February 17, 2025 • 67 mins
Recorded February 16th, 2025
Ever wondered how a Valentine's Day golf outing could turn into a comedy of errors? Join us as Scott shares a hilarious mishap involving his son Kellen, his girlfriend, and a bathroom that had everyone in stitches. This episode begins with host banter that's as entertaining as it is relatable, as we explore the lighter side of life before diving into the latest in sports, from the Four Nations tournament buzz to the Genesis Invitational's heartfelt tribute to Tiger Woods' late mother.
Our sports rundown covers a wide array of athletic excitement and strategic maneuvers. We delve into the buzz around Major League Baseball's spring training and the strategic shifts in the NFL, highlighting moves from the Dolphins and Steelers. Speculation runs rampant as we entertain wild scenarios like Aaron Rodgers potentially joining the Rams. We also ponder the Steelers' future, analyzing their draft prospects, and discuss the intriguing possibility of them entering the Archie Manning sweepstakes while drawing parallels between Justin Fields and Russell Wilson.
Switching sports, we experience the intense passion of the United States vs. Canada hockey clash, a thrilling showdown that reignited a historic rivalry. Amidst this sporting whirlwind, we reminisce about the evolution of the NBA All-Star Games, contrasting past and present. We wrap up with heartfelt appreciation for our global listeners, celebrating their loyalty and teasing what's next from the iconic Augusta National Golf Club. Tune in for a mix of laughs, sports drama, and the kind of storytelling that keeps you coming back for more.
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Announcer (00:07):
Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the
Bench podcast, with your hostsGraham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Scott (00:21):
What's up world, and welcome back to another episode
of the bald guys on the bench.
Unfortunately, it's an episodewhere there was no football
played.
Today, the first Sunday was nofootball for six months.
But here we are.
I'm with my best homie, graham.
We still got a lot to talkabout, we're still going to have
(00:44):
some fun and we're still goingto talk some football.
So, graham, what's cracking?
Graham (00:50):
Oh, brother, I'm not going to lie.
You took the words right out ofmy mouth.
I was going to mention nofootball, but you beat me to it.
But hey, like we always do whenrambling together and talking
about sports, let's grab one andcrack one.
Scott (01:02):
brother talking about sports let's grab one and crack
one brother.
It's time it is.
Even though we're not talkingabout the pigskin, but like
we've always talked about on theepisode, the nice thing about
the NFL is we talk about ityear-round.
Graham (01:15):
You know, yeah, and there's a lot to say.
There is.
But, before we even get into it,like we always do.
(01:37):
How was your weekend?
I know you worked mostly andyou know you worked Valentine's
Day and yesterday and today.
What's cracking?
It was pretty chill at thecourse.
Right now in Vegas it's thetypical 62 degrees.
It's been a little overcast forthe last couple of days here a
little bit of wind, so it hasn'tbeen too desirable outside, but
golfers are still out there.
(01:58):
Valentine's Day was prettychill, low-key.
Went out to dinner a nice placethe day before, because if
you've worked in the food andbeverage industry long enough,
you know you never go out on theday because most of the time
you're either working and if youdo, all the smart people know I
mean I've talked to countlesspeople, people who have been
married for 15, 20-plus years.
(02:19):
They always say going out onValentine's is a rookie move.
Scott (02:25):
It's like drinking on St Patrick's Day it's amateur hour.
Graham (02:29):
Yeah, we're still doing it.
Scott (02:31):
Professionals drink on other days that don't involve
Sam Rock yeah exactly.
Graham (02:41):
So you know, just been laying low Work's been pretty
good, other than that, nothingmuch.
What about you, brother?
How low Work's been pretty good, other than that, nothing much.
What about you, brother?
How was your?
Scott (02:47):
weekend.
It was good.
You know Valentine's Day wasFriday.
I worked a little bit.
As everybody knows, I have kidsthat have spouses.
So I'm literally on the wayhome from work and Kristen's
like, oh, the love bugs are atthe house right now.
And I'm like, oh gosh, and bylove bugs I mean Ava and her
boyfriend, kellen his girlfriend, and then Kellen's good buddy
(03:10):
and his girlfriend.
So they were all at the cribdoing their thing.
And one of the funniest thingsthat happened that night is I
was literally on the phone withmy dad just chatting and I went
past the bathroom downstairs togo get some beers out of the
garage in the refrigerator andI'm like, oh my God, who blew up
(03:34):
this bathroom down here?
I'm like it is terrible.
I'm like oh, my dear Lord.
So I get back and I didn't sayanything about it and all of a
sudden Kellen's girlfriend andhis buddy's girlfriend are
coming downstairs to go to thebathroom.
And I text Kellen and I'm likedude, did you just drop a bomb
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in the bathroom?
And now the girls are going inthere.
It's, the whole downstairs isdestroyed.
And he texts me back.
He's like bro, I know.
And I'm like dude, you got toknow better than that.
That's a rookie mistake.
Courtesy flush, bro, we're backand forth texting and I'm like,
(04:19):
who went to the bathroom?
He goes thank God it was nothis girlfriend, the other one
and I'm like, oh, like, oh mygosh, and so my dad's dying.
And you know, anybody in hisshoes that's young, that's been
in the dating world, knows likethe hardest thing to do is for a
(04:39):
man.
Is man, when you're hanging outwith a chick for so long, at
some point you gotta fart, youknow, and it's like, oh my gosh,
you're hanging out with a chickfor so long at some point.
You got to fart, you know, andit's like, oh my gosh, I
remember hanging out withgirlfriends in high school and
it's like holding it in for likefour hours and then you get in
your car to leave and it's justlike you know it's, it's.
(04:59):
If that was the, if it was justa simple burp, you know you're
good.
If it was just a simple burp,you're good.
So, anyhow, a couple of hisbuddies are hanging out tonight.
They don't have school tomorrowand I told one of them like yo
ask Kellen about what happenedFriday night when he took a big
old doggy dump and then they hadto go to the bathroom and
Kellen's like I can't believeyou're telling them that.
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I'm like dude, it's a greatstory.
Older people, the oldgeneration will appreciate it.
Then his next buddy gets hereand I'm telling Fletcher and
Fletcher's dying, and I'm likeyou know what, this might even
make it to the podcast.
It is that funny because oldpeople my age and Graham's age
will appreciate it and you know,oh my God, classic.
(05:44):
But you know the weekend wasgood, worked friday, worked
saturday and, you know, jumpedright into the four nations
tournament last night.
Second round of the with unitedstates and canada.
We'll get into that in a fewminutes.
But you know it was a greatweekend, just hung out, didn't
do much today, hung out on thecouch, watched golf all day.
And you know it was a greatweekend, just hung out, didn't
(06:04):
do much today, hung out on thecouch, watched golf all day.
And you know, genesis Open hadto be moved to Torrey Pines
Second time the Tours played atTorrey.
In what four weeks, maybe?
Dude?
What a difference in four weeks.
The course conditions, ugh, dude, the rough, oh my Lord, wow,
(06:28):
wow, wow.
I mean we were talking to afriend of the podcast, or I was
the other night, and that'sRicky Romano.
And dude, he was like it wasalmost unplayable.
You know the pictures and thevideos and the divots.
(06:50):
I mean I don't know if you sawthe one when Rory hacked it out
of the rough on that one holeand a dude, 15 yards behind him
caught the divot.
It was hilarious.
I mean Torrey showed its teeththis week.
I mean it showed why it's beena two-time US Open venue and
it's not a fancy.
(07:10):
I tell people sorry real quickbefore you get in.
I tell people that, no, I usedto play Torrey a lot.
It's one of my favorite, if notfavorite, golf courses.
I got to play on a regularbasis, to the point where I
named my dog after it.
You know right, I tell peoplewhen I'm going to play and I
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would joke, I would say, beforeI go to Torrey Pines I would
sharpen the grooves on my fouror five and six iron because
it's such a long golf course.
It's not, it's not tricked out,it's not fancy, it's just tough
out.
It's not fancy, it's just toughgolf in your face.
You better hit the goddamnfairways and if you don't,
(07:53):
you're going to be like ScottyScheffler was yesterday.
And the crazy thing is as bad ashe played all week top five.
Graham (08:08):
What was he?
Plus four on Saturday and stillfinished top five.
Scott (08:12):
That's the golf course we're talking about, you know
it's.
I mean, you got the hazardsleft on four and 12 and three
and that's none other than thePacific ocean, aka black speech
nude beach.
But then the only water hazardyou have is on 18.
(08:32):
And when you're watching thetelecast that that pond on 18,
it looks like it's massive.
And then you go play the golfcourse and literally you could
spit across it.
It's so tiny, wow.
But you know, always funfinishes at Torrey, you know,
(08:56):
and not only a fun finish.
Ludwig, who was dominatingafter the first round a couple
of weeks ago at the farmers, whogot the flu and then was
throwing up on the golf course,comes back four weeks later and
gets the dub and our boys, ourboys governed on the bag.
Nice payday for Hundo.
I mean Ludwig.
(09:19):
I mean not only and this is thisis the last time I say about it
Not only does Ludwig is thelast I'm going to say about it.
Not only does Ludwig have allthe skills, the guy hits amazing
shots.
My guy hits putts.
The 72nd hole he had to hit thefairway had to make birdie on
18 because he was tied.
But he plays fast, like fast,yeah, it fast, yeah, it's
(09:46):
awesome.
The drive he hit on 18 when hehad to hit the fairway so he
could go for the green.
And two, the most pressure hehad on the golf course to hit a
fairway on Sunday.
And he's like, yeah, hold mybeer, I'm just going to hit this
laser 320 down the fairway,hits the green from 244 out Two
(10:07):
putt Game over the end.
The guy's a machine dude.
When I watch him play golf youknow older people like you and
myself can remember the oldcommercial with Albert Pujols on
ESPN and they're like themachine Because everybody called
Pujols the machine.
All I Pujols on ESPN andthey're like the machine Cause
everybody called Pujols themachine.
All I can think about is Ludwig.
(10:29):
The guy's a machine.
Right First time playingAugusta finishes second.
Graham (10:38):
That's impressive.
Scott (10:40):
If he didn't hit the ball in the water on 11 last year in
the in the last round, whoknows what's going to happen?
Right, yeah, but that's a goodpoint.
Props to Skob and Ludwig.
It was fun, and for me, as aperson that loves Torrey to the
point where I named my dog afterthe golf course, it was even
(11:03):
more cooler because I got towatch the best of the best play
the course twice in four weeks.
Yeah.
Graham (11:11):
It's a good point, but, as you said, it was different
though, because this time aroundthe conditions were a little
tougher.
Scott (11:19):
And they didn't have to play the North course, they
played the South course fourtimes.
Graham (11:24):
Right We've talked about it in previous episodes where,
when it comes to the game ofgolf, obviously we want to see
the best players playing in thetournament.
We got to see that more in thiselevated event in this elevated
event.
But my point of bringing it upis in this event, as we were
(11:46):
saying, the rough was longer,the scores were down because
we're such big fans of the game.
I think we're at a point whereit's just like a high score or
high.
What I mean by like going low,it's not as impressive.
Or I mean like you don't haveto go low to be exciting for
golf.
You know what I mean.
Like what you saw this week andhow the rough affected the
(12:09):
players.
I mean, like you said, scottyScheffler on Saturday and just
gotten killed by the roughPeople.
That's what average, howaverage golfers should think.
Like if you hit it in the rough, you should be penalized.
There's too many times wherepros hit it in the rough in
regular weeks and it's just likeall right, I'm still going to
go out and shoot 66.
What?
Scott (12:27):
Yeah, I like to watch golf where par is a good score,
right when you're watching WasteManagement, when you're
watching the American Express.
Graham (12:38):
Well, that's a different one when you're watching the
American Express in Palm Springs.
Scott (12:41):
If you're making par, you're probably losing a half a
stroke to the field.
Oh, there's no rough for sure.
No course.
Conditions like we said lastweek, you're playing in a dome,
but obviously thursday there wasa lot of rain and wind and shit
.
And san diego I mean to thepoint where the second hole on
(13:03):
Torrey South is a short hole andwhen I play it granted, I'm
playing a little bit further up,obviously, but I'm hitting
three wood wedge and from thetour guys they're normally
hitting three wood wedge from 40yards behind where I hit from.
(13:23):
But dude, scotty Scheffler hitfive iron from 165 yards on the
second hole at Torrey's South.
Like those types of thingsshowed their teeth on Thursday.
It was fun, it was awesome.
You know, fowler played, shotthree or four over on the first
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round and then he came back andI think he shot 68, 69, three
under on Friday.
And obviously I'm watching thetelecast on TV, but they're not
showing Fowler finishing up andI'm watching his shot by shot on
the PGA Tour app and he hitshis drive in the rough and then
he hits the next shot and he'sgot 170 yards in on 18, which is
(14:10):
a par five.
And I'm like, wow, he must havehad a shitty lie.
And then he's got 70 yards infor his fourth shot and I text
Romano and I'm like, did you geta bad lie on 18?
He goes a couple and that's apar five for a PGA Tour player.
(14:30):
Just showing you you hit it inthe deep shit, good luck.
Graham (14:38):
Hey, we're all human yeah.
Scott (14:39):
Something we mentioned a couple weeks ago that we were
super excited about was Tigerplaying in the event.
It is Tiger's invitation to theGenesis, and then he had to
pull out because, unfortunately,his mom passed away.
And something pretty cool thathappened today is all the
players on the first hole got apin from the starter with their
(15:02):
scorecards A red pin with hismom's name on it.
Pretty cool, pretty special,pretty neat.
Uh, one more thing before wejump is Wednesday, normally
Wednesday, uh, pga tour eventsis pro-am day.
All the AMS that played in thepro-am for the Genesis open on
(15:24):
Wednesday we were all LAfirefighters because of the
fires.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, pretty amazing.
