Pardon My Take - Greg Olsen & George Kittle, The Process Is Officially Dead, Nets/Bucks And Monday Reading

Episode Date: June 21, 2021

The Process is officially dead. Ben Simmons is afraid to shoot a basketball (2:40 - 15:45). Nets/Bucks Game 7 was an all time great + the Suns keep rolling (15:45 - 31:59) . Hockey talk and US Open recap (31:59 - 42:13). Who's back of the week (42:13 - 53:44). Greg Olsen and George Kittle join the show to talk about Tight End University, respecting Tight Ends, Tebow as a Tight End, and Greg tells us about his son's heart transplant (53:44 - 99:35). Monday Reading and Hanks announcement and we finish with Billy's recap.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Both good friends of the program, longtime friends. We had them on. Also, Greg Olson, we asked him about his son who just had a heart transplant. Very emotional, but great listen. So check it out. We are going to talk about the death of the process. We're going to talk about Game 7 Box Nets. We're going to talk a little hockey.

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ever. Today is Monday, June 21st, and the process is dead. RIP. RIP. We had a good run. We had a good run. This was going to be the postseason where we judged whether or not processes actually work.

Turns out they don't. Well, you know what? It was a legacy game for just baskets, being able to shoot. Well, I was good. If you can shoot, you're probably going to win an NBA Playoffs series. I was going to say, I didn't think it would catch up to him, but it finally did. Ben Simmons just refusing to shoot a basketball into a basket in a basketball game, it ended up that matters.

Well, he ended up not dunking. He's afraid of dunking, too. I thought that if he had the opportunity to go up with like a nice solid two-footed, two-handed slam dunk from inside the protected circle, I didn't think he'd be afraid of the basket in those circumstances. Wait, but hold on, PFT. Rim protector Trey Young was there. True.

Good point. So that's a scary thing. Actually, I'd like to now go back on my take that he should try dunking free throws, because that wouldn't work either. No, nothing works. He is allergic. I've never seen anyone just be like, I am not going to shoot under any circumstances. So we got a lot to talk about, but let's start with some Ben Simmons stats.

So we talked about this on Thursday's show, but Ben Simmons now officially finished the last four games of this series without attempting a single field goal in the fourth quarter. That's your point card. Honestly impressive. That's your point card. He attempted three field goals in the fourth quarters of this entire series, two of them in the first. He did finish perfect three for three, so there's one nice spin zone.

Because he's now out of the playoffs, Ben Simmons has the lowest free throw percentage in a single playoffs in NBA history. So he beats out Shaq. He was 34.2% Shaq's worst season, a playoff history was 37.4. So that's, but that's, that's another bad stat. And then finally, I mean, Ben Simmons, I don't, do you see afterwards Doc Rivers was asked like, can he be a point guard on a championship team? He's like, I don't know the answer to that.

We'll see. I will see. That's not great. It's not great when your head coach is saying that, like, do you think that you can win an NBA game with Ben Simmons as your point guard and MVP candidate Ben Simmons? And I feel really bad for Sixers fans. I know that Hank, we're going to give Hank a chance to just rip them apart, which he will.

I honestly feel bad for Ben Simmons. No, I don't. Imagine making it. No, I don't. Imagine making it to this, this stage in your professional career, only to just discover your one glaring weakness, which is you can't score. No, I, I, no, no, no, no, no. He can't shoot.

He, he, no, he, he, he's afraid of shooting. Yeah. No, I don't think he physically can shoot. I think that he is, in fact, right-handed and Kevin O'Connor has apparently been on this for a while. No, he's a lot of people think that he's right-handed. No, he's not. He's non-dominant.

Yes. Neither hand. He doesn't have a hand that works. No hands work for Ben Simmons and shoot it. He, I always thought that that saying the Wayne Gretzky, Michael Scott quote didn't really make that much sense. He actually proves that you do, in fact, miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. Yeah, like saying Ben Simmons can't shoot is actually wrong because, well, no, it's

right in that he, when you say he can't shoot, you're saying he's a bad shooter. He can't shoot in that he, he mentally cannot make himself shoot. Do you think he's got that, that, uh, disease, the brain thing where you're afraid of holes? You remember when the iPhones came out and everybody pretended to be afraid of the camera? Oh, that was like the even, no, that's, uh, Tryptophobia. Yeah, tryptophobia. He might be afraid of holes.

He needs to get hit in the eye. So there's three rims. Exactly. Like LeBron. It's that clip of him passing the ball when he was standing under the hoop with Trey Young coming over who he's got like a foot on was just, it's insane. I don't know how that happens in a basketball game. Hank, the floor is yours.

This quote just came out like a few minutes ago, so you probably didn't see it. But Joel Embiid said, I'll be honest, I thought the turning point was when we, I don't know how to say it is when we had an open shot and we made one free throw. Yes. And that makes perfect sense. You can't have a guy out there who does, that would be like if we went out there. I know, I know, obviously Ben Simmons is a great defender of not knocking him there. He had 11 assists, like he or 14 or no, uh, he had, sorry, 13 assists.

So he's doing stuff that have an impact on the game. But if you put any of us in an NBA game, we would pass up open looks because we would be afraid of getting blocked. Like we would do the same thing. The only person that's compare, like Raja and Rondo early in his career was kind of like that where he just didn't shoot or look for offense, but he also would at least shoot layups and like, you know, if you needed to get a shot, he would get a shot. Yeah.

Even if it was ugly. If you have an open layup, you should probably consider taking the open layup. Yeah. Joke of Noa would not look at the hoop when he was like at the, at the foul line, but he would still, just to keep him honest, do his weird motion. It's just, it's absolutely like, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Listen, we also need to put some blame on Doc Rivers, who like, we went through that on Thursday, but he's has not a great history outside of the one championship.

And Embiid, look, Embiid is a great, great player and he's the guy who you're going to build around. If you're the Sixers, but he was so sloppy. Like he just, he's just a sloppy guy. He loves falling down. I think he's turned over. I think his hands might be too big. That might be the issue.

There's just, he's all fingers. Yeah. He's just doing a lot of poking. Yeah. There were a few times where, you know, it was clear that he was going to be the person that was going to provide all the offense. And if you, if you make him drive to the hole in the fourth quarter, he's going to like bounce it off his shins every time.

Like, I think he has a little mental issue too. It's like they built an entire team out of Chuck Mablox, where you forgot how to throw the ball to first base. Except, except the only guy who could play is Doc Rivers son, son or his son in law who's out there playing in Seth Curry, who actually was playing well, but that's pretty much it. And he was the one guarding Kevin Herter. Yeah.

And Kevin Herter, we got to talk about the Hawks, but we got to, I want to say one thing though for the Sixers fans, because I actually, enough time has passed, an hour has passed since the end of the game. I actually think that if you're a Sixers fan in a weird way, this is for the good. And I know that that makes no sense on face value because you can go through the entire process and you can point to a million different things that went wrong. You wish you had Jason Tatum, all these things, you, you know, you wish you kept Jimmy Butler a traitor for James Harden.

But at the end of the day, this was going to happen no matter what. Ben Simmons does not, he does not want to shoot basketballs, but they've lost so much value with him. Of course. Of course. But it's better you find out in such a spectacular failure than to have it be like a slow, like that's from a thousand paper cuts where he kind of doesn't show up for series at a time. It's better that it happens in a great big way that's impossible to ignore.

But he's so young, he could go somewhere else and be nasty. And someone will think like, I think he still will have trade value because someone will think I can fix that. I can make him better because he still has elite levels to his game. It's just the whole point of shooting a basketball into a hoop is the game and he just doesn't want to do that. He might be the best player in the NBA if there wasn't a basket. Yes.

If actually it was keep away, if it was, if it was Hoosiers when they're not a lot, no, they didn't get to play with a basketball in that scene when they got to practice. So they weren't able to practice the basketball for the Four Corners era. Yeah. Ben Simmons would be elite. I just I think that if you're a Sixers fan in a weird deep down way, I know how terrible this is. And that was truly horrific.

The way it all unfolded and the way they lost these games. I really do think there's a silver lining of like this wasn't going to work. And now at least it has to change. Yeah. And also if you're a Philadelphia and you're your native mindset is always just being pissed off at your sports teams. This is this is like you're like a duck in water if you're a Philly fan, because now you get to call in to Aunt Big Ant and Angelo and be like, you got to blow the whole thing

up, Big Ant. I'll take my answer off the air. You know, like this is what you've practiced for your whole life. Yes. If Philadelphia became an elite sports city, I mean, well, let's think about this way. After they went to Super Bowl, they they grease up their their light poles. People climb up them. Who knows how many lives were saved by Ben Simmons not being able to shoot a shot.

It's true. If you're a Sixers fan, you're a Philly fan right now. You pop in the Super Bowl DVD. You think about Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins and you just kind of it's actually for the better because this was never going to work and you hope that you get someone who can make Joe Bied not have to turn the ball over in every fourth quarter and fall on the ground because he's the only offense. I do want to give credit to the Hawks, Kevin Herter, Max Contract right now, sign it.

That was a legacy game for him. So Trey Young was terrible tonight. We can all agree. I it was probably the most fascinating game to watch in that it wasn't a very like great game. Game 7 Nets Bucks was a great game. This game though was so fascinating because you had one guy in Ben Simmons who refused to shoot and then you had Trey Young who was having a terrible, terrible night and still

was like, fuck it. I'm shooting every shot from wherever and, you know, he ends up like it wasn't a great night for him. I don't want to make it happen with the assist, but the Hawks in general, no one picked them to go to the Eastern Conference Final. They are a great story. They're like, I'm sitting here and I'm still thinking like the Sixers were a better team, but the Hawks deserve to win this series.

They were resilient. Like they came back from those games that they won where it was just horrific for the Sixers and they deserve all the credit and Trey Young's a superstar. And we get to see another couple of weeks of Trey Young doing just silencing crowds. The emergence of Trey Young, the troll has been my favorite part of these playoffs with the exception of the Sons and Four guy, but like I love watching people get pissed off at Trey Young because he seems to actually enjoy playing that role of being the heel. Oh yeah.

He's really good at it. Oh yeah. I mean, I'm trying to like, I was getting all worked up for net Sixers next round. So I'm trying to figure out ways where I'm going to pretend that I'm actually excited about Hawks Bucks. Kevin Herter, sweet nickname. They call him Red Velvet, which is amazing. If you're a redheaded player, you're either going to have the best nickname of all time

or the worst. Yeah. It's like the most, like it's an extremely polarizing thing. If you have a ginger that's good at sports, because you either have to like just call him like the red mamba, like Scalabrini, but Red Velvet is just, it's the smoothest nickname. Smooth. Yeah. And they just, they deserve a ton of credit because I just, I didn't expect this and I

was definitely wrong. And Trey Young is having that type of guy on your team who is, even if it's not going well for him, he's like, one, he's going to help in other ways, but two, he's never going to stop. He has the exact polar opposite confidence of Ben Simmons. He could miss a hundred shots in a row and he will still take a three pointer from the logo and be like, this one's going. Yeah.

