. Old school systems only take action once someone is already inside your home. That's too late. Simplisafe's active guard outdoor protection changes the game by preventing crime before it even happens. Simplisafe is extending its massive Black Friday deal for our listeners this week only. You can take 50% off any new system with a select professional monitoring plan. This is your last chance to claim their best offer of the year. Head to Simplisafe to claim your discount and make sure your home is safe this holiday season. Don't wait. This offer won't last long. Keep your home, your family and your peace of mind protected. With Simplisafe, there's no safe like simply safe.

[Austin James]

Mikey, guess what?

[K. Funk]

What?

[Austin James]

I had the 4 o'clock surge that I needed last week in the listener league presented by Smirnoff. By the way, world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. If you want to compete against us, go to DKNG Co Smirnoff and then you can do your weekly fantasy contest. You get a budget, you compete against us new teams every week. Which is why I go from 600th place to 59th after my late four clock game surge. But I still, I still finished outside of the money, unfortunately. But this is the week DKNG Co Smirnoff. I'm doing it. I'm not going to say first place. You're not going to say top seven. Top seven. That's my prediction for me this week. Thoughts?

[K. Funk]

I think I'm coming for that spot. I think I'm coming for six then.

[Austin James]

Okay, well, realistically, I'm probably going to finish 470th or lower. So anyways, if you want to compete against us and beat us and take our money, go to DKNG Co Smirnoff. That's our weekly listener league presented by Smirnoff. The world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly.

[Stu Gotz]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, mo foes.

[Billy Gill]

What's up?

[K. Funk]

What's up?

[Stu Gotz]

You know, just another day, another hard earned dollar. What's going on with you guys?

[Billy Gill]

Just another day, huh? Another hard earned dollar.

[Stu Gotz]

Just another hard earned dollar. That's right. All right, good. Billy's back in normal gear. Yep, I like that. That's better. You look better.

[Billy Gill]

Got your jersey up?

[Stu Gotz]

Jersey's there. Jersey.

[Austin James]

I, I have a question for you. So I saw, I saw your normal. I saw your normal co host was out and you had a fill in co host. And I'm wondering why you never invite us to kind of co host with you when it's time for fill ins on your podcast.

[Stu Gotz]

You know, well, one, the people who fill in are here in person. So are you going to fly up?

[Austin James]

Fly up? Absolutely. Chris, I'll tell you right now, if you invite us to fill in with you on your podcast, we will fly up to NBC to do that with you.

[Billy Gill]

I expected the Lebanon. Yes, we will. Yeah.

[Stu Gotz]

All right, we'll, we'll, we'll note that.

[Austin James]

That's someone.

[Stu Gotz]

Also, also, it happened like very last second, right? It was one of those things where, yeah, there was some sort of family emergency and Ahmed Farid couldn't pull it off. Right. So I joke with him and I've had some jokes. So then he couldn't do it Wednesday too, because it kind of spilled over. So my last two, I haven't done with him, you know, and I know he's okay. He's got something he's dealing with, but I've been making fun of him. You know, he drinks energy drinks, so I always jump on him for that. Like, oh, nothing. Like some good old poison in a bottle.

[Austin James]

That's like. Now you're trying to make us feel bad about the fact that coming from the guy.

[Billy Gill]

Drinky, drinky, smoky, smokey. I mean, yeah, yeah.

[Stu Gotz]

I mean, stand up. Drink your poison like it's meant to be alcohol. Okay, okay. That's how it's supposed to be.

[Austin James]

All right.

[Stu Gotz]

Not, not like, you know, Sour patch infused energy heart attack drink. Yeah, that. That to me is like disgusting. You drink energy drinks? You guys, you do that.

[Billy Gill]

No, no, no.

[Stu Gotz]

All right. Yeah. Hold on to Goss. You don't need energy drink. I know.

[Austin James]

Let me check. No, none of them are. None of them are currently sponsoring us. So. No, we do not drink that.

[Billy Gill]

But if there was one, we would.

[K. Funk]

Think that one was delicious and different.

[Austin James]

That one definitely Deflee is the good one.

[Billy Gill]

BMD with Mike Florio every day on Peacock, the unbuttoned podcast as well. Football night in America. Sunday night Football. I'm going to start. Baseball. Go ahead, Billy, you go. I had a baseball question for him, but you go.

[Austin James]

Hold on. Hold on a second.

[Stu Gotz]

Your baseball question. Just don't. I don't want to hear it.

[Austin James]

Well, hold on a second, because, Chris, I have news for you that I don't think you're aware of. Not related to baseball. We'll get to baseball in a second. But God bless football. The show that you're on right now was nominated for Best American Football Podcast in the Sports Podcast Awards. Voting is open now. We would love. We would love to get your endorsement, tell people to come vote for us so that we could win this award. Do we have your endorsement?

[Stu Gotz]

Of course you got my endorsement. Let's go. I mean, it is a damn good football cast and football podcast, and we get a lot of good info even when I'm not here. And then, you know, when I am here, I push us over the top. The greatness, the award winnings type of stuff, so.

[Austin James]

Well, I. I very much. I very much appreciate that, and I appreciate your endorsement because one of the other shows that we're going up against is your brother Matt and your father Phil's podcast for the same exact award.

[Stu Gotz]

I love it.

[Austin James]

You're not part of that podcast, but you're part of this one. So I feel like it's time for us to wage war on the Sims. You know what I mean?

[Joe Theisman]

Right?

[Stu Gotz]

Yeah. Them. They've never invited me on their podcast. Them. Let's go. God bless football. Hell, yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Why haven't they invited you?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

It's terrible.

[Stu Gotz]

That's a good. That's a good question. I don't know why it's terrible. They don't invite me to a lot of things. All right, so I'm like the outcast of the family.