That's dope.
Pretty sick, right.
Wow, yeah, pretty cool.
Graham (15:36):
That's sick yeah.
Scott (15:37):
People forget why the tournament was moved.
Yeah.
Graham (15:46):
And it's funny you bring that up Dude, southern
California is getting crushed.
They had all those fires.
Dude, they're getting flooded.
Yeah, like the rain.
Dude, costa Mesa is like.
I'm just watching videos on myphone.
I'm like what the hell is goingon right now?
Scott (16:03):
Like just flooded and flooded.
Graham (16:05):
you know, up in Malibu, I mean shit is just falling
apart.
I'm like what is going?
On right now Yep.
Scott (16:13):
But hey, the West Coast swings over.
We got you know tournament inMexico next week, and then
tournament at PGA National whatused to be called the Honda the
next week, and then it'sstraight to Arnie's place, dude
Bay Hill.
Graham (16:30):
It's getting?
Is Honda used to be Doral?
No?
Scott (16:35):
Honda used to be the Honda at PGA National.
Now it's called something weird.
I don't know what the hell it'scalled now.
Announcer (16:41):
Okay.
Scott (16:42):
But anyhow, the Masters it's closed bro.
I don't know what the hell it'scalled now, okay, but anyhow,
the Masters it's close bro.
Graham (16:48):
I don't want to don't no , don't.
Scott (16:51):
No, I'm just saying it's close.
Graham (16:55):
I know it's the jealousy in me.
I'm sorry, CBS, I mean.
Scott (16:58):
Jim Nantz.
As he was signing off today, hewas like I think, don't hold me
to it, I think CBS's nextbroadcast is Augusta.
Announcer (17:08):
Wow, that's crazy.
Scott (17:10):
Yep, but anyhow, let's switch it on over.
I know something you don'treally want to talk about.
We're just going to mention itreal quick Spring training Major
League Baseball underway thisweek, you know.
Announcer (17:23):
Who yeah?
Scott (17:24):
A lot of people carry a gram.
Graham (17:27):
I'm just kidding.
Scott (17:28):
But something I mentioned as we kicked off the episode,
today was the first Sundaywithout football until
meaningful games in September.
But with that being said, therumors going around right now
and free agency Spicy Freeagency starts, I think.
(17:52):
The new league year starts inwhat?
March, pretty much a month away.
15th, I think yeah, it's almosta month away, and then the
draft is another month.
Announcer (18:00):
Yeah.
Scott (18:00):
Dude teams are dropping some players, cutting them.
I saw the Dolphins released therunning back.
I can't remember Mostert, yeah.
Graham (18:12):
Raheem Mostert, I saw your.
Scott (18:13):
Steelers release somebody to free up $13 million.
Yeah, what's his name?
I can't think of his name.
Graham (18:21):
Preston.
Scott (18:21):
Smith, yeah, but dude it's.
Graham (18:25):
I was pissed, I was pretty bummed about that.
I was like damn, he's Dude forsomeone that came in at the
trade deadline.
He stepped right in andproduced, but you know he's a
little older of a player and forthat cap hit.
I mean, it's not thatPittsburgh doesn't have money,
but you know they want to funnelit in other places.
Announcer (18:43):
I.
Graham (18:43):
Pittsburgh doesn't have money but they want to funnel it
in other places.
I mean they got people theyneed to pay.
But yeah, I mean we'll get intothat later.
Scott (18:49):
Yeah, it was just.
This is the time where yourplayer personnel department and
your GM and your salary capadvisor this is where they're
doing their work.
This is where they're earningtheir checks.
Graham (19:03):
Oh, this is where teams get built, folks, if you don't
follow football that closely, ifyou're just a casual fan, this
is literally the bread andbutter of your football team.
This is the time they justfinished I think it was last
week the Reese's Senior Bowl.
Do you know what that is, theSenior Bowl?
(19:23):
Yeah, no, it's called theReese's Senior Bowl.
Yeah, week, the reese's seniorbowl.
Which?
Do you know what that is thesenior bowl like?
Yeah, you know it's called thereese's senior bowl.
Yeah, it's pretty much like thecollege all-star game for
seeing more or less.
You know they have down inmobile yeah, in mobile, and it's
just like all the personnelguys are down there, gms are
down there, and it's just likeonce you hear that going on,
that's when really the busstarts going, because it goes
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pretty much from there.
And then the combine in acouple weeks, and then I mean
once the combine hits all the, Imean I don't want to say the
rumors, but that's when all thespeculation and what's going to
happen, what, where, and we'regoing to go back and forth like
who the Chargers are going totake, who the Pittsburgh is
going to take, who are theygoing to take?
Like what are the Patriotsdoing at three is going to take,
(20:04):
who are they going to take?
Like you know what, what arethe patriots doing at three?
You know all this crazy stuff Imean for not having ball on.
There's plenty of ball to talkabout.
So I mean even right now.
I sent you last night, uh, alittle something I saw on
instagram where it was the, thebillboard saying down in
indianapolis Rogers, don't comehere.
Announcer (20:24):
We don't want you.
Graham (20:24):
You know what I mean it's just like the Jets were
like yeah, we don't need you,bro, do your own thing, and
that's great.
Well, I don't want to say it'sgreat, but to us it's perfect,
because now we get to banter forhow long.
It's just where's Aaron Rogersgoing to go?
How about this?
Does any team like, do they?
(20:49):
Want him, yeah, like is there ateam that still want aaron
rogers?
Scott (20:50):
and I'm not saying that, talking you know what I'm, you
know what I'm getting ready tosay when I talk about aaron
rogers, what I've already.
Graham (20:56):
Waster domus has spoken yeah, well, it hasn't been
mentioned yet.
Scott (21:01):
Via text with you and with TP.
If the Rams somehow tradeStafford, which I think it's
going to happen, it's not goingto happen for what they want
from the Giants, the thirdoverall pick, I mean Stafford is
37, and he's owed a shit ton ofmoney.
(21:23):
But if somehow Stafford isdealt I've told you the other
night it makes sense dude AaronRogers to the Rams.
He's a fill in quarterback fora year, maybe two.
There's no quarterbacks thatthe world wants this year.
Next year's draft class comingout of college Quarterbacks are
(21:50):
a lot.
There's a lot of them.
Announcer (21:52):
Yeah.
Scott (21:53):
And and the Rams finally have first round picks.
Whatever they can get forStafford, you get Rogers who
let's just go out and say it theRams played the Eagles better
than anybody else in theplayoffs.
I mean there was a fourth downplay at the end of the game
where incompletion happened that, if it was complete, could have
(22:17):
scared the oh absolutely heck,saquon broke one in that game.
Graham (22:25):
If that got contained, I mean look, obviously anything
could have happened, but theydefinitely played them the best.
Scott (22:32):
So Rodgers you know, Rodgers going to the Rams makes
sense to fill in until theydraft their future.
Yeah, Indoor, yeah, exactly.
But the thing I had to bring upin this was the rumors slash.
I don't.
Some people say it's 100%bullshit.
(22:53):
Some people are saying it's not.
The Steelers reached out to theJags for Trevor Lawrence.
Oh no, I've read things thatsay that's 100% bullshit.
It's for clicks, like our boy,andy, always says.
Graham (23:15):
But then I've read things that are like no, it
won't for clicks, no, I've well.
Some people that I follow thatare reporters for Steelers on
YouTube.
They, I mean, they talked aboutit and the way they talked
about it they made it sound likeit was a legit claim and I just
one.
They just paid the guy whatyou'd have to give up to get him
.
You have a new coach.
(23:35):
Why would you get rid of yourquarterback, who you paid to be
your franchise number one?
Granted, where you're drafting,you really want to start over
fresh with someone new, like theJaguars're on the rise last
year.
So before the season startedlast year, would you not say how
they finished the previous year?
Before that you would thinkthey were on the rise really and
(23:58):
then not.
Scott (23:59):
Not really because they waved their terrible towels and
then they got the terrible towelcurse and then lost the rest of
their games.
So no, I would not say they'reon the goddamn rise, graham.
Graham (24:11):
Hey, I'm not going to lie.
I like how you believe in thefaith of the terrible towel
curse.
So thank you.
Scott (24:17):
Well, you play with smoke you're going to get the fire.
I mean, let's face it.
I mean, let's face it, TrevorLawrence got paid because the
Jaguars beat the Chargers in theplayoffs when we were up 27 to
nothing.
Trevor Lawrence, he had acouple plays, but let's don't
(24:41):
say he was the reason.
Graham (24:43):
Let's say the reason was yeah if the Chargers would have
ran the ball.
Scott (24:46):
Brandon Beaniehead Staley would have ran the goddamn ball
.
That game's over.
But whatever, we're not evenbeating that dead horse.
Andy, I don't know, dude, Idon't know.
Graham (25:02):
Trevor Lawrence is a good player, but I heard
something the other day andhonestly I kind of like it.
There's only two ways to getbetter in this league.
Right, if you're a team that'salways in the middle of the like
, you do well enough to like,okay, you make the playoffs, or
(25:22):
you're doing well enough and youjust miss it like.
My point is, if you're draftingin between 16 and 22, you're a
decent team, but like you can'tget top level talent because
you're not bad enough to getthose low, you know, those top
10 picks.
So, thinking about that, I'mlike you know what I'm not
(25:42):
saying I wouldn't.
I don't want pittsburgh have alosing season, or I do want them
to have a losing season, but itwas proposed.
Yo, let's just pay Fields,let's just give him a little
prove-it deal and just stick itout.
If he wins, great.
If he doesn't, great.
Because if he doesn't, then hey, dude, pittsburgh Steelers
(26:06):
could draft in the top 10.
I mean, dude, pittsburghSteelers could draft in the top
10.
I mean, dude, when we draftedRoethlisberger we were, I think
it was like 11?
Announcer (26:15):
11 or 12.
Graham (26:23):
I mean Pittsburgh hasn't drafted inside the top 10 in 20
plus years.
So I mean I don't want to wastea year for Cam Hayward.
I mean he only has a coupleyears left.
I don't want to waste a year ofTJ, but for the development of
the team it could work out.
Because if Field does bad andwe have a top pick, hey, I don't
mind being in the ArchieManning sweepstakes.
Scott (26:44):
Yeah, you're not going to be in the Archie Manning
sweepstakes.
Graham (26:48):
Yeah, you're not going to be in the Archie Manning
sweepstakes, I know I knowthat's not going to happen?
Announcer (26:53):
I hope it doesn't happen for your sake.
Graham (26:54):
okay, let's say that.
Trust me, what little hair Ihave left will be boobah.
That's not going to happen.
I'll be ripping it out.
Scott (27:10):
That's not going to happen, but I don't know there's
.
I mean, look at my Chargers.
Okay, what did we win?
Five games last year, yeah,enter Harbaugh and we went 11.
Go to the playoffs With a teamon paper that wasn't supposed to
do what they did.
I mean, we got rid of Keenan,we got rid of Mike Williams, we
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were cap strapped and Ortiz gotcooking and started signing
these guys to one-year deals.
A new coach comes in, newstructure, a new culture.
That's not happening inPittsburgh.
Tomlin's not going anywhere.
I don't care what anybody says.
Who are you going to bring into replace Tomlin?
Announcer (27:54):
It's not happening.
Scott (27:55):
Okay, no, the.
Steelers are not looking for aculture rebuild like the
Chargers were Okay.
Graham (28:04):
No, but I will say this Okay to the little things, and
(28:25):
by little things I mean hedoesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't
give chatter any breath.
So what I'm saying by that is,sometimes you gotta read the tea
leaves, Tom, and you gotta hearthe chatter and you gotta hear
what everyone's saying.
You know what I mean.
Everyone says, oh, you're aplayer's coach.
Well bro, if you're a player'scoach, that's great.
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But if, oh, you're a player'scoach, Well bro, if you're a
player's coach, that's great.
But if people know what you'redoing, if people know that
you're stale like you, have tochange it up.
The whole mantra of like the NFLhas changed.
You can't say like, oh, it'syour 11 versus my 11 and we're
just going to duke it out andsee who wins.
It's like dude, strategyability, all that changes.
(29:08):
Like you can't just say, oh,we'll tell you what we're going
to do, but our guys are betterthan yours, so we're just going
to beat you.
Like that just doesn't work inthe NFL anymore.
Announcer (29:16):
Like that used to work but obviously that shit
doesn't work anymore.
Graham (29:21):
So it's just like you.
You have to evolve and the factthat Tomlin's been with
Pittsburgh for now 18 seasons,bro, switch it up.
It's time Because the fans haveturned Dude.
There's fans that bought signsto tell the owner, like yo, get
rid of this film.
And you know they saw it 100%.
(29:43):
You know they did 100% thewriting's on the wall.
I'm just hoping, tomlinresponds.
Scott (29:49):
Remember Fields was 4-2 when Tomlin benched him for Russ
.
Graham (29:58):
Yeah, but it was an ugly .
4-2, though.
Scott (30:00):
Well, the 2 was ugly because you lost to the goddamn
Cowboys and the Colts, but the 4were good to the goddamn.
Graham (30:09):
Cowboys and the Colts, but the four were good.
No, no, we won four good games,but I'm just saying watching
those games like it wasn't like,and then y'all beat the Jets on
Monday night when you werethere and the whole world
started praising Russ.
Yeah, because he actually threwthe ball down the field.
We didn't need fields to you to.
We won a lot of those gameswith short passes and him
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running around.
Like you can't win in the NFLby just running around, oh, ok,
did you watch the Super Bowllast week?
Scott (30:42):
Jalen Hurts had 72 rushing yards, most in Super
Bowl history.
Graham (30:48):
One of those.
He broke for like 30 or 40,number one, but yeah, he also
threw for over 300.
