Throwing Down an Italian Beef (with Adam Rank)

Published Jan 27, 2022, 2:59 AM

Colleen and Erica check in with Aaron after the Bills' loss and break down the best headlines of the week including a frog, Marshawn Lynch, and popping bottles of champagne. Then, we jump in the ring with NFL Network's Adam Rank to talk Aaron Rodgers, the heels and faces of the Conference Championship Games, and Cyndi Lauper. Plus, Colleen and Erica challenge themselves to keep the show under 30 minutes this week (spoiler alert: they didn't).

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It's time for this week's episode of The Split Ends. Put What Up? Splitches? Welcome to Championship Week edition of Split Ends. I'm colleague Wolf with Erica tamp Posy. Big Show today coming up. Erica has rounded up some headlines with some bottle popping included. In that our friend and colleague Adam Rank is going to join us a talk playoffs, coaching changes, and signature wrestling moves. But before that, producer Aaron, a devoted Bills fan. Aaron, get in here. How many pints of ice cream have you demolished so far? Are you good? My friend? Y'all right? I have finished one point already this week, which is surprising. I'm okay better now. Monday was tough. I appreciate both of you being very kind on the group text my autocorrect. Thanks. You're a Bowls fan, so also apologies for that. It's you know, it's there was so many good things from Buffalo and the young players played well. There's a lot of future. It sucks to be to know we're gonna have to face Mahomes every single year. Yeah, it's rough. It's rough. Buffalo fans like don't have a ton of things, but this was great and it was really nice. I saw like the Kansas City fans made a bunch of donations in honor of the bills to Children's Hospital in Buffalo, which was great. So I appreciate that. It still sucks and I'm better. All right, Aaron is still reeling clearly, but that's okay. We're glad that you're here. We're glad that you are making it through. Buddy, Erica, I have a challenge for us today. You're ready for Okay, hit me? Can we keep this pod under thirty minutes? Ah, we'll see. I think that's that's that's a pretty big challenge for Championship weekend. But you know, my challenge is in my middle name for nothing, Calleen. So it's a championship challenge and we're here for it. We're ready to go. So we're gonna do headline check. Erica, it's still gonna be Hot or Not, But you got the key. You're going to drive the segment. You found all the headlines. So let's get to it, all right, Colleen Head, coach of the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton, announced he is stepping away from coaching Hot or Not. M Hot You do you Peyton ninety minute presser he had on Tuesday. A third of it was his opening statement, but he soaked it all up, including the water that he furiously slammed in between these questions. So it should also be noted that he's rooting for the Bengals. So that's hot. Hu Day, who dat connection? I got it? Okay cool. The NFL Australia main handle posted a caption on IG that says, quote, Australia was going off like a frog in a sock during this game, which is the most Australian thing ever. Hot or not? That's hot because it's mysterious. I've never seen a frog in a sock. I don't really want to either, so maybe it's actually not hot. Everything about Australia is hot besides that, all right. Marshawn Lynch is in a new Netflix improvised murder comedy show. Here's a snippet for the trailer. Please choose who you think did it, but we're gonna catch sure there's been a ooh. Does not get any hotter than improv Will Arnette is the executive producer, Annie Murphy, the daughter from Shit's Creek conan Sharon Stone my girl Sharon Stone and then Marshan come on, amongst so many others. I will binge this immediately. This is that like my dream show, and we can we can talk about that another time, Colleen, Your husband John has posted about girls just want to have fun by Cyndi Lauper three separate times this week on Twitter. Hot or Not, Oh, I just burnt myself. It's so hot. Listen. As John told me last night, it's as true now as it was then. Girls just want to have fun. That's so true. You know what he's He's onto something there. Antonio Brown tweeted a photoshopped version of him in the end zone when he infamously ran out of the game, and this time he was holding a side that said Bucks eliminated after the Bucks were knocked out by the Rams, and then later this week he posted a photoshop of him in a Ravens jersey Hot or Not not He needs to take a social sabbatical, I'm thinking, but it would make sense to be in Baltimore because his cousin, Marquise Brown is already there, so maybe a family reunion. Absolutely. Josh Allen's girlfriend Brittany Williams posted a long ig saying how much she loves Josh and how he balances everything only a day after a crushing loss. Very cute, hot or not? A supportive significant other. Nothing's hotter than that. Things we love to see. Speaking of significant others, Patrick Mahomes fiance Brittany Matthews. A lot of Brittany's in this, you know, dating circles. It's great. Brittany Matthew's got some pushback for shaking a bottle of champagne and spraying fans and freezing cold tempts after the Chiefs win, and responded by saying, anyone who has an issue with her celebration is a big loser. Oh frozen. That is not hot at all. Frozen like the people she hit with that champagne. Nothing is more disgusting than driving home covered in champagne. I covered the Phillies back when they were like winning World Series and got sprayed with champagne. It's in your hair, it's on your clothes, it's crusty. It's an absolute nightmare. Nope, Yeah, with the tiktoks with his brother and Brittany, his fiance, kind of getting into the news cycle. A lot spray the champagne that's fine, it's annoying, But then to come out and back it