The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1170 - Country Superstar Jordan Davis LIVE In The ThunderDome, Michael Lombardi, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are joined in the Thunderdome by Country Music Superstar Jordan Davis to chat about his tour, Buy Dirt being the song that really put him on the map, and much more. They also hop back on the training camp train and cover all the different things happening around NFL training camps, as well as keep tabs on everything important going on in the olympics. Joining the progrum to chat about the different contract situations and hold out’s, as well as what he’s been most impressed by thus far is 3x Super Bowl Champion, former NFL GM, host of the GM Shuffle and Lombardi Line, and NY Times best-selling author, Michael Lombardi. Later, 12 year NFL veteran at QB, ESPN NFL analyst and QB guru, Dan Orlovsky joins the show to chat about what he likes about the Vikings and the NFL North as a whole, his take that if the Jets don’t win a Super Bowl the Aaron Rodgers trade could go down as one of the worst in NFL history, and much more. 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’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome, on this Lomborlovski Binder Wednesday, July 31st, 2024. This program starts now. Big day today. Huge. Obviously we're in the middle of the Olympics and although Australia, those swimming bastards down there, won the 4x2 relay last night in celebrating our faces. Simone Biles and the women's gymnastics team just wiped the floor with everybody. That's right. Hell yeah. The United States swimmers are about to take over.

Our basketball team plays at 3 o'clock today. They're about to win by 60. The spread is 28. It was at 30 at one point. Now it's at 28 against South Sudan, who, remember, we only beat by one point just a week ago or a week and a half ago or whatever the case is. So everybody's thinking that maybe the United States are in for trouble. They're not. Remember they figured it out last game. Didn't even play Tatum and we still won by 20 plus against Serbia. So look for the United States of America to continue its dominance in this

particular Olympics. We have the most medals. The golds are only going up. And everybody else just needs to watch and listen to the national anthem as we're standing at the top of the podium and that's a beautiful thing I would like to say uh there's been a lot better people from different countries than I could have imagined without a doubt a lot of these countries have really surprised me it's been fun I just learned of a new guinea is its own country yeah these are good. There is. They lost the United States men's soccer team, but there is a country called Guinea. There's a Papa Newt Guinea.

Correct. Then there's another. There's a West. There's another. West Guinea? West Guinea. I had no idea. So the Olympics, not only am I learning about the world, I'm learning about life.

I'm learning about sport. I'm learning about competition. I'm learning about great athletes. I'm learning that some of these countries are pretty good at some of these things you can never guess. One of those countries that are really good at things you could have never guessed, United States of America, men's table tennis. Hell yeah. Our guy Ja, okay, just moved to the round of 16, which is the furthest that a singles competitor has made it for the United States in the table tennis Olympics ever, I do believe. He played at 6 a.m. this morning.

It was impossible to find any footage of him. So Tone Diggs actually recorded his computer screen. And it wasn't even the whole match. It was just the highlight of how it ended. And that's our guy on the far side. Don't like that he's not wearing USA colors, but he's got the flag on his chest. And he's got a sicka over forehand. Boom.

And his backhand's filthy his serve is nasty and his story is one that i think if you listen and learn to about you would absolutely love from california when he was like 14 he moves to sweden to pursue his dream to be a professional table tennis player then he would settle in in germany when he's like 16 years old he'd be the youngest player on team usa and i think ping table tennis history at two Olympics ago. And Tokyo doesn't do great. Then this year, he was gearing up to have his best one ever. Still focused full in on table tennis.

His entire life, his entire being, he's chased his dream of being a table tennis superstar. And because he filled out a form wrong, which was a form for drug testing and doping testing, and he didn't put a one before his phone number the drug tester couldn't get a hold of him three times so he had three missed tests which is a failed test so he was suspended from competition for a year just like less than a year ago yeah 2023 2023 so he got suspended for company well i guess it'd be more than a year ago because the suspension is up but he loses all of his points in the table tennis professional because he couldn't compete. 17 months is what it took, basically,

for him to get back to it. Had to go through two different trials to make the ping pong team because he didn't have enough points because he got suspended because a drug tester couldn't put a one before a phone number. And now, with this incredible run where he loses his income, by the way. His whole life has been focused on table tennis. Got no money. Has a GoFundMe. We have supported that, obviously. Shout out to the guy doing it.

And then now he's making it further than anybody and he's winning in pretty dominant fashion as well table tennis might be our sport now might be coming home it might be coming home and we love this guy so it's uh i love the olympics we love the training camps are taking place and we love the two guests that we have joining us uh via facetime today michael lombardi will join us in the first hour dan Dan Orlovsky will join us in the second hour. Lombardi will break down everything happening around training camp. Orlovsky will break down everything going on in his brain. Yeah.

And we have no idea what it is, but we're excited to see it. Always. Can't wait to see what he's grandstanding about. I'm sure it's going to be some fantastic football take. But on this stage, there's going to be somebody special today. It's not the talk's table at Boss Connor and at Ty Schmidt, because you guys, although special, would not be an anomaly to be on the stage today. But that shirt is awesome. I want to let you know. Yeah, I got a few lined up here

This one is by far my favorite though. I felt like this was the right day to wear it. Oh my god Oh, yeah, I mean you can see the mane of the horse is actually the American flag. Oh my god See what they did there you see and this is completely okay because you know what USA's doing? It's just beating the hell out of everybody. That's right. Haven't even started speed walking yet. No. Haven't even started speed walking. Until we hit the track.

Nine-year NFL vet Darius J. Butler is here. Good to see you. Yes, sir. Dee Butch. Dee Butch about to be in a video game either four minutes ago or 56 minutes from now. Whatever the case, you're in WWE 2K. Congratulations, sir. I cannot wait.

I was in the mad aisle yesterday with Redacted. His name, but he was coaching me up, showing me the moves, showing me the ropes. So I can't wait to get in there once I land home tonight. I'll tell you what. Good luck good up in there. Yeah. You know, whenever you think about how the engineers kind of build it, you look good in there. You really do look good. You look jacked.

You look ripped. Can't wait to see you. And we're actually having a social media contest for the WWE 2K24 DLC pack that was just released of myself, the Talks at the Table, D-Butt, and AJ Hawk, who will be joining us in the next hour. If you take a picture of us as champions,

do you have the, yep, there we go. Take a picture or a picture of us as champions, take a picture or a video of us as champions on WWE 2K24. So obviously you just need to see us. Yeah, dribbling goal. It could be the toxic table hoisting the tag team titles. It could be Darius J. Butler as world champion

or maybe United States champion. Maybe Aaron Connell, maybe heavyweight, whatever it is maybe. Heavyweight perhaps. Maybe you're in Cornell. Maybe heavyweight, whatever it is. AJ Hawk, myself, if you would like to. I would love to be a USA champion. Especially in the Outdoor Olympics. Yeah, take that down.

Yeah, but I don't know if they have the 24-7 title. Whatever it is. Speed. In a speed title. The NXT title would certainly be one that I would love. And as an NXT legend would feel like I've certainly earned but use the hashtag greatest DLC of all time on X while posting your photo and you'll be automatically entered into a random merch giveaway we will do the same thing we do for our cash

giveaways which is put everybody that has that hashtag into an excel spreadsheet then it'll be randomized and picked and you could potentially win some free merch or maybe some other prizes. Oh, wow. Yeah, like I think we're thinking about giving away a PlayStation... PS5. PS5, I believe. Xbone 1.

Boom. Yeah, that thing. The big bone. And then maybe even a computer built by Bailey McComas. Wow. Okay. Yeah, maybe one of those. A D3 National Championship ring?

No, we're not giving that away. You hold on to those. Okay. You hold on to those. I'm just brainstorming here. Anyways, use the hashtag greatest DLC of all time. Post the picture of us having some sort of success in WWE 2K24.5. And we can't wait.

We're thankful. We can't wait. It's going to be awesome. Oh, yeah. Since we are not um currently playing that game i do believe the people that are going to get an early head start on this dlc are the people that are not happy that we are in the game yeah and they might see the hashtag and flip flip a word around or two no no we're all time we're all time not it's not just recent memory is that what

you're saying they're going to change it greatest dlest DLC of recent memory? I don't know. I think the first word is the one, and that just became a thought in my brain as you said. You would not be entered into any giveaways. Remember, giving away merch. Giving away a couple new consoles. Come on. Giving away maybe a hand-built

PC from Bill McComas. Retails at, I don't know, $15,000. At least. Live from Hammer. Don! Don! Tone Diggs is obviously looking fantastic. We'll check in with him as the day goes on with corrections.

Another statistical genius joining us, ladies and gentlemen, live in the Thunderdome. He's a man who has won a CMA Song of the Year with a song that you can literally play all day, every day. And we only know that because for a while we did. And this morning we recreated it because this guy has a show tonight in downtown Indianapolis at White River State Park. I assume it is sold out. I cannot wait to see the turnout. I cannot wait to hear his phenomenal Louisiana voice. Ladies and gentlemen, a man who has bought dirt on numerous occasions. And then the next thing you know, becomes a country music superstar, a great golfer, a great boozer. Ladies and gentlemen, Jordan Davis. Here we go. Good energy.

Love it. Looks jocked. Decide not to come say hello to you guys. No, you guys didn't buy dirt. You guys didn't buy dirt. Me? I bought plenty of dirt. I bought dirt yesterday.

No. I just bought dirt. No, you did not. I eat dirt. No, you did not. He's lying. I eat dirt. No, you do. That's different. That's different.

Jordan? That wasn't me. We got some hang time before, so sorry, boys. I would have came over. Well, you have to come do the big show, fake. Hey, great to see you for the first time. That's right. Yeah, that's show business, baby.

Hey, this place is even more beautiful in person. Talk about a great 9 to 5 you guys got going on over here. We appreciate it. In a special spot. Yeah, it's not bad. You know, and Jesus used to live here, so we do feel as if he used to. Hover, okay. I like to hear that because a lot of people.

He still lives here. He ain't going anywhere. Yeah. A lot of people said that he would never want to be around. I think a lot of people said, and they're talking about over there in Paris. He wasn't there. He is, though. He is very much around, you know, in the entire thing. And we're thankful that you stopped by. We know it's a little bit out of town. So you driving

from downtown where your show is tonight. Are we in the middle of a tour? What's going on? Are you always on tour? I feel like you musicians are just always on tour. Is that accurate? Definitely country. Country, I feel like tour is more than most other genres, but yeah, we're kind of in the middle of it right now. We're doing our own headlining tour. Mitchell Tenpenny and Ashley Cook's out with me. And then Saturday night. Tenpenny. We know Tenpenny.

Tenpenny. Yeah. Dude, love that guy. What was the song Tenpenny? He came on the show. Oh, my God. Five, dirt. Alcohol you later.

That was it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, alcohol you later, I think. But, yeah, we're on the middle of tour with them. So we'll go with that to probably September. And then out with Luke Combs on Saturdays on his stadium shows. Oh, that's awesome.

Working in. Yeah, it's been fun. I got a chance to hear you play one time in a very close space. And you have talent, brother. Thank you, man. Thank you. Hey, real talent. Real boozed up. Yeah. We're talking real boozed up yeah we're talking real but real boozed up that was after we did a part we did a part three and 18 holes

and then that dinner and then we did the dinner we were on sauce man we were gone absolutely gone and then eli drops like uh uh hey isn't there like some property that needs to be purchased like and then guitar gets handed and then it's like hey didn't we buy dirt yeah we did okay got it i feel like he was doing that for all of my songs he would just be like man i could use like a slow dance in a parking lot or something and i'm like dude that's that i guess i'll play that one yeah by dirt massive obviously huge song man and then having luke bryan on it was was on it was kind of the cherry on top. That was obviously the one. How long had you been, I don't want to say grinding, but you getting it?

Well, yeah. I mean, that was the one that kind of, you know, we'd had some success before that, but that was really the one that kind of broke it out. But you know what's crazy is I wrote that song. We were at a writer's retreat, and Luke Bryan, you know, country, not everybody always writes the songs. You'll write a song for somebody and pitch it to them, try to get them to record it. And we had actually wrote that with Luke in mind.

We knew he was making a record, and the idea got thrown out by Dirt, and I was like, man, let's write that. We finished by Dirt, and I remember that whole night I was like, I can't give this song away. I've got to record this. And next day I sent it to him in a text message. And I always tell this story to Luke, too, because it's like, I'm like texting him. I didn't know Luke super well at the time.

Like, had his number, had met him at a couple shows. And I was like, man, I'm going to send this song to him and ask him to play on it. And it was like texting the hot chicken class. Yeah, yeah, nervous, delete, delete, delete. Just like delete, rewrite it, read it again. And it finally sent it to him. And, man, he called me right back and was like, yeah, dude, let's get in and sing this thing. And then it was just off to the races.

So, writer's retreat. That was an interesting. So, because we're learning a lot about the country world. I think college game day has introduced me to a lot more. I don't think this case. College game day has introduced me to all of you country musicians. The country scene. Yeah, because everybody's from the South.

That's a pretty big part of it. Although there are some Northern guys playing country. I know Zimmerman is from Illinois. Obviously, Taylor Swift is from Pennsylvania. She started in country and she's the biggest of all time. There's some Ohio. You get it. But there's so many country musicians that are massive college football fans.

So I've gotten a chance to meet you guys, chat with you guys. The whole business is interesting. The writing part of it is a big deal. Writers Retreat, we go out into the middle of nowhere. Yeah. Then we do ayahuasca. Get on some Rodgers game. Yeah.

It was me, my brother, two of my best friends. It's like a real community though. It feels like a real community. It's This country music world feels like a real community. It's small. Like, and Nashville is very, it's a very tight-knit community. And everybody always says this, like, oh, man, like, I'm cheering. That guy's my friend.

Like, we're not lying. Like, you know, obviously Parker is a good buddy of mine. Luke's become a good buddy. Combs and Brian. And everybody pulls for everybody. And like that retreat, we went down an hour and a half south of Nashville, went down there, had a bunch of ideas. I wasn't making a record at the time, so I was like, well, man, who's looking?

I was like, Luke's looking. Let's start writing. So, I mean, we wrote probably five songs in three days, and I ended up recording, I think, three of them, which is crazy because it truly was for other people. But, yeah, I mean, it's a good way to get out of town for a little bit, get away from the family and the kiddos for a couple days. Work. And go to work.

Yeah, and we appreciate your brains, honestly. We appreciate the way things work. Next thing you know, obviously, like the amount of people that whenever they get married, like for me, whenever we had Mackenzie, it was like the first song that we were really listening to. We even put the video. The post-out was with that song. It's like, you guys like are the soundtrack for people's lives and events. Not everybody obviously loves country, but like what you guys do is really cool to a lot of people. And I'm one of them. So I appreciate the hell out of your

brain. Thank you very much, man. Yeah. Next thing you know, that was a, that was a, that was a song I too almost never put out. I kind of thought It was too personal too And You know Country has such a Kind of a structure It's like you have a verse You have a chorus You have another verse You have a chorus

You kind of want to repeat things You kind of want a song Where people can hold a beer Up at a show Yeah my truck broke Down I told Bush That's it

People say that But there's so many more There's a lot There's so many more messages In like country music That I think kind of miss people But like we never repeated anything in that song talked about getting married talked about having a kid you know eventually talked about getting old um you know so it did it broke a lot of rules in the sense of like what a country song is supposed to

be hell yeah from louisiana right i think i've uh yeah yeah from shreveport shreveport has a lot of like we're talking heavy accent, right? No, we're like northwest corner. I always say, like, people from Louisiana, like, if I'm from Shreveport, they would always, I went to LSU, and I would go down there, and they'd be like, where are you from? I'd say, I'm from Shreveport. And they'd be like, I didn't know you from Texas.

Oh, no. So bad. I got it. So it's like, south of Baton Rouge is like, you're like a Louisisianian and then north of it you might as well be from whatever state is closest that's a damn shame yikes they're claiming you now though aren't they they're claiming now yeah back then they didn't want me now uh jordan davis is that's it buying so much dirt they all on him uh joining us now is a man who uh i don't think he has any country songs in the pipeline.

And I don't think he's from Louisiana, but I'm certain he's a fan of the way you guys run your business in country, too. You ever see how many tickets are sold to all these country events? Absurd. And they all gather. You guys will gather up, too, and be like, hey, like pretty big stars. Like you're a massive star opening for Luke Combs. It's like, yeah, we can sell a stadium, though. So we might as well go ahead and do that.

And like the business – Like, Kenny, he went on tour with LD in church, and he's on with Zach Brown now. Or excuse me, Zach Brown. And Megan Maroney, who has – Yeah, Megan Maroney. Like, you guys aren't scared to, like, do business, like good business together as well.

I mean, it's like those stadium shows, like Kenny's – I mean, even Luke's now. I think we have five people on that day so i mean it true and they even have a show luke does a stage when people are waiting to get into the stadium luke sets a stage up and has bands come and play for the people waiting to get in so i mean it's like a mini i mean the cone shows like mini festivals so which i think like that's like what the country vibe is though like hey we're gonna and then like whenever you guys do like cma will do cma fest like all the actual stars are there it's not like oh we hope like an

up-and-coming will perform and it's like country is very much you guys have been really good to us too oh yeah obviously just bringing your country asses through here bringing all their friends i mean jordan brought 14 guys dudes are absolutely these are the bad dirt boys the bdbs the b Boys. The Buy Dirt Boys. The BDBs. The BDBs. I know, dude. I'm surprised they're not in y'all's gym over there. Well, we told them like six times, like, hey, you're in that front room up there, you know, because we can kind of hear everything in there. It's hard not to run around, dude.

I saw some good jumpers there, too. Yeah. You got some athletes. Dude, one of them's got a little stroke on him, yeah. You got real athletes around, Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one was wearing just the biggest asshole shoes of all time. Really? I thought they looked pretty good. Well, yeah, yeah. The one was wearing just the biggest asshole shoes of all time. Really?

I thought they looked pretty good. Well, that was why. I think that is what we... They're pretty, they're clean shoes. I mean, you could have seen his crossover

out here with those shoes on. He looked like Allen Iverson. He had these high-top nobles on. These things are going to the middle of his shin.

They look like wrestling boots. Yeah, exactly. Dude. Awesome. He's an MMA guy. That's what he is. It makes sense.

It checks out. Look out, he might break your arm. So normally, you just wear like an affl. That's what it is. It makes sense. It checks out. Look out, he might break your arm. So normally you just wear like an affliction shirt or something. Or like have like the cauliflower here. And that's like your message to the world. Like, hey, yeah, I know. You know, like I can do it. For him, though, he's like, no, I'm putting the fucking octagon boots.

Tucked in sweat. Tied up, too. Yeah, it was very tight. Tight. Tight. Youucked in sweat. Tied up. Yeah, it was very tight. Tight. Tight. You had a good crew. Yeah, they're good dudes, man. Which, even more so,

to every country person that brings in their crew, they're all good people, too. So it's like, we're very lucky. Well, hey, we don't have to twist, I didn't have to twist any arms

to get people to the Thunderdome, man. I think everybody's massive fans of y'all, so. No! That is not, maybe they are. We talked a little bit, yeah, they are.

Yeah, that crew. Maybe not everybody. Yeah, this guy was hanging out with Brett Favre a week bit. Yeah, they are. Yeah, that crew. Maybe not everybody. Yeah, this guy was hanging out with Brett Favre a week ago. Yeah, wait till you see the hashtags today. Well, we were talking about it. Like, we did a Toby Key tribute the other night in Nashville. It was awesome. Rest in peace.

Rest in peace, hell yeah. And, like, everybody, you know, church was there, Jelly Roll, but there was some other – Brett Favre was there, and I was telling Pat that Brock Lesnar was there and that is the biggest human I've ever my wife came up to me and she was like there's a very massive human over there and I look over

and I was like that's Brock Lesnar that's a guy who I've said for I think a couple decades now the aliens come and they want to fight and they're like hey we'll do your little octagon rules now their heads are probably popping up out of top of it but you need to send your four yeah and then we'll send our four and then that's planet earth

brock lesnar has been in that four for me for a couple decades now and i think once you see him it even gets more cemented because it's just like uh it's an actual barn just walks by it true it's i've never seen a neck that big yeah well and then the neck just leads right into the just a massive yeah yeah yeah and then he can run a four four two yeah so well and we were talking too like because like right then i was like looking at i was like how did this guy ever lose a fight and i don't think he lost one right to uh To Cain Velasquez. Cain Velasquez. Cain Velasquez. And I think Frank Mir got him one time.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That was like one of his first fights in the UFC. Yeah, you could tell he was still kind of... Roman Reigns once. Yeah, Roman Reigns. Yeah, WrestleMania. You're right. Robert Chee.

That was crazy. He's also probably... Cody Rhodes got him, I think, over there one time. But you're right. I don't know. I mean, I just... I wouldn't be able to stand... That guy mad at me.

If I knew I was having to just go and like to build up to it for four months, getting ready to get punched in the face by Brock Lesnar. Yeah, not fun. Terrifying. So he was on a rampage one night at SmackDown, and we locked eyes. And he started a quick walk sprint towards where I was. Yeah. And he had just taken out, I think, eight guys with chairs.

