Bald Guys On The Bench
Bald Guys On The Bench
Survivor Sweats and Walk-off Wins
Recorded October 12th, 2025
A 15-inning nail-biter, a walk-off kick, and a quarterback lighting a match at the podium—this sports weekend had everything, and we dive straight into the fire. We open with the Tigers–Mariners marathon that played like playoff OT hockey, then flip to the Cubs–Brewers duel where one mistake decided months of work. From there, it’s live reactions to Chiefs–Lions and the familiar ache of spreads that should have been safe and somehow weren’t.
The center of gravity lands in Miami. Short-handed up front, the Chargers built a plan around quick game and discipline, asked Justin Herbert to be surgical, and trusted Dicker the Kicker to end it. We break down how you beat a pass rush without a healthy line, why red zone execution still separates contenders, and what it looks like when composure wins more than talent. Keenan Allen gets his due as a timeless chain-mover whose HOF case rests on trust, technique, and production across quarterbacks.
College football throws haymakers: Penn State’s slide forces the hard questions about buyouts, rivalry standards, and whether NIL plus the portal has turned upsets into scheduled events. Meanwhile, the NFC shuffles under injury weight—Tampa’s steadier than you think, the 49ers are absorbing body shots, and the JSN breakout in Seattle reshapes the West. We also confront the bottom: negative net passing yards in today’s NFL, and how an offense resets when confidence tanks.
Then leadership takes the mic. Tua’s postgame comments spark a heated debate on accountability versus undermining, what a QB should shoulder publicly, and how culture survives stress. Layer in our Survivor strategy—forecasting injuries, dodging divisional traps, picking your spots—and you’ve got a blueprint for riding chaos without letting it ride you.
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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 of The Bald Guys on the Bench. Scotty, week six, brother. Excited?
Scott:Yeah. I mean, it's Sunday night. We're watching the Chiefs and the Lions. We just witnessed some dude get hosed out of 450 grand on some bet with Jared Goff being the first touchdown scorer. Uh we're in the third quarter. We're watching the ALCS game one. Your boys got the dub. My boys got the dub. And we'll talk about that in a little while. But let's, you know what time it is? We're talking sports. It's time to grab it and crack it. Let's go. And for all of our Instagram fans out there, you're welcome for that Instagram post last night. Because, dude, the boy had every god dang screen in the house playing. Dude. It was it was wild. I mean, I'm watching football, I'm watching hockey. It's like, my God, YouTube TV goes, Oh, you got too many screens going. I'm like, thank God the nights are on ESPN Plus. They ain't got to use YouTube TV for that.
Graham:Right.
Scott:Dude.
Graham:Hey, all I'll say to that is it must be nice when uh when the fam's out of town and the kids somewhere else, you had the ability to actually do that. But hey, let's grab it and crack it.
Scott:I just cracked it.
Graham:Oh well, I'm late to the party.
Scott:Oh, good. You're always late to the party. It's okay. But yeah. How's your weekend? What'd you do? I know it was Mama Cohen's birthday, so happy birthday, Mama Cohen. I guess it was Arizona for you know some dinner.
Graham:Yeah. A nice little change. Mom wanted to uh instead of going to the usual spots that we go to around here in Vegas, wanted to switch it up. So we went, we drove down to Kingsman, Arizona, which is right off the 40. It's about, if my knowledge is correct, it's about 45 minutes an hour from where Lake Havasu is or Havasu City area. But uh it was nice, pretty easy drive. We went to go down there on Friday night, which was her actual birthday, but dude, it started like a little bit of rain, a little bit of rain, and then all of a sudden, bro, I could barely see 10 feet in front of me in the car while I was driving. It was downpouring here in Vegas. And we pulled up the map, and I was just like, yeah, with all this rain and plus driving through the desert and it was raining there, I'm like, nah. I talked to Miles, like, you still want to do this? I mean, she's like, Well, is it safe? And I'm like, Yeah, but between the traffic, everyone going slow, we might not make the reservation in time. She's like, All right, well, let me call them. Let's make a reservation for tomorrow night. So we turned around and went to another place and had a really good, had a really good dinner. And then so on Saturday we made up for it and drove down there and had a nice time. Nice leisure drive down the road. It was pretty good. Um, so happy about that. Uh, the only other thing that was really of note besides watching, you know, the various different sports, mainly, and I'm actually surprised you're gonna hear me say this, but one of the better games of any sport that I've seen in a long time was actually a baseball game.
Scott:Dude, it might have been one of the best baseball games I've ever watched. Right. I I mean dude, the game started at eight o'clock Friday night. Yeah. Okay, eight o'clock. You called me when you got home from dinner at like 11. We're still watching the game at one something. Yeah. 15 innings. Yeah. And remember, I told you the worst part about this, they stopped serving alcohol after the seventh inning stretch.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Dude, and I'm talking to TP at the same time, texting back and forth. He goes, dude, I really hope they do the second seventh inning stretch in the 14th inning. And they did.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It was hilarious. Yeah. Dude, amazing game, do or die game. I mean, it sucked that somebody had to lose. Because it was intense, it was fun, it was awesome to watch. The the the thing that still boggles my mind to this instant. The total for that game was five and a half runs. Okay, this game went 15 innings and still the under hit at five.
Graham:Not to mention how many hits each team got, let alone runners left on base.
Scott:Yes, dude. Insane. And like I'm looking at the game when I get home. You know, you you said it earlier. The family went out of town. My wife and daughter went to uh Dallas for our Kristen's grandma's 94th birthday. Oh wow. Kellen spent the night with his buddy Friday night, and because I had to work on Saturday. But dude, I'm looking at the lines and everything. Scooby roll, we all know, amazing pitcher for the Tigers. Dude, his over-under strikeouts eight and a half minus 170. What? Dude, like I hits 13.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:An amazing game, dude. Absolutely amazing. Like, couldn't believe it.
Graham:We were talking about it. Like, by the time I got back and I started watching, it was the eighth inning. Then the extra innings were going on. Dude, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th. We're talking back and forth, and you said it to me, bro. That actually felt like a playoff hockey game. Like a game seven, everything was on the line, both teams using pretty much their entire bullpen. Like it got to a point like they're putting out starters. Yeah.
Scott:Starting pitchers were coming in the game. And at some point during the game, Scott Van Pelt throws out a tweet and he goes, I go back and forth of what has more tension playoff baseball or overtime and playoff hockey. This Tigers Mariners game has been like overtime ceiling playoffs for three hours.
Graham:Yeah. Insane.
Scott:I mean, rare. I didn't have a dog in the fight. I didn't care who won. Facts. I mean, but dude, it was insane. Oh, dude, and as we're sitting here talking, Toronto comes up in the first inning tonight, hits a bomb. Seattle's winning right now on the top of the eight, three to one. Wow. Yeah. Didn't see that happening. You know? I told you last night, Toronto Dodgers in the World Series. Yeah. Well, dude, Seattle. Momentum, I guess. I don't know.
Graham:As they say, the tale of two games for as amazing as that Detroit Mariner series was. We also had another game five between the Brewers. Yeah, and the Cubbies. Also, I mean, uh, but that would just have a it was, but it's just a completely different feel. I mean, it was the pitcher's duel. There wasn't as many hits, and you're just like, oh, okay, this is cool, but just it gets to a point where it's just like, all right, who makes a mistake? And that's yeah, to be honest, that's kind of how the game ended, really. Was unforced error. Not unforced error, but no, actually.
Scott:It was a good game, dude. I mean, the Cubs took the lead early, then the Brewers tied it up, and that was the end. You know. I was, you know, no offense, Badger. You don't listen anyway. But I was pulling for the Cubs because I thought the Cubs were the only chance to be the Dodgers. And not only that, but the world would love to see the Cubs and the Dodgers.
