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Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk to Jason Lock and 4 about who should be the NFL coach of the year and how long Philip Rivers will keep playing with the Colts. Plus, James Carvel and Jeff Ma will call in with their weekly football picks. But first, boys and girls, let's do some commerce. Previously on the Tony Kornizer Show. I hate my phone. Is it freeing in any way? No, it's not. It causes anxiety that's awful. And I want to slam the phone down and break it into a thousand pieces. But I still need it as a phone. I can text, I can phone, I just don't get any email. And you know, somebody's going to say, well, we sent it to you. And I go, well, I never got it. Well, that's not our fault. I won't. Why is it my fault? How did it become my fault? The Tony Kornizer Show is on now. It's thousands of email. It's thousands. It's six, seven days. Now it's a thousand. It's going to take hours to just get rid of them once I find them. Where are they? That'll give you something to do over Christmas. I just yeah, it's just going to take all day. It's like if I can get it, I don't know how to even get all people are sending in instructions on how to get them. Nigel believes he can help get them. But he didn't help yesterday. No, but we're in a bit of a time crunch. And today you think about thousands of email. I don't. I updated your AOL password. So I think we have a solution. Well, Nigel used that yesterday and couldn't get in. Well, yeah, there was something screwy going on with the phone. It wouldn't allow me to type it in. So we're going to just hope that it's not acting screwy today. They have the ability to go into your phone with their tentacles and change your life. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's right, that they have that ability at any time they want. Anytime they want, they can do it. So what's the point of me having a phone? And the problem, the obvious problem here is that there's been such a conversion to electronic mail to email such a conversion to it by so many, many hundreds of millions of people that it's gone. The ability to say no, to say no to Apple, no, it's gone. Don't have it. You have to play the game their way. You know, that's big brother. That's what people in the 40s and 50s were afraid of. I guess nobody's afraid anymore. I am. I am. I think with good reason. I was going to go to Delaware. The weather and, you know, this is for two weeks, the capital weather gang who I like for two weeks, Sammy, we like Sammy. Oh, yes. For two weeks, they said warming up Christmas and after Christmas to New Year's warming up. Don't worry about all this cold. Now Christmas to New Year's freezing and rain and snow every single day, like every single day starting tomorrow for five days, six days, something like that. Coming off a very cold start to the month. To January. Yes. So what good is this? What good is long range weather predicting when it's wrong? And they do the best they can, but obviously it's wrong. A couple of things in sports. Big sports day tomorrow, obviously. The NFL, even though they're going on streaming services, will just remind the NBA that the NBA has no standing in the United States of America, none zero. The NFL will, will outrate them 10 to one. It's just the NFL could put up last year's games and outrate them 10 to one. But in the NBA, San Antonio beat Oklahoma City last night. Soundly. Beat them handily, but mostly in the fourth quarter ran away from them in the fourth quarter with the highlights that I saw. Oklahoma City now has four losses. They were like 22 and one or something like that. Now, they have four losses. So Kendrick Perkins, who I like very much, was on the show all the time. Love him. So that prediction 80 and two doesn't seem like it's going to work since they already have four. We're not halfway through. No. And they have four. They're going to lose 12 to 15 games. They are. It's as simple as that. They're going to lose 12 to 15. And Wilbans raving about, and he was early on this, raving about San Antonio, may be correct. Maybe correct. Wemba Nyama goes out to 30 feet and hits jump shots. Yeah, he loves. That's what he likes to do. He doesn't even like to be inside unless he's dunking it. What is he, seven, five? Seven, five. He likes to go out to 30 feet and he hits him. Yeah. He hits them. He can't yell at him. He's hitting the shots. In the most important sports news to me yesterday, we didn't get a chance to talk about this on the PTI show because it happened while the PTI show was going on. Brooks Kepka, a five-time major champion, not one, not two, not three, not four, five. He has more majors than any current active player with five. Rory has four, does Rory have five as well, Michael? Oh, he's up to five now, I think. Okay. So no one has more than Kepka, who's on the tour. It would be accurate to say. Kepka does not and has never had that sort of standing of Rory or Spieth when he was good or Dustin Johnson when he was good or people like that. He has not had that standing. I think, I don't know if his majors are devalued and nobody seems to like him. Yeah, nobody seems to like the guy. Players respect him. Yeah, but he can play and he can play in the big ones, which is really what matters. But he could play the big ones. He's leaving the live tour. However much money he put in his pocket on the live tour, it's in his pocket. He got guarantees these things don't happen on the PGA tour. There's all sorts of talk about how the PGA will not talk within the last 24 hours, but in the previous months and years, how the PGA will not let these guys back, not let the guys who go to live back without a penalty, maybe a monetary penalty, maybe they have to write a check. There was a lot of talk about that, but it's easy to have that talk. You know, so Mike Tyson says easy to have a game plan till you get punched in the mouth. It's easy to have that talk before somebody says, I'm off the live tour. I'm off now. There are three people. Michael, I think you'll agree with this and I'll get to you in a second, but there are three people on the live tour that the PGA tour wants, should want. Brooks Kepka, John Rom, Bryson DeChambeau. They're all multiple major winners. DeChambeau has a large following. He does. I know Will Bond hates him, but he's still got a large following and Rom could be the best player in the world at any time. They would want those people back. Michael, this is the opportunity to set a precedent. I assume you think they want Brooks Kepka back. What is, it's the opportunity for a solution. What do you think the solution is? Yeah, I actually feel like getting these players to return and any capacity is more of a symbolic victory about the ending of what live tour promised to be, which is this big disruptor of the last couple of years. It's gained no traction with an American audience and it's becoming an international, particularly Asian and Australian tour, which probably is the solution to bringing men's professional golf back together. You have Brooks Kepka, who has had a child since he has joined the tour. He's had some tragedy in his family as well. The idea that he wants to stay close to family does make sense versus traveling around the world. They