The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1089 - Joe Flacco, Kyle Busch, Damien Woody, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 14, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap yesterday’s biggest moves in NFL free agency as Joe Flacco has officially signed a 1 year deal with the Colts to be their backup Quarterback, and former Jaguars Wide Receiver, Calvin Ridley signed with the Titans out of nowhere on a 4 year deal, as well as everything else happening around the sports world while also celebrating Pi Day. Joining the progrum to chat about signing with the Colts, how he envisions his role with the team, and if he was surprised that it took this long to sign is Super Bowl Champion/MVP, 2023 NFL Comeback Player of the Year, Joe Flacco (21:03-38:51). Next, one of the greatest motor sports racers of all-time, NASCAR legend, Kyle Busch joins the show to chat about the season, the differences between F1, IndyCar, and NASCAR, how the sport has changed over the years, and why he still hasn’t lost his edge (1:36:28-2:02:25). Lastly, 2x Super Bowl Champion, Pro Bowler, and current ESPN NFL analyst, Damien Woody joins the show to chat about his involvement in The Dynasty, offensive lineman getting broken off in free agency, how much Jason Kelce retiring impacts the Eagles, his new look, and much more (2:02:45-2:18:19). 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

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome on this magical Thursday, March 14th, 2024. This program starts now. Flankin'! Yes, you heard that right. At one point in time, those boys were yelling, football! Because we're in the middle of football season. Then football season ended and the boys started yelling, sports! Because sports were happening, and football was still happening, but other sports were starting to take place.

Obviously, because football season's over, now other sports can take place. But today, there was a different word chanted as this program began, when the beat dropped so beautifully at the perfect time. And that word was not just any word. No, that word was not just any word. No, that word was a nod. That word was a name. That word is the new quarterback. Back up. For the Indianapolis Colts, Joe Flacco.

He'll be joining us in 19 minutes. Yes. Cannot wait to talk to Joey Flack, who just signed a $4.5 million guarantee with the Indianapolis Colts. $8.7 million in total. One-year deal. He'll be there for OTAs. He'll be there for training camp. He'll be there

for the entire season. So now we have Anthony Richardson in his rookie year getting to learn from Gardner Minshew, the shoulder shimmy guy. And in his second year, he's going to get a chance to work alongside a man who was able to lead a team to the playoffs when he just joined And in his second year, he's going to get a chance to work alongside a man who was able to lead a team to the playoffs when he just joined them in week 10. Yeah.

A week 11, whatever it was. Almost one comeback player of the year as damn near a 40-year-old. You're talking about a guy who can spin it, a guy that reignited and relit a passion in the side of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, for a magical couple-month run that is now being brought to Indianapolis. And if Anthony Richardson gets hurt again, which none of us are hoping for, we hope he protects himself. We hope he learns from what happened last year where he had to leave and exit three out of the five games that he played in,

the fifth one being the last one. He is gone. If he's not able to stay healthy, we have a backup who literally just took a team to a playoffs. We have an offensive coordinator in Shane Steichen that can draw people open. We have an offensive coordinator and head coach in Shane Steichen that just got Gardner

Minshew to the Pro Bowl. So what he'll be able to do, and a $15 million deal with the Las Vegas Raiders. Congrats, Gardner Minshew. Absolutely crushed it. If Joe Flacco has to play for the Colts, it's a perfect setup for us. I am pumped about the signing. And we will talk to that, you know, coastal accent having.

Oh, yeah. Joey Flack in about 18 minutes or so. That's a big deal. So shout out to you boys paying homage to the new Indianapolis Colts quarterback. The Indianapolis Colts are just making all the right moves. We'll talk about a rule that they're proposing at this owner's meeting as well that will go, well, Colts aren't that bad, actually. Yeah, they have an AFC finalist banner still

hanging in their stadium, and that's tough to get past for all of us. It's tough to get past. But once you, you know, and you listen to Bill Bird do his entire, once you get past that a little bit, the Colts are doing some good stuff right now, which is exciting. They're not the only ones. The AFC South have been cooking yesterday, a couple big moves.

We'll talk all about it today. Ladies and gentlemen, the talk table is here looking amazing. At Boston Corner with a couple owls on his shirt. Are those the murderers down there in Carolina in the staircase? Is that that type of owl? No, no, no. Those are snow owls. Yeah, these are snow owls.

I don't have the names in my brain right now, honestly. But they are nice. I was the purple shirt. I haven't worn purple in quite some time, so I figured I would break it out for a guy who used to play, you know, with a purple team, Joey Flacco. And? And?

And, of course, go Mustangs. Palmboro, Pennsylvania, our hometown. How could I not represent it on this wonderful day? But, you know, one thing about Anthony Richardson, I will say now, he probably will have the most moxie in the NFL based off of hanging out with Gardner Minshew and Joe Blackow in back-to-back years. I'm not 100% sure because Kirk Cousins got a lot of moxie,

and we've been seeing it all since he was joined the Atlanta Falcons. He had a press conference yesterday chit-chatting about it all, and the internet is certainly cooking and alive. He's iced out alongside Coop and Joe. Joe plays. That sounds like it. Joe Cousins. I could see Joe Cousins.

I know Coop made a great fire on the quarterback series that Kirk Cousins was incredibly impressed with. You're talking about just like the most wholesome family. Everybody talks about Cole's Cash. That's where Kirk Cousins was incredibly impressed with. You're talking about just like the most wholesome family. Everybody talks about Cole's Cash. That's where Kirk Cousins shops. Then he gets into a team that has grills and chains last year in Minnesota, and he became his calling card. Look at this nerd kind of experience life through the lens of some other people.

And he crushed it. He started killing it. All of a sudden, Kirk Cousins becomes the biggest babyface in the league. You watch that quarterback thing. It's like, I love this guy. Not only is he babyface and I think self-aware, smart, very capable as a quarterback. Always has been for

every team that he's ever played for. This whole thing started by the way, at Washington at the time. Not the commanders. The old team. Not the football team. The one before that. The one before that. The one before that.

We didn't name it. No, no, no. Can we say it? No. People do, though. They do. Whenever they're talking about the history of the game. Talking about them in past tense. No, it's like, that guy was playing for the Washington. Just right through it. It's like,

whoa! Are you allowed to? And then there was that entire petition that happened allegedly. A lot of names. A lot of signatures. And then there was a petition the other way coming back at it. Yeah, both sides. Luke Combs is calling me. Oh, nice. We're live. I'm live on the air right now.

I'm live on the air right now. I love it. Hey, you did great yesterday, man. You got anything to say to Carolina Panthers fans with their response to you? Oh, yeah, man. I just want to say I love them Hey you did great yesterday man You got anything to say to Carolina Panthers fans With their response to you Oh yeah man I just want to say I love them dude I'm all in I'm a team guy

You know that We found that out yesterday What are you doing right now You're golfing I'm golfing dude You know We the best Hell yeah

Hell yeah You know how it is I stink at golf I stink at golf dude We all do I don't know if you're built for it, Luke. No offense. I don't want to body shame, but I don't think I've ever seen many pros built like you.

No, dude. You haven't. You haven't seen many guys with an elite performance. All right. We're going to do our show. Have a good one out there. We appreciate you. All right, bud.

See you, boys. Keep pounding. All right, Luke. See you, Luke. I called him earlier to tell him how appreciative we were of his appearance yesterday. He was hilarious on the show. He's just calling back. We the best out there.

He's got the Tommy Hilfiger collab with DJ Khaled he's been talking about. Luke Combs never said what a lot of people say when they're describing the team that Kirk Cousins was drafted to. When Kirk Cousins was drafted to the Mm-hmm. That was a wild time. They just traded the future of the entire franchise to get RG3. He's going to be our guy. He's going to be our starter. Oh, yeah, we're also bringing you in, which a lot of people think is very capable of being an NFL quarterback.

He's just had to kind of keep his head down. He was a backup quarterback, had to avoid the drama. He bet on himself multiple times in Washington when he took the one-year franchise, one-year franchise. Then he would do it again with another deal, then another deal, then another deal. The guy is a living American dream when it comes to football. He's bet on himself. It's paid off. He's self-aware.

He's seen himself now become the absolute baby face around the league when at one point he was known as the guy that rips off teams. They pay too much, and he can't win the big one. Then he started going through the guy that rips off teams, they pay too much, and he can't win the big one. Then he started going through the stats of the big games. It's like, I don't think Kirk Cousins has ever had a problem in the big games. I think maybe his teams have potentially failed. Even though win-loss is a quarterback stat, Kirk Cousins was taking the brunt of it. Then, over the last couple of years, wins massive games, has the largest comeback in NFL history in his resume against the Indianapolis Colts. in NFL history in his resume against the Indianapolis Colts.

They had a squad that we thought maybe could go win the Super Bowl, the brand new Vikings. Now he's talking about going down to Atlanta with the skill players that they have with Raheem Morris, and he's saying, if I play good, this is the team I'm going to retire with. Now, one half of the hammer, done. Cowboys, Tone Diggs. Kirk Cousins is a guy, if he ended up as a Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback, obviously not at $180 million.

The Steelers have never done that. But you were a team that needed a quarterback, seemingly, going into this offseason, even though Kenny Pickett's coming back. You didn't really know. If the Steelers signed Kirk Cousins, I think you're pumped about it. If the Colts signed Kirk Cousins, would be pumped about it. I think every team at this point would be pretty pumped about Kirk Cousins. It's the $180 million guarantee that I think Atlanta had to eat

that not every other team would have. Sure, but I mean, Kirk, we talk about how he's made all this money, but he has earned all that money, and I don't think anyone's ever regretted a contract that they've given Kirk Cousins. I don't think any team would say, oh, we've regretted this contract, because he's played well with every contract. And made the place better.

Yeah, and yes, I would have accepted Kirk Cousins at that price with arms wide open, because when the place better. And yes, I would have accepted Kirk Cousins at that price with arms wide open because when the Steelers got Russ Wilson it did nothing for their odds. It didn't. I promise you that. Guess who's the favorite to win the NFC South? It's the Atlanta Falcons by a good bit. They're

minus 110. I think the Bucs are like plus 330. Did that change with the addition of Kirk Cousins? Because they didn't know. I mean, the Bucs assumed it was Kirk at one point, so it was kind of cooked in there. But once it went there, it went there. They're heavy favorites to win the NFC South, and that's not because of anything but Kirk Cousins.

Okay, so the books respect Kirk Cousins. We respect Kirk Cousins. Feels like Atlanta's learning a lot about Kirk Cousins. They're appreciating Kirk Cousins and what he is. Now, granted, if you lose, everybody will hate you. I mean, that's just how it goes in the NFL. That's the way of being a quarterback. Travis Kelsey talked about it. He's not the only one.

We do need video of Kirk Cousins' first trip to Magic City. They have their wings. Yeah, exactly. He's not going for a show. Now, a show's happening. Of course. Sure. But he's going to be there for the wings.

He's eating. Just like Lou. Lou Will. That's right. Just like Lou Will, who had an appearance, wanted to pick up some lemon pepper wings from Magic City, go back to the bubble, how you doing, keep it moving.

All of a sudden, somebody says, hey, Jack Harlow's eating wings here at Magic City at the same time. Can we take a selfie at this wing stop, this wing joint, Magic City, and then post it, and Lou Will got banned from the bubble. He was suspended.

But I think it was at that moment everybody learned that Magic City's wings are worth getting suspended for an entire season from the NBA to eat. Everybody talks about everything else going on here. A lot of dancing. Sure. Some athletics. Sure, Ben.

Some falling from the sky and stopping themselves inches away from the floor going, wow. Wow, those thighs are strong. How'd you do that trick? How'd you do that? We need Kirk to experience Atlanta, and I think he will, especially with the team that they have around him. Now, Mike Florio is taking a little

bit of a victory lap. Mike Florio came on our particular program and laid out how his operation at Pro Football Talk works and how it has worked for so long and how he gets some stories where other people don't, and mostly because he's saying we'll get tipped off by somebody then i kind of have to go reverse engineer it like hey i know this how do we make this legit how do we make it legit and he said i haven't been able to confirm this yet but from what i'm being told from a source in the know

at the time kyle pitts and kirk have already talked about jerseys and the number eight and everything like that. Then Kyle Pitts quote tweeted that video that was taken out of context from somebody else and put into a different tweet. Quote tweeted that and said, these guys have been saying this is actually funny. You guys come up with anything. So then yesterday, Kirk Cousins was like, Kyle Pitts and I have been

talking for a while. We talked about the number. I was going to offer up money for the number eight. Kyle Pitts said, just give me targets, bro. Just give me targets and I'll be good with it. Mike Florio quote tweets it and goes, just like I said it would. He's got to feel great about this.

This is not the first time that an insider had something and a player has openly disputed it from our particular program. J.K. Dobbins checked Ian Rappaport. I think when Rappaport said that J.K. Dobbins checked Ian Rappaport. I think when Rappaport said that J.K. Dobbins will not be active week one, that is not the expectation. J.K. Dobbins was like, this dude don't know nothing.

Then he wasn't active. Ian Rappaport took a big victory lap in this entire thing. But what I heard there is that Kyle Pitts and Kirk Cousins are off to a great start. If you're a Falcons fan, you've got to be thanking the heavens because all they thought last year was that Artie Smith won't give anybody the ball who's good at football. Kyle Pitts is one of them. Bijon Robbins is another one.

Kirk Cousins can get the rock to people. This is a big upgrade for Atlanta. I'm pumped for the Atlanta Falcons fans. Yeah, absolutely. This is a big upgrade for Atlanta. I'm pumped for the Atlanta Falcons fans. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they've drafted skill guys in the top ten, what, three years in a row. So it's like that was the whole thing.

Hey, we just need a quarterback. And I think everyone kind of knew Desmond Ritter, like they were going to give him a shot. But I don't think he shouted like, hey, he's immediately going to make them the best team in the NFC South. And now you get a guy in Kirk Cousins who has proved time and time again that, and even coming off the Achilles, like, that really hasn't hampered anything. It's like, nope, we expect the same Kirk.

He's going to be able to deliver the ball. Like, he does. Whether you like his personality or any of that kind of stuff, he always performs on Sundays, and he's a tough son of a bitch, too, which I don't think he gets enough. Exactly. On that quarterback, he takes a tough son of a bitch, too, which I don't think he gets enough. On that quarterback, he takes a spear to the chest. He's laying on the ground,

looks up to see if it's a touchdown or not, and head back down. Just let me lay for a minute. And then he gets up and runs. What happened? He had a punctured lung. Yeah, that's a quarterback job, though. There's going to be blindside shots. There's going to be big-time shots. You're going to be sitting there in a very,

very compromised compromise vulnerable either or both work both both work their position and he takes it and he's a nerd yeah yeah openly knows he's a nerd appreciates that he's a nerd he's tough his teammates love him and he's now the atlanta falcons quarterback who are the favorite to win the nfc south Let's go to another division that has South in it. The AFC South, don't look now. Okay? He's starting to become the AFC beast. Everybody starts talking about how strong all these other divisions are.

The AFC South was a laughingstock. Had more wins in the playoffs than the NFC East. How about that? We'd like to let everybody know. That was a laughing stock. Had more wins in the playoffs than the NFC East. How about that? That was a rookie quarterback. So he's going to be here for the next 20 years in the AFC South. That Tennessee Titans say, we got Will Levis. We don't know what we have in him, but we got him. We got Callahan coming in.

He's selling repair parts for the American Man. Because that's who he is. And that's who he works for. That's who he cares for. And he's bringing his dad in. Exactly. Big Tom. Big Tom. Who knows what the offense will look like with the Titans. They're going through a

full rebuild, reculture down there. Maybe Will Levis is a guy. But they signed Mason Rudolph yesterday off the Pittsburgh Steelers. The big one. Remember, Pittsburgh Steelers, Mason Rudolph at the end of his career at Pittsburgh Steelers, lighting up the scoreboard. Throwing it around. The entire city of Pittsburgh was chanting this man's name

when just a year before that they were hoping that he would get out of town. Big baby-faced turn for Mason Rudolph because of how he played on the field, how he carried himself, and I think he would say he became the best version of himself while he was at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh Steelers fans fell in love with Mason Rudolph. He's now at the Tennessee Titans. Whoa. Tennessee Titans fans go, okay, well, Levis, Mason Rudolph,

we got guys that can spin a little bit. Yeah, for sure. Fans weren't the only ones that saw that happen. Yeah. Other players around the league saw that. Yeah. They saw it very quickly. Free agents around the league saw that.

Calvin Ridley said, get me to Tennessee. Now. I need to be in Tennessee stat. Calvin Ridley represented, get me to Tennessee. I need to be in Tennessee stat. Calvin Ridley, represented by Mulugeta. Mulugeta posted a photo of this moment right here where Calvin Ridley agrees to a 90-plus million dollar deal with the Tennessee Titans to play wide receiver opposite of D-hop, I believe,

which is quite a tandem for the Tennessee Titans to have here in the AFC South. But Mulugeta gets another deal done. And a lot of people are saying, Calvin Ridley was linked to the Patriots. Calvin Ridley was linked back to the Jags. Nobody had the Titans in play. Soon as Mason Rudolph gets signed by the Titans, Calvin Ridley and Mulugeta knew exactly where they needed to go.

This comeback story for Calvin Ridley is a beautiful one. I'm incredibly pumped and proud of him. I'm happy for him. We don't know him at all, other than just watching his story from afar. He's a man obviously was suspended for a year, found himself, if you read the what's that one from there? The Players Tribune article that he

wrote, basically talking about him being the best version of himself, taking the year's suspension to learn about himself, get healthier than he's ever been, play great ball with the Jacksonville Jaguars, a team that we all thought was potentially going to go on a run, turn around everything for him, and now he gets a $90-plus million bag from Tennessee.

Good for him, and good for the Titans investing big here in an offseason in which we didn't know what the hell they were going to do. Yeah, I feel like every team who wanted a wide receiver wanted Calvin Ridley. He was at the top of everybody's list. As a Patriots fan, I wanted Calvin Ridley very bad. The Colts, you wanted Calvin Ridley. I know Tony even threw his hat in the ring with Calvin Ridley.

Obviously, with Mike Williams getting released from the Chargers yesterday, that adds to the market. As a fan of a team who didn't get him, you hope that you can set your sights on the next guy up, Mike Williams. But at the same time, I saw a lot of Titans fans reacting to it. Super pumped. This

is awesome. And then finding out he was 29 years old has kind of changed some people's mindsets. I, for one, do not care. He doesn't play like he's 20. No shit. I do not care. And 29 is your prime. They say like your peak body is what? 28 to 30 or two or something. And he didn't take hits for a year and a half, almost two years. Yeah, I do not care. And 29 is your prime. They say the peak body is, what, 28 to 30 or two or something. And he didn't take hits for a year and a half, almost two years.

Yeah, which I guess you can add on as a benefit. He even got healthier throughout those years. But, yeah, I can understand 29-year-old wide receiver getting $90-plus million at a brand-new organization where you don't even know who the quarterback is going to be yet. It's certainly something that Titans fans could go, what the hell is going on? But I assume Titans fans asking what the hell's going on

had questions when Vrabes was fired, when maybe A.J. Brown was traded on draft day. There's been a lot of things that have happened in the Titans fandom over the last five years, we'll say, that could lead them to maybe not trust the entire process. But remember, this is a whole new building. Whole new building, whole new coaching staff, whole new vision for what the future should look like.

And now you're kind of watching them build it. And I think there's a connection to Jacksonville as well. The his wide receiver coach is now in Tennessee. And I guess they got a, they got along very well, but like the Titans could have went two ways after Vabes gets fired and Derek Henry's gone and Tano Hill's gone. Like it's an era there. And they side Lloyd Cushenberry, who's one of like people had as as the top center on the market.

And then they go get Tony Pollard. Now they go get Calvin Ridley. So they made additions. Those are three big additions to their offense for Levis if he's going to be the guy going forward. What's the deal in the AFC South? Well, they know. They know it's the best division in the league. You don't have to say that.

I understand where you're coming from because the AFC North is pretty good. They just got better with Derrick Henry coming in there. Derrick Henry and his press conference yesterday. You don't have to say that. I understand where you're coming from because the AFC North is pretty good. They just got better with Derrick Henry coming in there. Derrick Henry and his press conference they say, you see how cool he looks? So big. It's a no-brainer. Hey, Derrick, after we heard it, we all thought like, of course he's a Baltimore. That's like a perfect fit for them.

