Bald Guys On The Bench
Bald Guys On The Bench
Overtime On A Wednesday
Recorded October 22nd, 2025
One missed kick can tilt an over, but this week proved how fast everything can swing. We start with the sting of bad beats and the psychology of special teams before diving into a WR clinic: Jamar Chase’s 16-catch eruption, Brandon Marshall’s single-game crown, and why Keenan Allen’s volume greatness deserves more love even across eras. If you like honest debates with actual context, you’ll feel right at home.
Then baseball took over. Shohei Otani authored a night from another planet: three home runs, 10 strikeouts, and fewer hits allowed than dingers. We unpack why that kind of two-way dominance breaks models and how organizational choices—from amenities to roster construction—shape legacies. From there, we set the stage for a heavyweight World Series: Dodgers favored on paper, Blue Jays fresh from a seven-game grinder, and the historical trend that teams coming off long series often blindside opponents who swept. Expect smart talk on totals, series length, and where value hides when the market leans one way.
Football fans, we didn’t hold back. We defend Justin Herbert against lazy “fraud” takes by showing how missing tackles, a dead run game, and evaporated play action distort any box score. We trace Shane Steichen’s journey from Chargers assistant to Colts catalyst, explain why fit beats hype, and sketch the weekend slate: Chargers-Vikings as a razor-thin coin flip with a defensive-score swing, Steelers-Packers as a trench fight controlled by run fits, and the Lions flashing track-speed with Jahmyr Gibbs. We also celebrate a wholesome win: a freshman golfer punching a ticket to state, plus a club trip filled with birdie juice, late laughs, and the kind of community that keeps sports alive between big moments.
Stick around for bold picks, a few spicy rants, and practical betting angles you can actually use. If this hit the sweet spot for you, follow the show, share it with a friend, and drop your World Series call in the comments—Dodgers or Jays, and in how many games?
Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the Bench podcast with your hosts Graham Cohen and Scott Waska.
Scott:What's up everyone, and welcome back to a Wednesday night edition of the Bald Guys on the Bench. I'm here with my boy Graham. It's Wednesday. It's kind of a weird day for us to be recording, but you know, I had a bunch of shit going on with work. Graham got banged up Saturday night, or was that Friday night? Was that Friday night or was that Saturday night? What night did you get all banged up? Oh, that was Thursday night. That was Thursday. Whatever. It all blends in. But here we are Wednesday night. Better late than never. I mean, whatever.
Graham:Who throws their best friend under the bus? That guy.
Scott:Uh duh, that's what we're here for. But Graham, you know what time it is, bro.
Graham:Yeah, let's grab it and crack it. Let's go.
Scott:Let's do it. So after I threw you under the bus, my bad. I forgot it was Thursday night. I thought it was Friday night for some reason. But whatever. It doesn't matter. Banged up here, banged up there. I mean, whatever.
Graham:Shh. I was hiding it under the radar. But the goose is loose, as they say.
Scott:My bad. Mama Cohen, Papa Cohen. Be easy on him.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:So, anyhow, Graham, how was your weekend? What'd you do? You know, I know it started off shitty Thursday, but you know, we'll get into that in a minute.
Graham:But uh just uh pretty relaxed, chilled. Uh spent most of the weekend watching ball, college pro MLB. I know it's a shocker, but here we are. And actually, since it started, even a little hockey. So your boys putting in work, trying to, you know.
Scott:Dude, did you watch the best team in hockey lay the wood to the hurricanes, who were the best team in hockey on Monday night?
Graham:I I was keeping up with it on the phone.
Scott:Uh I'm not gonna lie, but I had those Monday night games going on, so I'm not gonna lie either. I didn't watch one play Monday night. You saved yourself. Anyhow. Uh night, bro. Oh, off to a start. Let's go. I mean, Eichel's number one in scoring, Stone's number two, even though we lost Stone probably for a couple weeks with a wrist injury. It is what it is. But uh, dude, college football, your weekend, my weekend. Uh my weekend was pretty low-key. I had to work Saturday. Uh, before I go into anything, I just gotta say, you know, the phenom I teach the girl, yeah, freshman. Uh regionals were Monday a couple days ago. Or actually, no, sorry, yesterday. And I had a lesson with her Saturday, striping it, hitting it good. And my girl goes out, finishes fourth in the region as a freshman, playing with three girls that are seniors that already have college scholarships. Wow. Team team comes in second, they advance to state next week in Pinehurst. Wow. Gotta give a gotta give a little shout out.
Graham:Hey, congratulations.
Scott:Dude, Caitlin, you know, talked to you last night. So proud of you. All the effort, work, everything. Could not be happier, dude.
Graham:I remember when you told me last week now, uh, because you were saying the regionals were coming up, how she dominated was it the local section?
Scott:There's the regional district, and I mean destroyed. Destroyed as a freshman. It's so, it's so fun to watch, dude. It's it's it's awesome. And like I told her last night, I'm like, no matter what happens next week, if you play bad, it's an experience. You're a freshman, right? You got three years to do all this fun stuff. You played with three girls yesterday that are all seniors and have college scholarships.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Go out there and have fun. Freewheel it. Let's go. Kick some ass. But anyhow, uh, that was Tuesday. I had to throw a little shout out. No, hey, she deserves it. Yeah, 100%. She's gonna play in college, dude.
Graham:You know, not to go off on a tangent with this, but what are the top female golf college schools? Or not golf college schools, but like golf programs at college. What are the do you know?
Scott:Do you know the number the the best in the country women's golf programs? You got Duke, you got Carolina, you got UCLA, you got Texas, you know, are the main ones. Carolina's solid, dude. I mean, Duke solid, obviously U US, UCLA, USC, the Southern schools, you know. Yeah, you can go play golf for your round.
Graham:Yeah, for sure.
Scott:So, but couldn't be happier, dude. So pumped. But uh, anyhow, you know, your weekend watching sports, my weekend, watched a little football, college football Saturday night, had some good bets I liked, and you know, we're just gonna go out real quick and we're just gonna start this out.
Graham:Uh dude, I don't even know where to start.
Scott:But number one, Notre Dame, I might be able to kick better than your boy that you have on your roster right now. When I take over 58 and a half, and your kicker misses two extra points and a field goal, and the game hits at 58.
Graham:Yet again, how are they so good?
Scott:The only kicker that had a shittier week than him was the New York football Giants kicker. But at least the Notre Dame kickers going to school on Monday were the Giants kickers on the unemployment line. As he should be.
Graham:As he should be. Which he was a random pickup anyway. He's not their official kicker.
Scott:Who cares? Yeah, I mean make an extra point or maybe one of two. Yeah. I mean, I know. It's sports, dude. Nothing's easy.
Graham:Who was the guy?
Scott:Ever. I I I mean, the Bills kicker, Scott Norwood, if he makes that field goal, the Bills win two of four Super Bowls minimum.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I don't know. Uh I don't know. Kicking, it's the one position on a football team that I would not want to be. And we've talked about it on this program numerous times. You got these massive athletes going out there and giving up their bodies, destroying each other, and it all comes down to you know, five foot eight, you know, Nate Kading for the Chargers, the most accurate kicker ever, and then misses 17 field goals against the Jets and Mark Sanchez in the divisional realm when you're the number one seed.
Graham:I'm just I'm trying to think, like, as you're talking about these kickers, what maybe it was for the Packers or there was a kicker that was literally picked up a week ago or two weeks ago that literally was just like, yo, if I don't get picked up, like I'm gonna be a substitute teacher the next week. And like he got signed on a team and hit, made like two field goals and like won the game for him. I'm just like, I'm trying to remember which game that was. Sorry, folks. There was somebody.
