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Super Bowl Awards: The Nuclear Fallout, Sam Darnold’s Heroics, and Bad Bunny Beef with Dan Hanzus & Geoff Schwartz
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Dave Damask
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Jeff Schwartz
I got nothing, man. I got. I got Tori Hunter in baseball. That's the one that comes up to my. I can think of. Well, well, Mike, what do you got there?
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Mike Fuentes
Bud Dupree, one of your guys there, plays for the Titans now.
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Dave Damask
That's the best ever. Yeah, I mean, Davis did it, right? I mean, for the Panthers. I forgot Washington.
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Mike Fuentes
Yeah, it seems to be a lot of baseball guys. You got Joe. Joe Nicro.
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Dan Hanzus
You got knuckleballers.
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Mike Fuentes
Yeah. Pablo Sandoval. The Panda. Who else we got here? I saw Eric Gagne, Jacob deGrom. Jacob deGrom.
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Jeff Schwartz
Yeah.
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Mike Fuentes
And then number one, Tory Hunter.
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Jeff Schwartz
Yeah, yeah.
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Dave Damask
Tory Hunter once told me on my old radio show, he broke the News that not only had he signed with the Halos, but he signed in a McDonald's. He met the GM for some reason at McDonald's and that's where he signed his, his multimillion dollar deal, which seems weird. So we have a lot of, I mean the list of super bowl props is plentiful and ridiculous and very funny. So we'll dig through those as we press forward here and talk some Super Bowl 60 here. By the way, I should mention one we appreciate encourage you to subscribe on YouTube to Football America. Find the Football America page there and or wherever you find your audio podcasts. We appreciate that. Drop us a line in the comments section on YouTube. It's an interactive conversation, don't you know. And I should also let you know based on super bowl week scheduling, this is the last thing I do before I depart for San Francisco. I'll be at media night, whatever they call it, opening night, to talk to Drake May and Sam Darnold and some other members of those two teams. And I'll ask them some fun questions, I think to determine to gain some insight for you and for myself about how Super Bowl 60 is going to go also because I'm a great empathy. I'm not merely going to be talking about those two teams. There are 30 other teams out there. We want to honor them all. That's why the Fuentes boys have. Maybe I'm rubbing off on them. They want to honor some of those teams, some of those players. Jon Ham will honor a lot of them at NFL honors. In the meantime, take it away, Fuentes boys, you want to do an award show, right?
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Mike Fuentes
That's right, Dave. Football America is winding down for the season. And as you know, we gave out some midseason awards not too long ago, back when life was good about what was it, eight weeks ago ago, maybe a little more 10. And now since we're coming to a close, we have some totally legit awards that we did not make up. Just completely legitimate stuff here. And I'm going to start with the big Let down award, the player that let us down.
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Dave Damask
This will be a nice, this will be a nice honorific. I like that.
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Mike Fuentes
So for me personally, the only nominee and winner of this award goes to one Ashton Genty, the poor running back coming out of Boise State. Now, gotta say, as a rookie, he let you down as a rookie because when you're the top five draft pick, we expect things. Now that's not his fault. That's our fault for expecting things, especially for expecting things from the Raiders which we knew were going to be terrible. I mean, come on, Geno Smith, Are you kidding me? You know, so because of that Ashton Genti, the big letdown award this year from Football America.
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Dave Damask
I like that. Can I. Can I throw out another one, though? We're talking about rookie guys. What about Travis Hunter? If I would have told you that the Jacksonville Jaguars would win the division and be a factor until they weren't, as one would have expected in come playoff time, but a lot of people were picking them three, four weeks ago to make a deep playoff run. If I would have told you that was going to happen, but Travis Hunter would have no impact on the Jags, you wouldn't have believed it. So I think that he's. I mean, by the way, for whatever else the Cleveland Browns have done to themselves on purpose, they traded away the opportunity to get Travis Hunter. That doesn't look terrible, at least at this point, because Travis Hunter didn't do anything down in Duval County.
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Mike Fuentes
But you know, rookie season cut short by injury, so I kind of. Kind of feel bad, like putting it on him.
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Jeff Schwartz
I got another one of the same team.
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Mike Fuentes
Yeah. Oh, give me Brian Thomas Jr. Brian Thomas Jr. I tell you something about Brian Thomas Jr. Okay. Never drafting that guy early again.
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Dave Damask
There should be the opposite of this award, too. There is the guy who exceeded expectations.
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Mike Fuentes
Well, I'll tell you on the same, Dave, I'm. I'm happy you said that because my next award is the Fallout Award, not brought to you by Amazon. But hey, we're available. And these are players that went nuclear. And I gotta admit, when I saw DK Method.
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Dave Damask
George W. Bush. Nuclear.
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Mike Fuentes
Yeah, nuclear. The nuclear option's always there, by the way. The doomsday clock. So when DK Metcalf was moved off to your Pittsburgh Steelers, I thought, can JSN carry the load? Man, do I feel like an idiot. He did that. Anwar. Great season from the guy whose name I'm not scared to say. Jackson, Smith and Jigba. Not scared to say it. Great season for the Seattle number one. And I hope that he ends up with the Lombardi and a ring at.
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Dan Hanzus
The end of the season.
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Dave Damask
Can I get in there and jig? But you're right, that is a scary one to say. Maybe even worse than the people. As I've said before, K. Hernandez, thank goodness for that accent. Mark over the ear or otherwise. This would be a real nightmare for him and for any broadcaster out there.
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Jeff Schwartz
I got one for you. The life comes at you fast award. That one's going to go.
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Dave Damask
Wait Wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you move on, another candidate, because you reminded me with DK Metcalf. The, the other guy is George Pickett's nobody in Pittsburgh. People thought, oh, George Pickens will be in the clink or, I don't know, who knows what will happen. I mean, goes on and has one of the three or four best pass catching seasons of anybody in pro football this past year. And now the Cowboys apparently are looking into a long term deal with George Pickens. Who could have seen that coming? Besides Dave Damask, of course. Go ahead, Gina.
