Bald Guys On The Bench
Bald Guys On The Bench
Eagles Triumph, Hilarious Pranks, and Offseason Speculations
Recorded February 9th, 2025
What if a past text exchange could spark the most entertaining banter between an Eagles fan and a Chiefs supporter? Get ready for a laugh as we transform our friendly rivalry into a lively on-air debate, celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles' triumph in Super Bowl 59 while keeping things light-hearted and humorous. We go beyond the field to chat about personal updates, from scoring on Super Bowl prop bets to zipping through town on a shiny new electric bike.
Join us for a wild ride through recent sports events, as we ponder Aaron Rodgers' surprising decision and the viral prank at a Philadelphia store that had us rolling with laughter. We're breaking down the Eagles' stellar evolution, Jalen Hurts’ unstoppable rushing, and celebrating the magic of AJ Brown and Devonta Smith. A side-splitting viral moment involving Bill Belichick's girlfriend gives us all a good chuckle, rounding out this spirited episode with camaraderie and sports insights.
As the NFL season winds down, we ponder the possibilities of coaching changes, the future of Giants' ownership woes, and Tom Brady's challenges in the commentator's booth. From jaw-dropping Super Bowl commercials to the rollercoaster of sports betting, our chat is packed with humor and anticipation for the offseason. We even explore the exciting potential of Matt Stafford joining the Steelers, as we eagerly look forward to the adventures the world of sports has in store.
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Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the Bench podcast, with your hosts Graham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Graham:What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode, actually a Super Bowl edition of the Bald Guys on the Bench, super Bowl 59. Let's go, scott. How you doing, brother, what's up I'm doing?
Scott:great and, like we always do when rambling about sports, not only rambling about sports, but celebrating no three-peat. I'm so sorry, kermit, let's grab it and crack it. My guy oh, that's not the first one of those I've heard tonight. As we start off, it's 1215 here on the East Coastham had to work, so we're getting a late start, and game started at 6 30 on the east coast and your boy had to pace himself. So I was good for the episode tonight and I did right. So here we are. Uh, game's over. It's actually the day after here in virgin.
Graham:It's four hours later. Calm down Whatever, not even.
Scott:But you know, before we even get into your weekend, my weekend, I just got to throw something out there and you know I talked to you about it a little while ago when you were on the way home. To you about it a little while ago when you were on the way home. And this goes out to this fat ass buddy. Well, we're not even gonna call him a buddy ass hat of mine. That's a chiefs fan. And two years ago, when the chargers blew, the 27 to nothing lead to the Jaguars. He sent me something and I never responded. And tonight, as the Eagles were laying the wood to those rib-eating motherbeeps, I was like Kellen, let me, let you listen to something. This dude sent me this and I never responded. I'm trying to be the better person and not do it back to him right now and he goes do it, do it, do it. Talk to billy billy's like you're already a better man than him. Send it right, goddamn, now, I'm not. So instead of sending him a direct text, we're just gonna play it right here. Just the beginning. And you know, this goes out to you and your Audi belly button and have fun. You know why is it not playing. Yeah, hope you choke on your ribs. Actually, maybe you should be eating a salad Cause you have an Audi belly button. Actually, maybe you should be eating a salad.
Scott:Shots fired three minutes into the episode. What has two phones. That doesn't give up. All right, y'all get the point right, so you're welcome. I had to do it. I didn't want to send a direct text. You know, you know me, the listeners know me. I love my sports teams. I hate it when somebody talks shit about your sports team losing. I don't like to send it to other people because I don't. You know I get it. I mean, I have a tattoo, you know. Yeah, and I remember that night and I remember that text and I was like one day I'm going to smile talking about this and you know what that was today.
Scott:And not only was it today, it was in the first half, when you're down 24 to nothing and your team's got 14 yards and you're comparing kermit the fucking frog to tom brady the goat. Get out of here. We're doing kick rocks early in the segment. Let's go. I mean, come on, bro. Did we watch a replay of Tampa waxing your ass? Or did we watch the Eagles taking Tampa's game plan and making it the exact same game plan? Oh, I'm sorry. The Eagles pressured Kermit 16 times, sacked him six times and guess what, how many times did they blitz Graham? The same amount of time as me and you.
Graham:Zero.
Scott:And that fat fuck right tackle jumped before the snap a thousand times tonight he was still getting his ass beat. It was hilarious, it was awesome, but anyhow, how? Was your weekend, oh wow, I had to get that out there early in case somebody just listened to the beginning of the episode and at least they'd be entertained, because it's going to get better.
Graham:I like it, I like it. I. I'll just say this I also like how you took the upper road, because you didn't even mention any names. So we just are supposed to know who this is. You have no idea who it is, no, but he'll know because he listens to the show and he's got a outie for a belly button. All right, cool, as long as the guy knows, then it's all good.
Scott:In my book, brother this was a great weekend. A lot of people are going to be spitting their drinks out when they hear that.
Graham:Oh man, weekend was good, week was good. Got my electric bike a couple of days ago Super pumped about that Worked these last couple days, made some good money. I'm happy about it. We'll talk more about it a little later. Hit one of my only hit, one of my 18 prop bets, but at least it was a good one. Played some Super Bowl squares a couple different boards, hit two different times, so I'm happy about that. Other than that, was kind of chill today at work so I was able to watch most of the game. But I'll be honest, and what I'm about to say is like I'm not getting into the game, but I'll just say this.
Scott:Real quick, real quick. Before you get into the game, kristen just texted me. Why are you yelling? Wow, my bad.
