Bald Guys On The Bench
Bald Guys On The Bench
From Bethpage Blues to NFL Shockers: Golf, Grit, and Gripes
Recorded September 30th, 2025
The chants were louder than the putts—until they weren’t. We unpack a Ryder Cup that felt upside down, where Bethpage’s myth met a soft setup and Europe turned pressure into poetry. Bryson’s opening swing, Scottie’s brutal stat line, Fleetwood’s calm heat, and the Hovland “envelope” controversy all collide with a bigger truth: culture and clarity beat raw talent when the weather levels the field. If you care about how pairings form, why alternate shot exposes teams, and what a captain really controls, this one’s for you.
Being on-site brought a different kind of lesson. The grandstands shake, the first tee thrills, and then the gaps hit—four groups on the course, long waits, and a reliance on your phone just to follow the action. We break down a smarter way to watch, why two days is the sweet spot, and how to pick a perch that rewards patience. The chants told their own story too. USA felt familiar; Europe sang with purpose. That difference is not nothing.
From there, we sprint through college football’s whiplash weekend—records that won’t go away, dropped chances that sting—and into an NFL slate dominated by injuries and edge rushers. MetLife’s turf becomes a headline again. Fourth-down calls and clock errors flip games. Quarterbacks improvise because they must. Through it all, one thread holds: environment shapes outcome. Weather, culture, turf, and leadership either sharpen a team or dull it.
We’d love your take: Should Tiger captain in Ireland? Would you still pay for multiple Ryder Cup days? And how would you fix the injury loophole? If this episode hit a nerve, follow, share with a sports-obsessed friend, and drop a review so we can keep raising our game.
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Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the Bench Podcast with your hosts Graham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Scott:What's up everyone, and welcome back to another episode of The Bald Guys on the Bench. Tuesday night edition. Graham's back home in Vegas from a little trip to the East Coast, and I'm just gonna leave it at that. We'll talk about that whole scenario in a second. But Graham, you know what time it is, bro.
Graham:Hey, it's been a long, long week, but hey, we're here to talk sports. So, like we always do, Scott, when talking about sports, it's time to grab one and crack one. Let's go, baby.
Scott:And folks, if you can hear Graham being as tired as he is, you know, we all know you listen to me joke on Graham about sleeping in. My guy actually got up before 6 a.m. three days in a row.
Graham:Uh, how about before 5 a.m.? Wow. Yeah, it was brutal. Well, when you have 7.10 tea off times, you know, and you gotta get there, it's like it is what it is.
Scott:Anyhow, yeah, we'll get into that whole thing. We'll get into that.
Graham:But I had a busy weekend, but we'll get into that. Scott, how was your weekend, brother?
Scott:I had a crazy weekend too. And not as crazy as yours, but you know, I mentioned last week it was our member guest at the club. Everybody knows that sitting in the golf world, member guest is like the Super Bowl for private clubs, and just so happened to be Ryder Cup weekend, the reason I couldn't go. And, you know, all my thoughts and you know, concentration was on that. Stayed down at the club Thursday night, was bummed. I couldn't go to Kellen's game on Thursday night against their rival school, which they dominated. Kellen was so pumped. First quarter had a tackle, caused a fumble, recovered the fumble. Kristen's texting me as I'm like scoring the first round, and I'm like losing my mind. I'm like, oh, you know, I'm so pumped for him.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You know, the whole memory, you know, I'm like so bummed I missed it, but thank God they, you know, I showed it to you last night. The coaches record everything. They won, got back to the hotel, and literally Kellen, first thing he says, text me when he got on the bus to go home, and he just texts me, let's effing go. And I'm like, that's my boy right there.
Graham:Fired up.
Scott:Fired, fired up, dude. In the video, you know, coming out of the, you know, where he recovered it, jumping up and down with the ball, and then seeing the rest of the video on the sideline with the whole team smacking his helmet. I was pumped for him. But then, dude, it was crazy. Like, I was talking to Kristen on her way home. Dude, she drove past the high school and she's like, I don't know what's going on at the high school. Like, there's like 10 fire trucks at the high school. I don't know what the hell's going on, dude. Because it's the local rivalry, the fire station right by our house, right by the high school, lined up the entrance to the high school to welcome them home for winning the game. Like sirens going. How sick is that? How sick is that, though?
Graham:No, I mean it's it's sick. Yeah. But for ninth for ninth graders, like, yeah, dude.
Scott:Hey, I I it's called community, bro.
Graham:I I I get it, I get it.
Scott:I get it. Hey, super sick. But you know, member guest ends on Saturday. We're doing the shootout at the end of the member guest to determine the winner. As we're doing the shootout, you know, people that don't know golf, shootout. We have 10 flight winners, alternate shot. I got 10 balls in play on the first hole, okay? And I'm out there orchestrating this whole fiasco. We go from 10 teams to six teams to four teams. Well, we get to the four team hole, and my dad texts me, Holy shit, there's about to be a brawl in the rider. I'm like, in the rider cup. I'm like, what the what the shit's going on? I'll like turn my phone off. I'm like, I can't even deal with this anymore. I can't, I gotta deal with this. But you know, weekend was the weekend. Disappointed in the Ryder Cup and disappointed in my Chargers, which we'll get into. But more excited that Sunday to watch the Ryder Cup was actually watchable. I mean, going into Sunday, I'm sitting there going, are they gonna score 20 points? Got home from Member Guest, amazing football games on Oregon, Penn State, Georgia, Bama. Yeah, you know, got to watch the end of that. Yeah. But, you know, it was it was a great sports weekend. Really bummed that Graham hit the wrong button and didn't post the Ryder Cup episode because you guys could have heard Wastardamas on another scale. Picking Cam Young to lead the US and Ryder Cup points at 12 to 1. But the one thing I do have to say is, you know, I can't believe it actually happened before I let you go into your weekend. No, no. You and I have been talking about this for weeks, episodes. What we predicted actually happened. Who hit the first t-shot for the United States?
Graham:Bryson.
Scott:It happened. And my god, was it a tee shot?
Graham:It was. I mean, it landed on the green.
Scott:So I mean, no, it was before the green.
Graham:Oh, that was another day. Sorry. It was before the green. I get him confused.
Scott:And then Justin Thomas hits a shitty chip shot, and then Bryson hoops the putt. Fired up. Could you have had a better start? Oh, Otani just hit another one. That's two for Otani. TP, I hope you catch that ball. That one was deep dish pizza right there. Holy shit. Wow. Seven to nothing. Oh. But anyhow, it was. People debate the pairings. People debate this. People debate that. The only thing I debate is the bullshit envelope thing with Victor Hovland and his injury on Sunday. The pairings, whatever, dude. The European team was on fire. Okay.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It is what it is. Would I have put Moracao and Harris English out there Saturday? Probably not. But the envelope injury thing, dude. If we would have dude, imagine this. United States throws six injuries out there. Why not just put all 12 of them out there? You get six points on Sunday.
Graham:We still would have lost.
Scott:Yeah, but guess what? We only lost one singles match, bro. I know. On Sunday. One. I know. That that point. I look. And then, and before I even let you go into it, this is the last thing I want to say. I was at the BMW championship, and this is, you know, my dad came over Sunday. We watched the Chargers game. I actually had two TVs. I put another TV in the living room for the Ryder Cup and then the Chargers game.
