The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1403 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 1 Recap, MNF Preview, Adam Schefter, Colts QB Daniel Jones, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys overreact to everything that happened in an incredible week 1 of the NFL season including Josh Allen’s late night heroics over the Ravens, the Packers looking dangerous against the Lions, the Colts absolutely dominating the Dolphins starting the Danny Dimes era, Aaron Rodgers throwing 4 TD’s en route to a victory, and much more. Joining the show to recap the biggest storylines of the weekend, give a few injury updates, and preview tonight’s Monday Night Football game between the Vikings and Bears is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Later, starting Quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, Danny Dimes, Daniel Jones joins the show to chat about their huge win yesterday over the Dolphins, being the guy in Indianapolis, if he feels like he’s throwing it better than he has ever before, the vibes surrounding the team heading into the season, his relationship with Coach Steichen and his input in the game planning, 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 Humble Abode, the Thunderdome. On this overreaction Monday, September 8, 2025, this program begins right now. Football! It's here in full effect, and obviously we have one game tonight, an NFC North battle that will be on ABC that we will certainly be watching, and then Peyton Manning and Eli Manning doing their simulcast as well. But week one of the NFL season has completed a full Sunday. Day slate. College football, still throwing 100 on the paint. Today is a great day to celebrate everything happening and also today is a glorious day to overreact ridiculously. Now, from week one

of the NFL season all the way until the Super Bowl, obviously teams are going to change mightily. Injuries are going to happen. Teams are going to get better. You know, offense coordinator and quarterback are going to maybe get on the same page. Same thing on the defensive side of the ball. So anything you say the day after the first NFL Sunday slate is certainly going to be ridiculous if you were to look at it from week 15 back until now. But in this moment, everything we're about to say makes a lot of sense. Now, is it going to be overreactions? Potentially, some will say in the end. But in the real moment that we're living right now, the reason why the NFL is what it is and why football is the greatest sport on earth is because the way we feel

today is how a majority of fan bases feel around the NFL. We'll be celebrating mightily with the teams that won. It will certainly be dunking on the teams that look like ass. How are you getting paid money to do this? Were you guys even practicing? How'd you, how'd you, how'd you roll out of bed on this particular day and look that bad. And on the flip side, holy shit, we're winning the Super Bowl. A lot of that today, and we're so thankful that we get to do this for a living. The non-professional

athlete table at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmitter here. I mean, it's just sitting there. Someone had to. Yeah, once or twice. By the way, I hope we all just kind of, you know. Now, there are things. Nine-year NFL at Bairn. I would say no doubt. You guys have no idea about it.

I think that is a fair thing to say. But now, we are on the same team now, baby. We're all on the same team now. And we are very thankful for your perspective, because obviously it's going to be vastly different than ours. With that being said, a lot to celebrate this weekend from the toxic table, huh? Drake May might be a guy. Green Bay Packers, holy shit, Ty Schmidt.

Might be the team. You know, listen, I tried to kind of downplay it going in, but after yesterday, yeah, that might be the team. Let's got a one-half of the hammer. Don. Cowboys AP Tone. The Pittsburgh Steelers is one of the biggest stories of the offseason. They're going all in. Wow. High scoring, thrilling affair over there in New York with your former quarterback, Justin Fields. Ton, are you guys winning the Super Bowl?

If you recall on Friday, I said if they lose week one, the season's over. And if they win, we're going to the Super Bowl. On that note, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the first 15. We'll be doing this on overreaction Mondays throughout the rest of the year. We think these are the top five things that you need. to know about and if we miss a couple we'll certainly pick those up this is the first 15 let's get to it number five starts in the steel city the Pittsburgh Steelers the Rogers reminder still got it you know there's a lot of conversation last year about whether or not this guy is worth a damn

at professional football you know he flew all the way from his home in beautiful southern California I mean he's got a gorgeous oh yeah huge good views waterfront he walks on that beach too he's got his dog Apollo come around you know he's having a good time it's a beautiful house He said, you know what, I'm going to go fly back to New York whenever they get to new GM, new head coach. I want to talk to them personally. So I want to go ahead and just kind of see where they're at. If they're to move on, hey, that's their prerogative

if they can do what they want to do. But just wanted them to know that I would like my Jets tenure to end in a good way is what he told us verbatim. Flies all the way over there. It's about four and a half, five hours. Depending upon jet stream behind them. You know, sure. Maybe five and a half depend.

Yeah, there's, you know, a lot of that thing. Gets all the way down there in Teeterboro, drives over the facility, sits down. Aaron Glenn says, you can go ahead, get fuck out of it. That is... Pretty much. Yeah, we don't want you.

Now, I don't think those are the exact words. Now, the way Aaron describes the encounter and the lack of description of the encounter from Aaron Glenn makes us believe that it probably was a pretty uncomfortable situation. No doubt. So then Aaron leaves, and now he's trying to figure out his life. Remember, close personal friends going through a cancer battle, we would inevitably learn. Had to be there for them. People that rely upon him were going through some very heavy things.

He had his offseason. He was thinking about potentially retiring. Doesn't join any team. everybody's loud, this guy needs to make his decision for a draft. A little later, that was going to happen. He wasn't going to be making a decision for a long, long time at that particular case. In the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin was calling him every single week, checking

in on him, seeing how he's doing, how's it going? They were preparing an offense, allegedly, for Aaron Rogers, even when he wasn't a Pittsburgh Steeler for at the time. So you wonder, with all that shit and all the noise and everything that's going on, how it fair? Thought it was going to be a cagey affair because these two teams

obviously defensive stout. I'll tell you what. Justin Fields might be the right fit for an Aaron Glenn offense in New York. They might have some things to be excited about. And on the flip side, Aaron Rogers slicing Dyson for four touchdowns. You Steelers fans got to be losing your mind tone. Yeah, we are. It was really cool.

Once the Steelers got their first kickoff and you saw Aaron run out on the field, like it was a surreal, like, holy shit, Aaron Rogers is our quarterback. And then you watched him orchestrate that offense like Leonard Bernstein. It was a thing of beauty. You were up to the line, just changing plays, manipulating the snap count. It was awesome. Everyone got involved. Literally, everyone on offense got involved.

Four touchdowns. Oh, and he had a game-winning drive, which is what, you know, is something that we haven't had in a long time. It was so cool to watch Aaron Rogers be a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Four tides for him. D.K. Mecalf had some big-time plays.

Had a first drop early. Obviously, there was some other things going on, but you could see that D.K. is worth the money. And D.K. is the best athlete whenever D.K. is wherever D.K. is. And not only that, you guys have a kicker who is potential. doing a hold-in, Chris Boswell? Well, he didn't hold in, and he did play.

And I think he made some 55-plus yarder earlier in the game, and then to win it, 60-yard. Now, granted, there's a minute some left, so they could have come back and taken that from Chris Boswell. Under a minute 30 to take the lead, I think everybody would call that a game-winning kick. Chris Boswell does that for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So damn pure. Now, there were some misses from the kicking department around the NFL, and I think we should all, like, kind of view it the same way. if a ball is kind of drifting to the right for a righty, okay? Not an absolute miss.

A miss is going to happen where you just miss a sweet spot, your swing, just like in golf you kind of come across it. But there's one like drifting to the right, not normally the ball, probably because the kicker's trying to guide it a little bit. You know, trying to guide it. Like when you're throwing a baseball or a football, it'll be in the vicinity because that's what you're actually doing.

But it won't be your pure ball. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like Luke, the kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, his first kick was a 52-yarder. That thing was drifting a little bit right. He has a massive leg. That kid has a very, very strong leg.

Misses the next point. Obviously, people pissed off about it. He is a very talented kicker. So his first one going a little bit to the right, I'm like, ooh, he was trying to guide that a little bit, probably thinking about it. Still goes in, still very good for a very long time. Boswell hits this 60-yarder.

Under pressure, first week, contract dispute. Okay, money. This is actual, every ball is a money ball. Every ball is a money ball. This was supposed to be a 58-yarder. They actually lose two yards to play before that. They try to pick up a couple more yards for him and ends up going back. So he comes out there.

This ball is pure. And that leads to Mike Tomlin describing Chris Boswell in only a fashion that Mike Tomlin could describe a kicker. And I can't say enough about Boz. And our kicker is a serial killer. Man, he's, he got a low pulse rate. He can't wait to deliver. That's what I'm talking about. Baws is not thinking about guiding it.

Bob doesn't think about anything. Boss said he just goes out there, thinks about his steps, hits the ball, doesn't even watch it, and just leaves the field. One of the greats, one of the greatest of all time. Happy he got a chance to step up and perform and deliver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hell of a start for Aaron Rodgers. Congrats to the injures. Law and drama over there. Yeah.

Law drama over it. Came down to a 60-yarder. Yeah. Came down to a 60-yard. Big hit. Big hit, Jaylor Robson, too, new addition. Big hit, knocking that ball off the Gary Wolfson. The way he's talking is he loves the culture of the Steelers.

Oh, yeah. Like, he's talking like we, like, he's doing a lot of like, hey, we are, This is how we play. We're not going to let people kind of come in here and not play this style. It's like it does feel like Jalen Ramsey's supposed to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. Same with Aaron. Yeah. I mean, even watching Aaron to him walk off with Cam Hayward at the end,

Cam and Coach Tomlin have walked off the field together basically for like the last five, six years since social media has really been capturing it. We don't know how much longer before that. But them waiting for Aaron and then Aaron walking with him. Yeah. Like this is a cool moment. Very cool. This is a very cool moment.

Especially walking out of the stadium that he was at last year. And once again, fly all the way over there. get the hell out of here. I mean, that's a cool moment for the Steelers. Steelers fans got to be pumped. Okay, let's move on to number four. Is Michael Parsons going to be in game shape? Is Michael Parsons going to be able to play football for the Packers after being traded so late?

He did address being traded so late where he was like, if we were done this at the right time, I could have been working with these guys. I think Michael loves his time at the Packers. Now, obviously, they get a win. Yeah, it helps. Obviously, he gets a sack. If that helps. Obviously, he becomes the highest paid non-quarterback player of all time, $47 million a year.

There's a lot of honeymoon things, but boy, when Jared Goff just hears a banning, panic behind him, I assume that he thought, no fatso, no de lineman, no defensive fat, nobody over 220 pounds is going to be able to walk me. I have a 20-yard head start on all of them. Remember, field is 53 and a third wide. Micah hunted him down, necton mentality, like a damn shark. And obviously, he has a celebration point in the sky. The number one looks much cleaner than I think we all thought he was going to be. Jordan Love was slicing and Dyson.

Feels like the defense is very good. Green Bay Packers fans thinking Super Bowl this year for the pack. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, there's no question now. I didn't know going into yesterday because, again, the Lions are still very good, but boy, did the Packers dominate this game from the onset too. You mentioned it. I think the Micah stuff, we'll get to that in a second,

but Jordan Love, like people are talking about him winning an MVP this year. He had to do it. He came out, started 10 of 14, and they scored two touchdowns, And we're up 17, you know, three very early, which they were playing from behind against the Lions all year and in division games. They just look crisp. And everything you were hearing from the Packers' offense was like, they're really hurt in the receiver room. They don't really know. Like, we thought Josh Jacobs was going to come out.

And if he wasn't scoring multiple touchdowns, like this Packers' offense was going to be in trouble, not the case. Love looked phenomenal. And then you mentioned it, Michael Parsons. I mean, everyone can say whatever they want. I get it. He only played 45% of the snaps. Only got one sack. Only had three pressures.

Those three pressures. There was a two-yard loss for a completion on third down, caused a punt. He had the sack. And then they also, he got to Jared Gough and Jared Gough threw an intercept. So those are pretty, you know. Also, guys playing alongside of them. Yeah, that is the, that is, ultimately what this comes down to is Lucas Van Ness had his best game as a Packer yesterday. Rishon Gary had a sack and a half.

Like, he makes all the guys around him so much better. And again, you talk about all that stuff of him being happy. This is a different guy than we saw in Dallas. Like, sure, there's some of that. But everything I heard from him postgame, and like he's ecstatic to be a Packer. From some people that were there, they said when he came out of the tunnel, said it was the loudest pop they've ever heard in Lambo. Well, welcome to Cheesland, Micah Parsons.

What a way to kick it off. The Packers look like they're legit. Are the Lions dead? Oh, wow. Boxing, are the Lions dead? Yeah, I'll tell you what. Everything we were worried about this all off season was exposed yesterday. Detroit is burning to the ground right now.

It's not good. You guys got new coordinators. The offensive line is the biggest worry. Proxy, the Applebee's commercial. You get rings for those? Dan Campbell's F game in that one. Even he admitted he wasn't as funny in the Applebee's commercials. That was a sign.

Let's be honest. That was a sign. Oh, no. Not Detroit from five years ago. Yeah, the biggest worry, though, Ragnow being gone was so evident. That's a killer. Long season, though, we got the Bears next half to beat them.

I believe in Dan Campbell. Yes. So I don't think having a rough start with new coordinators is a bad thing. But, boy, they're going to have to get much better out there for Lions fans not to lose their mind. Let's go number three. We've got to go back before the weekend. Should be talked about Herbert's hot hand hand. This guy was electrical.

finds this was exactly what Justin Herbert was kind of billed to be this is what we had all hoped that Justin Herbert could be this season second year in the Jim Harbaugh culture and you're talking about Quentin Johnson doing his thing Keenan Allen oh yeah he's back on the Chargers and what's he doing oh scoring touchdowns again Justin Herbert was outrageous I mean everything he did was seemingly the perfect decision at the right time his leadership very evident his press conference afterwards sounds exactly like a robot like sounds hey hey we need a AI we need a quarterback. It's tall, handsome. He's going to date another celebrity. He'll be very happy. I need him to have the proper composure and massive moments. He needs to be able to throw football like a goddamn animal. That's what he needs to be able to do. Needs to be able to run people over.

Needs to be able to be more physically gifted than everybody else on the field. And also have an incredibly cool ability to slot. Yes. And stay in bounds. High football IQ. Let's go ahead and seal this game. But also whenever he speaks to the media,

just needs to say, just all the right stuff. Just everything needs to not even come close to being, uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, we're just focused on tonight playing our best football. What do you got next week? Well, we're just going to, I think we're going to focus on playing our best football, and we're going to do our thing, yeah. Oh, it was great to have him in here. He works really hard.

We try to work really hard. How do you feel about Coach Harba? He's the best. Every day he's working so hard. It's just every day we're kind of focused on that day that is in front of us, and we keep stacking days we're going to be good. Okay, what do you think about your water series? They're all so good.

They all run such good. Like everything he was saying was just super. Perfect quarterback, movie quarterback, and he has been called The Blueprint. He, Josh Allen, the other very tall, very large, very athletic, very fast, very durable guys are like what everybody's looking for. Is this the year, do you, bud? You've been on the Chargers, Justin Herbert Hype train for what, four or five years ago? Yeah, since Inception.

Since Mr. and Mrs. Staley, Coaching Tree. Yeah, Bruce and Linda Staley's coaching tree have come through there. You've been on the Herbert train, I would say, since the president. the beginning. I'll tell you what, Friday had to feel pretty good for that train as they got off the stop down there in Brazil. Yeah, and even before that, we had a great, you know, Coach B.A. sitting in this chair, and when he was here, he

asked the great quarterback. If you have a clip, what quarterback would you build your franchise around? Believe it or not, I like the guy with the Chargers. Just, yeah. Herbert. I think they just kind of, they've kind of gone by the wayside. Oh, and I got

a lot of side. It was not some side eyes up here on the stage. I'm sure it was a bunch of side. I saw, a bunch of comments on X. And he showed out, man, 25 and 34, 318 yards, just dotting up. And it was a past first offense, too. Something you don't expect from Greg Roman. Something you don't expect from a Jim Harbaugh football team. Just opening up, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass.

Got after that Spag's defense. Everyone was involved. You mentioned Ladd, you mentioned Kenan Allen, been back, and Quentin Johnston. If he can continue to play like a first round pick and ball, they'll be in a great, great spot. Did the thing with his arm, but with his legs. to end the game once Chris Jones got a little greed. This is kind of what makes Chris Jones great. You go and take a chance on the edge.

You don't dive inside. Herbert gets the edge and seals it with this beautiful slide using his legs to seal this game. So, yeah, Justin Herbert and the charges look like they might be the real deal this year. Uh-oh, AFC West has a lot of competitors. Can you see Chiefs going to have to figure it out pretty quick. They're getting loud over there in Kansas City around the world. I hate to say it. I think the Chiefs might be dead.

No. No. No, they might be. The Chiefs is still the Chiefs and always will be until these eyes don't see Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Andy Reeve, Breed, Breggs, and Tobes-Begh, and Tobe S. The NASCAR, we'll talk about that later. We're running out of time here.

We need NASCAR. We will certainly talk about it because that was one of the posts. We need it right now at 140. Yeah, we need NASCAR. I don't know if we have enough time. Yeah, I don't know if we have enough time. So, like, for that NASCAR kick that they did right before half there, there is a cutoff time.

They were certainly out. Oh, yeah. We got two. That was on both. Yeah, yeah. Well, ladies gentlemen, number two headline that I think we need to be talking about. Josh Allen and the Bills. She, boy.

You all were probably asleep. I fell asleep after watching Lamar Jackson run 200 yards to pick up a first down after he was out running the entire Buffalo Bills D line. And they were up 15. I'm like, well, if this is happening in the fourth quarter, it has seemingly been the Ravens night to begin with. Josh Allen has certainly made some massive plays. but these Baltimore Ravens team looked unstoppable. And when Lamar's doing this shit in the fourth quarter and

they have a lead, my brain just said, you can go to bed now. What did I miss? Oh, record-breaking final four minutes where a team is down by 15 with under four minutes, 3.59 right there. Bang, fourth and two. Tip ball. Kion Coleman

touchdown. Well, now we got to hope for something else good to happen. Well, Derek Henry, who was having a career evening in Buffalo done for 100 early couple touchdowns does something he never does

because Ed Oliver is an absolute monster on that Buffalo Bills D-line they scoop it obviously Josh Allen and the bills do what they do

they score missed the two point conversion now they're down to Baltimore gets the rock back they can run the clock out they don't leads to what

Matt Prater 41 years old walk off field goal Buffalo Bills beat the Baltimore Ravens. What a night for Josh Allen. What a night for the bills. And the number one headline is the coach going to Super Bowl.

Coach going to win the Super Bowl. And that is no question. And that's because the big three, as coined by Edger and James is how I heard it. The big three are holding people accountable in that building. Carly, Kalin, and Casey, congratulations on being undefeated owners. And Danny Dimes, we got a chance to catch up with them earlier today. We'll run that interview in about it now. hour or so. He is in the perfect place here in Indianapolis. It was fun to watch Tyler

Warren, this guy is Sasquatch actor. This dude's unbelievable, and Danny Dimes loves them. Danny Dimes is getting a ball to everybody. I mean, everybody was eating. Jonathan Taylor had a big game. Offensive line did some amazing stuff. I mean, it was the most fun we've ever had in the Loud House. By far. Since becoming fans of the team, like show. You get it in the suite. it was spectacular, electrifying. Cam Bynum, and I said this to Danny Dimes earlier, which you'll see in the conversation about an hour from now, Cam Bynum between every single play was like this,

and he gets a turnover. You can see that he's just a juice machine, and he's everywhere. Lou Anirumo's defense held him to a shutout in the first half and only gave up eight points or whatever it is, and Cam Bynum hit the scene. I mean, that is unbelievable stuff. I wish he would have hit the Kip up into the pop lock,

but nonetheless, the Colts look different, and with these eyes, and boots on the ground actually they're going to win Super Bowl this team's a real deal 7% optimism in that athletic poll from a lot of people that were AR fans on the internet and those AR fans are saying a lot of terrible things about me

whenever I was pointing out the obvious last year and now they were saying very negative things whenever Danny Dimes became our quarterback and everybody kind of said that this team stunk everybody yeah people forget we invested in defense we got a new defense coordinator we got dogs across the board over there

and on the offensive side Danny Dimes has loved his weapons here since the day he got here. The only reason why I know that is because I had a chance to have dinner with him a couple weeks into his stint here and he started rattling off names, who he likes. And he saw Pittman Jr. do his thing. Downs do his thing. Tyler Warren do his thing. Big Moe Alley Cod. I mean, Pierce is doing his, I mean, there is, we got, we got a team. We got a team. We got our guys. And shout out to boss man, you know, certainly pushing the Pacers on a little bit of run. Yep. And I'll tell you what, if Jim Thursday's going to be doing a little bit of run for his Indianapolis Colts.

