Bussin' With The Boys - Trey McBride Recaps Career Journey From Small Town Colorado to Highest Paid NFL Tight End | Bussin'

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

Trey McBride joins the boys in Nashville to talk about his record-breaking 97 receptions with zero touchdowns, signing his $76M contract to become the highest-paid tight end in NFL history, learning f...rom JJ Watt and Zach Ertz as a rookie, why he chose Colorado State over bigger schools, and what Coach LaFleur brings to Arizona. Plus the boys recap Tight End University, Taylor wrestles Shane Gillis backstage, Taylor Swift performs, Kane Brown's golf ball injury, 4th of July plans, EA College Football 27 ratings, USA World Cup knockout stage predictions, and the infamous Cardinals-Titans fumble game.   Timestamp Chapters:   0:00 Open 2:38 Chris Johnson  3:59 Callbacks 10:15 There's No American Language 15:46 USA World Cup Path 17:46 Tight End University Recap 20:18 Kane Brown  23:02 Taylor Swift Performs at Tight End U 26:45 Shane Gillis Wrestling Taylor Backstage 32:45 Wide Receiver University Proposal 37:39 4th of July Plans 41:39 Above Ground Pool vs Apartment Pool 45:28 Taylor's Kids Are Savages in the Pool 49:15 EA College Football 27 Ratings Breakdown 55:45 EA CFB 27 MVP Plus Membership 58:03 Tier Talks 1:07:44 Trey McBride Enters 1:08:40 97 Receptions Zero Touchdowns 1:11:29 Watching Kyler Murray Scramble Was Insane 1:15:14 Kyler Murray Call of Duty Rumors 1:17:03 Growing Up in Small Town 1:19:07 Choosing Colorado State Over Bigger Schools 1:25:06 NIL Changed Recruiting Forever 1:28:28 Almost Leaving for South Carolina  1:31:33 Winning the Mackey Award at Colorado State 1:34:01 Learning From Zach Ertz and JJ Watt 1:40:05 AJ Green's Insane Work Ethic 1:44:04 Becoming the Oldest Guy in Year Five 1:46:35 Coach LaFleur and the Shanahan Coaching Tree 1:48:43 Zips Wings Debate Gets Heated 1:57:47 Signing the Record Breaking $76M Contract 2:01:08 George Kittle Jumped His Deal Two Weeks Later 2:04:23 Golf Obsession With Budda Baker 2:05:33 Taylor's $21K Wyndham Clark Bet 2:10:10 Toughest Defensive Backs to Face 2:18:40 Tight End University Behind the Scenes 2:20:49 Most Hated NFC West Rival 2:21:32 The Infamous Cardinals Titans Fumble Game See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:04:28 Visit fandul.com slash busting to get started and back USA's run. That's Fandul.com slash busting. We have a lot of, we have, we have some callbacks, we have some tier talks, we'll get into that. There was some, some massive news that took place this morning. We're filming this on Monday that I want to get to. I know a lot of times, bust with the boys, this is a place that people come to to kind of disconnect for a little bit, to have fun, not worry about their issues or troubles, enjoy some sports talk, whatever we have on the bus. And today we have a great interview as well. But massive news coming out of the NFL Tennessee Titans, Chris Johnson.
Starting point is 00:05:06 who had 2,500 all-purpose yards for the Tennessee Titans. He's one of the Titans legends, has just announced that he's been diagnosed with ALS. He's had it for over a year now. And it's just, it's one of those things, man, where it's somebody's worst nightmare. It's awful. There's not a whole lot of things that I can possibly say
Starting point is 00:05:25 to make the situation better. I want to shine some sort of light on it so that you guys, if you are a Titans fans, if you're a football fan, if you ever watched CJ 2K play a football game and thought, oh, that's super inspirational. the way he did it. He's going through a lot right now. So if he can be in your thoughts and prayers, please look for, look to do that. This guy's awesome. He's been on our show before. He was a hell
Starting point is 00:05:45 of a time. Great energy. Great guy. And it's just, it's heartbreaking to see somebody who is as strong and as powerful and as fast and athletic as he is going through something that, you know, when it affects somebody, it affects everybody around them in their world, including our world as well. So our thoughts are with you, CJ. We love you. And, uh, I mean, you know, we're hoping everything. as a smooth of a transition as possible for you. Now, our callbacks today. You know, you get to a little position like that where you have to say some things that aren't very fun,
Starting point is 00:06:17 aren't like supposed to be ha-ha, giggly, and then we're going to transition to some of these callbacks. It's very difficult. But I'm going to do the best job I possibly can for this show and for the boys in the back. Let's get into some callbacks here. I heard, I heard, I caught a couple of whispers that the callbacks are a little nasty this week.
Starting point is 00:06:35 some people, it feels like, and Shirm brought this up, it feels like people need some football in their life. Seems like, you know, the lull of guys putting on helmets, getting in between 53 and a third, going and trying to score more points
Starting point is 00:06:47 than the other guy while giving everything they had 11 versus 11 is no longer with us. And it seems so far away, yet boys, we're only 10 weeks away. We're only 10 weeks away, all right? And less than that too, it was 10 weeks on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Boom, boom, we've gotten 48 away from that. So we're not in change at this point. Let's get into these. I believe this is a, This first one's a nice one, correct? First one's a nice boy right here. Okay. This is Christopher Cinaros.
Starting point is 00:07:13 That's exactly how you pronounce it. 5548. Sam, although you claim you could have done better in the Super Bowl as a Seahawks fan, you balled out when it mattered. We couldn't have beaten the Rams for the NFC championship without you. Happy you are in Seattle. Let's run it forward. Hashtag go hawks.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Hey. We're not running it back, boy. Sam talked about. We're not running it back. or running it forward. Shout out Sam Darnold. If you didn't see that, okay. Sherm, I'm trying to focus
Starting point is 00:07:40 and you're putting this next one. Just scroll away from that one first. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Keep it blame for me. Give Sammas flowers because that's what we want, dude.
Starting point is 00:07:49 This is a place. This is a community where people can come. They can vent when they need to. Let's not be nasty. Let's have constructive criticism. But also, it's really about the vibes that take place. So shout out our boy.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Shout out Sammy, who was on the episode last week. Awesome interview. If you haven't seen that, go and check it out. Okay. Let me see the next one, dude. Here we go. Adrian Barajas.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Is that how you pronounce it? Barajas. Adrian Brajas. Nobody has ever said Tennessee had a loud stadium. Just. And here's what we're not going to do, guys. We're not going to react to these people that are going to be nasty. That's great.
Starting point is 00:08:30 There was a social thing last week where guys went around, believe it was soable he walked around and asked people what's a lot of stadium i myself said nielan all right everyone knows him a big 10 homer but i've walked in to nielan stadium looking at those checkers looking at them versus alabama watching over a hundred thousand people get after it and it was deafening so i don't know what brahas's issue is he's got one and that's all good because we're here for the community we're here for the boys all right we're here to help and give a hand up not a hand out so brahas if you need something from us buddy just go ahead and comment again we can help you any way. Not financially. That's not the kind of game we're playing. We're not doing that, but a
Starting point is 00:09:07 ha-haas. You can't say nasty stuff. That's a bulldog that's hungry for some football. Yeah. It's itching for some football. That is exactly. That is exactly what it is. I'll give one word to Jack. Should we give Jack a word or a sentence? Give a sentence. I'm not even upset about it. This is a classic case of elementary school rage bait. Yeah. Yeah. It's like if you're going to comment with zero like zero engagement on yours. Come on, man. Hit the drawing board. put the work in. You have opportunities to actually get a rise out of me and it's just not doing it.
Starting point is 00:09:40 Jack, hold on, scroll back up please for a second. Jack, you said zero likes. He's got one on there. So if you're going to come, you better come correct. He's got one. Or it's clump. It's somebody. That's what Brahas is trying to do to us.
Starting point is 00:09:55 He's trying to tear us apart. Divide us before $2. We're not going to bring up the fact that you can like your own comments. You might have to do that after the show. We'll save it for after the show. But hey, what we're not going to do, Jack, because we're not going to let him tear us down, right? No, of course not.
Starting point is 00:10:07 We're here for you, Brahas. Whatever. Please pronounce it correct. Adrian Brahas is in your last name. Nasty. That was a nasty comment. He's probably going through more than we can ever comprehend. Her people, hurt people.
Starting point is 00:10:19 That's absolutely true. This one comes from feeling it rising. Entourage is not good. Once again, hey, clump, relax for a second. Anybody who's watched this show for the past few months know that the boy, who have watched entourage has collectively try to get Will Compton
Starting point is 00:10:36 to watch the show. I don't know where Will finds the time to watch as many shows as he does. It's probably not good for his brain, but every day he's coming in
Starting point is 00:10:45 with a new show. I go to Twitter, I go to X, whatever it's called now, and I see him just posted about a bunch of shows. All I want him to do is know what it's like
Starting point is 00:10:54 to just be around Ari Gold for 30 minutes. Yeah. As his friend. Fast-paced, fun, good to be around. Entourage is a, top tier show, feeling it rising is clearly going through something.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Yeah, Sherm? I would say so. This is probably a guy that loves sitting down watching some football on a Saturday or Sunday. And he's looking around. He's like, there's no football on that. The guy loves cracking a couple neutrals. Hang out a little bit. And he's just, he's messing it out right now, you know?
Starting point is 00:11:24 He just having a bad time. He wants to get back to some neutrals and college football Saturdays. And he's deflecting. He's deflecting. And that's okay, dude. Yeah. Because as men, when we harbor these emotions, we push them deep down. I'm not saying you shouldn't.
Starting point is 00:11:36 I'm just saying sometimes you get a little burp. Well, something comes up. You can feel it rising. Yeah, you feel it rising. And entourage is not good. It's clearly a cry for help. No engagement. No.
Starting point is 00:11:47 Okay. Jared. I was just pointing out. Jared, come on. Just part of that screen. We don't need that. Remember, we're here for people. Pump.
Starting point is 00:11:54 I'll give you a sentence. What stinks for this guy is I know he's upset. So I would recommend watch Entourage. It'll cheer you up. Entourage is one of the best medicines, in my opinion, out there. It is great. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Yeah. I agree. I agree. Every season, but season seven. Season seven makes you a little sad boy. 14 Emmys, you said?
Starting point is 00:12:15 14 awards total and 106 nominations. Damn. For a while. Yeah, but not a good show. You know, feeling it rising. He knows that. He's probably looked it up since then. He understands.
Starting point is 00:12:25 He understands. What's his next one, Shirm? This one comes. So if Taylor can only read an American, that's probably what's happening right now. He wrote this in English, apparently. This is Jason Crook, 9182. He said, clean take.
Starting point is 00:12:43 No way USA is beating England. You speak English because you were a colony. There is no such language as American. It is a dialect of English. All right. Okay. So that's how we're going to. So now I'm getting a little pissed off.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Right? Because if I'm reading Jason Crook, 91-82 correctly, he's saying clean take talking about Kevin's natural foods, which we love and adore, had some this morning, had some of their scramble.
Starting point is 00:13:11 It was actually delicious. And he's going to come in here and take shots at USA. You're talking about the country that it was established in 1776? You're talking about a country that came in, found new lands,
Starting point is 00:13:24 took over a little bit, said, hey, let's make the land of the free, the home of the brave. And then England wants to come in and be like, hey, you guys can do everything you want, but that, that T you have there, 2% tax on that. And we said, go fuck yourself. Did we have representation in their parliament while they tax us? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:13:40 You tell me, because that sounds like a lot. I think we didn't. I think we said no taxation without representation. That's right. That sounds like something I've heard before. So if you're going to come out of America, listen, we're here for people, but also Jason Crook, like maybe, you know what? Executive Order Bustin with the boys.
Starting point is 00:13:58 It's now American. Hey, but also in his defense, because this is for the people. And I'm the one that brought this up last week. JP, let me fix my shorts because they're riding up a little high after. He needs help. Jason needs help.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Yeah, okay, but I will say this. Hey, look, hold on. Hold on. I'll say this. I just want to say this. You go ahead and finish a sentence if you want to, but you need to tread very lightly because in his defense. You sound like the British back in the 1700.
Starting point is 00:14:24 No, you sound like the British back in the 1700s, dude. Oh, shit. So look, if we're going to tell us. everybody. We're giving it, we're brushing everybody with the same page stroke that they're missing football. This English man is missing football because football, the football he likes, is being played in America right now. So I'm just saying he's going through the same thing Americans are going. He's a grumpy boy. Right. Premier League, they're off. Everybody's on break for
Starting point is 00:14:50 World Cup. He's missing football. That's all I'm saying. But the World Cup's taking place right now. And he's right with the World Cup. He doesn't have it in his country. We have it here JP just waxed poetically He kind of did And that pisses me off Dude because when he said in his defense I immediately got mad
Starting point is 00:15:07 Like my heart rate was up to 140 in a second Dude I'm about to hit a hot flash I'm about to go through Metapause This guy's got two replies on there I'd love to see those two replies are we don't have to right now Finding We don't have to right now
Starting point is 00:15:18 I'll say this to Jason 9182 If you Are gonna be that nasty I always just suggest going to the Fanduals Sportsweek app a $1 in America to make it to the round of 16. Because you get $250 to cash.
Starting point is 00:15:31 And that is American cash, by the way, the most beautiful, delicious currency you can possibly have in the entire world. Could we agree on that? D. Domestic is what we want. USD. That's what we're talking about here. J.P., I liked it.
Starting point is 00:15:46 I hated it, but I also just... You understand. I do. Because I'm a logical man. We all miss football. Can we all agree, though, at one thing? Can we disagree and have a blanket statement? America's the best.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Oh, yeah. Okay, good. As long as we're all, we all feel that way, then we're good. Japan actually. Oh, hey, hey, hey. The way we can tell America's the best is with all of, with the World Cup being here and all of the fans from all of these other countries, like, realizing how awesome it is here and, like, discovering ranch. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:17 That's one of my favorite things. Like, come on. Yeah. It's one of my favorite things right now is seeing the Europeans and the people over the world coming here and they kind of lied to us in the media. Sherim, go back. They were a little nasty. Yeah. So I will say the two replies
Starting point is 00:16:29 They're a little crazy Right? And that's just guys Patriot bone Kind of get a little too much of them right That's that spit up That burp we kind of talked about When you're pushing all the emotions down A couple guys had some big spitups
Starting point is 00:16:42 On our boy Jason there So I'm back on his side kind of Across the pond They're missing football And we're missing football Everybody's missing football I'll say this dude I'll say this in England
Starting point is 00:16:52 You can get arrested For saying nasty things in the internet You can't You can get arrested. But you can also stab people and then be okay. Okay, Jack. I mean, look. Come on, man.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Maybe we need to go over there and not look into the news and be in the culture. Instead of what they're doing, being over here, being in the culture, not in the news. Yeah. And join America. All I'm saying is if Jason's from England, he's probably going to get arrested when he gets back. Probably could get arrested. He should stab some people first. That's according to Jack.
Starting point is 00:17:22 We respect their law, so we will narc on him. Yeah. Yeah. We respect their laws. Exactly. You don't need him being a criminal. Yeah. A mean take can get you three to five years in England.
Starting point is 00:17:35 That's all we're saying. That's all we're saying. A mean take here is just, you know, you might get canceled for a couple of years until there's a transverse place. And everyone's like, this guy's cool now. Yeah. Or a couple clean takes after a mean take can clean the slate. Clean take.
Starting point is 00:17:47 America's the best. We've already talked about that. Kevin's Central Foods. Clean take. All right. Is that it? Is all we got for callbacks? That's all we got.
Starting point is 00:17:55 Maybe a prediction for the US of A. How are you feeling World Cup wise? We're going to win it all, right? Come on. There was conversations that took place. JP broke it all down for me. We have a team that has a lot of talent. We're bringing this guy from Argentina.
Starting point is 00:18:09 Is it Argentina? The coach from Argentina? Guy's not a guy you want to be around. He's not going to be a guy you want to have a beer with. But he is a guy that gets the most out of his players. We've seen that. And is it the group play? We've seen the group play.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Now we're going to where it really counts. We lose the last one to Turkey. I think it was in the last thing. It was a turkey? we lost the last one but at that point I saw that I start getting upset
Starting point is 00:18:29 about us losing to turkey someone's like hey don't worry about this it doesn't matter because we're already in so this game really didn't matter to us rest some guys get some guys out let's start to get towards the real end goal here we got talent boys
Starting point is 00:18:42 we got talent and we got a lot of movies depicting about all the amazing things we've done in sports so why can't this be one of those things as well FIFA 26 could be miracle on ice could be America versus Canada and the Olympics, the Winter Olympics. Okay, could be all those things. Could be Iraqi Balboa versus the Russian. Like, we have those things.
Starting point is 00:19:02 So why not just keep it pushing? So that's my thoughts on the World Cup right now. Does anybody disagree? Zero disagreement. It would be a movie. It would be a movie. Or it will be a movie when we win. Because we will have to play, if we win this one, we'll probably play Belgium.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Then we'll play Spain. Yeah. Then I believe France and then Argentina. See, that's the France part is the tough one. But that's what we want. We want France. We never asked for eating. We want the hardest road.
Starting point is 00:19:27 We want the hardest road. And then France would be the second to last before the gold medal. Yeah. Okay. So that makes a lot of sense because the miracle on ice against Russia, that was not the last game. Sweden was actually the last game. Yeah. So we beat Russia.
Starting point is 00:19:40 And they're like, oh, by the way, we ended up winning it all. Like, we beat Russia. We know France is our new Russia for this setting because France is such a good ball club. They are. They're a good foot club. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good.