Graham:Facts.
Scott:You know, I mean, who gets better ratings? The Cubbies or the Brewers? We already know the answer to that. But oh, that's a tuddy, Laporta. Let's go. What a catch. Let's go, Sammy. How? Wow. Let's go. Um put dude. We got Dodgers Brewer starting tomorrow night. We got Bouge Mariners tonight.
Graham:Did you just watch the replay of that catch?
Scott:That was stupid.
Graham:The defender had his hand inside both arms of Laporta catching it.
Scott:But it's a it's a chief, so there's no flag called. What the f I mean if if that was a uh we just wait for the you know illegal formation here three minutes after the touchdown, like in the first quarter when Goff caught the touchdown. Let's just wait for it. Oh no, we're just gonna wait for Harrison Butker to miss a goddamn extra point. And your boy to miss over points for the Chiefs in the first half. Thanks, Harrison Butker. Half a point. Suck my butt current ass hat. Uh anyhow, dude. College football yesterday didn't disappoint. A lot of weird upsets.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You know, I mean, dude, let's just kick it off. I mean, I'm not trying to dog you, but you're happy it happened. Penn State loses their third straight game, lost their quarterback for the season, and Franklin gets fired today. 48, 49 million dollar buyout. And before you go on your rant, dude, we're why in two weeks?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Penn State is a top five team, lost to another top five team in Oregon in overtime.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And had an opportunity to win that game.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And then they go on the road, lose to UCLA, who's a 24-point underdog. Then lose to Northwestern yesterday, 20 plus point underdog.
Announcer:Yeah.
Graham:It's you know, something that we like to see on this show is hashtag make it make sense. Um I I just, you know, uh, after what they did last year, and by they I mean Penn State and all the excitement, and you know, Drew Eller coming back for another season, which I like how they said coming back. I'm like, the dude looks 16 years old. Like, what do you mean come back? Like, he should have a few more years of eligibility, but that's here nor there. Uh, you know, they didn't look good even in the games that they won. The Oregon game was close, was kind of a sloppy game, being honest. But the UCLA game, I I what it's almost worse than you know, times when I talk about my team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, where they're by far the better team, and then they play a weaker caliber team, and they just play down to the competition. Like, I just don't the defense was just like, what do we do? What's going on? I mean, I mean, credit where credit's due, UCLA played the game of their year. I mean, their quarterback who is uh who was a uh I don't want to say a Heisman finalist, but I mean he's a top quarterback prospect in the draft, you know, transferred from Tennessee last year. So I mean, he had a couple key plays on third downs that just broke our the back of the defense. I mean, a couple huge like third down running conversions that just it was one of those if it can happen, it happened type of a thing in in a negative way, you know. The Murphy's Law type of thing.
Scott:Funny thing, I'm just looking on Twitter and beating the book, you reposted this trending sources confirmed that Penn State would likely be interested in hiring Nick Sabin as their next head coach should he come out of retirement. Beating the bookie goes, you got a better chance Sandusky is named the new head coach than that.
Graham:Shut up.
Scott:Hey, but not to dog Franklin. I saw something earlier the last three years. There's only like three head coaches that have more wins than Franklin at Penn State. It's Ryan Day, Kirby Smart, I forget the dude in Oregon. So the guy's won games. He just hasn't won the big games.
Graham:So let me ask you a question. If you are Ohio State or Michigan, if you win 88% of your games, but you can't beat the other two schools, do you last more than three years?
Scott:Well, that's the difference to Michigan and Ohio State. If you don't beat Ohio State, you don't beat Michigan. That's what you're judged on.
Graham:I understand that, but for a period of time, I mean, if you talk to people in Pennsylvania, I mean, people also consider Penn State a rival. I mean, it's not the same, obviously, as Ohio State, Michigan. I get that. It's not, I mean, there are a notable I you know, their rivalry, it is what it is.
Scott:That being the best rivalry in college football.
Graham:Yeah. I mean, I I get it. So I I mean, I'm not saying Penn State with their rivalries between those two schools individually are not big as well. They are, they're just not as big. And that being said, it's like, all right, yeah, Franklin, you won a lot of games. That's great. But what's the point of winning eight, nine games if you don't make a bowl? Or you like, okay, you made the bowl games in the in the previous year. So for the class.
Scott:Oh, what's wrong, Kermit? Hutchinson knocked you on your ass. Oh, that's a bullshit penalty right there. Come on, dude. Aiden Hutchinson just hit Kermit and his ugly ass wife, Brittany Mahomes, and in the next year, and then he gets a pass. I mean, come on, bro. Come on. Somebody knocked Xavier Worthy's ass out, too. Anyhow, dude, the Penn State beating the bookie, and I looked at it. Penn State's next head coach gets it gets this joke of a schedule next year. Okay. Uh Marshall at home, at Temple, at Buffalo, at Maryland, at Michigan, that's a loss, at Northwestern, Minnesota at home, Purdue at home, Rutgers at home, USC at home, Wisconsin at home, at Washington.
Graham:Uh, I'm sorry, didn't USC beat the bricks off Michigan? Yeah, they didn't.
Scott:Okay. They did, but they're a little bit better than UCLA. And Northwestern. Well, when you're starting when your quarterback goes down, I mean, they're they don't have a top five Heisman candidate, number one in the NIL. Like Penn State. I mean, I'm just saying, I'm just throwing that out there.
Graham:Yeah, you're right. They only have the number one prospect that they paid $10 million a year to go to their school. You're right.
Scott:Yeah, and he's 18 years old.
Graham:Versus 19 or 20? Like Julie, Eller's not, or what Ellers, he's not 20 years old. Like, I mean, he could be. I just don't think he is. I don't know.
Scott:But moving right on, dude, something that I did not see coming. College game day yesterday was in Oregon for the Oregon Indiana game. Yeah. Never saw that coming. Indiana wins by 10.
Graham:You know who called it on game day? Yeah, McAfee. Everyone took Oregon except McAfee. And you know why? Why? Because his wife's a Hoosier.
Scott:All right. I like it. Dude, did you see their head coach, Indiana's head coach? What's his name? Signetti or whatever.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:You know, he was from he was the head coach at JMU and took all his players to Indiana when he got the job.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Halftime running off the field. The reporter goes, So how do you think you played in the first half? What an asshat. Literally yells at this reporter. How do you think we did? Well, that wasn't the question. I'm asking you the question. Don't ask me.
Graham:Yeah, right. Dude. Right? I hey. When's the last time you can remember Indiana besides the last two years being relevant? They haven't. It's basketball, bro. No, exactly. That's what I'm saying. What he's doing for that program is unbelievable. Also I agree. NIL helps. So I'm just you know, I mean, for me personally, one of the more bigger upsets was how about let's give it up for the Pitt Panthers going down to Florida State and waxing that ass. Boy.
Scott:Another dude about to get fired with a $50 million buyout. Oof. Jeez. If you like buyouts, oof. I'd love to get fired and get paid $49 million. God bless.
Graham:Yeah, I'm I'm watching the Steeler game with my dad earlier, and the you know the the news popped on his phone. He's like, wow, he's like, Franklin got fired. They're buying him out for you. He's like, but if you got fired, why are you paying them that money? And I was like, Dad, it's a contract. If they let you go, yeah. Like they gotta pay you out.
Scott:You know what Kirby Smart's buyout is at Georgia?
Announcer:A hundred? Exactly. Is it? Yeah. Oh my god.
Graham:Yeah. Well, I mean, what's his record the last five years?
