Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei and the Barbershop Crew:Super Duper NFL Wildcard Weekend

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We're ready to rock and roll for another episode of the Original Sports Podcast with yours truly, Mark Maraday, and my barbershop crew.
We're seeing the dream down there, lower corner, left.
I don't know why it's so dark in his crib.
What's going on there?
Are you saving money on electricity?
What's the deal?
Yeah, he had like eight Christmas trees.
He's got to save money.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, I see that.
Hey, there's Chops.
What's up, big man?
We can't hear you.
I didn't even realize it.
I didn't even realize that I had an old link up.
I was sitting here chilling, waiting.
Waiting backstage like the Jackson 5 ready to go on.
And I'm like, I'm on the wrong lane, Jack.
You look a little bit like Tito.
I can get down now.
A, B, C. I'm digging the chain.
Hey, what's up with Noob's headband there?
What do you got going on, Noob?
Did you ride the snowmobile today?
This is some old Jag attire.
Northwest Jags.
You're looking like a funny pirate.
I ain't going to say what, but a funny pirate.
I'm rooting for the Bucs.
Buccaneers, baby.
Yeah.
Let's go, buddy.
Hey, Baker Mayfield.
That's all I'm going to say.
Two words.
Baker Mayfield.
And there's the boy, T. Sizzle.
I just wanted to come on the show tonight and let you all know I'm officially coming back for another season.
Thank God.
Yes.
Thank God.
Hey, who would have thought that these teams in the playoffs would perform like they did in the blistering cold?
or even the dumb confines.
It was an amazing weekend.
Matt Stanford returned home to his beloved Detroit.
Injury-riddled Dolphins took a little side trip.
You know, 70 points a week or 70-point game one week, and now they're just barely getting by, man.
Mahomes, I kind of feel like he fell back to earth.
Boy, did he turn it up this weekend.
I thought he played a good game.
We're going to dive into the first weekend of the playoffs.
You know, we'll look at some different questions that have arisen by watching it.
We're going to recap most recent developments in a coaching carousel.
We hit the button sports topic for T-Sizzle.
And we'll have the dream bust us out with his question of the week.
We're glad to have Chubbs joining us today.
So let's get rocking, man.
How are you going to let my chain go?
Seriously.
I'm not down on him yet.
We're working on the gang, the chain gang.
Let's roll.
Yeah, buddy.
Yeah, actually, that's Vincent's.
That's Vincent's.
And, man, so football's an all-weather sport, right?
Would you guys all agree with that?
It's an all-weather sport.
Absolutely.
Why did some games go on when it was, like, minus 7 degrees outside, but yet another game didn't go on even though it was just snowing?
I remember other games in the snow as I was growing up, and shit was crazy.
Go ahead, Sheen.
Well, everyone's frozen, but – Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the weather.
The game in Buffalo you have because you didn't want people traveling up there and killing each other.
They got the traveling down.
Hey, look, right out of the gates, Ed Sheehan has to throw this trash out there.
Are we talking about Bill's and Josh Allen running over the stewards?
No, we're talking about how Josh Allen did a fake slide, some trash shit, and scored on a 50-some yard run.
Next time when T.J.
Watt plays, he's going to take his head off.
I'm going to send that message right to T.J.,
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hopefully T.J.
does because I think I just watched him run.
Hey, downshift.
Hey, for the record, has T.J.
ever taken anyone's hit off?
T.J.
Watt hits like a ton of bricks.
Oh, okay.
T.J.
Watt takes that ball and keeps moving, Jack.
Maybe with that rocket leg high kick that he does when he sacks people.
Are we getting into the slide, no slide?
Are we going to talk about that?
Let's move on right now and come back to it, okay?
Yeah, I got to talk about that.
Here's the problem.
Here's the problem.
People want to get on here talking shit.
Listen, this guy lives in fucking Germantown, and he's a Buffalo fan.
Give me a break, okay?
Give me a break.
Eddie.
Come on, Ed.
Racine, football, all-weather sport, what's the problem?
What do you mean, what's the problem?
Why didn't they play it in Buffalo, but they played in Kansas City?
I told you.
No.
Huh?
I don't find that.
That's not a viable excuse.
But here's the thing, Shane.
The tickets were already sold.
Okay, so you're not going to sell popcorn to vendors, whatever have you.
We've already seen during COVID, they played in stadiums empty.
So they could have done that.
And to me, it was football is, again, an all-weather sport.
You already know the reason the Bills and Chiefs want home field advantage is because weather is terrible during the playoffs.
So if you buy a ticket, you're rolling the dice, chappy.
You're rolling the dice.
So if they're in Miami and they had a hurricane, would they just play during the hurricane?
Well, you can't play in a hurricane.
Did you watch him play two weeks ago when they played the Ravens?
That was a treacherous downpour the whole entire game.
Hey, when I was in New Orleans for a bachelor party, we had a couple hurricanes and it still went on.
Matter of fact is the Steelers weren't allowed to travel until Saturday or Sunday.
So the game couldn't go on because the other team wasn't there.
There was a travel ban, right.
Okay, well, then again, my thing would be this.
When were the Steelers allowed to travel?
They couldn't travel until when?
Saturday or Sunday?
Saturday.
They couldn't travel.
That's why they always travel anyway.
They always travel the night before.
I was about to say they normally travel the night before.
But hold on.
When were the people there shoveling the snow?
Was that Monday afternoon or was that Sunday?
When was that?
I don't know.
Sunday.
What's happening, man?
Okay, so if they were shoveling Sunday, those people got there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
I see all these excuses rolling out here.
You know, somebody wants to tell me about Josh Allen rolling over to Steelers.
Okay, Pittsburgh gave up 21 points.
We'll come back to it again.
But, you know, they could have played the game.
Figure out a way to play the game.
It's the playoffs.
Fellas, here's the thing.
I'm old school.
Don't forget the ice ball.
Nobody flinched back in the day for the ice balls.
Mine was 27 degrees.
Half of them didn't even have shoes back then.
Were the shoes even invented?
I mean, seriously, they played it without hesitation.
They played.
Remember the fog bowl?
Was that the Chiefs?
No.
The Eagles?
No.
And the Bears, where literally you couldn't see the goalposts from end zone to end zone.
But they played.
I mean, they've always played.
Hey, did you see, I think it was Ken Anderson's post, I don't know where it was, Twitter or wherever, he goes, minus eight.
This isn't cold.
Whenever he played for the Bengals, he was, what was it, minus 40.
But honestly, let's keep it 100.
Let's keep it a buck.
Why are we even addressing this?
Let's not forget, they changed the rules of overtime because Josh Allen didn't get a turn.
Are you grasping that?
A grown man didn't get a turn.
Oh, we got to change the whole rules of this now.
I mean, so everything is changing nowadays.
Everything.
That's when they change it?
Yeah, remember, because when he didn't get his chance, when the Chiefs went down and scored.
They should have asked me.
Chops and I agree with you.
It is football and it should have been played on Sunday.
You figure out a way to make it happen, happen later in the day, whatever you want to do, whatever you want to do.
I just so I think the Steelers didn't travel till Sunday.
Now I think about it.
Yeah, I traveled Sunday.
That's right.
Yeah, they couldn't travel.
Why are you getting in the baby?
I don't know.
OK, well, hey, they can't do it in Buffalo.
Didn't they talk about having it in Cleveland or somewhere else?
Or I don't know.
Why didn't they do that?
Why didn't they go there?
The governor who talked smack on the Steelers and told Pittsburgh fans not to go up there was like, hey, we don't want you traveling in this treacherous weather, especially since you're not going to win, basically is what she said, which is pretty crazy to me.
But, yeah, you know, for me, I think they play in all kinds of weather.
That's part of football.
That's part of football.
It's not baseball.
The only thing I could see them stopping it for, which they did in games during the season, is lightning.
Oh, yeah, lightning.
Supposedly, when they build that new stadium, I don't know if you guys heard that, they're going to have a canopy of some sort.
It's going to cover 60% to 70% of the field, and they're copying that off of the field that they played in in Tottenham, and they're going to take care of that situation.
Would you guys like for all stadiums to go indoors?
No.
No.
No, absolutely not.
The weather's part of the element.
I hate that Minnesota did it.
I hate that Minnesota went indoors.
So, hey, officiating is supposed to be neutral, keep games fair based on infractions.
And I'm talking in general, guys.
I'm talking in general.
Why are so many sports today so clearly impacted by calls?
Because if they don't get it right, they can just review it.
Everything's reviewed now.
But they're still not getting it right.
Right.
There's still a lot.
The human element.
But everything's reviewable.
I was watching NCAA basketball.
Review it.
I'm like, I didn't even know that that was a thing in NCAA basketball.
My thing is I loved it when they brought in review because they said, we understand humans will make mistakes, but since there's so much money on these games, we need to get this right.
But when we're watching it –
We see that you blew the – you blew it.
You blew the call.
You blew it.
And you're still not going to fess up to, hey, I'm human.
I blew the call.
It is what it is.
Keep moving.
I just – that's what's been bugging me about it.
That's what's been bugging me.
Mike, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this because I'm not sure what my guy Rasheen is doing.
He's deep in thought over here.
