The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 094 - Monumental Day In Our Small Business' History With Matt Hasselbeck

Episode Date: July 30, 2019

On today's show, Pat and the guys are joined by 18 year NFL veteran, 3x Pro Bowler, friend of the show, and now Pat's teammate in the booth for ESPN's College Football Thursday Primetime games, Matt Hasselbeck. They discuss Matt's long career in the NFL, and what he likes about commentating games as opposed to playing in them, he sheds some light on his broadcasting style and how he thinks that will play off Pat's, he shares some of his favorite stories about his time as one of Pat's teammates, including when he almost died in the locker room, he chats about his relationship with Brett Favre while on the Packers and throughout his career in the league, talks about some of the remedies he used to keep himself feeling young as he was getting older, and he and Pat look ahead to this season's Thursday Night college football slate (3:44-1:07:26). Be on the lookout for more news about Pat and boys, as calling college football games on Thursday night's won't be the only thing Pat has going this fall. Also, be sure to check out https://store.patmcafeeshow.com as everything in the store is currently 20% off with code #ThursdayNightMcAfee. Today's episode is a monumental one. Come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Some people have said monumental. I would say that. I'm so thankful for everybody and everything, both in this room and listening. You all are the absolute greatest human beings on earth. I've been very fortunate to do a lot of very cool things in my life. And one of them was almost going back and kicking in the NFL. Hey, Pat, do you think you could still place kick? I was asked by a former coach of mine.

I said, let me give it a go. Kind of put everything on hold after I didn't get the Monday night football gig. So I went and kicked some balls, a couple months of training. Then I went and did a full stress test for said kicking coach. I got on a plane to fly back to Indianapolis and my knee ballooned up bigger than I'd ever seen it before. I potentially just shaved my legs with the, uh,

lawnmower 2.0. So everything looked bigger for sure. But I was sitting on that plane with my knee blown up and I couldn't even get up to take a leak mid flight cause the knee hurts so so bad and i had a nice moment of peace with myself like hey here's some real closure i wouldn't kick the ball as well when i had to when somebody asked me if i could kick balls i wouldn't kick the ball as well when i had to it would have been cool to be a place kicker in the nfl because no punter has ever kicked in the nfl and no kickers ever punted in the nfl for an extended period of time with any success.

Would have been in a pretty large city. Third largest in America. It was all amazing. But that moment of closure I had on the plane, I texted my agents, my people, and I said, Hey, remember when I said that since I didn't get Monday Night Football, I was going to go back to the NFL like I'm Jason fucking Witten? My knee has just told me that is not going to happen. Jason fucking Whitten. My knee has just told me that is not going to happen.

My body just had a nice chat with my brain and say, hey, cuzzy, we aren't doing this again. My agent said, well, strap up, buddy. There's about to be a whirlwind. In the last two and a half weeks, we've been making a lot of magic happen. We've been meeting with a lot of people. And the ESPN announcement for Thursday Night Football came within the last five days in the 11th hour.

And I couldn't be happier. I couldn't be more honored and more excited about an opportunity. I am the luckiest man on earth. I said that in a tweet, and I truly mean it. I'm going to try to make the most of this for everybody, but this is not our last announcement. We got some other things cooking for the fall that I think everybody's going to enjoy, and I'm proud to be doing it with my boys here. We're going to try to take over the world and do things the right way, and without you listeners, to be doing it with my boys here. We're going to try to take over the world and do things the right way. And without you listeners, honestly, I am nothing, we are nothing, and we

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and gentlemen good friend of mine joined us earlier hey how many years you played in the nfl just so i get it right i did the math on wikipedia but i think i was wrong well wikipedia would tell you 17 but the answer is 18. that's why i asked see that ladies and i've also i've also only been struck by lightning one time like wikipedia might tell you is that real oh yeah ladies ladies and gentlemen joining us now is an 18-year nfl veteran a man whose name is synonymous with the national football league his brother his uncle his what the hell just happened you literally just flipped it upside down there's no reason for you to do that i thought i could get my little how do i get my oh got it we're good sorry he is currently FaceTiming in. He's mastered technology.

In this upcoming fall, I will be honored to share a booth with him, a teammate of mine, a good man. Ladies and gentlemen, part of the voice of Thursday night ESPN college football, Mr. Matthew, we want the ball, and we're going to score Hasselbeck. Congrats, Pat. We're fired up for you. Congrats to you, too, man. I'm so excited, and I'm so thankful.

I didn't say this publicly, but I do believe you were a pretty big part of this whole thing coming to be, so I thank you for that. Just one of the many Pat McAfee fans out there. You got a lot of fans, man. You got a lot of fans. It's been pretty active today on the internet. I'll tell you what, I described it as a monumental day in our offices, small businesses history was yesterday because we got an atom bomb about us,

which is a massive thing. Mr. Shefty broke some news. And the people that support our small business are the greatest on earth. The video and the announcement did pretty well on the ESPN. But this all came to be relatively quickly. I think people should know that. This is like a four-day, five-day thing that has just kind of got tossed. Not tossed together, I mean like ragdoll,

but it literally has come together in the last four or five days that's a true story yeah but but i would say maybe five six who knows could be seven years ago i don't know how long ago you came to me with adam venetieri you said hey i got this idea what are we going to do after football and you had an idea for like a little small radio show uh adam matt and pat pat matt and adam matt pat and adam and we all thought the time we thought adam venetieri would be done playing football before we would be done he was like 40 years old yes but here we are you and i are now doing stuff like this and he's still playing football but you had actually brought it up and uh we had talked about it and so i mean you kind of planted the seed, you know?

Well, I appreciate me getting credit for this, honestly. That really makes me feel good. Adam Vinatieri will kick until the day he dies. I honestly believe that. I think he'll die on a football field. I think there's a chance. But the Matt and Pat thing, I've always been a fan. You were my first guest on my local indie star show here in Indianapolis.

I got a chance to do a newspaper show on the internet, which is really good. And the technology was fantastic. And we rented out a bar here called Kilroy's. And I would do my show live from there. And my first guest was Matt Hasselbeck. And I remember your reaction like it was yesterday. It was absurd. You were completely mind blown by the entire fucking thing.

I was a little surprised that you had a show and that it was so, you know, well attended. I mean, in fact, I actually think I was late to the show because I couldn't find a place to park. Not only was Kilroy's parking lot full full but like all of broad ripple was full but it was fun you're a really funny guy uh i don't think i was really fully aware of how funny you were and your story you know basically your story it was a college kick slash punter and you know coming into the nfl how you got to the nfl was pretty remarkable so i'm fired up man like i i think there's a there's a there's a lot of people out there who know you, know your story, know your comedy.

I mentioned that Pat McAfee is going to be doing Thursday Night Football. Their eyes light up. They smile. They giggle. They laugh. They're like, oh, that's going to be epic. And then there's other people like, hmm, I'm not familiar yet. You know, what should I know?