Scott:It's pretty good unless you're playing Bama.
Graham:Still. In five years, he's lost five games. Yeah, and four of them are to Bama. Three of which were in the SEC Championship.
Scott:Speaking of Georgia, oh my god, they only had like eight yards of offense yesterday in the first half. Did you see the controversial play when they said he was calling timeout, but he really said he was clapping his hands?
Graham:No.
Scott:Oh, dude, it's crazy. It's nuts. Please hold them to three. Come on, please. Break his face. There's a touchdown. Easy tutty to Hollywood Brown.
Graham:Second of the day. Yep. That's awesome. You were on my team, and then I said, boom-ba.
Scott:Yeah. But dude, I mean, like we talked about earlier, Michigan got boat raised by USC. Why are you giving the finger?
Graham:No, that wasn't to you. That was to the team. That was to the screen. That was to Kansas City. That wasn't to you.
Scott:Yeah. Dude, Michigan got beat by USC. Uh, what else happened yesterday? Um, Old Dominion, dude, 14-point favorite. Getting getting votes for the top 25, lost by 14, I think. Something like that.
Graham:You've been hyping them up to me all year. I know. All year. And that's like, hey, I need a little action to add to this parlay. I'm like, what do you think about ODU?
Scott:Yeah, but that wasn't the only reason you lost your parlay.
Graham:No, no, no, no, no. No.
Scott:I mean. I think it was. It was not. Was not. But, you know, somebody with a little old dominion history, Bobby Wilder, we always talk about on the show. Uh, now the head coach of Tennessee Tech in his second year, they won yesterday to go 6-0. And Bobby got his 90th Division I career win. Wow. Let's go yesterday. 90th. That's pretty good. Is that any good? Is that any good? If I'm Virginia Tech after firing my head coach, I'm calling Bobby. That's a step up. Got ties to the area. Dude.
Graham:How far are you from VT?
Scott:About four and a half hours.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Yeah. And the Virginia tech coach that got just got fired was the old defensive coordinator from Penn State. Yeah. We've talked about that. And old Dominions head coach, Ricky Ronnie, was the offensive coordinator at Penn State. Yeah. Dude, if I'm Virginia Tech, I'm calling Bobby. Look what he's done to that franchise, to that school. They were last place. He takes over, ties for the championship in the conference.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Agreed. 6-0, year two. Let's go. Let's go. Uh, you know, we gotta talk about it because it's something you and I always talk about. Survivor, bro. Survivor Leagues. I've only been in it. This is my second year doing it, and I was all about fantasy. And like I've mentioned on the show before, probably last year, survivors are more stressful than fantasy, right? Because fantasy, you're you're you know, you're starting this guy, you're starting that guy. It's all this and that's injuries. But survivor, like Eminem says, you got one shot.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:You are not wrong. Dude, how many times you change your mind?
Graham:Uh the strategy involved in Survivor is insane. There's a lot of blind luck. Yes. I would say a lot.
Announcer:Oh, a little.
Scott:A little. I mean, just talk to the 75% of the nation that lost last week with the Rams and then the Eagles on Thursday night.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And sorry, I forgot. The Cardinals last week against the Titans. Bro, dude. I love that you and I talked last night, and we were just like, we were going with one team, and then we were like, you know what? F it. We're rolling with your boys, Graham. Steelers, Browns, we're doing it. Yeah. And watching the beginning of that game, I was like, God damn, somebody score a touchdown here. I mean, hey, Boswell, I like you, bro, but uh, I don't want to see your ass on the field unless it's a fucking extra point. Like, damn it, crickets, man. I wasn't as nervous as you were, but I wasn't nervous. You guys had that game in hand the entire fucking game. Yeah. But I'd still like to see some fucking touchdowns. Hey, second half, Rogers, DK, let's go.
Graham:I I mean, look, the Browns, well, uh, divisional games are divisional games. And folks, you know what I mean by that. Like it records you can almost throw out the window, right? Each team knows each other very well. And plus in the AFC North, everyone knows that smash mouth football. And look, the Browns, even though they're one and five now, one and four prior to the start, they have a great defense. Like the defense keeps them in the game. Let's be real. And thank God they they didn't stop them on that last drive because I took uh the Raven, not the I'm sorry, smack myself, the Vikings last week. They should have beat the Vikings. 100% should have been the Vikings. So they really should have been two and three going into this game. So, you know, they just look, if you don't have a capable starting quarterback in this league and then weapons around him, it's hard to win games. I mean, look, even in the Steeler game, there were a couple plays that if the receivers caught the ball, the the game would have been a little different. You know, third third down would have been extended a couple of times, uh, and it would have, you know, flipped field. Uh and look, every play matters in the NFL. It's crazy to think that, but every play means something. And you know, just watching the game, it was just one of those bend but don't break type of situations. So uh, what's going on? Golf just got sacked. No, that is not what we needed. But I will say this that game for the Steelers, there was a lot of positives. One, I was surprised that Jerry Porter came back, which was nice. We haven't had him for a few games. Dude, Nick Herbig for being a second-year player to uh out Wisconsin guy, man, two sacks looked amazing out there. Jalen Ramsey, amazing, had a sack. I can't believe he even played. He had a hamstring injury a week and a half ago. Talk about a perfect timing for the bye or two weeks ago, you know, perfect time. Like I thought he was gonna be out this week and maybe even next Thursday when we gotta play the Bengals. So to see him out there and playing was nice, but I also appreciated how Jalen Warren was back, the offensive line looked good.
Scott:I mean Dude, Jalen Warren didn't do shit.
Graham:Statistically, no. He gave you 53 or 55. Fantasy-wise, no, it wasn't a great effort.
Scott:Gabriel had a better game.
Graham:What do you mean?
Scott:I don't know. I'll tell you right now. Gabriel had a better game. Then who? Rogers? Then Warren. Then Warren. Gabriel.
Graham:Gabriel's the quarterback. Yeah, you're or sorry, Gainwell. Gainwell. I was like, who are you talking about? Same difference, dude. Uh a quarterback for the Browns versus the running back for the Steelers? I think that's a slap yourself.
Scott:Gainwell, Gainwell only had six for 22.
Graham:My point is, because you know, Miles Miles Garrett is a beast, they ran heavy a lot. You know, they brought in Washington, the tight end, played a lot, played a lot on the line, and the O-line looked pretty good today. I was very happy how they ran the ball. Um passing was a little in the first half, but in the second half, they hit DK on a couple plays. And the thing is, now Rogers, I wouldn't say now Rogers realizes, but it's just like, hey, you got to get DK involved. Like there was a few plays you could tell he was forcing on the ball. You know, you have to get him open and you have to get him to stretch the field to open up the middle of the field. And that's what happened. So I was happy with how they played. Uh, and then also we're kind of one leads into the other. As we were talking about Survivor, we were talking about we switched to it, we're like, look, based off Pittsburgh's schedule, they got some pretty tough teams available. I mean, granted, they still haven't played Baltimore yet, but by the time they play them, the players that they have hurt could be back, so you never know. So when you're picking teams, you gotta forecast what may or may not happen and what teams you want to have now versus later. And I'm like, look, if there's time to use it, it's now. One thing that I I knew we were good against them statistically for the past 20 years.
Scott:We didn't know the stat that they threw up at the end of the game.