[Billy Gill]

I don't.

[Stu Gotz]

I don't know where I stand there exactly.

[Billy Gill]

All right, you want baseball or Texas first? Which one?

[Stu Gotz]

Go. Well, they're both depressing. Okay. But. Damn. Okay, go Baseball first. Let's get that out of the way.

[Billy Gill]

All right. What hurts more? I mean, Soto leaving Hertz because you're a Yankee fan, but he went to the Mets. And so I think that that has to make it like. That has to compound it by, like, I don't know, 50 times, as opposed to him going to the Dodgers. You know, it.

[Stu Gotz]

It adds a little extra. It does. I'd actually rather go to the Mets than the Dodgers. Okay. I'll just say that I would, like. There's a little bit of, like. It just hurts more as the Yankee part. Like I just, man, we had something special. I mean Aaron Judge and, and, and Soto's handshake is as cool as it gets. And the back to back bombers and that's just what we're supposed to be, the New York Yankees. So that's where it hurts. I actually don't really care that they went to the Mets. The Mets will find a way to this whole thing up, I can promise you that. A lifetime of watching it other than like two years in the history of their existence. So that's where I'd be more scared if they went to the Dodgers, because the Dodgers, I'd be like, oh no. But damn, I mean it does, it's a new era, man. I mean the New York Yankees, it's the attendance record every year. Got our own channel and now we don't even have enough money to compete with some of the teams in the NFL and the mlb. Like that to me is the biggest shock of all. Right. Like does the Steinbrenners need to sell the damn thing? And we need to get some hedge funders in there. Oh my Lord, they went to the World Series.

[Austin James]

Such a brat.

[Stu Gotz]

Get them back in there. I'm with you, Simms.

[K. Funk]

I'm 100% with you. We don't have enough money for Juan Soto, but we'll give an eight year contract, a record breaking contract to a pitcher who pitches 19 games a year. Brian.

[Billy Gill]

That was an apology though.

[Stu Gotz]

I want Sodo. And we don't have enough money when teams like the Dodgers and the Mets can just outbid us every year. Yeah, baseball set up for Monopoly capitalism. You were the Yankees. We got more than you. Deal with it. All right? That's the way I like my baseball. And I'm not getting it right now. I'm just, I'm with you, Sims.

[Billy Gill]

What I, I'll remind you, you went to the World Series a year ago.

[Stu Gotz]

I know, I, I, I know, I know.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

We didn't win it though.

[Stu Gotz]

But exactly. Going to the World Series, that's, that's, that's, that's, you know, that's.

[Billy Gill]

You went to the nlcs.

[Stu Gotz]

What do you think we go to the World Series every other year for a century straight? We're not worried about going. Yeah, we win. That's what we wanted do going and.

[Austin James]

Losing his Tampa Ray. Tampa Bay rage.

[Stu Gotz]

Right, exactly, exactly, exactly. Right.

[Austin James]

Well said, Billy.

[Billy Gill]

You don't like the current structure of baseball, do you? Simpson? The Yankees thrived.

[Stu Gotz]

I know, I know. That's why I don't like it. I don't like that. We're not king of that structure. Still. I like my football equal, right? But I want my baseball unequal. I want the Yankees to be the king of the world that all times. And I'm disappointed with that.

[Billy Gill]

That is so good. All right, so put us in the living room. Drinky, drinky, smoky, smokey. As Texas was losing to Georgia, I had the whole.

[Stu Gotz]

I had. My mom and dad were over, right? I was actually decorating the Christmas tree that night while I was on. When we went in six to three at halftime, right after basically just totally dominating the first half and only being up six to three, I was like, oh, we should be up by two touchdowns. Three touchdowns. I can't believe this. This. So that was a hurt. That hurt. But then when Georgia went down and scored, right. The first drive of the third quarter to take the lead. It's just the worst year for this to happen because I work with Maria Taylor, who went to Georgia. She hosts the college football show Amon. She hosts Football night in America. She also is maybe my biggest adversary. And talking, if you can believe that, nobody can talk with me. Me, except for Maria Taylor. So I have to deal with her. And I'm telling you, like, she's as good as it gets. Any locker room I've ever been in and anything. So they score, my family's there, and as soon as they cross the goal line, I go, oh, I go, Maria's going to FaceTime me. And I mean, before I can say FaceTime, it's. And she's on the phone and harassing me. So of all gears, of all teams, Georgia, Maria Taylor, her. She's killing me. And then, you know, she maybe put on Georgia gear all Sunday and wear that around the facility. It's just embarrassing. It really is. I hope we get another shot. National championship game. We're going to go.

[Billy Gill]

Your season, I mean, well, we're going.

[Stu Gotz]

To go national championship. And I told Maria, if we're both in it, because we thought about Boeing to both matchups, if we go, she's. She's way richer than I am. I said, you buy the private plane and we'll go to the game and enjoy it.

[Austin James]

You have a decent path. You have to play Clemson in the first round and then Arizona State, then Oak, Oregon, if Oregon is still around.

[Stu Gotz]

Oregon or Ohio State.

[Austin James]

Oregon always loses a dumb one, like every year. And they haven't lost a dumb one yet this year. So you wonder if it's going to happen early on. But, I mean, at the very least.

[Stu Gotz]

Our Path is the best that it can get. It can get any better, right? I mean, we're better than Clemson, we're better than Arizona State. All you can ask for is, hey, you're going to have a chance to be in the Final Four and you get the chance to show yourself and prove yourself. And I still think we're one of the best teams in college football, if not the best. We're definitely one of the two or three best. Now we get to decide it on the field.

[Billy Gill]

Chris, you know Belichick very, very well. Your family knows Bill Belichick very, very well. Were you surprised by the news of Bill Belichick going to North Carolina?