Next one. Ben Simmons will pass up a million shots in a row and on the million, one, he'll be like, yup, still going to pass it up. Too scared to shoot. Yeah. We got sweet Lou Will too. Yup. Even Pepper Lou.

John Collins is jumping all over people. I mean, they're a fun team and it's, I'll talk myself into it and the Hawks crowds have been awesome. Like, yeah, we're going to get into this. It's good. It's good. It's good. Everything's fine.

I would like to see the Nets, but it's good. It's good guys. Hank, do you have any last, last thoughts for Philadelphia fans out there? I know that you, it's kind of been like a tough love situation between them. Have you grown to respect them? Well, yeah. I mean, I think they tried their hardest. It's been, you know, 20 years since they made the Eastern Conference finals.

They were so close this year and I think eventually they're, they're going to make it to the Eastern Conference finals. You're going to put your reputation on them? I do believe, I truly believe, you know, as much as I've said bad things about Philly, it's only been, you know, my honest opinion. And I do believe eventually they will make it to the Eastern Conference finals. So that's, you know, Just trust the process.

Yeah. You can, you can, you can go to bed at night being like, yeah, a few more pieces here and there, a different coach. At some point it's going to happen. A bunch of injuries to other teams and other players. We can make it. Yeah. It's not like Atlanta was losing a starter or anything and, uh, one of their best bench

players. Yeah. But fuck, man, Bogdanovich is definitely, you know, what's funny is that I always forget Tony Snell is on the Hawks and, uh, if Tony Snell, if like the Hawks play the sons and it's Tony Snell versus campaign in the, in the finals, that would be very funny. Yeah. Um, for me, just me personally, pretty much, but the Hawks deserve credit. I want to give, I want to make sure that we stop pause and say that this team deserves

a ton of credit because they don't, they just haven't given up. Like they have been, people picked the Knicks, people picked the Sixers and they just fucking, if they have to win it ugly, they win it ugly. If they have to win it with Trey Young hitting every shot, they went it that way. Bogdanovich, all those guys, Kevin Herter is like, fuck man, the Kevin Herter game. It happened. That happened. Kevin Herter game happened.

Um, all right, let's talk net box. So I was there, it was an awesome game, incredible game. Uh, it was an all time silent arena moments at the end flashing forward. So the Kevin Durant shot to end regulation, that doesn't happen if it wasn't for the turnover right before that. Yes. Like the game was pretty much over at that point, but it was that I still don't know how they didn't like, I guess they, you don't want to bring a double with like six seconds,

but he, it was so like, I've never been in a moment where it's like, he's going to make the shot no matter what. It's just whether it's a three or two. I thought it was a three when he hit it. Yeah. Right. Well, I did not. I never thought it was a three.

Although the, um, I posted a clip on my Instagram stories. The Jumbotron said three pointer, that's tough, which sucks. And they brought out the ropes for, for the front row to like, yeah. And then I was like, wait, that was definitely a two pointer, but did he actually change into smaller shoes right after that? No. Or was somebody joking about that? I think that was a joke.

Okay. I got, they pulled the wool over my ass. Um, but that, that end of the game shot, I, that one was in all time. We've talked about the moments that like the sounds that happened in arenas, the shriek, the stun silence to have Kevin Durant, air ball, the three pointer after an unbelievable game where he put his, the nets on his back and Blake to, but he did everything for them. No one looked around like, wait, there wasn't a foul, like what happened? Or had to be blocked.

Like, is this something, and there's only 0.3 seconds left, there's something's wrong. Like there's, basically everyone's like, no, no, no, this isn't the ending. Like turn the, turn the machines back on, we've got to replay it. You know what that is? That's the Buffalo Wild Wings, a vacation of sports that we're seeing. So like anytime a big team, uh, experiences heartbreak like that, you do have that second because you think maybe we're going to get bailed out if it's soccer. It's like maybe VR saw something different, like a goal is never really a goal.

Until it's like cemented in stone, but on a play like that, it's just like, it ends with a whimper. It's like, okay, what next? Something else has to happen now. We talk about it all the time with football, when you have a big play and you just sit there on a fourth down and you're like, so the flag's coming. Yeah. And it just doesn't, you wait that beat.

That beat happened in the entire arena and everyone's like, oh, wait, it's over. You wait for the refs to huddle up. And then the analysis is like, I wonder what they're talking about. And then you have another 15 seconds where they're just actually saying, no, there's 0.3 seconds. Yeah. The game is fully over. So that was the only the third time in game seven history.

This was a stat from our friend Kirk Goldsbury, third time in game seven history, dueling 40 point performances, which is pretty cool. The other times were Paul Pierce versus LeBron 2008 and Sam Jones versus Oscar Robinson 1963, which we obviously remember that game. I weirdly, I think Kevin Durant like gained from this. Oh yeah. I mean, the shot at the interregulation was huge. I mean, just the way this like Harden going down, Kyrie going down the game five, this

game 48 points where he just was so incredible, I think maybe not gained because obviously he doesn't go to the finals, he doesn't go to the conference finals. But I think people appreciate Kevin Durant more than they ever have watching him play without other players and being as incredible as he and he had an all time sad face too after that shot. I know. I felt so bad for him. I felt that the machines were broken.

Yeah. He's like, that's not what my shot does. I'm telling you, it was the weirdest feeling. Everyone was looking around like, wait, that's it. Because he tried to do the exact same shot that he pulled off earlier and you're like, no, I already saw this. This shot goes in. Right.

I saw it. It happened like five minutes ago. That shot went in the basket. Kevin Durant doesn't air ball shot. That's probably what he was thinking. He was like, Kevin Durant doesn't air ball this Kevin. What are you doing? Yeah.

Yeah. It was tough. It was tough to see Blake's performance. I think he, how many times does Blake dive on the floor during one game? He was awesome. He was the floor. He was gritting, gritting grind. Yeah.

All night long. And the Bucks deserve a ton of credit, Giannis, obviously. This is going to be, it might be their best chance to win a title, especially now that it's the Hawks. No offense to the Hawks, but I think people would pick the Bucks over the Hawks. It also was a great lesson in, it doesn't matter if you suck as long as you can make some big shots at the end because there was a moment going into the fourth quarter where Drew Holiday was two for 17 and Chris Middleton was four for 16.

And they both, like Drew Holiday had a John Starks game going. He was terrible. He was terrible. He ends up going three for six in his last six field goal attempts and Chris Middleton goes five for 10 in his last 10. And it's like, that's, you can suck for three quarters. And that was kind of the difference is those guys started making some shots and helping Giannis out.

And that made the difference in the entire game. I also like coach Buds. Coach Buds has this look on his face all the time. Like he's, he's got resting, scared face. He's just terrified of everything that's happening. He makes good moves. I think was it a few years ago where we were like lamenting the loss of Joe Prunty? Yeah.

Because he was an all time face guy. And I think Buds is a worthy heir apparent to that. He looks like a dad who's coming down to tell the kids at the sleepover to like be quiet, but he's also a little intimidated by the kids. Like he's like, I'm a big kid, I'm a little bit like they might kick my ass, but he's got the like kind of messy hair, the messy facial hair. He's barely slept. And he's like, Hey, can you guys keep it?

You know what? Keep having your fun. I'll just go back upstairs. You are like a dad that gets called in for like a parent teacher, like counseling session. And he's not sure what the news is going to be, but he does know that his son very much did not want him to go to this meeting. He's just tired. He's just tired.

He's tired. And he's scared. He's, he just looks terrified all the time, but I love coach Buds. I like the bucks. I like their fans. That's the only thing about Trey young is like, I don't know if Trey young can muster up hatred towards the city of Milwaukee. They seem to be kind of like the sons of the East.

I think Trey young can do that. I think that's what makes Trey young special. I think he can get mustered up for anyone. Like they don't say he can play the respect card every single young is going to muster up respect for just everybody in the media. I feel like we're overdue for him to be like, no one said that we could be here. They all said that we were going to lose in the first round, which is true. Yeah.

I think, yeah, we definitely said that. So he'll just play like us first, the world card right now. Yeah. The from the, from a like just a storyline perspective, it also is great. Like the nets losing them coming back next year, they'll probably bring everyone back. They'll be a super team, but it does feel like they have to earn it a little James Harden could also get really fat this off season because with a hamstring, he's going to have to give that rest for probably like a month, a month and a half.

That first half, I forget how much it sucks to watch James Harden play basketball when he's just looking to get fouled and he's not looking to like do anything, but get fouled. I actually, it was, they got to get a little bit more Brooklyn with their game. I think Mike was right. Yeah. How do we add like an element of Brooklynness to the Brooklyn Nets? True. I, I had a like one of those moments post COVID where you realize how much you miss the little

things. I walking out of the arena, I just was talking about like James Harden fouls and I got into like a spirited debate with a complete stranger about whether it's James Harden's fault for trying to flop or if it's the ref's fault for allowing that and like, you know, letting him do it and then giving him free throws all the time. And it was great. It was like, man, this was fun. Like, we, you know, when you like accidentally hit the same pace as a stranger walking down

the street, you're like, we're just walking together for a couple blocks. That's a major dude's rock situation. Yeah. And I was just like, you know what, that was cool. All right. See you. I mean, James Harden gets injured because he jumps into fouls. Like he jumps at weird angles.

Yeah. I mean, he doesn't get injured that much, but yeah, he's, but this year I got corrected by that. This year. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going off what I see right now. Big cat.

What I see right now is a very injured James Harden. It was, uh, I don't know. I mean, it's, it's weird having both the nets in the sixers when everyone thought it was going to be like a collision course to have that be out. But Hey, Hawks and bucks, we're going to fucking enjoy the hell out of David Stern would never let this happen. Ever, ever, ever. Adam Silver was definitely like, uh, what's the name of our mayor here in New York City?

Uh, DeBlasio DeBlasio. No, uh, Warren Wilhelm, right? DeBlasio. He definitely was looked like DeBlasio sitting at home with his Nets jersey and Nets hat on game seven. Yeah. Like let's go boys. We got this.

God damn much. I wanted Blake to get a chip. I did too. But you know what? I just wanted to see Dax on hopefully he stays, hopefully he stays, hopefully, you know, we're going to get him on this summer, hopefully he stays, hopefully he gets the chip. Like I said, they're earning it now. Yeah.

They're free agent again. Yes. Yes. Exciting. Yeah. Especially Blake here. Blake of the year. Season.

It only comes back for two days and you start mumbling your words. Also, this was the curse of lucky leprechaun. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. You could say that the Celtics beat the Nets. How close do you think Kyrie was to coming back and playing probably like 95% and you're

just like, nah, I don't want to. He's probably, yeah, he definitely cut it. He's probably waiting for the conference finals. I didn't see that up for you. Okay. Actually, was Reggie Miller right? Yeah. Like if they had rested Kevin Durant and James Harden, do we as a nation owe Reggie Miller

an apology? Yeah. Reggie, I'm sorry. Kevin Durant ran out of gas in the overtime, which he absolutely should have because he played every minute and he put the team on his back. But yeah, he could have used a couple extra minutes of rest. Or a couple days. Yeah.

