The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 327 - Ian Rapoport, Tom Segura, & AJ Hawk
Episode Date: January 7, 2021On today's show, Pat and the boys begin to discuss SUPER Wild Card Weekend, the Browns having a few new covid cases in the locker room, Coach Stefanski potentially being able to coach, if the Bears ha...ve any shot of beating the Saints, Chase Young's comments about being excited to play Tom Brady Sunday and if that impacts the game at all, and more. Joining the show is NFL Network Insider, and friend of the program Ian Rapoport to chat about everything he's hearing in terms of coaches and GM's going different places, if Urban Meyer to Jacksonville is virtually a done deal, where he anticipates guys like Matthew Stafford and Carson Wentz will wind up next year, and everything else going on in the NFL as we approach the playoffs (17:19-34:19). Next, joining Pat and AJ Hawk is a standup comedian who has 4 specials on Netflix, one of the most popular podcasters on the planet, and a who he recently suffered the most gruesome sports injury of all-time, Tom Segura joins the program to chat about dunking on a 9 foot hoop, blowing his knee out and breaking his arm in the process of trying to dunk on 9.5, the rehab process, how he has a new found appreciation for things, what he has coming up on the agenda, and much more in a hilarious conversation (48:14-1:12:33). Later, Pat and AJ look ahead to every game on the SUPER Wildcard Weekend slate and make a few predictions and look at the betting lines (1:12:36-1:27:37). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow and listen every day on Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM Channel 82. We appreciate you all for listening, come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Good afternoon, beautiful people. It is Thursday, January 7th, 2021. Yesterday on January 6th,
2021, I received five to 10 tweets telling me that if I did not lead off today's show
talking about what happened yesterday in Washington, D.C. to the Capitol, they would cancel me.
Washington, D.C. to the Capitol, they would cancel me.
So shout out to them.
That's how we started the show.
If you are a person who thinks to yourself whenever something like what happened yesterday happens,
you go, you know what?
The person I want to hear talk about this is a guy who played soccer most of his life,
watched zero Disney movies,
went to college to kick a football, went into the NFL to play football.
Then he did some comedy.
If your first thought is, you know what, I want to hear what Pat McAfee has to say about potentially the dumbest event in the history of the United States,
I want to let you know, you potentially are one of the dumbest people in the United States as well.
I've learned over the past few months that when massive events happen,
I have empathy for everything going on.
I want the right thing to inevitably win in the end.
And I will shine lights on things whenever I deem that it's worth my input.
I think if you look around social media,
one of the biggest problems is you've got a lot of people who have no idea what they're talking about,
taking a stand and informing other people what they should be thinking.
I'm not one of those people. I have no clue what happened yesterday. Okay. There was a fucking
Viking was the speaker of the house for 20 minutes yesterday. There was a guy with long hair,
smiling for a photo, walking out with the podium that the speaker of the house uses.
There was mail being, there was four people died and there was nooses constructed outside the
Capitol with a Confederate flag flying in the United States Capitol. You motherfuckers lost
a long time ago. Get your flag out of there. There was a lot of things that happened yesterday
that if you take a step back, you go, that is the dumbest thing that has ever happened in this
country. So although I don't love giving my thoughts on things that I don't know a lot about, I feel like looking from the outside in, I have no idea how this whole thing ends.
We have no clue what's going to happen.
Hopefully we all believe that the right thing is going to happen in the end.
But from looking on the outside in, I want to let you know where I take a stand at.
And it feels like for every situation that happens in the world, if you're a public figure, you have to come out and take a stand.
I'm going to take a stand now.
And this is my stand previously.
It'll be my stand for events moving forward.
I am against
any time idiots get in the way
of people doing the right thing.
So if yesterday happens,
just automatically assume
that the guy that kicked balls for a living and then talks into a microphone, he is against the fucking idiots out there.
Just know it.
Okay, so don't even think like I'm gonna go tweet this guy, tell him I want to hear what he just know that I'm against the fucking idiots.
Okay, and I think a large majority of us are.
I would hope that a large majority of us are.
I feel like our country at one point in the last few months was closer than it's ever been.
Then it got distracted. Then
everything starts happening. Now the whole world's going
into shit or whatever. I just want to let you know
I, and I think a large majority of
the show, I can't talk for the Boston
Stooges, Connor, but a large majority of the show,
we are against the idiots. And if you
watched yesterday, it was very obvious who the idiots were.
We hate them. Okay? Now, with that
being said, we're going to talk for the
next two hours and 55
minutes or so about stuff that uh we should talk about and that people should be like you know what
i would like to know pat's thoughts on insert thing that happened in the sports world that he
has potentially been around in the history of his life and knows about in his comfortable talk
that deshaun watson wants to trade out of houston oh, my God. That's big time news.
Am I going to give year-end awards today or tomorrow?
Possibly.
I'll give awards.
I'm going to grandstand.
I'm going to self-indulge a little bit,
and I'm going to say these players I thought were good this year.
They're going to make my list.
That's going to happen.
We got phone calls, 1-888-MADDOG6.
We got Ian Rappaport joining us in the second hour.
We got Tom Segura fresh off the most gruesome left arm break I've seen in some time with
a leg getting blown to smithereens.
Joining us in the third hour, Tom Segura plus AJ Hawk and more with all the boys.
Let's get to the show.
Because in our world, the sports world, the NFL world, we got super wild card weekend.
Shout out to Twine for that beat drop.
We got six games this weekend that matter.
We got rookies talking shit to goats.
We got things happening all over the place, including in Pittsburgh and Cleveland,
the Sunday night football affair, the game that will end super wild card weekend.
The Pittsburgh Steelers with no fans in the stands only family and friends
will be hosting the cleveland browns who do not have kevin stefanski in offense alignment and
some others due to covid running wild on their organization in the week that they make the
playoffs for the first time in two fucking decades.
It is a shame.
It feels like the Browns have been cursed.
But there has been a lot of people that are saying,
even though COVID got a hold of one member of their organization,
the head coach and the play caller, we can adapt like we do in the modern times and get around this COVID case
and maybe give Kevin Stefanski a suite in the stadium.
Since they're going to be empty, have him drive himself over from Cleveland.
He'll drive from the lake down to the Three River City.
He'll be in his own car, kind of quarantining in his own little COVID caravan.
Then he gets to the stadium, walks up some back steps wearing gloves,
maybe one of those masks that the congressmen were wearing yesterday.
Go all the way into a suite, put a headset on, and be able to call plays.
Make it happen.
If he's not around anybody else, Diggs, why can't we just beat COVID this one time as humans, as a society?
We are not letting COVID distract something that we can make absolutely amazing.
We're beating COVID just like you, Tone Diggs.
Here's an idea, Pat.
What's that?
If we've learned nothing, actions have consequences.
If you don't realize it, it takes all of us.
And you go out there and you get fucking COVID.
You sit your ass at home for 10 days in your goddamn house,
and you take it, and then if you win, you'll be there for the next round.
If not, deal with it, pal.
Yeah, but the interesting thing about it is the players,
they have to be away because they're near each other.
They're on the field.
Coaches have coached from boxes all by themselves for a long time.
You bet.
Man.
You don't want to open up Pandora's box,
and then the Patriots will have some sort of thing going on in a separate box
where the coach is allowed to be.
No, I think Kambis should have to have that.
3D goggles on.
They should have to have an eye,
and I want them to have the hazmat suits on.
Somebody should have to escort him into the thing
so he's all by himself.