[Stu Gotz]

Beyond, beyond surprise shock, right? Yeah. I mean, you know, I said all the same things that you heard Brady and Gronkowski and Edelman say on the pregame of FOX last week. Like what? Bill Belichick with a bunch of kids talking to parents. Dad, Johnny's dad called. He's not getting enough playoff playing time. Like what? Bell Belichick. He couldn't even talk to Tom Brady after he won seven Super Bowls when he was like, hey, I think we should throw them more. Throw them You, Tom, get out of the building. Like what? Like that. That's to where I. Yeah. Am I shocked? I'm beyond shocked. But at the same time, and this is where I guess I'm not a little shocked. I'm not like totally shocked that teams in the NFL didn't want him. Right. And that's what you were getting a sense of. I think there was some forwarding and some talking with Tampa Bay. I think Jacksonville was in the conversation a little bit, but I think obviously they decided they did not want to go that route. I don't think there was much of a calling for him his age. Right. How much longer he's going to coach, how much is he going to ask the control in an organization. All of those, I think, were, you know, detractors for hiring Bill Belichick, let alone. This is something that I tell everybody. And I don't know if everybody knows this. It's just that how much the New England coaches, Belichick and the staff behind them are disliked by the majority of the NFL. You know, that's where his like, you know, New England and their chest out and we're the Patriots and we win Super Bowls and do all that, it's rubbed a lot of the league the wrong way. You know, I definitely have friends that are like, oh, Belich, oh, those people there, blah, blah, blah. Right. It's all, oh, they invented football. They're probably going to tell us how to, you know, throw the football now. They invented it. It's all that kind of stuff, you know, And a little bit is just because of the way it was run up there in New England. It was very tight lived. Coaches weren't allowed to talk to other coaches in the pregame and everything there. And the kind of guys he hired are not necessarily all social guys, either way, way. But I think, you know, you burn as many bridges as he did throughout the NFL with the way he treated people for so long. I think he had a lot of people that were like, I would do anything not to have Bill Belichick in my building. And I think you saw all that kind of come to a pinnacle here.

[Billy Gill]

Interesting. Are you more surprised that he took this job or that the NFL was not interested in Bill?

[Stu Gotz]

I think I'm more surprised that he took this job.

[Austin James]

Right.

[Stu Gotz]

I. I knew the NFL wasn't interested in Bill, but I guess I still thought there might be one team that would go, let's do right. That makes sense, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I thought maybe Tampa would be that team adjacent, light being there, who also worked in New England at one point. And there was some tangible things I heard behind the scenes to think that there was some talk there. But Todd Bowles comes out. I mean, he says he's not retiring, do that. Things obviously change on that front. But, yeah, I'm, I think, all in all, surprised with the college thing. Again, here's my thing, the recruiting, right? Talking, having to be personable to kids and family, right. I think he's like, is he gonna recruit again? He better recruit. You better not wait on other people. This is the Nil era, right? And you're North Carolina, you're a basketball school, so you can't just go, oh, I hope Mike Lombardi and other people in my staff will recruit. No, Johnny, who's thinking about Ohio State, LSU in North Carolina. At some point, he's going to want to talk to Bill Belichick and hear about it and, like, hear him and, like, because he's going to go, wait, wait, Ohio State's offering me $3 million. The stadium is way cooler. It's a football school. I'm going to win the national championship, all that. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I know Bill Belichick. I heard of him when I was growing up. But what, like what? So he's going to have to do that stuff, let alone the coaching hours Stu got.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Stu Gotz]

The brilliance of Stu Belichick. Is his ability to grind film and come up with these creative game plans. In college football, he's going to have to be elementary for his standards. He won't even get to show you his great wisdom because he's not going to have enough time to implement this with some of these kids on the college level.

[Billy Gill]

Billy, the good news is that record is staying with Shula. It appears like.

[Stu Gotz]

Yeah, I think you're a Dolphin fan. You're safe, you're safe.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Yep.

[Stu Gotz]

Shula can shul, can rest easy. Who you know is also one that doesn't sound like he's the biggest fan of Bill Bell. Check.

[Billy Gill]

Chris, the two we've seen the last four or five weeks, is this the best version of two of you've seen?

[Stu Gotz]

The most efficient? Yeah, I'm not going to say it's the best. I feel like, you know, those early first year and a half with Mike McDaniel were pretty special. And the fact of the big plays, the way they were executing the offense and all of that. Now, not all that falls on tua, of course, because people, people have caught up to the offense and all that. And you know what we've said the last few weeks, I think they've changed their philosophy a little bit into, hey, he's our franchise, we're paying him and we're going to, we're going to, we'll add more plays where we get the ball out of our hands quicker. They're a pain in the ass the way they play that way. Right? A ball control, pass, offense, they can chew clock up. If you play zone, they will absolutely pick you apart. There's no doubt about that. And of course then if you start to play man to man because you're worried about that, they can still find ways to beat you down the field and find creative ways to get Tyreek and Waddle on the run. So it's damn good. That's for sure. The Doblins are, you know, it's unfortunate he got hurt. Cause you're a, you're a playoff caliber football team that's fighting for their life now just because of that situation.

[Austin James]

Chris, I'm wondering how you feel about this. Cause you got a good game on Sunday night, got a cute game, Packers, Seahawks. But you don't have the game. And I don't know why you, I don't know why the NFL.

[Stu Gotz]

What is the game? What is game?

[Austin James]

You know what the game is.

[Stu Gotz]

I know it's, you're gonna say Bill's Lions, but you know, I just. Eagle Steelers is also pretty big.

[Billy Gill]

That's all I.

[Austin James]

Well, whatever, regardless, either way, you guys. Why, what did the, the NFL let you down by not flexing one of these games into Sunday Night Football? Because I feel like Bill's Lions is a big one. Steelers, Eagles. Okay, fine, whatever. But Bill's Lions. Chris, Josh Allen is so good.