A couple days of rest. All right. Our sons are wagon. No Chris Paul. No Kauai. So I think that evens it out. Yeah. Paul was insane.

He scored. He had 11 points going into halftime and I think he ended with 40. Also the Clippers game six on Friday night was one of the craziest swings and basketball ever. Yeah. Yes. It was crazy. And then after the game when they were interviewing man, because it was the Terence

man game, right? Yup. It was a Terence man game. And they were interviewing him and Paul George at the same time. Paul George was one of the best spin zones that I've ever seen. He was like, you know, I always knew that Terence had this in him because I look at him. I'm like, you know what? He reminds me a lot of me.

Paul George is like a hall of fame. Don't let him answer a question for too long. Like if he gets to more than 30 seconds, he's going to say something not like terrible, just ridiculous. No, that was I loved it because I could see the wheels turning and it's like, yeah, protect that ego. I think that's how playoff pee happened. I think he was just answering a question and he got too far down the road and he was

like, yeah, they call me playoff pee. And then Balmer's pumped to be there. Balmer is the living definition of the word pumped. He's just pumped all day every day. What's up? If I was a billionaire like Steve Balmer and the coach wasn't wearing a mask, like I feel like I just wouldn't be wearing a mask either. I own the team and I was sitting courtside.

I get the feeling that he's the shittiest, like most uncomfortable mask. Here's my theory. I think he's got like some sort of immune issue, maybe not him, but maybe somebody close him because he's the only person that's wearing a big mask. I also think that when you get to a certain level of richness, you are like, my life is so sweet. I don't want to die under any circumstances. If I were his level of rich, I'd probably wear a mask all the time.

He'd be like, you know what, even a common cold, like this life I got right now is so fucking sweet. I'm not giving it up for anything. He also probably like a billionaire walks into a room with the unwashed masses. He's like, I don't know what these pores have. Right, exactly. So he's got access to all the future medicine I do. He's got to, he's got to make sure he keeps it clean.

It is a very uncomfortable mask. His hug of Paul George was very funny though. He was just, it's been a very, it's been a very funny hug playoff. Steve Nash and Kevin Durant after game five was awesome. Did you see that video of Steve Ballmer just clapping it up in a room, just going, yes, yes, yes, just sweating through his shirt. He wakes up sweating. He makes Chris Berman look like the driest man in America.

Yeah. I think the shower just never takes her. No. Shout out, White Sox, Dave. So yeah, the sun's Devin Booker game. It was a Devin Booker. What are you saying is suns and four? Suns and four.

Devin Booker game. Although sun's fans, we got a, I saw there was a new fight video. Let's not make this a thing. This one looked a little less chill. Yeah. This one wasn't, we saw the full video. Like a beat down. Like you were a half second away from a curb stop.

Yeah. It was, it was bad. It was bad. The suns and four original video, if you watched the whole video, the suns and four guy had a full beer poured on his head, which shout out the guy who got beat up, who didn't post interview. I, I actually respect, I've swung, I now like that guy because to get beat up, go viral and then be like, you know what, I want my name and face more out there.

That takes a level of, uh, like lack of self-awareness that everyone should aspire to have. No, this guy just likes having his name on the internet. Yeah. He likes opening up an app like Twitter and seeing his own face on it. Right. To him, that's fame. Rough and rowdy. Anything you can do to stick around.

He should actually try to fight suns and four guy, rough and rowdy. We would do it. I liked how he was saying that I just got scratched on my nose and never actually got punched on it. Yeah. You can see it. Like I'd have a black eye. I don't have a black eye.

You give me another week. I'm going to think he actually won the fight. Yes. Yes. But, uh, yeah, the, the suns, they're a wagon. Do we need to ask though, like who's man's is that team? Is it Chris Paul's team or is it Devin Booker's team? I think who's Batman?

Who's Robin? I think they have the perfect age disparity where Chris Paul's old enough where he's just like, yeah, like step on in my wing, young guys, who's Batman and who's cat woman not getting her pussy eating. I think Devin Booker's Batman. I, yeah, but he also like probably deferred to Chris Paul. I think it's like an old, old dog, young dog thing where it's like the old dog knows all the tricks, but sometimes you need the young dog to go run down that tennis ball.

Right. Like it's just, that's just the reality of it. So Devin Booker is needed very much so to be that guy who can carry the team would score a ton of points. The young dog also keeps the old dog alive for longer with the exception of champ and major RIP. But that's, that's why a lot of people get a younger dog because it keeps the older one active.

So it's good for both. Yeah. So 40 point triple double for Devin Booker, insane game, insane game. Like I said, he had, he had 11 points going into halftime and then he just went off and playoff, playoff B has been playing really well, but not enough for Devin Booker. He's playoff. Okay. No.

Yeah. I mean, he, he definitely deserves all the credit for that Utah Jazz series because Kauai got hurt and that was it. I, when is Chris Paul coming back? We don't know. Okay. So does he actually have the cocoa? I don't know.

Or is he like in advanced protocol stages because he was exposed to, well, no, he's got the vaccine. So he wouldn't have to be in, I think he's got cocoa. I think he does too. I hope he's okay. If LeBron had it, he would be quarantining, but it's symptom free. Symptom free. Okay.

Devin Booker's got this. Have you seen the cars that Devin Booker drives into the arena every day? It's fucking awesome. Is it one of those spiders? He has a different one every time. That's cool. And they're all like old souped up Cadillacs. It's got to be tough for Ben Simmons too.

Like that's his ex-girlfriend's now dating Booker. And Booker actually like knows how to shoot a basketball into a hoop. Right. He can find a hole. Yeah. That one. That's the part that really kills. That's an upgrade.

What is Ben? Ben Simmons, what do you do? What do you do? Someone I saw on Twitter, Markel Foltz also couldn't shoot in Philadelphia. True. Yeah. True. Maybe you just got to change the scenery.

But can he shoot in Orlando? He learned how to shoot. He's better. I remember Markel Foltz literally like was on it. Yeah. He was totally broken. He is a little more fixed. What about a hypnotist?

That's what I would go for if I was a Sixers. Just like get the men in black thing and erase their entire memory of this entire playoff series. Do you know what the problem is? I actually am now talking myself into like I kind of want Ben Simmons on the bulls. Just because he's 6'10 and plays great defense and like oh my god the skills that he has. If he could ever learn. I think he's going to be getting paid a lot of money and be on like four or five teams

and every teams would be like if we can teach him how to shoot he could be one of the best players in the NBA. Yeah. How old is he right now? 25. He could be one. 24. You can learn how to shoot.

Chris Paul learned how to shoot. Ray John Rondo learned how to shoot. He knows everything else. Yeah. He knows everything else. It's just the shooting part which is important. We should keep stressing. Yes.

It's very important. Very important. And the shooting is the mental aspect of I don't want to shoot. I think he just doesn't like shooting. Right. Oh man. All right. Hockey talk real quick.

Golden Knights tied up the series with the Canadians which actually kind of sucks. I thought the Canadians were up until late I think in the third period. They blew that one. They got the own goal. The flurry. Oh they did. He was trying to clear the puck behind the net and it like kicked out and they just scored it.

Well that was with like 30 seconds. That was the last game. Tonight they won an overtime. Yeah. They benched flurry today which is something that no one really saw coming until what's been happening in the playoffs with him. He's doing whatever the opposite of standing on your head is. He's had like a real sting.

It might be a thing where they they could come back beat the Canadians and then flurry is back in net next series. And then the Islanders game was incredible. That ending. I made a point of going home and watching it after I left the next game and it was like I saw everyone tweeting about it and like nah I can't be this good. And then I watched how the fuck did this happen. So that was incredible.

And shout out all the people who when I was like when when game seven is going on and it was incredible and everyone was talking about it and I was like this game is awesome. Shout out to the guys who replied and like you're talking about hockey right hockey games better. Just always a competition. I love that. I appreciate that. It's it's good to keep that rivalry fresh for everyone.

But that Islanders game was awesome and we might go to the call on game six maybe last game ever. Right. Yeah. The barn. Close the barn down. Get loud in that place. Butter knife.

There's the move. There's just really. There could be a butter knife situation. You can get a little butter knife our way in there. Just pee before you go because there's like two bathrooms in the entire arena. You have to walk all the way around in the concocted sinks. They assume that we might just have to type up for it boys trash cans work. I didn't break the seal on Saturday night until like the end of the third quarter.

I've never been more proud of myself. I still got it. Yeah. Still got it. So they I don't know if they still make it. There was this invention like 10 15 years ago called the stadium pal. And what it was it was essentially just like a condom that you put on the tip of your P.P.

And then it had like a tube that ran to a bag on your side so you could go to a game and just piss on yourself all day. Yeah. I we should do that. We should do that. We should type up for the stadium. Absolutely. All right.

Should we talk some U.S. open. I'm happy that we can talk U.S. open because there was a moment on Sunday afternoon where if I were allowed to tweet such things I would tweet. I would have tweeted if Bryson DeChambeau wins this U.S. open I'm going to kill myself. I didn't tweet it because you're not allowed to tweet it. They would have banned my account. But I was thinking it at that moment. Thank God he sucks because so it was he was minus five through eight with the solo lead

and then he finished ended up finishing tied for 26. Yeah. I mean we call him a lot of stuff on this show. We've called him a steroid user a cheater a dork a loser a nerd what else have we called him snowman snowman we call him a lot of stuff but we've never called him a quitter until today and he quit when his when his giant cleats didn't save him what was the 13th hole on that drive that he has his foot slipped out from under him on his left foot at that point Bryson was like I don't want to be out here anymore and he quit he mentally

he is a mentally weak golfer yeah and I already knew because he's like having heart attacks because somebody's calling him by the wrong name right but this was this was even noteworthy for Bryson to show his lack of mental toughness shout out the guy who after Bryson's sculled one over the green was like should have used a calculator on that one that's a funny chirp John Rom though was there was a moment like I don't know maybe like five o'clock six o'clock at night on Sunday where it felt like everyone wanted to lose the U.S. open no one wanted to win it people were just imploding left and right but John Rom finishes with two insane putts he also he was the guy who I think if you talk to anyone in golf he's like oh yeah

who's the best golfer who hasn't broken through it's John Rom yeah and he had the covert thing two weeks ago where he he ended up not you know had to pull out when he's got a four stroke lead going into Sunday and I love his look he's got you know every golfer either looks like an emaciated back boy or like they just got stung by bees he looks like he's having the allergic reaction to the be like he's just a swollen person he just has a nice pouch he has a nice like strength that comes from his belly yeah that you just know he's going to be able to last got a huge four days of golf big face to him big head he's a big John Rom he's big John Rom was he like six two yet the six six big John Rom actually

we saw him at Shinnecock driving in a little mini sports car and I was like damn that guy's too big for this and his wife has an absolute cannon I don't know if you've seen the clips of like he went to some training camp some NFL team like invited him out I don't know what team was like hey we should get John Rom out here to catch a couple balls his wife threw was like a 35 yard spiral on a dime yeah I didn't see that they also got engaged at Torrey Pines or maybe married at Torrey Pines oh really so very is that his home track so I had the the if you've never listened to golf on the radio it's very fun so I listened because I was I was driving into work I don't know he was like around like a whole 13 or

