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Today is Wednesday, November 6th, and I think we need to elect a president of this podcast. I vote for Pug. I vote for Pug as well. I was going to say maybe Hank?
No. No, no, God, no. Why? But no, we should make Hank the president because he doesn't want to be the president.
Isn't that the rule you always say? We should find the person who least wants to be it? Yeah, my general rule of thumb is that anybody that wants to be president should never be president. The type of ego that you would need to be president.
It's a bad idea to elect those psychos. 15-year penalty. Shoot you up. Jail.
What? Hank says lock him up. Me? Yeah.
You're throwing penalties on me? Okay, so you're president. We have the NFL trade deadline to match him back. The first dog president has been elected.
Yeah, all right. Pug's going to come in here. We're going to tell him that he's president. What do you think his reaction is going to be?
I think he's going to be psyched, but he's going to be like... He's not even here. We just elected a guy he's not even here. That's perfect.
That's perfect. The country runs itself at this point. Pug is MIA. Oh, no.
Did someone throw a tennis ball or something? It's funny if he was just out on the court. He's just getting a tennis ball. All right, so yeah, you will not get any election coverage on this show.
We will talk football, and we also will tell Pug that he's president whenever he comes back. So Big T asked me a question about the election. I still think we should title that episode. You want to?
Okay, I said at the end of the... We already taped the end of the show, and I said we should do it. Should we do it? It's the most free downloads in the history of free downloads.
Maybe not. Maybe that's unethical. What if we add it in? What if it's like Brian Baldinger, NFL trade deadline, and the fate of our country 2024?
So Big T had an interesting question. It was like, you know the write-in line on every ballot? What if enough of the country got together and wrote in the same person, and then that person ended up getting elected, and he didn't want to be president? Did he want to be president?
That's how it works. Listen, I got duped early. That's where I'm at in life, and unfortunately, I think I'm just a guy who gets duped online now, like a fully duped online, because a guy, a Jaguar's account said, remember in 2014 when Blake Bortles finished sixth for the Florida governor's? I retweeted that.
I retweeted it as well. I was like, yeah, of course he did. He's the fucking vote. So I'm fine with just being the guy who gets duped.
No, it's not. It's at 20,000 votes. I should have been tipped off then. Here's the thing.
It had been exactly tied with whoever finished in last. Yeah. I think it was like 60,000 votes. I retweeted it as well, but I think that if enough people, excuse me, repost it on x.com, the everything that's all happening on x, if enough people repost it, then it just becomes the truth.
Yeah. So I think, yes, Blake Bortles, you can look that up now on Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure it says that he finished in sixth place. I'm just a duped guy now, but I was like, yeah, Blake Bortles would be the perfect, like, politician, because he would just go off vibes, and he would just be like, whatever.
Yeah, does it help people? Okay. Yeah, sure. You know what?
He's a man that can put in a plan for health in America. That can get us healthy again. If he just does that first thing in the morning, everybody, you wake up, and you take a piss. Yeah.
For your country. Wait, should Blake Bortles be the president of Part of My Take? Do you guys agree with this? I agree.
What if he doesn't answer? Is that... Blake Griffin. I think that makes it.
I like that. Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah. No, we can give Brooks a chance.
Should we just send a Zoom to all three of them? Oh, I don't think he's going to pick up. There's no chance he's going to pick up. It's Max a pug.
Oh. Yo. Hey. Blake.
We're taking the show right now, and, you know, it's a big day in the country, so we decided that we were going to create a president of Part of My Take, and we've elected you president of Part of My Take. Oh, man, I'm honored. Oh, hell yes. Do you take the job?
Oh, no, I have the opportunity to decline. You do? Oh, yeah, no, I don't want that. All right.
I'm VP material. Okay, all right, you're VP, you're VP. All right, because we were talking about how someone, a Jaguars fan account tweeted, they're like, remember in 2014 when Blake Bortles actually finished sixth for the governor in Florida, and I got dupe because I love you so much. I was like, yeah, of course you did.