Well, the problem is the ones that aren't reviewable, like roughing the passer, when somebody bumps into Patrick Mahomes –
Those are the ones that are the game-changing ones, and interference is not reviewable.
They can't review interference, right?
They review the ones that are like turnovers and things like that.
They don't review holding.
The ones that you see that change the game, offensive holding, they'll call it defensive holding if they don't want somebody to score or if they want them to score.
They'll call it defensive holding where it comes out of nowhere, and it's just –
It's kind of shady how it goes on.
If you pay attention to it.
It's very subjective, man.
It's very subjective.
A guy will put a guy in a face mask, wrap his arm around his waist, and they won't throw a flag when he doesn't get to the ball.
And people will say, well, he should have got there.
He should have fought through it.
Come on, man.
These are grown-ass men going at it.
You know, they're strong, grown-ass men playing a game.
I have a problem with watching it in the NHL, but here's what the NHL does.
They send it to New York and there are people sitting in the NHL offices in New York watching the games.
They do the review there.
There is no official that goes over and gets a little camera in front of his face.
They send it to New York so they can break it down thoroughly and give you the right call.
And it's very rare in the NHL that they miss anything.
Very rare.
But
Hey, last spontaneous reaction.
The trend in the NFL, guys, and I know you know this trend, it's going from defensive head coaches to young offensive head coaches.
But why is a retread like Belichick being mentioned in a number of places?
Atlanta, Washington, I've heard him in Tennessee.
Dallas.
Yeah, Dallas, definitely Dallas.
That was funny.
That's funny you say that because they said, okay, Belichick comes into the interview.
Like, you don't know what the hell his resume says.
What's he going to say?
I saw one that said Belichick.
Admit it.
Belichick is interviewing Atlanta.
Atlanta's not interviewing him.
You know, it was interesting.
I heard today that Dan Quinn, the defensive coordinator from Dallas – in fact, I just read this.
Hey, Hutch, I agree with you 100%, by the way.
Dan Quinn is interviewing at like five places, like chargers.
Like there are five places listed.
Every one of them Zoomed.
Hey, I have a question about that.
Do you think some of these guys, some of these teams are using this as leverage saying, we interviewed Belichick, we interviewed Harbaugh, and that's getting them stock or leverage?
Fellas, I argue all the time.
with people on how the Steelers are always tied to bring in a top free agent or they're always, but somehow they never get them.
I don't believe the Steelers do that at all.
I do not believe.
And I'll start pointing out to you guys next time it happens.
Well, the Steelers were in line to get, but he didn't get them.
The Steelers wanted to make a play for, but they didn't get them.
So that very well could be, but real quick, Mark, to your question, why is Belichick getting traction again?
I'm still an old school cat.
Defense travels, defense wins championships.
Offense field stadiums, defense wins championships.
I hate Belichick.
I hate all things New England.
He will always be a New England cat to me, but I got to give him props the way he can take away your defensive star or your offensive star with his defense.
Now,
So I believe that's why all teams believe he can put in their defense or his defense with their players.
I think that can be successful anywhere.
Even this year, his offense was putrid, terrible, horrible.
But his defense was nice.
His offense was decent, but his offense was terrible, but the defense was nice.
His defense is always play.
That's a great point.
It was a good defense.
But if you can't put some points on the board, it's an offensive league today.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, 28 points is almost abysmal.
He's the greatest coach of all time.
Why wouldn't you want him?
Why wouldn't he gain traction?
He has something to share and something to do.
You know why?
Here's what I think.
Noobs back me on this.
Rasheed and Seagull back me on this.
He has proven the last few years that without Tom Brady, he's just whatever.
He's proving himself, Tom Brady.
He's got mac and cheese.
What's he going to do?
I think he needs to be with a good personnel guy.
I think he does too much.
He's overextended with his role.
And him as a talent evaluator is questionable.
I think him as a coach is great.
But the guys he's drafted are very questionable.
Fellas, here's my thing.
I understand Tom Brady went to Tampa and won a championship there.
It helped that you had the number one rated offense.
It helped that you had the number one rated defense.
But also, let's not forget, Brady struggled in Tampa Bay for the first six weeks until Arians put in the New England offense, where it was nothing but crossing routes.
Now, again, defenses couldn't stop it, but that's what helped him.
And it's kind of crazy because Brady is considered the greatest quarterback of all times.
And again, not by me, and I get in arguments with everybody on this.
He's considered the greatest quarterback
football player of all times, the greatest QB, because he has the most championships.
But we don't do that in any other sport.
We don't do that in any other sport.
And if I ask you who's the best pure passer, the best arm, the best scrambler, you're never going to pick Brady in any one of those.
The reason it gives him, they say, the best quarterback of all time is because he has rings.
You don't do that in any other sport.
I don't get that.
That I don't get because we don't do that in any other sport.
I just don't get it.
I don't understand that.
And let's not forget, in his 18, 19 years in New England, Brady had a top-10 defense 10 of those years.
He did not have a top-10 defense when they lost to Philly.
And would they put up almost 40 and still lost?
Because his defense wasn't there.
Rings are the things.
Rings are the things.
That's going to speak volumes over someone who can run like Lamar.
But only in football.
But he's not going to – I mean, if he don't get the rings –
Look here, if I tell you Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest basketball player of all time, nobody's going to go with that.
Maybe some old school cats.
If I tell you the greatest hockey player of all time, Gretzky doesn't have the most rings, but you're going, Gretzky.
You know what I mean?
That's just what I don't get, why we do that at the quarterback position in football.
And the crazy part about it is that is the one position to where –
I like Marino.
Marino's never made a tackle.
Brady's never made a tackle.
But yet, if their team loses, the quarterback gets a lot of flack.
I don't know, man.
I just don't understand how.
And who started that?
Who started that rings and championship make you the best?
It's this quarterback versus this quarterback.
The quarterbacks aren't playing each other.
I hate when they say that.
Mahomes versus Allen.
It's not Mahomes.
He always had a really good offensive line, too, to be honest with you.
He always had really good guys.
Hey, let's move into the super wild card weekend, y'all.
I went by game.
Game one that came up was Browns and Texans.
Wow.
I thoroughly was pleased watching that game.
Schmitty thinks Montana is the GOAT.
That's what he thinks.
I like Schmitty.
Right?
Or he have two?
Hey.
Four.
Then he have two and Young has two?
Yeah, or do they have five Super Bowls, don't they?
San Francisco has five Super Bowls, so Montana might have three, and Young has two.
But back to where I was.
Mike, what did you see in that Texans game against the Browns that defined them?
Because, you know, every one of you guys picked the Browns, and I was the only one who took the Texans.
Only one.
Rubbing it in.
I tell you what, man, that young defense was getting it done for the Texans.
They played well.
They have a nice crew.
Young defense and the young offense and the young coaches, everything was about the youngs.
I'm not talking about my family, but they just kicked their ass.
Yes, sir.
I'll tell you what, the Stroud kid, I said this how many times, he will be the best Ohio State quarterback that we see in our generations.
Mark, thank you.
How can you dispute that?
Art Sleet, sir.
Let me ask you something.
Mark and Coach New, if you guys deal with the younger generation, the younger cats in football and sports, if you're a quarterback,
and you have aspirations to go to the league, do you want to go to Alabama?
Do you want to go to Ohio State?
Because just pedigree, those two schools, they win chips.
They win chips in college.
But their quarterbacks don't do well in the NFL.
You know what I mean?
If you think about it, go down the list.
Before Mac Jones and his hippie, it was who?
Stabler.
Well, why wouldn't you?
Because I'll tell you why you would, because of the receivers.
You get the receivers at OSU.
Yeah, but I'm going to go to them.
Hell yeah, I'm going there.
It's going to make me look good because they are good, right?
But think about it.
Every quarterback at Ohio State is doing well, and you can name a slew of them.
But once they take that last nap, their final year, and they go, they'll get their shot in the league, but they're not panning out.
And I can't even put it on Ohio State.
Maybe they're not hiring the right quarterback coach once they graduate.
I don't know.
But I've thought about that for years.
Think about even Texas Tech.
Before Mahomes, Texas Tech always had gunslingers in college.
They just weren't hitting much in the league.
You know what I mean?
I think about things like that.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Man.
Man.
You know why I picked the Browns?
I thought old Joey Bag of Donuts, old Joey Flacco, January Joe.
I thought he was going to do something.
I thought the moment was going to be too big for D'Amico and your boy Stroud.
And it wasn't.
That's so hard.
They're fun to watch.
Stroud's as cool as the other side of the pillow, my man.
He's a 22-year-old kid.
He's just –
Just bring it.
You know, he just sits there and takes what comes at him.
And, you know, the offensive calls, the defensive awareness, but what they did is shut the Browns down, which the Browns –
Smitty, I know Flacco was your boy, but the Browns didn't impress me.
The Browns defensively were very good.
But, you know, the defensive player of the year, according to PFF, was, well, none other than the great Myles Garrett.
You know what Myles Garrett had in that game?
A great big giant zero for everything.
Yeah.
So, you know, you could go ahead and you can size him up all you want.
I don't care.
He ain't T.J.
Oh, God.
But that's what I like about sports on the aspect that you never know.
It happens in every sport.
