 This is the makings for a very interesting show. I could not find my red and white Polish national jersey. That's a bad omen. I'm wearing green, which is the color that the Mexico team is wearing, who Poland is facing. So things are getting interesting here at Up in Adams and I'm supposed to carry on a football conversation for the next hour while Poland is facing Mexico as I'm looking at in my studio right now as they get things going in Qatar. I'm very excited about this and very excited about Fandal's sportsbook being so cool and letting me partake in a little parley fun. Take a look at what I got going here. Too late to play spets, but we are saying that Lewandowski, who has never scored a goal for Poland, why? Because he's tripled all the time and there's no creativity in this offense and there's no rhythm and that's just the way it is. And he's the only show in town. And by the way, Mexico is really, really good, but I think he is going to score and willing it to happen. They spelled his name wrong on that graphic, but that's okay. That's probably also a bad omen, but here we go. And I think France, even without Benzema, with Mbappe, who I do think is the best player in the world right now, they pull it out and they get a win. So if you got it on that action, we are cheering as we go. I mean, I'm literally wearing Mexico. My dad's going to not let me in the house. This is going to be a bad situation. But that's the parley and now this is our show has not even started. Okay, now let's start the show. Conor, can we put up that graphic again? You want to make a wager? All right, let's see it. Unless they fixed it. I did text them to fix it, but let's take a look. Go ahead. Now, how much did you want to bet? A million dollars that that's spelled right? Okay, two million and a couple of horrors. Are you telling me that that's, you're telling this Polish girl that that's how you spell a bandofsky? Where's the ski? S-K-I. Conor, you are an idiot. The whole control room's laughing. This prompter's not on or working. Anyone? No? This one right here in front of me that I'm looking at. We're gonna talk football and that's what we do here on the program. The Niners, they had a game. That's another bad omen for me in Poland because the game was so awesome. At Estadio, Azteca, all that elevation, 7,000 something feet go in as the Mexico City crowd showed out really for the Niners. They had that crowd feeling some kind of way and they obliterated those Niners with an asterisk, banged up Arizona crowd. Let's go to this shot here. That's what I would like to do. Is that possible, Derek, our intrepid director? Awesome, and here we go. Oh, I can show off my new shoes, everybody. The score of the game was 38 to 10. By the way, we do have Mark Ingram coming on the show to do some red cards and yellow cards. I like to call these kinds of wins. The ones that I saw San Francisco pull down. They're like the flirting with the Super Bowl bound button wins. They get me excited. They get me wanting to say something a little crazy because it was a complete team effort from Kyle Shanahan squad and this win bolts San Francisco ahead of Seattle people. They are now in control of the NFC US and they have the number three seed in the NFC overall. So the Cardinals, of course, you're gonna have the asterisks of the no Kyler Murray. There's a few other pieces missing but that button that I wanna press for this Niners team going all the way is looking really pretty and it's because Jimmy G looked as sharp as ever. Four touchdown passes for the first time since the Niners made that run and took the NFC championship back in 2019, okay? To the NFC championship. And Jimmy G had this offense looking absolutely unstoppable. How many times does he leave in the field going, let's go, let's go. All the time he is a winner and for the first time since the McCaffrey trade we saw all of these offensive pieces working in concert. Literally everyone went off. Look, this is insane. McCaffrey over a hundred yards on 14 touches. Debo had 94 and punched in the dagger to put the game out of reach. Kittle win for 84 and two touchdowns and former first rounder Brandon Ayuk added two touchdowns as well, guys. That's just the offense. This defense has been number one forever. They've been dominant the entire year but it's not about the defense. It kind of is but are giving them their love and their flowers and hopefully stats as two as he joins us here in a minute. But it's about Jimmy. If Jimmy can continue to play like this and Shanahan can use all the weapons as masterfully as he did just last night, I genuinely think they're the best team in the NFC. I'm sorry to the Eagles. I'm sorry to everyone. I'm sorry to Poland for not wearing their colors this morning. I, if they can keep this kind of consistency on offense it is theirs to lose. And with that we bring in my guy, a very good friend of mine. Let's go back over here to welcome in SB Nation and Nine Interestation podcast host Rob Staskarero. What's up? Hey, remember like the Vuvuzela's? Why don't we need to bring those back? Hey, can I ask you a question? Yeah. What color am I wearing right now? Red and white because you're a better man than I. Just saying. We're living in bizzara world. I couldn't find my, I could find, I found a Byron Munich one, two of them and I didn't want to wear those because you can't see his name. So it's like, why are you wearing a Byron Munich and you play there anymore? It's too inside. But I'm watching the game. So I'm trying to pay attention to you because we listen. You are critical when you need to be, you keep it real. Am I getting ahead of myself here thinking that this team is going to win the NFC? It sure looks like it right now. They put it all together last night just like you said. Where do you want to go? Do you want to go to the offense that scored on five straight possessions? Do you want to go to the defense that hasn't allowed a point in the second half for three straight games? Everybody got into the fun last night and that's what the 49ers can look like when they put it together. And you