Takes

Matthew Stafford will eventually be a Hall of Famer based on his career passing stats

I'm not saying that. I think that Matt Safford is like an incredible hall of fame quarterback. I've my, my statement has simply been that he will, his career will be there by the end... mass, Sanford's going to end up like top six all time and passing. So, and he's also going to, no, one's saying that he's right now, if he retired, he would be a hall of Famer... My argument was always under the assumption that he plays until he's, I don't know, like 38, 39.

Sean McVay should retire and join ESPN's Monday Night Football for more money and fewer hours

I'm going with the ESPN Monday night crew on the hot seat because supposedly if McVay wants out, ESPN wants him in for Monday night football. Tony Romo makes 18 million... Why would he want to work? Like 100th of the amount of hours and time and stress for, for more money? Yeah. I, I think that's a pretty good deal.

Kyler Murray leads the league in nonsense

All of this nonsense is not what I'm about. Never has been, never will be... All that says it, all, all of this nonsense that I, that I directly caused is I'm not. And you can make the case that this is just more nonsense, correct? I think Kyler Murray leads the league in nonsense.

I was fined $10,000 for jokingly saying I checked my phone at halftime

I jokingly said I checked my phone at halftime of the Baltimore game and it NFL took it as a real saying and find me $10,000. Why aren't you allowed [to have a phone]? It's just one of those things where, yeah. I'm not allowed to have my phone on me at all 90 minutes before the game or during halftime.

Cooper Kupp just had one of the greatest wide receiver seasons of all time

I would say off the top of my head, he's up there now with greatest wide receiver seasons of all time is this season. In terms of his regular season and then what he did in the playoffs and what he did on that fourth quarter... you still couldn't stop Cooper Kupp.

Eli Apple is the most disliked player in the NFL

Do you think that there's a more disliked player in the NFL than Eli Apple? Cause they picked on him and it was like every single player that was watching the game, current players, were just roasting the fuck out of him. Like he was getting just dragged by guys that are like the third wide out on some of the worst teams.

The Rams were definitively the best team in the NFL this season

I'm walking away from this season Not being like, oh man, it feels like the best team didn't win. All the Rams were the best team. Like, let's just say the Rams are the best team, the best team in the NFL this year, they played like a complete, you know, they had some moments where they were down... they righted the ship.

The NFL has a 'super team' problem because the last two winners were built this way

I want to get ahead of the take because someone's about to drop this one. Does the NFL have a super team problem? Cause the last two super bowls were ruined by super teams.

Matthew Stafford is now an automatic Hall of Famer

Matthew Stafford is going to be a hall of Famer. It's almost automatic now. Cause he has it... all the stats are there and then he's got the ring. That's it. If you put him now, if he plays three, four more years, pick a quarterback with one Superbowl, he's going to have a better resume overall.

The Bengals are not a fluke and will be good for a long time

The good news, if you're a Bengals fan, is I don't think that the Bengals are a fluke at all. I think that they're a well-built team and they're probably gonna be pretty good for awhile. Hopefully if they can stay healthy.

The Cincinnati Bengals will defeat the Los Angeles Rams 24-20

I still think it's going to be like 24-20 Cincinnati... I'm reverting back fully to what I felt on Monday morning and I'm going to stick with the Bengals.

If Aaron Donald wins Super Bowl MVP, he is in the discussion for best defensive player ever

Aaron Donald, if he wins a Super Bowl and a Super Bowl MVP, he now is absolutely in the discussion for best defensive player of all time. He's already a Hall of Famer... there's only been like two or three guys who've been All-Pro eight out of their first nine years.

Losing to a former assistant in the Super Bowl is a worse legacy stain than losing to Bill Belichick

Losing to your assistant in your second Super Bowl, when it's his first Super Bowl, that is way worse and that will be the reason why the narrative is there. It won't have anything to do with Belichick or the Patriots... if [Sean McVay] loses this game and loses to his former assistant, that's a much harder pill to swallow.

The Super Bowl score will be 32-26 Bengals for a Scorigami

The prop is obvious. It's Scorigami on the Barstool Sportsbook... got to be aligned and take 32-26 Bengals. That would be a Scorigami.

Joe Burrow will have over 36.5 pass attempts in the Super Bowl

My prop is Joe Burrow, over 36 and a half pass attempts... four out of the last five games he's hit over that number. I think it'll be a lot of quick passes... for the Bengals to win, Joe Burrow has to pass the ball 40 times.

Lock of the Decade: The opening kickoff of Super Bowl 56 will result in a touchback

This is the lock prop of the century. I don't know how this was my decade literally. I can't comprehend it... opening kickoff to result in a touchback minus 112. I love it. The Bengals win the flip, kick fearsome is going to kick it like out of the stadium.

