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They tried, tried, tried, PFT, to blow that game many different ways. They were doing the Deshaun Jackson. They were dropping balls before the end zone. They were down 7-0 at half.
They were making just huge mistakes in special teams, giving the Texans first downs, and then somehow having it work their way, whereas a Kami Fairbair missed field goal from 27. But the Jets have won a game. The Jets are 3-6. I can't believe it.
They're such a bad team, but they're 3-6. And someone in this room thinks they're all the way back. I know they're all the way back. I think the Jets are going to win three straight right now.
I think we're going to turn around, and the Jets are going to be 6-6. It's the cayenne water. I'm going to start having to put cayenne pepper in my water. I told you on Tuesday night when we were recording.
I said, I think I'm going to take the Jets. The dark uniforms, the color rush, neon black uniforms. They're due. Everyone thought I was dumb.
Well, maybe I was just dumb enough to be right. Listen, I came around. I bet on them. The body control he had, he is so, so good.
But, yeah, everything else about the Jets is an absolute, like, even how they started the game, where it was, I think the first play of the game was just, hey, Devontae Adams, Aaron Rodgers, those guys know each other. They live together. They can think on the same wavelength. Devontae Adams streaking down the sideline wide open, and Aaron Rodgers throws it.
He basically hits the water cooler, and then looks at Devontae Adams like he made the mistake. That was an incredible catch, though. One of the best catches of the year, if not the best catch of the year. I want to kick it over to our good friend, Nick Fasoli.
He's always doing his job here at Barstool Sports. He had an interesting comment about it. I thought maybe we could discuss. He said, this tops Odell's, 100%.
Best catch ever. Ever. Best catch ever. Prisoner of the moment?
Maybe had a couple beers watching Thursday Night Football? Or is this an accurate take by our good friend Fasoli? It was a pretty incredible catch. We've talked about it a million times, but, like, the one thing, NFL players are so good at so many different things.
They're so fast, they're so strong, they're so skilled, but the body control. Like, for Garrett Wilson's whole momentum to go backwards in that moment and be able to get a body part down, you could try to do that 100 times in the end zone, and you would probably break every bone in your body trying to do it, and you'd never accomplish it. That was just, it's so out of, like, it's so insane what NFL players are able to do. And, yes, that catch, maybe not best ever, but it was pretty goddamn good.
It was a pretty good catch. And, yeah, it would go, like, your toes break, then your foot breaks, then your ankle breaks, then your shin break, then your knee breaks. And I don't know how NFL players do this from time to time, but how does the shin even hit the ground before the knee hits? I look down at my shin and my knee, and I think to myself, like, I would dislocate everything from my waist down if I could get my shin down before my knee.
It doesn't even seem possible. But, yeah, it was a great catch. I have a question for you guys, though, about, we saw the Deshaun Jackson play. Deshaun Jackson did this, like, three times, and nobody had ever done it before Deshaun.
And then after Deshaun, people do it left and right. Why? Watching Deshaun do it, and they're like, oh, this is a thing now? What happened?
It happens, like, once or twice a year, pretty regularly. Me, if I were in the NFL, I would run all the way to the back of the end zone every time. There would be no chance I would give that ball up early. I think the coolness factor of being like, man, I scored so easy, look at me drop the ball right away.
But it is, it's insane that it ever happens. It's truly insane that it ever happens. It's crazy. I'm with you, Big Ed.
I would hand the ball to the official, like I've been there before. Yep. I'd run into the tunnel. Memes.
Go ahead. This is the first happy memes we've had, I think, in a month? A month and a half? Yeah, it's been a very long time.
They should give Garrett Wilson all the money. I think he's the greatest player of all time. But this is, the first half was one of the worst first halves of all time. This is also the worst coach football team of all time.
Oh, that's a lot of all times. That was three all times. Okay. But they don't even really have a coach.
