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It is the twelfth of January and The Stranger Things. Uh documentary is dropped. In which we found out that They were filming while still finishing writing the finale.
So. That confirms a lot of our theories on that. Still one football game tonight: Steelers and Texans. That's why the NFL schedule is not even out yet. We know the days the teams will play, Saturday or Sunday, but they don't have the schedule.
I don't know why the Saturday games matter, but. That's both here and there, actually, because that is what we're talking about. I'm Bart Winkler. It is the National Perspective, our weekly reunion with Carlos Ortiz. Did you try something there?
Yeah, I put the applause.
So, we're going to try to do some drops on the fly because that wasn't the drop I even wanted. You're like carrot top. You're good, but You need your props and drops to really beat Carlos Ortiz. I really, really would have preferred that you call me Gallagher. You know, because at least he has a hammer.
But I guess I can understand a reference. Mike McCarthy once brought Gallagher to the Packers. Did he really? The same way everyone's bringing like this who's that guy? Not Dr.
Oz. The mentalist. Oz the Mentalist. Is his name Oz? Yes, I think it is Oz.
Okay.
So he brought Gallagher in the year of like 2014. Yeah. And fitting because uh Well, I don't really have a good Comparison.
So you watch Packers, Bears. I did. At what point? Knowing what you know about the Packers from me. At what point did you think Oh, the Packers are probably going to lose this game.
Uh missing the uh field goal before halftime. That was it for me. I 1000% because I was at my sister-in-law's house because my goddaughter, who I haven't seen in a couple of months, came into town with, you know, obviously her mother and whatnot.
So I rushed over after work to go over there and say hello. And then finally, I'm like, Hey, it's about to be halftime. Can I watch this game? Because we're just sitting here playing Uno, and you guys are drunk, and I don't really care to listen to Bad Bunny all night. Which, of course, they did anyway.
So we put on the game. I saw the score. I'm like, wow, Packers buy a lot. Yeah. This should be interesting.
And as soon as he missed that kick, I looked to the other guy who was remotely interested in football. I'm like, the Bears are going to win this. And he's like, yep. And then obviously, everything else we saw unfold. I thought of you immediately.
I wanted to text you earlier to say my condolences, not rub it in your face because I had no dog in a fight. I'm not a Bears fan. But my phone died, which is why you got my text so late. But I was thinking about you, and I am so sorry. Yeah, that that that had to have stunk.
Well, as I explained on one of these things I've done, by the way, we're live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. All places where I've crashed out this weekend.
Someone should write an article about it's not my goodbye that's not going to get me hired ever again. It's my epic crash outs. After rivalry, I can't do rivalries. I can't. I can't do them.
And I that makes me a bitch. Or whatever pussy. I can't do them. I cannot do them.
Okay.
It affects me. It shouldn't be like that, but it is. Everybody that's Shirping at me online. You're ruining my life. Because then I run to the bottle.
Stop it. It's not my fault.
Okay, so Back to basics. Um, it was half time and my kids watching this game, and we told them we could stay up. And he did, and he was getting a little sleepy, but it was 21-3, and he could sense that I was tense. Kids can do that. Kids kind of know what's up.
And I said, uh, buddy, I know it's 21-3 and it feels like we're gonna win this game, but I don't I don't I don't know that that's certain. Even at halftime, there was a lot of celebrating going on. Like, oh, Ben Johnson's being Dan Campbell. And all these fourth downs he was going for, which you know, he went on, it was like his own 32. Which was just not part of the story anymore.
And I said, guys, games are 60 minutes. Games are 60 minutes. And so they lost. And even still, on that final drive, Jordan Love had a lot of good throws. They could have been caught, but they weren't.
And I just told him, um I just told him. I don't feel good about this. Um You know, I've seen a lot of these kinds of games. And then he got really into it. And he crawled under his bed after.
The game, sad. And I said, buddy, it's just a game. He said, no, it's not. It's a playoff game. And then, yeah, I've been talking about how whatever, we got to move on, it's fine.
And he says no.
So. I am uh I am not good at rivalries. Yeah. Even when they win? I crashed out after Brewers Cubs.
Oh, by the way, congrats on your signing. Oh, yeah, I was absolutely stoked. I mean, I cared more about Alex Breckman going to the Cubs than I did about the damn Bears. I jumped out of my chair, it was great. That's that was the harbinger of doom.
That's when I really, really knew. Yeah, that's when everything was coming up, mill house for Chicago. Yeah, oh, the Cubs signed uh Bregman. Wow, okay, during this game, fine, this is gonna be a night. They're gonna remember forever.
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That's why we're right here. Thank you, Mike. There it is. The Water Heater Factory. Says miss you guys on the radio I had a dream I was doing a fill-in shift last night.
Yeah. That wasn't happening. No, I had a dream, but I couldn't connect with the producer back at the station.
So I didn't even know if I was on or not. That's accurate. My Saturday show, I got on 45 minutes late because my damn board op doesn't know what they're doing. My host was six and a half minutes late. Geez.