And he was bending these chairs over people's backs. And I think, you know, he wasn't done yet. We might have still been on TV. We might have still had, like, math. 15, 20 seconds left on TV. But then the night, obviously, is still going. So he turns around, and you just kind of see it. And then he just, like, looks at the commentary table. commentary table and me and cole are standing obviously because he just destroyed 14

people in front of us and he starts like beelining it towards around the ring to the commentary table i'm like no way i took my off literally took all my off sprinted out of there and then he i think he picked up the commentary table and just like broke it in half or something like that immediately he can do that to anything. He came into our set, our old set, broke our desk, broke the thing. So easily. And what are you going to do? You're just like, I can't do that?

Yeah. No, you absolutely can't do that. Remember, you had to walk in. You had to turn sideways to get through a door. He's also one of the greatest businessmen of all time. Nobody will ever talk about that. One of the greatest businessmen of all time. Joining us, ladies and gentlemen, is another businessman, a leader, a TED speaker, a podcast

hoster, a live show legend. Ladies and gentlemen, three-time Super Bowl champion, Paisana, who I'm sure he just learned of a new country in West Africa yesterday as well. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Lombardi. Hey, Lombo. What's up, guys? How we doing? Lombo.

I know you're hanging out there for a little bit. I apologize that we were chit-chatting. I'm watching the show anyway, so it doesn't matter whether I'm sitting here waiting or I'm just watching. So I'm listening. I'm always in tune. I know you love the boss because you're from New Jersey. Obviously, that's your guy. But all these musicians I talked to, they're good business people.

It seems like they're all like sound business hustlers almost, you know? Yeah. I mean, those stadiums are filled. I mean, at Foxborough, you know, Kenny Chesney would play two nights there. He always came in our weight room and lifted. And, you know, George Strait came through. It was incredible. The venues are packed.

And look, you know, Springsteen, I mean, if you read his bio, he talks a lot about Hank Williams and learning how to write songs through country music singers it's kind of impressive about how to become genuine in your storytelling you're telling me the hicks are helping out the coastal elitists i didn't know that was is that real with dirt wow with dirt a lot of dirt in there a lot of dirt a lot of grit and job in there yeah some paper no i'm a big music fan obviously obviously. I enjoy the talent. I enjoy the brains. Me too.

Songland was the best show on television. They canceled. I have no idea why. But it felt like I got a glimpse into your guys' world. Nothing but respect. Now, let's talk about tickets and moving tickets. There's a photo coming out of Dallas Cowboys training camp. And this is, I feel like, incredibly abnormal.

And unless we got got here, which can certainly happen with no context to the the photo there's like no fans at the Dallas Cowboys training camp allegedly uh obviously all their big players obviously there's a lot of contract disputes but allegedly this is at Dallas Cowboys training camp in All-Star California now that has never been the case for the Dallas Cowboys for anything they sell out everywhere they move needle. That's why they're on primetime. Is this a sign of things? Now granted, speaking as if this is real and not taken out of context. So if this ends up not being in context.

They asked the players about the low turnout too. Okay, so completely in context then. Is this a sign of what does this mean in your eyes? That the fans have just quit on him? The fans haven't showed up on him? The L.A. Chargers are near?

The Rams are obviously near? They got hardball. You got a new Stafford deal. You got McVay. Have they just given up on him in L.A.? Or is this an entire storyline about the Cowboys potentially doing a little bit of a transition era into what's next for the Dallas Cowboys? Well, I think a lot of this is reflective of the offseason that they've had.

They've done nothing this offseason, and I think there's really no enthusiasm around the team other than what they drafted. And so I think fans want to come out, they want to see the star players, and they haven't really been able to address that. They say they're very close to getting CeeDee Lamb done. We'll see how that works out.

But I think there's just not a lot of enthusiasm about the team. I think it's got to worry Jerry a little bit. They're going to start two new young offensive linemen in the draft in their offensive line. That's got to worry you a little bit. How good will they be on defense? You know, last year they masqueraded as a really good defense because they were able to play from in front so much.

And so nobody really could run the ball on them because you're playing behind all the time against Dallas. They had a 171-point differential when they played in the first half. That's significant. But when they played in close games where teams could run the ball, all five of those games, they lost. So I think there's a little bit of that. And I'm not sure that they believe they can win. Look, they haven't won a title or been to a conference championship game in who knows how long.

I mean, there's a little bit of we don't buy you. I think there's a little bit of that in it. And as good as they were, look, let's face it, they were great offensively last year. And what they were able to do, it's just I think that ultimately they haven't been able to win back their fan base in the sense that you can count on them to be a playoff winner. It's very interesting, and there's a video coming from the first padded practice on X. I mean, it's literally – and this Machodo has been around a long time. Obviously, he's showcasing how – that is – I mean –

It's crazy. That's nuts. Jordan Davis, you show up at a show and that's there's that many people you think to yourself damn we're doing everything wrong yeah that's that's a bad look right there that's a bad look imagine this being posted cancels it jordan yeah yeah the promoter would cancel that look if he saw that look the promoter would say we ain't doing that 100 in latrobe there's lines to get in to see there's lines to get in to see the Steelers that go forever and ever. Look, one thing about California, it's a tough

to get people enthusiastic about the team. You've got to have a lot of fans there. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there are a lot of Cowboy fans out there with Thousand Oaks. Interesting. Very, very interesting what's happening with them because Mike is obviously wants a new deal. He's in his fourth year of his rookie deal, so they picked up the fifth year option but then

they can also franchise tag him I think too as well so like he's he's in one of those situations where it's like they could have you under contract this is we've the agents have done a wonderful job of eliminating this fifth year as if it doesn't count you know Jamar Chase is in his fifth year he's not practicing CeeDee Lamb's in his fifth year. He's not practicing. I mean, it's almost as if this fifth year has become obsolete. It's like you get it as a club, but it really doesn't do you any bargaining leverage because you're letting the guys hold out in camp and you're really not getting the benefit of the fifth year. I mean, now maybe the Bengals will say to Chase, either you play on the fifth year or not,

but I think that's highly doubtful. And so all this talk about, well, we got the fifth year. I mean, now maybe the Bengals will say to Chase, either you play on the fifth year or not, but I think that's highly doubtful. And so all this talk about, well, we got the fifth year, we got the fifth year. None of these players are playing out the fifth year. They're not playing it unless they are like A.J. Terrell at the Falcons who's going to play on his fifth year. So it's interesting how this is, the agents have done a great job of making that fifth year almost disappear, and now you have to do a new contract, and then they're able to jack up the prices because that fifth year, which is going to be guaranteed anyway, adds into the guarantee, so you can sell it as more guaranteed money. I think the agents are trying to get you right now saying,

hey, listen, they kind of muffled you a little bit there. They're they're trying to silence you lombo trying to silence you i don't like that not one bit but that is interesting that it has happened that way because the fifth year option was supposed to be like a good thing fancy it like oh we picked the fifth year option that means player earned his fifth year earned his fifth year played it obviously going to do it oh they let him go uh they gave him his fifth year because they want to see or they didn't pick up his fifth year because he's not good enough it's like nowadays i appreciate them we'll get them the boys are like nah fifth year's for the team that's not for us that just means we got to be dramatic for this team yeah yeah that doesn't mean that we got to be for the next team and it's good business for them i'll be excited to see how

teams counter that though you know and another thing with the dallas cowboys before we move to another topic with lambeau here three-time super Bowl champion Mike McCarthy's on his last year are they actually just viewing this like this is a lame duck team like this team could potentially look Dax on his last year Mike McCarthy's on his last year CD's not happy Mike is not happy got Zimmer in his DC we don't know him we know we have respect for him is it just like this year is is it our team is it not our team it's a fascinating situation that Jerry Jones has certainly found himself in. He said, though, on the record to Clarence Hill Jr. or something in a press conference, the future of the NFL revenue is certainly a little bit different than what everybody else thinks.

I was the only one to testify, you see. I was the only one that was a part of this DirecTV Sunday ticket thing. I don't know what future revenue looks like, where everybody else is doing it. Is that real, Lambeau? Is that just an, is that just an excuse or a leverage for agents? How do you feel about Jerry Jones dropping this little piece of knowledge? I mean, I think if he had this intel, wouldn't he be signing players to contracts getting ahead of the curve? I mean, wouldn't that be, I mean, if you have this inside information and you know where the cap's going to go, wouldn't you want to sign guys beforehand? But isn't he thinking that the cap's going down, right?

Well, I think what he made a really good point about this direct TV lawsuit that's going on is that the players will pay a price for this. It's somehow in terms of the revenue if they have to settle this case. He made that very clear that that could affect it. Now, I don't know what he meant in the long call, but if he's privy to where the TV money's going to go and how it's going to be spread, you would think he would be more proactive in his contracts. But Jerry has never been proactive in his contracts. The great Bill Parcells once told me about Jerry Jones. He said,

Jerry can talk a cat off the top of a fish truck. And I think Jerry's not worried about convincing somebody to play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. I don't think Jerry's scared of free agency for Dak. I really don't. I think if he has to pay or overpay, he'll do that. I don't think it scares him at all. Some teams would be frightened to death. But when you start talking about free agency for quarterbacks, then the list of people that will be involved in that are really kind of small. There isn't. Now, maybe the Falcons will try to sign Dak, too, to add to their quarterback table, see how that works. But, you know, they could certainly jump into that. But I think to me, it's a smaller market. And I think Jerry feels

like I'll win that market. You know, OK, the Raiders need a quarterback next year. I'll beat the Raiders, you know, and. I'll beat the Raiders. You know, and most of the time he's right because the state income tax in Texas is a better thing going for him. Yeah, and if that is the way that Jerry's viewing it, that's hilarious. He's like, yeah, we'll let them all go, free agent, whatever. You know, and if we got to do it, we got to do it, we got to do it, we got to do it. He's like, are you telling the agents that, though? Or are you saying, hey, we'll win the bid whenever you get to get free agency?

Or are the agents saying, oh, is that right? Are you going to put this on paper then? Are you matching any offer that we get from anybody? Are you beating that? Because this could get dramatic. A lot of pillars of that team are seemingly unhappy. If you have one or two in a locker room, I think that's standard operating procedure for business. They seemingly

have everybody, let alone the head coach. It's a lot of drama. Hopefully they'll be able to figure it out. Premium positions, too. Quarterback, obviously. Wide receiver. See what that market is. Pass rusher. All of them outside of your left tackle.

That's a bad spot to be in. Well, and the left tackle's been locking up. Mike, I guess, at training camp is getting locked up. Not only by starter, backup. Oh, no. Backup tackles are locking up. Michael Parsons. Is that because he's not trying? Because he wants a new deal?

He doesn't want to get hurt? Maybe, yeah. He said, I'll do the whole song and dance. I'll put on the pads. I won't do the whole, you know, dramatic thing, but also, like, we're doing one-on-ones. I'm practicing some stuff. I'm not going to get hurt. Sure. We'll give Ogoba. Who's that? Tyler.

Ogoba. I believe is his name Fifth year tackle Back up to Rookie Yeah Tyler Guyton Out of Oklahoma Who also has some film on Micah But it's like

Everything coming out of Dallas Let alone no fans Is just no Not good There's not a lot of good energy Coming out of Dallas We hope that changes For America's team

That's right We hope that changes For America's team I think Micah will be alright Micah's gonna figure it out Yeah I think he'll figure it out Imagine if he was just going to do sumo. He could.

He could be a professional sumo wrestler right now. Is that in the Olympics? We'd like to go in there with Micah. I don't think so. I don't think it is. It should be. Absolutely should be. I feel like sumo is an Olympic thing. Tristan Werf's in it? We got the wrestling. Tristan Werf's in the middle of something.

He's not playing football. We just talked about the drama in Dallas. There's another team that has a bunch of drama seemingly every single year that comes to success, I guess. Go ahead, D-Bud. Yeah, out there in San Francisco and California. How would you handle the situation? Obviously, Trent Williams is holding out, I think,

arguably the best tackle in football. You obviously got the Brandon Ayuk situation. I think the rookie just came off of the injury list. How would you handle that situation going forward? Would you try to handle it now before you get closer to season and avoid the Nick Bosa situation where he didn't get off to that start he wanted to? Well, you know, the Trent Williams one I think is paramount for the 49ers. That offensive line, when it isn't in a play-action-pass game,

struggles in a drop-back fashion. That's why Kyle Shanahan's records when he's behind hasn't always been very good. We've all seen those numbers. Trent Williams is their best player in terms of the offensive line by far. He's the leader of the team. He wears the C on his uniform. They've got to get him done. I think they're smart enough to know they've got to get him done. To me, the Iuke one's interesting. We just saw DJ Moore get done by the Bears. It was $27 million a year, which didn't come close to anything that we see, whether it's $32 million, $35 million for Jefferson.

So to me, there's got to be a deadline on Brandon Iuke. Either you take this deal and that's the best we're going to offer you, or you play on your fifth year, or you retire from football. I mean, there's three things you've got to do. But somebody's got to make that decision. I mean, this thing can't keep lingering on, lingering on, lingering on. At some point, you have to be a leader and say, okay, enough is enough. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here.

I know everybody's sensitive. We have to treat everybody wonderful. We'll go to Dairy Queen after the game and all that crap. But at some point, we've got to make a decision. We're running a business here. Either you want this deal or you don't want the deal. You've got a fifth year. It's a contract.

By your union, you negotiated it. So either you play on that fifth year, you take our offer, which we've negotiated in good faith. We want you on the team. But this isn't going to really get resolved until next offseason when they make a decision to either keep Debo or to keep Brandon Ayuk. They're going to have to make that call within their cap structure. But Trent Williams, I'm getting done right away. I'm going to make sure I get him done. I'll fold my tent for Trent Williams. I'm not folding my tent for somebody else. Trent Williams is a weapon. We didn't even know that that was potentially even an issue for

John Lynch until the training camp started. There's a lot of these, Pat, that nobody knows about that's going on. I mean, the, you know, we all saw it. I'm sure Boston saw it there. Matt Judon, that's been going on all offseason, right? You know, the Gottschall, the other defensive lineman, that's been going on all offseason. I think there's a little, you know, there's a, Worf's been going on. There's a bunch of these, and because of the money that's coming in, these players, you're going to have to be proactive and deal with it. Now, Jason Light, the GM of the Bucs, said, hey, we're going to get worse done. They have to get worse done because they need him. This is a team last year that was 32nd in the league in rushing.

And the year before with Tom Brady, they were 32nd in the year in rushing. They've got a first round pick at center. They got a first round pick at guard. They got a second round pick at right tack. I mean, they put money into this line. They got to be able to pass. They got to be able to run block. All these, you know, drama things that pop up around training camp are interesting because you get, you almost have to tear it. Like the tears. You just said like, hey, Worfs, you have to get done. Trent, you got to get done. And then Ayuk, it's like, hey, Ayuk said like hey worse you have to get done trent you got to get done and then iuk it's like hey iuk we're gonna see next year how this whole thing goes but here's an offer in this that's a tough that's where you get paid to be the gm though i guess that's why

they're starting to write you can't be like danny o and give everybody money danny's got that monopoly board he just hands out money to everybody what do you mean? I love Dan. Praise the Lord. That's the money. He just wants to pass it all out. We do too. We want everybody to be a billionaire. You're GM. We're a player. Somebody's got to say no.

Here's the real reality. That's going to be my wife with McKenzie. This is a little cold, but there are some players that are replaceable, and there are some players who are non-replaceable. So you've got to pay the non-replaceable players. Like Parsons, you can't replace him. You can't replace Trent Williams. It's hard to find left tackles. You don't walk down the street, oh, there's a left tackle, oh, there's a left tackle.

Those are hard players to find, and you get one, you better pay them. Remember this, you could never overpay for a great it. You could never overpay for a great player Hey, man, you could never overpay for a great player you overpay for good players Everything that ends up being good that is a business, you know thing that is considered overpaid at the beginning never gets talked about Mm-hmm, you know, I was like cuz was it overpaid? No, absolutely not it ended up working out So it's always the things they like fail which is going to happen things are not going to work you're going to get screwed you're going to misread evaluation on something you're going to pay too much and it's not going to work those are always the ones that get talked about but the ones that

get like oh this is ridiculous then it ends up working out it's like that guy set the market that guy re-changed the entire market hey look at look at Fox Television. I mean, look, they outbid CBS for that deal back in the early 90s. Everybody said they paid a ridiculous sum. Ask them how that worked out. Madden, we're paying him, and then we're buying the NFL rights. And then all of a sudden now we are the number two network, basically, in the world. It's like, did you pay too much if it ends up working out? Never.

Did you pay too much if it backfires? Absolutely. And you get fired immediately. That said about everything jerry did he said you know like yeah everyone said i overpaid for the cowboys well it's the most valuable franchise in all sports so did i i don't know yeah it's interesting and if you overpay did you really because you're only worth what somebody's willing to pay you so you're never really overpaid or underpaid you're actually jerry jerry is amazing because when he first bought that team pat we i was we were at the browns and we were in the playoffs in 87 and we went down to dallas to practice in his facility because back then nobody had indoor facilities at all and we had to get out of a cold in cleveland and when jerry bought ballot the cowboys he was

so leveraged he closed half the building to save on his heating expenses. And he moved everybody from the one part of out. Everybody was moved into another part of the offices to cut down on his expenses because he leveraged himself out. And look what happened. Yeah, Jerry, the way he talks about how and why he decided to do what he did and going all in and everything. It's like beautiful. I saw him talk to Joe Buck. I've talked about about this before he was doing a sit-down interview it was like real i forget what the show was called undisputed unstoppable unvinced whatever it was it was sit-down interview thing very well thought out like whole life thing you got photos of everything the questions are there there's a crowd there and jerry jones made this golf analogy where he was like there's some people

you know they're sitting there about 290 yards out. There might be a little bit of water in front. It's round by sand, and they decide to lay up and then get the easier shot there. He said, I'm driving the green every fucking time. And I was listening to that. It was like 2 a.m. I'm in my bedroom listening to that. And I'm like, me too, Jerry, me too.

And then I end up with a triple triple that's gonna happen quadruple bogey but anytime it pops up on a golf course i literally think of jerry jones going i'm driving the green every fucking time and it's like yeah i am yeah give me this club that i've never hit before bang now all of a sudden we're sitting seven still off the green it's a fascinating thing the dallas cowboys they seem to be at a low point right now though if you just look at the fan turnout that's never happened with all the contracts that are up hopefully they'll be able to sort it let's go to the nfc south country music superstar owner of a cma song of the year award jordan davis has a question for you lambo ibo. I do. Yes, sir. Saints fan here.

Yeah. Maybe Derek Carr's the guy, but obviously the years are running out there. But my thing – I mean, I just feel like he's getting up. No. You asked your question, buddy. You asked your question, buddy. Thank you, brother. I am a little nervous about the quarterback class coming out next year out of college ball.

So is the Saints maybe making a potential move for a Louisiana guy in Dak Prescott if Dallas can't get it figured out? Oh! Is there a way to bring him back to Louisiana? I like that. Well, if he got three, I mean, certainly you'd have to listen to that. I mean, look, I think the interesting thing about Carr is, what Carr are you going to see, Jordan?

Are you going to see the one who was 4-1 the last five games of the year, who threw 14 touchdown passes and two interceptions, and had a really high completion percentage? Or are we going to see the guy in the first four games of the year who threw two touchdowns and two interceptions? First five games of the year, they averaged 15 points a game. The last four games, they averaged 26. So to me, which one are they going to see?

Now, they doubled down on Carr this year when they agreed to get cap room. They guaranteed his paragraph five, which extended out more of his bonus money, which makes it harder for them to move on from him. They doubled down. The only player they didn't double down on was Kamara, whose numbers have been trending in the wrong direction significantly. So that makes sense. But, look, I think that would be the one potential team

that Jerry would have to worry about with Dak in terms of leaving because they would have the ability. And Marty Luton and Mickey Loomis is very good at being able to do it. Look, how did they get their franchise turned around when you won a Super Bowl? I mean, they beat Nick Saban. They didn't pass Drew Brees on that physical, and Drew Brees became a saint. Yeah, and Jordan's, you know, down here celebrating one of the worst nights I've ever been a part of.

Jordan here is friends with Peyton. You know, he's friends with Peyton Manning, obviously. That's how I ended up meeting Jordan Davis. And then he's like, Drew Brees, the Saints. Remember when they just shit all over Peyton Manning and his legacy as an Indianapolis Colt in the Super Bowl down there in Miami? We've gotten past that, though. Peyton's forgiven me.

Well, that's because he won another one in Denver. Yeah, yeah. What a career that dude. And then Dak Prescott's referencing that. You know, I've seen a lot of other quarterbacks have to go play for other teams. It's just reality of the situation. It might be my reality. It might be my reality.

I'm going to be where my feet are, and I'm going to work hard for my guys and everything. It's like, oh, Dak Prescott and his agent are very much on the same page. Oh, yeah. Hey, listen. And they're back. Look at Matthew Stafford. He wins the Super Bowl. He goes somewhere else.

Look at Peyton Manning. He wins the Super Bowl. He goes somewhere else. Look at Tom Brady. He wins the Super Bowl. He goes somewhere else. Look at Peyton Manning. He wins the Super Bowl. He goes somewhere else. Look at Tom Brady. He wins the Super Bowl. He goes somewhere else. All those places, too. Parades for him as he was coming there. There's no, this guy can't win the big, this is parades.