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Jeff Schwartz
The life comes at you fast award. You may have remembered last year, The Detroit Lions, 15 and 2, they were on top of the world. And then they slip up in the NFC in the NFC playoffs and they come back with the, you know, everybody healthy and you think, oh, they'll be back right now. Now they went from first to worst in their own division. 9 and 8, didn't make the playoffs. Life comes at you fast.
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Dave Damask
I like this. We're off and running now. Total. Here's the first prop for you. And then, then we'll start calling up our pals here to get more insight. Total drop passes by both teams over under two and a half. How say you, Mike Fuentes?
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Mike Fuentes
I know you know.
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Jeff Schwartz
It'S way over here.
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Mike Fuentes
Yeah, it's a weird game for receivers. Yeah. Like, you know, do you really trust anybody on the New England side of the ball? I know some of them guys have probably like overperformed a little bit, but you really trust like a keyshawn booty Mac Hollins to like make all the catches they need to make. I mean, there might be three drops just on the Patriots, especially if they find themselves down and throwing a lot at the end of the game.
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Dave Damask
Gino, who will the MVP of the game thank first in his speech. Oh, always got coaches are 50 to one. Family is 33 to one. The city slash fans are 20 to one team slash teammates plus 160 all second place.
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Jeff Schwartz
Come on, get to it. Yeah.
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Dave Damask
God, God, religion. It might not. Maybe it won't be Jesus. It could be Buddha. You don't know that's true.
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Jeff Schwartz
All the glory. God.
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Mike Fuentes
Oh, I gotta find that.
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Dave Damask
All right. Oh, you know what this is? This is one. This maybe is the granddaddy of all ridiculous prop bets. Gatorade color poured on the coach Mike Fuentes. Give me a color.
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Mike Fuentes
Ooh, what's purple going off at?
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Dave Damask
You've got purple, blue, clear red or pink, Yellow, green and lime are all together. That doesn't seem fair and Orange.
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Mike Fuentes
Orange by itself.
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Dave Damask
Yeah.
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Mike Fuentes
Give me the purple. I'll take the field.
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Dave Damask
Okay. Three to one for that one. The best flavor, by the way, I'm gonna. Looking past everything. Orange is the best Gatorade flavor. We can agree on that, right?
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Mike Fuentes
I'm a fruit punch guy.
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Jeff Schwartz
I like the orange, too.
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Dave Damask
Yeah.
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Mike Fuentes
Oh, really? Wow.
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Dave Damask
Fruit punch, as a. As a general rule, is one of the worst candy flavors, artificial flavors that exists out there. Fruit, I mean, it's not a good flavor. Now, it's not as bad as lime or banana, but it ain't good either. All right, important conversation, and we'll continue to get to it and these awards. Let's get to it, though. Our first visitor for Super Bowl 60 week, our old pal from Heed the Call, Dan Hand. All right, how could we let football season go by without talking to this fellow one last time? One of our favorite guys to yap about football and the game of life with. He is the host of Heed the Call, one of the heroes all season long for another season for you. And into the off season two, it's our pal, Dan Hanzus. What's happening, fella? Hair looks great.
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Dan Hanzus
Hi, Dave. I just got a haircut that was for you. I appreciate you having me on your program. Happy six.
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Dave Damask
Oh, fella.
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Dan Hanzus
It's the years fly by, Dave. They fly.
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Mike Fuentes
They fly by.
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Dave Damask
You were at 49, right?
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Dan Hanzus
Me? Yeah. No. And I'm. Now you've hurt my feelings. I'm 45 years old.
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Dave Damask
No, no, no, I said you were at 49, as in Super Bowl 4.
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Dan Hanzus
Oh, we're doing that. Yes. I was at 49. I got. That was a. That was a great moment almost, for jets fans to watch the Patriots perish there. And then for it to go the other direction, not so great. Yeah. I do remember that game, though, vividly.
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Dave Damask
As you know, Dan, I'm maybe society's greatest empath. And so my heart goes out to, you know, to the man in the mirror, too. After all, my team is kind of lost at se. In purgatory or whatever else people keep saying about them. There are two teams in the Super bowl, and all the 30 other teams are at home watching. And I'm wondering if. If you have any counsel, if you have any thoughts about the state of your jets right now and if there's a rooting interest that jets fans should follow that. You know, Sam Darnold on one side, obviously, the hated Patriots on the other. How say you?
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Dan Hanzus
Well, I would say that jets fans will always root against the Patriots as Many people in America will. Dave, a week from Sunday, I'll also say that you'll be hard pressed to find jets fans rooting against Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold was a guy that everyone even. And it's a maniacal fan base, Jet fans. And we're going through a lot right now. But the one thing that you're not going to find is a ton of jets fans that are bitter towards Darnold finding success now, because everyone that actually paid attention to his time with the jets knows almost everything that happened was not his fault. And some of us, myself included, did not want him to go when he went. When they had decided in all their intellectual glory that Zach Wilson was, was the man to move forward with and to trade Sam Darnold to the Panthers way back then. So there is faulty logic all around Darnold from the very, very top. The only thing they got right was taking him number three overall. Well, they didn't even get that right, Dave, because they could have taken Josh Allen, but Darnold would have been a really, really strong piece of a foundation for the jets and they botched it. So I, I'm happy for Darnold. I've been rooting for Donald. I've been. I've been pounding the table for years before he came of age as a player with the Vikings that he could be a player. And I, I got a lot of pushback until it finally paid off. So I guess there's a little bit of like, yeah, happy to be proven right on this. But also, it's bittersweet.
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Dave Damask
Of course it is. That being said, you. And that you predicted all of this to happen and there were a lot of questions about Sam Darnold, understandably, going into the game against the Rams, the people who. I'm sorry for being a broken record about this, but the, the postseason QB wins, deniers have to look at the. I mean, this, this is now it. The personification of it. Everybody thought one way of Sam Darnold before that game. And now look at how differently people regard him today, Right? I mean, it's as simple as that. He wins in a big spot. Now Sam Darnold has that stink off of him.