Graham:Completely forgot. The Cleveland Browns' last win in Pittsburgh was in 2003. What? Yeah. I mean, Rothesberger has only lost three times to the Browns. And he played 18 years. Yeah, and they were all on the road. Yeah, that's my point. Like, I no, two of them. They he they he did have uh wait, was he the quarterback then? No, it was Pickett. No, yeah. Alright, yeah. Because I was trying to think the one year when Baker beat him in the playoffs, I can't remember if that was with Ben or against Baker. Or I'm sorry, Ben or Pickett, but still. So we did write with the Survivor picks. One thing I was gonna mention to you earlier today, I always forget about the Thursday game. If you take away the Eagles losing, in both of the Survivor Leagues that were in, in Andy's league, no one lost. The only people that lost were the people that took that took the Eagles.
Scott:Yeah. But that was also 10 people.
Graham:Yeah, so it's huge. 51 down to 41.
Scott:Week six.
Graham:Perfect. Week six. I mean and then also in the fire department league with our Audrey, the only people that lost, there was only one because one person took the Jets. It was either the Jets or yeah, I think it was the Jets.
Scott:Dude, speaking of the Jets, like, bro, I know you didn't see any of that game. No. And all I watched was the second half because Kellen and I got up and had some breakfast. Dude, I saw this little thing on NFL Instagram. I couldn't even believe what I was reading. I always knew I could play in the NFL. Justin Field, Justin Fields had negative 10 net passing yards against the Broncos today, which means you, yes, you reading this on your couch had more passing yards than Justin Fields. Not gonna say that the Broncos had much more. Because the Broncos looked awful too, but the Broncos did have nine sacks.
Graham:I think you need to put it into a little bit more perspective. They only won by two points.
Scott:Yeah. 13 to 11.
Graham:And you're telling me Fields had negative 10 passing yards?
Scott:Negative 10.
Graham:And they only lost by two?
Scott:Yep.
Graham:What? Exactly. You know.
Scott:Dude, I'm I'm sitting here looking at the stats. Wow, this is just I don't even understand how this is real. It can't be real. The Jets only had 82 yards in the game, dude. In the current NFL, where all the rules are what? Offense. It's all offensive happy.
Graham:I mean, at this point, I have to look it up. How did they score? Like, how did they get their points? Was it just dude? I'm like, I'm getting to 11. I was like, did they get a safety? Like, how'd they get 11?
Scott:I think they got a safety.
Graham:Yeah. Okay, so three field goals and a safety. Okay.
Scott:Yeah. They had negative 10 passing yards, 92 rushing yards, equals 82 yards total.
Graham:I I don't know, but it's third and one right now with three minutes and 50 seconds left. Dan Campbell's holding a challenge to flag, depending upon. I know that. Can we get a stop here? I need a field goal.
Scott:I need a pick.
Graham:I pick. Oh. What happened? You already saw her? Are you ahead of me? No, I'm we're at the same. I'm just. Oh, there's a first down.
Scott:Kareem hunt.
Graham:Or just run right through them and.
Scott:Kareem hunt gonna go kick somebody again and get on another roster. Uh I don't know.
Graham:How? How? Can you please explain to me, regardless of everything else that I took, just this game alone. If I told you I somehow took an alternate spread and I got the Lions plus 14 and a half before the start of the game, you would say, what? Winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner?
Scott:That's why they call it gambling. It's unfortunately.
Graham:What does Herm Edwards say? You play to win the game. Like what?
Scott:You play to win the game, man. I just and I don't know. I can't. One out and bottom of the ninth, two outs now. Seattle's about to take game one. Who would have seen that coming? Not this guy. Wow.
Graham:Wow.
Scott:Talk about running on momentum.
Graham:Hey. Now this series is seven, right? Or is this five? Okay. Yeah, seven. Yeah, finally.
Scott:Yeah, finally. Dude. Didn't see that shit happening.
Graham:No.
Scott:But no, not at all. Uh but crazy thing is, you know, this is a fun time of the year where we got hockey just started this past week, major league baseball playoffs, NFL. And when does the NBA start? Not that I call that fun, but don't they start in like the next week or so?
Graham:Two weeks, the 23rd week.
Scott:Yeah. Everything's about to be going. But dude, LeBron's out for a while because he has an Ingram hair nail. Oh yes, or toenail, sorry.
Graham:Sciatica pain.
Scott:Whatever. Uh let's jump right into my game because you and I were talking last night, and I was like, I don't think there's a chance we can win this game, dude. And really didn't. Dude, we're missing three of our starting five starting offensive linemen. Omarion Hampton's out for four weeks. Quentin Johnson's out. And then before the game, Matlock's a scratch, not even an injury, a personal issue. And I'm like, oh, dude, there's no chance. Did Dolphins win the toss, elect to go on offense first? Dude, two was first pass, a pick. I'm like, all right. We get three out of it. You know, the the thing with the Chargers this year is the red zone was it's been that and penalties and you know injuries, obviously, right? Right. Dude, we score three, you know, give the ball back to him. It is what it is. Uh three and out. We go three and out. Then A-Chain, A-chan, whatever his name is, 49-yard tutty rush to the house. You know, all I can say is this. Our pass rush has been weak. Obviously, Khalil Mack's been out since the Raider game. My boy Thule. Thule la la la poo uh is number four in the number four in the league, dude. With pressures this year going in today. No other player on our team is even close to that. So, what did the Chargers do this week? Trade with the Ravens to get an edge rusher. My boy's second play on the field, sack. Ain't mad at it. Dude was a beast during the whole game. But, you know, once again, red zone. You gotta score touchdowns. You gotta score touchdowns. It's not about field goals. Vidal filling in, dude, for Omarion Hampton. My guy had 72 rushing yards in the second quarter, had over a Hundo today. He played his dick off. Gadson, our fifth round pick from Syracuse, tight end, whose dad played for the Dolphins. First catch of the day, fumbles. Okay, gives the Dolphins a ball back. It was the tail of two halves. Like we're losing, I don't know, I think it was 12 to 9 or something like that. I don't know. We're losing at halftime. We get the ball back, start the second half. Herbert goes on a seven-minute drive. We score a tutty, then kick the ball off to the Dolphins. Another pick. We score another tutty. Dude, we had the ball the entire third quarter. The Dolphins had six offensive plays, dude, in the third quarter for negative 11 yards.
Graham:What?
Scott:And then we find ourselves trailing by one in the fourth quarter. Because of that one, we had first and goal, had to settle for a field goal. I knew at the time, I'm like, this is gonna kill us. And it did. And I'm texting you, Rob and I, we're all texting. I'm like, I've seen this goddamn movie over and over and over before. We're up big, and you know, dude, but then it happened, bro. Naheem Hines, whatever his name is, takes the kickoff back to the 40. Herbert throws that ball away with 17 people around him on first down. And then he throws that 42-yard pass to Ladd when he should have been sacked.
Graham:He threw like an eight-yard pass, and then there was a yards after catch. Big difference.
Scott:But how about Ladd making homeboy?
Graham:Yeah, the little show.
Scott:The homeboy's jock straps still laying down there in Miami. Dude. But it wasn't even about Ladd, dude. It was about Herbert got that pass off.
Graham:Oh, I thought he was getting sacked. Dude. How he got out of that and then threw a somewhat capable ball in Lad's direction. I'm like, what?
Scott:Insane. Absolutely insane.
Graham:I mean, at this point, we're going back and forth Texan. I switched from the red zone specifically to your game. I'm like, all right, let's watch what's going on. And I see Miami drive down the field and then get that and throw the touchdown to Waller. And I'm like, oh boy. I was like, you know what? I'm not. I mean, like, it's not that I'm not at it, but there was plenty of time. You know what I mean?
