The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1085 - Feel Good Friday With Michael Lombardi, NHL Trade Deadline Update With Kevin Weekes, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk
Episode Date: March 8, 2024On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about everything going on around the sports world as NFL free agency is right around the corner, NCAA women’s college basketball conference tournam...ents starting, what’s going to happen with Russell Wilson as he’s taking meetings in both New York with the Giants and Pittsburgh with the Steelers, and much more. Joining the show to chat about how this period in the NFL calendar should be referred to as “lying season,” is former NFL GM, 3x Super Bowl Champion, host of the Lombardi Line and GM Shuffle Podcast, friend of the progrum, Michael Lombardi (24:09-53:06). Next, 11 year NHL veteran, NHL Analyst on ESPN and NHL Insider, Kevin Weeks joins the progrum to give updates on what’s going on with the NHL trade deadline and who the movers and shakers are (1:40:04-1:47:19). Later, NFL Network Senior Insider, Ian Rapoport joins the show to give a wrap-up of the week and what we should be expecting come Monday when free agency essentially begins (2:17:28-2:57:56). Make sure you subscribe to YouTube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. Or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this glorious
Feel Good Friday, March 8th, 2024.
This sports program starts now.
Sports!
Are happening.
I got camouflage pants on.
Hell yeah!
Legs!
It's a big day.
This was the only size 36 that Abercrombie & Fitch had in its entire store and it's one
of the first times I've ever been able to purchase pants from the store Abercrombie & Fitch had in its entire store, and it's one of the first times I've ever been able to purchase pants from the store Abercrombie and Fitch because I've had a fat ass and fat
thighs since high school, whenever the Abercrombie and Fitch thing was going.
Abercrombie and Fitch has completely changed course.
Yep.
It is a cool store.
It is a basic white human Cabela's when you're walking through there.
There's throwback stuff. There's this stuff. There's through there. There's throwback stuff.
There's this stuff.
There's bland stuff.
There's that stuff.
Then they had these cam floss pants.
Nice.
Had to have them.
Had to have them.
So don't worry about my fashion.
Some people call me a fashion icon.
I mean, that's the way things are going.
I feel great on this particular
Feel Good Friday
because there's a lot of things happening
around the NFL for us to chat about.
Obviously, sports are taking place.
More specifically, the NHL has their trade deadline happening today.
So we'll have Kevin Weeksey join us in a second hour
at about 1.30 Eastern Standard Time.
Trade deadline is 3 p.m.
So there's a lot of moves happening.
Like, for instance, multiple times, Stanley Cup champion,
friend of the program, dog, Patty Maroon,
has been traded to the Boston Bruins.
Boom!
Welcome home, Big Rick.
Which is a bummer.
Jake Gensel of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Kuznetsov has traded to Carolina.
But Weeksy will join us to chit-chat about all the happenings around the NHL.
Then we'll also have, in the third hour, a man who is tall in stature.
Well. Yep. In stature. Well.
Yep.
In comparison to.
Okay.
I was hanging out with my 10-month-old Mackenzie.
Ah, sure.
She's standing.
She's figuring out the balance.
And if Rappaport was to stand next to her, he would do one of these.
She goes up to like his shoulders.
Yeah, right there.
So he's tall compared to that.
But it doesn't matter how tall he is because what he's got in between his ears and what he's got in between his rib cage yeah that's right is something that's
fantastic ian rapaport with the weekly wrap-up with rap sheep will join us in a matter of moments
about 18 minutes we'll have a new segment called lying season with michael lombardi where he's
going to be tracking all these lies that are being perpetrated out through the media about players
for the draft to potentially plummet stock and the people that are going perpetrated out through the media about players for the draft to potentially
plummet stock and the people that are going to be lying about these players are normally the people
that want the player the most so there's stories of draft time whenever somebody has like a fifth
or sixth pick and they think that the guy that they love is potentially going to get taken around
three or maybe two so they'll start leaking bad shit about that human that they love they love this player
more than everybody else they start leaking negative things out through the media so that
a narrative can maybe get built so that whenever that number three team has a pick or number four
team has a pick maybe they decide to go elsewhere so that that player can get to number five or to
number six i know this is common knowledge i'm just explaining and reiterating that to the people
that don't maybe know that.
That is happening.
Oh, yeah.
That is the time of year that we are in right now.
Last year, and we love the people at the Houston Texans.
They're nice to us.
Big time.
But they might have been the people.
They won't.
They're good people.
They're good humans.
But it would make sense if they were the people that were like,
CJ Stroud's an idiot.
Don't even think about confusing who's the number one overall pick here
because they were sitting at number two, and they were like,
this is the guy that we want.
Because there was a combo.
Is C.J. Stroud going to go number one?
Is Bryce Young going to go number one?
Bryce Young, definitely number one, definitely number one,
definitely number one.
He's a little bit small.
C.J. Stroud just spun in at the combine and won a bunch of meetings.
Here we go.
Maybe C.J. Stroud's the number one overall guy going
to Carolina. Josh McCown, quarterback
coach for the Carolina Panthers, at
C.J. Stroud's pro day says, can't wait to
hoop against you down in Charlotte.
It's like, wait a minute. C.J. Stroud's the number one guy.
Then we get into the line season.
This dude's the dumbest dude of all time.
This guy can't read a defense.
Lowest this. And it's not the test
problem. It's not their fault.
They're a collection of tests.
But that started coming out last year about C.J. Stroud.
And you start thinking to yourself, like, who wanted this information out there?
Not saying it was Houston.
It might have been a team that was three or a team that thought they could maybe get to four.
But that literally happens.
And C.J. Stroud just has to sit there and take it on the shins,
knowing that he's going to go have the greatest rookie season in the history of the NFL.
There's a lot of BS happening around the internet, around media, on this show.
I mean, we're a part of the problem.
We very much understand that because we're reading all the tea leaves.
So Lombardi just wants to track that, basically.
So he wants a segment called Lions Season.
I love it.
And I love everything about it.
I can't wait to see what we learn through the process.
He's a former general manager, former consultant, former coach,
former everything, so he's been there, done that.
I think we're going to learn a lot about this particular draft season
and maybe expose some stuff as we go forward because that's journalism.
That's right.
Nobody ever talks about that.
No, they don't.
Oh, he wears camouflage pants, they say.
That's it.
They do.
That's what they say.
Hey, so you're telling me this guy that wears camouflage pants is the one doing journalism?
I don't think so.
Not a chance.
That's an athlete with a platform.
That's not a journalist right there.
It's like, wait a minute.
What if we expose a lot of the stuff that has been happening around draft season?
That's real journalism.
Give us a Pulitzer.
Yeah.
Is that what the award is?
I believe, yeah, you can get a Pulitzer for journalism.
That's what it does, right?
What's that other one, that big one?
Nobel Peace Prize.
That's journalism?
No, that's like science, that type of stuff.
Well, this is kind of a science whenever you talk about draft season.
It is a science.
You know what I mean?
We got draft scientists.
So we're looking for all those big, serious awards,
especially as we expose something that's been happening for a long time
where players kind of have to just sit and take things being said about them,
allegedly ruining their draft stock,
which is what they've been working their entire lives for, pretty much,
so that a team that likes them can get there.
It's a wild time.
Let's see how it goes.
And maybe we're blown out of proportion.
Maybe everything we say is real.
And maybe lying season won't be real.
We'll see.
We'll see.
We'll see how it goes.
Talks at Table is here.
At Boston Conner, at Ty Schmidt.
Con man, have to start immediately.
You got a new piece of artillery there on the table.
Yes, we do.
What is that?
This is a signed Tom Brady Patriots.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
We were at the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital gala, and they say gala.
I believe it is gala.
I think that's a tomato-tomato situation.
Yeah, exactly.
I decided, you know what, I want to support more so than just sponsoring it
because I'm a season ticket holder of the Indiana Fever,
and they are a sponsor, in turn making me a sponsor.
I said, you know what, I need to get in on the auction as well.
Figured there was no way that anybody was going to be bidding on a patriot silent auction
you have to sign up you actually send your text uh to put your bid in there you get updates
everything yeah very simple i've never been to anything like this so it was kind of exhilarating
felt like i was gambling almost following along with the game because you know you are up against
other people at a certain point, someone jumped in.
So I was getting texts, a lot of texts, actually. So you would bid, let's say, $1,000.
Exactly.
You bid $1,000.
Someone bids $1,050.
You get a text, hey, if you want to retain this helmet, type in 410,
because that was the item number, with $1,100 to up after that.
And it got up to a certain point where I knew it was mine.
I was like, there's no way anyone's going to jump in.
All of a sudden, we're getting close to the 9.45pm
deadline. When it closes,
someone's jumping in. I'm going back and
forth with one person.
I'm going quick at first.
I'm like, okay, I'm just going to let this person
know, hey, if they bid
right away, I'm coming in immediately
so they know no matter what you do, i'm coming in immediately so they know like
no matter what you do i'm coming in you're setting the tone exactly they're getting a
bigger phone they put the thing out they put it back in it it's back before before the phone even
touches the pocket i'm here yeah hey guess what person this is mine i'm not leaving without this
thing in my hand thousand people in the room, probably? Probably. Yeah, there are 102, 105 tables, 15.
10 people at a table?
Yeah, 10, 12 people at a table.
So, yeah, 10,000 people, right?
Nope.
Nope.
10,000.
It's a big room.
Yeah.
I think 1,000 people.
It was a huge room.
I think it was about 1,000 people.
Big room.
1,000 people.
It looked like 10,000.
But that's your competition.
It was in the room somewhere.
Yeah, exactly.
And there are a bunch of other cool prizes.
So that's why I figured this is the one.
This is the time to get it in Indianapolis.
Turns out the person I was being against was actually enemy within your own camp.
Whoa.
Yeah, it turns out your wife, Sam, was the one running up the number on this particular auction item right before the last bid.
We found out.
Yeah, there's a video of it, of her telling me.
Yeah, I was stressed.
I was pissed.
Yeah, I wasn't pissed.
Let me say that differently.
I was relieved and I was pissed at the same time because I knew immediately,
okay, I'm getting this helmet.
And two, son of a bitch, this lady just ran up the numbers on me.
But it's all for the children.
I was excited
to do it i was happy to do it and you know you got the the brady portion of the dynasty represented
now which i am happy with some people said you look like the undertaker last night with that
hat that you had on there was some purple lighting that was coming down with the way the hair was
going with the jacket you looked amazing thank you and when when Sam told me what she had done, I was so incredibly proud.
You know, we had a moment of like full on.
I looked her in her eyes and I said, I'm so incredibly proud of you, my wife.
It just ran up.
They have video of you.
Oh, yeah.
Because Sam's friend Brandy was with her.
They have video of her literally hitting the button and then you checking your phone, taking the hat off, wiping sweat off.
It was hot.
Responding and putting the hat back on.
I was sweating.
I was sweating.
Sam just running it up on his entire thing.
Hey, for the kids, Sam, good work.
Good work, Sam.
It was a hell of an event.
And you were the auctioneer on the live auction with some very cool prizes, a lot of cool stuff involved.
And that was also sweet to see because I've never been to that auctioneer
type setting.
It is sick.
Yeah, it is.
And I said this on the stage.
I had no idea what I was signing up for.
I didn't know it was a gala or a gala, however you pronounce it,
until like a couple days before.
Because Peyton Manning is one of those guys, for me at least,
for everything he's done for me, if he says, hey, pal,
is there any way you could, yeah, like I'm you got it buddy yeah whatever you need and obviously we're
pretty busy it was i knew it was in indianapolis i didn't know exactly what it was i had no idea
until a few days ago i started looking into it peyton had been sending me information i'm just
like yep yep yep cool like we don't this is not need to be talked about now this is two months
yeah this is two months away i got a lot of other stuff going on.
So then as we show up and we get to see that event, damn near $30 million has been raised
for Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital.
My baby girl was seen at Peyton Manning's Children's Hospital throughout the pregnancy
with the scans, gave birth at the hospital that Ascension St. Vincent is associated with
at all.
So it was like they do a lot for the community.
I was lucky to be a part of it.
You getting a number run up was sick.
You weren't the only one that bought something, though.
No.
There was another item purchased by our office last night.
And I'll tell you, as soon as ZD Baby caught his eyes on this thing, what is that, Z?
What did you end up buying?
And who did you end up buying it alongside?
Me and Toc would have Z's on a Dale Earnhardt Jr. fucking helmet.
I'm so excited.
I'm so excited.
Two stop.
Two stop.
I get back from doing the auctioneer thing.
I get back from doing the auctioneer thing.
Connor's got that helmet on his head. I can back from doing the auctioneer thing. Conor's got
that helmet on his head
strapped, completely strapped.
And Talk has this
racing helmet halfway down his face
just like this. And I'm like, you guys have
a good time? They're like, this is the best.
This is the greatest thing of all time. Peyton puts
on a hell of an event in Indiana.
Showed up last night. A lot of money in that room.
A lot of things purchased and lucky to be there. peyton thanks for giving back still bub lucky to be a part got
to see dallas clark austin colley anthony gonzalez no longer in politics see him looked much happier
i bet imagine got to see archie manning you know the the the legend dude i've had uh i've had a couple evenings where me and archie manning uh found
ourselves sitting next to each other housing a bottle or two or three or four wine and just
story time with old archie manning that dude's a legend he's always been incredibly kind to me
he'll send me text messages even whenever we were just back on youtube he'll see something i just
got shown you know i'm thinking of him and it's a text, keep going, pal, with an
emoji and everything. It was great to see.
It was like a reunion last night. I got to meet Stokely.
He flew into town for this entire thing.
The guy who owns
the room, the thing that
Peyton does Manningcast from, was
there. I got to meet him. One of the
auction items at this event last night was
to go behind the scenes at the Manningcast
at the place that Peyton does
it, get a chance to see it, get a chance to
meet him, get a chance to get things signed. I think
aviation was involved.
These things were...
Unreal. Big ticket item.
Private plane to the Super Bowl.
I think you meet Goodell in one of them. Tickets.
Tickets. It was
Peyton Manning. It was all to give back.
Thank you to everybody that donated to this whole thing.
So I'm doing this, and I didn't know who was at these tables.
I didn't know exactly because when I was there, I had to go do my thing.
I didn't get to meet everybody.
So there's a guy bidding on the behind-the-scenes of the Manning cast thing over here.
He's like sitting near Peyton or whatever.
So it's at like $30,000, $40,000, whatever it is, and he just stops or whatever.
And I go, Peyton, this guy just said, you're not worth it.
Okay, 30, 40, good.
45, though.
I'm not hanging around Peyton.
And this other side of the room, there's people start going, bang, bang, bang.
One particular table bought two of the items.
They were spending a lot of money last night.
They're helping society.
We appreciate them.
But they started going.
So I talk shit on this guy, right?
And then I'm told by Peyton, Peyton walks by me to go shake the hands of the people that bought it over here.
And he goes, that's the guy that actually owns the garage I do, man.
That guy was bidding to keep people out of his.
I'll donate.
I'm up to $40,000 to keep people the hell out of my house.
It was a magic.
And obviously, I called that out.
It was a great event.
Great event.
A lot of money raised.
And Indianapolis is, I understand, considered a small city or whatever.
But, like, whenever the people of Indiana and Indianapolis come together to do things, it's huge.
That felt like a massive event last night.
There was full production, full everything.
So much money raised.
The Ursae family went up there and they just $500,000 just dropped it on that.
It's like it felt like a big thing.
Absolutely.
And we're lucky to be a part of it.
And shout out to you for getting the Patriots helmet.
And shout out to Sam for running that thing up.
Yeah, appreciate that, Sam.
One half of the hammer.
Done.
Cowboys, Tony Diggs is here.
Tony, Pittsburgh Steelers are visiting with Russell Wilson today.
If you're listening to any airport media, there's people taking pictures
of Russell Wilson who was in Newark,
New Jersey. Obviously, as soon as you hear
that, you think to yourself, oh, so Russell
Wilson must have been visiting some teams. Allegedly
he was. Allegedly it was the Giants.
Then he was in the airport to fly
to where? Pittsburgh, when he took a
picture with a fan and it got posted.
I think Schefter and Rappaport
both reported this. Then obviously
he was being pictured coming off
the plane and Jilly Jets, who's a
flight attendant, said, you know what? I have
a good time as a flight attendant or as a pilot
and this is how I fly
in this entire thing. So shout out to Captain
Jilly Jets there for marketing
it, but it feels like Russ is headed to Pittsburgh
and it's starting to get
real. He's speed dating.
His team has allegedly come out and said that he would play for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Would the Raiders have him play for them?
We don't know.
Where do you stand with Pittsburgh, the Broncos, Mark Schlaireth's comments,
and Russell Wilson potentially being your guys' quarterback?
This kind of washed over me last night when I was looking at myself in the mirror
before going to bed.
I'm kind of sick to my stomach.
For half of my life, 17 years, I woke up every day and I knew that Seven was going to be our quarterback
and we were going to have a chance to win the Super Bowl.
I woke up this morning and I'm trying to convince myself that a guy that I said sucked for the last three years
is going to save the franchise.
Russ Wilson's coming to the Steelers.
I am sick to my stomach.
About yourself or about the situation? Just about the situation. Not yourself. You would never coming to the Steelers. I am sick to my stomach. About yourself or about the situation?
Just about the situation.
Not yourself. You would never feel like that about you.
I feel about myself like that every day.
Okay, this is starting to ooze out of you
to the outside world now.
Trying to convince yourself that Russ
is going to lead you to a Super Bowl is
quite a place to be in as a fan.
Yesterday I was doing it and then
Shlereth came in and he kind of changed
my opinion a little bit. Yeah, but he was in the middle of a workout.
He was a little jacked up. Yeah, it was a tough
time with Russ in Denver. And basically if we
bring Russ in, that's admitting that we
missed out on a first round quarterback.
We just wasted that pick.
I'm in a
bad spot today with all that to be honest with you.
Well, I think the Russell Wilson interest is
you're going to be okay. You're going to be okay, Tony. Don't worry,sell wilson interest is uh you're gonna be okay you're gonna be okay don't worry tony yeah still got tj what you've convinced
yourself to say a lot more things so you'll be able to get through this one if i had to guess
but the russell wilson market has become a very big one we assume because the price in which a
team is going to have to pay him is like $1.2 million because he's already getting 39 from the
Denver Broncos who are in the middle of dealing with the biggest dead cap acceptance in the
history of the NFL. Hey, $85 million over the next two years, you're not going to be able to use to
build your team in a team building way that money is a massive piece of it. This is the biggest ever, by far. This is 100 and something percent more
than the last biggest dead cap
that has ever been had by anybody,
which I believe was Matt Ryan with 40-some at Atlanta.
Then there was Carson Wentz.
Then there was Aaron Rodgers.
Then there was...
Russ again.
Russ Wilson, whenever he left the Seattle Seahawks or whatever.
So it's like all these things that are being decided
by the Denver Broncos
saying we'll pay all this money to get him out of here.
Then you listen to Mark Schlereth being like, Scott ruined the franchise.
That's what Mark Schlereth basically said.
Can't throw over the middle, which a lot of people started following up with
why he's not tall enough to throw the ball over the middle.
That's why he has to move in this entire thing.
Pittsburgh Steelers haven't thrown the ball down the middle ever.
Like that hasn't been their offense.
Not in the last two years.
At all anyway.
So it's like at $1.2 million
though, I think there's a lot of teams that are like,
yeah, I hear you, Mark.
We saw it too in Denver and
Monaco and everywhere else, but $1.2
million, this guy's less than a
punter or a kicker. This guy's less than some
long snappers.
Paying a guy
$1.2 million, massive weapon
for a team. I assume you don't care that the Steelers are taking a meeting because they need to.
No, no, no, no.
Okay.
No, I don't care that they're taking a meeting.
I just came to the realization last night that they're not winning a Super Bowl with him.
Were you with your daughter when this came over?
No, I had put her to bed already.
Okay, so now you're alone time with her.
Yeah.
It was just me and my wife.
My wife is out of town.
Tony's thoughts.
It was just me and myself, which is not a good place ever.
I need distractions, and this washed over me.
But maybe he'll be great again.
Or maybe everyone was super happy when he left Seattle,
and everyone's super happy when he left Denver.
But the next team is going to be great, maybe.
We don't know.
Yeah, the price.
I mean, at $40 million, you're pissed that you have Russell Wilson.
At $1.2 million.
Happy's here?
Why not?
Why doesn't he come to the Colts?
Exactly.
They need a backup, right?
Gardner's a free agent.
Bingo.
Maybe he starts the season.
Anthony Richardson watches.
Does his entire thing.
And he comes in.
Learns how to slide, get down, because Russ is great at that.
Yeah, let him cook a little bit.
Of course.
Yeah, $1.2 million.
He'd be getting paid less than our longstopper gets paid.
Bingo.
It's like, yeah, I will certainly roll the dice on a Russell Wilson
being a guy on our team at that price tag.
If it was $20 million, I think it's a whole different conversation.
Yep.
But now $1.2 million, he's taking pictures with fans.
Think about the baby face turn where he's going to make $39 million next year
regardless.
He's still getting paid top
of the market for quarterbacks next
year. But in a fan's perspective,
in 31 teams' perspective,
he's
no expectation, no money.
It's like, what a move
for Russ to have happen, even though it had to suck
the way Denver ended,
how Denver went had to suck. He's ended, how Denver went, had to suck.
It's like he's found himself in a great position
right now, and that's just a matter of fact.
Yeah, low risk, for sure, obviously,
for anyone who picks him up, but I think
that also, unfortunately, and who knows,
this could be completely wrong, we'll see, but
that almost kind of signals like the,
hey, this guy just isn't very good anymore.
We don't know how it happened. It's kind of
been like a very quick fall from grace.
But if that's the point...
Dan Orlovsky said he was top 10 in the league.
He certainly did.
And then yesterday, Stink, who lives in Denver, said,
this guy sucks.
He sucks.
I watched him all...
Once again, he was with Fuji.
Sure, sure.
And like you said, you know, testosterone's pumping.
Who knows what kind of pre-workout he had.
Triatine is definitely in there somewhere.
But if that's the only reason you're bringing him in is just because,
like, hey, he's cheap, you know?
It's like, are you actually thinking that he's all of a sudden going to
turn into 2015, 2013 Russ?
I don't think so.
Like Tony said, is Russ Wilson winning you a Super Bowl now?
I don't think he is.
And I think a lot of teams probably think that way,
but also if the alternative is, hey, we're going to absolutely stink,
this guy might be able to lead us to the playoffs
if he has a big resurgence here.
But when the silver lining to bring him in
and the only reason you're bringing him in is because, hey, he's cheap,
Denver's paying him everything,
I don't think that necessarily signals
the most glowing endorsement
of the guy. You're saying that all this is fake.
This is for gay's happiness. Yeah, kind of.
This is for gay's happiness. And again,
I'm happy for Russ. You see him taking pictures
and see how happy that guy is? He's getting paid.