So obviously there's great divisions, great teams everywhere, but the AFC he's so big, so fast, so strong. Huge. Now he has like a chip on his shoulder probably because the Titans, the team he's only been with, are like yeah, we're moving on, but there's no gimmies like you're talking about in the north in the south, there's no gimmies

there's no gimmies, like there's a lot of divisions where there's no gimmies, and I think the south is one of them for sure, yeah, it's becoming that, Houston Texans make a lot of plays, Tennessee Titans make a lot of plays, Indianapolis Colts signed Joey Flack, no big deal. He'll be joining us in about 30 seconds or so. Cannot wait to talk to him. Because we were very confused

by his market. Because Jameis goes to Cleveland. Jacoby. Jacoby goes to New England. Darnold. Darnold goes to Minnesota. Tyrod to the Jets. Marcus Mariota goes to Washington. The Commanders. Minshew.rod to the Jets. Marcus Mariotta goes to Washington.

The Commanders. Me too. Goes to the Raiders. So, like, backup quarterbacks, starting quarter, you know, hybrid quarterbacks. Yeah, yeah, competing. Hybrid quarterbacks because that might be what the new NFL is. Yeah. With how many backups played last year. Bingo.

Might be like, hey, you're going to need a whole quarterback room. A lot of people had that vision in the past. Like, I'd say a third of the league was like, hey, you're going to need a whole quarterback room. A lot of people had that vision in the past. I'd say a third of the league was like, hey, you need a good backup, and you're paying a good backup too just in case because if your guy goes down, you're screwed. Then there are some teams that were like, well, if your guy goes down, you're screwed anyways. Even if you get the best backup, are you going to be able to go?

For instance, Peyton Manning, I think there was a mindset like Jim Sorge was an incredible quarterback, but Jim Sorge had to go to the Giants to get a good deal. There's no good deal coming from Bill Pullian with Peyton Manning as your quarterback. The good deals were all spent on wide receivers, tight ends, Peyton Manning running back. That's where we're spending our money. If Peyton goes down, yeah, we're screwed. We're not going to win very many games.

Yeah, we're screwed anyways. That's kind of like his mindset. But now it feels like more teams are like, hey, got to have at least somebody. Thank God we had Gardner Minshew last year in Indianapolis. Got to be able to have a guy that can do it. Matt Hasselbeck came in for Andrew Luck. He won us a bunch of games whenever we

weren't supposed to because Andrew Luck gets hurt. It's like, very vital role. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is the reigning comeback player of the year. Whoa. He came back. Yes, he did. And when he came back, he came back and said,

Do you remember who the hell I am? In his first game back against the Rams, he reminded everybody. Five-step, all goes. I'm going to overthrow all these wide receivers by 15 yards just to remind them that 75 yards is still in there. Just a little, maybe reminding myself too. I've been throwing on fields in between Ubering my kids from place to place with five kids.

I've been throwing on park fields that don't have yardages. And if they do have yardages, I don't know if they're accurate or not. So just a little feeler here. I'm going to throw this thing 80 yards. Just a reminder to everybody in the building. Then he would go on and just lead a team to the playoffs. No big deal. Then the quarterback market seemingly came and went.

We had no idea where he was going to go. Is this guy going to retire? Is he going to come back midseason again? What's the deal? Oh, he lands on the Super Bowl contending. Indianapolis Colts just yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, Super Bowl champion, Joe Flacco. Yeah, thanks for the introduction.

I like it. It's true, too. We know you just overthrew it by 15 20 yards just to show everybody i i want to let you know hey joe i want to let you know you made the right decision coming to indy so happy joe welcome to the city pal now let's talk about it were you the quarterback market we saw a bunch we just rattled them all off jamis jacoby gardner marcus mariota uh you just all of these names like people are signing in different places okay boom bang bow your name not coming up anywhere were you contemplating waiting until like after the draft or training

camp or season like you were like like what was the whole process and were you talking to any other teams how did we end up at indy you think Joe because I'm pumped about it thankful for it you know mostly not not a not nothing not nothing against the other guys but mostly when I'm sitting around watching everybody get signed I'm looking at my wife and going what the hell is going on like I can't sign anywhere am I gonna am I not gonna sign anywhere what the hell's going on here um so yeah uh just kind of that's mostly what was going through my mind i mean i was ready to i was ready to see what was going to happen and um probably had a few ideas of what may happen but you're always wrong when you when you know when you when you when you try to think of where you might end up you you really have no idea at

least that's the case with me so so you're saying there was not a lot of chatter as you're watching everything happen you're kind of just watching it unfold, wondering what the hell's going on. Yeah, pretty much. Joe, I have no, why is that? You think because you're old as hell now, you're the comeback player of the year. What do you think it is? I don't know why. I don't know why. But listen, I, once again, it's not for me to worry about. I am really excited about going to Indy and working with their young guy and being back with Shane, who I was with a few weeks in Philly. They obviously had a really good team last year that was ready to compete.

So I'm excited about going out there and getting to meet some new teammates and have a new experience. So getting signed before OTAs and training camp and everything is obviously different than it was last year, but that's something I assume you wanted to be a part of. And us as Indianapolis Colts fans, Anthony Richardson, the quarterback that we drafted with the number four overall pick before last season, electrifying. Dude can spin it. I mean, he can do everything. Wasn't able to protect himself last year. Maybe we didn't protect him. He took some shots. He ended up tapping out of like three of the five games and then obviously didn't play the rest of the year. So Gardner Minshew played a lot of football for

us. Gardner Minshew was like Shane Steichen's first quarterback with the Colts. That offense is awesome. What do you know about the offense? Do you feel like you are a successful quarterback in that offense? Because it felt like it was a lot of Gardner slicing and dicing, and that's what Joey Flacco does. Don't get me too excited here, Joe, but aren't you perfect for the situation in Indianapolis right now? You know, I spent just – it wasn't a lot of time in Philadelphia, but I really do think the guys that are there and then Shane,

who's now in India, I really do like a guys that are there and then Shane, who's now in India, I really do like a lot of what they did. I would have been excited a couple years ago back then to be able to play with this offense, with those guys. So, you know, I think they do an unbelievable job. I think Shane does a really, really incredible job with everything on that side of the ball. You know, and like I said, it was a small sample size, but I everything on that side of the ball. You know, and like I said,

it was a small sample size, but I was really impressed with what he does and excited about the opportunity to kind of be in that a little bit longer. Alright, we're pumped to have you. You got a, what do you got, a throwing net behind you there over your left shoulder? Are we still? Oh, dude. Yeah, what is that? Another way, another way.

I can't, yeah. I mean, I wish Other way, other way. I can't. Yeah. I mean, I wish my kids would use that. I can't figure out how to do this. I wish my kids would use that a little bit more, but I don't think that's getting any use. Oh, you don't use that? That is, in my head, I just saw you full helmet. Dripping sweat. No, no. I'm not using that.

Oh! There it goes. I think that's exactly what I have. That's pretty much exactly what that is back there. Yeah, shot. Hey. Nailed it. Yeah, I'm pretty pumped about this.

Anyways, all right. Ty has a question for you, Joe. Yeah, Joe, going into the offseason, were you initially, like when you're looking at places, knowing how many teams needed a quarterback, were you thinking like, hey, the expectation is that I'm going to sign somewhere and hopefully start given how well you played last year or did you know hey there's a good

chance that wherever i may wind up uh i'm probably going to have to go in as a backup role again and then hopefully just when my number gets called i'll play like i did last year i think there's probably a little bit of a at a certain point i was probably a little bit of, at a certain point, I was probably a little bit hopeful that maybe I'll get a chance to, you know, go compete or be a bridge somewhere and be able to at least show, you know, whatever I can and help a team win some games and, you know, make that last as long as possible. was a guarantee in my mind that I was totally, you know, happy with some of the roles out there that were going to require me to be a backup. And, you know, I felt like I, you know, proven that like I can do that in multiple ways, whether that's be a good teammate, be good for the quarterback room or come in and win games and when I need to and help the team stay where they want to stay. So, you know, I, like I said, I probably, there's probably a little bit of hope that maybe I would get a chance to actually play somewhere

from the very beginning of the season, but it wasn't something that was like, oh yeah, that's definitely going to happen. And I need that to happen. So, you know, I, I listen, I've been around long enough to know that like, Hey, you can hope for certain things, but you also have to prepare yourselves for, for other things and find the positives in that so well so you just said a lot there about being a backup quarterback and helping the quarterback and adding to the quarterback room then coming in and playing and winning games if i have to in the middle there like this is going to be anthony richardson's rookie year pretty much because he had surgery, was away from the building, you know. So this year, we're assuming. Yep.

Come on, God. Please, football gods. Whichever one. Whichever one is listening. You know, whichever. Football gods, please. Hopefully he's around the entire season. Now, obviously, with the way the NFL is now, he might miss a game or two.

But whatever the case is, this is it. But being in the building, being around the NFL every single day was something he wasn't able to do last year because of the surgery and being out of there. And I don't think that it is the job of a veteran to teach the ways of their draft replacement or their backup if the person is the starter. I think it's come out a couple different times with numerous different players like he refuses to help the guy that they drafted number 20 yeah like those stories have come out and as players i'm like that's not the worst that is not this person yeah exactly but but no with that being said sounds like your mindset though at this stage is like you understand that you're coming in to kind of teach anthony richardson the game a little bit behind the scenes? Is that true?

Well, listen, I've gotten criticized for that before. Like, you know, no, I'm not a mentor. Like, there's a quarterback coach. There's an offensive coordinator. There's so many people that go along with doing this type of thing. But at the same time, like, we are a unit as a room. We spend so much time in that room together. And, you know, like how many 39-year-old backups are in the league that have played as much as I have?

I mean, it'd be stupid for me. Like, it's not like I'm a super selfish person. Like, we're going to be in that room so much together. There's always conversations that come up about how we're going to do this. How do we see it? How's the read? What's it like versus this coverage and that coverage? And I think a lot of the times there's a tendency to overthink things at any level.

And I think there's just very simple, easy ways that I can be in that room and say, hey, man, it's just football. Like on this play, you just have to get your eyes here and be ready to throw it. And if it's not there, then, you know, it's simple little things. And so like, yeah, I agree with you. I hate when they bring up that mentor thing. You know, hey, are you going to be sitting in the room with this guy for 20 extra hours a week and doing all this stuff? And it's like, no.

But, you know. I have a job, too. Yeah, but there's very simple ways to help each other out in terms of how do you see this versus how do you see that. to help each other out in terms of how do you see this versus how do you see that and simplifying it so that when you get to the line of scrimmage, you can play as fast as possible and play football the way you know how to play football. And that's the most important thing is like, how can I play as fast as possible? And even though this isn't my backyard, even though this isn't the schoolyard and I'm not 12 years old, how can I put my mindset in that type of atmosphere to trick myself into thinking that's all this is and remind myself it

is just football. And I think, you know, I think that I can, you know, bring the room down to that level and be that reminder. And at the same time, like I said, I think it's also important, like, listen, this league is supposed to be about winning above all else right so i think it's important to have a backup that you believe can come in and win games for you if they have to so i believe that you know i obviously have a lot of confidence in my ability to do that um so hopefully these guys feel the same way well let's keep that confidence forever okay because you quarterbacks once you lose it's gone forever joe that's right it's gone forever there's a chance punters the same thing.

Punters, kickers, golfers. You've only seen a couple be able to bounce back from hitting the, oh, I'll never be able to do this again, and then all the way back. So I have – oh, that's the whole Joe Flacco elite thing. Oh, now we're into the whole – now we're into that whole thing. Yeah, I mean, you brought it up, not me. Just want to let you know that. But I appreciate you saying that and talking about that about like yeah i'm there like i'm i am here to help and i'm here to point

things out but also it's okay to show the show the young guys this is how you work too like hey here's how practice is here's how these reps are here's how i watch film here's this whole thing and nobody ever talks about they're like well you going on your way to teach him how to film it's like he can watch me watch film because i don't have time i'm trying to figure out the houston texans demico ryan's defense i don't have time to try to figure out why he can't learn that entire thing which i it's a wild like kind of narrative that got started i don't know how many years back and it seems to still remain in some places but we're changing it joe we're changing you, Joe. We're changing it. You have been around a long time, which leads to this from Tone Diggs.

Yeah, Joe. I'm getting old, not as old as you. But in my older days, I'm getting pretty cold, okay? And you've been in Baltimore, Denver, Cleveland, okay? You've been in Philly. What? Those are all very, very cold places. The Jets. What? Okay. You've been in Philly. What? Those are all very, very cold places. The Jets.

What? Have you thought about, hey, November, December, I'm going to be indoors inside of Lucas Oil. I could be down in Houston. I could be down in Jacksonville. Have you thought about how nice that's going to be? Yeah, a little south. It is a little different.

I mean, Florida, Tennessee, obviously a dome. You know, everybody in that division is also a tax-free state besides ourselves yeah you haven't thought about that at all um no it is actually it's it's interesting to think about because you're right you know no matter how much like listen i think i i think i thrive in cold weather games and i i feel like i'm more capable of doing it than anybody but at the same time i'm still sitting in that locker room before the game like god damn it we got to go out there and play in 20 degrees it's supposed to rain what's that mean no i don't want to deal with that so i'm just like anybody else like i don't want to deal with that stuff man it's going to be great

to be able to close that roof up and just go out there and sling it around. Joe, if you guys are winning games, Jim will decide to shut that roof. Yep. If you guys are losing games, look at the show. Check it out. Look at the show. He's selling tickets on that roof.

Yeah. Because he has a suite that has a – Oh, yeah. He's closed in. He's closed in no matter what. Yeah, and I've heard there's a chance there's even a... You know, a vent out there. We're sitting out there 45 degrees sunny, though.

Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah. It's a beautiful stadium. You're going to love it. Indianapolis people are going to be very pumped that you're here, too. Wait till you see and feel this Colts fan base. It's new. It's a brand new fan base.

Same fan base, but like new chapter, seemingly,ane steichen and we're gonna be pumped for you to get out of here last question now you know you're a good guy great guy yeah i don't know if everybody feels that way connor's got a question for you yeah joe obviously the way you played at the end of the season was incredible and you know how the awards ended up panning out um you were nominated to be a finalist for Comeback Player of the Year, and I believe you came out and you said, like, hey, what am I coming back from? Am I wiping my kid's ass? That's not something that you win awards for coming back from,

but ended up winning Comeback Player of the Year. Did you get a chance to go up to DeMar Hamlin and say, like, hey, I'm sorry I won this. You died. You literally died on the field. I should not be the one hoisting this award. Or did you just kind of take the award and leave? Sorry about that.

How'd that go? I did not. I took the award and left, apparently. I did not say anything to him. Oh, this guy's a mentor quarterback. Geez. Geez. Wee. anything to him oh that's kind of a mentor quarterback hey i believe me there was part of me that there i i did feel bad about that i and believe ask me any of my friends i was saying it to them as well and my wife i you know hey i it's not like i needed that thing and i would have been i i think it would have been great it would have been great

if they gave it to them but at the same time there is a party that like hey when you go out there and play well you like to be recognized a little bit for it so you know it's not it's not like i hated getting the award but it it it did i did feel very guilty of course like oh my gosh i wouldn't come back player in the year that damar's up for it it's like oh my god yeah so obviously a couple of my buddies were teasing me about that, which is all good. But no, I did not say anything to him personally. We will use this message. We'll send it to him.

Hey, DeMar, he felt the same way. He's a human. He has a brain. Did Tommy Flack Tom Flack What do you guys do? So it's your age? Where's this accent? Is this's? Where's this accent? This is Baltimore?

Where's this from? It's a Philly accent. It's probably the A's. There's a couple different things. It's like, yeah. Yeah, water. You guys say like assholes. You say water like assholes over there.

Yeah, we say water, but I've dropped that. Oh, yeah. And we don't say, like, listen to how I say asshole. You know, see, that's different than how it's like, it's not like ah. It's more of a, it's that long, drawn-out A. Feels like you've got that A with, like, the two dots above it. I don't know how it's pronounced. Yeah, it feels like that is what your A's are.

Shane makes fun of me because I'm always going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is what your A's are. Shane makes fun of me because I'm always going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He called me last night, and that's how he – that's how – when I answered the phone, that's the first thing he said to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, Shane's awesome. Are you older than him? Yeah, no, he's a lot of fun.

Are you older than him? I don't know how old Shane is. no, he's a lot of fun. Are you older than him? I don't know how old Shane is. I know he's a really good friend. Like him and Austin Colley went to high school together. Yeah, you're older than Shane. You're older than the head coach. Congrats, you made it. No, I want to say Shane's older than me.

Says he's 38 on the internet. You're 39, right? I'm 39. You're older than your head coach. You made it. This is a long time. This is a long time in the league, pal. This is a really impressive run. You're older than your head coach. You made it. This is a long time. It's incredible. This is a long time in the league, pal.

This is a really impressive run. You should be proud of yourself. That's why you're winning Comeback Player of the Year. Amen. That's why you're doing it. Hey, we appreciate you, Joe. Safe travels over here to Indianapolis. Anything you need from us in the city, actually.

Like, any... I'm pretty plugged in here. So, anything you need, we are grateful for. I got a couple houses for sale if you want to... I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on you need, we are grateful for. I got a couple houses for sale. There's a lot of stuff going on. I need one for rent, not for sale. I'm not your landlord, Joe.

I'm not fixing your pipes. You either buy the house or you don't. We saw how much you just got paid at $39. Anyways, we appreciate the hell out of you, brother. I appreciate it, guys. Ladies and gentlemen, Joey Flacco. Yay! Flacco!

So happy he's on our team. Yeah. That accent is awesome. My wife's immediate response was not as positive as I had hoped for. She's a Colts fan, honestly. Why is that? I don't know. She said, how old is he? That was her first question. It's like, it's not about that, man. Old enough. She's a Colts fan, obviously. Why is that? I don't know. She said, how old is he?

That was her first question. It's like, it's not about that, man. Old enough. It's a one-year deal. He's 39 years old. He's playing like he's 26 again. What are we even talking about? Especially with Shane Steichen's offense.

He's just won Comeback Player of the Year over a guy that died. Yeah. What are we even talking about in this entire thing? And she said, well, we had Phil Rivers. I said, he took Colts in the playoffs. Almost beat the Bills. Should have won the Bills. Yeah. Then Carson Wentz, she said, well, we had Phil Rivers. I said, he took Colts in playoffs. Almost beat the Bills. Should have won the Bills. Then Carson Wentz, she said.

Then Matt Ryan, she said. And then now we got Joe Flacco. I'm like, okay, makes sense where you're coming from. Flacco is different. Very different. Flacco is a bit different because he's not being named the automatic starter. No. He knows, hey, listen, I'm in the room trying to make the room as good as possible.

If they need me to play, which is very feasible with how Anthony Richardson's season went last year, it's like he can win some games, especially in Shane Steichen, who's younger than him's offense. He can move if he has to. Now, I don't know how long those hamstrings are going to last. True. 39 trips around the sun, normally hamstrings will get a little bit tighter a little bit weaker but we've seen people in the past and he was scampering a little bit last year i think even the surprise of himself oh yeah but he can spin it and

like shane draws people open so it's a perfect signing for the colts and i'm pumped about i'm just spitballing here how about him saying nobody was really yeah that was interesting and he was sitting there and was confused probably like we would have been as well, but I think Connor just upgraded to a two-bedroom. Yeah, believe me, anytime Joe Flackade needs anything, anything espresso martini recommendation, perhaps maybe just a little, hey, where

can I go and have a drink by myself? Just You know all those spots. Hey, you want to go drink alone? I know where you need to go. Yeah, hey, follow me. I wonder if Joey Flack's drinking at all. He's got five kids. Yeah, that's a lot.

Oh, he's definitely drinking. See, I was thinking the other way. But you were like. Yeah, drink a lot of ice cold water. They say that like assholes. For sure. There's no reason for them to do that. No.

They know it too. And Gritty, that stupid. I can't even, that stupid mascot. When was the last time the Philadelphia Flyers won a Stanley Cup? I don't know, Pat. It's so far back, like 1975. 75? I didn't know it was that long.

1975? They were playing hockey then? I don't think they were wearing helmets. 75? The Flyers haven't won a Stanley Cup since then? Checks out. Winless. Stay in there 50 years.

Yikes. Holy hell. That sucks. Anyways, their trash bag of a mascot, Gritty, he's trying to dunk on the Pittsburgh Penguins. Okay. Hey, Gritty, keep your social media away from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yeah, shut up.

Yeah, I don't know if he's trying. I've seen you skate. You're good. Okay, I've seen you skate. You're good. Yeah, you're entertaining. I like how reckless you are while you're sliding down the banisters. Yep.

I like the electricity. You're the closest thing to a Stanley Cup champion that the Philadelphia Flyers have had in 50 years, Gritty. But you need to keep your little nose out of the Pittsburgh Penguins social media. And that's just a little warning to the people that say water over there. Okay, from the other side of the state. Yeah, you said trying to dunk on. Gritty dunked on the Pittsburgh Penguins. I didn't get the reference.

