The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1406 - Thursday Night Football Preview, Adam Schefter, Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule, Mike McCarthy, Kirk Herbstreit, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys preview tonight’s Thursday Night Football game as the Commanders travel to Lambeau Field to take on the Packers (-3.5), as they discuss all the different news surrounding the game before welcoming four great guests to the progrum. First, ESPN NFL Senior Insider, Adam Schefter joins the show to give injury updates for tonight’s game, chat about JJ McCarthy’s debut, the 49ers injury situations, and more. Next, Nebraska Head Coach Matt Rhule joins the progrum to recap their massive week 2 victory, and preview week 3 as well as Thursday Night Football. Next, Super Bowl Champion, former Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy joins the show to preview Thursday Night Football, chat about his reception at halftime of the Packers game at Lambeau Field last weekend, and give his biggest takeaway’s from week 1. Lastly, the voice of College Football, and color commentator for the NFL on Prime, Kirk Herbstreit joins the progrum to preview tonight’s game, and look ahead to this weekend’s massive tilt in Knoxville, TN between Georgia and Tennessee. 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

People, and welcome to our humble abode, the Thunderdell, on this NFL week two kickoff Thursday. September 11th, 2025, this program begins now. Football! It is happening on this September 11th, 2025, and I am an old man, and I happen to be at an age of, you know, memory and remembering whatever September 11th, 2001 took place 24 years ago. I was in high school, and obviously, it was a devastating day. day. It changed this world mightily, not just here, but obviously around the globe as a whole. And what I remember about that, and we will never forget all the lives that were lost and all the badasses that ran towards fire and buildings collapsing and the heroes that

stepped up amongst us in the middle of the crazed terrible chaos that was taking place in our biggest city. And then I'm from Pittsburgh. There was a plane that went down outside of our city. And then obviously the Pentagon had a plane hit it as well. And it was just a bunch of news. And it was crazy. I don't think any of us fully understood what was happening. But I do remember on September 12th, 2001, it felt like our entire country, no matter what you believe, no matter where you were from, we're all together as one. We're unified more than I think I've ever witnessed in my entire 38 years of existing. And I think that is something that a lot of people that were able to live through it who, you know, believe in the good of people instead of the bad of people.

We hope that we'll be able to get to that level of unification in our society at some point yet It's almost like we're chasing that in hopes that we can be a, you know, I don't want to say everybody has to get along and everybody has to agree, but at least we can move forward without hating each other, which is seemingly what social media has done to us in a way that I don't know if anybody could have predicted whenever we thought that the entire world should be connected in the palm of their hands. Now, it feels like there's a lot of people that get satisfaction as being known as the most something, the most this, the most that. And whenever people try to compete on who's the meanest to the other side, of the aisle, I think you're going to inevitably run into some chaos happening in our world. And I am not a politics person. I've been dropped into the political world a couple of different times by my own mistakes, but also because of my own opinions. And it's a blender over there. And to be a person that wants to go in and stand on your beliefs and try to change the world and have the courage to do so and also welcome and embrace debate in that world with how much anger there is, I think is a pretty admirable trait to have. So although I did not know Charlie

Kirk, I certainly saw his clips from afar, I thought he was a crazy person for embracing and welcoming the interactions that he wanted on the topics that he believed so mightily in. But I also believe that he believed in what he was doing was making the world better. And I think the people that are willing to hear the other side, and maybe extend a hand and maybe change their own opinion are the people that we should be modeling ourselves after. I am not always right. I am a doofus. I am an idiot that talks about sports, but I love hearing other people's ideas on things. Now, I am not in the politics world, and I know there's much more serious things out there, but in the sports lane that I live in, it is nice to hear the other side. So when I learned of Charlie Kirk on the

internet, and once again, I did not meet him, I did not know him personally, I thought it was admirable to hear somebody who was so firm in their own beliefs, but wanted to hear why other people were against him. So yesterday, whenever we see a public execution of this man happened in all of our palms of our hands in real time, you can't help but wonder, damn. First of all, he has a family, he has kids, but also are we a society that's really going to become that? Is that who we are? Is that what we're going to be? Just strictly because we think that we're better than the other side, it's become a wild time, I think, in our existence. And hopefully yesterday was a pivotal moment for us on this September 11th, 2025, to maybe have a September 12th, 2001 moment.

So that's my thoughts, positive vibes, prayers to his family and friends that have been there. But also, I hope to our entire society, like, yo, you can disagree with people. You can disagree with people, and you don't have to hate them or have disdain for them forever. Everybody has different backgrounds. I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Somebody that grew up in Miami or South Florida is going to have different. views on shit, I would assume. Some of they grew up in Compton, California, who I've had a chance and opportunity to hang around and get to know people, probably have a little bit of a different

view on things than maybe people that grew up in Columbus, Ohio. I mean, we're never going to all agree, but we all have to exist. And we might as well try to shake the hand and hear from the other side more so than try to fight them every single time. And I think even though you might not have believed in or felt the same way that Charlie Kirk felt about a lot of things, And I'm not saying anybody on this set agrees with everything that anybody believes in this whole world. We can't just hate people forever because we disagree with one thing or two things that they feel. We've got to move forward. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. One, two, three.

Team. Our jobs are to distract people from the real world and kind of make a little bit of levity and maybe let you know and kind of reconfirm the fact that there's good shit happening in this world. world. There's good people in this world. There's great things in this world. And although, you know, one terrible thing or yesterday, two terrible things happening, another school shooting in Colorado, obviously devastating. All this. I have a daughter, two-year-old. Think about it all. It's like there's also a lot of good happening in this world. And although these terrible things happen, we hope that they all not happen in the future, we can still understand that what we're doing right now, we're lucky to be alive and there's good people out there trying to make it better. We hope. And we wish them all good luck. And yesterday is

a day that I think we're all going to remember forever. The Toxic Table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the Hammer, God. Cowboys AP Tone is here. Wild day, obviously yesterday. Perspective putter for a lot of us, especially people that potentially speak for a living and also live on the

internet. Getting a chance to see that, obviously wild. But tonight, week two the NFL kicks off. We got a full college football slate this weekend that is incredible. Sports are about to deliver for us and bring us back to the Yeah, it is a badass time to be alive as well. Tonight, Washington commanders take on the Green Bay Packers,

Jaden Daniels, taking on Jordan Love, Michael Parsons. Is he going to wreck the game? Ty Schmidt, you obviously owner of the Green Bay Packers. What are your thoughts on how tonight's going to go? And is Lambo ready for these Washington commanders fans to maybe infiltrate on a Thursday night football because they're excited about this team again? I don't know about that. I mean, I'm sure commanders fans are going to be out in drool.

I don't question that, but I think Packers fans are going to show up, especially after Sunday. That's kind of the big thing. You know, the Packers next to the Bills and maybe a few other stories, the Colts, were kind of the talk of week one. It's like, hey, this team kind of feels like maybe a little bit of a juggernaut after one week. You know, we all expected the Lions to not, you know, drop off as much losing both their coordinators. And then, you know, the Packers came out and just put belt to ass. And then, you know, the commanders on the other side, it's like, hey, this might be.

be the year. I don't think last year was an aberrition. I don't think the commanders got lucky. I mean, they won a bunch of close games. But Jaden Daniels is the real deal. He's unbelievable. And it is still a short week. Micah's not 100%. He's not going to play the whole game. The Packers, potentially, we haven't heard yet. They might have two starting offensive linemen down. So I'm very confident, but also more than that, like, what a treat getting this game as the first Thursday night game of the season. Like, here we go. We are fully in it. I'm super excited for you night. waiting for Thursday night.

I think we'll have Kirk on in the next hour. They obviously have production meetings throughout the day. It's their first one. So obviously this is going to be huge. They've done really well, I think, over the years. Yeah. I think we'd like to commend the folks at Amazon who were just people that used to be at NFL Network and ESPN.

Correct. Whenever they were initially hired to run Amazon's NFL, us as people that were considered outcast by the sports media people, all of the suits, all of them, okay? that entire generation of suits that finished, they just got new gigs now because there's new platforms that need to do football.

So as soon as these people all just leave the two networks, they were like, nah, we don't need anything with your buddy, sorry, but then they go to the new streaming platform. We had hopes like, whoa, futures here. We got good things coming, and then all of a sudden it's just, nope,

just saying people here, and they were like, no, all right. So naturally thought they were going to ruin it. Sure. Naturally, just thought these people were going to do a terrible job. They did not. I think they've done a great job.

It's gone off without a hitch. Very rarely, unless your internet potentially has like a spike or a drop, there's been high quality. The stats and shit that they do has been a great addition to it all. I think people understand the world now of getting onto a platform and streaming a game a lot better than they did before. And I think it's been a good relationship. But to your point about it being a great first game, I think there is a chance at that wedding.

Bezos's wedding. Yeah, I think you might be right. He's like, hey, Gooddale, you want to give us a wedding gift? We shut down a whole fucking country here. Why don't you give us some good games? One time. Why don't you give us some good games? I feel like the Thursday night success is going to happen strictly because of the relationship, I assume,

but also because they're pretty much trailblazers in welcoming the NFL into this new era of streaming money, and they've been grabbing it from everybody. YouTube, Netflix can get to them. Hey, yeah, absolutely. Amazon can do that. We got ESPN app. Is that ESPN Plus? No, it's the ESPN. App. Well, what was the ESPN Plus?

Well, that was, it's the ESPN app. Okay, well, we want to do something there, too, don't you? Peacock. Yeah, Pete. Oh, how you doing? That's a nice looking bird you got. Let those feather fly. We'll do something there. You know, Amazon really did kind of kick it all off, and I'm happy for them.

I think they've done a fantastic job, and their entire crew has done very well on the TV. Yeah, that's the other thing, is that, you know, now we get commanders, Packers, and what is this, year three or year four of Kirk Canal? I forget when Thursday night prime time started. But boy, those two guys who have called Miracle on Ice and then you go to Kirk and they're calling the biggest college football game every single Saturday

night, they were doing the worst games of the week for one to two years with some of these primetime games on Amazon. It's nice that they also acknowledge like, hey, this kicks off the entire weekend. Like you've talked about it before. The Thursday night game is so important because it's like, hey, we're back. We have this two-day hiatus after Monday night football. It's now, you know, the football time for the entire weekend. Not just NFL, college, high school, everything. It's starting here. And the fact that they're doing a game like this where, you know,

it's two of the premier quarterbacks in the NFL. Like we always talk about the primetime games stink when the teams don't have one of the better quarterbacks. Like, why wouldn't they just put the best quarterbacks on prime time? And here we are three and a half points spread. Week one, you know, Kirkanaugh's first game is two teams that were in the playoffs last year, two teams that could win their division this year and be. in the NFC Championship, and we get that in September.

It feels like Texas, Ohio State, like getting that week one, damn near. Shout out to football. And also the NFL primetime games. Yes. Have hit. They have certainly hit. Let's talk about the numbers tonight, obviously. We got one half of the hammer.

Don. Cowboys AP tone. There's the tail of the tape. Record against the spread. They are good for the batters. Okay. How you doing? We would like to ride with them.

Total offensive yards now 432 to 266, 246 total yards allowed for the Green Bay Packers 2.31 for the commanders. Total points per game. There's only one game. 27-21. If they were scored the exact same as they scored in week one, the score would be 27-21. Package cover. And then opponents points per game. Oh, this commander's defense is stingy D. Six points. That's all they're giving up. Who all is just, is that an average of a bunch of teams, or that was just one game? That was just one game. Who was that against? It was the New York Football Giants.

Jesus. But a lot of people said going into the year, this Giants team is who you need to look out for. A lot of people were telling us. They were. It was Russell Wilson's year. Six points? Bruce, what happened? I didn't know it was that bad.

I saw the graphic and I was like six points. I think I just, six points. All off season, we've been preparing all off season for this game. Six points. It's terrible. It's the third straight season that the Giants have not scored a touchdown in week one. We just go up. You just show up every single year and look like we got no idea how to play offense.

I'm already out on Russ. Give me James. Give me dart. Give me anybody that can get us towards the Ed Zone. But, yeah, it was an abysmal start. We were talking about defensively okay. I like that. Always going to have a good thing to the day over there.

I like how we were talking about with the Indianapolis Colts. They haven't scored an opening drive of the opening game touchdown since 2006 or something like that. Bruce, like we haven't scored a touchdown. week one in the last three years. Think about that. The whole, they practice all off season. They're trying to figure it out. I know we love day ball, but that doesn't shine brightly on him.

He's been looking for it. And we saw on Hard Knocks what happened. The Super Bowl MVP shipped out of town. He wanted to be back. We ain't got it for him. Well, somebody else does. Will you let me know who it is before? Sure.

Eagles. Gone. We've seen it all. there. That place is crazy. This has been a must-win season too. That's how it's been kind of heralded coming in for the New York Giants. So the first game didn't go your way. You guys would be all right. Maybe Jackson Dart. He was ready to play. I didn't like that he I didn't like that he didn't get to play with how he looked. Now that I know you guys only scored six points. At some point, day ball's got to look at that. See the ice.

A lot of it. See the swag, the accessories and think, that guy can at least get us four more points. Maybe the defense will get two safeties because of this guy. cool. You know, like, I think that has to happen at some point. Yeah, we still can't block, though, so that might be the hesitation. Yeah, was the Comey's defense good? Because I thought the big, I mean, the big question mark coming in. Dan Quinn hasn't much

improved, I would say. Okay, so let's talk about tonight, the gambling aspect of this evening. Obviously, the sports books have been winning by a lot. Okay, sports books have been winning by a lot thus far in all of football. The top five most bets each week for college

football and for the NFL have all hit for the sports books in grotesque ways four to one four to one four to one sports book sports book sports book sports book sports book tonight three and a half point spread in lambo tone how's week two start and what are the numbers saying right now about the gamblers and how they see the game going yeah three and a half at ESPN bet other books have it at three so if you were looking to take the packers i would search somewhere else for a better number just be a good gambler in that way. Fifty-nine percent of the tickets right now against the spread are on the commanders plus the three and a half, which kind of surprised me because the Packers looked so good in week one. The commanders looked really, really good as well. But I expected it just

like the home team would get more action, but that's not how it is currently right now. And then Bruce and I looked at multiple sites. What was this? I'm a little skeptic. It says 96% of the money is on the under, and maybe that's because of the internet. Yeah, but what would be the place that would normally give this information? There's multiple websites, there's Action Network, there's covers, there's Yahoo has a thing where you go and you click on the game. And some of them are just sponsored by a certain sports book. So the sports book feeds there, like it could be like 96% at BETMGM or whatever, but it could be 70% at Fandle.

Like so it's kind of a flawed system like all polls are, you know. Sure. but it's normally generally decent as far as the against the spread is concerned this over under number is I 96% on the under is wild because most football fans just want to see points anyways natural overbetters we humans are

which is a good thing about us which we have to remember love that we naturally think good we naturally think yeah yeah yeah we're going to have success there so 96 on the under is that strictly because maybe that's one sports book maybe it's only five betters but also the trends right now 12 and 4 to the under right that would be the only

reason that I could think of this, because primetime games are always bet over. Packers and commanders, everyone knows they both have really good offenses. So normally this would be an over bet for the general public. But tonight might be a cagey affair for a boys. The weather? Maybe Micah gone.

What is the weather? Yeah, I think we have a perfect night in Lambeau. So I don't think weather What's the song? What's the song they sing over there? There's a... The Packer Poka? Maybe it was the Paca There's another song. They played it some preseason one, 50-something than nothing against us

and they played a song every time. It's supposed to be 65 and just it was perfect. Preseason it was like perfect. I think the sun was setting as we were playing. Oh yeah, magical. Everybody was still in there.

Out of a postcard. You guys were fucking pounding us. I mean, we had no shot. I still had to punt. Everybody's having a good time. Preseason game. I'm still having to go out there and hopefully not break my leg.

But boy, it was electric in there. I mean, it was a, there's a song that they sing it's a i remember it because it was yeah unrelenting play it again play it and that's basically what they were doing that place is special man yeah that is a very special place i'm excited it's going to be the perfect night for football you know best truck down the line boom oh dodged ram truck hell yeah uh-huh you know what we love about ram they got the hemmy v8 back fired up and ram blah blah get in on it motor trend has chosen ram 1500 as its truck of the year for 2025 ram

trucks are also back on the track in return to a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for the 2026 season, look at. There's a hemmy coming back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back. To the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. It's a big deal. Huge. Love that series. So when I'm about to buy a new truck, there's always a lot of question marks.

Why don't you fucking go see them race? Yeah. Let me see which one's the one. Yeah. Okay, because Toyota had a good run there. Remember, Toyota almost took over our office. Yeah. Ford always old steady. Yeah.

F-150, 3, 50, 4-50. We can get a 4,500 there. We can get that entire thing. You know, then we started looking around. We saw this RAM truck, and they're like, excuse me, you want a 1,500 here to rides on clouds, but it has enough pool and power to pull any fucking truck in the yard. The vastly superior machine.

Boom, and I said, yeah, let me check it out. Boy, it is great. Now they're going to have a chance to get on track with the boys. Wow. And when. Love that. That used to be on the track from what I've been told. If somebody was given advantage

Yeah, too good Yeah, they were too good I don't know if they got kicked out for dub After dub after dub after a dub Yeah, must have been it We have not looked into it We don't know if that's true That'd be my guess

But now they're back Okay And you can watch that This weekend Or whenever the hell it's on Jeez! I'll tune in Joining us now

Ladies and gentlemen This weekend But they're not starting until 2026 I was kidding But if you want to get eyes on it this weekend and kind of visualize, hey, what's it going to look like when a ram truck's out there? I'm sure you could probably check it out there.