Chili Jets comes out of
the cockpit and is like, wait a second. Exactly.
And he never really, you know,
he hasn't got to do this before in his career.
He got traded to the Broncos. He hasn't
got to go around. It's just unfortunate that
the situation now is like, he's just a
piece of poop on the scrap heap and they're just like,
hey, we'll bring you in for 1.2
million. Sure, you want to come in and see the
facility, but he's not getting wooed by
anyone. You don't know that.
I think I do. They said Mike Tomlin's
bringing him a Rudy Sobson from
A Sandwiches. Are the Giants just handing
them over? Is Dan Jones still a thing? Are the Steelers
just handing over? Is Penny still a thing? Are the Raiders
just handing over? Is Jimmy G or Aiden O'Connell
or whatever still a thing? The Giants
brought him a slice of Sbarro and said,
hey, here you go. You want to check out the facility?
You know, Sbarro's not bad. No, I love
Sbarro. I love Sbarro, too.
It's a classic New York slice. If there's Sbarro in an airport, I love Sparrow. I love Sparrow, too. It's a classic New York slice.
If there's Sparrow in an airport, I'm normally pretty pumped.
For sure.
Beeline.
Okay, I will do that.
It feels like they got the weight of the slice and the paper plate ratio figured out.
Remarkable.
Because some of those, it gets all sloppy.
Sparrow is the perfect mall, airport, move, slice.
Affordable combos as well.
You get to slice the breadstick and the drink for $7.
Then they also put it in the oven and make me feel like they're doing it for me.
Exactly.
Even though this thing's been made for a couple hours,
you are personally cooking it for me.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I was going to say, if it's not fresh, you might as well just eat the paper plate. It's got to be fresh
out of the oven. You can't have them put it
back in the oven, heat it up.
That's Nicholas Franklin Moraldo talking
and Anthony DiGiulio
is pumping his fists over here.
Today's a much better day now after I just read something.
What you just read, was it something about Sparrow
being the best pizza in town?
The best place you can find.
An actual free agent who would make a huge difference
is scheduled to visit the Steelers.
Mitch Morse is traveling to Pittsburgh to meet with the Steelers.
Now that's something that gets me going.
Now Friday is so much better now.
Mitch Morse is a dog in the Steelers.
Offensive line is certainly something I think that Steelers fans feel like
you could upgrade if you needed to.
And since Ponce hasn't been around, I think there's been some question marks at the center
position.
Joining us now is a man who's had to make these decisions in the past for a program.
He's an author.
He's a speaker.
He's a guy who has an email newsletter that gets you motivated every single day called
The Daily Coach.
Norma Reed, what I'm on, join him, Morty.
Smart.
Norma Reed, I'm on, join him, Morty.
Good start.
He's the host of a podcast. He's the host of a daily
show. Ladies and gentlemen, our friend,
Paisano Michael Lombardi.
Hey, I gotta tell you,
you guys gotta search out that John
Stewart, John Stewart did a
whole thing on when
Sarah Palin came back to New
York and Trump took her
to Sbarro's Pizza.
And then he went off on it and it's got to be one of
the funniest things I've ever seen in my life it's from the daily show I it's about 10 years old you
can find it on YouTube it's incredible he would disagree with all these praises for Sbarro but
you know everybody loves pizza differently so I can't judge well I assume because you're Italian
just like Morota back there and DeGiulio just did
over here and you're about to do the same.
Just like you guys bash Pizza Hut.
Exactly.
Just like you guys bash Pizza Hut.
Right.
I want to let you know, Pizza Hut, if the video that I watched the other day is real
and not AI and fake, Pizza Hut had a man who was very intoxicated who believed he was Jesus
Christ breaking into Pizza Hut to eat some of that pizza.
Called the police on himself.
Said his name was Jesus Christ.
Where are you?
Pizza Hut.
What do you think?
What else did you do?
I had Mountain Dew.
Anyways, there he is.
This guy right here.
Oh, man.
This guy right here.
That Mountain Dew was laced with something.
Watch your mouth.
That's Jesus Christ you're with something. Watch your mouth, Lobo!
That's Jesus Christ you're talking about.
Let's talk about these football myths. Let's talk football.
Okay, so Ty just went on a rant about how all this happiness
that all these teams and fans are showing for Russell Wilson
is strictly because he's worth $1.2 million,
and that's not necessarily a glowing endorsement of Russell Wilson,
which that is probably a fact.
But right now, Russ is doing like a tour, seemingly.
Was that the Giants allegedly being reported?
He's flying to Pittsburgh, which if you listen to Jerry Dulac yesterday
and piece together the photos from the airport,
he must be meeting with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Las Vegas Raidersiders he said he's
open to visit to this market is because teams know they don't have to pay him is that a bad thing is
it like fans i think it's a baby face turn for russell wilson you had some steelers fans yesterday
tone being included being like russell wilson one point yeah pumped yeah why not and some other
places doing it is it all bad that that's the only reason why people are viewing it?
I don't think so.
I think it's good for Russell Wilson.
This is a good time for him to potentially prove that he's still good.
What are your thoughts on it all?
Well, first of all, I think it's a two-phase plan, right?
If you're a team that is in need of a quarterback,
let's just say Minnesota, they lose Kirk Cousins,
or the Giants who have, as Rich Eisen reported,
are not in love finally with daniel
jones you may not be able to get a quarterback in this draft that you like but russell will be the
bridge to get you the quarterback to the next quarterback and i view him more as a bridge than
i do as a solution so you need that bridge guy to kind of get you through to where you can get to
the next quarterback because it's so damn
hard to find one and at least you know that if you put him in the game what he had eight turn
eight interceptions last year you know you can manage the game and the other three two parts
of your team are going to have to help you win uh i don't see it as a deterrent because of his
salary i think it really it basically every salary determines what the role is on the player right
so if I said to you Pat you're going to be my starting quarterback I'm going to have to pay you
x amount of dollars to show you that with incentives with him you just can simply say
look we're going to bring you in you're going to compete and we'll see how you play and we'll go
from there and I think that's kind of a good thing for your team if he's willing to accept that role.
Remember, when Kurt Warner left the Giants, he was not playing well in his NFL career.
And then he went to Arizona, was the backup there, and then became the starter.
And I think those two years that he had at Arizona was what got him into the Hall of Fame.
Yeah, I think so, too.
And he's a story that we all love because that Lifetime
movie, Hallmark Channel movie.
It wasn't Hallmark. It was
a Hallmark movie. It was in theaters.
He didn't tell me. I'm saying it was a
Hallmark genre
movie. Of course. I'm crying my
eyes out watching that movie.
Kurt Warner came on our show and marketed that
movie and I'm like, okay, he's coming on our show to market a movie.
This is going to be a football movie. We love Kurt Warner. I and marketed that movie. And I'm like, okay, he's coming on our show to market a movie. This is going to be a football movie.
And we love Kurt Warner.
I go watch that movie.
I'm bawling my eyes out, like literally crying my eyes out.
But I think, like, you learn his entire story,
and then you see the setbacks.
He gets Arizona.
He does great.
It's like the good comparison with Russell Wilson is because we feel like
Russell Wilson is like a movie character quarterback.
Everything he says seemingly comes out of a movie script of an NFL quarterback,
even when he's mic'd up. Seemingly off the field, he's the same exact way as he is on the field.
He was made to be an NFL quarterback in the movies. Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose,
doing the full walkthrough on the Pittsburgh Steelers football field.
Before the game, whenever he was hurt,
his finger was hurt, remember? He does that whole walkthrough down the
field in the stadium while they have
a sky cam on him, which once again, not
his fault that they have the sky cam on him.
There was nobody else in that stadium but the football team,
but that gets out. It's like, that's
all shit that comes out of starting quarterback
movie stuff. So if you think about the Russell Wilson story arc here this would be a great revenge
get back prove myself type thing do you think he does that which team do you think offers him that
particular situation like what what team if you were Russell Wilson would you be trying to get to
so that you could potentially prove to the world hey i still have it this is
all part of the story pretty much i would go to pittsburgh because they're going to be a good
team defensively i mean think how great tj watt is right he rarely plays with the lead and he still
affects the game tremendously which is hard to do right and so if he goes to pittsburgh and you know
with arty smith they're going to run the football it's going to be play action it's going to be that outside zone stuff I think he has a chance that the rest of the team
can help him and he's not going to have to carry the team plus he's got really good skill players
there I mean they've got some really good skill players that we have not noticed enough because
of the lack of play at quarterback I mean Mason Rudolph played well against Buffalo getting the
ball to the people we needed to get it to So I think that's an ideal situation for him because they're a good team.
They're always going to be a good team.
They're mentally tough.
They're physical.
And here's the key part for Russell.
They're not going to draft a quarterback.
They're not going to draft a quarterback.
So you're not worried about somebody coming in.
And if he goes to the Raiders, the Raiders trade up to get Jaden Daniels and they draft Bo Nix or somebody else.
Now, all of a sudden, you sign with a team that doesn't do you any good.
So he would be competing with Kenny, though?
You think he'd be competing with Kenny, right?
Yeah, I mean, he's going to watch the tape and say,
look, I can compete with Pickett.
I mean, I'll go in there and beat him out.
And I'm sure Pickett will say, no, you can't beat me out.
That's good for a team.
That's good for a team.
And eventually, you've got to make that decision because when steve young and joe montana were competing
against one another somebody ronnie lot went to bill walsh and said look we you need to make a
decision here coach because we can't have two quarterbacks and finally he chose walt he chose
montana but i think that's would be a healthy situation i would not fear competition at
quarterback if you're pittsburgh you're Pittsburgh, you need it.
You absolutely need it.
So it does kind of scare me in some places.
Like I feel like if you have two quarterbacks,
you have no quarterbacks,
the locker room needs to know who,
right.
The locker room needs to know who's doing what,
but you're right.
If you don't have now,
Kenny is going to say he got injured.
They got rid of an offense coordinator.
They bring in actual offensive humans that run good NFL offenses.
He did good.
He's out.
Mason comes in, does his thing.
Kenny probably assumes he would do the exact same.
And we're pulling for you, Kenny.
We're pulling for you.
That's the case.
But at $1.2 million, like if Russell loses, even if Mason Rudolph's better than him, you can cut him.
Yeah.
Like it is.
Not that you would.
I'm not saying Russell Wilson's going to get cut.
But at $1.2 million, you're a special teamer.
You're a long snapper.
You can get cut at $1.2 million and not affect the team.
Now, that goes to this next conversation.
Because if it's just a one-year deal, that makes sense.
But Russell's probably going to sign a two-year deal, right? And the way you'd be selling to him as a GM would be, hey, you're making 39.
If we give you 11 in that second year, that's 50 total.
Is that what you're trying to sell?
How are you getting that deal done for a second year with Russell Wilson
if that is inevitably what's going to have to happen somewhere?
I would say to Russell, look, prove it to us I'd do a one-year deal
because when you get into that second year
and if you start to have to guarantee any money in that second year,
I don't think you can sit there and say to the tape,
I want to do this as a smart move for me.
I see this as a one-year prove-it type deal.
With Baker Mayfield signed down in Tampa Bay, prove it to me.
Show me you have it, And if you're good enough,
we'll resign you. That's not an issue. I mean, we're going to get you back on the team. I agree
with what you said about the quarterback, the locker room, but the locker room, those guys are
smart in that locker room. They'll know who the best quarterback is rather quickly, right? They
go out to practice. They do a good job of camouflaging it from the media, but there's
no team that I've been a part of that didn't know who was the best quarterback on the team and also the locker room like the only issue there is if
whoever's making decision who's the starting quarterback is opposite of what the locker
room thinks that's right then that's when you get in real trouble yeah yeah that's a problem like
that's got to be the same because if if the group on the field is seeing it differently than the
people that are making the decisions,
that's when you lose the trust of, you know what I mean?
Yep, no question.
And that's not just quarterback position.
That's a lot of different positions where it's kind of taking place where it's like, hey, you saw what they did to ba-ba-ba.
It's like that starts becoming the issue.
You can't fool the locker room.
The one thing I learned in my career, you can't fool the locker room.
I mean, there's two things that happen in the locker room.
There's a lot of business meetings going on they know every salary in the league and they know
also and they can evaluate every player on the team so you can't really fool the locker if you
try to you lose credibility well there's also a third thing going on there's some sort of uh
gambling happening sure so there's some dice or cards happening somewhere in i wonder if the modern
locker room has dice in there or anything like that. Never playing for money.
Always just like M&M's.
M&M's and stuff like that, obviously.
Merchants, socks,
and cleats.
And bragging rights.
Yeah, bragging rights.
That was what it was about the entire
time. Conman's got a question for you,
Lombo. Yeah, Lombo. Obviously this draft
season as a Patriots fan is much more serious
because of the fact that they're sitting at number three.
And we've now heard from three different people that they would take
all three quarterbacks at number one.
Florio and the majority have Caleb.
Or Shlovsky has come on and he has said Jaden Daniels should go one.
Darius Butler played a golf round with drake may he said he would take
drake may number one so for a patriots fan what should we be expecting because we're hearing a
lot of stuff now i mean since the start of the combine to now we've drafted eight different guys
and we've made six different trades with that number three overall pick what do you think that
i should be thinking as far as expectations go with what new england
will do at three and do you see everything still on the table right now i think everything's on
the table if you know elliot and his dad ron i mean they they're going to take the best player
the highest graded they're not going to fudge the grade to get the quarterback up there and they
could easily you know maneuver this notion and i don't agree with this this is why i
call it lying season you know somebody put out a report that jayden daniels camp told everybody he
won't go to the patriots come on all of a sudden now that's a destination not to go to i think i
find that hard to believe so i think what you do if you're new england is you grade them out you see
them and then you know that if you sit there and your phone's going to ring on draft day, if you don't want to pick the
quarterback or if you want to trade back, hypothetically, say you have the same grade
on Bo Nix that you have on Drake May, just hypothetically, then you figure out where you
have to go to get Bo Nix. You move down, you pick up picks, and then you end up with the guy you
wanted anyway. But I think it's way too early to start maneuvering around the draft board.
I think it's way too early for that.
I think a lot is what's going to happen.
Let's say they sign Jacoby Brissett in free agency, the Patriots.
Okay, there's their bridge quarterback, right?
Now they'll go with Jacoby Brissett, whomever else they get.
Do they draft the guy?
I don't know.
But they may be able to add more talent to their team
and then still find the quarterback.
So I think there's a lot of team, kind of the way you build your team
has yet to be determined.
I'm sure there's somebody on that board in New England right now
that they would take automatically at three.
Are there three players that they would take automatically at three?
I find that hard to believe.
I think that's always a little bit of a lie.
The other lie that often happens here, and we're going to hear about it now, five teams are involved with one player in
free agency. Five teams are competing. That's the biggest lie known to me. There's never five
teams involved. There are five teams that have called. There's five teams that have expressed
interest. There's usually just two teams left in it, and maybe it's usually just one competing against himself. Never five.
I was the auctioneer last night for a live auction
obviously
at the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital thing.
There was a drunk rich in the middle.
White. Drunk rich white in the middle.
And for one
entire auction item, I had
him bidding against himself.
Awesome.
I go, hey buddy, we need 30.
He's like, 30,000.
Every time he did it, he stood up and yelled in the entire room.
I was like, all right, we all know him.
Perfect.
I look to my left.
There's no humans over here.
All right, 36.
Okay, buddy, hey, we need 37.
He goes, 37.
All right, 38.
Yep, nobody here.
We need 40.
Yep, 40.
I got this guy to outbid himself four straight times
okay and this one item everybody in the room obviously acknowledged and then a big hammer
came over top and said like 70 000 or something it was over like that he was like sat down i was
like all right you're not in on that one but that is the game for uh free agency is you need at least
two you need at least two right that's what everybody said you really want the home team
you really want the home team. You really want the home team
because if the home team's not involved,
then you're negotiating for another player.
You want that home team
because that home team knows the player really well
and wants them back.
You want them in there.
Now, you know that if it's close,
that the guy's going to stay with the home team.
You know that.
Usually, players will stay where it's comfortable. But with the home team. You know that. Usually players will stay where it's comfortable.
But if the home team's not involved,
then it really comes down to you
and you've got to figure out who else.
Like Christian Wilkins, there'll be people involved,
but there have been eliminations along the way.
I would suspect by Monday at 12.05,
we'll know where he's going to go
and we'll have a sense of it because there have been about
two teams, and one just outbid the other.
Okay, so you're saying whenever we hear the
five teams are in it, or six teams are in it,
that means five or six people
looked into it, heard what the game was going to be,
heard what the price was going to be,
and they're like, alright, we're going to be out on that.
And then two people stick in.
If only one team sticks in at that particular
price, boom, we got a deal.
If none of the teams stick in at the price, all of a sudden five people back interested again.
Hey, we have reduced the price of the house.
The house is now worth this.
Are you back?
No, they never reduced the price.
You'll see something on Twitter that says it's starting to heat up between these three teams.
You'll start to see some more misinformation come out.
You'll start to see that, oh, we've got to get involved.
You know, try to stoke the fire a little bit. I love that. Everything's done through,
everything's done through the media. And you as a general manager, you're basically playing poker.
You got to sit there and say, I could see that. I can't, you know, like, okay, let's take Saquon Barkley. They have the Eagles really interested in them. They may be, but of their history,
Philadelphia has never put money into a running back. They've be. But of their history, Philadelphia has never put money
into a running back. They've drafted them in the second round, but they've never spent $13, $14,
$15 million per year on a running back. So would they be interested in Barkley at a certain price?
I'm sure they would. Do I think they go to $14 or $15? It's never been in their DNA to do that.
What's been in their DNA is to sign defensive linemen, which is what I think
they'll do as soon as it starts. So with all that being said, Michael Lombardi, it is time to
introduce this brand new segment called Lombo's Lying Season.
Oh, there you go. Yeah, we talk about this every day. It's lying season. Now we're in it big time.
Here's one of the things that has been put out that you thought to yourself maybe not jj
mccarthy and beau nix have a market that is heating up i believe is is what it is are hot
you're saying that might not be true what is this coming from how is this coming from
well i think when you watch jj mccarthy i think one of the things that most teams will do is watch the third down tape on all these quarterbacks. Why will you watch third down,
just third down? Because that's the fast down. If you said to me, why has Daniel Jones not been a
good player? Because when the game speeds up, he can't speed up. You have to be quick-minded and
quick-footed to play quarterback in the NFL. You've got to be able to make quick decisions.
You've got to get your feet in the right spot, and you've got to do those things.
So for me, I think when you watch McCarthy on third down, he's very effective.
Bo Nix, I thought, had a really good workout.
I think Bo Nix's tape is better than people think.
I do think they're moving up.
Do I think they're going to be in the top five?
That I can't answer at this point.
Would I have graded both quarterbacks as potential starters or starting quarterbacks? I think that's
kind of where I am. And I think there is some fabric of the league that likes the players
because they can offer some things. Are they perfect? No, I don't think nobody's perfect.
Like Bill Walsh used to say this all the time, the search for the perfect player never ends.
There are no perfect players.
But I think to me that these guys are going to show that they have a lot of
skill and can play on the next level.
Pat Holmes feels like a little bit.
He's close.
He's close.
Manning was close.
Yeah.
I mean,
there are a lot of guys close,
but it's close.
Megatron was.
Megatron was Jerry
Reggie White
Reggie White
Ronnie Lott, Joe Montana
Lawrence Guy
Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Guy
Lawrence Guy
you know it
he's a good dude
Daniel Perfect don't even get into this Keith Van Noy stuff that you have in the past Larry Scott. Hey, Larry, yeah, you know it. Longbow, you know it. He's a good dude. He's a good dude.
Danny, you're perfect.
Don't even get into this Keith Van Noy stuff that you have in the past.
We've talked about this before.
You talked about perfect.
And, you know, I haven't read the entire book,
but I think a lot of it is about Jesus Christ on a football field.
Yeah, Holden.
Oh, my God.
Slant rats.
Oh, he's coming across the middle.
And just like he was on water. Oh, water, he's got feet like a shorebird.
Like, actually, he's dancing around everybody.
An entire hill takeoff.
Oh, my.
Yeah, I couldn't even imagine when he just does this one here.
You know what that means?
He's got that big robe hanging.
Does this.
Just chuck it.
Sauce Gardner's like, oh, shit.
You know, Jesus Christ.
And from some of the photos, I think he's whacked,
but then that doesn't make a lot of sense.
So, I mean, that's a whole conversation of itself.
Paul Amalu would have put his shoulder right into Jesus' midsection.
He'd have been sucking wind for an hour.
No, he knows how to avoid hits, dude.
What are you talking about?
This is Jesus Christ.
Troy, I mean, Jesus' dad was telling Troy where to go.
I mean, obviously, Jesus' dad wouldn't tell Troy in that scenario when Yeah, people said actually Troy Palamalu was getting messages from the football gods
telling him where the ball was going, which is why he had such good anticipation on things.
Troy Palamalu, pretty close, I guess, to a perfect football player.
Anyways, this is lying season.
You got another one that you sent over.
You said, you know, this is being reported right now that the Bears like Odunzeay neighbors more than harrison that might not be true might be true though you're saying these
are just things that are being talked about right now that we will get an answer to whenever the
draft inevitably comes what are your thoughts on this particular one i think to me i think that
these receivers are clustered together look harrison's got great size and everybody has
him as the number one but i think these other two receivers are close to him and I think that's the conversation and look I think the Bears are going
to take a quarterback but I think the Bears could easily get a receiver at their next pick if one of
these guys are to make it down to him so I don't think this is well Harrison's you know on this
level and then the other two guys are 15 levels below him. I think it's a lot
closer, and I think teams look at that, and that's how you manage drafts, and that's where the
horizontal board comes in as much as the vertical board comes in. You've got to be able to measure
it in two levels. We constantly talk this offseason about the vertical board, who's the
best receiver, who's the best, but how he relates to the best defensive tackle or how he relates to the best offensive tackle
or how he relates to other positions in offense,
I think that's important.
And where the Bears are just, you know,
I know that they're going to be able to do all the homework on all the receivers
because if they pass on a receiver in the first round,
they're going to take a quarterback.
If they don't trade down, which I don't think they will,
you know they're going to try to add another blue-ch to their top 10 list and those two guys i think people see them
as blue chip receivers these young receivers are seemingly getting better than they've ever been
yeah you know and i don't think and we've been we're stooges that cover the draft because the
draft spectacular is like our biggest show every year and it makes no sense because i mean this
year we're going to be at the draft i think so it should be a pretty cool little thing but it's like nobody knows what's going to happen
in the draft at all but like trends seem to be that these younger receivers are better quicker
and making bigger type of impacts on football game so whenever you're talking about these guys that
are at the top of the pack this is like one wide receiver as soon as you drop them in right that's what this is hey
this is going to be our offense changer this is game wrecker coming in immediately is that kind
of the thought on the top wide receivers well the number one receiver it's it's a myth in football
there's very few of them but what you have to have to be a really good team is a guy who can line up
on the outside and win on the outside running routes i mean the worst thing is if you can't
win on the outside against press coverage man-to-man on third down
and you've got to separate.