It should be a couple of Commish's guys,
and they should be wearing, or ladies,
Commish's guys or ladies,
and they should be wearing hazmat suits,
and they're the ones that escort Stefanski
from car up to booth,
back into car and all the way gone.
I don't know.
I mean, this seems like something
that could be very easily fixable at Ty Schmidt.
Yeah, I mean,
no one's going to be up there. No one.
No one's going to be. The governor said no one's
even allowed in his time.
Exactly. We don't have fans. I mean,
what's stopping them from saying, hey, listen,
you guys, you've been through a lot
this year, okay? You haven't made the playoffs
since 2002.
Let Coach Stefanski coach.
That's all we're asking.
That's all we're asking for.
I mean, I feel like it's really not that hard to pull a couple strings
and get Coach Stefanski up in the booth.
There's no fans allowed.
You think they're going to let COVID-positive Stefanski in the stadium?
He's in his own area.
At Evan Foxey.
How can we be sure?
He used to be a diehard Steelers fan.
It sounds like you're getting on this hype train pretty heavily. At Evan Foxy. How can we be sure? He used to be a diehard Steelers fan.
It sounds like you're getting on this hype train pretty heavily.
It's only fair.
And Tony, you don't want to play a bronze team that's not full strength, dude.
No, that's true.
That is very true.
Yeah, I don't care.
Yeah, I don't think that Steelers fans do care.
Next round.
And by the way, we're only saying that strictly to stir the pot with the Pittsburgh Steelers fans that are listening.
We don't truly believe that. And I don't think Stefanski is even trying to do it he said like that was an honorable man because by the way he probably could make a
public like what we just did right there right he could start making those statesmen and Cleveland
reps start saying it in the media so why not a lot of why not pieces and then there'll be like
I don't know if you saw how I spun that thing it would be a sign of us beating COVID if we let him
do this.
I mean, there are so many.
That public pressure that could have got on old commish to make this happen
could have been a very real one.
But Stefanski's like, nah, man, that ain't how this fucking goes.
Which, by the way, a lot of respect for him.
Honorable man.
Maybe he doesn't care enough.
See, that's the side.
If we're up to me, I think Stefanski should bring someone to the NFL like,
look, hey, look, I'll jump through a few hoops.
You put me in a helicopter, get me a bungee jump cord,
and I'll jump off that helicopter, land on top of Heinz Field,
climb down into that booth, and then we'll do the same thing the other way.
Base jump off the top of the roof to get out of the building.
Yeah, and if he wins, by the way, just let them go celebrate with the boys.
Oh, yeah.
Just like that World Series pitch.
Well, if they win, then he can go down to midfield and shake Tomlin's hand
because Tomlin doesn't have to.
Tomlin doesn't have to coach next week.
Where does it stop, though?
Say a quarterback has COVID, but we petition that as long as he's wearing
a deep-sea diving scuba mask, and he keeps that on the entire game,
and he's got to –
Hey, by the way, why haven't they thought about that?
He's got a tank.
That's actually pretty good.
Yeah, it's not a bad idea.
Ben gets it.
You should start pitching this next week.
I'm going to.
But the Stefanski coaching from a booth thing,
gaining some traction just because it is very hilarious to talk about,
you know, because it's feasible.
It is feasible.
It actually is a reasonable thing to happen because he's away from everybody.
But Stefanski said, no, I'm not doing that just because I mean you do that what do the football gods do on the other side you know what I mean and the football gods have done enough to Cleveland
the football gods have moved out of Cleveland by the way congrats to them and they've completely
moved their entire tribe right up to Detroit yeah and that is that is a beautiful thing he said that
it doesn't matter and that Alex Van Pelt will be just fine calling plays.
How many points do you think Stefanski is actually worth?
We'll find out, right?
I mean, we are going to find out what you think the sportsbooks are saying, too.
Vegas says it's two points.
Well, I move two.
It's already a plus ten.
It was a four and a half at one point.
Three and a half.
Wait a second.
That's not real.
That's one, three, 20, 21.
That was from last week.
That was from last week.
It's a six.
That one wasn't me. That was last week's. It's at 6. That one wasn't me.
That was last week's game.
That was so nice.
That wasn't you.
Actually, it's a 5.5.
What are you pointing fingers for?
You know what?
Fox, let me talk about yesterday a little bit.
Let's talk about some fucking accountability.
Let's talk about some accountability.
Fox, he just goes back there.
Something happens.
How many fingers did he have?
All of them were pointing away from him.
Wasn't editing or cutting anything.
Wasn't getting a photo off, by the way,
because all his fingers were being pointed in ten different directions.
That was unbelievable, Fox.
You look like Connor right there.
Disgusting, Fox.
Yeah, get your department together then.
Jesus.
Yeah, I didn't preview that one, that's for sure,
because plus ten is a lot of points.
Well, to the Steelers as well.
It's five and a half, which I believe you tweeted out was four and a half
when the news broke, so Stefanski's worth a point.
We're going to find out.
I think Aaron Rodgers is talking about AVP, Mr. Van Pelt.
Yeah.
I think that potentially sportsbooks were like, okay.
Oh, shit.
All right.
I mean, so the guy says he seems like a guy.
I don't think he would lie.
But remember, the Jets hired Gase because Peyton said he was good.
True.
That's true.
And the Dolphins.
Yeah.
Lying through his teeth.
Who?
I mean, not Peyton Manning.
Hey, I will not say anything about scouting, by the way.
Of course.
It's very hard to know.
It is not easy to know.
It is not an easy thing to know.
By the way, that guy is still a good ball kicker.
Going to get another chance.
That's right.
Hopefully the ball goes through for him. Hell yeah. A little breezyer. Going to get another chance. That's right. Hopefully the ball goes through for him.
Hell yeah.
A little breezy day.
Nobody even talks about it.
Deshaun Watson, another big story of the day,
has broached his friends and teammates about the possibility or idea of him asking for a trade.
And I would assume it's him asking them and telling them, like, hey, if I do this,
I want to let you know this isn't about you.
OK, this isn't about anything.
I think I need to do what's best for my career.
Or I've been told by a lot of people that this would be the best thing for my career.
Even though I've always been a team guy and I'm always been a Houston Texan, it does seem like the next five to ten years of this organization is going to be bad,
and I need to go win some.
And I would assume all his teammates say, hey, dude, you do what you got to go do.
If he's loved in there.
And it feels like he is if you look at the J.J. Watt video of telling him, like, hey, man,
I'm so sorry we wasted a year for you, like one of your years.
Like you had a year like that whole thing.
So I think he's liked in the locker room.
The fact he's run it by his teammates, pro football talk, Mike Florio's reporting that, which is by the way, I would assume he
told a lot of his teammates, not just a couple, if they're finding out that he told his teammates,
because I assume the couple that he told her probably his closest friends, they probably
didn't tell. And then it kind of, maybe they told a friend or something like that. Who knows,
but it feels like Deshaun Watson's going to ask to get the hell out of the H time.
Okay. And Casario just got hired out of New England up there.
Signed a six-year, $30 million deal.
Woo!
Okay?
$5 million a year.
Seems like a great amount of money.
Okay?
For any human, I'd be pumped to make $5 million a year if I was a general manager, all that
stuff.
But doesn't that seem low?
Like a general manager of a team, you're in charge of a lot of shit.