Scott:Look at the Bears kicker, Moody from Michigan. That was an early draft pick for a kicker from the Niners. Missed those kicks for the Niners, got released. We all saw the highlights of Debo yelling at him when they were both on the Niners, and then what happens? Goes to the Bears, goes into Washington, hits the game winner against Washington.
Graham:A change of scenery, whether it be kickers, quarterbacks, I mean anything.
Scott:Yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. Um, we'll get into your game if you want. You know, obviously it's Wednesday, it's old news. We're in one of week eight, but tell everybody how you're feeling after that game. It's last week, I mean. Uh as a fan.
Graham:For one. Uh what did I tell you before the game started?
Scott:Not only did you tell me, you kind of mentioned it on the show, I think. Yeah.
Graham:Yeah. And I pussed out because, you know, I heard Hendrickson wasn't playing. And uh, you know, that defense is what it is. Pittsburgh's been looking nice, but I even said on the podcast, Joe, who knows our defense, knows how to play us. It's scary with those weapons. Dude, I might have to hedge. I, you know, I need to take the Bengals money line. And up until the start of the game, believe me, I had my hand on the button, was ready to take it. And then I'm just like, I no, like I can't. Like, I like I can't do it.
Scott:Billy Billy said the same thing earlier in the day on Thursday. He goes, take the Bengals. It's a lock. Dude, I was I said it for a whole week. All the Steelers fans knew it was coming.
Graham:Like, I just and just how easily we easily we started a game going up 10 points. And then next thing you know, they score like 20 against us, and it's just like, look, I watched the game, I went into the old job, I wanted to see some of my regulars. So like I was watching the game, but I'm also you know chatting with the regulars. Like, I mean, I'm watching, I'm paying attention, but just there's certain things that like when you're watching with other people, you kind of miss things here and there where it's just like I'll miss a penalty that they, you know, that Cincinnati got, or I miss this and I miss that. And I'm just like, wait a minute.
Scott:And real quick, as you say that, this is the reason your boy will not go to a Super Bowl party if the Chargers ever get in. Fair. That is the number one reason.
Graham:No, I get it. I get it. And it's just like I'm watching it, everything's good, and but it's just like towards the end, I'm like, what's going on right now? Like, our defense, like, it literally looked like Joe Flacco had like the key had the magic key, the wizard. Like he had the VR goggles on and just like knew what the play was.
Scott:Hey, Steelers. Remember that guy named Jamar Chase?
Graham:I I just I I I I mean, there was a couple bad calls. It is what it is, and with every game and momentum, it is what it is. I just the thing that pisses me off the most about it, it's not the fact that we lost to him. It was just the defense, how how we lost to it. We we gave up 33 points or 32 points, whatever it was. I just how it happened, but also just what that momentum could have been for Pittsburgh moving forward. Instead of us being four and two, we're five and one. And look, the Bengals, them getting Joe Flacco, giving them a lifeline until Burrow Thanks, Browns, yeah, comes back.
Scott:Did I not did I not say that before Tomlin? I did a hundred percent. Like you gave a team with no life air, right? In your division, yeah. That was desperate for a goddamn quarterback, right? And uh what did they even give the Browns? A ham sandwich and an 18th round pick? I mean, I mean, what did they give him? Like, hey Browns, if you're gonna give a team that doesn't have a quarterback, a quarterback, and you know they need it, rape them in your division. Oh no, you got a ham family.
Graham:I think it was a fifth round, possibly a sixth, but here's the thing. Regardless if we didn't know what they gave him, if they make that trade and j and Flacco takes him to the playoffs, it it's almost like what uh the con the comp um the compensatory picks. It's like, dude, there almost should be a stipulation where it's just like yo, if he does this, you that fifth pick needs to go down to a four-third something. Like, you can't let I mean, I don't want to call him a franchise quarterback at 41 or 40, but it's just like you there's certain players, you just don't let them go. You you don't do that. And the thing is, how much of it is you know after this is after that trade happened, I've been listening to uh Cleveland Sports Sports Talk.
Scott:They hate their GM, they're calling for his head.
Graham:Oh, yeah, but here's the thing the only and I get it for being in Cleveland, I get it, but it all all they are saying is, well, especially after the game, well, we hate that he did it, but at least they gave it to Pittsburgh. You know, at least Pittsburgh's getting the shaft here. And I'm just like, that's not even a silver lining.
Scott:That that's stupid, and that's the that's the mind frame of a Browns fan.
Graham:Yeah, we're we weren't gonna play him anyway. We have these two rookies that we need to eventually play.
Scott:Didn't Flacco win the Browns a playoff game a couple years ago?
Graham:No, he took him to the playoffs. The one that the when they won the Texans. Yeah, they lost to Tegans. The winner was actually Baker. And he beat us in the first round.
Scott:That's right. But I'll I was talking about Flacco.
Graham:But they got they took him, he took him to the playoffs and played Houston, yeah.
Scott:Okay.
Graham:So I just and the whole reason why it's just getting back to the momentum. Our next handful of games ain't easy.
Scott:No slouch until you play the Chargers. Wow. That's like a bye week.
Graham:It don't say that. You guys will still play as tough.
Scott:TJ Watt might have, I mean, whatever the sack total is for him, take it.
Graham:Yeah, but he he normally plays on alt side, though. That's the problem.
Scott:Oh, I'm sorry. Steelers game plan. Uh hey, you know, this defensive edge rusher that's the best in the game. Let's put him on the other side. Okay. They're not the only team to do that, okay? I mean, hey, Max Crosby, when we whipped your ass, guess what side he normally lines up on? Oh, alt side. Guess what? Let's go on the other side. But guess what, Max Crosby? You still sucked. But dude, come on, man. Uh anyhow, we're not even getting into that. No, I know. Uh dude, I gotta get into something. Please. Okay, because it was a discussion last week. But first, Jamar Chase, dude. 16 catches, 23 targets against uh against the Steelers team. Yeah, you've got banged up, you got injuries. But have you ever seen a Steelers defense just get manhandled like that?
Graham:That during the offseason, we brought in Jalen Ramsey, we brought in Darius Slay. Like the whole point was to go up against them and man. We've always been zoned. Now we're playing man.
Scott:So Friday, I'm going, all right. He had Jamar Chase had 16 receptions, right? Yeah. My brain is going crazy on the way to work on Friday. And I'm like, all right, who has the most receptions in a game?
Graham:I know.
Scott:And I looked it up, and not only did I look it up, I remember it, dude. Yeah. Who is it? Who is it? Brandon Marshall. Dude, from the Broncos, a team that I hate more than any team in the NFL. When Brandon Marshall was in the NFL, that dude was a monster. Okay. Underrated interceptions. Do you know who has number two?
Graham:In catches?
Scott:Yeah, in a game. It's not gonna surprise you, but you're probably not gonna get it. Julio? No. Terrell Owens has 20. Troll.
Announcer:Oh, okay.
Scott:Okay. Number three. And I remember this. Okay, and this goes back to a discussion we had last week. None other than Keenan Allen, 18. In a game. Keenan, Jason Witten, Brandon Marshall, Tom Fierce, 18 in a game. Okay. Number seven, tied for number seven, your boy, Antonio Brown. 17. Clark Gaines from the Jets. 17. Oh, guess who's sitting there tied at number nine? Jamar Chase, Keenan Allen. Oh. So I start thinking, you know, you and I were talking. You start talking shit about Heinz Ward. So I pull up some stats. Going into last week's game, okay. Going into the Colts game, I look up some stats. Heinz Ward, okay. He's played 57 more regular season games than Keenan. 57. How many seasons is that? 57 divided by when Heinz Ward was playing with 16, you know, carried the one. I don't know. Not a match. Four, yeah. Uh Heinz Ward career receptions, 1,000 exactly. Yeah. Okay. Keenan going into Sunday, 1,007. Heinz Ward career touchdowns, 85. Keenan going into Sunday, 69. Played more, played four more seasons. Yards for Heinz Ward, 12,083. Keenan 11,600. So give Keenan four more years, those numbers are toast.
