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That's right. GMFB on a Thursday, everybody, getting a little loosey.

Usually that's a Friday, but watch out.

It's almost 2026 and it's happening on a Thursday.

No, it's Thursday. Confirmed. Reports are confirmed. Seth, Mante, Kyle, and Jamie here, as always. Philip Rivers, it's happening. The press conference was yesterday. It was wonderful to see. He had a lot of good sound bites. Kyle, did you specifically like the time where the member of the Indianapolis Colts press core just straight up first question was like, so dude, how much do you weigh right now? Yeah, I think that was Greg Doyle, and I think that was an appropriate question, and I like Rivers' response. He's like, I honestly don't know. And Phil, none of us do. You each a certain age you don't want to know. So I think it was perfect. Yeah, don't check that until February 1 of the next year.

It is the holiday season, everybody, which means we are getting close to the playoffs.

The bill is taking on the Patriots for the first time since a 23 to 20 loss at home,

which feels like forever ago, but it was back in week 5.

New England took advantage of three Buffalo turnovers in that game.

It was in Western New York.

Josh Allen now speaks to the media about this game, the offense, and keeping things in check this time around.

They're a really good football team.

You know, if we go back and we can say we turn it over, I think, three times that game.

You're not going to win any football games doing that. I mean, I think if we don't turn the ball over,

we're pretty good offense. So we got to have all hands on deck and we need everybody this week.

All right, here we go. Lucky Lou. AFC playoff picture. That is a full landscape. And rightfully so, you have an entirely filled out lurking column. Three teams that are six and seven. Don't do it. The Colts are eight and five, and the Broncos loom large on the left side of the screen at the number one overall seat. But the AFC East has two spots right now between the division leader Patriots and the

wild card Buffalo Bill. So Kyle told the story last week, we all know it, about the Houston Rockets and how when

they won their NBA title back in the mid-90s, it was in the era in which Michael Jordan was retired.

So in the does it really count for the Rockets, Rockets fans are now throwing pens at

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