They put that out because and i think uh i forget
maybe it was rapid port that talked about how normally these numbers don't get out like normally
you don't hear what the gms are making you don't hear those contracts they don't get out so the
fact that old bob mclean down there in houston got the numbers it was like a good but that feels
lower than what i thought it would be i just with a new gm signing normally if it's anything else
like the rest of the NFL
world, you're kind of setting a standard for what other GMs are going to get hired potentially or
re-up for. I just assume they'll be higher than $5 million. If $5 million is going right for a
general manager and he seems to be a guy, which a lot of people are saying that this is a guy guy,
okay, good for them. But six years, it's potentially going to be one of those things
where would he want to rebuild completely? Get rid of of Deshaun get some draft capital because I have no draft picks uh cut
JJ let him move on and go wherever he wants to go because if I cut him it saves me 17 million
dollars so now I have some draft capital but I have no quarterback I have uh no captains basically
at this point you still have Laramie Tunzel which you might try to trade if you want to do a
complete rebuild try to get some more draft picks if that's what you're going to do or do you not allow deshaun watson to get
traded and say yeah you can request a trade but ultimately that's my decision pal and uh we're
not going to do that so that's an interesting little turn of events down there and deshaun
watson by all accounts good dude which is i would like to make sure that we we get that message
across like hey if you ask for a, you think that's your best interest?
Go do whatever the fuck you got to do.
I'm not judging them for that, but Casario could say, no.
No way are you leaving.
We have no draft picks.
My first move isn't going to be to cut our best player and then trade our best player
and then cut our other guy.
That's not what I'm going to do.
Or Rich will say, yeah, go ahead and get on on and i got six years to figure this whole thing out gumpy was saying this earlier
and it almost makes you know too much sense what if they what if the texans trade deshaun watson
to miami for tua and that third pick who says no you still got a first round pick in miami
i mean you get a quarterback to replace so you the third pick in Texas. So you're just assuming
that Casario's like, you know what?
The dream quarterback I do want. Boom.
Tua's the guy. Bring him in. In lieu
of like five other picks or four other
picks, I'll just take Tua instead
and a number three overall. I know I can
win with Tua. But by the way,
if you're getting a number three overall, you can get
a quarterback. True.
What about Dak Prescott?
So you probably want more picks.
You probably want like two twos, that number one.
RG3, like three first, and that was someone who wasn't proven.
Yeah, but that decision would never happen again.
That was snap, right?
Yeah, people were like, that's never going to happen again.
The Rams got like 45 picks, seven of them being first rounders.
The entire franchise was just traded away, basically.
I went through with the NFL, and I'm seeing like maybe seven, eight teams
that possibly wouldn't trade for Deshaun Watson, but everyone else.
Full go.
Really?
Like Bills wouldn't, Ravens, Bengals, Packers.
Well.
Chiefs, Chargers, and Seahawks is what I.
Patriots should mortgage the entire team to get Deshaun Watson.
If you can get a guy that's established and young
who's putting up numbers on a garbage franchise
like the Texans with Billy O. Stooge,
bring him in.
Hey, by the way, bad roster down there.
Yeah.
Guess what?
New England.
Got a bad roster up here, too.
But hey, situational football, we will win.
Exactly.
We'll get you nine or ten wins
and we'll sneak into that wild card
and then anything can happen
when you got the Michael Jordan football at the helm. Feels like
you're talking yourself into this and it's not going to happen.
Well, there's no chance. If people are saying that's a
possibility, the Patriots will do it. There's no
chance it'll happen. All right, let's get to a break here.
Hour one on this gorgeous Thursday,
January 7th,
2021. One
day after the dumbest
thing I've ever seen on the internet.
Mm-hmm. Fucking Viking've ever seen on the internet.
Fucking Viking was the speaker of the house.
Why?
I thought we were leaving that stuff in 2020.
2021 said, hold on.
Got a little 2020 hangover for you.
Oh, my dear.
Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who once trimmed the bushes so the tree could stand taller.
A man who once broke news about half a second after exiting our show.
A man that gave us one of the best moments we've had on this show.
Ladies and gentlemen, insider at the NFL.
Also host of Rap Sheet and Friends, Mr. Rap Sheet himself, Ian Rapoport.
How's it going, Ian?
What's up? How you guys doing?
Hey, not too shabby. I was going to read an ad there, but I didn't want to waste your time.
So I want to let you know that.
Appreciate it.
Well, because we appreciate you. We know that your time is obviously very limited,
especially when there's a lot of transactions potentially happening.
What's going on today? Is anybody getting hired today, fired today, traded today?
Do you get a lean or a feel on how the day is going to go when you wake up,
or do things just drop out of the sky?
There are some times I get a feel, like today's Thursday.
So Tuesday, I basically had a text at like 9 in the morning that was like,
pretty sure Casario's getting hired in houston
hasn't happened yet but he's there so stay on it and i was like oh my god okay and i kind of at
that point wasn't aware that he was going to be in person so basically i was like all right whatever
i do during the day i got to make sure to stay on and we ended up breaking it but it took like
you know nine o'clock at night or something um But that day I kind of knew as of right now,
I don't think anything crazy is happening.
But like the last time we talked to you with the Haskins thing,
I had a feeling that it was either going to be,
he was going to be on the team the rest of the year and they trade him
or he was done.
And obviously the answer was he was done.
So I kind of had a feeling then too.
Well, we, we also, I don't know.
We went through like a series of things that could have been it was also on our radar of things that
you could have broke i don't know if you saw the video but we're very funny yeah thank you that was
that was all boston stooge over here um either there was a report that came out just a couple
days ago that a coach said you texted him to tell him he was going to get fired or whatever uh and he was
thankful the way you handled that who was that and how often does it happen yeah that was so that was
Doug Marone he said it actually at his at his press conference which was kind of interesting I
was I was not expecting him to go public with that uh it was not something that's happened before but
um I would say two or three years ago, I basically was like,
there will be times when I'll report negative news. I mean, plenty of times, right? And people
get upset about it or they don't want it out there. Or sometimes it's just, it's just makes
people upset. And so what I would do is I would put it out there and then just deal with the
backlash. At some point, a couple of years back, I was like, I don't want to do this anymore.
So before I reported bad news, I started telling the people involved what I was going to report.
And what I got was a much better version of the report, either much more balanced or people just appreciated the heads up.
So what I'm sure, and obviously Saturday, I knew Gase was getting fired.
I knew Marone was getting fired. I knew Marone was getting fired. So I reached
out to them
and I was like, hey, look,
here's what I'm hearing. I got good sources.
I'm not going to report it for a couple
hours, so if you need to tell anyone,
tell your family, please do that.
I just want to give you a heads up
and I think, you know, it's not
fun. Obviously, I dreaded those phone calls,
but I think it's... Those aren's not fun. Like, obviously, I dreaded those phone calls, but I think it's what you should do.
Oh, so those aren't text messages.
Those are phone calls?
Gase was a phone call.
Marone was a call.
And then he texted back.
I'm in a meeting.
What's up?
And then, yeah, we texted.
So what happened?
You just, you were sick.
You felt like a scumbag whenever you do that because people would just start to hate you because you're the bearer of bad news. Is that why you changed?
Yeah, I mean, I felt crappy. And also, like, you know, reality is when you're going to report something real negative. And I mean, firing my coaches is a good example or someone suspended or someone's getting cut, whatever it is.
or someone's suspended, or someone's getting cut, whatever it is, besides just feeling terrible about it, I don't always have the full story. And so when I, you know, before I report something,
especially if, you know, sometimes it's like, bang, bang, and you kind of got to go as fast
as you can. If I have time to report, like, let's say I'm reporting it on a Sunday morning or
something, usually I have some time, I get a more balanced version when I reach out to either the person or people close to the person. So and that started not only like the
right thing to do. But it started helping my reporting also. Is there an honor amongst
insiders to not re break news a couple weeks later, if the original break didn't do that? Well,
I would say I've probably done that by accident um sometimes you put out something and
you're like wait someone else had this um i i would you know you try to do something if you
try to put out something you try to make sure that it's new um there's some sort of honor but
as far as that goes if you're like oh man reported this, but they did a terrible job. Like, I should report it.
