The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1539 - LIVE from the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh, Dylan Pratt, Daniel Jeremiah, Roger Goodell, Wiz Khalifa

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys are LIVE from Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft recapping the first round of the NFL Draft and looking ahead to the second round. At the top of the show, we are joined by brain cancer survivor, Seahawks super-fan who stole the show last night announcing their 32nd pick, Dylan Pratt, who talks to us about his health battle, his Seahawks fandom, owning the moment last night, and more. Next we are joined on stage by NFL Network Analyst & host of the Move The Sticks podcast, Daniel Jeremiah, whos shares his takeaways from last night's first round, including his perspective on the Rams surprise pick of QB Ty Simpson, the Kansas City Chiefs trading up for Mansoor Delane, the potential of Alabama OT Kadyn Proctor with the Miami Dolphins, and more. Right after Daniel Jeremiah, we are joined by the Commissioner of the NFL Roger Goodell, who recaps the first night of his 20th NFL Draft as Commish, answers questions about roster size, the potential for an 18-game schedule, International games, the Tush Push, and much more. To close out the show, we are joined by Pittsburgh legend Wiz Khalifa for an awesome conversation ahead of his concert tonight at 6pm ET with Bret Michaels. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. Have an incredible weekend. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people. That is the NFL's draft stage. Tonight will be the second and third round. Last night was a historic first round. We're back here live on Friday. Football! He is the greatest. Coach Cower almost got in there.

Ladies of gentlemen, 20 years at CBS, guest of the draft spectacular, living legend, Pittsburgh's coach, Coach Carr's. Yeah, Coach. Good to see you, Coach. Cannot wait to get your thoughts on the aftermath of what an exciting, historic. like Pittsburgh, round one of the NFL draft that certainly saw some surprises,

had eight trades happened, kind of small little quick trades towards the tail end of the draft, and also saw the shortest first round that we had ever seen. Two hours and 53 minutes of action. We obviously were very incredibly lucky to start the draft spectacular. The seventh annual draft spectacular with the football town premiere online. So it was a special night for us, special night for the NFL. There's certainly some alarming things that took place and also awesome things that took place as these two are losing their mind down here.

I don't know how these people got in here, but I respect it. I don't know when the gates are opening for the injures to continue to fill in here, but we expect another massive day here because the weather is perfect. Yesterday was outstanding. The vibes immaculate.

No fights. Yeah. No fights that were reported that we saw anything. So for Pittsburgh to have a beautiful Thursday like that with 320. some thousand people coming down here somehow getting in somehow getting out we think today is going to be even better somehow with more picks and more experience let's go to the toxic table at boston connor and at ty smit con man tie great to see you con man last night a lot of different stories

your favorite of the evening was what yeah my favorite is probably the thing that i hated the most which is the jets doing stuff that they normally don't do which is good stuff they actually took players it seemed that performed incredibly well all season long david bailey at the top fine. You know, that was kind of expected him or Rvel Reese. So that is what it is. Taking Kenyans, Adiq, the Freak, and Omar Cooper, Jr. moving back into the first round.

That pissed me off, okay? They get two sweet players. I think all of us up here would have been very happy with them being on our own teams. One guy's nicknames the freak. The other guy had some of the most iconic moments, all college football season long with the Penn State touchdown catch at the end of the year and his performance in the college football playoffs. So the New York football, just look out.

Jets, second round. Our second overall pick, the odds were changing. Sports folks had no idea what they were doing. Schrager had held on and said this is going to be David Bailey. They do that. I also liked what the New York Jets were doing. I was like there was no leaks. None.

Yeah. It sounds like they got it pretty tight over that. What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on over the AFC East? Ty Schmidt. Great to see you, buddy. You missed a good one last night. I know.

It looked like you guys had a lot of fun. Wish I could have been here. But, you know, what are you going to do? As you watched on, what was your big takeaway? Looking at the NFC North. You know, I was, I mean, Immaculate tunes right now in the background, but looking at the Bears and the Vikings, I think it's kind of two franchises maybe going opposite directions.

Vikings, we don't know after JJ McCarthy, they get Caleb Banks and everyone's kind of saying like, wow, that seems like a little bit of a reach, didn't have this guy going here, and then you look at the Bears who, Dylan Theanman, you know, he falls right to them and it's like one of those things where, wow, unbelievable pick, bears kind of doing everything right. Very similar to what Conman said with the Jets, it's like the Bears are, you know, continuing upward descent ascension and who knows you know what's going to happen with the Vikings uh the bear's the end uh i'll tell you what mad mel had a great take last night sounds like a lot of the world agreed to it with it as well i don't know if you heard but mad mel said if you find a white that is that athletic

you draft go get him that is what you sounds like he's going to be a guy also an indiana boy shout to him the nmc north is kind of problematic over there for the green bay packers who are the Kings of the North curve. Currently, yeah, it's the Chicago Bears, you know. And then also on top of it, you know, they're having all these picks. Packers don't pick tail 52 today. And they still have, you know, they have a lot of holes they need to replace. So we'll see, we'll see. It's got a half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone. Pittsburgh Steelers obviously represented very well last night. Place was going bonkers all evening. Was a true celebration of sport. As soon as the Steelers made their pick, 100,000, 200,000 people mass X.

We got to get home. There's only two roads out. Have you seen the parking? It's going to be crazy. But obviously the city brought it. And the Steelers end up in an interesting situation now, looking back hindsight with microphones and such. Yeah, most people ever at the first round of the draft, that was awesome.

We all knew they were going to show up. This is a football time. But yeah, there was some drama. There was some controversy at the 20 and 21st pick. Obviously, Dallas is on the clock. And then Steelers are on the phone with wide receiver, Mackay Lemon out of USC. Eagles trade up with Dallas.

They take Mackay, Steelers then take tackle Maxi and Achor out of Arizona State. And there's been a lot of the Yenzers are really pissed. They're saying like, oh, Omar didn't know what he was doing there. I could tell you and I could promise you from, you know, maybe being around that building. They loved Maxi Anachor yesterday. It was brought up to us a few times. Whether they were going to take him or not, I promise you he was not a backup plan.

They are very, very happy to have him. They thought Mackay Lemon was potentially going to be available. Yeah. Maybe they go with a wide receiver. everybody thought they were going to have. We're certainly having a conversation with him. We have the video from NFL network. And it's Omar saying, hey, Mackay, this is Omar from the Steelers.

We're the next pick. We're going to take you if you're here. I assume Omar didn't expect Mikhail Leman to potentially be there. Maybe it was a thought of, hey, here we can get the Blitnikoff winner, wide receiver. And then the Eagles make a big time play, which is kind of the story of the night trades. A lot of trades. Kind of moving a little bit, trying to get in front of maybe somebody else that they thought was maybe interested in a similar player. I think we're going to learn from Daniel Jeremiah a little bit about the Eagles take on that all.

But I think the Steelers are pumped with the offense alignment. Certainly a player of need. What will he become? Who knows? Capability gap. Gigantic. This guy could be a 15-year, 20-year first ballot Hall of Fame. Everyone's all said and done.

Ohio State Buckeye College Football National Champion, A.J. Hawkins. Hawker, four guys in the first 11 for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Congrats to Ryan Day. Crazy that. Fernando Mendoza and the boys won. Big 10. national championship with that Ohio State team still existing. Other than that, what was the story for you, you think last night, AJ?

I think starting with one Ohio State bucket Arvel, Reeschooling number five to the New York Football Giants. I think they're getting Arvel at five and then Maui Noah at 10. I think it's a great draft for John Harville, his first draft as the head coach of the New York Giants. I mean, both these guys could be cornerstones of your offense and defense for the next 10 to 12 years. Yeah, and I like the smooth.

Yeah, it's kind of has great. You know, it's kind of setting the tone. I think we can tell him it's working. Yeah. Sounds great. I don't know if it's a test. It is way. It's very consistent.

Yeah. Sounds great. Is this live band right now? But is this a live sex? What? Is it? I don't know. It could be.

It sounds like good. It's good. It's good. There's some good sex going on over there right now. Ladies and gentlemen, absolute legend coach, Cower. Come on, Coach.

Coach, we talk about the Steelers. Just a couple seconds ago. Obviously, there's a lot of decisions happening in there. What else other than the Steelers, do you want to talk about it? Just to follow up. on tone a little bit. I think the biggest thing you've got takeaway is I think they looked at

offensive line receiver pretty much the same and I think we all agree there's more depth potentially in the second round with receivers. They were okay with how that thing unfolded right now. So I think it'll be fine going to this day looking at a receiver or a defensive back. But the team that I really thought did a great job yesterday was a Dallas Cowboys.

I think they got a steal at number 11 with Caleb Downs. I think this guy is a dynamic player. He's a hybrid type of guy. Then they go back. Remember last year they got Quinn and Williams? They signed Rashaun Gary this off season. They have now put it about Malachi Lawrence. Again, a tall, lanky, edge rusher.

I think they've addressed the two things, the secondary with Caleb Downs, and then they'll say with Malachi Lawrence, love what they did yesterday. Yeah, these teams doing good stuff, you know, are certainly surprised. Am I sounding like an echo right now? Yeah, you're echoing now.

Yeah, pretty good. No, I think it's having a couple different times. I don't know if it's me battling against somebody who sounds much better than me back here. I mean, just an absolutely phenomenal. shows about that, which I think should be talked about last night. Cowboys have massive evening. Jets have massive evening. Giants have massive evening. You know, I think there's a lot of things and teams that certainly did well. I think the NFL did well. Yeah, absolutely. I think the show is

good. It was great. How about right before the Pittsburgh Steelers picked? Like the lead up to that, I think they executed perfectly. The old mama, while we were watching in real time, and maybe I had a couple ICLA Manga. And maybe there was a couple Bud lights. Maybe there was a couple bud lights. Maybe there were some vitamins in the air. And we are certainly feeling, especially because yinjers everywhere were celebrating their asses off for what was about to come. But like

just in the moment being like, oh, oh, mama's got to come right here. And then literally a half a second later, it's like, oh, mom, it's like, oh, and then they zoom out, 300,000 plus basically all singing Renegade and then bring the boys out. I mean, it was

a good show last night. Under three hours. I think they did it. I think They really did it last. Pittsburgh showed up and they showed out. I'll tell you what, it was electric. I know walking on here for the first time when I came early in the evening. This place was electric. You could feel it felt like a Sunday night or Monday night football game at Accro Shored Stadium.

Yeah. And terrible tiles were thrilling. I'm telling you, it was special. Leaving Radio City musical when they get kicked out has turned us into a special event. Pittsburgh's not going to get a Super Bowl. No. Okay. Pittsburgh's not going to get a Super Bowl.

I think there's a lot of things that go with that. Bids, yada, yada, yada. weather, money. I think there's a lot of things that just kind of check all the boxes of not going to have a Super Bowl here. Okay. Other places, the amount of money that they're paying for Super Bowls, the pitches, the weather, the indoor, everything else is much more conducive for a February football game that means more than anything. What this draft has been able to be, though, for four season cities or colder cities is a celebration of ball. When it was announced to come to Pittsburgh tone, our first reaction was Pittsburgh will do well. Pittsburgh's

going to show up. They love ball. Then we started thinking about it actually logistically. And then we started hearing from Yenzers, because we all have friends still back here and family back here. And it was like, I'm a little bit worried. I'm a little bit worried about Yenzer's deciding to come downtown. There were signs from PennDOT that were like, stay home. If you don't have to go anywhere, stay in your house.

Do not come downtown. It is going to be crazy. News reporting, like, if you don't want to get trapped for maybe 12, 14 hours, don't come. There was a lot of potential doom and gloom. the weather being perfect, I think was like a bird called everybody like, hey, all the shit come deal with it. Let's do it. They showed up. We got another good one here today, Tone.

Yeah, Vieners can go outside and drink with another group of people and it's nice outside. They are going to do that every single time. No, the weather's been perfect. But yes, there was a lot of talk about how we're going to get down there and stuff like that. Everything we saw. Like when we got out of here, we didn't get out of here that far long after the draft last night. Like there wasn't any traffic or anything. Everything seems really smooth.

Everyone was happy last night. It would perfect. Yeah, I think it was a beautiful evening. Only going to continue through the weekend as I think the Inzers are kind of filing in now to try to find their local booze that they can. We would like to introduce before we get our first guest up here. Ladies and gentlemen, last night was a moment that wrapped up the entire draft. A two time, two time brain cancer survivor, I do believe, came out as a fan of the Seattle Seahawks. and the moxie was outrageous

grabs the microphone says what up what up Good Dap as if he did get you can you hear me back there yeah yeah so screaming into the mic to be here to represent the 12s

yeah Super Bowl champion yeah we love it I mean the insers are certainly impressed how could you not be a stud

who with the make a wish program was able to announce a pick last night now he's joined us right now ladies and gentlemen uh dillon i don't know your last name dillie will you walk up here dylan is that okay yeah yeah hey hey great to see you yeah you can't saddle up right over there man just use that microphone right there yeah there we go how are you dude yeah yeah good yeah good good i was last night you killed it we thought you owned the moment i loved everything about it i had to come on now yeah you're damn right okay so you're a seahawk fan Yeah, I've been my whole life.

Are you from Seattle or that area? No, so I'm actually from Columbus. I hate Centerville. I just... What happened? I go to Dublin Coughman, which, you know, you're from Ohio. Yeah. We play you guys every so often.

You guys just always kill us. Oh, I'm sorry about that. That's Senatorville. No, he lives in Dublin now, too. He's trying to procreate. Like Kraft's, sorry. Like Crafton. Yeah.

Well, I think Crafton would beat the hell out of Centerville. So facto, I think Krafton would also beat Dublin. Yeah, if I had a guess. But nonetheless, if they had your toughness, maybe they'd win some games of their Centerville Oaks. Okay, so you're from Ohio, Seattle Seahawks fan. Correct. We learned last night in a way you celebrate two time. Two time.

Like, let's make sure we talk about this. What happened? You had brain cancer? Yeah. So what actually happened is it's kind of a miracle how I found out that I had cancer. It was a father's day trip with my dad. were RVing, like ATVing, and my other buddy had a dirt bike in Wade National Forest, which is a big forest in Ohio.

And so I was driving an ATV, and I ended up flipping it, and it landed on my head and like just caused a, my mom was, you know, freaked out about it. She made me go to the hospital, get a CT scan, just because she thought it was just like a concussion, you know. Just make it just make sure I was okay. And then when they did that CT scan, they actually ended up finding a mass in my brain. And they, yeah, they, well, they didn't know what it was at first. So they just, they found them bass.

And the first thing they did was they sent me to Nationwide Children's in Columbus. And they took just excellent care of me. How old were you? I was 16 at this time. How old are you now? Not 20. Okay, so it's been the last four years. Yeah.

So they find that they remove it, I assume? Is that how that goes? Yeah. So they found it in, like, the end of July, like early August, it was already gone. Like, they, it was a really quick. It had to be, like, it was an expedited surgery. And then, like, what was I going to go with that? Now and then what happens?

It comes back, obviously. It has to come back at some point. Yeah. But so I got rid of it, you know, I was good and free for, like, two years or so. And then, so I do, I had to do, like, regular scans every three to four. months just to check up, you know, make sure everything's good, everything's clear. And I was just on a routine scan and I was just like on a drive home and I got a call from the doctor and she was just like, you might want to pull over like just kind of heart

crushing was just like, you know, your cancer's back. It's time to fight. Yeah. And I was just like, all right, time to reload. Just fucking go. Yeah. Don't be sorry. You were awesome, man.

Your story's inspiring. You're here with, is this lad, a friend of, This is brother. Brother, okay. Yeah, I know he's bigger than me. I got it. Yeah, yeah. Littleer brother, too, yeah.

Yeah, well, I know it's probably a lot. And he's got an anchor or a foot. So, Ohio. This guy just walked in here with a brace on the foot. Rugby injury. Rugby. Okay, most Ohio thing about it. Hey, thank you for coming.

And obviously, we know the whole family goes through this shit. So shout out to you. Shout to your family. I'm so excited you got to do that last night. And way to own the moment, bro. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was a legend. That was awesome.

