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Command The Commute
WILDCARD WEEKEND: Couch Commanders
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Bob and Mike kick off the postseason from the couch after Washington finishes the year 5–12, recapping the final week, the full 2025 season whiplash, and what it means heading into a massive offseason. They react to early coaching and coordinator fallout, debate who’s really calling the shots in Washington (AP vs. DQ vs. ownership), and talk through what the team has to fix to avoid another year like this.
Then the conversation shifts league-wide to Black Monday chaos — including the shocker that rocked the AFC North: John Harbaugh out in Baltimore. The guys break down the wild Ravens–Steelers finish and bring on returning guest for a Steelers-focused pulse check, including the Tomlin debate, playoff expectations, and a few conspiracy-theory laughs.
To wrap it up, the crew runs through wild-card weekend picks, gives their early Super Bowl lean, and sets the plan for the show: weekly playoff episodes, bracket tracking, and reactions all the way through the big game — before transitioning into the offseason grind.
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That kick season's over, comes to a screeching halt, and missing that kick and the winter going on. You know how it is if my aunt had male parts, she'd be my uncle.
SPEAKER_17Mikey! Hey Bobber. How you doing? Living the dream, dude. That Tom Lee quotes an all-timer.
SPEAKER_02Love it.
SPEAKER_17I love that. I love that. So I figure we started off with that clip because the 5-11 clip from last week was a game off. We finished up 5-12 against all odds.
SPEAKER_04Gotta love those useless wins.
SPEAKER_17Right. For uh welcome to the podcast, everybody. This is the Command the Commute podcast where we press record when we leave the driveway. We upload when we get to the stadium, but the season is over. So we titled this episode Couch Commanders because, like the players, we are all watching the playoffs from our couches with no excitement, no, no real reason or anything, just from whatever you can get from your fantasy team or we're just ready for the draft and free agency at this point.
SPEAKER_04Our off season has build it again.
SPEAKER_17Our offseason has begun, and we will get into the storylines from this week. But to set a little bit of an agenda for the podcast, um we're gonna quickly recap uh last week's game, last season, the 2025 season. We'll kind of get into some coaching moves that has happened. We'll pretty much keep the first quarter of our podcast all centered around the commandos. Uh, and then we'll switch into kind of Black Monday a little bit. We'll get into some games that we really liked from last week and some of the implications from that. We talked about it on last week's pod, how Baltimore-Pittsburgh would have a big impact. We thought that it would have a bigger impact towards the Pittsburgh coach, but as we all have kind of found out by now, had a way bigger big impact on the Baltimore coach, John Harbaugh being fired. Um we've got a guest on the pod to kind of go through Baltimore Pittsburgh and their thoughts on that. Uh then we're gonna get into the playoffs, Mike. What we think is gonna happen um game by game. We're gonna kind of go through and kind of tell everybody what our bracket is and what we're rooting to have happen throughout the playoffs here, uh, and then we'll wrap it up from there. That's what she said. So um Mike, uh last week. Last week. So we're five and twelve. That is quite the exact opposite from the year before. Quite literally. Uh it's funny how things work out that way, right?
SPEAKER_04But that's you know It's also very sad. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_17So DQ's got a 500 record in the regular season.
SPEAKER_04You heard it here first. It's getting warm into season number three.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, I think it's kind of implied once your once your coordinators start dropping, if you don't figure it out from there, if you can't, and this is where uh you start to see a little bit of what our organization is all about. Like how we're structured, who's the decision makers. And I think we're still a little bit fuzzy. Like, who's really calling the shots here? Is it the GM? Is it the head coach? Are they a 50-50 kind of team in in this? Like, uh is this a situation?
SPEAKER_04Well, we're gonna wait and see how some of that plays itself out.
SPEAKER_17I know, but I'm curious, just just for our own frame of reference, because AP was hired first, and he was part of the team that hired Dan Quinn, right? So is it is it AP's job to fire Dan Quinn? Or depending upon well, but could you also see a situation where the owner lumps a lot of these decisions in together and we see a situation where it's one fifty.
SPEAKER_04Well, I think with any with any vacancy, I think I think it's a I think you're right. I think it's a two for one. If one goes, so goes the other.
SPEAKER_17So these two were brought in to work in unison together is the way that I'm I'm seeing it. Even though it A Peak has like a slight edge, like maybe it's not necessarily 50-50, but it it maybe it's 5149. I don't think it's that far off from that.
SPEAKER_04Just like with any with any other team, the head coach and the GM, they go out basically at the same time or within a season of each other.
SPEAKER_17Every so every organization is different. I'm just trying to figure out this is our first true test to see how Josh Harris is running his own like his ownership, right?
SPEAKER_04Well, I hope he runs the franchise better than he's at public speaking.
SPEAKER_17Oh, well, at least we all know he's not a great public speaker, but I'd rather but Dan Snyder wasn't a great public speaker, but at least Josh Harris comes across kind of quirky and cute and uh wholesome.
SPEAKER_04He's an everyman.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. And Dan Snyder came across as like an elitist.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_17You nailed it. Of course. Yep, yeah, yeah. Um so let's let these two guys, we keep talking about the uh DQ and AP and and what the offseason looks like and all that kind of stuff. Let's let them tell us.
SPEAKER_11As we're getting rolling, I think as the season's over, a lot of would say, All right, now what? And for AP and I, uh we would say, man, it's just the beginning. We've got a lot of work to do. And I know you'll uh ask, you know, what changes are you know being made and uh we're not able to go there yet. Uh everything needs to be and is being uh thoroughly examined and discussed. And uh really our work is answering the question what went wrong and what do we need to do to fix it and uh make sure we never you know go through this again in a season like this. And so that's our sole focus and and uh what's kind of gonna be driving us, you know, in the weeks ahead. So I just wanted to kick into that in gear with you. I know AP will hit a few things and then we'll get the whole thing rocking.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just to echo what DQ said, I mean, th this season was um a disappointment in a lot of ways and certainly didn't meet our standards. And um, you know, we're gonna do everything we can to not let that happen again, and and that starts today with this offseason. So ready to attack it and and ready to move forward. And um whenever you guys are ready, go ahead and hit us with some questions.