[Stu Gotz]

Yeah, yeah. This just in. Okay. He's like.

[Billy Gill]

Was that a question?

[Stu Gotz]

Like, Josh Allen is one of the greatest we've ever seen, right? I mean, he's one of the greatest. Josh Allen is a first ballot hall of Famer for, for my money, I know he needs the hardware to go along with that, but Josh Allen's one of the best quarterbacks I've ever seen in my life. He's John Elway. 30 years later and unfortunately, so far, the start of his career is the John Elway story where they just can't win the big game. And it's not because of John Elway, it's because of the reference of the team. And like so many times John Elway went to the super bowl and lost, and they're like, oh, John Elway can't win the Super Bowl. And then the point was, it was like, nobody could have brought those teams to the super bowl other than John Elway. That was it. And that's where sometimes, you know, people drop the ball on the big picture of what's going on there. Allen's crazy, is insane. I wish we got that game, too. The, the, the, the flexing stuff, Billy has become very complicated. I don't really understand all of it. They can protect certain games, CBS and Fox, so I don't know. I'm not complaining. Ours is pretty good. I'll take it. But yeah, that Bills Lions game, I think it'll be a lot like you saw the Bills and the Rams last week. It's going to be a high scoring game. I picked it to be 41, 38. I believe neither one of these defenses will be able to stop the other. The Bills defense is not good, and they're definitely not good. When McDermott gets put in the bind of you have to stop an equally good run game and Pat game. See, he can come up with game plans to stop. Like, oh, if the team is like, let's say Miami, they're really good at throwing the football. I know they're creative running the football, but it's not like they maul you. Right. They're not going to maul you. They do it with creativity so he can hedge on. Okay, yeah, they might get a few Good runs or blah, blah, blah. But we're going to play to stop the pass because we don't feel like they're just going to blow us off the ball all game in the run game. Right? The Rams can do that, the Lions can do that, and the Bills can't play man demand. So when teams start to run the ball, they try to play man to man and everybody runs by them. So they're in a tough bind. They're going to give up a lot of points this weekend. But with the injuries on the Lions and their defense and no big pass rushers on the edge, this is the kind of games Josh Allen can take over. So I expect this one to be awesome. Billy, to your point, I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm most excited about that game this weekend too. I second what you're saying to, to.

[Austin James]

What you were saying before. Josh Allen had a game last week that we've never seen from anyone ever. Like no one has had the three passing touchdowns, the three rushing touchdown. He, he was just incredible. And Stu Gotz has been making the point all week and I'm wondering if you will co sign on this. He has said that Sean McDermott. Josh will never win with Sean McDermott as coach.

[Stu Gotz]

I, I don't. I am.

[Billy Gill]

Chris, I mean, Chris, that, that decision to run the ball on first and goal cost them.

[Stu Gotz]

That was a terrible. Or if you're going to run it, just don't call the time with you. I know what you're saying. Get the up off of the quarterback sneak and call another play. The timeout was more valuable than anything. Right. That's your point and that's where they messed it up. But yeah, I'm with you. There's. There's two or three times every year where McDermott kind of has some questionable end of the game decisions. But Billy, I'm a fan of him and his coaching and what he does. I'm more not a fan of the personnel they've had. That would be my biggest issue. Issue again on the defense. Who, who is there to write home about, Tell me the defense alignment that's going to ever make a play or the team has to worry about game planning for. Right. Who is it? Right. Secondary. Can you name a guy in their secondary? If I really sit here and talk to you about it, I mean, again. Yeah, go ahead, Billy. Look it up as you're sitting there. That's what you're doing right now. Yeah, 100%. That's what I mean, they Got Matt Milano a linebacker, but that's my point. And he's not a himself. There's not enough dudes there. And that therefore goes into Josh Allen. We gotta outscore against the best teams now. The difference is this year is he's got enough weapons and offense aligned around him to where I do think in these games where we go, oh, Josh Mellon's got to be superstar and take it over. He can overcome it because there's enough help around him at least on the offensive side of the ball. I don't think he'll be able to do it this week. He'll keep it close, but I think the Lions will win the game.

[Billy Gill]

Chris, are the Eagles the most dysfunctional 11 and 2 team in the history of the NFL?

[Stu Gotz]

They're, they got some issues. They, they definitely do.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

It's crazy, man.

[K. Funk]

Unseating the Eagles of last year.

[Stu Gotz]

I think, well, this is all what's really coming to light is stuff that really people like myself and a lot of people have known for a while that there's issues in that locker room and a lot of them stem around Jalen hurts. And I, I know that from too many people positions and I even said on Florio show the other day, you know, again, he's flown home with the owner on the private plane while the rest of the team goes home on the team plane. There's just been too many things that like that he tells them how to run the offense and the offense he wants to run. I mean he made a quote yesterday that the offense will look how Jalen Hertz wants it to look. That, I mean if that doesn't say at all, I don't know what does was. So yeah, their offense is elementary. You've heard me. I've been saying that. Then where they get frustrated is when you look at who they've played over the last eight to nine games. They've played like the worst defenses in football. If you can pick the worst defenses in football, that's who they've played. Browns, Giants, Bengals, Jaguars, Cowboys, Ravens, Panthers. Okay. The commanders are respectable. The Rams are like the 20th something ranked defense in football. So. But my point is they know how super talented they are. Right. When you're on a team like that, the guys know and as you've heard me say, it's no doubt the best O line in football. It's those two receivers. It's up there with Waddle and Tyreek for the two best tandem in football. Right. It's the best running back, it's the best defense in football. Football. So it's boiling over because they're going, what? Carolina? Well, we should be steamrolling them. And I showed that on my podcast yesterday. There's people open, right? The ball's not being thrown. The reads are not being made appropriately. Now the good thing is he's not turning the ball over, and that's as if he doesn't do that. They're so good. They're still hard to beat with all the problems I'm talking about. But they got to fix some things on offense. Again, we're holding them to the standard of they got to try to beat the Lions, the Ravens. Right. Those teams in the Super. Super Bowl. I know they're going to beat Carolina and some of these other teams when they play B minus football. It's not about that. It's the bigger conversation of winning the super bowl that is concerning, I think, with the Eagles altogether.