up and say anyone who has an issue that is a big loser. I don't like that. Or sprayed in the box. She's in a box and she sprayed it on everybody who was outside in the stands. Right, But after that game like that was such a crazy game. Like if you're at a game like that and you've been drinking to stay warm and everything, like, oh, you expect to be spilled on. So I'm true, I'm a little bit of like if you on that, But then it's the comment that really got me, would you say you're split? On the latest episode of The Big Podcast with Shack Creative Name, Shack says that the Cowboys should fire Mike McCarthy and hired Dion Sanders as head coach. And he said, and I quote, you want Dallas back rocking, bring Dion too the fold. Dion will hold these players accountable. Dion Sanders for the next Cowboys coach. Put it out, tweet it, damn it, TikTok it, instagram it only fans it put it out hot or not? Whoa? I mean, he just kind of made that a lot hotter with the Only Fans portion program. But if Shaq said it, it's hot, that's the rule. He's been hot since the nineties and that's not changing. Do you know. I once directed Shack for a little commercial and when I went to shake his hand because I was like, hey, I'm directing, he only gave me two fingers and I my whole hand fit around his two fingers to shake it. Yeah, he was so big. And also I get all my coaching news on Only Fans, So not a bad not a bad take at all. Late Sunday night, after beating the Bucks, Odell Beckham touchdown cal Fornia and almost immediately headed to Delilah and West Hollywood, he was photographed holding a glass of red wine. Tiger was also in attendance. This is blistering hot. I would do the exact same thing. Also of what is Delilah's because in Philly we have Delilah's Den and that's a shady after hour strip club. Is that the same thing? No, Delilah and West Hollywood is a really happening club. I've seen justin Bieber outside of it. I've seen Kawhide Leonard walk out of it. And it's also the same bar that a few years ago when they got to the Super Bowl. Sean mcvayh and his fiance we're seeing walking out also calling we can make dinner reservations at Delilah for like five pm. And I think if we just sit there and wait, they won't kick us out and get we can get into the club portion. So I can make us a reservation if you'd like. Why would we get kicked out for the club portion? Well, because we won't get in no matter what, like all the clout you think you have and I think I have, like even together, there's no way you and I are getting into Delilah. But if we make dinner reservations really early early bird special and then we just sit and we wait inside Delilah, then I think we're or we dress as wait staff. That's another way in Yes, yes, it's great. We could try that too. Okay, cool, we'll update you guys for sure. So Andy Reid was in his press conference after this crazy weekend win and someone asked him what it was like when it was sort of looking grim at the end, and Andy Reid said, when it's grim, be the grim reaper, hot, blazing hot. I would say it's big red hot Andy Reid. He always knows the right thing to say. Listen, I was afraid of two things when I was a kid, the Grim Reaper and a mask that my brother called Jim. So it looks like one of those things is still haunting some of us. Yeah, back to you, Jim. Jason Luck and for of CBS says Arizona's ownership is definitely not pleased with how the season ended yet, you think, and they're also hearing that coaches have yet to receive their playoff bonuses hot or not spicy but wrong. According to Football Talks mcclorio, the Cardinals are in the process of issuing the checks apparently as they just lost a little over a week ago, so no worries there. Getting paid is obviously hot, but being a guest for free on the show is even hotter. He is an NFL media staple guys, a resident fantasy analysis for Oh No, he's not an analysis, he's an analyst for us. He provides the analysis. Right. It's Adam Rank, friend of the show, long suffering Bears fan and my favorite revolving character on Good Morning Football Weekend, The Great Adam Rank. Adam, Hello, my friend, oh my god, what is happening? Oh my gosh, I'm so happy to finally be a friend of the show. That's what I wanted to be. Yes, it's the perfect time because you just missed what we were talking about. So why don't you go ahead and tell our splitties, which is our audience. You just plug your only fans. You can get that out now at the top of well before we get into you know, all of our stuff. It is. I'm on cameo? Is that for the boomers? Is Cameo? Like only things? All three of us are on Cameo and I think just made maybe four hundred dollars total in like four years this month. Oh, I'm so bad on cameo. Like I never remember to like respond to people. I always let them expire by accident, and then I have to write them back and be like, oh my god, I'm so sorry because I feel guilty about it. I'm terrible on cameo and you'll like me next. I'll do it. I'll do it for free. I'll send you a free Yeah, I'll send you a YouTube like I know how to do it. Um Sometimes, like one time I did send somebody one for free because I missed it, and I'm like, email me, I'm so sorry, and then I sent them an you give out your email fits whatever, like my email. Listen, these kids have found my my phone number. I know what you got docs. Oh my gosh. There was a kid like I just started answering it. There was a kid named Ethan who's a Cowboys fan, who's like, why do you think why do you think the forty nine ers are going to beat the Cowboys? AM like, the Cowboys suck, bro, I'm sorry to break this team. He's like, no way, We're gonna beat the forty nine ers by thirty. And I'm like, oh, guy, like, you can call me back when this doesn't happen. And I haven't heard from him yet, but I will say this though. I had to let my voicemail just go to full because it was it