I've never seen it. Yeah, but how can you dunk on someone? Isn't he in jail for like smacking a little kid or something like that? I think that was Benny the Bull. No, Benny the Bull wouldn't do that. Gritty also. It was Gritty, right? Benny the Bull wouldn't do that. You're right. Was it Gritty, right? Benny the Bull wouldn't do that. You're right. Was it Gritty? Gritty also.

I believe Gritty did smack a young child in the face or something. A young, sweet boy. Allegedly. Allegedly. He was allegedly accused of punching a 13-year-old boy. Okay, but the way these kids look nowadays with that stupid, his eyes are. I don't think he was charged. I don't think it went anywhere.

Yeah, I probably didn't do it on purpose either. Remember, that stupid thing can't see anything. I don't think you have to say I don't think it went anywhere. Yeah, I probably didn't do it on purpose either. Remember, that stupid thing can't see anything. I think you have to say allegedly either to a fluffy orange thing. Well, I mean, what we have learned, fluffy orange thing, I'm not even getting into that. What's that? I'm not even getting into that. What do you mean? About how you definitely have to say, I'm not even getting into that.

I can't even. What are you talking about? I'll be honest. I think I'm kind of out to lunch here. Yeah, I think you know. I think you know. I think you know. Fluffy orange. Today's not the day.

There's a lot of stuff going around about a lot of things people say. Fluffy orange. I opened the Pandora's box. I opened it, yeah. And I said, what's this? Oh, he's in politics now. So he's in politics now. So he'll be treated as a politician, which is this guy.

He hasn't been confirmed. No. Guy's in the jungle. This just comes out. Kill him. Murder them. Slaughter him. That's what it is, right?

Oh, yeah. Big time. That's the game. And that's kind of when he's... That's because politics are choosing to make decisions that affect other people's lives. So need to know. Legit.

And I understand that. But that is not being confirmed, okayed, or anything. But he's in a jungle in Costa Rica right now. He wants to play our game? And he's going to come back to it, whatever it is. Check his phone. Like you found out after the last time he went into the darkness retreat.

Yeah. Packers have moved on from it. He opened his phone. I'm gone from the – this is over. This time coming out of the jungle. Did I say it? 2013. What?

That's not – there's going to be – Oh, yeah yeah that's just the beginning that's politics yeah that's why like any of our friends that sign up to do politics we have been very open saying do not there is no first of all are you do we that's really of you really you think a lot of that kind of conversation. But also, they're going to kill, politics world, they try to kill you. Like, that is what they actually try to do. Now, we have no idea about any of it. Obviously, what was being said,

we do not, like, that is not our, we didn't run the thing at the beginning and say, like, people's opinions do not reflect ours or whatever. It's like talk shows, especially those. This is a talk show, conversational show. We're learning about people through that entire thing. But also, who knows?

Good luck out there in that jungle. Good luck out there in the political jungle. Good luck out there in the political jungle, which has not been confirmed or yesed or anything, but being treated as, oh, is that right? That's the green light. Oh, you want to play an art? All right.

We'll get you. There was this one time, 2002, I think. He didn't have any shoes on. His hippie ass walked in. It's like, that's what the bullet took. Oh, yeah. Didn't wash his hands in the bathroom. Let's see what we got from 2008.

Just wait. This guy took a dump on somebody's couch. You heard of the Oval Office? Yeah. Yeah. Good luck out there to all the politicians. Good luck. Hope you guys live a squeaky clean life. Yeah.

In every conversation you've ever had, too. Can't be saying dumb shit. No, because we're going to hear about it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Something I'm thinking about if you're a Jets fan is, you know, who won the MVP last election season? Twice. Twice.

Twice. Like, this might be his, like, when he becomes the most powerful. He comes out of that jungle. Yeah, exactly. It's an election year. Reads how despicable of a human he is. Now we go. Yeah.

The Jets fans through this whole thing Are probably just Oy vey What do we Yeah Oh man What do we even got Why is this even happening What do we

Michael Cole will send a What's Why Text Like 2am Thinking about Probably Probably

I don't know Six seven times Over the last two days He's been in the middle Of doing voiceover work For WWE 2K, which is, I think, every single day of his life other than Monday Night Raw. Thank you to Cole, Corey Graves, Byron Saxton, and I believe Jackie Redman.

I don't know who's been in now. I don't know. I do not know. I do not keep up with him enough because as soon as it was presented to me, I was like, no thank you. No, I don't have enough time in the day. But he'll just come out of a voiceover session, I think, and then he'll see something, he'll screenshot it, send it to me,

and go, why? Why is this happening? Why do Jets fans have to deal with this? Well, we need to remind everybody, the only thing he has openly confirmed that he is is the Jets quarterback. Boom. And he's also openly confirmed that it's, I don't think the next year is the last year of this entire thing.

He said that. Now, is that change or anything? We don't know. No, he just said on Eddie Bravo that he wants to play two, three, if not four more years. Okay, so that was behind the paywall, so I didn't see it. But I've heard since his name has been launched into the politics world, there's a lot of people going behind the paywall. What's here with this guy who wants to make decisions to run my life? Thinks and believes in whatever the case is.

Wild, once again, nobody that I am friends with should get in politics, because you'll have a friend that'll say to you the entire time, why are you doing this? This is the dumbest thing of all time. But I think the only thing he's confirmed at this point is that he wants next year to go well. And he knows that it's being put on his shoulders.

And Aaron, however you feel about him, since the beginning of time, whenever he has something to conquer, put on his shoulders. And Aaron, however you feel about him, since the beginning of time, whenever he has something to conquer, he has seemingly done that. Now, everybody will point to his Super Bowl records and everything like that, and I assume there will be people on Aaron Rodgers' side that will come out and say,

look at the whole team's performance too, just like what was happening whenever the Kirk Cousins narrative, which wasn't real, was being spread, and many other quarterbacks. Peyton Manning gets the entire talk about it is all. But he plays his best whenever he's being the most kind of. And I think the Achilles tear and the disappointment and letdown

after the big buildup will be used as a massive motivation chip for him this upcoming season. And he loves Hackett. He loves Nathaniel Hackett, the offense coordinator, who got buried all year last year for being inept pretty much. And I think he enjoys the hell out of his relationship with Salah. There's a lot of things and reasoning for him to go out and play his best football. And that's what we, I think, I don't want to speak for everybody,

that's what I believe is going to happen. I think that's what we all believe is going to happen. But boy, some of these things that are going to go along the road here to the regular season that we're about to learn, it might seem like that's not going to be the case. We've got to remember to stay. This is when Aaron does perform his best throw in football. Well, speaking of, 2012 was an All-Pro,

and he also led the league in passer rating. 2016, he led the league in touchdowns. 2020, he was an MVP. So, I mean, every four years. I mean, just reading the tea leaves here. If it's an election year, this man is hyped up, okay? He gets all zeked up. He gets zeked up.

Normally it would just be behind the scenes, though, where he'd be reading, oh, I can't believe this. Now it's a little bit more open. Now it's a little, I got some thoughts. You know, because how the whole, you know, you remember the COVID? That's, I mean, how many times has he? That's point ABC. Oh, yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tweet from the jungle, I do believe from Aaron Rodgers, breaking. I do wonder if there's a chance that he had just gotten service and seen everything and just been like i was just with the mother yeah i was just with plant god yeah i was just trying to find a little happiness and fulfillment down here in the jungle i just opened my thing no happiness no what do we what the hell happened all the new york times reported you were gonna make you welcomed an overture so that means you know and you're an independent, too. So you see. Everybody.

We got. You see, we got. Everybody is going to be looking. Oh, yeah. Arrows from every angle. Cuban Missile Crisis. What's that guy's name from House of Cards? The little rat looking one that would go and clean things up.

Frank's right hand, man. Yeah, that one. Such a good actor. He is a great actor. I see him I assume that's a real real human though bald guy

there's multiple of those because you're independent party as well if it's being announced that you get in the poll so yeah you're you're literally

a sitting duck dying in a jungle in Costa Rica here's a tweet as I'm on the record saying in the past what happened in Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy

I am not and have never been of the opinion that the events did not take place. Again, I hope that we learn from this and other tragedies to identify the signs that will allow us to prevent unnecessary loss of life. My thoughts and prayers continue to remain with the families affected along with the entire Sandy Hook community. Heart. Hashtag. I'm doing Twitter. I mean, that's a good statement.

That's a VP. As I was reading it, I was thinking to myself, okay, this sounds like a... Well, Aaron's always going to be well thought out. That's, I think, what people think is not Aaron. Because some things, it seems like he is just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, flying. This guy does not live like most humans in 2024.

He will literally just put his phone down and go be with his thoughts for six, seven hours and just like read a book, sit and meditate, look out. Like that is what he does as opposed to what everybody else does. So he is a deep thinker is how I think he would describe it and how we can all describe it. So everything, you know, seemingly thought out. I'm happy to hear that, by the way. I'm very happy to hear that. That is good news. And now that's just the first

of many. Yep. Because he didn't say in there, I'm not. No, he didn't. Did you read that as well? Oh, yeah. Everything I just said about the Jets, like, hey, the only thing we know that he has guaranteed and said is that he wants to play multiple years for the Jets and we've hey, the only thing we know that he has guaranteed and said is that he wants to play multiple years for the Jets,

and we've looked at his record. These are the times when he plays his best ball. He knows what everybody's expecting. And then there was an opportunity right there to say, I'm focused on being a Jets quarterback. There's no limit to the characters either. He could have kept going. I saw a thing, I think ABC reported,

they talked to Jesse the Body Ventura's son and Jesse the Body had not been offered... The legs? Huh? The legs? The body and the legs. I'll dare you. And Jesse the Body's dad would be the head.

Boom. Hey, this is a serious report, okay? Sorry. Okay, this is a serious report. I apologize. This is why Pat's a better guy than you are I'm a better human than you are That's not true

I'm acknowledging the sun by his nickname Anyways the body Jeremy the legs The body has not been offered that VP spot yet What if he just didn't tell his son the legs That's a whole other conversation He's off the grid It's hard to pin down

We'll revert this back This is sports This is wild AJ's not going to tell a shit either We've been learning this with the sports world As we've been in it on the daily Beat Which I think I used properly there

People can be considered In the know at the time beat, which I think I used properly there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. People can be considered in the know at the time and actually be ignorant as about all the time. Yeah. Yeah. There's people that could be considered close and in, but aren't actually in, you know, and that's, I think that's a situation that you see in sports a lot where somebody will say, somebody very close to this particular player is saying this. This is sources are saying this.

And it ends up being completely wrong. And it's like, well, how are they wrong? Oh, because they didn't know shit ever. They were never in, even though they made it appear as if they were in or acted as if they were in. They don't know anything. Now, with that being said, Aaron could have said in that tweet that he was not potentially going to be the Vice President

of the United States of America. He chose not to. We will continue to have our ear to the ground in the jungle on the situation. Yeah, I mean, there's a chance that he's going to thread that with the Uncle Sam pointing, and I want your vote. I mean, there's a chance that he just, instead of putting it to bed, you know, he

says, hey, nope, this isn't the time. Is that how it works too, if you're independent? Just like, yeah, I'm running. I guess. And then they just put you on a ballot. I don't know. We're not getting into this. We are not getting into this. Let's talk a little bit about the NFL as we have two minutes.

The league meetings, the owners' meetings, are taking place here in a few weeks. We're going to be live from down there. Let's go. Yeah. Don't know if I was supposed to say that, just go yeah don't know if i was supposed to say that just like i didn't know if i was supposed to say the iowa one yesterday but i believe we're going to be down there one of the days full show set up down there i don't know if this has ever happened

in the past at these league owners meetings normally it's like an insider's down there from each network but we're thinking that we're going to be able to have some conversations with a lot of people meet up with a lot of people i scheduled our vacation during a combine here in indianapolis so we missed that a bit but during those meetings there's a lot of votes that take place i think a tom brady vote to potentially become ownership of the raiders is maybe on the table to be discussed there's rules that are discussed and there's been a couple interesting rules publicly stated they're going to be proposed at these meetings that i don't think we're against no i think we're for some of these things that are getting pitched we all think to meetings that I don't think we're against. No. I think we're for. Some of these things that are getting pitched,

we all think to ourselves, that's so stupid. Why are they wasting their time thinking of this? Why are they trying to ruin football? There's four of them that we've learned about publicly here before being actually pitched that I think we're kind of fans of. And also with the new kickoff, getting a chance to chit-chat with the founders and the creators of the kickoff who took their spin

of the XFL kickoff last year to save the kickoff play going forward it's like I think we have some good stuff coming out of these meetings and game can potentially get even better than it already has been without losing football that's right bingo the oomph yeah can't be losing football they need football to be before that need football Knee helmets And shoulder pads And bodies Knee football Knee football

Knee football Knee football Knee football Need it Ho Football Yeah Needed. Ho! Football! Yeah!

Feels like these rules aren't going to ruin football. That's great. I love that. Flacco! Since he was already passed, the boys weren't in good communication. That was despicable what just happened by you three. You had a lot of time to figure that out. Didn't know if you were going to go back to sports or Flacco. Flacco had already passed, which is why you're potentially thinking about saying sports. Nonetheless, Joe Flacco was on the first hour.

He's the newest member of the Colt as free agency continues to cook. Now there's still people available for teams to get better, but over $2 billion was spent in three days for teams hoping to bring in some people or somebody that can get them over the hump to maybe, maybe reach the mountaintop that is a Super Bowl

champion. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful time. The talk table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Ty, you look sweet, dude. Oh, thank you. Yeah, my hair is flowing. It's getting there. Yeah, what's going on with the hair? What is that all about? Well, you know, just dude. Oh, thank you. Yeah, my hair is flowing. It's getting there. Yeah, what's going on with the hair? What is that all about?

Well, you know, just kind of growing it out a little bit. I didn't really want to cut it, so I just said. Just out of nowhere? It seems like every time during draft season you kind of do this with your hair. Kind of just get lazy, you know, and the summer's not quite here yet, so it's like, hey, do you want to go really short and then we get a couple of these cold days or we get these storm cells moving in like they are today?

Yeah, I guess we got the TV was knocked off. Really? Yeah, I don't know if we got knocked off our send, but the TV over there was all because the storm just came through. Exactly. So, you know, I just keep it at this length, maybe through, I don't know, like the end of April, and then I'll probably cut it. What are some hairstyles with hair that long?

You can kind of do the comb over. Comb over, yeah. Slick back. No real slick back. Yeah, you can do a little blow out. I think some people I've seen have that. Yeah, sure. I think, right? That's like Mel Kiper.

Mel Kiper does the blow out. People don't think about how long Mel Kiper had to grow that hair out to get it to look like that, do they? Exactly. It takes time. It does. It's a process. There's a lot of different stages you've got to battle through that make it look like a jackass. Right. Smack dab time. It does. It's a process. There's a lot of different stages you've got to battle through that make you look like a jackass. Right.

Yeah. Kind of right smack dab in the middle one right now. So congrats to Mo Kiper having that patience to grow that hair. Absolutely. One half of the hammer. Done. Cowboys 10 digs this year. I love the fact that we had Flacco.

He's played for every other team in the AFC North, but the Pittsburgh Steelers. You have that big Steelers on your chest. You're feeling a little bit more festive today about being a Pittsburgh Steeler fan well you know it's that time of the year it's that no it's because Russell Wilson is posting videos with black and yellow black and yellow he's done renegade he's tweeted it's great day to be Steeler he he treated he tweeted queen he was super pumped about that move yesterday yeah I mean everything's going well in Pittsburgh right now I don't understand why I wouldn't just be happy to support every single day.

There it is. It's a great day to be a Steeler. It is. Hey, isn't it, Russ? Well said. Hey, Russ. Wait until he drops the yins. Just wait.

This guy's one of us. Look at this jag off. Could be a sign off. You saw him new threads opening the uniform? And it was the block uni, so even better. He's taking his entire Team 3. He's the face of Pittsburgh right now. Russell Wilson is the face of Pittsburgh.

Way to go, Russ. He's going to win games too, right? And when he wins games, he's going to be beloved forever. This isn't just a one-year thing. This is potentially a ten-year thing with Russell Wilson and Team 3, a city that will have his back. And although it seems like those two wouldn't be a good fit,

the way Russell Wilson kind of operates, Mr. Unlimited. Most Yinzers would say, oh, shut up. That's what they would normally. That's how that whole thing would go. Not everybody in the city, but I'm just talking about Yininzers which make up the diehard stealer fan base in the loudest stealer fan base but once you start piecing it together it's like wait russell wilson has needed

a fan base like this yeah you know seattle seahawks i understand very loud fan base everything like that good people great people great fan base denver broncos okay denver broncos fan base legendary historic everything like that. I don't think they're necessarily known for being the people that will try to unalive you with their words. So if Russell Wilson needs or gets into some of these

public spats for being incredibly corny or stupid or Team 3 says something, having Yinzers get his back might be the perfect thing for his public battles. And I think that's good news for Team 3. They need to do that. I think it is, too. He needs someone to have his back. That's what

fuels him. And first and foremost, great use of Unalive. That's really growing on me. I don't think I'm going to use Kill anymore. Unalive is definitely the way. I didn't create it, obviously, but I did feel good about utilizing it in that particular. I was cheering for my brain at the time when I thought of it. And I talked to a source

within the Steelers organization in the time at the know. In the know at the time. Yeah, there it is. I thought we had a new saying. Actually, the first player they had to ship a jersey immediately to because he wanted to wear that jersey on the flight, so when he passes

Franco and gives him a big hug, he's going to have his jersey on and then he's going to get driven to the facility. He's going to have his jersey on when he gets out of the car and does all of his first interviews and stuff like that. He's going to have his jersey on because that's what he does now and that's what we like. That's what we like now. When you're walking around down

through the strip and down the North Shore we like when guys are wearing jerseys of their own. It's going we like now. When you're walking around down through the strip and down the North Shore, we like when guys are wearing jerseys of their own. It's going to be sweet. It's going to be sweet. There it is. That's live. This is an AI. This is an AI Z.

This is an AI Z production here. And I do appreciate it. He wanted to do that new threads video. It's not so either way. It was the new threads video. Joining us now is a man who I assume has some thoughts on everything that Diggs just said and how Diggs just said it and how Diggs actually feels seemingly underneath that cowboy hat. A man who was a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner,

and maybe a chief of staff in the future. Ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawk. A.J., did you hear that from Tone? And what are your thoughts on him saying, we like that now, okay? We do. We like that now. Yeah. Tone is really convincing me that he is all on board with everything Russell Wilson brings to town.

Right, Tone? Like, you feel really good about it, huh? Yeah, I mean, I think, like, the town. He's an undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. Exactly. Undefeated. The town was always a blue-collar steel town. You know, it's actually changed a little bit now to more of a medical tech place. And I think

Russ is going to help usher in the new era. So he just said a lot there. Of the Lord. I think the old show up at the bar every single day at the same time, sit in the same stool, drink the same drinks to the same bartender next to the same people

type of guys are still going to exist in the Steelers fan base. And the only way you're going to win them over is if you want a Super Bowl okay until then you're nothing compared to everybody that has been a Steeler you're an embarrassment to the Steelers why are you doing that and then when you win not winning the right way sure so until you win a Super Bowl you're not going to get those people. But I think a lot of the people like if he wins immediately, yeah, we're eating Danger Witches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's what we do

around here. He can do whatever he wants. If he wins there, he can do whatever he wants. It'll be like the pinnacle of his career because think how they will be behind him so hard if he does find a way to win a Super Bowl. Think about all of the shit. I mean, even the when he was rehabbing the mallet finger that he had. Yep.

That was the name of it, actually. It was. It was. It was mallet finger that he was rehabbing. And he does the full drive down the field with huddle when nobody else was on the field. Pre-game. Pre-game. Talking, motivating, making checks, throwing a touchdown,

celebrating the touchdown. Skycam has him the entire time. Now, that's just probably a part of his mental routine that he does or whatever the case is. But I would assume Pittsburgh people, because that was happening in Pittsburgh against the Steelers at the time, ridiculed and mocked that at a level that was probably much higher than every other city in

the united states of america because it was i mean just because they were pinned deep too yeah they started it was a great punt yeah steelers had a great punt presley harvin is no longer a pittsburgh stealer pinned them deep and him being able to just avoid the sack there i know at the end and throw that touchdown incredible talking to the quarterback coach at the end there. I didn't like the third call. Yeah. And then kind of move along in that entire thing.