My field goal range is up to 75 yards in practice

75 yards. [In college]. I don't know if [Zac Taylor] would let me try 70, but it would have to be the right conditions for sure. I don't know if 70 is the right number, maybe 67 to break the record.

The Rams will beat the Bengals 24-21 in the Super Bowl

I'm going to say Rams 24, Bengals 21. [I don't know the spread]. I'm not a bettor like you guys.

The Rams have a better roster in almost every spot, but Joe Burrow is good enough to win Super Bowl LVI

The Rams are probably better in pretty much every spot but Joe Burrow. And then I say, but Joe Burrow's worth the win. And that's where I'm like the Rams feel like if you did it on paper and you just did a guy off... the Rams are easily better, but Joe Burrow is Joe Burrow.

Odell Beckham Jr. will score a touchdown in the Super Bowl if his child is born before the game

Odell Beckham Jr. looks like he's going to have his first kid in the next couple of days. If he does, you know what that means? He's scoring a touchdown, Odell Beckham to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl. MVP, maybe take a flyer for sure... he's got to be able to score the touchdown and then do the baby rocking dance with the football.

Seeing Matthew Stafford succeed is a slap in the face to the Lions organization

Everything that they, when they say something nice about Matthew Stafford, it's such a slap in the face to the Lions. And I know that like, look, bad organizations are bad organizations... but they're like, yeah, Matthew Stafford, this is moment. He was spent so many years just on that terrible team with that terrible organization. Yes. It's like, he got out of hell. It's like, he's the first man to ever escape the devil.

Mike McDaniel is the highest man in America but he will save Tua Tagovailoa

Mike McDaniel is the coach of the Dolphins now... He's going to save [Tua]. He's the highest man in America. I love him though. He is the perfect Colorado bro... he's just like, man, professionally. We are gonna, it's going to be cool. It's going to save Tua.

It is detrimental to your soul to root only for the Jets

I'm a Jets fan and it's, it's just impossible to only root for the Jets. It's not a possibility cause there's no, listen... it would be detrimental to your entire mindset to your person. If you just sat down and watched two quarters a day, that sounds like a punishment.

Tom Brady should have admitted he got lucky on the Tuck Rule in the 30 for 30

I was watching over her shoulder and Tom Brady... he's sitting on a couch with Charles Woodson. And they actually pull a football out and you can see they're talking about the Tuck Rule... why wouldn't he just say, 'Hey Charles, you know what? You're right. It was a crap call, man. It was, I'm not sure that we deserve that.' Give the satisfaction to someone else.

Christian McCaffrey and the Carolina Panthers are dead to me in Fantasy Football

Carolina Panthers. Nothing. Yeah. I like that. So Chris McCaffrey officially dead to you now. He is dead to me. You know? What's so funny when I auto drafted him... I said to myself, he's going to get injured... So never Carolina Panthers.

Chargers fans are the 'Yacht Rock' of NFL fanbases

Chargers fans are like the yacht rock of fans. You go to that stadium? No one's in like boots, like ready to fight. No, one's like, it's like, everyone's in flip-flops everyone's high... It's literally, it's the yacht rock of NFL teams. It's such a pleasant experience. Charger fans and I it's just like, it's like a Michael McDonald song. It's just like, it's smooth, man. It's smooth.

Mike McDaniel will save Tua Tagovailoa's career

Dolphins hired a new head coach, Mike McDaniel. Watch that clip of his, he seems very media friendly guy, big personality. He's going to save Tua [Tagovailoa].

The NFC is wide open for the next few years

Tom Brady just retired. Aaron Rodgers may go to the AFC who the fuck knows where he's going to end up. Like the NFC is going to be wide open for a little bit.

The NFL will force Stephen Ross to sell the Miami Dolphins

I think that they're going to force him [Stephen Ross] to sell the team. I think this is the only way that an owner could be forced to sell. Because owners have so many skeletons in their closet that they're never going to vote another guy out... But when you start involving like changing the outcomes of games and bribing coaches, things like that. I feel like this is, this is a great excuse for owners to try to sell the team or try to vote them out.

The Washington Commanders name won't matter once the season starts

The team name, I think I said it on Wednesday's show, but, like, people get mad about it for 24 hours. No one, like, will remember it, care. Then football will be back, and we'll be like, who cares? It's not going to be – I don't think it makes or breaks anything.

Major Biden should be the animal mascot for the Washington Commanders

I'm hoping that since we're the commanders, which is the name of one of Joe Biden's dogs, the good one, Major Biden becomes the animal mascot. That'd be awesome to have him just patrolling the sidelines, biting the opponent, pissing and shitting all over himself. That's what I want.

I am on the same career track as Ryan Fitzpatrick

I can see myself, kind of like him [Ryan Fitzpatrick], kind of the same ride, everything... Throughout his career, he just jumped from place to place and was back up and then kind of thrown in and back up and thrown in. And I feel like I'm kind of on that track, hopefully on that track.

