The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1400 - Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal, Scott Hanson, JJ Watt, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys look ahead to tomorrow’s NFL Kickoff between the Cowboys and Eagles, and all the pertinent NFL stories that need to be chatted about before the start of the season. Joining the progrum to chat about rebuilding the program, how recruiting has changed, their massive win against Notre Dame, and a look at the season ahead is Miami Head Football Coach, Mario Cristobal. Next, the host of NFL RedZone, Scott Hanson joins the show to give a look at what his Sunday’s look like in the RedZone studio, the change from “commercial free football” to “RedZone football,” and how long it took him to get settled in to the chaos of calling all the games at once. Later, 3x Defensive POY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, 7x All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, Texans Ring of Honor member, future Hall of Famer, and new color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt joins the show to chat about Micah Parsons’ trade to the Packers, which games he’s most excited to call, and which teams he think will surprise people, how his soccer teams are doing, 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’ll see tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbley Bo, the Thunderdome. On this NFL Eve Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, this program begins now. Football! It's magical. Obviously, college football is already into its season, and there's already storylines developing that we're going to have to talk about and get to talk about for the next 20 weeks. On that note, Miami University, the U. University of Miami. Miami University is in Ohio, the University of Miami, Hurricanes, football coach.

Mario Cristobal will be joining us in about 15 minutes or so. Obviously, this Miami team, what they did last year was awesome to watch with Cam Ward. It catapulted him into being the number one overall pick and a generational player described by the Tennessee Titans general manager. His leadership was obviously phenomenal. That team won on a run that we all got to experience in a glorious fashion had Hurricanes fans believe in the U was all the way back. Well, after a big win over Notre Dame to kick off their college football season with Carson Beck, a highly paid and highly touted quarterback leading the way they look like they're once again back in relevance and back in gigba big conversations. Carson Beck, obviously a veteran of college football,

able to kind of maneuver in the pocket, able to put them in bad plays or in good plays, able to get the ball to his wide receivers, able to execute just college football at a very high level, and then all the weapons that they have, all the assets. athletes down in South Florida. And I guess the recruiting processes by Coach Cristobal are relentless and never-ending. Is the you all the way back? We shall see. I cannot wait to talk to coach in about 15 minutes or so.

College ball already has magical storylines developing. Like is Alabama dead? There's reports coming out of On 3. Now the boosters are saying, wait a minute. Hold on. They're saying what we're thinking. That's college football to a T. We'll certainly chat about that.

Then also the NFL kicks off tomorrow. Philadelphia Eagles having their banner night. Somebody needs to tell Coach Siriani. He was asked about it being banner night and expectations, and this is how that entire thing went. How locked in is the Super Bowl winning coach? Well, find out now. You guys have emphasized moving on from last year.

The last banner night in 2018, it's famous that the fans booed the Eagles at halftime because they weren't happy with the way things were going, albeit it was banner night. How do you feel about the fact that even though it is banner night for you guys, the fans will still have the standard of performing and winning at a high level. Yeah, I didn't know it was banner night. We won't be out for that. End of answer. I'm excited for this Siri on. If he's super locked in all season, what can they do? Can

they go back to back? Well, they got the Dallas Cowboys trying to figure it out after a 29-year championship drought. Can they kick off this season in a much better fashion than all the drama that was off the field? That's what the NFL brings. And then we got Chiefs and Chargers on Friday, and then a huge college football slate on Saturday. And then on Sunday, ladies and gentlemen, it's back to Red Zone 2nd. Wow. Wow. Boom.

Scott Hansen will be joining us at about 1240, 1245. I can't wait to hear how he prepared for what's about to be, you know, hours of NFL football. Remember, we made that change. Yeah, we had to. It wasn't commercial free anymore. No, it was it? They added a couple L reps. We're dropping some commercials.

Yeah, we're in 50 million households. You paid a subscription fee You're welcome that you get to have this We're also going to maybe Drop a Verizon ad in there We're maybe going to go ahead and slide DoorDash, hey, you're kind of hungry, right now, you're going to listen to Scott Hanson talk

for about, what, three straight hours here You haven't really taken a break or munch on anything. DoorDash will get you whatever you need Well, you're feeling a little sick too We've got some medicine, we can deliver a doorday You want a little water, you should hydrate Maybe a little bit of that

Oh, you want a little THC drink Yep, DoorDash can get you that I mean, anything you need while you're watching Scott Hansen, somehow not pee all day, while break down everything happening around the NFL, DoorDash has you. We're going to sell those commercials. So this is no longer commercial free football. This is NFL football. That's right.

And you need to know with NFL football, there's going to be a little bit of advertising because everybody wants a piece of our shit. And the reason is because everything is electrifying. The Red Zone channel is such an incredible invention. I mean, it is outrageous how great it is. It doesn't matter if you're a diehard fan of one particular team. With the way YouTube TV now has the quad box, You just have that Red Zone channel on there.

You're keeping up with all the games that you can't keep up with. Everything that matters that's happening in games that maybe you can't get for whatever reason or don't have enough attention to pay attention to. Scott Hanson's got your back. I can't wait to chit-chat with Scott Hansen because he has to do the research for every team. He's calling every team's every game every week. So he's got to know everything. This guy's a Rolodex of information.

I'm excited to hear his thoughts. And maybe he'll be playing with a football like he was. I hope so. I hope so. Super zany. He was in a car. Yeah, he was. He was in a car with a football.

I believe he was a captain of the high school team. Did he always with him? Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler, asking the right questions. I would assume Scott Hanson always has the football. When his contract was up, though, I think he put the football down. Yep, had to. And he said, I can go do other stuff if you need to do others. He picked up a hockey puck.

Yeah, he said, boom, puck zone. Exactly. Now he's got that football, he's got that thing on him, though. Always. Always will, yeah. That's the toxic table that knows everything. I have Boss Conner, Natty Schmidt, sweet elephant t-shirt. That's my favorite animal.

Really? Is that right? Wow. As I've grown older and learn more about animals, the elephant is my favorite. In between those massive ears there as a brain, doesn't forget shit. No, it doesn't. And it's petty. Yeah, I'm a big fan of the elephant. I like the way the elephant operates.

Yeah, you ever seen the video of the elephant who goes back to the old lady's funeral in India and stomps on her grave because she screwed with him when he was a baby elephant? See, that's true. That's one of those things where because of how smart and petty the elephant is, people would believe it's true. so maybe the elephant's getting a little slanderous here stories about it got videos there is video this thing comes in and raises hell in the entire village how about the elephant looking at the photo who's dead yep that's who i thought it was yeah where's this that like you saw a photo i think he got wind of it you know i'm sure these things talk because of how big

their brains are and somehow it got back to the first one and then boy oh boy it ravages this family's funeral. It's crazy. Well, let's talk about the elephant in the room and what people aren't forgetting. They aren't forgetting what happened down there with the elephants of Alabama and the old tide world. What happened when Sabin was a coach? And now Kalin DeBore is being judged directly against Peek-Nick Sabin. Yeah. Tough.

What are we doing? Yeah. Doesn't work out well. We're loafing. Dan Orlovsky. Dan does no shit. Alabama fans. Just down there in it. It's like, well, if you move on from Kalin DeBore, which people are already talking about, which is college football, especially one of these big programs.

If you don't win every single game, why are you here? You're getting overpaid. These players, you think they're getting overpaid? You're getting overpaid. You need to get the hell out of here. We need to win. Nick Saban was able to do it. That was just a couple years ago. How come you're not able to do it? What's going on with us? We can go away back to Bear Bryant when he was playing 152 players each game. When we were 12 deep at the running back position, which I learned there was some scholarship situations going on there. I guess Bear Bryant was really good at giving scholarships to every person that he thought to play football. And then there was some scholarship limits, I guess, that came into play.

But whatever the case, the Alabama fans, we're expecting to be in the conversation. Hey, we are in the conversation all the time. The conversation that we're in is championships. We're not in the conversation of loafing and dancing and playing like ass and getting beaten the trenches. That is not what Alabama football is. We as Alabama fans have been able to go into any restaurant in any time, in the SEC, in any college football place, and say, we are to Kings. How you doing Alabama's here? You're welcome, roll tad, and we were able to get any seat we wanted.

We were able to tuck shit to any team we wanted. Kirby Smart even got a little popped off. There's Georgia fans. They start, oh, we're Alabama. Now we can't do that anymore. You know why? Because we got 21 lows. Says Dan Rolovsky against Florida State.

So that is a fascinating thing happening down there in Alabama. And a lot of people have been pointing out to Kailen DeBore could have been a king at the University of Washington. He had success up there. We put you right up there next to that mountain. What's the mountain over there? Yeah, Mount Rainier. beautiful mountain right off puget sound i'm telling you you walk so nice you're downtown you're walking

there's buildings here that's not bad here a little missed you know early morning and then you turn right as soon as that building ends and you look there's just the most beautiful mountain of all time to sit there like it's a like it's a like it's a postcard got the the snow right on top of it it's like they said they were going to put kail and de boar's face on that mountain if he was able to turn around the university watch they keep it going and he certainly did there for a while oh yeah that panic year. Remember, the Roman Empire? How often do you think about Roman Dunes? The whole, everything that had going on. It was up, playing hard, good recruiting process. We were all the way out there celebrating it. And then he says, you know, I need to get to Alabama. Go change this

the entire thing. People were like, it could have been a king, but he wanted to chase what? Significance forever? Is that one half of the hammer? Cowboys AP tone, your thoughts? Like, what do you think it is? Because this kind of thing happened with Rich Rodriguez at West Virginia as well. Now, granted, at that time, Rich Rod was getting into a lot of big I believe about like what our football team had earned whenever it comes to a little bit of assistance, paying coaches, other things happening because if you compare what we have now versus what we had then. I mean, we had some really low quality shit and then everything got built up through our football team. Allegedly coach Rod was looking for a little bit more assistance from the program. Program didn't want to give him any, so there was a little bit of a bickering there. Then he felt like obligated he had to leave because he was never going to get really what was needed like everybody else was getting. But him going to Michigan, I assume he would look back and say like, could have been king. Now he's getting a chance to kind of write that ship, which I'm very pumped for him to get to do that. But I do wonder how much Kalin DeBoer thinks about that in that brand new office of his over there. Yeah, I agree. Because, I mean, he was a guy who was leveling

up. I mean, he started at the lowest levels and won there and came through and was all the way up to Washington. I think there's a handful of schools. And I'm sure Rich Rod would say this still. There's a handful of schools that you don't say no to, Michigan being one of them, Alabama being one of them. You know, those blue blood, blue-collar schools that you just, like, Washington is a great football school. They're in the Big Ten. They can probably pay their coaches almost as much as Alabama. I'm not sure if it as much as Alabama, but they're up there. But there's some schools that you do not say no to, and Alabama's one of them. So 70 million is allegedly what the buyout is for Kalin DeBoer. It's a lot of money. Yeah. But I believe in Kalin.

I do too. I believe in. He's always one. Like he's always one. That did not look like a Caitlin DeBoard either. Recruiting class, though, you mentioned with Bama? Most five stars. That's coming in eventually. That might help a little bit. They got to run, though. They got to try. If you're Bama, you've got to look up at New England and see what happened up there. It's the only real comparison you can do with, like, a legendary coach leaving. And I'm not saying, get rid of DeBorke, because I still believe in him. I almost bet Ty Simpson to win the Heisman after that first drive. And that's for shoot, brother. But, you know, the Patriots, their brand of football last year, completely changed. And it wasn't what it was when Belichick was there, not even like the win-lost.

or just brand on the field like you're talking about when it comes to Lofts. And I'm not saying get rid of Kaylin now, but if that doesn't flip around quick, you are better off going with somebody that can,

you know. Maybe. We'll see. We don't know what Coach Rable has done with the New England Patriots. We have no idea. We assume it's going to be good. We know it wasn't great there

for a one-year coaching stint to get fired. I don't think anybody does. Understands, though. At least Rable understands what the product of a New England team is that people like. And what the fans expect. Yes.

Yeah, all those things. I mean, it happened with Pittsburgh a little bit. So Pittsburgh, obviously, Steelers, running defense, running defense. Then they got like five wide with, like, Todd Haley, Bruce Ariens and everything like that. And they had success, and it was great. Everybody was happy when they had success. When you stop having just the most amount of success, though, they immediately go, this ain't Pittsburgh Steelers football.

Like, this ain't what it is. I think that's why a couple coaches got ran out of town. I think that's why Todd ended up getting run out of town. I think Bruce Ariens in a similar fashion. I think that type of offense doesn't fit the city, so I understand what you're saying. In Alabama, it might be the same way. Kalynne Boar needs to win games immediately, though. He knows that.

Yeah, that was what, I mean, he knew going in that if it wasn't unbelievable from the start, like this would be the reception. Like people, no matter what we're going to react like this, if they weren't going to the playoff or going to the national championship or whatever the case may be. But he also, it's not like he forgot how to coach. I'm sure he is still supremely confident in himself. So, yeah, now it's just, hey, we got to get going.

We can't lay an egg next week, can't lay an egg in the SEC. We know the talent we have, and, you know, let's stay to the course here and not completely fall apart after week one. I think the thing with Zabor is, too, that is tough, is Sabin, what, lost four, or lost four times, too, as a double-digit favorite, his entire time there, 20 years or whatever it is. And DeBore's done it four times now in his whatever, however many games. That's what every Alabama fan's saying. Yeah, they know that. You can't lose the ones you're supposed to win there. That's why I came to.

That is, I guess that is what he signed up for. Did he, though? Because that sucks. I mean, that's why he left Washington. You know, you have Washington National Championship. You come to Alabama because just like the same conversation we had with Bill after week one, you can be a great coach. Your guys can be prepared.

You can have all these different things. But if you're not getting the best players in the country year and a year out, you don't have a chance to be in the national championship conversation year in a year out. And now with him being down there, we talked about leading a nation and five-star recruits next year. He retained a bunch of guys on that roster. So you have the pieces, and now it's on you as a coach. B.A. talked about it yesterday. Like coaches lose more games than they actually win.