A guy shines the entire year or whatever, and in the big game, I mean, he just can't get it done.
Can't get the J-O-B-D-O-N-E.
Like that guy from the Cowboys?
Oh, yeah.
We're coming up on real soon.
Talking about that.
Cost me a friendship because he just couldn't take the fact Cowboys overrated.
I'm not trying to be funny.
Seriously, not trying to be funny.
Every year.
I know I do.
Every year I watch.
You know what I mean?
It's a great pumpkin Charlie Brown.
I know how it's going to end, but I still watch it with great anticipation.
We know how the Cowboys are going to end.
We know it.
It doesn't matter what they do week one through now, week one through 17, because come the playoffs, Garbino's.
At home, too, did you see your boy Jerry Jones when they were going to him?
He was hot as a $2 pistol.
You talk about mad, whoo, he was good and hot.
He's still on his payroll right now.
81 years old.
I know I can spend a lot more of my money than coaching that team or running that team.
Get out while it's good.
Miami at the Chiefs, man.
The Chiefs finally played football like they know how to play football.
Hey, did you see the beautiful coat that Taylor came in with?
She had a special maid, and the lady who special made it, she is absolutely smoking hot, and her husband is, like, slicing her up now.
He wants to get some cash.
Yeah.
He wants to get cash rolling.
The American dream.
But here's the thing.
Honestly, they still had some drops, which the Chiefs had been doing.
They still had some drops.
However, however.
The Dolphins are below 40 degrees.
Don't forget, it was Tampa Bay for years and years.
And then they finally broke through and had a playoff win under 40 degrees.
But under the 40 degrees, the Dolphins, they're terrible.
That's why it is so important for home field advantage in Buffalo.
And everywhere loves it, of course.
But everybody loves home field advantage.
But when you talk about Kansas City and or Buffalo, that's it.
Hey, they were putting up Steeler-like numbers, 40 points in the last 12 quarters.
What happened to that high-powered offense?
Went by the wayside with all those injuries.
The injuries and the weather.
Yeah, the injuries happened, you know.
Hey, let's go ahead.
Let's get into the Pittsburgh Buffalo game, man.
I'm going to go way back to the initial question dropped on me by a Buffalo Bill fan that said, let's talk about –
You know, them running, Allen running on the Steelers.
Anybody want to take that question?
So can I talk about that really quick?
Yeah.
The fake slide is bullshit.
So now this is interesting because there are no Pittsburgh people complaining in 2021 when Kenny Pickett fake slides against Wake Forest.
Everyone was all excited about that.
Yeah, but we dominated Wake.
Let's move on.
But that was bullshit.
So anyway.
No one from Pittsburgh complained about that.
But the NCAA did the right thing.
They actually made it illegal to fake slide.
The NFL has not followed suit.
They have not done it, but I bet they do it in this offseason.
I bet they address this issue.
Honestly, Coat Noobs, I find it hard to believe
if the NFL will do anything that takes away from offense.
They're now – guys like us, true football fans who like cracking at the pads, who like football, we are fossils.
They are now going to nothing but offense, nothing but offense.
They like the – I don't think they're going to do anything to slow down the offense.
I really don't.
I really don't.
But here's my thing.
Get mad at me because I've already went head-to-head with some Steeler fans.
If you noticed Minka's effort or lack of effort on that play, even if you – I don't care that you fake slid.
If Minka would have done what he's supposed to and showed a little bit of effort for the love of – Any other time he's letting that guy out.
Any other time.
What's he doing?
Man, but there was a couple plays.
Minka's effort was lackluster in a couple plays, fella, quite a few.
Sizzle, Sizzle, Minka don't lay anyone out.
Let's get that straight.
Yes, he did.
We need to quit with this like people are.
He's a ball hawk.
He's a ball hawk.
He ain't Donny Shell, but he's a ball hawk.
He hits people.
You say he don't hit anyone?
Do you know the reason these guys don't hit like they used to?
Not the way he started out in Miami.
Not the way he started out in Miami.
Who did he hit, Sizzle?
Go ahead.
Give me one hit.
I can give you – I can give you about ten Ryan Clarks.
Wes Welker, Boris McGahee.
He put McGahee in fetal position.
McGahee.
But she knows days are gone.
I mean, I'd love to see even a clean, nice hit by somebody.
He hit somebody.
Listen.
And now – Tell me why you're flagging you.
Missing tackles.
Noobs, I left that one up there for you.
You want to address that?
Yes.
We might have some problems here, buddy.
You keep insulting my alma mater.
We're going to have some issues.
I'll see you in person, big guy.
Don't make him take the rag off.
No, you know, I just –
I don't want to say that was a difference maker.
To me, the difference maker in that game was the one that the interception that Mason threw in the end zone.
That was a different and that was a really good play by that guy.
But it was a really piss poor throw to where he threw it.
Deontay did not even attempt to come back for it.
I don't know what the play call was.
I don't know if it was a fade or a back shoulder.
I don't know what it was, but that was the difference maker for me.
That and the fact that they did get pressure on Allen, but you brought Peterson off the edge that one play.
What's Allen do?
He escapes him.
Put your helmet in his fucking freaking chest and lay him out.
Hey, you know, thanks for chiming in here, Lou.
Lou says, if you hit him, you get a flag.
And so is that why people are pulling up, stopping short, Mr. Costanza?
Yes.
At least grab him first.
Grab him first before you say it.
You know what I mean?
I agree, Chops.
You got to at least get hands on him.
Yeah.
But I get where they're coming from.
But, you know, you don't want to hit him.
First off, noobs, Mark, you got to break down.
You got to break down a little bit.
They're coming in running full speed, trying to get on ESPN, and he just blew it, man.
Peterson had a rough game, though.
I mean, he's the second team, and he had to be thrown in to start.
It was rough, man.
Just choose me.
I'm curious if they keep him and bump him back to safety, let him play some safety, or if they cut him loose because he's got another year on that contract in Pittsburgh.
Mark, two things.
Hey, Mark, two things real quick.
Go ahead.
Okay.
No, I was going to say.
I wanted to address that passing thing.
Go ahead.
I was just going to say about how he used all his weapons on the field.
He used both his tight ends for his first two touchdowns, and they were both wide open down the middle of the field.
You've got defensive backs looking at each other like, what the hell were we supposed to do there?
So that's my point of contention, and we'll get to that when we get to Tomlin's continuation.
And the other piece was, if you're going to run the football like a running back,
You should get hit like a running back.
I don't care if you're Lamar Jackson.
I don't care if you're Josh Allen.
I don't care who you are.
If you're putting the ball, you're tucking it away on a design run, your ass deserves to get drilled just like every running back.
Again, Mark News, there used to be a time when the quarterback dropped
brought the ball down and ran.
If you were on defense, you couldn't wait to get to him because you knew that was the one time.
Nobody gave the effort to try to stick him last night.
Nobody tried to put that shoulder pad to him.
Not on that run.
That was, to me, not trying to be funny, even when your boy, was it Alex?
Who had the sack when they just grabbed him?
And as soon as they grabbed him, they did stop.
They didn't wait for the ref to blow the whistle.
They didn't even try to take him down.
Somebody, I can't, was it Highsmith?
Somebody had a sack last night on your boy, Allen, and as soon as they grabbed him, they just stopped.
Oh, we still stopped.
You know who I'm talking about?
Golden.
It was Marcus.
Okay.
And I'm like, what are you doing?
I understand.
You don't have to slam.
I'm like, oh, boy, Hollywood slammed Bradshaw back in the day.
I get that.
But you at least take him to the ground.
Do something, you know?
Man.
Well, you know, Smitty's right here that Miles Jack got that penalty.
But, again, if you're going to run the football like a running back,
then you should get hit like a running back.
Now, Smitty, I'm feeling you.
But also remember, even when the announcers were talking last night, there's plays when they ran that in slow motion, Jack didn't hit him as hard as I thought he did.
He pulled up.
Exactly.
And, Noob, that's what you were talking about.
There are certain things that you can't challenge because it is just a preference call.
And if they could have challenged that –
Whoa, he didn't even hit him like we thought.
His hands were near his, but it was the opposite.
Was that the same series that Porter Jr.
got his concussion?
That was terrible.
Previous, that was earlier.
That was earlier.
That same series, that same drive.
That was the third quarter.
He got hit in the third quarter.
He got hit in the back.
The back of the head.
They were going the other way.
Yeah.
That was ridiculous.
And you know what?
Did you notice how – who's he on?
Jack Bucket and Troy – not Troy Eggman.
Who was – Tony Romo.
Yeah.
Did you notice how they kind of skipped through that?
They didn't even address it.
Exactly.
They acted like it just didn't happen.
Well, the other piece was, guys, there was a pass thrown that was clearly thrown way over.
I think it was one of the tight ends' heads.
Thrown way over his head.
Out of bounds.
Pass interference.
But because it was thrown so far over his head, they decided to change what the penalty was and call him for holding.
Hey, shit or get off the putt.
You either call pass interference or you call holding.
One of the two.
You don't adjust it because a pass is thrown over somebody's head.
Make your decision right out of the gate.
That was bullshit.
Noobs talked about it earlier.
about how some of the things refs can do and how it's iffy to play as they call them what they don't call.
