The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1295 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, Super Bowl LIV Recap, Adam Schefter, Bradley Cooper, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys overreact and recap everything that happened in Super Bowl LIX, that saw the Eagles dominate the Chiefs in all three phases of the game en route to a 40-22 victory including Jalen Hurts’ MVP performance despite Saquon not having his best day, Vic Fangio’s defense turning in a stellar performance that included six sacks, and three takeaways including a pick 6 from rookie CB Cooper DeJean on his birthday, plus everything else about the game, the halftime show, and the commercials. Joining the progrum to wrap up the season and answer a few burning questions that will remain throughout the offseason is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Later, 12x Oscar Nominee, one of the biggest stars on earth, actor, writer, producer, director, and Philadelphia Eagles super fan, Bradley Cooper joins the show to chat about leading the team onto the field, his emotions in the aftermath of the win, when he felt comfortable the game was in hand, where that ranks in a list of his other career accolades and accomplishments, how Danny & Coop’s came to be, what he’s working on right now, if he’ll be going to the parade, and much more. 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’re going to take a few weeks off to recharge, thank you for riding with us all season long. We’ll be back for the NFL Combine. Be safe, and see you then. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdome. On this Super Bowl overreaction Monday, February 10th, 2025, this program starts now. Football! It's amazing and yesterday we celebrated the hell out of that in a blowout game that saw us crown brand new world champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. The commercials were obviously a part of the discussion. The blowout was obviously a massive piece of it. And now people are wondering if there is a goat in sight for the Kansas City Chiefs. It's gotten loud on the internet with how big of a blowout that particular game was.

A lot of people taking a lot of shots at the Kansas City Chiefs. A lot of people have been waiting for this moment to bury the Kansas City Chiefs. What we'd like to say to Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Chris Jones, and the boys over there, hey, congrats on a hell of a year. AMC champions still yet again. I think they've been to six out of the last seven Super Bowls or something like that. What you're talking about in Kansas City is absolutely iconic. It is absurd.

And we assume they'll rebuild and be back next year in the same exact conversation with that being said Philadelphia hoisting the Lombardi is an absolutely beautiful Thing coach Sirianni who has questioned all year was able to rally the boys Jalen hurts who can't throw threw it all over the yard say Kwan Barkley who was a New York giant learn about his story a Little bit during the Fox lead-up coverage a Fox did a great job I thought without doubt the Fox did a great job with the lead-in coverage. It's like five hours, different pieces, different stories, different superstars,

a lot of this, a lot of that. I mean, Gronk interviewing Travis Kelcey, brilliant. Tom Brady interviewing Patrick Mahomes, brilliant. Them having all the pieces that they have there, beautiful. I thought Fox did a great job in the coverage leading up, but I also learned a lot about Saquon in high school whenever he, yeah I think he went to Zephyr or something like that I believe was the name Z-E-P-H-Y-R. Don't know if that was a school or the name of the team so apologize for that, but when

he was a sophomore he was too small they said. He was too small whenever he was a sophomore in high school. Then he put him on the field first place, gone. And all of a sudden the head coach said I should have been playing this guy a little bit earlier and then that's all she wrote. Right through high school, right into Penn State where he was jumping all over people, all over the place. He actually talked about an Oklahoma drill, James Franklin. And I think we all saw it go mega viral.

Where there's an offensive lineman, a linebacker, and then I believe a safety. And somehow the defense just demolished everybody that was blocking them. And it was Saquon Barkley versus four defenders with his teams all around him in like a five yard radius space. Saquon, boom, shakes the entirety, scores. And while he's scoring, he jumps through the end zone.

His entire team goes crazy. He has always been beloved by his teammates, always been electrifying. Nobody knew though, if you could ride a running back in a run game in 2025, 2A Super Bowl, they did. They absolutely did. Now his worst game obviously comes in a run game in 2025, 2A Super Bowl, they did, they absolutely did. Now his worst game obviously comes in the Super Bowl because the defense was 100% focused on him.

They weren't gonna let him sneeze without being the first ones to say, God bless you, we hate you. He was all over the place all season. Last night he was contained, but that opened up for everybody else. And what Jalen Hurts was able to do with that offense was beautiful.

To the tune of 40 plus points in the Super Bowl, are you kidding me? Obviously Dotson catches the dot here, which leads to the tush-bush party. First points, first score, Jalen Hurts touched down. A lot of people thought that, Gabe Marantz gave it to us plus 450 on Friday as one of his guarantees to happen, but a lot of people were betting on that.

And what happened after that would be an onslaught of domination from this Philadelphia Eagles offense with AJ Brown getting in, Devontae Smith getting into the action, Goddard got into it and this guy, Jake Elliott, the kicker for the Philadelphia Eagles had a rough year, by far his roughest year since he's come into the NFL. But when the playoffs started, he goes back to being playoff Jake Elliott and goes absolutely ape shit, pure at every single kick. Then the exciting whites showed up in New Orleans in the second quarter where a rookie on his birthday, a Caucasoid named Bradley Cooper D'Gene, has a pick six against Patrick

Mahomes in his first ever year in the NFL and his first ever Super Bowl in the NFL. I mean, this guy living an absolute dream yesterday and from one thing to the next Patrick Mahomes is out of sorts because this Eagles defense want bananas. They want absolute ape shit and there's Zach Bond, potential defensive player of the year back in New Orleans when he played for the Saints He was just special teams guy. Now he's an absolute mega star for the Philadelphia Eagles. What we saw last night was an ass beating a drumming. It was something that the Chiefs had no answer for and even the biggest Chiefs fans had to give up hope in that third quarter. You know Patrick Mahomes could potentially make magic happen out of nowhere. That's part of his greatness.

Travis Kelsey can get open against anybody except for this Kansas Chiefs team. They had six eyes on Travis Kelsey damn near all the time and somehow they weren't able to get anybody else open. Somehow they weren't able to really go until late in the fourth quarter I think they had a total of 60 yards going into the third quarter after it all was said and done so what the Eagles defense did to a Kansas City Chiefs team that we thought was still gonna be in it they're down 20 plus we still think Patchwell is gonna do his thing smothered ended Jalen Hurts continued to make massive plays in the Philadelphia Eagles now our world champions once

Was a hell of a year, let's go to the talk to table at Boston Connor and that Ty Schmidt What kind of stood out to you last night comment? I think you're just the presence of say Kwan really like that last touchdown We just showed Devante Smith play action, you know, we've talked about the alumni section middle of the field They get a massive fourth down stop first thing you do do, hey, we're going to hand it to Saquon, he's our bell cow, you get all those linebackers sucked up and then boom, touchdown. And that kind of was all she wrote. There were multiple times where I thought, hey, the Chiefs might go, the Chiefs might go, that was kind of it. But Saquon's just presence, really. Of course he had what? Less than 60 rush yards,

he had 40 receiving yards, so still getting getting involved But just his entire story, you know kind of didn't almost got disrespected with some of the offers You can't pay this guy 13 million dollars Yeah You can because he fulfilled it probably better than anyone in the history of running back to the brand new team Just an incredible story for him from Philly a PA guy, you know goes to Penn State then wins it for the Eagles It was just incredible and the running back position is all the way back Yeah I think so especially if you got a super town like Saquon Barkley and the thing that adds to that story is he had two

Other offers that were bigger from somewhere else Two other teams had bigger offers to Saquon Barkley to come be there running back and he picked the Philadelphia Eagles Because of the offensive line because of the setup and because of the proximity to his home. I mean, I love whenever something works out how it's supposed to, and I think exactly how Saquon Barkley drew it up was exactly how this motherfucker worked out. He ends the season as the all-time leading rusher in a season

as the most amount of yards that any running back has ever had in a season. Now that obviously adds in the playoffs, but those are the most important games. So he has the best season a running back has ever had back in his hometown team That is in the division of the team that said I don't think we could pay you that amount of money Andy wins the super bowl. Congrats. I say quine you're right three touchdowns in the nfc championship game So like people who are you know, he was the favorite he was minus 190 to score a touchdown yesterday

Obviously didn't get him but like he got him there and he Yeah, he had some pretty cool highlights He did have some cool highlights. Put that in Madden even though Madden still stinks. Speaking about how? I don't know. I played it like yesterday. I was like, you know what? It's two o'clock Super Bowl's coming on. I might as well play the game the game, you know, I might as well see what's gonna happen Yeah, it still stinks. Okay. Well, hopefully they'll get that fixed out sometime That's that's been a while. They've been figuring it out, right? Yeah, they've been on their way. I hear they hear the fans they hear we hear what you guys are saying We're gonna get it fixed and they appreciate they do. Yes, they do

It's you who we work hard every single day for says Madden. Hopefully they get that worked out Hopefully they get that fixed out. But nonetheless, let's go to a quarterback now that will be a world champion forever, Tash. Yeah, it's very tough not to be impressed with Jalen Hurts leading up into the week. And it wasn't just AQ who was saying, hey, they can't beat these guys, regardless of how good their offensive line is. It's because of Jalen Hurts. Hembo put a stat out this morning of all quarterbacks who have played in at least two Super Bowls.

He's the only one whose completion percentage is over 70%. So I think he takes a lot of heat just for people being like, all he's gonna do is try to run. Like he can throw, like Jaylen Hertz actually can throw the football. And a lot of people don't like him. I don't know if it's his personality. I don't know if it's the way he carries himself or what. But he just, you know,

I mean, we talk about other people for the Eagles getting kind of shit on all season and, you know, just crucified pretty much like he was right there and you look at his stats and it's kind of weird. It's like, man, that like it almost doesn't add up, you know, I mean, but a lot of people said, hey, if they lose this game, it's because Jalen hurts couldn't get it done. He does not, you know, hold a candle to Patrick Mahomes in terms of the comparison between those two. He did whatever he wanted to. And every single time he had a rush lane, he took it and they didn't. They just had no answer for him.

So and we talked about the stat too. Any Super Bowl rematches, the quarterback who won the first matchup had been undefeated he's the first guy to actually go in there and beat the team that beat him the first time so hats off to him I mean I think people forget to he's only 26 years old like the Eagles are set up for a really long time now and then outside of him I'd just be remiss if I didn't say how proud and just how much pride I have in the fact that an Iowa guy Cooper's gene because I felt it all week. I really did. I said this guy's gonna score a defensive touchdown

He was a ball hawk You know like playmaker at Iowa He hadn't had a turnover all year and for him to get a pick six on his birthday in the Super Bowl as a rookie like An exciting white. You know, that certainly doesn't hurt, but like that dude's an Iowa legend. You know, like, I mean, the same vein, like Kurt Warner, he didn't go to Iowa, but you get it.

You know, it's like, people will talk about him forever and kids are going to grow up wanting to be Cooper DeGene. Like it's just as an Iowan, that's really sweet. Yeah, that is sweet. And shout out to Cooper having a mega football moment that he can cherish literally forever and sign autographs for forever as a rookie. So to say it's been a successful run,

I'd say yes for Cooper DeGene in that entire Philadelphia Eagles defense, nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler. Yes, sir. What was your big takeaway from last night? I mean, obviously you gotta start with the quarterback, so just kind of piggybacking off of what you said. Jalen Hurts is really the reason I became an Eagles fan just because of everything

he's done not only from the college level but since coming into the NFL. But even though he said it, defense wins championships and that's always the case. Vic Fangio has been in the league a long, long time. His first year was actually the year I was born, 1986. Wow, jeez. He was coaching the linebackers out in the Saints. The Dome Patrol, Ricky Jackson, a pohocke legend, Hall of Famer, Sam Mills, those guys, he was a the linebackers out in the Saints the dome patrol Ricky Jackson a pohocke legend Hall of Famer Sam Mills

Those guys he was a linebacker coach there and has been a defensive coordinator over 20 years in the National Football League now Was o and eight before this game against Patrick Mahomes and just coming to this game You know what Vic Fangio Brady mentioned a couple times in a broadcast. He's gonna play an umbrella defense covered for a shell He's gonna rally his defense defense covered for a shell. He's gonna rally his defense, gonna tackle, and he's gonna get after you with four pass rushers. And these pass rushers absolutely dominated the game from the beginning.

Milton Williams was a superstar, had two sacks, a strip sack late in the game. Josh, that was great, he had a couple sacks. Cooper DeGene, you mentioned the pick six. Obviously putting points on the board. Zach Bond had a pick deep into their territory, setting up for points as well. So coming to this game, you knew the ball was gonna be key,

taking care of the ball and taking away the ball. They obviously won that battle there. The first nine possessions, the Chiefs didn't pass midfield. So you're talking about an Andy Reid, a Patrick Mahomes, lead Chiefs offense that couldn't get past midfield. One of the most dominant performances I've ever seen

in the Super Bowl. So just hats off to this Philadelphia Eagles team and its defense specifically. Matt, Patricia last week, whenever he stopped by the program, he said, you go out through the history of the Super Bowl or the NFL. Any team that has the number one defense and the number one rushing offense wins the Super Bowl.

That is literally a recipe that has been entrenched in football since the beginning. If you can run the football, guess what you can do? You keep the other team off the field. And if you have good defense, guess what that means? Three and out. They're off the field even less. So whenever you talk about just strictly this being a possession territory sport, whenever

your defense is able to dominate the other team and hold all ground, and whenever your offense is able to just matriculate and methodically take your land. I mean, that's a winning recipe since the beginning of time in football. And I love the fact, and you know, I tweeted this last night. I love the fact that in 2025, a lot of things can be said about everything that has kind of happened over the last 10 years in our existence, okay, a lot of things.

In football, you're always gonna have to be tough. Like that is just how the sport requires it. Now there's gonna be some positions where less of it is required. For instance, I was a punter. Don't have to be as tough. Kickers don't have to be as tough. Long snappers, kinda getting targeted last night. Don't love that.

Don't love that that's probably his motion every single snap, and they called it probably don't have to be as tough. Still have to take hits, have to be tougher than a modern it it probably don't have to be as tough still have to take hits Have to be tougher than a modern human but don't have to be as tough but in football You got to be tough at some point You're gonna take a massive shot and you're gonna be expected to get right back up in the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles pride themselves On being dogs. Yeah, I guess what Nick Sirianni says were dogs over here. What does dogs mean? Well dogs probably means they're gonna be mentally and physically tough

Like that is what a dog mentality is. That is what Coach Sirianni has been just pressing out to the world and also to his players and to Hallie, as Hallie has pieced this team together in a fantastic way. Truly an epic performance by Hallie Rosen, building this team back up. You know, a few years back they went into Super Bowl. They get rid of everybody. They get rid of everybody, basically. He has to rebuild this thing.

New quarterback, new coach, new team, new vibes in the city. Everybody's expecting now championship because we already won it and that's Philadelphia in a hole. We don't have time for transition error. We don't have time for turnover. How are you going to do it? Well, he somehow manages to keep an identity. We're going to be a tough football team.

Finding dogs in free agency, in the draft, hitting home runs in the draft on a very regular basis whenever he's paying people or bringing people in. They need to fit our culture, everybody needs to be running the same direction with Sirianni, we'll kind of take care of. But also we're gonna bring in superstars, by far the best roster we've seen in the NFL in a long time. You know in college there's no cap, well yet. Allegedly a cap in a long time. You know, in college there's no cap, well, yet. Sure. Allegedly, a cap is coming, allegedly.

Yeah. But in college there's no cap, you can pay whoever, whatever. So the teams that paid the most, you saw them in the end of the college football playoff. I mean, that is, it's not just them either, it was other teams, but like, whoever paid the most, because you get the most amount of studs,

your team's probably going to be better than the other team. Now, I'm not saying studs always win, but if you get a bunch of studs and of studs, your team's probably gonna be better than the other team. Now I'm not saying studs always win, but if you get a bunch of studs and they buy in, that team's probably gonna beat a team that doesn't have studs and buys it. But now granted, I think teams can overperform with how much of a team they are. You get it is certainly a team sport,

but if you have a team filled with dudes that are making a shit ton of money because they're good at sports, you're probably having a better opportunity to win, which is why whenever 31 other teams fan bases go, pay them, get them, pay them, get them, pay them, get them. And your teams always say, we can't because it's salary cap, can't do that, can't pay this guy and also pay this guy. Howie's paid everybody, everybody on his team. Three of their offensive linemen are in the top 11 pays around the entire NFL. Three of them, that's just on the offensive line.

Let alone a quarterback, two wide receivers, running back, and then on the defensive side, having to do the same damn thing. Whenever you talk about putting together a roster, managing egos, managing expectations, you name it, what Howard Roseman and Sirianni have done over there with obviously Jeff Lohr at the top and Big Dom piezoning through the entirety of it all.

It's like congratulations to it all. Everywhere. It's like congratulations to them too. Congratulations. I hope they're enjoying the hell. I hope they are literally, you know, you reap what you sow and all that type of stuff. I hope they're enjoying what the hell they sow. That's not easy to do,

especially in the world that we're in. So congratulations to Howie putting a great team together and on paper going into the game. Everybody with a brain was like, this Eagles team. They're a lot better. You know, like whenever they do ranking for college football, they always look at the roster and it's like, well, this roster has this many five stars.