Graham:Pretty gangster.
Scott:And they're talking about all this shit. And all I can think about is a month ago, I was at the BMW with Fowler, right?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And I'm seeing the trailers that the PGA has for these players to go get stretched before a round. Chiropractors on site, cold tubs, this, that. Yeah. It's not me and you, bro, showing up for our Sunday tea time when we slept weird on our neck. Like you your tea time is at 1.30 in the afternoon. You've got plenty of resources to get your shit in gear. And then did you see him on the 18th green when they won? Oh, that little douche was oh, bobbing his head all around. Oh, I thought you couldn't turn your neck, Victor. Dude.
Graham:If they needed him, he would have played.
Scott:Bullshit. I think it was mind games.
Graham:100% it wasn't my I mean, is that a cheeky move? Yeah.
Scott:Did he have a kink in his neck? Yeah, maybe. But bro, don't it's the Ryder Cup.
Graham:But you yeah, you're gonna tie it when they're at 11 and a half, so you're gonna give them a half a point? All they needed was two points, dude. That's my point.
Scott:Exactly. It's stupid. It should be a forfeit. I guarantee you the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland, that rule changes. Guaranteed. That should be a forfeit of a point.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Should be a forfeit of the point.
Graham:But if it's a forfeit of a point, it would still be 13 and a half. You know what I mean? Like it's still whatever. You don't know what happens.
Scott:I I Yeah, and that's why that's why Paul McGinley, that's why Paul McGinley on the broadcast was like, I really want them to get to 14 and a half and not 14 because of this point. And then when they got to 15, he goes, I feel better about it, but because of the half point. Yeah. Whatever. It's still stupid.
Graham:Yeah. And it's it's a mind frame. It's a lot of things. You know, I'm gonna start this off. It's not really a rant. It's it's it's gonna be a combination of a lot of things. Um I think the first thing that I'm gonna say is regardless of it being the Ryder Cup, there are a few golf courses, whether it be globally, but even here within the United States, that they are absolute staples, you know, for golfers of of all ages, for the PJ Tour. Like, there's a handful of clubs you're like, yeah, that's famous for a reason. No, they're the Beth Pages, the Pelobeaches, like all of the top ten courses we'll say. I mean, there's really like a solid five to seven, but we'll say the top ten courses. Like they have their status, their eliteness, and in in in various ways. The number one thing about Beth Page, the I mean, the absolute number one thing when people think of Beth Page is what?
Scott:It's a municipal course.
Graham:Well, besides that, but what's the number like a normal person?
Scott:It's a big golf course, it's a big golf course.
Graham:Right. It's a big golf course, but where I was going with that was what's the first thing that you see when you go when you go there? The sign. That sign.
Scott:Yeah, they moved it.
Graham:They blew that sign up everywhere, right? They had it the traditional spot. They had like my point where I'm going with this is this. You can't have the writer cup and all its prestige. This is for the Americans. We choose the conditions, and because it's you know, it's on our turf and da-da-th, and dah dah that. The whole prestige of what Beth Page was when I was there was nowhere near what I've well, I don't want to say that the way the course was amazing, loved it. But from a competition standpoint, if you've never seen Beth Page and then you go there and you just see everyone throwing darts, well granted, I know the weather that that that sucked.
Scott:That absolutely I don't know, excuse my language, effing sucked.
Graham:Exactly. I mean, the first so many holes because of the grandstands, you know, they're moving people up.
Scott:I mean all your boys just want to bet eight to nothing.
Graham:I mean, it's just like, dude, every person that played on both teams had a chance to make the green. Like, there was no Bryson going first was like, yeah, we called that, but like the whole point of number one is that super long, you know, long par four. You got the dog leg around around the right side. It's a blind shot if you're taking it over the over the trees. Because historically, there's players weren't hitting it over the trees. There was like one or two. Every player almost took the line directly over the trees. Like, didn't didn't phase them at all.
Scott:Yeah, because the greens were soft. Well, that's what I'm saying, and they were ripping balls back.
Graham:I mean, dude, the rough was was was shorter. Like, I saw some shots from like 210 out of the rough to like eight feet. And granted, I get it. These guys are pros. I get that. But here and there is one thing on a consistent basis, and great, like I said, these are the best players in the world. Like, they just came off of you know, the tour championship, the FedEx Cup, all that stuff. And I I will say this. I mentioned to you, you know, a few days ago. Who's the number one player in the world this year? Or who had who had the best season? It's Scott and Seven.
Scott:You said it last week in the episode that never got published when we were talking about top USA scorers.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Scotty was two to one, and he went one and four.
Graham:Dominated. Fleetwood looked amazing out there. Like he he was dropping putts, he was hitting all the shots you need to hit.
Scott:Dude, it's it's the same thing we say about all the past rider cups. I Colin Colin Montgomery couldn't win a tour event in the United States, tee it up at the Ryder Cup, my guy hoops it from everywhere. Ian Boulter, Sergio, the number one point getter of all time for the for the Europeans. Dude, that team could have been might have been the greatest team Europe has ever assembled.
Graham:Yeah. I mean going back to the Fearsome Five, I mean, or whatever they were called, I I just dude, you know, it it's from top to bottom. I mean, Fitzpatrick played his played his ass off.
Scott:Um and he hadn't done shit.
Graham:Nothing. Who also Big Bob. Big Bob was just swinging it out there, bro. Big Bob McIntyre was just like, hold my goodness, I got this. Like, all over the place. Our guys, we talked about it. Who were you least excited for us to put out there? And honestly, while I'm watching them, Morikawa?
Scott:Duh.
Graham:And then it's just like they did a little bit. I mean, they tied on the weekend, but dude, I mean, I I know you were working, you didn't watch a lot of the coverage, but dude, just from what I saw on highlights, did it look like Harris English even wanted to be there? That's him, though. I I know I don't know a lot, I don't watch a lot of his game. So it's just like I'm watching this game and I'm like, you know, this is the writer cup, dude, right? Like, show some emotions, show something. Like, I just you know, I think about this.
Scott:Here's a stat. Scotty on Friday and Saturday in the team portion of the of the event.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:His opponents made 34 birdies and 66 holes.
Graham:What?
Scott:I don't think oh what you want to talk about a buzzsaw. 34 birdies and 66 holes.
Graham:I mean so, and that's the thing. Scotty played better in the afternoon. Him in the in the in the alternate shot, not so much. Like the I'll give him credit, the Europeans, because a lot of them will like the they had good matches. Because I peep normal, I'm gonna say normal, the casual golf fan does not understand the concept of what playing the same ball as the person you're playing with, how important that is.
Scott:Yeah, but listen to this. Something I learned Friday morning, session one, alternate shot. It's lift clean in place because of all the rain on Thursday. Yeah. Guess what? If it's lift clean in place, you don't have to play the same ball. You can play your own ball.
Graham:What?
Scott:Never knew it. I just knew it. Until never knew it.
Graham:What?
Scott:Never knew it, Graham.
Graham:What?
Scott:Had no idea, bro.
Graham:What? That is unbelievable.
Scott:Because it's live clean in place.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:If you hit it, if you hit it, if you hit it in the rough, obviously you have to play your partner's ball.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I mean, I had no idea. And I thought I knew a lot of golf rules.
