Silver, Black, and Currently Broken: Las Vegas Raiders (Ep. 2)

Hey everyone, this is Zack, long suffering Browns fan and director of Perennial Rebuilding. And this is Trevor, our resident Titans fan and VP of Half Remembered Dreams. And this is Misery Sports Company, the official podcast home for fans of terrible teams. If you’ve ever led an entire game only to blow it in the fourth quarter, then you belong at MSQ. Each week we unfortunately take a look at our teams, namely the Browns and Titans, and stick to our mission statement. Survive another week of bad sports. Laugh if you can. That’s right. In last week’s meeting we met your hosts and went over our core values. Poke fun, laugh together and build up what our teams have torn down. So much, so much they’ve torn down. Uh, in today’s meeting, we’ll cover our weekly earnings report. We’ll check in with our VP of moral victories and do a deep dive into another tortured fan base. And finally we will wrap up with our pep talk. 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Uh, spoiler alert. That’s the Cleveland Browns and the Tennessee Titans. So let’s take a look at the damage. Or maybe, should I say, profits? Starting with the Cleveland Browns. Um, so let’s start with the bad. The Browns, uh, did not score any points for the first three quarters, however, came roaring back. Defense was on fire, and we somehow, some way won thirteen to ten. Incredible. Uh, we had absolutely no reason to win that game. Our offense is a complete dumpster fire. Sure. Uh, but the the defense did, uh, intercept the pass, brought it all the way down to the five or six yard line. And so our offense could not screw it up at that point. Um. Great win. We need it. We’re suffering. Uh, Trevor, how was the week for the Titans? Well, uh. Predictably bad. Wish I could say we beat the Packers. Uh, congrats to the Browns for doing that. Uh, we did not. We played the hated Colts. Who? I didn’t get into it last week, but they are division rival in the worst division of football consistently. The AFC South sucks. It’s just so bad. So that means we are literally the worst of the worst. So it would have been great. Uh, we did make them punt once, which they had not done in their first two games. So congrats to the Titans. Okay, uh, we did lose by three touchdowns. So that part wasn’t great. But this is what everybody’s talking about. I want to walk you through a quick sequence seq. Okay. All right. Uh, it’s the end of the first half. Oh, by the way, we won the coin toss. That was another win. And we said, let’s set the tone. Let’s not give the ball to the Colts because they’ll set the tone, and then they’ll just run the whole time we take the ball. Third play pick six. So, uh, let’s fast forward. Let’s fast forward to the end of the half. There are under it’s under a minute to go. About forty five seconds left. We have run the ball five straight times. Fine. Okay. Whatever. All right. You know, got the pick six. We get it down to the Colts thirty nine. We are down by eleven at this point seventeen to six. It then becomes our we get stuffed on the run. It is fourth and one. The Colts take a time out because they want the ball. They’re going to score before the half even if they can double up right. Do the Tom Brady thing so they take a timeout. We send cam on the on the. We leave cam on the field. So far, that seems like the right call. Right. The Colts thirty nine. We’re down eleven. Let’s go for it. He looks over to the bench like I’m not getting a call in my headset. What’s the deal? Our coach deer in the headlights. No clue. Looking around, he calls a timeout. So the Colts called a timeout. We burn a timeout and he decides you know what. Let’s not go for it. Let’s try a fifty seven yard field goal. Let’s send the kicker out. So then we’ll only be down by eight. Fine. Whatever sends it sends our field goal team out there. They get a delay of game penalty. After two timeouts, they get a delay of game. So then it’s a sixty two yard field goal. And guess what? It gets blocked. And the Colts get the ball. Three plays later they kick a field goal. So we go into the half down fourteen after just an atrocious play calling sequence from Brian Callahan the next day, he said he was just a little indecisive. Uh, yeah. Don’t tell people that. Tell people that there was some other thing. Why? Don’t be like, I didn’t know what I was doing. That was a reason he, uh, didn’t get to the front of his Denny’s menu. He didn’t even look at it. Turn it over. We talked. We talked about that literally. The back of the playbook sponsors this show. Why isn’t he listening? Flip that thing over. Um, I’ll mention play calling at the end of this show during my pep talk, because that’s been a deal. Um, but suffice to say, we lost the game. Fair enough, fair enough. So, uh, before we jump into this next segment, I wanted to have a word from one of our proud sponsors. This, uh, this sponsor is Jay Cutler. Energy drinks packed with zero enthusiasm, zero hustle, and just the right amount of nicotine. If you’re looking for motivation, keep looking. Jay Cutler energy because sometimes you just don’t care. Thank you, Jay, for your fantastic product. And it really is hard to nail the right amount of nicotine. So if he if he’s got a product that gets that right, that’s just gets it gets that’s why it’s moving. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, now that we got that out of the way, uh, they’re satisfied with that with that ad read. So, um, let’s hand out some equally super real awards as we step into the office of the VP of Moral Victories. So my employee of the week, you know, we could we could give it to Quinshon Judkins. Right. Eighteen carries, ninety four yards. He got the touchdown. Um, maybe you give it to Joe Flacco for just existing at this point. But no, Trevor, I’m going to give the employee to the week of the week to Dylan Sampson. Who is that? He is another rookie running back we drafted with Quinshon. He’s our second running back, so he is the only other person who got carries. He got one carry for two yards. Thank you. That’s that’s positive I. Good for him making the most out of out of the touches he got. How did you like Quinshon this week? Quinshon was a monster. He runs really hard. He had five point two yards per carry. Uh, he had a little bit of juice, right? Running the rock. He was hitting people. He was trying to get the team out of the funk that they’re currently in offensively. So I’m really happy with Quinshon. I think the future is bright from a rushing perspective. Um, we have to figure out quarterback very quickly. Trevor, you and I, we could backpedal faster than Joe Flacco can run. I’ve never seen a man like it’s a three step drop. And I’m like, bro, it’s you. You gotta get to the third step. Like, what are you doing? That poor man. He’s old. He’s he’s got our memories. We had our memories with him. He came in a couple years ago. He took us to the playoffs. Mhm mhm. No more, no more. Oh. All right Trevor. Who else gets an award. My employee of the week uh is Jarvis Brownlee. Have you heard of Jarvis Brownlee before. I have not. Okay. So Jarvis Brownlee was our top corner. Uh, our top coverage corner. And no, it was not luxurious. Sneed, who we’ve paid so much money to extend him and has been hurt a lot. Uh, Jarvis Brownlee was a, um. Is he a rookie? He’s either first or second year. He’s on a very cheap deal and has been our best cover corner. Okay. Uh, and he’s my employee of the week. Just for, like, the sheer pettiness and hatred that he’s been drinking, it’s been incredible. So clearly, something was going on in the locker room. Something was happening. Uh, he was getting a lot of penalties the first two games, but he had good coverage. And our defensive coordinator didn’t like the way he was playing. Something happened because he showed up to the Colts game in a boot with like, a crap eating grin as he’s walking in and like, I don’t know what was wrong with him. I think nothing. So he didn’t play in that game. And then not forty eight hours later, he has been traded to the Jets. So Jarvis Brownlee, enjoy your time with the Jets. Now, if I said that we traded our best young corner to another team. What round pick would you guess that we got? Oh, um, I would hope for if he’s young and promising a second or a third. I would hope for that, too. We got a sixth. Does it help if I told you that we also had to send a seventh? We’re not going to share any more statistics about the success rate of sixth and seventh round picks. Uh, so, you know, that’ll that’ll turn out well for us. So, Jarvis Brownlee, thanks for everything you did for the Titans. Sorry it had to go that way. Enjoy your time up in uh, New York. Just have have a super great time. So that’s those are the awards while those are getting printed, framed and forgotten. Let’s head down to the mail room for our best posts of the week from social media. Zach, what do you got? All right, I will. I actually have a few in my, uh, my mail bag that I want to share. It kind of goes across the league a little bit. Um, so the first one is from at Paul Roman ninety three. Joe Flacco is one of the worst QBs I have ever seen play football. It is ridiculous. He should never play another stat snap. He is god awful. Hashtag dog pound. I’m gonna let that one sit. Wow, you just really went for it. I want to see Joe Flacco read that like in the celebrity mean tweets thing. I think it’s a perfect I think it’s a perfect candidate for it. And thanks for the hashtag to make sure it got, you know, uh, affiliated with all of the brown stuff. That’s great. I’ll ask you a question. So on on thirty six pass attempts, what do you think would be a good yardage pass? Pass attempts thirty six times. What would you want your quarterback to have in thirty six attempts? That’s a lot. I’m hoping it would be approaching three hundred. We had one forty two. No. So I’m going to side with that viewer. All right. The next one is from Las Vegas Raiders three sixty