It has to be better than this roster. And you know, it's hard not to get caught up in that in college ball because you never know who's going to show up week to week. But in the NFL, it it's like this roster is healthy and this roster is loaded everywhere. They're in the Super Bowl, let's assume they like each other. Okay, let's assume they like each other at this point,

which is what a team has to have to be great. Have to have chemistry, have to, amongst the people you play with if you wanna make it to the Super Bowl. So it's like on roster, on paper, it was like this team's gonna win. This team right here has to win. This team might beat the shit out of this other team.

The blowout question you asked on Friday. Yeah, so we literally had that conversation. We said, do we think the Chiefs could blow out the Philadelphia Eagles? No. No. Do we think Philadelphia Eagles could blow out the Chiefs? Absolutely. Yes. Everybody said yes.

I think AJ actually brought it up, he'll be joining us here in a matter of moments. It's like, it was certainly possible, we just thought the Chiefs. Absolutely. Everybody said yes. I think AJ actually brought it up. He'll be joining us here in a matter of moments. It's like it was certainly possible. We just thought the Chiefs magic. Literally, that's if you were betting on the Chiefs, you were only thinking of the Chiefs magic and the Patrick Mahomes magic. And there was a couple moments where like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then all of a sudden, Eagles D-line just said, no, we ain't doing that shit. That ain't how we playing. A drop by D-hop here. Obviously, Travis Kelso not getting targeted as as much they consider that one a drop that I was at his ankles I don't know if 22 year old Travis would have been able to

get down to that but nonetheless he never got going just didn't look like the Chiefs that we thought could potentially make magic and get a win so insane run by them but what a team by the Eagles now let's go to one half of the hammer that Cowboys AP tone how the bets fall out from last night? the bets fell out well for the Public as far as the game was concerned Obviously everyone's hearts and souls wanted the Eagles to win and they and they bet like that over 60% of the bets were on the Eagles and boy it was like the wet band

It's it was a soak all night long from the first kick to the to the final whistle was Eagles all night There was never a worry in the world. The top five bets that were registered in the U.S. ranging from $400,000 to a million dollars were all on the Eagles. So those all did very well as well. Now the public got crushed a little bit in the prop market. You know, Saquon over did not hit. Mahomes over rushing attempts did not hit. Goddard over did not hit. Kelsey over did not hit. But as far as the game was concerned, everyone was on the Eagles and that was a soak, my friend.

Okay, so let's talk about your bets that you gave out last week. Because it felt like I saw a lot of Jaylen, a lot of Mahomes running. Yeah, things went well there. So we had the fourth quarter rushing yards for both quarterbacks. Those both went over.

Mahomes had seven. Jaylen had 17 and then Kenny came in luckily, so we didn't have to worry about the kneel down Thank you Kenny. I appreciate it always on your side both quarterbacks to complete their first pick it one super Kenny pick it ended the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagle think about that think about that who's doing victory formation fucking victory Kenny pick it Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles. Think about that. Think about that. Who's doing victory formation? Fucking victory, Kenny Pickett. That's right. Super Bowl champion, Kenny Pickett. Congratulations to him.

Especially with how it all went down in Pittsburgh, the place he went to school, literally was in the same building at University of Pittsburgh, and then with the Steelers, and then it ends with everybody saying, get him out of here. I don't think he deserved that.

Kenny Pickett was always good to us. Congratulations on being a Super Bowl champion, Kenny Pickett, and also him doing the kneelel downs didn't take away any rush yards from jail I'm sorry from yeah from Jalen. Yeah, okay, KP Congrats He's a guy you could have a beer with and save that bet both quarterbacks to complete their first pass, you know Let's get the drives going. Let's go there. We're good there. We got that one This wasn't on a graphic, but we had it when Gabe was on Drew Tranquil plus 750 leading tackler in the game That was a nice one there

We talked on Tuesday. We had Goddard Kelsey first drive those didn't work out Goddard had one the second drive, but we also said worthy worthy did have on the first drive So it was a nice little week for the the gambling on the show. Hey great work this year on the gambling to the hammer Boys, we appreciate you. Don't, good work back there, pal, even though you bet that Chiefs. Ooh. Oh, we had to do it. Had to ride till the end.

Gumpy just didn't want Vic Fangio over to win a Super Bowl. A lot of Dolphins fans, they're supporting Vic Fangio now, is that what I'm seeing? I think they were, and also the guy, Javon Holland kicked rocks when, we did the video kicking rocks when Vic left and went to the Eagles

He was saying how great he called a game last night. So that was awesome. Well, he's kicking Ross's he's upset. Yeah. Yeah He's actually one of the guys that wanted Vic gone. Oh, okay. Geez allegedly Allegedly we were I mean probably I don't know I do not fall in a situation close enough No, all I do know is the Dolphins fans were pumped that Vic Fangio was getting out of there We were having conversations about his Vic Fangio about the retires this thing done as long in the tooth this thing done He could retire now Super Bowl champ. I got it done. You said in 1986. He was doing 1986 It's his first year his first NFL gig in New Orleans actually he got a text from the dome patrol, too He said it was waiting for

him on his phone. That's awesome. How about Jalen Carter, Swag, what was his old buddy Milton? Milton Williams. He ran a what? 461. Yeah. Nolan Smith. 300 Pats. Yeah. Bryce Huff showed up. He could make some plays last night. I mean just that whole, especially in a world of where we get so caught up in exotics and overload blitzes and all these different things like Vic Fent, hey, this is the defense I run. This is how I coach it. This is how it's executed.

For everybody over there to buy in and to completely turn around that defense and what they are, who they are, and to put on a performance like this against a quarterback like that, just unbelievable, all time. You think about how the Eagles season ended last year, and then you think about how it ended this year

Yeah, vastly different instead of falling off. They picked up. Yeah, they played their best ball whenever they needed it Congrats to the Eagles. Maybe coach Sirianni isn't a Big dumb dipshit. Well Wait a second Yep, coach Ty Riani is stepping into a press conference right now actually Good afternoon everybody um First and foremost, I'd like to apologize. I haven't gotten very much sleep last night. I know you may be wondering coach I haven't gotten very much sleep last night. I know you may be wondering coach

Favoring your back big time as you throw it out celebrating throwing your hands in the air No, believe it or not It it does quite a number on your lower back and your whole back in general When you are carrying around two massive bowling balls in your jockstrap everywhere you go. That's right. I did it. Um, I believe I came out here not too long ago, told you guys, we are the best team in the NFL. We are going to win a Superbowl title to watch the game last night. You know, we might as well done in your squad scrimmage, me anything we wanted to do offense, defense, special teams, you name it.

We are the best team in the NFL and I don't wanna kind of take the parade route already but I knew it all along. I knew it all along. Listen, I could say a lot of stuff up here today. But I think first and foremost, drink that in everybody says hey go get you one of these guess what got one of these now granted this is the is the Super Bowl ring that I have made two years ago when we were in the last Super Bowl so this is kind of just this is my Monday ring I wear this on Mondays after

a big win I will be getting a new one or a real one if you will. This is just a placeholder. As far as what everybody said all year, listen I understand you're a head coach in a national football league. You're going to get scrutiny from the fans. You're going to get criticism from the fans and the media. If I could respond I would like to you know steal in the bridge line from one my favorite poets. Curious Jackson once said I know I'm here for a real reason because some of these coaches got hit like I got hit, but they ain't fucking breathing. And guess what? Fly Eagles fly. Not only are we breathing, we are soaring above the rest.

A lot of people talking about my contract going into the last year of my contract. Coach, what are you going to do? They wanted to fire you all year. You know, everybody at ESPN in the Philly media, all the fans, they wanted you fired. Sorry. Looks like I'm going gonna be around for a while and um I listen I'm not gonna get in the public contract negotiations that's not really my bag I'll save that for my agent but if Liam Cohen is making 14 million dollars down in Jacksonville I want 40 million a year.

And I think I'm entitled to that. Once again, not gonna hammer this home, maybe just a modicum of respect, just an ounce of respect. 48 wins in my first two years, okay? That's the second highest all time in NFL history. George Seifert was the first, he was pretty good, I don't know, with those 49ers teams So with that being said listen

I'll there will be plenty of time for me to go around and kind of drop my nuts on tables Take shots at people who have taken shots at me do a real victory lap and and I'll be honest I'm not going to be a gracious winner. I'll probably be a little bit of a dog a little bit of an asshole and Let's just say I got a memory like an elephant I remember everything that anybody has ever said about me going back to you know Mount Union and IUP so if you're an Eagles fan you didn't love me you didn't want to see me get used to it cuz the dogs coming back and the dogs gonna be in Philly for a long long time We got we got a question I suppose

Hey coach, this is a Jack from the Philly John. What about coming more potentially leaving your team to go down there in the world? I'm saying that's a good question. Listen. I said last night on the broadcast a lot of people, you know Another thing that hey nothing to shit on Coach Sirianni about, he uses, you know, colorful language after winning the Super Bowl. I said run that shit back, okay? I said run that shit back with Kellan, and I said to Brandon Graham on the NFL Network set, run that shit back.

Now, he didn't really seem like he wanted to. Kellan Moore, you do what you got to do. You want to go down to New Orleans and go, go you know three and fourteen for the next couple years and get fired, that's fine by me. You go get your bag, we'll welcome you back home in Philly in a couple years time after you've been shit canning New Orleans. I think I got time for one more if anyone's got one. Yeah Coach, Dan Orlowski, ESPN, of course I knew you guys are going to do great. Yeah I bet you did Dan. I'm going to cut you off right there.

Now listen, a lot of people want me to just storm out here, be mad at you. You say, you know, Dan O'Raloff, see this guy didn't believe in me all year long. He was calling for my job actually. Obviously I told you to tongue my bean bag last week. I would never do something like that again. I kind of looked internally and realized that, you know, that wasn't very gracious. That is not what a man of God would do. What a man of God would do to someone like you in the media who's been calling for his job and saying he's no good is I'd say, Dan, if you wouldn't mind getting down on

your knees, popping that mouth open that you love running so much and smooching the tip of my Lombardi, okay? Enjoy, Dan. Fly Eagles, fly, baby. Super Bowl champs. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! All right, that's Coach Tariani, obviously. One last score to settle with Dan Olavsky there.

Let's talk about that trophy, though. Obviously, kiss the top of that Lombardi. He's gonna be carrying that thing around. Saw Saquon with it last night. Saw Lane Johnson with it last night. I love it. Howie. Jalen. On the floor. Jalen sitting there with a cigar. That was cool. That was stage. I don't think it is. Well, sit down one. Well, why would he have those people in the back then? I don't think he would have those people in the back. He would be in, he'd be in the bathroom solo. I thought about that. There's no real private moments, huh?

It's not, not even like locker room, you know, those, I feel like those used to be, you know, kind of sacred almost. I almost feel kind of like violating watching it, but it's 2025, it is what it is. But this picture, we do get some all time moments. Remember when the Celtics woman, Jason Tatum, tried to create a lot of these, but.

Well, I mean, but exactly. That's what happens because of like the not having any privacy. Celtics woman Jason Tatum got tried to create a lot of these but like that's what happens because of like the not having any privacy so like even if you want to take a moment it's like oh this is staged he's just doing this for the photo it happened with the Celtics it's happening with Jalen now it's like now maybe the guys want to sit actually right after the entire thing he talked about how like I haven't really it hasn't really set in for me yet. Like I'm waiting for it to like set in, and maybe this is the moment, and then immediately,

oh this guy's just setting it up. This is real. Literally if that was a stage photo, I think he would ask for those people to get out of the back. Make me. You know, cause that could be a very sick stage photo. Yeah. Like if we were gonna make a stage photo,

that would be nasty. Especially with the cigar, he's even got the goggles on his neck, you know, because the champagne campaign you know the whole entire whatever shower they're given in there oh I mean that's a campaign did you see the Jordan brand commercial oh yeah that was sick so sick love hurt yeah release the Mahomes one what well they have one for both I we all know this yeah so I want to see the Adidas one that they had all the the three. You know, they ship all the merch out. Exactly. We should at least

see what the advertising potential is. We saw what the Falcons Super Bowl shirt looked like. Well, I think that was custom made. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's a Super Bowl champion, a college football national champion, a Ryder Cup winner, and the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, ladies and gentlemen, A.J. Hawke. Yeah, Hawke. Hawke, thank you for joining us early. Did you see Coach Ty Rione? He seems like he's going to take a little victory tour.

He said, I will not be a gracious winner. Did you take anything else away from that? That was my favorite part of the fact that he said he will not be a gracious winner. I think he deserves to have a little bit of a run here in these next couple of weeks where he does not need to be a gracious winner, but he will. We know he's a classy dude where he does not need to be a gracious winner, but he will. We know he's a classy dude. He's not going to take it too far, but he has every right to bask in this celebration.

What an unbelievable win by him. And they, the Eagles won this game. The Chiefs did not lose. The Eagles just came out there and dominated from start to finish. Agreed in all three phases. And that's his little boy right there. And little boy Poisson actually wrote a handwritten letter that he has I think on his desk and They were reading it torn pre-gap think was Aaron Andrews. Mmm might have been EA. I forget who did the story

I apologize to if it wasn't EA, but she was talking to Nick Sirianni and then it was the backdrop You know They're in a hotel room with the suite up in the top and it's pretty nice John and she starts talking about this letter That's on his desk. It's his kid, handwritten letter, like you do at school. And in there he talks about dog mentality. His kid writes dog mentality. This is what dog mentality means to me, or I hope you always remember to have a dog mentality.

And it's in like little kids handwriting. And just seeing dog mentality written by a child, I like almost got like emotional. I'm like, Coach Sirianni, whatever he was reading that letter and you know his kids writing him a letter handwritten letter that's cool to begin with I assume in a development stage of watching your kid grow that's probably a cool thing putting together a full message obviously being able to write it out seemed like there was no spelling errors but then whenever at the bottom was like three-quarters of the

way down because they showed the thing it was like dog mentality written out in there he had to just start breaking down like I got one I'm reaching them you know I am I'm reaching my boy because I think the way they're explaining is like dog mentality about how how many times you get knocked down then you get right back up and how much time how many times you just keep going it's like this dude was mocked and ridiculed by everybody yeah Eagles fans we read them every single week. Yes.

Whenever we do our overreaction tweets, Eagles get a win. Who's pissed at Nick Sirianni? Eagles fans. It's like, and then the TV shows were like, yeah, us too actually. And you've got to wonder why. He mentioned to EA about how he's not what you think of

when you think of an NFL head coach necessarily. The way he operates, and the way he goes about his messaging, or the way he goes about relationship building with the boys, or whether he goes, how he goes about celebrating after a win, maybe in a tunnel talking shit to people, maybe him talking to the fans, interacting with fans, because remember, this guy used to be a wide receiver play college ball So maybe he does have a little pizzazz. So maybe whenever people are talking shit Maybe he does want to interact which most NFL coaches would never do obviously NFL coaches say keep the noise out It's not about what they do and then Sirianni's like hey, huh? I bought a little credit here We just won this game on his way out of there, but I think he's always like that

So I think his team loves him I mean once again the wide receivers who have been asked to take a backseat to the running game all year, and they've been paid, both of them, AJ Brown, Devontae, they've both been paid. They're the ones that are doing the Gatorade bath on Nick Sirianni, the head coach, who inevitably has to sign off on everything

that's happening with the team. I think that says a lot about how this guy goes about doing his thing. I think that says a lot about how this guy goes about doing his thing. I think that says a lot about how his team feels about him. And if he's got his kid writing dog mentality when he's five or six years old, it feels like everybody around him is like,

hey, this guy's with us. This guy's loyal to us. This guy will take all the heat for us. And this guy will show up the next day and say, hey, let's go beat the shit out of this team. And he's young, his contracts up. And we heard in coach Tyriani's press conference there, Liam Cohen, allegedly getting 14 million, Ben Johnson getting 13 million, Aaron Glenn, probably in that

same ballpark with his job, just getting hired over there. It's like, this guy is legend. This guy's amongst the legends of coaching whenever it comes to like. Winning percentage. Now he's a world champion and his contract's up. It's like good time to be Nick Sirianni's agent. Who's that? Oh, I think a guy. I think a guy that knows it.

He's Southern, I think. Mike Dyer, he's a... Oh, college guy? He's a refrigerator. Sure. You know, I think he's a refrigerator. We saw him last night. He was on TV. He was next to Big Dong. He was. Jimmy Se refrigerator. Sure. I think he's a refrigerator. We saw him last night. He was on TV.

He was next to Big Dong. He was. Jimmy Sexton. Okay. He knows the ins and outs of these coaching contracts, I think. And I assume Sirianni wants to remain with the Eagles, obviously.