Graham:Right. Um so it it's, you know, I got back last night. I'm still digesting the overall weekend, you know, something. Can we have an over-under how many times we gotta say, well, if I would have pressed send on that podcast and that episode would have gone out, killing myself for that. But regardless, um, you know, I know we mentioned it uh we talked about it prior, but two points. One, whenever you, whoever are going on on this big plann trip, you're going to meet up with your friends, you know, you're going to do you know, have a good time at the golf course. Did we have a great time? Yes. Was I very fortunate to be with an old friend of mine, we had a good time. Yes. But you want to get the dub. And here's the thing. If you've never watched any of the golf this whole weekend and just saw what the final score was, you'd have no idea of the shellacking that happened. And another point to that shellacking is when you go three and one in the morning matches, and then three and one again in the afternoon matches, and then oh wait, yeah, it was another three and one the day before.
Scott:Like when you so and the secondary markets are selling tickets for a hundred bucks for Sunday because we're getting our asses handed to us. Oh, my that you paid eight hundo for.
Graham:So thanks for bringing that up, actually.
Scott:Dude, and all I could think about, and I I know I brought it up on the show last week, you know, Lawless, Matt Lawless, one of our boys, texted me and was like, what day is your grand going to be there? And I'm like, Thursday through Sunday. And I'm like, what day are you going? And he's like, Sunday. And all I could think about Saturday night after play was over was, oh my god, this dude just flew across the country from California, paid a shit ton of money to go to the Ryder Cup to see this.
Graham:I mean, you saw a comeback.
Scott:I mean, it wasn't for the dub, but I'm thinking before the comeback. Oh, okay, yeah. I'm like, I'm like, oh, I'm heartbroken for him. He's been looking forward to it. And then, you know, Saturday night, you're there, you're supposed to be fired up, and you're like, I could have literally paid a hundred bucks on some other platform for a ticket.
Graham:I dude, my buddy that I went with, he said the PG, or who he said the PG, I don't know if it was them, but the where he got his tickets, they actually offered him money to buy his tickets on like that. For Sunday? No, no, no, for the whole week. Oh wow. Because they said they were running low on tickets, so they were gonna buy his ticket. He would have made made money. I mean, not like a lot, like I think they would have given him like a thousand bucks a day. And folks, if you don't know, the regular ticket price, which they called the Ryder Cut Plus, and folks, I'm air quoting because the plus um just basically means we'll allow you to come to our concession stand area and uh we will give you the free option choice of have a bag of potato chips, have an apple, have a banana, have a cheeseburger, hot dog, chicken sandwich, you know, something that they just kept piping hot and just kept putting it out there, you know, and just and and look, free food, I'll take it.
Scott:It's better than not offering it because they didn't have to.
Graham:For $750, they better have done a lot of other things. Let me tell you. So that in itself. Um, something that we I brought up before, I think we talked about it in the episode that didn't, but if there, I don't want to say a silver lining, but if there, if I did learn anything from this weekend, and it pains me to say this, it really does. For as much as I love golf, I I will never er, I will never pay to go to a tournament for more than two days.
Scott:It's tough.
Graham:Folks, what I mean by that is you people you you don't understand the concept of oh, well, it's golf. When you watch it on TV, you see everything. Not when you're there, not when you're there. I mean, my mom was like, well, didn't they just have like TVs up everywhere? No. What what I'm like, Ma, where'd they get all the extension cords? Like, where would they get all the I'm like, no, like there's a few holes that had big projector screens that they did it at. They probably had like three aside, so six total screens. But it's just like when I'm talking with my buddy Paul, and you know, we get there, and it's like, well, where do you want to go? And it's just like, look, like there's a strategy of how you watch golf at an event. Because you're only doing it one of two ways. Either you're going to a specific place, grandstand, or if you have your own chair or wherever, where you basically get out in front of everyone, wait it out for the first group to come through, have great, you know, have a great time, great seats, great situation with that going on at that moment, watch the groups go through, and then just wait it and wait it out until they come back in the afternoon. And if you do that, hopefully you pick a place that has one of those projection screens. We did that on, I mean, between going to the practice rounds, I'm trying to remember, but I know on Friday, the first date, we forgot to take the chairs. So that's what we did. We went out to, I think it was like 12, and 12 green was also right next to five green. So we got a little two for one special there. So we sat in the grandstands, but there was a point where there was three hours that there was no one on the hole.
Scott:And that's that's the hard thing about the Ryder Cup versus another tournament, right? A regular event. Right. There's only four groups on the course on Friday and Saturday.
Graham:It's not like we could bounce around.
Scott:Like back in the day when we used to go to Tory Pines, you would have to jump three holes in front of wherever Tiger was so you could watch Tiger hit a shot. Well, at the Ryder Cup, you're three holes ahead of everybody to watch four groups, and then you're like, okay, now where do we go?
Graham:Exactly. And when there's 70,000 people there that on a weekend day, and there's four groups going off, or at least on Sunday when it went individual, like you know what I mean?
Scott:So it's like that's the brutal part.
Graham:It's picking your battles of surveying the course, know where you want to position yourself, because you have to have the TVs. Like, I'm literally there at Beth Page. The weather was better than I thought it was gonna be. I'm happy for that, but I'm on my phone watching the Ryder Cup at the Ryder Cup.
Scott:Yeah, I get it.
Graham:Like, I mean I mean, the dude, the I mean, dude, I get it, Graham.
Scott:I get it. I totally get it.
Graham:I mean, love the game. Uh other things, like if it was a free ticket, like, and the thing is that it's not about the money per se, but it's just like I was at that golf course because look, I I made a mistake. I forgot the writer club's only three days, not four. So when we bought the tickets, I was like, yeah, just get Thursday through Sunday, and then my friend ended up buying the extra day and got all this, and it's just like, dude, I was at Beth Page Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Like, after a while, I'm like, all right, I want to leave. You know what I mean?
Scott:Like, it's a it's a grind.
Graham:We didn't stay. I'm you know, I don't feel bad saying this. Like, we didn't stay for the closing ceremony.
Scott:On Sunday?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Yeah. Well, we're like we we lost.
Graham:Bye. Yeah, I'm not sticking, I'm not European and I'm not sticking around and seeing them oysts the trophy, you know, ocean the trophy. So it's just like, you know, we got out of there, you know, to beat the traffic. You know, those first couple days, like, oh, this is not a big deal with the shows. Boy, let me tell you, on this those bus lines getting out of there, sheesh.
Scott:But and like I told you the other day, you know, day one for the first tea shot. Dude, Maros texted me at 5 20 in the morning, Friday morning, a picture of the first tea, and he goes, It's already full.
Graham:And that was the one thing I told you. That was the only thing that I wanted was to be there in the stand, but to know that the shuttles don't start until 5 a.m. and the gates open at 5. So the only way, and mind you, folks are like, Well, what's the big deal? Well, you had to pre-pay for your shuttle tickets.
Scott:Eastern Jay said something about a train. Was there a train that lets you off close to that? No. Well, he was he got there, like I said, 5 20. He didn't he didn't shuttle in, I guess.
Graham:There's no no, you could take the train to a spot and then shuttle from the train.
Scott:Okay.