We'll certainly enjoy the ride, brother, one last time. It was a fun day celebrating the boss. A lot of alum came back into town. Saturday night there was a gathering as well. It was a perfect weekend here in Indianapolis for the Colts, and the team looks damn good for real, Connell. Well, that's the thing, is that it was justifying watching the entire thing because it was domination.

You know, we talked about some of the games earlier, like the Packers. They dominated the Lions, start to finish. The Colts are one of those teams who dominated week. one, the dolphins from start to finish. And when you just look at all of those weapons that you just mentioned, this is why living in Indianapolis and watching this team has been such a nightmare for the past five years, because this wasn't the first time they've been out on the field with all these great players, all these great receivers, all these great players on defense, and performed well. That's why it is stunk because we've seen the potential. You see

A.D. Mitchell, Pierce, Downs, you know, Tyler Warren now, Pittman, like all those dudes have been there minus Warren and they haven't had a quarterback like Dan Jones. They haven't had an old line play that well like they did yesterday. It was just a big time like okay. So we haven't been watching or talking about the Colts like absolute idiots. They have been this good. They

just needed a quarterback to come in and Danny Dunes is the guy. A lot of pressure on him too. Yeah, a lot on the Colts as a whole. On Dan Jones specifically because you come in and you have a very publicized quarterback battle we know what he did in New York and what that was. So it's a lot of pressure for him to come in and okay now

It's obvious that he won this job, you know, and when I reached out to people in the building once he was named the starter, nobody was surprised, and now you see why. And then the game plan, you know, you'll see it more in the conversation with them, but it was pass, pass, pass, pass, pass out of the gate, and I definitely didn't expect that. But, yeah, he showed up, and then his defense, Luano Romo, been in a new spot with a bunch of new pieces. They were seven minutes away from a shutout, so yeah, all things are clicking right now for the coach. Indiana Jones and the Dimes dive, brother, we're about to. have a run over here. And Tyler Warren ain't from here. No. He is

gigantic. Add him to the list. And I think he might have the head. The skull, like AJ has one of these ones. Just a super thick, massive, massive head. Like a cannonball. It is like cannonball. It would have to be to survive that hit we saw Penn State. Correct. Yes.

The way his head snapped off that is the most violent thing I've ever seen in person. Just complete, bang. And they just, oh, that shit. They got a handoff on the next play. Yeah, his hair, I mean, he is, he is awesome. And we got OGs that are good, but you're right. It was, like, kind of like, justified.

Just like, thank goodness what we've been seeing and talking about. It isn't just us to lose you. Well, Chris Ballard's probably thinking the same thing. Yeah, oh, my God. Jesus Christ, I thought we've had a good team for a while. Okay, quickly, Dee, but you heard the top five there. Anything we miss that people definitely need to know about. Oh, speaking of violence.

I saw something violent yesterday. Out there with the Rams, Pooka Nicole, an absolute dog, friend of the program. took a nasty, nasty hit from that nasty Houston, Texas defense. But guess what? He didn't cry. He didn't pop. He went back to the locker room.

He showed his quarterback. All right, go patch that shit up and get back out here. Need you 12. And he came back out and he showed up and they got a big time win. A tough opponent. Look, week one, it's all about getting a win regardless of how ugly, how pretty is you want to get that win. But it's not just about offense. That defense, Shula got the boys still hunting.

Landman had a huge, huge punch out. but this is the cover of the rent right here with this nasty interception on the sideline just nasty had to replay it to make sure it was an interception like they do all turn those just that guy's name is land man no no this is the rent this is land there right yes and this punch out is phenomenal the peanut punch marlin humphrey all these guys have made it famous not even going in thinking about a tackle just going in with an actual laser missile on that punchout unbelievable turnover rams found a gritty gritty win in recovery I mean, the recovery is just as nasty and as athletic as the punchout.

This was one great, great game. Another great game down there in the NFC South. Landman. We didn't talk about the Tampa Bay Bucks in the Atlanta South. Who is Lidman? Hold on that. Landman. That is his first name, like Rock Landman or something?

I will never say his first name. Punching Landerbans. Slaman. Boom. Landman, Landman. Landman. Yeah, exactly. Okay, sorry, that's a great name.

Something else you definitely got to talk. It was a great game. down their NFC South, they always have bangers weekend and week out. But Michael Pinnock Jr., first of all, the Falcons made the right decision. They made the right draft choice. And the Falcons are going to be all right. It's a big time throw in the fourth quarter to get his team in a position to come down and possibly win this game.

The River McLeod had two phenomenal diving plays. This one was a fourth down, scramble to the left, where he dove and got the first down and made it a go-to-go situation. Unbelievable athleticism. Here we know what he can do throwing the ball, but this is just showing off. his athleticism, and it didn't stop there. He had another one here. Another one, fourth

in goal where he had to stretch out, keep all his lower extremities off the ground and get the ball to break that plane to get this game close. But, Bake, it started off a little shaky. Atlanta looked better on defense as well, but they got a superstar, a budding superstar over there, wide receiver, Ibuka, and we

saw him during the whole Ohio State run. He's always kind of a guy not talked about, but he always shows up in the biggest moment. This was an absolutely nasty throw a seed, and a great And then a great throwing catch here to basically go up and win the game. Just big time, big time player. I think he will become that wide receiver one.

We know Mike Evans, he'll be a first ballot Hall of Famer or it should be. Chris Gottwin will get back in the foe at some point. We got Irvin. We got all these other pieces. But Ibuka, you will not be able to deny him. He'll get open. He'll make big time plays weekend and week out. And he's going to be nothing but a perfect teammate down there.

Yeah, for sure. Marvin Harrison Jr. was the big conversation in Ohio State whenever he was there. Then Jeremiah Smith was the big conversation. wherever he was there. And what'll he do? Oh, just be the second leading receiver every single year. He's not as the one. So he won't get into shit. Seems like he'll be a great teammate. Oh, yeah. Block his ass off. Smart. Everything about him. Yeah, knows where to play everywhere. He's durable, reliable. He's like Terry McLaurin. Yeah. I'm excited to watch him, and shout out to the Buccaneers getting a big time win. Falcons defense is playing

pretty good there. Well, they get it figured out. And Pennix being a guy, it's certainly sweet. All right, last before we get to Adam Schefter of the G's, Louise. Play of the moment of the weekend. It was last night. Baltimore Raven scored touchdown there. Kennery's back in there. Guy in the crowd swipes. I'm sorry, D. Hobbs catches the one hand is swipes D.

DeHop's head and then pushes Lamar Jackson and Lomar Jackson. Let's see, get the fuck. What are you? What world? Get your hands off of me. Joining us now to hopefully explain this. Jeez, Louise, moment from last night. Senior NFL Insider from E.S.

and Adam Schefter. Yeah, Sheffey. Chefty, you look amazing. Thank you for waiting alongside of us. We have no idea how long this segment is going to be every single week, especially because we just started it. But that type of interaction, how do we think the league plays this out? Do we think they shake hands, move on, that kid's band.

You think Lamar high fives? What do you think happens there? I think it provides a good time for the league to remind players not to touch the fans, but clearly the bill should be taking action against that particular fan, because no fan should ever be allowed to touch a player. be close enough to do that. And I don't think Lamar was right for doing that. I understand why he did it.

But to me, there shouldn't be any discipline involved here. Everybody's got to keep that. Everybody's got to keep their hands to themselves. And to me, this would be a time for the league to send out a warning, reminding players not to get involved with fans if they can. See, on a complete flip side, I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with Lamar there. So this is the non. Yeah.

Chefty's never played again. Yeah, this is. We're going on that route of him. We're joking, we're joking. But I immediately, as soon as I watch it, I'm like, yeah, don't hit my team in the head. Don't hit me in the head. Like, that is literally my first thought. I happy to hear it out of the Bills and the Ravens.

Let's move along. Hey, what are the big storylines coming out of yesterday that we should maybe pay attention to, pal? All right, Pat, let's rip them off for you. I think we start with the New York Giants and the fact that Brian Dable, the head coach, declined to commit to Russell as a starting quarterback after the game, despite repeated chances to do so, the time to go to Jackson Dart, the Giants' rookie first-round draft pick is coming. We don't know whether it's going to be this week, next week, next month, but make no mistake about it, Jackson Dart's time as the starting quarterback of the Giants is coming. We had a number of notable tight-end injuries. Brock Bowers left the game with a knee injury

that he said after the game he didn't think was serious. George Kittle, the great 49ers, tight-end, left the game with a hamstring injury early on, did not return. You would have to figure that would sideline him for a little bit here. And the Broncos tight end, Evan Ingram, left the game with a calf injury. We'll see if he misses any time. And to talk about the entire week as well, we'll probably hear something from the NFL today regarding Jalen Carter and his spitting incident with Dak Prescott. We'll see whether the league decides to take additional action.

Usually in the past, they have not. They've left the one-game suspension stand. In this particular case, I think back to what Troy Vincent, the NFL executive, Vice President told NFL executives and GMs and coaches at the owner's meetings in the spring. He said, we are not going to tolerate anything that demeans the game. We want only good sportsmanship, and there'll be zero tolerance involved. We'll see how the league decides to handle that in. In regards to tonight's game, the Vikings and Bears, Harrison Smith did not make the trip for the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings have, but the Chicago Bears have no sympathy for the Vikings. Vikings because they have a number of question marks around a number of their defensive backs. Jalen Johnson listed as questionable. Uh-oh. I don't know that he's going to go tonight. I have my doubts about whether he's going to play tonight. Tyler Gordon put on the injury report with a hamstring injury. I don't know that he's going to play tonight.

So the Bears could be down. Jalen Johnson, they could be down. Kyler Gordon. They could be down any number of defensive backs as J.J. McCarthy makes his first NFL start. People forget that. He didn't play at all last year. He was the only quarterback from the great class of 2024 that didn't take a snap in a regular season game. He gets to start tonight, and Pat, he grew up in Chicago as a Bears fan, the first ever NFL game. He attended. The very first NFL game that he ever attended was at Soldier Field, Bears Vikings. Remember the game

where Adrian Peterson ripped off those runs as a rookie running back? That was J.J. McCarthy's first game as an NFL fan tonight. He'll have the opportunity to go and be the starting quarterback for the Vikings and you have to figure some young Chicago Bears fans are going to his first game tonight and he'll get to see J.G. McCarthy in uniform against a depleted Bears secondary.

Well, shout out to that future J.J. McCarthy that's attending his first ever game tonight, Monday night football. Let's have a good one. Congrats to J.J. McCarthy having this be his debut. What a magical moment. Honestly. So cool. Last season had to see. suck for him. Obviously, everybody talks about his

Uber competitive spirit and his leadership abilities. So having your entire career basically stopped before it can even get started, had to suck. I'm excited to see what he's able to do with Kevin O'Connell. I'm excited to see what he's able to do with this offense. Obviously, Justin Jefferson is absolutely insane

on a football field he's always open. And for Caleb Williams, we've seen some great out of him, right, in the preseason? There were some great moments. And then obviously there is always going to be negative chatter until they have some sort of success. Tonight could be a brand new era for both of these teams. The J.J. McCarthy era potentially

begins in a huge way. And Ben Johnson, the super genius, first time head coach, could kick off in a beautiful fashion as well. Shefter, hey, I feel like we just did the first 15. I feel like we just did the first 15. 32 minutes. You know, it's first 15 plays.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a 15-minute clock just, you know, on there. Sometimes a 15-play drive, you know, might only say eight minutes, but in real time, that's 35 minutes of real time. That is a good call. Some things have commercial. Yeah, it's a good call.

We know that's like, right? We're all watching the game. And I said, there's only two minutes there. She goes, oh, yeah, so it'll be over in, you know, 46 minutes, right? Yeah, exactly. Especially if it's a good game like last night was insane. I mean, they're going to certainly drain some of those commercial opportunities out, which, by the way, we all watch Red Zone?

No, it sucked. Oh, did it? Wow. Did everybody watch? They're going to show a big decline icing in Red Zone. Because the things that I was being told, just me personally, for saying that we do not care, meaning we will watch. Didn't even notice it. Really?

Who's not watching it in the quad box? You just look at something else. I did know. Speaking of wing stuff. Hey, good play by that, by the way. Hey, maybe somebody did look into how much are this, you know, just as a nice little fool coming. I'd rather not commercials, okay? but if the NFL is going to utilize an opportunity to make money,

we know they're going to do that. And we are going to watch Red Zone Channel because it's like the greatest invention in sports television, I think, because of how great it is. And to everybody's point here, we still watch, right? Now, granted, people watching might not have, and I want to let you know, I appreciate you taking that stand. Hell yeah.

I do. I do. We need more people like you. That being said, you missed a great day on there. Fantastic. Hey, Scott Hansman. Did you see the behind the scenes of Scott? Oh, yeah.

Cooking. Oh, yeah. Green's green. Yep, going nuts. Yeah. It's great invention. Yeah. Great invention.

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that you did not bring up there. Although, a lot of insane, Russell Wilson, maybe not stars, this Jackson Dart Time. Is that what we're seeing? That's what we're doing. He was ready. He was iced out. He was ready. He had it all.

I mean, I want to see him do good. Yes. In New York. It'll be good. New Jersey, actually. Jackson, Dart, you get it. J.J. Watt did a great job, feathery hair. Fantastic choice. Let's talk about some other storylines.

Go ahead, calm, man. Yeah, Shephti, a few more injuries happening yesterday. Christian McCaffrey, not one of those, however, which was great news. He looked unbelievable. Are we okay now on the McCaffrey calf? Was that more of like a throwback joke by chance? But then also Kittle goes down with a hamstring after scoring a touchdown. What's going on with him?

And should we look for the Niners to be one of those teams to sign somebody now that Kittles hurt? Well, first of all, thank. tight end that replaced him. Jake Tongs made an unbelievable catch to help him in that game. So I think that they feel pretty good about their tight ends right now. They signed another titan from Jacksonville during the all-season Luke Farrell

or Farrell, however you pronounce the last name, forgive me for not getting it maybe right. So they have tight ends. They'll make do without kiddle, and I would imagine with the hamstring injury, he'll miss some time. Now, Christian McCaffrey, what happened there was on Thursday, he felt something in his

calf. It didn't feel right, whether it was a cramp, whatever it was. They sent him for an MRI. The MRI came back completely clean. And obviously, it just acted up that moment. He took off on Friday. He himself said it was overblown. Now, again, when you're talking about one of the elite offensive players in the game who missed as much time as he did last year and has what the team is calling a calf injury, there's nothing that can be overblown about that. Nothing. But the fact of the matter is, It was not any type of serious injury at all. He was ready to go, and they had no questions going into the game.

Talking to the 49 hours of the weekend, they're like, nope, he's good to go, not an issue. He'll be all ready. You don't touch the football as often as he did yesterday if it was a major concern. Seattle's got a stingy D. They do. Seattle, Seattle's got to, nobody talks about him because it's so far away. We apologize. And they're still in everybody else's eyes nationally turnover phase.

with McDonnell out of Baltimore going over there and then painting over the walls and Sam Donald and everything happening. But watch them against the Niners and I got high faith for the 49ers. Obviously, Purdy throws a couple of bad picks early, but that's because Seattle's doing their thing. So I think we should pay a little bit more respect to the Seahawks.

Sala, too. Sala being back. I don't know if it was just overall sideline vibes, but him and Shanahan celebrating together after Bosa's game ceiling sack right here was unbelievable when you just look at the Niners coming out and dominate in the Seahawks. I mean, that's potentially a touchdown in the Sam Donaldson line right here. The Seahawks beat the 49ers week one, and we're having a very, very different conversation. Instead, the Jungle Cap Bosa closes the game.

Congratulations to the Niners on a huge win. And also Seattle Seahawks, I think, going to be a team. I'm very, very pumped for them. Now, let's go to a team that a lot of people are out on, but I don't think they should be. They ran into a juggernaut yesterday in Lucas Oil Stadium. Miami Dolphins situations are going to be all brought back to the surface. Everything we alluded to in the off season, as you may be getting breaking news in time, and I'm just filling until you're good, yep, all right, sweet.

Kendrick Bored to the Niners in a one-year deal. Okay. That's big news. Directly after the question. Yes, I got the. Yeah, so they are adding a pass catcher, okay. Which is where he started, started in Sam Fran, went to New England, back to same. It looked like they could use it yesterday.

Thank you for that breaking news there, Chefty. And we don't know what other breaking news is going to come through on this particular overreaction Monday. But there is one reaction coming from all of South Florida. And so, no, we're dead. Now, on that note, Ty has a question for you, Shafti. Yeah, Shafty, after yesterday we basically had the definition of what belt-to-ass looks like after the Colts beat the hell out of the dolphins. And then a lot of people were talking about, you know, Mike McDaniel and, you know, Tyreek Hill and the body language and him being upset because they were getting killed. He wasn't getting the ball, et cetera, et cetera.

are we going to get like a state of the union on the dolphins here? We're talking about teams in need of past catchers. Like, is Tyreek Hill going to be traded within the next few? I mean, we were talking about it before the show. It just almost makes sense with Xavier Worthy getting hurt for the Chiefs too. Like, we're going to see Tyreek Hill in a Chiefs uniform within a few weeks here. Whoa. That's a big move.

I don't know about him going to the Chiefs. And I don't think the Dolphins are thinking of trading Tyreek Hill now. But if the season continues to go this way, obviously you'd have to think that all options will be on the table at that point in time. They're trying to turn things around. It's one game on the road in Indianapolis against a Colts team that hadn't won an opener in almost 4,400 days that came and inspired with Jim Mersey being inducted into the Ring of Honor. Yeah, I'm just thought 4,400 days, Pat. But the Colts came out with the fury of 4,400 days of non-opening day wins behind them. and they laid out the dolphins.

But the dolphins still think they have a good team. Now, again, it's up to them to go out and prove it. So they're not going to trade away Tyree Kill now. If they have more games like that and the losses start piling up, I think all of us logically would have to think at that point in time, you start looking to the future. But they're not there right now after week one. But Tyree Kill, he has been missing that big play explosion.

It's been exactly a year since he had his last play of over 30 yards. They need to get them going. What? Major weapons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there it is. What?

Happy anniversary or unhappy anniversary. It was a leap year, though, so maybe we're going to tomorrow. That's a good point. Jeez. That's, I believe. This guy hasn't had a... He's a deep ball guy. Cheetah?

He was. I did get cardio. He's still fast. I saw it this summer. Well, I saw him on the field. He was still fast. I mean, he was still waiting to move. We caught him, though, I think a couple times.

There was a couple situations where I didn't think human was going to get to him and got to him. And him on the side. sideline, Shephti, he's the number one largest here, they're paying him a lot of money and they're getting killed. I'm happy he's upset. That could be much worse. Yeah.

You know, so, like, people are trying to obviously call this a massive crash out and stuff on the internet, classic internet. I think this is much better than what it could have been. And also, I like that he's Matt, like should have been. You get beat of all. Yeah, it's been 3006-5 years since I've got anything. I appreciate it.

It did not look good. Gumpy, do you like what Shepty's saying there? As a Dolphins fan? You had a long day in the loudhouse yesterday, Gumpy. day out there. Yeah, it was by far the worst performance they've ever had with McDaniel and Tua Health. He by far start to finish. Tua wasn't even accurate.

I've never seen him look that bad when he hasn't been hurt, and he was decently protected. He was top five protected in the league yesterday. I appreciate that you stuck in there, though. He did. Yeah, kept sitting in the front row. Front row. Had his dolphins gear on. Isolated, sitting all by

himself, front row. Everybody saw him, and everybody had something to say. It was a nice walk home yesterday. Yeah, I bet it was. Blue was real pumped to see. Speaking of a walk-home, let's talk about a walk-off. Chris Boswell is an absolute monster. The Wizard of Boss has been on a heater for like 10 years.

AP Tone, you said just a couple weeks ago, Cam Hayward, okay. Chris Boswell, give him whatever the hell he wants. If he wants an extra million dollars, let's do it. Because the Pittsburgh Steelers from Jeff Reed until Boggs were looking for a kicker. He has been the guy in a very tough division with tough stadiums, and he very rarely ever misses. Yesterday's 60-yarder to win it. Yeah, I looked at it up yesterday.

