Subpar - Ian Rapoport talks breaking NFL news interrupting his best round, covering Saban and Belichick to start his career

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar, NFL Insider Ian Rapoport joins former PGA Tour pro Colt Knost and jicky jack legend Drew Stoltz for an exclusive interview. He talks covering Nick Saban and Bill Belichick to start his career, how breaking NFL news ruined his best round of golf and being a recurring guest on the Pat McAfee Show.   Subpar Podcast: https://linktr.ee/Golf1271 Birdie Juice Merch: https://proshop.golf.com/collections/birdie-juice-collection -- Thanks to our official sponsor Dewar's. Make sure to check out their Reserve Bar listings today: https://www.reservebar.com/collections/house-of-dewars    This week's episode is presented by FanDuel Sportsbook. If you've never tried FanDuel Sportsbook, what are you waiting for? Go to https://www.fanduel.com/subpar or download the FanDuel Sportsbook app to get started. Be sure to sign up with promo code SUBPAR so they know we sent you. Disclaimer: 21+ and present in AZ, CO, CT, IA, IL, NJ, NY, or WY. 1st online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as non-withdrawable site credit that expires 14 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), Call 1-800-522-4700 (CO), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (NJ, IA, IL), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY(467369) (NY), or 1-800-522-4700 (WY).

Hello, world. Welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost Andrew Stoltz. Well, Sleys, we're a golf podcast, but I think we might be turning into a football cast because we're undefeated this year. We're the best. Good time to announce our retirement from golf. It's been real. We're getting into the football game. Two and O on our bets last week. Props to us. Also found that it's easier to pick a winner when you have a 50% chance versus a 1-156 chance. Just simple math. I do like those odds much. better, but I'm thinking we might just need to retire from football, though. Let's just go out undefeated. We're two and no. It's a winning season. That's the Jordan fadeaway against the jazz. That's when you should have shut it down. We're going to end up pushing it and we're losing, but everyone know we were undefeated at one point this year. That's really all that matters. Everyone's rich. That is exactly this point. Exactly right. But how good is it to have football back?

I mean, we're golf guys. You know, golf's got a little break right now, but football being back. My goodness, gracious, the weekends just got a lot better. Dude, I watched an unhealthy, I spent an unhealthy amount of couch time the last year. And then we had a game Sunday. We got a game coming up. You know, we got Clemson versus Georgia Tech. I mean, dude, I watched more football. And I told myself at the start of the week, I was like, okay, dude, let's lock in on these few bets that we like, only bet these.

Then sure not would be the morning slate. And I was like, well, I don't have anything to watch. I don't have anything I care about here. So I got a fire. End up firing a shit ton of bets backfired. My self-control, not where it needs to be. But at least the ones we gave out two and O. And damn, it's good to have football back.

We're coming into the sweet spot here of the sports. There was a lot of incredible games. Did you happen to see the North Carolina Appalachian State game? Dude, there was some unbelievable game. That game, what a App State scored 40 in the fourth and lost the game. They got to be the first team in history to drop a 40 piece in the fourth quarter and not win. West Virginia Pitt was incredible to start it off earlier in the week. LSU Florida State.

How about that? There's some kickers right now that wouldn't want to be going back to campus. It's going to be hard to pick up a little homecoming date for some of the fellows. East Carolina kicker. Including East Carolina's poor dude. By the way, the one hold on extra point. Laces were in, Dan.

Got to get those laces out. So maybe give him a pass there, but he had a chance to redeem himself, didn't. And then, I mean, LSU, I don't know, dude. You got to block somebody. All you can do is kick it. If they block it, it's not really on the kicker. But there's some, he's going to get blamed for it.

so tough week to be a kicker back on campus for a few of these dudes. I know. It's just like if you miss, everybody hates you. If you make it, you're just supposed to make it and it's no big deal. It's just like the holder, dude. Name me the best holder in the history. Can't do it. Not Tony Romo.

But you can name it. Exactly. There you go. One shit. One shit hold. One shit snap. You're the worst for forever. It's the worst job in the world.

But damn, it's good to have college football back. And now we got NFL creeping up soon. It's the sweet spot. PJ tour season is going to get going. We're live. There was some golf play this week, though. The Corn Ferry Tour Tour Championship, Justin Suck, picks up his win,

25 guys got their PGA tour card. It was dramatic. It was exciting. Our good buddy Scott Harrington, congratulations to him. He got his PGA tour card back. Made it a little stressful, missing the cut this week,

had to sit there and watch, but ended up getting in. And then over on that other tour, Dustin Johnson just wrecked to the back of the hole in a playoff with Joaquin Neiman and Honorbon-Lahiri to get his first live golf win. how about that put he made? That thing was going 20 feet, by the whole.

Dude, I actually ended up watching, like, the last, I caught, like, the last five or six holes. Full disclosure, it was entertaining. It was fun. I didn't see any of the, like, the previous two rounds, but it was wild out there. You hear music. The fans are probably louder in the playout.

I mean, dude, they get Joaquin Neiman in that thing. Cam Smith was there down the end with one bad drive kind of cost him. They almost had, like, their golden scenario, kind of like the PJ Tour had a tour championship with Rory and Scotty going together. And it was fun. And that put, I mean, I don't know that I've ever seen. It almost hit the back of the hole and came out and missed on the front side, bounced backwards over the front, but it caught the front.

And DJ's made a shit pot of money. And the four aces, dude, by the way, like, they're just not going to be beat. They're not going to be beat. Like, whoever did the draft there, it's like, who's beating them? There's only one or maybe one or two other teams that can mess with them on a week and week out. Like Pat Perez, all these dudes, they got to be just loving life being on the four aces right now. like, yeah, no matter what, we're going to win this team. And then whatever else I get is just, it's just cherry on top.

How do they get? Like, just over 700K a guy from the team win. DJ made $4.7 million yesterday. It's like $700 or $750 for clipping the team side. Yeah, I mean, they're going. But yeah, shout out to Larrington. You texted me on Thursday. Like, are you watching this?