was. It was like thirty minutes of you're a clown. You don't know what you're talking about. How did you get this job? I want to make a bus on. Wait, so you blocked your mom, like you won't let her call you anymore? Nobody can leave you a voicemail now, Nope, I mean I guess that's honestly the dream. I hate listening to voicemails, like you must get so many questions about the NFL Fantasy Live League too, that you are the commissioner of which, by the way, I'm just wondering if you're gonna give me a heads up next year if I am back in the league instead of me finding out in the middle of the week one games where that I auto drafted in the league that I didn't even know I was in. If you have the Fantasy Plus, I think it's a kind of a cool exercise. Sign up for the Fantasy Plus and then don't draft, and then never set a lineup because Fantasy Plus will do it for you. The only problem is if guys go on ir, you can't replace him. But I think, yeah, like, let's see what happens, Like, what is it? What is a league drafted on NFL dot com look like? If you don't touch it all year? Apparently it's four and whatever. How many weeks is it? Four and ten? That's why I did this year. I let it auto draft, I let Fantasy Plus do the whole thing, and I came out at four and ten. So it's so horrible. Well, it's like having an assistant. I like that we I think we could all use and a shift it right at some point I want to be great. Yeah, and then when you're detached, it's nobody can really rib you for it, Like if you're out there trying and you lose and you're terrible, like it blows up in your face like m j D. I'm actually thinking I'm gonna let mj D control the league next year because he never knows either, like I text him. I didn't text you, I didn't email you. No, I heard nothing, radio silence. I didn't even get the invite, So calling that's great. I mean, was it in the mail? Was a snail mail or it was a telegrad and the Fantasy League stop stop Aaron Rodgers did not get invited to the rest of the playoffs. How torn up inside are you about this, Adam? It might as well have been the Bears playing and Robbie Gould, former Bear, kicking it. The game was incredible. I feel like, and I know this will be a reference that you guys are just dialed in on, but I feel like Bobby the brain Heenan, when whole Cogan turned heel in nineteen ninety six, said bashed at the beach where he's like, he spent his whole career telling everybody how awful whole Cogan was, and then it was revealed when he becomes Hollywood Hogan and he's like, see, I told you, I told you the whole time, and now the entire world is coming down on Aaron Rodgers and I'm like, I've been here for ten years, You're getting on my level. It's like when I used to go see Blink one eighty two at the Palladium when they're opening for real Big Fish. That's how I feel with Aaron Rodgers bashing now. It's like, yeah, like I was here at this first album when he was just a douche as a backup, but now that he's gone mainstream and he's selling out you know, the Rose Bowl or whatever, with people hating on him, it was pretty delightful. I gotta be honest, I've never been so invested in a game where one of my teams was not playing as I was on that Saturday night. And then you just knew, you know, the funniest thing too, Like we can now get rid of the goat conversation of Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady because here was the two different feelings of emotions that I was going through over the weekend. The Packers are up by seven, and I'm sitting there watching this game, and I'm like, the Packers are gonna find a way to blow this, like they're just going to lose, Like I'm not even sweating it. I'm texting my friends who are forty and nine our fans. I'm like, you guys got this in the bag, like something's gonna happen and you're going to win. Tom Brady's down twenty seven to three, and I'm texting my friends who are rams fans, like you're you're probably gonna lose. I guess somebody, You're just not gonna win, Like I just I don't know what Tom. I mean, at least you had the wherewithal not to go up twenty eight to three, because I guess that's the one that's the one that really aggravates him. That's when he takes it super, that's when he does the Jordan. That's when I took it personal. Twenty seven to three didn't seem egregious enough to him to do the full Tom Brady. But it was just one of those things like you just knew, like Rogers is losing, I expect. I was actually surprised that even though he was trailing twenty seven to three, that Tom Brady didn't win. Yeah, I know. And it's so weird to have this like Conference title Championship Sunday coming up and not have Rogers or Brady in it. Like what it's the first time since two thousand and nine that one of them is not in one of those games. So it just feels it feels so strange. But when you look ahead to this weekend, we were gonna we were talking about how much you love wrestling, and you beat us to the punch and with the first wrestling reference, like, I'm not really dialed in on WWE. I'm I was more of like an ec W gal growing up, right, So that was kind of my thing. And you already talked about Aaron Rodgers being the heel. So if we talked about if we went into like some heels and the opposite is a face that we just learned, is that right? Faces? Yeah? See us about wrestling in was a reality TV show like Star Yeah, you know him and his family on a h best. Yeah, before that, he was wrestling. He was the number one, like the biggest box off as attraction for the longest time it was, and it used to be this thing where the good guys were like these squeak millennials to joke, take a joke. She got We're there. Come on, I gotta I gotta feed you real big fish in. I got you listen. Kind of a full year of Fantasy League one together. League one? What what was that show? League one? Yeah? League one? League