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Dan Hanzus
I think it's. Yeah, I think it's fascinating and I think a lot of us try not to get too plugged in on super bowl conversations during this week. Next week, it's in. It's unavoidable. So you dive into it. But it would have been absolutely nauseating next week for so much of the Darnold dialogue to be. Well, they kind of won, but they won. He was along for the ride and he's. He's choked in big spots. That was in terms of changing the entire conversation around a player, one of the great, like, turnarounds 180s in the history of pro football. Because not only did Darnold show that he could step up in a big spot in the playoffs, as he did against the Rams, he saved their ass. They were done. They were. Their defense did not step up against the Rams, sean. They had. McVeigh had figured them out. They were putting up points upon points upon points. Their running game, Seattle's running game, couldn't quite get going with Charbonnet out. And Darnold bailed their ass out with a jsn. And so he is. No, no one's going to be talking about that now next week. And if they are, they're just not paying attention. So you might see, like, Stephen A. Smith or someone like that say that Darnold might not be able to be trusted here, but the people that actually watch football will say otherwise.
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Dave Damask
I don't know if this will make jets fans feel any better. I suspect it will. One, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bill Belichick is rooting against the Patriots, which has to be kind of, you know, like I say, satisfying. But also, also, Tom Brady can't be rooting for the Patriots either here.
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Dan Hanzus
Yeah, I would imagine he's not. I. I also think the Patriots are a little bit, if you're asking from the jets fan perspective.
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Dave Damask
Yeah.
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Dan Hanzus
A lot of the hate about the Patriots was that era of Patriots football, which is Brady and Belichick and. And this team is much less hateable. This Patriots team, the fan base, Patriots fans still pretty hateable.
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Dave Damask
Yes.
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Dan Hanzus
Hearing like Scott, some of them, I can confirm. Yes. Yes. Hearing Scott Zolak, who on our show I called the sentient sentient Powerade bottle yodel into a microphone after Drake May 1st. Downs and touchdowns. Yes. Still very hateable. The team itself and the head coach, different. It's different than the old days. So it's more just like, you know, New England sports fans don't deserve another title here. That's kind of where it is now. It used to be like they were a perfect team to heat hate because it was the coach, it was the pretty boy quarterback, it was the cheating scandals, it was the constant winning. This feels very different, but at the same time, you don't want. You don't. You don't want anybody on the Podium. You don't want Robert Kraft on the podium again. Like, we don't. We don't need that again on Super Bowl Sunday night.
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Dave Damask
I mean, that's what you have to enjoy from the sidelines. If you're a fan of any other team and you've disliked the Patriots because they've hurt your feelings and otherwise over the years that Bob Kraft and Tom Brady are now leading the charge for Bill Belichick. It's so phony when they're the reason that he is in UNC and got lost. Bob Kraft fired him and then went about campaigning for himself over Bill Belichick as. As some sort of key factor in the dynasty and all of that. It's very funny to watch from a distance. Here's a question for you.
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Jeff Schwartz
Can we.
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Dan Hanzus
Real quick, Shaq. I don't want to fall into that the Belichick hall of Fame debate too much. But if we did want to have fun with it, it's clear that, to use the Godfather analogy, Polian is a pimp. It was craft all along, right? Like, if we're gonna buy into that, right? Like, that's what happened here. He doesn't want to be at Canton with Belichick.
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Dave Damask
Like, obviously, I think we should talk about it. When you come up with an analogy like that. Now you're singing my song. Speaking of songs, I'm a square old man. I just. I, I. I fancy myself as somebody who, or at least used to be plugged in to music. I have discovered Geese, and then I noticed on social media that this is your band. Huh?
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Dan Hanzus
Yeah, They're. They're a fun band to like, because 80% of your fan, your friends, like, hate them, and you try to. And then you show your wife their SNL performance and that she just reacts as, like, this is just noise. And it makes me feel even like. Like, you know, it's like the last vestige of, you know, as a guy in my mid-40s. As now has been established based on our miscommunication at the top of the conversation, being able to still connect with new music and really enjoy it. Like it. There's a little extra there for me, too, as well, Dave. And I, I, as a man, that's a. You know, I look at you as a much older brother. I think you should dig into the. The. A much older brother. Dig into the geese of it all as well. Let's go together.
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Dave Damask
Look at this beautiful head of hair. And you call me much older than you. Shame on you. A dozen years from now. What is the collective wisdom on this better quarterback class. 2018 or 2024.
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Dan Hanzus
Oh, okay. I mean, 2018 is pretty damn good, I'm going to say right now that's where I would go. And it is pretty remarkable that Darnold beats some of the future hall of Famers around him on the list. But I guess if you want to go, does 2024 have the depth that 2018 does? What do we have for 24 hours?
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Dave Damask
You have Jaden Daniels goes to the title game in his rookie season. Then you have obviously May and Next and Caleb and we'll see what happens with J.J. mcCarthy, but I don't throw dirt on him like a lot of people.
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Dan Hanzus
That's a, that's a good, that's a good Mount Rushmore for that class, though, for sure.
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Dave Damask
Well, the difference is. The difference right now at least is. And we'll see what happens with Pennix coming back from injury. And you know, there are plenty of doubters for JJ McCarthy, but, but the, the rarity here is even with the Ought four. It's not a trio. It, it's, it's four of them. JP Losman also counts in the odd four first round. And so Rothlisberger, Eli and Rivers are. I bet there aren't any bums quite yet from the 2024 class. Unless we're going to say that about McCarthy.
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Dan Hanzus
Yeah. And then the, the Mount Rushmore of 18, obviously is Baker, Darnold, Allen, Lamar. Am I missing a fifth?
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Dave Damask
Yeah, but then you also have to, you have to wear Josh Rosen.
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Dan Hanzus
You wear it. Yeah, well, he's the JJ McCarthy. Yeah.
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Dave Damask
Will. Which Bay Area landmark will be shown first? Dan? The Golden Gate Bridge minus 500 or Alcatraz plus 300?
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Dan Hanzus
Oh, wow. I got. You got to go the bridge. You got to go the bridge. It's a, it's a close one. How many? All right, how about like, plus? Well, will you set the odds for the first pre game show to show the fish market in Seattle as well? Like.
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Dave Damask
Yeah.
