Hey, part of my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon music. On today's part in my take, we're sending everyone off for the rest of the week. There's no show on Friday that is Christmas, but we have an extra long show today. We have Jeff Monkin, Army, Head Football Coach of Army, trying to get him a bowl game, which they got but we talked to him about

print have Jeff Monkin, Army, head football coach of Army, trying to get him a bowl game, which they got, but we talked to him about basically being the toughest guy alive. We have Rachel Nichols on to preview the Western Conference in the NBA and Richard Jefferson on to preview the Eastern Conference of the NBA. So the NBA is officially back and we have a full preview for everyone and then we have a quick Monday night football recap hot seat cool throne guys on chicks send you off for The last couple weeks of 2020 before we do all that part of my take is brought to you by the cash app Not only is it the easiest place send money to your friends. It's the safest go download the cash app right now Use code use code bar stool. You get $10 for free, $10 to the ASPCA. Super, super easy to use. You can send money to friends, family. You can buy stock. You can do everything with the cash app and the cash app is giving away money on the internet. Left and right all the time. Twitch, Instagram, Twitter, but you need a cash tag. You can't do it unless you have a cash tag and that is by signing up right now with Code

Bar stool on the cash app, download it, Google Play Store, App Store, it's super easy to use, download it, use CodeBarStore, you get $10 for free, $10 for the AFPC8, right this second. Okay, let's go. And then I can't play all on you. Oh, no, we're gonna rock it down too. He let shake I venue. And then we'll take it higher. Oh, we gonna rock it down too. He let shake I venue. My take. And then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my take presented by the cash app. Go download it right now. Use code bar stool You get $10 for free $10 to the ASPCA today is Wednesday December 23rd and the Pittsburgh Steelers are Dead Worst 11 and no team of all time dead-ish Dead-ish could be Rathus burger is not health good anymore We this is tricky because now we're biased we do like you know the Steelers and and Pittsburgh the city of Pittsburgh We're in Rathus burger so it's it's hard But in fair in fairness to every other team that we bash the Pittsburgh Steelersers are frauds. Straight up frauds, 11 and

0 to 11 and 3 losing as 14 point favorites to the Bengals. They are broken. They are hurt. They are damaged. And I don't know like has there ever been a team that's gone 11 and finished 11 and 5 and still going to the playoffs. It would be very funny if they ended up with 5 straight losses and then limped into the playoffs. They're in the playoffs. Yeah, so that's the crazy part.

So they're going to get into playoffs.

There's a chance, and like we talked about the Browns chances,

even though... if they ended up with five straight losses and then limped into the playoffs. They're in the playoffs. Yeah.

So they're going to get into playoffs.

There's a chance.

And like we talked about the Browns chances, even though, listen, it's still extremely likely that the Browns get in. But if the Dominos fall the wrong way, they might not. But there's still a very good chance that depending on how that week six or week 17 game the browns and the Steelers, they could play each other back to back weeks.

Not only that PFT, but the browns.

And I think that there's, I think most Browns fans know this, but there are still a certain amount of Browns fans out there that haven't fully realized it because they think and understandably so they think, well, we beat the Titans and we beat the cult. So we have the tiebreaker. If there's a four or five way tie at 11 and five, the head to heads don't matter. That's the problem. And the Browns get basically booted from the playoffs. So week 17, there could be, there's a potential for week 17. And this would be like hell freezing over. The Cleveland Browns could be playing for the AFC North title. And if they lose, they could potentially be kicked out of the playoffs.

Yeah, but how crazy is that?

There's a lot of weird stuff that could happen. It's so fucking insane. It could work out where if they lose that game, then that means that they have to go to Pittsburgh the next week. It could work out that if they win the game, Pittsburgh has to go to Cleveland the next week. It's it's going to be weird. It's gonna be very strange ending of the season for sure.

Either way, I think the big takeaway

from Monday night football was,

I don't remember Big band never playing that bad and It's like it's bad. Oh, it is very very bad. So the first thing I noticed besides him just like Doing a two-year-old protest and saying I never want to play under center So I'm gonna fumble the first nap that I get there was when he was when they were

setting him up for handoffs. He they were calling handoff plays where he would not have to take more than one step. And fact, like most of the handoffs big Ben was doing was just like turning his fat belly to the side and putting the ball out just rotate. There was one in the first half in particular where he had to take like maybe, maybe a step and half to his right. And he took like half the step and then stretched his arm way out. And we joke about like is Big Ben hurt? Because Big Ben's always hurt and some way, actually no, this week he wasn't hurt. He was coming back from the world's shortest retirement of all time because he made Adam Schaefter announce on like Saturday or Sunday that Big Ben will return for next year. Right. We're like thanks Adam. Yeah. No one was. Okay. Thank you Ben for letting us know. But I don't know if he's actually like injured or hurt or if he's just lazy. I think he's just old. He just might be old. I think we're seeing this and it's and it's happening like this is the end of time. Of all the things that have happened in the last couple of years. You know who actually is coming out the biggest winner, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was the first to leave the party. Now he was obviously when he got bad at the end, it was bad. Yeah. But our lasting memories are now going to be bad, bad big Ben, bad Phil Rivers,

if he plays for the year or two.

Tom Brazinga played for 10 more years,

so he'll be bad at the end.

Drew Breeze, like all these guys getting old

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