really don't need these players back anymore, particularly Kepka. He's getting older. He's still eligible to play in the majors this year. We don't really know how competitive he would be in what the PJ Tours now, which is elevated events mixed in with some regular tour events. I think it's more of this symbolic victory of getting him back. It was a poorly kept secret that he was unhappy and wanted back as soon as Freddie Couples was mentioning this on a radio show. I think the months that have passed have been trying to come up with some friendly solution for him to leave live a year early. It gave the PJ Tour and mostly its player representatives time and space to try and figure out how can we allow the big guys back because it's not just, hey, Brooks Kepka, you're tapped to now playing all these signature tour events. Some way for him to show form and get back into those big events. What do you think that way is going to be? They can all play in the majors. Everybody can play in the majors. This goes back to the start of live four or five years ago. The majors are a separate entity, so he could always play in the majors. He was the first force who went out and won. He won a major while on live and showed, hey, we can still play. That was never really in question. Well, do you think that the PGA Tour will quietly let him back in or do you think that they... Absolutely not. There's going to be huge drama internally because you're going to have a lot of rank and file pros who say, we have been aging out and we're not necessarily qualifying automatically for these limited field events. We don't want you to allow these guys to come in and take our spots because there's guaranteed money. You talk about the money that was put into his pocket by going to live. Money has been put into the pockets of every single tour player because of what's happened over these last couple of years. The problem, and even Freddie Couples and his quotes has mentioned this, the tour has gotten younger. You won't recognize maybe a quarter of the players as household names. Here's what's always been the problem with men's professional golf. The names that you recognize are not necessarily the names who are climbing the leaderboards, who are creating the drama weekend and week out on the PGA Tour. No, I don't think these players are going to be happy. I think they're going to want to see some public apologies, which I don't really think... Like restitution, different money? I don't think Brooks Kepke is the type of guy who's going to go out and put his head in his hands and apologize for what he did. No, no, I think they want to see public apology. I think they're going to want to come up with some money solution and there really isn't any because then you also have to try and parse out how much money some of these players earn by staying or what the overall value of this for-profit enterprise is now. So your position would be that this is not going to be a smooth transition back? No, and I think there's going to be... I think as you've seen over the last couple of years with players like Rory, Rory's going to sit there going like, sure, I want to compete against the best. I know Brooks Kepke is the best for our product, bring him back. Rory's not worried about qualifying. He's not worried about getting into the limited field events. So I think there'll be a huge issue with players who have gone around the monopoly board, maybe have qualified for the next year, maybe think they don't have it in them to play for another couple years and want to try and maximize their earning potential right now. I think they're hoping that Brooks Kepke lays low for a little bit of time, which he probably will because I don't know what sort of deal Liv Golf was able to give him to allow him to leave likely a year early. They might have said, hey, don't say anything bad about us. We'll quietly let you keep the extra money and the PGA Tourist sitting there. Hey, just wait your turn and we'll find you a spot at the table. He doesn't have to qualify for the Masters, right? He is qualified for the Masters. No, he won the 2023 PGA championship. So he is qualified for all these. For everything, for five years. Is that how it works? Yeah. And Rom is certainly qualified and DeChambo is certainly qualified. They've won majors. Is there anybody else on that tour that is important? If even if you don't think that Rom and DeChambo are important, is there anybody that you would say is important to get back? I could go for the cheap joke of Taylor Gouch and what Greg Norman used to say about how he's the best player in the world. You have people like Wocking Neiman and frankly, you're losing players. You have players who are beginning to retire and for Liv to succeed, you have to see new players, younger players choose to go that route and you have had some international players who are going that route. I would have said Cam Smith two or three years ago, but he has turned into a very quiet professional. You saw him play well in Australia where he missed out on that 18th hole. But beyond that, I come back to, you know, for playing What's The Word? This is all about symbolic victories. I would have said before he really ruined his legacy, Phil would be this grandfather role that you'd love to see him hosting tour events, being just this ambassador of the tour. And he is totally poured gasoline on that possibility. So really, no, I think they're happy with the way that their tour has moved and they quietly can let all these guys go. Do you think you can help me get my email? So going back to AOL, AOL is like the most trusting service. I just go, hey, reset pass, they're like, sure, let me log you in automatically to whatever device is randomly located in South Carolina. No questions asked. Here's your recovery text message. And the requirements, normally there's all these strict requirements about, you know, special cases. Everybody says, they're like, don't just choose your pet's name. They just, you know, they send bills now. And they don't send them any other way. And so they're going to say, well, you didn't, I've gone through this. Well, I think you didn't pay the bill. Throw this phone out. Let's get you a new phone and we'll just create a new burner email account for you. You're just going to be off the grid. They can't find you. Well, but I'm still obliged to pay the phone bill. We'll pay for that one, obviously. The American Express bill. I don't have anything. American Express comes to the house, right? Yeah, that comes in an actual letter, doesn't it? You accept that the mail service isn't as good as you think. There's two bills a month I don't get. They just, you just don't get them. You don't get them because they actually don't want to have to. No, they don't. They don't want to have to go door to door. I have one service that insists on me sending a check. I was like, Tony would really love to work with these guys. That's all I care about. I will take a break. Next week, by the way, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday as well. Yes. So we'll take a break and Jason Lockenfaur will join us when we return. I'm Tony Cornhizer. This is the Tony Cornhizer show. This is a group called Devin Air Music. This is a song called Seasons All For You. And