Well, good luck. Yeah, well, too much. I still work there.
So I like ended the show early, and I just, I don't know, it was a really weird. Not good dream. T-Dog says the Bears didn't beat the Packers. The Packers beat the Packers. Don't!
Jesus Christ. Um Five straight losses, another literal historic epic choke job in a long line of playoff choke jobs. The answer: contract extension. I need this kind of job security. That's from Jake.
Speaking of which, I know we were going to go through some more quotes here. That was the news I woke up to. And I'm not sure it's news.
So that's the thing. I don't actually believe this. I believe that this is like someone from LaFleur's camp, maybe his wife, maybe an agent, just floating this to Schefter. Like, please put this nugget out there so Ed policy is like forced. To give LaFleur an extension.
I don't know what he's done in the last five years that you would warrant a contract extension, but nothing would make me happier than the Packers to do that because I am terrified you guys are gonna be a hardball if you get rid of LaFleur.
Well, I mean is that even really an upgrade? I yeah, I would think so. I honestly, I believe he would be. I don't even care. I don't care if we get um Like the dad, isn't the dad still alive?
I don't care if he comes back and coaches the dad hardball. I just don't want LaFleur. I don't want them. I don't want him here. I don't want him as the coach.
I haven't wanted him as the coach all season. And I you know That's something I have to deal with. I this is gonna turn into therapy, okay? Um that's something I have to deal with because I go out there publicly and I'm like shitting on this guy. Yeah.
And then I get yelled at. And then everybody else? Everybody else shits on him now. Yeah, oh, welcome to like the bandwagon, like two years late. Like, Bart's been driving this, waiting for people to show their bus pass.
That that like th that like affects me. When you finally come around and think what I'm thinking. Why did you yell at me for it? Yeah. All is forgiven.
But here's what Schefter said: he said. Packers are now expected to try to work out a deal in the coming days to keep head coach Matt LaFleur in Green Bay per sources. Jesus Christ. This is great.
So that's already worded strangely. Packers are now expected to try to work out a deal. Per sources.
So I agree with you. The first time I read that, I thought.
Okay, 'cause this happened yesterday with Rapapor. Ian Rappaport had like, hey, they're probably working on an extension. And that's the wrinkle with this. It's not your standard coach loses, fire him. Matt LaFleur has one year left.
And so they do have to make a decision. Are you going to extend this guy or are you going to get rid of him? Schefter then adds on a new tweet. Matt LaFleur currently has one year remaining on his contract. Both sides want clarity moving forward.
So yeah, they want clarity. We all want clarity. I don't think. That this means LaFleur is back. LaFleur might be back.
I don't think this means he's back.
So I don't. I don't know. I saw Rob Domosky of ESPN float out a theory that. You know, maybe the Packers are going to give him. An extension that he knows.
He's gonna lowball him. basically. Yeah, one that he's forced to like uh a turn down. Yeah. And I don't know, like this P R that Matt LaFleur's got running for him is unbelievable.
The fact that everyone's just advocating, oh, he'd get hired in seconds or he could command $50 million a year. He might be a Mike McCarthy where he gets fired. He's not getting a job, this coaching circle. There's a cycle rather. There are too many.
You know, uh, qualified candidates that have a way better resume than Matt LaFlore. If you've said this before, and I've been pounding this all weekend, if it wasn't for this seventh seed, the expanded wild card, the Packers wouldn't be doing shit, they would miss the playoffs every year.
So, yeah, I don't understand the uh. You know, the hype around them that if he were to get fired, no shot, and especially if the Steelers get motorboated today. And Mike Tomlin becomes available. Yeah, we're being consistent with that. Then there's no shot in hell that people are going to be running to go get LaFleur.
I don't I I just I can't For the life of me, you know what I think? And I've said this before, and this is a terrible take. But like if Mike McCarthy had these seven years. Jake's on it. If Mike McCarthy had these seven years.
He would be fired. Uh Matt LaFleur. is a good-looking man. And he is getting the benefit of being a good-looking man. There's there's there's no there's that I believe is true.
And I feel dumb having that take. But People are fine with I I I just I I don't I don't want him as the coach. I'm not going to be excited going into next year if he's still the coach, certainly for years after that. He will have to win a Super Bowl. For me, like we could even be going to the Super Bowl.
And I'd still be like, I don't care. I don't want him. We're going to lose. Did you see the stat, the stat about the Packers and? this season.
They did something that has not been done. Uh in the years Since the merger, the Packers are the first team since 1970 to lose three games. In a season, Playoffs included when they led by at least 10 points in the final five minutes of the game. Oh brother, this guy stays! I literally just loaded that one too.
That's good. That's good. So, but the other problem with the floor. Thank you, Jake. It is a dumb take, but it is 100% spot on.
Yeah, he's a good-looking dude. He should be the assistant manager at a local dick's. Except that he's coaching the Packers. Yeah, I agree with you. Maybe even a Shields in this part of the country.
