Bussin' With The Boys - Taylor Heinicke

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

Recorded: May 5, 2022 | Taylor Heinicke has to be one of the grittiest lunch pale dudes in the league, and the legend joins the bus for this weeks episode. Intro (0:00) Taylor Heinicke interview starts (5:44) Journey to the NFL & playing against Brady in his first game (6:30) Recapping last season and previewing the next season (35:00) Top QBs in the league right now (58:00) Wearing his Joe Rogan sweatshirt to press conference (1:13:00) Throwing for 700 yards in one college game (1:30:00) Tier Talk - Best pre-game songs - (1:41:00) ----- SHOP: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boys FOLLOW THE BOYS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB Website: https://www.bussinwtb.com ----- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: Chevy: Chevy Silverado - The Strongest, Most Advanced Silverado Ever. Revitalyte: Pick up your Revitalyte Black Label today in-store or online at the Barstool Store and tweet at us or tag @drinkRevitalyte in your morning after stories WhistlePig Whiskey: Get your own bottle at whistlepigwhiskey.com or at a local retailer. Trust us on this one, it truly is 100% of the good stuff. Georgia Boots: Head over to Georgiaboot.com and use code BUSSIN for 20% offFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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QB1 for the Washington commanders. Is that right? Are you saying QB1? It makes me laugh because obviously they have Carson Wins now who is publicly QB1. Yeah. You kept the whole time jabbing. Yeah, I was jabbing.

Yeah, but if you guys were the same size, same arm length and everything, you're winning the job, right? Exactly. But he was a pro. Yeah. He's very tuned up. He didn't keep it a band, but he was very, very polished. Yes, he very polished the entire time.

We had a tier two. talking this one. I'm going to be honest. I'm not proud of mine. I'm not proud of my tear talk. Getting out of front of it. I got nervous. Yeah, I got nervous. I forgot we were doing it. I didn't get my songs. I have a unique taste of music as it is. So don't hold it against your boy. But if you love them, I thought about everything. I thought about every single one. You're welcome that I got the motherfuckers done, dude. Yeah, you honestly, your three songs could have probably been from the playlist we did at a beer Olympics last week. Yeah. You guys can't hear about our beer Olympics because we talk about that on Thursday's episode, which is actually 161.

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studying for finals in college. He was an undrafted cat, wasn't getting any love anywhere, but because of COVID, and wide receivers having to play quarterback, I think it was on the Broncos. Yep. The Washington brought him in as like an insurance policy just in case, and this motherfucker's playing the game of

his life against Tom Brady in the playoffs. Unbelievable. Within weeks, bro. because he had to study and everything, it's a cool story. Yeah, the guy's an absolute stud. I think with that, is there anything else we're missing? Before we jump into this episode, it's a quick intro for all of you. I know you guys love that sometimes and you don't love it sometimes, but this time, this is what's going to be.

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Welcome to bustle with the boys. Yeah, man. That's nice to meet you. Yeah, you too. Yeah. All right. And then, uh, old. Chad Greenway

Chad sent you that, huh? Yeah Got little messages on the back from Black and Chad. Oh, Black wrote something? Oh, yeah. Black he messaged me on Twitter every now and then now.

Yeah, it's got to. You might get in trouble with that redskin logo. But, you know. I'm rocking it on the shirt right now. I had to pull out the 2015 NSCE East Champion shirt to flex on him a little bit. Oh, you've been champions for a while.

Yeah. I thought they, AFC South went from 20 was your first one. Oh, really? Yeah. No, no, no. Second. Oh, you roll like that.

I roll, you know, I got two Shabia chips. You? Uh, one. Uh, COVID year. Yeah. And Alex Smith came in and started doing his thing. And that's when, uh, we went and played Tampa in the playoff. Yeah, you balled out.

You're like three touchdowns, right? Yeah. Stud. Was that, but that wasn't the year. He didn't get hurt from the JJ Wathing. That wasn't that? No, no, no. That was, I think that was a year or two prior to that.

Oh, this is when he came back from that. Came back. Yeah. God, dude, that was an insane injury. Insane injury when that happened. That was... It was bad. It was like almost...

Not good. Like, when I saw... That's the best way to say it. It wasn't good. Not good. I'm thinking, like, they almost fucked it up, like, even afterwards, too, right? the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Diction in his bone and, like... mid quad all the way down to his

ankle and looked like a straight shark bite. It was nasty. I can't believe he came back. He said indented. Yeah, it was nasty. I know. I can't believe he came back and played fucking professional football. Professional. And sung it around pretty good too. Yeah, didn't do bad. Got comeback player

of the year and move the fuck on. Yeah. It was a genius thing, him doing that though. Like, he didn't want to keep the dream alive to keep the dream alive. He wanted to come back to prove himself. He can come back and just move on. I want to make the filthiest comeback of all time. Oh, this is his come back. This is not when he got hurt. No, he got hurt against JJ.

Yeah, I don't think we want to see that. Houston. You don't want to see that, dude. The thing that's wild about that injury is it really doesn't seem that bad. He's just trying to roll backwards and Jay just tackling him and he steps weird. And the thing just crinkles under him. I want to say it was the

same exact injury that Thaisman got back in the day. Yeah. I want to say it was in the same exact part of the field too. And it was like, though there was a lot more like a coincidence about that. Look at that up. Look that up the Joe Thaisman coincidences.

Oh, same date. It was something crazy. Yeah. And like both players had something similar in it. It's really weird. Like one was two-time defense play of the year, right? And so was J. something crazy. Look up comparisons of Joe Thaisman's injury and Alex Smith is in his injury.

That's the ought to be the worst. That's the worst injury any of us have ever seen. Yeah, yeah. That's not good. I mean, just seeing a regular broken bone when you're playing is, it's tough to see it. Yeah. I'm not good with that stuff. So when I see bones out of place, when I start puking. Oh, you do?

Oh, yeah, I can't handle that. Don't do it on YouTube. Just like, just look it up. Yeah, we, um, I got like a weird thing about, like, seeing leg injuries. I've seen broken legs on three separate occasions, and all of them are against the Miami Dolphins. At Miami, or? It was just against the Miami Dolphins. Delaney was one.

Justin Hunter was one. Yeah, this is it right here. See, same date. same right tibula and fibula yard line same final score same team name that same yard line is wild dude so weird dude three time defensive player of the year

yeah that's crazy right tackle was they were both pro bowlers off field dude didn't how eerie is that crazy I did not know that so it was like 33 years different so what 33 years from now it'll be 2051 whoever's quarterback in

yeah doing. You definitely don't want that. Watch out. Yeah. So was your first year, the COVID year? Yeah. You want me to talk about that?

I want you to talk about the whole thing because you're like, you have like a pretty legendary tale. Like you were what in fucking school or something? Yeah. So let's rewind a little bit. I was in XFL. And I was even in the, I wasn't even playing the XFL. I was backing up Jordan Teammu.

So we were, you know, XFL is a great time. It's like the juke over the NFL, just a bunch of guys that are really good at football. but like smoking a lot of weed and drinking a lot of drinks, you know. Are you slugging them after the game with the boys like saw in the XFL? When you win, you come back to the locker room and there's just celtors everywhere. They give you celtors. Really? Pounding them.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure you can find a video of it. But, yeah, so that was a lot of fun. And then obviously COVID happened. I didn't know what to do. I was like, all right, my career is probably over. So I went home, started taking online classes. I was living my sister living on her like couch slash bed, whatever.

And Puton? Yeah, pretty much. Love that. Gaming, gaming late at night, fucking crashing on the futon. Oh, yeah. And then, and then, you know, Thanksgiving happens, whatever. I get a, I'm studying for my finals in bed.

And I get a call for my agent. He's like, you ready to play ball? I was like, where am I going? He's, like, going to D.C. I was like, oh, shit, okay. So I go up there. And the only reason they called me up was because, do you remember when Denver, all their quarterbacks got COVID?

Yes. And the receiver had to play? The only reason they brought me up was because, hey, we're in the playoff hunt here. If all of our quarterbacks go down, we need someone that knows the offense already. So I came up. I was like standing 20 yards behind everyone at practice, was sitting in the back of the meeting room. Like pretty much not even there. Yeah, you weren't like, I think they did some of the tithes of something like that too.

You weren't like allowed to be around the players, right? Yeah. Like you would come in, would you come in every single day or just a couple days a week? Come in every single day. Okay. But the quarterbacks met in a team room. And they're all up in the front two rows. I'm in the very back.

So I can barely even hear what the fuck they're saying up there. Yeah. Well, you know, push come to shove. You know, Dwayne Haskins gets hurt. And he gets in a little bit of trouble off the field. And then Alex Smith gets hurt. And next thing you know, it's the playoff week against Brady. And Rivera tells me the day before the game, hey, you're starting tomorrow.

The day before the game? Day before the game. Who were you thinking was going to be the start of that week? Alex was really pushing his, uh, his rehab hard to try to get back, but he just couldn't go. I was just feeling in for him. What did he injure?

It was just more of the same with his, you know, he was just dealing with him. Yeah. And, you and your mind think he's going to be all, he's going to be all good. Are you like asking him during the week, like, hey, just let me know where you're at temperature wise on coming back.

Everyone does that. Everyone does that then. You know, I was preparing like I was going to play just because it was such a, you know, big deal. But to say something about Alex, like, he's such a good dude. He would take time off of his rehab.

to come to meetings and help me out just in case I was going to play. So that meant a lot to me for Alex, but, you know, again, fast forward. Rivera told me the day before the game, maybe like 24 hours for the game. Oh, shit, okay. Then I just come out here and I remember in the tunnel

about it right now. I'm like, you know what? Fuck it, man. I was just at home a month and a half ago taking classes. I was done with football and here we are, so just leave it out in the field. And it turned out to be a pretty good game.

Yeah, you're down on the fucking very end. Yep. Now, is that one of those issues? Oh, my God, that's so fucking crazy, dude. It's so wild, bro. People talk about, like, that happens. Guys will come in, like, a receiver will do that, or a tackle will do that, and come and have to play the same week.

But, like, a quarterback having to know everything. Well, you know, the good thing is, is Scott Turner's the OC there, and he's the one that brought me to Minnesota when I came out. So, you know, I was in Carolina with him. So I already knew the offense pretty well. But he kept it pretty basic for me. We had a pretty damn good game. here.

Is that one of those games? Yeah, looks like you guys full slit, a lot of the protection there. A lot. Because you know Tampa, there's a lot of, you know, top holes likes to bring it. He likes to bring a lot of blitzes, and he's got dudes that can rush the passer too. Yes.

So was the whole thing like, get it out quick? Get it out quick. Just be simple. Let our guys do their thing. Get it out to your playmakers. You got some studs there, too, right? That was, uh, was that Terry's first year?

Uh, it might have been a second. Go to the end, second year. Yeah. Yeah, because this game was, You had one interception in that game When that interception happened? Yeah, and it was a tip ball too

That was kind of shitty But I mean, obviously the biggest play from this game Was that dive for the pylon Which really got me Kind of like that next goal Ooh, that's a dime, dude That was a dime. You think the dive at the pylons

What got you the next contract? You don't think it's just your overall like The overall performance probably got me there But the dive was actually like the exclamation point Like it kind of, you know Dueling against Tom Brady And you know, you know Tampa. Like, some of those years on defense were like, oh, it's over.

Yeah. It doesn't really matter. Right. Like, we're going to, like, dominate these guys. Yeah. Man, was it one of those things where you guys lost, you're definitely bummed, but you're fucking, you're like, yo. Yeah.

I just did it. Like, let's go. Like, I just bought myself. Like, no matter what it, like, as a backup, if you have, like, a game like that, you're thinking at the end of the year, in a playoff game, you're thinking, yeah, I just bought myself at least two more years off that performance. Yeah. I want to see that dive.

Try to pull up that dive. Um, yeah, so I remember, because I got hurt that game too, I popped my shoulder out on the dive. And Savage. After the game. Just so gritty. Yeah. After the game, you know, you know, if they do, they kind of give you like a little pancular here and there. So I get home, take it, start feeling a lot better.

But I had the adrenaline still going. So I'm up until 7 in the morning. Just like, I just couldn't believe what the hell happened. Wired. Kind of high. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, this is it right here This is the dive right here You popped it, it came out of the socket Yeah Oh, filthy 4-6 speed Bink

Oh yeah, fan favorite Yeah, that's the one That thing came out right there No way Yep You can see me Kind of like wiggle my shoulder here When I start walking back to the huddle

Like that thing was hurting That dude Chase Young's a stud right there too Yeah Gotta get them back healthy It'd be all right Yeah that's legendary Look at that dive That's close

too. Now is that Oh, that's fucking awesome. Hey, that's a filthy play. You got a picture of that? Do you have a poster? Right? It's got to be like right there.

It's even better too because 51 right there, Kevin Linder. I train with him and Dun & George all the time. So we always just keep talking shit about the play. He's like, I didn't want to hit you. I'm like, oh, I get to fucking. He's lying. He's lying. He didn't want to age you.

Damn, dude. Yeah, that's the play that I think. And obviously I should have done better homework on this, but at the end of the game was if Brady comes back? or you guys had a chance to... They were up 12 with, I think, four minutes left. We went down and scored the touchdown, put it within, I want to say, five or four.

Yeah. And then they, I think we were in a two-minute go down there and try and win it, and they just stopped us. They finally stopped us that game. So finally, they see here? We played really well that game. I was talking to Ionitis before this, and he was like, yeah, defense kind of blew for him on that game.

We had a couple of miscoverses and stuff like that, So you put it on the defense, huh? No, no, no, no. So it was all defense. It was all defense. Yeah, we need that clip. I think he blames defense. Yeah, no doubt about that, dude.

So it was the next year when you signed and got... Two months... How was your contract situation throughout all that shit? Two months, two months later, the contract came. And I don't know if we want to talk numbers here, but they weren't... I think it's on the internet. Yeah, we can just look it up if you want. Well, the initial offer was like two years for.

