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May 20, 2024 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
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Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Hey everybody, welcome back to Friday's Finest.
Yeah, we're at the end of the week.
Thank you, Lord.
We made it.
It's Friday's Finest.
What a week.
Michael Cohen on the stand, lying as usual, it appears.
That's become the theme of the Trump trial this week.
But he's also getting caught.
And it goes back to the old saying that I've always heard from my grandmother on down, that it's easier to tell the truth because you don't have to keep track of the lies.
Michael Cohen has stole so many lies, it's become the truth for him in many ways because he don't know the difference.
Although this trial is a bogus sham in New York against Donald Trump, the concern is you've got 12 people handpicked on a jury who doesn't care what the facts and doesn't care that there's no crime being committed here.
They're just simply out to get Donald Trump.
There's a lot going on.
In the trial, you know, again, very frustrating.
Trial is ending.
Today's Friday.
They're not in today because Barron Trump, by the way, congratulations to Barron.
Barron is graduating high school down in Florida, and the president is going to be down there to see his son graduate from high school.
So congrats to him.
A little bit to talk about.
I mean, we got James getting a big trip coming up.
I mean, we're going to call this James Goes to Europe on vacation, European vacation, James style.
We're glad to see him getting out and spending some time with the family.
But he's going to be joining us first here today.
We're going to go over the NFL schedule.
It's now out for next year.
Looks like I am looking at maybe a December trip to Vegas.
The Falcons are playing at Las Vegas Raiders in December out there in Las Vegas.
So looking forward possibly to that trip as we go.
A lot of others coming up as well.
But we're going to discuss the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything else in between.
Maybe a couple more things here on Friday's Finest.
Glad to have you with us.
We'll be right back.
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Alright, we're back.
Friday's Finest, James.
Hello there.
The Pre-Trip James, getting ready to go here.
Pre-Trip James is what they used to call me back in the day in high school, right before I dropped some acid.
They were like, oh, it's Pre-Trip James.
He's about to go on a journey.
Just kidding.
Just kidding, guys.
I would never.
Yeah.
Well, for those of you who are listening who are not James' mom and dad, I think that was a joke.
And...
You know what's funny?
We were just talking about it the other day.
There's a concert.
They're doing the Sphere.
They're doing the Grateful Dead at the Sphere in Vegas.
And it's called the Long Trip Tour.
And I'm like, how many drug puns can you do for the Grateful Dead?
It's got to end eventually, right?
I mean, their music is nonsense, which, by the way, if you guys are listening to the show, you're going to hear how much nonsense we think it is going forward.
Because we got a couple of incredible, by the way, we got some banger episodes coming up where we talk about John Hughes.
We went way too deep into John Hughes.
I think John Hughes would be a little disturbed at how deep we went into it.
Then, we did a music episode, and it's about taking your favorite albums and songs with you on a deserted island.
Then we have another, the movie's coming out, and then we got some really cool guests.
John McLaughlin and, I'm blanking out Doug.
We got Matt Whitaker.
Matt Whitaker, who's a fan favorite on this show, by the way.
He's been on multiple times, and we like him.
So, you guys like him, we'll keep him on.
Yeah.
But anyway, so the schedule's come out.
Sorry, I diverted, but I wanted to make sure that people know what's coming up.
Yeah.
No, I think it's perfect.
That's what I was going to talk about.
We got a lot.
I mean, John McLaughlin, Matt Whitaker, we got a lot of things going on for the next little bit.
So the next few weeks, you don't want to miss.
We're going to have the Chip and Kip Hour.
We'll be back on in a few weeks as well.
So just keep that up.
We got all kinds of horse racing.
For those of you who did not go deep enough in horse racing last time, you're going to get them again.
We're a triple crown show now, damn it.
That's all we're going to be talking about.
We're triple crowning this bad boy.
But speaking of triple crowning, as we look at this, the schedule is out.
And unlike Caitlin Clark, who is supposedly the hottest ticket in anywhere, supposedly.
All right.
I'm going to digress here.
Here comes the hate mail.
Doug, just let it ride.
Just enjoy the moment.
I can't.
I can't.
She's a good gal.
I mean, she's a good women's basketball player.
But I was in D.C. this week, and my plane was delayed.