I believe he's the third most accurate kicker of all time. And it's not short kicks. It's long ones. Yesterday, he had a 56 and a 60. And I believe Shephty was on the call when I said pay him 50 million. We're looking at a Chris Boswell pay bump anytime soon, Shepty? He hadn't gotten one going into the opener. I know he wanted one.

I don't think he was particularly pleased about it. But the fact of the matter is that guy is an incredible kicker. That's 60-yarder would have been good from it feels like 70 yards. And he's been so accurate, and you see that guy's disposition. He's unbelievable the way he carries himself. Great kicker. I like that. Tried to get a raise.

Tried to get a raise. Hasn't gotten the raise. We'll see if the Steelers budget all there. It's a 60-yard game winner, week one with the whole new team, probably gets a race. Yeah, good. If I had to guess there was going to be some incentive-based raises probably coming out of the bars a little bit. Like if he, like, allegedly had, allegedly, allegedly had a tree company or something like that? Oh, you're talking.

about like a allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, like a front. Like if he started working for Frank Marlato's concrete company. Which, by the way, I do think they need some good workers. Because Frank needs to not be out there pouring concrete every goddamn day for the rest of his life. His knees. Too long, man. It's good idea. Boswell's boots.

Perhaps maybe he's selling fake shoes, allegedly. They can find him some money, I assume. I hope they're able to do that. Big win for them. How do you think Steelers feel about everything they had going on? yesterday. Cam Hayward, Mike Tomlin, obviously waiting for Aaron Rogers. Huge part of the storyline of the offseason.

D.K. Metcalf has a big game. Jalen Ramsey wins the game for him. I mean, everything that is... Johnny Smith touchdown. Huge plays out of John Hussmith. Everything Arty Smith's offense looking good. I mean, everything that was talked about kind of came to fruition yesterday and they get a huge win. What are your thoughts on the Steelers world?

You know, the Steelers won as many games this season after one game in which they allowed 30 plus points as they didn't the previous six years. So they had gone six years without giving up that many points and scored that many points to win. They won in an unconventional way. We talked during the offseason about how these were not your father's Steelers. They were going out, making trades, doing deals, making big-time acquisitions. Like, we never see the Steelers act like that. Well, guess what?

We never see the Steelers win games in shootouts like this, the way that Aaron Rogers did yesterday in New York against the Jets. Obviously, he took a person, but they win 3432, Chris Boswell. In the past, when some team has scored over 30 against Pittsburgh, which doesn't happen very much, they don't score over 30 to win that game. Yesterday was the first time they did that in seven seasons,

so clearly this team can do it a lot of different ways, and Rogers is inspired, and Jalen Ramsey comes up there and lays the wood on Garrett Wilson to close out the game at the end of the game, another one of those acquisitions. So, yeah, that's a strong start for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rogers showed everybody he could still play. Yeah, great big win for Pittsburgh. Huge win for Pittsburgh.

Huge win for their fans. Also, respect and love the fact that Jalen Ramsey didn't want to disrespect Tomlun or the Steelers by taking his helmet off and getting a 15-yard of there. But also, games over. Yeah. I just, I mean, you saw him for like 10 yards. Like, ah, by taking this off. Tell you what?

He flirts with it all game long. It was disciplined. It was like, ah, ah. I'll keep it on. All right, I'm not happy about it. You got to get, ah, uh, uh, uh, yeah, I love that. And they cut back and it's gone. Yeah, and then it gets off.

I think I'm a lot of off the people. Yeah, it was a cool moment for them. Speaking of a cool moment, how did a guy play on both sides of the ball? How long will last? What did it look like? We shall see. Go ahead, con man. Yeah, Jeffty, Travis Hunter was listed as wide receiver two, I believe, starting.

And then he played like 10% of the defensive snaps for the Jags. Weird game with it being a 1 o'clock start, then it's delayed. It doesn't really finish till five. It was just odd all day. But what did you think about Travis Hunter? Do you see him kind of going with this route, all offense, and then just a little defense? And also just a PSA to people.

Stop saying bad things about him because of the way he looks on the Internet. His new hair coat looks great. And Travis Hunter is a great player. We agree. I saw a nice thing. I saw the other receiver for the other team. I saw some mean things. I've seen only mean things about Travis Hunter on the Internet lately.

Well, your algorithm. Maybe he needs to be a little bit kinder to a guy to play on both sides of the ball for the first time in the history of the fucking NFL. To be fair, the algorithm is still throwing 100 on the black. They were hilarious memes, but I'm just saying they are very uncalled for. He should not be doing that.

The internet's a creative place. Well, here's what I'd say. The plan going in was to have him yesterday. Yesterday is a full-time receiver, a situational defensive back, and that's exactly what they did. He played regularly at wide receiver situationally at cornerback.

and there are going to be games this year where they're going to start him at receiver and cornerback. Now, there have been only three players that have done that in NFL history. Dion Sanders, Champ Bailey, and Antonio Cremardi starting games on both sides of the football. Two of those three are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Travis Hunter is going to become the fourth one to do it at some point this season, but they wanted to obviously have him involved more so as a wide receiver to open the season, and they're going to evaluate that on a week-to-week basis. We might this week, for instance, get Travis Hunter Moore as a defensive back

and situationally as a receiver. It certainly sounds like they are determined to use him as a receiver. They'll build up his work as a defensive back, but it's something that they're going to be deciding on a week-to-week basis, deciding how to use him, and, again, guys are a great player. They're going to want him on the football field, and he'll be out there plenty. Shot Con, owner, is excited for it.

Yeah, hello. Here's him after a big-time win for Liam Cuff. Stone or Travis Hunter and the boys to start to Susan? This is what we envisioned in January, okay? Yes, sir. It's happening here in September. Going to go on forever. Yes.

That's right. That's right. There's a man that's invested a lot of money in that team. A lot of money in that team, hoping that they would become good. And it's like you bring Liam Cohen in there, you got Stoner in there, you draft Travis Hunter. It's like, are the Jacksonville Jaguars on the right path? It looks like it at this point.

And if it wasn't an offensive head coach, okay, if it was a defensive head coach, I wonder if Travis Hunter DB full time with a wide receiver on the other side. Because Liam Cohen calling plays head coach. Good play call. We got a guy who is dynamic as a wide receiver. I'll take him over here. Yeah, we certainly would like to have our side be successful.

Now, I'm not saying that he doesn't want the entire team to win. He definitely does. But it's natural, like Bruce Ariens told us last week, he said to Tom, whenever Tom joined with the bucket. is the first time offensive coach as the head coach. So whenever are we thinking about going for it or are we thinking about doing this? He's like, yeah, baby, we're fucking going. Yeah, absolutely.

Up by 10 in the third quarter expecting to run it out. Yeah, we're taking shots. Yeah, what are we talking about? Yeah, we're going to score. It's like just naturally, it's just a natural different viewpoint in it. So I think they're going to definitely play them on defense, especially after Stoner's promo the day after the draft. But it's like Liam Cohen also like, this guy's a dynamic number one wide receiver too.

Let's not lose our minds. And you got Trevor Lawrence there, who you already paid, you drafted number one. This is a big year for him, but you're Liam Cohen. You chose that job. Like, this is a quarterback that you want to give all the resources and everything, you know, put him in a position to succeed. But talking about Travis Hunter, another wide receiver. I know Todd mentioned Tyreek possibly going back to Kansas City.

Big injury there with Xavier Worthy, week one, getting knocked out of the game pretty early on with the shoulder. Any update there? What's going on with Xavier Worthy and his shoulder? I think he's probably going to miss a little bit of time. here he'll probably be week to week with that dislocated shoulder obviously went down there went out of the game did not come back they sent him for tests and they don't think it's too bad too serious but it does look like he could miss a little bit of time here so you have no um Xavier worthy right now Rishie rice misses the first six games so they're a little short-handed there

right now with some of their playmakers at the wide receiver position in kansas city and by the way they have the Eagles coming in on Sunday and that'll be an interesting little matchup there last question here definitely an interesting little match up there hey Chiefs I still believe me too

Justin Herbert looked unbelievable yeah they rolled through that sketch it was unbelievable yeah Philadelphia Eagles coming up next okay they're look good too yeah they got some questions the corner okay so let's hope the Patch Mahomes and boys go ahead but I'm a believer

in the Chiefs if Travis is playing and the reason why that happened Xavier Worthers because Travis is a moving freight train and he got blindsided there out of nowhere I mean that is no front Derwin James, great rewrap. Well it felt like it was a little made passer of here. Yeah, first five yards are alive. It seemed like they're getting

well hand. And also Travis Kelsey gets punched in the mouth. Now that was that was first of all an incredible open hand punch. Yeah, tart. I will say that's a talented palm to the face. Did you know that open hands slaps are okay apparently? I heard that from the rules

guy I don't know who it was That was a terrible thing to say publicly It was not Mr. Beast He owns the... Is he still own the league? I think it was just for that first night on YouTube Which by the way, congrats to YouTube getting an NFL game. We are very pumped

YouTube has never viewed us as YouTubers We built our entire business on YouTube Which I appreciate now. Yeah, we are very thankful that they have it But we are very pumped that YouTube's getting into the NFL Like very, very pumped about that. YouTube's platform is awesome I mean, literally, it's for creators, it's for entrepreneurs, it's a great platform.

And it's obviously worldwide, why, Google pretty big. Yeah. You know, so I'm happy that they're dabbling into the NFL into live games. Yeah, they got it off the ground. There was no, I didn't see any he, none of that, right? No, nope. That's what I'm talking about, dude. That's what I'm talking about.

Tonight, you rattled off a bunch of things we need to think about, a bunch of people not playing. Gerasaw, Jalen Johnson, Gordon, Gordon. Anybody else, Chefty, or what? well i mean the vikings are missing harrison smith they're missing some guys obviously jordan addison is suspended for three games this will be the first of three games that he misses they're got back their live receiver yeah they're getting back jalen naylor who had a hand injuring camp he'll be out there tonight adam feeling returns to the lineup tonight for the viking guys again a lot a lot of positions in flux there's the

injury report that they put out this past week so um both teams have some obstacles to overcome tonight in the opening Monday night game of the year. Yeah, but you'll get through all those obstacles and let us know what the hell they're battling. And we appreciate that, Chefty. You're the man. Did that work out for you the 90 seconds, Pat? Are we good there? I think it was good, yeah.

We're trying to put this first 15 together because I think it's a good idea because all of our podcasts are only two and a half to three hours. Okay, so that's a really long time for people to commit to. So I've tried to, like, let's just hit first, like, little quick, little weekly wrap-up. And that kind of sets the tone for everything else. And then we can kind of sprinkle in whatever we missed.

Yeah, you are, you play. a vital part of that, so I appreciate you doing that. It's an honor. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me today and enjoy the game tonight. Yeah, but what you did today means nothing for next Monday. Yeah, that's for all of us. Hey, that's for all of us. Exactly. That's the way the league operates.

That's the way it works, right? 100%. Yeah. Got to prove yourself again next week. Not just next week. Today, today. Week after. Next post. Week after. Next week. Next day. Next minute.

Next word. Yeah. And that's what you've done for so long. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schaeffield. I got a question for you. Why was the first 15, 32 minutes? No, no.

No, we explained. We already went over that. I think most of us, yeah, I understand that. Are you surprised that Sean Cod did a kind of like a wrestling promo to celebrate the win just because kind of takes away from, you know, Liam Cohen's first victory? All right, okay, okay. That's my favorite video of all time. I'm not kidding.

Yeah. That was my first time. Forever! Yeah. Forever! Think about, he built two pools. Oh yeah. In the stadium just to get people, like, okay, you don't want to watch our team play.

Shit, come have a pool day. Okay, on a Sunday, we'll have the best pool in the city. 20 bucks are you can eat. Please come. Just what he has done everything he possibly could. Pay whoever, new coach. You want to build a new city? I'll build a new city.

Yeah. Everything he is committed. Shot Khan, since when we were playing again, against them, and he took over, it's like, he is clearly just like, I would like this team to be good. And for whatever reason, it just has not. One reason after another, whatever it is. And their fans, it's hot as shit down there for a large portion of the day. Then it gets a little chilly towards the end.

But towards the end of the seasons, a lot of them, they have, like, really not much to pull show up. And they are menaces. Their fan bases are menaces. So it's like, I got a lot of respect for what's going on down there. but I don't think anybody ever really takes the Jacksonville Jaguar seriously and Shod Khan has been fighting that for a long time.

If the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Colts in a season, people celebrate it. Like that is what they're aiming for. If they were to win-win down there, like they were so close to with Blake Bortles and then they all kind of fell apart. If they were to win-win down there, I think Shod Khan would be

deserving of quite a hate. Way to go, buddy. You've really gone all in in this entire. But also, we need those videos every single week now because now all I'm thinking about and I hope this isn't the case, but like now I kind of want to see the Jags get beat by five touchdowns. No.

Just to see him come in and see what you're prox. See what he says. That's must see TV. Come on. Sean brought back wrestling promos to sports. I'm glad for it too. Jacket was sweet too. Jacket was sweet.

Yeah, but to Ty's point, him boozed up after a loss. Holy hell. Yeah. Wrestling promos are good. That's normally what, uh, yeah, we, we know forever! Yeah.

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He's magical. The toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt, Patriots. That's... Uh, probably maize really good. I do think the Raiders are worth talking about. Gino looked fantastic. Pete Carroll in his debut. The defense, Ginty looked apart, Bowers, their offense, I mean, the whole nine.

Yeah, but the thing you said was, hey, if we talk about the Patriots Raiders, there's one thing that really needs to be talked about. And you said, exact words, Max Crosby just wrecks the entire thing. Yeah, he's a huge asshole. I mean, just not having him on your team is one of those things. is like how Ty felt with Micah. Like, if you have one of those guys, it must feel great watching him because he's always there.

I mean, the interception, Drake May through, who's there? Max Crosby in his face, the reason, you know, May can't step up is because Max Crosby's a freak of nature. I mean, Will Campbell Saul, but if you're going to have a, you know, a rookie tackle out there, you're probably going to have a little bit of a problem

when Max Crosby's there. And then it's more so the extracurriculars, too. Like, hey, man, you don't got to be a prick. You don't have to talk. I know, but as when you're playing them, it's like, hey, dude, relax. Like, hey, we have, does he know Bobby Spillane's on the Patriots now? You know, he likes Bob Spillane. I know he does, but then here we go.

He's basically, you know, getting in May's head. I wouldn't be surprised. Was that on Netflix quarterback? Yeah, him in Mahomes. Mahomes was actually talking about it, like, this guy, every time we play him, it's just got to be something every time. And they have respect for each other. Yeah.

And it's almost as if Mahomes just knows this is how he is. And Max goes, ah, sorry, it's just the kind of way it is. That's his style of football. Perfect Raider. It's amazing. Geno Smith, perfect Raider at this stage of his career. Pete Carroll, perfect Raider at this stage of his career, which is crazy to think about because he was the, hey, Will Ferrell's coming by practice, USC guy.

Then he gets kicked out of Seattle, and it's like, is Pete Carroll the perfect guy for this Las Vegas Raiders' atmosphere and culture right now? Tom Brady, new ownership. He wanted to be a Raider. John Gruden said, nah, we're going to stick with Derek Carr. sorry about it so he's got a little chip on his shoulder as well it seems like a really and then chip Kelly sitting there an offensive coordinator has been a head coach before the NFL obviously with the Philadelphia Eagles didn't go anywhere near how everybody planned but he's still a damn good football coach goes back into college with the Ohio State Buckeyes just as a coordinator as opposed to being

a head coach like he was at UCLA wins a national championship immediately it's like they got a lot of big brains over there and a lot of experienced dudes with chips on her shoulder and Brock Bowers exists He's unreal. He's unbelievable. That's Tyler in the league. And he's a dog. He is. Brock Bowers is a very good tight head.

But we got one here, Bob. Tyler Ward. He's on his heels. He's this year's Brock Bowers, without a doubt. Yeah, see. Wait, wait, we haven't seen Loveland play yet. True, true. Michigan obviously created an incredible one in Lovel.

Yeah, we've seen Caleb. Johnson. No, we have. Oh, yeah. My bad, my bad. That's nine-year NFL vet. J. Butler. Butch, big story coming out of the weekend, is not the Raiders being potentially back,

and Pete Carroll being the oldest winning head coach in NFL history. And if he was to lose the game, he'd be the oldest losing head coach in NFL history. He's oldest coach in NFL history. Pete, you're a dog, dude. Still breaking it. Looks great. Looks great. Still spinning it, too.

Still spinning it in training camp. Him having to find this whole new motivation, I assume, wasn't that difficult. But then whenever he gets kicked out, whenever he says, I fought for the job. he went in there for like an hour with his resume all of his championships at every different level everything he's accomplished especially whenever he's been in seattle and helped build that entire seahawks place him going in there for an hour and pitching for his job and then getting kicked out is that the first time pete caro in a long time has been told no you're not good enough so then he's away and then he comes back it's like what a perfect storm brewing for that raiders team and let's not even talk about gino smith

same exact situation and multiple different stops he chooses to go to the raiders over the seahawks but allegedly the contract offer that Seattle Seahawks gave was like not something that Gino Smith would ever take at this stage. So it's like maybe that type of motivation and drive is something that could bring them all together, Debudge. Is that a storyline that's not being talked about? Or what is something else you think that we should definitely chat about? I mean, I think that's definitely a good storyline, definitely potential there. Raiders, they kind of always take on that mindset of that personality is them against everyone else. So you got guys, you know, from the head coach position on down who feels that way.

but let's see biggest story for me I mean I got to start right here with the Colts like that was a big storyline in the offseason talking about the quarterback competition Daniel Jones could he be the next Sam Darno could he be the next Baker Mayfield could he be the next Gino Smith

where you're finding your footing in a new spot and you couldn't have asked for a better start for the team as a whole offensively of course but defensively even almost pitching a shutout with that explosive Miami Dolphins offense it was very very impressive all the way around you guys were actually in the building

so you felt the vibes, you felt the atmosphere. We know it was for Jim, for Bossman, as well. But it was just an amazing start for a fan base who has been yearning for a long, long time. Energy through the roof. Yeah. Energy through the roof in there. And also, new playlist.

Soundtrack. Yeah, we got a new playlist in there, new music. New DJs. Yeah, we're swagging surfing in there, too, a couple different times. I mean, we are... What's that Auburn video? A great video. Yeah, the boys, the lads.

That song will hit forever. A lot of great videos this weekend. from the college. Momba. Mbombo will hit forever. Awesome. Swag surf will hit forever. Levels of Vechee.

We'll hit. White Stripe Seven Nation Army. We'll hit. We'll hit. These are just things. Sandstorm. Dot rude. Yeah, yeah.

I think that is certainly in there. Duhoss. Duhoss Smith. I don't know if Duhoss is carried over the next generation, but if they were reintroduced to it, I think they would certainly enjoy that. Yeah, there's a couple songs that hit all the time. That is one of them. I appreciate the fact.

that Tom Brady's ownership is going to lead them winning. Like, of course, you know, and that's just kind of how it's how it all goes. And they're talking about how hands-on he is. Hey, he's talking about everything with everybody. He's hands-on in there. Mark Davis has got to think to himself. I'm a genius. Yeah, yes.

He's got his little backpack on. Yep. Got his house built. Got his house built. Maybe got the IRS off his ass because he had him on them for a while. And then all of a sudden he brings Tom Brady, and Tom's like, how about for a very small percentage of this entire thing? I just kind of do everything I think you're supposed to do.

Mark Davis goes. Sounds good. I can play Pokemon off that? He's not playing Pokemon. If that's the case, sure, Tom, I've got to beat this new Pokemon. Think about him being like some sounding board for Tom, though. Now, Tom, remember, whenever my dad was blah, blah, blah, or whenever I was a young owner, this whole thing happened, what a great spot.

Tom, is he that hands on yet? I mean, because we know all season we know Monday through Saturday, but we know his day job now where he's in the booth and he's on. on site with these other teams, you know, calling big-time games. So he's not, you know, he's not boots on the ground like Carly with a headset on. He's not. He's not on game day. You know, he's not up into Jerry Jones type suite.