Yeah, you can't say it's the worst football coach team of all time. They fired their coach. They fired their coach, but you still have an interim coach. I understand, but that's like, it's not Jeff Ulrich's fault.
He wasn't the coach. They decided to fire the coach four weeks into the season. No, the Jeff Ulrich is the meme where it's just like, I got too important in my job, and now it's ruining my life. Like, he should just be the defensive coordinator.
That meme. Yeah, everyone knows that one. Thanks for speaking the internet to us. Okay, keep going.
The Peter principle where you just, in your job, you get promoted until the point where you reach incompetence. That's the corporate world. Yeah. Yeah, but we're still very poorly coached.
Yeah. Yeah, you fired your coach. You don't have a head coach. But we do have a coach.
Why? I don't think that you do. You don't. Jeff is our coach.
Right. Hopefully he's our coach. Right. So you still have to coach guys.
He shouldn't be the coach. You don't have a coach. You're talking about everything I need to hear. You're talking about him like he's your stepdad.
Jeff or coach? Yeah, Jeff. Yeah, Jeff. Jeff's our guy right now.
And you need to coach the players to take the ball and run over the goal line with it. It's not that hard. Yeah. You put that on coaching?
I don't know if I put that on coaching. I bet you Belichick tells his guys to cross the ball line. Yeah, what does Belichick say? The whole franchise in your hands?
Yeah. That's under coaching for me because it's just, it's lazy football. It's a little, like the minor details. It's the same thing as the penalty they had on the field goal.
Like the one thing you can't do is just run over the center, the long snapper. And that's exactly what they did. You need them in the head. Yeah, right.
That is coaching. That's just the end. But they don't have a coach. They don't have a coach.
Congratulations, Mims. I know you needed this, and it was good to see a win for you guys. Now, on the other hand, the Houston Texans, they're very banged up. They're missing some wide receivers, some weapons.
CJ Stroud doesn't look like himself. No. Their offensive line is bad, and they don't have weapons. And CJ Stroud, maybe sophomore slump, you want to call it?
I don't know. It's just 11 for 30, 191 yards. You could say, I don't think CJ Stroud's bad. Guys aren't getting open.
He's got no time. But their offense has not looked good for the majority of the year. You know what I mean? It's been a lot of ugly football, and it feels like they are a team that, unless Joe Mixon is doing everything, they're never ahead on the downs.
You know what I mean? It doesn't feel like they're sitting there with a lot of second and twos and the playbooks open. It's just a lot of third and eighths and CJ Stroud running for his life. And yeah, he's getting his ass kicked.
His offensive line isn't holding up. He's getting his ass kicked every single game. CJ Stroud, he's still a good quarterback. Don't get me wrong.
He's still making incredible throws. I think he'll be fine. If this is his sophomore slump, this is a pretty good sophomore slump to have. Yeah, there's six and three.
Yeah, memes. Real quick. What did you say? I have a theory about that.
Okay, go ahead. So it was a freaking Friday situation. Broncos, week four, Jets. Came in, Zach Wilson, Dap, Baron Rogers.
We got all that bad energy. Today, we sent all that bad energy to the Texans. Oh. Now it's over there.
And now we're back. Yes. Got it. Who is Zach Wilk?
That'd be CJ Stroud. CJ Stroud. Memes, real quick. Three and six.
At Cardinals. Home against the Colts. Home against the Seahawks. Do the Jets get to 500 before the stretch run the last five weeks of the season?
Gotta beat the Cardinals. Okay. Gotta beat the Cardinals. I feel that.
Aaron Rodgers had to run the table thing about Michael's in the pregame production game. Yeah. I mean, it does feel like if you're not six and six going down the stretch run, you have to win every game. Six and six, then you get a spot where you're like, okay, all right, if we go four and five down here, we can still lose a game.
But if you're sitting there, if you only win one or two in the next three, we're not even going to entertain this. Yeah, no. I'm excited about this current second half. But in reality, I know that we're in a deep dark hole.