mentioned Jimmy Garoppolo, okay, don't focus on the four touchdowns. Obviously that's great. Focus on the zero interceptions. First time in Jimmy's career, he's gone three straight games without an interception. If he does that, they're going to be very hard to beat. Do you think, listen, don't jump on the bandwagon now. What do you mean jump on the bandwagon? The last time we talked, the 49ers had just gotten boat raced by the Chiefs. They had a losing record. There was nothing to be happy about the last time we talked. We don't want you, Rob. You stay yelling at your clap. We don't want, we run our five a.m. meeting and I go, I'm just going to tell Rob that he can't be on the bandwagon. He's not invited with the Niners. So no, you're keeping it real. The no interceptions is definitely, I mean, he set the NFL Mexico record. So it's cool to see the four touchdowns. It's cool to see Shanahan. I've been waiting for weeks to pop the popcorn for what it's going to look like with both Debo and McCaffrey out there and they do it. Do you, do you feel confident though? Was it a turning point? Do you think for Jimmy G? I think what Christian McCaffrey has allowed Garoppolo to do is when things don't go according to plan, the pocket gets a little muddy. Jimmy just checks it off to Christian McCaffrey and he's so good he'll break a couple of tackles and keep them gaining positive yards. I think Christian McCaffrey has lowered Jimmy Garoppolo's turnover worthy plays and that is huge because Kyle's going to get them down the field. He's good enough as a coach and a coordinator to get them down the field. If Jimmy doesn't put the ball on harm's way, it's almost harder for them not to score. Yeah. Now we haven't talked to you and I since the, it's a great point since the trade deadline I think ish. So I want to get your opinion on this because some Niners fans were getting in their feelings looking at what the Dolphins were able to turn that trade lance trade into essentially. So Miami able to turn the number three pick that the Niners used on Lance into Tyra Kill, Jalen Waddle and Bradley Chubb. That's pretty good. Are these fans justified in being upset stats or are they just not seeing a bigger picture here? Well, it's easy to be frustrated, right? Because the Dolphins, they've got all those players. They're seeing the return on the investment, right? Where the 49ers have trade lance and he hasn't even played 15 quarters in two years. So it's really hard to be this patient for this long, especially when the Niners offense up until these last three games was really kind of stagnant. They only scored 22 points per game, which was 16th right in the middle of the NFL. So you got no benefit from trade lance. The offense was struggling. Meanwhile, Miami's bringing in everybody and they're kicking everybody's rear end because their offense looks unbelievable. So it's hard for the 49er fan to stay patient and I understand it, but you just take a step back. Things are good right now in San Francisco. Forget about what Miami's doing. Let's be happy with what we're doing. Wow, who's this guy? Anybody doing something? Where's my friend Steph? Anybody? Who, what's going on? Come on. Listen, we have the footage. We're gonna splice it together for the next time. You join me. I actually love that you're enjoying the moment. I gotta tell you, so many fans don't, you know, see this, you know, this team, want to know how I fell in love with them? Seriously? Because not because, usually it's because nobody's talking about a team and I see a little something and then we're at least the potential, but this fan base all last year enjoyed the moment. And it's not because it was like, I can't believe it's happening to us because they had all the talent, they had all that, but they really maintained week to week a happy with our team. And that's something that I think is an NFL fan and you handle that role really well, really hard to do. Oh, thank you. You have to be happy when the team plays well. If you can't enjoy some of the journey, then what is the point of this whole thing? What are we investing so much time and energy in when the team is bad? It's okay to say they played bad, but when they're good, just be happy about it. This is one of the best days to be a fan of an NFL team. When your team plays really well on prime time, you could just sit back the next day, go to shows like this, all the national shows and just enjoy the praise. It's so true and it's something that I would tell, I've had a very interesting discourse with Titans fans, sorry to go a little left and right here, but they're always a team, it's like nobody's talking about us. When Derek Henry and AJ Brown out there last year are smoking everybody and they're the one seed and they thrive on that. And this year it's completely changed because they're sitting pretty, they're looking good, the offense isn't fun to look at, but they're still winning. And I go, what's the difference here? Like what's gone on that I'm not getting that grief from them for not talking to them. You're not seeing it on national level. And they said, well, A, we were humbled last year, but B, it's more about just like shutting up and enjoying the nice moments as they come and not picking apart everything that's going wrong or how much we're not being talked about. And it seemed very banglesy to me and it seems like what you're doing and what you're preaching to the fans of the Niners to do, which I love. Now, Jimmy, you're as critical about him as anyone. So I ask you, is there any scenario in which you can see him remaining the Niners quarterback beyond this season? If they go all the way, if they don't go all the way, or do you think the Reigns get handed back to Lance next year regardless? I think the second tray Lance got hurt, everything is on the table. I think the 49ers quarterback situation is gonna be one of the most interesting storylines going forward in the entire league because literally anything can happen. Jimmy Garoppolo may come back. Jimmy Garoppolo may say, you know what? Thanks for everything. I'm out. The Niners may pursue Tom Brady. Hell, they may pursue Aaron Rodgers. Anything is on the table for the 49ers quarterback situation. I think it depends on how they finish this year. It depends on tray Lance's rehab and how he looks. It was nice to see him walking around Mexico City yesterday. Nothing is settled with the Niners quarterback situation. It's going to be one of the biggest storylines going forward for the next several months. I'm about, Mexico's about to score, I think. Hold on, just give me one. