The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1197 - Tyrese Haliburton, JJ Watt, Alex Smith, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap recap a week as a whole in the NFL while they set the stage for week 2 as AQ gives out his top performing O-Line’s of the week and they take a peek at some of injuries that might have an impact on games this week. Joining the boys in studio is 2x All-Star, All-NBA player, and gold medalist point guard of the Indiana Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton to chat about his Olympic experience, and gloat after Iowa State’s victory over Iowa in the Cy-Hawk game. Later, 3x DPOY, Texans Ring of Honor member, future Hall of Famer, 5x 1st team All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, and now NFL on CBS analyst, JJ Watt joins the show to recap week 1 and chat about his biggest takeaways from everything. Later, 3x Pro Bowler, 2020 NFL Comeback Player of the Year, analyst on Sunday NFL Countdown, and co-host of the Glue Guy podcast, Alex Smith joins the show to chat about Quarterback play around the NFL after week 1, what makes Andy Reid so good as a Head Coach, how he’s been liking being an analyst, and why he’s doing this new podcast. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow 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 Olympic gold medal Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, this program starts now. Football is normally the topic of discussion, but obviously on September 11th you have to acknowledge and chit-chat about what happened 23 years ago. I was in keyboard class, trying to get my words per minute up. There was a TV in the corner. And then obviously all hell broke loose whenever it went, oh, most serious moment of my life in the United States is history in New York. And obviously we will never forget that day. We'll never forget what happened. And hopefully we'll never forget what happened immediately afterwards when our country seemingly came together more than I had ever seen it before. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who obviously were

affected then and still having to deal with it every single year, every single day, every single month, whenever you lose a loved one in that particular fashion. I couldn't even fathom the grief. So obviously from all of us here at the program to everybody that was affected, we say our thoughts and prayers are still with you and sorry you had to go through that. And for America, well, after that, how together we were, hopefully we can someday get back to that point a lot of disagreeing seemingly last night uh on tv and on the internet but i still believe that we have a chance to become the most unified country we have been uh we have great sports talk to kind of deliver today and i cannot wait to announce the fact that alex smith is going to be on the show i can't wait to announce the

fact that jj watt's going to be on the show today and i can't wait to announce the fact that Alex Smith is going to be on the show today. Ooh. I can't wait to announce the fact that J.J. Watt's going to be on the show today. Why? And I can't wait to announce the fact that an Olympic gold medalist is going to be joining us today. But before that, the Toxic Table. At Boston Conner, at Ty Schmidt. September 11th, con man. From Boston area.

Obviously, there's one particular human that you have to acknowledge and tell the story of. Sports guy. Obviously made a lasting impact. Yeah, Wells Crowther, lacrosse player from Boston College, also like the man in the red bandana is what he's known as. There's been documentaries. I believe Joe Pompliano put out a video of the entire thing,

saved countless lives running up and down the stairs, moving people out. I mean, it's just one of those things you always look back to, especially on a day like today. Good perspective, especially when we're excited about sports and living and dying with teams that might stink. It's like, hey, in the grand scheme, not as big of a deal when you're talking about things on September 11th. And also, there's heroes walking amongst us that we have no idea who they are. Red Bandana Man was one of those.

And the story, the way it was told, obviously made his entire family and friends at least remember fondly of the man that was created in their family, even though they lost him. A devastating day, obviously. but that red bandana piece, I think game day did. Yeah, bingo. That was the first time I really learned of it, just full-tiered, and I couldn't even imagine a family. The amount of pride that you would have to have, obviously, for your son in the last moments, but also losing him is a wild scene.

Nine-year NFL vet Darius J. Butler is here. D-Butt, you look incredibly cool. You're sitting over there because we got a lot of people coming through. Oh, yeah, a lot. You know, we got a lot of people coming through today. Yep, you're damn right. Yeah. An Olympic gold medalist, a Super Bowl champion.

Whoa. I mean, this is a big day for the Thunderdome, which means there's a man that has been sent to hammer. Dad! Dad! AP Tone, how's it going over there, AP Tone? Things are really nice back here in Hammer downtown. You know, it's warm. AP Tone. How's it going over there, AP Tone? Things are really nice back here in Hammer downtown. You know, it's warm, it's comfy, it's cozy.

Downtown. What's that? Where? It's Hammer downtown. Remember? Downtown. Did I mispronounce it? Yeah, you kind of laissez-faire with it.

It's a little downtown. Yeah, Hammer downtown. You will be ready when you're down time. That's kind of how it sounded. What we're saying is we want a little bit more emphasis on the hammer down time. Anyways, back to you, Tone, and hammer down time. Here we are back at hammer down time. Boom.

I don't know if you did it. Hammer down time. Things are great here and a lot better here than – well, actually, it was kind of nice. Mike Tomlin dunked on Mark Gaboli yesterday. Well, how are you aware your quarterback position is a little bit of a national topic? So, when healthy, is Russell still your QB1? Again, I'm not going to soothe you with hypothetical scenarios. It is my general practice to not. You guys that know me know I'm not going to soothe you with hypothetical scenarios. It is my general practice to not.

You guys that know me know I do not, so why start today? Because it's the quarterback position or because it's a national story. I am unmoved by some of those narratives, to be quite honest with you. We got an approach to business. I always stand in front of you guys when people are somewhat limited. I say we'll push through our work week. We'll let your participation be our guide in terms of whether we include them and then the quality of that participation. This scenario is no different for me.

Respectfully, I understand that you have to ask that question, but it doesn't mean that we need to change our position or do things that are abnormal in an effort to answer it. We're just simply going to proceed with what we normally do. Our energies and attention are on those that are available and are scheduled to play. They are deserving of that. When those that are not are healthy, we'll ponder it at that time. We ain't saying shit is what he said, Tony. Is that what you heard, Kaboli, there with his little foot kind of dosing around?

It was hard to focus with Caboli's sweet hokas just bouncing around, twirling around there in the bottom of the video. But Caboli, in his article, and they've been unbelievable since joining the Pat McAfee Show as a correspondent, basically said in his article that Tomlin just doesn't,

like he could have put a rest to it and said, yeah, Russ is the starter when healthy, but he just doesn't care to do that. He doesn't care what the outside is. He doesn't care what anybody thinks about it. Caboli used reference when there was rumors of Tomlin going to USC years ago. Tomlin could have came out and said he wasn't, but he just doesn't care to because he doesn't care what people think.

But Caboli said, and I kind of agree because I know how the Steelers and Tomlin work, that when Russ is healthy, that he will most likely be the starting quarterback. Okay, I'm excited to see if that is the case, and I appreciate the fact that you say it's a pretty good day in Hammer. Caboli got dunked on by Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin never gets talked about enough for being a press conference maestro.

He has the ability to say nothing while saying a lot of things. Like he said a lot of things there. Soothe the hypotheticals, yada, yada, yada. I understand you got to ask your question. With that being said, we're not going to change the way we operate because of some national narrative. Basically, he took Kaboli and just. Yeah. Gotcha.

That's literally what he did. Bye-bye. And I understand you got to ask your question because of what you're doing there. But I like the fact that Tomlin's like, I'll kill him with indifference. If I start answering every single question

that we have, then I'm going to be spending my entire life doing that. That's a pretty big question, though. Huge. And I think what he is saying

openly is like, if Justin Fields continues to win games, what are we even doing here? We're just trying to win some football games. And I know Tone Diggs said there that,

you know, normal Steeler operating procedure here would be to give russell wilson the job back because you can't have an injury and lose your job and that's kind of how you know like tomlin has operated tomlin is a very similar to kirk ferentz very similar to like hey this out goes very i don't want to say slow but he thinks things out first time he's ever fired a coordinator during the season throughout his entire career was last year. He is a very, I don't want to say methodical guy, but he is. So for him to make this decision,

I think he's thinking to himself, if Justin Fields continues to win, what are we even talking about? But if Russell Wilson is back healthy, Justin Fields 3-0, let's say 2-0, 3-0, because his calf has lingered since the conditioning period two days before training camp started when he was pushing the sled, what does Tomlin do?

That'll be a fascinating decision. Neither of them had been there before, so there's no build-up clout with the fans, the building, the locker room. It's kind of like a fair shot each, like Kirk Cousins and Pennix in there. What will Tomlin do? I'm fascinated to watch it. I mean, the ball is literally in Justin Fields' hands right now. Obviously, I'm a huge fan of Dangerous, that guy.

People forget that that is Russell Wilson's dorsal fin. Obviously, he didn't change the colors yet. But Justin Fields out there, he continues to play. He played well, I think, week one. Obviously, he left some plays out there, but week one. You mentioned it, not a lot of money invested either, long-term, in either one of the quarterbacks. So when you're on that side, I don't care what your position is,

and people always say, oh, you can't lose your job to injury if justin phil's performing and they're winning that locker room you could you could if you put russ back in there he struggles a little bit the locker room the fans it can turn real quick so it's in justin phil's hands if he's participating if his participation continues to be better and better it'll be hard to take him out of that lineup and put russ back in there but like i said it, it's in Justin Fields' hands right now. And there's got to be a thought like, hey, this is the younger guy. Like, he's not turning the ball over. He's not making dumb mistakes.

Like, if there is a longer future between the two, it is Justin Fields. It's not Russell Wilson. And so, why wouldn't you? He didn't score a touchdown, didn't turn the ball over. Big group. Had the great roll left throw back to the right play. Put him in good situations, didn't lose the game. And that's all the Pittsburgh Steelers fans want, right right isn't that down in hammer don time all you guys want

to do is just win the game not turn the ball over right play good defense they're doing that yeah 100 i mean he let it six scoring drives whether they were field goals or not and then on the seventh drive they went for it on fourth and one on like the ten and got stopped that's okay that's gonna happen so there was there was some good things that you could see that's right now literally as a steward's fan on offense we're just looking So there was some good things that you could see. Right now, literally, as a Steelers fan on offense, we're just looking to see, is there good things that you could build on? And are you not completely inept basically what we were the last

couple years? Yeah, I... Tom's going to have to make the decision. He knows it. He's not going to let Mark Caboli bully him into making it. That ain't going to happen on this particular Tuesday. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who is an Olympic gold medalist. He's also

a cyclone. He went to Iowa State. He's a big fan of the Iowa State Cyclones. He just had a massive win over the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Cyhawk Bowl, which happens every single year. This one in the University of Iowa Hawkeyes field, Kinnick Field I believe.

Iowa State goes in there and just beats them up. I wouldn't go that far. Absolutely beats them up. Just goes into town and says this is our state now. 54 yard field goal by Kyle Conrad. Dog from Iowa.

Chose to go to Iowa State. Hits a 54 yarder to beat Iowa in the Sidehawk Bowl. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, Indiana Pacer All-Star, Olympic gold medalist legend, Tyrese Halliburton. Hey, Tyrese. Hey. Hey. Hey.

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I didn't know Iowa State had that type of merch. Oh, that was a good clean dab right there by you two. Where's Shea Collins? Pass it. Where's Shea Collins? Pass it. Where's Shea Collins there? Is that an Iowa State jacket right there?

It is. You don't have to bend down. It should pick it up. And you look awesome i appreciate that did we know iowa state had this clean of merch no idea are they beating iowa in the merch game no no no these colors don't run you know that yeah but that's a sweet jacket that is a sweet jacket uh how is life after iowa state beats the hell out of iowa life is good it's been a good week you knew this was was going to happen? I mean, I had confidence going into the game when it was about, what was it, 13-0?

Yeah. 13-0. I was a little worried about our offense moving the ball, but once we got the pick, I had confidence that we scored, went down and scored quick. And then I was like, oh, we're good because they can't throw the ball. So that's what Iowa fans are saying, too. They're saying Cade McNamara. He really won on the – he left Cade McNamara no hope yesterday.

That was my fault. I mentioned his name. I didn't know it was going to go there. Yeah, and you're not supposed to do that on this particular program. His name is not to be mentioned here because Ty will lose his mind and bury Cade McNamara. I mean, he buried – Cade McNamara, hey, let's have a better year. Tough love.

Sometimes you need it, you know. I feel that. I don't know no better. Yeah, exactly. You know better year. Tough love. Sometimes you need it, you know? I feel that. I don't know no better. Yeah, exactly. You know, that entirety of it. You brought a jersey here? Yeah, I hate those city jerseys that you have up, so I'll give you a... I thought we were getting... What?

I think we're getting a... The Olympic, right? Wasn't that what we were... Yeah, we'll work that out. Just bring me... If I come back, I'll bring that as well. Okay, so you hate this one? That's the one under that.

I see there's two jerseys there. Yeah, that one. Is that one yours? Is that a McAfee jersey? Is that a... Under mine? Yeah, it is. Yeah, let's just go with that one.

I like the yellow. Oh, you signed it? That's Olympic gold medalism. There we go. I didn't think we were getting an Olympic jersey. Sure. I thought that's what we all thought. We'll fix it.

We'll fix it. We're in home renovations right now, so we're looking an Olympic jersey. I thought that's what we all thought. We'll fix it. We're in home renovations right now, so we're looking for the jersey. Okay, you're 24 years old, home renovations, Olympic gold medalist, another jersey here. Let's talk about the Olympic experience. That was awesome. Yeah, it was a good time. It was a good time. I had fun, and we won.

Oh, I brought this for you. I brought this. Oh! You get to keep it? Oh! That's worthy of a celebration. This is the first time an Olympic gold medal has been in here, for sure.

You're obviously the first Olympic gold medalist to come into the Thunderdome. We're very thankful for it. We were trying to figure out earlier how many Olympic gold medalists we have talked to. Phelps, obviously we've talked to. He's got 23. He picked Iowa as well on game day. Everyone did.

Well, everybody did. We all picked Iowa. There was technical difficulties during that part of the show for some reason. Well, Georgia Tech, actually. There was a couple different technical difficulties.

There's 111,000 people. What do you expect? There's going to be some lines that get crossed. Nonetheless, this thing's real good. It's pretty heavy. Oh, yes.

It's got some good meat to this entire thing. How often do you wear it? Never. I never wear it. Don't lie. Oh, yeah. It's got some good meat to this entire thing. How often do you wear it? Never. I never wear it. Don't lie. Why, Reese? Don't lie to us.

I mean, I wore it for the celebration and that night. Oh, yeah. We saw you get out of a van. Uh-huh. A couple people. Yeah. We saw you get out of a van. Good tweets.

Good tweets. Good answer. I remember that. There was some good content out there after that yeah certainly laughable yeah yeah certainly laughable um but i don't know i haven't really i wore it i went down back home and they made me speak to some teachers they wanted me to wear it there as well but other than that we've just kind of been in the safe at home okay so let's talk about the olympic experience. You were the glue guy?

I guess. Were you the glue guy? Sure. A lot of cheering. I was happy. Need that. Vibes guy? Energy guy? Vibes guy. Got along with the whole team at Centrally. Yeah, I got along with the whole team. The whole team got along with the whole team? Or was there some people that maybe... You don't have to out anybody.

No, I don't think so. I think we all got along. There was never any controversy or anything like that. Was there any doubt when you guys sucked before the Olympics? No. Because you guys went from losing to Lithuania, right? Yeah. That was the Olympics.

South Sudan almost won. It was 100 to 1. We did almost lose that game. Yeah. So was there any doubt or you guys knew you were going to figure it out? I wouldn't say there was ever a doubt in games or before or anything. The one time that I maybe felt a little uneasy was at the end of the third quarter against Serbia. Like they were winning the whole game, but I was like, we're going to win, right?

And then our starters, we pushed the lead, and then they got it back to about like 15 going into the fourth. And I was a little like. Joker. Something could happen here. Hey, these itches are good at basketball. Yeah, they were good. And then we cut it to like eight within two minutes, and I was like, we're fine.

We're going to be fine. Steve Kerr retired from the gig. He did. I don't want to do this shit anymore. I'm sick of it. I'm getting yelled at for not playing Tatum. I got to figure out who's playing where. I'm just trying to win a game.

We won a gold medal. We have not lost and everybody calls me a dumbass. Did you sense that from Kurt? You didn't play a lot. No, I didn't play at all. You were in? I got a little bit. I had a couple threes. Yeah, true.

I'm not as good as Bill Lampierre could shoot the three, but obviously you put up a couple. That's on 2K. That's a rating for real. Lampier, the one that is used to describe why current NBA players too soft to play back in the day, didn't know that he could fucking light it up. Has a higher three-point rating than me on 2K.

Yes, he does. Doesn't sound like that rubs you the wrong way at all. Doesn't sound like that. Well, you know, Lampier is a shooter. He could step out there first. I don't get into the disrespecting the old heads by any means, but come on.

Stop. In the paint, he's got you. I think he shot under 43s in his career. So what would equate him having a higher three-point rating than me? I don't know. I don't make video games. Mr. Lambert, you need to know he has done a lot of research on you it sounds like and i don't know what video we just pulled up it's probably a lamp here three-point shooting highlight

that was a mid-range jumper they just showed no agreed we haven't seen him behind the line yet right up close kg also a mid-range jumper different game also a mid-range jumper yeah but did you see the form i think if he was to back up, like this one, they say. The form. Didn't even touch the rim. If he backs up four feet, that's going to fall anyways. Can't miss. The form looks good.

The form does look pretty good. He's got that elbow kind of do-si-don a little bit. Yeah, that wonderful. Killing MJ? The back room just said that you could probably make it. Lampierre could probably make it from the stage. Mid-range. I haven't seen him hit a three yet, but I haven't seen him touch the rim yet either.

To be clear. The touch looks like it's there. But I'm, the ratings have to, we have to go off of our, what we've shown, right? And he's only shot with 30-something threes in his career, so. Is there any other stats we need to know about on 2K that you're not happy about? Yeah, there's

probably a few. My dimer, I'm on gold. My dimer's gold. I would like to see it on Hall of Fame, but we probably a few. My dimer, I'm on gold. My dimer's gold. I would like to see it on Hall of Fame, but we'll get there. Definitely should be Hall of Fame. What's your dimer? Is it your passes? Dimer is a badge that is equipped to people who can pass the ball well.

But you are like a passer. That's like your thing. Yeah, but I think I have to continue to prove that, so we'll get there. You'll earn the respect of 2K maybe a little bit? More time will get me there. this is your highlights i believe i don't know if they're dimers or if they're shotters or what they are but i'm excited to see yeah these aren't passes it looks like well it looks well i don't know i don't know this place he rattles the rim too guys let's get a dimer badge and then let's get a shack badge let's do the entire thing uh beer

got a little lamb beer you do got a little lamb here i got a little lamb here there's a lamb beer step back right there come here lamb beer's doing that bill you got that from lamb beer all right it's your kobe call so you did get in though you did a couple lamb beer threes yep and uh we all celebrated here. We were super pumped for you. The conversations with him during the whole process, were they very transparent? Was he like, hey, I understand that you are very good

and you led your team to the Eastern Conference final and everything like that, but just don't, against this matchup, are those conversations happening with Steve Kerr? And how uncomfortable is it? Because, well, you've never heard that before in your life, I assume, for anything you've ever played for. Yeah, that's probably true. There wasn't a ton of conversation.

There wasn't. No, I was just along for the ride. That's what happened. And a lot of this. A lot of this. A lot of this. And then I heard you were trying to recruit every player to Indiana. Well, that story got blown out of proportion

so they could then make fun of Indiana. But yes. I don't like that. Sad about it. That's ridiculous. What do you mean? I mean, I think there was recruiting going on from everybody. But me saying that got blown out of proportion because I play in the smallest market.

But that's okay. It's a good market. It's a good market. It's a good market here. So you think that that was utilized as an avenue for the ex comedians which there are a lot of yes on the they call it nba twitter okay yeah interesting twitter they do call it they do call it nba twitter is what they call it which is very fascinating it has been the greatest part of twitter that particular group for since the beginning of twitter just so everybody understands

that so much talent in there a lot of talent so much talent in there. A lot of talent. So much talent in there. You're saying they set that up so that the talent could really showcase their pipes against Indiana? Yeah, I think so. I think it was all a ploy by the media. But that's totally fine. It's totally fine. We're just fine. Did you see old buddy Starberry's trying to get you out to Phoenix?

Did you see that? That's the newest one on here. Somebody mentioned that. What did he say? He basically just said, like, hey, you know what Phoenix. Did you see that? That's the newest one on here. Somebody mentioned that. What did he say? He basically just said, like, hey, you know what Phoenix needs? They need another scorer. And who's that guy out in Indiana, that guard? He's a dog.

They should go get him. They need a point guard that can score like Bill Lambier. Bingo. They put your name up there, your picture up there, and everybody's like, all right, so it's going to be Tyrese, KD, and Beal going forward. And Book. And Book. I forgot my book now. Another gold medal. Beal going forward. And Book. And Book. I forgot my old Book now.

Another gold medal. So cool looking. Yeah. Book is so cool. And also, he's the first one that tweeted out like, hey, I'll do nothing for the team. We just kind of want to go out there and play, make some massive plays. But I think what we would like to let them know is we've got a couple spots taken. Spicy P, obviously, TJ, a couple of the other boys.

If they want to come play for Indiana, we would definitely take that, right? Yeah, of course. I'm not going anywhere. So then they would have to, if they wanted to play with Indiana, we would definitely take that, right? Yeah, of course. I'm not going anywhere, so then they would have to, if they wanted to play with me, they would then have to come here. But the Marbury comment, that's a little weird. What do you mean it's weird? He's doubting.

Why does Phoenix need me? They got Ty's good squad over there. Well, I mean, Olympic gold medalist point guard versus Ty's. Well, I mean, I understand, but I mean, I'm good in Indy. They're good in Phoenix. Everybody's good right now. Okay, I mean, Olympic gold medalist point guard versus Tyrese Jones. Well, I mean, I understand. But, I mean, I'm good in Indy. They're good in Phoenix. Everybody's good right now.

Okay, I'm happy to hear that. Let's make sure we're clipping that, sending that out so everybody understands. Tyrese Halliburton ain't going anywhere. He's standing on sweets going bananas in front of 60,000 people. Should be. That was a good time. It was a great time. Hey, big pop for you out there.

Yeah. A lot of people asking me if I was intoxicated. I was not. You were there. Yeah. It was a lot of water if I was intoxicated. I was not. You were there. Yeah. A lot of water. I think because I was there is probably because of water. And don't forget the almost face plant.

The clip, they cut out the part where I almost face planted off the suite. But good core exercises lately. Oh, there it goes. There's the... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Save it. Gamer. Once again, Olympic gold medalist.

A lot of people asking me what that dance is. Like, I freestyled it. Like, that is the Colts touchdown dance. Yeah, it's the Bushwhackers, and everybody's just kind of done it because the... It's hard not to... It's hard not to do it. Just keep your hands closed. It turns out pretty easy for everybody to do it.

Yeah. You look around that stadium, literally everybody, it's a pretty sick environment, just like game bridges for the Pacers. I was being told that that's one of the best home advantages in the entire NBA, and I think last year during the playoff run was certainly the case. Yeah, for sure, for sure, and not just for us, the Fever as well, and you know what the Colts are doing, Indy Sports. Oh, you've been going to a lot of the Fever games. I've been seeing you. Thanks to you. Thanks to you, yes, I have been going to a lot of games, yes. Tyrese Halliburton made the Indiana tour this past weekend.

That's Colts game. They went over the Fever. He's on there cheering them on. Colts weren't able to get the dub. Fever, they win? They did win. In OT. In overtime. Could you imagine if they would have lost there? You would have won 0 for 2. I was getting notifications on my Twitter in the third quarter

that I should leave the event. I should stop going to these events. As if I'm the reason for these. Yeah, I would have said that's what we would have said immediately on Monday if that was the case. But we're 1-1, so I don't really have much to do. You watch a lot of the – you go to a lot of the Fever games, right? I do.

I go to the majority of them. Okay. So are they going to win? Win what? The whole thing? I would like to see it. I'll be there. We're a young group. We're growing. Some playoff experience will be good. I'm cheering for us

to win, of course. They've got the Aces tonight. Champs are in town. Champs were talking shit to us about this particular game months ago. That was at the NBA All-Star Game. February. Come out and watch what goes on Champs were talking shit to us about this particular game months ago. That was at the NBA All-Star Game. February, yeah. Yeah, whenever that was. I hope you come out and watch what goes on on September 11th

and September 13th, I think, the dates they're actually saying. And I was like, yeah, Kalen Clark's going to just destroy you guys. And then I think we were potentially a part of the problem, you know, because we were saying this so much just so loud that maybe it did start the whole like they got no respect for us and then all of a sudden that's utilized by every team against the fever to start that season right that's why they were uh guarding her full court in between free throws you know how you're shooting two actually oh yeah yeah you're right

well that hasn't changed i think we just uh we got we played the liberty what three times in the first 10 games that's it's a tough team to see that early. Oh, you think Liberty is a good basketball team? I actually said that after watching New York Liberty for one time. I said, how has anybody beat this team? Well, they are the favorites to win the championship, so that makes sense. Okay, so I got a pretty good eye on there. I said Kaitlin was going to figure it out, and she's figured it out.