That doesn't happen, but I think it needs to start happening.
Okay, so like Matt Ryan, Julio Jones are available for trade.
That news was being spread on social media as breaking news or whatever.
But we kind of knew that a couple weeks ago when didn't Arthur Blank do an interview and say the GM was going to be able to do whatever they wanted anyways?
Like, I feel like that was news that we already had, right?
Yeah, I mean, I think it is news. GM was going to be able to do whatever they wanted anyways. I feel like that was news that we already had, right? Yeah.
I mean, I think it is news.
And it's also like, I don't know, is it that surprising?
Like, the Falcons are not good.
They need a lot of help.
They got some assets.
I mean, they have a starting quarterback, and they have one of the greatest receivers
ever played the game.
For $100 million alongside of him?
Because that's what Matt Ryan's owed.
You think there is a market for Matt Ryan if he's going to get traded?
Yeah, I mean, I would need to look at the contract,
how much is guaranteed,
because it's like Carson Wentz's contract.
He's owed, I think, 80,
whatever 23 times 4 is.
Do you have it?
Anyway.
Hey, we have it right here, Ian.
We have it right here.
I have his cap hit for 2021, 2023 is 40 41 and 36 his dead
money for those years is 50 26 and then nine it's big ian it's big right but if you trade him
then 25 or 23 or whatever it is comes off the book so he's tradable but anyway you wouldn't say like
if he's bad then you only have to pay one more year. If he's good, then
he's cost controlled for the next four years. So that's why
like, you know, you can look at it either way, like Matt Ryan
isn't owed $100 million, he could potentially get $100
million. But whatever is guaranteed is what he's
actually getting the rest is just pay as you go.
Paul Young is going to be a hot commodity in the trade streets, I would assume, right?
Maybe, but here's what I always think in this situation.
Really?
Let's say you're Todd Bowles
and you get the Falcons job, right?
You want to win.
You would love to hit the ground running
and impress the people and maybe win a game or two.
Are you sure you want to trade
the best player in franchise history?
Well, who's not named Deion Sanders?
Like, is that going to be your first move as a coach to say,
all right, the best receiver, also a great person, an ambassador.
Like, are you sure you want to trade the best player that you have?
Okay, so let's go to Houston then with Casario with the Deshaun Watson news
that he is uh i
believe he talked to teammates about potentially asking for a trade or whatever's going on right
now there's no way casario gets rid of his best player at the most important position right or
would the draft capital be something you think that would be enticing i mean i i would never
say never on any trade in the nfl i mean you you can do – this is like – I feel like it's your people who are doing this.
Oh, so it's Pellicero.
It's Pellicero.
It's Pellicero because he thinks you call him when he's on here.
No, it's every time I'm on with you guys, I get a call from a blocked number.
I bet this is probably your fault.
No, it's Pellicero.
It's Pellicero.
Yeah, it probably is.
So, I would say
if Nick Casario is going to trade
Deshaun Watson, which I don't think is going to happen, but
let's just say for the sake of argument,
it's possible. He's going to get
so much that he will be
able to completely rebuild
this franchise and
have it be a juggernaut.
Jamal Adams was worth two first-round picks. Like Jamal Adams was worth two first round picks.
Jalen Ramsey was worth two first round picks.
What's Deshaun Watson worth?
Four?
Five?
I mean, future Hall of Famer, rock star, all pro, great person,
face of a franchise, was one of the best players of football this year
despite the fact that his team is terrible.
Five first-round picks?
I mean, you can't even imagine.
That would be big.
Connor, what do you got?
Wrap sheet.
Is Jimmy G going to be a 49er this year,
or are those one of the teams that's going to be in the ring
for like a Matt Ryan or a Stafford or a Deshaun Watson?
Matt Ryan?
Yeah, I mean, I still have a hard time imagining Matt Ryan
and Stafford trade.
It's not impossible, but I'm just thinking.
Stafford's coming to Indy.
You already reported that.
I would say Carson Wentz.
No!
No!
Why do you hate Carson Wentz?
I don't hate Carson Wentz.
Does he know you hate him?
I don't hate him.
I love him.
I'd like to go on his John Deere tractor and go hunting with him,
but I'm not going to kill anything. But I will
bring the energy. But
the baggage, the
contract alongside, like if we're going to go
get somebody that already has a contract, bring in
Matty Stafford, a guy that we know isn't
broken. Because Carson, it sounds like
he's potentially broken. I have no idea what's
going on with him. That's a lot of money, but everybody's
pushing the Carson to Frank Reich thing
and maybe they'll be great. but for me, it's like,
let's go save the guy
out of Detroit if we're going to get somebody.
Yeah, I mean, I love
Matthew Stafford as a player. Don't get me wrong.
Not just as a player,
but human toughness.
I will randomly,
of all players in the NFL,
he is the number
one player where I get random texts from teammates
or from former teammates who are like,
just so you know, that guy's a dude.
Those are the kinds of messages I get about that.
He's the best. But again,
if you're the new coach of the Lions
and you have a franchise quarterback who is still good
enough to play, who's not that expensive,
who's tough as hell, are you sure
you want to trade him and not know who's coming back?
That's just a scary thing for any new coach i just i don't know this just seems very scary to me
chuck and grigson cut peyton manning what do you got to talk about ian there's been some rumors
circulating that the uh packers might be letting in just under 10 000 fans for the divisional round
have you heard anything about that uh because they obviously haven't had fans the entire season? I have not heard that specifically.
I mean, I think it's one of the things we've sort of been watching.
And if let's say it was true and they could do it safely,
I think it would be amazing.
It's just it has to be in the height of this pandemic,
another height with, you know,
it seems hotsp spots all over the place
think it would have to be safe as a fan of great football franchises i would think it would be
awesome but i haven't heard anything definitive on that what is it you got contacts in like the
local governments i got a couple of them um i i i will say this in my own, not defense, but whatever the opposite of defense is,
I definitely knew that the Bills thing was coming
and kind of forgot to check on it, and then it was announced.
So I missed that one.
Oh, amateur.
Are you losing your fastball, dude?
Oh, my God.
Is it time to hang them up, Ian?
No, it's not time to hang them up.
It's just one of those lulls.
It's like a, you know, I need a boost.
I need an energy boost.
You need the kick in the ass like that Buffalo Bills fans thing that you missed.
Now, Tom Pelissero did tell us that he rarely has a story or a break that he comes to you and says,
and you don't go with, oh, I knew that or something like that.
He said there's a very rare time where he tells you something and you don't go, oh i didn't know that you you normally go i knew that is that true because i know a lot of
things yeah oh okay yeah i mean i look i try to be an honest person most of the time i know almost
or maybe everything so that's why now tom look i think he does a great job. He doesn't know as much as I do.
But, you know, he's a very good reporter.
Ian, I think the thing about you is, like, your humility is just off the fucking charts.
You know what I mean?
Like, that is really something that Tom talks about.
I think the boys here talk about.
It's something that we do talk about, you know?
Yeah, of all the people with humility, I'm definitely the best.
Best ever.
The best ever at being humble.
What do you got, Connor?
Ian, is Urban Meyer a lock for Jacksonville?
And is that $12 million definitely happening or no?
