The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 140 - Justin Tucker, Mike Florio, & More NFL Chatter

Episode Date: December 6, 2019

On today’s show, Pat and the boys are joined by friend of the show, owner and creator of Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio. They discuss Florio’s bombshell on Twitter a few days ago that he has an inkling that Andrew Luck will be the Las Vegas Raiders Quarterback to start the 2020 season, and what the Raiders would potentially have to give up in order to get his rights. Pat also asks Mike whether or not another coach will get fired before the end of the season, and where a possible landing spot for Ron Rivera might be, when Jason Garrett will be fired, and addresses the idea of Tom Brady potentially playing for a different team next year (1:57-12:07). Next, 4x All-Pro, 3x Pro Bowler, Super Bowl Champion, the most accurate kicker in NFL history, Baltimore Ravens Kicker, Justin Tucker calls in. Justin and Pat discuss his game winning kick against the 49ers in the miserable conditions in Baltimore this past weekend, what his mindset and ritual is before he lines up to kick, what he has seen in Lamar Jackson over the last two years and if there is anything he can point that has led to his massive success. He also chats about his relationship with Matthew McConaughey, his potential career as an opera singer, and why this Ravens team has bonded so quickly (12:09-32:40). Pat also reacts to the news that Adam Vinatieri has been dealing with a knee injury for some time and the Colts having to bring in a kicker and what that process is like, and why it magnifies how important having a great kicker is, and gives a couple of thoughts on some of the early lines from this weekend’s NFL games. Also included are a few calls from the radio show including questions about why Browns fans are having a hard time hating Duck Hodges, and whether or not the Chiefs have a shot to knock off the Patriots this weekend in Foxborough. Today’s show is a good one, come and laugh with us. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We're being joined now by a man who's a trailblazer in the blogging world. He has sold companies to both NBC and I think ESPN. The guy's a genius, the founder of Pro Football Talk, the man in the know, Mr. Mike Florio.

Hi, Chad. Hey, I gotta ask you a question. Are we talking football today, or are we talking about jumping in lakes or going on rollercoasters? Hey, what's up with that dude, Florio? There's no reason for that bum to take a shot at me. I'm not even an employee of game day. Yeah, hey, listen, I don't want to say anything to get me in trouble,

but I thought it was funny and I thought you handled it well. Thank you. I appreciate that. Speaking of handling things well, I don't know how to handle the tweet that you put out this morning about something where you said, I have no inside info. This is just a feeling that Andrew Luck is going to be the starting quarterback for the Las Vegas team in the XFL in 2020.

Where did that come from, Florio? You have a big brain. You don't just make things up. Not in the XFL team in the XFL in 2020. Where did that come from, Florio? You have a big brain. You don't just make things up. Not in the XFL, in the NFL. Las Vegas Raiders. Yeah. Oh. Oh.

You think he's going to be? Oh, my God. I read that. I thought it was an XFL. Why do you think he's going to be a quarterback for the Raiders in Las Vegas? Well, I think Derek Carr is not going to be the quarterback of the team next year. I think they seriously considered finding another quarterback this year. Mike Mayock, the GM of the team, basically said so

when explaining why they kicked tires on Kyler Murray and Dwayne Haskins before the draft. Basically, there's an obligation to constantly look for upgrades, and if you find one quarterback, you've got to take it. You've got to do what's right for the team. And I just don't think Derek Carr and John Gruden was ever a good fit. I think they've tried to make it a fit. I don't think it works.

And I think they're going to look for whatever's out there. And I could see a guy like John Gruden getting obsessed with the idea of trying to talk Andrew Luck out of retirement. Now, look, it wouldn't be easy to do. The Colts still hold his rights. And a lot of dominoes would have to fall the right way for it to happen. But if Luck wants to come back, I mean, the Colts have you probably for set. I don't see the Colts turning aside or benching for set just because Luck all of a sudden decides he wants to come back. And if they could get some sort of value in trade, everybody moves on.

And this all hinges on Luck wanting to come back after a year out of football. But I could see Gruden being very relentless in trying to make it happen if he wraps his arms around the idea of getting a veteran quarterback, a smart guy who will be able to handle Gruden's offense, and a guy who will be sufficiently thick-skinned that he can take whatever abuse verbally Gruden wants to throw at him. You know, Gruden likes to abuse his quarterbacks because that's his way of simulating game conditions. So actually when they're on the football field, it's a relief because they don't have to listen to Gruden. And Carr isn't, I believe, strong enough to take that.

And I think that's what's doomed that relationship from the start. I'm kind of surprised it's lasted two years, but if the Raiders are going to look around, why wouldn't you call the Colts and see what it would take to get Andrew Luck, if Andrew Luck could have his mind changed and come back and play to be on the team going into Las Vegas? Again, if he wants to come back, if Andrew Luck could have his mind changed and come back and play to be on the team going into

Las Vegas. Again, if he wants to come back, if being away from football for a year has reignited that fire for him, it just makes too much sense to not happen if he decides that he's ready to come back. This is so interesting to me because I was

thinking about going and kicking for a team. I chatted with you about that a little bit and I talked to Chris Ballard after it all came and my knee blew up and I decided I'm gonna go into the media world here and he said uh he said now if you were gonna go kick somewhere that said somewhere was gonna have to pay for you pal that's what he said to me so I couldn't even fathom what it would be if Andrew Luck was the if he was to give up Andrew Luck's rights to another team that that would have to be I mean that would have to be a pretty massive giveaway and I don't know if they do they have it I guess they do because they got rid of Khalil Mack they get rid

of Amari Cooper do they have enough pieces to potentially make that play well I mean the question becomes how reasonable are they willing to be given that they they you know they feel a debt of gratitude to Andrew Luck? And if he doesn't play for someone else, they never have anything for him, right? And all he has to do is show up like Brett Favre did in 2008 when they were ready to go with Aaron Rodgers and say, here I am, deal with me. And then you've got a problem. You've got to figure out what you're going to do.