SPEAKER_00John Kine, the SPN. For Dan, you don't know about the changes, but when would you like to get those finalized? And what goes when you're going about assessing coaches, coordinators, what how do you go about assessing them to get to whatever decision you want?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, for sure. It's uh after a hard season like this, hard decisions uh are made, but you want to go through uh everything from evaluation, the communication, the performances, and so we begin that um as coaches and coaches and scouts. We get together, we talk a lot about the players. We had the exit interviews today, John. So Adam and I also visited with a lot of players, and that's part of how we're you know gathering all of our information. So all of these processes are really important, and we just want to make sure like we're doing everything we can, you know, to make sure we're hitting all the marks to to get it right.
SPEAKER_17So before we get into their off-season plans and how big of a an off-season this needs to be, let's just quickly go through. We did beat Philadelphia in the last week of the season.
SPEAKER_04Yes, that's because they played nothing but third stringers the entire game.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, but you understand that our loyal listeners that listen to each and every episode is gonna hear the tone that you just said that and say, well, this was the motherfucker that was saying last week that we had no shot and jaunted and this and that, and we were gonna lose 27 to 14. Well, guess what, Michael? We didn't lose 27-14. We or 24 to 17, we won 24 to 17.
SPEAKER_04Still stand by what I said.
SPEAKER_17Well, you were wrong again. You was wrong again because we did win. And yes, they had their they had their backups in. We had our backups in. They had more to play for than we did. Um Except they didn't. Uh they didn't like they didn't play for it. They didn't play for it, you're right. Uh the only things that I'll say that I liked, of course, Debo didn't get it. Well, I didn't like this, but Debo did not get his incentives that he was striving for. He didn't have the big game that we were hoping he'd have that would have made it exciting to watch. McLaurin did show up in some plays. He uh it was good to see everybody that was healthy uh fight uh and and play to to to the best of their ability. We'll get into this in another podcast, but we've really got some some things to figure out on on um in our running back room because you know Krosky Merritt's gonna be on our team next year.
SPEAKER_04It's gonna be a complete retooling.
SPEAKER_17So I wonder if Rodriguez is back. I'm not sure what his his contract situation is looking like. I'm pretty sure the only guy that's coming back is or under contract is is Bill. But we'll we'll get into we'll get into all that once um i in another one. But uh finished the year five and twelve, not too geared. Um Cliff and uh Joe Witt, as predicted in last week's podcast, are fire. You're fired. Um any initial thoughts on on that?
SPEAKER_16You kind of perfectly fine with it.
SPEAKER_17You you are perfectly fine with it because I I I am okay with the people out there that are scratching their heads a little bit over the cliff situation.
SPEAKER_16Nope, don't waste your time.
SPEAKER_17There's there is something sketchy that happened there behind the scenes. I am I I want to wait to talk about it in a week to see.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we'll talk about some of that stuff in the middle.
SPEAKER_17Well, the reason why I want to wait a week is because under the Dan Snyder regime, we we would have known by now because we had we were not tight-lipped. Stuff got out all the time. But this organization does keep things a little bit closer to the chest. I mean, obviously we're hearing something, but I'm I want to wait a week to hear if whether or not it's a rumor or if there's any legitimacy to some stuff between Cliff and um AP. So that's why I want to wait a week, because I don't like to speculate. And I still want to give benefit of the doubt to the to the And I appreciate that you don't want to speculate.
SPEAKER_04So for you, we'll wait another week.
SPEAKER_17But do you have any um do you have any initial gut reactions to offensive or defensive coordinator? As we I mean, we're a week, we're we're less than a week removed, so this will be on record. But do you have any running like any favorites for for those positions for our team?
SPEAKER_04I wouldn't say I have favorites for either position. I really haven't heard much. I can't speak for you, but I haven't heard much on the defensive side and where it's leaning, but I have heard a lot of speculation on the offensive side that we might end up with uh McDaniels out of Miami now that he has been relieved of his duties. But you know, we'll talk about that uh a little later on, except to say I called it back in like week three that he was gonna be gone.
SPEAKER_17So it was actually surprising that it was actually surprising that he lasted this long.
SPEAKER_04That they didn't get rid of him after like week seven when they probably should have.
SPEAKER_17Once he made it through Monday, I was a little bit surprised by everything.
SPEAKER_04But you know, well some of those later uh terminations were a little bit surprising just because you're right. Once you get through Black Monday, you kind of think you're safe for the most part. Because everything happens by about noontime on Monday.
SPEAKER_17And then you know it's a fire sale. What was it, Wednesday? He had a press conference and said this?
SPEAKER_02So uh NFL Network just reported that you're expected back as coach and that Stephen Ross wants you to have a chance to work with a new quarterback and a new general manager. Is that your understanding? You're returning as coach.
SPEAKER_10Um You know, my understanding is that um I am I'm the coach of the Miami Dolphins until told otherwise.
SPEAKER_17Um he was told otherwise 24 hours later. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Kind of shocking because like like we just said, you get through Black Monday and you think if you make it through Monday, you know, you're you're kind of okay. You know, they're they're probably gonna stick with you at least for another season, you know.
SPEAKER_17And then you can see how some organization, and depending upon the situation and your tenure, you know, if you've been there for a while and you know, a couple conversations need to be had until that decision happens, you can see how it might linger on a couple more days, but he seemed like a guy that was going to get fired on Monday and then didn't until John Harbaugh got fired a couple hours before he got fired, I believe. It was at Harbaugh, then McDaniel.
SPEAKER_04Right. Once the Harbaugh news came out, then McDaniels got the axe. And then all that speculation started about, you know, is he gonna go to Miami and all that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_17Because I guess they had a dinner or a conversation or whatever, and it seemed like McDaniel was gonna be a part of the conversation.
SPEAKER_04Well, because he was gonna be part of the GM search that's going on. That was part of the press conference that we just listened to. Yeah. Um, you know, and then like why should I I didn't quite understand why he should be part of the interview process because it was like uh how safe are you?
SPEAKER_17And then whether or not it was a something he said in that 24 hours or uh or it leads us all to speculate that the owner there, Ross, he is looking at the Harbaugh. Oh, Harbaugh's available, you're fired because I was kind of iffy on you for this next year. And but yeah, and if I can go after this big fish. If I can get him. Um but from what I understand, and I don't know if the Dolphins have found a GM yet, but I don't even think they've really started interviewing anyone. Well, that's probably a good thing if they want Harbaugh, because I think Harbaugh is a guy that wants to probably be his own kind of de facto GM and have control over the personnel and the coaching staff and like you know, football operations pretty much. Basically that Ron Rivera role that we had before. Right, you know, the the Mike McCarthy role in Green Bay, the Bill Belichick role, the uh uh Vike Tallin role, you know what I mean? Um so anyway, but let's get into uh last week I kind of gave a top ten on my hot seats, Mike. Uh out of the my top seven, five of them got got fired. So let's just say my my my did pretty well there. Yeah, my hot seat was was pretty good. There was two coaches that I didn't have in my top ten that got fired. John Harbaugh being one that we've been talking about, Brian Callahan in Tennessee. Maybe I should have had him in in there.