So I do wonder how long can he, you know, stay in this role. And if things, let's say, not aren't going great, there I want to know right now, but let's say things start going not so good, does he ever think, I know he's getting paid a shit ton of money too to do his job, but does he ever say, you know what, I am going to focus and keep the main thing the main thing and become more of a boots on the ground game day owner what is it 37 million a year or something like that he's having a half he's have three he's getting he was really good like i listened to a good bit of his yesterday it was really good yeah we assume tom brady's going to be good at everything yep uh being an owner in the nflis as well

and thank you for bringing up he's not boots on a ground with a headset on is there there's also a new tradition i don't know if you know what your owners do i don't know everybody else's owners do. Carly Ursay, she's running the length of the field one time before the game starts. Love it. She wants to feel it. Wow. That's what it's all about.

I love it. That's awesome. Sorry, what? That's it. I mean, she gave a speech at halftime, awesome. She gave a speech at halftime. The microphone was high because Peyton was talking.

And she walks up, she goes, oops. Like, he even acknowledges it drops it down, just like so comfortable. Nice. I'm telling you, I appreciate, like, they're very much accountability driven here. Like, they are, there's attention to detail happening. It's a new vibe. It is. It very much is. And I think everybody appreciates it, actually. I think like the Colts, the building, the equipment managers, the trainers, the staff, the marketing, everybody like that. Like, I think there's a little bit more of like they're doing their way, obviously, but they've grown up in it. So they literally know all these people that have worked in the Colts since their little kids. So it's like, hey, how do I make your life easier? Also, how do we do this? It's like, I think they're doing a great job legitimately. And obviously, I know them. But it's like, you can feel it. Like, you can really feel like, feels like it errs a little bit more of a

I don't want to say a tightness, but a sense of urgency. Yeah. There does feel like there's a sense of urgency. Like change could be around the corner if we don't do our shit. Like it does feel like that. From a crowd's standpoint, from a team standpoint, the way they played certainly looked vastly different. Like a stern but fair almost.

Like they don't want to go on to the next era. Like it's not like they are want stiking out or Ballard out. I don't, it didn't feel like that was the vibe. It's more so like hey you either win or you lose and then we have to do our job because your job's to win and you guys have been losing and our job is to basically make changes if you continue to lose

and it didn't feel like there was a hey you know third and five maybe stuyckin's a little too nervous to call a certain play like it feels like they've empowered all the right people and that you know goes to the raiders too like sure brady isn't boots on the ground but that's why he hired p. Carroll because he knows p. Carroll has been through you know NFL seasons has been through NFL seasons where you go all the way to the Super Bowl and knows how to manage that. And that's probably why Tom doesn't, you know, feel the need. And then to your point about Pete Carroll, kind of, he's never really been kicked out of the building.

I believe probably the last time he got kicked out of the building was New England when he was the head coach in New England, which adds a whole other thing to the weekend. Because I didn't think about that. I think most people were thinking, hey, McDaniels, you know, he got kicked out of the Raiders building. This is great. You know, he gets to come back in the NFL and this is his first game. whereas Pete Carroll is the real one that got kicked out.

I think it was 96 before he went to USC. Yeah, before he went to USC. Yeah, Vinutari was on that team, I think. Bingo, yes. And then they're Parcells for a second and then Belichick, I think. Yeah, all right. He worked out of USC. They try to bring a law of penalties on.

They worked out. That's right. And he goes to Seattle, worked out. And then he gets to the Raiders after getting kicked out of Seattle and goes, you can kind of check. I don't want to be the one that says this. But I win. That's what I did.

I win. I've done it for like 20 years. That's what I do. I win. And it's like, I believe them. And good on them having a great weekend. Nobody has good a weekend as the bills. Oh, no.

Want to win for the Buffalo Bills. In the fourth quarter, Josh Allen puts on a Superman cape and does his thing in front of a home crowd that wasn't completely filled in the stadium. Not at all. Because they fell asleep about the same time that I did and said, we got to get out of here. We got work in the morning.

You know, Buffalo Bills, that's a working world. That's right. You know, it's late night. And you're going to play like this. Okay. I gotta go bed. I got work in the morning. Wow.

These tickets don't pay for themselves. They had to go do that. Wow. Great fan base. It was late. You got a MVP of quarterback. That's a fan base of football. It's late.

It's week one. I don't want to hear that it's late. If it's week 12 and they're down and they already have 10 wins fine, it's week one, shut up and sit the fuck down and watch the game. That's a Patriots fan. Okay. He's going to be jaded towards Bill. He's going to be jaded towards Bill.

That's a Dolphins fan. Derek Henry and the paint. I would have been out of there. Me too. I like it. You much rather go home and hear, holy shit. We won 41.40 than to sit there and watch you beat 41.25. Yes.

You have Josh Allen. You have Josh Allen. We got to ask you out of here before that game. I got out of it. I got out of it. There's 12 minutes left. You've seen your team lose with 13 seconds. You don't think that you can just sit around for a little?

Now, on that. Wow. Bill's Mafia is going to show up a show out everywhere. Not true anymore? Yeah, it is true. You're a Patriots fan, the Dolphids fan. But what Josh Allen did at the end of the night, obviously spectacular and a great way to kick off this NFL season as a whole is a primetime game.

Hopefully Vikings Bears delivers tonight as well. But, Tone, nobody had as good of a weekend as sports books. No. Sportsbooks started out swing. They came out swinging. I mean, there were some heavy, heavy bets. And seemingly all of them had red exes next to him, Tone. How did the sports books do?

And what does this mean for the rest of the season? Yeah, let's just start just for the year as a whole. in general. NFL week one, the top five most bet on teams went one and four against the spread. College football week two, the top five bet on teams went one and four against the spread. And then last week, college football

week one, the top five bet on teams went 0 and five against the spread week one. So what is that? Two and 13 to start the year for most five bet on teams per week. So not a good start. And then what do people bet on? Overs or unders? Overs, we like football.

Yeah, points. Under's went 12 and 3 this weekend. So I would say a lot of people are getting kicked on the shins to start the year. But I did see a lot of tickets on the Internet last night. The Ravens Bill's games saved a lot of people because a lot of people were butting touchdowns. And they were like, oh, who's going to score? Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, all those people scored. Let's go to the other half of the Hammer.

Cowboys, Bubba Gumpino. Obviously the Finns had you in misery in the Loudhouse Lucas Oil Stadium. But you hit a massive one last night, right? Yeah, me and Connor had a little FaceTime, put together a couple touchdown parlay. We had Derek Henry for two, Josh Allen for two Parley, and then I had a Kincaid, D. Hop, Lamar, and Josh Allen for three grand. Okay, gosh. See you in the field. It's a nice evening.

Also, with these public, yeah. My phone work. Keep it private. Don't tell anybody. Good job, Greg. You know, we throw those out there a lot, but again, when you're throwing out plus 100,000 bets, typically on a rare occasion you're coming in, pumped on Sunday. But at some point, we have to remember there will come a week where the public goes 5 of 5. Yep.

And there'll be a 90% public bet that hits. Exactly. And we don't know what it's going to be. It's not often, but it will at some point. So if it looks too obvious, it might be. Now, granted, on the other side of that, sports folks are throwing some real heat right now. People are very, very confident earlier in the year on what they think, even though they haven't seen anything yet. And they go hard on it.

And it turns out that, you know, a lot of these bad teams aren't as bad as people think. And a lot of the good ones aren't as good as people. That's what Coach Saban said after his first came in Michigan State. The other coach's team came over to him after they lost 55-9. I said, you're not as bad as you think. And he said, I remember that forever. And they weren't. No.

They certainly look terrible, though. And I'll tell you what, speaking of looking not good, or as Reese Davis said, ungood the other day. Yes, he did. Got a pretty good pop out of me there. That Ohio University Bobcat team and Navarro quarterback. Good team. They're good team. Yeah, kids got Sunday in them.

They might make the college football playoff. Yeah, they should. They're a good team. DeVarro's a dog. They had us completely in shambles out there. Electrified. A lot of West Virginia fans there. Yeah, but also a lot of Bobcats.

They made it really hard on our team. That's a Mac, right, Max? Ohio Bobcett. Yeah. But they won't. They're Mac champions. Have a little respect. They're Mac champions.

I just want to know what. These guys have won the title. The Ohio Bobcats are the Bama, okay, of the Mac. It's not like there. And there's a chance they make college football playoff. Yeah. There's a chance they make a college football. At least they're in a conference, D-But.

Yeah. It's true. This is true. To be fair, West Virginia losing Ohio. Not fun. That was not cool. Next weekend was about to be electrifying. That being said, still part of the process,

building a hard egg. Yeah, without it out. A lot turnover. And also, Ohio University, really good team. Yeah. If Syracuse would have beat Ohio University by seven, I don't think Frayne Brown has the boys running sprints. they only beat Yukon by 7

Fram Brown says while these fans are in here they need to know that we're not happy about this on the line that's what happens against Yukon Now what's bullshit Oh look at me I'm a tough coach I'm gonna run my team after the game in their past

We pissed down out of leg We should have won that game We had it all game long tricked it off But yeah this is cute I'm glad you lost some practice time Yeah did you guys talk about Did you guys ever have to do this?

No That's not really not in the NFL I mean, like, at West Virginia Richesville. No, no, no, that's not really. I thought even high school. I wouldn't figure, yes, for a Richron at some point. I like the Fran Brown said, you were either coaching or a lot. I like Fred Brown, too, but it's bullshit.

He said there's this, it's my job to make these guys the best men they could possibly be. His promo was actually like, these dudes are going to be fathers, they're going to be husbands, and I can't let them slide on yada, yada. It was like a really good speech afterwards, and I was like, all right, I respect that. And then I watched the video again. I'm like, those guys. I don't know if that point's going to get across in that moment. I don't know if that's going to be the case.

Join us now. Ladies and gentlemen, is college football national champion and a runner-up winner, AJ Hawke. AJ, you ever run sprints after a game while the folks are still in the stadium? No, I cannot say I have. Maybe in like fifth grade, I think we did a couple of times

when the coach was really pissed, but it's usually after a loss. You usually don't win in Grandstand on them in the Sprint. Well, if you only beat Yukon by seven. Grand Stadium. That's exactly. Wow. I really run some hard 20s here.

right? Yeah, but it looks like some of them are only running 15, so we even get a point across. You know, we finish it through the line anyways. Is anybody starting off sides? I assume somebody that's rolling start left center there, about L5, L4. Do you appear to have a lot of snaps? Who scored the game winner? Because whoever

scored the game winning touched? I assume the offensive line is going to be somewhere in the back of whatever. I think it was peanut butter and jelly, Steve Angelly, who scored the game winner potentially? He's a dog, Syracuse. Orange, obviously. O.T. O. Yeah, yeah. Syracuse, Orange, and the Fram Brown era have been good. Have been good?

Well, they continue to get better after this. And AJ, maybe more teams these start doing us. We'll see. We'll see. Dan Campbell. Didn't Dan Campbell when he became the interim head coach of Miami? Didn't something happen? He like had him doing one-on-one.

He did like Oklahoma drove for a long time, I think, day one. Pre-game, right? And sprints, I think. I think he had them doing sprints in practice, and I think there was like Oklahoma's in a pre-game. It was like week 13, their season was already over, and all this stuff was happening. That was the only coach's suggestion, I think.

Yeah, there was a, Yeah, there was something, oh, yeah, he was juiced up. Let's get fired up today, boys. All right, let's talk about the Detroit Lions, since we are kind of just slowly, easily transitioning into that situation. Obviously, the Packers are a team, okay? Michael Parsons comes in there, 40-some percent of the snaps, gets a sack at the end, obviously has a new celebration, opens up for everybody. Jordan Love looked good, defense looked good, Lambo was electrifying, and the Detroit Lions, somebody that you thought you'd be competing with the NFC North with, obviously, seemingly going to have a little bit of a

tough start to this new coordinator era that they have over there. What is your big takeaway is the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers, AJ Hawk? I mean, my takeaway is this Packers defense. Obviously, the offense did everything they needed to win, but this defense was awesome. I mean, we know the impact Micah had, but I think everybody else stepped up, and it's easy to say, oh, Micah opens it up for all these other guys, and yeah, he definitely does. But I think it brought everyone on the defense, like it brought him up to another level, and Micah barely even played. So imagine when Micah is actually a huge part of the

game plan. But, man, Edger and Cooper, Quay Walker, like these guys can fly all over the place on the Packers' defense. I love Washington play. What do you think about Jordan Love? What do you think about the team as a whole? Do you think there was good situational management out of the floor? Do you think the dominating wind?

That was a strike right there. He threw a couple of those over the middle that were obviously thrown to a spot, not to a person, thrown to a spot, and his receivers won and got it. Showed incredible arm talent. What do you? you think about everything else about managing and handling the game? Oh, I thought it was great. I mean, especially week one, that's all you can ask for.

Sometimes it can get funky and can not look as crisp as you wanted to, but I think especially how young they are that we hear them talk all the time, how young the roster is, but the fact that they look good. I mean, just, I'm a bit biased. I was in Green Bay for nine years, but Green Bay, like when the sun is setting, when it looks like this, the setting, everything about it, it's a magical experience. I think that came through the TV.

Like, it would have been an awesome day to be at Lambo. I think so, too. And it sucks for Lions fans who've had such a high for the past couple years that they're maybe going to go through another little transition phase here as you're trying to recycle everything. Go ahead, to AJ's point, man, that Packers defense, that was the thing I was most impressed about because when you think about Lions football,

you think about them start. I know flashy gadgets, golf makes great throws, but you think about line of scrimmage, have been there to run the ball. They could not run the ball at all from the beginning. I think Gibbs ended up like 20 yards rushing, like to be. And then Gibbs had, I think, 10 catches for like 31 yards.

That lets you know how these guys are flying around, attacking, tackling, getting guys to the ground, not allowed a bunch of yak. So Jeff Haffley, the job that he's done on that defense side of the ball. Jordan Love has been a very good quarterback for a couple of years now. Matt LaFloor, we know who he is offensive as far as play calling goes. But there's defense, man. They showed up and showed out for sure we've won. Yeah, worrying about the run defense.

There was a stat from NFL Pro after the game. It said of the Lions 22 carries, 16 of them. Packers hit him in the backfield. That's crazy. Like so, and which is like in year, I mean, the last game last year, late in the season, you know, it was in Detroit, close game, but that, like, the Lions kept going for it on fourth down, kept getting it. They rushed for 250. I think Gibbs and Montgomery both had over 100. So yeah, hearing all this stuff about Micah can't play the run, like the, and just the Packers in general. And then for them to come out and have that type of performance, it was incredible.

Let's stay in the NFC, Jaden Daniels, the real deal. This guy, sophomore slump? I don't think so. I don't think there's going to be one of those for Jayden. On the run, on a dime, in rhythm, on time. I mean, everything yesterday looked like they just picked up right where they left off for the commanders. Cliff Kingsbury, obviously, another year there. Could have maybe interviewed for some head coaching jobs, decides to stay. Debo Samuel gets a Tud in his debut with the Washington commanders. AJ, looks like they're not just a flash in a pan. Looks like this is for real over in Washington, D.C. Virginia, Maryland area. Yeah, I feel like especially that Ertz touchdown early, you know, like, all right, these guys, they must be feeling pretty good about themselves. How about Bobby Wagner, leading the team and tackles still? This dude's been playing forever at the highest level.

Like, I love watching these guys, Devin White with the Raiders, all these, I know I'm not talking about the Raiders right now, but I'm thinking of these older veteran linebackers that are playing very well. Debo, you know they wanted to get Debo going early because if not, they have to answer questions. Hey, how are you going to work Debo into this offense? What do you do with all the talent you have around them? They had a nice little balanced mixture.

So Cliff is feeling himself a little bit, I think it's a play call right now. And, Mike, the question for me is, like, we knew the offense was going to be pretty good. The defense only gave up six points. Like, the defense was always going to be the question. Yes, they have Bobby Wagner, who is one of the greatest linebackers of all time, but they're older. Six points to a Giants team who, yes, has offensive question marks, but six points to any NFL team is a great defensive performance. And I thought that was like, that was questions answered on the defensive side.

Russ was 17 for 37. Yeah, that's not. You know, whatever you think about Russell, he's a good quarterback. He's been around for a long time. They named him the starter for a reason. We'll see how long he actually starts. But, yeah, to hold a quarterback 17 to 37 is tough. Getting Samuel Deboe involved early on was a big deal.

Was it a little off with Terry McLaurin, which we kind of expect. It was a deep shot that he kind of overthrew him on. But you can tell it was still good vibes there. And Jayden is just, he's a great thing. Lasers, dude. Yeah. Lasers from the pocket, outside of the pocket. he takes off the run. He is so fast. He was like jogging past some of these linebackers and

DVs. They're cooking up something special up there at DC for sure. And having that rookie running back while Bill Kroski Merrick, number 22. We saw him go in there and one of the early highlights and go nuts after his first career touchdown. But it feels like they didn't have a consistent run game. You know, we've talked a lot about, you know, Brian Robinson, Jr., and he was great. But, I mean, he was averaging eight yards of pop. And he's extremely fast and can catch the ball out of the backfield. Like before it was Brian Robinson, Jr. Pair, and then maybe Echler, kind of that more out of the backfield guy.

This Bill Kroski-merit dude seems to have both of them, and he is unbelievable and has a great name. While Bill is certainly a good nickname, Bengals do something that's never been done before. Gee, yeah. Really? Complete an opportunity. Yep, got a win.

Amen. Yep, and I guess the Browns did what, I guess. Yeah. Browns have done. Browns have done. Cincinnati Bengals should have lost. Cleveland Browns, but instead they squeak out of there somehow with a win. Cincinnati Bengals get their first win to open season a long time, but none of them

are saying it was a good game. AJ, how's Ohio feeling about this battle of Ohio and Cleveland seemingly browning all over themselves? Yes, you are correct. So I am surrounded by Bengals and Browns fans, both. You know, they're both, everyone's die-hard, like, family fans. The Bengals are Browns where I'm at, and the Browns fans are all saying, yeah, here we go, it's just same old Browns. It's kind of what we do. This is This is what happens to us. And the Bengals fans are saying, that's a great, great, gritty week one.

We found a way to win. I would certainly spin it that way as well. And if I'm, uh, Zach over there, I'm trying to spin that in the cases. Well, tough game. Yeah. Tough game got out of week one with the win. It's going to be tough.

Always going to get, always going to get an AFC North win. This is Ohio. This one, it's always going to be tough. And also, we got a lot to go through. I mean, seven yards of offense in the second half and still win somehow. That's crazy. And the Cleveland Brown fans. Are just, yeah, incredibly athletic.

Two of them. To that point, new D.C. over there. So, congrats to them having a great game. And congrats to us having Lou Anirumo. I am so thankful that he is with the Indianapolis coach, which leads to the next conversation, AJ. Yeah. Say it.

It's real. I followed along your excitement on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it. Yep. Yeah. I mean, the Colts are early leaders in the clubhouse to win the Super Bowl, I would say. Let's not ever react. Okay. It's only a second quarter of the first game.

Pretty level-headed. Thank you. You're not the only ones. Austin Cully, okay? He's now a money manager. Okay. Level-headed individual. Has to be.

He quotes, tweet, sisters, say, nope, it's not an overreaction. We are winning a Super Bowl. It looked different. It really did. And I know everybody else's angle is, wow, these dolphins are the worst team ever. And that might be true.

I hope not. I don't think it is. I hope it's not for the sake of the Indianapolis. Colts. That is literally why I hope that. But if the Miami Dolphins are a professional football team, which we assume they will be, okay? At some point, we assume they will be. The Colts looks so good in all facets. I mean, just no punts, obviously. Great coverage. Hey, Schrader hits a monster field goals. Spencer Schrader are a kicker this year. It's going to be very, very good for us, I think. He needs to work on his kickoff. Hey, Bob, let's go. We need to work

on those kickoffs. A lot of people. Hey, the kickoff is a new weapon. That 35, yard line start is tough, but also you can't just chip it to the 10 or the 11 and have them start at the 11, either full speed. That's not a, like getting good at those kicks is a big deal. Shrader has such a strong leg. I think he's going to be good at that. I think if you're good at that, I think it's going to win a game. I think it's going to win a playoff game. I think it's going to win a big game. This whole landing zone situation, drive start average conversation. But the Colts looked very good, AJ. Bynum, he's the guy. This guy is the guy, AJ. The defense looked unbelievable. I mean, I have a hard time not talking about Tyler Warren. There's a baldy breakdown already on Tyler Warren. We know that. Like, this guy is killing it. But if the Colts can put this together, didn't they already say, hey, there's new sheriffs in town, right?