Um I almost bought a pair of shoes from Shields. It's amazing. What a story. Yeah, no, I got nothing else after that. I almost bought a pair.
That was it. The end. One time I went up to the Shields in Appleton from Fond du Lac, which is 45 minutes away, and I saw one of my friends from Fond du Lac also at that Shields. Very nice. And then I almost bought a pair of shoes.
Bort Yeah. Got it. I think I did this last week. Oh Little off-air producing. You asked me if I had anything that you sent me.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I definitely could use those the cut sheet that I would use like once a month. Um if that uh podcast write-ups because yeah i was doing all that on my phone this weekend and i'm like No, I need papers. I need to be I don't I don't have anything.
Okay, great. The one thing I have is when you were gone for like a week, you sent an email to everybody about what to do. Did I attach anything to that?
Now it's just all in the email. Ah, fuck. Yeah, it's completely useless.
So you could put it in an attachment. I'm good. I don't know. You know what? I'll do that for you.
Six, seven. It's about as useless as that. And now we can replace that one. My son's friend got a 3D printer. And he made a six, seven ornament that day.
Do you think we'll still have that on the tree next year? No, no shot.
Something stupid will replace it. Probably by the end of this month. Speaking of being replaced, will Nick Siriani be replaced? We can talk about Eagles and 49ers. I thought I read one guy's breakdown.
That the Eagles were going to. Limit what the Niners could do on the outside. And the Eagles' defense, I was very impressed with, especially when they beat Green Bay. The game I was the most confident in this weekend was the Eagles beating the 49ers. Which is my fault.
I continually Give the Eagles the benefit of the doubt. I don't know why. Yeah, I had the Niners. The nine, obviously, the niners are going to win. They either go to the NFC championship game or don't make the playoffs.
Correct. And I've shit on Kyle Shanahan a lot. But man, I would take I would take like I would take I'm gonna take his left foot. Over Matt LaFleur, like his left. Oh, yeah.
If Kyle Shanahan were to be available today, people would run to get Shanahan. That I can understand the hype. I don't understand the LaFleur one. Yeah, I don't get it.
So we had the Packers losing to the Bears. The Rams beat the Panthers. Nice back and forth game. The Panthers are going to end up giving Bryce Young a lot of money, and people are going to be mad about it. But this is what we have to do.
You don't? Yeah, I actually don't know because listen, you know, they're not married to Bryce Young. It's a new regime there. It might be a similar situation whereas like You know, they'll just wait and see. But yeah, they have to pick up the fifth-year extension or fifth-year option if they want him.
I don't think that that's going to happen. I think he's going to be a lame dog. Look at the season he just had, bro. You're year three and you've threw for like 3,000 yards. Like, come on, everybody else can easily throw 4,000 in their sleep.
I don't think that he's the guy there. I think they know that. They're just kind of going with good vibes and feelings right now. Listen, it was a great season for the Panthers, but. They needed the Falcons to win their last four games, and they needed the Bucks to completely implode.
They were not supposed to be there at eight and nine.
So. I don't think that there's going to be a rush to pay Bryce Young. I think they're going to kind of let the strength play out and. I honestly would probably lame Duckham. He's a bridge guy to whoever their next quarterback is going to be.
See, I still don't think he's that much different than CJ Stroud. Yeah, I mean, I think the luster's worn off a little bit on Stroud, but I do think Stroud is better than Bryce Young. But it's not saying much. I think now that we're again three years into it, it's just not a great quarterback class you know it's a it's a bunch of dudes that are okay You know, they're both better than Kyler Murray, but you know, a lot of people are.
So, um, I don't know if Bryce Young's going to get that fifth-year option. I certainly don't think he's going to get a major extension there. Um, Stroud, obviously, you know, he'll get paid. But he's basically living off of that rookie year because if it wasn't for his defense, I don't think Houston would be in the position that they are right now. And it took a Daniel Jones injury in order for the Texans to secure that division.
Who knows what Indianapolis would have been if Daniel Jones stayed healthy? Albeit, he was playing like crap a little bit before he got hurt. But that team completely fell off the cliff. once they had a half killer rivers and whoever the hell the other backup was Did you, um Did did you were you impressed by Jordan Love on Saturday night? I thought it was okay.
I don't think it was all on him. Honestly, I believe that Jordan Love's not a top 15 quarterback. He's like 16, 15 and a half, if you want. But no, I thought he did fine. He didn't have any help from his receivers whatsoever.
Although Matthew Golden toward the end of the game, what a great catch. Yeah, did you like that he was actually on this team? Nobody knew all season. Nobody knew. Yeah, it was just like you only spent a first-round pick on him, which is like the Packers never do that.
You know, it's always like a corner or, you know, a freaking linebacker or somebody that's not going to help Rogers at all. They finally get a first-round receiver in Golden. They don't use him at all all year, so I didn't get that whatsoever. But yeah, Jordan loved. I think he just didn't really get the support, whether it was coaching or some of his playmakers.
I mean, Jacobs was, you know, kind of banged up.
