The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1420 - Watt Wednesday, In The Trenches with AQ Shipley, Everything DB with Darius Butler, Kyle Schwarber, Cal Raleigh, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AQ Shipley, AJ Hawk to recap the MLB Postseason action & the latest news ahead of NFL Week 5 & CFB Week 6, including the Browns turning to Dillon Gabriel at starting quarterback in London against the Vikings, AQ Shipley's takeaways, and more. In the first hour, we are joined by future Hall of Famer, 3x DPOY, Walter Payton Man of the Year, and now color commentator for the NFL on CBS, JJ Watt to talk about his childhood diet, TJ Watt & the Steelers performance in Dublin, Ireland (Hup Hup Hup), the game he called between the Commanders & Falcons, and more. In the second hour, World Series Champion & 3x All Star, Phillies DH, Kyle Schwarber joined the progrum to talk about what he is doing during the Phillies bye, their intrasquad game tonight at Citizen Bank park, his approach and the plate, and more. From there, we are joined by Catcher for the Seattle Mariners, Cal Raleigh, fresh off a 60 HR & 125 RBI season, to chat about how the Seattle Mariners are using their bye week, the craziness of his regular season, and much more. We wrap things up with In the Trenches with AQ Shipley and Everything DB: Good D, Bad D with Darius Butler. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's YouTube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We will be LIVE from the ThunderDome tomorrow previewing TNF and more. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. Full graphics failure as the show launches full system failure. Obviously, everybody will be able to figure that out on this glorious Watt Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. The program today is stacked. We got J.J. Watt joining us in about 15 minutes or so. Now, normally he's in a second hour. He comes to the first hour strictly because in his second hour, we're doing baseball. Whoa.

We're doing baseball. Listen, now that's a nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler hitting a whoa right there, which is an accurate response, I think, because this is out of the norm. Don't you think so, D. Budge? Very much, so I know we didn't get our football in the day, so I guess, I mean, still starting with it, but we get some baseball. Yeah, we do.

And that's why. That's why the beginning of the show was what it was, because what you normally think of this show, especially this time of year, I mean, it's October 1st. Yeah. Rabbit, rabbit, to everybody out there. These guys are only going to be talking about football, especially. if they got J.J. Watt's scheduled to be in there, but baseball is electrifying.

And guess who we're talking to? 12-year NFL vet. Super Bowl champion. A.Q. Shipley. Yay. Hey, do you know who we're talking to in the baseball road in the second hour? Am I allowed to say it? Oh, so you do know you're saying. I do know who you. Okay. Okay. Say who you think. It's two

people. I'll be excited to see who he says first. Who is the guy that we get a chance to chat with in a second hour. The big dumper. Cal Raleigh. That's right, Cal Raleigh. The MLB leader in ding-dongs will be joining us in the next hour. Obviously, Seattle Mariners Superstar. They've won the A.L. West for the first time since 2001. Boom. Look at you. So what Cal Rale has done, not only on both sides of plate, but also behind the plate, this guy basically has the plate surrounded. And he is doing good things all the way around the ballpark. He'll be joining us for what he is, I assume,

special season for a player, for a town, for a team, for a legacy, for a storyline going into obviously a beautiful playoff since started yesterday in a fantastic way. And then, oh, yeah, we got the second leader in home runs in the MLB, in MLB, sorry, Kyle Schwabo. Both of them? Yeah, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Superstore. Yeah, he's been there for a few years. Obviously, Schwabo hit himself 50-some ding-dongs.

55. 55 ding-dongs this year. and this guy is a monster. He's 32 years old. I got a chance to see him whenever he came down to Indiana for college game day and made the picks. He was fantastic there. Obviously goes to the Cubs, fantastic there. He's been here now, I think, three years, I believe, at this point.

He's 32 years old. He's a DH, and what he's designated to do is succeed. And he's only getting better, it feels like, and this Philly's team, real deal. Let's go to the Toxic Table at Ty Schmidt. Shout out to baseball having a huge wildcard day. And shout out to Toxic Tate. was at Boston Connor in the Boston Red Sox getting a huge win over your New York Yankees. But can we talk about Schwabell a little bit joining us in the next hour?

Phillies might be a magical team every single year. This year does have something brewing, it feels like. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, everyone's looking, especially after last night seeing what the Dodgers did that just beat the absolute shit out of the Reds. So everyone's saying, hey, who could beat the Dodgers in the NL? If anyone's going to do it or the team that most likely will do it, it's going to be the Phillies. You're seeing all these different shots from Schwerber here. When this guy hits homers, he doesn't just, you know, hit a little cheapy, two, three rows into the seats.

Like, he's hitting balls 500 feet into the night. Deep, deep, deep. They're a very deep lineup. They have good pitching. One of the big things, and I'll be interested to see what these guys have to say about it, baseball is such a sprint. You're playing so well, and then the playoffs start, and you get like a week off almost while all these other wildcard teams, you know, are battling out to see who's going to play teams like the Phillies and the Mariners.

So it's very interesting when these guys, him and Cal Raleigh, are as hot as they are. Now you just got to sit in wait a week, kind of, which kind of goes against everything that you want in baseball. When you're hot, you just want to play, play, play. So we'll see. Rest and Rust situation, you know, last night and yesterday as a whole, baseball had a huge wall card. In the headline, I think, with a lot of people that maybe don't have rooting interest

for any of these teams, Red Sox Yankees battling. And I'll tell you what, it was a great day to be a Red Sox. What a time for the Boston Red Sox to knock off the Yankees and a best of three series. Are the Yankees about to be? Are the Yankees about to be? There's chance. I do that yet.

There's nine innings away potentially from their season being over because of the Boston Red Sox. Connor, I know you haven't been following this Red Sox team all season. True. But let's say you had followed the headlines. You were very optimistic about this Red Sox team. Maybe next year, young team going forward. are they about to gritty their way to a massive upset over the Yankees here in the wild card?

I think maybe from the outside world you would think it's massive, but as someone who's followed the team, it's not massive. You know, this team is built for this. Garrett Crochet, once again. I mean, he's punching everybody out. 13Ks, I think 7 to 2 thirds. I mean, this guy's a stud. Ty, I got to say, he called.

Aaron Judge is the greatest right-handed hitter of all time. He hit two of the hardest singles I've ever fucking seen last night. What's that called? That's called bat speed. No, that's a... Exit Velo. Exit Velo. Dude, you should have seen it.

Best, highest single, Velo. Man, they had three of them in the night. I don't know if you saw the end, but they had three right off the bat in the ninth inning. Single, single, single. Everyone's like, singles are back. I'm worried all of a sudden.

Or all this Chapman comes out, we remember him from Pittsburgh at his grandma's house. All of a sudden, we say, uh-oh, there's a chance we might be screwed. The bases are juice. Not us, Stanton. Sit down, buddy. You can't hit a curve.

Jazz Chisholm. Actually, really, really fun to watch. He's sweet. Pop out, though. It doesn't really matter. And then, of course, what did you say? Why didn't he start? Sorry.

Yeah, it wasn't a lot of time wanting to feel after. People are asking, and then see you later. Top left. High cheese, whatever the hell they call it. Who cares? Sox are going to win. 101 to end. It had a 92-mile-an-hour slider in the same inning.

I guess Chapman, obviously, a weapon there to close it. Let's go to Ty Schmidt. New York Yankees. hard super fan. I'll tell you, I didn't want to point it out. The internet had been doing it. Yeah, sure. Yep. We do it again. We did it. We did it about 40 minutes ago. I can try to remember everything I said. We can kind of run it back. I'm not doing it. I woke up this morning. I fell asleep. I didn't see the end of these games. I was, uh, I literally woke up like 4.35 a.m. Okay, felt pretty good. I'm becoming a morning person. I'm actually kind of enjoying.

There's like a routine in the morning. I'm doing this whole thing. Open X first. Now, blame my sure you blame evil his platform you blame sports for being the most talked about thing on there you can blame a lot of stuff the first thing I saw was a tweet a lot of views on it a lot of views on it going

Aaron Judge is a liability for the Yankees it was the seventh inning and I don't even know why they were blaming him for this but it felt like it was a narrative that was starting last night he goes two for four Connor already chatted about that he is Aaron Judge but why was this the narrative coming out of I would genuinely like to know why that is an angle that people are pitching into it.

Because the, well, the Yankees' defense as a whole is like their biggest weakness. And it kind of, like in the playoffs, a lot of times when you're facing these good pitchers like Crochet, you can't just go out and hit five homers every single night and out homer teams, which is kind of the, when the Yankees are at their best, that's their recipe. So they do this kind of stuff with the defense all the time, like letting teams to basically just take another base, which typically there you're thinking like that's a routine. single to the outfield. You can't let that guy stretch that into two.

Sogar, they actually said that from home to second, that was the fastest he's ever ran that. So there's a little juice for the postseason there. I might have made a play. But yeah, exactly. But the biggest issue is Judge has a flexor strain in his elbow, and that was kind of what all Yankees fans were worried about when he

went on the IL like three, four weeks ago. And they basically said, like, hey, if you really uncork one in the outfield, there's a chance you could have Tommy John. And For a guy like Judge, the Yankees can't lose him. If they lose him for a prolonged period of time, they will go right into the shitter. It's happened multiple times. So that's the big thing.

They're saying, well, he's a liability in the outfield. You can't DH him because they have Stanton, so he has to play the outfield. And the question is, and the Red Sox, like, advanced scouting, they knew that. It's like, hey, if we have guys on base and there's a ball hit out to Judge, like, we've got to test his arm. We've got to see if he can actually do it. Because he's known for having a massive arm. He has a cannon. He has a cannon.

Yeah, and I think they said, like, his typical throw from the outfield is, like, around 90 miles an hour, and he threw that, like, 75. Damn. So, like, it is a bit of a concern, but I think he also picks and chooses. Because you also look at it, it's like, yeah, that's huge to get that in quick. At this point, they're still up 1-0, but then, you know, bullpen's got to get outs. You know, you can't rely on. So why did you guys lose? Let's talk about because you're up 1-0 for a long time.

Obviously, in the 7th is whenever they end up taking the lead. Yeah. You also pool your pitcher, I believe, at that exact time as well. guy who had a shotout guy. Yeah, correct. Max Freed, who the Yankees paid $218 million for in the offseason. He's one of the best pitchers in baseball. He led the majors in wins this year, and he was just steamrolling through the Red Sox. I mean, Crochet, what he was doing was unbelievable.

And, you know, Freed was, he was a little bit better because the Yankees had a 1-0 lead going into the 7th. It's what we talked about it a little bit out there. The analytics in baseball now, for whatever reason, when pitchers get to 100 pitches, it's kind of like, okay, this is going to be his last inning. We can't let this guy go any longer. We can't, you know, jeopardize his arm. So, Freed gets an out in the top of the seventh. He throws six and a third.

They take him out and bring in Luke Weaver from the bullpen, who has been absolutely horseshit, almost the entire month of September. What are we doing? What am I out there? That's kind of a boon masterclass is what a lot of people were saying. So he gets in there. He walks his first batter, which you can't do. You can't give any team's free bases.

You're a reliever. throw fucking strikes, don't throw, you know, four balls that aren't competitive at all, and a guy's not going to swing at. So he walks that guy, and then we have the judge play. So now they got second and third with one out. But still, okay, hey, that's not a big deal. You know, you can limit this to maybe a sack fly, and we'll get out of this one, one, and then the game starts over again. That didn't happen. Yoshita pinch hits. They get a base hit right away, score two more runs. And then because the way the Yankees set everything up. They didn't want to play guys like

Jazz Chisham because he's left-handed and Crochet is left-handed and the splits like just those guys are not, you don't want to have a lefty on lefty matchups, but the Yankees had multiple guys on the bench, hey, if we want to pinch hit, we have this guy in a situation. Well, it never got to that, so it kind of played right

into the Red Sox hand. So you got, you go from their unbelievable starting pitcher to Eraldus Chapman who is also left-handed and then you get, you know, three batters who, oh no, we got three lefties. This is exactly what we didn't want to happen, and we couldn't use any of our guys on the bench who were really good. So the Yankees really threw that one away.

Boone got outmanaged big time by Alex Cora. Jeez. But it's a three-game series. And I think most Yankees fans would say, like, if we were going to lose a game, it was going to be that one. Crochet is unbelievable. You hate to waste that kind of start from Max Fried. But now, you know, like, do you want to just be chokers?

Your backs are against the wall. Oh, no. So got win. Oh, no. It's a Yankee fan potentially boiling in point of moment here. I'm very confident. We are witnessing it. Let's go to behind the glass.

Bruce Brown, lifelong Yankees fan as well. Bruce, Boston Red Sox about to wreck the Yankee season this. Oh, no. It's a tough loss at home. You drop the pitching duel, obviously. Their ace crochet played outstanding. But no, you go out tonight. You went eight to four with Redone on the bump.

Carlito, he'll get the job done. And then we go to game three. We got Schlittler and or Blue Gill against a rookie for the Red Sox. Who's a dog? good. Who is good, but I still like our guys. I think it's all right in front of us, as Aaron Boone has said, a thousand times

when we struggled throughout the year. Obviously, have to have it tonight, but I'm not ready to freak out. And I also take Solisin. Garrett Cole's out this year. He's missed the entire year. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. We are a mere don't do that. We are a mere few months

away. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. From Derek Cole, Paul Skeen's, Max Freed, and number 28. He's out of next year. He's out of next year. All right. The Cubs hit back-to-back Jackson. They did. Get a big-time win for them.

That looked like an electrifying environment. Shout to the Cubbies, getting one from Slam Diego. Do they play again today as well? Yes, everybody plays again today, same times. Good luck, so go ahead. Are the aces? I know you talked about that ace duel in the Red Sox Yankees matchup, But are the Aces in general throwing, like, longer now?

No, not really. I mean, some guys, and I think that's my biggest gripe, is it's the postseason. Like, this isn't the middle of May where, like, sure, I could see that a guy's thrown a bunch of pitches. Let's get him out and go for the, like, it's do or die right now. These are three games series. Like, you need to do whatever you can to win these games. And when you're paying a guy, $200 plus million, like, guess what? He can throw more than 100 pitches, okay?

He's not fucking 14 years old. Your guy at 103 pitches? 102. Yeah. And Crochet threw 117, and I was kind of just thinking like, okay, well, if you give Max Fried 15 more pitches, he probably gets out of that seventh inning, and they're still up one-nothing,

and then you can go to your really high leverage relievers in the bullpen. So, I mean, again, a lot of Monday morning quarterback, this can all be erased if you just go win, which is what they got to do. Okay, well, good luck to them, because the Red Sox fans are saying, we thought it was football season. Oh, we had no idea. We're still in baseball season. A great baseball?

Wait, no. baseball. That's crazy for you guys. I'm very excited. In the whole Aaron Judge thing, he's out there. Okay? Guys got a noodle arm now. I don't care if he's hurt. He's got a noodle arm. He hits the ball country mile. But boy, oh boy, it's bad. We need to be hitting. We need to be throwing. Yeah, slap the ball the other way, Jets, is basically what Judge is doing. No, yeah, they need to be hitting it. The righties need to be throwing that thing.

Yeah, bingo. Lefties need to be pulling that thing. Right. Great call. I bet Corr is telling him today, because obviously you heard Kora's a thousand times better than boom, from the Yankees fans. Cora's going to let him know, we're Pepper and Judge today. He said they actually did already know that. That kind of was part of the way.

But today, no, no, per sources, you know, we have sources all over. Per sources, Kora, today is like, let's do it even more. No, I don't think you're, who are your sources? We'd like you to out your sources. Why the hell would I do that? Well, let's just drop

the journalism tag for a second. I know you try your best to be that. Let's just go ahead and share who we got the info from there. Through the grapevine Gumpy's current owner of his soccer club, John Henry. He actually reached out former former owner of the Red Sox. All right, I appreciate that.

Okay, there's some big news going on in the NFL world. The news was broken kind of yesterday afternoon about 312. It was legitimized and officialized and formally announced by everybody else other than just CBS sports this morning. Dylan Gabriel was starting

for Cleveland Bruns. Third round pick. Here we go. Third round pick out of Oregon. Obviously we are incredibly pumped for Dylan Gabriel to get his first start this weekend. It'll be in London town

against the Minnesota Vikings and he can spin it. It feels like everybody loves him. His teammates love him. When he was at Oklahoma, they loved him. When he was at Oregon, they loved him. Obviously, the way that whole thing ended against Ohio State and a Rose Bowl

was nasty. I mean, that was a nasty kind of ending to it all. That was supposed to be a very glorious year, which it certainly was for a large portion of it. And Dylan Gabriel, if he can execute the offense, why not? We saw Joe Flacco punt a couple of times with his arm.

We saw some bad Joe Flacco, even though we had seen some great Joe Flacco for the Cleveland Browns a couple years back. Feels like a quarterback change was inevitable, and with how good their defense is, I don't think it's over for this Cleveland Browns team. If Dylan Gabriel can come in there and play some ball, why not the Cleveland Browns in that AFC North? That'll be at 9.30 a.m. in London, you got Dylan Gabriel taking on Carson Went. Gabriel versus Wynce, ready to go down. Now remember, Dylan Gabriel is his size, which is certainly not the size of other quarterbacks. Certainly Carson Wentz, who is very tall.

I mean, Carson is a large individual. But let's talk about Dylan Gabriel, and the only knock really is, can he see? Is he going to be able to handle it all? How about some big time shots? We've seen undersized, and we're only saying undersized, because in real life, they're normal size. at more athletic, more Jack than most people.

On a football field, though, at that particular position with who you're standing behind and who is trying to tackle you, size seemingly can matter. But there's been outliers. Will Dylan Gabriel be another one of those guys in the NFL debug? We shall see. We saw him be successful at a high level at different stops in his college career. But, yeah, that will be his knock,

and that'll be something he'll have to, you know, overcome throughout his entire career. Every quarterback gets balls batted down the line of scrimmage, but every time it'll happen to Dylan, they'll say, oh, man, is this because, he's 5-11 or whatever his height is but we've seen him play good ball his strength has been getting the ball out on time being accurate hitting guys and once we saw that punt to kirby joseph i think we all saw this kind of come and even coming into the season we all say okay they got the veteran

joe flacko he'll start the season off see how far they can get him and then you'll see what we got from the rookie quarterback so he's getting his opportunity this is when it happens a lot of the times at that quartermark when you're like okay you kind of reassess re-evaluate your team We talked about the defense. We've been talking about them all year. You're going to have a chance every week trotting out that defense. So if you have an offense, they can just move the ball down the field, put up some points, take care of the football, which Dylan Gabriel has shown he can do.

Now we just got to see him do it on the highest level. Yeah, so not only see him do it at the highest level, it's like also see him survive. Just being a quarterback in the NFL is very difficult. And it's not just obviously defense is trying to pick you apart. I think Dylan Gabriel, obviously, with the time he's had the amount of different offenses he's played and how many different defenses he's played against, we assume he'll be able to. to digest what a defense is, but Patrick Mahomes said it wasn't until like his third year, second, two and a half years that he didn't understand what was going on.

So there's going to be some big time shots. Okay, this is the NFL. There's big dudes that are going to give big shots. AQ. Shipley here, obviously, 12-year NFL offensive alignment. Rimmington Award winner at the Penn State University. Is there things that that offensive line is thinking with a guy who 5-10, 5-9, 5-8, whatever it is? He's got 5-8. Can you put the graphic?

5-11? He's like, he was damn near out of the car. No, he's honest. We try to make it as real as possible because we're trying to represent the fact because that is a storyline. Hell you. It's like, hey, this is a huge storyline, especially with a B-flow defense where what you see isn't necessarily what's for real.

So the whole, you got six foot five, six foot seven guys trying to protect you. He's 5-11, okay? So he's, that's not that small. Everybody needs to get off his back. But people are talking about it being real small, though, which I don't love. But he's got like six. 64, 6, 5 around him. That's why quarterback's being tall

is like what the prototype is, because not only are you seen over the defense and being able to, you're seeing over your own fucking guys. I mean, there's a lot of meat around you. I think we're going to talk about that even later. How do you feel about what the Cleveland Browns have set up for him, offensive line-wise?

In Stafansky's offense, do you think Dylan Gabriel is going to have success? I love their offensive line, and here's why, because they are built center, both guards really good on the interior of their offensive line. The defense is going to want to make him feel like the walls are closing in. The whole purpose of the pocket on offensive line is the tackles create the width, the interior guys create the depth.

Well, the good news is those interior three, Betonio, Pochich, and Wyatt Teller are as good as any three in the National Football League on the interior. In Stefansky's offense, what is his offense? I remember watching Baker throw 60 times with a separated shoulder or something. He had taken Nick Chubb off the field because he was doing well. Yeah, so I know that, but he certainly had success, obviously. when him and Flacco were flying around, making the playoffs doing that. Stefansky's known as an offensive guru. Obviously, they have a run game.

They're going to have to at Cleveland. But what type of offense? What is Dylan Gabriel going to have to do in this particular offense? He comes from the world of zone schemes and play actions. I mean, he likes to push the ball down the field off of his play actions. And that, I think, can benefit Dylan Gabriel, because now you're moving the pocket. You're not having them sit in the middle of the pocket where hands can bat passes down. Now you get him outside the pocket.

After running the ball, running the ball, running the ball. Now we hit the play action. Get him outside the pocket. and hit something down the field. Joining us now, go ahead. No, the key is going to be getting the ball out of his hands quick against this floor as defense. You saw that's how A-Rod had success last week against this defense because you sit back

there, you're getting third and long. You've got to be able to run the ball as well. You're getting third and long, dead in the water against this defense. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer, a man who is already in the Houston Texans bull ring of honor. He's also calling games for CBS every single Sunday. And he's done a fantastic job every time we've heard him talk about. the game ladies and gentlemen the owner of the burnly lads and the espanio boys j jay j what

yeah how you doing jage hey guys how's it going hey man you ever been to augusta you ever been uh you ever been down there no big deal that's unbelievable good for you wow have you done this down there no big deal played the course 103 part of the first hole no big deal wow Amen Corner, how'd you do? Amen Corner, how'd you do? Not good. Not good. Not good.

Not good. I'm happy to hear that. But, man, what a place. What a place. Yeah, nobody to go. Did you stay the night? Did you stay the night there? Where?

At Augusta. Not on the grounds. Oh. I didn't know. I didn't even know that was a real thing. I mean, I got dressed in the champion's locker room and breakfast up there. Hard at the first hole. Should have walked off the course.

after the first hole. Great start. Did you do dinner? Did you go to dinner? I mean, I ate food. What are you asking? What did you do? Yeah, you didn't get the experience.

How about me? I'm not talking about me. Just people I know, friends of mine. You didn't do the tour of the place? You didn't go down into the wine cellar? Oh, you didn't do it either? Wow, that's crazy. How about the amateur cabin up there?

Did you go up there? Did you go up there? No, I did not go up there. Oh, my God. That would have been so cool. if you were going. I've heard other people got to do that. Yeah, it would have been. It would have been. We appreciate the invite, you know. Yeah, somebody could invite you and me too, by the somebody could invite me.

