The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1158 - Parker McCollum LIVE In The ThunderDome, Shams Charania, Mike Florio, Elliotte Friedman, Pacman Jones, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys are joined LIVE in the ThunderDome by country music Superstar Parker McCollum to chat about his career, his current tour, playing the biggest stadium show in United States history with George Strait at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, all the new information in the NFL Sunday Ticket case, the US suffering a bad defeat in the Copa America against Panama, and everything else happening in the sports world. Joining the progrum to wrap up the NBA Draft and chat about Bronny James being selected 55th overall by the Lakers is NBA Insider for Stadium, The Athletic, and FanDuel TV’s Run It Back, Shams Charania. Next, joining the progrum to chat about the NFL Sunday Ticket case, and if anything is going to happen with Brandon Aiyuk is the founder of Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio. Later, NHL Insider for the NHL Network and Sportsnet, Elliotte Friedman joins the show to chat about the NHL Draft and what we should be looking for as we enter free agency. 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. We’re off for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy the 4th, we’ll see you soon. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this summer hangout. Feel good Friday, June 28, 2024. This program starts right now. Sports are the greatest thing on earth and we are so incredibly lucky to chit-chat about them every single day. And although our country, the United States of America and the sports world is on quite a slide, and the United States of America all watched something last night that put us all in quite a ride. It is a great time to chit-chat about sports and everything happening around the world. The NHL had their award show last night. None of us knew it was taking place, but obviously it was awesome.

The second round of the NBA draft happened yesterday from a couple studios in Seaport, New York, which was certainly a fascinating watch, and a bigtime pick, was made by the Los Angeles Lakers with Brawny James getting picked at the 55th overall pick. There was some stories that were started yesterday on our particular program by Sham Sharani that Rich Paul would be calling NBA teams and saying, hey, don't you even think about drafting Brawny James. He's only going to one place. And then last night, Bob Myers reiterated that point during the espn coverage of the draft that he was actually telling

teams if you draft brawny he's going australia whoa he's not going to canada he's not going to europe he's going to the furthest possible country away from wherever the hell your team is if you draft him that's on you it's a waste of a pick and then all of a sudden he ends up with the lakers he gets emotional obviously his dream has been to be drafted, but I think we all saw this happen. Yeah. Yeah, obviously We're all massively surprised whenever the pick was announced and the internet certainly Responded as such but really cool thing. Congrats to both There's always been a dream allegedly from LeBron James whenever he was talking to play alongside One of his kids and obviously Bronny the oldest would have been the one if it was ever to make it happen.

The fact that he's still playing basketball at the level in which he is still playing basketball, and that child right there is now going to be on the same team as him, that is a cool thing to happen no matter how you feel about the draft pick. And I appreciate the amount of response and reaction to a second-round draft pick in the NBA draft because I don't know if anybody gets picked in the second round of the NBA that is

heralded as a game changer. I mean, there's a chance Connor Campbell could have got drafted to the Los Angeles Lakers as a publicity stunt and people would have been like, that's a smart idea. That's all bad ideas. That's actually a fun way to utilize the second round draft because in the end, they're trading 20-31 draft picks right now. The second round doesn't even matter.

The fact that Bronny got drafted got some people very pissed off about the nepotism and the power that LeBron James has. Giannis' brother plays in the NBA right now. I don't even know if he knows what a bucket is. Now, he's a great guy. He gives great effort. This is something that happens in the real world. If anybody in this

particular NBA would deserve some sort of favor, I think it would be LeBron James, who's basically carried the league on his back since he's 17 years old and this entire thing, alongside others, obviously, but through it all. So people being like, if his name wasn't Bronny James and it was Jack Smith, you think this would happen? No. Yeah. It's fucking LeBron James's kid.

We're going to assume that he has some sort of insider intel or potentially fast track to becoming a much better player in the NBA. He's been training with his uncles who have been NBA players for his entire life. He's seen how somebody takes care of their body to be an NBA player for his entire life, the commitment, the dedication, all that. So obviously, if your dad is going to be considered one of the greatest players of all time, and you play the same damn sport, I assume you're going to be given a little bit more favor over other kids. That sucks, but it's reality.

It happens in every business. You ever see the people talking into microphones on TV or sports or anything else? What was their father? What was their father's father? What was their mother? What was their mother's father? It was probably in the same exact business,

and they just so happened to meet everybody that is in the business as decision makers, so they had a head start. Bronny had a head start. That's the reality. That's not his fault, but it's also the reality of everything. And if anybody has earned it, I would say it's LeBron James, especially in the NBA.

So good luck to both of them. And Wendy said this morning, he said, you are not going to see any meaningful minutes. No way. Between LeBron and Bronny this year. So let's just go ahead. I think that would be any second round draft pick potentially. Going to any NBA team. But what if Bronny gets in there, smacks the floor,

he's a jungle cat on the defensive side of the ball, and then somehow we're talking about being wet because he's working with who? J.J. Redick. So we have no idea how it works out, but we do know the internet lost their mind. Bronny and LeBron are on the same team. That's a cool story for a father-son situation. And we can't wait to see what a second-round draft pick in the NBA does because that's literally, I would assume, if the ratings for the father-son situation. And we can't wait to see what a second round draft pick in the NBA does. Because that's literally, I would assume, if the ratings

for the second round draft, which was once again happening, interestingly, in two studios in Seaport on ESPN at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It was sweet! It was sweet! They had a little journalist corner over there. Bobby Marks and Kevin

did their thing. I mean, it was really nobody nobody talk everybody's in the same area we can't do it but i would assume the ratings right after the 55th pick were just like so the nba is obviously pumped this is the case i know there's plenty of instagram accounts and social media managers that are pumped that lebron and brawny will be in the same exact place once again like whenever they're growing up and they could post everything they did uh but this is the nba news and the wife sean shawania joining us in a matter of moments to break down more of it congrats brawny talk stable is here at boston connor natasha smith one half of the hammer down cowboys turn digs is here 12-year nfl vet corner universal record signed rapper ladies and gentlemen pac-man jones it looks super cool yeah

you know fc today yeah you you uh you rep the MLS team, FC Cincinnati, very hard. Oh, yeah, we're really good, too. We're really good. We're in the middle of MLS season. We're on break right now because international play. No, they keep playing. The MLS still playing. Yeah, they keep playing through all the tournaments.

Without Matthew? Well, that's probably why USA is losing to Panama. We're so distracted because the best league on earth in our country is still playing. So the boys are watching, you know, the Portland Timbers and the Columbus Crew. And the New England Revolution. And the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

And they're not focused completely on beating Panama. And then we get a red card like 10 minutes, 13 minutes, 18 minutes into a 90-minute game. And, you know, they're out to get us. Can't punch a guy in the head anymore. I thought it was a physical sport now. Yeah, Grella get us. Can't punch a guy in the head anymore. I don't know what the deal is going on. It's a physical sport now.

Grella told us that these refs have actually been awesome. They've kind of been letting it play. Tim Wade is like, yeah, actually, bang. Let me give you a right to the head. He gets a red card. 72 minutes plus. Got to play with 10 men against 11. Still almost won.

And then they get a red card with four minutes left. And a lot of questions about the reffing situation last night. We just want to let you know we know what you're doing we don't fucking like it that's right at all okay uh and usa needs one we need that one and then we're like don't worry the debate the debate will be the thing that'll get the usa after getting our asses beat by japan yep okay oh gosh in football we lost 21 by 21 to japan and the american football tournament still embarrassed and i'm getting a lot of information that there's more to the story. What? Yeah.

Would have never guessed. You don't want to know. Some cheat? No, not cheating. Just bamboozling potentially. Really? The guy from Pittsburgh who's GM? No.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know anything. Team USA football, I think there's a lot of people that actually know football that are willing to donate their services so that that never happens again. But anyways, we lose to Japan by 21 in American football. Bad. We lose to Panama in soccer. Bad.

Bad, man. But all America says, don't worry. We got the debate. Everyone was pretty much on the same page on that one, though. It was fun. I just don't get it. It was a great time. I enjoyed it.

I don't pay attention enough to the politics world. That's where all the smart people are. Yes. That's where all the smart people are. That's kind of where we dive in. That's like where people who don't watch football who watch the Super Bowl. What the fuck was... I'm not doing it.

America needs one. We need one. I think our soccer team's playing Uruguay. Yeah. We need to beat Uruguay. I need that. Because the whole world's watching Japan beat us in football. They're watching

Panball beat us in soccer. They're watching our debate to beat themselves. And then all of a sudden we got... We need one. Well, everyone watching knows now like, hey, there's no way our president can beat their president in a golf game. So that's kind of a win.

Sports did make their way in there. Probably the best moment of the entire evening was when sports brought up, which is why we need to do more sports in this entire thing. But there's no way, okay? And also, there's no way. Okay, just for both, and we're all on the same page for that.

Anyways, joining us now is a man who, you know, at the end of the day, this might be a win for USA. It could be. It definitely is. Might be a win for the great state of Texas. Ladies and gentlemen, country music superstar, friend of the program, has a sold-out show tonight here in Indy.

He's in Kansas City tomorrow. He'll be on tour until the end of October. Okay. So you can catch him everywhere. Ladies and gentlemen, Parker McCall. Thank you, guys. Parker, great to see you. Obviously, you're from outside of Houston.

You're doing amazing things. You just did the show with George Strait down there at Texas A&M. And 110,950 people. Is that how many people were in that stadium? 110,905. Oh, okay. So 45. That's what I thought.

I appreciate you taking the over, though. No, I knew you guys couldn't get 110,950 905 maybe in that entire thing Biggest show of all time You were there with George Stray correct? We were It was the biggest ticketed concert in US history Hell yeah

You nervous after? No I was saying that earlier I didn't really My dream as a kid was always to play Shows like that with George I thought about it when I was saying that earlier. I didn't really really like my dream as a kid was always to play shows like that with George I thought about it when I was like, I mean a small boy a little ranch a child no back in the day Well, the cowboy boy, I didn't realize you're riding those miniature bucking bulls down there in Texas I did I wrote I wrote steers when I was a kid. Um

But no, I didn't know. Like, even when we were walking on stage, I was just like, all right, let's just go out and rip. You know, I just wanted him to be happy that he chose us to be his opener, his direct support on that show. And did he? Did he say he was proud? He did.

Wow. If George is proud, I'm proud. He's a G, man, in every sense of the word. I mean, he is the man. All right, we'll dive into that momentarily. Right now we have a man who probably has all of the news about what took place yesterday and what's happening right now as it's all taking place. Ladies and gentlemen, senior NBA insider for the Stadium Network, which exists.

Of course. Big number. Big number watching the draft. He's also on FanDuel TV and he broke the JJ Redick news to the Los Angeles Lakers as the head coach on this show. And yesterday he broke on this show. Now I know it's

not ESPN NBA employees that Rich Paul is going to be calling teams and telling them not to draft Brawny. Ladies and gentlemen, our guy Sean Schrein. Yeah, Sean B. Sunro! Bonnie, ladies and gentlemen, our guy, Sean Troy. Yeah, Sean. Whoa. Sunroof.

Woo. Yeah. I know Rap Sheet has done this before, so I'm trying to bring the same flavor when it comes to doing car FaceTimes. Only one person I would do this for, and that's you. Okay, well, please don't schedule a daily show live on the exact time that we are on if I stand on a desk for you to be able to come on the show like the last person who did what you're doing right now, although we still, we love him, Ian Rappaport. But Shams, sweet car. I'm happy that you're driving around and the finer things because you've been on top of everything. You've been on top of everything.

Yesterday, you told us, just like a lot of other things that have happened in the NBA before anybody else had mentioned them, that Rich Paul was going to be calling teams saying, hey, don't draft Bronny. You said that. It was like, a matter of fact, you just said that. Is this a normal thing that takes place in the NBA during the draft? And how many teams are going to draft Bronny? And does that kind of dispel the whole notion that they only drafted him because they want to keep LeBron James?

Like, other teams wanted Bronny James. Is that a part of the convo that everybody's missing agents do uh similar things it's been done in the past teams are told all the times don't draft this guy he doesn't want to be here he doesn't want to play here that does happen frequently I mean there was a few years ago um Evan Mobley you know he was someone that told the Cavs don't draft me. They drafted him anyway. You know, he wanted to position himself down. They drafted him.

And that's been a fruitful relationship ever since. So sometimes it doesn't exactly happen the way that the player intends or the agent intends. But it works out anyway. I remember in the late, you know, Kobe Bryant's draft year, 96. He said, I don't want to play for New Jersey. His agent told New Jersey that, John Calipari that. They don't draft him. for new jersey his agent told new jersey that john cal prairie that they don't draft him obviously ends up in charlotte and then the lakers and the rest is history now who knows if he ever would have stepped foot in you know new jersey if they ever

did draft him but i think john cal prairie that was probably a regret of his but now with bronnie james rich paul started calling teams immediately once the second round started saying, do not draft Ronnie James. They already had a spot set. That spot, obviously being the Lakers at 55. And I did say yesterday, teams in the second round, they expect and they forecast 55 Lakers as being the spot for Ronnie James. Now it was just about, will the team actually have the gall to go and draft him?

I was told at least a couple teams including the sons who did bring him in for work out they're the only other team besides the lakers to work him out uh they were a team that did consider it um but i think at the end of the day rich paul being respectful to lebron james to an extent and also understanding uh the amount of media attention that comes if you drafted LeBron James without having the blessing without having that relationship and through the Suns like that opens Pandora's box like then you start talking just Kevin Durant get traded for LeBron like what does this mean because you know LeBron wants to at the end of the day wants to play with Bronny so Suns avoided it

a couple other teams looked at it avoided it and he ends up with the Lakers and Rich Paul certainly throughout the second round told teams, do not draft Ronnie James. He did something similar last year with Chris Livingston, ended up in Milwaukee with the, I believe, the 58th pick in last year's draft. Rich Paul, congratulations on having this much power in the NBA. And also, LeBron James, congrats on earning enough clout to be able to do this. It's happening in football right now where coach prime is actually saying there's like three teams that are allowed to draft my kids pretty

much yeah michael irving i believe back in the day told the green bay packers that if they drafted him he was going to go back to school or move to europe or something because he didn't want to go there so like these situations do happen not for you know like i was a seventh over our seventh round pick pick 222 uh there's not a lot of, like, you know, leverage there. But if you have clout and have earned it in respect from basically everybody in your sport, things like this do happen. And Bronny, now there's no expectation of him playing this year, right? There isn't like a second round draft pick in the NBA.

Is there normally an expectation for that person to get on the court and play meaningful minutes? Or what are the thoughts here? Yeah, so as far as how he's going to play, I mean, I do expect him to sign a legitimate contract, a guaranteed contract, a contract that keeps him on the active roster for the Lakers. Now, does that mean he spends time in the G League? Does that mean he spends time, you know, at the end of the bench on the roster during games? I mean, you would assume, you would expect that at some point this upcoming season, he's going to be on the floor with his dad. And at the end of the day, I've said it, I would expect one to two more years for LeBron James.

I mean, could he play a third season? Of course, I think that's well within his rights, well within his body. But I think he, you know, he's looked at the next couple of years. So I'm sure he, Ronnie, want to grace the court together and I do think that will happen eventually but the reason he ends up on the Lakers is the investment in the contract and a true development plan we'll see what that development plan looks like but that's the expectation there and yeah overall I mean LeBron James one of the greatest players in the game and he clearly through his influence and through everything that he's built,

you know, he spoke this really into existence a few years ago. Yeah, but then you all tried to cover it up, remember? Yeah. That was the whole thing. That was the thing about LeBron. Yeah, he has a medal in this kind of stuff. Yeah, LeBron, he wants his own. He just wants to be drafted by someone.

I mean, listen, if the Suns had drafted him, I mean, they would have, the Suns would have looked at him the same way as a guaranteed type of player, a guy that you have on the active roster. So any team that had interest in him, I mean, now listen, I wonder if he was a projected top 20, top 15 pick going into the draft. Does some team essentially essentially just said, F it. We're just going to draft him. We don't care. Easy.

What was that F? Good lord. We're just... It's daytime hours right now. What? When the sun goes down. That's when Sean

starts letting it fly. The world never knows. But I will say, When the sun goes down. That's when Sean just starts letting it fly. We swear. The world never knows. But I will say it was a historic moment. I mean, this is a historic moment. This has never happened in the league's history for a father and son to be in the league at the same time. And as teammates, something we might not ever see again. I don't know.

But, I mean, it hasn't happened to this day. So, I think from everything I heard, LeBron James was really emotional last night. And obviously, Bronny was very emotional. I think they understand the gravity behind it. And, you know, clearly you see it on Bronny's face right there. Well, congratulations to the entire James family. Oh, yeah. They're going to get hate.

They've been getting hate, though, forever. They're above it. Way above it. Way above it. That's beneath it. I don't hear it. Absolutely. They don't care.'ve been getting hate, though, forever. They're above it. Way above it. Way above it. That's beneath it. I don't hear it. Absolutely. I don't care.

When others go low, they go up. Every time. And they've had to do that since they were teenagers. That's right. All right. We appreciate the hell out of you, Sean. Safe travels wherever you're headed. Appreciate you, Pat.

