The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1614 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL 53 Man Rosters Are Set, Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead, Adam Schefter, Daniel Jeremiah, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

On today's Overreaction Monday Pat, DBut, AJ Hawk, and the boys react to everything that happened over the weekend including 53-man rosters, trades, Bill Belichick’s UNC squad, Stanford Football lead by Andrew Luck, Scottie Scheffler, and more! Joining them to discuss all things ball is Super Bowl Winning General Manager for the LA Rams Les Snead as they gear up for this upcoming season after the highly anticipated return of Aaron Donald; NFL Network Analyst Daniel Jeremiah who dives into his “Best Additions For Teams” and teams that got better this offseason; Senior ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter brings his insight to all things NFL ball as final 53-man rosters were announced as Week 1 approaches; and lastly 2x 12 year NFL veteran and NFL Analyst for ESPN Dan Orlovsky breaks down Pittsburgh’s QB play, the Rams STACKED roster and talks glowingly about Los Angeles’ offense this season. Make sure to subscribe to ⁠youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow⁠ or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbley Bo, the Draft Kings Dundered Up. On this overreaction Monday, August 31st, 2026, this sports program begins now. Football! It's the absolute greatest, and we have NFL teams and rosters potentially selected. We have week zero of college football that has happened. It sees Bill Belichick, the greatest NFL coach of all time, have his biggest win in Dublin, after scoring only 15 points to secure a massive win. And maybe a little bit of a forecast of what this year could look like for the tar heels down there in North Carolina.

Bill Belichick, whenever he took the North Carolina job, say he wanted to develop men. He wanted to, you know, have to have good recruiting classes. We want to turn these boys into basically an NFL academy, and they're going to operate as a 33rd team. Whenever he gets a job down there in North Carolina, alongside Michael Lombardi as the general manager, they missed out on a full recruiting class. Obviously, there wasn't a lot of people that were thrilled that they got hired. It has been a little bit of a chaotic start publicly. Inevitably, in the end, though, they stuck to the entire task of trying to develop a team.

They get a false start first down to win this thing. They obviously score on a safety. And Bill Belichick says this is exactly what I thought would happen. This year's team looks a lot different than last year's team. Obviously, they look bigger, faster, stronger. And Bill Belichick is going to have the boys in every single game if he doesn't get run off the field athletically. So I think what happened in Dublin is fascinating because obviously Dublin is a special place in our hearts with how much they love ball and how much they love potentially the physicality. To see a nice grind it out Bill Belichick football game over there in Ireland to start this entire college football season.

Certainly a beautiful thing. Him holding up the diamond helmet as a trophy as if it was more important than the Lombardi in which he just won a bunch of the – I mean, he was just super jacked up and super pumped. I think him and the boys both have felt a little bit of a bunker mentality on how the writing and studying and the researching has been on Bill Belichick. And we heard Feinbaum this morning on first take and we appreciate him doing what he did. He said, I've been hard on him than anybody. And that's a huge win. You may be looking at a bowl game this year in this entirety. He called him the worst college football coach of all time.

Now, do we feel kind of associated to Bill Belichick, even though I played for the Indianapolis Colts? Certainly. Bill Belichick came on our show once a week. We were able to develop a big, big relationship with him. We learned from him, we got smarter for him. Whenever he decided to go back to college, we said, college. There's a lot of coach. We actually told him, I don't know if that's the right thing.

They just want to get back into football. I think they do want to do the future of football, right? And I think Bill Belichick was thinking four or five year playing here, develop, recruit, get our culture in here. Everybody says he's older, he's older. He's like, what else do you think this guy's going to do with his life? Hey, has he not proven that all he's going to be doing until his dying days is coach football? I think that's pretty obvious.

Just like Tom Moore over at Iowa is still waking up at 4 a.m. or something like that to go watch film with the boys. It's like Bill Belichick will be committing his life to ball. And right now, I think he's committed to proving everybody wrong that has said that he has no chance of being a college football coach and trying to run his ass out of town. Good luck to him. I was happy for him. I was very, very happy for him. That was huge. And then on the other side, TCU, the hell's going on.

Uh-oh. The hell is going on, downer. The hell's going on. They're a national championship just a few years back. I know. They got money from our understanding. Yeah. Anytime he put that middle word in there,

normally there's a little bit of money, right? That helps. That C in there, normally draws a little bit of cash somewhere. I think it's called tides or something shit. I think people feel obligated to the entirety. So what the hell happened at T.C.? Maybe Bill Belichick just made him play left-handed. Yep.

Maybe Bill Belichick did everything he did in the NFL, and now was able to do it in college because he has guys that can maybe keep up in a fist fight with the people they're playing against. That roster looked vastly different than, last year's roster, happy for Bill. Also pumped that we got to experience some college football. I mean, there was some magical months.

You see Stanford, Hawaii, nine-year NFL fit. Darius Jay Butler, Stanford and Hawaii, R-Gai. Andrew Luck, general manager slash coach-slash-plettial practice squad player for the Stanford football team. They got into a dog fight with Hawaii. He was literally out there with the boys. They get a huge win to start the season. I felt alive watching these moments, watching these games. There were some comebacks.

There was good football. There was some energy. It felt real debuts. Absolutely. All the way back. Football is all the way back. We see high school football with the teams. The rosters are made now with the NFL. But to see Andrew Luck out there after, obviously, we spoke with him in Canton, see him out there literally in the trenches, helping his guy off the field. He heard another player refer to him as coach, so we don't know how involved he is on the day-to-day,

but he is fully bought in this Stanford program. It was good to see some good football. Back to that Bill at Belichick win with UNC. It was just a win, just classic Belichick fashion. You always talk about teams when you're playing against a Bill Belichael. check coach teams. A lot of times they beat themselves. It was a lot of times where, you know, fourth down, got turnover on down to TCU early in this game, wearing this analytics kind of go forward world. It was like a fourth and two maybe where he settled for like a 20-yard.

First drive. Yeah. Oh, here it is. But that end up any difference in the game. That field goal and then the snap that goes over his head and you get a five-point win against the same team that blew the doors off you last year to kind of start your college coach football career. We were there on the field.

That first drive was like, oh, it might have something here. TCU did what they did. But yeah, this is a big, big time win for Bill, and obviously for Stanford and Andrew Luck as well. Yeah, good for Stanford, good for Bill. Good for South Dakota States punter. I don't know if you guys saw this guy. He had an absolute bomb to start the season. Mr. Pelham, I appreciate the hell out of what you did, Max. He has a lot of field to work with here. They're up 70 to 7. Stetson could have given up and then potentially does not matter when it comes to this aspect of the game. He ends up with a 70-yard pun here. Perfect ball to the numbers. Gets a great bounce. Returner for.

from Stetson, Don's 63 points, says, I don't want anything to do with this thing. And then I believe that's a baseball swing, I think, as if he hit a home run. And it did feel like football was back, back, back, back, back, back. A old to Chris Berman this weekend. Football also got something else back. And that's Aaron Donald was back. Oh, yeah. Come on.

The talks of tables here at Boss of Connor and at Ty Schmidt, boys. It just doesn't feel real that Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett are going to line up next to each other. Ty, from the beginning of this whole conversation about Miles Garrett going back and being like, Could that entice Aaron Donald to potentially want to come out of retirement? Two years removed, he retired at the peak of football and of his game as a world champion. Said he feels like he accomplished everything at the time. He's like, I had 10-time all pro. I don't know what else, you know, defensive MVP, Super Bowl champion,

changed a trajectory of my life, my family's life, found my wife. I mean, I don't know why I would want to continue to do this. Two years into retirement, I think he was obviously like most football players, especially at the top rigging, maybe getting a little itch, you know, trying to scratch that issue. Working out, how you're doing, keep it moving. See Miles Garrett gets sent over to Los Angeles Rams. He goes, wait a minute. Me and Miles Garrett next to each other, somebody's got to get doubled.

Somebody's not going to get doubled. One of us is not. This seems like a dream scenario of the Avengers. And then he finds out he can get paid $20 million, up to $30 million to do as such. And he doesn't come back until the end of training camp. I mean, this feels like a perfect setup for Aaron Donald and Los Angeles Rams. We'll be talking to Les Sneed here in about eight minutes to hear about how this all kind of came together.

Congrats to all parties over there. This feels unfair, though, doesn't it? Yeah. It feels a little bit unfair. Shouldn't if he had to go back into like a draft or something? Like, when you get retired, you've got to go back. You won't come back. You can get drafted.

That's not a bad idea. So like the Colts, who I don't know if we have 20 million. Honestly, there's been reporting. People are saying you do. There's people saying we got a lot of money. Who knows? Where we ever, how does this happen? And doesn't this feel a little like cheating?

Because what they did in the back end as well this off season? You're an NFC, Green Bay Packers owner. I am new NFC Seattle Seahawks fan. I like that. And I love what they're doing. So I don't necessarily look. This feels unfair, Ty Schmidt. Yeah, it does feel unfair.

And we've known this was going to happen all along. From the first time you kind of called Aaron Donald up there and, you know, had your correspondence with him, we knew. It was just a matter of time. We didn't know exactly when it was going to happen. Hey, maybe he'll wait until after Australia or whatever the case may be. But, yeah, it was kind of just perfect timing. Every time we saw one of these workout videos come out, it's like, oh, wow, this guy,

looks like he played last season. It doesn't look like he ever left. And I think you've kind of been trying to just put it out of your mind a little bit. I mean, him coming back, that very reminiscent of Jordan. And I think it's kind of like the same thing. You got a guy this dominant coming out and coming back to a team who on paper was already a very heavy favorite to win the Super Bowl. And, man, I'm just thinking of the other guys on the defensive line for the Rams

who are maybe like in line to get paid like next year or the year after, who before Aaron Donald, of Miles Garrett, that's great. Some of these guys might have 12 sacks this year, you know? Running scott-ass free. Exactly. I watched him. We've all seen him.

We've all seen him where a guy will get a sack and he's not even touched. And it just runs into him full celebration because those aren't going to come all the time. So let's definitely act like that was something that was hard to do. But if you got Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald on the same D line, it does feel like there's going to be a lot of people kind of forgotten about in the preparation. And then on the back end here, if you're going to get to a quarterback like that, corners, from my understanding, that is incredible news.

Oh, yeah, for corners, for safeties, even for linebackers, when you talk about coverage, because you can only get five eligible receivers out, but with monsters like this up front, you've got to keep a back end to protect. You got to keep a tight end to protect. And, I mean, I've never seen anything like this. Now, this is if Aaron Donald comes back as the Aaron Donald that he left,

which we kind of all assume he will, but, you know, he hasn't played football, missed training camp, I'm sure, intentionally. and I expect him to still be the mutant that he is, but you just look at these numbers, the TFLs, the force fumbles, obviously the sacks. But yeah, it's going to be a dream control. This will be like a defensive secondary or a defense having to, we're having the conversation about Jerry Rice and Randy Moss.

This is both of those guys on the field at the same time. Like, who do you third down, red zone, just all these different situations. So down after down, I don't know how many snaps he will take, you know, game in, game out, but just preparing for these guys. We always talk about the trenches. It starts there. how do you prepare for 99 and 95? I have no idea.

And on the preparation side, offensive linemen around the NFL, since these two have been in the NFL, have had multiple calls, but two of them definitely check 99 and check 95. Okay, that's just, those are just natural things that are happening. As soon as the team breaks a hot,

eight break, coming in there. Where's 99? Okay, you're looking for 99 immediately, right here. There's a call probably being made. A.D. Wright, even in there. So that tells, okay, center guard, this is where you're staying. So tackle, you're all by yourself out there.

Everybody else kind of floating to the left side. Okay, let's check 95. Okay, guard, you're staying with tackle out there. That's what you're going to do. Everybody else has to make up to it. So now you've got those two on the same fucking defense-al line. I don't know. And the other guys are very, the other guys.

Yeah, the other guys are. The other guys. Very talented. Very productive. So, you know, they're obviously going to get all the intentions with attention. And they're still going to win those. match. They're still going to beat double teams. Now you have these other guys with one-on-ones.

Like as a corner, Trent McDuffie, Jalen Watson, like, I mean, this is a dream come true. Let's go to one half of the hammer. God. Cowboys AP tone. Okay, so they become the odds on favorite by even more to win the Super Bowl. But I guess if you start touching super duper favorite lines in odds, it's not great, says the history tone. Is that accurate?

Yeah, so they went from plus 550 to plus 500 over the weekend after the AD officially coming back. but per Ben Fox of Yahoo Sports, he put it out yesterday. Over the last 30 years, there's been 20 teams who have been plus 500 or shorter, so that means plus 500, 400, 250, whatever. And they are 0 and 20 over the last 30 years on winning the Super Bowl. If you are the favorite of plus 500 or shorter, probably one of the great reasons why the NFL is so awesome.

Yes, in every sport, there's favorites like this, and they tend to win the championship. But in the NFL, parity, everything that can happen during a season, that's why the NFL is the greatest. so doesn't exactly mean the Rams are going to win the Super Bowl this year. Yeah, well, it's going to be hard to see anybody gain a yard against them, but I guess it's going to have to happen. And the Seattle Seahawks, oh, by the way, watch Hard Knocks to see how they feel about it all.

Because there's a lot of the reaction from Seahawks fans saying, all this to stop Sam Donald, all of this just to stop. Good tweet. I believe they were not only Nick, incredible on the defensive side. I saw some people saying all this to stop a ginger guy. Yeah, okay. I'm talking about Sam Darnel. Shout out to him doing it for not only him, his hair color people,

but also just being counted out in his contract right now. Good for the team. Remember, this was a contract that was offered to Gino Smith, I do believe, and Gino felt either disrespected by it or thought it could get more elsewhere. Gino leaves goes to Las Vegas with Pete Carroll. Sam Darnal comes in, takes similar deal that Gino Smith was offered, allegedly, from what our understanding is publicly. We don't know if internally it was different information

of what we were learning on the show. But nonetheless, they got a good contract. up there at the quarterback, and they have a team that's not scared of a damn thing. So that game might be 10-10 going into fourth quarter late, and then who makes the mistake or creates the opportunity on the defensive side? Conman. Miles Garrett-Aren Donald. Yeah.

McDuffie on the backside. We read an article earlier today about less neat, okay, that was comparing him to Warren Buffett, basically. And Warren Buffett, I guess, has these pillars, like the main things he stays with and then he dances. I guess like Coca-Cola and McDonald's like, hey, they're always going to be good. We got to make sure this is good. Need those.

We can dance around here. They were basically saying, let's need huge Warren Buffett fan. And I think Les knows very, the investment world very well. Comes from it, I think, and we'll probably end up at it again if he was to do it. But he said on the defensive side, he likes the tackle we're invested in, obviously edge rusher, and then number one corner. Okay, this offseason. Yeah, genius. McDuffie, number one corner.

Miles Garrett, the pass rusher. And then the D-Tackle, Aaron Donald all joining the team. He's got to be floating around over there. And they're able to pay him $20 million. It's crazy to think what's possible at this stage for the salary cap and this Los Angeles Rams team who are already favored. Insane. And they're probably going to end up paying Aaron Donald $30 million

because they're going to win everything and he's going to hit every single one of his incentives. But, I mean, when has there been a move, at least in recent history, where the conversation on Monday is about, hey, is this team going to win every single game? Are they going to go 20 in 0? and not lose anything. And it's hard to think that they won't. You know, they're going to be favored in every single one of their games. I don't know if they already were before.

There was a few. But now they definitely will be favored. I assumed that before Aaron Donald signed, the odds were already kind of adjusted to him being there. And then once he actually went there, even the sports books had to be like, holy shit, okay, we need to lower this even more. Because if we don't, everyone's going to hammer them.

It is exciting as a fan of the game, but as a fan of a different team wanting my team. to win the Super Bowl. It sucks because it's just you look across the board and you said him, we're talking about their defense. But like, the MVP plays quarterback for him. And they have Karen Williams and Pukukukua and Devante Adams and all these other guys. Like, I don't ever want to hope that somebody gets hurt. No. That's no way. And I don't want to get hurt on the ramp. But there has to be some sort of handicap or something where they have to play the first quarter with only 10 guys on defense or something.

They don't even need a linebacker at this point. You talk about, you know, need a couple guys to fill the hole. They don't need to do that. So they should play with maybe nine guys for the first half of every single football game because there is a chance we're staring down just one of those, hey, we said it before the season, the Rams are going to win, and they go on and go 20 and 0. Who were the 2017 Patriots?

Which team was that? That was the Randy Moss, Tom Brady. Tom Brady set the record for most pass and touchdowns. Andy set the record for the most receiving touchdowns they had. Basically, every single position was stacked across the board, and then they ended up going 18-0. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You know what happens.

Legally, it's the perfect team that ends up not being-in-proved. What are you saying, Bruce? It says 2017. It should say 2007. Yeah, 2007. You said it right. Yeah, okay, got it. So 2007.

Was that team, Randy Moss, West Walker. This is like what a lot of people right now are saying how New England's got their best team since. and then 2007's that team. That's when the David Tyree catch all that shit in the Super Bowl against the Giants. But that team was stacked, but they didn't have Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett. You can't really compare those two teams because on defense, and of course they had fantastic players, Hall of Famers on there, but they didn't have the two best guys by a mile at their respective positions.

And again, like DeBood said, yeah, on offense, they had the greatest of all time. you had Tom Brady and Randy Moss, who, of course, I lean over Jerry, even though some of those Jerry stats, DeBund, kind of told us about our insane, a la Wayne Gretzky, but they didn't have these two. Like, when you have those two players, and then again, the MVP of the freaking league. Like, Stafford shouldn't be able to play. Know what they should do. They need to get rid of that red light therapy thing,

and they shouldn't be able to use it anymore, the Immortal Chamber. Well, you think Stafford's the only one using that? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. None of them on that team can use it. The rest of the league can use it, but no more. Rams in a mortal chambers. I do appreciate the fact that that is

a reasonable thought that this team should have to have some sort of you know, thing working against. Something. They need 10 players, 9 players. Yes. Maybe a bigger football. McVeigh doesn't get a... I like that. Maybe they need a bigger, like a the football has to be like...

Do you see Dionne Dawkins throwing the watermelon there? Everybody trying to catch that. That's what they have to play with. Grease it up. Like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's what has to left-handed throws by Stafford on first Downs. Joining us now as a man to put that roster together. Has never won an executive of the year award.

Interesting. Which is a fascinating thing. Maybe this year. Maybe. Maybe. But I think what everybody wanted to say to him is, yeah, but you're sacrificing the future. You're leveraging yourself. This isn't the right way to do it.

