Takes

Brock Purdy is now a gunslinger

Is Brock Purdy now a gunslinger? Ooh. Has he transitioned from being a game manager? A guy that won't lose you a game to like, you know, then he was a system quarterback for a little bit and then he went and got so much moxie that I think he might be part gunslinger.

I am officially writing off Geno Smith

I will absolutely write Geno [Smith] off. I'm gonna take the Cowboys on Thursday night when they're at home against Seahawks. I think the Seahawks are in deep, deep trouble... Geno does not look right.

Aaron Rodgers held the Jets hostage by suggesting a return this season

I'm starting to just toss around the idea that [Aaron Rodgers] saying that he's going to come back this year might've hurt the Jets a little bit in the fact that they didn't go out and try to get another quarterback... Did Aaron Rodgers hold you guys hostage this year?

The Dolphins will be 11-3 heading into Christmas

Listen, [the Dolphins] have a chance to really get in a groove here. They've Commanders, Titans, Jets. Ooh, there, there's a very good chance they're 11 and three heading into Christmas.

The AFC South is the future conference of quarterbacks

I'm willing to say that the AFC South, that is the Future Conference of quarterbacks. The Young Guns... Stroud and Lawrence. This game was awesome... I'm very excited to watch the Jags and the Texans play for the next 30 years.

Shane Steichen is the Coach of the Year

The Colts getting to nine, possibly 10 wins, which is crazy. This is Shane Steichen, coach of the year. Yeah. Him, coach of the year.

The Falcons will win the NFC South

This is where the Falcons are gonna maybe string off a couple wins and, and take the NFC South. They're the king turd that's on top. And I think that they've got the best layout for, for holding onto that until the playoffs.

I don't want Caleb Williams on the Patriots

I don't want Caleb Williams. I'll say it right now. Really? Oh, oh, fingernails. Was it the crying? It's the crying thing. I, I have no problem with the fingernails, but I don't, I don't really have a problem with the crying. I just don't know. I feel like there's just a lot of character issues.

The Panthers won't win another game

I don't think the Panthers are gonna win a game again... at Buccaneers: loss. at Saints: loss. Falcons: loss. Packers: loss. at Jaguars: loss. Probably Buccaneers again.

The Bills and Texans will both make the playoffs as wild card teams

[Asked who makes the playoffs]: Texans, Bills. I would like to see CJ Stroud or Josh Allen as the seventh seed... I've taken the Dolphins off Fraud watch... [but] I'm high on the Dolphins.

Rashee Rice will emerge as the primary receiver for the Chiefs

This is the old visualization trick... it's late December. And Aaron Andrews is like, talk to me about how these young receivers have come along. And then they show a highlighter Rashee Rice just like ripping people up. And that's exactly what's gonna happen.

The Eagles are lucky, but they make their own luck

They're lucky, but they're lucky all the time. Right. Which means that they're doing things to make themselves lucky. And they, which is such a good trait to have for a team. Right?

Sean McDermott has the coaching yips

Sean McDermott, it's, he, he's, I honestly think he has like the coaching yips right now... [He's] making no sense. And then they go and they kneel it and they play chicken shit football for overtime.

I love the Eagles to beat the 49ers next week

I love the Eagles next week. Yeah. It's a revenge game for the Eagles, for the Niners saying that they only lost because of Brock Purdy. They kind of took away your win. I love the Eagles next week.

The 7th seed in the AFC will require 10 wins to qualify

Reasonably speaking, I think the seventh seed in the AFC has to get to 10 wins. Yeah. So [the Bills] have to go four and one in the rest of the season.

Austin Ekeler is old and washed

Austin Ekeler's hurt, or at least he's running really slow. He's old washed. Justin Herbert leads the league in sick passes and runs that don't really amount to any any points on the board.

Greg Popovich's move to stop fans from booing was great sportsmanship

My who's back is sportsmanship. Oh. Last week in San Antonio, Greg Popovich during Kawhi Leonard's free throws... he hopped on the mic and he told the fans to stop booing... It was sportsmanship at its finest.

The Eagles are already Super Bowl champions

Congratulations to the Eagles for getting the one seed. I don't see them losing the Max. Congratulations. Eagles. super Bowl champions.