Graham:Yeah. So my the whole point of bringing that up is the only way I could have got there on time is if you Ubered, uh in a sense, which dropping off wasn't that much of an issue. It's leaving there, which would have been brutal.
Scott:A disaster.
Graham:Like, absolutely brutal. But the one thing is is like because that you've been there. Have you been there? No, no, no. Okay, I didn't think so. So, like trying to explain, like New York roads, not in like in the city, like there, there are just so many like windy, interchanging, winding roads there that they had so much security, rightfully so, but it's just like all the traffic cops that were like stopping traffic. I'll give them credit because I was on the bus. Hey, kudos to you guys. They stopped traffic to let the buses go through. So, like, there's a part of it, like, dude, nice. Do you know how pissed I would be if I'm spending the money to take the Uber and I'm waiting 15 minutes? Because it's like, oh, we're right out here. I'm like, yo, I'll just get out. You know what I mean? But it's just like, so that aspect, you know, it was nice, but I I mean, look.
Scott:So, so we could spend the whole episode over.
Announcer:No, no, no, no, that's fine.
Scott:Um question I have for you, and I was waiting for the show. What was the most mind-blowing thing you saw? What was your favorite thing being there?
Graham:Um probably the opening ceremony.
Scott:Just like that was pretty cool.
Graham:Like, There's a few times in people's life where it's just like you know, I I attribute some of it to like, you know, instances was where I was at Burning Man or as other other festivals, but it's just like when when you're in a group of so many people, you you can get caught up in the emotion of like what is going on at the time, and just the whole opening ceremony, all the players were there, you know, they're being introduced, but just the interaction with the fans because I mean everything was was kind of spread out there. Um, like there's no shortcuts in Beth Page, it's pretty much like how the design of the board is golf course, yeah. It's it's long, so like it would take you a like it's a 20-minute walk to go from where nine is back to Was it hilly?
Scott:Was it hilly?
Graham:Yeah, yeah. It's I mean, not over the top, but yeah, I mean it it's hilly, right? For sure, and it's just like the opening ceremonies were super good. Yeah, I mean, I I would just say that, but then the last thing that I was saying about the event was this cause and effect. Was there a reason why they didn't start serving alcohol until 9 a.m.? Probably.
Scott:Uh, I think we saw that on Saturday.
Graham:Yeah, I mean, I get that, but here's my point. I don't know if it was the fact that the patrons that were there were just shell-shocked or demoralized by our play, but I just there was a feel on the golf course that it's just like the wind was just sucked right out of the fans.
Scott:Dude, every time we hit a shot close, and you thought we were gonna get momentum.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:They threw a dart, they hit one better.
Graham:Yeah. We make we make a 25-foot birdie putt. Oh, we'll just tap in ours. Like we'll tap in our 25 foot.
Scott:I mean, like I I don't I don't know what you say.
Graham:Uh, I mean it's it's just well for me, what it really was, and just because I remember the crazy antics of being up in the middle of the morning, like in the middle of the night watching it because of the time change when it went you know, two from two years ago, the European crowd was just so behind their players that it just it just has a different feel, and we just didn't feel like I I like I just didn't have that feeling where it was just like wow, like you know, we're in something right now, you know what I mean?
Scott:And dude, something we talked about last week on the non-posted episode, dude. The chance from our fans, yeah, USA, USA. I believe that we will win. And then you got the Europeans ever yeah, you know where that started, right? San Diego State back in the day when uh Kawaii Leonard was there, yeah, and then you got the European team. We're not even talking fans, like the fans are hilarious, the shit they come up with, but then you got the European team on the bus singing in your head, in your head, dude. That roary roary, dude.
Graham:That I literally heard that every day. Every day. I it it was like our school, it's like our school didn't get the memo for the prep rally, like and before we get off the rider cup.
Scott:I I mean, were the American fans a little ridiculous? And I agree with you. We were getting boat raced, and dudes were drunk and started saying shit and that they shouldn't have said, and it was a little I mean, throwing beers at wives and stuff, like that's that's ridiculous.
Graham:Yeah, uncalled.
Scott:Very uncalled for. Like, come on. But then you got Rory in his press conference. Oh, is that another bomb? No. Then you got Rory turning around and telling somebody to shut the fuck up, and then in his press conference saying, you know, how the United States fans were over the top. And my boy Paul Isinger called him out, and he was spot on. Rory's out there and he tells the fan to shut the fuck up, and then saying that the American fans are bad, and then Rory in his press conference, they ask him, How did that feel to stick that shot after you told that guy to shut the fuck up? And he goes, Very fucking awesome. So which one is it, Rory?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I mean, when Shane Lowry had that five, six footer to win, I'm looking at my dad and I'm like, there is no chance in hell that this putt does not go in.
Graham:Oh, no.
Scott:No chance. And I mean, Russell Henley, dude, like number three ranked player in the world. Like, you have a putt to beat Shane Lowry and you leave it short. The last thing you ever do is leave a putt short. I mean, a wise man once said a putt that doesn't reach the hole 100% of the time never goes back.
Graham:Yeah. Smart man. Dude.
Scott:I just dude, I don't know. I mean, we can sit here and talk and talk and talk. But hey, the next Ryder Cup 2027 is in Ireland. Word on the street is coming straight from Marco Mira. Tigers are a captain. Oh one of Tiger's best friends is the owner of whatever it's called, a Dar Manor or whatever it's called in Ireland. I I seriously think Tiger didn't accept that job because he knew the pressure. And he knew their team. Somebody said so, hold on. Somebody said something today, and they were like, can we make Coach K the captain for the United States Ryder Cup team? Like somebody that's actually a coach, a captain.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:That understands how to fire up people. I'm not blaming Keegan, dude. He ran into a buzzsaw.
Graham:No, a hundred percent.
Scott:And Keegan said he set the golf club course up different. Well, let's get this fact straight. As the home team and the captain, yes, you get a say-so on how to set the golf course up, but not a hundred percent like people think. Yeah, you have a say-so, okay. Dude, it doesn't matter. The rain killed us, dude.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:The rain killed us. And and I agree with Billy. Everybody that listens to us knows that I cannot stand Patrick Reed. Patrick Reed should have been on that team. Wow. Brooks Kepka should have been on that team. Patrick Reed, what'd they call him? Captain America, dude. He's an amazing matchplay player. You're telling me Patrick Reed wouldn't have done better than Colin. I fire my caddy every other week, Morikawa.
Graham:I'm not disputing that.
Scott:I just whatever. You know, the old saying, if my own had balls, she'd be my uncle. We lost the Ryder Cup the first two days. Exactly. You can't we they won one match, dude, on Sunday, and that was our boy Skov.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And blood.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You know, texted Joe Sunday. Congrats. That's Joe's second Ryder Cup win. One with one with Rick for the United States and one with the Europeans.
Graham:Yeah. Well, two now, yeah.
Scott:So yeah, he's got two dubs.
Graham:Didn't he win it for him? Didn't he wasn't he wasn't he own boys caddy? Or was he not with Ludwig two years ago?
Scott:No, he wasn't with Ludwig at first one.
Graham:Okay. Um, I just you know, I I I want to piggyback on something you said with with Tiger. Wow. Your comment that you made about Tiger possibly reading the tea leaves and and not wanting to do it. I I would have, I mean, bro, we've known each other for 20 years now. You know how much I love Tiger Woods.