Yeah, who told you that the $12 million thing was not relevant or something like that?
Somebody did not like that that got out.
False.
I do not think it's relevant.
And I don't think it's true.
Now, I mean, is it possible that's what he asked for at another place like Texas?
Maybe.
I don't know that, but maybe.
I mean, the number didn't come from nowhere, and I think Florio was the one who reported it,
and he doesn't just make stuff up.
So I would imagine there's some heft behind it.
I just was told, as far as NFL jobs, that $12 million is not something he's asking for.
Is he a lock to the Jaguars?
He's going to have a chance at that job.
I'm not saying he's a lock lock because, again, he'll have to decide to do it or not.
And I think there's another team interested as well.
Who?
But I would say, I'm not sure yet, but I was told there's another team interested as well. Who? But I would say, I'm not sure yet,
but I was told there's another team interested.
I would have to 100% verify which team.
So hold on.
So you get a message that says, from somebody,
we'll just, we'll say somebody.
Okay, so Urban's agent tells you.
We're not saying it's Urban's agent or anything like that,
but he'll come out and say,
hey, the Jaguars news is getting out there.
They're not the only team.
And then all of a sudden he, like, gives you, like, a little clue,
and then you've got to lose clues to that thing.
And, like, oh, okay, he gave me a little trail, a little piece,
and I've got to go figure it out.
Is that what kind of happens?
Urban does not actually have an agent, which makes this all much,
believe me, much trickier.
Used to, but he's not anymore.
I love that.
But that is basically, you talk to enough people
and people go, yeah,
there's, you know, hey, there's another team.
You better keep an eye
on it, and then I'll be like, oh, who?
That's for you to do.
It's really great.
So, yes, that is my mission to find the other team.
All right. We can't wait to see you tweet
that out. We're pulling for you.
Is DeFant going to be allowed to coach from a booth?
He's not.
I've checked on him.
Come on.
Let the guy coach.
Why not?
Let the coach coach.
Let us beat COVID.
Let us beat COVID.
The answer is that's the way it has been.
Those are the rules.
And they have not yet been willing to change it.
Look, honestly, it sucks.
It does.
I just have not been.
Oh, I got a little piece of news that I'll tweet out as soon as we're done.
Oh, what is it?
Is it good?
Is it good or no?
It's all right.
It's all right.
Humble, humble, humble.
Drag racing.
Just a small adjustment to things we've been talking about.
What were they driving?
But anyway, you'll see as soon as I hang up.
So anyway, I forget what I was talking about, but whatever.
You did great.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport.
Now we've got to keep an eye on this goddamn thing.
What do you think it's going to be?
He said it's a little bit of a modification of what we were just talking about there.
I bet you Stephon Diggs is good to play.
Or is it?
Maybe.
We didn't really talk about that at all, did we?
Maybe it's about Urban Meyer.
You mean the word conversation, you think?
Because I think he said it's a little modification of what we were just talking about there.
I think is what he said.
I'm not 100% sure.
So it might be about Urban Meyer.
Urban Meyer to Jacksonville.
No, or the other team that's potentially interested.
Jets?
Reportedly interested.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Cowboys.
Maybe it is Stephon Diggs, though, with the oblique.
It's all good.
Do.
Go.
Let's get some phone calls, shall we?
Did we learn anything in there?
Not really.
Ravishy knows it all.
Doesn't know.
Learned that.
There's another team for Urban.
I don't know if we knew that.
Another team for Urban.
Their charges were reported for Urban.
Yeah.
Come on, Fox.
Fox, you fucking stick with the times, dude.
Stick with the news, bro.
We talked about it.
We did talk about it, but did we learn anything?
Oh, Stafford and those quarterbacks may not be let go.
Oh, yeah.
Deshaun Watson probably not going to be traded. Yeah, why not? Stafford probably not going to be oh yeah deshaun watson probably not going to be traded stafford probably not going to be traded matt ryan potential or julio
jones not going to get traded that we did learn that there we go okay let's go ahead and put that
one down we'll put it on the scorecard for od and rapid board see how it turns out carson went's
probably going to be a cult oh we did learn that we've known that though yeah what do you got digs
no i mean fox we were actually talking about the other day like because lombardi we asked we always
asked him like what's the hey what's the other day. Because Lombardi, we always ask him, like, hey,
what's the GM coaching job that you would want?
And he always says the Houston Texans because of Deshaun Watson because they already have a quarterback there.
So, like, why would the coach going into, like, Detroit,
want to get rid of a quarterback that they know is going to be good?
I agree.
Hey, the hat looks amazing today, by the way.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Doesn't it?
It looks great.
I like it a lot.
Honestly, might be the hat selection today.
Unbelievable.
Top notch.
Award on Monday and Tuesday as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's go to Jason and Kel.
Much different reason today.
But today is different.
Today wasn't going to be a hat day, I don't think.
It's a different look.
Every single day.
No, no.
Today was not planned to be a hat day.
I don't think so.
No, today was.
I can't remember when the hat thing started.
It's been a while. Yeah, but today was a brand new, supposed to be a hat i don't think so no today remember when the hat thing started it's been a while yeah but today was a brand new supposed to be a brand new day
tony shelby oh let's go to uh let's go to tanner in wisconsin what's going on tanner
all right wisconsin snowing up there it is probably yeah hopefully yeah yeah you're right
hopefully it continues to blizzard up there that's right let's Yeah. Hopefully. Yeah, you're right. Hopefully it continues
to blizzard up there.
That's right.
Let's go to Jason in California.
What's going on, Jason?
Hi, my boys.
Good to talk to you guys today.
Hey, great to talk to you as well.
Yeah, man.
First time caller.
I've listened to you guys
for a while now.
Shout out to my friend Brad.
He's the one that got me
into this great show.
Okay, shout out to Brad.
Shout out to Brad. Shout out to Brad. Shout out to Brad. Brad. He's the one that got me into this great show. Okay, shout out to Brad.
I'm just
calling today about Derek Carr and what you
guys think about him. I've been
one of his biggest defenders as a
Raiders fan for his entire career
now. I think he's a guy that
can keep this team over the top.
He just needs a better team around him.
What happened?
Jason, what happened there to his groin, bro?
What happened to the groin thing?
And then he played the next week or whatever.
That was wild to me.
I know.
Yeah.
I know.
I've never heard what happened to his groin.
Did anybody?
I don't think anyone knew what happened to him.
Yeah, Jason, I mean, the thing about Derek Carr is,
remember, after the groin thing happened,
and then Mariota came in and balled, my entire thought was we probably – because if you leave the game, primetime game, game that you must win,
starting quarterback, you're leaving the game,
that's because something serious happened, right?
So in a way that thing looked like he was probably done for the rest of the season.
My thought was we probably have never – with the way Mariota played,
if he played these last couple weeks, however, see how the whole team went,
you know, I thought there was a chance we'd never see Carr play
for the Raiders again.
Now I have no idea.
I have no clue what they're going to do.
That Raiders team always starts hot.
Out of surprise, everybody wins a bunch of games.
And then towards the end, it just starts going downhill.
The Raiders start going down in the desert.
I mean, it is – is that going to continue?
John Gruden ain't going nowhere.
He's going to be around for a long time.
Will they change their quarterback?
I don't know.
Should Raiders fans expect them to change their quarterback?
I think they should expect them to at least look into it a little bit.
What do you got, Diggs?
Ian's tweet.
The Chargers are going to interview Giants offense coordinator Jason Garrett tomorrow.
That was his news.
Can you call him back?
Can you call Ian Rapport back?