Fields hasn't thrown for over300 since Well.
Scott (30:58):
I'm just going to say if I had AJ Brown and Devonta Smith
to throw to, I could maybe, andI had that offensive line and
Saquon behind me.
Announcer (31:07):
I could probably throw for 300 fucking yards,
Graham.
Scott (31:10):
So let's simmer the fuck down right now.
Okay, just throwing that outthere.
Graham (31:20):
I mean yeah.
Scott (31:22):
Anyhow Touche.
Announcer (31:25):
Let's switch it up real quick.
Scott (31:26):
Let's just jump right into the Eagles parade on Friday
, on Valentine's Day, and I sawthe best memes ever from chicks
on Instagram, on all over theplace.
Well, I knew my Valentine's Daywas ruined when they scheduled
the parade for Valentine's Day.
You know, I knew my significantother was going to come home
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blacked out, drunk and yada,yada yada.
But something we mentioned lastweek was, you know, devonta
Smith was the first player fromAlabama to score a touchdown
right in the Super Bowl.
So I saw something the othernight and I was like, wow, this
is insane.
Got to screenshot it for thepodcast.
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Not only was he the firstplayer from Bama to score a
touchdown in the Super Bowl, hewas the fifth player in history
to win the Heisman collegenational title and Super Bowl.
Do you know who the other onesare?
You might be able to guess one,maybe two, because they were in
our time, but I'm not evengoing to make the answer.
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Charles Woodson, michigan wonthe Heisman won the National
Championship, won the Super BowlReggie Bush.
Graham (32:41):
Marcus Allen.
Scott (32:42):
I was going to guess him.
Marcus Allen and Tony Dorsett,now add Devonta Smith, once
again proving Howie Roseman, youthe man.
Announcer (33:03):
But not only was it the man.
Scott (33:04):
Did you see?
My guy took a beer can to theface.
Oh dude, he had a gash on hisforehead.
Graham (33:15):
Then he gets a.
I saw the photo, I was likedamn.
Scott (33:18):
Then he gets the mic dude and the first thing he says is
I bleed green, as you guys canall tell bleed green, as you
guys can all tell dude it was.
It was sick.
The I will say this coolestthing I saw all week, especially
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at the super bowl parade, wassaquon would saquon do gra'd,
Saquon do Graham Maybe one ofthe coolest things I've ever
seen in my life in sports,Literally watching it at work.
I got the parade live on my TVin my office and I didn't see it
happen live, but I see thenotification come out from
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whatever one of the sportsplatforms and I'm watching it
and literally brought tears tomy eyes because what my guy did
for that kid platforms.
And I'm watching it andliterally brought tears to my
eyes because what my guy?
did for that kid.
Graham (34:17):
And folks know he didn't hand him the trophy, but
basically what he did was betterthan handing him the trophy.
Oh, facts, facts.
So obviously they're going downthe street on the parade and
all those people are there.
Saquon notices, as he looks tothe right, because the kid must
have said something.
One of his ball boys is therewith his homies.
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He noticed.
Saquon notices him, dabs him up, gives him a hug.
They chat and then he's likewait a minute, you're a part of
the team grabs and puts his armaround him, picks him up and
picks him up over the uh, Iwouldn't call it a ledge, but
whatever was blocking wherewe're blocking off where people
were standing barricade, pickshim up over the barricade.
(35:03):
It's like playa, you're a partof this team, come hit, come
party with us and just get someof them.
They walked right down thefield.
I was like dude, that is thedude.
You are the nicest, mostgenuine person ever.
Scott (35:15):
Literally Represent Penn State, by the way, literally but
I was like dude that is, andI'm like you could see.
You couldn't hear what theinteraction was, but you could
see the kid Saquon sayssomething to him and the kid's
like shaking his hand or shakinghis head and Saquon's like F
that let's go bro.
Yeah, and could you imaginebeing that?
(35:36):
I don't know how old the kidwas, I don't even know his name
Irrelevant.
Could you imagine being thereat the Superbowl parade and
you're his boys, boys with thatkid, and all of a sudden Saquon
Barkley picks your boy up overthe barricade and now he's up
with the team.
Graham (35:53):
Done, Done Alright, Hope I'll catch you later.
Scott (35:57):
See ya Of all the bad shit that comes out about
athletes in the professionalworld.
Why was that not blown up evenmore?
You know that's a very goodpoint.
That could be a 30 for 30episode in itself.
Announcer (36:14):
Yeah.
Scott (36:16):
The highlight of Saquon's career after the best season of
his career wins, his firstSuper Bowl and the unselfishness
of him walking down in theSuper Bowl parade seeing his
ball boy picking him up over thebarricade bringing him to the
party.
Not only that, saquon's rippingshots out of some dude's
(36:38):
Hennessy bottle in the crowd.
Graham (36:45):
Dude Yo, it needs to Look.
I I'd do it too, but you got toyou trust these mofos.
Scott (36:53):
Dude, the last thing anybody in Philly is doing is
giving something to Saquonthat's going to hurt my guy.
Graham (36:59):
Yeah, I mean Facts, facts.
Scott (37:04):
But dude, it was.
I mean, I can't say it enough,dude.
I've seen it with my son theway he looks up to Taylor
Heineke.
Taylor Heineke is a backupquarterback in the NFL.
Now you got Saquon Barkley,with arguably the best season in
running back history, pickingup a ball boy and inviting him
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to the party.
There's no words.
There's no words, none.
Graham (37:34):
You can't talk about how amazing that is, but oh, dude,
it's as soon as I saw it I had.
I shot it right over to you.
I was like, bro, did you seethis?
And you're like dude tear.
Yeah, I'm like.
As soon as I saw it, I was likeit's like you know, there are
(37:56):
good people out there.
Scott (37:57):
You know what I mean.
Like that's just a good,genuine thing to do.
Good is an understatement.
Good is an understatement.
Oh for facts, Facts, but anyhow, best thing I saw at the parade
besides that was my guyclimbing up the light pole
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having Kermit the Frog in anoose.
That's but you know, whatever,let's jump into the next topic,
because this is going to be funand something I did not expect
at all, and that is the fournations hockey tournament.
And yeah, first time hockey'sever done it.
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You know, you got Finland,sweden, canada and the United
States and a round robin eventand most people, including
myself, most hockey fans aregoing, they're going to go out
there and they're not going toplay hard and you know it's just
going to be like a all-starevent.
Well, boy, that was provenwrong.
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Wednesday night, when the firstround is hosted in Canada and
Montreal and Canada is playingSweden, and we're looking at the
lines for Canada and we're like, oh my God, when Nathan
McKinnon's on your second line,your team's pretty good, right.
Graham (39:26):
Yeah right.
Scott (39:27):
Anyhow, canada beat Sweden in overtime on Wednesday
night, which was shocking.
But then the United Statesplays Finland on Thursday night,
which was shocking.
But then the United Statesplays Finland on Thursday night.
And obviously during thenational anthem for the United
States in Montreal, theCanadians booed the American
national anthem, win 6-1.
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And so it sets up Saturdaynight, united States versus
Canada.
And so in this tournament thepoints are if you win in
overtime, you only get twopoints.
If you win in regulation, youget three points.
So Canada wins in overtime,they get two points.
United States beats Finland inregulation, they get three
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points.
So it sets up a meaningful gameSaturday night.
And sorry to jump over theFinland-Sweden game, I
questioned on Saturday why isFinland playing Sweden and
Montreal at 1 pm and the UnitedStates is playing Canada at 8 pm
?
Why the big time difference?
(40:33):
And my buddy at work, he goesdude, it's because it's prime
time in Finland and Sweden whenthey're playing at 1 pm and I'm
like, got, it Makes sense.
But dude, the game of all gamesSaturday night Okay, first time
in nine years that UnitedStates and Canada play each
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other.
Okay, first time in nine yearsthat united states and canada
play each other people werecalling this the most
anticipated game in hockeyhistory, dude, in years.
Okay, yeah, both teams areloaded, loaded.
It's in montreal.
It's a meaningful game andkudos to the organizers of this
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tournament that they didn't putit the third game of this round,
robin.
They put it in the second game,so it was meaningful.
You know what I mean?
Nobody had clinched, yet theyput it in game two, where it was
a meaningful game.
Yeah, I'm fired up.
You know, fans of our show,listeners of our show, know I'm
like a seven-year hockey fan.
(41:35):
Since the night started, dude,I've watched my Vegas Golden
Knights go to the Stanley CupFinal in year one.
I've watched the Knights win inyear whatever six.
Last night's game was, if notthe greatest game I've ever
watched, with action and beingintense.
(41:57):
I don't know what was.
Wow.
That's a statement, dude, andit's not only a statement by me,
tp, a regular on the show, thebiggest hockey fan, I know.
He said the same thing and Ifelt so sorry for my boy, tp
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being the biggest hockey fan, Iknow, because he bought his kids
tickets to Monster Truck,whatever thing, at Angel Stadium
last night and he couldn'twatch the game and oh, he was
crushed dude and I'm texting himand we actually talked about it
this afternoon.
He couldn't watch it.
He was.
You know it's your kids, youknow it is what it is.
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You got to do what's right forthe kids, but he was so crushed.
But, dude, national anthemsstart First off.
The Canadian national anthem ina hockey game is maybe one of,
if not the most beautiful thingsyou'll ever see in your entire
life.
If you're a musician and youget called on to sing the
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national anthem in a Canadianhockey game, that's the easiest
job in the world.
Other people are like stressed,all this guy's got to do is say
the first verse and then thecrowd takes over.
You know it's amazing, yeah.
But before the Americannational anthem starts, the PA
(43:31):
announcer says after Wednesday,thursday night, when they were
booing hey, let's be respectfulfor the nations that are playing
, because the Canadian fans boo,right, because of the tariffs
and all that shit.
Well, three lines into theAmerican national anthem, here
comes the booze and it's like ohboy, here we go.
Well, let's just say if youlike sports, you're going to
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love the beginning of this game.
And dude, puck drop, fight.
That's insane.
After the first fight and theyget everything settled on the
ice, next puck drop, fight.
And I'm like, are they justshowing a replay of the first
one?
Oh no, they're brothers.
That's the Chuck brothersfighting.
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Then after that, we got twoAmericans in the box, two
Canadians in the penalty box.
Then we get a couple of seconds.
We're like, all right, we'regoing to get into hockey.
Oh no, here comes another fight.
We got three.
Dude, we got three fights inthe first nine seconds for the
(44:45):
most anticipated game in recentmemory.
And, like hockey fans and hockeypeople, kids that played, they
call the arena the barn.
Right, they call it the barn.
Well, let's just say, the barnin Montreal was on fire, fire.
(45:09):
I could not believe it, dude.
I thought the sports socialmedia world was going to blow up
.
Do not remember anything closeto that in recent memory,
besides when Kobe died.
Besides when Kobe died, yeah,but something I read tonight,
(45:31):
dude, before the episode, I sentit to my dad and I was like,
wow, this is incredible.
The Tuchuk brothers, okay, werethe two first fights and they
said they had planned it.
Yada, yada, yada.
So this is incredible.
Off the opening face-off wasthe fastest event in the NHL
(45:54):
international game history,topping the previous record of
20 seconds in the 1996 world cupof hockey for a fight that
involved his dad, dude I dude Iit it was so crazy, dude, it was
(46:25):
nut and you want to talk aboutgetting the place fired up?
I mean another thing.
I saw after the game a quote onthe scraps according to
somebody at ice level to Chuck.
Asked Brandon Hagel to.
Saw after the game a quote onthe scraps according to somebody
at ice level to Chuck.
Asked Brandon Hagel to fight.
After the fight, Brady to Chuckyelled to Sam Bennett we're
going next.
Bennett was on the bench, so hecame off the bench onto the ice
for the face-off to accept thechallenge and then JT Miller was
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going to fight anybody thatdropped the gloves with him
because his gloves were off.
Graham (46:52):
So far in advance.
He's like, I'm just waiting.
He's like who wants, let's go.
It was so sick.
Scott (47:01):
But then we get into the hockey.
The place is fired up.
Now we got to play a hockeygame.
I mean we're nine seconds in,we got three fights.
It's like, oh yeah, remember,we got to play.
You got to put the thing in thething remember, we got to play,
you got to put the thing in thething.
We're here for something I Idon't remember what it is, but
you know it was so wild.
I mean canada scores first togo up one to nothing on the
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power play after the third fight, which still I don't understand
why, whatever, that's anothertopic and then we do, then we
score to tie it up at the end ofthe first.
Somebody drills mcdavid dude atthe end of the first period and
, like I told tp, from thatmoment on united states
(47:46):
dominated the game.
Yeah, it was insane, it waswild.
United won 3-1, clinched a spotin the championship game.
The nice thing is they don'thave to play anybody tomorrow
night because they've alreadyclinched.
If Canada wins, they advance tothe finals, which is going to
be played Thursday night.
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But the nice thing is tomorrowthey move from Montreal to
Boston.
Tomorrow and Thursday is inBoston.
Dude, if we get another rematchof United States, canada and
Boston.
Graham (48:24):
Those Boston fans are going to be litty.
Scott (48:27):
It's going to be so sick it's going to be insane.
I mean, I don't know if I sentyou the viewership.
I sent it to my dad.
No, you didn't.
Hockey draws 4.4 millionviewers and 10 minutes into the
game, after all the fights, theyhit 5.4.
Graham (48:51):
That's I mean for hockey .
Scott (48:55):
I guarantee you more people watch that than are
watching this NBA all-starbullshit going on right now.
Graham (49:02):
Bro, I would venture to say that's more than what the
NBA Finals is at, to be honest,but, but I I mean, look, I
remember when we were talkingabout the game last night and I
saw a stat that popped up thatsaid Sidney Crosby is 26, hasn't
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or has won 26 matches in a row.