So if he's determined to play, and that's the biggest factor in all of this, if he decides he wants to play, the Colts, I think, would be wise to try to maybe spark an auction, get a couple of teams at the table. But the thing is, for quarterbacks, they're going to be a little picky about where they want to go. This isn't Andrew Luck coming out of retirement, if he would ever choose to do it, to just come out of retirement

and play for anyone. It would have to be the right spot. And when you look at what Gruden has done historically with veteran quarterbacks, guys like Rich Gannon, and Rich Gannon was never anything close to Andrew Luck before he got connected with John Gruden. There's just this weird, I could just see Gruden wanting to do it. I could see the force of personality doing everything he could to try to make it happen. But you're right, they'd have to give up something probably significant significant i don't know that it would take a first round pick but

you know if your quarterback situation is unsettled would you ship a first round pick to the colts for andrew luck if you know he's really coming back and he wants to stay and uh he's he's really serious about playing i'd i'd strongly consider doing it i mean if i'm looking for a quarterback anyway i'd rather get a guy that I know can play than a guy I'm rolling the dice on. I just feel like it's going to be more than a first-round pick, personally. I could be wrong. You know more than I do. But for me, I feel like it's... No, no, no. Who knows?

Who knows what... You know, Chris Ballard could draw a line in the sand and say, no way in hell. And Jim Irving could get involved and say, we're not releasing his rights. He plays for us or he plays for no one. If he wants to come back, he's playing for the Colts, and we will put Jacoby Brissett on the bench. Okay, interesting. Hey, say hello to the good boy back there for me, by the way.

Yeah, that's Macy. Yeah, she's a good girl. She just likes to bark when she hears me talking loud. Well, tell Macy I said hello. And my dog had to go to the vet last night, so got her taken care of, had an allergic reaction. Daddy did care this morning because Mom was out of town. Had to make sure the house didn't go up in flames from all the animals.

I can absolutely feel you. All right, I want to fire a couple questions at you before we let you go. I know you're very busy. Thank you for getting on here. Jason Garrett, he's done after this year, right? Yeah, I think he's got to take the Cowboys at least to the NFC Championship game. They haven't been there since 1995. I don't see it happening.

I don't see them winning on the road against a team like the Saints, the 49ers, or the Seahawks. So I think he's going to be done, and then who knows what Jerry's going to do next. Maybe we'll hire Urban Meyer. Oh. All right. Is Tom Brady going to leave the Patriots?

Is he going to retire? What do you think is going to happen with Tom? He seems more upset than he has in the past. And is Josh McDaniels, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, with Tom Brady as a quarterback for the Cowboys, a possibility? Oh, God, that would be something, wouldn't it? I don't think the Cowboys are ready to bench Dak Prescott, though, or move on from him.

Look, I think that all the signs are there suggesting that Tom Brady's frustrated and that maybe it is time to move on. I think he'd like to walk away with a Super Bowl championship. The question becomes, is he willing to just go somewhere else and make a money grab if there isn't that clear opportunity to win a Super Bowl? I can't find a spot for him where I would feel like he's definitely going to be in the mix, unless Drew Brees retires and the Saints decide they want to do it for a year with Tom Brady before they hand it over to Teddy Bridgewater,

assuming that they can evaluate Brady and conclude that he's still good enough. How much of the offensive struggles are on his shoulders? I don't know. Because, you know, it feels like sacrilege to say that Tom Brady may not be as good as he used to be, but the guy's 42 and maybe some of the performance this year is on him. But, you know, a team like the Chargers, they've got to do something to attract fans in L.A., whether it's Cam Newton, whether it's Tom Brady and again, I don't know that Brady's going to want to make a money grab

but if I'm the Chargers and Brady's available I've got to consider that because he's going to sell a ton of jerseys, a ton of tickets and this team is struggling to compete with the Rams in that market and getting a guy like Brady, even for a year or two he still says he wants to play until he's 45 or beyond getting him for a year or two would go a long way toward helping the Chargers establish a footprint

in LA. We've been on the Chargers train since the beginning for Tom Brady. Not sure what's going to happen. We'll be excited to watch it. Okay, let's pivot. Ron Rivera became the second quarterback our coach fired this season. Who's going to be the third, and will there be another firing, you think, during the season? I don't know if there's going to be another one during the season, but of course we didn't expect Ron Rivera to get fired during the season. I mean, there are plenty of guys who are on the hot seat. I think Pat Shermer is going to be gone when the season's over for the Giants. I think Freddie Kitchens needs to be very concerned about his future in Cleveland.

I think one year is enough for them to come to the conclusion that he's butting up against the ceiling, that he's just not going to be able to bust through. And the Miles Garrett incident, I think, doesn't help when it's time to figure out is Kitchens the right guy for the job. And now that Rivera's available, Pat, with a month to go, some of these teams are considering, hey, is there an upgrade out there? Ron Rivera's the guy that they need to consider.

And all due respect to Freddie Kitchens, but between Rivera and Kitchens, I'm taking Rivera seven days out of the week. All right. Well, that's most of the days of the week. I appreciate that. Mr. Florio, you can listen to him in the morning. You can listen to his podcast. You can read about him on Pro Football Talk. out of the week all right well that's most of the days of the week i appreciate that mr florio you can listen to him in the morning you can listen to his podcast you can read about him on pro football talk you're a legend you're a paison did you see the irishman yeah i still gotta watch the

last hour of it that's a fight man yeah that's three hours three and a half hours what do you what does the human being do for more than three hours at a time other than sleep right i watched the irish long i did it i want i did in one sitting a lot of vitamins were had but i did in one sitting you italians i'll tell you what you guys had your hands in everything in this country's history hey let me tell you the book is awesome too i read the i read the book earlier this year and i highly recommend the book but the book is better than i did so the book's always better than the movie but i heard you paint houses is is a than the idea. So the book's always better than the movie. But I Heard You Paint Houses is a great, great book. And the movie, what I've seen of it so far has been really good.