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Dan Hanzus
You know, how likely is that going to happen within the first hour of the pregame show?
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Dave Damask
Yeah, I don't, I don't see that as an available prop here, Dan, but here's another one for you. Will the broadcast show the Patriots male cheerleader?
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Dan Hanzus
Interesting. That's a great question. What network is it on again?
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Dave Damask
It's on NBC, right?
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Dan Hanzus
Okay. I'd say no if it was Fox. I'll say yes because it's NBC.
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Dave Damask
Okay, then I think this is a yes for you, too. Will there be a sign that says Gay for May shown.
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Dan Hanzus
Not intentionally, but it's so prevalent among these meathead Patriots fans. I'm coaching Little League with a dad who named the chat for the coaches as we're getting the season up and running. Gay for maybe. So I'm going to say yes, it's just going to be because it's so hilarious that I imagine many, many Patriots fans will bring that sign. So, yes, it will show.
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Dave Damask
Will pass interference or roughing the passer be called in the final two minutes of the game?
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Dan Hanzus
No, the flags will be in the pockets in the Super Bowl. They're. They're better about that than in these, for whatever reason, than in the title and divisional round game.
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Dave Damask
The big one in the pregame stuff is the length of the national anthem over 125 seconds.
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Dan Hanzus
Who's doing it this year?
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Dave Damask
I don't know. It's a good question. See, I.
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Dan Hanzus
We got to know that.
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Dave Damask
Yeah, you're. You're absolutely right. All right, Fuentes boys, give Jesus another award.
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Jeff Schwartz
Okay, this one's actually really relevant to the show we've been we talking about today. It's called The Hindsight is 2020 award. Celebrating a decision that, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. And that goes to the Minnesota Vikings who let Sam Darnold go after a 35 touchdown season went with J.J. mcCarthy and then, well, it didn't turn out so well.
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Dan Hanzus
Yeah, and now the GM got got.
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Jeff Schwartz
Yeah, exactly. I was about to mention that.
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Dave Damask
Yeah. I feel like this would be mean spirited to say this about your Jets. I want to do an award real quick.
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Dan Hanzus
All right, here we go.
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Dave Damask
The team as we sit here in front of Super Bowl 60, furthest away from reaching the next Super Bowl. Jets. Dolphins. That's the Cleveland Browns. Who else would it be? How great was their hiring for their coach hiring process? Oh, the Browns are still the Browns. I mean, gotta feel better.
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Dan Hanzus
I gotta say, like some of the. The spin zone reporting of Todd Monkin's first meeting with Shador Sanders, as if it was like a positive sign. I'm like, is everyone okay? Like, is everyone on drugs right now?
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Mike Fuentes
Hey, that's Pro bowl quarterback Shador Sanders to you, my friend.
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Dan Hanzus
That's fair. But like you're saying. So the head coach that Jimmy Haslam may be the worst owner in the history of the league forced upon us. Now we're going to talk ourselves into it as a. Being a good hire and Shadow Sanders being a guy that they, they have any type of future together. Are we, are we serious? Pro Bowler Circuses in town.
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Dave Damask
Oh, my goodness. It's just. No, I, I just, I treasure that. I really do. People, people think it's the best. That they're not only in the league, but they're in my division. I can only get so down. I mean, all right, they're thinking about bringing down, Bringing back a 43 year old man who the last time we saw him was afraid of a pass rush. And I have it on good authority some of my sources are saying that some NFL teams in 2026 intend to bring back a pass rush. So that's bad. Steelers, but at least the Browns exist. One last one for you, Dan.
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Jeff Schwartz
Yeah.
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Dave Damask
Because I think it's super Sunday. Will any Celtics player wear a Patriots jersey to the Celtics game against the Knickerbockers?
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Dan Hanzus
Okay, that's an interesting one. You know, I, I'll say yes because you know that that guarantees to probably get you on Sports center or something. So someone will take that path. I don't know if any of them actually are following or rooting for the Patriots, but I'll go with yes on that one. That's a good one.
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Dave Damask
And okay, one more because it is my favorite super bowl bet to make. Will there be a safety? It's the biggest game in society. Let's see the most exotic referee symbol the safety.
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Dan Hanzus
Yes. Well, I remember the last Seahawks Super bowl win.
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Dave Damask
12 to 1. 12 to 1, Dan. It's the best super fun to bet.
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Dan Hanzus
I, well, as someone who believes Seattle's gonna have a very good Sunday and things could get awkward for the Patriots. Yeah. But I'm going to call it. It's going to be on a holding in the end zone. It's not going to be tackled in the end zone or sack or anything like that.
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Dave Damask
Dan, we appreciate you, appreciate you having me on. Heed the call a number of times during the season as we get this show up off the air for this season. You really helped us along that way. We appreciate you. Enjoy 60 and let's keep it on the other side of it. We can still talk. Just because football season's. Oh, it doesn't. I think we should get in the way.
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Dan Hanzus
I think it's a good idea.
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Dave Damask
Well, listen to geese. It'll be a great time.
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Dan Hanzus
It's time. It's time. Let's dig in together.
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Dave Damask
Thank you, Don. I'm showing up at one of your little league games. Watch your, watch your watch, watch your managerial style.
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Dan Hanzus
I do assistant coaching. I, I, I'm like, I don't like to go full manager because that's third base coaches.
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Dave Damask
What. What does that equal?
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Dan Hanzus
They're bas. I'm. I'll wave them in every time. You got to play aggressive third base coach in the Little league end of things. For sure.
- [26:16]
Dave Damask
That's a fun coach. Yeah, of course. Let him run. Yeah, let the. Let. The Mustang was the old Red Sox.
- [26:22]
Dan Hanzus
Third base coach when I was in college in Boston, they called him wave him in Kim. That's me.
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Mike Fuentes
So what's your favorite. So what's your favorite signal? Are you like. Are you like a hat on the bill guy? Do you do, like, one of these deals? Little.
- [26:32]
Dave Damask
I like eyes.
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Dan Hanzus
The indicator.
- [26:34]
Mike Fuentes
Oh, okay. I like that.
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Jeff Schwartz
Yeah.