Jay's got it.
Please, Jay.
Thank you.
See?
It was something we didn't talk about in the interview.
Yeah, but that's not fucking news.
That's not news.
That is not news.
Brady thinks Jason Garrett moves the needle.
Did he answer?
Yeah, he's on.
Ian, what the fuck?
That is not breaking news, Ian.
I said it was a small thing.
No, that is not even.
No, no, Ian.
That news stunk, Ian.
That news absolutely stunk.
I guess whenever you cast a wide net or whatever, you're going to catch a couple crabs.
But that was not news.
Can I tell you what else is interesting when i had the
original report on garrett going to the chargers i've never seen such hate for a candidate who
finished over 500 and barely had a losing season ever and created that prescott what's wrong with
your people online man come on it's not my people it's the internet and the internet has a lot of
problems but i believe jason Jason Garrett potentially got a bad
image because for like five straight years, people
were in Cowboys fans. Some Cowboys fans were
hoping he'd get fired, and Jerry wouldn't do it.
So I think the rest of the world kind of saw that happen, but
now after seeing the Cowboys post Jason Garrett,
I think maybe you have to start questioning
everything, but I believe Chargers fans
want somebody exciting. You know, they want somebody
exciting with the Herbert coming
up and at him, you know what I mean?
I mean, maybe someone
who wins games would be good.
There you go.
All right, Ian.
Yeah!
Break that news.
Break that news.
That's bigger news than...
I mean, you're not wrong.
That news stunk.
That news stunk.
Terrible.
Yeah.
I guess that's going to happen
every once in a while
whenever you step into
that batter's box.
Ain't that right, NBA guy?
That's right.
Sometimes you're just going to have to get a box.
Get to first.
Then steal second.
Get to third.
Let's go to Bill in Phoenix.
Bill, what's going on, pal?
Hey, how's it going, pal?
Hope you're having a good day, man.
Hey, not too shabby.
How are you?
Good, good, good.
Hey, quick call.
So I actually went to school with Kenny Galladay back at Northern Illinois University.
Whoa, good player.
I know he had, unfortunately, just a shit year with injuries.
Real quick.
But God damn, he's good at football.
Real quick, real quick.
Real quick, Bill.
Bill.
Yeah.
Whenever you say you went to school with somebody, then you proceed to say university.
Like, you guys were just on the same campus at the same time, or you guys actually had
classes?
I wish I could.
I had one class with him
I saw him maybe once
so I don't know if that counts but I mean
He went to class, yeah you saw him
and by the way shout out to him going to class one time
Yeah that's pretty good
I'll take it
With him coming up, free agent
coming up and you know just a year
of injuries
do you see him with them trying to move him out of Detroit?
How much does an injury for pretty much the entire season
really affect him able to make a big contract this year?
Bill, I have no idea.
Bill, I wish I knew that situation a little bit better.
When he did play, he was awesome.
He was the go-to guy.
Those are the only games we won, so I hope they re-sign him,
but it's Detroit, so you never know.
Matt could potentially be on the move, too.
Matthew could be on the move as well.
And if Matthew's not there, is Kenny like, you know,
I'll go play for Vet Men somewhere, actually.
Probably.
He's going to pay.
Yeah, he's good, dude.
He's a player.
He's very good.
Will Chris Spielman and the boys up there in the Lions want to kind of pull the trigger
and keep Kenny Galladay around?
Yeah, you know, with this Jason Garrett news rolling, it really scares me.
The Lions might pull the trigger on him. It really
scares me. He might be able to build culture
in there, though. That's right. They already decided
on Dan Campbell two weeks ago.
Dan Campbell, by the way, he is the
assistant head coach for the New Orleans Saints
right now. He was previously
the interim head coach for the Miami Dolphins.
Most noted
move he made. First day he became
the interim head coach for the Miami Dolphins.
Professional athletes ran
Oklahoma drills in the middle of the season.
Set a standard. Won a couple
games. Talking about culture.
Damn right. Jawline on
that guy. I mean, I think that's what
Patricia was doing, too. Yeah, yeah.
And Mangini, by the way, the
rumors about Mangini is he used to have the guys
6 a.m. Oklahoma drills for the rookies, full pads in the practice facility.
Don't be late.
Time to wake up.
Wake them up.
Could you imagine?
You get to be here.
God damn.
You want to make it in the NFL, kid?
Yeah.
Hit!
Hit!
Will Smith just had a movie.
Hit!
Hit!
Why are we doing this so early in the morning?
Oh.
What did you say?
Tomorrow we're coming in an hour early.
Hit!
I don't know if any of that's true, by the way.
That's just rumors that have got to our locker room from the Cleveland locker room kind of ventured over.
So you probably bet.
Probably happened.
There's probably some sort of something that happened when Mangini got in there where he was like,
we're going to establish a tough
culture here. And then all the players were like, what the fuck,
dude? Why? We get it, man.
Can we draft tough players
instead of trying to make soft guys
tough? That's a good idea.
That's probably what we should do here. If you want to change
the standard here, start bringing in the tough guys.
It's going to be tough to make
Boston Connor
a tough guy. Let me go, coach.
I don't have to play for you.
Listen, I'm not the guy to be hit.
I'll go to Detroit.
Just let me play somewhere else.
But, by the way, if I'm running a team,
I would like guys that wake up at 6 a.m.
Yeah.
And want to run their heads into walls.
You want the Hawks.
Now, granted, I do not want to be on that team.
No.
I do not want to be a part of that.
No.
But I would like guys that do want that.
So you can see how Mangini would want that to happen,
but it's the humans you have as opposed to the drill you're running.
What are you going to do?
Hit!
Let's go to Jackson in Buffalo.
What's going on, Jackson?
Pat, boys, what's good?
Just hanging out.
How are you?
I don't want to overreact,
but Josh Allen's going to win four Super Bowls in a row for the Buffalo Bills.
Yeah. He might Yeah They look very loose
Hey, they are dancing to MC Hammer at practice today
They are getting loose
And getting down in Buffalo
7-1-6
The entire area is up there
They are having the time of their life
That Buffalo Bills team is so comfortable
So confident
They got a Colts team this weekend that is going to be tough
on the defense side of the ball.
They're going to run the ball well.
They've got a tough opponent.
It feels like the Buffalo Bills don't give a damn about anything.
They are having the time of their lives right now.
Yeah, I was very convinced the Colts were going to maybe win.
I wanted to bet on them.
After seeing the boys dancing out there in Orchard Park,
they're going to beat the shit out of the Colts, I'm afraid.
I mean, you just look at it.
They do. They look loose. They're going to beat the shit out of the Colts, I'm afraid. I mean, you just look at it.
They do.
They look loose.
They look like they're having fun.
It would be tough to come back if they lost to the Colts after this.
Well, it would be difficult in the AFC East if you were Bills Mafia,
if you guys get in and lose immediately to this Indianapolis Colts team.
But they could, by the way.
This Colts team is built to beat the Buffalo Bills.
Oh, yeah? I love this Colts team, especially with the
newfound identity of
Jonathan Taylor.
And how do you know the Colts aren't dancing right now
over at practice, you know?
It's because you don't release it. That doesn't mean it's not
happening. I bet Darius
Leonard is dancing, by the way. That's all the guy does.
You think Phillip Rivers has got a mind dancing down there?
He boots.
By the way, I have... Carson will have him next year. They'll be doing You think Phillip Rivers has got a line dancing down there? He boots, scoot, and boogie.
By the way, I have – Carson will have them next year.
They'll be doing Copperhead Road.