14 so I put it on on the radio interesting experience the only thing I really picked up from it do you know Louis Oostazen's name Louis Oostazen yeah do you know his name it's not Louis Oostazen no his name is load load a wikis Theodorus Oostazen that's so sick that's that's a classic South African theme they said it yeah I was like what are they saying right now load a wikis L O D E W I C U S Theodorus Oostazen yeah yeah South African people they like name their kids like you would name like a Greek one of the lesser known Greek gods awesome it's gives a little bit of class to it and Brooks was awesome he's you know he's got a knee injury he came back from a serious serious knee injury six months ago and he's

still finished fourth so now he's second and fourth and he's never finished behind Bryson at a major in which they have fans I had a moment on Friday that I had to like kind of check myself my son's birthday turned two on Saturday and so his birthday party with all his friends was on Friday so we had like kids over and like the parents and we had the U.S. open on and one of the parents came over was like oh how's Bryson doing and I looked him dead in the eye I was like we're a fuck Bryson D. Shambow household just so you know and then I had to be like wait dude you're at a two year old's birthday party like this is going to be tough to explain a little aggressive so I had a moment where I was like you know

what maybe the right maybe I need to cool off on the rivalry no you gotta keep you don't turn down from ten big it was so confused like why did that guy just say that to me no also shout out to the golf streaker we had a that I feel like we don't get that as often so the golf streaker ran out there he had two balls with him he had a he brought his own golf club yeah are you allowed to do that you can just go to a golf tournament with a club like like it's a myth they take to baseball game dude I saw a guy at the Nets game with a basketball that's awesome so cool I almost hit it out of his hands but who does that you it's just he's probably like just dribbling through the concourse crossing people

up not a kid yeah not a kid like ball like 20s I'm pretty sure they sell he was it was not a sold one it wasn't a team logo the standard it was a will center salting ball is truly life I'm going to this basketball game I'm bringing a basket oh also Jake put a reminder in the file for us to bet the unders on all the first week of NBA games next year because they're switching balls mm here we go the um yeah but I guess you can bring a club like why are people bringing full bags I went to one us open I wore a golf glove yeah I like that I also like to do that show up in spikes yep like to get better traction as they're walking yeah as they're as they're chasing down their favorite golfer also racing could

have used him he could have shout out to the guy that left his full case of Stella when Bryson's ball just like hit it and nestled up right to the side of it there was a lot of weird shots a lot of weird stuff was happening in the afternoon on the back nine that was it Shaw Flee's ball got stuck in a tree in the tree after it hit off the golf cart or it was the golf path bizarre and Torrey Pines is just weird because you just have people parasailing and what what is that called parasailing they were the Kimmerman they were like they were taking the the spot of where you would traditionally have the Goodyear blimp but no but there was drifts above there's other got regular guys are doing oh I thought they

all the people up there just had cameras no I don't think so I think no those weren't just no it seemed to me like you would only see in like a golf video game yes and it just yeah like an n64 yeah and it was just it was windy though so it was probably like good parasailing is it parasailing parasailing or kiteboarding kiteboarding I don't think it's going surfing is it windsurfing I couldn't I couldn't see close enough I guess they technically are windsurfing they are windsurfing that's not windsurfing I think they're paragliding did paragliding I just kept on thinking like what if one of them crashes or crash into each other because yeah you don't have like air traffic control telling you where to turn

it's just you're in the sky the sky belongs to God wasn't there one of those at the soccer game that crashed oh yeah I parachuted parachuted into the soccer game almost took out a full row of people yes yes I think he got caught on the spider cam actually when you land anything from the euros that we should talk about um people got really mad because I pushed that screenshot of an although Germany apparently he ran box-to-box Germany and Netherlands look good France looks okay and Bobby's night France looks bad oh no they look okay no that was a loss that was a title is a 1-1 a tie loss that's a tie which happens England had a 1-1 loss big time no 0-0 no no no no no yeah big cat even worse loss but yeah so there's some

bad losses from some of the favorites it's just it's gonna be the same thing that happens all the time in soccer where it's just the same four teams from Europe are gonna get to the semifinals it's gonna be Germany France England is gonna lose the semifinals although I am addicted to saying it's coming home Italy in Spain yep okay count oh nice I like that I like that and we had no PLL this week so let's get to our who's back of the week who's back of the week is brought to you by our friends at the cash app cash app is back the stock market is back investing through cash app is back you can buy and sell bitcoin super easy on the cash app and of course we download the cash app and enter the referral code barstool you get $10

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I was like oh I can actually watch this it's kind of delightful right it's weird I'm still I gotta use I love the show I really do like the show I binged it like two weeks it's still I'm getting used to watching it live because I don't really know what's going on well it's hard to follow like who's doing well and who's not it is a little hard to follow and there are a lot of people online who are pretending they know a lot more where it's like just let's all just let's all just admit here that we don't know what we're talking about we're gonna overtake is about the only thing yeah we're gonna figure it out push push push push push that was mega something about just waking up and having an announcer with an English accent is soothing yeah it just works

I've got a really bad take but it's something I truly believe so I'll share it with you guys in this room here I think the cars are too loud no if they could make the cars just like 20% less noisy you know what I'd be all in I was actually listening to an F1 podcast no big deal sounds exhilarating it is they were actually saying they were they were lamenting that the cars are too soft oh really they have gotten a lot softer with like you know the regulations everything they used to be true American not actually American you know I'm kicking in the dick and fucking okay have a car that blows your ears out kind of engine how about this I'll go either one of two ways with it make them a little bit softer or make them just really fucking loud yeah it doesn't

sound like because right now it just reminds me of the vuvuzela's in car form where they're just kind of they're there in the background and it's a high-pitched hum and it's kind of annoying so if it was a little bit quieter I'd be happy or if it was just like make your balls shake I would like that go with that one if you want to be real f1 okay yeah the cars are too soft they're too soft there's it's become they're basically racing toy cars yeah it's the pacification of America Europe yeah no seriously they date that is like a big that's actually a real complaint okay you talked me into it I'm on board with it yeah is that a hang also track and field and swimming season yeah oh I saw someone I fuck I can't remember I should have screenshot it someone tweeted

out and I thought it was the greatest idea ever I'm sorry that I'm not giving you credit please let me know I'll give you credit the Olympics if they had a lane for just regular average people for comparison would be so incredible if they had the 10th lane in a swimming pool be like alright let's find a like a 15 pound overweight guy and just let him swim just to show how slow an average person was it would be so fascinating to watch I'd be cool with that another two ideas that I would have for so we'll also like dye the pool different colors I think that'd be sick if it was like the like eastern Washington field or the central Michigan like give me some different looks to the playing field and then if you took what if one of those lanes just was basically an

aquarium so you had all sorts of natural sea life in the pool but there was like glass that divided it so they weren't going to swim into the other guys lanes but just like in the middle of the pool you get some octopuses you get some some flounder or maybe a couple of sharks I think that'd be sick that was I pitched that idea to mark Cuban the real shark tank where it's a pool full of sharks and if you get to the other side then you get investment in your deal yeah I mean that would be fun to watch that sounds good too but it would be nice to see some marine life in the water yeah I how about just we'll settle for the dye the myth dye that you know makes the color when you piss in the pool mm-hmm just so we can watch and be like hey that person pissed yeah

they all do yeah no I know but it'd be funny to watch in real time like up they pissed up they pissed and if the dye was actually brown so it looked like they shat in the huh yeah that'd be funny anyway just get normal people like a normal guy just throwing the shop put 18 feet yeah we'll just be a very funny thing to watch yep all right what's your oh your who's back my who's back of the week is Kyle Swarber Kyle Swarber is back in a big way my favorite baseball player Kyle Swarber he's a knack for life we love him in this city we're gonna keep him around we're gonna do whatever it takes to keep Kyle Swarber home in DC for as long as we can he embodies I know you're like trying to troll me but you can't I'm not I love saying I love him too he's

right but I know you're trying to look at that guy's face and you're like that guy okay is an east coaster for what I'm saying is I I love him I'm happy that he's doing well like he's the type of guy retaters that I don't like he could go to any tea could maybe even I would even say I would probably not say it out loud but if he was on the Cardinals and he was hitting home runs I'd still like there'd be a small part of you like fuck yeah sure we're you're the best three home runs today two home runs yesterday just like the world on he hit I think it four last weekend yeah so I think he's had what eight home runs in the last week yes pretty good week for Kyle Swarber yeah we're doing what it takes he's gonna stay in DC hopefully win several worlds

series with us going to the Hall of Fame is national Mr. Nat is what we're calling it Kyle Swarber my other who's back and you can't show I'm not I'm saying I love Kyle Swarber Kyle Swarber that was totally you totally watched every Swarber I watched him today I have I have an alert that set up like remember when they used to cut in to Mark McGuire yeah he was in the home run chase when Swarber's up it's like I call him Swarbombs and he's had a few of those yeah enjoying it and then my other who's back of the week is burner accounts because Josh Allen allegedly has a burner account he was joking was he joking about it definitely are you serious was he kidding about for sure wait I've read Billy's blog about my god let's keep going because

this is that was like the biggest joke I know that my blog said it was a joke okay I didn't read all Billy's blog but I was hoping that Josh Allen would have had a burner account no it was very clear joke okay clickbait move clickbait move on Billy's part and you got clickbaited by Billy I got clickbaited by Billy yeah wow okay my who's back is actually Billy because I was walking by the kitchen and he was completely seriously telling Hank that he should do a little cycle of HGH and I just it just felt good going from last week we were eating 26 papadillas to this week we're back to like having someone just constantly push steroids on us well he's my six-backs coach and that was one of my suggestions I'm open you were saying you

gotta do it natural yeah I mean I obviously said no to the steroids yeah right I am open my ears are open what about the HGH though that steroids I'm just trying to talk Hank down from doing because he was raising it like actually yeah it's what is some one tweeted at me when we had the conversation we're like yo dude you should definitely do Psalms so then I sent to Billy it was like should I do Psalms and to Billy's credit once again he'd actually written a blog about the dangers of Psalms so I got all my information from that okay there we go he's back right he's back um all right Jake your who's back and then we're gonna get to George Kittle and Greg Olson yes triple plays are back oh saw this yeah the Yankees had a walk-off triple play today has to be the

first time that's ever happened you tell us no I don't have a walk-off defensive play you tell us I know yes no I know I think it counts I think it's a walk-off it's a game winning triple yeah I tell okay I'll do the research it's happened before Tim Kirch and would he was talking about earlier today I think he said it was 2009 maybe I'm trying it's we got some technical difficulties it was sick though triple plays are triple plays should replace no hitters because they're cooler than no hitters actually I think you should be able to get a run for a triple play what do you mean you on defense you should be able to score a run yeah if you get a triple play yeah you should also be able to try to get a quadruple play that's where a run should happen so just keep like if

it's bases loaded try to get everybody out try to get everyone out even though you don't need to I'll like a ball strike out no that's what that's what it should be though it should be if you can get to four outs then you get a run okay yeah so you can do a double play there's a one out you get a triple play that should count as a run I like that yeah so you're always just trying to get the extra out you should absolutely figure out a way to score on defense instead of giving us like six more designated hitters like I'm sure Manfrotto is going to try to do at some point this year just give us what the fans want and that's defensive runs for yeah so if you get if there's two outs and you get a triple play that should be two extra runs yep that's all I'm still looking

if it's right up there with the free throw right that town well no we know that this one's not legal the free throw thing I knew that wasn't you wouldn't listen to us Jake you got it it's the first time in Yankees history they turn a triple play and one via walk off the only 27 ranges this is a complex that what's a what's that complex bonk complex yeah there we go there we go yeah teach you that Syracuse no alright I've been bad with pronunciations today you okay yeah I'm good sure yeah okay also all right I'll get the answer for you soon all right perfect all right let's get to our interview we got Greg Olson George Kittle coming up right now they got tight end University coming this week and we're brought to you by our friends at Simply Safe Simply Safe