Scott:And I think there's plenty of time. But guess what? We got the best kicker in the game. Dicker, the motherfucking kicker. Who? Yeah. Dicker, the fucking kicker. I know. I know. It was so nice to watch him line up with eight seconds left and not have a doubt in my mind that this was going in. For once. It was so awesome. It was just like, yeah, thanks for playing. Tua. Thank you, Miami Dolphins, for being stupid and taking him instead of Herbert. I appreciate it. You'll forever be on my Christmas card list. I mean, dude.
Graham:What I want to know is, since you were talking with Rob, you know, pretty much in real time, it was as it was going on.
Scott:Oh, dude, Rob, Rob, before we even get into that, I got to I just gotta before we even get into that. I just gotta go into this. Last night I'm talking to Rob and Trevor and our little group friends. And I'm like, you know, I'm like, here, I'm like, I don't really have a good feeling about tomorrow. But if we're gonna beat the Dolphins, Herbert is gonna have to throw it 35 plus times. And Rob goes, if Herbert has to pass 35 times, he will finish the night in the morgue with our offensive line. I'm like, no, Rob. They have to be quick passes. I'm not saying five-step drops. Okay. And halfway through the first quarter, Trevor goes, Jesus, do you want to be our offensive coordinator, Scotty? And I'm like, dude, it's not hard. How do you beat a pass rush when your offensive line sucks? Said it last week. Quick passes, screens. You gotta get the ball out of your hands fast. Right. You have to. Right. Dude, you know how many passes Herbert attempted? 38.
Graham:Yeah?
Scott:And those little quick dump-offs. It's an extension of the run. Okay? It's an extension of the run. And something I gotta bring up, dude, because this is insane. And TP sent it to me tonight, and I didn't even have I didn't even know. Dude, Keenan Allen. First last year, last week was the first time, first player to get to a thousand catches, right? Faster than anyone. Today? Only player in NFL history to have 400 plus catches from two different quarterbacks.
Graham:Interesting. Wow.
Scott:Yeah. You want to talk about, and I obviously I'm biased, but I'm just gonna say it right now, and I said it to TP. Keenan was by far the best draft pick from Tom Telesco in his era.
Graham:Okay.
Scott:You can't say Derwin. Derwin fell to us. You can't say Herbert. Herbert fell to us. Right? Keenan was a third-round pick.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And would have been a first round pick if it wasn't for his injury. You want to talk about an underrated player. You and I have argued about it all the time. The guy is a stud. So I know what you're gonna ask, and the answer is yes. You want me to stir the pot? Yeah, I'd rather have him than Antonio Brown. No 100%. 100%.
Graham:There is absolutely no chance of that number one. Have you ever seen Keenan run off the field? That was not the question. And everyone knows in a six-year period, no one's beating A B, number one. That's just that's off the table. We're not even going there, okay?
Scott:Okay.
Graham:What I was gonna say was, and this is where the controversy between you and I are gonna start. Golf just got killed. Hall of Famer? Absolutely. Okay. Now, this is where this is where it's gonna get dirty. Tell me why he gets in before Heinz Ward. Or should he get in before Heinz Ward?
Scott:I'm not arguing Heinz Ward shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.
Graham:No, I know that, but I'm just saying, like, if you say he's such a guaranteed Hall of Famer.
Scott:I'm just saying he's the fastest to a thousand.
Graham:I'm not saying he's not. I'm just saying comparatively Heinz Ward is a different guy.
Scott:Heinz Ward was an unselfish player that would go out there and lay his body on the line to make a block for the running game. It's a different world.
Graham:He still had the stats, though.
Scott:The same reason that people hated on Keenan. Keenan's not a touchdown machine. Keenan's a reception machine. Right. I'm not saying one is should be and one shouldn't be. We all know Heinz Ward should be oh game over. Good job. Oh. Is your teaser still intact? Down 13.
Graham:They're kneeling it, right? I hope so. You would think so. I got the Lions plus 14 and a half. Them holding them to a field goal was huge. Them more or less going three and out right there, while you're throwing it, get the I mean, uh, okay, I get it. But where they are positionally, Detroit has no timeouts.
Scott:Yeah, it's over.
Graham:They can essentially kneel it. Right? So they should do that. All right. You would hope so. Lord, baby Jesus, please. Getting back to it. I I I I was only throwing jabs just to throw a jab. Yeah, no, no, no. Because my thing with Heinz, look, has the thousand catches, has ten thousand yards.
Scott:We're not talking about the thousand catches. We're talking about Keenan being the fastest to a thousand.
Graham:No, no, no.
Scott:I'm not doubting Heinz Ward catching a thousand balls.
Graham:I guess where I was going with it is for how much you and others believe and believe, and I believe in Keenan. He's a great player. I'm not saying he's not a player, I'm just saying, like, would it be fair for him to get in before Heinz Ward, considering he was a Super Bowl MVP?
Scott:Keenan's gonna get in before Heinz Ward.
Graham:I just throwing it out there. And I think that's bullshit.
Scott:Like well, because you're biased. You're talking about he's a Super Bowl champion MVP. Who?
Graham:Just say it. Dude, but he just never even played in a Super Bowl.
Scott:Yeah. Exactly, because he's got fucking Tom Talisco. Anyhow, I don't even want to get into it. Dude, a game, you and I, we talked about it earlier. Dude, we do all these parlays and these teasers, and the only game that I was 100% confident in today was what? Seattle. Yeah. The Jaguars coming off of Monster Win, beating the Chiefs at home.
Graham:I still can't believe how that happened, by the way. Like him tripping. Him falling down tripping and then running it into the end zone. Oh, Tay Tay's there. There she is. Oh, pizza box ass.
Scott:Welcome to the show. Caitlin Clark's been at more Chiefs games this year than she has at her Indiana. What's her team's name? Indiana Fever. Yeah, than Indiana Fever games. Oh, my ACL turn. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Whatever. Kermit the Frog, yeah. Whatever. Go hang out with your ugly ass wife. Uh anyhow. Uh, dude, Tampa Niners. Entertaining much. Wow. What a game. Besides Fred Warner going out for the season, that blows.
Announcer:Oh, yeah.
Scott:But but Baker, oh, that rush for first down on third and whatever, 13, 14, or whatever it was. Oh.
Graham:That play alone, and on top of coming back and getting that dub, well, I wouldn't say coming back, there was only a part where they were down a little bit, but just how he led that offense and throwing touchdowns to people, folks, I've never heard of before.
Scott:Abuka's out with the hammy. Yeah. Mike Evans still out. Godwin comes back, I think. Did Godwin come back today?
Graham:No.
Scott:He wasn't. He didn't play. No. Dude. Like, he's throwing to guys. I'm like, Bucky Irving's out. Yeah. Dude, after six weeks. Hey Browns. How's that make you feel that you drafted him?
Graham:Yeah. I totally agree with what you're saying, but what I would say is this. Everything is um, how do I say this? Like, everything's a learning experience, and you're not like Baker wasn't what he is now then. Right? A hundred percent he wasn't.
Scott:And but guess what? To the credit scenery. Well, of course. How's that working out for Danny Dimes?
Graham:Well, we'll get into that shortly.
Scott:How's that working out for Sam Darnold when he went to the Vikings? Now he's with Seattle.
Graham:Yeah. I look. Oh, overtime. And by overtime slap myself, I mean uh game's over. Thank you for kneeling the ball, but there's player fights in wow. Who's fighting? It's oh, it's a player in street clothes. What?
Scott:Oh hopefully it's Chris Jones when he's just standing there watching Trevor Lawrence score a touchdown. Whatever, dude. We all knew the Chiefs were gonna win tonight. I mean, come on. We knew it was gonna happen. I did. I knew it was happening. I told you earlier, Chiefs are winning. Ain't no chance.
Graham:Detroit's look so good.