So now the effort, the energy, the intensity, attention to details. Those are the things that Kaelin DeBoer, which he's always done, has to be great at, but now at the highest level. So like I said, I got faith in him to turn around. Hopefully it was just a one-off. We'll see. We like Kailen-de-bore. Yeah.

We do. That's why watching that game the other night was like, he's going to get crushed. He's very nice to us. He's been very nice to us. Exactly. Oh, no, no, no, we can't, oh, if we start doing that, he's a nice guy. That nice guy shit. He is, though.

He's a nice guy. And he wins? He does win. I personally think, as we're talking about it, should have thought in his head, like, hey, Bear Brian and Washington will be cool. But, yeah, I guess going to Alabama. Because you mentioned it, you know, you got to go to Bama to be in the conversation for a national championship. Like, now you don't, because there's 12 teams, and it might suck.

like at the end of the year you might say like well Notre Dame didn't play anyone well Washington or one of these teams packed 12 you know they didn't play anyone but they're in the conversation because they made it so like is it worth the well when you're starting with 12 and you're kind down to one exactly you know if you get into dance that's really all it matters more teams a lot more fun

yeah well it's supposed to be but that first round was not a lot by the bad teams that's a good point that was pretty big yeah but that's the thing about it is that more schools get a shot to shot yeah and boom you know when you when you put it that way you can't can't help but this is the right way to crown a CFP national champion but when you're watching some of those games it's like it feels like we're just kind of more more blowouts yeah this game

shite and boy we got a lot of off time for the higher seats did they get rusty they just had a month off yeah congratulations you you did the best out of everybody well and that's the quarter finals new year six yeah you know that kind of Rotating bases. Yeah, it was a great song. Okay, let's talk a little bit of NFL before Coach Cristobal joins us. Travis Hunter is listed as a starting wide receiver, and then I believe he's second string left corner or something like that.

So the mindset here is he's majoring a wide receiver, and he's getting a minor in cornerback. And we probably assume that this is the right way to go about doing this. Once again, this is not a normal situation for anybody to handle. alone brand new head coach, brand new GM in a city and a program and organization that's trying to make a huge jump here. Huge jump. Stoner, who is the general manager, actually came out the day after drafting Travis Hunter and saying, the game of football is supposed to be tested. The boundaries are supposed to be touched. You're supposed to try to change the game. That is football.

That is Travis Hunter. I gave a full speech about how, holy shit, football was once like this, now it's completely different because Travis Hunter is here. Now we're getting a chance to see how they're going to unroll it. What are your thoughts on this debuts? And what does this say to you whenever it's the major and wide receiver, kind of a minor in cornerback at this moment? Kind of expected on this level. And Stoner and Liam Cohen,

they're dealing with something that nobody's really dealt with before at this level. You made the big trade of draft number two. He dealt with a little injury preseason with the shoulder, so I don't know how that affected or impacted their plans going forward. But you start with the major and wide receiver. It's a lot more moving parts on the offensive side of the ball between the ears when it comes to game planning, adjustments and all those things.

Been on the same page with Trevor Lawrence and all those things on the offensive side of the ball, then there are on the defensive side of the ball. If you're looking at the schedule here, these different weeks, you see the different weapons. When you come across these different teams where you have match-up problems on the defensive side of the ball, if you are the Jacksonville Jaguars,

that's when I think they'll implement that chess piece, Travis Hunter. Maybe it's a cat defense. Hey, we're going to play this third down red area. Hey, you got that cat. You got Jamar Chase this week on these critical situations. West. You got Nico College. You have whoever that opposing number one threat is, and you put your best

cover guy on him. That may be just 15 16 snaps that game. But we'll see. I can't wait to see how it actually unfolds. He's a great, great player. We know who he is not only physically but between the years what he showed in college football to be able to kind of attain all that information and be in the right places.

And we talk about loafing. This guy rarely loathed. I never really saw him loaf on the college level. We know how tough it is to play on on the National Football League physically, week in and week out. So that's the number one thing to watch out for. But I'm excited to see this Travis Hunter experience

and see it starting majoring on offense, minoring on defense. I think that's the right way to start it out. I like the thoughts and everything you laid out. We're not saying that's definitely what they're thinking. We are just saying this is a possible mindset for them. Like whenever they face the team, I think it's 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, and 11, whatever it is,

yeah, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 10, and 11. Got it, okay. And so all those weeks, they have a plethora of weapons on the other. other side. So why not add in one of the greatest athletes? You're just saying this could be the mindset that the Jacksonville Jaguars are having. This could be just because of how

tough it is. And I'm coming kind of from personal experience. I played both ways in college, my senior year. So there were certain matchups where we went to, we're playing Virginia. We're playing Rutgers. The West Virginia, hey, you got a 15-play script on offense. So I'll go and practice with the offense, 7-on-7, practice with the offense in

Red Area. And I knew my plays. I knew my position. But I majored on the defensive side of the ball. But I knew exactly what situation. I was going to be going into on the office the side of the ball. So I think that's a great way to start it out, you know, on this next level, which, like I said, nobody, we haven't really seen anybody do it yet. And then if he's able to do it full time on both sides, that baby. That would be insane.

That would be unbelievable. That would be so much fun to watch. We can't wait to follow his journey in a tough AFC South. Yeah, yeah. I mean, tough AFC South. Because of Gil's. Yeah. Obviously, Houston's got a lot to say in that conversation.

Sure. For good, really. They've won a few times. Tennessee. They've got a guy. They got a guy. Generation. New stadium coming. And then obviously we got Trevor Lawrence in a new Adidas commercial with a guy who's going to be playing

both ways. Feels like vibes are high down there. Stoner feels great. Liam Cohen is beloved. I mean, they got it for the next couple. Building a new stadium, I think. Yeah. I don't know how they're going to do they put three pools in there? I don't know. Probably have to. AFC South Stack. Nobody wants come dance with a yard pool. Oh my God.

Somebody swim. Yeah, everyone's got on the length of the field. With the, with Travis Hunter running in a touchdown. Yeah, all right, ladies and gentlemen, joining us down. He had to watch the end of that conversation, and we do apologize to him for that. He is the head coach of the undefeated Miami Hurricanes football team. Ladies and gentlemen, Mario Cristobo.

Coach, what do you think about putting a 100-yard pool so we can swim down the side as your boys, Carson Bex throwing a deep ball to Tony down there? What do you think about that, coach? Pretty good? We're not on this pool again. 100 yards, right down the sideline. on the sideline sounds like you're kind of

stadium man I don't know if I can make that happen well you're walking on top of the pool would be cool yeah like you're on top of the pool and you've got people swimming underneath nonetheless coach congratulations okay cam Ward comes in last year you guys become a viral sensation

with how the games go obviously massive plays happening magical run throughout the entire season we have a Miami fan with us and he was obviously each week living and dying with you guys as I assume you were now you have to reload. You lose the number one pick in the draft, Cam Ward.

Why Carson Becked the guy for you guys this year? And what has he shown since getting there that makes you believe like, yeah, we might have lost an incredible leader and an incredible quarterback, but we were able to find another guy that will be able to do that for us. Well, you know, he was at Georgia while Monkin was over there. It was now with the Ravens. And, you know, Monkin and our offense coordinator, Shannon Dawson, they're really tight.

You know, he's an air raid disciple, but, you know, Monkin successfully blended, right, the power run game, the RPO, the Air Raid, with an unbelievable run game, really diverse. And we felt that we could do the same thing with Shannon Dawson. And just discussing Carson and watching him on tape, he had all the tools, man. And when he had good protection, he lit it up really well in 23. Last year they got beat up a little bit. It wasn't maybe the same system. It just fit us.

And the guy is, he's a great human being. Like, he's a legitimate dude. Like, people love being around them. He gets after it, relentless worker. And he just fits. And you got wide receivers making catches like that. I mean, absolutely absurd catch there by C.J. Obviously, Tony went crazy.

And are we thinking about maybe putting Bain on offense? Are we thinking about maybe getting for the ball a little bit? We'll see how Heisman voting goes down the stretch, man. If we need to, we might do that. But you saw him with the ball in his hands. He's been playing football since he's been knee high. And he does it all, man. And if you have a chance, watch him and watch Mesdor,

our other defensive end against Notre Dame's tackle and see what a great job they did control the line of scrimmage. Yeah, we watched. We saw it. Yeah, it was, that was the thing I think I noticed with these college teams now that I've been baptized kind of into the world through college game day. It's like you got to be big and you got to be fast. Like that, you have to be big and fast. Now, granted, everything else in between the years have to have that as well, but the body types of college ball at the highest level, you got to be big and fast. They talk about you being like a relentless recruiter. What are you looking for? for guys that you're trying to make hurricanes,

and what do they mean by saying that you are a recruiter 25 hours? Because we're wasting now seemingly seven, eight minutes of you potential recruiting time, by the way they describe it. You're killing me. You're killing. But hopefully this will help out, too. No, I mean. I'm recruiting right now, actually.

Always. Yeah, yeah, I got it. Yeah, I got it. I played here on some badass team. I was a nobody, but the guys I played with, they were like, legitimate real deal dudes, Hall of Famers, gold jacket type guys. And I learn quickly, like, I like playing with those guys.

Because you know what? They're going to stop on Saturdays. They're going to kick ass and take over games. And I came back to Miami as the GAA 98, 97, 98, when they were coming off of, you know, some really bad ears and trying to put it together and going, man, that does not look like Miami. And then guys like Chuck Pagano, right? He was a DB coach here.

Greg Shiano, Butch Davis, Larry Coker. A lot of guys that were, you know, showing me the road. This is a way we got to build this team. We've got to recruit really good players. I'm like, yeah, because those guys aren't very good. So we hit a slew of home runs, man, in a very short amount of time and flipped the program. And I just became, I've always been a big believer in the right kind of people and football, the right kind of people that are legitimate, like, elite competitors. I think Florida and South Florida, more specific, getting good at college football again, is great for college football as a whole.

But, boy, Florida was looking dry for a while. A lot of flights out of town, South Florida native DeBud has a question for you. Too many. South Florida kid grew up a hurricane fan. I obviously went to Yukon, so a Husky for life. But how important is it? And Pat talked about your recruiting. Recruiting South Florida specifically and keeping those guys down there.

Looking up and down to Rossi, a lot of South Florida boys. And then looking on the sideline with all those ledges, Michael Irvin, Ray Lewis, Willis McGehy, Andre Johnson, Edge, a lot of South Florida guys themselves. So how important is that for you, Coach? Man, I was about to plug those guys in the game. They're about to kick off to us. I'm like, all right, let's get done. Evan Hester in there, see what he can do, too, right? No, it's always been important, you know, and I was away for a long time.

I've been away for 20-plus years before finally leaving Oregon and coming back this way. And from afar, you would see a lot of misses, a lot of local misses, and then some national misses, because Miami is made up from, you know, a national aspect as well, the big bodies up in the northeast, the Midwest, and sometimes even the West Coast. But to get guys like Ruben Bain, think about it, Ruben Bain is part of our first full class. So he's a true junior now, right? And like all the fruits of all that hard work, all the labor, man, it's paying off. So, yeah, when those guys are there, it makes a difference.

When I came to school here and why I came to Miami was because I always saw those dudes coming back to the games. If we were playing in a big time game before our coach should come over and rip our ass, we had Michael Irvin, Jerome Brown, may he rest in peace, Winston Moss, Melvin Bratt, and all these guys right in your face, right in your grill, making sure you hold up the standard. So it's always been a natural thing, and it's good to see that coming back. It's been talked about for years and years, though. It was just the year the youths back, the use back, the use back, the use back, the use back. Last year, felt it.

The whole world experienced it. You know, you go out to Cal for Game Day there. The Miami fans traveled out there, like a lot of them. And it was like they were feeling as if we're all the way back. And now after beating Notre Dame early, you got some games here early, brother. Like Boston College, obviously, big one for, you know, them and for the ACC here. as a whole. USF, Florida, Florida State, then Brahms, Louisville.

You got Pitt after Thanksgiving up there. So, I mean, you're going to have some cold. It feels like you have a... Bethune. Bethune Cook. Oh, sorry, not BC. I'm so sorry. Bethune Cookman.

That's 100% on me. That was a coach. I was wondering what you were talking about. Ed, Ed, Ed Reed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For us. Yeah, but I think about South Florida, you know, those athletes, coach, how important. I know it's one game at a time.

But you look at that schedule, you see Florida State, you play it, you see Florida State, you see Florida. There, all you guys are in the top 15, I know it's early right now. But even surrounding that, how much do you hear about that with all these Florida teams kind of being back at their standard of what it used to be? Well, think about it. Today was probably maybe yesterday was a toughest day because for the first time in the wall, Miami is now learning how to handle success again. So we had to be all over their butts about, look, what everybody tries to. to kick kiss to crack your butt on the way to class and tell you how great you are and you see all this stuff you got to stay clear of that and get you over here so we could be all over your butts and push you and grind on you so you could focus on what gave us this opportunity to begin with you know so it's all learning process but i mean for us like you mentioned it's beth you and cookman right now you know it's tomorrow's practice we got to get after like today uh francis mynoa against reuben bane in a one-on-one looks like Jurassic park that's the way miami should look right yes that's our focus, man, just like right here, right now, not get ahead of anything, not skip steps, man.

We got a lot of work to do, but we're doing it and we're making a ton of progress. You talk about Jurassic Park, AP Tonus, a question for you. Yeah, coach, obviously, we know you are a trenches guy. You were born and raised in the trenches, trenches, and you talk about Bain and Francis going up against each other in practice. Everyone said preseason, you guys have a top five O-line, D-line, and you talked about marrying the air raid with a power running game. And we talk about all the time in the NFL, how, you know, the Eagles just won the

Super Bowl. It feels like we're coming back to having to play defense and run the football. Are you seeing that in college football as well? Because, I mean, last year, all final four teams, they played incredible defense and they ran the football. So are you seeing that as well in college? I think so. I think everything is morphing and evolving and blending. I mean, I mean, you think about it. I was at Alabama with Coach Saban when it was, we're almost like a boa, man. We like, you kick your butt up front and just strangle you on defense and win 173. but you have to start scoring points, right? And then the spread and tempo.

