GMFB Thursday: Thanksgiving Football SHOWCASE! Trust Scale game!

Published Nov 28, 2024, 4:50 PM

This episode of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Akbar Gbajabiamila discussing the matchups on Thanksgiving Day - Are the Detroit Lions the most liked team in football? Are the Packers and Dolphins coaches two of the brightest minds in the game? And then they continue their Thanksgiving tradition where they share one thing they trust, one thing they don't and then give an NFL team a trust scale ranking

Good Morning Football.

Hey everybody, welcome to Good Morning Football. We are presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky.

It's Thanksgiving Day.

I'm very thankful for all the three spaces I see on this TV screen and all the faces looking back at us watching GMFB. We know you, we love you, we love that you're watching. Thank you for being here with us. That's Akbar, Basja bm Millow. We I'm gonna get this straight. That's Kyle Brand, That's Peter Schrager. I'm Jamie erdel Akbar. We've got a massive slate of games. You're gonna be eating your food, You're gonna be enjoined football all day.

What are you? What matchup are you most looking forward to?

When you consider the John Madden Thanksgiving celebration, well it.

Starts with the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions game. But I like it more or less because it's the main event. I mean, when you talk about football, you think about you know, traditionally you're so used to seeing the Detroit Lions.

But I want you to.

Take a look at this because the main event, to me is probably the biggest thing going on in football right now. I've said it before, This offense for the Detroit Lions. To me, it represents what exciting football is all about. And I think it's going to be very very problematic for the Chicago Bears to stop this. Every line has its main, and that main shows everyone in the jungle that they are the dominant ones and they are the king. And this offense right here is showing exactly that. And I love the way that they utilize Grett Goff and being able to get to his wide receivers, especially when you think about Jameson Williams, how fast he is and how he creates headaches for any defense. But the Almanran Saint Brown has been a force for this offense and he's that dependable guy. Now, this defense that you're seeing against the Chicago Bears, they don't have the personnel grouping to match up with your Gibbs, with your Montgomery, with Williams, with aman Ross Saint Brown.

That is going to be very difficult.

So I think we're really going to see kind of like in a boxing match, when you think about the main event in boxing, think about the main event for football. You're looking for a dominant performance. Unfortunately, I don't think the Bears have anything to call back or punchback against this one. I love the way they're going to get vertigal in this one.

I think the Bears are going to keep it really close today. They play the Lions well, they always have, and I think Caleb is confident.

But we'll see.

Listen, guys, part of the art of Thanksgiving, especially a family Thanksgiving, is trying to get through the day.

Without pissing anybody off. You know, you want to at.

Least get through lunch, dinner without a take. Sharing a take, they're just enrages everybody. I set a new record at seven point fifty seven am today.

I shared a take that.

Just pissed everybody off, and I did it on social media, and my take was this, this is the most likable team in the league, the Detroit Lions, and I specifically I talk about Chicago all the time, but I called out Vikings fans, Packers fans. They said, guys, listen, this is a safe little space here.

Okay, you can admit you kind of like the Lions. It's okay.

And people were so mad, bleep you bleep everything. They're so I hate the Lions, and you know what, you're liars. No, you don't I know Lions fans love those Randy Moss Culpeper team. They're very likable. I know everybody loved those far teams. It's okay, you want to beat the Lions. You can admit that they're likable because they're incredible. And I want to give you some just Detroit Lions wallpaper. For the love of God, Rolston Dan Camp. Everyone is so.

Mad that I said, you.

Know what, this is like the most likable Lions team ever built. This might be one of the most likable teams of all time because contrasts them to something like I don't know, the New York Jets that tried to hack the system and build it the fake way. This is built from top to bottom like an old fashioned company, with strong leaders, strong workers rewarding them. The coaches, the assistants, the coordinators, the defense, the offense. They all seem like good guys with good stories. But the other reason we're going to like this team, and Peter, I know you got a lot to say, but watch this because you're gonna like it is because we like the origin story. How many times and you sat down on Thanksgiving Day, America's holiday, and watched a Detroit Lions ass whooping where they are the victims of that. So as we start today with the Lions I think being the best team in football and my pick to win the Super Bowl this year, let's just look back, not to not to exploit them, but just to remind ourselves how far we've come.