Graham:Kristen, aren't you asleep by now? What are you doing, girl?
Scott:She actually watched the entire game, that's surprising. Oh, she likes watching the Chiefs get beat more than me. Yeah, right, yeah.
Graham:I totally get it. Yeah, I totally get it. But yeah, what I was about to say was for the amount of time that I actually had to watch the game. I'm just like couldn't I have watched the championship games? Could I have been at work and just watched them fully and enjoyed that? Instead I had to watch the Super Bowl. I mean, look, I'm still trying to really wrap my head around the fact of do I consider it a good game? It was a dominant game, but it's just. You know what I mean. It's still fresh in my mind. I haven't decided on how I feel, not how I feel about it, but just like, look, kansas City got their ass beat is really what it came down to. I mean the pressure from the front four of their D-line, which is all they needed to get there, all those pressures that you mentioned already.
Scott:The six sacks, the pick six, which I didn't see that coming your boy did, because I had a little bet on any time defensive touchdown score.
Graham:Yeah, when you told me that the other day, I was like all right, bro, good luck on that. Then it happened. I was just like that's son of a bitch. I was like what? But I mean, yeah, I mean, look, I had a good time at work. We had a bunch of different games because, like I said, we had three separate squares and then, you know, we had a bunch of the regulars from the community that come to the golf course. So it was just chill. I had fun with the members, I had fun with the game. So, all in all, I mean it was a good time. I mean it was chill, it was just.
Graham:It's just weird for me a little bit because you and I always chat during the game. You know what I mean. So it's just like we only had that one little phone call just right after halftime and just more to check in and blah, blah, blah. But it's just like we really didn't talk that much, because what else is there to say when it's 24 to nothing? I mean, the only thing we really asked you was so you're taking the Chiefs plus 16 and a half in the second half or what's up, and you're like and I did, and it was a great loss.
Graham:Yeah, right, I mean, hey, sometimes taking an L is a good thing.
Scott:You ain't wrong. And, like I mentioned, at halftime, you know, somebody in our San Diego thread was like, hey, you know, somebody in our San Diego thread was like, hey, is this my home's opportunity to be Tom Brady when Brady won, losing 28 to three. The NFL scripting writers are they at it right now? And you know, I'm not even going to comment on that. But the beginning of the game we saw that offensive pass interference on fourth down, which, hey, how about that? We talked about it last night. Is somebody going to go for it? On fourth down, first possession by the Eagles, they do. Aj Brown catches it, penalty called. Now it negates the fourth down play. But anyhow, back to your weekend. We'll get into all that fun stuff.
Graham:No, no, it's cool. Actually, I'm glad you brought that up. Did you think that was a good call?
Scott:I thought it was ticky-tack at the beginning of the game, but as you're listening to tom brady talk about it and saying it was awful, they're showing the replay. Aj brown did hit his face mask and move his head out of the way yeah and like he was, like he had his hand like over his vision.
Graham:So I mean, I don't, if you're, it's opi on the visor yeah, that's. I mean, that's what I thought. I mean, yeah, I I thought it was.
Scott:I just wanted to gauge your opinion on it like I thought it was the right call so it was as much as I don't want to, didn't want to see it.
Scott:Yeah, it was yeah but you know they got a makeup call on the eagles next possession on the, you know roughing the passer or whatever it was, or player or whatever. But yeah, I don't know, man, it was. You know your weekend you were working. My weekend I worked yesterday. Uh, miserable weather here, didn't really do a lot for the super bowl, just had the kids, boyfriend and girlfriend come over and made a bunch of food and watched the game and pops didn't come over no, just because the game is so late, you know, I mean it's 6 30, I mean.30.
Scott:I mean, what's he going to do? Leave at halftime, miss the whole third quarter? You know, not cool.
Graham:Oh, that's right, he's about a half hour away.
Scott:Yeah, yeah. So, you know, but it was low key, it was a good time. We're all pulling for the Eagles. What were you going to?
Graham:say, you just made me think of something. I mean, granted, I was at work, so I wasn't cooking I still didn't get that damn recipe. I know Well, that's because there was no.
Scott:When I knew you were working there wasn't a lot of you know, whatever, but it just popped up in my head.
Graham:I was like that son of a bitch.
Scott:But you know, before we even get into the game, uh, I pretty much hung out on the couch all day watching the waste management and solid event. Dude homeboy one by seven for his first ever win, Dude, yeah.
Graham:D tree Took it deep Dude. Yeah, dietrich, right, is that his name?
Scott:Took it deep, yeah. But what was more surprising is Scheffler shoots, has a birdie putt on the ninth hole to shoot five under on the front, misses it, shoots 31 on the front and then 41 on the back. What, yeah, he like played awful on the back, nine Wild Couldn't even believe what I was watching. But, dude, daniel Berger and Dietrich Dietrich's got a two-shot lead going into 16, the crazy hole and Berger's up first and hits it over the green and Dietrich hits it into about you know eight inches, makes birdie burger, makes bogey, ends up winning by seven. But something that was pretty cool as the event was going on, was this dude that Monday qualified for the event and is playing with Scotty Scheffler, the world number one, okay. This dude named Will Chandler goes out today, what Monday qualifies, okay, playing in the same group as Scotty, shoot 66, beat Scotty by six Top top 10 into the next pga tour event. Dude, is that any good it was? I mean this, this dude's just like hooping putts from all over the green. I'm like okay okay, it was.
Graham:Hey, sometimes it's that people's you know it's their time.