I don't know how many of you saw the documentary.
I can't think of the name of it right now, the documentary, but it's like eight or nine different videos on different sports.
And they did the documentary on Tom Donahue, the NBA referee, and how he got suspended for cheating and whatever have you.
But if you watch the documentary, in there, the NBA graded him out that season at a 90.
They said, you're doing everything perfect.
where he got mad was where he told people that he was calling plays that he wouldn't normally call.
So when you're thinking about it, he just showed you, number one, the refs can do and call when they want and don't call.
And what ticks me off about that is technically the NBA and different leagues grade out officials, okay, you're fine, you're great.
Now Donahue is banned.
Well, if you thought he was doing the right thing then,
But going back to what you said, Noobs, it is.
You never have any idea what the refs call, what the refs are doing.
Because, again, fellas, even the best of men are only men at best.
You don't know.
Does he got something riding on this?
You never know.
And I'm being dead honest with that.
You never know.
You never know.
Let's move on.
Let's go Packers and Cowboys.
That, my friends, as I sat there and watched this, that was a complete, like,
annihilation of the Cowboys.
It wasn't even funny.
It wasn't as close as the score.
It was like every time Jordan Love touched the ball, he was just marching down the field.
He had very few mistakes.
He found open receivers all over the place.
And Dak, like you said, Mikey, it's like watching the great pumpkin every year.
You knew it was going to happen at the end.
Inevitably, we saw it happen.
Now, here's my thing.
I understand.
I...
You may not make the perfect pass.
I don't care if you're throwing to your son in the backyard.
Every pass won't be perfect.
I get that.
But what I wasn't – what I was shocked on was the defense not tackling, missing tackles, just not being – that shocked me.
Because the Dallas defense, all I need you to do is put your helmet on him.
Put your helmet in his chest.
I was shocked how they were missing tackles.
Now, of course, your boys' pick six didn't help.
But I was shocked in Dallas' D. I really was.
I was shocked.
Except for the group groups.
Noobs.
Yeah.
Is that part of the script?
Dallas?
I don't see how it would help the league.
I think the league would want Dallas to be successful with all those bandwagon fans.
They have, you know what I mean?
Of course they were behind by 32 points or whatever, but that's a hell of a lot of throws.
60, 41 to 60 for Dak.
Whereas Jordan love only had 21 passes.
A third of the attempts.
And again, of course, they're down that many points.
You've got to throw, but that's a lot of challenges.
Did you guys see the close-ups of Dak?
Like, his face, he just looked.
He looked, like, scared.
Like, the moment was too big for him.
He looked, like, nervous.
I thought he was saying, are you kidding me, Jack, again?
We were prepared.
Fellas, you guys called it with the Eagles.
I really thought the Eagles were going to be able to turn around and at least get a playoff win in the wild.
I really did.
Yeah.
But Cowboys went into the playoffs rolling.
They went into the playoffs looking good.
So I thought Dak was like –
The last thing Dak will be afraid of is the situation he was in.
He's been there so many times.
You get in the playoffs and you lose.
I thought he was like, are you kidding me?
I've got to be dreaming.
How many playoff games did Tony Romo win?
None.
No.
No.
Well, look it up.
Do you see – you're talking about looking at –
Dak Prescott on the sidelines after his series.
Do you see Jalen Hurts?
He's the flattest affect every time they show him.
Dallas Goddard was like cussing him out on the sidelines.
What was up with that?
Yeah, and he didn't even bat an eyelash.
He doesn't look like he's leader material.
And again, this is a fan from the TV's perspective, right?
But you never see him.
He's non-emotional.
doesn't get into it and they need someone who's going to spark a little something, something in them.
Tony Romo, two playoff wins, two for four, two playoff wins, zero and three divisional playoff.
Is that two more than Dak?
I think Dak has one.
Didn't he get one?
One in three.
He's 1-3.
Yeah.
So in Dallas, they've won three playoff games in how many years now?
I'm sorry.
He's 2-5.
He's 2-5.
I mean, I saw a list today.
I saw another amazing list today that had all the coaches, head coaches that won a playoff game since 2017.
It had 20 guys listed.
Do you know where Mike Tomlin was listed in there?
Last.
He wasn't.
He hasn't won since 2016.
Oh, 17?
Right.
Okay.
One year.
So, you know, there's something going on with those organizations.
And the only thing I'll say is the ownership of one organization cares a hell of a lot and tries to do the right things.
The other one is just so nonchalant about the way things transpire.
I'm not sure.
why he even has the owner.
I'm not sure why he even sits in there.
Do we care about the playoffs because we have a 500 record in the last 17 years?
Yeah.
Playoffs don't matter, do they?
Because again, the average fan is changing.
This football is not for us.
There used to be a saying, the standard is the standard.
Pittsburgh, the Steelers were about winning chips.
That's not like you said.
I'd love to see how many 45-year-old guys are older.
Let's go down to 40.
How many 40-year-olds and higher are you that are saying, you got to keep him.
He hasn't had a losing record.
No, it's not about how much you don't lose.
How much do you win?
You know what I'm saying?
We're walking down the chip aisle.
What are you picking out?
Wait, say that one more time.
We're at Wegmans.
You're walking down to Chip-O.
Which bag are you grabbing?
Oh, man.
I don't even know.
The Steeler Mix.
I haven't had it.
What is it?
A plastic Tupperware thing.
Oh, man.
Oh, jeez, man.
We're at Wegmans.
We're walking down to Chip-O.
What's your chip of choice?
There's one I just saw.
I think it has a sweet and spicy flavor.
Oh, yeah.
Rasheed, what's yours?
Oh, shoot.
I just had it in New Orleans.
Voodoo.
Voodoo.
I've had those.
I've had those in Monocacy.
Something to look forward to when we do the show out there.
Sizzle.
I told you it's the Steeler mix.
It's got the combination.
It's got the pretzels, the cheese curls, the nacho chips.
It's the cement bucket of chips.
You just throw anything you want there.
You're good to go.
I have two that are my go-to.
Ruffles, sour cream and cheddar, or
Cape Cod salt and vinegar.
I mean, eat some of them damn salt and vinegar, your mouth start burning in here.
Yeah, but man.
Yeah, your mouth's like a douche.
It's crazy.
Hey, how about this cat, Schmitty?
He's Snyder's of Berlin.
My pops are them jokers.
That's right up the street, baby.
That's right up the street.
You guys remember the Meadowsworth?
They came in a bucket.
The Meadowsworth chips, they came in a bucket.
I just found my go-to snack.
It's smart popcorn or whatever, but it's Dorito flavored.
You're going to do snacks fireball.
What are you talking about?
I haven't had it.
I'll tell you what.
Hey, let me get us back on track here.
This game was a hell of a game.
I watched quite a bit of this.
The Rams at the Lions.
I thought that was a hell of a game.
Best one of the weekend.
Huh?
The best one of the weekend, I think.
Yeah, one point differential, right?
Yeah.
I think you mean closest or most competitive of the weekend?
Is it best?
In my regard, I think the most competitive.
You know what, fellas?
I know I clowned Dan Campbell at his press conference when he was hired as the Lions coach.
I'm liking Dan Campbell, and his guys play for him.
I'm liking Dan Campbell.
I really do.
And I am so glad Goff got the win over Stafford.
You don't like Stafford?
No, and here's why.
Check Stafford.
Even when Stafford won the Super Bowl.
Do you realize he led the league in interceptions?
Stafford is the same quarterback in L.A.
as he was in Detroit.
He just has a better supporting cast.
Goff is putting up the basic – they're both doing the same thing numbers-wise as they did at their other teams.
Just Goff now doesn't have the supporting cast.
Or should I say your boy has a better supporting cast, which got him the Super Bowl.
Think about it.
He –
Check the stats.
Stafford is the same dude.
He's the same dude.
He's not changing.
Same dude all the way around.
People's stats.
Hey, Little Hutch, take care of him, man.
Good having you on the show.
Thanks for joining us.
What up, Buck?
What up, cousin?
Hey, which one is that, guys?
What's the name of his brother?
No, that's my cousin.
Okay.
This is Lou Hutch.
Oh, yeah.
Young Lou.
He was friends with Daisha.
He knows – oh, I don't know.
Dasha.
Yeah, he does.
Dasha Clayton.
Oh.
We'll leave it at that.
Hey.
We'll do it later.
These guys will not let me live this down.
I'll tell you what.
You guys convinced me when Gibbs was drafted that he was going to be a stud, and he is a stud.
Who's that, Mark?
Who?
Gibbs.
Jameer Gibbs.
Oh.
He is a stud.
He's fast.
He is fast.
I think the one –
I think they're a number two away at receiver from being just so powerful.
I mean, I don't – like nobody really jumps off the page at me as the second guy.
If Brown is doubled, who's the second guy?
Laporta.
Laporta.
Unquestionably Laporta.
But if you take him off the field because he's the tight end, who's the second guy?
Who's the number two receiver for them?
Well, Josh Reynolds had 80.
Five catches for 80.
But that's what you're saying.
Let's see if they can bring in T. Higgins.
T. Higgins.
Say it right.
Who's bringing him in?
Who's bringing him in?
Detroit.
Let's see if the Lions can bring in T. Higgins.