I was like switching back and forth between football. The announcers on Friday afternoon, Harrington had to pitch out on 18 and get up and down from the fairway to make the cut. They made it sound like if he doesn't, to play the weekend. Like he's got serious stress on Keith's card. And I was like, dude, we just had him on radio. We've been texting with him. Like, congrats. I'm going to feel like a huge piece of shit after congratulating him and stuff. But he cruised in good to have him back in. Yeah, Justin's going where he belongs to. He was like the guy with Morikawa and Hovlin, like, coming out,

that they were, you know, hyping up. And he's had some injuries and things like that. But the kids super nice. Yeah, be interested to see what he does at the next level. But congrats to to everybody on getting their PJ tour card. And congrats to having football back. It was fun to watch some football, sip on some doers. And thank you, Scotland, for the great game of golf. You really did us a solid there. And thank you, Scotland, for the great gift of Scotch whiskey, especially the doers 22, 19-year-old Champions Edition, crafted in partnership with the USDA-19-year Champions Edition is double-aged and then finished in New American Oak and first-field rye cast to be as complex and rewarding as the game of golf itself. The flavor profile

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We're two and oh. We're undefeated. Football's great. We're basically geniuses. Billy Walters, never heard of them. If we're not going to fluff ourselves, who the hell is going to fluff us? You know what I mean? like we make some we make some good picks we make some shit picks we take ownership when we make

bad picks this week we happen to hit the home run tc ucc went out there and handled their biz and then a USC got off to a little bit of a slow start i'm like damn this is never worried it's a big line and then all of a sudden it pops back up 66 to nothing or whatever it was i was like hey we're actually doing it all right well it's a hell of a start and how about our guest this week you talk about some football this man knows more than anyone ian rappaport joins us NFL insider the dude does not stop working. As you see if you're watching the show today, the man is on his phone 24-7.

Work never stops, especially since football season is starting. He's a busy man, Slees. Yeah, and he'll notice during the interview, there's some sounds going off. Some email goes off about every 12 seconds. He's on his phone half the time. We were lucky to get him for whatever we had him,

45 minutes. This is like peak time for him. But yeah, the dude, his phone hours, FaceTime, screen time or whatever that thing is each day. I mean, there ain't no break for rap. this time of here. All right, let's get to it. Here's Ian Rappaport on Gulf Subpar. Okay, folks, we have the busiest man in sports media with us here today. You follow him on Twitter. You check it 17 times before you set your fantasy lineup. He's probably got the most important

words in the United States for the next six months. He is the NFL insider Ian Rappapap. What's up, Rap? What's going on, guys? How you doing? Fantastic. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, no problem. We found a good pocket of time, although I can't say that like nothing's going to happen in this little bit of time when I'm talking to you. So bear with me if I have to look at my phone and tweet something. Okay, I apologize in advance.

All right. Over the next 45 minutes, what's the over under on how many times your phone goes off? I would say probably 20. I'll probably get 20 text messages in the next 45 minutes or maybe 40 or 100. Depends. It depends. depends if it's news or some of my group text just going crazy. Could go either way.

Okay, good. I would feel very irresponsible if you had the phone down for the next 45 minutes. Patrick Mahomes could retire or something and the world wouldn't know. There it is right there. Talk to us a little bit about that phone because that might be the most important piece of technology in the United States for 20 to 45-year-old males. Has that thing ever glitched or gone out overload? Do you got to have like a backup or two or something, right?

I don't have a backup. I can text on my computer because I have a Mac and I can text on my iPad. And there's been plenty of times like I've been on a flight and, you know, you get, you pay for Wi-Fi on a flight and I usually have my iPad will be up. I'll be watching something on Netflix and I'll have the Wi-Fi going. So if I get a text, then I'll have to tweet from my iPad from something I got texted. And that's always tough because you have to do like the big punches. You know, it's always a little weird, but I could do that.

But a lot of times I do it from the computer. So like I have my, I'll show you guys. I have my camera right there. I got my seat cover covering it, but I got my camera. So if I'm in front of the camera, I get a text. I tweet while I'm on camera from the computer. Now, when you get a new phone sometimes that all the numbers don't come through and all the text don't come through, it's been a couple times when a proper text has not come through

and I've only seen it on the iPad, but generally it works out. I'm shocked. I thought you'd have at least two phones. Yeah, that seems risky. You know, I only have two pockets and I only have two ears and one mouth. So you can only do so much. Like I am a firm believer in one phone. Now, again, like I have multiple texting slash tweeting stations, the computer, the iPad, et cetera.

One phone is really all that I need. What I will do is I'll put it on speakerphone and I'll tweet while on. talking that happens but still just one phone i like it if some news does come through the wire here while we're doing this show this won't air this is recorded so it won't air till down the road will you we tell us what it is uh after i tweeted i'll tell you yes okay i'll just get it on my phone right now too um i i do like there'll be times and i'll be like on the radio or on like maccuffie show or something and i'll get a text and i'll be like oh hold on and they'll be like oh what is it what is it? And I'll be like, I'll tell you, just let me, just let me tweet it. I don't want to get in

trouble and, like, say something on some other platform that's not mine before I tweet. So I just firm believer, let me tweet it and then we promise we can talk all about it. Okay. Are you and Schaefter like always in a race to see who can get it out there first? You all have the same, I'm guessing you'll have to have some of the same sources. We are in a race, yes. I would say that's probably right. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of overlap. You know, Now there's some people I'm closer with that he's closer with, you know, some people I'm closer with compared to him, vice versa. You know, there's different angles we'll take on a story. So, you know, now there's rarely something happens sometimes, but rarely something that he'll have that I didn't know about or I'll have that he didn't know about.

I feel like it's safe to say both of us assume that we're both operating from like a similar basis of knowledge. So it'll be a lot of times when like someone will give us something same time within seconds. like that. But yeah, I mean, it is, you know, it is basically a race. I will say that. Let's say you get something right now as you're looking down in your phone. Let's say this is super important right now and you get a text from somebody saying something.

What do you got to do to verify that before you feel comfortable enough to tweet it out to three and a half a million? Can you actually hold on one second? This is my home. This is in Mahomes retirement. I knew it. I knew it's coming. He didn't want to deal with Russell.

Russell Wilson. They done one to deal with Russell, but. Not that. Don't even play around like that. Please don't even play with my emotions like that. Russell Wilson's giving all the money back. He hates Denver. Jack's probably demanding a trade.