Because it's in Pittsburgh to kill it. He does that as a stealer and then goes out and wins. Oh, sorry. Our guy's more prepared than you guys are. Is your guy taking drives down a field against a defense? No. Because you guys are a trash franchise with a trash quarterback. That's how quickly it can turn if you win for a city that loves football

and aren't scared to talk shit or be a little bit of a little bit of we'll say moxie. Trash. Sure, that works too. I mean, not scared to get in there if you have to. All of us. But I love it over there. I genuinely do. Wait until before week one or even before

a preseason game, he's out there, his Jag-Off is out there with his Apple Vision Pro doing that leaning down the field. He can see the defense. He programmed the defense in there. He's seeing all the hots and stuff, I guess. He has it plugged into his hand warmer. He has that thing in his hand warmer doing all... I'm thinking of Bones just going,

this Jag-Off. Yes. This guy's in the year 2050. Why is this guy wearing snow goggles? Who's he playing against? What is that? These guys aren't real, Russ. And then Russ wins a game.

He's like, going, need to see that. Get it out. Need to see that again. It's amazing. Pittsburgh is an amazing place with amazing people, genuinely. Some of the most entertaining humans on earth, you're just walking down the street and you see because that's how they are. But if you win for them, boy, you can do anything forever. Franco's got a damn statue in the airport that you actually have to say hello to before you get

to the city of Pittsburgh whenever you fly in. You win for us, we will unalive someone for you. Bingo. And as we move forward, Joey Flacco is now in Indianapolis Colt, AJ. We talked to him in the first hour. This is a big deal for the Colts because obviously last year we saw that Gardner Minshew got a significant amount of the season's playing time because Anthony Richardson got hurt early in his rookie campaign. Now, are they going to be able to protect Anthony Richardson? Is he going to be able to maintain with NFL hits and tackles? Will his body be able to hold up through it all?

There's a lot of questions in that department. Now we've got a guy who is able and has took a team to a playoffs, and in doing so, won Comeback Player of the Year even though he had no injuries. He beat a guy who was dead on a football field and came back and played the next season for Comeback Player of the Year. That guy's now an Indianapolis Colt. I'm pumped about it, AJ. My wife at the beginning, Sam, was a little, Matt Ryan, Phil Rivers,

Carson Wentz, Joey Flacco. You know, she kind of went through that entire thing. But I think I sold her on the upside of, like, with our offense, with who we have, we just need a guy that can spin it, and Flacco can. Do you feel the same way about that as we talk about all the other free agency moves afterwards? Yeah, I do, but it's different for Flacko now he's coming in to be the backup and like i thought he talked about it very well like hey the mentorship part of all of that like yeah now of course yeah we're all in the same

room we help each other that's how it goes it's not some big declaration where you sit there and i am your mentor i will i will show you the way son like no no one's going to want to hear that from anybody but you need we know you need a capable backup if any year showed us this it was last season how many quarterbacks played around the nfl this last season i was between 70 and 80 quarterbacks started for different really 32 teams in the nfl you start doing math a lot of starters got hurt a lot of stars missed games as they moved to 18 games which is seemingly inevitable sounds like it's going to be taking place not that we all didn't see that immediately upon 17 games getting okayed it's like there's going to come a time where you almost just like rest like hey let's say it's middle of the 66 quarterbacks played last year started last year

32 teams that's obviously 68 in 2022 so it's not like it's like a oh okay an odd thing either like there's a lot of quarterbacks to start and we hit them less we hit quarterbacks way less than we used to yeah i'm wondering if going forward there'll be games where like even if they're at 75 it's like let's just give you another week because you got 18 games you know the nba has this issue where there were resting players and that's because i assume the nba players say our bodies weren't able to make it to the end of the season when the most important games were which is when all the eyes were on us. NFL guys, you know, like you get to the playoffs, all eyes are on you.

There's guys crawling to those games. Oh, yeah. Like not even being able to walk Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. They do a walkthrough kind of in practice, and then they're traveling on Saturday, then the game's on Sunday, and they're a tour d'hote out of their mind and whatever the case is, play the game, and like, oh, you won another won another game congratulations you move on to the AFC championship game it's like well okay can somebody roll me out of bed on Tuesday like there's a lot of guys that

you don't hear about that are kind of crawling towards the finish line there's going to come a time where the backup quarterback not only because of quarterbacks getting hurt but like they're going to be like almost guaranteed like hey we're going to play in four games this year. Starter's going to be doing that. I think that's probably going to come at some point, especially if you have capability. Like, Flacco's great. Flacco's a good quarterback.

There might be some teams you think ahead, like I think Flacco might be the right guy to play against this team. Rest our guy. Now, you're not going to do that to a franchise quarterback, somebody you're paying $180 million to, but there's a lot of situations that aren't like that and i think you're only going to continue to see his backup numbers continue to go up yeah and especially with the rookie quarterback being someone who's gotten banged up in the one season that he played you know that you you are going to need guys like that but for you know what sam is

saying with the colts and their track history of you know bringing older guys in like philip rivers was 25 million carson wentz was 33 million matt ryan was 40 million like you're getting a 40 the Colts and their track history of bringing older guys in. Phillip Rivers was $25 million. Carson Wentz was $33 million. Matt Ryan was $40 million. You're getting a $40 million quarterback. Four and a half million bucks. Yeah, half a million dollars. You're getting the production of what you expected out of those older guys

out of Joey Flacco. That's the difference. What did Bill Kyer say? He said, production intolerance. Kind of like this right here. It's real. Yeah. It is real.

He said in a roundabout way, be who you can afford to be. You know, he said, I'm going to treat everybody fairly, but not everybody equally. So like, and then he did the production and the tolerance thing. If your production's up here, it's funny how the tolerance goes up a little bit more. But if this thing starts falling, all of a sudden now we got an issue. It's like with Flaccoacco four and a half million bucks it's like that adds to the production absolutely that's a part of the production in this entire thing just like the russell wilson 1.2 million now let's talk about some rules that are going

to be proposed we'll start with the colts who we've been talking about joe flacco's new home the colts are proposing that you know what We should be able to challenge under two minutes, too. I don't know what the deal is here. I don't know why in the most important parts of the game, the end of the first half and end of the game as a whole, with the final two minutes, we're not allowed to say, uh-uh, that ain't right, even though the rest of the game, we are. We're relying on Walt Anderson to be the guy who decides in the biggest moments whether or not a team is getting screwed even though we're boots on the

ground there's walt anderson senior vp of nfl officiating it is his team that is doing the reviews after two minutes they're the ones that buzz down there's also people i think in every stadium now looking at it but they're the ones that are supposed to be in charge under two minutes and it's always been a topic of conversation because if a player knows something's happening he can tell his coach and his coach can throw challenge flag even if other teams trying to run hurry up but if you throw a challenge flag and earn two minutes a penalty like it's a detriment to you can't even think about it i don't know why they say you're not allowed to in the final two minutes it feels like that should be allowed. More drama, too.

If you have one challenge left, a little desperation, like we're hoping for it almost. It's like I like this rule that's being proposed by the Colts, and I appreciate the challenge becoming something that's being talked about a lot more in these rules as it will hit another one here in a matter of moments, AJ. Yeah, don't you think it's always been dumb, I i think that you get penalized if you end up throwing the flag in under two minutes like come on like we should under like that should be picked up i don't i

never agreed with that after a score after a turnover in under two minutes if you throw the challenge flag you'll get penalized because after a score they're already reviewing it so you're throwing a challenge flag on something that's already happened you turn over already reviewing it so you're throwing a challenge flag on something that's already happened. You make turnover already reviewing it. So you're throwing a challenge flag on something we're already doing. You idiot. Don't do that. We don't need it. We don't need the whole song and dance. We're already reviewing it. And then in the final two minutes, the most

important minutes, we're going to send it to Walt Anderson and his team. You can count on us. You can count on us to make the right decision. We got you. Don't worry about it. So the Colts are like, that's what Walt said. That's what Walt and his entire crew said. We got you. Don't worry about it. So the Colts are like, that's what Walt said. That's what Walt and his entire crew said. We got you.

Good screenshot. This is journalism. The NFL released this. The only one that came up on Google. They released this. The NFL released this. So that's not on us. It's a headshot, not a screenshot. And thank you to Walt for his service to the NFL.

I think the first 40 years he was a ref, he was probably great. The last 25 years he was a ref, he was probably great. The last 25 years he was a ref, he was not. And then moving into that role, this guy reffed in the NFL for 60 years. He paid his dues, huh? Yeah, he certainly did. So we appreciate his service in there. But I do like that Shane Steichen and the Colts

are like, this is not happening. This needs to change. The Lions, I believe, are proposing why do I lose a challenge at all if I get it right? So the rule now is if you hit both of your challenges and get them right, you will get a third challenge. Pro Football Talk Mike Florio is reporting that the Lions would like that third one to be available if you just get one right. And I think we have always been on the side of those challenge flags. You got them until you're wrong.

Like, that is what it should be viewed as. Make it, take it. That's what I think of. Bingo. I get it right, boom, give me that thing back, just like I'm playing make it, take it. Exactly. And the ref should actually hold it.

You should get two flags. And, like, when you challenge it, the ref should hold it. And if they're wrong, even do a song and dance. Yeah. This one's ours now. This is genius. Okay? Yeah.

Put it in the pocket. Or even get a trash can rolled out boom they only have one challenge flag left and like you have that until you're wrong because if you're right we just bettered the game for everybody we were right so you shouldn't be punished

I like that coming from the Detroit football Lions why do you think that is? Is MCDC a good challenger? I don't think I recall. I think if you ask the fan base, he's actually not a good challenger. Well, that's because he never gets a third one. Exactly. That's why they want the third one, so I see why they're doing it.

I go 50% every game, so now I'm a bad guy. There's 10 other calls I'd like to challenge, but I can't. In your scenario, there should also be a different color for the first flag as the second flag, so you know that this is your last flag. Oh, like a yellow red card type situation. Yeah, and if you get this wrong and you don't get it back, you're out. What's up here, Joe? You guys made this a great idea, but have you

watched these coaches fumble around their different parts of their body that they have their flags tucked into? You want to give them multiple flags to try to keep a track of? We don't care. That's not on us. Figure it out. You're a professional football partner. There's only 32 jobs. Hire a flag guy. Pay a guy $140,000 to be your flag guy. Oh, you get back guys.

Flag guy. Now we're creating jobs. Look at us. There we go. You said you weren't going to talk politics, I thought. I just added... Do you have any information? On? Conversation you had like 10 years ago potential vice presidential runs i don't know is did he say anything about that in the statement that he put out and say that he

wasn't he didn't say a single thing you saw we saw yeah he said nothing about the vp uh-oh so it's still in play yeah whoa come on you're an ass what are you hiding march 26 we got that's when he said he's announcing right yeah r Yeah. RFK Jr. or Aaron? RFK Jr. said March 26th, I believe, will be the time he does it. Until then, every name we put out into the sphere will be treated as a politician who wants to run people's lives. So kill him. Is that what's happening until March 26th? Oh, man.

I don't know. It's a weird world over there. AJ, you're the best. Keep me out of it. Keep me out of it. Yeah, that's kind of what we said, too. Hey, we are not that world. Hey, we appreciate you guys signing up for that, though.

Thank you, guys. Absolutely. All you smart people. Hey, also, figure it out. A lot of questions. But I like the challenge flag. And if you're not good enough to be able to handle two flags that could benefit your team in a great way, you should not be a head coach in the NFL.

Bingo. I appreciate it. I think Chuck told us he forgot the flag one game. Chuck said he always had the flag in one particular spot. And for some reason, he got caught up in another conversation. He goes out on the field, game starts, goes to where it would be like as a phone wallet keys type situation. And, oh, no no we don't have a so you had to call somebody over lift up the headset obviously so nobody hears this

need you to go to my locker and uh and grab that challenge flag yep you'll see it it's red it's uh it's right where it always is now he got it back before the game kicked off but you could see how those types of situations could happen like humans happen like had it actually set it down you did that but if it's an added benefit where you get it back if you're right i think that'll heighten how people use it how people see it because i think you'll get a little bit better odds of winning if you're willing to throw it a little bit more but do you also think it's possible that the nfl would not want this to pass because let's say one week some coach gets like eight challenges right,

and then it's just basically saying, like, these refs suck. These guys are awful. That's eight calls that they have gotten wrong. Well, are we trying to be great or not? Absolutely. It slows the game down, too, though. That's what they don't want. Well, we've already answered that.

We've already answered that. They've gotten better. They've gotten much better. They're the quick ones that happen. There's been a couple that have taken a little bit too long and the commentators actually say we have been here forever and and i think they have expedited because they you know this is like when the ncaa was using the word amateurism they created this word to validate they created it hey why can't we pay him by amateurs okay amateurism it's like well you made that word up that's not a real thing no but it's it's a rule

it's a rule though it's like okay well that's bullshit that's not how it is the nfl would say these challenges are slowing down our game they're slowing down we want to get rid of them we want to get rid of them it's like it's your people that are doing the reviews yes tell them to hurry the up you know what i mean like tell them everybody that's watching at home has it figured out before them. The commentators, Gene Steratore's in there, has it figured out in four seconds. Literally four seconds, they show him a clip and it's,

after seeing that one, okay, yeah, this is definitely not a catch, ball dragged against the ground. He tried, but not the case. Now we gotta wait a whole commercial break. Now we gotta do an entire song and dance. We'll come back, though, even being that stupid thing. and they come out after review it is not a catch because it's like yeah we know gene just told us 20 minutes a while ago so i do think they have tried to speed that up but that's a whole nother part of it like that process needs to be expedited that process

needs to be done by people who are used to looking at i don't say modern technology but modern technology people that are used to using at i don't say modern technology but modern technology people that are used to using their own controls to like rewind and like bounce around like that's a job i think that should be taken very seriously because if the xfl shows us anything from that last round not the first one before covid the last one before covid before the seattle uh nacho sales dragon yeah yeah nacho the concession stand worker had covet clc dragon and every every chip you ate was potential life or death exactly so that thing ended but the way they reviewed it they had a younger gentleman with an xbox controller

with access to every replay basically right in front of him on a touchscreen and he just touched it and then play speed up slow down because he was able to use the joystick and then he zoomed in on something he was like boom what i'm seeing here is this is a fumble he was communicating directly to the ref who didn't go over to a thing the ref was staying in the middle of the field and then that person told him and it was like a 15 second thing where the fans actually saw and heard everything that took place saw the process and it was over and it was like the ref made the right call it was 15 seconds we move on the game is continuing and it's like why don't you do that i think they're slowly getting to that i think it's slowly getting that because the ref that's up in the seat you know is now seemingly much more

prevalent after further discussion is seemingly happening a little bit more, which is definitely somebody else who has access. We're going to pick up the flag. So I think they are trying to figure it out, and I'm happy that the Lions are kind of pressing them a little bit, and also the Colts are pressing them. It's like, hey, if we're going to try to fix this, let's make this thing good. Yeah, and you mentioned them. Gene needs a more prominent role in the league

as a whole. Obviously, he has his job with CBS, and it's a great thing, but the NFL needs him back in it to help this entire situation. Better pay him. Gene has a great gig. Why would he do that? They would just have to pay him.

I think they would have to pay him a competitive price, which they have seemingly not done in the past, but maybe they will now because it seems like it's more of a focal point than it's ever been because there's a lot of money on this entire thing. But also, Gene loves the game. Yes. Yeah, Gene.

So why would Gene do that? I think if Gene started seeing, and this has not been a conversation I've had with Pizone. I'm just saying from my perspective of talking and knowing Gene, if he saw it declining heavily in the officiating situation, which I think a lot of us are like, this can be a lot better, maybe that would be something that would get him back in there. He's a yinzer, obviously loves ball, knows ball. And if he got back in there, I think he would be able to fix things because that's how we all feel. But the TV money has always been so much bigger than the NFL money.

There's a trade that has happened in the NFL. Rondell Moore, formerly of the Cardinals, has been traded to the Atlanta Falcons for Desmond Ritter. Tom Palacero is on the case. Rondell Moore is explosive, electrifying out of Purdue. Boy, they're up. He has one of the worst interviews in the history of our program. Maybe the worst.

Probably the worst, if I had to guess. But that does not mean he has a bad personality. He just didn't talk. That was the thing. Talk show. And we got to brief that with people sometimes. For sure. Not normally, though. Not normally, but sometimes we have to kind of brief him.

And I think he's just a quiet, low-key dude. I think that's just who he is. James Cook. Yeah, exactly. I think he came on the show because we're in Indiana. He's from Purdue. He knows of us. Probably has family and friends that are fans of the show,

know the show. I'll come on the show. But I don't think he's like a super big talker. No. So, like, we learned that quickly in the conversation. Like, this guy's not really comfortable talking to us right now for whatever reason. So we ended it, I think, in –

Yeah, like maybe like a minute, 15 seconds. It was good, though. It was a good minute, 15. We were a big fan of him as a player. But he got on that Cardinals team with Cliff Kingsbury, and they started utilizing him in like a Tyreek Hill role. He was getting the rock. He was explosive.

He was fast. He was making plays. A little undersized. Who cares? Don't need it. And then for whatever reason, hadn't seen as much. Now he's heading over to the Falcons, and Kirk Cousins just added another weapon into his arsenal.

And Desmond Ritter is going to back up Kyler Murray with the Arizona Cardinals after they lose the Pastronaut to the Minnesota Vikings last year and cut Colt McCoy. Fascinating development. I don't know why this is the case. The Cardinals starting new, so are the Falcons. What are your thoughts? I mean, it felt like Rondo Moore is coming off his best year. Yeah, like he's a guy.

Yeah, he played very well last year with, I mean, Dobbs at times and then Kyler Murray too. So that's what doesn't really make sense is because he's a first-rounder and they're not going to give him the fifth-year option at the end. Maybe business could have gotten involved with that. The Desmond Ritter in return thing is fascinating because I don't want to say we all came to the conclusion, but I think a lot of people were like,

Desmond Ritter might not be NFL quarterback right now. Maybe in a couple years, learn more, develop more and everything like that. But who knows what we know because systems are systems. But it's like, feels like Falcons won here. We don't know what else is coming. Because you could get a potential, like with

a backup quarterback, yeah, he could play. But Rondell Moore will play. He'll make some plays, whatever. But the writing was kind of on the wall, and I looked up the quote. Raheem Morris said in his introductory press conference, said, if we had better quarterback play, I might not be standing here. Like, when you say that about a guy and he's still on the roster, that's tough to keep him around. Yeah, I can see that.

They've probably been looking, I guess, AJ. That's what Tone just brought up there. But if you think about it, you trade a guy that's going to be a backup quarterback and the Falcons get a starting slot receiver that can make a bunch of plays. I think it's a great play for Atlanta. I love it. No question. Yeah, I love it for Atlanta.

There has to be more to this. There has to be picks or something. On the flip side, wasn't Rondale Moore was the shots, explosives? That's who Jonathan Gannon was talking about, why he was so excited. I'm really excited to unleash you in this offense, and then now you finally get Kyler Murray healthy, and it's like, okay, see you. We'll send you to Atlanta.

My source says in the know at the time, tell me that Gannon's friends and family cooked him for that video nice yeah that's incredible yeah that makes him even cooler almost that's what my sources have told me and then there was another one about the belly yep like the fire in the belly fire yeah also like family and friends like good yeah yeah that's i i better. Good relationship with his family, I feel like. That makes him, oh, cool, he's got a tight family. And his friends talking shit on, like, what's going on. You know what I mean?

As opposed to. What, you didn't like it? He's like, come on, guys, I don't see you coaching an NFL team. Come on, now it's worth $5 billion. No, I bet. See, the way I took it was he was like, I know, I know, I know. Like, that's how. Like, I feel like it made me think that he's like.

Yeah. Self-aware. Yeah, obviously not the best context clip that I want to. I know, I know, I know. I feel like it made me think that he's like, yeah. Self-aware. Yeah, obviously not the best context clip that I want to have. I didn't think they were filming it, okay? And when you clip things, you know. He's excited. He's excited. You get peace pumped up. I took that from him.

But when you do take things out of context, from the conversation that's happening beforehand to there, that can certainly, like private, especially private conversations. Not getting into it. All of a sudden you're a VP. You know what I'm talking about? But like that is something too

like whenever we see these clips potentially out of context, we could probably judge somebody a little bit more and that person could potentially understand that that is what is happening as well and be, you know, shit-talked to about and also humble on the other side. Everybody that we talked to said Gannon's – and if you look at what happened with the Eagles,

they tried to replace him with two different, you know, defensive coordinators and, like, everything that took place. It's like maybe Gannon is a guy. Is Arizona ever going to be a place, though, from everything that we've heard, that's going to be able to go? We shall see. Well, that's what everyone we talked to last year, it was like, you know,

Arizona going into the year, especially after all that stuff, it was like, oh, God, this is going to be just a full dumpster. Like, keep an eye on these guys. And then everyone we talked to was like, hey, when you watch the tape, like, these guys play so hard and physical. So, like, obviously his message was landing it's just are they talented enough to kind of and that's and they're in a tough division too which doesn't help we would like to hear the behind the scenes of why this particular trade happened i'm sure we'll get a little bit more of it as draft season continues here free agency still happening

and obviously we're one day in the new league year a lot of things taking place mason rudolph we talk about that backup quarterback thing he's in tennessee now from pittsburgh congrats to mason rudolph getting a new place uh new face obviously down in nashville to we assume backup will levis but hey you never know you never know in that entire thing but as soon as mason rudolph signed over there calvin ridley ended up with the Tennessee Titans for a $92 million deal negotiated by Mulageta that saw $50 million guaranteed for a wide receiver at the age of 29. Congrats to Calvin Ridley.