I don't know what their money looks like.
They have to have a lot of rookie contracts.
Aiden Hutchinson.
All those guys are on rookie contracts.
Laporta, Gibbs.
Those are on rookie contracts.
I'm sure there's not a lot of money out there.
Who do you think is getting big money in Detroit?
Sewell's going to be getting paid shortly.
I'm saying right now, who has a big contract in Detroit?
Just think.
Who do they get?
What's up?
Dude, there's a blast from the past for you.
Ashton Foster.
What's up, Ashton?
He's a Northwest grad who went to IUP.
Shout out to that.
Go Indians.
Are you with IUP?
Yeah, he's an IUP guy.
When they were Indians or what?
He's more of a lacrosse dude, guys.
I know he loves football.
He played at Northwest.
Noobs, he play for you?
No, you were QB.
No, he was before.
Yeah.
Yep, interesting.
Well, golf is going to make $33.5 million next year, or this year, whatever.
Damn.
Well, I heard the cap's going up something ridiculous, like $20 million, $22 million, some crazy number.
Like the cap is going astronomical again next year.
Is St.
Brown still on a rookie contract?
Who?
Brown is still.
Next year is his third year.
Right?
Yes.
Yeah, so he'll have next year, which they'll declare him for his fifth year.
So he'll have two years after that.
What a draft.
That was an awesome draft.
They got him in the second or third round.
I'll tell you what.
Then, you know, they got Hendon Hooker sitting on the bench.
And I don't know, you know, I don't know what it is with Hendon Hooker, but –
No, I'll tell you what.
The best content of the weekend was watching Detroit fans, like, crying in the stands because they were won.
That was amazing.
Yeah.
Hey, they had the longest playoff streak with nine losses.
Haven't won since, what, the 90s?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, good for them.
I didn't realize how tough Stafford was.
You guys are – someone's hating on it.
I thought –
You know, he had a bang-up hand.
He's bleeding.
I thought it was like Curt Schilling.
His sock was going to be turning red pretty soon, and he's going to have, like, the best comeback.
He was just mentally and physically tough.
I didn't realize all he's got in him.
I think he's a great quarterback.
I didn't realize he was 35, 34, 35.
I put him in the top ten right now.
He looked like he was unconscious.
In the leaguer of all time.
Right now, right now, just right now.
Flo from TBL Sports.
What's going on, Flo?
Flo knows.
All right, last game of the week.
Last night – wait, what day is this?
Tuesday?
Yeah, the Eagles and Bucs.
Baker Mayfield found a home, guys.
Guys, I have a question real quick before we go to that.
Just a quick one on the Rams.
Did you guys see the hit on Tyler Higbee?
Yes.
The safety.
So –
What's your take on that?
Is that a dirty hit or like the league really doesn't allow you to do too much?
What do you guys, what are your thoughts, Rasheed?
So you know me, man.
You sign up to play, I don't care how you get hit.
I don't care.
If you don't want to play, don't sign up.
The draft comes and they say, hey, we draft chops.
Chops can say, no, I'm scared, or yes, I want the money.
I got you.
From my perspective...
If you're going to make calls, you've got to make them across the board, and that's part of the problem.
If another referee, if another set of officials wouldn't make that call, but a set of officials make that call, it doesn't matter what we think of the hit.
What matters is how they're going to interpret that hit.
And that goes back to my spontaneous reaction question.
Like, that's where I am so disconnected with officiating in sports.
It's not illegal.
There's no level of consistency.
Be consistent, bitches.
Bless you.
And that was cold.
Did we lose Chops?
Chops, you out there?
Chops, you're Mike.
You're Mike, man.
You're Mike.
You got me?
You got my bad.
My bad.
Hey, there was a guy outside with his engine being cool, so I didn't want you guys to hear that.
You're referring to the hit on his – when he's cutting across the middle and the hit on the knee in the low.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
You have to hit low now because they're calling too much for a rough, you know what I'm saying, on personal fouls.
And there have been a lot of players that have come out and said, I'd rather you hit me high than low because you're going to rip a knee.
You know, there have been players that have said that.
They'd rather.
What do you do as a defensive guy?
They hit him in the middle.
But, I mean, I'm saying the problem with that, Chops, is this.
Hitting someone high and low, the problem is, like, Dubas are playing tight end coming across the middle.
I had him high.
I'm losing that, and he's still running.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel you.
But also, fellas, let's not forget, athletes, bigger, faster, stronger, and they literally have an instant to think about what they're going to do.
You know what I mean?
The defender does what he's supposed to do, but then the offensive player, he's lower, and then they call it on defense.
And it's funny because they call it like a hit on a defenseless player.
Sometimes he may be defenseless, but a lot of times you'll see the receiver –
Duck his head at the line.
That means you're not defenseless.
You know what I mean?
And let's not forget, when our boy Kazazy, however you pronounce his name, got suspended for the year.
Yeah.
Yeah, he hit our boy.
But you do realize that was a terrible pass by Gardner Minshew.
That was a terrible pass.
He laid his boy out.
And most of the guys said it, too.
Yeah, yeah.
Brady came out and spoke against that.
Yeah.
You know, you don't have to have – you don't have to like Brady, but he came out and spoke against that.
And he said, Mitch, you put him in a bad position.
Yeah, he did.
He's been on a couple things so far this year in the NFL.
I mean, you know –
What's up, Duman?
Yeah, you're right.
Tight ends, DBs, you got to make a decision.
Guys are freaking big running a tight end.
Can you imagine if Thorndale Washington from Pittsburgh was going against a DB that's 5'10", and he was a legit tight end?
Again, Sauce Gardner, I mean, he's taller, but he's small.
Thin-wise, I mean, thin.
Sauce Gardner's thin.
We'll see if he's a tight end next year.
They might be bulking him up to play tackle the way he plays.
Oh, Mark, you just said something there.
That means we wouldn't have to draft a tackle.
I don't know.
Do you think he's ready for that?
You know about Washington putting Washington in tackle?
I see him getting blown up.
It's happened before.
I don't know about putting him in tackle.
I'm not liking that move.
I just see he's too soft on some players.
You don't want him in tackle.
There used to be a thing we used to call a bookend tackle.
We got bookend tackles, right?
No.
Do you want to be the quarterback if Washington is your tackle?
Oh, absolutely not.
Oh, absolutely not.
Every down is fourth down.
Every time we get the ball, just punt.
If Washington is your tackle, Washington is your tackle.
You're going against some of the best edge rushers every game.
I'm going to put him on the left side.
I'm going to put him on the right.
He can't get any better?
But if he wants to –
I understand you're a decent blocker.
I understand you're a decent blocker.
I understand you block decent when you're helping, you're chipping, you're doing this.
But I got you on an island as a tackle?
A tackle?
Let's move on because Chad's about to hurt somebody.
Let's move on.
We're concerned with getting him oxygen.
He's going to go outside and beat that guy up rubbing his engine.
What did you do that for?
Because you're here.
I don't want to talk anymore about the ball.
I want to talk about the – I do want to talk about the Eagles though, guys.
I just saw their list today of free agents.
And I was on an Eagles like page or some shit.
And really, they've got a shit ton of guys.
Anybody from Fletcher Cox to Swift.
Yeah.
You know, Kelsey and well, he's retiring.
But at the end of the day, all these guys are saying, you know, all these Eagles fans are like, just keep Swift.
You let everybody else walk.
Do they understand the impact of that?
Like that?
I don't know.
I don't know if you do that.
I don't know if you hang that on on their coach either.
You know, like, is that their coach's fault?
You know, we watched Pittsburgh fall apart like that a few years ago.
There was no fallout, but that's a difference in ownership too.
But, I mean, what happened to the Eagles?
What happened?
I know we said Hurts shows absolutely no emotion.
I know we've talked about A.J.
being a complete asshole.
We've heard that a million times, okay?
But isn't there somebody in that locker room who's going to step up and grab A.J.
and put him against the wall and say, you either get on board or get the fuck out of here?
You know, that's my question.
I don't think that happens anymore.
Fellas –
Okay, here's the thing.
And I'm going to just keep it 100.
Let's keep it a buck.
And I say it all the time.
This is these guys' jobs.
Once they leave campus, once they leave the facility, they got wives, children, baby mom, whatever they got to deal with, right?
But they're also grown men.
I just find it hard to believe.
I don't care who you are.
Because we've seen... Now nothing would be able to get out.
Or excuse me, everything would get out.
But...
I got to believe if someone came and said something to someone else, get your head out of your ass, I don't know, whatever.
There's going to have to be a fight.
I don't care who it is.
I'm a man of flesh and blood, just like you.
I understand you've been on this team longer than I have, and I may be a rookie, whatever have you.
But I was a man well before I was playing football.
I just find it hard to believe that.
Number one, any of these players now, before I used to believe there was fights in the locker room and guys were checking each other.
I believe that.
I truly believe that.
I don't think anybody does it now.
I don't.
I don't think they do.
I don't.
I don't.
They don't want to contest that.
Yeah.
They do it on Twitter.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
It was interesting.
The Eagles were one and six going into this game, the last six or something like that.
And the Bucs were five and six, won the last five going into.
And the Eagles, what's wrong with them, I think it was their defense and everything was just a debacle there.