All your shit that you did, it's almost like a rebirth. It's like a, it's like baptism. It's almost like baptism. They almost just kind of clean it and you're in a new place. It happened with Aaron when he goes to the Jets. Packers fans were done with it.

Not all Packers fans, obviously. Not all Packers fans. But there was a portion of Packers fans who were loud, who were basically like, we're done with this Aaron Rodgers shit. He goes in a dark hole. He's taking ayahuasca. We don't want to hear. Shut up. Just play football, pretty much. Now, granted, his situation at Green Bay was certainly one that none of us rogers shit he goes in a dark hole he's taking ayahuasca there's we don't want to hear shut up

just play football pretty much now granted his situation at green bay was certainly one that none of us could have understood he had no say in any decisions that were being made on the offensive side of the ball after playing there for 18 years and being an mvp and everything that is not what we have come to understand in the nfl at least let's get some ideas here especially from the guys gonna have to make it happen but then he goes over to new york the entire city of new york is like whatever you want to do, dude. You want to go to Wicked? You could be in Wicked

if you want to do that. You can go to the Rangers game. You can go to the Knicks game. You're walking down the street. There's a parade every day. Dak Prescott has probably been talking about that since the last time his deal was kind of on delay. But now, even more so, with the research we've had and the examples we've had, it's like these quarterbacks are probably okay and maybe pumped to go build a new legacy.

Peyton lives in Denver. Yeah. You know, Peyton lives in Denver right now. It's not like he lives in Indianapolis. He has a statue here, but he lives in Denver. Stanford, I assume, is going to live in Los Angeles, you know, for his entire being. Tom's going to go into the Tampa Bay Ring of Honor Hall of Fame thing and have two homes. It's like Dak Lake.

So Dallas still, and I get to go to a new place and the contract is going to be bananas if I want it. It's like a wild, it's a wild time in the NFL right now because that position needs to be locked down forever, Lambeau, in one place seemingly. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, he couldn't move, but now you got freedom. And Dak's agent was smart. And he will make it to the market if Jerry doesn't do something

for him because they can't franchise him. Kirk Cousins just got $180 million. Yep. When it only costs money, we see people rally up. I mean, look what Minnesota was able to do. Kirk Cousins was really the last guy that was a bona fide quarterback to make it to the market. Rarely does this happen.

So, you know, and look at the deal that Kirk got. I mean, Deshaun Watson got traded. There was value. And look at the deal Deshaun Watson got. Think about that. There's no trade involved with Dak. You lose no assets. You lose cash, no assets.

A lot of these teams, historically, when they moved on from these great quarterbacks, they had replacement in place. You know was gone you had young Rodgers obviously went far if you know and then love with Rodgers so Dak right now if he like hey Trey Lance you're gonna you're gonna put it in in Trey Lance well like it's funny you bring that up Darius is because Trey Lance the reason they traded for Trey Lance is because they had him graded so highly when he was getting ready to come out. He was one of their top players on their draft board.

And Jerry felt like if that was our grade and for whatever happened in San Francisco happened, that we should trade a fourth round pick for a guy that we had graded as high as we had graded and take a look at him. Now, from what I'm told, it still hasn't kind of gotten together for Trey Lance. He's a little bit behind, and it's not as instinctive for him to play within the framework of there. But that would make a lot of sense if you wanted to be able to get your cap in order, is if Trey Lance could be Jordan Love, right? And you could sign him to a deal that's more modest before Love signed this new contract. Now, all of of a sudden you've got more ability to be more flexible with your team. But if Jerry pays Dak, he pays Lamb, he pays Parsons,

then it's going to be hard to pay a lot of other guys. And who's the next coach, GM? Is it Bill Belichick? Oh! Whoa! We're talking about quarterbacks and having new homes. Let's go to Hammer. Don!

Don! Tone has a question for you, Lombo. Yeah, Lombo. Obviously, Russ missed the first few days because of the calf injury. And Justin Fields got all the reps. Russ has been back for two days with pads on. And Justin is still getting the 11-on-11 first-team reps, majority of them. Russ has only got two so far.

You think there's anything to read into there? You think there's a chance that Justin Fields takes the pole position because of this injury? or what are your thoughts on the situation there? You know, on my show yesterday, we had Jerry Dulac on from Pittsburgh, and he was talking about that, and he obviously goes to practice every day. He's in Latrobe, and he mentioned that he didn't think it was going to be a problem. It was very close, the competition, that when Justin was able to throw the ball and man coverage outside, it was good. But then when it became a little bit difficult and cloudy inside, it wasn't as good.

I think it really behooves the Falcons to give him as many reps as they can to see. I'm sure the first completed pass in the preseason, people will start betting for him for MVP. I won't mention whose name that would be but they certainly will vent for mvp you know and uh now you know who i mean you know i mean we're gonna they run that campaign so i i think to me look they're in a good situation i think they got to sort through this offensive line the roman wilson injury affects them because i heard he was doing really well they're gonna to have to get another receiver Van Jefferson you know is the number two guy to go along with Pickens but I think this is going to be a team a little bit better than most people think because you know

they've never played from in front with their defense they've always been and they've won 10 games last year and for all the complaining they won 10 games and lost to the and lost to the Cardinals and the Patriots and justin fields highlights though i mean there's some real highlights out here coming from justin fields at training camp and i appreciate i appreciate you breaking down like yeah whenever it's uh man coverage on the outside he's been hitting some people but whenever they start doing some shit in the middle it gets a little cloudy which has always been seemingly the development of justin fields uh can he continue to go they're not easy to figure out and decipher what the hell is going on,

where you need to put the ball. The defense has paid millions and millions of dollars to try to fool you. That is kind of how it goes. And Justin Fields, obviously, in Chicago, there's been a couple situations, a turnover. We've got a new era, different era. This one, we're out the door. Russell Wilson is facing the same type of issues,

but at least he's seen all for a decade now. Plus, he's seen every single defense. Could you imagine if the Steelers team does well? These y going to get loud here's I think though I think there's a thing that's trending in the league that we have to talk about is this RPO game and when you look at Russell's RPO game it has it's been steadily declining last year Jalen Hurts two years ago he threw for over a thousand yards in the RPO game. Last year, that number went down to 500, 600. People are starting to get a handle on how to defend the RPO game in the National Football League. And if that becomes more of the trend and we're seeing the

decline in those numbers, the only one who didn't see a decline in those numbers were Tua in the RPO game. And Russell has really seen a decline in RPO and in play-action pass game. His eye level hasn't gone back to the level it needs to be looking down the field. That's why his numbers in yards per attempt are trending such downward. And I think Fields is going to be able to do that. The question for Fields is going to be is if people take away the RPO game, what does he have left in his arsenal? That's going to be the question. We knew this day was coming, though, right, when the defense coordinators were going to be is if people take away the RPO game, what does he have left in his arsenal? That's going to be the question.

We knew this day was coming, though, right, when the defense coordinators were going to figure it out. And also guys playing high school ball against it at D-line, college ball against it at D-line. Used to it. So then you can't – then you at least – because I think whenever – it was like the tackling rules whenever Debo was just getting fined every single week where they're like, hey, you've got to now to now hit like this you got to take your head out of it as opposed to torpedoing

which we know we've been highlighting paying people for and promoting for the beginning of football pretty much now we need you to lift your head up move it to the side need to hit the shoulder it was hard for people to transition into that the old school guys were having a much more difficult time than the guys that kind of grew up with it. High school guys, college guys, then it just became like the norm throughout a generational turn. The RPO thing, I think we potentially saw happening as well.

It's going to be the referees too. How strict are they with the linemen? Like if they let the linemen go three yards down the field and you still throw the ball, a lot tougher on the defense to be true to their rules and be disciplined. But if they're strict and I felt like they got a lot tougher on the defense to be true to their rules and be disciplined. But if they're if they're strict and they felt like they got a little more strict the last couple years with the lineman calling some,

you know, offensive lineman downfield, that'll help the defense defend it. And I think a hurt situation, losing Shane Steichen was a big, big part of it. I don't think they called it enough, cuz he was great. Like, and being able to run the ball, obviously that's gonna be a weapon. Lambeau talks about it all the time, that six-man box. Having Goddard hitting him in the flat, hitting those receivers, getting one-on-ones outside. So it's a lot of different elements to it,

but it's still a tough, tough play to defend because the quarterback, the trigger man, he can always be right. Well, anytime you got a no in there, you can't prepare for it because there's an option for some of us. Boom, look out. But I think also the point person that is being read, I think their gamesmanship too on knowing that that is being read yep i think like their gamesmanship too on like knowing that they're being read is a is a different game it's uh

football's getting to a great spot but everything's cyclical back watch the eagle game when you watch the eagle miami game you see what the eagles eagles weren't a great defense last year but in that game they played really well because they they dropped to spots in the game where they knew the ball was going to go to. They almost had the plays before the plays were run. And it kind of was a little bit about how to play the RPO game. And look, I think Darius is right. I mean, these guys adapt. They're smart. They understand how to do it. But so are the defensive coaches too, right? And if you let these linemen go downfield you know and and they're

not going to call it then the rpo game is going to be really effective hey lombo we appreciate the hell out of your time today brother you look great you look great what do you got going on today no i got my show coming up at one o'clock that's about it you know just doing the same old stuff that it's football season there's nothing better than it really i mean it is we got hall of fame game even though nobody's going to play in it, it'll still be fun to watch. Yeah, it will be. It'll be NFL uniforms. It'll be NFL uniforms running on a field in Ohio, which we love.

New kickoff. How are they going to cover it? You can't beat it. Yeah, I hope somebody says we won't do an onside kick in the last two minutes of that game. That's ridiculous. One of the great plays in football we just eliminated. It's ridiculous. You're the best in football We just eliminated It's ridiculous You're the best

Ladies and gentlemen Michael Lombardi Hey so you kind of said Derek Carr's old What's this I didn't say that As that was Yes I probably could have said that

A little bit better I just don't I mean you know Obviously we need somebody else in there And I don't I don't like the draft class Rattler's spinning it I mean, you know, obviously we need somebody else in there. Yeah, next thing you know. I don't like the draft class. Rattler's spinning it.

Rattler's spinning it at training camp. Spank Rattler. Yeah. He ain't the guy. I don't know. You don't know. I'm with you, D. I don't think that that's the guy. And I just don't see another quarterback coming out that if Dak can come,

bring him back home. Are you an LSU guy? Oh, yeah. You want to LSU, but obviously you love LSU football. Yeah. How do we feel about LSU? I feel good. I love Nussmeyer. I love what I saw in the bowl game last year. I think the offensive line is

old and... Too old? I'm just like... No, no, no, no, no. Seasoned. Oh, you're good. You're good. You like Kelly? Brian Kelly? My family? You like Coach Kelly? I do.

It feels good to have a coach that's running the program. That bull? Come on. Come on. You like them on the bull? I don't. No, I don't. Do you ride mechanical bulls?

Big Louisiana guy? You hop on a bull? Not a big mechanical bull guy. Well, I think that's what you guys do down there. That's why I saw Brian Kelly. He's the northern guy getting dropped into the Louisiana. So I'm kind of living vicariously through him and his family. And I think you stand on boxes, you dance, and I think you hop on bulls.

Right? That's what you guys do down there? Yeah. We just do whatever Brian Kelly does. I'll tell you this. It is good. It's a good changeup from Orgeron. I will say that.

Go Joe. Go Tigers. Love Coach Joe. That's the title down there. He's Love Coach O. He's got the title down. He's fun to watch. He's fun to watch. Had a great year in 2019. But Coach Kelly has won me over.

Okay. I was a little nervous at front. Okay. But now I feel good about him being in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge is a beautiful place, too, huh? Special spot. Saturday nights in Baton Rouge are – and I love you saying that as an outsider because, like, yeah,

I'm obviously biased, but... I've never been. I've only seen on TV. It looks insane. It's special. And we were there for whenever you guys beat Clemson in the national championship in Atlanta. And calling Baton Rouge

afterwards, and that's in Atlanta, in like a half stadium of LSU people. That was a cool... That's a good celebratory situation. Oh, yeah. afterwards and that's in Atlanta yeah in like a half stadium of LSU people that was a cool but that's a good celebratory situation oh yeah that whole thing it was great it felt like we were part of it great absolutely that Bama one when they won in overtime one for for two. Oh, yeah. That was sick. Yeah.

Sweet. Yeah, that was awesome, huh? What a day it is. What a life it is. What a time it is. We are incredibly lucky to be here. We can't thank you enough for watching. Obviously, the Olympics are taking place.

We'll keep everybody updated on what's taking place over in Paris, in France, in real time with our guy who's in hammer, Don Tone Diggs, who looks amazing. Obviously, that'll happen this hour. Tone, good hat tip to you, sir. It seems like a great conversation is happening around the Steelers. We are proud of you. The Talks at Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Woo pig suey, pal.

Woo pig suey is right. I believe Coach Cal and the basketball team sent some of this gear to the office. I wasn't going to wear it, but not only do I want to see Arkansas basketball kind of reach that pinnacle again, but boy, are these some of the most comfortable shirts I've ever put on. Yeah, a lot of people send us stuff here, and we're very thankful. Now, granted, the amount of research you've had to do to find our address is kind of creepy. Don't love thinking about it too much. For sure.

You know, don't like taking too many milligrams and sort of thinking, I had to get there find our address kind of creepy don't love thinking about it too much for sure you know don't like uh taking too many uh milligrams and start overthinking i had to get there who these people they have all right now what's going to happen very kind of them yep but whenever people come on the program they normally send us like a thank you or whatever which is very kind of we should be sending them a thank you which we don't which is 100 on us but people hey we thank you thank you all for coming on and girls and everybody thank you all that's our package we should box that yep put it in a thing and send it out there but people are like good Thank you guys. Thank you all for coming on. And girls. And everybody. Anybody. Thank you all. That's our package. We should box that. Yep.

Put it in a thing and send it out there. But people who are like good people send us thank yous. And it's too much, to be honest. And we don't want to tell everybody where all this shit normally ends up at. But we will say the Arkansas people sent so much stuff. It was a massive. That was the biggest box of stuff that we've ever got. And then you start seeing the Arkansas football defense coordinator.

Oh, love that. Yeah, coach. Nine-year NFL vet Darius J. Butler joins us. Did you see the video? Oh, yeah. Loved it. Loved everything about it. Coach T. Will? Yeah.

Yeah, coach. Yeah. You know it's T. Will, and I had to do the free throw. The whole. Because, you know, it's a tough spot to be in. In front of the team, as a coach, as a player, regardless. It's a tough spot to be in front of the team for you know as a coach as a player regardless it's a tough spot to be in so to control the room to have some flow have the bars love the yeah coach here it is right here this just hit the internet this weekend this is the defensive coordinator for arkansas uh in a team meeting it appears in this when i start when

i saw this video i was immediately embarrassed i was I was so uncomfortable. Sure. When I saw it start, I'm like, oh, no. Because I've been in a room before where people thought they had. Sure. But what we knew they didn't have was self-awareness, and it got uncomfortable. That can go south quick. Yeah, bingo. You probably know this around Jordan Davis, a country music superstar who wasn't speaking into his microphone there, but said this. Sorry.

This could go south. That could go south quick. Could go south quick. You you're right you probably see this with a lot of people who think they could sing and everything like yes so as i saw this video i'm like oh no especially with what arkansas got going complete opposite run this thing this is coach will oh that's what i said oh gotta get the crowd involved That's what I said, uh-oh. Oh, gosh. Got to get the crowd involved early.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Chill, chill, chill, chill. T. Will back and you know the flow is a free throw. Really from the hood, all I fear is God and the Rico. Made it out the gutter, I put it on for the have-nots. Always strive for more, but I'm thankful for what I have got.

Don't play around with T. Will, he's a head case, all he do is blitz If I say sorry, it's hammer time cause he's too legit You know now I'm not new to this, on the mic I'm truly sick Don't schedule us for a homecoming cause we will ruin it Yeah, coach! Chokeslamming running backs when they hit the hole Yeah, coach! Landon and Cam gon' ball when I say go

Yeah, coach! DBs fly around, yeah they outta here Yeah, coach! and they hit the hole. Landon and Cam going ball when I say go. DBs flying around, yeah, they out of here. Standards not starters because that's what got us here. 6'6 quarterback, and he dropping dimes. Quarter went crazy on the offensive line. We hear the whispers, and we going to face them all. The hill too trilly, and we embrace the home. That was awesome.

That was awesome. I don't know how many times we've attempted this in the past that they knew to drop a yeah coach in the middle of that thing, but that was awesome. And I'm like, Cal with the basketball team, and obviously we heard him read off the amount of success that he's had. He wants to help 30 more families make it to the NBA and change the trajectory of their entire family tree and everything like that. He just got a top five commit.

That's going to start happening on a very regular basis over there in Arkansas. Happy they got Paisan from Pittsburgh, Wu Pig, Suyin on the hard court. But then the football team over Alaska. And then I see that, I'm like, hold on a second. Is Arkansas about to go on a run? Let's go to a man who's an author

who wrote the Need to Know Gambler's Guide for the college football season 2024 into 2025. Thousands and thousands of copies have been sold. What's the story with the Arkansas football team? Live from Hammer, Don, Todd, Tone Diggs. It might be the best thing you see from the Arkansas football team. Oh. No, Coach.

What are we? Listen, Sam Pittman is great. I love Sam Pittman. You have a cold beer of Sam Pittman, okay? And I've heard he does have actual cold beer. Somebody told me, like, hey, do you know Coach Pittman? And I was like, Arkansas guy? They were like, yeah.

I'm like, I want to have a cold beer after a game. I remember he said that after a big win. He said he's going to have a cold beer. Then he came on game day, and the only thing I could ask him they're like, yeah, I'm like, I want to have a cold beer after a game. I remember he said that after a big win. He said he's going to have a cold beer. Then he came on game day and the only thing I could ask him about was like, hey, how many cold beers are we having after this game day? He said, no, he lives the gimmick, too. He will have, he will slam some cold beers. That is just

operating procedure, which makes me love him even more. What are you talking about? Well, KJ Jefferson's gone. He was a dog. Their team total season win total was over under four and a half. You didn't see that. Did you see that team? No, I saw it. I saw it. I did. I did.

The schedule is super tough. It's just kind of a rebuilding year. Okay, thanks, Tone, live from Hammer. Anything going on in the Olympics right now, Tone? The men's all-around is going on right now. I don't think

it doesn't look like we're getting any medals in that right now. 3 p.m. today, the men's basketball team plays South Sudan. As you said earlier, it's a little bit of a slower day than yesterday. Big spread there, too. Can someone else ask that question? When it comes out of his mouth.

Guinea's getting any medals today. Who are you talking about? Guinea. The new country. It's not a new country. I think it's been around. I know, but the one that just became a new country to you, Pat. You tell me you knew that Guinea existed. I did not. I learned that walking out of here. I've known for a while, but I'm just saying

did they get any medals today? Did you? That's a good question. Can we go to Hammer? Don? Tom? Do you have an answer about the Guineas down there? I don't believe the country of Guinea got any medals today. How about the Italians? The Italians did, yeah. Way to go. Hey, the Italians were up

there in the women's team. Yeah, the team, I think they got silver. Yeah, and then Brazil? Brazil, first medal ever, Brazil. For the women's team. I think they got silver. And then Brazil? Brazil, first medal ever. Brazil. For the women's gymnastics? I believe, yeah. Was it anything? No. Jordan, come on. He's trying to get you right there.

See Great Britain? After they finished their routine, they went nuts. They were in second. They were going ballistic. All of them, the coaches, everybody. And then they all looked up at the scoreboard. They're like, oh, shit. We got so many more people that still have to go. They were competing against a lot of

teams that didn't even have points yet. That's a tough moment whenever you realize that you are completely screwed there. That moment in the lead is awesome. It's like in racing whenever everybody pits, but you decide to stay in so you can steal a couple laps Up there in the front And then you go in

They all know that they're about to go in The Great Britain team had no idea No idea They had no idea Everybody was coming out of the pits Holy shit we got silver Have you been watching the Olympics? Oh yeah

Dude it's awesome Is it not awesome? Love it Now there's some people That are going to hate it Because of what happened On Friday at the opening ceremony There's people that are like

I don't know those sports I'm not going to watch But it's like that's why you watch them No Handball Like has been something That I'm like Why do I like this It's like, that's why you watch them. No, handball has been something that I'm like, why do I like this sport so much? And why aren't we great at it?

Why aren't we all doing it? I feel like, yeah, that's like a, that's going to be the next pickleball thing, I feel like. Joining us now is a man who might have the answer. He's a former president of the state of Ohio. I do feel like back in the day, whenever whoever in our country was deciding what sports we were going to focus on, I think that person might have had a little beef with the handball community because

that should have been a sport that it fits into our sports like rolodex as well yeah it's basketball it's hockey it's football it's baseball across yeah we're talking about handball right did y'all see that shit we put out there for our 3 on 3 team Oh my god Did you see the shooting memes No but that's the first time I was reminded of Jimmer Fredette In a long time He's supposed to be 3 on 3 god

We came in dead last in shooting America What happened there We're not sending any SEALs We have zero special ops people right now in the rifle and the pistol. I know. What is that all about? I don't think they do.