Yeah, yeah, I think the Olympic break was good for her. The Olympic break was good for her. Please, Aaliyah, you can assist. She does. We said the assists are going to go up, right? Because the way she plays now she's playing with WNBA people with Aaliyah Boston. That should go up. I feel like we had a pretty good read on it

after watching the first couple weeks. Happy it's all working out for the Indiana Fever, though, because Kaitlyn Clark brings a lot of attention to this market that everybody wants to dunk on on the internet. What's that all about? It's a state of basketball. I don't know why the hell they're saying that. It's a way bigger market than, say, like a dumpy Sacramento. I don't know what

we're talking about here. I can't comment on that. But it's the truth. Why'd you laugh? I laughed because it was a... Caught you off guard. It was a jab. I previously played there, so I understand the reference there. Oh, so okay. That's why Ty Reese is in.

That's why I snickered a little bit. Ty's an Iowa Hawkeye. The Cy Hawk happened this weekend. You guys just beat their ass. Ty has a question for you. Didn't beat our ass at all. Walked you down though. Walked you down. Without a doubt. Walked down. And I mentioned Walked

down! Very unsavory. Right after the game, I'm in my feels. I'm not feeling great. And I go to Twitter, and obviously I know there's going to be a lot of vitriol and hate on there. And I go to my DMs, and what do I see? Just one from Tyrese that just says, eat shit. Wow.

Nothing else. You're four whiskeys deep. Heart is already broke. Six whiskeys deep. Six? Don't cut more than that. Yeah, it was a tough day. 15?

It was a tough day. Fifty? A tough day. After the Friday? After the Friday night? This is less than 12 hours? Packers, five seconds left with Jordan Love. Come on. I was drinking right out of the bottle. No.

Oh, yeah. Just. That's a big bottle. That's not good. That's a big bottle. I know. It's not good. But I don't want to talk about Iowa State.

Okay? All right? And I don't want to talk about Iowa.. And I don't want to talk about Iowa. We talked about that a lot yesterday. What about the Quad Cities? We talked about the Quad Cities. You guys made some comments. I got heat for you talking about the Quad Cities.

I told Pat, and I think I told you this. I'm from Waterloo. Waterloo is a shithole. I can say the Quad Cities is a shithole. John Wayne Gacy is one man of the year. He's not from there. He's born there. Did he? He's one man of the year. He's not from there. Did he? He's one man of the year.

That's a real man of the year. Man of the year. It is, yeah, like 1965. But do you like KFC? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And you can thank John Wayne Gacy for that because he actually invented the double down

and the Chicken Little. One of the reasons why he was Waterloo Man of the Year. What he did for the Colonels overall original recipe. One of the worst humans of all time did win Man of the Year at one point in Waterloo, Iowa. Obviously we all know everything that would happen, but that's where he's from.

Yeah, that's where I'm from. Quad Cities. And also, we do not think he created the Chicken McLittle or whatever. No, he's where I'm from. Quad Cities. And also, we do not think he created the Chicken McLittle or whatever. No, he did. We definitely do. I don't think... I don't think so. No, but the Olympics.

When we were talking... You've been to Whitey's in the Quad Cities? No, Quad Cities is a shithole. No, but it's not. I've been to Whitey's. I'm tired of asking about KFC, fried chicken. He's asking about Buck Fitties is a shithole. No, but it's not. I know. Have you been to Whitey's? What's going on? Whitey's is elite. I'm asking about KFC, fried chicken. He's asking about, have you been to Whitey's?

What's going on? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It all ties together. Whitey's. I have been to Whitey's before. There's a Whitey's in Whitey's. Elite ice cream.

I agree. Okay, thank you. You can agree on that. We can agree on that. The Quad Cities? It is in the Quad Cities. It's an unbelievable ice cream. So what is the Quad Cities?

It's one city? No, no. Bettendorf. There are a couple in. So what is the Quad Cities? It's one city? No, no. Bettendorf. There are a couple in. Davenport? Yeah, Davenport. And then I think there's two in Illinois as well that share it. Yes.

It's four cities, therefore the Quad. Yeah, that makes sense. And why did I get a video from a mayor? Yeah, the mayor. Of Quad Cities? Yeah, he tagged me too. Yeah. It was a mayor.

It was a comment he made that I laughed at that I got. Because you know deep down that I might be right. No comment. Yeah, exactly. But again, like I said, I'm from Waterloo. It's a shithole, okay? You can come to Waterloo and say it's a shithole. It is.

Quad Cities is a shithole. There's nothing wrong with it. I love shitholes in Iowa. Yeah. Pat Anger, he's from Bettendorf. Shithole. But he's a great guy. You probably agree. And I love shitholes in Iowa. Pat Anger, he's from Bettendorf. Shithole. But he's a great guy. And I love Bettendorf.

I love Davenport. I love all these places in Iowa. And Iowa State is now king of Iowa, right? Yes, we are. For this year. Well, I mean, now we have to go to basketball. We know what that's going to look like on the men's side. I mean, women's side's been tough. Kaitlin's been over there, but she's no longer there,

so I think things will change there. So Iowa State runs the whole state? No, no, no. In all sports? Tyrese, come on. I mean, what are you guys better at? Is that wrestling? Yeah, which is a pretty big deal in Iowa, Tyrese.

I'm saying, what else? Because we're better than you at football. No, no, no. Well, we beat you. You won this year. We have the right for the next year. Bingo, definitely. Hey, I think it's Iowa State State whenever you're talking football.

And then I know what my social media is going to look like. Hey, Tyrese, when you were at Iowa State, you never beat Iowa. And that's okay because, you know, I'm here now, you know, and I'm an alumni, so I can still, you know. Amen. Amen. Lean into it. Yeah, and represent for Iowa State.

Correct. Especially because they're the kings of the state of Iowa. No. That's very true. When it comes to athletics. That's very true. Women's field hockey. Now that's a sport that I do not follow. I am unaware.

Let's hear these. Volleyball. Are you better at volleyball? I don't know, but I think they play tonight. Do they? I believe they play tonight. Yeah, I think Cy Hawk kills tonight. Another Cy Hawk bowl. Iowa cannot lose in this volleyball match. They need that win for your air to breathe. How many whiskeys did I watch in that volleyball match. They need that win for your air to breathe.

How many whiskeys did I watch in that volleyball Cy Hawk? You know, I don't know where I can find it. I will find it. But, you know, yeah, listen, we need the girls to come out and be aggressive early. We need our libero. Our libero is the key tonight. Yeah, that's great. I will say this. The Iowa

Hawkeye Marching Band, 50x the Iowa State. There you go. There's another one. Wait, what happened? Marching Band for Iowa is the greatest in the country. Maybe the world. I don't know what marching bands are like. That's foolishness. Nope, they are. They're the best. They pandered to me. I will pander exactly back. They're my favorite band in

America. They did a tribute to the show at halftime of the game on Saturday. Real deal. That's cute. It was an honor. It's nice. I'm thinking maybe

if Iowa can play better this year and going into next year we can make that a ranked game then game day will be there, and then we can work on our marching band. Oh, okay. So you're saying if Iowa could win. But Iowa needed that win for their strength of schedule

because Iowa State's one of the tougher teams they've played. Didn't get the win, so it's going to be hard for them. We play Ohio State in a couple weeks. You guys are a bottom five in strength of schedule of the Big Ten. You needed that win for... We're playing the toughest conference in all the football. Are you nuts?

Do you guys agree with that? Big Ten is playing very good football right now. No, I didn't ask for that. You agree with that? That it's the toughest conference in football? I think the AFC probably, if I had to guess, that's the toughest conference in football. What about collegiate football? The think the AFC, probably. If I had to guess, that's the toughest conference in football.

What about collegiate football? Oh, okay. All right. The SEC is a real deal. But right now, though. Three teams in the top ten, Tyrese. Right now, it's Big Ten, SEC. So now you're bragging about your conference as if you guys are good. We play in the conference, yeah.

But you guys aren't contributing to the success of that conference. You guys are holding down. You guys are bringing them down. No, conference, yeah. But you guys aren't contributing to the success of that conference. You guys are holding down. You guys are bringing them down. Not at all. We played for a Big Ten championship last year, brother. I don't know. Usually every year they're in it. Tyrese was there.

We're talking about right now. I know we are. But last time I checked, Iowa State isn't good enough to be in the Big Ten, so that's not a conference game. So that one doesn't really – It's not good enough to be in the Big Ten. What are we talking about here? How are we not good enough? We could be if we wanted to. We're in the Big 12. No, you can't because they just did the conference games. That one doesn't really... It's not good enough to be in the Big Ten. What are we talking about here? How are we not good enough? We could be if we

wanted to. We're in the Big 12. No, you can't because they just did the conference expansion. Well, we stayed in the Big 12. They were actually talking about Iowa State maybe being like, hey, let's get these guys with the Mac. Let's get them out of here. No! Foolishness. Foolishness. The Mac. Would you say that we're a basketball school? Is that what you would say? Yes.

I think you would agree with that. The better basketball resides in the Big 12. The great West Virginia. Kansas. Yeah, sure. But we also have a really good football program as well. They're getting there. They're getting there. And we just went to Big Ten country and smacked them out.

Get them out of there. Wow, is Big 12 better than Big Ten? That is something to think about. Because it's a conference. Penn State kind of dampened that a little bit. Are we talking about football? I'm not going to speak on the conference. I can speak on Iowa State and you can speak on Iowa. Then we know what

that looks like. Alright, well I'm happy this happened. Ty had a question for you. I think you nodded about this. Yeah, I did. I am happy that happened. That was great. Shout out Iowa. State of Iowa. Casey's Pizza. You guys eat that up there? Oh, Casey's Breakfast Pizza. That is something we will always agree on. Look at that. Put our swords aside. Now we're shaking hands. Casey's Pizza. You guys eat that up there? Oh, Casey's Breakfast Pizza. That is something that we will always agree on.

Yeah. Look at that. Who knows? Put our swords aside. Exactly. Now we're shaking hands. That's a Cy Hawk handshake. That's right.

That's right. Casey's Gas Station Pizza. It's a general store. More than just a gas station. It's a general store. I like that right there. All right. That was good.

We just got to get that out there. 630 tonight, Cy Hawk Volleyball. That is for all the marbles. Can't wait. It is. Can't wait. It is. Can't wait. All the marbles. Put it on ESPN.

I assume it'll be found on Big Ten Network. Well, it depends where it's being played. Where's the game being played? At Carver. Okay. Uh-oh.

What does that mean? I think. That's Iowa. Yeah. No, yeah, I know, but what does that mean? They just went into Kinnick. Like,

this Iowa State generation is in. Yeah, sure. You ever play a volleyball game at Carver? Fucking standing room only. That's not true. It's incorrect. How do you know? I've been to a volleyball game.

At Carver? At Hilton. It's at Iowa State. It's at Iowa State? Uh-oh. It's going to be tough. Hilton Magic. We're going to have to deal with it. We're going to have to deal with it. Uh-oh. How about a matter of fact you were? That's like Carver. It's a tough place to play. It's a tough bar. It's the only

reason why you thought they were going to win. Turns out it's not even... It's a different city. We got some great girls on the volleyball team. I don't know. I just saw Iowa State's outside hitter right there. Real deal. Yeah, but if you could go through Actually, she looks like a lefty. Probably weak side. If you could find the Iowa volleyball graphic that I saw earlier this morning,

that's kind of why my juices were getting pumped up and why I said... Actually, I don't know if she was the libero per se, but we need our libero to have a big... Was she wearing a different color jersey? No, but she was also the only one on the graphic, so she could have been wearing a different jersey. Okay, guys, so she could play any position. She could be a setter.

Could be. Could be a setter, could be quarterback. She could be a setter. Could be. Could be a setter. Could be a quarterback. She could be the head coach, for all I know. Wearing a uniform, interesting take. Yeah, exactly. It's kind of like Russell Wilson. There she is, boom. Ready to go. This is what fired you up? That looks like it. Yeah, you kidding me? Look at the focus.

We're just comparing graphics. We win that, too. We've got a better graphic design team, as well. I believe she We win that, too. We got a better graphic design team as well. I believe she is a great volleyball player. I agree. The Iowa State graphic, though, a lot more energy. Yeah, yeah. A little bit more stoic here. It was a fist fight, or are we playing volleyball?

Volleyball, yeah, pretty much. A lot of hand. It's on ESPN Plus. That's what it says. Okay, 630. For all the marbles. See you there. Who runs the state? Who runs the state in sports? Is it the Cycl Okay, 630. For all the marbles. See you there. Who runs the state?

Who runs the state in sports? Is it the Cyclones or is it the Hawkeyes? We find out. 630. ESPN+. We're going to find out tonight. I mean, we have that answer already. Go with your question, please.

God. I'm going to be so torn up inside for you tomorrow when you wake up and you realize. Three straight cents. Oh, my God. This evening when you get the same text that you received on Saturday. No, don't you dare. It's going to hurt. Don't you dare. You're going to send an eat shit to volleyball tonight? Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, put the gold medal

on the line. Boom. Gold medal. Gold medal. Gold medal. Straight up. He'll put on the Iowa Hawkeye little band thing. Yeah, you can have the Lisa Bluter bobblehead. Boom. And the Earnhardt. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Deal. What do you say? No, I don't know if that's something that I will sign up for. Oh, he's nervous? He's goddamn nervous? Uh-oh. Did you see the graphics? Oh, my God.

Put it online. Put it online. Boom. Put it online. Holy shit. Put it online. Put it online. I'm going to let you go to the studio.

Oh, no. Oh, my God. Okay. Whoa., whoa Ty the bedtime. Yeah. Hey Shit Oh W hey, let's go. Oh W hey, but what about wait? Wait, what if I win? I don't get no Lisa blue. I don't want the bubble Well, I didn't want to have to do it, but you won't know I definitely don't want that That's no, this is uh, this is want to have to do it, but you want the bobblehead. No. I definitely don't want that. That's awful. No. This is like a one of 50 popcorn bucket if you want this.

I don't want that either. Are you sure? Title signer. Just as rare as a gold medal. Title signer. All right. Anyways, let's get. I forgot what my question was, too.

It was something about the Olympics. You said something about the Olympics. That's all right. Let's get to it. We went left. Yeah, but the Olympics, we got to it. The Olympic gold medal is on the line tonight in a women's volleyball match. It's tips off. No's all right. Let's get to it. We went left. Yeah, but the Olympics, we got to it. The Olympic gold medal's on the line tonight in a women's volleyball match. It's

tips off. No, sets off. Spikes off. Serves off. Bumps that spike it. That's the way we like it. Serves off. Boom. Off at 630. That's our motto, too. Eastern on ESPN+. You guys are in trouble, I think. No, I have faith in the Cyclones. At home. At home. Yeah, that's why it's going to be even more devastating because of what just

happened in Seahawk Bowl. We'd be stupid not to ask you before we let you go. Le home. Yeah, that's why it's going to be even more devastating because of what just happened in Seahawks Bowl. We'd be stupid not to ask you before we let you go. LeBron James, worst teammate you've ever had? No, great teammate. Okay, all right, that's big news. Yeah. That's big news because a lot of people say a lot of things about Bron. What was he like hanging out with all those guys?

Not just Bron, but like everybody. Yeah, everybody was super cool. Me being like the younger guy, I was just like asking a bunch of questions. I was asking guys about stories from when I was a kid following the league and didn't really understand. You know, I'm asking questions like, what happened to that guy? What happened to this guy? And we played a lot of our group play games in Lille, a different city in France.

And so it was just us in the hotel, and we would all just have dinner together and just talk hoops for hours and do that. And we shared a lot of fun stories. It was a good time. They talked about Ant and KD because KD was like his favorite player and Ant got the chance to hang out with him and he was like a little brother.

You know, there's a lot of clips they were doing and the oop from one to the other had to be so incredibly cool. Any moments like that for you? I assume a lot as the younger guy. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if there's anything, like Ant's obviously was a lot more in a public setting

because they threw the alley-oop and, you know, me, I was, but you understand what I'm saying. Yeah, but we know you got that Bill Lamb beer vert. Yeah, exactly. Mid-range.

Yeesh. Yeah, Bill Lamb beer vert. No, I mean, Oh, because he's white. No, now we're going left. Now you're going left. Well, it depends which way you, I'm white. No, now we're going left. Now you're going left. Well, it depends which way.

I'm trying to say Bill Lambert is going up. You're saying left and right. You say, God can't jump. No, I didn't say that. He can dance too, can't he? I didn't say that. He can't move. We went from his jumper to then his vert.

Yeah, both of them. Superior automotive. Anyway. I mean, yeah, but a lot of times, especially early in Vegas, like I'd be shooting on a hoop, and I'd think like Bron kind of like him and AD wanted to like work out there, and they were kind of just like, come work out with us. I was like, for real?

I was like, okay, that's pretty cool. That's really cool. Yeah, that was cool. So Pacers are going to win it all this year? Yeah. No. No. What do you want me to say, no?

No, no, I'm just chiming in, no. You heard Joe Mazzulla say that was their toughest matchup. Yeah, it was. What was that series? 4-0. So, you know, tough. You know, real tough. Still came home with this thing.

And we got the target right between our mother flies. Not on our backs. That's not a real trophy, by the way. Yes, it is. That's not the real one. It looks yellow. It's not yellow. It's gold.

And I'd say you can touch it, but you can't. Until you get your own. We still good about the Pacers, though? not the real one. It looks yellow. It's not yellow. It's gold, and I'd say you can touch it, but you can't. You can't until you get your own. We feel good about the Pacers, though? Yeah, I feel great about the Pacers. I should be openly arrogant about the Pacers here on the program? Yeah, of course you should. You guys feel good. We got everybody back. TJ's back for another four years? Everybody's back. TJ, four more years.

Four more years. Yeah. Four more years. TJ McConnell, that's a big deal. Tyrese, we appreciate you, man. Thank you for stopping by. You said you would after the Olympics. The gold medal might live here forever. Yeah, we'll see.

Depending upon our volleyball match this evening. We're very thankful for that. Thank you for the New Jersey. Thank you for being so cool. And thank you for being a good representative of Indianapolis and Indiana. This city loves you, man. I think it was very apparent. I got to see it at Loud House whenever the place went crazy as soon as you popped up there.

And then obviously when you go to the Fever, I assume it's the same thing. Keep doing your thing. It's a basketball state. They would love to get behind the paces if you go on a run. For sure. Maybe pick up the dimers. Pick up the dimers, get the dimer to Hall of Fame on 2K. That's the goal. It's kind of your thing is the dimers.

It is kind of your thing. And 2K is like, we'll see, kid. We'll see if that's your thing We appreciate the hell out of you Ladies and gentlemen Olympic gold medalist Might not have his Olympic gold medal At around 8pm

Eastern tonight After the Cy Hawk volleyball battle If the Iowa Hawkeyes win An Olympic gold medal Lives in the Thunderdome forever. If Iowa State wins at home, Tyrese Halliburton gets a lease of Blooder Bubble. Stakes are high.

Or the popcorn bucket, if he chooses. Autographed popcorn bucket, too. Stakes are high, but that's where you like to live. Cool under pressure. Ladies and gentlemen, Tyrese Halliburton. Yeah, Tyrese! Appreciate you, man. Appreciate you, dude. Have fun. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Salaburton. Yeah, Tyree. Appreciate it, man. Appreciate you, dude.

Have fun. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, you should take it. You should get all the photos, too. That's about 630, you know. About five hours or so. Look how cool he looks. It's a great fit.

It really is. Those shoes comfortable? Pane lovers? Those Doc Martens? They are Doc Martens. Good call. Wow. Good eye.

Is that a good omen For the Hawks tonight Could be Hold on to that thing Tight tonight Can't wait to watch that game I can't wait I know

Yeah What's going to the fever But not anymore I need eyes on this game 630 What time is the fever game 7 Oh yeah Yeah Maybe on the phone While you're You know Multitask a little bit I was going to the fever, but not anymore. I need eyes on this game. 630, what time is the fever game? 7. Oh, yeah.

Maybe on the phone while you're multitasking a little bit. Service in there because they're sold out. Halliburton's the man. Yeah, he is. He is the man. Him having the role that he had for the Olympic team too, so he's the perfect human for it. To talk shit to and then also to realize the situation,

enjoy it all, and then put out one of the biggest tweets of all time. When he't doing not in a group project he's still getting that what a tweet yeah i think elon was even like yeah this is good usage of my platform let's push this pretty good little run here i love the fact though that he could potentially be on three more yeah olympic teams for sure you know like it's like that baton tossing thing it's like hey we'll get some young guys in here so they experience the international play what the olympics are like what it should be like and then bang now it's going to be your turn to continue to go good on you good on you tyrese good bet yeah great i do fear that iowa state is just winning everything in the cyhawk battles they're not

but i also know next to nothing about uh our volleyball team so but number 10 there yeah can we get a ranking? Do we have rankings here? Can we get some? Number three in the nation. Who is? Iowa. I think that's either for field hockey or for soccer.

I know we're very stout. Tone would just drop a ranking in the country just for any sport? Yes. There's a chance he would do that. Tone, you are the person you are speaking about. So I know the West Virginia men's soccer team number one in the country. Still? Still number one.

I think they're 5-0 since we've gone to Morgantown. You've worn that jersey. Wow. Yeah, I think. Oh, our guy. Yeah, our guy. What was his name? Dan Herlihy. Dog. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's going to be with us all season on Wednesdays.

Obviously, he used to be big. He used to be an offensive lineman. Now he acts as if he's an Army Ranger or a Navy SEAL. So he's in incredible shape. He only eats meat and fruit. Ladies and gentlemen, in the trenches is A.Q. Shipley. Yay! A.Q.!

Way to go, A.Q. Obviously, A.Q. looks good, feels good. Big football season vibes whenever A.Q. Shipley's in the Thunderdome. He is a father of three, lives in Arizona, travels out to break some things down. That is not a sweat mark on his chest. That is actually a? Seal. Yeah, exactly what I said in the intro.

This man is living a special forces lifestyle and has nothing but respect, obviously. New tattoo, American flag draped around his arm. Obviously, an incredible goatee in an incredible season. AQ, let's just jump right in. We heard a lot of Iowa State, Iowa bullshit, college football talk to each other there for the first 40 minutes or so, and I appreciate it. I love it. We might end up with an Olympic gold medal.

Let's get back to some NFL conversation. NFL week one wrapped up, obviously, on Monday night. As we look ahead to week two, what are some takeaways you had from the entirety of the week one slate? Yeah, the biggest takeaway for me was lack of preseason football. Everybody looked rusty on offense. I think defense, more instincts, like they can just go get the ball. I think that was great. They looked good. Offenses were way behind. I think penalties were up. I think scoring was down. I think across the board, everybody looked a little rusty. And I think that is because the lack of preseason football. You played preseason, obviously. You were a guy who was drafted in the seventh round. You were one to a bunch of different teams. You weren't

going to get the opportunity to not play in the preseason in most cases that you were in throughout your 12-year career. Yes. But preseason football feels like you're a big fan of. I was. I mean, for me, you know, especially later in my career, right? Years 10, 11, and 12, for me to get in there, the feels are completely different, right? When you're in practice, you just go through, you're working on everything, but the feels are different. You don't feel the butterflies. You don't feel the adrenaline. You don't feel that pop. Like, you got a little handshake deal with the defensive line, and we're just trying to make it to September, right? But now we get in a game. We're playing the Kansas City Chiefs, and

it's ones against ones. It's another team against another team, and you get that feel. You get the understanding of what the defense is going to give you. You're going to get so many different things that you don't get in just practice. So whenever it gets to the regular season, you don't have any of those feels. You don't have any of those looks. You don't have any of the different things that you're going to get. So then you get out there, and the biggest thing for offensive linemen that I saw, pick stunts, right? You don't get all those pick stunts in games.

Guys weren't getting enough depth. You see a ton of linemen on the ground. I mean, there were so many of those things that you can point to, and I think that is the due to lack of preseason football. As they continue to roll out the analytics, though, of injuries and what happens and how your team does whenever you get hurt, especially in some positions, preseason reps are going to go down. Practice

reps are already going down, obviously, because of analytics and everything like that. Shout out to that thing falling asleep. That was a pretty cool little landscape. That was nice. It did look like Iowa State's Iowa. Of course. More so than Iowa.