I assume that is his number one goal. And I assume the Eagles would like him. But the Eagles and coaches, interesting. Very. Joining us. Yeah, it can happen quick either way statute to be made and then yeah we don't think so yeah and then by the way they win he's been a place and gone yeah how he's probably just like I fucking said it joining us now ladies and gentlemen senior NFL insider for ESPN a man who crushed it all season especially during Super Bowl week ladies and gentlemen Adam Scheffter

Shefty is that the family there is that the actual insider behind you Fresh off her postgame interviews last night on the field where I was her runner and Assisting her and trying to get her whatever interviews I could. It was great. You know, everyone's doing their postgame things. Dylan, get your head out of the field. Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, let us tell you this. Keep your dad as your booker. That job stinks. Let your dad do it. He knows everybody. Okay. And congrats on the great work this week, Dylan. Oh yeah. Great job. No problem. Keep crushing it. Okay, Shefty, we were just talking about it.

Sirianni is going into last year of his contract. We assume he won't be a lame duck coach. We assume there'll be an extension done this off season. First of all, is that all accurate? And second of all, Leon, we just talked about it. All these guys just signed for 13 million a year, which is obviously a big number. This guy's going to get paid the most of all time, or how do you see this going with the Philadelphia Eagles?

No. Well, I think what'll happen is they'll sit down to do the deal because Nick Sirianni is headed into the last year of his contract. You never want a head coach headed into the last year of his contract. Ben Johnson got $13 million a year, but not the other rookie coaches. There are other rookie coaches this year didn't get that I think the pace cycle for those guys was anywhere from 10 to 13 million dollars per coach Okay, got it. Liam we heard Liam was like 13 or 14. Is that not accurate? That's that'd be in that same window That's not accurate. Okay, that's that's that's how he did not beat Ben Johnson Liam Liam did fantastic and obviously Tremendously elevated his salary, but no, Ben Johnson came in the highest of the rookie head coaches.

So if you're Nick Sirianni and you've won a Super Bowl and you've got a year left and you're sitting down to talk about your deal, I'm sure the Eagles obviously want to keep that number down and Nick Sirianni is going to want to drive that number up. I think all of us right now could sit down and figure out what we believe to be a fair number. If Ben Johnson got 13, then Nick Sirianni is a Super Bowl winning head coach is worth more than that. Right?

So what is the number? Is that going to be 14? Is it going to be 15? I don't think they're going to pay him like the upper echelon coaches. I don't think so. But why not? Why not? Why not? You saw that. Well, OK. But by the way, that's that's the job of his agent to argue that. And his agent, Jimmy Sexton,

we don't know everything about him, but we know enough. He's going to get a he He's gonna get a good deal. Yeah. And I like for everybody, he does good business. That's why he's able to continue to do business with everybody. But I think he's gonna lay out a very easy case if he just used the stats that we have from our show

for who and where Sirianni ranks in the history. Now granted, he understands that how he's been able to put together a phenomenal roster. Like this team, the players that he is coaching, all dogs, but he's the one that's getting all these dogs to bark in the same direction. So I think he has a lot of leverage, he has a lot of power, and hopefully they get a deal done because Philadelphia with this style of guy being their coach is awesome. And it's obviously worked. It's funny about that number one, I don't know two, three months ago people were calling for his job when he had some emotional outburst.

Number two is players love him. Players love him. Like they believe in the guy and they, I don't know, ever loved him as much as they do today when he's led them to the Super Bowl title and the players play great and he was the coach but he's gonna get a new deal they'll redo it and we'll see where that comes in but I obviously fully expect it to be north of Ben Johnson okay hopefully they get that deal done sooner than later let's talk about that coaching staff though because some things were said last night maybe that

make us believe whoa maybe not so fast my friend shout out the Lee Corso go ahead AJ yeah Shepty what about offensive coordinator Kellen Moore that make us believe, whoa, maybe not so fast, my friend. Shout out to Lee Corso. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Shepty, what about the offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore, obviously? Is he just gonna stay in New Orleans and take the gig? If he does, how much does he get paid? And is there a possibility that he is back in Philadelphia? Look, there's always that possibility.

I expect him to be the next head coach. And the Saints are gonna make sure they do everything here by the book because the last time the Eagles found evidence of the Cardinals tampering, it cost the Cardinals draft pick compensation in the end. And the New Orleans Saints who have been in the crosshairs of the NFL before don't want any part of that. So they've gone out of their way to make sure that they're doing everything by the book.

But if they were hiring the Dolphins Anthony Weaver, their defense coordinator, they could have done that. If they were hiring Darren Rizzi as their Interim Head Coach full-time, they could have done that. If they were hiring Mike Kafka, the Giants offensive, they could have done it. They didn't do any of this. They just waited and they waited because they intend to hire Kellen Moore assuming that they can get a new contract done. And again, that should not be a hard deal to do as well. Kellen Moore is making, we'll call it $4 million a year as the Eagles offensive coordinator.

I'm not far off. I might be a little high, but I might not be. $4 million. The New Orleans Saints are going to come in and they're going to offer... Twelve. I don't know. I would say 10 or 11. Maybe it comes in at 12.

I think it finishes up at 11 as the head coach, are you gonna turn down a raise to go from four million a year to 11 million a year, are you gonna let that happen? And by the way, are you gonna let that happen a year after Bobby Slovak was one of the head, hot head coaching candidates for the Houston Texans and a year later he's fired. Like when you're being offered a job

and you're being offered a raise of roughly seven, eightans and a year later he's fired. Like when you're being offered a job and you're being offered a raise of roughly seven, eight million dollars a year, you're not turning that down. You're getting that deal done. You're getting that deal done and I would expect that Kellen Moore is gonna get that deal done and become the next head coach of the New Orleans Saints.

I don't wanna counter here, but I heard Nick Sirianni say this last night. Yeah, Vic's been a great coordinator in this league for decades and he was awesome today. Kellen, you know, let's run this shit back. Let's run this back. Congratulations coach. Okay, so Sirianni is selling I bet behind the scenes on how special it is but you said Bobby Slowick. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You said Bobby Slawek, which is certainly fair.

I would argue Ben Johnson though, with the Detroit Lions where they dominated, took over, changed the offense. Jared Goff went crazy. That offense was the talk of the town and every time in the NFL. He got offered some head coaching jobs. He says, no, I want to go back. Now he's at the Bears making 13 million a year because he's even more highly coveted. So with that being said,

I understand what you're saying about taking a seven to eight million right now, but I think everybody on earth knows the Saints job is like two years out, right? At least. They're saying like the way that looks is like a two year out thing. So if Nick Sirianni, and I'm not saying

Kelly Moore shouldn't take a seven to eight million dollar bump, you do what you got to do for you and your family and your family and your career and what your thoughts are. But in my head, Sirianni has a pretty good sell. Hey, we still got Sequon, we still got Jalen, we still got this offensive line. AJ and Devontae are dumping Gatorade on me.

I think we're good there. Vic Fangio is still here. That D-line is young. That D-line is young. So, Kellen, you could potentially run up a scoreboard here with the team that we have right now Oh, yeah, I think that's how seary on he sells that right? Oh, yeah, that's definitely how he sells it Chip just got you know six six a year

I think he's the highest paid coordinator right now and obviously is much easier for us to say here because we're not getting that seven Eight green dolly braids and then you know however four or five guaranteed and coach Terry on Tyronny You know say no flame out there. You could probably get another OC job there. And I'm sure Shefty has a response for that though. Yeah, I'd assume so. There's some other big news that came out this week. Yeah, I know. Sirianni wants to run it back, but it seems as though they are not running it

back with Aaron Rodgers up with the Jets. Reports came out about a meeting that happened and basically left that meeting with the understanding it would not be running it back with Aaron Rodgers in the New York Jets. You got any updates in that situation? Well, listen, I think we got a situation here where you got a new general manager, a new head coach. And when new general managers and new head coaches come in,

they typically like to make changes and bring in their own people. There's a reason that a team is in the market for changing It's general manager head coach. And so when that happens, they like to reset the culture and establish their own culture So I would think that that's a part of this that the Jets want to go in their own direction and they want to stir over There's no doubt that Aaron Rodgers still can play and still can play at a high level But the Jets are starting to build this again from the ground up despite the fact that they've got some good talent on their roster And so they're not expected to bring back Aaron Rodgers at this point in time Aaron Rodgers will go

Somewhere else he may try to take Devontae Adams with him wherever he's going I would think with Aaron Rodgers not back Devontaeae Adams is not going to be back in New York either. So again, you start to see those changes of the most notable changes that they'll make. But whenever there's a situation with new head coaches, new general managers, you're going to see a whole slew of changes. And they usually start with some of the most significant people. In this case, that'll be Aaron Rodgers and Devontae Adams, who I expect not to be back both. I assumed okay that's a nice piece of information Shefty we appreciate that so I assumed early that if Aaron wanted to play again it was not going to be for the New York

Jets because new GM new coach to everything that you said then it felt like there was a little bit of a groundswell I think would be a right way to describe it like no maybe Aaron will actually stick around and then they'll draft somebody and then the Jordan love thing where he's mentoring for a year As Aaron Glenn goes in there and then that the news drops from Jay Glazer scoupage. Hey, they talked He's not being asked back or whatever. So we reached out to our source says What we've been told is that Aaron's potentially out of the country and when we come back he's probably gonna be on okay okay that's

what our source says have told us now I believe that that is maybe for some time to figure out what the hell is going on yeah you know I wonder how much has been figured out from this guy's side because I think walking away from the game a lot of people would assume not possible, especially with how he played at the end and how everything went down. I've come to know that anything is possible. Yeah. With Aaron Rodgers.

Amen. Anything is possible with Aaron Rodgers. AJ, do you agree with that sentiment with what I just said? Yes, I would agree. Yeah, I mean, we heard he was going into darkness, Super Bowl, radio row. We had no idea what was happening. I'm still over that. Didn't even know that was possible.

Didn't even know that was a thing. There's a lot of things that I've just learned exist through this Aaron Rodgers, you know, relationship. It's been cool getting to understand. He is, they call it his docuseries enigma. I don't think there's ever been a better word for a human. You know, it's like, he is a special, special football player, Special football player.

I mean, it is, his accolades go crazy. Everybody that's ever played professional football loves him. Every professional athlete's like, Aaron Rodgers is a dog. Like, that is literally how they talk about him. He thinks to his own drum, he beats, he goes along to the beat of his own drum. Oh yeah. Very clearly, always has.

But at the end of the day, he's like a hippie who just happens to be a genius and also a football savant. So it's like, interesting. I've seen this guy in the middle of a living room jamming out with a guitar, singing shirtless, long hair, like just like, oh, I just walked into a hippie convention. Then I've been at a dinner where he's explaining something that I could never understand in my life.

And then he starts talking about football and he's recalling blitzes that were coming from 2006 It's like this is a special guy, but I think he's very comfortable with who he is He's very comfortable with where he is. So I'll be very intrigued to see what he does. I assume he's playing football Yes, I assumed at the very beginning he's gonna continue to play football not for the Jets That was without talking to him. That was just like reading the situation I assume the same thing. Shefford you assume the same thing Yeah, listen We'll see what he has to say when he's back on your show as a special guest and what your sources say That's a taste but that's a good taste to me

My guess would be that he wants up playing he's going to want to continue playing. I would guess he'll want to do it At a place that wants him. Here's a guy that I think he's made more money than any NFL player in history right now. And so that gives him the ability to sit back and be selective about what he does and doesn't want to do. If there's a situation that he's not particularly enthralled with, he doesn't have to do it. But on the surface today, my guess would be he does want to play, he can help a team.

How many spots, Shepty? How many spots you think would want Aaron Rodgers' service? Well, yeah, give us a little leverage here. You know, so whenever we talk to Aaron, you know, we can be like, hey bud, Shepty's telling us there's two, three spots. Take the one, very.

There's something to think about. No. Well, it's a fluid moving thing, right? You just don't know there are seven guys is Minnesota gonna lose Sam Darrell they're gonna bring him back. It's Sam. Don't only gonna go somewhere. Yeah, the Brett Favre prophecy You can't do that with JJ McCarthy. I Think I think there's others Another new owner who probably is a big fan of Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady in Vegas. Oh, I didn't even think of him.

I think, uh, I think the Raiders are going to make a play for Sam Darnold. I think Sam Darnold added it to be the quarterback. Let's see whether Minnesota lets him go or not, but let's see if that works out with Sam Darnold lining up in Vegas. And so if he goes there, then the Vikings have to bring in another quarterback. JJ obviously is going to be there. JJ is coming along. And I think that was part of the reason they brought in Daniel Jones because they were kind of getting him up to speed in their system, their organization in the event that they

do lose. And Devontae Adams going out there. Justin Jefferson you would never Devante Adams Addison Hawkinson Hawkinson cook in the place Aaron Jones to work oh yeah there's a one-year oh you son what I do but Aaron Jones yeah they can dangle yeah I didn't even think about Minnesota holy shit okay so he's coming back and playing football and he's going to Minnesota that's what I'm gonna believe for from here. That's the championship, right? Yeah time is a flat circle Could you fathom if he does to do anyways, let's go to another team that would probably say hey We don't know about how much we're gonna pay everybody but would love to have you a quarterback. Yes, FD

Not a new coach not a new GM, but it looks like there will be a new quarterback in Pittsburgh as far as Russell Wilson the reports are that Russell Wilson probably not returning. There hasn't been anything said about Justin Fields yet, but Mr. Rooney in his end of season conference basically said we need to fix the quarterback room. Sounds like Russ is not going to be that guy. What do you have on that situation? I was with Russell on Friday and I'm just telling you the tone that I got from him was entirely different than sports that are out there. And we'll see what that winds up happening, whether or not he's back there. But I think he feels like there's definitely a chance he's going to be back there.

Like he's having conversations with the organization about the future and where it's going to go. Now, again, There's still a lot that's gonna play out here But I think he definitely Definitely thinks that he may Be back in Pittsburgh. Okay. He said that to us in our conversation too. Like hey want to be back in Pittsburgh They're starting to early talks maybe certain Strategize and then now you're saying you're with him on Friday at the Super Bowl. Who's that Super Bowl everybody? So it's like a little combine conversation happening behind the scenes for Shefty.

Fresh out of the big news business. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Shefty. More big news out of San Francisco. The 49ers gave Debo Samuel permission to seek a trade. Are we going to see a lot of this? Because we've already seen Cooper Cup being told by the team, you know, go ahead, we're going to trade you.

And now Debo, of course, the Niners a little bit of a different situation, but what teams are going to be in it for Debo? Do you think? And we know you're plugged in. Uh-huh. Yep. Well, I spoke to Debo yesterday morning. So, of course, we didn't go over to the teams just yet. I would think that there'd be a lot of teams that could use a player like Debo. Obviously, I think the 49ers did a tremendous job at maximizing his talents, but think of all the teams that need wide receivers. There's so many of them, and there's still gonna be so much wide receiver movement this off season that, I don't know.

What happens if T Higgins leaves Cincinnati? Would he be an option there? What if Tyreek Hill gets traded for Cincinnati would he be an option there? What if? Tyreke Hill gets traded for Miami. Is he an option there? What about? He's back. He's all in any I thought Tyreke was all in Did he say he took back his I'm out his mom called him or something like that I saw yeah, what he said he says a lot. I'm just saying that there's there a lot of Outstanding there are a lot of outstanding wide I and Any of those in your teams makes it. Okay, we would love to have them here in Indy, you know, Deebo's a dog.

Packers. There's just always a situation seemingly out there with the Niners. Always. There's always something brewing with the Niners. And I'll tell you, whenever I think about that team, I think they're great. But they're always dealing with shit. You know, I guess that's what great teams have to deal with except for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Anyways, Ty has a question for you, Shefty. Yeah, Shefty, last time we were on with you, the Miles Garrett news came out and I think, you know, everyone was kind of like, guys, this kind of just like a ploy maybe for him to get paid and stay there, but then he was down in New Orleans at Radio Row making the rounds and basically on every show he kind of just said like, hey, we're going in two different directions. I don't believe we're on the same page of what we want. So it seems pretty clear that he absolutely wants out of there. This isn't just a money ploy.