Here we go. We are back. Like, this is a different world now. We have, you know, we're going to lock it down the back end. Any great defense when the D.Bs, like the safeties and corners, when they are playing at a super high level. And I like when they're outspoken, too. You've got to have a little bit of ego about you.

You've got to be very, very confident as a DB. And I feel like the Colts are doing that right now. through week one. Now, AJ, the reason why I wanted you to highlight the defense is because of how damn great you were a defense in the NFL, you know, a player, professional. Yeah, that's right. You're a national champion player. National champion player.

Want to do that. But also because we had a chance to catch up with Danny Dimes earlier today and we talked a lot about the offense. I think he's going to come across as a guy that's charming. Yeah. Funny. Likeable. I know he had an NFL record.

You know, he was historic there for a bit until Josh Allen had the fourth quarter. that he had. But Danny Dimes, Indianapolis, we got a chance to catch up with them this morning, fresh out of a massive win. Mr. Dimes, what up, dude? Yo, what up? How are we doing? Hey, we're great.

Hey, we are fucking great. Don't you ever, don't you worry about that. We are in a great spot. First of all, congratulations. Hell you. Thank you. We're gonna get right into it here. Whenever you came to Indianapolis,

I had the incredible opportunity to have a little dinner with you. And one of the great the greatest autores of all time, Mr. Berg. And it was very evident when I was speaking to you that you liked this Indianapolis Colts team. I think like you had heard about maybe me having some beef with the locker room or whatever.

And I said, yeah, I just don't know if we got dogs. You started rattling off names immediately on the offensive side that you liked and on the defensive side that you liked. And obviously there was a competition with you and Anthony Richardson was very public, but it felt like you all handled it perfectly. at what moment did you feel like, hey, this could be a really good home for me in my style of play with Shane Steichen.

Was that immediately? Is that why you signed here? Or was there like a time throughout this entire process where you really felt that? I think I had a good idea, you know, making the decision to come here. There's a lot, a lot here, like you said, a lot of good pieces, a strong, strong team, strong up front, strong in the skill positions. And then, yeah, you know, Shane's system, what he does, the moving the quarterback, the RPO game, the dropback game, you know, all that stuff, I think, was something I was excited to be a part of. And probably sometime during camp, you kind of felt it coming together and getting more and more comfortable with all this stuff. But, yeah, I've enjoyed working with him.

We didn't see a lot of positive whenever you're a name the starter. And for Colts fans, it's because since Luck retired, we've been searching for a quarterback. So whenever you spend the number four overall pick on a guy who has immense upside, everybody was hoping that, that was going to be our guy. Then in comes Danny Dimes, okay, from the New York Giants, and then a stop with the Minnesota Vikings. And it's like Colts fans, I think, naturally we're hoping that the number four overall pick would win the job.

But instead, everybody that was watching said you clearly were the leader of that team. Did you hear all the outside noise, the reaction? I mean, the athletic put out a poll that was like, what, 93% negative or something? Internet pollers were 93%. Now, I didn't vote on that. I would have been optimistic. Appreciate that. I'm on your side. I would be on your side.

But that was like a real thing. Did you hear that? Did you feel that? And how do you kind of distract or keep away from all that? I did not know about the poll, but I mean, I definitely realized the public, the media, the press has, you know, is not in my favor. It has not been in my favor. And, you know, that's part of it. We didn't win enough games in New York. And I didn't play well enough. So that comes with it. But, you know, I think you're aware of it. you know at this day and age you can't you can't completely uh block it out but you try to as best you can and stay focused on on what you're doing so that's what i tried to do and i think uh you know

i think the team does a good job of that here um you know just kind of focusing on on football and what's the most important i love what you guys did yesterday okay i was talking to some people in the building that i know and i'm like how do we feel nobody really knows anything about your team the only thing is the negative drama there's a bunch of bullshit going on so i asked some guys in the building, you know, over the past couple of days because there was a lot of events happening for Mr. Ursay going into the Ring of Honor. Shout out to you getting a big time dub for him and that day being absolutely perfect. But everybody in the building's like, hey, we got a team, man. Like we got a really good team. We should kill the Miami Dolphia. That is what was being

said by the people that aren't football players or coaches, but people in the building is like, hey, we have a good team. Yesterday was awesome. It's the first time that the first three drives have been scoring drives since 2006 to start a season for the Indianapolis Colts. Obviously, we lost 11 straight season openers, and then just the vibe in that building was just positive, literally from the jump. At what point did you think, hey, our offense can kind of do whatever we want to do right now? And at what point during camp, did you know that the defense was going to be legit? Cam Bynum obviously has a massive day. DeForest Buckner does his thing.

Zayorier is getting tackled. all over the place and penalties, but whenever we talk about the Colts, it's very rare that we talk about a dominant defense. And it felt like they were that yesterday. In camp, you knew that was going to be the case? When did you really see this defense being real? I would say pretty early on, you know, the first three or four days of camp, to be honest, I'd say they got after us pretty good on defense. You realize they were, you know, and that's kind of sometimes the way it is with offense and defense clicking and sometimes, you know, how that works during camp. But they were from the jump, they were making plays. You could see the

guys all over the field. And, you know, what Lou does on defense, I think is tough for a lot of offenses. He's got pressures. He's got different coverages. He's got all, you know, kind of mix it up on on guys and keep them guessing. But they got a lot of playmakers over there. I think we realized that pretty quick early on in camp. That was Laatu Latu, a number of our first round pick who's a pass rusher dropping into coverage at nowhere. There's no way. Chris Ballard laughing while I'm saying that because of how offensive heavy that particular draft was. But him dropping into coverage, like Tua, never.

I don't think that guy was ever in coverage last year. I don't think there was one time where he was 10 to 15 yards off the ball and then snags that thing out of the sky. It's like, that was awesome. They were hunting. You guys were methodically moving that ball down the field. And that is something that we have not had a lot of opportunity to celebrate. There's always been flashes, but there's never been, like, sustained success on the offensive side of the ball. Feels like the run game's great.

Feels like you got weapons outside. You spinning it better than you've ever spun it in your life? Or do you think you just don't get enough credit for how you throw? I feel like I'm throwing it well. I don't know. I mean, I think, you know, it's about where you throw it. you know, yeah, I feel like I'm throwing it well and how much credit I'm getting for it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't really think too much of that. We got a lot of open guys.

We had time to throw. It was fun yesterday. But good start for us. We got to keep it rolling, though. And let's talk about that guy, Tyler Warren. He is a house. They were showing him during the national anthem. He's a dog, yes. It appears we saw him get definitely concussed. Without a doubt. Without it against Penn State against Notre Dame. Yes. So cold. his head through the turf, like a full whip through the turf. And he just got his ass right up and just jogged right back on the field and continue to make plays. And when he showed his face in a national anthem, he's a Sasquatch. He's hairy and he is a Sasquatch.

And he gets on the field. He's a playmaker. He might be the best player at all football. Go ahead, Tom. Yeah, Mr. Dimes. I saw he was your leading target getter yesterday. I think with nine, he had seven catches. Is it just like impossible not to look down the field and be like, oh, that's

6-8 guy has a mismatch against everyone on the field. Pretty much. Yeah, he's a heck of a player. You know, tough as crap and always makes the play. You know, I think you just feel for space. I mean, you see on some of these highlights, he's feeling the where the defense is, the overlap, he's feeling the space underneath and selling him down the right spot. This play right here, he catches it immediately, gets upfield, he gets 12 yards on a play that should be a minus two play.

You know, I think stuff like that, that, you know, it's just, it's just an interesting. It's a football player stuff. He's a, he's just a good football player. Yes, he is. Yeah, they even go up and doing a little bit of a little bit of a draw, a little bit of a dive at fullback there. Go ahead, pal. I do, man, hey, Dan, great, great game yesterday.

I just want to ask about the game plan specifically. I know every week to week the matchup is going to be different. What type of input do you have with Shane when it comes to game plan-wise? Because to me, from the start, it was very evident that you could. guys wanted to use your arm and open up, be a pass heavy, at least early on in your offense. So what's that input like throughout the week with Shane? Why are you putting it together? Yeah, we communicate a lot, try to watch, you know, watch a lot of tape. And, you know, it's him, it's Jim Bob, it's Tanning, all those guys are putting together the plan in the

past game. The guys up front do a great job with the run games. So, you know, I'm, you know, when I have an idea, you know, talking it, talking through it and seeing what they think. But You know, it's, yeah, it's been a collaborative process. I think we saw some things we thought we could do in the past game, you know, and a lot of those things converted. But I thought we had a really good plan going in. The guys up front, I think when you look at that defense, it's a strong front. You know, they got good edge rushers, good guys inside, and we knew that would be, you know,

a big part of the game. The guys handled them really well. Great run game yesterday. The Dimes dive era is in full effect. It is a 100 percenter. Okay. No questions asked. Let's go.

There's actually, we get down into the red zone again for his second Dimes Dive, touchdown right here. And the first time we get stuffed, okay? And I'm literally screaming to Shane, who is 30 yards away from me on his sideline. Just call it. Just give it to them. Just do the Dimes Dive. It is you're bigger, stronger, and faster than anybody thinks.

Legit. And also, it feels like you tell Shane Stuyken, hey, I want to get a helmet-to-helmet hit. Okay, at some point. I need a helmet-to-helmet hit a little bit early. This is bullshit. I got a hit pretty good there. Yes, you did. You kind of came out of nowhere.

Yeah, I thought I had a little more space than I did, but that was a good, like, welcome to the season hit right there. Yeah, it was five, it was like 10 yards in front of us. Foxy actually got, like, a great shot of it on his camera. 4K of you just getting absolutely obliterated. That's from the Dimes dive. So there was a time of you just getting absolutely. obliterated in that call. No call, no nothing. It's like any other quarterback in the league

other than rookies, probably getting that call. Popped up, though. Yeah, instead, all we get is dimes just going, oh shit, tighten that thing up and just jogging away. Yeah, it was awesome, man. It was a lot of fun to watch. A lot of people saying that your journey is potentially why you are the quarterback that you are right now. And we've seen this with other guys in the past where they have to go somewhere and then they end up finding a home i want to let you know this feels like a great place for you brother and uh it was fun to what a lot of shit to do left okay hey you haven't won shit okay but yeah with that being said there is that was yesterday's buzz was awesome in that building go ahead con man yeah danny we talked to kevin o'connell a lot and when we have him on he was raving

about you last year and just about when you joined the team how big of a pro you were and things of that nature. What did you take away from Minnesota that you've kind of carried into the offseason and now week one? Because I mean, shit, you said it. That was the best you've thrown the ball. It's the best you feel like you've thrown the ball.

You were unbelievable yesterday. Watching that Colts game was, that was the best game that that stadium has seen out of the Colts in a long long time. Listen, I don't want to stress this too much with Connor. We're standing in that stadium. It was a great time. It was crazy. Yeah. The whole time.

usually it's like you gotta drum up a little bit of energy that place was like and Bynum we're talking every play Bynum is every single play like this Love that It was

How about that dance on? Can you do that dance? No I can't put I'm not explosive enough I'm not explosive enough I think you can do it The ending of that dance is actually Pretty crazy after the Kip up Yeah

And then into the pop-p-law Can you do it does? Yeah do you try that? Absolutely not. No, no, no, I don't think so. I didn't see any cool dances out of you yesterday. Not yet. I didn't. I'm not much of a dancer. Really? You're going to score 32 touchdowns this year,

so Bynum should probably give you a couple celebration ideas. I'm sure you guys could collab a little bit. You should do the whitest, most Caucasian thing of all time after. Maybe you just shake the hand of the ref and just hand the ball and then just walk it away. But let's talk about KOC a little bit. How much was the Vikings, like, a confidence boost? for you maybe, or a reset for you? How do you kind of view that and how do you view KOC?

Yeah, I think just being around Kevin, being around Josh McCown, Grant Udinski, those guys there, I learned a lot from them. I think the biggest thing I took away from there was just the preparation, how detailed they were in the game plan, you know, how much they, you know, prepare for certain looks, checks they had, motions to undress the defense, you know, every little thing they were going over they were talking through they were walking through they were you know discussions about it was you know very very detailed high level here's what we're expecting here's what we're going to do to it you know and the preparation day to day throughout the week was was really you know impressive to me

just just the level of detail that they had so yeah I think being around those guys and seeing that being able to watch watch Sam prepare and how they prepared him to me was was really impressive I love that you brought it here so everything we need you. That is literally everything we absolutely need. The building loves you too, man, which is a cool thing. I think you're just like, especially when we had Peyton, Andrew, you know, and obviously you with Peyton, the Manning's coach, Cotcliffe. Coughcliff there, yeah, and all the ties on draft night and everything like that. It's like you just felt like very much in command, felt like nothing was too big, everybody obviously respected you,

and you got dropped in here in, obviously, an interesting. situation personally for you. I couldn't even imagine what it would be like with everything going from New York City all the way to Minnesota. Then you come to Indy, win the starting job after multiple teams wanted you. And all, obviously you didn't hear this. I'm breaking a bad news to you now. Everybody was like, that's a bad decision. That is not how it goes. It's like having to do all that, man. And then for you still to just be like, I don't want to say bulletproof, but unfazed by it, that's a special trait that only NFL starting quarterbacks have. So we're very lucky that you're here. I appreciate it. On that note. Thank you.

This place is going to love you for a long time. I also have like four houses floating around if you need anything. Go ahead, time. There you go. Yeah, Daniel, you've been in Indianapolis for a couple months now. Are you starting to kind of realize, like, wow, this really isn't that much different than New York City in terms of stuff to do, restaurants, you know, nightlife, all that kind of stuff. But honestly, and not saying you were doing all that shit when you were in New York, but when you get to a place like Indianapolis, does it kind of make it easier to realize, like, oh, okay, like I can just focus on football. because even if I'm not doing all that other stuff,

like those distractions just aren't here, unless you want to go to, like, a movie and, you know, go to McDonald's. It's a little bit different than a Saturday night in New York. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I think, yeah, it is in a lot of ways. It's about football here. But the people have been great.

I've really enjoyed being here and, you know, getting to know a lot of these fans and the people in the area, but very different feel from being in New York and right across from the city for sure. But I've enjoyed it. It's about ball here, and we've got a team that kind of all thinks the same way. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Got a fan base. You think the same damn thing. Yeah, we'll let you know that. We appreciate the hell out of you. Good luck the rest of the way. And remember, week one doesn't mean a damn thing, does it? That's right.

Oh, he's everything. We know that. We know that good, yeah. Morning and out, baby. Unless you know. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, week one means a lot for the dolphins.

And that, I think that's not being talked about enough is how good you guys are. Like, I think that is kind of missing in conversation. We can't wait to watch you. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Don. Yeah, we appreciate it. Bye, baby, Dan, I'm serious about selling him a house. He's in his seventh year.

Is that what it is? Yes. Yeah, I think he's in a seventh year. Quarterbacks definitely have 17-year careers. Talk about a decade here, maybe. You're talking about maybe just. owning this role in this job for these Indianapolis Colts and uh it was awesome dude I'm telling you I don't want to say overreact okay I don't want to do that might have been underreacting to be

honest we'll see how the story kind of plays out in its entirety everything looked good his throws were like he was throwing the spots you know he was very much having great chemistry with his wide receivers which make you wonder like if you would have got all the reps in training camp how much further would we are we are we only at the beginning of this entire relationship because he was in a competition so he was only getting half the amount of reps half the amount of everything it's like it feels like as you're watching it and it's all going well it's like we're at the very beginning of this this is still there's still so much room to grow and uh i think that's possible for us that's how a lot of fans feel obviously

after week one 16 uh fan groups feel that way other than maybe nah since he for sure since he yeah but he just said gritty win yeah and plus you know like you know like you know they're going to be all right. You got Joe, bro, you got Jemar Chase, you got T. Like, they're going to score point. But for the Colts, I think we didn't know. I think Colts fans had no idea what it was going to look like. And then we see it and they're like, wait, this is much better than what we've been seeing over the last five years. This might be the, Gardner Minshu, love. Love Garder Minchew. Sure. Gardner Manchu almost took the Indianapolis Colts to an AFC South championship and to the playoffs. One play away.

He should. Gardner Manchu was in the Pro Bowl with the Shane Steak in offense. And it was like we've seen that and I think what yesterday was was way better than that team way better than at all. Shane Steakin got the head coaching job because he's this offensive guru, he's this wizard, he's able to do things and it's like Daniel Jones I think understands the offense and he's making the checks and putting him in the right play making the right decisions it's like this offense has been unlocked and then let's not even talk about Lou Anirumo coming over here with weapons Lou Aniruma when he was at the Bengals they didn't really invest in any defensive players

invest in many of anything but Lou Anirumo highs on greatness. They've invested in players for them on the defensive side. Top picks on that defense side of the ball. A lot of money on that defense side of the ball. So although the national narrative might have been negative, and I guess there were some online fans that were voting negative, if you watch this team over the last couple of years, you think there's good players. Jim Mersay has spent a lot of money on this team. There's a lot of good players on this team. Just for one of it looked like they unlocked that. It did. And it didn't look, you know, gimmicky. Sometimes you can look at the score.

Okay, you got a tip ball here or a strip set. Somebody picked. a block punt you score like it was just full operation and we knew the weakness coming in for this dolphin's defense was definitely in the secondary so when you have a team and you have an offense they can say okay they got a weak secondary we got good weapons let's see if we have a good quarterback and you go out there and actually execute and the quarterback has a complete understanding of the offense he was comfortable from the beginning coming into the season it was like okay dan jones take care of the ball run the football defense you guys play great but when you have when you come out here you have a start like this now who knows

what the Dolphins go on to be. Maybe they are just a shitty, shitty, shitty, shitty team. Maybe it worst ball time. Maybe 19702, only undefeated team. And maybe 2025, only 17 game completely defeated team. Possible. 16 teams is possible. But you can respond to it to a set.

Hey, how do we respond? And we all remember that blowout when the Broncos got 70 put on them by the dolphins and then they responded. So we'll see how to respond. It's a long season, but love what we saw from the Colts. And then you mentioned, Chris Ballett finally opening that checkbook and going to get some big-time players, going to get one of the top safeties on the market can bind him,

going to get Ward, big-time quarterback in the league for a long, long time. And you see a guy like Kenny Moore when you have players like that around you, now you can play better. Nick Cross got involved. He got a nice sackling. So, yeah, Big Lou bringing his defense here with these new weapons. He's having a fresh start because they ran him out of sentencing as well. Like, loved everything I saw from this coach team on all phases.

Well, and that's the thing, too. You can say the Dolphins' defense isn't good for sure. The Dolphins' offense is good. They have Tyree Kill, who's voted the number one player two years ago. They have Waddle, who they paid. They have A. Chan, who's good. Tua, he's been paid. Now, did people figure out the Mike McDaniel gimmick bullshit?