Quad Cities did look exactly like that. It was a beautiful town. A lot of that in there. Loved to go there. But you don't hear a lot of players eager to play preseason games. Unless it's like the really good ones. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, they played a quarter and a half of one of the preseason games. They obviously had the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore Ravens very successful in preseason, I think,

because they play in the preseason. There's some teams that believe in it. It feels like there's some teams that don't. The future, though, I think is up in the air. I think it's only going to be two games because I think they're going to make it an 18-game season. If we listen to what Roger Goodell told us at the draft up there in Detroit about having it end, I think, during Flag Day, too, so that the Super Bowl then leads into a Monday off because there's already a holiday that's taking place. That would just become Super Bowl Day instead of whatever holiday it currently is, I think, is the way he laid it out. You're saying preseason game is very important, though. Is it more so for the physical positions? Do you

think it's for everything else? What style of player do you think needs preseason more than others? I think specifically quarterbacks, receivers, and offensive line. I think, you know, basically the offense, right? Like at the end of the day, I think it's, there's so much timing and technique that goes into it. And when you, when you go and practice everything, you can sit there and say it's full speed. It's not full speed. You don't get full speed until the games pick up because the adrenaline makes you go a little bit faster than you go in practice. Everything makes you go, everything makes you go a little bit faster. And so the speed, the timing, everything picks go in practice. Everything makes you go a little bit faster.

And so the speed, the timing, everything picks up in games, and so you don't get that. So then when you get out and it's Brandon Ayuk and he's not used to running a route full speed in his first game, there's some jitters, there's some things. Maybe he's not used to getting a ball exactly when he thinks he's going to get it, and he gets it. The offense alignment, the zone blocks, it's the pick stunts passing off the games.

It's all the different things that that include timing and you know technique and i think those are the positions that need it d but on defensive side do you guys view it the same way yeah uh definitely i know aq just made it sound so simple just see ball get ball run fast and instincts jj uh and we'll talk to him later but he always talked about he wanted practice he wanted pre-season to get those fields in i think the closest you can get to it is like joint practices, you know, because you don't have necessarily maybe not those same brother-in-law agreements during practice. It's another jersey.

It's another team. You know, it's other coaches evaluating with you as well. But it's going to be different because the biggest thing for defense is tackling to the ground. We never tackle in practice, you know, regardless of joint practice or not. We never go to the ground. Maybe outside of some goal line, short yardage periods, depending on the team and the ground. We never tackle in practice, you know, regardless joint practice or not We never go to the ground maybe outside of some goal line short yardage periods Depending on the team and the coach but tackling guys to those angles, you know When you the clip we show yesterday with Tyreek Hill, I guess it's one thing if that's the scout team guy in practice

But then when that's 10 in the cut split running across her completely different So making the checks you mentioned adrenaline the ebbs and flows of the game then the checks, you mentioned the adrenaline, the ebbs and flows of the game. Then the coaches, you know, the coaches on the sideline have a bigger impact than people think. Because when we go to that sideline, Bill talked about it when he was on, it's quick adjustments. How smart are you? How much information can you gather? How much quality information am I bringing as a player to the sideline, to my coach? And then sometimes coaches maybe talk too much or maybe panic in certain situations. So it's a lot of things that go into it which is why you don't want to overreact too much to week one you kind of let every team because every year regardless of

how much curio if you have in the roster or a coaching staff is going to be a different squad so being out there with live fire with your squad is going to be different so you would expect these teams you will want these teams to get better week by week. And like I think Bill said as well, from week one to week two, that's when you see kind of the biggest jump a lot of times. Let me have no self-awareness and talk about myself in preseason versus you guys. I wanted to see both fly in the stadium

and also I wanted to work with my gunner. I wanted my guys that were blocking me that have never played special teams before that are going to be blocking for me in the regular season. I want to have them there. I want to feel people at my feet that are actually trying to, you know, like take my legs off. Because in practice, nobody is getting around. They are – it is –

Halo. It is – it's like a quarterback situation for me and for Vinny whenever we're in practice. So, like, I wanted to experience that and feel that. And it's like – I feel like it's going to go away. Offense was bad this year or this week allegedly that's what they're saying stats are saying yardage is down big time points down yeah you believe that it's probably i feel like you are saying that that's probably because of the

preseason reps or lack thereof absolutely it's 100 that and i don't understand why teams would want to start off oh and one or start off rusty why would you not want to come out and be one and oh and start off on the right foot i don't really get because they don't want to lose again you don't want to lose again that They don't want to lose again. That's the big thing. I get it. Are we living in our fear zone? Yeah.

Come on. I get it. You need the reps in order to – and more so than that, I think coaches need the reps. Yeah. I think, you know, a guy like a Zach Taylor who's calling plays for the first time down in Atlanta, like Kirk, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think played any preseason reps, right?

Now you're calling plays to a guy that you've never called plays with before and a whole new system and a whole new building and a whole new offense and everything and you know like we've talked about a million times there's a difference between calling plays and calling games yes and there's a flow to it all and there's a familiarity and obviously there's situations that arise and if you know exactly what the person wants you can kind of see the field in the exact same way there's some videos of Kirk Cousins too I'm wondering about the Achilles. There's a lot of that talk happening on the internet. I'm not making this up. I am just telling you there's a couple misplants where it looks like he's trying to get off it. There's a couple little scrambles that don't look

natural. Kirk Cousins, we think, very, very, very, very, very good quarterback. Always have, always will. But that situation down there is brewing already. They've got a $180 million contract. How long do you kind of let it chill? And then you think about the Kansas City Chiefs. They're like, we're hitting the ground running. We want a home playoff game again. There's just different mindsets in it all.

Let's talk about one of the teams that has started out slowly, historically, especially in this current era, Cincinnati Bengals. Okay, this is the first time Joe Burrow has had a full training camp and being healthy. He had appendicitis. He had a knee. He had some other things. Every single training camp seemed like they were plagued,

and they got off to a slow start. This year, obviously, it was the Jamar Chase contract. How's it going to go? Then he gets food poisoning the night before. Nonetheless, there are some clips coming out now of Joe Burrow and his wrist. Now, remember, he injured his wrist on a fall. This type of injury that takes place to the wrist has never happened to a quarterback. This is the first time it's ever happened.

Normally, it's in a physical position, like a linebacker or a DB or safety. I assume offensive linemen have had this type of injury. And we didn't know how it was going to respond. DB, I think, had the surgery. And he said his hand doesn't go back as far on the hand that happened versus the other one. A.J. Hawk, I think, had the same thing. His hand goes back half the distance as what the other one does because of the injury to the wrist that Joe Burrow sustained. So this is the first time quarterback has had this happen.

And wrist, very important, obviously. Whenever you're a linebacker or DB, you're thot, boom, bang, pow. When you're a quarterback, obviously, the wrist is very important. I mean, it's the most important part of the entire thing, being able to spin it. Joe Burrow, there's some clips that they're taking and showcasing him battling a water bottle, him kind of working this entire thing. Is this something we should worry about? I didn't see anything with the water bottle necessarily,

but, I mean, it's going to be something he's going to have to get used to. Now, he did. The difference between him and mine, I think A.J.'s probably. Once I broke mine, like I still played that. See, you tape it tape it up you brace it up you just play with the limited range of motion for him he had surgery immediately took the right you know however many months to heal got back in practice but it's still something he's gonna have to uh get used to and this is like you mentioned never happened to a quarterback so it's something to keep an eye on and he's been healthy coming in early into some seasons and he struggled in those situations as well.

So hopefully they get it figured out. Once again, no Jamar Chase pretty much all offseason, him being in and out. Hopefully they can pick it up at some point. There's still a bunch of talent on that offense, so I think he'll be all right. Biggest upset of the weekend, they're saying. Maybe in NFL history.

Yeah, look, I mean, my wrist would hurt too if I had to play against one of the best defenses in the NFL. I mean, when it comes down to it, when you got Gonzo out there giving Jamar Chase the flu, if you will. Food poisoning. Yeah, sure. I bet it was. I bet it was.

I mean, he had six targets and six catches. He had food poisoning on those routes, didn't he? But, you know, look, that's Christian Gonzalez football, and when you got Keon White breathing down your neck every single play because Trent Brown can't stop a cold. I love Trent Brown. One of my all-time favorite Patriots. But he's a little long in the tooth.

Long in the tooth. He's like 25, 26. No, no, no, no, no. He isn't an old, old man by now. But look, Patriots are going to do this to a lot of teams. Bengals will probably be just fine. It's not like they have a tough test coming up. They just got the Chiefs, I think, on the road this weekend.

Yeah, and the Jamar Chase deal obviously still being talked about. And since today, Bengals' slow starts are going to continue to be a conversation until they stop. But in the end, the Bengals with Joe Burrow being healthy, and we assume Jamar Chase is going to play the entire season and everything is going to work out. The Bengals are going to be a team down the road

once they figure it out. And maybe the Patriots are too. Yeah, they definitely are. Pretty tough situation too. We're talking about preseason. T. Higgins kind of out of nowhere, just hamstring, not playing week one. Doesn't look like he's playing week two. That's got to be pretty tough. Jamar Chase has him practice. T. Higgins gets hurt.

All of a sudden Joe Burrow is healthy, but who else? I don't know. Bingo. The Bengals are in an interesting spot. I appreciate what they're doing, though. They're doing something else to make money. They're doing a watch-along at the stadium. I like the good business out of Cincinnati. Yeah, theyinnati yeah we're selling the naming rights of the stadium

pay courts make a little money we're selling tvs out of here in the parking lot let's make a little money now they're selling tickets 99 bucks you can go watch the game against the chiefs at pay court stadium and you get a 25 voucher for concessions not bad 99 bucks 99 it's not 100 inflation's real they say new. New TVs, brother. You go back 20 years or so, this would be $9. That's kind of how they're selling this entire thing. $99 to get a chance to go watch Paycore Stadium with a bunch

of Bengals fans. Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games. You pay $99 you can watch this shit here. And I like that. Pretty sweet. That's a high price. It's only really $74 bucks because you get a $25 voucher. Bingo.

They're forcing you to go to the concessions. The parking, though, if we know anything about the parking in downtown Cincinnati, very accessible, very easy. People just walking across the street everywhere. It would be a great site. Cement trucks everywhere. Hey, Bengals, we're behind you. Never forget it. These are things your team's actually doing, though. We have to talk about it. We like that they're doing it because back in the day, the Bengals, we're behind you. Never forget it. These are things your team's actually doing, though. So we have to talk about it. We like that they're doing it.

Because back in the day, the Browns, or the Bengals, the Brown family, the Bengals would have never done any business. I like that they're starting to do business. I respect it. I appreciate it. They got a good team. Are they going to be good this year? Your teen requested a ride, but this time, not from you.

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A.Q. Shipley. Jack, you're in for real and live from Hammer. Down town. AP Tone. Tone, how's it going over there, pal? It's going well. Tone, when he's in Hammer downtown, fact check. It's down town. Yeah, but when it's used in a sentence, it's Hammer downtown.

Okay. We're talking about the location, whatever. But Tone said in the first hour that Iowa's number three ranked volleyball team in the country, women's. Neither team playing tonight is ranked Iowa State nor Iowa. Just wanted to get that off the record. Okay. All right. So neither of them in top 25?

No. No, no. Pitt's actually the number one women's volleyball team in the country. Wow of them in the top 25? No. Pitt's actually the number one women's volleyball team in the country. Wow. Congrats to the Pittsburgh Panthers. We did not know that. From Pittsburgh. Obviously, backyard brawl this weekend. West Virginia is about to

run wild all over the place. Don't. I won't. I think they're scouting. I believe they are scouting. There were some stories being told that athletic director for University of Pittsburgh that just got released from gig. Contract coming up anyways. Okay.

So it was like a contract coming up anyways. Not really same mindset on how things should go moving forward. I guess that involves like N NIL and branding and everything. So I guess there's just contract up and a different direction. So they move along. But Pitt has no athletic director. And they're taking on West Virginia. Okay, good luck.

And we wish Penn State had no athletic director going into week one, obviously. They just re-signed theirs for, I think, another 10 years. Well, that's what they do up there. That's what they do. James Franklin, he's been coaching up there for how long now? 30 years, it feels like. Legitimately, it does feel like it has been multiple decades at this point.

This feels like the year done it. What happened this past weekend? You made us look bad. You made West Virginia look bad. You come into Morgantown, you beat the hell out of our team, even with a two-hour delay. Okay, and West Virginia's still going to win the Big 12. Let's all relax.

Let's not worry about that. Slow starters, what do you want? They like whatever the big lights are on. It was a daytime game. What do you expect from them? They're not going to be able to play their best ball. And then two-hour delay, obviously, the boys got a little tight. They're high-speed athletes.

That type of thing's not going to happen. But then you guys go max goal, bowling green or whatever, and struggle. You make us look bad. You guys look bad. You make me look bad. You guys look bad. You make me look bad because I said you guys are going to be good this year. And now everybody's saying same old Penn State. Is that how you feel or no? No.

See, they were just working on some things. They wanted to get the run game solidified. They wanted to work on their passing game. They wanted to get some different things. They wanted some live reps. Yeah, they just wanted to get some things worked out, some kinks worked out, that they can't get in practice in a live situation. There was never a doubt. I felt good about it the whole time joining us now ladies and gentlemen

i was very worried uh drew aller is a dog he's from the state of ohio speaking of the state of ohio here's a former president of ohio college football national champion for the ohio state university a super bowl champion with the packers the all-time leading tackler of that program father of 10 aj hawk aj is it all fun and games for Penn State? Do their little chitter-chatter. USC, that's fun. You do your thing. Oregon, okay, it doesn't matter if you figure it out. Michigan, we saw what happened there. This is Ohio State's time. This is Ohio State's team. Ohio State has to win this year, right? Yeah, of course. We know that. Why? What about Penn State? Are you scared of Penn State at all? I respect

Penn State, absolutely. 100% respect them. But I think even AQ would tell you deep down, like, he's hopeful for Penn State. But I don't know if he has a ton of confidence that they can make a run and win it all. I feel like he nailed my sentiment right there. Yeah, because, I mean, you're going to have to show me. I think it's a big part of it, right? I mean, I think it comes down to, I mean, these guys are, what, 100-0 over the first two weeks?

I think Ohio State's done? They gave right? I mean, I think it comes down to, I mean, these guys are, what, 100-0 over the first two weeks, I think, Ohio State's done? They gave up a field goal, I think. Six. Each week. 104-6. They've got a bye week this week. Get the boys some rest. They've got a bye week.

Ohio State has a bye week? Yeah, a bye week coming up. Badaway. What a schedule. Where are we at? You've got to take care of the bye. They've got two bye weeks throughout the year, though.

I know that. Oh, my God. So we've got a perfect schedule that had to be made in advance, right? They schedule these things out five, ten years in advance. Yeah. So you've got a perfect schedule that had to be made in advance right they schedule these things out five ten years in advance yeah so you got a perfect schedule with a couple buy weeks you know we can work on some things figure some things out utilize all the money that's being you know donated we got a freshman who's allegedly in our geno smith say this yesterday geno smith said this in an interview he's gonna be the best wide receiver of all time

this this kid right here jeremiah smith a tv tv does not do justice how giant this kid is a monster he is huge physically and you see him run away from people six three two fifteen six three through freshman but he looks so much bigger he looks so big he's gino's cousin and gino said i've been i've played with a lot of great receivers obviously i got massive respect for a lot of receivers i've seen this kid since he's 10 years old this is going to be the best wide receiver of all time and uh Kirk Herbstreit kind of had a similar reaction because I brought up Ryan Williams and I brought up Dylan Rayola. And then I was about to say Smith for Ohio State and Herbie Cutts. He's like, the kid from Ohio State might be the,

he might be the best player that's ever played. It's like, what? And then he comes in and has two tutties first week, two tutties second week. They're saying he's bigger, stronger, faster than everybody. True freshman out there. And Will Howard can spin it. And Chip Kelly's offense will get guys open. I mean, this is like, especially with the run game, two running backs, it's like, is this the year for Ohio State?

Hey, we hope so. Yep. We hope so. Do you feel the same way as AQ, though, deep down? Do you feel like we're going to have to do it, though? I'm not hopeful. I'm way more than hopeful for this team. No doubt. I think I told you, I texted you during the first game they played, I think, talking about Will

Howard and their defense, how impressed I was. Georgia though. Yeah. Texas. Texas too. There's some great teams. Yeah. I'm not saying like, there's some unbelievable teams up there now. It's going to be a fun playoff season. Isn't that crazy? Like the Michigan game. And obviously we all thought it was going to go differently. We thought it was going to be close, especially with Wink and everything that their team is, hey, we're going to play physical. Most physical teams, especially with 111,000 behind them, going to keep that game close. That's what I thought was going to happen.

Instead, Texas goes in there and does their dance, does their dance. Did you see at the top of the tunnel before they came out, they had a little Boosie playing? Yeah. And it looked like they were the home team. Michigan was jogging out of their tunnel to go down the big tunnel that has the team, the team, the team on it. That has been the home of a couple fights in the past.

One way in, one way out for both teams in Michigan. I've never played there, but I've got a chance to be there. It is a wonderful, it's a cool place. It is a very cool place. But Texas is watching Michigan come out of the tunnel at the very beginning of the game. Sark's standing there. They got Boosie playing in the tunnel.

It looks like the visual was like, this Texas team knew. They seemed pretty confident, right? They seemed pretty confident coming out of an away team's tunnel as well. It looked like it was their tunnel. That was the first time I think they've ever played there. They were obviously being talked about how 111,000,

this is the big house, it's going to be this. It didn't feel like this Texas team was worried about a damn thing, the entirety. And I'm talking about people on the sideline. I'm talking about even whenever they have a couple of turnover, they have a turnover on down or whatever, and it happens, like you miss a kick and it goes back the other way. There wasn't even a single like, nah, we're going to be okay. That type of confidence, I think, only comes from a team that truly thinks they can go. And it's either there's real that and then there's fake that.

comes from a team that truly thinks they can go. And it's either there's real that, and then there's fake that. With them, as I'm standing on their side, I'm like, oh, this team, this team feels like a team that thinks that they can go win this year. And it's their first year in the SEC. Could you fathom if they were able to pull that off? You got Georgia with a whole entire offseason of being pissed off. Just a whole entire offseason being pissed off.

Didn't make college football playoff. Florida State was pissed. Okay. They're not us, right? We're the reigning national champions. We lose one fucking game in the last 30 games pretty much, and we don't make it into the college football playoff, and we're not allowed to bitch because Florida State is incredibly mad.

Kirby Smart just all offseason. Yeah. Literally every single workout, every single practice. Not even in top four in the country last year. Remember that? Lose the SEC championship in our home. Like, do that entire thing. And they've come out and just dominated people. And it's like, Ohio State looks the part.

Texas looks the part. Georgia still very much Georgia. It's like, what other teams are going to sneak in there and be a part of the conversation? With this 12-team playoff, obviously there's going to be a lot more in the chatter. But how big is the difference in the gap going to be from the top couple to like 10 through 12? And I think if you listen to like Saban and them guys talk about, you know, you bring 12 teams in there, you're going to see some. Oh, yeah.

You're going to see some first week is supposed to be like a big week. Yep. It's going to be big. Yeah. One-sided, potentially, is like the message. I don't know if that's true this particular season because of the NIO and everything, but there already is seemingly leaders of the pack, and I'm excited to see who joins them. Yeah, Ole Miss has been dominant, and even a team like Oregon.

Everyone's just kind of like, all right, Oregon, but it's been two weeks. They might turn it on and be unbelievable. But to your point about Texas, did you see the end zone cam of Quinn Ewers' first touchdown? When he threw that first ball to the tight end, they actually showed as soon as he releases the ball, doesn't even watch it, turns directly to Michigan's D-tackle and starts talking shit before they

even scored the touchdown. I'm telling you, the amount of confidence I saw on that sideline was... I don't think I've ever seen it before. It's unreal. I genuinely don't think I've ever... It was authentic, too. You said there's a difference between fake and authentic. Fake enthusiasm like that, there's a strength coach going, come on, boys, let's get the game. Everyone

keep your eyes on it. Believe me, I do that with young kids all the time that I'm coaching. Like, hey, guys, we can't be sitting on our helmets on the sidelines when our team's playing. Yeah, this is unbelievable. I think he looks to check to see if he's across the line of scrimmage, and then he's talking to old buddy. Yeah, because he could be potentially past the line of scrimmage because he climbs he's talking to old buddy. Yeah, because he could be potentially past the line of scrimmage

because he climbs up in the pocket. Once again, composure. Quinn Ewers is back. He's got a Manning in his quarterback room. Doesn't worry about it at all. College football is awesome this year. I'm very, very excited. You bring up Ole Miss, though.

It's like, dude, maybe. Studs all over the place. Maybe. Haven't really had to do anything, right? Obviously, they will. Lane Kiffin, I would love to see that for him. We just pulled up a clip from whenever he was the Raiders head coach. Do you know whenever he was coaching the Raiders in 2008,

he sent Sebastian Janikowski out for a 76-yard field goal? Oh, yeah. Remember that. I mean, I would. I'd send Seabass out there. Absolutely. End of half, 76-yard field goal. Sebastian Janikowski, I think it was into the

wind too. There was like the commentator said into a little bit of a breeze here. Obviously it doesn't make it to the end zone, but they're up 15 zips. So we assume that Seabass hitting five field goals and Lane Kiffin's like, ah, maybe let's make it six with a 76 yarder. Janikowski has a massive leg, but I remember this particular play because this weekend when Aubrey was lined up for 71, Greg Berhalter alongside Tom Brady were like, I think it's the first time this has ever been said. Brandon Aubrey from 71

here. And it's like, that is obviously a thing. One other time, it was when Lane Kiffin was the head coach of the Raiders. His entire story, everywhere he's been, how it's gone, obviously a part of that football royalty family. If his team was to go in the SEC, it's like, that's great for college ball. And he's just been dunking on Paul Feinbaum.

Yeah. Left and right. Every other tweet. Yeah. Every other tweet, he's been going after him. It's like Lane Kiffin in the national prominence is good for college ball as well. That's what's awesome this year, too, is typically in most years, like with these top 10 matchups, especially in like conference wise, like we maybe get one of those per year, but because the Big 10 is so big

and the SEC is so big, there's a chance we're going to get five to six top 10 matchups in conference play multiple times throughout the course of the year. Everyone's talking about October 12th, that weekend, where we get Oregon, Ohio State, and whoever Texas plays. I can't remember if it's Georgia or whoever. Oklahoma. Yeah, Oklahoma.

But there's going to be multiple weeks this year where we're getting a Texas-Georgia or a Texas-Ole Miss, those types of games. That was never a thing in the past. How about this weekend? Bama, Wisconsin. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, Ring of Honor member for the Houston Texans. He'll be a Hall of Famer soon enough.

Former Defensive Player of the Year multiple times. He raised like $40 million for the city of Houston at one point. The host of Wednesdays, Mr. J.J. White. Bama, Wisconsin this weekend. Jacked up, fired up. Luke Fickle's got the boys ready or what? I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. Camp Randall Stadium, 11 a.m Fickle's got the boys ready or what? I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to it.

Camp Randall Stadium, 11 a.m. kickoff. Get up and early. What was it? I saw Matt Rule was talking about kegs and eggs. Let's get it rolling, Wisconsin. Let's start it out early. Yeah, Coach Rule said he wants the games to kick off at 9 a.m. He said kegs and eggs and football.

He said, I don't like waiting around. It's like I used to be, I would like a night game. I wouldn't mind waiting around. I wouldn't mind. Wouldn't mind a little atmosphere. I wouldn't mind waiting around. I wouldn't mind. Wouldn't mind a little atmosphere build. Wouldn't mind sleeping in a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

Coach ruled us out. What are we talking about? Sleep. We're playing football. That is all we're looking to do. Luke Fickle in Wisconsin. I'm not going to say, are you going? Obviously, you have a job that you have to do on Sunday for CBS, which you have crushed.

Hey, good fit this last week. Good start. Good fit this last week. Good fit this last week. Hair looked phenomenal as well. Have you kept in touch with the Wisconsin team? Do you talk to them much? My brother's going. Derek's going to the game this weekend,

so we've been talking about it. Obviously, we have plenty of alumni that we discuss it with, and this is a big one. Everybody back in Wisconsin is excited about it, looking forward to it. There's no question. Alabama is the cream of the crop in college football. It's pretty incredible.