I just can't find time to watch The Last Ballad. I would like to let you know that on today's podcast, Pat McAfee Show 2.0, we interviewed Michael Francis in an hour-long conversation. He was a made man in the Colombo family during that time. He said that old Frankie is lying about it. He didn't kill Hoffa. So there seems to be some lies being told in that whole thing, but I enjoyed the entertainment level of it a lot.

We got to get to a break. You got to get to a podcast. I can't thank you enough. Ladies and gentlemen, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio. See you, bro. We are being joined now by the best ball striker I've ever seen, University of Texas grad, handsome opera singer, Baltimore Ravens kicker, has the highest field goal percentage in the history of the NFL,

ladies and gentlemen, Big Trush, Justin Tucker. What a stirring intro. Thanks, man. Thanks for having me. Hey, I tried my best. How are you feeling? You got to be living large. You hit a beautiful ball to get a big win for your Ravens team. That was a slugfest and a downpour this past weekend. Yeah, man, dude, we're all stoked. Coming into this game, we knew the, you know, the stakes are high and, you know, we're starting to play December football and, you know and everything that we're working for. You've been a part of some very, very good teams yourself.

You get to a point in the season where everything starts to matter more and more and more each and every day. So to come out of this game against a very, very good and talented 49ers team and for us to put together a complete game and get a win uh is definitely big time for us heading into December hell yeah man you guys are crushing it in all three phases I mean granted Sam Cook doesn't show up much doesn't get called much but when he does he executes at a very high level I mean your team right now is hot and I there was a candid moment that was caught on the sideline between Harbaugh and Lamar where Lamar was basically being told by Harbaugh that hey in 20 years from now 15 years from now kids are going to be wearing the number eight all over the

place because of you and then he said that's why they love you and he said I love you too coach he said well I said they but I also love you it seems like your team's chemistry right now is at an all-time high from Mark Ingram to everybody else it feels like that team and you guys really care about each other that's an x factor that I don't think gets talked about enough. Definitely, dude. Yeah, this is a brotherhood, man. This is a family. As much as I've been a part of in my time playing professional football, man, I've been lucky enough to be a part of some really, really great teams. Got a chance to win a Super Bowl my rookie year, and this team that we have right now has all the makings and all the potential to do great things.

And it also helps that we all genuinely care about each other with what we're doing on the field and off the field as well. I mean, stuff that's not going to be talked about nearly as much as what we're doing on the field is, you know, this time of year, Thanksgiving, you know, and Christmas coming up. You know, the stuff that guys are doing off the field, like Brandon Carr with, you know, Holiday Helpers and Lit Buddies. And, you know, that's just one example I could we're trying to give back to his community, you know, and they ask, hey, who's available, who can come and support, there will be, you know, 20 guys at least at each one of these events that, you know, one of our teammates is putting on. And I think that speaks to the camaraderie that we have the brotherhood that we share and uh you know when you have that in addition to you know the talents of the guys like lamar jackson and marshall young and earl thomas and sam cook and you know all you add that all together and you have a chance to do

something really special and justin tucker i mean i'll add you to that list i got you uh what has been the biggest difference in lamar Jackson, you think, from last year to this year, aside from your team buying in and getting the three tight ends and making a much different style of offense? Just personally, both on the field and off the field, what has Lamar Jackson changed from last year to this year? He has captivated the world right now. Many are considering him the best player on the planet right now,

the most athletic person he walks onto any field. What has he changed the most, you think, in the last year that you've seen from inside the locker room? Yeah, first of all, I would certainly agree with you that he is absolutely one of the most dynamic players I've ever had the privilege of seeing up close and in person. Some of the stuff he's doing week in and week out is, you know, it's unbelievable. I feel like every single week he's got, you know, at least one or two or three plays where, you know, the whole stadium is just shocked at what he's doing. But, you know, I don't really know if there's, you know, some significant difference from last year to this year.

I mean, you know, look at last year. We won, what, like eight or seven out of our last, like, eight or nine games or whatever the numbers are. You know, and that's largely, you know, due to the fact that Lamar Jackson is playing really well for us. You know, so as far as there being any sort of significant difference from last year to this year, you know, I don't know, man.

That's awesome. I think from the moment he came in, he was playing well. And, you know, like you said, it seems like we're, you know, as an organization doing so much to bring out the best, you know, not only in him but everybody around him and, you know, not only in him, but everybody around him and, you know, this whole team. So, yeah, man, I'll just leave it at that. I think he's a winner, and he started proving that right off the bat, and he's obviously continuing to do so this year.

It's really cool to see up close and in person. That's beautiful to see a guy hasn't changed, especially with all the success, and it's only going to keep continuing. I couldn't even fathom the amount of commercial opportunities he's going to get this upcoming offseason. He's about to get broken off by everybody, and I don't think it's going to matter because of how athletic he is. Let's talk about you a little bit.

You're going to be a Hall of Famer, and that's something that is not easy to accomplish as a kicker. You're a guy who has stepped up in big situations and been able to rise to the occasion, which is very important in the kicking world. The difference between good and great in kicking is consistency. You've been the most consistent guy in the history of the NFL. What is going through your mind before you kick a ball? Are you completely empty-brained, or you have thoughts and triggers that you're thinking about? Yeah, man. You know, it kind of varies from kick to kick, to be perfectly honest.

You know, sometimes I might be feeling just a little bit more, whatever those feelings are. You know, I could be feeling nervous or even scared or excited or confident or a combination of all of those things all at the same time in varying degrees from kick to kick. But, you know, I've been saying this for the last however long. All of those feelings, they're important to acknowledge that they're there so you can put them aside and focus on the task at hand. At the end of the day, the only thing that really matters in those moments is hardly what you're feeling,

but it's those 1.3 some odd seconds between the snap, the hold, and the kick and just putting the ball through the uprights. You know, and that's a little bit easier said than done. Not for you. You know, you can talk about focusing, but you have to focus on focusing. It's like this super meta concept that, you know, I think the true greats that have played this position

or, you know, anything similar to it, right? Like, you know, the greatest kickers of all time, like the, you know the Morton Andersons and Adam Vinatieri's and the greatest closers in baseball, like Mariano Rivera. You could go on and on with the guys who perform well in quote-unquote clutch situations, crunch time situations. I think every single one of those guys would probably say something similar. There's feelings. You've got to put them aside, and you've just got to focus on your technique.