AJ, how do you feel about it for Calvin Ridley? We did not even hear that the Titans were anywhere near conversations or chatter for Calvin Ridley. We did know that a lot of fan bases wanted a new weapon on their squad, and Calvin Ridley was the bell of the ball. What are your thoughts on him going to Tennessee? Well, it's fun watching the highlights,

watching him get behind so many defenses. Against Tennessee. Why did this kind of play out like it did? I know he said something, chestnut checkers, all of that. How did they keep this all under wraps? And also, the timing was a bit weird, too. Why wasn't it early? I'm not 100% sure.

This is a mulligata operation, though. Their whole plan worked. This is an unbelievable deal. Awesome. Good for you. I would love to know all the behind the scenes and how it all played out. Yeah, me too. And I would also like to hear what other teams were actually interested,

as opposed to the teams that are just being talked about as being interested. And then Tennessee maybe just being able to slide in and not really make any waves. That's a big weapon to add to the Titans though, alongside D hop. If we'll let us as a guy. Yeah, exactly.

And if Callahan's offense is able to translate, we know Mason Rudolph can get the ball to people. It's like Tennessee Titans have a plan. Seemingly Tennessee Titans are moving into a new chapter. They know that they're getting a new stadium upgrade, I think. Yep. are moving into a new chapter. They know that. They're getting a new stadium upgrade, I think. So good for Nashville, good for Tennessee making plays. Brandon, the biggest party deck, I believe, or outdoor deck in the world.

Rooftop bar. Yeah, biggest rooftop bar. I think Nashville, big rooftop bar place. That's kind of what everybody does, and they've got the largest in the world. What's that, AJ? Doesn't Blake Shelton have a rooftop bar somewhere? I think everybody does. You have to have. Luke Holmes is open one this summer. Oh, we should ask him about that. Good journalism. He's actually out on a golf course right now. We the

best. Yes, you are. Yes, he is. He was great on the show, dude. He really was. What a good guy. Seems like a good down-to-earth dude. FaceTimed him yesterday. He had two big-ass trash bags over his shoulder.

He was walking them out. I'm walking him out to the trash dump, whatever, fix his hat a couple times with his hand, with the phone, just walking.

I'm like, I love what you're doing right now. He's just selling out stadiums. Yep, yeah. Panthers fans also echoed his sentiments. It wasn't as if he went on there and's just selling out stadiums. Panthers fans also echoed his sentiments. It wasn't as if he went on there and people were disagreeing with him.

Panthers nation was hammering what he was saying. I would assume Tepper at some point said he can't wait to bring concerts and entertainment to Charlotte because I saw a lot of people say, David Tepper loves concerts. He has to be listening to Luke Combs then, doesn't he? Then I heard some Panthers fans say, I don't want Luke Combs glooming doesn't he? He's basically a lot of messages. Then I heard some Panthers fans say,

I don't want Luke Combs glooming, dooming all over our team. What does he know? There's a couple of those. There's always going to be the loyalists behind the team. Always going to be the loyalists behind the team. We need them in the NFL. Luke Combs, seems like he's just a football guy. Seems like he's just a football guy.

He said he will die a Panthers fan. Nothing could change that. He would never not be a Panthers fan. Nothing could change that. He would never not be a Panthers fan, so he's the ultimate. He couldn't wait to talk about that Falcons photo, too. Whenever it got brought up, he, oh, oh, funny story. Yeah, funny you popped this up, Pat. It's actually because I am a Panthers fan, and I bet a Falcons fan on a game, and guess what we did?

We lost again. So I was forced to do this. He was excited to be like yeah this actually happened because i'm a massive fan good for you hey we need more luke combs yeah we do we need more money for the songwriters absolutely bobby wagner has signed a one-year deal with the commanders uh eight and a half million dollar deal dan quinn now the head coach of the washington commanders and i know tony pollard is recently finding that out, but Legion of Boom, Seattle, Bobby Wagner was there.

This guy has played a long time in the NFL. He's been with Seattle. He was with the Rams where he negotiated his own deal, goes back to Seattle. Now he's out in Washington. A leader, a winner, a guy I assume that Dan Quinn wants in that linebacker room and in that locker room, AJ. I mean, Bobby's just what a pro.

When you think of an absolute stud, pro, leader, like everything. He checks every single box, I feel like. So, yeah, it makes sense. Dan Quinn would want him in there commanding the defense, and he can still play. It's not like he's not a good player anymore. He's still very, very good. Yeah, hell of a ball player.

Tackling machine. Productive. He's top five in terms of. Always. Yeah. And I think his teammates enjoy him. Yes. If you didn't know his age, that's why I always get annoyed. If you didn't know Bobby Wagner's

been playing for 12 years, however long it's been, you would be like, this guy's awesome. Who is he? But it's always like, oh, he's still pretty good for his age. No, he's great. What's that quote? If you didn't know your age, how old would you be? Is that what it was? How old do you think you would be? Who's that? It was in somebody's bathroom.

I was taking a leak, and I saw her sign. And I thought to myself, that's a good question. If I didn't know my age, what else? What was the answer? Did you figure it out? I said, what else don't I know? If I just don't know how old I am, what else? Your brain always feels like 17, 18 years old.

I ask adults that all the time. I was like, how old do you feel? They're like, oh, my body that all the time. I was like, how old do you feel? They're like, oh, my body. I'm like, no, mentally, how old do you feel? What's your answer? 17, 18, you said? Always, yeah. I feel like I'm 20 years old for life, probably.

Grow up. I believe it's a quote from Satchel Paige. He said, how old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? Probably don't know where you're from. You get that in like what's the other one that's at those toilets? Don't pee on... Live, love, laugh. That is one for sure. Get naked.

Just kidding. This is a half bath. Don't make it weird. Okay, I've seen that one. That is a good one. That is a really good one. Don't bop in here. Yeah, no pooping in here like Josh McDaniels his house when Jim Irsay did. That's in his bathroom now. Allegedly, Jim Irsay took a 45-minute dump, and Josh McDaniels' wife was alarmed.

Not as alleged, but. It's her fault. It was her pot roast that he was dumping out. Yeah, he was trying to be a kind soul. Exactly. Is anybody else going to eat this pot roast? We cannot let this lady's pot roast go unattended to and make it look like we don't like her cooking and we think she's a bad person.

And then you had Chris Bowery. I'm not eating it. I don't eat it. I can't eat it. Well, I guess I would, Jim Irsay. That's half that thing. She brings out a two-gallon milk jug, and she's like, who's going to drink my milk? I got it from the cows in the back

or whatever. And Jim's like, is anybody going to drink it?? I got it from the cows in the back or whatever. Jim's like, is anybody going to drink it? I don't want to disrespect this. Drinks the entire milk. Brings out Velveeta. The block of Velveeta. I don't want to disrespect her. Eats the Velveeta. He's like, I'm getting a little tired because I've eaten so much.

Can I get some coffee? She's like, I make the best coffee. He's like, give me a full pot of that. They made an Oppenheimer inside of his gut because he was trying to show her respect. And I heard Jim was using non-RFI approved flushable. RFA. Come on. You son of a bitch. Wipes.

Approved wipes. RFA. And he does have. Which stands for? Responsible Flushing Alliance. You'll learn about it. Don't worry about it. That's about it. Yes, it is. I'm a lifetime member of the RFA.

That's that song, I think. Oh, they say FFA. Did he replace the toilet paper when he ran out? He brought his own toilet paper. That was actually part of the problem. This guy didn't use any toilet paper. Didn't wipe his ass after. You smell it in there?

What the hell's going on? Oh, what if it was the master bathroom? She's like, well, he could have used the hall bathroom or go in the basement maybe. Why do you have to use ours? Is this your guys' bathroom? That's what I'm going to use. Yeah, he's the owner. What do you mean?

I'm not dumping in the hallway bathroom. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, as we might be the greatest kill time show in history. Out there. By far. Think about the story we just told. Yep. A true story. Well.

A terrible, embellished. There's some bones. There's some bones to that story. Yeah, he didn't eat a block of LBH. Yeah, based off of true events, from what we've heard from people in the know at the time. All right. We'll make a mockery out of anything.

Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is an absolute stallion. I've got a chance to see this man outside a race car. Okay. And he might be more electrifying as just a human walking around Earth than he is in the car. And in the car, oh, he's going to go down as a goat. 63 wins. 63 times he's gone to victory lane whenever he's gotten into a car and raced against him in series ladies and gentlemen friend of the program wheel man rowdy kyle bush how are you guys hey how's it going? Good to see you, Pat.

Hey, Kyle. Great to see you. I hear everything's still going great for you. All these, great to see you, Kyle. Proud of you, buddy. Yeah, well, I'm still around. I'm still doing it. I'm still digging.

Every Sunday, man, out there trying to give it a go. So, you know, got to keep up for this older guys. I'm the oldest one out there almost. Okay, so you're the old man. Are you still driving the same way? Because I don't want to be the describer because I'm not necessarily an expert in this particular field. But I think people would say you're an aggressive driver. You weren't scared to mix it up a little bit.

You were a guy who, hey, I'm a witness whether you're in front of me, behind me, or underneath me. Right? Isn't that kind of a way that you used to race? Do you still do that? Is it still the same old Kyle Busch? Oh yeah, absolutely. You know, you got to go out there and you got to try to get these wins. And you know, we had a race earlier this year at the Clash, which was out in LA, the tiny little USC stadium. We were racing in there and we were running good all day long. We were running up top two, top three, top four. And then there towards

the end of the race, we had an opportunity to get a little bit dirty, but it was against a fellow old teammate of mine, Denny Hamlin. So I banged him a little bit just a couple times to try to get him up the track in order to get alongside of him, but not to wreck him. And I ended up getting myself loose and fell back. So he took the win. We finished second. Oh. Live by the sword, die by the sword there, Kyle.

I like that you're still doing it. I like that you're still doing it. I love that you're still doing it. Go ahead, AJ. Kyle, maybe like 10 years from now, you ever think of joining F1 and going and dominating out there in whatever kind of races they have going on? Great question. You know what?

Yes, I would love to. I would love to give F1 a shot or even IndyCar a shot, run the Indy 500. But the F1 thing, it's really, really tough. So there's a lot of politics, per se, that has to go into that in order to get over there, but then also you have to have at least a two-year runway of working through the license

application program to prove that you're worthy enough to drive a Formula One car. So those guys can come over here and jump into a NASCAR tomorrow, but not the same going the other way. Okay, so we hate F1. You do too? I love F1.

I love those guys. I love watching it. I'm a fan of all forms of motorsports, but, you know, it's not for me. Why does the same guy win every week? Yeah, why is this? 19 of the last 20 races is Vanderstoppen. Yeah, it sucks. Nailed it.

If he was to... It sounds like a watch. He probably has one. The F1 is a big watch community, it sounds like, from what I've been watching along. So the Vanderstoppen watch and the Vanderstoppen dominance has just become so boring. He'll win the pole poll and then the races are like time trials seeming they're stacked right behind each other we watch you guys we're four wide yeah we're four wide sometimes you said i'm bumping denny ham not to spin them out just a

little hey huh they're not doing any of that so like i think we're just like ignorant americans because when we get on go-karts we're trying to cut off our friends every time we're racing there. And that style of racing is not at all. Would you be good at their racing? Would you be able to do that with your driving style or is there levels to this in different styles of driving? Yeah. I mean the bumping and the bang, and you definitely don't want to do that. Those cars are too fragile. So you're not going to do that. So let me give you an example. So our racing NAS racing, to me is like two bros or four bros or whatever, but beer cans in their hands, smashing it up, going woo, partying and having a good time.

We're going to rough some fenders. When you go and do an F1 race, little dainty, tiny champagne glasses going dink and making sure that you keep your fingers up or pinky up when you take uh, when you take a sip, you know, and, uh, we're all about getting sloshed. So that's exactly what we thought, which is why we feel the way we feel. You just talked about IndyCar. I believe, um, somebody's doing it this year where they do the Indy 500 and Daytona 500 same day. I think your brother has done it in the past. Yeah. Right. So it's the, it's the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte on the same day. They're both in May. And, uh, my brother did do it. Um, he ran, I think seventh into Indy 500 and then he was running fourth or fifth when his engine expired, uh, during the

Coke 600. So he wasn't able to finish that one, but he had a respectable showing in the Indy 500, never driving an Indy car before, so he did a really good job of that. This year, it's going to be Tiny Kyle, so Kyle Larson is going to do it, and he kind of actually snuck in maybe a little bit on getting that ride for me.

That's who I was talking to about doing the deal, but he got there quicker. Wow! That's a race. talking to about doing the deal, but he got there quicker. Wow. That's a race. Yeah. Getting there quick. A race within a race, right? Yeah, it's kind of your guys' world.

Well, I would assume that an Indy 500 invitation is waiting for you any time you openly want it. Hey, how about this? We will personally make sure, as somebody who has paid for a car to be in the Indy 500 before, that next year you're in the Indy 500, Kyle. Congratulations. There you go. Congrats.

I appreciate that. You're going to have to do all the legwork. I look forward to it. It'll be a lot of fun. You're going to have to do all the legwork. You're going to have to figure out the car. I just need to know the number of dollars that I have to pay to do that. Are you still in Indy?

Yeah, buddy. Okay, right on. All right. You're a local boy, so you're going to be out there. Yeah. Are you still an Indy? Yeah, buddy. Okay. Right on. All right. You're a local boy. So you're going to be out there. Yeah. I'll definitely be there. And we'll stop by that Steak and Shake after you chug that milk.

You know what I mean? We'll have a little. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, we will. KY's a good time. KY celebrates great. He has a lot to celebrate.

Is there. Okay. You have respect for IndyCar drivers as well. Like, is there a, like NASCAR, it felt like NASCAR had the big boom, right? Marketing, everything, NASCAR became the pinnacle of American racing. IndyCar maybe had it for a little bit beforehand, Andretti and them, I think they had big pops

and everything, and then there was a little bit of where marketing dollars are going and everything like that. At this stage here in 2024, it feels like I could see any race I want. You guys got Fox, IndyCar's got NBC, Peacocks. We're watching time trials for F1. We got F1'd on ESPN2.

Feels like everything is able to be seen. If you're a driver, you want a job at any of them? You have the capability of driving in any of them? How does it kind of go whenever it talks about the different forms of cars that you're racing, seemingly? Yeah, they all kind of have their own each discipline, their own background, and the drivers that are really good in some of those, they all come from different places. But majority of the IndyCar guys come from a road racing

or go-kart style of background, or even sometimes the dirt ranks, which is interesting because some of the guys that are in NASCAR now come from the dirt ranks as well. Tony Stewart kind of led the way. Jeff Gordon led the way on that. Tony Stewart, Larson now comes from Jeff Gordon led the way on that. Tony Stewart, uh, Larson now comes from that. He's super, super good, really talented. But,

um, a lot of the guys that are over now on the IndyCar side are coming more so from road course racing and road course carts, go-karts, things like that. So, um, I came from, you know, local short tracks across America, running late models and legends cars and things like that, where, um, just, just different forms of motorsports at the local level when you're younger, how you're training yourself, how you're getting yourself ready to go to these these different levels. But there's been some crossover with sometimes the IndyCar guys, Tony Stewart, most notably. He won a championship in IndyCar. He moved over to NASCAR. He became a NASCAR champion. So he was probably one of the best at being able to go and cross over to NASCAR. There's been some others that have tried it and have not been successful at it. And then Jimmy Johnson, being a NASCAR seven-time champion, went over to IndyCar and did the crossover that way and tried it and never really

came out with much on that either. So I think he had a couple of top five runs, but other than that, no wins in a schedule that he ran ran are you guys still fighting over there who's fighting not you anymore you're too damn old that's what they're saying yeah they're saying kyle bush got soft won't throw fight with anybody i just got to get further up front no is there still a little bit of dramatics in uh pit lane or anything in nascar still or is the younger generation not about that? Oh, no. The younger generation is all about crashing before winning.

So, you know, they tend to just throw it in the corner alongside you and just wipe you out more times than not. So, you know, last week there was a couple crashes. A couple guys were pissed off at each other. But I think the last guy to throw a punch was me. So, you know, that hasn't really happened lately. Yeah, you're hockey. You're old school hockey.

You get settled a lot quicker. Yeah, that's all. I mean, those helmets. At least be a gentleman and take the helmet off. Yeah. You know what I mean? At least let me punch you in the face. But in football, sometimes you just need to get it.

If I got my helmet on, I can't hear you. If you want to mouth off to me, I'm not going to hear you anyways. So you got to do this entire thing. Excuse me. What was that? What was that? Hold on a second. Excuse me.

What did you say? For him to take his helmet off. Yeah. For him to take his helmet and you keep yours on. Yeah, I want to say something. You take your helmet. I would like that you can't hear me. Bam.

Then you get it. You do your talking with your fists. Yeah, that's why. I didn't want to say anything with my mouth. I fooled you, that entire thing. Ty's got a question for you, KY. Yeah, that's why I didn't want to say anything with my mouth. I fooled you, that entire thing. Ty's got a question for you, KY. Yeah, KY, I read something recently about Joey Logano being a cheating son of a

bitch, and I was just curious. Could you maybe explain that situation to the NASCAR layman? Did I say that? No, I don't think you said it, or at least they didn't quote that you said it. That was kind of my words. But also, I know you guys have extensive checks of the cars and everything.

So is that how guys are trying to kind of game the situation and gain an advantage because everything is so regulated? I mean, everything is really, really regulated. These new cars that NASCAR came out with just a couple years ago, we all buy the same parts. They're basically Legos. We all buy the same parts from the same suppliers. We all assemble them. We put them together. Some guys assemble them a little bit differently and they get more success out of their car. So you try to figure that out. We're all parked right next to each other in the garage area. When they take their tires off their car, you're looking in there trying to see exactly what they're doing, you know? So, um, there's no secrets, not for long anyways, in our sport.

So I don't know how anybody could really be cheating. But the old term that was used years ago was there's two of them. If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. There you go. And then the other one was that they're winning, so they must be cheating. So that was happening in football too for like 24 years. Yeah. I think that happens everywhere.

If you're at the top of the mountain, people got to zoom. You're talking about the blue and red? You're not talking about the blue and red. What are you talking about? America? Oh, yeah, Northeast. 24 years. 24 years.

I don't know how you went that long. Nobody knows how you went. They were just smarter than everybody. Good for them. And exactly what you said applies, I think, in every professional sport. Well, man, ever since he left, they were not the same. Whoa, whoa, Kyle. Kyle. You son not the same. Whoa, whoa, Kyle! Kyle, whoa, whoa.

We know that if somebody's cheating, though, and you find out about it, and you don't like it, this is exactly what you'll do. We just ran this video. Shout out to JeffGlock.com. I knew it was coming. Look at this dude casually walking through pit lane. How you doing? And I'm punching you in the face. Kyle, you're a thug! What did this guy do? There was no talking in that moment. So that was on the last you in the face. Kyle, you're a thug.

What did this guy do? There was no talking in that moment. So that was on the last lap of the race. He wiped me out and spun me out for third place. And so I was like, you know what? I'm done with this punk and here we go. And then his crew tackled me. Like he's not even there.

His crew tackled me and got me to the ground. But yeah, that was a fun day. Hey, there isn't a lot of times in life where somebody in 2024 will walk a quarter mile right up to somebody's face and just punch them right in the face. We respect the hell out of that. I appreciate the hell out of that. We have a hard out here on ESPN as we continue on ESPN Plus and YouTube with the great Kyle Busch. We appreciate you for joining us. Feel Good Friday is coming hot and heavy tomorrow.

It should be a great show. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. See you tomorrow. I like that, Kyle. Thanks for helping me there. We had a hard out there about two seconds ago on ESPN2 or maybe ESPN News, whatever it is. Now we're live on YouTube and ESPN+. If you let a fuck fly, it's okay, Kyle.

Just want to let you know that. Language is clear. Alright, good.ingo whenever we whenever we watch this sunday your next race right i assume that's right yeah every sunday where are we uh this weekend we go to bristol tennessee one of my favorites so love bristol bristol concrete we're back on the concrete in the springtime last few years we've been on the dirt up there and i won one of them but of them, but it wasn't the most fun, I'd say. I'm not a dirt racer. I've become more of a dirt racer since my son's gotten into it, and he's the dirt racer of the family.