SPEAKER_04I I mean temporary coaches always get the axe at the end of the season, so I don't know why we didn't have that win uh on the list.
SPEAKER_17But well were the they obviously they finished with one of the did they finish with the worst record? Tennessee's got I forget who's got the number one pick.
SPEAKER_04Anyway, uh the Las Vegas Raiders have the Raiders won pet yet. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_17But Tennessee's up there. They're in their top three, I think. Anyway, uh I just thought because Cam Ward rookie year didn't happen how it wanted. I mean, I just thought that maybe they would have they would have let kept going with him, but they obviously saw something out of him that they didn't like. But what I thought would be fun for the pod is out of the eight vacancies so far, and I think that there might be one more vacancy. There's some murmurs there that uh Green Bay, LaFle LaFleur, um there's some rumors that his seat's kind of hot, and I don't have him on the radar, but we'll see. But of the eight vacancies that we have right now, and for the listeners, why don't you run through what the eight in no particular order because I'm gonna put them in an order, but uh Tennessee, Arizona, Las Vegas, um, Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, Miami, and Baltimore. Um, of those eight vacancies that we have without a head coach, if you were a head coach, which team, what organization would you be more inclined uh to to go to? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04So I think Baltimore's number one.
SPEAKER_17Uh well, we'll we're gonna go from eight to one, and then we'll see if uh if you and I Well, you just asked me the damn questions. So No, I'll just say it. We're gonna we're gonna go through one by one. Cleveland Browns obviously have got its number eight for a variety of different reasons. I know. It's Cleveland. That's all we need to say.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_17It just seems like they can't seem to keep a quarterback.
SPEAKER_04They can't seem to keep uh I think like the Raiders, they probably owe money to about 10 different head coaches over the last like five years.
SPEAKER_17So who knows? Uh seven I've got is as Miami. Um I I'm not I'm not sure. They they've got a question mark there at a quarterback. It seems like either you're gonna be a head coaching candidate that comes in and interviews and says, Oh yeah, Tua's my guy. I wanna I want to work with Tua, and either that wins you the job or loses you the job, depending on how the owner feels.
SPEAKER_04I don't know how the owner feels about Tua, but if he wants to go in a different position at Quark, like how much input in sitting Tua was it just, you know, was it just the head coach, or was there talk from above that, you know, he's not the guy you need to sit him, who knows? Time will tell.
SPEAKER_17Time will tell. Time will tell. Um at six, I've got Arizona. It just seems like Arizona's is it wants to lock into a championship, lock into a good team.
SPEAKER_16It doesn't seem like they're actively trying to I don't think they've ever really tried.
SPEAKER_04At least in the recent few years. I don't know.
SPEAKER_17They're never like the worst team in the league, but they're just always like 16th to me. Yeah, you know what I mean? They're just kind of and maybe it's Because they're all on the West Coast, so we don't really see a lot of their fans or hear a lot about that team out here. But uh just Arizona just seems like a so-so team to me. Anyway, uh five, uh Atlanta, it just seems like there's a lot of shakeup here. I could see how there'd be a head coach out there that says, oh no, Atlanta is a great spot to be. They're starting fresh, they've got new frontal.
SPEAKER_04There's too much uncertainty with the quarterback, really. You know?
SPEAKER_17If you're not sold on the quarterback and the owner, because it is Penix the guy?
SPEAKER_04Who knows? You know.
SPEAKER_17Maybe you're a guy that still believes in cousins. You're like, well, cousins.
SPEAKER_04Well, he signed to that massive contract, which uh turned out to be, you know, a waste of sorts because you went with with Penix.
SPEAKER_17So Las Vegas I have as four.
SPEAKER_04Uh I'm I would rank them higher because it seems like they want to win, but also But the franchise itself has historically not been that good. So that's why when we were kind of talking before we went on air, that's why for me they're a little bit lower, like toward the bottom of the list. Because historically, they're not good.
SPEAKER_17Right. I I mean, and you know as a head coach that you're you got a short lease because they fire every head coach. Yeah. How many head coaches have they had since Gruden?
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna I'm gonna pull that up because I sent that to you.
SPEAKER_17Because Gruden signed a 10-year deal and I think gave them four before that fiasco.
SPEAKER_04So the Raiders are spending $50 million on coaches' salaries that they've fired. Okay. Antonio Pierce, they're paying $8 million. Josh McDaniels, 10. John Gruden, $10, because he signed that like 10-year, $100 million contract, you know, is going to be kind of a lifetime coach. Um, and then got $86 for those reasons that we all know about. Uh Pete Carroll, who they just fired after one season, uh, they owe him $16 million for the next two years, because he signed a three-year deal, I believe. And then uh Chip Kelly, they're paying him six million. So there you go. Uh one, two, three, five coaches. And I think all that's happened over the last like eight seasons.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because about every season and a half they're they're changing uh head coaches. So that's a lot of dead money floating around.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a reason why these teams are the options on the list, because next I've got Tennessee. Uh I put Tennessee a little bit higher because it does seem like the ownership group there, and I don't know a whole lot about them, but you know, vr Vill's tenure seemed like they were diligently trying to to win a championship and be a top of their division. Well, we've we talked about that before.
SPEAKER_04Even his termination was kind of like suspect, like really?
SPEAKER_17Yeah. You know, so yeah, but maybe they're a team that just thought, uh, you know, we're we got this quarterback. He's gonna be with us for the next four years. We believe in him, but he just doesn't click well with in this system.
SPEAKER_04And that's some of the redeeming features as you're going through the list, which I don't really disagree with, is the young quarterbacks. That's what kind of I think moves some of those teams higher on the list. Now that we're talking about it and really thinking about it, the idea of working and molding, you know, these good young quarterbacks that are coming into the league.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, and and and that's really where it comes into is like who's in the building or what opportunity do you have to find their replacement? You know, that it's that happy medium there. It's like, well, they don't really have a guy at quarterback that I could work with right now that I'm willing to bet my reputation on, but they do have the third overall pick. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's one of those kind of things there. Um next on the list I have is the New York Giants. You know, they've got a lot of talented players, and they're in the NFC East. So that's already like if you're if you want to be in a marquee division, like this this is this is the same.