Oh, that'd be nice.
I was about to say, I line danced one time in a saloon in the hills of Virginia.
And I'd like to let you know, it is the electric slide with an extra kick most often –
more often than not.
But, boy, when Copperhead Road comes on, get out of the way.
They are coming to the fucking dance
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Back to the show
Joining me, ladies and gentlemen
College football champion and Super Bowl champion
AJ Hawk
Click clack dude
How you doing in that Under Armour hoodie?
Good, I just got this.
It's from the Dwayne Johnson line, if you ever go into Dix.
Are you the hardest worker in that room that you're in right now?
Yeah, I'm the only one.
So, yes, I win.
You got some Terramana up there, dude?
You doing shots of Terramana tequila?
Oh, that's his tequila that he made?
I guess it is very good.
The Terramana.
I guess the Terramana is very good.
It has the,
you know,
all the spirit,
the mana from Hawaii.
Exactly.
I guess it tastes delicious,
but the hoodie looks good,
as do you.
We're talking to Tom Segura today.
Do you know him?
Yes, I know Tom.
I was texting with him
throughout his injury.
Whoa.
Oh, I didn't know
you guys were like besties.
That's all.
Ladies and gentlemen,
joining us now,
a man who has four specials on Netflix
and also suffered the most gruesome injury I've ever seen in my life,
moments after accomplishing one of the greatest athletic feats
I've ever seen in my entire life.
Ladies and gentlemen, comedian, host of so many shows, Tom Segura.
Attaboy, Tom!
What's up, man?
Hey, thanks for joining us, dude.
Hey, AJ's been to my house, man.
What's that all about?
We're out in California.
AJ just sits on a couch.
We served AJ burnt chicken.
I mean, AJ...
I've seen your house, by the way,
because of all the incredible podcasting you do with your wife.
You're an inspiring man, okay?
You're incredibly hilarious.
You're humble. And also, what you're doing're an inspiring man okay you're incredibly hilarious you're humble uh and
also what you're doing right now in this recovery from one of the most grotesque injuries i've ever
seen is something that i'll keep with me anytime i feel an ache or pain for the rest of my life
tom thank man it's it's good to be hanging out with other pro athletes i feel at home
and um yeah i mean you, it was foul, dude.
It was a nasty ass injury.
And I mean, it is a it's crazy because I mean, you guys have been around, you know, I'm sure teammates.
I don't know about your own personal like past injuries.
But like when you have an injury like that, it's like your whole fucking world just flips upside down.
Oh, yeah.
By the way, everybody around you too
their world changes too because they just witnessed it everybody's world changes around you i mean
the uh your your family your friends your your whole work life and you just feel like i mean
it's you feel like it's the equivalent of being shot like it's like you're like i don't even know
i mean you're just in an isolated room
and you know you're calling nurses to hand you something six inches away and you're like uh
this is my new life for those it's so traumatic for those that don't know what have happened uh
and aj will ask this question we should run the tape so people can know what happened he was in
the middle of a hold on hold on hold on we should show the other question. We should run the tape so people can know what happened. He was in the middle of a – hold on, hold on, hold on.
We should show the other video first.
We should show the other video first.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The reason why this thing was taking place is because I assume you and Bert
were in an athletic challenge of some sort.
That's exactly right.
Bert and I, we played two-on-one versus Tristan Jazz.
Tristan is this really talented young kid, does trick shots.
And we played him two-on-one, and we lost.
And our points counted as two, and his counted as one.
That's awesome.
And Bert.
It's all Bert's fault.
He fucking missed a layup.
Amen.
Anyway, then we were going to play one-on-one.
And my producer, Lindsey, goes, hey, man, I think we should do the dunk thing first.
And then you guys can do one-on-one.
And I go, OK.
So they had the rim lowered to like seven or seven and a half.
And they're like, just start here.
So we're dunking.
And then we raise it to eight, eight and a half.
You get it to nine. and this is what happens.
Get it to nine, and this is what happens.
Here's Burt Crusher.
Here's Burt.
Miss.
You can't do it, right?
Bang!
Yo!
Come on!
Bang!
Bring it!
Bring it!
No, wait.
Look, I understand there's some dudes out there that have that crazy...
I know guys that are normal size that can do dunk on 10,
and you're like, that is fucking freaky.
That's elite athleticism.
But I'm 41, 240 plus pounds.
Stand-up comedian?
Stand-up comedian, one of the greatest on earth at stand-up comedy podcast hosts?
Nobody's expecting you to have explosivity to get up there at nine feet and hammer that thing done.
Hammer that shit clean.
I know dudes taller than me, lighter than me that can't do that shit.
Fuck off.
So incredible athletic feat.
And then just moments later, it is followed.
This is probably two to three minutes later.
Two to three minutes later two to three minutes later
this happens
jesus jesus what you're seeing there a lot of people think that they're like oh man you stepped
on a wet spot no fucking momo i didn't step on a fucking wet spot. My left patella tendon ripped in half,
and then I landed on my arm and broke that shit.
Not enough conversation about the treasonous bullshit
that your left arm did.
Your left arm is not supposed to commit suicide
while you're falling.
That's supposed to help brace the landing, you know?
It just quit on you.
It just completely quit.
That shit went kamikaze on me.
And I'll tell you this, man.
A lot of people are wondering which hurts worse.
The fucking arm.
I would imagine it hurts way worse.
Tom, what was it like having Burt there?
Like, in the moment, what were you thinking? I guess when you look up and like having Burt there like in the moment what were you thinking
I guess when you look up and you see Burt lean over when he finally realized hey this is a big
deal first of all it's like first you know the pain you have the the pain the shock of the pain
right and then I realized that I'm on my right side and I'm actually trying to pull my left arm over, and it takes a moment to register, like, oh, it's broken.
Like, I want to bring it over, and it's not coming over.
And then I hear, because there's a couple people filming, and I hear this dude.
He's like, his arm.
His arm.
And then I hear Berg.
He's like, you all right, buddy? I mean, they're all in
shock.
And he reaches over. I don't remember
him actually helping me bring my
arm over. I thought I did. I really did.
But I do remember looking up and going,
call 911.
Like,
why aren't one of you
already doing that right now?
And then Bert goes, I'm going to step outside.
I don't want to be around it at all.
And then these fucking paramedics came,
and they're looking at me,
and they're looking at Tristan Jass and his friends,
and one guy, paramedic, keeps telling me,
he goes, why are you playing with these kids?
I'm sitting there like huh and then i get in the back of the ambulance he goes you're out here playing with kids
and then i get to the hospital and the same fucking paramedic
comes and sees one of the doctors he goes he's out there playing with kids i like that there was a heel in this entire thing and it was the guy who's supposed to be helping
you um helping me what followed i assume you had to have surgery a lot of them what what has
happened this is actually pretty great so i go to a hospital and i immediately and i'm telling you
i'm all fucked up i'm in crazy pain like because it's right from the injury to the hospital and i'm like this hospital fucking sucks
and i i get like some i get a horrible rap like it's not a cast or anything they take x-rays
they're like you're fucked and they're like you need to see a surgeon like tomorrow and i was
like guess what i'm getting out of this hospital like you don't
want to do that and i go yes i do i don't want to be here so i i leave the hospital and i go home
broken arm torn tendon no cast nothing right i get home i have friends help me get on a couch
i sleep on a couch and the next morning Bert found
a guy that for 50 bucks
will pick you up in a van.
He has
an old wheelchair.
The shit doesn't even work.
They have to carry me. I usually do shit alone.
