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Last year, Ben Johnson didn't take any head coaching jobs because he felt like he had unfinished business with the Detroit Lions. And I guess he didn't like any of the jobs. But then he goes inside the division. What about the unfinished business and why is Chicago so attractive to him?

Yeah, that was going to be my next question. In terms of attractive quarterback, most of the head coaches out on the market view Caleb Williams as more attractive than Trevor Lawrence.

I wanted to hear that. C.J. Stroud. Was that a question or an answer? I don't even know. We're going to get paid a lot of money at some point here.

Ryan Day. looked very tired yeah he did Sean McDermott no Ryan Day is exactly why you need to like phrase a question around it like Ryan Day's been trying to get into the pros for several years but you know the pros have never been there hell like the Ohio State fan base wanted him out do you think with a couple of jobs open Ryan Day may actually have some bites out there in the pros

We're all watching. He had an interesting quote about that. He really opened the door to it. He's usually been stronger about the next level. This one was like, come get me.

What's a power dynamic in Tennessee? They made on the surface what appears to be an impressive hire, but they've got a kooky front office set up with the head of football operations being a former assistant GM rising to power almost above Rand Carthon. And now they make this hire. Is this new hire going to be the man to make all the decisions?

What? I mean, no, no, no. That was only a hypothetical if Lou Riddick went there along with Deion Sanders because of the Shador thing. By the way, Deion Sanders, what's going on with that?

Dude, Jerry Jones is knocking enough crap for this. You got Kellen Moore. You got Quinn in the NFC Championship game. You had Derrick Henry have this great season. They didn't really address the running back.

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What's the hub down here? You don't see me being a baby. We're back. No, we're not. VPNs are, though.

I'm going to institute a fine every time you say pressure up the middle, though. I got it.

They should trade for Stafford.

They might have been saving him for the NFC Championship.

I mean... Living that Group 1 life, huh?

Active?

The over 20 was plus 300.

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I wonder who he thinks the next American male to win a Grand Slam is. It's a log jam there.

Possibly the only.

The only five minutes.

That isn't a tennis-specific pod, it's us.

I wish the match were better, but the reason why we're being grabbed by the nipples and shaken is, like, if I tell you, hey, on a Tuesday morning at 7 a.m., Bird and Magic are playing 1v1. It's all-time greatness. Those are probably, when it's all said and done, two top five men's tennis players of all time that we just get as a gift here, January Tuesday morning. I'll sop on it every time.

He's fantastic. If he puts together another Olympiad of what he's done in his career, he's a borderline Canton guy. Right now his Canton grade, according to Pro Football Reference, is in the 30s. So he needs a little bit more longevity.

Yeah, they weren't married. Or they were together, certainly. Tony Gonzalez... Puts Amazon on prime in a whole new light, doesn't it? Mm-hmm.

I don't go—

If we're doing name association, it's Ray Lewis, Henry, defense. That's their legacy. But offensively, I mean... Offensively, I probably, because he was there for so long playing the most important position, I'd probably say Flacco. But Jamal Lewis was more excellent at his job in an individual season than arguably anybody. Well, no, Lamar Jackson now. Sorry, I'm showing my age.

Lamar Jackson's probably the offensive player for that.

Does it have the fine for not listening? Because Steve Morton also.

Sure. Are we enforcing not listening fines or are we not?

Fine print, it does say fines are doubled on Tuesdays, but it only applies to Greg. So it's just $7 for not listening because we did the whole Pro Football Reference Hall of Fame score thing.

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Wow.

No, there's too many other guys that are more deserving than I. Levitar, do you think he's going in? No. I think you are.

We've lost Dan.

That's to the tune of Chattanooga Choo Choo. Yeah, we got it. Of course. The Glenn Miller Band, I believe. Not positive. Right. That was Uncle Bill's, my dad's favorite group.

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How many rings do you have there? You won one World Series, yet you're wearing three of the same World Series championship ring.

You're trying to alter history. You only won one title. It's three of the same kind of ring.

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I'm owed, look, take it out of my $30 that is owed to me for guessing Cooper DeGene right. You guys are doing this all wrong.

You could be bummed that Anatomy of a Fault didn't win Best Picture, but that doesn't make it Best Picture.

Hawk, I'm sorry. I asked ChatGPT, when is Andrew Hawkins Day? And they said that there is no official Andrew Hawkins Day. I was like, please clarify. Was he honored with his own day? This is the answer. As of now, there is no official day recognized by any governmental or official body as Andrew Hawkins Day.