Trading Tyreek Hill was a smart long-term move for the Chiefs

I also think the Chiefs made a calculated move to essentially say, we know that with Patrick Mahomes, he's gonna be the franchise quarterback for 15, maybe 20 years. We have to evolve and stay ahead of this like trading Tyreek Hill for a bunch of draft picks... I have no problem with like, people are complaining that they got rid of Tyreek Hill. Well, yeah, I think that was a smart move for the next five, 10 years instead of right now.

The Lions will whop the Packers on Thanksgiving

I don't think the Lions offense will look bad that bad, two games in a row. I think this might be a whopping by Lions. I think WIC qualifies as a whopping... I think the Lions are that much better than the Packers.

Turkey belongs on Thanksgiving and you shouldn't try to replace it with steak

Turkey on Thanksgiving is what you do. You have to keep doing it. If you start doing steak on Thanksgiving, it now diminishes steak... Let's not try to reinvent the wheel. That's When, you eat Turkey. There's no other time really to eat Turkey. Eat steak all year.

Stuffing is the best Thanksgiving side and should be eaten more often

I want to stand out on a soapbox and pound my chest for stuffing. Oh it's stuffing is the best... we should eat stuffing way more frequently than we do. It's the best.

Sam Howell is a better quarterback than Bryce Young, Zach Wilson, Mac Jones, and Daniel Jones

Sam Howell's better than all those quarterbacks... the Cowboys have killed the really bad teams... the Jets, the Patriots, the Giants twice, the Panthers. Sam Howell's better than all those quarterbacks.

Dolphins will kill the Jets on Black Friday

I said this on Sunday. I'll say it again. I think the Dolphins, they have been taken out a, a fraud watch for me. I think they're very much for real and I think they will kill the Jets. We have Tim Boyle. It's Tim Boyle time.

The Jets' defense will eventually break and stop playing hard because the offense is so bad

The only positive spin zone I would have for the Jets... is that you saw in the Bills game, and this happens for NFL teams, where if the quarterback and the offense is really, really bad, there's a definite point where the defense will... get so tiresome... breaking point where it's like, we can't... we can't sustain that.

USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter stinks and should be fired

My Hot Seat is Greg Berhalter. Ooh. The coach of the US men's national team out. He should be out. Yeah. Hot Seat Greg. He lost to Trinidad in Tobago. Can't do that... He stinks. We brought him back. He doesn't get along with any of the best players on the team. Fire Greg. Fire him.

You cannot leave an undefeated Florida State out of the College Football Playoff

If Florida State can be kept out if they're undefeated? I don't think you can... They won't leave out an undefeated Florida state. I'm pretty confident.

Jayden Daniels is the only logical choice for the Heisman Trophy

I had Jordan Travis actually as my Heisman Trophy winner, but I don't think that you can give it to him now. So you have to go to [Jayden] Daniels. Jaden Daniels would be the only logical choice.

The NFL will eventually face a massive gambling lawsuit over flawed injury reporting

I've been sounding that alarm... If you're gonna make millions from legalized gambling and you're gonna have an injury reporting system that is flawed, that is broken, that isn't enforced, and somebody eventually hides an injury... If I bet on the Bengals and the Bengals hid that information, that would be very relevant to me... they've gotta enforce that rule or they're gonna end up in a massive lawsuit. It's just a matter of time.

Bill Belichick will be the Commanders head coach in 2024

I think what'll happen behind the scenes, over the course of the next six, seven weeks, they'll work out a deal... Watch Bill Belichick to the commanders after the season. I believe it's gonna happen.

Bill Belichick's poor GMing is a bigger problem for the Patriots than his coaching

I would say that it's Belichick, the GM, that has been the bigger problem than Belichick, the coach. So do you put guardrails on his personnel authority or do you let him just run everything like he has in New England?

The NFL will attempt to suspend Jim Harbaugh if he returns to the league

The NFL might duplicate whatever punishment the NCAA imposes on Jim Harbaugh. That tells me the NFL's thinking about it... It wouldn't be on the NFL's network if they weren't thinking about doing it... I look at it as kind of a clumsy effort to blackball him.

Travis Kelce might surprise retire after this season to pursue stardom

I look the guy is thinking about his next career... you gotta know when to make the transition and when the window's open... and it may be that the window for him is never more open than it is right now, or will be after this season.