Hey, Coach Cower has something to tell you. You know, I just wanted to say to you that what you are doing right now is inspiring many, many people. And you're changing the lives and a lot of people. You're inspiring courage. You're inspiring trust. You're inspiring an attitude that says be blessedful for every day that we wake up. So your sense of perspective is going to resonate with so many people. And thank you, Dent, for sharing your story.

Thank you. Maybe. Maybe. Oh, yeah, Joe. Hey, we appreciate you, dude. I mean, you definitely do that. Keep that on. Keep that on.

I mean, just immediately grabbing the mic and screaming. Good that last last. That was great. Yeah. We had to have known he's from Ohio. A Seahawks fan from Ohio, I would have never expected. Ever. But him grabbing that mic and doing what he was doing,

I think that's when we were all like. Yeah. You probably thought I was going to tell Dylan, like, you know, Dylan, we did beach in a Super Bowl. That's all fine. That's where Pat wanted me to go, but I did not want to go there. I did not. That is not what I wanted him to do.

Oh, there you go. I would have played. Yeah, I think any of it would have been great. What you did last night was fantastic. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now. He's a man who got he did the Monraft Championship. They gave him the title.

He got 29 right out of 32 for first rounders. And I believe he nailed eight in the exact spot. That's the best by all the people that we know. There's probably somebody on the internet that's better. We apologize. We didn't see it. Ladies and gentlemen, Let's move to sticks, Dan Jeremiah.

Yeah, DJ. How you doing, DJ? Thank you for coming. Now, listen, DJ, you are in between Dylan, who seems like one of the biggest badasses in the history and before Gadell. So let's make sure we have a good one here, DJ. Yeah, you've never given me a soft landing.

That's true. You're opening for Gadell here, following one of the biggest badasses that we've seen. What a stud. It was. Total stud. That was an awesome way to wrap up. up the entire draft. And let's talk about this draft. Number two was obviously an up and done

whenever it came to who was going to go. The odds, obviously were shifting and changing. David Bailey sticks there. After that happens, what do you think is the big storyline? Obviously, Ty Simpson getting drafted to the Rams is outrageous. Was there anything before that moment that you thought would have been big enough to carry draft night? Or did Ty Simpson to the Rams become the story immediately upon it happened? Yeah, that's the biggest thing that happened. I mean, there was still some twists and turns. But all of them, I felt like, and we had all heard at least whispers of it. Like Tate at four, surprise, yeah, but that had been whispered around

that they wanted to do something for Cam Ward. So there was a lot of things like that. I thought Cleveland was really masterful of understanding that they could move back and still get their tackle. They did a nice job of kind of playing the board the right way. I mean, look, the headline's going to be 13. Tell me about it a little bit. Sean McVeigh.

Oh, boy. I saw a still shot. Yeah. He's pot. Yeah. A little bit. A still shot. Still shot.

Tower did not. love that we were judging off of a still for the video two i want i want context is what bill cowher said in this entire thing but then we heard sean macfayshay he'll be battling against stetson bennett for sure because obviously we know this is matthew stafford's team here's coach uh i'll keep that between us we'll see he's going to compete with stetson okay then he had the fran face yeah and it was said that stafford was told about this happening the green bay jordan love thing started getting comparisons because how close the team is to maybe a Super Bowl. So if you're drafting certainly for the future as opposed to right now,

ruffles some feathers. Dan Rolowski was sitting over here saying fudge, yeah. How do you kind of unravel the entire story of Ty Simpson to the Rams? Because Ty even said Simpson that he had never talked to Coach McVe before. So this is a really fascinating dynamic, especially its quarterback position. For a franchise, we all have a lot of respect for it. Yeah, there's a lot of angles to it. I mean, first of all, for Ty, like if you could script where you could go,

this would be the first choice. Obviously, you go to an organization knows what they're doing. They know how to develop and coach quarterbacks, scheme up quarterbacks, put them in favorable positions. He doesn't have to get on the field right away. That's from, that's from, stop. That's from his perspective. From the Rans perspective, though, you're a playaway from a Super Bowl. This year, Super Bowl is in your building, and you've got the reigning MVP, and your first pick is someone who's not going to see the grass for two years.

There's that side of it. And this is the one, I haven't heard anybody talk about this. So we're all going to assume that Stafford's two more years, right, at least. So. Amortal. Ten more years. So you've got, Ty did not start until his fourth year at Alabama.

He's going to wait two years now in the NFL. So over a six year period of time, he'll have played one year of football. Like that is a grand experiment to me. I've never seen anything like it. I don't have anything to compare it to. So I'm fascinated to see how the whole thing works out. Yeah, me too.

Coach Kier, whenever we're watching the McVeigh stuff, what do you think that angle all is? I mean, I think that's Sean right now, just like, tempering the expectation. for Ty Simpson. I mean, you're going to come in here. I understand you're a 13th pick, but you still have a lot to prove, and I'm going to let this thing unfold in front of my eyes. You know, it's

interesting that he has not talked to him. You know, when we picked Ben Rothersburg at 12 in 2004, I didn't think he's going to be there. We had Tommy Maddox. I didn't tell Tommy Maddox. I think they talked to Stafford about this. The next morning, I had Tommy Maddox in my office, and he was not a

happy campus. Has any quarterback ever been happy when this happens? Ever. He sat there and said, you never told me. You said you believed in me. You said, I was the guy for the future. This is BS. And he started getting y'allard and louder at the very end. I said, are you done?

Okay. I said at the same time, I said, I did not know he's going to be there. You sound like a very insecure as quarterback. Right now, you are the starting quarterback. And I think if you just approach it that way, it's your job to lose. And right now, I don't think you're in a right frame of mind to accept it. He's going to be on this team. And number one, I don't owe an explanation to you and own an explanation to Mr. Rooney

about getting the best player that was available for this team for the future. Okay. Do we think McVeigh said, because McVey didn't talk to him? Tommy Maddox and Matthew Stafford are not. Let's get that. Let's get that. I was just talking about scenarios. I'm just talking about scenarios. Good story. Coach, I want to ask you this because, sorry, pal, I said,

when you look at it, when you look at it over the years, whenever there was a dispute, right, if there was an upset player, I always thought it was an upstairs, downstairs thing. Coaches are always going to saddle up to the player and say, hey, that's not me, that's upstairs. We're all together, downstress. You can make good cop, bad cop. Good cop's always going to be downstairs.

You make bad cop upstairs. The conversations you have in that room is you come out, there's got to be a consensus. Yeah. And that means there's not going to be someone conceding the fact that, okay, this is maybe not how I want this to unfold. But there's a bigger plan than this. And that's why he's since right now is we don't want to get stuck with Matthew Stafford and have no succession plan. Yeah. Because that's not a good place to be.

And I think you find a Ben Rothersberger has not really been a succession plan as you see where they are right now. So there's examples of why you would do something like that. But I go back to the same thing with like right now. You talk about where you were with Aaron Rogers. You're one play away from the Green Bay Packers will be in a Super Bowl. And you get Jordan Love. And so, you know, I do think that you have to capture the moment because these windows come and they do go.

And to me, again, I think it's a high price to play for a guy with a small body of work. Okay, on that note, 15 games played. He talks about over a six-year period. He won't even have a full NFL season worth of games playing. But a lot of practice. and we like where he was practicing. Alabama, we liked where he was, and we'll obviously love it with the Rams

if they welcome him in there. Sean McVeigh also has to believe in Stetson Bennett too, right? Like that's a lot of managing of how everybody feels in his time. Managing egos. Yeah. We're just for keeping everything. I know you're 13.

You talk about being a franchise quarterback tie. I love you, but you're going to have to be that number two first. Yeah, AJ, your question for DJ? Yeah, what about Delane going to the Chiefs? Was that a surprise for you to go six? We knew he was probably going to be the first corner taken, but going to six to just get Kansas City. I had them taking them just where they were. But I think because of the Jermad McCoy injury with the knee and the uncertainty there, to me, I thought those were the top two corners and then there was a gap.

And I thought Kansas City, we got to come away with one of these guys. And when you looked at the teams picking in front of them, there was an opportunity for them to take a corner. So, I mean, I think they wanted to eliminate it. Let's just eliminate the risk. Let's just go get them. Okay, Caden Proctor. Yeah. That was fascinating.

That was a very fascinating decision, especially with Bain was available. this is for the Dolphins. Bain, obviously, Miami legend. Caleb Don's, I believe, was still available. Caden Proctor, we had heard a lot of things about like being a pro. Be a pro, be a pro, be a pro, it wasn't that. But obviously the upside is crazy. Is that what we're thinking for the Miami Dolphins? When his weight's under control, he played really well. You saw that later in the season. But, I mean, the facts of the facts, he showed up at 390 pounds. He did not play well early in the season. So that concerned teams, but then you go through the process, he got himself in better shape. He had a good spring. You know, he'd going through the workout portion of.

of the spring. And I think teams just just saw the best of him. And that's why he ended up going where he, where he ended up going. Congrats to him. I'm excited for him. He can change the entire narrative. He can take all of this as the driver to make him the best pro he can possibly be. Tone has a question for you. Yeah, DJ. Last night kind of went how we thought it was with all the nine offensive linemen, which is tied for second most of all time. But the strength of the draft that everyone was talking about is maybe tonight. Second and third round. A lot of those corners didn't go last night. tens out Boston didn't go last night. D-tackles still out there. What do you think the story of tonight is? Yeah, I think you hit them. I mean, I think those are the big positions.

Like you see a big corner run early. There always is a lot of emphasis on that position at this point in the draft. Defensive tackles have been kind of dominated the second round. We saw two go in the first. So that was a little bit of a surprise. I thought there was a chance we wouldn't see any of them come off the board in the first round. So there's a couple of those guys. And there's so many wideouts.

I'm curious to see, even though you might have and I might have some of these guys rated here, if some of them have to wait a little bit just because they feel like if we miss on a we've got b c d and e we can get uh tie schmidt has a question he was not here last night for you there's water getting spilled off of the top of this tent uh onto a very important group of people right over there go ahead tie go ahead tye yeah DJ you just mentioned the d tackles uh the minnesota viking new GM yeah they take Caleb banks and i think a lot of people were kind of like well what's going on here was that the biggest outside of tie sims was that the biggest surprise of the first round and why do you think they ultimately went with him? Yeah, I mean, for me, I'd heard the whispers about it a couple days

talking to some of the information guys, so it wasn't a total shock. But he's the only player outside my top 50 that went in the first round. He was my 50 first overall player. He didn't play, you know, just a couple games. He's had the foot, the same foot injury twice now. And when you see him, I mean, he's a massive human being. He's got a lot in his body, a lot of talent there. But it's been a little bit up and down and you factor in the injuries.

That profile, you know, we talk about profiles. That's a second round profile. So from that standpoint, yeah, it was a surprise they rip it there at 18. Remember, though, if any of these guys play for five, 10 years, it's a success. There's going to be a lot of busts on that board from last night. That is what stats have shown us.

Tonight, there's going to be two rounds of dreams coming true. You'll be on the call on NFL Network. Ready to go, man. You guys have fun last night? Yeah, it was quick. Oh, yeah. It was quick, wasn't it? Did Orlowski have a draft party or no?

Yeah, right? This was his draft party? came up here, drank a couple beers, got hammered up, was walking around, was banging the microphone off the table. Just going, yeah, man. Yeah. He was so proud of himself. There he is. Look at him.

Yeah, what's up? As he thrust it on my table, I didn't see that. What's going on there? Well, we didn't really have a setup for him. We just asked him to come over because we had a hunch that it was going to happen during the day. It felt like everybody kind of heard about it. Yeah. And then Dan Rolovsky comes over.

Half chugs and Icy-Lyed mango, which obviously we have. It was more than half. You called him. I did because it wasn't the whole thing It was more than that. You don't come to Pittsburgh and not drink the whole beer. That's amazing. Thank you for

thank you, Pat, thank you, Pat. No problem. I had to find out, too. I mean, I've been a part of the beer. That's wasted beer. That's wasting beer. We don't do that in Pittsburgh. Whatever the case, we did celebrate the hell out of last night. I hope you did too.

We can't wait to watch it. I'm going to be making a couple picks tonight, maybe. Oh, nice. For the cold, so that should be a fun time. I'm looking forward. You set the bar high, so we'll see. I'll give you a shout out up there. Oh, you do?

I will. I don't know what I'm saying they take it the Colts shoot I don't know someone who's gonna stink probably no I mean you could they could go for they could go for a white out there Jeremy Bernard let's go there you okay we can't wait to watch you appreciate the hell out of you thanks buddy oh it's been awesome you're the best buddy you're the best buddy see you guys hey DJ thank you thank you buddy thank you buddy thank you buddy how come you didn't draft him he was quarterback out of Abstate no

how come he in draft day and Jeremiah. From where upstate? Yeah. Outstate plays good football. They do. I know. North Carolina.

How come you didn't? Oh, yeah, you love North Carolina. I do. I forgot about how much you love North Carolina. NC State especially. Yeah, and they're hockey teams down there. I like Carolina. Yeah, you do.

They're up to. Hey, hey, hey, where? Okay, we don't want to get down. Are you going to back itself? No, no, no. You're the city's coach. You just got reminded. You did a sign for the hurricanes.

That's go. Move on. Who's our next guest? Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest is a man who is obviously at the forefront of trailblazing for sports leagues across the globe, I would say. His model and blueprint is what every other league is going to try to follow. He's taking a sport that is obviously the best in the world and turned it into a worldwide's business sensation. Up and to the right is everything. Eyeballs, dollars, games, legends.

Ladies and gentlemen, alongside his beautiful bride, who's standing right over there, the commissioner of the NFL, Roger, good deal. Hey, do you, commission. Good to see you. Good to see you, sir. Oh, he's an honor.

He's a good guy. Knock it off. Shut off. Weird out. Yeah, DJ's really picky about where he sits. He's got to be on the three. You get it. You ran the NFL network for a while. You had to get calls for him. Congratulations on that deal. Also, congratulations on 300 and what, 20,000. Congratulations.

That's for them. That's for them. Yeah. Okay, so Radio City Musical, Books or Rockettes event. They kick you out. They say you have to do the draft somewhere else. You'd been there forever. Obviously, we all remember the theater. We remember the Jets and Giants fans. Yeah. Now getting to do this. We ask you this every year because it seems to get bigger and bigger, and it definitely did here yesterday. Is it all surreal that this is what your draft is? You're walking on there with a cart. And there's 300,000 people. We're here. I mean, the amount of everything. You mean, why do I wonder what they're doing out there? No. Are you excited about where it's at? And it's only going to grow and get bigger. And it is a great time. Pittsburgh, okay, two hours, 53 minutes. Great choice, right? Yes, definitely. Football. town two hours 53 minutes a lot of boozing there was no fights no that is the most abnormal Pittsburgh thing all time it was like a celebration of ball and I think you deserve a lot of credit for making this into what it is whenever you see last night like what are your thoughts immediately

and how pumped are you for the league you know I really think the what the for any credit it's the fans it was just bringing it to the fans and once you brought it to the communities they just wrapped their arms around it and they made it theirs ultimately And this is the ultimate fan event. It's free. Everyone can come down. There's a sense of pride here in Pittsburgh, as you know, that we can do this and we can show off our community. So to me, it's just, it is when you look out there and you say, I can't believe it's gotten this big.

And then every year it gets bigger. It's fun. It puts a smile on your face. I don't know if you've seen DMX. What concert was that where he looks like. Glassenberry? And then obviously Queen at that. Wembley.

Wembley back there. The Queen and Wembley. Hey, there's not a lot of people that with a microphone are commanding a 300,000 person audience. Yeah, but they can sing. I'm just talking. That's bad. Yeah, but you did well.

I think there was no flubs last night. You also dropped the yins early, which I thought was a good play. But I think what we have learned through this entire process is you have a lot of history in this area. Obviously, Washington and Jefferson, about 20 minutes southwest of here is where you went to school. But you also spent some time here in Pittsburgh.

I didn't know your ties to the area. Has it been special to get back here and have you reminisced it? It has. Yeah, actually I came in Tuesday night and had dinner with some buddies. And actually the guy who owned the bar that I used to work at. So I got a chance to celebrate with them a little bit on Tuesday, which was fun. Because I don't think any of us would imagine. One, we'd be here for a draft in Pittsburgh.