Remember, as Coach Saban used to call us, Al-Qaeda, because we would, like, go faster practice. So it just kept going from people, start saying, you know what, if we could just combine that, almost like that basketball, like, spacing mentality in the passing game and blended in with the right type of play, action protection concepts, great screen games, a power running game,

and varied tempos, right? Like a good pitcher, mixed up your pitches all the time. If you could make that a reality, then you're going to have something special. And we've become that. And last year, for us, that was a generational offense, and we feel like we can be even better here in the coming years. Enemy of the state, Coach Sabin is calling you at practice. These guys are enemies of the state here.

All the Taliban is what he did. It's coach. What are you trying to do here? What are you trying to do here? What are you trying to do here? Pay the pitcher. Carson Beck had a handshake with a DB, I think. feel like your team's tight? I feel like that is the X factor that really separates the great

teams from the good teams. I think your teams have to like each other. I think they have to hang out with each other. I think they have to want to fight with each other. I think that is a huge piece. Do you feel that in your locker room? Because it looked like it from watching the game. Yeah, it feels like that. You know, your biggest concern is when you're getting all this talent, are you getting independent contracts or are you getting legitimate dudes that want to win while pursuing their goals, right? Their dreams. And like, we do a good job, just doing a lot lot of stuff together. I mean, it's, we're lucky. We're in Miami, right? We're, we're in the middle of Coral Gables, and then we're at, you know, Prime 112 and Smith and Wollinski. Then we're,

we want to get the team together. We'll go on a speedboat and go to the beach for a little while, but then right be back here in this private training. Recruiting. We're recruiting. We're recruiting right now. We're recruiting. We've got good sun here. Players, more players. Anyway, but without a doubt, I think it showed. It showed it because I don't think it's hard to win games like that unless you're tight and you're, you're slugging it out for each other. And that was a muddy, bloody game up front. I mean, that was like rockem, sock them robots for four quarters. And I think our guys just found the way to just dig a little bit deeper. It was a great game. We appreciate you guys doing that for especially

opening week. I think you're both teams A-OK going forward. Now, your team in this modern era, especially more players, more players, you're going to need assistance. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, coach, you're a, you know, 10 out of 10 recruiter. Obviously, you were the recruiting coordinator at Alabama. And now it's changed a lot with NIL. I've I believe just Jeff Bezos was in the building in a suite at your game. And also, Dana White now has a daughter going to Miami. Have you reached out yet for maybe half a billion, maybe one billion? Jeff Bezos, I think, pisses that in the morning for maybe a couple more players.

We're talking about all these great Florida schools. You know, a couple extra dollars might help. Well, you know, soon, I think our next lineup will have the Rock of Pat McAfee. And we'll go from there. We'll line them all up, man. hit him up for some dough. Oh, whoa, whoa, I'm already giving enough money to West Virginia. You need to call it Dwayne Johnson.

He just got a 15-minute standing ovation for his acting role in the smashing machine. It's like, I think he's about to crack into it. They're talking Oscars in Sweden. Hey, The Rock somehow, Papatouille, Zoha Energy Drink. TK.O. Chairman. Yep, production company. Freak forward to me. Seven buck, the final boss.

What did you say, coach? He was my teammate here at Miami. What a stud, dude. What was he like at college? Incredible work ethic, I assume. You guys all saw that from very young age. He's the guy that walked in like doing $3.15 for $20 on the bench press, you know, just kind of like a walking bicep, just a monster, monster physique.

But really quiet, really reserved, and a great player. A great, great player. We were loaded, man. Even back then great players had to take their, you know, wait their turn and whatnot. But he was always a great teammate, great players. Yeah, he gave back to you guys right in there at Dwayne Johnson locker room or something. I think he ties back to his times at the U for a lot of the time. things and a lot of inspiration for what he does a great success story especially of

views all the way back we can't wait to watch you but soon cookman this weekend then we got the florida lineup don't look ahead coach but usf florida state all right everybody's good first time all four teams have been ranked right in five 15 since i think it was 2006 yeah and it's early it's early it's early one week let's keep it go don't be taking those kisses to the ass crap we don't need any smooch is on the butt. We need to get back to work. Coach, we appreciate the hell out of you, and thank you for stopping by. Appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me. Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Mario Cristobald.

Hey, wait, wait, wait, coach, coach, coach, you still there? I'm still here. You speak Spanish? Is that what I remember? Paul O'Connor, perfectly. All right, chao, grazie. All right, I have a good. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Coach Mario Chris Ball. That was a little Italian for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, all right, sweet. Makes it in there. So I guess Coach Saban, Coach Saban, used to have Mario Cristobal. If there was like a recruiter or a coach or an area he was trying to get to where, you know, Spanish speaking, it was like, Coach Spall, I need you to come. Please, need you to come.

Need you here, coach. Need you here. I guess it just flew it. Oh, yeah. Whenever you need. Down in Miami, that's probably an incredible thing to have. Yes. What a beast.

You guys like him down there? Love him. Gumpy, let's talk about it. What were your thoughts on Mario Crisball? Because I remember a couple years ago, remember you guys had the lead, hand the ball off. Of course, yeah. Fumble happens. Goes back the other way.

we all feel obligated to say, that can't happen. Coach, that can't. Obviously, hang on to the damn ball. Obviously hang on to the ball. But that can't happen. Feel like he got judged harshly because of you. And I'm just saying that strictly from how we even had to feel. Had to.

Had to talk about it. What he's done since then is really turned the entire program around. Number one, overall picking Cam Ward, obviously, perfect marriage. And it feels like Carson's the exact same way. And he's recruiting 25 hours a day. They're saying, Gumpy, you've got to be excited as a you fan. Yeah, it's awesome because I used to watch him a lot when I lived on the West Coast when he was coaching Oregon, and I liked him there. But this Corey Weatherman guy, the new D.C. they got, you see his passion and the fire he has on the sidelines.

That was the problem last year. Cam Ward knew the defense couldn't get a stop. If you didn't score in one possession, there was a good chance you were going to lose that game. Congrats to Miami being back. And congrats to all of us get a chance to see Michael Irvin and Ray and Ed. I forgot to ask him what's Michael Irvin's title. you got to have some I think he's leader of the pack

he's the minister of culture is McConaughey leader of the pack might be Michael Irvin's minister maybe of Drake was technically like Toronto Raptors ambassador I granted that as a pro team yeah

because I asked McConaughey's title I said what are you like chief of culture or something he said I'm not an executive minister of culture legend Of course. You see his golf swing, by any chance? Oh, my God.

Yeah. He's McConaughey. So smooth. Of course. Somebody said, you need to act like a golfer, and he was like, all right, let me watch the thing. Yeah, no problem. I got it. What do I got to do? These hands got to get real loose up here, right?

It looks like. And I'm just trying to pinch that thing, right? He's awesome. Everything about him, his vibe whenever he walks, it looks like he's floating. And his hair is just always so perfectly primble. I looked it up. He has another title. He is a minister of culture, but he's also the professor of practice at the university.

Is that Michael? No, that would be... That would be... We're just trying to build for Irvin's... You know, trying to build for them. We have some great news coming out of Pittsburgh. Cam Hayward's going to play football this year. Wow.

For the Steelers? I never would have guessed that. Yeah, the hold-in, I guess, is not going to be an issue. Mike Tomlin says this. I'm certainly expecting Cam to play. Cam doesn't play a lot of the team development over the last several years. My job is to get him in and out of the road, and I've done my job. And so there are no reservations about his participation or his readiness.

I'm sure he's job at the bit. Okay, hold in over. He's playing football for the Pittsburgh Steelers. What Coach Tomlin is saying, expecting. That's a big deal. Obviously, last year was all pro. Now he was seeking a little bit more money because they redid his contract last year. Take away money, I assume, from this year.

So now he's at a lower level. and all anybody was saying is, okay, Cam, come on, come on. That's basically the way everybody had treated this. We thought maybe he'd get a little bit more money before the season. Doesn't seem like that's going to be the case. And now Cam Hayward's playing for a fully stacked Pittsburgh Steelers, too. Yeah, it's huge, especially week one against the Jets who are going to have a good running game. And Derek Carmen, who they drafted in the first round out of Oregon is going to be banged up for the first couple weeks.

So that's huge. Obviously, need came in the middle. I mean, he's been the best player on the Steelers defense for a long time with T.J. Watt. did Tomlin did I hear him say him call practice team development he goes Cam doesn't participate a lot in team development he just called a practice yeah then he says it's my job to get him in and out of La Trobe I did that and I did St. Vincent or whatever he said yeah it was great way to word things which is Mike Tomlin football to a T there so basically we're all getting a little bit

overzealous about this holding Cam probably not practicing those days anyways yeah what years is for him 15 16 15 16 17 17 18 and 18 and 18 and in the middle of a defensive line. Take it on bodies. So much worse. Captain obviously voted Aaron Rogers, DJ Watt, and Miles Kilber. Dog. Yeah, absolutely. I'm a

cap. Oh, okay, well, I guess if I'm a Steelers rookie, I know how to get my paycheck. I guess I'll just hold out like Cam Hayward and I'll be a captain. Oh, Aaron Rogers, he's up there. He didn't work very hard to this office season. Well, you mean, he didn't work hard. You don't know that's what people are saying. He just said Aaron didn't work hard to his office. You see that ball coming in? You think

he just woke up doing that? Oh, well, Aaron wakes up doing that. Yes, every day, actually, I do think he does wake up and does that. Yeah, exactly. That's because he's working. How many quarterbacks were playing with those squirty guns on stage this offseason while everybody else was working on his aim? Yeah, yeah.

Well, he ain't shooting in football. Oh, that you're wrong, my friend, because he throws that thing like he's pulling bow. Throwing darts, exactly. I'm sorry, you've never seen the longest yard. If he was throwing water balloons or maybe some sort of water contraption instead of a squirt gun, I'd feel a little better. I'm just saying two of those four captains for the Pittsburgh Steelers are essentially, oh, excuse me, three. I forgot T.J. Watts's up there. He held out too.

Hey, look, if you want to be a captain of the Steelers, I don't like what Conner. You just got to hold on. I just want to let everybody know. I did not know Connor was going to take it down. Me neither. Tell us all. Yeah, I mean, Conner got real excited. I think whenever his brain started piecing that whole thing together, he could attack Pittsburgh a little bit, but that's how Pittsburgh knows people from Boston are going to react. If he doesn't realize that it rains in Pittsburgh and you got to play with a wet ball and that's what Aaron was doing with squirt guns, was just squirting his balls down so he could, you know, participate in practice.

As long as he was squirting his own balls. I just want to make sure he certainly was on his own. He certainly was because he needed to get good grip on that thing. But with all that being said, Cam Hayward in year, whatever, Aaron in here, 420, T.J. Wads till there. It feels like now is the time where they're all going to lock in and play the ball. Chris Boswell, kicker. Is that still the thing going on? He'll be out there kicking too. I assume. I assume he says. I would. I believe we would have heard some.

You should have been captain. I think Slay's in his 13th year, right? 14. Yeah, he's a OG. So many vets on that team. Yeah, they're going for it. Ramsey's not going. Yeah.

Yenzers, I think, by and large, Rizzled team. Guaranteed Super Bowl. Yeah. Rizzled bet. Some people have been saying a little longer in the tooth. Yeah, all their leaders are long in the tooth. That's what I've heard.

I will tell you this. I think there's Jensers that are very worried about how this is all going to play. I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, Call them Jensers then. I think there's a lot of, oh, real nice. We got all the toys, huh? We got everything that's supposed to be. We're supposed to win the Super Bowl.

It feels like you're listening to one person. Yeah, I think he represents a lot of people, though. I don't think so, not my people. I want all the teams up here to go to the Super Bowl or do the playoffs, especially the DeBos team. By far, the team that goes 9 and 8, that's the most entertaining would be the Steelers. If the Steelers go 9 and 8, it will be comedy. That place will explode. Yeah, just imagining like a.

seven and two start and then a nine and eight finish. You know what it kind of feels like when Kenny Pickett was slicing and dice in that preseason. Do you remember that? Atlanta. Oh my God. He thinks that would be, I was born in nine and eight. Yeah, we know. We know you were.

But we're saying there's, there hasn't been a lot of like really ridiculous expectations out of the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. I think for a bit. Since 2017. I think there hasn't been. This one in the Kenny Pickett preseason one. feel like the biggest. Like the Kenny Pickett preseason was that two, three years ago? I think we all knew that was a joke, though.

So this year, I mean, imagine how excited they were when Kenny Pickett was 7 to 7 in the preseason. You got fucking Aaron Rogers now and things are changed a little bit. Here we go. Steelers, here we go. Pittsburgh's going to the Super Bowl. Here we go. If they don't, fire everyone. Here we go.

Go. Moving on. Get your shit. Here we go. We'll just go extensions. And by the way, if I remember correctly, that guy from Pittsburgh that you keep listening to, wanted Aaron to play in the preseason two? Yes, he did. Okay.

I want to see two, three snaps. Hey, with that Pittsburgh Steelers uniform. Don't we think he should take a couple snaps so we can see it? You tell that guy to come see me next time. He actually's coming today. Oh, good. I just hope. You'll see him.

I really just hope the con artist is con in the other teams and not his own city. Whoa! That's what I hope. That's what I hope. It's going to be a fun year, isn't it? It's going to be a long one. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, as a man is going to be spending a lot of time with us. Okay?

He's going to be in all of our lives, and we're excited for that. We still have no idea how he does it. His bladder control is one that they should tell stories about. His ability to navigate throughout an entire league's actions. and storylines is second to none. His contract was up. I think he had more leverage than anybody in the history of on-air talent.