Graham:Different eras. They didn't throw the ball as much back then.
Scott:I I 100% agree. 100% agree. Just had to throw those. No, no, I mean, like, I no, I get it. It's a I just had to look it up. TP was dying after Pittsburgh's podcast. Pittsburgh. And I sent TP the stats, and he was like, oh, get him. Get him, get him.
Graham:Yeah. You know what, TP?
Scott:I got something for you too. Hey, but TP to you know, TP did say, and I said it on the show last week. Totally different guys.
Graham:Exactly.
Scott:Totally different guys. But something we're forgetting. Okay. We got a World Series starting Friday. And speaking of Fridays, last Friday, game four, Doyers and Brewers. We might have seen the greatest game from a player in history. And before you get going, dude, Otani's the starting pitcher. I'm literally texting back and forth with TP. Otani strikes out the side in the top of the first. Okay. Yeah. And I'm like, okay, TP, you ready for the internet to explode? Otani's gonna lead off the game with a home run. Your boy goes out, bets Otani anytime home run. I wish I would have bet first. Yeah. What happens? Blah blah! Bubba! Like dude, not only that, but a second home run, he hit clearly out of Doyer Stadium. Dude. His stat line. Three three bombs, struck out ten. One hit. Gave up one hit. Oh, sorry. He hit more home runs than hits allowed.
Graham:He was three for three in a walk. What?
Scott:Like, yeah, I the craziest part is the thing that sucks is he's old. That's what sucks. He's old. Otani's 31, 32 years old. It sucks. Because if he was in his mid-20s, oh man. Shit, we would see. It just that's the that's the thing that I everybody's, yeah. Is he the best that ever played? Maybe. It's hard to argue against it.
Graham:Was he Otani how long or how much of before he came in the MLB was he Otani still in Japan? He was, dude. He was that guy for that long.
Scott:Did you see the bidding war for Homeboy? I understand the fact that he went to the Angels first.
Graham:Dude. Speaking of the Angels, they've been under a little fire recently. I've been hearing that uh they've been getting a lot of shit talking for their um their clubhouse amenities. Yeah. Let's just don't even get TP started. We're not even bringing this up. I just saw a video on this the other day. I was like, I was watching, I'm like, they just came in the league like not even 30 years ago. Like, how could they how could their facilities be such shit? Like, you're a major organization. You had you have the players that you have, and you got shit facilities. Like, what's Mike Trout saying? What's gone, man?
Scott:Pooh saying, but I'm just saying, for that to be like that, while they're air owner, their owner, and I'm not even gonna get going because TP could come on here and just blast the Angels organization. The signings they've made besides Mike Trout, Rendone, garbage. Josh Hamilton, garbage. Remember Josh Hamilton from the Rangers?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Pooh holes, good signing. Old gave him a shit ton of money. Dude. Mike Trout. You got Mike Trout without the injuries, one of the greatest we've ever seen. Without a doubt. If Mike Trout is on the East Coast instead of an Anaheim, people are talking about Mike Trout. I mean, the guy is insane, but the injuries have killed him.
Graham:Yeah, he's the Ken Gurfee Jr. of our generation.
Scott:Dude, I would say worse. Really? Better player than Ken Gurfee Jr., but injuries killed him. Killed him. Dude, I will never forget Tim Tate. You remember my boy Tim Tate from Champions Club? Yeah. We went to a game on the 4th of July. Kristen and the kids are out. We got Diamond Club tickets from my boy Tom Day that got killed. Rest in peace, Tommy. We're literally sitting on the dugout, bottom of the tenth, extra innings, and trout hit one that was probably a half an inch off the ground, walk-off, good night. Ain't many people can hit that.
Graham:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott:What I want to get into World Series, dude. Doyers sweep the Brewers. I mean, I gave the Brewers the benefit of the doubt, and I said Dodgers in five. You know.
Graham:I got proof. He did say it. Yeah.
Scott:And I and I also said Toronto and I don't know how many. But Toronto Mariners goes seven. What a series, dude. What a series. I mean, come on. Felt bad for a loser of that series. Everybody did. Yeah. Somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose.
Graham:Yeah, but the thing is, like, unlike the other sports, baseball, no, tell me if I'm wrong. Baseball just seems like it's so much easier for a team to go cold in baseball than it is in other sports. Would you agree with that?
Scott:100%, dude. Why? You got dudes throwing 90 miles an hour sliders. You ever tried to hit a round ball with a round bat?
Graham:Yeah. Yeah.
Scott:I mean, that's a reason why dudes that go up there and they get one base hit out of three at bats get paid shit tons of money.
Graham:Yeah. No, I get it. Yeah, yeah.
Scott:I I mean, it's not an easy sport.
Graham:No.
Scott:Pitching, pitch it, the pitcher always has the advantage. Right? I mean, you're throwing the ball fast as shit. I mean, something I saw tonight that I sent, this is insane. Uh I'm gonna turn the volume down. There were only seven hitters who batted over 300 or better in 2025. What? Seven.
Graham:I'm uh you can't see my face, but wait, what?
Scott:Seven hitters hit over 300 this year. 79 hit over 300 in 1999.
Graham:Now, let me ask you a question that this is where I'm going with that. Is that because now people are it? I don't want to say like has to do with contracts, but player batters are more concerned with home runs than just hitting like singles, doubles, getting on base.
Scott:It's all about the the long ball. Stat cast era. Yeah. Dude, it's all about the bombs.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I mean, look at the Mariners. Who did they beat in the divisional series?
Graham:Tigers?
Announcer:No. Before that?
Scott:Before the Mariners or the Mariners beat who? Oh, yeah, the Tigers. It was it was home run or bust.
Graham:Yeah. That's why it's interesting now to see them, to see teams actually play strategic baseball where they're bunting and moving the runners. And you're just like, wait a minute, what wait, what's going on?
Scott:I thought uh what do I always what do I always say? Baseball's a thinking man's game.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And hit and run. Bunts. Advancing the runner. Dude, getting that getting that dude on third base with one out.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:It's huge. Huge. But anyhow, dude, Toronto has home field advantage in the World Series.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:That's Dad wasn't happy about that, but but the crazy thing to me, dude, teams coming off a seven-game championship series are 4-0 versus teams that have swept. And that goes back to 88. Oakland A's swept 4-0. Toyers win the World Series. 2006, Tigers win the ALCS, four games and nothing. Cardinals win. ALCS, Rockies sweep, 4-0, Red Sox win. 2012, Tigers, 4-0, Giants win. What's gonna happen? I you know, the only thing that I'll say is this. We know who the better team is.
Graham:Yes. But it's sports. We all know that the better team does not always win. Like that's just how it is. But what I will say is for as good as Otani is, especially as a pitcher, he's the Dodgers' fourth pitcher. Like Think about that. He won a Cy, he win Cy Young's and he's their fourth starter. Never won a Cy Young. Or sorry, I'm thinking envy, sorry. My apologies. But still, for a dominant as a pitcher he is, and for him to be their fourth day starter, I'm like, wow, that's it's gonna be a good series. I'm it's good for MLB to have a good series. I like I'm just thinking for the markets per se, what it would have been like if it would have been Dodgers Mariners, it wouldn't have been much of a thing. Because especially that's all West Coast, that's just up and down the coast, right? So the fact that they're playing Toronto, Toronto hasn't been there in what 32 years now. So I mean, good story.