And I don't even know what to say. It's like buckle up get ready awesome i think it's going to be a good pairing honestly i do because i've got a chance to call two games now i was with aj hawk the first game and he and i knew each other so he knew me right so he knew me so i could say things to him he could say things back with robert smith he had no idea who i was i don't think until the day before the thing and then when we went on air he's very nice man super professional man but he had no idea what was happening like he did not know that i was coming in full speed you know knowing me is a very good thing for me because i'm much more comfortable with people that i know

because i feel like i can talk to them in the manner that i talk to people which is obviously a joking manner without them really you know know, taking it too serious. And I think your brain, you're like a rain man for football. I mean, you've been around every single style of offense ever since you were a kid, ball boy for the Patriots. Now you've gotten a chance to really work in every single offense. You've been able to bounce around. Your knowledge of the game with my, I have pretty good little intelligence of football IQ,

but also the whole thing, I think it's going to be, I think we're going to be a tough team to beat. Honestly, I am very excited. The more and more I think about it, I think it's going to be tough to beat, and I think we're going to have a great time on Thursday nights. Well, I'm surprised that you haven't brought up the fact that I was holding your footballs for, you know, field goals. I give you a lot of credit for not taking the low-hanging fruit there.

I'm impressed. But I've actually been introducing you to some people as my former backup quarterback. I give you a lot of credit for not taking the low-hanging fruit there. I'm impressed. But I've actually been introducing you to some people as my former backup quarterback. Hey, something to think about because I was there for a while. I actually came up to you whenever we had – who was it? Josh Freeman and little white kid. Ryan Lindley. Ryan Lindley, yeah.

Ryan Lindley. Yeah, those two came in for the last – I was. Andrew Luck had a lacerated kidney, I believe. And you were the emergency quarterback and you were really a lot closer to playing than you realize, but I think you were ready. I mean, I saw the way that you attacked practice meeting rooms. Some punters wouldn't have been up for the task. Some non-quarterbacks wouldn't have been up for the task. You were definitely ready to go. I'm actually a little bit disappointed you never got the opportunity because I think you would have done pretty well.

You see, I think you're misreading the whole scene. I was scared shitless. Do you remember you guys had this plan on the offense? They had this plan. Charlie, clipboard Jesus came in. Charlie Whitehurst. Charlie Whitehurst came in after Luck got killed. Matt got killed.

Charlie Whitehurst comes in. He gets chased out of the pocket so hard he blows his hamstring against the Miami Dolphins. He gets killed. We have no quarterbacks. Literally no quarterbacks on the roster at this point that are healthy. Chuck Pagano on his Tuesday press conference, they ask him how he's going to get through the game. And he goes, we're working out some guys and we might have a package in for Pat McAfee. And I was watching at home like, what the fuck did he just say? I was literally mind blown. I'm like, no, no, no, Chuck. No, no, we've already got three

quarterbacks killed. This is the last game of the year. I don't need to be stepping into a death trap here, Chuck. So I see him the next day, nothing. They bring in Josh Freeman and Ryan Lindley, and we're watching the practice, me and Vinatieri, and I'll tell you what, neither of those guys could complete a pass. I mean, Wednesday, Thursday was bad, was it not? But in fairness to them, they got the win. You know, the coaching staff, they had one guy

responsible just for the two-minute section of the playbook. The other guy was responsible for first and second down, red zone. Do you remember this? I think they maybe shared third down. Do you remember this, though? At the end of the first half, you guys shoved in Ryan Lindley because he was doing the two-minute drill.

And whenever me and Vinatieri saw Freeman come out, Lindley go in, I look at Vinny and I go, oh, my God, am I the backup quarterback right now? Did Freeman get hurt? So I walked over to you, literally right over to you, and I go, what the fuck's going on? Is Freeman hurt? And you go, no, this is the way it's been planned all along. I'm like, well, somebody should have gave the third string guy a fucking

heads up. I was just at a heart attack over there. I thought I was very close to getting in the game. I thought you guys pulled Freeman because he was hurt. He just got done playing for the Long Island roller coasters or something. He was in the WFL,

whatever it was, and he comes in, gets a win. I thought I was close to playing, though I was very scared. I remember that moment on the sideline where you're like, no, this is playing all along. I'm like, thanks for the heads up. There's 45 quarterbacks in that quarterback room and not a single one could leak the information to me i mean what do we got going on bub ladies and gentlemen we interrupt this conversation to let you know that all those things that you thought were just collecting dust you know the vhs tapes

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um you know or sometimes it's working with the athletic trainers to get back from an injury or working with the equipment guys to just get everything right you're working as a team and so i think it's the same thing like for me at espn i've got my sunday countdown team oh uh this past year was randy moss char Charles Woodson, Rex Ryan, Samantha Ponder. Like we came together as a team. It was a new team. This year, just like in football, Charles Woodson moved on. He's doing something else, and we've added Teddy Bruschi to our team.

So, you know, we're going to – this week actually we're going somewhere. I don't want to say where, but we're going somewhere down south, and we're going to do an axe-throwing competition. We're going to go whitewater rafting. We're going to come together as a team. And so that's probably the thing in the media that I've enjoyed the most is finding people who don't necessarily get the credit. There's a lot of people that aren't seen on camera

that are part of the success of a show or a segment or whatever. Agreed. And so it's no different in football, the offensive line, and there's equipment guys. There's, you know, there's all kinds of people that go into the success of a, of a player of an offense. So I think it's the same thing in TV. It's been kind of fun to get to know those people, the people that are supplying Adam Schefter with some stats or information or

working with Susie Culver on Monday Night Countdown, getting her ready. So it's just, I think that's the part of the business, the part of the job that I've enjoyed the most. Have they? I agree, by the way, with everything you're saying. Happy our new Thursday night football team is going somewhere too. That's awesome that you set that up. We're going to Cincinnati, Pat.

We're going to Cincinnati. We're going to have ribs or something on Wednesday night. Hey, Skyline Chili, bro. Go ahead and take her down. Anyways, it's interesting that you say that about getting to know your team and all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Whenever you're on the television, it feels like, and I'm getting into this world,

so I'm excited to kind of see how it all goes. Are you being told what you're allowed to say and what you're not allowed to say? Or is it all Matt Hasselbeck being Matt Hasselbeck? No, no, we're absolutely not told what to say. Now, we do sometimes have a meeting. Oftentimes, we'll have a meeting about what we're going to talk about. You know, I think I can think of a couple times when, you know know maybe we'd have a meeting the night before and said all right who should the eagles start tomorrow should it be carson wentz or nick foals and everyone says carson wentz and there's like oh well do we really want

to all agree is it really going to be that good of a segment and i'll say all right i'll take nick foals you know like it's one of those situations and then you argue it usually it happens most in the playoffs like when the playoffs are coming down um you're trying to guess who's going to make it there is it that are the falcons going to run the nfc or the eagles going to run the nfc and and so sometimes you know like you might like all like the cowboys and then like well we don't want to all take the cowboys and then like, well, we don't want to all take the Cowboys. And then, you know, Randy or Rex or somebody will be like, all right, you know what? Give me the Eagles. I'm riding with the Eagles for the playoffs.

And that's sometimes how it goes down. And quite honestly, at that point, we're kind of becoming fans. You're just kind of becoming a fan. This isn't like my go to team, but I'm going to make them my team for the playoffs. I think we just got hit by a lightning bolt you've done that before our building is potentially on fire how did you survive that well i was struck by lightning just once not twice uh contrary to uh what might be on the internet somewhere actually at uh peter laolette's wedding. He is currently the head coach of the Nashville Predators. And at the time, I think he was just playing for the Providence Bruins, was an amateur Olympic, US Olympic hockey player. He married a girl I grew up with. And 16 of us, I think it was 16 of us, got struck by lightning at their wedding reception.