Starting point is 00:19:51 All right, onward. Last week, boys, Tide NU took place. And I want to give a big shout to all the boys that took part in Tid NU. I think you guys all did a phenomenal job. Round applause for you real quick. Amazing time.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Shout out. Greg Olson, George Kittle, and Travis, Kelsey, those boys, the founding fathers of Tidone University. For the last six years, it's just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. This past year week,
Starting point is 00:20:14 whatever it was, they had an open practice where the guys came out. First off, I want to give a massive shout to all these tight ends. because they get there the day before. What they do, they all go out, they have a good time, they cheers, they get after a little bit,
Starting point is 00:20:26 as all tight ends, football players, community boys, locker room should do. They come out and they put on an absolute show for the 2,500 people that came in. It was free, sold out or whatever. It filled up in, I think, less than a minute. They had all the sponsors everywhere. Shout out of Reese's, peanut buttercups, by the way.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Shout out Reese's. We love Reese's so much. They were awesome people. We end up seeing this entire thing. Also, a big shout out to Bruce. kiddle individual who I thought I was going to be on the mic a lot more. Bruce, you could see his anxiety was kind of taking place about every minute to minute. He wanted things to get done. I ended up just kind of losing the mic for a little bit.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Bruce just kept walking up to me and taking the mic for me. All good on that because the display, everything was amazing. And then that night, the concert takes place. So this is Tuesday or Wednesday? This is Tuesday. Tuesday, the concert takes place. Unbelievable time. It's at the pinnacle.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Am I getting that correctly? So the boys, just so you know what we do for all the people at Bustin with the boys who listen to Bustin with the boys, our day started at 6 a.m. We have two interviews that take place. You will see those interviews later. They have been put on socials. Those have not come out yet. Two interviews at 6 a.m. Then at 11 o'clock we go and we do MC the Tidon University practice.
Starting point is 00:21:40 Incredible, great time. A lot of athletes out there. I'm sure a lot of young boys were inspired to become the next Travis Kielsen, the next George Kale, the next Greg Olson. And the other Tidon that happens to be their favorite. Then there's a couple hour break. Jared Beeman and Klump and I make a massive mistake. We go to get gelato. My wife told me you go get gelato.
Starting point is 00:21:56 We end up not having time to go home. So we shower at Jared's house. I'm wearing the same outfit. I'm wearing the same outfit. I thought it warned you about that traffic. Dude. Are you wearing the same outfit right now currently, I think. Could be, man.
Starting point is 00:22:10 I think it is. What's crazy too is I wear the same shit every day, but my closet's so full. It's nuts. Like, why did you shower? Yeah. Took a quick little shower, hung out with all Jared's animals. By the way, dude, you got it. You got way too many animals.
Starting point is 00:22:23 You got way too many of them boys out there, right? There's four now. It's crazy. And then we go and emcee this event. It was unbelievable Will Compton hit himself a legendary chug. We had some good times. Crowd Buddhist at one point because what's his name? Kane Brown.
Starting point is 00:22:38 Kane Brown. So I didn't know this. I found out later in the week. Kane Brown, he was playing golf. For those of you don't know. Boy, was playing golf. Takes one right in the ear. All right.
Starting point is 00:22:48 23 stitches in his ear. So he misses. He misses Tide-in University. We've all had head head-head. Well, I'll speak for myself. I've had head injuries. I get it. Sometimes they don't let you play
Starting point is 00:22:58 even though you want to play. But then we're doing a little bit of homework. And Kane Brown is he gets the stitches. He's got that out there. He's at Chick-fil-A. And he looks like he's having a good time. In my brain, Kane-Brown's having a good time with this. He ends up not going to attend a university.
Starting point is 00:23:13 So we decided to have a little fun with him. Crowd booze us. We tell them they don't respect concussions. A good enough pot for me to be like everything was justified in what I did to make fun of Kane Brown. Later in the week, his wife. Did you see her a story? She was going, she's like, I can't believe people would come at Kane Brown.
Starting point is 00:23:30 I'd come at my husband like this. How dare you? He sustained a massive energy. Really, and shout out her, by the way. Shout out her being a wife of a guy who's catching a little bit of heat. And she's pulled the sword out. John Snow pulls the sword out and goes, anybody wants to fuck with my man. I mean, I just happen to be one of the guys that fucked with her man.
Starting point is 00:23:48 So I'm like catching a couple of days. I go to my DMs. People are like fucking kill yourself. People legit were like shout out Kane Brown fans. They go hard. They go hard. They go hard, dude. And it's like I'm looking at like these hatred DMs I'm getting and I'm like, good for these people to come at me.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Think I did something wrong to their king. I came at him a little bit. It was all in good fun. Yeah. But Kane Brown missed. We made a couple of jokes. No. What would I?
Starting point is 00:24:19 Yeah. If she could get, No, absolutely. I'm not going to apologize. Like, I'm not going to apologize for making a joke and having a little bit of fun. Like, if you're really that upset about it's like, hey, listen, you got hit in the ear. Was she coming at you guys? No, I think she was.
Starting point is 00:24:34 Clearly, her husband was catching heat for missing tight in you, getting hit in the ear. You know, you know these, I don't know. These tough guys, they want to be like, oh, you got a shot in the ear. You're not going to go sing. Like, people want to do that kind of what I was doing. It was all in good fun. If she's upset about it, all good. You know, life's not changing at all.
Starting point is 00:24:53 We're just having a good time. Guys can't rise with the guys a little bit. Guys can't rise around a little bit. Just razz it. Well, they probably miss football too. The cane brown foods. What's that? They probably miss football too.
Starting point is 00:25:05 They probably do. You know what? Anybody who gets mad at me through now and kickoff, it's only because they just miss football. And I'm here for anybody who wants to get pissed off. Yeah, yeah. I'm here for them. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:25:17 Yeah, Tidea Need was awesome. Dude, Swift came out. Lany Wilson introduced Taylor Swift. She came, and I'll just tell you this, dude. She, I, I was kind of into her music when I was younger. I haven't, like, been super into it since then it's just not my genre. The girl is incredible. What a performer.
Starting point is 00:25:34 We're sitting backstage for a moment as she's about to go out and she's got a cluster. She's got a gackle of individuals with her. But she's, like, in the back before she walks out. You can see her just getting in the zone. And I remember just looking at her being like, yo, it's so cool that somebody, who is as successful as she is, as famous she is, she just handles, it seems like she handles her business the correct way at all times.
Starting point is 00:25:55 And for her to sit back, get in the zone and go out and just put in a performance, whether it was three minutes or five minutes, it was a very short amount of time. But the pop from the crowd, the way she handled everybody, everybody in that moment felt like she was just singing individually to them.
Starting point is 00:26:08 And I thought that was just awesome. It was just awesome. Some cool points awarded too. She comes out before she started singing a love story with Lainey. And she's just like, hey, I'm happy to be here. Shoutout Tide in you and you think she's about to dedicate this song
Starting point is 00:26:20 to her fiance, Travis, and she dedicates it to George Kittle. How cool is that? Which is just, dude, all in good fun. She's having a good time, razzing people. She might miss football a little too. Yeah, she probably misses ball.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Yeah. She misses ball a little bit, dude. But it was awesome, man. She was, it's just really cool to watch people who are like outliers in their craft perform. And I thought, and she is clearly that she's the biggest superstar
Starting point is 00:26:45 in the world. She's our modern day, what would be Michael Jackson. Like, that's probably the start of him it was. And it's just awesome to see all that go down. All while our boy, Trav is just there kind of bobbing around. Just like stoked to kind of like be there. The cool, here's all. I'll say this about Trave.
Starting point is 00:27:01 I'll say this about Travis. I've known Travis for almost 10 years now, something like that. The guy has been the same dude since the day I've met him. And that is such a rare thing to have is a guy who has obviously achieved this insane level of stardom, but you still do to say, well, you all giggling about back there, dude. Mitch is silent clapping. It's all right, Mitch, you approve so much.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Your body couldn't help it, dude. You're just excited. My head is like, I know Mitch loves Travis so much. I'm just like, listen to you talking. I'd see Mitch hitting the. That's nice. This was the first year we saw him that I didn't bring up him wishing my, wishing me happy birthday. So I'm proud of myself for that. That was good. That was good. Having that self-discipline was good.
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Starting point is 00:29:06 Let's get back to this episode. But one guy who's changed completely, Shane Gillis. Shane is a one of one cat, dude. And he was on his uncle Bob this weekend. When we were at, we were emceeing the event, his nephew, Anthony. He was with us. The kid is just his eyes are this big. He's so excited about seeing all these star athletes out there.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Shane, I think, was, at least have ever seen him get bugged by anybody. He was kind of like, he found himself some shade, which was kind of nice. He's kind of very rare in that moment to find shade. Him and Anthony, where he and I are playing catch. Anthony is out there stretching with the boys doing routes, all that. They ended up leaving a couple hours really with a young Phil. Let's give Phil his father a round applause. Just an absolute stud.
Starting point is 00:29:51 Couldn't believe he left the sunscreen in the car. Couldn't believe it. And you know that, yeah, those pale gillises, man. They need all the sunscreen they can get. So Shane and Will. Will was going up to people asking for sunscreen as well. So yeah, it was really cool. cool to see that. It was cool to see him in a different
Starting point is 00:30:12 element. Being a, you know, not just razzing around, hanging out with the boys, but like being an uncle, being a family man in a way, which was really cool to see. But that night, Shane was being a nasty, nasty boy all night, dude. He's been nasty. Still got to know who won that wrestling match. You guys kind of, to give context, Taylor and Shane, out of
Starting point is 00:30:30 nowhere, just disappear for 10 minutes, and they are full on wrestling. In front of the security guards that tied in you, we come over, they're, you know, saying their piece, I won this, no, I won. They look at the security guard. He says you win. And then Shane kind of gives him the eye. He goes, wait, no, he might have won. Right. I think the public needs to know who took the win. It was like four rounds. Dude, it was, it was in the thing, here's what, here's what so great
Starting point is 00:30:53 about this. So we can go back to Tide, it's not Tideon University, to Beer Olympics. I believe it was 22, 23 beer Olympics. And everyone's seeing the videos of me choking out Shane. There was a good moment of Shane just like having truth serum in his body where he's like, yes, Taylor, I instigated every single moment of those taking place. It wasn't just stills. of me bullying Shane. And Shane kind of admitted, he's like, I, hey, I kind of, I mess with, like, the wrestling. I like wrestling around the boys.
Starting point is 00:31:19 Which juice me up because we know my beautiful co-host, Will Compton. He's got that fragile L5S1. He tries to stay away from the physicality as much as possible. So it was nice to hear one of my boys was kind of about it. And Shane's like, yeah, we're going to have a beer, Will, was anything kind of night. So we end up having a couple of beers, a couple of beers. Just a couple.
Starting point is 00:31:38 But Shane had a couple of beers before then. So he's kind of punching. He's throwing punches. We're fucking around a lot. And he's talking about how he's going to bodybag me. So Shane goes to go to the bathroom. And I follow him a little bit. And I start choking them out.
Starting point is 00:31:51 And it's literally, I wish. That sounds crazy. I wish somebody. I wish somebody was there, dude. Because it was literally just two security guards standing there. And then me and Shane on a cement ground rolling around together. And they would come up and be like, eh, all right, all right.
Starting point is 00:32:07 And they kind of like back up like we're in high school, like letting us fight a little bit. Where no one's seeing this at all. I'm on his back. He gives up and all of a sudden he gets full amount and puts a bunch of fake punches on me. And he says, I won.
Starting point is 00:32:20 And I'm like, all right, you can have it, buddy, whatever you want. He goes to, he goes to bathroom, comes back.
Starting point is 00:32:23 He's like, I know you let me win. I was like, Shane, it's all good. He's like, but maybe the way you're acting right now. Just out of nowhere.
Starting point is 00:32:29 He's like, I did win. So we go back and forth four more times of him and I just on a cement floor rolling around. Nobody's around. There's a green room full of all these artists and people of fame. Everyone's drinking, having a good time. And then just me and Shane being a couple of boys wrestling each other,
Starting point is 00:32:47 having the best time ever. To the point where he couldn't let the fun times go, huh, Club? That car ride was top five car ride of my life. He dropped him off and him just picking at you the whole ride. He's like, maybe you let me win. Maybe you did. Just getting in your head. It was awesome.
Starting point is 00:33:02 It's like midnight. We've had an 18-hour day of like truly just going and going. And Shane's like, let's go. Let's go. Of all the place to go to you, you want to go to Kane Browns. He said, let's go to Cam, come on,
Starting point is 00:33:11 come on, we'll have one beer to out of my machine. I'm not going in there. I'm not doing it. So we drop them off on Broadway. Shane gets out, we're going this way. We're going that way.
Starting point is 00:33:20 Shane, the Kane Browns is on the other side of traffic. And he's like, I'm not pulling over. Like, you're just going to get out. And so Shane Gillis, the biggest comedian in the world right now,
Starting point is 00:33:30 has to walk across the street, avoid traffic to get to Kane Browns. But it was one of the most fun times. I've had with Shane. It was awesome, man. So shout out the boy on that. Absolutely beautiful to be around him. He pretends like he hates the cameras, dude.
Starting point is 00:33:45 But he fucking loves the cameras. Absolutely loves the cameras. Does he not? Yeah, he's, you can definitely tell when he's ready for it. Yeah. He doesn't like being surprised by cameras. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:57 How about him coming out of his trump too for like two seconds? I was going to say he did, he was a homie for that. Because he was at a close after Taylor Swift. He's like, I'll go out with you. And he crushed. It was funny. He did.
Starting point is 00:34:07 It was hilarious too. NFL posted like Tideon University's done. It's like Taylor Swift, Travis, George, Greg. And then there's like a Shane Gillis. Will and I are so close to Shane. Somehow the NFL bought a cut us out. I was wondering the same thing. That black and white photo right.
Starting point is 00:34:22 And I saw him like, these motherfuckers, man. We were in it. I think they got you out. And I literally, I remember in a moment I was like, people did any photos? I literally got closer because I was like, I want to be in the photo. I want,
Starting point is 00:34:31 am I want to be the imaginary photo that somebody's taking? And they still cut my ass out of there. Hey, removal too. Yeah, crazy. Exactly, dude. Tiny trave, little kiddle. And his wife, once he said his wife,
Starting point is 00:34:45 he could hear the whole room was like, I'm out of here, I'm out of here. I was like, good, time to go. But yeah, dude, last week was absolutely awesome. It was so much fun. It's crazy how big, like how much more, how much bigger does it have to get? Does it have to get any bigger?
Starting point is 00:34:59 Can we be, are we happy with where it's at? Because I think they could have packed out the entire Vanderbilt Stadium if they really wanted to. I'm crazy here, but I feel like it's reached, like, how big it could get. Maybe now it's time to reel it in a little. It's up to them. Obviously, there's lots of money to be made.
Starting point is 00:35:13 Yeah. But maybe next year, it's like, let's dial it back. You know Greg Olson wants to get back to the X's and O's. He wants to be back at Lipscomb Academy is where he wants to be. Just keep a bit. Let's work on the fundamentals. Let's work on coverage. Zone.
Starting point is 00:35:24 What are you sitting in zone? How do you get off a guy and man? Like, that's what Greg wants, dude. I do have a proposition for how you could elevate. I think every good, every great thing. Every great thing needs a rival. Wide receiver U is already kind of a thing. Like that's a term that's used.
Starting point is 00:35:41 You have a wide receiver U that also happens during Tide End You and then a seven-on-seven game of the best of the best room tied in you versus best of the best room wide receiver you. I don't hate it. No bad idea is in a brainstorm. I don't dislike it at all. Okay. You just got to worry about the coverage on the outside.
Starting point is 00:36:02 Yeah. But yeah. I mean, there's a, there's a lane. There's a, because their competition would be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The tight ends might get worked, but you have to also consider that there's a lot of drama in wide receiver rooms, a lot of ego where tight ends,
Starting point is 00:36:17 they're there for the X's and O is the technique. And I don't know if you're going to get as much show from wide receivers, enough, you know, participation. Oh. Tight ends are, they're showing up. You're calling out the wide receivers. You're saying you guys aren't here to work. Yeah, tight ends would do a pretty,
Starting point is 00:36:33 let's not like receivers could really, guard tight ends either. Yeah. They'd be scoring. It's going to be a high scoring game. That's for sure. No one's playing a defense on either side. Wide receiver you would need their own pop star though. They cannot like the Taylor concert thing that is not a part of wide receiver you. They need to get their own pop star. The vibe of wide receiver you. Who would be the headliner for wide receiver you? Well, they had Cardi B until. They did. They had Cardi B. They actually had one.
Starting point is 00:36:56 They had a good one. It seems like a they have it in Miami, not Nashville. This is like a yacht. Chad Ochocho. Yeah. Yeah. This is not a Nashville like country kind of fun. He's got to meet at a neutral location. Yeah. Yeah, somewhere in Kansas. I feel like wide receivers. Atlanta's not a neutral location. I think wide receivers are more secretive on like giving away their tips.
Starting point is 00:37:17 Does that mean like tight ends? It goes back to the personality and ego. Tight ends are here to help everybody. And wide receivers are like, no, like I'm not going to teach you how I do it. This is my craft. Yeah. Right. Because at the end of day, we're all kind of competing against each other as well, right?
Starting point is 00:37:28 We want our stats. We want someone out the most stats, the best stats. One of the best videos is when Chad Ocho Cinco is coaching up like, Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase and Chad is like trying to give them game and they're trying to tell Chad like how good Pat Sertain is and they're like Chad like this
Starting point is 00:37:44 it doesn't work. Chad's like no I know it works I did it for 10 years blah blah and then they explained it even more and Chad's basically like oh damn so he's that good that is so funny dude while you're on the Mike JP I know you went to the World Cup
Starting point is 00:38:00 was a couple weeks ago a couple weeks ago we haven't is there anything more on the horizon of your agenda tomorrow i guess as this episode drops i'll be in new york with the boy henry shout out to neutral again going for round two france versus sweden so get to watch arguably the best player in the world cup it's between imbapet and messy i would say and imbapet will probably be the eventual record leader for most goals at a world cup he's already like three behind messy and he's 28 years old and messy had a hat-trick what yeah two weeks ago exactly but And Boppa, I scored two goals in every game except for one.
Starting point is 00:38:38 So he's an animal. Yeah, he's a beast. I'm excited to watch Dimblede though. Are we possibly watching the goat, the next goat? Yeah, so. Maybe Mahomes. No, no, no. Because it's still like, he's already 28, I think.
Starting point is 00:38:51 So Messi's career. And Boppe is like, is incredible, obviously. But Messi is still, he's a level above. And based on the conversation we were having earlier about the path of the USA, you're thinking France, Mops. Sweden. Yeah, that would be my guess. All right.
Starting point is 00:39:07 Put in your Fandall's and we're, uh, you're scouting. He's scouting. He's scouting for the U.S. Yeah, yeah, yeah, got to. Yeah, I mean, this is a lot bigger than just one game. You see the laser pointer thing that took place? No.
Starting point is 00:39:17 People put out, out, there's people in the crowds doing laser porters in the goalie's eyes and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Might have to be you, man. I've got to get to a US game. He's, uh, is this game at MetLife? At MetLife. Damn.