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. You're talking about how it goes. Oh, man, you almost have, ooh. Deep breaths. Safe. So you mentioned the Niners and how it finishes this year being telling and everything's on the table. Let's take a look at this little, cute little homestand they have coming up. I want to get your thoughts on it. They have the Saints who just took care of business. Say what you want them. They have Mike McDaniel, you know, he makes his return. This has to be one of the most anticipated matchups of the season against the Dolphins. And then Tom Brady makes his homecoming to the Bay. So how do you see this stretch playing out? Everybody's going to focus on that game against Miami because it's Mike McDaniel, the student going against the teacher in Shenan. That's the least important game for the 49ers. That's the AFC game. If they lose that game, okay, you can live with that. You want them to beat New Orleans. You certainly want them to beat Seattle and Tampa Bay. And that sneaky Washington game that's in there too is now looking like it's going to be more and more important for the 49ers. So if I had to pick one game for them to lose in that stretch, it would actually be that Miami game, even though everyone's going to make a big fuss about Mike McDaniel. Win the games in your conference. Those are what it comes down to with playoff seeding and division seeding and all of that stuff. So that's what the 49ers need to do. And I love, okay, they don't leave the Pacific time zone for the rest of the regular season. It's such a good point and it's such a huge advantage. And it's a great call by you. Really quick before we let you go, you know, it's you and Jimmy Garoppolo sitting in, you know, a couple's counseling. And the question, the prompt I imagined is something like, tell me how you're feeling right now. Can you use as many descriptive words to describe your relationship with your starting quarterback? A cautious optimism, it's healing. I mean, Jimmy Garoppolo historically in his career has played well against the Arizona Cardinals. Jimmy has four games with four touchdowns in his career. Three of those four games have come against the Arizona Cardinals, but it has to be sweet for him. Cardinals defensive coordinator, Vance Joseph, told the ESPN broadcast crew that they wanted to force Jimmy Garoppolo to be the reason that the 49ers won the game last night and Jimmy delivered. And if he can keep doing that, then this team can go as far as it wants to go. Debo, Christian McCaffrey, the mind of the guy who wears the flap-billed hats and Kyle Shanahan looking pretty good there. Jimmy Garoppolo would be the only question and health, of course, in the NFC there, but if they can keep it all together, woof to the rest of the NFC and to the Bills and everybody that are looking a little bit less confident. I mean, I have less confidence in a lot of the teams like, you know, even the Eagles over the past couple of weeks, they've got something to prove to me. The Bills over in the AFC have something to prove to me in their division and so on. So it's these little... I mean, if people who are over at Vandal Sports, that's like, that's what they look at, these little things that might lean them one way or the other. When you're talking about a game of inches and a bigger respect than it even is, something like not having to leave your time zone is a huge deal in the thick of the race. Absolutely. And the Niners really only have two road games left. They got to go to Vegas and they got to go to Seattle. Other than that, it's all at Levi's now. Yeah, and they don't have to go to Qatar, whichever one you want to call it. All right, thank you so much, stats. We love you, thank you for giving Jimmy Grappola flowers. You are healing your relationship and we appreciate that. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks for hanging out. Great stuff from him, as always. Mark Ingram on the way with a yellow red card, yellow card situation. It kind of all leads up to this. It all leads up to the World Cup with Mark Ingram but it's one of our favorite segments of the week. And we also have the Twitterverse coming up. We're gonna do some World Cup comparisons. It's Aaron Rodgers, Ronaldo, that's too easy, right? And who is my poor sweet Poland? Are they doing anything? Did the goalie get hurt? What did I miss? Who got hurt? Who was hurt? Yeah, what happened? All right, over the weekend, Karim Benzema on the defending World Cup winning French national team was ruled out at the entire tournament. He had a thigh injury. It was really sad. And one of my dear followers said, hey, I need help with this in NFL terms. What is it? And my dad asked and I said, I got you. I said, this would be like if the chiefs, hello, losing Kelsey, lost Kelsey and they still had Tyreek Hill, who, Tyreek Hill's kind of the embape of it all. So it's all true and I got lots of love for that. So here we go with some more NFL World Cup comps. I'm sitting there at Manhattan Beach with my father bothering him as he's trying to enjoy a sunset. Like, but dad, but like, what really is messy? And like, is Ronaldo more like in Rodgers or is Ronaldo more like, and he's just like, leave me alone. But Hamilton, you're having quite a day here and you're a bit mad about my stats interview. Yeah, I mean, he drops an absolute bombshell that he thinks the Niners are gonna pursue Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. And you completely ignored him and are talking about Poland and Mexico. So Mexico almost scored. No acknowledgement of the Niners