I'm stuck in the airport watching on the monitor where I'm getting some dinner, and it was getting ready for her first...
WNBA game for Caitlin Clark.
And they covered it like it was the Beatles coming to America?
You would have thought that Michael Jordan had reappeared in 20-year-old form.
That is him.
It is.
I'm telling you.
Until you watch their play.
Okay, she had a rough first game.
Listen, every one of those women came out to beat up Kaitlyn Clark.
Five weeks from now, we're going to be talking about Kaitlyn Clark as the all-time greatest player on that track.
I'm telling you right now, don't overthink it.
It's going to happen.
You know, we're on Friday's Finest, James, and everybody knows you is the lovable optimist of the show, and I'm being the crusty cynic.
And, you know, because I'm crushing you on things like Richardson and quarterbacking.
I can't wait.
I can't wait to hear wrong about Anthony Richardson.
And Williams being a complete buzz.
I think the top three picks this year in the quarterback draft are not going to pan out the way they're supposed to.
So what you're saying is J.J. McCarthy is going to be the MVP going forward.
Got it.
That's what I just heard you say.
You said the top three won't work out, but J.J. McCarthy will.
You heard it here, folks.
I knew the purple and gold magic would, and the purple and gold would come back to fight us here.
Although it is not the purple and gold that the Joe Biden administration now is directing the DOJ to reschedule marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3, which means that a doctor can prescribe marijuana now.
I don't know where they're going to get it from.
I mean, there's a whole lot of questions here.
But if anything to buy a vote, Joe, you go for it, baby.
A joint to do it, you're willing to have it.
Listen, if you pay college students debt and you give them weed, they're voting.
Gummies for everybody.
You get a gummy, you get a gummy, you get a gummy.
How funny would it be if he had like a big stage and just Air Force One came over and just dropped all the edibles?
What happened to the crowd?
We don't know, man.
They've been lost for like six weeks.
But the problem is with the Joe Biden crowd, it would have to be precision detonation out of the plane because you can't see them.
Oh, man.
There's nobody there.
By the way, you spoke with someone.
Did they say 100,000 people were Wildwood?
Yeah.
The estimates, this is official estimates, by the way.
Actual city of Wildwood, somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000.
I've been to Wildwood many times.
Yep.
In that square little beach, that many people in a small square that I saw, that's pretty impressive.
It is.
Look, like I said, there's a preview of an upcoming guest, John McLaughlin, who basically also rightly said that Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen can't pull that many people.
Well, they shouldn't because they're terrible.
Wait, we can keep talking about New Jersey here though, slash New York.
Okay.
Did you see, and if you haven't Doug, please pull this up, The new uniforms for the New York Giants.
Who did they tick off?
Who did they make mad?
I think John Mara is starting to lose his sight and his mind.
He's sticking with Daniel Jones.
He lets Aequann Barkley go, and now he's got these uniforms.
The fact that those players have to put them on, how many people said no before they said yes?
Because I'm not wearing that.
But please God tell me they're not wool.
That's the only thing I'm worried about.
Well, yeah, it's supposed to be some representation of when the Giants...
No one wants that.
Do you remember the bumblebee uniforms from the Steelers, how ugly those were?
Leave that stuff in 1940, where it belongs.
Yeah.
And again, I guess what you get is...
Well, explain to me, because you're my insight into Jersey and New York sports.
You got it.
I mean, who's excited?
I mean, the Knicks right now, and I know you're not a Knicks fan.
The Knicks and Rangers got New York City going insane right now.
Is it really that?
As of right now, people are losing their mind.
But when this is over, if the Yankees, listen, if either of these teams win anything, New York City will be on fire and it's going to be awesome.
But since most likely neither of them are going to win, Yeah, well, I mean, right now, the Rangers have came back and made it.
I think the Rangers have the game.
They're 3-2, aren't they?
I think they have a game tonight.
They're up 3-2.
They won the first three, and then they lost the last two.
But the Knicks, their one win away from going to the Eastern Conference Finals, but they're going to lose to Boston.
And anyone who knows basketball knows that's going to happen.
They're too injured.
But after that, New York is going to be focused on one thing and one thing only.
Sure, baseball exists.
It's will Aaron Rodgers tear his other ACL when he comes out for the San Francisco game.