Scott:They've they've won a championship sooner than the Toronto hockey team has won the Stanley Cup. Yeah.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I'm sorry, did I go there? My bad.
Graham:You did. Do I I will say it was also super sad on Monday that when you're watching the Seahawks game, the Seattle Seahawks game, the Mariners game was playing, and did you see all the fans in the stands wearing the Mariners jerseys? And like there's like they showed a guy that had like an iPad out there, like playing the game, a fan, while that's going on. It's just like you felt bad for the game.
Scott:Weren't both games in Seattle too? No, it was in Toronto. It was okay.
Graham:Yeah. But they did the later time. I don't know if the later time was to help with the baseball thing, which has there been any clarification on why some games, when they do two Monday night games, it was a if we go by East Coast time, it'd be seven and then eight, but then other times it's five and eight and eight and eleven, or whatever, whatever the time difference is. I'm like, what no idea?
Scott:Like no idea. I just makes no sense. You know, I so you got looking at the betting line, you got the Dodgers minus 215, and you got the Blue Jays plus 180. I mean, if you're a betting person, obviously you're gonna bet the Dodgers. But here's what I like series props, how many games is it going? Over four and a half is minus six fifty. Under four and a half is plus five hundred.
Graham:There's no way no way.
Scott:I I mean, I personally I don't know. I like it to go seven. I think the blue jays I don't know much about the blue jays. All I know is Vlad, yeah, Springer, Scherzer.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I I don't know much. You know, who does, right? It's Toronto. Who pays attention to Toronto baseball?
Graham:Are you looking at the lines right now? What is game one? Oh, game one? Oh, that's I would think I don't know. Like, I don't really bet baseball, and you know how I am with us, but like just pure emotion and how you feel about it.
Scott:Game one is Dodgers or minus 157.
Graham:Really?
Scott:Plus 129. Blake Snell is pitching for the Doyers. Toronto hasn't announced a pitcher yet.
Graham:Well, I mean, with that's enough time rest. I mean, they I I don't know.
Scott:Yeah, they got plenty of time. They can set up their rotation however they want.
Graham:I don't know. There's a small part of me that's just like look, I well, hey, the Dodgers went up to Milwaukee those first two games and did what they did. I I don't know. There's a small part of me that kind of want to take Toronto in game one.
Scott:I the hell with taken aside? How about let's go over seven and a half at minus one hundred? Oh, runs? Uh yeah. It ain't basketball. There ain't no such thing as a point in baseball.
Graham:What do they so what does Vegas say the games are going to? What do they say at six games?
Scott:Let's see, series props, series games, like I said.
Graham:I hope it doesn't go seven. That would be it doesn't. I mean, no, it's I just figured based on how they do the bets and stuff like that.
Scott:If you go Dodgers win four games to one, it's plus three thirty. Dodgers four to two, it's plus three eighty. Dodgers four to three, it's plus four seventy-five. I mean, everything's plus money. You just gotta get lucky.
Graham:I mean, yeah, it's just I I I was just kind of curious what they think, how many games are being played. By the way, did you see how much tickets game one are going for the World Series in Toronto?
Scott:Oh you probably gotta sacrifice your greatest poutine recipe ever.
Graham:And maybe uh not a maple leaf jersey, but I mean, I don't seats on the third base side, not like straight up, like not right on the line, but probably like 10 rows back, seats were going for $3,500 a ticket. Why not? No, I get it. Like, supply and demand, you haven't been there in that long. Like, I I get it. Like, wow. I just I just didn't think good for them.
Scott:I mean, no, yeah, good for them.
Graham:It it's gonna be a good series. I don't see it being lopsided either way. I think there's gonna be good pitching, I think it's gonna be dramatic. Uh I just I hope it's good. That's really what it comes down to. I mean, if it was anything like how some of these series just the series that Toronto was in with Seattle, that was amazing. How that game went, dude, Seattle had a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh. Was seventh or eighth, eighth, seventh, seventh, and Toronto Toronto hit that bomb. Dude gets up there and just says, Oh, hey, let's change your life. I mean, I was kind of rooting for the Mariners, but it's just like for the fans there to get that win, the emotion and everything, like I'm happy for them, but also in the same sense, it's just like I'm thinking about the fans like what if Seattle would have won. Just it's just the different outcomes and how things go. And I'm happy for those fans. It sucks for the Mariners fan fans. It is what it is, but hey, it's the playoffs. I'm happy it was a great game. A lot of these series have been really good. I can't, I can't and and look, I know I joke on the MLB, I get it. It's not it's not that I don't like it. The playoffs are great.
Scott:Yeah, it's the regular season. I get it.
Graham:I'm just like, do you need 160? Like, that's all I'm saying. Like, it's it is what it is, but still, the pitching duels, I'm I'm there for it. I'm I think it's gonna be a good series. I'm excited. Obviously, I'm leaning one side versus the other, you know, but uh hopefully the Dodgers. I think I think plus it'd be the first back-to-back since the early 2000s with the Yankees for a replay.
Scott:I think I think Dodgers win four to two, go to six. Yeah. Go six.
Graham:I hope they can close it out at home because man.
Scott:It's gonna go six.
Graham:Yeah. So as we wrap up baseball, Scott, you kind of uh didn't say everything about your weekend, even though technically it wasn't the weekend. Didn't you have something special going on?
Scott:I actually did, and it was amazing. And I don't even know how to talk about it. Everybody that listens to us knows that I'm a golf pro and at a private club, and we had a ladies' adventure, dude, little ladies' golf trip. 18 ladies and myself and my assistant. And dude, let me tell you, this trip was absolutely electric. Not only was it amazing the time that we had together, but it was amazing when we first announced it at the club. Dude, this trip goes back to last February. Okay, that's when that's when the sign-ups happened. Okay.
Graham:That's a hot minute.
Scott:Yeah, dude, it goes back to February when we got 13 inches of snow. Remember that? Yeah, the day that that snowstorm happened, I left work early and we'd send out all the communication with the club. You know, the trip, you know, you have to sign up with the email that I send out, you have to respond to that. The first 18 people were in, and you know, then the waiting list, unfortunately, had to happen. But dude, I'll never forget, I'm sitting exactly where I am right now, and it's like literally 358. I'm like, Kristen, watch my phone at four o'clock with the sign-ups. Dude, my phone just it was sold out in a minute. Wow. Okay, it was sick.
Graham:But anyhow, how many people signed up?