Now, who knows? That could just be what he was doing on these shows. But is there any movement there? Have you changed your way of thought in terms of whether or not he's going to be a Brown next season or whether or not you think he's going to get traded? Well, I would say this. I think the Browns general manager, Andrew Berry, is adamant

on not moving Miles Garrett. And I think it would be up to some team to offer them enough to even get him to try to change his mind, which right now he doesn't seem to be willing to do. I think that this one, again, has the potential to go on for a while to linger and I think there are a few inflection points where the Browns sort of have to make some decision even though I think they feel like they've made their decision and Their decision is not to trade Myles Garrett The first one would be going into the new league year about a month from now That would be the first time the second time would be before the draft and you'd like to think that If they're gonna make a move that they would do it before the draft because of all the draft pick capital that would be the first time. The second time would be before the draft. And you'd like to think that if they're going to make a move that they would do it before

the draft because of all the draft pick capital that would be involved except when you look back at the Clio MAC trade that was made on September 1st of that season right before the start of the season. So there's no real deadline here. He wants to be traded. They don't want to trade him. Is there going to be a team that steps up? Like I think there was a team that called Cleveland last week. I'm sure there are many

teams that called Cleveland last week and they told them, you know, we're not interested in dealing him right now. Now, is there going to be a team that just stays on the phone and keeps calling the Browns and say, okay, well, I know you're not dealing them, but here's what we'd be willing to offer if you are. So or is Miles willing to sit this out beyond? I love that. Again, I want to point out this. In the last few years, we had Lamar Jackson drop a trade bomb request the morning of the

owners meetings as John Harbaugh was going into breakfast with the reporters. A month later, he signed a new contract. We had Debo Samuel and Brandon Ayuk both issue trade requests from the 49ers, both wound up signing new deals, although Debo obviously has another trade request now that the 49ers have told him that they're going to honor. So just because a player demands a trade doesn't always mean that he winds up getting traded so this one still is in its embryonic stages and we'll see where it goes and what's up great descriptor holy shit that was a great descriptor that's the Schefter difference yeah that's Michigan that's a Michigan man right there I like the teams are calling even though they're saying they're not gonna trade them okay

we're just letting you know though here's the offer. Okay, two ones. Hmm Two ones think about it and you can get this guy just sleep. Hey, I know you're not trading them Oh, why would you yeah, but? Seems like I hate you guys. You're gonna fuck for the next couple years. Anyways, the Sean Watson What are you gonna do with that? If you want to get this? It's available for you Just something to think about when you lay your head down tonight night. And Andrew Barry's like, we're not interested. And then at one point, Andrew Barry's laying his head down.

And that comes floating. Oh my God, look what the Eagles did with those picks. Look what the Eagles were able to do. Turn around the entire franchise with those picks. Look what the Washington Commanders were able to do just with a couple good picks. If that could just- Houston? Look what Denver Broncos just did with- I mean, there's so many.

Do you see what the Eagles did with I mean, there's so many there's But do you see what the Eagles did with Carson Wentz? Yeah Great tweet by you. I don't love it. You know, because I was the colts, you know on the other side of that By the way, that was it. That was a colt Thank you Thank you. Schefter ladies and gentlemen senior NFL insider great year. We'll see it's combined adam schefter See you're a real starter family. See ya. Rise to it with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa Card. The credit card that rewards your good financial habits.

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For every minute of this particular program that we have left ladies and gentlemen AJ Hawk Foxy wanted you to get another introduction I respect it because how great of a year AJ Hawk is that? Great year. Yeah, AJ. What a great year Holy hell and you picked Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl You say you haven't wavered either. He said that early I think didn't he now granted He thought the Banders could beat the Eagles true. Remember that was that and then we watch that game unfold He said wait a second these Eagles teams a little bit different Maybe you were waffling like Chuck Pagano, but in the end you said I want to Philadelphia Eagles

They did exactly what was possible AJ and we talked about the question that was posed. Could the Chiefs blow out the Eagles? Nobody thought that was the case. Could the Eagles blow out the Chiefs? I think that is possible and that's because they just are a dominating football team AJ. Yeah, I mean this shows you like we hear about this stuff all the time. Can you get four man pressure and that's exactly what this Eagles team did they're able to get four-man pressure all night and like just uh, I Cannot imagine what the the miked ups might sound like from the chiefs sidelines from all their coaching staff We ever get to hear them trying to figure out. Hey, how do we block these dudes? Like hey, they're only they're not bringing six

They're not bringing extra man Like how do we find a way to not only did they get good pressure and they got sacks and they dished the pressure And also like getting in his way and getting the throwing lanes was great, but they didn't let him run at all They they were so disciplined. I know you guys talked about earlier They say they play a little cover for umbrella defense as they call it going into the game All their eyes are on Patrick Mahomes and they do a good job of it setting hard edges on the outside and getting great Interior rush and when you do that, like what are you supposed to do if you're Patrick Holmes? I know they they forced him into playing a bad game.

Obviously, it's not like Patrick just came out there in perfect situations and just played terrible like no, he just he was under dress all night long and who knows how his body feels to the dude was getting slammed every day. And he kept popping up even whenever he ran. He took a couple big shots early. I think he took a big shot on one of his runs and he kept bouncing up, you know, but it looked like The team just never got going, you know We were watching the entire kickoff at the house a few hours leading up into the Super Bowl

It was actually kind of fun. I like really enjoyed it wife kid roaming around watching the pieces that they're creating They started showing the guys on the field warming up, and they showed Patch Mahomes on the field, I mean, yeah, that's a big time. And they showed Mahomes on the field warming up, and he yawned, and my wife was like, I don't like that, he's yawning on the field right now? And I was like, I don't think that means anything. And then Tom Brady got on the screen,

and he said in my first Super Bowl that I played in, I actually fell asleep during the day, like before the Super Bowl, I was able to just fall asleep. And he said in my last Super Bowl, I wasn't able to sleep the night before during the day like before the Super Bowl I was able to just fall asleep and he said in my last Super Bowl I wasn't able to sleep the night before or the day of because there's just so much to kind of figure out in the Biggest game of all time. He said so, you know, maybe the young guys might benefit from the Super Bowl They don't know what they don't know So it was like an interesting tale there of like Tom Brady whenever he fell asleep

It was because he just was like, yeah, It's just another game Patrick Mahomes yawning though my wife immediately was like what was that all about and I'm like That's a good question. Yeah, then he started watching him play. They never got going No, but I never looked like the Chiefs like not one time No early did they look like the Chiefs normally he's got Max bravado moxie, you know, even when they're not doing well He's still bopping off the field. There's this number happening here. Travis Kelsey's doing some sort of shit. You know, there's some shit happening.

Even if he's not getting the ball, there's some, like there just was never a buzz from the Chiefs team. And I do wonder, you know, if like, they weren't, I don't want to say mentally ready, but like, just were they, their vibes not at the level that they, you know, always are. And I wonder why that was the case Ready you got it. I mean it's back to back so both champs Andy Reid You would expect Andy Reid got him ready spaggot him ready, but we are I mean we all saw it like he goes with just

Yeah, the better team and AJ mentioned it like not only were they getting pressure But the way they got pressure like every time you can see just Collapse in the ends and keeping them in the pocket force them try to escape up in the middle and it never got done So there was super disciplined from that standpoint So like you said, he never got moment outside of the I think the first pass of the game when he kind of hit juju And the first class you say okay It might be a different game and after that nine straight possession I didn't been able to get pass half, not being able to convert on third down,

they're the best third down team all year long. They had one little moment when Cook got that interception on a free blitz where it's like, okay, this could be the moment that kind of turns the top. But then right after that, Zach Pond makes a play, sets his offense up. So it went kind of exactly how we all saw it outside of Saquon.

We all thought Saquon probably have a big game for them to win, but even with him not having a big game, kind of hats off to Kellen Moore in that offense, still calling 25 runs to kind of keep it balanced and then taking your shots and hitting the shots. Explosive plays too, that was always the big difference coming to this one, so they just out executed in and just got dominated from whistle to whistle.

Yeah, Kelsey said it in his post game. They were like, what happens basically? And he was like like we just never had a spark like our offense never got going Obviously they had a lot of negative plays some holding a legal man downfield a bunch of those kind of Uncharacteristic things but then when you think back to like the Brady's last Super Bowl when it was Tampa verse Chiefs it was kind of like this like they never had anything going on offense Their own line was just getting dominated by Todd Bowles in the Tampa Bay D line Like it was a very similar type game just not to the you know, 40-point drumming and to your point there Immediately following that loss to Tampa Bay. They want to invest it in the offensive line. Yeah

Okay, this is we understand what the issue was and with that being said I wonder if being in so many Super Bowls, going back to the Tampa Super Bowl, as soon as the entire team sees what's happening early, they go, oh no, this is when we get beat. This is when we are not the best Chiefs that we've been. This is when the Chiefs is still not still the Chiefs. When this type of pressure is happening to them,

which leads me to ask like AJ or D, but either or here like how early does that defense know like oh, this is good like we pretty early You think you think like that? I don't know. I'm sure D But has an opinion too, but I think as a defense this Eagles team They even talked about how they were pissed off leading up to this game about the talk of the three Pete and people talking about The chiefs and all that stuff. I think they definitely were highly highly motivated But look at us look at the second level defenders too when you when you get to play your zone or you match zone like all Of the linebackers that your eyes are on the QB So my homes knows like even if I somehow find a little lane to score it out, it doesn't matter

We got bond or in Berks that they're waiting for me. I'm not gonna get those Yeah, like three eyes on every play on yeah, pick six. That's gotta be overwhelming to think about. Yeah, like the pick six, like him trying to throw across his body, which you see Mahomes and Allen and Lamar do that week in and week out. When you have that type of vision, patience, understanding,

you can kind of bounce back where he never sees you. And then obviously you make a play with the ball in your hand. But yeah, you know pretty early. And I think even though there's a lot of new bodies out there, like CJ GJ kind of mentioned it from the first football big thing coming out of that football was like hey our D-line never could get their footy because of the field like everybody was slipping around slipping around and remember that

stat that kind of came out earlier in the week like the Eagles defense when they're on field turf like how they give up 11 points a game oh yeah five and no with fans just defense and we're kind of like, okay, what does that really mean? So when you got those guys that could just pin their ears back, get after a pass or do their job and you know you got seven. That's why it's so valuable to be able to get home with four defenders because now you have 14 eyes, not only in the quarterback, but on all these crossing routes and all these

things and they just rally and tackle and force a turnover. And while you keep talking about that, let's explain that a little bit more as we've just kind of mentioned it a few different times. Normally teams have to bring an extra guy. There's four down linemen normally or there's three with an outside linebacker who's going to rush. Four people normally rushing quarterback or trying to take care of the D line. Most teams don't have to bring an extra linebacker or secondary person to get pressure.

That's called a blitz. Whenever you bring more than four, it is a blitz So if you're able to do the same pressure without having to add the extra person that's vital in coverage Very very vital because defensively like you say if you're only sending for the offensive line Obviously have five offensive linemen and typically you have either a back or a tight end and protection as well So now you have six on four. So you can double team Jalen Carter. You can double team whoever it is but when that other guy can win or both edges create math problems now you're winning even more because now you may only can get four out in a route and you got seven guys in coverage. So like you said most

defenses to apply pressure you got to send five or six and kind of catch them off guard but then when you've sent five or six you leaving those corner back to no safeties on the island Which you saw when they hit Devontae Smith on the big play when they hit AJ Brown on the back shoulder Even on the first big play on fourth down that they called back That's what Jalen Hurts took advantage of with Spags on the flip side had to bring pressure because of how good and dominant that Philly offensive line is and you put those DBs on the island to make big plays. Such an advantage to have a D-line. All-line D-line, Howie. All-line D-line.

In the trenches, especially when you're that dominating explosive. The footing thing is interesting. I hadn't thought about that until literally just now you actually heard my dumbass go, oh yeah. Because you did bring up the turf thing. And I don't think, I think I even said, what does that mean, I don't know what that means.

What it means is your guys are in a track meet to that me. I don't know what that means. What it means is your guys Are in a track meet to get to the quarterback. That's what that means now granted There's some turf that is slick but it's nowhere near some slick grass because that obviously helps out the slower person Whenever you don't have Oh lineman love that oh lineman love a sloppy feel because they know that d lineman can't get his cleats in the ground can't turn the corner can't get a get off like he normally Has because we know like yeah, the offense knows where they're going. They know where they're going stuff So when it's sloppy like that, it's tough for the defense really didn't even think of that Yeah, and they're probably thinking that today or at least Philly fans like see Yeah, and also the gameplay like that how the game script like played out the running the Chiefs only ran the ball seven times

Yeah And because they were down early like the D lines ears were pinned back the entire entire game and on a fast track It was just a recipe for disaster. So that's we talked about it earlier the Colts You know when Peyton was here and Bill Pullian was running the show and all the boys Great team fun team to be a part of during the tail end of a kind of unraveling here in Indianapolis. They invested a lot of money on the offense, okay? We're gonna score points,

and then we're gonna have two pass rushers, Dwight Franey, Robert Mathis, and they're gonna get home, and then we're gonna pay somebody in the secondary, and then everybody else is kinda, you know, we will replace this entire thing thing and that was kind of the entire game plan Like we are just going to get a lead and then dwight freini and robert matthews are going to end the game And if they score, okay, that's gonna we're going to get gone

But inevitably we're going to get home we're going to score if we have to And that's why the conversation is always like well if payton had a better defense some of these times I assume that team would go on to win more Super Bowls. And it was like, well, the team construction was, Peyton takes the lead, and then we're gonna try to get home to the quarterback. It's like the Philadelphia Eagles, their offense just beats shit out of your defense.

And then their defense comes in and beats the hell out of your offense. It's like, that's a tough team. I like that a tough team won in 2025, AJ. Football's always gonna require that I think Yeah, it is and that's where that's the cool thing. We have seen I think over the last couple years That's coming back into the NFL like a little bit more ground and pound like you you can do whatever you want You can spread guys out all you want

We all we talked about a lot you say a lot like there is gonna be a moment When you're gonna have to physically dominate and whoever is physically dominate the trenches usually wins the game. And the fact like I'm going back to that pick that my homes through from his own end zone to Zach ball. And that was huge. They're, they're down 17, nothing from your own end zone with like under two minutes to go in the first half. Like this was a gigantic play because I'm thinking the ball second half. Yeah. Didn't you think I, as they have the ball here though, my car, well my homes goes down probably he goes and scores to go to halftime 17 seven then

the chiefs they can start run the ball more the game is not how to reach this happened and I'm like oh this is a tough path for victory now for the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah this is when he thought it was every thought it was over halftime 24. I didn't think it was over just because I knew you know what Tom did the Falcons and how capable Mahomes is, but I knew pretty quickly. And then that deep ball, that thing was unbelievable.

I thought, I thought Saquon's getting the ball, you know, like we say in the alumni zone in the third quarter, boom, Devontae Smith, what 46 yard TD over the top, that right there, you're like, all right, here we go. Game over. 27-0, deep shot. What a play. Dogs.

Sudden change. We talk about all the What a play. Dogs. Sudden change. We talk about all the defense. Sudden change, you better be ready for that shot, especially in that part of the field. I thought it was over at half time. You said no way. Because, I mean, you thought. The way the Eagles are structured.

I was kind of timeline kind of had me, okay, maybe not, maybe not, because you kept saying, all right, I bet my home's right here, I still think they got a chance, but just because of how they built, how call their office and then Jalen hurts being able You saw early on that he okay. He threw the pick with the pressure, but outside of that Hey, if I get beat with the pressure, I don't know what's going on

I'm gonna take off and get 13 14 yards and that's a huge weapon to have that You know Matt Ryan or most pocket quarterbacks don't have so you thought thought going into half this game's over, okay? Like that. So that means that the halftime show was like the main event of the evening. Yeah. You know, you kind of checked out after that just for the commercials. Everybody's thoughts on a halftime show?

My take, I don't think I knew enough songs. Yes. That were being sung. So I couldn't sing along, which is what I certainly enjoyed doing. Thought it was Very well choreographed. I don't know how many people were all just on the exact same page, but that was pretty wild Also, you know with everything being said about the the Drake lawsuit say Drake staring at the camera

He had to feel like Yeah in the middle like Like when Brett Favre was suing us, like if I could have gone to the halftime in the middle of the field at it, like on camera and been like, say Brad, I hear you like to, and just went through his entire case that's happening to him. I mean, I'd probably walk out of that going like, that was a pretty cool night.

I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was good. So with all of that said, I wish I knew more songs. That's on me. But there's going to be people that hate every halftime show. Without a doubt. No matter what.

And there certainly was. And there certainly was. But I didn't think it was a drawback. I don't think people left. I mean, maybe we'll see that the numbers are 24, nothing a halftime. Maybe people checked out anyways through it all. But it's like, all right, I saw Kendrick Lam Lamar half-time show I'm excited to see who's

next year you know I'm excited to see who's gonna keep continue to take the biggest stage at halftime yeah I mean I I thought it was good I'm a Kendrick fan so I do like it but I agree I think I wonder how much it has to do now with Apple Music running it where they're just like hey perform your new album like we're trying to we're trying to get people to buy that we don't need like you know Everyone's already downloaded your previous albums. So I heard squabble up from the new album. Yes, right So I heard that one. Yeah, that was that was a TV off the muster at the end

Yeah must have given him credit I think because the biggest thing of all time exactly but but you're right too It's funny. You mentioned it this morning and I had said it right before you came back out of the bathroom You're like, I thought he was going to bring imagine dragons out. Like there was no real surprise. But like if they if they want to just like kind of try to appease everybody and have no one really no one really care, just be like, yeah, that was fine. Like that's what you do. You can imagine dragons to do the half time.