So, you know, I kind of give Jordan love a mulligan. I thought he was fine. Thank you. You have a soundboard too? I have five sounds that came with StreamYard.
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Or your third space. We don't have a lot of third spaces anymore in society. Where can you gather with your friends? Homework, you need a third space. For me lately It's been the gym, but my friends don't go there.
I have new people. I have like gym. I have gym friends now. That's cool. Have you met outside of the gym yet?
Yes. Yes, twice actually. But is it like after the gym, go get a drink, or is it like, hey, what are you doing this weekend? Jim? Yeah, both times, though.
The first time was very awkward because I think I'd only been working out there for like a month. but it was a birthday for one of the trainers.
So they're like, hey, we're all going to get together if you want to come. And I'm like. I don't want to say no, but I kind of don't want to say yes either. But I'm like, all right, fuck it. I'll swing by for like an hour.
I forgot what I was doing. But I'm like, I'll swing by.
So I swung by and. You know, it seemed nice enough, but I was like, I don't know any of you yet, so I'm just gonna leave 20 bucks for this single beard that I had, and I will see you guys later. The second time. Yeah, it's very cool. Uh it's probably loud in here.
Christmas week we had Halloween. Ha ha. Smuddy, the hell was that? Second time I met up because I'm going to finish the story and commit. We went to go watch football at some dive bar.
It was actually a couple of minutes from my house. They're like, hey, we're going to meet up. I'm like, Yeah, I'll come. And that one was cool. At this point, I'd been working, this was maybe a month ago.
I have, you know, been working out with these people and it was great.
So. That's the end of my story. Hmm. Maybe leave the production to me. I didn't even know I could do this.
I've had this for three years and I didn't know. What are you using? Stream yard? Oh, they have like sounds and and and shit in here? Yeah, they got a few different sounds.
I'm over here using my Rodecaster. It's like a physical board. They got this squ uh sweet graphic that were powered by StreamYard. Oh, yeah, I do like the graphic. You know, I see that.
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So thank you to Dan Shaney, who is not just an insurance agent. He's my insurance agent. Yeah. And he can be your insurance agent. Uh Dan Shaney Insurance.
Can't be mine. I live in New York. Um, I don't think that there's limits on that. I think he could. I don't know.
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Promote. Yeah, it's a plug. Yeah. It's a shameless plug. Uh Bills Jags I don't really Know what's going on with the discussion out of that game.
It seems to be more of media room decorum. Oh yeah, I mean You got a take on this before I explode all over media because I need to drag them. I'm tired of these unwritten rules. I don't have a take. I was not involved in the story in any way.
All right. So, for those who are misinformed or ill-informed, I will go ahead and gladly fill in the blanks here. Kalios Shakira had 12 catches? Yeah, he had a he had a pretty good game. And Brayden Cooks was a huge clutch catch toward the end of the game.
But there was a. She's now the lady's name is, I think her name is Lynn Jones, but she's a reporter in Jacksonville. And essentially, what she did is she gave Liam Cohen like an 18, 19 second pump up: hey, Yeah. You know, you should be proud of yourself, hold your head up high. And you could see Liam Cohen, like there was genuine reaction to it.
He really appreciated hearing it. I thought he looked annoyed that this was happening. No, I think he liked it. He was just like, because he was like, thank you, ma'am. Maybe he felt a little bit awkward, but I think he genuinely appreciated it.
But.
So It comes off, she's too for, you know, for media pundits, she's too positive, you know, unwritten rules. You're supposed to be unbiased, neutral. She works in Jacksonville. She covers the team like I don't think it needs to be so freaking. incredulous of people that Yeah.
That you know, she she's gonna act like she's a you know, impartial her credential says Jacksonville on it. This is not a big deal. There are new media outlets being put into these press conferences, and half of these media outlets are homers anyway. When if the Jets ever make the playoffs or God forbid win the Super Bowl. You expect Mike Greenberg to be like, oh, you know, good job on both sides.
No, fuck no. Greenberg is going to come to the studio in his Curtis Martin jersey. You know, Kendrick Perkins, actually, he's a hack. I don't care about him, but like, people are fans of teams. You know, you don't come into sports.
Not giving a shit about sports, and chances are you have a team. This whole fake outrage, I'm like, don't cheer in the press box. Fuck you. You're lucky I don't show up to the Giants game in a Lawrence Taylor jersey if I'm credentialed. I'm a Giants fan.
Give this lady a break. I don't think what she did was so egregious. I had Kendrick Perkins on the show once, and I'm pretty sure he was baked out of his mind. Oh, I'm sure. Did you?
Speaking of Kendrick Perkins, it is completely off the beaten path here. I don't know what podcast or stream he was on, but Kendrick Perkins was essentially reporting that LaMelo Ball and the Hornets head coach got into altercation where LaMelo Ball. Charles Lee, he's very with the players. No, apparently, apparently, Charles Lee fucking hates Lamello and it's mutual.