SPEAKER_04Well, just the just the the region, the the media market. New York City, baby. You you've got to we talked about it in previous episodes. Because of the media market for a lot of these teams, ourselves included, you have to be a winner because there's a lot of focus on these big market teams.
SPEAKER_17Yep. I mean, you've got Dart, you've got Scadaboo, you've got neighbors, you've got Burns on the defensive side of the ball. You've got to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_04They definitely seem like they have the most upswing of all of the teams right now with the younger quarterbacks.
SPEAKER_17Depending upon what they do at head coach, the Giants could and should see a pretty quick rebuild just by being unbiased. They don't have a reason not to.
SPEAKER_04It might be an appealing option for Harbaugh. Yeah. Young quarterback, young running back, you know, if East Coast team? Yeah.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I there's a lot of appeal, I think.
SPEAKER_04The the downside from neighbors, of course, the wide receiver.
SPEAKER_17Right. The downside from Harbaugh's perspective is if he does want control of the personnel, you don't get that there because it seems like the ownership group really likes their GM. I forget the guy's name.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but he seems to be, if any GM is safe, uh, given the the head coaching turmoil that they've had over the last few seasons, if anyone's safe, it certainly seems to be that guy. Well. So whatever he's doing, he's doing right.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, but you know how many losses get attached to a GM's record before the ownership groups are.
SPEAKER_04Well, Kat has nine lives, so you know.
SPEAKER_17Well, and that leads us to number one, the Baltimore Ravens. Uh obviously they've got Pro Bowl MVP, whether you like it or not. You predicted that they would choose the coach over the quarterback. I have uh chosen the quarterback over the coach, but hey, maybe the coach that they hire comes in and lets the quarterback go, and they really do start fresh. You you could still be right to an extent. But if I'm uh if I'm a coach out there, I'm looking at that Ravens job. And honestly, this is a tough job for me to try to predict because Well, it's a tough, it's a tough division.
SPEAKER_04A lot's expected out of the Ravens, not only because of the media market, but because of the division. You've got, you know, the Bengals and the Steelers.
SPEAKER_17Speaking of expectations, do you kind of feel like they're gonna go after a young, a young guy, a young coordinator, somebody that has the opportunity to be there for a long time. But or or do you do you think a name like Mike McCarthy or you think an older guy is a ship?
SPEAKER_04I I think kind of like with uh Reed in Kansas City, when you've got these big teams that a lot is expected of, you've got to go at least for a couple of seasons. You know, you gotta try it. You gotta go with the marquee name, try to get the biggest fish out there with the most experience to get you to the big game.
SPEAKER_17Well, Cliff is gonna Cliff is gonna interview there. I don't know. Shit. Uh well, you don't like that idea?
SPEAKER_04No. Cliff ain't gonna get nobody to the big game, okay? Uh we talked about that off air. Uh it's not that's not gonna happen. He was a train wreck in Arizona, and he'll be a train wreck to be a head coach and wherever he goes next. Other name that I stay in your lane as an offensive coordinator at a college, you know, somewhere to be named.
SPEAKER_17The other name that I heard floated out there was a guy named Jesse Minter. He's currently Chargers defensive coordinator. He was a former uh Ravens assistant hit or assistant coach from 2017 to 2019. Uh another name that I heard for potential was Anthony Weaver, who was a player and was also on um was also on the Ravens staff before being the Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator. But hey, can we just take a second to just acknowledge how crazy that Baltimore Pittsburgh game was last week? Talk about it.
SPEAKER_04You want to talk about an epic legendary game. I mean, if you missed that game, you missed something special. I'll I'll say that.
SPEAKER_17You took the words out of my mouth. I mean, that was so much fun to watch, so much on the line. It was the perfect Baltimore Pittsburgh game.
SPEAKER_04It was really everything you expect a game with so much on the line. It's everything you expected it to be. Yeah. You know, everyone sort of rose to the moment. You know, everything, the season included, was on the line. The season, the playoffs for both teams, winner go home, and they left everything out on the field. And you've heard of the announcers. Or in the wind.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, and you've heard of the announcers' jinx before, and typically that a jinx. It's a legit thing. Typically that uh jinx sounds something like uh, this guy hasn't missed a kick all year, uh, or he hasn't fumbled a ball in 537 snaps. And guess what happens on the 538th snap? He fumbled. Fumbled, yeah. Butter by ears. This was a different type of an announcer's jinx. And for the Ravens fans listening, plug your ears. But for the Pittsburgh fans listening, turn it up.
SPEAKER_14Rogers can't believe what he has just witnessed, what might be the end for him. But they went around the country and spoke to a lot of the kickers who were coming out, and they decided Tyler Loop was made of the right stuff for moments like this.
SPEAKER_15He now has a chance to win the division for the Ravens. The final play of the regular season for the final spot in the playoffs. Tyler Loop from 44.
SPEAKER_05I missed the Steelers! I was gonna get to the North!
SPEAKER_17So I mean that what an all-time game. And just when you thought that the Steelers were gonna lose because they the Ravens quickly just marched it back down there and got into field goal range, but man, that announcer's jinx. I just can't I couldn't stop thinking about it because just the way that he worded that he was built for this moment and they scouted everywhere, you know, they've been looking for a deck of cards. They've been looking for Tucker's replacement. And listen, if you watch that replay back, as soon as the ball left his foot, it he went up and grabbed his eyes. Like he it looked like he started crying immediately.
SPEAKER_04Well, I mean, you could tell they in the video that like when he was walking back to the locker room and stuff, you know, he was he was crying like a baby. And honestly, I think we would be too if we if we shanked a field goal that would have gotten us to the playoffs. Like you kind of got a feel for him a little bit. I mean, he'll be cut in a few weeks. All of your teammates bagging groceries at Kmart.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, all your teammates, the entire fan base, everybody just riding on it. But obviously, we were we're not Steelers fans watching that game, but we do have a guest on the pod that has been on the pod in it uh in the past, earlier on in the season, but is our de facto Command the Commute Pittsburgh Steelers uh podcaster? Uh we're gonna bring on Laura. Laura, welcome to the pod.