And Zeke. They both want to come to Denver. Wouldn't be surprised. It's not a big deal, I promise. On a 1 to 10, where does this rank? I'm going to hope. Mike McCarthy steps down, Coach Peyton's quitting Fox to go. It ain't dream world.

God, that'd be incredible. That'd be more than a one. I don't know. I feel like we're witnessing like, you know, some shit we're going to do. It's a claim. It's a waiver claim. It's not very exciting. It's a waiver claim.

But for the player, it's excited. It's exciting. Give me. What position? It's offensive. Anyway, so, so I'm sorry. So you were saying. I forgot what the hell we were talking about.

Oh, how much do you, what do you have to go through to make sure the process. Oh yeah. How many like, all right, so you just got a, you got to go confirm that with multiple people. Like some news, I think you got to go get a few, but are there guys that if this person text me something's happening, like I know. Yeah, I think so, so basically what it is is you sort of always have to evaluate. How does this person know and why are they telling me? Like if it's a contract, you know, generally if it's the agent, they know. Now, you know, you'd like to, you'd like to let the team know. I know this contract's coming out. Here's what's going on.

You know, talk about the timing, but it doesn't always happen sometimes. Someone hit you and says, this deal just got done. It's signed. We are good to go. You know, if it's an agent, it's an official signature. Usually you're good. If it's a player, a lot of times you're good, but not always because if it's a player and it's his own injury, players are not always the best sources on their own injury because

a lot of times they're like, I'm good. And you're like, well, you know, you're not good. So, you know, it's some, you have to. always sort of double check with the team there. If it's someone who's kind of involved but not really, maybe a third hand source, they say, hey, this guy just got injured. You know, it's a torn ACL.

You'll say, okay, well, let me check with two other people on that who actually are involved. So it's every little piece of news you get, you sort of have to weigh, like, how does this person know? Why are they telling me? When are other people going to figure this out? because if it's something that is competitive, you've got a race to get it. If it's something that no one else could know, you're like,

all right, let me take some time and make, you know, a million percent sure. But it's case by case. And you're sort of like, you know, I spend countless times a day evaluating a piece of information, why I get it and what to do with it. Have you ever, you mentioned like one of those ones where it's a race to get it? Have you ever put one out there? And then all of a sudden it turned out it was incorrect. And you're like, oh, boy.

Yeah. that has happens. How's that go over? Not great. Not great. I mean, you know, there was,

but it's sometimes it's like the Wild West. Like I'll give you an example that happened just yesterday, right? O.J. Howard visited the Bengals thinking that he was going to sign. Took a physical there. That was the plan. And then they claimed the Tidanoff waivers. And so everything changed within that 12 hours.

So he's in Houston right now and could end up signing with the Texans. But like I had the scoop that he was in since he expected to sign. And he didn't sign. Now, I wasn't wrong because the situation changed, but it is something you have to explain. And, you know, that can happen. I'd say, you know, players in free agency. I mean, it happens from time to time where you say,

all right, this player agrees to terms with this team. And then you'll have what we call a plot twist. and he'll sign with another team. And you sort of explain that. So it happens. You know, there's been other examples of, you know, a trade about to get done. And a player didn't agree to the contract that would have come with a trade so the trade is off. And, you know, it's never great.

It's sort of why you leave yourself out and don't always speak in definitive. But you try as hard as you possibly can to put something out when it is wrapped up and completely a done deal. have to deal with those sort of possible adjustments along the way. Yeah, it just moved so fast. Like there's occasionally going to be times I feel like where, you know, things change from the time you tweeted to what happens. But before he became the dude for the NFL reporting all the news, you actually covered two of like the most famous and probably the two toughest coaches, I would think, to cover in Nick Saban and Bill Belichick. Is that the best like prep you can have to kind of not only get on the inside with some of these guys, but just also getting into journalism.

Like, dude, if you can talk to Belichick and Sabin, you can probably talk to anybody. Yeah, I mean, they're so, they're like, you know, really, really good friends, but they're so different. You know, now Sabin is like pretty volatile and you could go in a press conference and almost get him to say anything. Belichick, it works the opposite. You can never get him to say anything he doesn't want to do. It's always going to be on his terms, how he wants it. Both of them, you know, effectively shut down everyone kind of around the program. So there's not a lot of leaky assistance in Alabama.

Not a lot of people just hang around the program, know a lot of information and share it readily. So it is a fight and scrap to get every piece of information. And I think the coolest thing, most rewarding thing about covering Alabama, besides just how incredibly high stakes everything was. Like it was also important in that genre was it forced me to look around and be like, how do I get this info? Like, how do I learn these pieces of information? how do I kind of work around the edges when, you know, you're not going to get the head coach or general manager, whoever it is telling you stuff. And it forced me to look at different ways to get info. Same thing with the Patriots.

Like, players don't tell you a lot. Belichick doesn't tell you a lot. There's still information to be had. So how do you get it? And I think that's something that, you know, I've sort of always took with me. Would also say that covering the Patriots probably taught me the business of the NFL more than anything ever. You know, you learn so much about roster construction. Why a player is worth so much, why he's not worth as much as you think,

why a big name player gets cut, why sometimes players could trade it before the third contract. I mean, all of these different things, all of these things you learn covering the Patriots. It's really fascinating. Is this something you knew you always wanted to do growing up? Or did you have other dreams in your mind? And it just turned out you were really good at this? I wanted to be, I would say growing up, I wanted to be a lawyer. When I got to college, I started writing for the newspaper at Columbia.

Student newspaper, daily newspaper, it was great. I liked writing. I liked the process of writing. I like seeing my face in the paper. Just like I like seeing my face on TV. And I just, I wanted to be a reporter. And so, like, graduating. college. I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a newspaper reporter. I wanted to be a,

you know, a columnist in a big city or I wanted to be a columnist on the backup Sports Illustrated. And I was real happy, you know, being a beat reporter for the Patriots, working with the Boston Herald, living in Boston. I was, you know, extremely happy. And then NFL Network called and wanted to hire me and put me on TV and everything changed. But it was, I really never wanted to be anything else besides a newspaper reporter probably until until I got that very strange call from NFL Network. What was that moment like? Take us through that when NFL Network called you.