I said you got 20,000 votes. It was completely photoshopped, but... Okay, so you're a VP. 15 times today.
I'm here for VP, for sure. All right, done. All right, great. All right, we'll talk to you later.
All right. See, that's a guy who should be a politician. That's perfect, yeah. He's like, oh, I can decline?
All right, so Pug is the president and Blake Bortles is VP. Yeah, so the stat that I accidentally reposted, my finger slipped, it says he got 20,066 votes for governor in the year 2014. I just believed it. I was like, I think I was blinded by my love for our vice president, Blake Bortles.
It could happen. Yeah, think about it. We have Pug. Pug.
We've decided, we started the show, you know, everyone's in the election mood, so we decided we need a president of Pardon My Take, and you have been voted as our president. I'm honored, Pug. Perfect. Yeah.
And Blake Bortles is your VP. Okay. I'm in. Pug, what kind of policies are you bringing to Pardon My Take?
Free popcorn machine. That's what I need to be loaded up. Okay, okay. Max on the couch.
Oh! Now we're getting into some fucking fiery policies. Max and Hank share the couch. Oh, I like that.
That's fine with me. Would you put yourself in Max's spot? Yeah. Yeah, and Shane will be in here.
Okay. I don't hate that. Oh, whoa. Veeves, what do we got going on?
Not Pug, Pug. Okay, all right, Pug, you are now president of Blake Bortles' VP. Thank you for accepting this very important role. I appreciate it.
That's for all the AWLs, all the Pugs. Love it. All right, should we talk some football? We got the business out of the way.
Let's talk football. We should talk Monday football real quick, then we'll get the NFL trade deadline. The Chiefs are perfect on the season. They are going to play every game the exact same way where you think the Chiefs might lose, and then they're going to be perfect on third down, and they're going to get a big defensive stop, and Patrick Mahomes is going to make a big play.
Oh, and yeah, Travis Kelsey's still alive. Yeah, still alive. Very much alive. Yeah, I think the, oh yeah, there we go.
Patrick Mahomes, yeah, that's just what they do. DeAndre Hopkins obviously does his coming out party, and I was impressed. Like, Baker is the man. I can't stop rooting for Baker and the Bucs because he's just, he's a gamer.
He's just going to be in every game and will them to try to win these games. Todd Bowles is the biggest fucking coward in the world. You pulled a Billy Napier. God, what a loser.
It's a loser move. So you're going up against the Chiefs. You're decimated by injuries. Baker just went out there and like bled all over himself for three hours.
You somehow got yourself in a position where you can win the game, score a touchdown, and then you have the opportunity to go for two on the road, Monday Night Football, against an undefeated team, or you can kick an extra point like a coward, go to overtime, and think that you can win overtime against literally Patrick Mahomes. And you decide to kick the extra point. Now, I saw somebody that posted like what the official stats were, and this is where Big Cat, you and I need to separate ourselves from the stats. Some people are saying that we become nerds because the whole 14 points go for two thing.
That's just math. That's just the one thing that we know about and understand. That is simply the only analytics that I'll ever understand, so I'm going to talk about it constantly to make people think I'm smart. That and beer before liquor.
Yeah. That's analytics too. And don't swim if you've had tuna fish sandwich. Yeah, good point.
Don't swim 30 minutes after eating? Yeah, 30 minutes after eating and pulling out is a good birth control. Yep. Okay, so here's what the official numbers are.
The winning percentage, if you go for the point after touchdown, 42.8%. The winning percentage, if you go for two after that touchdown, 41.2. So 41.2 for going for two versus 42.8 for going for the win. So they're saying it's safer by 1% to kick the extra point.
Not it. Here's why they're wrong. Here's why the nerds are wrong. It's fucking Patrick Mahomes on the other side.
It's the vibe check. You're fucking Patrick Mahomes. This is where, like whenever we have these arguments about analytics, I think we're actually two of the more like honest and grounded people when it comes to analytics are important. You should use the math in your advantage, but vibes are very much important and like time and place matters.