Focus on the action and not the consequence. And we've been fortunate enough to do that at a high enough level where we've converted. And I emphasize we. Morgan Cox, Sam Cook, and myself and everybody blocking for us over the years. We've made a lot of kicks because we've, you know, kept it as simple as possible. But it's that whole simple is not easy thing. Yeah, absolutely. I think that was, by the way, a nice little trip into the brain there of a guy

who is going to be, you're going to be studied in the future. I hope you know that. And that's something that I assume you appreciate and enjoy. You're in the moment. You can't really think about it. Going out for that Niners game winner, it seemed like there was a little left to right wind. What was the thought going in there? Yeah, so we pick out a small target line through the uprights based on everything that we can gather in pregame and throughout the game for that matter. So going to the left of our bench, pretty much the whole game, there was a driving rain with left-to-right wind.

What's actually kind of, in a sense, kind of nice about the fact that it was raining consistently throughout the game is you can see which direction the wind is going. And normally you can't do that in our stadium. You just kind of have to feel it and hope that you're right when you line one up and you try to kick it through. So being able to see which direction the raindrops are flying across the uprights certainly helped us in picking our aiming point. But we have this massive jumbotron on either end of the stadium,

and when we're kicking fuel goals they have uh a graphic put up on there that just says m&p bank stadium and uh there's you know the it's a like a black background with white lettering and uh sam and i picked out the right edge of the d which would have been the left third of the uprights so uh given the conditions with you know with the rain and the field was pretty chewed up at that point, it's just about staying light on your feet, getting your studs in and out of the ground with the plant foot, contacting the sweet spot of the ball as best as possible, and trying to hit that right edge of the letter D there on the scoreboard. that right edge of the letter D there on the scoreboard. And that's what we did,

and we got out of there with a very big win for this program. Yeah, massive win. Aim small, miss small. Aim small, miss small. That's the whole game. I love that. Vinny and I used to aim at drunk guys, but I appreciate you guys going at stadiums.

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massive rate there well i mean yeah you're you right. When you say the, the kicker or the, the holder rather is similar to the, you know, that of a caddy on the golf course. I mean, when you have a guy, you know, like you have a guy like myself, I'm like a, you know, bouncing like a balloon on a string type of personality, you know, and then Sam absolutely balances me out and you know, having, having those, just the personalities, right. You know, and then Sam absolutely balances me out. And, you know, having those, just the personalities, right, you know, having that balance out there is important. You know, like Sam will, you know, out on the practice field, he'll either fire me up or call me down or whatever he needs to do

to get me to put the ball through the post. do to get me to put the ball through the post. Sam being able to, Sam just being that guy and also being incredibly skilled at what he does, you know this as a punter and a holder, that's not like an 80-20 job. It's a 100-100 job. It's a 100-100 job. Sam being able to catch with his hands in poor conditions and spot the ball consistently with each and every kick is something that I don't think any of us around here take for granted, and I certainly do not.

Well, the Wolfpack is very impressive over there you cox and cook are a tag team a triple a triple threat that is honestly something that hasn't been matched in this nfl it's been fun to watch a couple quick questions before you let you go uh anthony digilio here digs uh was wondering if you go to texas do you just automatically get matthew mcconaughey's number uh you know it's funny i did uh i've met him a couple times super nice guy very down to earth really really cool uh and uh met him a couple of times in austin at you know various uh events like he and mac brown and jack ingram have this great charity group mac jack mcconaughey and i've been to their event over a weekend.

And the work that they do is really, really great, helping a lot of kids out. But getting a chance to meet him and kind of shoot the ball with him a couple of times, and even at practices when I was playing at Texas, he would come around and be at practice and share a word with us. But having had a chance to meet him a handful of times. And then this preseason running into him in Washington, which I don't know. I need to ask him about that. Like, how are you a fan of the

Washington Redskins? You know, you're a Texas guy. That doesn't add up to me. We'll have to figure that one out. Are you questioning McConaughey? I believe that I am. So, you know, we're going to have to figure that one out. Are you questioning McConaughey? I believe that I am. We're going to have to have a conversation about that. Having a chance to meet him and know that he is a supporter of the Texas Longhorns

and everybody that's come through there, it's really cool, man. That's beautiful. Ty Schmidt wanted to know, because it has been talked about, not a lot, but it has been mentioned a couple times, you're an incredibly talented opera singer. Is that something, could you do any style of singing, and are you going to release a record or two? You know, the whole me singing opera, and everybody wants to tag along or, you know, add on to that. He sings opera in seven different languages. And I just want to put it out there, you know, because you guys have like a massive following.

So maybe this will actually stick this time because I've said it a couple times before. But being able to sing in like the classical you know people just want to say sing opera but uh it's really if i wanted to get specific and technical i would say it's the bel canto style of singing and uh singing in that style in seven different languages is actually like super common like it's actually probably the standard it'd probably be closer to eight languages and like so if if if i was at the you know while i was at the university of texas uh taking voice lessons and earning my degree in music and all that stuff right i could be walking through the butler school of music and swing my backpack in a circle and i would hit 10 musicians that are like significantly more talented than I ever could be.

So I think the fact that I happen to kick a ball straight a lot of the time and sing in what people think is a lot of languages, I guess it's pretty cool. Tucker, shut up. Tucker, Tucker, Tucker. Hey, hey. Showering in the car. Hey, listen.