That is all New Yorkers who are Jets fans are going to be thinking about.
And all the Giants fans are going to be thinking, why do we still have Daniel Jones?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, before we get into the schedule here, I mean, I love Friday's finals because this just goes completely off the rails most of the time anyway.
Yeah.
Is it just me, or is Aaron Rodgers getting more and more vendetta-esque?
He's losing his mind.
Didn't he just take a shot at Trump for no reason?
Well, he takes shots at everything, but now he's- That's what I'm saying.
It was just kind of like, I don't care.
Listen, you don't have to like Trump or Joe Biden, but you're not in politics.
What are you just taking random shots from?
And then he gets into the...
And again, I fully say this may be true, may not be true.
I'm not making a comment either way.
But then he gets into this Bohemian Forest thing in Hollywood and underage sex trafficking and all this other kind of...
It's just like I said, I'm not saying I don't like Aaron Rodgers, but it's just like every time he now comes on, it's like, where is he coming from?
You know how you know it's bad?
When you can't do the McAfee show.
If you can't do that show, you can't do anything.
Oh yeah, by the way.
Because they allow, they bought it, did you see what they did yesterday?
No.
They bought a car live on the Mecham auction on the show.
What did they buy?
They bought a 2002 Escalade for $22,000 live because the Mecham auction were in Indianapolis.
They bought it for one of their staff members.
21,000, I think it was.
And they bought it live.
And you can see it go.
They're playing it.
And it goes sold.
And they all lose their money.
It's the best show on television.
I don't care.
I agree with you.
It's so good.
It's entertainment.
It's like giving fraternity kids money.
You know, it's just like...
They're like, oh, well, I don't want to hear the...
You know, it doesn't have real analytical information.
I'm like, do you know the guests that they have on give all the information you need?
Yeah.
And then you get the small reprieve of the idiots.
That's the whole point of Okay, this is our last dive before we don't get into it.
Okay, you got the toxic table with Connor and the other guy.
And then you got the one half of the hammer.
I don't get that.
Tone Diggs?
No, no, the guy that sits at the table with the cowboy hat.
Yeah, that's toned.
That's toned in.
Okay, who's the other half?
I think the toxic table is one half, and then he's the other half.
Or he's half, and I think he has a gambling show later on that he does.
Okay, with the hammer.
I think.
I'm not 100%.
Dot the hammer.
Yeah, half.
And then they got the four Donettes.
I guess we can't call them the Danettes because of Patrick, but I guess it's the Padettes in the control room.
You got the control room, and then it's either Darius Butler or whoever, and then obviously AJ. Why does AJ only do the second hour?
AJ does the second and third hour, I think, yeah.
Yeah, why does he not do the first hour?
Well, they always make fun of him because he's got like 47 kids, so he's probably watching.
And he only got like four.
I want to introduce the Ryder Cup champion.
You know what it is, too?
I think there's this part of me that grew up watching SportsCenter, and it was occasionally fun, and they made it interesting.
Booyah!
Yeah, like we had the best, you know, obviously they had the best hosts, and then all of a sudden it just...
Yeah, before Obermann lost his mind.
Yeah, Dan Oberman just was like, I am going to find a way to piss off every person I've ever met and talk about them.
Yeah, Keith Oberman is terrible.
Now, Dan Patrick is still pretty good if you listen to his show.
Oh no, his show is great too, but that's the other thing.
It's four guys that are having a good time and you can feel it.
That's why people like that show.
The funny thing is when they goad...
The McAfee show when they goad guests into saying stuff.
I like that.
I watch it when I'm at my office and it's noontime.
I'll eat lunch and I watch it then.
Did you just have Spider-Man reflexes there, Doug?
What did I just watch?
Are you a superhero?
Yeah, right over here, as she always is, Cree is sitting right next to us here, and my little angel, Shih Tzu, decided to turn around and get back on her pallet a little better so she could, I guess, see me, and my water cup was right there.
That was pretty good.
That was the fastest I've ever seen you move, Doug.
You must have been an athlete in high school with those reflections.
Many years ago.
Actually, you'd be impressed because I didn't touch the mic.
It was.
The whole thing.
We're going to replay that in slow motion.
We're going to play the Spider-Man music.
We got the new intro coming.