I think with technology now, too, you can probably get glasses that say, hey, turn that truck into a ram truck. Put me in the cockpit. Yeah, VR that thing. Yeah, get in there, yeah. And now you're riding shotgun. Are they drifting these trucks? I don't think I'd have Oh, yeah.

I don't think it's dirt. I don't think it's dirt. The ram truck's the only has to be dirt. I thought you had to have a full towing capacity filled up. Maybe that's why the RAM truck got out of it because they got rid of the dirt. So I'm a fucking truck. We were watching tractor pull the other day.

And what was winning? That was the RAM trucks. Yeah, you're damn right. My truck can pull your truck. Somebody was talking shit on tractor pull. I can't remember who it was. They don't understand. Rapshits.

Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. Which is exactly why we barely. When we say we, I mean me. He was a child. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who might have a little bit more information on the NASCAR Craftsman truck series.

He's senior NFL insider for ESPN. He's a Michigan, man. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schaefter. Yeah, Jeffty! Gentlemen, what's going on? When's the truck racing season? When's that? You're an insider.

You got me there. You got me? I got no inside there. Shacki! We need you! It's Bush League, dude. I think the Ram truck is going to win all the races that happen whenever the races happen. Yeah.

So we're pulling for him. Whenever those races happen at that one big one, too, we want them to win that one. Yeah, the big truck one. We've got a big one tonight, man. night kicking off in beautiful fashion over there in Lambo, football heaven. What are some storylines here that we need to be paying attention to as we make our picks? We've been told 59% are on the commanders, getting three and a half in Green Bay. And then allegedly there's a lot of bets on the under, but the trend has been towards the

under this NFL season thus far through week one. What should we be thinking about tonight, Shafti Babi? Well, I think tonight is supposed to be one of the higher scoring games the week. Now, whether it actually happens or not, we'll see Thursday nights, I mean, that's, I mean, That's always tough when teams are in short weeks to come up with points. Obviously, these are two of the best teams in the NFC. The commanders last year went to the NFC championship game, Jaden Daniels. That guy just handles himself so well. In addition to being a great player, he just gets it, he's on it, he is going to be a successful player for a very long period of time.

He makes magic with his feet, with his arm, can beat a lot of different ways, and they're really lucky to have him. Great player. Now, the Packers, there's a lot of juice there, the Micah Trade. It's interesting to me, Green Bay's home again tonight.

They were home on Sunday against the Lions. They cleaned up against the Lions. They're home tonight against the commanders, two of the better teams in the NFC. They will be home one time in the next six weeks. So one time after tonight through week eight, there's a buy mixed in there,

but there's a lot of road action for the Packers important to take advantage. And obviously, Micah Parsons, will be a huge deal tonight again as he was on Sunday he played 29 plays now their plan has been to ramp them up get him ready they know it's a long season they're preparing for it to be a very long season in green bay we'll see whether or not that comes to fruition or not so they don't want to rush micah along any faster than he has to but i would imagine he'll play more than 29 plays tonight and there is a match up on the road we talked about those road games

there is a matchup on the road in a couple of weeks with a team from Dallas named the Cowboys. I'm sure by then Micah might be full speed up and running by then. My guess is he'll be ready for a full workload at that point in time, but Micah brought a lot of juice to that defense on Sunday and we'll bring more juice to that defense again tonight.

I assume as Micah continues to get comfortable over there with his relationships with people and how everything's going, I assume he's going to be able to deciding how many snaps he has. I assume as they roll on, or is there an actual snap count in mind because I think it was what 45% or something like that last year you said 29 snaps

I think was 45% of the snaps I don't know if they would do a percentage per snap or an actual snap count number is that him kind of deciding as they go or is there a play anything I think it's giving take from both sides I would think he tells them how he's feeling and I think I think they're going to be very mindful of not overusing him and exposing them more than they want to again the one thing that was told to me was it's a long season and he didn't play any football this summer. And so they have to make sure that everything is up to speed with him and that it works out the way that they want over the long term. And they don't want to abuse that in the short term. Yeah, if he picks up a sack in the first quarter, you know, we already got one.

Okay. Let's go ahead and limit him back. He gets a sack at the end of the line. Okay, let's take him out now. Let's go ahead and have the real. Let's make sure it's a happy start here. Let's make sure it's a free-flowing start here. But also, let's not be stupid. We hope he's completely healthy. We hope he's back in full action soon because we love watching them. And obviously that Packers' defense looked very different. If you have to break some news, feel free to do as such, Chefty. We appreciate that. Now, I think

Tom... Getting a call there. You know, when certain people call, you're like, okay, something's going on here. Answer it, answer it, answer it. Answer it. No, well, I just text to the person. All good. Okay, who is the person? Do they have glasses?

No. Yep, yep. Okay. Do they have hair? Yeah Not Sam Mustache We'll say Facial hair

Facial hair Any facial hair No Wow Sprin the beach Oh That's a pretty Yeah

Wow Good for us Okay so Yeah Okay All right shout up to that entire situation there

We'll continue to ask about tonight's game. Any other news? Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Shephti, do you have any injury updates on either Zach, Tom, or Aaron Banks? I know both of them didn't practice yesterday or questionable for tonight. And then on the flip side, does Washington have anyone kind of on the bubble to play tonight? It was interesting with Washington last week was Chris Rodriguez, the running back was a healthy scratch, and they decided to dress four tight ends and less running back. If they do that again tonight, Rodriguez could be down. Jacori Kroski Merritt or Bill Kroski-Mert, stepped up and played pretty well in his first role.

He looked pretty good there, right? Oh, yeah. It worked out. Yep. And so we'll see whether Bill Krosky Merit comes in tonight and has the same type of impact on this game. The Packer, I haven't heard whether Banks or Tom's, Zach Tom is going to be able to go tonight. I would imagine Tom played last game. I would think that I could send that a text here.

And hopefully by the end of this show, we get an answer to that. I saw, were you reading a text across the top of your screen there while you're talking? Like, yeah, yeah, just in the middle of that? You're getting information, it feels like? That's what we're trying to figure out right now. Okay, I appreciate that. Hell yeah. I really appreciate the way you're operating right now, multitasking to a T, having to juggle 45 different conversations all at the same time.

A true talent, a true trait. And also, an incredible work ethic to be in your business. We appreciate you joining us. We're going to run a clip right now. if you would like to potentially go ahead and handle your business. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, Chefty, I need you to be honest here. You're going to watch this clip of MCDC giving an answer at a press conference.

And it doesn't sound like old jovial Applebee's Dan. Sounds like MCDC's a little pissed off. Foxy, why don't you run that? Just how good the offense was last year under Ben Johnson. People are just wondering myself, just included, would it have been feasible just to, you know, I know John's a different coordinator, but would it have been feasible to just, you know, Jared talked about, changes in communication there wasn't a lot of pre-snap motion would it have been feasible just to

run the really the exact same offense as last year what are you asking what did jared say i'm saying your offense last year no you said something jared said so let me hear it changes in communication yeah but you said something about emotions and should keep yeah i'm saying that would it have been feasible to and people are wondering the offense looks drastically different than it does last year Would it have been feasible to just exactly run the exact same offense? So after one game, tell me what it looks like that's drastically different. Exposive plays weren't there. It wasn't as creative.

You didn't see any pre-snap motions in that game? As much as we've seen before. I want you to go back and look at all of our motions, pre-snap motions, fast motion shifts on the road. Yeah, look at them, bitch. No, seriously, the lions, I mean, the vibes are not. not good right now. And MCDC, you know, taking shit for responding that way is ridiculous just because, of course, those questions are going to come. But what do you think, Shefti? Should we be genuinely worried about these Detroit lines, especially with how good the Packers and Vikings look

for a quarter? I think there are fair and legitimate questions to ask about how the offense is going to operate in the absence of Ben Johnson. Not just Ben Johnson. This is a coaching staff that lost eight assistant coaches. Tanner Engstrand, who is an offensive coordinator now with the New York Jets. The Jets' offense looked great on Sunday. He left Detroit, too. There were a lot of people that were big Tanner Engstrand fans. And so this is an offense, I think that the talent is there. They have a boatload of talent. They lose some coaches. They lose Frank Ragnow. Offensive line has some changes. And I just think that these are going to be questions that are going to come up throughout the season. I think it is going to be a little bit of a question mark until they

answered them at the very least. And that offense on Sunday lacked explosiveness. Maybe it was one game. Maybe it was just the opener. It lacked creativity. Maybe it was just the opener. Maybe it was being in Green Bay. But I think there were signals that you're taking out of the first game say, that didn't look like the lions that we've seen the last couple of years. Now, again, they may come out on Sunday against Ben Johnson and the Bears, and they may go back to being themselves. But I can tell you, there are people around the league who question that and wonder if this offense will be the same. Now, it's up to them to go out and prove those naysayers and doubters and skeptics wrong, and there's certainly enough talent to do that. But through one game,

that was a flat performance. Jamir Gibbs right there caught 10 passes for 31 yards. It was the lowest number of receiving yards that a player had ever had for 10 catches in an NFL game in NFL history. And so they didn't play great. They didn't look great. By the way, the Texas come back, Packers holding out hope that both those offensive linemen can go tonight, but they don't sound overly optimistic,

and it sounds like we're going to get Knard at right tackle and Morgan at left scored and both guys could be down tonight. Okay, put it on a thicker. Short week, obviously going to be difficult. People are always optimistic, you know, hopeful. But then whenever push comes to shove, are we really going to put them out. Beginning of the year, short week like this,

have a chance to maybe steal a couple recovery days. Why not? Got a real chance to win the whole thing. Yeah, you've got a long season ahead. Now, on that note, about the Packers and about the Lions, maybe the Packers defense is just the best defense in a league, and maybe that's why the Detroit Lions' offense wasn't that good. Maybe it's a combination of new people talking, new everything,

but also this Packers' defense could be the real deal. They put up two first rounders for this defense to be what it is. So maybe they're just going to be – that's how I feel about the dolphins. Maybe the dolphins aren't ass. Yeah. Maybe the coach are just the greatest team in the history of football. There's a chip. Maybe they go undefeated, Schaefter.

There's so many questions still to be left out there, you know? Like the Detroit lines. Look, we go back to week one. The ultimate teaching example of week one was when the New England Patriots went to Buffalo. I think they lost 31-0 or 31-7. the week in which they cut lawyer Malloy and it was a disastrous opening for New England I think they went out to win the Super Bowl that year, right?

That year, that was in the dock. I like that. Yeah, well, also, think about what the Chiefs did in the Patriots opening night. Yeah, yeah, and then Jimmy Garoppel finished the game and they asked Belichick after if Tom Brady still the quarterback and he laughed at him. Yeah, so then I think you guys win.

That was Ron to Cincinnati. Yeah, and I think you guys win the Super Bowl that year, right? Yeah, yeah, that was the year they won. I think that was the flight gate year. Yeah, so you can be very, early, it win. But the stats are not heavily in your favor. No. No. Especially after

an 0-and-2 start, I think it was there was some graphics set in and it was like four teams have made the Super Bowl. Yeah, boom. I've made the Super Bowl after an 0-and-2 start. So it is possible. It is possible. But, you know, it is a long shot, but the whole season's a long shot anyways. You know, maybe the Lions are all the way back. And I like that

MCDC's got a little heavy breathing up there. Same. A little ruffling of the papers. That was hilarious This guy's super genius That's what he is Did you watch what we did on the road? You know maybe we're slowing it down A little bit here to start this entire thing

I like that I like where we're at with the Lions Everybody's rolling them out Just got to fix the offensive line If you fix the offensive line You get a run, gang going Play action works, boom we're back in this thing But Jordan Love and Michael Parsons

Are in Green Bay And it's a J.J. McCarthy era In Minnesota he had a great fourth quarter That's a sign of things to come, brother Player of the week Lions now I think the Lions are worth Whoa whoa whoa we are in must win

territory. I'll say that. We play the Bears on Sunday. We're in must win territory. J.J. McCart? By the way, go ahead. Before we get to J.J. and I am anxious to get to J.J. But the Lions, the Lions after this game, I mean, look, they play the Bears. It'll be an interesting game. And then after this game, the Lions play

at Baltimore. Oh, no. At Baltimore. Oh, gee. Monday night. They lost by 40 at Baltimore with Ben Johnson, Ram. Oh, and three? And the Bears game, obviously, Ben Johnson Revenge Game because they Yeah. Oh yeah. And they're talking shit. I'm on St. Brown's

like, yeah. When Ben Johnson comes on, I don't even care. We're all saying, fuck this bitch. No, he didn't say that. He said something like that. No, he didn't say that. But there was a lot of negativity towards Ben going to Chicago over all the other places he could have went, so he's going to have revenge there. There's no, you've got no cupcakes

coming up here for the Detroit Lions. Schedule is absolutely brutal. And the fans are going to boo the hell out of Ben Johnson. weekend i'm here for that let's talk about j j mccarthy because you uh obviously michigan man you knew the inside stuff about him and the inside stories about him long before i got a chance to learn them through college game day and getting a chance to talk to their coaching staff and then obviously through desmond howard talking about him and just basically everybody that's ever met him saying the same exact thing about him and i don't want to do the promo once again but basically

everybody that's known him since high school said in between the years he's one of the ones he is one of the the ones. That is what he is. And I think Darius Butler said, it sounds like the right comparison for JJ is actually Tom Brady because the in-between the ears thing is what made Tom Brady, Tom Brady. Like we assume J.J. McCarthy's work ethic is insane because of everything we've heard about the way that he operates. So he's only going to get better and better. And with Kevin O'Connell, we assume they're only going to get better and better. He's the one. Is that why everybody in Michigan thought that was the case? And that's why Jim Harbaugh was saying, this guy had the greatest quarterback workout in the history of quarterback workouts.

He's by far the best quarterback in this. What are your thoughts on the Michigan? man in his debut and obviously a fourth quarter that we'll remember in his hometown of Chicago. I don't know that there are a lot of quarterbacks that could struggle the way that JJ did through three quarters, throw a pick six, a pick six that I think a lot of people thought the game was on ice at that point in time. And then he responds with three fourth quarter touchdowns, including the bootleg around the corner where he dies into the end zone. And honestly, it was very J.J. McCarthy-esque. It just was. That's what that guy does. And Ty and I talked about it this week, but that guy is the epitome, the epitome of poise, positivity, and productivity. That's who he is.

He's always upbeat. He always believes he's going to get it done because throughout his entire quarterback life, he has gotten it done. He is somebody that uplifts others. where some people like to bring down people. JJ's just the opposite. He raises people. You can see the reaction he got when he ran into the end zone and how many people went running around him. It's just kind of who he is.

It's in his DNA. It's the intangibles. There are some people that play the game. They just don't win often. There have been enough quarterbacks through history. We don't have to name any names. They just don't get it done when it matters. This guy, high school, college,

and in his first NFL game on the road after a pick six, down in the fourth quarter, he does get it done. Watch how many people, watch how many people come over and celebrate with him once he goes into the end zone there. 75 sprints. Yeah, and I think I call him a sicko or a psycho too.

I forget what it was, but it's like very, it's like very bro, like very much like they're in this thing together. It was awesome. You're right. 75 is who Connor's pointing out in the background. He's not the only one while we've got it short there. There are a lot of people.

Now, I think it's great. Sunday night football, of course. Sunday night. You know what we get Sunday night? J.J. McCarthy versus Michael Pennix, a rematch of the national championship game. First time they've met since that. It's kind of cool, right? Another prod time hit, too.

And this is a banger storylines. Things are going to go well, we assume, for both guys. Yep. Okay. NFL's swinging a hot bat. They are. Monday Night Football doubleheader, not to mention. They're kicking off at 10 o'clock.

Definitely going to walk that. Who? Who? Who? Who? Yeah. We love it. We're sure of fault for that.

That's really cool. So stupid. They got it right last year. Why did they change it, Chefty? We don't know. They might get it right this year too. Well, they're trying to do 7 p.m. for the West Coast. Yeah.

Because remember, though, they had the 7 p.m. And then they started the next game at, like, I don't know, it was 8.30. And it was right when the 7 p.m. game was at halftime. Like, they got this done already. I don't know why they're going back. Well, you can't watch the four quarter or second quarter at the same time. I think it was Orlovsky was bitch and say, Nobody listened to my game last year.

We didn't have them separate. Is that what happened, Shepter? I don't know what happened there. It went back to the 10 o'clock game. As a older guy here, a 50-year-old guy, I don't like those late start times. It's hard for me to make it up for the whole thing. Like, it just is. Like, I'm going to try, but my chances of succeeding are not very good.

As my wife can attest, I'm sure I'll be, you know, drooling by the second quarter. Yeah, I like that. You're a mouth open drool or sleeper. I like that a lot. I'll get into that every once in a while with some deep sleep. 10 p.m., good for the West Coast, people, though. Happy for the West Coast. Go for the West Coast.

We're happy for you. All right, speaking to the West Coast, last question here for you, Shepter. We appreciate the hell out of you. Speaking of the West Coast, is there just a constant injury bug in Santa Clara? Because it feels like the Niners have been bitten by it the last three years. Right now, George Kittle, he goes on the IR, so that's four weeks. And then I saw earlier today, Purdy, maybe two to five is a potential. Is he and I.R. candidate as well?