I have some of.

The worst Detroit showings ever on Thanksgiving Day, and give me that time, miserable.

Time in this planet called twenty twenty.

Let's go rolling video tape twenty twenty Lions Texans. You're seeing JJ Watt score a touchdown in an empty stadium in Detroit. The Lions gave up forty one points to the Texans.

They got absolutely destroyed.

Deshaun Watson's running fake plays on them and flee flickers. Guys, you know the only bright spot in this day for the Lions. Adrian Peterson scored two touchdowns. Look at mitrible Matt Patricia. He would be fired in a mass. They got destroyed. Let's go to two thousand and eight, the Detroit Lions coming to Thanksgiving Day oh and eleven and Chris Johnson had about eight hundred others two thousand yards. They were incredible. De Drake Titans were ten and one. The Lions lost forty seven to ten. Chris Johnson and Lendale White each had two touchdowns. Rod Marinelli miserable season. Let's go to two thousand and one and then get in here. I don't care about the damn kick two thousand and one. Give you my Mike McMahon, give you my Charlie Batch.

Guys, this is Thanksgiving Day.

They were oh to nine and they had a real shot to beat the Packers. Out of Marty morning Wig Mike Quitman starts pulling plays out of his backside. They get a touchdown, a two point a touchdown, and all they need is a two point conversion tie. Mike McMahon out of Rutgers. Make him playing those beautiful probacks.

Throw it in the end zone. What are you doing, Mike?

Just throw it.

He's eventually gonna go, and I promise you it's not complete. They lose to the Packers. Absolute heartbreak. Corey Sleshing didn't have a shot. Marty Morning may eventually fired.

Guys, do you.

Feel the contrast between that shot right there and Dan Campbell just having a party every single week. We've come a long way with the Lions. We've come a long way with Thanksgiving. Have we come from a long way as a country?

I don't think so. But that's okay.

We're doing great as a sport and we get to watch the Lions today triumphantly Peter get in here.

It was good. I want to say real quick. I want to say real quick with that game.

I remember that two thousand and one Packers Lions game. My brother had two sects in that game. So I grew up watching a lot of that, and you know, watch it, but I remember that game.

Those instance you pulled that out.

Yeah, Mike McMahon came in.

I remember exactly where it was by and uncle's basement watching the Lions are gonna win and like my dad being like, come dude, no, they're not going to win, and they then this early game is great and you see those two logos. I like the night game the most.

Today.

I look at that Packers Dolphins game, and obviously there's real stakes. Both teams are hoping to go to the playoffs, and the Dolphins have one three straight. But with Thanksgiving and family and relationships, I always think of the men and women who are working on Thanksgiving for the NFL, and I think of Mike McDaniel and I think of Matt Lafleur and how far they've come. First of all, I think they might be two of the best offensive minds this sport has.

Take a look at two plays.

I know we're talking a lot of fun and games on Thanksgameing, but like, there's some football to watch, and if you were a film junkie, you love two plays from this past weekend.

Let's start with the Patriots first, the Dolphins.

This is the play that faked out the camera crew on CBS. And I'm not trying to call out any directors or camera operators.

It's not your fault.

It was hard to see where the ball was flip over the shoulder to Jayalen Wright on our first play.

You can't get this enough.

If you're a football fan, because it means we've had football for one hundred and twenty years and yet they're still creating new plays that can fake out the camera operators. This was a small game, but this is what Mike McDaniel has in his pocket, and they could show on the national TV. And just as you're thinking, wow, can't get any better than that, we go to the Packers game last week and Josh Shacobs is running for about a trillion yards. The blocking scheme on this one that has gone viral, all the different running plays you've seen in the NFL this season and in NFL history. Try to follow the ball when there's all that action and all that blocking going on. You have two brilliant minds, and really to set the stage for Thanksgiving, they were across the table for many years in many places. Let's go back to Washington when Lafour and McDaniel were on the same staff learning from the same Shanahan masters. These two guys were young coaches trying to cut their teaky I love that these two guys have worked together for so many years. They consider each other brothers. They're like great friends. And then on Thanksgiving evening, I think they're going to put on a display for the film junkies, for the casual fan. Packers Dolphins gonna be really fun of the two head coaches have a great, great history together.