I hope he utilized it. Even if he didn't, we're thankful he's backed. The host of the Red Zone channel, ladies and gentlemen, Scott Hans. How you doing, brother? Gentlemen, welcome to our humble abode. I asked to do this interview from the Red Zone studio. This is the first

ever interview I've done from the actual Red Zone studio. You welcome us into your place all the time. So if you want a tour, we can do that or we can just talk how the Steelers can get to the Super Bowl starting on Sunday in the early window of NFL Red Zone. Well, we will certainly talk about that again with somebody that isn't you.

What we can do with you is see your studio. I had no idea we had potential access. Thank you for allowing us to be the first Red Zone studio interview. Okay, so it's a massive green screen. All right. And we're standing behind that. podium the entire time is that what we're doing yeah now I know you're going to make fun of me because like look over here right here let me go go full screen on this you go step back

there we go something down got it yeah that's a standing now it looks like the COVID you know this is this is not some ego play by me that you know this pat the the the uh the crew uses this to balance the green screen here like a marble movie and whatnot the the desk is real the The host's enthusiasm is real, and most importantly, the touchdowns are real, but the background is completely fake. Okay, so how many hours are you in there? What times day start? So I'm in Los Angeles. This is right next to Englewood, right next to Sofi Stadium in Englewood, California.

Literally 300 feet this way is Sofi Stadium. I like to be the first one in the studio. I get in at little after 5 a.m. on Sunday. kickoff is 10 a.m. Pacific on Sunday. So five hours are ramping up. I eat my food. I eat my breakfast at the desk right here. Okay, I know you want to know this.

No, there's no toilet back here or anything like that. Scroll down. There's no gatorade jug back there. Just like I stand right here. There's a little hose there. Is there a hose in there? Was that a wire? What was that wire?

It's sort of catheter. What was it? Two? it's yeah okay okay here you really want to get into it there go down go down a little bit don what is that down there that's a little catheter there or no whizinator it does it does it does sort of look like a tube that's some kind of electrical cord oh okay okay but yeah that's the problem of that uh so anyway looking into the camera here here's what you guys don't find fun because i only i only stand here for the first 90 seconds of the show as soon as we

go to the octobox when the kickoffs are all beginning. I come around here and I stand right here and watch this wall of monitors. I've got a camera light up here for the Pat McAfee show today. That's not usually here. But we have every game on, all these big monitors go into quadrants. I'll put all eight games on over here. I've got a massive monitor that's tapped into the scoreboards of every stadium in the NFL and I got all the scores live with the clock exactly synchronized to the game clock so the action could be a little two seconds off but that is the game clock down here I've got what you got at home we call it our program monitor that I know what you're watching at any given moment and then I can say all right we just had you know whatever

the Patriots did just this the Cowboys the Eagles whatever let's get it over here but yeah we rock and roll my right hand men my version of Austin Connor, Ty Schmidt, Tone Diggs. They sit right here, Tim Galanians, Brian Larivie. They have their laptops popped open to give me any type of stat, player identification, and we rock and roll for seven hours

with no commercial breaks. So you got two spots, that's awesome. Thank you for the tour there, by the way. That's fantastic stuff. Thank you for showing us how the sausage is made, and that sausage, by the way, is a must for any NFL fan every single Sunday. You've become just an institution in of yourself on one of the quad boxes for everybody's YouTube

TV run. You've got two spotters there. Who's deciding, like, are you cutting to these games in real time? Who are you talking to? Is there a truck? Is there a room? How many people are in there? I assume that's chaos. It is. It is. Controlled chaos, but chaos indeed. The control room is right above us over here, and it has about 15 to 20 people in it at any given time. Our producers, our coordinating producers, Alan Flowers and Andy Gregg are in line producers, Tom Mossberg and and Brian Nettles, they're in my ear constantly saying, all right, we're on the Falcons game right now. It's third and eight from midfield. If they go incomplete, they're going to bring out

the punt team. So let's go to Green Bay. But keep in mind, Seattle's coming out of the two-minute warning timeout and they're first and goal from the six. So if they come out of commercial break, let's go to Seattle, otherwise go to Lambeau Field. However, if the Falcons get this first down, we'll stay with this drive. Yes. So it's like calling plays in my ear, like coach to quarterback communication system, and then I get to the line of scrimmage and execute whatever the football demands. The people that I've met that come to mind that can potentially pull off what you're doing, Michael Cole, period. That's it. I think what you're doing is, like, very difficult, and you make it look very easy. And that's why I hope whenever we saw your contract

was up, it was like, oh, buddy, now is a good time to be Scott Hansen. So we want to say, congratulations to you and also thank you for getting that done because you're a massive piece of our NFL season brother massive piece of the entire thing oh pat i appreciate it fellas i appreciate it i've been on the show like once or twice before and i say this every time it is a massive responsibility i mean i love doing what i do and i hope the enthusiasm comes across your televisions i love football i love serving the audience but it's a massive responsibility when everyone in the sports broadcasting industry who's not working on an NFL Sunday is most likely watching Red Zone to get the 10,000 foot view. Players tell me all the time when they're not playing on Sunday, they're watching Red Zone. Coaches tell me when they're not

playing on Sunday, they're watching Red Zone. So it's a heck of a responsibility and I try and respect the game, respect the players, respect the coaches, and honor our audience who joins us millions of them for every single Sunday that make Red Zone their ritual and their routine. So I appreciate you, boys. I'm going to give everything I got here. Season 17 kicking off on Sunday. Let's go. You've earned it all, Scott. We appreciate you. On that note, Dibut has a question for you. Just mentioned season 17. How many, I guess, weeks or years did it take you to get actually comfortable with all of that chaos? You just mentioned that goes on behind the scenes, and now you're going into a game, assuming you're going in pretty comfortable.

every Sunday afternoon. Well, Sunday morning for you now. Yeah, so, so Debud, good to see you, sir. Happy new year to you. Happy New Year. Football. Before, let's go, let's go. Before I was the host of Red Zone, I was a roving reporter.

So I used to go to Lucas Oil Stadium and cover the Colts game, right? And I would do some pre-game reports. And then during the game, I would sit up in the press box with all the rest of the talking heads and just watch the game, stuff. But I'd be the guy up in the press box that would have my laptop open. And as Peyton Manning was doing something on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium, I'd be elbowing, you know, the guy and the gal next to me on Media Row saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Peyton's doing this, but Tony Romo just hit Terrell Owens on a 50-yard touchdown in Dallas. And oh, oh, oh, Adrian Peterson's got 100 yards

at the half in Minnesota. So I have always wanted to get the overarching view of the even when I had a live game going on in front of me. So to answer your question specifically, I was not entirely comfortable, but reasonably comfortable, because I always want to watch more than one thing at a time. My brain is wired that way, and I love multitasking and just saying, oh, man, I want to tell this person about this going on. I know you're watching this, but check out this right here.

And that's what Red Zone is for seven straight hours. It's the NFL doing something and then me tapping America on the shoulder saying, hey, hey, hey, look at this in Dallas, in Houston, in Detroit, whatever. Yeah, and the only people you really attacked were normally punters. Yeah, yeah. It's all super positive. It's all super positive. Everything's positive, which is why I like you.

Touchdowns, good things happening. Boom, boom, boom. I shouted you out. When a dude bangs a 70-yarder, I shouted you out on the year. That's a kicker, and I do appreciate that. Punters only appear on the Red Zone channel when one's going to house. I'm at a 70-yard punt. That's what I'm talking.

about. Okay, I like you doing that. Ask the fellas, ask that they know that I have before. Okay. I've said for the brand, man. I saw it. Okay. The first 10 years of a murder scene of the punters, though. Okay, this is like, we're talking very recent history here. Yeah. First 10 years. There'll be reasons.

If we see a punt, we know why. The only time a punter would go on Red Zone Channel is because it's going the other way. So I hated the Redsler channel. As somebody that was, you know, playing at the time, I'm like, Redsown Channel, everybody loves it, huh? It's great. Yeah. Only time I'm getting on there, somebody running right by my ass so

but now that I am just a sports watcher and no longer a punner it might be the greatest invention that any sport has ever had like whenever it comes to a media thing like college football is going to try to do it I hope I think there's always been Are you guys going to do it again last year you

dabbled in it are you guys going to cry college? There was so many commercials we were still doing the commercials of the regular you know what I mean like you got a the 30 second ad thing is still a thing I guess with that you would have to sell that as an rap digital like you guys NFL

football yeah what is it how many hours of he just said commercial free commercial football Pat said commercial free I heard you say what did you say can you give us a preview of what it's going to sound like on Sunday there yeah I'm a close my eyes oh man let me before I do it can I can I just say one thing when it comes I'm the host of the show

what if I said no what if I would have said no right You said, can I say one thing? I'd run through the stop signs. The business folks handle the business. And I have no say over different elements that could or could not be

in the show. And so I'll just tell you right now. When you see me come on the air here, we're going to hit the octobox. We've got eight games in the early window, taking you around all the different cities. And then when we get into it, ladies and gentlemen it's been more than 250 days since the first full NFL Sunday but we are back

and seven hours of red zone football starts now oh wow well said i realized that might be a slight change to some of you but um that's what that's what the catchphrase will be going forward we all understand what the NFL is okay we all understand what the NFL is as soon as we heard it's in 50 million homes and everybody's watching it We knew immediately that there's going to be commercials dropped in there. Now, they already started doing commercials with the LRAPs. You know, they already started sliding those in. True.

You guys were saying commercial free football, and I saw a fucking Lowe's ad on my screen as you were doing that. I'm like, we're certainly getting money from commercial stuff, though. Bang! Shout out, that's exactly what it would do, you know? And then now actual commercials, are you going to maybe go to the bathroom now? If there is like a little... No. No, no bathroom.

You still stand in solidarity. I'm married to it. Yeah, I respect. But I don't think anybody's upset about the commercials. I mean, it's an easy thing to kind of tweet about and post about, but I don't think anybody's turning it off because of commercials. And the NFL knows that. And it's like, yeah, we can certainly.

I'll tell you this. We've had meetings all off season. We had our rehearsal. We had our dress rehearsal in week three of the preseason. And we are not going to sacrifice any great football for any of the business side of things. Right? The business folks are going to handle the business, and we play the hand that's dealt us. But we will not miss a touchdown.

We will not say, oh, okay, this is first and goal from the five, but let's, you know, sell some pizza or pick up trucks. But you can choose your spots like anything. Well, if the business people are content creating people, that's when you're in a good spot. I assume ever at the NFL, you guys have it figured out. We can't wait for Sunday. And you're just saying that right there, 250-plus days, getting right into seven hours of Red Zone football.

I mean, we got the GBs over here, brother. We got the goosebumps. We appreciate the hell out of you. Have a great season. You're the man. Bad guys, great to see you. Thanks. Have great year.

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Yep. We got these TVs here. Every stadium scoreboard is for him. Because he can just go in there and say, hey, it is. Bye, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, we're on TV.

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And then Friday night, we got the Chiefs in Chargers. Saturday, full college football slate of kick-ass games, and then Sunday, we got seven hours of red zone football coming right up as the Indianapolis Colts host the Miami Dolphins here in Indianapolis, which we will certainly be, maybe boots on the ground there. I think we'll probably be boots on the ground there. And then Sunday night football, Ravens, Bills, are you kidding me? We get Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson on Sunday night. Yes, please. Going to be waiting all day. That is just a few sleep. You will be waiting all day. Yes, you will. New version of that song's going to hit like...

Yeah, always. Like crack. So hard. I mean, going to hit... Huge. I mean, it's all coming. Josh Allen Lamar Jackson is just a few sleeps away. Yeah.

And tomorrow we're forgetting his Sunday night football kind of. Yeah, so we're getting a kickoff of Torrico Collinsworth. And Carrie Underwood's probably new. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're probably getting that tomorrow night. Waiting all day for a Thursday night. Oh, my God. We've been waiting all off.

Keep it for this whole night. Sirioni doesn't know it's Bader Night. You believe him? Do you believe him? Absolutely not. That's his gimmick. I respect that. He said, we're not even thinking about that. And then ask the question about it. Didn't even know that. Yeah, we just keep him moving. He has to sell that gimmick and live that gimmick to the team.

But also, he understands that they will boo his ass if they don't play great early. I think he wants to defend. I think he likes his team. I think you should if you're the Philadelphia Eagles. And Sequin Barkley's back. Landon Dickerson, offensive lineman who was injured during training camp, was full participant in practice today.

So that's good news. He was drinking beers on the field with the Cleveland Browns, offensive lineman during training camp practice. That was an indicator to me that he's probably going to be back. I don't think you're just going out publicly having some beers while you're rehabbing an injury that you're not going to be back for. Be a wild move if you did. That was just kind of my reading the human thing.

Like he's having beers, he thinks he's coming back. if he's back that's a huge deal obviously for an offensive line that was number one in the league last year are they going to be able to do the same thing they were able to do last year which is rush more often than they pass and they dominated the offensive line basically in every single game i can't wait for this season to start then friday got patrick mahomes justin herbert and then we're right into it we've made it happy nfl eve to you thank you for allowing us to do this for a living that's darius j butler that's one half of the hammer god cowboys apitone and then the toxic table is here at boston connor and at Ty Schmidt.

Joining is live from an attic in Ohio is a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Ryder Cup winner, and a father of 10. Ladies of gentlemen, AJ Hawke. Hawker, how you doing, brother?

Good to see you, man. Hey, I'm doing great, but Christobal was very impressive to me, no joke. I've seen him in interviews and talk, but he just, that dude has a presence about him. I was very impressed.

I like him. So we didn't even get in, I guess he was going to be a secret service agent. Yeah, as the story goes. Yeah, he was ready to do it. It was like a two-year process, got offered a job, and then the morning he was supposed to leave to go to, like, do his training in Quantico or wherever. He said, you know what? I don't really want to do this anymore.

I'm going to be a football coach. I guess he rolls Jiu-Jitsu. I guess he does Jiu. He's fluent in Spanish. You know, he played football at the U, obviously. He feels like the perfect guy to maybe lead the hurricanes all the way back. DeButs, you're down there. Do a lot of people feel the same way AJ feels about him and the team?