Starting point is 00:39:30 That's going to be awesome. See if it's cursed. It's cursed. It's all right. All right. You know it's not just all right, dude, is 250 years of Dominance. Shout out America's birthday.
Starting point is 00:39:45 July 4th is coming up this weekend, which means Win Rebel LeWan's birthday is the following day. But boys, I love to know quickly, because I know people want to get into this interview with Tray McBride, correct? Yeah. I don't have so many banks. Sometimes my brain doesn't work very well.
Starting point is 00:39:59 What are our plans, do? What are we doing? What are we up to? Fourth of July, I will be, here, I believe. We've been on the road a lot. Was that the beach just past week? We're going out to Vegas next week. So I'll be here for a good old fashion. One of our friends, I'm 30 years old by the way. One of our friends, his parents are going out of town. His parents have a pool in their backyard. Hell yes. So we're going to fire up his dad's grill, hang out at his pool for just good
Starting point is 00:40:27 old fashioned throwback 4th July. God, I love that. Yeah. Keep it classic. I'm heading up to the lake, Going to old hickery, got a group of friends, going to my buddy, JD's lake house. Can't beat the lake on the 4th of July. Can't be the road. I know we've, in years past, we've talked about the lake first of beach. When it comes to the fourth,
Starting point is 00:40:45 especially when the fourth falls on a Saturday, you can't go wrong with a body of water, whether it's a tiny little made-up pool in the backyard, your friend's parents pool, the lake, the beach. If you're around a body of water on a Saturday celebrating 250 anniversary for the USA, you're going to have a good time.
Starting point is 00:41:03 So definitely a lot of fireworks involved, some grilling, get on the boat, just take it in. We've officially hit that point in Nashville weather where it is extremely hot. We did have a great run. We had a long spring, it felt like, but now the lowest high temperature this week
Starting point is 00:41:21 is 94 degrees. Today, as of Monday, they said it's feeling like 107 at the peak heat index today. So it's going to be hot. Shane Gillis, if you're listening, Do not forget that sunscreen. But yeah, go USA.
Starting point is 00:41:35 I'll say this too, dude. People, my wife this week, she is giving birth in two weeks. So we have to give her some great. Yeah, shout out to him. Absolute queen, absolutely queen. But she was talking about how hot it was. There was like four or five comments yesterday. That's so hot.
Starting point is 00:41:48 What about the animals? What about this? So I wouldn't check on the animals a handful of times. Yeah. But guys, do we not remember six months ago praying for this moment of I can't wait for the heat to be here? I can't wait for the sunlight. Because I'll tell you this. Yeah, it's steamy.
Starting point is 00:42:00 When you walk outside, especially in the south, you're going to be sweating from head to toe. But would you rather be just drenched in sweat and have the sun on your face? Or would you rather be seasonal depression? Hoadies on ice storm. Do we think about the ice storm that took place? Like this is the time, even when it's hot and it's a little uncomfortable, let's embrace the suck just a little bit because six months from now, we'll be back in a frozen tundra. And that for me is just not my game.
Starting point is 00:42:26 It's not my game that I like to invest. I like to visit. I like to watch my kids ski and snowboard and do all the things. things that's fun ice skating that's fun periodically yeah this buddy give me this 24 8 you know what i'm saying 24 shirm what are you and the fam doing the fam and i are going to the beach and to echo jack we have a great trip down to 38 to celebrate uh scarlet's first birthday nice um so we'll have some pre fourth fireworks for scarlet's b day on the third and my mom my dad my brother are going and then obviously Jill and Scarlett. It'll be a ton of fun. If you echo Jack, we're going to the beach.
Starting point is 00:43:05 I'm very excited for the beach. Nothing beats the lake, though. The lake on the 4th of July just sounds like that's just, I sign off on that forever. Yeah. But very excited for the beach. It's going to be a blast. Ocean's kind of taking a couple shots in this one. Yeah. Love the ocean. 38 during the fourth is undefeated. I've been there. America, absolutely best. Yeah. You're right, Gulf of America. I don't even think of that. Dude, I'll tell you, I know this is not lake, this is not beach. And I might be crazy for this, but it might be a Kevin's Natural Foods, clean take.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Above ground pools on Fourth of July, I think it's so hard. With a nice wooden deck. Yeah, I think above ground pools on Fourth of July is kind of, yes, it's kind of peak, dude. Above ground pools on the fourth is the best time to have above ground pool. Above ground pools are so sick. They're sick. Okay, I'm glad.
Starting point is 00:43:57 I'm glad you guys are on that. Beam, what do you got? I'm hitting an in-ground pool. Kind of the same thing as JP. I'm going to... Dude, dude. I'm going down to Atlanta. Like, McKenzie's parents' neighbor are out of town, so we're stealing their pool.
Starting point is 00:44:10 I don't know. Hopefully they don't listen to the pod. We'll be there this weekend. We'll invite a lot of people to your house. Hell yeah, dude. We will be there. I won't say their name. But, yeah, we're taking over a pool.
Starting point is 00:44:18 That's not mine. Yeah. I like that. I like that. You should dip into their alcohol cabinet, drink a half of it and then fill the vodka bottles up with some water. That night stuff. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:28 I don't know. It's like, Jared, you're old enough to drink you should just bought your own man. Jared, you read 26 this. That'd be awesome. What's a fam doing, dude? You guys are just sitting.
Starting point is 00:44:39 We're doing nothing. You guys are fucking dormant this weekend. Lindsay is very pregnant, ready to give birth as well. Shout out. Been a rock star this entire time. So we're hopeful the baby could come even this weekend, which would be nice. We're basically on baby watch from here until the baby comes.
Starting point is 00:44:57 Let's go. Imagine being born on the 250th anniversary. That'd be pretty sick. So sick. That would be pretty sick. We might hit up Nashville Shores on Friday. We went this weekend again. We love Nashville Shores.
Starting point is 00:45:08 The kids love it. It's great. It's a lot of fun. But yeah. I'm a family meet and greet. Yeah. He thought he cooked there. That was crazy.
Starting point is 00:45:17 But yeah. Hey, anybody who goes to Nashville Shores. Yeah, I know. That was crazy. Yeah. Anybody who goes to Nashville Shores this weekend and you get a photo with Jeremy Klump, shirtless at the pool and posted.
Starting point is 00:45:29 I will retweet it and I'll send you a courtyard. I'll send you a courtyard rip as well. It's funny saying on the podcast. This is a public place I'll be at on this date. Yeah. Jeremy Clump will be at Nashville Shores this weekend. You get yourself a shirtless photo with Jeremy Clump. I hate you.
Starting point is 00:45:45 I will get, I will, and then just tag me and put your courtyard username. I will get you one, maybe even two rips. Do they have to be tarps off in the photo? Everyone's got to be tarps off, dude. Perfect.
Starting point is 00:45:56 bonus points for JJ Yeah yeah Bonus points for JJ Yeah I like that Yeah All right Not going though
Starting point is 00:46:06 Oh club You're the audience Mitchie baby What you doing Kind of the same thing as Jack Except going to Percy Priest Stop by National Shores man It's right there on the water
Starting point is 00:46:17 Come on man Going with like a Running a boat with a bunch of our friends We're going We have like the early time slots So we'll be off by like one and then just be at our apartment pool the rest of the day.
Starting point is 00:46:29 Maybe a couple of blood lights, but going to be a good weekend. I love that. I think apartment pools are sick, too. Apartment pools rip so hard. I think they're... I was at my apartment pool for the first time yesterday
Starting point is 00:46:42 for literally 30 seconds. I'm like, this place is actually kind of cool. I don't know why we have... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where me and Mitch met at an apartment pool. Yeah. That's awesome. Apartment pools kind of go.
Starting point is 00:46:52 They were at. They are unreal. It was actually 4th of July party. It was the 4th of July. Yeah. Book, nice, dude. I mess with apartment pools. Apartment pools and above ground pools.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Yeah. But honestly, like, apartment pools kind of have, like, a more longevity than the above ground pool to me. They do. But they're always kind of nasty. Don't matter, dude. Yeah, that's kind of... Especially if you got, like, a rowdy apartment complex. Like, Saturdays, like, people are out there.
Starting point is 00:47:17 They're bringing out their own coolers a little bit. There's multiple parties. You're single. And there's a couple pretty... You guys got a couple neutrals over there? No, we don't got news. We got B&U. else. Oh, perfect. We got some neutral. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:47:28 A little mix of mash. Bluetooth speaker way too loud. Way too loud. And there's like four of them boys out there. Everyone's got their own genre taking place. Just trying to like have the loudest ones. It's like a chicken fight. It's like a big game of Catan, dude. Who can just have the most settlements in their little apartment complex?
Starting point is 00:47:44 That fucking, that bucks. I like that a lot, dude. I like that. What are you doing for the boys? Dude, Taylorin's due in two weeks. I will be, so I will be she, first off, Talon, and I know everybody, a lot of people get pregnant, a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:47:59 No one's handled pregnancy better than Taylor. All right. No, not that. I didn't like the word. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't like the way I said, like this. Hey. All right.
Starting point is 00:48:07 I'll say, let me, let me retract because I don't want to take anything away from your wife. Taylor has done a phenomenal job of handling this. She is, she is literally two weeks on Wednesday. She will, is her due day, July 15th. And she's still mowed around moving. She was on the ground, crisscross applesau yesterday during our stream, like organizing or bulk bed and all that. Like she's a mobile-ass cat
Starting point is 00:48:27 for how pregnant she is. She's just handling. Everything's just, you know, bouncing off her, no issues. She's just rolling. So July 4th,
Starting point is 00:48:35 we're hitting pool. I'm going to get some fireworks. Come on. I'm going to put my, I'm about Roman candles in my kids' hands for the first time. See if they want to. And knowing my oldest daughter.
Starting point is 00:48:46 You ever see the video of the kid that guy was going in and he just like starts pointing it at people? That'll be when. Something about when, dude, she's like very sweet. She's like a very emotionally in touch with herself.
Starting point is 00:48:57 Why is beyond her years and her thought process. You'll catch her staring at the window and you're like, oh, what are you thinking about? And she'll break down a whole bunch of things that's like, you know, an eight year old should not be talking like this. But when you get that kid near water and God forbid I'm there, she tries to fucking destroy people. Yeah, she was fighting me the entire time as a monster in the pool, dude.
Starting point is 00:49:16 She's a physical little cat and she likes to hurt dad. Like it's her fun thing. And I'm hoping it's not like a thing that like, you know, she hates me eventually. And I'm like, oh, I should have seen this coming because, like, you're attacking me a lot. So, yeah, there were signs. These are, we were one of the signs. But she, she gives that Roman candle in hand.
Starting point is 00:49:31 She might take a couple of shots that are pops. Yeah. But we got to have that. That's a red blooded American is what that sounds like. She's a red blooded American. Yeah. Is what she is what she. The first couple years of birth, she was like a little more.
Starting point is 00:49:43 She was a hardened little rock. She was. But now she's just a little snuggler. She was fighting me that day too, though. What's that? She was fighting me. They like, that's on me too. Because we have a physical household.
Starting point is 00:49:54 We have a loud and very physical household. I made the mistake of saying something like, I was like, are y'all even trying? I said something like that and they started trying and they were like hurting me. Yeah, dude. And I saw that. I saw a wind get on your back and start like thrust choking you out. I think you literally told her to like, hey, fuck him up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:11 Yeah, no, no, no, no. Without saying. This is what I tell my kid. Because when we get in the pool, it's like, hey, we're going. Like, I'll be underwater and I'll just be like in the deep end kind of like with some goggles on ripping around. All of a sudden, little hands on my back. And I'm getting the goggles tore off me. I got fish hooks of both.
Starting point is 00:50:24 sides of my mouth. They're like trying to take my ass out. I'll come up and just and then I'm bagged down for a little bit. So I told them like when we did a bus and bash 26. I was like, hey, everyone's on limits except for the interns. Like they don't know. They don't know if they're in college. They don't know about kids. Like let's stay away from
Starting point is 00:50:40 them. You can mess with all the boys. But if they say anything that's like, hey, you should stop. You need to stop. And they're like, okay, dad. I know good well. You guys were not going to say shit. Like you guys are to take it. Especially, dude, there's one moment of bust and bash where Taylon walks out and she's like
Starting point is 00:50:56 man JP's so good with kids and it's all the guys kind of like in the real shallow end of the pool and then towards the deep end it's just willow and wind like body bagging JP both my legs just dragging his ass around and I dude I it's probably not good there's probably something I'm missing from a father standpoint but I look at
Starting point is 00:51:14 that I just smile and look at my little savages ripping around like they're going to be older they're going to be an apartment pool for a 4th of July when they're older and all the girls are going to be trying to look pretty in their bathing suits and she might just be suplexing other dudes. I'm like, hell yeah, bro. Hell fucking yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:31 Big news took place. Can I say this? Yes, sir. All right. So we filmed the commercial with EA Sports for EA CFB 27. I'm out of applause for that, dude. Unbelievable. Will and I are in it. There's another college football player that's in it. Can I say who the
Starting point is 00:51:46 main star is? No. He's my go. He's my goat. I'll say that. I'll say that. Put a little game called ouch out you're on my hair. Just a tip. Just for a second,
Starting point is 00:51:55 just to see how it feels. But I'm not going to say who it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got some ratings here. I can say this. Yeah, we can go over all this stuff. We can talk through some ratings if you want. Cades is a...
Starting point is 00:52:04 Cades in 80. Cade is happy. Oh, he's happy about that. He said he would be happy with an 80. He got an 80. But there are some stats that we should talk about. Speed being the biggest one, I think. Speed rating of 60.
Starting point is 00:52:18 I can't help but feel like we took part in that. Yes. 34 years old broken leg and I mopped, Cade in a race. That's tough. I don't know my speed was very high, but my quickness was very high. I think I was like a 90-something. But I actually don't know my speed.
Starting point is 00:52:37 One thing that's good for Cade, for ratings this year, EA Sports, they're doing like updates weekly. So we're going to have to push for Cade to be rated higher because 80's good, but I think Cade should be. Yeah, I think. Cade's a little higher. Maybe like put the ability in our hands to adjust some ratings like Chatter's a single and Madden.
Starting point is 00:52:53 Like give us the opportunity That checks out Yeah he was struggling To throw the football Yeah Yeah Off its alignment and throwing Dude it's a shoulder mobility
Starting point is 00:53:03 It's a shoulder mobility It's tough It's tough Jeremiah Smith First ever 99 at launch I mean we can all agree Kids are stud He's an alien
Starting point is 00:53:12 I despise the fact that he's at Ohio State But shout out him He's unbelievable And the Nebraska hype video Looks nuts So y'all see that We posted it from Bussin and somehow shout out to EA Sports and Nebraska.
Starting point is 00:53:25 They collabed with us. It wasn't our video. EA Sports's video and Nebraska both posted it. Oh, no doubt. And they collabed with us posting it and it was really, really sick. Made Nebraska look absolutely elite. If Will saw it, I'm sure he added a few extra wins. You know he's somewhere around the world right now,
Starting point is 00:53:41 Washington is going on again. It was badass. Maybe we are going to go 12 and 0 this year. It's a great video. I recommend watching it. It was sick. You did not see it. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Hold on. your back up real quick back up back up because SEC and Bay 10 tied with 36 90 plus overall players that checks
Starting point is 00:54:00 that checks out top conferences yeah Oregon's 91 overall Ohio State 90 overall I think I know those are the those are the top two
Starting point is 00:54:12 those are the top two boys in here we got top 10 quarterbacks Dante Moore is number one Julian Sands number two traded at Chambliss in his 14th year in college football he's number three Jaden Mayava
Starting point is 00:54:22 USC 4 C.J. Car 5 Arch Manning 6 Interesting Keep an eye on that one I feel like this year there's going to be a big change for that guy He's gonna thrust himself into Oh, that's why he's a manning type of conversation
Starting point is 00:54:36 Darian Menza Yeah, the Miami guy Yeah, we saw him at Miami Kids are a stud Sam Levitt Very, very, I thought he'd be higher I thought he'd be higher on that list That kid was highly touted
Starting point is 00:54:51 when he was in the transfer portal, heart broke this new offense, dude. Yeah. Yeah, he got hurt last year. But those are your top A-right-there. Noah Fafita, Fafita out of Arizona. And then John Meteer, number 10, 89, Oklahoma.
Starting point is 00:55:06 I tell you what, dude, we saw social media this weekend. I saw John Meteer looking all jacked up. I was happy to learn that that was AI. I was happy because I was looking at it out of my phone, like, fuck. We played them week too. Jack Hikea started a movement with the grok muscle. And it started with Dana.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Yeah. It started with Dana. It's nice to see the internet is taking control of their own personal narratives. Whether they're true or not, it's good to just throw some stuff at the wall. Right. That's the game, man. Yeah. According to Clump, too, we threw up one of Arch Manning and got a reply from the Arch Manning.
Starting point is 00:55:41 Right. Said, this is AI. I have noodle arms. Shout out Archmanning from the only truth, dude. Yeah. He doesn't have body disformy or anything. He sees what he sees. I think he's got a nice little.
Starting point is 00:55:52 He's got a good little build to him. I don't know if stocky is the right word. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got some power in those lakes for sure. Can you zoom in on this real quick, sure? Because that's a lot for me. Yes, sir. To read right now, that's Beeman and Friends.
Starting point is 00:56:09 When's the next time we do in Beeman and Friends, Jared? July, I just need to pick a date. I'm being lazy. Pick a date in July. Got it. Make it towards the end. Yeah, yeah, I like that. Listen, guys.
Starting point is 00:56:17 We need to talk about something very serious. Oh, no. Okay, actually yes, very serious. Because for too long, breakfast has been either nothing but coffee. Which is a crime, dude. Or a full production. Chopping, prepping, cooking, cleaning. By the time you're done, it's basically lunch.
Starting point is 00:56:35 Exactly. And that's why we are fired up to announce that Kevin's Natural Foods now has breakfast. Kevin's for breakfast. You guys already know, we love Kevin's for lunch and dinner. And now they've officially entered the morning routine with scramble starters. Which means you can now eat Kevin's all day, every day. That's a complete system.
Starting point is 00:56:58 That's a winning game plan. Kevin's scrambler starters are legit. They're made with tender protein, crisp vegetables, and a creamy sauce. With insanely good flavors like Denver-style ham and white cheddar and spinach and bacon florentine. Just add eggs and a delicious scramble in minutes. Dude, plus they're made with clean ingredients. No added sugar, gluten-free, soy-free. and no mystery meat.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Just high quality protein. You just take the scrambler starter out of the freezer, throw in the pan, add your eggs, drizzle the sauce, and in about 15 minutes, you've got a real breakfast that's better than something you've ordered at a restaurant. But without waiting 45 minutes for a table. So yes, Kevin's Natural Foods has breakfast now.