And we all survived uh one of us spent the night in the hospital it wasn't me uh it was my date but uh she's okay now i can i can can let you know everything worked out great i mean sparks were flying but it was it was a good experience um i hope it doesn't happen again in fact my next that was in my next college football game We were playing I think we were playing at Michigan To open the season

And sure enough We come out at halftime And the game was like Had lightning Or like reports of lightning And everyone's like Ah you know We'll just play through it

And I remember myself being like Yeah you know This isn't something to mess with But yeah Do you get PTSD Whenever it's like a bad lightning storm Yeah, you know, this isn't something to mess with. But, yeah. Do you get PTSD whenever it's like a bad lightning storm? Like at that Michigan game where you're like, ah, everybody hit the deck. You know, at first I was a little bit like, how do I feel about this?

But, you know, truthfully, I think, like, I was kind of losing my hair at that point. You know, it was like power alleys were coming in like this. I was really stressing out about it. It was like power alleys were coming in like this. I was really stressing out about it. But after I got struck by lightning, I felt like my hair was growing back. So like maybe there's some science to that. So, you know, for anybody that's losing their hair, you'll do anything not to lose your hair. It's like I don't want to go bald.

I'll do whatever. So if it took getting struck by lightning now, it didn't work But you know at the time that was one of the things through my mind I was like hey, you know if that's a result of this I'll take it. Were you ready to retire when you retired? No, I really wasn't I Gotten so banged up that last year I was kind of we you know We just went with two quarterbacks that season in Indy, Andrew Luck, myself, and then we just would bring guys in week to week.

And so I probably played when I should have played. I played because there wasn't really anybody else in the locker room that knew the playbook. The dead Hasselbeck. I completely forgot about that. Thursday night football in Houston, I walk in, there's a dead body on the floor. And I kick it, and he pulls

the hoodie back, and it's fucking a starting quarterback. I was like, there's a dead body on the floor. And I kick it, and he pulls the hoodie back, and it's fucking a starting quarterback. I was like, this guy should not be playing football. We got a game in two hours, Bob. Get up. He had IVs in you, I think. You were the first guy to get the Ebola from the burritos. Well, it wasn't Ebola, and I wasn't the first

guy, but I was really sick. I was in the hospital the entire week. I had a PICC line in me before the game. I think we took it out before the game but that was an example of like i definitely shouldn't have been playing in the game i was able to play in the game i don't know how it was a miracle grace of god it was like an answer to prayer i mean i literally you know you saw it like i i thought i was gonna die i mean my quote at the time was i had stuff coming out of the attic in the basement because like one of the reporters was like so was this like a vomit

or was this diarrhea like what kind of question is that man you know like it's just it was a bad place to be nfl writers let's talk about the game was it vomit or diarrhea but anyway at the end of the season i was dealing with a lot of stuff. I had had a jaw injury where I took a Whitney Merciless helmet to the chin, kind of got my jawbone so much that I lost hearing in my ear for a while, couldn't chew solid foods for a while. I had separated two ribs, made it difficult to, like, if I was driving a car, I couldn't turn left because, like,

of the pain that I would get. But yet I was playing in NFL games on Sundays. So at the end of that season, my last injury was a shoulder injury at Miami. And I just probably needed a break. And so the opportunity to go to work at ESPN was there, was afforded to me. I got the opportunity to join the NFL Sunday Countdown show, which was Chris Berman, a show that I grew up watching. I was just a huge NFL football fan growing up. And so it was a chance to be on that show. I was like, that's a dream come true. I'm going to take it and hopefully have a better career after football than I had during football.

And so that's kind of what I've been working at, trying to get better and have fun and educate the viewer, teach them something that they maybe didn't know before they sat down and watched us and also have a lot of fun in the process. We just heard a story about a man overcoming some terrible circumstances. When I walked into that locker room and I saw somebody with their hood up like Kenny from South Park,

dead on the floor. I wonder what homeless person broke into our locker room. Turns out it was our starting quarterback. I lost my mind. I kicked him, actually. Lord, I know he had a PICC line in him at the time. You can get all the massages and do as many stretches and take as many ice baths as you could possibly please.

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CBDMD, promo code McAfee, 20% off. 18 years in the NFL as a quarterback, Matt, is an insane career. So saying that you're going to have a better post career than you had an actual career is an insane career so saying that you're going to have a better post career than he had actual career is an insane thought but I respect and appreciate it and hopefully I'll be a part of it here with the Thursday night thing have you called a lot of games I feel like whenever we were playing you got a chance to go call some games during our bye weeks and then I think you were giving it a go there I think you did the Pro Bowl a couple years ago have you called a lot of games and what is your style you know I've you called a lot of games, and what is your style? You know, I've not called a lot of games, but I have called some games. I called my first game for Fox when I was still playing.

So I was still playing. I did a game with Chris Myers, with Rondé Barber in Arizona. I called the Arizona Cardinals versus what was then the St. Louis Rams. It was a game where Carson Palmer tore his ACL. It was a lot of fun. Like, I had a blast. And I did it without – Calling the game.

– meetings and that kind of thing. Calling the game was a blast. Yeah, not Carson. Yeah, geez. That's the time there. It came right after that. My bad. Yeah, it's all right.

It was really fun. It was a lot of fun. It felt kind of funny after the game i was going home and i didn't win or lose the game but i talked to uh like for those of you who play who've ever played in um arizona one of the great things about playing in arizona is after the game you share a lot a parking lot with the home team and so when i was in seattle we'd always play there and you'd kind of you'd go hit up a tailgate and go grab a beer from like Russ Grimm the Cardinals offensive line coach or go have a beer with Ken Wisenhunt like before you jump on the bus and go home or something like that go have

a burger or something well that obviously that tradition kept going with Bruce Arians and so I think I think if I remember correctly I saw Bruce Arians in the parking lot after that game, we had a quick little chat before I headed out and it was just like a great, it was a great experience, you know, and there's not a lot of NFL football games that I've been a part of where I, you know, where I felt great about the game. And then I all got to leave feeling a hundred percent healthy. And so this was one of those situations where I was like, okay, I could get used to this. And it was a lot of fun. It was a good game. So I've done that.

I've called two college football games, Thursday night games, called it with my brother, Dave Fleming, Laura Rutledge. That was a ton of fun. And last year I was able to call, I think it was last year or the year before, I called the ball with Sean McDonough. So I've done some things, but the college football atmosphere is different than the NFL atmosphere in that it's an event. When ESPN, national TV, college football comes to your campus, it's an event. People are tailgating. People are getting ready. It's the thing of the night. That's one of the things that

it excites me so much about this yeah shut down the school we're coming to town that's what i'm pushing all classes at night are canceled there's no class tonight see you later matt pat adam thursday night football molly mcgrath are in town shut town down. That's what I'm pushing for hard. I'm pushing for that hard, Matt. What's your style in there? Are you super serious? Are you like, hey, this is brain surgery in here? Hey, you know me, bro.