It's Thanksgiving football. There's no better way to spend it than with people that you know and love. And these guys are going to be coaching against each other tonight.

Peter, I love that some hardworking, thirty year on the job CBS camera operators just got called out Thanksgiving nihilated make out he was working Dolphins Patriots. He's starting his day. He turned that NFL network and Shreger's tearing them up from missing the shot. Happy Thanksgiving brother, wherever you are.

I'm grateful for shregs and blocking schemes. Anytime Shreger leads a show with coaches and their old head shots and the fact that this is the coaching tree, and when he drops a blocking scheme reference, you know, we're off and firing here on GMFB.

Let's go.

You know, Jamie, I'll tell you that blocking scheme had me up because I remember seeing that and I just thought I had never seen that. It just speaks to kind of the uniqueness and the way creativity of the offense. Going back to that Matt Laflora run play.

You saw them.

They were set up in twenty one personnel. They had two backs in the backfield. They had a tight end, and typically when you talk about power, that was a power play. When you talk about power, you're usually pulling that backside guard coming down on the end. That time, they motioned the tight end and that tight end comes in and when you're doing all of that motion, it throws off everyone and it creates this mismatch. And so bringing that tight end back in on it.

It was wide open.

That's the first time I had seen anyone kind of creatively do. I've seen different power plays creatively, but that one right there was pretty cool. That they are very you know, and football is like meats and potatoes, right, you know, but these guys kind of figure.

Out to make it up.

It's like leftover Thanksgiving food, you know, it just kind of makes uping up a new.

Milk turkey and mash. Everybody turkey and mash today. Why have we not referenced that game that sits in the middle of the day, the Cowboys and the Giants.

Kind of walking, go for it, Go for it, James, we.

Got we got Cooper RUPs versus Tommy DeVito? Or could we get Trey Lance and Drew Lock? Like, my god, the options are endless. Are we going to see a Trey Lance Drew Lock, a Tree Lance Drew Lock Thanksgiving? I don't know if you're a Giants fan or your Cowboys fan, just enjoy the entire slate and just know call it a rebuilding day.

What have you?

Just know you're grateful for your team to be playing on Thanksgiving and move on with your day. Ian Rappaport, speaking of that game, there's a couple of injuries that we have to keep an eye on. Cowboys a little banged up heading into this matchup.

What is the latest? After I sold it so.

Eloquently, that was a great sound.

Of course, if you're a fan watching, especially if you're a Giant fan, you really want your team to win, almost as much as you sort of kind of would like that number one draft pic, which is where the Giants are currently sitting right now.

You're not bringing for a team to lose, but if it happens.

You might end up with whoever next year's Jayden Daniels or Caleb Williams is.

Anyway, let's get to the actual game.

There are some injury questions, of course for the Dallas Cowboys. Trey Von Diggs, their star cornerback, been banged up. Really it seems the whole season. Officially, Listen is questionable. He's got a groin injury, he's got a knee injury. My understanding is he is very much up in the air. A true game time decision. It seems like it's a possibility he could go, but they got to get him out of the field to warm up. My understanding is it could go either way. And for Eric Kendrick, same thing. He's got a groin, he's got a shoulder. He hasn't practiced at all this week, which generally is a bad sid except that it's a really short week. This also could go up in the air. But let's talk about Tommy DeVito. The big quarterback question for the New York Giants.

Came in last.

Week, played didn't go great late in the game to stuffered a form injury, actually stayed back from the team to get an MRI, and came back without showing a fracture that is at least good. It was really really story yesterday and as of last night, didn't seem like a great possibility that he would play. They do want to get get him to get up, see how he feels, maybe throw today. Otherwise, and I would say the more likely option Drew Locke being out there for the New York Giants in his first starting action of the season. They don't want to focus on one more quarterback, not today Trevor Lawrence the Jacksonville Jaguars, coming off a bye week after just a disastrous loss for Jacksonville. He took the majority of the first team reps for his team yesterday. Dealing with a left shoulder injury, a significant ac joint injury.

He's able to come back in practice.

Today, He's able to have no issues than a good possibility he will be starting this week for the Jacks.