So it's, yeah, yeah, 6-7. But apparently, Charles Lee's like really over Lamello's shit. And Kendrick Perkins reported, he's like, LaMelo word for word was like, fuck this guy. Like, they're going to have a nasty divorce, which is why they have Lamello coming off the bench. I think they're trying to tank his trade value just to get rid of him.
So that's our Bills Jays breakdown. Yeah, that that essentially went into a hornet's situation.
So, is Siriani fired yet or not? Uh not yet. I hope they don't do it as a Giants fan. I think Sirianni is a great, I think he is a great coach, and Siriani is definitely the person to. you know, lead the Eagles back into the promised land.
For those of you not watching this stream, I shook my head and went, no. Yeah, it stinks, but I would love to do it. And then the Patriots and the Chargers last night. My friend Grant Bills, who you guys see on our weekly mm-hmm. He had a tweet that people seemed to enjoy.
It was Justin Herbert is 100% a star in this league as long as you never watch his games. Seriously. You talk about a guy that's got a good PR campaign around him. Yeah, Justin Herbert stinks. You're right.
His firm is better than Matt LaFlore's because Justin Herbert is. You know, the only elite quarterback that doesn't do shit and always gets a pass. At least Josh Allen has excuses baked in, like Justin Herbert. Uh I he's just so overrated. He's so overrated.
And people continuously fawn over him. Justin Herbert is the prototypical quarterback. Like if he's baked in a lab, you know, 6'6, 220. you know, arm talents and can do make all the throws. He can't do shit.
It couldn't get into the end zone. Yeah. But he's not, there's no, there's no like going to, no one's like, oh, $55 million quarterback, but people are going to be doing that about my guy, J-Love 10, all the time. Yeah, listen, Travis, Trevor Lawrence gets dragged in rightfully so because for the longest time he was Daniel Jones with here, but he had a pretty solid season. You know, he won at a torrent pace.
You know, he ran into the bills, bad, bad interceptions. But you know what? Those interceptions, they were bouncing off of receivers' hands.
So Lawrence is going to get completely eviscerated, but Justin Herbert's going to be like, oh, no, good job, buddy. You know, you'll get him next year. You know, you had no offensive line. You know, Keenan Allen should have caught that. There's so many excuses that they give for Justin Herbert that they won't forgive for anybody else except for Josh Allen.
Josh Allen and Justin Herbert get the most excuses of any quarterback in the NFL, and Herbert hasn't earned them. Josh Allen's the only one that has earned any excuse. Honey, do not make plans Saturday, January 24th, okay? Why, what's happening? The Walmart Wellness Event.
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Uh niner Seahawks as well. Any initial reads on those games? I still like Josh Allen to do Josh Allen things. Yeah, I think they're going to be tough for the Niners, but agreed. I'll stick with Seattle.
Listen, I mean. You know, obviously, that was a close game they had last time, and Seattle shown flashes of, you know, where you could see the cracks in the armor, Sam Darnold looking like Sam Darnold, but the defense is still. you know, coming off a week off of rest. I think they're going to be ready to go ahead hunt for Brock Purdy. Not literally, don't take my words out of context.
As long as Darnold doesn't see ghosts, I honestly think Seattle should be fine. I think this will be my closest game of the week. Um but I think it should be very entertaining. I don't know what to make of, you know, bears and. What a hell are they playing?
Braying Farted here. This is going to be like 15 degrees. Yeah. Oh, I actually know. Call me crazy.
I think I'm going to roll with the Bears. I I Stafford Stafford and Nico are just lighting the defenses on fire, but This is almost like a Miami Dolphins situation where I don't know if these guys can play in the cold quite yet.
So I might roll with the Bears.
Well, I think the Bears, um Even even 21-3 when they were down, I don't think they thought it was over. I don't think the fans thought it was over. I thought you had to take the crowd out of the game. And at 21-3, There was still like, okay, 30 minutes if we j we like there was still Even down ten or whatever. It was that missed kick, honestly, because you felt it.
They're like, okay, we have a glimmer of hope going 24-3 scoring points right before the half. I think that's where you start to be like, people are like, all right, this is just not our night. The second that he boosted that kick, you just left the door open. And obviously, we saw what happened in the second half. Al Michaels was terrible.
I know everyone's shitting on Romo today, and that's fine too, but. There were there were Michaels doesn't know what's going on in any play. He's calling first downs, second and elevens. He's calling third downs, first and tens. And you know what's funny?
He actually did a better job. This past weekend than he's done in quite some time. And that's just how much lower we set the standard for Al Michael games. Steve's video experience says, really enjoy when you guys talk together. Thank you.
Yeah. T-Dog wants my honest take. What do you think Packers' outcome is with Parsons healthy?
Well, yeah, I mean, I'm interested in that. He got hurt. in the Broncos game.
So I thought they were going to win that game. Um being there. I think after so, what happened after that? Because they had not won since.
Okay, so then they lost to the Bears. I think they would have won that game with Parsons. The Ravens, I don't know what the hell was going on that night. Vikings, they didn't try, but things would have been different because they would have been playing for potentially two or three. Yeah.