Those are the guys that are the ones that win.
And it has to happen outside the numbers.
And these guys have indicated based on their play at Washington, LSU,
and at Ohio State that they have that ability.
That's what makes T. Higgins so good.
That's what makes Jamar Chase so good.
What makes Tyreek Hill so good. What makes
Tyreek Hill so good is he can line up anywhere across the field and win. But winning on the
outside at receiver, you know, that's why Brandon Ayuk is so important to the 49ers because of all
their receivers, and they've got a lot of good players, but the one who wins on the outside is
Ayuk. They need that. That stretches the field horizontally as much as it does vertically. If
you don't have that, then all of a sudden teams pack the middle of the field on you and it becomes very difficult.
And finding that guy who can win one on one on the outside is a lot harder than you think it is.
Everybody thinks they can find that guy, but it's hard to do because it takes a different kind of guy out there.
It takes quickness. It takes incredible balance, too, because you're always going to be in some form of traffic and it also takes incredible hands like the amount of work drugs machine you
got to put in the amount of work route running you got to put in the amount of work conditioning
you got to put in because you're running miles and miles like it's not easy to be a number one
wide receiver that's why justin jefferson's going to get how much you think per year but he'll get
over 30 he's got well tyreek's at 30 per year and he's the highest paid guy, so he's going to get over
that. That's what you just said there.
And then the other thing I think I
should have added to it is the
coverage gets rolled to the number one receiver
on the outside. When that happens, all of a sudden
stuff opens up in the
middle of the field for everybody else.
In T.Y. Hilton, I watched
as it happened to him.
It was like a massive compliment to him,
but it was also like life is much worse all of a sudden
because we had Reggie for a long time.
So Reggie was the guy that everybody rolled to
because Reggie was so smart,
even when he wasn't maybe running the fastest that he used to run,
he was able to find holes, and Andrew Luck was able to find them.
So Reggie, Reggie, Reggie.
That's why he's going to be Hall of Famer?
No, going to be a Hall of Famer No, going to be a Hall of Famer.
Needs to be a Hall of Famer.
Reggie Wayne needs to be a Hall of Famer.
He was our guy, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And then one game, I think it was New England.
I think it was Bill Belichick.
Bill Belichick rolled that son of a bitch right over to T.Y.,
and it was like T.Y. had no yards.
It was like nothing.
And it was like a massive compliment to T.Y.,
like massive compliment right
hey congratulations but also life is different now ty and then started you know he had to start
operating a little bit different than that and there were some shots where there's like six eyes
on ty and it's like that's why it takes a special person to be that person because there's going to
be layers to this shit as you continue to grow older if you can find one get one that's why the marvin harrison jr stuff like i think everybody with a sane mind is like gonna figure it out yeah
it's done but there's some people coming out like maybe not though it's like uh i think he's gonna
he's so big he's so big i mean that's the other thing you need to be physical out there you need
to be able to you know win and and and these as they get bigger, you've got to be able to battle them at the line of scrimmage and you've got to be able to win. And then, look, you've got to be able to win against the double coverages. I mean, Randy Moss, I mean, he was able to do that. He split it. You know, when you went in and out coverage on Moss, that was you got him, I got him, nobody's got him because he took it down the field. You know, so those are the hard guys to defend.
And then it helps your offense.
And I think to me that that's what Harrison, forget what Harrison runs on the 40.
It's about how he plays the game and how he's able to burst at the top of his route.
You know, everybody looks at the first 10.
It's at the top of the route that is most critical for receivers.
When you're selling.
When he's separating so the quarterback sees space to throw the football. Yeah, at the top of the route, he most critical for receivers when you're selling when he says separating so the quarterback sees space to throw the football yeah at the top of the router he's selling right there
either go or stop and that's where you need the gear that's where that different gear helps for
people now not only all that about marvin harrison jr and obviously i know his dad because he was a
cult a legend here but like the stories they talk about his work ethic it's like bobby carpenter goes
in to work out with college kids at like 530 a.m.
Every single morning. He's a 40 year old radio host in Columbus.
Former Buckeye really jacked and strapped and in shape and hilarious.
He said he gets in when he gets in there. Marvin Harrison's on the jugs already.
Like he's the only person in there on the jugs machine.
And then at night, whenever Bobby's going back for his afternoon lift, Marvin Harrison, after practice, after class,
he's like the last one on the jugs as well.
It's like he's been given a game by his dad.
Like, hey, this is how this whole thing goes.
I'm excited to see who becomes the guy out of this draft class
because what Justin Jefferson has done just so quickly, boom,
off and running, changing the thing.
Everybody's hoping for that for the next one.
Now, here's the next lying quote in the last one.
And obviously it's close to home up there with New England.
This is per Phil A. Perry.
There are those in Jaden Daniels' camp
who would really rather he not come to New England.
And that's probably climate related.
Now, I bring this one up mostly because
whenever they say camp, what does that mean?
Does that mean somebody that's-
I have no
idea it's all this is always how this goes though like the camp says this it's like what does that
mean the camp this feels like the perfect iteration of lying season to maybe sway some patriots people
away from liking jayden daniels because jayden daniels doesn't want to come to your cold ass
town is that an accurate way to read this type of thing?
Or how much truth is there in this?
I can't imagine this is true.
I mean, I know he's from, you know, he grew up in Arizona, played at Arizona State, LSU.
But come on.
You go to a team that's had such great history and tradition to it, just because it's a little cold?
I can't even begin to fathom that.
Like, whoever's saying that in his camp you know is
is really you know now there's two ways to look at this right he could be saying that because
he doesn't think he's going to make it to the patriots so you got to draft me at number two
you know everything that you look at this stuff is i can go both ways right but why would a player
not want to go to a team especially when when you know that the draft is slotted by money.
It's all slotted by money.
If you go three and not eight, you're making
a hell of a lot more money.
It's all awesome to follow.
You can buy ham warmers for the difference
between three and eight. Trust me.
You're the best. I appreciate you so much.
Have an incredible day. Thank you for joining us, Bison.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks, Kevin. Michael Lombardi.
Yeah, Lambo!
Now, Lambo, he doesn't bat a thousand either but he's been in all these seats and now he's doing the media thing he's like i know exactly how this all goes he probably when gm
was potentially you know he said you're playing poker that means you're trying to get reads
trying to get signs trying to send some things out and people forget whenever you're bidding
on this free agency you you can kind of get a guess on who else is in the game,
but they're not just openly telling you,
hey, this team is bidding this right now if this is what you want.
It's kind of all blind auctioning on trying to figure out what it is.
Not as easy in the GM chair as it appears on the Internet
with reports that aren't real, maybe real, somewhat real,
kind of real, and everything around that.
One of the greatest scenes in cinema of all time
is when Brad Pitt is the GM of the Oakland A's in Moneyball,
and he's calling around to three or four different GMs,
and he's communicating with his right-man man and being like,
he's lying, that's a lie, let's put this out there.
That's what I envision all these GMs are doing.
It makes this process, this free agency thing,
this is one of the cooler times of the NFL season
because of all those reasons.
I concur completely.
We have some breaking news out of Miami.
Nice.
No.
Good news.
Jake Bailey, punter for the Dolphins,
is signing a two-year deal, $2.1 million per, $4.2 million total.
That is not Jake Bailey.
That is Michael Polardi in that photo.
That a boy Schultz.
Jake Bailey's a righty.
That is Polardi, who's a lefty.
That's why I was so confused when I was looking down, looking at that,
because the photo does not match the name.
Fowler did tweet it, too, so it is true.
The news? Yes. For the photo. Hey, that a baby it too, so it is true. The news?
For the photo.
Hey, that's baby Jake.
Remember, Jake was up there in New England.
Oh, yeah.
For the brand.
I don't know if Jake got injured.
Yeah, he did cleats for the brand for my wife's foundation.
Fundraiser was last night.
Right, yes.
Over $2 million raised last night.
Hell yeah.
In Indianapolis.
Foundation, big fan of Jake Bailey out of Stanford.
Ran into a little bit of a rut up in New England.
I don't know if it was injury-based or if it was technique-based
or whatever the case was.
He ends up leaving.
Now he's at Miami, same division, two-year deal for you.
That's good money.
And for you guys, that's good money.
I feel like this is a good deal for both sides.
Here we go.
Right on.
Look at that.
You guys are winning.
Christian Wilkins is gone, but guess what?
You're going to be pinning him deep.
Got a new tight end, too.
Dolph to make a move.
Super Bowl back on.
No, it doesn't sound like that's how you feel.
No, definitely.
No, you've been pretty negative about it all.
Well, Christian Wilkins is a very big loss to that team.
Didn't Xavier and Howard say that doors closed on them coming back from Dolphins as well?
It's all right.
Hey, with every new beginning. That's right. Hey, with every new beginning,
it comes from some other beginnings.
A lot of teams are entering the next chapter.
Consider the Dolphins one of them.
Previous chapter was very explosive and very small,
but the next one's going to be the best,
just like our next hour
when we're back on the other side in three.
See you then. We have another minute
We have another minute
Yeah
Well this is a
We have 44 more seconds
Yep
Which is the perfect time though
The thing about this
Feel Good Friday
Uh huh
Is
That sometimes
You have to remind yourself
that a break is good yeah yeah you know whenever you don't not expect it right because the weekend
is right around the corner so sometimes you throw to a commercial break just to remind yourself hey
take it easy on yourself uh-huh remind yourself that this weekend's going to be the greatest of
all time with that being said hour two is on the other side right of this three minute break and when we get back it's going to be the best one of all. With that being said, hour two is on the other side of this three-minute break.
And when we get back,
it's going to be the best one of all time.
Yeah, you were a little distraught this morning.
We all thought Lincoln Riley died.
So who would have thought,
you know, going into the second hour?
Boards!
Are fantastic,
and we're lucky to talk about them
every single day. I would like to give a big time
shout out to jill at master control over at espn because when i sent this particular program to a
commercial break one minute earlier than i was supposed to last hour they had a full whoa whoa
did we mess something up you did not chill i believe it's it's women's Day over there in control. Hey, you ladies are crushing it.
Let's go.
It was the men.
It was the men that messed that up.
Joe, we appreciate the hell out of you and everybody else that is back in ESPN every single day that we are live who like our show.
Yeah.
Nice.
For those that don't, to hell with all of you.
Right.
But for those that like us, we appreciate you.
And, Joe, keep crushing it.
The Talks at the Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt.
One half of the hammer. Dad! Cowboys
10 digs this year. What are we gambling on?
What do we got this weekend? This weekend is a
huge CBB weekend. The conference tournaments
have started. I don't know if they've started for the major
conference. Hold on. So I saw Pepperdine
was up 40-2. Yeah.
They did not let up. They won by
50, I'm pretty sure. Is Pepperdine good?
They are a great WCC team.
It's a no.
The answer, I think, is...
West Coast Conference.
No, of course, West Coast Conference.
I would ask Gumpy this question, to be honest.
Gump, is Pepperdine good?
They're decent.
Not great.
I think they'll lose today, probably, to UC San Diego.
But we'll see.
We got the...
He has a take on the UC San Diego Pepperdine basketball game.
We got the Iowa quarterfinals for the women's conference tonight against Penn State.
There it is.
What's going on?
The women's conference tournaments have started quarterfinals.
Yeah, Big Ten tournament has started.
Iowa, Penn State.
Tonight?
Yes.
Okay.
Caitlin Clark's playing basketball tonight.
Correct.
That's what I just heard.
Correct.
Where at?
Minneapolis is where the Big Ten tournament is.
Where can I?
Oh, I want to say it might be on Fox or Big Ten Network.
Kaitlyn Clark is not on Big Ten Network.
She's been on Big Ten Network a couple times.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
I'm surprised by that because I heard that there was a chance,
and this was internet fodder,
that Fox was thinking about putting an NIL deal together for Kaitlin Clark
or the conversation was talked about to put an NIL deal together for Kaitlin Clark.
Like, hey, another year at Iowa, maybe?
Maybe we'll do this thing again.
That was not confirmed.
I'm just saying it was hypothesized in the Internet world.
And in my head, I was thinking, that's good.
That would be a smart business move.
It was like the head of TV for Fox Sports basically put out a tweet like,
hey, yeah, why don't you consider coming back next year?
I don't know if it was actually confirmed,
but I saw there were some rumblings about if Iowa makes it to the Big Ten
championship, yeah, they're putting it on CBS, which is big time viewership.
And on this International Women's Day, of course.
Obviously.
Hell yeah, women.
Every day.
Shout out, women.
Crush it.
Shout out to the women in all of our lives.
We've been watching as we grow older and start our families now,
what women are capable of doing.
The pregnancy thing
i hope every human every man has to watch a woman go through pregnancy and then see what you gotta
say afterwards you know what i mean just see what you gotta say afterwards let alone the pregnancy
and the human growing inside of a body in the way your organs are just shifting and how there's new
things getting pumped through your body to
create another life. So like
not only are you balancing the body, which
is in pain, but also the mental
the whole thing.
And then getting
human out of body.
Now that's a whole nother
So shout out to the ladies.
Legends. We appreciate that
Not only that for everything else
If you're not a shout out to the ladies person out there
Which you're an idiot
But like the pregnancy thing is wild
It is absolutely wild
It's one of the greatest feats I think I've ever seen
Physically mentally
Shout out to the ladies tonight
Shout out to Caitlin Clark
It's on what CBS
That's the Big Ten Championship
on Sunday is on CBS. Tonight's Big Ten
Network. Tonight's Big Ten Network. Who's
on the other side here? Ohio State?
Ohio State is the one seed. Iowa
is the two seeds. Okay, so they could run
into each other. Correct. Okay, here we go.
Caitlin Clark basketball. We will watch that.
Joining us now is a man who is a part of the
regular season Big
Ten Women's College Basketball Championship.
He has a tree on the campus, actually.
Synonymous with the campus because he's a college football national champion.
He's also a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner.
Ladies and gentlemen, the current president of Ohio, A.J. Hawk.
A.J., you guys won the regular season Big Ten Championship,
the Ohio State Women's Team.
Congratulations.
Congrats, AJ. Congrats, Ohio.
Congrats.
That doesn't punch your ticket to the tournament, right?
If you win the Big Ten tournament, then you get in no matter what your record, correct?
Yeah, but I think if you were to lose early in the Big Ten tournament,
you would still make it in, right?
Because you won the rest.
You get some good rest, actually, for the tournament.
Ohio State is confirmed at large.
A lot of people are speculating that if Ohio State and Iowa make it to the championship together,
they might both get one seeds in the NCAA tournament.
Which would be good for the NCAA tournament,
because obviously Ohio State's support of the women's basketball,
not that it isn't like this everywhere, pretty insane.
In the Iowa support, and I think they have home games, right, in the women's?
Yes, they have a home regional.
Yeah, so they're going to want that.
Good idea.
Yeah, I think that's good.
Hey, women's college basketball, this year was fun to watch.
Yeah, incredible.
It helped me.
There was nights where there was nothing on, and it was like I enjoyed the hell out of it.
For sure.
So good luck to all of them.
And if we get an LSU or South Carolina, Iowa situation again, come on.
We have to.
I mean, it has to end up like that, doesn't it?
Are there a bunch of other teams that are challenging now to get up in that top tier?
Stanford is the only one.
Stanford, Ohio State, Iowa.
So isn't UConn, Notre Dame also normally good?
Is that not the case anymore?
UConn's down a little bit, but I still think they're pretty good.
Yeah.
South Carolina's still nasty.
Yep. And then there's also a couple, like Virginia pretty good. Yeah. South Carolina's still nasty. Yep.
And then there's also a couple, like Virginia Tech's very good.
South Carolina's undefeated.
How about West Virginia?
We're obviously very good.
I don't think you guys are worth a shit, but I haven't seen them play.
I did see Huggy Bear was back.
They're pacing themselves.
You guys are bad, bad at basketball.
Huggy Bear was back.
You've seen the seniors.
Cross the board.
What do you mean we're bad, bad?
It's a bad program.
It's Senior Day.
That means they're good.
Senior day means good.
Actually, funny enough, everyone.
Phil Brown got extended, so good news for WVU athletes.
His name's Neil.
Phil.
The football coach you're talking about, Tone?
Yep.
I'm done with this.
This is not how this is going to go.
This is not how this is going to go.
Garrett Green, I'm not saying anything about the football coach.
GG spots were on WAP.
Brother.
He's been posting videos of him throwing the rock shirtless.
He looks cool.
Okay.
And we're talking.
You know that one Instagram account, like the perfect spiral?
Mm-hmm.
That guy who throws that perfect spiral?
Oh, yeah.
That's what GG's balls are looking like right now.
Wow.
He had an 8K camera sitting behind him, GG.
We're talking about Garrett Green about to run wild for West Virginia.
Did run wild end of the season last year.
Won a lot of games last year.
Big 12 is our conference.
Should be because the Big 12 is an absolute crapshoot now that Texas and Oklahoma are gone.
Yeah.
It's always been West Virginia's.
It's yours for the taking.
I think it's your guys' for the taking.
For the taking.
Doesn't Herbie owe you something for that?
Yeah, we're going to.
I'm going to announce this now,
even though it has not been scheduled and we have no idea
if it's possible. Me and Kirk Herbstreit
will be doing a live show
at a theater in Morgantown
where the ticket money that
is raised will be donated 50-50
to the NIL
and to the Children's Hospital
down there, right across the parking
lot from the stadium.
So thank you to Kirk Herbstreit for paying up on his bet.
Thank you for doing that.
Give him back to the team.
Game day will be there five or six times this year, probably.
You have plenty of opportunities.
See, that's what you Ohio people do.
That's what you Ohio people do.
I'm not joking.
You said they gave the coach, not Phil Brown, but Neil Brown, an extension.
So obviously they're up and coming.
Up and coming.
We have arrived a long time ago.
The Clive has been there.
Clive in the mountain.
All right.
Let's go.
That's an announcement, though.
We're done.
That's sweet.
We have no idea if that's even possible.
Have not ran that by Herbie, but that doesn't matter.
No, no.
You lost her.
That's whatever you want.
That's kind of how that goes.
You're playing, too, Herbie. that goes You're playing too, Herbie
You're playing
And we get his dog Peter
And Ben
Peter and Ben
And you're flying
You're coming to pick us up
And then we're going
That's what we're doing
Raising money for West Virginia
For the kids
For the football team
Herbie, you're a good guy
Superstar And we get dogs Thanks, Kirk Sorry, yeah of money for West Virginia, for the kids, for the football team. Herbie, you're a good guy.
Superstar. And we get dogs. Thanks, Kirk.
Sorry.
Enjoy that time with Ben. He's going to be Thunderdome's dog. We get two of Kirk's
dogs.
Keep your sons at home.
All right, let's talk about some stuff happening in the NFL.
A couple deals
were done. Jalen Johnson with the Chicago
Bears has signed a four-year, $76 million deal.
This is being reported.
We have no idea if it's real.
Once again, everything is potentially not real
that is talked in the sports world
because everybody has an angle in their reporting.
I'm not saying Schultz report.
Jordan Schultz has an angle.
But the agent who potentially gives the amount of money
that these deals are worth certainly has an angle
because if he does spruce it up a little bit, it sounds bigger.
He's a better business person for future potential clients.
But what's being reported by Jordan Schultz of the Schultz Report, who just had a picture of Michael Polardi, who's actually supposed to be Jake Bailey.
He's reporting $76 million, 54.5 guaranteed.
One of the best young players in football is secured in Chicago.
There was a run like six straight games or five straight games where he had a pick.
Dude, he was awesome.
He is phenomenal at football.
They've invested now with Sweat and Jalen Johnson big into this Eberflus defense.
They obviously sit in a beautiful place with the number one overall pick.
Justin Fields is allegedly on the market, but that hasn't happened yet.
And Ryan Pohl said that he would do it early if it was going to happen so we have no clue what's going to take place but we do know they
got a couple pillars on the defensive side aj how do you feel about the move and this kind of sets
a market now for the rest of free agency yeah it doesn't we always want to talk about yeah the
contracts they're usually not what the agent will report at first but 54 million dollars guaranteed
that's all you need to know right there like You want a big chunk of that guaranteed in the first two or three years of the deal.
But yeah, this guy's a stud.
I think the Bears' defense flies under the radar.
They have players they can hear.
The Bears are a team that honestly could surprise some people next year, I think.
Eber Flus, dude, when he was with the Colts,
the reason why he's a head coach as a defensive guy
is because what he was able to do and turn the Indianapolis Colts defense into.
And then you heard the way every single player that played for him talked about him.
I think his name, he was going by Darius at the time, but Shaquille
Leonard came out and talked about Iberflues. It's like, hey, this is the type of defense we have.
We work. We work. We fly to the ball. We do everything that you would like
hope a defensive coordinator
and a defense would do and he turned that defense i think they had like four pro bowlers or yeah or
five pro bowlers and then he gets his head coaching job and obviously chicago bears have been in influx
for however many years however many years decades whatever the case is and it's like the defense in
the middle of that season feels like they caught on yeah like it is, okay, this is Ibraflus' culture happening.
That's why the whole conversation about Justin Fields,
are you going to make a big-time change because the team seemingly is buying
into what you've been pitching for a couple years.
It's an interesting time for the Chicago Bears, AJ.
Yeah, I mean, everyone is just kind of hanging out,
waiting to see what happens with the quarterback situation.
So is there anyone out there claiming any kind of rumors?
First off, these highlights were showing him
unbelievable, both
physically and mentally, what he is doing
in some of these clips is awesome. He jumped on that ball.
He jumped on that ball before TJ even turned.
TJ wasn't even turned and he was cutting
on that, breaking on that ball. It's like he
knew exactly what...
He's the concepts. He looks good.
Just watching him, not taking the bait. Oh, here we go.
Those clips are fun to watch.
That's why the Bears are a team that can
absolutely surprise some people.
Is there anyone out there that thinks Justin Fields
is going to be on the Bears next year? No, but that's
all we've been told, though, by the people
in the know at the time.
You know? So it's like...
Is that real?
Eberflus was sitting with LaFleur.
Do you think that came up in conversation?
I would assume.
Probably.
I would assume LaFleur's like, man, don't envy your position.
That sucks.
Like, I had Aaron, yeah, and then Jordan.
Yeah, he's pretty good.
Yeah.
We're not going to make another decision in 10, 15 years.
No, no.
We're taking Caleb.
We're taking Caleb.
Don't worry about it.
What if Ibraflux, yeah. I mean, what do you have to keep guarded,'re taking Caleb. Don't worry about it. What if he reflects, yeah.
I mean, what do you have to keep guarded, I guess, for four quarters?
Was that halves or quarters?
Halves.
