The Top Stories From NFL’s Week 13 Games That YOU Need To Know | Pat McAfee Show

The Top Stories From NFL’s Week 13 Games That YOU Need To Know | Pat McAfee Show

There’s so much to overreact to in these Mondays of this particular season. We’ve been trying to put together like a scripted plays, you know what I mean? We’ve been trying to like do this thing how everybody else does it. There’s so many things to talk about. Let’s go ahead and zero in on five of them. You remember we started doing this? We’ve continued to do this. Yeah. I think, you know, what are we week going into week 14 about to wrap up week 13? I think we can I think we can get better. Postseason form damn near. But also on the flip side of that, I’m pretty proud that we’re still doing it. True. This felt like something early that we were going to get sick of and we just have continued to power through. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the first 15 driven by Ram. Here we go. So, whenever you hit the gas pedal on a Ram truck, you’re going to hear and that’s what we’re about to do through the top five headlines coming out of week 13’s NFL Sunday, Saturday football, Friday, Thursday. You get it? Put the clock down, please. Let’s get started. Number five headline, the jig is up. The booze are out. They finally had it. The renegade What was that all about, boys? Oh. Mhm. Yeah, it happened. Run it, Foxy. They’re booing Renegade in Pittsburgh. Oh, no. This guy’s choking almost dying. Sad. Oh, mama. I’m in fear. Oh, the Steelers there are booing their ass at home. I mean, that’s happening in Pittsburgh. That’s a time tradition. Renegade plays. The entire city goes crazy. Babies at McGee Women’s Hospital where I was born over there in Oakland are standing up in their little things doing the day. Oh, mama. That is what Pittsburgh’s about. that moment. Highlights of the defense just demolishing people. It has been symbolic of what the Pittsburgh Steelers are. Steelers fans for the third time this season playing good teams are now losing by double scores, double digits, and they had the lead at the halftime of all of them. Okay, so these Yzers are going to these games. Some of these things ending real late. Last night, obviously freezing cold. You saw how cold every Yinszer was in the crowd. They have the lead at halftime in all of them. Seahawks 14-7. Remember that day? That was a long time ago. That was whenever we were talking about. Maybe the Seahawks. Yep. Maybe the Seahawks, by the way. And then the Green Bay Packers, they were down seven to 16. 16-7. The Steelers are up. Green Bay Packers go on win by two scores. And then uh Pittsburgh Steelers 73 at half. 73. Three points. This is a good guy. He’s good. This Pittsburgh Josh Allen. This guy’s ass. First play of the second half. Bos says, “Hey, Aaron, don’t break your nose.” Bang. Strip sack have the whole thing. Game changes completely. Pittsburgh Steelers fans are sitting there wondering what the hell were we thinking when we bought into this team winning a Super Bowl this year. That is what Yenszers are thinking. That is what Pittsburgh Steelers faithful are feeling. And when Renegades getting its ass booed, that’s obviously problematic. And then you go to the end of the game. Pittsburgh Steelers fans are very good at doing things and that is unified chance calling for somebody’s ass to not be around anymore. They did it to Tom on the last. Oh no. [Applause] This is not good. We are from Pittsburgh. We’ve experienced this before. Our show has actually been a vehicle for Yzers to get their points across to the Pittsburgh Steelers ownership in the Rooney family. Canada, back Canada. They were chanting fire Canada in Utah on the capital in DC at Pittsburgh Penguins game. Once at JMU they were chanting it. 20,000 plus were chanting it. Whenever Yinszers find something that they’re all unified upon and they’ve given up, they’re going to let that be heard a lot. This chant started there. And I appreciated Mike Tomman’s response. Mike Tomlin said, “Hey, listen. I share their frustration. Tonight was tough to watch.” It’s like I I appreciate Tomman’s answer. Coach Tomlin’s answer. Coach Tomlin is obviously an incredible speaker and a good leader, which is why he’s been who he is. But boy, Pittsburgh seems to be completely fed up with them right now. And uh I heard some things said earlier on the show uh on get up uh I’m yeah first take Stephen A he was talking about how any other nine years no playoff win you’d be gone especially in a city like Pittsburgh which is such a football town I think that was a very valid point that he made. Now he did talk about con the con artists the GM and he said there was no moves made. Actually there was a bunch of moves made which is why this year felt a little bit different at the beginning. Tone, I don’t want to say you speak for all of Pittsburgh, but I do think you are a good representation of how Steelers fans could potentially feel about the team being that they are a you are a diehard of the squad. What are your thoughts and why do you think it’s a boiling point at this cuz it feels like this been lingering for what, four or five years and then now it’s like we’re done showing up for you guys to get your ass kicked and don’t even play Renegade. Is that what they’re thinking? Yeah, last night was the tip of the spear, the boiling point is if you will. Um, everyone there it’s been it’s been split about, you know, the the coaching staff changes, stuff like that, but everyone is now on the same page. I got a lot of texts last night and this morning, hey, you okay? Yeah. Yeah, I am. Like, cuz this is everyone’s on the same page now. Okay. We can’t have