People aren't going to be up in arms about it. People aren't going to remember it like it's crazy crazy but like we're at a stage now where like no matter who they pick people are gonna be pissed off it doesn't matter I mean it was good enough I think it didn't it didn't feel like when it was over like Jesus Christ I just watched that for like an hour and a half like it it felt like it was pretty well paced you know when they got back to the game like so it's all gonna come that you know like if you were pissed off when they announced it was gonna be Kendrick Lamar I can't imagine you tuned in and afterwards right you know what I saw the internet was telling me I missed a lot of things

Maybe I think I mean I feel like that's always the case when it's something with Kendrick people always make it deeper than it is And sometimes it is but I thought it was dope. I felt just like I'm a Kendrick fan too So dollar music definitely a fan of his new album and obviously everybody wanted him to perform Yes, yeah He had to do it and he did it and here the whole crowd kind of being in on it Serena up there crip walking like I thought I thought the whole thing Samuel being uncle Sam like I thought the whole school Choreography, I thought it all was was pretty dope and I think anybody I think people that I feel like going into this Super Bowl You knew going into it if you were gonna like the halftime short now. Well, that's life

I think at this point. Yeah, like all right Kendrick Lamar as I'm gonna hate it. It's gonna be dumb I don't know his songs. He's not a Super Bowl act and to be our think Super Bowl is kind of one of these events were like a Pop artist or like one of those top 40 artists is gonna get kind of the most traction. Most topical. Yeah, you go hip hop, you go country, you go rock, you're gonna cut out a lot of people, but I thought overall it was a good performance. I think he won like five Grammys or whatever.

Yeah, for just that song. Yeah, and you know, maybe not as much pizzazz. I saw some people saying like, just walk around. Where's pizzazz? They just walk around. I thought it was good pizzazz. It's like Samuel L. Jackson was in there, I thought everything that was happening around, I mean there was Where's the pizzazz? He's just walking around. I thought it was good pizzazz. It's like Samuel L. Jackson was in there.

I thought everything that was happening around, I mean, there was a lot of pizzazz. The bird's eye view, it was set up like a PlayStation controller. I don't know if you saw that. Oh yeah, and I was- Pretty sick. That is pretty sick.

But I heard it was designed that way for a lot of other reasons too. Oh, I thought it was because it was a game and then they had the game over thing. Yeah, I understand, but have you seen the, he said everything he can to go as much deeper. Yeah, I need to dive in, I have not. Yeah, they do.

I mean, I saw his chain, it was an A minor. Yeah, and to be clear, I'm not a big musical person, love music. Love it. Love music, love everything about it. I don't know about the, you know, Nick Cannon, drummer, I can't read music. Sure.

You know, I don't know what these things are doing. You can feel it. But I certainly, A minor, I know a lot lot about I know that a minor is a musical note Yeah, and quite clever quite a clever little that everyone everyone scream. It feels like everybody thinks that's a very singable part You know like singers Or country roads Take me home

Everybody right great That's why rocket mortgage paid for sing-along to be one of their commercials Which is great thing sounds like that a minor thing you starting to become one of those Yeah, everybody things along and that's pretty pivotal part of a song and you know, I'm excited to see the repercussions all this Yeah, he didn't say it. He did the certified part but didn't do the second part. Yeah, I mean, I understand A minor is a musical note. It is. Certainly is. We've learned that.

You have. Then I was in a commercial immediately after. Yep. Great. Not a big spot, but a good spot. You know, right there a couple times earlier though though, earlier though they showed your other stuff earlier. So many 15 second things throughout the day. I was watching that Fox thing and then all of a sudden

my dumb ass is popping up on the screen. I was almost uncomfortable, you know, with the wife watching that. Watching her be proud of this, it was pretty cool. And I was like honored, obviously, that it was happening, but watching it as much as it was popping up on the screen yesterday was kind of weird. I was like, all right, we've done it. We've done it. I appreciate it. And it was honored to be a part of, very cool to be a part of.

One day shoot out there in San Diego, South of Chula Vista, I believe high school. I played soccer for ODP in Chula Vista at the Olympic Training Center whenever I was a teenager. It was like the biggest moment of my childhood sports life, going to play Chula Vista at the Olympic Training Center whenever I was a teenager It was like the biggest moment of my childhood sports life, you know going to play Chula Vista with ODP It was a big deal. So then going back there for this particular thing. I remember on my Chula Vista I love I remember this town and To work with Peter Berg and Justin Jefferson was there the day that I was there and the whole thing It was uh, it was wild to be a part of. Had a trailer, had makeup department, two people doing my makeup,

had Jackie throughout this entire thing. And then obviously the mission to make flag football a varsity girls sport in all 50 states is certainly one that I'm cool with, especially with my daughter, Mackenzie, seemingly gonna be good. I think she's gonna be good. She's not even two years old yet,

but she's got good wiggle. And I think that is something that good. She's not even two years old yet, but she's got good wiggle You know, and I think that is something that's big in flag football It's also an Olympic sport So let's go ahead and be the best at that for sure by far and it's also a great way to grow the game I did see people were mad, you know, what no they were saying We're gonna say that girls are better than boys at football. Maybe at Central High School in 1985 Certainly a possibility and did you see the cleats that she was wearing versus the kid they had back in 1980? I just think the whole goal here is for girls to get excited about ball even more than what they already are and to feel

Like they have an opportunity to be great and I think flag football at the high school level is awesome And if it's gonna provide scholarships, maybe even Later in life. I mean that there's now I saw everybody go we're not making our women's professional flag football league It's like you're right. This is just this is for high school Varsity sport just to kind of see what this could be and I'll say this as somebody that was probably You know a little okay flag football at a time probably you know a little okay flag football at a time dudes were playing members on NFL Network then the flag football quarterback said I'm bearing Patrick Bohm's and we all said okay we're done with flag football community. That's enough.

You know that's what you remember that. Oh yeah. Remember when we said that? We saw all those highlights of him throwing. Yeah we want to watch but we we hate you so we can't it's kind of a thought that all football people had but whenever I watched that high school girls all-star game on the Pro Bowl Sunday Pro Bowl game Sunday as a cheesecake factory watching it on TV no audio I have no idea what Orlovsky Laura Rutledge and whoever else is calling and saying I'm just watching strictly they're zooming in on a safety she's making checks as they're changing formation. The amount of like audibles that are being made,

the play that's made, the throws, I'm like, yo, this is, they're playing fucking ball right now. Like this is, it's like good, I think it's something that they can really get into in a big way and it's like, if my daughter has the opportunity to do that, I'm behind it.

So getting a chance just to be a part of that thing was cool, it was a cool mission, cool message. And I'll tell you what, being a fatso, probably my future there, bald, bald fatso, certainly in the future I think, potentially. Stache. And I don't know if I can grow a mustache. Come on.

But I'll tell you what, my head, now granted they did some stuff, maybe not that terrible of a ball guy No, cuz I used to think I just got this blockhead. Did you see it here? You know and when it screws out snark good so when I'm if I was to go bald which is possible in my family it is possible boy, it's gonna be a Bad look you know I'm gonna become a hat guy full-time Probably cowboy hat and this entire thing, but then I saw me as a ball guys like not bad-shaped then he put the

Scarlet mullet on sure sure and that's where it really started looking terrible You know the mustache goes and then anything goes but it was it was cool to be a part of it was very cool to Be a part of and obviously It's the NFL Super Bowl commercial. So the NFL even asking me to be a part of it is cool And maybe they don't hate us over there. Maybe maybe maybe we're not some To be a part of it is cool. And maybe they don't hate us over there. Maybe maybe maybe we're not some Bunch of big thumb dipshits. Well, I don't know. Oh, well probably still that but some of us definitely that Definitely that I saw somebody tweet. Well, how is he gonna be a biased journalist if he's working for the NFL in their commercials?

What? Yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. I will say this. Those refs early, they were certainly trying to perpetuate a narrative, weren't they? Yeah. First call, that was tough. I mean, was there no self-awareness? Was there no conversation about the reality of the conversation around football? Fourth down? Calling that? It's like, whoa. Whoa.

I'm getting a call from a hater, somebody that thinks definitely rigged. That was bad. Not happy about it. FaceTime immediately ha ha that's one first drive couldn't help themselves going crazy okay so then obviously they call that call against the Chiefs and it's like hey let's maybe the refs just stink and I think it was same ref great I thought it was a great job by them getting it getting it out of the way makeup call back back terrible call money down they were not letting now we don't talk about it anymore I think that's genius I agree

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Bye. That was awesome. See ya. See ya. Appreciate it. Hey, we looked her up on the internet. Sounds like an Italian last name. If I would have said Chow and Gavac.

My mom? Yeah. Yeah, Campano, yeah. Does she know Italian? No. Okay. Smart. and my mom yeah yeah Campano yeah does she know Italian no you know when when when when when my grandparents came over here you know the whole thing was to assimilate into American culture so they only spoke Italian in the kitchen and they wanted their you know their children to become acclimated to and

being American so it was only her older brother who spoke Italian but about it she was the middle child she didn didn't, she never learned it. Okay. So many Italians in Philadelphia, obviously you are one of them. You are one of the faces of this Philadelphia Eagles team. We just showed the introduction. You killed it. Yeah. You killed it. Yeah. It was so funny though. So I was, I was so nervous. I was going to misspell, uh, Eagles number one, obviously. Yes. And then I started to think about how, you know, it does set the tone, right? It is actually not nothing.

Like if I screw this up, that's not a great omen. Yes, agreed. And so, but I kept thinking, I wanted to say NFC champions. Yes. Ooh. Could you imagine? And I kept like running it up to people

and some people were like, fuck yeah, you gotta running at people and some people were like, fuck yeah, you got to do it. And other people were like, no dude, don't do that. We're happy you did it. I want to let you know. Because we would have taken some heat somehow for ruining a moment. And if they don't win, because you say that, that would be... I thought it would have been great. NFC champions!

That's good delivery there. I mean, maybe we go back in time. I assume you'll be able to figure it out without young. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Aging backwards, Benjamin Button. Let's talk about that. How about that kid Declan, man?

He was awesome. Oh yeah. Okay, so you give him tickets on the today show, right? Am I accurate in the story? Who was he? Yeah, so I didn't give him tickets, the NFL gave him tickets, but I wasn't aware of his story

because I'm not on, I don't know if you had seen the TikTok thing, but I wasn't aware of his story because I'm not on, I don't know if you had seen the TikTok thing, but I'm not on social media, so there's a whole section of reality that I'm never aware of unless someone tells me. But I was with my daughter at the commander's game and we were just walking in the field and someone was like, hey, hey, hey, and I turned around and there was a kid with a poster and I just like blew him a kiss. I had no idea. But then I learned about his story that he's from Doylestown. He's nine years old. And two years ago, he was sort of he was diagnosed with a pretty, you know, treacherous ailment of arthritis. And he was in the hospital 17 times. And then they said they sent me the

tick tock video. I don't know if you guys have seen it. No, but there's a guy who does the thing where he offers you something or something else and he offered him a thousand dollars or another choice He gave he chose the other option and it was Tickets to the commander's game then the guy also gave him the thousand dollars and then they were in a dollar store He was with his family in the dollar store and the kid went around and gave everybody the money Oh, and it was kind of incredible And people were like losing their minds, like what's happening?

And so the Today Show wanted me to come on and like do an interview with him. I was like, I don't know who he is, and I guarantee you he doesn't know who I am either. I just waved to him and he didn't. When I met him he was like, I don't know. They're like rocket raccoons. He's like, oh, I know rocket raccoons.

Well, that's an awesome. And then so I was like, but I'll give him the tickets. I'll go on and just give him the tickets with the band and the cheerleaders. And then so that was really cool. I went and just did that. And then the NFL asked me if I would introduce the team. And I thought, I'll only do it if he does it with me. That would be dope if he did it with me.

So that's how it happened. That is incredibly cool. I saw this clip of you running out of a tunnel with the smoke coming around you. Yeah, exactly. I was like, I'll running out a ton of with the smoke coming around. Yeah, exactly I'll say I'll come out and do do that. But um, but he was awesome He was so calm and I mean, I I don't know I was I was nervous and he was like calming me yesterday It was awesome. Well, I love to hear that. Thank you for doing that He's gonna remember that for the rest of his life and obviously I will you will as well But also good karma into the football universe that you did that. It was a good moment, man.

It was a good moment. You could feel it, you know? And after I said like, all right, you could just feel that support. I mean, the truth is, in the stadium, it felt like a home game. It really did. I don't know how they did it,

because optically it looked like it was split red and green, but sonically, the Eagles fans were just totally amplified it was nuts man okay could you have fathomed the game going that way I think the reason why the Eagles fans are so crazy is because that place first of all known for being very loud tough to play down there whenever the Saints are rolling let alone everything going on but it is built to be loud as shit and then with the way the Eagles started that game it felt like it gave you guys a lot to yell about how in your wildest dreams,

and I know you're sitting up in the box and you just intro'd the team, so you're like a part of this entire thing, could you fathom the Eagles just beating the hell out of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl? Well, the truth is, I thought that our best shot would be obviously like many people, we have to take an early lead,

but I did think it would go either two ways. We were either, it's either gonna be a blowout by us, or it's gonna be a close game that we lose. And I was just praying that it would go either two ways. It's either gonna be a blowout by us or it's gonna be a close game that we lose. And I was just praying that it would be a blowout. Yeah, I think that was kind of the read on the rosters throughout. Watching you go throughout the entire season has been awesome too for us behind the scenes. Go ahead, AJ.

Yeah, Coop, did you get to hang out with the team afterwards? What would you do post game? You get to see who was performing at the post game party and how excited are you for this Eagles team to hopefully go on a diagnostic run as they keep talking about? You know, AJ, first of all, this is so crazy. I'm on the show. I sit here and write and watch it because you're on my phone right now. So the fact that I'm interacting with you, it's like, I'm going to wake up in some fucking fever dream.

I feel the same. Yeah, exactly. We can't believe you watch. And by the way, thanks for all the shout outs. I mean, so every time I think I told you, I like tell him, did you hear you said my name? He said my name. We are so lucky you watch the program. You are the coolest dude.

And tell me something. I watched the program. Well, we appreciate that. So getting back to that was, you know, I was at the Super Bowl when we lost. I was at the Super Bowl when we won. And every time I just was sort of catatonic up in the box. And this time, even when we won in 2017, I never left the box and I was just sitting there alone as everybody went down to the field. I don't even think they asked me to go to the field though, but but today but today because we had already been there

We had our wristbands. We we are we my daughter and I were like we're gonna go down and I gotta say man it was And and you know Lane Johnson, I just think he's maybe the best right tackle never played the game And I just I love everything about him. I love his work ethic I just idolized the guy and at the the end we were watching like behind the fence, you know, the sort of makeshift fence on the stage. And then I was sort of waiting for Lane to come down on the right side, but I realized other Eagles were going down the left side. And I was like, Lee, let's just just walk.

You know, it's mayhem. There's cameras and fucking people. But I see this big Goliath walking away. And I was like eight years old, dude. And I'm like, run. I'm like, Leah, Leah, I gotta, I gotta see. And I'm like running to him. I'm like eight years old dude, and I'm like run. I'm like Leah Leah I got it gotta see and I'm like running to him. I'm like Lane Lane And he turned around he turned around and his he it was so a Boolean and like

Wonderful and like we hugged and you're hugging these guys after the game He just did they're fucking drenched in that fucking smell. Yeah. And these fucking gladiators. Yeah. These fucking gladiators. And it was like, it was weird because I felt like I was eight and my daughter's seven and I'm holding, but I felt like I was eight. It was like one of the most incredible experiences.

It was, and you know, I've had anxiety for two weeks and I thought maybe something's wrong with me I'm sick, but I realized it was just the emotional angst of this game and I've only slept like three hours But um, but I feel so relaxed man. Yeah. Well congrats. You did it. You did it Hey football is the greatest Bradley Cooper feels like an eight-year-old after a big-time win which leads to this ties a question for you coupe Yeah, coupe first and foremost. What a fucking honor. This is so awesome They're on the show, but so when you take all that into account Where does last night rank compared to like your career accolades? Obviously you've been nominated for 12 Oscars bullshit

You haven't won yet one yet, but like you're one of the most beloved and popular actors of your entire generation But where does last night rank compared to like all the cool shit you've done in your career Why didn't do anything but observe last night? Voice cracked in the middle of that set the tone they never were able to roll they were never able to roll then you go alright let's go and get right into it it's like Lane Johnson's right behind you you talk about how much you love Lane Lane's right behind you you set the tone you want a Super Bowl you did it by the way I worked at it I was saying that thing for like two weeks up

and down the street like in weird public places people like what's he doing yeah I watched the rock i watched the rock do it you know in la his his like epic thing that he did um but um you know that experience ty of doing that which i was nervous about that felt as big as like singing at the oscars and uh you know i conducted the london symphony orchestra live in ely which was fucking terrifying and then played a glastonbury music festival for stars born in front of 90,000 people. Like, it felt like those things, those moments of like, holy shit, I'm on the moon right now. Well, we don't want to talk about that. Buzz had a commercial yesterday.