Anything else we need to know? You got any, like, just news you want to break? But, hey, won't get credit. But, like, if it comes hours or weeks later. Right, months. Months, it'll certainly be a thing. Paul George? Yeah, I mean, listen, we said it yesterday,

what the strategy was going to be with Bronny James. I mean, we laid it out pretty straight. And also, I did say, I did say, I believe the day the Lakers season ended, that they wanted to bring LeBron James back by any means necessary and that they really wanted to draft Bronny James. So that was said. All right. Well, we appreciate you, man.

You've certainly got things we know. You've been a good offseason. In that insider game, though, you got kicked out of your account yesterday, right? Wasn't that happening? Oh, my God. It looked like it happened to a few people. But, listen, I'm not saying I wonder what it was,

but it happened about five picks before Bronny. Whoa! I mean, just interesting timing on that. We appreciate the hell out of you. Anonymous is like, we're about tired of this little answer. Ladies and gentlemen, Sean Charani.

Hey! He does break a lot of news. Yeah, he's locked in. The J.J. Redick to the Lakers, May 24th. That was nowhere near when it got announced or whatever. Actually, a month later. Yeah. It's nuts.

It's crazy. On our program, too, which is very nice of him. This one? Yeah, on this one, which does get licensed through ESPN. yeah on this one which does get licensed uh through espn so i guess the people at espn could kind of act like it was broken on an espn thing yeah but instead it was kind of kind of offended i i think that it will stay in our lane hey we will certainly stay in our lane we also we don't put up the red breaking i think we need to do that oh because that's the journalism yes exactly we don't do if we did that i think that that's more of a pop yeah because like in just

random conversation just breaks exactly like all the time pretty much on this particular program but we need to start doing the stamp the breaking stamp so that these puppets understand oh pavlov's dogs yeah oh wait what's breaking breaking news ah it's true. You know, I got a whole thing. Okay, good. We'll get better. That's on us, actually. Now that I think about it, that's more so our fault than anybody else's. I don't know.

No, because they have the bottom bar, and then above the bottom bar, they put breaking news. People are saying best news breakers in the business. People say that? Somebody did say that. Shout out to Richard Dyche. I appreciate that. Didn't they tell you that last night at the NHL Awards?

What's that? They told you that at the NHL Awards? What's that? They told you that at the NHL Awards, weren't they? Like, Pat, dude, by the way. You were at the NHL Awards last night? What do you mean? Yeah, he hosted it. I was not at the NHL Awards. I was not.

What are you talking about? Do we have a video? Are you sure? I thought we were not going to talk about this. We made a last-minute decision before the show went live. While Parker McCollum was singing Lonely Long in here. I wasn't there for this. I hadn't gotten to see this yet. I wasn't here for this. about this we we made a last-minute decision before the show went live while parker mccollum was singing lonely long i wasn't there i hadn't gotten to see this yet i wasn't here for this we had a full lonely long performance in here i was locked into that i didn't hear this conversation

no you did because i was clear-headed when parker was singing it was like this is the voice of an angel and it made me think it was like we don't need to talk about this we don't need to talk about it and that's what we decided that's on me no hand up i i genuinely apologize i did not hear that conversation about not talking about it and i also like thought that's where you were let's talk about it parker you you were a part of the conversation the nhl awards were last night congrats to mckinnon yeah go congr Congrats to Conor Bedard. Huge win. Obviously, congrats to the Florida Panthers. And the Penguins.

And the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yep. We're just being the best. That's right. And we got new jerseys debuted from Fanatics as the NHL draft is this year. People love those. The jerseys? Yeah. Fanatics as a whole, I think.

Massive pop for those. Everyone's excited. Everyone's talking about it. As long as they're not making think. Massive pop for those. Everyone's excited. Everyone's talking about it. As long as they're not making the pants, it should be fine, right? What's everybody's deal? What's going on? What is going on? We're not going to be here for two weeks.

We need to get our shots in, okay? Okay, that's what's going on. I did see Ryan Clark wearing the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey. Looks amazing. Looks fantastic. Looks like a good hockey sweater. Okay, I don't know. I didn't feel it.

I didn't see it. I saw a Florida Panthers one with Stephen A. Smith, obviously. Phenomenal work. Michael Rubin. Rubes. Rubes. Fanatics was on talking about the new jerseys debuting on the NHL draft, which is this evening.

Last night was the NHL Awards. That's on us. We did not know it was happening. At all. We had no idea that it was happening. 100's on us. We did not know it was happening. At all. We had no idea that it was happening. 100% on us. It was on ESPN. A man named Matt Friend hosted it.

He's an impersonator. Okay. And I think this is the first time that we got a chance to see. I think this was supposed to be. I think this was me. And I want to let this guy know I appreciate the hell out of you. Hell yeah, Matty. Thank you for doing it.

And here it is. Is that supposed to be me? Clearly, right? That's you. What do you mean supposed? No way. I mean, look at that. Not from that angle.

That hair is yours. From that angle, that's more like Alan DeGeneres. See, what's your problem? Now you're all of a sudden, you're Austin Rivers. Now you're Austin Rivers in this time. People are telling me that this was an impersonation of me. Let's see how it goes. We're fired up right now.

Nathan, congratulations. I worked out next to you in the gym yesterday. I didn't want to say anything. Good juice. That could be me. I like the energy. I disagree. What?

I don't think that's a good. Let's see. Let's give the guy a shot. Let's give the guy a shot. Biceps. Those are NHL biceps giving me a lot of love right now. Nate, how do you feel about being nominated for this award? How do you feel?

Huge honor. See what happens. A lot of enthusiasm, Nate McKinnon. This is your fourth time as a finalist. Do you think this is your year? What do you think? I like the juice. Might go for four. We'll see. Come on, eyes closed. Overwhelming interview, Nate McKinnon.

You look great. We'll be back with more awards. Got my eyes closed. Overwhelming interview. Nate McKinnon, you look great. We'll be back with more awards. Don't go anywhere. All right, I like it. That was good energy. Yes. Great energy. If that was supposed to be me, I appreciate the shout out.

If it was somebody else, all good. I think that was supposed to be Trump. It's like great value, Pat McAfee. No, watch your mouth. Great value. It's a good guy. Great value of an impression. You mean like Kmart? He did Michael Bublé last night.

He did Will Arnett. He did Will Arnett. Russian guy. Bor value of an impression. You mean like Kmart? He did Michael Bublé last night. He did Will Arnett. He did Will Arnett. Russian guy. Borat. Kucherov. Stanley Tucci for some reason. Yeah, but he does a good one. I mean, you got to give him.

I mean, I love Stanley Tucci. I thought he did a good job. It's not easy to go out there and any of those things. That's got to be hard to do. Especially when you're getting that guy's reaction who clearly is unamused by your. So that's the thing. Like hockey guys too. Hockey guys are like a really...

Not with the shit. They're not about that shit. Yeah, so it's... They're not to be fucked with. Yeah, that was not an easy... Like, that's not an easy... That's a tough crowd. That is a tough crowd.

So wait, and I appreciate the honor. That was very, very kind of you. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. If that was me, I do appreciate it. Thank you, Max. And I like the energy, too. It was pretty good, you know,

because he wasn't getting much from the person being interviewed, so he had to add a little sauce. And he certainly gave energy, too. It was pretty good, you know, because he wasn't getting much from the person being interviewed, so he had to add a little sauce. Sure. And he certainly gave me a lot. I did enjoy that. Good work out there, Coach. E for effort.

Let's talk to you. All right. E? E. E for effort. E for effort. Parker, let's talk about you real quick, okay? You know anything about the NBA draft?

Because you're outside of Houston. We know the Houston Texans are a lot better than they're supposed to be, right? Yeah, absolutely. Houston Texans are supposed to be crap. Yeah. And now they're, like, way better than the Colts. It's special. Dude, I get, like, emotional talking about it.

I've loved that football team for so long, and we're real good now. I mean, we're going to talk some shit. You're allowed to get emotional. We're about to talk some shit. Jeez. We're an expensive franchise. We've been a wild card game. That's two-thirds of my life.

And we didn't have one when I was a kid. So we finally got a team. And then for 20 years, we were all right at times. But now it's special. Yeah, but then you guys got worse than any building in the history of professional sports. It was an actual fire. It was a dumpster fire. It was bad.

You had an FCA GM, right? Remember that? You had a quarterback that was really good but wanted the hell out of town. Now that was before everything. I think that may have been why he wanted out of town. I think he probably knew that that was coming before we did. Probably. Okay.

Anyways, he wanted out of there. And then it all kind of went to shit. It was getting very public. Then you get a rookie head coach. Okay, we love D'Amico's energy. Love D'Amico's energy. He's the secret sauce, dude. I think getting him and CJ at the same time, that's a God thing.

I mean, that's bigger than, I don't know. Divine intervention. That is the message down in Houston. God bless this team. God bless this team. When he walked in today, everyone's like, how you doing, Parker? I'm just blessed. I am blessed, man. I'm blessed to be here. No, we're blessed.

You blessed us. Didn't he not? You blessed us. I'm glad. What's on your feet right now, huh? Show them off. Show them off. These are the Parker 1000s. Dems are some boots. What are these called?

The Evening Patriot. The Evening Patriot. The Evening Patriot. That's such a good name for a boot. Lou Casey makes those. That's part of the official Lou Casey-Parker McCollum collaboration. I mean, maybe this isn't going to go well.

Maybe go center stage. He's riding a horse. It's a lot ranching. Look at the roses. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at the roses. The roses on there. Oh, yeah. I took my time on those. It's the evening Patriot.

You hand sewed these, right, is what you told me? I sure did, Pat. Sure did. Thank you for these. Good for you. It's morning before I come in. Wow. So getting cowboy boots, that is like whenever athletes get shoe deals for country musicians?

Big deal. Okay. So you move these we move these evening patriots um they they're completely sold out um so we do yeah how long you been doing the music um i like really probably when i was 20 21 i started to kind of play get shows like empty bars and stuff in austin. I would say that's like when I consider my actual start. I would play at the Saxon Pub on Sunday night at midnight in South Austin. That was like my.

So you would watch shitty Houston Texans teams, and you would be just singing your ass off out on the ranch? Because didn't you do like actual ranching? I did. My family's got two big ranches, and then my dad owned one west of San Antonio. So I don't get to do it as much now. I don't really do much of anything but tour and work. But what does that mean, light ranch?

We're painting a fence? Like, I'm watching Outer Range right now. I mean, I guess it could be anything. Hanging barbed wire? Say it again? Hanging barbed wire? Hanging barbed wire? Yeah, on the fence.

Yeah, I did that a lot. When I a fencer. I did that a lot. When I was a kid, I did it a lot. This is what I was talking about with that passive-aggressive shit. We're going to ask some dumb questions. We're from Pittsburgh. We're from Bill and Brian. We didn't grow up in Texas, asshole. That guy's from Boston. We're from Pittsburgh.

He's from Atlanta. It could have been a different question. It could have been referring to some of this Indiana thing. When I was a kid, my granddad ran a huge cattle operation big quarter horse breeding operation long before I was even born so I used to in the summer times me and my brother and all my cousins worked for him and um it was great man so you'd be out there with the hay and you'd be in that empty barn as the sun was setting yep and you would just start singing in there and it would start echoing and we always had guitars we were were like, you know, we'd work all day and then he would go to bed

and we'd sit on the porch. I mean, it sounds like cliche or like a movie or something, but we really did. I mean, my older brother was into like old school, really, really gritty songwriters like Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell and all these old school guys. And I was like 10 when he was 16. So I was like, my brother could, it was just whatever my big brother wanted to do. Had he been ice skating, I would probably be ice skating.

You would have been a good ice skater. I don't think so. You got those tiny little baby legs, so you would have been able to fit in there. It's a good proportion. He's got a good jumper. I mean, I don't know about that. Slow down. When did the George Strait come in?

Because you named all those guys, but when did George Strait come in? I mean, he was all like – my mom used to watch him when she was in college at Southwest Texas State, which is now Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Oh, of course. In our house, it was like God and George Strait. My mom loved George Strait. So like the earliest song I can remember, like remembering one of them is Amarillo by Morning, which is probably his biggest song of his entire career.

Tell me about George Strait. George Strait is Texas country. He's the face of Texas country? No, he's the face of country music. He's king of country, dude. All of country forever. Elvis is the king of rock and roll. Michael Jackson's the king of pop.

George Strait's the king of country music. Okay, and he's from Texas, so that's a big pride thing. He's from Texas, man. So whenever you meet him, you act like a weirdo? No, he's super. Dude, he is so laid back and so quiet and just a gentleman. I mean, in every sense of the word, like he is a G. And, I mean, I talked to him after the Kyle Field Show

and hopped up on his bus for a little bit, and he was really kind, dude. Just quiet. Yeah, smoking weed on there, drinking beers. George Strait's bonging beers on his bus for a little bit, and he was really kind, dude. You guys smoking weed on there, drinking beers? George Strat's bonging beers on the bus? No beer bong for old George. No, he's just, I don't know, man. I mean, he's the king, dude. You guys sing similar music?

Is that why, like, what are his thoughts on you? Like, I assume a compliment from George Strat's a big deal. Like, I got to work with Adam Vinatieri when i was with the colts and like when vinnie says like something shane leckler was punting for the houston texans he came up to me in like warm-ups one of the games against the texans and was like he like basically said that i'm a guy and it was like that was a big deal like holy shit shane leckler just said that he is the guy so him saying that was a big deal to me i assume george straight gave you blessings or having you on the show was that? Yeah, after the show, he was just like, man, you know, I couldn't have done this without you.

You had a lot of fans out there tonight. We had one of our biggest merch nights ever. But, like, that's kind of how they gauge it. Like, you know, if your fans are there, they're going to buy your merch. And we did. I love your merch. It was incredible. Thank you, man.

We tried to buy your merch down there and I'll bet it was sold out. Do you remember that show down there? I don't think y'all were there long enough. We don't know. That's not true. What's this guy's deal? You were giving bad information then. How come everybody?

That's probably true. Kenny said the same thing. Yeah. I heard you weren't there long. I was like, what? I saw you do your thing. A little different story. I'm a king of going home though, dude.

So I have no, nobody loves to sneak out. I mean, we saw different breakupsups that's how long we were there for Your crowds are awesome Thank you they're great We had no idea what to expect Yeah I said this the other day I'd listen to your music obviously with you And Pat being friends

And when we went there I was like there's going to be probably 1,000-1,500 people there And then we went up side stage and there were like 25,000 people out there I I was like, holy shit. This guy's got the juice. They're all in trance with you, too. I've never seen the entire crowd more like every word alongside of you.

And I assume that's because you've been on the road for a long time? I've been doing it a long time, man. Next year will be the... My first album was called The Limestone Kid and next February is the 10-year anniversary. 10-year anniversary? And you've been on the road this entire time. You're like a big touring guy.

I put that record out, won this songwriter competition, the Larry Joe Taylor Songwriter Competition. Hell yeah. They're not handing out the LJT award. And I won that, and then 95.9 The Ranch, which is a great radio station in Fort Worth, Texas, started playing the single off of that record, which is called Meet You in the Middle, which we still play. It was my first one to ever pop.

And I've been doing it ever since. Fort Worth, Texas, too. I mean, Stockyards. You all know Stockyards? Yeah, we used to get down in the Stockyards. Oh, you? You should see us. Man.

That's where I got my first pair of the cases. Hey, man. There we go. Yeah, see that? Jesse James or Jimmy James? John James. Jamie Johnson? No, no the guy sold me the boots no that's only his big he sold a million dollars worth of i assume lucasian i don't know whatever it was right on his thing he had the most cowboy name of all time i assume it was a stage name there's no way his name was like john jesse james

which is what he said to me like he looked at me and said, here's a mark. Let me go ahead and get this guy. See that belt buckle? I sound Millie. These things, I know more than everybody. And then he gave me some, what's that crocodile? Cayman. Cayman, yeah.

Gave me some Caymans. And then I got some snake skins down there. And then now I got the boom! Evening Patriot Parker McCollums. They're stout. Those are loud. These ones? They're sweet.

Yeah, I mean, I didn't see the side with the roses and shit. That is so sweet. Well, this is how I'm supposed to wear them, right? This is how I'm supposed to wear them? No, sir. Halfway up? A little bit, I guess. Like Capri.

You want your jean to sit on your boot, not hug it. Zeno just told me that these boots are $3,000. Close to it. Good lord. What the fuck? That's not. Your fans must do well. Those are the highest end ones.

I was very, dude, when me and Luke Casey started doing this deal, I was very adamant. How many pairs did you bring today? Take those things off and wipe them down the diaper. That's the only pair. Dude, I was really adamant when I was doing the deal with Luke Casey and we were sitting down trying to kind of map out the collaboration. I was really adamant when I was doing the deal with Luke Casey. We were sitting down trying to kind of map out the collaboration. I was very adamant.