Okay. But listen, darkness. Aaron Rodgers has been there. Embrace the darkness, memes.
Embrace the darkness. But I think we're in a good spot. Bad energy, Texans, Jets. You won a game and you put yourself in a position where if everything crazy happens to you, then you can be back at 500.
Yeah. Yeah. You got this. You got this, memes.
Do you believe this, memes? You don't believe this. No, I think he's just excited that they won a game. Yeah.
Which you should be. I'm very excited. We beat the Texans. They are a playoff game right now.
Yeah, and this is like a, it's nice to win a Thursday. Now you get a full weekend where you don't have to think about having to be in another must-win situation. You get a little break, mental break, and then you'll be back at it next week. Yeah, right back.
And they also just have to stop putting yourself around town. Yeah. Well, I think you guys still have, like. We have the Colts on Sunday Night Football.
What? What? Yeah. Damn.
Flex it. Colts on Sunday Night Football. You Flacco. Yeah, Joe Flacco.
Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco. I don't see one at the end of the year right now, but I'm sure they'll find a way to put you in another one. All right.
We should congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers on the World Series because they've won the World Series. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were the best team in baseball this year. They've been the best team in baseball for basically a decade.
I want to talk about the Yankees, but I want to give the Dodgers their full hat tip first. The Dodgers are, is it weird that even though they spend all this money and they're all in every single year, I weirdly am happy for the Dodgers because they have been the best team in baseball for, like, you know, the Astros obviously have a case, but the Dodgers have been in the playoffs for something like 12, 13 years in a row. They've won over 100 games a bunch of times. They won the COVID World Series, which I think we all, we joke about the bubble and stuff.
That's the only one where it's like, they did play significantly less games. You know, like the NBA still tried to play most of their games. The NFL played all their games. Baseball, they played 60 games, right?
So that was the one that was like a little weird. So this one kind of affirms like, hey, this is like great job. You guys did it. You know, all the times you've won 100 games and bounced the first round.
Baseball playoffs are so random. It's really just such a crap shoot. Who could be the hottest team? So I'm weirdly happy for the Dodgers and I'm happy for Shohei.
I'm happy for Walker Bueller who had a tough year and then he was just absolute nails in the playoffs. Got his first career save in the World Series clincher. Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts is a stud. And the Dodgers did it by just being the better team and being the fundamentally better team.
Because if you look at it, like average in the series was pretty much the same. Home runs the same, runs the same. The Dodgers just don't make mistakes like the Yankees make mistakes. And that showed 100% in game five when the Yankees had a complete and utter meltdown of which I don't think I've seen anything like that where it was just, it was, I mean, I've seen things like that, but like the bang, bang, bang, where it was Aaron Judge missing just an absolute can of corn.
The error at third base. And then Garrett Cole refusing to cover first base. All happening in rapid succession. Five unearned runs.
A guy, Garrett Cole had a no-hitter going into the fifth inning and they leave the fifth inning with no unearned runs and it's 5-5. That was insane. Absolutely insane. Well, yeah, I mean, going back to the Dodgers real quick though, Freddie Freeman, what he's done in this postseason, especially in the World Series, is absolutely incredible.
And going back to even when he was with Atlanta. Like this is, he is one of the best World Series batters of all time. You can look at stats, put him up against anybody. And what he did in the World Series, and he had other deep shots that were hit off the wall.
He had hard hit balls that were caught. Like that dude could not miss this entire World Series. It was cool to watch. I'm happy for Shohei as well.
He obviously seemed like he was pretty banged up in the World Series after that slide in second base. But he was out there. The other guys were happy for him, but he was like a shell of himself at the plate. But that fifth inning, yes, you're right.
That fifth inning that the Yankees had, absolutely incredible. As somebody that does not consider themselves to be a Yankees fan, I think I speak for most of America when I say that, that was an incredible piece of theater. Incredible performance. It was one right after the throw to third base.