You swing that backpack, you might hit a lot of people that are better at singing or music than you you but you didn't hit a single person that's probably the best of all time at a different thing and also do that stop underselling yourself i can't even speak seven different accents languages well you know you might be right with part of that like yeah like i'm not gonna i don't think many of the other music students at texas were as good at kicking a ball as i was uh could you sing um like let's say whenever you're done here in what 10 years however long it is an old justin tucker wants to do a country album is that something that you see in your horizon or are you done with it only to do it for special occasions

i'm kind of just going wherever the wind takes me at this point man you know one foot in front that you see in your horizon, or are you done with it only to do it for special occasions? I'm kind of just going wherever the wind takes me at this point, man. You know, one foot in front of the other and every other cliche I could come up with. And I say, you know, wherever the wind takes me. That's usually wherever my son Easton and my wife Amanda are, you know, wanting to go. And oftentimes it's Chick-fil-A or Chipotle. So I'm just going to go to Chipotle, get quesadillas and guac with my little guy and enjoy that as that becomes more and more of a thing towards the quote-unquote back nine of my career.

But it's funny, you know, over the last year, I don't know why, but over the last year I've been asked more and more about the end of my career. And I'm like, dude, hopefully I'm still on, like, the front nine. You know, I'm still chasing the, you know, like, the GOAT Adam and Morton and, you know, John Carney, like, Matt Stover, Phil Dawson. Those guys all, you know all putting together 20-plus years of high, high-quality football. I mean, yeah, I'll just keep singing in the car and in the shower until I'm at year 20.

Knock on wood if you're with me, man. Maybe I can get there one day. I respect that. I can't thank you enough. When you do that album i'm excited for it i don't care what year it is i'll probably be retired again at that point uh but ladies and gentlemen best kicker in the game a guy who wins games is gonna have to win some here down the stretch i assume it's gonna get close good luck in the playoffs baltimore

ravens kicker justin tucker thank you buddy buddy. Thanks for having me, bro. Cheers, dude. Hey, man, you still there? Yeah. You look thinner than you've ever looked. Is that accurate? I look thinner? Yeah, fitter. I should say fitter instead of thinning. Oh, fitter, yeah.

I'm still at like 183.0, man. I've been trying new stuff like trimming up the beard a certain way. That's probably it. That was it. That was it. That's it. All right, thank you, Tuck. Appreciate you.

All right, you got it, Pat. Later, dude. See, he's so good at kicking balls. Yeah. You've got to focus on focusing. I think we just talked about this yesterday, literally. Yeah. We literally just talked about this yesterday because we did that

XFL ball toss thing. And a lot of people were asking how many takes was it. It was seven. Seven. It was seven takes. And the first first six i was just throwing it right i was just throwing it trying to get it in and then on the seventh one i was like all right actually try to get it in here like i was like actually try to get in there so you tell yourself to actually focus that's a very interesting thing to hear him say that because it literally just happened two days ago uh what a good conversation with that guy.

By the way, he's going to be a country musician at some point. Somebody's going to talk him into it. Might as well. Might as well. He's from Texas.

He has the look. Put a ball cap on him. Yep, for sure. In the off season, he'd kick balls and make a few millions singing country songs. It's only a matter of time.

Sell it to everyone in Baltimore. Oh, Baltimore. We weren't in country until our kicker that's unbelievable started singing. He is so good

at kicking balls. So good at it. You know every time he goes out that it's going to be a big. And when he misses, it's big news. Like when he misses,

he actually has to have a press conference about it. Correct. Like the last couple times he's missed, they've called him in for a press conference. They're like,

what happened? He's like, I just missed. Are you okay? He missed an extra point or something last year, and he literally had to have a press conference about why he missed it. He was like, I don't know, man, I'm sorry. Like 99.9%.

Sam Cooke, very good. Morgan Cox, very good. That Baltimore Ravens team, very, very, very good. They're at Buffalo this weekend. He's going to have some tough conditions up there with Bills Mafia. Buffalo is plus 5.5 this weekend against the Ravens. How do we feel about it? I don't know.

I think I like it. You like Buffalo plus 5.5? I think so. All right. Let me hear why. I don't know if I have Baltimore big spread last week. I feel like it could be kind of a similar game. Bad conditions in Buffalo.

Tight. Buffalo plays everyone tight. Josh Allen looked good last week. 5.5 is a lot of points. It conditions in Buffalo. Tight. Buffalo plays everyone tight. Josh Allen looked good last week. Five and a half is a lot of points. It is a lot. Five and a half point home dog. I don't know. Buffalo's been very good.

Yeah, they have been very good. Under the radar sneaky good too. By everybody, including us. We didn't talk about them that much as much as we probably should have because we have a lot of fans in Buffalo. We appreciate the Bills Mafia. Always give a lot of credit to Bills Mafia who stuck with this team. And it seems like this year it's all paying off for them. It seems

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Do I think the Ravens are six points better? Yes. Yeah. But can the Ravens have a down week after an emotional game against the 49ers? Exactly. And the Bills have three more days to prepare. Possibly. Plus five and a half is a lot.

I'm not betting it. I'm leaning away from it. The Bills are 14th against the Rush, too. So I could see them having a lot more problems against this team than we think. The Bills are 14th against the Rush? Yeah. Okay, so that means Ravens probably going to do well. They're number one.

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Now they are without a kicker going into the weekend. Unless Volk can get healthy, I'm not sure what they're going to do. I'll be excited to see. Maybe Jake Bailey, their punter, will kick. I'm not 100% sure. But for the Colts, I put my ear to the ground, phoned some people, and I was like, excuse me, don't you think I should be told? Like, isn't this something I should be told?

I go on. I'm one of the only people that go on a lot of big shows and talk about the Indianapolis Colts on a regular basis. This is something I'm pretty well, don't you guys think that you should give me a heads up if you guys are thinking about bringing in another kicker? And I was told, no.

Which I respect and appreciate. I got humbled very quickly. I heard Vinatieri's knee, he has had an injury that sparked up so they were like all right we have to do something but they did cut another player to make room for this guy on the roster so if they're gonna cut vinatieri or send him to ir or something like that they wouldn't have cut the other guy to make room for the roster i'm not talking nobody's giving me anything by the way which i don't know if i respect or hate i i think i respect it i guess because you

hate rats you respectfully hate it yeah i respectfully hate i respect it but i hate that they're not giving me any intel i have not gotten a text from the gm which i would expect if we're gonna make moves like this but i have not gotten i didn't text vinny i don't want to hear it i don't want to put him in a situation so i don't know anything from anything all i do know is that they wouldn't have cut another guy to make room for another player if they were going to make a move to either send him to IR or whatever was going to happen. I would assume that that wouldn't happen unless they just wanted to get rid of the guy, the other guy, which I'm not 100% sure. But for me, this is just a statement that Vinny's knee is hurt.