You know me. Am I ever super serious? Bro, you're a quarterback, though. Quarterbacks are expected to be super serious in there. Do I ever really? I mean, I could go, hey, we're going to go, uh, let's go, uh, red, left swap, tight, close Z, right, sprint, right corner. You know, sprint, right. G U corner, halfback flat. We could go that way, but there's just no reason to do that. There's no reason to do that. Plus

I know you, I don't know if anybody could be serious with you in the room. Excuse me. That is not a compliment. I've been told by execs that that is not a compliment. When I walked in to do that Packers game, I've told this story a couple times on here, and we had the pre-production meeting with the team. We're in the Green Bay Packers press area. It's in the stadium in Lambeau there, and there's one little door in the corner that the players

and coaches walk through, and we were kind of set up scattered in there. As soon as all the coaches opened the door and Aaron and the other players, as soon as they opened the door and saw me, they just started laughing. This was week 17, no playoffs on the line, everybody injured. They just opened the door and started laughing as soon as they saw me and they sat down. And I was like, well, fuck, I'll just ask the first question to them, boys. I mean, that's what we're here for.

So then I kept it moving. And I think one of the executives said that he said that he's never seen one of those meetings as loose and he said that he's never seen one of those meetings as loose and he's not sure if anybody can take it serious and i'm like well i don't know if that's a good thing and i was not offered a job by that company so i'm assuming that wasn't a great thing i'm happy espn took a shot on it i'm happy they took a shot on it it's a risk it's a risk i i will say there might have been someone who said to me, cause maybe I was lobbying a little bit for you. I heard you were by the way.

And, uh, I think someone said like, you're in charge of him or like, you know what I mean? It's like, it reminded me of this. I have three kids.

And, uh, when, when I leave them with like a babysitter, when I would leave them with a babysitter, I would say to the oldest child, I'd be like, Hey, you're in charge of them them and that's kind of what i felt like you vouched for hey you know that guy he's yours i do that with val our pitbull sharpay sam and i whenever we

leave the house we look at val we go hey you're in charge and we leave so she's in charge of four cats another dog a mouse and a plant a family of deer that live outside so i understand exactly i'm happy that you're the vow and i'm the other animals in the house in the espn executive's eye that looks you right now i'm curious about your style though like what what are we expecting what should i expect so that's an interesting thing like are you going to want to cover like you know typically tv people when it's a punt they're getting ready to go to commercial yeah but you i've heard say many times, the punt's the most exciting play in all of football. I've also heard you say that.

And I actually can agree now that I know, now that you've kind of explained some of what goes on, the strategy of a punt, all that stuff. Yeah, you got to watch greatness very close. I mean, that's the type of thing that really can change things. I mean, if something awesome happens in the punting game, I'm going to want to let people know that field position matters. I think that is something I'm going to want to know. And I feel like I know a lot, not only about punters, but returners and special teams in general, kicking, holding, all of them. And I can even long snap if you need me. So I feel like I know fourth downs

pretty well, but I think people are getting the, not people, because I think my people rock with me a lot, but people who don't know me, they see the clips that we put on the internet. In the clips that we put on the internet, like me yelling at my phone, like I very much know I can't do that on TV, but that works on the internet, right? Or the clip of the Prater touchdown, like that's just one play that happened in a 31-0 blowout in Lambeau, right? So I feel like a lot of people who maybe don't know me just think that all times are going to be go go go but the go go go doesn't work as well if there isn't some times that are down down down you know what i mean because the the sun is brightest after the darkest dawn you can't always be up or people are

just never going to fall you got to let them come down before you can bring them back up and i think that's going to be my style i will i feel like i have a pretty good football iq i feel like i'll get some good stuff out of you but boy if there, if there's some excitement happening, I'm going to feel it. I'm going to ride with the teams that are having a good time. Let's talk college football. What were the best college football stadiums you played in, or what's a great college football atmosphere that you experienced as a college player?

So when I was at West Virginia, we were the Big East. Yeah, I was at Boston College in the Big East. There we go. And that was a tough game, West Virginia. Rest in peace to the Big East, by the way. We had a good run back there, I feel like, basketball and football for a while. And then big money kind of eliminated Big East. I thought Big East could get big money, though.

I mean, why couldn't Big East keep up with the big boys? What happened? We lost Miami. We lost Miami. We lost Virginia Tech. That was the end of the football Big East. Yeah, but why did they lose Miami and Virginia Tech, though? That's what I'm saying. Why did that happen?

ACC paid them more. That's what I'm saying, though. My entire thing is, why didn't the Big East just go ahead? Big East was everything. Anyways, when I played at West Virginia, we were a pretty good team. So everywhere we went, it was like the Beatles. Everywhere we went, it was like, youles everywhere we went it was like you know what i mean and rich rod actually had an entire pre-game speech we were playing usf the bulls

and they got good whenever we were uh kind of juniors and seniors they got fast and the only thing that could really hurt our spread offense was if you could get penetration with speed on our offensive line right so usf knew that they got fast so all of a sudden we're playing down in tampa and they had an entire oh fuck what was the song there was a song party like a rock party like a rock star party that song was massive so we played them on a thursday night that guy had a concert outside the stadium before the day it was it was a massive setup for this entire game in rich rod the night before, he goes, they want to have primetime television.

They want to have a concert outside. They want to fill this place up. Well, it's only because West Virginia arrived. And they think they can keep up with us. And he pulled out a New York Yankees hat and he said, not yet. So we all wore Yankees hats into the game we lost they did arrive they did arrive and that was the last time i ever saw rich rod do anything like that it was like normally rich rod was like oh you guys are gonna get your asses kicked if you do this this this it was the first

time where he like went on the other side he was like these motherfuckers think they can play with you not yet and got yankees hats it was like all right rich like we're going to do this thing and then we lost and uh but that environment was electric that was a way to go i think we go back to south florida this year usf i don't know how they are now i mean i'm gonna start have to do some real research here on college football dig sent me over a 300 page uh in-depth college football preview, basically. I'm going to read that tonight going into tomorrow. I feel like I'm going to know it.

There you go. There it is. Hey, that might be it. That's Phil Stills, 1299, right there. I bought that one, too. Hey, we got West Virginia this year, too. Halloween, bro. Halloween.

There's going to be – that's going to be a night down there. I think it's in Baylor, though. Yeah, it's in Baylor, but we've got a game in Pittsburgh also. I'm excited for that. Can't wait. I mean, it's a good lineup. It's a good schedule. I think there's probably people that are, you know,

who will look at the games and say, oh, there might be a bigger game somewhere. I think this is a fun game. I think this is – there's a lot of instant offense. There's a lot of creativity.. There's a lot of creativity. I've been a fan of the college football Thursday night package anyway. There's like 100 points scored in some of these games.

I'm excited about it. I've not been to all of these stadiums, all of these cities. I've played in a lot of stadiums, but not all of these places. Tulane, down there, should be kind of fun. I think it should be really fun. It's Oklahoma?

New Orleans. New Orleans. Really? Tulane is Oklahoma? I think you're thinking of Tulsa. There it is. Similar. Very similar.

Those are very, very – Tulane is in New Orleans? We're going to be down in New Orleans? They're called the Wave, aren't they? Green Wave, yeah. Green Wave. Of course they are. I got that 300-page book, bro. Don't you guys worry.

Matt Forte. I'm going to know everything. How about this, though? Our first game, we got UCLA at Cincinnati, in Cincinnati. My parents are from Cincinnati. I have cousins in Cincinnati. But here's the deal. The punter for UCLA, an Australian punter, dude.