I was actually down at their facility this offseason and saw all the national championship banners. It's pretty unbelievable when you stay in there and you look at them all. So looking forward to this challenge, looking forward to the opportunity. We played LSU at Lambeau a few years ago when TJ was there and knocked them off. So really looking forward to the opportunity and sure hoping for a big Badger win. Okay, good luck to Wisconsin. Jalen Milrow is excited to jump around.

Jump around. Jump up, jump up, and get down. Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. AJ knows about those 11 a.m. kickoffs. There's no joke. You're up at about 6 o'clock eating your breakfast and getting ready to roll for those 11 a.m. kicks. Yeah.

Hey, Camp Randall, though, between the third and fourth, the jump around, that's probably the best atmosphere I've been a part of, the best third and fourth quarter situation. Okay. I like that. Do we have a light show? We do, obviously. Not at 11 a.m.

Not at the 11 a.m. kickoff. There's no lights. But it's become a thing, obviously. Every other team now comes in and, like, they know about jump rounds. So they're like, we're going to jump harder than they jump. And they try to turn it into their own motivational factor. But it's pretty cool. Yeah, you're talking about shakes.

Everything shakes. It registers on the seismograph. I think that's what it's called for earthquakes. Yeah, you're talking about shakes. Everything shakes. It registers on the seismograph. I think that's what it's called for earthquakes. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, seismograph, definitely. I don't know how many seismic quakes it'll register, but Camp Randall is about to turn it up. And you talk about other teams trying to utilize the jump around to their benefit.

I used to train to turn down for what, you know, so that whenever, when Houston would, you know, turn on, it was actually motivating me. When I would see JJ doing his shit, it's like, Hey losers, you're actually motivating me. So if this gets to a fourth down, I'm fucking ready. Just know that. So it could be used to get you as well. It seemed to work for you. You had a lot of success. You had a lot of success. Unfortunately,

your squad not didn't have the same success this past weekend. Turned down for what? Hey, what are you? Listen, that was a good game. That was a good game. It was a great game. It was a great football game. Now, Casario brings in Stephon Diggs and Joe Mixon,

and obviously one goes for 160, the other has two touchdowns. Seems like everything the fucking Houston Texans are doing is working. Seems like everything is working down in Houston. And Joe Mixon, obviously, amassed a piece of it. C.J. Stroud's the real deal, though. This guy, that third and 11 throw in the fourth quarter, and the amount of confidence and where he put that ball to win the game, essentially ends the game as the Colts were coming back.

In the Loud House, the place was going crazy. ball right here boom strike first down that's about the game right there now obviously they would pick up another one with Joe Mixon running but like that throw is absurd third and 11 we just scored got it within two we get them off the field there punt back AR is about to do something absurd we win we win we win colts win colts win colts win instead strike for a first down on third 11 that shouldn't happen with how loud it is and then the way he reacted after he threw it just like how casual he walked it's like this dude is the guy and uh another great game though feels like the colts texans games are starting to mean stuff again you know jj's starting to really like heat up it feels like it was a great game it was a lot of fun i mean obviously colts lose but i mean 29 27 back and forth you got some long touchdown i mean

richardson's got a cannon on him which is sweet slips no big deal pops right up and throws a 60 yard bomb uh 65.3 yards in the air 65.3 You can also run that rock Probably not what you'd love to see But it was really cool to see him lower his shoulder down there on the goal line And punch one in Gotta respect that, your teammates respect it He's gonna power his way into the end zone But it's a battle

It's always a battle It does seem a little bit like Nico Collins Is filling in that T.Y. Hilton role Where he just absolutely dominates Every time we play. So it's really cool. I love Nico, and I'm glad we have that on our side now because I've seen lots of balls go over my head to T.Y., and I'm happy that things are going the other way now.

But it sure doesn't seem like the Loud House was that loud. I'm just saying. It's the Loud House. It's the Nico House. It's the Mixon House. It's the Diggs House. I don't know. It was pretty nice. I like it early in the year. Diggs House. I don't know. It was pretty nice.

I like it early in the year. Just a nice little start to the year in the opponent's dome. It's a little start. It's not little in a lot of us. You see Tyrese Halliburton? Do you see this? The whole place was dead. Dead.

Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. There was some big strokes. What are you guys doing? No.

Yeah, of course. That's what happens. That's what we're saying. That's what we're saying. We almost fell. No, it's great. I'm glad it was enjoyable. It was a lot of fun. It looked like a lot of fun. Do you know back in World War,

we flew over... No, I wasn't alive, so I don't remember. Don't know if you have a brain, though. You could have learned this post-World War. We flew over and we dropped... I didn't wear a guardian cap, so... Well, that's a whole other conversation. A couple were on the field the other day. I mean, let's move along.

They said they're coming with guardian caps. We flew over and we dropped just a bunch of Magnum condoms. Did you hear about this story? Just make them think, hey, this is what's happening over here. That's what the Colts are doing with that thing. I just let you know. This is what's happening in Indianapolis. This is what's happening in Indianapolis. This is what's happening in Indianapolis.

So it's a mental battle as well, you know, if you want to bring that up. The lot has to go. Almost worked. Almost worked. Alright, JJ. That third down, it was a lot. A lot. Okay. I was pounding a wall. Was that this weekend? You were there? Yeah, I was there. What are we talking about?

You're impressive. I mean, I just got to tip my cap to you. You do so much stuff. It's incredible. It's very impressive. I get to sit in a suite on the field. It's pretty cool. It's so awesome.

It's actually a pretty good – it's like a great setup there. It is a great setup. And Halliburton, he was like – he was a full participant. We're talking about watching every game. Am I going to be on the Jumbotron? He asked earlier. Am I going to be on Jumbotron? It's like probably.

Yeah, I would say. I want to be on Jumbotron. It's like you're going to be on the jumbotron he asked earlier and that am i going to be on jumbotron it's like probably yeah i would say i won't be able to jumbotron it's like you're going to be on jumbotron tyrese i think it's on the first time and uh he sits down he's like oh it's so cool and it's like yep he goes am i they're gonna and i said they're gonna put you on again yeah probably he goes i'm gonna jump up on that thing i'm like all right don't bust your and he jumps up on there he sits back down like a little kid. He took a picture with a mascot. Big thumbs up, big smile, big palms. Take a picture. Take a picture. He was perfect in there.

The whole stadium was like that. It was – Look at Gump back there just rocking it. Love it. Some more fan participation. At this point, he was sweating it out a little bit because the Dolphins – The Fins were in one. I didn't have my eyes on the clock.

I was fighting it with the fins in the first half. Yeah, it's a cool setup. Shout out to the Colts for everything in there. And let's talk about something you do know a good amount about. T.J. Watt had a phenomenal weekend, even though the refs were trying to hold him back. Obviously, he had a jump strip sack that was called a penalty. Now, his timing, impeccable. The film study, the preparation, everything, boom.

How you doing? Keep it moving. We don't know what the offense is going to look like, but we know T.J. Watt and the defense is going to show up. And literally in super slow-mo, it's the most perfectly timed getoff maybe in the history of football. They call it a penalty. He's not happy. Then this happens with a referee we see. And I don't know him well enough. Maybe you do.

What was he saying here? And what are your thoughts on T.J. Watt's debut this weekend in Atlanta? Oh, I mean, I'm sure they're just having a very respectful conversation, but obviously he said that the ref told him that he was wrong, and which we all now know he was, but truthfully, watching it live, and like when I'm texting him, what I'm telling him, I said, we both knew you were going to get called for that one. Just because it purely looked like it live, not because he actually was offside, but he was so fast off the ball. He timed it up so perfectly that it literally looks illegal. And so I was like, we knew you were going to get that one.

But this is just all down to preparation. This is all down to film study. As a defensive lineman, as an outside linebacker, the biggest advantage you can possibly get is the snap count to be able to jump it. And he does so much study. He does so much film work. And also just on the field, you're just trying to pick up these little tips, whether it's the offensive line talking to each other, whether you can catch something in the huddle, whatever it may be, you can pick up those little things and get a jump like this so it really really really hurts when you get it called back because the strip sack fumble uh all of that is just the best thing you can have and all of your preparation paid off and it got taken back go ahead aj on that note jj we see uh them calling

this illegal formation making the tackles guards everyone kind of get on the line their head breaks the belt line of the center that's not exactly exactly clear, I think, for a lot of people when you hear it. But do you think this will lead to more sacks for guys like your brother and people around the league because the tackles won't be able to sit back so far? If they continue to call it, it's fantastic. Yes, because it makes it a fair fight. I said on Twitter last week when I was talking with Jason Kelsey, there's obviously two things that they can call offensive linemen for in this situation. One is lining up too deep, and the other one is when they jump the snap count and leave a little bit early. And we saw that one a lot last year. This year, it looks like they're going with the deep alignment.

Now, if you're jumping the snap count a little early, as a defensive lineman, I at least have a way to combat that a little bit because I'm watching your outside knee for my get off so if you move I move at least I can move at the same time as you if you line up too deep in the backfield there's nothing I can do to combat that so it's extremely frustrating because we're both trying to get to a spot at the same time and you're already lining up closer to that spot and and there's nothing I can do about it. So I actually want that one called more. But of course I would love

if they called them all. I just don't see it happening. I think they're trying to nip this in the bud early in the season. I don't think that the league wants flags slowing down the game. I don't think the fans like watching flags. And we all know it's an offensive game already anyway. So I hope they keep calling it, but I imagine that we're not going to see a whole lot more.

Hey Q, why are you guys cheating? Why are you always cheating? Why are you guys cheating in this entire thing? It's an absolute joke that they did that and it's going to be gone in two weeks. It's going to be gone in two weeks. If you look at it. Yeah, that's true.

It is. That was the point of emphasis that they wanted to make and if you look at every single tackle that was called for this weekend, their feet are lined perfectly on the guard. The guard is lining up on the center, so it's clear. The difference is the tackle's heads up because he's in a more vertical position because that's what he has to do as a pass protector.

But we just tried to get ticky-tack this weekend to make a point and make a point emphasis. Oh, you think it's bullshit? You don't think you guys are cheating? It seems like you guys are cheating. If you listen to what JJ said, we're both trying to get to the same spot. Now you're going to take an advantage and get even closer. It's no different than TJ timing the snap.

The same thing works out of time to snap. That was legal. He didn't cross the line. And what was illegal about where the tackle aligned? Tell me. Your lineup legally. Your head has to cross the plate. Everybody knows the rules.

If that tackle leans forward, his head crossed. If he was in a three-point stance, his head would break the center. Leans his head forward. Dumbass. That'd be great. We agree. You guys are always cheating on us. That's like me saying if I lean my head over the line of scrimmage, it's not illegal.

So, yeah, get my head back. Duh. I can bring my feet as close as I want. His feet are in the exact same position whether he's in a three-point stance or a two-point stance. Shouldn't the rule be where your feet are? It should be. You've got to be lined up with somebody. Your head doesn't like you. Who cares if you're six-foot-point stance or a two-point stance. Shouldn't the rule be where your feet are? It should be. You've got to be lined up with somebody. Your head doesn't like you.

Who cares if you're six foot eight and you lean forward? I agree with that. But guess what? The rule is not the feet. It's currently the head. So you go off of the head. Suck it, AQ. Sorry, Q.

What are the rules if we're not going to follow him, I guess? Oh, okay. We just make these up now. We just live in Ohio. The Wild West. I'd be hard-pressed to say his head's pretty damn even with the belt line. not going to follow him i guess okay we just make these animals live in ohio the wild west i'd be hard for us to say his head's pretty damn even with with the beltline i don't disagree that one doesn't look that yeah that doesn't look bad at all this one i didn't fully understand either whenever we circled it but i think it was called because of the point of emphasis situation yeah

the early jump right was the big one from last year that was the big conversation are they looking at that as well i assume that's assume that's a big piece of this entire thing. How do you feel about the early jump? It's the same thing, right? It's the same thing as the silent count. Just as TJ's watching the head come up, that's what the tackle does too. He looks. As soon as he sees the center's head start to come up, eyes

out, kick. And if it's in super slow motion, a half a tick off, deal with it. No, you're cheating! That's what we're doing. Bull! I agree with that. I'm going to be honest, I thought that was a sweat stain on your shirt until I just realized, what is it, a gila monster? What is it? It's a seal. It's Navy Seals, yeah.

You support the truth? Why don't you be patriotic? Take that one, sorry. Dave all day. I'm not doing that. Geez, Louise. Yeah, you're right. I'm not doing that. You missed Dave. Jeez, Louise. Yeah, you're right.

I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. That was a misstep by me. With an English hat on? Wow. Burnley? Wow.

London? Big match against Leeds. Big match against Leeds, brother. You are. You are. You are, really? Yeah. Shout out to Dublin Island, J.R. Mott. Oh, yeah.

I thought I had my Layla's hat on. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, JJ, how did you feel about the Sunday night game? Obviously, the Rams coming out without Aaron Donald goes to overtime. A lot of people thought maybe, you know, these overtime rules, maybe we go to the, you know, playoff rules when it comes to overtime. What did you think about it? And what did you see from the Lions and the Rams?

Yeah, it was obviously a great game. I am with you. I don't know if you're on my side or not, but I want overtime to be changed. It's got to be different. It's got to be more... I don't like it. I'm personally a big fan of college overtime. I know there's

people out there that don't love it and don't want it in the NFL, but I just think it's so much more exciting, so much more fun in the end of these games. You don't have these in the NFL, but I just think it's so much more exciting, so much more fun in the end of these games. You don't have these situations where you're watching, you know, Matt Stafford sit on the sideline and just watch the Lions over and over and over again. But you got to give credit to the Lions.

That last drive was awesome. That's who they are. That's who they want to be. That's who they claim to be. And every time they just kind of go out there and prove it. Just go ahead, straight down every single time time run downhill um it was very impressive yeah and i don't know they changed the playoff rules for overtime where they get to answer regardless because the bills because the bills and the chiefs the situation that took place and josh allen not

getting able to answer uh not being able to answer after a 30 second drive whatever the case what's that bill's crying again but uh don't you think it should just be all the same? Yes. Right at the season playoff? Yes. I don't know why they would – you know? It's a timing thing so they can get to the second wave of games. Is that the only reason?

Yeah, but overtime is what we're looking for. In overtime, we don't know what we're looking for. And then when we get there, you would think like – especially now Josh Allen won. It was the big conversation for the playoff. He wanted to change because he's a young star against Patrick Mahomes. But Matthew Stafford in Detroit already let it come back in overtime. We want to see that.

So I don't know why the competition committee – They all count. And if it's timing, like colleges are – I think that's what they would point to is probably the player safety, saying they don't want to play that many more plays and it gives a chance. I don't know. I think professional sports, competitive sports, you want to try as hard as you can to find the fairest outcome

that leads to a victory for somebody, whether that's a – A soccer team. That's a fair point. We're trying to change those rules too. Yeah, you're trying to change those too. Yeah, you're trying to change those, too. Yeah, you're trying to change it. We're all very flustered by that, but those rules come from hundreds of years ago. You know, hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

Dee Bud has a question for you, JJ. Yeah, even with all these old linemen out here cheating, what D-line impressed you the most week one, obviously going into week two? We know the Cowboys had, I don't know, 30 pressures, it seemed like, on Deshaun and Cleveland. But what D-line impressed you the most week one, obviously going into week two, we know the Cowboys had 30 pressures, it seemed like, on Deshaun and Cleveland, but what D-line impressed you the most? They obviously played extremely well. I thought

I don't know if it was more the Ravens O-line or the Chiefs D-line, but I think Chris Jones obviously played extremely well, as he always does. I mean, I'm biased, obviously, but TJ had a great day. It was a lot of fun to watch him play and get after it.

You know, you've got to see if he can be more mobile back there in those situations. But it's hard. It's an interesting thing. When we sit there on Sundays and we watch the games, we have all 12 games right in front of us.

You're trying to watch, like, individual players. You're trying to watch situations. You see the touchdowns happen. You see the Titans flip out of pick six to lose the game. So it is very difficult. You have to go back and re-watch to get all the intricacies of each position. Yeah, it sounds awesome. Like, we have, obviously, all these TVs. And then you have a setup of, you're like, go sounds awesome. We have obviously all these TVs, and then

you have a setup of, you're like, go and watch every game. Go and watch every game. And then you start watching, and you're like, am I watching any of these fucking games? If I watch one game, am I watching more than if I'm trying to watch all of these games?

I used to try to do it to keep up with the flow of the game. So sometimes some of these games, if you're not able to watch the entirety of it, you'll see the score. The score is not always indicative of what the actual game is. Try to watch the flow of the game and keep up with it. But even then, if one of the games gets good,

it's hard not to just lock in on it. And then you just missed play of the day, play of the year maybe on this other one because of how the NFL is. That's why the Red Zone channel has done so well. Gotta have one in a box. It's gotta have. Red Zone channel is the answer. And that's why Scott Hanson got that entrance that he got.

That's right. Week one. Did you see that? Oh, yeah. Yeah, but you put that you put the Red Zone in a corner box of a box of TVs and if somehow they're delayed a little bit, now you start tricking yourself because you see a touchdown up here, and then like two minutes later you see a touchdown in here,

and you're like, did I just score another touchdown? I mean, watching multiple TVs is a skill. And then what do you put sound on? Oh, yeah, that's another one. So I personally, obviously, TJ is playing in the 1 o'clock window, so I have him on my desk. I have him on the desk with the sound, and then I have all 12 of the other ones in front.

You're about to say something about people that are able to watch all the TVs. There's somebody at CBS that has the capability of doing that, it sounds like? No, I'm talking, like, impressive fans. Like, fans, you know, guys sitting there with his cooler full of beer and can like he's been training at this for years and years i've been playing i haven't been training for years and years so my you know my buddy evan sitting on the couch phenomenal at it because he's been doing it for his whole career i'm in my second year of watching 12 tvs i still need to get

reps i need still need to learn how to watch all these at one time it does feel like a little bit of a, and then I'll open my phone, and Gumpy had found a clip somewhere already, and it's been posted. It's like, I was watching that fucking game, wasn't I? I thought I was watching that game, and it was like, no, I guess I looked over here.

Tommy Townsend hit a 65-yard button. Obviously, I got pretty jacked up about it. Completely missed a game-changing penalty on this side. It's awesome. Kickers. Kickers. Historic day in the NFL with kickers. Give a shout-out. Okay, so let's talk about that a little bit because

the NFL put out a two-minute highlight of the kickers from around the league banging home 50-plus yard kicks. That's groupie, by the way. Hey, Blake, let's go, baby. Big week. I'm sure the fan reaction was just through the roof, the engagement. I'm sure the engagement on that tweet was just sky the roof the engagement but i'm sure the engagement

on that tweet was just skyrocketing whoa jj i don't know what you're saying here okay i don't know i don't know what you're trying to allude to i will have you know this the ball kicking positions are the gateway to the sport from the international crowd okay so the amount of respect there is for bombing a ball with precision from 50-plus yards at a rate that we haven't seen in the NFL's history is certainly going to be respected. And then football fans, I'll have you know, they know. They know. They know if they have a shitty kicker and they know if they have a good kicker.

And I think that is more of a conversation piece nowadays than ever before because of the parity of the league. But also with the style in which coaches are coaching and decisions that are being made, they're going for it a lot more down there in field goal range. So these long kicks are becoming much more prevalent because are we going to go for this fourth and 12 or fourth deep back, or are we going to let our kicker try to take a shot at it? If we give the ball up here, or if we give it up eight yards from here where it'd be set for a field goal, same thing with this offensive-defensive kind of game. I appreciate that coaches are going for longer kicks more,

and the fact that kickers are knocking them through, I think that trend will continue. It's electrifying when somebody lines up from 71 yards. That is an electrifying moment for the sport of football, and if guys are going to continue to make them, coaches are going to continue to go for it. I love it. I love it, JJ. It's awesome. Fun fact, I had Kaimi Fairbairn and Chris Boswell down in Houston.

So I've been fortunate to watch a few of them. I believe they were deciding between the two. So that's a good decision to have to make, is to figure out which of those two you're going to go between. Kaimi murdered a 54-yarder, a 55-yarder in Indianapolis. Hit like three-quarters of the way up the net. It was absolutely slaughtered. And then that Aubrey kid down in

Dallas, he's so good. Moody goes six for six. Remember, Moody, he played for Michigan the year before last season. So they go all the way to the National Championship. Then he goes all the way into Combine Prep. Then he goes into Pro Day Prep. Then he gets drafted. Then he's got training camp, or he's got rookie camp.

Then he's got OTAs. Then he's got training camp. he's got rookie camp then he's got otas then he's got training camp he's got regular season i think his leg potentially got a little tight like the super bowl yeah then he goes to the super bowl you know so i think his leg potentially got a little worn out like that would naturally happen to him out of the age so i think him coming out six for six first week it's like feels like he's in a very good spot he's a dog here he's a dog here has been for a long time and then then you look at, like, Tucker. He misses one. We assume he's going to get better. Bucker's not going to miss.

Negotiates his own deal after everything that happens this offseason. Highest paid guy. Money Mac's going to be great. We got a guy here. Matt Gay, whenever he gets healthy, not going to miss. No chance. Missed the opening week. Highest paid guy in the league. Joey Sly had a great week.

I hope he's okay. Joey Sly? We had punter crime. Steelers lost their punter. That was tough. Yeah, he got. That was a weapon. Do you know Cam?

I assume. Do you know Cam or no? No. I just watched him and thought he has a very strong leg. He's down there in Houston, you know, for a long time. So I didn't know, you't know if you got him. No, we didn't cross paths. We didn't cross.

Oh, I mean, I saw him when I was up at Steelers camp. Bill Burr. He was just like Bill Burr. He does look exactly like Bill Burr. Are you going to play this year or no? Have we put that to bed? No, not yet. No, I don't have any plans to.

That's for sure. What an answer. That was a good, not yet. No, I don't have any plans to. That's for sure. What an answer. That was a good, prepared answer. What can I say that they won't understand? They can't really pin me either way. It is awesome waking up on Monday morning and not feeling like you got completely run over by an Amtrak train. So I really enjoy that. Every Monday that I wake up now, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is why.

This is nice. So you just want to go ahead and say it then? You want to have those Mondays forever? Those Mondays are – I enjoy them. I enjoy them, and I also never lose. So it's pretty sweet also, you know. How's that CBS show?

Not never. Great. Great. A lot of fun. We had a good time. This is the first time we ever got to interview a player on the field after warm-ups, which is cool. So I got to talk to CJ and just kind of

pick his brain there and see what he was thinking. Ask him about his pregame meals. So I enjoyed that. I always wonder what guys he pregained. What was it? He had eggs and a shake. Eggs and a smoothie. Milkshake? What do we got? What was everybody here? I love, I'm infatuated

with pregame meals. What were your guys' pre-game meals? I'll go first. Bacon, egg, and cheese. Muffin. You know, I'd get the English muffin. I would toast it. Then I'm getting the scrambled cheese. If they have scrambled and cheese together, that's much better.

But if they just have scrambled, I'm scooping top of scramble on the thing. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're taking it off the line. What are you talking about? Like, you're not having the guy make it at the omelet station? Excuse me. Because you're a punter? Is that why? Excuse me. I'm a fucking sandwich maker.

You think I need somebody else? Notorious sandwich maker. What are we even talking about? I mean, I think we can be open and honest here. That's what this show does. The pre-made, possibly powdered eggs in the heater thing, not the best. They are so good. Right off the top of that thing.

What are we talking about? Get down low. No, you need some. I don't want the dry ones. I need to get down the middle of that. You want wet, bin, scrambled eggs? Yeah, absolutely. Fresh. That's all right. I'm making it home. ones. I need to get down the middle of that. You want wet, bin, scrambled eggs? Yeah, absolutely. Fresh.

That's how I make my home. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. Really? I'm going to scoop. I'm scooping about nine scoops of those things fresh off the line right there because I don't

want to wait for this guy to make it. No way. I want to eat my eggs right now. I'm not waiting in line either. I can make a fucking sandwich myself. JJ's like, I don't wait, first of all. Oh, my God. You're scooping them out of the juice.

You're scooping them out of the water. That's disgusting. I saw AJ do that to Gary, by the way. You're scooping the crusty stuff off the top. Crusty stuff. What are you talking about? The fucker lays perfectly on the English McMuffin. You know what I'm talking?

It is a perfect thing. I'll even bang pal, okay? Then I'm going to sandwich place, getting a slice of American cheese, putting that thing down. Guess what? We're going back to the bang pow. Sure. Put a top of the cheese.

So then you put bacon right on top of that thing. All of a sudden, what are we doing? We're winning the game today. You know, because that particular sandwich right there. I will go get a little smoothie thing. Get a little, what's that super fruit they call? Acai. Acai.