There's a chance because everyone's running. That's the one. There's a chance. Everyone's running the stuff to the left and to the right, but more so with the Colts. They never melted, which was nice. Like, we've seen the Colts play well in spurred. like a quarter or a half, but then they shit down their leg,

then they call some gimmick bullshit that doesn't work, and it's like, okay, well, what the hell are you doing, Stuyken? There's no point to do shit like this. Like, that didn't exist, which was nice. It just feels like the gimmick, maybe screw up, shit down their leg, and maybe that is a Dan Jones thing

where Dan Jones isn't gonna, you know, try and break up. He looked like you didn't have a pulse yesterday. You know how Tomlin said about Boss being a serial killer? that's how Danny Dimes scored that touchdown like super fought like fought through it then just like got up all right and then just like headbutting all his teammates

the work boys and just jogged off the field it was like getting a play call later or whatever just no worries introduced they were introduced as a team it wasn't offense or defense introductions it was team introductions I said hold the phone yeah that's what I said that was my exact thoughts and I don't think I realized it was happening

no so the team normally runs out first to create the tunnel for everybody else. You know, the other half, whoever's not starting. And then they do the intros. First game day ops, new video, sick, sick video, new game ops, everything's very good. And then the team comes running out. You know, the Lucasol motorcycle comes flying out there with a sidecar. I didn't know that it's like a prize, it's a new person in sidecar. It makes sense leading the way. You got blue doing the entire thing. Then big portion of the Colts come out, okay? And it's like, all right, now what are they doing for the starters? And I

saw, I think I saw a Zaire sprint out. I was like, okay, so the offense must be getting introduced or whatever. And I even look at Boston Corner, I go, is Danny Don getting introed last? Or is Jonathan Taylor? It's got to be Jonathan Taylor. We all agreed, got to be Jonathan Taylor. Then we look out and we start seeing

like offensive linemen that we know running, and it's like they just introduced the whole yop, love everything about this. It's, uh, go ahead. We got a flyover? Two of them. Yeah. Roof was open? To roof open.

that looks same scoreboard or not fun stat uh same scoreboard fun stat flyover's insane always awesome always gonna hit uh love everything about it two of them f18s i do believe coming over here thought they were gonna come length up field same we all thought they were gonna come i thought Connor missed it actually because they came across and he was under a little bit of a little bit of hangar uh but whatever the case i got lucky i actually like was looking for the vertical but it only lasted a second because it was just the horse side yeah and by way they slice that thing nice you can hear him hope you can hear him in the Eastern Church Choir from the National anthem.

They did the national anthem. On the screen, I go, oh shit, this is the, this is from the funeral. They are very good. And they made a great Jim Ursey video, tribute video, that Tony Dungee and it was very good. But the team getting introduced was awesome. Yes, and the roof and the window were open.

You know, Jim, and I learned that the night before from Pete Ward, who's been the president of the Colts for a long time, came over. I believe him and Jim, actually, their first year working for the Baltimore Ravens. They shared in office. at training camp, you know? And he was, like, scared to death that he was with the owner's son. And what happened is they end up becoming, like, brothers. And Pete Ward has been with Jim

through absolutely everything. And Pete Ward has had to handle everything. You know, like, this is, this is real deal here, how long Pete's been around. And he told me, uh, Saturday night, there was a little gathering downtown, a couple cocktails. It was good to see everybody. Pete comes up to me, he goes, you know, the window and roof are going to be open tomorrow. And I go, you love that shit, Pete. That's why I said to him. He goes, did you know, your average was longer whenever the roof and the window were open than whenever it was closed

and I said no way he goes I looked it up because of everything you would say to me whenever I would tell you that we were either opening it or closing it and I said who helped you and he goes yeah I looked up every single game I said well how was Vinny's field goal stats because I'm fighting for the team not just myself

you know I'm mad for Vinny as well and he goes well I didn't look that up I looked you up but next time I see him I bet he's going to go Adam Venetary 94% with the window in the group of it was amazing yeah it's like

celebrating the Ursa family in the Colts this weekend was cool because it's such a small group of people that are really doing it and they've all been around for so long and listening to them talk about this particular team it's cool it is like a very very cool thing to hear how

not only how Carly Kalin and Casey who they've all known since they were very young how they've just like taken over and they've kind of had to be put in a position that they knew was coming for a long time. Yeah. But like actually having to do it the way they're operating, it's like vibes are immaculate right now around the courts. Like Peyton Manning gave a little half-time speech and then he introduced Carly for her to give, you know, the gym, or say, induction into the ring of honor. That was incredible too. Dallas

Clark, he wears pants that don't fit him, which was one of my favorite parts. No pants will fit him. This dude squatting three times a week. His quads are gigantic. Sue him. He wears tight pants. To be honest, I thought someone painted them on. That might have been skin paint. Yeah, I thought he wasn't actually wearing pants donning out because they were that tight. It was disgusting.

No, it wasn't, what are you talking about? I thought it was impressive. I mean, it was cool, like, oh, wow, this guy's got kegs for legs. But then you look up a little, it's like, geez, Louise. This guy's dogs in my face down. That's not true. That's not true. Dallas looked like a gentleman, and his quads are gigantic.

He is incredibly ripped. And it was great to see him and everybody. else the culture of the real deal a j that's where everybody needs to understand but are the packers as well we'll continue to debate that on the other side plus overreactions i don't know if the actions not perfect especially after watching the one second thing they did with dalton kinkade after the first the end of the first half where it's clearly like 15 seconds the game to the ground that definitely that's not yeah we'll see i mean there could be who knows what the delays where you know what i mean who knows because there's always some sort of sink sink issue going

on. Those are on the road shows on Friday have become pretty good, like pretty... Yeah, they're technically sound. Certainly much better than last year. Yeah, it looks far. Those are always fun to deal with those ones on the road. Now, granted, everybody's working their ass off. Aides, so I've tacked a lot of this, a lot of that, a lot of

internet connections, also sending to here to there, there's a lot of shit involved. I forget who did the stand-up joke. Somebody was mad about, like, the wait time. Might have been Bill Burr. And their phones going to a fucking satellite. light in the sky. It's coming back down. You're upset about having to wait for

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Let's please knock on some wood here. The only piece is just that little delay that you have to deal with. Shout out barcode and the team, though. They're doing a great job. Yeah, they've really worked their asses off. Chad's over there, too, I believe. When we do have a problem, it's crazy because every time with tech, the solution is the dumbest thing in the world. Like, we had a problem with the talkback stuff.

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is the greatest. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to talk about it for a living. That is A.J. Hawk. Wow, AJ, you look good, Bob. You look good over there. You look great.

You guys all look great. Well, we appreciate that. But you do. He popped up on a screen. We said, oh, yeah, this guy's in the middle of a new haircut. Oh, yeah, it is. People talk about J.J. Watts' hair.

I don't know if you saw the tweets talking about being feathery and layered. I think he did it right. And obviously him and Cous that he's calling him with quite a height, disparaged. Iron Eagle. Eye and Eagle there.

I mean, one's, you He's an absolute monster. Get him a box. Jay is a monster. Hey, and some of those old stadiums would have been great because I think he's actually calling game like this in some of those stadiums with the way some of those booths are for everything.

His hair looks great. I think he called the game very well. I think it was a great game for him to call. A lot of action, too. I'm pumped for JJ's start. We'll talk to him on Wednesday. The toxic table is here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt.

One half of the hammer, Down! Cowboys AP Tone is here in a nine-year NFL vet. Darius Jay Butler is here. everything D.B. Good, D. Bad, D. Back for another season. Can't wait to dive into all of that. We had some good defensive performances around the league, I think, right?

We did. We had some great defensive plays, great performances overall. I can't wait to dive into it. Were the Broncos great defense? They're pretty good. They're pretty solid. Yeah. Rookie quarterback, you know, you expect a defense like that to show up and show out. That game kind of stunk. We didn't really talk about that.

Also, Card Saints game kind of stunk. We didn't really talk about that. Those Saints jerseys. Those are shite. They came stung for us, but it didn't stink as much as Cam Ward's dad thought it stunk. Yeah, if that was his dad, we all saw the video on the internet of his dad getting up from the seat going over the handle rail and just putting his head down and then turn him back around. We all saw the video. We don't know if that was necessarily him, but he was certainly at a point of, come on, boys.

What are we doing here? And then, you know, coach saying, potentially not rules. I don't know if any of us know rules, I guess. of rules so many rules what's in what's out what's out is an elbow count is good if one foot you know what all do you need there's that whole situation but saints cards broncos titans kind of two games we didn't really dive into and i think for all four fan bases for the betterment of everybody and they understand yeah i think so yeah was there any was there maybe next week yeah maybe next week a lot of games left a lot of games left congrats of broncos

get a big time with. Yeah. Congrats to the cards. Get a big time win. That's right. Congrats to those two getting out of their 1 and 0. Yeah, that's all you need. As opposed to be completely duffeated.

Now, the other teams are wondering himself. All right, well, what's your sure? Yeah. There's a little bit of that going on for some people. But no, it's a long season, and even the shite teams are going to steal a win. Maybe. Maybe. Now, let's go to some overreactions.

What do you think, AJ? I can't wait. I bet there are some good ones today. Yeah, I think so, too. I felt like there was a lot of pent up energy through the off season, a lot of thoughts. coming into the season, and then whenever that particular game plays out the way that you thought it was going to in the mostly negative fashion, like I heard Gumpy yesterday say like 10 different times, oh, it turns out all of our actual feelings about the team were right. Yeah, all of our

actual thoughts and concerns were good concerns because they are concerning watching them play football. Ain't that right, Gumpy? That was kind of your realization. Yeah, it looked as bad as it possibly could have. And that was in the moment. That was at halftime. I couldn't even imagine what some of these fans could think of overnight. Ladies and gentlemen, I put a tweet out saying, hey, I want to hear your thoughts on your team. All you have to do is put the hashtag, I don't want to overreact. But what's the number one trend? Ty scanned through the mall.

Ty, you said there were some good ones in there. Yeah, there's definitely, I mean, as to be expected. You know, people have been waiting to do this to just unleash on their team or say we're going to win the Super Bowl for quite some time. So there were some really good ones. Great morning on the internet. Let's go to the first one for Omar, Boston Corner. I don't want to overreact it, but there's a chance we are entering into the NFL's golden era of primetime football. Last night was week one.

It was a 15.4th quarter, under four-minute comeback. It's going to be the best season yet. Hell yeah, Connor. I don't think that's overreaction. I think that's reading what's happening in understanding the future, brother. Yeah, very excited. Thursday night was fantastic up until that weather delay. That's going to throw a wrench in it.

You can't really qualify everything after that. Just thinking about the football you saw before it, top tier. Then you go to Friday, Justin Herbert, Patrick Mahomes, Mahomes. is running wild. Herbert played unbelievable. Last night was last night. Tonight, maybe you're not as excited as all the other primetime games, and that's okay just because it's a lot of question marks.

Enjoy that. Enjoy the, hey, I don't know what I'm going to get with J.J. McCarthy tonight. This is first NFL game. Hey, guess we're going to know what you're going to get with Justin Jefferson. He's going to do something unbelievable. Caleb Williams, I don't know what I'm going to get. Hey, guess what? He might suck. It's going to be freaking hilarious if he does. Enjoy that. If he's good, that's going to

be just as cool. And if the game sucks, shit. We've got to wait a couple days. Guess what we're waiting for? Guys, you know what's on Thursday? I don't know. Commanders, Packers. I mean, you've got to be kidding. The prime time, this might be the year where every single game

in primetime delivers, I'm juiced. Yeah, because every once in a while, we'll run into a little bit of a wall in the season. And we start to wonder, has the NFL lost its fastball? Are they not able to project ahead of time what teams are going to be good so that we have good games? But now it's start this season, AJ,

both college and NFL, feels like, we got some good ball in this season. Maybe the best year of all time, AJ. Oh, it's setting up to be the best season of all time. No question. I mean, Packers, Commanders, you serious on Thursday? Micah gets a little bit more into the game plan. And we get to see both, too, like, who is truly legit,

who backs up what they did week one, I guess. We'll do our selections, you know, on Thursday for Thursday night and then on Friday. We both, you know, not bad for first week, H. You need to know that. I don't know if I did great. What did I do? Not bad, dude, 500. Five hundred.

You're seeing it. You're seeing the field. I'll tell you, well, I might be. I might be. Not with that being said, I waffled on four or five of these picks, and I think they all want the right way. There's certainly a time where you're going to waffle and they're going to go the wrong way.

Yeah. And shout out to us getting the best line to, AJ. We'll continue to do that all season. But you're at 500 week one, we should be happy about. Me above 500 week one, I'm happy about it. We are, let's keep, you know, maybe our overreaction is, holy shit might be the greatest NFL season of all the time. Might be out here, AJ.

This is good news. Because there's been some times where both of us have started, you know, three for in that thing. I think I've won one or two games before early in the season, no question. Yeah, because who knows what we're looking at? Nobody knows. It's hard. And early on the games. Like the Giants.

And they've been great. Go ahead. Sorry. I took a shot in the Giants at plus six, and we had a lot of hope coming out of camp with them, didn't we? We felt like everything was good. And, yeah, unfortunately, it didn't happen. Well, that sounds like an overreaction error from him after one game saying the Giants might be dead. You know, Russell, I didn't even have a start.

Let's go to the next overreaction from Ty. hashtag I don't want to ever react but it's destiny written in the stars Jordan Love looked exceptional and yes Micah Parsons with a limited snap count had a massive impact on the game

C in Santa Clara hashtag Go Pack Go hashtag Kings of the North Is everybody saying it? Great hashtag usage Even anytime there's a little emblem Everytime you can get the emblem in there Yeah because that's just a little pizzazz

Yeah it is very neat Yeah it is very neat Is this how every Packers fan feel? Yes. Michael Parsons gets traded to you guys. You all think you're going to win a Super Bowl. And then first game goes the way it goes against a Detroit Lions team that is normally good against you guys. And you have your way with them. You guys feel great. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, I think everyone was still kind of, and no one knew how much Michael was actually going to play. So, you know, you were hopeful the whole time. But, yeah, had they done this against like the Bears or, you know, like another team that was like kind of on the fringe, hey, maybe you make the playoffs, it probably would have been a different reaction.

but doing it against a team that won 15 games last year and the team that, you know, is the king of the division right now. And it, I mean, it wasn't particularly close. Like, they thoroughly dominated that game. So, yeah, everyone is taking that, hey, we're going to win the Super Bowl, and now I think it's just amplified by like 100. Well, congratulations. Yeah, pretty good.

Right, for you so. Hey, that's Carmen Policies, boy. Head policy making that big time trade with Jerry bringing in the juice. That's what you do. You give up some assets. You bring in a difference maker. We all want guys that can change the math on defense and that's a guy that changed the math

not only for the guys he's lining up with on the same level, but those secondary guys. You're bringing the Micah Parsons. That's going to upgrade everyone on their back end. So you got that defense still wins championships. You obviously have an offense that can score. I don't think that's an overreaction, there are moments where, and we talked about this a little bit before,

there are moments where you forgot like Pena Sewell was on the field because of how good Micah Parsons is playing. They should. I would probably have to. Ben Johnson would have been giving him ball third quarter if things weren't going. Speaking of. Timmy Horton, calm.

It feels like the O.C. doesn't know football. What? Geez, that's an overreaction. Come on. Did Huss play? You wouldn't be able to tell. Hutch did play, okay? Did he?

He didn't look great. He's back from an injury. The whole pass rush didn't look great. I'm starting to think that. I'm starting to think that. That non-player, Peter Schroger, didn't know what he was talking about about the line. I'm starting to think, hold on.

Or there might be a, for the next 20 years, the number one seed in the NFC might go through the NFC North. But shit, he might not be, you know, MCDs. He's quarterback. Oh, yeah? It might be, you know, Green Bay or Minnesota we might see tonight. J.J. McCarthy looks good. We're talking about the Lions being the third best team in their division again.

Holy shit. What if Caleb Briggs? Oh, man, don't know. We can't go there. We can't, or we can. They're all the other lions. I mean, they got Jared. The entire NFC.

They got Jared Gooflofsky. I'm seeing a lot of Joe Loflowski on the internet. Without Ben Johnson, we're looking at Jared Guvlovsky running out of the back of the end zone as Micah Parsons. I saw a lot of people saying that that's what it looked like. That was unfair, I think, for Jared Gosson. Yeah, just a bad. And the day and Orlovsky. Yes, thank you.

Pretty messed up? That is. That is. The internet's good, though. Yeah, where was J-M-O, too? We're just talking about Gouflovsky. He just got paid. Where was J-M-Roy?

Yeah, just getting paid counting their bills because they weren't catching their passes. I will say, a lot of people are saying, I know what's going on. I know you guys call Monty and Gibbs, Sonic and Knuckles. Some people are calling them ass in cheeks now. I don't like that. I do not like that. They were making. Cheap.

Who was that? That was a tweet? Yes, that was a tweet on the internet. Sonic and Moose knuckles. The internet is the greatest. The internet is the greatest. Who's the line's next opponent? The Bears.

They better show up. We're in a must-win situation right now. The Bears haven't even played. They might be the best. They might be. I'm a believer. Number one in the NFC, what Connor was alluding to, is number four. NFC North.

Jeez, Louise. That might be the G's Louise moment of the weekend. I'm sorry, Lions fans feel that way. Jeez, it sucks. I mean, but that's the thing. You know, everybody wants to be the Patriots. It's hard to be good for that long, man. You know, the Lions just, they're just going to be one of those flashing the pans.

Oh, no. I don't know. That's an overreaction. I never saw Bill in a fucking Chili's commercial. It's a couple of Applebee. Triple Denver? Actually, but that is weird

because the moment it all started going down hill you could argue was when Bill Belichick appeared in that Subway commercial, bad,

Bush. Sat down on that bench. Is it true MCDC isn't letting Texas A&M scout? Or is that? That's fake. Is it true MCDC made

the boys run sprints on Lambo? No, without frame Brown and Syracuse. All right, let's go to the next overreaction or maybe not. This is from

Frankie Maroldo. Hashtag I don't overreact. but Benstonium incredible graphic designer video editor you name it out of Pittsburgh and he created a Netflix docu series about

Chris Boswell being a serial killer and that is because Mike Tomlin had this to say about the Wizard of Boss who's been on a heater for the Pittsburgh Steelers for about a decade or so I can't say enough about boss

and our kicker is a serial killer man he's he got a low pulse rate he can't wait to deliver that last line I think is the most important one he can't wait to deliver whenever you talk about kickers you know you talk about the mental capacity of it all the fact that Tomlin can feel the fact

that this dude wants to come out here and hit that that's what separates you know like Adam Venetary from like me or guys that weren't like great kickers but good kickers boss has been so good for so long Danny Smith is chewing on his gum with the light knowing that boss is there and there's a little bit

of a contract thing going on before the season with him, AJ. So the fact that he was able to block all that out and knock one of those home. And Tomlin describes him as a serial killer, which is a great compliment for a kicker. What if it's a Steelers year, AJ? What if it is the Steelers year? I mean, they sure look good to me, but going back to Boswell, it's true. Tomlin knows there's, we've all seen people, like say, I don't know, say you're running a drill in practice and there's a guy who's a monster who's killing everybody. And they're real slow to get an opponent versus that kid. You know, a lot of times no one wants to jump.

jump up and challenge that big kid. Boss seems like the kid that's going to be jumping to the front of the line going 10 times in a row trying to challenge himself against that biggest kid. So I'm sure Boss has said, I'll make it from 70. I don't care. You guys don't need to get any farther. Here we go. Let's go.

Wherever I'm out, I'm going to make that thing. And what an absolute weapon to have is your kicker to be that guy. I agree. There has to be something sort of incentive-based something coming, I would assume. Just pay him now. Kind of how they deal with Cam? Yeah, kind of the $3 million incentive base for Cam. I assume there'd be some...

Con artists at work. Yay, making a half, making them happy. He was walking off the field afterwards with Tomlin. Good a dude, though. All is good. Yeah, they're happy. Yeah, and then... It's all the man's pumped.

Would be hilarious headline. Chris Boswell signs new, four-year, blah, blah, blah, a million-dollar deal. The day after hitting a 60-yard game winner, that's out of a movie. Could do it? Should do it?

Would they? Or hold out. Oh, you think he says I'm not doing it anymore? No. Find somebody else to make a 60-yard game winner, coach. See you. That'd be so sweet. That would be the coolest thing ever.

If for one week, Boswell, was like, all right, Mike, I'm going to sit this one out. Let's see if you want to pay me now after, you need another guy to kick a 60 yarder to win. Now that happened up in Buffalo with Prater getting the job. Yeah. Prater, 41 years. Did he get there? Thursday. Thursday, yeah.

Get you dropped in there. And then hits a game winner. It's like, yeah, that's classic Prater, you know. And maybe if he was available, maybe that's who the Steelers would be able to call. But I don't know if Prater's just stepping in. hit a 60 and maybe actually. He would be the guy. Prater might be the only guy.

But the old K balls. Yeah, the original K balls back in the game was a big deal. Like these dudes are going to murder these footballs. Chris Boswell hit that 60-yard or that thing hit the net. That net at that stadium is far back too. Like it's hard to, you know, because some stadiums, the nets are very close to the uprights. So they're going to be a little bit higher on the thing, obviously, as you go through. Some of them are a little bit further back.

There's a little bit more space in between the upright and the stands. So it's like he murdered that ball, crushed it. I think if they would have lined him up for any distance, he's the type of guy that's going to make it. Like, it's going to be good enough. It's going to be far enough. I love boss. I like that he's getting love.