What's going on with the Niners in their injury situation right now? Well, Kyle Shanahan said multiple weeks. And when the head coach is saying on Wednesday that the quarterback is a long shot to play and that it's a multiple week injury, that tells you we need to know. Like, Kyle Shanahan's being as transparent as he could be about that. And so right now, it'll depend on how Purdy feels as he's coming along, whether he misses two games, three games, four. They don't know yet.

they'll wait to see how he responds to these injuries the toe is the bigger issue than the shoulder right now he heard it when he got tackled out of bounds by julian love on sunday they knew it was hurt during the game they knew it was an issue and now it looks like it's going to sideline him Sunday and beyond and so i mean it sets up a great storyline here you prefer to have brock purdy out there but mac jones finally playing for the 49 everybody everybody expected to see mac jones running at Kyle Shanhan offense, we just didn't think it was going to be in week two of the 2025 season. But that's what we got here on Sunday in New Orleans against the Saints. And again, I'm just telling you that when the Niners made that trade to go up to number three,

it was with the intent to draft Mack Jones. And then during the process and the evaluations, they changed their course of thinking and decided to go Trey Lance. And they went away from Mac Jones. And Mac Jones obviously signed with San Francisco this summer. Trying to follow like the Sam Darnal plan. Sam Darnel went to San Francisco for a year before he went to Minnesota for a year before

we got the big deal in Seattle. And so Mac Jones now gets a chance to show what he can do in the 49ers offense year. I love Brock Birdie. Okay? Yes. I appreciate Brock Purdy. I respect Brock Purdy. I feel like I have banged the drum for Brock Purdy

louder than most people because of how much respect I have for his story. To be drafted where he was drafted, become the starter against all odds and just ball out and them immediately have success. And then everybody's still thinking, oh, he's, there's a reason they didn't draft him. He could walk on water

and they would say it's because he couldn't swim. And I didn't create that line, but that was really what Brock Party was being judged against, and I didn't like that. I thought he was a baller. Now, him finishing the game with his toe that's going to keep him out a couple of weeks is certainly something that we should respect his toughness as well. Because if it is something that's going to

keep him out for multiple weeks. That had to be a real he finished the game there. So I think a lot of people just assumed he was going to play because he finished the game. If you can finish the game, what are we talking about? What do we do? Well, adrenaline's through the roof. You're doing this entire thing. But I say all that to say this. Shanahan liked Mack Jones, right, from the draft process. If Mack Jones balls

out. Okay? Uh-oh. Possible. Mac Jones balling out as possible. And he does, again, next week. And again, the week after that. Uh-oh. Kyle Shanahan is a guy who will say, we just gave you how much money?

We don't care. We are going with Mack Jones. He is a hot hand, is my quarterback type of guy, and that's insane to even think about at this point, especially because of how much I respect Brock Purdy. But if Mack Jones is the perfect quarterback for a Kyle Shanahan offense, which is possible,

especially with the years of experience he's had now, failing. You know, failing is a good thing because you learn a lot. You get humbled and maybe. I don't know how many gritties we're going to see tonight. Maybe we see a few. But it's like maybe he's at a perfect spot, for Kyle Shanahan offense in his brain and his throne.

Maybe that's what, you know, there's a possibility here. There's a huge storyline. Yeah, and his number one target in New England while he was there was Kendrick Bourne. And the 49th brought in Kendrick Bourne to be another receiver because Joannex heard his shoulder and they weren't sure about him. So Mac Jones is, you know, basically his best target throughout his career thus far. You could say because, you know, that's the only place he started and played with him would be Kendra Bourne.

So him, McCaffrey's healthy and Shanahan wanted him. I Tongues, what's the guy's name? Yeah, Jake Tongassus. Are we on the right track here? Am I speaking out of pocket saying that, Shephti? Listen, they're committed to Brock Purdy. The money's committed to Brock Purdy.

They'd love to have Mack Jones develop. I think that that's... I mean, there are always a bunch of scenarios that it could unfold with any scenario. I don't see that happening right now. I think there's a lot of steps that would... They'd have to get through to get to that point in time. If Brock Purdy were unsigned and hadn't signed the deal,

uh this past summer then i'd say that's interesting pat we might be on to something but but they committed big money to the guy so uh he's going to be there for a while the three overall pick i trade him traded a bunch for it they put mr irrelevant up in there it's a wild move but if you're going to win you're going to win i miss brock birdie but i'm excited to see if this is mac jones at his full potential yeah good luck to him good luck to all parties and tonight we'll follow along as you keep us updated on everything that's happening we appreciate the hell out of you Thank you guys. I appreciate me.

Nice to be with you. You'll see you Monday. Amen. Ladies of gentlemen, Adam Schaeft. First 15 on Monday. Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now as a man that said this and half time of his last game,

as he was beating a team 33-0 in the first two quarters of the game. Time talking. Maybe I just have a different standard. I don't like that freaking moving the ball again. They're dropping back at the end of the half. Like, we're on the side. As me and John said, they'll take me here. They'll run the ball.

They don't fear you, they don't respect you enough yet. And if that sounds like coach beat, then you have the wrong brain. They're dropping back against our starting defense. They're cutting our own line at the end of the half. All you young guys are, just go back there and chill. I want my opportunity. Some of you guys will get an opportunity right now. I told you I don't care what the score is.

I told you I care what the tape looks like. Did I trip when the ball was fumbled? No, I don't care what happens in the game. I want to see what the next play is. You have one half. Defense, you have one half. If they try to drop back and throw it and that quarterback's on the ground, I want new guys in there rushing.

I want them hit. I want them never to say her name again. You believe the fact for 43 seconds left. Another minute 30 of that, ladies and gentlemen, the coach, Coach Matt Rule. Yeah, Coach. What is up? Hey, I want to let you know when that video was leaked,

snuck out of somebody's phone shout out Will Compton the boys great job on TV this morning boys when we see that I think to myself here's a guy trying to set a precedent right now here's a guy trying to let the boys know like hey in the past maybe we're okay winning by

a touchdown or winning by four or letting people come back on us or you said a couple different times through there to the defense you have an opportunity at a shutout you don't get a lot opportunities at a shutout I love that mentality is this new speak from you to the team or is Is this a new angle, or is this kind of how you've always been at all your stops?

Yeah, this is, this is kind of, you know, who I am and who we are. I think the great thing is, is I just have a team now that's ready for it. That's all there for it. Like, you know, that video, in the end, there's a couple senior safeties that are shaking their head. And, you know, it was really cool at the end of the game, like the one safety, Marquise, Euford, he was like, I've never beat someone 68-0. He's like, this feels great. And, you know, it's not supposed to be easy.

so you have to have moments like that where you're just reminding everyone what the standard is and that was directed at the coaches too like I don't want to see us chilling like we're supposed to beat people that if you're at Nebraska you're supposed to win like that and so but yeah I have a team that likes that kind of stuff like they weren't I wasn't yelling at them I was yelling

with them and they were all about it I love the competitive spirit going to have to have that you know having the killer mentality is a real thing and you have to have it and I think it is something that is practiced I think it is something that is trained and it sounds like you were thinking of the second half against Akron there 33-0 at halftime, 68-0 after 4.

So that's a bigger, you do some quick math. That's a bigger second half than first half there. And no relief syndrome for this Nebraska team. Obviously, you have Houston Christian Huskies on Saturday. Now, I assume there's going to be a lot of similar chatter to the boys going into this one. Nobody has really heard of this team. Now, I certainly did because I love college ball. And we talked about this Huskies team down there for the Houston Christian folks.

One of our favorites. They're tough. Dogs are barking down there. Yeah. And the name of the... Yeah. And I'm in a patria, feel like Spiriti Santi.

Hoh, that's what they... And they do pregame. Yeah, that's the... That's the entire thing. Their dogs. They're husky. They don't pray for winning because God willing they shall.

Yeah, that's right. And where else would they rather be than right here underneath this Lord? So I understand that they are a problem. You're going to have to keep your boys locked in. For real. Because that's the type of game

that blows an entire season, especially if you think you're going to do something special. Is that the messaging? And how do you not look ahead to the rest of the schedule that is very, very good. You've got a pretty solid lineup coming right around the bend here. Yeah, no doubt. I think the way we've talked about it all along is, you know,

the guys want to go to the NFL. So I've said, hey, we have three preseason games, just like you have in the National Football League. And that's not to diminish them, but it's, hey, we're in the big tent. And we have to go coast to coast. We have to play all these good teams. So we have three games to establish kind of our identity. Guys, the players on our team, they have three games.

to establish their role. Like, I want to be a starter. I want to, I want to be the starting kicker. I want to be the starting, okay, well, go play well. I'm not going to make you the starter if you don't play well against Cincinnati and then against Akron and against Houston Christian. And so that doesn't mean that the games don't matter or aren't important. It just means like we are trying to build our team up into the Big Ten.

And so there's a lot of guys this weekend who have a lot riding on this game. Like your role, how people see you, like when the Big Ten teams turn on this tape, what are they going to say about you? is there going to be a fish next to your name? Like, oh, that's the guy to go after? Or are they going to circle you and say, hey, watch out for this guy. And Dominic and Sue, great Husker.

He said that on Bustle with the boys. And I'm going to show that to the guys tomorrow. Like, who are the guys on our team that you have to circle? Like, hey, we got to be ready for this guy. And that's my challenge to our guys. I like that that video is out there because our guys answered the call. To your point, we haven't shut someone out here since 2009. And so to finally shut someone out, okay, great.

But now the standard set. now you have to go out and play that way each and every week. I like the reminder, though, like, hey, you have a chance here to shut somebody. Like, that is a new goal. All of a sudden, we're moving the goalposts. Like, hey, we have a new goal right now that we didn't know we could potentially be staring down. And we all know MAC teams, tough. Oh, yeah.

Tough. No doubt. If you let them hang around, if you let them hang around, love ball. They're going to be scrappy in there. And that Ohio University team, I would not schedule them if I was you got. Oh, yeah. I have a couple rules. I have a couple rules, not rules, but when I meet with my AD, when I get a new AD,

I'm like, just please never mention the word Dakota to me. And then we have Ohio you next year. I'm watching them, you know, almost beat Rutgers. I'm watching them last week. And then my AD, Troy Dan, and it was a great friend. He's like, you do know we have them next year. I about fell out of my chair. Like, well, it was scheduled before I got here.

Like, who scheduled? Who schedules a hot, Frank Solich? I mean, those teams know how to win. At Ohio, West Virginia was. We scheduled Ohio at Ohio. Who did that? Your question, same thing I asked.

I'm like, how are we playing? And they got Navarro back. He's in like, it seems like, over there. Yeah, they're scrappy team. So if you don't put them away,

though, your team could have been on the other side of an embarrassment there. You know, like I appreciate the way you address that with your team.

I would say 45 seconds to a minute too long. You agree? After watching it back? Yeah, well, I'm always too long. I'm emotional. Like, that's not like,

I'm not walking in like, hey, Pat, what should I say here? I was legitimately mad. They drove the ball down and almost made a field goal. He hit the goalpost. I was like, at some point, as my point, at some point at Nebraska, we got to be Nebraska. Like, you just got to end the game.

The quarterback drops back. You've got to go sack him. And I respect Joe Moorhead. I respect Akron. They played hard to the end. It was a good game in terms of like there was no fights. There was no traffic. But like, we're supposed to be Nebraska.

And so I'm just trying to get our guys to realize. Like, when you say the word Nebraska, you've got to think the way the guys at the preeminent programs in the country. thing. So I was legitimately mad, but bro, I'm always too long. That's why my wife cuts me off. She's like, Matt's not talking. No, yeah. I want to let you know, me and Dee Bunch, we're watching it. We're watching it. And we're like,

this is really good. And then we found ourselves looking at the clock. We've got another 90 seconds here. Okay, I'm excited to hear what he does. But I love though that your team responded, brother. That's the only thing, it doesn't matter how I view it. Doesn't matter how Will Compton view it, he was ready to go. Yeah.

Will Combo was ready to go play. Doesn't matter how anybody else is how your team views it. And you're obviously getting through to him. Now, when it comes to coaching, teaching, elevating this particular roster, you said three weeks to kind of build for the Big Ten schedule. Go ahead, Tom. Yeah, coach. First off, shout out, Coach Morhead. He's a great Pittsburgh guy. But

talking about that, Sabin was on the show last week, and Connor asked him about playing FCS schools. And Sabin said he would use those games to kind of work on things that he thought weren't good. Like, if their passing game wasn't good, they would throw the ball 50 times. But you talked about it in

preparing for Big Ten games. Are you, like, these games are using it to prepare for Big Ten or using it for your team to get better in areas that you know they're not good? How do you approach these games against FCS schools? I think it's one and the same. I think it's great that we're playing. I mean, I coached at SCS. I coached to Western Carolina. Like, you know, those schools need games like this to survive and pay the bill. So I think it's awesome. I think you're preparing for the Big Ten by fixing the things that you're not more well. Like, you know, we're one of the top past defenses in the country right now, but we're not

sacking the quarterback. So like this week, like, you know, that's, that's been a major, major, major factor. You know, we haven't had a chance to go no huddle two minute yet very much. So, you know, we're working on that during the week and then we'll probably show some of that. We'll probably work on some of that in the game. So, yeah, when you guys bring coach saving on he says those things, I write them down. I'm like, oh, wow, that's a great way to think about it. But I'm also trying to make sure the guys on our roster, like the twos and the threes, like, you know, they got to play a lot versus Akron. And that was important because now in college football, we want to play 16 weeks.

We want to go to the college ball playoff. And so guys who might be a three right now, they could be a starter come December and January. So I'm trying to make these games like the feeling should feel like a playoff game. Because for some guys, it really is for them. This is their chance to show what they can do. How's Royola? How do we feel about it?

We like it? I love it. I think he played. The big thing is that, you know, I said to our media and I think nationally, like it's just so easy to be like, oh, you know, the Mahomes thing. Like, I want him to come out with amazing numbers. and not a lot of highlight plays. I don't want you to see him, you know,

running around and throwing the ball behind his back and under, you know, he can do all that stuff. I want him just to play quarterback. And I think he's so underappreciated nationally, but, you know, we'll have to do it in the Big Ten. But I think as time goes on, his, his, he's throwing the ball from under center. He's throwing the ball from the gun.

I mean, he's doing everything you're going to do on Sundays. I think he's, I think he's one of the best players in the country. What is he's true sophomore right now, right? That was game 15 for him. 12 games, a bowl game. And then this, I mean, This will be game 16. He's not even like, I mean, he's so young.

I mean, he's going to be so good. Great player. Last year had a lot of flash, I think, right? That's what you were talking about, all the flash. This year, you're saying he feels like a more mature quarterback. He said under center. He's that no flash plays. We're just doing football, basically, you're saying.

Exactly right. Yeah, I mean, you know, last year, early on, he had some plays. He ran around. He made some crazy throws. Some throws that you're like, no, no, no. Oh, yes. All right, cool. And so that was kind of the storyline.

Like, hey, look at these exotic plays. But now it's like, I mean, he's playing. quarterback, like the way you need to play it. He's getting the ball to the right guys. We completed balls to 14 different people this game. So it's not like, hey, we're just throwing to one guy. He's doing, he's doing quarterback play at the highest level through two games. And now we'll have a chance on Saturday to try to go back to the other point, do some things maybe we haven't done as well, push the ball down the field, maybe some no huddle. We'll see how the game plays out. Oh, dump that, dump that. Hump that. Houston's going to know

the game play. They're going to know the gameplay. They're definitely going to hear this. Last question. A lot of Packers fans out there in Nebraska? You know, there's a lot of Packers fans here. We got a lot of Chiefs fans and there's a lot of Packers fans here. Yeah, I can imagine right out there in that part of the world, part of the country. How do you feel about Michael Parsons joining the Packers? I think it's such a great move. I mean, you know, you give away, you give away a good player, Frank Clark, you give away two ones, but you mean, you get the best defensive player in football. And you're a running team. You know, you get good quarterback play from Jordan Love, but now you've added a dynamic element, and how do you win games in the national

football? They're all going to come down to the final five minutes. Having somebody who can affect the other quarterback is vital. And so you give away two ones, but they're going to be in the playoffs. Those are those are going to be picks in the 20s or whatever. I mean, I think it's such a great move. And him coming out there, he's out there in number one, you know, an old Harrisburg guy, my kind of guy. Like, I think he's just a great player. And I think it's a great move by Matt LaFleur and the people there. Oh, I forgot there was a Penn State connection there. Of course. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. How's house rules?

How's house rules? I almost called it Rules House again. I just want to let you know. Listen, listen. You went with the Who's House, Rules House, a little run DMC last time, and I loved it. We debated on the last pot.

Should we just change the name to Rules House? If you say it, I'm good with it. But we came out with another episode today. My boy, Danny Woodhead, Beck, Alec, All-American volleyball player here. So we're having fun with it. You know, we're getting some people in. And it's fun for me to be.

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at participating restaurants in Canada. Football. Happens again tonight, and we will certainly be all over. We have a former head coach of the Green Bay Packers, a Super Bowl champion head coach of the Green Bay Packers. Last with the Dallas Cowboys coach, Mike McCarthy, Jinser Legend, joining us in about 15, 20 minutes or so to chitch out about tonight and everything else happening around the NFL.

I think we're really going to enjoy that throughout the rest of the season. Obviously, the talks of tables here at Boston Corner and that Ty Schmidt's sweet shirt. Thank you very much. I just wanted to support Ty, you know, the best way I knew how, kind of rep one of his favorites. I didn't want to wear Packers gears a little much, but I know that a Dale intimidate your shirt will help.