He probably should have gone to second on that one to begin with, but then the throw was low to third base. It was like two errors in one. And on top of everything that happened in that inning, for Garrett Cole to go out there the next inning and lock the fuck in, it all went to shit in the fifth. It was actually very, very impressive on Garrett Cole's part.
I don't know if that was him being like, yeah, I probably should have gone to first base and I don't have to go out there and make up for it and just get absolutely lights out on him. But whatever he did to lock in, he should get some credit for that. But it's just an all-time screen grab now too. It's what, 5-0?
And Anthony Rizzo is picking up a ground ball and Garrett Cole has a path to beat Mookie Betts in the bag. Like that picture. And then the next thing that happens is 5-5. It was, and I know people were blaming Garrett Cole.
He should get blamed for not covering first base. That's like day one fundamentals. But in his semi-defense, that inning should have been over way before that because Aaron Judge dropped. I don't even know what happened with that ball that Aaron Judge dropped.
They got six rounds. It's crazy. It was nuts. With the Garrett Cole not covering first base thing, yes, it's on Garrett Cole.
I also think Rizzo probably could have tried to run to first base. I think he was, I think that ball had some weird spin on it and I think he was like trying to field it cleanly and that's just, I mean, Max, you're a baseball expert. You know, like that, they do that day one of spring training though. The pitcher covers first base there.
They do that day one of spring training of Lily. Like, that is the most fundamental play of baseball that he just had an absolute brain fart. Like, there's nothing else to it. Yeah, and it's just, maybe Rizzo could have been quicker to the ball, but I still think Rizzo thinks 100 times out of 100, a ball hit to his side, like, Garrett Cole's gonna go cover the back for him.
I think it's like, you have to make a decision on, like, as the ball's going. Like, he wasn't thinking he had to get there, so he didn't. Yeah. If he, off the bat, he's like, I'm the only person that get the first, like, he probably could have, but he just wasn't.
It's automatic. If there's a ground ball to the right side, you automatically, like, if the first instinct is run to first, like, no matter what. No, I'm saying Rizzo, yeah, I'm saying Rizzo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, if Rizzo, if Rizzo right away was going to run to first, but he just assumed that. Yeah, if Rizzo had screamed, like, I'm not going to first, maybe Rizzo could have gotten in. Why would you ever assume he wasn't? Rico is, like, not base.
He's not gonna be the fastest guy, most explosive athlete ever to feel that in run to first base. And I think he was a little surprised not to see Cole there, and then he just pulled up, too. And then everyone just standing around, like, well, what the fuck just happened? Yeah, and it's insult to injury.
I don't know if you guys saw, there was a story in the New York Post that, I'm just gonna read this real quick. It's the Dodgers scouting report. What the Dodgers told their players in scouting meetings was the Yankees were talent over fundamentals that if you run the bases with purpose and aggression, the Yankees will self-inflict harm as was exposed by Betts, Tommy Edmund, Freddie Freeman, et cetera. The value was very high to put the ball in play to make the Yankees execute.
They mentioned that the Yankees were not just the majors' worst base-running team by every metric, but the difference was vast on the field between them and the Padres who the Dodgers beat the NL Division series. Is Max just flossing on camera? Do you remember the floss, like him up close? I have ADD.
I do like different stupid shit. I may have been flossing. I may have been flossing, but that's gotta be such insult to injury that the Dodgers before the series were like, hey, just so you guys know, if you just try a little bit harder on every single play, they basically, the Dodgers got a scouting report that was like the Yankees are a softball team. They're like, all you gotta do is put the ball in play and run hard and they'll fuck up.
And that's what happened. Just put pressure on them and they're gonna fall under the pressure. It wasn't even pressure. That's the craziest part.
It wasn't even like, it was that much pressure. It was like, make them play baseball. Yeah. Crazy, crazy.
I thought it was interesting to talk to Soto right after the game was over. And they were like, so what do you think about next year? And under most circumstances, I think a player would say, I really enjoyed my time with Yankees. Great group of guys.