they write Happy Holidays to everybody. We're sending over our Christmas song from the official R&B boy band of the Tony Cornhizer show wishing you a happy holidays. We're an R&B singing group located in the Washington, D.C. area. The group consists of Willie Wood, Yes The Son of the NFL Hall of Famer, Phil Carroll, Wiley Simons, and Nelson Marley. We hope that you enjoy our original Christmas song, Seasons All For You. It's lovely. It is. It's lovely. Yes. Good, good. Devin Air Music, good, good, good. Plays in Jason Lockenfaur and normally we ask him on Friday about the Thursday game, but today is Wednesday because we're doing three shows quick. So we're not going to ask about that. But I will ask this because the most interesting news I think in the NFL right now is the 49ers and how the 49ers have the ability to get the number one seed, the 49ers who've been actually under the radar in the toughest division in the league. They've been under the radar behind the Rams and the Seahawks. But if they beat the Bears and the Seahawks, both games at home, they not only get home field all the way to the Super Bowl, they get it in the Super Bowl because it's on their home field. What do you think of the 49ers in their team? That's a very tough double, the Bears and the Seahawks. Yeah. Look, they're all quite a run. They have improved as the season has gone along. They've had to do a lot of tap dancing at the quarterback position because of party's availability. The offense is obviously humming right now. I still have real concerns about the defense, but they generate no pass rush. They have no players, Bolsa and Warner, right? They're out. Right. They don't affect the quarterback enough and they have not run the ball very consistently at all, which is so counterintuitive. For Kyle Sandin and Operation, I don't know, Tom, I still have a hard time buying them as the last team standing in the NFC, let alone the NFL. Obviously circumstances like the one seed and a week off while everybody else works and never having to leave your home stadium again, that's a big deal. If they're able to secure those creature comforts, then I have to further factor that into my sort of equation and my forecast and my handicap, but I just don't buy them in the trenches enough. I mean, when they can't run the ball with Christian McCaffrey, something's wrong, and they cannot generate a pass rush, they don't have interior players or edge players who make you worry. I mean, look what sort of rivers they did in them. I mean, Yeah, 27 points. Yeah. Boy, I think just gives me a lot of pause when we start talking about the best of the best for four straight weeks or I guess three straight weeks for them if they get the buy to get to the, you know, to do the job. I doubt that I will favor them. You obviously have to see the matchups and what the brackets going to look like. To me, if you had to have me rank the teams in that division, I'd still put them third, but they might win it. So I mean, what really matters and what doesn't, I don't know. Well, if they beat the Seahawks, they will have swept them because they beat them once already in Seattle. So that would, here, we had Jeff Saturday on the PTI show yesterday, and I'm a sports writer. So I have limited understanding of football. I'm from the outside in and Jeff's from the inside out. And so if you ask me about coach of the year, I immediately go to three guys. I go to Ben Johnson at Chicago. I go to Mike Vraeba. I'm not ranking in order. Mike Vraeba in New England and Liam Cohn in Jacksonville. That's who I go to. And Jeff Saturday suggests that Kyle Shanahan has done the best job of his life and should be coach of the year. What do you think of that? I mean, I think he's done a really good job. I don't think he's coach of the year. Yeah, I mean, it's all subjective, obviously, whether it's someone who's never done it before and that kind of blows you away or someone who got to a new program, like a program where all they do know and is losing 13 times a year, and he's going to have them win 13 or 14 times a year with a 22 year old quarterback. I don't know. Like I'm kind of with you. I would kind of go that way. I mean, I've established coaches who have maybe been overlooked or maybe haven't gotten their flowers enough this season. Kyle probably stands out most from that group. And maybe it's not even close, right? Because look at the Ravens and look at the Chiefs and even look at the Bills and sort of how rough a road that's been. So I think, yeah, if you were going to put these guys in different sort of pods or bins based on their experience and resume, I think you would rise to the fore as a candidate from guys who've been doing this a long time, who've had to do more with less because of injury and circumstance. But like, what's Mike McDonald thought of that division? Okay, I don't know that I think Toss had any better but Mike McDonald's in his second year, the quarterback just got there. Yeah, it's, I see how it was real good. In large part, guys he sort of handpicked or the guys he felt like were worthy of sticking around from what he inherited from Pete Carroll, which wasn't a whole lot. I don't know, man. Like, they never lose on the road. Like, again, this is, there's no formula, right? This is all, everyone brings their own biases and sort of which teams we've seen maybe more than others or whatever. But Kyle's got a lot of people who love Kyle on the media and Kyle's got no shortage of people who will always bang the drum for Kyle. And at the end of the day, this is a human thing and that might resonate. And if that drum beat grows, grows louder, these voters do a lot of interesting things. I think it's going to be one of the upstarts or someone like Rable who, you know, set out for a year and just got to a place where, you know, everything prior to him arriving had been the torpedoing of the Patriots since Tom Brady left and he reversed that and he reversed it immediately. Well, maybe not immediately because they lost to the Raiders in week one and then they lost to the Steelers when they turned the ball over in like week three. But pretty much since then, he's erased it. Yeah, I think he's, he would be my choice. But, you know, they're scheduled, they're also scheduled as easy. I mean, they have played a fourth place schedule. Yeah, but that's what happens when you get somewhere where they've lost 27 times in two years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they were eight and, eight and 26, eight and 26 in two years. And now they're, they've won 12 or 13 games. That division, by the way, the NFC West is so strong. If you're Arizona, you're looking at 0 and 6, you have to petition a league to put you in another division, don't you? I mean, well, you've got to get the quarterback thing right and percept the leading pass in the NFL since week six, but like no one, they don't win. No one thought that's where the franchise would be, should be, can be. Jonathan's Gannon's defense is falling apart. It's a complete and utter bleep show. You know, his defense is hemorrhaging like 30 points a game over the second half of the season and they can't, they can't beat anybody. And yes, they've had some injuries and whatever, but I don't know how you run that thing back, which