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I mean, Eli Manning is everywhere. Tom Brady still can't get over the fact that Eli has thwarted him twice in the biggest moments. There's a chance he tells Alex Earl. Can you believe that I lost the Eli Manning twice? Or maybe he's concerned about losing Alex Earl to Eli Manning. I don't know if there's any Taekwondo instructors that he has to worry about, but I think he's good.

I'm not in his bedroom.

But you'd probably like to be.

No, I'm happy in my bedroom.

Probably like to be in my bedroom. Alex Earl Tui. I don't know if there's any Taekwondo instructors that he has to worry about, but I think he's good.

I'm not in his bedroom.

But you'd probably like to be.

No, I'm happy in my bedroom. Probably like to be in my bedroom. Oh, is that right? Be like an instructional video for you. This is D.P.H.O. and Rothenburg. You're like Tom Omanski of Lovemaking.

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There's a theme.

Raymond's playing a lot of Billy Joel today.

Ray, what is the rationale behind it is,

but a lot of Billy Joel's been played today. Well, I'm talking about the island town. And RJ and I were batting around that we're living in a different type of town today. Crazy town? Crazy town. Why? Crazy town, USA. Why? Because there's some optimism with the Giants? They're getting wild. I don't think I'm as wild as other people. John's crazy. John's very crazy. John's been very offensive to our day as quarterback. Did you hear Ted just now? Yeah. I mean, Ted's crazy by nature. But Ted, I mean, that's crazy. He's hot take Ted. Right? If he wasn't sexy, Ted, he'd be hot take 10. Lamar Jackson's a loser.

Jackson darts the man. It was ridiculous. I will say that Lamar Jackson, the postseason, it's not the same quarterback. He's not been good in the playoffs. 13 touchdowns, 11 turnovers. 3 and 5 in the postseason. So he's just not the same. He's not an MVP-level quarterback in the postseason. So ESPN put out a 2026 NFL power

rankings a little bit early, right? Obviously, it's pre-free agency, it's pre-draft. So we take

everything with a grain of salt. And they do an exercise where they grade the teams and then

they use a little three-word phrase for every team.

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