one? What was that? Your ass? Week one? Rank, mister fantasy Mister Fantasy League one was a obviously a well received show that we got canceled. I have a I have a pretty good string of getting shows canceled. It's a miracle that I haven't good I'm glad you're on. Yeah, like perfect now, I'm I've turned it around here like this, and Fantasy Live has been on forever. I haven't gotten Good Morning Football Weekend canceled yet, So that's good yet. So yeah, I might listen. I've been a regular on Total Access this season, so I don't know that that'll be the true litmus test if there ever like, yeah, Total Access is going away, they'll be like, Rank, do you get it? Again it's all your faults, all right, Well, Brank, take us through some of the heels and the faces that are are left in Conference Championship, these matchups coming up, it feels like because the whole thing with heels and faces have changed. Because when whole Coogan was in his heyday, he was his squeaky clean you know, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, blah blah blah. That the ultimate good guy, even though he had like kind of heelish tendencies. And then when I was growing up, the guys became like the Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, those were just jerks like who just were you know, foul mouth beer swilling a holes. But then everybody cheered for him and it was like, I don't know if it was kind of an easy w influence because you got a lot of that. So now we have these guys and with Aaron Rodgers out like it's good for me, like it's good for my blood pressure, but there's nobody to root against, Like who do you really? Like? I think the biggest heel right now is Patrick mahomes brother, Like that's the one thing like people want to cheer for Patrick Mahomes and they like him, like there's nothing like Patrick Mahomes likable person. His brother makes you want him to lose, Like I don't want to see his TikTok videos anymore. I was disappointed that the Bills did not win. I think there's some residual of that last second heroics. They'll have you rooting against them, and then at the same time, there's a lot of guys that you're rooting for, like Matthew Stafford sort of rooting for him, like god, you know, like the under like the underdog who's out like hey, you know, like everybody's kind of dismissed him, and you're like, oh my gosh, dogs. Yeah, ob j and Von Miller and Sean McVay, like the ones people don't talk about, you know, like they don't have their story shared. Oh listen, come on, you got Cooper Cup. That's yeah, the Blue Solo Cup exactly, the escalator and as a contract I love that Garifolo brought that up on Good Morning Football Weekend. He was bringing up different um incentives that guys had in their contracts, and what was Cooper Cups? Was that the Blue Solo Cup Cup? Yeah, what is that? So like basically, if he reaches a certain X number of whatever in his contract, then he gets the incentive. So they just named it the Blue Solo Cup whatever that like, that's like the title of that. I like that. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I think the guy that you know it's the most probably the most likable, and I feel that, if you're an impartial observer, the one guy that you want to win, I think it's Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow. Yeah, he's not like a swag where you're like, oh my gosh, like this guy is amazing. And I think that if he was in a ew or anything like that, it would be one of those is like he's too young to win the title now, like he you got to do a build, like he's got to have. But I'm like, he is coming off a knee injury, so he did have a little bit of a comeback story to him. He's not the grizzled veteran like Matthew Stafford is who played for the Lions for so many years and is now getting his opportunity. That doesn't count. No, no, no, because Joe Burrow, like he's swaggy, like he's the swaggiest guy in the NFL, Like there's just something about him that everybody is drawn to, and eventually it feels like he is going to be a champion. Is it this year? I don't know. I'm not I'm not willing to bet against him. And I said a couple of weeks ago after his first game against the Raiders, I go, there's something about him, like, I don't know, like he might just mess around and win the Super Bowl and anybody's I swear to you. And then he's like, oh, think Aaron Rodgers has something to say that say about that he keeps your seat? He walked, Yeah. I remember when we were in Cincinnati for Thursday Night Football and we talked to him right after they won that game, and he obviously had that like cool, calm kind of demeanor about himself that he always has. But I loved the fact that we got this sign from the stands from this little kid that was just like crazy over him, just like so star struck, so happy, and Joe Burrow signed it, and then one of the our stage managers was going to go give it back to the kid, and Joe Burrow insisted that he'd take it, and he walk it over and give it to him himself, and it was such a sweet moment and such like a little window into him. And it's not like we need to have those windows to know what he's like, because we've heard a thousand of these stories. But I don't know if you heard any of the press conferences today. I thought it was really interesting because they were talking about the fact that last week in that game against the Titans, Joe Burrow's headset went out for like three or four plays and he had to call his own and Zach Taylor and c j Uzama they all talked about how just chill he was in that moment and that whole sequence worked out completely fine, and he just never looks like the moment is too big for him. And then one other thing though, too, that really struck me from the press conferences today, Jamar Chase said that less Miles told him he didn't have what it takes to be a wide receiver and that