Sorry that we couldn't get it done and we'll just have to let the process play out. But then Soto was like, yeah, I'm gonna talk to every team in the league that wants to talk to me. Yeah. Yeah.
He basically proved that getting Soto for a year, now obviously the Yankees won the World Series, it's worth it, but it does not do them any favors in free agency. He has zero emotion to any team. It's literally just a blank shot. It goes to the Heisman.
I love that. Obviously, the Mets are gonna be involved. Obviously, teams like probably the Rangers might get involved too. Yankees are gonna make an offer, Dodgers maybe.
I don't know if they'd be willing to pay him as much money as he's gonna need. I actually wouldn't be surprised if the Nationals were involved to get him back too. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, why not?
If they have the money. He's a Bors guy, right? Oh yeah. Scott Bors had to just be pumping his fist when Soto said that.
Just not even a little bit of like, I love the guys in this clubhouse, it's gonna take me a couple days to get my head right. It's like, high spitter, get it ready. Did you guys see the fireworks in LA? That was pretty cool.
I saw the guy blow his hand off. Oh, I did not see that. That was not cool. That was on the 4U page of X.com, X Everything app.
I opened it up today and it was just this dude setting up a firecracker in the middle of the street. Blows his hand off and then he runs to the sidewalk dripping blood everywhere. It was a wonderful way to start my morning. Did he have a Dodger cap on?
He was a big Dodgers guy, yeah. All right, well, at least he's gotta win. Yeah. I mean, that was, LA, you know, I know Hank loves LA.
He wants us to move to LA. I have no affinity towards LA other than they did get a little screwed in winning their championships during COVID. And this one feels like, I know obviously the Rams, but this feels like the first one and they deserve that, you know? Like, cause imagine, flag's fly forever, all that shit.
But like, you win a COVID championship, you don't get to go to the games. You don't, you know, there's no parade. Like, this is the first true one. And like I said, the Dodgers have been the best team in baseball for Astro Panthers.
The best team in terms of like consistently being in the playoffs and winning, you know, 100 games for 12, 13 years. And so they deserve one. I know people will say they spent the most money they did. That's what the Yankees used to do.
So like that's, that's the Dodgers are the new Yankees and they played fundamental ball better than anyone else. They were the best team by far. Yeah. You know how you say that Cavs fans and Browns fans are different people, even though they are probably the same people, but you think of them in different ways.
That's exactly how I think of Dodgers fans and Lakers fans. I agree. Dodgers fans to me, they seem like a real like actual localized fan base. And I kind of root for Dodgers fans in that sense, in a way that's completely different from how I feel about the Lakers.
But yeah, I guess you could say they're the new Yankees, but I don't think that they've had enough success to really reach that point of like entitlement that Yankees fans sometimes get. I'm not saying they're the new Yankees in terms of like what they've done winning wise. I'm saying they're the new Yankees and the fact that like the Yankees used to be the best team that they would still be like, let's go get the best player in free agency. Like the Dodgers were a great team and they're like, yeah, let's fucking add shit away.
You know? And like you just said Soto, like I don't think the Dodgers will sign Soto, but if they did, I wouldn't, yeah, I guess that's what they do. They just keep spending the most amount of money. Yeah.
I wouldn't, I wouldn't be shocked. I think that's probably going to be the best. But again, whoever has the biggest check, that's it. Yeah.
It's sad knowing that like Tom Ricketts has the money and it's just, I'm not even going to even pretend to get my hopes up. Like I sent like two like low, low effort tweets being like, Juan Soto, come to the Cubs. That's how I, that's what it sounds like in my head when I'm tweeting it. Yeah.
Cause I just know it's not even a chance. Yeah. Just cause I just like, maybe he sees it and he's like, oh shit, I didn't even think maybe I should call the Cubs. You never know.