So back on Concrete at Bristol. Yeah, you guys were taking your NASCARs on the dirt, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I thought that looked stupid. They're not made for that. So it was stupid. That's what we all kind of said.

That's why we're not there anymore. Okay, because I've been to sprint races out here and other dirt track racing. And the way the cars are built are to use the dirt. Like, hey, we're using the dirt. Thank you very much. I'm a layman here. I moved to Indianapolis, so I got baptized with, have you seen this type of car race?

It's like, no. You want to go see 14,000 horsepower and a drag strip right over here in Brownsburg? It's like, yeah, I do want to see that. It's like, holy shit, who built that engine? Some hick from down in South Indiana. He built this entire thing. And then some of the sprint cars that are racing are being built by dudes that have full-time jobs as whatever literally in their barns at night and in between races they're tweaking them and the families around and it's like it's like uh it's a really cool community to watch that so i remember turning on the nascar race going well that's

dumb i don't listen i'm not a race expert but that is that is very dumb but bristol tennessee is this middle of season how long do we got got left? Where are we in the season? Do we know? Oh, we just started. We're literally, this will be week four. So we're not very deep into the season. How are we running? We got a good car?

You feel good? We're in a good spot? Well, the short track stuff's been a struggle for us. So Bristol's a short track. It's only a half mile in distance, but so is the Clash. And we finished second out there, you know? So we finished second at the Clash. We were leading the Daytona 500 late in the going. I is the clash. And we finished second out there, you know? So we finished second at the clash. We were leading the Daytona 500 late in the going.

I chose the wrong lane on a restart. We got shuffled back. I finished 12th. And then the next week was the three wide finish for the win where I was in the middle between the two guys. And I was the furthest back, lost by a couple inches, but then. Six inches. Yeah, about that much.

I've been looking for that my whole life. Yeah, bingo. Bingo. Yeah, everybody on the call yeah haven't we all and then uh last weekend was uh well vegas we were in vegas we were leading a lot out there and then we had a pit road issue that that got us behind towards the end and then last week was was dismal we were in phoenix and uh and not very good so hopefully we can turn the tables back around our way here in bristol so f1 a lot of car talk engineer talk how they're building it how they're piecing it together. IndyCar, same exact thing. I think how you build your car is a big deal and a big advantage, especially if you have great engineers and you figure out a track that you're supposed to be at, from what I've been told.

NASCAR, same thing, because you just said it's like Legos. Everybody's building the same shit. So do you know if your car is like a fast car versus slow cars for a season, for a week going into it? Like, what are your thoughts on that? Well, so yeah, exactly. Good question. The short track stuff's been a struggle for us. So we're not very good on the short tracks, but like the mile and a half, we've had a really good program on the mile and a half. So we've been fast at that. And then, you know, also the, the super speedways have been really good for us. So like Daytona, Talladega, Atlanta, we've been really

fast at those tracks the last couple of years. So you can kind of see when you go to these places, what guys will be fast at those particular racetracks. So you can have a good sense of who's going to be good, but the, yeah, where was I going with that? It's where your car is. It's where your car is. I'm getting older.

This is harder to do. No, it's where your car is right now. I think you're about to say you can get a sense of what other people have. Okay, you were talking about F1. So F1 is wide open. Those guys design those cars from the ground up. They have a clean sheet of paper every year. So the engineering is by far way ahead of its time and what we do.

IndyCar, those cars are kit cars as well, too. You buy them from all the same supplier. You only get your engines from different people. And then you go to the racetrack and you race. So you have your engineering staff, which is much smaller than F1, but it's kind of the same as NASCAR now. Like now we're not building our own cars anymore

like we used to be doing five, six, 10 years ago. We're buying the kit cars as well too. And we're assembling them. We have the different engine suppliers based on the manufacturer that you race for and then you go out there and you know hopefully your engineering team has figured it out and what the fastest way is at the track for that week it feels like there'd be more parody in that particular style that's probably why vander stop in his one night that's why they have an engineer yes they have last year i think we had 16 different winners throughout the

year of nascar i mean mean, that's unheard of. Five, six years ago, you might have eight. Okay, so this is good for racing. Does NASCAR want that, though? Does NASCAR want all these different winners? Well, yeah. I mean, they want parity. They want equality, right?

They want everybody to be able to go out there, and depending on how well the driver does, the crew the crew chief setting up the car everything it gives everybody a easier chance to win although it seems like it's harder now more than ever so um you just got to be on the right side of things so it's like execution based on this like if it is it is so you can set yourself further behind with mistakes then you can set yourself forward being perfect got it got Okay. That's why pit stops are more important. Pit stops are way important. It's easier to pass people in our sport now when they're sitting still.

On pit road. Hey, those pit crews, ex-college football guys, they're full on like, I don't know. Why don't you do that? I did one day i was incredibly hung over maybe even still drunk oh yeah definitely we had a night out right yeah exactly bingo you've seen it you've lived it yeah yeah yeah yeah and pretty functioning pretty good

i think throughout my life people would say that but the whole um the whole i want to oh which motor sport kendrick yes hendrick hendrick motorsport? Kendrick? Yes. Hendrick. Hendrick Motorsport, I think, over there in Charlotte. They had a full campus. They had a full campus. And I went and visited the pit crew. And it was like ex-football guys. A couple of my old teammates played with guys in NFL camps.

They lived there, full-time job. They trained. It's like a full football schedule, pretty much. They had practice. I saw for one practice, I ran out there, did the whole thing. I was in the joints. I almost puked. It was tough. Went and lifted with the boys. It's a real... It's like a full-time job. You can win races in there, Kyle. Let's win some races

in there. You gotta win some races. That's right. There you go. Yeah, here. Yep. Boom. Bang. Pal. Look at that. I look back at my shoes. Yeah. You're not gonna make it. Oh, fuck off, shoes. Yeah, you're not going to make it. Oh, fuck off, Kyle. Kyle, I would like to have you know

I was incredibly hammered at that moment. Still from the night before. I think you and I should do a race on that. We should do a race. I'm not no pit crew guy either, so I definitely can't speak to the respect level that I have for those guys going out there and jumping in front of 60 mile an hour cars

on pit road every week. But you and I could certainly do the standstill race I kick you up yeah but I I've seen you throw that punch so I do think you do have some athleticism you know not every race car driver has athleticism now I do think it's sport what you guys do I do think it is very difficult to do what you do I think it takes a certain stamina to do what you do a lot of talent and skill but some you know it I've been in India a stamina to do what you do. A lot of talent and skill. But some of you know it. I've been in Indy a little bit. You put a football or a baseball in some of these drivers'

hands. I mean, we're talking fucking fish out of, not even water. We're talking fish out of. Oh yeah, there's some YouTube videos of that. I won't name names, but they're pretty hideous. But also, you put us in some cars. I'm totaling that thing. It's a whole thing. Your punch was a good a good punch felt like that was an athletic punch there

kyle so i would have respect and you're not for my father-in-law he was like you know all these guys they want to fight and they just go up to each other and they jaw back and forth a little bit he goes don't even jaw like just go hit him in the jaw smart love that especially if we're not going to get arrested because it's at work right you. You know, that whole thing, that's good news. Tone's got a question for you, Kyle. Yeah, Kyle, a couple weeks ago I watched two racing movies, and they were both focused around the 24-hour Le Mans race. And I know NASCAR had a team last year with Jimmy Johnson.

Is that anything that you would ever want to do in your career, maybe team up with Jimmy and maybe like Jeff Gordon or Junior or something like that and take down Le Mans? Yeah, no, that would be fun. My expertise in that area was the Daytona 24 hours. I ran that. It's probably three or four years now. I did it with Team Lexus.

They let me be a part of the team, and there was four of us drivers, so me, three other guys. We didn't fare so well, um i did run the same lap times as the guy that runs it full time so it actually gave me a good sense of like okay i'm not bad like i'm not the one holding us back here from going forward or having to happen in this thing so that made me feel better about myself that i could jump into that and be good at that so i liked it it was fun i would i would sure as hell yeah go run them all that'd be cool yeah we got crushed but it wasn't my fault so i'm just fine i'm sleeping just fine and i that's that car thing again those engineers like we need smarter ones yeah of course hey last

question here and thank you for your time to echo thank you for this time today learn a lot learn a lot about racing here connor's got a question for you. And this one, hey, he's putting you on the spot here. And if I know anything about KY, he's going to respond in a beautiful fashion. Always. And, you know, Kyle, I would like to know your personal NASCAR Mount Rushmore. Now, mine is Dale Sr., of course, Jimmy, I mean, as you mentioned, Jeff. And you were the fourth one until you opened your stupid mouth about the New England Patriots. So I'm going to go ahead and throw Keselowski in there at four.

But who would your top four be if you were just looking across the history of NASCAR? Yeah, for me, I would look at, man, it's tough because you know jeff four championships jimmy seven dale seven those two are easy so dale obviously jeff gordon obviously or excuse me jimmy johnson obviously uh because me racing against jimmy johnson i mean going on a five in a row feat winning seven total in the same years that i was racing i mean he was beating me and you guys said that i was great so yes uh hell yeah i've been So, so the last two for me are kind of tough. You know, I like David Pearson because he's one, he's the second most winningest driver in the NASCAR cup series, um, at 105 races, but he never ran really for the championship. So he doesn't have any of those. So do you go for a

guy like, um, you know, Dary Waltrip, who has 84 wins and three championships? I've run the most races across all three series of NASCAR with Truck, Xfinity, and Cup, so I've got 230 total NASCAR wins, the most out of anybody. Dick Penny? I don't know. Do I put myself on there?

Maybe. Kyle Busch should put Kyle Busch on his Mount Rushmore. That should 1,000% happen. Yes. What are we even talking about? I'm not good at that, though. I'm not a self-promoter guy. I'm not a LeBron who's going to say I'm the king.

You know what I mean? I think there's another guy that could be better or is better. Well, I do appreciate you showed some humility there with saying, you know, this guy's beating the shit out of me and I'm racing out here, so I got respect for his game in this entire thing. But you were willing to race're saying, you know, this guy's beating the shit out of me, and I'm racing out here, so I got respect for his game in this entire thing. But you were willing to race the trucks, I think,

the second series and the main series for numerous years because we get to a Sunday race in some of these places, and Kyle has already won twice this weekend. It's like, I didn't even know there was two other fucking races this weekend. It's like, well, he won in the trucks, and then he won in this series, and then he's looking to make it a clean sweep fucking races this weekend. It's like, well, he won in the trucks, and then he won in this series,

and then he's looking to make it a clean sweep for the entire weekend. It's like, why isn't everybody doing this? And they're like, a lot of people are trying. Yeah, this is not something that's as easy to do. So I think I personally would put you at the top of the Mount Rushmore just strictly because you're the only NASCAR driver

that I know very well. My answer used to be, Kyle, literally all the time, and I don't know if you've ever heard this as you, your Zoom background just made you look sweet there. There is a matter of like, what, probably the last four years, anytime racing got brought up, my answer was legitimately, is Kyle Busch running? If Kyle Busch is running, Kyle Busch is winning. That was my answer. On ESPN, I was asked about, I think some internet, it might have been F1 or something like that in like a brief moment.

Like, oh, big F1 race this weekend, Pat. Who do you like or whatever? And I'm like, is Kyle Busch running? If Kyle Busch is running, Kyle Busch is winning. So I appreciate the fact that you're still doing it, still crushing it, and still winning. You make us look better, you know, in a sport that nobody covers well enough, I don't think, which is NASCAR and racing.

I appreciate that. Yeah, absolutely. No, I mean, I love my job. I wouldn't do anything else. People ask me if you, if you weren't a race car driver, what would you be doing? I said, I'd probably be picking up your garbage. So, you know, this is a good life and I've been doing pretty well at it. So I'm happy to be winning the races I'm winning and i want more okay we'll keep doing that tell the family we said hello and you would be a fantastic garbage picker yeah we think if you had to do it but instead you're racing those cars and you're crushing it thank you so much good luck this weekend in bristol all right appreciate it looking forward to it thanks guys have a good one ladies and gentlemen a man who has 230 wins in the NASCAR series. Kyle Busch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four.

Nailed it. A.J. didn't even get confused. That's college football national champion, Super Bowl champion, all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, A.J. Hawk. The talk table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Ty. Cowboys 10 digiggs is here.

And a man who's been waiting around for the last five minutes, which we apologize for. Because wait until you see how cool this motherfucker looks. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, multiple-time Super Bowl champion, ESPN pundit, incredibly handsome, Damien Wood. Yeah, Damien Wood! Ooh! Fellas, fellas, what's happening?

Hey! This morning? Yeah, you showed up fresh fade. Oh, clean. Hey, Fox. Yeah. Foxworth had a clean fade as well. We didn't know if there was a barber maybe at the set or not. You had clean fade, clean face, suit. Ooh.

Perfectly tailored. You showed up this morning and killed the game, D-Wood. You should be pumped right now. Hell yeah, D-Wood. Hey, man. Listen, I will say this, man. I damn sure feeling good about myself, but I gotta say this, man. I don't know if I'm gonna be sleeping in the bed tonight because the wife

ain't happy with the shave, brother. Oh, no. The wife ain't happy with the... Yeah, she's not happy with the fresh shave on the face, man. So maybe I can come sleep on your couch. Come on, we got a multiple. Come on. Connor just bought a nice two-bedroom apartment.

Got a room for you. He's got a room with a good view of Indianapolis. Some say the best they've ever seen. So you did all this without even, you didn't even talk to the, that's a bad decision. Now, from our standpoint, we think that was a risky decision on your side, just as married men. Is this the case you're kind of realizing now? Yeah, the wife is out of town, and she happened to see my face on the tube this morning.

It's like, what the hell you do that for? That's not my husband. Yeah, it wasn't cool at all, so I might have to face the repercussions when she gets back. She's upset you look too good. Hey, you look too good. She's like, damn, is that 24-year-old? Hey, who's this?

I can't help from styling and profiling. You know what I mean? It's not your fault. I mean, you made a decision that made you look phenomenal, and I like the fact, and this has kind of been the story of my life with some people's significant others

throughout the days, back when every guy's had girlfriends and everything. I seemingly was always the person the fact and this has kind of been the story of my life with uh some people significant others uh throughout the days back whenever guys had girlfriends and everything i know i seemingly was always the person where significant other says something and uh my ideas are the complete opposite it's the same exact situation yeah it's the same message she literally we asked we we reach out to espn we're like hey we haven't talked to damien in a while or D-Wood in a while. Love him. Also, looks so cool today. Can we have him on the show? At the same time, he's getting a message from his wife. Why do you look the way you do? What a time.

Anyway, D-Wood, you're crushing it. Let's talk a little ball, shall we? Let's do it. Free agency, obviously, a lot of teams made some moves. Some teams were quiet. Obviously, that's been a big part of conversation. What's the move that kind of piqued your interest the most or what are you feeling out of free agency that you're going to be talking about the most as we go forward here d wood yeah pat man listen i'm

looking at those houston texans man god listen the houston texans is crushing it uh in free agency and they're doing what you're supposed to do you know when you when you hit on the quarterback obviously we know cj stroud is that guy and so now they're just like, you know what, we're sliding our chips in. We're going all in. And so they've been adding a bunch of pieces. Obviously, Daniil Hunter, the defensive end from Minnesota. They traded for Joe Mixon. I mean, they've added a bunch of guys, a bunch of dudes that's going to help that football team.

They're going to be one of the scarier teams in the AFC in 2024. So I love what they did. Hey, I got to say, man, what the hell are the Carolina Panthers doing trading a 26, 27 year old pass rusher? And you didn't even get a first round pick? What the hell is going on down there?

Yeah, that's been the topic of conversation on our show the last two days. We have not expected to be a Carolina Panthers show at all. No. But they've seemingly been the gift that doesn't stop giving whenever it comes to what the fuck is going on in Carolina. But we have to give the new building a chance, right? I think we have to give the new

building a chance. Although the Christian McCaffrey deal feels the same way as this Burns deal feels to a lot of different Carolina Panthers fans. We heard Luke Combs and everything like that. Morgan's got a vision, we assume. Canals has got a vision, we assume. But boy, they had like 150 people at their last home game. That place is...

That place needs... Right now, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yes, yes. I do know what you mean. Man, I hope they get it together, man. They got to protect the quarterback, which they invested like a trillion dollars into guards, which by the way, as a former lineman, I am

so happy that these guys are getting paid. Can we get a couple claps for that? Absolutely. Hey, let's go. Big fat guys getting money. Damn right. You're damn right. Sorry, big, tough, smart, fat guys getting money.

Athletic guys getting money. We like that a lot around here in the trenches. Go ahead, AJ. Damian, what's going on with the New York football Jets? What do you think this offseason will look like as we continue to move forward? What are your, I guess, expectations for what they do this season

and Robert Sala as the head coach? Well, we know priority number one has been protection, right? Getting our boy A-Rod back in the fold, coming off the Achilles. We got to make sure he's standing upright, man. So my man Joe Douglas, the GM, is going out there and he's already got a couple pieces on the offensive line,

which I really like. They're probably going to dress it again in the draft. They need another wide receiver to go along with Garrett Wilson. So I like the direction they're heading. They still got some work to do, but I liked the direction. I just want Aaron to come back and just, and just kill the shit this week, this season, man. That's, that's what I want.

We would like that as well. We would like, we would like that as well. We would like that as well, because I think Jets fans right now with how the year went, like that's gotta be a bitter taste. Like cause all the hope going into the season was awesome. It was was beautiful it was like everything that's good with football was happening with the jets fans both personally and publicly the celebration of what football can do having a good team how much it can bring people together hope optimism distraction away from everyday bullshit it felt like the jets had that for the first time long time and then the opening is just

as beautiful as september 11th at home like here we go it's a it's a fucking move it is it's a it's a fairytale movie and then the last four plays and then it just gets ugly it's the same old shit there's no real adjustment made so you're punting another year it's like all right next year i guess will be the year that we get to experience what we're all pumped up about. And then all of a sudden, you know, we got a jungle in Costa Rica that is currently harboring the quarterback. And then there's news coming out. It's like we just need to get the football. I think that's how everybody feels,

and I assume that's how Aaron feels as well for the Jets. Hey, Jets, let's go. This is going to be the year. Here we go, Jets. Let's do it. Let's do it. This is going to be the year. Connor's got a question for you.

Yeah, D-Wood, as a Patriots fan, I was very excited for the Dynasty documentary, and it was great to see yourself in there in those first couple episodes and reliving that first Super Bowl team you were on was awesome. Didn't get to relive the second one just because they skipped over it so quickly, but

I've only watched the first three episodes and i actually refuse to continue watching because of the depiction of bill belichick when you're re-watching it are you surprised by how the entire documentary has kind of been formatted and what are your thoughts as a whole uh on new england now after the bill belichick situation yeah man it listen it's um it definitely you could definitely say that it doesn't paint bill on New England now after the Bill Belichick situation? Yeah, man. Listen, you could definitely say that it doesn't paint Bill Belichick in the greatest of light in this whole situation. Listen, man, when you have a couple of alphas that's had a lot of success,

and I'm talking about Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, when you have that type of run, obviously it's going to come to an end. It didn't come to the end that we all anticipated but man damn it just felt like everybody was out to go get go get bill belichick i'm like he was the architect behind the whole damn thing gm and coach gm and that is the thing that like you know just gets losses they call him coach bill belichick he's the greatest coach of all time it's like he was shopping dude he was the one doing the groceries in his entire thing it's wild to think though that that's how that thing did you know that's what dynasty was going to kind of look like whenever you you were in out and how how do you think you feel about it

now have you watched it back you know when when i was uh because i did it like uh you know the whole you know when they were interviewing it was like a couple years ago i had no idea that it was going to turn into like a uh Belichick bashing, to say the very least. That's because that's the way it looks like. But listen, I had a great time being a part of it. Obviously, I had stories to tell. And they came out pretty good as far as the documentary was concerned.

But, man, we can't be sitting on a guy that, you know, that was the architect behind it, behind this whole dynasty. It just, it doesn't sit right with me, I can tell you that. Well, how about the future now? We've got a whole new era here. We're probably getting a new quarterback at number three overall. Who's that going to be? Who knows?

Mayo's the head coach. Feels like you're bringing back players, getting young in the coaching staff. How do you feel about the next chapter here? You know, I'm excited, man, because Gerard Mayo, it seems like the type of guy, man, that a lot of the people not only in the building but the players, they feel real comfortable with. They know what to expect of him. And plus, you just need new energy.

You need new energy, new voice in the building. Again, when you have that type of run, you know, all good things must come to an end. Hell, the Roman Empire came to an end. The Patriots Dynasty had to come to an end. So I'm excited for Gerard Mayo. You know, and obviously they're going to get a quarterback high. Hell, you're picking third. You better go ahead and draft the damn quarterback.