And I'd be working for the NFL. I mean, that's like, it's surreal, right? Running the NFL, yeah, working. Oh, you mean the NFL? It's working for me? No, not that. I mean, it's working for all of us, I would like to say. Yeah, we are very grateful for what the game has provided, sir.

It's certainly your league. So you worked at a bar here. In Washington. It's cool. What were you, a barback? You're a bouncer? I was a bartender. Well, you have to do everything.

You have to stock. You have to bartend. You have to bounce. You have to do everything. Okay, then how do you just pipeline from that bar to the NFL? Is that kind of how this works? You know, I often say, honestly, a bartender was one of the best experience I had working. Because you have to learn how to deal with people in unusual circumstances.

And uncontrollable experiences sometimes, right? But it taught me a lot. So I actually really treasure that experience. I'm happy you got to meet up with the boys from college. Go back to the bar where you pour drinks and have you. have a good time. And obviously this takes place. Let's talk about some of the stories around the league, shall we? Yeah.

Tyson. Ty, sorry, not Tyson. Tyson getting hurt, getting drafted at five or whatever, good for him or six, whatever it is. Ty Simpson get drafted, obviously, a big storyline. The bigger storyline for your league, what are we doing with these refs? Huh? This is a big deal. This is a big deal.

This is the biggest deal. We, they coach, definitely, he has his highlights with refs. You've seen them. You guys run him in NFL films. I've seen that. We've had a few conversations over the years. We've talked about this many times. But players and coaches, I think players and coaches and obviously league people,

but people associated with the league, I think, understand the importance of refs more than anybody else. Careers are changed. Families have to move because of missed calls and everything like that. Refing is a terribly difficult job. We all agree with that. But I think the reason why our show focuses on is so much because they're so important. And what happened with those replacement refs, I think is not good.

I like that you're preparing ahead of time for this, getting them trained. where do we sit with that and what are like I mean we got some real fears that some guy who's refing maybe in the science center over there who's doing a football thing is going to be refing in the NFL again like when replacement reps happen how what is kind of the state of all listen the number one thing is we definitely want an agreement with the officials we're not we're not itching for a lockout what we are trying to do though is make our officials more accountable get the best performers on the field and make officiating better ultimately that's what you want because when the real officials show up and they make a mistake,

you're going to say the same thing. And so we've got to get the best officials out there, train them. If they can't officiate at this level, we want to be able to make changes. And we don't want to put people out there that aren't ready to be able to officiate at this level. So those are the real key issues for us, performance. And I'm hopeful that we're going to get there without going to a lockout. That's, you know, that's something we've got to be prepared for because we're not going to stop the season. How abnormal is it that the players and coaches are on your side in a CBA negotiation?

And they can't publicly come out and say that. Obviously, the Players Association has come out and be like, we hope their union gets them everything they need. But the players and coaches are also like, yeah, accountability would be pretty good in this entire process. It's an interesting negotiation for you, I assume. Yeah, but I think even the fans are in favor of having better officiating, right? I know, but we've got to have technology with this. This game is so fast. We coach and I talk about all the time.

You know, you're going to have mistakes on the field. So how do we use technology to be able to correct that so that we do get the right outcome? And we don't have people losing jobs because of the wrong cross. Can I just, I mean, I said, you know, we have the challenge system. Yeah. And I know we've talked about the fact that we can't throw a flag down with the challenge system. challenge. But if you give one review, one review per game, and a review means we can review the whole play,

which then we can obviously then throw a flag. Has that been talked about as possibly an option to correct that one mistake that's there? Keep the challenge, two challenges and one review. ABS. And you're right, Coach, but here I'm going to go back to the same thing, which you would ask as a coach, are you just challenging one aspect of the play or anything that happens in that play. Anything that happens in that play.

And I think I, because I think, again, that's the one review that you would have. And so you can't sit there and talk about at play being missed. So I'm talking about a review where you can throw a flag because we're going to review it. For any call. Any call.

What about holding on the offensive lines? Yeah, on the backside. Some minor call, you want to be able to reverse it? No, you review it. You're reviewing the call for what the obvious air was. Okay, but what's the obvious errors? Well, I guess. I know.

And again, I'm sure you have to work out what those stipulations, what those guidelines are. Welcome to Coach Goodell-Cardarder conversation. Love it. But I do think in terms of what you're saying, we don't want the face mask in the end zone. We don't want the big hit on the sideline. These are the obvious errors. And so I'm just saying from a review standpoint, you have one, we're not slowed down the game. And you're going to have to pick and choose it.

I think you can talk about. Well, when you're going to use it, you're going to save that review for a big play in the fourth quarter of a game. Figure it out, Roger. That's the way it usually ends up, Pat. Put him in charge. Okay. You know what? I think if you could isolate the things that you would reverse or you could throw a flag down for, that's the possibility.

And then maybe you expand it at some point in time, but you got to get it in. And this year, you guys are allowing New York. I believe if there is replacement reps to be able to assist. I think that's a good trial run to see what happens in the future. You guys are very much like a let's see and then we'll maybe expand or get rid of. I think you've always been ahead of that. I'm excited to see if it works. Get a deal done, Roger.

We need them. But we need them to be better too. Get that deal done. All those things. Another deal. Just do that. And we've got to be able to throw a flag with the fish out. Well, listen, you need to definitely handle what Coach Cowher's saying.

Last thing for me and then the boys obviously have all their questions, assortment of 18 games seems inevitable. Okay, nine games are just announced, I believe, international. Congratulations. Australia, you're all the way over there. The game is growing at this massive rate. Obviously, streamers and platforms want games. Congrats, I think, on the YouTube deal with the five extra Monday night football games

that you were able to get done. You can create any game that you want and be able to sell it. 18 games, are you going to add a buy week in there? Do you think the 18 games is going to get past? And how do you resist the urge of just creating new primetime games that you can get billions of dollars for all the time?

Like, how do you, manage what's the right Black Friday game, Wednesday afternoon game, Thursday night game, Australia game, like how do you balance what's the right play, knowing that everybody wants your shit right now and those are the players aren't going to want too much.

Yeah, one, safety has to be the primary concern, right? If you can't do it safely for our players, we're not going to do it. And that's why I would say it's not inevitable. Two is, I think this is the same issue when we went from 16 and 4 to 17 and 3. We

did it successfully because we did it with the players. We had taken on a lot of initiatives to make our game safer, and I think we did. And I don't hear from our players. They're not talking about 16 and 4 or 17 and 3. So I think when you get to that point, double buys will be a question. Roster sizes will be a question. All of those things are going to be really important to consider, to balance both with the players' association and with the competition committee so that we can do it really successfully. But listen, I, you know, I've been critical of our preseason. I don't think it's the kind of standard that we should be putting out there. I think season structure, that includes the offseason, that includes everything up to training camp, and the season and the postseason.

We should be looking at that all the time, evaluating what's good, what's bad, what can we make better? And I think there's still improvements in doing that, obviously reducing preseason to be the top of my list. Every team have an international game. I think Kraft came out and said that at the league meetings, that that is potentially an initiative. Nine across the world right now, including, I don't know if you can get further and play a football game, maybe Fiji.

I don't know if you're able to put a game there, but obviously in Australia, every team's going to have an international game and how many more markets? If we went to the 18, you could do that easily enough, where everybody plays an international game every year. How do you pick the markets? Because, like, for our YouTube show, obviously we get exact how old, who, where, what country.

Yeah, the data you get on the fans and where they're watching and how much they're watching and how they're engaging. Playing the game over there. When we were over in Australia two weeks ago, we put 42,000 tickets on sale. They were gone in less than an hour. We couldn't process them that fast. And it's 100,000 seat stadium. We pre-sold 35, so we've got another 20,000 that will go in a flash. So they want to see a lot.

the game. We're big gun flag football, as you know, as a global sport. It's a great way to get people involved with the game and understand the game, understand the strategy, particularly young women, but also international fans who really don't understand the game yet. Easier to play flag. Definitely. Just put a couple flags down, put a football down, draw a line, figure it out, kids. It's a lot cheaper and it's more accessible. But it's a pretty, those are athletes out there. Oh, he saw that line. Yeah. I don't like that. I don't like what he does. did. I don't like what he did to your league. I don't like that at all. I don't

think it was a reflection in our league. I think it's a different game. I think what it demonstrated is a different game. Were the boys told that? The other boys, the USA football team? No, forget the USA football. Good luck out there. We need you to win a gold. Yeah. Okay, and you're going to our boys. Our guys. Our guys.

We may not have had the right rosters out there. Right? We didn't understand the game. Were they told like, hey, you're about to get your asses beat by this team? I don't know if they believe that and I'm not sure I could have told you that we wouldn't believe that either I think we got the world's greatest athletes but I got to tell you I was impressed with those kids yeah and you see the way they dip and they move and their hips man I'll tell you

what different game the run the run the run now let's see you dip well the penthouse the penthouse to the outhouse move that's the one that's the one they'll be able to ping bang at full speed yeah yeah yeah and then Jaylen At one point, is like enough of this. We are good at that game. Oh, yeah. We are very good. And we need to win that goal.

But I like the development. I like the growth. It's all going to be considered under your leadership, though. So I'm happy that it is all working. But also, you should look in the mirror sometime and be like, man, you took the best sport on earth for being a bartender at one point. Jack and die, it's pretty good. Do you have a heavy hand? How was your?

I was real good at that. Yeah. For the lads. Bigger tips. It was one of those bars that during the day, it was a beer and a shot. And at night it got to be, you know. Yeah, yes. A lot of smoking in there, yeah.

Yeah, there was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, what you've been able to do to the game, we all appreciate. You talked about 18 games roster sizes. Coach has a question for you. Yeah, I was just talking about, you know, and I think the roster size,

Roger Grin and I have 53 Regers on the roster and 17 practice squad. And I know it's 48 with eight offensive linemen. I mean, what is the number in your mind that would be something that we would expand the roster to if we can make that next step. You know, Coach, I don't think we've gotten to that point yet, honestly. I think that's going to balance a lot of issues. I think part of it's going to be how many activations are there. What happens on injured reserve?

You know, how fast can we move players from practice squad to the rosters and how many times we can do that? There's a lot of things I think that have to be considered in that. But I think there's still going to be, is going to be very conservative. I think I'm 50. Well, you got 53 now. So would you go to 55? Or you talk about active.

Active, active. Yeah, I don't see it more than two or three. Okay. It sounds like you're doing a little public posture. What are you thinking? Well, I'm just saying with more games, I think a player's body only has so many reps in it. And I would like those reps. And if you have a chance through the course of a game, not to have someone maybe sit for an extra week.

So we have their best sense of a football team in January and December. because we only have 48, these guys are having to play with minimal injuries, but they with injuries get more and more without rest. Having more players takes away the reps on the field. I've always said this before. That's why I used to shut down games and run the ball with the lead. A player only has so many reps in his body through the course of a season.

And I would rather that body be healthy and ready to go in January than in the month of November. Yeah, Raj. No, I don't disagree with that. But I think players are really greatest. watching their bodies, getting ready for the season, understanding the rhythm, the pace of it. I think coaches are getting better at managing that.

But the competitive guys, to me, feel like they're letting down their teammates. So they will not come off the field. Did you feel like you're letting down the fans when you want to prevent defense and we all had to snooze and have heart attacks for two quarters? Yeah, Coach. So, yeah, did I tell you what my record was

when I had a lead of 11 points or more through the course of any point in the game? What was it? 11 points or more at any point in the game. because I guess I would shut it down and run the ball it happened to be 106 one-in-one okay so he tells me that I am the playing prevent defense I am preventing us from fucking losing you're right that's your job hundred and six one and one what happened on the one and one well the one I can

tell you about the one and one because Dick LeBoe was coaching the Cincinnati Bengals I would not sign him back and we went there and we had a was snap that came from the snapper went through the holder's hands. Not me. It was a special team player. Stop looking at me. Okay. Okay. See? And the one was Michael Vic and Dan Reeves

and we caught a pass at the one-yard line with Plexico Burroughs caught the pass and we didn't have scores. So it was a tie in overtime. Now on that note, Michael Vic, you were playing prevent defense again? What a stupid what season that was. That was so dumb.

What are you going to do? Run everybody in your end zone? Michael Vickson. Just go deep and let him run, Coach. I like that. I remember watching those games. I remember. I'm getting criticized for the one tie I had. Yeah, I was here for it.

My dad, you should see my day. Drew is a remote. Let's get back to the league, please. It's more fun picking on coach. You have no idea. Can I just tell you one story? So we're playing Tokyo. Okay.

And Mr. Rudy goes, it was. We're sitting at the league meeting meetings. Mr. Rooney goes, hey, I think they want to play in Tokyo. I go, Mr. Rooney, we don't need an extra game. In Tokyo is so far. I sit next to Roger at the dinner. He goes, I go, I go, Taguant says to playing Tokyo.

No, he goes, I go, it's a long flight. He goes, no, if you go over the top, it's really short. I go, really? He goes, yeah, it's not that bad of a flight. I'm going, okay. So I go, I go, I go, we'll play. Because Roger told me it's not that bad of a flight. He goes, okay.

He goes, we'll have to stop in Ireland. They go, no, no, Mr.oney, just go over the top. He goes, you can't go over the top. I go, fucking Roger. Did you already say yes? He goes, yeah, we already said yes. I go, I already negotiated. He was planting seeds.

He was playing seeds. Let's get the crafting dumbass here. Earth's round. Don't be one of those flat earther guys. It's so quick. Go ahead. By Santa Claus. Hey, just next question.

Okay. AJ has a question for you. This is one of I believe Coach Cowers is pretty passionate about as well, the tush push. Is that something that you continue to look at? Coaches continue to talk to. How much feedback are you getting?

beginning with that. And I'd like to get Coach Cowher's opinion as well on what he feels about this play. We've had this conversation too. You know what? It got very little conversation this year. The competition committee, I don't remember them even bringing it up. Honestly, it may have got a short conversation. It did not come up at the league meeting. So I think people are looking at it and we're going to see it as part of the game. You almost do have an injury, right? I mean, I hate to say it that way, but it's not been, there's been, there's been, No injury before. That's what was presented earlier, yeah.

I mean, really. No, listen, we're concerned about the injury rate with that massive humanity going in there. But at the end of the day, we haven't seen the numbers. Let's hope we don't see them. I didn't like that that was the discussion around our league either. I didn't like that the push push is what had everybody jacked up. Now the success rate's going down, maybe because Jason Kelsey is literally everywhere else but on a football field. But the Eagles not winning the Super Bowl this year.

I think it's also a reason you put it to bed. Tone has a question for you, Commission. Yeah, Commissioner, I always tend to ask you where the next draft is going to be. Obviously, D.C. next year, but the one after that, no, you're not going to answer that. But how long is the list of cities now trying to line up to get the draft? And what is it compared to the list of cities trying to get to the Super Bowl? Good question, Tone. So there were 10 cities here scouting Pittsburgh doing this draft.

So that tells you what the year's a long list. It's a long list. And I think it's because more cities can actually host the draft than they can Super Bowl. The Super Bowl has gotten to a point where it's not the stadium size. Weather. Weather is an issue. But also it's just hotel rooms. All the other facilities are necessary.

This is slightly easier, but it's getting more difficult. And so the draft, you know, the bar is being raised. And we're going to probably have to start allocating the drafts a little further. in advance because you need to hold the hotel rooms you need to hold the facilities i mean look at this is a great location yeah but it's also got great facilities here you don't have this in every city yeah i think mitsburg's excited for it i'll tell you what the locals are us included we're a little bit worried about how you anybody was going to get here and then last night you know the population of pittsburgh's like 303 000 or so so they're being 320 some thousand

who are those 17 000 yeah i don't know how i heard everybody got here, but we are certainly pumped for the weather. Yeah, but don't forget, there's one of the great factor for this community. It is accessible to so many NFL markets. So we saw a lot of fans out there from other cities, which is also great for this community. Yeah, absolutely. That's why Indianapolis would be a phenomenal host. Oh, yeah.