You just want a Super Bowl in your home stadium, man. That's not. But the future's not. And then he's... Never want it. Never. That's because the people that are voting on that are smarter than him. Remember, he's not going to figure it out.

You're leveraging the future. We're smartly. This ain't going to wear it. This is a stupid decision, actually, what you're doing. It's not a good decision. That's what they're saying to themselves, I think, because nobody's ever really been able to just pack the box with studs. Nor should they be able to.

Yeah. Okay, maybe rules are changed because of this guy. Ladies and gentlemen, the general manager of Los Angeles Rams, less need. Yes. Boys are trying to change. How's going, guys? Boys are trying to change rules because the roster you put together.

I don't know if you heard that. They were thinking about maybe you have to play with 10 guys on a football field. I was kind of brainstorming, maybe all-up football. make football a little bit bigger because what you guys are doing seemingly unfair. So congratulations. Congratulations on that. Can you tell me about the Aaron Donald journey? Because I think we talked to you shortly after there was maybe a little bit of interest

or maybe a little bit of intrigue for Aaron. And you told us and everybody that knows Aaron to text him and tell him, hey, now's a good time to remind him that he's a great football player. Can you just tell me about this road and when did you think it was going to be reality? It seemed like it started probably with a text to you. Live on this show, right? That's probably where this whole idea was birth. No. Okay, so you tell us where it was birth,

because we remember Ty Simpson, remember saying, I didn't meet with anybody. I had no meetings with anybody for this entire thing, so we know you're working back there. Can you tell us your side of this and how we got to this point with Aaron? Well, I think it did, I think once, let's call it, once it naturally evolved, I think Aaron explained it well yesterday. And, okay, based on what we were doing, probably based on where he was at in life,

it was like, you know what, maybe I want to do football again. I think the part that if you know Aaron Donald, from that thought of I might want to get back on the field, and then it gets probably with Aaron and is, okay, if I get back on the field, I want to be Aaron Donald. I don't just want to be another football player. So very impressive in what he did from that moment until yesterday. is he put himself through a grueling summer. There was no, there was no, let's go, I don't know, there's no cruises, there was no vacations.

Aaron's summer was, can I do this or not? And there were times where it was interesting, Patty, there were times when Aaron was trying to figure out, is my body going to be sore? Is it going to be able to hold up? And there were times I was thinking, well, if you keep doing, if you keep working the way you're working, there's no way your body's going to hold up. What he did over the summer was impressive, but it was

all to come back and try to be as close to Aaron Donald as possible. Okay, so that's what we were kind of talking about. Like, if he comes back to being Aaron Donald, which we all assume he will, but I think he was wondering himself if he was going to be able to do that. Did you put him through a workout? Were you watching the same videos

we were watching? Like, when does it push come to shove, or was this all on him deciding whether or not he wanted to come back? And then business wise, was it kind of an understood situation at this time of the calendar on what was available? What wasn't available? Because I think when we saw 20 million, it was like, good for Aaron. And obviously, he could have, if he wants to come back and hit the market, there would have been 30, 40, 50 for Aaron Donald in there. So can you tell us a little bit about how does the decision

process go from Aaron to calling you in Sanram Ready? And then business wise, was that already kind of figured out? Here's what I'll give business wise. I'll give Stan Crunky our owner credit. Think about our offseason. Back to the, I mean, it seems like we've all forgotten about the trade for Trent McDuffie, right, and him becoming a well-paid corner bringing in his partner in Kansas City, Kansas City, Jalen Watson. And then we kind of get a bonus there after the draft with the trade for Miles Garrett. And then, let's call it July, August, right?

Hey, one of the pillars in Rams history, Aaron Donald wants to come back. So without staying Cronky being able to go, you know what, this is a unique, rare opportunity, let's try to make it happen. We couldn't have done this. I mean, you're knocking, you're going to talk about budgets. We all have budgets.

We blew through the budget a long time ago. So give Stan credit. I also give the players, give its teammates credit, right? He wanted to come back and play with this group. He had played with some of them, not all of them, and he was looking forward to coming back and joining them. I mentioned the Sean yesterday, our head coach, everybody knows who Sean is.

But for a player of his caliber to want to leave retirement and probably leave, what, two, three years away from a first ballot, possibly Hall of Fame moment to go, you know what, I'll put that on hold to come back and play for you. I think their relationship is special. So it took Stan, it took Sean, it took, right, all the players that he's going to come back, his now teammates for all of this to come together. Yeah, you too, brother. Okay.

We read your little Warren Buffett piece in Wall Street Journal. And obviously, we know your incredible brain and assets and investing. I did go check my bank account. And I was like, wait a minute, that comparisons way off. It just seems like his bank account to mine. It just wasn't jiving. Yeah, but at some point, you know, you'll be able to take advantage of all the lessons and things that you do because it does feel like the pillars in which you have on the

defensive side are smart. If we have a good D-tackle, we're probably going to be good, good pass rusher, we're good, number one corner. Those three will spend whatever the hell you need. And on the offensive side, every position but interior offense alignment, right tackle, and tight end, we feel like we can find people for. Where the stars are is where you have to invest. Let's talk about you investing in all those positions and bringing the stars into LA. Whenever you first did this run, and it was the, you know, F-Dem Picks type run, all the people that are super genius who said, well, let's need sacrifice in his future right now. He's leveraging everything in the future just to try to win this Super Bowl this year. And when you did that, all the Super Geniuses

were like, well, now he's way to go. You ruined everything going forward. Had it down year, but then you're able to reload. And you hit on draft picks right now with what you're doing. McDuffie, Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald, let alone the offensive side, Matthew Stafford signs new deal, Pooka's up, everybody's kind of doing it. What are you leveraging against right now? Where, You said you blew through the budget a long time ago. I assume that was from Kronky, not Southerty. Where are you leverage right now and why? We talk about the executive of the year.

What's everybody saying you're doing completely wrong in this particular case in your eyes? Where are you? Is it next year? Do we not have draft picks? Have we ruined money and cap in the future? We're not going to be able to field a team. Maybe you're not even going to be able to have 11 guys on squad. What is the downside of all these big moves for you?

Maybe we'll go back to your partner's rules next year where, hey, we only have 10 on the field or we're throwing left hand down. Because you don't have enough money. Potentially. Let's put 12 on the field this year. I think. You are. Yeah, maybe 13 with Miles and Aaron, Donald and Muddly out there. Yeah, you are.

That's what we're saying. That's a vision. And you mentioned, let's go to the word stars. Always, stars is one thing. And I think a star actually means right. Some player, especially in football, you did something on the field where while you have, you have risen to the cream of the crop, which is hard to rise to the top. There's a lot of really, really talented.

skilled humans doing their thing on the football field. But at the end of the day, you definitely want to, we definitely want to bring in players that we do think can impact the game, maybe change the maps a little bit. You're never going to be able to play with 11. That's going to be a penalty. They're going to throw a flag. But if at times it can feel like, if it can feel like 12, that's a good thing. That's what we'll try to do.

There's tradeoffs in football. We're going to weigh the moment a little more than the few. moments, but we're cognizant of the future moments. But I do think, I'll keep it simple. We've talked about our era with Matthew Stafford, who's the MVP in this. Let's make the most of that time together, right? We should. We believe that's the right thing to do because we're fortunate to have the MVP on our team

playing quarterback at his age. That's a fortunate thing that we're going to try to take advantage of, and we'll get to the future and the future. God, your team has to love that. That locker has absolutely love that. DeBott has the last question for you here. We appreciate your time. We're actually talking about those 12 and 13 groups

and it makes me think about that tight-in room. I believe you kept five on the initial 53-man roster. Is that more so of like, hey, just keeping our best 53? Or do you guys expect to continue to evolve and use more and more tight-ins like you did last season going forward? I think it's all those things. We wouldn't have kept five if we weren't going to continue using some of that 13 package. Or there's a possibility you would have kept five

if all of a sudden that fifth tied-in was just glaring you your best, one of your best players. Because we always look at it this way is there's 48 they're going to dress. And the in the 49 through 53 or some version of, you know, they're in shirts. They're there in case you need them. They're not dressing. So we try to make that 48, right? The special teams covered are all the position groups covered. But we definitely plan on using the multiple tight-in formation, at least for the time,

You never know. Sean may evolve somewhere along the way in season like he did, yes. We may go to 14. Oh, he's frozen. Oh, Sean, so you're talking too much. 14 personnel. Yeah, Sean was shutting down your internet right there saying, hey, we don't need to hear 14 personnel. Okay, we don't need to. That was definitely Sean.

Yeah, yeah, definitely talking about, especially now with Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald possibilities, you know, in the backfield. Sure. No. Yeah. Not allowed. Yeah, maybe you do go to 14 personnel. You know, there's a chance that you got Aaron Donald, Miles Garrett lined up right there right next to Matthew Stafford. Oh, my.

Triple option. Oh, my. I like that. We need to hire some consultants in this group. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank you. I mean, we will come up with as many ideas as you need. We're expensive. Keep blowing your budget. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. We hear standards willing to pay everything for whatever piece of information. We'll take this off air as we talk about that.

Speaking of air, okay, I said last question there completely wrong. We're heading, you're heading down to Australia. Go ahead, con man. Yeah, Lutz. You've got to go halfway around the world. for week one opener and we found out the, you know, Niners are leaving this Wednesday for the game next week. But you guys, I believe, are leaving the day before, maybe two days before? Technically, are you leaving the same day the game as you fly into the future? What is that play? I think when you do the math in Australia, you're leaving on the same day.

You probably get there the same day. You get there in time to warm up and play. It is, I can't say this as we get closer to the game and we're getting close. to write 10, 9 days out, you start realizing, wow, you lose a day, you gain a day. It is a, I've never been to Australia, but it's a tough plan to plan because Tuesday's now Wednesday and Wednesdays now 30, all those days. We'll see what happens. We'll get there.

We'll warm up and, you know what? We'll play the game. We're going to try to score more points than the Niners. And you know what they're going to try to do? They're going to try to score more points than us. I know that. We've had a lot of battles with this group over the years. That's a huge game down there in Austin.

We know the people of Australia will show up. I like the thought of Sean McVeigh going, only one team in the history of the NFL is going undefated, okay? We lose this game. Who gives a fuck? We're flying 27 hours down to this place. Okay, we will wake up, play the game, come home. What day is it? Who cares?

We're going into a movie, basically, down there. And then the Niners, they're out there this Wednesday. Yeah. I mean, their NFL season starts this Wednesday. I've never seen two polar opposite views on a trip to somewhere, and obviously it's the first time going there, but it's like, does any of it matter?

No. Well, this also sets the stage for every team after. Like, hey, if the Niners, because they're going out a week before. What's that? No, it's obvious. They're trying to get away from substations. Oh, I didn't even think about that trying to get a health place. Could be. I didn't even think of that.

This is a little bit how we travel east. We did it when we went to London last year. I know Australia you go a different direction than when you go to London, but we've kind of done it this way before. So we'll see if it works going. I guess you'd call it West versus flying east. I know this.

We're going to take off from L.A.X and we're going over the Pacific. I call that West. But I think you're also going up over. I don't want to have one of these moments where, you know what, this is a meme and I have no clue my geography and directions. Can we get a map up here? Listen, it's really far.

But I think you're also flying. You fly up over too, right? Don't you? Because the globe, the circumference of the outside of it is a little bit of a Say? Don't do that. See, an Australian flight is one of those ones where you can maybe find that out because they have the little screen in front. He telling you exactly where you're flying.

You're going up over the top of the... A lot of blue. Okay. So it's die. You're heading die here, huh? I think you're going to go this way here if I had to guess. I think. And I think you're coming out down here.

Yeah. Right, right. You're popping on that bad boy right there. You see that, Les? I think that's what you guys are doing if I had to guess. Because, you know, you see... You're a bang. Boom.

You still go up if you can't, by the way, because the globe, you see, smaller. You see, that's right here, D-Butt. You're saying something about it looking like this everywhere. Now, you got this thing. Look, burn. I thought the planet was round. I didn't know it had that flat top. What kind of bog-work cut?

You got the bodge cut up there. I guess nobody really says it's potentially built like this, you know, like your guys is so fine. Yeah. Yeah. The top of the stadium, a little LED boards. All right, well, safe travels down there. We appreciate everything you're doing for sports, man. It's fun to watch your roster come together.

We're all wondering why our teams didn't do it, but congrats of you doing it, pal. Appreciate it. Always enjoy coming home. You're the best. Yeah, safe travels, dude, man. Less need. Yeah, Les.

Never won the executive of the year. That's because everybody was telling me he was stupid. You're ruining your team of the future. That's what they said when it was the picks. Like, why doesn't everybody do this? Well, every other team that had never done that before had to tell their people, their ownership, their fans.

You can't do that. You want me to put the organization into the toilet for the next five, ten years? We're trying to have sustained success here. And then all of a sudden he's like, well, actually, we are thinking about right now. We'll worry about that. We're cognitive of the future, but we're certainly worried about right now. That was a very transparent answer there from Les Needs when he was like. Matthew Stafford, how many years he's got left?

Let's go ahead and win with this guy now. Yeah, that is the best mindset. Like, hey, we finally have, or not finally, because even when golf was there, they went to a Super Bowl. But hey, we have the guy. We have a chance to just go on and do historic things. Why not just do it? It feels like he's one of those guys, though, where he understands that McVeigh gets a ton of love and Stafford. Like, even when they won that first Super Bowl, Cooper Cup was getting all the love. Big Whit one, Walter Payton, man of the year. Like, he almost is like, I don't care. Like, everybody else can take all the credit. And that's what we talked about

with John Schneider right before the show out there. Like, John Schneider never won anything until this past season, probably because of that thought when they won the first one. It was like, hey, Pete Carroll. Like, Pete Carroll, look at the job he's done with this team and how incredible it is. But it feels like after this year, this will be the less need, like, how the hell do this guy do this? He's unbelievable. Other news in the NFC West as we kind of travel around the Pacific area, geez, they're so far over there. Yeah.

That's where your team lives, man. Yeah, well, my NFC team, the CSC off. Yeah, because, hey, you like that, by the way. I love that. I'm watching Hard Knocks. I'm falling in love with this. I'm like, man, this guy is awesome. He's getting after people.

The boys are kind of giving it back, but also it feels like they have a real culture, won the Super Bowl. So you can see a lot of egos potentially. Yeah, right. They pay people, they celebrate people the way they talk. I love the way that building operates. And it couldn't be set up any better for them

because we talk about it with college coaches with, hey, number one ranking for Oregon and Ohio State. And it's like, all right, you got that rat poison, that Nick Saving talks about. Nobody's talking about the Seahawks. Obviously, we're talking about because the hard knocks and, you know, some of their players, but it's all Rams, Rams, Rams, and that's right in their division. You know, they had battles with them last season that we

all saw. So they're still somewhat flying under the radar. So, I mean, that's got to be great for Mike Mack in that building day in the day out to keep those boys motivated. A couple huge trades this weekend. Cowboys sent a third and a six-round pick to the Steelers for a fourth-rounder. And Broderick Jones, you'll remember is after Aaron threw a touchdown. Yeah. Close-line them from the back, kind of a lariat to the back of the next. neck, tackles him down to the ground. Huge prospect, absolute stud of a human when you look at him. I think Pittsburgh Steelers fans are okay with the trade happening, and hopefully he has, just like George Pickens, maybe a little bit better career with the Cowboys. Is that how the

Inzers are viewing this? Yeah, that'd be great for Broderick. He was not going to start for the Steelers this year. He was going to be probably a swing tackle piece. So getting a third and or moving up around from four to three, and this was huge in my eyes. Broder was, the first rounder. And it just never worked out. He got hurt last season. But yeah, hopefully he does great with the Cowboys. Yeah.

That was awesome. We remember this. We all remember this. Band on a clip. One of the best ones from last year. Right after the little. I mean, right in the middle of the air.

He punched him right in the chest before this, too. Oh, man. Godly, who is that? He's one of your tackles, dude. It's one of your tackles right now. Okay. All right. He's a player of the athlete.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right, Adler. He's an incredible player. Joining us now is an absolute stud. And congrats to him. His podcast has officially been announced alongside Omaha and ESPN. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Move the Sticks, Daniel Jeremiah.

Yay! How you doing, DJ? I'm doing great, boys. I appreciate you having me on, man. We got a podcast move. We launched that thing on Thursday, so I'm pumped about that. And I'm just more pumped about the fact that Broder Jones has never called. club me upside the back of the head. So there's also that. I'm happy. I know these humans exist.

Like Herbie gets a little excited and starts hitting and shoving and stuff. I guess there is a breed of human out there who gets really happy and just wants to like fully shove. Once again, I'm not saying Herbie's like that, but he's close. He's right there. Herbie's like kind of on the line of those types of people. I've never really been around one of those guys. I do know they exist out there. And if they do, you got to keep your head on swivel there. Because they're looking for you. And you've got to know that, I think.

Look at the dude in the background, by the way. I love, there's a guy who's like smiling and then there's a player next to him who's really seeing what's going on. We have a very concerned look on his face. But I think everybody's trying to process that whole thing in real time. Yeah. I mean, hey, it was a good moment. Pre-game

head butter. I've had a few of those on the team. Let's go on. Yeah, you got a especially if you're not buckled. Which you aren't. Yeah, and that thing fly down. Yeah, every single time. And they are, though.

And I don't know how they have that capability. We had offense alignment, came on to the team, I think, for like a week, which we'll get into here with Daniel Jeremiah because I think it fits in well. Special teams, people, bottom half the roster. We know that there's a 53-person roster right now, and there's a lot of people excited in putting on their Instagram that they're a part of an NFL team. Not like Dejaun Love, but like they are actually on an NFL team at this exact. moments they're putting it on there. And then somebody

else that's at the bottom of a roster somewhere else will get cut and all of a sudden you're no longer on a team. I mean, I had two breakfasts with guys that thought they'd made an NFL team for the first time. We're so excited telling their family. Holy shit. Look at the story. And then after the second breakfast before lunch, never saw that

guy get. That guy cut, gone, never made the team. I hope. I don't know how that entire thing went. But we saw some offensive linemen come in middle of the season and after the extra point or field goal, they were headbutters with like wherever they came from, like at college or something. There was the first NFL game, so I guess their natural instinct was.

And yeah, like, just going up to that that guy up and all of a sudden just eating a full helmet. It was like, hold on. Brady, Brady was a big, big tunnel. Come get some wake up. I guess that was a little wake up for him, too. Yeah, Willie McGinnis had to calm him down. That was a Super Bowl clip where Willie's like, dude, calm down.