Too many people use the word analytics as just a word for a number that they don't like. Right. And I'm all for you. You are without Mike Evans, without Chris Godwin, you've taken the Chiefs to the limit here.
You have one play to win the game. Just go fucking run that play. And I don't, like if you don't get it, that's the other thing. It's like I would just rule every decision that you're making as a coach is if it fails, will I be blamed?
I wouldn't blame Tom Pouls there. I was thinking go for two the whole time. Just try to win the game. If you don't get the two, hey, at least you went out on the field.
Instead of the would I be blamed, what I like to do is I like to imagine what a fan of the other team doesn't want me to do. Correct. And then I do that thing. Correct.
So if you were to ask any Chiefs fan, what don't you want the Bucs to do? They would say, I don't want them to go for two on this play because I would love to take my chances in overtook. First of all, you get a coin flip to start out, so that's 50-50. And then you have Patrick Mahomes on the other side.
So even if you go down and kick an extra point or kick a field goal, you still have to stop Patrick Mahomes from scoring a touchdown. Now, in this case, you want to imagine what the other team does not want you to do. And it's a no-brainer for that. You have the opportunity to beat the Chiefs on Monday Night Football without giving their offense an opportunity to touch the ball.
Now, there was some time left too, and that's because Todd Bowles made a terrible decision. You'd call the time out. You'd like some of the time to tick off because then, yeah, you would end up going up by one, then kicking the ball to Mahomes, and then he gets four downs. And you don't factor in punting if you're the Chiefs on that offense.
Of course. But still, you go for two in that situation, you try to win the game right there. Win the game. Liam Cohn's a great offensive coordinator.
The fact that he has the Bucs still looking like a very confident offense with all their injuries, I don't know, K-Oton just gets steamed open on every play. It's crazy. So the Chiefs defense is gassed. You have a great offensive coordinator.
You have a gamer in Baker Mayfield who can run it in or throw it in, so you can do an option on that play. Go for two. And Todd Bowles, it's when a coach gets to a point where they're losing and they're losing in a stupid way that I just get so sick of their face. I'm so sick of Todd Bowles' face.
His little, like, where he squints his eyes when he's looking at the field, he looks like your grandparent or parent who's reading a menu that refuses to get glasses. You're like, do you need help? Like, can we read it for you? He just keeps squinting at the field.
Like, if I squint hard enough, it will look different. Todd Bowles wants him to turn up the font on the downtime. Yeah. Is that a three or is that a four?
It's just, there's something about his, like, I just, I've turned on Todd Bowles. I mean, I was never a big Todd Bowles guy, but this Bucs team fights so hard and Todd Bowles, you're a coward. Yeah, it was a cowardly move and the Bucs very easily could have won that game. They played well.
The Bucs were in there the whole time. They were playing hard on defense and I love Bucky. Bucky's the best. How can you not read for a guy named Bucky?
Yeah, Bucky Irving shot, white scored. I have a question about Patrick Mahomes. Is he the heir apparent to the Big Ben fake injury? Because Patrick Mahomes gets, like, horrifically injured at least three times a year and then he's totally fucked.
Okay, so be honest. In the moment after it happened, when he's getting carried off the other shoulder replay a couple times, what'd you think? I thought Achilles or knee. It was non-contact.
I was watching the game in bed, actually, and I was like, ooh, non-contact. That's actually way worse. And my wife was like, why? And I just felt like a dumbest person.
I was like, well, if you get hit, like, you know, you break a bone, but like non-contact, you don't know what happened. Total non-answer for me. But obviously, we've always learned that non-contact is way worse. Because if it's non-contact, then it's probably a ligament or a tendon.
And if it's a bone, you might get lucky and it's just a high ankle sprain. I did not have a good answer for that in the moment. I was just completely crumbled under pressure. So yeah, I thought it was Achilles or knee or like they said, maybe even his hip.
I thought it was Patrick Mahomes. I was like, Carson Wentz is going to, I was to the point where I was like, Carson Wentz probably won the Super Bowl. So I got mad. I got so mad when they showed Carson Wentz.