So I was at the Super Bowl covering Patriots Giants the second time. And I'd been on NFL Network a couple times. At that point, they would have D-Writers come on and just kind of talk about your team. So I talked about the Patriots a little bit. And it was fine. Thought nothing of it. This guy, Marcus Smith. It was a booker, I think, for ESPN now.

But it was a producer at Enfell Network at the time. Calls me and says, like, hey, do you have time to meet with some of our, you know, higher-ups? I'm like, sure. So I walk into a meeting room. I'm wearing, like, jeans and a sweater, just like meeting, you know? And I sit down. It's like three NFL executives. They fire questions at me for an hour.

Just like everything from, like, how do you cover this? How did you cover that? Why did you write this this way? How did you handle this situation? All these things. And it's an hour. And at the end of it, they say, you know, all right, well, we've asked you questions.

Do you have any questions for us? And I say, yeah, what am I doing here? And they're like, oh, well, you know, we're looking to hire some TV reporters and you're someone we're looking at. And I said, I don't know anything about TV. And they're like, well, we'll teach you. And, you know, if we hired you, would you be willing to move to Dallas? because at that point NFL Network needed a Dallas bureau reporter,

like basically covered the Cowboys. And I was like, yeah, like for the right opportunity, yeah. And so I left the meeting. I called my wife. And I was like, I don't know what's going on. It's really strange, but like, I think we may get a job offer and I might go work for NFL Network. I might have to move to Dallas.

And she was like, no, please, like calm down. I'm like, they talked to a lot of people. I'm like, I know, I know, but like it felt like something, like something is happening. And anyway, we might have to move to Dallas. She's like, okay, sure. And then a month later, they called an offer me the job and we moved to Dallas. And then three years later, got a new deal, became our insider, and then moved to New York. Can I tell you, and you got good at TV because I could tell you, this is a while back now.

I don't even remember what year it was. Your most impressive feat on TV in my mind, you were giving it like a sideline report. it was a Texans versus somebody. You're on the sideline. Hey, this guy is going to be, you know, giving all the rap. And then all of a sudden a football, a ball came from out of nowhere. I don't even know where. And like hit you in the face, the mic, all the shit.

And you, like, two seconds later, you were right back into your Senate. I was like, that's a frickin pro right there. Just took a shot to the dome, not even face. Oh, man. That was early on in my career. I didn't know anything about TV at that point. So I was just like, well, I got a lot to say. And so I'm just going to keep saying it.

And the only thing that was tough for me at the time was we had like some of our like anchors in my ear. You can hear people talk in your ear and one of them was Dion Sanders, who is absolutely losing his mind laughing so loud. And so if you watch the clip, I have to do like a double take because I need to let them stop laughing before I keep talking. That's great. It was good. Dion's got to be a tough dude to have in your ear. There's probably not a lot of quiet. I love it.

Dion's a man. But yeah, I mean, you're everywhere between NFL network. obviously you're all over Twitter. You're all Pat McAfee show. It seems like a couple times a week. How did that relationship come about? Because I love his show. I mean, it's one of the biggest shows in all sports right now.

How did your relationship with Pat come about? Yeah, I mean, I love the show too. It's actually a weird thing because I really just, you know, like it's, I'm on to talk about sports and football, whatever. But like of all the shows, it literally just feels like I'm hanging out with my friends. Like, it's a, like, it's never like a chore to go on. It just feels like I'm at a bar with. a bunch of dudes that I'm good friends with, you know?

Like, it's just a great vibe. He kind of just reached out to me and wanted to see if I would come on. I do not take myself very seriously. I mean, I take my job very seriously, but I don't take myself very seriously. So when they, like, you know, make fun of me, I kind of roll with it. And I think he liked that. And, yeah, it's been a couple years now. And, yeah, I really do enjoy going on.

when he was in the league still playing like you obviously knew who he was and we got out was getting into me did you have any idea if pat was going to blow up into the you know phenomenon that he is now not like this but i knew he would be something like i actually broke his retirement which was like a sort of a bit with barstool like it was all planned but you know um and part of that was a skit where he was like announcing his retirement at a press conference and you know it was he was hilarious and I'm you know and I knew he was a punter and he was pretty good he was always a little controversial because he danced and when you're a punter and you like you know trash talk and dance people are like who the hell do you think you are and he was kind of

like I'm Pat McAfee and he didn't care um so I thought he'd be something I did not think he would be as big as he's been um but he's always kind of been his own dude like he's always, he doesn't have an agent. He thinks with his own mind. He doesn't really care what anyone else thinks. So he was either going to be a huge success or a miserable failure. And my guess was always success. And that seems to be what's happened.

He's doing all right. That show is fantastic. I love it. Give us, like, wrap, like everyone sees you pop up on TV. You're breaking news. You're doing things like that. All right, a day like today, before the season starts, there's a lot of shit going on, right?

You got waivers. You got trade cuts, 53-man rosters, all that. sort of stuff. Give me like an average day in the lives being wrapped before leading up to football, like a day like today, assuming you're not coming on this monster podcast, which is a big deal, obviously. Well, yeah, it's the highway of my day, no doubt about it. You know, I woke up today having a couple things in mind that I knew were going to happen. You know, the Derek Henry raised that I reported on, I've known about for a couple of days waiting for that to be finalized. Kind of felt like it would be today. New Russell Wilson and the Broncos were pretty advanced.

in their contract talks. I was kind of aware and keeping an eye on that. But really just, you know, every morning I'll have breakfast with my boys and my wife. And whether I'm on TV or not, sometimes I'm on at 7 a.m., 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. But I always have breakfast and then take them to school, do TV kind of in between there.

And you always kind of like looking at your phone. You have some things in your head. And you have some text to send out of things to check on. But it's like a nonstop wave of checking on things. like, oh, is this, you know, is this going to happen now? Is this going to happen later? What happened to this injury? When's, you know, one of these guys getting claimed, like all these things?