five. This this ties into our episode today okay. It is nearly impossible for a team in the NFL to be this bad for twenty plus years. Nearly impossible. Somehow the Raiders defied those odds. And I will leave you with a Tennessee Titans one from at not juju the cool. The Tennessee Titans are a money laundering front. Thank you juju. The Adams Addams Family needed a way for clean money, so they bought and tanked a historic franchise. Coach Callahan, we cannot have. We can’t have a lot of attention or heat. We need you to tank this. We’re washing the money behind the scenes. Do what you gotta do. We can’t have the league looking into why we’re moving one hundred and fifty million in jerseys every week. Just. Just keep it low. Wow. Fantastic. How about from you, Trevor? So I did want to give a shout out. Um, this will be. This will tie into my pep talk later. This is from beat reporter Paul Koharski, who is our the Titans resident curmudgeon. And he’s not even that old, so it’s not like it’s an old crusty guy who is just grumpy. He’s just kind of a miserable, cynical person, but he’s our miserable, cynical person, so he’s okay. Um, From a press conference that our head coach, Brian Callahan, held. Paul Wright’s Titans head coach Brian Callahan has zero disappointment in his play calling, but hands play calling duties off to quarterback coach. So zero regrets. Something you don’t do right. You call a play. Yeah. Just let me focus on the game. Because maybe if he didn’t have to call plays, we wouldn’t have got a delay of game after two timeouts, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. And but my winner is from Benjamin. And I will spell this semen s e a m o n. Thanks, Ben. Okay. Um, it has been a recurring problem that our receivers drop cam Ward darts this season, namely, uh, Calvin Ridley, who is our top, uh, paid receiver, and I think it’s very talented and just has better hands this season. He wrote, uh, after Paul Kowalski said that a lot of the players had left the locker room before media could come in after the loss to the Colts, which beat reporters get grumpy about including Calvin Ridley was gone. Benjamin says Calvin Calvin probably had to ride to catch. I’m sure he dropped it though, so thank you, Ben. That is a top shelf tweet. I am sure that he also dropped his ride. That’s pretty fast to like lose not only the fans, but the reporters as well. After three games. Um, yes. Yeah, that’s a record, I think. Yes, I will bring in what our I mean, we all know that the, the team paid reporter for the website is going to post the nicest stuff that they can about the team because that is the team putting that out there. I will bring in clips from what our team paid reporter said about the Titans loss to the Colts. Next week I will share that with you all because it is the nicest way of saying this team is crap. It is terrible. So congrats to this week’s honorees of post of the week. I promise we swear your awards are in the mail. Don’t look for them, but they’re in there. Helping to pay the postage on those awards is our next lovely sponsor. Who do we have, Trevor? We have offensive lineman smelling salts. Hey, the NFL got you down because they won’t provide you with your favorite smelling salts during the game. Well, go on over to the most unhinged position group on your team and get you some offensive lineman smelling salts. The good news? It’ll wake you right up. The bad news? It’s actually just a tube of Lou Holtz’s door slobber. So get your mind right with offensive lineman smelling salts. I want to know where Coach Holtz is right now. Oh, where is he? You watching this? Oh, man. And then they show him, and he’s all frail up in the booth. Oh. Poor Lou. Uh, thank you though. Thanks for your your amazing product. Lou’s double dipping. He’s got his dog slobber, and then apparently he’s getting he’s moving some smelling salt products. He’s making a ton of money off of us right now. Yeah. He is. Uh, thank you for for sponsoring this this wonderful, uh, podcast and episode. We appreciate it. So time to shift into our deep dive this week with your director of perennial rebuilding. Zack, take it away. All right, so for our first true deep dive, right. It’s the last episode we went into the the Browns and the Titans. I had a lot of teams top of mind, but I actually ended up landing on the Las Vegas Raiders. So I’m going to give you a little bit of history first. They founded the team in nineteen sixty. Okay. So they’ve been around for a long time. Um, similar to the Browns, right. The Browns had a fan poll that did not go well. Uh, neither did the Raiders. So the first iteration from the Raiders was actually the Oakland Senors. Oh, you heard that right. That’s the Oakland Senors. Uh, they said, no, we’re not we’re not actually gonna we’re not gonna do that. They were like, no. Bad idea. We really appreciate your feedback. We’re going to completely ignore you. Yeah. We’re going to go with the Raiders. Can’t be doing that. No. So everybody knows Al