They only won two games by double digits.
All the other games that they won, the other nine were by single digits.
So there's offense.
Can you think of a team?
They went from sugar to shit faster.
Seriously.
I mean, so 10-1, and they just fell off a cliff.
But I think what people sleep on is they lost both their coordinators in the offseason.
That's such a big deal.
I don't think they replaced them with the same quality that they had.
Those guys were legit.
And I would ride with you on that if we're six weeks into the season and they're three and three.
They're two and four because they were in the Super Bowl last year.
But you're 11, 12 weeks in and you're 10 and one.
So to me, how did you just fall apart?
Because the NFL, once you get the blueprint on how to beat somebody, then they all copy it and it's a done deal.
You're screwed.
It would happen in the zone replay.
Remember how powerful that was?
What?
Yeah.
You know, the zone read.
We were drafted quarterbacks that could run like Kaepernick years ago.
And we run the zone read with those guys.
All of a sudden they figured it out.
We do this.
We do this.
We do this.
We take away the slant by doing this.
Change the dynamic again.
I think those 10 wins, though, they barely were winning.
Like they barely beat the commanders twice.
That's what I said.
Barely.
Last second.
That's true.
Nine of their 11 wins were by single digits.
Small margin.
They're the Vikings.
They're the Minnesota Vikings of last year.
Remember they were winning all those games?
Gunslinger.
They were just chucking the ball, throw it up there, and they were winning by single digits.
So do you fire – what's his name?
Siriano?
Siriano.
I have a hard time with that.
Noobs won't.
Last year he takes you to the Super Bowl.
This year you at least get to the playoffs.
Two years?
I mean, two, three years is all you're giving them?
They got rid of Doug Peterson three years after he won a Super Bowl.
They just said, peace, you're out.
Well, how about this?
They'll pull the carpet right quick.
Listen, McCarthy's 12-5 every year for the last three years in Dallas.
Exactly.
He's hitting a can.
But Sirianni has to at least buy at least another season.
He took him to the Super Bowl last year.
Tomlin's 9-8.
Well, Mike.
7-7.
Mike, to back you about Hertz, I think it was you that was talking about Hertz.
I read all midseason that they were not big on Hurts because of the exact thing you were saying.
He's just so docile.
He leads by example to a certain degree, but he is not the guy.
I need emotion.
I need it.
I know it doesn't always mean anything, but if you mess up, I need to see you ticked off.
I need him.
And he just sat there like a lump on a pickle.
Seriously, I couldn't take it.
They're going to be an interesting team to watch this offseason.
Because they could possibly go from the penthouse to the shithouse in terms of their whole season next year.
Kelsey's going to be a big replacement at center.
That's going to be a big replacement.
They're going to have to go out and find a guy in the draft right away.
I have come to the solid conclusion that if you don't build your offense around a more than average quarterback in a center that is smart and can play every snap,
It's going to be tough.
I've watched Mason Cole play for two years now in Pittsburgh.
I've seen other guys.
The Linderbaum, who's a guy that was overlooked.
The kid over in – oh, shit.
But isn't Philly's own line, aren't they pretty experienced?
Yes, they're legit.
They lost Salmalu.
Normally, I understand normally your center is calling the offense, you know, to block an assignment.
Maybe one of those guards or tackles are going to have to step up and say, hey, young man, unless they get somebody – I don't know what their bank is like unless they get somebody in free agency.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Here we go.
Real quick stat.
Real quick stat.
Real quick stat.
We were talking about missed tackles and just blown assignments on that.
About 450 yards in offense the Eagles gave up to the Bucs.
260 of those yards rushing and receiving were yards after a catch.
Over 60% of that was yards after a catch.
Nobody takes pride in tackling anymore.
Nobody takes pride in tackling.
That was crazy.
Well, well, well, well, Chops.
In defense of those guys, we've discussed this before.
When you say tackling, do you mean laying them out or just wrapping up?
Because, you know, you could tackle somebody this week and lose your game check.
Yeah, but even Minka, when he tried to throw the dude, man, I just.
Oh, yeah, that play too.
Hey, let me move back to last week's picks, you guys.
Schmitty, Schmitty had two right, Kansas City and the Lions, and the Bucs.
He had three.
I'm sorry, he had three right.
Well, Racine, you had the Rams right.
No, you didn't.
Racine didn't have anybody right.
He lost everyone who knows.
Noop, you had Casey, the Lions, and the Bucs.
Teases.
And the Bills.
I picked the Bills, too.
I had four.
He did pick the Bills, I remember.
He did.
Okay.
I had Steelers, Don.
No, I wasn't picking the Steelers.
Okay.
And then Teases, you had the Lions.
And then I had Jackson's, Kansas City.
I originally had Green Bay, and I let you guys talk me out of that shit, and I had the Lions.
Noobs is leading with four right now.
Yeah, baby.
Rasheem got a big fat zero.
Schmitty got three.
Youngie got one.
Chops wasn't in it last week, and I got three.
So let's do our picks for this week so we can move on to the main segment.
And we're going to barrel through the main segment, guys.
We're an hour deep already.
Can you believe that shit?
Hey, Packers and Niners, who do you like?
Niners.
Niners.
I'd love to see the Packers do it, but I got to go Niners.
If you guys want to win, follow my lead.
Hey, you know the Packers are 6-0 against the Cowboys in playoffs?
No.
Playoffs?
Who are you taking?
They've won more playoff games in Dallas than Dallas has.
Playoffs?
Playoffs.
Yeah, exactly.
In the last, like, 30 years.
Exactly.
Listen.
I'm definitely going 49ers.
Go across the board.
If you want to make it to the promised land, you follow my lead.
You want to hear it?
Follow your what, Shane?
No, Shane.
All right.
Sizzle, you going Diners?
Uh-huh.
All right.
Game two.
See?
Tampa, Detroit.
Detroit.
I like Detroit, man.
I do.
At home?
I like Tampa.
Tampa.
I got you.
I got Chops.
I'm going Lions, too.
Okay.
Lions.
I'm going knee biters.
I'm going for Lions.
Listen, this is the week I catch all of y'all right here.
Okay.
I went for it.
Kansas City at Buffalo.
Remember, Kansas City knows how to play in cold weather too, fellas.
I got Buffalo.
I'm listening.
I'm listening.
I'm going to go Buffalo.
I think Kansas City's drops are going to hurt them again.
I do.
I'd love to see Kansas City win it, but I'm going to go Buffalo.
Rasheed Rice, 130.
Buffalo.
Suze.
Let's go with the Bills.
Bills.
Oh, yeah, following my lead, I see.
Cross the board.
I'm taking the Bills, too.
Me, too.
Yeah, following my lead, I see.
Me, too.
Hey, I got the Bills.
We're inside trading the Martha Stewart.
I just think the league is set up for it.
And the last game, Texans at the Ravens.
Man.
Ravens, baby.
Easy.
Easily, too.
Yeah, give me the dirty birds.
I'm going to give you the spread.
You want the spread?
13.
Whoa.
I'm going to go Texans.
I just... I know...
I know, I know, I know the Ravens are the better team.
I know this.
I just gave you the spread.
I'm just going Texans.
Good for you.
I'm going Ravens.
I know, Mark, you said they're going to lose.
I'm going Ravens.
I went Texans.
I went Texans.
I see the same writing on the wall.
I don't know.
Baker Mayfield is the same quarterback as Mark Sanchez.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Hey, some award winners so we can get this thing going here.
AFC Offensive Player of the Year.
Now, I didn't ask for your MVP.
I asked for your Offensive Player of the Year in the AFC.
Oh, okay.
You want to know, Matt?
Yeah, who's yours?
Lamar.
Labarge?
Labarge.
Yeah, Labarge.
Labarge?
Yeah, I got him too.
Okay.
LeJackson.
AFC Offensive Player of the Year, noobs.
Well, I like Lamar, but just to switch it up, since you guys picked him, I'll go Tua.
What?
His numbers are nuts.
They're impressive.
Yeah, man's nuts too.
I'll go with Tyreek.
He's got to throw it to someone.
I like it.
Tyreek.
Before his house caught on fire, he was on fire.
Oh, yeah.
I'm actually going to go with Tyreek, too.
I think he makes the biggest.
That's a good call.
Yeah.
Can I switch mine?
I'm going to switch mine to Tyreek.
How about NFC Offensive Player of the Year?
I'm going CMC.
Yes.
Sam Snead.
No.
CMC.
CMC and the Music Factory.
Christian McCaffrey.
Christian McCaffrey.
Is this including this past weekend?
Yes.
No.
Just regular season.
I'm going Dak.
Dak?
Regular season.
Regular season.
I'm going C.D.
Lamb.
Nice one.
Good call.
Interesting.
Yeah, I go with Dak.
Fellas, here's my problem with CMC, and a lot of people are going with him.
Sam Bray was already doing work before he got there.
So they did work with Mozart, Harvey Grimes, last year.
You know what I'm saying?
So that's the only thing against your boy, what's his name, CMC.
They did work last year before he got there.
But they're doing more work now because they got Purdy.
But the other thing is that you only have 1,400 yards.
Like, is that really that special?
Oh, yeah.
1,400 yards?
Look at his overall.