Scott:Except for week one. Week one's weekend. Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell. Oh, it was Branch and and Kermit. Kermit tried to high-five him, and Branch said, suck it. Who's number nine? Juju. Oh. Oh, Branch hit him in the face. Oh, and then Juju just flopped. Juju just flopped like LeBron. Come on. First off, he didn't flop. He got slapped in the face. Dude, dude. Juju just flopped like LeBron. I mean, come on. If it was me or you, yeah, we'd fall down. He's not a world-class athlete. Shut up. He just flopped. I mean, come on. Oh, there's Kelsey. Oh, I'm going to go hang out with my pizza box ass girlfriend, Taylor Swift, and talk about a song called Wood, talking about how big it is, but it's really the size of a millimeter Peter.
Graham:But anyhow, uh, yeah, this episode's gonna be not safe for children. This one's gonna have the NSFW warning.
Scott:Dude, but anyhow, I don't know, man. Hey, hey. My boys escaped with a win. Didn't think it was gonna happen. Dude, can we talk about the Patriots?
Graham:Hold on. Can we talk about how the organ no dude? There's still two more things we need to talk about your game. What? First off, you tell me four days ago that because Miami's Miami and you know the fans are not really fans there, you could get lower level tickets for $100. Dude, we could have got them cheaper than that. That's my point. We could have been at this game. That's number one.
Scott:Number two.
Graham:I know. That little troublemaker, son of a bitch. Love you, bro. Um, but no, the biggest news of the game. The press conference. Come on.
Scott:Oh, two of throwing everybody under the story of the day. Tell me you don't want to get your head coach fired without telling me you want to get your head coach fired.
Graham:Dude, I thought the funniest thing, I was listening to Chris Long, his podcast that he does, and he made a point where it was just like when you had Brian Flores, who was your defensive coordinator, and then he was your interim, but the players didn't like how direct or stern or you know, just trying to keep people accountable for their actions and you know, set rules and boundaries of how the organization should be and how he wants the team to be run. Everyone thought he was a bully. He was being mean.
Scott:So, yeah, you know why? Because he heard the rumors, bro. Well, yeah, Belichick was coming in, Sean Payton was coming in, Tom Brady was coming in. Why do you think their GM hasn't gotten fired? Because he's got dirt on the goddamn organization. McDaniel will get fired. What's the owner's name?
Graham:Is it Michael Ross? It's something Ross.
Scott:The the GM's name is Greer. He's been with the organization for 20 plus years. Why is he not going to get fired? He's got dirt. Okay. We all know the the lawsuit with Flores. He should have been the next coach. A hundred percent. Should have been the next head coach. When when the Chargers fired Beanie Head Staley, uh, I was saying I want Flores to interview.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Dude. Yeah. So they got dirt on the organization.
Graham:Something has to be the case.
Scott:So now I sent that press conference to TP and he texted me after it. He goes, dude, I just re-listened it to his comment. If McDaniels ain't fired, I don't know what will happen with that team. But also, you can't say that stuff publicly unless you're trying to get your coach fired. Could you imagine? Well, Aaron Rodgers doesn't like his mom. Could you imagine Josh Allen saying that about his head coach and team in a press conference after losing? Could you imagine Herbert saying that? Could you imagine Mahomes is a douchebag, but he still ain't gonna say it.
Graham:No.
Scott:Dude, is that the guy you want leading your football team?
Graham:I can go both sides on this. I agree with you, but what's the definition of insanity?
Scott:Yeah, I don't know. Doing the same thing over and over.
Graham:So if you need to stir the pot, you need to do something, like it's but you're the quarterback, you're the leader of that team. Yeah, and a dude that got paid 200 plus million dollars and is not going anywhere.
Scott:That literally got hit last year in week two and is thrown up gang signs while he's frozen.
Graham:That's not the point.
Scott:The point is The point is you don't say that shit. Ever. Unless, unless ever, ever. Unless ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Ever. Brandon Staley, Anthony Lynn were the dumbest head coaches in Tartar's history. Well, Mike McCoy. Did you ever hear anybody saying? No.
Graham:Definitely not. So if Herbert would have done what Tua did, you would have not been happy with that? Not at all. Not at all. Not at all. I mean, I understand and I respect that.
Scott:I I I mean, I was more surprised that the quarterback is the leader of your team.
Graham:I agree. I was more surprised that he called out players to not showing up to the team meeting, to the players-only team meeting.
Scott:Exactly. I agree.
Graham:He's like, players like, well, is it mandatory? Is it not mandatory? You guys have won one game. You need to come together and figure it the fuck out. Like, you don't, you actually have some good players.
Scott:Yes. They do. But are they gonna get traded? I mean, everybody's saying A chain's on the box now on the trading block. Bradley Chubb.
Graham:How I mean, do they just start completely over? Is Waddle on the trading block?
Scott:Who knows? I mean, the Browns, what are the Browns gonna do? The Browns. Yeah, but dude, they've got pieces that people could use. Some offensive linemen.
Graham:Right.
Scott:And Joku is the first time.
Graham:Everyone knows you don't trade offensive linemen in the middle of the season.
Scott:Yeah, unless you're the Browns. Well, you can't have exceptions to the rule. They also know that you don't trade Joe Flacco in the division unless you give up on the year.
Graham:Yes and no. What has Joe Flacco done for them in the games that he played? He was supposed to be pretty sure he beat the Packers.
Scott:Is he the long-term guy? Absolutely not. But the defense. Do you trade anybody? Do you trade anybody in the division? No. No, dude. Especially a team like the Bengals that are reeling that.
Graham:Yeah, but here's the thing. It's one year. Joe Flacco is not playing in the NFL next year.
Scott:Unless Yeah, we said that two years ago. Well, I mean When Flacco led the Browns, uh, didn't they win a playoff game?
Graham:The no.
Scott:The no, he led the No, he won he got in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah. I think he lost to the Texans.
Graham:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott:But still, still you don't trade a water boy in your division.
Graham:Hey, what's that saying? One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Scott:Not saying that he's trash. I'm not saying that. Hey, hey, and your fantasy team was awesome today because guess what? Flacco was the quarterback for the Bengals. Chase was actually getting receptions.
Graham:Well, I mean, a lot that the end helped for sure. But I I'll say this. The outlook for the Bengals, if you look at it prior to today, what Browning was giving them compared to what Flacco was doing, mind you, he got there on Wednesday. Yeah. He came back from Europe, flew, and got to Cincinnati on Wednesday and did all that with the little bit of help.
Scott:Look, it gives Cincinnati got wide receivers named Jamar Chase and you know Higgins.
Graham:I agree. And and honestly, we talked about, you know, the Joe Burrow and Joe Burrow slapped myself. We talked about the Joe Flacco effect, how he has killed Pittsburgh on shim being on shitty teams over the years, beating us with on when he was on Cleveland. He beat us when he was he beat us when he was the backup on the Colts, and Anthony Richardson supposedly got hurt, his hip got hurt, you know, and he comes in and and beats us. So it's just like now Pittsburgh on a short week. Granted, the Bengals are technically on a short week. The Bengals are not as much of a cakewalk as they were with Browning.
Scott:Yeah.
Graham:Now that Pittsburgh has to go to Cincinnati.
Scott:Yeah. Something else that's weird to me with Flacco joining the Bengals and the Browns playing the Steelers today. The Browns played in London last week, right? Yeah. Remember the old rule where if you played in London, your next week was a bye week.
Graham:Used to. I was thinking about earlier. How long has the NFL been playing in Europe now? Has it been 10 years already? Oh, more. That's what I thought, right?