I was like, look, a lot of my fans are very hardworking, blue-collar people. They may save up their money for a whole month to come see your show. I was like, a lot of these people aren't going to buy $3,000 boots. But Luke Casey is very high end, so they like their price point to be high, which I like that too. But I was like, we have to have an entry-level boot so i named the one of the boots after my dog ruger my chocolate lab and it's the entry-level boot it's like five or six hundred bucks okay sweet and and that's what leather is that there just so i know it's just that's just your typical cow brown just a

glue casey leather baby what is that cow though that i'm wearing walking around when I'm wearing the entry-level Ruger boot? I believe so. What is this here? That's Cayman Yeah, this crocodile died in its sleep had a long fulfilling life died he was old Oh, yeah, they talk about out of natural causes. They don't know a great life The medulla umbungata.ongata got a little bit affected. Can't even measure age for a crowd. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who certainly owns a pair of cowboy boots, maybe ten of them, but he has also been the guy who's been on top of this Sunday Ticket DirecTV class action lawsuit against the NFL.

And when he was on last time talking about it, I legitimately thought to myself, here's some Florio bullshit. Florio pro football talk is just cooking up something that he can squeeze the supreme court mention into which he's a lawyer this is his thing the nfl really did it this time florio dot dot dot at profootballtalknbc.com and he go this could end up bang bang bang bang supreme court as we're reading we're like this is a florio i mean this is a pa is a Paul Skeen right out of Florida. Comes on the show, starts explaining it. Then a couple days after he comes on the program and says, I don't know why

anybody isn't talking about this, a couple media people started talking about it. And then the quote we heard from the judge was, this is all malarkey. Basically. And then now it's like a $14 billion settlement that is going to have to be paid from the NFL to millions of Sunday

ticket purchasers who can sign up to get a payment from being bamboozled seemingly in price from the NFL. Joining us now, Paisan, author, pro football talk founder, NBC Sports football insider, Mike Florio. Hey, boy! Does this mean that next time you'll take me seriously? Does this mean I've built up a little equity? Just a little bit. Just a little bit. I know. You could sense me going, okay, Florio.

And I'm assuming I wasn't the only one that was doing this because this is right down the pro football talk blueprint here. The NFL messed up here. This is happening. It's real. Nobody's talking about it. Why is anybody talking about it? So as I'm reading it, I'm like, okay, this is just something to get through the offseason for Florio.

And then literally yesterday, we got $14 billion in cash that is leaving the NFL and going to people that file a part of this class action lawsuit, which is still available now. How did we get here? I thought the judge said it was a bunch of bullshit. Where are we right now? And this is a massive ordeal, I feel like, Florio, not just a pro football talk big deal, an actual, actual big deal here, Mike. Well, and the reason that I was banging the drum a few weeks ago, Pat, even if the NFL had won yesterday and it had been a goose egg for the plaintiffs, just the mere fact

that the NFL was in that posture where it has to go to court and stand trial with what is essentially a flip of the coin with the jury verdict. Nobody ever knows what a jury is going to do. Nobody knows how a case is going to go out. The NFL rarely puts itself in a position where it has to watch while the coin is spinning in the air and waiting to see what happens. The mere fact that they had to do this was significant, far more significant than a lot of people in the media were regarding it as. And then, boom, yesterday, here comes the verdict. $4.696 billion under the antitrust laws. That gets multiplied by three, $14.088 billion.

They still could win. The judge could still set it aside and fine for the NFL. They could win on appeal. They'll take this all the way to the Supreme Court if they have to, because it's $14 billion. And if the plaintiffs lose at any step, they'll take it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, because we now have a number attached to this thing, and it is $14.088 billion. Okay, how many people are plaintiffs in this case? And what is like a payout that they're expecting at this particular point? We saw Warren Sharpe is a part. He gets his first, I saw.

Okay, Gumby certainly feels a certain way about Warren Sharpe. And that's why his angle was that answer right there. But Warren Sharpe, I think, was a part of it. How many, it's 2.what million people now are involved in this entire thing, Florio? There's two classes, commercial establishments, bars that believe they had to pay more than they should have had to pay to make Sunday ticket available to their customers. And then the residential class where most of us would be. I'm in it for most of the 12 years that are covered. It goes from 2011 through early 2023.

So if you were a customer of DirecTV Sunday Ticket during that window, you're in the class unless you opted out. And not many people are going to opt out. Why would you opt out? I'm going to go sue them myself, by myself? No. You stay in the class, and now we see what happens. And let's assume this $14 billion ends up being the final number. Big assumption that that'll be the final number. The judge will be responsible for deciding how it gets split up. The lawyers are going to get a big chunk as their contingency fee for taking on the risk and the expense and the time. They've been fighting this thing for nine years. There was no guarantee they were going to get a penny for it. They're going to

get a significant piece of it if the judge approves their contingent fee agreement. But even then, my rough math at this point would suggest that you're looking at $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 per person if you had it. That's so much money. For most of the time. What do we get for the Ed O'Bannon? Like $500 or something? That's it. Yeah.

Ed O'Bannon was like $500. Yeah. You can buy the Midnight Blues with that amount of money. Yeah. You get. $3,000? Hey, the NFL is going to be buying the Evening Patriots. For a lot of people,

that is a huge number. How long until this thing gets paid out? Because they don't pay until all the appeals are done. So this could still be a forever situation. Yeah, they'll be back in court on the 31st of July

for what will be a hearing on the NFL's request to throw the whole case out. The thing the judge threatened to do a few weeks ago that created a lot of attention because it's not often the judge in open court, not with the jury present, but still the judge chastises the lawyers for one side saying your case is shit. And I'm thinking about throwing it out. That's kind of unconventional for that to happen. But he still could. He still could could and even if he does or he doesn't the appeal process kicks in it's called the u.s court of appeals for the ninth circuit it's a federal appeals court whoever loses has the right to get an appeal there that's going to take some time then after that you go to the u.s supreme court that's going to take some time

i'd say two or three years roughly and that might be minimum before this is all done. Okay, which leads to this from Ty Schmidt. Yeah, Florio, so let's say that they do end up having to pay this out. Will this fundamentally change any way that Sunday Ticket is actually sold in the future? Or will it be just like a slap on the wrist? Hey, you guys have to pay this, and then you can go back to business as usual. Or, Florio, if it takes two or three years to get a verdict, do you think this changes Sunday Ticket in those next two to three years before a verdict or a final verdict comes in you guys are touching on the most important question right now hey way to go boys let's

go boys let's journalism stick to it here i was talking to pat earlier the alston case june 21 of 2021 alston sean alston former West Virginia player. It was one of the many antitrust cases against the NCAA. The Supreme Court issued a ruling that basically convinced the NCAA, we better let these kids go out and sell their NIL rights because we're going to get screwed. We're going to get hammered. We are clearly in violation of the law by telling them they can't. So 10 days later, they did. Here's what the NFL has to decide. Okay, what do we do now? We've got this huge verdict. It's telling us probably not a good idea to have this jacked up price for Sunday ticket because we're trying to help people be diverted towards CBS and Fox. They got to make a decision. Are they going to continue to let this

model ride? Because they still have ongoing liability 2023 the first season with youtube tv that's not part of this class there's already a full season a sunday ticket that is sitting there waiting for a new class act 24 if they don't change their ways that doubles next year if they don't do it you got three more years of potential exposure they need to decide are we going to change how we do this we're going to let youtube tv charge 70 bucks for the full package like espn wanted to do are we going to let youtube tv do a single team option are we just going to get rid of sunday ticket no and sprinkle the game no we love sunday that is that is my big worry here and i don't know if it was said in the court i don't know if the nfl's

lawyers were like we're just gonna bring some sunday ticket fans in here just to talk about it it is awesome especially on youtube tv it's been it's it's been better it's gotten better than they're wildly expensive obviously i mean everything is there's some ufc fights that are like 200 bucks like and you're paying for an espn plus subscription on top of that and then you know there's other uh pay-per-views and would they go to a pay-per-views. And would they go to a pay-per-view model for some of these games? Is that what the answer would be? Like, how would it, how would they end up answering this? And is Sunday Ticket going to change it all, which I think is the biggest conversation piece for a lot of us who watch too much NFL football. And Sunday

Ticket has been like the provider for that pretty much. There was a document that came into evidence during the trial. And what happens is the trial lasts for weeks. And there's all sorts of evidence and paperwork. And then it's time for the closing arguments. And the lawyers pick their best shit. So one of the documents that the plaintiff's lawyers showed to the jury was a memo from 2017 where the league was considering getting rid of Sunday Ticket altogether and selling the out-of-market games to

FS1 and ESPN2 and this cable channel and that cable channel. So it would be like a Saturday of watching college football where every game is on a different channel at overlapping times, different times, whatever. Just blow up Sunday Ticket and sell the rights to the out-of-market games to the various cable channels. That's a possibility going forward. Cheaper Sunday Ticket. Sunday Ticket is awesome. It shouldn't cost what it costs. That's the point of this.

They drive up the price so people will say, eh, I'll just watch what is on my CBS and Fox affiliate. Even if I really don't want to watch this game, I'll watch it because I'm not paying that money. It should be cheaper. They make it cheaper, a lot more people are going to watch it, and they may make more money. At the end of the day, people worry about the NFL. When I told my wife about this last night, she said, oh, that's not good for us if the NFL goes out of business.

It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. McCall. McCall, I'm on for you. Yeah, she knows. McCall. Yeah, we're all thinking the same thing. I like that she does say that to you. I don't know if she's scanning through your tweets on a daily basis

and just going, hey, Mike, we kind of like the NFL. Don't mind. There is some good from the NFL in there somewhere, but you do kind of find everything that is taking place, which is why you've been able to. How long has Pro Football Talk been going? 23 years as of November 1. Congratulations, dude.

Wow. That's sick. It is sweet. Found himself. Oh, Florio. Licensed it to NBC. He's Paisan, obviously, ridiculous. Went to West Virginia like this,

and he's a lawyer, an author. You hear him go, they filed the paperwork into that whole thing. Obviously, he's the only person we talk to that speaks like that, so we appreciate the help. Florio, you've done a fantastic job over your 23-year run. Thank you so much, buddy.

And that's why, for following along for so long, obviously, with the pro football talk world, that's why I thought this story was all, like, this feels like a Florio fodder. You know? But it's very real. And what will the NFL do now? They are going to fight this

continually will they be asked about this i know they put out a message uh and they thanked there was a full statement from the nfl but will they talk about this publicly other than just this particular thing will roger goodell have to go back in court sometime like what is for the nfl side of this entire thing what do they do do next? Appeal and then what? No new evidence. It's all lawyers at this point. And what I've done, I asked the lawyers for both sides, the lead counsel, how about an interview on my weekday podcast, PFTPM? I'd love to be able to present to the audience and ask questions and make it understandable.

Not at the same time. Oh, come on. Come on, Mark. It's a debate. It's a debate. Anyway, let's go ahead and go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it, got it. But I wanted to interview them separately,

and the NFL has declined to make Beth Wilkinson available. You may remember Beth Wilkinson is the one who did the initial investigation into Dan Snyder and the Washington franchise that laid the foundation for him out the door. So she handled this case, and there's going to be hell to pay by somebody. That's one of the great things about an outcome like this. It's not great for the company that loses, but there's going to be an effort internally to figure out who the hell blew this. Who's at fault for this?

Because we shouldn't have had this happen. How did this happen, and who gets the blame, and who quietly disappears from the employment of the NFL? $14 billion is so much money. Oh, my God. What was their media deal? It works out to $450 million per team. That's a super yacht.

Not all of them, but like Jerry Jones, Arthur Blank, ShotKon, they have super yachts. It's basically a super yacht per team. Okay. Oh, so this might just. This is just. per team. Okay. Oh, so this might just... This is just...

And they're going to say, we were lucky to give NFL fans $5,000 a piece. That was us saying. You think Mr. Davis is happy about $450 million? Especially with the IRS was snooping around

a couple years ago. And his stadium out there. I mean, there's a lot. I'm excited to see how it all unfolds. I just assume the NFL is always going to win. So that's why when it was brought up and then the

judge says what the judge says a couple days later we all thought it was a big... We were wrong. They still could. They still could, but they've never been in this position before. They've never had a verdict like this entered against them. And who knows what will happen. They still could win, but they're in a tough spot. Alright, let's pivot away from that. Let's go to something else that is a pro football

talk. Just, I mean, so perfect because it's so public. Go ahead, connor yeah right in your wheelhouse brandon iuk is pissed off on his instagram i believe he was on ig live showing up to the facility either today or yesterday and there's been a whole off season of things what's the status with him and is he just going to get held hostage by the niners for the next three years or is there a chance he actually gets traded i believed all along this off season what the 49ers for the next three years, or is there a chance he actually gets traded? I believed all along this offseason that what the 49ers were trying to do was basically hold the band together for one more year. George Kittle at his contract, Debo Samuel at his cap number. We've got Brock Purdy under contract for one more year before he can get an extension. We've got

Trent Williams at a high salary, and we've got Brandon Ayuk in his fifth-year option at only $14.1 million. Wouldn't it be great if he would happily play for the $14.1 million and then we can figure this out after the season? And I feel like they finally got to the point where Ayuk realizes there's no good option here, that no one is going to both give the 49ers what they want in trade and give Ayuk what he wants contractually. If that was going to happen, it was going to happen before the draft. of Iuke what he wants contractually. If that was going to happen, it was going to happen before the draft. So what are his choices? Play or don't play? 14-1 or zero? And you set yourself up to hit the open market if they don't franchise tag him, or maybe they tag him and trade him like the Chiefs

did with Jerry Snead this year. Either way, it feels like he's accepting the fact. He's worked through the five stages of grief, and he's accepting the reality that he's got one more year for the 49ers at 14.1 million, and then he'll likely be somewhere else next year. worked through the five stages of grief and he's accepting the reality that he's got one more year for the 49ers at 14.1 million and then he'll likely be somewhere else next year isn't it crazy that this is the difference between the nfl and like the nba in this entire thing nba brandon iuk might have been traded twice by now you know with the uh the clip from the blog and then also the face the the follow-up tweet uh comment i mean on instagram and then something on instagram it's like this is a completely different ball game but every team

would want iuk florio every team would want brandon iuk a number one a guy who's an absolute stud which is why this is such an interesting situation you didn't bring up the franchise tag you think he's gonna play for 14-1 and get it over with that thing can still he's potentially there for three more years I mean that is three more years he's potentially in San Francisco at a rate that you know is probably nowhere near what he thinks he should be getting especially with what he's seeing everybody else get it's one of the problems with the CBA first round draft pick you can lock him up for five years and then you can tag him once you can tag him twice that third time the price goes through the roof, but that's seven years that the player's committed and that the player's prevented from going to the market and seeing what someone will pay him. And Iyuk falls in that middle category of

great receiver, but not one of the top five receivers. How much would someone pay him on the open market? I think we're going to find that out with Tee Higgins next year after he does his one year with the franchise tag in Cincinnati. Because a lot of these teams, I think, are starting to look at receiver like running back. We can go draft someone. The Malik Neighbors, the sixth overall pick receiver with the Giants, he's making $29 million for four years. You can get a great receiver for not much money. These guys in the middle, how much money is a Brandon Ayuk going to get? We'll find out next March,

but he wants 30 and maybe he'll get it, but it's going to be hard for him. It's going to be hard for some of these mid-tier guys, not top of the top, just guys who are great, but not top of the top to get big money. Yeah, and Brandon Ayuk will probably say that if you were to put him on any other team

without all the other weapons, he would be tip of the top grade. And obviously he wants to go find that out potentially somewhere and get paid as such. But to your point there at the end you made, middle class in this particular position is probably going to get run out of town. You're either going to be somebody that's going to earn a massive deal

at wide receiver and they won't be able to keep the quarterback, or you're going to be a young guy who's trying to earn the massive deal because of how cheap you are. If you're just good and you're not playing like special teams and other stuff, I think it's going to be interesting over the next few years. You'll be doing a one-year deal. One-year deal here, one-year deal there, waiting for the big

payday that never comes. And that's like for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. Everybody's talking about how much money wide receivers are getting. It's like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. But also, there's going to be shit that comes alongside that that you don't really think about it's just like in the cba when they made the vet men you know because veterans who've been around are

getting league men deserve more than the rookies do so we'll make that like 850 900 000 rookie men will be 400 000 because they haven't earned it and then immediately the repercussion was teams like that's 550 000 difference right there we will keep the 550 000 so the vet men players just started getting wiped away and it was all rookie men's because it was two of them that's over a million bucks we just added to the salary cap there's always that type of shit give and take that kind of takes place in these markets absolutely one important thing to remember and i've gotten this question a lot this 14 billion that we were talking about it doesn't affect the salary cap at all that money comes out of the pockets holy shit now that's big deal if they lose if they lose revenue going forward by whatever it

is that they do with sunday ticket that that will affect the salary caps but this 14 billion has nothing to do with the players and you think about it the players got the money whatever money shouldn't have been earned by this antitrust violation it got split and the players got paid but they don't have to pay any of this good win players NFLPA doing it they saw this coming they were forecasting it just like Florio last question here from country music sensation Parker McCollum. Hey, Florio. Oh, he's nervous a little bit. Hey, is there a specific team? Has anything leaked from A-Uke or his team or his camp or anything about a specific destination he has in mind? Anywhere that, I mean, maybe he goes to Miami, maybe he goes down to Houston,

Texans. No, you guys got dicks, dude. Anywhere. Is there any information on maybe somewhere that he has as a destination in his mind? Well, I know this. He was trying to strike something up with Mike Tomlin on social media earlier in the offseason. And I know for a fact that around February, late February, the Steelers called the 49ers to see if he was available. And at the time, they were told no.