Scott:100%.
Graham:For the type of person that he is and the drive that he has, you know, to be the best player in the world, the thought of him even conceiving that and not like my point saying this is what the bleak does he care about his image?
Scott:Well, part of it was uh he turns 50 in December or January, whatever it is.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And he wanted to play this year until the injury.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And didn't want to concentrate on it that much.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Dude, it's tiger, okay?
Graham:He can do whatever he wants. I get it. Like 100%. I hate saying that, but it's just like, hmm.
Scott:Dude, and this brings me to this last text from Jerry that I told you last night. And then we'll move on. All right. Jerry texted me on Saturday afternoon as Scotty's losing his fourth match. Scotty is not a rider-cut player. Just like Tiger, big game hunters like to hunt alone. Look at Tiger's record.
Graham:Yeah. Okay, so if that's the case, and I I mean, how do you tell the number one player in the world we're not putting you out in the two-ball? We're not putting it like no, well, I mean, like, I get that, but it in that scenario, he's all like he played best in the afternoons and then on Sunday. Like, the alternate shot was not his thing. Him and I we brought it up earlier. I don't watch much of Russell Henley. Like, I just that whole combination, and the thing is, I'm like, but they say they're boys. Like, it I'm just like, I'm watching this and I'm like, what is going on with these guys? Like, how are you the number one and the number three player in the world, and you're not even playing the two best Europeans, and you're losing?
Scott:Dude.
Graham:Significant, mind you.
Scott:You know what, you know what Tiger Woods overall record, not playing record, but American wins versus European losses is.
Graham:I'm sure it's under based off the look on your face.
Scott:Under what?
Graham:Under 500?
Scott:No, I'm talking about I'm talking about how many rider cups has Tiger been on that the American team won.
Graham:Oh. Uh 12 if they go every other.
Announcer:Five?
Scott:Uh how about one in seven? What? Tigers won one Ryder Cup.
Graham:And that was ninety-nine.
Scott:Yep.
Graham:The the comeback in ninety-nine. What?
Scott:The vi the thing I sent you last night on Instagram with Payne Stewart.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You know what his record is?
Graham:I know it's not great. I no, I know, I have no idea.
Scott:13 wins, 21 losses, and three ties.
Graham:So this whole big thing, and we'll just we'll end it on this. Everyone says in golf in the last you know 30 years, the biggest thing is what? Win and away rider cup. Alright. They cross it off the list. So does us with Tiger going to Rory's home home country? Does that like get the juices flowing for us? Or should I mean I guess like, yeah, it'll be great to re get the cup back, but I mean Does it say more for us if we win it there versus if we would have just retained it here?
Scott:I don't have an answer for that. I don't know how to answer it. Yeah. There was dude, this Ryder Cup, the build-up going into it. Oh, was so hype.
Graham:Yeah. I mean, we were both going into this, like, oh dude, this is gonna be great.
Scott:Dude, think about this. Remember when we remember when we won it in at Whistling Straits?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:When Steve Stricker was the captain? Yeah. And we boat, and we boat raced him.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And everybody was like, oh my god, we're gonna just dominate the rider cub for the next six years.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Oh man. That was a long time ago. Wow, dude. That's all I can say. Anyhow, speaking of the thing. I mean, 45 minutes of the Ryder Cup. I mean, we are golf nerds, so anywhere there. I mean, I don't even care. Of course. We might we might have to split this into two episodes, but hopefully you'll remember to release some unlike last week.
Graham:We'll see how it goes. I feel like we can bang through some of these pretty quickly.
Scott:Dude, I actually screen recorded the Washter Damas prediction to TP, and I was like, I told you I made it. And TP's like, God dang it, Graham.
Graham:Dude, I did I had it finished. It was on the bed, like I had everything, and I thought I pressed fucking said. Guess not.
Scott:If you don't know, now you know.
Graham:I know. I didn't, and I didn't check it, and yeah, what happened anyhow?
Scott:Let's jump in college football real quick Saturday. You know, amazing matchups. Georgia, Bama. Can't believe Bama won in Georgia. Dude, I know you didn't watch the game. Georgia had a chance. Homeboy wide receiver for Georgia dropped a wide open, would have been like a 50 plus touchdown in the third quarter. Yeah. And Bama wins again. Dude, incredible. Kirby Smart just gets owned by Georgia. It's insane.
Graham:You know what his record is?
Scott:Against Bama?
Graham:No, just his entire his coaching record. I heard this. I was watching Sports Center last night. It was last night of the night before. He has 13 losses.
Scott:I'm not even gonna look it up. 13. 10 of them are to Bama?
Graham:Seven. I think seven are to Bama. Like what?
Scott:Yeah. It's insane. And remember, Bama got boat raced week one by Florida State? Wasn't it Florida State?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Speaking of Florida State, did you see that UVA Florida State game Friday night? Oh my gosh. Crazy. Is that wide receiver for Florida State alive? Dude. I'm not joking.
Graham:I'm just hey, unlike the pros, there's a bunch of wide receivers that are that are dead over there that we'll be getting into. Oh my lord, I can't even with that. But yeah, dude, college football, I mean, then look, you know, the big night game, Oregon coming to Penn State, the white out. I thought we had a chance. I mean hey, hey.
Scott:For as boring as that first half was, yeah. The second half was epic.
Graham:Now epic. And everyone's like, oh, you know, this should be you know, this is Penn State's year. Maybe. But like my point saying that is saying that is this. Franklin, bro. We loved you. You've been good. Do you know how long he's actually been coaching them now?
Scott:Dude, yeah, I can tell you.
Graham:No, and it's like what is it, like 12 years now?
Scott:Listen to this.
Graham:Yeah, I think 12 and 15 years.
Scott:Franklin, Franklin at Penn State. One and 15 versus top five teams.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:Four and twenty-one versus top 10 teams. 15 and 30 versus top 25 teams. 4 and 17 versus Michigan and Ohio State. Granted, when he took the job, it was after Yes, after that whole debacle.
Graham:After Penn State with the sanctions and all the other stuff. So I'll give him a pass the first couple years. That's fine. Especially with all the money with the NIL now and the extra money that they spent and they're doing to Beaver Stadium and the upgrades and all that other stuff. Did I miss the memo? Does Penn State not care about like I mean like look? I like Franklin. I got nothing to do with him, but like if you're a program that's on that's if you are a stable, not stable, but like if you're a blue chip program in college football, which I would think, and I'm not trying to sound like a homer here, but like I would think Penn State, you know, especially being in the Big Ten, they're a blue chip, like they're a big program, right? Absolutely. Exactly. So why are they not like why is the AD not being like, you know, kind of like how Ohio State is or Michigan? We're just like, hey man, you got three, you got three years. You may figure, you know, or we'll say this is more SAC coaches, but it's just like, dude, you got three years to beat the rivals.
Scott:If you don't beat them, like I don't it's I don't I don't know what to say because your defense was solid. All the hype was the Penn State quarterback's gonna be the number one pick in the draft, and between him and you know, the dude from Indiana, and now the quarterback dude from Oregon. Shush.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Shush. Uh I just I I don't know. I don't know what to say. I mean, it's something my dad sent me earlier. It's pretty funny as we transition into the NFL. He got he sent me a text. He goes, Michigan State hasn't beaten Michigan in 1,431 days. Penn State hasn't beaten Michigan in 1,767 days.