Terry McLaurin is easily a top 10 receiver in the NFL

I think that Terry McLaurin is easily a top 10 receiver in the NFL. Some of the catches that he was making this year were just unreal. The guy doesn't drop balls. It's insane.

Tom Brady will sign a one-day contract to retire as a New England Patriot

He is going to New England. He is signing a one-day Patriot contract. There is going to be a ceremony.

Tom Brady's retirement is a '3D chess' move to eventually return to the Patriots

Tom Brady unretires, comes back, plays for the Patriots, and that's why he's not thanking the Patriots yet... This is 3D chess. He's using this to go back to the Patriots because the Buccaneers, he doesn't think, can take him to another Super Bowl. But the Patriots could.

No starting quarterback will ever touch Tom Brady's record of seven Super Bowl wins

Seven Super Bowls will not — I'm going to safely — I really do not think that will be touched by a starting quarterback.

I'm betting on Matt Ryan and the Falcons to win the NFC South next year

I think we, as a group, should do a group bet on one more year, Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons winning the South. Because that's a disaster of a division now.

Stephen Ross should be removed from the league if he truly offered Brian Flores money to lose games

He also says that Stephen Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, offered to pay him $100,000 for every loss during the 2019 season to help the team get a better draft spot... If this is true... Roger Goodell should probably get Stephen Ross out of the league, right?

The 2021-22 Bengals are a team of destiny

I mean, you said team of destiny. I feel like we're a team of destiny.

Evan McPherson is the second-best kicker in the NFL behind Justin Tucker

I do think that he's the second-best kicker in the league behind Justin Tucker right now.

I will get my big toenails removed if Trevor Lawrence doesn't reach an AFC Championship on his rookie contract

I'm so confident that Trevor Lawrence isn't a bust. If they don't make the AFC Championship on his rookie contract, I will get... five years... I will go both of my big toenails removed.

The Chiefs' loss to the Bengals is more heartbreaking than the Bills' 13-second loss

I think that this loss for the chiefs is more heartbreaking than the Bill's loss. Because here's why... Bills went shot for shot. They gave it their all... the chiefs were up at halftime... they're about to put the Bengals away, go to the super bowl. And they in that all falls apart like that. To me, it's bad game that you just keep replaying in your head.

The Chiefs missed their window to be a dominant dynasty

When you start to lose a lot or you don't win what you're expected to. When I get there, like what you were saying, they're going to, they're not going to be the same dominant chiefs for over and over and over and over and over again, they have to change. Like they're missing their window. Their window missed.

Jimmy Garoppolo is 'not a dog'

We learned a couple of things today. One Jimmy G, I don't think he's a dog. I, I think we can conclusively say that Jimmy G not a dog. He had a chance at the end of the game on those last two drives... and they had two just terrible, terrible drives at the end.

Kyle Shanahan has a psychological issue with holding 4th quarter leads in big games

Kyle Shanahan now... there's enough evidence out there to say something is up with Kyle Shanahan late in games. So the last four times... where a team has blown a double digit lead in the fourth quarter, Kyle Shanahan has been part of three out of four of those... something happens. He panicked.

Matthew Stafford is officially a Hall of Famer

The, the, the Stafford hall of fame take is aging beautifully for me because I got last. I just went back and looked, people were fucking roasting me for it. And I always said, if he has insane, like he's a mast an insane amount of numbers... all he needed was a deep run. I think this is it. If he wins one, it's an absolute, no doubter.

Tom Brady will come out of retirement within five years

I'm just going to assume that Tom Brady could come back at any point in the next like five years. It would not shock me if at his like induction ceremony to the hall of fame, Tom Brady announces that he's coming back to the NFL as he's getting inducted, just to fuck them over for one more year.

The Bears' new coaching regime under Matt Eberflus will likely be fired in a few years

This new regime of Matt [Eberflus] and Ryan [Poles] is probably going to be fired, which that is very funny that they just did that again. It's probably going to be fired in a few years anyway. I didn't realize that... I've completely flipped my opinion that organizations fail players and fail coaches.

The Bears should have hired an offensive coach to pair with Justin Fields instead of Matt Eberflus

I was looking at that and I was a little conflicted. You have a young quarterback and we've seen with all these other teams when they're surrounding these guys with those quarterback whispers, whatever you want to call it, these offensive minded coaches, we've seen a lot of success... I personally would have went to the opposite direction of [defensive minded].

Kyler Murray's bad body language and lack of sideline chemistry suggest he isn't a great leader

Something that I've noticed about Kyler [Murray] in the last, maybe three games of the regular season... in that playoff game, the body language from him, like he never had any of his teammates ever around him on the sideline... He always looked like he was either bored or like very sad to be at the games. And yeah. So I think it does make a difference.