So you get a quarterback, start this thing over again. Let's see what happens. I'm excited to watch Mayo do his thing. It seems like the energy is high. And after 24 years, yeah, you can see how maybe a new step would be taken. But who knows what that looks like. The Colts have been searching for a while now. That could be the case, but then there's teams like

the Packers where it's right after another. Houston Texans just easily pick right up from outhouse to penthouse. Anything can happen in the NFL. Now, with that being said, losing a staple. Ty's got a question for you, D. Wood. Yeah, D. Wood. Eagles fans are obviously

ecstatic after signing Saquon Barkley, and rightfully so, that they could really use him. But as a former offensive lineman, how much of an impact will losing Jason Kelsey have on that offensive line and that team as a whole? I know they re-signed Landon Dickerson or gave him an extension. He got a bag. But is it as simple as just kind of plugging and placing or like what are they going to have to do to replace everything that Jason Kelsey did for that team? Man, listen, it's hard to replace Hall of Famers, even the Hall of Famers that are older, that's up there in years.

And, you know, Jason Kelsey was still playing at an extremely high level, you know, last year. And so, you know, that's not anything that you can, you know, like point away and say, oh, you know, they got guys on the roster. I'm assuming Cam Juergens, the guy they drafted a couple years ago, he'll probably step in there back to his natural position at center. But, man, like, you know us fat guys, man. We're kind of a team all to ourselves.

We don't like change. That's not what we do. We don't like change, all right? And so, listen, I think it's going to work out because they got a lot of really good, you know, dogs on their offensive line, but damn it, I'm going to miss that guy out there on the field. I like him pulling and smashing people, you know,

out there on the field. So, Jason, if you can hear me, brother, I'm going to miss you, man. I really am. I'm going to miss your ass out there. Hey, we're all going to miss you, Jason. Yeah. Legit.

There's not a lot of people you talk about like that in the history of the NFL. Seems like it's just a unanimous thing. Even though he got incredibly popular at the center position, too, the biggest of haters, the D1 haters of offensive linemen are like, yeah, probably the right guy. That's the right guy that should be getting the pub. You know? And it's like he's handled it right the entire way.

I don't think I've heard of a player especially the offensive line be so unanimously beloved by other offensive linemen who are natural haters like offensive linemen are natural haters they hate fucking everything that is kind of how some are yes so hey you done good jason you done you done damn good go ahead aj yep do what you so you you said big guys don't like change Now why is that And is that exclusive to like 300 plus pounders Yeah what is the cut off That's good

Yeah 300 Yeah we could go with that Yeah man like listen man We just we're kind of like I said We're our own unit. You know, we don't like doing a lot of different changes and stuff like that. We're old school. You know, we don't like people, you know, bothering us and all that type of stuff.

So it's going to be a different vibe in that locker room, in that meeting room. But, you know, it's football. It's pro football. It is what it is. Guys come and go. You hate to see a Hall of Famer leave, but hell family but hell man like i always looked at people's side with new players sideways when they came in the offensive line room so that's just the way it is man hey listen you give a great answer there and i appreciate it and you talk about not liking change you know your wife noticed a big change

we all did today if there's another biopic of Biggie, like you should have seen the angle that you had. I thought Notorious was talking a couple different times. I mean, handsome right now, D. I'm telling you, you look like movie star. You look like superstar. Well, let me tell you something, man. When you drop, like I've dropped like 83 pounds, man. This is the beginning of the last season.

So, you know, your boy been kind of getting back in the game shape out here. I'm seeing all these bags being dropped on the office line. Hell, maybe a 46-year-old can sit out there and throw a couple blocks. Throw a couple blocks right there. Hey, well, hold off until we got a Super Bowl contender. You know, middle of the season. Oh, yeah, I'm not going out there with no training camp. The hell with all of that.

I'm just talking about, listen, if someone wants to tap me in at the end of the season, I'm here. I love that. God, I can't wait to see the Indianapolis Colts sign Damian Woody off and get upset right into action in a playoff run on the line. Now, the style of football might be a little bit different then. Go ahead, Tone. All right, D. Wood, yeah.

I mean, speaking of that, Final four teams last year, San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore, and KC all ran the ball. And then at the start of free agency, it was a run on running backs. It feels like we're getting back to, you know, the early 2000s, late 90s when it was running the football. That's how it started. And what does that do for an O-line? Like just coming off the ball, working off play action.

And is that going to help you come back at 46, not having to do a pass at every play? Hey, let me tell you something, brother. When it's running like that, and when I see guys with their hands on their hips, I got them. I got them. That's what every offensive lineman loves to see, wearing down, taking a defensive lineman's soul.

So I always say, like, everything happens in cycles, right? We saw, you know, the game kind of go away from the running game, running backs and all that stuff. Now I think we're starting to see some of that come back around. So I always say the game of football is still the same. You got big people hitting big people, and whoever gives in first usually is going to win. Yeah, the game is always in the trenches.

It always is, always has been, always will be. And if you suck there, you got no shot. You know what? Feels like we all have no shot now that D-Wood is this D-Wood on TV. Yeah, that's right. They're going to cancel every show now. They're going to cancel our show. Hey, that's fine.

No, not you, brother. Not you, brother. You're doing it too big right now. I'm trying to get on your level, man. Okay. Well, hey, we would love to chit-chat with you more often. We appreciate you taking time today, and enjoy the rest of it. All right, man.

I'm going to holler at y'all boys, man. Nice job, Danny Woody. Yeah, Danny Woody. This morning, you turn on TV, you're like, who is that? Holy shit. God damn. 83 pounds down good he's like let me see if this jawline yeah because he's had that beard yeah oh yeah let me see if we've we've gotten back to a jawline and he has oh yeah and the fade it's like he looks this wife she'll like

it his wife will like it yeah she hasn't seen in person she's only seen a couple yeah she'll see it when she's seeing realize she can be like oh yeah yep yeah good move there he is i was wrong a lot more upkeep now though with the fade got a ton of kids dummy i think so yeah six six or seven i believe he had the best setup during coven oh my god yes whenever he had the the roman or the greek um background He had the Roman or the Greek background with the big pillars. The columns. And then he had the Super Bowl champion jerseys hanging in between them. And that was his backdrop for all the COVID shows.

It was like, Damian Woody has done good in his life. He looks like he's actually living in a palace. And then, oh, yeah, there's a couple Super Bowl championships back there. Of course. I think that was the exact moment where I was like, I love Damian Woody. And then I got to meet him in a green room whenever I went over and did some... Yeah. I mean... Boom. There it is. Is that his front door? Is he...

Is that the back door? I have no idea. I still don't know. The back of it, did you see the pool setup looks like it's back there? That's leading out to the pool. It has to be. Yeah, so that's down in the basement. Is the studio. Yeah. Jeez. Good for him. It has to be. Yeah, so that's down in the basement. Yep. Is the studio. Yeah. Yeah. Jeez.

Good for him. Yeah. Love him. We got some news out of the Chargers organization. Joey Bosa has restructured his contract to remain a Los Angeles Charger, is how it was phrased, I believe, from an Adam Schefter tweet. So now we got Khalil Mack and Bosa back. Derwin James back.

Keenan Allen back. Obviously, Justin Herbert back. Austin Eckler and Mike Williams gone. But Jim Harbaugh now, I assume he was a part of recruiting Joey Bosa or talking to Joey Bosa about what the culture's going to be, how he's going to fit in perfectly, how he's going to love being a Charger.

And this also means that Harbaugh wants him to be a part of what's going forward with the Chargers team that is obviously under-delivered to their fans and, we believe to themselves, four out of the last five, five out of the last six, seven, eight, ten years, whatever it is. I like this.

Good for them keeping that D-line intact, seemingly. AJ, what are your thoughts? Are you guys surprised that they both stayed? I thought for sure possibly one of them was not going to make it, most likely Cleo Mack, just because he's older. I mean, the fact that they kept them both, they both restructured to be there, I think that's a great sign for Jim Harbaugh and the rest of them. Yeah, good pitch on what they're selling is seemingly working for two of their

best players. There was talk weeks ago that three of the four big ones here between Mack, Bosa, Keenan Allen and Mike Williams were going to have to go. The fact that only Mike Williams had to go, I think that's, you talked about it, is Harbaugh already in there and they're already bought in. Yeah, he's selling right now now what it's about to be how it's about to be

obviously he's coming off a national championship and an incredible media run yeah oh yeah his media run at the end of last year where every time he was behind a microphone it was must listen must watch however he was answering everything was either going to be a soundbite a click or a fuck yeah a lot of that when he was talking. I think so. Don't you think? Like in the middle of all this fake, and I think it's going to come out potentially.

I mean, I don't know. We didn't see anything. The controversy seemed like it. It was a bit of a witch hunt. It did feel, you know, now. We were kind of gobsmacked about the whole thing. We were kind of gobsmacked about the whole thing we were kind of gobsmacked but in in the middle of that time the way it was being described what was being said was happening all that type of shit you would think like hardball would get ruined through that instead

it was the complete opposite everybody's like kind of love this guy this guy should be talking more through this entire if if i would have heard him talk more before this entire thing i would have probably not believed that he would have known anything about it, even though it was in his world, in his building, big building, a lot of people, GAs everywhere, rogue agent, I get it. But, like, the more we learned about Harbaugh, the more we loved. It feels like his team is the same way. That's why they all buy in.

That's why he always has success everywhere he goes. He's like a master team builder, it feels like, as well. Yeah, and he also did it. Everyone kind of knew he was probably going to take an NFL job throughout the whole second half of the season, at least. And there wasn't really animosity towards him. Even from Michigan, anyone, they're like, yeah, they kind of get it. Like, yeah, this is, we knew, we knew he was going to take a look.

But hey, win us a national championship on the way out. Why don't you, Jim? Bosa and Mack, you know, walked in to potentially clear out their locker a little bit more because they thought they were going to get cut because there was reports. And they poked their head in there and Harbaugh was shirtless in khakis lifting with cleats on in the weight room. And they were like,

we should at least fucking listen to this guy. We should at least. They did say it was first day in the weight room. You want to eat? This is all you can eat buffet. That's how he described it to us. You remember the gym? They were cleaning it up and everything? That's fascinating. Good for him. Good for the Chargers.

And now, can Khalil Mack, who got six sacks in one game, have a big-time season? Can Joey Bosa stay healthy and have a big-time season? Keenan Allen, Justin Herbert, can they take it to the next level without Austin Eckler, the touchdown maker, in the backfield?

Can they go on a run in that division is now the massive question. And I continue to believe, because they have Harbaugh, yeah, they have a chance to do it, which is absurd to think about, but it's real. Even though you've got Patrick Mahomes two times a year in the division, they seemingly have played him well over the past. Raiders have as well. That's division football.

That's how that's going to go. It's like good luck to him, and I'm thankful that Harbaugh's back in the NFL. Yeah, it's incredible. And because they have all those good players and a top, what, six pick, that does feel like a team that can get very good very fast after having a bad year. Look at those top five teams. Between all of them, the only team with a –

How's the line for Chargers? Good. Great. Rashawn Slater they've drafted who's considered a very, very good tackle. Get out of BC. Zion Johnson they drafted. Is Lindsley still there? He's been battling injuries too, but when he's healthy,

he's one of the best centers in the NFL. If they add – let's say they add like Brock Bowers. Or Joe Alt. Or Joe Alt to their team. They could be even one of those top wide receivers. Malik Neighbors. Slater plays left. That pick.

Well, there's a hole. Yeah. Yeah, we've heard. Yeah, there's a hole. I'm not getting into that. Draft spectacular might be bigger than ever. Pomp. Really?

This year. Because we're going to be there. Of course. That is a part year. Because we're going to be there. Of course. That is a part of it. We're going to be live. We've got a footprint. Stage is behind us, so as they're walking on stage. Let's take a look at who Roger Goodell is going to be dapping up next.

That whole thing. You guys have rented your tuxes. I have. Where is it? What building will it be in? He's got a tux. Huh? What building is the draft in

well there's only like by the river i know that down by the river oh i know at the ford manufacturing center no because the plant listen this is normal for the draft big space is what they're looking for not necessarily a building yeah remember nashville is the yeah creme de la creme they're gonna do it is it outside in Detroit? Do we know? I think so. From what I saw where we were going to be, it felt like we were going to be outside Is that the Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza?

Oh, the Campus Martius It's going to reek What? It's outside At least we can control the smell We'll be there which obviously will make it more ridiculous Maybe they're doing the same thing that Indy's doing What's that? You see Indy got $12 million we'll be there, which obviously will make it more ridiculous. Maybe they're doing the same thing that Indy's doing.

What's that? You see Indy got $12 million for some stuff. For what? For what? Homelessness infrastructure. We are all very happy in downtown Indianapolis about that news. They're getting them Port-A-Johns? They're getting $12 million for something with the homeless.

$12 million worth of Port-A-Johns? Is that what they're going to do? Port-A-Johns and Little Caesars Pizza for all the homeless Maybe parking spots like in Buffalo Alright I thought it was a pitch of 10 Gump, you've been really hammering home the bullshit That is the extra space in the parking lot In the new Buffalo Bill Stadium for tailgating

Just give us some damn Bisons We don't care about having a tent in the freaking Parking spot 16 feet is fucking big, dude. Not big enough. Not the top of it. This is 18 feet. Yeah, the dong should come to that, to be at 18 feet.

Add 10 feet of snow. Holy shit. Compass Martius is in the running for best public square in the U.S. Okay. That's what I'm talking about. We had it put up on the map there. I believe this is where it's going to be taking place if we have that still. Yep.

It's right there. What part of it? Is this downtown? Yeah, we're downtown there. That's downtown. So where's the stadium? Is that the lake or river? What is that?

It's a river, and then Canada is right across there. So you cross the Ambassador Bridge. What? Oh, yeah. Can you put north up here? It's weird that it's... Swim halfway across the river in Canada, right?

International waters. I don't know if it's seven miles. Yeah, you can see Ford Field at the top there in Comerica Park. North is up right now? Got it. No way. No.

Look where Canada is. Oh, yes, it is. Oh, no. So Detroit's more north than Windsor? Yeah. Holy shit. Zito, good work. Sorry we doubted you.

Zito was like, it is north. It is north. It's like, that makes no sense. Canada's up. Yeah, the border. Canada's up. Not right now. But in this scenario, yeah.

A little piece of Canada. Holy shit. Detroit is further north than Windsor, Canada? Yeah. What's the lat? What's the lat long on both of them? I do need to hear the lat on that. To truly believe it, I need the lat.

So once you turned 18 in Michigan, everyone crossed the bridge and went to Windsor so you could go booze. And you guys were going south. You didn't even know that. I had no idea. Oh, yeah. No, it's 19. We would travel up to Niagara Falls. We would go through Buffalo when you were in Pittsburgh. It was a four hour drive.

We were driving north though to Canada. We were going up. So we could fly into Windsor or you could fly to Canada, be closer to Detroit. Yeah, seems like it. Go through customs. Calgary is 18 drinking age. If you can get to Calgary.

Where's Calgary at? Is that left? Yes, sir. Yeah, we're not going to get there. Oh, it's left? Not going to get there. They are both. The latitude of both of them is 42.3 degrees north.

Well, that doesn't make any sense. That means this map has to be wrong. No, you got to get the specifics. Detroit is 42.3314. There it is. Thank you. On this Pi Day, let's make sure we have respect for all the fucking numbers. And Windsor is 42.3149.

I was going to say about 31. All right. 3149. About 0.2 degrees farther north is Detroit. Yep. Just like we fucking said it would. Sorry,.02 degrees. Very close.

Oh, oh, two? Is it.22? Well, it's 42.33 for Detroit and 42.31 for Windsor. Okay,.02. To the 10th degree. No, yeah. 10th, 100th, yeah. Did that casino, did that survive COVID?

Which one? Windsor? The casino right there in Windsor, yeah. 10th, 100th. Did that casino, did that survive COVID? Which one? Which one? Windsor? The casino right there in Windsor, yeah. I think all casinos did. Yeah, casinos are A-OK, pal. But didn't they shut it down for three years? No, no, no, no, no.

Three years? They put up the... Oh, Canada is this one. In the slots, they had the, you know, hockey. Not in Canada? You think Canada? Plexiglass? Well, I mean, I told you my thoughts on Canada yesterday.

I expected them to just blow up their country during COVID, but I assume the casinos themselves. There are some things coming back around in Canada right now that are, ooh. That is our Canadian beat reporter, Baba Campino, who is from Victoria, Canada, which is over in British Columbia, Canada, which is way left. Yeah, there was a lot of money given out to people who couldn't work during COVID that is now being asked back. Yeah, see?

You see what I'm talking about? That was not supposed to happen. Yeah, well, anytime you give anybody money, they certainly expect to have to give it back, so they will hold on to that intact forever. That is certainly how the world has always worked and will continue to. And let's figure it out. Hey, smart people, figure it out. And how come nobody told me Windsor was south of Detroit? I don't know. That feels like something we should have told. I don't like it. You know

Canada's south of America? I didn't know that. How about that? You know Reno, Nevada's farther west than L.A.? Something like that. You can jack it. I think I'm right. Just.? Something like that. You can jack it. I think I'm right. Just the something like that.

Yeah, something like that. Something like that. Pull it up, Biggs. Pull it up. Yeah, let's see. I did win a geography bowl in eighth grade. So these are things that I should know. That was correct.

Okay, way to go, Tone. I'm proud of you, pal. That's because the Plumboro School District. We don't need a topographical map. Well, way to go, Tone. I'm proud of you, pal. That's because the Plumboro School District. We don't need a topographical map. Well, that's where the mountains are. It's nice to see you. A little dry. Every once in a while when they're doing drought talks,

you've got to dive into the topographic and see how it's all going. Wait, what happened? Can you zoom into Reno? Yeah, this makes sense. I can certainly see that. Can we get the regular map? There's Reno. Where? There's Reno. Where?

That's America. Okay. Where's L.A.? I was going to say, I think that. Okay. That was really good, Tony. Tony, AJ didn't believe you. AJ didn't believe you.

I didn't believe when I first heard it either. I wasn't sure, actually. I didn't believe it in your mouth. The way you said it, you didn't believe it as it was coming out, but it was right, Tony. You need a little bit more faith in yourself. Thank you. Thank you, Tony. Yeah.

I do enjoy whenever we do good, you know, learn very basic things, Seg. It is a cool part of the show that we go home. You poll 100 Americans, maybe one is saying, oh, yeah, Windsor is south of Detroit. I think so. Maybe zero out of 100. Foxy grew up in Michigan. Had no idea. I think one American knows that Windsor is Canada.

Well, you'd have to say Windsor Ontario. Yeah, Canada. In the question, you would have to tell them. Or say like, you know, where's Windsor, buddy? Or something like that. Yeah, but you would have to set up the questioning with like, the sky is normally this color when there's no clouds.

Easy question. Oh, that's blue. When you get milk from a cow, what color? White. Okay. Windsor, Ontario, Canada is north or south of Detroit. Like, easy. Yeah, north. North.

Canada's up. And you would get them every time. Or it needs to be. And the setup of the question would be, yes, you're allowed to give the easy answer here. Yes. This is not a gotcha. This is not a gotcha. This one, yeah, you're fucking wrong. a gotcha this is not a gotcha this one yeah

you're fucking wrong gotcha you embarrass yourself you embarrass yourself or could have been a question on who wants to be a millionaire where there's still one answer in there where you think like oh that one's just in there for fun yes and what's the most north and one of them is windsor and one's detroit and one's like tuscaloosa and you know yeah but if you're on who wants to be a millionaire i think you do think to yourself, are they trying to trick me? Regis is kind of a slimy bastard. He could rest in peace. Yeah, rest in peace.

Are you talking about Regis? He is dead, right? Yeah. He died a while ago. He had a Guinness World Record for the most amount of time on television, I think. I believe so. Congratulations, Regis. Good job, Regis.

Good job, Regis. I think, what's his name? He's trying to break up. There's people that, who is that, Ryan Seacrest? Yeah. Especially now that he's going to be taking over Wheel. No, well, he took over Dick. Taking over Wheel of Fortune?

Yeah, so yeah, I think he got that gig. That was up, allegedly. Wheel of Fortune was up because Pat Sajak, who is the star of the show. Icon. He'll tell you. Well, that's how they know. He's good, he's good. No, no, no, he won't tell you.

That's how they know. He is good. The stars of the show. He's good, he's good. I think Pat Sajak's a very good host. He's good. He won't tell you. That's how they know every night. He's good. He's good. He's good. He's good. I think Pat Sajak's a very good host. Very good host. I'm not saying he's not.