Nothing guaranteed. And I was like, I'm talking to my agent. I was like, I don't know. I kind of want something guaranteed. I want something. So we kind of negotiate. So I got like, you know, one signing bonus. And then it was like one point five.

It was kind of like minimum for where I was at that time. Yeah. But there's a lot of incentive based. So it's like if you play 60% of snaps and you win, you get a big bonus. If you dress a game, you get a big bonus. So I wasn't anticipating I'm playing a lot last year. because we brought Fitz in and then Fitz got hurt

maybe 15 plays in the first game in like the second quarter and never came back. So now it's like I had 16 games to kind of rack up those incentives. Yeah, it went really well. Just hitting that Brinks truck over and over and over again. You know you're feeling good.

Oh, especially when Fitz goes down, you're like, damn, that sucks for him, but your boys would get paid. I'm not going to swing it. You know what, Gabbert's saying the huddle? Oh, your boys hold them up for a little bit. I'm going to dice his kids up. Yeah, like watch Daddy sling it.

Yeah, watch Daddy sling it. First play, pick. I was like, fuck, dude. I heard he said that twice, and both ones were picked. And both of them were against the Colts, too. We were playing the Colts. We were playing the Colts. I think I've told the story before in this pod, but it was like at Indianapolis.

And Marcus gets hurt. So he comes in and goes, boys, I'm about the dice these kids up. You guys just watch. This is the first time. And he goes like a 300, I'm not going to, oh, almost said scheme, which is one of of Rabel's rules. Yeah. We call it a three steps.

A three step. drop and it's real quick and I go for the cut I miss my cut and I roll on my back and I'm looking at the quarter like looking at Blaine like get the fucking ball at your hand throws it right in Darius Leonard's chest and it's just like dude you just said you're going to dice these kids up what the fuck

and I'm like on my ass watching him run almost take it all the way and then it was a win and get in game like we won that game we're going to make the playoffs and he comes in oh yeah the Colts yeah this Colts again winning in the last game of the year for the playoffs I think Marks got hurt

again or something happened. And Blaine was like, you boys just hold him up. Watch Daddy sling it. And hey, first couple of players, like, all right, okay. Pick six. I was like, fuck, dude. You guys stop saying that shit. You've got to stop saying that.

He's hilarious, dude. But what was, even though you were stoked fits got hurt. Do you, uh, what was your relationship with him? I heard he's like the best teammate of all time, greatest teammate ever and they're running for. Everything that you see on Instagram, on the interviews, that's him. Yeah. A lot of fun.

We've got on golf together. We're all just drinking, having a good time. I can't say enough good things about fits. But again, you know, it was unfortunate to see that happen to him. Because, like, that was his year. That was the first year he almost like he was on a team to be a starter. Yeah. Usually it's been he's a backup to help a young guy progress.

And then he would have to go and play. His strategy comes out there. Exactly. So, like, last year was his year to really, it was his team. And again, it just was unfortunate to happen like in the first. second quarter. Yeah. Before we get too much ahead, I do want to ask because I had a, I had a, I had a friend

who was in the XFL and the way that they found out about the league shutting down and getting cut. Like, they're all at a hotel. And then they kind of just say, hey, the league's over with, like, find your way home. Like, yeah. Like, seriously. And then, so all the players that are like, how it was at the Spring Lake? Well, it first happened with the A.

Yeah. That was, that's the AFL, right? Yes. Maybe. It was kind of like, hey, we're bottoms up. Like, we don't have money to give you. Maybe it was that one. Yeah.

Maybe it was that one. Because that happened in 2018. And all the boys just went to the bar and drank because they didn't know what to do. You know what to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's find a way home because they didn't get paid yet either.

Yeah. They like, I heard a store where they came back from practice to their hotel and all their luggage was in the lobby. Yes. Yes. And they're like. Leagues over. Yeah.

Leagues over. No one's paying for your hotel. Pay for your flight home. And they hadn't gotten their paychecks yet from being like. For the first three or four games. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, dude.

Yeah. You imagine. And they had no money to pay them. Nothing. Oh, my God. They're probably lost. It's still going on, huh? Probably.

There's got to be something like that. It's got to be going on, dude. Fuck, that would suck so bad. Just show up. What are we doing, boys? What type of meetings? What was our luggage doing in here? The league is over.

Yeah. And they're not even telling you that it's like put a little sign up in the lobby. League canceled. Did you find your own way home? The hotel manager tell everybody. Yeah. Listen, we're sorry. Some kids yelling at the hotel manager.

Hey, we're sorry. We're just told to tell you guys. I don't know. Yeah, but as of right now, it's not even a thing anymore. Yeah. The Rock's taking over the XFL has got to be a huge deal. It is. And I saw something on the news the other day, like on the bottom ticker, that XFL just signed a deal with Disney and ESPN through 2027.

So you think they're going to make it? They got to if they're getting sponsored by ESPN Disney. Yeah, but like. Does the Rock fail? I don't think I've ever seen him fail. I think the Rock fails. Hey, that motherfucker don't miss. He really doesn't miss.

He really doesn't. Especially now. He's fucking, he's the man. Does the X-Fel ever get to a point where it competes with the NFL, though? No. No. Oh, no shot. That was quick.

Would you ever go back to the XFL? Yeah. If they pay well. Yeah. I mean, you're not, you're not playing for, you know, a little bit of money. Like, you want, you're not putting your body through that for nothing, you know. What do you guys get paid in the XFL? Depends.

So, when I was there, a handful of players got a very generous signing bonus. generous as in seven figgies two guys got seven figs oh wow and then about I want to say eight to ten other guys got six and then there was a base salary of 50 or 60 grand

and then if you were dressed on game day you got a $2,000 bonus and if you won you got another $4,000 bonus so that was the cool part that people were actually trying to win you know it wasn't like I'm here just to collect a paycheck it was like

let's go win and get an extra $4,000. Yeah. That was a cool part about it. You take that four out another zero. People really be going hand for that win. Oh, yeah. Be going fucking crazy. You know, as the first year, it was great.

I thought the league was going awesome. And then, unfortunately, COVID hit. I think if COVID didn't hit, it would have gone very smoothly. I bet. The way he just said those bonuses, like I know is like a few guys. A player who spends the entire year in the NFL 27,000. It's half the game. Oh, okay.

I was a little bit wrong there. But that's a low poverty, right? I think. I think poverty is... Nope, you're my wrong? 48,000? Oh. Poverty.

He just types in poverty line. What was it saying? I can't even read that. 12,000. I don't know about that. Oh, well. But I bet those numbers, more guys will get the seven-figure bonuses.

Like, as long as the XFL can execute for that contract that they have with Disney and he is being and shit. I mean, those numbers will get boosted. Like guys, guys who are not in the league that are playing in the XFL, like for real or trying to get in the league, I'm sure, like, you could probably make it.

Like, the best players would be making a good amount of money. If you're getting a seven-figure signing bonus, like, you're fucking hype. Yes. And how many people right now are going, man, I miss football. Yeah. Like you see, especially the Barstow guys,

are always tweeting and stuff like, can't wait for football season. Like, a football season was right now with XFL, like, there's no reason why it shouldn't make it. Yeah. People are watching, man. people were watching it. It was cool, too, because during the games, I guess they had like the lines, like live lines.

If you're betting on the Battlehawks, it's minus four and a half right now. So they're incorporating like the fucking. Yeah, that's a smart thing to do. They're like promoting the gambling with the times. NFL should do that. Yeah, really should. They should, but I didn't ever get to that point? Yeah, I think so.

Let me tell you guys, have you guys heard, okay, so there's, you're probably not going to care about this at all. But Roger Goodell just passed a new rule. I don't think it's been announced yet in the NFL. but he's told all teams that your knee pads now have to be past your knees. No. Listen, and if they're not past your knees,

not only you get fined, but the team gets fine. And apparently you get pulled off the field immediately. No. I had the same fucking reaction. Those knee pads aren't saving you. No. They're not saving you, bro.

I wear my pants up like this. You bet they're looking like a little leaguer, man. be looking like Eddie George in the early 2000s. I think I'll be going mid-chin. Yeah. That's what you should do. You should go mid-chin knee pads. Pull up a picture of Sean Hill, Vikings.

He was the only player I've ever seen have knee pads. Go down like halfway. Oh, but you could pull up dudes in the 2000s. Whitechuk had that. Eddie George had that. Every offensive lineman still has that. S-H-A-U-N. That's a shit deal, dude.

That's a fucking bullshit. Because you need that juice. You need that swathe as. You need to feel good going out there. You know what I mean? If there's any skin showing, automatic fine. I might have to retire. Yeah.

What I wear sleeves? I wear like, do you wear leggings or like the stretchy socks? Leggings. I see, I use the sock tubes. Yeah. I do, I have three sock tubes. Yeah. And that last one, that last one literally goes from here to here.

That's it. Because you need, you want a good scrunchy look down around. You got to get the scrunchy look. Which, by the way, is so stupid because the first time you're on the ground, that scrunchy looks over. But for some reason, like, you're legit before games, like doing this. You're grabbing. You're grabbing your leg like this.

That's a superstition thing that we missed with JJ yesterday. Really? Well, I'm just saying we were trying to think of superstitions we had before games. Like, taking your time and crumpling your socks. You know what I mean? Like, they got to be a certain way. Oh, you get up and you stand up and you'll sit back down if it's not just right. Yes.

Yeah. But mine will be clean here, super scrunched here. Like, forgot it from ankle up. Yes. What a dumb thing. You should, uh, dude. What a stupid thing for you to do, Goodell? What a dumb idea.

Everyone's going to be so pissed off. Wait, think about it. They're going to have a meeting during training camp. Yeah, that was 2019, dude. I literally had them cut it so low. Is that when you went over and talked shit to Josh Norman? Yeah, that might have been. 18 was with you.

Yeah. Go to this one with me with the red shoes. See my? Because you show off a little. You show off a little tattoo. Yeah. Joe Taylor, let me see some Heineke, dude. You know what you should do?

Is he just big, bulky knee pads, bro? Get the fuck out of here. You know what you should do, though? T-bar, down the middle. I think that shit goes hard. Why don't you do it? That's an old lineman look. No, but it's like, it wouldn't be that swaggy.

That's a gritty old-living. Dude, let me tell you something. 2015, Marcus Marriota gets hurt. I'm in the huddle. I'm on, hands-on-law. my knees. Why? We're down three scores. We're about to go sling this motherfucker around. All of a sudden, the smell of wintergreen

starts perfuming the entire huddle. I look up at Zach Mettenberger with a tea bar and the fattest chew you've ever seen single strap and goes, all right, boys, let's fucking do this thing. Pulls it. First play. Rips it to Delaney Walker, two hurdles and a cut, like 60 yard touchdown.

Pull that shit up, dude. Pull that shit up right now. No, we got a fucking donkey, dude. But Mettenberger had the fattest chew, like out to here. Like, this can't be comfortable for you. And a fucking bar down the middle, bro. Looking like a slug. But when quarterbacks do it, that shit goes hard. No, no, no.

He did that on purpose. He's been winning this since camp. Dude, Thurman Thomas used to rock that on the bill. Zach Mettonberger, Delaney Walker, Patriots touchdown. And I wanted to be an NFL running back when I grew up when I was like a little kid running around. That's not how you spelled Delano. And I would walk around and tell my parents that I wanted a face mask like this. Why?

Because Thurman Thomas had it and he was a running back for the bills. Oh, for real? He had the T bar face mask. Put it, dump it off. Watch this kid go off now. Bing, bank. This is a touchdown. So underrated.

Hurdle. Was it Leany? Oh, bro. Just in a bad market. Like, no, you just wasn't talked about a whole lot. Filthy, dude. I want a show member. This.

Chung, a lot of co-co. Kane in his house. Look at this. Anthony Fasano, just a classic. You know, he bleeds red type of politics. Lives the dream. Look at this guy. Delaney was the best.

Where is he yet now? Oh, Delaney. I think he's retired now. But let me tell you, that is still to this day, one of my favorite teammates of all time, Delaney Walker. He was the number one receiver ever in high school. gets in trouble for, I'm pretty sure, and he can correct me,

or he can correct us, he can come back on. But I'm pretty sure that he had like assault rifles and drugs in his snook of his car in high school. Literally gets arrested. Goes to some, it's like southern, I think it might have been Missouri, like Southern Missouri, University Tech Institute of Technology. Central Missouri.

Yeah, something like that. Gets drafted in the sixth round still. Goes to the 49ers. They say, hey, you have to play Tidin. He's like, I'm not playing Tidin. They're like, we'll cut you. He's like, I'm playing Tidded. end.

14 years later. Played 14 years in league. And really didn't start going off to like year nine. Right. He was like a special team's dude behind, um, Vernon Davis.

Vernon Davis, your boy. The Niners, yeah. We were there in the Niners. What position was he before tight end? He was receiver.

Oh, wow. And he was the cockiest teammate. He wouldn't meet, he would, um, rookies would go up and introduce themselves to him. And he would just look at them,

like why do I got to know your name? You're not going to make the team. And he would go back to putting this shit on. Oh, he didn't work out. his workouts were in the steam room. You go in the steam room and he's just doing pushups and

setups in the steam room. He'd like bring his speaker in there and it'd be like blaring rap music. You go in like, Delaney, what are you up to? He's like, I'll just get my workout in and just doing like pushups and setups. And then like he's like off the bench doing like what are you? Yeah, dude. He would go season one end. He'd be in like Israel for two months. Come back. He's now Hebrew. You're like Hebrew? Jewish. Jewish? He's now Jewish. I think Hebrew is the language. He's now Jewish.

decided and he's 10 times more Jack than he was before. And we're like, Delaney, what kind of workouts you've been doing? He goes, oh, I stopped eating ham. Yo, what the fuck? He was, dude, one of my favorite teammates of all time. He's like, and he's in telling us the camera. Why are you following me around? He's the man, dude.