It's buzzing. You saw the attendance at Hard Rock Stadium last week in Chish. weather, but it's definitely a buzz down there. Football is different. College football is different when the U is good, when the Florida teams are good. But when you watch the University of Miami play football, it's like a certain attitude, a certain swagger that you expect to see. And Cam Ward leading that ship fell short at the end, didn't make a playoff run, but now we got Carson Beck, and he's hit the ground running. And Gump mentioned earlier, that defense, and that defense is flying around can actually get stops. That would be excited. But Mario got

the town abuzz right now for sure. Yeah, I love to hear that. And how far is stadium from campus? 21 miles Oh, geez. Goal games in Miami going. Do any students go? Do any students go to games? They did this past one. It was packed. It looked awesome. I know. Well, you know, kickoff big game. I'm saying like the middle of the road games.

This week. That's a commitment, though. If you're a college kid, you drive 21 miles. 21 miles in Miami. Yeah, it's an hour and a half. That's three hours. Everybody says L.A.'s traffic is slow. At least L.A. has, like, multiple lanes. True. Miami, I always feel like I'm on a really

small road with nowhere to go. And there's a lot of people around me doing the same exact thing. That's how I always feel like when I'm in Miami traffic. Wherever you get to, awesome. It's like it's worth it. Yeah. The traffic is better going from Coral Gables north

to Miami Gardens as opposed to coming from like Fort Lauderdale or anywhere going south to my because when you go into Miami it kind of gets bottleneck. It becomes like five highways merchant. No matter no matter what time of the day it is. it does flow better but I'm sure going back

is a shit show but it's definitely a commitment either way to go 21 miles you assume you know having some beverages and things like that it's a commitment yeah hey those hills of North Carolina commitment too to drive through we were driving over there it's a lot of a little bit of a hike

not a lot of places are like here where it's just flat and you got a big circle that takes you wherever you want got to love it it is very flat out here it is very nice speaking of you know things that are very nice. It'd be cool to have a job

I don't have to do and I get paid for. Yeah. That would be really cool, wouldn't it? We've heard about these no-show jobs in the sports world through colleges. Like back in the day I believe there was a quarterback whenever Debutt and I were in college.

He at Yukon, I was at West Virginia. I think we've mentioned this. In the summer, a guy was working at a car dealership. He never went there, but he was making a shit ton of money, like a lot of money. And obviously the NCAA somehow Snoop it out, it became a big story. And it was at that moment, we all started thinking like, holy hell, that's a genius idea. We got to find a place. Like, we didn't even, I don't,

the people I was talking with, which was a lot of members of the team, hadn't even thought of that potentially being a thing. So I think for us, it was a little bit of an eye-opener of what people might be doing. But it also was a little intriguing thought, like, ooh, that's a good idea. Like, that is a good way to kind of sneak in the back door around rules a little bit. Now the NCAA isn't saying this around rules, but that's not a But now we're hearing about it in a huge way. Pablo Tori investigative sports journalist who has done a lot of great work. Yeah.

I mean, he is like fully committed to this. And I think it's going to be good for the sports world. And even the whole world, because I think he was digging into a tree company first and then kind of unfolded all of this. If I have the investigative process proper, he was looking into this tree growing company that isn't real, I guess, is what they're saying. And then Balmer was allegedly, this is all via Pablo Torre's investigative journalism. So we are not saying we created this. This is Pablo Tori's doing. There's a lot of money and a lot of huge names and also the league.

This has massive implications, I think, everything that Pablo Tori said. I looked at his tweet where he put the video out from his podcast, had 12 million views on it. Okay, this is going to be a big ordeal. I assume the NBA is already trying to look into all this. I wonder how prevalent this is around the NBA and in professional sports as a whole. as an owner is sneaking or circumventing the salary cap by providing funds through another company. How long has this been going on?

Who all does this? Obviously, we heard about it from the college ranks. Have professional teams been doing this with their biggest stars? If they have, how long has it been taking place since, like, the beginning of time? I wonder all those things, just learning about this. But allegedly, Kauai was getting paid a lot of money through a tree seeding company. Good company idea.

very kind of them not making the world better so I think they were saying they were allegedly but who knows about actually because oxygen comes through those trees exactly they regenerated oxygen

which we all need oxygen I love oxygen yeah I do too because there's osmosis in there where molecules do their thing and then they docy and then all of a sudden we got you're breathing yeah we're breathing we are we need those but being able to just say yeah yeah this is what his salary is

and then on the other thing got a couple advertising moves. Nobody knows. Here's 28 million bucks. That's an interesting dynamic. Yeah. Very. And if what Pablo Tori is saying

is true, then you don't stop at basketball. You just think of every big star deal that you have heard of over the past five to ten years in your head. Like immediately, I go, and again, this is strictly based off what Pablo S. Tori is reporting.

If it's true, then this is where I go. Like, okay, you know, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, these guys who are getting a ton of money, and I don't think it's happening with the NFL. But people will naturally, because of a story like this, would assume, you know, oh, if the NFL is scripted, you don't think the NFL is going to be paying guys in advertising deals that are worked into contracts. Yeah, you shouldn't say it, but we're on the same thing. We're probably thinking the same thing.

A lot of hometown discounts up there when they went on their shoe roll runs. Bingo. Go to Ross. Oh, whoa, whoa. I mean, if this is what Pablo Tori is reporting, you just start to think. The mind starts to think. Pay them in crypto. Why are we paying in crypto?

You can't trace it, can't, you can't figure it out? Why are we doing all these LLC? There's a couple athletes that were actually invested in crypto pretty big that, you know, might have thought they were going to get arrested by the FBI. Again, something that might come back up. Hey, wait, was this deal that Pablo Tori is reporting about with the company like this? Is this something that a crypto could do? because then you think of some of the stars that we're playing at the time,

you know, that we're invested in some of those things. I mean, it's hard. You can't help but just think. Can't. And it's all based on Pobolatory saying this. Pobolatory, by the way, we'd like to say, I appreciate his. He's going to find out. There's a lot of, there's a lot of bang.

He's getting a lot of shins. Oh, yeah. Like from very powerful people. And he's just like, yep, that's what I thought. Yep. That's what, just kind of doing this. I'm going to keep digging. insane. This one's

gigantic. Huge. I mean, this is, this is implication. The tree company went out of business. The tree company had to file bankruptcy. Is that why he figured it out because then the creditor was the creditor was Kauai's LLC or whatever? What is, what was it? Yeah, I don't know. How do you get the books? How do you get through it? How do you find out? And how is it

I assume it's an actual investigation now that, you know, that's been cracked open. And it's, you know, for us as sports fans, you want to think to yourself like, ah, business, business, let's just talk about the teams. Because if they were able to do but you'd assume other teams have done it. Like, that's just how I naturally think.

It's like, if they're doing, if Balmer's doing this, he happens to have a lot of money, like a lot, a lot, a lot. Yeah, or that could be the other part. Maybe it is something, I mean, what's the point of being a richist owner in team sports if you can't do some shit that everybody else is in doing? Yeah, I like that. I slide to 28.

So we talk about this with the Denver Broncos about how there's no salary cap on the coach's salaries. So, like, they have a definite advantage of the teams that don't have as much cash because they can pay, and Vance. Who's our special teams coordinator over there? I assume he's really good.

And if I know him, I apologize for forgetting it you. It's not moving parts. I don't know, bones with the Tennessee. Yeah. It is. We do know. Who is it? It's Riz.

It's Darren Rizzy. Oh, okay. We apologize. First year there, though. Yeah, exactly. It's his first year there, but they can pay. He's the guy that created the new kickoff rule, basically.

He was one task with the entire thing. Very good at his job. But they have the advantage of being able to overpay the coaches. So, anything anybody else officers are able to do that. I didn't even think the advantage to overpay the players.

Like, yeah, your salary will definitely do the whole, you broke the record, yeah, okay, we'll do that whole thing. See, also, I'm not saying Denver's doing this, but I'm just saying this would be something that the richest owners

in all the leagues would be able to take advantage of. And all these people are so uber competitive. They're definitely thinking about ways to take advantage of other. There's no way that Balmer's the only owner that's doing this.

No way. I mean, maybe, maybe. Maybe he is. But there's no. way. Especially in Cali. Just think about how many the taxes. The taxes. Pro teams are in Cali and then the taxes in Cali. Like, hey, sure, it's paying the house with the taxes, but... Well, you've got to combat the taxes

almost. This is also going to be the college football model, by the way, when the whole revenue sharing comes in. The players are getting their salary and then they're getting only NIL on the side. Yeah, this is going to be the whole model for that. But the NIL things have to be getting by the commission. That's why, yeah. Okay, is this what Ohio

State's been doing? Is this how you guys have been able to have such good teams for so long? What was your job? I don't, I didn't know. What was your job you didn't show up at? Were you making sandwiches? Are you at? Okay, so let's say Kauai showed up a couple of times.

No, the old guy you worked for. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. A few years ago, RIP, Terry. Recipes Terry taught you a lot of good life lessons. But Ohio State's been doing this no show job thing for a long time or

how do we know everybody isn't doing it? I mean, it's hard not to think. I've been naive to it. I don't think, I didn't think it was that rampant. I really don't. I still don't. Well, I didn't either until I read this, and then you immediately just

go, why wouldn't you? Then it's in the contract, too, according to Pablo Tour, as soon as he's done with the team, it's done. Which you would obviously expect, but if he retires, if he's traded, deal's done. In the names, like, we're talking about

Kwai Leonard, of course, big name, but some of the names on there are much bigger than Kauai Leonard. And that's why you really start to wonder and you go down that robin' old. Alist. Yeah. According to Pablo Torre.

According to Pablo Torre. Pablo's investigative journalists. All right, Pablo. Sitting in that pocket, brother. I'm telling you. Those are some big names. I think about Sean. The whole political world.

Probably want to get in there? I think Pablo wants to get into whatever needs to be getting into. I think from what we are gathering. It's got that little rabbit hole, right? I mean, when you do this kind of stuff and you take it on the shins like that, it's like, okay, well, there's something there. Like, people would just dismiss this and be like, all right, whatever, not. But if people start attacking me, it's like, okay, well, maybe I'll keep digging a little bit. Good luck, Pablo.

Good luck, Pablo. That's a wildlife to live. Wild. Hey, better you than us, Pablo. But we appreciate what you're doing, Pablo. I'm not going anywhere by myself if I'm doing that. But as I read that, amen, amen. As I read that, all I thought to myself is like, what Connor was saying, is just like, if they're doing this, did he think of this idea?

I don't think he thought of this idea. The first thing I thought of Michael Parsons, I was like, oh, I wonder if the Packers gave him, like, 5,000 acres of dairy land or so, a dairy farm. You get half the tickets to this sled tubing mountain we got next to the thing. Right. Yeah. We'll have a mica tube. I mean, Green Bay, especially more than any other team.

Like, you know, they have land in investments and they don't have an owner. So you're assuming any of those land and investments, it would be easy. Every deal now. Can't do that. Yeah. Can't do that. This whole room of slots at the Anada Casino, those profits go to you now. See, we can't think like that.

We're going to call this the Parsons Parlay up here. It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be beautiful, Micah. Pablo Tori, getting to the bottom of it. Joining us now is a man who probably has thoughts on this fight, I guess. This is very much in his world. And what's he doing? Yeah, exactly.

Why is he not doing this? Burnley better win the Premier League this year. Exactly. Hey, JJ, we got some negotiating tactics we'd like to drop on your head that maybe you could utilize to get a Leo Messi maybe. Ladies and gentlemen, the owner of Burnley, and the owner of Español in La Liga, currently ranked fifth in La Liga. He's a future NFL Hall of Famer. He's calling games this season for CBS. CBS.

He's going to be great. Ladies and gentlemen, JJ Watt. Yay! It's going to be great. I knew CBS. I am fired up to be back. I'm excited to be here. Oh, yeah.

You're an owner of a new soccer team, JJ. Are you cheating? Is it considered cheating? Do you know the rules? Are you allowed to do the Steve Balmer thing? Are you allowed to funnel, allegedly, allegedly via Pablo Torres Investigative Journalism? Are you allowed to just create shell companies

to potentially funnel money to people to circumvent whatever salary cap there is for your teams? Hypothetically, if this was happening via Pablo Tori's investigative journalism with Steve Balmer, our immediate thoughts is every owner should be doing this. Do you have the companies in Spain that are willing to help Español maybe put some money through the back door? Are you thinking about this? No, Transfer Winder just closed two days ago. So we are good to go.

All business is done. Everything is good. There is no more movement on our end, all as well. What is the food over there in Spain? Piaiaiaia. Payaiaia, yeah, paella, yeah, paella, yeah, Piaia. Myorca, Piaiaia. So for...

We play myorka next month. day. Tough sign. Watch out for the pirate now. Pirate can put them in. What's our team? We're the Espanio... Pericles. Parakeets.

Oh, the parakeets. Yeah. I better watch out. We've got a cauldron of chaos. RCDE Stadium. Place is nothing. A cauldron of chaos with the parakeets. Let's go Keats. Okay, yeah. What do we do? Do we fly parakeets? Fly.

What's the chant? What do we say? We got a great one that I just learned. Obviously, I'm still learning some of the new ones. I believe it's, in the morning we drink coffee, in the afternoon we drink rum, and at night we are Magico Español. You have to sing it in Spanish. You have to sing it in English. In the morning, oh, we drink off. Morning oh. Anyway, I went over there. First match, unbelievable. We're playing Athletico Madrid, massive match opener, our first pitch there, my first time in Barcelona, down 1-0. Come back to one win.

Let's go on bananas. Just crazy. Did I see you tweeting about a ref got you guys at one time, right? There was an offside, maybe a goal call back? That was Burnley. That was with Burnley. And yes, it was absolute. Shite.

It was shite. I got to watch myself a little bit here, but. Oh, come on. Questionable at best and have yet to hear an acceptable reasoning. So hold on. I love to hear that. Are you putting pressure on this? They're like a British guy that's in charge of calling back

and be like, hey, Mr. Walt, yes? Like, is there like a full, do you have a British accent that you are going? No, I don't know. I don't use a British accent, but we don't take this bullshit anymore. We're not like a little team at the bottom of the table. I'm just going to take this like this. Yeah. We are going to speak up about it.