He was at Maryland last year. He was all ACC punter for ucla an australian punter dude he was at maryland last year was all acc punter he punts lefty punts righty probably your age the australians are starting to dominate the college punting world yeah some of them are like 55 years old too but they are taking over the brand you better watch it there might be a new brand hey i'm cool with the blokes down there man i am cool i am cool as long as you bomb balls you're cool with me man that's all i care about somebody from australia called me a coward though i almost was completely out on the entire island but i just muted the guy i'll never see him again i'm back on board with uh down under donner um what game are uh what game are you looking forward to most?

You know, we got Mississippi. I mean, it's always the first game, you know. Oh, what a hilarious line there. That's the quarterback in him. Like, it's the next game, Pat. It's the next game. It is a little bit, but it's hard to look past it. So I was just out in L.A., had dinner.

I was at a thing with Chip Kelly. He's a UNH guy. He's a New Hampshire guy. He's a New England guy. Chip Kelly, I worked with them at espn last year he did college football i did pro football we kind of shared a green room and we're like you know two ships passing in the night but we got to say hello and um kind of rooting for him i committed to ucla at a high school before tom coughlin got me to change my mind to go to b College. And Luke Fickle, I don't know if people don't know about Luke Fickle. Luke Fickle at Cincinnati is an awesome coach.

I had a coach tell me that Luke Fickle is the best football coach he's ever been around, and this guy's been around Hall of Fame guys. So I think Luke Fickle, he's got a strong team. Cincinnati should be hopping Thursday night football to open the season. So I don't know. I'm fired up about that game. It's a little bit of a homecoming, and it's the first game. It means kicking off the season for us.

I felt the same exact way you said about all those things, all that stuff. My resources said Luke Fickle, damn good football coach. Damn good football coach. Chip Kelly, same thing. UCLA information for sure. I mean, I'm ready to go to that Cincinnati. You know, we do have, there's actually one night where the game is not on a Thursday night this year.

What? One night. We got to do a Friday night. Yeah, it's like a competitive advantage thing. So in the NFL, you now have like one team has a bye week before a big game. The other team doesn't. Like the team, basically, you're just screwed.

In college, there's a little more leeway. So I think it's North Carolina. So it's UNC. Mack Brown's back. Mack is back in Chapel Hill. Versus Wake. So that's going to be Friday. I think it's September 13th.

And that's because of what happened before and what's happening after. So it's an equal playing field for both teams. Well, Friday night lights, bro. I'm ready to bring the show. So what we can do, you're up for one Friday, right? Well, they're calling me Mr. Thursday night already. But if you bring me over Friday night, I mean, I'll try to see what I can do. The boys here are all big fans.

Some have some questions for you, if that's okay. Sure. All right. Matt, you already referenced to going out the night before the game for some dinner and stuff like that. I don't know if you realize Pat puts out a podcast every Thursday. He records on Wednesday. So I think you might just be a new member of the podcast,

and I don't know if dinner's happening for you. Welcome to the team, bro. Hey. Well, you know, Adam Amin, who I've with a lot you know i've just kind of been a fan of watching him he's on everything and he calls everything the last thing i saw him call i think was the hot dog eating contest and he did an amazing job so he sends me a text and he's like hey i'm looking forward to dinners wednesday night you know like do you have any preferences like anything you don't want to eat anything you're're allergic to? And I'm like, no, man, let's go.

And he was like, all right, this is going to be epic. So I'm kind of the food guy. When we would go out quarterback dinners the night before games, I'd be the guy to pick the restaurant. I put a lot of effort into that. I really respect that Adam's like that too. I'm fired up to kind of hit up the best restaurants on the road in all the cities that we get to go to, you know, the, the go to, you know, the spots you can't miss if you're in that city.

I can't wait for you guys to do that. Another, another one. Matt, you referenced a college football being an event and the atmosphere and how it's different from the NFL. What was the best college atmosphere that you played in? Like best stadium venue city, anything like that? Yeah, well, I'll tell you the loudest stadium for me, Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech, I mean, I played at Michigan.

West Virginia was great. Syracuse, when they were humming with Donovan McNabb and that crew in the Dome, played in some great stadiums. But Virginia Tech, they do this thing where they take their car keys out and they, like, jingle their keys in, like like whatever that frequency or whatever that place is loud played there many times i think on thursday west virginia does it too i think i don't know who started but yeah listen though west virginia when we were coming out pat i probably told you this story we were run out of the tunnel when i was there. West Virginia had this prank that they would pull on us where they would drop fake $20 bills as you were running out of the tunnel.

And so we're all running, and inevitably, guys, stop. You know, you're college kids. You don't have any money. Coaches are stopping. Shoot, everybody's stopping, and we're all piling up. It's like killed our mojo. And so in Morgantown, it was definitely a thing. They had our number, man.

That was one of the things. Most people say batteries at Western. So I was excited to hear Monopoly money for sure. Well, wait until you do Ole Miss and Mississippi State and you have the fucking cowbells. Those things are loud. Those things are loud. I got a chance to play down there in college, obviously.

That's a Thanksgiving Day game for us. Oh, those cowbells are going to be roaring. Rich Rod all week, man, all week. Speakers all the way up, cowbell all. So not only do we have to deal with it one day, we got to get our eardrums blown out for five straight days. It's going to be louder than this on Saturday. They say it's piercing, he used to say.

And then we didn't win by enough, and he got mad at us afterwards. It was wild. That guy was – I hopefully will get a chance to talk to him this year. I have not talked to him since I played for him. Now he's offense coordinator for one of those Mississippi schools. I can't wait to talk to him. I could guess what the plays are going to be, by the way. I'll be Tony Romo in that entire offense.

Oh, well, here we go. This looks like a pitch for sure. Bubble screen, touchdown. Zito, I can't wait to hear this. Mr. Hasselbeck, if you could jump in a time machine, what is one little piece of advice you would give yourself as a young child? Young Matt. Talk to young Matt before the lightning strike.

Probably just be yourself instead of trying to be somebody else like you know different parts of my football career or really anything you know you're a freshman in college you're trying to be like the starter who's a fifth year senior because he's the starter or whatever but like that's just a that's not an authentic version of what you are same i thing when I get to the NFL. Brett Favre is the starter in Green Bay. Don't try to be like Brett Favre. Just try to be the best version of you. Same thing on TV. I think the biggest thing, probably the biggest struggle with TV

is not trying to be a TV person, talk like a TV person, dress like a TV person. Just be yourself. Just absolutely be yourself. Now, Pat, you might be more like a tv person i was about to say we got this little thing i gotta go to and it sounded like i've been sweating my attire for this this two-day trip this is my first impression with espn i'm sweating this and now you're like be yourself wait a minute i think just being yourself and like even for you

if that means you know wearing a cutoff tank top and under a sport coat like whatever like that's what it means like it's all good if you want to wear jorts or shorts to show off the you know the quads like go for it man like that's kind of i think that's probably the advice i would give myself they can't fire me right now i mean there's too much there's too much pub right now for them to fire me day one. Thank you for that. That felt good. I can't wait to see what I put together now.