Starting point is 00:57:39 Find Kevin's Scramble Starters in the Frozen Isle at Target, Kroger, Harris, Teeter, Giant, and Hannah Ford's stores. Kevin's for breakfast? Morning's just got a major update. Great. All right, guys, I know we just talked about a couple of things as it pertains to CFB 27 and everything taking place. We did do the commercial. It was awesome. A bunch of things we talked about is, hey, when does it come out? Fun thing about that is college football 27 is dropping Thursday. The only way to play seven days early is with the MVP plus membership, become a member today and get both college football 27 and listen to me and Madden 27 deluxe editions and a ton of other rewards.
Starting point is 00:58:17 The window is closing fast. So make sure you look in before July 1st. Now, if you become a MVP plus member, what happens is if you get it, you need to play early, right? There's going to be a lot of festivities that take place on the 250th birthday of America. But eventually things die down and people hang out a little bit. The sun starts to set. You're thinking, wow, how amazing it is that I live in this beautiful country, the best country in the entire world, what to do now. If you have the MVP plus membership, you're able to play CFB 27 that day.
Starting point is 00:58:46 Also, the mascot mashup, it's back. It's back and it's happening. Yes, sure. Yeah, yeah. Right. It's back. Now, if you're not an MVP plus member, you have to go and unlock all those guys. I've been told, I've heard of my earpiece that doesn't exist in my ear.
Starting point is 00:59:01 They're telling me the producers that it takes over 100 hours of gameplay to unlock all those characters. By becoming an MVP plus member, you unlock all of those guys right away. Unbelievable, right? You want to tell it? What's the price? What's the price? $150. If you were to buy both games solo, it would be $200. So bang, bang, boom, that's how we live life, boys.
Starting point is 00:59:26 Huh? It's kind of nice. If you want to get after it this weekend for both games, both games, MVP plus membership, mascot mashup, weekly rewards that take place during the football season, ultimate football team stuff, all the things. So MVP plus membership is the move if you're a football sicko. Very quick shout out for Taylor. Zero of what he just said. is on the screen. That's from the dough. That's from the dome. That was impressive. And a lot of this hamster that's on the wheel sometimes, he'll just die. The CTE thing is real.
Starting point is 00:59:56 And I'm just kind of waiting until it catches me. I'm just glad I can pluck that one up because if you ask me tomorrow, it wouldn't be there anymore. That's the first time I've heard that. So you pay less to get a lot more. You pay less to get a lot more. Isn't that what deals are? That's crazy. That's what a deal is, brother.
Starting point is 01:00:11 Yeah, dial it in. I see Jack and JP right now. They're getting MVP plus memberships on their phone. Yeah, dial it in. Get the boys going. Let's hit some TV. Tear talks? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:20 Yeah. Sure. Before we get in tier talks, are these nasty too? Okay. If I do remember correctly, there are two nasty tear talks. Okay. And that's okay. Because why?
Starting point is 01:00:30 They're missing football. They're missing football and it's okay. So if we need to shoulder the brunt of your negative attitude before these next nine Saturdays take place, then we will be those guys. Yeah. Let's talk with Mr. James real quick. What does Taylor do with the National Treasurer's football card?
Starting point is 01:00:43 So he pulls? Great question. Right now, there's a bunch of them sitting in our office. There's a bunch of them sitting in our house. And what we're going to do is we're going to take a lot of those cards. We're going to go to CNJ collectibles. We're going to go to Nash cards. We're going to sell a bunch of those and just get them out.
Starting point is 01:00:59 We're going to get them out. Let them just let them just go. Why? We can get more stuff then. We can keep things going to the courtyard. That's the beautiful thing. One note that I didn't put in this show is that we talked about it last week. We're still in the hiring process to find a producer and a clip social guy for ripping with the boys.
Starting point is 01:01:16 All right. And now if you're thinking, oh, Rippoo with the Boys, it's a new start. up show. I don't know if I really want to be a part of the Bustin universe. Good news. These guys in the back will tell you you might have a job description, but there's a shitload of other stuff you also do for Bustin with the Boys. We're a smaller, we're a smaller franchise. So you will be helping with Bustin' stuff for the dad stuff, locker room stuff, vlog stuff, clip stuff. All of that is included in ripping with the boys. But I will tell you this. If you're going to come and you're going to apply for this job, I need you to be a sicko about the card game.
Starting point is 01:01:44 I need you to be creative. I need you to be a killer because we're taking over this entire world. We're not taking part. We're taking over. Another thing that is happening in the actual umbrella of Bustle with the boys that has to do a little bit of ripping because it is under the umbrella. But overall, Bustin is we are hiring a social media football sicko producer, space and editor for Bustin with the Boys. Right, a applause for that. So as it stands right now, if you love this podcast and you have all of the things that can be applied to this job
Starting point is 01:02:14 to take Bustle with the boys to the next level, we have four positions. open. Two strictly Bussin. Two Rippin the boys that also include Bussin. All of it's great. You get to be in the universe, be with the boys, myself, Will Compton,
Starting point is 01:02:27 all these amazing things that we get to do because of the audience. And they get to work directly with you with Rippin. Yeah, you work directly with me. That's either a positive or a negative. So if you're a Tala Wan Siko, you're getting to work directly with Taker.
Starting point is 01:02:38 And I'll tell you, I move around a lot. I'm very mobile. So you'll be in Vegas. You'll be in Vegas. Yeah. You'll be in Vegas quite a bit, dude. So just think about that.
Starting point is 01:02:50 Hop over to Canada for a little bit. Yeah, we'll pop to Canada. Back to Vegas. So you're all over the place with me, man. You'll be my guy. My guy. This job is local to Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:02 This comes from Electric Man, a 381. Can't get a quick zoom? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, I got it. Hey, I got to go to the eye doctor. I do. I do. Tier talk of things the boys said they were going to do, but never did.
Starting point is 01:03:15 Tier one, paintball vlog. Sherm. Tier two, three. VE5 hockey match versus the predators. Okay, so actually, I talked to Forsberg about this at Tida and you. We're still doing that. Oh.
Starting point is 01:03:27 It's off season right now. So when they go to camp, the plan is we're still getting on skates. Paintball vlog could still happen as well. All right. So Electric Man, we haven't done it yet. We haven't done it yet is how you should have phrased it. All right. Tier 3, Storm chasing with paint.
Starting point is 01:03:44 Okay. We did miss this. We did miss this. Can I just say, one thing, and I'm not here to throw shade at anybody. But if you're storm chasing with Pate, you have to wait for Pate to say, hey, come storm chasing. I heard a couple of murmurs in March and April. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:04 Since then, I've seen him chase a lot of storms. And I haven't got an invite to one. At Ford. You got to force the issue on him. Yeah, got to force the issue. And he's a busy man. He's a busy, successful, handsome, bald man. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:16 So, like, you've got to let him have his space. but I'm down to chase I'm down to chase these things Honorable mention getting drunk with Kittle at the Chili's during March Madness that back half we didn't miss that
Starting point is 01:04:26 that's an L on us I'm not great at following up there's always next year George is a busy guy dude and he had a injury this year he had to get right he travels a lot too he's all over the place
Starting point is 01:04:40 he's not in Vegas as much as me but he's traveling all over the place we have that idea now going into March Madness though this next March Madness. Boom. Silver lining.
Starting point is 01:04:51 Boom. I like that a lot. Maybe a day, maybe opening day. We get hammered with George Kittle next March madness. Tend of Chili's. All right. This comes from Scoop of Steve,
Starting point is 01:05:02 89, 22. Need the SEC boys in the bus to check Will and Taylor. SEC ran college football from 06 to 22. Yes, Little 10 has ran it for the past three. But come on, SEC dominant for a long time. Clean take.
Starting point is 01:05:16 Clean take. Clean take. Clean take. Is it not? Guys. Everyone's missing football right now. Everyone's missing football. I'm missing SEC games.
Starting point is 01:05:26 What part's not clean? I'm missing G5 games right now. I'm missing just put the ball on the ground and watch the boys go. I agree that the SEC from 06 to 22 ran college football. There's no doubt about it. What's the weird thing about 06 to 22? No NIL existed. All of a sudden, NIL exists.
Starting point is 01:05:43 And the big 10 has ran it for the last three years. Why? Evens the play. even the playing field. Scooby Steve, nasty with the little 10 comment. But he's not incorrect. So this is not 100% wrong. Just a little 10 comment.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Pissed me off a little bit. This one comes from How to Get Money in Truth. Hashtag tear talk is just another way to waste time. We already hear enough hot takes. We don't need more nonsense. Clean take.
Starting point is 01:06:10 It's clean take. Hey. Listen, man. We're trying to do something nice for you guys. All right? And anybody who's how to get money in truth, dude, like we're doing the thing. We're working. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:23 We're putting something. We're putting pen to paper right here. We're giving the audience who is the only reason why we're able to make a living out of this. Yeah. Give them an opportunity to have a voice on the show. So he's helping us get paid. And imagine becoming the thing that you hate the mess. Like now he is wasting time with this being read.
Starting point is 01:06:41 That's got to hurt. That's a clean take. And he's just missing football. He's just missing ball. He's just missing football. Harvey feels like he purposely did that so that he could get featured in tier time. He knew he knew Sherman would sniff it out there now. Yeah, he got.
Starting point is 01:06:57 It's a really good dog noise. It's a really good dog noise. Yeah, this guy, he misses ball. He misses ball. It's all good, dude. Once football comes back, we won't be seeing any more of that. We won't be seeing. He'll be happy.
Starting point is 01:07:09 He'll be like, tell me about why the Big Ten won a fourth national championship in around. I'll be like, ask the SEC boys. That's called a callback. All right, guys, listen, it's been a fun show. I've had a good time. I hope everybody in the backs had a great time. Anyone who's listening, anyone who's watching, please subscribe, subscribe to the show, comment. You can be callbacks to your talk.
Starting point is 01:07:30 We're doing it every single week, regardless of how to get money and truth. Feels about it. We're going to keep doing it. Great episode today with Treatment Bride. Great episode you're going to see here. What I love about this one, too, is this is the silver lining in Arizona. Because Arizona is never, like a franchise that's kind of forgotten about quite. a bit. Even growing up in Arizona, no one really cared about Arizona until that 0-0-708 season
Starting point is 01:07:52 when they went to the Super Bowl. All of a sudden, Cardinals hats came out of nowhere. Please enjoy this. Please enjoy the day. Please enjoy your entire week. We love you. We're here for you even if you want to be negative. Big hugs and tiniest of kisses. Happy birthday America. Happy birthday America. Listen. And you're there for heart-wrenching knockout. And breathtaking triumph. In 2026 FIFA World Cup. The knockout stage.
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Starting point is 01:09:04 From Futuro Studios, I'm Fernanda Chavari, and this is American Football, a show about soccer culture in the U.S. and its underdog roots. We go beyond the game to the people and the stories that make it great. A soccer game is a festival. It's not just a game. It's your culture. I took an elbow to my head, which cracked my skull.
Starting point is 01:09:27 It is an American game. The Brazilians don't like hearing that, though. Are they the only ones that don't like that? Nobody likes that. As we get ready for the Men's World Cup this summer, listen to American Football as part of the MyCultura podcast network, available on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Hoda Kotby, host of the podcast, Joy 101 with Hoda Kotbby.
Starting point is 01:09:54 Okay, if you know me, you know this. I'm always searching for inspiration, for support, and useful tools to help maximize joy. So this podcast lets us uncover all of that together. We're going to have these meaningful conversations with the world's most fascinating people, like when actress Olivia Munn shared how she overcame fierce health challenges that she never saw coming. I've gone through breast cancer and then helped my mother through breast cancer, and that was more difficult. There's a lot of people who understand postpartner depression. I was not prepared for postpartum anxiety. Olympic champ Sean Johnson revealed why she had no choice but to be a gymnast.
Starting point is 01:10:33 There was something about gymnastics that was intoxicating to me. It's given me a belief that we all have one of those treasures inside of us. We just have to find it. Listen to Joy 101 with Hoda Kotby on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Podcasts. This Black Music Month, the Questlove show celebrates the artists, innovators, and cultural voices who continue to redefine music. We're sitting down with a groundbreaking country artist Mickey Guyton. The way that the country music community accepted Post Malone versus Beyonce versus Shibuzi, like, those are very eye-opening things. Hip-hop visionary Fat Five Freddy.
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Starting point is 01:13:50 All right, yeah. Rocking a Rolex, too. Yeah, you know. But no, I appreciate you guys having me on, man. This is, this will be fun. Dude, heavy birthday. Yeah, it feels like every day is my birthday, but today especially. No, excited.
Starting point is 01:14:03 Excited to be here. This is special. Is there anything more of a flex than wearing black shorts, regular T-shirt, a pair of Jordans, and then just a Rolex on your wrist? I mean, you just got to- Nice, right? You got to just let people know every once in a while. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:14:15 Stay in the casual gear, but just a subtle flex. I'm like, oh shit, he's got that on his wrist? Okay, okay. He must do well. He must be an athlete is what they say. He's the big-ass castor like, yeah, he plays football. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Big-ass guy.
Starting point is 01:14:29 I know what you mean with the big-ass calves, bro. That's the game. We were talking off the bus, 97 receptions, 2024. You sound so heartbroken about it, but at the same time, like, you ate. Like, you didn't get in the end zone, but from 10 to 10, you were a monster. Yeah, you know, it was a tough deal. I didn't even realize it was a, I didn't have a touchdown until towards the end of the season. Then every week, it just kind of became a storyline.
Starting point is 01:14:53 Trey's not scoring, and then I just kept not scoring. And it was just a tough deal. I was catching 100 balls, but I couldn't get in the end zone. Hopefully that record gets broken, but if not, it's a cool one to have, I guess. How many fantasy football head coaches were in your ear? You know, they were actually loving me because I was catching 10 catches a game and I would have 80 yards. I just wasn't getting the touchdown. So they were pissed about that, but it was still cool to be loved, but not as loved, you know?
Starting point is 01:15:20 Yeah, tough for the guys in the non-PPR leagues. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's for right sure. Yeah, that's for running back. Yeah. No, PPR. Point per reception. But do they do that with the receivers too?
Starting point is 01:15:31 Yeah, point per reception. Do they? No, I know. I know. I'm saying PPR like that's just something you toggle for the running backs. Like I'm assuming every, I'm assuming everywhere top down. You're getting a. Will did.
Starting point is 01:15:43 finished last in our fantasy league this year. I could tell. He doesn't know the rules. I didn't have to train me right. Is there a game? Is there a rep in that 2024 season? When you get to the end, the news is like, hey, this guy hasn't scored touchdown.
Starting point is 01:15:57 Obviously, he's eating every single day. You're starting to think about it more and more. I'm sure Tyler's over there being like, hey, I understand, but we're going to get you in the end zone. Is there a rep where you're like possibly wide open and it's just off the fingertips or a little bit of a miscue or maybe Kyle didn't see you and you're like, that could have finally been the one. Well, there was one early. We were playing the San Francisco 49ers. I catch a corner route,
Starting point is 01:16:18 and the defender just makes a really good play. I have it in the hand, and I fall down and it pops out. That was week two. So I'm like, man, I could have got this over. You know, week two, if I caught that ball. Then the season keeps going. Kyler's trying as hard as you can. The offensive coordinator's drawing every red zone play up for me, and it's just not meant to be. So I was just, I'm like, all right, just give it to everybody else. And when I finally got in that last couple weeks, it was, it was like, you know, we won the Super Bowl and it was like everyone was so excited for me. It was like I felt bad for him. I'm like, it's not that, you know, you don't have to feel bad for me to score a touchdown. But it was, it was cool just to finally get in the end zone at the end of the end of the year for sure. Are you, you, you had telling him too, like, hey,
Starting point is 01:16:59 it's someone we're dialed up. You're giving Kyle her like a nod. Yeah, I'm like, well, we had five plays drawn up and I was like, we kept getting in the rhythm. I'm like, here we go, here we go. This is the one. And then the coverage wouldn't, you know, allow it or I would get, you know, Or he's back there scramble for his life. Because, you know, protection broke down, whatever it was. But we finally got in on a screen was the one I scored on. They're just like, we were on the one yard line. Instead of giving it to the running back, they just dumped a screen out to me. And they're like, hopefully trade can get one yard. And I got in and it was, it was pretty special. It was pretty special. Tear came out of my eye. Kyler's obviously a stud. He's going to Minnesota now.
Starting point is 01:17:36 But when you're playing with Kyler and other quarterbacks that you play with, is it harder him being a smaller stature of QB, seeing the ball. It can definitely be different, you know. Kyler's a, you know, not the tallest guy, but just his, you know, his arm angle, he throws from, he's a baseball guy, so he throws from every different arm angle and he's scrambling around. So he's just a very different quarterback than that than what I've played with. But it was very cool.
Starting point is 01:17:59 We had a lot of success together. And, but then when Jacoby came in, you know, he's a little taller, a little easier to see his release point, things like that. It does make a little bit of a difference, but we still had a lot of success together. so it's fun. Kyleer back there, it's like a t-shirt canning coming out. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:18:13 yeah, yeah. Yeah, and he has a missile, but he knows it so hard. A t-shirt can is a hilarious thing. Just the random you're running the route? Is he coming? Do you guys ever get in team? He's like,
Starting point is 01:18:24 because you see clips all the time of him scampering around back there and getting like 10, 15, 20 yards. You're like, holy shit, like he's, kids pretty quick and fast. Dude, I remember. But you see like his little legs,
Starting point is 01:18:33 and this is no, Kyler, seriously, we want you come on the show. It's, you're awesome. But. Oh, he's a stud. But sometimes watching him run with grown-ass men with those long strides chasing him and his little fucking piss is just going. It's like his torso wouldn't move, but his legs would move like twice as fast and he has everybody else.
Starting point is 01:18:49 And I mean, no one would ever catch him. He, he, he, he was fun to watch for sure. He made so many plays. You guys ever sit in the tight end room or like an offensive meeting room and just watch him run? Be like, how the fuck is this guy? And then we're just like, all right, next play, because we don't know how to teach off that. So we just went to. But yeah, he was, he was fun to play.