We all have seen the performance this year has not been up to Adam Vinatieri's standards now granted this past week he had three misses two of them being blocked only one of the block was his fault the other one the guy got in the backfield before he even got a chance to kick it basically the 55 yarder you don't see a lot of people hit 55 yarders and he hit that ball well just drifted to the right so the miss was bad he's had a lot of misses this year though this has not been Vinatieri's best work I will not disagree with everybody that's saying that. But in this particular case, I have no idea how it's going to turn out. I have absolutely no clue.

What do we got left? How many weeks do we got left? Four? Yeah. Four weeks left in the season. You're bringing a guy. I have no idea. It's very interesting.

About 7,000 tweets came to me as soon as it was announced last night. Like, oh, what are you going to say about this? What are what do you say about this what do you say about this to be honest i have no idea i have no clue what's happening and nobody's giving me any information which i hate yeah i mean vinnie had an mri on his knee so it's not like it's not like this is a move because my knees now granted my only hobby as a child was kicking a soccer ball against the wall uh the side of my house right i didn't play video games i didn't play video games. I didn't watch TV. I had never seen a Disney movie until a couple years ago.

I mean, my only hobby was just blasting a soccer ball off the side of my house. So let's assume that my knees have gotten more reps in kicking things than possibly any human in the history of existence. And that's just what I did for fun fun was just blast the ball off a wall for hours at a time and granted it helped me immensely i i mean i kick a soccer ball 124 miles an hour that got me a lot of places i got to travel the globe playing soccer strictly because i had the strongest leg didn't always have the best conditioning but they would bring me in late in the second half and say hey pal need a big one out of you i would do that i got a chance obviously to kick a 65 yard field goal miss a 70 yard field goal coming out of high school because of this and got a scholarship

to west virginia go and do my thing miss a couple kicks there make a lot of kicks miss a couple get to the nfl punt made enough money to take care of everybody in my life basically so that hobby of mine definitely helped but my knees took a real beating through this. My hips, whenever I was in the NFL, like year five, my right hip, I thought I tore my hip flexor. I guess I just had a bruise on there or something like that. It came up. Your body, whenever you're doing something that's so explosive, a lot of people underestimate the amount of explosion

that is needed to kick a ball, to generate enough force to get a ball to propel off of your foot and travel 60 yards, 50 yards, things like that. It's a lot of explosion. Yes, the thought of kicking a ball to propel off of your foot and travel 60 yards, 50 yards, things like that. It's a lot of explosion. Yes, the thought of kicking a ball is easy, Ninja. The thought of, not just Ninja, by the way. Ninja speaks for a bunch of people that have been talking about football forever

because commentators have made it sound like it's the easiest thing because in comparison to all the other positions in football, it is much easier physically than all those positions. You're not ramming your head into things. You're not blocking people. You're not tackling people on a regular basis. You're just kicking a ball. But to do that act, it takes a lot of explosion.

That's why you take the average Joe and you say, hey, here's a football. Throw it. And they throw it well. And, okay, you throw them back and they catch it. It's like, okay, here's a golf club. Hit a golf ball. They can hit a golf ball pretty far. They can't control it, but it can go a little bit of a distance. Give them a Frisbee, they can throw it. Give them a baseball, they can play catch. But you ask them

to kick the ball or punt the ball, they stink at it. That's just the way it is. So to say that kicking is easy, I think although the act of it is potentially easy in comparison to other positions of football, but to be good at it, you have to have a lot of explosion. You have to be able to move something at a rapid rate. And to do that, a lot of your joints take a beating. That's why Vinatieri kicking here into, what, 46 years old is so impressive to me. The fact that his joints have been able to handle the wear and tear and the beat up to get to this age.

Jeff Fegels did it. Morton Anderson did it. Gary Anderson did it. These guys that can play in this explosive position. and the beat up to get to this age. Jeff Fegels did it. Morton Anderson did it. Gary Anderson did it. These guys that can play in this explosive position. By the way, once you do it, you have to go sit for probably 30, maybe 45 minutes, then come back out and be explosive again, much like a, I don't even know what it's like.

I don't even know the comparison, really. I don't think there is a comparison to it. So the fact that his joints have held up, he's had a lot of surgeries had surgeries on his knees he had surgeries on his hips these are things he rehabs his warm-up process is something that's like two hours long even for practice he has like a two hour long routine that he has to do so he can go out and kick and not muscles and ligaments tear apart so the fact that his knee is hurting is something that i would have expected years ago so now i think we're potentially seeing the residual effects uh and i think hindsight we can look back and assume that there might have been something wrong with him his body wasn't generating uh or acting a full cylinder like we it has in the past but for this the mri

on the knee the year that he's had i mean venatieri's going to have to have a real conversation with himself. And I am not envious of him in that moment where he's going to have to talk. And maybe he'll come back. Maybe he'll dominate next year. Maybe he'll do all that. But for me, if Vinatieri's knee is very hurt and he's not able to kick the rest of the year and Chase McLaughlin's the kicker, i think what we should all do is just thank adam venetieri for his service for everything he's done i'm excited for his future i'm not going to

try to lean him any different direction i don't know what the hell he's going to do but i am a little bit worried that they brought in another guy off of waivers because that probably means that he is not able to go this weekend which could potentially lead into others or maybe it's just one weekend he takes off and he comes back and finishes this thing off. I don't know. We'll see how it all works out. And then on the other side, for the Patriots, they have no kicker.

Nick Folk, the game before he had the appendicitis or whatever, was 2 of 4. And that was against Dallas in a close game. When the Patriots' offense is struggling and they're winning these close games, that's a real issue. For the first time in a long time, they have a real issue in the special teams department.