I got my lady out shopping right now. That's the type of situation that happens anytime I have to dress up. What stores? Like, where does she shop for you for on-air content? Pretty sure we stopped at JCPenney's first stop. JCPenney's probably first stop. And then you probably go over to Nordstrom if you really got to clean it up, because they got good pants that fit the legs that make me look professional.

But this is every time I got to be on TV, Sam has to do this, because I ruin everything else. I'll wear it one time. But what are your sizes? What's your pant size? Because you're an athletic build. Yeah, 38-32. Interesting. And is it 38

because your waist is a 38 or is it 38 because your quads are real big? Quads, yeah. It's the quads. That's why everybody's like, oh, wear tighter pants next time. It's like every pair of pants is tight pants. It's been like this since I'm like 14 years old too. So I'm sorry you hate it, but I hate it too. I would like to be able

to breathe a little bit, Don Don. You know, my thighs have touched in some nine years old. What do you want from me? Jeez, get off of my ass. But anyways, I wear stuff and then I just throw it in the corner. Like, oh, I'm never going to have to wear that suit again. And then I have to get it like two days before I have to do something. And it's like, well, can't wear that.

It's literally crumpled in a ball over there. So every single time it's the same mistake over and over again. I think I'm going to buy a – I think I'm going to get a thing of nice clothes, though, because I'm going to have to. A wardrobe? Yep, there it is. But one of those – it's going to be like a travel closet. Like hangers?

Oh, it's like a trunk. A garment bag? I got a garment bag. An armoire. I don't know if I have an armoire. It's actually called a wardrobe, what you're describing. It's called a wardrobe. Yeah, but I want it to be visible in the movies where you walk in like,

oh, take that one. You know what I mean? Have them hanging up there. Maybe they're all cleaned. I don't know how that's we're gonna keep that but yeah i gotta do that now you know they have dry cleaners that'll come to your house excuse me i don't know if they have them where you live um you're kind of you're probably out there pretty far but they've got dry cleaning services you know you like you

order a pizza indianapolis is america they delivered here i live in america i live in america indianapolis is amer, and this is where I live. What are you implying there? Well, I'm just saying, just like ordering a pizza, you don't have to go get the pizza. There are dry cleaning services that will pick up at your house on Tuesday night and Friday night or something like that. I can door dash dry clean? Yeah. It's a thing. I'll tell you what,

this office is very sick of DoorDash people not going all the way to the door. There's been almost three wars at this office right in front. Tim McAfee's leading the charge. Tim McAfee is not. If they don't come to the door, Tim McAfee refuses to get his food. He'll have them sit out there in a car all day if he has to. Zito too.

Zito's waged war on people. Zito's trying to get DoorDash shut down because they won't come to the door. So let's hope the dry cleaners come all the way he has to. Zito too. Zito's waged war on people. Zito's trying to get DoorDash shut down because they won't come to the door. So let's hope the dry cleaners come all the way to the door. How many suits do you have? You have a tailor. You have a tailor.

I can already tell you. I had a tailor in Indianapolis, actually. It was Adam Venetieri's tailor. He's very good. Yeah. Never heard of him. Yeah. Andrew Porter. Andrew Porter. He's very good. Yeah. Never heard of him. That's weird.

Yeah. Andrew Porter. Andrew Porter. Very, very good. I ordered some stuff from Andrew Porter. Yeah, he's great. He's great, man. I think I paid him, too.

I never got it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not cheap. It's not cheap, but it's very good. I just never heard of him. Even Adam Venetieri. You would admit Adam Venetieri, one of the best dress guys on that team. Oh, yeah.

He started wearing bracelets and stuff, too. He's moving all in to the best dress. He's got the hat. He's got the three-piece. He's got the little pocket watch that goes with it. Yeah, he doesn't mess around. Yeezy shoes, Gucci shoes. Oh, yeah.

I'm not sure about the brand on the shoes. I'm certain of it. I saw him in Gucci flip-flops the other day. You've got to take care of the moneymakers, you in Gucci flip-flops the other day. You got to take care of the moneymakers, you know? Vinny's the best, dude. He really is the best. I mean, you.

You are as well. Todd McComas has a question for you. First of all, congratulations to both you guys. It's a big honor. Thank you. The real winner are the college football fans, for sure. But also, you guys win. And I just wanted to look at it this way for a second. football fans for sure but also you guys win and i just wanted to look at it this way for a second like i assume that the best guys in the booth are are the best because they are both analysts

and entertainers so it seems like if you look at this particular booth as kind of a frankenstein's project they created the perfect monster because they brought in mr entertainment and mr x's and o's you're a guy with one of the most knowledgeable X's nose guys who also funny and Matt, the funniest guy that come out of the league, who's also knowledgeable on football. And Pat, is there any thought that you guys, this is like the most perfect situation for each of you, because once you leave, maybe you leave with skills from each other that you didn't have before. Look at that. You hear what he just said? Yeah. You know, Pat and I have actually talked about that a little bit. I think when we were teammates one year you said pat hey like

would you mind in the off season like teaching me about the football football defenses coverage how you recover let's see things through the quarterback's lens you know like all that kind of stuff and uh but i think the thing that people probably don't know, it would be easy to categorize Pat as, like, just a funny guy or, like, just a punter. But he really is way more than that. Like, Pat knows football. Pat would sit in on quarterback meetings. He would sit in on other position meetings. He would, I mean, he's been coached by some of the best coaches.

He's been teammates with some of the game's best players of all time. He's played against some of the best players. He could tell you what it's like to tackle Devin Hester or Antonio Brown or maybe try to. He's got football experiences that football players don't have and that football coaches don't have. And so I think Pat's pat's gonna surprise some people with his football knowledge he's more than just a pretty face no doubt and then conversely do you feel like you're going to develop some comedy chops of your own it's going to be your timing's going to be up hey when you leave there you're just a little bit funnier than you were

when you first arrived matt i am going to set you up for some incredible moments. I want you to know that. There's going to be moments for you to really, and I don't want to say bury me, but there will be moments for you to really, and I'm excited for you to seize those opportunities. I'm excited for you. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to it, Pat. I don't think we need to oversell it. It's going to be fun.

Here's what I think. here's what i think here's what i know i know our game sometimes will start an hour earlier than the nfl game let's go i know the nfl game that's going to be on it'll be a blowout or maybe people have money on the college game or maybe they just have commercials and they want to flip over to our game that would be so entertaining they'll forget flip back to the NFL game like whatever the reason why ever you're on Thursday night football watching the college game whatever the reason we're glad to have you Pat's gonna make it fun Adam's gonna make it fun um Molly McGrath is an awesome sideline reporter she's from my alma mater BC Boston College she's been doing it a long time. She knows what she's doing. I think it's going to be a great team. It's going to be a great year in college

football. We'll screw up. We're going to make mistakes. We're going to say stupid things. We're going to say things and regret that we said them. I do that every day. Every single day. Pat, I'm sure you do it too. Nope. Nope. But it's going to be – you know what?

It's going to be entertaining. It's going to be fun. I've met our director. I've met our producer. Our producer, he calls me. He produced Wimbledon. So if anybody watched Wimbledon this year, he produced Wimbledon. He's done very well.

And I call him and I'm like, oh, man, what's up? We talked for like 45 minutes. I'm like, so where are you at? He's like, oh, I'm over in London right now. I'm like, dude, am I getting billed for a 45 minute ball at London? Just now telling me. But it's a great crew. It's a great crew.