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clap there this sucks because it's we have Greg Olson and we have George Kittle but we call George Greg so like now my brain's already confused but we have Greg Olson and George Kittle they have tight end university coming up this week so we wanted to get them on because they're both friends longtime friends of the program Greg I wanted to start with you can we do the like sentimental stuff at the end because I don't want to cry at the beginning of the interview son done okay all right but we will do that at the end whenever you watch your show bud how was your father's day it was awesome I spent it watching my other son my oldest son play baseball and Charleston okay so was that it was actually pretty awesome and a pretty special father's

day because yep we'll do that at the end do we want to do it at the end I think we're getting into no no no we're gonna do it at the end I want to give the people a tease all right so tight end university who who decided that this is what you guys are gonna do and was it like some kind of hey tight ends aren't respected enough I'll start with you Greg that was confusing so so George sir oh yeah so why are you tech why do you call George we just started calling him Greg for it it felt like it fit to be honest and then right after we started doing it great name everybody else started calling him Greg by accident it was like a I think ESPN wrote an article and then the headline yeah it called you Greg Kittle I think what it was and this is

gonna be no offense to George but I think we also were like George is just not that's not the name of a dude who's just like throwing people off of him and truck sticking people that's like you know a king in England or a bulldog like those are George's Greg yeah like George just doesn't fit the style that that Greg plays well hey I will say I do use Greg on my my Uber my lifts and like door dash it's Greg Kittle just so people don't know it's actually me oh wow wow they'll never really that out guys yeah all right so back to the question tight end university tell us how it started and why is Gronk not invited whoa he is a he was invited he was invited so we'll clear the air on that we'll get to that in a second but I mean really what happened was back in March

when I announced my retirement George Kittle he he just sent me like a you know congrats man you know good good good career kind of thing and we just started texting back and forth we had gotten to know each other over the last couple years we have the same marketing agent and you know just got to know each other from playing and whatnot and he's like hey if you ever want to come down to Nashville I got like five or six different tight ends in the league who stay with me and train down here and I was like you know that sounds awesome you know I'll try to get down there and just from kind of texting back and forth we kind of thought maybe there'd be something bigger involved and we said let's get Kelsey involved and he immediately said yes so the three

of us kind of jumped on a call and a handful of conversations later we got over 50 NFL tight ends coming down to Nashville that George is kind of hosting us down there at some facilities he has access to and it really just started organically from just a random text conversation after I retired so you invited Gronk and you also invited Tebow is it has oh is Tebow there with you right now so I'm gonna let George take this one so nothing against Tim Tebow but I found it hard to invite like I wish nothing but the best for Tim Tebow and I hope he has a fantastic season playing tight end but it's hard for me to not invite like a backup tight end on let's say the New York Giants as opposed to inviting a guy that just started playing tight end position because

things we do have limited spots I wish I could make it a brand a every NFL tight end could come ever it's successful to everybody but like what we try to do this year is we we wanted like to pay for everything for other tight ends to come to kind of make it a special like event for all tight ends and so like we booked up an entire hotel like they're completely out of room we have every room taken or all the block like we blocked off a certain amount of rooms were completely out of rooms and so like we didn't we thought we're gonna get like 20 guys and next thing I know we have 47 confirmed like as of last week I think we just got past 50 but just like wow like that's a lot of guys that we weren't you know like we kind of expect you guys

want to jump in but it just kind of happened like that and so hopefully in the next years to come we can make it like open and available to everybody okay just just like a quick headline grab would you like to extend an invitation to Tim Tebow for next year's camp yes if he's on a roster this year and he plays tight end we would love to have him we would love to work with him once he's officially a tight end we would love to work with him okay so here's a follow-up question headline here's a follow-up question and and Greg I like no offense to Tim Tebow he does get people talking but from from your perspective you played in the NFL for over a decade tight end pro bowls everything what's the thing that like Tebow or the casual fan doesn't realize about playing

the tight end position that like he's not going to be able to pick up overnight what's the because he's a crazy athlete right great athlete played you know minor league baseball heisman trophy all these things but what's the thing that it doesn't matter if he is great at everything else but the one thing it's like you're not going to be able to learn this in one mini camp this takes years and years of practice yeah and I don't think it's going to be unique to necessarily Tebow right I think here's what used to piss me off as a tight end in the NFL and maybe George feels the same way but like there's one position in the NFL that gets all the I never played the position or even played the sport of football before right I played rugby I played basketball I played Australian rules

football I played right like there's all these guys that never played tight end let alone football and then when they want to make the transition to trying in the NFL you're like yeah let's just make that guy a tight end and I always used to take offense to that you know like every mini camp every training camp we'd have like random guys on our team who never played football and I was like why did the point guard who never made it from Auburn like why did he never be made a safety why was it just like the power folk like I used to piss me off and I'd be like you guys have no idea how hard this shit is like you you guys have not a clue so like this isn't unique to Tebow I just think everybody thinks when their original position or sport comes to an end like oh fuck

it I'll just go play tight end and I'm like what like it actually seems like maybe the hardest position to pick up you can do so much yeah what's the skill set that like would you say is the hardest for a tight end what's the what's the part of the game that that is most difficult to perfect for a tight end I mean I think it's the fact that you have to be good at everything like you can't just like you can't you get you can be an elite route runner you can catch the ball really well you can run really well but then if you can't like hold your own in the run game and you can't like take in hitting the face by 300 pound defense then then like you kind of have they kind of the like call plays around you instead of like you being able to be the focal point

but you have to be very good at pass bro running routes setting the edge being able to crack on the safe to be able to sip block defense then like yeah you have to be in the backfield for protection like a running backward like you just got to do everything and then it's just if you can do all of those things at a high level so you guys have have tight end you and we always love the debate whenever it comes up in like college football there's a debate last year of what DBU is is it LSU or is it Texas what would you say is the actual tight end you is it Iowa yeah it's I would do like I got Dallas Park on my shirt right now for a reason baby that's tight I ran Dallas Park at a concert a couple years ago um it's Iowa though I mean come on I mean you're

awesome Dallas was awesome I got I got Hawkinson I got sent in the first round never before done mm-hmm so I'm within like last like are we saying like NFL career like accomplishments like what I mean if you want to talk I mean Miami went five years and five tight ends in a row who were drafted in the first round and like the only guy who wasn't was drafted in the second round mm-hmm when was that that was pretty recent right well so you go so going back to Miami lineage right you have you have Bubba Frank's first round shocky first round Kellan Winslow first round Kevin Everett second round me first round then we hope then we had since then we've had Jimmy Graham one of the most prolific guys of all time David and Joe who was a first round

pick career still kind of developing but he's coming to the camp like super uber talented kind of building his career up in up in Cleveland I mean we we've had dudes now I mean okay I like your counterpoint here's a counter to your counterpoint maybe don't say Kellan Winslow when you do the list yeah it's always it's always uncomfortable that's always that's always a tough one you had me with bubble Frank's all-time football guy name no we're like we're like Peter King yeah strictly on the field is the only thing that we'll discuss yeah that's yeah the Kellan one is yeah that's well no you were talking about his dad yeah yeah Kellan Winslow senior yeah that's who we that's me man yes exactly is that Greg is is Mike Martz gonna

get invited to this tight end university no I tried texting him he didn't get back to me he said yeah he said he only has time for wide ups yeah he would just show up and be like I can't use any of these guys what the fuck one thing I will say yeah it's fucking crazy but no so one thing I used to say until kiddo and Kelsey got their new contracts humble you know you're a humble brag for you um that's the joke used to be like back to what made tight end hard like the joke used to be like you have to block the same guy's the tackle run routes and win versus the wide receiver and they pay you half like other than Kelsey and kiddo that applied to everybody else but that was always like the running joke like we have to all we have to do the same shit

that fifteen million dollar left tackle has to do and run routes against the same guy the fifteen million dollar wide receiver has to run routes against and they're gonna pay us seven yeah yeah yeah that's a good way to put it in George leading up to the draft we were talking about us yeah yeah we were talking about how sick it would have been if you guys had gotten Kyle Pitts not to replace you but just to see the kind of weird shit that Kyle Shanahan would come up with having two awesome tight ends did that thought occur to you were you like you know what we would be pretty fun to watch I mean I'm excited like I'm a Cal Pitts fan just watched them last year like they do just scores touchdowns like it's nothing it's crazy like you just always

scores two touchdowns a game and I think just his athletic ability and then his abilities on a football field like he's gonna be very talented in Atlanta and I wanted him to go like first overall like to be like the first item tied in to ever go first I mean I get it but I would draft him first yeah and then right after that I think was when Kyle said like I don't know if Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna be alive at the draft so we can't make any guarantees has an all-time coaching line it was awesome has he has ever threatened to kill you yeah he's like he doesn't if you he's very in the moments like you asking my QA are you like are you good to go Sunday like now I can say back to like I don't know if I'm gonna be alive some day in

dead man we're all questionable how was amazing how was it though that like the offseason with you know the 49ers doing all the trading up and down the draft and then everyone's decided who they're gonna take then they don't take the guy they're gonna take I would imagine it's been a little awkward talking with Jimmy because I know your friends with him or is he have a good attitude like hey I'm gonna just keep playing and hope you know things work out I think it's more of a I mean the great thing about football is is like when like when you're given the opportunity like it's your job to lose it so like I mean we brought in tight ends like the last three years for me and like the guys that I play with in my room are awesome they're all good football players but

like I'm the starter and like it's my opportunity to make plays so I continue to be the starter that's one thing about Jimmy like that dude had a fantastic OTA's and he was slinging the ball offense was clicking and like he's just taking advantage of the opportunity like Jimmy had a great OTA's like I said you look great and and Tre Lantz has an opportunity to be a really good quarterback so I think it's just gonna be a really good competitive battle and you know Jimmy's you know he's ready to roll and it's exciting to see that fire in them. One thing I love about your your tattoos and the the evolution is we get to look back at like all the pictures of you when you're playing and we can pretty much pinpoint exactly what year it was based on the