A glaring issue. That's a big deal that they've been through a couple now, right? And goszkowski was getting booed out of the building up there because he missed a couple kicks turns out He's got like no ligaments in his left knee or anything like that So he's battling as well and when you're talking about half inches of things We're talking about half inches of things happening in milliseconds Whenever you have one thing off or one thing hindering you a little bit if you just hit the ball a little fat it's a miss to the left you hit the ball a little thin it's a miss to the right so you got to really be humming at things and that's now granted these are all excuses i'm making for other people just step up and kick the ball through the uprights is

something that they have to that's what they're being paid to do but whenever you start thinking about the minute little things that are happening especially whenever you're talking about with something with such detail. An injury can really affect some things. And I don't know. Vinny has not said this. He's not said it to me. I'm assuming that the knee has hurt probably all year.

He took a couple weeks off in training camp because the knee has been hurting. And maybe we're seeing the effects of it. But I would assume he's not kicking this weekend because they bring in Chase McLaughlin. It also just magnifies how small the pool of good guys available is because we don't see new guys coming out it's a guy like oh he's had two other stops this year he's done this this year it's not just like some random guy coming out of nowhere getting an opportunity you get into this kicking carousel you know i mean you get in this kicking carousel where you're in a pool of kickers that

they bring in for a workout it's always the same people and then they pick whoever had the best day okay you're coming let's hope you get hot let's hope you get hot and if you don't get hot cool we'll take you out we'll bring in another we'll do it's just kind of like you're finding your guy i mean it's happened everywhere anytime you see a kicker leave there's a good chance it's going to take one or two before they find one that they get stuck on graham gano was on like three teams before he got hot with the panthers now joey sly's there graham gano's probably gonna have to find a new home down at the um the buccaneers obviously they've had problems the steelers had problems before they found boswell i mean the Joey Sly's there. Graham Gano's probably going to have to find a new home. Down at the Buccaneers, obviously. They've had problems.

The Steelers had problems before they found Boswell. I mean, the Patriots are having problems this year. I mean, it's very difficult to find because in these workouts and on the internet, you cannot simulate what's going to happen. You cannot simulate that a game with millions of dollars, millions of fans, things happen. You can't simulate it, it it's all in between years every once in a while a guy's gonna get hot every once in a while a guy's gonna get cold that's why

you can even see tiger woods has droughts that's just the way it goes whenever you're dealing with such small things that just have to go wrong for it to be a failure i mean these types of things are gonna happen people take it for granted but there is nothing like having a good kicker that you know when he goes out is gonna is gonna hit the kick there's nothing like having a good kicker that, you know, when he goes out is going to hit the kick. There's nothing like it. Yeah. It's so nice. College football, NFL, all footballs.

If you have a guy that you're like, all right, this guy's going to put the ball through. Last year for the Steelers, Boswell had an off year, and it was the first time in Boswell's career that a lot of Steelers fans, when he would come on a field, like, oh, no, here we go. This year, though, Boswell's hitting the ball well. He comes on. It's like, all right, we got got a guy tucker they feel like that there's only a few kickers in the league

where i think their their team and their fan base is like all right we got a guy dan bailey by the way he was not picked up by a couple teams whenever he was going through the yips he had a heck of a career with the the cowboys he gets cut there he goes to workouts for teams they don't sign him so that means he wasn't hitting the ball well now he's back to hitting the ball well for the vikings and that's going to help them down the line i'd assume but it's tough you get rid of a guy jason myers who's with the seahawks right now he was a pro bowler for the jets last year a pro bowler and they just let him walk out of the building and now they got their problems they're on like their kicker five they got an insurance salesman kicking balls and the seahawks are like excuse me you're just gonna let that guy walk out

of the building we We'll take him. It's a tough position to make sure that you're secure in. Very tough. The Patriots got no one. They don't even have one. They practiced Wednesday without a kicker. I love it. Yeah, we'll find somebody.

What if Julian Edelman's kicking? I would love that. Quick question about kicking. Yeah, buddy. Is leg speed something that's recorded by analytic people? I don't know. They always do, like, ball speed off the foot. Like swing speed for golf leg speed something that's recorded by analytic people? I don't know. They always do like ball speed off the foot.

Like swing speed for golf? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, but leg speed, that's where it all comes from. That's the explosion. Yeah, explosion. Exactly. Yeah. So for me, I was a big leg speed guy because I couldn't touch my toes. There's some people, though, that are like super levers where they utilize the science

and they have long legs. Like Thomas Morstead of the saints his his hips are at my chest like his legs are so long so he utilizes these big old legs and gets it going for me it was all just brute force let's see how fast we can go probably also why my knees just shredded justin tucker you see those pictures we were showing earlier his heel is like touching the middle of his back when he's kicking yeah yeah you got to get that whip whip got to get that leg to whip whip imagine if i was kicking this year by the way that was a very real possibility back when he's kicking. Yeah, yeah. You got to get that whip. Whip. You got to get that leg to whip. Whip. Imagine if I was kicking this year, by the way.

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Pat, you said it earlier in the week on Get Up that if you're born in Cleveland, you're born to hate Pittsburgh and vice versa. Yep. My problem is that with a guy like Duck, a guy like Juju, a guy like James Conner, and a coach like Mike Tomlin, boy, I'm having trouble hating the Stevors team. Walk me through this, boys. I know. It's probably difficult, especially if your team, for yet again,

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The only reason why you could possibly hate the Steelers is strictly because you hate people from Pittsburgh, and that would be the Cleveland people, which is very easy to do. So I don't know what you're supposed to do, pal. I just know that if you want the AFC North to have a good representative, you got the Ravens.