The other countries, I don't think they do either. I don't care what they're doing. They had assassins in it. We're not using those Mickey Mouse air pistols. You give me a Colt 45 or a Magnum, guess what? Yeah, we're winning every time. Oh, so it was the choice of the gun. Yeah, I mean, those little gimmicked guns.

I mean, how many Americans do you see with the Terminator goggles and the little Mickey Mouse air guns? It ain't the state fair. You give me... We want the bent rifle, actually, at the state fair. Exactly. Who can shoot out the actual star? Boom.

That's what we want to know. We can. Whatever the case, we need to send our best shooters out there. We can't be losing to these other countries and it's something that we should be the best at. That is something we should be bragging to the world we're better than them. For sure. We can't just have assassins sitting there just. Yeah.

I mean, and no selling the win, too. World record. Yeah. I'm going to go kill 50 fucking people. That's what that person did. Yep. We need those dogs, man. We got to have those dogs on the.

Why don't you write a song about it We need the dogs We need the dogs Now I know in the south probably get Georgia everybody will say they're the dogs But as a society we do need the dogs So you and the Hicks Get together in the

The Bagger Boys On the way back to the video We're going to figure out what we need to know. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a dog through and through. A college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner, and a guy who would have been phenomenal at handball. Didn't even think about putting him into the mix. This guy playing handball would be, he would destroy the world.

A.J. Hawk. A.J., you'd be great at that sport. Guy ran a lot of 4-4 or something like that. You could throw, right, athlete? Yeah, I could throw a bit. I was a pitcher as a kid. But, man, yeah, it would be a sport if you got into it at a young age. I think you could definitely excel for sure.

I think we would do it. And it's entertaining to watch. Have you seen this table tennis, our guy Ja? I mean, yeah. It's unbelievable. My kids love watching it. Everyone loves watching it. How could you not?

These guys are unreal. So our guy, this is the furthest anybody's ever made it out of the United States of America in a solo event. That is not him. He's on the other side over there, even though he's not wearing the American flag colors. He is wearing the American flag on his chest. This is a recording of Tone Diggs' computer because we couldn't find it anywhere because of the disrespect for table tennis. I think the potential disrespect is because America has not been that great at it worldwide. This is our guy.

He's been training to do this since he's like 14 years old. Moved from California to Sweden to chase his dreams of being a table tennis player. This guy has been fully committed. And then he got screwed by the drug testers like 18 months ago or whatever the case. And barely even made it into the Olympics because he didn't put a one before his phone number whenever applying his form to be eligible for the anti-doping testing, yada, yada. So they couldn't get a hold of him because they didn't put a one in front of a phone number on a file that he's, and now he might, he's better than me.

Okay, what are we testing for? What are we testing these guys for? Juice them up, let them take whatever they want. I don't care. I don't know how much of an advantage it gets you. Well, steroid olympics are right around the corner that has been announced can't wait that has been announced in the entire thing but i would assume ping pong adderall would be the one foxy i think adderall would be the yeah probably that i would think so any focus any focus about cocaine like a heart rate thing maybe cocaine no question cocaine that's meth meth yeah yeah yeah yeah some crack for the good of society too dialed in yeah those the

sir viagra is it because it's viagra no question it gives you an extra paddle to hit yeah you're right hit the ball yeah it might be actually a deficit you're rocked up you know what i mean but then you know exactly how far you need to stand oh it's like they said that about aspirin i saw a meme about aspinall the guy oh the adjustment from england he went before the fight he like puts his arm on the guy's shoulder as like uh hey let's have fun out here they're like that dude's checking his reach on that guy and there's like a couple photos of him doing it before fights where he's like On a show like hey have a good fight out there And then it's like easily just like okay yeah So we're like

That's genius but he looks like babyface It's like super babyface like oh look at that Look at how much of a gentleman this guy is What a sportsman a great sportsman right there And that's the internet I assume he is Actually doing that but there is certainly an advantage What if every fighter now comes A double shoulder

Hey how you doing really grab the face a little bit how's the jaw doing we're in the middle of nfl training camp and we want to see highlights from everywhere yeah we want to see what's going on and there's only one way to get from one camp to the next aj especially in this here united states of America. Ladies and gentlemen, Jordan Davis, buy some dirt underneath some railroad tracks because we're hopping on the training camp train. Let's make some stops at all the places that will have stories developing. First one, Kansas City.

As Patrick Mahomes and the defending back-to-back Super Bowl champions are going off without a hitch. Seemingly, everything is great. We got double throwbacks happening with Kadarius Toney. They're asking him to catch the ball twice before the ball is thrown by him to Xavier Worthy down the field. The Chiefs are back on their bullshit, looking to go for three in a row for the first time in NFL history. Are they even better? What? Training camp train, hop back on. a row for the first time in NFL history. Are they even better? Why? Uh-oh.

Training camp train, hop back on. Let's get to the great state of Minnesota as J.J. McCarthy, who's potentially the future of the Minnesota Vikings, drops a dime down the field. People are saying he had to wait for it. Nah, he's just playing it off so damn good. Let's go to Oxnard. No fans, no passion for Micah. What's going on? Hands to the face as well. Yeah, definitely cheating and one-on-ones are nowhere near a way to tell if a guy's in shape or playing good football or not, but things are not going well for the Dallas Cowboys. Will they be able to piece it all together for one last hurrah this squad? We shall see. Back on the train we go to Indianapolis as A.D. Mitchell has been unguardable, unstoppable,

and every single ball has been very catchable. Absolute dog. Let's go to Seattle. Oh, no, no. That's Bumbo. Diving fingertip catch with a guardian on top of his helmet. Looking like a dog. Catching like a dog.

Geno Smith is back for another year, and D.K. Metcalf is still playing football for the Seattle Seahawks, making absurd catches. Is this Seattle Seahawks offense going to get back to number one in the league like they were two years ago? Maybe. We shall see. Let's go to Pittsburgh.

Speaking of offense, Justin Fields drops a dime to George Pickens. Now we're hearing that Justin Fields is playing great. We're hearing Russell Wilson is coming back. What will that story be on the offensive side? We shall see. Green Bay, Wisconsin, the richest man in NFL history, throws up a prayer. Big-time catch by...

Romeo Dobbs. Who's obviously one half of the young crew alongside Christian, and then you got... Luke Musgrave. Making one-handed back-shoulder catches. The Packers seemingly swimmingly just great. Pukinukua, ah, give me that. And Odell Beckham, like Grab, jumps up, snags one hand.

Matthew Stafford, new deal, a lot of new money. Speaking of new deal, new money, Caleb Williams, new man in Chicago. Dart in training camp. Things are coming out all aces for the Chicago Bears seemingly. DJ Moore gets $110 million, $102 guaranteed.

Are the Bears a team in the NFC North? Maybe. Hop back on the train. Let's go to New England. Joe Milton, quarterback out of Tennessee, can do a backflip. Yeah. How about it? That's cool. Let's get back on the train.

More training camp footage coming out of Carolina. Exactly. North and South Carolina. Dog. He is also not the only talented individual that has joined the Panthers over the last couple years. Bryce Young. Remember, we all forgot about him. He kind of dresses like a high schooler going to camp,

but he still can spin that thing. And they protect him, put him in a situation where he can be worthy of that number one pick. We shall see. Let's go to Los Angeles. Our most entertaining camp by far. One-on-ones against Derwin James. I don't love their crossing route 101s.

Lab McConkie? Lab McConkie ran an 85-yard route. Derwin James couldn't keep up with him. Justin Herbert threw a strike, though. Speaking of strikes, what the hell's going on between Garrett Wilson and Aaron Rodgers? Uh-oh. These guys get on the same page or what? What's going on with the New York Jets? Not good. This must be a year and all of a sudden we can't see.

I want anything, seemingly. This is good conversations to be having in training camp. Obviously, don't want to have these during the season. Let's have these now. We'll get on the same damn page. But obviously, that's going to be a lot of drama. The training camp train rolls on. Boys, just like last time we hopped on that train and we hopped off of it,

I asked you guys, what's your favorite stop of the train that we just took? AJ, we'll start with you, pal. What's your favorite stop that we took on that incredible training camp train, and why? Well, I mean, I think we all know, like, there's so many things surrounding the Dallas Cowboys. You see that clip of Micah Parsons doing one-on-ones. First off, the media will grade these one-on-ones

and tell you how many they won, how many they lost, and players actually sometimes pay attention to it, which I hate because it's called practice for a reason. You're supposed to fail. You're supposed to try things that you want to implement into your game that you might use when it actually matters. Now, Doug, a great rep here. Here you go.

Hands-to-face 15-yarder. We know that will most likely get called. But it's a good rep, I guess. But to me, look at the stands. That seriously worries me. I know all the fans are blaming Jerry. I've seen the tweets like, oh, hey, we're with the players. We love the players.

We don't like what Jerry in the front office is doing. So all you can do is go out there and win games and hope to get them back. I heard some people say, we're with Big Mike. Yeah. Yeah, give Big Mike a new deal. I heard a couple people, fans, say they weren't going to go because Big Mike didn't have a new deal. How about you, Ty Schmidt?

Which stop did you appreciate the most? Not to be a homer, but I think it's the Packers. Well, Jordan Love's out there now. You know, so, I mean, it was the Packers. Jordan Love's out there now. It was nice seeing Sean Clifford getting all the first team reps, but Jordan Love and then also Jair Alexander said, Roger said it a couple years ago when Romeo Dobbs

was a rookie about how good he could be, his work ethic, how much of a pro he already was. That's kind of what everyone has been saying. This guy's the limit for this guy just because he works so hard.'s looked great he has a good rapport with jordan love it's easy to forget how young this team is um but like all the guys that jordan love is going to be thrown to are either in their first or second year which is huge so just him getting out there getting all the reps and we haven't seen anything from the defense yet but a lot of people

are saying hey the difference between the defense now and last year with Jeff Halfley being the defensive coordinator, super aggressive. So I'm very, very excited that everything's kind of back to normal at Packers camp. We heard the choo-choo coming into Green Bay. We knew you were going to get pretty excited and do what you do do. We do that. Jordy Nelson hopped on the train back in town this weekend as well.

Love that. Love that. Oh, OG's coming back around. Yeah, maybe, I don't know, talking to, you know, maybe giving some game to some of the younger guys. I mean, that never hurts, does it? One of the greatest receivers of all time. And right there, he was answering a question about how to round up a cow

if that son of a bitch is getting too out of control. That's right. You know, he'll run that thing down. Doesn't need a horse. No, no, no, no. Doesn't need a four-wheeler. Nope. You remember this guy used to run go-routes past everybody.

He used to call them White Lightning. That's right. He said, if Wonder Bread passes you, that's a problem. Doesn't need a four-wheeler. Nope. You remember this guy used to run go-routes past everybody. They used to call him White Lightning. That's right. They said, if Wonder Bread passes you, that's a problem. Then they realized he's running by everybody. And you should see what the cows say about this son of a bitch. Now, listen, there's been plenty of DB meetings that have revolved around, let's not lose to the white guy. Can't be getting smoked by the white guy.

And then those meetings quickly changed to, to hey this ain't your average white guy that was exactly what it was hey this farming okay cannot be the guy that be and then uh year passes and they're like hey listen this guy's really good he was able to play forever too seemingly had a great report he's back in green bay that's good news love that they've been able to do what they do and once again i was completely wrong about the train that stopped by good goon's house a couple years back seemingly the right guy for the gig can't wait to see what he does for ever you know because that's the type of job you get in green bay if you do your job well you can have it for 50 years yeah and then you can potentially move into the president role

right aj i don't know enough about it, but that's legitimately possible, right? Oh, yeah. If you're great at what you do, they want to keep you around, absolutely. Yeah, because owners are normally the ones who get sick and move. Like, we want this. We want to do this. They have a group. So it's like, hey, if this is working, let's just stick with this.

And what a job to have. In that town that I was there, what, last week? Yeah. It's awesome, dude. That felt like I went into a movie. Seeing camp takes me back to just being there and feeling like the week? Yeah. It's awesome, dude. That felt like a, it felt like I went into a movie. Seeing camp takes me back to just being there and feeling like the atmosphere of camp.

It's crazy. Every single day is like a game day atmosphere. You go into like a movie. It was like a movie set. You're going back in time. You're going back in time with people that are super nice that all they want to do

is support the team. Like, you know, a lot of training camps, you might hear a lot of negative stuff every once in a while yelled out. At Green Bay camp, I don't think that's happened. Dude, I saw. It was awesome.

Two people walking their dogs. One had Green Bay Packers on sidewalk. There's actual sidewalk there, obviously on street as we're driving through there. Two people walking dogs. Okay, I'm at stop sign. Two people walking dogs. Green Bay Packers hat on one of them. Green Bay Packers shirt on the other one. Walked by. High-fived.

Just kept walking. I was like, yes. Football time. Yep. This feels so good. And then you turn around the corner, you got the most historic stadium on earth right there. And then we were at the rest center right around there. And it's like, this is a movie.

It was literally like a movie. I guess I was there like the first day of training camp. So it's like, you know, probably alive. But I hope they continue to be great. And Jordan Love seemingly the guy. Let's hop back on that train which stop did you enjoy d bud you know what la i love i think jim harbaugh is going to be one of the most entertaining uh interviews press conferences all season long when i look at teams i start with the head coach and the quarterback obviously i love what justin herbert has been doing got banged up last year uh went and drafted

joe all up front so they're going to build an offensive line. Going to run revamped running back room. Big bus Gus Edwards and J.K. Dobbins over there. Hopefully he can bounce back and be healthy. Wide receiver room, very suspect. Obviously we know Quentin Johnston has been dropped down to the second team. But Ladd, Ladd McConkie's been a dog all year long. Josh Palmer

probably be there. Wide receiver one going into it. And Jesse Minter on the other side, a defensive coordinator, new defensive coordinator. Repl replacing what they had last year. It was terrible on that back. And we watched his defense, Michigan's defense, and college, obviously, the last two games of the season do great things, very well disciplined. So I'm interested to see how they turn around. Year one, I'm already expecting a playoff appearance,

probably a playoff win. Year two, three, I mean, I'm expecting a title. Well, if they can stay healthy, obviously, that is everybody expecting the title well if they can stay healthy obviously that is everybody's story but if they can stay healthy at key positions i feel like in my life after watching hardball coach now in numerous places just as football fan yeah like you just he's gonna figure it out yeah he's gonna do it in his own way too like completely different than anybody else if they stay healthy you gotta assume they to be in it. That's how he feels, and that's how they're going to go. But if they get any injuries, this is Coach Harbaugh's response

for the rest of the year, we're talking. I'm really a better writer than I am talker, in my opinion. I'll just read it for you. You are too. So for clarity, whenever I'm asked about anybody's medical condition other than my own the following will be my best effort to relay information I am NOT medically qualified to categorize or speculate as to how someone else is feeling the best

I can do is say that someone is working through something to I get the report from those who are qualified and then follow the instructions three if at times I look or sound like I am not a medical expert in the field of medicine guilty as charged all right nice guys All right. Nice, guys. That is a smart man right there. Everybody won it all this year. Oh, God.

What a wet pick. He's got a Hall of Fame resume and everything. Yeah. So he's already going into the Hall of Fame college ball. He's going to go into the Hall of Fame probably for the NFL, for the success he already had with San Francisco. Colts ring on. And Colts ring on.

I mean, it's like, so he's already in the Hall of Fame. So it's like Belichick. When Belichick does his shit, it's like, yeah he's already in Hollywood. So it's like Belichick. When Belichick does his shit, it's like, yeah, he can do that. He's Bill Belichick. Harbaugh, it's like, we've all just accepted. Harbaugh's allowed to do whatever the hell he wants. He can flip tires if he wants. If he wants to show up shirtless, if he wants to have cleats on, if he wants to take a rep in a fucking game this year,

go ahead. Let him out there and let him do it. I love that he just said, just some precedent here, okay? This is going to be my answer any time I am asked. And then he ends it, if there's ever a time where I look like

I am not a medical expert in the field of medicine, and then he wrote, guilty as charged. Guilty as charged. And then just, what if, hard out at the end of the day?

What a man. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is somebody who might tell us his favorite stop on the training camp train. Thank God hardball is in football. Yeah, I mean, I practice the. Don't you guys wish country music had a hardball? Oh, dude. Like, we get to claim hardball as a football guy. Yeah.

And you can put him on a microphone anywhere, and he would crush. Yeah. You get him at one of those CMA fests, he comes out to present man i think there's some in there blake shelton oh blake shelton's kind of like you're right i mean luke bryan can get up there too he can be he can get he could be our jim harbaugh would luke bryan think that's compliment yeah yeah yeah absolutely joining us now is i don't you guys don't you guys don't have any of these Joining us now is... You guys don't have any of these. Not in my small town.

He's got a little bit in him. You think he's hardball potentially? Maybe. I don't know. Show me something. He was up there. L1. He was L1. Joining us now is... You guys don't have any of this guy

in your world. We know that. This guy is the guru on everything football for ESPN for the next six months. Friend of the program. Superstar quarterback of the NFL. Shoulder therapy thing salesman. Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Orlovsky! Dan Orlovsky! Dan Orlovsky!

What's up? What's up? Dan, what's up? Jordan, what's up, man? I want to talk to Jordan real quick! What's up? What's up? Dan, what's Jordan? Jordan, what's up, man? I want to talk to Jordan real quick. What's up, buddy? Hey, Dano. What's up, buddy?

Good to see you, man. How are you, man? Doing great, man. Doing great. You tell us, Dano. You ever see this guy? You ever see him live? You ever stand him up?

Dude, two weeks ago, he was just here in Bridgeport, and the plan was to take the whole family and ended up the same night having to get to Luke Combs and MetLife. Oh, okay. I felt terrible. My sister went to Jordan's show. We had a bunch of friends who went. They said it was unreal.

You're back here in like a month or something in New York. We're up in a month and Dan's coming out. We got to play some golf too, Dan. He doesn't deserve to hear that. He doesn't deserve to hear that. What was rough is you went up there on Friday night and then I was there on Saturday night

because you were in MetLife. I missed you by a day. He did that on purpose. He didn't want to hear you. That's why he went the day you weren't there. It made sense. He wouldn't want to go to Bridgeport. I'd tell myself something else, but maybe that was it. There's two guys that I want to see.

Jordan and Zach Bryan. Yeah. I haven't seen them yet. Dude, I saw Zach Bryan in Nashville, man. Unreal shit. Are you going to sing a revival? That's the, right? Everybody gets up there and sings?

That's a good moment. Those arenas go crazy. Do you just bring everybody? Do you bring people up to? I've had Peyton's come up and sing by Dirt. Eli's sang it with me. Probably a good break for you guys or no? What?

Like on the show. It would be, but like Peyton always just like kind of gets so far away from the mic that you can't hear him. So I end up having to sing it anyway. That's on purpose. It's on purpose, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's. But. Way back.

Yeah. Sing it, D purpose. Yeah, yeah. He's way back. I want to get in. Sing it, Jordan. Yeah. But, yeah, we've had a few people come up and sing with us. Would you let Dan Orlovsky sing? Oh, Dan is. I would kill it. Dan, next month.

September 14th. Yeah, September 14th, Dan singing by Dan. Yeah, it depends on who else is playing on September 14th. Yeah, don't bail this time, Dan. I think if we learn anything from Dan, it's like he's got options. He's got options. It might be bluey live in town. You have no idea.

I might have to stop by that. All Dean. All right, Dan, we appreciate you disrespecting our guest today a few weeks ago. That's very kind of you. We do appreciate that. Thank you, Dan. If it means anything, Parker McCollum, I was supposed to go to one of his concerts, and I was actually texting with his person.

He's great. He is, 20 minutes before his show. So here I come, and as soon as I sent that text, I fell over onto my bed, and I passed out and woke up at 4 a.m. I guess I missed that whole concert. He thought I was on my way, too. He said he had a whole thing set up, and that was 100%. So we've all been assholes before.

We never directly told the person. We chose somebody else over them. But we've all kind of been in there. Hands were tied. That was Zito's bachelor party day in Nashville. Mentally, you were on your way. You were out the door in the car. You were already singing Hell of a Year in your head.

You're damn right. I was a handle on you, bro. I was already off and running. Anyway, let's get back to the train, shall we? Which stop that we took do you think you want to talk about a little bit more? We've already hit the Dallas Cowboys. That's wild what's going on there. Green Bay, that's wild as well. And then if you think about all the other places that we stopped on there, one of those teams might win Super Bowl. They could. One of those teams might win three in a row. Dan, what do you want to talk about

from the teams we just showcased? I'm going to go Minnesota. We've had a couple years stretched now. AFC West, best division of football. AFC North, best division of football. I think that the NFC North could be the best division of football this year. High end with both Detroit and Green Bay. Chicago, I think we talked about, is the best situation a number one drafted quarterback's ever gone into.