He's good. He's good. I watched an interview with Alex Trebek. I don't think Alex Trebek necessarily had the rest of peace. Alex Trebek also. Oh. They had beef? No.

A little bit. The question was, how come you don't get introduced as the star of the show, but Pat Sajak and Vanna White get introduced on Wheel of Fortune as the stars of the show? And he said, well, the stars of the show are the categories, the questions, the contestants. And he said, even if you were just doing an alphabet game, the alphabet would be the stars of the show something like that he's like oh yeah oh it feels like trebek did a little now they obviously had mutual respect for each other they were primetime tv for 30 years plus at the top of the game both incredible but i did always find that funny that like you don't even realize that they're introduced as the stars of the show until you hear that particular statement and it's like okay well trebek is also a good old canadian lad from sudbury ontario so

they got the little bit of canadian humbleness built in there so was i think was it say jack was the host of jeopardy first or trebek was the host of wheel of fortune first i didn't know one of the other i think trebek maybe had wheel of fortune then he went and did jeopardy or maybe say jack had jeopardy and did one of the other. They've been tied together for a long, long, long time. And how about the game show era in primetime? Just incredible. Those two, if those

aren't good shows, how long does that last? Yeah. Like those two are phenomenal. And then who wants to be a millionaire comes in, changes the entire thing. They had the biggest rating I think any game show yep has ever had in that entirety and uh congrats them that was overseas i guess first before it was here yeah we do that a lot with game shows america will like they'll send scouts out to different

parts of the world find game shows and mascot singer yeah all for the beast that one where they put the shape up and you got to get into the shape of the deal before it knocks you over. The greatest game show of all time. Where is that one? We saw one yesterday. Hole in the Wall is the greatest game show of all time. I mean, the producers

have moxie. They do. They have a lot of personality. That lady had no chance of getting through the thin little hole that they put in that wall. And they knew it whenever she was standing there rude this is so rude here it comes look out for the wall remember she's got to make the shape that's in the wall and if not she'll be knocked into the water and she will lose well it's good effort no chance she almost had it. She did. She tried her best.

It wasn't her fault. It was the game's fault. Yeah, man. She made those walls steel going forward. Think about what it was at a No Whammies game. Big Money No Whammies. Stop where the guy cheated it. I love game shows, dude.

I like weren't right in my. Oh, yeah. My bag right now. Game Show Network. I said it is. Fuck. Okay, good. What was the chain?

Yeah, Pressure Luck is the name of the Big Money No Whammies one where the guy learned the sequence or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just blind eye, oh, big money! And then he knew all the questions too. And I think the other two people that were on the game had zero and zero. He hit every single time. And they had to figure out, oh, this guy's obviously got a speed or whatever.

I think they sued him. We were just talking yesterday about how the Japanese have the game shows on lockdown. We saw one yesterday where the whole goal of the game show is you have to deliver food on a severely slanted floor. Did it all the time. Goal. Goal. All-time game show. I think they had that slippery mountain game too. Where people had to climb the mountain.

Slick. I think they started Love that one. What's the one where Chain No, that's great. You all have the weakest link. Goodbye. Tried to revive that. Jane did great. She's a great. You all have the weak slink. Goodbye. Tried to revive that. Jane did great.

Jane Lynch. She's a great host. What's the one where there's like a word, and then the next word connects the next word? Oh, yeah. Chain reaction. Chain reaction. And then you can stop from the bottom or the top. Love that game.

The pyramid one? Yep. Where it's like 10 categories. You got a thousand. $100,000 pyramid. Strahan hosted that one. He does a great job on that game. Chase, the Chase.

Yeah, with the Beast. With the Beast, who was lost. Yeah, he's not the Beast anymore. He's lost like 100 pounds, I think, if I saw him last time. Big fucking brain. Legend. Yeah. Big fucking brain on that guy.

That's why Spike TV was sweet, because it just had all of those into one. So the Game Show Network has some of the stuff. It does. Like that Chain Reaction Show never made it off the Game Show Network. Correct. Like I wonder if they just test shit on there and then see if it can get picked up. I think so. I mean it's they don't have like infomercials.

It is 24 hours of Game Show programming. Love it. Where is this channel? It's on most of the shit that used to bundle called like cable and stuff. Yeah. But it is on YouTube TV I believe. Are there new shows? Do they try out new game shows on prim cable and stuff. Yeah. But it is on YouTube TV, I believe. Ooh. Are there new shows?

Do they try out new game shows on primetime right now? Yeah. Like what? The wall? LeBron James brought out that wall. Doesn't Dwayne Wade have one? Yeah, I don't know if that one's going to go. During the summer time, they usually have new game shows, I feel like.

Like Alec Baldwin hosted. The one with Rob Lowe. Yeah, the one you just mentioned. Oh, yeah, the floor. Yeah. It was good. The floor was good. The floor was The one with Rob Lowe. Yeah, the one you just – Oh, yeah, The Floor. Yeah. It was good. The Floor was good. The Floor was really good with Rob Lowe.

It was a trivia game where everybody's assigned categories, and you're trying – if you beat the person next to you, it's like risk. You take their spot. And then once you have a bigger area, obviously you become a target. And it was taped over six days or five days. If you ended the day, you got $50,000 or $25,000. Then the overall prize is like a million or something like that. But it was good. It was a good

trivia game. Everybody's trying to figure out how to do trivia in different fashions. There was one that Craig Ferguson did. It was a trivia game I was watching and I'm a big fan of his. He's a Scottish guy I think. He used to be a late, late show host after David Letterman. He was a phenomenal late, late show host. I thought he was really good.

He used to rip up the card before he does his interviews, showcasing this. I always have massive respect for him. He had a trivia game. I forget what it was. The Hustler is what it was called. There was somebody in there that knew the answers, but it wasn't in there. You had to guess who it was. It was like a nice strategy game. I enjoy

all that shit. Deal or no deal. This one's good. This is a good show. If you get to see this show, it's a good show. He's fucking this guy's got moxie this guy has got charisma and he has an accent so everything is funnier deal or no deal just came out of the new game it's like a survivor island-esque is how we hosting it deal or no deal he's not i think they're gonna at the end i was gonna be the banker i've been watching yeah because like the banker in the in the we used to run deal or no deal in the training room how so it was awesome with like things or yeah so like if uh boxes yeah yeah the whole thing nobody ever took the offer you know santa fe locker room right

who was the banker hundred dollars um i believe i was probably we passed the banker around I think we passed the banker around it was a long rehab that was that one yeah that was tough that one was that one was a 3-4 week

or every single day everybody's miserable the whole time we're going through it right now need something deal or no deal in the middle of it all

but need more great game shows figure it out yeah please password Squid Game was good if you count that yeah

that was a good one. I did enjoy that. Yeah, the reality-based game shows kind of took over there for Survivor, stuff like that. The Challenge. Peacock has a good one. It's called Traitors. Yeah, I watched the UK one or the Australia one here recently.

CT is the new one. He was awesome. Quickly, yeah, quickly. Quickly. Did you watch that? Did you watch it? Oh, yeah. I watched it all. No spoilers. CT makes 20 minutes. No. Really?

Sorry. Johnny Bananas gets voted out right away. Oh, yeah. Johnny Bananas. Sorry. Yeah. Not CT. Thank God. Johnny Bananas got voted out. First night. See ya. Johnny Bananas. Gone. I actually sent him a DM. I'm like, I'm watching this Traders thing. Great to see the Bananas back in action because he comes in with a lot of moxie.

And then literally by the end of the episode, he was fucking already gone. He was dressed so good. So I sent him a follow-up message. Damn, man. They didn't want to see you win. Just saw him. I'm so sorry, Bananas. Bananas got backpacked by CT, right? Yes. They have a great relationship, obviously.

CT is the best. Mask guy. Yeah, he is dog. Yeah. For a long time, he has been talking a lot of shit, going through a lot of drama, and physically abusing people. Yes. On TV.

Crush it. Damn it. And we appreciate that. The UK one or the Australian one? Did you watch it? I saw the US, or technically the UK one. All right, so my wife gets very upset when I watch anything, you know, that she might be interested in. That's, I think, classic couple stuff.

Okay. You know, like, hey, we're watching this together. She falls asleep early. I can't sleep. So I got a couple hours here. Sure. Yeah. So I got to do a constant game of, are Sam and I going to watch this or not?

Oh, yeah. I do the same thing. I'm trying to be a good husband. I am trying to be a good husband, but also, like, I don't get a lot of going to watch this or not? Oh, yeah. I do the same thing. I'm trying to be a good husband. I am trying to be a good husband, but also, like, I don't get a lot of time to watch this. What am I going to do now? Yeah, what am I?

So I got to watch the shit stuff? I just got to watch, you know, like, shitty stuff? Sam started this Traders show, and, you know, I caught up, like, three episodes in, and I told her, like, oh, you didn't think I liked Traders? So you were just watching this without me you know the old reverse thing she didn't think that i would like this

because boy it is so much drama and bullshit really i mean it is just the dramatic the dramatics are absurd it is a great fucking show okay it is a's worthy. It is worthy of watching. I mean, I don't like how they made CT55 in the poster, but... I don't know. I didn't watch the American one. I assume Sam did. Who's up front? Who's up front here? That's the host. Stop. Who is that? He's been in a lot of stuff. You might know him from

Spy Kids. This might be the last time Alan Cumming. This particular show might be the last time that Michael Jordan's son and Larsa Pippen were together. Oh, yeah. Look at that. They were competing as a couple, I think. Is that Dalton Schultz, top left?

That is not. Okay. But I can see how the resemblance is there. Yeah. Who are some of these people? There's a guy, Dance with the Stars guy, I see. Who? Max.

Isn't that his name? Verstappen? Vanderstappers. Vanderstappers. So they grab people from other shows. So Bravo and Survivor. All right. I'm definitely going to watch this show now.

I didn't see the American one. Okay. Is this the American one? Yes. Oh, okay. CT. I only watched one episode. I saw Johnny Bananas get his fucking ass eliminated. I said, this ain't a the American one. Is this the American one? Yes. I only watched one episode. I saw Johnny Bananas get his fucking ass eliminated. I said, this ain't a show for me.

The only entertaining guy that probably would have been awesome through this entire thing. You guys just kicked it. This is his thing. Johnny Bananas stirring shit. This is his thing. So when they voted him out, I'm like, yep, I'm done. I assume Sam watched the entire thing.

And then she moved into the next one, which is the, is it Australia or UK? I was hearing an Australian accent is what I was hearing. They're tough to distinguish. But I might have been wrong because it said UK on. I don't know then. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know either. But it's good.

I'd give it a run. Anything happen in football today? How about sports as a whole? Anything? Oh, yeah. The Yager bobbleheads got lost. Yeah, they did. Stolen.

Well. Did you hear about this, AJ? There's potentially a little bit of uh did someone take them or what there's a controversy potentially happening so before the royal rumble there was a slim jim car that was going to be given away to a member of the wwe universe thanks to his friend l a knight yeah L-A-N-I-T Yeah! And your friends at Slim Jim. As they were transferring the Slim Jim car, one of one,

to Royal Rumble in Florida, the car fell off the truck. Like fell off the truck or it fell off the truck? Well, for those of you who grew up in an Italian neighborhood, I'm not saying it was just the Italians, but maybe any other potential neighborhood

where things could fall off a truck. Televisions could fall off. You're a TV player. Yeah, a lot of things could fall off a truck. What happened? Well, it must have just got lost in a shuffle. The Slim Jim car had that happen. Sure.

So they had to build a new one, made it even bigger, badder, and better. And then I read that the Pittsburgh Penguins were having a similar issue with their Yager bobbleheads. The Penguins announced today that the shipment carrying the Yager bobbleheads for tonight's game has been stolen en route

to Pittsburgh. As a result, the bobbleheads will not be distributed at tonight's game, but will be distributed at a later date. Yikes. Somebody stole the fucking bobbleheads of Jarmer Yager who's been having a two-week party back in Pittsburgh for the first time in over a decade.

Some assholes have these Yager bobbleheads fall off a truck. I won't stand for it. But then, Pittsburgh Penguins released a video. What? Yeah. Jarmer Yager and his bobblehead are going to find the bobbleheads.

Yeah, they're on the case. Telling me it's a work. Yeah, Yag stole them. Are we getting worked, brother? Did some asshole steal these fucking bobbleheads? To be continued. To be continued. What a teaser.

I think Yager will find it. Did some asshole steal these fucking bobbleheads? To be continued. To be continued. What a teaser. Oh, man. And he's... Whoa. I think Yager will find it. What if they make a video of Yager stealing them, like, in the middle of the night, solo mission? You think, oh, from back? Yeah, from... Yeah, exactly.

Back from whoever stole them. I want to... Yeah, no. It's... Like a Michael Scarn situation. What if Yager finds these guys? What if he has to get in the skates, too? What if it's like across a pond? Yeah.

He has to go across, and he's... Be careful. With his stick. Takes him at gunpoint, has two pistols. He points at people. That's what I'm saying. Yogs might kill these guys if he finds them. Be careful on that pond, because it's been unseasonably warm this winter.

Well, he can skate on water. And think about his guns. Yes, he can. The size of hockey stick guns. He's got two pistols, but they're the size of hockey sticks. Bingo. Yeah, and he's holding the blade. Yeah, he's literally.

Yep. He's literally. That's one of your guns. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. So he's got those things. The Here we go. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

So he's got those things. The axe. Yep. Yep. Yep. As you say it is. And it's... Yep. Sidestep.

Good night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Start throwing hockey pucks like throwing stars. Pull the pistol out. Yeah, I know. All right. I see it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Start throwing hockey pucks like throwing stars. Yeah, I know. All right. I see it. Yeah. All right. I like what the Penguins are cooking up. I like where we could potentially be going here.

But whoever stole the bobbleheads, give them back. Come on. Come on. Come on. Yager Wick 5. Come on. Who do they play tonight? Who do they play?

Because the Pens suck now. Is that who stole? Oh. Who do they play, Nick? Do we have a game tonight or do they cancel our Because the Pens suck now. Is that who they stole? Who do they play, Nick? Do we have a game tonight or do they cancel our season because we suck now? They're playing the San Jose Sharks. They suck too. The Sharks are hungry.

Is it in the Shark Tank or is it over here in Pittsburgh? Yogurt bobblehead night. Good call, Pat. Did he play for San Jose? I thought they stole a home game. I thought they stole a home game, too. All right. We're going to get the hell out of here.

We can't thank you enough. There's basketball happening. Conference tournaments are taking place. Let's make sure we're watching those so we have a good, smart take on things. Michigan State won. Xander and Roars went very low today. Did they?

Yeah, they're both tied for first at seven. I've been watching some of the Netflix shows. There's a little golf controversy as well. What's that? What? Bad drop. Victor and Rory got into it apparently. Oh, like Rory at the Ryder Cup type getting into it?

Because I've been watching the Swing to Live on Netflix as well. Swing to Live. Full Swing. Swing to Live. I need to change the name now. Full Swing. Full Swing, yep. I watched Rory is depicted well, I think, in the episode that I was watching.

He's in there a lot. Yeah, good charisma, good charm, but they did show at Ryder Cup how things get a little testy. He was chewing somebody out, and then who's the big guy that was pushing him into the SUV? It was like a real... Lowry.

Lowry. Shane Lowry? I hate these guys. Who was he fighting? Why? Huh? Beef, Lowry. I don't remember who it was.

I don't remember who it was, but they showed it. Rory will get a little fiery out there. He fought Victor Hovland on the course. I haven't got the full story, but it was a... Somebody was mad about a drop. Rory had a couple drops that Victor didn't like, apparently. Oh, Victor was saying, hey, listen, I fired my short game coach whenever I had the best short game in the entire league

and now no longer being talked about at all of having the best anything. But I know you, you're number one player in the world. Those drops ain't the same drops I'm doing. You dropped a little bit above your knee, huh? Oh, ain't I allowed to do that? Son of a bitch. Wow, big hop there. Did you put a rock?

It's an eight-minute video. That's way too long. That's the problem with golf. Everything's too long. Eight minutes. Someone clip it. I guess they had all the audio on the broadcast of Spieth, Hovland, and Rory figuring out where Rory had to drop his ball after he hit it.

No wonder it was so long, Spieth. And they disagreed with where Rory thought. I haven't got to read the whole story yet. It says there was two questionable drops by Rory is the issue. Isn't there normally just a spotter there at every single turn? There always is

some PGA because remember, I remember there was a tournament where somebody drove it right into the side of the sand. Yeah. Hovland. Was it in Hovland? Maybe. I don't remember if it was Hovland or not but it was in the run when Hovland was having the run and there was a full

spotter about how you can't go towards the hole. You can't gain an advantage. It's an unplayable but you got to do this. We watched the refs kind of review the situation live for the golf i assume that was at every tournament every hole there was somebody doing yeah i thought there was too that's why it makes no sense when a guy finishes the round and then they're like oh yeah you actually get a two-stroke penalty on the end of your card because

something that happened eight holes ago and i'm like where the hell were they yeah where are the rules officials at that's why i don don't actually understand how this happens. Yeah, apparently Hovland said that Rory dropped too far up. Should have been back a little bit. He's being a snitch, it sounds like. Yep. He's getting cheated. Yep. That's why you quit golf right there.

Take that up with Rory, not the media. That's why. Fucking done with it, man. It's all fucking bullshit. You look sweet in that purple shirt, dude. Thank you. I love this one. I love owls. I don't think we should show it. Yeah, we should not. Golf is the only place that has given us

owls. Oh, really? Man, you say it was stormy? Can you hear that? My house is shaking. Yeah, you're probably getting what we had in the first half. Oh, great. When's that going to get to Pittsburgh? Probably right around 5 o'clock.

Serious. Great. Wow. All right. We're going to get out of here. We'll be back tomorrow. Tomorrow's a big day. Cute.

Big day. When you decide to watch or listen to our show and waste your day with us, you get through all the shit shows for a day like tomorrow. Tomorrow is a day. Yeah. I mean, feel good Friday going into St. Paddy's Day weekend on Sunday. Are you kidding me? What are we talking about?

How about today being pie day? I think we got a couple apple pies out here. How about that? We got gimmicks. We got gimmicks. It's that kind of pie day? It's 3.14, baby. We got gimmicks. I think we have that kind of pie day? It's 3.14, baby. We got...

We got gimmicks. We got... I think we have pies. Oh, apple pie's delicious. There is pie out there. Rudy Poo. All right. You want some pie?

What day was D-Budge talking about on Twitter? Happy... Happy pie day. Happy pie day. Happy pie day. Hey, Bruce. Happy pie day.

Way to go, Bruce. Thank you for doing that. National champion, Michigan cap. You can Day. Happy Pi Day. Hey, Bruce. Happy Pi Day. Way to go, Bruce. Thank you for doing that. National champion, Michigan cap. You can take that to the talks. We'll tie what we both did. I'll definitely take a slice of the apple. Yeah, for sure. Why don't you like this one?

Because you're an American. He did it probably 100. What's the one with the Reese's Cups on top? That one's probably a good one. That ain't French. Happy Pi Day. 3.16966645 good one. Ice cream pie. Happy Pie Day. 3.169 6664578

Oh, shit. Now we have no candles. There it is. Happy Pie Day. Nice gimmick. Nothing better than a nice warm apple pie. Yeah, I believe this one is a French toast pie.

This is what Pie Day's all about. Pie Day's all about a French toast pie. Yeah, and this is what Pie Day is all about. Pie Day is all about a French toast pie and an apple pie. Amen. We don't make the rules. Fuck. Go ahead. I'm sorry to cut you off. Was there tons of people that were sticking their meats in apple pies

after that movie came out when a kid did it? Absolutely. Old school? Yeah. That sounded like somebody who either did it or knows somebody that did it. That was pretty quick. No, I'll say I did know someone who did,

but I mean, American Pie, that thing took over. It did. This is what I've been working on. Okay. People don't fully understand it because only a few of us could really see the vision, but this thing that definitely matters. Yep.

This thing. Definitely fucking matters. We're going to talk about it a lot. Yep. Going forward is this. This right here. That's going to use it in your everyday life all the time. If you're trying to find the diameter, yeah, you are.

Bingo. Big with circles. Yeah, I understand. We got the radius, and we're doing that against this thing, and we're certainly adding the diameter plus the circumference and the fucking thing. But the thing about it that nobody talks about is this. Yep. Because this is a good metaphor for life.

Bingo. You never know what those next three dots are going to be. This thing runs on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and that's what life is until it's not so as we have the chance to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on to make sure we're enjoying every single one

that's what these three dots mean to me that's what Pi Day means to all of us and let's enjoy every moment we have together be a friend, tell a friend something nice it might change their life That's what Pi Day means to all of us. And let's enjoy every moment we have together. Okay? Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice.

It might change their life. And just like Pi, we're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Team! Goodbye!