Now, at some point after that, I think the 49ers let his agent shop to see what else was out there. Because I think the 49ers were hoping they'd find out no one else is going to pay you what you want either. But the Steelers are one of the teams that have been on the radar screen. And the Commanders, too. There was that social media video recently with Ayuk and Jaden Daniels. They were teammates for one year at Arizona State like five years ago. And the commanders have kind of bubbled up in

this as a possibility too. Hey, we appreciate great question, Parker. Hey, that was great question, Parker. Thank you. Really good journalism from the country sensation from Texas. They say all you singer-songwriters are dumb. That's not real. That's what they said. You're not that dumb. I'm just saying. We didn't say that. And it was proven right there that you're not. That was what they said You're not that dumb I'm just saying

We didn't say that No And it was proven right there That you're not That was a great question Congratulations Thanks guys You know who else graduated

From high school? This pie's on Also obviously So you were practicing We don't have a lot of time Forget it Guy also going to become a lawyer With law

Absolutely 19 years Of school 19 years Being a lawyer What type of of school. 19 years. What type of law? What type of law? Like real estate law or something boring like that?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I did environmental law first, then I settled in employment law and tried a bunch of cases and learned the hard way how to do it the right way. And then I got out. And it was 15 years ago, Monday, July 1. 15 years, I said, sayonara to practicing law and hello to NBC. Well, congratulations on retirement in that particular profession and crushing it in this one. We're lucky for you, ladies and gentlemen, founder of Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio. Yeah!

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Thank you. This is my favorite one. I've decided this is officially my favorite t-shirt by far. By a mile. Congratulations to that shirt. By a mile. Oh, yeah. By a mile.

Got a lot of shirts. A lot of graphic tees. Obviously, this one's your favorite. We don't have to dive into the judgment of it all. We think yeah, by a mile. Got a lot of shirts, a lot of graphic tees. Obviously, this one's your favorite. We don't have to dive into the judgment of it all. We think it's sweet as well. And then he got the Jack Carr hat on, huh? Yeah, exactly. You know, I just figured, you know, it's kind of two representations of, you know, kind of America.

You know, I don't want everything to just be negative all the time. And Native Americans, Jack Carr, I mean, that's just great. You were talking about USA losing to Panama yesterday after we get a red card 18 minutes into the game or 17 minutes into the game, and have to play Dynaman against Panama in Copa America, which we see what you're doing, refs. You can't punch a guy in the back of the head. Sue us.

Bullshit. I thought we were trying to make soccer popular. He started it. You can't fall into Panama's trap, boys. You just can't do it. Yeah, these Panamans. You know, that's what they do. They just try and get you.

They did it all game it was ugly the cope americas are chaos but you can't fall into the trap look at the hack on christian palisic in the 86th minute that took place and obviously this is a super look at bang let me try to break it and i said no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no that is so dirty yeah it's disgusting that's. That's the penultimate penalty or something? Bullshit. That was a penalty. He got red carded, but only for four minutes.

It was 10 on 10 for like six minutes or whatever for the match. And only adding four minutes at the end was absolutely... I forget the stats. I think it was like 19 fouls were called on us. Four were called on them. Jesus. We get a red card. Yeah, here it is.

Total fouls, four we got. And for them, 19. So, yellow cards. They get three at the very end. Those are all in the last three minutes. At the end of the game, the Panamanians just started just. Every time we had a counter, they were just taking the legs out. Cross, cross, cross.

It was smart to get away in this entire thing. But it was a little dirty. And Tim Way said, I got to keep my cool. I apologize to my teammates and to my country. It took out Matt Turner. I appreciate that. But that doesn't do shit for us today. You know? He feels bad.

I don't care. I feel bad. That's what's so hard about these tournaments. That was one moment you lost your mind. The tournament's over. You're in trouble. It's not over. We're going to beat Uruguay.

Uruguay has more goals than like eight teams combined in the tournament. Yeah, but Turner's going to come back from getting kneed in the thigh. Yeah. Cheap shot. Yeah. They ran our goalie. They did. I mean, the entire thing.

I mean, look at this. This wasn't on purpose, huh? Not even going for the ball. Okay. Okay. Low bridging. All right. Contusion to the thigh.

Didn't play in the second half. This guy's been a star for us, the goalie. Now, Horvath comes in, and they had us under siege there for a bit. They did. I mean, you got to do what you gotta do. Is this all over the canal? If we would just let them have the canal this wouldn't have happened? Remember that canal came up in conversations a couple years

ago too when everything was kind of popping off and that kind of just slid right by. Nobody really talks about that anymore. The canal though, pretty important place. We get it. But the Panamanians played their game to perfection. They ended up beating us and that's not good especially with what happened in American football the day before. We'd all watch the debate and we'd see what's going on right now.

USA needs one. We need one. We're going to be early. We need July 4th here. You can bet on that. Speaking of betting, one half of the hammer Cowboys 10 digs here. You're right. You made a good point. We're going to be celebrating here in a couple of days. Yeah, a hot dog contest is going to be great. Great. God. Oh, wait.

Oh, hold on. They screwed that one up too. America stinks right now, man. Don't you say that. It does. Don't you say that. It stinks right now, brother. Not with our guests here obviously. 12-year NFL vet. Universal Records signed rapper Pac-Man

Jones. Pac-Man. It's hard out here for us. Hey, listen. But it's going to get better. It's going to get better. You know why? It's been since 1777. Okay. I mean, 1774. There's a lot of... I don't know every year and everything that has certainly happened, but we look

bad right now in a lot of different ways. But just because it's happening now doesn't mean it's going to be happening tomorrow. You're right. We're in a moment-to-moment world. We've got to remember that. We've got to win every single moment. Like the fine people of Cincinnati. Look at the merch that Pac-Man's got. Did you know MLS teams have this type of merch?

I had no idea, although when we were down at TST, I did spend about $200 on a Lionel Messi jersey. So they do have some pretty cool merch. I do know that. On a who? I haven't seen you wear it. Lionel Messi. They said Lyle?

Yeah. Well, again, it's still kind of up in the air what his American name is going to be. It should be the Lion. It's Larry. Larry, Lyle, the Lion. I don't know. But, yeah, I mean, it's a nasty kid. Awesome.

Yeah, but it's like a baseball jersey, too. Yeah. I mean, FC Cincinnati crushes it, obviously. You got to get the Lucho jersey, too, bro. Who? Lucho. Who's that? The best player that's on our team.

Lucho? Big Lucho. Lucho, he's that? The best player that's on our team. Lucho? Big Lucho. Lucho, he plays for Cincinnati? Yeah. Oh, Lucho's a dog. He's filthy with the feet. Leonard Lucho. His feet move.

Where's he from? Where's Lucho from? Pittsburgh? Wisconsin, I think, right? No. He's not from this country. Oh, okay, Lucho. Of course we wouldn't be able to...

He's an Argentinian. Oh, so is he playing for America, though? I don't think so. He's from Lionel Messi's country. It's going to be tough to talk about him ever. You know, that's kind of the issue. He's second fiddle situation. That's a Phil Mickelson situation there with Tiger Woods.

But Lucho is a dog. Hey, Lucho's leading FC Cincinnati. Stayed behind for the boys. I like that. Lucho? Yeah, is he on the National team? I don't think he's on the National team. No. Yeah, he stayed behind for the boys. I like that. Lucho? Is he on the National team? I don't think he's on the National team. No. Stayed behind for the FC. Oh, for FC. Yeah, by choice for sure.

Yeah, he said, I want to play for America, Cincinnati, or nothing. We do need to buy the Lucho jersey. I wish I could buy a jersey for this man. Country music superstar. Just played in front of 110,905 people. What? No big deal. Not only does he obviously play before George Strait goes on, which is

the king of country. Not just one state's guy. Bingo. He plays in stadiums all over the place. Theaters all over the place. Ladies and gentlemen, he's somehow humble with how attractive he is. He's got tiny little baby legs, but he's certainly Jack. Ladies and gentlemen, Parker McCullough.

Can we just state the record? I put a lot of time into my legs, man. I'm a little hurt. Y'all are hating on them so much. That's the thing about time. I just don't eat enough, I think, is the problem. Yeah, they say food goes right to your calves and to your thighs. Yep. I've always just been very skinny.

I've always been trying to gain weight. I'm not getting any support here. You know, this is not good for my – It's genetics, Parker. It's just genetics. Foxy's got little baby legs, too. Don't you worry about it. It's not your fault. It's not what you said. Oh, I've never been fat, so it kind of sucks. Yeah, that's right. You've got to get in the hawk house over there. Just maybe start squatting a little bit. What he's saying, though, is that

he has tried to do that, but you're an incredibly handsome man. Obviously, you can sing very well. You're in Indianapolis tonight. How long will the show be tonight? About an hour and 40 minutes. Hour and 40 minutes. Are we rocking? Are we sweating? Is it outside? It is outside. I don't really know. I didn't check weather tonight. It was a little overcast this morning, so maybe we'll get lucky and it'll be cool. It's about 105 degrees back home right now, so it's nice. How's the heat wave been for

these shows that you've been doing? It's actually been really good. We played in Detroit a couple weeks ago. It was probably 55 degrees when we went on stage. Oh, I saw that with the hoodie on you had. It was nice. Yeah, you look sweet. Thank you. I love a hoodie on stage. Oh, I saw that with the hoodie on you had. It was nice. Yeah, you look sweet. Thank you. I love a hoodie on stage. I think it looks nice on stage.

Yeah, but you Texas boys, just like Florida boys, somehow don't feel the heat because you grow up. I like it. I like working out outside, sweating, working outside. It's going to be like 80 degrees. It's good for skinny people. You get a little blood flow. You don't look so bony.

Yeah. Those legs, though, they do look bony. That never changes. Do you know who has his own wine? Parker McCollum? I was on the website looking for some merch, and there's a Parker McCollum wine. Parker Pinot? For a little while.

Pinot? Rose, Sauvignon Blanc. Yeah, we've got some options. Parker Rose? Oh, good M. I like the Sauvignon Blanc. I don't know. Yeah, I haven't had it, but, so you're a wine guy? Yeah.

We were at that one golf course that you posted about immediately afterwards. I did not post about it. You certainly did, yeah. I did not post about it. You might as well have just circled the plane that you were on and where it was coming from. Bullshit. No way. I know better.

Oh, okay, yeah, of course. Anyways, when we were down there, we had a bunch of wine. That would be your go-to if you were to have an evening or something like that. Man, I don't know. I like a loud lemon or just a cold beer, really. Ice cold Lone Star? I like Lone Star a little bit. Can you fold it?

It's a screen door, but... Make it into a character? Yeah. I don't know, man. I like a little wine every now and then. Yeah. Do you, when you go on stage, what are we doing? Are we fully locked in?

Just water. Just water. I have not had an alcoholic beverage during the show this year. Let's go. Locked in. Thanks, guys. Thanks. Because he was getting tuned up before that Bama show down there.

Last year was a little different story Last year was a long year dude We grinded last year We got to the end of it and I was like Let's enjoy this a little bit We did have a good time What's the pre-game routine Man I'm kind of lame

I don't really have a pre-game I'm usually watching the Astros until about 10 minutes before I go on and then I'll go inside And go rip. You don't fall asleep before the concert? It's kind of weird, yeah. Sometimes, like, right before. Because you're watching baseball.

No, it's the greatest game of all time. You're talking about America's past time and now. Oh, yeah, brother. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, I really don't have a pregame or a pre-show, like, thing. But I do get very, for some reason, it's funny you say that because I get – Sleepy? Yeah, like 10, 15 minutes before the show, I'm like,

there's no way I can go on right now. I mean, I could lay down and pass out right now. And then, bam, lights come on and it's rip time. Showtime, baby. Hell, yeah. You see that red light? We can go do our thing. You had a phenomenal show down in Atlanta when we were there.

Sweet. Had a good time beforehand, too. Your people were incredibly hospitable. I saw old Buddy. He's here. You travel with a crew. They're a good group. Good group. Guy's got a bunch of leg tats, Your people were incredibly hospitable. I saw old Buddy. He's here. You travel with the crew. They're a good group. Good group.

Guy's got a bunch of leg tats, even one on his kneecap. I like that. That's our photographer, Sauce. Chris Kleinmeier. We call him Sauce. Okay, Sauce. I like that. He gets a lot of flack from the guys about the leg tats.

Everybody always asks him, how long do you have to have those? Shh, shh, shh. So. Eric. Yeah. That's good. That's good. Joining us now is a man who was at the concert down in Alabama alongside of us.

He's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, voice of an angel, this guy. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, the former president of Ohio, A.J. Hawker. Yeah. Let's go, A.J. Hawker, I know you wanted to tell Parker about his stage presence after watching him.

You were entranced just like everybody else down there in the entire state of Alabama. Oh, yeah. I mean, Parker's unbelievable. You get him on stage, the dude just comes alive. You could see it. Park, don't worry about these guys. Your legs look great. If you're working them, if you're doing squats, you're doing some leg extensions, just keep doing what you're doing. They'll grow eventually.

They look good. You look fine. I needed that. He was buried. No, I was not. He was talking so much shit No, I was not. No. Yeah, he was. He was talking so much shit right to your face right there. That's what he was saying.

AJ is my dog. AJ is my dog. Parker knows. I saw AJ play at Lambeau when I was a younger man. So me and him go way back. Yeah, I understand that. So you would know then that what he was saying to you there was like those things. He actually texted me right before I came here.

He said, wear shorts because you have great legs. AJ! Very nice of you. AJ, you're coming around. Show that VMO, man. Show that VMO hanging over your kneecap, buddy. Everyone loves that. Yeah, that's the raindrop, pal.

It's there. We see it. Thank you. That's a bone, AJ. That's a bone. Why are you pointing that out? What the hell? Come on now.

What the hell? What is your problem? He looks great. But the guy's never going to wear shorts again because you that out? What the hell? Come on now. What the hell? What is your problem? He looks great. But the guy's never going to wear shorts again because you guys out here are just shaming him for something. I got no shame, AJ. I got no shame. I'm blessed. Right off your back.

He is blessed. He blessed us today with how blessed he is. At CMA Fest, CMA Fest, they had like two stages or whatever. He played, burning down. Man, that's pretty good thank you that was the right key yeah yeah i knew that yeah what key is that it's not a minor i know it's not that i know it's not that um but he was singing okay he was singing up on the top stage then the band keeps playing he hits these steps skips a couple steps. Very casual, down.

Dangerous, by the way. I have big stairs on our stage right now with our production on the Burn It Down tour. The day's coming. Especially with cowboy boots, because there's not a lot on the bottom there. I think about it. And that many people don't think about it. Because what I was saying while I was watching you was, this dude isn't even thinking about these stairs right now, which is a good place to be.

I've almost tripped on purpose before, just to I'm like, let's just get this out of the way. No, no, no. Stone Cold Steve Austin didn't drop a beer for like 10 straight years whenever they were throwing him out there. You're good. That's a Texas rattlesnake. Those steps are no problem. But anyways, he comes skipping down these steps

like 10, 15, whatever it is. Very casual. It's like, damn, this guy. And he started walking. Yo, he is a fucking baboon up top. The guy is mad. I didn't know he had those little, you know what I mean, the bass underneath. Yeah.

But he is. You are absolutely jacked, Parker. You should feel very good about what you're doing up there. The presence is phenomenal. I knew I was going to be on national television, so it's the best day to do arm day. So you got to go do arms. Country music does a lot of those where it feels like everybody gets together. Not a lot of music seems to do that.

Like the CMA Fest. I think you did New Year's too, right? Yeah. Country music is very family oriented, man. It's a pretty tight knit community. Everybody kind of takes care of each other, looks out for each other. Everybody's always pulling for each other.

So Post Malone comes over and I assume everybody's pumped to welcome. Because I think Blake Shelton even ended the song, what is it, Buy Me a Drink? Yeah, Somebody Buy Me a Drink, Somebody Buy Me a Smoke. Yeah, that whole thing. I think immediately afterwards, Blake was like, Welcome to country music, Post Malone or something like that. It did feel like a very welcoming, everybody wants to get into country music right now. And it's good for business, man.

I mean, he's such an icon and just an absolute legend in the game. And, you know, I feel like Post is really respected because he's very much a real artist. Like, he's extremely talented, extremely creative. Like, I feel like, and that's a lot of what country music is. So I feel like they identify with him pretty well. Yeah, it's sweet. Everybody's trying to get into the country game. You've been in it for 10 years at least at this point.

Traveling around still singing it. You're absolutely crushing it. From Houston, real Texas boy, real rancher, massive Houston Texans fan. I got a problem for you. Anthony Richardson has put a video on the internet. It is internet video hype season. Oh, this is the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. He's coming back from shoulder surgery.