Davis right. Just win baby. And he’s you know he’s been the owner forever. So he actually did not start out with ownership of the team. So they hired Al Davis as a head coach in nineteen sixty three, so he was a head coach for a few years. He actually became the commissioner of the AFL at the time. So they had the AFL and the NFL. And then I think it was about seventy two is when he ended up as owner of the Raiders. So he kind of weaved through their history and then ended up running the organization. Um, really they had success off the jump. So nineteen sixty seven they won the AFL championship. And at that time the winner of the AFL and the NFL would play each other for the Super Bowl. So they lost to the Packers. Vince Lombardi nothing to feel bad about. Um, six nineteen sixty nine uh, they named John Madden the head coach. So another Hall of Famer. Yeah. Um, they ended up losing the AFL championship. But they’re right there. They’re right there for through the sixties. So you hop into the seventies, and that’s when the AFL and the NFL merged together. So now you have this big league. And they were perennially in those championship games seventy three to seventy seven. They made the conference championship every year. Um, as you think about it, in the seventies the Steelers were big time. So it was always the Raiders versus the Steelers. Um, and they eventually broke through in nineteen seventy six. So in seventy six they won Super Bowl eleven versus the Vikings nineteen eighty. They won the Super Bowl again. Super Bowl fifteen. This sounds great. The Eagles eighty three won another championship Super Bowl eighteen versus the Redskins. And I mean you’re talking about Marcus Allen Howie Long who’s on the Fox broadcast. Like they had a ton of Hall of Famers right around this time was the first move of the Raiders. So from eighty two to ninety four Al Davis wants, you know, stadium upgrades, this, that and the other. It’s not happening. They moved to LA, so they become the Los Angeles Raiders for those twelve thirteen years. They actually played at the Coliseum where USC plays football. Oh wow. After that, they moved back to Oakland. And of course, as we know, they’re now in Las Vegas, which we’ll get to. Um, but the eighties were great. They also had Bo Jackson. I mean everybody. Tecmo Bowl like. Absolutely. Absolutely incredible. We just run around, you dip and dodge until nobody’s tackling him. Yeah. No love. Bo. Absolutely not. Um. So eighties were great. You get into the nineties. It’s kind of a little bit of a lull, but they’re still pretty good. And now we’re going to focus in on the present day, what we consider two thousand to twenty twenty five. Um, pretty rough forty percent win percentage overall, um, early two thousand is where things just started to fall apart. So. Rich Gannon in two thousand. Everybody knows Rich Gannon. He was the MVP of the league. Um, they ended up losing to the Baltimore Ravens. Right. So the Ravens were all time in that playoffs. Their defense was crazy. Yep. Um, so that was the first hiccup. Second hiccup two thousand and one. So the following year they actually get old man Jerry rice. I didn’t even he’s. That’s right. I’ve seen him in a Raiders jersey. Yeah. Yeah. So he uh he comes along and they lose to the Patriots in the playoffs on the tuck rule. Remember the tuck rule. Oh my gosh. Yeah of course. So they just invented a rule on the fly. And it uh pretty much screwed the Raiders out of going to the uh the Super Bowl that year. So yes, that was such a painful way. That’s such a painful way to lose. And then for that to, like, continue to catapult the success of Tom Brady and the Patriots. That is brutal. Yeah, you’re one hundred percent right. And then two thousand and two was kind of the dagger. So Jon Gruden was their coach through the early two thousand. And he was like I want to go to the Buccaneers. Um so be it. They end up trading him. They get draft picks for him which is um pretty unique. Typically you don’t you just cut them or whatever. But he goes to the Buccaneers. And the Raiders are great. So they work through. They get to the Super Bowl. And who do they see. But the Tampa Bay Buccaneers yeah in a really mad Jon Gruden who absolutely crushes them. Just forty eight twenty one. I remember watching that Super Bowl I know it like I remember sitting in our room or our game room in San Antonio and watching that and being like that pirate ship. The Pirates are pretty cool, but like, it was double pirates. Yeah. Buccaneers and Raiders. It was the pirate Super Bowl. My gosh. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean it was pretty much downhill from there. They they hired Lane Kiffin at thirty one years old in two thousand and seven. Oh man. Um twenty eighteen Jon Gruden comes back but he he gets fired again and then ultimately investigated for emails that I’m not gonna cover. That’s that’s a good call. That’s a good call. The uh, twenty twenty, they end up officially moving to Las Vegas. Um, you know, you look at their draft picks, JaMarcus Russell, uh, Derek Carr was I would say Derek Carr was okay, but he was always injured. Yep. Agreed. Um, there just wasn’t anybody that really stuck out. They they just kept missing in the draft. Um, which leads us to present day. So now they have Geno Smith as their quarterback. They’ve got Pete Carroll. I mean, Pete Carroll’s on his last leg, so to speak. Yep. Um, but it it leads me to a question. Trevor and I, I wanted to ask you this. Say you were a Raiders fan, right? You grew up. They were in Oakland and they moved to Vegas, but they kept the Raiders name right. And you can kind of push this into all the sports. Unfortunately for Oakland the A’s are going to Las Vegas. Golden state pulled out of Oracle Arena in Oakland. Mhm. Would you as a fan bring your fandom to Vegas and follow the Raiders. Would you just cut ties completely. What would you do. Yeah I thought about I thought a lot about this when the Rams moved to LA, when they moved out of Saint Louis because a lot of football fans were going through it too, especially local there because that’s, you know, you’ve got them and you’re like, am I going to go be a Chiefs fan? Like that’s the next closest team. Uh, and I remember thinking that was hilarious because I can’t stand the Rams because they beat the Titans. Um, I, I think I would have to follow them because the thought of rooting for another team that you’ve rooted against for so long is so unacceptable to me. And like, I just couldn’t stomach I couldn’t stomach being like, okay, and now I’m gonna cheer for this other team. So I think, I think I would have to follow them. It would pain me to, to do that, but I think I’d follow them. What about you? I’m leaning that way. Yeah, because the Browns situation was different, right? They totally rebranded. They were the Ravens. Different logo, different colors. So it was really hard to, you know, if they were the Baltimore Browns and had any level of success. I think you do. You do get a pass and are allowed to be a little bit more of a bandwagon fan at that point and just test the waters, because the owner was like, we don’t want to be near your city. Um, I get it. If people want to be a Raiders fan in Las Vegas, I probably would as well. I think I’m with you. Yeah, I think I would, um, question for you, though. Which current NFL coach do you think would make the most wheels off owner. Because the idea of a coach becoming like ascending into ownership like that is wild. So just for the show, like in the same way that we admire the circus in Dallas, which which NFL coach would you most want to see become an owner? Because I’m between Brian Daboll and, uh, Coach Schwartz up in Detroit because I think they would be hilarious owners. I, while I despise the man, think that Jim Harbaugh would be absolutely ridiculous. Oh, that’s so good. That’s such a good call. Um, yeah. That’s great. That’s great. He would want to have, like, uh, sleepovers at the new draft picks house. I’m the owner. When you did that at Michigan, it was so weird. Yeah, that’s a great guy. Yeah. He just be on the sideline, like throwing balls with players and stuff. He’d be like Jerry Jones. Just like without a shirt. Just. Yeah. Yeah. And I forgot to mention this to you. Brought up a good point. So another, um, celebrity minority owner with the Raiders currently is Tom Brady. So he’s been in the news recently for being part of Fox, being a part owner. Um, yeah, kind of random, but I guess he saw some growth there. I it was really strange. Did you see the clips of him sitting in the booth with the headset on at the Raiders game? That was so strange to see. I mean, and then he goes, and, you know, I guess he’s able to do games as a totally objective, no stake in the like. That’s that’s weird. But he’s Tom Brady, so I guess they’re gonna let him do whatever he wants I don’t know. Yeah, I think that’s strange. See. Well that was the Raiders. We wish them well. We will be here to celebrate whenever they, you know rise from the ashes. I always thought their fans were terrifying. They had the shoulder pads with the spikes. Agreed. Um, but they’re not as terrifying now. Yeah, it is kind of sad. It is a lot like the Browns, though, where you have this rich history of success and then it’s like, why can’t we get back there, just even a small part of that? So that’s yes, that’s got got to be maddening. Where is the I wasn’t really an Oilers fan before the Titans came around. So all I’ve known is like, you know, a small stretch of of fun times but never the dominance. Like, holy cow, The the Raiders were going to Super Bowls and so were the Browns. It was crazy. Yep. We’ve got room for here. Room here for you in Misery Sports Co Raiders fans um taking a look at our next sponsor for the next segment. Um, so this segment is sponsored by Vince Young’s Financial advisors. From steakhouse splurges to bankruptcy, Vince Young Financial proves there’s no lead too big to blow. Thank you Vince. I’m glad to see he