But if the Steelers can get hot and get in the hunt, they potentially get a wild card spot. That's insane to think about. And you also have to be a bit envious that Mike Tomlin can do all of this without Juju, without James Conner, without Ben Roethlisberger. They're able to do it with a guy who quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,

goes away from an FCS school, and they're able to win. As a Browns fan, you've got to be like, first you, Jackson, now this. I mean, what do we got to go through? It's a bit slippy. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, it's funny you mentioned that with Mike Tomlin because he's doing this with practice squad guys, but our guy's wearing T-shirts he gets from his daughter, and, man, it's just real frustrating.

Tommy, I can appreciate that, by the way. I think a lot more people are level-headed than we can imagine. Yeah, go ahead. I don't like what that guy tried to do. He tried to get Diggs and I to disparage our own team. Give us a reason. Give me a reason to hate this team. I don't appreciate that. Oh, you think he tried to

set you up? We'll disparage our team on our own terms. We don't need you to provoke us. Get out, Todd! That was my big problem with Mason. Not only the way he throws the football, but he just had a very hateable face and personality. We don't need that for Pittsburgh. We don't need that. We're already hateable enough.

Hey, listen. Take a walk down the south side about 3 a.m. You'll hate Pittsburgh as much as you possibly can. Downer, Scholar Hill. Stop by. What did you just say? Downer, Scholar Hill. Yeah, it's Squirrel Hill.

But if you go to the casino, they'll take a couple of hundo from you, too. I mean, there's a lot of reasons Squirrel Hill. But if you go to the casino, they'll take a couple hundo from you too. I mean, there's a lot of reasons to hate Pittsburgh. And Doc Hodges is definitely not one of them.

He's somebody you can love. I like it for the Steelers. Tomlin, by the way, doesn't get enough appreciation. Even with the wins that he's been having that have been

very difficult to manage, you got people in Pittsburgh with pretty notable followings like, I don't like Tomlin, but, I don't like Tomlin, but, it's like, all right, take it easy. I hate those people. Tom, I don't like Tomlin, but... I don't like Tomlin, but... It's like, all right.

Take it easy. I hate those people. Tomlin? No, no, no, no. The people that say they don't like Tomlin. Oh, I was going to say that. I'd take a bullet for that, man. That's what you're doing.

Color commentating for the Niners. He's my second father. Callaway in Kansas. Callaway's ace. Hey, how's it going, guys? Callaway's a mighty duck She was a good kid right Conway

Yikes Chucky I gotta hang up on you Cause I was wrong Callaway what's up dude Hey how's it going guys Hope you guys had a good holiday Definitely copping that

Mary Lloyd Christmas shirt For a Christmas party Coming up Get it soon Get it soon Hey listen Hey you need to get that soon. I am not 100% sure that if you wait much longer, you're going to get that for any holiday parties.

Make it quick. I'm on the website this second, actually, because I know they go fast. Two-part question real quick. What are your thoughts on the Chiefs winning in Foxborough? I know our defense has really picked it up lately, and our offense, I mean, we have all the tools. What's it going to take for the Chiefs to beat the Pats, and who do you think personally is going to be in the Super Bowl?

Great question, Callaway. Right now, I like the Seattle Seahawks because they're getting hot, but the Packers have been my pick for a long time, which can still happen. Even with Aaron Rodgers stating that, hey, I can see hole 18 right now, which, by the way, has been like, he's going to retire soon or whatever. The guy's been in the league for like 45 years. Do people expect him to play another 50 or whatever? He's just stating that these types of opportunities are going to maybe come to a stop at some point.

We've got to take advantage of it, which, by the way, might be motivating his team to let them know, hey, this doesn't always happen. I don't know how much longer i'm going to be playing for or be able to play for so i think it's a motivating thing so i'm not all the way out on the packers but for me the seahawks seem like a team that is going to be tough to beat especially now that i've heard russell wilson mic'd up on game day i think that's going to be a tough squad to beat especially with the eternal optimism they are an underdog going against the rams on sunday night football if i were you i would go ahead and take it out and bet on the seahawks so for me i

have the seahawks in the nfc for no other reason other than i like them right now the packers i think are going to be very good i think the saints obviously are very good the niners are going to be difficult but in the afc i got the ravens right now, strictly because it is December 5th, and the Patriots offense has not figured it out yet. They have looked amateur, although they have won 10 games. In the last game that they lost, they were in, and they played terribly. So you can never bet against the Patriots.

Kansas City Chiefs have a lot of weapons, have a lot of things, but they've lost games with a lot of weapons, so I'm just not sure about them. I'm excited to see what happens in Foxburg because it's damn near impossible to win there, but the Chiefs have shown that they could do it in the past with a quarterback that wasn't as good as Patrick Mahomes.

So, with that being said, I have no idea. Won't bet against Tom Brady, just won't do it, but for me, I feel like the Ravens are probably the AFC Super Bowl representing us. Least flaws. Alright, I can't thank you enough for listening to the show wherever you may be. If you're in Indianapolis, I can't thank you enough for listening to the show wherever you may be.

If you're in Indianapolis, I've heard that Fox Big Noon show is going to be in Indy. You know, if you want to go to bat for your boy, feel free. I feel like I try my best to deliver every single day with the boys for you guys. And if we aren't doing that, just know that we're working every single day to try to deliver better content. It's been nice to sleep at home here for four nights in a row. I do miss doing Thursday night football, though, with Adam Amin, Matt Hasselbeck, Molly McGrath, and the entire incredible crew. But it's been nice to sleep at home.

Also, if you're a Bears fan, I'm watching the game right now. It's the second quarter. Mitchell Trubisky hasn't looked that bad. The Bears look kind of good. Ezekiel Elliott's eating a little bit. Two 6-6 teams battling it out troy achman looks like a stud joe bucks obviously smooth as the other side of the pillow i don't think that is an actual quote but you get it he's a stud and uh i hope you have the best weekend of your life from myself myself and everybody at PMI,

we can't thank you enough for joining us alongside this ride. We have no idea which direction it's going to go, but I do know that the direction of your weekend is only going to go up. Whether you're resting or partying, talking shit or chilling, I can't wait to talk to you next week. Have a good one. Cheers. Ty Schmidt, play some independent music. We'll see you next time. The name Zara means a lot to me

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