The designation of October 20th as Andrew Hawkins Day is a personal initiative by Andrew Hawkins himself celebrated informally on social media. Holy shit.

Apparently, according to advanced computers, it is a personal initiative celebrated by you yourself informally on social media.

I think everybody knows that AI is racially biased. At first it was like, no. But then it had the very cutting remark of a personal initiative by Andrew Hawkins himself.

No, George O'Leary did lie on his resume, but there was another coach. In Alabama, Mike Price? Yes.

Well, this is how we make AI stronger, because AI has been wrong before, and I've had to correct it. AI is racist, man.

Look, I found an article, and I'm going to— Look at this. Finally.

That is not a real seal. The only racially seal that you're going to accept here. Wow. Big news. ChatGPT has capitulated. All right. I sent it the article and it apologized.

I surmise that he did indeed have his own official day, and it's not celebrated by himself.

For the record, there was no hesitation from ChatGPT when I asked about Billy Gilday. It knew it right away.

It's just a fact. It's a historic city with a rich and cultural natural heritage. It's got the Savoy Automobile Museum there. The first outdoor painted Coca-Cola wall advertisement was in Cartersville, Georgia.

And Atlanta, you get your drinking water from Cartersville. So, there's that.

There is no official Jack Ham day.

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I don't think that covers you legally, but go ahead.

No, that's valid. You played in Cleveland. There wasn't much success for you guys.

I mean, Cam has been a little transparent recently about his financial issues, but I guess my best guess would be because MVPs typically make a lot more money.

I'm spiritually with you, but I don't know. My shadow self is tingling. Don't let the shadow emerge! My shadow self is tingling.

Yeah, same.

It's kind of like running the Red Team. We have a Red Team project. You pretend like you're on the other side. And so we'll have you on the Exploratory Committee pretending like you're hostile, but really you're just kind of testing out the ways for Stephen A to, you know, defeat his haters.

Let's do it.

I would assume that most of the people that took the poll were familiar with the fact that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. So they have that kind of base bias here when they're trying to answer this question. So even if Stephen A. Smith had a 2% chance of winning, you would think, well, that would be better than the 0% chance that Hillary...

It's an article out this morning from where Joe Biden's first chief of staff, Ron Klain, is quoted, where he gives some backstory and the debate prep for the debate that ruined America. And he gives some anecdotes about how

Joe Biden left debate prep to go to the pool and fell asleep and how he couldn't remember things and how he was focused mostly on how he didn't think that why people weren't happier that leaders of Germany and France thought that he was doing a good job, why that wasn't resonating more. So I don't know. I mean, I'm kind of surprised that Joe Biden got 27% there, I guess.

I would say that's maybe not a great sign for Stephen A. Smith's potential campaign that he's only coming in at nine points ahead of...

Wyatt, how would you answer that question as a recipient of this poll? You got a phone call. Somebody on the other line, Rasmussen. Wyatt's back. Who would you vote for in Kamala Harris versus Stephen A. Smith? What would you have said?

This is bad news for Gavin Newsom, I think, if you're looking at this. I mean, him and Stephen are competitors across multiple vectors now. They're both podcast hosts. Yes. They are both potential presidential candidates. And you would think that Gavin would have a little bit more...

space between him and and steven a you know in this situation governor of california has some experience people are basically like either seem fine so i don't know if that's good for steven a or seems like it's not great for gavin

Well, it indicates that there's about a third of the country that would literally respond in favor of anybody over J.D. Vance, formerly J.D. Hamill, formerly J.D. Bowman. You did have a lot of separate names. He's changed his name several times, which I think is a sign of sociopathy.

Was it check cashing? Unlike him. I don't think it was related to check cashing. Has Stephen A. Smith had multiple names or is his birth name Stephen A. Smith?

I think this stands out a little bit less as encouraging for Stephen A. Smith and more as discouraging for Vance. I mean, Trump just got 49%. Right. So he's 11% below that. Right. And I think that leads us to, you know, something that is pretty obvious, which is that, you know, he has less appeal than Donald Trump to certain groups of people.

Do you have any mixed feelings about J.D. Vance over that? Because I got to tell you, I really dislike him at a deep level. Like in my core, I find him to be probably the most unappealing person in all of public life. But he's a poster. And as a poster, I do feel like I have some kinship with him that I'm grappling with.

Like, why would this be a slight, like, what are people upset about?