Let's get off of that subject. Let's get to you and a 5-11 quarterback. Okay, they're making a big deal out of this. Should they? And what are your thoughts on Dylan Gabriel taking over for the Cleveland Browns? My thoughts are, I hope he's great. I would love for the Cleveland Brown's jersey, that one with all the quarterback's names on the back to be retired. it would be fun to have a guy just end it and you could just have one jersey with one name. So hopefully that's Gabriel because I think it would be great. I think the Cleveland Browns have a phenomenal fan base who are fully on board with their team

and support them through a whole lot of shit throughout the years. And it would be great if they were great at some point. So I'm all for it. Now, as far as his stature, there have been short quarterbacks who have been successful before. I don't think it's as crazy in today's world with the rules and how we protect them. But there's no question that it does present its challenges and batting down passes is a real thing. That's not like a myth where it's like, they don't get passes bad down. It is easier to bat down a pass that comes out at a lower trajectory.

It's just a fact. Yeah, and that's just physics, I believe, is the math that would be the one in charge of that, I think. is no geometry no probably both man I wish I did you're right you got it you got it work it out work it out I'm just trying to figure out what scientific fact that you are so you don't get

accused of going after him because maybe he's under six foot which a lot of people are kind of doing you're just trying to say hey this is just actual science here this is actual math here a ball that is starting from a lower place is going to be easier to maybe stop from getting from a higher place

but there has been success in the past Obviously, everybody goes immediately to Drew Brees, because the way Drew Brees was able to operate, and I think he's six foot, maybe just even. The way he was able to operate was literally through passing lanes that were somehow in every single play. I don't know how he was able to find them. He always looked out of the bottom of his helmet and he was able to wheel and deal. Amazing. But everybody's like, he's done it.

So other people have done it. It's like, I think that's a lot. I don't think that batting passes is like, I don't think that's going to be the defining factor if he's a good quarterback or not. Batting passes is so rare, even if you're one of the best in the league at it, it still happens so rarely that, yeah, you might get two in a game, but that's not going to decide if Dylan Gabriel is a great quarterback or not. What if Dylan Gabriel is exactly what they needed over there? That would be sweet. That would be very sweet, especially for that Browns team. And I think all pass rushers would feel this way. Yeah, we want the team that paid

$40 million for a pass rusher to have success. We would like, um, other teams to see that. And be like, yep, yep, this is how you, blueprint. This is how you win in this entire thing. But that defense is rolling, dude. That defense is very, very, very good. And as a defensive guy who's kind of been through that before,

I understand. Am I, my, my, my, little choppy over here. Yeah, you're a little choppy. Not the audio, but definitely your face. Yeah, we caught your face about half, you know, one of those types of moves. Hmm. It's a good technology.

Burnley connection. Maybe it's that soccer ball. What is that soccer ball behind you? Maybe it's radiating too much. My wife has the fastest goal in U.S. history. She scored in 48 seconds in her first ever appearance. I knew it was radiating too much energy. It was glitching the internet.

I mean, how many say this, that again? How many seconds? Fastest goal in U.S. women's soccer history, 48 seconds. Wow. Into our first game. She came on, sub-d-d-on, scored a goal. immediately so what did she how to work out did she slice and dice the entire team did she what was it yeah she picked it up uh just past half the halfway line took it down and put it in the

back and then it was it was the coolest i mean we did like we were still a little early in the days there and i was like this is what do you need that this is cool yeah fastest of all time that's incredible i love what you bought koa and your kids are going to be like mom and dad very athletic uncle's very athletic before we dive into football talk TJ said on a show

that we're not allowed to show okay that guy's awesome I think noted awesome guy but TJ talked on a show about the amount of food that you guys ate as kids is it what

so every once in a while we'll see you put out one of those rock like posts where you look like an asshole I'd say a lot of food you put out there. But that is literally just what you guys grew up doing is just housing food.

And is this the cheat code? Are you doing this to your kids right now? He's not lying. It was two breakfast, two lunches, two dinners every day. And it was a gallon of milk a day for the household. It was just, yeah. I mean, my dad and my mom were very conscious of, like, they knew that we needed to put on weight.

And if we wanted to be athletic, we needed to grow. um and it was a whole lot of food and i think he told the story about peanut butter and jellies packed in the backpack for lunch uh for snacks at school so you'd have your two breakfast in the morning you go to school eat your p b and j then you go get your double lunch at school and then the afternoon you have a p b and j and then you come home and have two dinners so it's unbelievable insane is that every day of your life how long do we do this for um i mean it was basically until the end of my playing career for sure uh that's i had to learn low down and be like Okay. Once I retired, you had to be like, all right, you can't do this anymore.

Well, I don't think you can do it ever. I think that is one of those things that if you were standing there for, what year did you, how old were you when you retired? It was 33, 33 years old. 33 years of eating like that. Think about how many calories, just think about the amount of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, this guy. What kind of workouts in between? Yeah, we're doing. swimming in the morning like what what how many workouts a day there was there was some there were some times where it was ridiculous i mean there were there were two a day workouts on practice days in the nfl it was it was dumb i've said it before there were times where i was dumb just but you don't know you got it's like that thing you got to push it to the limit until you find the limit so you're like all right i got to be the best by working harder than everybody else

so i need to work harder than i've ever worked and then you get and then all of a sudden you blow out your back and you're like okay there's line let's the back I'm not even talking NFL. I'm talking like when you're in seventh grade. Like what is because you're eating? Because some people may see this and say, all right, let me just feed my kids and shit. Yeah, I know.

And then it becomes fat. So what type of, yeah, 500 pound life? Right. Yeah. Yeah, this is not a recommendation, but there was a lot. And this isn't like a thing where we were like, yes, dad, give us all this food. We just, we're hungry to be great. Like, there was some, there was some like, dad.

Like, we don't, we're full. I don't want to eat. I don't want to work out. hungry, dad. Just stomach eat PBJ. I don't like peanut butter and jelly anymore.

It sucks now. I understand. Go ahead. It's like, we're very fortunate. I've told the story many times. My mom was a secretary, worked her way up to become

the vice president. My dad was a firefighter. We were middle class, not rich, not poor. But they spent their money trying to better us. Like that, they wanted us to be great. They took it and we're

very, very grateful and thankful for that. yeah, to the watch. Hell yeah, to the Watts. Okay, let's talk about a watt. TJ, we actually had to do a little bit of journalism and get the truth, obviously. Is that a full-sized mug? Oh, yeah. You got an Andre the Giant type situation. Jesus, wow. You got Andre the Giant type situation whenever he's holding that beer can. You look. It looks like a Dixie Cup. That's a small, that's an espresso. That's an espresso cup. This is a 12 ounce cup.

You're a monster. Two P.B and Js. They sandwiched the double lunch. So think about this, P.B. and J. Lunch. Lunch. P.B. and J. That's lunch.

That is what lunch is. And then he holds this mug and that thing disappears. Let's talk about another Watt that has lived a life like that and took over another country. What a performance. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, JJ, what were your thoughts on the Ireland game as a whole? pretty sweet atmosphere. Obviously, we called you and kind of weird that T.J. decided to lie because everyone knows that

when he punted that ball into the Hogan stands, it was clearly an ode to Gaelic football. So a little weird that he wouldn't just be honest about that, but I get it. But overall, what did you think of this whole kind of experience over in Ireland? And we already are getting some of like the stats back in the viewership. This was the second most watched NFL network international. national game in history. So it looks like we will be going back to Dublin once again, the aisle, if you will. I'm a massive fan of Ireland. I've been over there many times. I love it. I think the NFL, Dublin, everybody in Ireland knocked it out of the park. It looked incredible.

It was a fun game to watch. I think the only change that I would make to it is the winning team should stay the next day. Like there should be a pub crawl for the winning team. I feel like that would be next level because you can't you can't win the game in dublin and then just hop straight on a plane and come back you have to hit the pub they should have a little crawl set up for that i think that'd be easy to call and contact macquade would definitely set that yeah yeah over here a lot yeah got a got a tunnel yeah follow me under this tunnel lot don't worry we'll be there in two seconds they should definitely or like at least at minimum on the field after the game like on thanksgiving when they give the turkey leg you got to just be chugging Guinness on the field after

of the game. Yeah, I think I saw your brother and Cam Hayward maybe afterwards had a pint they were sharing and maybe some more were shared behind the scenes as you're on the bus and heading to the airport and everything. But you're right, why not for the Irish game, have it be different? What's the difference? You go on a pub crow

afterwards. That'd be sweet. That would be a sick thing. Now, granted, definitely going to need a buy after that. Yeah. Maybe two. The game, certainly one thing. Very interesting what Minnesota's doing. Very interesting. I'm very excited to watch and see how this plays. for them. Okay, so they said they'd rather do this than go into Pittsburgh or into Cleveland. So what are

your thoughts on that? Like obviously the travel is its own animal and every team has to be comfortable with what they're doing and there's no right answer. Obviously people have left early. People have left late. I don't even think you're allowed to leave too early anymore because of what rules are. Teams have won, teams have lost, whatever it is. In the travel, obviously guys say like, well, I'd rather save my bye week for later. I don't want to do it. It's like, I don't know what the right answer is. I don't know if there is a right answer. But choosing Ireland and London over Pittsburgh and Cleveland, in theory, made sense to me whenever I heard it. I would have never thought of it that way. Yeah, I think for me, the big difference here is there's a difference between going and staying

two weeks and playing two weeks in the same place where you're kind of settled into the hotel, you're settled into the practice facilities, you got your routine, then going to Ireland, playing a game in Ireland, then switching countries going to London, getting yourselves all reset up at the hotel and everything and then playing a game there. I do think that that's different than like a Jacksonville staying over for two weeks just because of how much difference there is. I mean, practice fields and ice bass and everything is different. You have to reset up and pack and everything.

So, I mean, maybe I'm making too big of a deal out of it there, but there's no doubt that the upheaval of your normal routine can affect you as a player. I think so, too. And it's a lot of bullshit there, checking in, checking out. what's the new this, what's the new that. Obviously, we're on a different time. When do we talk to the family? Is the family here?

What is the family need? I mean, there's just a lot that goes into that on the human side. So staying focused on the game is obviously a whole other task at hand. The Vikings are going to be looking to win this way. I mean, if they go 0 and 2, they're going to be looked at as doofus. Not only do you pick up two losses, which you might have been able to steal one maybe in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, which is. But also now your team has been international for two weeks. How do you get back on to Minnesota?

I mean, there's going to be a lot of questions if they go Owen, too. And they were close. Carson Wentz almost brought them back in. You did? The Carson Wentz experienced JJ was happening right in front of our eyes over there in Ireland. It was a special time. And now it heads to London to take on Dylan Gabriel. We can't wait for another 9.30 a.m. kickoff. We're looking at the games for this weekend across the board.

Let's make sure we enjoy the good ones. Yeah. They're going to be on. We've got a couple good ones. Yeah, we got a couple good. we certainly got a couple good ones, and we will enjoy those. Thursday night's a big one. Rams,

Niners, that's a big, big game. That's a good game. That's a very good football game. Looking forward to that. That's Thursday. Check out the rest here. Man, really wish Buckingier Cetawks. Yeah, on that note, JJ,

I know this would be a great game. Two former first round quarterbacks found their footing doing their thing. Two great Ohio statewide receivers, Jackson Smith, and Jigba Ibuca, but I know something near and dear to your heart. Jerseys, swag, and an all-time jersey matchup here. Which way are you leaning right here between the Bucks and the throwback Seahawks jerseys? I do not know if you are going to see a better uniform matchup this year or even potentially in coming years.

I mean, that is top, top tier. The thing I love about the Bucks, we all love the creamsicles, but there are some people. that it can overwhelm this with the white understated the creamsicle's allowed to pop but it doesn't overpower you but like see the so and also here's the thing for me the creamsicles that's a perfect throwback you get that out here once or twice a year but the seahawks that's got to be their full time you got to go back to that full time that is a top top tier uniform combo shout to Ari mirov piece in this beautiful thing together obviously for us on the internet to remind us of this game happening but anytime you get good unis on,

the boys know they're probably going to get to keep it. So if you get to keep them, you'd like the memory to be a good one. So obviously, I think there is a little heightened environment, heightened atmosphere, whenever you have a good uni. Now, if you've got an ass union, which some of these teams have certainly rolled them out, some guys don't even want to keep the jersey afterwards.

So it's like, ah, who fucking? You know, so sometimes the jersey can weigh a lot more than in other games, and I think in this one, it's going to be beautiful. Now, the Falcons, you just got a chance to go learn more about, them. Connor has a question for you, JJ. Yeah, JJ. Bijon's been off to an unbelievable start. He leads the team in rushing and receiving. And this is kind of a trend almost right now with some of these running backs. I know Buckey Irving is up there after his 100 yard day on Sunday. And then there's a few others, McCaffrey kind of scattered in there. But Bijon's by far the

most dominant player for his team at any of those running backs. How do you feel about Bajon possibly making a run at the MVP? I know he plays running back and it's a quarterback award. but do you think he might go on a little run here? Also, same note, Pooka Nakuwa, too. Yeah, I mean, obviously two incredible players you're talking about here. I had a chance to watch Bajan up and close this week. And like you said, leading his team in receiving, leading his team is rushing, and just dynamic. It's incredible to watch him play.

His jump cuts, his explosion after the cut, his ability out of the backfield, and something that's extremely underrated, but he's very good at it, is it's blocking. He's a really good blocker, a willing blocker. So I think if the Falcons can get on a little role in their offense plays like they did last week and not like they played against Carolina, there's certainly a conversation that should be starting around Bajon Robinson and that tier of that MVP level tier, if they can get on a little bit of a run. But just because of everything that he does, also he's just a great kid. It was a lot of fun to talk to him.

He seems to have just a great head on his shoulders. He trains with McCaffrey in the offseason. He wants to grow. He wants to get better. He's definitely the type of guy that you love to see hyped up in this league is just all about ball and loves ball. Okay, so let's go to the next game that you're calling. That was last week. I can't wait to hear who's catching your eye.

But there's another man that has been calling games too. And I don't know if you guys have shared any insight on what it's like to be good color commentators. but I do know you guys have shared like similar thought or maybe differing thoughts on maybe a play. AQ Shipley's here obviously 12 year NFL he posted the other day. I don't know if you

saw this. It was a Dion Dawkins play and AQ basically what you said is like hey this is this guy super power this is what Dion Dawkins do right? Is that all what you said? Yeah I love him every time he sees that DN drop he's looking to break some ribs and not only does he get one

he gets two. Oh! He gets two. Now, Jage, we have heard that maybe you have a thought on this particular play about celebrating Deion Dawkins looking for ribs, looking for work, looking to help out there, Jage? I do have some thoughts. None of them are about Deon Dawkins. Deon Dawkins is a phenomenal football player, great football player. This has nothing to do with him. This has to do with AQ Shipley and acting like this.

We just took two blindside shots. Completely legal, completely fine. no problem at all. I get it. It's part of the game. But this, I don't know, like, it's like, it's like, it's a scumbag, buddy. He called you a scumbag, buddy. He called you a scumbag. Where I'm unblocked and I pose a free sack and it's like, that guy's a beast. It's like, well, I mean, the guy quarterback laid down for me.

He was just laying there and I touched him for the sack. Yeah, just curious, how many sacks you had on T.T. stunts, T, E.T. stunts. Just curious. As the guy picked the shit out of the tackle, when his eyes aren't looking at him, boom, and then you come freezing that the same thing? Pretty similar. But I didn't post it on the internet and say, wow, look at how dominant this guy is. Like, no, he knocked somebody's ribs out

that wasn't looking. I got knocked out by Ben Scronick one time, flat on my ass. Good ball player. The Rams posted it for like three weeks straight, rightfully so. But like, I wasn't looking. I had no idea it was coming.

It was from the outside. Yeah, it's pretty easy to knock somebody on their ass when they're not looking. Yeah, AJ is saying, hey, Q, maybe let's not be glory. things that maybe most people could do. Dion Dawkins has a lot of other tape that maybe we should be celebrating. Is that what you're

saying, JJ? Yes, thank you. No problem. I think if you could go out there and knock those dudes out right now in the same situation. I think McKenzie might be able to. And I would love every second of that. McKenzie could potentially do that. But you say you're celebrating because you don't know. Here's why I'm celebrating, and this is why. Because

for the rest of the game, they run a zone blitz and they draw up the end. That three technique has to think about it. Not only does the three technique have to think about it, now the noseguard has to think about it because Dion Dawkins, your left tackle, not only hit the three technique, now he comes and gets the opposite noseguard. And so because of that, I'm celebrating. It's a heads-up play. Not every tackle does that. You know that. We've watched a million tackles just sit there and eat up space. But to have the wherewithal, to have the heads up,

to be able to go back in and get one, not only get one, but get two, now everybody's thinking about it on the defense side of the ball. I do agree with your argument there. I do agree that not everybody's cleaning that up, that not everybody is, is doing, especially the second one. I agree. And it is an effort thing. There's no doubt. Nothing wrong with any of that. I will, now, now I will give credit.

Conceived. That conceit, let's concede one. I'll give credit. You called him a wrecking ball. You didn't say it was dominant. You just said he was a wrecking ball, which I guess technically in that sense, he was a wrecking ball. Wow.

And he kind of came in like a wrecking ball to your argument. Cue it up. Cue up the song. Cue it up. Recting ball. Go ahead. Hit it. I came in like a a wrecking ball. Yeah. Yes. What nothing. Yes. We like that. Good win, A. Q. Hey, these guys pitch his shut out right now. Seven in the third innings. That's right. We've got some real magic hook in there. Okay. Now follow up. He does want to ask you a question about the game you're about to call. Yeah, it's a game we thought was going to be a lot better. when the season started. Texans, Ravens, you're calling it, your guy Matt Burke calling plays. What is he bringing that's different than the previous coordinator? And what are you seeing?

Obviously, you love this guy. I love to hear your thoughts on that. Yeah, I mean, Matt Burke, obviously calling the defense for the first time last week and getting a shutout. First time since 2010, I was a little sad to learn that I never had a shutout in Houston. I just assumed we had one. Didn't. But also, like, it's, you know, the Texans defense is, dominant. They're unbelievable first in points per game. Titans, we know, have their own issues and struggles, so there's no doubt about that. But I think more so than Bert calling defense, which he is a fantastic defensive coordinator and knows what he's doing, is it frees up to Miko to just be the head coach and to go out there and sometimes go

help the offense or talk to CJ, to just focus on the decision making and to kind of play that global CEO as opposed to having double duty with the coordinator calling the plays and head coach, which I think is huge. I'm a big advocate for the CEO head coach as opposed to the coordinator slash head coach. And I think this is a great step for the Texans. There's obviously been some that have been massively successful as playcullers and head coaches. Andy Reid is who we all kind of point to as the guy who's been able to do it for so damn long. But I enjoy the thought of a CEO head coach as well.

Being able to tap in with everybody, spend more time connecting with everybody and also spending your life doing things that are good for the whole team as opposed to just one side of the ball. But a lot of these guys were getting jobs because how good. they were a call in place. It's an interesting dynamic. It's almost the Peter principle in some of those situations. We're like, hey, you get the job because of how good of a play caller you are, but then you take the job and you say, well, I can't be a play caller anymore. So now you have

a completely different job that you didn't get the job because it's an interesting. Good luck to everybody out there. Go get it. Hard job. Hard job. Coaching as a whole is an incredibly hard job. Are the Texans back? I think this weekend's going to be a big one to tell us that.

I mean, like, we all know. are struggling right now. So that is a tough one to use as a measuring stick. The first half did not look good, only up 6-0 after the first half, but then they came out in the second half did what they're supposed to. This week, I mean, the Ravens are decimated by injuries.

Not just Lamar, everywhere. They have guys out left and right, and they're already the 32nd ranked defense in the NFL. I've kind of billed, I'm kind of billing this one a little bit on Sunday. We're just talking about it. On one hand, it's the immovable object versus the unstoppable force. You have Derek Henry and the offense

who are third in points per game against the Texan's defense who's first in points per game. On the flip side, you've got the movable object versus the stoppable force. Texan's offense hasn't been great. Ravens' defense is 32nd.

So it's just going to come down to who executes better. And if the Texan's offense actually is back on track and rolling, could be coming around. How'd the Colts do last week? All right. We should have won that game.

We're dropping balls. It's a battle. We're holding on to him. We've got one guy made a couple mistakes, but guess what? He's dynamical on the field, so we're going to make sure he gets it right in. It's a good time to lose a game. It is. It's a good time to lose a game.

Or tie. Especially to the – or tie game. Yeah. Your thoughts, Jage, on the – Colts should have won this game. We all know that. Talk to Matthew Stafford afterwards. Matthew Stafford said, that's a good team over there. Yeah, he didn't.

Yeah, that's a good team over there. That was good news. That's all I need to hear. Let's talk about the tie from you. I need to hear your thoughts on Cowboys Packers, Maka, to Jerry World. Did you see Michael come out with the band on his waist still for his first time going onto the field back on to Jerry World? He had a band around his waist, like one of those warm-up bands.

He kind of just kept it for the entirety. And at one point, he grabs it so he knew it was there. But that was interesting to me. I'd never seen that before. But what do you think about it ending 40-40 tie ball game? And Jerry Jones is going, well, they got Maka, we got, we got. in which hat. So you tell me,

what are you your thoughts, change? I didn't see the workout band until now. That's an interesting one. Accident? You think that's accident? It'd be really tough to be an accident, man, because that is very restricting

around your hip flexor than clearly your glutes. I think you would know that that was there, but I don't know, I guess. It was a crazy game. It was a wild game. I haven't seen any Jordan Love quotes since, but like, did he know that that was, the game was going to end if that clock hit zero at the end? Well, the floor seemed to not know that. He said that today, and he was like, wow, I was just thinking on the sideline like, this is going to be bad.

We're not even going to get another playoff. So, but he did say, he said that day, he said, you know, I started looking up at the clock and it was going down. And I was thinking, oh, my God, we're not going to get a playoff. And then that's what happened. Looked like, man. Yeah, bingo, but he did say, you know, it's... He didn't lie. We appreciate him.

Let's give him his floor for not lying. And he did say that was embarrassing, and that can never happen again. Yeah, man. Do we hear him, Ty? It was like watching a slow-motion car crash in front of your face. I was just looking at the clock, like, oh, my God. There's going to be no time left. It's a very humbling experience, and obviously, it's,

unacceptable, quite honestly. I'm sure it'll be teach tape around. I'm sure everybody will be done. True. Yes, they will. Hey, if we get into this situation, what are we doing? Not what these idiots did. Okay, we're going to know that we need another play.