In yesterday's game in a vacuum. Yeah, I think Parsons was. Yes, I think he had done enough. to make sure That, um He had done enough to make sure like They would have won with Parsons, is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, especially since their left guard got banged up.
He's done for the year. Yeah, so he would have he would have won with Parsons. Yeah. Now, I don't think they would have won the Super Bowl because I don't think Matt LaFleur is able to coach a team to win the Super Bowl. He got conservative offensively.
They changed their offense. Even though I don't think like I don't think I can point to one specific thing and be like, that's where Matt LaFleur costs in the game. This is, it's about who your leader is. Your leader is a guy that. He's always crying in his interviews, or at least close to.
Yeah, so I think, yeah, if Micah Parsons was healthy enough for the game on Saturday night, the Packers win that game. I still don't think they would uh make the Super Bowl. Yeah, because then you run into the Niners and I think the Niners run you out of the building. I think a team with Jordan Loveman, I think this team has constructed. with another coach and healthy can could have won a Super Bowl.
But not if Matt LaFleur's the coach. It is not happening with him. And he needs to go. Carlos, this is exciting. You can eat this week.
Matrix Gabe throws a G spot to the show. Oh man, I should have kept the money dropping here. Give me one second. Go ahead, and I will correct that. I should have done this last week, but better late than never.
Love listening to you guys and Marco on ISN. Hope the national perspective continues to grow on here. Uh And with that support, Gabe. It will. That's very appreciated.
Yeah. How kind of you. I don't see a dime, but that's awesome to see. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Um EZ D for life says, watching at the gym, when did this start? We started at noon-ish Central.
So Mondays. We're going to jump on. I think the MLK week, is that next week? We'll do we'll do Tuesday if you're good with that. Sure.
It's not like I do anything during the weekend, although I might get a. I might get a job with Major League Baseball as a replay operator. I have the interview later today. What time? It's one of those stupid interviews where it's like you just kind of record yourself.
responding to the questions, like I'm not going to be interviewed by a human. Yeah. What? Yeah, it's like, you know, answer this question. It'll start in 10 seconds and press this button to capture your response.
And I'll answer it. Is this common? I've seen it somewhere else before. But To be honest, for anybody who's listening, I kind of don't give a shit if I get this job or not. It's a seasonal job.
And, you know, do I really want to work every single day? Probably not. Every day, see.
So, you'd be like in the Seacaucus building or what? No, so their replay operations is in Midtown, New York.
So, it actually wouldn't be that bad for me to get to. Oh, yeah, they go, let's go to New York. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and it's not like I'm going to be the guy, like, you know, saying, okay, you know, he was out, you know, he was safe. No, I'll just be the joker, like.
you know, pressing the buttons on the machine. doing the rewinds and all that stuff. I haven't actually touched one of those things since college, but You know.
Well, don't put that on video right now. Oh no, it's I mean, it's being streamed. I'm sure some Rob Manford's cronies have been tracking me. Like, you know, that's why my phone's been clicking every time I pick it up.
So they're probably like, well, no, this is it. This is all the evidence we need. When is that? Like in an hour? Oh, no, honestly, it's because it's not a human that's interviewing me.
I can do it anytime. I can, I can, if you want, we can do it right now. We can do it on the stream. If I were able to fly my phone, let's do the interview.
Okay.
I'll pull up what the email. I'm not actually going to do it, but I will read what the email says. No, no, you can't, you can't. Yeah, you can't. It's your employment on the line.
I don't want to. I mean, we can't use that for. But can you get any questions? Or if you start, you have to go? I don't know because it says there's two steps.
It says, was like, don't wait, take your interview as soon as you can to give yourself the best chance for success. They sent me this email on Thursday. Today's Monday. I still haven't done it. Dear Carlos Ortiz, Major League Baseball would like you to participate in a digital interview powered by Higher View.
It is for a 2026 replay operator. The estimated duration is 10 minutes.
So if I click learn more about my interview. It opens up this thing. Uh I'm gonna decline cookies 'cause I don't know you. Yeah, it's an on-demand interview. Yeah.
So yeah, it'll have the questions there. I love the third little bubble. It says, tell your story. You're more than just a resume. Present yourself how you want and tailor your responses to the actual opportunity you're exploring.
So, yeah, I will just basically answer these questions that are kind of pre-pushed in there, and I have to keep my phone in front of me.
So they can like record it. Relax and don't forget the smile is one of the things that the uh They put as a tip. Wow. That interview would be great. Please alert me the moment it's done how it went.
Okay, oh, matter of fact, here's the description.
So, once you're ready to begin, you will be prompted by questions on the screen, followed by a 30-second break. At the end of 30 seconds, you will have anywhere from two to three minutes per question. Time limits are already set for each question to record your response live.
So yeah. There you go. Huh. Um Good luck. On that.
Sure. Yeah. I said we could do this Tuesday next week. Uh I'm not uh I'm I'm not being woke. My kid doesn't have school next week.