[Billy Gill]

Who do you like in that game? It is a great game. Steelers and Eagles. Who do you like there?

[Stu Gotz]

I'm going to take the Eagles. I am. Here's my big thing, especially if Pickens doesn't play. I just think it's going to be hard for Pittsburgh to move the ball if Pickens doesn't play. I'm going to. I'm going to go, good luck moving the ball because Philly can do everything. Philly can play. They're one of the best zone teams in football. They're also one of the best man teams in football. And they're going to. If George Pickens is not there, they're going to go, oh, we're playing, man. We don't think any of you guys can run away from us. Jalen Carter, in my opinion, is a sneaky defensive mvp, NFL Defensive Player of the Year award. He's he the play up about as much as anybody in football. I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball. Now, we talked about the concerns with the Eagles offense and they're not complicated and all that. And the Steelers defense is good and that's going to be the big thing. Can the Steelers defense stop that run without having to go all in to stop the run? Right. Can they find ways to stop the run and then help Joey Porter one on one against A.J. brown outside and some of that. That's going to be the real magic of the football game with that. That and I don't think so. I just, I think the Eagles are another class up from the Steelers talent wise. And I, I had them winning 27, 13St gots.

[Billy Gill]

All right, PFD with Mike Florio, the Unbuttoned podcast, and also Football night in America, Sunday Night Football. Final one for me here, Chris. Are we going to not care about the Minnesota Vikings right up until the Vikings are playing in the Super Bowl?

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I mean, I know we care.

[Stu Gotz]

I mean, it's the, it's the most disrespected 11 and 2 team I can, you know, ever remember. I'm with you there. I know what you're saying. Yeah, it's insane.

[Billy Gill]

And no one takes them seriously and I don't know why.

[Stu Gotz]

No, I, I, I, I get it. You know, I, I think it's. They haven't had as many dominant wins as the Eagles and the Lions and the Ravens and some of the teams that are at the top of football. I think that's part of it. Yeah. They don't have the shiny sexy, what everybody deems to be the franchise quarterback. I think there was a question marks about Sam Darnold. Listen, the guy I do pro football talk with, Mike Florio, he's a Vikings fan. He spent five weeks saying in the middle of the year going, I think they should trade for Matthew Stafford and put Sam Darnold on the bench. Right. So it's all that stuff that just leads to not everybody giving them the love they deserve. And their defense is good, but no marquee star on that side of the ball that I think people can latch onto and talk to. Damn good football team. I expect them to win the wild card round, whatever, wherever that, you know, may end up being. But after that. Yeah, then you get into the, the final four in the nfc. Okay. Yeah, they can go toe to toe, but I'm certainly, I still don't think I'm going to put them as, as far as I think they're as good a team as the Eagles. The Lions. And I think the packers are more talented, too. Not by a lot, but I think they are. Are. But yeah, we certainly let them fly under the radar a little too much, I think, to your point, Stu Gots.

[Billy Gill]

All right, Chris. We appreciate it. Every single week. PFT with Mike Florio, the Unbuttoned podcast. Football night in America, and right here on God Bless Football every single week. Thank you, buddy. Next time you need to fill in, I'll call Billy. Okay?

[Stu Gotz]

Okay, I'll call Billy. All right. Good luck with the voting. Kick the out of that Sims podcast. All right, guys, Good luck with that vote on God Bless Football. Okay, Peace out, guys.

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[Chris Simms]

Man the Jets.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Like, what about.

[Billy Gill]

What about him? What about the Jets?

[Chris Simms]

Well, I was. I was listening to a show preview and the head coaching openings of the off season, and they were just, you know, good job, bad job.

[Billy Gill]

Would you.

[Chris Simms]

If you were a prospective head coach, would you want to take this job? Who's gonna want the jets job? Like, that's a tough situation, but a.

[Billy Gill]

Bunch of people will want that job. No, there's a lot of talent.

[K. Funk]

There's just. You just have to deal with that owner.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Chris Simms]

Anywhere in New York there is some talent. There is some talent.

[Billy Gill]

So I suspected Carl's got to go to court, so. Yes. He's dressed up. He is. He's very dressed up. He's ready to go. He's ready to make some picks. Right? Carl Douglas. That's exactly right. Some of us have to dress up for court. You can't just go in the hoodie. Right. Okay. Speaking of court, Carl, you and I need to speak off air about something. Okay. I'm thinking about suing Major League Baseball. All right, we'll stop. We'll talk. Okay.

[Austin James]

Is Mojo joining today, we have Mojo's picks and we have Gordy's picks, which is a shame because Gordy went 4 and 1 last week after a 5, 0 week the week before. And. And here.

[Share Bear]

What's that K Fun doing three, one and one. There was a tie last week.

[K. Funk]

Okay, Billy checked his.

[Austin James]

I. I have him as 4 and 1, so I'm just gonna give him the 4 and 1 there. Well, in doing so, he also. He also has extended his lead over K. Funk for the final standings here.

[Share Bear]

How did he. How did he get. I went undefeated last week, so that's.

[Austin James]

You did not go undefeated. You could not have gone undefeated.

[Share Bear]

You gave an extra one. Annie jumped over me. That's strange.

[Austin James]

All right.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Where should.