It was halves.
Okay, because women's, girls' basketball is quarter.
Correct.
Boys' basketball.
What is with that?
Why do we do that?
Why are the boys playing two halves?
They always have.
And less time.
I know.
Exactly.
That's not an answer.
It was an answer.
I don't know if it was the right answer for you.
Well, that's like what a bad coach tells you.
Hey, coach, why don't we do it this way?
Because that's how we've always done it. Well, it's less
time, too, because I'd have to talk to Dr. Naismith.
I don't know.
I'm not mad at you, though.
He is kind of mad that you used that as an answer,
though, because that answer
has invoked a lot of
Oh, okay. Yeah, that's right.
Why don't we do it the always-been-this-way. Yeah, that's right. Why we do it? Always been this way.
Yeah.
So we just.
We're going to continue to do it this way.
That's how it works.
I'm not getting into it.
It is the only basketball, whether amateur or professional, that's going by halves.
Sure.
It's stupid.
It's weird.
Yeah, it is dumb, actually.
Now we're talking about it.
Not as dumb as soccer. Their clock. talking about it. I was done with soccer.
They're clocked.
Amen, brother.
I don't want to even bring it up.
I don't even know how to do this.
It's not even about soccer.
I was talking about something else.
Where are you going with this?
I was talking about, like, I saw somebody in a microphone last night addressing the entire nation.
Okay.
Who?
Okay.
Well, he made an announcement that Lincoln Riley was dead.
Okay.
And then I was, I get on my phone after this event that we're at,
and it's Lincoln Riley, and it's like he's training all over.
I'm like, he's dead.
Lincoln Riley's dead?
Wait a second.
Who said that?
President.
Lincoln Riley's dead?
I thought he ran a deep ball.
How does this happen?
And then there was a response.
It's like that's a world that just does stuff.
Did he really?
I just saw Lincoln Riley's name training
I didn't look any further into it. Yeah, I saw his name training. I'm like wait. He was just on the show
I was like, what did Lincoln Riley do because Caleb Williams obviously this is all there's so much in there and then the first one was
X's take which is always gonna be yeah with a size savage
Troll, you know, that's how it's gonna be and it was like Lincoln Riley's dead or whatever not like the first thing with a side savage. Always going to be with a side troll.
You know, that's how it's going to be.
And it was like, Lincoln Riley's dead or whatever.
The first thing I saw was Lincoln Riley is dead.
And I'm like, I have a moment of like, what?
Really? And then I scroll a little bit further,
and it's some gif that somebody shows you.
It's like, what happened here?
Is that world not the most, this is just how this works?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It is, yeah. Yeah.
It is, right?
Yeah.
By far.
That's why we all got so mad when you said that's how it's always been.
That's why.
You're right.
That's on me.
That is legitimately why. That's on me.
Could you imagine if you click on that and Lincoln Riley's running like a deep ball go
route and Biden's just hitting them in stride for a touchdown?
He's up there at that thing, and I don't know where he's speaking at.
Where does he speak at when he does that thing where the two people
are always sitting on both sides, and they're either like...
Congress or House.
Where is that?
I don't know.
Does anybody know where that is?
That's where Gonzo showed us.
Yeah, it's in the Capitol building.
Okay, so that's Capitol building?
So all those humans there are the people that work in the Capitol.
Those are the senators?
The House.
Congress.
Is that where AQ and his buddies
broke into?
On your birthday, January 6th?
Is that the same place where the moose?
I believe so.
So that is the same place.
Yes, we are showcasing
to you that we don't know anything about
this world. It's not good.
We'll get into it at some point.
We're not the right people to solve it no but
on that note could you imagine if lincoln riley does do like a slant yeah in between like a
hundred of those senators mitch mcconnell just mossing them his last thing he does
stands up mosses them freezes
Losses him.
Freezes.
Magitary.
And then gets up.
Sharpest attack.
Sharpest attack.
Do you remember that? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
He's still sharpest attack.
Anyway, I say, political people, maybe a little couple more slant routes.
You know, maybe a couple more slant routes will bring everybody together.
That was some wild news to wake up to.
Yeah, it was.
To come out of that fundraiser too.
Like, Lincoln Riley's dead.
Wait a second.
And then you hear the actual story.
It's like, whoa.
That's not...
Even...
That's happening.
Wait a minute.
Hey, smart people, figure it out.
Figure it out.
Go get them, DC.
Figure it out.
Chris Jones, fake reported to have signed back with the Kansas City Chiefs.
This came after a Chris Jones, Stone Cold Jones, tweet on X with a picture of Andy Reid
celebrating with him after a Super Bowl.
A phone call that has lasted an hour, if you see on the top of the screen there, and then
him saying, Casey, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
I immediately thought, oh, this means he is back with the Kansas City Chiefs.
A deal has been done hour long.
They have agreed to terms here.
But it also could have been a little, this could be a little public
leverage play. This could be a little public
leverage play by Chris Jones now that it hasn't
been officially announced because there was a couple
fake reports, McCockners
all over the internet were reporting a deal was
done and a lot of people around the NFL
who have interest in defensive line deals Cam Hayward celebrated Michael Parsons celebrated obviously
they're directly affected by somebody who's considered the best in the game getting a brand
new contract there's a new market so I think I believe that my initial reaction was a deal is
done or close to getting done between the chiefs in stone cold
jones who's a game wrecker not only because the drunk speech but also because of the photo but
now as time continues to roll out without anything being officially announced other than a mcconnell
mccartney or two or schnafter or two it's like was that a leverage play where are we what do
you think aj what are your thoughts on this entire thing man i don't know. I assumed it was done or it was very, very close to being done.
I wonder what could be like the final hang-up.
But do we have any idea what the numbers might look like on this deal?
It will be a hometown discount, too.
Like, you know, because Chris Jones, he could hit the market.
Yep.
And remember, he—
Wait, so they can't tag him, obviously.
No, because they can tag Snead.
So, man, why wouldn't he— he man if they let him hit the market
he's gonna get monster offers which i would assume that you know his agents the cats brothers
they're good agents good people they're humans though too like they're humans like yeah i've
enjoyed my interactions with them every single time that i've chatted with them and i forget
which one that but one of them tweeted during the parade yes like hey cut him off while he's given the
speech about like that's self-awareness like i i enjoy that type of stuff but i assume there's
people telling him like hey if you were to hit the market you weren't able to last year if you
were to hit the market we feel like there's a big big upside for you like we're just doing our job
telling you that this could happen but chris jones probably i'm hoping at least for the sake of
just like everything we know about chris jones and not saying it's the right thing and he has
to do this but just like the feeling we have is like seems like i get a sense he wants to be a
part of like yeah what they're doing you know like going back to back to back has never happened you
heard patrick mahomes literally say that two days after, or literally immediately after the Super Bowl. It was like, nobody's ever won three in a row, ever, in the history.
It's like, that's immortality.
You know, that's the 72 dolphins who go undefeated who still pop bottles.
It's like, doing something that's never been done before can be very motivating.
Will that motivate Chris Jones to potentially take less money than he's obviously able to get if he was to go see the market?
I assume that's
the conversation that's taking place you know at some point in there probably seeing his agent at
the combine probably talking to other teams get an idea hey what could you what would you offer us
you know if we hit the market what would you offer chris what's what do you have in mind then trying
to compare that to whatever the chiefs are offering him i guess and seeing hey is it worth it because
he's definitely going to take a little less money
if he stays in Kansas City than if he hits the open market.
We know that, but it seems like he wants to win.
Aaron Donald is in a league of his own.
He's getting 31-6 a year.
But then Quinton Williams is second.
He got paid last season.
He's getting 24 a year.
Jeff Simmons is getting 23-5 a year.
Deron Payne is getting 22-5 a year.
It would have to be at least 20-something.
It's got to be 25 probably, right?
I mean, if Quinn Williams just got 24 last year and Aaron's getting 31,
it's got to be.
But if they baby-faced and said he took a hometown discount,
like 20 feels like the number if you're hometown discounting it.
Like 15 is way too low.
Yep.
That would be $9 million less than Quinn.
That would be way too much.
Hargrave got 21 last year when he went to the Niners.
And what was Wilkins looking for?
What was the number?
It was like 21 or whatever that they couldn't get to because he's probably going to get the 25 or the Quinn.
And Wilkins is hoping like Hill that Chris Jones signs back with Kansas City.
Yes.
Yes, he is.
Or maybe, you know, Tyron Matthew leaves.
They bring in Snead.
True.
The Chiefs have in the past been like one vet for another.
How many years has Chris Jones played?
Great question.
I'm trying to think back to when I saw him run at 40.
Yeah, I remember that 40.
He's 29 years old.
He was six.
I've never seen somebody get weighed down from the middle.
Oh, boy, that was amazing. Because normally, like, your weighed down from the middle. Oh, boy.
That was amazing.
Because normally, like, your center of balance is here.
Yep.
Instead, it was where the anchor was.
He defied science.
I think that's why he's so good is he defies science.
So he's Chris Jones, 29.
Christian Wilkins is 28.
That's similar to what happened with the Tyron Matthew Sneed situation.
And I think they get less money.
Yeah, Justin Reed. There it is, Justin Reed. Yeah, they brought him in, and I think they get less money. Yeah, Justin Reed.
There it is, Justin Reed.
Yeah, they brought him in, and it was basically the same exact deal.
Yeah, from Houston, and he kicked for them.
He ended up kicking for them as well, Justin Reed.
Everybody in Kansas City wants Chris Jones back.
I wonder if that's what that tweet was too.
Or maybe he knew Drew Tranquil was signing last night.
Hey, congrats to Drew Tranquil signing back with the Chiefs.
Travis Kelsey, everybody was kind of celebrating that.
He was seemingly –
Huge down the stretch when injury happened.
It was a great addition.
Yeah, and Bolton – or excuse me, when Willie Gay got hurt,
he filled in perfectly.
Culture-wise as well.
Yes.
Felt like he – they gravitated to him.
They liked him too.
It felt like the Kansas City Chiefs players liked him,
and he loved being Kansas City Chief.
Talking his shit.
Oh, yeah.
He was talking his shit.
And I think you didn't hear anybody from Kansas City say, like,
yeah, we got some new guys.
It was like, we love Drew Tranquil.
Steve Spagnuolo talked about how big of an impact that he had on the team.
He loved him as well.
And if you remember, defense coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said,
all 11 guys on the field for us have high football IQ.
That is including Drew Tranquil, who came in and made immediate impact.
Come on.
And I think he's beloved in Kansas City quickly and is already a Super Bowl champion.
So good for him as his career has taken quite an awesome turn.
He is back with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Also, Hunter Henry has re-signed with the Patriots on a three-year deal.
Congrats to Hunter Henry.
Hell yeah.
He was a part of the big two tight
end signing day and then he's the last one standing he re-signs long term with a coaching staff that
has been around he must have a lot of respect in the building yeah that's what this tells me
is that new head coach obviously been around you're going to re-sign a guy that you've had
there we respect him let's do this let's keep it moving good for the patriots we're happy about
this yeah 100 he's been our best weapon the last three years, no doubt about it,
especially in the receiving game.
And to your point, every year after the offseason since he's come in,
Belichick has praised him like, hey, Hunter Henry has gotten better once again.
So I think all of New England will be happy about this deal.
Tyron Matthew, we were just talking about him formerly of the Chiefs
and with the Saints.
Well, he has signed another two-year deal with the Saints. Congrats to Tyron Matthew and to the Saints. He went to LSU, obviously one
of the greatest college football players of all time. Once again, this is Nick Underhill reporting
this and he is a local Saints B-Ride. I think he's been on our show before and feel the beat.
So he knows people. He is very plugged in, but who knows what money's real and what money isn't.
But $13.75 million
max, $10 million guaranteed. Congrats to
the Honey Badgers.
Still cooking out there.
There's a lot of things happening
down there in New Orleans.
Michael Thomas,
wide receiver of the Saints for
a while, formerly of
the Ohio State University. Stud. Riddled with injuries that kind of Wide receiver of the Saints for a while. Formerly of the?
Ohio State University.
Stud.
Wide receiver.
Oh, yeah.
Riddled with injuries that kind of happened at unfortunate times and recoveries that didn't, you know, connect and happen as quick
as I think everybody had hoped.
But a massive talent.
A massive talent.
And made a lot of big-time plays for the Saints.
He just said, you know what?
It needs to be said.
He's done with it.
Jeff Duncan is a hoe.
Yeah.
Jeff Duncan is a hoe.
Trying to stay relevant, so let's speak on it.
The Saints leak information to him to try to ruin players' value.
But see, I'm not broke, so I can speak on it.
He is broke, so he needs clicks.
Go look at all his articles that never end up being true.
Jeff Duncan, funny how they plan on releasing me if I was on a one-year deal, dummy. He is broke, so he needs clicks. Go look at all his articles that never end up being true.
Jeff Duncan, funny how they plan on releasing me if I was on a one-year deal, dummy.
Don't fall for it.
The same dude that tried to be my friend in season after saying I wasn't the same player in training camp.
Hashtag next topic.
The only reason why I bring this up, not because Michael Thomas dunked on the Duncan.
We don't know the Duncan.
No.
And we appreciate the Duncan covering football for all these years. That's right. That first sentence is awesome. I don't know the Duncan. No. And we appreciate the Duncan covering football for all these years.
That's right. That first sentence is awesome.
I don't know you.
I do know Michael Thomas.
He and you do not get along, apparently.
I don't think you two are friends right now.
I just want to do some journalism and look
in between the words that he's saying there.
Three-letter words, two of the first sentence.
But this goes into the whole
we're in the middle of the Lions season right now.
Yeah.
We got to remember that.
And we're players, I guess,
and Michael Thomas is as well,
so maybe you buy into the conspiracies
a little bit more,
but whenever you see stuff
that isn't true at all being ran with
and gone and potentially affecting things
in the future,
it's like, this has to be on purpose.
And then you start talking to people
that are like ex-GMs and in this business,
you're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, we are certainly you start talking to people that are like ex-GMs and in-house business. They're like,
oh yeah, we are certainly doing it.
What was his name? The guy who owned the...
David Sampson. David Sampson.
Do you remember this? He came
on our show. He was what, former president?
Yeah, of the Marlins. Which is
a baseball team. Correct.
They're good. Florida Marlins. Yeah,
they've won a World Series within the last
20 years, so you can say they're good.
Congrats to the Marlins.
They made the playoffs last year.
He came on our show, and
he's a part of Levitard's crew, I do believe.
He came on our show, and he
would give us MLB updates, and he is
electrifying when he's talking. He was the president
of an MLB team.
That's a pretty powerful position. So when he
started asking him about that type of stuff, and he just starts talking about his experience and other things like that, you start like, team, that's a pretty powerful position. So when you start asking him about that type of stuff
and he just starts talking about his experience
and other things like that, you start like,
damn, that must be normal.
He said, yeah, you know, whenever you're thinking
about releasing a player that is very popular
with your fan base, you start releasing rumors
about, you know, he's a bad teammate.
He's doing this.
Clubhouse cancer.
Clubhouse, yeah, they don't like him.
He's asking for ice.
There's 10 pieces of ice in every water you start you start leaking these types of things that
aren't true about him so that the fans are like oh yeah so whenever you inevitably trade your
best player they're like wow we didn't need and we need to get him out of here and he goes and
i don't know why we can't all just get along it's like did you hear what you just said what you've
been doing to players he goes oh if you think i created that i got a bridge for you in brooklyn
that i could sell or whatever you in brooklyn that i
could sell or whatever and it was like every time we hear people that are that's baseball obviously
that's mlb but like the way he talks about it and what lambo says about what's coming out it's like
everybody is potentially full of shit right now and we as journalists have to remember that yes
we do don't we aj we threw it yeah we gotta we gotta sift through the garbage somehow how do
we do that like i don't know if jeff duncan somehow. How do we do that? Like, I don't know if Jeff Duncan's a hoe.
Yeah, we don't know that.
We don't know.
We do know that part of that situation was Michael Thomas' contract.
In his contract, it says the Saints have to release him, I think, on March 13th.
So, like, Duncan reporting that the Saints plan to release him is just, like, him getting out there.
That's why Michael Thomas was pissed.
It's him getting out there to get clicks
and making Michael Thomas look bad.
The Saints are like, oh, you're done.
We're releasing him.
Hey, Jeff Duncan, let's go for it.
You guys are going to get back on good grace.
Yeah.
Sure.
Right?
Or they won't.
Definitely.
They need to shake hands.
Go shake their hands.
Nick Saban's saying a lot of things about college football
and the state of college football right now.
And as I was reading the quotes,
I didn't know if it was like a ball sack sports quote
or if it was like a Schnafter
or like a Pete Fannell.
Yeah, I didn't know if it was like fake quotes or whatever,
but like the way Nick Saban was breaking down why
and how he potentially led to retiring from college football,
greatest of all time, is pretty wide open about the state of college football.
He said, I was really disappointed in the way that the players acted after the game.
You got to win with class, you got to lose with class, and then showing your ass.
How many times have you heard a coach say, you show your ass?
You showing your ass and being frustrated and throwing helmets and doing that stuff. I thought we could have a hell
of a team next year. And then maybe 70 or 80% of the players you talk to, all they want to know is
two things. What assurances do I have that I'm going to play because they're thinking about
transferring and how much are you going to pay me? So I'm saying to myself, maybe this doesn't
work anymore. So Nick Saban actually questioned whether or not his messaging was reaching the players anymore because 70 80 percent of them
didn't really seem to care about the family and growth and getting better and buy-in all they
cared about was am i playing next year and also i'm here and i could potentially get about 70 to
80 grand more from this particular place instead of you and sab Saban's like, how is this a member of a Saban football team?
You know?
Like, he's thinking to himself.
How is this my exit meetings?
You know exit meetings, you usually go over, hey, how'd the season go?
Like, as a player sometimes, like, it's not great.
Like, coaches should be honest with you.
Now, all of a sudden, the players are coming to you
and, like, grilling the head coach.
It has to be a weird thing for guys like Saban. Yeah, Sab sitting there and like the first guy all right all right yeah we'll talk about it all thanks first guy I talked to you comes in and says
next guy comes in same things with a hell of a season we didn't end up where we wanted to be
we got to get on this I think for you this offseason we need to work on is I think maybe
we get a little bigger stronger faster obviously in the weight room we need to work on is I think maybe we get a little bigger, stronger, faster. Obviously, in the weight room, need you to work on this.
You do this, a little bit will be good.
And then we do this.
And the guy goes, okay, cool.
Am I playing next year?
Well, if you do all these things.
Let me stop you, coach.
Am I?
So you're saying maybe playing?
What is the?
Well, I think, yeah, you have an opportunity to potentially earn your way on the field.
Okay, thank you. So that's a no. Okay, got it, yeah, you have an opportunity to potentially earn your way on the field. Okay, so that's a no?
Okay, got it.
Coach, thanks.
Also, so am I still expected to play on the same payment as this last year?
Because Nevada State is telling me they'll pay me an extra $100,000 or whatever.
I'm not even allowed to deal with the money situation that you're allowed to have.
That's third party, independent party.
I don't even know. But, yeah, I assume that could get figured out with the money situation that you're allowed to have. That's third party, independent party. I don't even know.
But, yeah, I assume that could get figured.
Okay.
So that's a yes.
All right.
So no, I'm guaranteed playing time.
Yes, I want more money.
You got it.
All right.
I'll get you into my schedule next weekend.
Same.
Same as a get me the hell out of here.
Then you're Chip Kelly.
Chip Kelly just said on the show, like, now, I don't want to be a CEO.
I would like to be a football coach.
I'm going back to be an offensive coordinator for the sake of my sanity, it seemed like.
It's what Chip Kelly was saying.
And then you see these older coaches.
Old Buddy gets out of Boston College as a head coach.
Halfley gets out, goes in there.
And it's like there's going to be the next generation of coaches that are going to only know this,
and they're going to go through it.
But it is wild that all the college football coaches seemingly are like,
this is not even the same sport anymore, and we want to get the hell out of here.
It's a wild time in college football right now, AJ.
Yeah, it is.
I mean, I don't even know how much you get that in the NFL.
Think about it.
You guys in the NFL, they're not bombarding the head coach with contract situations.
They know.
You go talk to the GM and everything.
With your coach in the NFL, it's all ball pretty much.
And the coach is like, yeah, you guys will figure out the contract situation.
But, yeah, so these college coaches are dealing with stuff that NFL coaches
don't even have to mess with with their players.
Every year?
Every probably three months.
And then they have – a lot of players have managers, I guess,
that go out there and they find, like, if you're transferred,
if you're in the portal, that can go and get bids on what you, like, hey,
what offers you might have from each school.
Yeah, it's a different time, so you've got to find a way.
But with Saban saying that,
it sounded like he was gung-ho, all ready
to coach again, but then after all these meetings
and everything, he's like, oh, man.
He obviously must have had some kind of doubts, like, how much
longer will I do it? But then that really reinforced
it that I'm out of here. And all the
chatter all year, and our show even got mentioned in it because they were like you think
Saban's doing Pat's show if he's not thinking about retiring you think Saban's doing this
10 years ago if he's not thinking about retiring so a lot of people are using it as ammunition
against coach Saban and he was coming to our show that he's retiring so there isn't stability in
Alabama and a lot of Alabama people think like, oh, that's Georgia people putting that out.
That's Tennessee.
That's people that are trying to make it appear as if the future is, you know, on the rocks.
That's why they've been talking about it year after year after year after year for Saban.
But there had to certainly be conversations with Miss Terry.
They're saying Mike get a statue out there.
Throughout the entirety of this transition period of the NIL
and how things are going.
And he and Miss Terry maybe had a – maybe they were supposed to have a spot of tea.
Yeah.
They were supposed to have a spot of tea out on the back on the lake.
And instead he has to go have a meeting with a manager of a 19-year-old
who's on his team who didn't play last year
but wants more money and a guaranteed playing time but he and miss
terry can't have a spot a tea that they were able to have for 20 some years it's like i wonder how
many of those little things through the year are happening and then whenever those meetings take
place where they're dictating the terms to coach saban for them to come back he goes miss terry
you're never gonna believe this and then they go down to that house on the beach and he's sitting there
probably looking at the ocean
and he turns around and there's a mega
mansion behind him and he got
all the trophies up there.
I don't want to go back to that bullshit.
Get me out of here.
It is amazing how many little things
probably added to him just being like
I did it. I beat the game.
I'm going to go ahead and get out of there.
And I appreciate that he's being as transparent as he's being.
You know, because this is good news.
Him saying this type of stuff and, like, being real and transparent
and talking and everything, that's great for college game day.
That's great for college game day.
Like, as I'm reading those quotes, because I thought they were fake quotes,
I'm like, okay, so Saban's being, like, real.
Wide open.
Like, he's being very, okay, so Saban's being real. Wide open. He's being very,
very, very wide open
and transparent. That's great news for game day.