pursuing Rodgers and Brady. I kind of didn't hear him. I'm not as good at my job as I thought that I was. And then there's like, this isn't working. Now it's not working. Everyone's running around the studio. Everyone's running a muck. I didn't hear that, but what are you, hey, the Brady, it's back to San Mateo. It's all very cute. And then you bring Adam in from San Mateo and they all, I don't buy it. I don't buy it. The Aaron Rodgers thing, you think Shanahan is gonna go for, no, it's not half. I don't believe in any of this, but I like that it's all on the table. It's quite dramatic. Yeah, and I like that I wore my green for our team, Mexico today after all this. You're such a jerk. Okay, let's do it. Let's do some of these comparisons. And we have some great tweets. Thanks everybody for tweeting it and up at Adam's show. They were awesome. All right, so we're gonna start it off. You've been talking a lot about Levendavsky for this parlay. Who is the Robert Levendavsky of the NFL world? Okay, I'm gonna say, and I've done a lot of thoughts about this because he is Robert Levendavsky who I need to score for my parlay. It's very like messy. You saw messy this morning. Like great players, prolific players, great supporting cast that put them and orchestrate everything so they're the star and they score goals. That's just what it is. So, but when it comes to playing for their national team, you got to bring everybody up. You're the only focal point. It's not built that way. And it never works out. And that's kind of what Levendavsky is. So he's among the best, arguably the best at his position. He was a Bayern guy. He left to find happiness in Barcelona. He scores a hella goals. He was robbed of the Ballon d'Or in my opinion. In the NFL, to me, he is Devontae Adams and Poland are the Raiders. Devontae, yeah. Devontae is elite, top tier, but he's kind of the only show in town for his squad. Everyone heard, everyone had experienced on the Raiders and Devontae is the guy. Okay, I don't love this. What's happening? Okay, here it is. Look at these two. Yeah, lots of similarities here. So, well, here's the crazy stat that you and I found. Oh, as my mic pack just falls. This is just a complete show today. Speaking of show, he's the only show in town and he's the only show in time. And this one, we found a crazy number. Over the last three games, he's averaging over 15 targets a game. What a vacuum. That's unbelievable. 138 yards per game. Let's talk about, all the movement is driving me crazy. And he's this guy right here, Devontae Adams, has scored five touchdowns. Okay, that's Lewandowski on Poland. So we're watching the game here and he's the sole draw of defenders. It's pretty much all him. There's no one else like the pressure off. This is a tough group, by the way. You saw what Saudi Arabia did this morning. Chester called it. You have the Messi, who's the Messi, who's the Mahomes of the whole thing. And Mexico, which is happening right now. So this is the AFC West of groups. It is tough sledding. Neither, by the way, have won a world title or championship for their squad on the world's biggest stage. So it is all on them hammer. What's the confidence level that Lewandowski actually gets that goal today for you? I'm in the car with my dad and I go, dad, what are the champs? I'm gonna do this parley. Oh, so he's doing this. He's like, yeah. He's never done it. And Mexico's really good and they're good defensively. And so I don't think it happens, but I've never done well on a parley. So part of me thinks that it'll happen because I'm not confident in it at all. So I'm trying something new. Yeah, you're due. You're definitely due. God, am I due. We'll keep it moving here. How about the bills? Even my cup is Mexico colors. Wow. What is happening? The whole world's against you. Yeah, as usual. Yeah, it could be like a reverse jinx in some way though. But really quick, really quick. You know, you brought a lot of bad luck to a team so maybe having their colors. Yeah, before we move on though, the Devonta Adams thing is wild. Oh yeah. No, the way that he's playing right now it's kind of gotten lost because the Raiders are so far out of it, but he's just taken the team on his back right now. I mean, that game-winning touchdown over time against the Broncos, he just, he willed that team to a win and it's pretty awesome to see. Yeah. What else we got? All right. How about the bills? A team with a lot of talent. They're kind of a trendy pick to go all the way even though they haven't done it yet. Who would be the bills comp in a world cup? I'm gonna say, I played with Belgium for a long time because I think, you know my daddy goes, watch out for the Belgium, that'll be good. So there's that. But I think ultimately we came to the Netherlands as the team because they are a loaded squad and there's always a super strong performance but they always come up short at the end. It's like the bills when it comes to making and winning a Super Bowl. So there's a lot of comparisons to be made there as we look at some of this, but they've got a lot of top five love, Netherlands and everybody's top five. The bills, they're obviously the favorite to win it all. So there's kind of all of that going on. Ultimately, I'm looking at some of the numbers. The Netherlands are great comparisons. They made it to the finals and lost to Spain in 2010. Third place in Brazil, their second place team. That's what they are. They've been to the finals three times and it's never worked out, hammy. Yeah. And I'm sure Bill's fans are gonna find a way to make this comparison a slight against them. So that'll be fun for you on Twitter. That'll be great. I think that they feel, but you know what I thought about that? Like if I compare them to Belgium, they'll be more mad for some reason than the Netherlands. That's true, because you point to the Netherlands, you're right, they've had a lot of success. They've had a lot of winning teams. Yeah. So I think it's a great comparison. I love that one. That's my favorite so far. All right, I gotta switch home. So I'm gonna hit this shot. I hate