We're in field goal range. We can tie. It sucks, but we can certainly tie if we have to. Didn't feel like Jordan. Watching that live, I thought for sure that clock was going to at minimum hit zero and they might put one back on. It's crazy that that clock did not hit zero. And especially in Jerry world, I think a lot of people would think Jerry,

you know, especially on Big Michael's return nine, you know, there would be a, maybe a favorable clock. That thing stopping at one was certainly good news for Packers fans as McManus came out and tied that up. But everybody on earth now just says, this shouldn't be a lot. Jage, your thoughts. I mean, I come obviously as a fan and somebody watching the game, I do not want to see it end in the tie. I want to see some former victor. Now, I have also, personally played in back-to-back full overtime games on a Sunday and a Thursday. So I had to just play an overtime full 15 minutes on a Sunday, go on the road on a Thursday at 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day

and play a full overtime game on Thursday. So I've played 10 quarters in five days. That sucks. That is a lot of football. And it is. So I completely get why we don't, but nobody likes ties, man. like nobody we got to find i don't i don't want to go to like a goal kick situation but that would be electric if you just lost the kickers out there and start backing them up hello golden boot yes

we agree we'd be taking what soccer has as their only electrifying thing and adding it to our game and it's only happening after an overtime period this a lot of football has already taking place the boys can't figure it out let's go and get this done b a pitch yesterday offenses eight yard line one play score a touchdown or not score a touchdown so instead of the golden boot. Just have your offense, defense go out there. One play, ball on the eight-yard line. Obviously, if offense scores, defense gets a stop. That team wins. If both teams scored... That's like college after the first two, right? Yeah, but I think you've got to go for two and the second one now. I don't even think it's the third one, right?

I think that's the big difference. Yeah, that rule was changed. One of the coaches didn't know that just like two weeks ago. Hey, let's go to Hammer. Dad, Todd. AP tone. That second over time, you have to go for two. Is that Was that this year? Last year, when did their rule change? It's very, very recent. I want to say, I want to say it's this year because I remember Georgia, Georgia Tech last year, they were arguing that Georgia Tech should have gone for two after the second overtime, and they didn't.

They just kept playing overtimes wherever. Because it used to be the third one. I think it used to be the third one. Now it's the second one. But do they still do the thing where they do dueling two-point conversions then after like two? Yeah. No. Are they really?

Yeah, they don't even go back to the 25 or whatever. they only do two-point conversions oh yeah because georgia yes yeah yes i do remember that yeah that is awesome but just move it to the game there's like seven of them Texas A&M had the one where it was like seven just going back and forth maybe just start with that where are you this week where are we at game day Alabama mm-hmm oh hosting Vanderbilt Alabama a pretty good team who they beat this year that's no we don't need to know that we know let's talk about vandy vandy let's Let's hype Vandy up. Let's give Vandy some love.

They're probably first time on game day. Yeah, I think it is. Either a long time or ever. I think ever. I mean, Jay Cutler had that run right with Vandy. I assume maybe they had some good hype then. But just the thought last year that we were going to maybe try to get to a van. None of the schedule never lined up.

But it was certainly like, hey, we got to go, we got to go show Vandy to the world right now that they're a school. This is out of control that they were able to turn this quickly with just a couple pieces and a culture. change. And it's like good for Vandy. So getting a chance to celebrate them this week while they traveled Alabama will be fun. Florida State, Miami was certainly where I think everybody thought we were headed, including us. And then the Virginia game happens. And they lose. And it's like, oh, still a big game, but after a loss. The fact that game day is viewed that way, and I'll continue to say this, it's crazy to be a part of. People are like, hey, it has to come to our game. Like, that's a cool thing to be a part of. Like, that's very humbling. You know what I mean?

Like, hey, this game, this sport is so big. so large, so much tradition, so much history, so much pageantry, and it's like, I'm a part of something that is just considered a part of the fabric of that entire thing. Very lucky to do that. I would like that to be said. It's awesome. It's incredible. I mean, it's literally a part of, like, it's become just as much a part of college football as the actual games, which is so cool. And then I also have to tell you this, every week I go into these stadiums now calling these games and it's been really cool. Like the stadium workers, whether it's the same, security people, or it's the people operating the elevators, every single week so far this

season, somebody has said to me, love watching you on the Maccabee show. I watch that show every day. It's such a great show, and you guys do a great job. So your demographic and audience is the people doing it, out there working, putting in the time, the police officers, everybody loving it. So it's been really cool to see that response. Yeah, we're very thankful for the folks that watch this show, but also we're thankful for you coming by the show. You're great on our show, brother. Just like you're great in the booth. We appreciate the hell out of you. How are Byrneley and Espaniel doing?

We got a big weekend coming up. Everybody plays on Sunday. I got the Texans Burnley's got Aston Villa. Español's got Real Bettis. Batis. I don't know how to pronounce it. The boss is team. That's a good squad in the league. That's a tough game. What's the name of the team? Gump's? Okay, so it's not

Jerome. Do we know that for sure? We do say Batis in Spain. Do we know? Okay. We don't know for sure if the boss is associated. with Batis, but they are a good team, ever. The Espanio squad needs to continue winning, keep winning, or start winning again?

We've been drawing, so we could get on the W train again. See NFL? That's what we're talking about. More draws again? Hey, Roger, you hear what he just said? That's what they're doing. Yeah. Okay, but he gets Batis's team, you know.

And they're calling it football. Okay, we can't be doing that. Commish. Enough. immediate meeting 32 only let's get a rule done and have another tie and change that primetime thanksgiving game too yeah all right we appreciate you ladies and gentlemen he is future first ballot hall of famer j jay jay wad he's a man jaj is the man i uh i'm happy he's doing well in the booth yeah it's awesome he hey you are as well aren't you i appreciate that i saw a video of you calling it i like the energy i like i didn't know you were sitting on like a little stare in the corner

You can get real tight. I didn't know that either. You get with your guy. You're allowed to be next to your. Pliable. I'm pliable. I can really compact down. What are you watching there?

You're watching the little monitor? Are you watching? No, I'm watching live. Where the hell is Debuck going? Debaugh is so upset. He said, I got to go. He's got to go.

We had a little super duper donuts this morning. Oh, yeah. That's right. The dirt donuts. Oh, a lot of ingredients in these days. Dirt? No, well, A. Qush brought some healthy donuts this morning. Yeah, I just assumed.

they're made with dirt. I assume that too. No. They're... Delicious? Delicious. Okay. But I think there's a lot of things in there that make you dump your fans. Yeah, that's every healthy. They're both the dumping donuts, and Darius is certainly going through that right now. The program begins now. Football! It is magical, and we're lucky to talk about it every single day, but this hour is going to be a little bit different.

We're going to be talking about another sport that's in the middle of a magical, another playoff run. Wild cards started yesterday It continues into today And then we're going to find out Who's the next Mr. October? Yeah Who's going to be banging penance on the wall Who's going to be hitting the ball

Further than the other team And what pitchers are going to be able to find That strike zone better than everybody else What names will be etched in history What teams will get to the mountain top We have started MLB postseason Hell yeah I guess I could say the MLB postseason, because that would be the postseason.

MLB would be the descriptor. Correct. So it's the MLB postseason that is currently happening, and we've had some magical moments. We're talking about back-to-back jacks. We're talking about a big-time comeback to one of the biggest robberies in all of sports. And then we got a team up in Detroit. That may be going on a little bit of a run, even though the boys had quite a collapse at the end of the year. They tried to scoble 14 strikeouts, pitch an absolute gem.

Some people were calling it the best pitching performance in all of baseball history. That's a big win, all right? Now, there's actually starting right now. Hopefully they just win this thing. Let's get out of Cleveland. Move on to the next round. I was watching somebody streaming named Jason, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and it was a Shohei at bat, and I don't know if he expected Shohei to go yard,

but he certainly did. And in that moment, that coach, Jason, he lost his mind. and told some truths about this man. This show hey man is unbelievable. He is the one. Now, I know Big Dumpur is going to be joining us here in a matter of moments. Kyle Swarbo is going to be joining us

in a matter of moments here. This show hey guy's special, man. Yeah. The biggest moments he performs, chaos happening around him all the time, seemingly, an ability to lock in that we haven't seen but from a few different people. You talk about the Mamba mentality,

obviously with Kobe Bryant with his work ethic and his ability to lock in. Talk about Michael Jordan, obviously flipping a switch whenever he gets in to the entire thing. I got to witness it with Adam Vittatari. I'm sure Serena Williams had her version of how she would flip the switch and get locked in and just kind of absolutely dominate. This Shohei guy somehow with fire literally burning around him personally and in the stadiums

because his ratings are going up and to the right. He's building this sport in other countries. And obviously in Japan, he's one of the biggest stars on Earth. NHK ratings. HK ratings up, whatever over there. It's like, and then he just steps in the biggest. moment is it has no idea. Like it is, he's almost unconscious this guy. Whenever he's playing sports, it's unbelievable to watch. I'm happy he's a part of the time that we are alive,

Tush. Yeah, without a doubt. And the way they deploy him to, like, the fact that he's, you know, batting lead off a lot. It just, their lineup is so deep so you can do that. But like, you could just see last night, like how demoralizing that is. Like the Reds have this kid, Hunter Green, who throws over 100 miles an hour. He is an absolute stud. And then, you know, you have all this momentum and excitement for being in the playoffs and then boom, first at bat of the game, Shohay goes yard and it's like, oh, shit. Here we go again. We've got to basically be perfect from here

on out. Comes up a little bit later, hits another homer. Taye Oskar Hernandez, who is another guy who, like, they were thinking about maybe letting go, but they ended up bringing him back. He's clutching the playoffs. He hits two homers last night. Tommy Edmund hits a homer last night. Like, they just

and it's kind of, this is what, you know, good teams, especially teams who hit home runs. This is what they do. It's just contagious. like once a couple guys run into them, then it's like, okay, now we're just going to see guys throughout the order start hitting homers. And to the Red's credit, they had a little bit of a comeback last night and ended up losing 10-5s. You can see Roblo's losing his fucking mind there.

But yeah, he is. He is. It is. But the Dodgers are unbelievable once again, and a lot of people are already looking ahead and saying, man, if we can get Phillies Dodgers in the next round, that would be sublime. Well, Swarbo, we know he hits it a long way. We know Harper hits it a long way.

Shoahe O'Tonnie last night. Hardest hit home run off a hundred mile on our pitching, stack ass there, stack that. 117. I think he's coming out there. I thought Judge hit a single that hard. Well, this is a home run. Oh, my bad, my own. Home run off.

Why did you do that? No, I genuinely was like, well, Judge hit his ball 150 miles an hour. I was like, that's not that fast. It was a home run versus single. He's been saying single very loud, hasn't he? And it's a best of three series. I don't know if everybody really understands that because there was a time where these games

are best of one. Do you remember that 12 year? NFL event. Super Bowl, it was electric. A.J. Burnett on the mound. Neil Walker, the old town kid. Oh, the coach is doing this thing. Tows is going crazy. It wasn't that long ago, but it feels like forever. It feels like it's never going to happen again.

And it's certainly not within arm's reach at this moment. Even though we got to Cy Young winner in the entirety of it all. It's not even close. Can't even. Let's get back to talking ball. That's not your NFL vet, Gary Scha, Ball. You said you like him batting leadoff? Joe Hey.

I mean, yeah. And Judge Bat's second now, right? Yeah. Is that like very different? Is that something new? Because I'm using like three or four spot. Yeah, exactly. But I think it's just now the way it goes.

It's like, hey, we want to guarantee this guy's going to get as many at bats as possible. And for stuff like that, it's like when you, who knows what the. percentages are, but when you hit a lead-off home run, I would... It's like a block punt. Exactly. I would imagine you win quite a bit of the time. Yeah, it feels like that's exactly similar type stat, because the vibes and everything. Exactly. Dodger Stadium was crazy. See, opening kickoff return over. Right. I mean, you might as well take it. Schwabos, he bat four?

So he batted lead off quite a bit last year. He's been hitting third this year. Okay, so I'm going to ask him, it seems like when I was a boy with what the normal thing was, Guys bat and cleanups The best, that's the That's the big bopper That's where you want to be Because we're going to get them on base And then our guy's going to come in and hit him in

And then Shohei going leadoff has been like a story basically And I just thought to myself Oh he must not be like the best hitter Because he's also one of their best pitchers It's like no, he is the best hitter on their team Right? Is he the best hitter on their team by far? I mean Getting more at bat seems like a much smarter strategy

than depending upon three people to get on base For your fourth guy To finally get a hit. I don't know Mookie? Yeah, Mookie, Freddie Freeman,

to Oscar Hernandez. I mean, that's the thing. When you have multiple All-Star Blacks... Jesus, they're buying a championship.

But, but no, it's, you know, like any more... The thing with Shohay, too, is it's like, if he doesn't hit a homer,

like, he's stealing seconds. You know, like, he's an absolute weapon. And that's, that was always a lot of people with Schwerber.

It's like, well, the whole point of your lead-off hitter is to get on base. So it's like, he's only like a 240 hiter. you wouldn't say he's a guy that hits for average, but he hits a lot of home runs.

So it's kind of like a pick your poison. Do you want a guy to get a single or a walk or do you want a guy hit a homer the first pitch of the game? Dumpers hitting? Third. Okay, so third, first. We know baseball. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a guy who won a youth league baseball championship at the age of seven in a 10-year-old league. Wow.

He's a college football national champion, a Super Bowl champion, a Rotter Cup winner. Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Hawkins. Yeah, Hawthor. We got new shape on this thing. We got new shape. Just got the bottom of the sides trimmed up a little bit just to keep it clean. That's all it did. Can he turn that thing sideways real quick just so we get?

Ooh, a little low face. Oh. I got to keep growing out the top part. Yeah, I saw Shoah hit that live, by the way. That was pretty magical, even though it was against my Cincinnati Reds, unfortunately. Yeah, Cincinnati Reds might be outmatched in this one, which I think I actually heard Ty talking yesterday after, I think he had. had Jack Ann Diet, he said like something about home runs and there was something about the Yankees, we're not playing the Reds, which is basically what was said, I think, in a nutshell or whatever,

is that accurate? Yeah, pretty much. You guys are boppers as well, right? Yes. But you're taking on Red Sox and old buddy, who's a great pitcher, and Reds guy potentially getable for dong shots. Very, very good kind of same deal, but like the guy the Red Sox have is very proven. This kid for the Reds came up very late in the season or, you know, about midway through the season.

And he's got like skeins type stuff. He throws hard as shit. It moves a lot, but he's still a young guy. And he, you know, he hasn't been in that situation before. And Shohey, no matter of the situation, seemingly, has already been there at least a thousand times. Correct. Just so comfortable, so calm. I forget the one thing that was happening.

They made a big scene out of him doing something. Obviously, everything he does. Big scene. He does the hat tip. Then he gets in there. Dong shot. It's like the whole energy and attention that was just given. hey we just stopped this entire show for you basically yep probably right thank you yep all right let me

this is what you came for right yeah and it's gone it's like just video game so methodic of a assassin for his position uh we're lucky to watch it okay let's talk a little bit of NFL news in your state the great state of ohia there's a new starting quarterback for the cleveland brownies now stop me if you've heard that before the jersey. We got a new star court. We got a new star court. We got a new start. We got a new couch. They're laughing stop. Like a sofa? They're on ESPN 2 because there's baseball and ESPN 1 and they're laughing at them. We're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you. This might be the one. Dylan Gabriel drafting the third round out of Oregon with a stop at

Oklahoma. Obviously he can spin it. He's 5 foot 11. He's taking on the Minnesota Vikings. and Brian Flores' defense on Sunday. What do you think the storyline will be, AJ? Oh, man. The storyline will be, like you guys talked about batted balls. We'll see what happens. I think I don't worry as much with shorter guys with batted balls. I worry more about having giant O&D linemen in front of you taking away the passing lane,

so you might not see a guy sitting in a void or whatever. But I think Dylan Gabriel might surprise some people and come out here and light up a little bit. We know if he just takes care of the ball and they have success running it, they can absolutely win any game they're in because of that defense. And B-Flow's defense just got got a little bit by Aaron Rogers. Now, granted, it wasn't a 40-piece or anything like that, but there was some success had by Aaron. What does Dylan and Stefansky take from that, D-But? Getting the ball out quick.

Number one, we talked about it. I think Monday, Aaron Rogers got the ball out on average, like 2.17 seconds, which is the fastest since 2016. And that's kind of Dylan Gabriel's, I guess, superpower. When you do have limitations, you've got to do other things very, very well. The other shorter quarterbacks are good at that. or improvising with their legs like, you know, younger Russell Wilson or a toddler Murray. So, you know, we shall see. But it is kind of an advantage to the shorter quarterbacks from the secondary standpoint because it's hard to see them.

Like if you're in the deep part of the field, if you're deep half safety or a post safety, a lot of times you get indicators on quarterbacks when they go when they take the hand off the ball. A lot of times you get these little guys get lost. So it's a little tougher, but obviously you got to deal with those big boys. Are we out on Minnesota or no? lukewarm lukewarm on Minnesota I was all the way in

sorry it's been like contenders yeah out I don't I don't trust the quarterback position what about JJ comes back I don't trust JJ beyond that they were pretty good up front on defense last year

they let some guy goes they bring in Hargrave and Jonathan Allen who they think are going to shore things up or make it better these are really good football players who are just a little bit past their prime at this point and they're getting pushed all over the field

yeah the Steelers Yeah, Steelers. I didn't expect the Steelers to do what they did to the Viking. I think we're all rather surprised at that time. Van Ginkie didn't play on Sunday either, did he? I mean, obviously, but yeah, you know, that was kind of the, that was the big thing with the Vikings, especially if you're in the NFC North, it's like, wow, they're getting all these guys. I mean, that was always the question, though. It was like, they could have had Aaron Rogers potentially, but they were very comfortable with J.J. McCartney.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So we'll see, but I don't think, I mean, I still think we maybe need to see a little bit more of JJ, but as of right now, yeah, I don't think you'd be saying like, oh, yeah, this is the exact same team that, you know, almost went 14 and or 15 and two last year and won the NFC North. I trust KOC. I think we all do. We'll see what the Minnesota Vikings are. They have the second international game in a row coming up in London against Dylan Gabriel and the Cleveland Browns. Let's pivot to baseball postseason. How you doing, keep it moving? This man led the NL in home runs this year for the Philadelphia

Phillies. He's an I.U. Hoosier absolute icon and legend. Three-time All-Star World Series Champion. Ladies and gentlemen, Kyle Schwerp. Yeah! Swarbo! How you doing, Schwabold? What's up, guys? How are we doing?

Hey, do you, do you know, do you remember how you did a game day? I think you did really well picking games at Game Day. Do you recall that, and did you keep up with that afterwards? If I recall, I think I was the leading picker that season. I think I finished 8-1. Are they keeping score or not? Oh, yeah, there is a leaderboard? Okay.

It was a leaderboard. Yeah, and I'll be at the top of it, I guess. Crush it, and you looked the coolest. Let's talk about what you have going on in your life right now. Obviously, we're postseason baseball. You guys have the longest season out of anybody. I mean, 162 games is crazy to think about. Postseason, though, you've had a lot of success in it,

obviously the Phillies have as well. Do you guys ramp it up, like in football? Regular season has a speed, playoffs have a speed, Super Bowl has a speed. Is that the same for baseball, and how does that kind of work? Yeah, I mean, I think it's one of those things where it's unsaid. It's, you know, you play 162 to get to this point, right? Like, 160 games, you know, you get evaluated, you get everything based off 162. now when you come into the postseason you're not getting you know you get postseason share

but it's not like you're getting your normal check for uh 162 games you know this is you know all about pride this is about a team this is about us figuring out how to win a game how to win a series it does stats don't matter no one cares if someone's sitting 500 someone sent in 100 it's did you win the game or did you lose the game and uh i think that's the beautiful part about the postseason that it just brings out the best in everyone and the sense the senses get heightened the fans are heightened right this everything is to another level and you know for us right now we're you know we're not playing the postseason is going on we're just you know we got the left. Oh, no.

I don't know. He's saying too much. We're trying to get everyone healthy, but we're still trying to get an environment. We're trying to create an environment that's going to be postseason like. We have an inter squad game tonight. We're going to have 30,000 people there watching us play an intersquad. And it's going to be a blast.

Hold on, hold on. Is that breaking news? I didn't know that was happening. There's going to be open inner squad so that maybe you don't get rusty during this time. Is this something that you guys have done in the past? Because in baseball, like, especially with 162, feels like there's a rhythm, feels like there's a schedule, feels like there's

all those things. So whenever you sit out these games, it happened in college football actually. The teams have got all the first round buys because they were so much better than everybody else, actually lost out on like two weeks of ball, kind of got rusty, had to get reawoke. You guys feel that way in baseball? And how

long have you done things like this? This is awesome right before, especially with how your fans are over there. That place a real home field advantage. 30,000 people will be there tonight. Does this happen on a regular basis? No, this doesn't happen normally. So last

year we had an inter-squat and obviously there was friendly way drinking going on between all the players. You know, we wanted to make this feel like this is worse something that we're just not going through the motions. And now you just add in 30,000

people into our stadium and I'm like, who are, I'm thinking I'm like, who are people going to be cheering for and who are people going to be doing tonight? Offense. It's all I said. This happens in football. As you know, in football, training camp,

whenever fans come to the training camp, teams playing against each other. Offense throws a 70-yard bomb on our number one corner, on our number one defense. The fans are going absolutely apes shit. You can have your ace out there. Somebody hits a bomb on. They're going to celebrate the home run, I think.

Do you think so or no? Oh, I mean, they're going to be going to be going wild for any run that's being scored tonight. I'm like, it's going to be interesting. It's going to be fun. But this is just for us to stay in that rhythm, right? Like, it's just making sure that when we do, you know, we know that whoever comes out of this series between the Reds and the Dodgers,

you know, they're going to be primed up. They're going to be juiced up. They just won a big series. And now it's on us to match that intensity and coming out of the gate where, you know, they just played a high, high intensity series. And we, you know, we're playing an inter squad. So we've got to match that level anyway that we can. Hey, let's make sure these Johns bring it.

The 30,000 Johns are a big part of this entire thing. Let's make sure we're bringing it. They're trying to match what L.A. felt like last night for show. Hey, I mean, I think they'll step up to the challenge if I know anything about the people from Philly. AJ has a brand new haircut, if you would like to talk about it, is a low fade. And other than that, he does have a question for you, Schwerbo. Yeah, Kyle, so I don't know if you watched the Rider Cup at all, but the U.S. had a hard time drained and puts. And they were talking about, hey, sometimes when golf is weird, when you try, you continue to try harder.

and harder and it means more, you actually play worse. I feel like baseball, especially playoff baseball, is it ever like that when you're sitting there and you're in a batters box? Not you specifically, but if you've seen players to where they put too much on it, like how do you treat it like this is, we understand what this is, but it's just another

game and, you know, I've got to be free flowing and not sitting there and I'll panic the whole time. Correct. You know, I feel like, you know, and I can give you a specific instance. Last at bat, game 162, to top, bottom of the ninth inning. I'm leading off.

I'm like, I'm going deep here. I can just, I'm going to try to go deep. Try to end this thing. And I look like a freaking idiot, right? Like, just like not taking your swing, not taking anything. You're pulling off. You're doing bad things, right? And it's like, why would I ever do that?

Why would I tell myself the one time I'm going to tell myself, I'm going to try to go deep? You're definitely not going deep. You're going to roll it over the second base. And you're going to look like a dingong. So just do what you normally do, you know, like that's the thing is like, just because everything's heightened, the senses are heightened, that it doesn't mean you have to be Superman. We're all great.