is called the project, Jonathan Gannon. I know there's people out there in the media saying they'll be fine. It's not what I hear. I don't think they're going to be fine at all. Philip Rivers has now played two games. He's played remarkably well. Yes. Are they going to keep playing him or are they going to say thanks, but go home now because we're done? I mean, it's not like they are riding with him, which I find odd and interesting. Like on so many levels, it also has my wheels turning like, you know, Daniel Jones suffered a catastrophic injury. It's clear that Anthony Richardson doesn't have a future there. No, he's not. He's not there anymore. Like, like, I'm wondering, are they looking at this extended even when, you know, the playoffs are pretty much done because they might want this guy back next year. I mean, why would you do it next year? Really? You think that, right? I mean, why else are you playing him? Like he tried to save the season. He did his part. Your defense was an abject failure. Like, so that's pretty much done. Like what more is, you know what I mean? Like what more utility are you gaining from this situation unless you're gathering data points that might lead you to try to have this guy hold you up next year until Daniel Jones comes back? I don't know. Like, otherwise, I don't know what, what we're doing, but I will say I'm, I watch a lot of football. Well, like, like just right there. Josh Johnson has been with the commanders on a daily basis since the off season. What Phillip Rivers did coming in off the farm versus Josh Johnson just putting down the clipboard and walking on a field that he's been on all year to me is night and day. Like, yes, I mean, I look like Phillip Rivers performance. It's like Cooper in March or whatever. He'd hear the whole time when he has to play. It's an abject failure. Then I look at literally Phillip Rivers coming out of years of retirement doing that. And I'm like, holy moly, what that, that is something all fear. I would say they have, you know, then because he played, they're delaying his eligibility into the Hall of Fame. I'd say he gets in first ballot whenever he's available now just because of this. This is helping. This is amazing. I mean, yes, you thought he was Hall of Very Good or Hall of Great, but not Hall of Fame. Yeah, this, this, I mean, again, now look, what are these games ultimately going on now too? And whatever. I don't know, but he's playing in them. They count the standings. And I've been twice now. He's knocked me on my ass. I've been like, I didn't think that, like I didn't think that could happen. Like I didn't think that's how the big leagues worked, you know, like, and again, it makes me look at some of these other quarterbacks and I'm like, jeez, like, they're the ones who've got to be like, what am I doing wrong here? Yeah, because guys 44 years old, playing five years. Can't push the ball down the field. There's physical limitations at this stage. It's great. And it's clearly not in the greatest shape of his life, but for him still to be able to do this, it's upright. Yeah, he's upright. Everybody thought he would have bones broken. He's upright. John Harbaugh. John Harbaugh. Hot seat. Is this a Mike Tomlin situation where there's a roadway? That actually happens. Like, you remember all the talk two weeks ago by Robert Bergen and everybody else? Maybe he wants to move on. Maybe it's time to move on. Maybe these people will never truly appreciate him and, you know, nothing lasts forever. I think that's actually what's going to come to pass here. He's not getting fired. I don't think Steve Beshade is going to call him in his office and say, Hey, bud, thanks for, you know, thanks for your service. But I think it's going to be 30 seconds. So yes, they'll be conversations. And I think there's going to have, look, they're at such an organizational inflection point. Like the office of coordinator has done a tremendous job except for two or three games when everything mattered, when you literally no showed the decoordinator should not have been hired in the first place. There's no way they can bring him back. Most of those staffs are going to need to deal with place. The quarterbacks, because they refuse to really get ahead of his contract situation, the quarterback now has them completely by the Cajones because he counts $80 million against the cap. He's got a full no trade and he's got a no franchise designation, which means they need him. And you can't just do a simple contract restructuring because he hasn't have enough years left on his deal where you could just, you know, pat it out another five years, pro rate it and take it down 75%. That option does not exist. You need to do a brand new contract with Lamar Jackson. And he's going to have your ear like never before because if you're not catering to him now, who are you catering to? Because you can't move forward as an organization and have room, cap space and money to sign anybody else until you get this done. And unlike the Buffalo Bills who addressed it last off season, your GM told his fan base, I don't have that much to do this off season. Okay. That showed in your product. So you've got all that going on plus you need to rebuild your offensive line. You need to rebuild your defensive line. Like that they have holes all over the roster. It's not, it's not pretty. Do you think on a scale? And I just said, John, John, he goes somewhere else on a fresh start and he is not going to have Lamar Jackson, but he might have Cam Ward, you know, who was a one one, you know, just a year ago and, you know, his former defensive coordinator, Denard Wilson is already there. I mean, the New York football giants wouldn't be all over John Arbault. And he'd have Jackson right there. You know who else would be? The University of Michigan. They'd say, let's get the same. Let's get him. Let's get the same one. Look, if the guys from Notre Dame were to go to the NFL, as a lot of people think you will have, including me, numerous options. You know, John's daughter played lacrosse at Notre Dame. They're Midwest kids. They've always had a bit of a, you know, a bit of a Notre Dame fixation. I mean, his brother playing football in the backyard, you know, with his dad coaching in Miami of Ohio or whatever, like listening to Notre Dame games on the radio. I think Notre Dame would have a very special appeal to him also. I don't know if he wanted to go where his brother's already been, all of his assistants have already been. The Michigan thing might be a little, I don't know. I don't know. Weird, but fun column, the right. Plug one of that for us. Plug your outlet one of that. Thank you as always, Tony. 