Yeah. There's the pukers before. Willie tells you to calm down. You calm down. Willie's the size of an actual barn. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that man. And he is absolutely.

chiseled. I don't think I'd want any piece of Willie at all No. Okay, let's talk about these rosters that have happened, Daniel Jeremiah. Obviously, you're the draft prospect guy, especially because you are the color commentator for the combine every single year. Or some surprises

maybe for you. You know, we have a couple of different graphics, a couple of different things that you wanted to kind of point out. We won't start with the rookies that. We'll get to that. Let's start with the best editions for teams from Danae of Jeremiah. Look at that. Hey, got a graphic DJ. Look at this. Perfect D.J.

Wow. Yeah, we don't have all the people on there, but we certainly have the opportunity for you to do that right now. Daniel Jeremiah's best additions for teams as we sit right here on Overreaction Monday post-cut day in the NFL. Let's work five to one, Pat. Let's go the forgotten man. Les Need was just on.

They made Trent McDuffie the highest paid corner in the NFL. And it's like nobody even remembers that this whole thing even happened after Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald. But, I mean, that was a big need for them. Think about them in Seattle, JSN and that matchup. So I'm going to go Trent McDuffie 5. I'll go Kyler Murray 4.

I mean, the bar to clear with the quarterback play last year in Minnesota is so low. I think Kyler's going to be great there. I think you get in games where you can run around more. You're going to see things you're not going to see in a practice setting or you're going to see in preseason games. To me, I'm really excited to see Kyler Murray in that offense. Number three, again, a team that needed one very specific thing. That's Denver.

They went out and get Jalen Waddle. I think he's going to have a monster. season with Bo Nicks there. It's going to be run after the catch stuff underneath. They're going to be able to all those design shot plays that Sean Peyton loves to dial up. Jalen Waddle is going to be the recipient of those. So I'll put him at number three.

I'll stay at receiver. I'll go A.J. Brown. Just a legit, a legit one. And to me, that's going to be fun to watch with Drake May. Drake May taking that team to the Super Bowl last year, and then you throw this guy into the mix. You know, of all those 20-24 quarterbacks, big four guys. I think New England

is a team that actually improved the most and their team coming off of the Super Bowl. And then obviously number one, I'll go back to Miles Garrett with the Rams. I mean, they added the best defensive player in football. And then they brought back. Add another one. Yeah. The best defensive player in football.

It's just, Miles Garrett cannot wait to watch him alongside Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald can't wait to watch him alongside Miles Garrett. These are high motor guys. A lot of snaps, too. This isn't like we're just seeing this in like little couple bunches here, a couple bunches there. This is Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett standing up, acting like they're crossing people up before snap. And you've got offensive linemen literally with their knees just kind of shaking on what the hell is about to happen.

And I know, yeah, there's two more people on that D line. It's like the Rams, we just talked to less need. And I appreciate him saying, I'm trying to win right now, bro. We got Matthew Stafford. I ain't trying to do shit. I'm trying to win right now. I'm cognitive of the future. but they didn't think he'd be able to do this.

He continues to do this. Aaron Donald getting $20 million at this stage of the calendar is just absolutely crazy. With incentives up to $30 million, it's like, how do you get a first down? DJ, I don't know how you get a first down against these guys. Yeah, and Byron Young's legit, Fisk is going to be awesome, you know, playing off of Aaron Donald inside and Kobe Turner as well. It's not just those two guys. The crazy thing is I remember being, you know, in the Scouts room and we'd always have these debates and conversations. and one of them one year was, okay, if we're going to value positions, like what impacts

the defense most? Is it an interior pass rusher? Is it an edge rusher or is it a corner? And it's like, well, the Rams didn't have to answer the question. They just said, we'll just go out and get all three. Yeah, and they certainly did. And now we all get to watch these two defensive players of the year next to each other, McDuffey and Watson Eaton in the backside. And then, oh yeah, the MVP on the other side alongside an offense that has the offensive guru calling the plays and Sean McVeigh. Certainly a little bit of a wagon in L.A. Let's talk about rosters as a whole across the NFL.

We saw an interesting thing develop here. Is it too much talent, not enough talent? Dee Butt has a question for you. Yeah, DJ, you talked about you've been in that scouting room, and I know grinding down, getting down to that 53 is always tough. What's your thoughts on more teams? I think we have four teams now keeping four quarterbacks on the roster. That was almost unheard of a few years ago.

What's your thoughts on this? Well, I don't think we get to the regular season. I don't think we get to game day, and this is going to be the same setup with these four teams D. But I think you'll see these teams just trying to buy a little time, seeing if there's other teams around the league that feel like they could upgrade and maybe one of these four guys would do it. It would be tough to roll with four guys eating up those roster spots

through a good chunk of the season. So I think that'll change. I'm curious because they're different situations. The Eagles obviously set at quarterback, so then you're just trying to figure out between those. other three. You don't want to lose the rookie and Cole Payton, but you know, you might stack him up just where he is right now behind the other two. Obviously, Aaron's the guy in Pittsburgh. I'll be curious to see, you know, I would, it makes sense to me if you try and maybe sneak

Will Howard down to the practice squad as we get, you know, closer to game day. And then the Vikings looks like Kyler's, you know, team there. But like, Rosemar, I don't, I like Rosemur, but he's, I don't think he's getting claimed or picked up. So to me, that's a roster spot you could save by sneaking him down to the practice squad. And then the Falcons, they might be the one of all these that would be most likely to carry him a little longer just because of the health situation with Pennix. Yeah, and to him, maybe.

You know, it's like... Jack Strand's a dog. They got the guy. They just need to do it. Jack Stran, baby. We watched him. We watched him. I touched the football.

My daughter touched football after it left Jack Strand's hands in Lucasville Stadium after he ran in for like a... A big old boy. 16-yard scamper. Huge. He's 6-5. This guy is an absolute University of Minnesota, Moorhead, I do believe. I mean, that's a couple weeks back.

I was very impressed with him. Now, granted, preseason football, what can you judge? Where's he put in the ball? What decisions is he making? How's he going about making his decisions? I was very impressed by him. Then you see, he played a lot of football in college. I think he could have moved up,

but he was like studying to be an engineer or something like that. Yeah, that's a guy. Yeah, I wanted to finish up there. Yeah, an astronaut. Yeah, I mean, no big deal. Matt Ryan might really like this, yeah, he should. We have no idea.

What is that major? We didn't have pre-astronauted aptly. What are you? Some sort of engineer. Engineering telemetry. Astrophysics. Yeah, because you've got to be able to build the rocket ship. Yes.

Because if you're an astronaut, you have to be able to, you have to do the engineering about it. And then also you have to understand what, all of the shit. All of it. Broadcast management and marketing, boys. That's where I, that's the train I was riding. Hey. Good train.

You hit it home, especially with this new merch you got. Hey, the boys in the back, I think somebody's wearing one? Nope. Oh, never mind. saving it for tomorrow. We had that new t-shirt smell. We got to watch out. Save it for tomorrow.

Yeah, that was a decision that was made late by one person behind the glass, I will say, because there was a full loud conversation on whether or not we should wear the merch. Beautiful new logo. Awesome. Move the sticks. I appreciate that, man. New Omaha Broadcasting brand management, bro. I mean, you were a major in it.

You certainly hit a home run. Move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah, not an AI podcast from Omaha and ESPN. which we're pumped up about. Let's talk about some of the teams that could potentially be a part of the conversations on Move the Sticks, especially late. Go ahead, Con, man. Yeah, DJ, you just mentioned Kyler there with the Vikings, and there's that stat that every single year, at least four teams who did not make the playoffs

last year will make it this year. There's some obvious ones like, you know, Cowboys, Chiefs, people who are like Bengals, Ravens? Who are some of those teams that you're looking at that will probably have a little bit of a comeback resurgence this season that could make some noise? Well, I mean, the Bengals are an obvious one. I mean, you mentioned them. I'm curious to see what this Falcons offense looks like with Jeremiah, I love healthy.

I mean, the division's just brutal. If you could take that team and park them in a different division, I might be more optimistic about them being able to make some noise and maybe crack the party. But that's just, man, that's brutal, the division that they're in. So it's hard to go there. I feel like the AFC, if you're going to say which of these teams have like Super Bowl aspirations, there's probably more in the AFC. You know, with Bengals, with Burroughs healthy, they got a legit shot.

Obviously, you know, Lamar being out there, and I like the new staff that they've put around him. I think Declan Doyle and him, that's a good match there. So excited to see what that looks like. And then of all the teams, I saw a handful of teams in camp. I kind of came away from the Cowboys feeling like, okay, this is not like Cowboys hype. Like, this is legitimate. They got real dudes, you know, really at all three levels now with that defense.

it's going to be much better. So that combined with Pickens and C.D. Lambs, the best one two punch in the league. So that would be the one on the NFC, I think I'd be most bullish on. I like the one-two punch with Pickens and C.D. Lamb. Pickens is franchise tech. Yeah. Playing. Yeah, motivated pickens.

I'll take that. Yeah, but that's just very rare. Not causing problems about it at all. At all. Just, yep, I'll do it. You know, because most players get very loud, especially all the folks around them about, you need long-term security here. Like, you can potentially get hurt, and this is literally all you'll have.

when we are so close and should be in the time frame in which you should be rewarded for what you've done. That's what he's being told by a lot of people. And he's saying, it's cool. I'm going, let's go, let's roll. Because he loved what he did last year, I guess, with Dallas. He's excited to do it again and maybe up his value even more. But I think that says a lot about the culture that's going on in Dallas. Because I've always been, you know, pretty obtuse about what they got going on, Donner.

Sure. I don't necessarily love. They're giving tours through the building. I don't like the guys are getting washed like their zoo animals while they're working out in the train. treatment and everything like that. Got the sun coming in on game day. You can't see anything. I don't like it.

And they're changing. I don't like that they have office buildings around a practice field because if I'm in your division, I'm renting an office and I'm watching your practice. It's like all these things I've always been very open about thinking that it's so stupid. We're trying to win a game here. Like what are we doing? Nobody else has to deal with this. Then you see like everything that's happening right now down there and it's like, they kind of got it under control? Is everything kind of in a great spot with the Cowboys?

and all those things that used to be called distractions now, like look what these geniuses are also doing down here. You know what? I think you're saying the same thing I'm saying, DJ. Yeah, there's real dudes. There's, I mean, look, I understand it's different there with all the attention that you get. But at the end of the day,

he still comes down to do you have the right guys in place? And last year, defensively, they just didn't have the horses. This year they do. Overshone had put on some weight when I was there. He looked great. J. Sean Barham was awesome when I was out there watching them. He's played great.

in that last preseason game, you got a chance to see him as an off-the-ball lineback or you bring, you have downs. You know, Malachi Lawrence, just be a little patient there. There's a little more development

to take place. But they've got, I mean, Pat, they are so much better. And then Christian Parker's outstanding, you know, as a defensive mind who comes over to call the defense

from the Eagles. So I feel like a lot of times, you know, the Cowboys, everybody gets all pissy. Like, oh, the Cowboys, you guys are always talking about the Cowboys. I'm like, dude, this is legit.

I went and saw this with my own eyes. We're not trying to pump anything up here. Like this is legit, a good defense to go along with what could be the best offense in football. Hopefully they'll be able to close it out. You know, always have a good season, and then it ends terribly, and then they get mocked and ridiculed for even being talked about. I like that they're running sprints without anybody telling them at joint practices. I like that they're seemingly a bunch of tough guys dying.

They got dogs across the board, and they got beasts across the board. Good luck to the Dallas Cowboys. With our eyes, we saw Pittsburgh Steelers as McCarty was trying to piece his team together. There was a guy not participating who's one of the best players on the team. He just got activated from Pup back on to the active, which is a huge deal. Tone has a question about something brewing. Yeah, thank God Joe Porter Jr. did get activated before he had to go on the Pup and miss the first four games. Obviously, you know, it's a injury slash contract situation.

He's from the 2023 class. Obviously, Christian Gonzalez, also from the 2023 class. What are your take on these two guys and them getting paid potentially before the season, DJ? Yeah, I mean, I don't know where the numbers are in the discussion with Porter. and he's a good player. I still think he's an ascending player. He's getting better and better. So I'm excited about his future,

but I didn't think he was sitting there holding all the cards in a negotiation that he'd be able to, you know, you kind of put your wishes out there if you don't get them. Either you kind of do a deal or we play it out and bet on yourself. But I did not anticipate that being a sticking point with them. Gonzalez, on the other hand, that just feels like that's a matter of time. When you got the same agent who had Witherspoon,

they got that done. He's got Gonzalez. The market is well-defined. there at the very top and he's going to be, you know, clearing it. He's going to be at the top of the list. So that feels like one that's pretty cut and dry. I'd be surprised that that doesn't get done. Okay.

So if it doesn't, though, because Vrabel maybe doesn't want to pay a corner allegedly, which was the story that was- Per one guy. Per one source. Per one source. If it doesn't get done, I mean, that's a huge story, I think, coming out in New England in this Vrabel era, because he has been perfect for you guys up there.

And then the Joey Porter Jr. stuff, it's like the Joey Porter name in the history of Pittsburgh Steelers, very important. So we would assume that would have got done. Both these deals we thought would be way behind us at this point, I think. We all thought there was like a domino that was going to fall. And once it falls, all these deals are going to kind of fall in place afterwards. They have not, and allegedly they haven't been close, right? Isn't that kind of both stories here? That's definitely been the report out of New England, which makes no sense because Gonzo has been doing it kind of like we were just talking with Pickens, like the right way. He hasn't held out. He's been practicing. He's been doing everything. And he's one of those guys where it's not like, hey, is this guy in the top. 10, is he in the top, you know, 15? Like, he's clearly one of the top three-rest corners in the NFL, yeah. Yeah, so hopefully they get that deal done before you go into the season because you don't want to have any drama. There was some drama and controversy around Tampa Bay.

They get Vita Vez, his deal done, feel like that's all done. Shout to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They're very kind to me. I appreciate them doing that. I needed that. More than they can imagine. Shouts to Blake Shelton as well. Last question for you.

Yeah. There is obviously some rulings that have to take place, but every year there's obviously some questions. Ty, Green Bay Packers owner has one for you. Yeah, DJ, I know you're not a legal expert, so I won't ask you to, you know, kind of get into the milieu of all that kind of stuff. But both Jonathan, uh, no, I wasn't, yeah, Jonathan Cooper and Josh Jacob put on the commissioners exempt lists. And we saw the Packers already trade for Caleb Johnson. So they obviously have, you know, a lean on how this is going to go. Do you think both those teams are operating under the assumption that these guys are going to be, you know, they're going to be without them for a large chunk of the season?

because these obviously both teams, those are two massive pieces that they're going to need if they want to go do the kind of things they expect to this year. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how long you would anticipate it, but I would imagine you're at least prepared to be without these guys for the first month or so. That's where you have to start. And I don't know how this thing comes down

and what the punishment looks like. But the stuff that's out there serious enough that when you're in a front office, you have to plan accordingly. Now, the good thing from the Broncos, I think that's one of the deeper rosters in the league, and they're stacked pretty much all over the place. So they can buy a little time for that elite defense with Cooper. We'll see how long that lasts.

And then with Jacobs, you know, you already go out there and you make a trade. You know, Marshawn Lloyd health-wise, I think he finished up okay health-wise. I didn't see that he did. He did, yeah. Because I was a Marshaun Lloyd guy coming out of college. I was excited about him. Unfortunately, the guys had not been healthy. So maybe we get a chance to see him a little bit and see what he's capable of doing.

All right, we're just days away from the Niners heading to Australia to start their NFL campaign. By the way, by the way, someone, I was talking to some folks, not in the Rams group, but, you know, talking about the difference between the Rams and the Niners on that travel situation. And the throwaway line was, man, the Niners are going to be speaking with an Australian accent by the time we get the game day. So they're definitely different approaches to how they're handling this. Yeah, Sean McVeigh said, let's not even talk to anybody over there. Okay, let's land, get off the plane, get on a plane, get on a. bus get on the stadium, we warm up, we play.

I hate it. Guess what we do on the way out? Boss, playing forever, boss, home. That's what we're going to do. I can't wait to see who wins and who loses, because there'll be people that say this is how it should be done if the Rams end up winning somehow. Well, you see what happened with their sleep cycle. They actually never left the American Times Zone, which was something that we thought was potentially physically impossible with how far away Australia was. Sean McVeigh found a code in a sleep game. If they lose the game, everybody's going to say the complete opposite. So good luck to both parties. I think McVease want to be home a little bit longer. I don't think, I don't think anybody's itching to block Miles Garrett off one hour sleep or one

day of the day. Yeah, Aaron Donald too. Jeez. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen, move to sticks. Dana Jeremiah. Yeah, DJ. Does anybody want to be in Australia? No. I'll take care of it. flying day of same day we'll fly in there no delays so what i learned going over there is if you're able to stay up long enough that you can fall asleep for the end of the flight and wake up in the morning it does feel like you just got there but you got to be able to stay up i think like 13 14 hours you know what i mean can they do it i think so i think they can certainly figure it out too on the other side goodbye

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Week zero of the college football season is behind us, and there was some magical storylines potentially developing, and then this upcoming weekend, week one of the college football slate. Oh, kicks off with College Game Day Live from Baton Rouge as LSU

and Lane Kiffin host Clemson, we kick off maybe the biggest and best college football season yet. Shout to McQaeda, by the way, doing great reporting over there in Dublin, Ireland. There is a chance that this is going to be the greatest college football season of all time. All indicators have told us that football is better now than it's ever been. In the atmospheres, we know from college football at pass, are going to be better than any sport we have here in the United States of America. Now, I would say the entire globe. The soccer hooligans will get pissed off that I say that, but just know that you soccer people,

We understand you get flares in there and you get drums in there and you have a little bit more extreme capabilities from your fandom and we have massive respect for you but your stadium's also like 30, 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 maybe max. We got 110,000 people

about to lose their mind in certain campuses around the United States of America as dreams of national champions are happening across the country. And even Hawaii. They had a little bit of a run out of there with Stanford.

Shout out of the game. And when Alaska gets a team, I have faith that they will be fantastic as well. But this upcoming weekend starts a journey that we're so incredibly lucky to be a part of. And then the NFL, San Francisco 49ers are leaving on Wednesday to go to their game in Australia. Let's go.

So we're here. Rosters have been made. Stories are happening. Dramas unfolding. And teams, hunting a national championship and a Lombardi have truly begun. Wow. Hell yeah.

We did it. Yes, we did. The toxic tables here at Boston. on that Ty Schmidt. One half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone is here. Nine-year NFL vet. Darius J. Butler is here.