Scott:Well, it was the first 18 people that responded to the email. Oh, okay. Because it was 18 members, and then myself and Kyle, my assistant. And dude, amazing, amazing accommodations, amazing golf courses we got to play up in Williamsburg, Virginia by Busch Gardens, where you and I went. And dude, it was amazing. I don't I didn't know what to expect. You know, you're going out with 18 ladies, and but dude, let me just tell you, epic. Went went up a day, went up early. Our golf was Tuesday and Wednesday with the members, but myself and Kyle and one of our other staff members went and played Kings Mill, where the tour played for it was the Anheuser-Busch classic, then it was the Mikelobe, David Duvall, whom David Duvall's first win. Then when the when the PGA tour stopped playing there, uh the LPGA started playing there. So we played there on Monday. Parker came home, Kyle and I went and checked in. Dude, we had 20 chicks, members at the club, you know, we it was like a two-bedroom condo for everybody. So everybody had like a master suite at the condos place. Dude, it was awesome. Dinner reservations for 20. You know, I always I joke around and I say ladies' golf trips are easier than guys' golf trips because what happens when guys get done playing? You get done playing golf, everybody goes back to their room, showers, they're drinking beers. Where are we going to eat? It's like an hour and a half ordeal. Where are we going to eat? Oh no. This trip, dude, dinner reservations were made two, three months ago. Nice. It was it was awesome. Show up, have some food the first night, play some golf yesterday. But here's the thing that I was going to talk to you about that I didn't want to say until we got on the show. So Monday night everybody checks in at four. We go out to dinner, and our first the first tea time of the day is at 10 o'clock. I'm not playing until like 10:40. Well, I tell the two ladies that are, you know, kind of like my counterparts and organizing this thing. Like, I'll I'll be at the course at 9, you know, an hour before the first tea time to help organize everything, you know, yada yada yada. We get back to our condo, and I'm telling my assistant, I'm like, hey, I'm gonna get up about 7.15, 7:30. Let's hit up Chick-fil-A for breakfast, and you know, we'll leave the condo about 8.15, we'll be at the course about nine, done. So literally, Krista and I talked to her the night before, and she's I'm like, give me a call about 7:45, make sure I'm awake. And, you know, like I told you, I didn't even finish watching the first Monday night football game. I was whooped, dude. Well, I woke up about 6:30 and went and took a leak. I'm like, ah, I got an hour, go back, get in bed. Uh, your boy wakes up, looks at his phone, it's 9.05. What? And I'm like, look at my phone, and I've got like 37 missed calls from Kristen trying to wake me up. I open the door to the living room, and I'm like, Kyle's my assistant's just sitting there in the living room, and I'm like, bro, what the hell? I thought I told you last night we're gonna lose it, leave at 8:15. Did you not think of waking me up? Oh, I thought you were just getting ready. What? I don't know what happened with my phone and my alarm and all this shit, but let me just tell you, if there was ever a world record shower and getting out of the goddamn condo, it happened yesterday morning.
Graham:Dude, I thought you were getting ready.
Scott:I'm like, Did you hear me getting ready? I told you we were gonna leave at 8 15. So dude, I'd have been pounding on your door. Right. And I'm not blaming it all on him. I don't know what happened with my alarm. I have no idea. Yeah, but I'm just like, so we show up at 9 40. I'm like, oh my god, I feel like you know, 10 pounds of shit in a five-pound bag. For sure. And I was in bed at 10:30. It's not like I was up till three in the morning. Right. Dude, I was like, oh that's crazy. Dude, like I finally woke up, Kristen's calling. I'm like, yes, I know, I'm late. Hung up, got in the shower, we're gone. Oh, I'm like, are you kidding me right now? But I mean, I didn't even watch the nights. I didn't watch the end of the I didn't watch the end of the first football game, much less the second god dang football game. But it was miserable. But anyhow, dude, we had an absolute blast. It was so much fun. And can't even begin to describe how much fun I had with these members from the club. And the first trip I've taken them on, it was amazing. Can't wait to do it again. You know, when you're a a pro at a at a private club, it's all about the relationships and oh for sure. And this kind of thing, you know, I knew out of the 18, I probably knew 12 like really, really, really well. Yeah. But the other six I got to know even better. Yeah. Dude. It was amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Graham:I'm so happy for you, and I'm glad that it turned out this way. I had a feeling that it kind of would have gone that way for you. When you told me about this months ago, that this is what you were doing. I was like, wait a minute. You're getting your courses being shut down because you're redoing the grades. Like you get all the time. Which we started Monday. Right? So you gotta plan these trips. I'm like, dude, how fun is that? And you're like, oh bro, it's not gonna be I'm like, dude, trust me, it's gonna be a good time. So I'm glad you had a great time. And the best part about it is one, you had a good time, two, the ladies had a great time. Three, they're gonna tell all the other ladies at the club, they're gonna tell their husbands they're gonna be happy, they're gonna tell the board members, they're gonna tell the GM. It's just like everything is just so positive. And with all that, I'm just I'm happy for you.
Scott:Dude, got a call already from one of the husbands tonight, and here's the kicker. So we're late, right? Yesterday.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:So all the ladies at our club, if somebody makes a birdie, they call it birdie juice. And these ladies, these ladies start, they have these little solo cups that are like about that big, like a shot glass. Oh, somebody makes a birdie, they pull out liquor, and you gotta take a shot. What? Dude, so yesterday I'm like half asleep. I tee off at 1040, I power the first hole, I hit my drive on the second hole in the trees, and your boy hits this amazing shot out of the trees from about 160 yards. Little sick punch and Judy six iron. Oh, touchdown over hits. Let's go. I hit this little punch and Judy six iron under the trees. I hit it to like a foot. Wow. Make birdie, and they're all going, birdie juice, birdie juice. I'm like, oh my god, dude. I'm not taking a shot. I'm not taking a shot right now.
Graham:You have to, peer pressure.
Scott:And then they go, Oh, you know what? Remember the rule, no birdie juice before noon.
Graham:And I'm like, thank you, thank you, Jesus.
Scott:Oh, so then we're on nine, and I hit a seven iron to like four feet, made birdie, and they're like, Birdie juice, it's after 12. We got two. Awesome. I'm like, oh my lord. So a couple shotters, you know, it is what it is.
Graham:I love this because I know you don't like to drink when you play golf, so in this hilarious.
Scott:Never drink, dude. You know that. Yeah, but it was fun. Anyhow, ladies had a had a blast. I had a blast, Kyle had a blast. You know, I sent you a video of we played some games last night, a little left, right, center. First time I ever played that. But, you know, it was a great time after watching my bolts get the wood laid to them by Danny Dimes on Sunday and you know, Thursday night game tomorrow, quick turnaround. You know, got the Vikings.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:And as it was happening, dude, you know, I don't know if you were at the game last year or not, but last year, the worst game for the Chargers was when we got boat race by Tampa, and then had a quick turnaround against the Broncos. Yeah, that's all I that's all it made me think about. And I'm I'm literally, as we're watching the game, I'm saying the same thing to my dad, and then instantly TP says something to me about it. Like this reminds me of last year. And I'm just gonna go out real quick. Portnoy in your pizza review company, yeah, you're a genius because you turned this bar stool sports thing into millions and millions and millions, and you're still ugly as shit, and you know, you're still a douchebag. But if I hear you say one more thing about Justin Herbert and how he's a fraud, oh, I'm sorry. Did you watch the game the other day? Did you see my guy Herbert running for his fing life and still throw for 400 yards? Uh obviously you didn't. Because if you did, you wouldn't call him a fraud. And if you say that Herbert's a fraud for losing a playoff game when he was winning 27-0, you obviously never looked at the fucking stats, you pizza eating piece of shit. Because how many times did Herbert turn the ball over in that playoff game? Oh, the same amount as me and Graham. Zero. Uh dude. Is it all-pro left tackle missing? Yep. And an all-pro right tackle missing, yep. Uh did the defense shit to bed Sunday? Yeah, they did. They couldn't tackle me, Graham, somebody on Kellen's JV team. Don't put this shit on Herbie, bro.
Graham:That plus the fact, dude. It's hard for people right now to wrap our heads wrap our heads around the concept of the Colts are five, five, was it five and one or six and one now? Like, no one saw that coming. No one saw Danny Dimes coming in being their savior. Like, how about this? Just swap the quarterbacks. What would have happened if Herbert was on the Colts? With that offensive line? With that running game. Exactly. I mean, it's it's so hard to critique players, especially on teams where they've had significant injuries, especially on the offensive line. Like, everything matters. Like the whole next man up. I I hate that saying because it's just like when you lose when you lose all pros, it's not next man up. It's here's someone he's capable, but he's nowhere near the same caliber of player.