Ty has a question for you, Commish. Yeah, a couple years removed from the dynamic kickoff now. And, you know, Coach Cowher was telling us last night how much he loves the new kickoff, loves everything about it, loves the way it looks. for anyone who still doesn't really like it, I assume all the data that's there, everything's good, and is that kind of like, hey, if you don't like it,

this is kind of what we're sticking with for the time being, or is that still being tweaked a little bit? So we did tweak it this year. It was really just more on the formation side of it, but we think it's going to help because we're always looking to see, can we make it safer? The only two players that we didn't get the kind of safety we wanted

were the returner and the tackler. And a lot of that was technique. We had some bad technique on some of those concussions on the kickoff. But also, we think the formation might help where we can get a blocker over there, and it might help shield that a little bit. But listen, we brought 1,100 returns back into the game, an exciting play. I think it's hard for people to adjust visually. You look at it and you go...

There's no line of scrimmage. Yeah, what's going on here? Yeah. And the president always says, the ball's in the air, nobody's moving. And I get it. But I think you visually get used to that after. I mean, it's a year, and I'm not. I think people got used to it for the end of the season.

33-yard extra point was also weird. Now it's just natural. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. So, and listen, I know you'll agree with me. I hope you will. Despite coach ripping it.

Special teams belong as part of the game. He's special team's guy. I know. I know. I agree. Yeah. It's part of the game. You were wrapping them because that was one of your game.

The special teams lost your one. It did cost you one game. It was hitting Yardie, Jeanette, and the return game is a part of it right now. And so I listen, I'm all for the return. Again, I go back to the same thing. No, I know you are. I know you are. But I think it brought all the special teams back in.

I think so. And if it, if you want it the other way, I mean, all the special teams would have immediately started getting cut. You put a spotlight back on it. It does look weird for sure. I think we all agree with that. But that's been a kickoff drill in practice for NFL teams for a hundred years. Let's save the legs.

Let's not run as far. So there's only going to get better and better, I think, as you guys continue to evolve. Thank you for that. We got to get out of here at a hardout in like a minute and a half. No, you have a busy day. I'd like to commend you for 10 minutes to eight minutes, two hours, 53 minutes last night. Feels like you found your stride. I think all the networks, ourselves included, are going to have to figure out the new, right?

Because when a draft pick happens, okay, we got a video feature, we got a conversation, we got an analyst, we got a story. Yeah, you got a lot to get in. So now, I think with how it's going to be, which I think we all like, by the way, 253, just have to adjust it a little bit. I think what you did was special. I think last night was sweet. The show was incredible. I think you felt the same, yeah?

Yes, the pace was much better. And listen, it didn't seem to hurt trading. No. We had a lot of trades. And that was, I think, a worry of some of the clubs. But the end of the day, you know, I think Coach McCarthy said it really well. He said, I got to make a decision on my play in 40 seconds. 100%.

I could not agree, Roger. I think it was the best thing you could have done. I think all those places right now makes you have to make a decision, you know, sit there and wait whether or not you want to wait to see a phone comes. It's going to come. A lot of the conversations are taking place, of course, of the day and the day before, because they know right now on that day you've got to make a decision. Yeah.

I thought it was fun, man. I thought you guys did a great job. It was great. Well, did I see your first draft was six hours? The first round was six hours. That would McCarthy put out, I think, in the tweet. In 2007, it was first time? B-MAC, was it six hours?

six hours. The first round, his first draft, it's right there in the tweet. Holy shit. That's what, those are Mike and Mike. No, Mad Dog. That might have been 15 minutes. Was that 15 minutes?

It's probably 15. I think it was 15 minutes. That's crazy. Six hours for one round? Yes. I'll tell you what, the first one we did seven years ago, it felt like it was like a 10-hour show.

Last night flew by. It was a blur. Like we were at, and it felt like 23 to 32 was just very quick. That's where it really sped up, by the way. And on that note, your suit looked. Yeah. Immaculate.

Like a president last night. Perfect. Yeah. I think you did it. Hey, I think you really did it. Hey, how's your back anyway? Nobody gave you a big hug or anything? Like, like, there were a couple that got to me, but it was all right.

You were like you kind of trained for this. They were less big boys last night, I think. At 10 of, how many, there was three guards? How did you feel about Fernando not coming to one deal with his family? I felt like he was the right decision. I understood what he was doing. I respect that. Listen.

But it is kind of the, hey, you're, getting welcomed into, you know, it's an interesting dynamic for you probably. It is, but you know, you have to respect the considerations that he had with his family. And I totally get that, totally get that. I think the Vegas Raiders got a good one. I did appreciate seeing his whole family celebrate. There was a couple clips that people put out. It was like, well, he got a call and then it was announced on TV.

Yes. So it's two different moments. I think people are attacking them. But what the draft has become is special. I think people are honored to be here. There was a guy that didn't get draft last night. He was staying for tonight, right? He's coming back.

I talked to him last night. Great kid. Great kid. He's excited to come back. The make-a-wish stuff, I think, was really good. I mean, it was a great show last night. You made Dylan a star. He couldn't be happy.

The Taps family, the Giants. When you were telling his story, Dylan, and he said he's a two-time. I've never seen somebody flexed that. Two-time. Two-time. Like, that was good, that was good mom. He's from Ohio, as you could have guessed.

He's a great kid. Yeah, he's awesome. I thought he was going to eat. that microphone. Wiz Khalifa, Brett Michaels tonight. I assume there's more surprises. I'll be making the Colts pick. A bunch of people are going to be making picks for their teams.

I'm going to give you a good name tonight. We're going to test you tonight. You know what happened last time? Uh-uh. What did you have? The guy changed his name entirely, like three years into his career. And they run my clip. I look like the biggest asshole of all the time.

Bobby O'Kareki. Oh. Out of Stanford is how it was. Three years into his career, I think he changed it to, Bobby O'Caricay, which is proper pronunciation, I do believe, from that. So everybody, as soon as he announces that, he said, I just would like people call me the right name. Immediately, I get sent out there. This is how asked. Yeah, exactly. This is how people have been disrespecting him. His entire culture,

I'm like, well, I read a card. I read a card. You do a great job. By the way, that's out there still. When Brett Farber was announced, it was Brett Farba, as I recall, right? So, and I always remember that. You never want bad to happen. Oh, it's the biggest day of people's lives. And I appreciate the fact that you seemingly still understand that for everybody. After everything you work at it. Yeah. I got a lot of help back there. Let's just put that way. It's awesome. Incredible team. B-Mac looks fit too. I mean, look at him. Well, let's not go too far. He's a power player. He's say, hey, man, you want to go donate $100,000 of some local charity with a field bowl kick in inside? Sure, it is. Screw it.

Probably do it. Honor to be here. Thankful to be here. You guys have taken over the city. You made an incredible festival. Everything you do is big and it's an honor to watch you work. How long? How much longer are you doing this for? How much long you just have a new deal? You talked to that young lady over there. How long? How long? How long? My white Jane is in charge of that one. She's the best, by the way. Absolutely. But how long. Is it former? I forget. I don't even pay attention to that. I'm just focusing on the job, Pat. It's like a player. Sounds like a player.

As long as I can get to the line of scrimmage, I'm going. So you're good. You keep dodging everything else. You're still pretty long. When we have our dinner, we won't be dodging. Yeah. Except when the check comes. Yeah, that's when he dodges. We saw that.

I know. Ladies and gentlemen, the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell. Thank you, guys. Thanks, buddy. As we head to a heart out here on ESPN on this Feel Good Friday, around two, around three of the NFL draft happening this evening here in beautiful pitch. Pennsylvania. The next hour, Curtis Martin, what a legend. Sir. God, it's an honor to see you, dude. Appreciate you, man. Yeah, great to see you. The stars are out, the legends are out. The next generation

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outside of Accresher Stadium as we continue to celebrate. the next generation of the NFL. See some familiar faces down here. And I was like to say for some of them, you're starting too early, bud. You are starting way too early, coach. You're starting way too early down there. Tox the tables here at Boston.

Connor and that Ty Schmidt, boys, good to see you. Con man, I see you with the Kenny Wood's quarters. It feels like we've been here for a year. Yeah. It has been fantastic. Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, Pittsburgh is just one of those cities. It's very easy to fall in love with Kenny Wood from the start was incredible.

And then just experiencing all the people. I feel like there's been multiple times where we've just run into, whether it be someone at the hotel, someone at the restaurant, at the tap room down there at the Omni. Like the accent needs to be known more. I didn't know the Pittsburgh accent until I actually started working with you guys and knowing what Pittsburgh is all about. It is comedy. I mean, I will think about going to Crafton and going to Serafino's for so long, just the interactions. I mean, at one point a guy came in shook Bill Cowher's hand. Words were said that I didn't even understand.

And then it just ended with those interactions. You don't get it like everywhere. Boston is a very similar place. So naturally I'm drawn to Pittsburgh. But even just going around and just salt to the earth people, man. It really has been incredible start to finish. That's Joe Coguar. He's the owner of Serafino's.

He's from crafting. Obviously Bill Cower from crafting, a part of Pittsburgh. It's about four miles up over that hill over there. He has a lane that was behind his house where he grew up called Cower Way now. They wanted to give him a bridge. They wanted to give him another street. He said, I didn't do nothing on that bridge. I got stuff in the back of my house here.

So we got a chance to really experience a Bill Cower reunion with Pittsburgh. He's certainly been welcomed back here. As have we, Ty. It has been a fascinating thing. It really does feel like this city, this city knows us, I think. It is a very fascinating thing. Being from here. Okay. I used to roam this parking lot.

Yeah. Having a, I mean, many a time. Having a great time. I mean, that's Science Center that we did the event at, every kid in Pittsburgh took a field trip to as a child. We run it the whole place out and had it. It was like, this has been a fever dream. Kenny Wood.

We had our own, Kenny would picnic. That's the wildest. Yeah, exactly. That's a lot of all. All of it's been the wild. Coach Coward is hanging out with us. Yep. I mean, it has been a fever dream.

And I think we all have felt it, right? It's not just me in tone that have kind of experiences alongside Nick. No, absolutely. And I think, you know, watching the football time not being from here, like, it gives you kind of an idea how much pride. I mean, everyone has pride in where they're from. But like that kind of just took it to another level. And that was a nice little precursor for the week. And it's crazy to say, but it seems like, you know, God is smiling down upon Pittsburgh this week with how nice the weather has been. Like you said that before we came out here, you know, it's like, hey, I know you guys are looking at the weather. It says 72 to 80 and sunny. Like, it's going to rain. Okay. It's going to rain. It's going to rain. bunch. So just kind of jot that down. That's going to happen. And it hasn't. This has been, of all the drafts we've done, you know, and it was very special for me last year being in Green Bay and everything.

But the way Pittsburgh showed out, the weather, how much fun last night was, like, they've hit it out of the park. This has been an incredible week. I got emotional last night, Don. There's a couple different times where I looked that way, and there's just a sea of yinzers. Just a sea of yinzers, having

a good time together. Like, literally, I think that is something that we try to promote. We would like everybody to just have a good time. It's why we like sports. Sports are a place where people come together, all different backgrounds, and have a good time. Now, that good time can become terrible. Especially if you're like a Dolphins fan or something.

Relax. Guys addicted to Coca-Cola. That's what they're saying. But watching Yins is coming together the way, watch our city get kind of showcased the way it has been, and then finding out, you know, that Raj has actual yins are ties spend five years here before he went to the NFL I think he worked for one of the steel mills yeah wasn't in the steel mill but he did that part I mean it's just like this has been a

special couple of days I got emotional last night a little bit yeah I did too when we first walked up here when we first got here and you just kind of look out I got I got chills I got goosebumps because before we did this I would have been one of these injures standing out here just hammered drunk yelling things at you guys that would that literally would have been what I was doing so I was like that like it was it was odd it was cool super cool to see the city looks beautiful everyone's been awesome yeah I normally like when we're in cities like this and we have any downtime taking some time to myself in the room yes I actually got got out by myself and walked around like it just felt really cool to be home and like just to feel it again it was awesome wrestling mania was like five

days ago or something like yeah so it's obviously been quite a blur but a j Pittsburgh has kind of won you over it feels like huh you feel like you're a yinser now uh as opposed to an oh higher bomb? I wouldn't want to disrespect the Jensers by claiming to be a Jenser, but I feel like I understand them a little bit more, being here, spending some time. I've been, you know, I've played in Pittsburgh. I've got plenty of friends from Pittsburgh. I have friends from the Youngstown area who they definitely identify a lot.

Yes, they do. A lot of the Pittsburgh things are Penns fans, pirates fans. But no, it's like a, it feels like a one big family here. That's what I think Pittsburgh is. A big family that is communicates. Yeah, you may fight a little bit, may argue a little bit back and forth, but they fight hard, they love hard. I love everything about it.

We've had a good time. And to be honest, haven't been able to really go out. Which was a little bit of a worry. Because restaurants were like, we're not actually packed to the girls. Then there were some places, some hotels were like, we're only at 70% occupancy or 80% occupancy or something. And you listen to Frank, he goes, $800.

Yeah. Yeah, right. For what? I'm not going down time for $800. I was worried. I was very worried. Penn thought, and I said this in the first hour. learners putting signs up on the highways it said a parkway okay kind of just goes through time okay

it's the one that is the tunnel the tunnels are connected by the parkway okay that is the two lanes in two lanes out on either side to the south hills through fort pit to the east hills through squirrel hill okay the parkway is that the signs on the parkway facing both ways saying don't don't think about just don't you know what's about to happen signs are saying that on the road Pull over, get out of your car, walk him. That was kind of code red was basically the statement. 320 some thousand. There was a lot of injures because you saw him after the pick was made last night.

How many? Gone. So tonight should be special. I love that the NFL draft has become such a big deal. I like that we are a part of it. How long would be a part of it? We'll see. Getting signed up for some stuff that I just found out about this morning.

I don't necessarily always love that type of shit. trying to balance right now. It's been good to me. It is Pittsburgh. They've been good to me. That would be a terrible three hours of my life. At least. But sounds like you've already said it's going to happen.

Don't love that type of stuff. But it's a part of the festival. So, like, I am lucky and thankful that we're here and appreciative of the city kicking ass. You mentioned something there, which we certainly have to talk. The NFL draft, the rating is going to be higher than anything. else that's happening right now. There's going to be more interest, more discussion, because that's what the NFL is right now. We're in playoff season right now. And tonight is actually a massive

evening for all of the con man. I didn't get a chance to see it. We, none of us got a chance to really watch playoff anything last night as we were plugged in. Shreger was actually raw dog in this entire thing without his entire time. Playoffs, though, very active right now, Conman. Yeah, and you just mentioned the ratings. I believe the first games for the Penguin series against the fires, the Bruins series against the Sabers. And I want to say the wild. Wild Series against the stars. All those games were up over 100% from the year before. I think the Penn's got over 2 million people.

But yeah, to your point, that series isn't going great. There really isn't too many great NHL series right now. I think there's three of them that are 3-0. Penn's Flyers. Flyers were up 3-0. Unfortunately, we just have to talk about. The Carolina Hurricanes are up 3-0. Yeah, we have the graphic here.

And then also, I think it's the avalanche. Yep, up-3-0. on the Kings. Bruins lost last night. That's just going to happen. I got a couple game three's coming. The spacing of the games has been weird. Utah tonight, this will be the debut of the Utah

mammoth in the playoffs, home opener. Salt Lake City kind of gets to show out a little bit. Lightning Canadians, both of those games have gone to OT. That should be a great one. Oilers Ducks, also surprising. McDavid, not just kind of run in rough shop against everybody.

That'll be a good series. And then basketball, Kind of the same thing, except the other way. We thought it was going to be, hey, a bunch of blowouts, 3-0, something like that for a bunch of teams. No, no. The Raptors got a victory last night against the Cavs. That one was huge. The New York Knicks are down two to one against the Atlanta Hawks.

Oh, oh. Soldier Boy came out just in the middle of some random timeout in the second quarter last night. What are you saying? Soldier Boy of Big Miss? Oh, yeah. You know what he said? Yeah, everybody would. Watch me cranking.

Watch me roll. Yeah, they were cranking it like Shrakes. Water. Ooh. Super. What year was that? 2005. Maybe six.

Yeah, it's college for sure. That just took me back. Yes. Say this. On a table. But Nick's down to one. It's crazy. Kind of the story.