this anymore. Nine years without a playoff win is absurd. Three playoff wins in the last 13 years is absurd. Yeah. They got 21 straight seasons without a losing season. That’s really good, but it’s not good enough when you’re not winning playoff games. You can put on shirt. You could put it on shirt and you could say it and the national media can be like, “Yeah, if if this guy gets fired, he’s gonna have a job the next day.” Which might be right. And Mike Clemen is a great coach. He’s a Hall of Fame coach, but sometimes the voice just it it runs dry in in the locker room. I don’t know. Everyone no one’s on the same page. Aaron is talking about people not showing up for meetings and film and stuff like that. TJ’s talking about literally the same play that they’ve run over and over and over for the Bills and they couldn’t stop it once. Julian Edelman has come out and said that they know exactly what plays are going to be run against Steelers defense. Jamar Chase has done the exact same thing. It just got to a point I think it’s got to the point with the fan base and the city that it just this is just this is not the Pittsburgh Steelers. You you watch the product and it looks nothing like them. The fans are are done with it. Everyone is is done with it. We’ve all had enough. D, but how do you think the Pittsburgh Steelers locker room feels? Cam Hayward obviously said he got knee in his stomach and he didn’t like how disrespected he was. He also probably didn’t love that they did run the same duo play basically with James Cook and had the same outcome every single time. Crack seal. Five in a row. He’s out. Yeah, his five straight plays through the same thing and they were all very successful. Yes. This has been something that I think a lot of Steelers fans have kind of been talking about with the defensive side of the ball which Mike Tomlin came from. It’s like the defense is terrible and there’s no adjustments and whenever they talk about being predictable and you have the players on the field know that is that kind of like if I remember and you would have to correct me you would be the person to correct me here legion of boom they played like the same [ __ ] right but you had to beat them that that was kind of the case is that what the Steelers mindset is too and has it always been that way or why do you think the Steelers are where they are and how do you think the players feel with all the outside noise about maybe this being the final time of the Tomlin Yeah I feel like we’ve heard a ton of people whether it be players or coaches talk about in a positive like how, hey, these are the same blitzes, these are the same this, the same that, the Legion of Boom, they did their thing. When the Broncos went on their run, you know that, hey, you just had to beat man coverage. Everybody kind of has their own staples and they just get good at what they’re good at. Now, in this league, everything changes week to week. But if you look at these plays, these aren’t like dynamic Ben Johnson type run plays or a bunch of moving parts. This is just lining up and running the ball down your throat. And that is the complete opposite of what you think about when you think about the Pittsburgh Steelers. You think about toughness, you think about physicality, whether that’s on the offensive or defensive side of the ball. If you think about all the Pittsburgh greats, that’s the first thing that kind of comes to your mind. Whether it’s a a guy in the middle or Jerome Bettis or one of these big physical guys, like that’s what you think. Then Renegade, like I still got PTSD from that [ __ ] been on opponent. When that [ __ ] comes on, you know, okay, some bullshit’s about to come. A strip sack, a pig sick, something. So to see seven fans waving their tile when they go live with that, that was disheartening. It’s Monday. Tone didn’t even put his Steelers helmet back on the desk uh that we both uh go back and forth throwing. I feel bummed out about him. But yeah, it it’s tough. And I’m I I know Tone’s getting a lot more than I am, but I’m getting more more messages saying I don’t I don’t like people being out on Mike T. They threw a graphic up about the three franchises. I forget which three it was. I think Patriots was one of them. 20 plus years of not having a losing record. That is impressive. Good graphic. It was a great graphic, but um sitting here Monday, that team, that fan base, you almost you got to be embarrassed to be a highest paid defense on the field and those are guys TJ Watt, Cam Hayward, Jaylen Ramsey, Patrick, like these are notable like Hall of Fame type names. So, for them to be sitting in this Monday watching these same plays that we’re watching, I I it’s it’s tough. It’s going to be a tough meeting room for sure. It’s tough cuz the fan base grew up on like the rush defense and we talked about it last year when Derrick Henry ran for 475 yards in the playoffs game or whatever. We grew up they have the record there was 32 consecutive games where they didn’t they didn’t allow a 100 yard rusher. 32 consecutive. And now it’s almost every single game that there’s a 100 yard rusher and that’s just not who we are. It’s crazy right there. Forget 90 rush yard 17 and 30 stat just popped up while you’re talking about it. And uh here’s some more stats that aren’t good for the Steelers. Hembo cooked these things up. Plus 16 is the margin of first downs between the Bills to the Steelers. Plus 31 plays there. That defense was out there a lot. Boys retired. 74 plays for the Bills. 