And is that true, Ty? Does it feel as if he is riding alongside the Green Bay Packers tonight because the three, D.E. Is next to you. Yeah, without a doubt. Almost brings a tear to mine. Actually, what I'm going to do. I'm going to go ahead and hand you one of these for the show.

You put that in front of you, son, and you just let the Lord do the rest. Holy fuck. Exactly. Right there on top of the popcorn. Get your popcorn ready, actually. Amen. Well said. That's not a bad little.

Yeah. That's not a bad little tie in there. How do you feel about the Packers tonight? Because I've heard some voices around the Thunderdome saying, uh, really like the commanders all of a sudden, plus three and a half. Are people forgetting about Cliff Kingsbury and Jaden Daniels and what they were able to do in week one? Is everybody blinded by the Michael Parsons magic saying,

oh, Remember who the Washington commanders are now that they're in this new era, new ownership, new time. They're a good team. Getting three and a half feels like a lot of points for Washington commanders team, especially of this stature. Are you hearing the same things that I'm hearing around the Thunderdum, Ty, and how does that make you feel? Yeah, a little bit, but I think kind of the prevailing notion has been, hey, three and a half might be too much. I think the Packers win, but maybe the Commander's cover, which I could see that being the case. I'll tell you what I did, I told Connor this morning, had the Packers looked like,

hammered dog shit last week or just squeaked by the Lions, I would have been very nervous going into tonight because I do think, there's a lot of talk of Jayden Daniels like, well, you know, hey, we'll see maybe he has a step down which is kind of weird because typically we hear about like, no, actually, if

you're good, like that's when you really take that jump is like that second and third year when you're a guy like him. So yeah, obviously, you know, Jared Gough's not back there again this week. Their play styles are certainly a little bit different. So that does concern me a little bit. But again, it's at home. And this is just, it's a great opportunity for the Packers. You have all this talk. You have all this pomp and

circumstance surrounding them this season. It's like, okay, go prove it. You know, you have a great win, week one, flush that. That doesn't mean shit. Go out and beat a team who you could potentially see in the NFC championship. Earlier, we touched out that 59% of the people are on Washington Commanders plus three and a half, which also echoed the sentiments of the Thunderdum earlier. before we went live. Let's go to one half of the hammer. God. Cowboys, AP Tone.

Where are we at now with the public? We're trying to beat the sports books for the first weekend of the football season. We have had some significant movement. It's down to 58% of the money on the Washington commander, so a little bit more Packers' money coming. Oh, that's from 59% to 58%.

Wow, plus three and a half. Still got an opportunity. What states over there? Maryland has sports betting? Oh, yeah. Virginia? Yeah. I think majority of. Maths.

you think all what states don't utah california does florida i don't think florida i don't think california no you can't because i was yeah hard rock you did yeah you can only do through hard rock why you what texas 38 u.s states have it okay so there's quick math plus washington dc and porto rico okay so dc also in there shout out the p r man yeah porto rick by the way great place love that place great place down there Puerto Rico is a great island.

I know Tony. Sure. I had a joke, a little misdirection about the place. I don't, you know, Bob Bonnie, obviously, from Puerto Rico. Oh, geez and peace, Bat Bonnie. Yeah, he blew out his knee. His knee. Stop hopping like a Bonnie, bad bonnie.

He was doing a 30-day or 30 show, what's that called, residency? Residency. In Puerto Rico, just the island of Puerto Rico. And I happened to be down there in the middle of the show, residency time. And his show was like an hour. maybe away from where I was, but they're talking about tourism just on the whole island being up because bad bunny is doing this entire thing. So when you talk about representing for your homeland, I mean, he is actually doing that, like bringing so much money to the island. Yeah,

he's a showman too. He's entertaining. Oh, yeah, PLE. He's doing a lot of stuff, you know, and then he's hopping around. He's knee blows out. He toughed it out to the back. He did, which I appreciate it. So what we're saying is maybe more people betting on a commanders at this standpoint because Green Bay Packers fans, if you had to wake up and start down, or do we think plus three and a half is the right play? Feels like that's what everybody is alluding to that's chit-chatting about. It's not the side I'm going to be on, but if the majority of...

Hey, Tony. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who is live from an attic in Ohio. He is also a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, and a Ryder Cup winner. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawke. Hawker. Hawker! Hawker! Hocker! Hawker! Hocker! Hawker!

Hocker! Hey, that song you're looking for. called roll out the barrel what they play in Lambeau play it like you usually like heading into the fourth quarter towards the end of the game just get everybody really juiced up let me hear it because we lost uh in the preseason there by a lot more of an instrumental thing i mean there's some words to it more of an instrumental just kind of vibe just do what's it sound like though what's the instrumental sound like roll out the barrel there it is roll roll roll there's some words like there's like some weird words in it too

it's like old polko situation okay so maybe that is what you were referring to Roll Out the Barrow is the name. Bruce, can we maybe try to search that, roll out the barrel? We assume it's called. Well, Wayne did it. A, Lil Wayne, I entered, intro to, I think, I don't know, four or five years ago at Lambo.

He was like the guy that started it. He hit the Rollout the Barrow with the Wayne train. You're telling me, Lil Wayne got on the Rollout the Barrow? That's sick. Beryl song, that is nasty. He was on the 50. I think it was in the 50. He kind of introed it and bam.

Place went crazy. So he introed the song, or he put a verse on the song? I don't think he put a verse on the song. He's not in the moment, not in the video I saw. Need a mixtape remix with Lowell Wayne on top of Roll Out the Barrel. Yeah.

If he wants to, sure. Can you find the song, though? Can you find a video, Bruce, so we can hear the thing as opposed to just read about it, you know? Because A.J. refuses to do it. What do you say? Roll out the barrel. Roll out of barrel.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, wow. Oh, no. There you go. They throttle on me? How does it look? I think it was an auto-focus situation there, and they got those books in the back. You got some new books this year, I see.

Yeah, a couple new ones that add to the collection, but, you know, the usual are here. The usual is always going to be around. Always going to want those words of literature, obviously, really close to your brain, so you can maybe osmosis and I appreciate you doing that. Did you ever think about maybe changing the books for this year? Was there ever even a thought of that? No, I, no. Can't fake that I did.

Yeah, I don't think I've even put thought into that. background but i have had people recently come up and say so are those his favorite books but why is you always in front of the and i'm like why you turn them backwards why do you turn those books backwards they tell me that's because you're mysterious you memorize because it's art yeah it is art you're right you take you never want to judge a book by its cover that's right so you actually completely cover the cover so that there is no cover so you go in blind going in which is hey not a bad thing to do and that's why we appreciate you tonight though obviously great bias the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers. The Washington commanders are coming to

town. We've heard 65 degrees tonight should be a perfect night in Green Bay, Wisconsin. AJ, your thoughts on what will win the game for the Packers or what you're worried about maybe for the Packers, either or? So what's the final injury situation from Chef? Did he say? Do we know about the O-line? Both out. That's what it sounded like. likely. That's not a great thing, but you know what? I still think they'll be all right. Obviously, we need Jordan love to play well. I think we need to find a way to run the ball, too, if we're Green Bay. Jayton Daniels is awesome. I think the commanders are awesome.

I love what they do. But I think another home game in Lambo, night game, they're going to play roll out the barrelhead in the fourth quarter. That place is going to be alive tonight. It's going to be awesome. I think the Packers figure it out. We found it. Is it like Renegade?

I mean, yes. It's kind of a hokey version. Bruce found it. Had a boy, Bruce. Roll out the barrel We'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the dance too We've got the blues on the run

Sing It's so Wisconsin It is so green bag Bring out a sorrel Brilliant Now's time to roll the barrel all here That's sick

That sucks What? Pretty sweet Yeah I'm sorry That sucks And honestly I'm damn near speaking

For Ty here Because I know he won't say It's tradition Sorry we don't have Sammy Adams You know Coming out for the Patriots No no

I'm not I'm not comparing Anything like that I'm strictly comparing It to the only one I know And that's Renegate And I'm sorry Yeah but that's

No That's one A one B situation I think. You're thinking about Frankie Yankovic and his yanks here singing roll. He's a Yankovic.

Yeah. That's what we're talking about. Listen, if it gets the crowd fired up, that's all it meant. What did you say? It was a hokey version. That took me back

to that preseason game. We were getting around as me. Reminds me the Pittsburgh polka, which I love. Woos, dude. Hey, the best of us we played, you know, in Green Bay,

we were used to all, like, the Lambeau field that played raw out the barrel. We went to San Francisco. I don't know how many years ago and Titty Boys performing on the top of the dugouts from the old camp six park where this is not this is not lambo field guys this is much different

atmosphere that's a great performance though i're two chains i mean i've never seen him not have a great performance by the way yeah i've seen a couple different times at different times of the night you know i've seen him in one place at 10 p.m i've seen in another place 2 a.m. both times nothing but home runs out of titty boy i mean he's ready for the moment always will be always has been but yeah it is interesting how different stadiums operate how different fan bases are you know like here in Indianapolis, I think we have a very hospitable bunch. Is it Nebraska that's like the greatest fans? The nicest of all time?

The football fans are just like fill up and they do the entire thing. And then you got like the old school Raiders fans. I'm not saying Las Vegas was like this, but they take pride and like, yeah, it sucks playing here because of us. It's a fascinating dynamic, these stadiums. I think whatever you empower the city, though, to be awesome, I think that's a good thing. You should just know your identity in there. You know what I mean, AJ? You should know your identity.

How do you get that? Your team has to have a good run of being really, really good. to create that kind of identity, doesn't it? You can't be, like, mediocre and have great traditions, can you? I don't know, maybe you can't. I think the people are the culture in any city, okay, that's what I think.

So like in Pittsburgh, for instance, there's a chance, there's gonna be some booze bags fighting each other. Sure. Like that is gonna happen, probably, in this, at a game, that is probably gonna take place. Philadelphia, probably go ahead and check that box as well. Cincinnati. Boom, now Zach Taylor,

I'd like to talk to you about this. Now that were Cincinnati, bang, now let's get into an actual story. Love this. This is head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Zach Taylor, who we will add is a man who has taken a game ball to a local bar, dive bar, and given a game ball to them and the people of Cincinnati. I think he has had a beer or 10 with the Cincinnati people.

Here's him chit-chatting about opening night. Yeah, here's exactly what I'm looking for. I know how loud we're going to be, and so let's do it early. Let's show them right out the gate. I think when Sam Hubbard is up there as the ruler of the jungle, every seat is packed. and I'd love to look up I'm just asking for one game a 10 minute sacrifice from the parking lot

and so that might just mean getting up 10 minutes earlier and getting to the stadium 10 minutes earlier than you normally would and so do whatever you want in those extra 10 and then that extra 10 getting in the stadium and so when Sam's the ruler I'm kind of looking up at that escalator that's to my right and it's blank you know

and maybe people just appease me and stand at the bottom so I can't see as he's up there but I would love to hear that. Just week one, the rest of them, you can tell get a little extra longer, but I think for this first one, it would be awesome just to send the message to the team. We've got to do our best to start 2-0. And for all the great things that we want to do this year, it starts with playing great at home.

And that's a collective effort from our players, our coaches, our fan base. And so I'm excited to set off 2025 the right way at home. And orange, we're orangeed out, you know, and the Jersey is great, and our guys will be fired up. That's a one o'clock game. He's saying maybe we get there a little bit earlier. Okay, let's go ahead and fill that place at the beginning of this. This isn't a Miami Heat game or a Los Angeles Lakers game,

especially when Sam's up there as the ruler of the jungle. They've got the Jacksonville Jaguars coming into town. The Jacksonville Jaguars, vastly different than the Jacksonville Jaguars have been in years past. If you listen to AQ Shipley with the offensive line and the way they're designing plays and everything they got going on down there. That's a situation where Zach Taylor tells Ohio people, need you in here, okay? Enough with the booze and needs you to come inside.

If Jacksonville starts hot, right? I don't know Ohio people perfectly, but I do know them pretty well. This guy, why don't you show up 10 minutes earlier? There is a chance that that happens. But how do you think the response will be from this? And what do you think Bengals fans are thinking heading into a big orange dot in the jungle? I think fans, the response will be positive. I think they do need to have a hot start to this game.

That would definitely help. But, yeah, I think the fans are probably pretty upset that they've started so poorly in the past. They're like, all right, hey, we need to do our part to make sure that we have a hot start because we know we have a good team, but we've kind of got behind the ape all the last few years. Welcome to Jungle. We on the games. They play that a lot over there? I assume.

A little bit. They better. What I mean a little bit? I don't think. I don't even call a bunch. I do remember after, I remember Andy Dalton tell me one time they came out to, I think, Katie Perry. Roar or something, it didn't work. And he said, I don't know who came up with it, but it did not work. It probably shouldn't have happened. Hey, some of those stadiums are ass whenever it comes

to music, playing. Game day atmosphere. The vibes, the in-between quarters, what we're doing, the time-outs, you know, they try new games. We had a new game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Tick-tac-toe with the garbage can toss. Used to be just the garbage can toss. The thing about the garbage can toss or the little, like, you had to hit it like a circle. here very rarely if they hit it was a celebration right so now they had to hit at least three times to get the tick-tac toe board there's a lot of misses in there yeah i bet so we're waiting for the next one people are getting a little bit eager in there but the teams that do that right i do think it's an advantage i think the home field advantage is real and i think the stadium and the dj and how they

can help you know they can kind of guide how we do this thing don't you think a j with where we've been and what we've seen these days And, like, you talk to the people that run, like, that are pretty good franchises. They, they, it's their full-time gig. They have a whole team that that's what they do. Like, game day environment, atmosphere, when they play the music, when you stop it, when you start it. I mean, think of, like, I think of, remember, was it Buffalo in between when they're during a timeout and all the players are playing air guitar and all that stuff?

Like, it's a real thing. I think if you're in the NFL and you don't know it, you don't have a great atmosphere, go talk to some of these college places because we've been to some of these college stadiums where they have it dialed in. They know what to do. Juice, you know, because there's a lot of distractions in the modern world. Okay, so we need to keep everybody dialed, and we need to keep everybody's energy up.

Because as soon as they sit down and get tired, you're going right to their phone, and probably right to whatever drink they have, and right to this ain't a benefit. You're hitting this building. You're not helping anything right now. You're certainly there. So it's like the juice and the way you have it all flowing is a big deal.

Zach Taylor said, can we get there for the beginning again? Please. Just this one. Cincinnati has a great tailgating scene, though. I will say. I got a chance to see it one time. They got great setups everywhere. I'm sure there are people that like to celebrate football.

Zach's saying, just for the first one, is there any way you can be in there? This Jacksonville Jaguars team ain't the same old Jaguars. Actual good team this year from what everybody is saying. Shout to Liam Cohen and Stoner. Joining us now, Super Bowl champion head coach of the Green Bay Packers, formerly with the Dallas Cowboys. Now, a man that we get a chance to chat with every single week.

Yins are legend. Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Mike McCarthy. Yeah, Coach. Oh, Coach. Coach, you look amazing. I like the Kangle, but... Oh, it's not a Kangle. It's a hat.

With a sticker on. Oh, wow. Who's that behind you, Coach? AJ Hawk. I mean, he made the request last week, so we accommodated him. When I got me an A.J. Hawk microphone, too. I'm just trying to...

Wow. All of AJ's lead here. I'm trying to fit in around it. AJ, what does that mean? You called for a photo of yourself behind Coach's Mike McCarthy? I said a text. Actually, I said a text while he was still on the show from our keyboard.

Hey, Coach, you got to put a picture of me next time, please, in your background. Hey, good photo, hey, Jay, there, Coach. Don't you think he should grow his hair back? Is that what he's doing right now, you think? Yeah, no, it looks good. You have to ask Laura that. I'll say out of that one. Coach, that's a smart man.

That's good coaching right there. Coach, obviously, you have a lot of history in Green Bay. You're currently in Green Bay. Obviously, the ties, the mic are very deep as well with not only your connection into Dallas Cowboys, but now he's potentially living in the neighborhood that you stay in currently. What are your thoughts on where the Green Bay Packers are right now?

What are your thoughts on their debut against the Detroit Lions? And is there a buzz up there? I know you haven't been able to be around the city since you left, but is there a buzz in Green Bay like, hey, maybe this is a year the Packers can go on a run? Oh, definitely. No, there's definitely a big buzz. I mean, everywhere I know I go,

that's probably the first or second question is, you know, how's Micah doing and, you know, how's it going to be here in Green Bay? So being at the game, definitely felt the buzz. I mean, just to hear him, you know, when they announced, and really I kind of got a kick out of watching him, you know, on the sidelines because he was, you know, chomping at the bit. It was like a cage line, you know, getting ready to go in there.

I think they played them around 30 plays. And but just, you know, from the first time he got in, that first third down, you know, the pressure because, I mean, Mike, Micah has an effect. I mean, the defensive backs are going to are definitely going to benefit from it in the defensive pass, you know, and pass defense and I think, you know, definitely the other guys up front.

But I was very impressed with the Packers. I thought they played at a really high level from the start of the game all the way through and I was very impressed with their defense in front. Are the Lions dead, coach? Are the Lions absolutely dead out there? That's Foxy, who's a Detroit Lions fan in the back going, ah, in there, but whenever all this starts happening

with all the turnover and change, and obviously you hope that you're able to just pick up right where you left off, is there growing pains? Like, what are your thoughts on the Detroit lines after watching their game with the Packers? Well, I'll say this, and we talked a little bit about this last week before the Cowboys and Eagles game. I mean, division games, to me, division games are the most important.