No big deal. Dominique Wilkins? Yeah, he's 260 pounds doing that. He's in a long sleeve. Is this LeBron in the NBA? Bingo. This is the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts that we only got to see for three of the five games

at the start of the season. How's he looking? Well, jacked, ripped, and spinning it. Whenever he was with us, he didn't talk about any diet plan. He didn't talk about having a chef. He was kind of just chit-chatting about that's the way I eat or whatever. And I was a little bit worried. I'm like, okay, it feels like everybody now has some sort of balance

or some sort of super structured thing that some scientist is telling them to do. So Anthony Richardson, not only is he incredibly jacked and young, and we didn't really get to see a lot of him, but when he was playing, he was electrifying. He's still just dog, too. He's still got a flick of the wrist. Yeah, got a flick of the wrist, but also just going out and doing that dunk right there.

Just like, yeah. Casual. He's an athlete. He's a baller. He's not scared to get hurt. He's not scared to get injured. And he's spinning it. And this is what I'm talking about whenever I say, hey, down in Houston,

I know, okay, that God blessed you guys with the Miko Ryans, and now Stephon Diggs is down there. But let me show you what's going on with Stephon Diggs. He was doing some what's that called? Pilates? Pilates, I think, where it's a constant torque

on your body. People are getting shredded and jacked up doing this. But if you don't keep that core tight in the balance, guess what can happen to you? Oh, no. Oh, no. That's Houston. Go back to Anthony Richardson.

Go back to Anthony Richardson on the basketball court, please. Just real quick if we could. Still got a little Buffalo. Here's the Indianapolis Colts. Now let's go to Pilates in Houston. Breathe in. Breathe in. Breathe out. And boom.

It's our division now. You guys are dead down in Houston. How many times you get knocked down? That's how many times you get back up. Wow. Yeah. Pretty good. It is about that.

And obviously, you guys have been knocked down a lot. But Stephon Diggs gets added to your team. C.J. Stroud has the greatest rookie season in history last year. Just throwing the ball over. Nico's back. Joe Mixon. Dalton Schultz. I mean, the whole thing.

It's like you guys have to be flying so high right now. And I think any time I see Stephon Diggs do anything in the years past, I'm like, that's interesting. He has a real fashion model. And then you say he was putting his emotions out. But underneath, we always knew he was an incredible football player for the Buffalo Bills. He put this out, and I'm like, oh, damn. Like, I'm not going to do Pilates, I decided, because I'm much less athletic than him.

And if this is what's taking place to him, I'm not going to sign up for that. But then I immediately go, this dude's on the fucking Texans. It's just like an instant reminder. Like, we don't talk about it enough. The Houston Texans added another number one wide receiver to an offense that was phenomenal last year you houston texans fans it's bullshit i'll let you know it's bullshit but you houston texans fans have to be so pumped for this season more so than ever maybe in the entire history yeah with by a mile 100 i mean you think about i think we won two games i think or maybe one

three or four games they threw the you know you know, Davis Mills threw the Hail Mary year before last, last game of the season. We would have gotten first overall pick if he dropped the ball. Yeah, against the Colts, we win that game for no reason at all. Everybody's freaking out because we don't get the number one pick. Again, it's a God thing. That just, thank you for that touchdown. That was completely

meaningless and turned out to be very meaningful. And then we get D'Amico and CJ at the same time. Now we've got Joe Mixon and Dalton Schultz and Tank Dill and dude, if they stay healthy, I mean, we're talking. Yeah, but did you see what Anthony Richardson just did? Do we have to show the video?

Do you think he'll be windmilling on the football field? Yeah. This is actually what his spike is after he scores touchdowns on every... So good. I'm glad CJ and Stephon Diggs are on the field throwing balls and Anthony. Wow. It shows where your mind is. It shows where the culture is.

CJ's out with sumo wrestling in Japan. We got our priorities right. CJ's doing a lot, too. CJ's on a lot of podcasts. He's talking a lot of shit, which I think is where he wants to be. He carries himself very well, though. Yes. Very, very well. Very well- well very well spoken young man seems to like i mean and he came to houston and after like the second or third game he's like man when i watch the lakers and they lose i'll

never forget this he said when he's a lakers fan so when i watch the lakers and they lose i'm pissed i'm upset he's a professional athlete saying that and so like fans feel that they're like man he he wants to win like he knows how we're feeling especially in houston we've been down for a long time like when your quarterback is the possibly the greatest rookie of all time and is talking that that much common like that's that's great dude that's good for the culture yeah it is great for the culture and he learned it all at ohio state so aj this is partially your fault in this entire thing but yeah everything he has done has certainly been that of a leading man like like a front man, which is who we would like to have be the face of a franchise. Literally since the day he stepped in, he's like, oh, I love Houston.

Started throwing up the bullhorns and everything. I mean, he started really buying in. But he credits Ohio State for making him that way because of the bad times and the good times and the pressure. So I guess this is your fault too, AJ. Yeah, I guess. I mean, it goes to show you, if you get some big-time reps on a huge stage in college football, I mean, yeah, of course I think there's a lot of great carryover, and it prepares you for the league.

That's why I think a lot of these guys that were coming in from day one, especially when we see all these receivers that are studs, they step in, they start the first game, and they just go from there. I mean, maybe we see more quarterbacks have some early success like CJ, but I don't know if they're going to match what he actually did last year. Pac-Man, why do some rookie quarterbacks struggle? They throw more picks than anybody. This guy didn't throw a pick for like 14 weeks.

Well, I think he succeeded so much because they did the same thing they did in college. A lot of his stuff was getting out on the wing, play action, check down if the home run is there, you hit it. But if you watch a lot of his plays, he's either booting out and the action is coming back to him, or he's throwing backside. So a lot of that is getting him out of the pocket. And it's hard. He can run, too. He don't want to run, but

he can run. And I think D'Amico and him have done a great job of letting him play in the high spots that he can play in. He's playing real comfortable right now. And look at the accuracy. It's unreal How accurate of a pass Just shut up Mark

Yeah Thanks I love it I'm so happy That's where you're at right now That's where I've been I don't like it at all And Casario

Is like one of the coolest guys We've talked to Very sharp Yeah he's super smart He rebounded great Because there was some People did not like him for a minute And now he's walking around

Like he's the smartest man in the league. Yeah, we were mocking him. Yeah, giving him hell. Yeah, we were raising hell into microphones about how stupid of a man he was. He's wearing a headset. Okay, this guy's calling plays and the GM. Okay, Bill Belichick, huh? That's what you are?

And then we had him on. He's like, in New England, I was on the headset listening. It just helps me understand what's needed, what's not needed. And we're like, oh. That's genius. You guys are actually smarter. So it's not a bad thing that you're doing. It's actually a good thing.

So there's a lot. There's been a lot. But the AFC is packed. It's stacked and loaded. You go to this city with Joey B. You go T. Higgins. He's bought in for one year. He knows exactly what the deal is.

Everybody would be pissed if they were T. Higgins' position about how, like, what? Only one year, you're not going to pay me? It's like, nope, this is how this is going to go. It is the Cincinnati Bengals. Feels like they have a lot to prove, and Joey B's back. You guys got to be flying very high in Cincinnati. Very high. I actually had a chance to be with T. Higg this weekend, and he's ready to go, man.

He know what it is. Higg this weekend. He's ready to go, man. He know what it is. He's going to have to play under the franchise tag. That's just Mr. Brown how it is. I think he's eager to see how they do this year. They got a lot of young talent over there, too.

I think the Bengals are going to be good. As long as Joey B can stay healthy right now. He looks healthy. Did you see him at that Oh, yeah. Is he wearing a custom jersey? Will his NFL jersey have a back? Open back. That'd be cool. Are we forgetting how sick the Ravens are going to be

with Derrick Henry this year? Seeing that is going to be incredible. I wouldn't worry about that. Also, Russell Wilson's boxing now. Did you see that picture? Parker, do you do any boxing? I did in high school a little bit. Freddie Roach.

Freddie Roach is training Russell Wilson. I probably wouldn't want to box Russell Williams. Wilson, geez, you didn't get his name right. Russell Wilson. Russell Williams. You know, what's funny is Russell Williams is one of my best friends. He's probably watching this right now. He probably loves it.

I just made that mistake. Well, Russell Williams, you don't want to box him either. That boy put down. Big son of a bitch. Look at that. So comfortable. Him and IU could be electric. You're right. Pittsburgh dude. Yeah, I don't like to hear that. I don't like that at all.

You saw him wearing that Pirates hat when he was rolling in the facility. Well, a lot of people wear the Pirates hat, obviously. That's why the Pittsburgh Pirates owner has always been able to cash in without ever having to invest anything in the team. Although now we got the Hundo boys and everything's different. With that being said, if he was to get paid what he is expecting to get paid in the water-stealer market

right now, George Pickens would eliminate all Pittsburgh Steelers things from his Instagram immediately? Or Mike Tomlin would be the only guy that would be able to handle that entire situation? How do you think that goes? If you're a Pittsburgh Steeler fan dreaming of IU coming to Pittsburgh, that's why you asked, I think, and that's why you kind of chimed in like, Pittsburgh,

he's wearing a Pirates hat. You want him to go to Pittsburgh? I wouldn't be mad. I mean, listen,'s why you kind of chimed in like, Pittsburgh, he's wearing a Pirates hat. You want him to go to Pittsburgh? I wouldn't be mad. I mean, listen, Super Bowl windows now. We got Russ for a year, maybe two. So IU comes. I mean, GP's on his rookie contract for another year or two years, actually. So I'm not worried about that.

We'll worry about that. Hey, that's down the road. Listen, you guys say it all the time. You win, there's enough for everyone to eat. That's what they say. Not necessarily here, but there will be enough to go around if we have some success. George Pickens, Brandon Ayuk.

Huh? All of a sudden you're talking. Tough to defend. Mooth, tough to defend with the two running backs. Yeah, with Naj on a contract here, right? If Russ is Russ. If Russ is the Russ that we think. Minor detail.

He's not doing runways in Paris. He's working. I mean, Russ had a good year last year, too. We're not talking about Russ as if he was shit like he was two years ago. Last year, he wasn't bad. Him and Sean Payton just didn't get along. That's kind of the thing with Russ. He was trash last year.

Okay. Why do you think he was trash last year. Okay. Why do you think he was trash last year? He was trash. Just ass? Yeah. Just not good? Bad decisions, bad throws, everything? All of the above.

He had his moment. Ball late, ball behind, didn't throw one good ball. The next ball a pick, didn't hold a ball. He didn't throw one good ball? No, he said he would throw one good ball, and then the next ball would be a pick. Inconsistent. A little inconsistent.

But he's back to his roots. He's boxing again. A lot of teams wish they had him, I'll tell you that. Who wanted him besides Pittsburgh? I'm just saying there are a lot of teams that don't have a legitimate, you know, it would take a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Colts? Giants?

Parker, I don't even know if you know this. Pittsburgh Steelers are only paying him $1 million this year. They're paying him $1 million. I like that. A lot of teams will take that. He's on his revenge tour. Denver's paying him $44 million or something this year. $44 million they're paying him.

Sounds like a good businessman to me. Yep, it certainly does. Vikings would gladly take him for $1 million as opposed to paying Sam Darnold $10 or whatever it is. I bet Jacksonville would like to have him come in and compete with Trevor Lawrence. He's paid Trevor a bunch of money. Raiders. He's paid him a bunch of money. We got Mack.

Raiders. The Raiders. Mack Jones is down there in Jacksonville. The Raiders. What are the Raiders doing? Gardner. Gardner Minshew. Aiden O'Connor.

I love Gardner Minshew. Why is that? I just think he's a dog, dude. Oh, yeah. He kind of has that Case Keenum thing. He can go in and win you a ball game. He can get you a W. I think he beat the Texans last year, didn't he?

All right. Yeah, he did. No, he did beat the Texans. Yeah, but he also was a part of the – He almost beat them in the last game of the season to get to the playoffs. Yeah. We had a first down, and we win that game. And guess who's not the whole –

I can't remember. What happened? Shut up, Parker. Okay, Parker. That hits a sauce. it was an afc south championship game we were in the building yeah we actually stuck around ford we had to fly somewhere uh we went to the uh yeah houston houston for the national championship yeah so we we flew down late we were supposed to be there like two days before it it is great that's part of the problem there's tornadoes actually it wasn't really wait to stay over an extra night yeah the problem. There was tornadoes, actually. It wasn't. Really? We had to stay out over an extra night.

Yeah, the night after. It was bad weather. Good place to stay an extra night. Well, now when there's tornadoes, you see, you can't do anything. Yeah. You see. Not with that attitude. Listen, maybe we get invited out to the ranch.

Do we get invited anywhere? Yeah, it would have been nice if you're doing all this cool shit and we're just hitting in the ranch. Four sixes? Is that what the ranch? No, it's called Hit Record Ranch. Oh, okay. Hit Record Ranch? Hit Record. What would four sixes be? It's. Four sixes? Is that what the ranch is? No, it's called Hit Record Ranch. Hit Record Ranch?

Hit Record. What would four sixes be? It's a three sixes, I thought. I think it's four sixes. No, it's a four sixes ranch. Four sixes ranch? What is the four sixes? It's a famous ranch in Texas, made a little more famous because it was on-

I heard Kevin Costner's never going back. Yeah, big time. I think Taylor Sheridan owns it now, doesn't he? Him and a group of guys bought it, something like that. We got some news out of the NFL world and cities paying taxes to the NFL,

which is only going to get, I think, more and more now with this $14 billion legislation that just took place. Look for new jerseys to come out. Every team's going to have at least two to three

new jerseys that everybody can pay if they're going to have to pay 450 million dollars per team in this direct tv class action lawsuit that's taking place the jacksonville jaguars are up for a new stadium they're actually going to not have a home for about a year as they're building new stadium they came to an agreement with the city of jacksonville congratulations to jacksonville in the the city of Jacksonville,

keeping the Jaguars there until at least 2040, I think, or 2050. I forget the entire exchange. But they're also investing a massive amount of money. The Jaguars and the city have agreed to contribute $625 million to the renovation, but the city also has agreed to pay $150 million over the next two seasons on maintenance and repairs. That's another $300 million there, if you look at that, and repairs to prepare the stadium for construction.

This means the city will be responsible for 55% of the total cost. In addition, the agreement calls Jaguars owner Shad Khan to be responsible for the cost overruns, if anything, takes place afterwards as they're rebuilding back up in the similar spot that the current stadium is at, that they will be preparing this upcoming season, and then they will be off a season, then they're going to be off and running. So ShotKon obviously negotiates a great deal for the Jacksonville Jaguars alongside the

city. That'll be paying 55% if you look at the 625, but then also $150 million as you set up. That doesn't count, though. What counts is what's going towards the new stadium. And then also down in Carolina. Carolina. An agreement has been reached by the Carolina Panthers with the city of Charlotte and the state of North Carolina. Where Tepper will be paying $150 million up front.

Okay, here's $150 million. And the city will be paying $650 million. And we do know that there was a facility, a practice facility being built built already in North Carolina where Tepper and the town had an agreement. The town did not hold up their end of the agreement, and after ground had already been broken, David Tepper stopped it and then filed bankruptcy and got the hell out of there. Bingo. So a deal getting done is a massive ordeal. It is obviously great for the city of Charlotte, great for North Carolina.

Their fans are desperate for the team to be great and for their team to be relevant. And now, new stadium, maybe Super Bowl goes there. It makes no sense that the Super Bowl has not been to Charlotte yet. Charlotte is a host city. Charlotte is a hub city. Charlotte is built for it. It would be a fantastic

Super Bowl host. With these renovations, I assume that was the upsell to get the tax passed. Hopefully it will take place. But congrats to both these teams investing in their team alongside their city. So the rendering didn't have a dome. Is there any chance that they're going to put one on? Because that is kind of the kicker when it comes to those Super Bowl conferences. So I would assume the dome and the retractable roof are very expensive. So like this being an $800 million renovation, I'm not 100% sure that covers anywhere near the amount it would be for a retractable roof.

But up in Buffalo, I appreciate the fact that you like it wide open and that's Buffalo football baby and everything like that. But you put a retractable thing on there, you can have events in the middle of winter in Buffalo, you potentially get a Super Bowl even though that would be a hard sell up there. It can't be ruined by the weather. And I think Charlotte's south enough that they would say it's okay. Yeah, I would assume in February that even if it's 60 degrees,

that's okay for a Super Bowl. But like you said, like Buffalo, you can leave that thing open the entire season and then just have the roof for the option so you can get a Super Bowl. There is no way a Super Bowl is going to Buffalo now, whereas, I mean, who knows? I don't know what the exact number of how much that stadium costs, but the amount you're losing by not putting a retractable roof on it is crazy. We think that NFL and games in cities bring a lot more value

than whatever is being paid, not only because like spirit and community and all that type of shit but actual cash coming to downtowns yeah for these games now the panthers had like 200 people at their last game correct that's not certainly uh doing anybody any favors but if it gets back to the place that it can be and hopefully will be this money will be earned back to the city in leaps and bounds. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, insider for NHL Network, panelist for Hockey Night in Canada, which is obviously the show. Ladies and gentlemen, Elliot Friedman.