he should be a corner. Saw that, Yes, like a little bit of a miscalculation right there. I think, how did less Miles win a national championship idea? I mean, he although at the same time he also had a team that had Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Junior, Alfred Blue, Jeremy Hill, like all these superstars, and you're like, yeah, they didn't win. They still lost to Alabama. That is that is a classic classic, Like again going to the wrestling like vernacular of like they never believed in me, Like Jamar Chase can go out there and do that, because a lot of times in wrestling, when these guys cut promos, they're like, hey, they you know, nobody believed in me. It's like you're the son of a Hall of Famer, like everybody's always believed in you. But Jamar Chase, just this year alone, everybody was saying draft Penny Sewell, they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna hate themselves that they don't, and then they drafted him. Everybody was like the mistake. By the way, if you go to my State of the Franchise article that I wrote on the Cincinnati Bengals, I said, I love the Jamar Chase pit. I would not have taken like one of the other receivers. Jamar Chase is a different human being. That's exactly who the Bengals should have taken. And then in August the dude dropped one pass like that, they all everybody turned into less miles. Apparently they're like, oh yeah, like this guy can't catch any innocently. Like I mean, you feel bad for these kids because like any time that they're honest, they get ripped apart, right, any did I just made a little thing like oh, you know, like there's not a white stripe on the ball, Like who cares? Like he's probably making a joke. It's not that big a deal. More, Chase can't catch an NFL football, Like, you guys are the worst, Like you're all the worst, and you're all going to rue the day, rue the day. Yeah, this is it. This is me the boomer once again with his android phone ruin the dead. He has an Android. I want to talk Colleen. You guys have a lot of me. What's the android chat? You know there's I message? What do you guys? How do you guys text? The joke's like it's like BBM, it's a text message, Berry suggest a text message? Does every text USND have like SMS fourteen hundred x like colon, like it has to send all that Because this is firmly on Erica's radar. I don't know why she hates androids so so much, but she does. I just think it's weird that you both have androids, Like, I just think it's I don't know. The only smart tech person I know who has an iPhone is met Mynie Smith. Everybody else's a smart like techie person always has androids. Who I'm a smart techie person and I don't have an Android. I feel like I need to prove it right here by holding up my iPhone right now. It's so weird to say. Some Galaxy guys don't but I do. I also have an iPhone, and I don't like it. No way you have an iPhone is that you burn your burner? Is your iPhone weird? Yeah? That's so weird. Sols it all right? Right? Who are you picking in this game before we move on to anything else? Which one Bengals? Yeah? I think I'm thinking the Bengals. I are. Yeah, I want them to win. I want them to win. Here's my thing is, I'm I started off thinking the Chiefs, and I'm like, the chief should win this. I've been picking against the Chiefs, but then I realized I've been picking the Banks the Bengals too, so I would just makes sense. Like I've been doubting both of these teams. I just feel like there's some thing about the Cincinnati Bengals, and there's something about a second year quarterback you think about, you know, some of these other guys. Patrick Mahomes won his Super Bowl as first his only super Bowl in his second year as a starter. Tom Brady did the same thing. You're like, Dad, it just there's something about it. Like football wise, you can make a case for either team. I think the smart money would be on Kansas City. That you're experienced, there's everything that's going on. But I just am such a believer in Joe Burrow that I think that he's gonna he's gonna get it done. There's there's no real great like I can't pull up any analytics. I can't pull up some great next gen stat where you're like, this is gonna be the key. Sometimes he's just gotta go at the field and when you get to the conference championship level, sometimes that's just the way it goes. And I just feel like the Bengals have that going on, and there's something about them. The way they won that game last week against Tennessee, the way they've kind of fought through everything, and by the way they beat the Chiefs, Like why people are like, I it's so funny where you see people like do you think the Bengals have a chance to win? Like you mean that, do they have a chance to beat the team that they'd beat like five weeks ago? Yeah, I think they do. I would I would say so if only we had some empirical evidence of the Bengals actually pulling this off against Kansas City. And I know things change over the last couple of weeks, but I think having the experience now of two games, like they know now, like they know what the pressure is, they know what it's like. There's nothing that's gonna be too big for them. They're not gonna get caught up in the moment. And I feel like, and it's funny too, because I was thinking about that thing with Zach Taylor talking about Joe Burrows headset going out, Like that's the kind of thing you're like, bro, keep that on the down low. Like I'm kind of like people think I'm a genius now, like I'm some great head coach, right because you're so good as a quarterback and I think like you don't even listen to the coach, like, hey, stop it, stop it, Like I don't need you know, I don't need you to do that. Like when if my daughter, if if if her mother's gone and comes home and she's already in bed asleep, like I just want to take the glory of like oh, yeah, I got her to