I agree with this. And this was where I disagreed with your earlier statement. We kind of got distracted. But you said something like, the only thing he can do is talk. Getting ready for the presidency is just figuring out how to talk, and it's more than that. Are we sure? Maybe that's not true, actually. Maybe ability to post and talk and to own J.D.

Vance to his potato beard face is really all we're looking for right now.

Yeah, I guess that's the part I don't get. Bad part. Why is this a thing that merits a cover-up? What would be the failure of LeBron here that people would be upset about?

What we want versus what we deserve, I think, are two different questions.

The hero we might need. But like, is it more than talking? I mean, obviously the presidency is more than talking, but the better, the more appealing talker, maybe not the better talker, has like basically won every time, except for the COVID election recently. Obama was a very good talker. The Democrats have put up the last three times. Kamala Harris, who...

Had some skills talking, but also some demerits and deficits. She was not particularly strong speaking off the cuff.

Had she had more time?

For sure. Joe Biden couldn't talk at all.

Literally couldn't speak. So that wasn't great. Hillary, not exactly a dynamic talker, really. We'll put it back to my people, Jeb. And I love Jeb, like, personally. You put the exclamation point there. I did. I didn't, actually. But, you know, I emotionally put it in there.

Jeb! But, like, he was a terrible talker. And, you know, I do think we convince ourselves because there's this thing that, like, we want to believe it's about more than that. You know, we want to think, we want to, you know... pull people's higher angels, think about people's better angels, and think about all the serious problems that the country faces, and we need a person of depth.

And it's kind of like, I don't think the people really want a person of depth unless they're a good talker. Maybe we just need to accept that talking is a pretty key part of the job, and that the Democrats should probably orient themselves to finding somebody who's really, really good at talking, and then all the other skills are kind of secondary.

Yeah, I know, but it seems like Stephen A. would be an upgrade. I don't know. But he's not the president. I bet Meta Fredrickson of Denmark would be thrilled to see Stephen A. Smith right now.

I would look at this as really bad news for Kamala, actually, because you notice J.D. Vance's number went up when we added Kamala to the picture. So people, when it was just J.D. versus Stephen A., people were like, I'd like to learn a little bit more. But then when 2% of the people were like, once Kamala is even a possibility, they're like, no, f*** it.

No, I mean, I've been to, I guess, the viewing in the Rotunda, but I've never got to, like, go to the A-list funeral, you know, maybe one of these days. But that is a big deal. Mark Leibovitz's book, like, starts at the McCain funeral, and it's like all the who's sitting next to who. So there is a lot of, you know, political drama around these sorts of events.

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I found out that Stephen A. Smith is a viable minor candidate for the Democratic nominee in 2028, but maybe not as viable as he thinks. And I found out that... LeBron James was right in his argument with Stephen A. Smith about whether he should be talking about his son, because you shouldn't be talking about somebody's son.

And I found out that LeBron James might not have been right about his presence at Kobe Bryant's funeral.

This is a common tactic. A rhetorical gesture. A rhetorical tactic. You're gesturing at somebody. I don't... I don't think there's anything to go with there.

Yeah, I've been on a couple of those. You have? For Jeb and John Huntsman. More often than not, it's a candidate that it's like, I want to see if the water's warm for me.

That he wasn't there. The guy, the white guy in the corner with the cell phone that was taping it, his face kind of reflected everything, which was kind of like, I don't think you're actually answering me. Like, why are you talking about this? Like, what is your non-answer? So I don't know. But it seems like it would be a no to me. Yeah, that didn't... Was there not a follow-up question?

I have a Twitter level of knowledge about this. I have a Mastodon level knowledge.

It feels like Vanessa Bryant is the key source here, so I don't know who your sources are, but it is notable that in his answer, he goes rightly into a very lavish compliment of her. He was like, I commend her, and it was a great celebration. It feels like that'd be the point person to untangle this.

You know, Pablo, I don't know if you know this, when Trump won the first time, and I went to a place of dark depression where I was like, I should quit politics, through a friend I interviewed with the Lakers to be their flack.

And yeah, and I had an interview with them and with Jeannie and them. It was very pleasant. It just wasn't really a fit for a variety of reasons. But like I'm hearing this whole story and like imagining that alternate life for me. I'm like trying to spin this. I'm like, who am I spinning for right now? Genie or LeBron or Kobe's legacy and Pablo's calling me?

I'm happy to be on this side of the mic, I guess, and to not be a Lakers flack trying to navigate the Kremlinology of the Kobe funeral.

Why would you just answer this? Was he there?