He's the man. We'll have to get him back on. I love that, dude. I already just getting a little fat. I'm sure he's getting a little. You know? You know, jalen hits him here. Man, this deal was a stun.

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You play the entire year. How did you think of the body of work that you had last year for it being your first full year as like a starter? Pretty much like first full year in the league in general because you came in so late the year before? Yeah. I thought I did decent. There's a lot of games I felt like if I played a little bit better,

we would have won. But again, you know, we went through so much shit last year Where it was off the field stuff Like you said, Shays You know, the unfortunate happening with him You know, we had a lot of family members on the team Pass away, so they're going off the funerals We had a bunch of people on COVID

Dude, your fucking trainer Our head athletic trainer We got rated by the freaking DEA Week 4 Yeah, and you're talking about taking pills too earlier. Every week it was just like, like what's,

what's going to happen next? You know, so through all that stuff, you know, for us to have a chance to go to the playoffs there in week 17 against Philly. I think it was a good accomplishment,

but again, we could have won two or three more games for the year and made the playoffs. Now, are you sitting back, like after the year's over, are you sitting back feeling like... Is this past year?

Oh, yeah, this is past year. Are you sitting back feeling like is one of those situations where you're thinking they might bring somebody in or you feel good about being the starter going into the next year. This upcoming year? Yeah, this upcoming year. Because they've obviously brought Carson in. Like, I'm trying to envision, like, I was in a, like, you get placed in a box, right?

If you kind of have the backup label, you're kind of hoping, hopefully they don't draft somebody. If they don't bring anybody in or they draft somebody low rounds, like, that'll mean that I'll be the guy. But they draft somebody kind of high, like, I'm probably going to get pushed out type of thing. Yep. Like, are you kind of thinking the same thing? Are you thinking, like, if they just stick with me, like, if there's a few things I can get better at, which you probably could going from year one to year two, it's like if they just kind of stick with me, like, you know, I can be the guy. Yeah, obviously, I felt that way, but at the same time, I knew they were going to go get somebody. You know, that was kind of the talk around the facility, around the city. So I knew they're going to go try and get someone, whether it was in the draft or in free agency. And it just so happened to be Carson. And then, you know, Sam Howell falls to round five. And he's probably the best player out there at that, at that, you know, value. So we picked up Sam Howell.

So, you know, I've been doing OTAs for the last four weeks. Rookies came in this week. You know, Sam can sling it. Carson looks good out there. So it's going to be a nice little battle. It's obviously Carson's job. But again, you know, my biggest thing is I just try and control what I can control. That's just going out there doing the best I can.

whatever happens happens. So, you know, that's how I go about it. Carson's like a redneck too, dude. He'll die on the field. Yes. He's like Maximus. Big hunter, big golfer. When he was in the Eagles,

after the year for the one of the Super Bowl, when you were on the Titans, they were able to showing film with him, like being dragged to the ground and trying to spin out of it while people were gator rolling his arm. Yeah, there's a photo for the longest time in the hallway of Kerrigan trying to tackle him

and it was like his whole jersey he was like ripped off of his body. But he was just going. Yeah, I think so. Or maybe he eventually went down, but it was like one of those things where it's just like, it's a savage photo.

And it seems like from your career, what's happened so far in your career is things, opportunities seem to keep falling in your lap. I mean, whatever you want to call it, universe, whatever it is. But it seems like you've been in the situation before so you're not sweating this type of deal. Yeah, I mean, it's nothing I haven't seen before.

Like every year, you're clawing your way in and you're trying to make a team. And it's no different this year. So yeah, you know, it's nothing I'm new to. So, you know, it's kind of just more the same. Just keep doing my thing. We'll see what happens. Is there anything when you reflect?

Like you had this past year where you were pretty much the full time starter the year before. All that happened and went great, kept kind of put you back in the league or in the league. And so at this point, are you looking at, hey, do I have to change this up or change like a, I'm from a mentality standpoint? Like how do I approach these OTAs, knowing how I've gone through OTAs, even though last year was a messed up OTAs even with the COVID thing still going on? But how do you re-approach it? It's, I don't know if the approach is different. I think, I think I know what it takes now to be successful. And, you know, obviously previous years, I was never starter.

I was never really getting that, uh, put that piece. Woo. All right. Oh, you will. You're Mike Will. Yeah, I watched Garrett. He pointed over at him, too, so I didn't want to be the only one. Yeah, in previous years, I was never a starter.

So I was like, you know, just calling my way. in, but now I kind of know what it takes to be a starter, so you have that kind of sense of I know what I need to do. I know what it takes, and it's just going out there and executing. So I say the experience is probably the biggest thing for me from last year this year. How do you like playing in Washington with the media and stuff? It's different, right? Yeah, I remember.

Telling he does not like Washington. Well, you know, not that, I'm sure he's, you probably trying to think a little bit about everything he can say not, but playing in the Washington media is hard because if anything happens at all, it's a media that's, they're not intentionally trying to divide you, but Washington, D.C. is like a stepping stone to, like, getting to the ESPNs of the world

and all the big leagues, right? It sounds like the NFC East is really like, it is like that whole conference or division where it's like a little more heightened. Right. Every city it's in, Philly is kind of crazy. New York's insane. DC's the way you're saying it is, then obviously Dallas is Dallas. Right. Everybody's trying to write

stuff to stand out and figure stuff out like within the facility because again like you go from I went from playing in Washington and you got media surrounding you all the time to where when I came to Tennessee in 18 and racks like hey comp is a lot different out here and then you just see a few guys standing on the sideline yeah it's a lot different so I'm curious like what your opinion is like playing playing in a place like Washington well it's such a it's such a polarizing place you know so I mean I'll give you one example during training camp last year I think we were the least vaccinated team at that point. And I remember getting interviewed.

Huh? No, I was back. I know this is going to be like a touch. Right winged honey, dude. He didn't wear a Rogan shirt. Oh, he's definitely immune. Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy. Yeah.

I had a reporter come to me and say, hey, you know, you guys are the least vaccinated team. Is that dividing the locker room where people getting pissed off at each other? I'm like, no, like what? Like, we're here to just play football. You know, like if they're not vaccinated, they're going to wear a mask.

They're in followed protocols. it's fine. Like, you know. But that was a whole deal for like about a week. And, you know, that's just like a small example of it. But, you know, I feel like that's just kind of DC media in general, even maybe New York and Philly and Dallas as well. But that was my first kind of like, like, okay, this is how it,

kind of how it is here. Yeah. And, you know, something that you have to really kind of watch what you say and watch what you do. But, you know, at the end of the day, you just want to play some football and not getting trouble off the field. Right. Especially in the quarterback. especially in the quarterback room, like,

playing with the RG3 and Kirk, like it would get to where there would be side conversations and people are trying to figure out, like, what teammates or what people are saying about the other, who's hanging out with who, and stuff like that to where there's like an article made that makes it seem like so much bigger than it is. Yes.

And because I commented on it, I think it was like a few pods ago, that's where who was on here? Whereas I was like, that's where Vrabel did a good job, like in my eyes, because he was always the first person. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, who was that? Was it Chris Long?

It might have been Chris. It might have been Chris. Maybe Eric would. That would be another one that, yeah, probably. Because we didn't always meet. We didn't always do team meetings every morning when I was on during the Washington team I was on. And it was like, you would almost like the media, you would just see all the he said, she said stuff in the media versus like Vrabel, who he's like the first guy you see every day. Every single day.

And he'll dress, whatever is going on out there. You know what I mean? To where everybody, whenever the team meeting disperses, Everybody's kind of like on the same page about what's going on. Yeah. Yeah, I think Rivera does a pretty good job of that. But he doesn't really go over specific things that he sees. He's almost just like, let me deal with it.

Y'all focus on ball, which is sweet. But does he have like certain rules to the media? Like, Rabel has a certain stuff like, hey, when in doubt you're going to put the team first. Like don't do X, Y, and Z. That way you're not putting this guy in a bad situation. Don't compare dudes. Yes. You know?

Always speak for yourself. Always speak for yourself. Those types of things. Like if he, because Rabel, the point, Will's bringing up it. when you see Vribal every day and he's constantly saying those things, it's second nature now when you're talking to the media. It's like, oh, I'm not going to go compare a Will Compton to so-and-so. It just makes the, you're asking for yourself to be on that big screen

and the team meeting just getting fucking torched. So when it does happen, that is when he's like addressing like an article or something like that. Because Rable won't touch on everything because everyone's trying to make stories every single day. But if there is a bigger deal about something, he always makes sure it hits it. Hey, if they ask you about this, this is what we're focused on this week. Yeah. And he does a great job of that. Did you guys have team meetings every single day?

During the season, yeah. During the season? Yeah. Keep that dial-in. Yeah, OTA is not so much, yeah. Same with us. Yeah. Oh, we only do once a week.

Oh, really? Yeah. But Rable gets every minute in. Oh, it's once a week now? Yeah, we had one on Thursday and I was tripping. You're tripping. I was freaking out. Why?

Because, you know, he's going down, he's going in the line to see he was slipping that day. And he's testing the rookies more than anything. else, but you know he's going over guidelines and what's he going to talk about the media? So who's his new media social director guide now that you're gone? Me. And he... No, he didn't call me that, but he did

make me say every single media guideline. And I thought for sure when I was going over it, he was just start popping on some bus and shit. Now I had a little pitter-patter in the heart. I thought maybe if that happened, he would bring up the T.J. Watt-Miles Garrett one. Oh, yeah, that would be tough. Like, why would you?

Rule number one. Yeah. Which one's that? Let's not talk about this guy. I said, yeah. Pulled up. I know. I did say there's this dude at Barstool who was like saying.

Jersey Jerry. Jersey Jerry is a huge Pittsburgh fans. So just to ruffle his feathers. I said that Miles Garrett. I'd rather play against Miles Garrett than T.J. TJ's not as good as Miles. Yeah. Yeah.

So. I got blown out of proportion, I'm sure. Well, I did. Just because they filmed all five minutes of it. It had like, what, 300,000 views on Twitter. Some Steelers blog. Some Steelers blog wrote about it. So I just kept finding the blogs and putting fake news.

I know. I never said that. When I said every, you can literally see a whole video for five minutes of me. Just saying, I'm like, oh, didn't say it, didn't say it. Dude, I sent this to Vrabel because what you were just saying, like, he was going down the road and you were getting like anxiety. But there was this tweet I found a guy in class got called on to answer a question. And after a short pause, he says, hang on, I'm not dumb. I'm just panicking.

I felt that. The guy next to me felt that. Your mom felt that. The whole world felt that. I said to Bram, I go, when you call on us in team meetings. 100%, dude. 100% because he loves it. And if you answer one right, the only thing you did is serve yourself another question.

He'll be like, oh, Heineke, you're on fire today. Let's see if you can get another one right. And he'll just go on that. What's something small, like if it's like verbiage. Like, uh, it might be different for you than it is for me. You know how you got it. You got to say it directly what it is. Like if it's, if a team key is disrupt the quarterback.

Yeah. And you're like, you just try to say, uh, like sack the quarterback. If he'll like jump on your ass and say like, no, disrupt the quarterback. You got to say, right, you're in my world now. You're in my classroom now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always play those mental games with these

where you'll just be like sitting there fucking sweating like, god damn it. Sweating, dude. I feel so stupid right now. I think that's that New England deal because I was up there for three weeks in 2017 and I remember they would team meetings. They would just ask, hey, corner on like number 25 corner

we're playing this week. Do you have a two-parent household? He would ask someone. Oh, shit. You have stuff like that? Yeah. Where do you go to college? I'm like, oh my God.

And we would go up there in like a Tuesdays, quarterbacks of meat, and we would have like a 15-page, like a scouting report on every single player on the defense, whether there's third string, whatever. And it'll be a paragraph on each person. Where do you went to school, two-parent household, you know, siblings, everything that you can ever imagine. And we would watch 15-fits on every single person. And the Patriots are also the place you go to when you travel there, you lock up your locker room. Yeah.

Why? You guys ever did that? I mean, we played there, but I can't remember doing that. I remember going, I remember going out for warm-ups and coming back, and there was a chain and lock on our locker room so people couldn't get in it. Because people were so paranoid about Patriots stealing our shit. Like it. It is like that. Like that.

And that was before Vrabble, so they can't get me. You know, so they can't get me. But it was really like that. They always said that patient was trying to steal shit, super detailed. They would love to ask Rable about that stuff. Yeah. 25,000 he's on. You know, Ray, you know, Vraib, he was probably, like, part of it.

Oh. You know what I mean? Yeah, Vraib's for sure snitch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like, Vrave's edgy enough. Like, he's probably part of the problem of doing it. He probably brought up the ideas.

Yeah. You know, you should do this. You should steal that? You should bug these people. Yeah. When you were three weeks there, did you get that feeling that everyone was cheating over there? No. No.

Did you cheat over there? No. Did you cheat? I was practice squad, so, you know, I'll tell you what, that's probably the hardest place I've ever been. like practice squad workouts first day I was there we went outside we ran about 10 hills

did like agility for an hour and a half then we ran 20 striders the shortest one being 80 yards the longest one being 180 yards and this is like this is on a Saturday you know yeah and then I was like oh man that was a hard workout I'm kind of dying and I thought we were done

he was like all right time to go inside to hit weights squats heavy squats eight like eight sets of six heavy squats eight sets of who That's a six, Nandy spots or six of eight. Oh, something like that.

After we just did all that, and I was, I remember I was like, holy shit, it's different up here. Like, this is why the Patriots of Patriots, you know.

But also detrimental to the body. Yes, but, you know, break that shit down. But also not the smartest thing to do on professional athletes. It works.

It works for them, you know, I don't know. Yeah, that's true. Hey, when you, when you,

when you're driving in the stadium, just mad. Do players live in those houses in that neighborhood? Do you have to drive through to get to the Gillette stadium? Yeah. All right. I was wondering, because I was thinking to myself,

if I ever played for the Patriots, I live right here. Yeah. Because their practice facility, everything's at Gillette, right? Jolet. And it's in the middle of nowhere. It's in the middle of nowhere.