[Share Bear]

Hey, you know what's funny? Stu got. Is last week this guy had a 20 minute, like monologue about how undefeated this and undefeated that and then I go undefeated and this guy just starts talking about Gordon.

[Austin James]

Well, Carl has to go to court, so we don't have time.

[Billy Gill]

Let's get to the pics here. Let's do it. Blame the black guys.

[Austin James]

Yeah, K. Funk.

[Stu Gotz]

I'm used to it.

[Billy Gill]

Listen, we have one guy on this panel who has a job. Let's let him get to it.

[Austin James]

All right?

[K. Funk]

That hurts my feelings.

[Billy Gill]

Oh, I'm sorry, Mikey. Let's. Let's get to the games. Here we have Ravens at Giants. Giants are. Well, they're. Dumpster fire. They're plus 14 and a half. They're at home taking on the Ravens. Billy, I'm going to you first for Mojo Specs, who did Mojo take here?

[Austin James]

Mojo has the Raven. Ravens.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, who did Gordy take here?

[Austin James]

Gordy has the Ravens as well.

[Billy Gill]

Wow, that's a. That's a big number. Share Bear going to you here. Ravens at giants. Giants plus 14 and a half at home. What you got?

[Stu Gotz]

You know, I'm flying. I'm flying up to New York here.

[Austin James]

On Friday for the Heisman ceremony on Saturday. So I'm gonna.

[Stu Gotz]

I'm gonna go with the Giants.

[Austin James]

I'm gonna go with the home team.

[Stu Gotz]

Open it Spurts some.

[Austin James]

Some good night. Good night.

[Stu Gotz]

Fun for the weekend.

[Billy Gill]

All right, Mike Rolls, who you take in here?

[Chris Simms]

Well, last week I took the. The Eagles to cover a 12 and a half point spread. That didn't work out for me, but they were due for a down game. And I think this week the Ravens are the opposite. They're coming out firing off the by week. So I'm taking the Ravens.

[Billy Gill]

All right, Carl Douglas, who you taking here? Ravens at giants. Giants plus 14 and a half. That's a lot of points. I lost last week on the points, too, Mike, but I'm. I agree with you. I'm going with the Ravens off by week. I got my fantasy team. All right. Very important. Thank you. Who are you taking here?

[Share Bear]

Well, unlike all you guys, I actually took Carolina last week in the points, so I work. I'm gonna give me 14.

[Austin James]

I can't believe that you're trying to celebrate a tie and calling it undefeated because you didn't technically lose even though it was a tie.

[Share Bear]

What is undefeated?

[Austin James]

You're celebrating like you were five zero. You weren't five zero.

[Billy Gill]

So do you think the Dolphin. Hold on, K, to Billy's point. Do you think the Dolphins would be making such a big deal about the undefeated season if one of those games was a tie?

[Austin James]

The Super Bowl?

[Share Bear]

All I'm saying is this guy comes on, Talking about Gordy, this 40 that gave 40 an extra win. I don't know how he did that.

[Stu Gotz]

And then.

[Share Bear]

And it doesn't even mention the fact that I had no losses last week.

[Billy Gill]

It's okay.

[Stu Gotz]

He's never been defeated.

[Share Bear]

It's part of the course. Share Bear had zero wins.

[Stu Gotz]

We didn't talk about that, but.

[Billy Gill]

All right. I mean, why would we, though? I mean, Share Bear, we love him. Why would we do that?

[Austin James]

We don't like kicking people when they're down.

[Billy Gill]

Right? Not here. Yeah, well, we have a hard.

[Chris Simms]

People like kicking when they're down.

[Billy Gill]

Hey, Carl Douglas has to get the court. K Funka. Right. Colts at Broncos. Broncos are minus 4. Poor K funk. Let's go to. Let's go to Carl Douglas first. Colts at Broncos. Broncos -4 at home. Carl. Broncos are playing a little better. I'll take them and give up the points. Okay, Mike Rolls, who you taking here? Colts at Broncos. Broncos minus 4.

[Chris Simms]

Yep. I'm in lockstep here with Carl, so I'm going Broncos.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take?

[Austin James]

They both took the Broncos.

[Billy Gill]

Okay, Share Bear, who you taking here?

[Stu Gotz]

I'm taking the Broncos, too.

[Billy Gill]

Right? You're hot. I mean, seriously.

[Chris Simms]

All on the Broncos.

[Billy Gill]

K, P, you take it.

[Share Bear]

I'm taking the Colts here. I'm giving the point.

[Stu Gotz]

Whoa.

[Billy Gill]

Wow. Yep.

[Share Bear]

My gator boy. Let's do it. Give me the points.

[Billy Gill]

Okay. I will have you know on the next game, which is the game of the weekend, by the way, and there is no one better at gambling on this show than Billy Gill. Okay?

[Austin James]

It's two guys is better.

[K. Funk]

That's true.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. I mean, now, Billy Gill is the best, okay.

[Austin James]

Whose record is impacted. Impeccable.

[Billy Gill]

I will tell you that. Earlier today, Billy, I believe, chose the Lions to lose this game. He has the Bills winning the game outright. So it is a big game. It's Bills at Lions. Billy, first, I'm going to you on Mojo and Gordy. Who did they take?

[Austin James]

Mojo has the Lions. Gordy has the Bills.

[Billy Gill]

Wow. So Gordy agreeing with. With Billy. Let's go to Share Bear. Share Bear. Who you taking?

[Austin James]

I'm actually.

[Billy Gill]

I was.

[Austin James]

Same thing.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I'm agreeing with Gordy and Billy, I'm.

[Stu Gotz]

Going with the Bills.

[Austin James]

Wow.

[Billy Gill]

Incredible. K. Funk are you taking here?