You look good in red. Yeah, I was like, this motherfucker is about to get on the field and force me to watch him play, which brings up big time PTSD. Yeah. And be successful.
And I was prepared for that. Carson looked very nervous. And he's probably thankful that he didn't have to go in because he is like in the co-pilot seat to potentially win the Super Bowl this year, which is kind of his thing that he likes to do. But the relief that I thought I saw in Carson Wentz's face, it's like, if you're in an exit row on an airplane and it crashes and you're like, oh, I got to get up and get everybody off this plane.
And then you wake up from that dream and you're like, oh, it's not real. That's what Carson Wentz felt when Mahomes was like, I'm just going to run this out on the sidelines. So he was fine after getting carried off the field. Like he wasn't putting any weight on his foot whatsoever.
In that shot where they were celebrating and he was sitting down and he looked up and he was just like, not good. I was convinced he was done for the year. And he does do this. I don't know.
I think he's got, you know, they always show his stretching and how he does these weird stretches in the off season. And he does have that little bit of dad bod. I think he's just indestructible. Yeah, he's going to be.
Yeah. Did we ever find out what could have potentially been the injury? Yeah, they said that he was working on an ankle sprain. I don't know if he was listed or if they were given treatment before the game for that, but he had an ankle sprain.
You know how sometimes if your ankle's fucked up and then you just step? Yeah. We're old, but you'll just take a step and step on it all the time. He did that like times a hundred where he stepped on it and re-aggravated it and then he was like, okay, nothing's actually wrong with it.
Andy Reid should have actually given Carson Wentz a game ball and been like, hey, in those 90 seconds you didn't piss and shit yourself. You're ready to go. Good job. You didn't run away from us.
Good job, Carson. We just went back and saw the picture of Carson Wentz with the like 107 ducks that he shot. I just assumed it was going to be like the NFL scripted. Carson Wentz obviously was playing an MVP level the year that he gets hurt.
Nick Foles wins the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes gets hurt. Carson Wentz wins the Super Bowl. That's what's going to happen.
If Wentz wasn't he would have cooked. Yeah, he would have won the Super Bowl. And we would have just been like, Carson Wentz won the Super Bowl. And then all the Taylor Swift fans in the world would have fallen in love with Carson Wentz.
And it would have been, all right, who would it have been? I'm trying to think. Not the Saints. Maybe the Saints.
I'm trying to think who would have been signed. Maybe the Giants would have signed Carson Wentz and he would have absolutely sucked. He would have won a Super Bowl. The Giants would have been like Carson Wentz starting quarterback going forward and then he would have gone back into a pumpkin.
I think maybe the Raiders. The Raiders, yeah. The Giants and the Raiders. Maybe the Titans.
Like one of those teams would have signed him and he would have sucked. Colts, really? Jets? The Jets sucked Carson Wentz.
The Jets would have signed Carson Wentz. We were robbed of the Carson Wentz story arc. I'm not ruling it out. No, I'm not either.
But yeah, so that was, the Chiefs are just, they're so fucking good. And they do it in such an efficient, like they never look flashy anymore. I think that, we'll talk to Baldy about it because he pointed out that DeAndre Hopkins changes that. But they just, you can't make a mistake against them.
And it just doesn't matter if there's a third down in eight, Patrick Holmes is going to get it. Their defense is also incredible. Really good. Really, really, really good.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it's kind of weird because I feel like the Chiefs, they're not the best team in the NFL, but they will be the best team in the NFL. They're the team no one would want to play in the playoff game because I would think they would win every single playoff game, which they have.
They have not lost the game since the Raiders Christmas Day game or the day after Christmas last year. They've not lost the game. They won their, what, last two games of the regular season and won all their playoff games and now they're 8-0. So they're 8-0.
Who's going to be the first analyst to get on TV and say, is this the worst 8-0 team that we've ever had in the NFL? It's not though. I've got way worse. They're winning games because they're good at football.