bed or whatever she wakes up the next morning. Yeah, I just want to sleep on my own. And I put on the stop it girl, like knock at all. Like I was looking like the super parent for a moment, but you had to go and blow that. That's what Joe Burrow did to Zach Taylor be like, no, I'm calling my own place. Yeah, I want I want the Bengals there. And on the other side, I gotta I gotta go with the Rams, like I want the Rams to be the second one for the you know, the home and home for for the Super Bowl and everything. So I'm excited about that. So I want to circle back because we were talking a little bit about social media and you know, especially you kind of your notorious rank for airing out receipts for receipts like someone will have tweeted at you, you know, six months ago, and then when you you'll bring it back up and you'll be like, oh like it, yeah you'll yeah, you are like the king of that. And I love it. I ad love it. I love it. I live for it. So did you comment and I didn't go and check today about the Bears posting? You know what was it? The AMG Mercedes and the new GM getting out SlowMo going ready to get to work? Did you see that social post? And where do you come down on it? I did not see it. Okay, if the Bears tweeted it out, I'm a fan of it. What's going on? Give me the context there? A few teams have done this, so it was like ready to get to work. The Giants did it today where it's showing GM, but like it's it's randomly a Wednesday before Championship weekend. It's like here I am SlowMo getting out of my car with a briefcase, ready to get to work. Like it's just because they just got hired. Yeah, but it's just it's just weird to me, Like I just think it's funny and I think not enough people. A couple of people were recreating it on Twitter and rank I feel like you where it is. Yeah, you should do it. I see it now, I'm gonna do this. Yeah, just like ready to get to work, you know what I mean, Like you just maybe putting on the headset or before you go on set at TA or something, just do a slow mo walk and quote tweet that Bears tweet so people get it with, you know, for a little context clues. Let's get to work. It's time to grind. Time to grind, rise and grind. Baby. Yeah. What do you think about Poles for pace? Yeah, the Ryan trade at GM for the Bears. I'm a huge fan of it. I think really, yes, I didn't want to keep Brian pace right. So you know, well, a lot of people will come out and you know they they have an opinion on this one way or the other. It's like you don't study gms, like you don't you don't know, you're not in the inner circle, Like right the Joe fan who's hit Portillo's throwing down an Italian beef. Like I appreciate the fact that you have an opinion on this, but like you don't know how the Chiefs organization works, what the structure is or anything. And people who are connected they always you know they're like, you know, it's always positive when you see like people who are connected, like this is a great hire, well respected in the industry. But then you realize like it is such a like an old man's network, like everybody loves everybody, like nobody talks s on anyone, you know what I'm saying, Like it's never like I would just wants to be like, oh my god, they hired Bob Like that guy sucks, Like why would you do that? Like oh, like, oh, the Bears are being you know, like Colts clown for hiring you know, Dave, Dave Smith or whoever it is, Like I would do you have a take on the head coach there? Do you have anyone that you want or you like a dan Quinn guy, like, how do you how do you feel about the head coaching search. I don't mind dan Quinn. I've talked well, I've talked myself into everything. Like me, I'll try to put a positive face on any direction that they go. I think the one thing that I really have now become taken with is I want Jim Caldwell to be the offensive coordinator. I know that I know he's applying to be the head coach and like that's great. You're sixty seven, bro, so go be the OC and then go and when you hire an OC like that, then it allows you to go get a a younger guy who's out to prove, like eber Flues or somebody like that. I'm not there in the interviews and presscon or everything like that, so I don't know what's going on, but I think again, you look at like Eberflus, like he makes sense, young, bright mind defensive coordinator. If you have a veteran like Jim Caldwell on the sideline with you, somebody who's called the time out on this, like that makes a lot of sense. If they want to go at Dan Quinn, you know, he's built respectable staffs, took the Falcons to the super Bowl, should be a super Bowl winner. Like, let's let's be honest, like he should have a super Bowl win under his belt. But again, like he builds good staffs even and it wasn't all. It wasn't all Kyle Shanahan, he like he won with with Dirt Cutter was his offensive Cordinander Sark was his card coordinator for a wash, right, So he's done it with other teams that he's well again, well respected. He should have been the guy that they hired instead of John Fox many many years ago. I mean, I love head coaches on their second stint too. When you look at Bruce Arians and Andy Reid and Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll, like there's just a long tracks to get that second Yeah, I would love to say Todd Bowls get an opportunity if you want to go with the trends. Bruce Arians lost a Super Bowl with the Cardinals, then he goes to Tampa Bay and wins one. Dan Quinn loses a Super Bowl with the Falcons, goes to Chicago and wins went. And by the way, the receipts that are gonna be handed out when the when the Packers do not win another Super Bowl and the Bears win one, and I can just start I can just start victory lapping. And just it's just the weirdest thing because like you get caught up in it with entitled town and all their Yeah, you guys wish you were us and we're so