And I think it'll be really fun. Well, I get tickets to Wimbledon next year. Yeah, if you want to go. I think there's a dress code. You got to be an all white. Hey, I'm ready for the all-white party for sure. I'll come in. Yeah, I've got some nice pair of white jorts I could wear.

Hey, I've got some Dago shoes for you to wear. Hey, now we're talking. Put the Gucci's on or Manny Ferragamo's. Let those things rock the whites. I'd fit right in with Wimbledon. I'll get some big glasses on, sunglasses. They all wear the sunglasses. And then I'm going to be the first to clap.

And then I'll stop. I know the timing. I know there's a timing of a clap. Yeah, I'm excited to go to Wimbledon. That's better than anything we could have possibly done on Thursday Night Football, I think. Bonus. Bonus. Get to go to Wimbledon.

Todd, to your point, these two? Uh-huh. Iron sharpens iron. Oh, that's what I'm thinking. See, that's what I see in my mind. Pat, first Bible verse reference proverbs 27 17 well done guys good job how about this book of noah page three um he said i need to build big boat we'll get we'll get you there pat hey in cincinnati there is an actual noah's ark by the way and he's my guy

it's gonna be tough i gotta tell it i gotta tell a story so in nfl locker rooms uh you always say a prayer before and after the game okay and uh one time pat and i were teammates and we're getting ready like everyone takes a knee you say a prayer guy doesn't take his hat off in the prayer and like there's a bunch of people like on the team in the locker room like hey take his hat off in the prayer and like there's a bunch of people like on the team in the locker room like hey take your hat off take your hat off take your hat off before we pray and pat's standing there in the back you know probably observing everything i'm not sure what you were doing but pat goes hold on if whoever we're praying to can't hear our prayer because that dude's got a hat on y'all are praying to the wrong dude. It's one of my all-time favorite quotes in my entire NFL career.

I say it a lot for planes. Like when they tell me to turn my phone off, I'm like, if this plane's going to go down because of this phone, I don't want to be on this plane to begin with. It's insane. God bless you, Matt. Fair point. God bless you. Ty Schmidt Fair point. Fair point.

God bless you. Ty Schmidt, you got anything? Yeah, as a Packers fan, I have to ask, do you think you'll ever live down the we want the ball and we're going to score? And if not, how much shit do you still get from it? I'm totally 100% cool with it. It's our first playoff game when I was in Seattle. Those were my best friends in Green Bay, those guys that I was playing with.

I was talking trash to my buddy, Ryan Longwell. Part of the reason why I wore number eight in Seattle is because he was my kicker. I was the holder. He was number eight. He was a good friend. Actually, can I move with you guys right now? Yeah, let's go. I've got a little Packers shrine down here. A YouTube special.

Just like a little. Can you guys see here? It was a good time with little Packers shrine down here. YouTube special. Just like a little. Can you guys see here? So it was a good time with the Packers. This is my first quarterback crew right here. This is Andy Reid. I got Doug Peterson, Rick Meyer, Brett Favre. That's me, the kid here.

I had a broken nose in that picture there. Moving on, we had Mike McCarthy. We had Aaron Brooks, Danny Werfel. Where am I going here? Can you guys see this? Darryl Bevel. For those listening. My hair before the lightning.

I mean, you know what? The lesson was playing with Brett Favre was part of the lesson was like, you got to have fun and you got to cut it loose. We had played them earlier in the year and I didn't cut it loose. Everyone told me, hey, control your emotions. You're playing your old team. I controlled my emotions and I played like very average. So we went into that game and it was like, you know what? Cut it loose. I had seen teams go into Lambeau, get nervous, mystique, Lambeau field, cold weather, the message to our team, the message from Mike Holmgren, the message from John Randall, our defensive captain,

who was an awesome guy, really fun, you should have him on sometime, was cut it loose, believe in yourselves, let's go in there and just have fun. And that's what we did. And, you know, that one didn't work out, but trust me, I've talked a lot of trash in a lot of games, and that just happens to be the one that got picked up and also didn't work out. I enjoy trash talk, by the way. That's the way, it's the competitive nature.

That's what you're supposed to do. I like that line. I saw recently on Michael Strahan's Instagram, Michael Strahan had a post the other day on his Instagram. Him mic'd up talking smack against the Philadelphia Eagles. And it was like, I had to watch it twice. Cause I was like, wait, what's, what's the point? And then I realized i was like oh gosh

when you watch an nfl game like you don't get to hear that stuff yeah like you just think that i don't know what you think but that's what it sounds like so if you want to know what an nfl game is like for real into michael strahan's recent instagram post and it's just like yeah all day long and now there's some guys they talk all day long like walter jones my left tackle in seattle he didn't like to talk he didn't like to hear people talk he would come up to me and he'd be like hey could you please not talk smack to anybody today because i don't want to hear that guy talk all day i was like all right fine you know i love that though i i think more people should know that because we live in a world now where you can't say anything to anybody. You know, it's not expected.

But, I mean, in between the lines, it's a whole different world in there. That's why you can watch entire lacrosse teams start swinging on each other and nobody's arrested for assault. It's like in the competitive world, there's just things that happen that are all fun. Now, granted, there's people that cross the line. Those people should not do that. Just like people in real life cross the line. I enjoy friendly banter, though. I absolutely love it.

I mean, it's kind of my, it's literally my thing, I think. I think friendly banter is my thing. Well, earlier in that game, that Green Bay game, I think we played them so many times in the winter and in the cold, and I think maybe even in the playoffs. But earlier in that game, and it might have been the coin toss it might not have been i go up to brett farve brett farve's a friend he's a great guy as a mentor all this and maybe i've told you this story before i don't know but he said hey did you hear i had a winter hat on he goes hey did you hear what happened last night in milwaukee and i'm like what and he pulls

the hat down over my eyes he's like the lights went out i grade but that was just kind of the i would say a little bit the vibe of that game friends playing against friends in the backyard it was a lot of fun that's awesome you're a hell of a quarterback man you're a hell of you're a hell of a quarterback and i mean that now granted you you what was that movie like rookie of the year or whatever where that one particular baseball player had like the snake and the voodoo snake in the locker? Oh, Major League. Major League, right? Serrano.