He's got over 2,000.
14 Russians.
You're looking at his rush.
That's just rushing.
I'm just saying.
17 games.
Huh?
17 games.
Yeah.
Which is receiving yards.
If you look historically, 1,400 yards rushing is not that big a deal.
Not anymore.
But he's impactful.
I get it.
McCaffrey.
Okay.
Hey, who's the MVP defensively in the league?
Rasheed?
Did we say AFC?
I said the league, the whole league.
The league.
Defensive?
Defensive.
Defensive player of the year.
Oh, defensive player of the year.
You're saying the MVP of the defense.
MVP or player of the year?
Player of the year on defense.
Okay.
Man, I would go the same person.
Isn't Watt leading the league in sacks?
Who's leading the league in sacks?
Watt, 19.
Percentage getting to the quarterback is some freaking stupid stat that PFF came up with so that – Donald?
Miles Garrett.
What's his name?
Miles Garrett.
Miles Garrett.
Okay.
Ravens.
Okay.
Who?
Defensive tackle, 14 sacks.
Yeah.
That's impressive.
Who, Justin?
Yeah.
That's why they are where they are, that defense.
Yeah.
Noobs, who are you taking?
I like T.J.
Watt.
I love T.J.
Watt, man, watching him play.
He's impressive.
Here's the thing, and I agree with you, because if he's not there, what are they, 1-11 without him?
1-11.
Yes.
That is the epitome of MVP.
Exactly.
You can't replace him.
You can't play without him.
I mean, it's –
He's the MVP.
Can we go over those games who they play?
No.
I'm not doing that right now.
We go in these circles with T.J.
Watt, bro.
No, you go in circles with it.
You go in circles with it.
We don't go in circles with it.
When he goes on the field, every game is different.
I'd say this, Sheen.
This is the best way I can put it.
Even if Watt plays, there's a chance you can still lose.
But if he doesn't play, you're not winning.
Think about that.
Even if he plays, there's a chance you could lose.
But if he doesn't play, there's no chance you'll win.
That to me is the epitome of MVP.
You can't get more valuable than that.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't know, man.
If your mom's not home to do the cooking, you'll still eat.
It's not going to be as good.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, you can go and buy a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon, or you can go down to Old Mother and buy a craft beer.
Or you can go to Stats and look at all the games where he had two tackles in those games and, like, no sacks.
Like, come on, man.
Hold on.
He's got four guys on him.
Exactly.
Oh, wait, wait.
Say that again?
That's where the backs are staying in.
That's where tight ends are holding the tackle.
I said that you've got four guys on him.
Doing what?
Lock in.
Man, you full of shit.
Go to YouTube and check his sacks.
He got double teamed one time.
He got chipped one time.
Go to YouTube.
He does not get double teamed.
He's the best ever one-on-one pass rusher.
You obviously don't watch the Steelers every weekend.
I addressed your statement when you said he got two tackles the whole game.
I said that because he's not double, triple, quadruple.
He's the best one-on-one pass rusher ever.
No, that's more Taylor.
He's pretty one-on-one.
He can't do nothing else.
He doesn't seal the edge.
They run at him.
I think his numbers say something a little bit different.
What do they say?
I think his numbers are very clear on what they are.
He can get sacked.
You compare his numbers to who's supposed to be the defensive player to hear Miles Garrett.
All his numbers can say is he gets sacked.
Shane, I would ride here.
No, he has 68.
He has 68 tackles.
Miles Garrett only has 42.
Hey, look up Khalil Mack.
What's Khalil Mack?
Khalil Mack's got 74.
Listen, Crosby had 90.
Harrison at his peak was averaging 90.
And all the sacks.
And the Super Bowl.
And a 107-yard touchdown return for a touchdown.
Well, we all know the game was played different then than now.
But hold on.
Sheen, I would ride with you, but here's the thing.
If you lead the league in sacks and you're in the top two or three for a year, two years, you might have had a good year.
But when every year it's the same thing, come on, bro.
O-lines and blocking schemes are going to block for him and account for him.
They're not doing that for Highsmith.
I love them, but they're not doing that for Highsmith.
They're doing that for Watt.
Who do you think gets doubled the most out of the two, Chops?
Say it one more time.
Who do you think gets double teamed the most out of the two?
Oh, boy, hold on.
Oh, boy, hold on for a second.
But here's the thing.
You already know you only have – there's the clock.
When I tell you you have less than three good seconds to get the ball out because Watt is coming –
That means that's something.
Now we're going around in circles.
Everybody knows Watt is a ridiculous end rusher.
I said that.
Here's the thing.
That's all he can do.
And again, it'd be different if the Steelers were 2-2, maybe 3-2 when he didn't play.
1-10?
Come on, 1-10.
Bro, do you realize they won with Duck Hodges?
They won with Mason Rudolph years ago.
That was for a few games.
But over 11 games, you lose 10 if Watt isn't there?
Hey, I'm going to tell you.
I already researched it.
You can go to YouTube.
It shows clearly he got blocked, doubled once.
That was the year he had the most sacks ever.
It's on YouTube.
Why are you shaking your head, bro?
You want me to come over to your house and we watch it?
I watched it like six games in a row this year.
YouTube and chill.
They either set a tight end up on that side or they put it back out there.
I can't tell you how many times I saw that.
This year, Watt's been double teamed 14% of the plays, whereas Myles Garrett's 29%.
How about Mia Khalifa?
How many times have you been double teamed?
Wiz Khalifa?
Mia.
Oh!
Hey, this is a cool computer.
I can't be looking it up.
Who's the rookie of the year?
Who's the offensive rookie of the year in the NFL?
CJ Stroud.
Yeah, that's going to go to Stroud.
Stroud.
Yep.
I mean, there's so many.
I'd say Gibbs is second, though, in my opinion.
That's just my opinion.
Yes.
Yeah.
And you got Gibbs.
Say that again?
You got Nikula and Gibbs, too.
That's got to go.
I mean, because he's a quarterback, Stroud's getting it.
Oh, yeah, I agree with you.
I'm just saying.
And with a rookie head coach.
A lot of rookies produced this year.
I mean, not a lot.
No, they did, Terry, they did.
The defenses aren't like they used to be.
Thank you.
Tank Dale, yeah, before he got hurt.
Yeah, absolutely.
How about defensive rookie of the year?
We did play Houston this year.
DT for the Rams because technically the Rams, how do you pronounce his name?
They've got a wide guy, whatever.
He's nice, and they've got a D tackle that's wrecking shop.
How about their corner out in Seattle?
Yes, Devin Witherspoon.
I like Devin Witherspoon.
Jalen Carter?
Isn't Carter on the Eagles?
Eagles, yeah.
Minus last night.
Kobe.
Kobe.
What is Kobe?
Kobe's his name from the Rams.
I can't even – last name.
Kobe Turner?
No, that was Jalen Turner.
I don't know.
But he's doing work too.
He's doing work.
Who's your NFL MVP?
Yeah, Kobe Turner.
Offensive, defensive, anything.
Who is it?
What team can't win without this guy?
Lamar Jackson.
Lamar.
Lamar, seriously.
Even though, regardless of what it was, if Lamar's playing, Steelers don't even win that last game, just being real with you.
Just keep it at a buck.
I don't, honestly.
And here's the thing.
And because of that game, to me, and all that rain marks, the downpour.
Lamar's playing a lot more and he's running a lot more.
I think in a lot of these games, Lamar's trying to show people that he can still pass when sometimes he should run.
And I know he, I don't know how many times the Steelers have beaten him, but in that game, the way that it shook out.
Now, again, if Lamar's playing, it's different, but I just think if there'd have been some times where he could have made some plays, we're high.
Right.
Is he a pro quarterback?
Is he a pro quarterback?
Yeah.
That's what they said.
The way the game is now.
Tyreek is the MVP.
Ashton Foster thinks Tyreek's the MVP.
Rasheed, you're going Lamar.
Chops, you're going Lamar.
Mike, who are you going?
I'll go Lamar also.
I think he's the most valuable player on his team.
Okay.
Terry?
So, because we hated on him, and not just because, but, like, if we cut it off week 18, I'm going with Dak.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
And here's the reason why.
I agree with you four guys.
If you take Lamar off that team, that team's a 500 team maybe.
Their defense is really good, though.
I think their defense is really good.
One of the things I did before the weekend was I pulled up a bunch of numbers on people.
And, you know, one of the things I looked at was Lamar's numbers and Brock Purdy's numbers.
and Purdy had better numbers than Lamar.
But like Mike said, he does have a stacked team.
Lamar's not playing with a stacked team from that perspective.
He lost all his running backs again this year.
He really doesn't have a receiver.
I mean, I like likely a lot.
I think Mark Andrews coming back may help him this week, but don't forget, he's been out for how long?
So that's going to be interesting to see.
I think if they beat the Texans, it'll be because they beat them because of either a combination of weather and defense issues
and some breaks.
I just think the Texans are playing really good football.
That's all.
Fellas, let's not forget, and when they talk about Lamar's lack of success in a lot of these playoff games, his defenses didn't show up either.
I mean, football is the ultimate team sport.
That's what I worry about more than, because if nothing else, Lamar can always drop it and run.
Unless...