You look awesome. You look awesome. The hair is flowing wonderfully. Thank you so much for joining us. And obviously the NHL awards were last night. We all knew that was happening, right? Elliot, we all knew the awards. Did you see the Pat McAfee impersonation? Okay, so

it was. So good, man. We're saying that was me. We are sure. Yes, yes. Okay, alright. Yes, I did see it. I am honored. I am absolutely honored. And thank you to Matt Friend. Very kind of him to be a part of that. We didn't know the NHL awards were taking place last night.

That's 100% on us. We need to look into that. Congrats, McKinnon. Congrats, Bedard. Obviously, the Florida Panthers. Today, though, the NHL draft is happening in the Sphere. I don't know. Does anybody know?

Should we know? What do we need to know going into this particular draft region? How should we be looking at this thing as a whole? Well, first of all i was in there for rehearsal this morning you're not allowed to post any photos on social or anything like that but it looks like just on the visuals itself it is i don't know if anyone's been there it looks terrific and it's going to be a great show visually it'll be a stutter the number one pick tonight from the san jose sharks will be a young man by Visually, it'll be a stutter. The number one pick tonight from the San Jose Sharks

will be a young man by the name of Macklin Celebrini. His father, Rick, has been a long time, a long time strength and, I don't even know what the proper way to call him is. It's like strength and conditioning, sports performance, science. He's one of the best at it. He works for the Golden State Warriors.

A couple of years ago, when the Golden State Warriors were in Chicago, Draymond Green went with him and Steve Kerr went with him to watch his son play for the USHL team in Chicago. Didn't have a great game that night and they left after two periods, but they could tell he was a real pro. He's not as spectacular as the rookie of the year this year, Conor Bedard, who plays for the Blackhawks, but he's extremely talented, and he's going to be a very good NHL player for a long time. He will help kickstart what the Sharks hope is their big rebirth. He's the number one pick.

All right, well, I'll smoke CBD out here and watch the Sphere do its thing. That is what you do. We actually have been in the Sphere. We were blessed by uh you too and uh what's his uh bono bono played some deep cuts which we're very thankful for it was super bowl week no we aren't that concert sucked and everyone knows it wait you didn't like the youtube concert no listen and i love it we're not getting into this we're not getting we're two fans we are not i am not2 fan, but I went in there.

I experienced the Sphere. I knew two songs. And I think when we were driving to the Sphere for the concert and driving away from the Sphere for the concert, I knew more than I thought of U2. I knew like 15, 20 U2 songs. Didn't hear any of them. He was playing basically an album, I think, because he was doing a lot. Acting baby.

Don't like that. Yeah, bingo. Super Bowl week. It was Super Bowl week. It was Super Bowl week. Play the hits, brother. Hello, hello. Didn't play it. Yeah.

Where the streets have no name. Didn't play it. Didn't play it. With or without. But he did play that one song. They didn't play that? No. They didn't play any other good song.

Not at all. Side of hand and twist of faith. There you go. Didn't play it. We were playing that in sound check yesterday, actually. Well, you're playing it more than they were playing it at Super Bowl week at the Sphere. And then there was also this one Sphere,

because how all-encompassing the Sphere. It is awesome. It's crazy. Incredible. It is a phenomenal place for a show, and hopefully the NHL gets the right ice and all this shit. Oh, yeah. I couldn't even fathom what they'll do,

although you saw it earlier today. Yeah. There was this one song, and obviously you're in vegas so 250 milligrams maybe 300 milligrams yeah at least trying to do it you know trying my best to get in really be a part of the show just ran all the worst words for yeah oh yeah half a minute straight every word really tough every word in your head right now that is a bad word yeah like makes you feel bad like Words that are just out there that are not a fun word

to hear ever. When you talk like crimes, death, murder, rape, incest, abortion, mass murder. Didn't go well with 300 milligrams. That was A-OK. But as I was watching it, I'm like,

what are we doing? They spammed him too with too, with, like, flashing strobe lights. It was like a full on. It was interesting the way his art was displayed. Then there was a balloon. The balloon bit was pretty cool. But then nobody came through the door. Yeah, but when he's singing to you through the door, though. We need you to do a sphere show, and then we would like to be a part of the consultation.

Were, like, seats vibrating and all that kind of stuff? Yeah, it was cool. Not enough. You want to stand, though. So it's an interesting dynamic. You two are obviously incredibly talented. They sold the place out. We paid, I think it was like $30,000 or $60,000 for a suite. I mean, you're going to make a good amount of money in there.

But I assume the sphere is going to be awesome tonight for all parties, not just dive on YouTube. I'll tell you this. When my eyes were closed there, I really thought I was listening to YouTube before. It's just like the same thing. Thank you. Thank you very much.

He's not lying. We don't need it. Big question in the hockey world, obviously, right now. Go ahead, Condon. Yeah, Elliot, right now there's a lot going on with the Oilers. Obviously, their GM's leaving. Is he definitely done with hockey, or is there a chance that he comes back? And then also Leon Dreisaitl.

I know the Bruins right now on some sportsbooks are the odds on favor to get him if he were to be traded. Is that something that we might see this offseason as well? First of all, with Ken Holland, I think that he will have a lot of options. I think that there's teams that are going to reach out to him. Do you want to be a consultant? Do you want to be an advisor? Like I've heard Utah, the new Utah team is one of the teams that's interested

in maybe having him come on as an advisor. He'll be able to take some time. Oh, really? Free, really? Utah's thinking about it? I think they're interested, yes. That would make sense because if you think about what Ryan Smith did

when he got an NBA team, he said, who's really good at making teams? He goes, Danny Ainge, you're coming in. Best ever. And then if you get an NHL team and you've had success with that, why don't you just do the same thing and now the Edmonton guy's contract is up? That feels like a... Doesn't that feel like a...

I don't think he'll be in charge of running the hockey ops but if they pursue him i think it'll be as kind of an advisor or a consultant kind of thing not overall president because he doesn't want the the full schedule of doing that and what that would be or i just like right now the position is not open right they filled it filled it And also, I'm not sure I'm not sure that he wants to do that I think that it's He might want to golf a bit more And what'd you say about dry saddle?

Go ahead What I would say about dry saddle is this I think that It was an emotional end of the season I don't think you're going to see anything in the near future like there were some fans who said hey if dry saddle's not committing you got to trade him by the draft the others don't feel that way there was in the first day he can sign an extension is july 1st and there were some people said look if you don't sign him by that day we're

going to panic and you might have to do something. The Oilers don't feel that way. This is going to go into the summer and they're going to hire a new general manager. And then they're going to sit down and they're going to talk about this. And the one thing I would say is, I don't think this is just a Leon Dreisaitl negotiation. I think that Leon Dreisaitl and Connor McDavid are going to want to know what each other thinks. And, you know, you guys played, you know, the emotion of going all the way to game seven of a championship final and losing it. Like you are in no position to make a big decision about your future in the aftermath. So I think everybody's going to take a few weeks to decompress, think about how they

feel. And I think not only are the Oilers going to talk to Drysaddle about his future, but I think it's going to be Drysaddle and McDavid talking with each other about how they see each other's futures, and then discussing it with the team. To me, this is a package thing. What's that mean? That means

they're both back, both gone, both this, both that? Are the Penguins getting Connor McDavid? Is that what I just heard? Well, first of all, he's not available for two years so you gotta wait longer no that's not that's not what you just heard oh i just think those two guys are going to sit down over the next couple of weeks and talk they're really tight they live not far from each other in the offseason and i think the two of them are going to talk about how they see the future and how that's going to work uh together okay so gensel is potential free agent you know he's going to be he's going to

be a big conversation piece i assume so this is what i can tell you pat this morning or sometime last night the belief is that gensel had an ask for Carolina, which I have not confirmed, but I believe it's eight times eight. And I think the Hurricanes have indicated they will do that. They have said to him, we will do that contract. And I think at this point in time, we're waiting to see if it gets hammered out. There are some teams who believe he's going to stay. There are some teams who believe teams like Tampa Bay are waiting to see if it does happen.

And if not, Tampa Bay and Vancouver, they'll try to take their runs at Gensel. But the word here in Vegas this morning is that Carolina has indicated they will match Gensel's ask. And they're willing to put together a contract. Well, congratulations to the Caniacs. Nothing is done until it'ss. Nothing is done until it's done. Nothing is done until it's done. But they have indicated they will match. For the people

in America who maybe don't know who this man is, this is like the Shefty rap sheet of the hockey world in Canada. So normally when old free just sniffing around on something normally, you know, and we appreciate that you did that for us there because, you know, the Pittsburgh Penguins just said, yeah, get Gensel out of town. And he leads them to the, he leads them to be the Stanley Cup favorites.

And it's like, now I'm hearing he could be a free agent. It's like, we, we didn't have to trade. Like, what do we even, we didn't even have to trade them. Nope. And then we were in a playoff hunt towards the end of this. I mean, a lot of shit happened in Pittsburgh. I'm not happy about, but I'm not just going to direct this entire conversation about the penguins they got a sick new jersey from fanatics i saw it this morning

it is amazing go ahead aj your question for free what about the the stanley cup champions the florida panthers when when bill zito and the boys you know have a window of sobriety tonight when they're you know in between celebrating. What are they going to do? What kind of holes do they feel like they might need to plug? Well, I think their biggest free agent this year was Sam Reinhart, scored 57 goals this season and had the winning goal in the Stanley Cup final in Game 7. The belief has been, A.J., that they're going to sign him,

and there's a lot of talk that they appear to have something done. The word last night was around the eight years, nine, maybe 9.5 range. Again, nothing is done until it's done. But that was the word floating around here in Vegas. I'm putting myself out there a little bit today, so I hope some of these turn out to be right. But, you know, the belief is that Reinhardt's going to stay. They're also talking to another one of their playoff heroes

from the last couple of years, Carter Verhage, who's been a big postseason goal scorer for them. They hope to get an extension hammered out this weekend. They have indicated that those are two of the biggest deals that they want to get done the next little while. They have a couple of defensemen we're keeping an eye on. Brandon Montour is a free agent. It doesn't appear that they're going to have the ability or flexibility right now to get that done so montour could hit the market and there'd be a lot of teams looking

at him and there was a report last night that aaron eklat who is the longest serving panther the uh the assistant captain, the defenseman, that they may be trying to trade him. He's got a year left on his contract and they may have to move him to keep some flexibility. We'll see where that goes. But definitely Reinhardt and Verhege are their big targets.

Reinhardt appears close to locked up. Verhege they're going to work on this weekend. It's crazy how quick it all comes for Zito and him. Have to. He was just throwing a water bottle like four days ago. Pissed off. Now he's a Stanley Cup champion crying all over the place and all of a sudden

it's like, hey, your assistant captain, we gotta get him out of here. They talk about how close of a family that team is and then the reality of professional sports kind of hits them right in the mouth just a couple days later. I'm happy I'm not in that position. Tampa Bay, I guess Stephen Stomkos is potentially on the move.

Is that real? Yes, that is real. The GM, Julian Briseois, met with reporters this morning. He said, we have not been able to make a deal, and I'm not sure if we can. Tom Meehan, the agent, said today that it appears as if he's headed to free agency on July 1st. A couple of things here. Number oneuly 1st a couple of things here number

one i remember a couple years ago you've getting malkin they said free agent the next day he got a deal done um so i am always careful you should always make sure this doesn't do a quick swerve or something like that but i think the challenge here with stamos is, if you look at the Lightning's history, their core players, they have always taken care of them a year out. Kucherov a year out, Vasilevsky a year out, Hedman a year out, Point a year out. They said today that Hedman, who has another year left in his contract, may be signing an extension as soon as Monday. They have never taken care of Stamkos in advance. He is a really friendly, polite, first-class guy. But even people like that reach a point, and I'm wondering if he's finally hit it.

Remember last time, he got within three days of free agency and took the deal. We'll see if he changes this time. All right, Fred, we appreciate the hell out of you. What time is this whole thing taking place tonight? 7 o'clock Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. We can't wait to watch and see the next class of NHL

All-Stars come in. Everybody drafted tonight, going to make the All-Star team. Especially when it gets drafted by the Bruins. And the Penguins. Does everybody have a pick? No. Sorry, I didn't realize you were talking to me. No, not everybody has a first rounder. I think there's six teams that have multiple

first round picks. Do the Penguins have a first round pick? I gotta check. Oh, no. No. I don't remember off the top of my head. No, it's gone as part of the Carlson deal. I know he's going to be watching this anyway. What did you get them for? I just wanted to make sure.

They made a trade with Carolina, and I didn't think they got it, but I just didn't want to radio myself on television. Hey, it's okay. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. You made us smarter. We'll watch. You're the man, ladies and gentlemen. Senior NHL insider at NHL Network and panelist for Hockey Night in Canada,

ladies and gentlemen, L.A. Fried NHL Network and panelist for Hockey Night in Canada, ladies and gentlemen, Ellie Friedman. Yeah, please! Your teen requested a ride, but this time, not from you. It's through their Uber Teen account. It's an Uber account that allows your teen to request a ride under your supervision with live trip tracking and highly rated

drivers. Add your teen to your Uber account today. You didn't get a first for Getzel? What a joke, man! What a joke! There was like six days left in the season. Did you see this Fenway Sports group, what they're up to? Oh, I believe you. I've seen a lot of what they're up to.

Have you seen the video on here? It doesn't make me happy, brother. They're like the commanders. They're like the commanders. They got poop and piss running all over the stadium. That's rain. It's not poop and piss. It's rain.

Up here in Boston, it's... It rained a lot. It's not poop and piss. It's rain. Thanks a lot, LeBron. Yeah, sorry. When the coolest, oldest stadium in the country needs some, you know, maybe renovations and the Fenway Sports Group, which runs the Penguins,

doesn't like spending money, then, yeah, you got to deal with some rain. They still spend to the cap. This is LeBron's fault. What? Ever since he joined that FSG, they have not spent any money. Very true. Very true. Yeah, as a Sox fan, it's true.

And now with the Penguins, I mean, look, you can make your own kind of inferences about it, but that's just how it's been. Let's talk about some other things that are taking place around the sports world before we pepper Parker McCollum with our last batch of questions here on ESPN. The ESPYs are taking place here

in a couple weeks. Promotions taking place. A lot of conversation about Pat Tillman's name, American hero, obviously football guy, who had a full football career ahead of him, said, nah, I need to go serve the United States of America. Ends up passing away with friendly fire, which was a whole scene of itself. Now there's an award named after him, as there should be in the sports world, because that is somebody who is the definition of selfless. It's going to Prince Harry, who I don't even think is a prince anymore.

He said, don't call me that. Yeah, he's been excommunicated as well. Chosen. See, why does the SBs do this shit? You know what I mean? This is asinine. This is actually the most embarrassing thing I think I've ever seen in my entire life. But it's for sports people.

That's what the award is for, yeah. Somebody who's committed their life to sport and everything like that. It's like when you do something like this, you know the immediate reaction from humans and from sports fans and people with just common sense and brains. It's going to be like, hey, don't be putting our fucking guy

with that. He served though, didn't he? Prince? Yeah. I think it's a part of the entire process. And I assume Prince Harry, by the way, I don't know anything about him except for the South Park episode and then what I've learned from the Crown and everything like that. Did his people know? Like, hey, you publicly put me up for this award.

You're just asking basically every person that considers themselves American saying this is bullshit, especially at a sports award type thing. I assume he knew that. They didn't expect that. I don't like it. Nobody does. They probably don't know anything about it. They probably have no idea about the award.

They just say, oh, of course, yeah, let's put you up for something. Let's get you, you know, you can go give a great speech here at this American award show. And I got a chance to talk at the beginning of the ESPYs. Much to the chagrin of the people that run the ESPYs, you know, they weren't necessarily thrilled about any of that and uh all that but like come on man come on come on come on come on you know because you can celebrate sport we should celebrate sport especially like the worldwide leader should celebrate sport in the moments and everything like that but doing

something like this is just obviously trying to piss people off i i you know what i mean and it's like there's been numerous decisions of this type of thing over the last what decade five yeah i think there's one person that has kind of been put in charge of this entire thing like it's like come on bro come on come on come on come on come on it's just a gimmick it's like you couldn't find like either some active u.s military member or someone who can't serve anymore because of something that they did while serving. There's probably hundreds and thousands of people that they could have found who could have benefited from this award, but instead, let's give it to Prince Harry. Make up an award. Yeah.

Very least somebody from the United States. Or just make up an award. How about it's like the ESPY for a royal family member who doesn't want to be called royal family member who loves sports. Those two. Got a great ring to it. They should do that. That'd be a sweet award. They could do that. They could do that. Or do like a global one.

They could do whatever they want, really. Obviously. It's embarrassing. It is. It's tough. You know what else is wild? This Filipowski stuff. I'm not diving into it. It is crazy yeah i want to hear everybody's side of that he went to the right place i want them to cut bingo that's why it adds even more to it like is this kind of a part of it and then like you you think of the

conversations that had to happen behind the scenes but you know um we need all parties represented in there with the muted mics, no audience. Okay? Just like we saw last night. So we can get the full on, you know, coherent thoughts from everybody that's in front of one of those mics. Just like last night. Sure. But we're also all on the same page with this one, right? I mean, I don't think your brother and mom and family members are coming out and putting that on Twitter very publicly if it's not like

hey, this is the situation. You never know. Yeah, you never know. Yeah, but he did in his pregame interviews and his combine interviews answer all the questions.