I think if they went undefeated, people would be like, this is the most uninspiring undefeated. They're not winning games because they're doing gimmicks. They're not winning games and blowouts against bad teams. They're just winning games because they do everything very, very good.
They just win games. So they have the Broncos next and they have at the Bills. If the Bills don't beat them, I don't know if they have a loss until the Texans and at the Steelers at the end of the season. That's what Sean McDermott should do.
Sean McDermott should hire Paul Rudd to sit next to him on the sidelines and be like, Paul, should I go for two here? What do you want as a fan of the Chiefs? And then make his decision thusly. Yeah, just go off of that.
All right, should we talk some NFL trade deadline, PFT? Are the commanders all in? I'm thinking soupy. Yeah?
I'm thinking soupy. Marshawn Lattimore obviously got traded. The commanders huge, huge. I mean, that's a great trade.
It's a good trade. We gave up a third-round pick and I think we swapped a fourth for a fifth. So essentially what Adam Peters did was he turned John Dotson into Marshawn Lattimore, which is a pretty good magic trick. Exactly.
We got a fifth back as well. Well, he actually did better than that because the third that we gave up is going to be a much worse draft pick. But we gave up an extra pick. But the third that we gave up is going to be a much worse draft pick than what we ended up getting from that trade because you had Miami's third round.
But you just said you swapped a fourth and a fifth. We swapped a third and a fifth. Okay, so we swapped a third and a fifth. Correct.
So you gave up more picks. So wait, me and you swapped a third and a fifth. Correct. And you added a fourth.
And we added a fourth. To Lattimore. So I didn't get a fifth back from you. Is that what you're saying?
We got a fifth. Wait, wait, wait. So PFT gave Max Jahan Dotson. Max gave PFT what?
Third round pick. We got Jahan Dotson and a fifth. And you gave up a third. And I think a seventh.
Okay, forget the seventh. Correct. What you then... So you traded Jahan Dotson and got a third round pick.
You traded Jahan Dotson and a fourth for Marshawn Lattimore. I got Miami's pick for Max. Miami's third round pick. I'm confused.
So then what did you trade for Marshawn Lattimore? So then we just traded our third round pick for Marshawn Lattimore. And a fourth? And a fourth.
A fourth and a fifth. We swapped a fourth and a fifth. But we also got one of your fifths. Yeah.
So it's Jahan Dotson and a fourth. Because it was the same trade plus a fourth. Okay. So it's Jahan Dotson and a fourth.
I still like it. So the reason why... And you're not Matt. No, I just wanted to clarify because he was saying things are incorrect.
Okay, so what I love about the trade is I still have no idea how to evaluate cornerbacks. I don't sit out there grinding film or anything. But I do trust one person more than most, and that's Ben Mentz. Yeah.
And Ben Mentz gave me a breakdown, a full breakdown of Marshawn Lattimore. And he said, Lockdown number one, physical, good length, will tackle. Competitive. Got a couple more years in his prime.
Still pretty fast. Hated Dennis Allen. That's the big one for me. Yeah, Dennis Allen got fired, which we happen to have to record on Sunday night.
Yeah, we got the Rizzler now. Yeah, we got the Rizzler. Rizzy. That was due to happen.
But yeah, the Commanders look like they're all in. Yeah, the other teams that we're interested in were the Chiefs, I think the 49ers. So other competent organizations are going for them. So I'm happy.
Our defense is like middle of the road-ish. And with Lattimore, it would be the craziest thing in the world if the Commanders won Super Bowl. I'm not thinking Supi, but it wouldn't be crazy. I was looking at the schedule and the standings.
I think you guys could be the one seed. I mean, the Lions have to play the NFC North. The Lions are a much better team than we are, but they have to play the NFC North. That's why these next two games for the Commanders are, that's why I asked the question, I was not trying to trap you, but if they go 2-0 in these next two games, their schedule is not that difficult.
One seed's right there. The Steelers and the Eagles in the next two weeks are very big games. If you go 2-0, that changes everything. Now I think that's down to 1-1.