We're all really good at what we do. And just with them being in, you know, say the postseason or say the Ryder Cup, these are the best of the best, right? That you just being you is going to be great enough, you know? And without you having to go out there and reach for more, I feel like that just brings out a lesser version of yourself. So the more that you stay within your side yourself, stay within yourself,

and you know that all the preparation that you've done before the game or on the putting greens or on your practice round, whatever it is, that all that work that you just put into that, all the tournaments before that, all the games before that, you know, that mindset that you had in all those games, it's going to work out way more than it would if you try to go out there and try to be the Superman or whoever it is

and trying to do some more extra things. Just be you and see what happens because you're already good enough. Maybe you need to go coach that team. I love the messaging you just said out there. Yeah, that sounds like a guy who wears a C on his chest. We appreciate that messaging.

And I also like the fact we're trying to hit ding-dongs not be ding-dongs. You know, we don't do it. We don't do anything of that. And whenever you're in the highest moments, don't you think this as a punter kicker that I was, I was more of like, I'm an athlete, I'll put the ball there. You know, I played so much soccer,

I was a very good ball striker in soccer, could put the ball wherever the hell I wanted, really. So I treated like football similar like that. I'm like, I'll just put the ball through there. Yeah, but what are you focusing on? I'm just going to put the ball through the uprights. Then in the biggest moments they come, and it's like, oh, what am I going to think about here?

what do I need to do for this to happen? And didn't really have it. Then you rely on your fundamentals in the biggest moments. Like you legitimately rely on your fundamentals. And it's all your work that builds your fundamentals. And I think all that goes into being confident. Like I think what you just broke down there is having confidence in your process. And it's like when you start getting outside of yourself, you don't believe that what you did was enough.

You know, and that's like a phrasing or a way to kind of put your mindset so you don't do it. It's like, do you trust and believe in yourself? Yeah. All right. We'll go fucking do it then. as opposed to, I didn't prepare enough. Oh, my God. This is not, I should not be here right now because I've been there.

And that is not a fun place to be with a lot of eyes on you. And baseball is like that, every single pitch. On that note about every single pitch and you thinking to yourself, oh, I'm going along here. I'm going to pump one. Ty has a question for you. Yeah, Schwabo, playoff baseball, obviously situational hitting is paramount. Need to have it.

And any time you look at the box score, it seems like typically the teams who perform, better with runners in scoring position always win those games. But for you specifically, like I know you just kind of mentioned it there, but be honest, like are you trying to hit a homer every single time? The way, how violently you swing, it's just

ridiculous. When you make contact, it does seem like you are going to hit a homer. And is that kind of a conversation between you and your manager where it's like, hey, listen, like we understand, you know, with the way our lineups constructed, like, that's just what we need from you. We need you to hit homers and we

need you to drive in runs and you obviously led the NL in both of those categories. So they answer to question, no. I don't try. And I feel like that's a product of you know, like I said,

like if I'm going to try to do that, it's just not good. And literally my process every time I'm at the play is, you know, I have my game playing. I have everything that, you know, I've watched the video, I've watched this guy pitch, but it all this comes back to staying through the middle of the field and trying to hit a low-line drive right like the low-line drive is probably the most perfect you know if you can go by anything it's the most perfect struck baseball that you could have versus you know you got to think about if you're hitting the middle of baseball it's going to come off low and come off hot right so now if I go a little bit down that's where you start getting your fly ball as a

start when you get your higher line drives that's home runs that's doubles right and so if i'm just telling myself i'm going to stay through the middle of the field and i'm going to give myself the most margin of air right i'm going to stay through the middle of field so if i'm early it's going the right center i'm a little bit late going to left center perfectly on time going to center and then you know taking the result from there you know like i said our game so it's such process it's a process based game with you're having outcomes and you can do everything right and you can be out and then you can do everything wrong in your process and you can still get it hit you know it's just it's such a weird game we're on we're on offense we don't have the

ball and they're just chucking it at us right so you got you got to you just got to put yourself in a really good space and you got to feel like you're just going out there competing at the end of the day and feeling like you know and yes when situations do arise you know say a guy on second nobody out right my now my thought process goes to okay i want to drive this guy in but at the very least i'm going to get him over the third base so now i'm starting to lean towards the middle to right side of the field you know versus okay now a guy on third base uh less than two outs infield might be back all right i'm taking my shot here to put the ball and play on any kind of strike and i want to get this run in you know those are those are things that

when the situation calls for things like you have to be able to mold your game to the situation because it's not like it's nobody up nobody on nobody out or nobody on two outs right like you might take more of a shot with nobody on two outs to try to hit an extra base hit because now okay i'm at second base or i'm at third base i just hit a home run whatever it is you just score to run okay guy on second base or guy on first base nobody out I'm trying to hit this hole right here trying to get first and third you know so those are just all different things that come up in your head think I didn't know I didn't know you do thinking over there I thought big strong man walks into box big strong man walk into box he designated hitter just go ahead and sweet what does he do nothing he designated hitter he just goes in there the amount of gamesmanship that's going into it is beautiful to hear. I really, the more intel, the better for me. I was just completely enthralled by everything. You're saying, when do you know it's a pitch? When do you know, what do you know it's a strike? I'm sorry. When do you know it's

coming out of the hand? Because normally situation will tell you that maybe a strike is coming here. And then as soon as it leaves the hand is when you know it's a strike. Like, when do you know it's a hitable ball? Oh, man, that's a great question. I mean, you, you watch all the video. You watch all the video, you watch all this, and you're trying to picture everything that comes into what's coming out of the guy's hand. And obviously, if you have experience off the guy previously, so you have a better idea of what the ball is going to be coming out of his hand. But, you know, yeah, it's pretty much coming right out of the hand. And you're trying to set yourself in a good, you're trying to set

your sights in a good spot to where the ball is coming out. So that should be a strike. You know, A lot of guys have four or five pitches now. So it's not like, you know, I can just say that some two-pitched guy, it's fastball slider. You know, both starters all got five pitches. So now you're just trying to really put yourself, so you put your eyes in a really good spot out there. So when that ball does come out, you're recognizing you're on a fastball, and then you're able to recognize some off speed and trying to limit your chase, you know, trying to limit that spot to where your eyes could go telling you that could be a. strike but then all of a sudden it drops off the table it's not a strike and you're swinging in the dirt uh then you look like a ding dong we don't want to be looking like yeah you look like a

ding don't want to look like a ding don't you don't want to first off first off what we're trying to do don't look like a ding don't at the plate but hit ding don'ts but don't be a ding don't be one definitely hit them yeah we want the ding don't be hit but we don't want to be looking or being like it. Okay, tonight, 30,000 people for an intra-squad scrimmage. Connor has the last question for you. We appreciate you. Yeah, Shorbo,

we've seen the clips. I mean, some of the highlights that have been shown of you hitting, you know, dingers in the playoffs have been amazing. What is that setup like? What is the atmosphere like in Philly? We went there for WrestleMania brother when our tribal chief probably should have won the strap, but as neither

here nor there. The casino being right next to the baseball stadium. That seems like a pretty diabolical setup just because win probably good vibes lose there's some there's some dangerous areas over there just in Philly as angry

Philly people after a team loses what is it like and is that something that you guys kind of hang your hat on when playing at home that the fans are going to have your back it really is I'll never forget it since 2022

we go to an Eagles game and I think it was their home opener and we're all looking at each other like whoa this place is this place is an animal box right now these people are going wild and we're like

I would love that playing this kind of atmosphere so then like we go on this like 10 games we have a 10 game road trip we clinch the playoffs you know we play the wild card series in St. Louis and we go to Atlanta we play the first two games there

we've been on the road for like a freaking month and then we come back the Citizens Bank we step out there for you know they start calling our names and stuff it was like it felt like a football game I'm like holy shit this is awesome I'm like this this is

it gives you goosebumps like you just don't expect that and that's like it's that addicting feeling that's that like that's that itch that you have every single night when you go to sleep that you can't close your eyes because all you're looking forward to is getting back to that environment and like it's just addicting it's so much fun that's why i say it's the best

version of baseball you get the best fans out you get the best environments out there and in philly i don't think anything can compare to where you know they're just like i said they're pouring everything they have into you and if you're on their other team good luck i mean i don't i wouldn't want to hear some of the things that are being said to the outfielders or they're talented bunch the bull the bullpins like i mean i remember when i was out there as an opposing a player and the things that i would hear with you know 25 30 40 000 people there i can't imagine 45 just rocking a roll and ready for a postseason game what what they're what they're going to be saying but it's it's literally the best and i that's why i'm like i'm i'm i'm

itching. You know, I'm ready for Saturday. I just, Friday, we're not going to be able to sleep. Why don't we hit a ding dong tonight? Why don't we hit a ding dong tonight? Okay. Hit a ding dong tonight. We'll donate some money to a charity. Okay. What you picked the charity, we'll donate some money. You hit a ding dong tonight and have the Johns go crazy. Okay. Let's do it. Let's do it then. Let's put a little bit more in a line, too. You said you guys were having a little bit in the first time you did one of these, like, hey, boys, we need to take this thing seriously. How about for every dong that is hit tonight? we'll donate a certain amount of money.

We'll figure out what that money is because we have no idea how many ding-dongs are going to be hit tonight. We'll certainly look into that to figure that whole thing out. Just know the boys, though. Tell the boys we're on their side.

We want tonight to be a big one. Ding-dong donations coming from us for you guys tonight and enjoy the rest of your run. Thank you for your time. Appreciate you guys. Love it. Thank you guys. You guys are the best.

Have a good one, all right? Ding-dong donations. Mm-hmm. Yep. Okay. Don't be a ding-dong. Don't look like it did them. Hit them, though.

Hit ding don't. Hit a lot of the year, man. Ladies and Joe, Cowell. Yeah, Swirble! How many are going to happen at that thing? So many. Seventy. They're going to start feeding just meat pitches to them.

They're going to have a whole segment of the game when they know about this, obviously, now. Don't run that video. Throw the meatballs. Yeah. Run the video on the Jumbotron. Don't know if you guys heard this earlier. Yeah. Guys, don't tell Pat, but we're basically going to do a glorified BP right here.

It's going to be hitting dinger after dinger. crowd to react in a need you guys have energy every time. Act as if it's not staged. There we're going! Oh yeah, a lot of surprise. We'll get them. What if they hit like 35 homers tonight? I did not put it number on it. Yeah, good

move. Because I do not know what this is. 30,000 people showing up. That's great. I've never heard of that before. That's awesome. You know who else are doing that? The Mariners. Are they? The Mariners are doing a I just saw either a tweet about it. Yeah. Today's postseason scrimmage tweeted on October 1st by the Seattle

Mariners' Twitter account. I believe that is them. Yes, $738,000. Today's postseason scrimmage game just got a little more fun. Hall of Famer Ichero will be patrolling right field for the home team. Oh, hell yeah. There's still time to snag a $10 ticket.

The Mariners are also doing one of these. This is a good idea. I like that our teams are doing this. Can we stream these? Got to be a platform to stream these at somewhere. Joining us now, he's a man who I'll tell you what. I don't know if he's on his team or not. Ichiro's going to steal a fucking homer from this guy.

Yeah, for sure. No questions asked tonight. This guy hits more ding-dongs, anybody else in the league. Plays catcher, hits from both sides of the plate. That plate's never been more surrounded by greatness than whenever this man steps onto that diamond. We got a chance to chit-chat with him during the All-Star breakout at the Home Run Derby, where he and his entire family stole the show. Ladies and gentlemen, they call him Big Dumper because he has a fat ass.

That's from all the squatting, lifting, and the explosive. that this man has throughout his entire core. This is Kyle Raleigh. Yeah. Dumpur, what's up, dude? Hey, how we doing, guys? Hey, thank you for joining us. Mustache looks phenomenal.

I think that's a very good look. I know you got a little Scruff McGruff down here. Are you going to go with just mustache throughout the playoffs or have we thought about an idea of how we're going to look yet? No, I got to clean it up a little bit. It's getting a little messy, so it might wait until a couple days from now to get it cleaned up before the game. Can you do a twisty doo-hoo?

on this, can you get a mustache to do the twisty woo? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, put the wax in it. I can't, no, not yet. It's not quite there, so. Oh, but if we were to go on a run here, made by a World Series. Let's not think about that, though. Let's think about what's right in front of us.

You guys have a scrimmage tonight that Ichero is going to be in right field. Is that accurate? What are you guys expecting? We just talked to Schwabo, you know, I think you just heard us chit-chatting about it. They're going to have 30,000 people. They said that they're trying to match what the intensity could be. or at least the emotions a little bit of what the team that they're going to be playing against has right now during their wild card series. Is this similar for you guys? And what are you

expecting tonight, Cal? Yeah, I mean, I have no idea how many people are going to show up, hopefully a lot. You know, it would be really hard to match playoff at the sphere, you know. But, you know, if we can, it would be great. And, yeah, looking forward to it, East Row out there. not surprised you know that guys that guys uh here every day working out and so he'll be probably be more ready than anybody else so every dong you hit tonight we'll donate okay just like we did for sure but we appreciate you take it every ding dong you hit tonight we will uh we will donate it's gonna have to be captured though oh yeah and he's got to be real pitches you know we don't need your dad out there pitching yeah that was bull we're not doing that entire thing let's talk about

your team let's talk about the run first time you guys have won the aOS since 2001 obviously at special time in Seattle. A lot of people saying Cal Raleigh, big dumper, is the driver behind all of us. Do you feel the pressure? Do you feel the excitement? Like, how do you kind of view this special season that you have had in Seattle?

Yeah, we know, we're really excited, obviously, you know, do something that has been done in 20-plus years in the city. So we're all really excited, but, you know, it's just a great opportunity ahead, you know, looking forward to it. You know, really looking, And looking forward to getting to playing, you know, watching these wildcard games, you know, gets you a little antsy and, you know, makes you want to get out there.

So we're excited. We've got some work to do and, you know, looking forward to that first series. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, we mentioned Eitro. Are there any other, you know, old school legends that might aren't playing anymore that you've kind of leaned on throughout your career? Maybe there's so many, I just know so many baseball guys, you know, these 15, 20-year careers. They have unbelievable stories and unbelievable wisdom, I feel like, to give to you guys. Is there anyone you've leaned on over the years?

yeah i mean i think uh the one no up top my head uh justin turner he's with the cubs right now um he's had a 15 year and i got a chance to play with him last year and he's been a real real help to me in my career and um he's last you know last year or so he's such a smart guy and you know those guys have such such so much knowledge about the game and they've been around for so long they've seen so many things. You know, we got Edgar Martinez on staff, Hall of Famer. Dan Wilson played 12 years behind the plate, our manager. So, you know, it always helps when you got guys like that who have done it before and guys who have seen a lot of things. Nobody's seen you in a long, long time, brother. What you're doing for Switch hitters is

obviously historic. As you've seen all the stats, baseball is a game of a lot of stats. You are a man that is becoming the top of a lot of those stats. the obliques feel? How do both sides of the plate feel? How does the bat? How's the lefty bat feel? How's the righty bat feel right now going into playoffs? How's Kyle Raleigh seeing it? Yeah, everything's good. You know, we had our first workout yesterday. You know, body feels good. You know, you probably won't be feeling much on that first game. You can ask a lot of baseball players, you know, getting out there in front of that crowd. And, you know, you got 40 plus thousand, you know, waving, waving towels and chanting. So, you know, you know,

You'll be kind of floating around out there, which will be fun. Is it a pool or a pool? It's an oblique? What is the workout on both sides that you need to have? And if guys don't hit from both sides of the plate, what muscles do they have on one half of their body that are much stronger than the other? Like for you, what are you training? Is it a pool?

What is the? Yeah, I mean, I guess it's, yeah, I guess it's a pole. I haven't really thought about it. It's just rotating, really, you know, it's a lot of rotating. A lot of core, a lot of men, a lot of med ball tosses, like. A lot of caboose. Yeah. Well, that's different.

Still need the boost. Need to put the caboose. Need to put the dump. Yeah, you need to be, you need to be strong. So it's, I mean, it's a long season. You got to be able to, you know, be able to take some hits here and there and, you know, make sure your body can handle it. You got to have a little extra padding back there.

Now, on that note, you've had to squat. Yeah, every single pitch on the defense side, okay? Every single pitch. We're part of this thing. That's why the ass is the ass. You know, we're part of this thing. You should do that all show. Well, I couldn't, you know, and that's why I just want to showcase how impressive

is. That was four right there, bodyweight squad. Jeez. Okay, that's five. Okay, how many pitches are in these things? He's probably catching, you know, anywhere from like 150 on a normal day. It's 150, a little bit of warm-ups, right? We're doing warm-ups in between.

Dude, stop doing it. You're going to close. done coming out right we're doing that with people that aren't there i mean this is this entire thing and then you're still leading one at bat right dear that's yeah yeah that's a ball yeah yeah yeah and then obviously yeah there you go there you war out geez yeah it's a lot it's a fun game yeah i don't know how you're in and oh someone's coming down it's a misthrow I don't have anything, you stupid idiot. Safe.

There's a lot of that, you know, you've got all that going on. What you've done hitting homers and doing all that has obviously been very commendable by a lot of people, okay? That is something that I think is very difficult. For you, is this just new normal now? Like all offseason? I assume this is just what you've prepared for and what you've trained for.

But there's a reason why nobody's been able to do it from the catcher position because of how much body, there's like so much on it. Pitchers, what, rest every four days because how much they have going on. It's like what you put your body through this year is a lot. I think what catchers put their bodies through are a lot on a regular basis. But now that you're so prolific offensively,

has there been any conversations about what the future looks like for you or no, we're just, this is life, this is who I am. Yeah, I know. I mean, you know, for me it's, you know, you know, every day thing. So, you know, I'm going to be catching and, you know, we're focused on, you know, obviously the now, you know. And, I mean, you know, later in careers, you know, you see guys that, you know, can hit a little bit from the catching position.

They'll start to work in at first base, you know, or D.H. You look at like a buster posey, Salvador Perez. Guys have had some time over there. Even Johnny Bench, back in the day, he moved off a catcher and played some other positions just to give himself a few days. So it's kind of part of the territory. So, but for now, you know, I still feel strong, still feel good back there. I'm able to stay healthy and stay strong and competitive. So do it for as long as I can.

Yeah, and you're part of it, you know, like catchers very much in everything. So taking a step back, I assume, would be very weird for you, especially when my father, he's a catcher, my little brother is a catcher. My father's father, father, was a catcher. Okay, so you're in it, you're in it, you're in it. But with how prolific you are offensively, I know with the conversation, I mean, with Shohay, they're talking about Shoeh, like, he shouldn't pick

he throw one-on-one he's throwing like being that good offensively is all you need and then the conversation with you is like going to be tough to get cow out

from back behind the plate whatever it's like the guy loves it and then Ty even said first base is normally where catchers will head to

so they're still a part like still got good gloves still got good defense you need you out there because DH is just naturally the thought this guy could be a DH till he's 60

think about the days where he doesn't have to squat 150 times and then he's just hitting it that's like I couldn't even imagine thinking about it all now let's chitch out a little bit about this magical run go ahead tie yeah cow

being in the middle of it and obviously you know you guys still have a lot left in front of you and you're trying to win a world series but did you have like any chance to kind of sit back and embrace all that pressure and enjoy the moment knowing like hey we're in the middle of a division race right now that you ultimately won and then you're in a two headed you know race to win MVP like have you got to sit back yet a little bit and be like wow i just had like one of the most impressive years in like that especially for in the history of catching but in the history of baseball as a whole and then i also have to say after you guys clinch you uh you're owed to tom barringer and saying you know hey the only thing left to do is win the whole fucking thing

awesome awesome but have you got a chance to sit back and kind of just reflect on everything uh no i mean that's a good question i i really haven't um i guess you know last week you you know, clenching and then winning the division, you know, getting to kind of just sit back and take that all in and, you know, really let your guard down with the guys, you know, celebrating like that. That was, I'd say that was the most fun moment and you could try and kind of just look over the whole thing. And I was able to hit 60 on the night.

We won the division, which was crazy. So it's just been, it's been a crazy year. I mean, you know, I signed the extension right before the season started, and then all this happened and then you throw in the all-star week winning the derby with my dad and brother um you know division race uh you know people start talking about

you little more with the home runs and all that and you know you see yourself on TV a little more often than you probably want to and um yeah so it's just it's dead age cow it's dead age you know that it's been a crazy year

well it's been a fun year to follow for us and the nickname being the nickname is obviously fantastic for the sports culture, but you've lived up to the billing, brother. You talked about that home run derby. Your name was being talked about going into the home run derby. And I think many of times, the names that are hyped going into the derby don't end up winning. You showing up and doing it and then continuing your season the way you have. We all just think you're a dog, dude. That is literally what we all think. And I think it's a beautiful thing. Now, maybe renegotiation. Okay, you know, we just got a deal done before this season. I'm not going to, I know you guys got a lot

a negotiation going on in baseball right around the corner with all of it. But I think there should be some incentives that have certainly been touched there. Now, let's talk about looking ahead as a brainiac player. Go ahead, AQ. I remember when I was in the NFL and we had a first round buy in the playoffs, you started to prepare for both teams that upcoming week with two potential opponents. Do you guys take a peek at both of them or do you wait until you know exactly who you're playing? Yeah, you know, we're here at the field right now. And obviously, you know, they got the games on and we're all watching and, you know, it's chatter throughout the whole thing, you know, Cleveland, Detroit, we're watching obviously them closely and, you know, once that's decided,

we'll key in a little more closely on that one team. So, but for now, you know, I think it's just trying to stay sharp, you know, it's finding that right balance of, you know, making sure you get your rest, but also staying, you know, physically strong, staying kind of in shape. Now, you're going to get out of shape but you know what i mean you got to get those those normal reps and try to keep everything normal and as as uh as normal as it possibly can be for for this week because you know we're going to be doing some scrimmages obviously not the real thing but try to keep those reps as normal as possible so um we'll key in a little more you know later in this week and for now it's it's really more about the focuses on us so well good luck tonight

against each row he's going to rob your shit yeah definitely i can't wait to watch The fastest recorded opening pitch We just got that stat sent over by Zito 94 miles an hour was Eitro in 22 he threw the opening pitch in full uniform That's I teach you baby Do you remember that? Didn't he is this

Was it Echew beat up on the middle schools Middle school base? Oh I did see that yeah It was The way you phrased that made me think something else But yeah that's all right So what was he? So what do I didn't I don't think I saw it

He's just hitting in like a high school game and just Oh high school okay Yeah, just fucking ripping ropes to every part of the field. Like picking where he was hitting it, right? Yeah, so why isn't he on your guy? Yeah, he was pitching too. That's right. So you said he's in the building every single day.

Is he just on the T, is he not good? Put him on the 26, man, Cal. Yeah, so how's this work? Like, he'll pitch tonight against you, too? How's this going? And then, like, on a random Wednesday, you guys just like, oh, let's go do some BP. And Etiro's music hits, and he comes out in a full uniform, and it's like, it's not BP.