You've played there, obviously. Yeah. You're like in a neighborhood. And all of a sudden, you pop out and you're at a stadium. Just like Green Bay. You're like driving through a trailer park. You know, it's Lambeau field.

A trailer park. Yeah. It's insane. Fucking, that must be an expensive ass trailer park. Yeah, it's a wild deal. The Patriot Stadium is crazy. And they have great fans, too. Yeah, they go hard.

They're all assholes. They fucking Minutemen piss me off, dude. They really do. You're like your fan favorite in Washington, yeah? A little bit, yeah. I think... You got to pay for drinks? Barely.

God, that's got to be nice. It's nice. I think the biggest thing is that I think I'm more of like a relatable person. You know, I'm kind of like a normal dude. Drive a regular truck and I'll sit on the... Yeah, sitting on the board. Ooh. What you guys got?

GFC, Chevy, which is a lot of, the most durable reliable vehicle on the road. And they got an incredible six-figure tailgate, six-configuration tailgate. How many times I've used that?

A lot. Do you have a button on your key fob that makes your tailgate go down on your truck? Does it go up? No. No. She does.

Industry first. Yeah, industry first. The only ones that do that. They're panels like giant iPads in the front. Giant iPads. 12 inch. I think it goes up to a 16 inch. Yeah, I think so.

I will say, I want the new, the cyber truck, the Tesla truck. I think that thing looks sweet. Do you like it? I think it looks sweet. It kind of has got like a Halo vibe to me. It does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have five years, people are going to be all over it.

You think so? Yes. Look at that thing. Are you a Halo guy? I was back in the day. I think everybody was a Halo guy at one point. It wasn't. Really?

No. You PS guy, PS5? Call duty. Call duty. Really? Yeah. and when I did start trying to play Halo like everyone's jumping all over the goddamn map

and I can't Yeah, flowing around and shit Like one kill dude I'm like, fuck this game dude Really? Yeah, I want your feet on the ground Like we're fucking we're playing like this is more We're actually killing each other

Yeah You like the more realistic deal yeah I mean like Wander War II And Halo 3 are at the same time There's probably the two best shooting games I think Halo 3 I never really played college dude He couldn't really get into it

Really? Yeah but Halo was definitely A game I love The storyline was great Yeah everything was good. You could have a sword at one point. When you got the sword, things were all right.

You went around with that sword, dude, that thing's wild. Because you're like, you're jogging, and then the acceleration to fucking kill a dude was insane. You just try to stick people with those grenades. What about this Tesla truck is attractive to you? Because I'd be honest, I'm not trying to fuck up this relationship here. Yeah. But I couldn't really disagree with you more.

I don't think it's a good-looking vehicle. At first, I didn't like it. And the more I look at it and just like, if I saw that in the road, I couldn't keep my eyes off that. Would you be able to? You would stare at that thing. Yeah, I'd be like, why the fuck is there like a shapes thing that they have an elementary school? No.

Was that a, like a hexagon? What are we doing there? It looks like a vehicle on Minecraft. Yeah, it does. Yeah, it really does. But look at that. I mean, what is that? I think is sweet.

No, that's not the real thing. Look at the inside. Did that the interior of there? That's the real thing? No, it's not. Show me the front view again? Yeah, dude. That looks like, that looks like, that looks like when you're playing a video game and it like, like, pauses for a second.

And then it hasn't, all the digital parts haven't like fully got back. together yet. It's like a little glitch. Yeah, it's like a glitch. I did think it was funny. Remember, and Elon brought that out and he's like, oh, it's indestructible. Yes, that show is so funny. It's cracked. You're like, you want to go camping in that? Oh, yeah, look at that thing.

I feel like you cut your finger on the edges there. You might, but... You cut your vegetables, for sure. Your vegetables. Yeah, I started skinning them things. I think you can't go wrong with a Chevy Silverado. Pull that up. Pull a Chevy Silverado. Show the most dependable VIII.

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get a nice little lifts, some spacers on the wheels. Yeah. You're not going to find a more attractive vehicle. You're really not that front end, dude, that grill and everything else in the hood. It's mean. It is tough looking.

And the Carhart version, too. That's the same truck I have, right? That's the one you got. Yeah. I hate to say this too, but the Dodge Ram is they set their game up the last couple years. You think so? They have, man.

The horsepower is there. Every truck. You kind of just saying, what I feel like you're doing is you're feeling a little attack, so you're saying every other different vehicle. Is Toyota a nice truck too? Do you want to bring those up? No, no, no, no, no. But they are dependable.

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For you being in the situation you are with these two quarterbacks in you, do you think you're a top 32 quarterback in the NFL? Do you think you're a starter? Yeah, I do. Yeah? I do. I just think last year it's really getting my feet wet. I mean, I knew what it took.

I've been in the league for, what, eight years? But you know how it is. You got to be on the field and you got to see you have being live action. There's nothing. There's no substitute for that. I thought throughout the year I was starting to progress and get better. So yeah, I would love to have a, you know, a second shot at it. But, you know, backup job isn't a bad deal either.

You know, Chase Daniels kind of killing right now. Yeah. Case Keenum. Yeah, they made some money. Do you think if you're, do you think if you were like a second or third round draft pick, you're this, you're the, they wouldn't have brought anybody in? Yeah. You know, it is.

NFL's a business, too. You know, if someone's making, if Carson's making $28.5 million, and I make him one. He's a starter. You know, that's, it's, you know, that's, that's that's, all right. But I'll say you and Carson are both making $8 million. You're edging that one out? You guys are all things equal.

All things are equal. I'll tell you what, Carson can, can sling it. And I've been, you know, I've never really got to see him play in person. But being with him the last three, four weeks. No, it's really impressive to see the stuff he can do. He's very smart. He works hard at it. I think he's going to have a great year.

So, you know, I'm rooting for him. But again, you know, you never know what's going to happen. People get hurt all the time or, you know, stuff happens. So, you know. Man, that is. It is. Very polished. He said that I was like, oh, man, you're really.

Carson, he's getting a lot of hate in Indianapolis right now. I was just about to say, like, man, he was so good when he was on that MVP run for the Eagles. Fucking stud. Before he tore his ACL. Which is a crazy injury, too, the way he got hit and the way of, a tour. Yeah. Wild. Yeah. And then he like everybody else, you have the COVID year. People are trying to figure out training. Like who's doing this and that. Like, yeah, which ways up? Like all that shit. Like, yeah, like he was so fun to watch. I mean, not that he still can't be.

Because I know a lot of people work for him. Like, I, Dan Orlovsky comes in mind. He's like a huge Carson Wynce fan on the ESPN. And so yeah, like, I would love to see him. I would love to see you guys beat the shit out of the Eagles just so he can like, you know some birds of people. Oh, no. I want to say we play them Monday night this year. Oh, really? Yeah. So that'll be... You know, they just got a new stud-wide receiver.

Who does? Eagles. Yeah, they had a good draft. They have a few stud-wide receivers on that team. They really do. Yeah. They got themselves a squad, low-key. They do.

Who's the... Jalen Hertz? Is that his name? Mm-hmm. What do you think of him? I think he's a good player. Yeah. You can feed him out, though?

All's fair. Try I give him a toll, man. Yeah. $1.5 million each? Yeah. Do you think so? But I'd try me. with him down in Cali this past year

one day and you know, it's rocked up and you can sling it so, you know, the things he does on the field that offense they have for him is perfect. You know, they have a really good run game and then they have him get outside the pocket and do some things and, you know, I think they have a really good squad, so it's going to be a tough game.

Yeah, AJ Brown, Devante Smith. Who's their third receiver that was also a first round pick? Oh, they do from Alabama. Devonte Smith, dude, that's the... That's why I think they're going to be... Yeah, they're going to be tough. They could be filthy. Yeah.

He guys had a good running back Pascoe on the Eagles? No, he, uh, yes, he is. He is, yeah. Oh, hey, don't sleep on Paschle now. Good player. I play with him at O'DU. All big body wide receiver.

He played with him at O'DU. Yeah, I was with him for two years at O'DU. He was practice, he was practice squad on the Titans for a little before the Colts took him. While we're on the QB talk, we want to rank your top three QBs in the league right now?

Top three? Right now? Five. Right now we're at five. Yeah, current five currently. Brady, Rogers. You think Brady? He's won?

Yes. I can't take that away from him. Brady, Brady's one. It's something like a homer a little bit, though. This Rogers, what, two MVP's in a row? Yeah. I'm a big Rogers fan. I grew up a Packer fan, so I'm a big fan of Rogers.

I mean, you even got Josh Allen in there. Like, there's some pets. Mahomes. And then, I mean, there's a lot of good quarterbacks out there right now. Brady, Rogers, Mahomes. He would say Josh Allen. I mean, that AFC West is packed. You got Russell Wilson.

You got Justin Herbert, who's bawling. Derek Carr, don't sleep with a boy. Yeah, Derek Carr's been bawling. I think his hair lines coming back, too. I'm pretty sure he was balding before. Coming back, Carolina of the year. Yeah. How's he doing that?

Because my hairline's getting out of hand, too. Is it? Yeah. Pull that, bring up. Let me see. Oh, really? It's like that. Yeah.

Yeah, mine's a little. Let's, we'll take him off the other. No, you're fine. You're fine. No, bro. Look, look. But you're not, but you're not fed him. Exxail had to hurt a little bit, Will.

I'm thinning a little bit, like in the corners. Mine's getting so bad. Mine's getting so bad. Oh, dude, he's all insecure now. Don't make... I just order... You ever heard of keeps? You got the...

You've ever heard of the product keeps? Yeah, I see that on Instagram. Anytime I see that stuff... I just ordered all three products from them. I'm like... Did you really? You got to check if it's NSS certified. You got to check that stuff.

I know people got popped in the past from, like, Rogan, like, just stuff like that. Anything I see on hair stuff I send to Will, but the sole reason that Will is insecure about it. Well, can you... You know stuff with NSF or not? Do what? Keeves is not NSF certified.

They're not. Because I was going to, actually, in 18, I ordered the product and stuff, and then I got all the ingredients checked, and there was something that came back that wasn't in there. Maybe it's a little more developed. But why don't you guys plug up?

Why don't you all plug up? I just, you know, you know the boy? You know what I'm saying? Where they take the robot and they fucking put it in there. So I didn't mean to take my hat off. What is it? It's not a bad gig.

Kirk did it. You get like, uh, the hair. Like Erlacker. Yeah. Oh, his shit just reappeared, dude. Drew Breeze. Like a damn chia pet. Yeah.

Yes. Yeah. But the thing is, I feel like that's... Because you got the back of your head kind of sticks out. Like, you're setting up for that old man, like at the coldestack about that going on. Yeah. Oh, hey. 29.

Like, we can't... It's too young for this. You just pay for it. How much that cost? Let's say, let's say, does it matter? Right? Let's just say the number is, who cares? Okay.

Because you've played two years. Yeah. You're making... It's like, why not just take advantage of that right now? You're Taylor Heineke in Washington, D.C. Like, I'm sure there's somebody out there that'll give it to you on the low. So anybody out there listening to this episode right now, if you know somebody that does the whole hair plug stuff.

Yeah. We'll do that. Look up the quarterback for the Washington commanders. I heard there's literally a robot now that'll do it in 45 minutes. When you used to take hours and hours and hours, because a doctor would have to take each hair follicle and put it in. Yeah, and they would have to stab you all over that. Now there's like a robot that's just doing shit.

That's the robot how it works. What do you think of the commanders? What do you think of the, new name. The new look. I like the new look. I like everything about it. I pull that trash out there. Let me see that thing. You think the name could be better or the name's trash and it could be better? It's okay to say that. No, it's not because I'm still on the team. I'll if I get some flag for this, but. That black is cool. We had two years to come up with something.

I mean, I feel like commanders is kind of like a safe, a safe option. It is based on where it's at too. Yeah, you know. But I've seen the, I've seen the uniforms and person, the helmets look sweet, uniforms look sweet. My man, Jay Allen on the right in the all black, it looks kind of like an any given Sunday look. It kind of looks like a... It could be like an arena footballish vibe to me. Looks like he has a massive forehead tune that helmet.

He's got to refit that helmet. I think the W makes it look a little bigger too. I like the black. I think black always looks good. Like the Cardinals black uniforms? Yeah. Those are fucking hard. Those things go hard.

Yeah. Obviously the Raiders, they have black. They go hard. We got that matte, matte red. It's a really clean look. Yeah, I think it's going to look good. The uniforms, if you could rename the Washington commanders right now. The list that was coming out, like, what name were you hoping for?

There were two names I like, the Armada, which is like a fleet of ships, I believe. Okay, that's cool. That's cool. And then the Red Tails. I like Red Tail. And the Red Bulls as well. So the Red Wolves, someone told me there was something about the Red Wolves. And so I guess, you know, Native Americans back in the day, they believed when you passed away, your soul went into a wolf.

Yeah. I think that would have been a cool segue from Redskins. to Red Wolves. Because you're passing away, you're passing that long. But is it also the same issue you had with Redskins, kind of. I think.

And taking somebody else's shit and making it your own? It could have been that or it could have been... But fuck, man. Hey, I'll tell you right now. I'll say it out of lot. I think the Redskins was a cool...

Their logo was dope. That logo is sick. That logo is probably one of the coolest logos in all sports. Yeah. Yeah. I'm 2X Cherokee. So...