Know all the facts. Alright. We'll be back in a couple weeks. Didn't lie. We thank you all so much for allowing us to do this stupid shit every day. Goodbye. Buy tickets from SeatGeek. Nailed it.

Got it in. Yep. Got it in. That's on me. Do you think there's, like, I see you two up there on the screen together, you and AJ. You think there's, like, a third co a third co-host just live streaming our show and doing their own show? That would be sweet.

And then is Elon promoting it too? Yeah. Yeah, I don't think people are doing it. I saw it last night. It was cool. The real one. Good idea. Exactly.

And he crushed. He won. It was crazy. He always had the final word. It's crazy. Yeah, and a little bit more time, too. Yeah, exactly. Just a little.

What a great night. It was such a great night. USA loses to Panama. Okay? We lost to Japan. What? And then we got that thing happening. It's like, what the fuck has been going on?

I don't pay attention enough. Okay? That is very evident. Because last night I turned on my TV, and I think AI is taking over, and it's not real. You know, and there's a lot of people saying, I think AI is taking over and it's not real. There's a lot of people saying, you know, it's like, who's making this? That's what's happening right now. What have you guys been doing over there?

You guys have been attacking sports people for a long time. Remember the journalists and politicians? Sports people are stupid. Notre Dame, Clemson. We're dumb. Yeah, bingo. Yeah, the whole thing. We get attacked. We're dumb.

We're this. We're this. And then I get a glimpse into their world like once every four years, I guess. What? What? What are we doing? Is there anybody? There has?

Hey, smart people. Figure it out. Figure it out. Okay, we appreciate that. They need to run like a highlight tape tonight of like George Washington beheading some Brits with like a saber, you know, saying like, hey, this is what we used to be. To get our mojo back? Exactly. You guys remember this?

Remember when GW was going down the river and just being like, you know what? That was violent to watch. Six handicap. Okay. Lie. That's a lie. That was amazing. Carry his own bag? Yep. What?

What are we? We are not in reality? So we're just saying. I'll tell you what, I'd watch it. Bingo! Oh, hell yeah. We need it. It's huge.

They both secured their bags. We should watch it. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Did you hear that? Almost. Almost! Almost.

Got it? Oh, you mean almost. That was spot on. Hey, just real quick. So when you're playing at night at these concerts, if I go to Seagate. Country music concert. Country music concert. When you do this.

Yeah. Do the rock. Is the rock the down strum or the up strum? Don't forget about that front foot. I think it's an up strum. The front kick. There it is. There it is.

I got one move. It's awesome. strong. The front kick. There it is. I got one move and right here on live television, that's it. That's all you need. It's the best ever. You don't fear the man that practices 10,000 kicks. You fear the man that practices one kick 10,000 times. Bars.

Do you ever start playing the drums on your guitar during the show? No, bars. Well said. Do you ever start playing the drums on your guitar during the show? You ever start doing that? No, sure. No drums for part of it. I play them in sound check every now and then, the real drum set. Oh, you do? Every now and then.

How much guitar are you playing throughout a concert? Because I know some guys play a lot. It all kind of depends on how it sounds. Like, some nights I can't hear. Sometimes it sounds really, really good, and I'm right there with the guys. And then sometimes it doesn't, so I'll kind of lay lay back because i don't want to be throwing them off if i can't because like i'm out i'm over here over there i'm doing the whole deal so like and we don't run there's no tracks there's nothing fake on stage there's no live auto tune in our show

never has been never will be like it's a real band really ripping 100 live how common is that park for real how common is that to play like you guys do with like you said no auto-tune track no like in in popular country yeah like any normal concert in normal concert super popular there's there's still there i mean there's there's a lot of bands that do it but there's a lot of bands that don't which i i just prefer that i like bands yeah i like music i grew up loving bands i like to hear people I want to hear you know I don't want to listen to sometimes it's good like some artists are really do it really well and and I don't even think about it but I like a band do you only like country music or do you like oh no aside from country who are your guys I mean I was listening to EI by Nelly yesterday

I just forgot I'd forgotten about this i'd forgotten about the song and i was like looking for something new in the gym i was like damn that song goes so hard yeah it certainly does him and alia or no not alia sorry uh rest in peace to alia yeah jesus i am so sorry too i am Sorry to... I am going to leave... That's on me. That's on me. They're having a baby. Yeah. Nellie and Ashanti are having a baby.

It's like Ben Affleck in jail getting back together. But they're going to end up... Yeah, they're done. What? Yeah, they're... Yeah. Well, they just got back together again. She's back on Starbuck.

He's smoking again. Intriguing to... Yeah, it's a whole thing. You's smoking again. In training. Get to him. Yeah, he is. Yeah, it's a whole thing. You have a favorite city to play? Outside of Des Moines from last night. Man, I really like playing in Boston.

Food! Best fans in the world, baby. Best fucking fans in the world! I'm so sick of that. I like playing in Boston. I really like playing in Austin, Texas, just because that's where it kind of started for me. I moved there like 10 days after I graduated high school Told everybody I was going to be a country singer

Nobody believed me Hell yeah Fucking suck it Yeah, 100% For a long Hawk tour So I love playing in Austin, Texas That city just kind of

I lived there for a long time So it just kind of I don't know I feel good when I step off the bus. Zito just told me July 12th you're playing with Carrie Underwood in Chicago. Is that true? I think Carrie's on another night. Oh, just saying.

I think we headline Friday night. I think Carrie may be the night before. Headline? Is that a big deal too, like headlining festivals? I mean, that means you're the biggest artist that night. Fucking sweet. That'd be cool. I love Chicago, man.

I really like playing there. They got great golf courses. Yeah, you're a sandbagger. We all know that. The guy cheats. As my guitar player, Alex, says, I rarely cheat at golf. Every now and then, I will. Yeah, but you'll tell people you're bad at golf.

No, I am bad at golf. See, there it is. You saw me on that par-34. What's your handicap? Dude, legitimately. Six? See, there it is. You saw me on that par 3 course. What's your handicap? Dude, legitimately. Six? No, it's not. I'll tell you right now, I could beat Joe Biden.

Oh! This guy's a five handicap. I could do that. I could do that, but I'm not a five handicap. Dude, I would do some unforgivable stuff to be a five handicap. That'd be... Like what? What are you?

Hawk good. Hawk good. For a five handicap,'d be hell yeah like what what do you mean for five handicap you know what i mean i'm a businessman dude that's that having a good handicap is good for business it is a lot of things get done out there and being good at golf is certainly a benefit in all aspects of life and you are very good at golf and you acted like you weren't and then dunked in my face pretty much uh almost hold first hole almost all one of the first swing too like a perfect swing i would imagine parker's got a perfect swing probably worked like butch harman no i swing over the top super hard yeah i can hit it a long way but i can't hit it straight very often um the only thing i'm really good at golf is chipping like i my short

game is i have good hands. You shoot like 74 probably. No, I've shot 86. I've shot 80. The score of 80, six times with a double on 17 or 18, all six times. Mentally, we weren't ready for that. I've never broken 80. I hate to admit that on national television because all the men in my family are absolute sticks.

Good news. We're only on the internet. You're the worst in your family? By far. I beat my dad for the first time ever the other day at Austin Country Club. Good news. We're only on the internet. You're the worst in your family? By far. Yeah, he said, I believe. I beat my dad for the first time ever the other day at Austin Country Club. I missed like six birdie putts in a row to shoot 83. And he's really good. I mean, he's a 4'5 handicap.

And like 83 is good for me. Like that's a nice day on the course for me. I shoot 83. I'm like, I'm playing today. Six misses. Jeez, man. Yeah, six in a row. I parled the last six straight like, I'm playing today. Six misses. Jeez, man. Yeah, six in a row. I pulled the last six straight holes, and I had a birdie putt.

I just won my day, dude. They weren't falling. But that's a stick, and I did beat them. You know John Butler Trio? No. We play the – Let's hear it. Let's hear it.

We'll play it up here. I can't play it just now because I don't really know. Light a hand and twist your face. YouTube stream. Who's that? That's you, too. That's you, too know. Light a hand and twist your pain. YouTube stream. Who's that? That's you too. That's you too. That's a $60,000 concert you went to.

What do you mean? They didn't play that. Just play the hit. That's why you don't know. I can't believe they wouldn't play that. Bro, it was the worst set list maybe ever. For sure. Not maybe ever.

It was the worst set list ever. They also used like a quarter of the sphere. Yeah, they didn't. The sphere is bono. I'm not getting in this again. We started a whole fucking thing. I heard the Grateful Dead thing is great. I heard multiple people say it's really cool.

Yeah, the videos look awesome. And when we're in there, we're experiencing this concert. It's like, in my head, I was like, okay, if we were to get somebody that really invested in this place, it would be an awesome show. I think Chelsea's the best venue in Vegas, dude, in the Cosmo. It's like a five, six, seven, maybe thousand person theater. It's not better than the Sphere. No, but it's just a great, like, I don't need the Sphere. The Sphere's probably great.

It's probably an incredible experience, but like. We need you in the Sphere. You need to watch the show. We'll do the creative design. Yeah, like. I like that. A thousand horses running behind you. Yeah, like you're riding in a stampede of horses.

A stampede of horses. Golly. Production costs are going to be high. No, it'll be an actual horse on a treadmill. Yeah. You'll be riding.

But the screen will have fake horses. Riding behind you. Yeah. And you'll be naked in the fucking charge. And Connor will be front row.

Naked riding bareback, dude. Boom. Get those viral views. You guys are ranching out there. Can you riding bareback, dude. Boom. Get those viral views. You guys are ranching out there. Can you ride bareback? Dude, we would do it like every now and then when I was a kid. I've ridden a horse butt naked before, yes, but it's the worst idea I've ever had. Careful, that's cowboys.

So when you're riding a horse, you've got your guitar because you've got to go show up at a gig at a saloon. Is it around your back like this? Is that how we're riding a horse you got your guitar because you got to go show up at a song 100 a gig in a saloon is it around your back like this is that how we're is this what we're riding in on you bet your hole yeah this is how you do it bet your hole and then on top of the thing are you yep boom i had a horse i had a horse i would stand on all the time named shorty you're a high horse guy huh yeah it makes sense you're a high horse and all no not a high horse guy, huh? Yeah, it makes sense you're a high horse and all that. No, not a high horse. You're better than me. And tattooed. That's why you look down on everybody. Parker, don't call them football. Me $3,000 boots on my feet.

If you go to a Pat McAfee show and he doesn't play that, worst set list ever. That's the hit. Worst set list ever. We would like to gift you this. Wow. You gave us boots. Special guitars.

We'd like to gift you this guitar from us to you. There's a little dust on it, but... Play it tonight. Don't let it fool you. Let the sound of battle... I wrote a song with him, David Lee Murphy. Yeah, it's called Hurricane. It's our opening song on the show tonight.

The only song in all of my country music career I've ever said the word beer in. True story. Yeah, why don't we do that more? You think about that for later? Man, it's not my thing, you know? Write a beer song? I'm kind of a nerd with the songwriting thing man what do you mean i just like i don't know i don't the the beer pickup truck dirt road the hell's wrong with that

it's great it's great it's great points but there's so much of it no no no no well there's not enough american flag once you could do a song about the you know why there's so much of it because all those things are awesome. All the time? Yeah. We're very aware that those are country music song words. I never heard that before.

What about a ranching one? What about a ranching one? Yeah. A little ranching song? She broke my heart so I broke a horse. Speaking of ranch, don't y'all think

Hidden Valley? Don't y'all like Runny Ranch? Yeah. Ranch dressing? Yeah. Of course. Hidden Valley.

I want to put this on the internet and call them out. They've been missing a huge opportunity for several decades. They have thick, thick ranch. And they're like the face of ranch dressing. It's bullshit. It needs to be Runny. And somebody needs to address that. The store-bought ones.

Wait a minute. Hold the phone. Craft Ranch things, too. It needs to be addressed immediately. Whoever the CEO of Hidden Valley is. I think Hidden Valley's got it. Probably the same guy at Boeing. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, too. It needs to be addressed immediately. Whoever the CEO of Hidden Valley is. I think Hidden Valley's got it. Probably the same guy at Boeing. Whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Play a song. Don't talk about that. Don't talk about that. We like you. We like you. We like to keep you around. What's that, AJ?

I don't know. I thought he was talking about the moon landing. I saw a clip online sometime. All right. Space station. AJ, do you think we went to the moon? Parker? Yeah, we went.

We were there. Absolutely. They hit golf balls from the moon, Parker. We know that. You think, Parker? Yeah, we did, Parker. I'll say this. Yep, we did.

You're from around there. Houston, we have a problem. I think we went. But if they didn't really go, I understand 100% why they lied. Amen. And I'm very happy that they did. To beat Russia. I like that. And I'm very happy that to beat russia like that

and i'm very happy that they did they had to win that race we're not here brother we're not here that might be the smartest i've ever heard on the subject they we're not here if they don't why don't you sing a song about that if we lied it was good yeah had to win the space race i don't even know uh the copies And fuck their face Boom There's the verse What are we doing Your fucking job

I don't know how many songs We can write for you In one day Feel You ever Performed at the N.H. Delverward show Do that

I haven't played this one. Were you there last night? Did you and Pat fly in together? All right. I was not there. No, I flew into Iowa yesterday afternoon. Hell yeah. How was Iowa?

Electric, dude. Always is, man. Yeah, they were money last night. Really, really good. Were you playing Wells Fargo? We did. Yeah. Great venue.

Really cool. Will you play that guitar tonight, the gift from us? I can play it. I can play it. I can smash it. You should smash it, too. What guitar do you play that guitar tonight? The gift from us? I can play it. I can play it. I can smash it. You should smash it, too. How many guitars do you play in a night? One guitar?

Three. Maybe we don't smash it. How's your guitar tech? Maybe we just play it. Is your guitar tech just a nuclear weapon? He's great, man. His name's Eric. I don't think he likes me very much.

That's interesting. Is that a guitar tech thing? I don't know. How many picks do you throw per show? He doesn't really get my jokes. You do every time i'm messing with him he's always like okay how many pictures i'm like how many my bad dude yeah don't disrespect you sorry you're you're working for how many picks yeah how many pictures a lot of picks but it varies you shoot them like if you see a beer i've actually got so i got a little something tonight

it's making its debut tonight. What? Indianapolis? Okay. I've been working on getting this device for a while. And we, luckily, we carry one of the pieces of this puzzle, a CO2 or whatever it's called, that we have it on stage for some of our production.

And so I have a t-shirt going. Took a while to come in. Headshots. We were going to use it last night. It shoots like 400 feet, dude. We're going to be sending them tonight. You need to drill someone.

Front row. You look like you need one. Free t-shirt. Free t-shirt gets the people going. Are you going to Hulk Hogan this thing? Are you going to? I don't know. Tonight, I haven't even gotten to see it in person yet.

It just came in yesterday. They're getting filled up right now. You need to sauce it. You need to sauce it. I want an automatic one. Oh, they have one of those at the theater. Yeah, it's like a Gatling gun. There's probably 20 little things, and you wheel it out, and it goes fucking nuts. Seriously.

That is a good idea, though. I made a mistake getting the one I got. I'm going to start with this one now. Can you play I'm a Real American while you do it? In Hulk Hogan and stuff? Yeah. I'm a Real American? I am a real American.

Fight for the future shirt for every man great song who is that? that's Hulk Hogan's fucking entrance song heard of him? I saw him in person for the first time in my life at Formula 1 Miami I've only been starstruck a couple times

in my life and I didn't even talk to him and I was just like I remember you in that really shitty Three Ninjas that's all good and I remember you in that really shitty three ninjas Hogan's not shitty them the remake of the three that's what when I was a kid that's what that's why I remember him from I mean shout out Dave drag I'm getting cooked on there on the fucking Pat McAfee should know you, you're not. I'm getting cooked. No, you just cooked Hulk Hogan. He's got skinny legs.

He's talking shit at Hulk Hogan. Hulk's a redeemed himself, too. He can do it every one on your last day at work. Was Grandpa Tanaka in the third one? Maury Tanaka? Was he in the third one? I don't remember. Oh, no.

Was Colton Tum Tum in Rocky? No, I think the kids were different actors. They were. They were, yeah were The first two were High Noon at Mega Mountain fucking stinks You can say that It wasn't good The first one was awful

The first one was unbelievable You couldn't live up to it Hogster's newest movie with the big show Fucking delivered Young Hercules It's not even about any of that anymore for Hogan. It's just about karaoke night on Mondays at Hogan Hangout.

What'd you need to stop by? I felt bad for him, dude. He had to admit all that stuff on video on court. I have a lot of sympathy for him. You doing any covers tonight or what? What'd he admit? No. A hammer. Oh boo hoo, I got a big old dick. Sorry I lay pipe, brother.

So you're not playing any covers tonight? We don't usually play covers. No? I like it. You did for our show down in Alabama. Yeah, I was there. Huh? Was that what you played?

I think so. No, you played Sweet Home Alabama. Oh, you mean on the y'all show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you did. And then on game day, did you? Nobody heard it, though, because the microphone was worn off. Yeah, well, if it means anything, we're now full Zito production again.