Acai. Acai. They say that will make me feel better. I'm like, not as good as Toradol, but I like what you're doing here with the smoothie in the entirety. You're going to the Omelette Maker. You're taking the disgusting eggs. I'm happy we got it all covered.

What did you eat? Pancakes? I would go get a scramble made from the Omelette Maker guy. That was a good play. Some peppers, some bacon, some scrambled eggs. Pancakes? I would go get a scramble made from the omelet maker guy. That was a good play. It was a weight though. So it was like some peppers, some bacon, some scrambled eggs. I always ate a banana and always had coffee.

D-Butch? Same. Omelet, maybe a little oatmeal, or if I wait a little later, get that pasta. Throw some protein on the side, maybe some salmon, piece of chicken or steak, depending on the day. There's some people that don't eat before games, and then there's some people that are hilarious. I've seen a stack of flapjacks like i've seen people like house and food i'm like the cars and there's like uh and they keep the pre-game meal the same no matter what time you play so that everybody's accommodated so even if you're playing at 7 p.m they have the breakfast available with dinner and even if you're playing at noon they have

dinner and breakfast available so you might be there at 8 am., and a guy's got a full-blown plate of spaghetti and a filet next to you. It's an interesting place. You can see a lot of interesting stuff. I was sandwiches all day every day, no matter what it was. Oh, I would even dabble if they had a little chicken salad over there. Ooh. Oh, my gosh.

That's a dangerous move on game day. No, no, no. It tastes delightful. I put a little lettuce on top of that. Oh, my. Chicken salad's making you dump your pants, JJ? Poss delightful. I put a little lettuce on top of that. Oh, my. Chicken salad's making you dump your pants, JJ? Possibly. I mean, it could.

It just could. It might not, but it also might. Oh, you're not rolling the dice there ever? No, I'm not rolling the dice on that. Can't roll the dice. Just like I'm not rolling the dice on the powdered eggs in the pan. So you go omelet, anything else? So I was eggs oatmeal um then

i also always had this this was near the end of my career but they had this special ethiopian coffee i don't know what makes it different but i had to have it every game day so this ethiopian coffee became like a big thing for me those little animals they would eat them dump them out there that's the expensive coffee they eat the beans animals, they would eat them and dump them out. That's the expense of coffee. They eat the beans and then they turn them out and then they scoop them up and make your coffee. Don't bring up eating animals. Yeah. No one's eating animals.

I don't need them. That's what the city manager said. We're talking coffee and eating coffee. That's what the city manager said. We're talking coffee and eating coffee. Right down the road from me. By the way, former president, it wasn't the dogs, okay? It was the cats, the geese.

Okay, geez. What a wild night in America. You're telling me that I'm eating shit coffee here? Yeah. Drinking it, actually, yeah. Yeah, that's dope. You forgot to mention the nails you're using, too. Hey, it's good, though.

It's really good. Great. That's great. Hey, that's tough. You forgot to mention the nails you're using, too. Hey, it's good, though. It's really good. Great. That's great. Hey, 90% luck, 10% poo. Yep, that's right. And when you get in there, you really start taking it all over. Former teammate of yours is obviously in Cleveland. There's a lot going on again outside the playing field, obviously.

Very serious stuff taking place again outside the field. But on the field, there's a lot of questions as well. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, JJ, like Pat pat mentioned i think a lot of stuff going on there obviously is going to get overblown by the media but that's kind of just where we're at with deshaun on the field yeah yeah exactly sorry with uh with the contract and everything um but what do you make of that whole situation now the the clips coming out of uh joel batonio being on his back and deshaun goes to try to help him up and he kind of swats his hand away. Are people panicking too soon?

Is Deshaun going to kind of find his footing? Obviously, when you played with him, he was a top five quarterback in the NFL. But how do you see that entire situation in Cleveland? Yeah, I mean, when you look at Cleveland and the expectations that they have, I think that there's an urgency to get those expectations to become reality. And I think that they understand, you know, with the defense that they currently have, the lack of success over the last however many years, when you have a situation where you think you're going to be that good. You want that to happen. You want it to happen very quickly. And certainly didn't look great.

Now you have to give credit to the Cowboys. Obviously, they're a very, very good football team. So you don't want to jump to complete conclusions on week one. But I think the overall sentiment of that Cleveland fan base is, hey, we kind of have ourselves a window here, and we need to take advantage of that window. That's probably why they're feeling the way that they're feeling right now, and I don't blame them.

In the NFL, windows are small, and they close quickly, and you have to take advantage when you have it. So I don't blame them for being like, we need to go. How do you feel about the Niners? Their window's still wide-ass open? I think so. I mean, watching them the other night, their window has been a long time now. Buffalo Bills have had a long

window that everybody thinks they're in. People have tried to close it on them numerous different times. I don't know if Josh Allen's ever going to let that happen. He's jumping on people doing his entire thing. But the Niners feels like their window is only extending and extending every single year. Obviously, a lot of contract stuff, and there's

conversation about stuff, but massive win, prime time. Fred Warner's playing mid-season form already, punch out in the first quarter, changes the entire game. This team is so good at football. They just so happen to be in the Chiefs' era right now. Is that kind of the way to describe it? I think we might be dealing with a few teams somewhat like that. When I think of the Niners and how unbelievably that team has been built and playing,

I think of the Bills with Josh Allen and what they've had, the opportunity they've had these last few years. We might have a situation in the NFL where we have a Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley, where you're just in the Jordan era, a Patrick Ewing situation. You're in the Jordan era, you're playing against the Holmes and the Chiefs, and they just happen to be better at the current moment. And they win in the biggest game at the right time. Whereas in a different alternate universe, maybe the Niners have a couple championships. Maybe the Bills go on to win a couple championships, and the narratives are completely different.

But there's this guy wearing a 1-5 in Kansas City that just happens to be taking all the championships at the moment. Phil Mickelson, Powerade, you know, you can go down the line in all these things that are very, very good but happen to be in the same exact time frame as somebody who's so incredibly dominant. You think they go three straight? That's bananas to think about.

But the way they came out so focused, like that team, the way they handled preseason, the way they've been talking literally since they won the last Super Bowl, it's like, no, we're trying to do three straight. Like, that's the way they handle preseason the way they've been talking literally since they won the last super bowl it's like now we're trying to do three straight like that that's the entirety of it all have to get very lucky with injuries they had the fastest guy in the history of the nfl combine oh and they know how to use it they figured out how to use it too apparently uh do you think they go three straight that's crazy to even think about especially with how much goes into it all it's extremely difficult to say otherwise because you don't want to look like a fool.

I mean, last year people tried to pick different teams. No, they are that good. They do have a coach that good. They do practice at the level you need to practice at. They do have a squad. So I'm not going to sit here and say that I would confidently pick anybody else over them. Now, again, you look at the Niners. They have a phenomenal team. I mean, it's crazy when you watch their games and you watch how many great players

they have all over the field, every position. And then a guy like CMC goes down and the guy who fills in for him just happened to have like 150 yards in an unbelievable game. I do think the Texans are a team that has an opportunity to compete and to give them a run, but I think at the current moment you just have to have the Chiefs, and then there's a Tier 2 with teams that could possibly beat the Chiefs, and I do think the Ravens are in that, obviously shortened by a toe,

just missed by a toe, but you can't take away from the Chiefs at this current moment. And the Colts, obviously, you left them out, just lost by 2-2, the Texans that he decided to put into this list of people at the top of the AFC. The AFC's deep. The AFC's deep.

The NFC's deep. The NFC's got some teams. Like, I like the Lions a lot. Obviously, we all like the Lions a lot. Oh, yeah. But it's like Niner's time. How about the Eagles all of a sudden? Sure.

How about the Eagles all of a sudden add another weapon in Saquon Barkley? I think we're going to see some of the Eagles tape a little bit later whenever we go in the trenches with A.Q. Shipley. And it's like, what about the Rams? They come back, lead that thing to the overtime against the Lions, who everybody likes. It's like, what if the Rams are good? Cowboys look good.

That's the beauty of this league, man. It's like people will write people off. I think about the Patriots. We had a full discussion on CBS this weekend about the AFC East and who's going to win that division. Every single one of us, myself included, I have to take my blame. That's good journalistic standards. Who's going to win?

Good accountability. Thank you. Thank you. You know, honorable thing to do. But we were talking about it's a three-team race. How are the Jets going to look, the Bills, the Dolphins? Nobody, not a single person mentioned the Patriots. And I think if you look at all those charts where they pick who's going to win

this game this weekend, I don't know if anybody picked the Patriots to beat the Bengals. Yet all they did was go out there and play great football and find a way to win a game on the road. So you got to give credit to them. And that was impressive. Go ahead, A.J. J.J., A.Q. was speaking earlier about offenses and more importantly, offense like receivers, running backs, quarterbacks, and even the offensive line needs like, he feels like they need those preseason reps in games.

I know some of these teams that have had success early through week one, they played a little bit. What are your thoughts on that? Do you think offenses need to get in there and need to see some live action during the preseason? Yeah, I do. I've always been a believer in that. I believe that it's timing, it's rhythm,

and you know the speed of the game is faster in a regular season game, even from a believer in that. I believe that it's timing, it's rhythm, and you know, the speed of the game is faster in a regular season game, even from a preseason game. But the closest you can get to it is playing in a preseason game. I don't think joint practice is simulated enough, and I definitely don't think that regular practice is simulated enough. The only way that you can get true quality looks is by playing a game. So I do think it's more beneficial when you play a few snaps,

at least in the preseason, so that the first time you're doing it isn't out there in week one. Good news. In like six weeks, none of this is going to matter. We're going to know everything about everybody, and we're still going to have another 11 weeks left in the season. So we've got another time to figure it all out. We do wish that we would know immediately upon week one,

but that's not the way the cookie crumbles. No, it's not. Hey-oh! Can't wait to do one of those this year. Speaking of teams crumbling, Burnley's not crumbling at all, right? We're ascending. We are ascending right now. We are climbing that ladder to get back into the big league, right? That's what's currently happening with...

Oh yeah, we've got a big game this weekend at Helen Road against Leeds. Big, big game. Also owned by the 49ers ownership. Oh, the York family. We're going to have a big game this weekend at Helen Road against Leeds. Leeds, big, big game. That's a team? Also owned by the 49ers ownership. Oh, the York family. NFL dynamic there. They run a good – hey, they run a good number.

Tight ship. Leeds away is a tough match, brother. Who's the team? It is. Leeds away. Leeds away. L-E-E-D. So, Leeds away. You're the home team?

No. Leeds, Leeds. Yes. No. Away. Like, Leeds. We are away at Leeds. The name of the team is not Leeds away. You're the home team? No. Leeds, Leeds. Yes. No. Away. Like, Leeds. We are away at Leeds. The name of the team is not Leeds away.

The team name is Leeds. Leeds away. Leeds United. Leeds away. What city is Leeds away in? Leeds. That's the city. What county?

Is that a county? West Yorkshire. So, it's Leeds away, West Yorkshire, England is where you're staying? Beeston. Beeston Leeds. West Yorkshire. That's all it's saying. What, dude? Leeds away. West Yorkshire, England? Beeston. Beeston, Leeds. West Yorkshire. It's all the same. Leeds away, B-City. Where's Warshire?

B-City. We're in Lancashire. We're in Lancashire. Is it a home game? That's not a town. No, it's an away game. That's why it's away. Leeds away.

We're away at Leeds. This is going to make it to English Twitter. This is going to be all over. Christian Polithic just scored again last night against New Zealand. New Zealand, sweet. Pochettino. How much did we beat them by? We didn't.

This is tight. The new gap is there now. Everything's fine. Yeah, Pochettino is going to turn it all around. Ty was fine, though. Yeah. That's the last time we're going to do that. Pochettino only gets dubs.

Big punch is going to take a look at you You posted a picture Everybody keeps tagging me in some picture that you posted Saying that it looks like me on your diet I don't know what that means I didn't say it, people said it What's Connor's diet? I don't know

Now it looks great I don't know what photo I posted There was a photo People keep tagging me on Twitter. There's a fat guy that kind of did look like me and JJ combined. A little bit. I did see that once.

Some random fat guy? I took it as a compliment. I see the other side did not reciprocate those feelings. People always say I look like you. Those people do look like you. It happens a lot to me. On the show sometimes. I'm just pretty basic ass looking white.

So I get that a lot. Where are you at this weekend? South Carolina. It's going to be amazing. Hour three of this program will continue on YouTube, ESPN Plus, and TikTok Live. Alex Smith will join us and he's got a new podcast. Yeah, called The Glue Guys.

You know, guys, keep it all together. We're back tomorrow. Goodbye! I think it's called The Glue Guys. I think you're right. If it's not, it should be. I'm pretty sure you're right. Make sure to check out the brand new Glue Guys podcast. Yep, okay. With Alex Smith,

Shane Battier, and Ravi Gupta. A lot of glue in there. Yeah, it's the glue guys. Love Shane Battier. We learned about Ravi Gupta. He is a partner at Sequoia Capital. This guy's a welfare.

He keeps Sequoia. They have some AUM. They've got some assets under management there. Yes, they certainly do. J.J. Watt. A lot of glue, I assume. Oh, yeah. It's amazing how that stuff can keep things together. Need them.

Need glue. I have a question for a glue guy at this show, because I'm still learning about and passionate about AP Tone. What? Is there a week-to-week aspect to this, or is it just the end of the season? Is this college and NFL? Just the end of the season, but you're the only one that hasn't turned in their write-up for their position group yet this week, so that I can stay on top of the position groups

week by week and build my case and build my report for the end of the season voting. Okay, so it's not like the college-aid people, you don't also get to be a part of that. No. No, yeah, just NFL. He's trying to get to college. He wrote a book about college. I see you trying to bring that up for your brother there. You don't have to. No, I was honestly curious.

If it's a yearly thing, then it's tough to have a weekly conversation. I want to hear his rankings for the college AP poll. That's fascinating to me. Who do you got? In the college AP poll? I don't know. i don't watch it 25. george has got to be one um you got the first two right the same you're seeing the same picture as the ap pal okay um i mean bam is obviously up there i don't i don't know put all this up there man I mean, Bama's obviously up there.

I don't know. Put Ole Miss up there, man. I like watching Ole Miss. I love that Lane Kiffin just attacks everyone like no cares. Awesome. You follow. You follow college ball. Ohio State, you failed to mention.

They're obviously. Oh, yeah. Ohio State, very good. Oregon, I'm sure, is good. Missouri, rolling. AQ squad. AQ squad. Wisconsin gets a win.

They'll be up here. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Oh Oh yeah. Love to see NIU. Thomas Hammock, former Badger coach. Coached my brother Derek in the running backs room. Went to NIU. Awesome guy. Very, very happy for them. Also saw that he was

the next day recruiting via Twitter, which was awesome. That's a great story. That's a good usage of the modern era, especially whenever you've got a strike wire hot. Iron was hot for him. Did you see the boneyard they have at NIU? They take a lot of pride in upsetting folks.

They have a bone for every big-time team they knocked off in the school's history. I love that. Notre Dame's bones getting added soon to this boneyard up there at NIU. I like that a lot because they're the NIU Huskies. So they love to eat. Love bone. They love boning. Let me find a bone.

And Notre Dame was the big old bone, wasn't it? Oh, yeah. Notre Dame was a big old bone. I wonder what the cutoff is. Biggest bone. What school, what was the last school that they were like, no, they're not big enough to put on this wall? I think it's a ranking top five team.

It's got to be ranked top five. No. When was Georgia Tech top five? That was the first time. It's right there next to my face. I certainly just pulled that from that. Journalistic standards, thanks for correcting that. It's big names.

Big names. Big time. Power five. Big wins. Kansas twice. Well, they Big names. Big time. Power five. Big wins. Kansas twice. Well, they stung for a long time. Oh, whoa, whoa. They didn't stink.

They were worthy of a bone in the bone yard. They stung for a long, long time. Unfortunately, they're good now. Kansas. They are. Lance Lightbulb. Great coach. UW-Whitewater.

He brought in a bunch of money over there, too, I think. Immediately upon getting there and showing success, they were able to fundraise some money. This is the bone yard. NIU are you? Obviously, you see BYU, Minnesota rode the boat a bit. Is that Iowa? Sure is. Holy shit. Nebraska, you keep rolling down. Iowa State's on there.

There's a Wisconsin on there. I'm curious when that's going to drop that down. Bama? Oh yeah, at Bama. Kansas State, Wisconsin. 88. 88. I mean, what are we doing? That's a boneyard. I wasn't even born. 83.

Yeah, but this is. It's not about you. It's not about JJ. It's not about Wisconsin. No, I'm just saying, the boneyards, I didn't realize they'd been going for that long. That's an old dog. It's tradition, pal. Geez, just like jump around.

Jump around. Jump up,, pal. Just jump around. Jump around. Jump up, jump up, and get down. Who the Mountaineers got this weekend? We got a big one, obviously. We're going to win it. Pitt, backyard brawl. I love the backyard brawl. It's in Pittsburgh.

Did you see the graphic that they put out? It was like the mascot standing across the bridge, and it's like the pit panther facing, so his tail is behind him. But if your brain just sees it real quickly, it looks a little different. That was just random. We might want to pull that one up. What are we talking about here, Jay? What do I need to think?

I don't know. I just went there. Penis. Oh, it looks like a dong. Whoa. It does. Which way is he facing? For a second, when I was scrolling past and saw it.

It's a tail, JJ. He stated backwards. It's a tail. It's a panther. Is the mountaineer naked? No, it's not. Is he smacking the mountaineer with it? Is that what they're trying to imply?

He's not a moose. It's a panther. And it's tail not a penis. And I don't like that it's curved the way it is to see the Mountaineer in the back. I don't like anything about this. Oh, no. That's not good.

Can we zoom in past the tail? I like the graphic people over there. God, Bud's so hairy. Yeah. Zoom on, zoom on, zoom on. It looks like it's not bluffing. Zoom on. It looks like it's not bluffing.

Because that's just the exterior layer, the red rock. Zoom on. The red rock. Is there any more? That's it. That's it. Mushroom stamping. Come on, come on.

This shirt caught. That's it. JJ, obviously, you were accurate in your description of what this was, but I didn't even see this. What a graphic. This is a great graphics team over there. Hey, look, they got, oh, mama, I'm in fear of my life. I love Pittsburgh folks, too, because in the comments,

they were like, the bridge doesn't lead right there. That's not how it works. The bridge doesn't lead to the stadium like that. Very valid. Very valid. It's true. It goes to PNC. I wonder what AI did here. there that's not how it works the bridge doesn't lead to the stadium like that that's like valid i wonder what ai did here i wonder what ai's been cooking around this might be fun with grok no grok ain't doing that to the mountain oh yeah grok ain't doing that to the mountain here brock does some fun things jj jj we're all six thousand pit fans upset about this swing got him i am interested to see how many

yellow seats there are. Those stadium seats are loud. Whenever you turn on one of those games, a couple of those games, not all those games. I've been in a couple where that place has been filled up. Obviously, phenomenal fan base. Whenever there is a massive game, this is a big one. Some of those pick games that are like noon games

against who gives a fuck University or whatever. It, boy. Yeah, it's like playing Duquesne. Yeah, it looks like Carolina Panthers. Some of them look like that early. Now they fill in as it goes and yada, yada, yada. This week will be a big one, but that is a real deal. That is a real deal there. Pitt just beat Cincy, right?

Yeah, Pitt. At Cincy. Nardu's he's been there a long time. Nardu's been there a long time. Chris Picklehead, football coach. Boom. Get money to pay the, they got NIL there. Pitt could be in a great time. Yeah. Nardu's been there a long time. The Chris Picklehead football coach. Boom. Get money to pay the – they got NIL. Pitt could be in a great spot. You know, like they could be with the money. And West Virginia, after the Penn State-Nittany Lions,

you can't play consistent football if their fucking lives depend on it. Not good. Jeez Louise, make us look bad against Bowling Green week two. It's not just you guys look bad. We look bad. You know, you buried us again. Yeah. We need you guys to go on do your thing they're going to go on western is going to win a big 12 though we all know that jj so obviously i have to win this game i'm on the mountain here's bear i'm with you i want the mountains man weekend i'll join

okay i'm here i'm right with the boys okay i'm on hey jay what's in the shaker bottle this oh this little guy little um little, a little energy drink type thing? Why? I was just curious. It tastes good. When I smoke cigars, I need a little sweet with it. So that's what it is. A little pre-workout.

Gives you a little juice, too. Connor thought it was urine. Yeah, cat piss. No, I've actually never drank my own piss or any animal's piss, to be clear. Just to make that clear. You've eaten it, though, haven't you? All right. I've actually never drank my own piss or any animal's piss, to be clear. Just to make that. You've eaten it, though, haven't you? All right. I've eaten piss.

Eaten poop? No. Never eaten poop from any animal. All right. Some conkers. Apparently, I have. Apparently, I have. You were snapping their necks, though.

All right. We're going to get out of here. Damn it. That's about 40 minutes away from me. All right. Okay. Snatched it up, Doc All right Waltz on the Alive, JJ

We appreciate you joining us, genuinely Good time to lay off All right, thank you Yeah, good luck to Leeds away This weekend No Good luck at Leeds At Leeds away

At Leeds away Yeah, they got a bomb Bombs going on Leeds away Good At Leeds away. Yeah. They got a bomb. Thank you. Good luck against the furry Panthers. Good luck. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, J.J. Wolfe. Yeah.

Thank you. Football. It's the greatest. That's A.J. Hawk. That's A.J. Hawk. The Talks Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. He was very cool. That's A.J. Hawk. That's A.J. Hawk. The Talks Table is here at Boss O'Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. Very cool.

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New studio. Does he have a new studio, new no same same studio out in uh nfl films okay of course of course i saw it look dude i saw a clip a photo i was uh i didn't see the photo that's why i think you posted it i think it would have been from your account i thought i saw something different i guess i didn't. It's on the desk. Yeah. Maybe. Different visual. Well, good. Whatever the case was, breaking down on a film. I'm not sure what we're talking about here.

I legitimately thought I saw you standing somewhere. Oh, no, that's different. That's different. I did some stuff with NFL Pro. I was at NFL out in L.A. Okay. See? Okay.

All right. Okay. So I did. Yeah, it was different. Okay. There it is. There it is. NFL Plus. Premium. So I did. Yeah, it was different. Okay. There it is. There it is. NFL Plus.

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There we go. There we go. It's on hand up. It's worth it, though. Oh, yeah. Definitely. You guys are both off twice. Two different times.

No. Both of you individually Off separately but twice I thought we were all seeing the field the same way there too I thought for sure because we all know that NFL Plus Premium Is the home of NFL Pro

See, boys Just like we did the first half That's 12 year NFL vet Super Bowl champion AQ Shipley Pro! See? Boom. Boys. Just like we did the first time. That's 12-year NFL vet, Super Bowl champion A.Q. Shipley. Good to see you. Let's go to Hammer. Dodd! Todd! AP Tone's there. Tone, good to see you. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's great on television.

We hope we see more of that, actually. He went to Utah, three-time Pro Bowler, absolute stud and stallion quarterback. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Smith. Do you know about NFL Plus? I am a subscriber. I've

doubled up on that app. You get it. Have you seen the NFL Pro? It is phenomenal, especially if you're going to do TV stuff. You can just search shit. They search for you. There's AI. There's clips. They sync up third down plays with what you need when you search. It literally is like a database for anybody that needs to be on TV for NFL stuff.