43 time of possession. Sweet. And then that rush yards one there. Plus 191. The worst rushing margin for Pittsburgh in a home game since 1955. The fact that it’s all happening in Pittsburgh. Yes. and Yanzers are spending their life watching it. That makes it exponentially worse because not only is it these Yanzers and Coach Tomlin knows that he’s lived there for so long, 20 years, whatever the case, 18 years, so he understands it just as much. Those are going home and they’re talking to the neighbors. Okay. Yeah. The neighbors are saying Sue went down there. You see what they did second half? They just let him just run right over. James Cooks, same exact thing. Tomlin doesn’t know [ __ ] and then they go to the next neighbor and then they go to the next person they run into then all of a sudden the entire neighborhood feels the exact same way and it’s like all you need is just a couple terrible experiences back to back to back and it’s happened all year with them. I think you can the iners are a group that will kill for you actually like we’ll actually do that for you and on the flip side we’re done with you need need you need you to go ahead and take a walk here. I think they’ve always been that way. Will always be that way. And I think right now is the loudest that I’ve heard it as somebody I feel like has kind of tapped into the city of Pittsburgh and how they feel on things. There’s always been a group that has been sick of the winning season [ __ ] Sick of it. Sick of it. Sick of it. Sick of it. We get a terrible draft pick. Great winning season. Let’s get pick number 17. Let’s get pick number 18. We can’t really get anybody. Oh, we’re not going to trade for anybody. Of course, we’re not. Oh, we’re not going to move up. So, we’re gonna get another mediocre player to add to our above average team and then we’re gonna steal some games and we’re gonna have a good time and we’re gonna renegade this thing. That’s cool. That that there was a group of people that were like that like 5 years ago, four years into the lack of winning. I think that that started to it feels now that it is at the the biggest and most unified that it has been in the city of Pittsburgh. The Rooney family has to You would think so. You would think so. And a lot of people are really really mad at ownership as well. Um, but you could trade coach Tommen, right? Wouldn’t that be a thing? There was a report that what a an older Sorry, I don’t know who reported. I apologize. I saw the headline. Uh there’s potential coach conversation, fresh new start things. Jes reported that there’s an elder coach in the league who might be looking for change. But anyways, Baltimore and Pittsburgh are tied currently for the lead in the AFC North. And I every friend fan that I’ve talked to is like, I wish we just would lose out if it means change rather than like, hey, we’re in the division fight. Who? Nobody cares about that anymore. That’s a shame. Yeah, it’s wild. Hey, they can go on a run though, boys. That’s right. Hey, just start going to meetings. Yeah, start going to meet. No, you need to go in and not out whenever I say hi. I thought he said he he was at the meeting. That’s what I thought I heard. I know they were on the wrong page as far as the check, but I thought he said everybody shows up to the meetings. Hm. Oh, you’re saying the way he delivered it was not condescendingly asking if everybody would start showing up to the meetings. You’re saying he was saying everybody show up to the meetings. They just don’t understand what the checks. Yeah. And we we’ve had conversations for years about, you know, how Aaron Rogers always changes. Payton, Drew Brees, Brady, like those are always moving parts, but uh maybe I misheard it. Run it. When there’s film sessions, everybody shows up. And when I checked to a route, how do you fix it? We do the right route, you know, like uh John and I just weren’t on the same page. I checked to his inbreaker and he ran outbreaker. Um you know, John is a true professional, so I’m sure he’s, you know, he’s sick sick about that. But um you know, I threw a ball I thought was gonna get hit by the wind and it was four yards over Roman. So, I got to make that throw. Um, but you know, we have our meetings every week. We have other opportunities outside of the facility and look forward to seeing all the boys there. All right. Okay. So, he was asked how he fixed the chemistry. He said, “Well, when there’s meetings, everybody shows up.” Interesting dynamic. That is He does look cool though with the broken arm. Yeah. He looks like a Pittsburgh still the quarterback. Him get I thought he was six and six. I thought he was done with that wrist. Three fractures the whole thing. He goes lands on his face. Everything’s bust. I assumed he hurt this one again. I assumed he somehow hurt this one again or whatever the case is. Then he comes back bandaged up thing. Still taking the thing off by the way between everyone. He is and I think nobody talks about it. He is old school tough guy quarterback. Oh yeah. That is how he views the position. Have to. He even likes taking hits. I think like that is a part of the entire thing. And he’s been very anti any of the rules. So him bouncing back as a 40 plus year old after having Bosa explode through his back and then dump him on his face and then the worst possible outcome happened. I mean that shows a little grit. It does. And uh Pittsburgh Steelers fans appreciate the grit. Need to get some wins. We’re done with it. All right, let’s go to number four headline from the NFL Sundays today. 