picture of your arm have you gotten I know you got was it the halo guy you got master chief on there have you added to it I just got Godzilla yesterday hell yeah whoa hey hold on so the other day we're texting about coming on the show guys and the response from George when I said well shoot you know what about this weekend like any other he goes well Saturday I'm flying to Miami and I'm gonna spend eight hours getting a tattoo and I was like all right I guess Saturday's out they don't have yeah they don't tattoo places in Nashville uh no it's just I had a tattoo or a guy I get a couple tattoo artists in my DMs every once in a while there's like hey I'd love to like add to your artwork and I was like I looked at some of his stuff and I was like this is really really

sick and I just like like I said I like some of his stuff and he had he did like a guy with a tiger face right here and I was like that's cool but can you do Godzilla and he's like yeah I can do that so I flew down and I got tatted in Miami all right I got a question for you then I'm 36 years old father of two I always wish I had a tattoo is it too late for me I think it is my dad is my dad's 62 and he's about to finish his full left forearm sleeve really so he went how long of his life before he got his first tattoo my dad he got a he had a butterfly on his thigh when he was in college okay a white buffalo hunter and then he didn't get another tattoo until I think I was in I had graduated high school so he was he was a not

like you you wouldn't see him and you'd be like that's not a tattoo guy and then all of a sudden one day he just became a tattoo guy well my dad was a pastor for a while too like pastors don't really get padded up all the time but he was there he was a he was a lawyer for a while and then when he became a football coach again at OU back in like 2010 whenever that was he started opening it up and like he has a rise against tattoo like the band the whole logo that got a whale shark on a zombie he's about to like some type of tribal water tattoo on his rest of his forearm so I can do it yeah maybe I gotta become a football coach what's a good starter tattoo for somebody in their mid 30s maybe a single teardrop yeah maybe like you know

get something like you know connected to you like I don't know like yours your son's birthday yeah that's good yeah maybe something that like people can't make fun of yeah yeah you're right we're gonna I have one of those two a what's that and ask that you do let me see it of what it's my it's my college address from my freshman year I don't want to see it I don't want to see it I don't want to see it we'll burn out in Tennessee on Wednesday night and I'll show you then wait no you gotta show it seriously I need you to show me your ass when we get there first thing no show right now you know that this is like you can't if you guys are doing promo on like bleacher reporter you know Floreo show like you can't do this so you can do it here show

us your ass no seriously show us your ass show us your ass no I'll show you why we'll show our asses here no that's different what that was the corner of my ass I don't I don't there's a lot of the best part of PFT's ass shot right there was his microphone perfectly his ass crack so you don't even need to blur it it's like it was like he did it on purpose smells funny now Hank would do it but he doesn't have an ass yeah come on oh damn that was that was me wait show us your ass go ahead go ahead Joe show us your ass I'll come whenever you guys come down for great week no you know what I'm I'm going on strike in this episode I'm not gonna say another word until I see until I see George Kittle's ass just show us a little peek yeah our sponsors need to see your ass yeah

sponsors of T you need to see your I'm influence on my wife looking at me through the window right now and I'm gonna pull up listen she's seen it I like I listen I like great retired Greg oh there is that's 30 milli that's good yeah that's fine we're 830 Miller we saw a lot more of yeah of both of our forces for this yeah I have nothing to show on my ass I have I have no tattoos not none how do we feel about about the new numbers in the NFL where you got wide receivers that are gonna be rocking single digits now and tight ends are still stuck with 40s and 80s numbers say to you guys we went from ass tats to single digit numbers yeah you got range baby in the days called the transition it is I mean it is what it is I know be kind of cool I know Tom Brady was mad

about it just be for like the defensive guys and I will say like the numbers on some like defensive players is kind of odd like when a safe there's wearing a linebacker's number like just something weird like that but I think the game will evolve get used to it if you were to change your number if there was like any number like let's pretend like the rulebook did not exist what number would you want to wear 11 that would look you look really fast I feel like it might be my my dumb brain but I feel like you would lose some blocking ability yes you got number 11 no you wouldn't be able to shed as many guys member LaVar Arrington wasn't he number 11 yeah there's there's a couple college he number 11 or I messed that up he was 56 in the NFL I don't know at Penn State he

was 11 yes with that neck roll number up dude you would be on you know how lean you would look you know how they say like long skinny numbers make everyone look lean yep you'd be you would look unbelievable number I would be number four that was my high school number that's where it all started number big neck roll big neck roll gigantic face mask number four gonna get back to Greg's in a second before we do sport clips is giving you guys all a shout out sport clips offers a unique haircut experience that exceeds your typical haircut from start to finish first of all you've got the best stylists and men's and boys haircuts with specialized training and techniques cutting guys hair can be harder at times and cutting women's hair when you go to

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kind of got kicked up again after the draft and then it got kicked up again when they did the 30 for 30 with the you and my whole thing is no one's ever told like what's really happened like how did it come to be like we're made out to seem like a bunch of guys were sitting around just coming up with like the most asinine things ever which is kind of true but like there was some sort of like rhyme to the reason of how the whole thing like organically became and it was never intended on being shared outside of the handful of guys that were involved so it took on a completely unintended life of its own but no one ever told the story of like who did it how it was done where it was filmed because I think that's the part of the story that people would be really

interested in and know that like the guys who were involved are like normal guys for the most part but no one's ever like told that side they told like the glamour like party pregame playing it in bars you know that side yes have you considered doing a sequel to it oh no no I have a daughter now and I pray to God she never learns how to use Google so we don't think that's gonna happen when you're on the road like when you're at TEU coming up this week are you do you make a request like hey just don't put me on the seventh floor in the hotel no but I'll be honest with you like the handfuls you know the time just by sheer probabilities you get that and like you get your room key at a hotel and like you hit the button and like in your mind you kind of chuckle

like anytime you hear like anytime you hear somebody say okay before we're on over on the seventh floor like in my mind I'm like yeah yeah yeah it's kind of funny do you feel like you don't you don't get enough respect for your ability as a rapper like your flow was kind of it's kind of overshadowed by the content of the rap it was and that's my one regret is I wish the content would have been better that it could have been appreciated more it was bad like not it you know looking back not a great not a great decision in the moment but you would be shocked so the last few years of playing you know being the oldest guy on the team for the last couple years wherever I was the amount of kids that would be like come up to me like they'd earn like

they would like build up their like nerves to come up and say and they'd be like hey dude I was in high school or I was a freshman in high school when I first heard that song in my football locker room and like now that I'm playing with you is the coolest thing like that's what they remember and I was like I'm not sure if that's cool or not like I would like I've done some other shit you know but they all remember you know they all remember pre they're like we used to pre game to that in my college dorm before we would go out at night and I'm like I know did any of like the rookies ever come up to you and be like hey Greg like is are your lyrics true yes hey is that true all right we'll flip it back to you George so wait is there a charity aspect

of the title in you there is why'd you ask yeah because I just like don't know me yeah that George you just invited a bunch of dudes to come and drink at your house in Nashville well no kind of but it's like that's what we got involved with sponsors so we can you know pay for guys to like stay here take care of them we're also raise a ton of money to get it local charities in Nashville which has been really fun you know we've been able to work with Levi's Bud Light's been huge for us like they're giving us free Bud Light for all the events we're doing after we'll bleep out that by the way we're course podcast now Mountain Blue much very much Bud Light Seltzer all that good stuff but have Bridgestone's coming in to bring the boys and

girls club in and we're gonna like just play some like go through some drills down to armor yeah I love that say that we're body armor yeah you could say that so they were the sponsors so when we were kicking it around to George's point we were kicking it around and as the number started growing we're like all right you know we're you know we gotta you know bring in 50 guys put them up in a hotel feed them transportation you know me and George and Kelsey are nice guys and we've made a good coin but you know that shit's expensive you start bringing in guys and they want to bring their wives to dinner and things added up so we reached out to a handful George mentioned all those guys body armor was the first you know the first group that said you know

we're all in and they've been awesome and you know outfitting guys with you know the drinks and the gear and the equipment and you know all those and then the point that that the way the whole thing came together was super cool is after we pay for all the expenses thanks for partners like them all the remaining money we've partnered with the Nashville Boys and Girls Club they're gonna come out and do a little camp and we're gonna make a contribution to them you know so we're gonna have you know all this leftover money George and I and Kelsey we make no money from this all the remaining money that doesn't go towards giving the guys a great experience for the for the three days all is being given away to charity both locally in Nashville and also throughout the

country so we couldn't you know without those sponsors you know especially you know but Bud Light sorry no you know body armor sorry body armor Levi's and Bridgestone like all those coming together to understand like what we're trying to build here a lot of other people are gonna benefit as a result yeah that's second in the kid aspect of like kids coming out and maybe this will be like a little foreplay to to the real sappy stuff we're about to do but kids coming out and like playing football with a bunch of pros you could never get enough of that have you guys had a moment yet maybe not you George but Greg I'm sure you've had it where have you have you had a moment where you were maybe at a camp with a kid and then that kid like ended up being

in the NFL or maybe playing college football and like you were able to be like get back connected with him like holy shit like you know you had an impact on my life like on social media I've had people send me like a picture and say hey I met you at the Gatorade camp in 2008 when I was a sophomore in high school or a middle school kid and you know I just got a scholarship to you know wherever you know I'm going to play football next year at Iowa like I've had you know those kind of stories that are just you know awesome and you know I I don't remember meeting him but DK Metcalf I played with his father in Chicago and he says we met in the locker room one time which I'm sure we did and then last year me and him were teammates you know so like those kind of stories

are awesome both of people that you know and also just people that along the way you kind of rub shoulders with but you know George being so tied in down in Nashville and having great connections with them we're gonna have 50 50 or 75 or so kids come out on on Thursday and in the afternoon we're gonna do like a hour long all the tight ends will be out there we're gonna set up drills and do like a fun free clinic for all those kids to come on out and we're gonna take like an hour pause from our itinerary of tight end you to kind of spend you know spend the afternoon with those kids before we get back into the classroom sessions in the video prep and all that stuff that we're gonna do with the group so it's gonna be super cool so how does that work when you're gonna be

kind of teaching some of your competitors like I know for you George like you're gonna be planning against these guys this year and probably you too Greg because you'd always do that thing where like three quarters of the way through the year people are like oh I bet Greg Olson could come back and make a roster so you might you might be out there again next year like is there any sort of like competitive instinct that takes over where you're like I want to teach this guy but maybe not teach him everything that I know I mean dude when one tight end succeeds like when we're all succeeding then everyone gets to benefit off of each other you know whether that's from guys playing well and getting contracts so the tight end position gets paid more and more I mean

like a big part of that tight ends have been made making under $10 million for ever and like we just kind of broke through that we're still like Greg said like we're still getting paid less than a lot of other positions and I I mean I feel like the Titan does a lot and if you look at the last ten Super Bowls I think every team that's won is at a down like a very very talented tight end so like it has to do with winning Super Bowl so I mean I think that's the most important things you might as well pay the tight ends and you know I just kind of want that number to keep going up but like I said like when Titans come together you can learn and you know I mean what's more important like Kyle Pitts is like like I said he's gonna be really good but the NFL is faster than