I'm going to tweet about it. They're going to hear about it. We'll get a letter back saying, yes, we screwed up. We're sorry. Nothing's going to change, but we're not taking the shit laying down anymore. Pissing me off. I like that. Hey, Burnley, up the choir.

Get on the horn. Tell Howard Webb you want a conversation, JJ. Who's Howard Webb now? I'd like to have a lot of conversations. I'd like to have a lot. Send the dudes, brother. You want to get their attention, have them to tell you.

Oh, look at that head of lettuce. Yeah, it looks good. Look at that head on the lettuce. Thanks for following the program. Yeah, he's been growing for a little bit. Big off season. You got bought another team. Yeah, that's fair.

That's fair. And their chin sucks. No, it doesn't. That's fantastic. You suck. In the morning we drink. in the afternoon we treat from in the night. You just worry about Pablo Tori taking a look

in your team over there, all right? That's fine. That's why it's agents from, yeah, exactly. 2000 to 2020, go on. Hey, now I will say this. That move by Bomer, okay, allegedly via Pablo Tori's investigative journalism. Get that out there.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Put that out there, please. That's what he's doing. By the owner, I assume Steve Bomer's going, So what? And then he's probably... Without a doubt.

He's probably saying through somebody else, like, hey, we didn't talk about when blah, blah, blah. This is just a part of the whole thing. It was, I feel like a naive doofus living in this world and being in this world so often that I didn't just think that this was how this goes. You know, now that I know this, though, every single deal that's done, every single move that's made, it's going to be hard not to be like, and what other local, is there any businesses?

Yeah. whether it's hard not to just think like that now jay j legitimately i i mean like now that you say that it's actually pretty interesting i think a j was kind of pointing to this before like what at what level of involvement did he have to do to justify being paid for it because like in an endorsement you show up you film a commercial or something and you get paid obviously money for that but that's that's okay so like if he showed up for 10 days out of the year and but his endorsement rate is 2.8 million per day and he's showed up for 10 days that comes out to 28 million so like what at what point is it

against rules at what point is he might have a 20 million dollar daily rate in the off season might have a 20 million dollar daily rate in the off season two days he went out there and tapped on some trees these ones look good these ones look good it's all he's in a few of them he don't like doing it yeah probably one shovel at least yeah there's got to be a picture him planting a tree somewhere that justifies that's all you need one picture hard hat show they'll do it boom they put it on billboards and how much value you know how many eyeballs see that individual eyeballs on that billboard the value of it yeah that's why i think like this nil thing is going to be a problem they got this commission that's supposed to approve things it's

like if you turn one down they can easily just say who says so they're they can't pay me 250 000 for one commercial why because other people aren't able to do that well i found a company that's willing to do it like how could you ever say no to that i don't know how you can turn down anything in america in a capitalist society that we live in i don't know how you can say no to any deal that is being offered to you via money honestly i don't understand how they're going to be able to say that. No, I don't get how they, I don't understand how they're going to wrangle that in in college and how they're going to do it all unless you literally take the whole system,

put it on a salary cap system, and you have a reporting and everything, that's a very, very tough system to reel in. And then each school can just get, you know, a tree. According to Paul Littleries, all right, let's move to football. T.J. is a captain for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Congrats to the Watt, family. Cam Hayward, Mike Tomlin says

he has no reservations about thinking about whether or not Cam Hayward's going to play. Aaron Rogers, obviously leading the boys. Kid Louroo on the special team side as captain there. All vibes seemingly high with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I feel like training camp was a good one for them. It feels like everybody

has expectations that they're going to go on a run this year. What are your thoughts as we near kickoff of this NFL season for your brothers Pittsburgh Steelers? I'm really looking forward to seeing how this team performs. I think there's a lot of anticipation because you have Aaron Rogers, you have D.K. Metcalf, you want to see what this offense looks like, what Arthur Smith can do. How's that going to match up? Is Aaron Rogers

going to be under center a bunch running the play action game and the run game that Arthur Smith likes? So they're going to shift it more towards that shotgun dropback game. Really excited to see that. We literally don't know besides the little practice clips that we have. And then that defense. I mean, you got Jalen Ramsey back there. You have T.J. Obviously, I mean, who knows? but you assume Cam's going to be out there on game day. So, well, it's a really, really strong defense when you look at it. And I'm really, I think it's the offense that's the most exciting to see what that looks like, because we really don't know yet.

Yeah, D.K. Metcalf and John are just getting dropped in there is pretty wild. Friarmooth is about to have the biggest year of his career, we all think. Jalen Warren just signed a deal, I think. So whenever you think about that offense and all the pieces that they have, the only question is, will they be able to block a moving body? We shall see. Four captains for the Pittsburgh. There's got, Dee Butt.

Yeah, I assume you were a long time. Actually, I know you were a long time captain in Houston, Arizona. What's like the sweet spot for you, now that you're an owner, four team captains. I mean, some teams I see you got seven, eight guys, other teams. I think the bills maybe only have two, if I'm not mistaken. What's like the sweet spot for you when it comes to team captains? Yeah, it's a great question. And I mean, I personally like the one offense, one defense, one special teams.

I understand where it started to get a little. You know, you have guys that it's like, well, that guy's definitely a captain, but we already have one who's a for sure captain. So it gets tricky. I mean, you see some of these tweets where it's like, these are our captains for this year, and you're like, wait a second, is that your roster or is that the captain's list? So it gets, I think I saw literally like, hang on one team. And you're like, okay, 46 guys play on Game Day.

That's, I'm not a mathematician, but that's like 20% of your roster. Our leadership. A lot of leaders. A lot of leaders. But I like three. I like offense, defense, special teams. I don't know what you guys have experienced. What's your, what do you like?

Yeah, we, you know, when it got sent into the group, I think it was the Titans who had seven of them or something like that. Eagles also. Another team had eight or whatever. And it's like the old adage about if you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks. I think if you have eight captains, do you have any captains? Like, you know, like that is the,

but I think they're also trying to promote people to become leaders. and the team has a mission here with the C that they're given out. I think it was the Raiders who had Max Crosby and Gino Smith and AJ Corp who's the punter. It's like that's the right. Like, Gino, we assume from everything we know, he's going to be the guy on the offensive side, Max Crosby on the defensive side,

and A.J is the best punter in the league at the moment, so he should be the guy. It's like when you have that. I grew up in a hockey atmosphere. I played hockey all growing up. And, like, in hockey, that C and that A on the jersey means a massive, massive amount. Like, there is such a heavy weight that comes with that and responsibility. And I think that's so cool.

And I do think when you have 10, 12 guys, it takes some of that weight away. But also, the thing I've noticed is there's some of these teams that don't put Cs on the jerseys, which is fine. I mean, you can do whatever you want. But I always think back to hockey. And, like, that moment when you press the C on the captain's jersey for the first time, that's such a special moment. I think that's a really cool thing for guys. And so when I see the teams that don't do it,

I just, for those guys, I'm like, dang, they missed out on a pretty cool moment there. Shout to Sidney C. for the city of Pittsburgh for so long, having that C on his chest. Shout out to Barking. Yeah. Shout out to the C's on the boy's chest.

And the apples, you know, a couple of apples. Yeah. I saw you guys are getting a nice new soccer stadium down there, aren't you? Really nice. Yeah, absolutely. Riverhounds are putting like a second level on that. It's going to be sick. Hey, the Hallmark Stadium down there?

Yeah, it's going to be great for constant. It's already very nice. They're making it bigger? Yes, they're big. Oh, this is good, Riverhounds. By the way, it looks nice. Español and Burnley. Put your little All-Star team together.

It'll be JJ Watts teams versus Pittsburgh Riverhounds. Pink slips. Down in that stadium. Yeah, for pink slips. Let the Riverhounds potentially own Espaniel and Burmley. Have Tyler playing if he wants to keep the team. Yeah. Take on a Riverhounds.

on the river, and there's going to be problems, I assume, especially with a bigger stadium. I didn't know they were adding to that. Yeah, it looks really nice. They're doing some nice stage. May put Star Lake out of business because they're going to do a lot of concerts there. No one wants to drive all the way.

Star Lake is a long drive for everybody in the East Hills. I will say that. So shout out to the Riverhounds, making some magic happen. Okay, speaking of magic, Jerry Jones is filled with it. Absolutely. Wheeling, Dealing, literally since he was just a wee little loud. One oil rig that cost him $8. $800,000 generated $100 million in wealth, which is what he bought the Dallas Cowboys with.

And now he's known for one move, and that is trading away his megastar. Go ahead, AJ Hawk. Yeah, Jay, let's say you're the de-coordinator for the Green Bay Packers here, the first four games this season. How do you use Michael Parsons? Like, how much do you play him? And also, like, how much do you move this guy around? It's a beautiful thing about being a defensive lineman. You really don't need to know that much.

You don't need to be that smart. You don't need to learn a whole lot of plays or terminology because we have basically two jobs. One is set the edge, stop the run, and two is get the quarterback. And you're going to tell me where to line up, and my job is to go get in. And so it doesn't take that long to onboard a new guy when it comes to a pass rusher, especially one of a talent level of Micah Parsons. So I'm using him to the fullest, as long as he feels good, which I mean, We've read about his back, we've seen about his back, but I saw that clip from practice the other day where he's absolutely smoking the blocking sled.

And as a guy who's had epidurals in my back and who's had back surgery, I know that you're not looking that explosive, knocking that sleight all the way back. Did you have mid-season, Jage? Yeah. Yeah, I had epidural in mid-season one time. Damn. Really, really shitty situation. How was it? You said it helped a lot?

I was squatting on Monday. My Monday ritual was to squat 405 for three sets of five. every Monday after games. And I was on my way up. I wasn't even at 405. I was at 275 and I got to the third rep back, boom, gone, disc out, follow the floor. Literally crawled on my hands and knees to the training room. It was, I could not stand up.

I went in, they were like, yeah, you're in a really, really bad spot. The next morning I had to go and get an epidural in my back basically kind of helps take that disc, put it back in for the moment. and played the rest of the season. And that was truly one of the most insane situations I've ever been a part of. When was this? When was this? What time a year?

This was, it was like week four or five. Oh, my God. 275 takes them out. Mentally, you feel so weak because it was 270. Did you start any more that year? No, no, I changed obviously everything. Thank goodness.

It's one of those things where, you know, You look back on it, like it later. Like, you know how, like, I'll, let me be candid here. You look back on it and you're like, man, I probably should have, like, asked a few more questions. I probably should have, like, done a little more research. But you know how it is, man. When you're in it, and A, you're getting paid a lot of money. B, you got all these fans.

C, you got your teammates. You're in the middle of the season. You're like, I don't care, man. Get me to Sunday. I don't care. Just get me back on that practice field. Get me out on the field. So, yeah, even just telling that story, it does sound.

it does sound pretty dumb. Outrageous, yeah. 4.05, every Monday. Day after game, I need to be going through a 405 on my back, on my spine. I need to do it. It did work out, change. You'll be the first ballot Hall famer. It did work out. You being

a psycho machine certainly ended up as a good thing for your football career. But I do appreciate the Those epidurals, they can do some pretty good stuff. It can do some pretty good stuff. I'll make that needle, right? That needle is gigantic, right? This is the craziest part about it. So I go in for the epidural.

They take me back They put the stuff in And the anesthesia and everything I go back I come out And they're like Hey how'd it go And I was like

I don't know what do you mean They're like Yo you were telling us all sorts of stuff Back there And I was like What do you mean? I was telling you stuff I was under anesthesia

And they're like no We had to give you the stuff That you don't feel it But you're still awake Because you have to tell us Where the pain is And I was like wait a second I was up back there

You're blacked out back there You're like yeah You're talking us the whole time. I had no idea what the hell. Real loose lips back there. Real loose lips back there. I would love to hear the man. Talking about Bill O'Brien. Yeah, our

coach, sorry. I'm going to bite this guy. Wait, JJ, you said that people don't look like that hitting sleds when after getting epidural. Are you saying that this whole back thing is made up? No, I'm saying you can't, I'm saying you're not doing that if your back doesn't feel good. Like, he feels

good enough. Like, if you're bending in that way with your back arching and lifting that thing, like you're feeling decent. Like your back is not at a point where you might not play. At least in my opinion, I'm not gonna, I may have to eat these words, but that's a tough movement on your back right there to lift that sled up

in the arch position. He looks explosive. He looks strong. It looks pretty damn good. I can't wait to watch him and everything he's saying out of Green Bay is like so folks on ball, so happy to be there. Once again, we are very much in a honeymoon phase of $47 million a year. We are still potentially hovering around like he was at that house.

He learned how much money he's getting guaranteed. And it might be more. What do you mean? If Paulo Tori, if Apollo Tori is telling us, now that's the first deal I'm doing. You think you need more than 47, dude? He got six per year. How much money is enough money?

Yeah, but not enough money. So, too much money ain't enough money, I believe is what a poet once said. Weezy F. Baby. The inner tubes that they ride down there. Yeah, Noah's Ark. Yeah. Wisconsin Dells.

Out there. Yeah, outside of Green Bay. Oh, yeah, the Kalahari. Yeah, it could be given Mike a half the ticket sales throughout the entire football season. We have no idea now. That is part of the whole thing. We don't know. But what we do know, he earned it.

Congratulations. And he's saying all the right things up there. And Green Bay Packers fans are steadfast on World War and Super Bowl. This is an amazing time. We love the NFL. Now, there's a Steeler fan in here, obviously. That's excited for you getting a call the game this weekend. Go ahead. Tom. Yeah, JJ, obviously, there's a lot of

first-time head coaches this year. Allen Moore, Shottie, Liam Cohen, and Aaron Glenn. You call Aaron Glenn's game this weekend. Have you got a chance to talk to him at all? Because he's been a little testy with the media so far. I didn't know if that was going to carry over to those pregame meetings with you guys. And which of those coaches do you think is going to be best this year? Yeah, yeah, I actually did the Jets Eagles preseason game.