I'm safe. But I will say that that's a dope logo. I do like that logo. Yeah. I mean I mean with the wolves too I mean you got the timber wolves

In Minnesota I am biased with the wolves But I think wolves would have been sick I think wolves is dope But that kind of gives me an XFL vibe Wolves I don't know why I think red tails is cool

Red Tails I like Red Tails That was I didn't like the Red Tails It makes me think of Tales off Sonic What was a He's a legend But I'm thinking like

With the mice That used to be pilots Oh Something tails Rescue Rangers Have been Rescue Rangers But there was something, it was duck tails Fuck! It was the totally different thing

Damn, dude I didn't hear the fleet Well, that one was kind of... Armada, that sounds cool Yeah, sounds culture, like it sounds like you've been places And it's kind of like clean, it's like Washington Armada Like, okay Immediately the commanders come out in commies is the first Yes, and it doesn't help everyone

DC too. It's just like, yeah. God, here we go. Yeah. What do you call the fans too, comrades? There you go. You know? I guess so. That's a tough deal. There's a theme song already, right? Is it the one that Pat McAfee was saying? Yeah. You know it? Do you sing it? I can't.

Because when he signed, I was like, where the hell did you get that from? I guess there's like some fans out when they released the name. They were all singing it. And I just, I don't know. You can't sing the theme song? Mm-mm. I was like, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Dude, last year, there's a couple stories I want to ask about. when Sean Taylor got his number, when he got his number retired, and Jackson Mahomes did the TikTok.

Were you guys aware of that before the game starts? No, we were aware of that after. Is this it? No, that's like, that's Russian off Rocky 4. It's like walking out. Oh, yeah, it says Russian National Anthem on my phone. I love it. I didn't know it was the Russian National Anthem.

I'm like, oh, Rocky 4. That's a theme song in Rocky 4. So that wasn't it? No. You think commies, comrades. That'd be like a... Comrades is cool. Are you can get behind that?

Is it cool? I mean, yeah. You better watch what you're saying. It's America. We were just moving on. Did you hear what I was asking about? Oh, go ahead, dude. My bad.

So when they retired Sean Taylor's number last year, Jackson Mahomes, did that TikTok on his logo. Very appropriate. I was asking if they knew about that before the game started. Did you know about it when you go back in the locker room and, you know, come maybe, not maybe, a couple guys get on the phone and they see that something's going on? No, we saw that after the game. We're just like, you know, what the hell? What I make you feel?

Yeah, bad move. You know, the guy was probably the, one of the biggest names of Washington. You know, he's passed away and this is going on. It's just. Dancing, dancing. Oh, heart shape. Do you think he knew? Get a step over ropes.

And here's why I ask. And here's why I ask. And here's why I ask, because part of me thinks they didn't do a very good job. rolling out retiring Sean Taylor's number. And you don't have to agree or disagree on that because I know you're obviously a quarterback and you're on the roster. But there's part of me that thinks

like he didn't necessarily know because why wouldn't there be a security guard tackling this man mid-d-dance right now? Or like there's a like a formal like rollout of Sean Taylor's number getting retired. That's a great thought, but he's literally standing in between the chain, roped off. Like he had to go like this.

Yeah. I get this. I'm wondering if he... I'm wondering if he knew, like, we were retiring his number that game. Sean Taylor's. I agree. God of know Sean Taylor's. Most scumbag move ever in a Pro Bowl.

For sure. Most scumbag move ever in the Pro Bowl, dude. That's what the people want to see, though. That was crazy. Fuck that punter up. Dog, that is a fucked up move, dude. Like, you got a thing in your mind of you. I'm going to kill this, dude.

He has no clue that I'm coming like this. No. You don't run fake puns in the puns. Pro Bowl, though. Yes, you do. Okay. You want to take everything. Look this.

You don't even see him. That's a flash of light. Look how Maddie gets when he gets up. He's going to find him. Like, he's going to do anything. He's going to do something. I'm pretty sure he gets in his face a little bit. Let it run a little bit longer.

He lays in the ground for a little bit and he's like, fuck, dude. I think he comes up. Yep. Oh, he's conkeyed. Well, now, like, what's going through his mind, he's like, I have to go say something. Everybody's looking at me. Yeah. I'm pissed.

what are you going to say Hey man what are you doing Oh my god Hey come on man That's like the hit Brett Kern hit had in the Tampa Bay game Yeah Dude lunging to it Same foot same shoulder

Yeah Nowhere to go And another thing I want to ask about Our boys Jay Allen Getting in that scuffle on the sideline What was the tension like after the game And what was the tension like

weeks after listen Matt I probably shouldn't touch on this right now but it was pretty heated there for a little bit but at the same time when you got two competitors like that

I know this is like a kind of a polished answer but you have two first round picks like that both from Bama we're getting our asses whooped on national television day after Christmas it's like this is fucking embarrassing you know

and you know John just he had enough and I think pain had enough and it just got to a point where you know, they were both pissed off. Yeah, that was wild. You do remember that?

Yeah, I remember it. Pull it up so we can see the whole thing. Did the coach say anything about it after the game? Oh, yeah. I mean. Did they resolve it in the locker room? Yeah, they're good. They're good now.

They apologize to the team? Yeah. In front of the team meeting room? Yeah. In front of everybody? Yeah, I mean, the guy. In front of everybody? Now, when they got in the locker room,

wasn't it something like, where they're squashing it and apologizing to each other or they're fighting to figure it out? During a half time of that game? Yeah, because that was like in the first half. Oh, shit. It was a bloodbath. I don't know the timeline.

Obviously, it was a bad. It was tough for you guys against. Oh, oh, he missed. You would have landed that shot? Sleepy time. Well, you shouldn't be fucking temple poking dudes. I know, bro. You know, it's just one of those moments, man.

Because your boy. People were heated. And that's in the first half. So what happened at halftime? It was still a little heated. Again, we're getting our asses book. Yeah, they got in the locker room, and they were but I swear up, huh? Is it a little heated?

Are they boys? I don't know they were to the same college, but that does make you boys. They're boys. They're boys. Yeah, they're boys. Again, it's like some, you know, brotherly loves that stuff.

And again, when you're getting your asses whipped on time, it's, you know, it's tough. I mean, I've wanted to swing on some teammates before. Hey. He must have fucked up something bad. I want to see the last three plays before this should happen. I mean, it was out of hand quickly, right?

When we were down. Yeah. It's 287. Early in the second quarter, it's 287. What a horrible feeling. Like we couldn't stop them and we couldn't score. And if you're like wanting the swing on somebody, somebody just comes up and they're just temple fucking finger on you.

Yeah, I think I saw three N-words right there. A lot of, you know, a lot of people didn't even know that happened until we got in the locker room at halftime. Like, I didn't even know that happened. Yeah, you don't, you don't really know what's happening. Yeah. Yeah, that shit's wild. So they squashed it.

They're cool. They're cool. They're boys again? Yeah, yeah. You're not fighting each other OTAs right now? No. And then we just draft another guy from Bama. Just asking all the questions just to hope he says, fuck something up.

On the D-Line? I'm kidding. Yeah, we just draft the guy from Bama, D-Line. They're always getting dudes from Bama. Alabama, you out there. Bama and Ohio State. That's the two teams right now.

Yeah, I did. That one kid from Ohio State's pretty good. The kid that he's talking about are the ones that he was drafted. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Chase and Terry, you know. Yeah, he was in Ohio State, too. Chase was hurt last year, wasn't he?

Yeah, he got, he tore his ACL against Tampa, week eight or week 10. Yeah, he's a stud. Yeah, yeah. And you guys play each other this year. We play week three. At y'all's place? Yes.

No, we know at your place. Is our place? You guys got our thing. Three, four. Yeah. Oh, damn. Well, you getting yelled at by the mic, by our producers.

What's the deal? I don't know. It keeps dropping. I feel like that things get a little old and rickety. Yeah, no. It keeps like. Yeah. Getting way to.

What's your thought on the bus? What do you think about this? A little vibe right here. Love it. Do you like it? It's sweet. You guys don't have like a, just regular.

studio, stuff like that. Like the buses, I always watch house clips and stuff. I need to get on that. Let's know. I've been saying... Tear two cat. Do you subscribe? No, I don't. It's okay. You got to subscribe, bro. You're trying to support the boys. You got to subscribe.

All you got to do is... You need to subscribe and then get two more people to subscribe. Okay. And those to help those two. Yeah. So it's a network. A pyramid scheme. Do I get paid a picture? Or a very special movie, pay it forward. I don't know if you've seen that movie. I haven't. The tearjerker. My God. I think it came in the late 90s.

Pull that up real quick. Pay it for. Put the movie on. I think it's only two hours. Are you a Spotify guy or Apple? Spotify. Yeah. It's easy to find us there.

Just search. Get the Rogan on there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that was bad timing when you wore the Rogan shirt at the press conference. I mean, not that it's like actual heat, but. Do you hate liberals?

So it was really bad timing though because that week was when Aaron Rogers getting all that flack for the vaccine deal now he talked to rogan and then like two days later I'm wearing a rogan sweatshirt on the podium. Now answer me, be real bro. Is that way you wore the shirt? You're like, let's fucking go. Oh, you're supporting. I just got the Rogan switch and I was like, this is a sweet sweatshirt. He got the apes on there, got the mushrooms, got the UFOs going. I'm like, okay. And I didn't even think about it until I got in there and someone asked out. Hang on. You didn't think about it at all? No. You didn't think about it at all. I was like to support my guy, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the day I called. I hit

You didn't think about it at all? No. You didn't think about it at all. We got Delaney highlights again? Fuck it, dude. Look at that shit up. We won this game. We won two games that year.

That was the second one. What kind of heat were you catching for the shirt? You know, a couple vaccine questions. You know, do you agree with this, this and that? I was like, listen, I'm just a fan of his podcast, man. Dog, that, yeah. Yeah. He has a bunch of different.

Do you agree? Disagree? Yeah. It's like, man, I just like his podcast, man. He's got people from all over. interesting deal. Like, that's what I stuck to. He does, his podcast is legit.

It's the best. Second best. Yeah, I'm just kidding. No, no. No, no. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck that shit. Does he have a trophy game coming up?

I don't think he does. He doesn't. Have you heard about a trophy game? No. November 12th, this year, the University of Nebraska and the University of Michigan are going to be fighting

for the bus and bowl. For a bus... You're actually playing a bus? Yeah. What? You're actually playing the regular season? or like, no, no, no, oh, Nebraska. We were playing.

No, no, no. We're not adjusting enough for those games. We don't play for free anymore. But this right here, this is our trophy. Oh, shit. So you'll make your own trophy. Yes. Oh, that's for like a trophy game.

Yes. Sweet, okay. Play for the next eight years in a row. That's when you know you big time. You guys are... It was kind of a lucky deal, to be totally honest with you. I love the fact that you're complimenting us like this, but it was a, it was a from the hip, it was a from the hip question to Scott Frost.

And he said, if we can, get mission to agree on it. And Harbaal's a super competitive guy. Once he saw the clip, he signed a piece of paper that our boy Jackie in the back there. Our lawyer. Our legal team. Who wrote with just handwriting, pen paper. I, Jim Harbaul. Yeah, where is the contract? What is it?

Yeah, we'll show it to you. That's awesome. Oh, dude, it was one of the warmest, fuzziest feelings I've had on this podcast. I don't know about you. Fired up. This old trip to Michigan was unreal. Really the whole spring tour was out of hand fun. Where all did you guys go? We went to Nebraska, Michigan, and then Knoxville, Tennessee.

Got a friend. Oh, wow. That's hilarious. I don't know why this is not on the bus. Yeah, you don't need to put that up on there. This got to be on the bus. That's so cool. Bus and bull.

That's pretty sweet, right? Sick. So they're playing for the next eight years. The next eight years in a row. That's awesome. Is that him signing it right there? Yeah. Yeah, that's him watching the video.

That's the same paper you see here. And you're right too like that is He didn't give two shits about signing it I don't think he knew what he got himself into Yeah You know? November 12th man Yeah

God I know Week 6 buy the worst buy you can have When's your guys was by Late Week 12 13 14 Yeah Lucky duckies

And it's perfect too Because we get a Thursday night game Maybe in between there So it's almost like You get your mini buy Play four or five more games And you get your real buy That's a nice deal.

How do you feel about going to this year? Do you hate that it's always like, I feel like the last few years, maybe it's changed a little because we were known as the NFC least as well when we won our division. But don't you hate the NFC least? Yeah, I mean, we won our division, what, two years ago and we were seven to nine, you know? We were, I think, eight, seven and one. Yeah. So, I mean.

Damn, for real? Nine and seven or eight seven and one of those. You know how it is. You make the playoffs. It doesn't matter what's your record. it is, man. That's true. Well, how are you feeling about this year?

Did we what? Did you guys win the Super Bowl last year? No. That kind of matters a little bit, right? Like, you know. Did you guys? No. That's a nice chirp.

Did you guys make the playoffs? Dang, that's a good ass chirp, dude. Then what we think about it is we were the first seed. They did make the playoffs. We were the one seed in the AFC. Yeah, I won't know if I'd say one seed. I'd just say, yeah, we made the playoffs. No, we were the one seed.

I know and got bounced. I know. I'm so I'm saying how good of a chirp that was. I'm just admiring art right now You know what I feel you I feel you I feel like Him lips you just put at me

We're serious What we got? Showdown week four Yeah what do you think is gonna happen And you said it's at Washington It's at Washington I think we're gonna win About 15,000 fans there

There's a repeat You say how many fans There'll be about 15,000 fans there Is that good? You guys might have a home game In Washington Shit I've been there

You guys don't get a lot of fans there If we're playing well We get a lot of fans Um I will see when we play the Cowboys, there's more Cowboys fans there. Yeah, we had that too. Yeah.

They're everywhere, man. But you're right, though, if you win for that city or winning that city, like when you guys won the division, like, when we flew back up to that winning that division, like, you couldn't move out of the facility because everyone's, like, banging on your vehicles. That's cool. You had to go, like, two miles an hour out the entire place. Like, it's incredible when you win there. They have a good fan base.

The stadium is just, like, in an awkward spot. It's tough to get to. The traffic coming out of the stage. stadium's tough, and I'm sure you guys saw some of the videos last year of, you know, we had a pipe burst, sewage pipe burst on people in the suite. Then we had people falling over, Jalen. Oh, yeah. It's a collapse. He was going in.