Scott:And it was homeboys time. And then you know we talk about Colt noticed a lot on the episodes cause he's got an awesome podcast and you know CBS is doing the coverage this week and we all know Colton Nose is on their team. Dude, you think I had shots fired at the beginning of the episode? Wow, colton Nose had a bazooka. Okay, tell me.
Graham:Dude, as we all know, had a bazooka. Okay, d-may, tell me, tell me.
Scott:Dude. So, as we all know, liv versus PGA Tour and Liv was all happy about their 12,000 people that watched their nighttime event. This weekend, colt Nose says on the broadcast on the 16th hole you know the craziest hole in golf hey, everyone, there's 24,000 people circled around this golf hole. That's 12,000 times two, if I'm not mistaken. I was like let's go, dude, let's go, is that any good? And then, dude, justin thomas on the last hole, 18 hoops it from the fairway, makes dues for eagle goes from 13th to 4th. It was sick, it was a fun event. I mean, for a guy went in by seven. You know, yeah, it was, it was fun, it was entertaining. And you know, like waste management always does on super bowl sunday, it keeps your brain occupied until the game.
Graham:You know, yeah, that's, but you know because it was pretty, they ended it pretty close to the.
Scott:It was. It was literally it. The putt was sunk and amanda balionis was out there. God, she's hot interviewing d3 about six o'clock, my time so about about a half hour, which is perfect right, perfect timing.
Announcer:Oh yeah.
Scott:Yeah, but anyhow, it was a good day. I had fun. I had fun with the fam. We're here doing the episode you know, talking about our favorite thing ever, which is sports, and unfortunately we got to watch the last football game until September. But before the game kicked off, did you see the news about Aaron Rodgers?
Graham:Uh.
Scott:Not going back to the Jets? Okay, he flew across the country and met with the Jets this week and he's not coming back. So I saw this and I thought I had to add it to the episode.
Graham:Okay, I'm afraid to add, this is amazing.
Scott:Wins as a starting quarterback, Cam Newton as a starting quarterback for the Patriots. Seven Aaron Rodgers as a starting quarterback for the Jets. Six Is that any good dude? When I saw that I literally I couldn't even believe it. I love it, love it I.
Graham:I don't even know what to say to that. You can't.
Scott:There's nothing to say. There's nothing to say dude done, yeah. Know what to say to that? You can't? There's nothing to say. There's nothing to say dude, done, yeah, done Nothing to say I don't know oh my God, that is great, yeah.
Scott:But something else I saw leading into the game. You know all over my phone watching the golf, just kind of lounging. There was a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Philadelphia. Did you see this? This is amazing, dude. They literally had on sale in the store and had a sign on it that says Kansas City Chiefs jerseys, and they took referee jerseys and posted it. I was like dude.
Graham:I think I heard that that is so good, oh, but I don't know.
Scott:Man, let's just jump right into it. You know, we talked last night. We talked on the episode Wednesday. We talked on the episode after the championship games. I went from chiefs are gonna win to eagles are gonna win and we talked about it.
Scott:I don't know who the dude on this and was that came on the other day and, dude, he literally hit the nail on the head and was like Eagles in a route, they're the better team on paper. You know, last time they played it was the Eagles' first time in the Super Bowl Came down to a you know a call. Was it holding? Was it not Not important? And it was their first time. And then somebody that I always rip on on this podcast of ours, that O2, whatever his name is, he had a tweet this morning that he ran into Howie Roseman last night and he goes what do you think? And Howie Roseman said the exact same thing. He goes look, we lost to the chiefs the first time. That was our first time experiencing everything the week in the hotel, media day, this that the hour-long halftime. It was all of our players' first times experiencing it. Now we're doing it for a second time. Granted, they have some new additions and we're more familiar with it. It's not an eye-opening experience and the Chiefs have been there so many times. Right, it's not new to them. It wasn't new to the Chiefs. It wasn't new to Hurts. Yeah, and they dominated dude. They came out and from the get-go it was very clear. Like we talked about Spagnolia whatever his name.
Scott:Name is best defensive coordinator in the game. His game plan was to what? Take away who? Saquon? And you could see it watching the game. A person that's not even educated, that doesn't even follow the game, could see it. They're not gonna let saquon burn you. They're gonna make hertz beat you because they didn't respect hurts. And what happened? He beat you. Not only did he beat you, but he had the most rushing yards in the super bowl for quarterback ever was 72. Jesus, he beat you with his arm and he beat you with his legs.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:It was awesome. I love it. It was amazing dude Trevor. Rob texts me, he goes. Trevor just said this is better than Christmas.
Graham:Trevor, you need to get some better presents. If that's the case, I mean dude. Oh, that's funny. Look when you got a stud defense. I mean, look what you know everyone's like. Oh Belichick, what does he like to do on defense? He's going to take away your best player. What would Belichick have done against the Eagle? Like having Saquon on their team. The dimension that he brings to them just opens everything up so much Everything.
Graham:That if you have to take so many players to focus on that one guy. Hey, by the way, way our quarterback, he's not bad. Yeah, you did pay him 250 million dollars two years ago, three years ago, like you got a deal after they went to zero. So it's just like, uh, I don't know, you had this guy named aj brown who's kind of pretty good. You know, you had this other guy, other guy that you took in the first round, who was the Heisman Trophy winner from Alabama. He's pretty good.
Scott:Speaking of, he was the first player from Bama to ever score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
Graham:Yeah, devonta Smith man Props to you.