But McAfee's just hilarious.
I kind of took from them when we had Chan Gailey on and he said...
I said, what I heard you say was, the Vikings are going to be terrible for the next few years.
He goes, I didn't say that.
And I was like, no, no, no, no.
That's exactly what you said.
Because it's easier to make fun of that.
Oh, yeah.
That's exactly what you said.
We got it.
What was it?
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Here we go.
Yeah.
We're off on a tangent again.
On my show the other day, have you seen the episode a few weeks ago, about a week ago, on the racist turtles?
Oh, it was fantastic.
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
And the thing that's so funny is Pat acts just like a 20-year-old.
Yeah, he still is.
He's still got that part in his brain.
They play that video of that turtle, and, I mean, he's jumping up and down.
He's dying laughing.
First of all, I've never seen that before.
That is the funniest video.
Oh, my God.
What the hell is that?
I'm sure the fact that I haven't seen a scientist explain it to me yet is upsetting.
I'm like, all right, well, now we got racist turtles.
And then what's funny is like, because on our show, we do the panda thing.
They did the panda thing like three or four weeks ago, but they were talking about how like pandas aren't real.
And the China Zoo just proved us right a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, when they have the painted dogs.
I was genuinely surprised that wasn't in some crappy town in America where they have a half zoo.
We have one called the Catskill Zoo or whatever, and there's four animals there, and one of them is somebody's pet.
I've got to find it in New Jersey.
It's pretty bad, but it's funny to be there.
All right.
Moving away from McAfee for a second.
Let's move into the schedule.
The NFL schedule is out, yes.
And the one that is being worn around more than a cheap suit is the Kansas City Chiefs.
A story is out there that says, and it's true, they play on every day of the week next season except Tuesday.
And they have every right to be because you got it.
I think they win it again.
Oh, no, no.
They will win.
I genuinely don't know how they lose.
The only answer would be that Josh Allen is now freed from the shackles that was Stefan Diggs.
And he thinks that we're going to replace them.
We're going to replace Stefan Diggs.
They said they're playing Bill's Mafia Moneyball.
It's because they replaced Stefan Diggs with four different receivers.
Yeah.
Unless Josh Allen just lets it all go and can find a way to win, their defense steps up dramatically.
Yeah.
Maybe the Bengals.
See, Joe Burrow's injury is everything.
Because to me, the Bengals are the number one contender besides the Chiefs if they have Joe Burrow.
Because Joe Burrow wins games.
Hi.
You're here to see everybody?
There we go.
Oh, I didn't know that she was a NFL analyst.
Yeah, she said, I have to step in here, James.
I have to tell you that I've watched this and I believe the Falcons are not going to do anything.
And we'll have to just see.
But she got interested in whatever you were talking about there for a second.
Yeah, because she misses Joe Burrow.
But like all women, she finds Joe Burrow a trap.
And that's why she jumped in front of the screen.
Yeah, she had to see if Joe Burrow is here.
Now, I'm looking at week one here.
First of all, the matchups are great because we got Chiefs, Ravens to start the whole thing on Thursday.
That's awesome.
Then it's Green Bay Eagles.
That's going to be a fun matchup.
Two young quarterbacks going at it.
Then we have the didn't spend enough bowl and spent way too much bowl.
The Falcons and the Steelers.
Oh my god.
Think about the dichotomy of Yeah.
I think they spent $1.2 million on Russell Wilson and they gave up like half a pick for, what's his name in Chicago?
Justin Fields and you guys spent $180, I believe it was, on someone named Kirk Cousins?
I don't know.
I don't know him very well.
Look, I've told you I figured this out.
I know why the draft went like it did.
It's because tonight in Atlanta, Arthur Blank is having a fundraiser for Joe Box.
Oh, right, right, right.
And people who do that are kind of lunatics.
Well, it just shows that they have no clue about football anyway.
Also, first week, the first way out of the block is the Bears at home against the Titans.
That'll be interesting.
Yeah, it'll be good to watch Caleb Williams light up the Titans defense and you can eat your words.
Doug, I will put every dollar I have left, which is like $7.08 because I've already booked a lot of Airbnbs.
I'm telling you right now that Caleb Williams is throwing at least two touchdowns in his debut, and he's going to win that game for them.