Yeah. It's an older stadium, but, you know, like our first week there against Chargers, it was rocking, rocking. Everybody's fired up. So as Titan fans, we had to hope, or Titan players, we had to hope that you guys lose the first couple. Yeah, they ain't going to have. Drop the, oh, it would be good. He said that ain't going to happen. I got to be positive here.

They will be right. Yeah. I feel good. Is he here to be the starter week one? No. Just keep asking the corner of the question. So if you and Carson run us for the same height,

do you think you're taking them there? Yeah. You and Carson went to getting a fight. Who wins that fight? Is he a good golfer? He's getting there. He's getting there. You beat him in golf?

Yeah, I beat him golf. But we just had a coach's players matchup two weeks ago. It was eight coaches versus eight players. And it was match play. So it was me and Carson versus Scott Turner and Ken Zampeze. quarterback coach in OC. Yeah. And then we had, you know,

Trest Way and those guys go against up some other guys. And the deal was if we won, we got to put couches back in the locker room. Well, the only players that won their matchup were me and Carson. And Kendall Fuller and all those guys, they kind of slipped up and lost their coaches. So, you know,

we can't get couches back in the locker room. So you're winning with for nothing? Yep. Damn. Yeah. You guys don't even have couches in the locker room? Not anymore. But, I mean, you know how the locker room is.

is kind of a smaller locker room. Yeah. When all the rookies come in, we have a bunch of floating lockers, like, right there in the middle. Yeah. There's no room for anything right now. I think once they get those out of the way, we're going to try to put, like, some cornhole stuff in there or something. Ping pong table?

I don't know if we're going to get the ping pong table. You need to get yourself a mini basketball hoop and basketball. That shit will... Fun story. When we're in Carolina... Be easy to be in there playing all day. We're in Carolina. Cam Newton always held a horse tournament.

He had like almost every single player on a team. They'd make a bracket. And during training camp, there has to be, like, four games throughout the day. And whoever would... one got like a good amount of money that you put in the pot. So that was, that was a cool deal. That's a cool idea. I like that a lot, actually.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send me the notes on that. I'm actually down to do that. It sounds dope. So we had a ping pong table back when the back in my day when we were there. Oh, shit. Old dog. There was a whole.

There was a whole leaderboard. And Tress was number one because I was talking about. That's why I said get the ping pong table back in there. Because Tress would just dominate everybody. I'm talking the best ping pong player you'll ever see in the NFL. Oh, really? Yes. I was telling Will as a specialist,

you better be good because you're not in meetings. Oh, yeah, that's a good point. Does the Hopkins and Nick Sundberg, the Longsnapper, like they got so much better just having to play against stress every day because that's all they did.

Like when it was over, you know how Brett, he just looks up like golf courses and rates him or figures out all the details of him. I don't know what he does. But like the specialist there, they would just play ping pong. Yeah.

Does stress still do trivia? No, he's got his own little, podcast now that he does at the facility. Tress has a podcast of the facility? Through Washington. Yeah, he'll bring on like one player every week and just, you know, shoot the shit for an hour. What? That's awesome.

It's really fun. Yeah, it's cool. What's it called? It's all right. Hang time? Yeah, hang time. Click that out. You know, booming puns.

It's a good little name for him. No free shoutouts. Tris Way. W-A-Y. Tress Way. He's a good dude. In time with Trisway, yeah. He's kind of come on the bus.

We're trying to figure out. time for him to come on the bus. He was talking about you guys. He, like, made this board game. It was called, uh, what's your bid? Because he, like, love doing trivia. So anytime you're in the training room or in between practice or meetings or anything like that, like, Tress had this, these notebooks filled with, like, questions that he ended up

turning into a board game. And people would just compete all day long, like, yeah, like before and after practice. You back, you know, like, yeah, like, what's the question? And it'd be like, you know, what are the, what are the, uh, what are the ingredients or, like, what comes in the Applebee's appetizer scene? sampler. Like, mozzarella six, and you would try and bid what number you could guess. Like, me and you'd be like, all right, I know I got two and you be like, I got three. It's like, so like, let's just, let's say three and you guess the first one. Because we say the same one. We can't say it

again. But you'd like be on a team and you, everybody would be competing. And it was awesome. Like, yeah, he like, he like legitimately made a board game. Oh, shit. He still does a little bit of trivia throughout the weeks, just, you know, for fun, but he don't do that. He sell that. He did. Like, they sold out like when they, he like had something running on Thursday night football or Monday night football and they sold out like that night. Really? And on the flights back, it'd always be like you want to be around trust because everyone's sitting around

doing all this trivia. Like doing all these games. Oh damn. I was really like that. He made that board game? Yeah, like he got with a partner and was like, yes, he was like the entrepreneur of making that board game. Wow. That's badass dude. He turned it into an app. I don't know if the app still works, but like back then he was doing all of that stuff. What's your bid? Yeah, what's your bid? And it's just trivia

questions. Trivia. I know he's a big problem. like several answers. So you're like, engaged the entire time. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. He's a good.

He's good for the team, man. He gets along with everyone, brings everyone together. He's awesome. He'll be wondering what's in the Applebee's trio, though, or the appetizer. That appetizer sampler?

Yes, but don't put it, don't put it up yet because I think I know. It's definitely, there's mozzarella sticks. I'm assuming there's going to be like a jalapeno popper of some sorts. Not saying it's that. I don't think it is,

Blosswing. You can't just say that is. I'm thinking out loud. I'm thinking out loud. It's got to be a boneless wing, right? Just type in... It would be a bonus ring. Chips and salsa.

He's got... I just don't want to see it yet. I'm thinking chips and salsa, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, and there's a one more fried thing and might even be a cassidia, which is not fried,

but it's still... Chicken tenders. I think there's five, bro. Are there really five? I think it's... I think you're right on the cassidia and I think it could be wings. Like boneless wings.

Hey, you said it wings. The boneless wing, I think, Pull it up, dude. Pull it up. Are we ready? We're ready. This is hard-hitting stuff. There is a cassidia. Those boneless wings? Those are boneless wings.

And a guac, instead of salsa. Is that guac or is that spinach and artichoke dip? That is spinach and art-show dip, isn't it? That's an ugly-looking guac. I think it's a... Yeah. Damn, that shit looks way better.

We did. Hey, that ad looks way better than the actual picture. My mouth's watering. Damn. Hey, that was solid of us. That was good teamwork. We would have it on, place your bid, or what's your bid? But you're right, though.

Tress is like he's all time to have around the building. Perfect. He might be the most, like, tenure guy there, isn't he? He is. He's the oldest guy on the team. 31 years old. He's been there a while, bro. 31 years old.

The coach said that in a meeting, like, three days ago. It was like, Trest always got on team at 31. I'm like, holy shit. I'm 29. I might be the second oldest. Fuck. Which made me to be old. You guys used to have, like, he brought in the,

why am I brain parting right now? the linebacker that played at Carolina. Cool. Welcome. No. That played it for the Carolina Panthers and the Chargers. Rivera's guy. Davis? Thomas Davis.

Yes, Thomas Davis. And that's crazy because he's like a stud. Yeah, Rivera treated him right. Like, he got to have like a legitimate like send off a year, get a little bag, not practice, not be on special teams. Nice. Yeah. Like just be a locker room.

Yeah. Just let your resume. You just earned your resume. Your resume, you earned yourself this kind of year type of deal. That's awesome. Yeah. He's the only got to every. come back from three ACLs.

Yeah. Yeah. And still play. I think he made a Pro Bowl. Yep. Yeah. Him and Kikley together were... Savage.

Deadly. Yeah. Were you on the team with Kikli? Mm-hmm. What's his vibe? Very good guy. Work hard. Yes.

Very supermanish. Yeah. He's hiding something. Yeah. But, I mean, I remember being on scout team and even like during regular games. Like, they would just break the huddle, get up the line. He's calling out to play. he knows what's about to come.

I don't know how he knows, whether it's like hand position, I don't know with you offense alignment, like you guys kind of may, might have like a couple. I think it's formation based more than anything else, right? Can be, yeah.

Or like, I know someone's like the white knuckles, like if you're kind of leaning back and you're not like down. If you're forward, you've got white knuckles if you're back. Yeah. But you're wearing gloves. So when guys are pulling,

they might be on their heels a little bit more. There's a lot of things. Where guys are looking in their helmets. Yes. If you're double teaming, you might be looking at that three techniques. Instead of looking at your end. Yeah.

It's a great game right there. Linebackers, D-Tackles. Yeah, there's a lot of things. A lot of things. A lot of things. Off the time won't give away. Lots of things. He was on it, man.

So it was really impressive to watch. But, I mean, not just tackling and running down people, like in coverage, too. Like, the dude was unbelievable. Yeah, he was in the movie. I heard he didn't even have a TV in his apartment. No TV. For the first, like, three years recently, or at least the first year, he was in the league. Yeah, he's a stud.

Yep. He's just a legend. He had a girlfriend for, I think, seven or eight years. wouldn't let her live with him. He was like, it's strictly football. Yeah. Yeah.

And he's Hall of Famer. No question. You know he's so good because when I first played him my first few years in the league, he was like putting his head in stuff. And then you could tell the last couple of years, he was like there was more injuries,

more stuff going on. He had a lot of big hits. I don't know if it was affecting him too much, but he wasn't using his head as much. He was more finessing stuff. Yep. And he was making just as many tackles, if not more.

Yep. He was still just a legend. I'll never forget that Thanksgiving game. where he had like two picks in a row. Against Dallas? Yeah, against Dallas. We're in all those movies. There were snipey picks too.

They're in like cover four and he's carrying Witten in four verticals and turns around like picks the ball. And then, yeah, we're there in cover two and he ditches the middle of the field because he knows a dagger's coming. They send a three down the seam. And if you're a middle, if you're running a middle of the field, you keep it the whole way because, you know, you're in the middle of the field. Yeah.

But he bailed because he knew what was coming. he carried it long enough to where he's like, okay, this reed is now off, puts his foot in the ground, and comes up and jumps the dagger and takes it to the fucking house. Stud. He did that in practice like two or three times to me,

so then I got to the point where I had to like pretend like I'm throwing the dagger and throw it to like the third window behind him. Just like try and lay it behind him. That's the only way you could beat him. Dude, he's such a legend, bro. Yeah, he's a fucking legend. It really is.

Goat? One of. Yeah, one of. Like, I don't think he played long enough to see. You can say he's the goat. Why? Because people will still say that, but that's the argument with Aaron Donald

if he were to retire this year. That's what I'm saying. You'd be goaded? Yeah. I don't know if he'd be the goat of, uh, just because Chris Long's at it. You know what I mean?

Like on Chris Long's list, yeah, you might be the goat. Yeah. But I feel like even our conversation there was like, I might have been taking that side too. Yeah.

You know you. Kikley is a monster. Like if there's, he's top five of all time. Ray Lewis or Kikley, who are you taken? I think if you, if you have,

if you're having, if you're having one season. They're two different players. And like when Ray Lewis is playing. Erlacker. Yeah. Him and Erlack are very similar in my opinion. Think so?

Yeah. Might have been the pads, but I feel like, and also when you're like a kid and you're watching the NFL, you close your eyes and you're seven again, you're watching the NFL, like everyone looks so fucking massive. Yes. Now you're bigger and you're like, or taller or older. And you're realizing, oh, these guys are,

they're still big human beings, but they're not like the crazy superhero statues you see before. And like, you kind of see that. with Ray Lewis and Brian Raleckard. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I think if there's one season and you had one linebacker for one season that you were building around in the middle of the defense.

I'm picking Kikley. I think I'm picking Kikley, yeah. Really? Yeah, bro. Yeah. Because he wasn't just doing his job. His energy on the field, like, his awareness, his recognition. His rosy red cheeks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's rosy red cheeks. But, like, the influence he out on the field, I think you always felt it. Like, it would be somebody to where, now I would have done. the same with like Ray Lewis, but if I'm sitting on the sideline, like I'm standing up on the sideline just to watch him play.

He's that good, huh? No, Dick Bucket's, yeah. Yeah, like Ray Lewis. Lawrence Taylor was an edge guy. Lawrence Taylor was an edge guy. Yeah. Like when Ray was playing, it was a different game.

You know, like it was grounded down. Ray also had Ed Reed. Yeah. In Keekley, I mean, he had Thomas Davis. He had Thomas Davis. He had, I mean, he had some cats in front of him, too. He had some peppers there for a little bit. Yeah, Julius peppers.

running around the Ruiz had thugs. The range that Keeckley had, like, yeah, just all of it, man. And I watched him a lot, so I'm probably like a little bias. Yeah. And I didn't watch as much like Ray Lewis. But Keeclay's a fucking stud. Goat it. Yeah, goaded.

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Didn't you throw for like over 700 yards in one game in college? I did. Sophomore year of college. It was our first, so we're at FCS at this point. Old Dominion was. So we're playing teams like JMU, William and Mary, you know, schools like that. And that was like the best conference of the FCS. So we're playing New Hampshire this week.

And they jumped up on us 24-0 within like five minutes. Oh, shit. Yeah, they were kicking our ass. And special team stuff, defense stuff or offense stuff? Or all the above. All the above. Got you. And my OC comes up to me.

He's like, we're going to throw the ball every, every play. Rest the rest of the game. Nightmare for offense linemen. Yeah. And I was like, okay. I thought he was joking. 79 passes later. I was 55 of 79, 730 yards,

six touchdowns, and we came back in 1, 64 to 61. It was on... Hey, the defense didn't stop nobody. You just feel like Superman? Like, you're just like... Yeah, that's like... They put me on SportsCenter top 10 that night,

and that's, you know, as a young kid, you're like... Oh, I've made it. Yeah. So that was a fun weekend, for sure. Yeah, we're getting our ass as well. Well, how far are we? you guys down? How much were you guys down?

