of my own that I'm afraid to mention because I know one of
them has gone, largely unnoticed and I really don't
want to remind the world of it, but I'll give you the first
crack. What's your favorite prediction from the
year that blew up in your face?
Okay, so I'll actually just go down the list because you're
going to like all of these. These are very, very good.
There's some really, really bad ones. Week what I said, Jamis
will have a career year.
He got injured towards ACL. Ow, whoops,
I week to I said, Joe judge will be the first coach fired
didn't happen. They actually almost held them all onto him.
Like that was
insane. That bad.
Come on. Yeah. This one was, right. I say Urban Meyer will
only last one year. That was a good one.
I said, Matt, Nagy we did last year you were wrong. You were
wrong. He didn't last a year. So you were wrong. It's true.
I said, Matt Nagy will be fired on Monday. If the Bears lose
that was weak for he was not fired. There's a couple of
bears ones that I threw in there
week. Every will go forward week seven. I said, DeShaun
Watson, be traded in the next two weeks, very wrong.
We cater. I said the Bears will win this week. They lost to
the 49ers by 10.
I said, week 9, Jordan love will probably be a Hall of
Famer.
He then went out and just was acceptable.
At least it was before the game. He said that not after.
Yes. Yes. All right. Flashing forward. I said Tom Brady looks
like he'll be able to play to least 50
and week 10.
I said, I say week 11 Rams will be one and done in
the playoffs.
That one's what. But you know, what? At the
time that wasn't an unreasonable take.
Well, here's the thing. I can see it right now. There was
a Next year,
where I was trying to make heads and tails of the NFC
and trying to figure out a way, the Packers weren't going to be
the representative from the NFC because I went and back-to-back
weeks. I said the raspberry one and done in the playoffs. The
Cardinals will be the NFC one seed. They then lost like three
out of four.
Then the next week. I said, the Bucks will be the NFC one seed,
then they lost the next that day. That's Sunday to
the Saints, nine to nothing. And then I went bucks, Chief Super
Bowl, matchup
not true, and then I finished. With Cowboys going to win
the Super Bowl.
So, I just basically went every different week. I went with
a different team from the NFC and I never got it, right.
When did you think that the Cowboys
were actually going to win the Super Bowl? At what? At what
moment did that that thought was
coagulated your brain?
It was before the Washington football team beat down. It was
so it's like somewhere around week I do. 12:13 somewhere in
that range
and I was like this team has everything. They have
the defense. It was right when their defense got healthy and
they were a I think it was actually
when they played the say or do is when they played the Chiefs
and I actually said to myself,
they don't have any receivers but their defense played really
well and member they held the Chiefs the 19 points and I was
alive steam.
It feels like they might be
and then I I realized that I'd bet on Mike McCarthy.
Yeah, they'll get me by the Raiders four days later. And
that's yes, it's me. You can time it every time I say
something about this
team like definitively the next week, something bad happens.
I think I actually placed the BET.
And then that son. I think I placed a bet at like 11:00 a.m.
On the Sunday that Michael Gallup towards ACL.
It was like Bang Bang.
First half of the Chiefs Bengals, AFC Championship on
Sunday when it was 21 23, and I intentionally included some
wiggle room
to protect myself. Thank you very much. Pete. Game's not
over obviously, but would be almost impossible for anyone to
beat my homes in the Chiefs today from any era.
I said games not over, I said almost impossible.
So the Bengals did
the almost impossible.
Bi bi just fitted by was trying to protect myself. Be
definitive. I said before the Titans game. The Titans are
going to absolutely demolish, The Bangles. And then I said,
before the Chiefs
game. I said that she saw in a different class than the Bangles,
I think in drag left and right, that's part of the fun.
Well, I'm stupid. You see? I sometimes, I guess I during
the game. You did your, you did. Thanks for coming out, Bangles
to.
Now, that was fun purpose. That was to help Bengals fans. So
that that I mean, that tweet alone,
one, the Chiefs Super Bowl in 2019.
So I you know that that tweet works.
Let me, let me give you something from before this
season, and I gotta give you the context. First, we and this
was either my idea
or I was fully on board with it.
We did a draft on one of the Friday edition to PFT live.
Serena Williams was on with me and the draft was the teams
that have no chance to make the playoffs.
So, you know, the first couple rounds were easy Jaguars
Texans, Lions, right? Then he gets around 3:00 and it's like
do we really want to do a three round? A draft here because
it's starting to get difficult. So my third round pick was
the Bengals
note. Laughs.
We get hers in the Panthers.
Hers was the Panthers, and she was very nervous in September
about the Panthers.
And then I got very nervous in October
about the Bangles
and I'm still nervous. Although they've already made
the playoffs, you may as well go ahead and win the Super Bowl.
I guess I should finally pick them to win. I picked him beat
the Raiders
picking, lose the Titans
picked, and lose the Chiefs. I pick lose 40 1224 to the Chiefs.
I listen. I'm very happy that I every year my listeners know.
I make a bet. It's got to be a team that was expected to make
the playoffs if they start owing to our might be owing
three.
I bet my pinky. If the team wins the Super Bowl I will cut
off the tip of my pinky
this year. It was the Cults.
I was very nervous
for that stretch in December
when they look like the best team in the NFL.
I was very very nervous.
The only time I've gotten that close to that nervous was
the BET originated in. I think it was 2017
when the Texans started om3
and then They rattled off like ten straight wins and got to
the playoffs. I was a little nervous that year about my
pinky, but it survived another year. I'm happy. I didn't pick
the Bangles.
I'm good.
Were you sufficiently nervous that you actually started to
think about how you would go about doing it? Like, you would
have elective surgery to remove the tip of your pinky, or you
would just get a meat cleaver out or
slam it in a door.
Like, did it get that far where you were actually considering
how the tip of your pinky was going to be removed from your
body.
It was one of the dumbest conversations I've ever been
a part of, like, myself feeling dumb.
I said to my wife, I was like, yeah, like if the Colts I gave
her a heads-up, it was mid-December. I remember
vividly were Walking with my with my kids
and I was like just a heads up.
The Colts are the team that I have to cut my pinkie off and
they're playing really good football right now. And she
looked at me and she was like, do you think you can just walk
into a hospital and have them? Remove your like your pink?
And I was like, yeah, why not? Just like, it doesn't work like
that.
There's something wrong with you.
Just member you. And I and I was like, you know what? That
that actually makes a lot of sense. You're right. So I got
to think of another
way to die.