Yeah, somebody was called. Buzz had a commercial yesterday. He's a filmmaker, so you know. Really? Pushed it. Pushed it. Here's the bad. Hey, you were on the moon. Yes, you so you know. He pushed it. He pushed it. He's the best. Hey, you were on the moon.

Yes, you were. You were on the moon. So were we. So sure. USA. USA. That's right. USA.

Buzz is natural on the set. He's a good actor. No, no. He was actually kind of a stiff actor. You were about to say he's a real good actor. No, no, no. I wasn't going to say that. Anyways, we're happy that you felt like that.

You deserve to feel like that, brother. And then you just listing through some of the crazy things you've done. What a talent. What an absolute talent. Speaking of talents, coaches, D-Bud has a question for you, Coop. Coop, gotta ask you, as an Eagles fan,

we know a lot of the Eagles fans and media have been torn on Sirianni and obviously everybody's over the moon right now as an Eagles fan winning the Super Bowl. But what's your thoughts on Nick Sirianni? When did you know this game was over and the Super Bowl, but what's your thoughts on Nick Sirianni? When did you know this game was over the Super Bowl was in the book? Oh I didn't know it until way late way late. I think it was that that penultimate field goal when I was like, that's it You know cuz I just put up you know and no one in the box to do it was tennis man up until like four late Four minutes like you remember that last field goal the second last field goal that I was like but up until then I don't know

Man, cuz you know two years ago I went into halftime and I was talking to my buddy about you know How am I gonna get to the parade you know and then I you know just got it slammed in my face So I learned my lesson. Yeah all four quarters Hey down next play only thing you're gonna rip your heart out. Yep. Absolutely you hold on one sec. You're sitting with the owner, right? Yeah. And GM up there or just owner? Oh yeah, yeah.

And only because I did this movie, Silver Linings Playbook, back in 2010. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. This is all I'm doing. And Andy Reid used to be, that's when he was the coach. And because we shot, they allowed us access because we shot in the parking lot for the tailgating all that stuff and then

because he is such a he was obsessed with one of the players I was able to go and spend some time with all of them and that's how I got to know everybody and that's when I started to be able to go to the games and got to meet Jeff and and and that's how that whole thing started so at this point I you know I've been through the ride with those guys, you know, just alongside but it feels it does feel a part of it. I mean, they know how emotionally connected I am. And you know, and now my daughter is who's just I started taking her when she was two. And now she'll

she'll be eight and like her evolution and her knowledge of football in these years. It's just it's incredible. Yeah, those moments I assume are amazing. You know, that's that has to be such a cool feeling with your daughter Yeah, it's it's it's nuts man. Hey flag football. Yeah, I love it. By the way, I love it Of course, it should be a varsity sport in high schools. And what are people even saying with the commercial? I thought that too. I saw it online that commercial I thought people are gonna have an issue with this which is ridiculous Well, it's life Coop. Yeah. That is the world that we live in nowadays and you know it's you're never gonna be able to please everybody but somehow it seems

like you have you know and it's not just not just with your acting. I'm sure there's people but a majority of us are like Coop's the man. That's why as soon as we found out that you watch the show remember I facetimed you remember how they started Face-timed you out of nowhere got a text from a random number. Hey, this is Bradley Cooper wanted to let you know, okay Go fuck yourself is my first no response no chance of that So then I come in here and I tell the boys I go I got a text from a number act like they're Bradley Cooper last night and everybody I had Connor led the way is like Cold FaceTime right now. So we FaceTime, you know and you answer and the response was whole shit

This is Bradley Cooper and we couldn't operate for like two days. Yeah after hearing that so we appreciate the hell out of you and You know when I had to do the acting thing, who do I text? Obviously cool the guy And you gave me a quote that says say what you mean and mean what you say. And I think it's my- Yeah, James Cagney, yeah. Yeah, James Cagney quote or whatever. Said, this is the only thing you need to know. Go out to India, like, you wish me luck.

So we appreciate you, Coop. We appreciate you. I appreciate you guys, man. Know that, not everybody gets that reaction with this particular crew. So that is a- I know. Yeah, yeah, you do know, you do.

Yeah, I'm waiting to leave and then you just shit all over me. No, no, that ain't the way it works, Coop. It's normally our first feeling is our forever feeling. That's kind of our problem and our gift. Anyways, let's talk about a gift that you're giving to society that we weren't able to experience, but we're close.

Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Coop, how did the cheesesteak business come to be? Obviously, Danny and Coop, you know, you have a place in New York, and then obviously you have the food truck you were handing out. We tried, Pat just mentioned, to get some. I mean, too many people were there damn near and there were some people running into that were real funny, real mouthy as well. But how did that kind of come to be and is that something you think you'll do forever?

Yeah, it's all Danny, Jim, Petro, man. I went to Angelo's years ago and I was like, this is the best steak sandwich I've ever had. And he and Jared and his whole crew, Gina and then I live in New York, but I would always ... Actually, we did this thing for one thing and I realized he's such a nice guy. And then I said, hey, can I come and get your ingredients and just cook for my friends out here on weekends? And I did that for like two years. And then I said, I was like, you know, there's no good steak sandwich shop in New York would you ever want

to like get a food truck and see if this could ever work like let's just park on the side of a road and then we did that and it was and it did well and then we did it again and then we're like let's look for a place and open up just a cheesesteak place and make you know just do a couple of things to make it a little bit more just for us and what we like and and then that's what we just started doing and it's been unbelievable. I take my daughter to school, I walk over, I go on the grill for four hours, I pick her up, it's like heaven, man. Yeah, it was like 591 sandwiches or something you moved and I forget how many hours on opening night. There was people reporting the lines out the door for this place in New York whenever

you opened it up. And then obviously people had photos of you cooking in the back. And I think people were like, oh, this is for show. It's like, no, this guy's actually cooking. And you mentioned it at the beginning there. Your grandparents were from Italy. They only spoke Italian in the kitchen.

Did you grow up? I get into being a cook because I know you had that chef. You had a chef movie, right? Did you not? Bert, excuse me. Yeah, I mean, I worked at my grandmother, was an incredible cook,

and I used to always be with her all the time. And so I always loved it. I used to cook for my friends and my parents when I was like my daughter's age. And then I used to, and I started working in restaurants when I was 15, I was a busboy and then worked as a prep cook in Summers Point, New Jersey at a place called Maribelas.

And then I just always kept it up. And then I was a horrible waiter in college. And the back of the house was definitely more my speed. And then I did this TV show that I got to play a cook called Kitchen Confidential. And then I got that movie, which was incredible. And I got to train with all these unbelievable chefs. And I just, yeah, I loved to cook.

I absolutely loved to cook. So we make food, we make movies. We're part of the ownership group of the Eagles You did okay could be better though tone has a question for you Yeah, coupe you talked about the last Super Bowl at halftime making play plans for the parade Are you gonna be at the parade? You can be a part of the parade this time and are you gonna get a ring too or what? Yeah the parade, you're gonna be part of the parade this time. And are you gonna get a ring too, or what? Yeah. They just moved it to Friday, so there's gonna be snow on Thursday.

It's tricky, because I'm in prep now in a movie, and my daughter is school, so I'd have to juggle a lot of stuff, but I'm gonna try to make it work. I think it starts at 11, so if I can, if we can get out early and there's not that much traffic, I'm gonna, yeah, I mean, we gotta go. Yeah, gotta be there.

You gotta be there. You gotta be there, pal. You're intre, yeah. We don't have school. Or out of school. You be your own dad whenever the kids are supposed to be. That sounds like we're missing school on Friday. And also, you won the Super Bowl, bub.

Yeah. You and Declan, you guys won, you're a part of the entirety of it all. What movie we shooting? You said you're in prep for a movie? Is this, you getting any shape right now what does that mean what does no no well this is yeah this is for I play a guy who's an understudy actor and he's understudying a play called the 13 disciples and he's

understanding all of them so that's what this is about but uh it's like a little comedy that will our net is the star of and Laura Dern and Andrew Dazin and kid and Kieran it's a great gas and we started in two weeks so it's kind of crazy. Okay so are you in what so you should? I play like I play a small part I just play his best friend but those are the leads but I'm directing it. So what does that mean directing it? So because I just did this commercial shoot I don't know who was what I don't know who was what out there. What does it mean? It means that like you know it was a project and then I rewrote it and

along with Will and Mark Chaffee and and then I'm gonna you know I like conceive of it and then we get a group and you direct it you know you're like you know you direct you're making the movie and then you're gonna edit the movie and then you put it out and hopefully this they call you know the the studio likes it you know it's yeah. Tell me if I'm wrong though You camera shooting I just I just joined the Union. Yes. I'll operate B camera Yeah, which I'm very excited about because we did some we did some stuff. We went down to Chinatown and yeah It's been amazing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've heard you know from text But I think people need that these dudes actually holding the fucking camera. I'm real like I've

You're you're like maybe the most you would love it unreal. I've, uh, you're like, maybe the most- Yeah, you would love it though. It's the closest thing in film, I mean, but you know, filmmaking truly, honestly, is very similar to sports, team sports, like no question. It's all about creating a culture. It's all about just the shot you're in and not thinking about just the end of the movie. It's very, very similar to football in particular. You know, if one of the 11 messes up,

the whole thing's screwed up. And people don't see that from the outside, but if you're in it, you know that very well. Same thing in a movie set. You know, that's why it's always interesting when you just talk about certain crew members, but anybody that's ever made a movie knows that the camera operator and the dolly grip

and the sound mixer and the first AD, these are key positions that are as important as the actors or anybody else. How long you been making these movies? I've been doing this since Wet Hot American Summer. So that was like 2000. And then I was lucky enough to be able to work with directors who let me into their process.

But this will be like technically the third movie I've sort of written and directed. Congrats, man. Dog mentality. Dog mentality. Dog mentality. Dog mentality. Look.

Tell me something, coo. So whenever you were a horrible waiter and a great chef whenever you were coming through, did you sing in the kitchen? How'd you get those chops, Brian? I did. It's so funny you said that. We used to dance at the street restaurant

when I was a busboy called Alexander's. I got a question for you, Mac, real quick. Because one thing that I love is how fast your brain works. And because it's almost like watching a deposition, because there's just no cutting out. I'm just watching you. You guys cut them. But by the way, guys in the back, I'm going to do a job. You talk about team. There it cutting. I'm just watching you. You know you guys cut the bit by the way guys in the back

This is real real you guys are just it's awesome. It's awesome I feel like you've created a couple new camera angles in the last month or so. I don't know it feels like that Java thank you filmmakers understand Filmmakers understand if you get a one point I thought like, whatever you look at, like if there's something you read, it felt like it was too high for a couple of shows, then you lowered your eyes.

And I was gonna attempt to be like, what's going on? Your eye line's high. Okay, well every once in a while, there's places stacked on top of each other. We don't have a full Dolly team. We need a full Dolly team. And the grip, I'm sorry, the Dolly grip,

we need them out here. But we appreciate you watching. Yeah, I think it's... Oh, so what I was gonna say was singing so because I can see how fast your brain works It's it's fat I love watching you because I feel like you're you're waiting you're you're eight steps ahead of wherever you're talking to and you're just like then you're then you're just starting to like Almost just pleasure yourself by thinking of other shit or doing something else because you're just waiting for them to catch up It's one of the one of the things I love watching the most in this show. Okay, that accurate my questions

Is that okay? I don't know. I don't know shut up with that. No, no, no ask me No, answer me. Honestly, is that accurate? I don't know. I don't know what you're referring to right now Sounds like a compliment AJ AJ AJ AJ is that accurate? Yeah, I would say it's pretty accurate. His brain is very, very quick. No one's brain is like Pat's, that's for sure. Thank you. Anomaly, I like that. Just like you. Now let's get back to your talent, please, and thank you for the kind words.

By the way, I don't at all mean your crew, because you guys are all in sync. I'm saying when somebody else comes on. We agree. Coop, we all love you, buddy. We all love you. No, no, but I'm serious. Okay, well, we appreciate you. Now, with that being said, you were singing in the kitchen.

How do you just go in to A Star Is Born and Lady Gaga is like one of the greatest singers of all time. Still bringing it. Still bringing it. Still bringing it. I mean that performance on New Orleans. Hard, cool work. Yeah, she was great at the Grammys, she was great at the Super Bowl and actually they

came by and said hello to us last night which was awesome because she hasn't seen Leah in a long time so that was awesome. And, oh, I just didn't, you know, like, any, any, like, relatively intelligent person, I just surrounded myself with people that were incredible at it. So that meant, like, Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga, Lucas Nelson, all these incredible artists. And I just, I have a strong work ethic. I mean, that's just, that's my, that's like the secret weapon that I've always had is like two things. I absolutely love what I do,

and I have a pretty incredible work ethic. And so I just put the time in, man. I just put the time in. And I also was smart enough to feel like I put the bandwidth of that character's vocal range like this. I thought if I could just nail that, then I could be believable. And I just worked hard. This guy Roger Love in LA, I would go five days a week and voice lessons. And you know, I'd go there, I remember I used to go there at nine o'clock. He's like, no musician comes and works their voice in the

morning. You're like, you're the only person. And yeah, I just did the work, man. Okay. Well, you're an Italian, obviously bluecollar work ethic and Irish my dad my dad was Irish Oh, yeah, so you are like the blue-collar joining pretty much there the Irish Italian So your work ethic is obviously something to admire. But did you write those songs? I think we heard that you wrote some of those songs. Did you were you I wrote black eyes the song The best one on the soundcheck. Thanks. Oh, thanks, man, dude It was so crazy, bro. And like, honestly, like I'm writing it on a thing

and then we made it and I was like, and then I'm singing it at stagecoach. And it's actually a song that I wrote. It's the opener, right? Yeah, it's the opener, yeah. Yeah. So we make movies, we make cheese steaks. What?

We make Super Bowl champions. Yep. What? We make songs. What? We sing songs. What? We nail songs nail songs. And now I'm doing it make a movie that's awesome. I mean, Coop, you got a fucking great brain, pal. You should be incredibly proud of that little Italian Irish ass being able to take over seemingly

everything that you touch. AJ has the last question for you, Coop. Yeah, Coop, how do you feel your athletic ability stacks up against other actors? I'm just thinking like wedding crashers watching you lay people out all over the place like I'm not said. Did you have an athletic background growing up? Did you play sports and do you continue to maybe get in some intramural leagues? Maybe, you know, try to get some buckets, whatever you may be. I don't know what sports you play. So when I love sports, I've always been coordinated. My dad played freshman ball at Villanova basketball. He was a great athlete My mother actually is very coordinated But when I was a kid I was I was very nervous and insecure and like and shy

And I remember my dad used to always say and I played sports all the time But my I never wanted it was like it boils down to like I didn't want the ball And it wasn't till I got into college where I started to feel more comfortable that I started to play And it wasn't until I got into college where I started to feel more comfortable that I started to play intramural sports and I started to feel like my mental capacity was catching up to my actual physical ability. And I rode crew in college, but that was great just to be a part of a team sport. But I absolutely love sports. And I love playing sports and still play basketball and I like tennis. But, you know, but I'm a massive sports guy.

Sandler, pretty good hoop player. Sandler Rice. Yeah, I remember, dude, so when I first moved to LA, I was at the Santa Monica courts playing basketball, the pickup game, and you know, I'm just, I'm on this TV show and I don't know, you know, I didn't grow up seeing famous people. And all of a sudden, I realized like two games in,

it's fucking Adam Sandler. How is he dressed, like an asshole? He's the best draft guy of all time. But by the way, and the reason why I didn't know it because he's so just like you would never even know. Nicest guy in the world. What you see is what you get. It was awesome. He was at the Super Bowl just sitting all by himself before the game taking pictures and stuff. It's like Adam Sandler's the best. He's the coolest man. He's the coolest, man. He's the coolest. Hotel Transylvania, buddy. Love it. Absolutely love it.

Yeah, me too. Just like you. Amazing. We love the hell out of you. Congratulations, Super Bowl champ. You're the man, brother. Thank you for having me, guys. I'm enjoying it. Okay, you too. We appreciate you. We can't wait to try Danny and Coop someday. Yeah, hopefully.