Welcome to Good Morning Football and very very happy Thanksgiving to you.

You know, we like to be on the air and Thanksgiving. We always have been, we always will be, and we'll see you on Christmas as well if you watch for years. Thank you very much. You know.

We also do something called a trust scale, where we set up our own personal scale of trust. On the low end of the scale is something in life that we don't trust at all, and the high end is something that we trust complicitly and completely, everything from not at all to total. And then we pick an NFL team and we say where they land and on that scale. Let's go to our little four box here so I can talk to the crew. Jamie Rdalt, You've done these many many times, and.

In the past you have listened.

Some things you don't trust from You don't trust your own hamstrings, you don't trust denim. Things that you do trust people who pick restaurants based on the beverages there, And you trust cheese. So let us know what you don't trust at all, what you do trust, and then pick an NFL team and place them on your own personal scale.

The floor is yours.

Okay, thank you so much, Kyle. I appreciate you.

I really enjoyed watching Akbar's face as you explained what I have recently not trusted and trusted. Because this is a really fun exercise and it's very soothing. I'm going to start with a thing that I don't trust. I do not trust that my child will eat the meal that will be served at the children's birthday party that we are attending. Let me explain this a little bit better. I might think that, sure, we're going to go to this play place, and the kid's gonna climb around for an hour and then eat the three.

Slices of cheese pizza that they are given, and then the and then we're gonna go home. That's not how that works.

I do not trust that when they get there, they're going to be so jacked up from running around, climbing up and down slides, being with their buddies for an hour straight, that you're gonna come down emotionally to eat that pizza. Then they're going to go straight to that cake, that delicious frosting filled cake instead of eating. It's like drinking Vogdon an empty stomach, that's like a thousand milligrams of sugar eating that cake.

And then I'm going to get them in the car and come home.

And the sugar crash that happens because they have not eaten that meal that I trusted they would because we are going to a social event is so brutal.

I cannot what have I done to myself?

So listen, parents, feed your child before the birthday party.

You will thank me later for it.

I do not trust that my kid's gonna show up at your kid's birthday party.

And eat the pizza. I just won't do it.

That's my one.

The thing that I do trust no matter what. Is napping. Okay, let me tell you this. I got a five year old, a three year old, and an eight.

Month The show goes on at five am. I'm not going to tell you what time I wake up. I'm not going to tell you what time I go to bed, it doesn't matter. It changes every night. And I'm not going to tell you how many times I get up in the middle that I do to those three children. What I will tell you is that no matter what, I will nap, I can nap. I can do it at any time of the day. I could nap on that hey bail if I wanted to. I could nap, sit next to that pumpkin if I wanted to. I could lay down on this floor nap. And for my kids, if they're misbehaving, if they're not listening, they probably need to nap.

Okay.

I trust naps no matter what. This is what we're working with.

Okay, So I do not trust my kid to eat the meal served at your child's birthday party because I had just handed an absolute menace after the fact, I trust snaps no matter what. They always solve every problem. Guys, I trust the bills like I trust napping.

The bills are a ten. The bills are a ten for me. The Buffalo Bills could clinch.

The AFC East this weekend with a in and a Miami Dolphins loss on Thanksgiving Night, The Buffalo Bills, coming off of a bye under Sean McDermott, are nine and zero. The Buffalo Bills at this moment in time, I trust like I do snuggling up on my couch next to my Haybail for a couple hours after the show so much with my life that I had him winning the AFC East. I think I'm saying that out loud correctly. I had him winning THEFC East back in September first, I got him winning the AFC's this weekend. This is happening. The Buffalo Bills are attending to me. We're just gonna take them all the way into January.

I love them.

Josh Allen is awesome. The coaching staff is great. Them team makeup. I compete with the lines for the most likable team. I love this Bill team. They are a ten for me on Thanksgiving.

Wow, David Jamie, we will revisit this when we do our playoff trust scales and see if you still have the Bills up by napping, or if they go a couple notches down towards Cake. Unless than anyone who is confused, those photographs were not of Jamie's children. Those were strange and at those of a boy sleeping and blowing out a.

Star Trek birthday cake.

So I don't know what that was, but those were not Jamie's kids.