Scott:Dude, we were talking about it last night and I was just like, wow, think about all the players from Bama.
Graham:Exactly.
Scott:It's mind blowing how many of them are.
Graham:No, how many of them are like All pros or first teamers, but yet none of them have scored a touchdown In the Super Bowl.
Scott:Incredible dude. That's like what you know. What else is incredible? Hit me, the best troll job I saw all day and I I hope you didn't see this, cause I'm about to send it to you right now. No, I haven't seen anything, dude. This is absolutely amazing. It's a picture of Belichick and his 12-year-old girlfriend walking through New Orleans. Look at this, read it out loud. I just sent it to you. Don't read it before. Oh God.
Graham:Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend walking around with an Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl 51 champion shirt is almost as crazy as Bill Belichick having a bigger dick than her.
Announcer:No rack.
Graham:Rack oh sorry, bigger rack than her, sorry.
Scott:Dude, she's walking around in the 28-3 collapse. Falcons Super Bowl t-shirt.
Graham:She is so fucking hot, oh, my God.
Scott:That's not the point of this. Yeah, she is fucking hot. Oh my God, that's not the point of this. Yeah, she is. I know. Only Bill Belichick has that t-shirt lying around, of course.
Graham:Right, dude, he does got some man boobs in this Dude. It's so good.
Scott:So good. I saw that and I was like come on, really, oh, that's hilarious yeah. Dude Jalen Hurts MVP.
Graham:Yeah, I mean. Well, the thing is, if the Eagles were going to win, it was either going to be him or Saquon, and since Saquon was, you know, bottled up, Before the last touchdown bomb to Smith, it was looking like sweat was going to be the MVP.
Scott:Two and a half sacks, six or seven tackles yeah. I mean could have been and I just got to throw it out there. You know where he's from, chesapeake, right here. Uh, anyhow, speaking of another chesapeake native, my boy dre bligh, new cornerbacks coach for the jets. Let's go nice very good let's go, let's go.
Scott:But you know, andy, aka grammar police, sent us a text in our group thread and he's like oh, theills would have been a better game. Debatable, would they? Maybe who cares? They lost. Don't do the tush-push to the left side of the line of scrimmage four times.
Graham:Yeah, now I'm kind of curious, like it, what it would have been if it would have been the ravens, the ravens eagles, you know. I mean, I mean, look it, it's all yeah, speculative it's what it's all whatever, but speculative what was that?
Scott:and I'm the one that's been drinking since 630, okay, yeah, whatever, I'm not going to make you pronounce that word again.
Graham:I'm like sounding it out. I'm like wait a minute. Look, we've been saying it most of the season. Not that we were saying that the KC were frauds, because I mean, look, technically were they getting dubs.
Announcer:Yeah, yes.
Graham:They were winning. Granted, almost every one of their wins was within a single digit. Yeah, I don't think that they. I think they only beat one team by double digits. Yeah, I forget who it was. But but, that being said, this whole season we've been saying the Eagles are right there as the best team in the league. So I mean, looking back on it, it's kind of like, well, yeah, we should have seen this coming.
Scott:And we talked about it a couple weeks ago. Dude Sirianni almost got fired last year. Yeah, remember the Eagles start, didn't they start off like 10-0 and then lost a shit ton and then lost to Tampa.
Announcer:Yeah, they lost every game and the wildcard round.
Scott:I mean adds Fangio, adds a new offensive coordinator, and I don't know if you saw it in his press conference he gave a little shout-out to Kellen Moore and was like I'd love to run it back again. Hope you don't take that job, dude. I don't disagree with him. I have a little bond with Kellen Moore, not because of the offensive coordinator but because he is basically the reason we named my son Kellen. We didn't name him after him but when he was the quarterback at boise state it was the first college football game of the year they were playing virginia tech, kristin's pregnant with kellen and it was between kellen and another name and we kept hearing them say kellen moore, kellen moore, kellen moore on the broadcast and she looked at me and she's like Kellen's his name and I'm like let's go. So then he became the Chargers offensive coordinator and couldn't do Dick, but you know, but he also didn't have the best offensive line on the planet Saquon Barkley running the ball, you know, those kind of things help, I mean a little bit when you have pieces.
Scott:Just a little bit. And, brandon, I wear the worst hat in the NFL ever. Staley is your head coach. You know you're kind of going to suck. So anyhow, you know, I hope he doesn't go to New Orleans, dude. I mean they're number 32 in the league with salary cap. I mean they got an old-ass Derek Carr. He's going there to get fired, dude.
Graham:So don't, if you're a hot topic now, you won't be hot next year, I agree.
Scott:Stay, stay, do Cliff, do what Ben Johnson did last year.
Graham:There's no point Stay with the Lions for next year.
Scott:Yeah, I mean, just don't do it, trust me.
Graham:There'll be six other opportunities open up next year yeah. Like every year, there's six new head coaches Every year. Absolutely Something's going to happen. Yeah, so I mean it's. I mean obviously it's different being the head coach. But, look, it'd be one thing if he was to say to himself all right, this will be the only time I get the opportunity, but, dude, isn't he only like 33 years old? I don't know, but he ain't that old 34?
Graham:Yeah, Exactly, Exactly. So, that being said, rent it back next year, Dude. If these knock on wood stay healthy, they're odds on favorite again.
Scott:They're actually not according to all the sports books. Okay yeah, they're third Chiefs. Bills them, then Lions. Yeah, okay yeah, Most complete team in the NFL. Dude, that's all you can say.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:Yeah.