But Minnesota's super interesting to me because, one, they were 6-6 last year, even after the Kirk injury, going into their, I think, their bye week. So they were right in the picture. Josh Dobbs was balling. And then they lost four out of their last five, two of them to Detroit in tight games. I think one of them was to Cincinnati in a super tight game. So I think Minnesota,

because of the quarterback situation, is it going to be Sam Darnold? I feel whatever quarterback plays is going to play well. Sam's got a great opportunity. It's by far the best opportunity he's ever had in his career. But then McCarthy, I've said, like, McCarthy is going into the perfect place when it comes to what are you good at, what's your past, and your skill set and type of offense. Great. Minnesota's the ideal place for you. And with both those receivers, Addison and obviously JJ,

but then Hawk is so good. Their offensive line is top seven top eight in the league Aaron Jones comes over like this is a team that I think Flores is their defensive coordinator I think that they could be playing like really really important games in December not shocked if they somehow get into the playoff picture at all we love KOC. He's awesome. Love Flores as defense coordinator, so it would just only make sense if they were able to do it.

There's a lot of negative shit, though, all offseason, seemingly. That was the only storylines coming out of Minnesota was the Kirk Cousins stuff obviously started, then some offseason stuff. Then there was never really any positive, didn't feel like. Even when J.J. McCarthy was drafted, there was people like, is this a... And then Sam Darnold comes over there. McCarthy was drafted, there's people like, is this a – and then Sam Darnold comes over there for a cheap price.

And they're like, has he ever been? There's been a lot of question marks except for Justin Jefferson. Like that's the only – Justin Jefferson is a bona fide superstar, but can you win whenever you only pay a wide receiver? Like that's only been the conversation around Minnesota. And you bring up a lot of points that make me go like, oh, yeah, Kevin O'Connell was literally drawn to plays in the dirt for the Pastronaut and winning it.

And Flores, his history on defense is like not head coaching down in Miami, obviously. That didn't work out. It's certainly gone a different way since then. But whenever he's decent... They added Jonathan Grenard and Dallas Turner from Bama. I know they lost to Neil Hunter, but they're really talented on defense. Andrew Booth, I think he'll

take a step forward. Oh, no. Is Green Bay worried? Uh-oh. I just think as a whole, the division's going to be good. I think that division will not have a bad team. I don't think that division has a bad team this year. Caleb. Look out. Caleb. DJ Moore.

Dan said he'll be in the picture late. Chicago. Ibra Flucis' defense. He is going into a great situation. Yeah. Weapons. Offense linelus' defense. He is going into a great situation. Yeah. Weapons, offense line, good defense. Seemingly a team that's already built, which is why the Justin Fields people are like, excuse me. And this is what we were trying to get to here.

But if the Bears go, and Dan points out some very real things about the Minnesota Vikings, and then obviously we know the Lions are. And then the Pat, holy, what is? Nah, I mean, we can do this whole song and dance, we know the Lions are. And then... What is... We can do this whole song and dance, but it's horse shit. Can Caleb play outside in the cold? That's what I'm excited to see. USC boy. It's been raining, remember?

Because the cows... Isn't he from, like, D.C.? Yeah, when was the last time he played in the cold, though? Good question. Notre Dame last year in Stonk. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! We like Caleb all the way. I do like Caleb.

July 31st, the guy already sucks. Let's not... You're no... Let's not... If that's one way, you've gone the other way a few times before and then just kind of... But, shh, shh. But I like Caleb.

I like him a lot. I do agree. I think the whole division is going to be very good this year. And I see North football, baby. Yeah. All right, go ahead, AJ. Dana, what about Pittsburgh with the quarterback situation? We know Russ has been hampered with that calf injury, whatever's happened.

But Justin Fields, as Coach Tomlin said, he's kind of maximizing the opportunity he has. How much longer can we go and continue to see fields seemingly playing well? And it looks like they're fighting for him as well at practice today. What do you expect from that whole QB battle? Do you think it's an actual quarterback competition? It would be Justin, show us you can't do this for me right now. As I go into training camp, when Russell and Justin went over there,

I was like, this should be Russell's job. It's play-action-based offense. He could play in a way that, like, you're not going to hurt the football team. And now that the door has been opened for, you know, Justin to get the reps because of Russell's injury, it's forced me to sit back and think, okay, let's live in the hypothetical world. And fast forward seven months. The Steelers are going to be good. I don't care who the quarterback is.'re gonna they're gonna be a good football team so that means if

Russell's your starting quarterback for the majority of the year and he plays good he's not I don't think Russell's gonna be what he was four years ago but he plays good you're then as an organization sitting somewhere picking around 20 to 24 and then you have to ask yourself are we gonna pay a lot of money to Russell Wilson at 36 years old when he's only had a good season oh and not know anything about Justin Fields or again you're going to be good let's play Justin Fields we can become the Baltimore Ravens that early days of Lamar Jackson we can be the best run game in the NFL with our offensive line, those two backs, and utilize quarterback-designed runs. That's my only question about my, at least, mindset on this is Arthur Smith didn't do it a lot with Desmond Ritter in Atlanta last year. I thought he would do it a lot more. If Arthur Smith is willing and capable of doing that, I would play Justin Fields

and sit there and go, we're just going to try to emulate what the Baltimore Ravens were early on with Lamar, and they'll be really good. And then they have to make the decision of, all right, we were really good on offense, specifically running the football. Justin was plenty good enough throwing the ball. I feel like sometimes we talk about Justin Fields like it's Tommy Frazier of Nebraska, like couldn't throw type of thing.

And then we make a decision, do we pay the 26-year-old? With the Justin Fields convo and the Baltimore Ravens and Tommy Frazier, I guess, but no, the Baltimore Ravens, they did go all in and they changed up their personnel and they brought in Ricard who won like 280

pounds of fullback and then obviously the multiple tight ends. And then they had issues obviously with wide receivers who were talented and wanted to get out of there. They got George Pickens over there right now. But it would be two different offenses with Justin Fields from what it sounds like then with Russell Wilson, right? It would be two different. Well, I mean, I don't think just because you have an offense

that is built around designed quarterback run doesn't mean that a great majority of your playbook doesn't carry over to other athletes now you would get rid of that with russell like you wouldn't be utilizing that and you would have to adjust your offense but that's more of adjusting your play calling rather than adjusting the playbook and i just uh again i i just think that because of the type of people that they have, their offensive line is going to be really good in Pittsburgh, specifically running the football. And Arthur Smith is a fantastic run game coordinator. And those two backs are good. That's what I would

do if I was Pittsburgh right now, if it's close. Now, if you tell me three weeks from now, Justin Fields is looking awful in camp and Russell Wilson is settled down different conversation. I don't think that's likely. So because of the talent that is still there. And, dude, you guys, and D-Bot, you know this. AJ knows this. When you commit to that style of offense, when you're going to be a little bit more of a designed quarterback run

downhill at you, you'll get simpler defenses. Like you will. So your pass game with pickings and uh you know roman wilson and fry with like it's not like they're going to be seeing these exotic coverages that your pass game is going to be so difficult to operate to your point about justin fields i remember there was a conversation about them being like we wanted to be a pocket passer can't run as much and it's like that's the the running is that year they were terrible the only upside was him running the ball remember it was like once a week there was a

highlight of him going 75 yards pulling away from people that one we just showed there he broke four tackles he was already down he's running all over the place he's a weapon on the ground for and it was always uh the discussion about him throwing and shot to tommy fraser obviously you know he did his thing it was always like because it seemed like that was the issue. They talked about his arm. Was it his arm? Was it his ability to dissect the defense? What was it?

What was the? Well, I think Justin has always played slow physically. Like, and it's weird. He is more of like a powerful athlete than a twitchy athlete, I would say. Like, he doesn't play super quick when it comes to Like the suddenness of getting through a progression or whatnot. He's got an elongated release I talked about that when he was coming out of Ohio State, you know one of the things that people called me a lot of different names about when he came out of Ohio State was

The ball his elbow got on top of the ball in the presentation on the show Correct, you know and so like that elbow got on top of the ball. We did the presentation on this show. I remember that. Correct. It sounds like it was my fault. That correct sounds like you went through some shit because of what you did there. No, no, no. That's the thing that holds him back. They were doing a report the other day.

He still is just okay with the simple stuff. That's just who he is. You're not asking him like purdy is unbelievable with that um you know that i gotta make five decisions in a fraction of a second and get to a different guy and it's gotta happen quick that's not who justin is but throwing the ball downfield that's what he's always done really well at and i think that's a good marriage scheme wisewise. Okay, I'm excited to watch it all happen. I think Tone Diggs and the Yingers would be incredibly pumped about it as well. Jordan Davis has a question for you, Dano.

Dano, just being up there. Hey, why didn't you come to his concert? That's what he wanted to ask, but he wanted to ask a football question. Sorry. You know what? I might have it written down on my calendar. I got it in the calendar. Well, just being up in New York. I mean, Aaron Rodgers coming back,

obviously that guy can sling it. I think a wide receiver and quarterback having a little spat a couple days into camp isn't really anything to look into. But I feel like that's a team that had a great defense last year, stayed in some games, and now with Rodgers back and still weapons on offense, I feel like that's got to be a top. I mean, that's got to be a favorite for one of the better teams in the NFL, right? Are they winning the Super Bowl, Dan, or not?

Tell them. I don't know if they win it, but I think they're absolutely one of those teams that can. You know, Kansas City obviously is the team to beat. Jordan, the way that I say it is, like, they don't have a talent question. They have a health unknown. You can't say that about every team. The Carolina Panthers, they're not winning the Super Bowl right now.

Hopefully one day they do. And so we just don't know if they're going to stay healthy enough to make the run, and specifically at really important positions. Left tackle. Mike Williams has got to be opposite Garrett Wilson and stay healthy. Their right tackle. Their offensive line has got to stay healthy. I was doing a little bit something yesterday. The Jets. Aaron coming over. One of the things that has made Aaron an all-time great, outside of a bunch

of different things, he doesn't throw picks. He just doesn't. He'll rather throw the ball away 14 times or take a sack here and there then then um give the ball away the jets defense you mentioned has been awesome last two years they gave up like 19 points a game dude the jets since robert sala has become their head coach in 2021 have held the lead in the game at any moment 26 times that's the least amount in the nfl so you're talking about a defense that's been really good that's never been able to play from ahead and aj and d butt know this but like they've never been able to hunt essentially and so like i think you get a quarterback that doesn't give the ball away explosive on offense enough dude that

defense goes from like being really good to being like now they can just choke you yeah what was that thing yeah dan were you the one that said that if they don't win the super bowl that this could go down as the worst trade in nfl history with rogers going to the jets you said that i think i think it goes down if they don't if they don't make like a serious super run win the super bowl i think is the expectation but like you gotta get to afc championship game super bowl i think it goes down. If they don't make, like, a serious Super Bowl run. Win the Super Bowl, I think, is the expectation. But, like, you've got to get to AFC Championship Game, Super Bowl. I think it goes down as one of the worst trades in the history of the NFL. Absolutely.

Strictly off expectations. Dude, off expectations. Everyone's like, well, they only gave up a second round pick. Obviously, the Russell. Did you see what the – Hey, I'm fighting. Hey, Dan, I'm fighting for you over here, man. You're catching strays.

I don't care. Expectations-wise, expectations. I don't want to say this. He had a good career. He had a good career. And he's a colleague of ours. He does great. Do you remember what the Washington football team's name at the time gave up

to the Rams? Triple stick. To go get – that's not his name. What? That is to the Rams. Triple stick. To go get... That's not his name. What? That is not his name. Bobby. This guy has a statue of Baylor. Bobby Triple Stick? Heisman winner. Bobby Tripp.

Dude, him and Baylor was fun, man. That was awesome. Yeah, there's... I mean, you guys are looking at... I think that Wednesday played really well for the Ravens. About the Ricky Williams. He did on Wednesday afternoon. We got the, I am a, I've made, I enjoy Robert Griffin III. Okay, I do.

But, like, what they gave up in that particular, like, when you say worst trade in the history of the NFL, like, that was without even thinking. I didn't even know you said that until Ty literally just dropped in my ear and said, Dan said that would be the worst dropped in my ear and said dan said that would be the worst trade in history just like the other day or something like that i'm like yeah i i i believe that i've done no research expectations dude what is that even expectations aaron okay so the herschel walker ricky williams um russell trades are more because of what was taken to go acquire that player,

like what you gave up to go get that player. I'm aware of that. Dude, the Jets have one of the best defenses in football over the last three years. So naturally you go, if you guys could just get good quarterback play, you're going to be an awesome football team. Then they have a second round pick. I'm aware of what they gave up, Boston.

And the Packers were ready to move to Jordan Love. He had just won the MVP two out of the three years. Yeah, but we all know how the actual situation was, seemingly. That was the worst injury in the history of the NFL. Him tearing his Achilles force plays in. Is that what you're saying? It would have to be.

No, I mean, there's obviously worse injuries, but like, dude, when it comes to profound impact, dude, absolutely. Dude, they have a dude who's the defensive rookie of the year in Sauce Gardner. They have one of the best defensive lines that we've seen in the NFL in the past couple

seasons when it comes to sacks. They have a wide receiver that's an absolute superstar. They took in the top ten. They have one of the best all-around running backs in football. Dude, it's okay to sit here and go. The expectations are – we haven't seen the guy play, and we're like, yeah, a bona fide Super Bowl contest. Agree the expectations are allowed to be –

Just give up a second-round pick for a quarterback. Then it seems like a great idea. But not a quarterback They got one of the best quarterbacks Yeah dude it's not like they trade Could be Right but like They got a dude

No it wasn't They did have Zach He's a good boy He's a good boy He's a sweet boy He's a sweet boy He's a good boy. Sweet boy. He's a good boy. He's a sweet boy. He is a sweet boy. He is a sweet boy. We met him.

He's a sweet boy. You ever met him? I haven't met him. He buys dirt. Yeah, he would. He actually just bought some dirt in Denver. Yeah, he did. Bob Dander.

Is he QB1 out there right now? QB3, I believe. But he's a sweet boy. He's a good boy. He's QB3? Next thing you know. Wait, who else is in Denver right now? Bo Nix.

Bo Nix, that's right. Jarrett Stutton. Bo Nix. Jarrett Stutton. Another Baylor guy, man. They're saying Bo Nix potentially Offensive Rookie of the Year. They've talked about Peyton loving Nix since draft night. Even before draft night, they're like, Denver loves Bo.

Denver loves Bo. Denver loves Bo. And then Bill Belichick booked Sean Payton during the draft. Spectacular. While O's was doing something that no human should be able to accomplish, predicting something at the exact same time. I think O's was trying to get Bill's attention. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I need you to guess a number here.

Do we want Sean Payton on the show? Yeah. Yes, Bill. We would love to have Sean Payton on the show yeah yes bill we would we would love to have sean payton on the show and i was like bull card all right that was a scene it was oh still figured it out oh yeah of course aj you tried to screw that guy three times with that card you're like no i just wanted i want everybody to know that i was not in on it that i i was just you know an innocent bystander hey cut the cards cut the cards as many times as you want he said yeah but then

you cut it you hand it back to him. You say you like it. You go, nope. You take it back. You're like, you're not doing any of this shit. I like that. And then he cut it twice. I like that. It was a full-on we're trying to get O's. We talked about this the other day.

I was trying to get O's on college game day the first time he was on there. I said the wrong card. He lied to his face. He's like, nah, nah, nah. You were thinking another one. It was like, yeah, you're right. I was. And I, it was. I mean, not on camera. The D-Bud contacted his phone.

The guy's a wet. He's an alien. He might be a time traveler, right? Could you imagine how many uncomfortable situations, if he's a time traveler, he's had to go through and then go back. All right, go through your phone. I'll be able to pick your name. And it's like, Jack or something.

He's like, no, you idiot. Just, ah. I'll be right back. What was the time traveler movie? Time Traveler's what? Jumper? Of course. Jumper, no, you idiot. I'll be right back. What was the Time Traveler movie? Time Traveler's what? Jumper? Of course. Jumper? Yeah, Jumper. Was that Time Travel? That's not Time Travel. Looper.

Teleportation? That's what you're thinking of. There's a lot of dimensional chat right now. Feels like that's the new it topic. A lot of TV shows. There's different dimensions. Going back to booking Sean Payton. Sean Payton comes on the show and talks about Bo Nix's visit visit to denver and they did a drive around in a car to like i think get a physical and go to some other places and as soon as sean payton said as soon as bo nicks got out of the car i think he dropped them off at the airport to like take off and go back he he said

to the crew that was in there whether it was scouts or gm i don't know who exactly it was he said oh that's the first quarterback off the board right there. That is, is everybody going to feel the exact same way we do once they meet him? Like, he's the guy. So I think Sean Payton's been sold on Bo. Why is that? What does his offense have that Bo has?

Yeah, well, I would tell you this. When I started watching these college kids, you know, getting with a little bit of expectation, I'd seen a bunch of Bo at Auburn, a decent amount of him at Oregon, but never really studied his games. And then when I watched him this spring, I texted Field Yates and I said, guy's tape who shocked me the most was Bo Nix. His tape was really, really, really good. I think you saw a growth in maturity from the Auburn days.

When he went to Auburn, you could see he was trying to throw a crazy touchdown pass every single play to live up to the expectations. He would run around like a chicken with his head cut off and just be essentially playing quarterback like it was backyard football at 12 years old. And then at Oregon, he really became much more of a every down quarterback, how to read the defense. Sometimes you have to take the lesser throw. Where's the window to get the ball out? I don't always have to run around, but he didn't lose his athleticism. And so you saw a development and growth. His ball placement is fantastic. He plays with really good balance in the pocket. He's still got a zip on his ball. Really athletic kid. So like there was a lot of elements when it came to like, And if Sean Payton... If you asked

what's Sean Payton's favorite qualities in quarterback, one, you've got to handle a lot of stuff pre-snap. Is everything okay? Is everything okay? Yeah, it's a fire truck. Bunch of different personnel. Thank you for your service, Firefighter. Amen. Bunch of different personnel.

Are you okay? Better check the basement. You need to buy some new dirt, maybe. You might want to buy some new dirt here. I hope you have insurance on your dirt right now. Buy dirt. I can't leave without. You ain't gonna leave.

No, it's easy. We're ruining it. Next thing you know, it's just as good. No, thanks, Dad. You should hear this new one just released a couple days ago. Have you heard it, Dan? Have you heard this new song? Big fan, huh?

Dan's heard it. Dan's heard it. Dan's heard it. No, he hasn't. This is a dancing asshole. I'm telling you, you can't do it with this guy. I think it's called I Ain't Sayin' or something. I Ain't Sayin', yeah.

Is that what it's called? Yeah. Boom. I haven't heard it yet, Jordan. But hey, it just went to radio on Monday. All right. That means saying, yeah. Is that what it's called? Yeah. Boom. I haven't heard it yet, Jordan. But hey, it just went to radio on Monday. So that's it. That means nothing, Jordan. Do you see any of these guys trying to bury me, Jordan?

I know, man. Hey, I'm fighting for you. I'm fighting. We listen to the song. I told you earlier today that we turned a page on this show. We're no longer allowing assholes on the program. You slung and missed today. Oh, yeah. Haven't you won? Yeah, yeah. Haven't you? You called Jordan an asshole? We're no longer allowing assholes on the program and you still get missed today All right, we're getting off the SPN you're welcome I guess anybody that's watching this program we have no idea what black tomorrow nailed it

Yeah, Dan, what's your problem? Have a little respect for this guy. Have a little respect for this guy He's letting you come. Was it talking about him? Yes Dan, what's your problem? Have a little respect for this guy. Have a little respect for this guy. I wasn't talking about him. I wasn't talking about him. What? What? Jeez. Michael Lombardi, huh?

Lombardi loves me, man. Lombardi loves me. That's how he learned that you were on the show today, because Lombardi said, yeah, he could be Dan Orlovsky and just give money to everybody. Yeah, Dan's got this vault. Everybody gets paid, and he goes, Dan? He just doesn't like me. He just doesn't like me, man.

He was on for like 20 minutes today. He took like three shots at me. He did. I just don't understand it. You've got to love it. I just don't understand it. It's respect. Yeah.

I just don't. Every time I watch it, I just wouldn't. I thought that was kind of uncalled for. But you did. I mean, there was a couple things you said today that's like, you're setting yourself up. Worst trade of all time. I didn't say the.

I think it's clearly Herschel Walker. It's in the conversation. You said the. There's a lie right there. I left out a couple important words at the beginning there. One of the...

Jordan, you like this guy? We still like this guy? Yeah, dude. Dan's the man. That's a... I'm fighting for you, brother. We love Dan. We do. Which is why we talk to Dan the way we talk to Dan. You know, Dan Orlovsky has really taken this world by storm.

You're not on TV today? You haven't been on TV other than on the show? I was on yesterday. I'm on tomorrow because of the Texans-Bears game. The Hall of Fame game. on TV today? Though you haven't been on TV other than on the show? No, tomorrow. I was on yesterday. I'm on tomorrow because, you know, the Texans-Bears game. Are you live? Is that where you are right now? You're in Ohio? No, no, no. I'm at my house.

Well, you better check on it. Those fire trucks are close. We live, like, literally seven hours to the fire station. I grew up near a volunteer fire department as well. That's siren. And you got a couple broncos flying down.

They're volunteer firefighters. They got the blue light toss that thing right on top. The old school sirens they just put on the hood. Yeah. Hey, Kate, we're playing. We're playing on the street. Well, there's fire. Car! Shit! Get the hell out of the way. Those are good old days.