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Mike Fuentes
For kids, you keep it simple, right?
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Dan Hanzus
Like. Yeah, you gotta keep this when you.
- [26:38]
Mike Fuentes
Want them to steal, you know, like, you do like, the really obvious thing.
- [26:41]
Dan Hanzus
Hey, you. You can do. You can do that. And you'll probably be fine because most catchers are unable to, you know, throw out a base runner anyway at second base. So you can do that because most of the time you can make it as simple as you want. 50% of the kids have no idea to even look over at you, no matter how many times you tell.
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Dave Damask
All right, here he is, everybody. How could we possibly do a show in super bowl week without having our guy who's joined us just about every week of this football season, and we've been made better for his presence, and I hope you a little bit smarter. It's our guy. Jeff Shorts is smarter than you, and when he says you, I think he's talking about me. Either way, it's Jeff Schwartz. What's the poop, fella? Happy Super Bowl 60 week.
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Jeff Schwartz
It's almost your Super Bowl. You get to go and ask if this is the biggest game of everyone's life. So I'm looking forward to seeing if you run that bit back this week.
- [27:35]
Dave Damask
That's not when I'm going to ask everybody if it's the biggest week of their life. That's. That's not exactly how it's.
- [27:40]
Jeff Schwartz
Must win game. Sorry. Must win. That's what it is. Must win game.
- [27:43]
Dave Damask
Spoiler alert. Please don't tip my hand here, Schwartz. Let's let it just to get. Get you up to speed here, Schwartz. The Fuentes boys, neither of whom, like, you know, behind the scenes, they. They don't praise you the way I do. But either way, that's neither here nor there. I don't know why I mentioned that. That was ugly. Let's move on. They're giving out awards that other people are not going to be giving out awards for at NFL honors. John Hamm is hosting those, of course, later in the week. So if you want to throw out. Hey, you know what? I'm going to ask you to give out this award right the gate here. NFL season 2025. Jeff Schwartz, one of the very small handful of people who talks about football for a living, who actually understands offensive line play, not the other Hammond Eggers out there who pretend to. What was the best offensive line in the NFL? 2025.
- [28:37]
Jeff Schwartz
Oh, man. The best offline in the NFL this season was probably the Denver Broncos.
- [28:45]
Dan Hanzus
Wow.
- [28:47]
Dave Damask
Really? I did not anticipate that answer. Okay. Congratulations to him.
- [28:51]
Jeff Schwartz
The problem is the running situation was really bad. It kind of, it kind of derailed their run game, but there it's, it's good offensive line.
- [29:02]
Dave Damask
Boy, it must be a really. I mean, they're, they're running backs collectively. Although they had. It felt like I, I suppose J.K. dobbins is the guy who would have made that straw to stir that drink had he been all right. Nevertheless, I'm a little surprised by that answer. And then what would be the worst offensive line?
- [29:23]
Jeff Schwartz
Oh, geez. I mean, too many to count. I mean, it's got to be the Chargers or the Raiders. I mean, the Chargers, it's not their fault. Part of the Raiders. The Raiders. It is their fault. That's who they win the season with. The Chargers at least tried. You guys got, the guys got hurt. You can't do anything about that. Probably the worst offense line was probably the Raiders or the Chargers. They're, they're, they're, they're pretty bad. Yeah, it wasn't fun to watch those teams play.
- [29:50]
Dave Damask
Okay, let's do this very quickly because I don't want time to expire. As you may have noticed, I tend to prattle and then I forget to get to the, to the main point of a conversation. So let's do it. Super Bowl 60, final score. Jeff Schwartz.
- [30:04]
Dan Hanzus
Oh.
- [30:07]
Jeff Schwartz
I like 2413 Seahawks.
- [30:12]
Dave Damask
Yeah. You know, I keep having conversations around this game and the thing that more and more the. If you're going to put something on this game, I think the under. But that seems. So that means just inherently unfun. The last football game of the year and you're going to bet for not very many points to be scored. But I feel like practically that's what's shaping up here. And let me just tell you my math. Everybody keeps pointing at buying that Seahawks defense. I also think it's interesting that if the Patriots do run the table here, in a weird way, it's sort of like how the first Patriots championship came about. They didn't just win a bunch of playoff games and held up the Lombardi. They beat the, they beat the Oakland Raiders who were real good that year in the snowstorm, the tuck rule game. Then they go to Pittsburgh as a double digit underdog and beat the Steelers. Then they go to the super bowl and they take down the Rams, who were the emerging dynasty of the time. That wasn't a garden variety title. That was especially impressive. And same goes for this run by Drake. May, as much as people keep talking about how he hasn't been as good throwing the ball in the postseason as he was in the regular season, I mean, consider what their run would be. The three games would be the best defense in the Texans, the third best defense probably in Denver. And if they do this, this would be at worst the second best defense in the NFL. Right.
- [31:38]
Jeff Schwartz
It's an incredible run if they, if they're able to do it. I just don't think they're doing it against the Seattle team. I mean I. Look, you can make the case that in, in each of the three games they've won, the pitcher had some distinct advantage, right. Like for example, their pass rush against the offensive lines they faced. Right. Like that's a distinct advantage they had. Obviously in the third game it was the Bronx had a backup quarterback in the game. Like that was distinct advantage they had. Where's the advantage in this game? They can still win the game, don't get me wrong. But where's the distinct advantage they have? Where's a matchup that you love for them? I like. I'll tell you one, I like their defensive tackles against the Seahawks, right guard. Like I like one of the matchups but like there's not a lot around, you know, I like Vrabel's ability to manage a game. We've seen them do it for longer than than Mike McDonald maybe forces Sam Darnold into a lot of issues, which is the number one worry I have about Seattle in this game. Otherwise there's not a ton. Obviously looking back on the 2001 Patriots, you mentioned Tom Brady. Like Doug at that time we didn't know that was a disadvantage for the Patriots.