DeButch, obviously the day after training camp and the day after cuts whenever you made the squad is a cool day. But then you're reminded quickly about the amount of responsibility, accountability, and how hard the job is. What do you think is going through a lot of the minds of maybe the guys that are making their first NFL rosters right now? Obviously, first things first, very, very happy. Obviously, for yourself, all the work you put in,

but then the people around your support system, whether as family, your partner, your kids, teammates, former teammates, so you're getting all those texts and calls. And then it's still that anxiety for, I would say, probably the guys that are kind of on that bottom, maybe eight, nine guys, because you're looking at all the different rosters. Okay, if this guy's cut, this guy's available. So that's the tough part about it, but just making it is huge.

And now you can actually start to put your mind into that, hey, preparing for week one. A lot of the starters, the guys who know they were going to make it coming into, they've been thinking about week one since probably a week or two ago. So it's a huge. huge thing, a huge accomplishment for the first year guys, and for a guy maybe going into his 10th year. He made a team. So it's a tremendous journey, man. So congratulations to all the guys out there and made it. Yeah. And so the guys that didn't make it like great football

careers. You know, there's guys being told for the first time in their life and the last time in their life because they're never going to play football again, that they're not good enough. And there's usually some, you know, people get jaded against the sport because the end of it is normally somebody in the sport telling you you're not good enough for it. And anybody that makes it to an NFL camp is good at football. You just got to make sure they make it to an NFL game, though. You know, because some guys get cut, and then, like, Cheverius Ward had my number, and I got like a chain,

and he said next year I can have his number. We got to make sure these people actually make teens around team. That's true. You got to be careful out there. A lot of people scamming up. I watched. A lot of people. 15 of that guy's video?

It was hard to turn off, honestly. And then my alga was like, oh, you like this shit. I'm like, I mean, I guess that this is... Another one. And this one's six minutes all? What was your favorite workout video? So the beach ones, did you see the alternate angle beach? I saw about 10 different angles, but the sled...

Pulled drag. With the helmet. That one... At the resort. Yeah, with the element on. Beautiful backdrop. Yeah, just imagine if one of us was at one of these places. We would certainly have to go up and be like, sir, what's going on here?

This is awesome. Yeah, this one's incredible. Did you see the alternate angle of the beach one? No. Somebody caught him that didn't even know his little scam was happening. There was an alternate angle from the street there at the red light. And they were like, what's buddy with the helmet or something like that running the route? And it's like, he was sending, how do you never think he was going to get?

He had to know he was going to get caught, right? I watched so many. And then there was more that I didn't see. Then I'd see quotes from this. It's basically Leonardo to Gabriel, you know, catch me if you can. Yeah. He was, I mean, he had, you know, great stories. There is.

There it is. Who is this Niners do? Just thinking about sitting there and going, what is this? There's people that are watching this old scam happen. He goes, oh, just, you know, doing it for the TikTok or whatever the case is. The guy was had an answer. I was about sick of staring up his nose, though. Yeah.

Every angle down here, I'm about sick and tired of it. But this is a message to everybody out there. You got to watch everybody out there. Yeah, double check. Yeah. A message to everybody out there. Watch everybody. And I lost more trust in AI, too.

Those AI Google searches. Like, how do you just set that up? How easy is that gimmick? So, yeah, you got to keep your eyes peeled. Why do you think Google recognizes me, but you don't? You know, he said, me and other professional athletes, we call you guys, you know, casuals because you don't really know, civilians, we call you. Because you don't really understand the ins and outs you asked me about my number?

He's doing guilt on this thing. Unbelievable. How do you never think he was going to get caught, though? He's just putting his face on. Oh, everything about. So good. Contract was great. What the offseason for the Niners.

I mean, I still say it. And it's insane. Now they've got to go to Australia. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now. Chan & might bring him. Hey, John Love. I'm not done with Dejaun Love being a football star. I still kind of believe it.

Finish your story. I think I'm pretty, I think he's going to jail a long time. I think they've got a lot of evidence. I think they got a lot of evidence. For being all the Niners? No, no. I mean, maybe you might. seen something I didn't see, but

he was just straight there into staring at dead down. It's like, how do we not catch it? How do we not as a society? How do we not catch this guy earlier? We got to be better too. Us, we got to keep our eyes out for people abusing our sport. Yep, in our lead. This game.

Hey, you want to go do some insurance shit? Okay, get out of our life. Sure. Don't be using us. He even said, Jake Moody, the kicker for the Niners. He's super cool. That's my guy. Moody's like, listen to this. What? That's a good move, though. Because anyone who sees that, he doesn't really know,

oh, this guy's named dropping like kicker. Like, yeah, he's definitely. That's not the first person you would say. Yeah, but as he was saying, he felt good about that. You know that he thought this is it. This is the one. Joining us now, ladies of gentlemen, the man has never had to do this because he's the realest there's ever been. Damn right. He's a college football national champion,

Super Bowl champion, Rotter Cup winner. Ladies of gentlemen, the all-time lean, I was an all-time lean tackler. Ah, Big Bob. A.J. Hawkins. I know Uralga was feeding you this man all weekend for sure. What a wild thing. I didn't dive deep into it.

I didn't watch everything because there's so much footage of this guy working out of the beach. Just watch his training partners. Watch the guy that's playing quarterback for him. Watch the terrible bloop ball he throws him after he sets up like all. Nobody involved knows how to play football, it seems like. No, of course not. But they do have, they had a financial advisor. They had an agent.

They had merch. They had, I mean. Good for him. He finessed money out of people? What happens? It's not good for him, okay? Look at that break. What a catch.

I mean, he was pumping those knees, too, and then right here, this is how he gets so explosive, you know, just kind of dragging it, you know, doing what he's doing. Good hold on the ball. Do you think he played the gimmick live in the resort? Like when people came up and said, what's the deal? You think he's like, oh, I play for the Niners? Or do you think he's saying, I'm just making contact?

No, immediately. You want an autograph or something? You want a picture? Yeah, let's get a picture. Give him a FaceTime, George Kiddo? I got you. Stuff like that, for sure. He has a fake George Kittle that he just goes to all the time, I'm sure.

There's an AI kiddle. Greg Kittle somewhere. What was I hearing? Somebody had a number they could call and it like changed, altered somebody's voice. So they had like a phone call that they'd be able to do with people. Have you heard about this? No, that's kind of genius. Yeah, AI's getting really tricky.

Oh, Kelsey Plum has something like that. Happened to her? No, no, no. I thought, no, she had like something like you can either call or talk to as like a AI for any of her voice. So real responses, it was crazy. Yeah. It was a while ago. Hey, let's keep our eyes peeled out there. That's what I're saying.

Because Dejaun wasn't even AI. No. He added that little extra human spice. Yeah, he's all real. Yeah, so we've got to keep our eyes peeled for all of that. You brought up George Kittle, maybe a potential fake George Kittle. We got some news out of the George Kittle world. Obviously, Shanahan said something about taking a step back and everybody ran with that on the internet. that we believe from our understanding, from source, six, he meant step back to like returning to football.

And from our understanding, George Kittle, breaking, will be a part of team reps, I think, tomorrow. So they head to Australia on Wednesday. Team reps, I believe George Kittle will be back full action tomorrow. That's probably a huge test, you know, before we hop on this plane to get down to Australia. But seemingly, one of the best players in football is going to be back for the San Francisco 49ers.

and I know it's been an offseason riddled with controversy for the Niners, but if Kittles on the field, they're much better than when Kittal is not on the field. And his rehab process had to be crazy, but that's good news, I think, AJ. Yeah, it's huge news. Obviously, in the past and the run game, and he's such a gigantic piece. And, like, also, like, the energy he brings to that team is huge. But if he's practicing with the team Wednesday, I'd imagine he's making that flight, and he's most likely playing in the game, right?

Yeah, we would assume that if he hops on that plane, he's playing in the game. Yeah. AJ, how do you feel about the leaving a week ahead of time versus trying to leave maybe actually calendar day of game in Australia? I love what the Rams are doing. I love this straight business trip. Let's just get in and get out of that place. Are they going to stay at night in the hotel at least? I think there are 24 hours at set. So you'll definitely have a place to stay where they can potentially go snooze. And we were talking about this during the break quickly. For me, when I came back, I was there for the trip was a total of 11 days, but you lose about three days and travel. You know, there's like a day and a half travel each way that you can drop off. So like eight to nine days I was out there. Coming back was trouble. Coming back was bad.

When I came back from Japan, I was over there for like eight or nine days. Coming back was trouble. I'd be waking up at 3 a.m., but I'm up or 2 a.m. And I'm up because it is the complete opposite. So I wonder if McVeigh has heard that from everybody. Like you can beat it going over there. Coming back is always the problem. Maybe he doesn't want to be there long enough to start a new routine.

Maybe he doesn't want the boys to even get in the long-term play. He's doing the long-term play. Hey, we can roll out of bed and win a football game, but we don't want those five, six days afterwards to drag into the rest of the season. Well, that's how long did it take you to reacclimate? Like, if they do it that way, is there a chance that this is bleeding into week, too? Like, where, you know, it took me longer than a week. I think we all remember that because game day was, what, two days after that or three days after I got back.

And I was, it was like 5 p.m. for me for game game. It was like maybe the best I felt for that. Like maybe the best I felt for gave, but it carried into the next week. So for me, it was like a week afterwards. So maybe it's like week two, but maybe it carries back longer. But I think going over, people have a trick. If you can wake up, if you're landing in the morning and you can wake up somehow after a full night's rest in the plane, you can just, you're just having your day. So maybe that's what they're going to try to do.

How long is the flight? 17s. From L.A. From L.A. Yeah, I don't know. To be honest, it was all just, you're just. you're in a time warp. I mean, there's, you're just,

the screen is just blue. You know, you're watching where you're flying? Just blue. There's no lights. Says 16. Yeah, so 16 out. It's all ball here, you know, as far as the coach and, you know, John Gordon and those boys go.

But outside, like the families, it was up for, like, I guess, the Rams families, if you're going on. I know school time, so maybe if you have kids, maybe not, but like the Niners, their people, they're going to be over there for how many days they'll enjoy this, that, and the third. And then for the Rams people,

if they're going the same day too and then just coming right back, like, that'll suck. Yeah, I don't know how it all works out. Joining us now as a senior NFL insider for ESPN, ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schafter. Yeah, Shepter. You look unbelievable, pal. The camera is still batting a thousand. We're talking about the Australia trip. We talked to Les Need a little bit, and obviously Sean McVeigh has his way.

Kyle Shanahan has his way. Why do you think Sean McVeigh inevitably said we're going to go over so close? Is there some sort of science behind all this? I assume they have to be talking to a lot of people. They have spoken to a lot of people. Both of them have. Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVey have come away with different conclusions. The 49ers, as you mentioned, leave Wednesday night.

They get their Friday morning, I believe it is. The Rams go in right before, hours before the game. So barely time to just all I can tell you is this is what the Rams have done for international games in Europe too. I think they played the last time in London. they flew in the day before, played the game, won the game, and flew right back home. So they are of the mind that they don't need to adjust and maybe you just don't do any adjusting. You just go in, play the game and come back. And that's the best way to do it.

But the 49ers, I know they've spoken to a lot of scientists and nutritionists and all kinds of people like that. And they believe the right formula is to go in a week in advance. We'll see who's right. Okay. I can't wait. We're so close to football games. We're right there. We're so close to football games, obviously. Bill Belichick, big win this past weekend.

I know you were counting him out forever, Shefty. I know you were... I never count out, Bill. Never. No, I heard you say it. You're always saying it. You're saying Bill Belichick, this guy's trash. You won't be able to figure it out. We heard it. We heard it all, Shefty, obviously. Sheffner never said that.

There was a lot of people saying that what a win for Bill. He looked happier than whenever you win the Lombardi out there. and I think he's obviously been trying to coach his ass off and develop, and hopefully they continue on a positive trajectory. Let's talk a little bit about NFL teams and things happening around organization. Four quarterbacks in multiple places. This is seemingly an interesting conversation piece because does this mean there's too many good quarterbacks or there's too many quarterbacks that they think could be good,

or is there too many quarterbacks that they think other teams will definitely want? So is it too much talent, not enough talent, a promising amount of talent, why do you think we're seeing roster spots that are very prominent and very hard to get onto like four or three quarterbacks such a more regular thing now than it was maybe what two years ago three years ago let's leave up ari's listed because i think every team is a different situation obviously jalen hurts with philadelphia as the starter tanem rakeas demonstrated potential in the past that they were very high on him at one point even though he struggled some this summer. And Andy Dalton would be the guy that I think if anything were to happen

with Jalen Hertz right now, they would call on Dalton. So you have a little Tanner McKee, the upside, a little veteran experience in Andy Dalton, and you have the rookie and Colpayton. You don't want to give up on a rookie quarterback that you drafted that you see something in, which they clearly saw something, whatever that is. The Falcons, you've got two in Pennix, two veterans, two is on a cheap contract, so there's no reason not to keep him. Penix is your former one. You We still need a veteran backup, which they do, have one in Cooper Rush, and Jack Strand showed out and played well this summer, not well enough to be a starter, but showed enough up to the Steelers, I think all along, we know they like Howard and Aller. Aaron's the starter.

The question was around Rudolph. They didn't get anything in offer-wise that was worth doing, and they like Mason Rudolph as a player, so they're not just going to give up on him right now. It just doesn't make sense. You hold on to him. The Vikings, look, Kyle is the starter. JJ's the former one. I think Carson Wentz winds winds up being the two right away.

First of all, JJ's got the ankle injury right now. He's got a spring ankle that I think is a multi-week injury. And then Wentz becomes the two there. And Max Brosmer would have been the guy that would have been expendable, except they like them. They've seen enough from them. They believe in them. So you're holding out to quarterbacks.

quarterbacks are currency, and if you see something out of a guy you like, you hold on to him. By the way, if Dylan Gabriel didn't have the back injury, it would have been another team with four quarterbacks. The Browns were getting ready to carry four until the MRI on his back showed some type of back injury that they had to put him on IR for. Man, that's saying she just had three touchdowns, obviously. Nails. Yeah, he was looking really good. Wait, this guy should have been talked about maybe a little bit more. He was drafted higher than Shador was hired drafted.

So he ends up with a back injury. Okay, that would have been four quarterbacks there. Inevitably they got to get rid of these guys, though. They're not going to carry this through an actual season. Like, how do you kind of see it shaping out? It's a fluid thing. Like, again, we don't know if there's a team that loses a quarterback to injury, maybe they're calling Pittsburgh for Mason Rudolph.

I mean, that could happen. Maybe there's a team that loses a quarterback to injury and calls the Vikings about J.J. McCarthy. Yeah, and maybe you need a gunner to cover a punt, you know? So, I mean, Schfter, this is. Maybe JJ never plays again. This is coming. Whoa. I hope that was from.

That was from Boss of Connor. I don't love that. Throwing out maybe. But it is like you are sacrificing, you know, you're robbing Peter to pay Paul here in this quarterback room in these places. And these are very important pieces, especially, you know, to bottom half of the roster. But I trust everybody that's in charge of these teams, and I assume they'll figure it out by themselves.

Pittsburgh Steelers obviously a huge part of that particular conversation because who's a quarterback. But also who's the cornerback? AJ has a question for you, Chefty. Chefty, Joey Porter Jr., obviously he was activated from the Pup West. I guess what are the chances that he gets a deal done? When does this happen? And I guess, are we going to see him out there week one? Well, great questions, AJ. And the amazing part is we've got this huge gap now. It feels like today should be Labor Day, but it's not with the way the NFL

calendar set up. It feels like we should be getting ready for games this week. We're not. And so there's time here where they activated Joy Porter Jr. obviously they must feel like his back is healthy at this point in time. They'd like to try to get a deal worked out if they can, but they've got to give him time to get ready for the opener in the event that he's going to be out there on opening day, which would be the hope. So I think it's kind of both sides hoping for what they want here

and setting it up so that he can play an opening day if and when they can get a deal done, which there hasn't been a lot of progress there. I think there's still a lot of time and a lot of questions. I don't have a specific answer for you there yet because it's a little early. We like to see him work out a little bit, says Mike McCarthy. I like to see him in my camp with my coaches. He said, you know, he'd like to see what that looks like.

Obviously, you've got to get the business settled on the back end. Hopefully he's able to do that because we're inching weirdly close to regular season starting, you know. And at DB there you can get exposed. Yeah, you want to, like there's nothing like football shape. You've got to actually play football, especially a position like that. That's the same thing, you know, to be seen where Aaron does. Now we expect that's a mute and that's the first ballot Hall of Famer. But in my opinion, you got to play football.

Like I would hate for as a corner to be going out there with four days under my belt and I'm lining up against whoever he's playing week one. Drake London. Yeah, Drake London, week one. Like, because this guy's, he's matching up with number one guys. He plays a lot of man coverage. And the new coach, Patrick Graham's a new D.C. So you want it.

It's one thing, been in the meetings, been in a walkthrough, but actually being on that field lining up and playing football. I mean, and that division, he's seeing Jamar and T twice a year or two. I mean, you want to start your season, full tilt, feeling great. And I'm sure that's what Joey wants, but he wants his money to which he's earned. We assume he's in shape and doing everything he possibly can to keep himself in shape. He understands what can happen out there, and he doesn't want to go through mentally the thought of, I'm about to get cooked out here. That is not what anybody wants.

Hembo has a stat about Joey Porter Jr. That's certainly one that he has been presenting, I assume, to Omar Khan over there, Pittsburgh. Joey Porter Jr. has conceded a 71.2 pass rating in coverage second lowest by any qualified corner since 23. Who's the other guy's been paid? Derek Sinley Jr. And I assume Joey Porter Jr. is hoping for that. Let's move to another place in the NFL. What the hell's going on?

Tone has a question for you. Yes, Shadda. We just talked about who he is playing in week one, and that's the Atlanta Falcons. That's the only team left in the NFL without a announced starting quarterback. Two, it didn't look terrible in preseason week three. Do we have any indications on when the decision come or what the decision will be? Yeah, I can say exactly what's going on there. want to take a look this week at Michael Pennix and see how he responds, see how he physically

feels when he's out there practicing for a full week, 11 on 11, go through things. And they also would like to see if they decide to go to what it would be like for him to get all the reps working with the ones which he wasn't getting all summer long. He had some injury issues early on. They shared some of the reps. Cooper Rush got some. Jack Strand got some. Pennix and the 7 on 7 drills got some.

And so I think, look, it's not going to be Jack Strand starting. It's not going to be Cooper Rush starting. It's down to Tua and Pennix. And they don't have a decision yet on what they're going to do. And I think Pennix's health this week will go away towards determining exactly how they do that. Okay, you just got a text maybe telling you that they have made a decision. Any updates down there in your hand just south of this camera? Look, well, first of all, we are in almost a witching hour here where the NFL's waiver claim, the wire is about to come out.