Alright, Dan, we appreciate you, man. You're really good on our show. Take some big hacks. You know, like saying you're going to go to a guy's concert. Sure. And you don't go. September 14th, Farmingdale, New York. Dan, you're the man. I'll see you then, buddy. Let's play some golf. Alright, bud. We would also be remiss if we didn't say

Dan, yesterday, knocked it out of the fucking park interviewing CM Punk. That's right, Dan. Oh, yeah. On first date. Thank you. I obviously had a little help with that, which I'm thankful for. But he was very well-spoken when it comes to the business mindset of things that I didn't necessarily

anticipate not as big as I thought not as big as I thought not as big as I thought also smarter no I mean I had no idea well you said it surprised you that he was very like intelligent about certain things

he said he was small and stupid business wise business wise I realized he was very intelligent about certain things. He's funny. He said he was small and stupid. Business-wise. I also didn't know the first name that he said when I asked him his top five. I didn't know who he said. Harley Race. Yeah. Donko?

Is that a dude or a chick? All right. Dan. This isn't a fucking superhero movie, dude. This is WWE. It's real life, bro. Harley Race? All right, ladies and gentlemen. Guess. Why don't you guess? movie, dude. This is WWE. It's real life, bro. Wake up. Are we race? All right, ladies and gentlemen.

Guess. Why don't you guess? This guy sucks. So bad. It never ends. Can't just guess. Dan, we just complimented you. You know, we said you did a great job, and then you're like, you know what?

Let me just get right back into this thing. Dude, I don't know who that is. I'm sorry. I don't know who that is. This makes me a bad guy? Yeah. Why don't you do some research? Not to me, Dad. Who's that on the right? I know that name. Why don't you do some research on people you play with? Not to me, Dad. Who's that on the right?

I know that name. Why don't you guess? That's Trump Sr. Gosh, dude. It's not Mr. Perfect, is it? Nick name's The Weasel. He was with us. Bobby the Brain, he didn't damage.

He's one of the greatest commentators of all time. Have some respect. He's literally one of the greatest commentators of all time. Fuck this guy. He was with Mr. Perfect. He's a part of the gif where Mr. Perfect throws the towel and Bobby the Brain snacks it. And then throws it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's weapon. Bobby the Brain. Yeah, both these guys. Hall of Famers, obviously. Who was Bobby the Brain's main, like, when he became, like, a big-time, big-time manager? Was it? Mr. Perfect had a hell of a run. I mean, when he was with Mr. Perfect, it was a massive ordeal.

But his commentating is what he's really the greatest, some people say. Bobby the Brain. I'll never get into the greatest commentator position because I'm in it, but anybody that's able to succeed at it is a weapon. You guys are in that game. Congratulations.

That's awesome. Thank you, Dana. That's good journalism out of you. You guys are in that. That's awesome. Thank you. Not everybody feels that way. That means you guys have been in multiple video games. It's also funny how they're all bigger than AJ.

What are you talking about? Everyone is pretty jacked on that. You're right. Wait, did I see a clip of AJ running into the ring? Was that AJ or was that Ty? Oh, that was AJ. Ty is actually... I love the clip.

There's some videos that have hit the internet of us playing as a group. We look so cool walking out. Oh, my God. We look so cool. Great. Legitimately. And, AJ, I don't know what they did. Did you tell them you wanted to be 5'8"?

Yes. I don't know. They did my quads and calves, I like my legs. I'm a little bit skinny up top, but I'm all right with it. I like they got everything down seven times. Here we go. Let's run them. Yeah.

And then what? He's wearing those ropes out. We're staring our opponent down. Arms behind the back like you're Gunther. Shout out Mike Tyson. Yeah, shout out Mike Tyson with my gear. It's so funny because I could I feel like I could see

AJ doing just that well yeah well he he did lay it out exactly I told him every single thing they followed every detail the 2k designers are phenomenal

at their job just like you Dan we can't wait till it's Dan Orlovsky Network you know coming up on ESPN we know you're prepared we know you're ready for it

Dawn thanks bud Dawn yeah Dave Wagon Network coming up on ESPN. We know you're prepared. We know you're ready for it. Dawn. Thanks, bud. Dawn. Yeah. Dave Wagon. September 14th. He's going to go buy dirt. He's there. He's singing on stage. He's singing on stage. He's on stage. He's coming on stage. Oh, yeah. I can sing. You going to wear those flip-flops up there?

You going to be super cool? What do you think you're going? Are you going casual? I will wear flip-flop, jeans, and a t-shirt. Button down. He's going to look so cool. What do you think you're going? Are you going casual? I will wear flip-flop jeans and a t-shirt. Button down. He's going to look so cool. Don't lie. He's going to do this thing right here. He's going to wear a flannel, right? Like a flannel on a cowboy hat. Shelton, Connecticut, bro.

You're not going to have a bunch of zings in? A bunch of zings? Yeah, zin out. Don't know what a zing is. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, Dan Orlovsky. Dan Orlovsky! What a what a guy man just a liar you're pretty happy you didn't go to your concert all right no man i was bummed because it was that it was that morning he was like dude he got flipped around and then i told him i was like wait if you're going to metlife then i'll be there on saturday so just stay down he's like well i got

to be back for something so he's like i'm'm just there Friday night. So it was literally ships crossing in the night. Well, that's what happens with Dan Orlovsky. He's got too much going on. So what? He just said like, hey, you get it. Luke Combs is here. Yeah. Well, I didn't know he was doing something. I just figured it was something for something. Oh, you didn't know it was another music? I didn't know it was, yeah.

You thought he was hosting another show because he's on TV all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He lied to you. He lied! I. So he lied. I know he said, oh. No, he just said, I got something popped up last minute. I got to go do it. Before, we know you got to get to something downtown. And we can't thank you enough for hanging out.

Dude, thank you all for having me on. This has truly been probably the coolest radio interview thing I've ever got to do. So thank you all. Well, we're thankful that you're here, man. Not on radio, though, so you're going to have to do coolest radio interview thing I've ever got to do. Thank y'all. We're thankful that you're here, man. I'm not on radio, though, so you're going to have to do a radio interview. You know what I meant. Media situation. Do you still do sound check, Jordan, everywhere you go?

You still sound check? No, I don't sound check anymore. Oh, okay. Do you get to a point where you don't have to anymore? I assume that's got to be a pain sometimes. Yeah. It's usually now, like, usually the day, you know, either go play golf, go work out, and then I get, day starts at about five. Like, we'll have stuff, you know,

people show up, have to do meet and greets, some hangs. But no, I don't sound chucking. He's in Indianapolis, Indiana this evening at the Everwise Amphitheater at the White River State Park. I did not know it was called the Everwise Amphitheater. I was talking to him. I said, are you at Ruoff? He said, Everwise Amphitheater at the White River State Park. I did not know it was called the Everwise Amphitheater. I was talking to him. I said, are you at Ruoff? He said, Everwise.

I said, okay, yeah, you're not in Indianapolis, I think. And then I looked it up. White River State Park, great venue. It is a great place. Great, great venue. Then you're in Grand Rapids, Toledo, Cincinnati, Irvin, Texas, Houston, Texas,

Springfield, Illinois, Brandon, Mississippi, and then obviously I think you head up to Canada after September. Okay. Well, go ahead. Crush it. We can't thank you enough for coming through Indianapolis. Can you tell me about the Ford Raptor thing? What's going on with it?

Yeah, man. So we're giving away, partnering with a spot called One Country, and they've given me the chance to give away my F-150. Because how many countries on earth are the best? Yeah, one. There's only one. Yeah, my truck. You get a chance.

At the end of this tour, I'm giving away the Raptor I've been driving for about six months now. And it's a sick car, huh? It's sick. Bro, it will... Souped up. It'll move.

And we can win this thing? Absolutely, OneCountry.com OneCountry.com win a Ford Raptor Is it all souped up? It's got the roll cage thing in the back? Doesn't have the roll cage But it's got a good little 2 inch leveling lift Some nice 33's on it

We got any boom booms in there? How's the sound system? It'll thump Look how cool you look on this thing. Would you like some bonus action? Yes. Yes. Look at that, dude.

Look at that guy. Nice truck. Look at the lean. We just get done duck hunting out there. Actually, that actually was at my farm. Yeah, we took that picture out there. You duck hunter? Just got it washed up.

Yeah, yeah. So I was right. Yeah. I feel good about that because I'm from Pittsburgh. I know. You got to come duck hunting with me this year. You know, I did the video game back in the day. It was fun. So I was right. Yeah. I feel good about that because I'm from Pittsburgh. I know. You got to come duck hunting with me this year. You know, I did the video game back in the day. It was fun. I'll come for the hang.

I'm not going to be. Yeah, come for the hang. You know what I mean? I don't know if I'm the right guy to waste these shells on, you know? Just use like an Uzi. For the duck? That'd be good. RPG. Spray them. Yeah. I think it's going to scare the other birds potentially a little bit early, but we got dogs for that, right? We got dogs.

We got the dogs. We got dogs. I've been hog hunting down in Louisiana. Hog hunting's fun. I've gone hogging. I've gone frogging in Louisiana. Oh, yeah? You do it with a gig or hands?

Hands. Yeah. And with the spotlight. Yeah. So we spotlighted. We're rolling on a boat through so many gators. Yeah. So many gators.

They're down there, baby. So many. I was. You could hunt gators. Gators. Hunting gators. So many gators. They're down there, baby. Moxons, snakes, gators. Gators looks like fun. I think you just kind of roll around with a gun, right? I'll be honest with you. TV has made gator hunting a lot cooler than it really is.

Not that good. That's just kind of what you see. The hog hunting was in Shreveport. I think I did some hog hunting. A guy named Bubba, great name. As soon as I heard it, I knew we were in for it. The dogs are the show whenever you go hog hunting. These pit bulls and these bay dogs, like they are athletes.

And the pit bulls that they would send out, the bay dog goes find them and then holds a hog at bay. You see, that's why they're called bay dogs. And then all of a sudden they have a little center we're doing that now we're catching up and then the pit bulls because you can't drive through the woods where the hogs are so it's a little bit of a distance away let's say a few hundred yards or something like that then all of a sudden they hear where the bay dogs are and they're a tag team because they're going to they're going to take up for these bay dogs who are their dogs as well so they they open this cage and these

pit bulls we're talking flying off the truck move and then through the woods like i've never seen before someone hop a crick went over the creek creek creek flip over the creek right like a blindside tackle of a hog i was like damn these things are a real deal and like well these hogs are ruined and everything you know they're they're they do can't keep up with the hogs i guess hunter damage hogs are taking over louisiana as a way i was kind of told ruins a ton of ton of farmland you fish as well yeah good fisherman oh yeah i would think so hunter fisherman we do shine we drink like how many country ships i'm not a ford raptor but see that's what it is like i'm i mean just growing up in Louisiana, it's, you know, sportsman's paradise, man.

Like, you know, my dad started taking me hunting and fishing early, and I just fell in love with it. And now with my kiddos, you know, they love to go out. We'll go brim fishing with them. So it's like, it's just time to spend with them, and it's fun to be out on the water. When you kill one of them. Yeah, when you go brim fishing. When you go kill a brim. What's a brim?

A catch a brim? Oh, it's like a little panfish So it's like a bluegill Oh, okay Oh, okay We fly fish We just drop that thing in No, this is just like with a bobber

Got it But Jeez Hey, I appreciate you The real deal Hey, thank y'all for having me on Not just singing about it Not just singing about it

We're actually living it And tonight's show's gonna be awesome I think the boys are gonna go A couple boys are gonna stop by And they're gonna go bananas And take a break for WWE 2K24. Go sing some dirt, come back, and kick some ass. Hey!

Ladies and gentlemen, listen to his music. It's awesome. And he's a cool dude. Thank you, man. Loves sports. And loves, I think you love your gig, too. Seems like you're a very, like, grateful person. I am.

I'm blessed to get to do this. I mean, you know, this, you know, being able to come hang out with y'all, getting to know you through music, I am. I'm a blessed dude. You're a sand mean, you know, this, you know, being able to come hang out with y'all, getting to know you through music, I am. I'm a blessed dude. You're a sandbagger, though, right, on the course? No. See, I didn't play good whenever we played together, but, like, here recently I've been hitting it a little bit better.

But you would still beat me. Like, you hit it pretty well. Ladies and gentlemen, Jordan Davis. Hey, thank y'all. Hey, brother. I will see you later, man. appreciate later man thank you I'll take your ear thing out over there George's we here too oh yeah great doesn't great beard

great question today too yeah a couple of them right boom look at the boots today I lost you oh you look so. Could you imagine being able to sing like that? I wish. That would be pretty cool. Yeah, it would be sick. Anytime. Can you become a decent singer, you think? Because I think you're born with that voice, but you can make yours better,

but you can't go from just garbage to actually pretty good, can you? So they have singing lessons, right? So you would assume if they have singing lessons you can get better but i think there's obviously levels to this shit you know like i think adele probably came into this world singing better than most mariah carey uh kelly clarkson gaga taylor toby keith for sure recipe obviously yeah but those you know they can i think they have a little bit of an advantage you know i think their their vocal cords probably a little bit better off that'd be cool though just to wake up and just have just a buttery oh yeah yeah and like

you're you're out one night like oh there's a karaoke bar why don't i go burn this down real quick oh in school this is. Can somebody write me a fucking song or something? Yeah, how about that? How about that? How about... Talent show? Talent show in middle school? I bet you guys have good talents. Watch me fucking do this. What are you winning, straight A's or fucking a week off of school? What do we win from this entire talent show?

Because I'm about to do it. There's people that just seemingly come in and they got it. They got it. They got it. Like that America's Got Talent show? You'll watch some singer will come out there and it's just like oh so you just i mean how long have you been able to do that have you ever been have you ever gotten any lessons no i've never got any lessons my whole life it's like jesus christ you're a millionaire you're born a millionaire if you're able to handle this well that's like seven footers yeah exactly basketball for a while if you're seven foot and you can figure out how to just do a little bit there's a time in the nba where you're just on the team because like hey we just need you to do this

one right here yeah lambo mentioned like left tackles bingo like they're not walking around like if you're a left tackle be fine you spot it you see it and you say we need it yeah and we were going to keep that forever did you hear what he said about all those situations that are kind of brewing around training camp it was an interesting fascinating look at it all he's like trent yeah we need to bend over backwards to get trent done iuk i mean nobody cares about this i mean he's rules anymore his franchise tag he's on a contract i mean he's negotiating good faith he's basically just like what are we even doing here but for trent he's like trent now we need to go ahead and figure out there's tiers and levels to this shit that's reality i guess of the situation for everybody.

Oh, yeah. I've heard Lambeau talk about that on his podcast. There's certain guys that are irreplaceable. Like a Trent Williams type guy. He absolutely is. But Lambeau is such a zoom out, big picture dude as well. He's like, not plug and play each thing. He's like, we need to think about the future and how it all melds together.

Well, sometimes people are taking too many pictures that they can't even see the big picture. They're so connected that they're actually disconnected. Shout out to Pitbull for bringing that up. But to your point about all of it, the situations are all situational. You know, I think that is kind of the conversation piece about it. And there's video now hitting the Internet. Iyuk walking out, dapping up Shanahan and Lynch. And he's wearing what appears to be Niners gear, which is good news.

Lynch says, good to see ya. Lynch jacked, by the way. Still a brick shithouse. And there's Shanahan, good to see ya. Is that a, hey, I heard the good news? Is that a, hey, I heard the good news? That's what it looked like to me. Nice knowing ya. Pretty chipper. It wasn't a nice knowing ya. It looked like it.

The Shanahan one is the one we need to watch. This looks like, uh, hey, I heard the good news. We like it. It's like, hey, can't wait to see you out here in your pads soon. The Shanahan one is the one we need to watch. This looks like, hey, heard the good news. We did it. We did it. Right? Doesn't it? We need you. We're reading body language.

Lynch gave him a good one, too. Good, quick one. It's probably personality. And Shanahan's like, wait to see you. I told you we'd get there, Lynch just said, potentially. You know, if we're all just completely, this is the first time we've seen this, we have no clue. But that looks like a, hey just said, potentially. You know, if we're all just completely... This is the first time we've seen this, we have no clue. But that looks like a, hey, happy to hear...

Okay, maybe one of the situations that they've been brewing in San Francisco has settled. Maybe Iyuk has figured out a way to get himself to agree to a deal to play for the San Francisco 49ers, who are on the road to a Super Bowl, we would assume, with how great their team is. Now can Trent Williams get settled, and then they get all the drama behind them and they

move forward with a team that is absolutely loaded. If they're able to do what they've been able to do over the past couple of years, keep all the bullshit out and just play the football, that is not good for the rest of the NFC. What I just saw in that particular dap up right there. I suppose. But when it's week 12 and maybe IU takes a nice little hit across the middle and he's a little banged, maybe doesn't feel too great, nothing too right. Is he going to make a business?

I mean, he should. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but why wouldn't he make a business decision halfway through the year? Business decision is to play great, go win the Super Bowl. Yeah, absolutely. You've got to touch down in the Super Bowl. Value. The reality of the situation is if you're a good wide receiver,

you're getting money. So no matter what, any team. How long, though? I think that's what a lot of these wide receivers are saying. Exactly. I think that's why they're all trying to get money. How many years guaranteed? I need a big chunk guaranteed.

I don't want my guarantees to run out for two years. Agreed. But I'm thinking the wide receiver market is going to find a plateau at some point. I'm thinking, especially if these young guys continue to do good. If these young guys continue to do good, which are the guys that are going on to get these massive deals it's like how many of these massive deals will still remain you know guys are going to be able to earn it younger guys are going to be able to go hopefully catch ad mitchell for instance in about three years is going to be very pissed if everything works out the way it is for the new deal but right now

they're throwing these deals at wide receivers veteran Veteran wide receivers teams are looking for them. How long does that last for? How long is it the wide receiver boom market? And then you got to pay two. Like Tyree got his money. He's getting 30 a year. Waddle's getting, what, 28? A.J. Brown, 30 a year.

Devontae's getting 20-something. So, like, that's the same case here. Iuke's obviously going to get his money. Deebo already got his money. So, yeah, you can keep going, but you got to pay at least two of them. T. Higgins, you know the situation there. You don't even have Jamar Chase locked up. So, I think it has to plateau somewhere.

But there's always going to be guys, just like Lambeau kind of talked about, that Justin Jefferson, a C.D. Lamb, that you just got to reset that market for. They're banking on Ricky doing well. Yes. For sure. Ricky, that's the – I wonder if they tell Iuke that too. Hey, we want to let you know we have a franchise tag after this year for two more times, just so we're

clear. Ricky plays good, we won't franchise tag you. Ricky plays bad, you're here for the next. Okay? This is kind of how this goes. So you can either be pissed whenever Ricky does good, or you can be pumped when Ricky does good, because you're going can be a free agent.

That feels like that's the plan. Like, is Ricky going to be able to be a guy that we can depend on, like we were able to do with Brandon Ayuk? If he is, cool. We can move on from Brandon Ayuk, or we can figure out his contract. If he's not, we figure out Brandon Ayuk's contract,

we keep him here. That seemingly could be a very viable view by John Lynch. I mean, that could very easily be the way they're viewing it all. What were the options that Lambeau presented for IU? Seemingly none and none. Tyler was one of them. You either play for this number

or you don't play. I mean, that's up to you and we'll see you next year, I guess. That's if John Lynch wants to do that, which John Lynch has boasted. There's been, you know, you and we'll see you next year i guess that is that's if john lynch wants to do that which john lynch has bo says there's been you know i don't want to say confrontation but there has been certainly some disputes money-wise that have gotten sorted and they've had to deal with this more than seemingly everybody else and they've been able to do it speaking of dealing go ahead that iuke videos from today's practice i think it just popped up just happened yeah i don't know i

think we might lose the of a deal coming up. It feels like it. I may be overreacting. This is overreacting. That's Shanahan depth. Yeah, both of them back to back. For the Niners, yeah.

I'm going to figure something out. Heard good news. That seemed like such a I heard the good news. Definitely. Why else would he be doing out there

dapping him up if it wasn't good news? What if it was like, hey, just good to see you first time, you know? Sorry I showed up last time. Thanks for wishing my son a happy birthday. He appreciated it.

Hey. I guess you're right. Hey, you made that video for my grandma. Yeah. That was awesome. She loved it. Hey, way to pick up the little fruit by the foot. I like those.

Yeah. Thanks for the snacks. Yeah, we got a bunch of Gushers in there. Appreciate you. You never know. You never know what he could be. I guess there's a lot of things he could be thankful for. Hey, you nailed my coffee this morning.

You know what I'm thankful for? What's that? The need to know gambler's guide for college football. It's legit. It's legit. I've gone through it, man, for real. That's a ton of work. It's unbelievable.

Thank you, AJ. Sales have remained going this way. Okay? There was a first day surge, obviously, and we were like, all right, is that going to be it? Is that going to be it? And then second day matched it. So the energy is still, hey, Tone, you did good. Good boy, Tone.