24 nothing. Just making it rain, bombs over Baghdad. Oh my God. So that's the other team. Oh, no, no, no. Is that you right there? Yeah. Always diving at the fucking pile.

That's your kind of signature move, huh? I might have to get that right on it. That left pile on. Like, watch this play. Boom. Broken tackle. Broken tackle. Who's this kid?

Is he playing anything in the league? Well, Bailey. No. He, uh, something happened to him in college. that you got you got in trouble that's a tough that's a tough deal based on that one play you think is the first rounder like coming from a school like that and having like the story that you have where you're chilling and going to school xFL fucking you're on the couch sleeping at your

sisters playing video games later night studying for finals and then you're like playing against tom brady a few weeks later like what are what are one of you what is one of your like favorite stories in these last couple years for you or something that you always think about or I always just go back to when I was chilling at home. And I was still training because I still had like that drive and that ambition. And I always thought I would get one more chance. I was like, just be ready when you get that chance. And I would just be doing the craziest workouts.

And my brother-in-law is a psychopath. Like when it comes to working out, he'll walk like 10 miles a day with like a 50-pound vest on and like just he's insane. Lever King. So he made me like every day he's like put that 50-pound vest on. It's like 100 degrees down in Georgia. And he maybe hold a 30 pound dumbbell like this over my head for like five miles. And we would just switch off. And like people in neighborhood like, what the fuck are these people doing?

You know? But it was like, it was those type of workouts that were like so stupid and hard that like kind of kept me like mentally going. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because you know, there's some days where you wake up and like I have nothing to do. Nothing's going well for me. You kind of want to feel sorry for yourself. But he was the one.

when I was always like, get the fuck up. At 7.30 in the morning, we're going for this walk. You'll get home at 8 at night. We're going for this walk, you know. So I always think about that because I think if I weren't doing that and staying, you know, ready, I probably want to be where I am today, you know. Yeah. So I think about that.

Is that something you think about, like, when times are getting hard for you, like, in the league? Yeah, yeah. You know, I always think about it. It could be a lot worse. You know, I've been at the bottom, you know, so everything now. I'm kind of playing with house money now. I've been out. now I'm back in and it's just like

go out there and do your thing, you know? Do you do what you know how to do? Not a lot of worries there. No. It's just like, you know how to play this game. Just go out there and do it. You know, and again, before I was playing, you just don't know what it takes. So you go out there and you're overthinking,

you're trying to be perfect. It's just a game of football. These guys are just a little bit better, a little bit bigger, a little bit faster. That helped me out big time. It is curious when you're first coming in the league and you think everyone's perfect all the time. Yeah.

And then you realize after a while, like, oh, dudes fuck up. Yeah. Just as much as in college. Literally everybody's getting paid. Yeah. Everybody's getting paid, but it's like, when you watch the NFL,

like I was saying earlier when you're a kid, like you have these, like, heroic looking figures. And you get in the NFL and you realize, like, somebody's just don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah. Some guys just don't know. And some guys are really smart,

and that's their edge. And other guys are just super athletic and they get away with it. Yeah. Some guys are the full package, but it's like, I think the biggest... Not a perfect world that you think it is

when you're watching as a fan on, you know, see on the couch watching TV. Yeah. I think the biggest difference from college to NFL to me is consistency. Everyone in the NFL is good, but you should have to be good consistently, and that's how you become great. You can't just be good and then throw two picks. Like you're going to lose, you know?

Yeah. You have to be consistently good, and that's the thing that's the challenge. Was it hard for you to adjust from Old Dominion to the NFL? A little bit. At Old Dominion, we ran that old school Oregon offense, where it's spread, hurry up, we're going. That's what I'm saying. You got to work the pocket. And we had two protections,

12 total plays, two run plays. Oh shit. Inside zone, outside zone. And we were going. Yeah. You look to the sideline,

you see like color, yellow out black. It'll be like. It's outside zone and the left. It'd be like two army mesh. That was our play call. Was that like a protection? Two is protection.

Army's protection. Two's a formation. Army is what kind of protection is that? It'll be like a key protection. So it'll be like six man. Got you. Mike out? Yep.

Got you. Just just mesh it up. It was just like, we're going. Yeah, well, it was mesh formation. And then it told them the routes also. Yep. So two was double right. Army, key protection, mesh.

Everyone knows what they're doing. Army was obviously key right. And then what was your key left? Army could be key right or key left. Oh, so the two, it would be two or three? Yeah. So like, if we called two Army mesh, you know, like the spots on the left. So the back knees line up on the left.

Yeah. He's got the swing. Or we have Navy, which is five man protection, gone protection. And, you know, so we would call like three Navy dart. and everyone knows what to do. We're going. Three Navy dart. Yep.

Front sides, man, and then a slide. Yep. Three man side and the right side. Yep. Or you guys... You guys squeeze it? You guys just go hot. You know, I actually,

sometimes I took my time and I would, like, do a fake count, see a state your rotation. You had some wheels too, huh? Yeah. Yeah. They gave me so much, like, free reins in that offense in college, which was awesome. I could change protection.

I could change the plays, stuff like that. So that was a lot of fun. but yeah we were going fast man it was a lot of fun what were like the biggest adjustments in the NFL like I said consistency and honestly is play calling I mean you should get 12 plays that's insane

12 plays and you go from two army mesh to let me think of one that we just called today like gone trade right vacant gone right 968 H Pivot F9 like what you know write that down

make sure you send that the Brable when we play the man or You know, it's just like, I go from a simple sentence to a paragraph. Right. I remember my rookie here, Norve Turner was there and he was trying out this new thing called the trifecta because he's a big, you know, horse betting guys. He was like, I'm going to do the trifecta here. And you go up there with three plays. So it was like Twinge, right, 50 ride, Kills 60 straight, alert, scat right, seam 638 F wheel.

And like as a rookie, I'm just like. As anybody do, that's ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah. What do you say? If you're going to kill it, you say Can-Kin. Then if you're going to... You say alert.

If you say alert. And then you have to know whether it's the, you Kansas or alert. Yes. Get the fuck out of here. And like, you know... You're over there yelling the left guard. Hey, what was it? Yeah.

Ask Ben what it was. And I was like the first OTAs he calls that in the helmet. And I'm like, going like two words by two words. I'm like, all right. Twendrite. He's like, 50 ride. I'm like, he had like, it took me two minutes to call play. Oh, fuck.

Yeah. So the traffic that didn't really work out. That was an OTA experiment. Oh, yeah. And they do some weird shit in OTAs, huh? They're just like, this is the new thing. We're going to try it out. See how it looks on film and go for there.

Yeah. Yep, yep. That's hilarious. You go ahead some tier talk? We'd love to. So tier talk, the way tier talk works is we have three different types of fans. The tier ones are they ride or die with the boys. Anything, no matter what, they're with us.

They're subscribing, unsubscribing, we're subscribing every single day. Tier twos are like men like yourself. You like the pop. You're a fan of the pod. You watch the clips, but you might not be on the full episode every single week. Tier 3 cats are,

oh yeah, I've heard of that pod. Hey, the boys, I've heard about that before. I like the merch. Yeah, I've watched it from afar. You might not like the videos close because you don't want people to see that you're liking them.

Yeah. But loki, I dig the boys. But basically, there's levels of the shit, right? So tier one, obviously the best, tier three. We got some work to do to get to a tier two, so on and so forth. So the tier talk this week is going to be best pregame songs.

Now, what I need from you is your best pregame song, your second best pregame song and don't and don't overthink this last part your third best pregame song those things you can go from the bottom up you can start in two if you want I really don't give a shit what you do we'll cut it up real nice for you

well normally we have a list of like 12 items that you can pick from and it's not exclusive to the list shout out to Gary for giving us the idea for best pregame so I just compiled like 50 songs that are in like top pregame everyone kind of has their own idea of what they like I can't pull my phone up This is, yeah, I would have to pull my Spotify up.

Yeah. It is more of just like an inspiration base. Look through it. If you need to look at your Spotify, you know, do that. Yeah, that's true because we can always edit. So I know a couple of mine, dude. I just don't know how to rank them. Mine's, you know, as a quarterback, you can't go out there all pumped up.

You know, you have to be kind of calm and killed. Yeah. So I have two different kind of playlists. You know, you got the pregame playlist. When you go out in the field, warm up before, you know, before you go out there and stretch and go with the game. So that playlist is more hype stuff So I don't know if you ever watch

I'm sure you have watched Friday Night Lights The movie When they're coming out for the State Championship game Yeah yeah yeah It's called Explosions in the sky That's the one I was to right before the game

Oh fuck okay Jack I see you When we were saying pregame Are we talking about Locker room before you go out I think it's just whatever you want It's like whatever gets to choose What's your vibe? Are we talking?

I already know one of Taylor's top three Okay so when I'm before I go out for, for like, pre-game. Those are two for me, too all the time. For levels,

those are different five. It's a really hard one. When I saw it in the group chat, I got nervous. But tier one, tier two, tier three is like best to worst. Like,

if you're picking our best one in each of those moments, those are all tier ones. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So when I texted in the group earlier and I did those three, I was thinking, like,

what I would listen to in the car ride there, and then the one that I would want to listen to in the locker room with, like, the boys, and then the last one I want to hear before walking out. Okay. See, I like to have some tears in my eyes When I'm fucking

I'm trying to be like, I'm trying to be emotional Taylor's on the cold play Oh, dude If I just think This is tough man Looks like Taylor's prepared though He's been serious I've been looking

I mean you guys are talking quite a bit I kind of You know who never goes wrong dude? Your tears Okay so I'll just go from, I'll go from the pregame for the pregame and then pregame right before a game. The pregame for the pregame, like when you go up and just throw around, get loose.

I'm going new noise from Refused. Oh, that one feels filthy. That is a good one. That's a good one. 10 seconds, though. Ooh, hey, it's about to get real good too. Yeah, it gets crazy. So that's the one when I get pumped up, the pregame for the pregame.

That's a go. I like that one. And I'm in the locker room with all the guys. Kodak Black, Super Gremlin. Come on. I mean, you can't, you can't beat that. All the guys going crazy. That's your Tier 1?

Yeah. Tier 1 is Super Gremlin. Yeah. Tier 2 is probably, well, I just play for you. And then tier 3 is, explosion in the sky, your hand in mine, where you kind of just manifest. Play that one real quick.

Give it a little five second, a five second teaser so I can remember it. Oh, my God. Oh, dude. That's a, that's automatic. We'll have to do sport movies one day. Yeah, I'll play that one right before a game. You would love to do sport movies one day?

Yeah. Like being a sport movie? No, tear talk. Oh, being a sport movie. I was going to get on that with you. Like, yeah, fuck yeah, be sick. Yeah. You're never going to make it.

I'll show you, Dad. I'll show you. Oh, fuck. All right, who's going next? No, no. No, it's always, I'm always last now. What do you mean you're always last? I said that.

You mean he goes second to one time? I said, okay, I'm last for now and you go okay. No, I said not all the time. What's up? He's going to try and one up us. He's trying to go last. No, because I don't. No, I think like, what we got up here?

So, I mean, like, it's not going to make my love, but I'll slap some Cardi B. Do you think of flow? Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. That what? Hey, that thing. You doing this one's in the music video.

I'm going to go, what's fucking me up is the tier system. Like, rating them from best to worse? What's fucking me up? Is it like now or is it in general? Oh. What are we talking about? I'll say my tier three. What were the tiers in before?

Like, what kind of other tiers y'all do? We've done pizza, burger joints. Oh, I've heard about burger joints. And I have to say, five guys is the best. Come on, guys. Come on. By far. No, I'm from Georgia

And five guys I've had it in and out And I was like Five guys Georgia Education is a real fucking low in Georgia It's like this is all the hype for this It's a good experience Yeah it's cool but

You guys get off your pedestal of lies Man I love that I love that I love that crazy You just said to everyone the whole entire podcast I'll say my tier three Will be the drive to the game Will be my drive to the game

And it's It's Zizi top sharp dress man windows down. You're driving by the fans walking on the stadium, just loud as fuck. My tier two, I will say, is whether you're in the locker room or you're out pregame,

Cinderella Man by M&M. Love that. Till I collapse was kind of up there with me too, I'm going to go Cinderella, man. My tier one is going to be the pregame song like with the boys when you're in the locker room and you're getting fucking hype. And it's going to be a shout-out to the boys in the locker room.

of 2015. When we went and got this bad boy, the Division Championship, we were heavy on the future album with Stick Talk and March Madness. Those are the bangers. You dropped those right before the game. I know I snuck two in there in that tier one,

but you drop those two bangers and the whole fucking locker room is going off, bro. Talking about putting the thumb up, thumb in our butt part. Everybody's getting hype. Call it up. You pause one song, go say the prayer in the shower, get back to the rap music fucking in the locker room

that's my that's my tear talk those are my songs Is that funny how we do that We go pray in the shower And next year we come out When we listen to that type of music Oh well's got a whole bit about that

Yeah yeah I do I won't I won't Yeah they'll go in and Go in and do the prayer in the shower And I'll be hey Tell the story where Jesus whoops his ass At that kind of last day to do the prayer

And then we're walking back out I'm like all right put the rap music back Oh let's get back to killing everybody No, I'm just trying to figure out my shit Because for me, I'm... Don't try to sneak out of songs in. I'm a different bird. I'm a different fucking bird.

You know that. There's a crowd out there for you. Let me... I do like, um... All right. Here are my tears. Now, my tier three is a fucking weird one, but here's why it's a weird one.

For the last eight years, I do the same thing. I go. I get the smallest pair of shorts the equipment guys have to offer. It's usually a medium. If it's a real tight... everywhere except for the middle. I go and I get in the hot tub.

I sit in the hot tub and I think to myself, thank you toes, thank you toes. I run my toes. I say, thank you feet, thank you feet. Three times all the way up the body. And then I hold my shoulders, thank you, shoulders, thank you, thank you. And I tell my brain,

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I do that. After I thanked every piece of my body, I get up, I immediately go, grab my phone and I walk into the shower. I turn the shower on cold and I put on Eric Church. The song is called Mixed Drinks

About Feelings and You. And let me tell you, I just let that water run and I go just the length of the song. This is before every single game. I don't wear headphones. I put it right in the shower. Any swinging dick can walk by and get a piece in that ear all they want. I put that thing down. I listen.