Hasn't lost international.
Has won 26 matches In a row, orhasn't lost in.
Scott (49:35):
Yeah, hasn't lost in 26 matches in a row.
Graham (49:38):
Yeah, international matches, yeah, and I'm just like
dude, because also the thing islike I didn't realize the hype
of it, because this is new Dudethe USA hasn't played Canada
since like the only time theyget to play them is the only
time they get to play them is inthe Winter Olympics.
Because I was like I'm thinkingabout it.
I was like wait, when do theyplay.
(49:59):
Is there a special tournamentbesides what's going on?
Not a special tournament, butdo they do exhibitions or
something?
But no, it's just like not muchhas gone on.
Scott (50:12):
And I was like, wow, that is insane.
Jerry just sent me something aswe're recording.
He goes average NBA salary 11.9million.
Average NHL salary 3.5 million.
This all changed after yesterdayand the reason for I mean it
definitely salaries in the NHLand we may or may not have ever
(50:35):
talked about it on this show.
There's a lot of TV money inthe NBA and the NFL.
There's no TV money in hockey.
If you had that manycommercials in hockey, the game
would take six hours.
Ain't going to happen.
Not going to happen.
The game would take six hours.
Ain't going to happen.
Right, not going to happen.
Yeah, I mean, like I've alwayssaid in NHL Stanley Cup playoffs
(50:58):
, it's the worst time to be abeer drinker ever, because you
go to the bathroom and you missa goal.
Yeah, whereas in the NFL, oh,they went three and out, they're
going to punt and here comes afucking timeout, you know, yeah,
yeah, it time out you know,yeah, yeah, it's the nature of
the beats on, unfortunately it'slike there's, I mean it could.
Graham (51:27):
just a shot in the dark question here, like what do you
think, or should I say, is theresomething that could happen
that their tv rate, like theirtv money, could go up?
Like is there anything they cando, or is it?
I mean not that they're capped,yeah, now that.
Scott (51:36):
ESPN is bought in and everything is on ESPN, espn plus
.
Announcer (51:40):
I don't have an answer to that.
Graham (51:41):
Yeah, I don't know, I have no idea but Because, as you
were saying, that is a goodthing where it's just like once
the period starts, the periodstarts, unless there's like a
major penalty, like the clock'sgoing.
I mean that that is one thingthat is nice about hockey, where
you're not like oh, okay, theclock stopped already, or it's
like how in football it's like,oh, there's only two minutes
(52:02):
left, but you're just like yeah,yeah, but that two minutes is
gonna take exactly and in hockeyit's like no, no, it will take
two minutes.
Scott (52:09):
And not only that.
Like you got superstars, dude,in the NBA Superstars the top 10
, 15, 20 players not playingback-to-back games anymore
because their knee is a littlesore.
We watched last night hockeyplayers.
Okay, cool, I'm willing to godie for my country in a goddamn
(52:32):
exhibition.
Okay, cool, I'm willing to godie for my country in a god dang
exhibition.
Couldn't imagine taking myfamily to go see the Lakers and
all of a sudden, luca and LeBronare oh, it's a day off because
we played it back to back.
Shut up, whatever, I don't knowwhat you say.
I know what you're saying.
Yeah, but anyhow, it's come tothat time.
(52:57):
You wanted me to put it in thenotes, so I did.
Nba, nba All-Star Weekend.
Graham (53:03):
Yeah.
Scott (53:05):
My guy from Virginia won his third slam dunk contest in a
row that nobody could even sayhis name.
I mean, does he even start onhis team?
I don't know.
Does it matter?
You don't even know, do you?
Graham (53:22):
Mack something.
It's Mack McCluck.
Scott (53:24):
All I'm going to say is this NBA, bring the superstars
back.
Dude for the slam dunk.
Graham (53:33):
Dude they've been.
I know they haven't really beendoing that forever like dude.
I don't even think I I did.
Look, I think lebron only didit once in his career.
I don't even know if he did itonce dream on green is calling
tonight's festivities terrible.
Scott (53:49):
He said this is a zero out of ten.
Graham (53:52):
Yeah, it's so hard.
Look, I was watching because wehad up on the TVs at work.
They were replaying All-Stargames from 15 years ago.
They were actually playingdefense.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't how the format is now, where the score was like 180
to 176.
(54:13):
It's like no dude, these gameswere like 105 to 107.
Like they, it actually meantsomething like I don't know what
happened, where it changed,where it's just like all right,
we're not taking this seriouslyanymore and it's just it's
getting to a point now.
It's kind of like the nfl, likewe don't want this turn into a
watered down exhibition.
Where it's just like oh, it'sgoing to be flag football now.
(54:35):
It's just like that's notexciting anymore.
They I mean the NBA obviouslyknows that the numbers are down,
but it's like what are they?
They're trying to reinvent thewheel, but like are they?
I mean, look, perfect example,the kid that won.
Do you even know what team heplays for?
Scott (54:55):
The slam dunk.
Perfect example the kid thatwon.
Do you even know what team heplays for?
The Slam Dunk?
Yeah, no, I just know he's fromVirginia.
That's all I know.
Graham (55:00):
Yeah, so he was wearing a Magic jersey, but the thing is
, because I was saying I'm likeI haven't seen him, he's on
their G League team, exactly.
Scott (55:08):
That's what I was just saying.
The only reason Does he evenplay in a regular game?
Graham (55:13):
Like.
The thing is the fact that hewas the back-to-back champion,
like the dude's six foot, butlike has 54.
Scott (55:23):
I mean, he jumped over a goddamn car.
I'm not taking anything awayfrom that.
Graham (55:25):
Right, oh, no, 100%.
But the funny thing is it'slike you got to take everything
with a grain of salt.
Thing with a grand assault.
This kid now is the only playerever to be a three-time or a
sort of say, a three-timeconsecutive slam dunk champion.
This white boy, the face of,not the face of, the NBA.
(55:47):
But I'm just saying like, like,unbelievable.
And look, am I saying he didn'tdeserve it?
His dunks were amazing.
Like I'd put his dunks upagainst some of the other great
dunkers of the past.
You know, when Dwight Howarddid his thing, I mean, everyone
knows the greatest dunker in theslam dunk contest was who.
(56:08):
I mean, it's pretty obvious, Ithink.
Scott (56:12):
Well, I could argue two people.
Graham (56:13):
Well, you're not really a basketball guy, so I don't
know if you know this.
Scott (56:17):
Okay, 23.
Graham (56:22):
Do you know their names?
Scott (56:23):
Jordan when he did the foul line thing Alright.
In my mind the most impressive,yeah, five foot, whatever Spud
Webb.
Graham (56:38):
Alright, that was impressive.
Impressive, I would say what?
I'm three inches taller than myguy and I can hardly cut to the
goddamn net and this guy'sfucking winning dunk contest so
don't come at me an impressivewell, I was gonna say, uh, vince
(57:01):
carter, oh yeah, that when hehas, I mean that, one year, yeah
, I mean, he basically justopened the lid off and just was
like yo, I'm here, let's go, andyou ain't going to forget about
me type of situation.
So but yeah, I mean it's.
I mean, look, the NBA weekendis just, it's not the same
(57:24):
anymore.
But hey, it's news, that's whatwe talk about and we have, you
know, obliged you.
So it's over and on to the next.
Next, and I mean unless we got.
Scott (57:37):
Yeah, I got one more thing and I think we may or may
not have talked about it.
Last night I saw something comeup, uh, instagram or whatnot.
It said in 2022 the commandersoffered the draft pick they used
on jayden daniels in a packagefor russell wilson.
They offered him three firstround picks for russ, but the
(58:01):
seahawks and wilson decided togo with denver.
Wow, I remember that too.
I remember the the media in myarea going all in on Russ Dude.
Graham (58:21):
Three first rounders for at the time, supposed to would
have been what 33-year-old RussI mean what did Denver give?
Scott (58:29):
They gave him Noah Fant and all these other people.
I mean what did Denver giveSeattle?
Graham (58:36):
I mean there was definitely a first.
Was it a first and then asecond later on, or two?
First, I mean like there wasdefinitely.
Well, because they had playersin there, it, you know, it eased
it up a little bit.
But yeah, I mean I don't know,I just think we're at the point
(59:00):
where it's just like, are wegoing?
Scott (59:03):
to really see a team give away three first round picks
anymore.
I mean that's a lot After thesuccess of Stroud last year's
rookie season and after thesuccess of Jaden Daniels this
year, Bo Nix this year?
Yeah, I don't think so.
Graham (59:21):
Yeah, I'd have to agree with that.
Scott (59:23):
I mean, granted, stroud had a little bit of a sophomore
slump, like everybody says, butalso his offensive line was
garbage.
Yeah, you know he still beat myChargers, but that was more a
defense, but still, let's see, Idon't know, man, I don't know.
There was something else Iwanted to talk about.
(59:48):
Where is the picture?
What was I going to say?
Graham (59:53):
Well, you already talked about Sir Stink a lot Kellen's
shitting himself.
Announcer (01:00:00):
I'm trying to think of a nickname for him.
Scott (01:00:02):
Here we go, max Scherzer.
Announcer (01:00:06):
This is hilarious.
Scott (01:00:08):
So you know when he was traded originally.
There's all these terms in hiscontract where the team that
trades for him has to pick upsalary and stuff.
Thank God he didn't do what hedid with the Rangers last year,
so the Mets are off the hook,but Scherzer just signed with
the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays are payingScherzer $15.5 million in 2025.
(01:00:31):
$15.5 million in 2025.
The Nationals are going to payMax Scherzer $45.5 a year until
2027.
And the Dodgers are paying him$15 million in 2028.
There's got to be some kind ofcap coming for Major League
(01:00:53):
Baseball.
Graham (01:00:54):
No there has to be.
There has to be, because I wasjust going to say not to cut you
off?
Scott (01:00:59):
Yeah, no, go for it.
Graham (01:01:01):
I was just going to say can we just fast forward to the
playoffs?
Because, dude, it's what theMets and the Dodgers, and then
on the AL side, it's like brobarring major injury to multiple
people, you have to have, likea cinderella team, come out of
(01:01:21):
nowhere or just, you know, playthe most unbelievable baseball
for however many games for it tobe any different, like it's, I
mean, it comes down to it.
Do do we like seeing the samefive teams?
Scott (01:01:36):
and that's the thing with the nfl there's all kinds of
parody exactly.
Graham (01:01:40):
There's no parody in baseball there is to have that
many fucking games like and youknow, that's why it's just like,
why 162 if it's the same fourteams?
Like why start baseball at theend of march and april when
there's still snow and do on theground like dude, start in may
and then, like you know, end ofseptember or at the end of
august, like, or I mean they'renot gonna do it because the
(01:02:03):
record's like I get all that,but like something has to change
because it can't be good forthe game just to have two teams
literally just be like all right, I'm gonna open up the
checkbook and I'm just going tobuy you and you and you and you
and you and you.
Especially now with all thisdeferred payment that has to
eventually bite teams in the ass.
(01:02:23):
It has to.
Scott (01:02:26):
Jump real quick on the Angels.
Okay, the Nationals win theWorld Series.
The Angels give Rendon thismassive salary at third base.
He's played like 12 games inthe last three years and now
he's already out for the seasonInsane.
And he's getting paid 38 milthis year.
(01:02:46):
I mean, somebody put up a jokethe other night.
I'm trying to look for thepicture.
It said all right, officially.
Now that Rendon's out, April30th or whatever is National
Rendon Day, bobblehead day, andit's got him in a wheelchair.
Graham (01:03:12):
I don't even.
It is what it is, it's crazy.
Scott (01:03:16):
It's crazy, it sucks, but I don't know.
I don't know.
We got a little hockey tomorrownight.
We got the championship gameThursday night.
Uh, graham, we're going to getsome snow here, supposedly on
Wednesday.
I hope we get.
I hope we get pounded so Idon't have to go to work on
Friday, so I can stay up lateand watch the hockey on Thursday
(01:03:38):
.
But even though football's over.
We've still got a lot of shitto talk about A lot.
Oh facts, facts, you know, and Igotta give a shout out and this
was not on the notes, but I gotto give a little shout out and
(01:03:59):
I have no idea who these peopleare, and you can edit this while
you took the while I'm editingthis.
Uh, we have some people.
The platform we use for thisepisode and this podcast we can
see locations where peoplelisten to our episode.
We can't see names, but we cansee locations.
(01:04:21):
So we've got some people.
We don't have a clue.
We eat ribs with this dude.
Who they are?
We got some people in France,the Ukraine, japan and Australia
listening to us.
Whoever you are, I love you.
Thanks for listening.
And they're consistent dude.
(01:04:42):
They're listening every week.
When I saw that the first time,I was like I'm sorry, what I
mean?
This little area in Japan Ican't even pronounce.
It's like N-A-G-O-Y-A is thecity and the country is
A-I-C-H-I Konnichiwa is all Ican say.
(01:05:08):
I have fun.
People in France.
I hope your ladies are startingto shave their legs.
Other than that, I like to goto France because the women over
there don't wear no underpants.
Graham (01:05:25):
Let's go this isn't the 90s, bro, this is 2025 you know
they're up to date now.
I don't know.
I mean, that's what the homielike we've tried to guess.
I'm thinking that France is myold roommate.
(01:05:46):
I'm hoping.
I've been telling the list andhe says he is, so who knows if
he actually is?
Scott (01:05:50):
Okay then If it is who the fuck is in Ukraine, Japan
and Australia have anothershrimp on the barbie.
I mean, whatever, Make it makesense.
Like we always say, Graham, getus out of here.
I had to give a shout out.
Graham (01:06:08):
No, hey, shout out to the listeners all around the
world.
Shout out to you.