college and if he can sit in a room for two days and learn from guys like Greg Olson me Travis Halsey, Mercedes-Lewis, Luke Stocker like you got vets in there and you can learn a thing or two I mean like it's just gonna I mean take ice cream and hopefully like just an uphill trajectory all doing that it's all good are you gonna teach a class George where it's like this is just how you be a beast and throw people off of you and they're just playing that clip of the Saints the Saints clip where you just had like four Saints on you in the dome and you're just tossing them everywhere I'm gonna talk about yak you know yards after catch and I'm also gonna talk about rum rum block in and pass bro it was my three topic okay okay what about do you like a breakdown

where it's just block day is one specific day of the week like hey we're just gonna basically focus on the part of our game that's just throwing people out of the club today that's I mean like like I said that that's my like I got a 30 minute session on Friday it's all dedicated to run block in and pass bro I'm gonna throw this out there next year we should be invited and we should give a class on how tight ends like you know be the most charismatic guys on your teams do interviews with part of my take and hopefully that will help you know raise your your star and maybe get you a couple dollars more okay yeah it'll just be called how to get on part of my take and then you just have to write your phone number down and hand it to us and then you can leave and then just say

something super super like is something that we can put on a headline and we're good to go yeah we're a part of my take shirt on hard knocks is Luke Wilson gonna be there I invited him did you we got not the actor no no Luke Wilson with two L's yeah okay good who yeah I was his team we played together last year in Seattle I invited him and he's he's like locked I think he's like locked in Canada right yeah orders and shit is shut down that's true damn it I think we would probably wave our no former tight end experience waiver clause if you guys wanted to come down next year pack your cleats get in shape put you through camp and we'll put you and we'll see if you guys can do it no no I wanted to show up and do like a 30 minute zoom and get paid to go to

Nashville I didn't I didn't want to do our PowerPoint so we didn't do that yeah I didn't want to do any athletic stuff maybe I'll you know one of the kids I can we can pat we can point out to one of the kids to be like alright you're a podcaster you're not a tight end like just you're a blogger we're scouting not a tight end like we're gonna be nice to you you know we've got to talk about Charmin is also one of our sponsors and they're sitting down two life-sized bears really there is yes and they're gonna throw toilet paper people oh my god okay that's good that's good really yeah dude we're killing it we're killing it tight end you is gonna be did you guys an annual tradition did you guys invite Blake portals Blake of the year

yeah yeah he I mean people say that he would be an awesome tight end including himself he does have good hands okay all right I did not about that all right let's finish with this Greg I do actually want to talk to you about this because it was a story that a lot of people you know saw online it was very emotional your son TJ just got a heart transplant I basically every time the videos came up I had to like I had to not watch it because it made me so emotional obviously been crazy time last few months you know for your family how is he doing and what has is a terrible question but like what has it been like I can't even imagine yeah yeah so I mean it's been wild so I mean since the day he was born you know we knew prior to him being born that he was

gonna be born with a long road to hoe he was in essence born with only half of a heart so he literally only had one right ventricle if left untreated you know you die so he was a he had three open heart surgeries before his second birthday and in essence he lived with half of a heart which is kind of like our play on why we wear these shirts a lot and he lived with what they call a single ventricle he had one chamber of his heart and he lived his life like that and he was doing really well lived a fairly standard quality of life for the most part had some restrictions and then about a little over a month ago my wife and I just noticed he was he wasn't himself he was getting really bogged down we thought maybe he was just tired so after a few

days we took him into the hospital and within hours he was admitted into the ICU in heart failure and they said his heart just was no longer able to keep up it was failing and there was no reversing it and we began at that day we began the process of getting him listed for to be a heart transplant recipient so he was eight years old he's still eight years old um and we started that process he was listed and we didn't know how long that that process was going to take we were and we were in the ICU for the entire duration of waiting for the heart um and a big reason we share those videos and fortunate to be able to talk about it you know on a platform like this is because there's so many people out there who have these stories right and they're

sitting in their hospital room and they're by themselves and they're alone and they they feel like they're the only one in the world doing this and we just want to shine a little light that like you don't only have to share your great moments right like you don't only have to share when you're throwing a cool tight end thing with George Kittle and you're having a blast talking shit with you guys like all of us have lives that at times suck right like shit happens and this was one of them so we we hunkered down not knowing not knowing how long the process would be by the grace of God and him being in certain criteria of size and blood type and antibody rejections and liver fail like all these billion factors that go into this algorithm of qualifying you we were

notified um that he would that he would be after about a little over about 10 days we were notified that there was a heart match and on June 4th TJ underwent an open heart surgery and uh he came home on Wednesday and he's been home he's been home now for the weekend and I mean we could go we could have a two hour talk on just what that process entails but it's uh it's remarkable what what he's been through and what these doctors can do I mean they literally cut his chest open they took his heart out and they flew in on a private jet another heart in a cooler literally on a cool in a cooler of ice reconnect it and start it back up that's unreal I mean it's it's wild yeah and it's you know anyone who's got kids like I like I said I will try to watch the video and I think

you don't really understand it until you have a kid of your own you're like you know you do anything literally anything and like to go through that fuck man it was I'm just so happy he's good and what what's like is he gonna live a somewhat normal life now with with his new heart they said his his immediate life right now once he recovers it's about a year process until he's about like done he's on like serious immunosuppressants so that the body doesn't reject the heart so like there's no like going out and about it's almost like he has to live in COVID for like another year which is kind of weird that we actually know what that you know know how to live with him for the time being but um it's about a year process until he can like venture back out into school

settings and big groups and you know reallocate himself acclimate himself back out into life but um you know the one downside to getting a heart transplant at such a young age and typically why they try to prolong having to get it is the hearts don't last forever right now hearts last like give or take 20 years so when you're eight it takes you to 28 as the medicine stands today you know and you got to do it again so that's where things get a little dicey but you know every year you know their ability to push off rejection keep your body you know you know in coordination with your heart and you know keeping things working gets better and better and better so we try not to think of that we have to do this again in 20 years we hope that it's 50 years whatever it is and um

we just are thankful for every day that he's home yeah like the little just he's home right we have him and we're gonna love it every day that we have him and you know the hardest I'll tell you I'll be honest with you guys the hardest part the hardest part to rationalize is like the mix the dual motions of getting the call that your son's life's gonna be saved because without this heart is not gonna be able to live he's you know he was on medicine that was the only reason his heart pumped you know hooked up he would wear like a backpack and it was all around the clock and that was what would let his heart failing his failing heart work right but the reality is is right now in our stage of medicine someone else has to have a tragedy to allow them to be able to

donate a heart and it's not just someone who dies they have to die like in certain ways to make their organs ability to be donated and yeah it's just a really really hard hard right you know at the moment you're having a sense of relief that your day has here at that very moment in time someone else somewhere in the country is having like their worst day ever so it's so hard yeah but it also is a good reminder that if you're not an organ donor you know you should you should be an organ donor everyone out there like it's a really really important thing and it's not you know I think there used to be a time when everyone's like well they're gonna harvest my organs no that's not how it works if something tragically happened to you you could save someone else's life and

that's like you get a story like this with TJ and it's it's the best man it's unreal and how about this we don't know anything about our organ donor they're not allowed to share any personal information we don't know the age the gender the location but they donated seven organs so seven families you know you start talking you know eyes and or you know liver and pancreas and kidneys and heart and lungs you know seven lives so six other families like us have their you know hypothetically hopefully everything went well have their son daughter husband whatever because of one person yeah it's a super easy step that everyone can take just when you're at the DMV you just check a box yeah and that's all that it takes you can be you know world of difference

like he said for seven different families that's incredible how is he doing like mentally our spirits up I imagine that for an eight-year-old this has got to be you know an extremely scary thing scary doesn't even really begin to describe it but how is he handled this and our spirits good his spirits are awesome I wish I could show you guys like my wife sent me a picture I had to take my other so I brought him home from the hospital Wednesday after being there for a month brought him home Wednesday and Thursday had to take my other son to a baseball tournament for the last three days in Charleston South Carolina so my wife and our parents and all them stayed here with them to take care and she sent me a video of him like jogging down our driveway like back to

our house you know it's just it's mind-blowing with how resilient these kids are I mean if it was anyone of us we just like pity party negative your world sucks and he's he hasn't had a bad day you know one he had like one moment of weakness the morning we woke him up to take him to surgery like the day right he just broke down and he's like I don't want a new heart dad I don't want a new heart mom and we're like that's you know make this see him say that right is tough the day before he's playing air hockey right and they right it's he said but you know but you know you don't have much of a vote but you have no choice right so it's he's been he's been unbelievable he's home he's happy he wants to go for pizza he wants to go watch his brother's baseball team practice you

know we're like all right but well we got time we'll get there but he's for everything that he's been through he's doing awesome it is true kids are so fucking resilient I mean I would sprain my ankle and I'd hand hand someone my license and be like go ahead I'm an organ donor take I'm happy we did this at the end though because I wouldn't have been able to handle the rest so let's end with this George you're so father's we're taking this on father's day did you write your dad a 20 page letter for father's day like he writes to you no I took him to Miami and I put him on a beach and he swam in the ocean all day for eight hours while you got your tattoo no he came with me to the tattoo the whole time he was doing the Titan you agenda in the schedule

set out like shout out my dad for being like he's the G him and our marketing guys have gotten the whole thing done Rubicon Rubicon town they should get a shout out yeah shout out course like Peter Raskin Peter catching as our guy but the last three days okay awesome all right so that's good son now he should part of Titan you and I don't want to tell you guys how to do it but it would be great if your dad wrote a specialized letter to every single Titan on their way out the door do it a lot like for each individual person it's your own yes yes I don't get one I'm like listen I've only known you for three days but I love you like a son and I really want to see you remember that time on Tuesday when we first met yeah are you should be in charge of

giving out the awards are you guys doing awards at the end of camp no I don't think we are but that's a good idea for next year yeah little like like a ball trophy awards would be funny for a bunch of like professional tight end oh no here you give everybody a participation trophy and you see who throws them away yeah and the people that don't throw them away they actually they lose the camp they get cut yes that's that's actually I hope you can edit that out of this so when we so we don't spoil the surprise because I think we should actually do that yeah and Greg are we gonna be seeing you on TV this year you are I'm gonna be I'm gonna be calling George's games I'm gonna be giving them so much love it's gonna be crazy I love it I love it I'm gonna be I'm gonna be calling

games with Fox and I'm not I'm not gonna be coming out of retirement I'm completely and utterly done I've tried set a record for how many times I've broken and ruptured my feet so I'm I'm full-time dad and part-time broadcaster okay be nice to the Bears cuz I know you're gonna get some Bears games no I like the Bears I once that regime left yeah like I I'll be honest when I left like I wanted them to lose every game obviously but then like once they all moved on and they went to like the Trestman and all these guys I actually thought the Bears I'm not gonna lie I was pissed at the Bears you want to hear a Bear story yeah yeah we'll finish with this we'll finish with this last story so last year I got cut I was going into free agency after the Super Bowl after the