It's actually Eichero Day. And he pitches against you guys. he's around all the time you're set basically yeah all the time i mean he's there all the spring training he's there every home game that we have he's always stressed out full you know full gear he's got the pants the cleats everything he's uh for game he's not messing around so he used to i mean he used to throw us live BP and um even in spring training or in the cage you ask eachie hey can can i get a little uh you know live BP action he'd go in there and he'd just carve guys up and he's broke a whole pool in my bathroom for so um you know just you know

and he's not he's not messing around he's trying to get you out in there and you know obviously it's a little different because he's behind the L screen but i mean he's letting it rip that might be the secret weapon it's not so secret anymore he's an asshole what's that i didn't like what he said about the marlins doing his hall of fame speech that was awesome what he said it's like a little jab what was it tie if you had to just he basically said like you know thanked all the teams he played for and then he was like and you know i went down to miami to end my career like before i got there i didn't even know you guys had a baseball it was awesome yeah but still shot uh yeah and he said he did learn yeah and everybody laughed

yeah big pop out of everybody but to marlins fans all right cow we appreciate the hell out of you brother yeah always great seeing you guys thank you hey ding dong donations tonight for this inters squad thing let's go we don't know what the price is yet we'll let you know you uh We will certainly hope that the Mariners keep us updated on how many big balls this big dumper hit tonight. Why not all of them? You're the man, ladies and gentlemen, Cal Rolley. I win the MVP. He should, especially, you know, with how it's going now.

What do you mean with how it's going now? Just, you know, with how important it is what he's doing with how important the catcher is the game of baseball, we know. It's like the tight end all of a sudden. It's coming back. It's having a resurgence. That's the perfect way to put. maybe almost like a tight end with a little nickel corner perhaps

because he also has to catch the ball and he has to have like a real arm, not like a noodle arm. We'll see. We'll see. I don't know if I'd be doing this only up one game because, you know, but I get it. They lost last night. You got to do what you guys do.

Sinatra came on shuffle this morning. I think Boston might claim Sinatra by the end of tonight. Don't look out, Yankees. Follow up on that. What does that mean? Frank Sinatra just, you know, one of the, The Goats is one of his big

songs. What do they play? Yeah, the theme from New York, New York. Start Spread the News when the end is late. So why don't you say a little bit? Yeah, they said to the Stars Spreading the News, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. People don't forget Aaron Judge. You know, he put a speaker on his shoulder, and he bumped that leaving Femway Park when they were up 2-0 a few years ago.

And then what happened? Scott has spreading the news. What happened? Sox 1, 3, 2 in the series. Oh, whoa. I'm confident. I'm confident, and I should be. I watch 162, now 163, but I still feel as though, you know, Judge could do it.

We'll see. You got to win tonight. You got to win tonight. I don't like the way these Yankees fans have, certainly. I have it. I don't like Bruce pulling out the, we don't have Garrett Cole right now, but that's not the mentality we need going into tonight, Bruce, and you know that. This is shades of in July when they were popping gold. bottles up at Fenway declaring

us dead. I love it. Okay, all right, Bruce. I hope that's the case. Let's get back to the NFL. Obviously, we had an incredible weekend of ball as we look forward to week five. Let's go ahead and look back a little bit with Akew's takeaway. Hey, Kish, what are your takeaways from the last

weekend of the NFL season? The first one is Tush, Push, Evolution. Oh! I like a little Tush Push Evolution by the Philadelphia. of Eagles. You know, they were taking on Vita Vey and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Vita Veyah, Big Oos, he took advantage of Tush Push before. He stopped that thing. He stared at Tush Push down and said, actually, ooze push back and stopped it in its entirety.

Now they decided to run a couple gimmicks. I appreciate that AQ. So do you, it appears. It's ironic that they did it against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Big Vita, and they go old school 1930s, give it to the galloping ghost and the wingtie and go sweep off the left side. Yeah. Galloping. Yeah. Pretty sweet. galloping goes. You did really well there. You did really well there. What else? Now, this looks a little different because you don't have the guys behind Jalen Hertz, but his footwork, normally when he's just under center, his feet are neutral. You can tell he is selling a quarterback sneak. But guess what? Look to the right.

Quads to the right. Little diamond shape. Shuffle over to Goddard. Walk it right in. Oh, innovation here. This is some innovative stuff. There was no tush to be pushed, but there was certainly a dive to be had. Not so fast, my friends. underhand toss to Goddard, you got numbers over there. Let's go ahead and take advantage of it. Absolutely. And that's a really cool formation right there. You don't see it very often whenever they go quads with four to one side.

Make a little diamond. Do you see that? It's a bunch with a guy behind, and they just got three blockers. You walk in the end zone. And A.J. Brown said, I can't take the scoop. Dude, come on. Have a way to get a touch you up. You're a block by A.J. Brown on the backside, though.

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Great effort. Great effort. AJ Hawk, AJ Brown. Can I be that guy?

I'm a big physical body. I can catch this and fall into the air. Yeah, you're right. Everybody wants that spot. Okay. Is there any others that we need to see or is just those two? No, we got a lot of meat. Oh.

And here's what this means. Here's what this means is we've seen the way that offensive coordinators over the past couple of years have game plan tight ends that can't block. And so what you've seen over the years, you've seen McVeigh, you've seen Shannan, you've seen all these creative guys put the tight end, and they bluff, and they put them on a linebacker because they know they can't win at the

point of attack. Teams this year have said, forget it, you know what we're going to do? We're going to put a big O-line in it. We're going to go jumbo. We're going to get all the meat in there. Yeah, because there has certainly been a run here of D-line dominating games. You look at the Philadelphia Eagles, they have four number one picks

on the D-line, and they were able to just cause absolute chaos for everybody. And if you can get home with four, And obviously you do some quick math, that's 14 eyes looking at the quarterback and everything else going on. And you can obviously swarm and tackle everything very well. Without having to bring extra pressure, you're sitting in what we like to call a great spot defensively. Echo the sentence? Absolutely. Four men rushes everything.

And on that note, if you're able to block those four guys, now the defense has to bring extra men. So whenever you bring somebody from, you know, watching in coverage into rushing, all of a sudden, what's that? Oh, it's more space on the backside there. Now, how do we protect that and know that we're going to be protected? Bring in another big, fat-ass offensive line. I like that they're doing it, especially with how athletic all these big guys have gone. Because there's a chance one of these guys could be a setup to get the ball, especially with where they're lined up.

I appreciate the protection. Now, you're talking about Kansas City doing this for Patrick Mahomes. Seems like a smart idea. Yeah, we're going to look at this first play. Kansas City has Caliando right there on the right side. Frank? Not Frank Caliando. Calliando is going to fake sell the power to the right.

They're going to toss it back to Worthy. And now watch Big 66. Get out in front. Take the rookie Malachi Starks. He's the reason this is a home run run. I love that. Got Xavier Worthy back for them. So a lot of meat has become a trend.

Obviously, the Pittsburgh Steelers had Darnell, Washington, who's 6'7, 290 pounds, tight end out of Georgia playing tight end, but mostly just blocking everybody. There he is, number 80 on the left side. And what is your last takeaway here as we are coming up quickly on a hard out AQ Shipley?

Yeah, we got Steve Spagnol. is still bringing it. Let's take a look at... Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Boom! Five big booms. He's still bringing it. I love it. He's still bringing it. Boom! We're running out of time. Alright, perfect.

Let's get to Nick Bolton right here. He's the key. Look at this. There's a pressure rush. He's not part of this blitz, but the minute he sees the running back block comes. Look at this pick. Boom! Boom!

All right, the Chiefs is still the Chiefs. Spacks still the Chiefs. Spacks still specs. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Okay, you nailed it. All right. We really did it.

Boom. We really did good there. We really nailed it. That's 100% on me. Baseball talk lasted a lot longer than I thought I was going to last. Boy, did it. Because Schwabo was good. Yeah, awesome.

And Cal Raleigh, so many questions, especially with the conversation that's been going on around you and Aaron Judge and Cal Rale. You framed that in a very nice way, because I think you are a fan of Cal Ralee, the person. I am, big time. And I'm also a fan of Cal Rale. the player, which is why when we were starting to do this, I wasn't liking like the, oh no, I got to, I don't want

to be the guy who basically says, fuck this guy, he doesn't deserve this because he does. He just doesn't deserve it more than judge in my humble opinion. And you love Aaron Judge. I do. It's her. Seems like. Cal's kind of, you know, it gets to that conversation. Like last

year, you know, with Lamar, he had like an MVP year, one of his, probably his best year as a pro, but Josh Allen the moments and it was kind of like, all right, you know, it's kind of this guy's turn. But if you cast of the vote for either one of the guys, you probably felt good about your vote. I feel like it's the same with this race. Yeah, and it just

Aaron Judge, already got robbed out of one, MVP? I'm not thinking about that. I don't give a shit. You got to beat the Red Sox tonight. I don't give a fuck if he wins MVP or not. Okay, so Caldell is MVP, we understand that? If it means that the Yankees are going to advance and I just keep watching

him. Just at this moment. No, he's not. He's at a special season. No two questions about it. He's at a very special season. He's not the most valuable. player judges. But if it means judge is going to win MVP and they get beat tonight, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, what's another MVP? Who cares?

Are the socks hot right now, dude? The socks have never been hotter. They're as red. I see that hat. They got real hot real quick and now we're... Well, and this is 2004. You know, this is a year. Yeah, exactly. It's a damn near anniversary of this team. And this is the World Series hat, but we actually came back against the Yankees when we were down

3-0, something that they've never done. No one has ever done that other than the Red Sox. My bad. So when it comes to Boston, it does feel as though this might be one of those magical years. It feels like they might have the juice this year. If the Yankees get eliminated before the postseason even snows. No, no, no, that can't happen. The Mets didn't even make.

Mets didn't even make. More like small apple. Start spreading the news. I'm leaving today. Said primetime baseball Yeah I'm out of here There's a chance

There's a chance But they're not dead yet Uh uh Huge No you're not Oh my God No you're not Yeah

Huge I mean this is a huge Tye is going to be devastated If the fucking Yankees get swept 2 O to the fucking Red Sox In a wild card And kill them after what's gonna Yes and no Yes and no

I will obviously be devastated That they lost If they lose though I believe that'll put quite a bit pressure on, hey, let's get Aaron Boone the fuck out of here. Whoa, whoa, what if they win now? We keep them. What if it goes on a run? Then good? Earn that paycheck.

Earn that paycheck. Hell of. Hey, that walk-off Homer against Tim Wakefield was a long time ago. You can't live off that forever. AJ, did you know this is how they feel? I mean, he's been loud about it. Yeah. I was watching it with Crochet. The Red Sox pitcher last night.

He was awesome. I love his delivery. I love his leg kick. I love his demeanor. I don't think you were beating that guy last. Well, they were beating that guy last night because the Yankees pitcher was much better. I was one of the stupidest things you've ever said. When he left the game, Max Fried, they were up one zero. They were beating that guy. Either way. It doesn't matter.

Either way. I get it, though. I get what you're saying, but you're wrong. They were beating that guy. And then Boone decided to go to the bullpen, which has been their Achilles heel all year. And within a span of two minutes, they were losing. And you knew. oh no he set up a nice little lefty lane with the lineup here too

we're going to have lefties going to go up against eraldus chapman who's also lefty and what happens you know right-handed guys start off get a hit even one of our lefty guys who hits lefties well cody bellinger he gets a hit base is loaded and then you get stand to strike out and then what does he get he gets a couple lefties to finish it off just how fucking alex cora would have would have written it up if he could have in the most perfect situation and that's what happened. Chapman threw 101 final pitch in the night. Just let it eat.

Somebody threw a hondo on the hundredth pitch. I don't remember who it was. 17th pitch, yeah, Crochet. Yeah, Crochet threw his like hardest pitch of the season, I think, on 177. So what AJ was talking about. You've got to let the athletes go. I believe Crochet. The stat I saw about him is he's the, I think it's something about like he's the only starting

pitcher to pitch all the way into the seventh and throw a pitch 100 miles an hour. Like going that far and still having that velocity. He's a horriddle. What a beast. Which, once again, is why, if you ask Yankees fans, maybe we do lose this one because this guy's really good. The next two, certainly in your guys. They have the advantage in the next two games, yes.

What time is that game tonight? 6.08, which, what are we doing? What, it's just nobody wasting any time. Get there at 608. Make that a fucking 715 start time. Oh. Really? yeah you want to get a little bit more well yeah because guess who's got to fucking put their kids down asleep and missed the first three innings me sick of it okay especially imagine you come back down oh it was a tough one too by like a lot of rocking a lot of screaming all yelling you get down come downstairs red sox yeah they're up three nothing yeah i'd fucking rip my TV off the wall if that happened don't do that

we still got a lot more innings we still got a lot of baseball left remember i know i know I know all Oh, my God, if the Yankees lose tonight, 2-0-2-0. No, I feel good about tonight. I do. I do. Who's on the call? Raffy, so. Okay.

Yeah. Ravi, Eduardo Perez, and fucking Coney. Did we hear Joe Buck on a call yesterday? We love Ravi, by the way. Yeah. Love Bar-Rav. No, I'm surprised that they didn't have him do. I mean, I guess maybe travel from Monday night.

It was too much of a turnaround. That would have been a young Joe Buck thing. Yes. Younger Joe Buck would have done. Yeah. And everybody would have been mad, but he would have. For sure. He would have absolutely crushed it.

Not everybody. People would have been mad. It should have had him do the Cubs game because his dad, obviously, was a legend for the Cardinals, and Cubs fans think that he just hates them naturally. So that would have been a nice little... But also, back-to-back jet. Yeah, exactly.

That was awesome. Sweet. Very sweet. Wrigley was alive, yes. Yes, it was. That's what this baseball season does, this particular season. Yeah. All right, we spent a lot of time on baseball.

I feel like we did our part. So much. Baseball is good to us. Hell, yeah. Baseball player. Derby was so sick. Baseball players are good, and the baseball people were good to us.

So we're very thankful for that. Remember, there was a little bit of a conversation. Hey, we want to go home run derby? Sorry, we won't have space. Who's we? The ESPN people say they don't have space. All right. We still want to go, though.

So can we talk to the league? Let's talk to the league. What's the league saying? Do you guys want to host the fucking thing? You want to announce the guy? We were going to talk about me. I was like, thank you. You want the commissioner?

and the two biggest players in the sport. Do you want to introduce the hitters? Do you want to host the press conference? Fuck, you want to play the game? They were so, MLB people were so good to us. So we are so, so, so thankful for that. And also right now, baseball fucking great. So let's remember that.

We need to keep it middle of the week. Yeah. Need to keep it middle of the week. And it will be, you know, like there will obviously be games on the weekend. But I do think they do a pretty good job of trying to make sure. that these, like, really high marquee matchups aren't going on on NFL Sundays. It's great for us.

It's great for us as sports people, you know? Because even there is some middle of the week football that'll come up? Yeah. Lost, it's a... Maxion had a run. Okay? Maxion had a run.

And I'm not saying it won't. I forgot. Today is the kickoff of the UFO free agent frenzy. Oh, yes. Is that true? Yes, it is. The UXFL. D-T-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

Yes. It's the... UFL, and I will say we had a UXFL conversation yesterday. Are you sure? Well, I think UXFL, better name. Just, we workshopped it yesterday, and I'll tell you what, the Ux football league certainly is something that I would love to get behind. We didn't know a lot about their league?

No. We found out they had bloggers, though. Anyway. We did. This was... One of the greatest tweets ever constructed. Yeah. One of the hardest things I've ever laughed at, maybe in the last 10 years.

James, we'd like to let you know. Thank you for your contributions to the Thunderdam. We laughed so hard. And as we got to the bottom and we said, we didn't even know people cared this month. We appreciated you, James.

I just want to let you know that we appreciate you, James. But yeah, this is basically our show in a nutshell. This is two-minute segment. This is a two-minute segment and we never claimed to know. We never claimed to know.

We actually said it in there multiple times, oh, what do we know about it? And then we rattled off all the things that we know. The UXFL is going to have a much better future. Yeah. That's what we...

Mr. Rappole. Oh, yeah, that's right. Mr. Rappell. Of course. Right? From Bull. Oh, Rapoli.

Rapoli. He and John Gruden said, we at the United Football League. No, we haven't done enough marketing, branding, and the fan experience to truly showcase our talented players, coaches in a high-quality football we bring to the field. I guarantee things will change in the future. I'm working on some ideas.

I like that Rapole is thinking about it. He's always working on ideas. Hey, where are you thinking right here? Uh-huh. Rapul is thinking right here. Love that. it. Cruden's like, I'll tell you what, man.

Guys got fucking ideas and protein bar. And when you think about the junkless protein bar, that's a good taste of protein. So if they're eating good protein, I got a good feeling. They got good ideas for the UXFL coming up. And we'd like let everybody know we hope it succeeds. Definitely. I mean, well, we're pretty accurate with those things we were throwing out. To be fair.

we would like somebody to counter a lot of them and they will I'm sure and I want to let them know I will have a counter as well I will I will have a few AJ's going That's what you're saying That's RuPaul

Exactly Oh So AJ did mention right before he got on His house lost power like five minutes before And that's noble I just heard him Yeah We're gonna call him back

Our thing crashed right before we won't have to This might be a RuPaul Could be, hey, take out the weeds One at a time. One at a time. Listen, if nobody's talking about us, that's okay. If somebody's talking about us and only saying the bad things, that's not okay. Let's fucking kill their connection. Drop their graphics.

It's not a bad idea. That would be... That would be this right here. I got ideas. I got ideas. I hope they do. Yeah. We would like more opportunities for guys.

I will say it's tough to watch, though. You guys got to figure that out. I got an idea. Okay. Ask Josh Allen if he wants to play in it after the football season. Boom. Well, the thing that really, I think when we quit on them, and I will say this, as former player, always want player empowerment, always do.

When you want to hold out, okay, quarterbacks, part of the problem of the league is how bad the quarterbacks are. When the quarterbacks say, we're holding that, we're not doing it. And it's like, fuck, we didn't even know you guys had another season coming on. Okay, the first thing we're hearing is that you guys are holding out. From what? What are you holding? Oh, you guys have another season coming up.

Okay. The reason why your league stinks is because your quarterback stink. Okay. So now the quarterbacks are saying, we won't pay it more. And then we do a quick little research. We're like, is this? So if you want more, normally that would be, you would think that, like, they want more piece of the pie. There must be a big piece of the pie.

We deserve our, turns out that pie doesn't. No, there's like a couple crumbs on the bottom. They haven't even started putting the flour to get. They haven't even bought the fucking dough to make the pie at all. So for me, that was when I was like, okay, I hate these guys. On that note, I can certainly come back around on the UXFL. Okay, we get some good ball. We get incredible fan bases, which we've seen a couple of them.

Oh, the Bhopal. We've seen the Brahma, the Brahma team. Yeah, Brahma Bulls. D.C. defenders. Great. Their fans are locked in. Yes. The Brahma team's in San Antonio, right? Yeah, San Antonio.

St. Louis, Battle Hawks. Great environment. Let's do this. Should put the X back in. But yeah, let's go. Now we go. And also, is Dwayne Johnson doing anything? We need to lean on him a little bit more.

I don't think he cares. Just been on? You've got a great movie coming out this weekend. Smash a machine. Hell yeah. I don't think. We're talking maybe awards for that. Yeah, they are.

He. Dude. In that movie? Insane. And then now, obviously, he's playing a different character. I believe he is losing a bunch of weight. He lost like 70 pounds. And he said he's moot.

losing more. He wants to lose even more. But what he was for Mark in that smashing machine, he is gigantic. I remember watching and following along with everybody else, him going through the process of making that smashing machine and the amount of like, I think he like dislocated his elbow. He gave

his entire. Yes, he did. He committed his entire being to this. And they're saying great, what, 15 minutes? Standing ovation. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And, you know, I mean, I don't know how how much stock people put into like the rotten tomatoes and shit like that. A lot. Certified fresh. Yeah, like, it's getting great reviews from critics.

And you want to talk about Oscars. Like, this type of movie, I wouldn't say, is typically the one. But, like, what The Rock is doing, like, he, in a couple of those early pictures from the set, like, he's kind of unrecognizable. Like, the amount of prosthetics and, like, the work the makeup department did to make him look like this guy, like, the complete body transformation type thing. Because we are, he's obviously huge, but, like, he did. He clearly put on weight and muscle to do. do this like that's the kind of stuff that makes those oscar voters be like okay well this guy's very committed and i know he's taking a lot of shit for a lot of his previous movies correct so for him to come back with a certified fresh and also his commitment and uh 15 minutes standing ovation

probably meant more than you could ever imagine to a guy that he was crying conquered everything yeah but deep down you know he's the rock okay always going to be the rock has to be the rock people find inspiration from the rock and dwayne johnson how strong he is when everybody on earth is questioning you and saying terrible things about you and obviously not everybody but it feels like that in certain times especially with how popularies come political world starts getting after you right like it can get loud I said

for even the strongest of people so for him to have that moment and have the amount of effort and say yeah I can still be the guy had to feel pretty good yeah I can't wait to watch I'm a sport shit out of them on that note is it you XFL are we putting the X back oh they've officially changed I believe

well repul yeah that's a good idea Box and loaded. Ox F.L. Ox F.L. Ox F.L. Banny. Ox F. L.

Banny. Ox F. L. Banny. Ox F.L. James, your tweet, unbelievable. Football. It's magical. A.J. Hawk will not be able to join us. He has lost all power at his house.

It is a second time in a matter of hours that he's lost power over there. We hope he's okay. We hope the surrounding areas are okay as well, as we'll miss you for the rest of this, AJ, especially with that fresh new haircut. Yeah, great, for sure. Got that low fade. The talk stable's here at Boston Connor. Congrats to your Red Sox.

Thank you. And at Ty Schmidt, sorry about your Yankees. No, it's not over yet. It feels like it, doesn't it? No, it doesn't. It kind of has felt like it for the last, like, hour or two. Hasn't it kind of felt that? A little bit.

That's 12-year NFL vet, Super Bowl champion, AQ, Shippley. nine-year NFL vet, Terry State Brother. It's felt like it for like two hours. It feels like the Yankees are kind of just out of the playoffs. It's got to go back and forth. This is an all-time rivalry. It's early. It's a wild-card game.

It's not like a, you know, later in the postseason. But, no, it's one game series at this point. Exactly. I didn't realize that all three games were in New York. Did you know that? Yeah, the home team. It's Mickey Mouse, but, yeah. What am I?