Starting point is 01:19:05 Kyle is the player. You do. You just drag on meetings. because you're sitting there watching plays of him that he's making, just run around in the background. Look at him here, watch this throw. Watch him get out of this. Just look at this ball ahead.
Starting point is 01:19:14 When they played, when Arizona came here, that Chandler Jones game, but the place he was making was- I know, I just had that. No, no, you are right though. Legitimately up there, like plays that he would make where he's running around, those are the guys in the back of the end zone. And it's like, why can't they just fucking get this guy to the ground?
Starting point is 01:19:31 Dude, 20-21, literally when you're sitting there and you're getting your lunch eaten by Chandler Jones the way I was, and I'm just, sitting there being like okay hopefully we can keep the game close so we're not like in a two minute situation at halftime and then like the first half he's like running here he went for like yeah was throwing the ball over the place and it's like oh no like everything's destined for me like all right we got him in the third law we'll be safe here yeah he makes a play and then he makes a fucking my first uh my first game with him well we played the chiefs week one and week two of my second
Starting point is 01:19:58 we're playing the raiders and that was that play where we had the two point conversion and it was like a 46 second play where he just is just running around in the back running around making all the D-Lyman miss and then finally throws one to the back of the end zone to AJ Green. It was like a 40-something second two-point conversion, which is pretty cool, yeah. Yeah, the way he moves and operates. Yeah, this one here is like 40 seconds long. I mean, this was my... Look at how much bigger these men are that are chasing him.
Starting point is 01:20:24 This is just a two-point conversion. Where's Crosby? He must have been hurt or something. He must took this play off. This is insane. And then he ends up running it in, yeah. You're open. Dude, that's one.
Starting point is 01:20:37 I was in as Zach was in. I was watching on the sideline. Watching on the side. Come on, come, come, go, go, go, go. You see a quarterback scrambling defensively. Just like, fuck, man, somebody, please. And the big guys are running out of juice. They can only run for, you know, 20 seconds.
Starting point is 01:20:51 That's the best when it's like a third and six and a quarterback does something like that because all of you guys on the defense set of ball are just so gassed at the end of it. You're like, I finally have the upper hand. I just play. I hope we call it the hardest play for me to block because I finally have a shot at this right now.
Starting point is 01:21:04 You just find somebody like, Let me just stand by him and act like I'm covering him over here. Dude, something that was big in the news, and Tyler was all the conversations around Call of Duty. When the Call of Duty would drop, here we go, Kyle Murray.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Was that ever in the locker room? Did you ever tell him, hey, listen, we got to get off the sticks for a little bit? No, it was never really a meme. That's why I was, he definitely saw the memes, but it was just funny because he never really talked about
Starting point is 01:21:26 Call of Duty. He never really talked about playing video games, but every single week he was in the media. You know, everyone was talking about, oh, the new Call of Duty came out, double XP weekend. He's going to have the worst game ever. I'm like...
Starting point is 01:21:38 The devil XP. Yeah. What are we talking about? It was a... He never talked about gaming or anything, so I don't... I never understood the... Well, yeah, first-year-old teams. You don't talk about the teams.
Starting point is 01:21:48 Like, he's on missions. Right, right. He knows the credo. He knows the ethos of the Marines. Yeah. That's funny. That is, uh... What was that last movie just popped up?
Starting point is 01:21:59 What was it before the release? 30 fantasy points after the release, 18.7.9? Yeah. I mean, I think they're just fine in every time. stat to get on him but that is uh if that's true i don't know man we'd crush coop because coop is a massive cardinals fan which is wild yeah because there's not even a whole lot of them in arizona there's none in arizona so the fact that we have some in nashville's pretty cool yeah i grew up so i grew up in arizona and like what was it oh 708 when they went to the super
Starting point is 01:22:27 ball it's the first time in my entire i was like a junior in high school it's the first time i ever saw like arizona cardinal hats out there ever and then all of a sudden the super bowl was over and the hats just kind of went away and everyone left Yeah, it was like fairy dust. They all just kind of in the distance. Well, it's like, you know, living in Arizona, everyone, no one's from Arizona. Everyone kind of has moved in from another state and other, so they're all fans of their own team. So now you have the Arizona that sits there and there's no Arizona fans in Arizona.
Starting point is 01:22:53 So it's a tough deal. But hopefully we start winning some games and we can bring some of those fans back. Because there's so much to do in Arizona. When you went from Colorado State and I don't know geographically, that's like Plains, Colorado, correct? A little flat. Yeah, a little flat. There's not a whole lot going on. Not a whole lot.
Starting point is 01:23:10 Born in Colorado, go to Arizona. You live in Scottsdale. Lots to do in Scottsdale. Yeah. How was that for you as a rookie, distraction-wise and everything? Well, I knew I couldn't, it was funny. I wanted to live in Scottsdale as a rookie, but I couldn't afford it, you know. It was a little tough up there.
Starting point is 01:23:25 So they put us down in Chandler, down in, you know, the slums, I guess you could say. But it was fun, man. I loved moving to Arizona. And I actually trained out in Arizona through the draft process. and all that stuff. So it was really cool for me to go back to Arizona and be back. But it's close to home. It's about an hour, hour and a half flight. So I like that. And that's nice. It is a, it's a perfect place to be. How in the hell do you end up at Colorado State? Wow, man. So I come from a really, really small school. And my older brother, two years older than me, he started getting
Starting point is 01:23:57 recruited. No one had ever played really Division I football where I was from. My older brother started getting recruited. He had three offers. He had Wyoming, Air Force, Colorado State. Those are his and Colorado State then offered me as a when I was a freshman in high school, which was pretty cool. So they had recruited me. Was that your only offer? No, I mean, I had, I had 20, 30 offers, but I ended up just, they felt like home. My brother went to Colorado State. They had been recruiting me the whole time. It just kind of felt like that's where I needed to go. And I ended up going to Colorado State and it worked out. We're, she said 20, 30 offers. Like, what were the schools? Give us your top five. Pretend that you're only this is scouts.
Starting point is 01:24:35 Like, yeah, and we're sitting here. Probably like, see you, Kansas State. I had like Cal Berkeley. Nebraska never gave me the offer. You know, I was bummed about that. Were you a Nebraska guy? I love Nebraska, man. I went to a couple camps.
Starting point is 01:24:49 That was when Coach Riley was there. Of course. Naturally. Yeah, yeah. Naturally, we fucking didn't see you. And I just start projecting. I was there in the corner like, oh. Yeah, yeah, of course.
Starting point is 01:25:00 Of course that motherfucker. I mean, I didn't have any crazy big. offers, but, you know, Kansas State, Colorado, just a couple of the mid-tier ones. But still, that's their way, I mean, no disrespect to Colorado State. Those are way bigger than Colorado State. Yeah, for sure. Well, it was crazy because no one had ever went Division I won. So just going to Colorado State was a huge deal for where I was from and what we did. So I didn't really think too much of it. And then I had a great opportunity to play right away at Colorado State. And it kind of, you know, led me to where I'm there.
Starting point is 01:25:31 What does go into a decision like that? Because I'm still, I'm still, you know, I'm You're processing. Yeah, I'm processing. Yeah. Like, do you kind of pick at the age you're at being in high school, being from something so small, feeling like, okay, I got some solid level D1, some solid level division one scholarships. It's like, I like to go to Colorado State because I can play really fast, but also it's
Starting point is 01:25:52 small enough to where I don't feel like I'm going out and possibly getting exposed at a bigger deal. His brother's probably, I mean, his brother being there. My brother made a huge impact on that just to play with him. But honestly, I didn't really know how good I was because I came from such a small. town. I was the best in my little town and I was like, am I really even good or am I just good in my little town? And then I was like, I'm going to go to Colorado State. First of all, it was the same coaching staff from when they offered me my freshman year to my, so they had been there for five
Starting point is 01:26:19 years now, which was promising to me. And then my brother went there. I would go up on the weekends and party with my brother. So I knew all the football. I knew all the boys. I knew everybody. So I'd show up and like I felt like I was already part of the team before I even got there. So it just kind of felt Right. And truthfully, like I said, I didn't really know if I was good. I was like, I could come here and be terrible. Like all these guys are from Georgia. They're from all these big, you know, states, these football states. And then I'm coming from this small town in Colorado. Like, am I even good enough to play? And then I got to call out to Colorado State and then like, am I got to keep getting this kid and found quickly that I could hang with these dudes. And yeah, here I am. Dude, it's a he's a heady. It's a heady play by Colorado State because they offer his brother. His brother goes there and they're like, we just got to keep getting this kid over and over and make it seem like it's right. That's exactly what they did. Keep it going. Did you ever take an official visit to Colorado? So I tried to, but I had committed to Colorado State like my junior year and then I tried to, I don't, I didn't really know, like no one knew how that recruiting stuff worked where I was from.
Starting point is 01:27:18 So it was just like, I was like the pioneer, you know, certain, you know, trying to figure it all out. And I, um, just a slam out for swatter. Like, yeah, you go, hey, let us know how goes track. So I tried to go to all these, after I had committed, I tried to do all these official visits, but they were like, well, if you're already committed, we don't you on the visit so it didn't really work out um coach mcganty was the head coach at at colorado at the time and i ended up not even going on a visit there i just went to color state official visit there and they locked me in so i didn't even see anything else it was it was it was colorado state the whole way truly that's that's literally the i'm so glad you asked the processing question because that's exactly how colorado state gets a guy yeah he was
Starting point is 01:27:58 like okay they're gonna stay there like all right i guess i'll fucking hey man like more of the recruiting tactics is like you don't even know if you're that good. Yeah. Are you in that? We love you, bro. We can find out if you're that good here. Yeah, we can find that out right now.
Starting point is 01:28:13 Are you even good? Yeah, we're gonna, we'll see, man. We'll throw you out there and see if you can. Kansas State, they don't actually believe in you. Just a young buck from a small town. He's like, I don't know if I'm even good. Like, this is the perfect guy. We're gonna fucking get him right now.
Starting point is 01:28:25 Keep them in the bubble. Don't let him out the bubble. Every week we're there, but you were pretty good, but it's a small town football. It's probably definitely just stick with. How many people are from your hometown? It was like 8,000, 10,000 roughly. I mean, my high school was 4, 50, something like that.
Starting point is 01:28:43 Graduating class, you know, I always put on my resume. I was top 100 because there was less than 100 guys in my graduating class. Hell yeah. Top 100, make the resume look a little nicer, but, but no. This is so crazy. 10,000 is a lot more than I expected. Yeah, I mean, it's small, but it's functional. I thought he was going to see like 800 people.
Starting point is 01:29:03 What was Bonterre? Bontair's like 4,000. Yeah, and Cave Creek was 5,200. Yeah, I mean, it's small, but it's nothing. How many you would have a shitload of visits? Yeah, I mean, I was the first one, like, highly recruited like that. But yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean, I was...
Starting point is 01:29:22 I honestly, I don't know where to go with that. It feels like kids... I'm thinking you kind of find your way and you're just wanting to play a big program. Yeah. But again, nobody came out of all for me as like a freshman in high school. Like once I got in the circuit like I was just in the circuit Yeah that was cool for me when I got well I had got it It seemed like he didn't leave his like he didn't go did you go to camps and stuff like that? No I mean I went to like the local
Starting point is 01:29:43 CU the Colorado State like yeah I went to Nebraska camp like things like just the local ones but I didn't go to no rival four star you know get yeah So like I didn't have the big hype around my name coming out because no one knew how to get recruited like it was like making a huddle was all on my own. I'm like circling my thing trying to find cool clips. Hell yeah, yeah, bro. It was a, I mean, it was just so different.
Starting point is 01:30:09 We made a VHS and then my dad knew somebody at work who could put the circle on me to make it into a DVD. Payed him like a hundred bucks. Yeah, yeah. Like, hey, I know a guy at work. He can do the circle.
Starting point is 01:30:20 He can also make the VHS a DVD. I'm like, oh, that's what we need. Dude, my dad would do the same. He would burn DVDs. And he would put the, he would put the, he would put the, bought this whole entire software, like learned how to do it.
Starting point is 01:30:31 Put like some fun music in the background. He's like, this is going to get us everything, dude. Just back in black ACD. Yeah, no copyright loss. It was like, it was like this,
Starting point is 01:30:40 yeah, this non-copyright boom to boom, boom, boom, just like me trying to go off, dude. It's so like the way you're talking about your recruiting process, I feel like I was similar that way and it sounds like you were similar in the way that like, when you get offered, you're just kind of like,
Starting point is 01:30:53 oh, this is so awesome. Yeah. Compared to now where these kids, it seems like, this is just my perspective is like these kids are like, how much money you're going to offer me. Kind of like the confidence to go up to a coach and be like, I want X, Y, and Z.
Starting point is 01:31:06 When before it was like, hey, I'll just, I'm just so happy to be offered here. That's exactly how it was. Every visit I took, I was like kind of ready to commit right away. My dad's like, maybe just slow down for a little bit. I went to like four spots and everyone I was like, I think I should go here. I mean, I was like, just hold on a little bit, dude.
Starting point is 01:31:20 I just remember getting the calls like, you know, my football coach would be like, hey, you know, Cal Berkeley wants to talk to you. And I was like, all right, get on the phone. they'd offer me. And I just felt like the fucking man the rest of the day. You know, it's like posting on Twitter like, hey, Cal Berkeley just offered, you know. Yeah, yeah. Google in, some, some pictures from, like, it was just signaled everybody in the high school. Like, hey, yeah. What'd you do today? Yeah, I got offered by Calvert.
Starting point is 01:31:46 So you got homework? You got offered, dude. That's how it works. Were you in the NIL world at all? I had it my last year, but at Colorado State, you know, they, man, come on. Like, I didn't make any money, You know, it was there, but it wasn't there, you know, so. Did you, did other teams try and get you? Yeah. So my, after my second year, COVID, my head coach got fired. And they, they went to South Carolina, the gamecocks with Will Must Champ. And I was going to follow them there because.
Starting point is 01:32:16 The staff you committed to that recruited you in high school. Yeah. So my tight-ins coach, head coach became the offensive coordinator. So I was like, quarterback left with them. So I was like, all right, I'm just going to go to South Carolina. And that was kind of the year before NIL, and they were still going to, you know, give me a little bit, you know. So that was cool. And coming from Colorado State, I was like, shit, any money's, you know, going to be awesome.
Starting point is 01:32:36 So, and then I ended up staying for some reason. And it ended up working out for me. But, yeah, I ended up staying at. Zero thought process way. Yeah. I mean, it was just. That's tied in the NFL right now. He's like, I don't even know how fucking got here, man.
Starting point is 01:32:51 He just kind of kept working out from it. It just kind of kept falling into it. But, uh, but no, it was. cool man it was uh it was special i actually do love coloros state but um i always do wonder like what would it have been like to go to a big power five of where the stands were filled we didn't lose every game you know i bet it'd be pretty cool but it's all good yeah but you also sit in a fun group of like uh pre nil where guys are just pick a school they'd be at the school for the four years and like you know how pride like you look at this guy right here he's bleeding red every single
Starting point is 01:33:23 day it's gbr every morning he wakes up and does affirmations in the mirror and it's It's like if he was in the NIL, he might have gone to four different places, right? Right, right. The loyalty is so different. So I think that's a big deal. And how far was Colorado State from your hometown again? It was like an hour and a half drive. Okay, so probably the vicinity being close to home.
Starting point is 01:33:41 It was perfect. Yeah, my parents were at every game. I didn't want to come home, but if I did come home, it wasn't a hassle. Yeah. It was perfect. Did you ever get to the point when you were possibly going to South Carolina, like bringing it up to your parents and having that conversation with them? Yeah, I did.
Starting point is 01:33:56 I actually was, I did the whole where you have to apply to the school. I had to pay like 150 bucks to apply to school. And I remember I was just sick to my stomach. I'm like, and I ended up not going. And I'm like, dude, I just, I'm like, that's all my money. Like, my stipend is not that much. Like, but no, it was cool just to do that. I mean, I was wonderful.
Starting point is 01:34:17 I was looking at flights. And then just last second, you know, my new head coach that came in really was trying to reel me back in. And I ended up staying. The main reason I was going to leave because Colorado State wasn't going to play football during COVID. The Mountain West was going to do like no, they were just going to take the season off. So that was like, I just came off a first team all conference my sophomore year. And I was like, all right, I'm going to go to the SEC, play one year, go to the NFL.
Starting point is 01:34:43 That was kind of like my plan because Colorado State wasn't going to do a season. So then I'm going through the whole process. Then last minute Colorado State's like, or the Mountain West is like, we're actually going to play a season. So that's what kind of kept me back. I didn't really want to leave Colorado State. I just wanted to play football that year. And I ended up staying, playing football, and had another good season.
Starting point is 01:35:04 And here we are. How was when you first got to Colorado State, like people talk about the rivalries, like Michigan versus Ohio State, Auburn, Alabama. Like, what was the brainwashing like when it came to Colorado State and Colorado? It was always, it was such a cool game because you went to.
Starting point is 01:35:20 You didn't talk about it. As soon as you walk into, like, certain colors. It was Wyoming, and it was, Colorado. Those are the two schools. Oh, sleeper rivalries, Wyoming. Yeah, because the border war and it's just like a, that was like the biggest, biggest, the bronze boot. You're playing for all that. But Colorado was cool just because you got to play in the big stadium. You got to go to the Broncos. You played at, at mile high. That was always a big deal. It was just tough because we always got our fucking teeth kicked in, you know, every, every year. So that was a hard part. But it was a lot of fun, though. It was an awesome game. We just, they got the best of us usually. Colorado State, man He's like, you know, I'm laughing too. I'm partly laughing too because he's like, I was
Starting point is 01:36:03 strongly consider in South Carolina but the new staff like they just they pulled me back in. Like, hey, buddy, what are you talking about? You think you're good enough to go to South Carolina? That's the SEC. Stay and get your teeth kicked in. Is he okay, I'll just play one more year
Starting point is 01:36:15 in Colorado and go to the NFL after that, I guess. I can't play in the SEC. He's like, but the new staff apparently just came in. No, no, no, no, where are you going? We really watch you. He's like, you mean it? Yeah, we mean it? I'll fucking stay, dude.
Starting point is 01:36:27 That's exactly it. So you, okay, I feel bad for Colorado State fans who just got on. And we're like, oh, fuck yeah. Our boy, Trey's on here. He's like, we fucking sucked. We got our teeth kicked in. It was cool, though, because we played a mile high stadium.