The nuggets are down to one to the wolves. And man showing up. Like, the NBA first round, as much as we kind of dogged it, has been much better thus far. The spacing of the games, again, is weird Lakers Rockets, Game 3, Celtics, Sixers, game three, game three, game three, even though it started, you know, over the weekend,

you would think that'd be a little further along. Wemby traveled, is he playing? Do we know? Wemby, the spread would say Wembe probably isn't playing because it's only two and a half, and he bopped his head off the ground, harder than anybody in the history of basketball. But we'll see on Amazon tonight. Tonight is the playoffs, I think,

first time since the playing debacle. I don't know if we'll see it, but others should. Yeah, definitely. We will certainly keep up with it through the highlights and the scores. Second and third round of the NFL draft is going to outrate everything. Yeah, no doubt. This weekend, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh rounds. Those are going to do massive numbers. Because it could be anybody, AJ.

When you think back to last night, Caleb Downs, obviously the Cowboys, we think is huge. Arval Reeves going at some point, obviously a big deal. Buckeye is kind of getting pushed sunny styles to the commanders. I think that is a gigantic play. When you think about all the decisions that were made, which franchise do you think actually changed last night? Vegas Raiders? Who may. Hey, obviously, that's an easy answer because they draft what we all think is the quarterback of the future.

How many games he wait behind Kirk Cousins before he gets to play? I guess that's kind of what we're all waiting on. Kirk Cousins knows this offense. Didn't really know the Atlanta offense. So I think there is a little bit of a resurgence potential for Kirk Cousins out there. David Bailey, the Jets not having any leaks. Yeah. Sports books were wrong.

That's crazy. Sports books have all the leaks you would think because they're obviously. the most at risk, I guess, for having information. So they are aggregating every piece of information from every insider. They had no idea. That's very abnormal, I think, for the Jets organization as a whole. I think that's a good sign for them as a whole. Go ahead, Aydette.

I like the Jets with Kenyon Sadeke and Omar Cooper Jr. You talk about adding some offensive firepower. That's what they need. And is everyone already saying, hey, they're going to be terrible this year, but we're working for 2027. Yes, pretty much. That's legit. I mean, obviously.

First round fix next year, too. Obviously in the building, the head coach, the other assistants, the GM, they're not saying that. The players still feel like they have a chance, but I feel like they absolutely got better last night. Now, once again, you can't really judge a draft until two, three, four years down the road, I guess. Yeah, I, no, we judge right. You know how, like, you know, guys had tattoos. When I was coming up, guys had tattoos, only God can judge me. And I'd say, that's true, but I can too.

We're all judging you as well. Like, a couple of my buddies had them misspelled as well, so that was another judgment. Yeah. Okay, so let's go to a clip here from last night. Tone, I can't wait to get your take on it out also. I don't know if you guys can't see anything right? Can you see? Can they hear? Can you hear? You can hear? Oh, all right. I'm excited to get your guys' opinions on this situation from last night, which has the injures in a stir. Hey, why, Philly color. Okay, so. I don't like that guy. What? Okay. That agent? Two. That agent? He looks like a scumbat. Yeah, so I think a lot of Jensers think that Omar gets played here and the Eagles beat them again. I've gotten text message during this show saying, are you going to talk about Omar getting beat by the Philadelphia Eagles? Who said that?

I don't want to give exact names right now. They were at the event the other night, though, and I will say that this is a pretty negative reaction from Jinders fans. And would you rather, I think Kyle Evans going to be a good football player. Okay, I'm excited for him and Siriani in that locker room and Jalen Hertz. Sure. To all figure it out. Sure. Okay, I'm certainly figured out for that.

Offensive line though in Pittsburgh they end up with it feels like an interesting reaction here by the yinzers that I didn't fully expect but Omar's got heat right now. So you know you know you we've talked about it all today that you know yinzer so mckeye lemon is the bigger name he's the Blitnikoff award winner for years for the last for years Seals were known at being great at drafting wide receivers and then over the last couple of years is what we've struggled we don't have any wide receivers blah blah so for years the Steelers fans have been into craze about getting wide receivers so yes mackay lemon falling obviously steelers The Steelers fans, they know him, they see him. He's a wide receiver. They want him. And then the Steelers take Max Ian Nachor after that. The video comes out so they think that he's the second pick or the second choice for their Steelers. So they don't love that.

Then also him not playing football until he was 21 years old or sorry, 2020. And being maybe like labeled as a project. And then they think the Steelers are a win now team, but you draft a project. They're just all of that combined makes them really mad. But as you know and I know, we know that the Steelers love Big Max. and I think they are very, very happy with that pick. I'm very, very happy with that pick. I watched his tape last night against David Bailey.

I watched his tape last night against Malachi Lawrence. It's incredible. I'm very, very excited for this. It also feel like there's been a little bit of a turn, like because of the last couple of Super Bowls with how much you need O-line and D-Line, that when these O-Lyman get drafted, it's not anymore like, oh, great.

Unless, granted, unless your O-Liman is named after a donut brand and is addicted to pop, like, for the most part, people when they get offensive linemen now allegedly people when they get offensive line now are juice because it does immediately kind of result in those victories most offensive linemen picked in first round common draft there in 1968 boy the big boys were good we're running the ball 80 times a game the offensive lineman nine last I thought it was 10 I guess that guard didn't end up getting picked towards the end that was potentially going to get taken seven offensive tackles, two guards. So nine in total for the big guys. AJ, I think that's indicative of where we are

in football right now. I think it's a good thing, too. We always talk about football being cyclical and all this stuff, and it's going back to the old school days. Now, it's never going to be three yards in a cloud of dust. That's an old school Woody Hayes, Ohio State thing. But yeah, I think Conman's right when you think about oh, I've been getting drafted in the past. You hear like a groan from the crowd.

Oh, great. Back in the day they cut at Radio City Music Hall to the section of that team's fans. And they're all like, okay. And they don't really, they don't really know. Now I feel like fans are, they're informed and they understand, okay, this is an absolute must if we want to win. Stephen Jones and the Dallas Cowboys made some plays last night. Congrats to the Cowboys.

Caleb Downs. We're obviously a massive fan, trade up and make that particular play. They also came up and said, hey, we're not trading George Pickens. He's going to be playing on a franchise tag. Malachi Lawrence ends up as a Dallas Cowboy. Caleb Donz ends up as a Dallas Cowboy. A lot of moves made by them. George Pickens signed his franchise tag.

yesterday. That came after the Dallas Cowboys came out and said, he's playing on a franchise tag where he likes your or not. Okay, that is kind of the messaging that came out there. We know that George Pickens, former Pittsburgh Steeler, is represented by David Mulliggeta. David Mulligeta is the man who has the most amount of guaranteed money in contract negotiations with the NFL at every single position. Would he want his client or advise his client to be playing on a franchise tag, which is something that nobody really wants to do. We would assume business-wise, Moologeta would say no to that. But does George Pickens want another year of guaranteed money for a chance to run up the bank

account yet again after having his best season that he's had as a pro? I'm excited to see how it all plays out, but it feels like George Pickens is going to be getting traded from the Dallas Cowboys. But the Cowboys publicly this early coming out and saying, now, we're not trade. He's a crazy situation in Dallas. I really don't know what to do because I love the draft. Yeah. I love what they're doing.

This George Pickin situation screams Dallas Cowboys drama coming right around the corner. Yeah, it definitely does. And it'll be interesting. Again, we don't know what their relationship is like behind closed doors, but it'll be interesting if Jerry's tenor changes towards David Moologeta. Because with the whole, you know, Michael Parsons thing, he was kind of dismissive and just like, I don't talk to the agent. I don't really communicate with them.

I had a deal in place with Michael. So, you know, and obviously as an agent, you can't, I'm guessing, you know, David Moologates is probably not holding a whole bunch of deep-seated grudges because you know you have to work with these guys. But yeah, I think that was kind of everyone's initial thought when we saw that George Pickens got franchise tag was, okay, this guy's going to get traded, whether it's tonight or, you know, the next couple days. We potentially saw Moologeta just hours after the George Pickens news was announced. And it took him a little bit longer to get into the event than some others. which I don't think he was necessarily thrilled about. Neither was I strictly because I don't think people knew exactly who. Casual, hoodie, jeans, walking in.

You got some security people that are certainly working a weekend that aren't supposed to have some power. You know, Mulguts are just standing there. That guy's worth billions of dollars. Yeah. Okay, just kind of hanging out. He walks into the event on Tuesday night. We all immediately go, Jerry's trying you a little bit.

Uh-oh. He goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I've done business with the Cowboys before. This will go, hey, I'm just. working for my clients whatever George wants to do we will do whatever there's obviously a conversation and he this is him nine in the first round last night yeah a a one now it's not just muligata obviously athletes first has a massive company gumpy they got a lot of people at athletes first don't they a lot of them we were invited potentially to one of their gatherings their parties and i thought

it was going to be like a dinner or some sort sure so i don't think I knew what we were signing up for. We'll stop there before having to go somewhere else. We walk in there a million people in an area packed. Everybody having a good time, but I said, there's no way I'm going out. It did. It looked like what the draft was like last night. That's what it looked like last night because of how many people they have, agents,

players, you get it. But he had a massive night last night, as did Excel. Good for them. Used to be big in sports media now moving into the player reps. CAA Donner 3. Uh-oh. Oh, Ty Simpson, obviously, gets a third in there. Win sports group with three clutch.

Rich Paul getting into the game of two. Rosenau's still throwing it. Vayner Sports has two. Is that all elite? Athlete. Athlete. Oh. AEW sports.

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just a lawyer yeah just couple lawyers Yeah, you drafted in there. And then on time agency. Always. Not bad. Because it's about their time on time. Congrats all the agencies, obviously getting guys in there. And then the Big Ten wins.

Yeah, they did. Again. January 19th, Indiana wins the national football championship. UCLA wins the women's basketball championship. Michigan wins the men's basketball championship. Five players picked in the first round, WMBA draft. No big deal. And then 10 players selected in the first round of the NFL draft.

most of any conference. Big Ten, the North is coming. And I don't think it's slow and done. No. And the fact that UCLA is part of the Big Ten, a lot of people are going to say, okay, sorry. It is. Just the way it is, Ty. That's exactly right. Big Ten has the most talent, most championship. Most money. Yeah, that feels like that's what the case is. Most grit. Yeah, most grit. You can throw that in there. And listen, hey, you know, it's not my fault that UCLA and USC are in the Big Ten. You know, that was an option. Other conferences could have went out and got them. I believe UCLA and USC who are, you know, kind of sions of the college football, college athletic industry. They said, you know what?

We want to go where we're going to be tested. We want to go to what is the best conference. And it really wasn't even a conversation. I don't think Greg Sanky ever even got the chance to kind of get on the line. They went right to the Big Ten. And, you know, that's kind of the way it should be, unfortunately. I do wonder how Sanky feels about it all because he's not just going to sit. He's not going to sit back and just let this happen.

No, he's not. But can he do anything? Doesn't seem like. I don't know if he can do it. anything. Sankey? Can't do anything about it? What could he do?

They're saying SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey can't do anything about it. What's he going to fund these schools himself? Might have to. It's got a big college baseball playoff coming up. Big softball world series. Like they need to win those. That's not included on there also as Wisconsin won the women's national championship in hockey and they went to the finals.

Unfortunately Denver won it for the men. So I'm just saying if saying he doesn't make a couple of moves we're talking about him basically be in the commissioner what the mountain west conference oh my god what are you guys saying no i'm not saying that but i'm just i'm also saying you know con command mentioned baseball i hope he's not putting all his eggs in that basket because UCLA is the number one baseball team in the country they're they're from the big tent in west virginia i believe is climbing the board every single day not our bat's got to get hard they will it's on top score they're right yeah it was 191 and and a fourth.

Baseball? That was against Pitt. I don't know. Pit had a big rivalry. They are, yeah. Baseball. A lot of each shit pit last night. Yeah, a lot of mountain ears out here.

Check those bats. It was great to see. Yeah, maybe they could have been. Let's talk about rounds two and three that are happening this evening for the draft. Who's the best available in Adam Schaefter's tweet? Well, he says, well, Denzel Boston, who some people were thought maybe going to be a first rounder. Zion Young's name was mentioned a certain amount of time.

Jermon McCoy, okay, the man that's, right there. Injuries potentially holding him back. Everybody thought he was a massive talent. Definitely first round talent. Has a recovery rehab situation where he ran well in his workouts, but he didn't do drills well. So people are a little bit gun shy on waste of maybe a first rounder. But if he gets picked up and he gets healthy, he's definitely a first round talent that slips to a team. Tonight there's some stars available. Yeah. So his 2024 tape was the best of any corner. If he was healthy, he would have gone as the number one corner last night, but he's not healthy. He ran a 438 at his pro day but they said that the position drills didn't look great 11 of those 13 guys up there

were somewhere in in people's first round and box so whether they go tonight or last night whatever they're still really good players i have there's a there's a going to be a run on corners that that dj talked about last like like mccoy tarrell uh hood steaks keontes got d'angelo panza those are all really good corners denzel boss and the wide receiver that we talked about kaden mcdonald the tackle out of ohio state was potentially a first roundback Yeah, the lineback, Jake Rodriguez, the linebacker. And then C.J. Allen and Anthony Hill are also linebackers from Texas and Georgia who are really good. Those are the guys that are kind of marquee for this second round.

Did he call Rodriguez? Can I wait to watch what he becomes a dog? Maybe he's a cold. He might be. Could be. That's a position of need for them for sure. Who's pick number 57? Heinz?

What team has picked number 57? Do we know? Is the Colts? Is it? I don't know. I thought you might be announcing. The Bears. It's the Bears.

It's the Bears. Okay. It's the Bears, which is the perfect pick for this. Because the way that time speaks about hot dogs and what's a lot on it and what's not a lot on it. Say hello to Mr. 57. Heinz ketchup is going to be supplying whoever is picked number 57 in honor of Heinz 57, right here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The greatest ketchup on earth. It is good on everything, including hot dogs.

Don't be stupid. Okay, especially with the Bears hosting Mr. 57 here tonight. Go ahead and celebrate that. Going to get a lifetime partnership with Heinz. That's huge. And a custom Heinz jacket. Seriously? AJ, you can reenlist for the draft, pal.

If this is getting the zipper burn going for you. I think we have Mr. Irrelevant is the last pick who gets a parade, I do believe. Mr. 57 sounds like going forward. maybe has the best prize of them all including the number one overall I'm with you I am a Heinz ketchup person that is absolutely the ketchup I choose but I do wonder how much a lifetime

supply is like when they say you have a lifetime supply of beer that's much different for me to you and also nobody actually is able to finish a full Heinz bottle because there's always stuff around yeah that's right you know you could do the squirtsy ones Heinz better than all the other shit ketchup by the way you know with the squirt

one that came in that came into the game somehow Heinz not only created the bottle and said hey we got the best ketchup they also eliminated the the goop yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah whatever you're doing the shitty red gold or the other ketchup i would definitely have to shake it i'm not doing but with hines they say let us take care of that for you you don't have to shake perfect ketchup in there okay so obviously that's good i'm rolling through two three bottles a month a month at my wait what size bottle the classic just normal human stuff damn we're talking on everything but everything You put on eggs?

Definitely. That's a lot of ketchup. Two, three bottles. McKenzie likes it as well. I was going to be drafted. McKenzie likes it as well. I would love to be drafted, Mr. 57. I do like the jacket.

Yeah, it's unbelievable. I wore a jacket like that to the Rose Bowl a few times. What are you talking about? It's a lot of ketchup. What do you put ketchup on? No, do no. Why roast chicken? I don't need ketchup for like French fries.

But like if hot dog, boom, ketchup all day. French fries, you don't do ketchup. I can, but I don't need it. Chicken nuggets. Nuggies, I want to dip and ketchup. Okay. You ever had cheeseburger? Yes, cheeseburger ketchup all day.

Cheeseburger in paradise. Jimmy Buffett legend, yes. Hines 57 and Frank. I hope we got paid for that. Who? Jimmy Buffett. He got paid for it all. He got ketchup.

Yeah, lifetime supply. Her sailboat. So let's make sure we're celebrating Mr. 57 tonight. That'll be a huge one. Okay, properly. Chicago having that is just. It is a bit of a chef's kiss. Except they're going to be the Indiana Bears probably.