They're the best games of the regular season. I've always loved the format of playing the division games at the end of the year. I thought when the league went to that 10 or 12 years ago, that was a great move. But division games in week one are a bitch, and I think it was, what, nine of the 16, nine of 16 games in week one were division games. So that's a tough deal. And I think for especially opposing teams, you know, going into that stadium, week one. So, you know, by no means are the lines.

I mean, it's their own one. I think that's just a reality of the situation. And, you know, coming out of training camp, you got September football and things like that. But, you know, the speed of the game is, you know, is something you're always very conscious of as a coach. You know, play style, getting your play style established, you know, the time clocks and both the run, protection in a past game. are all things that, you know, the details of that. But no, by no means, Detroit will be fine. Okay. I think Foxy likes to hear that. Yeah, absolutely.

Love that, coach. And how hard is it to have a rookie lineman, a second year guy that hasn't played that much on the line in the week one? And they didn't get any time in the preseason. How hard is that for a week one offense? And should they play in the preseason? I think Foxy would like to know. Yes, definitely want to know. Well, I think the biggest thing is I'd say offensive linemen as a whole have the biggest challenge, you know, coming out of training camp just from the pure training regiments.

You know, if you look at the way, you know, the all-season programs are, are established now and definitely the amount of padded work you can have in training camp, but that's a big challenge. You know, we had two rookie offensive linements start last year. And, you know, and the best thing it can happen to them is they practice every day, keep playing, get connected with the, you know, with the other guys. And that, and that's no different than in Detroit or any of the other teams that are playing, you know, offensive line for the first time in year one they just got to be honest they got to stay healthy that's the most important thing you have to go through it it is week one he'll be better off you know forward as time

goes on but that's just part of the challenge in today's NFL I think that's happening in the night to green bear right there's going to be a couple rookies out there uh well it looks like it's a second year guy one of them but he didn't he didn't play much last year so yeah I mean all intents and purposes pretty much too young offense alignment on a short week okay against Detroit Lions defense and team that has been kind of counted out all week. You know, I wonder how it'll go for the Green Bay Packers' offense. Did we know that you were going to be getting introduced back

there? That was awesome. When we saw the video, it was fucking sweet. How was this? What was this? And we should have known about this. We should have been sending congratulations that you're getting on it. Turn that up? Well, I'm sorry. I feel to bring it up in the

production. Listen to that place. Absolutely. Hey, that had to be sweet. That's for sure. Yeah, tell us about it. What was that? You were just getting back? Yeah, no, it was a celebration.

This is the, you know, alumni weekend for the Packers. And I was invited to go as part of the Super Bowl 45 celebration. And obviously, a lot of guys weren't able to attend for the timing of it. But it was great. We had Saturday night. We had a dinner. A lot of laughs. I haven't left that hard and that long into the evening in quite some time.

So that was a great time. And then just to hang out with, you know, the players from all the different generations and get to see guys. We obviously haven't seen each other and played some time. So it was real. I had a ton of fun. And to be honest, I didn't know what to really expect with the halftime. I actually thought we were just going to walk out there as a group and say hello.

But that was obviously very, very special. Okay, so, man, that had to feel so good getting out there. Well, that was a loud pop, coach. That's a loud pop. The head, the tip of the cap is the right play, too, by the way. I think that's good, because it's more demonstrative, everybody could see it. I think that's a good play by you. Natural in the pocket right there.

I think he did well. Well, when a hair stands up on the back of your neck, you got to definitely know it's proud. I was blown away by it. It was definitely special. Well-earned, well-deserved for a yinser out there in Green Bay. Go ahead, AJ. coach after week one i feel like a lot of these teams a lot of fan bases freak out one way or the

other like if the team lost like oh we suck we're done and there's some teams that get a big home victory and you know some of their loudest fans are saying hey we're the best this is the best team that's ever existed in indianapolis right now and they're going to make a run and go and defeat it win the super bowl how do you kind of temper it either way i guess whether you win or lose week one like how do you not over react we don't know no i think that's that's the part of our job as coaches and players, you know, just keep it about football. And that's where I think I know every team I've been a part of, you know, that's why you grind the way you do. And that's why you schedule the way you schedule during the week and so forth. But yeah, that's obviously

very normal. We understand it. You love the fans and their energy and so forth. But you got to keep things in perspective, especially now. I think it's a 17 game season. There's so much football that needs to be played, you know, and in fact that the Packers have two linemen out tonight is a great example why you're not going to overreact to a to a big game a big nfc football game and i know we'll talk about that here in a minute but it's it's a long long year and you have to keep that in play here and it's all about you know stacking success and success sometimes early season doesn't doesn't always come with the final score yeah but the way indianapolis play you could see how those people would be excited you could see a danny dimes

dimes. He's putting the dimes and Danny Dillon. Quentin Nelson lead and scream and talking, motivating. Did you see that, AJ? Quentin Nelson's a vocal leader of this Indianapolis coach team. Danny Dimes throwing a ball over the yard.

We got a Sasquatch in the first round out of Ohio State. This guy's unbelievable. He's a savant already. And the defense, don't even get me started. You know about Gabagulu and Rulmo? He's got a full chakutery board.

He's on in front of Danny Dimes now. Yeah, boy. O'Dellini is stepping the ball out here. I mean, it's unbelievable. We got the squad. Now, Shane Seichen's job is to let all of them know that we haven't won shit yet, right? That is kind of what the coach's job and the messaging is, or do you hope your culture has already established and everybody understands that after week one?

Well, culture never stays the same. So that's all part of the ride. It's all part of the development and the maintenance of it. So it's obviously great to have that energy. I recall you and I'm not talking about Daniel Jones, you know, doing the draft. I'm excited for him did a lot of work on him back in 2019 and I'm just happy

to see him to have that success because I think he definitely could be a hell of a quarterback in our league. He can run brother. He could run. Nobody's talking about it. And he can take a shot. Helmet to helmet first quarter, who cares? Gets right up. Wow, that was a pretty big little shot there. Am I going to pluck? No,

don't need one. Don't need one. Ty is a question for you, coach. Coach, you mentioned Micah Parsons was kind of chopping at the bit on Sunday to get out there. If you're the head coach of the Packers, if you're Matt LaFleur, how do you handle, you know, how many snaps he's going to get tonight? You mentioned, you know, 45%. I think he played 29 of the 65 defensive plays. How difficult is that when you have a game like this, you know, on prime time and everything? And also, like, you know he's going to affect the game, but you also

understand, hey, we have a lot more we want to accomplish here. And maybe I don't need to be putting him out there on every single third down to get after Jaden Daniels. I think the biggest thing for Matt is just stick to his plan. I mean, he's going to obviously have a play count plan going into the game. And I think obviously make sure you have plenty of time for the fourth quarter, you know, to adjust that, you know, make sure that plan accommodates that because, you know, trust your people too. I mean, sports science will obviously tell you you you got to listen to it.

It's week two coming off of a, you know, short week. Obviously, didn't have much time in training camp. So you just got to be smart. And, hey, if you tell Micah 20, he's going to want 30. If you tell him 30, he's going to 1.40. So I just think the most important thing is stick to the plan, and I think Micah knows that. I'm excited to see Micah get out there and get after.

Third down has got to be out there. I mean, third downs, he has to be out there, especially with Jaden now. Yes. Oh, yeah, definitely. I think you go to the first third down in the game. I mean, you know, when he came on to the field, the crowd erupted, and, you know,

and he had a defensive pressure, you know, affected the time pluck. So, yeah, definitely. I mean, situationally, I think you'll definitely see him there. Defensively, what do you do against Jaden? What are you trying to get the middle of the pocket? Are you trying to keep him in pocket? We're trying to keep him in there?

He's got to keep them in there, number one. You've got to set the edges, you know, speed to pyre with the anchor. But he is really good at A and B gaps. His A and B gap escape is, you know, for a young guy as good as I've seen. I mean, Aaron, to me, was the best that I've seen. And, you know, he did it forever from 2008 all the way through. true, but that A and B gap released, you saw last week on the Thursday night with Jalen Hertz, I mean, these guys that can step up and slide through the A and B gaps and make big plays,

that's going to be a huge challenge for a green base defensive line. Who I was, I mean, I thought those guys played exceptional. You know, I thought that the defensive line for the Packers, you know, all the way across, played well. But they got to keep him in the pocket, especially the rushing yards that he can produce. And I think he's being very smart, selective when he does run. too. And, you know, all the way around, you know, this is a, this is an offense that's going to move the ball. You know, ball distribution is, I think is excellent. But his ability to run is

second level, you know, on top of this guy could make all the throws too now. So he is a young special quarterback. Let's talk about Cliff Kingsbury. Obviously, he had some hype around becoming a head coach. He's the offense coordinator for the Washington commanders last year. Obviously, sensational year with a rookie quarterback and Jane Daniels. Maybe the best of all time whenever it comes a rookie quarterback, especially if they were able to go on the run that we all thought they're going to be able to go on. This year, only getting better, it seems. What is he like as a play caller? Do you do a diagnosis of all other play callers, or how do you kind of judge other guys that are making play calls? Well, first of all, like I say, you got four

really good play callers and up this week. So I thought, you know, both, you know, Matt Hathley called a very good game in week one for the Packers. And same with Joe Williams. and Cliff here for the for Washington so I think all the way I know that's what I'm going to be watching but yeah I think Cliff does an exceptional job getting a ball distributed I mean their perimeter they got they got playmakers throughout the perimeter and the thing I've always looked at is the number of rushes versus completions and you know Washington I think was probably 82 percent of their plays last week were we're either rushed or completed and I think the Packers were it was even higher probably 87 percent but you know they both the

didn't have big numbers of total plays, but they do a really good job getting the ball distributed, both Jordan Love and Jaden. 82% rush and completion percentage for the Washington commanders, probably more for the Packers. What is like a winning number there? Is that a stat that you relied on? About 75%.

Yeah, something, I mean, as a goal, I mean, a goal is an offense, we always would talk about, you know, 72 plays. Our goal is if we get 72 cracks at the defense, we were going to have a huge day. So obviously, you know, time of possession, benefits your whole football team, field position, keeping your defense off the field.

Obviously, taking care of the ball is a priority, but on a 72 play game, 75% of that would be 55. You know, 55 was always the gold number. If you had rushes plus completions, it was 55 or more, you're going to have a big day on offense. So the fact that they didn't have a lot of total plays last week, which happens, you know, the kind of games that they were in, But the fact that is their efficiency on offense, both for Washington and Green Bay, was really high.

Well, if you can get 55 by 72, that's obviously dependent upon the speed power anchoring of the defense line. Oh, there's a lot. Oh, there you go. Yeah, oh, yeah, there you go. A guy you made a lot of magic with, obviously, any offense that's out of the ball. Aaron Rogers now started his brand new era in your hometown of Pittsburgh. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, coach.

I don't know if you've seen no big deal. Aaron is leading the league in touchdowns. That's four touchdowns, zero interceptions. How did you think the first game for Aaron went? And how do you think him and Artie Smith kind of went through the game together? I think it went just like his whole career is gone. That's not versus interceptions. I mean, it's just amazing, you know, his discipline, you know,

in decision making. But no, I thought he looked very comfortable. I thought he just, you know, played to the tempo of the offense. I mean, the only negative was the sacks. But, I mean, he just has to get a feel for those guys. because, as I touched on earlier, you know, the A and B gap release in the past game. I mean, you know, that's a huge strength of his. So, but, yeah, I thought those guys, I thought they definitely looked on the same page

and he looked really comfortable on the offense. Yeah, and he was happy to get a win against the Jets. I'll tell you that. That's what I heard. Yeah. Yeah, he was pretty pumped up about it, brother. Connor has a question for you, Mike. Yeah, coach, young quarterback.

I won't say rookie, we've been saying rookie, but it was his first. career start and he missed his entire rookie year. J.J. McCarthy in prime time. He had about two and a half, three quarters of absolute shites, but then he turned it on, you know, turned the whole game around and then ended up winning for the Vikings. What did you think about his first performance? Did you expect kind of a slow start and then for him to settle in? And when you were a coach and you were dealing with quarterbacks, you know, whether it was their first year or first start or, you know, first start with a new team, Was there any advice you would give some of the younger quarterbacks, you know, some tricks of the trade maybe while you were coaching some of those younger guys?

Yeah, I'll just work backwards first. I think you definitely coach it. You definitely want your guys to, you know, make that first impression when you do have the rookie quarterback. You know, I just remember the one story. We had Alex Smith in San Francisco and Mike Nolan wanted to make sure he made a huge impression on the offensive guys in the first. mini camp. So we had spent a bunch of time with him, you know, prior to that mini camp. And then when he first stepped in the huddle, you can almost look at the other quarterbacks because he, you know, technically wasn't on campus at that time. So when he stepped in the huddle and was able to communicate

very well, that, you know, he definitely made that first impression. So it's something that you're very, very cognizant of. And, you know, as you go through it is it gives a young man an opportunity to really express himself. And that's, that's really what I would. go to is be yourself within your personality. But, you know, the command is critical for the offense and especially for young quarterbacks. And going back to the first part of the question, you know, I didn't see the early part of the game.

Frankly, I actually, when I got home, I actually saw the, you know, all the good stuff for Minnesota. I just, you know, I just think back of my conversation up there. You know, I went to the Michigan Pro Day last, or two years ago when JJ and that whole group was coming out and it just made me think of all the things that have been said about him, you know, all the great things have been said about him this week is, you know, I had a conversation with Jack Harbaugh, Mr. Jack Harbaugh. And, you know, I think any time, you know, Mr. Jack or Mrs. Jackie Harbaugh speak,

I always listen. And Mr. Harbaugh was just talking about how the kid is loved by everybody in the university. He would, you know, play baseball with his grandson up at the indoor facility and, the winner, but I mean, he's just that guy. You know, he was that guy at Michigan. And, you know, and that always, to me, always plays well in the leadership role in the locker and with your teammates and so forth. So it was nice to see him get off. No, I'll not get off to that start, but have that kind of, have that kind of, those kind of moments in a game. Because, you know, that's now, you know, that's a standard that I know he will hold himself

to. And obviously, that's a big day for the Minnesota Vikings. Jack Hardball, who's got it better than us? Nobody. And then you think about Jim Harbaugh being JJ's coach, the amount of things that he has said in leadership and framing and mentality. And then the story comes out about JJ in the huddle saying, is there

anywhere else you'd rather be, boys? That's what I thought. A little Jack Harbaugh in him. You know, maybe a little maybe a little Jim Harbaugh in him throughout its entirety. It was fun to watch them. Okay, tonight, three and a half points spread, coach Mike McCarthy. Now, you didn't make an official pick last week. You won't make

an official pick this week, but you leaned heavily into an undefeated start in picking games, just want to let you know that. Three and a half points is what Washington is getting in Lambo. If you were a friend of yours, like, let's say, I don't know if you consider us friends, but let's say me. Okay, and you were to be advising me on how you think this game goes. What would your prediction of the game be if that was the case? Well, I definitely got to put everything out here. You know, I'm a, I'm, I'm technically a fan this year. So I got three teams I'm really rooting for as a fan, you know, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, and Dallas.

So those are my, those are three teams I'm really watching closely. But as a pure teammate of your show, I think, number one, this is going to be a hell of an LSC game. You're not too many times, you know, especially when you think about it as a player coach, they go, man, you know, week two could have playoff implications. And, you know, I think this game, when you look at Washington, you know, you think about, you know, NFC championship game. You got a playoff team and an older team and established team. I really liked what they played in week one. I thought they established their play style.

I thought they were fast. I thought they're physical. I mean, you know what you're going to get. And, but also being there live watching Green Bay, watching Green Bay last week, you know, I think I was really, really impressed with their team speed in the way they were flying around. and I love Jordan Love, especially early in the game. I thought Matt did an excellent job sticking with the run after they struggled a little bit in the first half. So, I mean, this is going to be about stopping the run. I think both teams are definitely going to have to stop the run.

Green Bay is going to have to keep Jaden, you know, keep his rushing yards down to have success. But it's at Lambeau Field, and I think it's going to be a great night for the green and goal. Okay. All right. We appreciate that. We will read into that exactly how I think Tone was reading into that to make a lot. himself feel a little bit better. We appreciate the hell out of you, Coach.

Thanks for the AJ Hawk photo in the back. Thanks for the great lighting. You look cool again. I mean, you're really crushing it for us. Just trying to fit in. I've got to get some black shirts it looks like, but it's trying to hang out with the guy. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a good call.

Great call, coach. That's observance. It definitely helped me a little bit. Let's be honest. That was you. That was all me. Get mom on the internet here. Ladies

gentlemen, Super Bowl winning coach Mike McCarthy Hey, go! It's going to be a good night for a green goal here. You think he's going on the game again? He's the man.

Good question. I don't know. Such a good game. AJ, why weren't you at that? I didn't want to bring it up in front of your coach, but... I texted with it beforehand. Yeah. No, you know,

we got a lot of kids' games and stuff happened on the weekend, so I couldn't get there. We'd love to make all the alumni. Maybe, like, maybe November, December, it's a little easier to get there on some. That happens a lot.