Shout out to Shout all aroundthe world.
Shout out to you.
Shout out to Shout out toKellen.
Shout out to my girl, bella.
Shout out, wait, who else?
Yeah, just shout out to theloyal fans.
And Scott, it's always apleasure doing the podcast with
(01:06:31):
you and, as the best homiealways says, buh-bye.
Scott (01:06:35):
Good night friends.
Next time we'll hear Jim, isthat the Augusta national golf
club?
And hopefully Thursday night.
Good night you, poutine, eatenBeeps.
Go USA, let's go.
Graham (01:06:52):
Got him.
Announcer (01:07:09):
This episode of the Bald Guys on the Bench podcast
is brought to you by our friendsat North Star Credit Union and
Southern Auto, located inSoutheast Virginia.
Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the
Bench podcast, with your hostsGraham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Scott (00:21):
What's up world, and welcome back to another episode
of the bald guys on the bench.
Unfortunately, it's an episodewhere there was no football
played.
Today, the first Sunday was nofootball for six months.
But here we are.
I'm with my best homie, graham.
We still got a lot to talkabout, we're still going to have
(00:44):
some fun and we're still goingto talk some football.
So, graham, what's cracking?
Graham (00:50):
Oh, brother, I'm not going to lie.
You took the words right out ofmy mouth.
I was going to mention nofootball, but you beat me to it.
But hey, like we always do whenrambling together and talking
about sports, let's grab one andcrack one.
Scott (01:02):
brother talking about sports let's grab one and crack
one brother.
It's time it is.
Even though we're not talkingabout the pigskin, but like
we've always talked about on theepisode, the nice thing about
the NFL is we talk about ityear-round.
Graham (01:15):
You know, yeah, and there's a lot to say.
There is.
But, before we even get into it,like we always do.
(01:37):
How was your weekend?
I know you worked mostly andyou know you worked Valentine's
Day and yesterday and today.
What's cracking?
It was pretty chill at thecourse.
Right now in Vegas it's thetypical 62 degrees.
It's been a little overcast forthe last couple of days here a
little bit of wind, so it hasn'tbeen too desirable outside, but
golfers are still out there.
(01:58):
Valentine's Day was prettychill, low-key.
Went out to dinner a nice placethe day before, because if
you've worked in the food andbeverage industry long enough,
you know you never go out on theday because most of the time
you're either working and if youdo, all the smart people know I
mean I've talked to countlesspeople, people who have been
married for 15, 20-plus years.
(02:19):
They always say going out onValentine's is a rookie move.
Scott (02:25):
It's like drinking on St Patrick's Day it's amateur hour.
Graham (02:29):
Yeah, we're still doing it.
Scott (02:31):
Professionals drink on other days that don't involve
Sam Rock yeah exactly.
Graham (02:41):
So you know, just been laying low Work's been pretty
good, other than that, nothingmuch.
What about you, brother?
How low Work's been pretty good, other than that, nothing much.
What about you, brother?
How was your?
Scott (02:47):
weekend.
It was good.
You know Valentine's Day wasFriday.
I worked a little bit.
As everybody knows, I have kidsthat have spouses.
So I'm literally on the wayhome from work and Kristen's
like, oh, the love bugs are atthe house right now.
And I'm like, oh gosh, and bylove bugs I mean Ava and her
boyfriend, kellen his girlfriend, and then Kellen's good buddy
(03:10):
and his girlfriend.
So they were all at the cribdoing their thing.
And one of the funniest thingsthat happened that night is I
was literally on the phone withmy dad just chatting and I went
past the bathroom downstairs togo get some beers out of the
garage in the refrigerator andI'm like, oh my God, who blew up
(03:34):
this bathroom down here?
I'm like it is terrible.
I'm like oh, my dear Lord.
So I get back and I didn't sayanything about it and all of a
sudden Kellen's girlfriend andhis buddy's girlfriend are
coming downstairs to go to thebathroom.
And I text Kellen and I'm likedude, did you just drop a bomb
(03:58):
in the bathroom?
And now the girls are going inthere.
It's, the whole downstairs isdestroyed.
And he texts me back.
He's like bro, I know.
And I'm like dude, you got toknow better than that.
That's a rookie mistake.
Courtesy flush, bro, we're backand forth texting and I'm like,
(04:19):
who went to the bathroom?
He goes thank God it was nothis girlfriend, the other one
and I'm like, oh, like, oh mygosh, and so my dad's dying.
And you know, anybody in hisshoes that's young, that's been
in the dating world, knows likethe hardest thing to do is for a
(04:39):
man.
Is man, when you're hanging outwith a chick for so long, at
some point you gotta fart, youknow, and it's like, oh my gosh,
you're hanging out with a chickfor so long at some point.
You got to fart, you know, andit's like, oh my gosh, I
remember hanging out withgirlfriends in high school and
it's like holding it in for likefour hours and then you get in
your car to leave and it's justlike you know it's, it's.
(04:59):
If that was the, if it was justa simple burp, you know you're
good.
If it was just a simple burp,you're good.
So, anyhow, a couple of hisbuddies are hanging out tonight.
They don't have school tomorrowand I told one of them like yo
ask Kellen about what happenedFriday night when he took a big
old doggy dump and then they hadto go to the bathroom and
Kellen's like I can't believeyou're telling them that.
(05:20):
I'm like dude, it's a greatstory.
Older people, the oldgeneration will appreciate it.
Then his next buddy gets hereand I'm telling Fletcher and
Fletcher's dying, and I'm likeyou know what, this might even
make it to the podcast.
It is that funny because oldpeople my age and Graham's age
will appreciate it and you know,oh my God, classic.
(05:44):
But you know the weekend wasgood, worked friday, worked
saturday and, you know, jumpedright into the four nations
tournament last night.
Second round of the with unitedstates and canada.
We'll get into that in a fewminutes.
But you know it was a greatweekend, just hung out, didn't
do much today, hung out on thecouch, watched golf all day.
And you know it was a greatweekend, just hung out, didn't
(06:04):
do much today, hung out on thecouch, watched golf all day.
And you know, genesis Open hadto be moved to Torrey Pines
Second time the Tours played atTorrey.
In what four weeks, maybe?
Dude?
What a difference in four weeks.
The course conditions, ugh, dude, the rough, oh my Lord, wow,
(06:28):
wow, wow.
I mean we were talking to afriend of the podcast, or I was
the other night, and that'sRicky Romano.
And dude, he was like it wasalmost unplayable.
You know the pictures and thevideos and the divots.
(06:50):
I mean I don't know if you sawthe one when Rory hacked it out
of the rough on that one holeand a dude, 15 yards behind him
caught the divot.
It was hilarious.
I mean Torrey showed its teeththis week.
I mean it showed why it's beena two-time US Open venue and
it's not a fancy.
(07:10):
I tell people sorry real quickbefore you get in.
I tell people that, no, I usedto play Torrey a lot.
It's one of my favorite, if notfavorite, golf courses.
I got to play on a regularbasis, to the point where I
named my dog after it.
You know right, I tell peoplewhen I'm going to play and I
(07:31):
would joke, I would say, beforeI go to Torrey Pines I would
sharpen the grooves on my fouror five and six iron because
it's such a long golf course.
It's not, it's not tricked out,it's not fancy, it's just tough
out.
It's not fancy, it's just toughgolf in your face.
You better hit the goddamnfairways and if you don't,
(07:53):
you're going to be like ScottyScheffler was yesterday.
And the crazy thing is as bad ashe played all week top five.
Graham (08:08):
What was he?
Plus four on Saturday and stillfinished top five.
Scott (08:12):
That's the golf course we're talking about, you know
it's.
I mean, you got the hazardsleft on four and 12 and three
and that's none other than thePacific ocean, aka black speech
nude beach.
But then the only water hazardyou have is on 18.
(08:32):
And when you're watching thetelecast that that pond on 18,
it looks like it's massive.
And then you go play the golfcourse and literally you could
spit across it.
It's so tiny, wow.
But you know, always funfinishes at Torrey, you know,
(08:56):
and not only a fun finish.
Ludwig, who was dominatingafter the first round a couple
of weeks ago at the farmers, whogot the flu and then was
throwing up on the golf course,comes back four weeks later and
gets the dub and our boys, ourboys governed on the bag.
Nice payday for Hundo.
I mean Ludwig.
(09:19):
I mean not only and this is thisis the last time I say about it
Not only does Ludwig is thelast I'm going to say about it.
Not only does Ludwig have allthe skills, the guy hits amazing
shots.
My guy hits putts.
The 72nd hole he had to hit thefairway had to make birdie on
18 because he was tied.
But he plays fast, like fast,yeah, it fast, yeah, it's
(09:46):
awesome.
The drive he hit on 18 when hehad to hit the fairway so he
could go for the green.
And two, the most pressure hehad on the golf course to hit a
fairway on Sunday.
And he's like, yeah, hold mybeer, I'm just going to hit this
laser 320 down the fairway,hits the green from 244 out Two
(10:07):
putt Game over the end.
The guy's a machine dude.
When I watch him play golf youknow older people like you and
myself can remember the oldcommercial with Albert Pujols on
ESPN and they're like themachine Because everybody called
Pujols the machine.
All I Pujols on ESPN andthey're like the machine Cause
everybody called Pujols themachine.
All I can think about is Ludwig.
(10:29):
The guy's a machine.
Right First time playingAugusta finishes second.
Graham (10:38):
That's impressive.
Scott (10:40):
If he didn't hit the ball in the water on 11 last year in
the in the last round, whoknows what's going to happen?
Right, yeah, but that's a goodpoint.
Props to Skob and Ludwig.
It was fun, and for me, as aperson that loves Torrey to the
point where I named my dog afterthe golf course, it was even
(11:03):
more cooler because I got towatch the best of the best play
the course twice in four weeks.
Yeah.
Graham (11:11):
It's a good point, but, as you said, it was different
though, because this time aroundthe conditions were a little
tougher.
Scott (11:19):
And they didn't have to play the North course, they
played the South course fourtimes.
Graham (11:24):
Right We've talked about it in previous episodes where,
when it comes to the game ofgolf, obviously we want to see
the best players playing in thetournament.
We got to see that more in thiselevated event in this elevated
event.
But my point of bringing it upis in this event, as we were
(11:46):
saying, the rough was longer,the scores were down because
we're such big fans of the game.
I think we're at a point whereit's just like a high score or
high.
What I mean by like going low,it's not as impressive.
Or I mean like you don't haveto go low to be exciting for
golf.
You know what I mean.
Like what you saw this week andhow the rough affected the
(12:09):
players.
I mean, like you said, scottyScheffler on Saturday and just
gotten killed by the roughPeople.
That's what average, howaverage golfers should think.
Like if you hit it in the rough, you should be penalized.
There's too many times wherepros hit it in the rough in
regular weeks and it's just likeall right, I'm still going to
go out and shoot 66.
What?
Scott (12:27):
Yeah, I like to watch golf where par is a good score,
right when you're watching WasteManagement, when you're
watching the American Express.
Graham (12:38):
Well, that's a different one when you're watching the
American Express in Palm Springs.
Scott (12:41):
If you're making par, you're probably losing a half a
stroke to the field.
Oh, there's no rough for sure.
No course.
Conditions like we said lastweek, you're playing in a dome,
but obviously thursday there wasa lot of rain and wind and shit
.
And san diego I mean to thepoint where the second hole on
(13:03):
Torrey South is a short hole andwhen I play it granted, I'm
playing a little bit further up,obviously, but I'm hitting
three wood wedge and from thetour guys they're normally
hitting three wood wedge from 40yards behind where I hit from.
(13:23):
But dude, scotty Scheffler hitfive iron from 165 yards on the
second hole at Torrey's South.
Like those types of thingsshowed their teeth on Thursday.
It was fun, it was awesome.
You know, fowler played, shotthree or four over on the first
(13:47):
round and then he came back andI think he shot 68, 69, three
under on Friday.
And obviously I'm watching thetelecast on TV, but they're not
showing Fowler finishing up andI'm watching his shot by shot on
the PGA Tour app and he hitshis drive in the rough and then
he hits the next shot and he'sgot 170 yards in on 18, which is
(14:10):
a par five.
And I'm like, wow, he must havehad a shitty lie.
And then he's got 70 yards infor his fourth shot and I text
Romano and I'm like, did you geta bad lie on 18?
He goes a couple and that's apar five for a PGA Tour player.
(14:30):
Just showing you you hit it inthe deep shit, good luck.
Graham (14:38):
Hey, we're all human yeah.
Scott (14:39):
Something we mentioned a couple weeks ago that we were
super excited about was Tigerplaying in the event.
It is Tiger's invitation to theGenesis, and then he had to
pull out because, unfortunately,his mom passed away.
And something pretty cool thathappened today is all the
players on the first hole got apin from the starter with their
(15:02):
scorecards A red pin with hismom's name on it.
Pretty cool, pretty special,pretty neat.
Uh, one more thing before wejump is Wednesday, normally
Wednesday, uh, pga tour eventsis pro-am day.
All the AMS that played in thepro-am for the Genesis open on
(15:24):
Wednesday we were all LAfirefighters because of the
fires.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, pretty amazing.
That's dope.
Pretty sick, right.
Wow, yeah, pretty cool.
Graham (15:36):
That's sick yeah.
Scott (15:37):
People forget why the tournament was moved.
Yeah.
Graham (15:46):
And it's funny you bring that up Dude, southern
California is getting crushed.
They had all those fires.
Dude, they're getting flooded.
Yeah, like the rain.
Dude, costa Mesa is like.
I'm just watching videos on myphone.
I'm like what the hell is goingon right now?
Scott (16:03):
Like just flooded and flooded.
Graham (16:05):
you know, up in Malibu, I mean shit is just falling
apart.
I'm like what is going?