Graham:Most complete. And the question is you know, roseman, someone's going to fall in their lap in the draft. You're just going to be like how the fuck did they get him? Like, how did he make it there? You know what's going to happen. You're just going to be like, well, I mean. But also, look, he hit on players year one that started week one and played all season.
Graham:This year yeah yeah, this year. This year yeah, yeah, this year A good team that can have players plug and play from the draft year one is like the greatest scenario ever. It's not like all right, usually your first round pick will start and that's about it. But they had their first, second, a third round pick start and it's just like if you're a good team and you can draft well and have some of those draft picks be starters, then you can go from a good team to a great team and if you can do that, you know you've got the upper hand and that's what all teams hope for.
Scott:I mean shit, that's what I was hoping for in Pittsburgh and a lot of other teams, but it's like not only that, not only that, but you gotta give props to hurts dude. Oh, he's hurts, his. Everything the guy's done has been amazing. And this goes back to college. He was benched in the national championship game for Tua and Tua came in and won the national championship game. So Hurts goes to Oklahoma. Okay, he's taken in the second round in the 2020 NFL draft, 53rd overall and let's don't forget that draft Burrow, tua, herbert he's the first one of them to win the Super Bowl. Taken in the second round.
Graham:I mean, he's been to two of them.
Scott:Yeah, I mean you gotta. The guy has faced adversity and has come out looking pretty damn good dude. Yeah, I mean, I mean Jeez.
Graham:How do you think the Mara family is doing right now? Yeah, I cannot wait to see what the Daily News or the New York Post tomorrow, what the back page is going to say. Yeah, Crazy. He's like man. It would really kill me if Saquon goes over there and kills it, and by you mean break the record for most rushing yards in the postseason for the whole year, including postseason. Oh, I don't know. And then, on top of that, winning a Super Bowl. Is that any good it's?
Scott:pretty amazing, dude. It's pretty amazing and it was clear as day. We were just talking about the collapse of the Eagles last year. Everybody, their weakness was what their defensive backs. What do the Eagles go out and do? Draft Quinion Mitchell from Toledo, the number one corner in the league, then trade up in the second and get Cooper to Jean. Oh, I'm sorry, would Cooper do tonight? He had a little tutty. They're plug and play, guys, dude. Rookie season.
Graham:I'm like, oh, this is easy, let's do this again, let's bring it back.
Scott:I mean, Brandon Graham came back from injury, played tonight, Just announced it's the last game he's playing Retiring after that. I mean what a way for this guy to go out. He hasn't played a game in how many weeks Rehabs just to get back to this moment Wins a Super Bowl. I'm out.
Graham:I mean I ain't mad at it.
Scott:Dude. They posted on Instagram I didn't send it to you, but literally an audio recording of Saquon. I think it was his daughter her voicemail. He left him today before the game. I literally sat here and was listening to it and was like, wow, I was tearing up. It was the cutest, coolest thing I've ever heard in my life. It was so awesome. I don't know. The Eagles had the chip on their shoulder, dude, from a couple years ago, and that phantom call. They went out and got better on both sides of the ball. A first ballot Hall of Famer center retires and jason kelsey they replace him.
Graham:I'm not gonna say they didn't miss a beat, but they didn't miss a beat yeah, I mean I wonder if I don't know, he's been doing so much cool shit during his first year of being retired. I mean with the win, I'm sure I mean obviously he's happy for all his friends. Oh, 100%. I'm wondering if there's a small part where he's just like, if you listen, to their podcast?
Scott:you would already know the answer to that, and the answer is no. You would already know the answer to that and the answer is no.
Graham:He is 100% all on board for those guys. Yeah, oh no, I'm sure he's happy.
Scott:For sure he's not mad about it. They were talking about it this past week. He's probably bummed because he's a family guy for his brother, but he's stoked for his teammates. You know he talked and they and Peyton and Eli were on their episode this past week and Peyton goes I know you still do a lot of things for the organization and this and that he goes. If y'all win this coming week and they decide to give you a ring, would you accept it? And without even thinking about it, jason was like fuck, no, wow.
Graham:Tell you one thing his wife's happy.
Scott:Yeah, I love it, dude, I love it, I love it.
Graham:It's just it's over, dude, nfl's done yeah, but you know, now comes for all the fun speculation of where players gonna go, who's getting.
Scott:I mean not even trades, but like who's getting released, granted permission to seek a trade today?
Graham:yeah, I saw that they have to do something. Dude, they're paying so many players on their team that they can't even with the cap going up. They couldn't pay everyone, obviously, because they gotta pay Purdy. They're gonna pay him. He's gonna get 55.
Scott:They have to.
Announcer:I just said that and I'm still stunned because I'm like wait a minute.
Graham:These guys are making $55 million now a year. What the? I mean that's almost basketball player money.
Scott:Don't forget Sam Darnold. Don't forget Kirk Cousins. Russell Wilson Steelers just said they're not bringing Russ back player money. Don't forget Sam Darnold. Don't forget Kirk Cousins. Russell Wilson Steelers just said they're not bringing Russ back. There's a lot of things going to be figured out shortly.
Graham:Yeah, the new year coming up in March, A couple weeks March, yeah, the second week of March, I think so. And then, hey, at least we got the draft coming. And then, after the draft, that's when you're like, all right, now we're in for the long haul. Aka the next three months of twiddling our thumbs and talking about baseball, I guess. Oh no, Actually, during that time we can have hockey playoffs, basketball playoffs. So you know, we've got some good shit to look forward to. I'm happy about that.