Starting point is 01:36:38 All right, that's a W for us. So we got to keep that alive. So when you get there, they're going to get off. Now they just grew up since the first year. And then just brainwashed them. After this podcast comes out, there's going to be like 15 seventh graders to get offered by Colorado State.
Starting point is 01:36:51 Everyone's getting offered. You guys are a fucking class of 40. We're going to get all of you guys Lock you boys in right fucking now dude So you get your teeth kicked in in Colorado You stay there we get we drafted by the Cardinals So when you go in to Cardinals culture And we've already said it not a whole lot of fans in Arizona
Starting point is 01:37:09 And the winds aren't coming There's probably a lot of vets are like man fuck dude They're coming from whatever team like man fuck this and you're like this is kind of Yeah, we're here Trade's like I'm at home nothing's changed The one thing that was cool about Colorado State is I did win the Mackey Award which was pretty pretty cool the best tied in the country which had never really been done at a power whatever five
Starting point is 01:37:29 school not a power seven yeah power seven whatever it is yeah g six yeah g six whatever it is so that was that was pretty special just to to win that award but funny thing about this is you know they they give you the big trophy it's a huge you know and uh at the time Colorado State was like well are you going to keep the trophy or we're going to put it in the and I'm like what I'm it's my trophy I'm keeping the and they're like well we got to get a replica it's like 15 like how are we gonna do that and I'm like you just got drafted in the same round like I don't know man figure it out so that was like a big deal because they they're asking like they're like we got to ask some donors for some money to
Starting point is 01:38:08 get this this this trophy in the trophy case and I'm like well you guys better figure it out because I'm keeping this one but yeah go to go to Arizona I get I swear that was that's no tough college is sweating over 15 is tough man yeah that's why I didn't get any in my own money but also your Colorado State you want for some recruiting purposes you got a trophy you can show up with them but the fact they're having like a sit down like well we need a replica that's 15,000 how are we gonna how we're gonna get is like I don't fucking know man I'm like ask the donors or something I don't know yeah take we don't have any donors Trey you're a donor you are the donor now second round pick
Starting point is 01:38:43 dude we fucking need you know hey we love you we are fucking going hard on them but it's fun it's it's good fun we like that fun on the podcast yeah Colorado State when they turn it around dude when that class of 46 gets in when they get in we're fucking dying we're gonna be We're going to be going, yeah. You're going to be rolling. So, yeah, then I get drafted by Arizona, and I don't really know much about the Cardinals. I grew up in Colorado. I'm a Broncos fan growing up, and I didn't really follow the Cardinals at all.
Starting point is 01:39:06 So it was all new to me. Get there. I was really cool, though. We had, you know, JJ Watt at the time, AJ Green, DeAndre Hopkins. They had some really good older vets, which is pretty cool. Zach Ertz was there, too. So it was cool just to be there's me crying because I was excited. but yeah it was pretty special to go to Arizona and I trained there as close to home it was just a perfect fit I think yeah what about that chin hair we just saw was that a perfect fit or we I couldn't grow that I couldn't grow the beard you see the way it's lying too like he's like I'm sorry I'm gonna be on TV I'm gonna be on TV let's let's let's trim this little goate up as much as we can fucking awesome dude you get the buzz cut going to or a little small I had some hair under there yeah it was like a little fade it was like a little fade it was like a little fade
Starting point is 01:39:52 but definitely needed some work for sure. Seems like you found yourself with this pseudo-mullet you got along now. I haven't had long hair in a long time, so I was like, fuck it, I'm going to grow it out. Yeah, hell yeah, dude. How was that learning from Earths? It was cool, yeah, I get there. And, you know, obviously I was bummed because I come off my best season.
Starting point is 01:40:10 I'm having a, you know, I was the best tight end in in college football. And then I get drafted. And I'm expecting, like, I'm going to be the guy right away. I'm going to, you know, come in and be the starter, blah, blah, blah. And then I get, and then Zach Ertz is there, which was honestly really cool for me just to come in as a young guy and to learn from an older vet, a guy who's been doing it at a high level for a long time. So that was really cool to, you know, pick his brain a little bit and figure out how he, how he goes about his business. So my first couple of years was cool to play with Zach for sure. You know he came in, Zach was competitions.
Starting point is 01:40:44 Oh, absolutely. Because at this point, it's no longer am I good enough to play. Like we've gotten out of the small town. I'm the fucking man out here. You're going with this old guy or John Macon? This I can barely run. You need to see my trophy? He just has it with him with this fucking.
Starting point is 01:40:57 Colorado State wanted this. It's all the fuck off. It's going to be in the dorm room. It's going to be in the dorm rooms of me, dude. What was the hardest part of the, I mean, this is such a dumb question because everybody asked it. But like, what was the hardest thing for you going from a smaller school at Colorado State to being in the NFL?
Starting point is 01:41:12 You have all the star power you just talked about. And, like, transitioning, like, was it the speed, the strength aspect, like, learning the playbook? because there is as a rookie people don't understand how many bullets are flying you get drafted and there's no break until yeah essentially the season's over right for me i think it was just knowing that you can do it like believing in yourself like trusting that that you're good enough to do it because i came from the small school small everything so it's like now that i'm here at this this high level it's like i know i can do it i just have to go out there and believe in myself and it was
Starting point is 01:41:43 really just having the confidence in myself to like go out there and do it um the playbook and stuff kind of came early because you have so many meetings and you're kind of forced to learn it. So that wasn't hard. I mean, the speed of play was obviously very fast early. But for me, it was nice because I got to go, you know, it was the twos. I was with the two. So I was go twos versus ones is how they did it. And I was going against Buda Baker and Jaylen, like all the starters.
Starting point is 01:42:07 So it was cool for me to play against a starting defense and kind of help me get up to speed pretty clear. What do you feel like your biggest growing pains were when trying to adapt to the NFL level? I think just size, you know, I'm obviously not the biggest tight-in. I wasn't the strongest guy. Which is crazy. I thought you were going to be like 6-6. No, I'm not.
Starting point is 01:42:28 That's a crazy stray, but I 100% agree. Well, yeah. When he walked in, I'm like, oh, fuck. Hey, buddy, on the TV, dude, we're watching them Thursday. Well, I'm flexing all the time. Yeah, talking shit to everybody. It's like, oh, shit. This guy's got some fuck.
Starting point is 01:42:40 He's a, he's a massive man amongst boys out there. You walk out. Oh, what's up? You're good to see you. Yeah, what's up? Yeah. No, it's, uh. , don't get a twist.
Starting point is 01:42:47 So you got to build to you. I just, when I saw it, I was like, oh shit, we're kind of, I would still. You're not looking up. Just so you know right now. Yeah, I'm not looking up too much. And it's, again, they're also in Arizona. So I feel like Trey McBride's name, like in fantasy,
Starting point is 01:43:00 him destroying the league, everything else. It kind of comes not out of nowhere, but he's not in all these household teams to where you're thinking of Trey McBride, the first few years you've been in the league. But don't get it, too. You're in your prime right now. I would, I would get you, Will.
Starting point is 01:43:13 Come on. I'm 36. I'm just scared. I'm just kidding. No, I'm just kidding But shit You're lucky I still can't do it I'm just kidding
Starting point is 01:43:23 That this bat going on right now You're gonna be an issue man But no it was probably just the size You know I'm blocking Trying to block J.J. Watt Things like that in practice and stuff So that was just probably like the biggest like Oh shit I gotta get big
Starting point is 01:43:37 Yeah These dudes are no fuck these guys are freaks So I gotta You know they're all shredded up They look like avatars and I'm like Fuck alright here we go I gotta block that guy Yeah, that mentality right there, who do you feel that mentality the most with?
Starting point is 01:43:51 If something not like fucks up, but it just so happens to be the perfect situation where you have to be one-on-one with the defensive end. Like who's the cat where you're like, oh, fuck me? It's probably all of them, dude. They're all fucking way bigger, stronger than me. And I'm like, and the edge rushers nowadays are just freak athletes, you know. So I'm like, every time I have to block, I'm like, fuck, this is a miss. This is not good for me, but I just got to bring it. So it's fun, though.
Starting point is 01:44:16 I enjoy the blocking part. It's just, it's definitely not my strength. You have to do it, though, so people can't just get your face in there no matter what. You have to just fucking give it your all and hope for the best. You think you hate like you love it. I fucking love blocking.
Starting point is 01:44:30 That way every time, too, that 85's on the field. It's not just like, hey, pass, pass. Yeah, right, right, right. You know he's in the combine, be like, yeah, I graduated top 100 of my class, and I love blocking. Like, he's just fucking putting all the things out there he needs to. How was JJ as a teammate?
Starting point is 01:44:43 He was awesome, man. Him and Zach were like best friends. So they were always together, always doing recovery lifts, all the stuff. But JJ was great, man. He was cool to just kind of see him. He was on the back end of his career and just knowing everything that he's done, how he prepared. It was just cool to watch as a rookie to see, you know, one of the greatest guys to ever do it just in your own building. So that was pretty cool.
Starting point is 01:45:05 We had a lot of really cool vets that I was able to learn and gather information and just kind of see how they go about their process and go from there. Was JJ a guy that you're kind of like watching and observing? and then you're trying to like slowly like hey where you're going home to do this stuff like you ever like any teammates over you ever have teammates over you want to have dinner one night things like that no i i tried and you know i remember he was just he was great man he just did everything the right way and his recovery was was really cool that's what i really watched is every day after practice how he would recover how he would lift how he would and i just kind of watched it and i was like well fuck if jj's doing it then i should probably do it too and uh just kind of took some things for me
Starting point is 01:45:44 and yeah, still use them today. Of all those vets that you just talked about being under your rookie year, was he the most intentional about his body? Yeah, he was, and D'Andre Hopkins actually was surprisingly pretty intentional about his body too, but one of my favorite old vets there that was AJ Green, the receiver, man. He was so cool to. Really?
Starting point is 01:46:03 Yeah, just because I was a huge fan of him when he was at Georgia back in the day. His career with the Bengals was pretty special. And just the way he liked, he was the oldest guy in the building and he would practice every day he never took reps off like just hit the way he worked was pretty pretty cool to watch was he like super mild mannered guy yes so chill so chill so chill doesn't talk a whole lot yeah so chill but then he would catch everything that was thrown to him and he was uh it was really cool to watch do you ever get him in a room be like hey so what did happen between you and jelan lamzy no that was that was a wild because of all the people to lose their shit on jlin when i saw that clip i'm like why a j
Starting point is 01:46:38 green it seems like he's like the most chill guy yeah i remember that i do remember that yeah That was, yeah. It was all, we played our last game. We played the Niners, and we had a trick play up where AJ ended up catching like a 75-yard touchdown. First play of the game. It was pretty cool. And after the game, I kind of had a feeling his career was going to be over after
Starting point is 01:46:58 the season. And I'm like, hey, AJ, can I get that jersey? Like, I just remember asking him for his jersey after the last game. And he ended up, you know, signing the jersey giving it to me. And I was just so cool. Yeah. That's so awesome. His last, last game is a car.
Starting point is 01:47:11 I mean, it was a Cardinals jersey. It wasn't a Bengals jersey, but it was still pretty cool to get AJ's last game worn jersey. Yeah, you sit with a guy that's like clearly a hall of fame type of cat and it's a last Jersey he ever wore in the last game ever. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's a cool piece to own dude. And the star pair that AJ Green had too and not like saying receivers like skill guys don't work hard, but when you see somebody like of that type of star power have so much like humility and also work their tail off to where like oh fuck like this guy really is about it. Yeah. That's what was cool to me, just how he some of the older guys would.
Starting point is 01:47:42 take vet days, wouldn't practice. He was out there every fucking day running post routes, running comebacks. Like, I'm like, this dude's a fucking warrior. Like, it was just cool to watch as a younger guy. That game you're talking about with AJ when it was his, probably his last game. Was that the game in San Francisco when they did this whole thing for JJ Watt?
Starting point is 01:47:59 Yep. That was that game, yeah. I mean, that's two cool moments. Yeah. And now that I'm thinking about it's kind of nuts, that like AJ's like, I'm also done. And they've had a great career. And they're like, thank you, JJ Watt for everything you've done for the NFL.
Starting point is 01:48:11 Celebration J.J. Watt had. And then trade just goes up to AJ, hey, can I get your jersey? There's like this beautiful small moment taking place. So like everyone's like sucking off JJ. That had to be awesome, dude. Like the, because I was when I was with the Titans, I mean, I couldn't stand. Could not stand JJ. He was always one of those cats.
Starting point is 01:48:30 You're just like, dude, shut up. He's always like doing the extracurricular super guy, like super douche stuff. And then it seemed like at the end of his career, he like became wake or he at least from my perspective. I was like, oh, this guy is a way. He's actually a good dude. Yeah, he's actually seen that he's a good dude because I couldn't stand a lot of family
Starting point is 01:48:47 dude, I couldn't stand on there. I mean, that's not a great photo to put up, but yeah. He seemed like he was pretty nice to you. Taping you on the shoulder when you're hurt. This is fucking side mid show over here, dude,
Starting point is 01:48:57 it's crazy. Yeah, that's what I tore my ACL. That's basically that's the end of my career right there, bro. That's good. No, no sacks, dude, no sacks. No sacks.
Starting point is 01:49:07 He's like, don't touch me on the shoulder. Yeah, you're fucking. But thank you very much. Don't wish me well. I'm very emotional right now. I don't want to do this. Listen. And you're there.
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Starting point is 01:53:40 Like, how are you as a leader when these rookies are coming in? And they're so hyped up about you. you're set in records. You're like, you're the, the, the bright light in the Arizona Cardinal community. The one bright light, yeah. It's honestly crazy just because I, when I got there, it was like, everything's spinning so fast. You're just trying to gather information.
Starting point is 01:54:01 You're trying to just figure out your way. And then now I'm going into my fifth year now. And it's like, now I'm the guy that everyone's kind of asking for questions. How do you recover? How do you work? Like, and it's just, you got to show the way instead of figure it out. Yeah, it's just so weird because now it's like, it doesn't, It still feels like I'm young.
Starting point is 01:54:16 It still feels like I just got there. But now, you know, I'm one of the oldest guys there. I've been there the longest, this and that, you know, besides Buddha and one other guy, I mean, I've been there the longest. So it's pretty, it's pretty crazy to be on the other side of it. Now people are coming in asking me. So it's really cool on the other hand, but it is different now that I'm kind of becoming, you know, more on the older side. Yeah, you're the older side, but it's like, yeah, it's only, you're only in year five. Yeah, so I still feel young, man.
Starting point is 01:54:42 How old are you? 26, yeah. It's one of the odd things. about being still young yeah it's one of the odd things about like being on a team that hasn't had a lot of success because there are so much coaching change there is so much turnover taking place so you put yourself in year five it's like yeah you're one of the one the oldest guys there's coaching staff already it's just nuts yeah so it's just it's hard because like there's there is a lot of turnover and every year it's kind of trying to figure it out on our own but it's cool
Starting point is 01:55:08 that I can kind of be the cornerstone and guys can kind of lean on me for advice or or different things like that. Is it, um, when you're thinking about, okay, now people are viewing me as this older vet? Are you more intentional about like showing your recovery? Because I got, for me, when I was a guy that was like, I'll get whatever I need to get done from the basic standpoint of like hot tub, cold tub. If there's a sauna and I have time for it, I'll have the sauna. But when I would get home, that's when I would try to do all like kind of spend a good hour, hour and a half of the recovery process. And that's kind of what I do as well. Like at the facility, I'm going to cold plunge. I'm going to hot tub. I'm going to do all the whatever you do at the facility but then when you get home that's when like i do a lot more of
Starting point is 01:55:47 the recovery stuff kind of rolling out getting stretch massages things like that and i think that's what a lot of people don't realize is like you can get as much as you want at the facility but you still have to do a little bit more when you get home because it's like uh it doesn't just stop when you leave the facility you got to keep keep the recovery keep the process going and and and i think that's where a lot of people kind of get messed up yeah guys i just go home and say they'll be okay the day's for college duty time baby let's go yeah yeah it's a double-exp day what uh what do you feel is different about coach lefler coming in than the previous coaches you've been with i just think the i mean obviously i came in with an offensive head coach with cliff and that was such a whirlwind for me just because
Starting point is 01:56:30 it was my rookie year learning the offense it was really a college offense it was no huddle it was signal everything so that was very different for me was i was used to it coming from college but then get into Jonathan Gannon, who's a defensive head coach, who I loved JG. He was an awesome coach, did everything. We just didn't win games, so it's hard to, you know, keep a guy. But then when Mike comes in, I just like the offensive-minded thing. You know, he's in every offensive meeting. He's running the offensive meetings.
Starting point is 01:57:00 He's teaching the receivers, tight-ins, how to run routes, what he wants to see. So it was cool just to hear it straight from the head coach exactly what he's looking for. And he's the one running the meetings, too. So I think it's cool to have the offensive head coach again, just being on the offensive side, to have the head coach in your corner knowing exactly what's going on on the offensive side. So that's what I really like about it.
Starting point is 01:57:20 Do you feel any like cultural differences? Yeah, I think he, I mean, the culture, I think is obviously still trying to be built in the foundation, things like that. But I feel like he's doing a great job of having his core guys, you know, on board believing in what he's doing. And I think that, you know, his offense that he runs is pretty fun. and I think we'll be very successful in offense. It's just awesome to know that like that lineage, that tree.
Starting point is 01:57:45 I know. I know. Come from the. Dude, you look at the name LaFloor, but the Sean McVeatree. Yeah. What tree is it?
Starting point is 01:57:50 And Kyle Shanahan. Yeah. All those guys. How much success they've had on the offensive side? How many tight ends have just exploded in that offense as well? And they love the tight end. It's 12, 13, 14, 15 personnel. Whatever you can.
Starting point is 01:58:02 As many times you can put out there, man. They're doing it. We need a quarterback for this one. You get five, get six tightings out there. That's what we need. It is pretty. cool just to be in the offense and he's always we're running the same offense but we have three
Starting point is 01:58:15 tight ends on the field so now we're playing receiver we're doing you know all the other so it's it's really cool offense I love it I have a non football question and this I want you to know that this is a loaded question there is a correct answer what is your favorite place to eat in Arizona oh man there's a lot of good spots um you know think sports bar think like don't not high We're not talking about high end. Not high end, a little... Let him stumble. A little grimy.
Starting point is 01:58:41 I like this little grimy little spot, little hole in the wall. You know, Zips is not a bad spot for sure. Okay. I didn't like the way you said it. Have you been to Zips? I have been to Zips. It's just a sports bar.