everything right now. Go ahead. All right. You know, I have to bring this guy off. Tell me. Who is the Aaron Rodgers of this World Cup? It's, you know, and I hate doing like the trite, low-hanging fruit, even though that's exactly what the segment is. But I wanna do something a little different, but I can't, because it is Ronaldo. It just is. Get over it, people. Ronaldo, both, it's just too, it's too much sense. There's some differences, but listen, they're both all-time greats, prolific, both in the best ever convo. But here we are, people, at the back nine. And it's, you know, not how anyone wants to see it go down. There's drama on both sides. And, you know, you look at the wins. Ronaldo's won a lot. Ronaldo has 32 trophies in his career. Five Ballon d'Or's in his career. That's the same thing as an MVP, kind of. You know, Rodgers has four, he had two in a row. Now, Ronaldo's never won a World Cup, right? They're best finished with fourth place. He did win a UEFA championship, though. Look at those two. And that was back in 2016. They beat France. And that kind of equals out, right? That's like their one Super Bowl of Peace. They have that in common. But there's so much to prove. But these two should have so many wins for their respective national teams, or the teams that they sort of like, you know, were drafted to. That would be what Aaron Rodgers makes of Green Bay. So Ronaldo, you know, he's like a, he's got a PhD in histrionics. He's off the bench for Manu right now. He's leaving the pitch. He's mad. He wants to play. He doesn't have it anymore. And it's not going so hot for Aaron either. You know, those packers are sitting there at four and seven. They've got the Eagles in Philly this week. It's probably a wrap, honestly, for this packer squad. The difference there, I do think like, I think he's cooked Ronaldo. He's, you know, physically, he doesn't have it anymore. Prolific, amazing career. People are saying Aaron doesn't have it. You take away, you give him a bit of a better, more experienced supporting cast that's come into their own. You get rid of that thumb injury. I don't think Aaron's lost to beat. I really don't. I agree. And you brought it up, too. I think the thumb injury is bothering him a little bit more than he's letting on. And that's one thing he hasn't made an excuse about. But I think you see it sometimes. It's he seems to really be favoring it. It seems to be it seems to be affecting him. But I'm a little surprised he didn't go messy here. I feel like losing to Saudi Arabia in the first game is kind of like losing to the Niners at Lambeau Field in the snow as a one seed. But messy is like a you're trying to get me to say something bad about Aaron Rodgers and I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the bait. The the antics are the difference. I think messy is a very, you know, undersized, more humble sort of player than Aaron Rodgers. And the drama doesn't surround him and follow him like it does a Ronaldo and a Rogers. Fine, I said it. I mean, that's fair. So messy is like a Terran Sprouls. I guess I was there. No, well. Kind of sure. Yeah. Go ahead. Last one I was watching Team USA yesterday. Very frustrating game, but it's a fun team to watch. There's a lot of, you know, a lot of new players, a lot of names that we might not be used to on this Team USA this year. So who would be the NFL comp to Team USA? I'm curious to see what Mark Ingram has to say about this. I know we stand by ready to come on and we've got these cards here. He was watching the game. He tweeted about it. You think about USA and USA is young, very young. They're inexperienced. They're counted out. They're all heart. To me, USA is Mike McDaniel, okay? New head coach, shiny, youthful. I mean, USA is full of guys under the age of 26. They have their unassuming leader and palisphalistic. You know, this is a guy who doesn't take shine and studies, sets up as teammates to crush it. We saw it yesterday against Wales Hamilton, the goal assist of Polisic, of Timothy Way. I mean, that is two at a time to kill if I've ever seen it out there. So I feel also strongly that Ted Lasso would root for and write billboards for Mike McDaniel of all coaches. So the USA is in fact, Mike McD. I mean, I love this choice. He's one of my favorite personalities in the NFL right now. And I also, I like the comparison because he kind of came out of nowhere for a lot of people this past year. And I feel like with this team USA, it's similar. Like you don't really have as many of the household names that we grew up with, like an Alexi Lollis, that type of a guy on this team. So I like it. I like it. Do we have any, we have some really good tweets. I know you went through and picked out some of your faves, what have we got? All right, let's hit the first one. Brazil or the Cowboys, storied franchise that hasn't won in 20 plus years with some embarrassing playoff and knockout losses since. A good mix of young talented veterans and a favorite to win it all this year. I can't argue they better win it all, especially with Tony Pollard doing what he's doing. Let's just run through the tweets. We'll talk under them. We don't have to come on camera. Let's bang them out and go. All right, here's the next one. The Bears are England. Fans travel really well. They act like their team invented the sport and they keep talking about that one win many decades ago but they haven't been relevant for way too long. That's kind of harsh. It's kind of harsh. There were a lot of comparisons to England and Jets fans as well being sort of wild. Here's one from C-Towel League. OBJ is Neymar. This is a comparison that another trite one but it makes sense. Generational talent's divisive. I don't know if they're divisive. Who aren't in their prime anymore? Both burst on the senior show. Flimps is a brilliant still. OBJ got his rink in Neymar. Get his medal. I mean, Brazil very heavily favored in this tourney. And then what do you got here, Hammy? Italy equals the Steelers. Multiple championships, strong defense, many old-time great players, storied history, but not winning a championship this year. I can't believe Italy didn't make it. Italy didn't make it. So Italy is kind of like the Rams, huh? Yeah, that's a good one too. I think I like that even better than the Steelers. My red carding. I mean, honestly, Italy always in the mix don't even qualify for the world. That doesn't happen. That does not happen. So kind of like the Rams having a historic Super Bowl hangover upset. What does Sean Payton said on the Fox set that it's one rear in bed till the afternoon? What does Sean Payton know about staying in bed till the afternoon after a hangover? I bet Mark Ingram has answers for me next. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm ready for war. I'm destined for greatness. That's where to behind me that lead. I'm up on the scene. I told you I'm up on the scene, yeah. I'm ready for war. I'm ready for war tonight. I'm ready to side of the score. Side of the score tonight. And they got a win! Let's do it. Our next guest is someone we like to call a beacon of positivity. It was only a matter of time before the luck and fortune changed for the New Orleans. You got a win, baby! We got the dub. We got the dub. Now, if that's what's going to happen when you get a dub, I don't want any dubs for the New Orleans. No, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Congratulations, Mark Ingram. A player, a prolific superstar in the NFL and also part owner of the DC United Soccer team. World Cup going on. No, you're watching. We're going to get into all of it. But a huge win against the Super Bowl defending champs. And when we spoke last week, you said every game is a must win. You had a playoff mindset. You got one and live another day. But something's missing. And we've talked about how you needed to celebrate your next victory. And so take a look at this really quick. Just what it's supposed to be like after a win. You know what I mean? This is what you wanted for Andy Dalton last night. Yes. I had a few chains I wanted to put on them. Everybody, Marshawn got a few chains. AK got a chain. Everybody giving change. Now your QB just iced out and he vibing. You know what I mean? That's what you want. That's what it's all about. I need Andy Dalton and I would make me much more happy than Kurt Cousins. So what you didn't give him your chains? I couldn't find the photo. It was a home victory. You know, that was on the plane. So, you know, we ain't get him to change. But, you know, we have a trip to San Fran this weekend. So, you know, we go out there on the road. You know what I mean? Get a victory against a good team. Maybe we got the chains on the way back from our brand. I've seen y'all have a $500,000 glass thing of cash rolled into that locker room. I've seen disco lights. I've seen smoke machines. I've seen a Super Bowl winning visor wearing head coach named Sean Payton dancing with a broom in there. It turns into, I don't even know what club is cool in L.A. anymore, so I'm not gonna say one ochre, something stupid. But, you couldn't get him your chains in that locker room? It just didn't happen that way. It just didn't happen that way. It just didn't happen. It just didn't happen. It felt cool. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed that I let you down. I'm ashamed that I let you down. I'm ashamed that I let you show down. I'll accept my red card. Okay, well, we did, we made a photo because we couldn't find one. That's not a bad look. Ha, ha, ha. What do you think? That could have been him. Yeah, we a little bit more icy. Our diamonds is a little bit higher quality. You know what I mean? We a little bit more icy. The diamonds is a little higher quality. So we appreciate the picture, but we gonna make sure we bring it to reality for you. For San Francisco this week, we love to see it. Now, he played well. Dolan really did. 260 yards, three touchdowns. What do you think clicked for this offense that wasn't working the previous two weeks? I think we were getting the ball to our playmakers. You know, Olave, he got in, got involved. Jarvis, he got in, got involved. Taysum, AK, you know, we protected the quarterback. Gotta be able to protect the quarterback if he's only throwing four-hand completions. So I think just, it was a well-rounded, you know, second half for us. I think we were a little slow in the first half, but I think we, you know, kind of hit our stride, got into a rhythm, got into a flow. In the second half, had some big plays and was able to score in the red zone. That's always huge, that's always key. And we gotta keep it going. You and I have talked about Olave. Even before the season, you were excited about him and he's having a terrific rookie year. Is there a wide receiver that he reminds you of? Man, he's so smooth, he's fast, got good hands, super competitive, young. Let's see, man. I don't know, I don't know. The CO2, that's what we call him, CO2. I like CO2, I love that. CO2, that's what we call him. I just feel like he's gonna be one of those guys. I don't necessarily have a comparison to him right now. What kind of guy, what does that mean? He's gonna be one of the guys, man. He's gonna be one of them household names, one of them guys that you could draft on your fantasy team and know that he's gonna get your production every single year. He just gotta stay healthy, because he has the mindset, he has the attitude, he has the ability, he has the skills. And he's one of those guys, man. I knew it from the first time I saw him, I hear practicing and I hear making plays. I'm like, oh yeah, he's gonna be one of these guys that has a long career, a productive career. And it's just because he has the attitude, he has the skill set, he has the mindset. I'm gonna put you on the spot here a little bit. You were with Michael Thomas, his rookie year, with the same, did you have the same sort of feelings? Yup, he was one of those guys, you could see it. You know what I mean, just how they compete, the attention to detail, the want and the desire to be great, you know, those are tools and things that you see that everyone unfortunately doesn't have, you know what I mean in the league. So I