The amount of peppering
of Saban on game day
is, oh my God.
It's going to be amazing. Think about me going, what do you know?
To anything, basically.
If I say something and he agrees with me, guy doesn't know ball. Thank you, basically. And if I say something and he agrees with me,
oh, guy doesn't know ball.
Thank you, Nick.
Thank you, Nick.
Just the added element of a goat being up there
is a hilarious process,
but also the fact that he's going to be very transparent
I think is good for the future of college football.
Because education of people that aren't directly involved in it
of what's actually happening
could lead to expedited change.
And that is a good thing, I think, for all parties.
Yeah, I mean, they need to get this fixed.
This can't be like, okay, we'll kind of go out through the next three to five years
and then make tweet.
They need to fix this now or start realizing how they're going to.
Because otherwise, it is going to be like this.
You're going to have all these older coaches who basically are just like,
you know what, this is bullshit.
I don't want to do this anymore.
Or you're going to have a bunch of these kind of up-and-coming guys who, same deal,
it's like Halfley, it's like I'm not a coach anymore.
I'm going to go to the NFL.
I'm okay with being like a D-backs coach or a D-coordinator.
I don't need to be a head coach because I actually get to coach up there.
And then we're just going to have probably a lot of schools where you have guys
who maybe are getting head coaching jobs before they're ready to actually –
as a whole, you could see how this could really diminish the overall product.
Because this is development here.
These are development years.
This is getting better as humans.
This is getting better as athletes.
This is getting better as football players.
And it's like that all
needs to be reminded yeah i think like hey we're still developing as humans at this time you know
think of you from think of you from your freshman year to your senior in college like you're a
different human being i feel like well then you think about even five years removed from living
like you know what i mean like you're you're so we got these 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds and 17-year-olds here
having to make decisions that 28-year-olds would probably...
Normal.
Now, granted, I know they're being introduced to things much quicker nowadays business-wise,
but it's like we got to be able to...
It's not players don't deserve money.
I am on the complete opposite side of that.
You can check my resume loud, very loud about that,
since literally the first time I ever got a chance to speak
or learned about it in my first NCAA meeting my freshman year
where they went through this pamphlet about how we're getting screwed
out of money pretty much is all I heard the entire time.
For how long was that?
It was like three hours.
It was like three-hour meetings.
It was the worst.
Those compliance meetings were the worst things ever.
It was like a three-hour, four and then i'm just i hate these you got a bunch of
suits just coming in here just telling us how wrong we are about everything and how great they
are seemingly and then all you think to yourself is we're making all the money for all of you
and i see pat white sitting right there and steve slayton right there and they just built a whole
new campus and i got this guy with glasses on telling me amateurism is the reason why they can't make it
in my okay well it seems like you are an amateur of business because this is not how this goes so
I have been an advocate for players utilizing themselves to profit like a pianist could who's
in college like people that are actors or singers can while they're in college and do their entire
thing like that is all
i'm saying but what we need is we need to protect players too we need to protect the student human
athletes as well not only financially but them as humans like putting them in situations where
they could potentially get like very sketchy contracts like that could affect your life
forever like people signing away% of future earnings and shit
as 17-year-olds.
It's like there should be some sort of,
there has to be some sort of,
this is what a contract can look like.
This is what this is worth
because people don't even know what market value is
for anything.
So people are agreeing to terrible deals
just because they feel cool getting good deals.
It's like that whole shit needs to get figured out.
And with that being said
i don't know how nobody does i don't know how that gets figured out but every team should have
like an andrew brandt or like a general manager should be like a gm almost well but but even that
it's like you're putting too much on them like bring someone else coach like head coach is like
gm and you hire offensive head coach, OC, defensive head coach.
But then you end up with what happens with Chip Kelly, where these guys don't want to coach anymore.
No, that's what I'm saying.
I don't think it's a football coach.
I think it's a scout that you give a GM job to.
Yeah, exactly.
Every team gets a GM.
I think that's who the head coach is going to become, though.
I think the head coach is—
That sucks.
I think that's what it will have to be. Unless you just add a...
Yeah, you just add a role that's just GM, just like an
NFL franchise. Fundraiser. Fundraiser's the number one
job of a head coach in college football.
And they don't want to do that.
That feels like an NIL thing. I was at a fundraiser
last night. A lot of money in that room.
Congrats, Con Man, on that helmet.
Thank you very much, Hawker. How about Zito and Talk?
Oh, yeah. That's a sweet Dale Jr. helmet. Also, shout out, Hawker. How about Zito and Talk? Oh, yeah.
That's a sweet Dale Jr. helmet.
Also, shout out to Sam.
That's a great move.
I wish I was there to see.
Sam running them up.
Such a good man.
Perfect.
And it's a text.
It's an anonymous thing.
Sam could be on her phone for anything.
So Connor could not have, you know.
You never think that the people at the table.
How much more money did you have to spend?
$800 more.
I love it.
She should have ran up even more. She should have ran it up even more.
She should have ran it up even more.
Bingo.
It did save so many lives.
$800 ain't doing nothing in the medical field.
She should have ran it up a couple thousand.
I would concur.
I disagree.
She was going to put her max in a crazy number.
And see?
Yeah.
I had a number in mind where I would go to.
I passed it, obviously, but still.
The video...
Hey, you won. the video of you i think
brandy has it sam described it it was dark in the car while i was watching so i didn't get to see
because i was driving but she puts a bit in and then you take your hat off wipe your sweat and
then go back into a bit he's like yeah such a hilarious scene that is happening because you're actually sweating it over there.
Yes, I very genuinely wanted this.
I wanted to leave with this.
Sam was having the time of her life.
Yes.
And just watching you physically go through it, not only mentally, was awesome.
Yeah, yeah.
And anybody else that was in that room that was competing against you
knew that they could run you up.
You were giving away too much.
Yeah, that was the first rule that I have learned you knew that they could run you up. You were giving away too much. Yeah, that was the
first rule that I have learned at one
of those, especially a silent auction.
You never tell anyone what you want, especially
the friends, quote unquote, at your table.
Family. Yeah, family
if you will, at your table. But hey, I
beat a McAfee in something. It's like the first
time that's ever happened. No, she beat you.
Who left with the helmet? She didn't
want it. Well, guess what?
I would say Sam won this one. Yeah, Sam won.
I'm going to take it as a win because she was bidding on it, so she won it.
That's your truth.
Yeah, your truth.
Hey, congratulations, Connor.
Thank you very much.
The real winners are the kids, guys.
Come on.
Amen.
That's who we do it for, Nick.
Thank you, Nick.
You're 100% right.
The amount of For the Kids I dropped on people last night asking for them to spend another
$20,000 was crazy.
FTK.
For kids.
A couple drunks in there are getting a little bit antsy.
Me too.
That's all I kept telling myself.
You didn't do any of the live auction stuff.
You kind of got lazy.
Me and Bruce wanted to pop up real quick.
Sounds like they weren't too expensive.
Austin Cawley, he's a money guy now.
He's in the money world.
Sweet, slick bag. I don't doubt it. Sweet suit. Still jock. Dude,awley was there. He's a money guy now. He's in the money world. Sweet, slick bag.
I don't doubt it.
Sweet suit.
Still jock.
Dude, he looks so cool.
I was like, you look like a suit right now.
Come on.
And he said to me, he said, about halfway through, I got a presentation I'm going to do.
A lot of high net worth people in here.
I'd like to do some business, you know, if we need to do that whole thing.
And I just started laughing.
He said he was going to bid at the first one like the first bin go oh i got out bid or whatever
and he said he thought to himself you would i would probably force a minute you know for the
rest of the time no he'd have to leave the he had to leave the building for sure yeah the amount of
public like just the whole room would have been saying austin cawley professional football player
money guy yeah you want to give to the kids of To the kids, you can put the pressure on them. There's money being moved around
the NHL right now. Joining us
is a man who's very active and very busy,
especially on this particular day, which
is trade deadline day in
the NHL. We can never
forget that hockey
is
awesome. Ladies and gentlemen,
11 years in the NHL as a
goaltender, Kevin Weeks.
Yay, Weeks.
What's up?
What's going on?
Hey, Weeks, we apologize for interrupting a very busy day as an insider.
It's all good.
And a pundit for the NHL on its trade deadline day.
Let's talk about a couple of the big ones.
Big rig, Patty Maroon has moved to the Boston Bruins.
He has heat, I think, with every member of the Boston Bruins.
How did this deal come together,
and how does that type of thing normally sort itself out in a locker room?
Okay, so first of all, for Boston, they've had a great year,
and then this last 10-game stretch, they've squandered some late leads,
had a big win against Toronto Maple Leafs yesterday, of course.
So the biggest thing now for the Bruins is they needed a little bit more depth.
They want to show
up their depth Patty Maroons won three Stanley Cups they know that he knows what it takes to win
he has that experience he has the playbook he's got the recipe book for winning the Stanley Cup
boom so they bring him in low cost move depth move I like it for Patty and I like it for the
Bruins as well yeah Maroon and uh and the bruins have certainly thrown hans i believe brad marshawn
has actually told patty maroon that he owns him bitch yeah in the past there's a lot of heat a lot
of heat you know and hey especially with tampa boston those years there's a lot of heat but you
know what patty has to do patty just has to flash his three rings that's all he's got to do and
three and say hey fellas we're here to get the
fourth i'm here to get my fourth and get you guys another one because the bees won in 2011 as you
know i heard you talking when i was waiting to come on the show you were talking about a money guy
but you're a money guy i heard you you're a money guy too i know you're a yinzer but you're a money
guy no i'm not moving people's money into different things that's money guys they're
dealing with bees weeks they're dealing They're dealing with bees weeks.
They're dealing with bees up there in that particular world.
And not a lot of risk.
They act like it's big risk.
It's like, it's not your money.
Yeah, get out of here.
It's somebody else's.
I mean, good on you.
They're going to get mad you lose that amount of money, but also he's not yours.
That's the game.
Got that right.
So I'm not a money guy.
Speaking of money guys guys let's move
along to the pittsburgh penguins last question for me before the boys have some genzel and kuznetsov
go to carolina sid was asked last night about genzel potentially trading what message does that
send and he said i don't know you're gonna have to ask them meaning the front office who's doing
the trading pens are dead here what's going what are we uh what are we doing week c and everybody
seemed to know that gensel was on the move for like the last couple weeks that is not good
for the pittsburgh penguins seemingly listen i think when you heard sid you'd never hear sid say
anything and when sid came out and said that that tells you everything so to me the pittsburgh
penguins right now there's some frostbite in pittsburgh and they got great fans there in hometown, but there's some frostbite in the fact that Jake Gensel was the number one piece on the trade board, especially as a forward.
He was far and away the number one piece.
I thought the return would have even been juicier than what they got in exchange for him.
We just finished.
Yeah, we just finished talking to Jake Gensel.
We just did a little pre-tape with him here at ESPN.
And he's excited.
Of course, it's conflicting emotions.
But he was such a key piece to those Stanley Cup wins in Pittsburgh.
And by the way, playing on Sidney Crosby's line.
So the Canes are going to get a multi-Stanley Cup champ, high-energy player,
a player that fits in with them.
But it's a sad day in Pittsburgh right now, I can tell you.
And I thought the return would have been juicier too yeah he's played on sid's line seemingly since
he's like 18 years old and he has benefited but so has sydney sydney is a playmaker he's a point
guard whenever he has to be and genso and he seemed to always be on the same page always he
knew exactly where sid wanted him to be. They were seemingly from jump. They just
had a chemistry. So when his contract
was up, I actually asked multiple
times, both while sober and intoxicated
to the boys in Pittsburgh. It's like
do you think Gensel will realize I'm playing
with Sidney Crosby? That helps me
out immensely for his deal. He got
paid good and stayed on that.
Now he's going to go spread his
wings without Sid. That's another way to view this as well, is that the world is going to go spread his wings without Sid that's another way
to view this as well is that the world is going to get to recognize Gensel a little bit more
probably yeah yeah no doubt Jake Gensel hey here's one of the things man I know from playing with
those world-class players different being a goalie you're kind of on an island like you as a kicker
like QBs but at the same time you're seeing each other in practice you're competing you're seeing
how they roll you can't play with sid and on sid's
line unless you can keep up you got to be able to think it you have to process it you have to be
able to execute your timing your spacing all that stuff is elite and jay cancel has that so yeah
he'll be able to spread his wings a little bit that way conflicting emotions because sid's his
guy vice versa but i gotta tell you what the bigger question now is where does this leave
the pittsburgh penguins what do they look like going forward? That's what I'm curious about.
What do the Pittsburgh Penguins do going forward? They were really bullish. They wanted
Kyle Dubas as their general manager. They pay him a lot of bread to run the whole hockey or
whole hockey ops, really, because he's the president of hockey ops so i'm curious to see
what his vision is and where the pittsburgh penguins go but this is kyle dubas's time to
shine let's see what he does well i'll tell you what week see we're all wondering where the hell
he's at you know and what we're going to do because it's been a glorious time to be a pens fan
for the better portion of the last three four decades so you know you know, let's get back to it.
We're running up on a hard out,
and I know you've been recording stuff and busy.
Is there any trades that are expected
or taking place that we haven't mentioned
that are, you know, league-rattling at all, Weeksy?
There were some that have kind of fallen.
Listen, as the president of the goalie union,
I'll tell you what's disappointing to me
is everybody liking football.
Well, you don't have a quarterback, no chance.
All right, everybody says that in hockey too.
No goalie, no chance.
And for whatever reason, the goalie market is really frozen.
But the New Jersey Devils just traded for Jake Allen,
who everybody thought they were going to get Jacob Markstrom from Calgary.
So that's really the first move, the first domino,
is Jake Allen from Montreal is going to New Jersey Devils.
But I'm curious to see if by
within the hour and change here on the east coast if we're able to see any more goalies
who would be a goalie of move Mark at this point I think Nadelkovich from your pens
Ned Ned Flanders blow it up Ned Ned from the pens maybe Pens. Maybe he goes up to Edmonton.
Maybe Tristan Jari too.
Maybe both of them.
Hey, listen, Jari, I like Jars a lot too.
But I don't know if they'll be able to move Jars' money right now in time.
That might have to be a draft day deal like an offseason deal.
But Nadelkovich at 1-5, prorated for the next six weeks,
that's something teams can fit into their cap.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see him on the move.
That's what I'm saying.
That raises the bigger questions
of what happens with your Pittsburgh Penguins.
Thanks. We'll follow along.
Ladies and gentlemen, insider pundit stud
Kevin Weeksey. We appreciate it.
Kevin Weeksey.
Man.
Moment of silence or what do we do here?
Is the era done?
Sid's still there.
Geno's still there.
Letang's still there.
You're right.
I saw a lot of people saying that might be the problem.
Nobody said that.
Not about Sid, but who?
What's your problem, man?
We're already down low enough right now.
I'm just reading the tea.
Hey, look, this jersey's been hanging for a goddamn year, okay?
If the Stanley Cup started right now,
this is from who? Who's this from?
NHL. The Flyers are in.
What?
Over the Penguins?
I think they're pretty far. Got a new team of PA,
huh? The Carolina Hurricanes have just got
two of our best players.
They're in.
LA. Hey, LA's in.
Like that?
Hockeywood's back, baby. Fired their coach. They're buzzing Like that Hockeywood's back baby
Fired their coach
They're buzzing again
Hockeywood
Okay I like that a lot
Vegas Golden Knights
Still in this thing
I know you had a question
For weeks here
About the Vegas Golden Knights
We're coming up on
Hard Out
And it's back on TV
It's trade deadline
You got your guy already though
Yeah yeah
Nah we need more
Is that the Dallas Stars
With a one next to them
Yeah that's Texas Hockey baby
We are
We're ready to go
They're rolling
They got a one next to them Oh yeah, Texas hockey, baby. We are ready to go this year. They got a one next to them?
Oh, yeah.
How long?
Why is that?
How'd that happen?
Keep getting better.
Keep getting better.
It's that three team on that side of the bracket that might hurt.
Cougars are a problem, too.
They got a good squad.
All right.
This has been a Feel Good Friday.
Have a fantastic weekend.
We'll be following along with all the sports that are happening,
and we'll have an Overreaction Monday that is ready for the world to see.
From AJ Hawk, myself, all the boys, and all of our guests,
thank you for joining us this week.
We'll see you on Monday.
Goodbye.
Nailed it.
Right on the heart.
Well done.
Last hour, I don't know if you saw, I went a minute early.
I didn't know at the time, but then you came back,
so that was a full minute early.
What'd they do?
But I hit it.
Nobody will talk about
people won't people won't bring that up so what happened for the next minute well we ran the ocw
uh video with no sound for 15 seconds and then we came back then we came back because
boston connor was like wrong minute yeah that's wrong. And selfishly, I wanted to bring up the Lincoln Riley last night.
Yeah, you did.
I'm completely honest with you.
Yeah.
I tried to do it before.
I still don't know what happened.
Joe Biden said to Lincoln Riley's name during the State of the Union,
he said he died?
Yeah.
Lakin's the name, I believe.
He said Lincoln, and then obviously the internet.
They did their deed.
It was a massive thing.
Two people had pins on with Lake and Riley on it.
Like, not a very...
Yeah, it's a very big thing.
Yeah, like in...
Oh, okay.
I get it now.
Exactly.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah.
So, I mean, the politics world is obviously always on fire anytime, you know, somebody's
just out for a jog.
Yeah, Pice is awesome.
Just out for a jog.
It really is.
It really is.
Like, this is the season.
What, politics?
Yeah, it's electric. It is not, though. the season. What, politics? Yeah, it's electric.
It is not, though.
But the memes? I checked out completely.
Completely checked out until it shows up
and Lincoln Riley's dead.
I read that and it was the first thing
I saw Lincoln Riley's dead. I just met
the guy. Literally seemed like a good guy.
And then I scrolled down and I was like,
internet, internet. Come on, man.
That is exactly
all you could say. That is exactly
what happened. I think because of the WWE
is because I like it now.
Yeah, you're right. Because I just view it
it's such a sham. One is a lot
bigger than the other. Well, yeah, of course, but like the
whole thing is just such a sham.
And the WWE is bigger than the other
but still I can appreciate
the other. The WWE is a, if you grow up watching wrestling, you view life a lot differently.
Yeah, which I wish I did.
You just kind of go, like, you can tell when athletes watch wrestling growing up.
Like, you can tell which athletes, like, when Tyrese Halliburton was here, it was very obvious.
And the way he plays, it was very obvious.
You know, and you just, when you start viewing life like wrestling viewing life like wrestling, that's just a heel.
That person, that's a heel right there.
That's a baby face right there.
But I think whenever it comes to government, it's a little...
It's not just treated like WWE.
You've got the leader of the free world.
Yeah, that's the whole thing.
And I don't know enough about it, but anytime it shows
up, it might think I always go like,
has this guy a baby face or a heel?
I don't know.
I don't know what's goingel? I don't know.
I don't know what's going on. I don't know what this is.
I mean, it's been a sham for a decade.
A decade? You have to see. That's a whole other conversation
because I assume people back in like the
way back
whenever, 50s, were like, let's go.
I've been saying that since John Adams was the
president. Exactly.
People love to be outraged.
But not us!
We're pumped. Lincoln Valley's alive.
Pumped about Lincoln.
Did you see, speaking of Howard, Anthony Edwards
single-handedly killed the Pacers.
Yeah, I heard he had a big night last night.
I only read the tweet. I didn't want to keep up with it
because it sounded so damn negative and we were
celebrating Indiana last night pretty much.
You heard Anthony Edwards had quite a night here in Indiana.
Yeah, this last minute, two minutes is absurd.
What do you mean by that?
He goes three, and then I believe he comes back down right here, foul line, jumper.
Oh, that's like a Jordan highlight.
It's the ending, yeah.
Well, 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
Could be 55 minutes.
Might as well be.
I think it was.
In the NBA.
27 seconds, 108.
Gets him again.
He's up two.
Oh, he plays intermediate?
Oh, he does everything.
Oh, because I thought only people shot threes these days.
Now he's like the guy everyone, if they had to restart a franchise with,
they'd start with him.
Oh, he missed a free throw.
Yep.
Oh, no.
But then.
Here we go. Hits his head on the rim. What, he missed a free throw. Yep. Oh, no. Here we go.
Hits his head on the rim.
What? And then on the court.
Game over.
The alternate angle where it shows. That was him?
Yes.
Holy shit.
Where'd that guy come from?
What was it? Was there a, you know,
the Pacers mascot, Boomer?
He does that trampoline dunk.
Yep.
Did he leave the trampoline?
He left it underneath the hoop?
He may have.
It looked like it.
Is that what happened there?
He said this is the highest he's ever jumped.
Jesus.
That's not a trampoline.
There's an angle from the crowd that just looks insane.
He hit his shoulder off the backboard.
And then smacked his head on the hardwood very, very hard.
And then he got up and celebrated.
Mitt's in this video. You won't be able to see him,
but I know he's in this. He pointed himself out.
Mitt, we need to know where you are.
We need to know where you are.
It's really blurry,
but it's going to be...
Oh, man. I was eye to eye
with him, and I was in the second level.
That's why I bet the Pacers
fought him with the gray hoodie there?
He jumped so high.
With the Yamakon?
No, he's not in this frame.
Oh, okay.
Bring him out.
Is he back in the cave?
Is that him right there?
That guy hits his shoulder.
Yeah, dude.
It was insane.
What I'm noticing here is there's 500 Mets right up there.
Welcome to Indiana.
Okay, so. Is that Bailey right there on the left side? Yeah, I can it was insane. What I'm noticing here is there's 500 bits right up there. Welcome to Indiana. Okay, so.
Is that Bailey right there on the left side?
I can see him right now.
It's hard to point out, though.
Can we get like a mouse?
Can you put the mouse?
Is he listening to the show right now?
Okay, can you guess how many rows back from the front one were?
Okay, you see the blue signage?
Yes.
Go down and you see the beard.
Oh, yeah, he's right there.
Right on the aisle.
Man, I missed it.
The guys in front of me stood so high.
I only saw the top of Anthony's head.
Fucking hate this guy.
That was absolute
bullshit, actually. You didn't see it?
No, I did see it and I lost
so much fucking money on that. Anthony
Edwards is so good. I live bet the Pacers like three
times. Because you were giving
them a lot of juice in the arena? You were giving
them a lot of juice, man? I mean, the guys in front
of me, they were giving
them a lot of juice. They were throwing
live bets, so then I started throwing live bets.
Yep. Were you high-fiving
each other? Yeah. No,
because Anthony Edwards said,
no, you losers not going to lose.
Up until then.
He's the best player in the league.
Aside from Jokic, but he's 23 years old.
He was in that movie too, right? Yeah, he's Kermit Willis.
Great in the movie.
He shot Lefty in the NBA All-Stars
Skills Challenge.
I'm not sure if you saw, he showed up late to a game.
He did.
Checking in.
Yes, to the T-Wolves.