On right now Yep.
Scott (16:13):
But hey, the West Coast swings over.
We got you know tournament inMexico next week, and then
tournament at PGA National whatused to be called the Honda the
next week, and then it'sstraight to Arnie's place, dude
Bay Hill.
Graham (16:30):
It's getting?
Is Honda used to be Doral?
No?
Scott (16:35):
Honda used to be the Honda at PGA National.
Now it's called something weird.
I don't know what the hell it'scalled now.
Announcer (16:41):
Okay.
Scott (16:42):
But anyhow, the Masters it's closed bro.
I don't know what the hell it'scalled now, okay, but anyhow,
the Masters it's close bro.
Graham (16:48):
I don't want to don't no , don't.
Scott (16:51):
No, I'm just saying it's close.
Graham (16:55):
I know it's the jealousy in me.
I'm sorry, CBS, I mean.
Scott (16:58):
Jim Nantz.
As he was signing off today, hewas like I think, don't hold me
to it, I think CBS's nextbroadcast is Augusta.
Announcer (17:08):
Wow, that's crazy.
Scott (17:10):
Yep, but anyhow, let's switch it on over.
I know something you don'treally want to talk about.
We're just going to mention itreal quick Spring training Major
League Baseball underway thisweek, you know.
Announcer (17:23):
Who yeah?
Scott (17:24):
A lot of people carry a gram.
Graham (17:27):
I'm just kidding.
Scott (17:28):
But something I mentioned as we kicked off the episode,
today was the first Sundaywithout football until
meaningful games in September.
But with that being said, therumors going around right now
and free agency Spicy Freeagency starts, I think.
(17:52):
The new league year starts inwhat?
March, pretty much a month away.
15th, I think yeah, it's almosta month away, and then the
draft is another month.
Announcer (18:00):
Yeah.
Scott (18:00):
Dude teams are dropping some players, cutting them.
I saw the Dolphins released therunning back.
I can't remember Mostert, yeah.
Graham (18:12):
Raheem Mostert, I saw your.
Scott (18:13):
Steelers release somebody to free up $13 million.
Yeah, what's his name?
I can't think of his name.
Graham (18:21):
Preston.
Scott (18:21):
Smith, yeah, but dude it's.
Graham (18:25):
I was pissed, I was pretty bummed about that.
I was like damn, he's Dude forsomeone that came in at the
trade deadline.
He stepped right in andproduced, but you know he's a
little older of a player and forthat cap hit.
I mean, it's not thatPittsburgh doesn't have money,
but you know they want to funnelit in other places.
Announcer (18:43):
I.
Graham (18:43):
Pittsburgh doesn't have money but they want to funnel it
in other places.
I mean they got people theyneed to pay.
But yeah, I mean we'll get intothat later.
Scott (18:49):
Yeah, it was just.
This is the time where yourplayer personnel department and
your GM and your salary capadvisor this is where they're
doing their work.
This is where they're earningtheir checks.
Graham (19:03):
Oh, this is where teams get built, folks, if you don't
follow football that closely, ifyou're just a casual fan, this
is literally the bread andbutter of your football team.
This is the time they justfinished I think it was last
week the Reese's Senior Bowl.
Do you know what that is, theSenior Bowl?
(19:23):
Yeah, no, it's called theReese's Senior Bowl.
Yeah, week, the reese's seniorbowl.
Which?
Do you know what that is thesenior bowl like?
Yeah, you know it's called thereese's senior bowl.
Yeah, it's pretty much like thecollege all-star game for
seeing more or less.
You know they have down inmobile yeah, in mobile, and it's
just like all the personnelguys are down there, gms are
down there, and it's just likeonce you hear that going on,
that's when really the busstarts going, because it goes
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pretty much from there.
And then the combine in acouple weeks, and then I mean
once the combine hits all the, Imean I don't want to say the
rumors, but that's when all thespeculation and what's going to
happen, what, where, and we'regoing to go back and forth like
who the Chargers are going totake, who the Pittsburgh is
going to take, who are theygoing to take?
Like what are the Patriotsdoing at three is going to take,
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who are they going to take?
Like you know what, what arethe patriots doing at three?
You know all this crazy stuff Imean for not having ball on.
There's plenty of ball to talkabout.
So I mean even right now.
I sent you last night, uh, alittle something I saw on
instagram where it was the, thebillboard saying down in
indianapolis Rogers, don't comehere.
Announcer (20:24):
We don't want you.
Graham (20:24):
You know what I mean it's just like the Jets were
like yeah, we don't need you,bro, do your own thing, and
that's great.
Well, I don't want to say it'sgreat, but to us it's perfect,
because now we get to banter forhow long.
It's just where's Aaron Rogersgoing to go?
How about this?
Does any team like, do they?
(20:49):
Want him, yeah, like is there ateam that still want aaron
rogers?
Scott (20:50):
and I'm not saying that, talking you know what I'm, you
know what I'm getting ready tosay when I talk about aaron
rogers, what I've already.
Graham (20:56):
Waster domus has spoken yeah, well, it hasn't been
mentioned yet.
Scott (21:01):
Via text with you and with TP.
If the Rams somehow tradeStafford, which I think it's
going to happen, it's not goingto happen for what they want
from the Giants, the thirdoverall pick, I mean Stafford is
37, and he's owed a shit ton ofmoney.
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But if somehow Stafford isdealt I've told you the other
night it makes sense dude AaronRogers to the Rams.
He's a fill in quarterback fora year, maybe two.
There's no quarterbacks thatthe world wants this year.
Next year's draft class comingout of college Quarterbacks are
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a lot.
There's a lot of them.
Announcer (21:52):
Yeah.
Scott (21:53):
And and the Rams finally have first round picks.
Whatever they can get forStafford, you get Rogers who
let's just go out and say it theRams played the Eagles better
than anybody else in theplayoffs.
I mean there was a fourth downplay at the end of the game
where incompletion happened that, if it was complete, could have
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scared the oh absolutely heck,saquon broke one in that game.
Graham (22:25):
If that got contained, I mean look, obviously anything
could have happened, but theydefinitely played them the best.
Scott (22:32):
So Rodgers you know, Rodgers going to the Rams makes
sense to fill in until theydraft their future.
Yeah, Indoor, yeah, exactly.
But the thing I had to bring upin this was the rumors slash.
I don't.
Some people say it's 100%bullshit.
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Some people are saying it's not.
The Steelers reached out to theJags for Trevor Lawrence.
Oh no, I've read things thatsay that's 100% bullshit.
It's for clicks, like our boy,andy, always says.
Graham (23:15):
But then I've read things that are like no, it
won't for clicks, no, I've well.
Some people that I follow thatare reporters for Steelers on
YouTube.
They, I mean, they talked aboutit and the way they talked
about it they made it sound likeit was a legit claim and I just
one.
They just paid the guy whatyou'd have to give up to get him
.
You have a new coach.
(23:35):
Why would you get rid of yourquarterback, who you paid to be
your franchise number one?
Granted, where you're drafting,you really want to start over
fresh with someone new, like theJaguars're on the rise last
year.
So before the season startedlast year, would you not say how
they finished the previous year?
Before that you would thinkthey were on the rise really and
(23:58):
then not.
Scott (23:59):
Not really because they waved their terrible towels and
then they got the terrible towelcurse and then lost the rest of
their games.
So no, I would not say they'reon the goddamn rise, graham.
Graham (24:11):
Hey, I'm not going to lie.
I like how you believe in thefaith of the terrible towel
curse.
So thank you.
Scott (24:17):
Well, you play with smoke you're going to get the fire.
I mean, let's face it.
I mean, let's face it, TrevorLawrence got paid because the
Jaguars beat the Chargers in theplayoffs when we were up 27 to
nothing.
Trevor Lawrence, he had acouple plays, but let's don't
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say he was the reason.
Graham (24:43):
Let's say the reason was yeah if the Chargers would have
ran the ball.
Scott (24:46):
Brandon Beaniehead Staley would have ran the goddamn ball
.
That game's over.
But whatever, we're not evenbeating that dead horse.
Andy, I don't know, dude, Idon't know.
Graham (25:02):
Trevor Lawrence is a good player, but I heard
something the other day andhonestly I kind of like it.
There's only two ways to getbetter in this league.
Right, if you're a team that'salways in the middle of the like
, you do well enough to like,okay, you make the playoffs, or
(25:22):
you're doing well enough and youjust miss it like.
My point is, if you're draftingin between 16 and 22, you're a
decent team, but like you can'tget top level talent because
you're not bad enough to getthose low, you know, those top
10 picks.
So, thinking about that, I'mlike you know what I'm not
(25:42):
saying I wouldn't.
I don't want pittsburgh have alosing season, or I do want them
to have a losing season, but itwas proposed.
Yo, let's just pay Fields,let's just give him a little
prove-it deal and just stick itout.
If he wins, great.
If he doesn't, great.
Because if he doesn't, then hey, dude, pittsburgh Steelers
(26:06):
could draft in the top 10.
I mean, dude, pittsburghSteelers could draft in the top
10.
I mean, dude, when we draftedRoethlisberger we were, I think
it was like 11?
Announcer (26:15):
11 or 12.
Graham (26:23):
I mean Pittsburgh hasn't drafted inside the top 10 in 20
plus years.
So I mean I don't want to wastea year for Cam Hayward.
I mean he only has a coupleyears left.
I don't want to waste a year ofTJ, but for the development of
the team it could work out.
Because if Field does bad andwe have a top pick, hey, I don't
mind being in the ArchieManning sweepstakes.
Scott (26:44):
Yeah, you're not going to be in the Archie Manning
sweepstakes.
Graham (26:48):
Yeah, you're not going to be in the Archie Manning
sweepstakes, I know I knowthat's not going to happen?
Announcer (26:53):
I hope it doesn't happen for your sake.
Graham (26:54):
okay, let's say that.
Trust me, what little hair Ihave left will be boobah.
That's not going to happen.
I'll be ripping it out.
Scott (27:10):
That's not going to happen, but I don't know there's
.
I mean, look at my Chargers.
Okay, what did we win?
Five games last year, yeah,enter Harbaugh and we went 11.
Go to the playoffs With a teamon paper that wasn't supposed to
do what they did.
I mean, we got rid of Keenan,we got rid of Mike Williams, we
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were cap strapped and Ortiz gotcooking and started signing
these guys to one-year deals.
A new coach comes in, newstructure, a new culture.
That's not happening inPittsburgh.
Tomlin's not going anywhere.
I don't care what anybody says.
Who are you going to bring into replace Tomlin?
Announcer (27:54):
It's not happening.
Scott (27:55):
Okay, no, the.
Steelers are not looking for aculture rebuild like the
Chargers were Okay.
Graham (28:04):
No, but I will say this Okay to the little things, and
(28:25):
by little things I mean hedoesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't
give chatter any breath.
So what I'm saying by that is,sometimes you gotta read the tea
leaves, Tom, and you gotta hearthe chatter and you gotta hear
what everyone's saying.
You know what I mean.
Everyone says, oh, you're aplayer's coach.
Well bro, if you're a player'scoach, that's great.
(28:47):
But if, oh, you're a player'scoach, Well bro, if you're a
player's coach, that's great.
But if people know what you'redoing, if people know that
you're stale like you, have tochange it up.
The whole mantra of like the NFLhas changed.
You can't say like, oh, it'syour 11 versus my 11 and we're
just going to duke it out andsee who wins.
It's like dude, strategyability, all that changes.
(29:08):
Like you can't just say, oh,we'll tell you what we're going
to do, but our guys are betterthan yours, so we're just going
to beat you.
Like that just doesn't work inthe NFL anymore.
Announcer (29:16):
Like that used to work but obviously that shit
doesn't work anymore.
Graham (29:21):
So it's just like you.
You have to evolve and the factthat Tomlin's been with
Pittsburgh for now 18 seasons,bro, switch it up.
It's time Because the fans haveturned Dude.
There's fans that bought signsto tell the owner, like yo, get
rid of this film.
And you know they saw it 100%.
(29:43):
You know they did 100% thewriting's on the wall.
I'm just hoping, tomlinresponds.
Scott (29:49):
Remember Fields was 4-2 when Tomlin benched him for Russ
.
Graham (29:58):
Yeah, but it was an ugly .
4-2, though.
Scott (30:00):
Well, the 2 was ugly because you lost to the goddamn
Cowboys and the Colts, but the 4were good to the goddamn.
Graham (30:09):
Cowboys and the Colts, but the four were good.
No, no, we won four good games,but I'm just saying watching
those games like it wasn't like,and then y'all beat the Jets on
Monday night when you werethere and the whole world
started praising Russ.
Yeah, because he actually threwthe ball down the field.
We didn't need fields to you to.
We won a lot of those gameswith short passes and him
(30:31):
running around.
Like you can't win in the NFLby just running around, oh, ok,
did you watch the Super Bowllast week?
Scott (30:42):
Jalen Hurts had 72 rushing yards, most in Super
Bowl history.
Graham (30:48):
One of those.
He broke for like 30 or 40,number one, but yeah, he also
threw for over 300.
Fields hasn't thrown for over300 since Well.
Scott (30:58):
I'm just going to say if I had AJ Brown and Devonta Smith
to throw to, I could maybe, andI had that offensive line and
Saquon behind me.
Announcer (31:07):
I could probably throw for 300 fucking yards,
Graham.
Scott (31:10):
So let's simmer the fuck down right now.
Okay, just throwing that outthere.
Graham (31:20):
I mean yeah.
Scott (31:22):
Anyhow Touche.
Announcer (31:25):
Let's switch it up real quick.
Scott (31:26):
Let's just jump right into the Eagles parade on Friday
, on Valentine's Day, and I sawthe best memes ever from chicks
on Instagram, on all over theplace.