good. I'm like, bro, you guys like you have this misconception that you're the la lakers of the NFL when in reality, you're the Dallas Mavericks. You've won one title with a generational talent, like I remember seeing a photo of Aaron, Aaron Nagler, who's our friend. I like Aaron. He's a great guy. He was at this bar in Wisconsin during training camp. Looked like a lot of fun and he was next to a wall. No, it was it looks cool, like that's a fun that looks like they're they're having a good time. That's where I like to spend my time during training camps. Listen the bars. Aaron's having a good time. He's a he's a he's a cool hang. I won't take that away from him. So he's next, he's next to No, No, here's the thing. He's next to a wall all that has all the Packers World Championships on it. And you notice like there's a bunch from the fifties or sixties or whatever. And then there it's like ninety six, twenty twelve. You're like, oh my god, like guy. Yeah, the way you guys talk like it always I'm always blinded by this. I'm like, yeah, you've won two titles in my lifetime, like one more than I've seen as a Bears fan, even though I was very young when they won that one. That's not You're not that great. You're not the Patriots, like you're not no, you're you're like a run of the mill, like you're a You're an upper card, but you're the You're in the upper card, you're you're at the top end of a WrestleMania card, but you're not the champion, like you rarely win. You were a nice transitional champion one year in two twelve, and the only reason you got there is because Jay Cutler got hurt. I saw a TikTok of this guy who was like I time traveled back in time and he was trying to discreetly find out what year it was, and he was like, excuse me, or what happened to the Packers in the playoffs? And then they were like, oh, they lost in super embarrassing fashion. And the guy turns around and he's like, osh, I have no idea a year. All the time. All the time, they find a way, they find a way to do something stupid, which I appreciate. And it's always great when they're like we're the number one seed, Like this year, I'm like, you were the number one seed last year when Tampa Bay warm weather, Tampa Bay who never used to live, never used to win in the cold, and they had this California guy, Tom Brady. This California is softie living in Florida who has never had any sing. Okay, that's a bad example, but still like you guys like nobody came like Lambo's nothing like I remember one time like a name drop and uh Steve Mariucci was like, oh, He's like, have you ever been to Lambo? And I'm like nope. He's like, you gotta go, And I said, I really don't. Would you melt like would you melt or turn to stone if you went there? I if they if the NFL network ever requires me to go to lambeau Field, I will go. But I thought you're gonna quit. Yeah, exactly, Rank, we before we let you go. I want to wait before I go. Should I go to Indianapolis? By the way, they're asking me if I want to go to Yeah, we're gonna be there for the combine. Absolutely, we're gonna hold on, come on down. I need to the that will be on the Omega variant by then. Zada, No, yes, I want to talk real quick, just about the other game, because we really need to talk about the game game, So just real quick, how about a signature move basically that you would like to see in that game. Maybe it's like a finisher, Maybe it's something with Debo, maybe it's Aaron Donald. I don't know what side you're going or this game, but can you give us something to watch for? Well, they have they have these things called fall s finishes where you think like, oh my god, this this guy's gonna win, and then the other opponent kicks out of two and you're like, oh my gosh, Like this was the time we finally thought it was gonna happen. We had that previously week what was a week eighteen where the forty nine ers are down seventeen and nothing and you're like, oh, this is a squash match, Like I can't believe this is worse than Shamus beating Daniel Bryan in eighteen seconds at a WrestleMania and miss that one. Oh yeah, every dude, famous match. There's listen, there's Marks listening to this being like Rank knows what he's talking about. You guys not so much. But there's like three marks listening being like Rank knows his wrestling. I'll give him that splitties. Let us now. He'll be like, let'll be like football. Yeah, I could go either wrestling, got it, nailed it. Here's my thing. Every time though, it feels like, oh, this is gonna be the time. And if they if this was let's say it was a match and Sean mcvay's out there cutting a promo, you're like, bro, I'm tuning you out because you're own six. There's nothing and you can say that's gonna convince me like this is gonna you finally figured it out. Kyle Shanahan has dominated you know, he is the big brother, and we saw it on Saturday Night, like Kyle Shanahan is the big brother for both the Lafleur and mcbah. Those guys just turned to jelly and so the Rams already shot themselves in the foot, with Andrew Whitworth's wife being like, I'll buy all your tickets. Don't say why are you making this a thing? I will tell you and I don't think it's gonna happen this week. This was one of the most amazing things. And by the way, I know I always have to explain this to people so let me give you the Let me give you the quick synopsis. I am a bear span yes what, I'm also, oh my god, I'm also a fan of the Angels. And nobody understands this, and you're like, okay, listen, there's a couple of things at work at number one. I was born in Chicago, raised in southern California, in the Hime area, and uh, this is this, this will be more breaking news. For the longest time, we didn't have an NFL team out here, no NFL team, so what you usually did was root for the team that your parents like. And for me, I still have a connection to the city because I was