So I basically spend my day on the phone going through my checklist and talking to sources and seeing what happens. You know, every day I have TV from, you know, usually good morning football, then one to three on NFL now, then total access. But kind of between there, there was a little exercise. There's a lot of phone calls and sort of see what development. helps. You're busy man. How much do you sleep at night? I sleep regular. I sleep like six or seven hours. Now, you know, during busy times, I'll keep my phone, you know, keeping my phone under my pillow on loud,

which is funny because like my wife is so conditioned that when it rings or beeps, she doesn't even notice because it's been 10 years. Just her body is shut off that sound. It's kind of funny. I know. I mean, I don't. I don't even know, but yes, God bless her is right. So, you know, I get the regular amount of sleep, but you just have to be aware that sometimes you got to wake up and deal with things and go on TV and talk about it and, like, be totally fine with that. All right. Let's get into this season a little bit because we got a golf show, but we got a lot of people out there that love football just like we do. Looking into this season, give me a team that you expect to underperform expectations and then one you expect to. be outperform expectations. It's going to be better than people think. Underperform is tough. It's tough for me to gauge what people think of teams. I would say the team that probably has the most at stake when it comes to the expectations as the dolphins, spend so much money, big trades. I mean, the dolphins, you know,

they have two and now is obviously some question marks as far as is he the franchise quarterback or not. And they spent so much with, you know, paid a tight end $11 million. They've traded for Tyreek Hill. They've spent a bunch of running backs. They have a new coach. You know, that's the one where I'm sort of keeping an eye. And as far as like, are they going to live up to their expectations everyone thinks?

I would say that's one of them. You know, a team that I would say to watch out for is the Raiders. You know, I mean, they made the playoffs last year. So it's not that much of a surprise, but they have a new coach. They have a quarterback that in that. division is always overlooked. They should be really good. The other team I would say, loaded, yeah.

No, I mean, it's loaded. You have, you know, in the homes, you know, Herbert, but like, Raiders should be good. The other thing is, you know, everyone has spent the last, you know, everyone has spent the last month or so laughing at the Patriots about their miserable offense. I'm sure they will be fine. They're always fine.

There's nothing funny. They just, they do things differently. and I think they're okay being bad in the preseason to figure some things out. So I will not be laughing at the Patriots with everyone else, and I believe they're going to be fine. Yeah, no fun. Some dude, no one's ever heard of, and it'll be all pro by the end of the year. All right, this is a really important one here, wrap for the two of us.

Who's the better team this year? Just a better team. I'm not saying win-loss. They go head-to-head who wins. Broncos or Cowboys? My guess would be Cowboys. Maxi. And he's an expert.

You don't know shit. Well, see later. Interview. Done. I'm a diet of Cowboys. I'm a diehard guy. But this year, I'm not even like, I'm keeping my expectations extremely low. I'm after last year, I'm still hurt over last season.

Yeah, I mean, I just think their roster is so talented. You know, like, they, like, Dak had a great preseason. I think receivers are going to be better than last year and everyone thinks I'm crazy, but I do, like, defense is good. Like, they're going to be good. Broncos will be good, too. I think Broncos defense is nasty. I would just expect it to take a little bit.

bit for Russ to kind of like figure out and blend into this new offense. I don't think that's going to be snap my fingers and we'll be there. We'll see. Yeah, we will. And just playing that division, it's like, you know, they're winning 10 games. We're going to be a beast. What's the best, what's the best stadium? Favorite stadium you like, though, do best game day atmosphere. You had to pick one. I haven't been to all of them. I've yet to go to Seattle. So that's one where I'm kind of like, no, that everyone says how amazing it is. I would like to experience that, I would say. Best Stadium.

Superdome is incredible just because it's so freaking loud. And then from the looks of everything, I would say Kansas City, former Arrowhead is awesome because everyone's in red. The whole freaking place is in red. Starter jackets and Zubaz and like the whole deal. Like it is an extremely cool kind of like college-like atmosphere. I love that.

I do too. That's your shit there too. We can talk football all day, but I know you're a big golfer, even though you don't get to play that much during the NFL season. Tell us a little bit about your golf game and how often you get to play. So, yeah, I mean, I would think it's safe to say, aside from my job and my family, golf is the thing that I do the most. I love it.

I always want to play. I got a little window tomorrow morning, Friday. I'll be jumping out there at 8.30 and playing. I don't mind playing at like 6.30 on a weekend when it's not the season so I can get out early, you know, walk team and come back in, you know, a decent hour to see the kids and hang out. During the season, I'll usually play Tuesdays. Not always because like stuff happens, but I try to get out there and play Tuesdays. You know, in April, I'll play a couple times. There's always trades and free. agency in the draft coming up. It's hard. Once the draft happens, I will play like four days a week or more.

Like it's, you know, I almost always walk. I am mediocre. I'm a nine six now. I started the year at like a 12, so I've gotten better. My handicap dropped. No, I started at a 13. My handicap dropped two points when I shot a 77 a couple weeks ago. But I just, it's, it's all I ever want to do. So, yes, I'm a big golfer. Give me your, like, top couple of places you've played.

I love wing foot. Yeah. It's really easy, too. Yeah, both courses. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it's great for the handicap. I would say, like, I like both courses. I don't know.

It's, they're, I don't know, the greens are crazy. It's beautiful. It's one of the only places when you walk in and you're like, you feel like, like it feels like walking into like Fenway or Wrigley or like Lambo or, you know, like that's what like wing foot is like it's green and it's beautiful and amazing. So I would say that's one of them. I had a blast at congressional, played the blue course. Baker Mayfield ruined my rounds

but I was playing really well and I thought the redesign was like so cool like it was one of my favorite things because we were standing on you know one hot thing it was you know front nine before you kind of go under the bridge and you can see the whole course you know they cut a bunch of trees and that you can being able to see

that incredible view is just such a cool thing and the fact that trees are kind of like getting out of like becoming not in vogue anymore is so cool because it makes the views better and let's see what else I like the ocean course even though it was an absolute grind so hard you like some tough spots but I will say this

like the coolest thing about the ocean course for me is you can put everything so I am someone who you know, I knew I liked to put before, but like, you're putting out of bunkers, you're putting down hills. Like, I left that course and I'm like, I'm going to put everything from now on.

And it's made my game much better. Are there any other people in the media that you like to go out and play with or you got a little rivalry with or like to get a game with anything like that? You know, I'll play. Mike Earfo from NFL Network will come play with me, Tom Pell Serra, my two buddies.

When they're in town, I'll play with them. Clark from the ringer. I took out to this awesome place called St. Andrews in Westchester, which is like one of the oldest and amazing places. So, I mean, those are some guys in the media. You know, there's the problem with my job is everyone I'm like friends with lives all over the country. So I don't get to play with a lot of media people because everyone lives all over.