He's still fun to wait for. Yeah. All right. Anything else before we get to ourselves?
We got, by the way, Bob does sports. Our collab with him is out Tuesday. Go watch it. We have the, our vlog from after commanders bears.
And then today, episode one of the part of my take talk. So a lot of stuff going on. Yeah. I haven't seen the doc yet, but we were part of filming the doc.
They interviewed us and I think it's going to be really good. I think four episodes. This is episode one. Episode two.
We'll be in a couple of weeks all about BVT. And yeah, I think that's it. So we'll, we'll kick it to ourselves back in studio. Talk some football.
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It's going to be a great time. And I just added 500 bucks to the costume contest. So I think winner gets a thousand bucks. Come out to see us.
Fun time. Hell yes. All right. Let's kick it to ourselves.
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At the end of this week, we'll be at the halfway point of the NFL season. What was that face, Hank? Week nine? I just don't like it when you give me updates on these because it starts usually like week five after we've gotten through the first quarter of the season and I would prefer just not to know.
I'd prefer to just bury my head in the sand and be ignorant about it. Listen, week nine, we're almost at halftime. Before we get into the games, I really wish the NFL would link up moving our clocks with week nine. Instead, the clocks are being moved next week, week 10.
Why wouldn't they just do it at the halfway point? It feels like it would just make most sense. The NFL needs to come in and do their own version of the same time. We go by the NFL clock and we go by the NFL league year now.
The start of the new year is in March at some point. I like how the trade deadline is on election day this year. We need to do everything according to the NFL league rules. So I feel like if they want to decide maybe after the trade deadline, move the clocks.
Move the clocks. I just wish it was this weekend's next weekend and it's stupid. It is stupid because we've got baseball this week and I remember sometimes there would be daylight things in the middle of the World Series. But fortunately, they moved that back to that first week of November.
It would also suck too if it's like you're going out on Halloween and the next day you're losing time. That would be insult to the interest. They did pick a good week then. You're right.
Week 10, next week, move the clocks. All right, week nine, we have a full slate. Only two buys. Let's just dive into the games.
I think there's some exciting games this weekend. We got some good ones. We got some really good ones. You know which one I'm most excited for?
What? Broncos and Ravens. Broncos, right? Let's start there.
I'm excited about that one because Bo Nix has been actually good recently and their defense is legitimate top five defense. And the Ravens, if the Ravens had won last week, I would feel very strongly about believing them this week. But the fact that they lost last week tells me they're obviously not going to take it lately. But it's the most yards per play in the Ravens offense against the least yards per play given up in the Broncos defense.
I think this is the Ravens. I think it's a trick yourself into thinking the Broncos, which they're not bad. It's no knock on the Broncos, but the Ravens, awful loss, kind of a focused effort. Just signed Deontay Johnson, which is, I mean, that was a, was that not a genius trade?
Yeah, yeah. Deontay Johnson's good. And he also doesn't have to be the number one receiver. And if you're Deontay Johnson, it's a great trade.
Yeah. You're more pumped than anybody. Your life just got so much better. You got traded twice in the span of eight months.
Yeah. And the Panthers gave up Deontay Jackson for Deontay Johnson. And they got a, they also gave up, I think, a sixth and a seventh. And now they got back a fifth from Baltimore.
So they gave up a player and a sixth and a seventh and got back a fifth round pick. I guess, excuse me, good for the Panthers. I guess that's an asset. But you have to move on from your good players if you're in a position like they are.
But yeah, if you're Deontay, this is, this is nice. This is really good. Real nice. Yeah, I think the, I think the Broncos are good.
I think the Broncos have also played maybe the three worst teams in the NFL right now in the last three weeks, the Raiders-Saints-Panthers. Yeah, but as we discussed, there's a lot of ass up. There is a lot of ass. This is ass season.
There's a lot of ass. I just think the Ravens are a little, and again, it's off a loss where it's like the game they could have won and the Ravens are going to be very focused. Broncos riding high. And you see that nine point spread and you're like, but the Ravens have the second best success rate against five or more pass rushers this year.