SPEAKER_09Hi guys, it's good to be back. It's been a while. We started it off and then we ended it.
SPEAKER_17So yep, exactly right. So, Laura, obviously, we just wanted to ask you and get your thoughts and opinion on how was that week 18 game for the Ravens? How was your mindset going into the game? Walk us through your emotions.
SPEAKER_09Well, I'm not gonna lie, that last play threw me for a loop. Well played well played.
SPEAKER_05I had to. What are we doing? I mean, come on, it was right there. I had to. It was right there.
SPEAKER_09In all seriousness, though, I'm with you. I fell for the guy. I mean, you know, you're playing 60 minutes of football and then two well, how five seconds is the only thing you're gonna remember from that 60 minutes of football is that miskick. So I feel for the guy. I really do.
SPEAKER_04Because kickers, they literally have one job to make field, to make field goals and extra points.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And those are at the end of the day, the points that truly matter.
SPEAKER_09Well, and and yes, and in my defense too, I don't know if I didn't even realize this until a couple days ago. Chris Boswell's kick, he didn't miss it. It was blocked. The safety got a hand on it.
SPEAKER_17Oh, I do think I I saw it. That's why.
SPEAKER_09I mean, because Chris Boswell, he's money. And so, like, I, along with, you know, however many millions of people that are watching it, were like, why did he miss this extra point? Like, this is not Chris Boswell. Well, he got a the uh safety got a hand on it. So you're right, it does make a difference for sure, but this guy, he had no, you know, obvious interruption to put the ball in between the uprights.
SPEAKER_17So we know at the beginning of the season, I mean, we had you on uh in a preseason episode, I believe, and just kind of got your tone and attitude towards Aaron Rodgers at the beginning of the season. Has he grown on you throughout the season, or are you still just feeling because to put it mildly, you were not a fan. Listen you heavy on the not a I'm not I'm not suggesting that you're you're you have bought his jersey or anything, but have you warmed up to him? Has he has he uh has he got a little piece of your heart at all, or is he just an a uh another player and Sayanara whenever? Or do you want him back next year?
SPEAKER_09So yes, when I started the season and he was not Aaron Rodgers, he was number eight.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_09And I did not I was very skeptical. But I will say what really kind of turned it around, especially towards the end of the season, was Philip Rivers coming back.
SPEAKER_04Hmm. How so?
SPEAKER_09So Aaron Rodgers, he's what, 41?
SPEAKER_17Yeah, I think so. Yeah, 41.
SPEAKER_09Philip Rivers or 41.
SPEAKER_04He's 41, we're the same age.
SPEAKER_16Philip Rivers 44? 44 or 45.
SPEAKER_17You know, I think Rogers is 42, and I think Rivers is 44 or 45.
SPEAKER_09I think 44 for him, but I don't know why I think Rogers is 44. But anyway, go on. But my point being, don't get me wrong, Philip Rivers, he did a great job with what he had to do. Like you guys were talking about last week. Like, it wasn't like everyone was gonna be sad. You know, if anything, it was like nostalgic. It was awesome seeing someone who came in with Ben Rothesberger and Eli Manning and these guys that are all in the same. And it's like, oh my God, like he's coming back on the field and he's playing. And he for, you know, like he did as best as he could. But if you look at the age difference, Aaron Rodgers being whatever, three years younger, like Aaron Rodgers is killing it. If you think about it. Like if you compare the two, how Phillip Rivers performed, his throws were short, his passes were off.
SPEAKER_04But Rivers has also been on the proverbial couch for the last five years.
SPEAKER_09And I get that. I get that. But I just I I say it, it really actually made me appreciate it because it's like, especially the older I get, you know, you look at back at like, you know, these players, like they're trying to savor every moment that they physically can. And so like I like give mad props to like Aaron Rodgers for being his age and you know, doing what he did this season. Like, I don't know. So yes, so do you he has grown on it?
SPEAKER_04So do you want him back next season?
SPEAKER_09Uh yes, I would.
SPEAKER_04Even if you guys end up firing Tomlin?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, actually, yeah.
SPEAKER_17If Tomlin leaves, I don't think Rogers comes back. Yeah, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_09I don't think so either. But I I yeah.
SPEAKER_17They're buddy buddies.
SPEAKER_09He I mean, Aaron Rodgers has definitely been talking very highly of Mike Tomlin, so yeah.
SPEAKER_17But so um that's that's all good to know. Well how do you feel? What's your pulse on on the playoffs? Do you I mean, obviously you guys make the playoffs pretty much every year. I mean, uh Tomlin doesn't have losing records. You've lost the playoffs, but have always pretty much just been in the hunt going up until week 18. You've always had um, you know, football that was worth playing in December and January, unlike our fan base is used to. We are we're used to our season being over mid-October. Um Yeah, so this was like our season. Our season legit was pretty much over by week eight, which was October 27th. So I'm just saying that was okay. That's about right. Yeah. Well, I've got the cheese. Uh I've got the board here in front of you.
SPEAKER_09We do, yeah. So the cheese game. I mean, after we can see where you gave up because there's nothing listed after Game Maker.
SPEAKER_17Week I stopped. I stopped filling out my chart after week.
SPEAKER_09There is nothing. Except we have Spain and by week 12. That's it.
SPEAKER_17Yeah. Yeah, but that's pretty much when it was over. And that's so true. At three and five, look, we lost that next game uh to drop to three and six. And from there, it was just like, what am I writing this up here for? Um but with that being said, um, you know, how what is your confidence level as as compared to years past going into the playoffs? Obviously, this week you've got Houston. And to me, it really just comes down to if you win one, then you can use that momentum and and keep on going. Uh so you've got to feel confident about the about the first playoff game. And then after that, it's like, hey, anything can happen. You just gotta find the right team, the right matchups, the right magic, and and ride it. But how confident are you in this first game against Houston on Monday night? How confident are you in the games that may follow?
SPEAKER_09All right. Well, I have two conflicting thoughts. Obviously, I would want to be optimistic and hope they win. I also am that person that playing out for the worst or hope for the best, playing for the worst, whatever. Um, and so that's where if I'm looking at stats, one Another thing that is gonna make me say I'm not feeling good about this game. So the Texans have more playoff victories in the last two years than the Steelers have in the last nine.
SPEAKER_17Well, did the Texans make the playoffs last year?