- [32:41]
Dave Damask
Well, but as far as that goes and to tie it back to Bill Belichick, I don't know if you've heard he's in the news this week too. The and has been. People are very upset, Jeff, about him not getting a gold jacket. But what Belichick always did is I think what's available to these Patriots, which is advantage. No, but what makes that Seahawks offense go. It's jsn. And the Patriots have Christian Gonzalez, who is about as effective as anybody in pro football, taking away your number one option. If you can just assume, much like Darrell revisit for Belichick or what he would do against, you know, anybody's best was take away that option. If you are able to effectively take away jsn. Where does the Seahawks offense go from there? That's why I say I steer towards the under at this point.
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Jeff Schwartz
But we saw even last game they lined up JSN in the backfield like they. Kubiak does a great job of finding matchups for him. Even the. Though the team knows that that's happening, right? Like, we know they're going to jsn. You know, can you find ways to get him open even if you're. If you're guarding him? And the thing is that the Pagers defense, I think is good, but I don't. I don't think they're great. They. They played three bad offensive lines and bad offenses. Obviously the Bronx offensive line is good, but with Jerusalem, they're, you know, the team's a lot different. If they take away jsn, it's a problem, right? It absolutely would be a problem, but no one else has been able to do it this year. Dave, like, good luck with that. I mean, they just find different ways. You like just motioning him across the formation, motioning him in. I mean, the Chiefs do this with Travis Kelce, right? Everyone wants to double Travis Kelce. They can't because the Chiefs move him every single. Every single step, right? He's. He walk motions, he does goes across formation, comes back. Like if you have a smart offensive coordinator, you find ways to get that guy free. So that's what they've done with jsn. They found ways to get them one on one. And if Seattle runs the ball, as they've been doing the last five weeks or so, which has been a big improvement for them, that takes pressure off Sam Darnold to have to always find jsn, right. So if they continue to run the football as they have been, that's a big bonus for them.
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Dave Damask
I'm just trying to run through it. No one's prouder of his Super bowl era knowledge. So I should. 2413 would be a weird final score to have in a super. It'd be kind of like a. Not a great game, basically, is what it would Amount to. I have some. There are. One of the best things about Super Bowls is all the ridiculous prop bets that come up here. So I want to go through those. Not for anybody to actually wager on because most of them are too stupid to actually put something on. But. But they are funny to look at real quick either. The Fuentes boys want to introduce another category here.
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Mike Fuentes
I will, Dave. And you know what? Being the superstar producer I am, we're going to do a little bit of this. We have music. Cuz it's award show season, Dave. And as you know, this season is winding down. We already received an awards. Is that applause I hear? Oh, there you go. Thank you, Dave. Thank you very much.
- [35:40]
Dave Damask
Free applause, free applause.
- [35:42]
Mike Fuentes
And we're gonna move on to my own personal favorite award, the SOS Award. Same old award. And this rewards the team that. Well, guess what? They did it again. Another year of this. And Dave, unprecedented three winners this year. Three winners. Number one, the Cleveland Brown.
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Dave Damask
Wait, is this how award shows work? You can have a three way tie now.
- [36:03]
Mike Fuentes
The way this one works, Dave, number one, the Cleveland Browns. Their misery started in the draft when they drafted not one but two quarterbacks in Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders. So guess what? Another year of Browns football.
- [36:15]
Jeff Schwartz
Right?
- [36:15]
Mike Fuentes
Where Brown stuff belongs in the toilet, Right.
- [36:17]
Dave Damask
Hey, Jeff. Jeff, did you hear. Did you just hear the count? Was that my ear? Did I hear the count?
- [36:23]
Jeff Schwartz
I almost, I almost. I, I thought that. 1, 2. What are you guys talking about?
- [36:30]
Mike Fuentes
I'm giving out awards here.
- [36:31]
Dave Damask
Oh, you haven't been around Mike Fuentes. Yeah, it's weird.
- [36:33]
Dan Hanzus
You're not.
- [36:34]
Dave Damask
When, when the count shows up. I don't know, you're always off in the bathroom or getting some food or whatever.
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Mike Fuentes
Exactly. Number the second winner of the SOS Award, the Miami Dolphins. Another year, the Miami Dolphins, they start one in six, you think, hey, at least we're tanking. No, let's rattle off five in a row and end up with the number 12 pick. Once again, the Miami Dolphins, second recipient of the same old Dave.
- [36:56]
Dave Damask
Dave.
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Mike Fuentes
Their first award of award season. It is the Pittsburgh Steelers once again finishing just good enough to make the playoffs. But hey, we're not going anywhere. Another first round loss and there you go, your three winners of the SOS Same Old Football America awards.
- [37:13]
Dave Damask
Can I give a couple of notes very quickly? One, I can barely hear you with the music. Will you turn the music down?
- [37:21]
Jeff Schwartz
You know.
- [37:21]
Dave Damask
And two, I don't know if you heard the news, but same old Mike Tomlin left after 19 years. That is by definition, not the same.
- [37:30]
Jeff Schwartz
Old Dave, you know, for the season, Dave.
- [37:32]
Dan Hanzus
Very fair.
- [37:33]
Mike Fuentes
But that was after. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. This is why the Fuentes brothers love you. That was after the season for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So the Sable award. Pittsburgh Steelers.
- [37:42]
Jeff Schwartz
Thank you.
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Dave Damask
We'll get back to some more awards as we go along here. Now, listen, here's my question for you. Here's a. Here's a prop bet for you the style of Bad Bunny's dress. You can also bet on whether or not Bad Bunny will wear a dress at his halftime show. But you can guess the style. Ball gown plus 175. A halter dress plus 325. A body can. I don't even know what that means. Five to one a maxi. Don't know what that is. That's six to one. Is seven to one a shirt dress. What I'm learning is I don't know what these are.
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Jeff Schwartz
You say can, can't. A shirt dress looks like it's a shirt that's long. Looks like a dress. I do not know what that is. What's the third one? A can dress?
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Dave Damask
Well, there's a. Well, no, there's a halter dress, a shirt dressed. A body can.
- [38:32]
Jeff Schwartz
Body can. I'm looking.
- [38:34]
Dave Damask
What is a key? Pow.
- [38:35]
Jeff Schwartz
Body can. Oh, bodycon dress.
- [38:38]
Dave Damask
Bodycon. Yeah. What does that mean?