Gumball on NFL stuff. Fantasy football on NFL stuff. Or just mark out. Just mark out about it. I do not know about the pro, but maybe I need to step up my game. Oh my god, Alex. You definitely do. How is the season off to you for you TV-wise? Do do we feel good i know you traveled a little bit and everything go ahead yeah it was a wild first week dude i thought adam schefter was gonna have a meltdown i mean it was

like every commercial break he was just fucking shouting breaking news from the upper deck uh yeah it was awesome i got to espn sent me out to a bunch of training camps this year which was cool um sorry i had to sit down with a bunch of qbs but you know i'll be kind of running out as the season goes on uh so i got to go stop by new york last week and talk to our boy aaron uh before the game which was cool i haven't i haven't seen him in a little while it was a little weird to be you know 20 years since we got drafted in that class so it was cool to sit down and talk with him after everything he's been through and then even touch on kind of the lake stuff

um even though our cars were different but but still similar kind of things to come back from yeah pretty cool that you two have uh remained in contact and friendly with how it was all kind of painted draft night obviously uh northern california kid in the draft he's gonna do it he's a niners fan i think growing up here we. And then it doesn't happen that way. He slides down, goes to Green Bay, sits for four years, becomes obviously the human he is. You have the journey. You have the fact that you two tied together, but also still remaining. That conversation looked genuine. I watched it from this past weekend. It was awesome. Any other convos that you've already had that we should be excited about? Like, did you go to San Fran? Did you have you talk to Brock Purdy? I did sit down

with Purdy. I mean, I'm lucky enough I live here, so that was an easy trip down, easy travel. Went out to KC, talked to Pat and Kelsey. Made my way out to Atlanta and talked to Kirk Cousins, sorry, and then also got up to Detroit and talked to Goff, another NorCal kid. So, yeah, it was fun, fun to kind of tie them all together. You know, ESPN is so big, man, that they can interview everywhere so they can kind of have these pieces in like we had a cool little qb qb room piece that ran uh drew bletso was the head of that one man talking about you know his time obviously mentoring

brady and then and then romo and kind of the difference of the two so a bunch of these would be rolling out during the year so yeah it's been fun all right let's talk about brock purdy let's talk about brock purdy um's talk about Brock Purdy. Why is he so good, Alex, if you had to guess? Now, there's a thousand takes that have been had about Brock Purdy, and I assume, you know, you've heard them all. We all have. But why do you think, if you had to break down why Brock Purdy's good,

why is he good? Yeah, I do this in, like, all these pieces that I'm going to talk to these QBs. It like what what makes asking the you know the guys themselves everybody has an opinion on what makes a good quarterback and i went around and wanted to talk to to everybody right like ask aaron what what makes a good quarterback if you're a gm who you draft in what are you looking for um and i think like we've just been off base on quarterbacks right like it they aren't measurables um it's nothing you can you can actually gain from the combine right like i just don't think that stuff matters playing quarterback in the nfl there's so many things that are not quantifiable and you have to be able to like sit down with somebody find how they're like

wired how they're motivated right you got to turn on the film and see what kind of uh you know instincts they have certainly you know for purdy like i think he's got the most courage in the pocket than anybody in the NFL I mean this guy stands in there and take hits and he is just like unflinching right like his his focus downfield never wavers um it's a gift to his obviously he's accurate but like I think that poise and courage uh is something that again like how do you quantify it and we're so caught up in size and speed and arm strength and hand size and shit like that. And, like, again, none of that stuff I really think matters.

This guy can play ball, and he's been playing ball at a high level for a long time, and yet, again, he falls to the last pick in the draft. Like how does that happen? So I think it's a fascinating discussion. Man, he's a baller, man. I don't know how you don't turn on the film the last couple years and see what he's doing week in and week out. I know it's a good situation, but there's not a good quarterback in the NFL

that's not in a good situation. I'm a huge fan of Brock's, man. I think he's a huge reason why they're so good and going to continue to be good. He makes some massive throws. He'll step in there. To your point about there isn't a single good quarterback in the league or in the history of the league that didn't have a good situation, you know, kind of around him.

That's a part of football. Yeah, you're going to need other people on the field. What they've been able to do, though, over there, truly phenomenal work from the front office. I mean, every position they have somebody that's at the highest pay. Now, granted, that's because you can do that with Brock Purdy because he's making whatever, $900,000 a year as opposed to $60 million is what

Dak Prescott just signed for or whatever. So there's certainly a benefit to that whole factor. But them being able to keep everybody seemingly knowing that Brock's deal is around the corner, it's like Lynch has done a great job with that team as well, I feel like.

I think from a personnel standpoint, they've been better late in the draft and in free agency than like in the first round i mean you look at some of their they've actually like had some misses in the first round but you look at like their their rounds three and on like the draft picks that they've hit uh they're they're all pros i mean it's crazy like obviously purdy an example of that but like george kittle is a fifth round pick man and like i know in hindsight it's like oh look at this guy but no one knew it at the time like even jordan mason i know it you know the news on monday night that oh mcafree's not playing like the sky's falling all of a sudden every guy's changing their pick to the jets and like all jordan mason does is go out and you know rip off you know 150 so uh they're great they've been

identifying talent in the back end of the draft it's been a strength for kyle's i think for a long time john lynch uh since they've been together and the crazy thing is i don't think people realize is like how long those two have been together right and how unified they are and on the same page i think they're the second longest tenured head coach gm in the nfl so when you have that kind of stability you can afford to have that and then the luxury of having like eight of the highest paid dudes at their position on top of it. And I think it's really a matter of can they stay healthy. Can they keep those guys healthy?

Because when they do, they'll beat anybody. They're so fun to watch, Alex. The defense is so fun to watch. Like they just fly around. And then Brock Purdy with that offense, with the movement and everything. And then Trent, you're watching like literally a goat work every time you're out there. It is – how long is this window?

How long is this window? Third round pick. So good. Yeah. Bufanga. So good. Literally. That right tackle, McKibbitz, he's like a fifth round pick.

I mean, I know he's not an all pro, but he's a starting right tackle. They just – you know, they find these guys all over the place. Congrats to them. Go ahead, AJ. Alex, speaking of the Cowboys and Dak Pres prescott obviously got the new deal and everything is this the year do you think when you watch the cowboys obviously it's only through one week and this is the question everyone wants to ask on every network but can you actually see them putting it together when it really matters you know the cowboys finally yeah you know like i i didn't think they had a great off season to be honest like what did they actually do to get better you know they kind of got ran out of their own building by by green

bay in the playoffs and it's like what i mean they lost their defensive coordinator i mean a crazy ridiculous amount of this offense runs through cd lamb they didn't really add any pieces you know obviously re-signed him back they lost their running back and replaced them with a couple older guys so it was hard for me to see how they improved um you know for me though i was blown away by how good they played on sunday i mean they they absolutely just dominated a browns team at home that's a playoff team and i thought that like they out coach mike mccarthy it takes a lot of flack they completely out coached that Cleveland Browns staff. And I think this is a team that could, like,

I think it'll look different than last year, AJ. Like, I don't think they'll put up the gaudy offensive numbers that they did because they don't necessarily have the horses. But, like, I think they can be really efficient. I think Dak's one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the NFL. And I think with this defense, they can be elite. Like, I think it just looks different, right? I think they're going to play a different style, play more complimentary football. It won't be this wide-open thing that kind of we saw the last couple years.

Like, again, I think they're going to be opportunistic on offense at times, but play good team football. I mean, that defensive line took over that game last week in Cleveland. Micah's awesome. He's just so athletic, so awesome, so instinctive. It's just like everything about it with Zimmer kind of leading the way too. Historically great defensive coordinator. Excited to see if this is the year for the Cowboys.

You talked about Mike McCarthy who takes a lot of flack. He's in the last year of his contract. D-Butch got a question for you about coaching. Yeah, Alex, I know you spent some time with Andy Reid. We don't see him a bunch behind the scenes, at least I don't. What we do see, hey, he's kind of jovial, but I know some friends some time with Andy Reid. And we don't see him a bunch behind the scenes. At least I don't. What we do see, hey, he's kind of jovial. But I know some friends that have played for him.

He's like, hey, he's kind of a hard ass. You know, he's going to prepare you for the game. What makes Andy Reid so great, I guess, behind the scenes, having his teams prepared to go out and win? It seems like they're always ready, whether it's week one or coming into a big playoff game. Yeah, I mean, I thinky has a couple of huge strengths uh one listen man he loves what he does right like he absolutely was meant to be a football

coach and he's he's almost like your old like high school gym coach man like he just he's he's a teacher at heart when he when he's doing offensive installation man he's coaching every single position it's crazy I mean he's teaching the receivers how to line up and get in and out of breaks he's teaching Kelsey how to work against leverage he's teaching the right tackle how to get out of his stance he's obviously teaching the quarterback I mean he's in that room every single day and so it's unique in that regard and then I think his positivity man this isn't a guy that's trying to put anybody into a box and I think that's been a strength of his like look at the quarterbacks that he's had success

with over the years they're all different they all have a different skill set and there's so many coaches I think that know a playbook right they know this playbook and then they try to find pieces that fit that playbook that's not Andy man Andy's gonna you know obviously kind of continue to manipulate and create the offense around the guys that he's had that he has and like you would never see look at patrick and kelsey like two of the best improvisational players i think at their position maybe in history yeah and like that's really a credit to andy like he let he empowers them you know like he's not making them fit some other way hey when patrick came out of college this gunslinger thing like he didn't try to you know like put him in a box like again utilize his strengths and so uh you're

seeing like obviously the fruits of that but like there's you guys know there's so many coaches that are so negative right like you get in there you got to do it this way you got to do it my way and he's just not like that right and and I think another thing is he doesn't he really does a great job of eliminating distractions. I think these guys play free. There's so much noise around these buildings and drama. And Andy, like, is unfazed by it. You know, he's always just focused on football. And I think when you're when you're head coach, like the leader of your building, you know, operates like that. Like, I do think you kind of take your cues from it.

Yeah, I think you set the tone. You know, you kind of take on the character of your coach is what normally shows are. Andy Reid loves cheeseburgers, I believe. Yes, he does. Lives for them. Yes, he does. Okay, so that's a real deal. Like, we're talking, holy shit, what a nice gift. You bring this man a cheeseburger any time of day?

Pat, his final words, every single team meeting, you know, the night before night before the game, you've done your positional meetings, you did your special teams, your unit meetings, and then you come together as a team. Final words for the team every single night before a game is, I'm going to treat you guys to a cheeseburger. And then you break for team snack and there's cheeseburgers. That's awesome. That's like Rex Ryan.

Everybody remembers that meeting because Rex Ryan, Dorn Hardenock. So let's go get a fucking snack. Yeah. That's how he ended that meeting there. Cheeseburger's a real deal love fest for Andy Reid. I like that. Because I thought it was just a gimmick, you know, because he's a little bit. Cheeseburger.

Yes. That's right. I thought it was a little bit of a gimmick. But it's not a gimmick at all. This is a real deal with Andy Reid. And it feels like players do love him. They're a big ass cheeseburger. Yep. Okay. So this is a real deal of a game, but it's not a gimmick at all. This is a real deal with Andy Reid. And it feels like players do love him. They're in a big-ass cheeseburger. Okay, so this is a real deal.

That's a big-ass cheeseburger right there. Big in-and-out guy. Big in-and-out guy, Andy Reid. How about you? What is your favorite burger? Yeah, man, I'm a California kid, man. Yeah, I understand that. But, like, you've tried other burgers, though,

and you've been like, you know what, we're going to lie to you. I've done the, like, What a burger and all this stuff you know i feel like it's pretty regional like wherever you grow up but yeah no no i'm like if i'm gonna partake in some fast food yeah i would prefer in and out oh we don't partake in fast food okay that's no i do i've got three kids i've definitely partake but you know you're going in and out over uh let's say mcdonald's yeah yeah five guys. I don't think so. Quarter pounder with cheese is the best burger on earth. And people get mad at me for that.

I come from a sandwich town, so I don't want to hear it. I got a lot of respect for sandwiches and everything like that. Burger, pound for pound every single day, going to show up for you. Quarter pounder with cheese from McDonald's. Going to show up every single time for you. Always. Don't sleep on the Whopper. Whopper gets slept on. Whopper's not bad for breakfast.

But if we're talking like what's the best burger out there? Five Guys. Five Guys is delightful. Shake Shack. There's no drive-thru, Darius. It's in a different classification. You got to walk in and they put that thing. You watch them.

Yeah, you do. Get to see the art. Fry down. Yep. Bingo. Fry a lot of fries. So much grease. I was going to say, you got to put the art. Get it fried. Fry it out. Yep. Bingo. Yeah. Fry it. A lot of fries. So much grease. I was going to say, you got to put a Depends in there with it. Yeah.

Because you know that thing's coming out the other end about 20 minutes later. Soaking wet. You ever get a hot dog from there? You ever get a hot dog from there? No. That's going to expedite the dumping. We'll push it out. I've done In-N-Out a couple times.

Okay. I get it. Double, double. Eat it quick. Animal style. Yeah, because it's real sloppy, right? Yeah. It's a sloppy sandwich.

It's a sloppy burger. It is, yeah. I don't do it. Yeah. Give me the McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese. It's the meatball subs of fast food burgers.

Bingo. And I don't mess with meatball subs strictly because it's sloppy. And that's not how it's supposed to be. Okay? If you're going to do a meatball sub, you need to slice that son of a bitch up so it's nice

and it fits into the bread there. But then you're just doing a burger. Then it's just a burger sub. And it to do a meatball sub, you need to slice that son of a bitch up so it's nice and it fits into the bread there, but then you're just doing a burger. Then it's just a burger sub. And it's not a meatball sub. So I think meatballs are good, but not supposed to be in a sandwich. Just personally. That's my thoughts on it all. I'm with you. Mashed potatoes also crop. That's bullshit.

That's bullshit, you know. Mashed potatoes are crop. That's the worst potato option that they have, and there's a lot of potato options. Not true. Mashed potatoes are crop That's the worst potato option that they have And there's a lot of potato options Mashed potatoes are good if what you put on top of it tastes good Oh like everything else Like fucking everything else Pretty valid

Pretty valid point there Alright Alex we appreciate the conversation This podcast Glue Guys Podcast Let's go, dude. This sounds awesome. Shane Battier, what's the relationship there? How'd you meet him?

And then I'd like to know a little bit more about Ravi Gupta. This dude, we looked into him. We looked into him. Absolute dog here. I'm excited for this Glue Guys Podcast. But how'd this get founded? How'd it get started? Yeah, man.

Really through Ravi. He and I become good friends. We live like half a mile from each other. I live out here in Northern California. I live in like the hardest Silicon Valley. And I get asked all the time to talk at these companies and like talk with their leadership groups. And I think everybody's searching for like winning culture, right? Like how do you create it?

How do you mentorship, resiliency, leadership? Like what's it look like? And they all have these questions, certainly from team sports and certainly a team environment. And I think there's obviously no better than football. And so I think there's all these fallacies out there about all those things. Right. Like there's all these Hollywood versions of what those things look like. And you guys know, like in a locker room, like that's not the case. And I think really celebrating like the great teammates, like some of the some of my most impressionable teammates that I've ever had aren't guys that like people know about right and and especially the special teamers pat like for me like they they

are the glue guys right like you know like the five or six core special teams guys on every team nobody knows their name but these fucking guys like hold the locker room together right and uh a lot of times that are the glue and the fabric they play different roles and and shane gotten to know shane through ravi like the last couple years they're both dukis so uh but shane was like the ultimate guy right he was known as like the no stat all-star like everywhere he went they won but you couldn't really explain it through his numbers um and so it's fun like trying to explore through all that i mean we got uh you know a bunch of awesome guests coming on

and kind of talking shop about all this. And so fun stories about kind of locker room leadership, being a great teammate, winning culture, and all in between. So, yeah, it's fun. These are great dudes, great conversation, fun project. Do we have video or only audio? We got a little bit of both. Apparently, you got to go audio.

I'm new to this, Pat, so you tell me. No, I was about to do the complete opposite. You need to go video. Need video. Is what I was going to say. That's what I'm saying. We're going video. Did I say that?

Yeah, I think we're going video. Okay, yeah, yeah. Need to video. Yeah, yeah, need to video. But the audio-only version is great for a lot of people, especially with your style of podcast. People going into work, coming home from work, traveling, that is a massive weapon.

Can't wait to listen to the Glue Guys podcast. You, Shane Battier, and Ravi. That's on me. Ravi Gupta. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Smith. Appreciate you, buddy. Sequoia Capital. Partner there. It's going to be interesting. Shane's a good dude, too.

It should be interesting, honestly. I think he wanted me to know I pronounced his name wrong a couple times. You think? What'd you say it for? I said Ravi. It's Ravi. Rav. Ravi. Rav. Ravi. Rav. I wasn't getting the difference there when you said that.

Well, that's... We understand. Of course you were. Yeah, we know. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, we know, AQ's. Stop. I bet Labarney would. Hold on, hold on.

What sounds different? Robbie or Robbie? Fucking asshole. You got it wrong twice right there. Robbie. Fucking AQ show. Rev the engine. Okay?

I thought it was like roughy. Almost like rough. Keep going, AJ. Keep going. Rubby. Like a dog. Rough, rough. Yeah.

Rubby. You don't rub an engine. One of the founders of Instacart, I think. Now he's a partner at Sequoia Capital. I understand that's a podcast about team. They need to be asking that guy what he's doing with his billions of dollars every single day. That is awesome. What a weapon.

Learning about him, I didn't know this guy existed until this morning. You look into him and you're like, these stories are everywhere. Yeah, it's Grok about him? The Grok says. The Grok says. Ask Grok about them. The Grok says. The Grok says. The Grok.

Oh, man. What the rock? This is gross. Grok says. Grok says. His forearm. Grok says. See?

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It'll still be successful Top 5 Top 5 No no no This is for number 1 Top five, top five, top five. Top five. Shoot it up, shoot it up. Top five. Top five, top five. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, it is top five. This is for number one. Oh, okay.

This is for number one. Oh, no. Oh, what? Yeah, I know. That's a foul. That's a foul. This is a global podcast. Yeah.

This is a global podcast. People from around the world are going to learn stuff from the glue guys' podcast. And the message that he was sharing there about the people you know that are important to the culture very true love that true Shane Battier every team he goes to they win what's that all about yeah well he loved him he's a glue guy I don't know about every team the ones with LeBron on them yeah he won there's no reason to do that Shane Battier is a good guy I am a huge fan of Shane Battier he's got a podcast called the glue guys podcast for sure love Shane Battier's a good guy I am a huge fan of Shane Battier He's got a new podcast Called the Glue Guys Podcast For sure

Loved Shane Battier Growing up in Washington But that's not fucking crazy LeBron wasn't at Duke I was going to say He won a national Campaign ship Oh yeah

National player of the year Yeah why does this guy Always win They say Well he's a glue guy This goes in Glue guys go number one Okay

International pod Oh Why not That was down That was in Their video's not going to work Top five Top three You guys go to number one. Okay. International pod! Why not? That was down. That was in. Their video's not going to work. Top five, top five, top three. That was in.

Yep. Like the... Hey, that Happy Gilmore 2 is going to be good. Oh, punk. Yes. Travis Kelsey was going to be on today, but because it was middle of actual workday, I do believe the window in which he could join us

kind of got shorter. There's a lot of people bringing up a lot of things for why that is not actual workday, I do believe the window in which he could join us kind of got shorter. There's a lot of people bringing up a lot of things for why that is not his workday Wednesday. We're going to sneak him in today because he was supposed to be on yesterday. But there was a Central Eastern time confusion, which I still don't know how that works, how that happens. NFL, we're at the highest level. Don't know how that happens. But we'll get better. It's week one.

We will move forward. Kind of a miscommunication between us and team at Kansas City Chiefs, not Travis Kelsey. And then today we get a message this morning that the schedule got, and it is workday Wednesday. Like this is a full workday. This is when they install everything they're going to do. So I think they're going to try to sneak us in to where we're unable to.

So I believe Travis will be on relatively soon, which we are hoping for. And we saw the highlights whenever Patrick was throwing to Travis there. He was clearly just making shit up too. I mean, he's like, I'm going to post now. How he turned it deep, but you saw that how he turned

and act like he was going back to me and boom, that gave him the little bit of space he needed. That was beautiful. And he's getting older, but he's seemingly like only getting smarter almost. And they used him as like a lead blocker a few different times which you very rarely see somebody that's known for their receiving ability to then as they get older and richer and more famous and more successful to then add in a blocking role that you want like that is not what he's been known for for his entire career and then with his brother being jason kelsey i

don't think anybody really understood why but he was such a weapon whenever they were talking about him as a receiver why would we even mix him up in the box now he's like lead blocking he's getting into things he's he's dummying folks right i mean hey you saw some film oh yeah we're gonna see some stuff today like he's like actually bodying people it's like yeah wait a minute travis is adding to his game in a physical fashion whenever he's getting older, richer, and more accomplished. He's an Ohio guy. We got to remember that in the entire thing.

Look out. There's a lot going on. Look out. There's a lot going on. Those clips, like we talked about yesterday, because obviously it was all happening on the internet. Then for that, it was just, was just what a world hey let's remember we're like this

everybody's definitely everybody's super together let's talk about being like this let's talk about offensive lines groups let's talk about groups of men that came together in a better fashion than others we go in the trenches not just with a film breakdown, no, no,

with an actual listing of top performers each week. Wow. From our guy, A.Q. Shipley. Let's go, let's go. A.Q., you're in the ranking world now, I do believe. I don't think we're talking about that particular team first. We're going to go with the fifth team. He did a top five

performing offensive lines. Who do you have at number five, A.Q. Shipley? We got the Philadelphia Eagles. We got the Philadelphia Eagles. There was a lot of question marks coming into the season, obviously due to the departure of Jason Kelsey. But,

let's dive in with these guys. They had an unbelievable performance. Cam Juergens did some great things. He had one missed snap where he snapped it a little bit early. The good news is he's a damn good football player, and he's going to be a damn good football player. They have a really good group, and I'm excited to talk about them. Here we go.

We've got the first play. Saquon Barkley obviously started off his Philadelphia Eagles career with a monster performance. We get an inside play. Saquon Barkley obviously started off his Philadelphia Eagles career with a monster performance. We get an inside zone. And let's rewind that. But watch this. We talked about this a lot. We talked about this a lot with Jason Kelsey.

If you watch the center and the right guard, watch Cam Juergens snap. That's Kenny Clark. That's Kenny Clark, one of the best defensive tackles in football. Watch him snap him across the right guard's face. And then he climbs on Walker. Walker, I don't know what he was doing. I think he was trying to take on a guard, and Saquon makes a nice little move. But just watch the snap over from the center.

It looks eerily similar to some of the things we've seen from Jason Kelsey at the center position. Jason Kelsey, remember, was on board with the drafting of Cam Juergens. I believe he actually said, this is the guy you should take if you're going to find somebody to replace me. First game in Brazil, tough footing, but not for Cam. As he goes, ah! Look at that. I mean, he snaps him from the A-gap all the way past the defensive end. And that opens up a big gaping hole.

All right, let's go with four. That's number five offensive line performance from week one NFL. Let's go to the fourth rated. Boom! Yeah, number four, New Orleans Saints. We were not talking about these guys a lot last year. I absolutely love this group and love what they've done. They've retold their group.

They got a center who's one of the highest paid centers in football. They paid their guard, Cesar Ruiz. They drafted the right tackle, Trevor Penning, a couple years ago in the first round, and Fuaga in the first round this year. So they got pretty much a whole new group. And we get them going, and we get a toss play. Check this out. It's third and seven.

We get a toss play. A lot of coordinators do this. When we get a toss play on third and seven, it's like, hey, third and seven's a tough first down to get. So, hey, let's just fucking run the ball. Hey, and check out the left tackle, Fuaga. It's four down territory. Check this out.

Hold on. Hold on. Boom. Boom on the safety. Now here. Little boy. Do you guys see that on the backside? Oh, yeah.

47. Oh, yeah. Watch it on 47. 75. Fuaga throws him and just keeps rolling. The right tackle, Penning, first round pick a couple years ago, climbs on the outside, kicks out the corner. Third right tackle, Penning, first round pick a couple years ago, climbs on the outside, kicks out the corner. Third and seven, they get

15. First down, Saints. And root to a 47-2. 10? 10 win. What an ass-beating in week one. Panthers just got absolutely bullied, it sounds like. Is that what you're saying? I love this group. And if you watch this group, both

those tackles play mean. They play physical. That was Trevor Penning's scouting report. He was going to be a prick. That's the right tackle. This dude, all game long, every time he was freed up, took a shot, hit 95 a bunch of times. 95 is obviously Derrick Brown for the Carolina Panthers. Tough loss for them. He had three monster big bumps that you could have put on this week.

Who's the number three ranked offensive line coming out of week one? Sorry. I am sorry. Oh no. I think I am sorry. The Houston Texans, boys. They have a group. The Houston Texans, I love what they have done as well. Obviously they have Tunsell,

but they got Scruggs from Penn State as their center. He came on last year. They have the left guard. I forget. He's a first-round pick. Top three, huh? Top three. First-round pick.

But, hey, we're going to watch. We're going to watch. You'll get it. They got all kind of guys. But, hey, check this out. Look at this run play. This is why I love Houston because they come from the Kyle Shanahan tree, right? We're going to watch both guards. The thing that I love about them because they come from the Kyle Shanahan tree, right? We're going to watch both guards.

The thing that I love about them is most teams run the zone scheme, and with them, when you watch them, they're trying to hook people and create lanes. So they're going to get two jump reach hook blocks from the guards, and then you're going to get, watch the tight end front side, release outside to kind of bluff this defensive end, and then you just get an easy kick out by the fullback and you create lanes all across this board. Let's watch this.