Mickey Mouse, but now you're thinking your lucky stars, it is. Not necessarily. I just, I don't like. that I guess that's just not the playoffs what are we doing like one of these games should tonight should be in Boston they take one from you you should have to go win in Boston so what do they think though just the three game series Padreys flying to the Cubs Cubs having to fly to San Diego then having to fly back to Chicago just can't do it in the middle of this three back-to-back day probably and because yeah the not just them but in

yeah and the you know the teams who get a buy start on Saturday so you can't really because then you are kind it's it goes back to the college football thing where they are at a little more of a disadvantage because then they're getting, what, 10 days off before they play? So you want to move it as quickly as possible to get to the divisional round? I don't know. It's just weird. It's the playoffs. It should be split between, you know, it's a multiple game series. Games should be played at each stadium. Well, the Yankees fans are obviously going to try to make it as hell as possible for the Boston Red Sox. They travel in there tonight at 6.08 and try to sweep the Yankees and

eliminate them from the entire postseason, which will certainly draw a very, very, very, relaxed reaction from all Yankees fans and certainly with how this year has gone and how previous years have gone for the New York Yankees. Let's pivot to the NFL. Ladies and gentlemen, every week we get a chance to find out who are the best teams. Not just by watching every single week. It's hard to project who's the best team, but not just by learning each week whenever we're talking about all the storylines. But having a focus on a particular group on an offense that is basically an indicator on whether or not the team's going to be

shit or not. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to go into the trenches with AQ Shiplies. Top 5 Performing Offense Alliance from week four. Yay, AQ! Thank you. This is very important to teams. If you're on here, it means your team's probably going to be good this year. Congratulations. Who's number five, performing offensive line from week four?

Number five is the Denver Bronco. Whoa, two and two this year. Yeah, let me start with saying this is this might be their debut in the history of in the trenches. They have not been on it at all. And the reason being, J.K. Dobbins, 100 yards rushing this week, first time Denver Broncos rusher in over 30 games. Wow, that's a long time. So let's take a look at it. Let's watch Big Garrett Bowles. As he pulls around to the left right here,

let's take a look at him. Let's look at Cortland Sutton on the edge right here. Peel back, boom, put him down. Look at Cortland Sutton. If we can rewind this, Cortland Sutton, wide receiver, on a linebacker runs his ass off the screen and you'll see him finish on the side line. Pancake on top of him. Sutton had a pancake

then we had a blind side peel back. Peel back shoulder back on him, boom, put his ass down. Wow, physical group. Boys, is the guy with the dread still on his team? Oh yeah. Quinn Miners, yeah. That's him at right court.

Love him. Love everything about him. They wanted to invest in the offensive line last time before Sean Payton took the job. He understood that the offensive line was not great in Denver and he can't be great if you don't have a great

offensive line. You're saying they found it, it feels like. Their two tackles have played phenomenal this year. Lowest pressure rate amongst tackles, Garrett Bulls and Mike McGlinchie, who they paid a ton of money to bring him over from San Francisco. They're very good up front. Congratulations, Sir Broncos. This is good news for your team. You're two and two, obviously, you're not perfect. Your flawed team, as every team is, except for the Eagles and the bills at this point, but the Eagles got an issue going on in. And then the bills, this might be their year. But if your offensive line is being featured as one of the best offensive of lines in all of football. What our research has shown us is that your team's going to be good.

Now, on that note, one of the teams that was on this a lot and then ended up being bad is, I believe, this number four to you. Atlanta Falcons, remember two years ago? Yeah, they were on here all the time. They were on here early. Like, these guys are so good. These guys are geniuses. Look at their scheme. Coach got his ass fucking fire. They're going to a fool. They were not good. I mean, it was. So the only outlier from this entire segment for the last few years of your team being good

and the offensive line being featured on here. The only non-existent situation, the Atlanta Falcons from a couple years ago. We're not going to hold that against them here from 2025. No. Yeah, we're also not going to play analytics and say that their quarterback wasn't Desmond Ritter-eater. Let's start there. Oh, gee.

That wasn't animated. I mean, let's just start there. But the fact is they are and have been very good up front, and they still are. Bijon is playing out of his mind their offensive line is playing out of their mind they're missing the right tackle Caleb McGarry due to injury

let's watch this scheme we're going to send Charlie Werner back across the formation watch this over the top ball handling Benback Werner and look at Elijah Wilkinson seal the edge look at this freaking play this is unbelievable that guy free on purpose you're saying the guy that was all tackling yeah because

Charlie Werner's coming bluffing around him get around don't block him because all we need you to do is get the edge we are leaving somebody unblocked to get to the edge. That's smart. That's having a lot of confidence. Who's the running back there?

Algier. Al Jio is going to be able to break the tackle in the backfield there, let the guy get through. And I feel like he played that very well, that defensive end. Yeah, that's Von Miller, I believe. A little longer in the tooth for a good player. I mean, look, this is why back is get paid the big bucks to make guys miss one-on-one in open space.

But yeah, I'm sure Vaughn wants that playback. Well, congratulations to the Atlanta Falcons, your offensive line is still around. Now, to the Atlanta Falcons fans that we've said that, to before one of you were featured on here, and your team inevitably was absolutely shite. We'd like to say this time it's different. They're trending up. Pennix is a guy.

Penix is a guy from week to week. We've got to really base that on who he's playing and how he shows up because against Carolina didn't show up. Worst game. Worst game. But the two games they've won, he's looked fantastic. He threw some deep bowls in this game. He was awesome.

Okay. Let's go to the next. Who's the number three offensive line out of week four? The Jacksonville Jaguars. Whoa. I don't know if I like that. Keep your name. Hey, out his fucking mouth, thank you.

Yeah, you're right. You're right. You better watch out when you're speaking that certain way to Liam Cohen. But let's take a look at this group. They're really good. They're not just... What's this guy's deal? You better. Yeah, you're right. You better. Can we put that tail of tape up? I don't like that we were a part of the problem. Did we fix it first before we put the tail of tape? Good question. We better have that. We did it. He's six two. What the hell?

He is six foot. I'm sick of it. And remember, Liam's scrappy. Always has been always. Not to Coach Sala, is it? But Liam's not going to go down without a dog fight for sure. That's Liam Cohen football. And I like that there was a little bit of a dust up out there between Liam Cohen and Robert Sala.

But I think Liam Cohen does have the mentality of a dog. And I think his players have the same exact mentality. They've got a team brewing down there in Duvall. And I personally, as Indianapolis Colts fan, don't love it. He is 6-2. That's him from college. Well, you say, come on, that's actually him. He's too, quarterback.

Number 12. He went to LaSalle Academy, you know that place? Of course. And then guess where he went to college? Where do you go to college? You mass Amherst, baby. Go, go minute men. Yeah, and he's from Rhode Island there, a small little time.

Think about how many people have said, you're never going to make it out of here. You're never going to make it out of here. And Liam said, wait until him six, too. What's that? Victor Cruz. Yeah, Victor Cruz was there? That was his quarterback. Oh, my God.

They were salsa in. They were doing the entire thing. That all makes sense. We remember this all. What we'd like to let Liam know is we appreciate the way you handled that situation. And I don't think any of us knew Sala was 6'4. If you knew that in that moment, it takes a lot of gut sack, dude, just to be like, actually, yeah, I'm going to... I am going to fight that guy.

Yeah, because Sala was ready for war instantly. Kyle Shanahan said he's a nice guy, but every once in a while, I guess you got to go. Yeah, I don't think Sala's a guy I'm picking, you know? No. Liam Cohen said, though, I go, it's fucking my name. I'm out of Rhode Island. You think this guy's just going to run his mouth? His team has seemingly taken his identity, though, dogs everywhere across Jacksonville.

You like their offensive line? I don't love that as an Indianapolis Colts fan, and season ticket holder. I love their offensive line. We'll start with my guy Hainesie from the shipyard, who I train all offseason. Okay. That makes a lot of the debt. No, that's a lot of stuff. Go to the second team.

Let the clip run as he gets to the future Hall of Fame linebacker. Fred Warner, chase his ass down. put him on the ground cut back behind that's big time out leverage out in space getting to him that's big time winning record down there in jacksville is it because the offensive line is that what you're saying here the ETN's been dancing I haven't

seen him run a lot yeah I think it's everybody ETN's towards the top of the league in rushing performances every single week and it starts with their offensive line but it starts with Liam Cohen understanding the run game is just as important as the balls down the field what are you oh shitting bub oh

30s 10 oh god oh my Damn. That looked like a double punch to the jaw. They're playing very physical brain. Look at 55. Yeah. Oh, my God. Rolling at his knee.

Got a little knee. Yeah. Yeah, he heard of his knee. I don't know how these big guys run down the field have so many awkward shots and not hurt themselves. How quickly guys are able to get up. We said that about Caden Proctor. Caden Proctor with how large he is. What was it?

Like 7, 365. He's huge. Something like that. Did you see how smoothly he got up? Yeah, he's unbelievable. Just like smooth. Like, it wasn't like it was no pain. There's no struggle with how big he is, just smoothly got up, smoothly caught it.

It's like, these guys are incredible athletes, incredible athletes. I'm glad I got out at the time that I did because they just keep getting bigger, stronger, faster. With your Hall of Famer, that's right. Western Pennsylvania, Scholastic, Athletic League, Basketball Hall of Famer, AQ Shipley. He should have maybe been out there at tackle. They always had him at center and guard and then on the wedge of kickoff. Might just should have been out there dancing with those quick feet out there or left tackled. I also want no part of that.

I want no part of being out there's a little baby arms. No, because DeNeil Hunter's sitting across from me. I don't want that. And I'm telling you, the worst anxiety I ever had my entire life was whenever I was playing at guard, and they just put Julius Peppers, James Harrison, Chandler Jones over me every single week. So it's a little bit of an experience of a tackle.

I felt it. I felt it. I held my own, and I fought. Yeah, you did. I fought. You fought. You certainly did. 12 years of fight.

Yeah, you did. Two ball. Who's the number two offensive line performing off week four? Yeah, let's go back to the Buffalo Bills. Love that. Playing at a high level. And let's start with David Edwards on this play. Let's look at the left guard here.

Let's watch him lift another human off the ground and throw him. He almost hurts Deon Dogg's. Look at this. Just throws him. Just throws him. And let's look at the backside right tackle filling in for Spencer Brown. Ryan DeMarke. Let's watch him.

Great pad level. Get underneath him. Drive your feet. Barry him. Finish over the top of him. So the bills are, it feels like everybody were watching kind of a nasty. Is the nastiness coming back to offensive alignment?

It better be, because I've had enough of the finesse shit. I've had enough of it. There's been a lot of that, though. There hasn't there been a lot of finesse? But I think now you're starting to see the jumbo packages, the big formations, and guys running off the ball trying to finish guys again. Yeah, and you're spotlighting it too on X.

Guys know that if you get a couple good blindsides in, AQ will put it over, and J.J. Wong would be pissed off about it. Oh, yeah. Number one. You did win on that. Number one, performing offensive line. The Detroit Lions. Wow.

They're back. All the way back. They're back. The Detroit Lions are all the way back. They look so good. And when you watch Penn A's soul, not on this play, but all game long, just beating the hell out of people. But let's watch this scheme right here. Really good.

Right side's going to kick out. Left side, we're going to call this a slice technique. Left guard's going to block out on the three tech. We're going to slice Taylor Decker behind. Get up on a line. Look at that fucking hole. Can you guys run through that hole? They're back yes.

That's a big gaping hole. We saw a lot of that from Detroit every year's past, but we know with the retirement of Frank Ragna. And the cutting of Sightler. And also of Ski- And the loss of Ben Johnson, who we now know is like a drill instructor. We didn't know if the offensive line was ever going to be what it was in the past. It feels like you're saying, don't worry about it.

They are back to who they have always been. Yeah, we highlighted last week how good Cleveland's defense is this week. This unit held them to zero sacks and ran for over 100 yards. Gibbs had an electric day. Montgomery got shut out a little bit. They knew he was getting the ball when he was in. But up front, they beat the shit out of this unit. Debutt, think about MCDC talking about the Cleveland Brown's defense.

They're calling it historic, man. They're saying he can't out tough this team, man. Think about all that he could have drawn from for this particular performance. You said the Brown's had zero sacks? Zero sacks. Yeah, I mean, coming in. Abnormal. Beating up, because it's two back-to-back, AFC North teams,

who's known to be tough, Ravens, and then now the Cleveland Browns, and on Gibbs' touchdown run, like the way they just moved, I think Mason Graham was in, like, the whole right side of the offensive line, it was just bully ball. You love that. That should always be the basis of this Detroit Lions offense, and back to who they were. I love that the Lions are tough again. That's MCDC. Congrats to the top five in the trenches. Oh, yeah. Congrats. Top five performing offensive lines out of week four, number one, Detroit Lions. We saw maybe a friend. choice there? Is that what you guys heard in the middle of that? This guy sleeps in my house

and he obviously. See this first step he has is called the AQ shuffle. If you see, we coach him up on that. You put your arms in real close because you don't have long arms, don't need them. It's actually kind of a benefit whenever you're trying to get through some space, and then he gets out there and then he dumps the guy. Hey, you guys know who has the fourth lowest

pressure rate among all offensive line in the NFL right now? Robert Hainesie. Oh! Let's go! Who's given those grades? Shipyard, LLC? It's not me. It's not me. It's The only grades I want to look at. Is it PFF grades? I think it's ESPN's pressure rates.

Well, which one matters more? Because I heard a legend, a Hall of Famer speaking about grades. Here's Coach Steve Spagnolo. What grades are you using? That's what everybody uses. The only thing, you know, Chris Collinsworth, I think he's a good dude. He's involved in that company. I just don't know how you grade, put a grade on somebody when you don't know actually what their assignment was or what they were being told.

So, I don't know, it's like, from our standpoint, I thought Chris in this particular game had a real big effect on the game. They obviously found ways to double them, whether it was two linemen, the full, excuse me, the running back at times was chipping inside, which you don't see a lot. That was the Chris Jones effect. A number of times that he didn't get there, but I think he forced the quick throw or step up. So, you know, from my standpoint, I don't remember what Chris's actual grade was. But I know that at the end of the game, I thought the guys up front, Chris Incrued, had a big effect on the way things went. You mentioned PFF and they don't know the place. If I'm not mistaken, it was Mike Zimmer a couple years ago when he coached the Vikings made that same point.

How would stock do coaches, when they're looking at PFF, put the stock in that? Well, I will say this. There's a lot of stuff the PFF puts out that's valuable and useful. My only thing, I think a lot of coaches feel the same way. and I have talked about it. We've laughed about it. And I think their guys do a really good job. And they see, listen, they can be, but I just think there's a margin of error when you don't know exactly what the player was told. It may look like he's made a mistake or a mental error and it might have been exactly what they told him. So I think that, there's a, I don't know,

I used to, I took a stat class a long time ago and there's a name for that, you know, whatever. There's a margin of error. This is the only thing I can think of right now. but I mean we get paid to grade our guys and coach our guys and evaluate them so we're not using that for that and we're going to as far as other players and whether we use the grades on other players that has to come from our eye and watching the tape we can't be just believing what PFF saying for guys to come on our actual team if you guys are drafting a fantasy football team for sure and he also said in there complimentary there's things in there that are good there's valuable things that are coming from PFF but man I'm the defensive coordinator and I've seen the grade that somebody's given and I've told the guy specifically not to do that and he takes a hit on his BFF grade and now publicly people think this guy

is an absolute dupus because PFF has become like a mad rating and PFF has become like this is what these people actually are I have been pissed off about a madden rating in the past. They had like a 70 something my arm rating was like very low my strength my tackling I'm like you motherfuckers

don't know ball I got people playing this game that I'm friends with her call me a bitch. I would throw a ball better than my tackle. I got tackles. I got throw it. Like what do we, you don't know what this actually is. And then obviously as you get older, your rating goes up and everything. But there's people that judge players entirely off of the rating they see on Sunday night football whenever they're introduced. This person is ranked 68th out of 72 options right here with PFF. Or the Madden rating is out, man, this guy fucking stinks. Every time he's on my team, there's something bad happened. Or if somebody's really good on

Madden, Sky, all pro. This guy on Madden isn't all bro. It's like there's certainly the human element that kind of gets missed in it all, but there has to be some sort of grading that we know who, that baseline somewhere. So it's like PFF serves, I think, a vital part of the entire thing.

For sure. And same with Madden ratings. But we can't be at the point where we just blindly follow them, which is what Spags, I think, was saying teams can't do. It plays a great role. I love what PFF does.

And it's a tool that you can use, you know, with, especially if you're in the building or whatever, when you're watching filming, you're seeing what you see with your eyes. And if a guy is ranked, you know, 68 out of 72, he's probably not like a top 10 guy. You know, it's not to say that he's one of the worst guys in the league. So it's definitely a tool to use, especially when you're preparing for a team, you know, on a week to week basis. If I'm a DB and if PFF is telling me, hey, one of the things I love about is like the quarterback heat map, like where quarterbacks like to go with the ball. We see it a lot with the next-gen stats after the game, you know, they're kind of

hit chart. So definitely tools of use, but I love what Spag said. Like, you can't know. We say it up here. We're doing in the trenches or everything to be. We're only going off our personal experience, but we don't know what adjustments are being made between series. Hey, we're going to play cover four this way if A.J. Brown is in a slot as opposed to if it's Devonte Smith. So it's just so many different things. These guys are in the building for hours on hours coming up with game plans, coaches, and players. So it's tough. But I do like what PFF does. But yeah, Sunday night football, getting intro. And then, shit, I've been on free agent visits.

And, you know, PF, that agents to tell you, hey, where your grade is this, or they got you here. And a lot of those people who don't know ball like that but can be in a decision-making position whether it's ownership level or front office, that's the easiest thing to look at. PFF, they watch every play. Collinsworth, he's calling it. He knows he's talking about. So, yeah, it's some give and take there. Well, and also people that are in decision-making roles, kids play Madden.

Yeah. For sure. And I love this guy, Mad. He's so good. He's so cool. Mad domy. Yeah. This dude's going mad dummy on Madden.

And for us, potentially, in the stadium, if you give them an opportunity, it's crazy how the world works. But the football people, I think they appreciate what the PFF thing does because it provides a lot of information that maybe in the past you had to take hours and hours and hours and hours to find. But you can't just blindly follow it. J.J. Watts' suite was players and coaches all say the same thing. Yet we still plaster these grades and rankings on national broadcasts and all over social

media. PFF has some very useful tools for statistical breakdowns, film study, assistance, etc. The player grading system is the major issue. And I think the reason why players all feel this way is because we feel like we've all been misrepresented by these grades and people that we have run into in our real lives have thought that that was the right thing strictly because of it. So you're going to get a different opinion from players than you're going to give with everything else. On the flip side, just like with everything else, when somebody shows me, hey, I had a 92 two rating on PFF this week. Love it. Hell yeah.

Retweet. Hell yeah. Appreciate your PFF. So, yeah, you take it to go with the bat. I was the PFF all decade punter. You were. Congratulations. Still on that sweatshirt.

Love it. Love it. Honored to do it. Well, honored to do it. I was Madden's highest rated punter and also highest rated player on the Colts, I believe, for like my final two seasons, 94, 93.

I'll tell you what, life was a lot better whenever those ratings were happy. You know, my friends that are playing football or drafting a team or playing Madner or whatever it is, all of a sudden, it's like, man, I'm fucking happier on the team. instead of that lump that you were. You can run some fakes now.

You can run a little bit. It's like, yeah, yeah, this is good. Thank you, Madden, for doing that. But that's crazy the amount of power. Oh, yeah. That that has. Why don't you guys come up with a rating system? Yeah, come on, boy.

Let's you guys do that. I want you watch every play. I mean, I will say to echo what JJ said, it is phenomenal. The stuff you can pull, like you can literally filter things for film study, and you can go on there and say, give me all two-by-two trick plays out of the AFC North.

And it'll pull every play within seconds. Within seconds. Good, A. Yeah. Give me every blitz play. And it'll literally, any time there's five guys or more rushing, boom, it pulls it right there for the whole season. Like, you can get a bunch of stuff.

There's just some context missing potentially whenever you're putting numbers on people, whenever you're assigning numbers to what people's worth are to society. Like you said, Sunday night football, I think, is the biggest issue because we see how big those are. And like a lot of just, like, casual football fans are watching those. And you're never going. to double check. It's like you see the player introductions and you see a guy's 68th out of

72nd. It's like, my starting left tackle fucking sucks. What's this about? And then it just like, and there's not one. Let it make one mistake. Yeah, and there's not one person saying that. There's, you know, a million people saying that or a hundred thousand people saying that. And like you said,

if you're going into a you're a free agent, you're going somewhere, it's like, well, according to PFF, you're one of the worst players in the league position, so what are we doing? Listen to this. offense alignment not a lot of people know right I mentioned your name to my wife

and my wife said he was the guy on Sunday night football that was 73 out of 70 yeah that's yeah that guy sucks and I asked my kid listen my kid plays Madden does the whole thing he mentioned your rating on there but he said

you get a 58 on Madd or something I'm trying man I like you I like you but everybody around me says this guy sucks dude it's a wild time to be alive We have so many analytics. We have so much data.

We have so many stats. It feels like we're getting better with them because there was a point there where every coach was getting all these data and analytics before there was a data and analytics team basically in every single building. They're like, we go all these stats. What the fuck are we doing?

What does that mean? Now there's been an entire system created for these stats. The go-no-go thing is now on the screen for everybody. I mean, we're in a wild time. We all know a lot. We all know a lot, maybe too much. And is there context needed for a lot of these things? Always.

Always. That is life. How about some context on a weekend that it's about to be for ball? Thursday night, huge NFC West game. Rams, Niners. Hell yeah. Who's playing quarterback for the Niners? It's a short week, we shall see.

We assume it'll be Brock Purdy out there yet again. And then Matthew Stafford, fresh out of an incredible conversation with us, which we appreciate him stopping by yesterday. And also, whoever drew the photo in the background of me with my long hair, I appreciate you doing that. That's a huge game. the game's best wide receiver playing over there in whose house rams half let's go over to hammer dot time apitone what a start to the next weekend a ball we got rams and niners on thursday

let's go we should be looking forward to this weekend yeah it is a great start to the weekend niners at rams a nfc west division matchup and we talked about this week it might be one of the best divisions in football. So an absolute huge matchup to start this week. Star power everywhere. And then I've heard a lot of stuff, Pat. I've heard a lot of people saying that this is a shite

slate of football this weekend. Coming off of what we had last weekend with the four top 25 matchups in college football, you know, five other top 25 teams on the road in tough environments. Last weekend was an unbelievable weekend of

football. You know, you had the 9.30 a.m. game and then just led through it in an incredible day of football that ended in a 40-40 tie. Last week was unbelievable. So people, you know, coming off that weekend, they were saying, like, maybe this weekend isn't as good of a slate. You know, when you look at the NFL slate, there's a, you know, there's a row of games, you know, say you don't like backup quarterbacks going up against each other. So you're not going to love, you know, Vikings and Browns. And then, you know, Houston has been shite and Baltimore's missing their quarterback. And, you know, the Raiders aren't great and they're huge dogs to the Colts.