Okay, we'll get closer to that, and we'll take that up on another Friday Sunday.
Because right now, I'm going to save you from yourself at this point on that one.
Oh, the Vikings are playing at the Giants?
Of course I'm not home.
Wow, yeah, that's like home turf for you there.
Yeah, man.
I've gotten yelled at at a lot of those stadiums.
The Giants stadium is trash.
The Raiders start out with the Chargers.
Yeah, that's a great matchup.
You guys get to find out exactly what Jim Harbaugh is up to.
You get to see him on the sideline making that weird face where he's not sure if he's got to go to the bathroom or not.
If I'm the Jets, I don't want this first game.
Hell no.
He's going to tear his other ACL so fast.
It's a Monday night football game.
They put him back on Monday night for the first game of the year?
I know.
I'm dying.
Who hates them so bad?
No, there's some guy that probably used to work for the Green Bay Packers, and they're just like, let it burn.
Yeah, and then put him against the 49ers, so it's like, wow.
Yeah, so he's guaranteed to butt.
But this time it's at the Levi's Stadium, so they have grass, I believe, so he won't die.
Yeah, I mean, it's going to be there.
But their first home game, he will.
Yeah, the interesting thing is there's some highly matchups around coming up.
In Atlanta, Atlanta has a fairly brutal first five weeks.
They've got Kansas City.
They've got Steelers.
They've got, I think, Philly, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, I'll look at it right now.
I'll tell you right now if I can find the Falcons.
Yeah, we've got Philly on Monday Night Football the second week.
Yeah, they have a tough schedule.
Geez.
Yeah, we're not here.
Right off the bat, Atlanta in a row goes Miami.
Wait, wait, wait.
Here's your issue.
That's the preseason.
Week two, Bears and Texans.
Yes, the battle of the two future quarterbacks of the NFL that will take over.
Yeah, one and then the wannabe.
Bengals and Chiefs, week two.
Yeah, this is what I'm talking about.
If Joe Burrow is not ready, that's going to be an onslaught.
There's going to be some good games here.
Raiders, Ravens, week two.
Okay, that'll be interesting.
It'll be interesting to see Brock Bowers catch no footballs.
We know what drafting a tight end and never throwing him to looks like in Atlanta.
Let's not do it.
Let's not repeat ourselves.
History doesn't always repeat it, but it often rhymes.
In Atlanta, we're a dadgum poet.
I'm jumping all the way to week 17 to see.
Because, again, a lot of these matches...
Also, one thing we didn't talk about is the foreign games.
Actually, the first game of the year is in Brazil.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
I love that they're like, you know what?
We're going to force this global thing down everyone's throats, and if they don't like it, they don't have to be a part of it.
And they'll pack out every stadium.
That'll be the crazy one.
Every stadium.
There's three in England and two, one in Germany and one in Spain, if I'm not correct.
Or two in England, two in Spain, one in Germany, one in Spain.
Yeah, Vikings, Jets are in England.
Yeah, that'd be good.
Here's your Christmas Day, 1 o'clock, by the way, on Netflix.
Let's give it up for Netflix, pulling big money and getting two games on Christmas Day.
Basketball is dead on Christmas Day.
Yeah, it's disgusting, and I hate everything about it.
Yeah, I mean, the NBA ought to just be crying.
And look at who they put.
They put the Chiefs, and on the 25th, they put Chiefs, Steelers, and Texans, Ravens.
Well, Roger Goodell might as well have just walked into Adam Silver's office and peed on his desk.
Yeah.
Because that's what he did.
He walked right into his office and said...
Christmas is mine now.
Have a wonderful evening.
Have a wonderful life.
Yeah.
Happy Hanukkah.
Yeah, you're done.
Good luck.
Thanks for playing.
You might want to pick another holiday.
How about Thanksgiving?
Oh, no, wait.
That's ours, too.
Yeah.
I think that whole week.
Hold on.
I think...
No, no.
I don't know what this is.
I think, yeah.
I think the NFL... Week...
Seven things.
Hold on.
NFL schedule.
No, I don't need the release.
The whole point is I think there's six games out of seven days that week.
There are.
Six days out of seven days.
Yeah, yeah.
We just got a Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, Monday, and they still got some to go, so they may actually end up being a Saturday there as well.