born there, so it's always confusing. But I will say in two thousand and two, and this is a Southern California thing, fans of opposing teams even then, really that's oh my god, out of here. I would I almost because he'd be nineteen. Now stop it you. I thought I thought about it. We crunched the numbers, We figured it out, right, Adam crunched the numbers, figured it out quick, quickly figure that out. No, that can't be true. But in two thousand and two, the Angels were playing host of the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series, and traditionally Yankee fans have about a fifty fifty split an Angel Stadium regardless of how good our team is. I remember going to that first playoff game being like, this is gonna suck. There's gonna be fights like always, because the Yankee fans just want to throw blows. They don't like baseball, they just want to fight. And there were no Yankee fans there, Like it was crazy because every Angel season ticket holder held on to their tickets and actually purchased more and brought more Angel fans. And I'm like, oh, so Southern California Ken rally around this. You never see like the Lakers get out numbered in a playoff Like there's like the Lakers are never outnumbered in their own building. The Kings did a really nice job when they were on their Stanley Cup runs of not getting out numbered in their building. The Angels have done it. The Dodgers not so much, because I don't think Dodgers. Dodgers don't have real fans Dodgers because there's so many East Coast pete. No, here's the thing. The Dogs chaseball talk rank the Dodgers. The thing is is like the Dodgers are like the second favorite team of every New Yorker and Boston person who lives out here. Because well, no, if you're like you think Dan, like Dan Hans is, we'll bring his kid to Dodger games and let them wear He'll let them wear Dodger gear or whatever. He's not taking him to Anaheim and letting him put on a show. Hey, Otani Jersey, that's never happening. So all these Boston people and all these New York people will never root for the Angels. That's why we always look like we don't have fans. But then they're like, I root for the Dodgers though when the Yankees aren't in town or blah blah blah, so that no Cowboys fans? Oh my god. Okay, So after all of that, because you know what, because the forty nine ers were red like the Angels. Now that's not it. No, but the Ram No, the Rams showed their hand by trying to restrict ticket sales. Don't don't sell your tickets to fort your panicking. You've already made it a thing like you shouldn't you should have trusted now, you should have trusted your fans to come through for you shouldn't have them is going with the niners, that's to know and the ngel. Rank, I have one more very important question for you before we cut you loose. It's called our split end of the week. And first we have a little intro for it. Oh, when those drums come in, it can only mean one thing. It's time for the split end of the week. Hit me with the sex of moone. I love it, I love it, I love it. Okay, So we're still trying to like figure out what the split end changes every Sometimes it's an award, sometimes it's a question. Sometimes it's just whatever we want it to be. And this week it's a very important question. Rank, I'm gonna need you to answer this, Okay. Do girls just want to have fun? They do? That is CINDI lauper pose that question. My husband loves the question and plays that question all the time. And so yeah, you are saying yes, in fact, they do. I would say that they do. But I will tell you this, when it comes to women rockers of the nineteen eighties, I think I would skew more towards Belinda Carlisle and the go goes and less CINDI lauper like. I think at some point you had to throw hands. You know, we're out there as little kids being like, who who are you representing? I'm like, I gotta go. I gotta go. Belinda, she's the goat, she is the go Yeah, that's all I want is to have fun. So it's always that's it, and that's what we do on the show. And that's what we did today with you. Adam Rank. Thank you so much for dropping all the knowledge on us. Where can we see you next? Where can we find you to work for us? I will let me tell you well the total Access on Friday nights, which I haven't gotten canceled yet. I will. I will return to Good Morning Football Weekend on February fifth, But they won't let me on during Super Bowl Week Pro Bowl Week. Oh here comes Rank. Here it is. I'm the replacement talent. Like when the when the WWE rosters in Europe touring and they don't have enough people to be on raw, that's when they let people like me play out. I'll be there on February fifth. Also, if you're a fan of the Chicago Bears, the Sick Podcast with Adam Rank. It's a brand new podcast dedicated to the Chicago Bears. I'm actually stating that I'm sitting in the set of the Sick Party. I'm not. I'm not in my Fantasy Live set, which is right over there. Well, how many sets do you have at your house? Multiple looks We've got. We've got a Chicago Bears set that I'm in right now, there's a Fantasy Live set right there, and there's a Los Angeles Angels set over there. Whenever I need to do some Angel stuff. Who They still haven't hired me to be their pregame guy, but soon they still have a chance. There's still time. He's so versatile. Ladies and gentlemen. Adam Rank follow him on Twitter at Adam Rank. Great stuff as always in Erica. Come on, man, this was supposed to be a challenge and we completely did not meet the standards of the challenge. I know, I got to call up a notary or something because I'm going to change my middle name. We did not do it. Calling. Maybe next week we can make this pod under thirty minutes before New Challenge. Yeah, definitely year a new challenge, new pod. I don't know new Year now we still do a new year, all right, whatever until next week, let's split