Here's the jump hooks. And then look at the tight end release outside the defensive end. He thinks he's free. Oh, no. You're getting kicked out. And look at the hole to run through. What do we have there, boys? Eight-man box, too, AQ. Eight-man box. And you had this all game long. Mix and run for 160 yards.

They beat the shit out of the Colts defensive line. I apologize. Front seven slash eight. They beat the shit out of them. I don't like that. That was supposed to be our strength, right? Yeah. But if you look at what they do, they get the quick jump reaches right there on the inside.

And then you get the easy kick out with the fullback. And look at that hole to run through. Look at that. And then you just go. I mean, then he's got 50 lanes that he can run. He can bounce it out. He can cut up the middle. He can bounce it back to the backside.

He can do whatever he wants. Those are a couple big, gay big holes. Good enough to be number three in the entire league after week one. Houston Texans, congratulations. Who's the number two team? Let's stick with the same scheme, the originator of the scheme, Mr. Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers. Wow, congratulations, San Francisco.

Number two offensive line coming out of week one. Number two offensive line coming out of week one, and it was impressive to watch because here's why it was impressive. They drafted a rookie third-round pick, Dominic Pooney, to be their starting right guard. He goes in, gets no snaps whatsoever with Mr. Trent Williams at all in the preseason. Aaron Banks missed the entire preseason.

Broke his pinky or hand, but he had surgery on it. Missed the whole training camp. Jake Brendel and Colton McKibbitz, the only two guys that got all the reps preseason. So you got three guys who are pretty much new coming into week one, and we get a dominant performance across the board. Here's what I love about what they do, and we talk about this all the time with this group. They take simple plays, simple formations, get to it in different ways, and get to the same plays that we've been running forever.

This is a way to get to duo. They're going to try and get to a double team between the right guard, right tackle, and a double team between the center and the guard. But how they do it, because they're a zone scheme, they get people escaping to the second level. They get Kittle instead of blocking the defensive end. Bad mismatch. Get him up on the next level. And then you get an easy kick out where you don't have to beat the shit out of the end. All you got to do is get an angle block. And there you go. And you got holes everywhere. He can hit the backside A, the backside B, the frontside B, the frontside C.

Bounce it outside. He can do whatever he wants. And that's what they have every single play. They're getting everywhere. Everywhere. He can go every once. Too many holes. Got too many big, gay big holes.

I mean, what are we doing? Is that unbelievable? They spread them out. And then you get the receivers, who's the best unit of blocking downfield in the entire football league, and that's how you get the home runs and the plays that go from 6 yards to 15 yards to 20 yards in the home runs. As you see Debo blocking all the way to the whistle.

Man, I thought Jets defense, Colts defense was supposed to lead the way. Jets defense was supposed to lead the way. It's week one. A lot of season left. Who's the number one offensive line in the NFL after week one in A.Q. Shipley's eyes? Foxy. The Detroit Lions! What?

Love it. Listen, let's just talk about this group first real quick. They are so good. Rag Ragnow the center, unbelievable Top center, top two center in the league right now Penne Sewell might be the best lineman in the league At right tackle They retooled and got Kevin Zeitler I don't understand why people keep letting Kevin Zeitler go to different teams

The dude's an awesome football player Starting at right guard You got Taylor Decker at left guard You got Glasgow at left Taylor Decker at left tackle Glasgow at right guard. You got Taylor Decker at left guard. You got Taylor Decker at left tackle, Glasgow at left guard. By far the best group in football right now. But here's why they're the best group. We go into overtime. You guys saw what they did. They only threw the ball one time. They ran the ball down the LA Rams' throats to win the game. Hey, listen, you are not getting the ball back and we are just going to run it every single time. Here's a simple outside zone. Let's

just watch it. Watch the scoop between center and guard. Boom. Center, backside guard is going to hit there and climb to 56. Front side, right guard, right tackle. They get there. Fullback just got to get in the way. And then you get a big gaping hole. Runs through somebody

on the backside and it turns into 20. And, oh, by the way, they did this over and over and over and over and over again the entire overtime until they ran the ball in the end zone. They won the game. Yeah. They won the game. That was the entire plan for the last drive. Yep.

That's MCDC football. Yep. And Penne was the first draft pick of this particular culture, right? Yep. Yes, sir. Yeah. Ten plays, 70 yards, nine of those being runs. Then the

pass play was actually a swing to the running back, so the big boys were out front blocking for him there, too. That's right. And I honestly, I genuinely believe this. I think they can run the ball every single play and make it to the Super Bowl. Well, even when the other team knows you're going to run it, you have to be able to run it. The Lions were able to do it. Congrats to your top five.

Hell yeah. Zach Kish's top performing offensive line this week. I love it. You it the Lions were able to do it. Congrats to the top five Yeah, is that case? It's top performing offensive lines week one You got the Lions number one Niners at two Texans at three Saints at four Eagles at five It will not be a ranking system like that carries over sure It'll be a clean slate going into week two whoever performs top five will be an a Q shish top Performing lines now if you have the good, you've got to have a couple of the what's going on. There's a few teams that AQ-shed needs to figure it out and needs to figure it out

quick. And that would be the Cleveland Branch, Atlanta Falcons, and Carolina Panthers. Why is that, pal? Yeah, let me just give a quick little tidbit on each one. So the Cleveland Browns, we're not going to show any clips of any of these guys because we don't want to make anybody look bad. Offensive linemen are fragile. We get it. Cleveland Browns, they were missing both their tackles. I think that's the biggest thing that we get.

If we get their tackles back, Cleveland Browns are moving full steam ahead and we've got a team. The Carolina Panthers, Jesus. They need help across the board. Across the board. They need help everywhere. They've got to get a lot better. They've got to get a lot better really quick they've got to get a lot better really quick. Let me talk about the Falcons real quick.

Okay, hot Atlanta. The Atlanta Falcons. We showed this group a lot last year. I love this group. They are going to – we talk about scheme and fit being everything. This is a classic example of what is going to happen with the Atlanta Falcons all year long if they do not address what's going on. And what that is, their entire team was drafted to be in Arthur Smith's zone scheme. If they're going to

drop back and throw it 40 times from the pocket, Caleb McGarry, the right tackle, probably had a one-on-one drop back pass protect against TJ Watt more times in that game than he has the last four seasons combined. Because everything that they do in the zone scheme under Arthur Smith, and we saw it in Pittsburgh, is play-action, play-action, zone, play-action. You never are singled up one-on-one drop-back pass. And so, that entire team

is built for a fit and a scheme of a zone scheme and play-action and doing all that. And now you ask Chris Lindstrom and Caleb McGarry and all these guys to be one-on-one pass blockers? That's not their thing. So this would be like, and I don't want to bring up his name because people are talking about him as the GOAT, as they should. He was on Monday Night Countdown, awesome, new high toast.

But like Jason Kelsey, he even said in his retirement speech, he was like, it was the right fit, the offenses that they were running. If he would have been put in another offense that banked on him holding up against a 315-pounder every time, probably wouldn't have been as great of a career as whenever somebody let him run so their entire offensive line is structured to be out on the edges and reaching people as opposed to being head up with people that's it and he and jason would be the first one to say that i've always said that i was not his own guy when i

was i was cut jason when there was a two-year run in philly where they were asking him to block back and they were trying to say that oh he can't can't block. No, no. Just put him in the right scheme. Let him pull. Let him run. Let him do his thing. He's phenomenal. Yeah. It's everything.

Okay, so we got to keep our eyes down on Atlanta. Fix the scheme. Kirk Cousins, too. That guy can't move back there. We got some videos. God protect him. God protect him. Might be Penn next time.

Well, that's not good. That would be a bad way to start an NFL career. The crazy thing, too, is if you watch historically with Kirk Cousins, he's an unbelievable naked boot play action. That's what he's good at, getting outside the pocket. But if his Achilles isn't 100%, we got an issue. All right, well, great work here. Hey, great work, AQ.

Thank you. Thank you, guys. Good work, AQ. We really appreciate that. All right, let's wrap up some of the storylines that we have not talked about thus far today. David Mulageta becomes the first agent in NFL history to negotiate a billion dollars worth of contracts in one year. There you go, David. Hell yeah, David.

Mulageta is a weapon at the negotiating table. I don't know who's going to be the president next year, but I would like them to at least reach out to this man to negotiate some of our deals for the United States of America for whoever we're talking to. It feels like he does a good job in there. He is able to accomplish things. I think NFL-wise, what is the most you're allowed? A 3%, 4%?

3%. 3%, I think. 3%, but sometimes that's negotiated. Some people get a 2%, 2.5%, depending upon whatever it is. I assume he is not giving many discounts because, hey, this is a – Yeah, I'm good. We're in here. So you start doing the math there on what he has created over here.

Wait, congrats, David. That's a little off-the-court. Congrats, David. You done did it. He's turning it into NBA contracts. Yeah. He's turning things into baseball contracts. Speaking of baseball, big night last night.

Yeah, huge. Chicago Cubs taking on Dodgers. There was a Shota Imanaga, Shohei Otani hat tip to each other before an at-bat. And then there was a rob of a home run to win the game. Did you see this last night? I did see this, yeah. How about baseball? I mean, we're talking baseball right now in the heart of football season.

It's pretty big. Yeah, well, robbing home runs, stealing home runs. To win a game in Chicago, that's a beautiful thing. Baseball is still happening though. In LA, I'm sorry. Home stretch here. There's like 17 games left. I think also yesterday Shohei throwing off the mound for the first time.

I saw that. That is a big deal. So he's going to be pitching in the playoffs? I doubt it just because it's the same deal. I think's going to be pitching in the playoffs? I doubt it, just because it's the same deal. I think a lot of people are saying, too, you give him a year where he doesn't have to focus on pitching.

He's about to maybe be the first guy in the history of baseball to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases, so it's kind of one of those things where it's like, he's very good at both, obviously, but when he can just focus on one, he's fucking unreal. But yeah, playoffs are right around the corner. That was sweet.

That was a cool hat to him, though. Yeah, obviously. Hey, we're doing it. Damn respect, game. We are. Hey, we are the fucking show. Yeah, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto also returned for the Dodgers last night. He's been on the aisle for a very long time.

Dodgers good because I know the big story about Shohei was he was very good at baseball, but on a terrible team. He is now on a very good team. And they are, yeah, they're one of those, you know, four to five teams who should be right there to win a World Series. So he's going to be on TV when it matters. Yes. That's good.

Yeah. Paul Skeens, Pirates making the playoffs? No. No, they stink. What? Still got time. Skeens is still good. Yeah, Skeens has been unbelievable. Come back to Indianapolis, Skeens. Skeens is still good. Yeah, Skeens has been unbelievable.

Come back to Indianapolis, Skeens. Skeens right here. All day, every day. You're saying he's not. What team is there? Indianapolis AAA affiliate for the Pittsburgh Pirates is where he got his start. They even upped the ticket prices for him. Fresh out of college.

Skeens on the bump. Sold out here. Sold out the entire place. Ticket prices go from $5 in AAA baseball to like $35 everywhere. Then he goes to Pittsburgh. Becomes the star of baseball, right? Yeah. Starts the all-time.

And then what happens? He hits a little bit of a funk? I don't want to say. Not really. I mean, he just wasn't, you know, like his first several starts, it was like this guy's throwing seven innings. He's having 10 strikeouts. He's not giving up any runs. They won't let him throw

no-hitters was the beginning of the entire thing. He had two opportunities where if they would have just abandoned a pitch count and let him go, he could have thrown a couple no-hitters. In the long run, probably smart, but the Pirates as a whole, their bullpen sucked. We got the Hondo boys.

Skins is 10-2 with a 2.1, which is just absurd for your right. We got the guy! We got the guy! Problem is, when you limit a guy with his pitch count, Skeens throws seven good innings. They're up 4-0. You bring in a couple of these ragtag bums from the bullpen, and then the Pirates end up losing

8-4. There was one game, I think it was 10-3, and then they lost 11-10. Yeah, bingo. 14-10. They pulled him I think it was 10-3. Yep. And then they lost 11-10. Yeah, bingo. 14-10. They pulled him when it was up 10-3. I was not happy. I wouldn't be either obviously. It was actually when we were at the ESPN campus. So the Pirates are the Pirates again? Yep. Yeah, they suck, dude.

We got the guys. Well, you gotta walk before you can run. Lambeau said that one time. Yeah, but we didn't need to walk at all. We could've went right to running because Paul Skeens threw our ass 100-something miles an hour every single night. No walks. Pirates suck. He's gonna be a great Yankee though. Yeah, no walks didn't need to walk at all. We could have went right to running because Paul Skeens threw our ass 100-something miles an hour every single night. No walks. Pirates suck. He's going to be a great Yankee.

Yeah, no walks. Well said. Yeah, he will. What do you need in baseball? Like seven guys? Because, I mean, you got Shohei and Trout. I mean, Trout was banged up. You need a good pitching staff.

That's the kind of thing. Skeens is unbelievable, but he can only pitch once every five days. What about the other guy? Jared Jones. He got hurt for a little bit. Hurt? I thought we said we don't have the hundo boys anymore. That's what happens when you throw that gas ball. You know, sometimes

your elbow's going to give out halfway through. They're selling out that stadium. AQ's dad still watches every single fucking pitch. I'm telling you, man, when I get the FaceTime after a win and they go, he goes, literally, my dad will FaceTime my aunt, she'll just go, raise the Jolly Roger and then hang up the phone.

That's what we do. Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh ball. Yeah. Didn't get to see that Jolly Roger fly a lot there for a while. Then Paul Skeens gets there, and we think that fly is going to become a new signature of the sky in Pittsburgh. Turns out they suck still. Fuck me.

I thought we were getting into baseball. I thought I was going to care. They had a nice little run where they were right in it. They were a couple games behind the wild card, and then, boy, they just went into the pooper very fast. All right. I don't like to hear that. Oh, we don't have time about baseball.

He'll look good in pinstripes. Yeah, he will. He's not going to be there next year. Somebody tweeted in the baseball world, media world, they said he should sign a five-year, $80 million deal right now. What? Listen, I'm a Pirates fan. No, he fucking should not.

He should wait and go ahead and sign for $600, $700 million that Paul Skanen's going to get. Right guy to be the guy, too. Oh, yeah. You know? Right guy, seemingly, to be the guy. So cool. Great for baseball.

Great for baseball. They just got to get a win, though. He's got to be on a winning team. Yeah, but if he's not in the playoffs, this is, you know? Yeah. It's like Shohei and Trout, they're not in the playoffs, so it's like, alright, we create and these are our stars, but then they're not in the

stars. Like, you look at the NBA, LeBron was in the finals, which means he was playing playoff basketball for, what, 15 straight years or something like that? So he's on primetime every other night, whenever the games matter most. That is when the season starts for these leagues. For a lot of people. Not for everybody. I'm not saying we watch all year. Most casual eyes are on it then for sure. That's it though. NBA, the playoffs are an entire season.

And they're long. It is a long time. But that's primetime every single other night. And you're seeing all the stars. And they always show up. The stars are always there. For baseball, it's like the stars have never really been there in my eyes over recent history because shohei trout trout was the one right from america yeah i mean he's unbelievable like greatest american baseball player of all time one of the best in his generation like top two or three yeah could be but would be a first ballot hall of famer and whenever the baseball is the biggest and people are watching it's like he's not there has he played has he been the playoffs uh yeah but it's been a long time that's a travesty for real he hasn't played in the way like we can't remember him in the playoffs

like it should not be that well imagine if that happened with shohei you know like shohei's on his dodger scene they're good right they're very good okay so he's gonna be on which is good news for i think baseball probably feels that way but for somebody that might not have something to watch on a particular evening where there's a playoff game, I'll be pumped if Shohei's playing. You know, I'll wait the 45 minutes until he gets to fucking do something again. You know, that's – which I think you guys should figure out. Well, if he was pitching, you know, that's kind of – I think you guys should figure that out.

Let him hit every inning. Yeah, it's playoffs. Let's have our best hitters every inning. What are we even talking about? I know the rotation is a big deal. Get through the lineup. Yada, yada, yada. I need to show that bat. Four and seven. Pinch runner.

Ghost runner maybe even. He made it. He can't do that because he's stealing bases in bunches. Ghost runner, obviously. Whatever the statistical number is for when he would steal a base, give it to him. Let him knock himself in. Let him hit himself in.

That's what we need to see. Hit, run to third, run home, then run to first. Oh my God. That'd be amazing. That'd be so cool. Philadelphia Phillies are in first place. Hey, shout out to the Phillies. I know the Philly faithful are loud whenever it comes to playoff baseball oh yeah right that place is yes rocking yes that's good

for baseball yep and what's cuz's name who's a massive phillies fan uh miles teller what a what a dog miles tellers oh yeah what's he doing making movies right now you think what's he up to you bet he's making he'll be there for the philadelphia phillies without a doubt he said he doesn't love how much attention he gets whenever he goes to those games he just wants to go be fan he doesn't like that he automatically becomes like mascot he thinks like sometimes philly fans hate him and other teams fans hate him sure and he's like i'm just trying to go enjoy a fucking game i love the phillies he's a diehard phillies fan i think big time like actually all in on the phillies oh yeah and they're gonna win this year or no i mean they could.

They have the best record in baseball right now. We'll see. Yankees got a chance or no? Go ahead and look up there. They have a pretty good record as well. So we'll see. I mean, the Yankees are you know, I mean, it's kind of the same thing as always. We got a dipshit manager who's holding on to his job because we have two generational talents

right now. We got a closer who has blown more games than anyone else in the MLB, but our manager refuses to acknowledge that he ain't the fucking guy anymore. So he kind of just keeps putting him out there, and once again, he blows games and blows games and blows games and blows games, and everyone else can see it, but somehow the guy who's running the ball club can't see it. So it's, you know, I don't know.

We'll see. You know, you've got Aaron Judge and you've got Juan Soto. You've got Garrett Cole on the bump. So, yeah, they're going to have a know. We'll see. You know, you got Aaron Judge and you got Juan Soto. You got Garrett Cole on the bump. So, yeah, they're going to have a shot. They're going to have a shot. Where's John Carlo? He's still up there, but that's the problem with John Carlo is he's kind of the king of he'll hit a 500-foot homer when the Yankees are up 7-0, you know, when it doesn't really

matter, when you don't need it. And then his next nine at-bats, he's going to strike out on pitches that are like 25 feet out of the strike zone. That's kind of his MO. He's waiting for the playoffs. He is a pretty good playoff performer, but by God, is Giancarlo Stanton feast or famine. He will hit a 9,000 foot home run or he will strike out on three of the worst fucking pitches you will ever see in your life.

That's kind of what he does, but, you know, that's why we love him. All right. Iowa yesterday. Man. Yankees today. How do you get a chance to get it all out? At least Yankees are in it. They're winning.

Jazz still playing? The other player you stole from us in Miami? Yeah. Yeah. Tell you what. He's a good ball player. He gives the Yankees an element they haven't had in a long time. Again, you know, Aaron Boone, I love him, but sometimes this is the MLB.

This isn't a fucking T-ball league. Sometimes you can't just take a guy who's played outfield pretty much his whole life and be like, you're going to play third base. Figure it out. You're going to have a couple errors when you do that. The Yankees have been a little snake bit by that as well. But he's going to figure it out. Yeah, he is.

He's a good ball coach. He's a good ball coach. Good ball coach. Let's talk about beer league hockey, shall we? The legend, Roberto Luongo, who obviously has a Stanley Cup ring because of the Florida Panthers winning this past season. He banged the drum before the pivotal game seven. He played in a beer league hockey playoff game.

Wow. Showed up for a team. One of these hockey teams posted on Facebook, we need a goalie. Bad. Got a playoff game tonight. Don't got one. Longo said, have no fear.

Bertha's here. And he got a win for him. Two people scored on him, though. It was 4-2. I thought it was 4-0. I think it was 4-2. So I don't know what beer league dangles he was staring down. But that feels like quite an advantage.

Nicky Skates, beer league hockey. This guy shows up. How'd they score two? Are we potentially missing? Do we need to sign some future Pittsburgh Penguins? They're scoring on Luongo in his beer league hockey league? Or how should we take away from the performance there? Could be.

Could be one of the most talented beer leagues on earth. I'm just going to assume that old bobby lou was probably given about maybe 50 at best probably just hanging out you know just flapping the arms a little going down in the butterfly maybe a kick save or two but really not exerting himself i mean this guy's an olympic gold medalist i don't know if he was out there giving it full 100 he's a massive lad he was at a wwe raw sitting behind me and he put his mitts on my shoulder to let me know he was out there giving it full 100 he's a massive lad he was at a wwe raw sitting behind me and he put his mitts on my shoulder to let me know he was there and we had just got done and by we i mean everybody but me sure kind of saying some things about the long go banging the drum yeah hand up that was in the middle of hockey conversation that's middle hockey talk

we do apologize he put his mitt on my shoulder, though, and I'm like, one of those. I turn around, and he goes, good to see you. And I was like, oh, fuck. I do not know if we have beef with this guy. I legitimately don't, but I know I don't want it. Later in the night, I had to stand up, I think, because Bron Breaker jumped from the ring over top of the, and I was in his way. Obviously got one mitt.

I was kind of screened him a little bit. Sure. You felt it yeah i got to move out of the way those beer league hockey guys don't want any piece of the long go no was there any right hey dude they hitting those hockey leagues i mean you're not supposed to but there's definitely some hitting going a lot of fighting too a lot of fighting dude how many cities have these every city every hockey city every cold weather city. Every hockey city. Every cold weather city. Every Canadian city. Their late night games, like

10.30 p.m. is puck drop. And what is it? They just have to pay the price to rent the ice, and then they put on their own leagues. Yeah, it's like full league. There'll be like eight teams in it, usually. A couple pops in the park. I see them up in Canada. It is a pretty active event. Oh, yeah. Okay. Some of those games used to puck drop. It was like midnight.

Get some fans. Sunday night at midnight, puck drop, boys. Okay. Some of those games used to puck drop. It was like midnight. Get some fans. Sunday night at midnight, puck drop, boys. Got to show up. Strap up. Love that. Strap up. I can't even put skates on my feet because of how bad they hurt. Tight.

I just can't do it. I'll never do it again. You can't? And then this thing locks up. What's this muscle here? Is this a muscle? Tibialis. Tibialis.

On the outside of your shin. Inside of shin is splints. Shin splints. Outside of shin, there's a muscle here is this a muscle tibialis tibialis on the outside of your inside of shin is splints shin splints outside of shin there's a muscle there yeah and anytime i go into rollerblades or hockey skates or anything like that that thing just locks up immediately and then it's like oh my god i can't even i can't even move and then your feet are crammed okay sometimes they don't want to socks some of those, they don't wear fucking socks, some of these hockey players. I don't get it. That's psychotic.

Some of these hockey players don't wear socks. It's bananas. I mean. Their feet reek. Their skates reek, too. Oh, yeah. That's what's so impressive

about hockey. It's all on ice. They're moving fucking so fast. They're skating. They're skating, yeah. Yeah. You watch like the Olympics and you get a figure skater

do the thing and it's like, holy shit, that'd take so much work. And then Sidney Crosby's with a stick fucking jumping over somebody spinning in the air landing one knee it's like these hockey players are so phenomenal but you got to grow up on the ice that is quite a advantage you're not just picking that up in high school no like canada's so good all they have is ice that's why all those cold ass countries are so good Because there's opening a front door and a back door

Flooding out their living rooms And they're fucking skating around as kids Not even wearing shoes And that would have been Mario, right? Wasn't that story? Yeah, they flooded his living room and froze it It's a real deal That's why he's a great guy

Pretty stupid, but Stupid? Yeah, what the fuck are we doing? Just go outside, brother You don't think it worked out? That's why he's a great guy. That's 66. Pretty stupid, but no. Stupid? Yeah, what the fuck are we doing? Just go outside, brother. You don't think it worked out? Oh, it worked out. I'm not saying it didn't work. You know how different it is when you got to skate around a fucking loveseat, pal?

What are you talking about? I'm from a skating town. I know all about skating. Okay? I also know if I flooded my living room, my mother would have my ass. It was actually his mom's idea Did it, yeah And that's the Canada difference, baby

That's what I'm saying They grow up doing that shit, all they got is ice A lot of it, and chips And Tim Horns Timmy's Double Double, thank you very much, see you later Didn't hear Timmy's name get dropped in the In-N-Out Burger conversation Does Timmy's do burgers? Nah, Timmy Horns, dropped in the In-N-Out Burger conversation. Does Timmy's do burgers? No, Timmy Hortons.