A lot of so many things like, hey, we're doing a blah, blah, blah, blah. And I feel like the biggest asshole of all the time. And then whenever they're there, and I'm wherever I'm at, which I certainly could not make it, get a couple of texts making me feel bad about it. And then it's always like, man,

you don't think I wish I was much rather there. Now, there's a couple times. Sometimes. You get a chance to hang out with a daughter a little bit. You miss it all. You want to do that. But it's like, that seemed like a magical weekend there. How about Mike McCarthy getting a chance for the first time?

Probably a whole career? So just like kind of reap an applause that he had definitely showed for years and years there in Green Bay. And now he's calling the place home. That had to feel so good for him. I'm happy that happened for him. Yeah, that was awesome. Especially the way he let, like, and it wasn't even really his fault. It's just, you know, things kind of ran their course.

There was always the stories about like him and Aaron stopped getting along or, you know, whatever the case may be. and he did kind of have like an unceremonious exit from Green Bay, which wasn't necessarily fair. A lot of fans kind of shit on him on the way out because that was one of the years the Packers, I think were like five and nine maybe or something like that, and they fired him during the season, and Joe Philbin was the interim coach for the rest of the way. So the fact that he got to come back and celebrate like that, and also the fact that the Packers were kicking the lion's ass.

So, like, the environment in the stadium on top of this, like, it was just, it was a perfect day. Like, I'm super happy for him. It was awesome. Yeah, good for the Packers, get a chance to celebrate the boys, AJ. I assume a lot of your friends were there getting a chance to get recognized. Oh, yeah, I was getting texts from him. But, yeah, I like that coach can, like, he accepted it. Like, you were telling him, hey, this is awesome.

And he's not trying to deflect or whatever. He's very humble dude, but he's like, yeah, this was amazing. He said, I don't get old, obviously. I think it's really cool that he, like, he's really cool that he, like, He understands. He's like, yeah, this place is amazing. That's why I moved back here. He lives there now.

It's pretty sweet. The hair is standing up on his neck, he said, you know? It's like, well, I had to do something. Yeah. My body was like, oh, yo. Look at this. The hair's saying, of, okay, I'll do it. Would have been cool if Aaron could have been there,

but he's too busy throwing four touchdown passes. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who could probably sling four touchdown passes right now if he had to. If not him, at least Darren. Yeah. Four? Yeah, okay. Double it. Ten.

Yeah, with $2.50 on the ground. Derek Henry, high school numbers. Bingo. 55 touchdowns in one season. That's what this guy could do. This guy happens to know this guy. This guy also talks to that guy. This guy is kind of the other guy.

This guy is the other guy whenever it comes to this particular setting. He's also the voice of Thursday Night Football on Prime alongside Al Michaels, kicking off every NFL weekend for us in a wonderful fashion. Ladies and gentlemen, commentating a huge game tonight, and then we'll have an electrifying weekend, both a game day and Tennessee, Georgia. Ladies and gentlemen, Kirk Herbie. Yay, Hervey!

How are we doing, boys? I like, okay, so you're at a hotel in Green Bay right now? We got some great... I'll give you the... I'll give you the view here. Well, yeah, no worries that. We know where that is. AJ tracked your tail number.

No, I know at hotel. It does that. Okay, okay. Peter I love that All right, how about this? There you go That's a hotel we were in for the draft, is it?

Wow! History right there, brother. By the way, look, look at the weather. I mean, AJ, Ty, can it get any better? No. Wow. Hey, where's those? Oh, zoom in, oh, M.O.

What you're looking at here is a place that was basically one of the front runners of leading the way for the NFL's growth and development, their passion, their fan, their history. The historic Lambeau field with Steve Sable and the NFL films became the standard of television and production for a sport and a league, saying, Curly Lambo, way back in the day, had a vision of all these things. And now they're hosting Thursday night football on a streaming service.

Wow. Time of change. This is the future. This is everything. How do you feel about tonight's game? We just got done talking to Mike McCarthy. He feels good about the green and gold. We'll be going to the game.

I hope you get a chance to say hello. He's a Yenzer legend, obviously, good guy, loves ball, loves the Green Bay Area, and loves the Packers. You love Jaden Daniels coming out of college. You actually told us, hey, the one nobody's talk about right now is Jaden Daniels, he's going to be the guy. It was Army Navy game. We're in the parking lot in Foxborough,

and you said it and it ended up being very true last year, and it seems like it's only going to continue and grow. How do you think tonight goes, and who do you think should be getting a little bit more of the conversation? This game, you know, I think Micah Parsons coming in adds to the intrigue, but I think even before that, this game is about as good as you could hope for for us, you know, for our opening game to start our season. You mentioned Jaden Daniels.

You know, this is the team that went all the way to the NFC championship game a year ago and Dan Quinn's first year, just changed this, really the trajectory of the franchise. And I think having Jaden Daniels has obviously helped, but you bring over Devo Samuel now for Cliff Kingsbury, another weapon, another opportunity to kind of move him around. Good news is Terry McLaurin is locked in. And I was just talking to Jaden this week about just trying to get the timing down. And they've spent a lot of time after practice to try to get some makeup reps,

to try to get things right. And they're going up against, I don't know about you guys, that opening weekend, that was the best defensive effort, not only of the weekend, but probably the best degree, Bay Packers have looked as a unit in a long, long time. I know people... 10 years, 15 years?

I mean, I think a lot of people are going to point to Michael Parsons, but I think it's Jeff Halfley and the combination of just second year in the system. Every time I stopped the film, there's 11 green jerseys flying to the football. And I think Parsons

helped you really get this stadium engaged. And Mike being back probably helped with that, but it was, as an electric of atmosphere. In fact, Matt LaFleur told me this week that it's been a long time since he's heard the stadium that loud if ever since he's been the head coach. So there's a lot of juice right now in Green Bay. There's a lot of belief. Jordan Love has really grown up. You know, he sat there behind a Hall of Famer for three years and very proud, by the way, from what he told

me this week, to be able to sit there for three years and learn from Aaron. And then, you know, he was kind of a young guy. And not only was he young, but there are a lot of young pieces around him. And now these guys have all had an opportunity to work together for these last couple years. And now in his third year as a starter, they've grown. And I think they are now a team not only that's going to be fun to watch tonight, but as Ty will tell you, I think all year. I think they're a legit NFC championship contender. I think if they can stay healthy, I think the defense is real. And I think with this offense now in the third year of Matt, along with Jordan Love and the pieces that they have.

Don't be shocked. I mean, Matthew Golden is a guy that, you know, I think you go back to the draft. A lot of people are talking about a lot of different guys. Golden, to me, I don't know if it will happen tonight, but at some point, I think he's going to be a guy that could potentially be in the rookie of the year conversation. I think he's the guy that could be electrifying, ridiculous ball skills, and you put him into this system with the pieces that they have. I'm excited to see what he can do.

But then again, he's going up against the defense that's got a lot of new faces up front. I don't know if you saw Ken Law last week. Holy cow. Just a game wrecker. Finally healthy. So, yeah, there's a lot. Dude, this is, this is excited as I've been for a Thursday night game at a long time. Let's go.

We like that. You talked about LaFour talking about the environment being the loudest it's ever been. He has tried to get that stadium. since he got there he is a big one of these guys you know he's a big one of these in his pants with the eyebrows unbelievable

he will be super intense he will do this one here he understands the value of a good home field advantage and I was told that when Michael went out there the pop was outrageous it was like a huge welcoming and do it all

and then whenever he went out for the first third down Mike McCarthy said as soon as he went out there for first third down to place one and when he got his sack the place was absolutely crazy and then the boys one crazy, too. It's like the vibes feel like very, very good for them. And if you're the Washington commanders,

they know, the Giants, how many points last week? Six. Six points. They got to feel damn good about where they're at. And talking about feeling good, Amazon should feel great about this. And this is, I'm pumped for you guys. We are all very pumped for you guys that this game is happening. Go ahead, AJ.

Yeah, Kirk, I don't know if the coaches give you any insight when you have your production meetings, but the Packers' offensive line's a bit banged up. going to have some new guys in there maybe not a ton of experience together. What do you think they do to try to help those guys out if, you know, to maybe slow down this Washington rush?

Is Josh Jacobs going to be able to find a way to pick up some valuable yardage on the ground? Not surprised. You're all over. It's a huge story. Zach Tom, especially the right tackle. It's really sad that, you know, he ends up getting injured on a play that didn't even count. You know, the potential pick

six that Aiden Hutchison pushed Jordan Love into him. He goes down. And I think it's going to be a game time decision. They're very, very hopeful, obviously, that he can go. But if he's down, he cannot go. Significant loss. Jordan Morgan also may have to go in and play some guard. Darren Kinnard, who I think he's had one start in his career.

That was last year where he gave Lane Johnson a little bit of a break at Week 18 in Philly. If Zach Tom can't go, he'll probably be the guy that ends up starting. Anthony Belton, who's a rookie as well, a kid out of NC State, probably going. get some reps, but that is a big-time concern. This is an offense that wants to be balanced. Last week, you saw what they can do, throw in the football. But if you really watch these guys, Josh Jacobs, I don't know if you can handpick a better back because of his physicality because of the weather as the seasons change. He is a perfect fit for what LaFleur likes to do. But that line of scrimmage, I think, is a massive conversation tonight, especially if they're dinged up,

going against Payne and Ken Law and Armstrong and Wise. Dan Quinn said, hey, we got all the way to the NFC championship game, but we had to make some changes. They brought in four guys to that defensive line. They upgraded a corner. So this is going to be a real test. This is kind of an elitmus test to really find out how much Washington has improved as a unit

and especially on the defensive side of the ball against his Green Bay offense. Dan Quinn always has good deeds. You would assume hold Giants to six. I assume they're going to want to hunt. tonight, especially if there's a couple guys out on offensive line. Offensive line, not good, nothing good. That is just the story of

every single game. Last question about tonight before we move on to different subjects. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Herbie, a lot of people are talking about various different things, Packers' offense, Micah, Jaden, Daniels, etc., etc. But no one's really talking about Bill Kroski Merritt, and you know, no one really knew who this guy

was when he got drafted. They trade Brian Robinson. He gets the lion's share of the carries on Sunday, and he looked unbelievable. Like how big of an impact do you think he's going to have not only tonight but the whole year on this team's offense? I think it's huge. And I don't know if he just just was Bill straight up, Bill. I was talking to their coaches about, you know, he's Jacori Kroski-Marrett, who is Arizona and only played one game last year because of the eligibility

issues. And by the way, when he only got to play one game, they're trying to figure out the eligibility issues in Tucson. Dudes down at the scout team running against the first team defense trying to, instead of just saying this is BS, why am I doing this? He kind of gives you a little bit about his attitude. Typical seventh round draft pick, playing with a chip on his shoulder, runs hungry. And with Echler, more of a third down guy, and with Brian Robinson, who's obviously no longer here, they moved him, it's a huge story. And this guy kind of came out of nowhere, won the job essentially in camp. And it's one of these feel-good stories because of his his story and where he came from but guy didn't play harley at all nobody including the

mel kuyper's of the world probably as much as they build their list of the draft not a whole lot of people knew much about this guy but who goes by just the name bill um no last name just call me bill um but tonight if they're if they're going to if they're going to do their thing offensive we're going to focus in on jane daniels our boy bill 22 is is going to have to be featured and have to have a big night all right last question question before we head to the digital world of YouTube. Uh-oh. What's

the clock say? You've got three minutes. Got three minutes. But it's worthy of a good three minutes. We'll obviously wrap this thing up in about two minutes and 30 seconds talking about tonight's game. Sure. And we will expect you to give some sort of lean even though I'm calling a game. I can't pick it. Okay. All right. Yeah, I hate that. But let's talk about

the big weekend for college, especially for us. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, however, you guys are going to Knoxville, Tennessee, where Georgia has had their number of the last eight. I believe in Hypo hasn't been good against Kirby since he's been there. But do you think there's a chance that this year with this new Tennessee offense with Aguilar has a chance against the dogs?

Tone, I love your college football knowledge. I love it, man. I know you know the NFL inside now, but I love how you get knee-deep in the college world. Waste. I'm really fall in love with Aguilar. I don't know if it's just because of the circumstance. I turned on the film this week.

You know, getting ready for this game, getting ready for that game. And I was excited to kind of look at Georgia and Tennessee because they just spent a little bit, both these teams a bit off the radar these first couple weeks. Let me tell you that this offense of Tennessee's is they've reloaded out at wide receiver. They got some new backs, obviously a new quarterback, but they're still running that Josh Heipel scheme. But this is Georgia, right? And this is where you really find out where you are as an offense. But what he's doing, and for the guy that went from App State to UCLA, the NICO comes to UCLA, he goes to Knoxville, the guy, again, two weeks in, seems to be in complete command.

Just a guy, it's the NIL, Transfer Portal era, looks to be a guy that you kind of know what you're going to get. But Josh Heppel's done great work with him up to this point, but this will be a big test because, man, when I turned on the film to look at Georgia, because there's a lot of new faces on that Georgia defense. they are still recruiting and developing. Wow. They can fly. They're physical athletic. They've just completely reloaded and they can get after it. So great game.

Being in Knoxville obviously gives them an advantage. But historically, since He has been in Knoxville, he has struggled against Kirby Smart defense. So they've got to come up with some answers this week, even though this game's at home. But Georgia, man, I feel like people are forgetting a little bit about Georgia, forgetting a little bit about Oregon. as far as like who are teams that can make a run and be there at the end

and I think Georgia this week will be fun to kind of really see where they are because this will be a good test for them obviously going on the road in Knoxville I think for both of them it's a hello to the entire world you know like hey remember us and tonight it's hello from the commanders and the Packers with Kirk Herb Street on the call alongside Al and Kaylee Hartong we'll see you yeah yeah we got there good answer by you Good answer by you as well. Good answer by you.

By the way, really, really appreciated your tweet under, you know, the last 24 hours, what's, you know, 9-11 today, what happened yesterday. I thought your words of what you said about yesterday, I've looked at a lot of things. That was about as well stated as I think anything. And it's really hard to put your thoughts together. You know, like, how do you even express how you're feeling? But of all the things I've seen, that was about as well said as any of them. So I appreciate you putting that out there. Well, thanks, man.

It's obviously not easy. I felt an obligation, you know, because, like, I legitimately did because what he, I didn't know him. Yeah. He followed us, which I learned. Wow. He followed a lot of people, though, 100, some thousand. He didn't have information on everything from watching. He needed to know.

Everything about everything. And he had some sports takes that I had seen in the past. But just like being the guy that's kind of known as, I want to go talk to people I don't agree with. Yeah, that is something that we need, I think, you know? So I was always, like, pretty inspired by that. It doesn't mean that every word that comes out of his mouth is something that I'm going to, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like also.

My kids know I'm better than I do. I obviously, you know, seen some of his stuff over the last few years. But I'm with you. I think it comes to, you know, from what I understand, you know, he'd go on these college campuses and it was basically an open mic and people would go up there and give him an opportunity to get into conversation. A lot of times, a debate. And it's crazy. You know, the world that we're currently living in, so divisive and just so it's hard to really understand it a lot of times. So I just thought that your words were well put together. Thanks, man. Like I said, I never really followed politics my whole life. You know, AJ and I from Centerville, all we did was played football and, you know, we loved each other and, you know, we cared about each other.

And I didn't really get caught up in a lot of that stuff. And it seems like since 2020, it's been very radical, you know, one way or the other. And, man, it's wild when you don't really partake in that. and then to see how crazy it can be. It seems to be one extreme or the other. It seems like when I was growing up, everything was more in the middle. Kind of agreed a little bit here.

Kind of agreed a little bit here. Everybody lived in the middle. And now it just seems like it's really out there on both sides. I agree. And everybody feels as if they have to one up the other person that they feel the most that way, I feel like. That has become like a complex on the Internet. I think like people want to prove that they,

they're the most this, you know, from both sides. And I've been dropped into a fire, political fire, multiple times. I know. And I bet both sides, you know, kind of come in there. And I always joke that the only thing I really know about politics is that they yell at each other all the time, that they just yell at each other all the time. And it's like at some point we've got to get to the realization.

And with all the information we have nowadays, we have to get to the point that we understand that we're going to disagree with people. and then we can still that's okay though, right? Yeah, we can still move and not just necessarily be disgusted and hate the person

like, hey, maybe let's try to engage here so we maybe have a better understanding of how we all, so that we can just have a more, you know, kumbaya existence, but Jesus. Yeah, yesterday's an eye opener. And then you think back, I mean, the fact that today is September 11th,

like September 12th, 2001, you obviously older than I am, but in an age, and AJ as well, it's like, I remember what that was like. Like, I think that was every neighborhood in the entire country felt the exact same way. And it's like, we need to figure out how, without having something like that happened. We have to figure out like, hey, let's go, you know. So I appreciate you're saying something, but I felt like this can't be in my eyes as somebody that has certainly gotten my fair share of people not wanting me to be alive. it's like hey come on we're allowed to disagree with people and then we got a like this can't be what

we become and obviously Charlie Kirk him just you talked about what he does him just sitting there and welcoming thousands of people that he disagrees with is like such a thing that I would not be able to do you know that's a scary situation just I think from everything that happens on the internet where we read and it's like watching it all unfold it's like golly man this can't be who we are this can't be who we are and obviously dad husband, everything like that. Human, 31 years old, you know, like all that stuff. It's like, for me as a 38 year old, it's like with a daughter and a wife and it's like everything happening. It's like, I felt obligated, but also like we can't do this.