So I'm going to guess we get about 25 players claimed on waivers here, starting with the Raiders who have the top spot. They're going to claim Darrell Luter, a cornerback from the 49ers with the first spot. I think that will be the only player that the Raiders claim in the top spot. I don't think it's a particularly deep group of players that are going to be claimed at the top spot. but you're going to see a variety of moves that are going to come down here in the next 5, 10 minutes. We'll see if Will Levis is claimed on waivers.

I just got a text that the New York Giants are resigning Braxton Berrios to their practice squad with the expectation of playing the first game. So these are the kinds of moves we're going to get here in the next, I'd say 10, 20 minutes, but that could be coming out any moment now, Pat, are you waiting.

I'm sure you're very pumped to be live with us right now while this is happening. Hey, listen, it's called multitasking, and you know what? Here's the thing. When the wire comes in, I don't know. I think some people are very interested. We'll go through and we'll tell you if there are any notable names right there on the spot as it's happening in real time. Wow, look at this. Five new seg.

Let's live the wire with Adam Schaefter. Live from the wire with Adam Schaefter. Maybe just call it the wire. The tight wire. Walk in the wire. Yeah. Okay. And we're going to do it right now.

I see you put out some tweets about some players I've never heard of before. What is that all about? That's just like you kind of saying, yeah, I'll do you guys a favor? How's that work? What players have you never heard of? I thought you knew everybody. Dejaun Love? Yeah, I didn't see any updates about it.

I'm surprised he hasn't used your name. I haven't found a video yet where Dejaun Love says, Shafter was just asking me for what my opinion was. He's about to break it. On some stuff. I don't know if you've got a chance to get into the Algo on that. It is wild what the Niners' name was being used as for a while there. Okay, so we'll wait for the way.

wire to burst all over you. Literally, I expect it within the next five minutes. Okay, so as it builds up for the volcanic eruption all over you, we'll try to get some updates on some storylines that are lingering. Let's go up to New England. Conman has a question for you.

Yeah, after we talked about JPJ, but what is the status with Gonzo? Is there any update? Is there some good news? Are they getting closer? I know last week it was like, hey, they're not relatively close. What about right now? Is it, were there good conversations? Listen, I have not heard them getting any closer. Now, again, I expect more conversations to occur with the season

coming up here, but I have not heard they've gotten closer here. In recent days, I got to follow up and check, but they were not close before. I always think that when the regular season rolls around, there's always a push to get these guys signed, and maybe that'll be the case here with Christian Gonzalez. He's a great player they'd like to keep, but they have not gotten close so far, to my knowledge. Okay, rapid fire before the wire. Fernando Mendoza, How long is that? Is Kirk Cousins a starter? What's going on in Las Vegas? You know, I still think it's going to be Kirk. I'd be surprised if it was anybody else other than Kirk at this point in time. I think that's the way it's been trending all long. And Mendoza had moments in the preseason.

There's no doubt his time is coming. He's going to be the starter. He's going to be the face of the franchise. The question is how soon? I was texting with somebody yesterday that are like, sooner than you think. I'm like, really? I don't know. Now, we'll see. What is that? I still think. I think. I think. I don't, I'm not telling you, I think Cousins starts the opener against the Miami Dolphins. I think they want to go to the veteran. I think they want to go to the veteran earlier in the season when there are some tough games on the schedule. At the Raider schedule right here. They have Miami at home at the Chargers.

That's going to be a tough one. At the Saints. Not a fun place to play. Home for the Chiefs at New England. Home for Buffalo. Home for Aaron Donald and Miles Gell. Garrett, at the Jets. That's the one. At Jets would be

well, maybe, but then it's at San Francisco, Seattle, at Denver. See, there's a buy. There's a buy in week 13. And then you have three straight home games. Chargers, Broncos, Titans at Arizona. We're 14, 13. What are we doing? It's the national football league, man. It's the number one overall back.

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I think, I think that they were. would love, they would love to wait until week 13. I don't think that's going to happen. Throw him in the fire. Yeah. Well, I like that you were getting texts saying, he's going to be much earlier than you think.

Who are you texting with? That matters. Is that person in the Raiders organization? Is that not in the Raiders organization? It's somebody around the Raiders organization? Max Mendoza. Is that little Max Mad Mendoza? You know, is that who that is?

We don't know who that is, but. It's just somebody's opinion, and I don't know whether they're right or not. I don't know. I, again, I'm going to hold fast. I believe Kirk Cousins will be their opening day starting quarterback. That's what I'm expecting. I think that Cousins will be the starter early in the season. If he plays well, he'll keep starting.

As long as he keeps playing well, he'll keep starting. If he struggles, they're not winning. The door's open. It could happen anytime. 13 weeks is a long time. How come in their playing? By the way, I don't think, I don't know that they're a good enough team to play well enough for 13 weeks to keep the rookie on the bench.

And these teams are always saying, we're going to be patient with our first overall pit. We're not going to rush the quarterback. And lo and behold, the last six quarterbacks picked number one overall have all started an opening day. So Mendoza would be the first one at seven, not to start an opening day. But the point is, if these other six were rushed onto the field or moved along very quickly, I would imagine the same will be true of Mendoza. But how long?

Is it two weeks? is it four weeks, and the one person felt like it would be sooner, sooner rather than later. But we'll see. Okay, well, I was texting with Tim McFeyer earlier. He said he thinks Fernandez got good off. Okay. There you go. Tim's out of the ticker.

He doesn't watching football a long time. I was texting with somebody else. Yes, he did. Exactly. So he's been seeing balls to get out of hands quick, just like Fernando. Week three at Saints. Is that what you're thinking? Right.

Week one, Miami. Yeah, he's saying week one. He won on the board. Has the wire exploded all in your hands and such? No, but I do have a question for you, Pat. Is this the first time that I can remember you wearing a collared shirt on your own show here? Now, I've had a couple collared shirts in the past few months.

It's not often. It's not often. I know. They sent me a President's Cup in polo, though. So I feel like I'm part of the team because we need to win that because we've been losing a Ryder Cup. So I've decided that one doesn't matter. The President's Cup is one that matters. That's pretty cool. Thank you.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, I feel like I'm part of a team, actually. I'm not. People need to know. I throw it from jams or something like that. You know, that's great. Actually, good call, Shephti. Thank you for doing that.

The grape is so good. We don't have a grape in here. We might have ate through them all. The grape is so good. Good call, Shafty. Shafty, you're a huge part of that story. You're breaking the news that the NFLPA in Joms have negotiated a deal was the thing that made me go, all right, these Jams kids are doing it good.

I like what they're doing. And now grapes available? Yeah. Just know the grapes available and it is delightful. And I believe by the end of the week it should be nationwide. Thank you for that, Chefty. You're a good man. Of course.

You know, the grape, Grape PB&J really does taste like home, doesn't it? It does. It does. It certainly. Takes you back. There you go. And you think to yourself.

Wow. Is that mom proving? Isn't that I approve? It is. And how about your taste buds? They approve them? They certainly do. Are there seed oils in there?

No, seed oil, actually. Funny thing about it is they said seed oil. Get the hell out of it. this thing. And then mom said, wow, I'll prove of that. And dad was like, you know what? If you do, I do, especially more protein. Yeah, boom. 10 grams of protein.

Jam that down your goal. Yeah, and the taste all phenomenal. Now, on that note, I am an owner of gems. That needs to be said, and I am a huge fan as well. So let's make sure that if you're going to have a Pee and J, Jams. Join the gem.

Okay. That was good Qibis. I do like. I hope you like a German do. Grape German, great German, great charming, great German, grape German. Yeah, okay, all right, let's move along here. There is more to talk about in the NFL world as Adam Schaefter impatiently awaits the wire bursting into his phone. No, we're very patient.

We're very patient right now. No, I don't think we've heard that that is just not something that you actually have at all. You know, they say patience is a virtue and that one, you right out from underneath it as you lick your lips looking for the next piece of information that you can tweet. Ty has a question for you. Co-hoes of the Adam Schaefter podcast. Sheffty, do you have any idea on the projected suspensions for both Josh Jacobs and Jonathan Cooper? Because like Matt LaFleur basically said before all this stuff came out,

hey, we expect Josh Jacobs to be a big part of this team this year. But also his court date's not until November 17th. He's on the commissioner's exemplist. But I think you said like the NFL doesn't have to wait until that, you know, court date in order to actually rule. on a suspension. So what should we be expecting here for both of these guys? Well, look, when the NFL puts him on the commissioner exemplist, they do so as a placeholder, like, so nothing can happen.

They just want to kind of freeze time until they can get more information. Now, if we go back and look at it, there apparently is a video that's involved And the details of the video were explained in the criminal report that was filed last week. He was charged with two misdemeanors. And so the league is just saying, we need to see what's going on here. We want as much information. The league, I think, has learned over time that it'd rather be safe than sorry. And it needs to be diligent in its approach.

And the Ray Rice lesson is something. something that the league learned the hard way. And I think the league is doing everything it can to make sure that there's never another example like that again, that if they see somebody that's involved in a situation like that, that the player's not playing football, as he shouldn't be. And so in this particular case, they wrote about the video in the criminal report. I don't know whether the league sees it, whether the video, I have no idea how that happens. But the league is just saying it's hitting the pause button on everything until the league can ascertain what did and didn't happen, what's right, what's wrong, and whether he should or shouldn't be playing

football. And until, like, the league's in no rush to get to the bottom. The league's going to take its time and be as thorough as it can. And he's next scheduled to appear in court November 17. So they're not, they can rule sooner than the November 17 date if they feel like they have enough evidence, but they're not going to rush it and do something haphazardly. Isn't the commissioner's exemption list just so they don't have to make a decision right now? We'll kind of let everything else figure it out.

Yeah. And I think it's a good idea to create this list that they have done to kind of put a pause button on and see if we can get more information. When the time comes for the punishment, it comes. There is some sort of thing set for like 10 weeks into the season, I believe. With Josh Jacobs, I don't know about Cooper. So I guess we'll just continue to keep our ear to the ground as you keep your hands. to that particular phone on this wire day around the NFL.

Shefti, anything we missed there that we should have definitely talked about on this overreaction Monday? Obviously, Aaron Donald to the Rams has happened. We've covered it pretty good. We've covered it pretty good, I think. So unless you got some ground break. I thought there were some big IR additions yesterday, or, you know, players on Popper Eye. Jordan Tyson out a minimum of four games.

Zach Charbonnet, out a minimum of four games in Seattle, which thrust Judarian Price and George Holani into a big role in opening night against the New England Patriots. I thought those were some big additions. We knew Micah was going to be placed on Pup there. He's out a minimum four games and is targeting a week six return against the Dallas Cowboys. By the way, like, I don't understand how he comes up with week six. Like, what about week five with Chicago Bears? Like, are they not worthy of getting back for in time as well?

That was interesting to me, but he's targeting week six against the Dallas Cowboys. and we'll see if and when he can come back. I thought the Green Bay Packers were busy yesterday, trading for a running back, trading for a tight end, knowing that they need depth at both positions. Josh Jacobs, the uncertainty surrounding his season, his future, and the uncertainty surrounding Tucker Kraft, like he's back, but they need some depth at tight end.

Luke Musgrave is still dealing with an injury right now. So they had some questions there. They went out and traded for a tight end for the Rams. trying to think of other players that were placed on IR that are out four games, but Jordan Tyson, Zach Charbonnet, those got my attention. Huge names. Can you tell us quickly, Pop, physically unable to perform is a four-week thing

to start the season, then there's shortened IR and long-term IR now. Can you just kind of classify what all the words we might hear coming up over the next? Yeah, I'll do the best I can. Hopefully I don't get something wrong, but with IR you can designate players to return. I think you're allowed eight players that you can bring back during the course of the season. So you almost have to prepare for that and space out your eight moves that you're going to make because you don't want to bring back seven guys and all of a sudden be the last month of the season

and be out of roster moves for guys that are coming back for the postseason. It's like giving an allowance. You're given eight players that can come back off IR. You have to figure out what the best thing to do is and who's the best player to be brought back. So that's the deal with that pup. You're out of minimum of four games. Then you can be activated. They don't count against the roster.

So that's kind of where we're at with those moves right now. All right. We appreciate the hell out of you. Ladies and gentlemen, that's Senior NFL Insider who's about to explode on your timeline with all the wire transactions. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Schefter. Yeah, Jeffey. Next five, 10 minutes, 15, maybe, still hasn't happened. What the hell is going on here?

Yep, yep, yep. I'm very patient. Oh, I got patience all the time. What are we talking about? I would like a text come through right now telling me that these wires have kind of going everywhere, but it's kind of a race to the first ever tweet. What is the getting the first tweet at? I think everyone's just juiced up, you know, it's just, it's just, you know, it's, It's just football news.

No matter what it is, I don't care if it is a Dejan Love or some other guy. I don't think he's making a team. I don't know. I don't know if now is this year is the year it's finally going to happen for him. But I do know that the designated for return on IR, when that come, COVID, it used to be good IR, you're done. For the whole season. Now there's eight guys. It's like, I don't know why we don't have a lot.

What's baseball? They have a DL? Yeah, they changed at the aisle. But there's like 15 day, 30 day, 60 day. We always wonder because you put a guy on IR because like, let's say it's a bad hamstring. And let's say it's week 12. But you need players because of where you're at, whatever the season is. It's like, dude, IR guys that don't need to be on IR, but they had to because it was the only option.

Guys losing entire seasons for injuries that weren't season-ending type injuries just because that was what they are. I'm happy that they open that. They do that in preseason some players just to hide them. like hey, hey, this player's good, but people don't really look. Yeah, put them all the IR. Boom. Almost like a red shirt year. That's genius.

You can develop, yeah. He used to be able to do that. Now it's like designated return, obviously. The announcement goes publicly PUP to start the season. Interesting. Ladies of gentlemen, joining us now drinking out of a 200-ounce bottle. Nice. Ladies of gentlemen, the very hydrated Dan Rolofsky.

Show that thing again, please. Can we see that thing again? That's gigantic. Can we see what you're drinking out of there? Yeah. Yeah, shout out. A's whole. It's got his name on the bottom.

Never lose it. Porridge, what's in there? So what's what's going on? Do you attach it to like a belt loop? It does. Do you attach it to like a belt loop? How does that work? Do you just carry that thing around?

No. So this is usually for like if we go to games or the beach, this is not like the normal one I use, but the normal one I use, which is probably half the size is getting washed. So I'm just using this one, dude. Yeah, it looks like you literally have a, it looks like it's. That's what our name is on it. I don't have my name on mine,

but this is like when we're going to games or whatnot or tournaments for our kids. Jamberian. Your season around the house. I get it. You want to stay hydrated. We're close to the season. Bring that energy.

Bring that juice. Let's go ahead and come alive. That thing's huge, though. Does this always happen to me? That's too much. Well, it's what always happened? No, it's not. I don't see any of those in a while.

There's not a whole lot of those floating around. You don't do it to yourself at all. Oh, yeah, because maybe people don't see you because you are tall, handsome lad walking through. They'll definitely see your bang, bomp, yeah. I don't use this off.

Like, this is, this is not something come on TV. I understand that. I literally just said it by the one. All right. Why is this always happen to me? And if you need to kill somebody,

someone attacks you. A weapon of mass destruction. You can definitely bunk with that thing. Oh, yeah. Maybe you need to get two of those things so you can do the double bonking. That's not bad. I like that.

Bunk, the bong. Bunk off. Okay, Dan. Let's talk about the quarterbacks around the league. There's a couple positions that are obviously still in question. Down in Atlanta, they don't know who they're starting quarterback is. I assume they thought that would get figured

out by now. Kyler obviously starting in Minnesota. They got four quarterbacks on that particular roster. So is Kyler started for long term? Steelers, they got four quarterbacks there as well. What's the future look like? We know Aaron Rogers is a starter now. Does McCarthy want those guys to potentially get like a year

behind Aaron? One more year in our offense behind Aaron in the quarterback room? How do you see these four jobs all working out? and there's no way they keep four quarterbacks and follow-up state of quarterbacks that each of these teams think that there's four quarterbacks that will either get plucked by somebody else or good enough to potentially play in the future for their team.

Okay, so I think number one, for all quarterbacks, I do think it's a little bit different nowadays in the NFL than it was, I want to call it, five or six years ago. I think we are very much so back to precision being a mandate of the position. I think we had a stretch where precision wasn't as necessary because I've talked about this with you guys. The game was so spread out that the athleticism, the creativity was more of the mandate and precision wasn't necessarily as needed. I think the way that we've watched offensive football evolve over the last four or five years and in many ways go back in time, precision is needed.

I think we went through a stretch in the NFL with quarterback play where the I don't want my. guy to get hit kind of took a back seat and it was I'm okay with him getting hit more than they have in the past because it generates more offense for us. I think once again we are back at that position to doing everything you can to make sure you're minimizing hits on quarterback. So I think that's a blanket statement for all guys. It just feels you're going to hear myself and a lot of us say, you know, the quarterback's feet timing and rhythm and the timing and the rhythm and the the process of the player, the timing of the play. So I think that's kind of something that's very much so back at that position in the NFL.

The four quarterback thing is interesting to me. I don't think teams should carry four quarterbacks. I think three. In Atlanta, the two starting guys are such question marks because of twofold, health and performance. How healthy can Tua be? And then if you've watched two of play in the preseason, there's been sloppiness. on offense in every game. This past weekend, another fumbled snap,

before the pre-snap penalties. You would hope that that wasn't the case for a veteran. I don't know how long Kevin Stefansky thinks they can survive with the ball, not going downfield much. Kyle Pitts looks amazing, which is great, but the ball just does not go downfield much right now. Maybe that's by design in the preseason,

but I just don't think you're going to survive like that. And I think the same question happens for Michael Pennix is, well, what's his availability? So you've got two starters that health is a pretty significant question mark. I think in Pittsburgh, you obviously know who the guy is, but I think you like both of those two young players. You're two, Will Howard, you're one, Drew Aller. I think both of those guys did things in the preseason

that you have to be intrigued by. And so that would be a place that I could sit there and say, deep and forward does make sense. because I wouldn't want, if I was Pittsburgh, I would not want to move on from Will Howard or Drew Aller. I could move on from Mason, but I don't know if I want one of those guys playing for me in a regular season game right now for a team that,

in their eyes, I'm sure, as a playoff contender. Yeah, I think McCarthy has a lot of high hopes for the future with those boys. But I also know Dan Orlovsky, you've never had to worry about like special teams coverage guy down their roster spot 53. Nope. You know, like that is four quarterbacks, wild, but I think the way

McCarthy will sell it is we need these guys for the future of our organization. Do we think watching Aaron for a year is certainly something he wants in the guys, especially as he puts his culture in, and Aaron already knows what it is and knows what the offense is, which is why he maybe wants to keep all of the... Are they going to carry four quarterbacks

throughout the entirety of the season? There's going to come a time where it's going to get really tough, really tough to be able to do that. So I wonder if they're just holding on for as long as they possibly can and learning as much as possible about these guys. Yeah, I'm sure that's part of it. You know, teams are making their waiver-wire claims, and you're seeing if other teams claim quarterbacks

and maybe you can stuff one of them on practice squad and not worry about losing them. I've been a part of teams where, like, you put a guy on practice squad, but you pay them active roster money and to make sure that they won't leave, because that's what happens a lot, as you know. Guys on practice squad,

he can't go from one practice squad to another guy, one practice squad to another practice squad. He has to go from practice squad to an active roster. And so a lot of times they'll work out deals where, hey, we want to keep you on the practice squad, but we will pay you the active roster money to guarantee that you don't leave.