I gotta get to the Thunderdome. I gotta get there. Oh! We'll get a food truck here for you. Boom. We'll ship the ingredients, whatever you need. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, Bradley Cooper. That's been a crazy relationship. It's been a wild relationship. Like actually watches. Like he talked about there about how he writes and then he watches. so he doesn't pay attention to everything But something will pop up and then he Yeah, and then an immediate text and it's like holy shit Bradley Cooper's watch yeah No, it's legend legend unbelievable, and then he gives the open for the Eagles. It's like what a perfect

Yeah, it's unbelievable for him too like him following this Eagle season was he was with it man oh yeah everything we read on the internet he was he was in there as well all right to the ESPN people that are watching on linear television we're gonna be off for a little bit it's been a long season we appreciate you all for allowing us in your homes or airports or cafeterias or anything or anywhere that you show us we'll be off and then we'll be back at the combine and hopefully the show won't get worse but there is a chance. Thank you for enjoying the NFL season with us. You're the greatest people on earth. Be a friend

tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Yeah, I think I got it in there. Absolutely screwed on the money. I think I got it in there. Yeah. Now there's a chance it's off though by half a second so then me congratulating myself will also be on there. That's cool too. We'll see. We'll see. Yeah, nice chance. It's off though by half second. So then me congratulating myself will also be on there That's cool, too. Let's see. We'll see. Yeah, which is not a bad thing We're watching it in the back there with 30 second delay, obviously because the Fox initiatives with you coop certainly. Yeah, you let him fly He watches on YouTube. Yeah, he gets it. He watches the whole thing. He sent us a text one day I spent four hours and 45 minutes with you boys today. That's a long time He's like, oh, I remember the insane world

Right. Yeah. Yeah, what about his insane life? Well, yeah, but like you expect that from him But like that he watches us. Yeah And you'll probably say good hey, that was good out How about him talking about the different shots? Mm-hmm you guys add a couple shots in there I think I've seen a little bit. Yeah, well the camera did have he would notice it Yeah, we switched the cameras had to switch So there's two cameras stacked on top of each other But the TV there basically shows stream and then any tech or tweet that goes up or anything on the screen that pops up

Is right up there. So there's this two top There's a there's a camera right there the top one and then there's a lower camera there And everything you just said was accurate. Yeah, we had to flip those Coupons like who's got his eye on it He's motherfuckers switching the camera. That's crazy. You don't think anybody noticed Bradley Cooper de Jean What a dog the exciting whites doing their thing still can't make a fucking everything all DB team Yeah, he'll be a preseason watch list for sure. Yeah, it's part two week five You know, I don't know for his all produce here. But look postseason, you know what you can make you can make a postseason

Everything DB team. Mm-hmm. Yeah, still wouldn't put him on he's on Starting congratulations. I don't believe them. You know, I read something too You're making a mock happy birthday, yeah, I wouldn't do that Should put those guys on that Too many awards to white guys black here's your month they did I would just hand out. You should put those guys on there. A lot of serves. Well, too many. Awards to white guys, black hairs for you, man. They didn't deserve it. Geez!

Those guys deserve it. You sound like a Ravens fan. Geez. I'll tell you what. Internet's been loud this year. There's been a lot of magical moments. This has been stupid that we've followed along. And to the people that watch on a regular basis, you know, this is our break time.

We try to run as hard as possible during season. Like legitimately try our best to because football season is the greatest season of all time. We love the sport that we get to talk about. We appreciate what it does not only for us, obviously, but for the people who are fans of it. I love what football does for society. I think it brings people together in a way that no other sport can I think if you look at any stadium even last night You're gonna see people from all different backgrounds Coming together for one thing and I talked about this at the SP's but it's real Sports are the greatest thing on earth football is the biggest sport on earth

But sports are the greatest thing on earth because it's the only time seemingly in our world and I think we're getting to a much different place I think it feels like everybody's kind of a little bit more open to each other a little bit more friendly with each other that's a good thing not a bad thing but sports are the only place where it doesn't matter how you feel about some political topic that would drive friendships away from each other you could sit right next to that person as long as you have the same color on, fuck them, hell yeah to us. It's a beautiful thing. We're so incredibly pumped and lucky that the season went the way it did. Start out a little shite. Little shite. Start out a little shite. Definitely. But college ball made up the difference. It did. College ball was electrifying.

The new conferences and the new times and the new everything. Each week was something special on a Saturday for college ball. So as football in the NFL was kind of shite, college ball was electrifying and the environments and the atmospheres and the fans were making up for it. So football is still delivering for society. We were honored about that. And then all of a sudden the NFL football started picking up and the college football continued to go.

And it was like, holy shit, is this the greatest football started picking up and the college football continued to go and it was like holy shit Is this the greatest football season of all time? I think so and we were so dumb and so lucky getting the ride alongside of it And everybody that did that with us. We can't thank you enough and uh We're gonna go breathe for a couple days Okay, and when we come back

Combine aj draft seasonraft season. Off season's the best. Draft season. Yeah, Tone Diggs said in the middle of Schefter saying some line, you know, Sam Donald's going to the Raiders. It's like, all right, haven't heard that. Haven't heard that. And who knows if that's real or not. Tone holds up a dry erase board and goes, I love that off season. And he starts pointing at all this shit. It's like, that's real. That's what we're heading into anything can happen

The possibilities are endless and you know We talked about it soon as this is the next day of the next season and hope is back for all these teams free agency The draft that one guy can change everything just like sake won't change everything for the Eagles that can happen to our team Why not? What are your thoughts on 2024 2025 season? It was unbelievable I mean you talked about it the college football season being the 12 team Playoff I thought that was really cool. Now. They're gonna make some tweaks that are obviously gonna improve it I think it can only get better from there I just love the you know what we're back to playing defense and we're back to to running the football because as you know

I've said many times that's how you and I were born and raised and I love that type of football Absolutely old school seemingly all the way back in it's good to talk to table at Boston Connor ties tie will start with you obviously not the Packers year or the Iowa Hawkeyes year sure but your takeaway on this football season The was I mean, it's just the best and I think once you start like once we started doing this job like obviously I love the Packers More than anything would like to see them win a Super Bowl every single year, same with Iowa when it comes to college football. But like we get to talk to so many people on different teams and everything where that was never a reality. So you maybe just kind of like a guy or whatever,

but like now you genuinely do have like a rooting interest for, you know, if your team's not there, like you can pull out two or three guys that we maybe have a relationship with and can like really pull for them. So like every year that this goes on, like it's like I was genuinely so happy for Sirianni last night. Like, you know, which is weird to say as I mean, shit, the Eagles beat the Packers

in the first round of the playoffs, like embarrassed them, got rid of them. But like, I felt like I was an Eagles fan last night because of, you know, of the whole Sirianni thing. Like I was just, I was so happy for him. And I I just that's awesome. I can't wait till next year great stories every year Yeah, yeah, like Sirianni changing the trajectory of his life. Yes With that Eagles win, how about you brother nine-year? NFL veteran host of everything DB good D bad D another great season great Host of everything DB, good D, bad D, another great season. Great.

Another great season. What's your big takeaway from this football season that was? Tom kind of hit on it, he kind of hit on it. Resurgence of kind of the running backs. I love that, what they did as a group. Obviously, headlined by Saquon Barkley in the MVP caliber season he had. Jamiro Gives, what he done out in Detroit.

Derrick Henry going to his new spot. Josh Jacobs, just resurgenceent of that whole position. Because you saw Jonathan Taylor, he had a good year. You saw as a group, they tried to devalue them as a position group. So I love what they did as a group. And then you kind of mentioned too, with the Eagles, them being the champions, I always talk shit about

and make jokes about them being one of my four teams. But I've been rooting for Jalen Hurts since day one, since coming into the league, the path that he took throughout college, getting benched and still being a good teammate. We always talk about how important it is to be a good teammate. You saw him do that in the biggest stage. You, with your relationship with Nick Saban,

you've heard other stories about him, kind of who he is behind the scenes. And then for him to just kind of stay true to himself, lead this team along with Sirianni, the type of group that he's led. And just to see this team, I felt like this was, I'm not one of those guys who like, hey, this guy deserves it more than that guy, this team deserves it more than this guy, but just all the shit that they were taking on TV,

all the shit the head coach was taking, how they built the team, how they did it, how they stick together, how they stuck together throughout it all, and then to come out on top and win it happy for him and happy for that team. So it was a good way for me to end it with one of my four squads Hell yeah, and the way you made your pick on Friday from radio row was

It's not often that one of your four teams makes the super Whenever you have four teams, that means probably better chase. No, but also If you have four teams, that means One of your main teams is not good. Correct. At least one. Or? Dolphins. Exactly.

Or? Chargers were in it. Yeah, Chargers were. But for a while, they weren't. For years, they weren't in it. So it's like, for your team, one of your four teams, to make it, first of all, that's a new thing, because you don't have four teams if the other three aren't

necessarily winning on a regular basis. And then also, for you to be on board with Jalen Hurts from the beginning, even whenever there was an entire tide shifting against him, this guy's too cool, fuck this guy. Like that literally became the thing against Jalen Hurts. And you stuck in the pocket with him.

You know, you rode the wave with Jalen Hurts and great for the Philadelphia Eagles. Good for Jalen. There's multiple confetti photos now that he can change his home screen. Looks awesome. Boston Connor, your takeaway from this season. I would say we're in the golden age of NFL talent. It feels like every year it can't get much better and then it does.

Even if you were to look at Lamar being the MVP last year to how much better he was this year and then for a guy MVP last year to how much better he was this year and then for a guy like Josh Allen to be even better than him and then we look at last year with CJ Stroud this is never going to happen again and then boom Jaden Daniels comes in it feels like every year there is just an increasingly better game being played like Lamar was the story in the award season this year Jamar Chase won the Triple Crown but no one gives a shit because of how much better so many guys have been you know throughout the season last year, Jamar chase won the Triple Crown, but no one gives a shit because of how much better so many guys have been, you know, throughout the season last year, not better than him, but just overall as a league.

And you know, you talk about defense too. Like Zach Bond two years ago, I don't, I didn't know who he was. I don't think special team, special team. I don't think many people outside of New Orleans knew who he was. Now he's a household name making picks in the playoffs. He's a finalist for defensive player of the year. It just feels like right now we are legitimately in the best era of skill in the history of the NFL and it's just awesome to be able to do this like Ty said. Like

we get to cover the game really closely and we get to know the guys. Like as a Patriots fan I don't like the Buffalo Bills fans but I love their team team. Deon Dawkins was one of my favorite interviews of the entire year and we do get to talk to a lot of people and Josh Allen, you know, same thing. His story is incredible. So it's one of those things where we're so lucky to cover the game. And then also, you know, as a Patriots fan, selfishly, you know, I think it's a, it's very cool to what Tone said. We're like, Hey, now that we're into next year, it's like, I think it's a it's very cool to what tone said we're like hey now that we're into next year It's like I have all this new hope like every year is so different Compared to the year before that it does really just give you like this resurgence of okay. Now we have a chance now

Obviously every year there's really only eight teams that can win and I feel like two of them played Last night going into last season. It was the eagles and the chiefs. Those were two teams that yeah You can see them in the Super Bowl Niners. Yeah Lion lions and the Vikings and you know the commanders they kind of came out of nowhere both of them But yeah the Ravens, you know you folks you I wouldn't put them in there Lurking but there are but every year there are those teams and right now those eight teams You know, it could be yours and it's it's just awesome every single year, especially just looking back, you know at how far the entire program But you know the show is coming. It's it's cool to be here man. So crazy. So stupid. Yeah It's a great row. I experienced that more. Yeah, I think like that. It's kind of like what's that syndrome called?

impossible Stockholm Stockholm Jesus that syndrome called? Impostor. Stockholm? Stockholm, Jesus. Definitely. Not that one. I don't feel like I'm not becoming friends with my captors. You're captors. Yeah, that's Stockholm. That is Stockholm, San Francisco.

Yeah, it's the imposter one. We walk in there and then with who we get to talk to and then the amount of people. There was 100,000 people just streaming on YouTube today or whatever. It's like, that's just YouTube. Little on TikTok Live and ESPN and ESPN plus and Disney plus. And then we go down and radio row and we get to see all the people

that cover the sport. And they basically all say, I had somebody from Australia that covers the sport say your sport, your show basically taught me the sport in the league. Now I cover it. Now I'm here. And now we got a game going here. It's like Ireland, the same people. It's not. It's crazy. I show it now I'm here and now we got a game going here it's like Ireland the same people not it's crazy watch our show it's fucking crazy that's crazy that travel you know travel so much in you

know airports and see people in planes and all the time it's just crazy obviously the like just a bandwidth that the show has an end I think the best part about it for me at least is that you get to be ourselves you know what I mean a lot of people as they grow or as you do new deals or as your show goes to new places, you gotta change or just put so much bullshit out and then you're kind of reminded when you go to a place like Super Bowl,

that's why even the people that play, even the people that do TV, they just appreciate it so much because of how authentic we can be and then the growth of the show and how huge it is. Even something like Patrick Surtain went in defense player year watching the video the Broncos put out and hearing my voice on it because I get to do everything

We can a week out like that's that's super super dope moment So you're definitely very very lucky to be in this very lucky very thankful great observation I I don't think about much of that. I try to stay in like our bubble. Yeah, I try to stay right in here They do that you stay right in here. See so many people. Yeah, you travel. Yeah, yeah, so you're seeing a lot of people so I respect. Hey, thank you for your traveling, too That's good work. That's hard work. That's good work. That's great work. I think look good work. Yeah, absolutely But you don't not a people would you know a lot of people would have bad attitudes, too You don't at all clearly tired some days, but don't bring everybody else down to still do your shit You know the amount of travel always good vibes

We appreciate the hell out of you and also you get to see the outside world a lot more I guess Cuz I uh It is crazy like radio rose first time really seeing any of these people because we don't go to any super bowl parties We weren't invited weren't invited to any we weren't were we know we weren't That's real deal brother fucking bullshit. Gotta get it, man. I don't understand why fanatics didn't invite us to the Super Bowl. I don't know if we're ever gonna get invited to one of those. That one I do get.

But it's kind of all those companies, you know, they're hosting all these things. Yeah. So we're gonna get invited, and we would definitely not go, especially with how close that casino was. Yeah, but the way it was fucking kicking our teeth a night out a night out, you know for a couple frees free booze cocktails Maybe wouldn't have been maybe performance by some Yeah, exactly There's no way we would have no chance no we would have found something there always Friday and Saturday to stomach bug

We're gone. Like you said exceed fucking stones throw. I mean, it's impossible way too close Yeah, wait, we were as soon as we got there. New Orleans was awesome I think everything is super I think I saw a bunch on the internet and the main takeaway because everyone was right about it Everything is super walkable now. We didn't do it much because we went show hotel casino Hotel casino show yeah, but like even when we walked to dinner what that was a 10-minute walk Bourbon Street was right there like everything's super walkable in that city the weather was perfect like New Orleans a great super And the people drew breeze talked about it. They are very welcoming. Yeah, come have a good time. You know, Jeff Landry

Yeah, Governor Jeff Landry now. I heard a lot of people say I had no idea people like that But I think he comes in and starts speaking away. He's speaking the way he speaks. What's holy shit? We're in a movie right now about Louisiana. Yeah. And he's like, no, that's the most powerful guy in Louisiana. Yeah, that's Louisiana, baby. I can't believe D-Bot didn't know about Nebraska. I mean, I'm a young guy.

What can you say? You're young. I guess it gave me a compliment. There's been a couple of times where people could have had a lot of finger-pointing places, and they've all ended up back to you. You realize that? What's that all about?

What's that all about? I don't like that one bit. James. Especially, you know, he goes certain. James, certainly. Well, yeah, you know. Diva knows how to talk to you. You know, that's my guy.

He questioned his people. Hey, James did crush it. Congrats, James. And him and Bert had some great clips. Hilarious. I love people that we talk about all the time, like, James is always James. Like, that's did crush it. Congrats, Jamis. And him and Bert had some great clips. Hilarious. I love people that we talk about all the time, like Jamis is always Jamis. Like that's not an act.

I appreciate him hearing me say, hey, don't be doing stupid shit. Don't listen to anybody here. Do the Jamis shit. And then him coming in saying, thank you for saying that. I wonder if he was like, that was my shit. Yeah. Yeah.

I didn't know if that was him telling me like, hey, I heard you and that was my shit. Or if that was him telling me like, hey, I heard you and that was my shit or if that was him saying Thank you for acknowledging the situation. I was probably in there. I bet he was saying thank you first time doing that I'm sure there is just a laundry list like we got to go. We got a bunch of great content ideas Yes, all these people have great ideas I bet someone told him to say something and like he thought about it and then thought of what you said and was like That's not anything I would ever do. Yeah, but he was awesome. I would like to say you're going to continue to be awesome

Jamis if you just keep being Jamis. You know all these people that go to school for TV have great ideas and I think it works for a lot of people if they need it. But if you got Jamis you just let him run. You know Jamis is there's going Marshawn. What do I do? You just go ahead and let Marshawn do his thing. And also, you know who you let do his thing? AJ Hawk. Amen. Hell yeah.