They scheme to make sure they have a spy on them, whatever have you.
They're going to do that.
It's got to be the defense.
That Ravens defense has got to show up.
They've got to.
D'Amico Ryan's coached in San Francisco.
That's all I'm going to say.
His offensive coordinator coached in San Francisco.
These guys can scheme it up really good under Shanahan.
I'm sorry.
I buy into that guy.
You have to.
How long has he been a head coach in the league?
Five years?
And then we know another guy that's been in the league 17 years.
He has no tree.
So you pick your poison there.
Do you want a guy who in five years has put out several guys that are head coaches and offense coordinators and other teams?
Or do you want a guy who's been around for 17 years and doesn't have one guy to hang a hat on that left his staff?
Not one.
Not one.
No, and they were just talking about that today on the NFL Network.
Do you realize right now, if you drop me in Hollywood right now, in 17 years, I'm going to get with a star.
17, at least one.
He can't get at least one coach to go somewhere else.
I'm going to drop you in Hollywood right now.
Right now, with my Nike slides on and dress socks and a pair of shorts, I'm getting one.
Are you saying one of those stars on the Walk of Fame, or are you saying someone that's alive right now?
No, he's going to the fighting room.
Look here.
In 17 years, shoot.
I know you're silky smooth.
I know you do much sooner than 17 players.
Not one coach, fellas, think about that.
That's terrible.
That's terrible.
Can I play advocate here too?
Yeah.
I mean, you know, Tom has given people chances that probably others won't.
So, I mean, when you – especially in the NFL when you're dealing with nepotism, lots of nepotism.
Since you have nepotism.
And I get that.
However, in bitty football, everybody gets an opportunity.
Here, in the NFL, what'd your boy say?
Not for long?
Not for long.
It is about wins, Jack.
It is about wins.
He just don't have enough of them.
He just don't have that to me.
But if Tomlin knows that it's his decision when I'm leaving, I can hire whoever I want, even though they say it.
Because trust me, his staff is terrible.
I looked at it.
I'm like, who are these dudes?
But...
Two stats.
I'll say this much, too, and then we can move on to the last piece.
T-Sizzle, it's going to be your piece.
If Tomlin truly is playing out his contract and not getting an offer for an extension, he's not going to go out and hire offensive coordinator.
He's not going to replace his defensive coordinator.
You're going to see the same guys, most likely in the same roles, getting the same results next year.
I mean, it's like throwing shit off the wall and hoping at least one piece sticks at some point.
But, Mark, here's the thing.
I'm looking at him.
I'm drawing a blank.
His D coordinator – Terrell Watson?
No, two, three years ago.
I'm looking at him.
He's the one, matter of fact, who said they were about to play the Bengals, and he said we have to scheme for their tight end, and the tight end was on the IR.
Man, what was his name?
Whoever the Steelers D coordinator was.
The kid from Notre Dame at the time.
Yeah.
I know who you're talking about.
But here's my thing.
It doesn't matter who –
Tomlin is going to hire, if he does hire an O coordinator, does hire a D coordinator, for the last X amount of years, he is the same cat.
You haven't had a playoff win since 2016.
Fellas, 2016?
2016?
Come on, man.
That to me is crazy. 2016?
That's crazy, dog.
That's not stealing football then.
That's crazy.
That to me – and to me, they need to take that plaque down.
The standard is the standard because – Wait, 2016 and they're 0-4 since 2016.
Yeah.
Owen.
Hasn't had a win.
Has not had a win in the playoffs since 2016.
Not a win.
What's his overall playoff?
He's only had four of those seasons that he's made the playoffs.
He's had a win.
I think he's like 8-9 in the playoffs.
He's not much over 500.
He's still 500.
He might be 8-10 now.
Yep.
Hey, T-Sys, what do you got for us this week?
All right, all right.
So we're approaching Super Bowl 58.
Let's test your, I don't know what, elementary, middle school, junior high math.
What are the Roman numerals?
Zach Eifert for 58.
X-V-I-I-I.
Nope.
L-V-I-I.
Oh, man.
So who was in the first Super Bowl 58 years ago?
Green Bay and Kansas City.
No.
Kansas City.
Kansas City.
Yeah.
And the Pack won that, right?
Pack won that.
Yeah.
Where did the term Super Bowl supposedly come from?
Is that when the AFL and NFL?
Bam Morris.
Bam Morris.
Super Bowl.
Super Bowl.
You're on to something there, Chops.
It's when Lamar Hunt, the AFL, joined.
And he came up with the term Super Bowl after his son, Lamar Hunt Jr., said he named it, gave him the idea from his Super Ball toy.
One of those things.
Interesting.
There you go.
See, what's your question of the week, baby?
What's your favorite book?
You guys read books at all?
I think maybe I see any book.
I see books behind you, New Brasser.
Favorite book.
Can you give the crowd a book that you might have read that you like?
No, Chuck?
You're saying no?
Is that the Bible?
With Fire and Sword.
Okay.
Yeah.
Heinrich Sinkowitz.
Very good.
So long story short, a guy I knew recommended it.
I decided I would go ahead and go for it.
Really cool book, man.
It's about Eastern Europe and Russia, the Russian steppe.
It's kind of historical fiction.
Like 1,100 pages, but it was worth it.
It was a really good read.
Okay.
These are all teachers, by the way, people.
I just want you all to know.
These are people teaching your kids.
So we shouldn't say Fifty Shades of Grey.
All right.
Pause.
What?
I like that historical fiction, too.
The Dan Brown books really get me intrigued.
I like them Dan Brown books.
OK.
Yeah.
You know, I'm a science fiction kind of guy.
Yes.
First of all, I don't read a lot of books.
I like to read articles.
I like to read.
You know, that's the kind of stuff I like to read.
I'm a very factual reader.
But my favorite books that I've ever read, to be quite honest with you, are all the Harry Potter books.
And I read them all.
Each one of them, when I would read one, I'd read it probably in two days.
I just well, well written, kept me captivated.
So that's what I like.
Man, my wife not only loves Harry Potter, she rereads the books.
And I'd be like, who rereads a book?
She'd be like, you rewatch movies.
Point taken.
And if there's ever a Harry Potter movie on, I say, babe, look down.
Look down.
I'll pause the TV.
She looks down.
I put it on.
Boom.
I'll let her hear two or three words.
And I'm not lying to you.
I've done it probably 12 to 15 different times.
She can tell me which Harry Potter movie it is by just hearing two or three words.
Me?
Let me tell you something.
She has bribed me with everything in the world.
I didn't have to do housework.
Whatever.
Everything you can think of, she's bribed me with.
If I watched one Harry Potter movie, I couldn't get through 30 minutes.
I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it, man.
She has one.
She got it from Disney or whatever.
We got into an argument one time.
It's a true story.
My wife, educated woman.
She called me a muggle.
You know what it is.
I had no idea what it is.
She said, you're such a muggle.
I said, okay.
First off, I thought she was current, whatever.
I said, what is a muggle?
She said, someone who has no magical powers.
Wow.
We're all muggles.
You realize that, right?
Wow.
That's actually kind of funny.
She takes it serious, man.
My favorite books.
Kind of crazy.
It's a true story.
One.
It's called What They Never Told You in History Class.
It deals a lot with black history.
The other, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing by Judy Blume.
I loved that book back in the day.
I'll still read some Timbertoes if I come across them.
Hey, if you want to dip back like that, I loved The Boxcar Children when I was a kid.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back in the day.
That was interesting.
All right.
It got good.
I thought it was going to go downhill.
It got good.
Thank you.
Yeah, it got good.
Hey, go ahead and tell everybody where they can find you.
Let's start with Chops.
Man, honestly, I don't do social media like I should, but they can find me at the Real Big Chops on Twitter.
I'll let you boy.
Excellent.
Sheen?
Get in where you fit in.
He's easy to find.
He's easy to find.
He's easy to find, y'all.
Michael Gregory Mills here on Facebook.
You can find him on Snapchat.
You can find him on TikTok.
You can find him on Facebook.
MousePace.
MousePace.
Noobs, where are we finding you guys?
Or on X and Instagram at Coach Noob.
I need to post some more projects on Instagram.
I want to post some stuff.
It's coming.
Yeah, if you can find me, let me know.
I can't remember where I'm at.
One Young Terry.
That One Young Terry on the X. You got to put the student loan people to find Terry.
They'll find anybody.
Hey, connect with us here on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maraday and the Barbershop Crew.
You can check out our website at podpage, Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maraday.
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A big shout out in terms of
We are all on three different places.
We're on our own page, and we're on the Let's Talk Sports Network as well as the Sideline Sports Network.
And a big announcement, you guys.
We have been picked up by Manning Media Solutions, so we are now part of their network.
They own the radio stations in Frederick and up in Hagerstown.
So we will now be on their app and doing some –
bigger things, to be quite honest with you.
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Shout out to Sean Ankoviak for a voice intro.
Shout out to Charlie Hodgson for our intro and outro music.
Charlie just wrote us a new song that will go into effect season five.
Shout out to my wife for being the webmaster.
And join us next week to experience the O on the Original Sports Podcast.
We'll see you next Tuesday, everybody.
Dude, I could have done this song.
I can.
That's all I'm going to do.