Well, I knew my Valentine's Daywas ruined when they scheduled
the parade for Valentine's Day.
You know, I knew my significantother was going to come home
(31:46):
blacked out, drunk and yada,yada yada.
But something we mentioned lastweek was, you know, devonta
Smith was the first player fromAlabama to score a touchdown
right in the Super Bowl.
So I saw something the othernight and I was like, wow, this
is insane.
Got to screenshot it for thepodcast.
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Not only was he the firstplayer from Bama to score a
touchdown in the Super Bowl, hewas the fifth player in history
to win the Heisman collegenational title and Super Bowl.
Do you know who the other onesare?
You might be able to guess one,maybe two, because they were in
our time, but I'm not evengoing to make the answer.
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Charles Woodson, michigan wonthe Heisman won the National
Championship, won the Super BowlReggie Bush.
Graham (32:41):
Marcus Allen.
Scott (32:42):
I was going to guess him.
Marcus Allen and Tony Dorsett,now add Devonta Smith, once
again proving Howie Roseman, youthe man.
Announcer (33:03):
But not only was it the man.
Scott (33:04):
Did you see?
My guy took a beer can to theface.
Oh dude, he had a gash on hisforehead.
Graham (33:15):
Then he gets a.
I saw the photo, I was likedamn.
Scott (33:18):
Then he gets the mic dude and the first thing he says is
I bleed green, as you guys canall tell bleed green, as you
guys can all tell dude it was.
It was sick.
The I will say this coolestthing I saw all week, especially
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at the super bowl parade, wassaquon would saquon do gra'd,
Saquon do Graham Maybe one ofthe coolest things I've ever
seen in my life in sports,Literally watching it at work.
I got the parade live on my TVin my office and I didn't see it
happen live, but I see thenotification come out from
(34:01):
whatever one of the sportsplatforms and I'm watching it
and literally brought tears tomy eyes because what my guy did
for that kid platforms.
And I'm watching it andliterally brought tears to my
eyes because what my guy?
did for that kid.
Graham (34:17):
And folks know he didn't hand him the trophy, but
basically what he did was betterthan handing him the trophy.
Oh, facts, facts.
So obviously they're going downthe street on the parade and
all those people are there.
Saquon notices, as he looks tothe right, because the kid must
have said something.
One of his ball boys is therewith his homies.
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He noticed.
Saquon notices him, dabs him up, gives him a hug.
They chat and then he's likewait a minute, you're a part of
the team grabs and puts his armaround him, picks him up and
picks him up over the uh, Iwouldn't call it a ledge, but
whatever was blocking wherewe're blocking off where people
were standing barricade, pickshim up over the barricade.
(35:03):
It's like playa, you're a partof this team, come hit, come
party with us and just get someof them.
They walked right down thefield.
I was like dude, that is thedude.
You are the nicest, mostgenuine person ever.
Scott (35:15):
Literally Represent Penn State, by the way, literally but
I was like dude that is, andI'm like you could see.
You couldn't hear what theinteraction was, but you could
see the kid Saquon sayssomething to him and the kid's
like shaking his hand or shakinghis head and Saquon's like F
that let's go bro.
Yeah, and could you imaginebeing that?
(35:36):
I don't know how old the kidwas, I don't even know his name
Irrelevant.
Could you imagine being thereat the Superbowl parade and
you're his boys, boys with thatkid, and all of a sudden Saquon
Barkley picks your boy up overthe barricade and now he's up
with the team.
Graham (35:53):
Done, Done Alright, Hope I'll catch you later.
Scott (35:57):
See ya Of all the bad shit that comes out about
athletes in the professionalworld.
Why was that not blown up evenmore?
You know that's a very goodpoint.
That could be a 30 for 30episode in itself.
Announcer (36:14):
Yeah.
Scott (36:16):
The highlight of Saquon's career after the best season of
his career wins, his firstSuper Bowl and the unselfishness
of him walking down in theSuper Bowl parade seeing his
ball boy picking him up over thebarricade bringing him to the
party.
Not only that, saquon's rippingshots out of some dude's
(36:38):
Hennessy bottle in the crowd.
Graham (36:45):
Dude Yo, it needs to Look.
I I'd do it too, but you got toyou trust these mofos.
Scott (36:53):
Dude, the last thing anybody in Philly is doing is
giving something to Saquonthat's going to hurt my guy.
Graham (36:59):
Yeah, I mean Facts, facts.
Scott (37:04):
But dude, it was.
I mean, I can't say it enough,dude.
I've seen it with my son theway he looks up to Taylor
Heineke.
Taylor Heineke is a backupquarterback in the NFL.
Now you got Saquon Barkley,with arguably the best season in
running back history, pickingup a ball boy and inviting him
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to the party.
There's no words.
There's no words, none.
Graham (37:34):
You can't talk about how amazing that is, but oh, dude,
it's as soon as I saw it I had.
I shot it right over to you.
I was like, bro, did you seethis?
And you're like dude tear.
Yeah, I'm like.
As soon as I saw it, I was likeit's like you know, there are
(37:56):
good people out there.
Scott (37:57):
You know what I mean.
Like that's just a good,genuine thing to do.
Good is an understatement.
Good is an understatement.
Oh for facts, Facts, but anyhow, best thing I saw at the parade
besides that was my guyclimbing up the light pole
(38:17):
having Kermit the Frog in anoose.
That's but you know, whatever,let's jump into the next topic,
because this is going to be funand something I did not expect
at all, and that is the fournations hockey tournament.
And yeah, first time hockey'sever done it.
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You know, you got Finland,sweden, canada and the United
States and a round robin eventand most people, including
myself, most hockey fans aregoing, they're going to go out
there and they're not going toplay hard and you know it's just
going to be like a all-starevent.
Well, boy, that was provenwrong.
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Wednesday night, when the firstround is hosted in Canada and
Montreal and Canada is playingSweden, and we're looking at the
lines for Canada and we're like, oh my God, when Nathan
McKinnon's on your second line,your team's pretty good, right.
Graham (39:26):
Yeah right.
Scott (39:27):
Anyhow, canada beat Sweden in overtime on Wednesday
night, which was shocking.
But then the United Statesplays Finland on Thursday night,
which was shocking.
But then the United Statesplays Finland on Thursday night.
And obviously during thenational anthem for the United
States in Montreal, theCanadians booed the American
national anthem, win 6-1.
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And so it sets up Saturdaynight, united States versus
Canada.
And so in this tournament thepoints are if you win in
overtime, you only get twopoints.
If you win in regulation, youget three points.
So Canada wins in overtime,they get two points.
United States beats Finland inregulation, they get three
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points.
So it sets up a meaningful gameSaturday night.
And sorry to jump over theFinland-Sweden game, I
questioned on Saturday why isFinland playing Sweden and
Montreal at 1 pm and the UnitedStates is playing Canada at 8 pm
?
Why the big time difference?
(40:33):
And my buddy at work, he goesdude, it's because it's prime
time in Finland and Sweden whenthey're playing at 1 pm and I'm
like, got, it Makes sense.
But dude, the game of all gamesSaturday night Okay, first time
in nine years that UnitedStates and Canada play each
(40:53):
other.
Okay, first time in nine yearsthat united states and canada
play each other people werecalling this the most
anticipated game in hockeyhistory, dude, in years.
Okay, yeah, both teams areloaded, loaded.
It's in montreal.
It's a meaningful game andkudos to the organizers of this
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tournament that they didn't putit the third game of this round,
robin.
They put it in the second game,so it was meaningful.
You know what I mean?
Nobody had clinched, yet theyput it in game two, where it was
a meaningful game.
Yeah, I'm fired up.
You know, fans of our show,listeners of our show, know I'm
like a seven-year hockey fan.
(41:35):
Since the night started, dude,I've watched my Vegas Golden
Knights go to the Stanley CupFinal in year one.
I've watched the Knights win inyear whatever six.
Last night's game was, if notthe greatest game I've ever
watched, with action and beingintense.
(41:57):
I don't know what was.
Wow.
That's a statement, dude, andit's not only a statement by me,
tp, a regular on the show, thebiggest hockey fan, I know.
He said the same thing and Ifelt so sorry for my boy, tp
(42:24):
being the biggest hockey fan, Iknow, because he bought his kids
tickets to Monster Truck,whatever thing, at Angel Stadium
last night and he couldn'twatch the game and oh, he was
crushed dude and I'm texting himand we actually talked about it
this afternoon.
He couldn't watch it.
He was.
You know it's your kids, youknow it is what it is.
(42:46):
You got to do what's right forthe kids, but he was so crushed.
But, dude, national anthemsstart First off.
The Canadian national anthem ina hockey game is maybe one of,
if not the most beautiful thingsyou'll ever see in your entire
life.
If you're a musician and youget called on to sing the
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national anthem in a Canadianhockey game, that's the easiest
job in the world.
Other people are like stressed,all this guy's got to do is say
the first verse and then thecrowd takes over.
You know it's amazing, yeah.
But before the Americannational anthem starts, the PA
(43:31):
announcer says after Wednesday,thursday night, when they were
booing hey, let's be respectfulfor the nations that are playing
, because the Canadian fans boo,right, because of the tariffs
and all that shit.
Well, three lines into theAmerican national anthem, here
comes the booze and it's like ohboy, here we go.
Well, let's just say if youlike sports, you're going to
(44:03):
love the beginning of this game.
And dude, puck drop, fight.
That's insane.
After the first fight and theyget everything settled on the
ice, next puck drop, fight.
And I'm like, are they justshowing a replay of the first
one?
Oh no, they're brothers.
That's the Chuck brothersfighting.
(44:24):
Then after that, we got twoAmericans in the box, two
Canadians in the penalty box.
Then we get a couple of seconds.
We're like, all right, we'regoing to get into hockey.
Oh no, here comes another fight.
We got three.
Dude, we got three fights inthe first nine seconds for the
(44:45):
most anticipated game in recentmemory.
And, like hockey fans and hockeypeople, kids that played, they
call the arena the barn.
Right, they call it the barn.
Well, let's just say, the barnin Montreal was on fire, fire.
(45:09):
I could not believe it, dude.
I thought the sports socialmedia world was going to blow up
.
Do not remember anything closeto that in recent memory,
besides when Kobe died.
Besides when Kobe died, yeah,but something I read tonight,
(45:31):
dude, before the episode, I sentit to my dad and I was like,
wow, this is incredible.
The Tuchuk brothers, okay, werethe two first fights and they
said they had planned it.
Yada, yada, yada.
So this is incredible.
Off the opening face-off wasthe fastest event in the NHL
(45:54):
international game history,topping the previous record of
20 seconds in the 1996 world cupof hockey for a fight that
involved his dad, dude I dude Iit it was so crazy, dude, it was
(46:25):
nut and you want to talk aboutgetting the place fired up?
I mean another thing.
I saw after the game a quote onthe scraps according to
somebody at ice level to Chuck.
Asked Brandon Hagel to.
Saw after the game a quote onthe scraps according to somebody
at ice level to Chuck.
Asked Brandon Hagel to fight.
After the fight, Brady to Chuckyelled to Sam Bennett we're
going next.
Bennett was on the bench, so hecame off the bench onto the ice
for the face-off to accept thechallenge and then JT Miller was
(46:48):
going to fight anybody thatdropped the gloves with him
because his gloves were off.
Graham (46:52):
So far in advance.
He's like, I'm just waiting.
He's like who wants, let's go.
It was so sick.
Scott (47:01):
But then we get into the hockey.
The place is fired up.
Now we got to play a hockeygame.
I mean we're nine seconds in,we got three fights.
It's like, oh yeah, remember,we got to play.
You got to put the thing in thething remember, we got to play,
you got to put the thing in thething.
We're here for something I Idon't remember what it is, but
you know it was so wild.
I mean canada scores first togo up one to nothing on the
(47:24):
power play after the third fight, which still I don't understand
why, whatever, that's anothertopic and then we do, then we
score to tie it up at the end ofthe first.
Somebody drills mcdavid dude atthe end of the first period and
, like I told tp, from thatmoment on united states
(47:46):
dominated the game.
Yeah, it was insane, it waswild.
United won 3-1, clinched a spotin the championship game.
The nice thing is they don'thave to play anybody tomorrow
night because they've alreadyclinched.
If Canada wins, they advance tothe finals, which is going to
be played Thursday night.
(48:07):
But the nice thing is tomorrowthey move from Montreal to
Boston.
Tomorrow and Thursday is inBoston.
Dude, if we get another rematchof United States, canada and
Boston.
Graham (48:24):
Those Boston fans are going to be litty.
Scott (48:27):
It's going to be so sick it's going to be insane.
I mean, I don't know if I sentyou the viewership.
I sent it to my dad.
No, you didn't.
Hockey draws 4.4 millionviewers and 10 minutes into the
game, after all the fights, theyhit 5.4.
Graham (48:51):
That's I mean for hockey .
Scott (48:55):
I guarantee you more people watch that than are
watching this NBA all-starbullshit going on right now.
Graham (49:02):
Bro, I would venture to say that's more than what the
NBA Finals is at, to be honest,but, but I I mean, look, I
remember when we were talkingabout the game last night and I
saw a stat that popped up thatsaid Sidney Crosby is 26, hasn't
(49:29):
or has won 26 matches in a row.
Hasn't lost international.
Has won 26 matches In a row, orhasn't lost in.
Scott (49:35):
Yeah, hasn't lost in 26 matches in a row.
Graham (49:38):
Yeah, international matches, yeah, and I'm just like
dude, because also the thing islike I didn't realize the hype
of it, because this is new Dudethe USA hasn't played Canada
since like the only time theyget to play them is the only
time they get to play them is inthe Winter Olympics.
Because I was like I'm thinkingabout it.
I was like wait, when do theyplay.
(49:59):
Is there a special tournamentbesides what's going on?