Scott:And by the way, remember that first round draft pick we spent on Hampton? Yeah, he's out. Remember that free agent signing? Najee Harris? He's out. When the entire world knows you have no running game, how hard is it to rush the passer? When the entire world knows your offensive line couldn't block me, how hard is it to rush the passer? And at the beginning of the game, yeah, Colts went down the field, first possession. Boom, boom, boom, score a touchdown. We go down the field, kick a field goal. And then the momentum changer was what? The fourth and one play.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:The refs say it's short. Defense runs off the field, you know, pound in their chest, and then all of a sudden, what happens? It's first down. Am I saying that the Chargers were going to beat the Colts? No. All I'm saying is the ball game was over at that point.
Graham:Yeah. I mean, there was opportunities. I mean, the Colts that day were the better team. The worst. 100%. If things went a different way, if the ball bounced a different way. I mean, like I was telling you, you know, after the game, that interception that Herbert threw in the end zone.
Scott:If that didn't happen, how about the two interceptions he threw in the red zone? Yeah. You get those six points, different worlds.
Graham:Aren't the Chargers like in the top half of the league with scoring touchdowns once they're in the in the red zone?
Scott:No, we're like number 31. Oh, even the last time. I was thinking we're awful. The only bright side of the whole game, and you know, we talked about it is Gadson. Yeah, I was like, who? Our fifth-round rookie dude from Syracuse. Fifth round pick. I mean, the dude was a stud. We knew he was going to become a stud. He had a great game the week before against Miami. Dude, he broke Gates' rookie record for receiving yards. 164 yards Sunday. Gates was 117. I mean, the guy's a stud. His dad played in the NFL. Fifth round pick. You know, I don't know. I I just I don't know. Are we going to win tomorrow night against the Vikings? I have no idea. All I know is Alt's coming back. Pipkins looks like he's coming back. Vikings are missing. What's the dude's name? Uh God, I can't remember his name. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Wentz is starting. Uh Van Van Ginkel or whatever his name is. Vikings D, he's out tomorrow. I don't know, dude. I don't know.
Graham:No, you you didn't mention, but the thing also that was rough about the Charger game this past Sunday was it was the Hall of Fame, or not Hall of Fame, but uh at halftime, they gave it alumni weekend. Yeah. And bringing back some of the players, and they gave what did Gates get?
Scott:His Hall of Fame ring. His Hall of Fame ring. And I don't know. The yellow uniforms hate on them if you want. I mean, I didn't like them when they announced them before the season started. They grew on me a little bit. Tomorrow night is where it's at, bro.
Graham:Did I can't remember, did the broadcast say whether or not they were talking to Herbert about the uniforms? And he's like, oh bro, he's like, I like it. Do you know how easy it is to find our team? Like, dude, those uniforms, it's like, oh, yeah, who am I throwing to? Oh, it's definitely that. Which speaking of controversy when it comes to the uniforms, the Sunday night game with Pittsburgh, we're playing the Packers, we're doing alternate jerseys, we're doing special jerseys.
Scott:Oh shit. We just missed the San Diego waiver wire, but whatever. I don't care.
Graham:Uh ding ding ding. Told you. Um don't care. But so we're doing these different alternate jerseys in that game. I think if I'm not, I could be wrong. Don't kill me on this. I think the Packers and Steelers are gonna have almost the same color helmets. It might be a style of like a brown and a and a yellow. I I don't know. I I could be wrong. I heard something, I didn't dive too much into this before the podcast. I'm just bringing it up, it's all off the top of the dome. I could be wrong, I don't know. But I just hey, they weren't the ugliest jerseys I've definitely seen. It was more shocking just because of the it was yellow, yellow both, and then with the helmets for the chargers, that color. The bumblebee thing yellow layers. I'm definitely not a fan of that. But there's also older jerseys that I've seen, like Packers old jerseys or even Bears old jerseys, but still, like please don't ever bring back Bumblebee.
Scott:Don't the the yellow thing with me. I don't know why you need to do it. I mean, whatever, it's not important. Tomorrow night, like I said, is something that Chargers fans have been asking for. Oh, the Dark Ages, the Navy, the San Diego Navy. We're wearing those tomorrow. Can't wait. I don't give a shit if you wear fucking pink. Just beat the fucking Vikings. That's all I want. I don't care what what uniforms are out there.
Graham:Vikings had a couple close games recently that they it's gonna be they're hungry. They're hungry in that defense.
Scott:Hey, hey, I'm just gonna say this. I'm calling it right now. Chargers are getting a defensive touchdown. I mean, we all know Carson Wentz likes to throw some fake sixes. Yeah. Tarib still gotta obviously keep Jefferson in check. We haven't stopped the run game in a while. A chain ran all over us against the.
Graham:Yes and no, a chunk of that was one play.
Scott:Whatever, dude. It's we haven't stopped the run game. Yeah. It's gonna be a tough game. Good for Jonathan Taylor, you know. I mean, I've blasted on him in fantasy and this and that. The dude's finally healthy, finally has a quarterback. And I don't hate on Danny Dimes, you know. We talked about it earlier in the uh in the division picking episode, you know. How do you hate on him? I mean, how bad? Hey Giants. Saquon leaves, how's he do? Danny dimes, yes.
Graham:Well, excuse me. Yes, but when the Giants took Danny dimes, wasn't he from uh what it wasn't North Carolina? No, Duke, he's like, yeah, especially in the first round, I'm just like, look, quarterbacks can come from anywhere. I I get that you can come from a smaller school, like I get Flacco, Flacco, Delaware. I get it, but even still, when he played with the Giants, I was just like, I don't, there was just something about it just like I just I don't see it. But now when you see him with the Colts, it's just like, and the same thing with Jonathan Taylor. If you have a quarterback that's not sufficient, you you're not, I don't want to say not afraid of, but you you know, you're not game planning against as a threat. Teams are gonna stack the box, which is why you know JT and plus also he hasn't been healthy, but just seeing what they're doing now, the Colts have had a good offensive line for a few years now. Like, it's not surprising. I I mean it is but it isn't. Like they're putting all the pieces together. And look, after this past week, the biggest buzz was is you know, is bigger than MVP. And after this past game, it wasn't he didn't have the best game. But to be fair, Detroit was on a mission that game, especially after what happened in the Kansas City game the week before. But also, you finally get your stud receiver back, Mike Evans. He played decent, but then got hurt in the third quarter. Got hurt. I just I feel terrible for the guy. Yeah, he has a history of being banged up a little bit, but look, hamstrings a couple games here. Still produces. Yeah. Breaks his collarbone. That's or clav, no clavicle or collarbone.
Scott:Collarbone.
Graham:Yeah. That's a you know, eight, six to eight weeks injury. I the main reason I feel terrible for him is just now there's absolutely no chance of him getting the thousand yards and breaking Jerry Rice for consecutive thousand yard seasons.
Scott:Like that's just not real quick, real quick though, on the Colts. Yeah. And something that will forever haunt us as a Chargers fan.
Graham:Oh.
Scott:The Colts head coach, you know, as we all know, Steichen, was a long-term charger employee. Okay. You might not even know this. Uh I didn't. Dude. From 2014 to 15, he was the offensive quality coach for the Chargers. From 16 to 19, he was our quarterback coach. Him and Rivers. Okay. In 19 or in 20, he was our offensive coordinator. Uh who was the rookie in 2020? Herbert. Okay. In comes Brandon Staley, ships him out of town. And where this I can go? Goes to the Eagles.
Graham:Okay.