Pro football talk and many others are reporting that Illinois is considered giving the bears a property tax break to keep them from leaving for Indiana. Then there's also some other news breaking that, yeah, they're giving them a tax break conversation. Now, this has been into work for years. I would assume they were thinking about moving, then they weren't moving. Then obviously Soldier Field is where it is. What's that going to become Indiana got into the game. you want to build a stadium just for 25 minutes away from where you are we will certainly be able to provide everything you want to pay anything and we'll just

tax you later whenever it comes in there so Indiana was able to drive Illinois to potentially making a deal as we have a donut out of yeah I didn't know if it was a dance circle or what's going to kids making wacky face at the camera promo for tonight that's good good energy here on the left side of the circle someone's got to do the worm through the search 17 in that old Washington jersey he brought it he's been doing like I Irish jigs for a while now. I mean, that's going to be a good clip later.

You know, they're going to showcase it. Yeah. My favorite is when they do that, okay? This happens in television production on a regular basis. They get a good one and their natural TV instincts are we got to get another one. Don't ever do that. Those people just gave their all right there. Yeah, they're not.

They do not ask them to do that again. Sometimes it'll happen in game day. They'll be trying to get like big, massive yell. And they'll be like, all right. Ruleman is forced to do this. This guy who does not speak on a microphone, they put him up there, and it's his job somehow to draw him up the crowd.

Hey, hey, just yell. Give me all you guys. Yale, yell, yeah, for a while. What do we yell? Just yell. Just fucking yell, do it. And then all of a sudden, they'll stop, and then somebody would be in there.

We weren't recording that one. And it's like, I can't, can't do that. Because then this guy, rule of it, who we love, he's going to walk in front of this crowd, go, all right, need a game. It's hard to get humans to do that. So I think they got good juice out of that one. Oh, yeah.

I think that's going to be a good piece. Are these people down here for the next 12 hours? Yeah, what are you guys doing? Hey, how are you good? How are you going to be carrying coach out of here? Yeah, Coach Diggs started early. He's much thinner. I don't know if he's able to handle as much as he used to it.

He's been working out two days, he told me. Two of days. Wow. These guys. I know you did that. I told him. Coach Cower looked at me last night. I was like, you know, Pat got.

you know, that started this situation. We could have got a car, one of them. They should have probably got that. Those are starting naturally. Hey, so you guys just stay here? Hopefully got some suntan lotion down there. That guy's got his fly down. Which one?

Kenny, what's open? They're going to be staying there all day. You guys, I think, should slide down to start the process. We have a Pittsburgh royalty about to join us this evening. We cannot wait for this show to continue. Strictly because tonight, not only is it nothing but a good time, but it's also nothing but a good draft all killer no filler black and yellow super bowl draft hello ladies and gentlemen joining us now icon legend man who's going to be performing tonight

and shutting the entire draft down worldwide superstar ladies and gentlemen mr whiz caliphly Holy shit. Legend, legend, legend. Dude, welcome home, dude. Appreciate you, dude, so much. Hey. Hey, what's up? Great to see you, man.

These people love you, obviously. Lays there, Whiz, Kleeva. What's up, Pittsburgh? Yeah. Bunch of tailors out there, Wiz, obviously been there from the beginning. And coming back for draft night, they said 320,000 people were here last night.

First of all, didn't know Jensers could do that. They did. How do you feel about tonight? How do you feel about being asked at the biggest event? I feel crazy about it, man. It feels really good. We were flying in, and I looked down. I was like, man, looks like Coachella down there.

Inzarella happening out here. Yinchella. You're performing with Brett Michaels, right? Yeah, yep. And we saw you and him at, I believe, Jake Glazer's house, amongst many other legendary superstars. Have you and Brett worked together? How do you think this is going to go?

And how long are you guys playing for it? It's going to work really well together. He's a professional, and his band is great. Their timing is amazing. And it's just an honor to be able to share the stage with such a legend. He's going to do a set. We'll have a shared set. So it'll be him, the mean, and then he's going to come back out and close it.

He said it was the black and yellow, nothing but a good time, nothing but a good draft. All killer, no filler show. Yeah, that sounds about right. That's what I heard. AJ has a pleasure for you, yeah, I guess when you are performing with someone like that, different era, different generations.

Like, do you guys, do you have to work together? Do you have to practice before? Do you do sound check together? Like, how is, I don't know. Yeah, it's sound check. How do you make it seamless? Our dressing rooms are real close together.

So he gets to smell when I'm smoking. There we go. You know what I mean? You smell! Same vibration. Okay, so how many songs will you be playing tonight? I got four songs. Okay, can't wait to hear them.

You're the best. All of them are bangers. You're making new songs right now live on stream. I love where you're at in this chapter of your career. Have you been enjoying this? I have been. I have been. It's really, really fun.

I've always been a community person, so to be able to be in touch with my community and the people who support me the most is super fun. Yeah, and you're just going to be leaking bangers on there. We're a big fan. You and MGK got song. Hey. Oh, yeah.

Yep. We got a whole album, actually, that we're dropping in May. I leaked a couple of the songs. on my Twitch, but we're going on tour. The tickets are available. Hopefully you guys pull up and come see us. Definitely. Yeah, so we're going to be on tour

and then we're dropping an album as well. Cannot wait to hear it all. Mass of fans of both of you. And also, MGK, getting back into rapping. Yep. We're happy for him. He came on the show at the Hall of Fame and I'm like, hey, MGK,

I watch you World Star Hip Hop in a car freestyle. Okay? I've been a fan of you as a rapper since then. You're a beast. You're a monster. Eminem killed you. Eminem's going to do that. We don't need you just quitting a genre, though.

an incredible rapper. Feels like he's getting all the way back. The song you leaked, guaranteed one, guaranteed banger. Can't wait to watch you both. Tone has a question for you, Wade. Yeah, Wes Pat and I, obviously, both from here. So we talked about earlier how cool it is to come back and, like, see the city on a shine.

Is it cool? Is it different when you get to come back here and perform versus performing at other places? Yeah, it's really different, man. When I'm gone, it's... You can get it confused whether people are into it or not, or whether they still love it. or the support is there or not.

But when you come home, the support is so crazy and it's so refreshing. And it's so much fun to just see people who know all the different eras of my music and really have been there literally since day one. Yes, I mean, Star Power is still my favorite. See, that's what I'm saying. Star year, yeah. You should say yeah up there.

You should. Yeah, I'm with it, bro. I heard say yeah and cheerleaders last night. Cheerleaders still doing it? Saw Rod, Controversy. Controversy right across the bridge. I didn't know that place existed.

We drove by 3 o'clock, cheeks out. Oh, yeah. I think Say, yeah, was out there. A lot of star power. Ty is a question for you. Yeah, Wiz, last time, I guess we saw you, we were here for Big Night Out at PPG. You and Snoop and Pat, and, you know, it was incredible.

Yep. A situation like that compared to being up here, just kind of just like this wide... I mean, obviously, you've played festivals before, but like this wide open park where, who knows, there could be, you know, 400, 500,000 people here today? Like, how much does that change the way you're going to perform

or does it change it at all? I really just think about everybody. I think about the people who would be at home enjoying this, who are able to just come out and walk out and hear it, you know, just playing if they want to. So this is for the whole city of Pittsburgh. You're an incredible performer. Yep, thank you.

You sound exactly like Spotify. Thank you. I try to, too. Watched you in rehearsal at Big Night Out. It was fucking outrageous. I mean, there was, what, 35 people in the arena or whatever? You did your full set with Snoop. It sounded exactly like Spotify.

You guys go backstage? Yep. I'm getting words from what's happening backstage. You're like, hey, you're missing quite a party backstage. I'm like, I assume, yeah, Ernest is back there, jellywell is back there, Snoops back there, whizz is back there. I assume I'm missing some shit. So I was excited to see where we were. Yeah.

You came out there sounded better. Then you said, you are a phenomenal performer. Thank you. How much work goes into that? Actually. A lot. I tore a lot. I'm always, you know, just trying to step my show up for my fans and just make sure that I'm

in tip-top shape. I work out all the time and just being able to travel and just go different places. It gives me a different perspective of all the different types of people who enjoy my music. So along with, you know, the music being embedded in me, I have a really great time up there on stage. I really enjoy myself. Yeah, and you don't do a lot of sing it. Yeah, you know, you hit. Oh yeah, yeah, all the words,

you're gonna hear everything. Yeah, you don't mail it in at all. I think we were all so impressed because I was just assuming, because especially in Pittsburgh, you could just say, huh? Yeah. Everything would get hit, and that'd be a sick moment.

It'd be a great time for everybody. You hitting every single word, every single, the rehearsal, and then through the show, after what I heard that happened in between there, so much was, because if somebody that has to speak into a microphone I fucking was my blood

watching it all happen Connor has a question for you So to that point How long does it take you to kind of come down after a tour? I think you finished in Australia Last week and then you got North America Starting next month That in between times

You need a couple weeks just to kind of get back To like baseline? Yeah What is it kind of like? I'm usually just chilling with my kids I have a two year old daughter and a 13 year old son So my son is into sports, making sure that he's, you know, staying committed and in school. And my daughter, you know, just playing with her, making sure we have a good time.

I'm into plants. So I'm, you know, messing with watering, replanting and pying. Your botanist? Yeah, exactly. Outdoors or indoors? Indoor. Indoor. Yeah.

I got a green thumb now. Now? Well, it's been green for years, but I'm putting it to use. and just working out doing yoga and stuff like that. I have like a pretty normal regular schedule when I'm at the house. I just keep it super chill, super light, because when I'm on the road, it is very demanding. And I don't have all of my stuff in my space that makes me comfortable.

So when I'm at home, I really enjoy that stuff and pour all the way into my family, my hobbies and myself. I appreciate you always tell me you believe in me too in your captions. Yeah, you know, I got you, bro. And I love you. Yeah, well, thank you. Yeah. Every time I read the capture, I think about it, and then I see you just shredded.

Yeah, yeah. You look good too, bro. Thank you. I'm on a lot of science. So I see what you're doing. I'm not doing nearly. But you used to be just a little skinny guy. Uh-huh.

Became an absolute dog. Yeah, yep. And I think you actually do do it so you can only get better at your profession. The amount of commitment you've had to who you are, what you are, let alone before you made it, here in Pittsburgh doing shows around the fucking city and hustling everywhere. And what's his name? Dan? Dan Fogger. Yeah, from the beginning.

Yep. Same studio, right? You and Mac in there. Yeah, E. Dan. That's what you're talking about. Yeah, E. Dan. Yep. Me and Mac, we started out at ID Labs. And now it's crazy because E. Dan's son is producing for us. The kid who ID Labs was named after Isaac Dan is making beats and producing for us now.

So it's all coming full circle and we still keep it in the family. Yeah, but think about how long that is in a profession that's trying to kick you out of it all the time. Yeah. Bang Power, brother, from a guy from Pittsburgh. grateful to watch you do that thank you i'm grateful to do it gonna continue to go until the wheels fall off or what's happened absolutely man when the wheels fall off we just gonna fly it or sail it or do whatever love music love music yeah i do yeah love writing love the process what is it i love right i love how music makes you feel there's only a couple chords and couple notes but the language is endless

and the more that we explore it and create the better it becomes for the people after us when you started streaming your process. Were there people telling you shouldn't do that? No, there wasn't anybody who told me that. I started out, you know, sharing a whole lot just with me behind the scenes. And my personality to my fans is what really brings them on board, as well as my talent and my hustle. So you get to see all three of those things through my stream.

So your vlogs are outrageous. What is that? Something today. What's the name of your shit? Day to day. There it is. Yeah. Yeah.

See, we have followed along watching you. Yeah. Crush everything? Yep. So proud of you, man. You're going to feel the love tonight, I think, in a big way. I can't wait. You have Brett fucking Michael.

It's just going to be legendary. It is. Thank you for stopping by. We can't wait to watch you tonight. Good luck with everything. Tickets on sale for the tour already. Yep, tickets on sale for the tour. New album every month.

Follow me on Twitch, Twitter, and Instagram and TikTok, all that shit. New album every month. Yep, every month. Every month. Oh, okay. All right. Wow. At the end of the month, when should we be experienced?

Usually in the middle or the end of each month, because I drop at the end of the month, then you wait till the end of the next month, and then I drop at the end of the next month. Okay, so we have like spring vibe album coming in? Yeah. Then like a summer vibe? Yep, like what is the-

Every vibe for every month. If you miss one, it's cool, because you can get the next one, and you can always go back and get the last one. You gotta be the first person doing this. Maybe, if not, then call me the first. Pioneer. Who did you?

The first ever. Every month album dropper, follow him on Twitch. Obviously, follow him on tour with MGK this summer. You're the man. Congrats on everything. We can't wait to watch tonight. Can't wait to see you guys, too. Yinchella.

Yes. All right. Thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, Waze Kleefe. Appreciate it, man. Thank you, Wes. Yeah, Will, what up, dude. Got gifts from the crew.

All squad. See you, boys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Will, br. Just some local herbs. That was very nice of him, very kind of him. They are a crew that I've realized, which I appreciate. So there was a couple punters and kickers that if you played against them,

away game, they would put together like beers for you for your trip back. Oh. Yeah, I think you might be muted or AJ's mic is off right now. But they would put together like a package for you. Like, hey, here's a couple beers, maybe they find out that you like. Sure. Something else. They'll do that in there.

Yeah, they'll do that for you. Shane Leckler, Sebastian Janakowski, were the first group that I experienced that did that. And I thought it was so cool. I'm like, oh, my God. Genius. This is so cool that you did this. Thank you guys so much.

And then I learned that, you know, Peyton, I think, was doing that for other teams' quarterbacks whenever they would come to our stadium without me even knowing, you know, like that's kind of happening behind the scenes. It's cool thing. Whiz's group, anytime we are around them, they bring a full care packet. Baring gifts.

And they are a great bunch. And Will, who has been with Wiz since Forever. Say, yeah, I believe. He was at Penn State. He's from Plunk. So, like, he literally grew up the hill from me, and one hill over from Tone is where Will, who's been with Whiz.

So we've been able to literally watch an experience and learn from his entire grind and rise. And he's always remained true to himself. He's never sold out. Yeah. Sick. Wiz has always done his own shit. He's the legend. And that's where with MGK this summer is going to be.

Did you see the outrage? Do you see what he just released? What's that? The song with Fred Durst? With Mr. Durst. It's sick. Yeah, it's sick. MGK is a dog, dude.

Eminem killed him. He did. That's going to have. That's happened. They literally made a movie about him killing people. That is why he is what he is. Big movie. But MGK is so smart, so talented.

He's like, fuck it. I'm not dealing with this anymore. And he just, I'm going to go do punk rock and becomes the guy. Huge. And then he says, I'm going to go do this. And he's going to do this. Like, I am a huge fan. of Mr. Gun Kelly and literally just hey need you back in the rap okay I got to work out

still bro yeah I need some boxy's favorite white trash kid okay who made I need you I need you to get in there and say some that's just like Jeezy I need Jeezy to be dropping shit every month whiz dropping something every month that's crazy I am very grateful for that we're gonna be in the middle of a summer whiz gonna be experience the same thing he's gonna hop into the booth make the beat and all of a sudden we're gonna hear how we're supposed to feel right yeah you're right whiz this is how this is how how I feel. And if he was in cheerleaders last night, he's also made songs to let you know how he's supposed to feel. And there. I appreciate that. If you're looking for a place, that is the best

one to go to. There were some people giving some bad suggestions out of town. Don't go to the other ones. What? I saw some internet, the internet, where they were telling people like, hey, if you're in time, go across this bridge, take a left, you'll find yourself in the perfect part of town. Get out of your cars there. You know, all that stuff. Yenzers were trying to do that. that but it has been nice to see the whole city come together really cool don't get a lot of moments like that AJ actually wouldn't you ever get a moment where you got 320,000 people never in one spot yeah everyone all celebrating two together what's that so maybe a penguins parade a pirate parade but maybe where we are years removed from that why did you not say Steelers yeah

stealers were involved in that too I mean you know but you didn't you said the pirates before you said to Steelers well I mean I didn't say either of those just because right right now they're not playing you know they're they're focused on who they're going to draft they're going to try and win the super bowl today with their second and third round picks but right now penguins are still in it they might win four straight i'm going to be honest i don't like how nice everybody is to us who like the Steelers they just let us walk around their biller right's that was cool yeah it was like a middle school hey got to go see old green bay packers friends because obviously mike mccarthy and then listening to cower describe the new coaching staff

and how he feels about him that was cool moment Like yesterday was a historic moment, I think. It was amazing. Everything with Bill Cowher is like one of those things where you're going to look back in a couple of years. Like, did that really happen? Yeah. Was Bill Cowler that awesome? Like, just giving him a hug down here at the bottom of the stairs before he left to go home. I'm like, man, I'm sad you're leaving.