10 10 two teams with 10 wins. That’s incredible. And they’re both in the AFC con man. the Denver Broncos who were almost everybody’s kind of Lombardi babies coming into this particular season with that defense everybody returning they might have the best defensive player on earth and Certain well he wasn’t even playing for a while they were winning he was back doing the whole strap up on everybody they’re fantastic and Bo Nick and Shawn Peyton seemingly get the job done whenever they have to a lot of close games lot of close the stats coming out about them being in close games one-sore games I think they have the most uh one-score dubs they have the most three points or fewer wins they have the most this point like they are the close game kings right now. Is that because their defense is so dominant and gets great stops at the right time? Is because Bo Nick, Shawn Peyton, and the boys on the offensive side are so resilient and kind of mentally tough. They’re able to get the job done. Who cares? They got 10 wins. The other team, Patriots tonight, taking on the Giants looking for number 11. Both in the AFC. What does that tell you, uh, Con Man? Uh, it really just tells you that the top is very, uh, topheavy if if you will. You know, the Broncos, yes, they’re close games, but they win. I mean, at the end of the day, that’s all that matters. Bo Nicks, he’s coming alive. I mean, he beats the Chiefs, goes on the buy, and then he throws for 320 on Monday Night Football. And yes, it’s the Commanders. You can say, well, they shouldn’t be barely beating the Commanders in overtime. Marcus Mariota is a hell of a quarterback. I mean, we saw that last night. He led them down when he needed to. They had a third and 15 maybe, and they somehow got the first down. Terry McLaren being back for them is massive. That’s a fourth and goal. Absolute dot if you watch the replay, too. almost gets to flighted. Perfect rub route. They almost have it here, but Nick Bonito uh nope, that’s a touchdown. The Nick Bonito uh two-point conversion. He stops. And this is exactly why the Broncos are going to be in it at the end. You know, we talk about the 10 wins and Bo Knicks and people want to throw shade on him and stuff. Their defense is good enough to win them a Super Bowl. I mean, Bonito and Cooper off the edge, Moss and Certain in the back end. And then Alex Singleton, probably one of the better linebacker plays from the weekend was Alex Singleton hauling ass back to break up a middle shot down the to Zack Herz down the middle. I believe it was a third and 10. But they’re fantastic. And their old line like that’s the biggest thing for me. Like their O line is so solid. They can run the ball and beat you. They can pass, block, and beat you. It’s one of those things that they’re a team that can beat you in any way on the offense and defensive side. He’s 10 and two, nine straight victories. Uh there was a stat Bo Knicks, Drake May, and Caleb Williams from that draft class for in the last nine weeks are a combined 26 and one, which is ridiculous. But I mean, then then tonight with Drake May, I mean, it’s one of those things where you kind of get to see the future in prime time. We had it last night and now we have it again. The Patriots looking to become the first team with 11 wins on the season there without their starting left tackle Will Campbell and starting left guard Jared Wilson. And so that will be the matchup to watch. You know, Brian Burns off the edge, Tibido out for the Giants, which is big, but Dexter Lawrence in the middle two. It’s going to be a hell of a game. It’s incredible to see that the young AFC teams are having this much success. Twoame lead in the one and two seeds, but it it’s just amazing to be one of those teams there. Yeah, you talk about the young quarterbacks, too. Bo Nick’s obviously been in the same system here for a couple years. Uh Caleb and Drake, new systems here, so they’re only going to go up and to the right. The young boys are certainly playing. Bears obviously in the NFC. Wow. Wow. They are for real. But the AFC, the two 10- win teams looking for 11 obviously have been dominant throughout. Let’s go to the number three headline coming out of week 13 Sunday slate. Oh, big catches. Bad days. Yeah, bad days. No like uh ah yeah, bad days. These guys take L’s but have highlight reel catches. So you can’t even really talk about it. You can’t even celebrate it. If you get a pick and you have a dance, if your team loses, we don’t care that you practiced the dance and people don’t care. Can’t even post it. H No, I’m saying you can’t even like post it. Exactly. Shouldn’t that Just read the room a little bit. But on that note, there were some guys that had highlight real catches, but their teams lost, so we can’t talk about it. Chiefs, are they okay? I don’t know. Hollywood’s got the touchdown in Jerry World. Congrats to the Dallas Cowboys, by the way. They got to be absolutely pumped. And the Chiefs, who are they? What are they? We don’t know. After they beat the Colts thought, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The phone. They might be all the way back. Then they lose the Cowboys. It’s like, are the Cowboys the best football team in the NFL? The Chiefs still have it. We shall see. Indianapolis Colts on a twoame slide. Don’t love it. Uh maybe talk to CJ Stout here later today. Uh Alec Pierce, absolute weapon and a dog. Has become much better for the Indianapolis Colts this year on being a deep threat. A lot of moxy. I assume somebody’s going to pay for him in a huge, huge way. And then let’s talk about Burks. Burks, baby. Number 13 in the corner, Marcus Mary Goa. Give him a shot one-handed. How you doing? Now, people said he was a busy bunch and now he’s uh got Mary God throwing them absolute mosses over Marses. Unbelievable catch. I mean, Riley Moss, that’s is that’s as good as coverage you can have on that type of play. You just got to look at your coach, look at the