Graham:Oh, God.
Scott:This is the best one. Ohio State hasn't beaten Michigan for 2131 days. Notre Dame hasn't beaten Michigan in 2,586 days. But yeah, that's right. We're stealing signs. And the best thing, the best thing I saw this week as we transitioned into the NFL. Uh somebody threw something out Sunday afternoon. Uh all the league leaders and interceptions in the NFL all played at Michigan. Oh, yeah, but we're stealing signs. Anyhow, let's jump right in. I know a game that you really didn't watch much of your Steelers in Ireland playing in the Vikings.
Graham:So the only silver lining. We're getting up at 4:30 every day. Do you know what time the singles matches started?
Scott:Not until like one or twelve something.
Graham:12. 12-10.
Scott:Because your game on at 9 30 on the east. Yeah, you got to watch.
Graham:Did you watch some of it? Yeah, we were at the at the Airbnb watching it. We watched the first uh at least the first half, I think the first three quarters before we had to get in the car. Uh to get it.
Scott:You got the dub. Did you see the end when Tomlin made that stupid decision to go for it on fourth down?
Graham:No, that was at the Gource at that point. It's like when we want him to do it on fourth, he doesn't, and then when we don't want to do it, I I just I don't know. Um look, I was happy that we were able to watch it on the TV. I mean, I look, I was all primed ready to go. I had the phone charger or at the battery bank, I got the uh the fanny pack, I got the cords, one for me, one for the homie. So we got you know, we could charge up the phones, everything ready to go. And when I saw that, I was like, oh, uh deadly likes, daddy likes. So we watched the game, and um, look, Warren was out with the injury, a little surprised by that. Uh, hey, good old Kenneth Gainwell.
Scott:I mean, yeah, thanks, thanks, early game, screwed me in fantasy with Warren. I but hey, I got I gotta win. Um I can't bitch anymore.
Graham:Yeah, I I mean look. Um you know, with Gainwell, a utility running back, but look, the one time, well say the one time, but the whole next man up, it kind of worked for us. He he looked pretty decent. Like, I'll I'll give it to him. I mean, he's not even the funny thing is he's our third stringer, but it is what it is.
Scott:Um here's a funny thing. Go ahead. I was thinking about this today. Steelers are three and one.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Ravens are one and three.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You know what the Ravens line is to win the division?
Graham:It's probably plus three hundred.
Scott:Minus 145. Steelers are plus 170.
Graham:They do know that.
Scott:And Lamar's not playing possibly this coming week.
Graham:I heard he could be out multiple weeks.
Scott:That's what that's what they're saying.
Graham:But hey, it's only Tuesday, so you never know with these guys. I mean, apparently you don't even know until an hour before the game starts. It's the last one.
Scott:Well, I mean, two games back through four weeks.
Graham:I uh look. Did a perfect storm have to happen for the Pittsburgh Steelers to be leading the division right now? AKA oh hey, you know that guy Joe Burrow? Bye-bye. Uh I mean the Browns.
Scott:By the way, the Browns. By the way, speaking of Joe Burrow, can we just go ahead and name him MVP right now? Dude.
Graham:Am I wrong? No. Tell me I'm wrong. Not only are you not wrong, I want to know how do you sign up for like the player personnel job or a scout job for the for the uh for Cincinnati? Because I was watching some. I think it was on YouTube or something. I'm watching replays where their left tackle like he had butterfingers. Like he wasn't even touching the defensive end that's coming around the corner. This what I think it's Orlando Brown. Like, bro, you can't have like this is not the first year Joe Burrow, one of if not the best quarterback in the league, has gotten hurt.
Scott:Didn't he he got hurt the year prior? Right? Yeah, year one.
Graham:Yeah. They lost him for the year.
Scott:And then last year he got hurt.
Graham:And they decided. So this is this is why it's all hilarious. So instead of at four or five, instead of taking Penny Sewell, who shot in the dark, is he Yeah, but they took Chase. Yeah. Would Joe Burrow still be playing? I mean, I get it. It's if you're on hypothetically, I get it. And look, would they have gone to the Super Bowl without Jamar Chase? Absolutely not.
Scott:No chance.
Graham:So it's like so perfect thing for the Steelers. If you know offensive linemen are a premium, like you're telling me there's only 15 good left tackles on this on this planet. Maybe. Like I it's like, really?
Scott:Maybe.
Graham:I dude.
Scott:So y'all are by week this coming week, right?
Graham:Yeah, we're by week right now, yeah. Week five.
Scott:Who's your next who's your next game?
Graham:Uh Cleveland.
Scott:That's week what? Six?
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Well, I don't know. Hey, if you would have told if I would have told you before game one, y'all be three and one going into your bye, you would have been like, let's go.
Graham:Oh, a hundred percent. The I I'll say this the offense, I don't know what they changed about it. It looked different. I mean, isn't it kind of nice watching your team and I don't know, watching your quarterback make completions and sustaining drives? Like not going three and out, actually taking the ball from one side of the field to the other. It's kind of nice.
Scott:DK's DK's done way more than I thought he was gonna do through three weeks, four weeks.
Graham:Well, his game the other day, he did take one, he did have one catch that he took 80 yards to the house.
Scott:Right.
Graham:Granted, but but here's another concept. They moved him around the field.
Scott:Right. I agree. So agree. Jump real quick, Tampa Eagles. Excited game. Everybody was building up to the hype. Dude, the Eagles really block another kick and take it to the house. Dude. They won the game. Hertz did not complete a pass in the second half. AJ Brown only had two receptions.
Graham:I make it make sense.
Scott:I I Devonta, what do you have? Two receptions, too?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And they're sitting there 4-0. They got a big matchup this week against Denver.
Graham:They do.
Scott:I'm just going out there right now and I'm saying it. Denver's beating them.
Graham:Oh, love it.
Scott:I don't want it to happen.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It's happening.
Graham:But here, look, four weeks are in the books already. What we thought we knew, let's just take that all in a ball, crinkle it up, and just throw it out.
Scott:Because hey, hey, your boy was on cloud nine last week. Chargers are three and oh. Going to New York. You know, solid matchup against the Giants.
Graham:Rookie quarterback.
Scott:The Giants have amazing pass rushers. We all knew that. We all knew Slater's out for the season. Alt got moved to left tackle. Right. And the first half, Alt fucking goes down. Changes everything.
Graham:Oh, 100%.
Scott:Dude. It was awful. And everybody praising Jackson Dart for his performance. He did great for his first start, okay? He did great. Let's be realist, people. The defense for the Giants won. Won that game. Herbert got hold on, I'll show you right here. Listen to this. Herbert.
Graham:Well, what I was going to say was while you're looking that up, is yeah, most of the highlights that I watched for your game was just watching Dart run.
Scott:All he did, all he did was run.
Graham:Like he didn't throw the like he what how many passes did he throw? Like 10? Like a lot of he had 111. But I'll say this though, and something that he won't be his coach won't be letting him do much much longer. Did you see how he was running it though? Like he's taking on blockers. Like he's lowering his shoulder.
Scott:He's running down the field. Okay. And he literally tries to smack one of the Chargers defenders in the head. And I'm like, what in the shit is going on right now? And then he got yanked out of the game for concussion protocol when he got drilled.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And that's when Russell Wilson had to come in. Like, what is this guy doing?