Scott:Remember it was announced a couple days ago Steelers playing in Ireland. I think, yeah. Yeah, rumor says it looks like it's going to be the Packers Steelers in Ireland. All right, badger, we're going to Ireland. Badger's already bitter, cause he was thinking about going to Andy's for the game. He was texting about it tonight. Oh really.
Announcer:Yeah.
Graham:But, you know, that would, oh my God.
Scott:Just the thought of those two together. I know that's a scary thought, isn't it?
Graham:it's. It's almost one of those like I wish. I wish I was like, uh, the outside looking in, just observing, like them not know I'm there. It's like put them in a room, give them a bunch of alcohol, throw this, throw a tv on, throw a sports game on and just sit back and watch yeah and just see what happens. Throw you into the mix to stir the pot a little bit oh, you have to right you gotta do it just to just shake it up a little bit yeah.
Scott:Dude, I keep looking back to this. With five minutes to go in the third quarter of the Super Bowl, Mahomes is seven for 15 and has 41 yards and two interceptions.
Graham:I know.
Scott:Mahomes tweets after the game. I'm just seeing this now. Appreciate all the love and support from Chiefs Kingdom. I let y'all down today. I'll always continue to work and try and learn and be better. Want to give thanks to God for every opportunity he's given me. We will be back. And that brings me to my next little thing. I want to give thanks to God for every opportunity he's given me. We will be back. And that brings me to my next little thing I want to talk about. I don't like to pat myself on the back, but if you go back to an episode last year, the night the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and I'm just going to throw it out there exactly 33 minutes and 40 seconds into the episode, february 13th, graham asked me if the Chiefs are going to three-peat and my response is F, no, granted. You're not going out on a limb talking about a team three-peat and nobody's ever done it before. But if there was ever a team to do it, and they did make it back.
Scott:I mean, my guy's only been beaten by three quarterbacks in the playoffs, yeah.
Graham:You know, burrow Hertz and Tom Brady.
Scott:I don't know man, but what did you? You didn't really get to hear a lot of it. I thought Brady was decent tonight on his commentary.
Graham:Brady, I noticed got better over I mean definitely over the year, yeah, he seemed pretty good.
Scott:People think it's super easy to go in and do what he's doing. But not only that, it's absolutely not. You're the only one talking, you're taking this into a commercial break. It's not only the play on the field, you know, compared to Romo who just stepped in and hit the ground running, I couldn't stand Romo.
Scott:And then as a commentator, and now you're like the guy is legit, right, but something everybody's bagging on Fox and Ava brought it up when the game started. Did you see the stupid score on the thing on the TV on the bottom of the screen? No, oh, everybody's bagging on it on Twitter and this and that it was awful. They're calling it what? The score bug or something stupid like that Dude, miserable. It was terrible. Like somebody tweeted at some point I forget who it was. They were like dude. Seeing this thing on the bottom of the screen is like looking at my 90 year old parents font on their iPhone. Like it was like that big dude. It was like, oh, like, why are we doing this? And you know that's funny. Like you, our favorite teams are in the afc, so we see more games on cbs. I'm not a big fox person. No, it was terrible dude it was terrible.
Graham:Terrible. Okay, would you rather have Joe Buck and Trey Aikman?
Scott:No, but I saw next year the games on NBC, so you know who we get with him Mike Drigo and that wide receiver from the Bengals Collinsworth, really. Yeah, next year it's NBC and the following year CBS.
Graham:Yeah, I know, oh, you mean your boy, jim Nance, is not going to do the Phoenix Open. He's going to have to no, he'll do the Phoenix.
Scott:He'll do it. No, he'll do it next year, but the following year he won't do the Phoenix.
Graham:No, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, because him being on CBS, yeah, so I didn't really get a chance. The one thing that I didn't get to notice is what a lot of well, I can't say a lot of people. But what's one of the biggest things about the super bowl that people love for over the past 30, 40?
Scott:I know where you're going with it and I'm just gonna throw this out there. I know you're talking about the commercials and this year right this year I don't know if you saw it you know how much a 30 second commercial was in the super Bowl.
Graham:Well, last year it was $6 million or $7 million, it was $6.5 last year.
Announcer:Oh, okay, $8.
Graham:$8 this year. The companies are still pony up and paying.
Scott:And there was one commercial deal with a bunch of chicks in bras and I was like what is going on here? And it was so funny that that's the only one that I saw it was so funny because connor and our san diego thread said something where is it? Where is it? This is so funny? Um damn it, I can't find it. Uh, shit, shit, shit.
Graham:Yeah, they keep showing all these different girls with their boobs and like pants and not I'm like what is, I'm like what commercial?
Scott:is this. Oh, here we go. Connor goes boobs commercial for the win. Not really sure what it was advertising and I'm kind of okay with it.
Announcer:Yeah, yeah.
Graham:Did you see what it was for, though I have no idea. It was for breast cancer awareness, okay, which it makes sense now. But like I'm watching the commercial and I was like, yeah, this is not a victoria's secret, I'm like what is this? Like I had no idea what this was.
Scott:So we're sitting here watching it you know, chris and I and the kids and their boyfriend and girlfriend and we're talking about commercials, how much they're paying for them. And a Budweiser commercial comes on with you know the Clydesdales and the horses, and I bring up the old school Budweiser commercial with the frogs oh, the best Dude, one of my favorite all times and I'm talking about it and Kellen Kristen's like go on YouTube and look it up. Kellen and him and his girlfriend Addie are watching it and they're like yeah, that's real great, dad. And I'm like you don't even have a clue.