[Share Bear]

This one's a coin toss. Yeah, it is a coin toss. Come on, this game's tough, man. Give me the Bills.

[Billy Gill]

I mean, it's minus two and a half, though.

[Share Bear]

I know.

[Billy Gill]

All right. All right. You're taking the Bills here. Yep. Okay. Carl, who you taking here? What's the spread? What's the spread? Lions minus two and a half, Carl. Two and a half. Yeah.

[Austin James]

I went to the game last week.

[Billy Gill]

And watched my Rams. Rams beat the Bills. And probably the greatest offensive game of the year. Yep, I'm taking the Lions. This is the two best teams in the league right now. I'm taking the Lions. Give me.

[Stu Gotz]

Give them.

[Billy Gill]

All right, Mike rolls. Who you take it. Yeah.

[Chris Simms]

The Lions have been playing with fire a little bit recently, and I think the Bills bounce back from. I mean, a really fun offensive game, but pretty putrid defensive performance. I. When I doubt, I gotta take the points. Go Bills.

[Share Bear]

Take the over two while you're at it.

[Chris Simms]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Some bonus advice from you there, K.

[Stu Gotz]

Is that a lock of the week?

[Austin James]

Yeah, I'm gonna write that down.

[Billy Gill]

Wallace is right.

[Share Bear]

Carl, my biggest bet. Carl, my biggest bet last week was your Rams. Man, that was a good.

[Austin James]

Carl's gotta get to court case.

[Billy Gill]

Hey, hey, hey. Love it. Love it.

[Stu Gotz]

Great game.

[Billy Gill]

He has no time for you.

[Austin James]

Let Carl get to court.

[Billy Gill]

Let's go to the next game here. Packers at Seahawks. Seahawks. Seahawks are plus two and a half at home. I can't figure out the Seahawks, man. They drive me crazy. Let's go to Mike Rollis first. Michael, you take it here. Packers at Seahawks. Seattle is plus two and a half at home.

[Austin James]

Yeah.

[Chris Simms]

Heart heartbreaking loss last week for my Cardinals were really, you know, really hurt our playoff chances, but there's a sliver of hope. And so I got to go with my. My heart over my head here. And I got to take the Packers. That's who I'M rooting for. So I got the packers carried covering.

[Billy Gill]

All right, let's go to Share Bear. Share Bear. Who you taking here? Packers at Seahawks. Seahawks plus two and a half. I have a feeling it's Seattle space.

[Stu Gotz]

It's been a while.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I'm winning in Seattle a couple times.

[Austin James]

But I'm going with a space needle.

[Billy Gill]

Exactly.

[Austin James]

Let's go with Seattle. And you know, we got good.

[Stu Gotz]

It's probably good weather up there. We're going with them even though they're playing indoors.

[Billy Gill]

All right. I could have skipped you there. Are you going to the Heisman presentation?

[Austin James]

Yeah, I'm actually playing pickleball with me.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Daniel, Danny, Charlie Ward, Eric Crouch, Tebow, Johnny Rogers, Cam Newton, and then one other guy. Let me think.

[Austin James]

Who else?

[Stu Gotz]

One other.

[Austin James]

One other former Heisman I'm playing on.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Saturday before the thing and then. So it should be pretty cool.

[Billy Gill]

Yes or no from anyone in this group? Our Charlie Ward is the greatest college quarterback of all time. Mike Rollins.

[Stu Gotz]

I mean, other than Tebow or Newton, but yeah.

[Share Bear]

No Tommy Frazier. Tommy Frazier.

[Billy Gill]

Tommy Fraser. Wow.

[Austin James]

Was good.

[Billy Gill]

Carl's getting mad at me. I'm sorry, Carl. Did everyone pick that Packer Seahawks game? Get all the picks in who didn't pick the game? Carl, did you pick the game? I got sidetracked by Heisman talk. Carl, this is a tough one, man. The Seahawks let me down. I'm gonna go with the Packers. All right, you're taking the packers here. Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take?

[Austin James]

Mojo took the Packers. Gordy took the Seahawks. K. Funk hasn't picked. Picked yet.

[Billy Gill]

All right, go ahead. K. I'm.

[Share Bear]

I'm with you. Real quick. I can't figure out Seattle either. I'll give defensive benefit of the doubt. Give me the Packers.

[Billy Gill]

All right, final game. We'll go to Carl first here so we can. He can get out of here. He has. He has better things to do. Bears at Vikings. Vikings are minus six and a half here. Carl, who you taking? I'm taking the Vikings. Give it the point. They win by touchdown. All right, so the Vikings by a touchdown. Carl, before you get out of here, would you like to promote your law firm the way out? Certainly. I'm headed right now on behalf of the greatest firm in Southern California, Douglas Hicks Law. We are nationwide, we are worldwide. Douglas X Law. Happy holidays, everybody. Same to you, Carl.

[K. Funk]

Thanks, Carl.

[Billy Gill]

I'll talk to you next week about suing Major League Baseball. Okay.

[Stu Gotz]

Talk about it.

[Billy Gill]

We'll talk about.

[Austin James]

Okay.

[Billy Gill]

Bye. Let's. Let's go to. He's in a rush. Let's go to Mike Rolls here. Bears at bike. Vikings. Man, it's tough to watch Sam Darnold every single week. Oh, man. Yeah, this is tricky. It's hard for us. But the Vikings are six and a half point favorites. And it's amazing. The Vikings, as good as they've been, no one takes them seriously. So, Mike, who are you taking here? Vikings -6 and a half with the Bears.

[Chris Simms]

Well, I took the Bears. I thought the Bears might get a little bit of a bounce, you know, the interim head coach bounce, and they did not last week. So, I mean, that's over. I gotta go with the bikes here. I mean, the Bears had more. I think it was more penalties than yards in the first half last week.

[Billy Gill]

Yep.