Now, Peter, here's the deal. Peter's been doing this for years.

I got to go way back in the logs, Peter, of what you trust and don't trust. You don't trust robot animals or people who go to tuloom. You knew trust New York City bodegas and Frank Kellyendo.

So what do you have today? The list goes long.

Ninety years.

We've been doing this, Kyle, ninety years, and here is our Thanksgiving Day twenty twenty four. Trust scales for me. I don't know if the viewer at home is watching us for the first time of one million time whatever, But I was not on Instagram the first eight years of this show existed.

I resisted. It wasn't that I was too cool. I was too lazy.

I work for the NFL network, I worked for Fox. I don't work for Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't going to give out free content, and truly I didn't really think anyone cared to see pictures of my personal life.

It ain't that interesting.

What I would say is the show went through a turbulent time around March and April, and we were moved from New York to LA and our show went on hiatus, and also night all these football takes and draft stuff and Pro Day were and I know where to share it, So I joined Instagram, and I thought it was going to be a hit. I thought I would have a million followers in a day. It didn't happen that way. But I will tell you this, I have fallen into these Instagram wormholes that everyone at home has been following it for eight years, nine years, and like it's all new to me, where you just start finding yourself going and every so often.

A shirt will pop up, go on, a sweater will pop up, and I look at the brand and it's not a familiar brand.

It's a brand I've never heard of. Usually is like some straighter and there's like this beautiful guy and he's looking over the cliffs of Malibu and he's in this sweater and he's chiseled, and it says just just click here to purchase, and we're all hooked up with your credit card and if you click it right here, you will become that fabio looking guy, and you're gonna wear that sweater out there, and it's gonna fit you without ever trying it on and without having having any reputable company behind it. Trust us, this company is gonna send you the perfect sweater.

And oddly enough, it's only ten dollars. It's only ten dollars. It's an incredible deal, Like this is the best deal ever. So of course I'm an idiot.

I'm a roob.

I'm new to Instagram.

Click, I buy, I buy, and I buy one, I buy two of my guys. Zero out of ten on my trust scale? Are these Instagram pop up shirts?

Sweaters?

I have gotten button downs from China that have no collars. Literally it's a button down shirt, but it has no collars, so it's just a shirt with buttons. The collar's missing. I go to the tag on the back.

There's no brand, so it's just literally an Amazon package. You open it up and it's just a shirt with no collar, no no tag of a brand, no return slip, nothing, just money missed a way into the ocean, just money pissed away, Like there's no reason that. But I'm so good that I decide to go back to Instagram for more I bought a sweater recently. I'm I'm in my holiday season. What's it, I'm in my nesting season right now. So I went a little big. I was like, I'm gonna go double Excel instead of my usual Excel. This thing showed up. My eight year old son could not fit in this thing. It was so small.

Again again again, thirty dollars from Asia. I don't know which country from Asia. I know that because of the tracking details, because it took six weeks to get here and then it finally did arrive and it so my zero out.

Of ten is buying clothes on Instagram. That is a long drawn out explanation, but I have learned. Okay, now my ten out of ten on my trust guilt, something I always trust. Let me just tell you I've been doing a lot of things lately around the house.

I've been trying to get back in the gym. I've been traveling a lot. Undefeated. Is the NFL Films music? Can we play some NFL films music?

Yesterday, I am on a train with my wife who is an angel, and two.

Kids under the age of eight, and they are there.

We're just trying to get through a four hour train ride New York to Baltimore, and it's like a meme to reference Instagram. My wife is handling both kids. I'm sitting in a seat next to them, and I have my EarPods online and I'm listening to the NFL Films music. I'm listening to Sam Spence. Guys, no offense to this song. This ain't what I'm talking about. What are we doing audio?

Could I get an NFL You work at NFL Films.

Let's get to do we have any old school Nope, guys, NFL films, Classic NFL films.

Unbelievable. Sam Spence is rolling in his grave right now.

But it's a remix meter.

Oh my, Peter, they had to order the NFL Films music on Instagram.

It's just gonna take a while.

They put model tools on it.

I do, I do apologize that.

Around like seven fifty eight am Eastern, I'm like, I'm changing my trust goal.