So I can see that happening for some of these quarterbacks in their situations, but you're trying to wait to do it to the last minute so they don't get claimed, I would assume. The Minnesota one's interesting as well. I mean, I would imagine you're keeping all three of those guys and maybe trying to hold Brosmer on practice squad. But I think keeping four is silly outside of, I can see reasons for it, yes.

Yeah, it's just, are you delaying the inevitable, probably, so you can see where other teams stand? But if one of these guys are really liked by another team, they're going to wait until you get rid of them anyways and make the play. Right. But good luck to everybody making these very difficult decisions. Let's go to Les Sneed. We chitch out with him earlier today, Dan Rolovsky. And I said, what are you leveraging? What are people going to say that you are being stupid about it?

He says Matthew Stafford's got a Super Bowl window. So we're going to try to win within that window. And we are cognitive of the future, but we'll figure it out them. Defense getting a lot of the chatter today, but the offense obviously star studded as well. Go ahead, DeBud. Yeah, rightfully. So best roster we've seen put together in a while. But I have just some questions about the offense.

What are your expectations for this office? One of the questions I asked less was it kept five tight ends on the initial 53 men. You saw the evolution of more tight-in usage last season for them. I think after Pook and Devonte Adams, it wasn't another receiver until like eight or nine when it came to their target list. So what are your expectations for this Rams offense? How would it look going into this season? I think it would be a top five offense. I think it's the easiest offense in the NFL to play quarterback under.

And that's a connected thing because the defense will be so good. Obviously, Sean McVeigh is remarkable. And so not minimizing anything that Matthew is going to do, but this should not be a enormous. I think it'll be a top five offense on top of that. I think one of the things that probably did not get celebrated or talked about enough last year was, and this goes a little bit to your point of the five tight ends, at least the initial roster for them, he was the least touched quarterback in football last year. And so there's this overall thought from McVeigh, at least from the style of play is,

we're not going to let this dude get touched. that if we make sure that he's healthy we should win the Super Bowl and one of the best ways to guarantee the health is making sure that that protection is shorted up so this tight ends an extra body and protection we can leak him out he was also the quarterback that was moved the most on those bootlegs and rollouts last year and so that's part of their design and when you're putting all those tight ends on the field and those multiple and the different versions of their tight ends I think you're just not only present personnel problems to teams debunk?

I think you're presenting schematic problems to teams of, okay, this tight ends their pass catcher, this tight ends their dual threat, this tight ends the do it all, this tight ends a little bit more of a pass blocker, this tight ends a little bit more in their run game. And, you know, I think you're presenting some really unique scheme stuff to defense is that they just aren't seeing on a week-to-week basis, certainly not the way that it's going to be deployed. So I really believe this is a lot about making sure that. that they keep the quarterback as clean as possible.

I mean, we've spent a better part of this particular program already. Everybody's talked about it. Aaron Donald coming back on that defensive side at this stage for the amount of money they're paying them should be illegal. It's bullshit. It should be, it should be illegal. How do they get first done? How do you get a first down?

How do you get a first down against it? Miles Garrett's been a part of a defense that didn't give up a first down for like eight weeks or something at home. That was in Cleveland. And obviously we got massive respect. for that Cleveland defense how good they are. They didn't give up a first down for some extended to part time. I'm starting to wonder the same thing. How do you get a first down?

They don't scheme them up. Well, maybe. Nah, dude, I was thinking about it like this. I was thinking not like this, being dead honest. Sunday night, you're the offensive coordinator for, I think, week two, they play the Giants. So I'm not going to, Kyle's had more time, but you've got to play the Rams week two and you're the Giants. Sunday night.

Okay, we like this play versus the structure of their defense, the structure, just X's, not actually. players, just bodies. We like this play. And then the next question, or the first question is going to be, can we block this play versus Aaron Donald? Yep, we can. Yet we feel good, coach. We could double team Aaron Donald on this play. All right, cool. Can we run it versus 95 as well? Nope, we can't. All right, throw that play out. Go to the next play. Can we run this play versus Aaron Donald? Nope. All right, throw it out. Can we do this protection versus Miles, Gary, and Aaron Donald? I think your playbook just has to get unbelievably shrunk from an offensive perspective

of these are the things we actually think we can do. And I just don't think you're going to walk into every game with your full book because there's just going to be plays that as a coaching staff you're going to sit there and say, can't call it this week. We can't, we don't have enough people to block it. It's going to feel like you're playing with nine guys on offense, truly. And it's going to feel like they have 13. on defense.

How do you double everybody? I don't know. And then on the back end. It helps us, tremendous. Me, AJ, like, if you got to keep a tight end of chip or you got to keep the back end, and now you're only getting three guys out, maybe a late fourth like that,

for our coverage, that makes us so much better. And Shulip, you know, he was getting head coaching looks last year. I'm sure he'll be at the top of that list again. But, yeah, it's a cheat code. But, you know, it's NFL. But, you know, it's NFL. But think about it like this. Think about it like this.

Just imagine. they take Aaron Donald and Miles and put them on the same side of the defensive line like say it's to my offense is right I have to commit four bodies that way I have to I only have one other body the opposite side for two

so like here comes the tight end or here comes the back again massive advantage and then you guys have seven in coverage I can only get four people out so like you have such How did it get a first down? I'm wondering this, because you know how you were talking about offense coordinator?

Because inevitably that's what you're going to be. I was just thinking about fan watching game. I'm just watching game right now. And you see the PFF rankings across the bottom. It's like on right last year, number two. Oh, yeah, maybe. Miles Garrett, 75th. Maybe they do say that, but maybe there is a sense of feel this year for PFF

for what somebody actually might be. And if they're in the hundreds, maybe don't put it up there. Let's not bury the stars of the night. But whenever they just line it up, the amount of shit they're going to have to say for both of them because the accolades, and then you see them get on the field, they might both be standing, literally. And it's like, how do you gain a yard on that? Because then you know the back end's going to be sitting on everything. And if they sit on anything, it's a pass breakup. Not worth of a double move.

Ever. Never scared of the double move. And you guys are sitting sticks and then on guy probably. And it's like they're just going to be the most smothering potential. You got to run it down their throat. Yep. That's all. 13.

No. Old school, Paul. That's legit. Tush push over and over and over and over again. I know if you're going to be beating them 1310 a whole lot, though, because their offense might be 35 points again. Yeah, but Tush push, I mean, that's one quarter, one drive.

Bingo, and that's what you're trying to do. That's what you need. Shannahan will have, I think you'll have a decent plan because their personnel groupings, at least, you know, what I expect, they do a ton of 21 and 12, so they have more bigger bodies,

and then you got juice and kiddle and guys that can block and they can also so you can dump it down a kiddo for three and he can turn it into a 17 yard game so week one and then you got trent who like if it's anybody i can leave one on the one on island for at least a few snaps it'll be trent and i can you know put some more assets somewhere else so week one will probably you know be the most human version of this defense we see but as aaron gets more comfortable as shula gets more comfortable uh with the defense it's going to be scary hours your seahawks as well i mean who knows how their offense looks because kubyak's gone but you would assume Mike McDonald's going to say something to the boys

to get them fired up enough to go out there and compete. I got faith in the Seahawks want to line up and fistfight, anybody. Bingo. Including this Rams team and McDonald's going to leave no stone unturned. I know that from watching hard knocks. Yeah. Okay, I watched one hour of this team out of an entire week of what they got going on. Made me a believer.

I love what's going on. That's my NFC team, Dano. I don't know if you've heard. And it's really hard to do that. They're the reigning Super Bowl champs, but nobody's talking about it. Nobody's talking about. Not even favors to win their own division. First couple weeks, we're going to assume that maybe Aaron gets back into it.

Is that what we're thinking? Yeah. Because has Miles done a lot of practicing too? No, he's still out, actually. Yeah, he's a ton. But he's been playing. They're already falling apart. Like, I think he'll be fine.

I just saw him float and levitate on. Yeah, exactly. Boxing 65. Right. I think he'll be all right. I watched people watching box jumps for the first time, too, on the Internet. That was fun watching them. How are they doing that?

What was it? That's like, there's some real talent coming out of those. his box jumps, especially the people that land really soft. You ever see? There's guys that, like, float up there and land, like, super soft. Incredible athleticism. We see Miles Garrett dunk. I assume Aaron Dunck. Like, it looks like he's a feather up there

as well. From sitting, too, from sitting makes it even harder. You don't hear any noise when he lands. He's just feather. There was a couple they zoomed in. I saw the toes land, and it wasn't Miles Garrett's shoes. Just, well, let that be known. But the guys are insane right now. The athletes in the NFL are absurd. And the season is

right around the corner. As the Niners and Rams travel around the globe to kick this entire thing off. You're the best. We appreciate you, Dano. Later, boys. Ladies and John is Darolowski. Yeah, Danoski. Yeah, Dan, Dan.

He's Gall and Juga Water. Yes, of course. As we wrap up here on ESPN2 or news? I think two because U.S. Open. Which? But it might be doing it. I don't know. Did you see Fed?

Or was it, was it Fed? Roger Fedder had behind the back. Did you see that against Maconroe? I didn't know. Yeah, they did a little. Oh, yeah, yeah, I did. A celebrity kind of match. little pairing. Yes, and McEnroe won after Fed.

Okay, they won after Fed. So it was Fed and McEnroe, and then he gets a little drop top cross court. Macaro comes back, fed behind the back. Burial right next to Macaro just puts his hands out. It was, I think it was a celebration of Federer. Yeah, it was. From my understanding. Yeah, okay.

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Okay. That was pretty good. Yeah. Pretty good a little show today. Let's sneak up. Here it is right here. Look at this. This is coming from the U.S. Open.

Could you go back to the entire rally, or is that just the behind the back? Yeah, here we go. Event one-on-one. Who cares who our partners are? Let's battle. Ooh, good shot. McEnroe. Oh, cross-court.

Boom. That's hard. Better luck next time. They were literally playing two quarters there. They were just playing two. The other two, McEnroe had no plans. None. I get a chance to really.

Federer too. This is an opportunity here for us to really do battle and it ends the way it does it's beautiful and yes to what you're about to say Joker, they're saying this guy can't do it anymore.

He was sick, real sick. Sick, I'm hurt. Nobody was saying on the internet they were saying this is the downfall of whatever they were attacking him but. He's puking and shit and... Joker, I think his name

will always be synonymous with greatness so anytime he doesn't win people are going to get loud about it. Speaking of, Scotty Sheffler wins the entire damn thing. Congress. baby. Scottie's an absolute stallion. He could have won the quadruple crown if it wasn't for a handful and moth. Remember? You're right. He couldn't grip the club week two of the playoffs.

He ends up winning the finality of it all. And he heads off into the off season, putting together potentially one of the greatest seasons in the history of golf. Tiger Woods has come out and say, great job. This is hold number two on a Sunday. Scotty Sheffler didn't know how close he was until watching before turning in his card, his scorecard afterwards. And you see him actually get visibly frustrated. That should have wanted. That should have wanted.

What are we even doing here? What are we doing here? He started Sunday three back, and the two leaders had to watch him start, almost hit a hole in one, go absolutely crazy. Scotty Schaeffler subbed out his driver, put in his backup driver,

and has gone on an absolute tear during this playoff run. Best golf in the world, best season ever, and potentially ever. And now they're talking about him amongst the greats for sure, AJ. Even the people who are the doubters have to say the respect that he has earned. Well, so he just makes it look so easy. And I'm old enough to have kind of lived through some of the Tiger era when Tiger was dominating.

And every single tournament he was in, you felt like he was going to win. And there's very, very similar feelings when Scottie Shephyler is in the field, especially if he's within striking distance. Oh, yeah, of course. Everyone else is going to take a step back. Scottie's going to shoot 700. He's going to dominate this thing and win and make it look easy, which we all know this is almost,

this is so difficult to do how he wins so consistent. Yeah, and I like how comfortable he said he had an ice cold beer after a while. Because he was outside. They asked him if he'd go inside. He said, he asked if he'd go inside for five, ten minutes, gets some air condition, goes inside, there's a bar in there. Give me a beer. I don't like this.

I'm talking to my family. Get this camera out of my face. Okay. Scotty Sheffler is really evolving and growing into who he thinks he's allowed to be. And we'd like to let him know. Scott, you've earned everything, brother. It has been so much fun to watch from the very beginning of like, oh, this is the guy, to actually sustaining that.

Because there's been a lot of people we've all crowned and thought we're going to take the next steps. Okay, we all thought Jordan was going to make a run. We all thought Justin Thomas was maybe. We thought Rory was going to make a run. He did. I'm not saying these guys have it. We thought Ricky was maybe going to be a guy there for a while.

Dustin Johnson, Brooks, Rombo, Bombo. You name it. All these guys had their runs in golf where we were very thankful for, but we all were maybe crowning the post-Tiger king. Scotty Sheffler came in, and he's kept his foot on the fucking gas. And now he's earned more money from PGA Tour wins than Tiger has. Now, if you adjust that for current models of Tour championships, I believe Tiger's up over 200 some million. And I think you would have to adjust Scotty Sheffler's earlier winnings if it was to modern Tour winnings, because it's obviously different now, than it was just a few years ago. Shout to Live, I guess, is what Deep Button-Liv would say. But there's a lot of money won.

There's a lot of greatness displayed, and there's a consistency and a sustainability to his game that we didn't think was going to be possible ever again in golf. And instead, Scotty's been a guy. It's been fun to watch him. Yeah, that's the most impressive part about any sport. You know, it's one thing when a guy gets to, at least what we assume is like the peak,

but then the longer you can maintain. And I feel like with this sport, you know, we could just be at the beginning. He could do this for another 50s. 15, 20 years if he stays healthy. So that consistency that he has. And going into Sunday, I think was he three back? Yeah.

So I remember looking at it, and I think the odds, I forget what the odds were, but it was one of those times where it's like going into a game with Patrick Mahomes, and it's like he's a three-point dog. And it's like, I got to take this. Like, it's no way he's going to. So that was the same with Scotty and weekend and week out, he just shows up. Now, I remember a few weeks ago, maybe a couple months ago at this point,

a lot of you boys in here were concerned. Oh, top five finishes, top 10, he's not winning enough. I know he didn't win any majors this year, but I would be interesting to see how he feels personally, just within his close circle about this year. Have you heard about the haters of which there were many come out and say he didn't win any majors this year? So I don't want to hear it.

It's like you wanted a whole damn thing. Literally one season and won two out of the three playoff weekends, which they'll have another one of these next year, and then they get to bracket match play. So that's 2028. We still got to go through this particular go through. Sorry. It's been election.

you're fine. Mostly because Scotty Sheffler's been. That is why. Go ahead, AJ. I'm sorry, buddy. No, we're going to thrive. We're going to thrive through the next year until 2028. Exactly. It's not an obstacle. It's an opportunity. It's not another year of what are we doing before it seems like awesome is happening. It's another year to celebrate

what it has been. And what it has been is Scotty Shepard dominating on a golf course. And we love them doing a hand, foot, and mouth took out the quadruple crime. So Scotty's going to be trying to get that next year, obviously. That's probably up on top of the motivation wall, quadruple crime. We know Scottie probably operates like that.

But he has a chance to do that. What a fun year it was. Yeah, it was unbelievable. I mean, 58% top fives, I believe, over his last 100, which is just absurd. And being so good down the stretch to win the PJ regular season and the playoffs and all the events. But I do want to, I would love to ask him, hey, do you think this is a successful season? Because with no majors, I would love to hear what he says. Yeah.

You think he'd say, yeah? You don't think the playoffs or majors? It's only the top 30 guys in the world. That pales in comparison to the majors, because he already knows, like, hey, I mean, like, the proof is in the pudding. If I go out here on the tour, like, I win or I get a top five. Like, that's what I do. And now, so we're, now it's like, hey, he's got to chase Tiger with majors, you know, and he's got a ways to go for that.

So he needs to start racking those puppies up. Because when he plays in these tournaments, news flash. he fucking wins. New drivers. Yeah. New driver. Yeah. Certainly he's won.

Two out of the three tournaments with this new driver. This could be a game game. And that's what everyone said about his irons too. It's like he's, you know, I mean, it's relative to everyone else. But like for him, he's playing like shit with his irons right now. And then we see when he dials in, it's like, it's not fair. Who's the other guy that can make him? We saw Cam like made it.

He was outside of Rory and Scotty. Fleetwood. Who's the next? They don't exist yet. Yeah, they don't exist yet. There's a new class of young guns out there that we've seen a little bit this year. Hopefully one of those guys can be it, but it's not going to be. And I see a big smirk on both of your face.

We know who it is, and he happens to be in the senior tour. The number one showman in golf? We got Shooter McGavin on the PGA Tour Championship. Yeah. His name's Michael Block, also known as Blockie. This man came into obviously fame. Yeah, that's him on golf course. in the lead. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Get up. Yeah. Everyone up. Did you see what I just did? Make some noise. We saw a throw of a golf club on a par three on the T-box. Okay. This is the best one. Bump, bump, bump. I'm in the lead on Sunday, P.J. Thor Championship, Cricket Crazy Life. And it's near the flag.

20 feet. Get that thing out of here. So I'm a block hit. Give me that I putter out. Here we go. Let me dab everybody up. Stop hands. Even a scorecard holder. Yeah, let's go, Blocky. Let's go.

I'm doing a score. You're in the lead. Bang. Boom. I like it. I'll tell you what. The PGA Tour Championships never needed Blocky more than this moment right now.

I was tuned in all weekend for the next clip. He's turning his back. He's walking off putts. Walking off putts. Now, there is obviously a little bit of a other side of the story. What? What do you mean? Michael Block was very open about it.