Yeah, I'm telling you right now, they're coming for everyone.
Yeah, but the problem is the Saturday would get into...
Yeah, here we go.
Yeah, the Saturday would get into the part of the college football playoffs.
19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd.
25th, 25th, 26th.
29th.
I mean, it's insane.
Yep, I agree.
And you know what?
I'm going to watch every single game because I'm a psychopath, much like you are, when it comes to football.
All of them, bro.
They're finding out.
They're finding out what our tolerance is.
They're like, I wonder how far we can push these idiots.
Will there be an oversaturation?
And to answer your question, NFL... Probably not.
Probably not.
Well, and here's an interesting part.
They've not even scheduled the Week 18 games yet.
They don't need to.
No, they don't.
So they can pick and choose.
Like, you've got a Washington Cowboys game.
Let's just say the Wedskins are actually good, and they can move that to an evening game.
You've got Kansas City and the Broncos.
Let's just say by stroke of magic...
Bo Nix has led the Broncos to a possible playoff berth, and you've got the Chiefs.
I mean, there's your Monday night game.
For the record, if Bo Nix works out, you're going to have to find my body somewhere.
Well, you're going to have to strap Chip down, too, so that's another issue.
He'll be so excited.
Here's the other thing.
I just decided to look at the Chiefs' schedule.
They have Baltimore Week 1. That's a tough matchup.
They have Cincinnati Week 2. That could be a tough matchup.
They have Atlanta.
I don't know what that's going to be yet, but Kirk Cousins can absolutely spin it, and you guys have weapons everywhere.
The Chargers, I don't know what they are yet.
I don't think the Chiefs have the schedule.
I think they have a tough schedule ahead of them.
They've got a bunch of playoff teams in here.
The Chiefs are 11-16 that wins the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I mean, listen, they're going to be the odds-on favorite.
Just like last year.
But they've got some matchups in here.
Atlanta's not going to be easy.
The Chargers, I think they're going to have a new regime with Jim Harbaugh.
New Orleans is going to suck.
I don't care what anyone says.
The team's trash.
San Francisco 49ers are going to be good.
Nobody knows what the Raiders are yet, but they love their head coach, and that's a team you can root for.
So that's something they could work behind.
Tampa Bay's not going to be a bad football team.
No, I mean, I think our guy Chan has told us, you know, that Baker's...
I do think, I think if you could let Baker settle into an offense that he likes...
Baker's found a home.
I mean, yeah, I think you're going to see a decent player out of him.
You know, this idea that Atlanta is all of a sudden just going to be walk the South.
Look, I only think the only bad team is...
Definitely not.
Yeah, I just don't trust New Orleans.
I don't trust Derek Carr right now.
No, no.
That whole situation.
But look, then they got Denver, which is a division game.
You never know.
The Bills are going to probably be good.
Carolina's going to suck.
They got the Vegas again.
They got Chargers again.
I don't know if this is a walkthrough for Kansas City.
I do, however.
I want to look at the Vikings schedule real quick.
Take a moment here.
The Miracle Vikings.
The Miracle Vikings.
You can call them whatever you want.
I'm looking at it right now.
I probably won't be NFC North Champion, but other than that, okay.
That's for sure.
So we got the Giants coming up, and if they wear those jerseys, we're going to kick the crap out of them.
But then there's San Francisco.
We're going to get beat.
Houston, we're going to get beat.
Green Bay, we're going to get beat.
Then we go to London.
God knows what's going to happen over there against the Jets.
Then we got Detroit.
That sucks, okay?
I want to talk about this for a moment and tell the NFL, what are you doing?
What do you want to see if Sam Darnold's got what it takes to be the worst quarterback in the NFL? Because the answer is yes, if you put that schedule in front of us.
But you got JJ! JJ better be on the bench the entire season waiting it out.
If he steps on the field, Doug, things have gone wrong.
I keep telling my dad this.
If we see JJ this season, and it's not from the very beginning because everyone on our team died, I'm telling you right now, things have gone terribly wrong.
Okay, I'll lay it out here for you.
I'll put a good Diet Coke on it.
Diet Coke on it, you see JJ McCarthy by week five.
Man, why are you and my dad doing this to me?
Do you hate me?