Thank you, brother. Yeah, I mean, I think we're halfway to NYT bestseller. All right. No smoking mirrors either. I don't know if they're going to, because we're doing it from our own site. No, they should recognize it. Yeah, I don't know if they'll do to, because we're doing it from our own site. They should recognize it. Yeah, I don't know if they'll do that.

We will be donating, though, all the proceeds that come from this $4.99 for the Need to Know gambling guide for this upcoming college football season. I know yesterday you were talking about people enjoy the over-unders at the end. Is there any other things that you've kind of been hearing from people saying, hey, thanks for doing this, thanks for doing this, and what are some things we should maybe think about whenever we're reading through it which i've bought it obviously i'm uh i don't want to support the biz because it's not really a business decision but i bought it i supported you i want to thank you i supported you i believe

debutch did as well aj bought a couple he sent him pdf files to different people the toxic tip i think bought one they said not getting two out of us. No, no way. We'll buy one of them for you. We'll represent as a unit, like a tag team in WWE 2K. There you go. But, Tom, great work, buddy. People have been pumped. What have they been chatting about?

No, I appreciate it. I mean, there's a bunch of different stuff. Like, the things that I've been getting the most backlash, not the backlash, the most buzz about is I think the ACC this year is just going to be an absolute, like, there can be eight teams that win the ACC this year. So a lot of, there's a lot of ACC fan bases who aren't exactly thrilled with me, but, but other than that, it's been, it's been great. I'm appreciative that they, they at least have

enough passion to be mad at you. Yes. You know, cause the way the ACC has been talked about, the only conversation is Florida state was going to get a loan out for $750 million, almost a billion dollars, to exit the ACC with no home in sight, no decided home where they were going. We are willing to take on a $750 million loan that we will have to pay back with no new home anywhere. And Clemson was thinking about doing the same thing. They weren't as far along with the loan, I don't think. They had some other thing going on.

So that's always been the chatter about the ACC. Who do you like down there? Is Dabo about to get back into the dance? DJ Uyunglele going to do his thing with Florida State after being much more experienced? How about a team we haven't thought about or talked about at all? What if Duke goes after Elko Leafs? They get a whole new squad to go bananas.

North Carolina post-Drake May. How's that going to go? What's Brian going to do down there? There's a couple long shots. Like I said, I think it's going to be chaos in the ACC. I actually have Virginia Tech winning it. Virginia Tech and NC State are actually my two favorites in there. Now, Florida State and Clemson are by far the most talented.

Am I a big DJU guy? I don't know. I don't know. Norvell says it's his deepest team on both lines, so that's something to look at there. And then Clemson, if they could figure out the offense because the defense is always going to be Clemson, could be back to Clemson. But no, in the chaos, I like Virginia Tech and NC State

the most because I love that NC State coaching staff down there. Yeah, we love ACC football. Always have. People have been very good to us in the ACC. Florida State people got really mad. That was a fact, though. What was said, I see why they were mad, but like...

Shut up. Georgia should have been mad as well. Georgia should have been mad as well. In that system, it was built for people to be mad. We understand why Florida State was mad, but also you understand it. Not cool that the way it went down, the way you guys were undefeated,

you proved everybody wrong. But when they're trying to project who could become the best, that is a part of the conversation. Now, 12-team playoff obviously changes it all, but the Florida State folks have been awesome to watch. That team has been fun to watch them build back to the greatness of what Florida State could be and has been in the past. Dabo Sweeney is like doing things completely differently than everybody else. He's still old school. He still

has his squad. And then you think about NC State, Doran and Tony Gibson have been down there for a long time. Their culture is instilled. They feel good about who they have. And Virginia Tech, you gave them away, I think, a couple weeks ago as like your long shot whenever you were sniping. You appreciated what Virginia Tech was able to do. ACC is going to have some good ball this year. Yeah, Virginia Tech caught fire at the end of last year, and I think they have 21 returning starters, something like that.

So they bring basically everybody back. The one team that hasn't been mentioned so far, I don't know if I love this coaching staff, but Miami brought in Cam Ward, quarterback from Wazoo, and then the running back from Oregon State. So they kind of went and cherry-picked that pack two remaining teams. And Miami brought in a bunch of transfer talent.

Their over-under, I think, is nine and a half. They haven't won double digits, though, in like 20 years. What? Yeah, I think it was like 2003, 2004 was the last time they won 10 games or something I could be wrong yeah but Miami a lot of people are high on Miami just because of the talent that they brought yeah and you just said coaching staff that's strictly because we could have kneeled it out instead we run the ball and then we fumble and then we lose it and then

we blame the guy that fumbled it obviously hold on to the ball if you have the ball but also we could have won this game you you guys. He learned from that, though. Coach Cristobal learned from that. Did he? Yes. We got Jason Taylor on the staff, too, on the defense side of the ball. Really? Miami Dolph, great, obviously.

For football, when Miami's good. When Miami's good, it's good for college. Oh, yeah. Completely agree. Because just the sidelines, the people that show up on the sidelines at the games. It needs to be Miami. We need to see old-school Miami.

Where are they playing at? Because I know the stadium atmosphere has been great for Miami the last year. Do they play at Hard Rock? I think Hard Rock Stadium. Orange Bowl is gone. They've got to get out of Adidas. They've got to get out of Adidas. How do you even sign an Adidas in Miami?

I don't know how that happens. Got to get back in Nike. Good for Adidas, I guess. What's the least likely place? Whoever got that account. Think of the Adidas rep that had to but got to get back in Nike. Hey, good for Adidas, I guess. What's the least likely place? Whoever got that account. Think of the Adidas rep that had to go try to get that account or whatever. That's a tough gift. Walks in, three stripes on a briefcase?

Yeah. Get out. How are you doing? Every player wouldn't even let him in the door, probably. I don't know. I've been wearing the Superstars again on a very regular basis. Classic. I wore these for like two, three years,

and then I went straight into Air forces basically all day every day those are the the abundance of the adidas superstars legendary oh yeah great still comfortable too these new shoes these new shoes these shoes these new shoes can we just get some i just need some ice creams just i just need white shoes okay i don't need all the shit there's so much shit on all the shoes so it's like i i do fear that the you know the shell toe is like a dying breed in the shoe game and the air force ones are the dying breed like i don't know how long they're gonna remain it's like we need to stock up on these things it's like whenever they had the nike speed the. It's like we need to stock up on these things. It's like whenever they had the Nike Speed, the cleats. We need to stock up on them.

We didn't even know those were going to be gone. The original Four Locos. We didn't even stock up on those. They're gone. These new shoes are interesting. It's a lot of shoes that don't even match. My kids get shoes. One's pink.

One's green and blue. It's like, what do you mean? These are the lamellos. That's in right now. I like what you guys are doing. I like what you guys are doing, but that can't be every option. Okay, we need at least some other option where I can just walk out of here not looking like a 37-year-old asshole. Bingo.

Because those green and pink shoes are awesome. You could get those Nobles hot top tied up. Yeah, that's something. Super sweet. So sick, man. Holy fuck. It was like this guy had taped ankles. He, that's something. Super sweet. So sick, man. Holy fuck. It was like this guy had taped ankles. He was fucking.

Like Cam Newton Cleese. Oh, no. Exactly. Did you see it? Dude had a scratch on his face. Scratch on his face. Jacked. Just fucking absolutely jacked.

And then he had these tight, tight shoes tied all the way up to the middle. Purple ankles. I was like, Jesus Christ. It looks like the auto-mix weightlifting shoes that Coach Diggs used to the middle of the shoe. Purple ankles. It was like, Jesus Christ. It looks like the auto-mix weightlifting shoes that Coach Diggs used to wear back in the day. It did. It did. I bet you he had the bike tights on, too,

underneath those. I bet he did. Those guys were awesome. Yeah, they were. That was a cool group. They walked in very chill, very relaxed. Some of the people that walk in with people, you know.

What do they do? What do you mean? Just too much, probably, is the right answer. Just too much, you know. These social media degrees that people that, you know. What do they do? Just too much, probably, is the right answer. Just too much, you know. These social media degrees that people have, they start walking in, just rolling around. Dab them up, dab them up. Hey, can you give me three quick quotes real quick

for our review? I'm like, no. How about that? How about that? No, I'm not reading anything for you. What are we? Oh, okay. Hey, why don't you go film in the bathroom, too?

Just fucking... They act like they're just in a fucking amusement park. They think they're in Kennywood. They start walking around with a goddamn camera. It's like, we had no idea you were coming. Much safer than Kennywood in there. Well, they have hard hats on. We've learned a lot about a lot of the things

we discussed yesterday about Kennywood. And we would like to really take this time to remind people that Kennywood is still a fucking premiere amusement park come on come on compared to like what else every other amusement park don't do that if there's tears and they go top 10 and then the next 50 and then the bottom we're in the top 10 always will be always have been since the creation of the steel phantom brother now still phantoms aren not around anymore.

Nope. Why is that? And Steel Curtain is currently shut down. Okay. And we might not have a Sky Coaster, and there's no whoop-de-woos on Phantom's Revenge. None. None.

Okay? But the potato patch is still throwing 102 on tape. We don't know that. We don't know if it's still open. We don't know if there's any food options open. I have no idea. Have you been to a mall now? Go to a mall when you have all the empty storefronts.

That's what I hear Kennewood has become. Kennewood ain't a fucking mall! Why'd they take out the whoop-de-woos? What was the reasoning? Well, I think because they planned on putting whoop-de-woos in a brand new ride that's coming in the next two, three, four years. No, because the neighbors were like, hey, this place lost its fastball. The whoop-de-woos are too fucking loud.

Take them out now. We don't want to hear that bullshit. There was a rumor floating around, which we do not know if it is true or not. It bums me out. It's been confirmed. If it is, Mr. Lombardi is going to be Mr. Mr. Kennywood? Bum-dot.

Bum-dot Italian name. Bechtold. Mr. Bechtold. I don't think he's Italian. Is it Bechtold? Yeah. Butch. Butch Bechtold.. Bechtold. Mr. Bechtold. I don't think he's Italian. Is it Bechtold? Yeah. Butch Bechtold. Ed Bechtold.

It was Ed Butch Bechtold. It was Ed Butch Bechtold. Anyways, legend. He's rolling over right now. Wherever he is, obviously in heaven. Bummed out out of his mind. Because there was a rumor that they had to take the whoop-de-woos out of the Phantom's Revenge and out of the Steel Phantom because the neighbors said the yells were too loud.

It was too exhilarating. It was too much fun. There are no neighbors. Not the yells. The actual noise from the coaster. Because it was going to break down. No, it wasn't rattling. Yeah, that's why they had to take it out. Ed Booth Bechtold is riding the kangaroo in heaven right now.

Yeah, you're goddamn right he is. And they're spraying WD-40 all over that thing. It's a steel town. You don't think we understand how fucking steel works? They're steel coasters, pal. Based on the photos I saw, no. I don't think that Kenny Wood knows how steel works. Maybe they did when they built it in 1850, but they don't anymore.

Excuse me. We knew that that one particular steel bottom was not weight-bearing. Okay? Because steel works together. Yeah. Steel works together. And also, this has been fixed. This has been completely fixed.

I saw it. All right, cool. Let's see the after picture. After, yes. Okay, look it up. There is an after photo. Somebody sent it to me. Scotch tape.

I don't know if it was AI. No, there was no duct tape either. They planted the bush there. They put a bush right there. Do they have any social media? Kenny Kangaroo? No, Kenny Kangaroo. Yeah, the mascot. What? social media? Kenny Kangaroo? No, Kenny Kangaroo. Yeah, the mascot.

What? The mascot has it. There's no Kenny Kangaroo. Have they pre-shared it? There's a mascot? I have not heard from anybody at Kennywood. Kenny Kangaroo. It's not open.

What do you mean? It's not open, is it? It is open. There's the injures walking around there right now. They're probably open 40 minutes a day. Like twice a week, 40 minutes a day. All right, come and get your cotton candy. Nope.

Don't ride the rides, though. You might fucking die. You're not. Don twice a week, 40 minutes a day. Alright, come and get your cotton candy. Nope, don't ride the rides though. You might fucking die. You're not. Don't spread that. That's not what happened. You gotta remember, it wasn't the metal. It was too exhilarating. And they tried to take the bumper carts out too and Kenny Kangaroo said, fucking no way. We got the best bumper carts in Pennsylvania.

I saw photos of the bumper cars and only three of them worked. You remember how good those bumper cars were? They were an attraction. They still are. 30 years ago. Yeah, back in 1991. Yeah, they were ahead of their time. They were at 2040, so we still got fucking time.

We don't need to update it. Best of the best. We don't need to update it. These things are going 26 miles an hour, bumper cars. What are we even talking about? 11 a.m., 10 p.m., every day. 11 a.m., 10 p.m., and there's lines outside. You know that parking lot you guys saw?

That was for an Eaton Park. That wasn't for Kennywood. If they open at 11, there are no lines. It's at Kennywood customers or Eaton Park customers only on that particular parking lot, which is why Kennywood could be there. The lines are very manageable. It's not like going to Cedar Point where you've got to wait six hours to ride two rides.

I don't have to buy a FastPass? You sure don't have to buy a FastPass for Kennywood? You need it. And there's levels to the FastPass, too. There's a super-duper FastPass. It's $3. We have updated news from Shelly Bortz, KK. Oh, no.

They just fixed it. They only fixed it because this was brought up. It only took one day to fix. That's what Kenny Kangaroo is doing for you. The only reason. Wednesday, a photo showing part of the roller coaster seemingly, allegedly, because we don't know with optics and everything these days,

seemingly something propped up on concrete blocks went viral. Of course it went viral because this is a roller coaster. Fucked up. Sure. The Department of Agriculture, fucking DOA's on it, said it heard the concerns and sent an inspector to the park on Tuesday.

The inspection revealed that the support in question was not the primary structural support, just like I've been fucking saying all along, but instead provided backup support only. That's a backup player, bro. That fucker's trying to earn a spot on the roster.

Only strong with your weakest link. Yep. Yep. Amen. Yeah, but the strength of the pack is the strength of the wolf. That fucking cinder block was ready for war.

As a result, the department determined the ride was safe for operation and recommended minor non-structural modifications. The department said, didn't even have to put cinder blocks there. It could have just been a fucking hovering thing, they said. Put cinder blocks in there because Kenny Kangaroo cares about you. And that is what needs to be the story of the fucking racer as opposed to what you guys have been trying to make this out. There's people that think Hershey Park's better than Kennywood, though.

It's hard to argue. That's what you guys have been saying. It's hard to argue now. They probably saw that video of the racer. They got whoopty-woos at Hershey Park. I know that. Yeah, but the whoopty-woos are so old school. They're yesterday.

Yeah, but they still... Hershey Park also smells like ass. Butthole the whole time. Doesn't it smell like chocolate? I heard it smells like chocolate. Like shitty burnt chocolate. Yeah, it's terrible. Nobody sniffs chocolate.

Nobody's like, you know what? I want to smell the chocolate. Nobody. You want to eat it. You don't want to fucking smell it. It does smell. Maybe. Maybe.

No doubt about that. But we're not talking about the smell of Kennywood. I would like to say the city of Hershey has contributed to society in a big way. And I'm very grateful. I'm very thankful for the city of Hershey. Love what they've done with chocolate. Sure. Love the chocolate, too.

Love Hershey's chocolate. Oh, yeah. Was Reese's made there? I think. Yeah, they had a Hershey brand, right? Yeah, I believe so. So they created. They started there.

They created the greatest of all time. But their amusement park is shit compared to Kennywood. Kenny Kangaroo is currently my sources are telling me this might be wrong, might not be true. Kenny Kangaroo

has hired other kangaroos to come in building a brand new roller coaster. It's going to be taller than any coaster in America. It's going to be faster than any coaster in America. It's going to be faster than any coaster in America. And it's got more whoop-de-woos than any coaster has ever had. They're actually at a city council meeting next week, I believe I was told,

to get it passed because it's too dangerous. So soft asses like you from Boston probably shouldn't come. You too from Iowa. I see you've been giggling your way through this whole fucking thing. And definitely South Florida couldn't fucking handle Kennywood. All I'm learning about you guys is you're too

soft for Kennywood. And that's on you, that's not on me. It's a shame, really. It is a shame. If you're a little bit tougher, you can experience the greatest theme park in the world. You had to hire kangaroos to build your roller coasters, Pat. You have no workers to build your roller coasters, Pat. You guys are the steel city, and you have the worst

steel roller coasters in You guys are the steel city and you have the worst steel roller coasters in America. I think Pittsburgh is getting soft. That's what I think. Why the fuck would we go to an amusement park with no whoop-de-woos? It has whoop-de-woos. The whole fucking point is to go.

I don't know if it has whoop-de-woos. They don't have whoop-de-woos. We rode the roller coaster yesterday. Why the fuck would we waste our time? Oh, I'm sorry, because it's the only roller coaster in the park, you piece of shit. All the other ones are fucking closed.

Did you not? We went over the stretch best. You've never been there. You're a Boston idiot. There's no point to go. There's no fucking whoop-de-woos. Don't you ever say there's no point to go to Kennywood. There isn't a point to go.

That provides happiness for yinzers for years and years and years. Yeah, way, way back after the Great Depression. Not anymore. We are 100 years old. They got a brand new fleet of potatoes. No thanks. What? How fast are those things going to go?

There's a thousand of them. They got fucking old brooms to dust off this fucking place. They were doing it with their hands before. Prime park hours too. They're just waiting for the people to show up. Yeah, wow. 11, 15. This place opens at 11. I don't see what person outside That's it

And no one's fucking there that's way Good those fries. That's a basket fries D bone diver. I mean that is Look at those. Yeah, you'll get some Mike Yeah diver I mean that is look at those yeah you'll get some what am I doing yeah oh you like the wait line shut up AJ this was obviously another post from Kenny kangaroo oh yeah we seen this kangaroo 11 yeah why potatoes potato patch probably it's the best in the world, Bob. Because mix, baby. French fries.

It's Pittsburgh. That's what we do. July 11th. They haven't been able to post since July 11th. Are you paying for the new item? Four people there. Let's scroll through here. Let's see if there's extended.

Pork hours! We're longer. So it just became 11 to 10. It used to be even worse. Well, 4th of July, obviously. How much is admission? What do I have to pay to get in? They pay you. That is not good business.

Finally, you're here. Summer's heating up. Boom! Boom! Wow, that's cool. Nobody in the stands. Stands are packed. Nobody there. Once again, this is a media day. That's the only reason people are there. All those kids show up for media day. This is just for... That's the only reason people are there.

All those kids show up for media day. We got Jet Ski in the middle of the park. One of these guys actually broke his neck, so they had to stop doing that too. I think the potato patch is actually right near this. Did Bill McComas build that pool? I was going to say. What the hell?

Kids are getting sprayed down. That's a nice little summer day in Pittsburgh. Look at this guy. Whoop-de-woos. He's doing them. Nobody's there. He's doing... What? Look at that.. Whoop-de-woos. He's doing them. Nobody's there. He's doing what? Look at that.

In that shot, there's nobody there. No, I'm going to sit there because that's the spray town. Nobody's there. You get squirted there. I thought you were trying to get squirted. It's on summer day. Let's go to the next one. Cheers.

How about this? Get a bites and pints. What the fuck is top right? Oh, my God. What the hell is that? That's Pittsburgh. Is that Pittsburgh food? What is BottomRite?

What is this slop? There's certain... Well, BottomRite isn't even food. Is that Chef Boyardee? It looks like fresh tacos. It's all right. At Bites and Pints. That's what they say.

That's gross. Yeah, it's all right. It's not good. No, no. It's all right in the world when you're eating at Bites and Pints. It's all right food is what they're saying. No, it's all great today. Look how happy're eating at Bites and Pints. It's all right food is what they're saying. It's all great today. Look how happy they are.

Oh, no. Triple ticket. Look at the fries. They are. Do you see? No. Do you see what's in the background? That's terrible news.

That's the potato patch right there. Okay? That pot, not weed. That's potato patch. That's where you need to go. Tell them, Ty. I've stayed silent because there's Adventureland in Des Moines, which, you know, similar

vibe, which I love. If you are giving away free food and free parking, you're fucking struggling to have people come in. No amusement park in the world is giving away free food. That's how they're making their nut. Are you kidding

me? Jesus Christ. Oh, you hate America too, huh? We're fucking dying. We'll give you whatever the fuck you want. Just come in. 50 bucks, please. Just give us 50 bucks and spend the day here. That is not.

That's embarrassing. No, that's how you're taking it. That's embarrassing. Because you're being poisoned by these people. They have 21,000 guests a day. I just looked it up. Boom. Oh, yeah.

That's an arena. Yeah, going for a free lunch. Do you hate America? From the onion? Can you zoom in, please? Did this guy just try and put Adventureland in Des Moines, Iowa on the same level as Guess what? Adventureland's got fucking hoopty hoops.

I'm like this fucking Mickey Mouse kid. No offense. Yeah, no offense. That's fucking giving out free food. I can't get over that. All right, let's go to the next post. That's not parking. That was a gift to Yinzers.

Can you show the kangaroo, please? The Raging Rapids. Zoom in on that guy. What's up with that guy's knee? Is that an inverted knee? Are you kidding me? He's trying to save that family. He needs to save his leg.