Starting point is 01:58:54 I mean, it's nothing to write home about it. Oh, wait to here with the Mitches! That is insane! I know. He said nothing right home. Which one have you been to? The one right there on... In Arcadia, Bight Bay Fashion Square.
Starting point is 01:59:09 The one, I think it's like Thomas or Miller or something. That's a good one too. That's a good one. It's crazy. That's the best one we had. Would you have that? Would you have that? I mean, it's, I just got like wings and maybe a burger or something.
Starting point is 01:59:21 It's hard to. What do you think of the wings? They're really good. They have a, maybe I'm wrong. They have like a golden flavor or something. Yeah. Yeah. I got to blame this on small town living, dude.
Starting point is 01:59:32 I got to blame this in Colorado. I got to blame this is to me the greatest meal you can possibly. this is my death road meal is so this is what I wanted to bring I was hoping you like this is the greatest I'm like oh my god do you see guys it's like a lot of these guys in here have had zips it's good I mean it's hard to fuck up it's hard to fuck up some wings in a burger and a beer have you the facacia I have it I mean I don't go every day like you but I'll Matt tell him tell oh my god you fucking sell out dude you're a cell three times since you've brought it up to me
Starting point is 02:00:02 facacha's good the wings were okay the fukasha's good but uh we're going to are pretty bad. As soon as I get back to Arizona, I'm going straight to do. This is the moment where I'm supposed to sit in the pocket, but I'm out. I do think we're all in the realm that it's a good sports bar grill. Like good. Like you should go. Everybody to listen to this podcast, you're in Arizona. You should go to Zips. It's good. What about the wings, Will? The wings are awesome. Best you've ever had? Because you were saying that when you ate them. When they're in your mouth, did?
Starting point is 02:00:31 Yeah, because I'm also a prisoner of the moment. But I'm not, now that I'm like removed, I'm like, I don't have. have like these are the best wings on the planet like I'm kind of in the camp it is hard to fuck up wings now time out I'm listening my facial expressions doesn't mean I'm not listening the the wings we have when we were at Buffalo Bills camp those were awesome solid there's good wings here locally but like Zips all the time every time you order the is it is it it's just golden right golden yeah golden medium extra crispy extra saucy so you know the game anytime you get those. So you've been.
Starting point is 02:01:07 Okay. I can say this about them. You're never going to be disappointed. You're always going to like getting that order. They always have a well done wing. It's very quality. It is saucy too. A lot of me to it.
Starting point is 02:01:17 A lot of saucy. You like good saucy, thick wings with ranch. Zips has got them. All right. I'll tell you this. There's not a whole lot more I can ask for. Right. For you, it's your death row.
Starting point is 02:01:29 For you's death row, which is. Forever I'm going to bring up Zips. Right. There's a big. There's just a gap that no one's like going to meet that level of expectation unless you find it's a little bit because there's nostalgia in it yeah yeah but i do think we are all like matt took a wild kind of shot that like the wings are the wings are good the wings are good man's sort of the pool in front of tray but there is a little bit of fear that comes in where you're like
Starting point is 02:01:49 are they the best ones you've ever had and i'm like they they could be i have no clue i just know that i like them anytime i get them and i love them i know i know you every time every time i do love them i do want that on record. Yeah. Can I tell you something? You've never done a better job of just just putting it all together. Okay. That was incredible.
Starting point is 02:02:07 Like anytime I'm about to, I was about to end it. I know. I was about that jump out of a fucking window. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if me and you are N-A-Z and you're like, Willie Boy, we're going to Zips, there's never going to be a moment where I'm like,
Starting point is 02:02:18 fuck, why do we got to go to Zips? Right. Maybe if we were there for like a month of like a month straight through and you're like, you take me there every day. I beg, buddy, let's just go somewhere else. We've gained 35 pounds. You can no longer go to Zips. But I'll be happy anytime you're like, buddy, we're going to hit Ziss.
Starting point is 02:02:31 I'm hell yeah. Hell yeah. Great vibe, great spot. God. I'm sorry, it took five minutes of Will come in me down. You like it. I could see it bubbling. I'm like, I see where everybody's heads at, but even Matt gone like, wings are okay.
Starting point is 02:02:45 I'm like, oh my God, this is good. I did not say they were okay. I got Mitch, I got Mitch putting ACL tear photos of. I got Matt just blatantly line. And he doesn't know your triggers, but him saying it's nothing to write home about it. I was like, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck.
Starting point is 02:02:57 Right home about it. Right home about it. right home about that all right talk about this podcast every fucking week dude and it will continue to be talked about that's good every week so what do you enjoy in Arizona have you been in old town
Starting point is 02:03:11 yeah I live right there in Arcadia yeah it's a good spot yeah I don't really go out much but I have been you know I've dabbled for sure have you have you gotten to know your new super fan rookies or superstar rookies Jeremiah Love and Carson Beck yeah I have
Starting point is 02:03:26 Jeremiah sits right next me he's very quiet hardly talks at all. Fucking stud. Yeah, Carson, it's kind of the same way. He's pretty, pretty quiet, believe it or not. He's just chill,
Starting point is 02:03:37 wants to kind of do everything the right way right now. What's the believe it or not mean? Well, it's just like, I feel like, you know, a lot of people would think he's kind of like a,
Starting point is 02:03:45 but he's not, he's really quiet. You know how it is as a player. Like, you can have this perception publicly. Right. But if you're all ball,
Starting point is 02:03:52 like you're going to be a guy that's all ball, especially as a rookie. What surprised me the most about Carson was we were at EA and L.A. Yeah. And we were doing, doing ratings with them.
Starting point is 02:04:01 And the build on that cat, he's a way bigger dude than I expected him to be. Yeah, he's huge. He's got a little something to him. Yeah, he looks like a tight end. I'm like, shit, bigger than me, you know. But no, he's a stud. And he throws a ball really well.
Starting point is 02:04:17 He's a, I think he has a chance to be a really good player in this. Yeah. You think he's got a chance to week one? I don't know about week one unless something crazy happens, but he definitely has a chance to be a guy for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But Jeremiah, on the other hand, that dude's a fucking stunt. Bro, he's going to, he's going to be a monster.
Starting point is 02:04:37 Dude, when we were at the EA thing, like, guys would come in solo in their uniform and you have like three to five minutes with them and you kind of break everything down. When he came in, there was, he came in with like eight, nine, ten different people. And they're all like his little crew that came in. I'm like, oh, this feels a little more, a little more pressure on it. I was running solo for a second. He ended up being awesome where he's like, I think we got along. he was like talking about what he likes to do he likes to people watch a lot and i'm very quiet i'm gonna come
Starting point is 02:05:02 over we're gonna hang out watch him anime together and then right around 2 30 a m we're gonna go down to old town scottsill and just watch the zombies get around and he seemed like he was all about it dude but he seems like a dude that is 24-7 ball knows what he wants to do he's like a true football player yeah he is and he's a stud man just uh the the the few practices that we had together he his route running and his ability to fucking make plays is pretty cool to watch yeah yeah so i'm excited to have him on our side for sure he's going to be a beast do you like obviously it's all about winning football games clearly you guys just got to win more you got a new head coach you know you guys are built in culture right now you guys are the goal is obviously to win yeah what is the thought process knowing
Starting point is 02:05:42 you're in the nfc west yeah it's tough Seattle Niners Rams it's a tough division and then you know like I want to root for you but now I just had to come two of the division you're in and it's like how is it miles Garrett AD may or may not come as well yeah I was like Effort MVP, like the Rams are the most terrified. Seattle's defense. Right. Yeah, Seattle's defense. And then the Niners are good.
Starting point is 02:06:03 You got Fred Warner. I mean, they're all fucking. Every week, you're like, God damn. We got another, you know, tough matchup. But it's cool, man. I think we have a chance. These are all divisional games and their rivalries. So I feel like we were close, a lot closer with these guys in than a lot people think.
Starting point is 02:06:18 So I think we just got to make a few more plays, scored a few more touchdowns. And just score more points than that when you play them. That's really it. That's all you guys are. Very strong. rages of you to talk to say we weren't as far off as people think as you kept looking at the screen and yeah my guys got it zoomed in on the records last year yeah no it was we were we were closer than than a lot of people think but when you see the miles garrett trade and things like
Starting point is 02:06:40 that you kind of like fuck i got a chip a few more times than i wanted to against the rams yeah we're gonna have to slow his ass down yeah and then they're i mean their defense is is tough too so we got our hands full with them hands are full for sure and when you've well obviously talked about Colorado State didn't win a whole lot of games. Get to Arizona. Don't win a whole lot of games. When you go and sign this massive contract with Arizona, was there ever a piece of you in your head where you're like,
Starting point is 02:07:05 I love to just go to a spot where I feel like we're going to win more games? Or was that never really in the cards for you? It was, I mean, obviously that's kind of what you think of, but when the opportunity presented itself to stay with Arizona and sign the record-breaking deal at the time, it was pretty cool to do. And I was all for it. I love Arizona, man.
Starting point is 02:07:25 There's nothing about the place that I hate. You know, obviously wish we won more games, but it's a special place. I love being there, and shit, hopefully we'll turn it around. Arizona. And bring that photo back up. As Arizona listens to this podcast, they're just going to know they got them forever.
Starting point is 02:07:41 Forever. Like, knowing how he got recruited in Colorado State, was there ever a chance? He's not fucking going anywhere. Until they just pat him. Yeah. We think you're pretty good, but you might not be good at other teams. But okay, I'll stay here.
Starting point is 02:07:51 I'll stay here. I'm staying here forever. I had a dude, but like just Mitch just had this up. I had to bring it back up. But like that's insane. Yeah. $19 million a year, which I know a lot of guys feel uncomfortable when like that said. This is obviously a public platform.
Starting point is 02:08:04 People are going to hear that number. But like that's got to feel absolutely incredible. Just your story of being in a small town. Yeah. You graduate top 100 in your class. You go to Colorado State just because you have all these options, but you stay loyal no matter what. You win the Mackey Award. And now you're sitting at the top and a name below you is one of the biggest superstars in
Starting point is 02:08:22 NFL history, Travis Kelsey, got George Kittling there. Guys you used to come to tight end you to learn from, and now you're getting paid more than them. It's just nuts. It shit was crazy. When I just,
Starting point is 02:08:33 I remember going through the whole process of getting the new contract, knowing I kind of knew I was going to sign a big one. And I just remember I was at home and my agent called me. And, you know, I ended up signed up for 76. At the time, it was like,
Starting point is 02:08:45 hey, we got four for 64, which was 16 a year. And I was like, fuck, dude, 64. Oh my God, like, oh my, I could buy so many zips fucking wings. Just everything that's going through my mind. I'm like, dude, like let's lock it in like, $64. That's life changing.
Starting point is 02:09:04 And he's like, and he's like, no, bro, we're not fucking doing that. Like, we're like, what? I'm like, you sure? Like, it's not going to go anywhere. And it was just cool to finally end up signing that big deal to be, you know, higher than Travis Kelsey, George Kittle at the time. you know, whoever it was up there, it was, it was pretty cool to, to sign that deal. It was, uh, especially for my little hometown, you know, now they think I like walk on water
Starting point is 02:09:30 and stuff when I go back home. But it's, uh, it was pretty cool to, to sign that big deal for sure. Yeah. He's just like, I'm going to go back and I'm going to say this. He's, are, are you sure? Like, they're not going to get pissed off on that. They still want me, don't they? We got a pretty good deal. Colorado State called me right away like, hey, that 15 grand, bro.
Starting point is 02:09:46 Can we get that Mac? You didn't give him like three replicas, bro. No, definitely. He had three replicas. Was it the first offer was 16? No, the first offer was It was actually way lower, but it was like 12. You know, the Cardinals are...
Starting point is 02:09:59 Oh shit, they slats you. Yeah, so then I was like... We're feeling disrespect to you. You're like, fuck this. Well, then I was like, yeah, it might not be the Cardinals. Maybe I go somewhere else. Maybe I play my last year and kind of explore my options. And then it just, they finally, you know, they wanted to get it done.
Starting point is 02:10:12 And I knew I wanted to be the highest paid at the time. And Travis was at 17 and we got to 19. And I really wanted 20. 20 was the number I really wanted, but we couldn't. get them up to 20. Get it on the next one. I mean, yeah, usually the like incrementally go up. Like you see like T.J.
Starting point is 02:10:26 Hawkinson 16, 15, five, then 17. It's not usually a massive jump. You just, you just, two piece them. Two piece them. Yeah,
Starting point is 02:10:33 exactly. Yeah, it was cool. When you got to 172 where you're like, all right, you're like, shaking your age and like, we got to take this, right? This is the time of taking. Yeah, but I,
Starting point is 02:10:42 and then I, he's like, dude, I think we can get, we're going to get 20. Like, I was like, 20 is the number I want. Let's try to get 20. Let's like really, you know, let's really make a jump for it. And I knew Kittle was going to sign, you know, he was due for a deal.
Starting point is 02:10:55 So Kittles, you know, we were at here. We were at the Pro Bowl together. And he's like, just waiting for you to sign, bro. And then I knew as soon as I signed, he was going to jump me. So it was cool. I got to 19 and then George jumped me right away to 19.1. So. How long after did George's come out of yours?
Starting point is 02:11:13 I think I was the highest paid for, I don't know, a month, maybe two weeks. Celebrated for a couple weeks Yeah, and then he got 19.1 And I'm just down in the bottom again. Isn't that crazy? It's crazy. I mean, it was probably two or three weeks and he jumped me.
Starting point is 02:11:28 I knew he was going to jump me, but it was funny. Because who else was like that for? Was it Max and then Miles Gary? Yeah, there was Max Miles, T.J. A handful of guys just like one week, highest paid in NFL history, non-quarterback NFL history,
Starting point is 02:11:45 over and over and over again. And it's like, Jesus Christ. Actually, these last three weeks have been a lot of money spent. I know. Dude's just making a shitload of money. Is there a part of you? Like, everybody knows, talks about Travis Kelsey, George Kittle. Like, is there a part of you that still feel slept on?
Starting point is 02:11:59 Yeah, I definitely do. I feel like these guys are always, you know, the top of the, you see tight ends. They're always the top. They're always the ones in the media. Everyone's talking about. But it's honestly kind of nice just being the underdog. No one really believes. I mean, they're starting to now.
Starting point is 02:12:14 But before it was like no one really believed in me. no one really cared for me and then just continuing doing it year and year out just trying to be the top guy and it was cool to jump all these guys and kind of get that recognition for a little bit and then you know kiddle how to take the spotlight again so but it was cool but it was pretty special for sure just to to be in the conversation to be on this list with a lot of really good good players yeah the rookie contractor sitting there in chanler your words not mine the slums and then the minute this thing gets dialed in you're like so i get on zillo i'm like where can i live Scott Steele. Hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Was that like your first approach? The first buy.
Starting point is 02:12:51 Yeah. This is an incredible amount of money. This is awesome. You absolutely earned every bit of it. But yeah, treat yourself a little bit. Yeah, that was the, that was the thing. I was like, I'm going to go get me a house in Scottsdale. I know I'm going to be here for a few years. So I'm going to make sure I'm living right. And I went to Scott Steele bought a house. And yeah, the rest of it. I've just been saving for Zips. Yeah. Hell yeah, dude. The callbacks. It is, dude. It ultimately just comes down to your team winning and doing well. Because when your name was like just coming on the radar, I feel like a lot of it is you just followed rankings and like fantasy in your bag, who in the fuck is this training bride guy, just catching 10 balls a game all the time.
Starting point is 02:13:27 They're like, he's in two minute every game so he's gonna catch, you know, 12 balls every game. Just nobody's rushing to figure out who are the Arizona Cardinals playing this week. Yeah, exactly. It was cool just to, you know, I became the top tight end last year, which was cool in fantasy, whatever.
Starting point is 02:13:41 And it was just cool to, you know, be in the same realm as a lot of these other really good players. Do you play fantasy? I don't really, but I obviously follow it a little bit just to. You got, I'm sure some of your boys back home are in some fantasy games. Either pissed or are really happy that I had a good game. So it's cool. Do you don't play fantasy, not into it.
Starting point is 02:14:02 What do you like to do outside of football? What's your go-to? Like if we were to come to Scottsdale, hang out of your house, I'm sure there's a couple extra bedrooms of me and we'll come and go jump in. For sure. What do we do? What are you taking us to do? There's a lot, I mean, you know, Scottsdale, but I'm a big golfer.
Starting point is 02:14:16 Now I'm, I got the golf bug where I'm hooked. Like, if I got any free time or anything, I'm trying to play golf as much as I can. That's kind of my fixation right now. Yeah. Me and Buda Baker, we play a lot together. We, fuck, we play too much probably. But it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of guys on the team, so we're playing as much as we can.
Starting point is 02:14:35 But that's kind of what I like to do. It's some of the best golf, right? Like Arizona's got incredible golf. I never got into it. Never was there. But all my boys from high school and stuff like that, they're always out on the course, 24, seven was like whisper rock yeah whisper rock yeah i'm trying to join up there right now yeah it's a tough it's a tough place to get in but i'm uh i love it man it's a fun it's fun just to play golf get out with a
Starting point is 02:14:57 lot of buddha loves to play man be me and buddha play a tonne who's uh who's better between you and buddha you know i used to i used to kill him i used to beat him a bad and he's he's starting to play really good right now so he might be trending you know a little bit better than me but we uh we have some good matches for sure do you do you do you follow pGA and all that yeah for we were talking before off the bus Wyndham Clark Colorado kid Oh yeah bro Wyndham Clark went and won it Yeah that was sick dude so sick
Starting point is 02:15:24 Unreal dude I had a so I had my buddy in Arizona Tanner to any shout out Tanner a friend of the show He calls me on Thursday last week And he's like hey whatever you have in your Fandole account you need to nuke Wyndham Clark this weekend And I like without even thinking about it went And put a thousand bucks on Wyndham Clark to win it was plus 2,000 Yeah, or 2,200 I think
Starting point is 02:15:43 Yeah 2100 I put a thousand down with a chance to win $21,000. And we just, yeah, we, we ended up winning, but there was a whole lot of back forth, especially in our group chat of like, do I, you know, do I cash out? Do I not? Like to the point, because he was coming down to the wire. Especially yesterday. Yesterday, he got a hairy. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:59 And I probably, I watched, uh, his last two puts. That's all I watched in all of like the weekend. And he put that put to fucking. Right. It's like a 52 foot put. And he put that thing within inches. And I'm like, oh my God. This dude's going to do it.