Robert Saleh and Joe Douglas are both safe for 2024 because of the Aaron Rodgers injury

I think Saleh comes back because of that. Joe Douglas comes back because of that. They're not gonna want to upset the apple cart. They're gonna go even more all in... hope [Rodgers] can stay healthy at 40.

The Falcons will win the NFC South starting with a win this Sunday

I have a theory. I think the Falcons are gonna be good... after the buy. I think it starts right now... I think they're gonna win the NFC South. I think it starts on Sunday.

The Colts are going to make a sneaky playoff run

I'm also very high on the Colts. I think the Colts are gonna be sneaky in maybe the playoff picture... Huge rest advantage for Indy. Indy's coming off a bye.

The winner of the Jaguars-Texans game will win the AFC South

Whoever wins this game [Jaguars at Texans] is winning that division. That's my prediction.

The Bills will make the playoffs and win 2 of their next 3 tough games

I think the Bills are gonna win. I think the Bills are gonna win two out of their next three. Which are at Chiefs. At Eagles at Chiefs versus Cowboys. I think the Bills are going to make the playoffs... everything that could've gone wrong to start their season went wrong... I think the Bills are gonna get back in the conversation.

Max is a crybaby loser for accusing me of cheating at the Lottery Ball

What Max is displaying right now is everything that's wrong with this country... Max is an excuse guy. Max is a loser. If he loses a game, instead of saying, I lost the game, he says, oh, well they cheated... It's pathetic. It's cowardly and it's disgusting... I will take away the, the, the winning 71... I will win it without looking at it before Max does.

The Cleveland Browns are for real

The Cleveland Browns are seven and three. The Cleveland Browns win with a, their third string quarterback in DTR. The Cleveland Browns are for real.

If Joe Flacco wins a Super Bowl with the Browns, he's won two and he's definitively elite — I put a thousand dollars on it at 50-to-1

It would be so awesome if Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl with these Browns. As of Friday I put a thousand dollars future on the Browns thinking that they were gonna get Joe Flacco. So it pays out 50 to 1. If Joe Flacco wins a Super Bowl and he does his normal Joe Flacco thing where he doesn't make any mistakes, gets the pass interferences — that would contribute so much to the Flacco discourse. At that point he's won two Super Bowls. He's elite.

The Steelers' season is over if they lose to the Bengals next week

They're not, the season's not dead yet. But if they drop, if they drop this next game at the Bengals season's cooked.

I am more confident in the Texans now because they proved they can win even when C.J. Stroud has a bad game

For this Texans game, they did not play their A-plus game. And weirdly I'm like more confident in the Texans going forward because they prove that they can win games when C.J. Stroud isn't perfect... When you can win when you're not great, that's a sign of a really good team.

The Texans can win the AFC South

I think that the Texans can win the division. Because they play the Jaguars next weekend... If they beat the Jaguars, they I believe are in first place in that division.

Tommy DeVito might be a franchise quarterback

Tommy DeVito might be a franchise quarterback... he now has more touchdown passes than any QB playing in New Jersey this season. That's Zach Wilson. Obviously Aaron Rogers got hurt. Daniel Jones, Tyrod Taylor. He also has five touchdown passes... the most by a Giants starter in his first two starts since 1950.

The Commanders should keep building around Sam Howell

I'm, I still like Sam, I still think we focus on Sam, we build around Sam. I I have not changed. He's still the guy. Sam's the guy. He had a bad day.

Jalen Ramsey makes the Dolphins' defense elite

Jalen Ramsey changes everything for the Vic Fangio defense. He was awesome. Had two Picks and I, yeah. Like if the Dolphins can play the offense they played at the beginning of the year and the defense, like they're playing right now. They are a formidable team.

Tyreek Hill will break the single-season receiving yards record

Tyreek Hill... is on pace for 2077 yards, which would be a record, obviously the extra game. No one's ever had 2000 receiving yards in the NFL in a season.

Mark Davis should hire Antonio Pierce as the full-time Raiders coach

Mark Davis, you probably don't have to pay him that much. You're already paying two coaches... It's clear that the team's responding to him. Like they're, they, they were in this game. Just give him the fucking give him the job.

Matt Eberflus is not the guy and should be fired by the Bears

Matt Eberflus is 100% not the coach and should be fired. He loses every game like this. He is a complete coward of a coach.