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_16I think they did, yeah.
SPEAKER_09In the last two years.
SPEAKER_17I thought they had an off year last year. But made a really good run of it the year before. I could be wrong, but so do you know? Like how many playoff wins do they have?
SPEAKER_09Who's that?
SPEAKER_17Houston.
SPEAKER_09Oh that yeah, I don't have the exact numbers, but it's all I know is what they've won in the last two years is better than what the Steelers have won in the postseason and their in the last nine years.
SPEAKER_17Well, we know that the Steelers have not been great in the postseason as of recent, because he that's the whole thing about Tomlin and and why his his seat might be be warm. Uh do you think are you a Tomlin ride or die until the organization says bye and then it's like, oh no, okay, thanks for the memories, but on to the next? Or like, are you are you one of these people that's like this is this is why we need to fire his ass? Or like where do you fall it and do you do you have a preference on the the the fans like when you chat with a Pittsburgh uh Steeler fair and like are you guys talking about Tomlin and what we should do with them?
SPEAKER_09So I have a conspiracy theory.
SPEAKER_17Uh oh. Love it.
SPEAKER_09I, you know, there was that NFL commercial um that I still think to this day is hilarious. It was it was either last year or the year before, but remember it was like all these people sitting around at a table and it was like players included, like actual NFL players, and like look like this is the script. This is what's gonna happen. Because you know, everyone like says, like, oh, the NFL, like Vegas, they rule everything, they run everything. So these games are already scripted, they already know who's gonna win and who's gonna lose. Okay. So conspiracy theory. We would have clinched the division if we would have beat the Browns, correct?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_09And we lost that game, right?
SPEAKER_04To the Browns.
SPEAKER_09And we should have won against the Browns, right? So then because we lost that, it came down to the last game of the season, a Sunday night primetime marquee game.
SPEAKER_03I think they moved the Raven. I think they moved it. I think they flexed it to prime time.
SPEAKER_09Well, then, that being said, NFL was like, how can we make the most money? Let's who's gonna be the most severe shift. They made it where this would be the game that dictates who wins the AFC North, who wins and who goes home, and then these missed kicks and all the things. So conspiracy theory. Tomlin loses playoffs, gets fired, John Harbaugh goes to Pittsburgh.
SPEAKER_04Well, that that rumors out there. Green Bay, Green Bay and Pittsburgh are the possible what-ifs depending on what happens this weekend.
SPEAKER_17So the other consumer NFL is just here to sell us food. Cherry rice, baker, maybe.
SPEAKER_09Baking the bread.
SPEAKER_17I mean, do you think that's an option?
SPEAKER_09I'm real, I'm actually really going out left field. Like, no, I have no idea. I don't think that's actually gonna happen.
SPEAKER_04Okay, but it's all the kind of, you know, play with that. Okay, so about the Tom 1 thing, we all know that they have uh, I think until March 1 to pick up his 2027 option, or he becomes a lame duck head coach. So do they pick up the option or is he a lame duck coach, or do they fire him and you know, start fresh going into 26?
SPEAKER_09I don't think hold on, quick correction. I think it depends on what he does in the postseason.
SPEAKER_04Right. So what do you think? I don't want to.
SPEAKER_09Well, those were two different questions. Sorry. No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_17We have to ask one question at a time. What do you think happens with Tallinn? Or what do you think happens with the playoffs? So we kind of got her opinion on Tallin. You're a Talin fan until he's ready to go, and it seems like you've seen enough, like you you'd like a little bit more consistency in that playoff win. But it's so tough because it's nice knowing you've got a guarantee winning season every year.
SPEAKER_04I mean, that's a guarantee. Forget about championships.
SPEAKER_08But that's at the end of the day, that's what you're there for. You're there to win championships.
SPEAKER_17That's the point. The heartbreak is is a lot worse once like once you get a taste of it and you get and you're there and you're close in the Super Bowl and you've experienced the Super Bowl.
SPEAKER_04Because let's be honest, we we know Laura. We have watched games with her. If they lose this week, she's going to have a coronary and say, Well, why did we even make the playoffs if we're just gonna blow it you know in the wild card?
SPEAKER_17Like, you know, she's gonna She seems nice now, but it's like off with his hand.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and like and she's I'm sure not the only Steelers fan who has felt that way and will feel that way if that's what happens this week. But that's kind of the product of the winning season. It's like, well, great, we had the winning season, but then when it comes to the playoffs, why can't we take it to the next level? And if we're not gonna win in the playoffs, then what the hell are we doing here? You know?
SPEAKER_07I hear you.
SPEAKER_04We don't have that problem because we're a losing franchise uh historically right now.
SPEAKER_17Well, before we get her to give us a uh a prediction, because we are about to predict every game in the playoffs, so we'll and we'll start with that game, even though it's Monday night. Um so let's get into our playoff segment here as we get into our fourth quarter here on the pod.
SPEAKER_06Playoffs. Shall we go to the ship, right? Yeah, we could. We go into the shipbook, we go into the shipbook, we go into the playoffs.
SPEAKER_16Playoffs. Last game of the year, Brent can't hold anything back now.
SPEAKER_04You kidding me? I just hope we can win a game.
SPEAKER_17So we've got we're gonna we're gonna go game by game. Uh let's start in the AFC. Let's start with the number five seed uh Houston against the number four seed Pittsburgh. And Laura, because you're you're on with us, we're gonna let you start this sucker off. You're the you're the one that's biased here. So we'll let you pick the the first game of your playoffs. We're just gonna go around and pick game by game. You're welcome to participate.
SPEAKER_09Okay. So this was my other defending argument of the positive side. Why I think we're going to win against the Texans.
SPEAKER_17Okay.
SPEAKER_09What day of the week is that game on?
SPEAKER_17It's on Monday night.
SPEAKER_09What do you think Tomlin's record is for Monday night football home games?
SPEAKER_17Well, I told you to look this up, so I know, but tell everybody else. So yeah, it is We are undefeated.
SPEAKER_09We are undefeated, never been beaten. So 11-0.
SPEAKER_1711-0 at home.
SPEAKER_09At home on Monday night. That's apparently Mike Tomlin's favorite day of the week.
SPEAKER_17And he's got a good record just on Monday night football in general. Obviously, if you're 11-0 at home, um, what was his overall record on Monday night football playoffs includes? Like 24 and what? 22 and 3. 22 and 3 is That's what I'm telling you.