sideline, say, “Hey, they get paid, too.” Phenomenal catch on prime time. You know, reminisces of uh OBJ on Sunday night. I saw the 13 for 13 tweet from OBJ. And uh congrats to the Broncos. Get a big time win. Once again, these are all losing teams in all these highlights. Speaking of Chargers do their thing, the Raiders. Brock Bowers. Too big, too athletic, too absurd. It’s an ode the mentalist type mind-blower here. That thing should hit the ground. Great coverage yet again by the Chargers. Brock Bowers doing special stuff since the day he stepped onto a football field, I’d assume, Darius. Yeah, that’s unbelievable. Once again, there’s nothing more you can do as a defender. Uh, good throw by G. Actually, I can’t even say good throw because the back shoulder you putting it in a place where only your guy can get it. Just a phenomenal effort by Brock Bars. And then front of the program, Token Hill. Hey, Carolina Panthers. Good football team. Carolina Panthers are good football teams. You know who’s a good football player? Puka. Give me that. That’s very reminiscent of the Odell Beckham Jr. Reeds one-handed snag as well. Having to battle off a hand in there and then bring it in and cradle to the body with the control to be able to keep it off the turf. That’s an incredible catch by Puka Nakua who might be the next one. Honestly, he might be the next one and whenever it comes down to it two, three years from now. Unguardable. Matt Sturf, obviously he had a couple uh turnovers this game, but this is one of those situations where, hey, my guys out there, I’m going to throw it up, give him a chance to make a play. He went up there and made a play. And this was a point in the game where you thought, okay, Rams figured it out. They may come back and win it. But, uh, like you said, the Panthers are a very good football team. Are we sure Puka is the same player, though? Cuz he ran out of bounds yesterday. People were sending me a couple tweets about that. People were saying he was broke, he broke a tackle, little offbalance, full speed. Couple guys here, steps out of bounds, then he comes back in though. I think he maybe just lost track, lost his balance. But there was people saying Puka Mur ran out of bounds. If he did run out of balance, Puka, I’d like to let you know, yes, let’s do more of that. Some more of that. We don’t need to pick up an extra 3 ft when we already got 17 or 20, brother. Okay. And uh if it’s going to save it, let’s do that. Now, let’s go to the number two headline coming out of the weekend. The dogs were barking. Ron Breaker gets a big win last night with the vision as well. Saturday night obviously in Survivor Series the dogs were barking there in San Diego at Petco Park. But also first 11 games of this week the underdogs were 9 and2 okay against the spread. Obviously that would change as the favorites will go on to start winning down the stretch but throughout Thanksgiving and obviously the Black Friday game it was underdog city. Why do you think that’s the case debut? Do you think whenever we’re celebrating a holiday and the entire world is watching and there’s a turducken on the line and apollon uh honoring Mr. Madden and everybody’s going to be talking about it, do you think it kind of you can wipe out the record books, you can wipe out the matchups, it’s going to be a battle or why do you think underdogs had such a big time on the holidays? I don’t know if it was one thing in particular. I feel like we always have that week or those couple weeks where the dogs just get to barking. This was definitely one of those weeks. Now, the short, you know, the Thanksgiving and the and the Black Friday games, we always know. You can kind of throw Yeah. throw everything out the window. You never know what’s going to happen in those type of games. Uh, but it’s any given Sunday in this league. I think this year is showing the the NFL when it comes to parody like we’re right up there with any other league. Absolutely. Here’s the quote from or the stat from Hembo actually. Uh, overall, seven underdogs won outright in week 13 thus far. Second most in any week this season. Uh, all four underdogs on Thanksgiving and Black Friday won outright. Carolina one is a nine and a half point underdog. second largest. They were 13 and a half a couple weeks ago. They’re a good football team, man. They could surprise some folks. Panthers are the uh only team to win games when they are more than a 10-point favorite. I think at one point they were or 10-point underdog. I think at one point they were 10-point dogs. Every other team is 0 and4. Panthers are 2 and0. Yeah, the Panthers surprise folks. I guess it would be the Gamblers that they’re surprising because the sports books wouldn’t be scoring it if they didn’t think the Gamblers would be doing what they’re doing. I don’t think a lot of people paying attention to the Panthers. They’re kind of turning that thing around and they’re for real. And if you give Bryce Young some time and ability to operate, he’s able to do his thing. And on defensive side, there’s seemingly hungry hungry hippos out there. Turning Stafford over is a big deal, especially with the season he’s having right now. Yeah, Derek Brown up front. He he doesn’t get talked about a bunch, but he’s one of the best interior defensive linemen in the league. Uh on the back end, Mike Jackson, he showed out. He baldled out with the pick six. It’s been however long now that Matt Stafford hasn’t thrown a pick six. That’s kind of used to be Matt Stafford’s thing. If if it was bad staff, it would be some fumbles, which he had late in the game, some pick sixes. Mike Jackson sitting on that route. I think Shawn McVey kind of took off