Can I get classic NFL films?

Okay, I realize I didn't realize.

I need to listen the actual track to the folks who work at NFL.

Town doing their basket working on the holiday.

Peter, what do you trust? What team do you trust?

Let's go to the Washington Commanders, who I was at ten at until about three weeks ago. I maybe I might be jumping off that hill in malibum.

Give me a.

Six for the commanders, and it's trended the wrong way. All I'm sorry, guys, you loth yes, all right? Wait is that NFL film sort of all right? Six?

Six out of ten and we're descending we're going the wrong way. That could be a two and a couple of weeks. Do you keep on losing games with missed extra points and whatever else? Producers, audio, folks, you.

Know I love you.

You're not supposed to be working on Thanksgiving when you enter the workforce, you guys, do we appreciate you?

Sam Spence, we appreciate you as well.

Peter.

It's cool because the sweater is only ten dollars, but it's three hundred and eighty dollars in shipping. And listen, you don't know what country it comes from. I know, Peter, you also probably funded World War three, so you can have that going for you, which is and I like that you also were perfectly willing to here's my credit card information, here's my home address, here's.

My own just take it all because I need that sweater. It looks that good.

Have it, and Kyle, the beauty of it is now they can track me in every step along away from a drone that they created and it's amazing. It's great, happy.

Thanks Kam for Good Morning Football.

It's very exciting for us that you were watching us today from home or from wherever you are.

We are all at our homes right now and we are.

Thrilled to be talking to you about football because there are three games today, there's another one tomorrow. We know the good teams at this point, guys, but it's just a matter of trust. Who are the teams that you really trust to get the job done.

We've talked about this a lot this morning.

Earlier today we set up our own personal trust scales done for years on Good Morning Football. Something you don't trust, something you do trust, and then where the team lands in between. Jamie Rdall was talking about how she doesn't trust her children to properly eat at birthday parties. They just go right to the cake, they don't eat the pizza, and there's all kinds of negative effects of that.

She doesn't trust that at all.

She does trust napping implicitly and with her schedule.

You better.

Peter Schrager does not trust purchasing things on Instagram. He's made some mistakes, He's gotten some hot guy sweaters probably destride his credit score. And then also on top of that, he trusts completely NFL Films music. I mean had a little issue with that earlier, Peter, But I think the orchestra is ready. If you want to kick it in my friends, go ahead, Peter, basking this for a minute.

Do it.

This is what I was talking about.

This is Sam Spence in the orchestra. SAMs the longer with us, but his music lives on forever. I challenge you today, in a moment a stress with family.

Or something's going wrong, go in the corner.

Put this on and it's send.

But it's also inspiration.

Kyle, thank you.

I think on Thanksgiving, dang, we need Sam Spence Orchestra.

It's great, Peter.

There should be a zone Peloton channel where they just play this stuff while the instructor goes get you riding but knocking your.

Box, Sidemera, you have never done this before. We're very excited for you to start, just to.

Recap something you don't trust at all. Something you trust absolutely one, and then pick an NFL team and tell us from one to ten where right now they land on your personal trust skill.

Okay, all right? So for me, I think I got to start back.

And this goes all the way back to my childhood because of the way my mom was. My mom was not very fond of cats, and so I don't trust cats.

And for a lot of reason.

I think one is the fact that they're very mysterious. You think about the way they kind of like lightly walk around. You can't really command them like a dog. You can't say sid, stay kill, you know what I mean, roll over. But then in another sense, they're purring and they're rubbing on your lap and they're kind of getting their fur all over you. But then when they handle their business, and you know what I'm talking about, it's early in the morning, but when they handle their business, they like, you know, clong at it and they bury it, and it just is like, why you're so sneaky? Everybody does it? Why you gotta be so sneaky, you know what I mean? And I just don't trust them. And then my mom told me when I was a young kid, and I still believe today because we were not allowed to have any anybody's cats or anything coming into the house, because she says she believes that they will suck the air out of your nose and take the air out of your breath and kill you.

And so I just don't trust cats.

And there's one in my neighborhood right now, and it walks around like it owns the neighborhood.

It just kind of comes in like, what what do you want? You can't free Rome? Where's your niche? Where's your owner?