definitely had that, you could definitely feel that with Mike, definitely feel that with Chris too. Does Mike help Chris? Yeah, I mean, they're both Ohio State Buckeyes, all the Buckeyes, we're the New Orleans Buckeyes, you know, hella Buckeyes all over, but they're all close, they're all tight. I'm sure Mike, you know, put gifts, you know, Chris with good tips and from that half success early, you know, as a young wide receiver. So I'm sure Mike helps him out. That's amazing. Now I know another week, another day that I ask you about James and you tell me that you don't know anything about him, but I will say he did, I know, I know you're not going to tell me anything, but he did come out and speak, I don't know if you saw this about, you know, not being a starter, he obviously, and we respect that, wants to go out there, he wants the job. And he said, quote, that it hurts his soul, you know, and as a leader, as you are in that locker room and probably the most positive NFL player I know, what are the conversations like with James? What's going on there? I mean, obviously that's something that you don't foresee or something that you're obviously don't want to happen. It's to be, you know, injured and for that situation, you know, that's tough. And but, you know, he said that, but he's just been positive. He's been working, he hasn't been powering, he hasn't been walking around with his head down. He hasn't been, you know, feeling sorry for himself and walking around, you know, giving off the energy. So I think I respect him a lot, you know, just because of how he's handling the situation. He's going out there, he's preparing each and every day for Sunday, like he's a starter, he's out there working his butt off, he's making the throws, he's working out, he's watching the film, he's preparing mentally, physically and emotionally, like he's going to be the guy. So, you know, you just have to respect that mindset after respect the attitude. Absolutely. And, you know, he's not bringing a cancerous attitude or a negative attitude to the team. So, you know, as a teammate, as my brother, as my good friend, you know, just trying to keep him positive, trying to keep him motivated. And I'm just super happy and respectful that he has been going about it the way he has. I mean, he's not going to be negative, not on your watch, not in that locker room with Mark Ingram. Oh no. All right, we're going to talk a little World Cup and have some fun. But yesterday I was getting ready to watch the World Cup game, which you, of course, were watching as well and were tweeting about and excited for the U.S. And I noticed that you sent out this tweet and I've seen it around the league among some of the most respected NFL players, saying, watch this World Cup and see if any of these matches are played on artificial surfaces, they're not. The NFL needs to do better by our players. Why is this happening now? Like, why are the players and the NFLPA getting together at this moment? And why did you feel compelled to say that? Man, obviously, you know, it's difficult. You know, some are domed stadiums, some are whatever it may be. But I just think, you know, we're the best players, we're the best football players in the world. And you see these, you know, we're the best American football players in the world. I guess the best football players in the world are now participating in the World Cup and they all play on natural grass, every single play, every single match. Like, when we went to London, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium had a beautiful natural grass pitch, right, and they thoroughly ripped up the pitch and installed artificial turf for us to play on. Like, it just didn't make sense to me, it was crazy. But I think just the injuries, the recovery, just spending a lot of time on turf and then spending time on grass as well, I feel like I recovered quicker, you know, when I played on a natural surface than I do on an artificial surface. Artificial surface is kind of just achy, you know? Like your bones, your joints, like, you know what I mean? It's just, it doesn't have the same, like the same give like a natural surface does. So you also see a lot of people getting their knees kind of like caught or ankles kind of caught, feet kind of caught. And this is causing a lot of injuries. And I think, you know, we're just trying to bring attention to the matter that natural surface is a preference, natural surface is better for players health in the long term. And, you know, we should be treated as such, you know? Yeah, I gotta tell you, I like, I want to know more about it. I'm not as educated as I need to be, but I can tell that it's gaining steam. It's curious too that it's gaining steam right now when we're seeing. And then there's levels of the turf. So there's like seven teams that have like the worst graded, you know, turf. Split film turf. Yeah, yeah, split film turf. So even if you do have to have turf, I think we should have the highest graded turf and that's the worst grade turf. So let me tell you this. Six stadiums have the turf that you're talking about. You're one of them. Saints, Jets, Lions. Yeah. Obviously Jets, Giants, she had the stadium, Vikings, Colts, Bengals. So what is this, is there, what is the access to Mrs. Benson? Like, is this something that you feel that strongly about that you could go talk to her about or talk to me? Cause like if the Saints, and it's hard to, you know, like Yuck, you're saying it's a dome. You can't have grass. We get it. Everyone wants grass. I loved hearing, I learned so much listening to Travis and Jason Kelsey on their podcast. They're talking about what it's like to feel like you're getting your skin ripped off if you're on this kind of turf or whatever it is. Like, how, how, how comfortable are you to maybe go to Mrs. Benson and have a chat? I'm super comfortable. Mrs. Benson is an amazing owner. She's just so kind. She's nice. She's always around. She's always just spreading love and positivity and she's just such a sweet woman. And she's a, we're blessed to have her as owner. So I'm actually very comfortable going to talking to Mrs. Benson about, you know, about this situation, about the problem that it is with turf, with our official turf. She's great. She's awesome. And she gives us all the resources that we need to be successful. So I am actually confident going to, I am actually confident going to talk to her about it. I love it. I think that it'd be so cool to have the Saints be. And it's, I mean, you're, and it's, it's cool to see so many, I love when the players come together and work on something for the improvement of the game and improvement of everybody. So thank you for doing that. It has a bigger impact. It has more emphasis when it's coming from the group, you know, it's coming from everyone, you know, as opposed to just one person. It's so true. And I will not give a yellow or red card to that, but that's what we do here with Mark Ingram. And it's Thanksgiving week. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the whole adorable Ingram family. You're so great. But here we go. We're going to show you some footage, yellow card for a kind of serious infraction that will, red card gets you booted. Let's look at this. Oh my gosh. This is crazy. USC, UCLA game, big rivalry. I mean, come on. Ooh. Let's replay. I mean, this is insane. What happened here? He pleaded him. At the beginning, the fan is smiling and then not so much. It's a red card. That's a red card, man. For who? Listen, like, like for the, for, it's a yellow for the fan. I mean, like, hey, these people that are going on the field, and they, you better be aware. You better have your, you better be aware. I mean, we've seen Wagner and one of his teammates, they, they, they, they killed the dude. And then now we're seeing this security guard de-cleaning somebody. Hey, man, the people not playing, you go on the field, man. Red card, red card. Red card, but you gotta know Bobby Wagner could creep up behind anything and come get you if you go on the field. Yes, Bobby Wagner and it was another teammate. They both got him. I'm like, what did they have on their mind? Like, yo, I, I, I dare somebody to streak during the game while I'm on the field. I dare somebody. But if, if, if I had to pick out of any player, Bobby Wagner would be the last player that I think would go do that. Me too. Like, the last thing on my mind is like, if somebody's on this field, like I'm going to go hit them and tackle them. I'm not doing that. I'm going to let them do their thing. Like somebody else got to handle it, right? He was like, no, not on my watch. It's true. Pop! Okay. The biggest story heading into week 11 was the weather. Everyone's talking about the weather in Buffalo. So here's wide receiver Gabe Davis and his dog. And he throws his dog into this. I don't like this. What do you mean? What are we giving him? Red card, red card, man. Red card. You can't do that to the pup. Hey. That's like throwing. You can't even see the pup. Look at the pup, man. He like, just innocent bystander. I just want to use the bathroom. You throwing me in, in, in the snow piles. Like, come on, man. Red card. It's not okay. All right. We're going to get through as many of these as possible. That was Micah Parsons. He comes in style to the game in Minnesota. Do we have this one to play the Vikings? He chose this color, your thoughts. Hey, man. Let the man drip. How are you going to drip? You feeling me? He can, he can wear purple. Is that okay? I guess, hey, if he going to wear purple and he going to give out the performance that he did. That's true. I guess we all need to be wearing opponents' colors going into the game. I hear you. I hear you on that. I'm going to give him a yellow. I'm going to give him a yellow just for the mere fact that he went in there with their colors on and then dethroned them in their house, in their crib, handle business. So he gets yellow. Trust. You're so funny. Okay. Texan's running back day of here. We love giving you a running back. This is Damien Pierce. A quick insight screen pass. Okay. Little did he know he was about to enter the WWE. Oh my goodness. The Suplex. Y'all. Red card, man. Get off my boy like that, man. Get off my boy. Suplex him. Running back. Hey, this is running back. So I'm running back, man. I'm looking out for my boy, man. Get off my boy, man. That's a red card. You can't Suplex my dog. That's a penalty. Unnecessary roughness. You could have just tackled him, man. You ain't had to. Ah. Okay. Last time you were on the show, we introduced you to producer Conrad, who just got one of the worst haircuts. What you do to my man Conrad? That I've ever seen. Okay. This is the bad haircut. I did not do this. I took care of it. I'm the savior. You gave the initial haircut a red card, and here I'm, I took care of it. And this is what it looks like. I think we have a, do we have the end of it? Oh my goodness, Kay. What you do to my man Conrad? What are you doing? I was on the ones and twos. Oh my goodness. You ain't even going, you going against the grain, like. He looks like, he looks like Ryan Lochte. Oh my goodness, Kay. I'm giving you a red card. Really? What you did to my man Conrad? Where's the finished product at? He's, he looks good. I don't know if we have the finished product, but he actually looked, he took, he cleaned it up for himself because I wasn't gunning. You did my man, hey man, you, hey man, you can't do my man Conrad like that. We, a red card for bullying, man. We standing up for bullying. A red card for bullying. We're standing up to, I didn't suplex him. I get the same kind of treatment as, come on, the defender, come on now. I wanted to say, have a beautiful Thanksgiving. Very thankful. The haircut is delicate, Kay. You can't just mess with the haircut. No, Kay. It grows back, calm down. You're amazing. We appreciate you. Go win at San Francisco, put those chains, get the good ones out, shine them up, get them on, Andy Dalton's neck and send us a picture. Yo, love you Kay, love the show. Love you, bye. Appreciate y'all. Happy Thanksgiving. After this, I don't know how much. 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