Hopefully he gets a little bit of cash out of this too. Yeah, let's not forget the 41-year-old quarterback. He started that drive on the 19-yard line and just had another notch on his belt for game-winning draft. Hello, Aaron Rogers, Pittsburgh Steelers. I was told that I was a fucking idiot for wanting him on my football team. What did Bruce Ariens say? Bruce Ariens said there are going to be in a lot of close games.

I don't think there's anybody I want with the two-minute other than Aaron Rogers. Isn't that what he said? That is exactly what he said. And I thought about it yesterday. Or Mike, McCarthy. It was McCarthy. Or, yeah, I thought about as that was happening yesterday, I was like, you know what? Things happen on the show all the time where people say stuff and then it happens.

And I was thinking of that during the game yesterday because I needed a lot of hope. Yeah, there's a lot of points being scored against Pittsburgh Steelers. They love it. They love it. But Mike McCarthy saying a lot of those games are going to be very close. And it's going to come down to Aaron in two minutes and he gets it down. Obviously, 60-yard field goes a long way. They lose two yards and the down right before that game.

But nonetheless, Pittsburgh Steelers win. Yenzers are jacked up. Now, they watch the Colts do what the Colts did, too. Say, no, there's levels today. Yeah, exactly. After week one. Let's go to the next overreaction. Speaking to that from Jonathan May at Jonathan May 2434,

hashtag I don't want to overreact, but... The Colts aren't just winning games. They're rewriting destiny. This squad looks ready to run the table. Go undefeated and bring the Lombardi back home for Jim Mersay. Forget movie magic. This isn't Indiana Jones on a big screen. This is real life.

Hell yeah, Jonathan May. This is real life. I don't think that's an overreaction at all. But what he's saying about not being Indiana Jones, I'm okay with it being Indiana Jones. If he needs to, you know, turn over every stone to figure whatever out needs it to be done to win a damn Super Bowl, I hope Indiana Jones gets to the bottom of it. I appreciate what Jonathan May is saying here at time.

Yeah, and there were a lot of people, you know, alluding to the Indiana Jones thing. So, you know, that's great, but maybe let's, let's not do that every single week. You're talking about us? No, no, I'm saying. You're talking about Debo? I'm saying literally every single overreaction had some sort of Indiana Jones, you know, play on words to it. But I'm already sick of it. But I was thinking about it.

And, like, when you put everything together from what the Colts had going on this week, like, I don't think it is an overreaction as a Colts fan to feel this way. Going in, that all that stuff comes out, like, okay, we're just going to suck again. People pissed about Daniel Jones. then that's on top of like the added pressure to go out there not just win but look good when they're honoring ursay and you have all these colts legends back there like can you imagine your mood or you're like how you would have been feeling if the colts a either lose that game but even if they if they win 21 20 like you're not coming in today the way you are when they just

beat the shit out of them leave no doubt look like one of the best teams in the league like if i'm a colts fan i think i really don't think this is an overreaction like you should feel this way until they give you a reason not to feel this way. We've had homecoming type games before where a lot of legends are in the building. Frini went in, I think it was big. Dallas went in, I think it was

good. Tarrick. Tark was big. They have those. This one, like everybody came to it, you know, because it was Jim. And having Reg, Marv, even the older OGs, Bill Brooks was there

and, you know, Peyton, obviously speaking, new ownership as well. Like, everything about it, like, was a big deal for the celebration of life for Jim Mersey in there. And you could feel it. And you're right. In years past, they would have lost those games. Like, when everybody's in the building,

it's like, all right, you know, let's get us out of here. These guys. Where they would have done something stupid or something like that. And instead, it's like they just play sound football and just beat the... I think there was a 14-play drive.

I think there was a 15 play drive. team play drive. I think there was like a 17 play drive. Anthony Calhoun tweeted about it. I forget the exact ones. But it was like they were just drumming Yeah. Efficient. The Miami Dolphins. Diled. And everybody's like I think there were some guys that potentially had their flights

scheduled for after the first quarter. Sure. You know, to potentially get out of town. And instead like, wait a minute. This is wait a minute. This feels a little bit different. Yeah, here it is. 14, 17, and 15 played drives during the game. Scored on every possession. First team to do that in forever, whatever the stat was.

I forget what it was. It's like, yeah, it was awesome in there, man. It really was. I hope we got bottled, and I hope we were drinking it all season. Yeah, we were. Was it a packed house? Yes. Well, that's good, because, you know,

sometimes that just shows that everything that's being said on the internet is exactly true, because if that was true, no one would have showed up for the game. Oh, yeah, you're right, 93% negativity. Yeah. Worst in a league. Was it a melon camp there? He was sitting around somewhere the whole time. in hum hangar i didn't see him i wouldn't be surprised though if he's not doing like a half

time or something at some point new playlist in there with the big three yeah it's changed i wouldn't be surprised if we might see someone else in there instead of that avenue who's that maybe like uh you know rosé although i don't know rickie ross is playing yesterday against the miami dolphins a lot of rickie ross yeah because i was i do like that i was i was in the suite looking out and i see gumpies dolphins tarp and his hat and then all on the field, all I see is Colts players dancing to Rick Ross. And I'm like, oh, so you knew right away. We just stole Rick Ross.

It feels like we are enjoying this lot more than you guys. Yeah, it was a lot of GZ in there, a lot of Ricky. Yeah, it was all new, though. That's different compared to what it was before. Yeah, there was also Jim Mersey's playlist. I think there was one of the bosses' playlist that had, like, he. His band? Yeah, I don't think any from his band were there.

It was all, like, just basically, like, sing along songs. school bangers. Yeah, old school banger. It was really good. It was really well done, I will say. They're not done with it yet, but there will actually be a building in the skyline, which will be cool through the window. Two cranes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's what Danny Dimes era has brought. Cranes to the city.

They are building a new mega hotel. It's like Tom and Tampa. Holy shit. Four seasons or what's that? Four seasons, Indy. I don't know. That's a good question. I forget it. J.W. Blue. Yeah. What's that? Fountain Blue. Fountain Blue, like Miami or something.

W? Maybe, because it's a massive, it is a massive space. Yeah, that's the thing about here. If we are to city develop, there's a lot of space and it's all flat, you know, so it's very easy to build as opposed to having to, you know. Could be the biggest red roof in the country. I was going to say it should make it the biggest red roof for Best Western, just to really, that'd be cool. Wasn't Holiday Inn kind of the standard whenever it comes to all those? Yeah, but they don't leave the light on for you? Yeah.

Who does that? Motel 6. Yeah, but Holiday Inn, doesn't they have the breakfast? What was theirs? Yeah, I stayed at a holiday inn last night. Yeah. Well, that was Holiday Express. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I mean. Spring Hill sweets. They got good continental breakfast. Turns out it. They do. They do. They have the eggs. Tons of eggs.

All the eggs. 38-story Cigna Hotel. Oh, Cigna's are nice. Signia coming at that time. It looks wonderful. It's not a holiday in or best western. No. It'd be cool.

How do you feel about Indiana Jones? Instead of Indiana Jones. Because his name is Danny. No, that's. Or Indiana. Indiana Dimes. Or Indy Jones, because Yeah, Indy Jones.

Yeah, instead of Indiana Jones, Indy Jones. Because it plays on Dan. It doesn't play as well. Young people know what Indiana Jones is. A new one just came out a year ago, so I think. With Harrison Ford?

I've seen them all, and what I like most about them is when they do the when he cracks his whip. Yeah, that's really cool. I also appreciate the fact that he's always carrying that gat on him. He's always on an adventure. He's always looking for treasure.

He's always snooping around. Which one is your favorite? Well, the most recent one, I think, was good for the generation that it was trying to play to, but I remember when old buddy was doing it back in. You just told me Raiders and Lost Ark, one of your favorite movies. Yeah, it was actual film. It wasn't digital. You know, so it's just a little different

quality. What's surprised you weren't a Temple of Doom guy? Well, the thing about the Temple of Doom is I liked it, but I thought it was just kind of ripping it off that other one a little bit. I don't know. Yeah, I think it was a little bit too close. No, the other one. And you were pissed when Sheila Buff, you know, got cast in it, and they tried to pass the hat off. And you were like, fucking not my indie. Yeah, just like when I was watching that Queen show.

Queens Gambit. No, love Queens. The Crown, when they changed the Queens, that's all in my Queen right there. That's going to be tough for me to pay attention to. Well, she's older now. It's like, no, that ain't how she's going to end. Kind of like Fresh Prince. Which one?

And Viv. She changed as well. She did change. I don't think I remember being as upset as I was. Well, I don't think culture at that time was getting as upset at things. Yeah, and, you know, I thought about this the other day. You know, because, for instance, with Red Zone, whenever I was getting attacked pretty heavily, which for saying we don't care, which wasn't the proper warning.

What I should have said is, obviously it's better without commercials. We hope everything had no advertising. With that being said, con man, con man. I mean, you can just grab yourself a little Jose. Querva, make it almost best. And on that note, as we were getting just absolutely murdered and killed for everything like that with the Red Zone channel, I should have said we would rather no ads, but the fact that it exists, like, we will still watch, which I hope and assume everybody did and you couldn't really matter. And ESPN, I started getting called a Disney show. They're not going to have two years.

They don't even, you know, this is YouTube TV. This is Google, which is awesome, by the way, love YouTube TV. They're very kind of us. And they've been very good. But they're like Disney, ESPN ruins everything. I saw a lot of that. And I'm going to let you know, yeah, there's a lot of things over the past that we have certainly all shared the opinion that you all have in that particular department. I think we all have eyes and a sense of everything like that.

But whenever people say like, I used to just watch Sports Center, it was like the greatest. It was like Sports Center was also showing you for the first time a lot of shit. Like, hey, here is a highlight play. Here's a story. Here's this. Nowadays, we see everything fucking immediate. Right away. Like, everything is happening so quickly.

So, like, having to adjust in how you deliver things, I think is a tough, tough comparison. You know, like, trying to compare what life was, because we all grew up with SportsCenter. But also it was like the first time I'm seeing a lot of things. With the sidebar. Yeah, with everything. Yeah. Yeah. And your team and you're seeing it, let alone if you lived out of the market from wherever you played.

It's like some of the only shit you're going to see is that. Yeah. We're in a vastly different time, and I think this Red Zone changing thing to four 15-second commercials for a total of one minute, which I don't know if I was down at the Colts game. So we had Red Zone on TV. Love it. Keeps you updated with everything. But we didn't, I didn't really feel the commercial break as much as everybody else. Well, that's just the start, Pat. It's just the tip of the spear. I know, I know, I know it is. And here's what I'm going to say, and I don't speak for everybody clearly. No matter what they do. I'm going to fucking watch it. Yep. Yep.

And I don't like that. I'm telling you, I don't like it. But I'm going to watch it. That's a reality. It's a great idea. It's the best product there is. Keep it split screen. Keep it split screen.

Yeah, yeah. Gotta do the playthrough. Yeah, that's it. Got to do the play through. All right, it's got to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from gambling, Gary, the 96th draft. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but keep that seat warm because old Chuck Fogano might be back in it by Thanksgiving.

If Jair Alexander keeps getting back. beat like a drum. The Ravens' secondary look like a JV team out there and that's supposed to be in her strong suit. Tighten up, Chuck. Oh, I don't like what that's just happened. I didn't like it either. I didn't like it either.

These are my first time seeing these, AJ. They were obviously picked by Thai. It's a full surprise. I did all know Chuck Pugano is going to catch it in his Italian chins. But I guess that would make sense if Josh Allen's able to come back from being 15 done with less than four minutes against a defense that is highly, highly regarded as being one of the best in the league. Chuck McGowan knows that, though.

He knows that getting back into the NFL fire is going to be these types of days. And Josh Allen is an alien in that whole thing. Jir Alexander, I think, did talk a little bit about it, playing a really good quarterback here. We've got to continue to mold and grow forward. What should we think about this Baltimore Ravens' defense after what they gave up to Josh Allen?

I mean, that's tough. Whenever you are a defense and you are on the other side of a quarterback doing something historic, I have personal experience with that, played against Big Ben and Heinz Field at the time, I think he threw for like 500, like six touchdowns. That is crazy. It was on the field.

So that's never a good feeling. But long season ahead, you got a bunch of talent, a bunch of first rounders in that secondary. So yeah, as a fan and gambling Gary probably has some money on it too, but as a fan, you do think that, you do lean on that to be one of your strengths of your team, but they will figure out. They got the talent. They got the coaches.

We're not keeping his seat warm for Chuck. When he's ready to come back, he'll come back after he hoisted the Lombardi. But, you know, you got to get it done. And Josh Allen is a generational. talent at the position. So shit like this will happen. But yeah, it was ugly. And I can understand what Gambler Gary's coming from, but he's an asshole.

And Tyre you're an asshole, too, for picking that one. There's a lot of different options out there that could have got the point across. But I guess keeping a seat warm for Chuck is certainly something that would brighten our day because it would be great to have Chuck Pagano around here. Love you, coach. I don't know how today is for Coach John Harbaugh and the entire Baltimore Ravens staff. There's some stats coming out about that whole situation.

It's certainly disappointing. I assume that's not a fun existence over there. I appreciate, though, that Butta said it was my fault. He did. But it's not me. It's on me, buddy. He said, Mr. Mac if he jinxed this.

He said, I thought I... He made it, buddy? Then you were at La Trove. How would you... He's going to steal us. No, Mr. McAfee wouldn't do that. Butta, I would never. I was on your side, buddy.

I was excited to see your reaction as the Baltimore Ravens continue to do things that nobody else could do. Derek Henry, he's 30, what? One? Faster, stronger than he's ever looked. Lamar Jackson doing Lamar Jackson shit on a very regular basis

I was excited for Buda I was pumped for butter I was pumped for butter and then Buda started thinking after the game this guy fucking jinxed us and I won't let him know it was not on purpose

if that was the case AJ I am a Baltimore Ravens fan I hope to Baltimore Ravens play well and I think last night was a great AFC playoff game that we're going to see in a few months from now brother don't you think

yeah the Ravens Ravens fans should not not be freaking out. They know that they're going to be fine. Lamar Jackson, that offense, and their defense is going to be just fine. They ran into a juggernaut. The bills. Josh Allen, we know that dude is pretty damn special. So it was a great game. Here we go.

We got plenty more to have. Kyle Hamilton. Figure things out. Almost blocks that field box. Oh, he could, yeah. You see him jumping like, oh, my goodness, I had that. He was way too clean there. If I'm Buffalo, we need to figure that out. Very quick. Look at him. And he's the guy

to do that, too. I mean, he probably has the perfect timing for perfect sense. Oh, and he block out. you block out I can't believe you faded who but I did not guys there but oh god his no I did not and if Kyle Hamilton blocks that that's why he didn't no don't you turn the audio on you don't you have to zoom out a little bit I think oh I'll be back there Well, look at Gary, bro! Look at Gary!

Nobody can stop! Like, these are going so good! These are going so good on all cylinders! Stuart night. What a start to a season, Jay. What greatness! Tackling opportunities against Derek Henry. You can just about forget about it.

This us playing football right here! We didn't got bitched by Pat McAfee in there. What? This might be Pat McAfee fought, bro. Whoa, whoa, whoa. But it might be Pat McAfee fought, bro. Oh, whoa. He didn't jinx does.

No. He didn't said it. Oh, he didn't beat it, budd. He didn't said it. Oh, he didn't beat it, budd. I didn't baited butter. Oh, he even baited butter. No, I didn't.

Oh, he didn't got me. Oh, Pat got me. No. I didn't bait you, butter. I'm on your side, butter. Bro, it was like after this plate, right before the hat, Pat was like, this y'all year? No, I was asking question.

Got his ass. And butter the fill for the bake. What? I didn't say, hell yeah, sorry, yeah, shit. Sorry-in' shit. Bro, he didn't got us. And his team of Steelers? He just got

Pat wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that. You're right. He wouldn't do that. You're right. He wouldn't do that. You're right. He wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that. Right? He wouldn't do that. I didn't. You're right. You're right. That's a man with integrity right. He wouldn't do that. I'm going to get hella better for the doubt. Thank you, buddy. Thank you, but okay, that's good.

I'm happy. It took him a long time to get there. Oh, yeah. And that was quite a quick amount of time. I don't know if he was really there yet. But I want to love but I didn't bait you. I was on your side. I love Jimmy's famous seafood.

Yeah, you do. I love the coach Pugano's there. Yeah. I would like to see the Baltimore Ravens going on. Now, the Colts all of a sudden are a monster or a problem. And we did go to the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. It doesn't necessarily mean I'm a Steelers fan. Ravens didn't invite us.

I would like to see them do well, though. I got a lot of friends over there, but I love Baltimore. Where are the Colts come from? Yeah, they were in Baltimore, yeah. They're in Baltimore. Yeah, then they left. Then they came here to Indianapolis. We celebrated that this weekend, actually.

But I did not have that on my mind. No, of course. I love butter. Man of integrity. I was excited to see Stavi and Butter. All year. All year, I was pumped for that. Named together.

Need them together. Yeah. Ravens might need them together, too. Something to think about. It's a lot of power. Might be the most entertaining. fan in the entire league. I guess there isn't a might be to that.

I think they are. Yeah, I think. Well, we got DeFlo. Yeah, we got DeFlo. Yeah, we got Let's not get out here. That's true. He's a lot of Moxie. He's a different category. He had great performance. He nailed the halftime. I'll tell you. Yes. Whenever I heard he was going to do a live show in front of 60,000

people, I was a little bit eager to see how it went. Nailed it. Yeah, he did. Absolutely nailed. Moxie shined through. That's the flow. But he's more singer. Like, you can't compare, like, Dave Chappelle and Kanye when it comes to art, you know, because his is his comedy, his music. Did you see Shane

opened up for Zach Bryan at Notre Dame Stadium? Did not see the full thing? He saw like five seconds. Saw a couple of the clips where Shane was wearing a helmet and dancing. You saw that? No, I didn't see it. Yeah, he has full Notre Dame football helmet on. He's dancing on stage, obviously. Is that the first time it's happened? Absolutely. Now, dance with a helmet on? I assume it's... No, a comedian

opening up for a musician. So that's what he said, actually. Zach Zach asked him if you wanted to go first or second. He was like, what the fuck? That's what I saw. Let me guess. So you're going to play just until when, 10 o'clock,

and then I'll just go hit him with some comedy afterwards. So he said, what do I go out there and say? So you guys jerk off lately? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I assume there he is. There he is. Having a good time.

Yop. Yep. On stage in front of everybody the whole time. Having a great time. Yep. Good to see you guys. Thank you. We're going to go win national championship now.

They've got a big game this weekend. Huge. Texas A&M. Got a wait. Hey, college is doing it, man. Yes, it was great with him. There's a couple of blowouts, obviously. we'll talk to Coach Rule here in a couple

days. He won like 69 nothing or something. But like Mississippi State? Unbelievable. It was unbelievable. They had two wins last year, okay? And then I got Pete Famo telling me they got this freshman quarterback who's the best quarterback they've had since Dak Prescott and they're going to play him a couple plays. I'm like, fucking put the guy in. What do we

you won two games? So my entire thought about Mississippi State was like a negative one going into game day because I'm like, why don't they play the guy that they got that's supposed to be the guy? I don't get that. Seems like they're trying to lose. Yeah, right. That place was awesome. They got a whole new game setup, I guess game ops are crazy down

there. They got new intro, new everything. The white show was crazy. Everything was sick. And then obviously, they get a huge win. And their fans immediately, I think it's like an engineering school, immediately get the field goal down and take that thing through town. It's like, shout out to the Bulldogs, man. I did not expect that. Arizona State obviously did not expect that.