So I did go and talk to him and sit down with him. He's great. He's great with us. I think the thing about him and what he's trying to set, and maybe some of the stuff you're seeing in the media is he is trying to make a no nonsense, all football. We are the New York Jets. We are going to be tough, discipline, physical, aggressive. He wants to kind of change that entire culture, and he's taking it to every single aspect,

whether it's the preseason games and not having guys do interviews on the sidelines, even if they're not playing, to how he handles the media and the stuff that he gives. He is trying to set a precedent for his team. And listen, whether they're good or not, he said it the other day, what he wants and what he's going to judge this season by is if Jets fans are proud of the team that they're watching every week. And last year, they were number one in pre-stamp penalties, they were number one in drops, they were number one in mistackles. Like these are a lot of undisciplined things, and he's trying to come in and correct that first. Obviously, that will help translate to wins. Does that mean they're going to be unbelievable world biggers this year?

Who knows? Somebody goes worse the first every year. but I think that he is building a culture there that those guys are bought into. How quickly will it take effect, you know, and will he be given enough time to maybe have it all take effect? We shall see.

There's some Jets news that Shepter has tweeted. Guard Elijah Veritucker suffered a season-ending torn triset before it even gets started here. He's getting a second opinion to confirm the injury and see if the surgery is necessary. Okay, so Jets fans obviously go, of course. Of course, that's kind of how it all goes. Go ahead.

He tore his killers before, too. he's been out for a long time that really sucks yeah he's a very good player just named captain this week like he was really excited about being a captain great player i believe it's the last year of his contract he's up for an extension after this year like such tough timing from that standpoint really sucks i mean you go all the way back to what justin field's first day he got carded off yeah a toe or something like that it's like jets fan just can never be like excited yeah there's always something that's going to pop in oh we're actually everything's good he's saying and everything real hard knows.

Oh, our captain guard now is out for season. We haven't even started a season. Yeah, he's out. Jeez. That four play thing with Aaron. Man. What a bummer. Even thinking about it, it's still like,

that was a sad, sad time. September. He's just seeing a fan of the team so jacked up. Like, we got him. We got him. This is awesome. The shot of the American flag running out there with that place going crazy.

Just fan of NFL, period. I brought even the Jets fan, but just to see, okay, it got Aaron, it got defense, flag, everything, and then just boom. And if you ask a Jets fan, they go, of course, what are you talking about? And it's like, that's crazy that that is their kind of mindset, but maybe Aaron Glenn's the one that's able to flip it all. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to, and hit play on your next adventure.

This fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at Best Western. Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. Oh, this is it, the day you finally ask for that big promotion. You're in front of your mirror with your Starbucks coffee. Be confident, assertive, remember eye contact, but also remember to blink. Smile, but not too much, that's weird.

What if you aren't any good at your job? What if they dim out you instead? Okay, don't be silly, you're smart, you're driven, you're going to be late if you keep talking to the mirror. This promotion is yours. Go get him. Starbucks. It's never just coffee. There's a lot of new faces in different places. Go ahead, Conman. Yeah, JJ, new coordinators for the Eagles in Lions. Last time this happened with the Eagles on offense, they had that kind of lull year almost before going back and winning the Super Bowl.

And then, you know, Lions lose DC and OC. But, you know, most importantly, Ben Johnson with the O.C., are you, worried about them at all? It feels like every year one of these teams that is typically at the top of the league ends up dropping off a little. Do you think it's either of them? Do you have your eyes on another team that you're kind of curious about at all? Listen,

I think it's easy to sit there and say like, oh, we have no worries. We've got the same guys. We've got the same scheme. It's just a different guy calling the plays, or it's just a different guy. But it is hard. It's hard to change coordinators no matter who it is, especially one on both offense and defense.

It's a new guy. It's a new voice in front of the room every single day delivering messages his way. Could be better, could be worse, but also just getting that continuity with what the guys like, how they feel and everything. So there's definitely no guarantee that it's going to be successful, and there could certainly be a rocky point to get over, get past. But I look at that whole NFC North. Like you mentioned the Lions.

The NFC North between the Vikings, Packers, and Lions last year had an unbelievable year. Is that conference going to be able to repeat that type of dominance? dominance at that level and are the bears can ben jonson get them up in that conversation that's a that's a really really i can't wait for green bay detroit week one that's that's incredible i'm very excited for you to call games now because you have to do meetings with all these teams so when you're talking about them you know you can't be you know you can't be because you're going to be walking in the room where it happens brother whenever you're commentating these uh games you know oh yeah that's an interesting thing with game day as like for instance bubble cunningham athletic director of north carolina

whenever he was the chair of the March Madness Committee and whenever North Carolina gets in and West Virginia is the first team in the history of March Madness to be left out of the tournament who have like five, six different criteria is checked or whatever. I guess I said some

really mean things to Bubba, about Bubba. And everything like that. I completely forgot about this thing. So do you go into that meeting and ignore it completely or do you like, hey man, that was a little messed up but we'll get through it? I had no idea it. Don't even know.

I completely forgot it happened. He came up to Pat. I completely forgot. I went into that place skipping. Michael Lombardi's a gym in front of the program. Basically, I'm walking in that place like we own the building. Oh, yeah. We are, I mean, literally, Bill Belichick and Michael Lombardi are running this place.

This is our fucking house. It's great to be here. Literally very comfortable. Sit down, have a good time. Boys get their passes, kind of mingle around, have a blast. Place was beautiful. Security people, Pat, welcome home, you know, the whole thing. Like, everybody, very kind.

And I'm sitting there and I'm just going through whatever the show is about. to be kind of a couple of different conversations in the production room, which is normally just like one of the halls classrooms that we run out for game day, basically. And Bubba Cunningham walks in. There is a little bit of emotion whenever he walks in. Some people like tighten up a little bit. I'm like, that must be somebody. And he was talking

to Pete Thammel. And they go, this is Bubba Cunningham. And I'd heard his name. And I'm like, Bubba, how you doing? I'm Pat. That's a fucking great name or whatever. You know, they're just like class with that whole thing. And somebody says, it's the athletic director here. I'm like, oh, congrats, man. Feels like like it's going to be electric out there today. And then I sit back down. but he as he was walking to me before that conversation there he said public enemy number one i

believe is what you said or something like that and i didn't even and the interaction was pretty stiff so then i sat down and then as he walked away uh that was when i was like oh my god and i looked at him and i said you fucked us that's what i said he was on he was and he said yeah i was like oh you're the yes basketball oh i'm sorry yeah i probably said some stuff he goes yeah you did or whatever i'm like that's on me should have put him in but that's as a hundred percent on me i do think yeah we should have made it i did do a little bit of a battle but i did apologize and he said you know if you did know exactly how it went i don't think i'm the enemy here and i was like whoa whoa whoa don't be giving me any more new enemies i don't need any more new enemies here

you know so it was but that's something you're going to have to experience you know yeah but as long as like as long as you're saying something that like in that like as long as you can go back and be like no i i believe we should have been in you're not you're not having to defend yourself If I say something on here about a team and like I actually believe it and then I have to go and talk to the guys face to face and they're like, why did you say that? I can say well at the time I thought that your running game

was trashed. That's why I said it. Yeah. Staying on business. You got it. That's right. Standing on ball. That's right, Pat. Bo. Got to do it, Pat. I'm just telling you there's your team has a bunch of loaves. There's going to be awkward encounters. No, no, you're good. I'm just saying there's going to be a lot of awkward encounters. Go ahead, AJ. No. No, I'm saying.

Like, Dan, what if you go, you count 21 loaves for a team and you go into a production meeting and they're like, hey, I'm going to show you there was only seven. Are you going to sit there and argue with these coaches back and forth in the players? Yeah, what are you going to do? Bicker? Are you going to defend your stance, your take? I mean, in a situation like that, if you can turn on the tape and show them, I'd be like, I mean, guys, if you want to sit down and go through it, we can go through it.

I mean, yeah, I'll show you all 201. It's going to be embarrassing for you. That's his dream. That's Dano's a tree or what do you just sit at the end of the table. He was mouth shut. I don't know. Danos of no business. I'm excited for you to comment.

Jeez, that's a lot of people in the back, not thinking that's not even about S-O-B back there. What are you excited about for commentating? Legit, you did the Christmas one, right? Yeah, I'm really, really enjoying this because, A, during the week, my prep is very similar to, like, when I was playing. I'm breaking down film, I'm looking at the matchups and all the different stuff, so I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. And then the actual game, you get the adrenaline from being in the stadium,

from not knowing what's going to happen next, from feeling the crowd and the emotion and the big moments and trying to make sure that you're properly articulating what's happening and teaching fans about the game but not overdoing it and trying to watch it from a fan's perspective as well. I really, really enjoy this. And I have the best partner in Iron Eagle. He's so good and we have such a great team at CBS.

So for me, it just scratches that itch on a much deeper level because I'm talking football every Sunday on a deeper level. Hell yeah, and you're going to be traveling a lot. Have you prepared for that? Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's obviously the most difficult part, hands down, is when I have to say goodbye to my wife and sons every week. And you can give me some advice on that.

I would appreciate it because I don't see any easy way. Yeah, you just take the vitamins, brother. We've already talked about the mode of transportation, what it should be. Okay, I've already given you that whole thing. Check that box. We don't need to be, we don't need to be feeling. every single gust of wind. No, no.

We don't need to be feeling every gust of wind either. Yeah, you know. Like Matt Berry the other night said. I think you were on a small bird the other day. I saw, I saw you post, but it looked like a small bird. No, that ain't ever happening. I'll tell you, we are getting to 40. I'm only getting on planes to get to get to 40,000 feet, brother.

That's where you need to get to. The storms are all happening below that, okay? If it's happening up at 40,000 feet, the whole world's feeling this right. So that is the, I am scared of flying. So with what I do, there's a lot of traveling. uh there's a lot of traveling involved and i am not like the greatest flyer it is always a full-on need to hear come all let's every single flight it is like that so yeah i think i've given enough

advice in that whole thing you're allowed to ask for this you know i wish coach corso would have asked you know what i mean like i wish what happened there man what happened that's literally what he does oh old school yeah that's literally what he does like i think like if you were to ask him this would not be even a conversation. I think I've offered up in the past for different games and it's just kind of been like, hey, literally don't worry about it. Too much money, what are we talking about? Like that is literally how he

like kind of views it all. But I'm happy South West. Dude, you guys nailed that. Everything about it was perfect. It was so cool. You guys, it had to be awesome being there, just seeing the spectacle and then him nailing every single pick. I mean, his team's winning. Like, that was so cool. It was literally a perfect

send-off, I think, personally. And Southwest and the airport giving him a round of applause for how many years he's been through those airports it's like that was even perfect you know it was like uh everything about it was just so monumental and as we're riding his coattails out in front of a hundred and seven thousand people or whatever it was there and you see the band layout it's like i hope you know coach you did good brother this doesn't happen just for anybody you know and i uh i think his last pick was his best too in the last couple years. I mean, he absolutely nailed

the entire thing. If he would have had another Houston moment. I was hoping. With the band and the entire thing, that would have been one of the most legendary heel moves of all time, but instead he gets it right with the Ohio State Buckeyes. Of course.

And yeah, it was cool to be a part of. I was lucky to be there. They did a great job, though. The people that set it up, the producers of Game Day, all the ideas, as soon as they were out, I was hearing him, I'm like, genius, that's genius. Tux. He's wearing a Tux. Nobody knew that. I think he showed up just like that on Saturday morning. Yeah, I don't know if anybody knew

that he was doing that. Yeah, it was perfect, man. College football is crushing right now. Yeah, yeah. It literally is. Jage, do you know, because last time you were on the program, and I've seen a couple of photos, hair was looking magnificent. Do you know how you're going to wear it yet? Dude, I have, I need opinions right now because it's been a hot topic in my household and my chat with my friends.

I got a haircut scheduled tomorrow morning. Oh. And I've got to decide. Like, is it staying long? or is it going back short? You had a fantastic, I don't know where the photo is, but you had a middle part either at an Espanio game or a Burmanyo. Yeah, it was a Spanish. And you have really strong hair.

You should not get rid of your hair. It's very strong hair, I think, personally. Now, does that mean you should. I'm just trying to figure out a style of it. That's my issue because on game day, I'm at the stadium for like six hours. So it's got to stay strong throughout the whole game and you're wearing a headset,

it's just the shorter is so much less maintenance, but I enjoy it long. I've never, ever had it this long, ever. So it's really, I'm uncharted waters here. You can go kind of a mid-range jumper, though, right? You don't have to go too small, because you got good hair there. And I think this is a barber you know, I assume?

Yeah, yeah, it's a barber I know. I like Conner's flow. I want to flip out the back. I like the flip. I'm not long enough to do the flip out to back yet. Yeah, but he had to do a lot of hat times to get to this time, you know, and you're not going to be able to do this.

Yeah, it's a summer of hats, really. You could slick it back like Barry Melrose. Legend. Doesn't get enough credit. I agree. That'd be sick. Great for the sport of hockey. You know, are you going to have the headset?

You're going to have a quaff in front, probably whatever the hell this is, in front of that. So you should think of that, you know. Like, WWE headset goes here. We don't do the pop star mic that you got. On game day? Yes. Yeah. What do you have on WWB?

Do you have a headset? Headset. Would you like better? I like this right here. I like ears. I don't like the thing going over my head or over my ears. I like individual ears. You know,

I don't like feeling like I'm building cauliflower here while I'm watching and doing the show. You know what I mean? I like it beat up. So I like this. You guys headset old school, huh? Old school, yep. Kirk Herb Street would say that you should wear the mic thing. on the, if you're standing to

ions right on your left side of your face for when you look at him and talk to him, you see a whole face, as opposed to that's a nice tip. Microphone covering. It is a good tip. Face. It is a good tip.

I didn't even know they made ready and lefty versions of that. Every one of them could be. You could flip that thing right around. Every one of them. Yep. Wow. That was a, that was a defensive lineman mother.