SPEAKER_09Mondays are good for him.
SPEAKER_04Well, there's gonna be a first time for everything. No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_09It's not a Manic Monday, it's a Mike Monday. That's and you should like it. That's the same name, Monday.
SPEAKER_04A little less with the pointing of the fingers. I'm telling you though. So I mean, there's gonna be, you're gonna, you're gonna lose. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_17So you've got so you've got Houston, you've got Houston winning away. Yes. Uh I've got Pittsburgh winning at all. So let's move on to the to the next game on the AFC. I've got my own reasons. I I mean, I think that after that last uh win against the Ravens, that that entire team seemed to look at the city.
SPEAKER_04That that's gonna propel them.
SPEAKER_17I think they got a little bit more united there. I think Rogers is gonna uh unite the offense. They they're healthy. Um and I and I do think that that defense is gonna give Houston a tough time on the road, is my biggest thing. I think the defense at home uh against Houston is is gonna be the big difference maker there. I I I think their offense has been pretty consistent year out. I mean, they haven't really blown anybody out of the water. They've not necessarily been blown out either on offense, but defense is where you see the big difference.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I try to be objective when I when I make these picks, but I would like to see Pittsburgh win only because I've always been a fan of Rogers, and I would like to see him go as far as he can. Uh, now that he's clearly in the twilight of his career, he's probably got maybe a season or two left.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So I would certainly like to see him get as close as he could, but I don't know if I really don't think they're gonna be able to do it.
SPEAKER_17All right. Well, we will see. The next game on the slot there uh on the AFC side is uh the sixth seed versus the third seed, the Chargers versus Jacksonville in Jacksonville. What's everybody's thoughts there? Um I don't have a strong opinion.
SPEAKER_04Um it's gonna be the Chargers.
SPEAKER_17I'm I'm leaning against the Chargers only due to the inexperience uh on the Jacksonville side. It just seems like was this a fluke for them?
SPEAKER_04Actually, sorry. I'm looking at what I sent you earlier in the week. I originally went with New England, so I'm gonna stick with that, but they could be the upset.
SPEAKER_17No, Chargers, Jacksonville. No, I think they play Am I looking at the wrong unless I'm looking at the long wrong bracket.
SPEAKER_04The bracket that I have has Jacksonville against Buffalo.
SPEAKER_09Hmm, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_17Hold on, hold on, people. Did I look at the wrong playoff?
SPEAKER_09Did I look at an over one? That sounded like it.
SPEAKER_17Let's take the Oh shit. We've got breaking news. Hit that breaking news button.
SPEAKER_12Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. And I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen. Shannon Ball!
SPEAKER_17Alright, so we'll we'll come back to my wrong playoff bracket. I had the wrong matchup there, but um David Blow. Who's that? David Blow. I'm I'm sure I am saying this wrong. Uh the Commanders have hired assistant quarters back coach David Blow as their next OC. That was awful freaking quick. Uh Blow was a member of the Lions practice squad during the 2023 season. He joined the Commanders ahead of Oh, he was on our staff already.
SPEAKER_04Oh, Christ.
SPEAKER_09And also, too, earlier you guys were talking about the Dolphins and not having a GM. They are slated to hire someone. Um, John Eric Sullivan. He's the green Green Bay BP of player um personnel. So that was that was exciting.
SPEAKER_17I certainly hope our offense doesn't implode next season with some no-namer that's been on our because our our quarterbacks coach got hired, uh, I forget what college, but we saw that on the first episode of Knox.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_17Um so this was our assistant quarterbacks coaching elevated to offensive coordinator. He was uh he did have an interview scheduled with Detroit for their offensive coordinator position. So we weren't the only ones looking to, but he's a young guy.
SPEAKER_04That's an interesting pick.
SPEAKER_09I don't see I actually thought that Mike McDaniel was gonna go.
SPEAKER_04That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_09I thought he was him and um DQ are tight.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. That's what I thought was gonna happen.
SPEAKER_09And he um McDaniels worked for the commander. Well, at that point you're Redskins, but he was there for three years, offensive jobs. So, huh.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'm I don't know.
SPEAKER_09I'm not I'm not I don't know if I'm liking this pick, actually.
SPEAKER_04I'm not really right now, but we'll see. I mean I would say it can't possibly get any worse, but trust me, it can.
SPEAKER_09His last name cannot be Blow.
SPEAKER_17B L Blof.
SPEAKER_04Maybe it's French.
SPEAKER_17B-L-O-U-G-H. Blau?
SPEAKER_04Maybe it is Blau.
SPEAKER_03It might be Blau. Yeah.
SPEAKER_17Blau. David Blau. Young guy. Let's hope that he's like young and inner. Then I would certainly hope that's. Look, we would have looked at like if we would have hired Sean McBay as our head coach when he got hired as the Rams, we'd have been like, our tight ends coach? What? What the hell are we doing? We don't know anything about this young guy. And then he went on to lead the Rams to a Super Bowl. And we're like, oh man, we had this young genius in our room in our building. We didn't even realize that we had him here. So maybe this.
SPEAKER_09Sorry, what?
SPEAKER_17Who, Sean McVeigh? Nobody cares about that.
SPEAKER_04Save that for another podcast.
SPEAKER_09Both, actually. I meant Sean McVeigh, but he's not bad on the eyes, aren't they?
SPEAKER_17Listen, nobody gives a shit about that stuff on the podcast.
SPEAKER_16This isn't the podcast to talk about that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_09Sorry, sorry, I'll keep it manly.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, thanks. So that's our breaking news. Let's get back to my wrong pick. So I knew that Pittsburgh Houston were playing each other, but it's not Jacksonville Chargers. It's Jacksonville Who?
SPEAKER_09Bills. Yeah.
SPEAKER_17Jacksonville Bills.
SPEAKER_09Well, I'm gonna go with my pick.
SPEAKER_04You're going with the Bills. I think are we all in agreement on Valentine?
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_04All right. Let's move on. That's pretty.
SPEAKER_17The next game is what? You call it Al.
SPEAKER_04Uh the bracket that I have, if we're going straight down, it would be Chargers at New England.
SPEAKER_17Chargers at New England, yes.
SPEAKER_04And I'm going with New England, but I think that could be the upset of Chargers over New England, but I think New England will win.
SPEAKER_09Maybe they hire uh John Harbaugh for consulting. Jim, Jim and John can be on the side right. Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson.