Scott:What happens then? Then he goes to the fucking Colts as the he was the offensive coordinator for the Eagles from 21 and 22. Then goes to the Colts head pro. Or head coach, sorry. And I don't know if you heard in the broadcast, him and Rivers are like best friends. And still talk all yeah. Still talk all the time.
Announcer:I had no idea.
Scott:Yeah. Dude, Steichen. Dude, he had he's got a quarterback finally. He doesn't have uh Anthony Richardson or who was pla who was playing quarterback for him other than Anthony Richardson? Uh Gardner Minshew.
Graham:He won games with him. He did. He did. They almost made the playoffs with him.
Scott:Yes. Dude.
Graham:But all right, you said all that, and I get why you would say that. But you weren't saying that last year for him.
Scott:Dude, I've been saying it for the Colts?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:Or for the Chargers.
Graham:No, the Colts. Sagan.
Scott:No, they didn't have a quarterback.
Graham:No, I've been there.
Scott:I've been saying it since he left the Chargers. Yeah. I'm just, it's hard to it's hard to blast the Chargers coaching staff when you've been thrown the card of injuries like we have.
Graham:Oh, yes.
Scott:People have been blasting Greg Roman since his days with the Niners, and then with his days with the Ravens. You know, it's hard to blast anybody. Do I want the team to go out and make a trade for somebody to help the team? Yeah, I'd like to see him make a trade with the Ravens to get Mitchell or the Browns to get Ford. But Rob, who we talk about on the show a lot, is like offensive line, offensive line. Dude, it's an offensive line. Nobody's trading you a starting offensive lineman. It ain't happening. Facts. And the Chargers have a shit ton of cap space next year. A lot of draft picks. Like TP and I always say, we always said the year, the football year of 26-27 is the Chargers year. I got excited last year in the playoffs. Got excited this year going 3-0. They're not going to trade away the future, dude. When you have this much cap space and draft picks to try to make a run. You know, the defense at the beginning of the year, yeah, they were great. Everybody was healthy. Right? It is what it is. The crazy thing about football this year is there's no team that's dominating. Colts look good. I agree. I agree. I agree. I 100% agree. But is there a team? The team that unfortunately I think everybody's got to worry about now. Chiefs.
Graham:I know. It sucks. It's amazing how what can change in a couple weeks. It sucks, dude. It really is. I mean I just, you know, with the trade deadline coming up, I don't know why I feel this way, but with especially with the state of certain teams, I just have this feeling. I I think price, I think I think Brees Hall could come to LA. I really do.
Scott:From what I was reading earlier before the show, the Jets are trying to be hard and asking for a shit ton. Ridiculous. Stupid.
Graham:They have no leverage.
Scott:None. None. He ain't signing. He's gone.
Graham:Since his last year, I think.
Scott:Fifth year, fifth year or whatever option. And the same with the Dolphins, dude. I mean, like, they got quality pieces. Bradley Chubb. Yeah, they got quality pieces. Kamara already said he ain't leaving. The Saints. I don't think. I don't think. I mean, like I told you, I love Brees Hall. I love Ford from the Browns. I love Mitchell from the Ravens. Is a running back gonna make a difference for my squad? I don't think so.
Graham:Yeah, yeah. I would I don't think so. The only reason I would say yes is because, as you say, it is the offensive line. If he can do well, that means the offensive line's doing well. Right? And you have to set up the run to set up play action, to set up the pass.
Scott:Yeah, the Chargers are the number one team in the NFL run and play action. Guess what? If you can't run the ball, guess who's not buying on play action?
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:All 11 players on the other side of the ball. But if you can't block the run or the pass.
Graham:That's what also pissed me off about my Steelers game the previous Thursday. Not only did they give up all the because Pittsburgh was like, all right, we'll let one of you go off. Chase went off. Higgins went off. Dude, Chase Brown went over a hundred on this. So we gave up to two stud wide receivers and we let the running back go for a hundred, which I don't know if that was his first, but probably only second game breaking a hundred.
Scott:It was close to that. Yeah, I just I I don't know. So we got Chargers Vikings tomorrow. Chargers are, I think, three-point favorites. Three and a half at this point. I think that's stupid. But whatever. Uh I think Chargers are gonna win. I think it's gonna be a two-point win. Honestly, two-point win. Then we got your squad Sunday night. Oh, the squad. Packers in town. What do you think? What do you think is gonna happen? Packers are hold on. Aren't the Packers favored? Yeah, they are. On the road. Three-point favorites on the road and in the Steel City. Oh, dude, can we get a Steelers moneyline plus 142 right now? Like it. I love it. I want some more of it. I tried so hard, but I choked on some cheese, just like Jordan Love. I don't even know how to keep going, but whatever, dude. Fuck. Hey, Packers. Packers. Remember after week two, dude, we were trying to crown the Packers Super Bowl winners? Yeah. Yeah. Hey. I'm going Steelers by six.
Graham:Did you see what Micah did? I mean, you were watching your game because it was playing at the same time. Did you see what Micah Parsons did on defense against Arizona? Who? Who? You heard me. Parsons. Yeah. I'm sorry. Who was playing quarterback for the Cardinals? It's hey, I'll make a case right now. Jacoby Pursett played better than Kyler Miller.
Scott:Than Tiny Tim. Absolutely. Worst contract. Call of Duty Kyler? Miserable. I I'm nervous.
Graham:I the the thing is.
Scott:Can I just ask you a question? Go ahead. Who was that dickhead that tackled Aaron Rodgers after the touchdown? Dude, can somebody go can somebody go take him out? They laughed about it after the fact, but still. Oh, did they laugh about it when he fucking tears Aaron Rodgers back into three pieces?
Graham:100%. And that's what he said. He's like, bro, I'm 41 years old. Like, I love the excitement, but we can't take any chances. Like, I mean, not that I'm saying he's a stick figure is gonna fall apart, but I mean, like, I get it.
Scott:Dude, dude, dude, you're that close to Mason Rudolph.
Graham:Am I wrong? I mean, I yeah, I I get it. That close. I mean, our season rides on him. I mean, it's it's not even close. Like, so obviously we have to keep him healthy. For me in this game on Sunday night. I don't know how much stock to put in the whole revenge aspect of it. You know, playing the Packers, you get we have Favre. Like, I get that. Like, there's gonna I know he's gonna want to. Do you have who? I didn't pick yet.
Scott:You said Favre. Did I say Favre? Yeah, you definitely did. I wasn't gonna call you out, but you said Favre. He's been retired for a long time. And only Favre has sent dick pics, not Aaron Rodgers.
Graham:Hey, to be fair, we haven't had one of these in a while, so you know what? Let's do it. Sorry about that. Little slap in the face. Uh, yeah, so Favre, no, just kidding, that was a joke. Uh Rogers. Yeah, there's a little extra going into it. I might lean more on a prop bet taking him over the touchdowns. I dude, I don't know. I I'm just really hoping that after what happened this past Thursday and the embarrassment from what happened with the defense, they figure it out. I mean, it's gonna be a primetime game. I don't think I mean I don't think either side is a blowout. I think it's gonna come down, I think it's gonna be a three-point game. Definitely under seven, might come down to a field goal for sure.
Scott:I think it's gonna be a low-scoring game. It could be. If you guys can stop the run, which I think is gonna happen, it's gonna be a low-scoring game. I mean, the total's forty five forty-five and a half.
Graham:Yeah. I mean, their offense is Jacobs. If we can bottle him up enough, I mean he's still gonna get his, but not I mean, dude, if we could hold him under 100, is that even possible? It's possible. Jacobs is a touchdown machine. Can we win with Jacobs going for 120 and a touchdown? Can we win? Yes. Yes. I really think the X factor is we have to clamp down on Kraft. Don't disagree. I can't believe I'm actually saying that, but I mean, I'm not expecting much from was it Watson? Is he coming back? Christian Watson. Yeah. But yeah, I'm not really expecting much. I I don't know.