Like to me, it's just don't. I don't fools with cats. I don't like them. I don't want any hate from any of the cat lovers. I'm sure you love them, but I don't want them all right now. One thing that I do trust, and I absolutely trust this with all of my heart, all of my life, it's not a cat. I live here in Los Angeles and I'm born and raised here in Los Angeles. And the one thing you know about Los Angeles is the four to oz five, the four oh five, and everywhere else has a lot of traffic.

And you guys know this about me.

I've got a lot of jobs, I've got things, I've got a lot of kids, I'm a married man. I don't have time to drive anymore, and so the thing that I trust the most is myself driving car, and I drive ninety nine point nine percent of the time. Yes, my Tesla, I put that thing in self drive on the freeway on the street. Now, they just updated the software probably about a year ago to where it's now efficiently driving through the street.

So if you.

See me on the street, chances are I'm in that self driving mode.

And I trusted with everything. I summons it.

Sometimes when I'm coming out of the gym and I'm lazy, I just press the summons button and he comes straight to me. And everyone's looking and they're confused and like what is going on? Yeah, that's right. I don't drive my car. My car drives me. And I will tell you this. One last story is my dad doesn't trust it though, but I trust it. I try to do it with my dad, who you guys know, you know, born and raised in Nigeria.

And I put him in my car and.

He go, no, no, got mean, I don't want these I don't want to don't put but better just think And I was like, Dad, okay, okay, okay, I mean, he literally freaked out.

I have never seen my day.

My dad is very soft spoken, doesn't you know, say a lot, but he had a lot to say in myself driving car.

But I trust it, and I encourage you guys to trust it. Now. I know, I told you guys, I don't like cats.

But the one cat that I do trust the Detroit Lions because they don't purr. They roar and they have been roaring, and I trust them all the way up to ten.

That's right, And a lot of this has oh listen to that thing roar. You know, the Detroit Lions.

We know about their offense, but they really what's really elevated this team has been Aaron Glenn's defense, and it has been a masterclass in modern football. When you think about how aggressive his scheme is, the blitz package, the talented players that they have on their team, and the guys that they've collected in that secondary group up front. You lose Aiden Hutchison and they go out and they get another guy to come in there.

That I mean when I.

Look at this defense and the way they are stopping teams from scoring, especially in the second half, and when you think about just the talent and the play calling. I look at the you know, Aaron Glenn, and I say, you know what, his blitzing scheme is going to create so much opportunity, especially against the Chicago Bears, who we know have a young quarterback. We just told her Stacey Dale and then talk about him not playing on.

Thursday Night football.

But I trust that this statement as a defensive team and this offensive unit, that they're collectively all together, that this is going to propel them all the way to the super Bowl.

I can't wait for tomorrow's show.

If the Bears pull off an upset today, it's going to be an incredible thing. O bar, you and your driverless car, You're going to be covered with cats.

It's going to be a hell of a day, all right.

I got a segue to my own. I'm the only member of the show has not done this trust scale here. I will start with my once something I don't trust at all. When I go to a restaurant, I don't want and I don't trust the specials.

I don't want that. I don't something's going on here.

I always feel like the waiter is trying to sell me something. I feel like like they're working on commission, and it's like, I don't want the crab rangoon, Mitch. I'm not interested in the gaspat show, Heather. I know you're trying to push it and you're being incentivized by your manager somehow, but I don't want Here's the thing, it's Friday night. I've known what I'm gonna order for this meal since Monday afternoon when I looked at the menu on my phone. It's always the chicken parm. It's always gonna be the chicken parm. I'm not interested in your little playful little stuff shells, ditch dish.

I'm not into it. And you know what it's.

It always feels like to me, like when you go to a concert and like the band that they're there to watch. It's like we're gonna play something off our new album. You're gonna like just like, oh, let's go get a beer, play the hits, Play the hits. Because you know what happens the one time I'm feeling frisky and I've decided to take a walk on the wild side and I get seduced by their little spiel about this awesome special and everything, and I order it.

It's not that good. It's probably repurposed.