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And we got no other job at the moment. So you may as well do this. Well, it's not the radio thing and I got some, I don't have enough jobs. So yeah, if you're looking for a pure editor out there, you're a producer, you're looking for your NFL coverage. I have, I think what is a fairly, you know, detailed, unique resume, I've pretty much done everything in this business and I'm eager to continue writing and analyzing NFL football. So you can find me on the link there or you can email me. So good. It's like he's carrying a sign on the show. All right, talk to you next week. Jason Lockham for our voice and voice. Just wonderful. Just wonderful. We will come back with James Carville and Jeff Ma. We know about Jeff Ma. We never really know about James Carville. We'll see. I'm Tony Cornhiser. This is the Tony Cornhiser show. So such a great beginning. Midnight specials. James Carville's walk in music this week's picks with James Carville and Jeff Ma brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook. Make every moment more. I was watching the bowl game last night and I and Southern Miss was great for the first half. You were going to win and then nothing, nothing after that. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bad second half. Yeah. So you finished three and three. So yesterday I texted Rob, I texted Romo manual yesterday. Yeah. The day after tomorrow is the birthday of the most famous Jew that ever lived. He said, what do you mean? My birthday's in November. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. I like that. Okay. Three and you can. It's funny. I will. Well, it just went out over every moment to the 11 people who've listened to the podcast. Three and three last week, 43, 45 and two, Mount 500, Insight. Insight. And you won on the over. I didn't think you would win on the over, but you did. You won on, I watched it when Jacksonville scored that touch and I went, Carville just won the over. So what do you got? 31 plus 17, he's money. I remember the moment. Yeah. What do you got? What I got? What I got? Let's say, what do you got? I got San Diego State plus 3.5 against North Texas. Okay. Is that a bowl? That's the New Mexico bowl, I think. Yeah. The is that a one of these stupid bowls. Okay. One of these bows. Yeah. All right. Raven's at Green Bay. What do you all got? Green Bay minus two and a half. Two and a half is fine. Now, you know, their quarterback is in concussion protocol. I know. You think the only two and a half at home. Yeah. Yeah. Or else it'd be six. I'll still go with Green Bay. Okay. All right. All right. The Jags coats over under 48 and a half. I thought it was 47 and a half. You're going over 47. Okay. Take the party seven and a half. Take over. I'm not arguing with you. Okay. Do you not worry about Indianapolis? Okay. Go ahead. What else? And the Saints visit the Titans over 39 and a half. 38. 38 and a half. 38 and a half. That's Saints quarterback has got some confidence now. Shuck. That's not the same guy that started the season. Right. He's he's he is now I read about this the other day. In his first six games, he became the leading rookie quarterback passer in the history of the Saints in just six games. Yeah. He seems Kellan Moore seems to like him and they know what they're doing. I don't know that that, you know, is a high scoring game, you know, because the Titans aren't any good. Thanks, defense. Thanks, defense. Thanks to have a little and I watch them. They have one of the maybe seven best defenses in the league. The defense is good. But but and I'm taking over against you going over. That's counterintuitive. What are you doing? Okay. You know, that's not a lot of points for an NFL game. No, it's not. I mean, they've got five wins between them. Yeah, the standings will tell you. Right. Yeah. All right. So you're gonna, you'll pick you'll pick college games next week for us early, right? Yeah, I'm sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Good. Yeah. Next Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we fix that. Do you still have six million data points? Are you down to like 4.3 million? T-boy noticed that we had a glitch in the way you wrote the code and algorithm on and it was on the moisture content of the content of the playing surface. But we quit, we tweaked that. We had part of our input in into our data point, our high speed computer. We use an AI. So this is, this is fantastic. This is just fantastic. It's just great. That's great. All right, we'll talk to you next week. Happy holidays, James. Happy holidays at home. Okay. Okay. Bye. James Carville, boys and girls. We've got Jeff Ma with us now. Jeff had a two, two and one week. He is 46, 34 and two. That is the best. Wait, wait, wait. I had a two, two and one. I thought I had a three and two. How did I have a two, two and one? You had a, wait a second. I'll go backwards. You had Carolina plus three at Tampa Bay and they won by three. Plus three. Are we, are we familiar with these concepts? Oh, plus three. If they win by three, then I won. Oh, yeah, you won. You're right. I'm wrong. So you're, so you're three and two. I was three and two. And now you're 47, 34 and one. Right? Yeah. And you wouldn't do this to a simian, would you? He never wins. He never even comes close. That is terrible. Wait, I did this. Wait, did I have Chuck Todd wrong too? No, Chuck Todd had Tampa Bay minus three. No, he picked Carolina. It was Tampa Bay minus three. And for some reason I thought that was a tie. But Jeff, but Chuck Todd won as well, right? Yes, he did. All right. Boy, am I stupid. Carville might have had them plus 13. So he probably won also. Carville won the over, which he never wins, but he immediately lost the first ball game by 10,000. Oh, it was the Memphis game. Yeah, he did not do well on that. So Chuck Todd is now 59, 57 and one. Right? Yeah. 59, 57 and oh, there's no one. There's no tie. Okay, good. So good. Let me get into a couple of things here. The college games, we are now at the semi-finals or the quarterfinals, I guess the last eight. I guess I want to ask this. The fact that Alabama won and came back on the road like they did, did that give Alabama a big boost? What is Indiana, Alabama right now in terms of points? I think that's six and a half. But if you look at the futures odds, that's even more telling. Indiana's plus three, 40, meaning they are the second favorite. The first favorite is Ohio State plus 185. Alabama's plus 1800. So they are the third worst odds. You'd have to go Ole Miss, Miami of Florida, who's about plus 2000, and then Alabama's plus 1800. I don't think people have a lot of faith in Alabama. Now it's interesting, obviously, because going into the season, Alabama was one of the favorites. So it is interesting to see this much movement in a situation now when there's only eight teams left for Indiana to beat us. I guess it just comes down at how much you really believe in Indiana. But Indiana's the number one seed and the second favorite behind Ohio State. And they beat Ohio State. They beat them in a game. They did, but obviously Ohio State, that was a weird game because Ohio State had two possessions inside the 10-yard line in the second half and didn't score on either. And if they just kick a field goal, one of them that at least goes to overtime. So Ole Miss is the longest shot on the board? They are. And obviously it's because they have a very tough route. They have to play Georgia first and then they have to play Ohio State and they have to play Indiana. So they have to beat three of those, all three of those teams to win it all. And I think that going in, they were not thought of to be the highest-talent team. I think they'd be the best story. I actually think Alabama and Ole Miss would be the two best stories if either of them won. Don't you? I think Ole Miss would be for sure. I'm not