Graham:You won't play. This ain't college, bro. Be a lot faster.
Scott:Hey, hey, give credit where credit's due. Oh, 100%. 100%. 100%. And like I just told you, if you would have told me before game one, if through four weeks the Chargers would have been three and one, I would have taken it in a second. Just wouldn't have just wouldn't have been like we lost to the Giants.
Graham:Oh, 100%.
Scott:I'm you know.
Graham:But another one of those times where that favorite saying, any given Sunday.
Scott:Yeah. Dude, we lost our Pro Bowl left tackle in preseason. We lost our first round draft pick last year in Joe Walt for two to three weeks. Dude, we had four backup offensive linemen going against Brian, Dexter Lawrence, Thibodeau, and the first pick Carter.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:The crazy thing is they only had two sacks, but Herbert took a beating.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:The Chargers had six sacks, dude. Six. My boy Thule Tulli la Lapu had three sacks in the first half. It was one of his best games ever, dude. Stud.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:But hey, Dexter Lawrence had an amazing interception where he smacked the ball to himself. Yeah, Kerbert out there running him down and tackling him on my Jimmy Crickets, dude. Kerbert, really, bro. Just no.
Graham:Watch him fall on you and you break your dude. Like break an ankle.
Scott:Yeah, like, come on, guy. Like, jeez, man. Dude, Quentin Johnson leading the NFL on touchdown receptions. I mean, who saw that coming? It's it's insane, man. But hey, I'm worried because offensive line. Obviously, like you were just talking about the Steelers. It's all monster, Slater, Monster. I just I don't know, man. I don't know. But I will say the one thing about the game with the Chargers was our first round draft pick, Hampton was a beast.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Absolute beast. I don't know if you saw the play where it was third and one and he got hit at the line of scrimmage and then drug like 17 Giants defenders for like eight other yards. I was just like.
Announcer:Oh no.
Scott:Okay. Okay. But, you know, hey, we got Washington this coming week. I don't know what to think. I don't. Does Washington have edge rushers? I I know they have Bobby Wagner, middle linebacker, but that's not an edge.
Graham:They got a future Hall of Famer.
Scott:Who?
Graham:Super Bowl winner.
Scott:Oh, Von Miller? Man, he's older than me.
Graham:You're like 50. Shut up.
Scott:I'm 47. I mean.
Graham:I get your pain.
Scott:And the scores, it's 10 10-4. I mean, Jaden Daniels are saying is gonna play this week, but Scary Terry's still out.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:But uh I don't know. We're three-point favorites. I don't feel really good about it.
Graham:But I don't know.
Scott:The Falcons boat raced them last week, but that was without Jaden McDaniels. With that, wow, Dodgers just walked in a run 10 to 5 right now with the bases loaded.
Graham:Oh that's come on, Dodgers.
Scott:Dude, and over seven and a half was plus money, Graham.
Graham:I just, you know, you know, just finishing with your game. I uh with the injuries on both sides, who knows how the teams are gonna show up? Like it's hard. How do you handicap a lot of these games now? It's just like yeah, throw it up in the air and see what sticks, type of situation. I mean, with all these injuries now, uh I mean, let's just get into the big ones. Uh, in your game, Malik Neighbors, boom! He gone.
Scott:Dude, and speaking of that, I mean, listen to this. Notable ACL and Achilles Tears suffered at MetLife Stadium since 2020. Nick Bosa, Solomon Thomas, Jabril Peppers, Wandell Robinson, Sterling Shepard, Kyle Fuller, Aaron Rodgers, and now my league neighbors. So same stadium. You saw yesterday, you saw yesterday the NFL Players Association had a meeting.
Graham:Yeah. With I mean, look. Why why why are we not playing on grass?
Scott:Dude, Tristan actually asked me last night when we were sitting there talking about that. And I she said, how many teams in the NFL play on grass versus turf? And without looking it up right now, I think it was 14 teams play on turf. Yeah, which is right around half. Which is actually, I can't believe it. I thought it'd be more.
Graham:But well, the problem is, well, you your reasoning is because you don't think that some of the indoor stadiums bring in grass. Like Arizona brings in grass, and the Raiders, Raiders bring in grass for their stadiums. But yeah, I mean, dude, all the entries that happened. Um, what was it? Someone gets hurt, and I don't know if it was a Steeler thing or someone else, but they're like, all of our f all of our uh all of our facilities are grass, but our stadium is turf.
Scott:How's that make sense? So how's it make sense?
Announcer:What?
Scott:Dude, I don't know. So injuries. Neighbors. Uh Tyree Kills, gruesome injury last night. If he ever plays again, I'll be shocked. At his age. Don't want to see anybody get hurt, but like I told you last night, I'm like the only thing that is good about that is that means he's not going to the Chiefs. I mean, but dude, I mean, James Connors out, CeeDee Lamb's hurt, Joe Burroughs hurt. Dude.
Graham:Are you just naming guys? Are you just naming all my team, all my fantasy players? Like, what are you doing?
Scott:Uh it sucks, man. It sucks. Uh it's the one thing about like the thing I sent last night in our CBS League. I don't know if you saw it, you were probably on the plane. I sent something, I was like, where is it? There it is. NFL player literally snaps their leg in half. NFL fans. Son of a bitch, there goes my fantasy team.
Graham:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's the worst part is it's so wrong, but it's so right. It's so 100% right.
Scott:It's 100% right.
Graham:Like, it's almost getting to a point where it's just like maybe I don't need to watch Red Zone anymore. I can just like, well, I guess I'm only watching one game now.
Scott:Like, man, I don't know, man. What else we got? What else we got going on?
Graham:Uh, really, the only other game, just real quick, uh, just to mention it, was the return of Micah Parsons back to Dallas. Oh, man. The Sunday night game.
Scott:Uh that son of a bitch. Why couldn't he have gotten two sacks?
Graham:I know. Do you know what I think the best part of that game was? Jerry Jones comments after the game. I know. Melissa Stark. Oh, well, okay, the second best thing. Duh.
Scott:You're unbelievable. Dude, you knew where I was going.
Graham:Yes, I did.
Scott:Um and real quick, sorry, before you can say I apologize to everybody because Audrey was supposed to come on tonight. We told you that last week. And she didn't come on. She thought we were recording last night, and tonight's her son's birthday, so happy birthday to Audrey's son. She did say she would come on next week after her Washington Redskins beat my Chargers. And I was I was like, yeah, alright, whatever. You can come on still, but whatever. Dodgers got out of it, but the bases loaded. Um, but go ahead, continue what you're gonna say. I'm sorry. About Micah Parsons. You said Jerry Jones.
Graham:He basically I wanted to get it. Um he basically said I want to get this correct, but he said after the game was over, he said, um if we only had a pass rusher. No, right? Um basically was to the effect of well, we got rid of Parsons and we didn't lose. We we traded him to the other team and they didn't beat us. I mean, he's not wrong, but it's all how you spin it, bro. It's all how you spin it. And the thing is, without CD getting banged up, I mean that defense is atrocious. Like, if they had a pass rusher, like yeah, they they're better at stopping the run, but when it comes to defense, your back end is protected by the front end.