1-1 would be great too, though I'm saying like, yeah, it's right there. Is the game in Pittsburgh? The game is at home. I mean, it's Pittsburgh, so they just get on a bus and do a thorough space for their ticket down to D.C.
and then they go do the thing. Yeah, all right, so one other trade we had. We had the Lions get better, so Zedaria Smith gets traded from the Browns. He's now on his third NFC North team.
I saw the Packers traded to Preston Smith to the Steelers. Steelers also got Mike Williams from the Jets. Meems, where are they getting from Mike Williams? What kind of players is Mike Williams right now?
What do you got, Meems? He didn't do much with the Jets, but Russell Wilson loves deep ball and Mike Williams is deep ball threat, so he didn't do much with the Jets. Okay, so you don't care about giving him up. No, not really, but Alanzar is on IR, so Mike Williams did fill a hole there, but young guys got to step up.
Young guys got to step up. What other trades did we have that were consequential? Tredavious White. Tredavious White got traded from the Rams to the Steelers?
Who got Tredavious White? All right, here we got the whole list. Tredavious White, I'm looking for his name. He's on the Ravens.
Okay, so I mean, a couple teams, and then obviously Deontay Johnson got traded last week, which was big. And then Schefter posted yesterday that D.K. Metcalf will not be traded, contrary to speculation. That is how I learned about D.K.
Metcalf potentially being traded, was Adam Schefter saying that he won't be traded. Got it. Yeah. Oh, also Khalil Herbert got traded from the Bears and then tweeted, thank you, God.
Yeah. I would like to make a statement now that I've had a little time to have the dust settle and watch D.J. Moore seemingly quit on the Bears season and Matt Iverfus be a moron. I think I'm just, I think I need to just let go and just give up.
And I see what you have, PFT, and new owners, and I think I just, I can't let myself get my hopes up until there's new owners, which will never happen. So that, just never, it makes a big difference. They're never going to hire someone, they're never going to hire an alpha male, they never want a guy who's bigger than the organization since Dicca, so it's, yeah, I'm just down bad. And Kel Williams is going to get ruined, Drake Mays is going to be better, Jane Daniels is already better, who else?
Bo Nix is better, Michael Penix is going to be better, they're all going to be better, and I'm just going to be, I'm just backing the whole cycle. Who's going to be on Sunday? Patriots? Yeah.
You have the opportunity to bury Hank Streams on. But at this point I saw a report that if there's a report which the Bears have never done, they've never fired a coach in the middle of the season, over 100 years history, there was a rumor that if they lost to the Patriots then Matty Bufus would get fired, so that's what am I rooting for. Yeah, that's a trick question. I think you've got to be rooting for Hank.
If you could guarantee that he would get fired, I would never root against the Bears, but I would at least have something on the other end if they do lose that game. Yeah, let's say Killa goes out, throws three touchdowns, no picks, 290 yards, and the defense just breaks down against Drake May. You'd be okay with that. It's all, it's all.
I listen to Matty Bufus. He's a loser. I listened to Bufus's press conference live and it's bad. He is not a good coach.
Nothing about the man inspires confidence. It was crazy. I was getting mad for the city of Chicago. I was like, this shouldn't be on the public airwaves here.
This is obscenity. Listening to him talk and just say the most innocuous coach cliches that he could think of to answer any given question. He was like, yeah, you know, I think we've got to do a better job running the football and we've got to stop the run. You know, this time of year stopping the run is important.
And it starts with me. It starts with me again. It starts with me. What are you going to say, Hank?
From the troll couch. Not the troll couch. I don't want the Patriots win this weekend. I'm going to be rooting for the Patriots because I don't think they would fire Matt Iberflus win or lose.
That was a rumor, but they're such cheap owners and they won't do it. I know he's a friend of the program, but I feel like when you're doing as bad as he is, getting funked up looks so much worse. Matt Iberflus? Yeah.
Like he got that poofy haircut. He's not running the program, by the way. He came on once. Let's not get crazy.
No, I was just going to say, you look ridiculous. You look ridiculous. Take that out of your mouth. And that was, no, I'm talking about Funk.