Scott:More. Yeah. More than that. But it used to be you played in London, you get a bye the next week. Weird. I mean, whatever. Were the Browns gonna beat the Steelers? No chance. If they had a bye week, were they gonna be the Steelers? No chance. But dude, uh, it's just weird to me. I don't know. What also is weird to me is we have two Monday night games again tomorrow night.
Announcer:We do.
Scott:And next week we have two more. I I'm I'm not mad at it. I don't hate it. I the only thing you know what I'm gonna say is I hate is week two, chargers play at 10 p.m. And now they're doing the 7.15 start and the 8.15 start.
Graham:It's already been established, Scott. The NFL hates the Chargers. I mean, that's yeah, we know that.
Scott:We know that. We all know that. But it's like, bro.
Graham:Really? Who you guys got next week, by the way? Oh, dude. Oh, wow. All right. I have no idea. I'm asking blindly. I'm not setting you up for anything.
Scott:Colts at home.
Graham:I hey.
Scott:And then we have the then we have the Vikings at home on Thursday. Oh. Yeah. Well, at least.
Graham:That's a tough two games.
Scott:Yeah, it is. It definitely is. But we're supposed to be getting Alt back and Mac back next week. Oh, okay, good. That's huge. That's huge.
Graham:Now, granted, I would say that at the start of the season, I would have not said your week seven matchup with the Colts would have been exactly not of what it is. I mean, if you would have told me that Daniel Jones A would have won the starting job, I would have been like, okay, that's fine. But the fact that he would take that offense, put it on his back, and said, All right, boys, I got you. Let's go. Him and Jonathan Taylor, who's the leading rusher in the NFL right now, I mean, what? Their defense. I mean, look, a backup quarterback, Jacoby Brissett, you know. He played great today for the Cardinals. He is another perfect example. As I just referenced with Daniel Jones, having a good backup quarterback is essential in the league. Like, and there's a reason why teams don't give up their backups. There's a reason why Kirk Cousins is still sitting in Atlanta. He ain't going nowhere.
Scott:I don't disagree.
Graham:You know what I mean? And it's just like, it's amazing how important certain things are, and not our just like how the how the football bounces. You never know.
Scott:Hey, a change of scenery for a quarterback.
Graham:Absolutely. Arnold.
Scott:What? Dude. Daniel Jones, Baker Mayfield.
Graham:Uh MVP. Baker Mayfield, unofficially as of right now, by the way.
Scott:Yeah. I mean, and then you got Anthony Richardson who's getting hurt in pre-game warmups.
Graham:Can you explain to me? Like, I don't get it. I saw the thing you sent me, so he was looking at this band around his thigh, and then he broke his orbital bone. Like, that how do you break your orbital bone in pre-game warm-ups?
Scott:The crazier thing than that to me is the dude that got the concussion running into the other player in pregame warmups.
Graham:Did he get punched in the face by a ghost or something? Like dude, I don't know.
Scott:I have this crazy idea.
Graham:I mean, and really something I kind of want to talk about just for a few a minute or two. The NFC West was somewhat wide open at the beginning. You know, everyone was like, oh, the 49ers they got a very easy schedule, but they're banged up. They had those dubs in the beginning of the season. Now everyone's like, oh, well, not by now, but earlier, they're like, all right, the Rams. Rams are looking good. Now they're getting banged up. Puka with the ham uh Puka's not hamstring, it's like ankle, right? Ankle, yeah. Dude, high ankle, that's a few weeks. That's more yeah.
Scott:Just asked Joe Alton, Hampton.
Graham:So that being said, first people were saying Rams, second people were saying 49ers, but did you see newly acquired Seahawks, Darnold, and ASN, Jackson Smith, and Jigbub? If I I know we've talked about this often, everyone and their mother in the fantasy field was just like uh put their arms up in the air. I have no idea what this dude's gonna do. Um, oh, I don't know. How about be like top five in the entire league right now? Actually, I think he's the second best wide receiver statistically behind Puka.
Scott:We were talking on the phone before we got on, and you were talking about Jonathan Taylor like leading the NFL on Russia, and I'm like, that's not even the story, bro. It's in Jigma.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It's in Jigba, without a doubt.
Graham:Uh, I mean, especially because they signed Cup, who are both two inside players. We're like, who's gonna play the outside? I uh look, I mean, he was the number one at Ohio State for a reason, right?
Scott:Yeah, and so was Marvin Harrison Jr. So was Olave and who else, Garrett Wilson? Who else am I missing? Oh, all those dudes that were 0-4 against Michigan. Uh, dude, the NFC West, San Fran, Seattle, and the Rams are all four and two. They're all four and two. Insane. But can we talk about the Carolina Panthers?
Graham:Let's go.
Scott:Three and three. Bro, what? I'm sorry, what?
Graham:You know, the thing that makes me happiest about that whole situation is can we get off uh I'm like, what's his first name? Bryce is back, the quarterback. Like, seriously.
Scott:Maybe.
Graham:Granted, to help their win today, Dowdle, who by the way was the backup, who left, by the way, the Cowboys last year. Right.
Scott:He had a game last week against the Dolphins in his press conference, talk shit to the Cowboys for letting them go. And not only did he talk shit, he backed it up today.
Graham:Uh and by backing it up, you mean by having 237 all-purpose yards and is now the leader for a running back for all-purpose yards from scrimmage and Panthers organization in a game.
Scott:And remember that guy, CMC?
Graham:How about D'Angelo Williams?
Scott:Dude.
Graham:Like, there's been some backs there.
Scott:I just love the fact that he talks shit and then backs it up.
Graham:Dude, I mean, uh, like, unbelievable. Dude, buck 32 or something on the ground and then five catches for 87 and a touch. Like insane.
Scott:Insane.
Graham:He knew the Cowboys can't stop the run. And let's just go back to it. So Jerry Jones gets rid of Micah Parsons but says, I'm only doing this if we get a defensive player back in return besides the first round picks. Okay, that's fine. But we need someone that's gonna stop the run. Yeah, good luck. How's that working out? Although Pickens had a game. I'll give him that.
Scott:Pickens had an amazing game.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And they're just gonna they're gonna get CD back. Dak had a game too. Yeah. And like we always talk about, we talked about it before the season, Dak is what? Every other year. Yeah. Well, I mean, Tampa, if everything ended right now, Tampa's the one seed in the NFC.
Announcer:What?
Graham:Wow.
Scott:I haven't looked at updated standings. Um Tampa's Tampa's five and one. Yeah. Green Bay's three, one, and one. Nice guy.
Graham:So all that being said, we pretty much covered all the games today. Really no need to bring up Patriots laying that wood down in New Orleans. I mean, it is what it is.
Scott:We can bring it up because your boy got over eight and a half wins that I've been bragging about. You were doubting me. And Drake may. He's him. He's he's alright.
Graham:Okay. Vegas took care of Tennessee at home. All right, that's cool. So, folks, Scotty Waugh, Washradamus. Who do you like tomorrow night? Who do you like in the Buffalo at Atlanta? And then a little hometown area for you. The Redskins, aka Commanders at home.
Scott:Who do you like against the Bears?
Graham:Against the Bears. Coming off a bye.
Scott:Dude, I've been stressing this game. I think the Bills are gonna win. But I think it's gonna be tight. They're only four and a half point favorites. The Bills. What have the Bills done this year? Okay, they came back against the Ravens, beat them by one. Okay, yeah, that was before the Ravens got injured. But then they barely beat the Saints. They barely beat the Jets. Who else did the Bills beat? I don't know. They lost to the Patriots last week.