Scott:Dude, their receivers are they're all like they're all good.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:But they're all like they're all good.
Graham:We could also see Golden have one play go for, you know, could break a tackle, go for 500. I I don't know. I'm nervous. Like, I I I don't and the thing is we need the game. Just because, you know, for the schedule. Like, that's the toughest part. I mean, seeing what the rest of our schedule is, yeah, I'm glad that we had those first couple wins. We were four on one, five, you know, now we're four on two, but like what we have for the rest of the schedule. Even if we do win the division, we'd be winning 11 games is gonna be tough for us. We still haven't played the Ravens yet. Playing you guys, I'm giving you more credit because you guys are a good football team. We got the Colts the week after that. Like, it's plus, dude, we still have to go to Detroit and to Chicago. Like, those aren't gonna be easy games. I'm not looking forward to that Detroit game. I'm really not. I'm taking I'll tell you right now, folks, I'm taking Detroit.
Scott:Let me just tell you, let me just say something. Did you see how fast and explosive Gibbs looked on Monday night? Oh, bro. Dude, and I'm not even talking about the one he took to the house. Right.
Graham:Even at what I think they say he was going 22 miles an hour, folks. Dude, that's with pads and equipment on. Dude's going 22 miles an hour with pads on.
Scott:Gibbs burst is wild.
Graham:Wild. Yeah, which is why they didn't see as much of Montgomery, because it's just like Montgomery's a good player in between tackles, but like that burst.
Scott:That burst is insane, dude. It's insane. My assistant, we're watching the game Monday when we got back to the condo, and he's not a big sports guy, and he's like, Oh my god, that dude is insane. And I'm like, very like I mean, his second touchdown, I was just like, holy shit.
Graham:What do you talk to that guy about? Does he at least watch golf?
Scott:Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, dude. Hey, he's from Vegas. Oh wow. He's a UNLV uh PGM graduate. Went to the PGM school at UNLV. He's a Knights fan. Let's go. But uh, yeah. But dude, I I just I don't know. Uh Graham, it's been a long show tonight. Uh you know, World Series kicks off Friday night, and Chargers play tomorrow night. Kellen's got a game tomorrow night. JB. Kellen. Uh yeah. It's gonna be a close game. It should be pretty good. They could get the dub. Uh we get and it's at home, thank God. So the game starts at 6, and you know, charters are at 8.15. My stepmom's out of town, and my dad's coming over for the first half of the charter game. So we should be home right around the time kickoff starts. So, you know, I don't know, dude. I I just I don't know if we get the dub, if we don't.
Graham:I mean, I'm nervous about it too.
Scott:I am. It's just uh as good as Herbert can be, you know, I don't care. Like I was telling Kellen and like I was telling Kristen, I don't care if you're a combination of Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, and Dan Marino. If you don't have an offensive line, you're F.
Graham:That's why I don't know if how my opinion is changing for this week based off what happened last week, because my opinion last week was yes, Colts are good, but I still had the faith. I'm not gonna lie, I deep down I thought the Colts would would would probably win, but I wasn't like decisive about it. You know, the game I thought could have been closer than what it was for sure, but yeah, there were points in that game where it's just like the Colts they just took it right down the field. Dude, the Colts have the least amount of punts in the league. Right. What was that, six punts?
Scott:Yeah, before I mean the the crazy thing to me is we were getting man-handled at halftime. Okay, I forget what the score was. I'm looking it up right now.
Graham:It's like weeks 28-10 or 20.
Scott:It was it was 23-3. Yeah. Okay. We come out our first drive in the second half, we score a touchdown. Amazing drive. What happens? Boom, boom, boom. Call the score. I'm like, I mean, we got it. Dude, it was and Warren, the tight end from Penn State, everybody wants to throw the offensive rookie of the year at who? Abuka. Warren says what? Hold my beer. Dude, they're they're they're handing the goddamn ball off to a fing tight end.
Graham:If there was any team that, especially for the first round, that was the player that was perfect for their system, that was what they needed, perfect plug-in. It was them. And also with that, that also shows how much Penn State misses him and how much that guy did for him. I mean, we knew it. I mean, he was their whole offense almost, but still, like that dude, stuff stuff. Dude, not only that, dude.
Scott:Alex Pierce, 98 yards receiving. Warren, 69, Pittman, 58. Oh, hey, Jonathan Taylor, 38 receiving. Oh, remember that guy? Amir Abdullah? He even had eight yards. Taylor had 94 yards rushing and three tutties.
Graham:The worst part is Taylor looked like he can get whatever he wanted when he ran.
Scott:He's looked like that all year. Yeah. He's with that offensive line. Yeah. Dude, that offensive line. But anyhow, uh, we've been on this way too long. It's just because you and I haven't talked in a couple days. I've been MIA. Um let's go. Let's root for the for our boys. Chargers get a dub. Packers get a dub. I mean, sorry. Steelers get a dub. Is that I mean sorry. Sorry, sorry. That has to be a slap yourself. Oh, if you want me to slap it, I'll smack it up, flip it, rub it down. Oh no. Here you go. You ready? I'll do three.
Graham:Do you owe a shot for something?
Scott:What?
Graham:Do you owe a shot for something? I already did that shit for No, no, no, not a playoffs. I thought there was something else.
Scott:I already did it for cousins. I mean, if we can get a dub, we got the little mini bye, then we go to the Titans.
Graham:Yeah. That's why this game is huge for us. Yeah, you guys need it, especially with how you know Denver and that record, and I dude, that division is dude.
Scott:It's so it's crazy. Crazy. But whatever. I'm just gonna say, yo, Bo Nicks, he's looked kind of shitty.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:I mean, he had a play last week to score that touchdown, but he has not done what you know. The sophomore slump, it's real. Yeah, it definitely is. But I don't know. I'm just gonna go out on a limb. I just said Chargers score a defensive touchdown. I'm also gonna say Cowboys get the upset in Denver. Dude, if the Cowboys had a pass rusher, oh I'm sorry who? Micah?
Graham:Oh, oh, remember that guy? I mean it's all it's all speculation, and I don't know how they would do it anyway because they're strapped for cash. But have you been seeing online how they're saying they're going after Crosby?
Scott:That shit ain't happening. Yeah, they can't afford him.
Graham:There's no way.
Scott:That would be amazing if they did, though. Oh my god. And I hate the cowboys. Yeah. But what they're doing offensively, especially when they got a CD back.
Graham:Yeah.
Scott:But thanks, Fanny. Yeah, boy. Your boys got Dak and Pickens. Uh Graham, get us out of here. Let's, you know, I hope for the best. Absolutely. I'm just saying it right now. Like fucking cheese head douchebag Packers are not being the Steelers Sunday night. That's my guarantee of the week. Heinzfield, aka, whatever the f they call that stupid place right now. Accure. Is not no, it's Heinzfield. Is not allowing Jordan Love to beat them at home. The end. I hope so. The end. You heard it here first on roller derby. And hey Jeff, if you want to ask offer me some stupid trade for Jared Judy, you better come harder in the paint than that bullshit, dude. Nobody wants no Jared Judy and a Cleveland Browns wide receiver. Anyhow, Graham, get us out of here. I love everybody.
Graham:Scott, it's always a pleasure doing the podcast with you. And that was the best homie always says, Bye-bye.
Scott:Good night, friends. Go bolts tomorrow night. Kick Minnesota back to the Mall of America and their Twilight Eaton fan base. Purple Peter, people eaters, my dick.