Have you played golf with McAfee yet because he's starting to get into it, played at Tahoe this year? He did play at Tahoe. noticed that. He made sure to rub that in right in my face for a long time. You know, it's funny too because, like, he would always make fun of me for walking so much. And then, of course, he gets out the towel in the first. And I thought he played actually pretty well, you know, around 89, 90, like more than, more than adequate there. He said his feet were hurting so much.

And I'm like, dude, like, I told you, like walking is the way to go. Like, if for no other reason that it makes your feet okay, if you have to walk for four rounds of Tahoe. He's pretty good, actually, for given how little he's played. He was in the Celebrity Long Drive, and he creates some speed and things like that. He and AJ obviously had a big rivalry going in that deal, which was fun to watch. Also, he might be a little bit better. I think he was forced to shotgun a beer on damn there every single T-Box that he walked

onto because the fans were ragging him on. And, of course, he's not going to say no. I respect that. Yeah, he was like, I think there's a few shots to be safe. Well, I mean, I would say, like, I, I, I, I, like to drink beer. And I'm not immune to shotgunning. The one weird thing about my golf game,

since we're talking about this, I don't love to be drunk playing golf because I don't like to suck. And a lot of times we'll drink a lot, it makes you suck. So I will have a beer on the course when it's necessary or maybe two. But shotgunning beers is not necessarily for me

just because it makes you hit bad shots, you know? The fine line. line. It's a balance between like, you got to get up a little bit and then you got to level out, find where you operate, but without going across that threshold, then it can go downhill quickly. I don't think wing foot's a real. Wingfoot, probably not the best place to shotgun a beer. Shoot a million. Yeah, what's the, what's the shotgun policy out of wingfoot? Doesn't happen.

Pro. I cannot, I cannot say that I have shotgun to beer at wing foot. Now, I will say we, we played, I played the ocean course with a bunch of my buddy, my high school buddies on this golf trip we went on. And so, you know, we, it was our second round of the day. I think it's safe to say, like, we were tired. Like, it's a grind. Like, really, like, it's like a grueling course. It's amazing. But, you know, a grueling course.

And even, like, you know, everything's in play there. So you're constantly, like, rum it, at least I was, like, walking through the fescue and shrubs to find whatever, like, terrible lie you have, you know. So by 15, like, we were. We were tired. And so, like, the card person rolls up. She's like, can we help you guys? And we're like, yeah, like, fireball shots is the only way to really handle this.

So we all took shots to fireball. Ended up playing great on the last, like, three holes, just like crazy. And we're like, okay, like, this actually works sometimes. So that helps. Rap, us three would have a great time. We have a ball, fireball. Sometimes you got to lever up when you're dragging it. Those golf trips, too, by the way,

it sounds like you come back like your wife's like oh you went on vacation i'm like babe you don't even like we are sending it like it's our last spring break ever and then we walk eight miles in between and shoot a million like you're dragging ass by the time you get home from those things yeah and i i've like rarely done it because so many of the golf trips happen in the fall and like like a buddy of mine goes to band and dunes in the fall every year with his friends and i can never go because i'm a little busy in the fall so like the fact that i could actually go my first golf trip in 10 years And it was awesome. I didn't actually play that great, unfortunately,

but the whole trip was amazing. Do you watch much golf? Obviously not in the fall, but do you watch like when it's not football season? Are you watching the majors or anything like that? Majors always. And, you know, some of the other big ones. I would say, like, majors, I will follow intently.

And, you know, I don't, like, final round, I'm like, you know, like, it's always like, you know, opens always on Father's Day. and I'm like, oh, great, Father's Day dinner. I'm going to have the Tebow this and, like, watch it later, which I did. But so, like, I always, you know, it's always appointment viewing for me. The other ones, I'll always have it on. I can't say I always follow, but I always have it on, especially because, like, I'm in my office now.

I've got a TV right next to my camera. So, like, if there's either a Mets game or some golf, I would just flip it on just because, you know, you like to watch and, like, also just from, like, a learning. game standpoint, you get to see some cool things. So you're like, oh, like I see how he played this. And, you know, golf's always sort of like that. So I like to watch as much as I can. Do you have a couple of favorites you like to follow? My favorites growing up, my favorites growing up were Mickelson and Sergio. I'm like a little controversial now.

Yeah. Better type in that YouTube. I have not yet watched anything on the Live Tour. I might not. Definitely might not. But yeah, like I was, you were either a Tiger guy or a Phil guy, and I was always a Phil guy. You know, so, you know, he wins the, you know, he wins the Masters. I'm like, I lost my mind.

Same thing with Sergio, you know, like misses a put on 17 or 18. I cannot remember. and then, you know, hits it and in the playoff hole, I'm like, I can't, like, you know, like, those are some memories, like, those are my guys. And then, you know, everything changed and whatever. But, like, I would say growing up, those are my favorites. Them and maybe David Duvall was probably my other one. Have you ever been to an event and seen it in person?

Because you got the Ryder Cup coming up your way up at Beth Page, not too long, where Phil would have been the captain for sure. It would have been Mayhem up there. But have you ever been out to an actual event and seen them? Hit it? Yes. So I've been to, I was at the open when it was at Schencock. When was that?

It was, I feel like it was last one? Brooks one over Fleetwood? No, no, no, no, no. For that. Repeat Houston? Received one before that. When the greens were purple? Yes, I believe that.

Yeah, that was a good one to be a nightmare out there. That's right. That's right. And, you know, I've been to travelers. I've been to when the Buick Classic was at Westchester, then I used to always go. I actually was covering for the journal news at that time. And then I've been to a couple of LPGA events, like when they had one at Waikigil, I was there for that. I was actually, as like a fun reporter thing, I was a standard bear for, for, Phil's group and he was actually really cool and great the whole time and I wrote a story about it. So I've been to plenty of events. Like I was not able to go to the open this year, which was just an absolute bummer. But all my friends went out of a great time. That's awesome. Well, I think we should probably get to the E9 so you can get back to breaking in.