He was a little bit nervous on Sunday. He ends up getting in third place, actually. Oh, he didn't win? No, he entered Sunday with the lead in a championship, PJ Tour championship round in series, and he ended up in third place. So I had a little bit of a tough Sunday, but made big place, brought a lot of attention,

and I think Blocky knows he's made for the moment now. Okay, and I can't wait to see what he does next. Is this tour all fall? Because I need Blockie, more Blocky. I need more Blocky. I need more blocking. Who's he waving at all the time? Those are his fans.

Millions and millions of Roopies, yeah. Oh my God. Come on, Lance. You, hi. Here we go. Hey. I want to step in line. Walking through lines.

No, he does. He doesn't care. How about PGA Tour Championship? Par three. It's a beautiful draw in there. About 15, 20 feet. Looks good. Obviously, can't tell depth all the time.

It's the senior tour. I thought I was next to it. He gets jacked up. People go crazy for him because they like him. Throws his club, obviously, too, cat. Wait, how close? It's like 15, 20. Yeah, 20, 25.

But it was directly in eyesight. We've all been there before. We've all been there before. You know where it's like tracking, tracking, tracking. What? Yeah, I mean, there's a chance of anything rolled in from where they were standing. This is the greatest showman in sports right now. Is he missed the punk.

He is the mic. He is the mic. The blocky. I love him. Give me that. I'm not a block. He's talking to third. Come on.

You missed his quote, Dan. Because once you read his quote, it's like, wow. How can you not be a fan of Blockie? This guy's talking in third. person. This dude is the man. I want to let you know, Dee Butt. I think you're missing it here. Yeah. Okay, I think golf potentially needs this. Definitely what the game is missing.

Liv would still be alive. It had a man like Block. I put his poster on my wall last night after all this. He has a poster. See, that's one of the things I think. No, I made it. I created AI. Printed it out. I can throw it up. Is it him doing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. shirtless and he looks a yo. Missing it, Dee, but. Come on, dude. I don't think

you get him. Get on board. He almost did the Hulk. He was a close to He did actually earlier. And then he told People, please keep down. Somebody else got a party. It's not just my tournament. It's others. It's BGA.

It's strong, D. This guy's a fucking dickhead. No. No, he is not. Blockie is a great-A cock suck. No, he is not. He sucks. He sucks.

This guy sucks. And listen. Fuck you, man. This is bullshit. I want him to be a blockhead, too. I love a shotgun. I came back around, you know, several months ago. I said, hey, listen, I don't know if my block party invite

I got lost in the mail the first time around, but guess what? I showed up to the barbecue this time around. I'm at the block party. I just, I can't pretend. I'm no longer going to do it, especially when he's doing all this shit. And that's the only thing my Twitter was all weekend. Like, oh, no, you know, like I can't imagine. Need to, need to check it on.

And I just had to say, listen, if you think I'm losing any sleep over this grade A dickhead, you're nuts. Okay, I saw the clip. Sure. I ain't fucking watching this guy. What are you talking about? I put the notice on for him. Yeah, me too. I'm tuning in.

You know what? I got no one. Block. Blockie, Michael, the Mike, golf guard, all these things. And I'm happy for you guys. If you're going to act like a petulant cock sucker on the golf course, you got to win tournaments. And Blocky fucking choked down the stretch and he didn't win, but no, we won't see any of that. He was nervous.

He was nervous. What was the setup on Sunday? Tough. It was tough. No, it wasn't tough. Hey, tell it, Bok. I checked. So out of the top 20 guys that finish in this tournament.

tournament, there were only two that finished over par yesterday. Michael Block, he had the lead after 10 holes. He made it Bertie Putt to take the lead. He only has eight holes left. He's going to be a champion on the tour. He finishes two over. Once again, only one of two players that shot over par in the top 20 of this tournament. He did indeed choke. I love Michael three round. That's your hero. He left out half the story. This is his first time in this moment. What do you want from the guy? He woke up. knees weak, palms are sweaty. Then he got the crowd go a little bit and he was like, wait a minute, maybe this is the time.

And then down the stretch got a little tired out. You got a little tuckered out. The guy's not used to playing 72 hole golf. Did you see what the senior tour did to him too? We all know the Blockley loves to play the power fade. Okay? They set up every hole on Sunday for draw players. They were against Blocky on Sunday.

They were like, I don't know what understand why they're against him, but they were. Because he acts like a fucking son of a bitch dickhead on the golf course. Maybe that's why they're going. It's great for ratings. fucking booze bag it's a son of a rating that's the other aspect of this

that they're leaving out Blockie was the only one out clapping cheeks talking to all the fans the night before okay get boozed up having fun we like Blocky yeah you think for yourself you guys can have Blocky okay you guys can fucking have him

I will say there's a lot of people joining your I'm with Ty yeah stay with Ty just give it time you guys will be here in a couple weeks no I did the full run around I did the full Romo circle on him And also, good news, Champions Tour goes until mid-November.

So we got more. Let's go. Also need him in TGL. If he's not in TGL this year, TGL is making a massive mistake. The newest team, the Motor City Golf Club, as a fan. Blocky, you're invited on our team with Brooks Kepka. Oh, I'm sure him and Kepka would get along swimming. I'd throw a club through the screen.

Blocky really strikes me as the kind of guy Brooks Kepka would love hanging out. They do. You never know. They go on family vacations together. I don't know any of that's true. But I do think that Blockie, he made some great shots. and a PGA tournament there. We did.

And I don't think... Champions tournament. He'd be riding the bowl around the TGL area. Because if you remember, he has played in PGA tournaments and he typically doesn't make the fucking cutting those. That was a long time ago. Let's get that distinct. Sometimes.

So I do think the big issue for Blocky is people are comparing them like Scottie Sheffman. Bingo. You know, because it's both Sunday golf. But when you're buried puts like that and you're making, you know, T-box golf balls dance, sure. Can't help but get a little excited. Block is doing a bull dance, feeling the flow.

He's a player. There's no two ways about it. Okay, thank you. We got to least say that. I'm not saying he sucks at golf. I'm by no means am I saying that. I'm saying I'd love to see, you know, one of these guys on the champions tour take a seven iron

and hit him in the neck as hard as they could. That's what I'm saying. In the neck? Yeah. You're supporting all this. Are you on that side as well? Neck, knees. I stay it with time.

Thank you. Thank you, D, butt. This guy grew up in Divingport, Iowa. Blockie? Yeah. I don't give a. fuck at all. He's an Iowa guy. He's an Iowa guy.

No, he's not. He resists. Guess what? We don't fucking claim it. Block was born in Reno, Nevada. Then he grew up first, he grew up first in Davenport, Iowa, and then he went to the St. Louis area of Missouri. During his adolescence, he played in Gulf in Belarieve at the Belarieve

Country Club, two miles from his home, before graduating from Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri. This guy's a Midwest kid. This guy's a midwest kid. Yeah, yes. This guy's a midwest kid, doing a bull dance. So I got to like him. Guess who else was born in Davenport?

Who's that? Me. I don't give a fuck. Fuck, Blocky. Oh, my God. He's going to be so good on TGL. Oh, yeah. The best.

The hands, because, you know, the drive, the powers where Blocky lacks. Sure. If he was more powerful, it'd be Roy McElwere. He'd be the number one player in the world. Yeah. I heard Tiger was considering him to be his personal proxy, like if Tiger can't play in a match, he's going to have Blocky go out there. Yeah.

Wear Power Red. Keep the ratings up. Blockie's got DUI written all over him in the coming weeks. No way. He's got drivers, which, speaking of it. Is there a tournament here? We need everybody to get drivers, please, immediately. And Blockie, keep going, dude.

He is certainly a hater, but there's supporters out of you to keep doing your thing. They need a shooter McGavin out there at the PGA torch championship. He is. And I would assume, you know, they will be grateful for the attention. I don't know where the next tournament is. We need a group of people who will be following Blocky around. What's that, Ty? Nothing.

I love it. I love it. I can't wait to see more Blocky videos next weekend or whenever the fuck the next one of these tournaments is. And we will because, you know, the golf that people care about, it's not on TV anymore. Well, President's Cup here in a few weeks. Yeah, sure. I do believe we'll have been. Maybe Blockie will be on the President's Cup team.

Should be, Captain. He keeps playing the way he's playing. Ned's right. Captain Block. He keeps playing. I like Blockie. Blockie keep doing it. Keenan Allen, member of the Indianapolis Colts, was charged with DWI this weekend as he was in a car that was parked in a non-parking zone downtown Indianapolis while being inebriated.

So he gets charged with DWI plus also endangering, I believe, DWI, I think because he was in a no parking spot, obviously humans. I think there's a lot of people that wanted to come out and kick him out of town. And then they found out he was like maybe passed out in car inside, which there's a bunch of rules, different states on if you have key in car and you're in car intoxicated, it counts in DWI, someplace if it's within arm reach, some of the car's on, sometimes if keys are in car at all, so people have keys outside. Whatever the case, not smart to get behind a wheel whenever you're intoxicated, but it was nice to know that the car was parked.

Now, do you have to assume that car was driven by him at that point to that space? Yes, but I think it was a good piece of information here that car was parked. He definitely needs to be smarter, especially at this stage of his career. But I think the Colts are going to wait for probably more information. But I think, you know, new city needs to figure it out, and he needs to not do that every game. Well said. Bingo. Lesson learned.

But we need to stop driving when we're in toxic. People need, like as a society, it needs to stop happening. There's so many options right now. Like, there's so many options right now. Uber is everywhere, obviously. Lyft, I believe, happens. I mean, walking is certainly an option. It's just like, we got to be smarter,

and I think Keenan Allen learns that very loudly here in his first couple weeks here in Indianapolis. And now all eyes are on what the Colts will do, also what the city will do, and if there's any punishment, we have some breaking news from Adam Schaefter. He's been waiting for the wire. Former LSU and Buccaneers Edge,

Jack Piperman, was claimed on waivers by the Chiefs. Wow. He has informed LSU that he's withdrawing his claim in the NCAA's 5-4-5. eligibility litigation and will remain in the NFL rather than return to LSU, per his agents, Christian Edison and Harold Lewis. So this was something that was being chatted about in a group text a little bit. These NFL teams could do something very funny here to these guys that if they were to get

cut from a team and clear waivers would potentially be able to go back and play college football because of an injunction that says the five-for-five rule should also have them be eligible for it. Chief's claim, Pyeburn, who is great face paint, led the NFL in Saxis, season and certainly a dog. He's saying I'm not doing, I'm going to go chase my professional dreams. Well, that continue to happen, AJ. We shall see. I guess so. But it sounds like even if guys try to go back to school, even Lane's saying, no, no, thank you. We're not doing this, right? We're going to follow what the SEC and all the people are saying. Isn't that what it's going on right now? I don't think that's exactly what it is. I think working in conjunction with the SEC,

there's a court hearing, I believe, on Thursday in Baton Rouge, I think. And then a big decision by Lane and any other coaches that are potentially having this particular class be deemed eligible. Friday, I guess you've got to set your 105 roster. So Thursday there's a hearing. Friday is the roster setting day. So we're going to learn a lot here on what happens where. But there certainly has been quite an initiative from Sankey to be like, we don't like this in our league. We don't like this at all.

And then there's a Texas injunction that says it doesn't matter if you like it. Like court's saying you can't. So just like the NCAA doesn't have power, you don't have power. And then there was a report that Sanky came out and said, all right. Yep. Well, it's raw. Then there was a report that said, fuck it, we'll fight this. We'll see you in court.

And it's been kind of an interesting seesaw of who I think is going to inevitably end up winning this entire thing. I think Pyeburn's saying, I'm not doing it. I'm going to continue my NFL career is a big deal. And probably part of him hearing all this noise too, not wanting to be a part of it. We haven't even thought about the player's perspective about not wanting to be a part of the negativity that has certainly been around this entire story. injunctions in court case is seemingly going to end on Thursday and then Friday be a big declaration for football. And now, just within the last like 20 minutes, it looks like, I think, it looks like LSU may be getting the Texas Tech treatment where everyone in the conference is just going to say like, all right, that's fine, we're just not going to play you. Okay, so good luck with that and see what happens.

So then they would say, sweet, that would count as a win for us in the court. I mean, I think the Texas Tech situation with Sorsby provided Big 12 Commissioner, Your Mark, to do. something that I think other commissioners are looking at now. Your Mark talks to the NCAA. The NCAA says we have no power over this. We'll get sued by Soresby, which we just did. We can't rule that this guy, which we all agree can't do it because we have no power, inevitably, which is why the Protect College Sports Act needs to happen so an antitrust thing happens for the NCAA so they can empower and do their own rules. Okay, so your mark, Big 12, says, you know what? We can't enforce any of our rules, but we don't like what you did.

And actually, everybody's not going to put, you're getting suspended, they're going to kind of make you an outcast. You're getting shunned, basically, by the Big 12. That is the only real regulation we have seen over the last three, four years of any rules. So then I think Big Ten and SEC saw this and we're like, okay, this is how it has to be done. Now they're trying to do as such. Then an injunction happens in Texas. Now another court case in Louisiana. Just dog chase the tail right now, seemingly.

But if the conference doesn't want something to happen, we're about to find out whether or not it's possible for them. to get the job done in this world with no real regulations or rules. So, interesting way to start a college football season. Yeah. But we're starting it. We're starting it. Let's go. See Saturday at LSU.

Yeah, see, Donner. Going to be in the area in which it happened. Saturday in Baton Rouge, it's going to be. It's going to be incredible. Amazing. Incredible. Yeah. But yes, it is going to be so hot down there.

Oh. I've been looking at the feels like numbers. Don't, don't, don't. My phone actually told me, so I go to the weather app and I go, Baton Rouge, let me see what this looks like. Then I get the Saturday, and then it right there, it like lays it out for me, like more information to better. It's actually 87 or 90 degrees. Going to feel like 106. It's like, I don't need to know that.

Leave me in RV. Leave me in hotel room. It might fry your phone. You might need to bring an extra phone. Oh, you think my phone was telling me. Yeah, feels like you shouldn't bring me outside. Legit, that happens. I feel like that's happened to you before on set.

Yeah, don't burn me out, please. Yeah, it is, it's going to be quite a hot start. Excited for it, though. So pumped. I think we've got ranked games Friday, too. Yeah, we got college football. We got college football. I mean, Colorado, huge questions on are they a football team or not?

Yeah. You know, huge, huge questions. We'll find out with Georgia Tech favored by six and a half. Mendoza's. In Atlanta with Albert. Is that his name? Yes, Alberto. Alberto Mendoza.

Shout out to Alberto. Miami taking on a team we're impressed with. Tough Stanford. They're playing against Andrew Luck every day in practice. I think he's putting pads on, and I think he's running a scout team up there in Stanford. He's running around with him. He's on the sideline.

He's talking as if he is a coach. He is the general manager. Should I? No, I'm going to score a touchdown here opening night and cover potentially here late, as this was an absolute epic battle. but I think Andrew Luck is all in on the Stanford team and until he's not I won't believe in him.

Now granted, take it on Miami, Friday night. Crystal ball. 24 and a half point dogs. Straight out of a lost national championship. You know, what's that going to look like? Excited to watch. It's a long trip. Yeah.

It is way upper. Will the crowd fill a show up there for that particular? No, no. They didn't last week. Miami County should. I don't know. Stanford didn't really fill it up. You know who else didn't?

It was a big conversation piece? Yikes. Hey, USC over there, Lincoln Riley. Oh! That's a huge stadium, obviously. Huge stadium. Yeah. But we were told Will Blackman, who we're big fans of, was there at the game.

He said it was really hot and there's no shade. And it's also early kickoff in Los Angeles. So they're obviously doing comparisons to, like, back in USC's heyday, temperature, time of kick, what it looked like versus what it looks like now. It's just, that was a bad look for U.S. but if they win games, who cares? Who cares? They'll inevitably fill up if it fills up. But what do you say?

Recruits. Yeah, it looks like nobody gives a damn about this. I was just about to say they just got the number one recruiting class in the country. I don't know how that happened. Really? Yes. Oh, wow. Yeah, they have the they had five freshmen start this. So maybe it's just because they're playing against San Jose State. Yeah, but that was

some company sent into the group chat. They played San Jose State in, I want to say it was 2010 or whatever. Same exact weather, places packed out. Packed out, huge. I mean, it was 80-some thousand or something like that in there. So for that to be the display of what your team is, I assume Lincoln-Ronley didn't want

noon San Jose State. Probably not. First week. Can we get a night game maybe so everybody can kind of travel in here and enjoy it? But that didn't look good, especially with what we're going to see in these other places. Yeah. Like what Louisiana is going to look down there, what LSU is going to look like down there is just going to be.

They had a full practice this weekend. Full practice walk-through game walk-through. I guess they didn't. They didn't, They didn't tell crowd, though. They were just going to do it, obviously, and kind of walk through it all. We got banned, we got to fly over. This is what it's going to be, boys. We've got to go through it. Lane probably wanting to go through it one time, too,

to kind of see what it all looks like and how it works before it goes. Allegedly news just kind of trickled out amongst campus like this was happening. And they said they got like 10,000, it just showed up at the stadium like to kind of be there. So to say that they're excited down there, especially with the bunker mentality that they could have with everybody attacking LSU as being a bunch of not-goom men. Yeah.

Just not good people down there is what they're saying. These people are ruining college sports. That could create quite a hive mentality, you know, and going right into it as it actually feels like 106 degrees fired up, boy, that's going to be a great start to everything. Dabo. Dabo on the other side, a good man. And he used the transfer portal a little bit this year.

He definitely did more than in past. But if you look at how teams are built, if you were to just go strictly off of Dabo, it's like, dabble is old school. We're going to recruit or develop. Okay, we'll bring couple transportals in. Lane Kiffin is, who's available? Yeah.

Who can play football? Build a best roster. How do I go? Right now. How do we do that? So just two different, you know, thoughts as we're in the middle of quite a transition period for college football. Great way to start it all. And then, you know, a group of five teams that can sneak their way in there.

Did you see the Memphis Tigers? Yeah. Did you see the Memphis Tigers? Oh, yeah. Leaving them. You and LV walked out with Elvis Presley. Yeah. Hey, Coach Mullins, they got a guy out there who I think I saw breaking them down and he played football.

A long time. UNLV had a lot of hope. Coach Huff there got knocked on his ass right there. In the locker room, he gave a speech that was like, hey, listen, I know I'm hard as hell on you guys. I know it's a miserable fucking existence here. Okay, I know that. But it's not just you players. I also talk to the staff and, God and Billy's on there, buddy.