Graham:I think they played Miami already, right? Yeah. I don't. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Scott:But I don't know. If I'm taking straight winners, yeah, I'm taking the Bills.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Point spread. Not sure what I'm doing. Not sure.
Graham:I mean, I don't want to be a homer. I mean, I I you know, I do have a little place in my heart for the Bills. Uh, you know, being from Erie, how close it is, and one, you know, a good friend of mine. I got a lot of friends that are Bills fans. I I can make a case that this is a statement game for both teams. Yes. I mean, the Falcons need a dub. Need this. And also, they're coming off a bye. Like, you can't lose. I mean, you can, but it doesn't look good losing coming off a bye. It just doesn't.
Scott:The other game, Bears at Washington. I mean, Scary Terry's still not playing. You better not. The Bears are still bitterbetty about that Hail Mary last year. Coming off a bye.
Graham:You better not, so I'm gonna say it before you. I'm taking Chicago. Audrey, did you hear that? Sorry, BB. I'm taking Chicago.
Scott:Chicago ain't winning, dude.
Graham:Off a bye? Ben Johnson's getting them together. They've been looking a lot better.
Scott:I just uh they ain't winning. Bears ain't winning. All right. Washington's winning the game. All right. Line's five and a half. I don't know if I like that. Dude, they ain't winning. Alright.
Graham:Sidebed, I get the point.
Scott:Audrey's going to the game too tomorrow night.
Graham:Yeah. I'd say an impromptu after the game, but you know she's gonna be wasted.
Scott:Oh, yeah, 100%. Okay. She'll be hammered. Um I don't know, dude. I I just I saw some stat. I wish I knew the exact thing. What it was like the last time the Bears and the Redskins played each other two years in a row and had the same quarterback start in each game. It was like X amount of years ago. Right. Crazy. But I will just go out and say I used to pull for Jaden Daniels, and I saw something tonight. Oh. And I'm no longer a Jaden Daniels fan.
Announcer:Oh shit. What happened?
Scott:Yeah. And I sent it to Audrey. Oh. And she was laughing. Well, Jaden Daniels is from the I.E., right? Inland Empire. Yeah. And Stroud. And Jaden Daniels said something a couple weeks ago. Commented on the Mets missing the playoffs.
Announcer:Oh, shut the front door.
Scott:So the Mets lost, didn't make the playoffs. That's the biggest thing that brought a smile to my face today. You know what, Jaden Daniels? I don't like you anymore.
Graham:You know what? It's been a while since I've said this, Scott. You're unbelievable. You are unbelievable. Like, hey, bro.
Scott:Talk shit. You're gonna find out. Yeah. I'm sorry. You're from the IE, aka, I would assume you would be a Dodgers fan then. The Angels are closer. I'm shut the fuck up. I mean. Anyhow. Uh he said the Angels are closer. It's the end almost the end of week six. Your Steelers are in first in the division. Chargers are in first in division. If you would have told us this right now before the season started, how happy would we be?
Graham:Oh, stoked. I I just want to know this. Come Tuesday, is Baltimore still gonna be minus 110 to win the division?
Scott:Oh, I looked it up earlier there. I looked it up earlier.
Graham:What?
Scott:I knew you were gonna ask that question at some point.
Graham:Um what?
Scott:There is absolutely uh you guys are minus 175, Baltimore's plus 175. Even still, plus 175, and you're one and five?
Graham:I mean, look, any given Sunday things can happen. I get it, but you'd literally for them for them to make the playoffs, they can only afford to lose one more game? Maybe two. What are they one and five? Yeah. In the AFC, 10 and 7 for the wild card is pushing it for a while.
Scott:Who would have thought the Ravens would have been one and five? Well, I mean hold on, week one at the end of the third quarter against the Bills.
Graham:Oh. I mean no Sodomas, apparently. What Stromas over here didn't even know.
Scott:All I know is Derrick Henry, you're wash, retired. Dude, at the end. Enough is enough.
Graham:I mean, no look, no threat of Lamar Jackson. Dude, that we said it last week. When you don't have your top six highest paid players on your team. Oh, I'm sorry, everyone except Derrick Henry, as your top highest paid players on your team are out. You're all pro quarterback, you're all pro safety, you're all pro linebacker, uh, your stud fullback. Like, I, you know, it's just uh I get it. It is what it is. It is. And I ain't mad at it right now. Yeah.
Scott:Graham, get us out of here. Uh, there was something else I wanted to say. Damn it. I forgot. I don't know. Don't remember. Fair enough. Audrey, have fun at the game tomorrow night. Uh hope Washington wins, especially for Survivor. Uh what?
Graham:Why she would take them.
Scott:I mean, I I know, dude. Taking your own team. It's not even that. The Bears are not a bad team. There's so many other choices you could have picked. They're not a bad team, I agree, but it's so Caleb Johnson.
Graham:Okay, yeah, and I okay. Has be honest, and this is I'm not saying this is an awk. Has Washington this year impressed you?
Scott:Last week, yes, when they beat the shit out of the Chargers. But we also had zero offensive linemen.
Graham:That's what I'm saying. I mean, you got you had players that got hurt, and honestly, if you take away a couple plays in that game, your game would have been different.
Scott:So, I mean if we hadn't have 115 yards and penalties.
Graham:Well, it's not even that. I mean, the call that was not a call, but yet the guy got fined for it.
Scott:The rough Yeah, good fucking point, Graham. Like Quentin Johnson, dude, helmet to helmet fumbles, no penalty on the field, but the douchebag for Washington gets a fine.
Graham:You're welcome.
Scott:Like make it make sense.
Graham:What? You know, and and a couple third down runs where it was like third and fifteen that he got for first down. Like it wasn't, you know, the I thought that game was closer than it was, but it was until it wasn't, you know.
Scott:Yeah, anyhow, whatever. Get this shit out of here, Graham. I love you. Thanks for bringing up last week. I hate you for that. But you know what? I will say this. We lost two games. We lost to the Giants, and it was still a game without our offensive line with a with a hundred yards of penalties. We lost to Washington last week. That was a game with a hundred yards of penalties. We lost those two games, and we are still in them. Yeah. So with me and you on the offensive line. You know, I'm still I'm good. We're gonna get healthier. Uh Graham, get us out of here. And you know, it's Sunday night. We just watch the Chiefs and the Lions. Yeah, the game sucks because we wanted the Chiefs to lose, but you know what the best part of the Sunday night football is, right?
Announcer:Monday?
Graham:Oh my god, dude. Oh, oh, oh, no. The best part of Sunday night football is hot chick of the week or hot chick of always the year, Melissa Stark.
Scott:And not only that, before the game even starts, you get to see Carrie Underwood. I mean, come on. Who doesn't like Sunday Night Football? Carrie Underwood leads it off, and then you got homegirl Melissa Stark on the side. I mean, come on.
Graham:Hey, I mean, yeah, Carrie Underwood's nice to look at, but I actually kind of like the intro music on Thursday night on Prime a lot better, to be perfectly honest. But that's just that's just me.
Scott:I don't know if I've ever tuned into Prime early enough to hear the music.
Graham:Fair enough. Scott, it's always a pleasure doing the podcast with you. How exciting is it that we got playoff baseball, we got the NFL, we got hockey back. I mean, it's a great time to be a sports fan. I'm super excited about it. Excited for the games tomorrow night, excited for Thursday, a little scared, but we'll see what happens. Other than that, Scott, it's always a pleasure doing the podcast. And as the best homie always says, Booba!
Scott:Good night, friends. Good night, Tua. Why don't you throw your whole organization under the bus again? Thank you, Dolphins, and your dumbass organization for taking that moron instead of my boy Herbie. Boomba!
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