So how'd that happen? He showed up late to the building or he got caught up going to the bathroom?
He said he ran out of time.
He lost track of time.
Apparently he has a very extensive
pre-game routine and he just lost
track of time.
He was taking a need to check in while the
ball was being tipped off. I've never seen that before in my life other than a ceremon Yeah, he missed a check. He was taking a knee to check in while the ball was being tipped off.
I've never seen that before in my life other than like a ceremonial,
this person gets a start and then gets something.
And I think they actually asked him, does he want to go in?
And he said, uh-uh.
And he just took a knee down.
Yeah, so it was the first time he hasn't been in the starting lineup
in a long time.
Long time.
Character.
Yeah.
Probably his whole life.
Full-on character.
He's the best.
Send the video.
I mean, this is the guy we're talking about.
Yeah, I mean, he has come out now and said, sorry about it.
Yeah, he is.
Sorry, that was a little emotional and the entire thing.
But he is the guy.
Yeah, he's one of those guys that will be a billionaire when he's done.
Because he's so young and he's already gotten a super max.
He just hit his back off the back.
Insane.
That's so high. Like his's already gotten a super max. He just hit his back off the back. Insane. That's so high.
Like his biggest fan.
How high that is.
The way he plays the two-man game with Luka Garza, too,
whenever that happens.
When they bring Luka back, it's going to change the game.
He hits his back off of that.
Yep.
Pretty high.
6'1".
He's going to be able to jump right onto the bison
over there at the new stadium in Buffalo.
Which is the problem.
Exactly.
Double it.
It is the problem.
Did the bison people, artists, people,
have they thought that at the combine
people are running faster than they've ever run before?
Nope.
That's just the high-end professional athletes.
There's a trickle-down effect, I assume.
There's some drunk whites out there that can jump higher than they've
ever been able to jump before just because of the evolution
of humans that we have witnessed
in the combine.
So it's just something to think about whenever you're deciding
on how high a bison is
going to be whenever your fan base
is known for climbing on top of things.
I guess what they're known for.
Is that a Discovery Zone?
No, that's a Buffalo Bills tailgate.
They climb over everything.
That is literally what they do.
And then they do shooting star presses
off the top of them through tables.
So for the safety, I guess,
is what you guys have been saying this entire time.
Yeah, that's our goal.
We need that bison to be bigger.
Well, you mentioned it.
I mean, trampolines with bigger parking spaces.
Now who's to say everyone who has a pickup truck isn't putting a tumbling trampoline in the back of their truck
and then bringing it with them, taking a 100-foot head start,
and then just blasting into that thing, getting on top of the buffalo.
The thing about these trampolines, too, in the buffalo weather,
they pour some water on that when it's real cold.
It'll be like that glass.
And then when you jump on it, it breaks.
So cool.
Isn't it? Hey, AJ, so cool.
Pretty cool. Pretty cool, yeah.
They're screwed. People are going to be jumping on top of those
bison, you know.
The second they go up, good luck. You can put a rope
around it. You can put a wall around it. They'll get it.
AJ, real quick.
Centerville trampoline wrestling
community or noerville trampoline wrestling community or no
a trampoline wrestling can be oh you mean like in your backyard like uh
like super superhuman type guy what super hominid super hominid is uh death match
trampoline wrestling most trampoline wrestling matches were uh extreme rules you know more so
than death match yeah no holds bar Yeah, no holds barred.
Yeah, no holds barred.
Normally, one person would have a trampoline in a neighborhood.
And then, obviously, we had a wrestling promotion.
I was champion.
I did lose.
I got beat with a hockey goalpost one time.
By who?
Not War Pig.
That's creative weaponry.
Even for backyard trampolining, just a hockey goal post.
He came out of the shed, which was obviously Gorilla.
Came out of the shed.
I was wrestling his little brother, Rhino.
Hi, Rhino.
I hit him with maybe the 10th powerbomb of the match.
And I was about to get him and he just came flying out there.
Ray Mysterio. Right in the
ribs. I remember.
I remember the feeling right now.
You don't forget something. That was
shoot, brother. Yeah, I lost. Rhino
got me. One, two, three. I didn't have that. We didn't
have that in Centerville. Really?
There was, you know, whoever had
a trampoline, we would go, but we didn't
have any sanctioned matches
or promotions like that.
You guys weren't hustlers enough.
I think you guys had one, too, over.
Oh, yeah. I got taken out with a Singapore cane.
It was actually just a tiki torch that was stepped on a few times, but it put me down and out.
He was in Regency.
I was in Holiday Park.
I assume there was other parts of Plum that had the same exact.
Yeah, I know some guys running with some halogen light bulbs and barbed wire.
Yes, definitely.
Doors used to go through a lot.
Trying to gimmick doors was fun.
Trying to figure out how.
We're too small to get through an actual door that's being laid down as a table here.
How do we gimmick this thing so that it'll go through?
And then inevitably, you know, taking a door out of like a trash heap,
walking it back, and then ruining it from trying to get it,
and then busting it before we could even use it,
having to go find another one.
Yeah, those are good old days, buddy.
Did your promotions ever cross?
So, like, did you ever go to Nick's promotion?
Yeah, so there was an older promotion that I think did bounce around a little bit.
Yeah, they like to pick young talent up and beat the hell out of them.
Yeah, they had a cage match one time in somebody's dog kennel.
That was awesome.
Love that.
I'll never forget that.
Those were good old days.
They got barred from Home Depot and Lowe's,
so they weren't allowed to buy foreign tables anymore.
We used video of that whenever I did my WrestleMania.
Oh, yeah.
I had a cold match.
Yeah, dude. So Whenever we talked about that
trampoline being brought out for the bison,
if it's cold and they put a little water
on that, the optics
of the ice
shattering while you jump up on top,
that could be 8K too with the cameras they got
now. The angles you could kind of go
to. Let alone if you do a shooting
start. If you
up on top of that, and we're not alone if you do a shooting star, if you up
on top of that, and we're not promoting anybody to do this.
No, shouldn't.
We're just saying, we're hypothesizing about situations that could happen that we don't
want to happen.
You go, imagine this with AK camera on like a gimbal.
Cool.
Ricochet.
Yep.
Going up, jumping on top of that thing, swinging around while still moving, you know, and then
shooting star off the front of that thing through table on fire.
Of course.
Oh, my.
I mean, that's like a Sunday.
With a drone shot going on at the same time.
That's week one.
Yeah.
That's week one.
That's preseason week one.
Preseason week one.
Your ass first game at the stadium probably.
They just got to set the tone like, hey, guys, you haven't seen anything yet.
Just wait until the regular season, let alone playoffs,
if we get to host the playoffs.
Which is why we're saying we need to buy some 40-50.
Unscalable.
Alec Hawkins is the only human.
Got to lube it up every game.
No, I thought about this last night.
Spray it down with some wax.
It needs to be electrically charged.
Oh, yeah.
That'd be fun to watch people get halfway up and be like,
hey, don't worry, guys.
The electricity's out.
We knocked it out, and then they turned off.
Like the fences in Jurassic Park.
Okay.
I appreciate that.
I respect that.
Maybe a little bit easier, bug zapper wrapped around it.
Yep.
So then even because humidity, I assume, up there with the lake effect,
imagine those bison.
Oh, yeah.
It'd be cool.
At night, it'd be like a show.
It'd be like a firework.
Eyes light up, the whole thing.
Light up the eyes, boys.
Except the snow is going to be a problem.
They're just going to build snow steps
up to the bumbles.
With the shovels that they give them.
If I see anything with them, they don't know how to handle the snow.
Oh, swing!
Who is they?
I'd like to reiterate the fact
that they were in that stadium that night.
They packed that stadium out.
A lot of yinzers in that stadium.
They only gave $20 to like 50 people, remember?
They ran out of money.
They got a couple cans of pop,
I believe. A couple granola bars as well.
So it's like $28.50.
One guy got a ride of a lifetime when he jumped on the thing.
He did.
They were not doing sobriety tests on the thing. He did. That's right.
They were not doing sobriety tests on the way in to shovel those things.
Nope.
Which is smart.
Smart move.
You're not going to get a lot of workers,
I don't think, in that particular atmosphere.
No.
But congratulations to the Buffalo Beals
getting a new stadium.
It's going to be awesome.
Yeah.
I don't like the negativity around the Bison.
You know, because Buffalo getting a new stadium
is a good thing.
Yep.
And we like when cities invest in stadiums.
Now, with that being said, don't love taxpayer money being involved.
I don't love it.
Just as a person, I don't love it.
It usually is, though.
It usually is.
But in every, damn near every, 90%.
All of them, really?
Did Jerry said his is fully private?
No, Jerry has some tax money down there in Arlington.
Well, I mean, yeah, you're obviously going to have to get huge tax benefits.
That's why you're where you build a stadium where you build it.
Yeah, but I think Kraft.
Kraft, they actually go into that.
Yeah, they do.
About how, like, Kraft saw way, way, way back before he owned the team,
like, hey, I need to buy the land that the stadium's on
because the amount of money that will come from that will be massive.
So that's, like, how he got a large portion of his fortune.
And he has enough money to do it, which I think is what everybody says.
Like, hey, there is an owner that is in your guys' world
that has enough money to build his own stadium.
He should do that.
And he did.
And, you know, hopefully future owners will follow suit.
Yeah, and the best part.
Like Josh Harris in them?
I assume they're going to buy and pay, right?
Oh, yeah.
That would be a good way to win over your fan base quickly.
For sure.
Hey, we're coming in, building a new stadium, not taking any of your money.
We want to earn your money whenever you come to the game or whatever.
Your fan base usually doesn't mind, though, whatever increased tax.
It's usually the people that hate football that mind.
I agree.
And, like, as a person who would certainly and probably has said,
yep, take it, do that, If you want it, that's good.
If you didn't do that too,
that's probably a much bigger baby-faced move with Sid.
Yeah.
You know, just as a human.
Well, like what Walton did.
Like Walton, richest owner in the NFL now,
instead of using his own money,
he reached into that G4 or G7 fund
that the owners have for like helping.
Updates.
Yeah, for updating your stadium.
I think if it updates a stadium, you get a loan
from the rest of the NFL. Who knows what the interest rate
is? Probably very small. But where's
that money coming from? Who knows?
Everything's awesome. Let's get to a break.
These feel-good Fridays
in the offices are the best.
Because you know what we got next?
What's that? A weekly wrap-up
with Rap Team and Friends.
What's this guy A weekly wrap-up with Rap Team and Friends. Yes.
What's this guy hearing down there?
Should make him give away money.
Rap?
Yeah.
It's his time.
He never does.
What do you think for it? With?
Where is he?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to putt?
I thought I was more so thinking you should putt.
Now's not the time to putt.
Yeah, I've kind of discounted golf for my life, really.
You have.
You've been kind of pretty anti, like, I'm not spending any time golfing.
You've been very vocal, though.
Yeah, I don't think I'll ever play 18 holes again for the rest of my life.
Bet.
Yeah, I was going to say, bet you didn't.
You'll be forced to.
We'll have some event where you'll have to.
I will absolutely ride in the cart
and hang out. No doubt about it. I love
driving the cart. It's a good time.
It's a good time. I'm just saying, actually
playing 18 holes,
I probably won't do that again.
Zito just asked a good question.
So we can give away your golf clubs then?
No, because I'll play nine.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Hour and a half?
Sure.
I'm not investing four fucking hours of my life to suck at a sport.
Me too.
I got to that point too.
That's why the whole American Century thing, I'm like,
am I going to give five days of my life in a very beautiful place?
I mean, it is fucking beautiful. It's beautiful.
Beautiful and awesome.
Do I deserve a spot at that?
I know there's terrible golfers.
Okay, I know there's terrible golfers.
The Miz.
For instance.
RG3 was the worst player to ever play in the entire thing.
Don Cheadle.
Bingo.
Yeah.
Who's the meteorologist lady from NBC?
Oh, I don't remember her name, but yeah, she was.
Catherine Tappan?
No.
Her and the Miz were, you know.
Neck and neck.
They were duking it out for last place.
They love golf.
These people like love golf.
That is like a golf heaven thing.
And I'll watch the shit out of golf.
Exactly.
I will watch the shit.
I like watching golf.
I enjoy the sport.
But for how long it is and how much you could do something else.
Boom.
And for how bad I have remained while doing it. To your point, it's like I'm wasting my time right else. Boom. And for how bad I have remained
while doing it, to your point,
it's like I'm wasting my time right now.
I'm wasting my time.
It's almost beating me down, this golf game.
It's beating me down so much where it's like
it's not even worth the time.
I'm getting worse somehow.
But then,
in Hawaii,
I play a round of golf.
I get some rented clubs that are very good.
Oh, yeah.
And I hit a couple shots, and I'm like,
oh, it's a new season.
You're probably out there by yourself
too, pretty spaced out.
You don't get that in Indiana. That's the biggest
issue I have here.
If we go to Hawaii, yeah,
I'll play 18 holes of golf.
Okay, that's what we were trying to say, though.
It's like you were lying.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
That's what we were saying.
I am not.
You will not catch.
I mean, I'm trying to think of when I'll be in Hawaii.
I honestly don't think that's anytime soon.
You will not see me in Indiana playing 18 holes of golf.
It just won't happen.
It's unfair.
Why?
It's great golf.
Why? It's great golf. Why?
It's something that's going to make me a much happier person.
Oh, you're like Chip Kelly right now.
Yeah, exactly.
Hey, I get it.
It's a cool game, and you could get better.
I played darts for a month, and I've gotten better at darts in that one month
than I have in the last 15 years of playing golf.
Got it.
How cool does it feel to
be a really good day it is so fun like hey i'm aiming for the bullseye i hit a bullseye holy
i am playing darts hey it's a par three i'm aiming for the hole is the thousandth par three
i've played oh it's in the water this is fun everybody's watching yeah yeah oh good shot
yeah you're getting on too while you're doing it.
This man does not feel that way at all.
Oh, my goodness.
He is such a character.
Remember Anthony? Look at Charles Barkley in the back.
Oh, so mad.
Anthony Anderson at the par three.
Yeah, there was some talk from guys about his pace of play after this round
from a few guys.
Why is everyone talking about that?
Who told you is what he said to me.
I was like, everybody did.
I said, hey,
I heard you're acting like an asshole out there.
Look at him hold.
Can't walk by him.
Yeah, it was good. No, it wasn't.
The way
he's not getting interviewed once to be, though.
Yeah, he definitely does. he had a birdie one day and the whole course could hear it remember that
he's the best gotta get that six hour figured out the miz
he was on the driving we saw him after hours the place was closed
he doesn't have the feeling that we do no he doesn't. I don't know if he's
gotten worse or if he's remained the same terrible
golfer that he is. Got him worse. What do you
think?
I think he started
so bad.
He's like an
anomaly. I told you when I saw you post
clips of him a couple years ago, I assumed he
was like a scratch golfer because his swing looks very
good. It looks like a nice swing.
And then you guys, I thought you guys were messing
with me when you all said like, no, no,
no, no. Furtis thing from scratch.
He was talking shit too every single time.
Oh, dude. Every single shot
he was talking shit to me. Like, I'm not
good. I respect the confidence.
I think it was the first time I played golf in two years
with him that morning that we played.
And he lives on a golf course now at this point.
He was like, he showed up 45 minutes early.
He was on the driving range.
Yep.
And he was like, we're competing today.
Full Adidas jumpsuit.
I'm like, oh, this guy play plays.
And he said he wanted to compete.
Yep.
And I was like, all right, here we go.
And then every shot's terrible.
I've never seen it.
I've never seen anything like it.
He takes his time with every shot.
We know that.
I'm FaceTiming him.
We'll see if he answers.
He's in the fairway in Tahoe, obviously.
If you go over six, you just pick the ball up.
He's on his fifth stroke, and he's in the fairway,
and he's still trying, lining it up.
Not even lining it up.
He's saying, all right, with the way that green goes,
I got to kind of fade this one in.
Because if it hits that front hill, it'll roll feet down.
And his cad he's like
yeah i'm thinking we're aiming a little bit like shut up dude he's not gonna do that we know he's
not gonna do that and he's gonna pick up if this ball doesn't go in the hole yeah no answer from
and he did that for 18 holes the absolute best kind of person to be friends with but the worst
to play with i could yes exactly yeah yeah He's the epitome of that.
Watching him do that with another group
was hysterical.
Do you remember when he flexed at me?
Got a fairway?
I'm two fairways away.
He was the last person on T-Box, obviously.
Everybody was
eager to get to their ball, like walk to their
ball, and he's doing his full
setup, wiggle, whole thing. Weird arm thing, the arm behind his back thing he does. Yeah, like walk to their ball. And he's doing his full setup, wiggle, whole thing.
Weird arm thing, the arm behind his back
thing he does. Yeah, this one, the wiggle.
I'm watching it
because we're standing waiting to tee off.
He hits it. Boom.
Holds the pose.
Okay, nobody moves.
So I'm like, what the hell's going on?
OB. So he has to hit another one.
Sure. So then he has to do the whole thing again.
Okay?
And he takes a line up.
It's like he's hitting three right now.
Yep.
From the tee box.
There's no chance in hell he's finishing this whole thing.
No, he's doubling.
Yeah.
And that's in this particular round.
Yep.
Worth negative points.
It's the worst you can do.
Lines up.
OB again.
Walks down.
Does the drop.
While walking down, everybody's pissed at him
stops in the middle of the fairway
and flexes at me
and then just keeps going
and I'm like, what is this guy's problem?
He was talking shit one time, hitting out of the fairway
you were teeing off on
Miz, you're in my fairway
Miz, you're in the wrong fairway, Miz
you're two, three fairways off right now
yeah, but I'm further than you are it's like, no you're not away wrong fairway miss you're two three fairways off right now yeah but i'm further than you are it's like no you're not away from the hole maybe walking through the layer of the cable guy
if this was a par i think no that was a bonus definitely oh yeah definitely a bogey right there
yeah yeah they don't know people don't know oh geez yeah kill somebody oh that's a weird scene
over there i will say i never really know what to do whoa what is the right answer for over there
that you do that i don't know whatever you want stay away from it because then you're gonna get
40 beers shoved in your face and it was always the fireball yeah Yeah. Oh, yeah. Got a fireball. Don't want to be in fireball.
We'll get firebombed. You got firebombed,
didn't you? I got firebombed.
So he does that after a bogey.
Let's see what he does. Now Larry's got to sit
here and try to make a putt after all that.
With a claw. He does.
And an underhand hook.
Larry loves a bogey.
Good pay, bogey.
Bogey.
Gitterdun. Don loves it. Good pay. Wow. Bucket. Gitterdun.
Don't be stealing my spotlight, Chad.
Gitterdun.
Man's like, yeah, that was good, man.
Yeah, how about it?
Do it.
Get over there.
Yeah.
That guy looks good.
Has he lost weight?
Yeah.
I honestly think he looks the exact same as he's always looked.
Give me one of them beers.
You got one of you got.
Oh, no.
I don't want that. I might drink it drink it i'll throw it wasn't a bush light
it is because that's what hole 17 there so depending upon which hole you start on you're
pretty banged up already oh yeah and you're tired very tired because you got to walk 14 miles through
the mountains of californ High altitude. High altitude.
That beats my ass every year, which adds into the... What, I had bruised toes?
I had bruised toes. It's the first time in my life I had bruised toes.
How's that even happen?
I didn't even know it was possible.
Gotta get them sketchers. Gotta get them Romo sketchers.
Sports!
All happening all around us.
The man right next to me right there is A.J. Hawk.
What a legend.
Maybe A.J.
A.J., great work this week.
Do you have any breaking news about anybody that maybe you're very close friends with
that is quarterback for the New York Jets?
I do not.
I think also some of the – we showed almost a transcript of some of the podcasts he was on the other day with Eddie Bravo.
I believe that's behind a paywall.
Did you find it?
I could not find it.
I have not listened to it either.
I will say I was a little busy last evening.
I did not get a chance to seek it out.
One half of the hammer.
Cowboys 10 digs.
It is behind a paywall.
Okay.
Not a bad play.
Where?
Who's going to go there, steal that, and put it on the internet?
Somebody. And I'm going to appreciate whoever does that. No? Who's going to go there, steal that, and put it on the Internet? Somebody.
And I'm going to appreciate whoever does that.
No, you're going to support?
Not me.
The Talks at the Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt.
What's your breaking news, though, AJ?
Didn't he tell us he was going to have something?
He did.
No, I don't think.
I think I said this coming probably Monday I might have something.
Oh, I got it.
Wow, that's a big tease.
All right, here we go.
Put it on the ticker, ladies and gentlemen.
On Monday, AJ Hawk has some breaking news.
Go ahead, Conley. Yeah, Gumpy shared it with me. Breaking, it seems as though
the Ohio State women's basketball team is
going to lose in the first round. No shit.
Big Ten tournament. Let's get some
rest on legs. We're down 20
with three minutes left. It is over
for Ohio State. Maryland.
And they also lost to Iowa, right?
After they claimed the Big Ten Women's
Championship during the regular season.
Rest up for what matters. Now they're down
20 against who again? Maryland. Maryland
is 18-12. Ohio State
is 25-4. I saw
Iowa play Maryland, I believe.
That was during one of the games that Caitlin
played. And Maryland does have
a team that's scrappy.
They will certainly get after it.
High elbows.
Ohio State's gotten cold at the wrong time.
Did they throw the game?
Rested legs.
AJ started the program.
They know big picture.
They're thinking big picture.
I think it went out in the newsletter.
You win going into the tournament.
You still get a couple weeks off,
and then you're still playing your best basketball.
So you'd definitely rather win the Big Ten tournament
than lose in the first round.
I see what you're saying. Joining us now is a man who has
no information on that, but hopefully all the information
on the NFL. Senior NFL
insider at NFL Network, friend of the program,
the host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends,
us being the friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen,
Ian Rapoport.
New haircut.
Yeah, I had to squeeze it squeeze I was squeezing it in today
while doing a little Russell Wilson Airport reporting so it was a little
hectic but I got it done can you put them on this screen here keep them on
the screen here what happens is up here gets a little unruly so they got to do what's different is that this part or is it that this part's here
or maybe
no what happens
is up here
gets a little unruly
so they gotta do
the thing where
they kinda like
trim it a little bit
that's the best part
thin it
I believe they
thin it
yeah
the little shears
so did he just
get a haircut
or a new haircut
yeah why did you
text me and say
I got a new haircut
cause you look
the exact same
it's completely
different
it's not
it's completely
it's not even remotely it's the same haircut you always have yeah you look the exact same
wraps you actually look different you look i guess what yeah you look more like you than
you've ever looked in the yep in the past this has got to be a bit you should do all interviews
like this you should no no i'm serious all interviews like that. That is pretty good. So, rapid-forward.
Welcome to my office.
First things first.
You're doing airport reporting on Russell Wilson.
He was in Newark.
Now he's flying to Pittsburgh.