Graham:I'm like Dude, these kids. I'm telling you.
Scott:I mean it was in the late. When was that? I mean who?
Graham:even knows. Dude, that was the late 90s, early 2000s.
Scott:I mean Right in there A frog sitting on a lily pad bud. Why?
Graham:what about the? Like come on yeah I'm gonna have to go back and just and go online and see what the top commercials were. I'm just like like there wasn't really anything that I saw.
Scott:At one point this dude I follow on SportsBets was like, just so everybody knows, put this in the back of your mind All these awful commercials are $8 million for 30 seconds. Oh, did you see the Seal commercial, the artist known as Seal.
Announcer:No.
Scott:All right, I'll look it up. Wow, is all I can say. It was a Mountain Dew commercial. What's their Baja Blast or whatever.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It's got Seal's face on an actual seal, Like in the water, floating around on rocks dude, it was a little creepy. And then it's got. Then it's got seal in a boat Dude. I just I don't know, I have no, I have no words. I have no words. Yeah, no words.
Graham:Oh man, that's great, but dude.
Scott:Anthony Davis out indefinitely.
Announcer:What yeah?
Graham:Did you you know what I finally saw last night? Did you you know what I finally saw last night? I saw the clip of Mark Cuban, because you know where he sits. He sits in the same spot on the floor, but like by the players, but not but more on the baseline of where the hoop is, but more on the baseline of where the hoop is. They showed they had camera footage of him looking at his phone, finding out that Luca got traded, and his reaction. I saw that and was just like this is what I've been waiting for. He jumped out of his seat and was pointing at his phone, talking to the guy that said said hey, you need to his agent or assistant, whoever it was, and he's just like I bet he was losing his mind like oh dude he I could only imagine, wow, what was going through his mind.
Graham:Or what he said I I wish I would have been there. I bet Wow, wow, wow, yeah.
Scott:Wow, dude, it's the NFL season. We got a little college basketball. March Madness is coming up. Hockey, love it Hockey. Nhl is taking a two-week break because they're doing that world thing. Nba is going on, dude, pitchers and catchers reporting like less than a week. Jesus, I know right. Golf is in full swing. We got Tiger playing this week at Torrey. I'm sorry what.
Graham:On his own exemption.
Scott:Dude, my guy had to give himself a sponsor exemption. It's the greatest stat in the history of sports.
Graham:I just Dude, when you're the GOAT, you can do whatever the you want. Alright, let's just leave it at that.
Scott:And my apologies to anybody that took my advice on my betting for the waste management boy. If you want to talk about a dud, that was a dud and you know, I don't know what was worse my prediction or fowler's outfit on thursday we're just gonna leave that out there, the outfit, the outfit by far thanks for that. You gave me a compliment right there.
Graham:I appreciate it yes, 100 appreciate it. Now, what here's. What here's what I want to know, since we're boys, you know, with both of them. What I want to know is you should ask romano, all right, romano, when you finally went, walk through the locker room and you saw your boy wearing that outfit, what was the first thing that you like? Did you know he was wearing that? Or like what you have to ask him for me, or like maybe I'll just put it in the group chat and just ask him, like bro, what's your like? Be honest, what was your first impression when you saw that? Or did he tell you he was going to wear that? Did you know that beforehand? Did you just meet him in the clubhouse, in the locker room, at the tournament, and then you saw that I got to know this. I'm just going to leave that one alone. Oh, I'm hitting him up, I don't give a shit, oh man. Oh, I'm, I'm hitting them up, I don't give a shit, dude. Oh man, oh man.
Scott:So alright, Something I gotta bring up. The best didn't go well. Something I gotta bring up Go ahead that I can't believe I didn't bring up yet the GOAT, finally in the Hall of Fame Got snubbed year one.
Graham:Jared Allen.
Scott:You know I love you, but I would reach through this goddamn computer and smack the.
Graham:The taste out your mouth.
Scott:Make it bad-ass. Dude. The goat got the call. Dude, and not only did he get the call, his best friend, lt, was the one to tell him. I know you saw the video. It was sick. It was awesome as somebody that literally watched every one of Gates' games to see the emotion on his face. And then, something that I didn't even know is he literally buried his dad a week ago and then gets in. It was sick, dude, it was awesome. Undrafted Thanks for playing. College basketball player Amazing.
Graham:But did you see? Did you see the video for uh, for Sterling?
Scott:Yeah, when his brother gave it to told him that was sick. Yeah, that was awesome.
Graham:Yeah, I kind of teared up a little bit, it was good.
Announcer:It was good.
Graham:I.
Scott:I, it was good. I teared up for Gates Not going to lie Obviously. I teared up for Gates Not gonna lie Obviously, of course. I mean Of course, just Him and LT. I just hope LT Is the one that does His induction speech. I would be surprised, right?
Graham:Yeah, I hope so but Kinda like I would assume Shannon would Do his Sterling 100%.
Scott:Especially your older brother, dude.
Graham:I mean, you know, yeah, you know, your younger brother gets in the hall Before you and then Comes downstairs In the house and Shannon's there, I know, and it's sick, right, I love it, it's so sick, but it, you know it's funny Cause we've talked about it In previous episodes and I think we brought this up, but, like I was thinking about it more after I watched that video, it's kind of like and, like I said, I think we did bring this up but, like you, like you have to be so good and everyone has to perceive you to be so good that, granted, it did take a while for him to finally get in, but for him to get in after only playing five seasons, that really shows that it's not getting into the Hall of Fame is not specifically about stats, especially nowadays with how stats are so important moving forward, just because of how the league has changed and how it's a it's a more of a scoring league, you know, more passing and stuff like that.