Yeah, we fixed that. Yeah, because every week there's something. I had a text from my dad afterward. It was just dot, dot, dot, Mike. I was like, I guess he was watching. Yeah, he was. He should have been proud because you were. That was an uncomfortable situation for all of us.

Absolutely. That was tough. Y'all put me out there on a fucking island. You said y'all. I mean, come on. Come on. It wasn't – I mean, it was, obviously. We had a conversation where the conversation was not that.

I won't complain, and I texted you after this. I was grateful just to have the opportunity. Yeah, I understand that. But, boy, we felt terrible that you were muted. Happened to Bill Belichick, too, if it means anything. His debut on our show, muted, 10 minutes. Same people doing a lot of the same stuff. So we just kind of moved on.

Yeah, well, sometimes. Isn't he dating a real young lad? I don't know. Not a lad. Lassie. I haven't heard that. Comparatively speaking, probably a lad. What?

No, she's a lass. She's a woman. She's a woman. She is. She's young, though. She's younger. I a woman. She's a woman. She is. She's young, though. She's younger. I love that. It's all relative.

Way to go, Billy. It's a long time, though. Billy Belly. It was a very long time. Billy Belly. Hey, Bill's living his life. Hey, whatever makes Bill happy, you just got to do it. And we heard from said lady's ex-boyfriend, who also older gentleman, said she is wise beyond her years.

Hey, whatever people got to do to make themselves happy. What have they got to do? Speaking of being happy, when you play that guitar tonight we are going to be so pumped. We're going to be so thankful. And you should break it in half. You should. Maybe a thousand pieces. I don't know if he should have it anymore after the things he said

the past couple minutes here. About what? About Hulkster? Yeah. I didn't say anything bad about Hulk. You didn't say anything what? About Hulkster? Yeah. I knew that was going to I didn't say anything bad about Hulk. You just didn't know. You didn't say anything good? Don't worry about it. I said the movie that they tried to make into a trilogy. In the bedroom? Did not live up to

the first two. What movie? What was the name of that one? Three Ninjas High Noon in Mega Mountain. Yes. The rollercoaster one where they go to the theme park. There it is. Trash. Hulk was great, though. Oscar-worthy in that one. Yeah. Real good. AJ

in the shot just speaking from fucking right there. Just fuming. Incredibly offended after he defended my great legs. What's happening? Hey, guys. AJ, you see these boots I got on? Hey, guys. AJ, you see these boots

I got on? Those are legit. Thank you. They're actually getting more and more comfortable as the day goes on, which is good. You can kick them in the face. Who's that? AJ. That would hurt. Don't do that. No, hip flexor. I guess this would be the test. Yeah, bring him down a little bit here.

Yep, there we go. No, no, keep him down. little bit here. A little bit higher. Yep, there we go. No, no, keep bringing him down. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. And then let's go ahead. Are you ready, folks? You know which way we're headed. Boom. Boom.

Yeah. Oh, no. You got it. You still got it. All right, let's get the hell out of here. Let's have a great weekend. Let's have a week off. Let's do this entire thing.

We'll see you guys in a few weeks. We can't thank you enough for joining us. If Parker McCollum is playing a show in your town, you should go. I mean, the guy's a showman. Big time. Thanks, guys. He's awesome. Stage presence. Burn it down to a coming to a city near you. You have pizzazz. Hey, thanks a lot.

Just so I know, what key did I sing that Burn It Down? G. I think Burn It Down's in G. How do you know? The keys are so weird to me. How do you know that? I can just tell. It's like muscle memory for me. When I was singing, it was in my head. What's a C?

It was the same. That's a C. How's that sound in your voice? A C. Late night train back to Austin. That's a C. Good call. That's a good key.

What's another key? Say it key. What's another key? Say it again. What's another key you could sing in? G. It's a weird... Burn it down till it's ashes and smoke. That's G. That's good, too.

G. Okay, what is F? I wish I knew anything about music. I don't have anything in the key of F, but like, so. What's another key that would be a good one to ask, Ray Dunn? A. E. Right, E is good.

It's a long day. Yeah. Living in the sea, there's a freeway. Living in the sea, there's a freeway. Running through the yard, I'm a bad boy. Don't even miss her, I'm a bad boy. For breaking her heart, and I'm free. Free falling, falling. free free falling falling and i'm free

free falling falling and i'm free And I'm free, free falling, falling And I'm free, free falling, falling Free falling, falling back down. Wow. That was awesome. Can I be honest with you? I had no idea that was your song.

It sounded a little different than I heard that song before. I had no idea that was your song that you wrote. Free Falling? Yeah. 100%. Yeah. You didn't know that? No.

Did you also, was there a dance with Mary Jane that happened one last time? Did you do that? Did you write that song? A long, long time ago, yeah. Yeah. That was a good song, too. A fast car. Didn't you write Fast Car?

Yeah, I wrote Fast Car. That thing's song. Ramy. Yeah. Hey, that was amazing. 40 years later. Thank you for doing that. Thanks. That was really cool. Real talent. Thanks for having me. I thought I was amazing. 40 years later. Thank you for doing that. Thanks.

That was really cool. Real talent. Thanks for having me. I thought I was coming on for like a five-minute interview. So that was pretty cool. So why would we ever do that? Just like- 99.99% of everything I've ever done, even remotely close to this, has been very like,

you know, they just have you on boom and you're out. Oh, no. Not in here. Not in here. That's true. Yeah. It would make no sense. Why would we do that's dumb so i sincerely appreciate that what you wanted to do yeah what the fuck you enjoyed the game no i just wasted all i felt like i just dropped 80 like kobe that's something like okay you did like that truly a couple assists too some nights you can't buy a bucket and some nights you drop 80 i mean when we'll dunk with

this question as well yeah yeah can't leave a bucket, and some nights you drop 80. I mean, Wayne will dunk with his question as well. Yeah. Can't leave that out of the house. Yeah, you did do journalism. Journalism? You did some inflection in your voice. I don't know what you want to. Maybe B minor.

B minor. C, F major. Oh, you want to put on a high school theme? You already smoking? Oh. I like that. Do you not watch Sopranos? Oh, yeah.

I do not. He tried. He tried. Numerous times. I did. You got watch Sopranos? Oh yeah I do not He tried He tried Numerous times I did You got a song from there? No I can't even think of one song in that show There it is

Y'all should legitimately Put out one track Y'all should legitimately put out one track. We all have. Yeah. Y'all should put out a legitimate. What if we stood behind you tonight? I don't really want to commit us to anything, you know, because we are a pretty noncommittal group.

But if we were. I think that's why we get along so well. If we were potentially to do this behind you, we might all change our course of plans. Dude, but you got to be in time. Do you not see this? Hello. Right on time, bub.

We sound like that thing that goes in your ear whenever you're writing songs. What's that thing called? Metronome. A lot of white people get in trouble when they start clapping. Okay, Parker. Gets you way out of time.

What the hell? Yeah, we agree. That's very true. So you don't do any of this in your show? It's like, hey, let's... No. If you have in-ears, you're good because you can't hear them. But if it's like a radio thing or acoustic thing or something, they start clapping.

We're all looking at each other like, we're fucked. It's all... Favorite song to play? Favorite song to play? Probably Tales I Lose. Heads. You win. You didn't cover any Big and Rich tonight?

That's right. Save a horse, ride a cowboy. No, no. No Big and Rich. What the fuck, man? What is that song? Save a horse, ride a cowboy. Well, I'll saddle up my horse and I'll ride it to the city.

Make a lot of noise because the girls, they are so pretty. Riding up and down Broadway on my old studly horse. Girls say, save a horse, ride a cowboy. Look at us. Let us be the creative director. There you go, guys. All right. So we got that.

Free falling. Yeah. And last dance. And last dance. Maybe a couple U2 hits. With or without you. I'm not lying. We literally, Alex, one of my guitar players, started playing that randomly in some of my

favorite songs ever. Banger. Yeah. And sound. You won't hear them at the Sphere. No, you won't. Don't go see U2 at the Sphere. They won't play it.

They're done, I think. They're done. Y'all need to have Bono on the show. I don't think Bono's coming on. Bono would love it. He would love it. Maybe The Edge. Bono would shoot me in the head if he got the opportunity.

Yeah, Ty was a little boozed up, a little hungover, slashed both of them after that particular concert. Then we go live from Radio Row, and we had all talked, and we all felt the same exact way about the concert. Like 10, 15 deep, all feeling the same exact way. Like, Sphere's cool, but this is bullshit that this is how this went. Especially Super Bowl week.

So Ty just couldn't contain himself. Kicks off the show. 10-minute rant. I believe in playing the hits, man. Big time. Waiting all night for Uno, Dos, Tres, Catorce. I even have songs that I get tired of. And I'm like, if I went and saw John Mayer, I'd want to hear Gravity. I'd want to hear Slow Dancing in a Burning Room. If I go hear George Strait, he doesn't play Amarillo by morning,

I'd be like, I'd be disappointed. Fuck, George. George Strait ain't disappointed by like that. Well, he has 60 number ones, dude. So how do you even pick a set list? And he only played eight of them? Let's play them all. 60 number ones? Most. So how do you even pick a set list? And he only played eight of them? Let's play them all. 60 number ones?

Most all-time in each owner. Because we had Kenny on. He's up to 36. I always joke I'm only 56 behind him. You're going to get it. You got time. We're gaining on it. Way more time than him.

Especially with how fit you are, you know, and how jacked you are. All right, normally we would do this with Pac-Man, but since we have special guests. Yes, sir. Parker, you want to make some putts maybe to give away some money? I'll shoot a three. Let's see. No, no, no. What kind of day are we having? I was going to say, you're a golfing man. Yeah. I'm actually taking a little time away from the game right now.

You got a good jumper there. Rory and I are taking a little time away from the game. What happened? I just had, I went through a bad little streak. I wasn't playing well, and I'm like, why do I come out here and make the same mistake over and over and over again and expect a different result and never go practice? I was like, I'm just going to take a couple months.

It's hot down in Texas, you know, very, very extremely hot, too hot. And so I'm just going to go practice for a couple months and then get back to the game. Let's start the practice day on putting, Green. Hell yeah. Will you make three out of seven putts? Sure. Here, can you bring the guitar over here, too?

Absolutely. I have a new putting method. You should strap the guitar in his back. Left hand low or? Hey, we'll return this to you after you putt. You got the big tall putter like the six-year-old guy? I mean, should he putt with the guitar? Don't do it, Park. Don't do it. That you after you putt. You got the big tall putter like the six-year-old guy? Should he putt with the guitar? Don't do it, Park.

Don't do it. That'll age you 30 years. Yeah, putter. You need a putter over here, Parker. Are we missing a ball? Parker's still on the guitar. Is there a good roller rink in town? I was wanting to do that.

Sorry, what? What? A roller rink? Skating rink? No, I think they got rid of those. Is that a skating rink? I don't think there is a skating rink in India. To be honest, I'm not a harm's way short.

My uncle, my uncle Johnny and my aunt Patty are actually skating every week. Like the choreographed? Is that a roller rink? Or roller rink? That's sweet. Yeah, every once in a while I'll get a video of my uncle like. It's pretty good for Mayweather. They got to have a skating rink here somewhere.

Somewhere in India there's a skating rink. I. Somewhere in Indy there's a skating rink. We don't know about it, but... Do you skate or blade? I like to skate. Really? You got the four wheels. I got the quads. Okay, sweet. Alright, you got six balls over there.

What is a good number you think here? Yeah, putting this way. Actually, maybe you should. Putting which way? Maybe you should. Should he turn and face that way so that the camera can get? No, no, you should putt towards this close hole here.

On this side. Yeah, but you should be on this side too. I think it's the straightest putt. The other side of the. Right there. Can we get a couple practice? No, no, no. It's six total.

It's going to bend left a little bit. How many do you think? How many do you think? Yeah, just a couple practice. No, no, no. No, no, no. It's six total. It's going to bend left a little bit. How many do you think? How many do you think? Yeah, just a little bit. All right, we'll play it right edge. I thought it broke right. What do you think? Hey, how many out of the six?

What do you think? Hold on. Hey, sandbagger. That was a good little strum. Thank you. Thank you. Is this thing bent a little bit? You make that for yourself, or is that because of how strong you are?

Strongly. Whoa. What was that quarter? A little sauce on that. Lenny Kravitz over there? All right, so how many do you think? Three, two. Three out of six.

That's aggressive. What do I do? He'll easily make three. Come on. Seven, normally seven balls. The other ball is in the bar cup. Oh, we got it. Oh, you grabbed that seventh ball?

Out of here. Out of here. Seventh ball? Yeah. Is somebody saying we're going unsolicited? Yes. No, we got a greenskeeper. Yeah.

No, he said that someone said it to us. We also got a couple of par threes in the back for you to... It's one of those greens that move. You ever seen those greens that move and change? Oh, yeah. Yeah, $45,000. Yeah. No, he said to someone. We also got a couple of par threes in the back for you to. You should go with those greens that move. You ever seen those greens that, like, move and change? Yeah, $45,000. Oh, okay. What's that, pal? Yeah, yeah.

We got a couple back. It doesn't look anything like his, but we got a couple in the field. And they're great. They're nice. They are fantastic. All right, here's the deal, Parker. Out of those seven balls, if you're able to make three of them, we'll give 25 people $500 going into this incredible weekend.

You're sold out in Indianapolis. $300. $500. $25 people. Bingo. $12,500 on the line here. All you got to do is bury three putts out of seven. He's got two chains on, some sunglasses, a sick presidential Rolex, a bracelet,

and he's got boots that cost $3,000. Ladies and gentlemen, Parker McCollum. Oh, Jesus Christ. Bit of a knee knock. So you get two out of six. Two out of these next six. We'll give 25 people.

Give a lot of information on that part. Nice. There it is. Oh, he's saying back. That's what he does. That's literally what he does. Okay, you've got to do three. Yeah, you've got to make two more. You're going to have to make two more here. And if you do, 25 people win $500 on this

summer hangout. Parker McCallum. Feel good, Friday. It's a good grip. Got to go to a four here. He's got a nice stroke. He's holding a Scotty Cameron, AJ. Scotty Cameron. He looks like a golfer. There is a sea in the seaway.

Rolling that shit left. Are you blaring music on the golf course? No, I hate music on the golf course. Obviously, Pat doesn't want you to get your $500. No, no, I want people to win. 25 people, $500. He's got to get two or three here.

And all of a sudden, we get him. Oh! Almost a bank shot would have been the first time in the Thunderdome. So if he goes two... I'll tell you what. I'll give all 25 people $1. Nice. If I complete this task 25 people $1. Nice.

If I complete this test and make it easy for us. Okay, that's very nice. $531. Yeah, so it's 25 people, $501. $500 from us, $1 from Parker McCollum, and he doesn't know. Can he make two? That's the question now. We'll see. Can he go two for seven In Thunderdome Golf Heaven

This guy isn't bad But there's 25 people sad Way to go, Parker. Way to go, pal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two or seven, not bad. Hey. I'm pretty sure that's a pretty great direct thing for the day. That's all right. I believe it is.

I don't know if that helps you with your footing. You sound like Michael Cole right now. You ever held a guitar that nice? Yeah. Is that the nicest guitar you've ever... Yeah. I've never been around this nice people. That's who?

You're not talking coke to a national television. No, it's the internet. Yeah. This thing's nice though. No, it's internet. Yeah. This thing's nice, though. Oh, it's yours. It's as good as yours. Yeah. Take it.

No, it's good as yours. It's yours. Dude, what, you don't want some? We bought that for you. We signed it. We'll sign it. Nope. What the fuck?

Nope, let's not do that. Nick will, too. What if Parker signed it? Nope. Whoa. Whoa. in her arms and died again Made a bad name for my game around town Throughout my heart

shut it down Nothing to do nowhere to be Except a little kind of free Nothing to do Nowhere to be now, now And it's all I need I'm perfectly lonely

I'm perfectly lonely I'm perfectly lonely I'm perfectly lonely Because I don't belong to anyone And nobody belongs That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it Yeah, it is, isn't it? That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it Yeah, you're damn right, Parker

That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it Get stopped, good boys That's the way, that's the way, That's the way That's the way That's the way That I wanted That was really good. That was really good. Thank you, man.

Unbelievable. The tour is yours. Thank you. The tour is yours. That was really good. AJ, where were you with the snaps, asshole? I was there. I was a bit delayed

I didn't want to mess up his timing like you said I pay attention Alright we're going to put that up for a Grammy Try to win one we appreciate you We are lucky to do this We can't thank Parker enough for hanging out all damn day To all the boys in the back great work To the boys on stage it's an honor Pac-Man great to see you brother

Good luck with everything you got cooking AJ phenomenal work buddy buddy, this week. Way to go. Great work. Great work, guys. I'm going to miss you guys the next couple weeks, okay? Likewise. Enjoy the hell out of this life.

We have no idea what's going to happen tomorrow. And when we're back, we're going to be incredibly thankful to be talking sports yet again into these microphones saying dumb things, hopefully to entertain you, distract you, and maybe make your life a little bit better. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their entire life. We're in this thing together. Hey, Parker, team on me. Team on three. One, two, three. Goodbye.