Yeah. Like, honestly, we had such a great time with you, Andy, the ultimate storyteller. Yeah, he just held court right here. He designed the building that they're currently in. Now, it hasn't changed much since then. He said, this is a partition right here because I wanted the partition because defense, on one side, offense on the other side, teams and the entire thing. But if the defense

playing good, offense isn't playing good, they need to be able to hear me saying to the offense, hey, you're letting the defense down over there. You need to pick it up because these guys, he said he'd even hit it a couple times. On the wall. These guys are busting their ass. You guys are letting the entire city down,

you're letting me down, here, let those guys over there. And then he would lock off. And then a couple weeks later, he'd go over to the defense side and say, hey, defense, your ass. The offense over there, they're doing everything great right now. He said because whenever you tell a team what you said to the other side, they always have to kind of half truth for them to actually hear him

dressed down the other side of the ball while they complimenting them. He said he thought it was an easy way to kind of build a relationship with people. And him talking about that. And then the window that he put into the office and why he put it in there. It's like it was, it was unbelievable getting to hang out with Bill Kauer. It was unbelievable to be back here in Pittsburgh and celebrate this city in which we are from. It's been fantastic watching the Jensers shine, watch the city shine, and tonight it will only continue to do so and this weekend. The fact that it hasn't rained and the weather's been perfect is the football gods telling all of us that this is what we need to be doing with our lives.

Have the greatest weekend of all time. We're back for an overreaction Monday with a lot of things happening. NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs, pens in seven. Penns and seven. And the entire NFL draft. Boys in the truck, great work. ESPN folks. Thank you for setting this up.

Boys on the stage, you're great. And to the Inzers, goodbye. See you Monday. I think we got it all in. Oh yeah. Crushed it. Nailed it. They made him do it again.

Yeah. Hey there really? Yeah, we just saw him down there. A guy with a terrible towel. You can't do it. That should be. Can't manufacture that juice again. Hey, Syracuse.

Hey, Northwestern. Yep. Okay, whoever does all the fucking TV. I think that can't. You mean the schools that produce the people that. Everybody in television. Yeah, these people that have basically said, this is what it is.

Okay. Can we get a little feel in there, Can we get a feel chapter? Maybe just one test on it. Just say, hey, we're dealing with humans. Maybe we should think about the humans that we are potentially going to be. You do that first semester or freshman year.

Feel 101. Should feel one. Awareness. There you go. They should just call it awareness 101. Yeah. Whenever has that worked? It hasn't.

The second time. Yeah, it hasn't ever. In the history. I've been in one, I've been asked, I think the reason why we think like this is because we've actually been like the fans. Don had to do this.

And we've actually been in the, in the entire thing. And all of us at the time are thinking, oh, we nailed that. And they go, hey, they need it one more time. It's like, I'm not an actor. So I want me to do. And now I need to act like what I, it's going to look that they'd better use the first. Yes. Yeah.

They will. Did you see the second one? Yeah. It was a Colts fan actually in the middle. It was the second one. 40%. Juice the second one. The guy's walking around selling boo.

All right, now look. Yeah, oh yeah. I'm going to die down completely. Okay, and now let's see it again. Hey, it's back some boys. That was actually better. That might have been better. That was different.

That was different. Maybe we're all. I felt so uncomfortable there. Yeah. Try a third time. Yeah, try a third time. All right, let's make some blood. Tadikis.

They know I hate it. Yeah, yeah. That's why the fourth one's gonna be even louder. These people. You know, that's the thing. get them comfortable they think they're done and all of a sudden you say listen up booze bags one that got here at noon on a Friday a hundred degrees just so you get some cocktails in early find your spot for the draft there's no way he's gonna ask us to yell

again that's what they're thinking right now oh yeah they're thinking team on me team on three coming yeah but instead I'm doing hey oh oh we're back some boys are hey they're bringing it thank you I debunked everything I thought right there Maybe they should fucking circle them up. Give them a little bit more practice. Hey, we got to get out of here. I don't know how this is sounded with the way we've been going through the, they've been testing to obviously playing the music.

Yeah. Whoever's on the ox. Yeah. Great vibes. Kind of fantastic. Absolutely. Last night, the whole second half of the draft was great music the whole time as well. Yeah, just the song selection.

You have to multi-generational. Yes. They have to pick what. That's like an awareness thing, too. You got to have a feel. for the crowd. Yeah, and you've got to experience what the crowd's going to be experienced before you put the next song. You got to know, okay, I got to shift gears. Carolina went a little long.

Audible. Well, that's because Pitt, you know, that's our entire thing. So it was nice little audible to that. But I think it was a very, very solid show. I should have played country. I thought it was DJ Grisdible. I assumed it was Griff. D.J. Griff crushed it at the science. Yeah, he really did. I was walking the thing going up to the planetarium a couple times. And I could hear it. He was killing it. I did appreciate there was a few in there that were invited that had the eyeglass, sunglasses, camera things. Sure. Oh, there was a meta? Yeah. Last night or at the event, yeah. They got good, they captured good footage. I was actually kind of appreciative of the

videos that were put out there. But we all see it now, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of, it's become a in your face. Augusta needs to ban them, they said. Yeah, I don't think you're getting in there with Augusta with it. They did this year. Somebody got in there with them. Oh yeah, they said there were people were showing footage from it. So there, that was like the next step where young people said, hey, August that the old Stooges working the door, taking phones are going to have to look at their eyewear now. I'm going to be honest when I say this. Like, we all see, it's almost like they're going to have to make a new one.

Yes, it's very evident. Yeah, they're going to have to make a new one. Smaller. Quick and left. Yeah. Good idea, though. Great idea. Great idea.

Great idea. Making how easy it is, how high quality it is. Yeah. A little POV stitch. Yeah. I think it's pretty good. Pretty good. And they got me, the one guy got a side shot of me in the video, David Allen.

Yeah. And I looked like I was in great shape. So there you go. That's a victory. Hey, send that video to me. Please don't walk into Coach Saban's face with those things. Yeah, he's here to have a good time. It's also past his bedtime.

Yes, it is. He was up late. Did you see him yesterday? Unbelievable. He gave a Caleb Down's story about Caleb Down's mom's white chili that he had when he was in recruiting. He said the best white chili I've ever had. Said I wanted to go back for recruiting. I bet you he is phenomenal during the draft coverage.

Uh-huh. Yes. I mean, we need to figure out how to, especially if it's all going to be quick. Yeah. That, I mean,

that certainly, that does. That changes how everything. We kind of rolled with the punches pretty good last night, but you could, you could see how. We didn't get to the bunker as much. No,

right. They didn't get to the bunker as much, wasn't able to get as much of it. Like, there was none of much as projection, not as, you know, the trades weren't being announced.

They were just internet breaks. And then the thing was happening. It was very expedited. I felt like everything was kind of expedited last night. We are going to have to adjust. Yeah, definitely. We personally are going to have to adjust. Because at lunch, we were talking to Coach Cowher,

and you were saying like, hey, back half of the draft, it's going to get super slow. Like that's when we're going to be, we're going to be coming to you and we need stories. You know, just kind of like, that is when we need you to kind of unload the clip. And we never really got to that point because like you said with, you know, commish, like 23 to 32 flew.

We're supposed to FaceTime numerous people. Yeah. But then we did the Dan Morgan FaceTime. and it was like, it feels like this isn't the right time to do FaceTime and Dan Morgan because how many things are happening. So it's like it really for us, I couldn't even imagine. We didn't miss any. We didn't miss any. We talked about every pick, which people enjoy, like actually enjoy. Like the people watch these draft things because they want to hear you talk about their pick.

So if you don't, like if you miss their pick, they get very, very upset. Yeah, we and we try to show as much respect to everybody in there. Because obviously it's the biggest day of their lives. We're happy for them. The NFL needs these guys to be successful. A lot of them are going to be. ass. Okay, that needs to be remembered. Yep. A lot of these guys are going to be ass.

A lot of these, there's a chance. You know what? Actually, everyone in the draft last night can be a hall of them. They're going to be a hall of favor. I need to be a little bit more optimistic. There's 320,000 people in Pittsburgh to watch these guys go into the NFL. They're all going to be all the famers in there. But we do have to like kind of remember, like because of how big it's getting. And because of how excited everybody gets, I think the expectations do get higher on all

the draft picks. And it's like, oh, we got to remember that the guys that are on some of these teams are like 10 years ago, these guys, but 10 times better. Yeah, right. This is every age group's all-star team still doing it. And it was tough to crack. It is a tough roster, tough league to crack. But maybe last night, 32 Hall of Fame was drafted. Well, and that's why some guys get drafted in the fourth round and turn out to be the best player at their position in the entire draft class.

Like for the New England Patriots, at least last year, we drafted Will Campbell fourth overall. in the entire draft. And then our best old lineman was drafted in the fourth round from Georgia. Like that's kind of what makes the draft so much fun. Like you have no idea which picket's going to be. The first round gets all of the, hey, this guy better be a stud immediately. But realistically, like the rounds two to five, there's going to be a guy in there that is going to take over the NFL. You're like, well, talking about the Iowa tight ends.

Like none of the, or I won't say none because some of them, but most of the Iowa tight ends you're thinking. of right now when you think Iowa tight ends weren't picked in the first round. They were third, fourth round picks, you know, like that's kind of where your money's made, and that's why the first round, if you get drafted there, aside from that great contract, the expectations that come do kind of set you up for failure. Ty Simpson. There you go. And with him, we're not even going to know.

We're not going to know for, you know, unless Matt Stafford breaks his back. If we don't know for four years, then we know it was a bad pick. Yeah, true. Exactly. Right. That's kind of the. But then you think Sam Donald's. Because Sam Donald had six years.

And now all of a sudden you're thinking, well, San Donald was a great pick. The Jets just screwed it up. But then you think Jordan Love? It's like, how long did he sit for? Three years. Three years. It's worked.

Yeah. Right? Yeah. Had a good transition process into the next quarterback. Got paid. Had a little drama there. Yeah. I'd say a little bit.

I'd say a little bit of drama there. Yeah. Didn't get back to the MC championship, right? Did you? No. kind of just went down and success for team-wise. Yeah, but if you look at, I agree, and that is again, like, that will be something Packers fans, regardless of what happens with Jordan Love over the next 10 years.

Like, that'll always be one that kind of is a crawl on your side. It's like, man, they were so close and they really could have. Stop the run. If they would have got anybody that could have stopped the run, they might win a Super Bowl. Exactly. They gave them 180 yards before contact. And then they trade into the first round to get a quarterback. Uh-huh. And it's just like...

And your quarterback just, that you had won the MVP that year. Yeah, and then won it again. The next, I mean, that's why it's crazy. And it's like Matthew Stafford just won the MVP. Yes, same thing. It's like, it's the same thing. But 13. 13 and, but Green Bay traded in.

Trade it in. So, think about the players that, like, Kenyon Sadiq was the number one tight end. He was there. Like, even some of the wild, like, Mike Lemon, if he goes out, he was locked in every every single one to them. And all of them. So, like, now there are specific players. It was like the Packers were at 26.

So it was like, okay, yes, they traded into it. But even the players in the back half of the first round, those are almost second round picks. Like the conversation this year was, hey, there's 15, 16 first rounders. And 13, like, is right there. Like, can you imagine if Kenyon and Sadiq goes out and has, I don't know, 10 touchdowns for the Jets? And then all these Rams fans are going to be thinking, like, well, at least we got a back, you know, backup quarterback, possibly third string quarterback, instead of the number one tight end in the entire draft. You know, Sean McVeigh had his reaction that he had.

Sean McVeigh is a great coach. So obviously, especially to the quarterback position, we assume him and Ty will get along well. He immediately puts the fire out quickly and says he'll be competing with Stetson, you know, because Sean McVeigh has to back Stetson as well, who he's a coach for. And then it comes out, you know, Ty never spoke to Sean McVeigh. That's your head coach and offense coordinator's quarterback position. Weird.

Weird. And then, you know, Albert Breer's like, ah, fun fact. Rams general manager, Les Sneed, and UT Martin coach Jason Simpson have a very strong relationship to the point where Sneed helped advise the family when Jason's son, Ty, was making a decision on whether or not to the player for the draft. Now, Ty Simpson, number 13 overall picked the ring. Les Nees says, you put him in a draft. No wonder why he was so confident he knew he could go come in the first round. He could show up in Pittsburgh.

You knew he's going to go. My dad's best friend's going to fucking pit. Who's the coach of that team? I don't know. I never met him. Never talked to him. Does that matter? Wait. What do he say on the phone?

He said on the phone call with Sean McVeigh. He was very nice on the phone call. Yeah, he was. By the way, once again, because he's a player. Ty was great on the call, too. He's a coach. Ty said something about like, can't wait to do, make some magic to do something.

Is that history? Yeah, whatever. Yeah, something like that. And Sean, I know Sean immediately what Sean wanted to say was, okay. Yeah. But instead, Sean said, all right, I can't wait, but he can't wait, Can we play this? Here, do we have audio on this?

Hey, how's it going? Hey, it's left speed. Los Angeles Rams. How you doing? I'm good, man. We're sitting here at the 13th pick, so we're going to draft you with that pick. So I'm going to pass you to your new head coach, Sean McVeigh.

Yes, sir. Hi. Pat, what's up, coach? How are you doing, buddy? I'm great. How are you? Good, man. Well, congratulations, man.

excited to get to work with you. It's going to be a lot of fun, buddy. Let's go make history, coach. Yeah. No, and, hey, enjoy this night. Have fun. Tell your family. We're excited to meet him. I can't wait to get going with you, buddy. Yes, sir. Coach, appreciate you. Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. So everybody has the still shot of the way he looked and the way he said Stets and Bennett and everything. I heard that phone call. And as soon as I heard that, yeah.

Yeah. That was awesome. Because I know Sean McVeigh is going to want to coach a shit out of this guy. Yeah. Like Sean McVeigh is going to want him to be great. Sean McVeigh, coach, who's also going to be judged on the amount of Super Bowls that he wins, thinks to himself, man, he'd be great right now to go win a Super Bowl. But I guess we wait until Matthew's done, even though he just won an MVP and he's in the immortal chamber and he's feeling better than he's ever felt.

Coach is in an interesting spot there, AJ. Very interesting spot. What best case scenario? Matthew Stafford plays two more years. they get one more ring and then Ty Simpson comes in and takes the helm. That would be best good. That's like ideal. I mean, two would be, yeah, I mean, if in a perfect world.

But yeah, I don't know. As a head coach, it is a tough spot because Stafford's his guy. I mean, they're doing this Cabo trip with Stafford and all them. John Simpson was doing cannonballs into the hot tub. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think Drew Breeze did the cannonball. He did.

Oh, you're right. You did do that. Andrew Wayworth was in a hot car. He made them a gainer. He made them a gainer. Yeah. Not a gainer guy. Now, Whitworth did a shooting star.

Yeah, that's a professional wrestler. Not a gainer. He's not a diver. Gainer's on a dive. Gainer, you jump forward, foot backwards. That's a shooting star press. Andrew Whitworth is no way. Into a pool, not into a square circle.

It's right. Diving would go into water. Andrew Whitworth could do it, though. He could do anything. He could do anything. Yeah. Squatts 9,000 pounds. Yeah, we know.

Maybe Whit, what is Whit? Let's call Whit. We should see what he. Hey, I'm on. I would like to know what Whit thinks. We could get a feel. He's kind of a bangle now, though, isn't he? Yeah, but he's kind of replaced.

He has a lot of ties to him. He loves McBagh. He could tell us if Big Bay is being real or not. Hey, Cincinnati hates Andrew Whitworth because he wouldn't want a Super Bowl somewhere else after you guys kicked him out of town. I'd never kicked him out of town. I got to play with Witt one year in Cincinnati, and it is a, shame how it ended there. It really is.