From things they had from yesterday that they want to get rid of. And I always should have ordered the chicken parm. When they get into that song and dance about would you like to hear this? I don't want to hear the Specials. I don't know if there's anything special about the Specials. It's just the chicken palm. Bring it to me and stop telling me. The longer you're dancing about this ravioli is the longer I have to wait for what I'm going to order. Anyway, no one wants the Specials. I don't trust them. There's something sinister going on with the Specials.

That's my one sinister number ten.

I trust the Disney parks, and I trust the rides at Disney World. It is an amazing thing to me that I will take my children and my wife and put them onto an elevator called that literally called the Tower of Terror. It's got twenty people in it, and frankly, it has the weight of forty people in it, and you're going to take them and drop them down twenty stories over and over and over that ride. Gud I put those little kids on there like it's no big deal.

Just drop them Space Mountain. You're flying around in the dark.

If anything's hanging down from Space Mountain, we'll all be decapitated.

We can't even see what's going on, and.

Yet we just whoa, Let's ride it again and let's.

Take pictures of it after.

Have you ever ridden on something called Goofy's Sky School? Are you telling me that's not going to come off the tracks and fall onto the corn dogs stand?

I trust those people. I don't know how. I've never met them.

They lurk and closed doors, and yet I will put my whole They could be like, here's our new ride at Epcot. It's Donald's Da Kappa Coaster, and you just run in and you'll be like, let's go, kids.

Who wants to get on there?

I show zero protective instincts, zero restraints, there's nothing. I've never seen a tutorial. I've not got any safety explanation. You just jump in, strap on, and hope we don't die. I don't know how I trust those as much as I do. Will's been in the ground for decades now, and I still would put my children's in his hands. It's no problem. That's my ten. I trust those Disney rides. My team is the Baltimore Ravens. Where do I put them? Behind Mitch the w trying to sell me on the you know whatever it is, the Oyster, Rockefeller and the Epcot Center. I'm putting the Baltimore Ravens guys at a six.

It's not great.

It's not great considering they have a great record, great coach, MVP, all that stuff. I have them at a six, and I have them at a six to win the Super Bowl AFC Nora has some potatoes from them, and see what to win the Super Bowl a six.

I've just seen it too many times the last few years in the playoffs. I've seen it a few times this year.

I still cannot bleep and believe they lost to the Gardner Minshew Raiders long time ago.

I'm being hard on them, Yes, but it's a six, and if they want to get it a little.

Higher up, a little up, a little close towards the Tron motorcycle ride, which is back bleep insane, and my kids just jump right on it. You got to do a little bit more, you got to earn trust.

Baltimore Ravens a six on the time.

Okay, the Lions at a ten Forrockbar and my god, the cats is incredible in the tel driving car and the sixth. Now, Kyle had the Ravens move for you? Were they a different number or this season?

You know what they weren't, Jamie, They weren't. They've been a six since training camp.

They've been a six since Travis Kelce threw Justin Tucker's little kicking stand and apparently psychologically broke him. I just I've seen this a few times with the Ravens six in camp six.

Now.

They will be elevated when they win the super Bowl. They may be demoted if they don't, but they're a six right now. And I apologize for nothing, Jamie.

To reiterate, if the Bears beat the Lions today, we are going to cover Akbar self driving car in all sorts of fee lines cats. I would, I would name different types of cats, and I hope the cat mafia is out there, and I apologize I'm not a cat guy either, but I want to have at least eight to ten cats all over Achbar's car tomorrow.

If the Bears beat the Lions.

Self driving It's called exposure therapy. We're just gonna put Bar in there and just.

Put the cats in and then close the door and be like, I'll bar get over.

With the suction cups. Let's put him on there. I'm into that.

Okay, here's what I'll do if and it won't happen.

I know that I know already lost one wager before, but if this does happen, it won't. I will rent a cat, if you can rent them, and I will put one inside of my house and sleep with a rented cat inside of my house. And I'll make sure I'll take video proof of it, and so you guys can all see it that I'm going to rent a cat to sleep in my house.

That's a business idea.

Sure that sounds like an euphemism, but it's Thanksgiving.

Let's all, let's all just keep it clean and let's talk. Let's get out of here.

Do that bar, get us out of here, Jamie, Okay, let's go JMB. On Thanksgiving Day, we're grateful for euphemism.