Yeah, we got to go off air and learn all the shit that just happened in the last 40 minutes. All right. What's that one? That one looks important. Julio Jones to dinner? No, it's the same. placing Trevor penning their first round tackle on injured reserve. Oh, damn it, Trevor.

I'll be back, Treve. Well, we ask this to everyone. You can trade lives and be someone else for a day, dead or alive. Anyone in the history of the world, you get to be them for a day. Who would it be? Who would I be? I would say probably Phil in his prime, you know, because Tiger in his prime probably dealt with a lot of stuff.

I don't know that Tiger had a lot of fun when he was in his prime. He was winning a lot of tournaments. I don't know he had a lot of fun. It seemed very tormented. Phil, it seemed like soaked it up and had a lot of fun. So even though I'd have to play lefty, which is just such a nightmare. And anytime you have to play with a lefty, it always is awful. But I would say probably Phil in his prime.

Okay. All right. Phil in his prime. I like that. All right. This one, now that some time has passed, and there is there. Can you actually confirm to us that Tom Brady was, in fact, on the Maskinger? Tom Brady was not in the mass singer.

Nor do I think he'd be good. I don't even understand what the mass singer is. The whole show seems strange. But no, Brady was not on it. Thank God. It is a strange show. How did that rumor even start? I don't know.

I just heard it and I ran with all the conspiracies. Yeah, he was gone for 11 days. He's got to be on the mass singer. He's in the Bahamas, I think, or some shit. One of my great theories in life is that generally weird crazy rumors always exist for a reason. Like, someone will come up. to me like, listen, you're going to think I'm crazy, but this wild thing happened in the NFL. And I'll be like, that's probably true. Because if you're coming to me with it, like, there's no way

that'd be made up. The Masked Singer one, I think actually was made up, though. I do too. I'm a big conspiracy guy. I'm going to keep running with it. All right, confirm or deny, you're actually going to go as Pat McAfee for Halloween, Black Tank Top Gold Chain. That is a fantastic idea. I might actually do that. That is a really good idea. I think you should. I think it'd be great. He would love it. He were,

I feel like he'd be a big jean shorts guy, right? Oh, course. But I think you could wear anything. The real tight one. Get away with it. The only problem is that my kids always want me to dress up with them. So we might be like,

all right, we're all going to be like Marvel superheroes this year, in which case I'm like, cool, whatever you want. But if not, now they like McAfee. They've been on the show a couple times.

So maybe I'll convince them. We'll see. I mean, I think for the kids, you do whatever they want you to do. But if you're going to go on the show, the week of Halloween, I think you just don't even tell anyone, you just pop up on air with the black tank top and gold chain. Fantastic idea.

Get a blonde wig. That's a great. All right, I'm going to do that. Great idea. You think you have more suits or Pat has more tank top in the closet? I mean, I hope he has more than like two. But if you told me that he has two and washes one every day or every other day, I'd be like, man, I could see that.

Yeah. He has three wires. I'm done care. Yeah. He had to wear a golf shirt in Cahoe, but he rolled his sleeves up like all the way to the shoulders, made it as close to the tank as he could. Love getting those arms out there. All right, that's a good idea, though, Pat, for Halloween.

All right, here's my next one. Most important thing you've ever stopped doing or interrupted to take a phone call. Family show, right? No, you can say whatever you want. This is no holds barred. Yeah. Are you in the middle? I'll go with, I'll tell you, the people.

V-G version. I was playing, I mentioned my round of congressional. I was playing well for me. I was 11 over through 14, which is on that course pretty good, I thought. And I had to interrupt me playing to break the Baker Mayfield to the Panthers trade, which I was in a bunker. I had to wait for this person to call me back before I get hit send.

I ended up blading the bunker shot over the green and doubling and then hit a great drive on the next hole because I was so excited about the news. and then had two more doubles to finish it out and ended up with like a 90, I think. But that was pretty important. I was playing great. And it was good to break the news, but I wish I would have had that round uninterrupted too. Thanks a lot, Baker. Blaine Baker.

Panthers are done this year. Get darnled in there. All right. Actually, this just happened, I believe, today. How upset were you that Adam Schefter beat you to breaking the news that Po, the Ravens mascot, is out for the year? I think that was already out there. I feel like we already... He claims he broke it.

He claims he broke it. Oh, I know. That mascot beat tough. You know what? If I'm going to get beat on news, getting beat on mascot news is something I will end up being okay with. Fair. Now that said,

Get well soon. Poe. For a lot of our listeners out there, for a lot of our listeners out there who aren't capable of doing much more, they are having tryouts. The Ravens are from new mascot. Comey. Get up to Baltimore.

Tommy, come in there. crack from gold. All right, yeah, get well soon, Po. All right, Rap. You got three and a half million Twitter followers. What percentage of that do you think is female? I would say judging from the analytics of some other social media things, judging from the responses,

judging from the lack of random DMs, I would say three percent female. Great. Perfect. That's the lack of random. That's good analytics. Lack of random DM. Our percentages are about the same.

It could be more. I shouldn't say this. There's a lot of women, a lot of women who watch football and a lot of women who play fantasy football. I'm just saying it feels like 3%. But maybe more. I think that's, I bet that's in the ballpark. I would have to imagine. Let me ask you this because Twitter is just so brutal.

But most of those stuff you tweet is just breaking news or talking about things that are happening in the NFL. Are people just absolutely bullies to you at all on Twitter? Twitter and what's one of the meanest things anyone's ever said? Because I get hated on all this time. I have no idea. You have news. Oh, you don't even know. No idea.

That's good. I don't need comments. One of the greatest decisions I ever made in life. And I tell everyone the same thing. And I will tell you guys the same thing. Nothing good comes from reading the comments. You don't even know if they're real people. They could be bots.

They could be people who just decide to be mean. And then when you meet them in real life, they're like, oh, man. I didn't know you'd see that. I'm actually a really big fan. I'm like, don't read the comments. For mental health, life is much better that way. So I have no idea. That is wise words from rap.

And if you are a female listener of ours and you follow rap, maybe fly into the DMs one time and just say something nice for a kid. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

There's good. All right. Did you ask that or I? I'm going to go ahead and go out on a limb because a lot of households have this rule. No cell phones at the dinner table. Is it safe to say that is not a rule in your house? Correct. That is not a rule in our house.