Um And I'm taking him to a soccer camp in the morning. Oh, you know what? I gotta play. I'll go find that one. And then the Bucks play at noon.
So I I'm not going to be on while the Bucks are playing. Yeah. And then that's national championship night. Open wide for Oh, so you got them all, huh? The only ones that I didn't take, you know, I went to the fan studios.
They already cleaned out all the computers.
So, like, I had to find a creative way to get my stuff back. But, like, that's why I don't have any of my forms. Because we were on a shared drive called the S drive. All the basically the entire infinity side's dead. Studios decommissioned, all the computers gone.
So I had to go into Burley. and just go to our show folders and had to download all the shit. And then throw it into my hard drive. The only thing that I didn't take is I didn't take caller drops. I didn't take anything that's like specifically infinity related because I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I'm not going to play all that stuff.
I love that berry drop, but... Barry's dead now. Like, we don't have to deal with Barry. He's not calling into Bart Winkler's show on Infinity.
So, yeah, I left all the show-specific, network-specific stuff there. I just took all the crap that I contributed. With the exception. I've got some voicemails that some David in Buffalo has been sending me voicemails. I can't He called into Westwood the other day.
As like a n like nice? Yeah, no, he had a I I think he called into Lynell Willingham. And it was a It was a David-like call. David's a good caller. I can't screen calls yet.
So, I feel like I've been stealing money the last three times I worked there. Yes, so what do you do? Uh well, this weekend is basically my confirmed that my job is like 90% editing. Because there's no newsroom, there's no tape ops, so I'm literally cutting audio. Takes me two and a half hours to do it before the show.
And then they play like three cuts out of the 15 that I did.
So I was pretty annoyed by that. Yeah, just I have some voicemails. I used to be able to play them on my phone But the volume's so low. Oh no!
So, I can read the transcript of the voicemail. Sure. Why not? This is the way you want to spend your time. I'm I'm fine.
It's your hour.
Well, we were going to do a live interview with you. Oh, by the way, speaking of job, did you just get that email notification? Of That we have a show meeting in five minutes? No, it did not. I wound up taking it off of my.
I took it off my calendar completely. Because even when we were doing show meetings, we weren't really doing show meetings. Yeah, I'm gonna say, hey, beautiful people, love you guys. You guys are great. No meeting today.
I'm like, all right, this is the easiest meeting I ever have to do. Yeah, I enjoyed our meetings. I miss David. Me too. All right, let me read this one is from David in Buffalo.
Hey, Bart, what's up? It's David from Buffalo calling in about the two wildcard playoff games on Saturday afternoon. Ramshell, they're a championship team. Made a great comeback. Stafford to me is a Hall of Famer.
Oh, yeah. Never doubt. Never panicked. As far as Packers Bears. It proves that the Packers can't close out games.
Jim Might be a possibility that And then, like, the AI transcriptions, dog shit. There might be a possibility that we're could be on tonight there by losing that game. That's English, I guess. Credit Ben Johnson. He turned it around.
Green Bay might have to dial up. Ken Johnson almost cost him that game. He needed to get out of his way. I mean, I don't know what that call was on fourth down. Awful.
Um Hello, Bart. It's Dan, otherwise known as Wisconsin Sports 24626. I sent a $2 donation shout out. For Neil. Um He graduated about eight years before me.
It was good to see Neil. Neil was on my. Post game. This is a one and done segment. This doesn't work like this.
I'm sorry. This was always expected how we were going to lose. I want to ask where your chairs are going to be in Green Bay when we throw that parade. I don't know. I'll go put, I'll go, maybe I should do like a hunger strike.
You'll die. If if if LaFleur doesn't get fired, like that's the hunger strike. Go on. I was outside walking my dog. Not sure if if it's windy, if you play this.
All right. I'm having a hard time reading. HAYTH Yeah. History.
Sorry. Thoughts on Corey Banke's crash out from Cheesehead TV? I would argue that mine was worse. Mm-hmm. I crashed out.
Mine's mine was worse. You know what, maybe uh 'cause I don't I think the Packers are going to extend LaFleur. I think they're gonna be I think they're gonna. Because I don't want them to, but I think they will.
So maybe I'll do So I got two problems. One. I'd like to cut out alcohol of my life. I did it for two months last year. That was pretty brave of me.
Mm-hmm. And two, I think LaFleur is going to stay as the coach.
So I'll give up drinking. Until the floor is fired. Wow. And if he does get fired this week. You got to stop drinking.
If you get fired this week, then you can find me at. Bradhouse at eleven thirty in the morning. Uh Can I get your real thoughts on like the Cubs now with Bregman? I think it's honestly, it's what Cups fans have been clamoring for: like, open up the checkbooks and start assigning people. But.
I they're not. I don't think they're better.
Well, they're marginally better than they were last year, but I don't think this pushes them to like a 90-95-win team. They still got to make another move. I would like to see. A true frontline starter because Edward Cabrera, I applaud that move. I would have preferred you give up Matt Shaw in that deal instead of Owen Casey, but you know, whatever, you had to give up something.