from the ship and said, “Hey, you know, I wish I had gave him a better play.” But the most impressive uh win from the dogs, I would say, for me, was that Bears win. Like we talked about the Bills running the ball down the throat against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Like they ran down the Philadelphia Eagles throw two backs over 125 yards just to that right down the middle. when you watching the plays, you see the replays, you see all the movement and it’s even though they’re simple, you know, run run game and run plays, all of the movement, all that eye candy for defensive backs and linebackers, it’s tough to be in the right spot, be in the right place. So, Caleb Williams, I don’t think is even close to where he needs to be yet in the passing game uh aspect of it, but when they can run the ball like this and play defense, this Bears team, they’re sitting them in the NFC for a reason right now. 281 rush yards for the Chicago Bears and jacked Ben Johnson. That’s the most vers under a Nick Serriani le team. Obviously, they had 200 yard rushers, Manungi and Swift, and 17 first downs, which is the most by any team this season. So, Chicago Bears kind of did their thing to the Philadelphia Eagles. And you got a lot of Eagles fans going, we we the tush push, we failed. I mean, we couldn’t even do a tush. This isn’t what we are. This isn’t what we are. This isn’t who we’re going to be, and we got to figure some things out over there. I don’t know how they do it. AJ Bro had a good game. He did that ball a lot. Two touchdown playing against the Eagles. Let’s have AJ Brown eat and just stop the run. Uh the Caleb Williams roll left touchdown to Cole KT was so nasty. Like he’s a guy. He is very very like we talked about the Caleb [ __ ] like this is filthy in a bucket. Yeah. Are you kidding? Fade away running backwards cross body. And that’s Cole KT like Colson Lovelin hasn’t even really gotten going yet for the offense. He had a two touchdown game already, but still like if if he continues to go, the Bears are tremendously scared. And Ben Johnson jacked jacked Jack. Absolutely jacked. I I love seeing that. Free wieners for the city, I do believe, because he went tarpless in the locker room. Somebody Wiener Circle, I believe. I I don’t remember the name of the place. They’re giving up free dogs for the city if Ben Johnson was to go shirtless. And he said, “Give me one more week. Give me two more weeks.” I think you’ve been hitting it a little bit harder. Absolutely, Jack. And I’ll tell you what, every time you look in a locker room or you see anything miked up, what I try to see is uh these people like each other. You know, obviously you’re going to get good quotes, but my eyes always tend to go to like how do these people feel about each other? You can kind of pick up little tails cuz they’re always going to edit the micds only give you what you they want you to hear. You’re not really going to get much [ __ ] but what you can see is how they interact. You know, there’s brief moments of interaction. It’s like, okay, they seem like they like each other. Oh, I don’t think they like that guy. You You can get that out of my cup. Ben Johnson. Boys love him. Good, better, best. Never let her rest till good is better and better is best and then bear on me. They have a whole thing. Everybody’s in. And if he has that culture set up, his culture is a winning culture, right? Don’t we all agree in football? Oh yeah. The culture that Ben Johnson has established, we’re going to be powerful. We’re going to pound them. We’re going to play great defense. And also, we’re going to be smarter on offense and design people to be wide ass open. Oh yeah. And we got Caleb Williams who’s a super talent. It’s like if the culture has been instilled, there’s like no stopping this train, right? Ain’t that kind of like the biggest thing? Can he get his culture in? Can he get his culture in? Oh, he lost the locker room. That’s what happens when somebody can’t get their culture in. Ben Johnson is a hard ass, allegedly accountability driven, and he’s got his culture in play already. And it’s very obvious whenever you see all the miked ups and the cameras behind the scenes. Yeah. That and you got to get results, too, especially in in the in the Big Boy League, National Football League. You have to get results. And that’s how you get the real buy in from the vets and the young guys because we we’ve seen coaches go to certain places and try to be a hard ass and it not work. And I think mainly because it doesn’t have the results. So getting these results and it shows you, man, whatever it takes, go and get your coach. Like it matter. Coaching matters. Go and get your coach. Obviously, you have to have a quarterback as well, but go and get your coach. Collegiate level, professional level. Go and get your guy. Whatever it takes. Whatever [ __ ] comes with it, it’ll be all right. cuz those vibes in that locker room like that that is just completely different of anything we’ve seen from the Bears since you know they went to the Super Bowl in Miami in ‘ 06 with Grossman running the show. But uh yeah, go and get your head coach, get your quarterback and it shows a lot that Ben Johnson obviously chose to go to Chicago paired with Caleb Williams and now like these these guys man those are the vibes you that’s what you miss. That’s the type of [ __ ] you miss as a former player being in the locker room. That feeling after a game when all you know everybody was picking the Eagles. We thought, okay, Eagles going to figure it out. They gave up nine points, seven points, and then to go in there and run the ball down their throat like that against a physical