So Lamar, I mean, if you blitz him, you're going to get fucked. That's another thing where if you're Lamar and you get the house in at you and you avoid the sack, even if they get into the backfield and you somehow avoid it and either take off with your feet or hit somebody down the field, that's got to be the most demoralizing thing as either an actual defense or as a fan of that team. Right. Just blitz the house and then he easily avoided your blitz and exploited it.
You're like, well, what the fuck do I do now? Yeah, we're out of options. Okay, next game that I'm also excited for, very excited for, Dolphins and Bills. Because, now I don't want to say that something looks easy, but the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen own the Miami Dolphins.
Yes. They are, the Dolphins are 2-12 against the Bills when Josh Allen's been the quarterback and they're 0-7 in Buffalo. I don't, they are, the Bills are the Dolphins' boogeyman. And Josh Allen specifically.
And it's crazy, we touched on it on Monday, but like, the Bills have just fucking dudes now. Like, Keon Coleman is becoming a dude. I love this quote. You see, he said, when you ain't get the ball and hit somebody, it's been fun for me.
I love that. He seems like one of those guys that's just a refreshing, like a fresh breath of air and the fact that he just loves playing football, loves doing his job, loves hitting guys. Shakir's awesome. There's some crazy stats out there about Shakir and Josh Allen.
Like, they just, every time he throws it to them, it's a catch. Yeah. Kincaid, James Cook, and the Dolphins. Matt Collins.
Matt Collins. The Dolphins, when they have to go, I don't know what the weather's gonna be like in Buffalo. When they have to go anywhere that's not Miami, I'm just like, no, they can't do it. Do you know when the last time the Dolphins beat the Bills in Buffalo was?
Well, I know it's at least 0-7, so. It was 2016. Yeah. And the quarterback was Terod Taylor.
Yeah. That's the last time that that's happened. They've never beaten Josh Allen in Buffalo. And since Josh Allen's been the quarterback of the Bills, the cumulative score is 460 to 269.
Just an ass-kicking. Ass-kicking. I'm looking at the weather. Daily forecast.
It's gonna be nice. A little rain, but still 57 degrees. That's too cold for the Dolphins. It's very, yeah, it's very, very cold for them.
Yeah. And Tua, I'm happy Tua's back. I don't think they're winning this game. I think it's gonna be a fun game.
I think the Bills, at least. They do score a lot of points when they play each other. Yeah. At least the Dolphins' offense looks fun.
And Josh Allen, I think Josh Allen's gonna have a big day with his feet, too. Yeah. I think he's gonna just, he's gonna take off. He's gonna run some people over.
Josh Allen talks down this weekend. Memes, if the Bills lose this game, we've already talked about the Jets next. Let's say the Jets win. Are you thinking, wow, we might be back in this?
Because it's 6-3 and the Jets would be 3-6. And we won. Did you guys win? Did you guys win?
We're saving this in the morning. Did you guys win? I don't think so. Oh.
So this would be bad if you won, and then you're like, I knew we were gonna win. Yeah. Well, there's one thing I know about Memes. By the time kickoff rolls around, you're gonna be like, we're gonna win.
Playoff. Super well win. Bruce Arians, we're gonna get to him when he was talking about being a 60. I said to Max, I was like, I'm back.
Yeah. Yeah, you just need a chip in a chair. Yeah. The Dolphins, I feel like they did the thing where they would blitz a lot and then just get abused by Kyler Murray last week.
Yeah. And that's gonna be Josh Allen this week. Yeah, their defense failed in the second half. The Dolphins, yeah, they're 27th in defensive DVLA.
All right, next game. Cowboys and Falcons. Another one I'm very excited for. Another must-win for Dallas.
This is a must-win for Dallas. These are just games. No, but we're doing the ones that we're most excited for. What are you talking about?