Oh, Funk is a friend of the program. Funk is still a friend of the program, yes. For the listeners, who's Funk again? Funk is the barber who cuts most of the hair for the Chicago Bears.
But he, and he has a friend in this office. He got the poofy hair before the season and it looks ridiculous now. I've said it a lot of times. Stop worrying about your hair.
They did it with Mitch. Yeah, I mean, you say that to a quarterback that cares more about how they dress. That guy, Matt Iberflus, he should spend more time sitting in his playbook and less time in the barber. Well, probably not because he's dangerous in his own playbook.
They did it with Mitch Trubisky. Obviously, Mitch Trubisky is drafted. John Fox is the coach. They fired John Fox after one year.
Then Nagy comes in. Then they draft Justin Fields. Fire Matt Nagy after a year. Matt Iberflus comes in.
They draft Akail Williams. Kept Matt Iberflus. They're gonna fire Matt Iberflus after a year. I've done this speech a million times, but it's the same old, same old bullshit.
And basically, they're like, hey, all we gotta do is get our head coach funked up and everyone will think that everything's changed. And nothing is changed. It's a space lift. It's bad.
So I'm in a dark, dark place. But I'm happy for you guys. You guys have some good organizations you get to root for and fun things coming up. And it's just...
It's strange. It's honestly, it's strange for me to be looking at transactions that would make me like, I think that they have a plan. Well, yeah. The crazy thing is, like, Jaden Daniels, he's so good at football and playing quarterback that he actually made a secondary better.
But it's not... Jaden Daniels is very, very good at playing football. If you had Dan Snyder and Jaden Daniels, it wouldn't work out. Oh, Jaden Daniels, yes.
That's the point where I came to that realization in the last 24 hours where I was like, why am I thinking that it's going to be different? It's the same people running the same dumpster fire over and over. We're going to do the same thing year in and year out. Did they go to the Super Bowl, though?
In 1985. It's been a while. If Dan Snyder was the owner of a game, and they should have won more, and they didn't. Then when Jaden Daniels got his rib broken, it would have punctured his heart, and he would have died on the field.
That's the vibe that having bad ownership will give you. It's a six-watcher. It's a six-watcher. I've reached the point where I'm not going to fight it.
I'm not going to fight it. Until the offseason, I'll fight it again. I'll be like, oh, yeah, new coach, this fucking guy. We're not going to hire Ben Johnson.
We're not going to hire Liam Cohn. We're going to probably hire the offensive coordinator, or maybe the defensive coordinator of the Panthers or something. I'll be like, well, he's next up. I'll get myself really excited, and I'll do the whole thing, and I'll get pumped, and then I'll finish 9-8 or 10-7, maybe, and then I'll be like, oh, next year's the year, and then they'll draft another guy, and then they'll fire the guy.
So all hope optimism is gone until July. That's it? Yeah. You can still go in the wrong way.
DJ Moore. He's quit. He doesn't like Caleb. He's bad.
Bad news. He's a fields guy. Khalil Herbert left and said, thank you, God. He tweeted, thank you, God.
Yeah. What do you do about DJ Moore going forward? I would trade him. How can him and Caleb play in the future?
Don't know, Max. It makes no sense to me. Maybe something will change, and I like DJ Moore. Seems like a great guy.
He is a very good receiver. Something has been off this year, and you can't pretend that that's not the case. You can't just be like, I can look over it after the text and stuff. Weird shit, you know, like body language.
But this one, I'm just like, it's, I don't know. You can't look past it. There's too many isolated incidents. Right, correct.
Where something is up. Each one, you can look over individually, but all of them together means that there's got to be. There's got to be something up, and I'm not blind to it. He missed his old buddy.
I think it's as simple as that. He was never going to love Caleb. No. He just saw Caleb.
And he got his money, which I'm happy he got his money. Again, it's not like a personal thing. I like DJ Moore the person. I like DJ Moore as a receiver in theory.