Starting point is 02:16:12 Yeah. Because I had a, I had a handful of people reach out to me and were like, are you to do the cash. I think like Saturday night, it was at like $12 or $13,000. To cash out. To cash out. Because he was up by seven strokes.
Starting point is 02:16:24 And I just, oh, I have 13 X my money. Like, this is clearly the move to do. Yeah, not even watching, thinking about it. Right. Oh, shit, he's winning.
Starting point is 02:16:32 My fan to be like, oh, shit. Like, we're in a really, really good spot right now. So guys are going back and forth. But to me, it's like, I mean, we're waging a thousand bucks. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:41 Like, we'll see. And like, the smart person we're willing to cash out. I'm happy I didn't. Because this is with the other side. Right, right. It's kind of nice. You get the dove.
Starting point is 02:16:48 Might as well Photoshop you on that. Yeah. My buddy, Rob Muji, he represents Wyndham Clark. Friend of the show. He's been on locker room. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:56 How do you know Mooch? I just play golf with him. We're good friends. And I played with Wyndham a handful of time. Yeah. Yeah, I know a lot of it. They're all Scotso guys. So I know a long.
Starting point is 02:17:03 We went to Shaperole high school together, man. He's a, he's one of the best guy. And his brother is the GM for the... The Jets. Yeah. Yeah. Darren.
Starting point is 02:17:12 Shout out of it. Weirdly successful school in the football world. Oh, with Dilly. Yeah, Dilleyam. He went on with the high school with him. He's head coach at ASU. Right, right. Darren Mugi, he's the GM for the Jets.
Starting point is 02:17:24 Muz, Rob Mugi, he's a, he's a golf, a golf agent. But who else? Ziegler. He's the assistant GM for the Titans. This guy named David Ziegler was my high school guidance counselor. Just that was his role. High school guidance counselor. He's also like the Tideon special teams.
Starting point is 02:17:39 And he was the gym for the Raiders for like a year and a half. Right. Now he's just nuts. That is cool. The way these guys go and do their thing. Then who's your high school football coach, the one that's an assistant would... Charlie Regal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no longer with ASU.
Starting point is 02:17:51 Oh, he's not? No, no longer with ASU. Shout out. Regal, though. He is the man. He is the absolute man. Dog and tennis ball speech. A little golf, man.
Starting point is 02:18:01 So golf's your hobbies, Zips is your hobbies, Scottsdale's your hobbies. No doubt. Yeah, it's a tough, tough place to lead, man. Scott Stales is a cool, cool city for sure. Yeah. How has it been for you when you do go, like, I don't know how often you go back home, but when you do go back home, you mentioned, like, people feel like you're walking on water.
Starting point is 02:18:16 Yeah. Is that a weird, like, was that a weird transition for you? It's like your boys are now starting to feel like fans, maybe even some family members kind of feel like fans as opposed to like family. Yeah, it is different for sure. Just because growing up, you know, I was always the best athlete in the town, whatever. So I always kind of had a, but then now it's just kind of ramped up a lot. And now it's like every time I go back, they're like, holy smokes.
Starting point is 02:18:39 Like, there's Trey. Like, and it's just kind of funny how people change. And it's like, I'm just, same dude man I'd still you know do the same things whatever but um it is cool to go back to see everybody spend time back at the home uh you know town I do a kids camp back home every year so that's always fun that's cool to go back and and host the kids camp and see how many people come out for that but it's uh it's cool to go back and spend time back in the little town I came from for sure have you got your hometown have you got your high school or replicate it you know I'm trying
Starting point is 02:19:08 to get them to retire the they're going to retire the jersey this year which is pretty cool my at my high school jersey so that's that's pretty special but um no i need to get them a replica of that that damn that damn macchi trophy i got to ask caro state for 15 grand and see what see what happened you you initially said i'm trying to get and then they said they're going to retire the jersey do you have to go to them be like hey can you guys well it's been it was a processor like we've never done this we don't know how to retire jerseys and then there's uh there's actually a couple other NFL guys that came from my high school too so they're going to retire all three of us which is kind of cool um so it'd be cool to just retire all the time.
Starting point is 02:19:41 Kind of getting your high school's Hall of Fame, dude. Yeah, yeah. That is awesome. Who's the most respected defensive player in your eyes in the back seven? Not having to block Miles Garrett and all these cats, but in the back seven as a receiving tight end. I think of like maybe those safeties, man, there's a lot of good safeties. Derwin James I've played against. Kyle Hamilton is actually a really, really good player.
Starting point is 02:20:08 Oh, bro. He's a stud. That's a guy. I'm trying to think of who else. You know, we play against the Seahawks, and you got Fred, you know, the Niners. You got Fred Warner and you got Witherspoon, who's a really good player with the Seahawks. God, there's so many guys in this league that are tough. But I feel like, you know, I try to win more than I lose, and that's usually the case, yeah.
Starting point is 02:20:31 Who's one that you're like, hey, that shit went kind of hard just now. Well, I mean, you just said it so casually. It was a bar. It was fucking nice, dude. Yeah. try to win more than I lose and that's usually the case. Oh shit. Let's fucking go.
Starting point is 02:20:45 Is there somebody that you look forward to the most that's kind of had your number? You know, I think someone who got me last year was Jesse Bates with the, with the, what was that Atlanta? He's a good, good safety. He got me on a couple rounds. You know, his back-to-back plays where I had a, won an option round and I had a go ball where he got me pretty good. So he just, he got the best of me that game.
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Starting point is 02:24:59 What was the early part of your Welcome to the NFL moment? Who was the guy that you're like, oh shit, we're fucking here now? Well, I think my first training camp when I, you know, was able to get a few reps with the ones and I put my hand down and j.J. Watts lined up in front of me and like I said, DeAndre Hopkins in the slot, AJ Green split out and I was just like, holy shit, dude, I'm like on the offense with, you know, D. Hop and AJ and I'm, I got to try to cut off J.J. Watt. This will be fun. And I just remember there's one play. We're on the backside of a, you know, cut off. And I cut off J.J. Watt. And he's not even, it's in training camp. You know, he's not even trying.
Starting point is 02:25:37 And I'm going as hard as I can, like trying to have the perfect technique. and he's like not even trying. And I just remember saving the clip. I'm like, I fucking block JJ Watt. Like, you know, video in it from the iPad. Like, wow. He's just standing up kind of job. Yeah, he's like not even trying.
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Starting point is 02:25:58 doesn't even care. Not even trying. And I'm like, for me, it was really cool. Dude, that's where he made his hay though in the backside of like those run plays. He would just, he would just step and then swim outside of guys. and he would do the same three moves. And it was the most effective thing of all time. No one could stop it.
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Starting point is 02:27:07 on Fandul. Visit fandle.com slash to get started now. We have some fan questions here. I saw the first one's really good. This is from Coup Comstock. Merry fuck kill. What the? Kyler, Jacoby Brissette, Carson Beck.
Starting point is 02:27:21 Oh my God. This is coming from Coop Comstock. Yeah, that's insane. I'm probably going to, you know, I'm probably going to marry Kyler because he's pockets are deep for sure. Okay, smart. I'm going to marry for the money, right?
Starting point is 02:27:35 Jacoby, we've had a lot of success. So I say it crazy as that sounds, I'm going to, yeah, you know. And Carson, just since we don't have enough, we don't have a strong relationship yet, I'm going to, you know, get rid of him. You're going to kill him. Yeah. Coup, it's a good question. That was not a good question.
Starting point is 02:27:52 That was a terrible question. This one is from Pursuit Sports Performance. What values of growing up in a small town have helped you to continue to have success in the NFL? Shout out Northeast Colorado in Fort Morgan and Akron and go Rams. Love it. I think the, what it is is just like the ability to work hard and do everything the right way. I just try to be a good person, work hard, and it kind of led me to where I am now. So just the blue collar, you know, give it your all mentality, I guess. Good question, good answer. This will come from Carter. Dot Pollock had the honor of meeting Trey at the Phoenix Open back in
Starting point is 02:28:30 February, watching him in the same group as my dad's good friend, Tom. Keniotti. Yeah. Keniadi. Is that Kniotti? Candyotti. Kendiotti. Hell of a time to witness Kandy's hole in one and trade going nuts for him. My question is, has he always had a love for golf and when did he start playing? That swing was pure. Yeah, that was cool.
Starting point is 02:28:50 So I played in the waste management open and this Tom Kanyan, he's an older guy, former pitcher in the MLB. Par three, I think he hits a driver and somehow ball goes in the hole. And, you know, at the waste management, there's so many fans. People going nuts. And I'm like, did he just hit Driver into the hole? And yeah, he ended up making a hole in one. That was pretty cool to watch. Was that the 16th?
Starting point is 02:29:13 No, it wasn't 16. It was unfortunately it would be sweet tip for that. It was a different part three, maybe seven or something like that. But no, having always loved golf, I really got into golf when I got to the NFL. So I've only been playing for four years or so. And I'm hooked. So I play as much as I can. Dude, how rowdy is that waste management?
Starting point is 02:29:33 Oh, dude. It's the best. It's so fun. Yeah, just to how all the fans are there and the atmosphere is electric. Yeah. I was just so nervous that I was going to shank a T-shot and kill somebody because there were so many people, you know, watching. But it was a, it was an awesome tournament. And it's crazy too, all like the little secret rooms that are in the bleachers.
Starting point is 02:29:52 Yeah, like the Order of Phoenix or whatever small like secret societies. Yeah, yeah, you're walking through hallways and stuff like that. Come with us. You're like, I guess I'll come with you. I'm kind of nervous right now. Yeah, that 16th is awesome. It's like a happy Gilmore scene over and over and over again. Will you want to ask this question?
Starting point is 02:30:06 Yeah, BR1 underscore 5. What is his order when he goes to Zips? If Taylor can control his excitement, let Trey answer first to see if Taylor approved. Taylor doesn't approve. Yeah, he doesn't, you know, like I said, it's a little sports bar. So I'm going to, I'm going to go with the golden wings.
Starting point is 02:30:25 Like you said, those are, it's hard to screw up wings and wings do it for me. So I'm going to get a dozen wings and maybe a burger on the side. Wings main meal burger on the side You gotta get the Monaco faccia man He should get the monoccoe We'll come to Arizona I already got a planned date with Jeremiah Love
Starting point is 02:30:45 When I come down We'll do two for one special So we can go to Zips together Will you're more than welcome Thank you I was waiting to see if I was gonna get that advice I'm in Will you wonder what BLQ is I'll tell you what the BLQ is the Bud-like question
Starting point is 02:30:58 It's the most important question You can possibly be asked on this bus Because we know that anybody would do anything for an ice cold blood light. Right. What is something that Trey McBride would do anything for, but you can't say family? Hmm.
Starting point is 02:31:12 I think for, man, that's a good question. I think just to have a great legacy to be known as like a good person, a hard worker, things like that, I think I would do anything to leave a great legacy behind. Hey, that's a good wholesome answer. Yeah. Good wholesome answer. Absolutely beautiful.
Starting point is 02:31:35 How often do you think about a Hall of Fame career? Honestly, I haven't really. I just kind of try to continue to be consistent to put one good year after the other. And I think at the end of it, if I look back in it, that's what the case. I mean, that would be pretty special. But really just try to focus on putting a good year together each and every year. I actually have a question about, I know that was supposed to be the last question. But tied-in university.
Starting point is 02:32:00 Yeah. We talked about it a little bit how, like, you were a guy, came in you've learned from the best and now you're one of the best how helpful has tied in you been to your career getting to be around these guys that are at the top of their game and being a part of something so special for for a weekend time because outside of perspective like sometimes like oh this is a shit show that takes place the boys are getting after it they're having fun they're going out there's a concert and then but you guys it seems like you guys get some work done too it is really cool they do a such a good job of of getting everyone together and and really the workout part
Starting point is 02:32:29 of it's pretty special where you you have a couple hours to get in there watch film and Travis, George, whoever's up there is teaching exactly, you know, how they see the game, what they're doing, how they're getting open, all their run techniques, whatever it is. And it's really cool to hear, you know, from some of the best in the world of how they get open, what they do to get open, the different tools they use. And then to go out there and work out and do it with these guys, it's pretty cool just to be in the room to have all the energy. And then most importantly, you know, go out and have a little fun in the afternoon. But it's such a cool event that they do. And I'm glad that this fraternity that they've done to bring all these guys together has been pretty special.
Starting point is 02:33:04 That's what it's like too. It's like you guys get your own little fraternity. Yeah. Like you're in and year out, how all you guys stay connected. You got tied in you day. Yeah. It's really cool. Just a and each year it's gotten better and better. The people they bring in the concert. I mean, it's everything about it's pretty, pretty freaking cool. Do you have a time slot where you're going to be standing up and teaching and speaking? I'm sure one of these days I'll do it. I don't know if it's this year, but I'm sure I'm sure I'll have to go up there. and tell them how I run a corner route or whatnot. But it'll be cool. I'd be honored to do it.
Starting point is 02:33:36 I don't know when it will be. You have a bag of knowledge too? You feel like you get up there and spin it? Yeah, I feel like I could be nervous. I'd definitely probably be a little nervous talking to some of these guys. But I think it would be cool to teach some of them of how I see the game or what I do to get open, things like that. And it's a little different from everybody else.
Starting point is 02:33:52 And, you know, everyone kind of does their own thing. And it's cool to hear other people. I love that. I love that. I love that. Listen, we'd be remiss, man. We didn't give you an opportunity. Ask Trey McBride a question.
Starting point is 02:34:04 This is Arizona Cardinal Sicko right here. I mean, you already put my question. Who put that on there? Probably sharing. I don't know. I wasn't expected that to be on there. So I have another question. I want to know who in the NFC West do you dislike the most?
Starting point is 02:34:20 And why is it the 49ers? It's actually, to be honest, I think it's a Seattle, man. That's a tough place to play there. their defense is a bunch of shit talkers they you know they have a really good team too so i feel like every time we go to seattle it's such a hostile environment loom and field's such a cool place to play and uh they've gotten the best of us the last couple times so it'd be nice to to get back on the winning side for sure seattle that defense locked you up pretty good i don't know about locked me up i went for like 1 30 but um i uh we lost whatever happens uh oh that locked me up i mean that's a follow
Starting point is 02:34:58 Yeah, get a follow-up, Coupe. As a Cardinals fan in Nashville, Tennessee, what the hell happened in that time? Oh, God, dude. Yeah, that was crazy. I left, we had a watch party, I left, so happy, went to bed sad. Yeah, dude, that was a, oh, God,
Starting point is 02:35:16 that was a game where we had the interception, fumble to the touchdown. We also had the, that was the game, I think, where the running back dropped the ball, right? And, yeah, fuck, dude, I mean, right? Yeah, he was like running it in. On the one yarn line. Yeah, he had like a 60, oh my gosh.
Starting point is 02:35:32 Not your fault. Not your fault. That was a brutal game for us. Yeah, that was a tough follow-up. I didn't want to bring that one back up. But yeah, that was a tough game for us. We should have never lost that game. And at the time, they were 0-and-4 about to fire their head coach,
Starting point is 02:35:45 and he got one more week in the job to, gosh. They fired him the next week. That is so great. That was their first win of the year. First and their only. I think. I think they went one. No, they had one more.
Starting point is 02:35:58 Yeah, three. Hey, yeah, easy Jack. He had the same record. That was also. Same record. The fourth pick, Cardinals at the third. And that was also the last game, the last game that Kyler started in a Cardinals uniform. Yeah, that was the game he got hit in the, which hits me home.
Starting point is 02:36:12 Yeah. That hits home. God damn, dude. I mean, I was, yeah. Yeah, thanks for bringing that one of us. It was literally like, like the coach was a dead man walking. It was the, the interception to touchdown that was like, nothing can fucking go right for us today.
Starting point is 02:36:27 where we got to pick and then they this is this is crazy is this the one yeah yeah this is it oh my he tossed it out there which is the most insane what are those meetings like what's the meetings like the next week the thing is is our our head coach was like every week we're talking we had us letters and logos where you you weren't supposed to drop the ball until you got to the letters slash logos in the end zone was like a team talked about it every week every day and then this happened and it was just so devastating because I felt so bad for the head coach because he coached it so much
Starting point is 02:37:01 and did so much prep to avoid that and fucking still manage to fuck it up so. Jack as as a Titans fan this is go but yeah I watched this year. This was the pick into a fumble, kicks it in
Starting point is 02:37:17 to a touchdown. Boom. I mean you can't make that up. That is I mean that is insane things. The pick It's so cool. Man, great catch. Just to fumble, to let's kick it in,
Starting point is 02:37:33 to three guys jump on it, all of them miss it. And, shout out Tyler Lockett. Toddy. Tyler Lockett touchdown. Shout out Tyler Lockett. Jack, as a Titans fan, your perspective, like at this point,
Starting point is 02:37:44 I remember in the year, everybody in their mother who's a Titans fan is like, we got to get rid of this coach. We're done with him, it's over. He's a dead man walking. Were you happy about this win, or are you like, oh, God, he gets to keep his,
Starting point is 02:37:55 job for another week. I was happy because we were at our watch party so it was like fun to be with our fans and in the community of Nashville. Because at first half it was like what do we were devastating? We were up there, we were up there bowling just like oh my God. I felt like the man at that party. I bet you did. It was it was just more funny than anything because you get your first win on a clip that really looks like it would be on America's funniest home videos or like NFL's worst fails. And then I went to Vegas the following week and we like. We like, lost the Raiders. So kind of got my get back,
Starting point is 02:38:27 watched Callahan get tossed. So it kind of all worked out. But yeah, I mean, at that point, I don't think any Cardinals or Titans fans are happy in the moment. Like,
Starting point is 02:38:36 it's just kind of a game. You just want to kind of move on. Yeah, you're just watching the game just kind of... All the highlights of the game are pretty much just everyone failing forward. And so,
Starting point is 02:38:44 yeah. But, hey, 2026, big year. Big year for the Cardinals. Big year for the Titans and the Cardinals. Well, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 02:38:53 Terry, we know we got to get you out here, man. We really appreciate you come on the show. It's been awesome. So, so serious. You're officially a friend of the show. We'll be rooting for you for the rest of your career.
Starting point is 02:39:00 Yeah, appreciate you guys. For the rest of time. We're happy to do it. The rest of time. You got like a discount code at Zips or something? I actually have a gift card. Okay. But that's mine.
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