Hank, you're not excited about Cowboys. Why not? Well, Hank doesn't like football. You don't like football.
You're like winning. You're anti-football pussy. Tell me why. How about this, Hank?
Tell me why we shouldn't be excited about this game. Because the Cowboys stink and the Falcons are, it's just not like a, it doesn't pop, jump off the screen. It's not like. Oh, I think this one jumps.
You know, obviously football guys and football guys' guys love every game, but no one, no casual fans are like, oh shit. All right, this one doesn't, it doesn't jump off the screen. Cowboys, let me get to my couch. All right, jump off the screen, maybe not the right turn, but I would say this game stands out.
Yeah. It's the Cowboys playing for their season. I think Bichon's going to have a huge game. I think Cal Pits is going to have a huge game.
We had Trayvon Diggs make up with a reporter, which was nice. It feels good that we can respect journalism again. Yeah, he should let the reporter bow for him. Yeah, he should.
Yeah, just be like, I'm going to bow for you at some point. You have to answer all my questions. It has to be natural. Yeah, at their meeting, I wish the reporter said, it smells like up dog in here.
It's like a little prank. Just get him back. Did he's nuts for the up dog? The up dog?
Yeah. What's up dog? I have some stats for you. All right, here's something to be excited about.
Kyle Pitts. Bet him this week. Cowboys run the second most one-high shell looks in the lead. Kyle Pitts, six most yards per route for single high safety.
Kyle Pitts. And also Zeke is completely washed, by the way. Zeke is completely washed. He's the only running back with 30 carries who has yet to break or miss a tackle, according to SportsMobile Solutions.
He's yet to break a tackle? Break or miss a tackle. That's a pretty key thing about being a running back. But if you're worried about getting a little at the running back position, don't worry because Dalvin Cook's playing.
Yeah. The Cowboys are so sad. And it's also just, it's Dak and CD. They have to do everything.
I'm just rooting for something to happen in both the Ravens and the Cowboys game where we get to just tie into the fact that Jerry Jones passed on going after Derrick Henry again. Yeah. I want updates on that every single week. And Jerry Jones keeps talking about it, too.
Yeah, he does. He keeps being like, it's not bothering me. He's like, that guy's so good, but couldn't get him. Couldn't work.
I think this is going to be a fun over game, too. The Falcons can't rush the passer, and Dak is up and down. He's been like, if he's got a clean pocket, I think there's going to be points. Yeah, did you know that Dallas, I think that in the third quarter they can't score points.
Yeah. Whatever's going on about McCarthy at halftime, he maybe needs to switch over play calling again at halftime and give that up because they got crushed 21-0 last week in the third quarter. Now they've been outscored 61-19 in all third quarters. Do you think he's eating at halftime?
He's probably taking a snack. Maybe he needs to. Did you see that, I don't know, it was like maybe two weeks ago, Jeff Halfley, the defense coordinator for the Packers, was explaining, there was a reporter who asked about halftime, and he was like, you guys don't realize that I maybe have 90 seconds with the team at halftime. He's like, by the time I get all the way down, talk to our coaches, then have a minute to talk to our players, he's like, I hit two things.
He's like, there's no such thing as a halftime adjustment. The adjustments are happening throughout the game. And also maybe your individual position group coach was talking about. But he's like, I'm adjusting after every series.
It's not like a halftime adjustment, this is a whole new game. Maybe Mike McCarthy needs to go back to the well of tricks, smash a watermelon at halftime. Oh, that brings up bad memories for me, smash that watermelon. I was in that survivor roast.
I think it was for the pro football show, I was like 13-0, and I didn't know it was a watermelon. Yeah, maybe save some of these awesome stunts for halftime instead of for a pregame meeting on a Sunday or a Saturday. Was that Cooper Rush? I believe.
I think he smashed a watermelon for Cooper Rush. In the Cooper Rush game? Because it was Vikings. They beat the Vikings.