You know, so rest in peace to Charlie Kirk, but also our country, we cannot be like that. And tonight, we celebrate the greats that our country has to offer. The best league on planet earth is the NFL kicking off week two tonight on prime with the commanders and the Packers. Kirk, I think we're in for a great game tonight. I'm excited to hear you guys on the call. Yeah, we're fired out. This should be a great one. Great way to set the tone for the whole weekend. I think it's going to live up to the hype. These two quarterbacks, as you know, are a lot of fun to watch every single week, let alone going head-to-head against each other. I think both these teams are playoff teams at the end of the season, and it's great to get them

against each other early in the year to just kind of find out who these teams are. And Micah Parsons coming in. I was just talking to Jeff Halfley, the defense coordinator from Green Bay, before I hopped on with you guys. And he was just talking about, I mean, he's like, we probably had 25 real snaps with this guy as far as practice reps.

And so this is not a guy that's, you know, that has had a lot of opportunities to learn our scheme. He said, but I'll tell you what, his football IQ is off the charts. Because he's not just lining up playing backyard football. He's playing within the structure of the defense. And and doing a lot of different things, moving around.

And, you know, this is going to be fun to watch how he impacts this game tonight against not Jared golf, but a very athletic Jane Daniels, who's a handful and creating and QB runs. So it should be a fun one tonight, man. How about how happy Halfley has to be that Jerry Jones comes out and goes, Maka can't stop the run. So Micah now is like, is that right? Yeah.

Is that right? So, you know, like he literally, go ahead. you're all over it you're all i mean it's exactly i said to jeff i said it was it was fun to watch we all know what he can do off the edge i said but man against sewell one of the best tackles in the game he's out there just throwing him you know just in there battling against the run and and i and he said exactly what you just mentioned he said he's incredibly motivated right now to show people not only is he a great pass rusher but this dude's the total package you know so he's uh he's he also gave us a great quote last night about when when when

people you love kind of let you down. It's an incredible motivator. So this guy, like it happens often. This guy's in a middle of the, just knocking on the prime of his career and feels that he was let go and denied. And I think because of that, he's just playing with a lot of intensity, embracing his new teammates. What a mistake.

What was Jerry thinking? He got his feelings hurt and he traded away a fucking hall of favor. That's not how you do business. In the middle of the documentary, too, about how we're going to be, isn't it? I love it. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you, Jerry. And for the motivation.

And for the motivation. Scott can't play. He gets to run, a little bit fat. Okay. Anything else? You can't catch either. Put them on off it. Yeah, exactly.

Jerry sent him out there. All right, Kirk, we appreciate you, buddy. We'll see you down in Tennessee. You can't wait. You guys have a great one. Ladies a gentleman, Kirk Kirchie. Yay. Tonight's game's going to be epic.

So good. All right, let's take a break on the other side. We'll make our picks and wrap up all the storylines that we haven't hit yet on this glorious September 11th, 2020 where hopefully our world comes together more than it's ever been, AJ. Yep, hopefully.

I don't know. That sounds like a lot of pessimistic. Yeah, good attitude. No, no, no. I'm all for, like, rational humans and common sense. Hell yeah. That would be nice.

Amen. Amen. But in reality, you've got to have to deal with stuff that isn't like that, you know? And I hope as we continue to move forward, we understand that, hey, just because we don't have to, literally, you think like this on one thing, okay? Well, I hate you. I learned that. Hey, Canada, don't boo our national anthem.

Okay? That's what I said. Because I grew up playing an Olympic sport. And if you ever hear me talk about anything, I'm very proud to be from the United States of America. And it's like, yeah, anytime the Olympics come around, we're fucking beating them. We are America. Like, that is how sports people, I think, feel natural. Now, I learned through that entire thing

that there's a lot of people that don't feel that way. And also, if I feel that must mean that I also feel, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it's like, I just didn't want these motherfuckers to boo my nationality. What do we, what are we even, they're booing my dad. I don't like the thought of them booing my dad, my mom, my family, my friends.

I don't, I don't like that. Well, since that's the case, you also, it's like, boom, bum, bum, bum, it's like, come on, man. is that we don't have to be like that. I don't know because that's not reality. We all understand that that's not reality. So like, let's just, let's put our source down. Crazy day yesterday.

Yeah. All right. We'll be back on the other side? Let's make our picks. Hell yeah. Big one tonight. Hey, we're seeing the board too, AJ. Remember that?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. What, three and a half? Is that the line right now? Yep. Or three for the Packers. Oh, okay. All right.

I'll take that into account. Yeah. I'm sure. Gras. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure. This fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip.

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Football. It's magical. That's college football national champion, Super Bowl champion. Rider Cup winner, AJ Hawk. The toxic tables here at Boston Corner and that's high Schmidt. Big one for the Packers tonight. Massive one. This is, I mean, you know, you could almost say this is a do or die game. I love that. Week two, we're already

there. Thursday night, week two, we're already there. First Thursday night game, four prime of the season, do or die for both teams. One half of the hammer, Don. Cowboys AP Ton is here. Tone, what is the update on the public percentage of money on what tonight? 58% of the money is on the commanders

currently at plus three and a half. And then the over-under number. That is still at 96, percent on the under. Okay, so people really like the under. What the hell? And we think we're getting some faulty information here. This seems very weird to have 96% of public human beings wishing for bad football or very

defensive heavy football. It was a trend of the week one of the NFL season, 12 and 4 to the under is what happened there. So, AJ, maybe this is just going to be the trend and the sports books are over shooting, or what are your thoughts on whether or not this is a cagey affair or maybe a blockbuster? I don't know. Didn't coach McCarthy say that he thought there's going to be like high flying, high scoring game?

I looked it up earlier, just a little tidbit. Matt LaFleur against Dan Quinn. Dan Quinn, obviously, the head coach and the defensive mastermind of the commanders. Packers scored 48 against him in the playoff game against Dallas. 31, the meeting before that, the Packers scored against Dallas the year before that. And then 30 in LaFleur's first year in Green Bay

when Dan Quinn was in Atlanta, they scored 30. So 48, 31, and 30, the floor has scored against Dan Quinn. Okay, so Mitt said, it's going over. He did. Earlier today, whenever he heard about the under in there, it sounds like AJ feels the exact same way. 48 and a half, is that still the over-under? 96% of the money is on one side and they haven't moved it.

Yeah, it's the tail of two numbers here, like the 12 and 4 to the under, so that's the trend for the NFL, but then the public sucks right now, and now the public's on the under. So it feels like one of the two is wrong, and unfortunately, it feels like our very own Mick McMahon is ingenious, baby, because it's going over. Yeah, he was very excited about that. From the other side of the room, that bad boy's going over. Yeah.

Five. Man, that's crazy. A couple of NFL stories that we haven't chatted about, and then we'll get to our picks before we get out of here on this glorious week two of the NFL season kickoff Thursday. Lamar Jackson was cramping. You hear about this? Obviously, big conversation towards the end of that Baltimore Buffalo game. fourth and three. Fourth and three, Hardbought doesn't go for it, decides to punch Josh Allen do what he do, and they go ahead and win that game. Josh Allen cements the MVP, maybe, and for Lamar Jackson, he asked the answer questions about, is he drinking pickle juice over there? Here he is.

I was actually cramping the job before, the job before that, you know, the turnover happened, but I went to the sideline if anybody paid attention there, I was drinking pickle juice on the sideline already. I'm like, Sarah, I need to get hydrated like I'm cramping. I'm starting to feel cramps. we went back out there and obviously you know it happened my fourth and three happened but if i weren't cramping we definitely would have went for we definitely would have went for i believe where was the cramped my cows both of my cows like you know how they said like the brown's game i had a poop game or something that's how i was but i was like i was better off because it wasn't like happening right then and now like i just felt it like coming on but yeah i was cramping again I don't know where that come from, because if I had to use the bathroom, I would have said it.

I don't got no problem with saying. I'm a grown man. I'm a grown man. Everybody poops, okay? I would tell you if I was taking a dump in the middle of the game. But now that we think about it, calf cramp and big dumps, kind of a similar. Similar wattle. Now we know that.

We learn that through Lamar Jackson. Yeah, and two boots, you know, two springs out there. You kind of get a little poop. Two calves cramping sucks. That is a nightmare. And I know a lot of people are saying, well, stay hydrated. It's like sometimes you're just going to get. cramped up. Especially a lot of like low body

fat guys. There are some guys like that that are just all muscle. No body fat. They tend to cramp sometimes. Yeah, I don't know. You've got to try to get ahead of it. Picklejuice. Everyone has their own little thing that they think helps them. So yeah, I don't know. Drink and urine. I don't think that's part of it. It is.

It's how lost. Did you ever get any cramps? I was not a cramp or no. There you go. You can't cramp if you don't lose anything. I'd cramp after games. I would cramp after games. You know, like when you're like sitting down, all of a sudden, you catch a hamstring cramp, you jump up, and yeah, that kind of thing. The night cramps, awesome, the ones that just wake you up in the middle of the middle. That happened me in high school all the time.

That used to have me in high school after high school Friday games playing both ways when you're just, you can't even move. Yeah, it's, if anyone has, I mean, I would assume everyone's cramped up, like in their hamstrings or calves or quads, right? Like, it's a different kind of situation. Oh, you think it's over. Yeah. You think it's, the first time that you talk about high school, that was when I used to get a soccer, football, you know, you name it. And it's like middle of the night, just. every muscle in your leg locks up and you feel like it's never going to end and it's like oh my god

this is terrible i'm happy i wasn't i mean kicker punner you're probably not going to be a cramper although i was a heavy sweater there's some guys who were losing like 13 14 15 pounds of sweat during like training camp practices maybe 20 pounds of sweat it's like iv pediolite need to reload in its entirety but is that even right because remember bananas we're supposed to stop cramping back in the day yeah but that pitcher the pitcher proved that uh that that was Correct. The cramp, the banana cramp video. I don't know if you guys recall this was last baseball season, I believe. And it was just an interview before a game that went viral. Bruce, you could probably find it. Yeah, it's this pitcher talking about, and he can't really speak. It's very broken English. Oh, you're talking about the Japanese guy? Yeah. Yeah. For the Blue Jays. Yeah, bingo. Yeah. He talks about how banana stop crap. But it's broken English, though. It sounds like crap.

It's 11 years old, Bruce says. This is quite a deep cut. is what Bruce said, but he does have it. It is a bit of a classic on the internet. We do have the video though here. There's an ad right now. Oh, Jesus. These ads, man. 11 years old.

What happened to you? Huh? What happened? Just crap. Just a cramp? Yeah, just crap. So you told me what can you eat to help you make you feel better? Bananas.

That how we're bruce. Monkeys never crops. You know, monkey never crap. Because a monkey, monkey, monkey every day bananas two so how many did you have today three our three no more no more cramp for you I need three banana because the monkey never collapse okay I like that she didn't ever stretch you know coach prime talks about how he didn't stretch before running she never stretches I I've never heard though

you ever see a monkey get a cramp actually we don't know I don't think I've ever seen one in any of the nat national geographic thing potassium was the answer and then it was obviously salt i think salt became a part of the entire process they're always trying to figure that out cramps i'm just happy i'm not a cramper throughout my life crampering sucks like you know how they say people like once a fumbler always a fumbler i feel like crampers are crampers a j don't you think that is accurate yeah you're right you never really out of the woods even they can do whatever they can to try to prepare i don't know what we had guys though cramp in college and they're always trying different things like

different pediolites or different pickle juice before the game to try to figure it out I agree. I'm happy that that is something I don't got to deal with. Sucks that Lamar has to do with that. Yeah, big time. Often, kind of a little bit here. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like one of those. It's like, well, people that get migraine, like, I think it's like a natural thing.

It's just always there. It all goes away, like, once you get in October, November, like, there's not a lot of cramping. I don't know. You can cramping the cold. I've seen guys cramping freezing cold. I think it's a muscle thing. I think it's like how their shit is.

Like a genetic thing almost. I think more likely to cramp. I think there are people that are that. way and that sucks and I'm thankful that I'm not one of those people cramps are the worst I'm getting them now in my age again starting to happen where I'm getting in better shape I'm not eating as much nowhere near as hydrated started getting the hammy we'll start pulling a little bit I'm like yo yo yo yo yo you got to beat that you got to beat that you got to straighten the leg out there can't let that thing you know kind of hit in there quad starting to tighten up a little bit no no no we're not doing

that we're not doing that one in there both calves would suck for Lamar nightmare that would suck Can't walk? Why didn't they go for it? Fourth and three. He said they're definitely going for it there if he's in there. They're in the field goal range on the other side. Last time it was the Chiefs Ravens where Harbaugh asked him when he was jogging off the field.

He was like, do you want to go for it or not? And he was like, yeah, obviously. And they won't. Let's talk about another story. Obviously, Jacksonville coming into Cincinnati. Zach Taylor would like their fans to be there for the beginning of the game and for Sam Hubbard, who will be the ruler of the jungle. Sam Hubbard local legend

Cincinnati legend guy who score a 99-yard touchdown in Cincinnati you went to Ohio State as well Yep Yep Mayor of Cincinnati guy could be a mayor

He'll be a ruler of the jungle on Sunday No doubt about it Okay And Zach Taylor doesn't want to see Anybody on those fucking escalators No I'm sick of you're already in there Sam Hubbard

If not Sam then who Will you be here for Zach Taylor saying And on the other side brand new Jacksonville squad. Hey, this Jacksonville Jaguars team's a little bit different. Their offensive line's getting credit from AQ Shipley. He's talking about the play design being like one of those play callers

that goes ahead and sets things up for the offensive line to be successful. Like, hey, do we have the best offensive line? No, but we will set it up with play design. And maybe we do have the best offensive line in football because of it. ETN want bananas. They felt so good. They traded away their backup running back. Trevor Lawrence was making some throws.

And Travis Hunter was a part of the offense. This week, he's alleged. going to be a little bit more part of the defense. Now, if you were to listen to Darius J. Butler speak about this, I think this could have been a little bit predictable. Now, D. Butch, like two weeks ago, started hypothesizing about the plan for Travis Hunter. And if he said, well, if he's in a major and wide receiver and he's going to have a minor in DB, it'll probably be when a necessity based on defense's side. So you start looking at who has a plethora of weapons, who has a lot of passing options for their offenses, that's probably when you're going to see.

see Travis Hunter on the defensive side, trying to get rid of one of the superstars. Cincinnati Bengals, it's obviously very well talked about. They got a lot of weapons out there. So Travis Hunter probably going to be seen on the defensive side. Do you think this is an accurate hypothesis here from Darius J. Butler? Do you think the more weapons the other team has, obviously situationally, we'll see more of Travis Hunter on the defensive side of the ball? Yeah, I think DeButt could be spot on here.

I think you probably sit there to the wikio six days out from a game when you look at the matchups that you have, you know, NFL, at all levels of football, it's about matchups. How do we exploit the matchups and get him in our favor? So, yeah, the more weapons another team has, yeah, maybe the more time Travis Hunter gets that corner, but is it going to cut into any of his time at receiver,

do you think? I think he's going to major in wide receiver. I think he's always going to be a wide receiver. Liam Cohen, head coach, and play caller. I think that is a real thing. Like, hey, I got a dynamic guy here that we took number two overall. And I have a great offense. That's why I became the head coach.

I think he's going to eat on the offense, side. And then I think what DeBots was saying is like there'll be packages on the defensive side, which might be a lot of the game. Like if they got a lot of weapons, if they're three, four deep at weapons, like they're going to need Travis Hunter to play a lot more that particular week. So picking and choosing ultimately is kind of how he thought maybe they would do. He wasn't guaranteeing this. He was like, maybe this is what they're doing. It's holding true seemingly here going in a week two. Yeah. And this is the perfect world for them where they can pick, but even just the depth of it,

you know, we're talking about already with the Packers and the commanders guys, out and being hurt, like if they go down one of their corners or if Brian Thomas Jr. goes down, like, well, at least you have that in your back pocket. Like, okay, well, instead of having him split time if one of those guys is injured or if, you know, they don't have good depth, it's like, hey, you're not doing anything but being a corner this weekend, being, you know, wide receiver this week because we have dudes out, like having that in the back pocket, too, is huge. Yeah, I, uh, it's going to work, isn't it? Jags are going to be good. Jacks are going to be a good football.

They wouldn't trade tank Bigsby. if they weren't pretty confident who they got right now. Are they good for right now, or? Well, it looks good right now, but hopefully this lasts forever. What was that? Well, this is what they envisioned in January. Okay? It's happening in September is going to go on forever.

Shad Khan gave a motivational speech after the big time dub in week one. This is what we envisioned in January, okay? Yes, sir. It's happening here. in September, going to go on forever! I love it. I love everything about it. I love everything about it. Legit, too. We might run that every day.

If an owner is going down there saying, thank fucking God, which is what he is saying, because he's been trying for a long time to get that team to be sustainably good. Long time. What do I got to fucking do? It has to be what he is thinking. And then in that moment, let's bottle this. I can see it. This is it. We need this

forever. Young coaches, young GM, young players, Trevor Lawrence, still young in his career. It's like, I don't love it. Yeah, because the AFC South doesn't need to be this difficult. But boy, it feels like they really are

turned the corner after week one. For reference, week one, he played 42 snaps on offense and six on defense. But when you like when you're talking about matchups, Bengals are a little different than the Panthers. The Panthers probably one of the weaker teams as far as wide receivers are concerned and the Bengals obviously being the strongest potentially.