Graham:That it really makes you give credit where credit is due. You know, I mean the two people that come to mind, obviously Sterling, but then you know your boy TD. I mean, yeah, he only played for six seasons. In those six seasons he got two super bowls, a 2 000 yard rushing season, uh, straight nomination station, like like first team, all pro, almost every one of those I mean. Like I mean during the years he played, there's only one running back that held a candle to him, and that was Emmitt Smith. That's it, and that was Emmitt towards the back end of his career. To be honest, I'm trying to think Wow, mahomes quarterback rank 11.4.
Graham:Well, yeah, when you throw two picks. And I mean, what did he finish off with yardage?
Scott:He had a lot just because the garbage.
Graham:He had the Hail Mary at the end, the garbage time, but still, yeah, I mean. Well, while you're looking that up, we'll just finish it off with this. Since you didn't do too well with the bets on the waste management, how did you do fair with your Super Bowl?
Scott:bets. Well, my homes had 257. Oh wow, so he didn't go over. Three touchdowns, two interceptions, 25 yards rushing.
Graham:So my parlay did lose by one. Fucking Kareem Hunt, you gotta be kidding me.
Scott:Kareem Hunt had three carries for nine yards.
Graham:The fact that he only hit rush the ball three times. What?
Scott:Dude. The Chiefs only had 11 rushing attempts in the game.
Graham:Well, when you're down 24-0 at half.
Scott:I mean the Eagles had 45 rushing attempts. Saquon's rushing attempts dominated that 26 is what he had.
Graham:Do you know what his number was, what his attempts was? 20.5, I think. Oh, it was.
Scott:I thought it was more, I thought it was no 20 and a half, but he only had 57 yards and no touchdown. How many people lost money on a Saquon Barkley anytime, tutty?
Announcer:Millions.
Scott:The same amount of people that had. Dallas Goddard, over in receptions. What did I tell you last night? The whole world's saying this is a lock.
Graham:He had to. I know, dude. So, all that being said, I got my ass kicked. The only thing that saved me was the hunch that I had, and what I was telling you was you don't trade for someone during the middle of the season and expect not to use them. That I had and what I was telling you was you don't trade for someone during the middle of the season and expect not to use them. And I'm talking about DeAndre Hopkins, the anytime touchdown at plus 500. Yeah, praise the Lord, in the fourth quarter, that I came through, because that was the only thing that slowed the bleeding from all of my prop bets that went.
Scott:Dude. His reception line over one and a half was plus money yeah, insane and he only had two, whatever.
Graham:Yeah, the touchdown was the second catch five targets.
Scott:He dropped the wide open one. I'm like what?
Graham:I know if I had just done the two catches and over Saquon dude.
Scott:His line for reception was over one and a half at plus money two and he had six. Yeah, I mean, I mean you asked me about my bets. I won the anytime defensive touchdown score thing Amazing, and pretty much I got Hopkins, I got Saquon over receptions. It was like a break-even kind of day. My boy Maros had Dotson First touchdown score. I was telling you earlier, $2.50 to win 180. At first they say it's a touchdown, then he's tackled on the half-yard line. I was like, oh my Lord, it is what it is line. I was like, oh my Lord, you know, it is what it is. I mean now we just look forward to free agency, the draft, and see what happens.
Graham:Yeah, there's going to be so much noise and speculation.
Announcer:It's going to be wild.
Graham:A lot's going to happen. I'm bummed that the season's over, but for as much as I'm bummed, I'm excited to see what the new year is going to bring, Because look, the turnover in the NFL yeah, most of the teams are semi the same, but they're really not. They got new players.
Scott:Speaking of new players, how did you feel when you saw Kenny Pickett taking the final knee in the game tonight?
Graham:You know, I really thought we were going to be able to make it through this. You not, mention that you, son of a fucking bitch. Mention that you, son of a fucking bitch. I was like I even said it to myself I'm like I think I can get out of this. I think he's not, I think. But then I was like, yeah, he's my boy, he's gonna bring it up.
Scott:Um, you know what's funny?
Announcer:I take you to the candy shop.
Scott:I lick you like a lock, go shorty, it's your birthday.
Graham:I didn't even think about it until he came in, and when I saw him come in, the realization sunk in and I'm like motherfucker. But hey, we got Justin Fields for him, hopefully our starter for next year. So or not, I don't know. We'll see what happens.
Scott:Matt Stafford, I hear is the leading guy to go to the Steelers bro, if we could get Matt Stafford, let's go.
Graham:Bro, if we could get Matt Stafford, let's Go. I mean, he's still got something to prove, he ain't that?
Scott:I don't know his age, but who knows?
Graham:I ain't mad at it, but Well, my brother, I had a great time. It was a good Super Bowl Sunday. Kind of getting a little excited to hit up some of this Buffalo chicken dip after the episode, I ain't going to lie. But sad that the football season is over. I'm excited for you know what the new sports we get to talk about? More golf, more baseball, more basketball, more hockey. So that's going to be nice. And hey, another great football season to finish it off with you, Scott, and hey, as the best homie always says, buh-bye.
Scott:Good night friends. Good night Kermit. Good night friends. Good night Kermit. Good night Audi. Belly button, have a salad. So maybe you don't have an Audi. On that note, bye-bye.
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