Giants and Saints is a huge game. I like that. Dolphins and Panthers is a great matchup. And Titans and Cards is a really good matchup. So people are saying it's a shite slate. And then when you look at the college games, there's only two top 25 games going against each other. one of them was a 10-point spread and then the other one is four and a half

canes at Florida State who just lost against Virginia so there's a lot of complaining but I want to be positive Pat because I'm positive and we went through so many months of absolute shit. There you go. That's right thank you Carl. It's good that we're going back to the

offseason. We cannot be complaining about these weeks yet okay let me this this basically same thing happened last year in college football this week because there was all these great games and then everyone was like, oh, this is going to be a shit week. Let me tell you what happened last year in college football this week. Three unranked teams beat top 10 teams. Oh! Okay? Three. Four ranked teams in total lost to unranked teams. So it's these weeks like

this where you have no idea where you think it's going to be, you know, a shit week where just absolute chaos happens. Last year, obviously Vandy beat Bama, Arkansas beat Tennessee. USC lost to Minnesota. That Miami Cow game was this week last year. There was a lot of good football. And then there is some good NFL games this weekend, you know. Denver going to Philly. That's fun. That's a great game. I mean, people thought

people were very high in the Broncos. They just got a huge win. Philly's 4 and 0. That's a very fun one. Bucks at Seahawks, that's a great measuring tape game. Bucks, you know, four, they've played four games, three and one. Three of those, they had to come back on the last play of the games. Well, we all know, Seahawks are a great football team.

And then right after that, Commanders, Chargers. Yes. Chargers just lost the Giants. Commanders just went down. The Falcons have lost. But the commanders are getting their quarterback back. And that was just a hiccup last week for the Chargers. They lost to Jackson, Dart, and Moxie. So you know what? There is a lot of good football this week. Even though people are saying it's not great, Monday night, Sunday night could be a banger. Patriots are looking hot. Monday night could be a banger. Okay. So it's way too early in the season for people to be calling weeks, shit weeks. Jacksonville is getting Monday night football game? Yeah. Wow. Congrats to them.

Congrats to them. That really might go on. That is because they thought about it in January. Yeah. Oh, it was January. No, it was January. Yeah. Oh, okay.

And it's happening here in September. And now. It's going to last. No, no, no. It's October 1st now. Oh, wow. It's going to go on again in October. And it's going to last.

Forever One more time from the top Just so we had a month change It's going to clean one Let me fucking run this back real quick Listen This is what we envisioned in January It happened in September

It's going to happen in October It's going to last Forever There we go Jacks Jacks Jacks Jags, Jags, Jags, Jags, Jazz, Jags! The Jags are a team that I think everybody would rally behind it.

Oh, yeah. You know, just like, good for you guys. I think everybody in sports would drop up, good for you guys. That owner, obviously, great promo. Yeah. Great mustache. Yes. He has tried his fucking best with that team.

I don't know how he is the owner of other teams that he owns. With the Jags, though, he has, you want a city? I'll build your fucking... All it. I'll bet whatever you need. I will try. try my best for us to win. Two pulls, who cares, this, we'll do that.

We'll fucking new stadium. Okay, you want me to build a new hotel for, you got it, whatever the fuck. He was, how do we do this? If they have found it with Stoner and Liam Cohen, that'd be crazy. They win a Monday night football game against Kansas Chiefs. That'd be a huge deal for them down there, man. That'd be a big deal. They got the pieces.

Offense, defense and special team, they got the pieces. And then Patriots Bill, same thing on Sunday night football. That's a huge potential. win for the Patriots. Yeah, potential win. Now, I'm saying you're taking on a very good bill team, but if the Patriots are winning that game, all of a sudden it's, wait a minute.

Is our window now? Which Rick may, as opposed to in the future, because Josh Allen's window is clearly wide open right now. I'm there in Buffalo. That's the thing. Like, even this year, it's just more so, hey, let's be near Buffalo's level. Like, we don't have to go into Buffalo and win on Sunday night,

but if we go up on prime time and we lose 30, to 15 or 30 to 13 and it doesn't look good then the whole entire you know kind of framing of the season changes just because Buffalo will be that much better but hopefully

you know you never know rivalry jerseys for the bills I believe wow don't love that that's bad news for the Patriots especially if the bills ones are sweet do we remember if they look sweeter they're so sick yeah the rivalries ones feel like a good run yeah yeah like they had a couple different ones

that were shit oh yeah Cardinals sucked. No, no, I'm not talking about... Oh, my bad. Yeah. I like the Cardinals. Yeah, Sandstorm. I loved it.

I'm not talking about this era of... Oh, my bad, yeah. Because there was the color rush roll. Right. Yep. Some of those jerseys were really bad, but some of them were awesome. There was a couple eras where they were trying to make new shirts and they all sucked. The logos, the graphics, the font that they were used on.

The new, like, the alternate logo, yeah. All the shit sucked. Yeah, and it was like, these rivalry runs, I thought it was a big deal. Like, these things were nice. You wear them a lot. And I wear it like the other merch that they have, like shirts, like the sweatshirt. I think I might have worn on here once. But, yeah, everything they have on there is top notch.

And that is the cool thing about it, too, is it's not just like a color rush. Like, they all have actual meaning to the cities, like obviously the snow. New England's was, you know, a storm surge, like a nor-easter. Yeah, Nor'easter. There it is. Arizona's sand, which is cool because it's in Arizona. and it makes sense. It's a desert.

I mean, the Dolphins jersey is damn near had me thinking they might go in the division with how cool those were Monday night. I'll tell you, Gumpy put that jersey on and became a new man. Yeah, dark water. He legitimately did. And so did the dolphins, maybe. Yeah.

Maybe they wear that things throughout. Tyree Kill, uh, Drew Rosenhouse spoke with Josh Moser. The Moes show? Yeah. The Moes knows. Or maybe my...

Is it Moes knows? I shouldn't know. He hosted something for you. At the Moes. At the Moes Show. nose at the maus nose oh you okay whatever it is good name yeah at t h e m o z k no w z so ma ma's nose ma ma's nose it'd be cool if it was moz nose yeah that would be cool if it was at the moz nose what do you think a q just has a guy that's well cultured yeah moz knows for sure

okay so got to be what about his name is what though d but you're friends with josh mozner oh you at Mosner earlier that. Now we don't know. No, sure. He's got, he's got a great moxie. I'll tell you that much. M-O-S-E-R, that's Mozer. Yeah. Right? Not Moeser. Yeah. So it is the Moes-Nose. Okay. This is from the Moes nose. He spoke to Drew Rosenhaus about Tyreek Hills injury and surgery and projected recovery. Shout out to the Moes. For joining us. Just such an emotion. The Moes is on the left. How were you holding up?

Well, you know, I've been an agent for 37 years, and this is the first time I've rode in an ambulance with one of my clients from a game. Very traumatic experience. I thought I've seen it all, but definitely a very painful moment to be with Tyreek is these ambulance to the hospital. You know, people forget football is, I mean, it's more than a game.

It's a career for people. It's their livelihood and it's their life. It's their health. And to see Tyreek in an ambulance racing to a hospital was really very painful. How were his spirits? Amazing. I can't tell you how impressed I am with his mental toughness, with his uplifting attitude.

He's keeping a smile on his face, telling myself and his parents who were with me that he's blessed to be in the position that he's in. He was watching the game. cheering for his teammates. He was rooting the team on. He's handling a very tough situation the very best that you can. We understand that it's a dislocated need. What other information do you possibly have about what's going on? Sure. So as we speak, he's at the hospital now. That's where I'm doing this Zoom with from the hospital. He's getting an MRI and a a CT scan to determine the exact extent of the damage.

Are there any torn ligaments? Is there torn cartilage? Are there any broken bones to check on the blood flow? Any, God forbid, nerve damage? All of this is getting checked out. I want to say that the Dolphins, team doctor, John Uribe is here, team trainer, Kyle Johnston. They've just been exceptional.

The dolphins are taking good care of Tyreek. We don't know the extent of the injury, Josh. You know, the team doctors have told me he dislocated his knee, which I think was apparent for everyone who watched the horrific play. But what that means and the extent of the damage and whether he'll need surgery to what extent, all of that we should find out within the next couple hours. What about you? Are you staying there overnight?

How's your nice looking? Yeah, I'll stay here at least until Tariq and it's, situation is situated. He's in good hands. He's got friends and family here now. So he's well taken care of and I appreciate everyone's prayers and good wishes. And he'll get through this. We have ours as well. You're the best in the business, sir. We thank you so much for taking a couple minutes here and giving us an update. You bet, Josh. Take care, man. I'll keep you posted. You're the best too, Moes. Wow. Yeah, Moz. I had another one yesterday, too. yeah a little follow-up yeah he uh no nerve damage yeah everything put back into place i believe and

the thought is he's maybe going to be back before next season that you know that's coming from drew and drew's going to be positive and very optimistic and we hope so as well but he said multiple ligaments for damage but one surgery is always a good thing so that's what and also the nerves not being yeah huge i think that's the big question mark because nerves can heal and then nerves also cannot heal like that's kind of the way it's always talked about yeah i had a nerve injury one time and like doctor was like you could be good in a week or you could have to be back right so oh okay that was the big thing with Peyton whenever he was coming out of the neck surgery is the nerves he couldn't feel I don't remember what it was he either couldn't feel his fingers or feel his hands

that's why he started wearing a glove or whatever because he was coming out of it but whenever he was with the Colts because Colts had to figure out whether or not they were going to cut him or you know what they were going to do with Andrew Luck kind of waiting in the wings and also a massive bonus and also a lockout happened so there was a lot of things kind of uh you know it was a business was happening. A lot of business stuff was happening at one time, but the nerve conversation was always like, are the nerves going to heal? Like, is the nerve going to heal? They're like, every doctor's like, maybe, probably. Is there a chance the nerve doesn't heal? Maybe. We hope not. It's like nobody's figured out the nerves yet. The nerves seemingly are the, and whatever you have that much

damage, you assume that there's going to be some nerve damage in there as well, that then affects every other part of the recovery. Happy to hear that on Tyra Keel. If he's back by next year, that's unbelievable work. And I think we'll all be excited to see where it is. Tone, what was another thing that you wanted to make sure we mentioned here, live from Hammer. Time.

Yeah, you know, the Yankees and Red Sox game is tonight at 6 o'clock, and I had good news for Ty if it's not going well, you know, around 8 p.m. On ABC, the season 2 premiere of Shifting Gear starring Tim Allen is on. Hold on, huge surprise, huge awesomeness. Al Borland's going to be on the show. Yeah. What? Heidi is well, I believe.

What? And Jill. And the kids. Is it tool time? It's basically tool time. It is. I already got a DVR. I'm not so sure that I'm not going to pause the Yankees game and pick that up later.

And obviously. What about Wilson? Are we? Rest in peace. He's dead of. Leave he died. Are you shitting me? And rest in peace, Mr. Wilson, I apologize.

And Zachary Ty, Brian, obviously, won't be able to come back because he's been arrested like 20 times. What about JTT? I believe, JT, I think, is trying to keep the toolman of the past. Yeah, right, but he won't come to shift gears, maybe. Maybe he wants to shift gears. I'm thinking that there's a chance that they're being real hush, hush about this. And then, like, last scene of the episode. Oh, everybody.

Actually, AJ just texted me, ZTBA, it was actually chewing on the wires at his house. That's why the power was out. All right. Shifting gears tonight, 8 p.m. where are we watching? Is that Heidi? ABC. ABC. Home improvement, large portion of me and my family's life. Yes. I mean, this was appointment television for the McAfee household. I mean, some of my best memories is a child home improvement. Then obviously you watched him go and just crush it, not only in Toy Story and everything like that, but to visit Michigan commercials. Yeah. Just absolutely slaughtering. Pure Michigan.

Oh, there it is. The Pure Michigan commercials. We're going up the lake with some cliffs, some trees. Is he still doing us? They kicked him off it. There were some other stuff that happened. He had some opinions. People weren't happy.

His entire story, though, is one of like... That's when that state started going down. Inspirate when they got rid them out. I mean, you go after Tim the Tollman Taylor. There's going to be a lot of people who go, you know, that is... What a show, dude. What a show.

That's happening tonight. Are they just running it back? What if he straight into it? What if they do straight into tool time? If they're smart, they will. And if I know Tim Dick, and I do, he, that's his real name. He probably just wrote an episode of tool time tonight. Yeah, exactly.

Like I get, we got shifting gears. This is this new show on ABC. What is shifting gears, by the way? I don't know. I've never watched it, but you're telling me fucking Al Borland and Heidi and Jill are showing up uh yeah consider me in we need a tool time we do

now more than ever especially shifting gears you just make it with cars instead of wood I mean he always had the hot rod down there in a garage exactly he's always working always working on it felt like he was trying to get away a lot it did I wonder how many beers he was drinking in the garage

Jill driving him crazy after a long day I need to make a hot rod it feels like you're never going to finish you saying that's the goal Yeah, exactly. Mark shows up. He comes home. He's got off all the sudden. I'm going to go fucking work on the hot rod. Drink 18 Miller lights right now. Now that we all kind of understand the game a little bit more.

It's crazy. My dad loved that show so much. Fuck, this guy's here. All right. So what time? Eight o'clock on ABC tone? Yep, exactly. Shifting gears. Hell yeah. Let's shift gears back to sports. More people might watch this in the Super Bowl.

this should maybe be the halftime show this should have been the halftime yeah you're right bone on I've come around to it Babani is a techno show for us

English speaking people that's all it's got to be just sounds you like a lot of different music I love Bad Bunny you like Bad Bunny yeah I'd vacation in Mexico a lot and I've become one with Bad Bunny

yeah it just vibes That's not where he's from AQ That's the music That's the music that they listen to You know what I'm saying What are you talking about Spanish speaking music? You're a real piece of

of shit. He's number one on the Mexico charts on Spotify every time. Yeah. How often are you checking the Mexico charts? Every time he goes, he says, I want to be one with the You ever hear the beats of that type of music? Yeah, yeah, true. I go on there all the time. You're salsa in a little bit.

Yeah. Give me a bad bunny song that you like. What's your, what's the one that you're like? You know what? I can't wait for him to play this at the Super Bowl halftime show. Well, see, I don't know any of the words and I don't know the names of them because Not just the sound. Yeah. Well, the first song off his second to most recent

album sounds like very M&M style Ooh okay let me let's what's the sound oh you know you know how Eminem sounds no there's a lot of different M&M sounds mom spaghetti so bad buying you speak in English No that's what I'm saying I don't know the words but the sound

the sound for instance our favorite is Chambayo Bauda Bada da da bada da bada da bollo Bapaya Bola bola Bola See, I don't know that song.

I don't know what that is based on what you tell us your son. I would know it if I heard it based on that, don't have any clue. That's exactly what it sounds like. We'll do it one more time. Let's hear it. Shambia. Bola up. Shumbea.

Bola. It's a banger. So good. It was his W.W.E. Entrance. It was sick. It was on. I've seen that entrance.

Yes, it was, if they have any part of that, which they won't, because there's going to be a bunch of corporate people at the Super Bowl that are paying a bunch of money, who I think even if it was songs that we all knew this song, if they sing-a-long songs, would not know the sing-long. This song sounds good. What's it called this? Piano, man.

Whoa. That's crazy. Some of these people, you know, that are going to be at this thing with the money. So I think you're never going to get that moment, but I do wish there was sing-along moments in there. Like, that is something, especially because, like, World Cup, where whenever these European games happen, or the game down in Brazil, like, whenever they showcase a local, like, and I'm not saying,

Babani isn't a local, but it's like, they're celebrating their culture. It's like, we're not going to be able to speak. I need to be able to speak what's happening at a Super Bowl half-time. She's got a vibe. Yeah. It's a techno song. You just got a vibe because they're not, it's not, we're not the target. Yeah.

It's because it's a $150 million. They will crush the, all the viewers should break it. Mexico, South America, everywhere. I was like, this guy, you know, international icon. Got real motion. Motion. Yeah, everywhere.

Yeah, he sells out islands and everything like that. And I think it was, somebody mentioned it about us not being the target. They know we're going to watch. Yeah. Like, the halftime show is not for us to enjoy. No. Halftime show is for people that maybe aren't going to watch to maybe, oh, what's the interest over there?

We'll go snoop around. San Benito is going to be performed. and a half time. Obviously, we'll go poke around. Maybe some magical happen. Maybe people that have zero. Yeah. Maybe flag football. Boom. Come on in. Oh, yeah. San Benito's coming in there. Now, with that being said, they know we're going to watch. They can give us something that we're yeah. You know, there's obviously a counter at all times. But from a business perspective, I guess Bob Bonnie makes a lot of sense because a lot of people that don't know ball or watch ball will watch for Bad Bunny. Yeah. So that's their story. And can't hammer home enough,

like how much of a showman this guy is. Even as someone who this isn't, you know, for, per se, just because I don't know a lot of his music, I am excited to see what he does with the stage, with all the, you know, types of shit he could do Cirque to Saleh. Who knows? Yeah, I think he'll be a good show. What do the collabs be? I saw somebody tweet Luke Combs would be good. With Bad Bunny?

No, no, no, just if he was to do away. We were trying to find it. I mean, maybe, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, about Bunny. But people are like, Luke Combs has a roller decks of songs

that have enough different, like obviously fast car all the way to long to everything like kind of in between there. He potentially has a library that could entertain the masses of it because you do have to think about that.

Yeah. If it's not Bob Bunny, then who is somebody that's going to be able to entertain everybody? Because we're mad that Bob Bunny's doing it because we don't think

we're a part of the group that he's there to who would be the person that would have her. Creed, nickleback okay listen I'm in

yeah and if you were just to toss backstreet boys in sync and maybe just do a full throwback

situation have 50 cent come out to end the club like he did just do a full throwback that's what I think they need

to do like show backstreet and sync would have been sick and they just sold out the sphere like a thousand nights in a row

so Justin Timberlake still doing it over there I saw I'm dancing on the internet I think so he had to apologize for his dancing

No. No, you got DUI and I'd like cancel a show or something, right? Oh, boo-hoo. Come on. What's that? What was that? I don't know. I thought he said someone else and I realized you. You said DUI? Yeah, yeah.

But I can't do that. Yeah, I can't do that, J-T. Can't do that, J-T. He was dancing, though, on stage, and he wasn't singing. He, like, put the microphone down. He was dancing, and people were commenting about how much money people were paying to go see him in concert. like this is what you're paying for and it was not

it was not Justin Timberlake I remember he used to have those silky knees I mean he used to be able to move but he was also enjoying the moment with his fans that he's had over 20 years exactly can't be judging him just for one little clip out of context he's still Justin Timberlake

we gotta remember that come on they always make fun of him for the whole he had a great Super Bowl performance he did yeah pretty historic all time people remember it

that's what we're saying he's got dance moves now that's a collab three different parties there came together for one big moment and I don't know if they'll ever give Justin Timberlake the halftime show again or his flowers

or his flowers for the halftime show yeah just you know he still got it it was my favorite halftime all time we understand why and we hear what you guys are saying and we respect and appreciate your reasoning I will say that Prince won insane I mean you just kind of think back

And I always say, like, two of it. Like the Tom Petty one was, they had the full, I couldn't even imagine, rest in peace, Tom Petty, now with the modern technology that you could have with that entire thing. But I don't know who is the right person. I've tried to figure it out. I don't know who. Everyone won't be happy with anyone.

Yeah. Like, there is no one person who everybody's going to say, who, that's, you know. I mean, when Michael Jackson was here, you talk about Prince, like Michael Jackson, I mean, I think he'd probably get a 99% on the fucking rotten tomatoes. But, I mean, after that, you know, you're going to have a bunch of people was legit i don't know if there is a i don't think there is one i don't know who it is it was taylor swift i don't think but no you see how many NFL adjacent people are pissed off anytime she's oh people would have been mad yeah that's right like i don't think there is anyone who

people would unanimously be like you know what yeah that's that's the move that should be the super bowl half so what if that is roger goddell and uh j z right a part of the decision maker um roger god we're never going to make everybody happy so fuck it who brings the most of my own people let them know if they'll do it for free they will okay yeah guys somebody please go talk to a football girl taylor swift we would love to have her obviously at super bowl we love to showcase her uh taylor stuff goes just a couple quick questions so how's this you guys give me a car to the stadium or what is the whole do i have a green room oh you'll get paid nothing yeah yeah you'll pay for your own shit actually what was old buddy

that paid for it with the weekend the weekend he was paying his own money for the allegedly for this entire thing. Just see what happens to your numbers the next day, though. Yeah, that's a little Uncle NFL would do for you. Taylor Swift, I don't think so. That's going to be a no for me. Okay. And then Bob Bunny was like,

do I have to sing in English? And they're like, nope. He's like, see, I'll fucking do that thing. He's going to kill it. Yeah. That's a lot of space and opportunity for him. Lady Gaga, what did she do? She jumped off the top of the stadium?

Yes, right? Yeah, I think so. Scott came in from the top of the stadium, I think. Like, Bad Bunny's going to do some absurd shit. Rihanna was up there, too, right? When they lifted her up. Yeah, I remember her, like, hanging up red shit, they were pregnant. Yes, Carrie pregnant.

Yeah. Who was last year's? Kendry of Lamar. And then who was the year before? Urshire. Was it Ria? Oh, it was Usher? And weekend with Brinbreaston.

Alicia? It was Usher, then Rihanna. Then Dr. Drey and Snoop. That was good. Then the weekend. But Dre and Snoop was a collaborative effort, which I think they should do more of. I think there should be a collaborative effort.

Like a 90s collab. Bingo. Yeah, or like country music will do one. Or like rap will do one. Or like rock will do one right now. Because there's like this young guy, Youngblood that everybody's like, he's the next one when it comes to like rock stars,

rock icons. It's like so you could still have Steve and they're not actually sync. Like it's all, right? Like you could just kind of pay tribute to stuff. Or you can bring Baboney in and bring Bobney in and just have him go absolutely apes. Which he's going to do, which we can't wait for. All right, let's wrap this up with one of the best segments that has ever been created. We actually had some history made on this particular series last week.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for everything, D.B. Good D. and bad D. What do we got, D. Bond? Let's go. We don't have history this week, but we got some good plays. Starting with the Chicago Bears coming off a back-to-back. wins. We kind of spoke about it earlier in the week about the job that Dennis Allen and specifically Al Harris, one of AJ's old teammates have been doing with this bear secondary. Let's watch Kevin Byer here. If you pause this right here, middle the screen, right before that safety move, it looks like something middle closed, maybe cover one, maybe cover three, and then post-snap,

you'll see it go to a cover two with Kevin Byatt pretty much being this run-through guy. Now, if you pause it, running back a couple frames. You pause it here, kind of the top of Geno's drop. He is reading that defender, let's say right outside of the hash mark, between the hash mark and like that 30-yard line mark. He's reading that defender. He's high-lawing him. He is the defender in conflict in Gino's mind with this dagger concept. So the slot receiver, he's clearing it out and you've got a dig route coming in. So once that defender on third and seven bites up at the sticks, which is what a lot of zone defenders do, he thinks, hey, hit this guy two yards outside of hash, going to be wide open.

Nope, Kevin Byers all over. It comes off the clear route to the dig route, diving interception. They tried to write Kevin Byer it off. Start it off a little slow, but he made some big time plays. Two interception in this one. Tyreek Stevenson had a great one as well. But great job anticipating the concept, kind of baiting the quarterback into this throw, and then finishing it with a great, great catch across him.