Does he have friends and family in Pittsburgh?
Or is this Pittsburgh Steelers thing real with Russell Wilson?
We were talking to Michael Lombardi earlier today,
and he said that's a perfect situation. I see you breathing.
I see you grimacing. I see you doing
it all. Do you see it the same way,
Ian Rappaport?
I kind of do.
Oh!
I think it makes sense.
You know, I mean, look what
they're looking for.
Oh.
Nice.
Sweet. Sometimes you go like this, and leave him hanging. Wait, we're... Yes! Nice! Yes! That was sweet.
That's tough, actually.
Sometimes you go like this, and it's just...
Yeah, it's...
Yeah, you've never done this.
We know that, because, you know.
No, I'm a big fist bump guy.
Oh, okay, so like this.
Crew team.
Yeah.
You did like a punch.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I used to be a big bro hug guy, and then COVID happened, and then that was not cool anymore,
and I've since kind of got out of the broad game, but big fist bumper.
So now you're Howie Mandel doing this.
Wow.
No, it's more like, not like this.
I'm not a weirdo.
You've never done that?
No. Called Howie a weirdo?
I mean...
However you want to do it, new haircut guy.
Anyways, Russell Wilson in Newark,
New Jersey, then flies to Pittsburgh.
Meeting with Giants is what everybody's saying.
Meeting with Steelers is what everybody's saying.
His team is saying he could go to Las Vegas.
What are you hearing?
What's real?
What isn't right now?
Yeah, I would say Steelers seems real.
I mean, the Giants was interesting.
I don't hate it, but I think he would probably like the opportunity
to start and I don't know that he would get the opportunity
to start there when you're paying
one starter $40 million
and
the other $1.2 million
then sometimes
you know who the starter is going to be
I think Pittsburgh they'd like some competition for Kenny Pickett
you know the hope is
that Kenny Pickett beats him out
and that he's
your franchise guy and that he kind of goes like this, which at a time he thought he was going to
do. And then that's just that. And Russ is just a really good backup. If Russ wins the starting job
in Pittsburgh, like, okay, then he probably has earned it. And that's okay too. You know, the,
the Raiders one is interesting because, you know, I think a lot of people think they're going to get a younger quarterback.
So, like, is he the bridge guy if they do get a younger quarterback?
And then what do they do with Aiden O'Connell,
who played well at times last year?
So more questions for the Raiders.
But Steelers makes sense.
And the salary, which I think you guys know, is amazing
because it's just going to be $1.2 million no matter what.
Oh, really? So basically a starting quarterback is free. Damn. Yeah, we knew that, Ian. What do you guys know is amazing because it's just going to be $1.2 million no matter what. Oh, really?
So basically a starting quarterback free.
Damn.
Yeah, we knew that, Ian.
What do you think this is?
Of course you knew that.
Yeah, what do you think?
But not all your people knew that.
Now, hold on though.
Is there a chance that he will drum up enough interest
because of what the salary could potentially be
for this upcoming year
where people go up to like $5 million, $10 million
to take it off the Denver Broncos books?
Or are you assuming
maybe that's Russell Wilson texting right there?
Or are we all just under the same assumption that it's going to be
Vetman no matter where he signs,
and the only people that are potentially competing for him to join there
are just saying they got better food, better opportunity, and things like that?
Yeah, it's almost certainly going to be 1.2.
And if you think about it, I'm not saying—
For a one-year deal? One-year deal? 1.2?
Like, that's how it's going to go?
Probably, unless the team decides to lock him up for additional years.
But if you're Russell Wilson, why would you do that?
Because, God forbid you go out—let's say you start.
Then you're—let's say you start in Pittsburgh and make the playoffs.
Well, then you're due for a much bigger payday next year.
So a one-year deal makes sense for him.
And, like, I think it ended okay with the Broncos and Russell Wilson.
They let him, you know, negotiate with teams early.
He's going to visit teams.
They've kind of okayed all of that.
That's good.
But if there was any sort of not great blood there,
you probably would want to stick him with the full payday.
So he takes $1.2 million from his new team,
and the Broncos pay $39 million minus $1.2 million.
Okay, do the math there.
$37.8 million.
Boom.
Yep, $37.8 million.
Okay, so the Broncos are paying $37.8 million to Russell Wilson.
For him to play for somebody else.
Okay, and they said,
we'll pay $85 million over the next two years not to play this guy.
It's a wild scene there at the end.
But, yeah, I don't think it's bad blood.
No.
No, you're right.
I don't think it was.
Yeah, it seems like it ended totally fine.
Absolutely.
Okay, so Russell Wilson to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Sounds good.
I heard Mitch Morse was visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers as well.
Are they going to be spending a lot of money here in free agency?
Are they going to be making a lot of moves in free agency?
I like these kinds of moves, you know, because Mitch Morse was released. So if you're someone who is, say, nervous about compensatory picks, signing these guys who are cut by someone else
doesn't count against that. Mitch Morse is a very solid starter. Like, like, Bills only cut him for
cap reasons. I think they would have liked to keep him. So that actually would be a nice signing for the Steelers.
You know,
just like I would say the Patriots signed for right tackle depth,
maybe a swing tackle,
maybe a starter.
Chooks.
Oh,
Cora for which I nailed that name.
Thank you very much.
He was cut.
Does it kind of gets a conflict formula and potential starter?
Like these are smart signings before free agency hell
yeah free agency tampering period starts on monday obviously a lot of deals already done because
people get drunk in indianapolis which we will talk to wrap up about a little bit later go ahead
aj and what about chris jones what's going to happen with him in uh kansas city we we thought
a deal may be close to being done are we we, are we correcting that? And also haircut looks sweet. I barely recognize you,
man.
Yeah.
You know what?
I appreciate AJ.
You've always been,
you know,
obviously my favorite of,
of all you guys.
I think everyone,
I think that's been clear.
Um,
shut up.
I think that's been obvious,
but anyway,
um,
what else?
Oh,
Chris Jones.
Yes.
What?
You lose your train of thought. No, I'm just mooching too much, but over there, what the? Oh, Chris Jones, yes. What, did you lose your train of thought?
No, I was just complimenting you.
Smooching too much butt over there.
What the hell is going on?
Jeez.
Anyway, I would say Chris Jones is –
Come on for air.
The deal is not done.
I do not get the sense the deal is done.
But it's a lot more positive now than it's been maybe in his previous negotiations. Like I get the sense of communication between Chris Jones and the cats,
bros,
his agents and the chiefs is positive and productive.
Like,
will that lead to a deal before free agency?
I don't know.
Sometimes guys like to see what's out there,
but it does seem a deal is at least possible or within reach.
And this is one of those to me where like,
like I was watching the Mike Evans
press conference earlier today, Jason lights up there and Mike Evans, and they're talking about
the good feeling and like he's finishing his career as a member of the box and that all feels
good and great players finishing their career with the team who drafted him is awesome. Like
this would be great for Chris Jones and the chiefs seem willing to pay for it. They really seem willing to put forth the commitment.
So to me, if it gets done, it would certainly make a lot of sense.
So I think what we read earlier was Aaron Donald's at like 31.
I think somebody signed at 24 last year.
I think Hargrave was at 21 maybe whenever he went out to San Fran.
So if he was to give a hometown discount to stay in Kansas City because, Kansas City because he wants to hunt and be a part of the entirety of the dynasty
and everything like that, are we talking like $20 million a year,
$24 billion a year?
What do you think he's looking for when it comes to the money?
I think as close to Aaron Donald as he can get.
And the reality is –
Oh, shit.
And the Chiefs are going to pay that?
I think the Chiefs are going to pay that.
Wow, that's awesome. I don't know, are they going to get to 30?
I don't know if they're going to get to 30.
I don't know.
But that's what these, like, super elite, you know, defenders make.
I mean, I know he's not a pass rusher,
but he certainly affects the quarterback as much as any of them
and affects everything.
I mean, the clips you're showing are like a joke.
Like, he is, I mean, he's awesome.
So that's what these guys make i mean nick bost is at
34 so he told me chris jones came in at 30 i'd say like probably pretty good like yeah and i thought
if he wants to get to a market that 35 number probably maybe even creeps in for a team that
i think maybe yeah so there will be a little bit of a discount i didn't expect it to be that much
because aaron donald you know is up there in his own world whenever it comes to tackle.
So I'm fascinated to see how it goes.
He can come to the Colts if he wants to.
Just want to let him know that.
But if he does end up at the Chiefs,
that'll be a beautiful story for the Kansas City Chiefs,
hitting on yet another homegrown product.
Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones.
You know, a lot of homegrown winning happening there in Kansas City.
The last highlight we showed that you said was ridiculous
was him tackling Justin Fields of the Chicago Bears.
Tone's got a question for you.
Yeah, Raph.
The rumors are that the Justin Fields trade market has cooled off significantly.
You can tell us if that's true or not.
Who is left in that market, and do you think he does get done?
Is it contingent on
say like kirk cousins going to atlanta or something yeah is it something like that situation
i don't think the justin fields market is like dormant or whatever the term was i just think it
hasn't we don't know where anyone's going i think that's probably the issue with the quarterbacks
more so than maybe any other position you know there's only one of them so where kirk cousins will be the first domino
almost no matter what and there are several teams that are being not held up because like this is
what happens frayden she hadn't started yet but whose money is just like waiting right because
like if you're the vikings you're going to give 40 or 50 million dollars to kirk cousins like you'd like to know are you going to give it to your franchise, you're going to give $40 or $50 million to Kirk Cousins.
You'd like to know, are you going to give it to your franchise quarterback?
Are you going to give it to a defensive tackle, pass rusher, whatever you end up doing?
Or if you're the Falcons, Falcons would be a potential place to trade for Justin Fields,
but obviously not if they get Kirk Cousins.
If Cousins leaves the Vikings, they have an opening.
If Russell Wilson doesn't sign with the Steelers, they have an opening.
What about, you know, I don't know about the Raiders,
but there's plenty of places.
What if Baker Mayfield doesn't sign with the Bucs?
And I know the two sides are talking,
but I don't get the sense the deal is particularly close.
Like, might the Bucs emerge as a spot?
So that's, like, it's okay that Justin Fields' market isn't going crazy
right now because it shouldn't be because we don't
know where anybody's going.
There's a lot that still has to happen as teams
continue to build and find out what they can hit
and what they can't hit on. For Justin Fields, I don't
think it's great that a $1.2 million
quarterback just came into the market as well, but
that's not really a Justin Fields issue. I guess
that would be considered a Chicago Bears issue
if they were trying to move on. Is how we feel though we just feel Caleb Williams going
to the Bears out of the combine is there anything else that you feel is like a matter of fact because
that quarterback market seems to be insane uh right now with the the flux and conversation
and chatter about who's where yeah I would say the Bears would like to get through usc pro day which is in about two weeks or
a little less i think that's the 20th if i remember so they're doing it the right way you want to it's
as big a decision as you could get you have to check you know go through everything so get through
usa pro day and then i think finally at that point they'll be like all right like this is our guy
we're gonna stay at one we're good i think that's where it's headed but i think they want to be absolutely sure
do all the homework the right way and kind of move on from there once that happens then they'll be
able to say like all right well then we can deal justin fields and i think by that point we'll know
where all the other quarterbacks are going so there'll be someone or maybe a couple of someone's
who will say like i need a quarterback and i'd be willing to pay, I don't know, a first rounder, a second rounder,
whatever mix of picks you can come up with for someone who's going to be a starter this year.
And I think if you're Fields, you know, he obviously is good enough to start for the past three years for the Bears.
Is he going to be a great franchise starter?
Is he going to be pretty good?
You know, you don't know where he's going to be but definitely worth the investment slash flyer yeah and definitely worth finding out if caleb's going
to be the guy or not especially with the bears playing their best football late last year
and their culture almost seemingly coming together and now oh because the carolina panthers are crop
and have been crop we end up in a situation where we can maybe take the next generational player is
that how you're seeing it because we, is that how you're hearing it
from the combine time about these quarterbacks? Because Dan Orlovsky
from a golf trip told us that he would, he's taking... That looks
sweet, by the way. How are you at golf? He was at Streamsong, right? Yeah, that's what he said.
How are you at golf? Are you getting better or are you staying the same or worse?
I'm probably terrible now, but next week, after next Friday, then it's time to hit the simulator.
Okay.
Time to get ready.
Yeah, a couple of us here potentially on this show, I don't know how many, we didn't do a show of hands,
are potentially backing off the dream that we could ever get good at golf and maybe we're wasting too much time.
Maybe we're wasting too much time.
It's not a waste.
There's a couple of us feeling that way.
No, it's not a waste. It's a couple of us feeling that way. No, it's not a waste.
It'll be worth it.
When you guys get to be on the senior tour, it'll be worth it.
Yeah, you're right.
But to Connor's point, you do ship your kids away for two months during the summer,
which would be the only time you really hang out with them because they're not in school.
Yep.
So people think maybe—
Well, that's golf time.
Well, that's what they're saying.
They're saying maybe you—
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, I'll be playing golf in the spring,. They're saying maybe you, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I'll be playing golf in the spring too.
God willing.
So, okay.
Hey, rep, good luck out there.
Good luck out there.
Anyways, back to that from a golf trip.
Dan Orlovsky said that Jaden Daniels is his number one out of LSU over Caleb Williams.
Now the conversation.
What's so funny?
That facial reaction, yeah.
That was good.
I thought he got a text message. You saw it the same way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's just say I don't think Rap agrees with that one.
Sure felt like that with the...
I mean, the movement, too.
And the scrunch.
I'm sure Orlovsky's a better golfer than me, so I can't even laugh much. I mean, the movement, too. And the scrunch.
I'm sure Orlovsky's a better golfer than me,
so I can't even laugh much.
Well, it's because of the haircut, too,
potentially, why it looks... I need to be higher.
Why am I so low?
We're not even getting into it.
It's your haircut.
It's your haircut.
Talk to God, brother.
But that's also the same way your phone is,
that you look that way.
So I don't know if you saw a text or something.
That was definitely to Dan Orlovsky saying that Jaden Daniels is his number one over Caleb.
That's not the messaging you were getting from the combine about Caleb.
Because what I heard at the combine, because Matt Mell and I got to walk around,
is the more people learned about Caleb, the person, and from his teammates and things like that,
the more people liked Caleb as opposed to the other way. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that. You know, there's,
there was all this stuff about Caleb and I think his dad being quoted in GQ and like the rumors of
what his family or whatever asked for, like that probably did him no favors. He seems as a, you
know, I only met him very briefly.
Seemed great.
I know the teams had really positive meetings with him.
Teammates really like him.
You know, he, I don't know if sensitive is the right word,
but like he takes football and very seriously takes losses very hard.
Like he cares about it a lot, which, you know,
I don't think that's a negative.
You will sort of want people who care about whether they win or lose.
Like, it seemed to be the reviews, the meetings were really positive.
Look, I don't know that it's a consensus.
I don't get the sense that everyone is 100% on the same page.
But I think most people I talk to believe he is the number one,
and most people believe the Bears are going to take him number one.
The thing with Jane Daniels is the potential is –
That ref calling that short, by the way, was so happy to call that down
in the half-yard line.
Was it down or no?
Well, college needs to change the rule where just because you touch the ground
and you're down, even if you're not touched,
you should be allowed to slide into the end zone right there.
Oh, yeah, that's stupid.
But that ref could not wait to be like, not, not, not.
Don't be celebrating too much here.
First down at the half yard line.
Excuse me.
Let's move on.
He should be like, come on.
They deserve this score.
It's like if Stone makes a great catch
and the ball scrapes the ground,
like, come on.
That's what we're...
Well, the ground...
That's a whole...
That's a whole different ballgame.
If that makes a great almost catch,
just come on.
Anyways, Jaden Daniels, go ahead.
What's the...
What do you think of the reviews?
No, I would say, like, the... I don't want to say boom or bust because I don't think there's a bust,
but, like, the potential is real.
Like, the games he played well, the evaluators, which I am not one of them,
but the evaluators are, like, in love with.
And it's not all of his games because there's plenty of games where he just wasn't that,
but, like, the star power is legit.
I think somebody's going to get a very good quarterback,
and I think someone in the top three is going to get a very good quarterback.
This is a classic between coaches and scouting people.
Coaches say potential gets your ass fired.
Ain't that right, AJ?
All day, man.
It happens to everybody.
All day, everybody.
Oh, potential.
This guy's ceiling is so high.
Okay, well, whose job is it to get to the ceiling?
Well, it's mine as the coach.
Allegedly, that's who it's going to be.
Well, what if his ceiling, that's a few games.
It isn't that high.
What if that's the case?
So coaches are always like, potential, get your ass fired. Front office people are always like, if I draft this guy and he turns into this guy.
C.J. Stroud?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, not only C.J. Stroud, but if he turns into over fivej stroud yeah exactly well not only cj stroud but if he turns
into over five six years into the let's say like a josh allen yeah like turn into the josh allen
it's a good one head coach is gone by then that's the problem yeah head coach has already lost the
first two years normally he's been fired so it's like that's the two different train of thoughts
and allegedly shanahan wanted mac jones but trerey Lance is upside much higher. So it's like the football coach is always like, I'd like the better player.
And then the scouting people, not always, but sometimes are like,
ooh, the upside here, though.
This is diamond and rough.
We could potentially see something that other people can't do.
I assume that's taking place with Jane Danvers with the way you described
people talking about bad games alongside the good games
as opposed to just the upside good games.
Yeah, I think that's probably right.
Yeah, I think so.
Whereas like Drake May, it's the conversation's a little different.
Like meetings sounded really good.
Everybody seems to like him.
And I don't think there's as much like what's he going to be like?
I think most people think Drake May will be a very good quarterback.
Nice.
But Jayden, I don't know.
It's going to be be this is like three different
completely different quarterbacks all probably gonna go i guess one two three yes um okay so
so interesting okay so drake may still top three pick is what you're hearing and thinking
uh i think so okay yeah i mean was that yeah. Why, is he falling on fake boards?
Well, yeah, kinda, yeah.
What did Dano think?
Who? Dano. What's he say
about Drake? I don't know.
He's back with his family for the first time
in, what, 10 days?
It was Sims.
Sims had him 6 out of 6. And your guy, Ben Kurt,
said he was Mason Rudolph.
Well, Ben Kurt... I got Ben Kurt. Yeah, he's Aaron's friend, so he's your guy, Benkert, said he was Mason Rudolph. Well, Benkert.
Zink said Zach Wilson really high, right?
Yeah, he's Aaron's friend, so he's your friend.
Ipso facto.
Transitional property.
He is Aaron's friend.
I get it.
What's up, buddy?
Smoking any meat lately?
Dude, I got some things in the freezer that are ready to get...
Oh, we got it all off.
Dana, we're live.
We're live.
What's up, buddy?
Ian Rappaport's on with us right now.
He has a different set of connections.
And the way he was talking about Drake Mays,
like how everybody's just still keeping him in the top three,
and didn't feel like that was a conversation necessarily everywhere,
especially on, as Ian Rappaport calls it, fake draft boards.
That's what he...
Don't make it seem like I called his draft board fake.
He doesn't have a draft board, Ian.
He can't hear you.
Relax.
He also can't hear you, Ian.
He's on my phone.
He can't do the entire thing.
Damn shit.
Drake May, what are your thoughts on Drake May?
He's top three guy.
He's top three quarterback in this draft class.
What are your thoughts on Drake May?
I think Drake May has to get the Jordan Love treatment.
You have to sit Drake May for at least a year or two.
I remember calling one of his first college football games, dude,
and being like, oh, my gosh, this guy's wildly talented.
And Mack Brown, having a conversation with me, he was like,
Dan, this kid is everything that you want.
He just mechanically is just so raw.
And that's always like a good thing because you can mold them.
And I don't think he mechanically, specifically with his feet, like has gotten a lot better.
He hasn't.
You know, in college, it's always like, do you have to do all that stuff?
So I think if like you sit him for at least a year and you develop him, I can see that Boston.
for at least a year and you develop them.
I can see that Boston Connor right back at the bell.
I think if you can sit him for at least a year,
you got a chance to have a really, really good player.
But you can't play him early.
For those that couldn't see the small screen there in the back, Connor was flipping Dan Orlovsky off.
That's all Dan could see on his particular side of this entire thing.
All right, so you're thinking team that has a bridge quarterback on their team
going to be the team that likes Drake May the most?
Yeah, you can't do it.
You know this as well.
Like, dude, if you take a young talent, I think I've learned it a little bit over the years.
Like, if you take a young, talented quarterback that has mechanical flaws
and you play them early they struggle and it's almost impossible to
then eventually fix those flaws so you you have to mechanically fix that stuff to ever allow the
talent to kind of be the number one part of their game so yeah a team that has like a player that
you know can at least give you a chance at that position
and you are committed to sitting Drake May for the year,
almost like they did with Patrick,
you're committed to doing that like they did with Jordan Love.
You guys, I mean, Ty, you know this.
I talked about Jordan's feet for years now,
and that's really the thing that got better as this season went on for him
once he got in the live game.
So, yeah, I think if you sit him, top five pick, absolutely.
All right.
Hey, we appreciate you.
Noted, Dano.
Noted.
Thank you, Dan.
Noted, Dano.
Noted.
Hey, good job on that fundraiser last night, man.
That's awesome.
Hey, it was cool out there, dude.
And great job by your wife.
Great job by Sam.
Running up, yeah, legit.
If I could pick one person to run it up on, it was that.
Oh.
Oh, he wants to.
Yep, that guy.
Sam!
Sam!
Go on, son.
Hey, good job.
Good job helping out people who can use it to kids and whatnot.
Good job by you, man.
Yeah, you would never, Dan.
You would fucking never.
Yeah.
All right, Dan.
We appreciate your money.
He hates you so bad.
I know, it's sick.
I know, it's sick.
So he thinks,
alright, so that's Dano's take
on... Okay, so let's say
that's accurate, which
for the Packers, that's the greatest thing
that ever happened to Jordan Love, who now seems to be
very excellent. So good.
So good at football. Let's say... Hasn't even started running. Oh be very excellent. So good. He's a guy. So good at football.
Let's say.
Hasn't even started running.
Oh, I know.
I know.
Go ahead.
So let's say he lands at a place like that.
So what's a place that has a bridge starter where he can go sit for a year?
Washington probably does.
Right?
I mean, they have Sam Howell, another North Carolina quarterback,
who flashed a ton last year.
Struggled at the end of the year, but certainly
seems to be bridge starter potential.
So maybe you just say
draft him and
sit him as long. Now, is it going to be a year?
I know enough to where it's almost...
Unless you're sitting behind Aaron Rodgers, it's almost
never a year. Mac Jones in New England?
Would that be a bridge?
I would like to know if Mac Jones stays in New England or not.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
You're here in 2 a.m.
Because we heard James Palmer said around 2 a.m.
I'm sorry, not p.m., 2 a.m.
around Indianapolis.