But I think, yeah, you know. That's why they're so mad, though. He was trying to get paid. Because Witt goes Sinci to Rams and then Rams beat Sinci. In the Super Bowl. It's kind of like a movie script. Yeah. If Sincis wasn't in the Super Bowl versus him, I don't know if there's as much animosity.

You can't be mad at Witt, though. So then I think Witt won the Walter Pate Man of the Year as well. Oh, yeah. Oh, so Cincinnati said, yeah, we don't want to pay the best guy in the entire NFL. And then all of a sudden, we're going to get mad at him whenever he goes to a team that does. And then he win? That's Ohio. We hate good guys who serve our community.

Wake up. Cincinnati. You can't be doing that over there. Centerville people saying bad things about Whitman. I don't think any, I don't think fans are mad at him. I think it was Witt in the front office had a situation going on. I think fans were all right. So what do you think you put that entire tweet out because the Brown family tweeted him and said he wasn't a bangle?

You know what? We should call Witt. I don't really know how he feels about any of this. Now that we're really diving into it. He didn't answer the first. But Witt was. like when I was I forget we called with the governor whatever it was Witt ran the show

there like he was like the assistant head coach pretty much I think he was like that in L.A. too which I think is why he is. That's just kind of how he is. He's the man. Holding court in the restaurant there in Cincinnati. Great new restaurant definitely. Yeah. Thousand times been team restaurant. Oh yeah. In the same with Neil Armstrong.

What year did Neil Armstrong die? That had been early in Witt's career. He's still alive. He's from Wapakinnett, Ohio. In answer. The show stinks. Get out of here. It's unbelievable. He's the only guy that should be giving us an opinion. That's right. I mean, we thought of it, I guess two hours, 50. So it's when you stand up.

Fitsy wouldn't get that going. Yeah, because it's going up. So it's got to go down this way, probably. Figured it out. Figure it out, Roger. I said that to him a few times. Yeah. Hey, been cow of a relationship, huh? Hilarious.

Just now that we know Bill Cowher pretty good. We know where he lives and they both probably. Oh, yeah, because he's in the area. Yeah. They got dinner very regularly. That was hilarious. The only thing you're ducking is the check and Cowher was like, I got pointed out.

I'm like, you got me. It feels like you and your league have done pretty good. Cowers got ideas. Yeah, he does. And he lets him know. And he's passionate about him. And I don't think he's ever not been passionate about something that he said. I agreed.

No. Every single conversation leads to some motivational speech at the tail end of it. And that's why I insert. His speech to Dylan was. Oh, yeah. On spot. Oh, my gosh, yeah. I knew that was because interesting dynamic.

I have the ability to talk to the boys in their ears. Okay, so the boys all have a, there's a channel right here that says boys where I hit to the boy. Yeah. So they hear me. Okay, this is happening. At the beginning of show, person sitting here could hear that. Yeah, DJ. DJ heard whatever you said.

Yes, exactly. Don't do that. Stop. Yeah. So then I was told. Yes, he did. He said stop. And I was talking about something completely different. I'm like, damn.

I don't need Daniel Jeremiah here what I'm saying right now because I would like to be able to do what we're doing there. Then I was told that they didn't hear it. I never trusted. That's 100% on me. Too risky. Yeah, it is very, very risky. But Coach Cower, another one.

He could hear that. And we told him going in, it's like, hey, coach, there's going to be a chance. I'm going to drop into your ear, okay? That's me just talking about what we need, where we need to get to. Somebody needs to fucking do this. Okay, this is what we need to do.

Don't answer me. Your microphone is still on. Okay, do not answer me. This is a one-way street. At our studio on Thunderdome can come back. Here, one-way road here, pal. You just don't say anything. I get it, I get it.

He's like a Pittsburgh dad when it comes to everything. And then there was other comments. 20 years in the biz. He understands this time. Because, thank you. Does the entire thing. First time last night. First time I go,

Bada, ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Okay, yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, right in the mic, it's like, hey, Bill. He goes, oh, is this the, yes. This is what we talked about. Right now it is happening.

He was outstanding. So good. Just hanging out with him, too. He's great up here, but just even shooting the shit. How about him walking up here that first time? So cool. There's a, there's a video somebody has. It might be the end of my video.

The sun is shining the way it's shining. He has both of his arms up like this. And there's just a bunch of yinsers clap for him. I'm like, that felt like it was out of a movie. Yeah, that was out of a Yinsert was the last name. It was. This place was incredible. Halapino Hanna was getting hammered down there. I didn't know you could just buy that at a pawn shop, by the way.

What? The Halapia Hanam costume. That wasn't her? What is that? That looked like a old Kenny, the kangaroo. Yeah, throwback. That was bought online. She was having a tough time out there.

Yeah, it was a little sloppy. I don't think that's how jalapia. I thought they might. What the hell is Halepinia Hannah? All the Heronians competition. The parogi race. I thought the parogi race. Perugis were just out here and joined the draft.

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Love the way. That was not who was here last night. No. I saw her. She was right there. I did see her. She was here. Yeah. No. She was right there. Yeah, she was right there. A bust-dine version of Halpinia hammie. Maybe Hannah was having a tough day. I told you. She might have just been hammered a long night. All right. Tone, what's the big story of tonight? That's a good question. I think it's going to be the run on corners for sure. Maybe Carson Beck. Carson Beck, a lot of people were talking about him potentially going early in round two.

Cardinals, a team to watch there. So where the quarterback goes, always a conversation. So Carson Beck starting quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. There's a chance. You can see that. Pick 34. That's that's there's there's there's there's, that's there's out there. Carson Beck football life is going to be a great movie.

Oh, it is. Great movie. Hopefully. I mean, three years ago, he's the number one pick. Not actually, but Jacoby coming in. Jacobi is going to come out of season program? Man, Minchew are both there. He's old not.

Oh, they are? They have minchu, I guess. What did you say? Jacoby. Jacobi. He's not going OTS. Hey, I'm going to play and be the starting quarterback all year for your shitty team. And you guys are going to pay me dirt.

Okay, that ain't happening. Give me a fucking starting quarterback salary. 40 mil. And they were like, all right, we went two and 14 with you. Yeah. See you later. I like Jacoby Bresset's staying on business. Yeah, exactly.

Sounds like Jacoby potentially wants to be in another building, too. Maybe. Like, hey, I don't know how many more years we got here. He's been, what, 12, 13? How long is Jacobi percent? I think the Patriots drafted him in 2014 or 2015? So yeah. That's a hell of a career.

Look at a long time. And he was going to win MVP with the Colts. Yeah. Pam Hayward in this city. Who do you walk back? Oh, Quentin Nelson right in his lap. Actually, into his knee. Yeah, exactly.

Oh, until he got hurt. That happens a lot with the Colts. Jacoby is legit. I would take Jacob as my starter. Absolutely. Yeah, if you want the number four pick. Oh. Jeez, Luis.

I get some help around. I love Jacob. He helped raise Drake May. It was the third. Oh, sorry. excuse me great work Connor how do you experience in Pittsburgh good to be here that roller coaster video is one of the greatest things I've personally ever seen we got a lot of I respected now I do I learn my lesson

that thing fought back I had no idea Kennywood still had that turns out Kennywood might be better than ever yes truly fresh coat of paint Gino ain't just putting paint out there no no fresh coat of wool mm-hmm all patterns of Kennywood? Pristine. Candy Collidercope. Connor got knocked that, woke back up, finished the ride, Pittsburgh football.

What ride is this again? It's Stee Curtain. Nine whoopty-woo's, most in North America. Highest whoopty-woo in North America. Still curtains. The fact that you don't have the shoulder straps for all the whoopty-wools is crazy.

That's got to feel a bit vulnerable. Debutt almost one out there too, I think. There was a number of debut on this one out. There was a bit of a wobble there. yeah there was hey hey call man get oh man elbow and not see but out i actually was bored how about you count it's one yeah two oh shit i'm back what what have you gone through the video to see what number whoopty were that was i haven't seen the full start to start to finish one honestly uh but i do think it was probably around like three because really three to seven you're going

yeah three to seven three to eight but really that's not you know just three it's actually 11 because we did it back to back times, okay? So does that act like it was just one run? Yeah, I think the first one kind of mess with my equilibrium. The record is 40 straight. That is fucking absurd. They stayed in the seat?

Yeah, that guy said that. I don't know if I believe that. I was thinking about it. About going 41 times. I didn't want you guys to fucking sit there and wait. No, we would have to all do it. Yeah, we would, I mean. And then just drop like flies.

I'm telling you, I never felt more free. Meeting the maintenance, dude. behind the roller coaster just put me a complete ease I looked at these fuckers and I was like they won't let me die they will not let me die and once you get past the I'm not going to die

it's much better the I'm going to die thought that can be real especially when you're oh my mom I'm in and there's no there is nothing no

the track just goes and there is nothing sitting in a football 228 feet up into the air okay what is that that's 22 stories yeah yeah yeah okay you're just going up steel mill off to the distance you just getting hard you look you're badass is covering up the whole seat you literally can't see anything underneath no you feel like alex honnold you feel like you're actually basically same thing but if you if you don't think you're gonna die what i've learned just from my experience ever doing i'm not hopping on scary roller coasters at this stage of life often no sure just

being able to flip the switch you're not going to die strictly because gino and a boys yeah have certainly taken care of this tony and apollitano leads a great group yeah rickie scozy he's not going to let anything happen us it was a lot better out of something now two three dramamemines yeah had to had to need to have two three dramenes at this stage of life before you go to kennywood that is no questions asked you get on trampoline at this stage of life get a fucking drammie okay you got to do that i also potentially had vitamins is that good out to sure I was having a time my life out there it was comfortable on my thighs so it was fun it was more comfortable than the kangaroo yeah yeah okay so I was having a blast the guy said

Tony to Paul at tennis at records 40 and I was two in there I was like I feel really fucking good right now how well I started doing the math I'm like how long is this if we that would have so when will we be able to get out of here if I was able to do that look for that at one of these Kennywood picnics for me to lock in to see how many times we can kind of get going but you just got to believe that Gino and the boys aren't going to have you dead. And then for Connor, I don't know how you stay awake out there. I generally don't know how you do. Maybe another drama me.

Maybe smelling salts. Who knows? Maybe you tape a smelling salt. Oh, there you go. Yeah, to the stash. Maybe put some biofreeze on my chin or something like that. That might help. Maybe in your eyes.

Yeah, maybe right below the eyes. Yeah. Pack some coffee beans, perhaps, like a can of tobacco. Put that Carson Palmer shit on top of it. Oh, yeah. stuff yeah that's what you did right i did not do that you got some in your eyeballs at the super bowl a couple of years all time moment that was tough that was the whole time moment i still have a i think about a seat at my house now sometimes how i i used all my yeah well you you really

lathered yourself up i kept a little bit to take home i support cars and paulman's business i use i still use mine no you said you still have it that's five years that was five years ago that was five years ago you still have i go on the website and i order it i'm talking about i support the business the name of it you got it i do i know i don't because i've been through my i thought we were breaking it down oh yeah i know it is what is it what is it i don't want to give it out carson's he's doing a rebrand why would you not want to give it out cbd not support the business some fan you are you really love the product don't you i do it's and bumbers going through a rebrand ah you're in a half day thank you all have fun let's make some noise on

You guys have done a good. Hi, Ray Lidney. Raylan Mainz over there, did we see? See Frats on her? No, where? Right next to my dad. Right behind close. Where's the coach?

Oh, my, Tardios out of your team. Frat, Tardio, Benny. Where's coach? Where's coach? It's straight behind you. With the white. Blades there. I see, Coach.

All right. There was no fights last night. There will be today of that guys here. There will be nothing. Celebration of football. here all goodbye I'm a little bit worried but just with this small group that I just saw but it looks like everybody's here to have a good time yinzicella baby happening tonight is more dreams come true rounds two and three tonight should fly by is

great showcase of what the NFL is which is a celebration of football the NHL and NBA playoffs are happening baseball still taking place yeah big time how are the parts still good pirate student good Boston Red Sox just got shut by the Yankees last night great um tough times up there oh tough times really i got two teams that are looking to win their respective championships please just got off a super ball got off my fucking back not worried about the MLB right now okay trying to win a fuck his daily cup head coach supreme commander not available but in reach day three to draft feels like a pretty big deal

feels like a pretty big distraction one dude is that the new go Great work, boys. Hey, good boys. You guys got some really good lighting. Looks like you guys are maybe over there in controversy. Yeah. Nothing. All good back here.

Yep. I didn't understand what you meant by that at all. They weren't controversy. They weren't in the van with those. Oh. Looks like you guys kind of in there right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, got you now. Quality establishment.

Did you go, Gums? No, I did not. Would love to, though. Now, you want to go where, whiz was gone. I'll tell you what. The way they're having people drive through there, controversies right there might be the best spot. I mean, it doesn't matter what time of day you're going by. You're seeing people out there with butt cheeks hanging out smoking cigarettes in the parking lot. So if either one of those things is something you're interested in,

you're going to find it. Then the casino says hello. Yeah, exactly. What's the money. I'm in a casino. Right now is the only time the casino hasn't been staring at him. for five days. Everywhere we go, the casino is just poking through some trees. Come give me all your money. Yeah.

We went over there a couple of times. Wasn't as packed as I thought it was going to be. Earlier in a week. We all lost. Shocker. Great work. Bar code. That baby called.

The baby called. Audio Caleb stole football from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wow, really? Got an autograph yesterday. That's cool. I'm going to take that one home. That was good play by him.

Yeah, it was smart. Quite a good hustle. Also, audio, pretty good, right? Yeah, it hasn't been bad. Not bad. Yeah, the audio hasn't been too shabby, has it? I don't. It hasn't been.

What's this guy about? What's this guy all about? All right. All right, let's get to hell out of here. We'll see you on Monday. Enjoy the hell out of your weekend. I'm going to do something that I got signed up for. It's going to be very expensive, but it should be fun.

There you go. Oh, man. I think it should be a lot of fun. Yeah. Do you want to pitch in? I don't think I can now. Come on, cheapscape. I think you still got time.

I think you still got time. Don't be a dick, dude. Why don't you pitch in? These people are chained your name. They said they're running the 40-yard dash. Just 50 grand hawk. Just do it. Don't be an asshole.

50 Gs for the people. See, they love it. They want it. Come on. Yeah. Coach started that. No, he did. Yeah, he did.

So you're in for 50. That's nice to you to do that. For the city. For the city. A lot of city. Pittsburgh is beautiful. There you go. Thank you too, brother.

Congrats to you. Congrats to you. Congrats to us. Congrats to us. Ty, you missed it again. Yeah. Faso, great work, buddy. Beautiful, Foss.

Big Fiss, some people call him. Have you Fossil. We know him by his birthday, Mike Foss. Guy's an absolute weapon. He's had to deal with so many different things this week. All the time. All the time. Throughout the entire day.

He likes to wake up and be an asshole like 4 a.m. too. So anytime you see him when the sun's down, just know that we're really, we're really cutting into a scheduled sleep sessions, best of bad. You did great. They did great with the draft. I think game day and ESPN,

the coverage has been magnifying the event, which I think is good news. And let's get to hell out of here. Thank you, Pittsburgh, man. Thank you, Pittsburgh. Thank you, Pittsburgh. Be a friend, tell everyone something nice. It might change their life.

We're in this thing together. Let's have the greatest weekend of all time. Why not? AJ, your final message here to the people. as you're going to be such a good upstanding human going forward when you speak about the great city of Pittsburgh. I am. You know what? Honestly, I feel like I do understand Pittsburgh a little bit more. After spending some time here with Coach Coward, I love it and I respect it. Always have. Some toughest people on the planet are from this very place.

That's right. The toughest, yeah. Well, said. Is that what you said? Some of the toughest people on the planet. There's a handful of spots. We'll see you guys on Monday. Team on me. Thank you all. We should get this actually, huh?

We should do this. Hold on. I'll do this one with this. There you go. Thanks for noise. Team on me. Have the greatest weekend of all time. Thank you for showing up for this city.

Enjoy the hell out of all of it. You deserve it. Team on three. Have the greatest weekend of all time. One, two, three. Team. Devon! Hey, sports fans.

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