Shout out. Miss Kathy. Miss Kathy comes. I guess Miss Kathy is seemingly. Because the team and the way the players reacted to me. Miss Kathy was like, thank you, Miss Kathy. And at Memphis, who knows how many things they have for what? You know, like, who knows

what's all possible, what's all available, who has to drum up whatever for whatever all the time down there? So Miss Kathy seems like she is a bit of a beast for the Memphis Tigers, but also Coach Huff, it feels like they got respect for him. And then you listen to the music and reaction immediately afterwards, it's like, they got dogs

in that locker room. And he's obviously been to multiple different places. Marshall, Southern Miss, and now here at Memphis. And I think he's got a couple players that maybe have been all three places for him. So he's got his culture in there. He's got a lot of transfers in there. And I think he's got dogs across the board.

I really liked what I saw that Memphis Tiger locker room. Yeah, like you said, he rebuilt Marshall and then last year at Southern Miss. And he brought 20 guys with him from Southern Miss. So yeah, he does have his culture in there. And you want to talk about like spending and close football. They actually, as far as group of five, group of six, whatever it is now, actually have a little bit more money than you would think because of good old FedEx

down there. Oh, I didn't know. Nice. Nine. Air Memphis. Shout out. Maybe they're able to build a bit of a roster. And then they've got a psycho strength coach.

Love that. When I say I've been, I almost tweeted out, like, it feels like I've been in a locker room or two like this one. Coach is a hard-nosed guy, got dogs across the board who've been counted out. And the strength coach is a psycho. Put this on, please? We start. Oh, you mean. As a.

Hey, David. Hey, Mattie. Yeah. I think, I think they are going to be a problem. I think they're going to be a problem for some teams. And I'm excited to see who does that. I think they got Boise, September 12th. Big one.

Memphis has Boise at Boise, September 12th. So that's group of five convoy obviously comes to a point right there. Yeah, in this era, man, like building these coaches, because coach, you talked about bringing 20 guys, like all these different guys. Because when we're in school, like you go with your recruiting class and usually you stay those, you know, wherever you're three, four, five years together. But now building that coach and when you come out and you see that proof in the pudding, like you see a week one, you go out and get a huge win on prime time for them.

Like that can just propel them even more forward. And I say it all the time. I'm sure you guys would agree. Like a college program, like the strength coach is probably up there with two or three most important person in that building because they really set the tone. You're really turning, you know, boys into grown-ass men. Like when you come in there at 17, 18, and by the time you leave a program at 21, 22 years old, like the bodies, the mentality, like, because you can get through that shit and win a workout

or summer or whatever it is, once the game time comes, like that should be a cake walk, man. So like seeing that type of shit, like the behind the scenes, which we don't get to see with a lot of these scenes, seeing that scene, seeing how everybody's bought in, like that's pricing.

And once again, or not once again, I would like to clarify, we don't know if that's a strength coach. We assume. Assume. Just by looking at that guy, that is the strength.

Exactly, AJ. It's got to be. Or linebacker coach potentially. Or maybe it's a student tutor. Good to be. But we assume that he's a strength coach. But to your point, they're the ones instituting

the culture every single morning, every single day. They are very, very important to the process. And also, here's Coach off. Hey, listen, we'll play music. We don't do ice cream. Okay, we won't do fun stuff. At the beginning of his speech afterwards, he was like, life sucks around here for the players,

but also that's how he got to Miss Kathy. And the players are like, yep, yep, it certainly does. But that's a way to win. And it has been for a very long time. Your attention to detail, accountability, high expectation, everything like that normally leads to success, and he's had a lot of success

everywhere he's been. So, I like what they're cooking down there in Memphis, and inevitably one of those group of five schools is going to go in a run where we're all going to have to talk about them, and then they're going to get in a college football playoff. Absolutely dogwalked by somebody. No.

Maybe. But maybe not. Maybe not. I think Memphis has some sort of record about the amount of wins that they've had over the last few years. Yeah, they've been really good for, yeah. I think they win down there. They do.

That's where Norval started. Yeah. Good of state. Yeah, and then Silverfield just went to Arkansas. Like, that's a factory of, hey, you win at Memphis and then you go get a bigger job. I got a chance to go to Daytona this past weekend. Oh, really? That's right that I thought.

The Cuc Zero 400. Okay. Some racing. Great race. Some rubbing. I'll tell you what, there was a lot of rubbing because it was the last race for playoffs. It was the end of the season. And they wanted to keep it.

Now, I'm in George's anti-tanktop out there. I would be told rather quick. by rules and safety official to get the hell out of here. And that was probably the right decision. And I would like to let that guy know. I appreciate him looking out from me. He's, who, why are you here? He comes up to me and I go, I thought me

the whole of the sign, man. Told me the whole of the sign. And he goes, get out of here. And I go to shake his hand. Like, hey, you're like, get out of here. It gets wilded there. Very wild. And also, obviously, it was shorts, you know, anything can kind of bounce through. It was before the race started. I appreciate them being super safe and super healthy and everything like that. But it was

an incredible. That was my first time, Don Daytona. They have this grandstand that's just one side, basically, the track. It looks daunting, like whenever you go down there. The amount of people camping out, obviously. They do three races down at Daytona. They start the season at Daytona 500. They end it

there for the playoffs. The France family, which I believe founded NASCAR. I think they're from that area. They have an entire thing up to the top. New CEO, Steve O'Donnell. Okay. First non-France family member to run NASCAR. Wow. Got hired in April. of 2026, him and Tim, I believe, Chief Brand Officer, got a chance to chat with them

throughout the entirety of what they're looking to do, how they're looking to do it. They're like, we, we're trying to make NASCAR people happy. That's what we're trying to do. It's like, we might drift it a little bit away, but it's time to. Yeah. Get back. And I like that. I was like a big fan of that because you could feel their culture and community down

there at that racetrack. And obviously, we're here in Indianapolis, so we know the IndyCar racing community in which it is. It felt like that with the NASCAR, felt like a real family. And obviously, I got a chance to, you know, catch out a cold trickle a little bit. No big deal. Nice. Yeah.

Yeah. It was insane. We did not know this is going to happen. I think there was a conversation had with Tom Cruise's folks about maybe a time to have a conversation with somebody who's in the media. And for some reason, Tom's people were like, we should probably try to have Mr. McAfee do that. That'd be cool if he would come down.

So I got to ask to come down very late. Did not know the days of Thunder announcement was coming whenever I was asked to go down there and then I was told it was all happening. I'm like, holy shit, would love to come down there. So we'll have a conversation with Tom Cruise tomorrow that I got a chance to have. Talks about a lot of things. Yeah. It was an incredible setup. And then got to walk the pits with old Tom, watch him operate. It wasn't just him. Brockheimer was there. The head of Paramount was there. I mean, the entire crew was there. They were trying to gather as much information as possible while doing all this promotion. It was like, and when Tom Cruise walks, he would talk about

motion. Holy shit. He's got it. I've never, yeah. It's, yeah. It's, It was remarkable. So shout to the NASCAR folks taking care of me, being so kind to me. It was fun to get to learn a little bit more about your world. Shout to Tom Cruise and the family for the invitation down there. And I can't wait to watch Days of Thunder. I saw a lot of people asking me to stay away from them. I know nothing about the movie.

But I do know is I had a conversation with him about all of the movies that he currently has cooking. And Tom Cruise once again, just. It's TC. That's TC. Did you do the thing that you say? You guys said he always does that he fuck with something in the engine. You grab a tool or something. No, so when I talked to him, we were just kind of standing next to the car.

Just kind of standing. He had a good, cool pose. Of course, sure. He looked really cool, I would say. But there was no, there was no fidgeting of any. He didn't need to. He built that car from the ground up. So it's like, you know, he's not making any mistakes, obviously, with that under the hood.

So he doesn't really need to tweak anything. I don't want to give too many spoilers to our conversation. but he'd been thinking about this for 15, 20 years. I don't doubt it. What's the right way to go about telling the story, getting back into it and everything? And I said, are you going to be a crew chief? Or what are you?

I'm driving. Yeah. No, no, no. No, no. If I'm making an airplane movie, I'm flying the car. Yep. If I'm making a NASCAR movie, I'm driving the car. I was like, okay, yeah, I can't even believe I asked.

People are just trying to figure out how you're going to do it, you know, just trying to figure it out. But he is, you can feel it, you know. It's like irradiating around. But it was an entire team. Got this hat right here. Sick. So sick.

Sweet. Thank you. But you like the original Days of Thunder movie? Yeah, it's fire. You know, high bar right now, though, that F1 movie. Well, there's a lot of people's dream to see that hope that he somehow gets tied into the days. Gary. Come together.

Because he did. Sonny can drive anything. Yes, correct. Uh-oh. That's like very, very fan fiction. Like, that would be all. Okay. Well, I also think that we all.

a little bit more faith that it's going to be good because we saw what he did with the Top Gun Correct. Yeah. Sequel, you know? Like, I think we all have expectation that because Top Gun Maverick was so good. Oh, yeah. Okay, Tom's only going to make it better if he was to do it. And I ask him about that.

You know, I'm like, hey, it feels like if you're picking a movie at this stage, we all just have faith that's going to be good. And then him talking about the team and the crew and how we're setting it up, he's really going for it. What should we expect from Days of Thunder here? I mean, the last one came on a long time ago. but I think just with, I mean, that was like the big thing with Top Gun. You know, a lot of people, the first one,

love it so much because of the nostalgia. But then when you see the second one, the way technology has advanced so much, like the second Top Gun is just as a movie and like as like a piece of entertainment and something to watch, it is a thousand times better than the original Top Gun. Because like the way they can shoot, like they can put the cameras inside the planes now.

Like the stuff, they weren't able to do that, you know, for the first, So same deal. Like the advancements in technology and the way they've made movies has, it's been crazy since, you know, the last time he did this, which was like, yeah, like, you know, damn near 35, 40 years ago. So it's like, I mean, it's going to be incredible. And that's the thing is if TC is doing a movie and like he's very hands on and like it's, you know, the team that he usually has produced it, write it, someone he has directed, like those movies very rarely stink because he stakes like his entire existence. and reputation on him. He takes them very seriously.

It's kind of be the rowdy Burns in this movie. That's a great question. I don't know. What you think, AJ? I don't know. We'll see who's going to be, Dee Button. You already had someone in mind. It's going to be Glenn Powell.

Oh, maybe. New Chad Powers is out, I do believe, on Hulu. But it was a fun, fascinating conversation. Anytime you talk to one of the most interesting people to ever exist, there's obviously going to be nuggets to come up. We appreciate the invite and shout to Daytona. 80 some thousand people in there packed out that that thing is just huge huge because here at the indianapolis motor speedway obviously there's bleachers on both sides and everything like that that one

is just right down one side just packed in it was it was a cool night and those cars lag they got a lot ponies on her you don't have protection down there you don't need to wear ear protection i was asked if i wanted ear protection obviously said no you know the entire thing i'm i don't know if i was doing that to act tough, but everybody else had ear protection around, and I said, I want to hear. Is that him asking you right, dude? They do ask me, I would say within the next three minutes, Gumpy, when do you think? Like, three minutes

after this shot right here, I was asked if I wanted to go out and hold the sign? Was this after I was told to no longer hold the sign? I think this was before and then also after you used that tool, 400 PSI, fucking just zizzing around. They only got a one shot, because it used to be just, right? Changing the tire.

Now it's just just one in the middle. Oh, wow. Oh, I don't love that. And then he put that thing, I think it was 300 PSI, maybe 400 PSI. Whatever I guess.

Fire hose. Guy, this guy maybe, potentially, I don't know if it was Kimbrough, I believe was the name. Mobben Bush here. They hand me the thing, had towel around the head of it, obviously they handed to me.

And they go, hey, hit that thing one time. I was like, all right, I was fucking with it. That thing almost bopped out of my hand. Yeah. Damn. It had some real power It had some real powers

Oh shit So then the second one I was like All right fuck And they were obviously all laughing at me I'm like Oh this thing's This thing's got some real juice Huh?

Real juice And I try to lock into it more Almost breaks my My wrist or whatever So I just Well I can't put it down You know Because that thing's still spinning

Right So I like had to like Weirdly place it so it wouldn't break And I'm like Give me the fuck out of here I should not be touching Any of the race is about to start Okay there and it was

They were very hospitable to us Let alone the three hotth I had up in the France family suites. Did you run it to any former football players on there? I heard this. That's kind of a big coach. A bunch of former college or pro. All the pit guys, former team man in my title,

all the guys. They're all football guys. The pit guys were very kind, which is why I was asked to hold a sign, do the thing, saying the thing. They were all football guys. But yeah, incredibly athletic squad. They were doing practice ones.

Like, as their car would be driving around in the warm-up laps. They were like, watch it go, and then they were, bouncing around and getting back and then somebody come out with a sweeper to kind of clean it all up. It was like watching them lock in was pretty neat.

Once again, me and Gumpy thought, we should not be standing right where we are. But we did Gumpy, didn't we? We watched 10, 15 laps down there just right where we were not supposed to be at all. Yeah, it was a very cool experience. Also, the flyover before was unbelievable. All of it.

It was even up in the suite. The view from the suite could not be understood. You're just watching the thing right in front of your face. The family that created now. NASCAR invited us up to their sweet. Shout it to them, they had a hot dog station, which I guess all NASCAR suites have, because Bill Franch Jr., which I believe is founding father,

loved hot dogs. You mean, like making his hot dogs. So we had some parkey butter that we put on the grill to heat up the bottom. And then you had everything. You had slaw, you had relish, you had chili, you had onions, cheat. There it is right there, yeah.

That thing, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, let me get out of here and then we'll put it down. Well, can't, it's gotta stop, obviously. don't want to bust this thing. Yep. And yeah, almost broke my wrist.

It was incredible, is what I'm saying. And that conversation with Tom will come out tomorrow. And that came together within like 24 hours. So I was very lucky and thankful to be there.

So a lot of people were not happy with what I was wearing. I was at NASCAR was fucking Daytona. So what are you supposed to wear? Tucks? What are you going to wear? I don't know.

I generally don't know. You dress like that to meet Tom Cruise. It's like, I think if I wasn't dressed like this, would I get invited by Tom Cruise? Where at Daytona? It's fucking NASCAR.

Spartes. sponsored by grisly patches, you know, relax. I'll tell you, like, grizzly patches were all over the place. They had a grizzly nicotine patches green lot where people were parked inside. I mean, we saw the grizzly wintergreen lot. Yeah, maybe, but it didn't say winter green. It just said grizzly patches. It would have been better if it did say winter green, which maybe, hey, you guys need to think about down there.

But literally, we see this car grow, we walk by this car and it's like just grizzly huge. I'm like, hell yeah. Grizzly fucking still doing it, man. I thought they would be done for. And then we're driving out Grizzly parking lot. It's like, okay. Grizzly's still fucking bringing it down here in the NASCAR world, I do believe.

People are really kind to us. Jeff Gordon's got a new car. It looks beautiful. Yeah. Rainbow War? It's no, it's Carvanna, 24. Oh, okay. It looks pretty sweet.

Looks super cool. Still burning it. The greatest pain screams of all time. It is. All right, let's get to hell out here. We'll be back tomorrow. Speaking of flyover still. Boy, is that one.

A little tight. Just thinking about that. What's going on. I planned it. and taking some shrapnel from underneath, did not expect the flares to be going off at the exact time. And then there are some reports that came out that there were 41 or 46 feet above the stadium. There's some mountains in the background as well. Just I would assume these are ex-military pilots who are in commercial jets or commercial planes for the first time with no passengers.

So they're like, hey, let's go ahead and give this thing a little bit of a world, see if we still got it. The front one had the back end down a little bit. actually had to flatten it back out and then take it back up. Just an absolute insane display of confidence that are people saying a little bit reckless, a little bit reckless for what could have potentially happened here. This was scary. Buzz the tire. Yeah, touching it.

I mean, going down into the bowl is certainly a move, but everybody in the loop up. There's a mountain right there in the background, by the way. So, I mean, they were doing the Top Gun Maverick drop into the mountain and pull that thing out there. And I wonder when they made the decision. Obviously, that couldn't have been pre-planned that had be made in real time that they were going to do this. 41 feet, 46 feet allegedly above the stadium is an insane move. But the boys got in and out there and gave you something to remember is what they're going to say. Are we trying to have a memorable moment or not?

And I think the flight people are probably going to say, you're never doing that again. Actually, you're suspended and fined for however long you're going to be. I read that this is like a common occurrence at this thing. Oh, really? That they do this type of thing. Now, I don't know if it's that low, but like that they take two big old fucking commercial airplanes every year before whatever event this is.

and basically play chicken to see how close you can get to crashing that thing into the state. And to thousands and thousands of people. Here's arrive alive. The two aircraft are flown by highly experienced crew. Sure. With each comprised of three senior captains operating in the roles of commander, co-pilot, and safety technical officer. Sure.

The flight data recorded by both aircraft confirms that the flights were performed within the SACAA's approved and rehearsed safety altitude and speed limits of the fly-pass. Okay. So this country is saying, take them down in there. Don't worry about the people. And the people inside say, wow, I could almost touch that thing. Don't want to, obviously, but I guess the talent that was on display and the confidence should at least be celebrated. All right, let's get the hell out of here.

Respect General. Yeah, big time. I mean, I could go really wrong. Really bad. Yeah, I thought it was fake as well. No, there's been five different angles. I had to check before I quote tweeted it and sent it out there because obviously people are waiting for me to potentially fall for something like that. And I was mind-blood.

When I saw the red stuff go around the plane, I was like, that had to be really good AI to be able to get that. And then we saw a bunch of different levels, and then their aviation people are coming out saying, I wonder why they didn't buzz that next one, too. Just kind of get a little skip on the wall. You know what I mean? Before that mountain, just kind of go ahead and take.

Try to get down into bowl. Make sure they can really feel the jet engine, please. Maybe take it down to the next one. Boom. They should try to drop it down into that one. I agree. And then take it up there. Insanity.

Happy they got out of there. Incredibly talented people, obviously. We'll try to become more of that for tomorrow. Be your friend, tell a friend something nice. Might change your life. We're in this thing together. Hope you had a great weekend. We're back tomorrow with a big show.

We got football real soon. Yes. We had football this past weekend. Yes. Everything's great. Why are they saying that awful nonsense say that I'm going to force them to kick Elaney and Hooty and everybody off. Is there going to be a full follow-up to that not being real?

Because that one really went. They've got a bit of an obsession over there. I was going to say, they got a bit of an axe to grind with you. I think it's the way to say it. It does feel like it. I'm happy their narrative is continuing to build by just one piece of bullshit after another. But hey, can't wait for it all. Lucky to be here, thankful to be here.

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