[Chris Simms]

Five penalties to three yards. Something like that. And I just gotta. Now that Carl's gone and we can take our time a little bit. I gotta throw out an excuse for last week. So last week I made all of my picks in a British accent. I'm a method actor.

[Billy Gill]

Right.

[Chris Simms]

So I'm a method actor. I have to get in the head of a Brit to do that accent. They don't know ball. You know what I mean? They don't know ball. So that's where I went wrong. Only got one win. Kind of just lucked into that one. But this week, I'm back in my normal American accent and I'm going bikes over Bears.

[K. Funk]

We're gonna throw that out. No, no, no. You do it in a Southern accent where they care about football more than anything.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Stu Gotz]

I need Southeastern Conference.

[K. Funk]

That's what I need now.

[Billy Gill]

All right, well, do you need a second? Do you want.

[Austin James]

No, give them a week. Next week. Next week. Give them a week.

[Billy Gill]

Next week.

[Chris Simms]

I'll come out with a. With a Southern accent. But this is just a little preview.

[Stu Gotz]

For you right here.

[Chris Simms]

We're gonna go with the Bear.

[Stu Gotz]

No, not.

[Chris Simms]

Not the Bear.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Sorry.

[Austin James]

We're going with the Vikings.

[Billy Gill]

The accessory off.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

I started to pick wrong again.

[Stu Gotz]

Jesus.

[Billy Gill]

You just started railing against the Bear.

[Chris Simms]

I don't know. I get too deep into the accent.

[Billy Gill]

Yes.

[Austin James]

While I look over that tie, if you want, I could switch your picks from last week. Mike.

[Share Bear]

Yeah, might as well.

[Chris Simms]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Because it was a different person making the picks.

[Austin James]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

You know.

[Austin James]

You know. You know what I'm gonna put. I'm gonna put British Mike, and then that'll just be last week's standings, and then the rest won't go against you.

[Chris Simms]

British Mike, not great.

[Billy Gill]

And you'll have Southern Mike, too.

[Austin James]

You'll have next.

[Billy Gill]

Everybody seems to be on board with this. Unless he goes 50 and then he wants to cap for him, you know. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Simms]

Then safe country at least then, you know, hates us.

[Billy Gill]

I mean.

[Share Bear]

Yeah, I mean, I'm. I'm too. I'm undefeated with two chicks at my house.

[Austin James]

Undefeated.

[Share Bear]

Might as well put that one too.

[Austin James]

Well, no one's at your house today, so.

[Billy Gill]

All right, fine.

[K. Funk]

So last week didn't count for K. Funk. It just counted for.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Okay, for two.

[Billy Gill]

Chick funky.

[Share Bear]

Now that we got a little. Now that we got a little time.

[Austin James]

Get the Bears of the Vikings. K. Funk.

[Billy Gill]

Yes. Thank you, Billy.

[Share Bear]

I'll tell you this. Darnold will not have five touching past that touchdowns this. This week for sure. So I'm gonna take the Bears. I think their defense is going to put up a good fight here. Give me the Bears.

[Billy Gill]

All right, you're taking the Bears, Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take here?

[Austin James]

Mojo has the Vikings, Gordy has the Bears.

[Billy Gill]

All right, we finish up with. With Share Bear. Bears at Vikings. Vikings -6, and/2 points.

[Austin James]

Kind of to roll this strategy of the. The interim coach. I feel like it's. Sometimes it takes two games, you know. Feel like sometimes the first game's too quick.

[Billy Gill]

So.

[Austin James]

Because that. I like what I saw with the Bears Thanksgiving outside of the last, you know, possession.

[Stu Gotz]

I like what Caleb showed and I.

[Austin James]

Think he just needs two weeks. So I'm gonna go with the Bears, you know.

[Billy Gill]

Okay.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Interim bounce.

[Chris Simms]

Well, you know, I gotta say that the Thomas Brown has gone from, what was he, quarterbacks coach or passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator and play caller to head coach in a matter of like four weeks. That's a lot on your plate. So Share Bear, it might take two weeks. It might.

[Billy Gill]

All right, well, Mike, we look forward to Southern Mike joining us next week. I like the idea of a different accent. Yeah. K. Funk, we love you. We do. I hope you know.

[Austin James]

I love you guys, too.

[Share Bear]

Maybe Mojo will actually show up next week.

[Austin James]

Hold on.

[Share Bear]

He only had one win, so Carl's.

[Austin James]

Got to get to court. K. Funk, hurry up.

[Billy Gill]

Hey, Share Bear, would you like to promote anything on the way out?

[Austin James]

I'm good, man.

[Mike Golic Jr.]

Like I said, I'm happy to be.

[Austin James]

Here, so I'm good to go.

[Billy Gill]

All right. Enjoy the Heisman Trophy presentation. Yeah. You're a baller, Sherbet. You really are. Yeah, I want to be when I grow up. You? Same here. Roll us anything on the way out.

[Chris Simms]

Rollis regimen.com. get a custom program. We'll Just tune it to your exact needs.

[Billy Gill]

All right? And K. Funk, you got anything shout.

[Share Bear]

Out to this water tomorrow. I am one month no alcohol. Finished my one month cleanse.

[Billy Gill]

Yes. Here we go.

[Stu Gotz]

Then what happens?

[Austin James]

You finish your one month cleanse. What happened the next day?

[Share Bear]

Well, I don't know.

[Billy Gill]

You know what? I'm. I might keep it.

[Share Bear]

I might. I might roll it on through New Year's. I feel good.

[Billy Gill]

Let's see.

[Share Bear]

Let's see.

[Billy Gill]

All right. Well, I'm proud of you. Okay.

[Joe Theisman]

Thank you.

[Share Bear]

Thank you.

[Billy Gill]

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