ball club like that is is nothing better after special, man. And and to Debbuff’s point, like go and get your coach and I mean, Tony, the the only team the Steelers currently look to as far as moving on from a legendary coach would be the the Patriots. And you can go back to the Andy Reid Eagles, sure, if you want to, but in recent memory, the Patriots. The Patriots made the decision to move on from Bill and then double down on their decision by firing Gerard Mayo after the first year. Like sometimes you get the wrong guy, but when your right guy comes available to Debbut’s point like Vrabel, like you just have to make that decision. It takes a lot of balls from from the owners and a lot lot of gut sack to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Because you’re making a big you’re changing the trajectory of everything. And if that culture, you know, stinks right away and then you go to another culture. Oh, is the grass greener? Huh? Yeah. Exact. Yeah. Well, and you know, like Ben Johnson deserves the all of the credit obviously, but him bringing in Dennis Allen to be with DC, having a guy who has been a head coach before because every week going into these games, all we hear about is how banged up the Bears defense is and they go out and they do the same thing every week. They they turn the other team over multiple times and there’s no excuses. So, him having the wherewithal to be like, “Yes, I will have the offense, you know, humming on all cylinders and ready to go, but I also need to get a guy who knows what the hell he’s doing on defense and getting a guy who’s been a head coach before, like that was a massive move as well.” I agree. Congrats to everybody uh that was an underdog and had a great holiday. We uh very much love that. It showcases that our league, anything can happen on any given field. And Sean McVey was asked about those Panthers. Did you guys not respect them? And he he basically said Carolina Panthers, good football team. That’s basically what he said. It’s the NFL. Everybody’s good. You know, there’s a couple bounces this way. I wish I would have given a better play. What he wanted to say was, “Hey, let’s go.” Carolina Panthers are to a football team. Yeah. Bryce Young, youngest quarterback to 11 game-winning drives was the stat yesterday for him as well. All righty. Yeah. All right. Congrats to them. That seemed like a loss cause from top. Yep. Oh my god. All the way to the bottom of the stadium. Even their fake AI thing, the Panther that they had. Oh yeah, it was the worst one of all time. I liked it. I liked it. It was cool, but you really couldn’t tell. Um, it was a gift. It was a gift. They just put on jumbotron. What are you talking about? Similar. They say, “Look to your right. It’s in the stage.” No, it’s not. That was the thing. It was only, you know, thousand people in the States. It was sick. Okay, you don’t Let’s not act like you didn’t pull that up. Go make me one of those. That’s a different time. We can’t We can’t. That’s relative. Uh but to to Lions reversing the curse with uh Daniels and Manning with doing the whiskey thing kind of you could make the argument with Ter opening the stadium for the uh hurricane relief with uh Luke Combmes, Eric Church, Caleb um I forget who else was all down. Chase Rice. Chase Rice sold out the stadium and he can have it and also here’s donation on top of it and also this on top of it. It’s like wait a minute, did the Grinch’s heart grow three flipped the whole thing? Remember when he was going into restaurants like hey take that sign down right now. I ain’t firing anybody. Smack the guy’s hat off his head. And then he had his ice. Yeah, the ice on the fan. I ain’t doing this. Get the hell out of my face. Menace. And he was a menace. He was an absolute menace. And then he opened up the stadium and then he said, “You know what? Gez, I got to step back a little bit.” And he’s Hey, everything he’s ever done, he’s had success. So it seems like that’s happening right now. Number one story line. Hey, listen. Dave Ces, it just means more. Mhm. Now, everybody understands that going into the year that the AFC South is a juggernaut. The AFC South has Mount Rushmore of teams basically. How many teams are in there? Four. Where would they go? Rushmore. All of them. Titans a little problematic. Okay, they got to figure it out. Maybe worst team ever. Could potentially be. They are exactly what we were just saying about the Carolina Panthers. And there’s been some other teams that have been in this position since our Texans at one point were in this position whenever we were kind of doing this live show. Too far. Yep. They’re seemingly heading that way potentially. But they got Tom Brady there, so we assume they he will figure it out and everything like that. But the Tennessee Titans got a lot to figure out. Cam Ward, I think, has all the talent in the world. If you put nothing around him, will he ever be able to accomplish anything? We have no idea. But the people of Nashville are great football people. So like hopefully that’ll come together because Nashville and football being great would be fantastic and has been fantastic. But they fire Vable. Very now maybe coach of the year with New England. Lady doesn’t even show up at the firing of the thing. I mean, there’s just a lot with them being bad. Jaguars though, don’t look now. Liam Cohen’s got him rolling. De Mo Ryan, Houston Texans. Well, they just get a huge win in division. Good football. They a huge win in division in a difficult place to play. Now, the AFC South though, everybody has to still play everybody. Okay. Colts still have to play Jacksonville Jaguars twice. We have to play Houston Texans one more time. Every divisional game for the Indianapolis Colts has come in the final quarter basically of the NFL season. Remember when we were the hottest team in the NFL? I do. Yeah. There was no division games then. All the division games are right now. And guess what? Our quarterback has a fractured fibula, which I didn’t even know what the [ __ ] it was. And I looked it up. That thing’s right here. That’s a very That’s a very vital one. Yeah. That came out of nowhere. Saw him on injury report. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What’s going on here? What’s going on here? Nothing. No. All good. Okay, it’ll be good. He’s still playing. See him on injury report again. It’s all good. What’s going on here? Nothing. Nothing’s going on. Then I see a video from Romeo Wood. He’s doing Yeah, Big Ben. He can’t even move. Put him in a boot. What’s he doing? He’s all right. He broke his leg. He’ll be fine. Well, at least you have AR as backup, right? Oh, no. AR himself warming up. Yeah. Well, at least non-division games are the Seahawks and the Ners. Yeah. Couple cupcakes. Yeah. Yeah. It’s easy road here for the Indianapolis Colts. I don’t know if this was Roger Goodell or who it was. See that? We’ve been through enough. But on that note, a tough guy. Yeah. And listen, CJ, I mean, this guy, I don’t know what his problem is. He’s throwing a ball basically like this, 30 yards down the field, right on the money to somebody every single time. I It makes no sense how good he is seemingly every time he steps foot into our building. He is everything that you would want your quarterback to be when he’s in our building. Now, our defense made some plays. Even got interception, did a dance. It was sweet. We did a lot of good things. Alec Pierce made some plays. But inevitably in the end, the Houston Texans beat the Indianapolis Colts. And it wasn’t just the Houston Texans, might I add. It was also the refs. Okay? It was also the officials. [ __ ] Listen, they put ass in these officials are ass. Okay? That that is what these particular refs did. This is a delay game, okay? It’s third and 15. Obviously, field goal range. So 1613. We assume Cayam Fairburn will make the kick maybe. Okay. So obviously a delay a game. So they should have had to play. Then we get a phantom defense and pass interference call. Okay. So play shouldn’t happen. Okay. And now what? Oh yeah. Pass interference on who? On that. And then the ref is literally standing right behind it. He had good eyes on his thing. I saw him. This is right down our thing. He calls defense pass interference. Obviously they get a first down. Okay. Sweet. This should have been a field goal instead. End around. Collins. Touchdown Texans. All of a sudden it’s 20-13, right? Well, that would be if they hit the extra point. Well, let’s go to the extra point. Yeah, he misses it. Okay, so he doesn’t even go in. And this guy, Yep, that’s good, right? That’s what we’re doing. So, this is all within a span of like four or five plays. So, whenever you talk about an entire building just getting the you suck chance out of them as uh aggressively as possible, you’re talking about in this exact moment. It was absurd. And it was back to back to back to back and it’s like the Houston Texans defense is phenomenal. Okay. Yeah, there there are some Texans fans in there. Their fans are also great. CJ Stra Bolton. What the? Oh no. Is this real? They had to change the name. Brandon Alvarez. I do not. Oh no. Wait. When they do that, I told X they can’t do this. I I told Hey, excuse me. This is not allowed. AI is getting out of control. Oh, that’s not real. I don’t think. No, that’s not real. Okay. Were the cranes already going up when you guys were leaving yesterday to do this or That is not real. That is AI. It is not actually Wait, really? Brandon Alvarez said he took the picture, right? Then he say, “No.” Damn. Pat responded to a pick. I made it. Oh, yeah. It’s fake. It’s not fake. Okay. Wait, but did he make it in like with his with his camera? He was the foreman. Yeah. No, he was on on the thing and he was doing it because every time he did not. That is not It’s called the Loud House. It is not called the Stout House. I’m done with it. But this is what happens when CJ plays against us, seemingly always wins. And with the Indianapolis Colts quarterback situation being what it is, we’re in trouble because a big part of Danny Dimes’s offensive contributions is the fear that he can outrun you, which he can. Hey, that boy got a little motion whenever he was running. Danny Dimes, you know, he kind of looks like a nerd, acts like a nerd, everything like that. He’s big, strong, powerful, fast boy over it. Over rush yards every single game. He that’s a massive part of his game. There really isn’t much fear of that right now, I don’t think. And Houston Texans number one defense. They they that was not the right team to have to play against with that. They are they hunt. They do. Boy, I actually thought a couple different times. These fans have to hate watching these games. Their defense is so good. This is ass. Like your offense, you’re here for the offense. You show up and your offense is going to be ass against this team. So, you just got to sit there and be all right. Maybe next time. All right. This is getting kind of boring, isn’t it? Boo. We need to start doing some stuff. Boo. It’s like, well, this Texans defense doesn’t let you. They are very good. And the Jacksonville Jaguars, very good. and the Indianapolis Colts. We’re trying to hold on right now. We are trying to hold the hell on right now. We got a tough road down the stretch.

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