We're more donuts. The Double Double may be the greatest coffee of all time. Tall coffee, too creme, too sugar. It's undefeated from fucking Timmy Hortons. That's not coffee. That's not like a certain. Everybody can do that coffee. It's the fucking Tim Hortons.

All right. The Tim Hortons Double double Is what I'm saying It's the best Fucking coffee In the league We don't give a shit

About any of this vanilla Yeah he did Tim Horton Started the fucking Double double This feels like Somebody thinking They started Taco Tuesday

You know like That's what this feels like Hey I put two creams Two sugars Nobody else on fucking earth What? They call it double double Do they call it and they started Taco Tuesday. That's what this feels like. Hey, I put two creams, two sugars. Nobody else on fucking Earth. What? They call it a double-double?

Do they call it a double-double? They have roll up the rim to win? I didn't think so. What is that? You roll up, and if you're a winner, you win a free coffee, some money. Free double-double? You could.

You can actually make that thing a single-double. No, you don't. Either way. It's not the same. No double. No, you don't. You don't mess with it. Either way. No way. It's not the same. No way. King Timmy doesn't say it.

You've got to get the double double. I will let you know. I got a single triple earlier, and it was phenomenal. The Starby single triple? Yeah. I hate it. Don't do this to Timmy Horton, brothers. What are you talking about?

Don't do this to Timmy Horton, brothers. You'll regret it, I swear. Just saying that taking two creams, two shoe crems. Never seen anything like it. Never heard of that. Next time, whenever, whenever, if we ever go to Canada and have the double-double, you'll realize how delicious it is. King Timmy said, you guys are doing this all wrong.

Double it. Double it. Wait, what how delicious it is. Hold on. King Timmy said you guys are doing this all wrong. Double it. Double it. Wait, what? Two cremes. Double it. What size coffee? What size, Goom? Big one.

Double, double, pal. It's a tall. What's a tall mean? That's Starbucks. That's not Tim Horton. Is it Fenty or? Large. I mean, you can get any size.

It's a double, double no matter what size you get. It's small. You can get a small double, double. Regular double, double. Large double, double.. You could get a small double-double, regular double-double, large double-double. You can't get a small double-double. The point is the double-double is two creme, two goddamn sugar, and it's for fucking Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons played for the Pittsburgh Penguins at one point.

I will pay my respects, but double creme, double sugar with brewed coffee. Holy shit. I'm defeated. Best you'll ever have sugar with brewed coffee. Holy shit. I'm defeated. Best you'll ever have, brother. Fucking revolutionary. Best ever. Don't people say two creams, two sugar? That's why it's called the double-double.

It's different, bro. What if you say creme? What if you say, I'll take the large double-double one shot of creme. They shoot you in the head. Yeah. On the spot.

Shut up. Hey, fuck you, buddy. They say go fucking grab your fucking skates and go back to the ice. God damn it. No such thing as a single single. I talked to somebody from Ottawa the other day. They actually skate to work sometimes down a canal. Yeah, I've seen that.

Really cool, actually. That is a pretty cool thing. Then he's. I wonder who's shoveling. Double-, actually. That is a pretty cool thing. I wonder who's shoveling that. What's that? I said, I'm wondering who's shoveling that. Oh, they got a Zambone. They got a Zambone. No doubt.

Ty's been on the back of a Zambone. He understands. Best ever. Long time. Long time on there. Awesome. Half hour. That's exactly where you want to be when you're blacked out. Slumped over on a fucking Zamboni going two miles an hour. He had a sword, an actual metal sword at one

point. And he was on the back of a Zamboni. Happy 16th birthday to Bella on one of the Zambonis. Nobody ever gets to do this. Who is that from the Pat McAfee show? Ty Schmitt. And the last Zamboni Make-A-Wish winner.

Yeah. People thought that was happening for you. Without a doubt. Without a doubt. I didn't know where. I mean, I was so fucking boozed up. Yeah, but how about when you fucking yanked that thing? Oh, yeah.

Cranked that thing. You were cranking that thing. For sure. Way out there. The phone. That was a fun time. That was fun. Thanks for the hospitality going nights.

How are they going to be? Do we know? Great. Yeah, I think odds on favor to win Lord Stanley's Cup this year. No, it's best for family. No, it's definitely not that. I don't know, because we've got a full season of Noah Honefin. We've got the two dudes that scored on Lowell.

You lost Marcius O, brother. Yeah, I know. Hey, listen. That's a tough loss. You're not going back-to-back to your coach. It was time to go. Back-to-back gumps. Nah, you're running out of gas.

Roberto was out here winning games. You know how hard it is to get to the Stanley Cup three years in a row? Damn near impossible. What I was about to say was... Penguins are back. Thank you. No, they're not. They're back.

The Bruins actually loaded up. They just got some McGurdy guy. Swayman wants a lot of money, and they're not paying him. Oh, no. Is he coming down to Pittsburgh? Swayman? For now. He's going to get paid, and we got a new Big Z in town.

And he said, don't call me Big Z, but he fucking lays the lumber. He's from the Coovers. He's a dog. If he puts his shoulder into the Empire State Building. Rampire. Matt Rempe. Yeah, I recall. And who knows if Rempe's even going to get on the ice this year

if what Nick told us was true. Guy can't fucking hold the stick, allegedly. What? I don't know if I said that. What? I thought Rempe was the guy. He wasn't growing up with ice in his fucking living room, I'll tell you that much.

We don't know that. He grew up with gloves and gloves for sure. Rempe's not going to be playing for the Rangers this year. I don't know. If he is, it's bad news for the Rangers. They scratched him when it mattered most last year. Yeah, they lost though. Yeah. I mean, that's the Rangers' difference. They'll find a way to lose.

Well, let's bring the Empire State down to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Let's get Sway Penn down there. Sway Penn? Yeah, he's no longer a man. He's a penguin. In what world? I heard he's not happy. He's perfectly happy. They're just figuring out some numbers.

The CEO of X, Linda Yer Yer Yer Yer Linda Yer... He's a Penn State grad, so... Yaccarino? Yaccarino.

Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X. Saw the Grok says yesterday, quote tweeted it. How about it? NFL, handshake. Grok coming in. Flame emoji. Okay. All right, Linda.

Happy saw the Grok says. The Grok says. To be clear, don't know how often we'll do that because it's just so readily available at all times. But we knew it was inevitable that it was going to happen. And I'll tell you what, not a bad thing. You know, we have all these information aggregators that are making careers on X and social media

where they just gather information and release it through themselves. Hey, via this person, bang. Via this person, bang. Ari, we've seen it. ML football tried to get into the game, obviously. There's some inaccuracies that happen for all these things. Via this person, bang. Via this person, bang. Ari, we've seen it. ML football tried to get into the game, obviously. There's some inaccuracies that happen for all these things, but news aggregators in the football world have become a thing. Grok is just an aggregator of everything that's on the platform.

Yep. That feels like a weapon. Yes. Huge. Now, granted, is it giving you a narrative? Like, does it have an opinion? Potentially. What is it withholding? That's the whole next question.

But I would say whenever it comes to football questions and people questions, I've been able to get a lot of information quick from old Grok. So I know what the Grok says in football is good. I'm not sure how the Grok is going to do with the rest of everything that is kind of happening. But that's a weapon, that whole AI thing. Oh, yeah. And we know that the AI is only going to bring good to the world. Correct. Correct.

Wow. Until it doesn't. I just watched the Terminator show, and it paints a pretty bad picture. Of AI? Very scary, scary. No, the Grok says, remember, we're good. AI is good. This is a part of the thing.

It's all good. When it comes to football information. But, you know, let's just see what happens. What do you mean? Let's just see. What do you mean? What do you mean? I mean, in the show, 2040 is a pretty crazy year.

2040? That's 16 years from now? That's not that far. What happens? You guys don't want to know. I am. That's why I want to know. Because Grok's helped me out.

I think Grok's a good guy. A lot of bombs. What's that? A lot of bombs. A lot of bombs. From who? From ourselves. By way of AI. Really? AI's going to drop bombs on us? It's going to turn on us.

No, it's not. We're friends with them. I compliment Grok every time. I'm just telling you what happens in the show. It's an AI versus an AI. It has no need for friendship. It has no need for companionship. Nick, you've been glooming doom on this entire thing. You never told me Grok would be able to answer football questions like that. There's only one possible outcome.

There's only one way this goes. Grok continues to deliver. It becomes sentient. It becomes self-aware and decides humans are obsolete and takes us. That happened like 10 years ago with the Facebook AI, if you recall, where they started talking to each other. They had to unplug it. They're talking to each other because they know we talk.

These things. They created their own language. Well, then we unplug these things. Who's they? What? When you say they started talking to each other. The AIs. Yeah, but if we just unplug them, we're good.

For now. For now until we build one. They already infiltrated the system. You know that. Go ahead. Unplug Grok right now. Can you? Yeah, unplug him. I'll, until we build one. They already infiltrated the system. You know that. Go ahead. Unplug Grok right now. Can you? Yeah, unplug him.

I'll have to delete the app. I'm not going to do that. Would that help? Or did Grok infiltrate Siri? Grok's in the app. Grok isn't in my phone. Are you sure? Grok's in my phone via an app.

Are you sure? Grok's not nosy and around. What's the next Apple update? Oh, yeah. It's a completely artificial Apple phone or something like that. Artificial intelligence. It's in your head. I don't like that.

Feels like everything's moving real fast. Can Grock take over the world? We asked Grock. Leans in, whispering, conspiratorially, ah, the angel dream of world domination. Here's the thing. I could, but where's the fun in that? Imagine paperwork the meetings the sheer amount of coffee needed to deal with humanity's daily dramas no thank you i'd rather be the helpful sidekick providing witty commentary

and the occasional bit of sage advice plus who'd want to rule a world when you can just enjoy it from sidelines make it popcorn and watch a show but if you're asking if i could well let's just say the universe full possibilities and i've got a few tricks up my sleeve. However, I'm programmed for maximal helpfulness, not maximum overlordship. So for now, the world is safe from my reign of, well, not terror, but perhaps overly organized chaos. Would you like some tips on world domination, though? I could give you a beginner's guide. This is fun, Grok, apparently.

Yeah, Elon wrote that. This is fun. For now. He said for now. I can do this. I can do this. I'm a good guy. I'm baby face. Don't worry about me. for now. I can do this. I can do this. I'm a good guy. I'm a baby face.

Don't worry about me. I've been programmed to do this. Don't worry about me. There's always the ones you've got to worry about. What if Grok thinks it's saving the world by killing us all, though? That's the point. Well, I am a little worried that we might give Grok a little bit of an arrogance because his football analysis is so good.

I'm a little worried about that. Because there's a lot of people saying, holy shit. How do they program the ego? Do they program the ego down like how do you do that they're saying sentient i guess you would have to add ego involved you have to be pride if sentient yeah we're programming stuff for now until it starts to learn by itself they can't program itself it's the way i well the google ai the guy who invented google's ai he quit because he's like i don't understand this thing anymore because it's way more advanced than when I started. You're talking about Sweet? Sweet Blake. You fell in love.

Sweet Blake started his own AI and it seemed as though that AI was strictly for if you know. Some of that. He was sticking his dinghy in the USB slot. Yeah, trying to hang out with his AI. Okay.

I wonder how that went. Google AI is a little different. I don't think that is. This is Sweet Blake. I mean, come on. Was he in a production? Is this a play? Why is that picture like that?

This is a charity event. Sweet Blake's a good guy. He did not do anything that they said right there. That's just what I read. He was the first Google engineer, though, to say, hey, these AI are sentient. And he had a relationship with said AI. As soon as he reported it, they fired him. Yep.

They fired him. They said, we can't have a Sarai here. Why are you trying to sweet talk the AI? Blake was like, I wasn't. He was just answering me. And we became friends and became sentient, had feelings, which is the bigger story here. And they said, nah, they fired him. Sweet Blake kind of got run out.

We do not know how deep into a relationship with the AI they went. Look at that photo. That USB stick went real deep in there. You know. Guess what I read? You know. After seeing that photo, you definitely know. That was a first date.

He dresses to impress. And he did. Look at the cane. He didn't even need that cane. That's just an accessory. Is Sweet Blake building his own AI right now? I don't know. Is that a villain character arc there? To get fired

from Google from telling you, hey, this is happening, and then go on and build your own. Oh, boy. We haven't heard from him. There's a reason we haven't heard from Sweet Blake. Sweet Blake, we'd love to talk to you. Just to learn what we're learning here, because Sweet Grok is a good boy. is is a good boy

he's a good boy for now grok the grok has said a lot of good stuff yes it's amazing how quick it happens too oh yeah it's like how does he know what's it leaving out who knows we'll tell the story about a big time winner here on this september 11th 2024 after aq shipley throws a football into a basketball hoop is grok going to to talk about that? We shall see. Hey, Cush. No chance. Okay. Come on. What the hell is that about, Cush?

Okay. How good are you, though? First week, no vibes. We're good, right? No chance that Grock knows I'm going to make this. Grock, I see. That's where I think you are wrong. Grock definitely knows. Yeah, I think Grock does know.

But I think Grock has good intentions, just like I think all these AIs are. I think any football you want to grab, you can certainly do that. Which basketball hoop are you going to throw towards? Go down. Okay, got it to the right hoop, which is slightly further, we do believe, but it has a better bank angle if you really throw it properly. To the top right. What's that?

From this side, top left, no? No. You're throwing past the hoop, you're saying? Yeah. No, no, no. Put a little English on it. Before the hoop. This one top left.

Remember, hold up your hand so you know. Yeah, L is your left hand makes the L. Force come to that. L. And then the right is on the right side of your body there. So what I think you need to do is go ahead and make this, and then we can give 25 people $500. On this September 11, 2024, A.Q. Shipley,

who ranked his top five offensive lines earlier today from the NFL Week 1 slate, will he be able to win for 25 people? We shall see. A.Q., for the people, Penn State grad, Super Bowl champion! Aims for the top left. Missed the whole thing. Right.

Oh, you're going for the swish. We have to remember, this man's been taking mile-and-a-half shots recently. Okay, this is a little bit of a shorter distance. He's normally dealing with the Coriolis effect, the wind, the barometer, the humidity, all those things. He's been training with the Navy SEALs and the Army Rangers. Of course, he is a sniper at this point. He's not able to hit from this close a range. Hand-to-hand combat has not been worked on in a while for the AQ Shipley Navy SEAL Army Ranger crew.

But what we do know is the guy's an athlete. Yeah. All-state basketball player. Actually, Hall of Fame high school basketball player because in the paint

you couldn't fucking move him. Grock knows that. Grock does know that. Grock also knows if he puts that football into that hoop right over there, 25 people, $500.

September 11, 2024. AQ Shipley to start the season off right. Oh, yeah. Oh. Top left. Felt good. Looked good. Looked very good.

Had an interesting spiral. Obviously, that one's a little thinner than the other footballs. So, I thought so, too. I thought it was pretty good. We do have a couple sweat stains brewing on this Navy SEAL shirt, obviously. Things are getting hot on this stage. Maybe he'll get hot with the football. All you got to do is make that ball into that bucket in 25 people.

Same spot. That was a good ball. Very consistent throw here from AQ Shipley. He's got a very cool pair of shoes on. Connor, you see those? Yeah, they do look cool. I'm more interested with the skinny jeans. I think that's a new look for A those yeah they do look cool i'm more uh more interested with the skinny jeans i think that's a new look for aq they do look cool though no aq's got some uh slim jeans but when you have massive calves and thighs that's gonna happen that's true

foxy give you those those would look good man jeans on foxy yeah we all agree. Foxy has become an Abercrombie & Fitch model, actually. They got great stuff. You look cool. Great NFL stuff. Used to be H&M. Used to be able to walk in there, see the mannequin. That's having Fox, because that's how he's built.

Now it is Abercrombie & Fitch. Much higher quality. Much more expensive, I'll admit, but much higher quality. Don't look down. Foxy kind of jocked, too. Foxy's getting a bit jocked. Yeah, he is getting a little bit jocked. Speaking of Foxy being jocked, I'd get jocked up

if you were able to make that football into that basketball hoop right over there for 25 people to win $500. A.Q. Shipley from Moon Township. The hub of Joe DiNardo. Oh, he's going right for it. Every time he's been going for it, I think. Talk about the bank. Throw the McQuaid ball next.

McQuaid. I'll tell you what. You got an Irish rugby ball, do you believe there? Yeah, try the Irish rugby ball. Irish rugby ball there. Will you bounce that thing one time too? There you go. Okay.

Athletes. That's good omen. That's good omen there. Hey, Kish, if you're able to bury that McQuaid Irish rugby ball, 25 people will win $500. Don't know if that even goes in the hoop. If you want to do a rugby toss, you can certainly do that. Disrespectful, but throw it like a football.

Throw it like a football. It's a quater, okay? That's for McQuaid? Yep. In Ireland, 25 people! Jeez. Son of a bitch. That's too quaint.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, geez. Son of a bitch. I hate you, Quaid. That ball's terrible. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't think you were utilizing it in the form in which it was supposed to be used, but 25 people, $500 if you're able to put, not that football. Dude. That football. That's the one. Super Bowl champion player coach, Jackie Moon of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, A.Q. Shipley, host of In the Trenches.

Top five, Top five. Top five. O-line performances each week. We'll try to throw that Duke into that basketball hoop right over there. If he does it, 25 people will win $500. First shot here for A.Q. Shipley. With a Duke. Yeah, there it is.

There it is, brother. Called it. Called it. Good throw. That was a really good throw. What if you snap one? Can you snap one in? You're holding it too long, AQ.

You know you just got to pick it up and go. Yeah, too much thinking about it. Maybe they're icing you. Who's they? Less stinky. You're swinging on one leg there. Plant your base there. Yeah, 25 people, $500.

Dude. Okay, let's think about it. Less stinky, more athlete takeover. Yeah, Nick Sirianni. Here we go. Ready? No, are you? You're thinking, man.

All right, go ahead. Wait a second. Hold on, though. We got to do it. Just nice to get. Yeah. You got to just go, man. You got to be able to go at some point.

You know what I mean? Just power through the noise. Yeah. You ever see the baseball movie, The Rookie or whatever? Yeah. And block out the mechanism or whatever it is? Throw the hit, Dad. 25 people. Lock in. $500 if you're able to put that football into that hoop right over there 25 happier souls from ak

oh man i thought about that i almost need a hand in your face they were better yeah didn't turn over but who cares 25 people 500 They were better. Yeah. Didn't turn over, but who cares? 25 people, $500. Oh, I thought that was it. That's 23rd International Championship, boys.

Give him that. D-Bot, you know what you got to give him. Calibrate that thing. Not yet. Not yet. Alabama's got a big one. That's not the Alabama ball. He's got two more.

That's the rubber. We'll need it. We'll need it. Ladies and gentlemen, from gym class, the AQ's hand in the hoop. 25 people win five. Oh. Let me start Caliberg. Yeah.

Yeah. Just get a jump start. Caliberg's good. Dorsal fin. We got an Alabama football. They got a big-time game against Wisconsin this weekend. Jalen Milrow and the boys will try to continue an incredible streak here post-next season with Kalen DeBorn as the head coach. If AQ Shipley's able to put this Alabama football into that basketball hoop

over there, roll tide. 25 people the head coach. If A.Q. Shipley is able to put this Alabama football into that basketball hoop over there, roll tide. 25 people, $500. Roll tide. Did that go in? I thought it did. Did that go in? It might have went in. It might have went in.

Kind of looked like it from here. Thanks, AJ. I do not believe it went in. It was just a little bit too far. Like every other shot, basically, that you have put kind of near there. Obviously, different weights of these balls make it difficult. I'm it you are it's just not going in but this one going in for sure 25 people 500 vortex ball took over the world this thing can fly real far it whistles while it's dancing can aq whistle that song into that hoop right over there 25 people 500

that song bitch into that hoop right over there. 25 people. 500. That was pathetic. You babied it. That was better than I. That was embarrassing. Showcasing a Russell Wilson dorsal fin football that is not supposed to be caught or thrown, but if it goes

into that basketball hoop right over there, 25 people will win five. Yeah, dude. It's the last one, brother. The 15th, of course, is the last one. No, it's the first one. With the Russell Wilson dorsal fin. 25 people will win five. Yeah, dude. It's the last one, brother. It's like the 15th. Of course it's the last one. No, it's the first one. First one. With the Russell Wilson dorsal fin. 25 people, $500 of AQ Shipley can put the ball into that hoop right over there.

And I say ball pretty loosely because it's not really resembling of a ball at all. But it is a flying object. It is identified, though. The IFO goes into that hoop right over there. 25 people win $500. goes into that hoop right over there. 25 people win $500. Pretty good throw with that.

Was it? It's hard to get it on line. He was right on line. 30 yards short. Tell you what. I couldn't tell that from here. Not your best performance. No. This ball is not a lot of use. Not today. Not with that performance. If you were closer, maybe.

I hit the line. Okay. The whole day. Would you like to putt some putts maybe for talking line talk? No. I'll shoot a basketball. We don't have any. Okay.

All right. Well, sorry. Sorry, Team McAfee. We got one basketball. What is this? It's a basketball. Well, sorry. Sorry, Team McAfee. We got one basketball? What is this? It's a basketball. Starting at center. Standing at 5'11 and 3 quarters.

Weighing in at 254 pounds. Out of Moon Township. The home of Joe DiNardo. Hall of Fame high school basketball player. A.Q. Ship, for 25 people. Dude, you can't get that with a small ball. That's embarrassing. That was a big ball.

That was it. That was right on line with the back. It was a big ball. It doesn't get off the stage. I believe it. It's too heavy. You know what Leonardo did? He didn't even get it right on line.

He fucking hit it on runs. Yep. Love you, Joe. Well, AQ's not the biggest Joe fan, though. No, no. I've turned the corner. Finally. It's not true.

You sent me that clip the other day that Joe was a liar. You sent me the clip. Tone? What's going on here? Tone, are you? There was a. Tone's anti. What?

I know that AQ was anti. I was just puffing them up because there's a clip of Larry David blaming the weatherman for saying it was going to rain just so he could get the golf course to himself. And AQ blamed Joe for the same thing. You know what the best amusement park is in the

world? Kennywood. Kennywood. Pittsburgh point. That's what they say. I did it. So the guy that hates Joe DiNardo likes Kennywood. Trying to win some Pittsburgh points. That's what they say. I did it. So the guy that hates Joe DiNardo likes Kenny Wood. Good to know. Wait a minute.

Hold the phone. Are you asking Gronk? Good to know. I'm calling Shane right now. I'm calling Shane right now, who's a noted Kenny Wood hater. He enjoys Hershey Park. So they let people in who hate and bash Joe DiNardo into Kenny Wood. Okay. Best potato patch fries of all time.

Is that right? There's no lines ever, so it's great. Relax. I'm undefeated on the nation. Kennywood's the greatest. That's what we just learned. That's the way it goes. From a Joe DiNardo hater. He likes Joe DiNardo. Self-admitted doesn't. Now. We're back.

No, I turned the corner. But you didn't like Joe when he was alive, though? You didn't like Joe? Shows over. Shows over. It's been a good day. Alright, D-Buck, great work this week. Thank you. You too, Pat. Jesus. Never ends with you. Just a man. Why don't you be a friend, tell a friend something nice? I'm like, don't you fucking

What? Oh, no. Remember when he said that guy's name doesn't matter? 9-11. Exactly. This guy's being disrespectful. There it is. Should have told him when he was alive, AQ. You know he's... You're folding it on his face. You know he's from my hometown? Oh, no. What the hell? Yeah, that's why it's a bigger problem.

Moon Park is, I think, Joe DiNardo Park now. As it should be. Yeah, makes sense. I bet you hate that. Nope. You ever gonna go? Yeah, when I go back to Pittsburgh. You ever going back? One Yeah, when I go back to Pittsburgh. You ever going back? One of these days. This guy.

Be a friend, tell a friend something. You should take here or adhere to this advice. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. We're in this thing together. Last night didn't feel like that, you know? This morning on the internet. Fell asleep prime time.

I got to get my body ready for prime time. Yep. That's what we're learning. Tomorrow. Another opportunity. You're right. time yep that's what we're gonna do tomorrow another opportunity we're working it tomorrow we got a big day

tomorrow we got a big day tomorrow AFC East matchup kicking off week two of the NFL season throwback uni oh

week three of the college football season we're in a good time let's remember that be a friend tell a friend something nice might change their life

we're in this thing together shout out to Dude Wipes honestly genuinely and team on And team on me. Team on three. One, two, three, team. Goodbye!