Now, I will say that I will try, I try very hard when I'm hanging with the family at dinner, watching show of my wife, whatever, to put the phone down. But she knows when I get a call or I have to send a text, it's important. It's not just like, BS with whoever, like, it's important. So what I'll do is I'll be like, hang on, I got to take this. Or I'll say, like, give me a second. I got to send a tweet. And she will know it's important.

Otherwise, like, I will just let the, you know, random group texts or nonsense on my phone kind of build up and address it all after dinner. Like I try very hard. If I'm going to answer something, then it like should be worth it. That's good husband, good dad, right there. All right, rap. Last one for me. You need to think on this one here.

Let's say there was a golf draft going on out there, okay? And you just, like for a member guest or whatever. And you just got drafted. Give me the Ian Rappaport breakdown of what that team is getting in a player like you. Oh, geez. All right. I would say, on the T, different day could be anything.

If I'm driving the ball well, I'm going to score well. If I'm not driving the ball well, then every single hole we're going to be looking for the ball. Real scrappy. So great recovery game, like freaking Sevy in his prime, like great recovery game. Around the greens, I'm fine. I have now gotten to a point where I can almost always two putt. I put cross-handed now so I can actually hit a straight putt, which is a cool development of my game because that wasn't always the case.

And I will generally, I rarely blow up. Like you're probably getting something between like, you know, 83 and 90. I don't make a lot of birdies, but I'll make a lot of pars. Okay. cars are good lunch pail guy does the work every day all right last one and we do this we don't bring it here very often on our serious xm show we do a little asking for a friend or a friend of yours submits a question for you so i'm going to ask this very simple who wins a wrestling match between you and adam shepter um i would say both of us are scrappy enough to know that it would never be a wrestling match we'd have to bring some foreign objects um and then the winner would just depend on who had the best for an object. So that's tough to answer without knowing what objects he would bring into the ring. That's a thoughtful response, though. That was very thoughtful. That could be a paper view, by the way. Dana White would set that up. He'd make that fight. That was from AJ Hawk.

Was it? Yeah. That's the one he told me to ask you. Believe it or not. Sorry to throw my source under the bus, AJ, but I had to throw it out there. Anyone you thinking it was for me. That's all right. Well, man, Ian, this has been really fun. Thanks so much for joining us. We know you're a busy man. look forward to this NFL season. All right. Sorry, I have to, sorry. Another tweet. That's the video.

I really appreciate it. You guys are awesome. I'll let you know how I played tomorrow and I'm going to go talk about some news. Awesome. Go get them, dude. Appreciate the time. Appreciate it.

Later. All right. Well, that was Ian Rappaport, joining us on Golf Subpar. The man just does not stop. All football all the time, but does get to squeeze an occasional golf round here.

in there. He loves the game. That was really cool to hear about how much time he spends. And he does not shotgun beers at Wingfoot. Does not, which is surprising. Keep that to Garden City. Okay, that's a garden city move right there. But I mean, yeah, Baker ruined his, you know, one of his dream rounds going in when, you know, when he had the news about the Carolina Panthers. How about his, like, come up, which we got into a little bit, but, like, started off working. Like, the first two coaches he ever covered, like, yo, you're covering these guys is, but it was Sabin and Belichick. That's a pretty good, like, entry into, like, uh, If you can handle these two dudes, everyone else in the world is going to seem like cake.

And then he turns into the guy now that like, I mean, literally I was like half joking. But like when he tweets, there are three and a half, probably 3.49 million dudes out there that are like, oh my God, what is it? Something. My favorite team. What's happening? It's a hell of a power to have. But he, it's a fun job, but that's a job that, I mean, damn, you aren't off ever. And then you got to go to firm it with everybody.

Got the phone under the pillow. It's always, it's always on his poor wife. I don't know how hell she sleeps through it. but man, it was a lot of fun talking to him. And one thing I took away from it is the Cowboys are good. The Broncos suck. That was heard. That's this close.

He doesn't know shit about football. When you really break it down, he's not the guy. We got to get somebody else in here to verify that. That's only one source. It is time to start getting amongst it with our guys over at Fandall because football is back all kinds of things to bet on. And kick off week one with Fandul, America's number one sports book. Join today to get started with $150 in free bets, guaranteed when you place your first $5. bet. Sign up using promo code subpar to get it on the action. Then you can turn game day into

payday all season long. So ladies, I know you're not going to be firing on this thing. We're going to be Homer bets. I know I'm going to bet the Cowboys every week. I'm probably going to lose. But you know what? I'm going to keep firing. Of course, what other option do you have, dude? Of course, I'm going to be betting the donkeys. Did you see, by the way, Russell was over at the U.S. Open. By the way, there was some sick tennis on this week, too, with Sierra. Sierra looks happy. Of course, Russell looks happy. That's a pretty good situation to be in there. I really like where my boys. are at going into the year. So you like a week from the season starting your quarters back being in New York.

You got a decompress and wind down. I need my guy all tightened up before the season. He's got a long year ahead of me. I need my guy loose, feeling good, relaxed. All right. We got NFL. We got college. And we're going to have a little fun with our guy Jordan Speefe fellow fan door member. He's got a Texas Longhorn's got a rather big game this week against Bama. Okay. They're getting 20 and a half at home. And there is no chance they can compete with Bama. They always think they're back name back. No. Okay. Bama is going to roll Jordan Spee's, Texas, Longhorns, and we're going to get in on a little 14 parlay with them.

So let's go through it. We're obviously taking Bama. Obviously. 20 and a half. Okay. Who we going with next? Cole, I'm going to keep it in the big 12 here. I'm going to take Oklahoma State minus 10 and a half against ASU, ASU, desimated by the portal, going into Stillwater.

Don't think they got what it takes. Oki State minus 10 and a half. Who do you like it? All right. I'm going to go another big 12 school as well. I'm going to go Baylor plus three against BYU. Baylor starting to turn out a hell of a program. I like getting the points there.

And then lastly, I'm going to go with the team that rolled last week for us. The USC Trojans, nine and a half point favorites against Stanford. So rivalry game, tough game, but I like what I saw at a USC looking for them. So we're going, we're going Bama, Baylor, Oklahoma State, USC, 14 part of like Jordan's beef, bring it. Let's see what you got, my man. Love that.

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