AJ, what is your big takeaway from the year that was in the football world? Obviously, congratulations to the Ohio State University. Hell yeah. I mean, what a year. What a year. I mean, I know as I get older, I get obsessed with football more and more. I think as I get older now I find myself like looking and watching things that if you'd have told me when I was playing I would have thought this guy's a loser like Why would you I think sometimes like man? I would like to sit in like I would like to go I should call James Lerner nice and go ask him hey

Can I come sit in your linebacker meetings like a couple days? I'd like to like I think about that now sometimes and I and I think back I ever once while as a player there'd be like a random dude an old player that would come and I think back every once while I was a player There'd be like a random dude an old player that would come and hang out for a day and I'd be like What would you why would you want to see these meetings are awful? Like we're meeting for nine straight hours What are you doing? Like I never understood it and now I get it completely I would love to be a part of it now I love trying to figure out why teams are doing what they're doing like scheme wise

Everything I like it's fun to try to figure out like the whole Chess match back and forth and I never really when I was younger I don't think I cared as much about that as I do now It's like I love watching DB, you know D but put his everything DB and obviously a queue in the trenches and seeing From their perspective how they see everything because football is absolutely it's 11 Like I know playing linebacker position You got to know what everyone in front of you is doing and everyone behind you.

And the more you communicate, the better your team is gonna be. So I think just, I don't, football is awesome right now. It really is. And it comes down to it when we watch, you know, when we sit there at those college football games, we watch from the end zone, I get like weirdly giddy when I see guys use proper leverage.

Like I see like, oh, here's the outside piece. Here's the inside piece. And I see them attacking and doing it. When I see like, here's the outside piece, here's the inside piece, and I see them attacking and doing it. When I see them do that over and over again, I see it consistently, it blows my mind. Like it really does because these dudes not only are so big, so fast, so strong, but when they're disciplined on top of that

and they can do the right thing and do, like you see that they're well-coached, it's like, it blows my mind. It really does. So I think football continues to do that for me. Obviously, I'm out and about. My kids play a bunch of different sports. I assist the coach on different things.

I interact. I'm in and out with a lot of different people that are all over the place. And I travel a decent amount too sometimes. And people, the reaction to the show is awesome. I texted Connor. After a basketball game Saturday, we went to lunch, took my kids, my father, all my wife, and as I'm leaving the waiter,

he hadn't said anything the whole time. He said, hey, give Boston Connor my best. And I said, I will do, buddy. And so like things like that that happen are awesome. Like people are paying attention and they actually enjoy it. And I think they enjoy the fact that we have fun on here because I I mean yeah this is the best this is ruining me for any other kind of media I used to do stuff on Sirius XM I used to call games conference USA football games which I

absolutely loved course but thinking of doing that stuff now after being able to join you guys it's tough like I've I've, this is, I've found my lane. This is awesome. We love you, AJ. I love you, Hogger. I love you, Hogger. And you're right, good ball is happening. I think that good ball conversation is why I am so pro girls' flag football. Cause when I watched that high school All-Star game,

they were playing good ball, like, hey, there's good ball. Like, I don't want to sound like an ass. They're well-coached, like they're well-coached though, too. Like it's not, they're not just out there doing what do they call them? Powderpuff games back in the day when they would have a girls flag game. Like no they're like they're scheming them up. They're they're making reads. They're doing stuff like they're reading the defense. It's it is. It's next level. It's good ball. I think like I think there's some people that will probably try to

make that out is like we're saying something negative but it's no. Like there's high school boys football you watch it's bad ball. Like that's there's bad ball that happens and that's like something you're saying that's bad ball whether the Technique was awful the entire time strategy stupid. Whatever it was. There's bad ball out there Oh, yeah, and it's like see it on a pro level. Yeah, we say we say it in men's football boys football a lot So whenever I was watching that high school, it's like hey It's a good they got some good ball going. And it's like not out of surprise, I guess, kind of actually, because I didn't know you had that much shit in flag football. There's a lot of shit in flag football. That

game is pretty deep. That's a deep game, just like football is a deep game. So much strategy, technique, reading, audibling, shifting, disguising. It was like, I did not know this is where flag football was as a whole, let alone like, you know, high school flag. I didn't know this is where it was because I think a few years ago when we watched on Info Network, they got the ball to the one guy on a drag and then he did that. Yeah, like that dip move, which is a flag football move, not an actual football move, tackle football moves, not sorry, not actual tackle football move in this entire thing. And it was like, that was kind of what it was. It wasn't like out scheming and out strategizing and out reading.

It was like the game of flag football has evolved mightily and it's like, it's good ball, there's good ball in there. There's good ball in there. And it's like, especially if it's gonna become an Olympic sport, let's be the best. Oh yeah, I have to. Now granted, they're all doing seven on sevens in high school now anyways, right?

Yes. So I assume our high school kids will be great flag football players as well Even if they're playing tackle football, I would assume boys. I would assume That's different. That's tough to talk. Yeah, Brad couldn't do it in 1985 central high school I would practice it. He got come to balance a little better. He looked like an asshole He was clearly not prepared open field was just a mess. He needed to be humbled. He needed to be humbled. Yeah. Chad too. Yeah, Brad, Chad, Tad. That I think was in there. All the boys. All the boys. They had terrible form. Even if it was tackle football, I don't think they're getting them. All the ass. So once again, that's bad ball. That's bad ball. That's bad ball by the Central High School boys. I don't know if they were

football. Were they a football team? I don't know. Had to have been. Letterman Jacket. Yeah. Yeah, might have been a road team. They're picking up. Miles Garrett. Well, he's an paleontologist.

He threw the ball off that dude's dong though. That was tough for him to come back. It was actually right off his Jimmy Johnson, not his dong. And they said Jimmy Johnson, with our respect, but they, yeah, the one-handed snagged, straight into the dong shot it's good throw that's he would win I think the Olympus no doubt Central High School's team should think about being art from 1985 right they should be maybe our team

Venita in there mm-hmm she was the coach of the girls flag football legend one of the greatest flag football players of all time oh yeah throwing from here throwing from right here yeah Rich G rich can putting that ball wherever fuck she wants Good ball All right boys in the back. I worked this year Really good work talk graphics great work over there boys And on that note we bid you adieu for a few so we can snooze and come back better than ever.

I doubt that actually normally takes us a few days to get back into it. You have a little self-stuff. Right at the combine. That helps. Oh, so we're going to have, yeah, because combine will give us a little juice. Exactly. The juice. Cause everybody's going to be there. Now with that being said, we's your spot the juice because everybody's gonna be there now with that being said

We have no idea where our sets gonna be there sure on a 50, right? Probably not the NFL, you know everybody that we've talked to at the NFL Has said hey can't wait to have you at the combine can't wait to be there. His NFL Network. Normally the only really Sets that are in there. so we we put an ask in feels like the people with the NFL were like okay sounds good but there's one particular person that's actually in charge this entire thing haven't heard from him so we assume that he's talked to everybody else though and just hasn't really got to us but there is a chance we're gonna be Lucas O'Statement also a

chance we're here to thunder. Okay either way I've decided I'm gonna do some inside in this year down there. What are you gonna do shake hands kiss babies babies shake hands kiss babies take people out to dinner good take them out to the bar Show me good times. Oh, you're gonna host me Apples they don't see very often you're gonna take him down to 10 10 whistle. Oh, yeah, the wish Connor get you in there real quick. Kim and Gumpy. Hey, I see KOC and McCown had a great year after night at the tin whistle Coming the coach of the year. After visiting the tin roof. After being at the tin roof. Bang! Dog. Something to think about, Vrabel. KOC comes up to me at the combine. I was with one of your guys last night. They got me a shot or whatever. Beard. Kind of a, I was like, really? Zito? Kind of. He was like, no, it wasn't Zito.

Some guy with a beard. And then I get a text from the group. Yeah, I had a couple with KOZ last night from Gumpy. And I tell KOZ, it was Gumpy. He goes, yes, Canadian guy. It was awesome. So KOZ, just like normal human, feels like. Great coach.

Just signed a new deal with Minnesota, right? Yep. Congrats to him. Who's going to be their quarterback? Not Sam Darnow. Is it going to be Aaron Rodgers? Oh. I doubt it.

We'll have Aaron Rodgers with us whenever we come back. Written in the stars. I believe he's out of the country currently. That's what our source says. Are telling us. Is that what your source says? Are telling you as well, AJ? Oh yeah.

I don't honestly, I haven't really checked. Okay. Be honest with you. Yeah, if I'm telling you, yeah, I don't honestly I haven't really have more check Be honest with you Yeah, I'm telling you truth. I've been so I said drop drop location pin. I didn't say that should Should maybe I will check on the guy from Her they don't want you yeah scoopage Make you go. She heard major school bitch Aaron flew himself

To New Jersey the quick meeting in and out. He's not gonna be a jet nectar goopage Jimmy Johnson thing was sweet. Yeah, I think so. Is he done. What happened there if he is Thank you for that if he asked him and he was just like I don't know one day at a time I thought that's what the whole fucking thing was 60 years in football. Yeah, yeah Is that what it was supposed to be? I guess I'm not sure congrats Jimmy man. It was fun reliving your life I didn't know, you know, Oklahoma State through the entire thing and then the power of that I bet you was kind of freaky for Jimmy

I had assumed cuz I assume they had pictures from all those arrows and then they just plop it onto a human Jenny Johnson, oh My travel back. Holy shit I had a suit because I assume they had pictures from all those arrows and then they just plop it onto a human Jimmy Johnson the whole said me My travel back. Holy shit. What the hell was cool, but I did feel like it was retirement thing. That's good. Yeah, I thought so Even the Jimmy Johnson. Mm-hmm 60 You done. Oh, they're still paying me. Yeah There's a bye. Yeah, there's a whole whatever the case Jimmy. Thank you for your commitment to football. That was fun to watch shot a I Shot the yeah. All right, AJ. Let's get the hell out of here. It's been a fun season

Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. I can't wait to sleep. Oh, yeah, I'm asleep a little bit. Mm-hmm I'm asleep a little bit mm-hmm I'm asleep a little bit of joy you should Right now look some water. Why check out some altitudes? Probably turn into a lobster why and that's what's very limited Son I turn into an immediate lobster. What do you have over there? You have something to say no god dry race board up. I do I didn't know if you're gonna do that thing or not Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought you had to poop right there. If you gotta poop no, no, I mean I do I but I'm gonna hold it after the show

Nice, that's not good for you though. You shouldn't do that. Yeah, you should let that out. I don't let it do Cuz those things will those things will linger in there it will tie hold in a couple poops and look what he has to deal with now bingo Church let it go. That's why you always go. Let's sneeze go. Exactly Einstein never hold sneezing That'll happen for you All right. We appreciate you all so much AJ great work this week our year Everybody great work to the people that watch wherever you watch. Thank you so much for allowing us in your life We'll see you in a little bit now

Without further ado after we break it up one last time We will have a nice recap of this NFL season that was and then we're gonna the fuck out of here Monday night raw tonight in Nashville. I'm gonna fuck up Gonna be a blast 8 o'clock on Netflix, big shit coming. Massive announcements every weekend. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on? We're on the Road to WrestleMania right now.

Things are heating up. Got the headset on tonight down in Asheville. Can't wait to see what's going on next to Michael Cole, but after that I'm fucking out of here. It's been a great year. A hell of a year, someone said. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. We're in this thing together

Let's never forget it team on me Team on three. We'll see you in a little bit one two three team Goodbye well, that's that we have a new world champion, but Who would we be if we didn't look back on the? 2024 2025 NFL season and reminisce about the great things that happened.

For instance, there were some new rules. The kickoffs looked very weird. But they added some electricity. Line drive to Turpin. It bounces through his legs. Here he comes. Gavante Turpin spinning free. Here he goes.

Fastest man in the NFL. Gavante Turpin takes it all the way. Touchdown down. And spinning three, here he goes! Fastest man in the NFL, Cavante Turpin takes it on the way. Touchdown Dallas. There were some new stars. That team in Washington, DC is all of a sudden back to some real relevance. All of their fans did a Hail Mary to get a new ownership.

Yeah, and they got a new quarterback. Jaden Danos broke the rookie quarterback rushing record, and he himself Threw a Hail Mary to get by the player drafted ahead There's also a new tight end in time don't forget about Brock Bowers out there in Vegas That's right boring Brock Bowers is about to be big ballin' for a very, very long time. You see the B. Ah-ha.

Steppin' up. Go indeed. Has a man. Court. The NFC North was supposed to go this year, if you do recall. Two-headed monster over there. These Lions. Fun to watch and dominant.

And they're tricky. He's got some high tricky. Now get stumbled after taking the step. But it doesn't matter. The Vikings have the best wide receiver in football and it seems as if any quarterback can do a great job with the coach of the year. That jawline having son of a bitch Mr. KOC. Second down nine. Darnold getting messy going deep. He's got Jefferson. Son of a bitch mr. K. Oh see And hey, let's tell the truth

Okay, tell the truth fair. Tell the truth. I will tell the truth. Okay. Kickers are awesome. We even had a free kick. Kenny banging through. On its way. In he's. Yep. Got the Jim Harbaugh's big brain for that.

And welcome back to the NFL. We're going to have moments like this with Coach Harbaugh. Phil Belichick talks about the middle eight in a football game. I mean there's a middle eight in a season too. You could break it down that way. You know, six, seven, eight, nine. I mean those are important games. The only joke I know is why were six afraid of seven? You got seven, eight, nine. Six, seven, eight, nine. Those are big games. How about that guy up in Buffalo? Bill's Mafia.

Stand up. Josh Allen finally won an MVP. People were really, really happy for him. You're welcome. Yeah, it did seem like they were. All of us. Yeah, it felt like everybody was happy. Yeah.

It was something that really could unite all of America. Uh-huh. That's what the NFL does. Josh Allen being an MVP. Well, his team was counted out this year going into the season. Brand new roster. Get rid of all the players that we know. And he put the team on his back.

He even ipso factoed, threw a touchdown to himself this year in the snow. Targets to Shakir completed. This is behind Cooper who brought it in. Pitched it back to Allen who's going gonna go to the goal line and did it! Well and it's official. Christmas is now officially an NFL holiday worldwide on Netflix! Ooh, sorry NBA. Gotta stink. It does stink especially if Lamar Jackson's gonna break the NFL quarterback rushing record while 31 million folks watched around the globe. This is good to run it back as we've seen.

Jackson will keep this time. And look at the speed! Lamar Jackson is gone! Touchdown! LeMari Christmas! And that leads us to the world champs. Saquon Barkley. Absolute.

D'oh! Mike O'Donnell is the greatest free agent signing in NFL history, and one billionaire needs a lot of ambiance. What's the latest? What's on the Saquon thing? I just got a text that Chicago's driving the price up and Philly's out. I don't know if that's true or not. Hmm. Which I don't know if that's... I'll make a couple calls. I don't even know if that's gonna happen, but... I'm gonna have a tough time sleeping if St. Juan goes to film the outside of that. As I told you, just being out...

I haven't been around enough players, but he's the... He's the most popular player we have by far. St. Juan Bartley not only ran forward and jumped backwards into the history books, but he is now the all-time leader in rushing yards in a season. Shout to him and at offense alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good boy. Hurts, has time. Now locates Barkley out of the backfield. Barkley slips two tackles and picks up the first down. Checking up in the air to the 30. Makes the first down miss. Just gonna move up the first got. Checking up in the air to the 30. Makes the first got miss. Just gonna move at the last second. And then, what? Tiki.

What is that? Turns out Nick Sirianni's not some big dumb dipshit. Wait a minute. That doesn't make any sense. No it doesn't. I remember those lower thirds day after day saying This guy's a big dumb dipshit. Then the next day it'd say Still a big dumb dipshit then the next day it say still a big

dumb dipshit and then this third day somehow it say this big dumb dipshit's gonna cost him a season and then the next week they let off with he's the weakest link in the league and then the next day it was he might be a fat stooge but now the big bald dumb pies on is a world champion. And it's not just Sirianni obviously, and he won't take any credit. Neither will Big Dom. How about the Eagles defense led by Vic Fangio?

He wins his first Super Bowl and he coached an absolute juggernaut. Third and 16, the worms roll out. Look at, firing, intercepted! Picked up by Cooper Dajin, gets a block. Dajin is... Second, picked up by Cooper Dajin, gets a flop. Dajin is... So here's Mahomes.

What's he got left? Pressure against... Debt! Ball is out! And the Eagles have it! In the quarterback, coolest guy in town and he got it. Okay. Jalen Hurts went for 42 touchdowns this year and can finally change his home screen.

Run some block or maybe it's slow the dagger. Hurts going deep, point it off to Vakay Smith. He has got it! Touchdown! The Eagles are our world champions. Congratulations to Philly, congratulations to the Johns, congratulations to the Chiefs. It wasn't a great ending, but your dynastic run continues next year as 32 teams will start at the bottom of Lombardi Mountain trying to chase the trophy that the Eagles will have. We appreciate you, NFL. What a season it was. It's been a hell of a year

It's been a hell of a year Hell yeah! Shout out to Talk for that edit. Shout out to the NFL for a Hell of a year. We're gonna take a hell of a break. We'll see you on the other side. You people are the greatest people on earth. Who will win the Lombardi next year? What stories will develop? Whose legacies will either be ruined or created? We'll cover it all and also NBA, NHL, La Crosse. F1. Great movie.

Brad Pitt looks awesome. Yes he does. Be a friend, tell a friend something nice that might change your life. We're gonna sing together. Team on me. Great work on that talk. Team on three.

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