Not a special tournament, butdo they do exhibitions or
something?
But no, it's just like not muchhas gone on.
Scott (50:12):
And I was like, wow, that is insane.
Jerry just sent me something aswe're recording.
He goes average NBA salary 11.9million.
Average NHL salary 3.5 million.
This all changed after yesterdayand the reason for I mean it
definitely salaries in the NHLand we may or may not have ever
(50:35):
talked about it on this show.
There's a lot of TV money inthe NBA and the NFL.
There's no TV money in hockey.
If you had that manycommercials in hockey, the game
would take six hours.
Ain't going to happen.
Not going to happen.
The game would take six hours.
Ain't going to happen.
Right, not going to happen.
Yeah, I mean, like I've alwayssaid in NHL Stanley Cup playoffs
(50:58):
, it's the worst time to be abeer drinker ever, because you
go to the bathroom and you missa goal.
Yeah, whereas in the NFL, oh,they went three and out, they're
going to punt and here comes afucking timeout, you know, yeah,
yeah, it time out you know,yeah, yeah, it's the nature of
the beats on, unfortunately it'slike there's, I mean it could.
Graham (51:27):
just a shot in the dark question here, like what do you
think, or should I say, is theresomething that could happen
that their tv rate, like theirtv money, could go up?
Like is there anything they cando, or is it?
I mean not that they're capped,yeah, now that.
Scott (51:36):
ESPN is bought in and everything is on ESPN, espn plus
.
Announcer (51:40):
I don't have an answer to that.
Graham (51:41):
Yeah, I don't know, I have no idea but Because, as you
were saying, that is a goodthing where it's just like once
the period starts, the periodstarts, unless there's like a
major penalty, like the clock'sgoing.
I mean that that is one thingthat is nice about hockey, where
you're not like oh, okay, theclock stopped already, or it's
like how in football it's like,oh, there's only two minutes
(52:02):
left, but you're just like yeah,yeah, but that two minutes is
gonna take exactly and in hockeyit's like no, no, it will take
two minutes.
Scott (52:09):
And not only that.
Like you got superstars, dude,in the NBA Superstars the top 10
, 15, 20 players not playingback-to-back games anymore
because their knee is a littlesore.
We watched last night hockeyplayers.
Okay, cool, I'm willing to godie for my country in a goddamn
(52:32):
exhibition.
Okay, cool, I'm willing to godie for my country in a god dang
exhibition.
Couldn't imagine taking myfamily to go see the Lakers and
all of a sudden, luca and LeBronare oh, it's a day off because
we played it back to back.
Shut up, whatever, I don't knowwhat you say.
I know what you're saying.
Yeah, but anyhow, it's come tothat time.
(52:57):
You wanted me to put it in thenotes, so I did.
Nba, nba All-Star Weekend.
Graham (53:03):
Yeah.
Scott (53:05):
My guy from Virginia won his third slam dunk contest in a
row that nobody could even sayhis name.
I mean, does he even start onhis team?
I don't know.
Does it matter?
You don't even know, do you?
Graham (53:22):
Mack something.
It's Mack McCluck.
Scott (53:24):
All I'm going to say is this NBA, bring the superstars
back.
Dude for the slam dunk.
Graham (53:33):
Dude they've been.
I know they haven't really beendoing that forever like dude.
I don't even think I I did.
Look, I think lebron only didit once in his career.
I don't even know if he did itonce dream on green is calling
tonight's festivities terrible.
Scott (53:49):
He said this is a zero out of ten.
Graham (53:52):
Yeah, it's so hard.
Look, I was watching because wehad up on the TVs at work.
They were replaying All-Stargames from 15 years ago.
They were actually playingdefense.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't how the format is now, where the score was like 180
to 176.
(54:13):
It's like no dude, these gameswere like 105 to 107.
Like they, it actually meantsomething like I don't know what
happened, where it changed,where it's just like all right,
we're not taking this seriouslyanymore and it's just it's
getting to a point now.
It's kind of like the nfl, likewe don't want this turn into a
watered down exhibition.
Where it's just like oh, it'sgoing to be flag football now.
(54:35):
It's just like that's notexciting anymore.
They I mean the NBA obviouslyknows that the numbers are down,
but it's like what are they?
They're trying to reinvent thewheel, but like are they?
I mean, look, perfect example,the kid that won.
Do you even know what team heplays for?
Scott (54:55):
The slam dunk.
Perfect example the kid thatwon.
Do you even know what team heplays for?
The Slam Dunk?
Yeah, no, I just know he's fromVirginia.
That's all I know.
Graham (55:00):
Yeah, so he was wearing a Magic jersey, but the thing is
, because I was saying I'm likeI haven't seen him, he's on
their G League team, exactly.
Scott (55:08):
That's what I was just saying.
The only reason Does he evenplay in a regular game?
Graham (55:13):
Like.
The thing is the fact that hewas the back-to-back champion,
like the dude's six foot, butlike has 54.
Scott (55:23):
I mean, he jumped over a goddamn car.
I'm not taking anything awayfrom that.
Graham (55:25):
Right, oh, no, 100%.
But the funny thing is it'slike you got to take everything
with a grain of salt.
Thing with a grand assault.
This kid now is the only playerever to be a three-time or a
sort of say, a three-timeconsecutive slam dunk champion.
This white boy, the face of,not the face of, the NBA.
(55:47):
But I'm just saying like, like,unbelievable.
And look, am I saying he didn'tdeserve it?
His dunks were amazing.
Like I'd put his dunks upagainst some of the other great
dunkers of the past.
You know, when Dwight Howarddid his thing, I mean, everyone
knows the greatest dunker in theslam dunk contest was who.
(56:08):
I mean, it's pretty obvious, Ithink.
Scott (56:12):
Well, I could argue two people.
Graham (56:13):
Well, you're not really a basketball guy, so I don't
know if you know this.
Scott (56:17):
Okay, 23.
Graham (56:22):
Do you know their names?
Scott (56:23):
Jordan when he did the foul line thing Alright.
In my mind the most impressive,yeah, five foot, whatever Spud
Webb.
Graham (56:38):
Alright, that was impressive.
Impressive, I would say what?
I'm three inches taller than myguy and I can hardly cut to the
goddamn net and this guy'sfucking winning dunk contest so
don't come at me an impressivewell, I was gonna say, uh, vince
(57:01):
carter, oh yeah, that when hehas, I mean that, one year, yeah
, I mean, he basically justopened the lid off and just was
like yo, I'm here, let's go, andyou ain't going to forget about
me type of situation.
So but yeah, I mean it's.
I mean, look, the NBA weekendis just, it's not the same
(57:24):
anymore.
But hey, it's news, that's whatwe talk about and we have, you
know, obliged you.
So it's over and on to the next.
Next, and I mean unless we got.
Scott (57:37):
Yeah, I got one more thing and I think we may or may
not have talked about it.
Last night I saw something comeup, uh, instagram or whatnot.
It said in 2022 the commandersoffered the draft pick they used
on jayden daniels in a packagefor russell wilson.
They offered him three firstround picks for russ, but the
(58:01):
seahawks and wilson decided togo with denver.
Wow, I remember that too.
I remember the the media in myarea going all in on Russ Dude.
Graham (58:21):
Three first rounders for at the time, supposed to would
have been what 33-year-old RussI mean what did Denver give?
Scott (58:29):
They gave him Noah Fant and all these other people.
I mean what did Denver giveSeattle?
Graham (58:36):
I mean there was definitely a first.
Was it a first and then asecond later on, or two?
First, I mean like there wasdefinitely.
Well, because they had playersin there, it, you know, it eased
it up a little bit.
But yeah, I mean I don't know,I just think we're at the point
(59:00):
where it's just like, are wegoing?
Scott (59:03):
to really see a team give away three first round picks
anymore.
I mean that's a lot After thesuccess of Stroud last year's
rookie season and after thesuccess of Jaden Daniels this
year, Bo Nix this year?
Yeah, I don't think so.
Graham (59:21):
Yeah, I'd have to agree with that.
Scott (59:23):
I mean, granted, stroud had a little bit of a sophomore
slump, like everybody says, butalso his offensive line was
garbage.
Yeah, you know he still beat myChargers, but that was more a
defense, but still, let's see, Idon't know, man, I don't know.
There was something else Iwanted to talk about.
(59:48):
Where is the picture?
What was I going to say?
Graham (59:53):
Well, you already talked about Sir Stink a lot Kellen's
shitting himself.
Announcer (01:00:00):
I'm trying to think of a nickname for him.
Scott (01:00:02):
Here we go, max Scherzer.
Announcer (01:00:06):
This is hilarious.
Scott (01:00:08):
So you know when he was traded originally.
There's all these terms in hiscontract where the team that
trades for him has to pick upsalary and stuff.
Thank God he didn't do what hedid with the Rangers last year,
so the Mets are off the hook,but Scherzer just signed with
the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays are payingScherzer $15.5 million in 2025.
(01:00:31):
$15.5 million in 2025.
The Nationals are going to payMax Scherzer $45.5 a year until
2027.
And the Dodgers are paying him$15 million in 2028.
There's got to be some kind ofcap coming for Major League
(01:00:53):
Baseball.
Graham (01:00:54):
No there has to be.
There has to be, because I wasjust going to say not to cut you
off?
Scott (01:00:59):
Yeah, no, go for it.
Graham (01:01:01):
I was just going to say can we just fast forward to the
playoffs?
Because, dude, it's what theMets and the Dodgers, and then
on the AL side, it's like brobarring major injury to multiple
people, you have to have, likea cinderella team, come out of
(01:01:21):
nowhere or just, you know, playthe most unbelievable baseball
for however many games for it tobe any different, like it's, I
mean, it comes down to it.
Do do we like seeing the samefive teams?
Scott (01:01:36):
and that's the thing with the nfl there's all kinds of
parody exactly.
Graham (01:01:40):
There's no parody in baseball there is to have that
many fucking games like and youknow, that's why it's just like,
why 162 if it's the same fourteams?
Like why start baseball at theend of march and april when
there's still snow and do on theground like dude, start in may
and then, like you know, end ofseptember or at the end of
august, like, or I mean they'renot gonna do it because the
(01:02:03):
record's like I get all that,but like something has to change
because it can't be good forthe game just to have two teams
literally just be like all right, I'm gonna open up the
checkbook and I'm just going tobuy you and you and you and you
and you and you.
Especially now with all thisdeferred payment that has to
eventually bite teams in the ass.
(01:02:23):
It has to.
Scott (01:02:26):
Jump real quick on the Angels.
Okay, the Nationals win theWorld Series.
The Angels give Rendon thismassive salary at third base.
He's played like 12 games inthe last three years and now
he's already out for the seasonInsane.
And he's getting paid 38 milthis year.
(01:02:46):
I mean, somebody put up a jokethe other night.
I'm trying to look for thepicture.
It said all right, officially.
Now that Rendon's out, April30th or whatever is National
Rendon Day, bobblehead day, andit's got him in a wheelchair.
Graham (01:03:12):
I don't even.
It is what it is, it's crazy.
Scott (01:03:16):
It's crazy, it sucks, but I don't know.
I don't know.
We got a little hockey tomorrownight.
We got the championship gameThursday night.
Uh, graham, we're going to getsome snow here, supposedly on
Wednesday.
I hope we get.
I hope we get pounded so Idon't have to go to work on
Friday, so I can stay up lateand watch the hockey on Thursday
(01:03:38):
.
But even though football's over.
We've still got a lot of shitto talk about A lot.
Oh facts, facts, you know, and Igotta give a shout out and this
was not on the notes, but I gotto give a little shout out and
(01:03:59):
I have no idea who these peopleare, and you can edit this while
you took the while I'm editingthis.
Uh, we have some people.
The platform we use for thisepisode and this podcast we can
see locations where peoplelisten to our episode.
We can't see names, but we cansee locations.
(01:04:21):
So we've got some people.
We don't have a clue.
We eat ribs with this dude.
Who they are?
We got some people in France,the Ukraine, japan and Australia
listening to us.
Whoever you are, I love you.
Thanks for listening.
And they're consistent dude.
(01:04:42):
They're listening every week.
When I saw that the first time,I was like I'm sorry, what I
mean?
This little area in Japan Ican't even pronounce.
It's like N-A-G-O-Y-A is thecity and the country is
A-I-C-H-I Konnichiwa is all Ican say.
(01:05:08):
I have fun.
People in France.
I hope your ladies are startingto shave their legs.
Other than that, I like to goto France because the women over
there don't wear no underpants.
Graham (01:05:25):
Let's go this isn't the 90s, bro, this is 2025 you know
they're up to date now.
I don't know.
I mean, that's what the homielike we've tried to guess.
I'm thinking that France is myold roommate.
(01:05:46):
I'm hoping.
I've been telling the list andhe says he is, so who knows if
he actually is?
Scott (01:05:50):
Okay then If it is who the fuck is in Ukraine, Japan
and Australia have anothershrimp on the barbie.
I mean, whatever, Make it makesense.
Like we always say, Graham, getus out of here.
I had to give a shout out.
Graham (01:06:08):
No, hey, shout out to the listeners all around the
world.
Shout out to you.
Shout out to Shout all aroundthe world.
Shout out to you.
Shout out to Shout out toKellen.
Shout out to my girl, bella.
Shout out, wait, who else?
Yeah, just shout out to theloyal fans.
And Scott, it's always apleasure doing the podcast with
(01:06:31):
you and, as the best homiealways says, buh-bye.
Scott (01:06:35):
Good night friends.
Next time we'll hear Jim, isthat the Augusta national golf
club?
And hopefully Thursday night.
Good night you, poutine, eatenBeeps.
Go USA, let's go.
Graham (01:06:52):
Got him.
Announcer (01:07:09):
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