That thing doesn't work, right? Let's go to the next post, please. That's Raging Rapids. A lot of people in number eight.? Let's go to the next post, please. What the fuck? That's Raging Rapids. Oh, there it is. That's problematic. A lot of people in number eight, huh? Geez. They chose to go to that group. Yeah, that must be sold out.

I mean, here we go again. BOGO, 75% off tickets. I mean, they are hurting to get people in the fucking park. What the fuck? Yeah, you get to control a house. You can pay. Let's go to the next post. You guys are reading this all wrong.

Happy Mother's Day. Mom and kids celebrating the canning kangaroos at Kennywood. Yeah, sure. For five bucks, you can go to the park and have a hell of a day. Yeah, that's what Kennywood's all about. Look at these ducks. Cost more to buy a Happy Meal than it does to go to Kennywood because they can't get fucking people to come to the park.

Tony, we need to talk about the price of your need-to-know guide now that we're looking at these prices Let's go, Don Don't let the idiots affect you Just show the kangaroo This is laughing Sal Telling you your future, huh? It's terrifying

Look at the mirror Look at the reflection Nobody, three people That's a part you're walking through You should have a lot of people walking. What's the date on that post? May 10th. Yeah, it was probably 27 degrees out in Pittsburgh.

Which is more bad news for Kenny Woods. Just real quick, though. It's so big. What do you want? You want... So you can fit a ton of people in there, though. You want Chester back throughout the entire place? Yeah, they're loaded.

This thing's 4,000 square miles. That's a real park. We are so bad. Look how fast that thing... That's 4,000 square miles. That's a real park. We are so bad. Look how fast that thing is. That's fans' revenge right there. We rewrote that yesterday. That's closed. Yeah.

That was not closed. The curtain's closed. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. The great three won. Kennywood Picnic Day is going to be happening for us at some point soon. Let's remember that. That one's a pure error.

The errorless thing is. Has Big Ben been there? Yes. All right. He rode Skycoaster. That's a stupid question. There's no one on that coaster. Those seats are empty. To be clear, it's not a coaster. That's a

whoopty-woo-woo. Excuse me, the only whoopty-woos in Kennewood no one's even on. There's a lot of whoopty-woos. We got a magic carpet. It's the fucking Arrow 360, bro. And there's no one there. This one kind of freaked me out, to be honest, when I came in. Russ has been there. Yeah, the whole team went there this year. Yeah, because that's what you do. Yeah, this one would tie your stomach in knots

if you weren't ready for it. Yeah, the timing in which you chose to ride the Arrow 360 was certainly a big part of how your day was going to go. Oh, there's no line! Yeah, well that's because it's fucking 1130 right now. We got a full day ahead of us. Do we want to vomit all over this place or no? Haven't even had a potato patch yet. So it took the whoop-de-woos

out of the roller coaster and no one's going on the whoop-de-woo ride. So it sounds like Pittsburghers are scared of whoop-de-woos out of the roller coaster and no one's going on the whoop-de-woo ride. So it sounds like Pittsburghers are scared of whoop-de-woos. I didn't say I'm not riding. The timing in which you choose to ride it is a big part of the whole game. Dippin' Dots, I think it started in Kennywood. Oh, of course. That's why it kind of

blew up. I think they're great. They should catch on eventually, right? Well, I'm not going to claim Dippin' Dots, but... Those things. So you guys have the poopy ice cream. That's what you started. No, we had soft serve as well. Please, it's fucking Kennywood. But you started the poopy one.

Thank you. Kennywood and Phantom's Revenge both placed in the top ten of their ten best balls. Voted by people. Huh. Wow. Voted by you. Who is you? Who is you?

Let's get out of here. I'm tired of this. We're going to Kennywood. I can't wait. You guys are going to Kenwood I can't wait You guys are going to Kenwood Make sure you take some pictures when you go I want to see Kenny You're coming too AJ

You're going to be shaking in your boots Someone pop that kangaroo up please If you can pop one of them pictures up I don't know if they got any photos of him online I don't know if that's Selective Google journalism it sounds like Oh it sounds like that's happening Whether you like it or not

Oh yeah no doubt about it Can you please pull up Kenny Kangaroo? What do you want to see, AJ? A fucking dog this guy's building? I want to see what represents the park. This guy built Steel Curtain. This guy built Steel Phantom. This guy built Phantom's Revenge.

This guy built... What was the rat one? The Terminator? Exterminator. Exterminator, yeah. That was a fun one. Exterminator was a real deal. That sounds like an afterthought.

Yeah, it was. Sounds like an afterthought coaster. Exterminator? That real deal. That sounds like an afterthought coaster. Exterminator? That's what it sounds like. I haven't heard about it until right now. I've been talking about this for two days. It is an indoor coaster. Yeah, it was newer.

The lines for that one. Yeah, you get a line to get in line to that one. Oh, yeah. Which is what you like from what it sounds like. I thought they got all the fast ones. There's no lines. This place sucks. Yeah, okay.

That's Kenny King. Jesus Christ. Are you kidding me? How many assault charges does the recent guy got? Recent, right? It's a recent picture. Just like Benny the Bull changes every once in a while, Kenny the Kangaroo has certainly changed every year. That would scare every kid.

Every kid. Who's doing the search on this? John, before we get out of here, can you give us some directions? First ever picture ever some corrections first colored photo at Kennywood once again the first ever colored picture was at Kennywood congratulations

don't fucking call him that you talking about Pete Dunn don't fucking call him that oh my god what you guys are doing to him, you should think about too. Every time you talk about Kenny. I got his name right. I knew his name was Ed. Yeah, teamwork.

Love boot. That should have went in. We'll do it afterwards. When's the last time you went though, Pat, to Kennywood? For real. 15, 20, 20. No. You were like 12 probably? 15, maybe? No, it was at Kennywood.

Like, picnic day was a real thing for the school. Like, school shut down. Seventh grade? It was a nice little... You know, Coach T. Will there said the only thing he fears is God and the Rico, you know? The Rico that Kennywood was running with the entire city was wild. Every high school... Hi there.

What's up? Let me see. Every high school was basically forced to go to Kennywood, and every student was kind of forced to go to Kennywood every single day. And it was worth it. It was a good time. Everybody was excited. And I don't know why that's... That's weird. Did Tone answer? Did Tone answer there? What did Tone do? Someone's got to answer.

Oh, no. That's weird Did Tone answer? Did Tone answer there? What did Tone do? Someone's got to answer Oh no Alright the man that responded For the good of our show Which we appreciate Thank you for doing that Tone No problem Because we're taking it Someone has to Yeah we're taking it

In all angles here Get out there Tone Not going to be around long Does he tweet that out? Is he getting kangaroo? There's a chance There's a chance And There's a chance. Does that mean things are on the up and up?

Which is what we need to remember for our Kennywood picnic day, which is coming very soon. You guys are going to go ride all the rides. See, there's a couple different ones. That's a little later in the summer. He's morphing. Kenny's a bitch, dog. You wouldn't say it to his face? I absolutely will.

You would not say that to Kennywood. No doubt about it. That's a Pittsburgh kangaroo, brother. Sure. And they go down easy. That's disgusting. 75% off BOGO. That's all that I can think about when it comes to Kenny.

Yeah, he's cornered. You fucking cornered Pittsburgh kangaroo? I don't know if that's the one you want to go after. Yeah, I'll go after all of them. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us from Hammer. Time. Time. Time. Which is not the home of Kennywood Thank God

That would be just an honor of a lifetime Agreed Tony, can you give us some corrections from the day, and also keep us updated on what's going on in the Olympics, we've had to have missed something and what did we not talk about from the Olympics that we should have talked about today already Starting with the Olympics, we won our first medal ever in the canoe slalom

that's what we're talking about pretty big deal pj flex spoke to them yeah i heard uh just moments before they went out there talked about a necton mentality and rowing the boat and obviously he's talking about one with oars but whenever you're in a canoe same theory yeah you know same we all need to be at the same time we need to be dancing we need to be moving you know we need to be fucking grooving body weight matters lean towards rock not away from rock you could die out there fun fact uh sally mcafee almost died uh i believe in some rapids uh back in the day with old tim mcafee and she shouldn't lean away from the rock you know you kind of kind of toss her out there i don't know if it was a canoe or not but those fucking they get after it oh yeah they get they get the boaters really start moving i live on a lake like an hour

north of here yeah and uh there's some canoers that come by fucking whack they are moving moving yeah rap sheet don't they bingoingo. Well, that's, yeah. He can do it all. You know he can do it all. Any boat, he can row. Yeah, well, we're the best at it now, it sounds like. What place did we get? Third.

Third best. We're the third best in the world. We won third. First ever, though. Yeah, you're right. We're next one. Ledecky's about to swim the 1500 finals, so that's a goal. There we go.

Hell yeah, we did it. Lock it in. Another G, another goal. U.S. women's soccer team's up two on Australia. The U.S.A. women's volleyball team hung in there to beat Serbia. The U.S. men's double team of so-and-so and so-and-so is up. They won the first set. Tony.

Tony. What? Come on. Oh, you have room to talk. Come on. They got so-and-so and so-and-so. They won the first set, and they were up in the second set against Alcaraz and Nadal

so suck it there boys Oh Nadal-Caraz going down to the United States of America So-and-so versus Nadal-Caraz There's a lot of names in the Olympics Certainly is Marshan just won the 200 fly I believe

Get another gold there, I think. Fuck that guy. Sumo is not an Olympic sport. Actually, it has been approved as an Olympic sport, but it's not become an Olympic event yet. Okay. Which I guess is because breaking had to do that.

I believe flag football had to do that. Rugby sevens. Rugby sevens, probably. Skateboarding, I think, at one point had to get approved. Rugby sevens. Rugby sevens probably. Skateboarding, I think, at one point had to get approved, and then it becomes an event. So I think sumo is going to be around the corner if what I read and heard was accurate from earlier in the program. Correct.

Also, I just got this from the back. The girl on the gymnastics team, her name is Jade Carey, not very. Yeah, that was on me. That was on very. Yeah, that was just on me. That was on me. She's an Olympic gold medalist. And she battled through a stomach bug. That's right. Tell you what, bringing them home yesterday, that one hit the heart.

That one hit strong. Yeah, it did. Seeing them on top of that podium. It's cool. It was, wasn't it? him on top of that podium. It's cool. It was, wasn't it?

Let's do it alongside him. The Golden Girls. The Redeem Team. Fuck around and find out. We did it. Hell yeah, Simone. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Miss Carrie? ¶¶

It's good to be on top of the podium, isn't it? Nothing like it, staying on top of your podium. National Anthem play. Got chills. We did it, didn't we, AJ? They didn't think we had it. Michaela Skinner was running her mouth. Yeah, they shut her up. I'm an idiot.

Jeez. I didn't know she was saying that, and they did, certainly. Yeah. As soon as they win. As soon as they win, they're like, okay, we got this. We need to do TikTok, and also, what did? Oh, certainly. Yeah. As soon as they win. Oh, yeah. As soon as they win, they're like, okay, we got this. We need to do TikTok. And also, what did?

Oh, yeah. What'd she say? Oh, yeah. We're lazy, but we don't work hard. We're talented. We always talk about the goats. How about Simone was complimented by Michaela Skinner. She goes, aside from Simone, I don't really see much of anything. And Simone's like the loudest one.

Like, hey, hey, this is my team you're talking about right now. This is my team we're talking about right now. I loved everything about it. They have the individual now. I think Simone obviously going to go on to win many more. I have no idea how many. I should have done a little bit more research. All I know is Simone's Olympics isn't over yet, which is great for us as spectators.

And what a big-time win. What a big-time win for the United States who just continue to run away with this thing. Awesome. This is as of 2.45. Obviously, you've got to put uh uh marchand's gold i guess is already in there for france i guess that would be right the sixth one that they probably picked up yep we have 29 title medals so i mean if you guys want to start competing we would be pumped about it now there are some countries that have less than 29 uh

athletes competing as a whole and we have the largest largest, I think we have like 600 or 500 or so competing. And we got a lot. People are going to throw that in our face because like, well, let's do a comparison to the amount of athletes that you have. We just know we have the most. And we're about to have the most golds too. So China, why don't you slow down?

Japan, why don't we chill out for a second? Why don't we hit the brakes, Australia? We don't need you to beat us in gold medals either. We're going to catch up to them, for sure. But all you need to look at is that total. The whole world want to, Paris. Trying to gather this booty. That's right.

These medals. The Pirates of America got the most so far. Hell yeah. And we're going to run away with this thing. No doubt. Don't love the amount of second and third places. Yeah, but it's the same deal. Once we get to the track and field events, guess what?

China and Japan ain't going to be winning any of those fucking ones. So, you know, they can have their first week, enjoy it, and then now we're going to start to eat. I saw that Japan team basketball against France. I saw Wemby. I saw that one guy. Yeah, the tiny little guy. Five, six. He was faster.

They said, no, go to track. There is some basketball news. Put him out there. Let's see. Let's find out. 3 o'clock, right? What's the basketball news? Starting lineup has been announced.

Anthony Davis is in. Jason Tatum is in. Finally. Devin Booker is in. LeBron and Steph round out the starting five. Kevin Durant coming off the bench yet again. Tyrese Halliburton, I assume, will be feeding him the rock. Oh, yeah. And Sal Sudan

is a 28-point dog against a United States of America team who's still got something proof. Oh, yeah. Steve Kroeser, yeah, yeah. We only beat him by one. It's a really good team. It's like he's been... I bet you he's been... Oh, yeah. LeBron James, what do you think? You think he should run the highlights of himself

hitting the game winner? But then also... We almost lost to Sudan. Is there any... For the Hammer downtown, Tony, is there any Guinea update? Do we have... Why do you... This is your fault, though, Tony. I just want to know.

How is it my fault? I was just saying the country's name. And this guy from Boston who's known to be certain things. How is Guinea doing? Their soccer team lost yesterday. Any medals for the Guineas or no? Not that nation, no. Do you have any other questions?

Yeah, what is Guinea's best sport? Soccer. Is that the only sport Guinea's in or no? All right, all right. Guinea got any runners in the track or no? I don't think so. I don't know. I don't think so.

Oh, FIBA ball. We even know it was a country. Bought this off Amazon. This is the most expensive one. Okay, so I assumed it was. How does it feel? So slick. It's the worst ball.

It looks weird playing with it. We have to play with it, throw it off the wall. D-Bus, they get a little sweat equity in his thing. It's slick. It is very slick. But I was shooting from the FIBA three-point line, which is a foot and a half shorter than the NBA line from my internet research. I don't know if it's real or not.

And then with this ball earlier, boy, it is easy to make shots. Kevin Durant might miss one shot a game going forward with this entire thing. Ball is interesting, though. It's very interesting. It's... Is it smaller? I don't... You think it's smaller.

It looks smaller, but it doesn't necessarily feel smaller. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, and it's so slick. I mean, it would be tough to even... It's a tough ball to play with. I wonder if that is actually how they feel. This one was $260. The one they're playing it's probably like 500 i guess i don't know they only had two left literally i bought the final two uh when i was watching them play what was

that last week just got here this morning literally i was like 60. 269 yeah 269 maybe and obviously i ordered the uh the two-day shipping instead of the course. So I tacked that on. And I think I had to pay Sal, who's driving the Amazon truck. Capaccio? Sal Capaccio. Where's that mate? Don't say it. I think it's in Guinea.

It's a Guinea ball. That's why it cost so much. Thailand. This goes in. America's covering. Tough shot. Very tough. It is a different shot. 28.

It was 30. Then it was 28. It might be dancing. Who knows? So, today just won her first Olympic game ever against Puerto Rico, I believe. Yeah. Wait a minute. Yeah.

We got to mark Peter Jack. Mark him. He's good. Great player. This ball falls. We cover, though? Peter Jack. He's a great player. This ball falls. We cover, though? We're all in agreement? For sure. Yeah.

Hammer! Done! On the over. I'm pumped about that. Boys in the back, great show today. Maybe I need to be shooting with an NBA ball with butter on it. Maybe a slick shot is a better shot. I'm pumped about us winning that game by a lot. That's good for us tomorrow. Obviously, we're going to talk our shit. And obviously, we're going to continue to do that through the

entirety of the Olympics. And then we're going to keep everybody updated on football. Speaking of football tomorrow, Hall of Fame game. Here we go. NFL helmets on a football field. NFL pads on a football field. NFL players on a sideline. But still, football happening Hall of Fame game. Cannot wait to watch that. Jason Kelsey's big debut, I do believe. Tomorrow evening for ESPN, a Monday Night Football countdown. Kickoff too. Kickoff.

Should be a kickoff. The coverage of a kickoff. How's the camera angle going to be? How are they going to shoot that? Are they going to tinker with some things here during this Hall of Fame game because they know what it is and see how it goes forward and you know what will we see we'll see some ball yep and what will we feel happiness and when will we do it until the super bowl amen all right boys let's get the hell out of here be a friend we had some breaking news six flagsags New England on the verge of closure. Extinction.

Forever. Oh, you guys are acting like I give a fuck about Six Flags New England. This is a Kennywood argument, my friend. No, what we're talking about is you have no fucking right to talk about Kennywood. Why don't we pull up some of the roller coasters that are in Six Flags? That don't work, that are closing? Okay, yeah. If we want to pull up Failure, we'll certainly do that.

Until then, we're going to ride the whoop-de-whoop rides of Kennywood to the happy land. They don't bow down to nobody coming and doing free food and free parking. Okay, when the money stops coming in, they're not like, hey, let's hold this place open as long as possible and go bankrupt. That's because they're a franchise. They take their money. That's because they're not a part of the city. Because they're smart.

Let's get the hell out of here. They're not smart. They're out of business. Kenny Wood is thriving. Thriving. Excuse me. Do we need to go back? Do we need to go back?

How does it put Rudy's subs in? Yeah. Growth, development. There's cranes right now. Not good for Rudy's subs. Cranes. Spreading Rudy's more thin like that. And we're not riding it to heaven.

AJ, I heard you say that. You said like we're dying. No, we're going to happy land, which is where we're happy at, which is where we are now because football starts tomorrow. Hell yeah. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. Maybe say something to Kenny Kangaroo right now. Alright, Kenny Kangaroo. Go to hell.

Okay. You to hell. Okay. You said something. You said something. I'll say something nice to Jason Tatum when he scores 15 points in my bet covers. Only when he does that? Not like, hey, congratulations, you're starting for Team USA? Yeah, first cap. If anything, I could say, hey, thanks a lot again.

There it is. Okay, perfect. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Tatum might hear that. No, I won't change his life. He just signed. Okay, perfect. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Tatum might hear that. No, no. That won't change his life.

He just signed $350 million. He doesn't care. Yeah, money isn't the road to happiness. It's the path to financial freedom, but it's not the path to happiness. You saw him bummed out on the bench the other day. I don't know if he was that bummed out. Yeah, and he did a study, too. He was just sitting there like, yep.

What was the study? I don't believe all studies, but it said money actually does buy happiness. Well, I heard like a jet ski could bring a smile to a face from Daniel Tosh, I do believe. It's his research. I think he's the one who brought that. Did the study say that they investigated happiness levels of incomes of people? I didn't dive too deep, but I did ask. I always bounce things off my kids and ask them.

It was like, that sounds about right to me. Okay, cool. How old are the kids? About 10 to 15. That's pretty smart. And money buys freedom, financial freedom. You know what is happy? Freedom.

Yeah. And that's why Kennywood says you guys save your money Come spend your time with us I bet if you polled them they would say the opposite That's what they do Look at that welcoming hand You know I'm pretty sure I saw something From Epstein Island

That looked just like that actually Just because your shit's closing Your bullshit park's closed doesn't mean you need to link us to some virgin island that had a submarine. When are we going to learn about... They're asking a lot of questions about that place. What about the subs? A lot of people talk about the through the sky.

I think it was through water. There's nothing comparable from Kenny Kangaroo and his world to what the world you're talking about. You don't think that there wasn't an outfit pretty similar to that? All right, let's get out of here. Let's be a friend. The hole's cut in it?

Furry conventions do come from Pittsburgh. Kenny Kangaroo is not a part of it, though. Kenny is just an advocator of fun. I saw a lot of photos with that. He gets paid like 10 grand to show up to those things, I bet. I don't know what Kenny Kangaroo's salary is. He's a fucking machine, too. Kenny Kangaroo actually donates his time.

They call him Peggy in those places. Alright, be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. That's not accurate. We can't not confirm or deny. We don't know. That's like a J.D. Vance couch situation with the AP Press. Well, I think they have actually.

They have to delete the article. They wrote the article, and then they deleted it. I heard about this. I saw a bunch of condoms and seats and everything. Anyways, be a friend, tell a friend. What a wild time to be alive. Well, yesterday he decided to say, I'm not going to ask my wife to come up here.

She'll make me sleep on the couch. And people had fun with that. Of course. Yeah. You probably want that. I was hoping he kind of threw that in himself. That's awesome. Atlanta was rocking last time I saw them. That looked like good time. They were having a party.

Like my friend Quavo says. Alright. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. And as the world continues to seemingly just spiral into more, this can't be real a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. And as the world continues to seemingly, you know, just spiral into more, this can't be real

chaos. Remember, sports are always the great equalizer. Bring us all together. Football starts tomorrow. Let's enjoy it all. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three, team! Goodbye!