Los Scots were talking about how if Mac Jones was in San Francisco,
like Shanahan wanted, they'd already win a couple Super Bowls.
Are people putting over Mac Jones?
I wonder that as well.
Jesus Christ.
Sorry.
I would like to know.
Give me a fucking break.
I'd like to know what they drafted him.
Where would he be right now?
I would like to know.
We'll never find out.
It's annoying.
We'll never know.
That's not possible.
It's not feasible.
But I do like that drunk scouts are saying that
to people around Indianapolis.
Is there a Mac Jones market?
Is that what you're saying?
Oh, yeah.
Almost all quarterbacks get traded.
You know what I mean?
Nobody gets cut.
Okay, Russell Wilson.
Tom Brady, I think
his contract just ended.
The Russell Wilson contract was cut. Tom Brady, I think his contract just ended. Right, right.
But I'm saying the Russell Wilson contract was ridiculous,
but almost every quarterback ends up getting traded.
So I do think if the Patriots say, you know what, it's time to move on,
we're going to get a new quarterback, I do think Mac Jones will get traded.
Okay.
And so, you know, would probably.
What's that?
What's that?
A little bit of news.
You got to tweet it out.
Nudes?
News.
Two yudes.
Oh, God.
I'm texting Pelissero that he's going to tweet it for both of us,
so it'll be fine.
You want to say it first?
No.
It'll be up in two seconds.
Say it on the show, Rapsh.
What is it?
He says give him a minute.
Oh, wait.
Here, we'll tweet it.
Here, we'll say it.
No.
I'll do it.
We'll tweet.
AJ won't.
But everybody else.
AJ, do you have a Twitter?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, boy.
Oh, yeah.
Do I follow?
Hold on.
I don't know. We'll try and change the topic, Rapsh. We know what you're doing. Yeah, boy. Oh, yeah. Do I follow? Hold on. I don't know.
Don't try and change the topic, Rapshie.
We know what you're doing.
Yeah, you're delaying.
Oh, am I playing out the clock?
That's not true.
You're delaying.
And this is what Florian described as you guys doing little thumb races.
That's right.
You're doing thumb races.
I saw that.
I saw that.
Yeah, you're in the middle of a thumb race whenever you saw it, I bet.
Between that and tight end guru, it's been quite a week.
What's that?
Oh, yeah. What is that? i meant to ask earth that why are you guys uh towing the company line and having agents pay you off what happened
there was a a deal that broke dalton schultz a deal a friend of the program dalton schultz
i broke the deal really nice deal for him. And I meant, you know, sometimes you say, this agent
and whatever.
The team agreed to terms.
The agent did the deal. I thought it would be
funny to say tight end guru because
Steve Kerrick represents a lot of tight ends.
And then it became this whole thing.
What's the big thing? They hate you that you did it?
No.
But no, your tweet looked very similar.
Everybody ran with it.
Everyone called this guy a tight-ed guru after Rapsy tweeted it.
Oh.
Trendsetter.
Football is fun.
It should be fun.
You're an influencer.
You're an influencer.
Funny.
Funny.
It should be fun.
I saw my name with two A's in it in a bunch of tweets.
So it feels like it's copy-paste.
We got love for Stephen A, baby.
We got love for Stephen A. Just to address that i didn't i don't know what that's about me neither
it was everywhere i was like oh god i mean do people have miscommunications misunderstandings
and friendships relationships yeah sure but we got another love for steven a i mean that was a wild
thing to wake up and read i was like this is this is awesome. And then I learned I was banned from First Take. I get it.
Banned from First Take. That was news
to me. I read it. Texas Stephen A.
I'm banned from First Take?
No.
What are we talking about? We ran footage of our
show on First Take today.
That was very nice of him to put us
on literally today after everybody said it.
That was very kind of him.
What media outlet did that story?
New York Post.
Is that Brad Work there?
No, he actually, I think he left.
He did. He works at The Athletic now.
I blocked him, so I didn't get the chance
to follow the entire thing.
But it's wild how the internet works.
I mean, that's news on our stuff.
And it's like,
this has been the history of this entire kind of run.
Stuff that's just wrong gets reported, and then it just gets sent.
And if you happen to nap or something, it's already gone.
It's already gone out there.
And then you come back, it's like there's already people that believe it fully.
That's your world.
That's your world, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that happens to us too, though.
You know, it's like you say something and then someone repurposes it and then everyone just assumes that's what you said.
And then it's like, all right, we just.
So I'll get like a phone call.
Like, why did you say this?
I'm like, I did not say this.
It was repurposed by whoever.
But yeah.
Yeah.
And people start thinking it's real.
Even people like and they'll take stuff and just and then put it in there.
It's like a lot of that. Well, what's the context of that? Well, it is put it in there. And it's like, well, what's the context of that?
Well, it's not, it is a lot of that.
And it's, it's, it's growing.
Now, with that being said, we have bought enough time.
What is the news?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tom hasn't tweeted yet.
What's going on?
Oh, I got to wait one second.
Why don't you tell your team?
What are we talking about?
You guys are going to lose news.
This is how this goes.
You're going to lose.
It's going to be disappointing because if it was actual,
the tweet would have already been out.
Yeah, you're right.
He would have hung up.
Pellicera had car practice.
It's always a little disappointing.
Brian Allen and COVID again.
We did this one time where it was news I was waiting on.
It was so bad.
Do you know what it was?
I don't remember what it was, but I do remember Jay Glazer.
You remember Jay Glazer had the first NFL COVID?
Huge.
It was a center, right, from the Rams?
Yeah, and Brian out.
It turned out to be the second because Von Miller earlier that day.
Already had it.
Yeah.
We're happy everybody survived.
Yes.
Yeah, no, I agree.
Agreed.
What's the fucking news, pal?
I'm so sick of this rap.
I'm so sick of this.. I'm so sick of this.
Jolte's going to be so dumb.
You'll be like, oh.
It's not going to take away from your post if you say it here.
It's going to be terrible news.
It's not going to be news.
It's going to be like, oh, that guy's cool.
You got to just make sure it's protocol.
Yeah, protocols.
A lot of protocols.
You're double checking right now.
You don't know if it's real.
Yeah, just make an absolute sure.
Another source.
I don't want to put out something and have people
wake up to it and be like, wow, that's not real.
Okay, so just exactly what we just talked about.
If they're sleeping at 3pm, yes.
Well, it depends where they are.
All over the world, there's a lot of time zones.
Could be in Abu Dhabi.
Could be. Could be over in Saudi Arabia
because in Banu, he's like tonight he's fighting like 6 30 oh yeah tonight I think
it's today what is it he's fighting Anthony Joshua Francis and gone is boxing Anthony Joshua
in Saudi Arabia on Saturday but here it is happening 6.30 Friday. That's pretty strange. Yeah.
Time's weird.
Time's a wild thing.
It's all the same time, but is it?
This weekend's time.
Jumping forward.
Yes, it is.
Yeah, we're losing it now.
Pumped.
It's like when I had to explain how Taylor Swift was going to go from her concert on
Saturday night and land in Vegas on Saturday night, and I had a big conversation with my
wife where she had to explain to me the international time zone or international timeline or whatever. It was a great moment on TV. How old are you?
That was a couple weeks ago. So how old are you?
44. So you survived 44 years without
knowing that there's time zones around the world? Hey, I've survived
44 years without knowing a lot of things. That's the least of it.
I don't know what's real or... Let's just be happy that I was able to connect to FaceTime,
okay? And tweet some news.
So, like, when that London game
starts happening, you are fucking
baffled about why. Why is this going on
9.30 a.m.?
Sun seems to be in a different place. Do they have
a different fucking sundial over here?
Believe me, some of these things are
very confusing.
Like, why you won't tell us the fucking news
right now. That is maybe the most
confusing thing. Alright, we'll follow along.
Anything else we need to follow
and keep an eye on over the weekend?
Deals will be done. They'll be announced on Monday at what time?
Noon?
Noon. If a deal is
done when it shouldn't be done,
it'll be announced a little afternoon, but there'll be
some re-signs. There'll be some good ones, I think, this weekend
because there's, you know, like you get to like
the tight ends or whatever, like
Schultz got done, Hunter Henry got
done, like if your
own team is going to give you the most money, take the
deal and there'll be a couple more of those. Okay, I'm excited
to hear who it is and follow along as
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All right, let's get the hell out of here, boys.
Okay.
It's been a hell of a week.
Yeah.
Great week.
Good to be back.
It was good to be back.
AJ, first week back.
How'd you feel?
Man, it was great to be back.
You're right.
Felt like we were gone for months and months.
It did feel like that.
You're out on that cruise again, only for a few days.
You're telling me there's no cucking going on on that cruise?
Don't lie.
Well, describe exactly what you mean.
Well, I went on a cruise one time, one time,
and I was asked if I wanted to, you know,
potentially go back to the room of a couple
and i declined and then i was accosted by friends of mine for declining that saying that i ruined
the entire yeah mood of the story but good friends i have other friends that have gone on a cruise
maybe one time first time right now, in first night they were asked.
So in my eyes, from the people I talk to,
there's a chance that that's what some of these cruises are.
That's not the Ohio State Buckeye cruise, is what you're saying.
That does not, I have not seen that in the many, many times I've been on the Ohio State Buckeye cruise.
You're talking about like, it sounds like you were on a swinger cruise.
I don't think cucking would mean the guy sat in the corner
and set up the tripod and filmed you. I think this guy wanted to jump in with you're on a swinger cruise. I don't think cucking would mean the guy sat in the corner and set up the tripod and filmed you.
I think this guy wanted to jump in with you and have a situation.
No, no.
I don't get to the full details, to be honest with you.
Filming isn't involved.
Not that I would know.
Crying's not always involved either.
What's going on?
You don't always have to film.
You don't always have to cry in the corner.
Oh.
To what AJ was describing. If someone's crying in the corner, that means they don't want to to film. You don't always have to cry in the corner. Oh. To what AJ was describing.
Yeah.
If someone's crying in the corner, that means they don't want to be the cuck.
Or they're so happy.
Or they enjoy it like that.
Yeah, they're just hard as a rock, just bawling their eyes out.
That'd be a lot of emotion.
That'd be tough to process.
I'd assume day-to-day life for that particular person is tough.
I assume there's a lot going on every single day, every single moment, if that's taking place.
A lot of wars between those.
No judgment. That's taking place. No judgment.
That's your thing, no judgment.
How do you need to get through your day?
Sounds like you've got a lot going on.
Different body parts are in different stages
of grief. You've got to do what you've got to do, buddy.
Jeez Louise.
Oh no.
How are you hard when you're so upset?
What's going on in your brain and then what's going on in the lower half?
Two different brains crying everywhere. Always has been. AJ, are you giving stuff away or so upset i don't know what's going on in your brain and then what's going on in the lower half two different brains crying everywhere always has been all right aj
you give himself away as rapport let's call rapport back in rap sheet for sure with a new
haircut are you kidding me i broke that no i mean no after that news thing i don't know if i ever
want to see that fucking guy did he get one haircut anything one hair even cut off his head
or the side he looks the like the exact same. The front maybe a little bit lower.
He was flabbergasted, though.
He thinks it's a drastic change.
He had no idea there was time zones.
True.
Was he serious there?
Is Europe on Eastern time zones?
I enjoy him quite a bit.
You know every mirror he's walking by.
All right, Ian.
You look the exact same as you used to.
You're back, ladies and gentlemen.
You're at port.
It's obviously different.
Hold on. See? Yeah, ladies and gentlemen. You're at four. You're at three. It's obviously different. Hold on.
See?
Yeah, this haircut actually does kind of suck.
Are you serious?
I like the other one.
It looks really different.
What are you guys talking about?
Are you making fun?
Yeah.
Here we go.
Check it out.
Oh, my.
Hey, you look a little older, I guess, with the new one.
Hey, thanks for making some flattering pictures.
I appreciate that. Yeah. Hey, no for making some flattering pictures. I appreciate that.
You look good. You look the exact same.
You do.
A bit more gel.
If I make this shot, how many people
are you giving $500 to? 20 people?
Right-handed or left-handed?
Jesus. Cheapskate?
What do you think?
Show them the shot, please. It's a long shot.
I'm here.
See me? I look your size.
At least 10.
At least 10.
All right.
You see me down here?
Way down there.
He's not even going to hit the rim.
Okay, so 20 people, $500
from you, Rappaport.
That seems like a lot of money.
Just say yes.
Atta boy.
He's going to drain this.
It's going in.
It's a three-shot situation.
What?
Who told me that?
It's volume.
We're still going.
There it is.
This one's in.
This one's in.
Bang.
Bonus ball.
That one's coming back.
That one's coming back.
He got robbed.
Here it is.
Yeah, there it is.
Yep, yep.
Love it, love it.
Nice.
Good work.
Good work.
Nice.
Wrap-a-pork.
Yeah.
20 people, $500 from our friend Ian Rapaport.
You're made it.
We'll let you know who you need to pay.
Thank you, Ian.
Have a great weekend, man.
Thanks, Jim.
Bye, guys.
The Baby Rapaport NFL Network.
That's right.
Good guy.
That's how it's supposed to go.
Exactly.
There's no better way to end this week.
No.
This is a fun first off-season week back.
We can't wait to join you on Monday.
We're going to continue to try to put on a program that's at least a little bit entertaining.
Uh-huh.
You know?
Yeah.
Maybe a little bit insightful, but also let you know that there's a chance that what we're talking about is complete bullshit.
Because that is what we're in the middle of right now.
That's right.
Draft season is bullshit season.
We're going to try our best to navigate the waters as best as possible.
As teams are trying to build to beat the damn Chiefs.
Hell yeah.
And then NBA's happening.
NHL's happening.
PBR.
What?
Yeah.
Tonight, bang your mind.
Let's go.
Joan Krimber is about to ride tonight, AJ.
You hear me?
Yes.
Who owns the Bulls?
Krimmer's going to take this off.
He's going to take this off. He's going to put this on.
That's going to be him on a Bulls.
You look pretty cool.
You look pretty cool.
Cooler than with a cowboy hat?
Yeah, kind of.
That's Steeler's helmet.
You got a Pittsburgh Steeler's helmet on.
Ride your motorcycle home with that on.
Ben...
Where are you going with that on. Ben, yep.
What?
Where are you going with that?
What?
Ben was wearing a helmet, okay?
Well, he wasn't.
He had a high boost, and he crashed that thing in the middle of downtown Pittsburgh,
and everybody thought he was dead.
And then he found out he didn't have a driver's license.
There's a lot of stuff that happened,
but he came back and threw a lot of footballs
into end zones, and that guy will be beloved there forever.
Always.
Anyways, PBR tonight.
Let's never forget that.
Yep.
I think there's some golf this weekend.
Yep.
I bet.
Yeah, the Army.
The Army Palmer.
The Iowa women are playing tonight.
Yep.
Let's go.
There's, I think, a race or two, maybe.
UFC.
Shriner.
Sean O'Malley's fighting.
Big.
Let's go.
Cheeto Vera and Sean down in Miami.
The crowd.
You know, when we talked to Dana out in Vegas a little bit, he talked about Miami being awesome.
He's like, hey, fighting Miami is going to be awesome.
And we were going to try to get the show there.
I think something happened or whatever the case is.
But, like, that crowd yesterday at the press conference was.
Oh, yeah.
Not pro Sugar.
No, no.
Not pro-Suga.
No, no.
And Sugar Sean, by the way, is a friend of the program and a guy who is a superstar for the UFC.
They are on Cheetos' side down there.
Cheetos has been talking some shit, too.
A lot of shit.
Now, Cheetos is the only one that has beat Sugar Sean,
but Sugar Sean doesn't really count it because something happened to his foot.
Yeah.
Broke his foot.
Drop foot. Drop foot happened in the middle of the fight yeah so he
didn't really think he uh got a fair shot at fighting him there's been people that have asked
him questions about why he's fighting cheeto again when there's other bigger fights and big-time
fights in cheeto vera he seems to be the most confident fighter that has ever fought sugar
sean i'm excited to watch it oh yeah sugar sean is a showman sugar sean is also he got
down to 135 pounds and i think his weight loss is not as easy as maybe others because he's tall
whenever it comes to 135 pounders and he dances yeah he'll go he'll go fake basketball dribble
through legs to a punch like that is who sugar sean is as a fighter excited he's back in there
with a guy who's going to be great ufc, let's go Get to play the villain, like you mentioned
He is like an absolute showman
Now he can be a heel showman
I think it's going to be even better
Okay, let's have a phenomenal weekend
NBA's got stuff popping off
NHL, Penguins, Bruins tomorrow at 3 o'clock
We just sold all our team
I think they actually moved it off
Vegas just made a big trade right at the deadline
Who did we get?
Tomas Hurdle from San Jose, who was their best player.
They gave up two first round picks to get him.
Don't need him. He's not going to play probably
until the playoffs, but people are going to be pissed
because that puts them at like $100
million. So he's going
to come in playoff time, play a top six role
for them. It's huge. Fucking boys just playing the game.
Sorry.
Stoner will be back. Fucking Noah Hannafin will boys just playing the game. Sorry. Stoner will be back then.
Stoner will be back.
Fucking Noah Hannafin will be acquainted with the boys.
Did this guy talk to you because you're a teammate?
You're on the team.
I haven't had a chance to.
When was the last time you talked to the boys?
Seems like they've kind of just cut you out of their lives.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's just say me and Jackie Aces, I've been keeping up with, hey, how we feeling?
Here we fucking go, boys.
He knows. You talk Stoner, hey, how we feeling? Here we fucking go, boys. He knows.
You talk stoner at all or how stoner?
Yeah, I just, hey, well wishes, stoner.
You do what you got to do.
We'll see you in the playoffs, okay?
We'll see you when fucking Lord Stanley is actually around.
Are you still lacing the skates or what's going on?
Every fucking night.
Got a pond in my backyard.
Nice.
Amen.
Here we fucking go, boys.
That's what it's all about. Right there. That's what it's all about. Back to back. Right there. That's what it's all about Right there
Back to back
Trying to be the chiefs
Right there
Here we fucking go boys
Who's the MC?
Mark
Here we fucking go
Here we fucking go Mark
What's the name of the...
The Golden Knight?
The Golden Knight?
I don't know.
Fuck that guy.
I'd like to slice that guy's head off.
I thought after we watched the video,
you would realize that you did not do what the Knight told you to do.
I was so fucked up that I should have never been in any position
to be wielding an eight-foot sword in an elevated.
You dropped that thing off?
Yeah, exactly.
Tumble off, impale myself.
That was no position.
I respect that Golden Knight.
Did you see his duel before the game?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
He's dominating.
He's skating on the ice.
Yeah, it's awesome.
They put little roads down on the ice, too.
I mean, that was a beautiful show.
That was a fantastic show.
Drummers came out.
Yep.
The whole thing.
Here we fucking go.
Here we fucking go, boys.
And welcome to the team.
Yeah, I forgot who got it already, but he's a fucking dog.
And he said, hey, can't wait to get out of that fucking shithole San Jose.
Get me to Vegas.
Here we fucking go, boys.
I was in a San Jose.
I was in a shark cage.
Were you?
Yeah.
In a tank?
Shark pit.
I was in the...
Shark tank.
Shark tank.
They are.
Their record's not good, but they are hungry, hungry sharks.
They are.
They play hard.
It was a lot.
It was a lot hot.
They suck.
Yeah, you catch them getting two and a half, 1030 at night.
You sign up for that every time.
We love the Sharks on Hammerdown.
Oh, really?
Hurdles dog.
So I remember when I was in San Jose now a couple weeks ago for Monday Night Raw,
I do a thing during commercial breaks where I talk to the crowd a little bit.
It's really turned into like me judging the crowd pretty much.
Like, hey, you've been great.
Every week they have been amazing.
But I want to ask about the local
how we're doing. Guy was wearing a San Jose
Sharks tarp right back here.
I run to the bathroom, and
I stop, and I'm like, hey, how are we
this year? Absolute crap.
We're the worst. We are so bad at hockey.
I'm like, you're a diehard fan. He goes, oh, yeah.
Miserable. Terrible. I'm like, we
won a Stanley Cup, though, recently. He gave me 10 years ago. It's bad. And I was like you're a die hard fan he goes oh yeah miserable terrible I'm like we won a Stanley Cup though recently
10 years ago
it's bad
and I was like
alright not gonna mention
San Jose Sharks
in this entire thing
they suck suck
they're 15
42 and 5
yeah
they were very good
for a long time
they had a big deal
with the beers
Joe Thornton
from Boston
and now they suck
Pavelski
they had Pavelski
yeah he's Texas hockey now.
They didn't have Carlson.
Yeah, they did. Traded him to the Guinos.
Him and Brent Burns. Brent Burns was also
a big... Is he still on Carolina?
You hear what we're saying about San Jose right now?
Yeah, exactly. Get used to it. You know what they're calling
San Jose East, right? That's not a hockey town.
Okay, they just let them dwindle.
That won't happen.
I want to do this. I want to do this.
This is a universe ball.
I got four of them.
I know how many. You need 50 of them.
This is the Pittsburgh Penguins aren't dead.
Okay.
This is because hockey is awesome.
I don't even want to watch.
This ball goes in a hoop
Pittsburgh Penguins aren't just going to be the worst
Fucking franchise for the next five years
As every single person that's good at hockey on their team
Is not going to be on their team much longer
A lot of pressure
Maybe bump that to next ten years
Not just five
For the Penguins.
Oh, my God.
Oh, no.
It got worse.
It was a different ball.
I know.
That's why it got worse.
But it was a better throw.
Nick.
Nick, like, real deal.
I got to make these balls.
We're staring down an inevitable we suck at hockey town.
Done it before,'s done it before.
He can do it again.
We suck at Hockey Town.
There's not a receiving cross.
The Red Wings just got out of it.
No, they stink still.
It wasn't fun.
Yeah, they still blow.
We got Iserman now, though.
Stable.
Yeah, but if this ball goes in, the Pens are going to be A-OK.
He can bring Mario back.
Here we go. Goal, boys Bring Mario back. Here we go.
Goal, boys.
Goal.
Here we go, boys.
Fuseball.
Here we go.
Time to make a run.
Sick toss.
Sick toss for the boys.
Let's go, boys.
Here we fucking go, boys.
Let's go, boys.
All right, let's have a weekend.
Hell yeah.
Okay, I appreciate you all so much.
Thank you to the people that stopped by for conversations.
You are incredibly kind.
Shout out to the Pens and the universe saying, don't you worry, child.
Although they're trading away some players, we're going to be good in the future.
Shout out to all the sports that are going to keep us entertained all weekend.
And shout out to you for allowing us to do this for a living.
You're the greatest people on earth.
We can't thank you enough for being a part of this every single day.
Be a friend.
Tell a friend something nice.
It might change their life.
You never know what anybody's going through.
And we're in this thing together.
Team on me.
Team on three.
One, two, three.
Team.
Goodbye.