Cabrera. They gave up Casey for him. Yeah. They gave up Casey and two lower-level hitters. I thought everybody loved Casey.
Yeah. You know what? It seems to be split. Like a lot, you know, there's a good majority, and that's the majority that I'm in, that I would have liked to hold on to Casey. I think he has some stuff.
And there's another, you know, really loud. Vocal minority that were like, no, this guy actually, his measurable stink, like, uh, you know. He doesn't really hit well.
So, you know, that's Miami's problem now. But they gave up on him. Cabrera's got filthy stuff. But he's just hurt. every damn year.
I need the Cups to go get a real, true frontline starter. I mean, if you want to throw some money at Ranger Suarez, that's fine. You know, just give me somebody who can, you know, reliably pitch because the staff isn't really good enough right now. Although Justin Steele will come back, so you know, that'll be an acquisition, so to speak. But I think it comes in fine.
I mean, they were never in the Kyle Tucker sweepstakes. If somehow they pull off, Getting Tucker cheaper, or maybe getting a sweetheart deal with Cody Bellinger, then I think this is a great offseason. But right now, it's just, it's okay. Um the worst sun says start running in the early mornings. Maybe I will do that.
You know what? If you're going to run in the morning, start now. Because letting that winter air hit you in the lungs, you All of a sudden, you'll see when the weather starts to get warmer, the running gets easier because I was forced to run. in Missouri winters when I was an active duty doing chemical training. Uh it's January and it's like Eight degrees out there, and you go running, and it sucks.
But your lungs like expand. It's like weird. I can't describe it, but like. You built up a resistance to being outdoors, and it gets easier to run when it gets warmer.
So, you'll be like a running champ in like six months. A few more national perspective things to hit on. Why not? A little bulletin blitz-esque. Brooks kept it.
He next time. Am I? Remind me next time I can play to bed. And you know, we could play some cuts. I will limit it to seven cuts so I can save it on one bank here.
But yeah, we can do a bullets and blitz next week. Kepka's returning to the PGA tour. After bailing on Live Golf. Basically, yeah. Basically, no one watched them for like three days.
I still don't really know what the point of Live Golf is. Honestly, it's a free paycheck. These guys are just going to go get cash out, but no one's watching to CW or the hell Live Golf is. And, you know. I mean, you know, for Saudi Arabia to get into the sports game, they're much more successful with WWE as the Rumble will be taking place there in two weeks.
Which I won't be watching. I will be. My kid loves Rumbles. We've watched Jay Uso win the Rumble 15 fucking times already. I love the Royal Rumble too.
I just want to boycott anything in Saudi Arabia. Hold on, I'm gonna I know I'm gonna fold and watch it. LeBron James is wearing a patch that says 23 seasons, just him. I think that's kinda lame. I think that's just gonna make people hate.
LeBron Moore. Yeah, he's just corny. Why are they doing that? And the other thing is Steelers, Texans tonight. I am rooting for Rogers.
Really? Steelers have not lost on a Monday night. At home in 25 years. Which is exactly why I'm taking the Texans. This is, we've been spoiled.
This has been a great wild card weekend, and this weekend fully encapsulates why the NFL is just king, where every game went down to the wire except for that Chargers Patriots game, which was a snooze. I turned that one off the third quarter. I think once the Patriots actually got 16 points, I'm like, screwed, it's done. This one's going to be a blowout early. The Steelers have no business being in the playoffs.
They're going to get killed. And that is a national perspective, I think, unless you have anything you want to say. Nah. That's it. Yeah.
So we will do this on Mondays. Yeah, but not next week. Nope. Hold on. My kid will be at a camp, and I promised him Dairy Queen after.
Dairy Queen. I want some Culvers now. You know what? You know what's funny to watch kids' minds when they learn something that you just take for granted. The first time he ever realized he could eat an ice cream cone.
That you can eat The apparatus that the ice cream comes in. Wait, he didn't know that?
Well, we've always, when we go to Culver's, I always get a scoop because we always drive in a boop. Yeah, yeah. And so you got an ice cream cone. And I think he thinks only Dairy Queen has cones. I'll have to tell him about that.
Woo! But other places have gone. I'll be very excited to know that he can eat the vehicle that the ice cream travels in. Yeah. That's why I love hot pockets so much because you can't.
I had some popkits today. I'll probably have them for lunch. That was my breakfast. I had, because I have no groceries here.
So I was like, well. Cramming two pepperoni pockets in my stomach with a with a Coke. Yeah. I'll prick as a champions. And then I wonder why I can't go below 240.
I've been stuck at 240 for three months. Oh, that that that two hundred wants me back. I was down to like a buck eighty four. That's where I want to be. That's my ideal weight, 185.
And um, you know, holidays and Playoffs. I haven't seen that two again yet, but it's it's it's close. It's there.
So I like that running idea for a variety. of reasons for Carlos Ortiz. I'm Bart Winkler. Mm-hmm. We'll be with Grant and Paul on Tuesday.
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