holding any futures. I mean, I have Ole Miss futures, so hopefully they, but like, you know, it's a long shot, but it would certainly be a good story. It'd be a good middle finger to Lane Kiffin. Absolutely, 100% true. Let me move to the NFL. We had Jeff Saturday on and he said it's the greatest year he ever remembers as a player or in the media. He says there's more parity than ever. He said he believed that eight different teams could win the Super Bowl. And he said when he was a player, there was never more than three or four. And he's, you know, he's really impressed by this. What are your thoughts on all of that? I mean, the odds would tell, say, that he's correct, right? Because there's been, at this point of the year, there's usually a team that's, you know, less than three to one to win the Super Bowl. And the Rams are the favorites that, you know, a little over four to one. And then you have the bills who are about seven to one. And then you have the Broncos and the Patriots and the Seahawks. The Seahawks are about six to one. The Patriots are just under 10 to one. And the Broncos are just under 10 to one. So, yeah, I mean, you definitely have a lot of teams that right now are still in it. The Eagles are less than 10 to one. It's a very, very interesting season with a lot of parity. And the future's market will tell you that's true. You live where I'm going to talk about now. If San Francisco can win these two home games, they're home games. Now, they're good teams, the Bears and the Seahawks, but they're home games. They've already beaten the Seahawks. If San Francisco wins these, they're home all the way through the Super Bowl because the Super Bowl's in where they play, right? That would be something. It would be something. I mean, I think the challenge with the 49ers is that they just don't, their defense is not good. They have enough talent on defense all day. They're talking that if they advance far enough, that Fred Warner could come back, but they have really just got decimated by injuries on defense. And I think when pushed, I mean, just look at last night's game. I mean, how, you know, how are you going to allow someone that old to be able to support that money points on you, right? It's interesting because I think when it comes down to it, when they play against good offenses, no, I mean, Shanahan has done an incredible job. We have to give him credit for that. And so is Sala. And they're young on defense, but I feel like when it comes to push, push them to shove, they're going to have trouble stopping other teams. Okay. All right. Tell us what you want this week. What are your picks? Okay. I'm going to do a bunch of the college games just because they're out there and we're not going to talk before. I don't think we'll talk before. Can I, can I do the playoff games? Was that allowed? Yes, you can do whatever you want. I mean, it just means that, you know, if, if they're still out there when we talk next, just don't pick them again. That's all. Sure. Okay. I'm going to take Ohio State minus the eight and a half. That line opened at 10 and it's gone down to eight and a half. I like Ohio State to win that game comfortably. Okay. I'm going to take Texas Tech plus the two. Again, this is the line that's, that is what it is because Texas Tech was a much lower rated team than Oregon was and everyone still thinks Oregon is that elite team, but I like Texas Tech to win that game outright. Okay. I'm going to take Indiana minus the six and a half and a blowout against Alabama. I think Alabama struggled and somehow managed to turn that game around from 17, nothing when they looked dead. I think Indiana is the real deal. And I think they, they win that game easily. And then I'm actually going to take Ole Miss plus the six and a half against Georgia. I like Georgia as a team. They've gotten better all year, but it's a lot of points to a team that really played them very, very tough in the regular season already. Can I go back to the Ohio State Miami game for a second? Sure. The Miami A&M game was awful. It was torture. It was brutal. Yes. The last three minutes were great. But if you see a game like that, it's very hard to believe that they can do anything against Ohio State. Isn't it? Yeah. I mean, I think, I think Ohio, this is the question like now my Ohio State stepping up in competition, but are they, you know, is this really the competition that's going to bother them? And my guess is no. Yeah. That's, that's how I feel too. You're going to pick any pro games or just college games? I'll take a pro game. Okay. Let me see. I have almost, I have these red dials. I thought you were two, two and one. I really feel stupid. I really, sometimes it's probably my fault. No, it's my fault. I thought he was two, two and one, you know, I just had that wrong. Yeah. Carolina. Yeah, it's all good. And the NFL, I'm actually going to take, God, it's like a funny play. It's, I'm actually going to take the, let's see here, I'm going to go through this again. What were some of the ones that Chuck Todd took? I'm curious. I'm always curious about. Okay, but you got to understand, we give Chuck games. Yeah, we gave him Cowboys Commanders, Houston Texans, Chargers, Baltimore, Green Bay, Jacksonville, Indy, Seattle, Carolina, Seattle giving seven and a half on the road, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Chicago, San Francisco. We, we, I mean, it's harder because he doesn't get to pick games. It is to be fair. Yeah. I'm going to take the bills minus one against the Eagles at home against the Eagles. He had it at one and a half, right? Yeah. One and a half. Oh, but you, it's now down to one. Okay. That's what I'm seeing. Okay. That's fine. That's fine. Those are my picks. Okay. Wonderful. So we'll talk to, when are these games? The games are all like January 1st and December 31st. So they're about a week away. Yeah. I think Ohio State's on New Year's Eve and the other three are on New Year's Day. Okay. So were we going to, were we going to talk before those? This was my way of saying I don't need to talk to you guys all next week. Yeah. That's what, yeah. We're going to just wait for you. Feels like you're breaking up with Jeff. Yeah. What did we do wrong? Who's on bet the process this week? We're darts this week. It's the holiday week. We're not as dedicated to the craft as you are. Yeah. Well, you make more money doing the other stuff you do. So it's okay. All right. We'll talk to you. Have a great holiday. Okay. Bye. Bye. This week's picks by James Carville and Jeff Mobb and brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. We will come back with email in jingle. I'm Tony Kornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Kornheiser show. Said the orange man two little everywhere. Listen to what I say. Listen to what I say. There must be free food and parking there. Listen to what I say. Listen to what I say. A box, a box, and a box of that and leave two robes hanging on the rack. And leave two robes hanging on the rack. Said the orange man to the underling. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? Invite me but I won't go to your thing. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? A star, a star. That's who the f*** I am. It's Kirsten Olmstead. It's just great. It really is. It's brilliant. She's a great singer. Such a great voice. She is so great. You want to do the Thesda bagel it? Yes. Got hot bagels and small meetings. Got meetings today. Never saw them before. Wow. It's very exciting. See how those work in a couple of days. They look good. They do look good, don't they? Do they sell those? They do. They're small bagels. Would you like to switch our order to get the small bagels? I don't know. I haven't eaten them yet. Yes. And it's right. Exactly for party platters. Yeah. Yeah. All your holiday needs. Just go to BethesdaBagels.com for the location in the DC air and air stew then pop on air and you'll be thrilled. Before we get to the mailbag, let me just say, so this is Christmas and what have you done another year over and new one just begun and so this is Christmas. I hope you had fun. The near and the dear ones, the old and the young. It's John Lennon. Yeah. It's from 50 years ago. It's the best Christmas. John Lennon's the best Christmas song out there. It is. Thanks to our guests today, Jason Lockenfor, James Carville, Jeff Ma. Thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember, you can listen to us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Odyssey. Get show through Apple. Please leave us a review from our friend Ed Butt in Frankfurt, Michigan. Many of the oddities concerning Kansas City, Missouri versus Kansas City, Kansas can be explained by one fact for many years. Excuse me. Kansas City, Missouri was dry and Kansas City, Kansas was not. So country clubs located themselves on the Kansas side of the state line. I believe there even is one where the course is in Missouri, but the clubhouse is in Kansas information for life. That's really good to hear. From Father Aaron in Kansas City, Kansas and your discussion of the Chiefs leaving Missouri. But hey, I know that greater metropolitan area. I'm from that greater metropolitan area. Quick thought and then a quick timeline. The Kansas City area is just that, the Kansas City area. In general, leaving room for local rivalries, et cetera. This is broadly speaking, one big city with multiple different governments. To say you're driving downtown using only one word on the Kansas side where I live means driving over to Kansas City, Missouri. In some places, crossing over is as simple as crossing state line road and not giving it a second thought. Very fast, July 2023, the Chiefs announced three possible plans, renovate Arrowhead, demolish Arrowhead and build up New Stadium on site or build elsewhere. January 2024, Chiefs announced they are staying in Missouri in Jackson County. A voters approved a three eighth sales tax extension in April. Can the executive Frank White? Yes, that Frank White, the former Royal Second Basement vetoed the sales tax. Jackson County legislature overrides the veto, sending it to a public vote on the ballot. March 2024, Chiefs and Royals renew lease at current site if April vote succeeds. April 2024, the ballot measure fails. Jackson County voters rejected the sales tax. Kansas City begins wooing the Chiefs in earnest. June 24th, April 25, some small potatoes like cornhuisers potatoes. July 2025, Governor Kehoe of Missouri tries to keep the team signs a new law to try to keep them. September 2025, Frank White removed from office on an 85% to 15% recall. December 2025, most recent news, Chiefs announced move to Kansas. On the same topic from Larry Schumacher who writes, seasons greetings from Kansas City, Missouri. I just listened to Tuesday's show and I'm here to satisfy your curiosity about how people are feeling about the Chiefs moving to Godforsaken, after 70 years in Missouri. Are we bitter? Of course not. Why would we be bitter? Just because the Kansas legislature outbid the Missouri legislature by agreeing to subsidize 70% of the three to four billion dollar price tag to build a new stadium, office complex and practice facility. Why would anybody be bitter about the Hunt family creating a bidding war and selling out to the highest bidder? Most of the most, maybe the most telling thing in this story is that the new stadium will have 10,000 fewer seats than Arrowhead. I guess fans don't really matter. I guess the bond between a city and a team doesn't really matter, at least not as much as TV and gambling revenue. I've always loved the line you borrowed from Don Allmire that the answer to all your questions is money. Here's my two-part corollary. Part one, money runs everything. Part two, money ruins everything. But why would we be bitter? Sarcastic voice added by me. Aaron in Milwaukee. On the Chiefs leaving Missouri for a new dome stadium in Kansas, the reasoning is revealed by Chiefs owner Clark Hunt. Quote, it will give Kansas City the opportunity to bid on events that we can't host right now like the Super Bowl, the college football playoff and the NCAA Final Force. Not to mention, unquote, not to mention concerts, etc. as a venue usable year round. It's a reason I understand, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow. I couldn't even fathom my packers effectively killing the frozen tundra for this reason. While I share your dismay, that a team is so easily leaving their historic home, tradition be damned. I guess I've come to realize that we all live in a time where all decisions are made to honor the greatest tradition of all, making money. Although it's been said many times, many ways, Merry Christmas to you, but I suppose the same can be said for the answer to all of your questions is money. From Howard Turroff in New Orleans, Louisiana, I don't know if this personal remembrance will be pod worthy, but I thought to share it with you anyway. From 1975 through 1989, my best friend and I attended at least one game of every World Series. We're in our early 20s in a World Series road trip was our annual fall adventure. We go to cities often without tickets or a place to stay and figured out when we get there. For the I-70 World Series between the Royals and Cardinals in 1985, we were lucky. In the pre-internet days, we had mailed away for tickets and miraculously got them. Not only that, we were invited to stay with the parents of a girl who I knew was from Kansas City. When we arrived, the parents, whom I'd never met before, informed us they were Kansas City Chiefs ticket holders. They had a skybox and they could bring us to the Rams Chiefs game that's Sunday at one. I wasn't making much money back then. I'd never been in a luxury box before, so this was a real treat. Then following the game, we were invited down to the season ticket holder lounge to eat and drink like kings while watching the late games on TV. And then we walked across the path to the Royal Stadium for Game 2 of the World Series. This was by far one of the greatest weekends in sports experience I'd ever enjoyed. I've never been back, but I'm nonetheless sad and to learn that the Chiefs are moving out of Arrowhead. What a loss for the fans of the Chiefs and the Royals. Really is. Brandon Borzelli, Lebanon, New Jersey. Maybe Chiefs fans can access the new stadium across state lines via the purple line. Should be completed by 2031. It's funny. Perfect. Brandon's always funny. From Catherine O'Neill in St. John's, Newfoundland in Canada. I too am a loyal little here in St. John's, Newfoundland. I've