So, yeah, 42 and 6 in week one will be interesting to see what the actual split is for week. Over under 20 on the defensive side this week. Over. I think so too. Yeah. Over under 35 on the offensive side this week. Under. I think it stays the same one on offense. Yeah, I think his offense of shit. They might run less

plays though. Yeah, because Cincinnati might keep the ball for a long time, but on the defensive side, Travis might get a couple turnovers. He's a magnet. That guy's a magnet to the ball. And the Bengals, they got Trey Hendrickson up front. So if you want to slow him down with ETIN, he got, what, like 18 carries, he had 140 yards.

He might get 25 carries this time around. Maybe. What if the, are we in a time where the Jags? I'm not doing it. Still got to see it. I'm not doing it. Still got to see it. They ain't better than the Colts, baby.

Yeah, ain't nobody. Okay. Ain't nobody. How many points did the Dolphins score, Gumpy? Nice, eight right at the very end. A. Chan fought to get over the line on a fourth and goal from the 15 screen. It was a great call. That is it.

Scored. Yeah, that's a good goal. Sounds like it worked. I don't know if you know this, but Danny Dimes, Mr. Indiana Jones, Daniel Jones, captain, the Indianapolis Colts, hottest quarterback in the NFL. Danny Dimes. Won the Nickelodeon super duper thing. Oh!

He got the N.V. Oh, and Jonathan Taylor gave it to him. That makes sense. He's a Nickelodeon guy, right? But he won this multiple times, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he did. Oh, they got off. Oh, Blue God instead.

Blue goo. Jonathan Taylor told Danny Dimes, he said, listen, getting actually slime sucks. Okay, so we need to turn this into something. And they're like, you know who will take it? Blue. Number one mascot of the 2025 NFL season got an award opening day. Before the game started.

You were there? voted on that. The Colts voted on that. That's cool. It was an international super duper mascot federation. Oh, okay. Well, yeah.

And he won the award. It was before the game started. They made an announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, we like to congratulate. The number one mascot of the 2025 NFL season. It's the season that just started. We were just kicking it off.

Blue. And Blue came out. He's not even top five. What? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. You're talking about a salute to

Service Award nomination. A player didn't get it? No, Blue did, because he's such a dog. Way better than that Braves mascot. I know that Braves mascot's not getting any awards. No, he, blooper? Yeah, Blooper is getting a lot. He is a fucking blooper.

They need to get a new one in there now. Law headlines are a blooper. I think he's doing just fine. Blue hit his throw. Yeah. Blue hit his throw. It got close, though. Oh, yeah. Down of the wire. They were on like five seconds, I think, when he made it. He gets 30 seconds to hit this. throw it's an absurd throw it's from the upper deck down to a barrel down on the field we're

dude perfecting okay we're doing this entire thing couple games last last year he hit it like too quick yeah right away people forgot that didn't even know the thing was happening all right all eyes towards the window his blue attempts the long range shot for charity all right blue go and then his first throw hits it he did it nobody even has a chance to look over there so If I was him, I would say, hey, you need to start lethal shootering this. You need to start missing a few so people understand it's missable. And maybe that's what he did the first week. But he got real close.

It got real close. This one got, yeah, it came down to the final, like, two seconds, 30 seconds. And then he thought he might have jinxed himself putting a shirt on underneath. Yeah, sure. And putting a snap off on. We got a chance to see that. Is it possible, Pat? I was just going to say, is he naked?

Is that a tattoo or is that the shirt? It's not a t-shirt. He put a t-shirt on it. Yeah, he is. He is shirt-cocked. Always, Blue, very rarely, he busts a pencil. That might be taller. Tiler might jump into Blue's costume for this event, I would imagine.

It does look like it could be taller. It could be tall. It's how often he hits. And he'll roll around on a little standing scooter thing. He'll do all this stuff. Blue does all this stuff. You know, it's better than a fake horse, real horses. Okay, Thunder, Kansas City Chief's horse or Warpaint,

the Denver Broncos horse, okay? Those are just too much better. Live horses, not fake horse. I would say Blue has so much more moxy than both those. The Thunder and Warpaint? Yeah, both of them combined. You can even add that Colorado Bison into this thing.

Well, yeah, that's a, that's a tough story. What happened? Okay, uh, yeah, the old... You look at them. Look at blue. Bam, green pie. He's an asshole. Doesn't anyone punch blue after this? We should.

No, this is a Gapik brother. These people don't know that this is coming. What am I doing? Either way, even if I knew, even if I knew it was coming, I came in, you don't have to blast me that hard. Well, he thought it's a cream pie. He's the best cream pie and done. Any time that he's the time that he's.

he's in. You don't want to run into blue in Atlanta. Yeah, he'll cream pie. You're pretty good, Donner. He will. Certainly this weekend, Denver Broncos, cream pies all around time. True.

Everywhere. Blue, just cream pie, cream pie, cream pie. Chompayton's going to lose his fucking mind. And he's going to get cream pie right in the face. Exactly. But anyway. That's the number one mascot, the Super Dupon Federation.

The Colorado Buffalo, the old one, Ralphie, Ralphie, whatever it is, eight or nine, refused to run anymore. It's just said, nah? Instead it was disinterested. So they said, all right. So now they're training a new one.

It's not ready for live game, actually. Oh, they weren't ready for the passing of the torch. No. And the baton was not yet to be passed, maybe another year or so. And instead, Ralphie said, actually, I'm calling shots. Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Rittenberg. This guy's always on it. Colorado announces Ralphie 6, its live Buffalo mascot named Ember, is retiring.

An indifference to running contributed to the decision. the school is training Ralphie 7 for her debut but the team will take the field without its live mascot in the interim. I'll tell you what, they always said that about Ralphie 6. This motherfucker operates on its own time. Bold boom, it does. Just indifference to running.

Love it. I've decided. They do a little preseason run with Ralphie. All right, we're going to go through this, all right? Ralphie takes four steps with each hoof. So 16 total steps. I fucking don't like this anymore. I've decided.

And they go, oh, we got to go around the field. you do I don't and then just walked it off walked up the tunnel retirement took shrugged the thing off yeah

shrugged the thing off I would have to see it I wanted to see when they finally had to make that decision all right we're going to put this one out the pasture you don't want to run oh they're not killing Ralph E6 they're not killing Ember

oh yeah what you kidding me we know they don't want to pay to take care of them in America you just can't kill Buffalo okay you can't just snipe Ember

yeah okay that's not how this is going to go they're not going to snipe ember i think we can all picture what the hell is going to happen to ember okay i mean there's a spot in our own damn building for ember's head and unfortunately the pasta jersey's that was a gift that was a gift hey hey ralphi six take a long look brother because that's what you're going to look like for the next hundred years sister whatever ember's going to be running wild out there in colorado motivating the sorry not running ember is going to be standing out there in a

Motivating, maybe a jaunt. Yeah, most animals, once they don't walk or run anymore, they stay alive for a long, long time. Ralphie's dead. Yeah, they're... Rest in peace, Ralphie, Six. I love you. They're taking the cattle prodder.

They are shooting Ralphie 6, right? No, they're not. Taking her to the butcher, and guess what? You can get a bison burger at, you know, the flow stadium for $6.50 on Saturday. I'll tell you, it's not a good time to be a bison. Feel like people are really getting after the bison burgers. They are.

Those things kind of came into real stuff. They had to have had a meeting out there amongst themselves. Hey, feels like they're killing us much more rapid, right? They found out we taste good. And we're healthy as shit. They found out. That's because they run a lot. You know, their muscles, because they run so much.

That's why it's such good meat, healthy meat. And then Ember is just not even good to eat. Got a lazy bison. I guess. They need to do a better job scouting these fucking things. Don't you think? Yeah. This is definitely in the scouting report.

Ember will give you one, two good years. Okay. But inevitably, Ember's going to want to get back out. in the field. Going to be out there doing it. Lazy. Arrogate. Bad work ethic.

Entitled. Not a lunch pail guy. Name image like this. Maybe getting to Ember a little bit on a couple of schedules. A lot of people showing up in the crowd. What if Ember wanted a renegotiation? What if she didn't fully comprehend that? Coach Prime may be the reason why this is all happening here.

And Ember says, that's weird. Last time I ran out here a little smaller, we started winning games. I started running out of here. Everything's bigger. What the fuck will I get? Yeah. I just looked it up. But they did. They just retired to her to her sanctuary, which can be not disclosed because they want her to be living.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, mom and dad. The dog went to the farm. Oh, okay. It's not, it's not, don't go looking for her. We obviously can't tell you where she's had because we don't want her, you know, get a mob. I'm going to take a selfie with Ember. I would like Ember to know. Go on. Go on. Get one right now. It's right there. That's not him. That, well, you're, it could be. Ralphie 5. They had to retire because it got too big and too fast that the runner couldn't. See. Now that's, now that's a Buffalo. That's still a lot. Bison, that's still a lot. The bison that, hey, I'm too tired. Guess what happens to those bison?

Guillotine, brother. They cut those things. No, that's not what happens. Yes, they do. I do believe, though, that because of Ralfi V's tenacity, okay, and want to get better and faster and stronger, too fast for the humans that are trying to control Ralphie 5, they got blinded by the fact that they could find a lazy fucking bison. And they got one of them.

They didn't even think that was possible because how much Ralphie 5 had him distracted. So they need those. Those two bison to bison each other. And then maybe the offspring is the perfect one. Yeah, but that's a long time from now. How long are these things not going to be running on the thing? I mean, I'm not condoning it, you know, but if you've got a lazy bison, you know, you ever seen old school?

What Sean William Scott does to the, you know, the pony at the petting zoo? You want to get that thing going a little bit? Well, darting and neck, or you want to... Come here, fucker, you know, you take that thing and, you know, you yank you... We're not doing that. That's what I'm saying. I don't condone it. But if you got a bison that's not running...

Hey, before you get out there, you maybe take his leash and fucking jerk that thing all around and get them all riled up before. Give him some meth. Give them meth. Meth would help. Shot of adrenaline. We're not doing that. Okay. Ever's going to live a good life.

Shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. And then watch that thing run a house. Let's move along. Let's make a pick for you. We could wait, actually. What we could do is have those two bison fog, and we can have them wait while the baby's getting ready. Be perfect. And we have the other guy serve as the bison spritting out onto the field, leading the collar off.

of Buffaloes every single week. The face had like a good idea. Yeah. That was not the other guy third. The hotter guy is a good idea. And what we hope is Ember lives a full life post running on the anywhere, I guess. Post running. I hope post running life is good.

And I don't know if Stanford Steve is going to be running them on the field every single week. But we do hope that whatever Bison's next is one that showcases a good passion for what they're doing. You know, it felt like Ember was just showing up for the paycheck. Yeah. Just showing up for the She's not. She's in a sanctuary. She's a beautiful undisclosed sanctuary.

Okay. Yep. Can't just put her in the zoo? Does the tooth fairy visit there? She's a sanctuary. Maybe. She's buried under the sanctuary. Yeah, there you go. She's actually the first speed bump at the sanctuary when you get there. Amber? It wouldn't do that to Ember.

Ember won a lot of games out there. They would do that to Ember. Because she's a quitter and she's lazy. Let's go to tonight. They might respect that, to be honest. I mean, have you ever met a wild animal that just says, nope, not fucking doing it? I guess there's been a couple throughout history. Colas?

Bulls, I think, in bull riding. There's probably been a couple that said, I'm not playing the games. I'm not with the fuckery over there in Spain with the running of the bulls. I think there's been a couple bulls that said we're not with it. We'll see something like that. But a bison just known to be pretty happy and lucky, I think, right? The bison just. Yeah, and the planes.

Well, no, they're bison or dogs. I mean, they run towards storms. I've dug in a little more. Ember is now living with Ralphie 5 in a companion buffalo roll. So they are. But I think they're both women, right? I think they're both females. I don't know if Ralphie 5 was.

Ralphie 5 sounds like an ox. Might have been. Might have snuck in a little ox in that thing. All right, tonight, Packers, commanders, three and a half point spread. Could get it at three. We got an update on the bison. Ralphie 5's name was blackout.

That was actually toxic nickname in college. I am dead serious. Okay, that makes sense. It makes sense. I assume for similar reasons there. Ralphie 5 just had no brain out there. Just get out there and just, you know. Too pumped.

We don't really know what's going to happen, but if we can steer it, we know it's going to be electrifying. I'm done doing research. I like that. I like you doing that. Tonight, commanders, Packers in Green Bay. Packers could get three at a sportsbook somewhere, or you could get the commanders plus three and a half at ESPN bet.

Jadeners, Jordan Love. Ty Schmidt, how's this game go? This morning, I, you know, I woke up and I was thinking, you know what, this has got 27-24 Packers written all over it. But the more we've talked today, I mean, Coach Mike McCarthy said it's going to be a good night for a green goal. So I'm going to take the Packers, and I think we're winning by at least a touchdown tonight. And he did say that. It's crazy. It sounded like he just said it again in the entirety.

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Somebody will send a tweet. Just know that we see him whenever you send it in and I don't know the answer sometimes. Hey, what's the current code? Ah, fuck. So then I normally text Bruce, Bruce, what's the current code at this place? Is it PMS? Is it Pat? Is it Pat M. Is it Pat 30? Is it Pat McAfee? Who made it that? It's Pat McAfee. B-A-F-E. And whenever this one gets used, next one will be. A.J. Hawk, Boston, Connor, Tysmith. In that order. No spaces. We love Seekek. They do have the greatest ticket buying platform on planet Earth.

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They never catfish you. What you buys, what you get? Shout to see it. We appreciate them. AJ, how do you see tonight going in Green Bay, pal? Man, I think, you know, Michael Parsons gets more time out there. He just absolutely wreaks havoc. The rest of that defense has been flying around.

Give me the Packers at minus three. Give me the Packers and the over as well. I think they win 30 to 21. Okay. So I'd be very close with the over, 51 points. That'd be very close. And with 30-21 is a high-scoring affair. Oh, yeah.

It is. Very. That's a lot of points. points. 25, 24 is an over there. That's a lot of points. That's a lot of success. Will the Green Bay Packers be able to be successful with two brand new guys on the offensive

line like Shepter was alluding to? Is Jordan Love going to be running for his life? Is Josh Jacobs going to get stunted before he even gets going? There are going to be a little bit of, oh no. All of a sudden I see a little disagreement happening, right, with Micah and the rest of the... No, we're way too early for that. Lucas Van Nez and Micah. Wait, wait a minute.

Is that what I'm seeing right there? offense fails if the offense is not good for whatever reason. Maybe because there's two offensive linemen that we don't know. Terry McClarn's back? Oh my God. Debo Samuel. Last week was his precinct. He can run the ball and he can go all over the place. Bill? I'm just

a bill. Is that what's happening tonight? What? Is it? Nah, I think backers do it. Minus three. Yeah. Okay. Really? Oh, kind of doesn't like it.

I'm just sitting in numbers, games. game-wise. If you like the Packers minus three, and they win by three, it's a push, but if you take the three and a half, it's a win. Do you think it's going to be a big night for a green goal? That's what it comes

down to. Good question. I do. Or is it the Bruton goal? Sing that song again, AJ? Yeah, we play that from Frank Yankovic in the Yanks. Franky Y. W. Rolled the barrel. Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun.

Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run. Yes, we do. Sing the boom terera Bring out a song of a cheer Yippee! Now's time to roll the barrel For the games all here. I'll take the commanders

Plus three and a half. Yeah, I just listened to that too many times, and I didn't think it had the juice. I think the commanders plus three and a half. I think the Packers win. How about that? Another one. That's a close one. Another one of those.

I think the NFL continues its prime time. Yeah, that's a mean parlay. I hit it last week. I'm not promoting it. I'm not promoting. But I think it. If you think the Packers win, the Commanders cover, it's plus $5.15. And if you think that, too, you might as well throw Joshie Jacobs in there first.

Touch, yeah. Really? Ten straight games with a tut. Josh Jacob, he's on, yeah, he's on a hell. Oh, hold on. Now, the boys here, the boys here are pretty hot with their parlayes. And now you haven't been given them out publicly, which has certainly been a topic of conversation with you guys, fucking over other members of the office. Whoa.

Yeah. Whoa. We gave it out on Monday. We gave them all out on Monday. Nobody took it. Nobody listened. Yeah. Sunday, fine.

But Monday, we, we, we. told everybody and they wouldn't listen. And now they're coming, crawling back asking for who's going to score? Who do you guys got? Who's going to score? I don't know yet. Josh Jacobs 10 straight sounds like he like him.

I mean, definitely if you want to put like a touchdown with from like the winning team if you want to do one of those. No, no, let's do a touchdown parlay like you guys He's minus 215, so yeah. Okay. Tonson said, what is super genius you are, Josh Jacobs. Well, I mean that's what I was saying. That's what I was saying.

you're going to do it with a spread just to make it a little better. You just throw in the favorite of the touchdown. But I mean... What you guys hit? You guys hit a plus 800? A plus a couple of big ones? Yeah, I'm running it back with the quarterback touchdown parlay. It was Monday.

It was Caleb and JJ. I'm running it back Jordan Love and Jade and Daniels. Okay. What's that? I think that's 50 for a thousand, I believe. Plus 2,000? Plus, yeah, 2,200. That feels like...

Are they letting Jordan Love run? I didn't see week one. Not much. They got unlocked that. thing because overrunners like six yards or something yeah all right so i'm on the commanders plus three and a half you're on the packers minus three um i don't know i think we got a great game yeah oh yeah just no shit which is exactly where we want to be on this glorious day let's remember to be a friend tell the friend something nice it might change our life we're in this thing together

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