Panthers cut me and was talking to a bunch of different teams trying to figure out you know what the opportunities were and you know what not and I talked to Matt Nagy called me with the GM and we talked for like 45 minutes on the phone and you know they're asking me questions about routes and what kind of systems have you played in would you be comfortable with you know code words versus digits what did you do on your backside routes what was your leverage reads how did you all this stuff so I hang up I'm like I said to my wife I'm like babe I think they really like me and want to sign me how cool would it be if like life came full circle and we could finish up my career back in Chicago that would be so right so I got myself like all excited they never that

long story short they're like we don't have enough money we don't have this so I go and sign in Seattle day one a fucking free agency they signed Jimmy Grant yeah yeah they also like want like I think Ryan Pace was just there was a time there where the Bears had like 11 tight ends so if there was any tight end he was like I just want to talk to him like I just want to I want to get on the phone with this guy so I literally said my wife they and again I love Jimmy don't get me right hasn't do Jimmy I was like when I was when they signed Jimmy I was like those guys it was like they used me it was like they took me on like a really cheap date picked my brain for everything I knew and then they just like gave me an Uber yeah not surprised not right anyway everyone thank

you're Greg and George thank you so much tight end use happening this week gonna be great for charity for the kids it's also gonna be great for all the tight ends will be there next year guaranteed and thank you guys we really appreciate it thank you boys appreciate you guys you guys are awesome thanks guys good to see you guys the Greggs are brought to you by shady rays spring weather and longer days are here to stay which is why you need the official shades a part of my take shady rays whether you're one of the thousands who rock their shades daily or you're new to the brand you don't want to miss this epic deal we're kicking the spring season off with a holiday level deal for part of my take listeners just go to shady rays calm use promo code PMT 35 get 35%

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wow there's one Chris Sabo sunglatt Rex Bex King Chris Sabo 91 yeah I see 27 via Sarah Lange princess a bit all right keep going I want to keep going well there was one back in 1978 Ron say he was batting Ken forces the pitcher it was the Dodgers and the Astros back when the Astros were in the National League at that point then before that you got the Kansas City Royals and and Baltimore Orioles all tippy Martinez was on the bump up against John Waith in 1977 they were down 75 walk-off triple play there then we got Phil Gagliano with the boys at the Cincinnati Reds Don not Bart was the pitcher oh and then you got to take it way back to 1966 guess who was pitching that one big cat little little oil came Boyd nope a little pitcher known by Tommy John

Tommy John was twirling a gym and I'm not recurring guys Tommy John recurring guest James Andrew yeah yeah who fixed Kyle Schwabers knee yeah full circle all right Monday reading yeah so this is a little different not really a funny Monday reading a little bit sadder but we do like talk about our lives on our show this is going on with me so this was a text that I sent to PFT and big cat earlier it said I'm talking to Dave today we already texted him and told him so if it's cool with you guys at the very end of the show I'll mention what's going on with us that we're broken up etc and that we're cool moving on to separate apartments and moving on for now obviously super sad but probably better long-term stuff so yeah we're broken up broken up yes

going on for like I mean we've been kind of separated for like a month happened over COVID we just kind of I don't know just lost lost the fire a little bit kind of situation where it became roommates and not really like romantic or whatever and we just kind of realized that our apartment was up we had different opinions on where we wanted to live and stuff and we just you know figured it was better for both of us that we just kind of moved on you're getting hot you're getting a six-pack that's all your singies for the summer all right so just let's do like a couple quick questions so that way people aren't like oh wonder what this one is number one how much blame should we give Jake zero blame okay all right well I mean this is you know people

it was already we'd already had already happened before that even happened okay um question number two who should we be mean to you or Aria no one we mean to it was no one's no one's no one's fault is one of those things where she just you know there is a big age difference we like I said we took like it has been going on for a month we kind of separated and during that time I thought about it and you know kind of realized like we started dating she was 19 living at home by herself she's I've been single you know working for Barcelona Boston on the Dixie tour like the first year of part of my take like I know what's out there I know what it's like I've lived the life but she's obviously like younger had a tough time in Corona and it's just never really been

out there so I don't necessarily blame her for you know wanting to like see what's out there and stuff you're on the young ones and I'm just at a place where I'm not really trying to like go crazy and party and have fun and stuff I'm older and just kind of trying to relax so very mature yeah I mean it's very sad it's been it's been a tough month but I do think you know I'm just happy it's not like a toxic or like dramatic ending or anything like that so we're still we're everyone's being nice to Rhea we're supporting Rhea she's still a co-worker of ours we like Rhea so it's not like that it's this is for our younger listeners sometimes this happens yes and it's no one's fault and it actually can just be a split I know that's crazy and it's actually healthy to

deal with it this way as opposed to just ignoring it right hoping things get better and did you consider trying to have a child to save your relationship no no no I think there was me here was here was well Norman so Norman people are winning that Norman it was always her dog that was never right a question it's just like a sad it's a sad part of a much sadder situation but he's gonna stay out of the podcast now because it is Rhea's dog so we're gonna respect that yeah I know that I I do I am obviously I you know listeners and stuff you can't control them they're probably gonna troll whatever but I am asking you guys I know I know the situation will come up where you want to make a joke and the only joke and I want to make is I want to make Jake feel

uncomfortable is that okay I know I mean I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable I can't make Jake feel uncomfortable I mean it's not Jake's fault I feel bad he's gonna feel terrible as it is yeah he's gonna he's gonna the only thing that that feel really bad can I make him feel a little uncomfortable because my podcast brother oh my god hear that you're the older brother Jake what that's it I was good that's all I wanted that was enough that was enough uncomfortable I'll just ask this one time did you teach her how to put the ice cube on I told her about it but yeah no Hank we obviously have your back everyone I think the AWOs will actually surprise you here in being like hey you know he said his piece let's all just chill out with it but yeah

that's adults adult things happen and we like Rhea we're not gonna stop liking Rhea we love Hank we're not gonna stop loving Hank and Jake you're a good boy too and you know great way to maybe you know get through some of the lonelier times what might be to get a companion some sort of cat make great roommates or a roommate no no roommates no cats with dogs nope definitely not definitely I would I would actually be the meanest thing yeah Philly's dreams would come true they killed himself why because he broke up with his girlfriend no because he had to live with Billy but yeah I mean it's it is sad obviously love Rhea is still though or so we're cool it's not you know it's nothing nothing too dramatic I think when people hear that type of news they're like oh

what happened but it was more just you know it was a long a long time coming kind of and it's just probably it's probably better for both of us this way and shout out you for giving me almost a heart attack because I think my inner dad now kicks in when you texted me in PFT last week you're like hey can I talk to you guys real quick before you leave and I was like okay someone died and I was like I sprinted I haven't sprinted in five years I sprinted to the studio from my desk yeah because we don't get the we don't send those text messages to each other yeah we don't know it's more like and I know we don't really we did talk about it was kind of a current thing over the years so it's more just like for the record because obviously like going forward you

know I'm not going to be in a relationship with the dog anymore so it's more just to have it on the record I thought you were quitting to go to Spotify to do the caller daddy podcast I wish I walked in the room in big cats the first thing he said was Hicks quitting yeah and I didn't know if he was here no I got I had the scare when he said we Texas all right Billy you got to follow that Billy there was actually great feedback from Billy's recap on Friday no I'm no pressure we're positive we're positive vibes only podcast this has been a pretty heavy show if you think about it oh it's great yeah well the great awesome but that's the thing where it's like it has been sad and it's like you hear stories like that you're instantly like

alright life is not that bad right this could be worse you know like this is gonna be alright everybody gas up Hank right gas up our boy yeah gas up our boy your beard looks amazing thank you Billy yeah I appreciate you look taller you pronounce every word you actually did better with pronunciation today than Jake did it's fact that's Hank I've always been I've always been jealous of how you're able to handle your weed thank you that's taken a long time for me to get to that point yeah no I haven't been like that guy can he can blaze if you did not be like you can do it like I blaze and I just fucking lose my mind if you didn't respond to my email I wouldn't have this job that's about you yeah no I'm just kidding all right I'm done I'm done making

Jake now that was a mistake thanks yeah thanks for pointing out my mistakes so you him responded that email started everything the wheels of motion the Chinese food order tonight was fire it was really good he made it you make that clip for me I just love having Billy back he really is like the bro's Chinese food order was fire come on I really get a balance sports I love I love having you back you haven't crashed in like a year I know he crashed a couple weeks ago would you call it sports you're good at balancing on things what by the way is one of the best balance supporters of all I'm a foot based sports guy I think actually has really pretty eyes well Hank works his ass off too yeah literally but have you ever looked in his eyes oh you know what there's

actually good time let's do this right now real quick this is also a serious thing July 4th schedule so we're not gonna have a show on Monday July 5th is Monday we're not gonna have a show because we're not gonna do a show on on that July 4th and Hank and Liam are gonna take the week off vacation wise no jokes this is not a joking thing everyone getting married and well also everyone needs some time to Maddie and Drew yep everyone needs Max B everyone needs some time to to take off so they're gonna take it we're gonna have two other guys Youngstown Bob and Jake are gonna cut not our Jake another Jake are gonna come in and they're gonna guest produce on Wednesday and Friday so let's get ahead of that no jokes about it Liam and Hank work their

fucking asses off when we finish the podcast every night they're still here for fucking four hours later so they deserve some time off so there'll be a no joke zone fair fair fair yep sometimes PFT and I forget that like we can just sit down and put on the mics and produce and put out a show and then it's over when right right so we have to we have to remind ourselves that it's a lot more that goes into it um all right Billy let's do it um I think that the biggest thing that's gonna come out of tight end you is that all the tight ends are gonna get man bums okay like think about it I like it all got Hawkinson to do it so I think that's gonna spread okay um you have to there there has to be like a certain level of physical imposition that you have to carry

about you in order to pull off a man bun like I can't do a man bun Gareth Bale has the worst meant did you see yeah yeah I want to cut his head off yeah his entire face every time I see that yeah it's I think it's one or the other it's gotta be you gotta be a really like imposing physical guy like a tight end or you have to be a small slender guy and people are like what's his deal artistic like he could do something to me Trevor Trevor Lawrence's brother could pull off of a man bun there's no in between like if I had a man bun it would be the worst man bun of all yes um and then because you're saying how accurate it would be terrible they should do more pool games in the Olympics have like Olympic sharks and minnows and Marco Polo okay Marco Polo real

real water sports yep yep and uh yeah that's pretty much it that's it perfect okay the lost are the size of a chicken Billy has graded himself a perfect 57 all right 99 1886 the lost raptors are the size of the chicken is that true frauds frauds 64 is that new one and 64 one time one time what date I like I'm kind of low-key in a weird way obsessed with the lottery statistics December 1st 2020 wow wow what we're doing that December 1st 2020 what day of the week was that what NFL week was that that's probably week 12 somewhere around there maybe yeah week 12 or 13 Derek Henry probably had 200 yards that that day December it was week 15 what December sorry it was a Tuesday

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