SPEAKER_16Is there any rules against that? Is that a good thing?
SPEAKER_09I mean, if he's an active member of the staff, I'd never mind. I'm just I know.
SPEAKER_17I I think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_09But that would be kind of cool, right? Brothers coaching together?
SPEAKER_17It would. Um All right. So that would lead us to our second round, depending on how you have it, uh, Denver being the number one overall.
SPEAKER_04Uh wait, don't we want to go over to the NFC side?
SPEAKER_17Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's continue. Let's continue.
SPEAKER_04And I figured we'd do the next round on next week's episode, but you do you.
SPEAKER_17Well, I thought we would just put our entire playoff bracket out there as a prediction. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_04There's too many possibilities of how these things can go.
SPEAKER_17You got to go week by week.
SPEAKER_09Let's go week by week. I'm with Mikey.
SPEAKER_17Okay, all right, that's fine. But meet me halfway. I also I would like a pull, I'd like a Super Bowl prediction.
SPEAKER_04I'll meet you halfway. And say anyone who plays the Broncos next week, which will be the winner of the Steelers and Texans game, are gonna lose to the Broncos.
SPEAKER_17All right, but all right. Super Bowl pick will be Well, wait, let's do NFC, like you said. Let's do NFC.
SPEAKER_03I like it.
SPEAKER_17All right. Um so give us that first game in the NFC, because I'm not sure if my bracket's correct.
SPEAKER_04Rams at Carolina, and you'd be a fool not to go with the Rams.
SPEAKER_05Um Monkey.
SPEAKER_17Yeah, well, what would you do if you had $150,000 in your hands? No, I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_04I'd put $100,000 down on the Rams faux show.
SPEAKER_08$150,000.
SPEAKER_17What is the guy's name?
SPEAKER_09Who knows?
SPEAKER_17It's Carolina Mike.
SPEAKER_09Carolina Mike.
SPEAKER_17If you guys don't know, now you know. Carolina Mike, you gotta look him up. He's he's an awesome singer.
SPEAKER_09I didn't like it at first, and I was like, this is and now it's so catchy, I can't stop it. All right.
SPEAKER_04Well, anyway, moving on to things that actually matter.
SPEAKER_17The next Rams, I got Rams as well.
SPEAKER_04Next game is uh the Niners against the Eagles, and you gotta go with the Niners. You gotta? Yeah.
SPEAKER_09I'm going with the Niners too, but that's because one of my co- uh my co-workers is a diehard Niners fan.
SPEAKER_04I can't root for the Eagles, and plus they have a history of imploding, so Well, they only won the Super Bowl last year.
SPEAKER_17I just say I'm gonna say the Eagles are gonna win in the first round.
SPEAKER_09They're gonna win?
SPEAKER_17I don't want them to, but I have I yeah, I'm gonna pick the way.
SPEAKER_09I want San Fran to win, but I'm with you. I think the Eagles are gonna win. Because they're in Philly, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yes. I mean, you know Philly fans, and then the last game is Green Bay at Chicago. Oof. And I'm gonna go with Chicago.
SPEAKER_09They're in Chicago. Or they're in Green Bay.
SPEAKER_04No, they're in Chicago.
SPEAKER_05And I'm going with the home team. We're not Green Bay. Ooh, the Jesus. Love is back.
SPEAKER_09I think I'm gonna have to go with the Bears.
SPEAKER_17I'm going with the Gs. The G's. Uh and I'm just gonna put this out there early. Uh I'm picking Buffalo all the way as a Super Bowl winner.
SPEAKER_04They're my sentimental pick. But I too!
SPEAKER_08But I think why for you?
SPEAKER_04Because Josh Allen, I think he's deserving of a championship at this point in his career. But I think who my I think my true Super Bowl pick outside of sentimental value the Rams. Hmm.
SPEAKER_17If I don't pick Buffalo and I'm leaning on an NFC side, I I think I'm going with Seattle. I think they just looked really disciplined. I mean, we saw them in person. They kicked our ass. I mean, they looked really disciplined. They looked really efficient. Sam Donald's playing really good right now. So he's he's the only uh he's the other one. But you got anything other than the Bills?
SPEAKER_09Sentimental, I'm with the Bills. I love Josh Allen, and he's about to be a father. Well, not about to, but she's pregnant. Yeah. Because they just got married. Um about to. They got married. Okay, I'm sorry. So who do you I really I'm going to Pittsburgh. You're going to be disappointed. Oh my God. Only in my dreams.
SPEAKER_04You best start drinking now because people be disappointed.
SPEAKER_09Only in my dreams. Okay.
SPEAKER_17Well, hey, look, I mean, you got to, right? I mean, I mean, they're only going to play Denver next week, so I mean, hey, any given Sunday, any given Monday, any given Saturday this time of year. But uh this is uh look, anybody got anything else to say for the good of the order?
SPEAKER_09I actually I have my pick.
SPEAKER_17Your pick of what? For what?
SPEAKER_09Who wins the Super Bowl?
SPEAKER_16Oh, yeah, it's how it's said this.
SPEAKER_09I I wasn't being serious.
SPEAKER_16No, you should be. Okay. I mean you should.
SPEAKER_09Okay, then I'm sticking with the Steelers. Okay, good.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Leave it at the end. Legitimately. Okay. All right.
SPEAKER_09Yes. I'm manifesting this into reality.
SPEAKER_17Then we really need you to start acting like they're gonna they're gonna win it.
SPEAKER_09They're gonna win it.
SPEAKER_17All right. Then they need to be your sentimental pick, too. Um but hey, thank you guys for for listening uh to another episode. This is the portion of the podcast where uh if you've lost listened this far, this is where we ask you. It would only take you a couple more seconds uh while you listen to our outro to go ahead and give us a like, give us a review, give us a comment, give us a share, look us up on Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook, and give us a follow. Uh, but we really appreciate you guys and recently really appreciate a lot of you dropping into our DMs to give us a hello, a thank you, uh uh a shout out. Uh we we appreciate all of our all of our listeners out there. And just to give you an extra little um for upcoming, we are gonna keep putting out podcast episodes throughout the playoffs, and we're gonna finish up our season one of the Command the Commute podcast with an episode after reacting to uh the Super Bowl. Uh and then after that, we'll be into our off season. Um, but hail to the Redskins, thank you all for listening, and we'll see you next week.
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