- [38:40]
Jeff Schwartz
Bodycon dresses are body conscious. Dresses are tight fitting, stretchy garments designed to highlight natural curves. Careful with your Internet searches here, guys. Yeah.
- [38:48]
Dave Damask
Also, you can do this. Will Bad Bunny experience a wardrobe malfunction? And then in parentheses, genitalia must be seen.
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Mike Fuentes
It's an important detail.
- [39:03]
Dave Damask
Well, we have to listen. We need to establish what the standard is. Wieners must be. Must be witnessed.
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Jeff Schwartz
I don't think we're going to see a wiener in this. In this halftime show. I just know I'm going to be. I'm probably going to watch the super bowl with some people that are not going to be very happy watching Bad Bunny perform at halftime. And it's going to be quite an interesting crowd.
- [39:22]
Dave Damask
You think people are going to be upset watching Bad Bunny?
- [39:25]
Jeff Schwartz
I think there's going to be people that I. That I'm with that are going to not enjoy the music and the outfits.
- [39:32]
Dave Damask
All right, It's. This is. All right, while you're here, let's talk about it.
- [39:38]
Jeff Schwartz
I think it's. I think it's dumb to not. Who cares?
- [39:40]
Dave Damask
I mean, this is what you're devoting your emotions to.
- [39:44]
Jeff Schwartz
I'm with you, buddy.
- [39:45]
Dave Damask
The Belichick thing. Okay, Belichick. Should be in the hall of Fame. Acting like it's the crisis of our time is a little bit much.
- [39:55]
Jeff Schwartz
Well, no, I. I think it's more the fact that the process of the hall of Fame seems not great. At Belichick can't get in the first ballot. That's the thing. And I think people look at it as, like, a vindictive thing. And people. And the process of the hall of Fame is. Is so secretive, Dave, that people. This is the reaction people are going to have as far as, like, the bad bunny thing. I'm, like, one of these people that I think I'm with. You were like, I don't have time to think about being upset about the halftime performance at a Super Bowl. I just. Who cares? I don't care. I just do not care.
- [40:28]
Dave Damask
It's funny. It's funny how we've been trained to care at all about the announcement. At some level, you're like, oh, who did they announce was the halftime show three months ago? Who gives a crap? It was such a weird thing to inject into football, but apparently it must draw eyeballs, I guess, at the Super Bowl. We've now learned it does. But when they first started doing this around the turn of the millennium, this, like, hey, it's a big football game. Halftime show is a super weird. Is a weird, unnecessary event. And I do question who. Like, I don't like football. I'm not watching football. Oh, Sheryl Crow's gonna play at halftime. Count me in. Like, but it clearly does work.
- [41:09]
Jeff Schwartz
It does. Look, my. My wife is not a football fan, so she's the one who likes the halftime show. Like, she will be the one who likes to watch Bad Bunny. She's the one who likes to watch the halftime show day. Like, that's who it's for. It's for my wife, who is at the super bowl party at the house, who is not there for the football. She's there for the family, right? The friends, the food, the booze. And for that, she will very much enjoy the halftime show. Like, that is what she's there for in the commercials. I'm there to watch football. That's what I care about. She's there for that. It's. It's just not. I have to. I don't care. I don't care. It's performing. Never care. What's your point? Never cared one bit is performing. I just want to watch a football game.
- [41:50]
Dave Damask
You know, one of the best things that happened to me as the result of talking about football for a Living is. I went to Seattle the September after they won their super bowl, when they won Super Bowl 48, I went up there to for the season opening game, prime time, NBC, all that. And so they had a band open up for them to, you know, create more splash. And so the day before the game, I'm walking from my hotel over to the stadium to the clink. And several blocks, I get within the stadium and I'm like, man, Seattle, how cool is that? Live music just going everywhere. I can hear a band playing, covering some sound garden. And I get closer and closer until I'm about 3, 400 yards away from the stadium. And up in the distance, I'm like, man, this cover band's really good. Why are they set up right in front of the stadium? And I get close enough to realize, oh, no, that's not a cover band, that sound garden. And I stood there with literally three other human beings, plus some shooters, trying to go through the rehearsal and watched a live rehearsal, a set, basically, of Soundgarden with fewer than five people alongside me. It was one of the great things I've ever witnessed. After that, it's all downhill. After that, have fun. Bad Bunny and Green Day and all the rest of it. Let me ask you this. Will a streaker be tackled on the field of play? Yes. Minus 110.
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Jeff Schwartz
Likelier in California probably than other. Other parts of the country. I. I would say no for this one. What's the no on this? Is there no just one way market, or is there a no on these props?
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Dave Damask
No, no, no. Minus 130. Is your no there? Wait, wait, wait.
- [43:29]
Jeff Schwartz
I think no. Can we.
- [43:30]
Mike Fuentes
Can we do a parlay? Ice protest plus streaker.
- [43:34]
Jeff Schwartz
Yes.
- [43:34]
Mike Fuentes
Is this possible all in one? Because I'm in on that.
- [43:36]
Jeff Schwartz
I can get there, there, Will. I'm. I'm in for the ice protest. Yes.
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Dave Damask
How good is this one? Will Sam Darnold seeing ghosts be mentioned at least once?
- [43:47]
Jeff Schwartz
Yes.
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Dave Damask
Six to one. That's that.
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Mike Fuentes
Start printing money.
- [43:49]
Jeff Schwartz
Absolutely. Absolutely. Collinsworth might start with that.
- [43:53]
Dave Damask
I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, Michael, Sam Darnley song does him.
- [43:58]
Mike Fuentes
Last week, and he said he still sees ghosts out there.
- [44:00]
Dave Damask
I'm just telling you. Seeing ghosts. I'm telling you.
- [44:05]
Jeff Schwartz
Is. Is there a prop of will will call forth? Mention my home's name?
- [44:13]
Dave Damask
I am. I'm trying.
- [44:15]
Jeff Schwartz
That'll catch in the first five minutes, too.
- [44:18]
Dave Damask
How about this? How many times will Cardi B be shown over? Under 1 1/2 times.