No, no, because there is the ones that are just specifically. And some of them stop. When you flip it, some of them do stop like here. Thank you, thank you, guys. This is a good teamwork right here. Yeah, but we will assume the ones you use will be able to go left or right here. You'll be able to do that entire thing.

I'm excited to hear you call a game, brother. Legit. We know you love it. There's a couple storylines this season that are going to be different than any before. Now, there's a guy that's majoring in one thing, minoring in another. Debutt has a question for you. Travis Hunter, he'll be majoring, at least early on, and wide receiver minoring on the defense side of the boss.

Rare air, you were one of the few that was able to do. in National Football League. What was that week like prepping to play some tight-in, you know, in the red area coming up weeks? How was the practice like? Did it change? And how do you think Travis Hunter is going to handle this at least early on? Yeah.

I mean, just like everybody else, man, I'm so excited to see what this looks like because I did it as a goal line tight end. So I would go down there on Friday and I would practice my two plays for literally just two plays at the end of practice on Friday with the whole offense. And that's fine. It added an extra five minutes to my day where I would have been drinking water on the sidelines instead of practicing those two plays. But him, like, what's his package going to be when we say he minors his corner? Is that going to be, you know, a third down package? Is it going to be only in the red zone? Or is it going to be quarter by court? Like, I can't wait to see. And none of us know what that's

going to look like. And people have said it. I think it might have been Devante Adams. I don't remember who said it. It's crazy. I don't know how you could do it. Truthfully, from a pure fatigue standpoint, I do not know how you can do it. I force, I always call it the greatest three minutes in my football career, forced to fumble, picked it up, ran it, went off to the sideline for one play and then went in on offense, the next playing score a touchdown. Probably the most tired I have ever been on a football field. Like, I don't know how you could possibly go run some routes at receiver, catch some balls, go over to the sideline, take a sip of water,

and then go back out and try and cover the best receivers in the NFL. Like, that's incredible, man. I know we give him a ton of respect and we give him a ton of credit, but if he truly pulls this off, I have utmost respect. Well, he celebrates touchdowns and stuff too, just like you, you know, because you, you know, scoop that fumble or whatever you did, run it back, go to the sideline, come back in, play tight end, score a touchdown.

For the fumble or interception had to celebrate, because the place is going crazy. So we got Whippin' JJ. And watch me, JJ, Jay, Jay, Jay. Yeah, we saw that, turned down for what? Then you go back out there, oh, no. Now we score a touchdown. Guess what happens again?

Hell yeah, brother. It's supposed to be fun. I agree. Hell, yeah. I see the Eagles now, which I respect the hell out of, and maybe it's the reason they win Super Bowls, and I didn't, fair enough to them, fair play. But when they're like, we don't talk about our Super Bowl,

we don't want it, I'm like, geez, guys, like, well, what's the point? Like, at some point, we got to be happy. We did it. Like, holy shit. Yeah, Tom Brady was like, I want to see the quarterback celebrate with everybody. But what I'm saying for this, implying in this is that's exhausting, too. I mean, that's a lot of it.

That's full-time, you know, and the hype and the adrenaline and everything rolling. Jacked up. And then you've got to sit down for a kickoff. And now you're still on camera, though, in the stadium, okay? So do something. Don't you sit there look like an asshole, you know? place goes crazy. Then a commercial runs of you

on the Jumbotron. I'm J.J. Watt here. They're ciphering money through this car dealership to pay me for my deal here in Houston. You need to buy a car there. So then they show you again, and you're like, yeah, buy a car there.

You're dead tired at this point. Kickoff happens, okay? Touchback, we got a TV timeout. Obviously, all right. You jog on the field. Now, bang, you're right back in it. That would be very exhausting. I could see how that would be. And that's...

Mentally, too? Like, I consider myself a decently smart guy. Offensive play calls are absurd. Like, absurd. And I had to know one. I had to know one offensive play call for the game. And I went in that huddle, and Fitz was... He said the play call, and I literally looked...

Which is the craziest part. I only had one play. So why was I even asking him what to do? Because it's the only play I had. But I said, Fitz, what do I do? Make sure I lined up behind him at fullback motion to went and caught it. I love everything about what Travis. Travis Hunter could potentially do here.

In theory, iconic. Be insane. And like JJ said, a lot more moving parts on offense. Defense, especially as a corner, I mean, it's quarters, it's covered three. It's on cover two. Like you only got probably four things that you're actually going to do. So knowing it isn't their hard, playing it is super tough. But I can't wait to see him actually doing how much of it he actually does.

But they move mountains to get him. And Stoner seems pretty jacked up. So we'll see him out there. They're going to change football, says Stoner day after they draft them. A couple quick notes out of college ball that we need to talk about. I think Tennessee has moved to Adidas from Nike, and Penn State has moved from Nike to Adidas. So I love that.

Never going to win anything. I do appreciate Adidas making a play, though. It feels like they're coming back into the game. Is Wiscoe going into Adidas school still, too? Currently under armor. I mean, Miami, though. We just talked tomorrow. They got Adidas.

Adidas is making a big time play I feel like everybody just kind of rotates around every like five, ten years does that feel like it? We looked up what the deals were worth much smaller than we could have imagined. I was shocked. Yeah, it's very

I don't know if the schools suck at negotiating or Nike sponsors just the biggest athletes from every school. They're probably like, what are you going to wear Russell instead of the entire? Yeah. Like at some point there's not many options.

Well, at Penn State, they're going to be Adidas options. They get a lot of money for it. And it's South Carolina. They wear the same one all the time. The South Carolina deal, interesting. Yeah. They're with Nike.

Should be fun. We'll continue. Be a friend, tell her something nice if I change their life. JJ, that a baby. See that right there at the zero. We're buying time. The Adidas move, I don't like it. Is Nike getting out of what's going on?

I think, I think Dita's just making a push. I don't think Nike's trying to get out of anything. Listen, I got some shell tops. Sure. Okay. I'm not going to act like I don't like Adidas. Go Stan Smith. We all know the best quakes

Yeah Yes Under Armors AJ We're all We know the pinnacle Yeah we're all the same pay Yeah we know I wear Air Force ones

Basically every day of my life I mean there is You know It's just Or Jordans And it's not right But if I see if You know

I'm watching a game On Saturday And one team's We're wearing Adidas And one team's wearing Nike I ain't ever fucking picking the team wearing Adidas

Ever And that's not That's not fair That's not fair But that's just the way it is that's pretty real and now the team with Jordan too and recruit boom that's the biggest thing

yeah but adidas they got Travis hunter they got uh they've got a good job with younger kids younger generation definitely wears more adidas than what i think they're trying to i think adidas is trying to crack the market a little bit i think they're trying to get in there personally it feels like and nike they got texas tech with the mahomes mahomes jerseys mahomes there we go yeah

the got a bunch of guys leo messy right yeah Sure. Oh, yeah. Obviously, massive in the soccer. They got a huge pair of one of his guy. Yeah. I forgot Aaron's a big gym.

Meditas guy. He's going to be a Super Bowl champion, too. He already is. Yeah, already is. Another time. And the only one that matters in Pittsburgh. No, no, no. I love Green Bay.

Green Bay's my NFC brother. What are they doing to get those deals? That was good high five. We missed it. Heard. That was a very clean high five. That was one of the greatest high-fives I've seen. It was.

In some time. They both went back for it. Like both aggressively meeting. Both sitting down, both kind of locked in place. The pureness of the hand to the hand there. You saw it too. Yeah, it's perfect. Because they really went for it.

Perfect. Locks the. We're on the same page. That's tough with the cockback. If you cocked all the way back, get those to line up. A couple old school teams used to build through the draft, but now we're making moves. Well said.

Watch out. Spending money. Wait, are you guys going side to side? So you're right-hand. I don't know if that was the time. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on, wait for the camera. We're just kind of showing you what happened.

I don't think we, you want to try to run it. Don't do it. No, you can't have it. Let's let it bring it back. Oh, shit. Pretty good. That was really good. That was really good.

Holy shit. I don't know if you guys should do that again. Super Bowl preview? Could be. Maybe. Wow. I kind of felt. something right there.

We felt it. We all felt it. We'll see. Colts are going to have something to say about it. Yeah, they are. What's everybody fought about?

I think Colts are going to win the South. I'll say it. Sleeper team. Kings, kings of the South. Boom. Sweet potato pie. And we'll smack you in the mouth. Dimes.

Running wild. Yeah, we can really. Two Super Bowls by 20, 30. Five. Yeah. at it a little bit. I know the Texans are scared. We know it. They're not saying it, but we understand the vibes down there

and Houston is, oh no, the Colts got Danny Downes. We know that. We understand that. Houston, we are not necessarily thrilled that they are in our conference or our division right now. They've got a bangor week one, though. Yeah, I mean, they're going to have problems all season.

Rams, Texans. That Matthew Stafford, brand new. Camonte. Huh? Big Day. That's going to be a good one. We've got the Titans week two.

So I'll get some AFC South Action week two. I'll see what Cam Ward's about. I'm really looking forward to that. I cannot believe a little hype and discussion Cam Ward gets. It's the craziest thing for a number one overall quarterback pick. Very much looking forward to watching him play and week two against the Rams. All right, JJ. Hey, we got a couple people here that won raffles at charity events here.

This one, I believe, was for MS. where we raffled off a chance to be live into Thunderdome to watch the show and the program. We don't do this often, so we're probably a terrible host if I had to go. Definitely. Yeah, it's probably nowhere near what they thought it was going to be or anywhere as good as they thought it was going to be. Just threw them D-Bone. Yeah, we had D-Bone, give them a tour of the place.

I mean, it was, we tried our best. We do it. Water's the whole thing, food snacks. Good chairs, good chairs. Good chair. We took photos. We got basic human necessities. Nice. Boom. Took photos. Did a tour. DeBone gave a tour. This is where.

snacks. This is where our friend Mitt lives. He's just fucking hanging out. You're showing the locker room? Yep. We saw everything. Yeah, we did the tour. We did the thing. We tried our best because this is for a great cause and obviously these people overpaid for this. But

it was for a good cause, so we're very thankful. There's Carly, Ted, Owen, and Claire. Owen is a 13 year old and he's tall, I believe, for his age. He is staring, he's 13 staring at like my... The bottom of your earloat. Yeah, like my temple, like right here.

He's very tall, athletic. He's from Indiana, so he definitely has a shot. Of course. So I think on the way out here, we were wondering, Owen, will you try to shoot a hope to win 30 people $500 that are watching the show? Will you do that? All right, Owen. Do it. All right, Owen's got the ball.

Now's your time, Owen. Owen, here's the deal. J.J., can you hear what we're saying through those speakers? Yeah, okay, no, he can't. All right, JJ, speak loud. Will you give Owen a little bit of a motivational message here as he tries to make a shot for 30 people to win $500? All right, Owen, here we go.

There are 30 random strangers on the internet. You've never met him. You never will meet him. They'll never thank you in person. But this is extremely, extremely important to them. So I want you to step up to that line. Pretend it's you in the middle of that gym like Hoosiers and train that ball right.

through the net thing go here we go whatever you want to do owen if you wanted to be a free throw you want to be an NBA three whatever shot you want to take if you make it 30 people will win 500 now owen's been sitting over there yeah he's cold like an absolute gentleman okay just sitting hanging out with claire his mom i do believe i was not enough of introductions i do apologize could be older sister too okay got mom got it he's with mom claire he has been nothing but a gentleman over there yeah yes not a peep no sweet boy good Sweet boy. Good boy.

Sweet boy. Great. The good one. Ted and Carly also, nothing but positive vibes here. Uh-huh. This has been incredible. We should think about doing this more often, maybe. Yeah.

It's very rare. Your microphone's off. Yeah. Your microphone is definitely off. Hello. And you are back. All right, Owen. 30 people, $500.

All you got to do is make a shot. You pick from wherever you want to go, and we appreciate you in advance for being an awesome lad. Is this the, Owen? No, it's not, you did not call into the show a couple years ago, right? No, that guy's long gone, don't he did not appreciate Boston Connor. He's going to go with an NBA three. I like it. I like it.

This is very far for a 13-year-old. I think anybody walks into our office. Everybody walks into our office and he tried to huck a three, and they have no idea it's an NBA three, and it's always short and it's always an airport. Dale Jeremiah, I'm talking to you. Yeah, and also, AQ. You can just go through basically anybody that isn't a professional basketball player that comes in here. in NBA 3 30 people 500 dollars good luck pal hair looks phenomenal yep

oh oh oh oh yes go let's go wow that's a bucket oh my god step right into it first time wow he just got an offer Yes, dude. Some college coaches Call in the

Hell yeah, dude. Coach DeVry. That was awesome. All right, all you got to do is repost this video saying something nice to somebody and put the easiest way to pay you and you might be one of random

Lee selected 30 people to win $500 because Owen just stepped might have his foot on the line. No, no, no. He's not a shit from wherever the hell he wants. In his league, in the league he'll be playing in next year in the next 10 years. That is good.

Wow. Owen, unbelievable stuff. Owen, Claire, Ted Carly, thank you for coming in here and enjoying the day. Thank you for donating to a great cause. And we apologize that this all it was. Sorry. Yeah, we do apologize for that.

JJ, that was awesome. My days made. That was the coolest. That was unbelievable. Fuck you. Yeah. Never doubt. Never doubt.

Confident. Just stepped up to the line. He was so confident. Dude. If he started school yet? Owen. Have you started school yet? Have you started school? Yeah, he skipped school for this. Tomorrow's going to be a good day.

Tomorrow's going to be a good day. Hey, you walk into that cafeteria, brother. There's 30 people that are never going to say thank you, like JJ told you, but just know you made their lives infinitely better, and you made us. I'm hopping out of here today. Yeah, me too. Be a friend, color, friend.

Something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Shout to you, Owen. team on me wow shout out to the chat too i'll be in there tomorrow there it is team on three one two three team goodbye it's time to level up your game introducing the all new ESPN app all of ESPN all in one place your home for the most live sports and the best championship moments the electricity is palpable step up your game with no annual contract required. It's the ultimate fan experience. Level up for more on the ESPN app or at

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