No, I'm just being honest.
You just know Sam Darnold's that bad, and I have way too much money.
We speak the truth, and we're also the ones that told you Santa Claus didn't exist.
It took them way too long to tell me that, but yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I hope my kids aren't listening.
My kids, particularly my wife, listen to this podcast because I just broke news to them.
Yeah, this whole time they're like, Dad, are you serious?
I thought all those presents came out of nowhere.
Oh, yeah.
Real quick, do you remember how you found out?
No, not really.
Because I remember.
I remember vividly.
We went under my mom's bed to look for stuff because me and my brother, of course, were looking for gifts.
And I guess it was third, maybe fourth?
I don't know what grade it was.
I might have been too old.
Who cares?
The point is that I was old enough and I looked and it said, from Santa.
And me and my brother both looked at each other and were like...
Well, that sucks.
Well, at least you didn't find other things you weren't supposed to find underneath mom and dad.
That's for sure.
Yeah, that's for sure.
That's the last thing, yeah.
Hey, mom, what's this?
No, put that down.
But, you know, no, but in all seriousness, like, I remember, I don't know, I just remember that memory very clearly.
Also, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, it was, I really was like, yeah, I can't, so I don't know.
Oh, I'm going to be in...
Alright, well, words out, I'm going to be on a road trip, but...
I'm going to be in Los Angeles.
I'm going to be around the LA area.
It's like an hour, two hour drive in October.
I think I might go to that game.
It's Vikings-Rams?
There you go.
7-15 on a Thursday?
I'd be willing to do that.
Yeah, I get to see that beautiful place.
See if it's what it all cracks up to be.
Yeah, there you go.
And then, of course, there's the Indianapolis Colts.
Ugh, no thanks.
Yeah, well, again, that's a win for y'all.
No one has made that place less appealing.
They don't have a quarterback.
Doug, why do you do this?
Why do you get me all riled up?
They have the quarterback of the future.
They have two good wide receivers.
You know what?
You know what?
Fine.
Fine.
Your little moment right now because, yes, he got hurt.
And I hate that for him.
I hate that for him because he could have found out last year if he had just stayed that this ain't for him.
Man, I'm telling you right now, Indianapolis is going to win that division this year.
No, they can't.
The Texans are in it.
McAfee's going to come back and kick.
Yeah, okay, I get it.
You know what?
Did you hear they were talking about a story where he almost showed up for the Bucs and won a Super Bowl?
But the paperwork didn't work out or something?
How funny is that?
Could you imagine going through that knowing you could have won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady?
Anyway, by the way, did you hear Tom Brady talk about he's like, I'm fine with the jokes about me, about his big Netflix roast?
And then he said, I'm fine with the jokes about me, but I don't like that it affected my family.
What did you think was going to happen?
Yeah, I don't get that one either.
He never should have done it in the first place, but I'm glad we got some of the highlights out of it.
Well, like I said, I think we talked about this with Chip a week or so ago, at least it brought back, I mean, in a sense, whether you like it or not, it brought back, it took down the barriers of political correctness again.
Oh, for sure.
Well, I think, look, folks, no matter what it is on the schedule, we're going to talk about this a lot more.
In the month of July, we'll have training camp starts.
We have August, a few preseason games, and then we'll have, of course, we're going to be discussing this a lot, have Shan Gailey back on, have some others.
And we'll have college football coming on back around here at the end.
So a lot going on football, but the new schedule's out.
Make your plans.
We may take a Doug Collins.
A podcast roadshow.
And if we do, we'll see you in these cities and we would love to have you be a part if we take a part in this.
But the one thing about it is the NFL is dominating the world and they're just proving it now.
I think, James, we both say the real loser out of the NFL football schedule reveal was the NBA. Correct.
Don't worry, NBA. Your time comes around March.
Yeah.
Remember those old commercials?
It's Christmas Day with LeBron and Magic and all that.
Nope.
Yeah, they used to have the best commercials.
They had one where they were shooting in the song Jingle Bells.
It's unbelievable.
Not going to happen to me.
Not gonna happen anymore.
We'll get him back.
It's NFL. It's NFL Films.
It's the old tundra of Minnesota.
The Raiders.
The Raiders.
Here we go.
Alright, folks.
We love you.
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