- [44:23]
Jeff Schwartz
Oh, under. I think just once.
- [44:25]
Dave Damask
Oh, you think so? Unless they have to cut away to all his other baby mamas.
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Mike Fuentes
But I think that the thing with that is she will. She will be mentioned, but she will be cut away. But will she appear in, like, celebration packages? Like, is it only in the stands?
- [44:40]
Jeff Schwartz
No, but I think it's only. These props only are, like, from the kickoff to the final whistle of the game. So in that period of time, how many times will she be. I think it's one time she'll be shown. You also have to imagine that New England has to score. Like, they got to do a lot of good things for her to be shown like that. The second half of the Chiefs Eagles game, they were showing Taylor Swift, when the Chiefs are down 34, nothing, like. So, like, there has to be a good place for New England to want to show her in the stands.
- [45:09]
Dave Damask
I'm going to go over in this one. I'm optimistic about this one in particular. One more for you. Will Mike Vrabel bleed from his face? Yes.
- [45:19]
Jeff Schwartz
Bleed from somewhere else after the game because he promised to cut something off if they won the Super Bowl.
- [45:25]
Dave Damask
Did he do it again? He has more than one of those. Because didn't he have to cut the first one off already?
- [45:30]
Mike Fuentes
I thought.
- [45:30]
Jeff Schwartz
I thought he promised to cut. To cut something off if he wanted. No, he didn't win the super bowl as a tight coach.
- [45:36]
Dave Damask
Oh, he was going to cut off his wiener. Yeah, they had to win the Super Bowl. That was the standard he laid out there.
- [45:43]
Jeff Schwartz
I think he said, oh, he. Oh, here you go. He just did his promise. In 2019, he agreed to cut off his. His penis if he won the Super Bowl. And I think. I think he. I think he just. He reneged on that a little bit.
- [45:59]
Dave Damask
I don't know.
- [45:59]
Jeff Schwartz
Maybe I'll cut it in half.
- [46:02]
Dave Damask
Last thing for you is this Schwartz to steer it back to the weird narratives that emerge. Do you think? I mean, everything's hyperbole at this point, but I love this thing of that as soon as the title games were settled, it was. The headlines were, don't count out Mike Vrabel just yet. I mean, how. Who are these Seahawks? I think that a lot of people. I always talk about the importance of dynasties, right. Because they give you context to what you're watching, that this team is back. I feel like we don't know. We don't have a feeling for either one of these teams. Do you think that the Seahawks, at the end of this one and through the off season, people are going to be talking about the Seahawks as some sort of Sturdy look out for this team. This is just the start of a run here.
- [46:50]
Jeff Schwartz
I'm going to, I'm glad you mentioned because I, I, I've been thinking about this. When it comes to college football, it does feel like people forgot Indiana won a championship very fast. And I don't think that's the case for other teams to win championships in the same manner. And I think that if Seattle were to win, it would be more forgotten about than New England. I think if New England wins, there's a lot more talk around, oh, they're back and dynasty and blah, blah, blah, blah. If Seattle wins, people will make it to be a one off and just be like, oh, just, you know, they just like a weird year. They won the Super Bowl. Darnold was out of his mind. He played great. Because I did text someone today. I was like, indiana won a championship like eight days ago. I got like, it's just like we don't talk about that anymore. It's just like an odd thing that it's such a, like no one's even.
- [47:36]
Dave Damask
Talking about they're even, they're moving special and all that. But that playoff, man, it's stretched.
- [47:40]
Jeff Schwartz
It's too long. It's way too long. It is way too long. But, but I do think that people.
- [47:44]
Dave Damask
Were tired of it by the time it ended.
- [47:46]
Jeff Schwartz
Yeah, I agree. I do think that, that if, if New England wins, it's a longer story than Seattle winning.
- [47:53]
Dave Damask
Jeff Short, you've been a mensch all season long. Obviously we'll continue the conversation once the super bowl is complete, but in the meantime, you've made this show, Football America, our first season, way better than it otherwise would have been. We appreciate you always stepping up and jumping on with us at the start of the weeks to, to try and help us out and make us seem a little bit smarter than we have been.
- [48:16]
Jeff Schwartz
I'm glad to be here. I'm eagerly awaiting for the year results and I hope, I hope that I can get those as soon as possible. Thank you.
- [48:26]
Dave Damask
All right, and next time we talk, let's figure out what Mike McCarthy's going to do differently. I mean, they're going to bring back, Are they really going to bring back Aaron Rodgers? My goodness. I don't, I don't have time for that discussion right now. Goodbye for now, Jeff. All right. Good times. Hanzu Schwartz star studded episode of Football America to get you're right for 60 will continue to do it all week long. So will the entire Le Batard network. Quickly, Fuentes boys, will any player or coach cry during the national anthem.
- [48:59]
Mike Fuentes
Has to be shown on tv, I'm guessing.
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Dave Damask
Yeah, well, I mean. What do you mean? How else would we.
- [49:03]
Mike Fuentes
How else would he prove it? Yeah, exactly. So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go player. I'm gonna go player. And. Yes.
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Dan Hanzus
Yeah.
- [49:10]
Dave Damask
What will the Seahawks call during the coin toss? Heads or tails?
- [49:14]
Jeff Schwartz
Tails, man. They're, you know, they're birds.
- [49:16]
Mike Fuentes
Yeah.
- [49:17]
Jeff Schwartz
Tails. Sure.
- [49:18]
Dave Damask
No. Country for old men taught us this important lesson and you guys are ignoring it. Anton Chigur asks, heads or tails? The guy behind the counter at the gas station, the old man says, heads. We know he lives. Their message is, that's the optimistic way to go. That's what you want. Everything is right in the world. Everything's coming up the way you expect it to. If you're calling tails, then you're a cynic. You expect things to come ass up. Don't bet tails. It fails. Heads is the way to go. These and more insights as we roll forward towards Super Bowl 60 upcoming. Until then, for the Fuentes boys, great thanks to Schwartz and to hand Zeus and to you, my fellow football Americans, for tuning in today and all season long. Back for more on Friday. Until then, thanks so much. It's been a thin slice of heaven.