I enjoy. I shed six to seven tears. And I go and I get ready for my game. I go, I go to practice. And I go to warm up. I come back. Now, this one's a generic one for me because at one point it was a big hype tier two for me. It's not so much anymore, but it still rings,

because I feel in this podcast all time. And that is masterpiece, the baby. I think when you put that stop, notice I look at him in the eye, next time I'm a cracker getting shot, if you really let me fucking like a thought, like that whole thing, don't know why.

It gets the blood boiling in the right ways. It really does. Now, depending on where I'm at in my life, am I happier or am I sad? A lot of times in the middle of the year, it's that boy. So what am I putting on? Sad boy music.

I'm listening to Eminem quite a bit. I put a lot of Eminem. I'm not that eight-mile, lose yourself bullshit. I'm talking about, you know the sad stuff you know no no no I'm not saying bullshit I'm just saying relapse type stuff like I just got out of it so what's your song so my tier one that's not going to be my tears I'm just I'm just telling you guys where I'm at I'm just

I'm just telling you guys where I'm at because I really don't have this I'd say as recent it's hard for me to say and it's going to be a little different but it's probably going to be title track by machine gun Kelly and uh it's Tickets to my downfall is the album. That is probably my tier one that I've listened to for the last two years that have been like my go-to pieces right there. I think it's a phenomenal song. I think he rejuvenated that entire genre of music.

And moving on from rap was a huge deal, a big deal. Not because he's not a good rapist. It's really because he saw the transition, made the transition, and he's now as the biggest rock star in the world. Yeah. It's outstanding. Can I ask you something? Go ahead.

Do you not feel good about your selections? No, I've also said that three times. So the reason why you're asking me, I don't understand. No, no, I'm asking you because even though you said that, I feel like you could just get the same what the songs were. Because he had to explain them pretty poorly there. Well, a lot of people that we want to be listening on audio, I wanted to paint a picture for them.

Because I know audio is king in this industry. And I wanted to make sure that in case they were lacking a little imagination, they lost that little boy or girl in them. I was going to rejuvenate them right in the cerebellan area. They're going to feel all those endorphins hitting them for a little bit. Prize that Throw It Up didn't make your list

See, that was gonna that was gonna say that after the cocaine song that Garrett started bobbing his head to Sniffel King over there maybe but then you got on me about not just saying my tears

so I was like I guess I won't do it throw it up Throw it up is one though Yeah throw it up was one that I think about like with the Titans the locker room a couple years ago We were playing like throw it up

before we go out every time The box The box by Reddy Ridge That was that Ballin's up there That was the 2019 hitter for the boys. I think every locker room because the Raiders love that song too. Oh, really?

Yeah, you would play that one back. Oh, it's game time. Yeah. That would be played that after games when we won. I specifically remember that after the divisional game in the Baltimore Ravens. To go to the AFC championship, we were playing that. Derek Henry is wearing the crown to the side. Yeah.

Doing this little thing with the elbows moving, which is kind of like a weird deal. I don't know. But I loved it at that moment. I thought that shit was hard. legit i thought we were unstoppable that season you almost were the box man that's a good one that's a good one right that was our x-fil song for sure

yeah but if i could change mine i would and you know what one i would change probably a masterpiece would you change you probably masterpiece we got we got editing tools just say my tier two i don't know who oh by blicklandt8 too no it wouldn't be that i'm surprised one of like those didn't make it like you know no two bangers Blinklin A2

There's so many You know it's the best band of all time They have so many hitters That's one's surprised Like they didn't Yeah Damn it does rip hard But I need something a little more set

NF is a good artist A good game day artist To listen to NF It's arm You had a couple good ones The Friday Night Lights pools That Friday Night Lights one was solid Yeah

That was all time What happened to this mic? I thought we were making money On this podcast These are not totally over here. Oh, that legit bro. Boys, do you have any questions for either, Taylor? Got one. In that first game, we got called up. Do you think if there was a full crowd, you would have performed better or worse? Because it was empty, right? It was COVID year.

Yep. I think the same. I think it would have helped us as a team big time. I feel like you were just riding such an energy wave there with a full stadium just going crazy, especially like the story everyone was hearing on ESPN like you're in your room a month ago just doing Homer, not even yours, your sisters. And then you come out there like fans love a good comeback story like that. And I don't know.

I just feel like Kim Kardashian. You've been riding that wave even harder. Yeah. Again, if you're going against Brady in the playoffs at home, that place would have been rocking and it would have been harder for them offensively, I think. I think it would have been maybe a different outcome. Who knows?

but it was kind of awkward having a great game and there's no fans in stadium. Just like crowd noise? Yeah. I will say after that game, I get back to my locker, 850 texts. I had 24,000 followers on Instagram. After that, I had 110. So I game like. Oh, that's a big win.

Oh, it's a big come up, bro. That's why I was up until 7. I was, all the DMs, seeing what's going on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I see you. Okay, there it is. Do you have any pregame rituals? No.

Not very superstitious at all? Not at all. I wear the same thing every game. Okay, so you're not. You are superstitious. A little bit. You're a little stitious. A little stitious.

The wristbands, the three-quarter sleeves, and the little white socks. That's it. Every single time. Every single time. You don't want to change up your swag at all? No. What about before, like, do you have to eat the same thing? Do you read the same Bible verse?

No. Whatever I feel like eating that morning, I'll eat. whether it's a steak or pasta, I don't, you know, whatever I feel. I like that. Yeah. And would you say we missed one

the other day that was one of yours? I was just talking about the socks. The socks, yeah, that's right. Like your accessories and shit, they're kind of like,

yeah, I feel like I, I feel like I have a routine. Yeah, I have a hard time changing mine out. Right. I've gotten the shooter sleeve

a couple times and I'm always real worried I'm going to have a bad game with the shooter sleeve. Really? Yeah. Can't have a shooter sleeve and not perform well.

I know. Both games, Both times did games, though. There you go. Shooter sleeve looks good. Yeah, it does. I like a shooter sleeve. Go left arm.

Those are hard. With the right cleat. What's this right here? Oh, whistle pig, whiskey? You don't take a little sip? No, I'm not a big whiskey fan. Oh, that stuff goes down smooth. Does it?

I'm not going to make you drink because I don't know your vibes, but I do if you ever do whiskey. I saw you chugged that beer the other day. How fast? It was impressive. Dude, he's electric. Yeah. A lot of people have been coming up to me

Say hey I saw that chug man That was fucking incredible Yeah You could see you probably sell it a couple of stadiums And just have like a small little stool And sell out hundreds of thousands of people And just have Will Chugg like one beer What are you doing tonight?

I'm gonna go watch Will Chug beer Yeah Are you? Can I come? Sorry, sold out Yeah That's what it would be You gotta jump on the first couple hours They sell out

They do Oh Man Can you chug? Yeah You put it down like that Yeah give any video evidence

any outfits video evidence video evidence yeah pulled up oh it's out it's out there on the on the internet XFL seltzer

oh you charge a seltzer but I mean changes a lot of things it does but you know Chuck and Seltzer's harder yeah I was hoping you wouldn't catch on to that I'm sure you all seen this video is you

that's my him this guy right here I didn't finish it but I was I was gonna say you just get out of yourself that's like a la one on at the Preds game deal.

Yeah. That's the National Predator deal, huh? I can't chug beer at all. No? No. But I just pour it on me and it really gets the people going. I can't do it like Will? Yeah, but nobody really can. No one can touch Will. No one can touch Will.

We were chugging a bunch of beer in Ann Arbor, though. Bunch of beer. J.P. J.P. J.P. J.P. J. J. P. Hey, should we... Whiskey? Should you get him the little whiskey? I think he, I think JP would slam a whole fifth like that,

no problem. Friday night, almost five. JP. Yeah, well, you got a pig in you after this? What did you want a pig in you?

I said, you got to get him a pig after this. Oh, yeah. Does anybody else got anything for Taylor? What's your got from here? Is there anything we did not hit on? Hey,

what's you mad about? Just get fucking aggressive. Is there anything that we need to know about your life that you haven't told us? us. No. No. What a way to end a podcast, huh? Usually it's like professional. Is there anything else? We need to ask you? No. Anything you would ask us? Yeah. How the hell did you guys come up with this thing? Come on, man. You got to be a tier two. Like, you gotta know. So it happened three years ago to this day.

Yeah. Oh. We gotta get on that. Did you, uh, did you tell them that or did you know that? No, the boys told them. Yeah. They walked in. Wow. It's our three year anniversary. Hey, you gotta do something for it. Kiss me. Come on Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me Where am I kissing

On the lips No What do you mean Fuck that dude What's wrong with you Lips Nothing wrong with that Okay dude sorry

You'll fart Is that how it used to look Oh we're making something Yeah Well this will go out later But this is Just the very beginning The first in seconds

We'll give you an idea how it started. Man, this thing was gutted out. We're happy to have this Wilcocton. I'm Taylor Bland. Great. Rippers.

That's it. Rippers. Man. I cannot wait to see what you guys come up with. That's going to be cool. I love it. But yeah, three years ago,

we were in the back of a parking lot. Stealing power. Running off a generator in a hot spot. There was no hot spot yet. Yeah. But it was off of our phone hotspot. Yeah. That's impressive.

That data was crazy. That data was crazy, dude. That was so much fun. We had no idea what the fuck we were doing. Still don't. Yeah. Boy, it's been awesome. That's usually the best things come from that.

It's been cool to accumulate these things, too. Yeah. When about that chicken painting? Remember that? Yeah, it was really nice. And you're like, why the fuck do you buy that? Oh, y'all got a YouTube. What do you mean?

It's a chicken tattoo with Mike Tyson's tattoo on the side. Yeah. It's amazing. Is that a platinum YouTube deal? 100K. 100K, baby. Let's go. Yeah.

Yeah, we like that. What was that? Next one's a million. Yeah. Is it an episode or is it subscribers? Subscribers. Supervis. Honor K.

Hopefully more people subscribe when they listen to your episode. Yeah. And you post it out. Oh, yeah. I got collabies? McAfee. McAfee. Yeah.

Let's go. 183. Get a round of applause for us, dude. Go. 150 on Insti? Hey. Let's go. How was Burke Kreisher?

All time, dude. Yeah. Yeah. This is nothing. I want you know that this comment has nothing to do with you. Best podcast we've ever had. Yeah. He was, we didn't say anything.

He just told stories. We smiled. You left our ass off the entire time. I smiled the rest of the day leaving. He was just such a great storyteller. Yeah. He gave us compliments. That was nice.

He built us up. There was no breaking down the whole time. Oh, really good. Yeah. So you're trying to do stand up lately. I got out there. Yeah? How is that?

I heard it's tough. Yeah, I mean, I was definitely, I was nervous as fuck. I think it went pretty good. He crushed it. Yeah. He had a couple of really good things where it was like belly laughs in the crowd. Yeah. It was solid, dude.

I was here locally in Nashville. Yeah, Zanis, baby. Yeah, Zanis. We did a live show that night before that. Yeah. First live show ever sold out. It was awesome, dude. The crowd was crazy.

It was good, good energy. Who's that one guy? He was obviously the number one fan there. You're talking about Caleb. Yeah, he was, shut out Caleb, dude. Yeah, Caleb just, uh, yeah. He was pretty outstanding. You could do one of our, when we do, when we do, when we told him.

next year we do a live show out in Washington. Yeah, absolutely. On Virginia. We can have him on as our guest. He's one of the boys now. What we need to do is when we do our spring football tour next year, we need to do a live show every single with that. Like if we go to Arizona State,

we would go to do a live show there. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And bring somebody that went to that school. Yeah. We go to Georgia. We bring Ben Jones.

Yeah. Go to Iowa, George Kittle. We go to Old Dominant and we bring Taylor. Yeah, we got to Old Dominion. Yeah. Yeah. Where is that? Northfolk, Virginia.

Fuck, yeah. Virginia Beach. You're close. Kind of, yeah. Yeah. It's like a three-hour drive from Northwood, D.C. It ain't bad. All right.

Cool. Great podcast. Everybody's subscribed with five stars. Is there anything else you need to know? I don't think so. You're solid? Man, that was two hours. I feel like I asked.

I feel like I asked. Goes by fast, right? It does. God. Just you're like gritty. Just you're like gritty. Start swimming in these eyes, dude. Things go real fast.

Oh, yeah. Just that gritty, like, lunch pale mentality. You know what I mean? Yeah. Undersized quarterback. Just making it happen for himself. Having fun with it, man. Yeah.

Almost that's very polished. Very polished. You come on here when you retire in 10 years. I'll come back on. We'll have a lot of fun. Carson Wentz, piece of shit. That guy sucks. The ownership.

We talk about those conspiracy theories and stories. Yes. But until then, we'll just keep that in the bag. Yeah, we'll keep on the low. We'll keep it tight. Taylor was trying to break me there for a little bit. I know. You was a couple times, bro.

You know it was? I noticed zero chinks in the armor. and I thought, let's just keep pelting this. See what happens soon. Shotgun theory. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing. See what happened. Like when you were at, when you continued asking him,

all I was thinking about was when we were prying at Derek Henry on getting paid in the SEC. Which you did, but he never admitted. Everyone thinking we're just clowns for trying to like get that out of it. Yeah. Why was the clown again today? But you see what clowns make? 80K a year.

That's more than the XFL. Did you know that? Clowns, if you're a professional clown, you make 80K a year. No shit. That's the high end. But yeah, $86,000 a year. I know that was a thing. Yep.

$86,400, I believe is what it was. You know what that also is? How many seconds in a day? Really? Clowns, baby. They do it all. We got a dollar a day? $1 a minute.

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