DJ Moore on this team this year has been something. Maybe he just woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Do you think Khalil Herbert is the first person to thank God for moving to Cincinnati? Yeah, probably.
I think maybe in history, right? Yeah, that's probably it. And then we also glossed over the biggest move of the trade deadline. Jerry Jones.
Yeah. Made a move. The Cowboys are still all in. Did not sign Pam Oliver.
He got it. He got it. Was it Jonathan Mingo? Yeah.
From the Panthers? Yeah. So fourth round receiver from the Panthers. Jerry said that they liked him a lot in the draft.
So basically, Jerry Jones has been stewing on not getting Mingo for the last, what, two years? Yep. And so he finally righted that wrong. And now, I guess, Trey Lance has another target.
That's huge. Massive. Trey Lance. It's going to be Trey Lance?
No, I think it's going to be Cooper Rush, but also Jerry said on his radio hit that he goes on every week and gives up way too much information about his personnel decisions. He said that it's going to be Cooper Rush, but also Trey Lance brings a lot of stuff to the table that you can't get from Cooper. Oh. So I wouldn't be surprised if you saw Trey Lance make his way in on some place.
A couple Trey Lance packages? Trey Lance packages, yeah. You need to punish them, Max. You need to beat them by a billion.
Yeah. I mean, Cooper, this has to be a spanking. It has to be. You have to put them over your knee and you've got to spank them.
Yeah, I know. For 60 minutes. Jerry World will still always scare me a little bit. Just spank them, Max.
Spank the fuck out of them. They're a team that's begging, begging for you to put them out of there. They're like, Daddy, please spank me. They're saying choke me out.
I'm hoping that we spank. I'm hoping that we spank. You got to spank. I'm confident that we spank.
You got to spank. AJ Brown, good news from the MRI. What's the good news? No structural damage.
Looks like just a bruise. That's good. Just a bruise. Just a bruise.
I look forward to him. I'm bummed out that we already played the Bucs because Marshawn Ladoward against Mike Evans is always fun. That would have been fun, yeah. Ripping each other's throats out every game.
Okay, anything else from the NFL world that we missed? I don't think so. This is a great quote from Jamar Chase today. They asked him about getting ready for Thursday night because there's going to be Bengals and Ravens on Thursday.
And this is from our good friend Ben Baby in Cincinnati. Love Ben Baby. We got to get Ben Baby on. He said, they asked him if it was like cramming for a test in school, getting ready to play on Thursday night.
And Jamar responded, I didn't study in school. Love that. Love that. Cardell Jones.
LSU, baby. I didn't come here to play school. I didn't come here to play school. Speaking of Cardell Jones, let me do an ad real quick and we'll talk some college football.
We're brought to you by ourselves. A Pardon My Cheese Steak. I don't want credit, but I feel like we glossed over the fact that I did say Drake, May, Jayden, Daniels, and Michael Penix are all going to be better than Cale Williams. That was big of me.
Well, I can tell that you're in your feelings right now. I'm bad. I'm down as bad as bad can be. I don't think that's true.
I still think that Cale is going to be a good quarterback. Probably not. And it's not against Cale. I still believe in Cale Williams, the quarterback.
I do not believe in the Bears, the organization. Breaking Moose. Breaking Moose. Max?
The NBA has suspended Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid for three games for altercation, shoving a columnist, in a post-game locker room. He's not playing the next three games. Wait, why isn't he playing? Because he's recovering from a meniscus injury.
Wait, so the NBA's investigation into Joel Embiid not playing in the first several games has been usurped by the NBA suspending Joel Embiid from playing for three games. Yeah, it's the domino meme. Make that memes. The first domino is...
Marcus Hayes writes a column about an investigation into Joel Embiid not playing and then the big domino is Joel Embiid can't play for three games. I'm sure I could follow that. They literally were like, hey, here's an investigation that they're not being correct about these injury reports and Marcus Hayes writes this article and then the article ends up with Joel Embiid pushing him which we stand by him, Joel Embiid that is, and now Joel Embiid can't play three games. But he also wasn't going to play him because he's hurt.