Thanks for not finishing the right off. I didn't write back thing because that's actually a Gino quote trademark and patented, and then you were going to use it against him. So thank you for not doing that. But the Chicago Bears defense might be the real deal. I mean, there was some spectacular picks that they showed. And Gino Smith, a lot of people were kind of hating on them, it's like great plays out of the defense of the Chicago Bears.

They might have figured it out. Yeah, this is a great plan. If you run it back to that wide copy, a lot of people will say, you know, Monday morning quarterback, hey, if you hold on this, you let this rip to that seam route right down the middle, it's wide open because that corner at the bottom is not getting there. That safety's definitely not getting there

if you just lead him and throw it out there, which he's made some big-time play. I believe that's Tucker. But when they're running this play, they're running this to be a clear-out. They're running this to get past the sticks. You see Dagger Concept almost every week on here. And reading that defender that he's reading, he thought he had the right answer. But this is a great job by a veteran safety making a big-time play.

That's some good day. We got some more good day? Or are we showcasing a long? No, I mean, we got some more good day. Good day, good day. We do, we got some good defense here. This is a trick play down here, third and five. Good one.

Trick play. Let's do a little reverse. handed off the Chris Olive. Let's see, hit the quarterback. Nope. Cole Bishop came across with a nasty one-handed snack to finish this playoff. What you got, Akew. You see it a block down at the end there after the interception?

Yeah. Yeah, I got it. Watch is coming in, Rader. Wait for it. Boo! That's cheap. That's cheap. I'm surprised I didn't call that.

Look at the Caucasian flying through the sky, obviously stealing a pick. trick plays work for every team in the NFL. This one absolutely not says Colbishop. If you run it back a little bit at the beginning, once Oliva is kind of pulling this ball back, and obviously he's not a quarterback, but when he's pulling this ball back, pause it. He thinks, like

right now you see Spencer Rattler, wide-ass open. If he gives him a better throw, maybe a little bit more heat on it towards that pylon, I think he does catch this and score. But Colbishop, when you're in this position as a DB, this is when you kind of look back and hope for a bad throw and just make a play because if he catches it in stride, he's

going to score anyway. That's what Colbishop did and then went up and made a phenomenal grab. I love a little good D down. Hell yeah. I mean, looking at those fans too. Yeah, they love good D too. And after they love that D. Yeah, they love that Colbishop D. And look at the score right here too. This is a 10-14 game. So they scored touchdown right here. The Saints

would be up 1714 against the Buffalo Beals. And the next one, the Jacksonville Jaguar. We've been talking about this game. It's all about they got in the trenches and good D. Boom. That's all right. That's always good vibes when you can do that. Watch Devin Lloyd here right in the middle of this defense. Probably will be the AFC defensive player the week with his performance this week.

Now, this is that middle run-through, similar to what Kevin Byrett was, but Kevin Byrd came from more depth, him just reading this past concept, once again, understanding where that deep dig route is going to come from. Brock Purdy can't make this throw. The throw did get batted at the line of scrimmage, but I think it would have been intercepted either way. Great job anticipating this play and then making the catch. So, boom. Right here, Tip. Maybe threw it off just a little bit. Once again, I think this is getting intercepted either way.

A great, great performance from Devin Lloyd. Once again, we've been talking about complimentary football. This defense, last year, they had nine takeaways the entire year. They're already up to 13 takeaways and leading the National Football League and takeaway. So big time turnaround with Anthony Campanelli over there, the defensive coordinator. Is it mindset, personnel? What is it? All of those things.

Mindset personnel, being comfortable within the. this game. And then sometimes the ball just bounces your way. This is, this is a great play. He went out there and made this play, but sometimes just being around the football to end the Houston Texans game, like 30-something seconds left on the clock. C.J. Stroud going to make a throw. Josh Heinz Allen kind of strip sacks, hits the ball on, as it's on his way out, kind of becomes an overthrow. Just a little duck in the air. He picks that one off. We had Jordan Lewis last week on everything DB, showing that disguise pre-snap, getting back into the flat, and then making the big-time play.

place was just executing and a good, you know, good coach staff. They got a good coach of staff over there and something, obviously, it was a lot, talked about Sala and Liam Cohen, but after the game, yesterday, actually, Robert Sala was asked about the whole dust up once again. It was something he said that had nothing to do with that, but he was giving compliment to Liam Corner. He said something, let's actually get to the clip, and I'll go off and get some bad tea. They're really, really good at putting their players in position to be successful.

You know, as coaches, we're always chasing leverage. They're trying to have winning leverage. We're trying to take leverage away. So leverage, and you're very familiar with the kicking game, lanes, lane integrity, offensive linemen. And it's something like leverage is like a big time word. And the casual fan at home might not understand it as much. When you see guys wide-ass open or a big run play happens,

you're like, how the hell did that happen? So this is an example of that. One of the best wide receivers in the league, six touchdowns right now. And you can kind of think, okay, every defense coming into the red zone. If you pause it here, you want to know where 14 is, where St. Brown is in every play. So right now, Grant Delpit, he's guarding him.

They're getting some information right here. Okay, is he following 14 to the left and to the right? Maybe man-to-man coverage. Now let it roll here. So now, when you get down here and you have a tight formation or a slot defender, you can see the corner at the bottom of screen on Jamo, outside leverage, the corner up top, outside leverage. Grant Delpit, outside leverage.

But what the Detroit Lions do here is do a good job running a rub route, natural pick route with Tesla on the outside. So he's just running his vertical route and he's going to set a natural pick which takes away that leverage. And now without a switch, without a combination switch, it's a walk-in touchdown for one of the best wide receivers in the national football league. So when Sala says something like, hey, coaches and players, we're always trying to find a way to get our players in good leverage. That could be a wide receiver. That could be an offensive lineman, getting a little chip, a little help. We're always looking for that leverage on any given play. And this is a great example of that.

and why a lot of big plays happen and why touchdowns happen. Thank you. That's cheating. Offense is cheating right there. That's a pick play. He did a great job just running his route. If he stopped or he made it clear,

and you can't set a pick within one yard at the line of scrimmage. This was a little deeper, but he just ran straight up the film. Usually with young wide receivers, they don't do a good job playing this off. He just ran straight up, and it's a natural pick and you get away with that. He's finished it, too.

Yeah. Full sell on the other side. No, no, I'm running a full route here. That wasn't just the chip this guy right through his outside shoulder and have Amon Ross St. Brown, wide ass open for a touchdown. Finishes his route full pace. Yep, these refs are going to think, nope, I'm out here. Never going to get that ball.

Ever. Good sell. It's a great sell. That's good sell. Never even look back. It's a rookie. So that lets you know it's great coach. Shout out Johnny Moe over here.

Johnny Moe. Yeah, Johnny fucking Moe. What do you know? Moe's nose and so does Johnny Moe. I mean, that is certainly something. Do we have any other bad deer? Is that it? Yeah, we got a couple more bad days.

Once again, we always have a theme, and this is leverage. Once again, we got a slot fade from Higgins, the slot receiver up top. And running back a little bit, you see the communication. He kind of taps his, looks like maybe his ribs to the outside receiver up top, and you're in that slot. This is one of the toughest routes to guard. You want to keep your outside leverage if you're that slot corner. And why?

Because you have your only help deep is that post safety. So you want to use that post safety. once he gets to your outside and takes away that leverage the quarterback immediately knows where he's going where he's going with the ball you even look at the outside receiver where I believe is Dalton Shultz as soon as this ball's thrown based on his release he knows it's a touchdown so you'll see the outside receiver you'll see him throw his hands up touchdown great ball thrown

boom once again winning leverage in the slot with the outside if you watch tackle him here yeah if you what's that when this guy because if he's even he's right there you tackle him Yeah, I'm grabbing them. Yeah. I'm grabbing them. It's a great throw. It's a great route.

And you just make the game tougher on you when you're in that slot. And that was much easier sitting here with a clicker as Tua said than actually getting out there and executing. But if you just maintain that leverage or make it tough, you at least give that safety a chance to help you. But right here, great job. This is a rookie right receiver too. This is from Iowa State. If I'm not mistaken. So great job.

Boom. Throw it. Get off me. Stack them. Great ball from C. C.J. Stroud and once again running away from your help. So good job there. Got to have great leverage.

All right. And I think we have one more back. One more. And look, I don't like to put bad three from winning teams. I don't like it, Bruce. I'm sorry. But I had to stick with the theme. And this is a big play. And Marion Hampton, he was kind of a silver line in this loss for the Chargers.

We always hear the concept. No edge, no chance on defense. So as you look here at the edge defenders, once again, it's for the casual viewers at home. Every defense has an edge to her and two guys responsible to set an edge on either side of the field. Right here's Brian Burr's and Kvon-Tibberto. So you'll see the edge is set. So watch here to the left where the run will happen with Brian Burns.

Boom, pause it. So he sets the edge. But, I mean, a good edge is you're setting it, but you're also squeezing it. So you make those lanes tighter. So he set the edge so he can look back at the coach, say, hey, I set my edge. I sit in the back inside. But you kind of got to squeeze that. So the offensive player here does a good job of creating that space.

because the less space you have there, the easier you make it for number 21 to come and fill his gap. And if you let it run a few frames here, he's coming down. Now he has to set the edge on the next level to send the guys, to send the ball back until all those blue shirts coming inside out. But if you watch 53, you take your eyes inside one more block. He went on the inside of that block. So that means 58 would have to get over to the outside. If we saw it earlier with the Pittsburgh Steelers a couple weeks ago, he would have to get to the outside.

So if you run it back, actually, you'll see it. kind of happened full speed. It's just that one block and these backs are so good that they find that space, they find the lane, the vision, and then you have the explosion to take away angles. We know speed kills matchups and that's what Omarion happened in there right there.

So it's always about angles, but something that Coach Sala said, former head coach, obviously a very good defense coordinator in their league is leverage. We're always fighting for that leverage and it's some examples of that. All you need is one guy to be wrong and then 10 other people can't even fix it. Yeah, that's crazy. That's a sport. You know, rugby is

like that as well, right? Rugby is very spread out, but in NFL, if you just get two guys stacked behind each other and one gap left wide open and one gap taken by two people, that's touchdown, bro. That is it. All you need is one person to not see the field the same way. That's why any play can change a trajectory of a season.

And that's why you always won't be on good D and not bad D.B. With everything, D-Bee. Oh, yeah. That's a good work. Great job. That's fun show. A.Q. Thank you for traveling out here, buddy. Thanks for having me. Great job, boys. So we didn't talk about Penn State, really. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh that must be really good

whoa they're dead they're dating to say it did you watch you up no oh oh oh we are Penn State oh no like a little house cat like a little house cat like a little pussy cat unbelievable so soft there so soft what's the problem you're a Penn State or Come on, cute. Best atmosphere I've seen and experienced. It was awesome. I got a chance to go see the National Champion women's volleyball team hanging out with them. We need to start stacking wins there as well.

Got a chance to see a lot of the facilities that are being built up. Obviously, I had a chance to hang out at the stadium a couple different times. I mean, everything is awesome. Yeah. And obviously, Oregon's going to be around in the long run. That thing went double overtime. Good weekend up there. Good weekend up there.

They had three points going into the fourth quarter. And they still go out to overtime. Yeah, and that's my issue with it, is the fact that we have all these slow developing runs. We don't push the ball down the field. Everything's short of the sticks. Everything's these short stick crowds. Everything's gimmicky. Everything's all what it shouldn't be for the first three quarters.

And then we decided to open up the playbook, push the ball down the field. Well, you want to run the ball or you want them to throw. I want them to run off the ball. I want it to be aggressive. I want it to look like the other stuff. I want it to look like Bama. I want it to look like, George, you got the talent. Open it up.

Let's go. I thought it was an okay game You know I thought it was an okay game Did you watch the offense for the first three quarters I was there yeah it was tough It was really tough But your defense is off

Defense phenomenal They played out of their minds I mean I love everything they did And I love the new defensive coordinator Mixing up the coverages I thought he did a great job with that Mixing up the Blitz with the coverage I thought that was great

They played with chaos and relentness Relentless but like on offense Everything takes five seconds to get going Can't do it Can't do. Run off the ball, hand the ball of get downhill. 11,000 people in there. Showed up. Middle of a renovation.

Expecting electricity. You know what they got? Struck by lightning. Oh, wow. Pretty good. I like that. Wow. There was a lightning being struck conversation at Portnoy was having over there.

Saw people really reacting and negative. He didn't love that. He obviously didn't mean. You didn't want people to get struck by lightning. I think, you know. But if it happens, just not your day. It is. It is a bad day.

That place was awesome. It's unbelievable, isn't it? I mean, that experience, I told you that. It feels like it's on top of you. Like, that is the difference is it feels like it's on top of you. And everybody's on the same exact page. Everybody. DJ, same page.

Person that's sitting in the bottom row, first row, same page. Person is sitting at the top, tippy top. Everybody's on the same page. So many chants, so many songs, so many everything. How about the Mo Bomba? Awesome. And the timing of it, perfect. As soon as the tackle was made.

Um, um, um, mm-hmm. Um-huh. I think I nailed it. So you nailed Mo Bamba. How about some bad bunny?

You say you love him. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't. Are you lying? You're trying to be cool right now on the internet. I do. I do.

You're not going to be able to play this here. It'll get us. Yes, definitely. I'll get us cut off. Yes, it's certainly right now. How many seconds? What, can he play it? Yeah, no.

With how big Babani is? That bunnies, fuck. It's immediate. That one's probably, yeah, trying to get it. That's probably getting C and deed pretty quick. As soon as Shambail. Yeah. Lawsuit.

I'm going to have to use the Google Translator. Something was sent to me in Spanish. What's it say? Fucking stop it. We're going to see you. Perfect. Messy, Boc. Nope, Muchos Grosies.

Yep. Both play, I think. Can you want to try the new AirPods? They say, yeah. I don't know. I got the new phone, though. The new phone has a bunch of that shit. Like it?

They've changed things for no reason. Classic. You know, just no reason. Had it figured out, we can keep it. But some developers said, I need to prove I'm worth the fuck. So let's change it a little bit. And inevitably, I'll be comfortable with the new ways of the little things.

You know, like I am a FaceTimeer. They change a FaceTime the way it's logged. It went to miss call. Here's a call that you should make, maybe a suggested call. I just want to see the fucking log. Yeah. Just give me the goddamn log. You have a missed FaceTime from who you can't, who knows?

And that call could have been from anywhere the way it's in there. Photos. The camera's incredible. Okay. Great news. Camera is. The camera button? Camera button's incredible.

So you take pictures with this now. As opposed to having to reach to the top one, like where you can only do pictures on that. Okay. Or have to use a screen. Now there's an added button that is for the camera. And you can zoom with it and everything. and obviously the camera is impeccable. The AI, obviously, good.

They change the way you search through your phone. I don't like that. So I'm a big search through my phone, somebody's name, want their info just to pop up right there so I can just hit text and then send, now it's the most recent interaction with the person pops up. So like if I wanted to text Gumpy, but my last interaction was like, let's say, a FaceTime.

So I search Gumpy instead of his contact info popping up, which is on old phone. So I could just hit fucking message. to this guy. Gumpy need to message him. Now it's our most recent interaction, which was a FaceTime. So now Gumpy FaceTime is on the screen. So then I got to click in info into that to go into

his shit to hit the thing and I'm like if I wanted a fucking FaceTime I get the fucking FaceTime button. We had that figured out. Why are we changing it? Now granted somebody's going to tell me, well what you got to do is you got to hack into your settings and your software and you can change that back to whatever you want it. It's like, okay, fucking, well they just pop

this thing on my life. Easy transition to new phone. Easiest there's been. That's good news. You put the phones next to each other and they start talking to each other. It's good that that finally works because they've been peddling that for years now and it never has. I think it was 25 minutes. We have 1,000 up,000 down here

at Thunderdome though. So that probably helps in the 5th place. Did it here. Set the phones next to each other and they started kind of talking to each other. Have to answer questions. Have to remember a couple passwords, but most of the passwords face recognition carried over. That's good. Very good. Two-step

verification process will place for sending text messages. to your phone? Interesting. Because my Verizon didn't move over until last. So I had the internet on new phone uploading apps, Verizon two-step verification still on old phone. So then whenever Verizon moves to new phone, two-step verification, where did it go? I still don't know where some of them went. I still haven't been able to verify and get into a couple of the apps. But all in all, 25 minutes for me smooth transition easiest of all time didn't ruin my entire day we had very high

internet speed and it is very nice the screen's very nice the tech is very nice they've changed some things like why the fuck we touch anything but I think there is real advancements editing a lot easier I think for us which is good they've made some stuff in the background yeah so it's good phone

they don't have black though I was going to say enough with the fucking goofy Mickey Mouse colors it makes it's like I what that orange one. Like, I get it. Like, that is everyone's last pick, no matter what. It's zany. Yeah, there's a blue. There's a blue and orange and a white, I think, right? Is that the

colors, if I recall? There's no black. Yeah, not having black is insane to me. It's got to be, like, the number one most selling, most popular choice of all time. But this is once again, you know. Well, Zito did have a good point. He said, well, you know what they're going to do in, you know, four weeks. There's going to be an exclusive of the black ones here, and it's going to be $1,200 more, $1,600 for. Night Ops.

Or something like that. You can trade in your Super duper for the superest of Dupor. Yeah. Just another. Yeah, probably, you're saying $1,000? Probably like $12,000. Maybe. And guess what?

And I was just, I was agreeing to a bunch of things. Oh, yeah. Yeah, whatever you got to do. Yeah. Send it to me. Yep, sure. For some of them, they make you scroll down. Go to scroll down so that we can at least say that you got to the bottom of this thing.

Well, why is it in half inch font? And what the fuck is all this? You can read it. I guess I can, yeah. Do you guys have an AI that will read this for me? Well, then you got to agree to this, actually. It's like, holy fuck, so I'm just agreeing. Boom, boom, boom.

Give me in there. Even transferred it over to home screen. I mean, just everything immediately. No case. You're a no case guy, wrote out? Always. All right. Always.

It's a grass. I respect it. I've always been this way. First of all, I respect Steve Jobs, and what he wanted to look like. Okay? When you guys put your big. swab a shit on it. Okay, it's not, it's, you know, there's an entire design and everything like that. And I respect you guys wanting to protect it. But in my eyes, I think you guys are looser with it because

you have the cases on it. Yeah. So for me, I am very careful with this thing. Now, have I dropped it? Oh yeah. Of course. Have I cracked, have I cracked screens? Oh, of course. Have I had situations that if I had a case on would not be a problem and instead I had a massive problem. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. In between my legs, getting out of the car, that fucking bump out. It's that thing. Oh, yeah. I've had those problems.

But I feel overall, I am much more careful with it because I don't feel the luxury of, like, oh, I can throw this thing off a wall if I want. And also, Apple, to their credit, has gotten much better over the years with durability. Remember there was that little Wayne commercial where he's throwing it under water and shit? I think it was a Samsung phone maybe. I don't remember. Yeah, maybe. Apple had the same thing.

But Apple now, yeah. You can drop it in the ocean. And I think this thing doesn't really crack. Until it does, it kind of crashed. Yeah, and then it spiders everywhere when it does. Yeah, but it's better at not doing that is what they say. Yeah. But still, yeah, I go, I do, I am a wide open.

Kids. I know. Can't control that. When my daughter grabs it, when my daughter grabs it, it's so slippery, you know? And it's like immediately bang right to the ground. It's like, yeah. Kids, come on. There's a certain way you've got to live whenever you don't have a fucking cover.

Please have a little respect. We need that phone. Yeah. Sam has a case, very nice. case. A pink one, it's a very nice case. But I mean, the corners that thing, just completely. Oh, yeah. Gravage. Obviously, it works. That's how mine are. I mean, destroyed.

That surprises me for you. You got, like, an advancement of technology in our palms like this is absurd. And you, Neanderthal, just what I fucking bang. People used to walk miles to get the computers. I know. Yeah. And now we got the greatest computers

of all time in our pocket. And you're like, well, I got a fucking auto case and fucking. Hey, you want my phone? Somebody needs my fucking... Quay, go deep. Look at this video. Go in the pool. Go to the deep end.

It's unbelievable. Maybe take care of your stuff, but yes, I am an abnormally. Abnormal, I believe. Abnormality. Me not having the case. It's aggressive. I really don't... I mean, I would have to replace my phone every two weeks.

Bingo. I don't think so, though. I think that's where... You remember in Batman when he was down in that pit? And he'd get out of the pit, everybody tied the thing. Yeah. So everybody tied the thing. they never fully committed.

Okay? But they were safe. They, oh, it'll save him. Until he did what? Took that fucking thing off. Had to. And say,

you got to go. And that's the only time you're ever going to, that's what I'm doing with the phone. I get it. I'm taking that rope off and you're just living. You're going to live differently

with this without the rope than you would with your otter case that you're fucking spiking like you're Rob Gronkowski off the ground every other day. But you can't control other people. That's like saying, I'm a great driver.

I'm a great driver. Are you? somebody else may not be. Are you a great driver if you had to really judge yourself? Phenomenal. Okay. As good as it comes. All right.

I can see that. I mean, the peripherals are unmatched. Yeah, I'm sure, yeah. That's like when people ride motorcycles, every motorcycle's in there. Like, it's not if you crash, it's when you crash. And everybody says, well, I'm a good rider. It's like, no, it doesn't matter. You got AJ Hawks out there, driver.

I fall in asleep while he's behind the wheel. How are you going to judge that? So you're going to watch for other people. I think that's how you become a better driver. when you start driving for other people, that's when I think you're a good driver. You're doing that right now? Oh, yeah.

I'm seeing the move before it happened. Oh, you're watching the arm, huh? You're not just watching the car. You're watching the arm, maybe. Seeing the face, seeing the head down at the phone and knowing, okay, we've got to figure out of time to get around this thing. But we understand this thing is in its own world right now. So we just got to let it live.

I'm not going to snitch on, but they need to stop texting while driving. Some of these people should not be doing it. Without a doubt. I'm sorry, everybody shouldn't be doing it. I've stopped. I've stopped multiple times. What'd you do? Are you a bad? You're a bad Texer driver?

Yeah, I mean, I'll just do some. I'll catch myself just scrolling sometimes. Can't. Try. Can't have. This is AJ Hothful to sleep one driving. I've stopped. My kids, they're older than others.

Dad, come on. Because I'll be in a light. So I do it a light. Stop. Green light, dad, green light, go. But yeah, that's my reminder. I put it down. But Australia, Australia has, nobody's on their phone while driving.

Texas driving? That's smart. So there's every red light basically has a kid. That's smart. You got nobody on their phone. while driving. Now, granted, you're wearing your seat in the back seat as well. It feels like you lose some freedoms over there.

But it's very beautiful, very nice, and there's nobody texting and driving. Good drivers here, from my opinion. Good drivers here compared to, now downtown, it may be different, but out, you know, kind of suburbs area. Good drivers here, South Florida, it's why you can get young drivers, you get people from all over the place. You get old drivers. Those are the guys, those are the guys and gals you got to watch out for. But out here, very polite, people just let you over. Different world down there.

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