Scott:They're number one in the league in scoring and number 32 in defense.
Graham:Like, that's insane. And so the Bengals last year or the Cowboys? What?
Scott:You were so hyped on the Packers beating the Cowboys, you almost took them in Survivor.
Graham:Oh, no, I didn't. Oh, I didn't.
Scott:Which means L because they tied.
Graham:Yep.
Scott:But dude, did you see the end of that game? Yeah, also two weeks in a row that Jordan Love has literally made me not a believer like we thought after week one and week two.
Graham:Were we not talking about their Super Bowl odds after week one?
Scott:Dude, Audible's Audible's out of the run last week and throws a pick. This week, seven seconds left on the clock, doesn't spike it in overtime, calls a play. Thank God it was incomplete with one second left. What's their coach's name? LaFleur?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:The look on his face.
Graham:That was the longest one second, by the way.
Scott:Dude, Chris Collinsworth, who everybody hates on. He was speechless, Graham. It was that's that's a rare feat.
Announcer:For him.
Scott:I'm not a believer anymore. This guy's decisions. I don't know. I I don't know, man. I I don't know. I don't even know what to say. I it's as I mean, Colts Rams, that Colts dude, dude, that had a touchdown and dropped the ball celebrating before he hit the goal line. Really? Why is this still a thing? I have people have people not seen these highlights? I mean, you and I lost a fantasy championship last year because a stupid ass Cincinnati Bengals defender had a pick six and dropped it before the goal line. That's the only reason we didn't win three grand. Yeah. The only reason. Why is it still a thing?
Graham:I I mean, I can't. Anything that I will say will just it's just gonna be BS, so I'm just not gonna like the heat of the moment, all that it doesn't matter. Just be aware of your surroundings. And like it it is what it is.
Scott:Cross the goal line.
Graham:Yeah. I agree.
Scott:Uh I just don't get it. I completely agree. So, anyhow, as we wrap up this episode, it was a fun episode. A lot of golf talk. Uh, do you know where, without looking it up, show me your hands? Where is the next Ryder Cup on United States soil?
Graham:I know this actually, because there's only they only had it at 8 million billboards. It's uh what did uh in Minnesota. It's uh good. I know what it is. It's um Hazeltine. Yeah, Hazel team, yeah, yeah.
Scott:Do you know where the next one is after that?
Graham:2032. They had not uh no. I saw the I saw the because they had big little billboard scient cutouts. I forgot where they said it's gonna be after that.
Scott:Uh Olympic Club.
Graham:Really?
Scott:Yeah. Yep.
Graham:It's a nice track.
Scott:Can we just get a win in Ireland, man?
Graham:That's see, that's another thing. His heiress was there. What he did, I have no idea.
Scott:But of course he's there, dude. I mean, him and Keegan are boys.
Graham:That's what I'm saying. Like their swag bags, by the way. Oh I saw a video of what their swag bags were. Oh my god.
Scott:Oh, I'm sure it was did you see the see the shoes that Keegan and Luke Donald were wearing, both Jordans. So sick, dude. I know so sick.
Graham:Like, so sick. So sick. Um, but yeah, look. I tell you one thing. If Tiger is not dialed in for September, we'll call it 23 through 23 through 28 of 27. Yeah. Don't come home, bro. Don't come home. Stay over there for a few days. Take your time, please.
Scott:I I just he'll be f it'll be good, dude. I'm just Luke Donald might be the European captain for the next. If I'm the European team, dude, I want Luke Donald as my captain for the next 10 years.
Graham:Yeah. I I could keep their same team. They're all young.
Scott:Uh Rose.
Graham:Oh, well, okay.
Scott:Rose would be the next coach. He'll be the next captain.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:For sure.
Graham:But oh, you mean we're not gonna have any controversy? Oh, what Rory's not gonna be a plane captain?
Scott:You know uh, Rory. I'm not even gonna choke on your lucky charms. Dude, he's such a bitch. He wasn't even on that in that video on the bus, like, you know, when in your head. Yeah, he wasn't even sitting by his wife. Like, like some chick sitting beside you, not even your wife. Like, come on. On a side note, did you see Shane Lowry on the table celebrating he was dry humping the Ryder Cup trophy? No, dude, greatest video I've ever seen in my life.
Graham:Oh my god, I'm gonna have to take a look at that after the episode. Ever. Ever.
Scott:That was hey, good for Shane Lowry. Won the British Open in his hometown, made the the putt, the clinching point. Do you see his reaction?
Graham:Yeah, it's like he dude, dude. It's like he solved the world's problems.
Scott:Dude, he was more excited about that than when in the open. That's what the Ryder Cup means to Team Europe.
Graham:And that's and and and we'll just leave it on this. You saying that that's just kind of like I did see an interview a little bit with Scotty where he was just like, he's like, guys, he's like, I take this pretty he's like, I take this very seriously, and just like, yeah, you guys can say that, but like they're coming here, like the not that this is our like not even getting into all that, but I'm just saying, like it's more important to them than it is to us. You are not wrong. And I I just like that look, is this one of those scenarios where you just gotta keep poking this the the sleeping bear to finally where you you poke him hard enough and he's just like, Alright, I'm awake now. You have to you want to mess around to find out? Like, that's how that's how Team USA has to be now. Like, they need to wake the bleep bleep up.
Scott:I don't I'm just gonna leave it at this. Anyone that's listened to the show for the last three months knows that your boy has some kind of weird man crush on Cam Young. Dude, okay, but I'm just gonna say this. That dude sacked up in his home state and played some golf. Dude, he was when he made that putt on 18. I'm like, dude, how stoked is his dad, who's a PGA member like me. And then the very next group, Justin Thomas, hoops that put to win the match, and his dad, his grandpa are both PGA members.
Graham:That's sick.
Scott:I was like, so you're gonna be able to do that. Yeah, we're probably gonna lose. We're probably gonna lose. But amazing shit. And dude, dude, Xander Shawley goes out and drums John Rahm.
Graham:I'm not gonna lie, did not see that coming. Did not see that John Rahm was playing brilliantly.
Scott:Dude, and Bryson's five down through seven holes and comes back and ties the match.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Dude. I uh We had some great Sunday performances, but once again, we always do in singles.
Graham:Well, that's a thing. Like, there's a reason why there's a reason why it's set up this way. I mean, it just and it's notorious we how we play that way. I I just look you can't be down four and a half to eleven and a half. You just like you can't do it.
Scott:Uh and then Victor Hovlin has his vagina bleeding and decides he's not gonna play on Sunday. And regardless, but oh, I'm my neck hurts. I'm not gonna play. Oh, it's it's the Ryder Cup. I'm not gonna play because I'm uh I'm just gonna leave it at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, whatever. I know. Whatever, whatever. Victor Hovlin. I'm just gonna be quiet because you're a douche. Um and guess what? Wonder why he's the only single one in the pictures, because he's a douche. On that note, Graham, get us out of here.
Graham:Mike, need to catch my breath. Oh man, Scott, it's good to be back. Glad to do the podcast with you. It's a lot of fun. Can't wait for next week. And hey, that's the best homie always says. Booba.
Scott:Good night, world. Good night, Victor Hovlin. Have you ever heard of a chiropractor? You douchebag. My neck hurts. My neck hurts. Oh. Love you guys. Booba.
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