landed on his feet and now has that business going. Yeah. We don’t expect any payments from Vince for that one. No, that’s. We’re not even going to take that check to the bank. We know what’s going to happen. That thing’s bouncing higher than a Super Bowl, man. That’s there’s never coming down. He was on the cover of Madden at one point. Trevor I’m sorry, but like was and that’s that was the curse. It was either that or his horrendous Wonderlic. One of the two cursed him and his. Why he couldn’t maintain high play. I tell you what, though. Go look up the, uh, Cardinals game, where he leads us down the field and converts several fourth downs and then throws the ball to win the game. That’s like he has a good game in there. Uh, I think randomly, that’s also, uh, like Kenny Britt is in there. Remember the Kenny Britt like two years where he was dominant. Yeah. Go look up that game. It’s a it’s a good time. Well thanks. Thanks to Vince we appreciate you. We hope you’re doing well. You know here at MSC, we believe in leaving every meeting with a little bit of hope, even if it’s wildly misplaced. Uh, so welcome to our pep talks. Our first pep talk I will give to Titans quarterback coach, and now offensive play caller Bo hardegree. And it’s funny that you just did a deep dive on the Raiders, because Bo used to be an assistant coach with the Raiders, and when, uh, the same thing happened where he was promoted into calling plays and the team did okay, like the stats actually improved. Um, okay. It probably had more to do with the opponents that they played, but it’s okay. But Bo, come. Come on in. Listen close. Bo. The expectations for you could not be lower. You are replacing a man who could not call a play after two timeouts in a football game and got a delay of game. Bo, I, I trust you. You have spent more time with cam Ward than anybody on our football team. You know what he likes. You’re ready to call the plays that are going to work for him. We are so ready to love you because we have been miserable for the first three weeks watching this offense sputtered. And honestly, Bo, I’ll be real with you. Whether you do great or your play calling sucks, it’s a real win win for us. Either you improve the offense and it’s great, or you suck so bad that we fire Brian Callahan for promoting you. So either way, good with us however you want to do it. It’s going to end with something positive for us. So Bo, go and have yourself a great week and I look forward to talking about a Titans win next week. So that’s my pep talk of the week. Zach keep us rolling. Yeah no pressure Bo. Um, I’m gonna run. I’m going to talk here to Kevin Stefanski, head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Coach Stefanski. Kevin, can I call you Kev? Come on in here, buddy. You know, we just. We won a game where, uh, you know, we had absolutely no business. We have a generational defense. Uh, you know, they’re giving up nothing. I know you’re riding high on this this win, right? Kicker actually made a field goal. He made a fifty five yarder. I just I need you to objectively look at the quarterback position. Joe Flacco threw it thirty five plus times for one hundred and forty yards. The man isn’t even a statue. He’s just he’s nonexistent. He’s slow. He gave us his all. Please just try the rookie quarterbacks. If it goes bad, we’ll go back to Joe. We know what Joe is. Joe is slow. So big K, Big Kev. Please, please do not celebrate this win. Uh, yeah. Thanks, K dawg, you got this. Yeah. Just pick one. I assume Browns fans probably want cheddar more than, uh, the Oregon Kid. But, like, as long as it’s not Joe, right? Give him a shot. Um, speaking of, who do the the Titans have up next? Actually, uh, we have another division game, uh, against a real pissed off Houston Texans team that had lofty expectations and find themselves at. Oh, and three. They have two of the best defensive linemen in the game right now who are both top six or seven in pressure rates. And they are going to tee off on our tackles. Uh, I think one of them, at least one of those tackles will be a backup. So don’t expect a great game. What about the Browns? The Browns will be at the Detroit Lions. Uh, the Lions have a soft spot in my heart. I’ve loved seeing their rebound. I do not expect anything good to come out of this game. Um, you know, we’re bad enough at home playing away. I don’t know if that will score any points and the defense can only do so much. So I’m feeling great. Well, we weren’t feeling great about green Bay and look where we are today. Kevin’s not celebrating because he’s he’s got to change stuff. But we’re we can celebrate. He’s not allowed to. He’s not allowed to. I look forward to next week being back here and celebrating two wins. At least that’s what I’m going to tell myself, because that’s going to do it. For this week’s meeting at Misery Sports Company. We hope you’ll become employees here by subscribing to the channel and following us on X. Until next week I’m Trevor and I’m Zach. See you next time.