Hasselbeck was kind of like that. This dude showed up with these tights on his ankles, the high, the three-quarter length tights on his legs during off-season workouts. He had this wristband on that had copper in it, so it balanced out his soul. I remember, I'm'm like what are you doing why are you dressed the way you're dressed he's like the body's getting old man gotta take care of it i had compression socks listen compression socks i had a guy out in uh california telling me he's like listen you know all you football players get in the cold tub this is

like a crossfit guy actually supple leopard kelly Starrett, look him up, K-Star. He had told me, hey, listen, instead of the cold tub, you should try compression sock, elevation, you know, Norma Tech boots, Mark Pro, and gave me all these things to try. And I never felt better. I was 38 years old. And all of a sudden, as a 39 year old, I'm racing Andrew Luck and Chandler Harnish and these young quarterbacks and hanging and I couldn't have hung with them when I was 35 so you know I think it's that was just an example of like when you're getting older you got to find new ways to train new ways to recover that's okay it looks stupid I'll get to it but boy it's okay you showed up to the team I was excited for for

the hassle back to be here you know okay we got a new backup quarterback and then we do the first like ota workouts and this guy looks like a 90 year old literally and i'm like that's who the hell is this guy wearing these what you're that was before that was before compression sleeves were a thing you were like the first person i saw wearing compression shit like honestly you really were like probably it's a bad look it can be a bad look but i was rocking it anyway and you weren't you know i was never i was never the oldest guy in the team thanks to adam veneter that was that was like a i kind of just like snuck in him so like all the you know on every team the oldest guy gets the old jokes you know but he took the brunt of them for me so i was appreciative of that also todd's our

old dude here oh yeah a lot preach oh i know um hey that video just resurfaced it's not its first time out but it just resurfaced brett farve ty detmer nickel package who gives a shit yeah is that real it's real i mean he tell he's such a great brett farve is just a great storyteller i think that's probably one of the like i don't know if people know it he's a great joke teller great storyteller lots way it's a kind of a it is a true story and you know not to retell it but basically the you know the offensive coaches were like well when they go nickel it's 35 percent of the time it's this and when they go nickel it's 28 percent of the time that and uh farb finally had enough of a relationship with his backup quarterback ty detmer and was like hey can i ask you something

in confidence what's it mean when they go nickel he's like well if you're serious it means that they take out a linebacker and put in another db so five dbs nickel And he's like, so? They still got 11, right? And that's a little bit one of the things that I learned from Brett, Brett Favre, is just that, hey, don't make it so complicated. Just go out and cut it loose. Have fun. Like you're playing in the yard with your buddies. Like you did at recess.

He still does that for Wrangler. Playing with them. He still plays in the yard for wrangler him and a dog and they're throwing a ball yeah he's wearing the copper bracelet yeah yeah exactly that's why now that i go through the as seen on tv aisle i just see the matt hasselbeck care package basically for whatever you're playing i'll never forget then i go in there and you got the supplement for this and then then, well, I don't know if I could take it yet, you said, because it was something.

You were a man who left no stone unturned. And I was so impressed by it because I did nothing. And I was so impressed by it. I was like, you know what, maybe I should start stretching or something. This guy's been in the league a long time, man. What did you do? Did you take vitamins? Did you do anything? Yeah, vitamins.

Mostly my vitamins. Yeah, mostly. Well, I just remember those Normatec boots, which are huge in sports. There's like every sport, they use these boots. But they made like a new hip thing. And I was doing it after every training camp practice. And my dorm room was across from Venetieri's dorm room. And I put those on him the next night.

He's like, what are these things you're doing? So I put them on Adam Venet night he's like what are these things you're doing so I put him on Adam Venetieri the game's greatest kicker and the next day he wakes up he doesn't feel real good and he skips practice he like misses practice and I had the athletic trainers go to me and like yo we think he's going to be okay but we can't think of anything he did differently besides this you know these normatech boots and I'm like I swear they're the best thing that's not what hurt him. I swear. Like I left the meeting.

Like, what if I'm the guy that ended up in Terry's career? Because what worked for me didn't work for him. But I Norma tech. Those boots are legit. I enjoyed the Norma tech. I used to jump in a cold tub too. I'd go in there for like 12 minutes. I used to have like a full, cause people used to flush.

So they would alternate. They would go hot for three cold for two hot for contrast. There it is. It had an entire science and I tried to do, so they would alternate. They would go hot for three, cold for two, hot for three. Contrast. There it is. It had an entire science. And I tried to do it a couple times. I was like, well, I'm not getting back out of the cold. I mean, I'm not getting back in this.

So I would just sit in there for 12 minutes, and I would have the full mental thing like, you can do 12 minutes to feel better tomorrow. And it did, and then the Normatec boots kind of took over for that. I was a big fan. I think the best thing about the cold tub and the hot tub is just that's like a camaraderie spot with your teammates in the locker room. That's probably the best thing about it.

I agree. We got bees flying around, guys. Yeah, you got bugs in your house. Let's hope Thursday night's successful for both of us, huh? Maybe you get a better house instead of a bug-infested one. Matt, you were a gentleman, and I'm so thankful I got to be your teammate to watch you operate. Honestly, you came into that locker room and really turned things around from a camaraderie standpoint. That is what a veteran quarterback is supposed to do.

You knew your role. You executed it beautifully. I was lucky to be your teammate, and I'm excited to be your teammate again on Thursday nights. I think we're going to do very well. And I'll tell you what, I'm not looking too far ahead. First game, UCLA-UC for sure. But I plan on this being a nice catapult to a prime, prime, prime time spot for you and Matt and Pat.

And I am excited to dominate this year with you, brother. Thursday nights. Looking forward to it, man. All right. I appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, 18 year nfl vet a man who has learned so many things and is willing to share them with everybody the book of matt page one has just started ladies and gentlemen matthew hasselbeck ladies and gentlemen a reading by Zito. Oh, no.

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Come on, you referenced that one all the time. You thought that was inside your head, though. Yeah. Did I say that out loud? Yeah, yeah. That was great. Oh, yeah, Meister Met. referenced that one all the time. You thought that was inside your head though. Yeah, we all heard it. Did I say it out loud? Yeah, yeah. It was great. Oh yeah, Meisterman, I use it all the time for this one. Meisterman? Meisterman?

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Sam has gotten into reading heavily. She's been reading a lot. I mean, there's a lot of murder stuff, so it to go sam has gotten into reading heavily she's been reading a lot i mean there's a lot of murder stuff so it's kind of freaking me out but she's been reading a lot and uh i think i'm gonna get into the audiobook game and audible is the perfect place to do it because they have a very massive collection of audiobooks and that is audible.com slash america and what do they get they get uh three months for 4.95 it's an incredible deal if you don't it, get the hell out of there. But less than five bucks, it's worth to see if a book is worth a shit from Audible for you. Lone Survivor is where I'm

heading. Nice. Oh, there you go. It's the first one I'm going to listen to. They say to read it and spell it out. So, A-U-D-I-B L-E dot C-O-M slash A-M-E-R-I-C-A. That was mandatory and bold.

Now spell reasonate. Let me look it up where I read it at. I'd assume it's in parentheses somewhere. Oh, yeah, there it is. R-E-S-O-N-A-T, resonate. Oh, there you go. Welcome back. Hey.

Anyways, that's today's show. Big thanks to Zito. Massive thanks to Hasselbeck. Hashtag endgame. Hashtag endgame. You know what? I just want to give away stuff as a thank you. You send a funny tweet to us, any of us.

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and we're lucky that you rock with us ty schmidt hit the music it was a beautiful day Sun beat down I heard the radio walk I was driving Trees went by Me and Del were singing A little runaway I was flying

Yeah, running down a dream That never would come to me Working the mystery Going wherever I need Running down a dream I felt so good Like anything was possible Hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes

The last three days, the rain was unstoppable It was always cold, no sunshine Yeah, running down a dream That never would come to me Working on a mystery Going wherever you need Running down a dream guitar solo How old I am The sky grew dark

I put the pedal down To make some time There's something good Waiting down this road I'm picking up Whatever is mine I'm running down a dream That never would come to me

Working on a mystery, going wherever it leads Running down a dream Yeah, I'm running down a dream that never would come to me Working on a mystery Born wherever it leads I'm running down a drain Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I'm out. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh Bye.