been living here for 18 years. And I think the population of littles here seems to have exploded lately. I can't make it to the farmer's market on December 27th. But please tell Newfoundlander Dave Giovannon that if he sees me around town in a Binghamton University sweatshirt, it's me, and he should give the salute and introduce himself. I bought the sweatshirt a few years ago at a local thrift store based solely on your affiliation with the place. I wear it proudly. Isn't that nice? That is great. Thank you, Catherine. From Ben Sandler, DDS, Dentist, Doctor of Dental Surgery. I received a text from my very long time dental supply rep and friend saying, when you go to Pinehurst, I would recommend the Ironwood Cafe. I immediately replied, thanks. A few minutes later, I realized I hadn't seen him since I play on that trip. Then I remembered my email to you asking about the Pinehurst restaurants. I replied to Bob Tony. Connect the tissue. Please tell Bob Ross of Atlanta, Dentist, Applied to Eat It. Isn't that nice? That is. From Adam Blaney in Athens, Ohio. Before I was the official organic vegetable farmer of the show, I spent my professional and academic life in church ministry and in biblical studies and history of Christianity. Recently, a friend sent me some Instagram content in which he thought I would take an interest. I was listening to the person speak and I happened to look down and see his name. Tim Wilesmith, I thought, of mailbag jingle fame? Surely not, but sure enough, it was him. Connected tissue and worlds collide. Turns out Tim is not just a writer of songs for stupid podcasts, but an actual author of real books and does great work with his online content. It was great to connect, find another little in the real world. Happy holidays from the other side of the street and best to you and all of yours. That's great. Keith McConnell. Finally, my David Aldridge moment, albeit regarding a place and not a person, Griffith, Indiana, my hometown, although I appreciate the lengths that ice cream thief Christopher Stewart went to to get Griffith some publicity. This time of year, we're already flushed. Listen for our mention in the early scenes of the Christmas story in which some Claude Hopper swallowing a yo-yo earns Griffith some real prestige. And once the bears finished their stadium in Griffith, there's no looking back. Carl and Oswego, Chuck and Roxy, 397, that's three less than Chuck Todd. I've made up a new game where I try to guess who will show up in the pictures that Reginald shows Nigel during his weekly NFL picks segment. I'm happy to report that at least four times this year, I've successfully guessed one of the people in the pictures. I wonder if any other littles can top that. Now that I say this out loud, I'm realizing I need to take a break and reevaluate some of my life choices. Don't I know more about the misses? Happy holiday to you and everyone on the staff. Brian Nemo in Arbor, Michigan from the Tuesday show. Nigel tried to get Chuck Todd to pick the game above sports bowl. Is that what it's called? I thought to myself, hey, I know that bowl game. I'm going to be at that bowl game on Friday. I figured I could be the official game above sports bowl correspondent at the TK show, at least send you a big box of game above. Then I realized there is no show on Friday and there appears to be no actual entity called game above. They sell no products, have no employees, have no Wikipedia page. Maybe the whole thing is a scam and all 2000 fans will be actually subjected to hours long sales pitch for the revolution toaster. After all, our tickets were free. It's brilliant. From Chip Robinson in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, dear Dr. Tony, I've been thinking about buying a new phone. I'm not sure which to buy. Do you like yours? Love it. Love it. Going to love it more when I slam it into the ground. Justin Johnson, Arlington, Virginia, I would welcome a phone update that stopped me from emails. How do I find that update? Aaron Alexander, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a former TV news producer. I enjoy hearing about outlandish news stories. Most of the time I hear them on your show, research monkeys that escaped. I'm sure if they're any still on the loose, they're hiding with Reginald, Indiana Manstals, $6,200 worth of ice cream, the allure of Hagan Dazs. Coffee ice cream will make folks do some crazy things. Of course, who can forget the great DC wine high suspect from last month? But I think I found the best obscure news story yet. After severe flooding in Washington state, King County officials are warning residents that flood waters could sweep rats into the sewer system and up into their toilets. It turns out that folks in that part of the country have engineered a toilet and sewer system that can handle most rodents, because here are the steps they say you should take. If you do, in fact, find a rat in your toilet. First, remain calm. Second, keep the lid down so the rat can't jump out. Third, squirt some liquid dish soap into the toilet. The soap degreases the oils in the rat's fur, so it can't float in the water. Fourth, flush the toilet. Apparently toilets in Washington state are designed to accommodate flushing the mouse, or in this case, the rat. Officials say the rat will usually go down the same way it came up, but it could take multiple flushes. Fifth, if that doesn't work, you can call pest control, or in your case, Michael. Thanks for all the laughs throughout the years, along with the expert sports analysis and insights. Isn't that nice? Get the tongs out. From Larry Sanders. Larry Sanders. Can't be. Can't be Larry Sanders. Listening to the various matchbook emails on the podcast pushed me to send this picture. My dad had a wonderful sense of humor and had a set of matchbooks printed up that had read, stolen from Harris Sanders, picture included, and he'd hand them out at parties to friends and clients. He passed away seven years ago. I was lucky enough to have found one. Framed it, hangs in our home, and I quietly laugh each time I pass by. Isn't that very nice? That is. David Andrews from Adelaide, Australia. In the I Hate This Phone episode, you asked why people in Australia would listen to your podcast. Well, I'm here to tell you I've absolutely no idea. You're welcome. Thanks for clearing that up. Yeah. Josh Peterson in Houston, Texas. So the new game is Kids' Birthdays. My oldest and non-masculine child, Maggie, was born on July 8th, 2009, 070809. Easy to remember even for you, Grandpa. That's a good one. Thanks for the entertaining connective tissue. Yeah. Greg from Only Canada. I didn't know there was an Only Canada. Well, I think if I say I email from Canada, will I get my email read? That's it. That's the email. Oh, so it's probably Only Maryland. Okay. And Mark Lynch, our friend in Canby, Indiana. On Tuesday show, you read an email from Mark in North Bethesda. First of all, great name. Second of all, is there a North Bethesda? Is there a North Bethesda bagels? If there is, I assume they are superior. Yeah. It's Rockville. Yeah, it's Rockville. It's Rockville. Yeah. If you're out on your bike tonight, everyone is always do wear white and have a wonderful holiday. 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