And a team that made the college football playoff last year and won the Big 12, loses to Mississippi State. And this drums up now when conversations start at the end of the year for college football playoff. who's we'll just throw out a team name that is in our conference

that is not in the playoff or winning their conference Mississippi State for instance how many big 12 teams are supposed to be in there

because if they had to play in Starkfield just one time are they going to win like that is literally what that feeds Oklahoma getting a huge winner for Michigan

huge deal like for the SEC obviously and I mentioned that in my pick but it was real it was like hey the SEC conversation gets real loud

around college football playoff for good good reason. The cultures down there, the environments, the players, the everything. The team's awesome, incredible, great for college ball. But it's always talked about as if it's better than Big Ten, better than the Big Ten, way better than the Big Ten, whenever it comes to football on the field. So in a playoff, whenever Ohio State does what it does to Tennessee, then Ohio State opens up with Texas, the number one team in the country, does that. It's like, people are like, wait a minute, is that a thing of the past? The whole SEC is better than

the Big Ten. And it's Oklahoma team with Mateer and Arbuckle is the offense coordinator and the Venables defense, they're for real. So, like, I had a lot of Michigan people that are full panic, you know, and I saw Portnoy's reaction talking about how he felt like he was lied to or whatever by Bryce Underwood and everything, how good he was going to be. Like, that was his reaction. He was like very, he's not the only way. There's a lot of Michigan people that were, like, very bummed out that I was talking to.

It's like, hey, I think Oklahoma is for real. I think Oklahoma is the real deal this year. Offensively, whenever you bring in a quarterback and the offensive coordinator, it's like, it has worked a lot in the past because the quarterback knows exactly what to do on every single play. So you can make everybody else catch up. But if everybody else knows what to do and the quarterback doesn't, like, you're going to be slow. You're going to be behind because he's the one making the decisions. When the quarterback knows every aspect of the offense, it's like, and then you plug in better athletes and better players at all the spots. And then Venables has that

defense. It's like, I think Oklahoma's a real deal. Like, I think they are very good, AJ. I think they're great. I mean, talk about the confidence they have in materials. Well, you showed it earlier. They run a double move backed up in your own end zone. Okay, like you must feel pretty good about what your offensive line can do and what your quarterback is able to do. What a beautiful ball right here too. But Mateer is a player, though. I really enjoy watching him. Good for Venables. I think Venable is a great personality for all of college football. Very Jack, too. We saw him on the set there for college game day. He's pretty built, good intensity. Always very cool to me and to the show, says he watches show, knows the shows exist, which is pretty

cool. But he's always going to have a good defense. They were flying around and hitting so hard. Michigan, those boys are flying around and hitting two, but that was a very, very violent football game. Big time win, I love a tier too. Like just his awareness as like a great quarterback, great throw. But his awareness is a ball carrier. Like him just knowing, like the spatial awareness he has in traffic is very, very special. Big time win for the SEC.

It's a big time lost from the SEC too. Who? Boys down in Gainesville. Yeah, we got a little USF on a little bit of a heater here. Byron is a dog, the quarterback. And the USF coaches were seen celebrating afterwards. I think they know they got a team, and the Florida Gators needed this one. I think we all thought that Billy Napier and DJ Lagway and the Florida Gators were for real this year.

We all thought maybe Billy Napier's culture has settled in, and they're going to do their thing. USF gets a massive win. A Gramatica hits a walk-off game winner down there, and I picked against USF. I think we all need to just start having a little bit more respect. And I think I was talking to Edron James, and he said, USF's got a lot of Florida boys. Yep. Anytime Florida boys take on Florida boys, there's a lot. It's a little bit different.

He said it's hard to judge those particular games as if it's any other game. Is that an accurate depiction? Oh, yeah, very, very much. And I feel like he's like that a lot of places. Even the receiver from Oklahoma, he was a Michigan kid that wasn't offered by Michigan. So that's everybody in South Florida. You want to go to UM, you want to go to Miami, you want to go to Florida State, Florida, all these big schools, and you kind of probably get overlooked and go to USF.

And you remember we were in the Big East. Oh, yeah. Like I think you might have talked about a little bit on. game day, like recruiting those South Florida boys with Grothy and everybody else. Like they built the powerhouse. I think they got ranked like number two or three in the nation at one point just by recruiting their kids and you have that chip on your shoulder. The coaches know that. You saw the coach's reaction up in the press box. Like that's something you rarely see. I don't know how much it actually happens. That's something you rarely see as a fan outside of

the building. But yeah, you can build up a program quick and it's hard to judge those type of, I guess it would be considered a rivalry game. But if I grew up and we played each other in high school but you were the five star and I was a two star but I felt like I was better than you when I'm lined up on you on Saturday with his jersey on it's going to mean a little more for sure yep and do you know who USF has this Saturday oh yeah definitely no the hurricane yeah definitely yeah they're all playing each other I like that they're all playing each other because Florida still got Florida State and Miami I think on yeah on the horizon and everything like that Miami also doing the same thing and that's you know you talk to

Florida football people it's like hey these games right here are going to be showtime They are going to be real showtime. I guess SMU's got a bunch of Florida boys, too, from what I've been told. So, like, how SMU does, obviously, they lose the Baylor and a thriller, which I think everybody was kind of calling for whenever you're thinking about that game. 48, 45? Yeah. I think is what that game ended up being.

But SMU, I guess they're playing Miami, and Edge was like a lot of Florida boys on SMU. So, like, rule out everything whenever they play. It's like, is this a new stat that I need to start looking for? Hey, where are the Florida boys at? And when do they play against the Florida schools? Edgerman was talking like... Yeah, that's rude. Also for asking you, I think, because Rhett Lashley came from Miami,

if I'm not wrong, and he brought a bunch of Miami dudes with him. Yeah. And he knows. And, like, recruiting people talk all the time about, like, recruiting your own state in your own area and how important that is. Like, you're the team. Like, if USF goes on and sweeps all the Florida teams, all of a sudden you're that school in Florida.

And I'm not saying they're going to, like, flip recruits or anything like that. But you get one. or two more guys from South Florida that a different school doesn't get just because you do end up being the best team in South Florida probably changes a lot of stuff for your program. They were problematic for us when we went down there. I mean, they

the shop boys maybe? Party like a rock. Party like a rock star. Is that the shop boys? I think so. They had a concert outside the stadium whenever we went down and played there one night. It was a big deal. They had a concert outside full free festival. And a book stadium, right?

Same, Raymond James? Yeah, the whole thing. It was the first time playing there, I think. Okay. And are the Yankees down in that area, too? Yes. Yeah, that was Rich Rod's only time I've ever seen them use a prop. We went down there, they're having a festival, they're having a concert.

It's a Thursday night game, I think. They're selling out, they think it's going to be the biggest home attendance or whatever. And he said, we just drove by their facility. He said, we have become the fucking Yankees. Okay, and he pulls out the Yankees hat and has the N.Y. on her, whatever. and he goes and this USF team thinks they've arrived not fucking yet is what he was so we all wore Yankees hats into the bill

we lost and I'll tell you what I don't think Rich Rod probably to this day will ever do any of that shit ever again you leave them in the locker room I have no idea where those things were they did not make their way back I know that it was a that USF team was problematic for us because they were fast they were very fast and very tough

and with our offense if you get penetration you can kind of stop us. By stop us slowest down at least, nobody's going to be able to really stop us. And they had a team back. It feels like they got one now. Yeah. Feels like they got a real team. They're still very fast. You know who else has a team? Who's that? You see that's a hawk bowl.

Wow. Wow. Rocco Beck's is the first round draft. He's a guy. Yeah. Rocco Beck is an adult. He is playing college football. Iowa State gets a massive win over Iowa and the Sihawk Bowl. Comes down to a 54-yarder for Conrartie. I said that Drew Street, Steve,

the kicker for Iowa is going to hit a game winner. Instead it was Conrardy. This was a very kicker dominant game. The first nine points I think scored raw from kickers. Obviously a game winner kick. Both kickers very talented. What did you learn from the game? Ty Schmitt is Iowa State and Tyrese Halliburton are dancing in the faces of Iowa Hawkeyes fans. Yeah, I mean that's probably the biggest thing. Listen, Iowa State's better this year, but I haven't thought about this game since it ended. Iowa State folks will celebrate this, bring it up every time they can over the next year. And that's fine. You know, you can do that. They have that right because they won.

I may have put too many chips into the Mark Grinowski's going to save us basket. He's not unfortunately. He's just fucking not. And I'm not going to rip on the guy because their skill you FaceTime me on Saturday night and you were with Dallas Clark

and me and him kind of just had a nice little two minute like, hey, what the fuck's going on with the Hawks, you know, real quick. And he was very complimentary still obviously. Yeah, he believed still. He And I believe, too, you know, for an extent, you know, or to an extent, their skill position players just aren't good. Receivers don't get open. They don't have the batch of tight ends that they usually do.

So, you know, you're kind of asking Grinowski to beat Josh Allen. Well, there's only one Josh Allen, you know, so. Oh, maybe too. Justin Herbert. Well, maybe three. But his name is Justin. Yeah, maybe four. Yeah, but those guys are NFL quarterbacks.

Those are their names. I'm saying this guy, you know, he was good playing against the lower competition. Iowa State's good, but I'll be honest with you. Really, ever since the Iowa's offense started looking like this, so what, 10 years ago, maybe like right after, maybe close to right after I graduated from college, I said if Iowa loses a game for the most part, you know, it's fun coming on here and going apeshit

because I do care, but I'll tell you what, when the Packers look like they did on Sunday. Oh, my gosh. It's very hard to give it up. It's very easy to say, okay. I'm not going to spend another fucking second thinking about the 13 points that Iowa scored on Saturday in Ames. Because they should have won that game. They should have.

They played like hammered dog shit like they kind of do every week. Rocco Beck is good. He threw for like 122 yards. So first round draft pick maybe. But Iowa's defense is still pretty fucking good. If they could just get a guy who's halfway fucking decent playing quarterback, just halfway. Well, you're not going to get any wide receivers. you think you're running. That's the problem.

You're running a team. The witch pole. Yeah, the witch boat. Is that that's that rude? I saw the quarterback. Yeah. Yeah, he's had like the worst start in the history of college football. He's completed like 48 passes for like 127 yards or something.

It's bad. It's not good. But you're right, you know, we get a couple transfers in there. Like, hey, this guy was number three at Northwestern. He wants to come play at Iowa. It's like, well, Jesus, fucking Christ. If this guy couldn't see the field at Northwestern, We're expecting him to catch 100 balls and have 1,200 yards this year.

Give me a fucking break. No way. Iowa needs to rush for 450 yards every single week. That's fun to watch too, right? I don't mind it because, listen, I got the flash of the Packers now. So, you know, I can kind of bounce. I can have the best of both worlds. You just watch a fucking hard-nosed, gritty, shitty,

boring football game on Saturday for three hours. And I actually tweeted. I was like, you know what? Is this Iowa offense maybe like giving me a, a stroke because I was smelling something burning. Luckily, that wasn't the case. There was just, you know, I had a problem with my furnace. So that's what I was smelling. It wasn't

the eye. Turn them on for the first time. Yeah, exactly. You didn't time you light some fire or anything. Yeah, well, it turns out I got a blower out. So I'm going to have to get my furnace fixed. So that was kind of just another one-two punch on top of the, but you know, hey, the Hawks are going to do what the Hawks do. Probably not going to go to the playoff this year, unfortunately. But they

could still make some noise. And now it's just, hey, let's try to ruin Oregon's season. Or let's try to ruin Penn State season. That's really where I'm at. It's unfortunate. You could think about having a little bit of the Quervos Devil's Reserve, maybe, and help you out on those Saturdays, a little tequila. There's nothing I love more than green booze, you know.

So it's a green bottle. It's a green bottle. So I may crack this thing open and have a, you know. Free bottles. It's not green. Guess what? It's clear booze. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. You're right, because I am. I see this in the, in the store. I'm fucking grabbed my I'm just a tractor being Explain them what it is Carter and I had a whole mess of it this week I know I did too

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It's just a green bottle. And you can see the bottle does kind of wreak a mischief. You know, when you look at it you can see, hmm, maybe that this guy's a lot of mischief. What's this guy up to? What is the devil up to? There's that devil on my

shoulder. Oh, is that? No, that's not the devil. That's just a little bit of Cuervo's Devil's Reserve. But remember, you must be 21 years of age to consume alcohol. And please drink responsibly, or you'll end up like Mitt. That's right. And many others. Sweet, tropical, spicy.

Boom. Cuervo. Quervo's devil's reserve, baby. Praise the hell. Devolutionally good. Hell, yeah. That's good read by you guys. Wow.

I might help you, man. I do like the Iowa Hawkeye football team immediately leads to a booze advertisement. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know. Hey, that's big 10 football. It is. That's Big Ten football.

It is. Amen. How long are you guys going to do that over there in Iowa? Who knows? Let's move along. Did you see the University of Louisiana-Manroe punter? Yes. The name's McKenzie Ryan.

Okay, and although their team got their asses beat, and this wasn't his best punt. What he did at the end of it was certainly desirable. Out of Australia, Lad hits a little worm burner down the right hash. Oh, no, he's breaking free. Who's going to stop him? I got him.

Lariat, close line. from hell from McKenzie Ryan as he ruffs it up with the boys a little bit afterwards. Alabama would go on a score just a few plays later, but nonetheless, a punter with a massive hit should be showcased. Not his best pun, I think he would even say, but obviously a lot of people follow on each other. That's not good. Never want to see anybody stacked behind each other in punt returns. McKenzie said, let me go ahead and get underneath the block and lay his ass out. I assume he played some sort of rugby or Aussie rules football over in Australia. And that move right there.

A little cheeky. That is an Ozzie Rules football. Certainly maybe a play. And then flexing on them too, letting them know that, hey, listen, you guys might win by 40, but you'll never forget the time. McKenzie Raw and

right across your kisser. I love that. I love everything about it, AJ. That's the only thing that can save an explosive return, right? Like, the coach is going to be pissed. Everyone's going to be pissed. But, hey, at least our punter got to have a little highlight shot. I'm sure it was going all over sports. If it was a... If that was a home game, Place would have went crazy.

Whenever I tackled Trinand Holiday, every time I made a tackle, a place made noise. But when I tackled Trinand Holiday, place went pretty apes shit. And they were getting the ball at the fifth. Peyton Manning's getting the ball at the 50. Yeah. Great return. I completely failed. I completely failed my job.

Everything that we did was wrong. Supposed to be a touchback. Wasn't a touchback. Trin Holiday gets a massive return. Nobody's covering shit. They're supposed to be trapped back there because Peyton Manning's very good. So we're trying to give him a long field. Now, I think I did have six inside of the 20 when I gave him to punting.

Sure. I think it was a very long field. Maybe the best I gave him ever had. Nonetheless, the kickoff, though, getting all the way out there, sucks. This is not good. This is terrible for all parties. Huge hit. Place goes crazy.

Get a sideline. Everybody's like, yeah. That was the ass, bro. That was the worst start that we could possibly have. He kept him out of end zone. Yes, you did. That's the first play of defense. Kickoff.

Yeah. You set the tone. I wore defense jersey. Yeah, hell yeah. In practice. You know, Vinny was on the offense. So that was always very real. But anytime anybody cheered for a tackle,

I was always like, if I'm tackling, we fucked up pretty good. And that was normally my thought. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Panicking, running through. And also, let's make sure they think they can get the edge. Yeah, we're bait and tackle. Yeah. We are a fishing shop.

We're going to bait them to think that they can get by, and then we're going to tackle them. I saw somebody for the Buffalo Bills. Oh, if they're going to do the bait and tackle Yeah, you've got to make sure Any of their safeties It happened to all night long to their safety Yeah, you've got to be able to close that distance

Correct. That is the whole entire It could have been Taylor. Derek turns it on pretty quick That's a fucking nightmare As a deep defender, a safety Like that's the one Saturday night That's when you think especially playing against Derek Henry And that fucking hole opens up 53 and 3rd

Because you're one of the safety's on kickoff Like you know, it's two safeties, you're the middle safety pretty much When you are that post safety and you got 22 or anybody that looks like this guy coming down and hatch it at you, that is a fucking nightmare. See, for you guys, I think the runners with the ball have respect for you guys.

Okay, so for most kickers and punters, not a lot of respect. So in warm-ups, I'm trying to give little pieces of intel into their brain. Like, hey, run right by me. You know, like run right by me. I'm slow. I'm on athletic.

So then hopefully in the game, they actually do that. This one's tough, though. That one's tough. Come to Phil, and then he just runs right by you. That's the, you got to close that sideline. But nonetheless, Derek Henry's done that to a lot of people. Oh, yeah.

He's done it. And thank God I never had to do that. Can you imagine playing this guy high school? Like, the craziest, the craziest fucking stat I heard this weekend. This guy's in his ninth year in the NFL has had all these records and still hasn't reached. What is he like, 600 yards away? Yeah, I think now he's like 500. from his high school total we play like 10 11 games in high school maybe like that is absolutely fucking ridiculous

he had to be the absolute king oh yeah he had like 13,000 yeah he rushed like 13 000 touchdowns a game yeah 11 it's insane so that was midway through the game so he ended up right he finished with what 12, 125 yards in high school high school how many touchdowns I assume he had like eight touchdown 180 probably oh my gosh think about how much fun high school had to be for him. That's why he's so mature. He had everything offered to him wherever. He was like 14.

He scored, hey, all right, let me get past this. And then he's like in the gym. He does all the insane workouts and shit. I mean, he's been great since the day we saw. 153. 153 rushing touchdown. That high school record? Yeah, that high school record got broken.

I'm pretty sure by, I thought, Nosh. Wasn't there an absurd? Nause was like the highest. This says 153 rushing touchdowns over four seasons in a senior year rush for an astounding 4,261 yards and 55 touchdown. That's a pretty good year. Breaking multiple Florida single season records and setting a national single game rushing 510 yards in one game.

Jesus. Yeah, I think Najee Harris broke some of his high school records. Not all of that's crazy. All right, let's make some picks for tonight's game. Let's get the hell out of here. Today is a good day. Great day. I'm thankful we're here.

It's a great game tonight, too. I agree. NFC North is going to have a lot of implications down the road. So tonight is very important. The J.J. McCarthy era starts, the Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams era starts. Will Kevin O'Connell maintain his offensive greatness with a brand new quarterback that had to sit out his entire rookie year with an injury? Everybody has said that J.J. McCarthy is a guy.

Will he be tonight? We shall see as he takes on his hometown Chicago Bears. Ben Johnson, there's a new sheriff in town, actually. More accountability, a little bit more of a hard ass. Will that pay off or will that hurt them? Well, he lose the locker room early, like other hard asses have, if their team doesn't win, or will this Chicago Bears team be everything that we hope Caleb Williams can be in his NFL career? The current spread, still one and a half?

Yes, it is. Minnesota favored on the road. Tone, what do you like in this? I like the over, first and foremost. Okay, I think both offenses are going to do well, even though both defenses seemingly will be better from the jump. Yes, but just the injury news and the secondaries that Shepter talked about. So I kind of like the over in that situation. and I'm going to go with the Bears Okay, you like the Bears? DeButch I heard you made the picks in the

comments section. Somebody made a very nice graphic that was a beautiful graphic. I wish they didn't because I didn't do too much. I didn't even bring it up. You noticed I didn't even bring it up earlier. Knew it existed, didn't want to talk about it. We're all going to hit the ball and then miss the ball and everything. Tonight though we can make it up. What have you done for me lately? Who do you like? How do you like it?

Oh, remaining, returning Decoordinated Flores and they did really good against the Bears' last. year on third down especially, but you mentioned new sheriff of town. I am on the Caleb Williams is going to be good with Ben Johnson trained. But I'm not going against my former teammate KOC. I think J.J. McCarthy shows up and Justin Jefferson definitely shows up big time tonight. So I'm going with the Vikings on the rogue in a big time game on Monday night football. 815 on ESPN and ABC. ESPN 2 will have the Manning brothers in a simulcast. It should be a magical

evening of Venetcy North football. AJ, are you going with the Minnesota Vikings minus one and a half with DeButch? Yes, I am going to take the Minnesota Vikings. I mean, being favored on the road, that's got to be a little bit. I'm sure the bears are pissed off and Ben Johnson are pissed off about that. I think the bears will be there. I think Caleb will be good. I just think it might take

a little bit of time with Ben Johnson to figure it out. Just like Jared Goff with his new O.C. Yep. And everything. Jared new? Yes. Jared Goof. Oh, you remember to change. Gooflovsky is what everyone's No. A lot of people are. They're not calling it. I think. I think. you might take a little bit for Caleb and Ben,

just from what we've heard. I think there is greatness in there, but just like everybody else is saying. And if you want to use us as motivation, you certainly can. I'll take the Vikings as well. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. We can't wait. We're so thankful for all of you.

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