Every time, you know when you're like,
do you want to go alone or do you want someone to come with you?
I'm always the guy who's like, I got it.
I grabbed Bert and I was like, don't you fucking leave me.
This guy had long hair that when he pushed the wheelchair,
I would feel his hair hanging on my face.
His hair was so long, smelled like cigarettes.
So he takes me to an orthopedic surgeon who goes, you left the hospital?
He goes, you need to go to the hospital right now. And and he's like you need to have surgery on both of these i just looked at everything he's
like you need to go to the hospital right now so what i do is i tell this driver take me to cedars
cedars is los angeles's biggest hospital it's also one of the top five hospitals in the nation right
this guy all he does is drive people in wheelchairs
and i go take me to cedars he goes what's that and i was like who the fuck are you
don't you drive people in wheelchairs all day so he takes me to cedars and then then the whole
thing just begins man where it's like getting into that emergency room and the fast track. And then they just start pumping me full of drugs.
And, I mean, I'm on crazy drugs for about 10, 12 days.
And, yeah, I got two titanium plates in this arm.
I got the patella tendon reattached.
And then today I actually go to a follow-up to find out if I'm going to switch braces on my leg.
Hey, big days, you go to that next brace.
Yeah.
Next brace, next brace.
I'm doing PT six days a week.
I got a fucking bionic glove on this hand.
That's because I bruised my radial nerve, so this thing helps me get more usage out of this hand while it heals.
From dunking a basketball or trying to... From being a fucking
Skywalker, bro.
That's what I have to do.
Tom, was it worth it?
Was it worth it still?
Especially what you're going to get out of this?
You're going to think I'm like
some new agey fucking weirdo
now, but it has been
one of the most traumatic, but
kind of life open... I'm telling you... You fucking weirdo now but it has been like one of the most traumatic but kind of life open i'm telling you
like you're fucking weirdo dude don't be a weirdo dude don't be a weirdo it really has been it
really has been man i mean i had so many people help me that when that when that happens i think
you're like i kind of changes your perspective a little bit on on your life by the way i was
joking with you you're a human no i know i know
but i mean it is it's wild it's wild so many people help you yeah but you don't have to
preface that with i don't want to be a weirdo i'm gonna uh my life has changed a little bit now that
like 25 people dedicated their entire days to my existence like yeah that's not being a weirdo
that's being a human there when are you uh back on track to maybe move your hands without a bionic
glove and walk again um i should be able to like walk around with uh the bendable brace for like
um i don't know if i get into it tomorrow or today i'll have that thing for a couple months
and then it'll go to like a sleeve and then this radial nerve thing, they're just like, oh, your hand will just incrementally
get better and it'll just come on.
I go, when?
It could be like three weeks or
21 months.
That's a cool
fucking diagnosis.
Prognosis. Thanks, man.
What's next?
Were you in the middle of working on any comedy?
Did this slow anything down? I it like i had dates i had i was supposed to go the next day to phoenix
i was like i think i gotta cancel that i mean i have some shit i have things on the books you
know how i mean covet obviously changed everything but i have dates throughout 2021 i'm supposed to
shoot a special in spanish in. You're speaking the Spanish.
Yeah, the whole thing in Spanish.
And then I have a tour that's supposed to, like a big tour that would start in the fall,
which that'll probably all come on.
Does everybody know you just speak Spanish well?
Like you're known as the guy that does good Spanish and you have enough knowledge of the
Spanish language that you can deliver it in a joke fashion to people.
Yeah, I was doing shows in Spanish up until March, you know, last year.
So that's awesome.
English show, Spanish show.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah, I have.
I mean, I was supposed to shoot it last year.
And then when when, you know, COVID came, Netflix was like I had to sign an amendment that said I'll shoot it the next year.
But yeah, I mean, hopefully we're going to, you know, if things get better and I can go back out on the road, I'll be able to shoot it sometime this year.
Yeah, you just rolling out on the stage would be awesome.
Ty, what do you got?
Nothing.
Tom, if your knee didn't implode on impact, do you think that you're dunking on that nine and a half rim?
For sure.
I think I, first of all, I don't remember if they put it at nine three or nine six.
I just remember that, you know, I was feeling good. I didn't tell you that there was another guy there who on my first dunk, the first dunk was like on an eight foot or seven and a half.
He go, I did a reverse dunk, right?
I did it behind my back.
And this guy, Roy, that works there, he's a basketball coach.
He goes, hey, man, you got that Larry Johnson in you.
And I go, he's my favorite.
Larry Johnson was my favorite, and I'll tell you why.
As a kid, it's not just the UNLV days and stuff,
but I identified as like a football player,
and I thought he looked like a
football player playing basketball right so i loved larry johnson so i pull roy aside
and i open my bag and i show him i have a larry johnson jersey on me
and after the nine foot dunk roy pulls me they raised it a few this is before the injury
he goes you're
gonna have to dig deep man you gotta dig for that larry johnson i got such an adrenaline rush you
know when you get the adrenaline rush where you tell yourself to calm down first like like where
you're like you know maybe like you're about to lift and you're like all right my heart's racing
too much like i'm just gonna chill for a second i ignored that
right before that jump dude i was like i was so amped up because i was like i gotta hit this
this raised amount for larry i'll tell you this i don't know if i would have hit it
i will definitely come out of this like probably 40 pounds lighter i'm already down like 20 pounds
oh okay and i'll come out of, I think in six or nine months,
definitely stronger.
And I'll fucking, I'll do it again.
I don't give a fuck if it pops again.
Hey, you get back on that wood, dude.
Yeah, man.
I got these fucking weak fucking ass,
like people that are like, don't ever play sports again.
I'm like, you're out of your fucking mind, dude.
I will be back out on basketball court, tennis court.
I'll fucking play rugby.
I don't give a shit.
Don't play rugby.
Don't play rugby, I would say.
Hey, Tom.
Tom, last thing for me.
Going back to those Spanish sets that you're doing.
Yeah.
How do, I'm sure you announced when you're doing an only Spanish set,
how do the English speakers that show up to a show believing they're going to see Tom Segura do English?
How do they handle that?
I mean, we just roast them.
There's probably like four or five at every show.
And they're like, fuck, I didn't read.
I didn't read the ticket.
I'm like, it's fucking in Spanish.
Like it says, none of this is in English.
And they're like, I just didn't look.
And then, you know, we just kind of like,
I just go back to them and kind of mess with them.
But yeah, they're at every show.
Every show has somebody who's like,
I didn't realize this was in another language.
When did you decide that you were going to like,
have you always known the Spanish language or did you learn it?
My mother is Peruvian, so I spoke Spanish growing up.
Oh, so it's
smooth like it is no problem at all it's pretty good so there's a big you find out i found out
there's a big difference between conversational spanish like talking to you right now and then
getting up like performing so i i've had to like really focus and study and go over because i'll
you know having a conversation is one thing performing Performing to a crowd, you want it to be as tight and grammatically correct.
So it's been work.
But, I mean, it's fun, and the crowds have been amazing.
I did Tempe, Arizona before this, and I did a couple big L.A. shows.
And I had a whole tour set up, and I was going to go to Mexico City to shoot the special,
but everything got delayed. Oh, that would have been awesome.
I can't wait to see it, by the way.
We're built similarly.
I see that
now. Active Husky.
Active Husky.
Was there any indication or warning
that this was going to happen? Because when I cross the street
and I have to pick up my pace a little bit,
I always fear that I'm going to tear my Achilles
and then be laying and get run over and stuff like that.
So was there any warning signs that I could look for or anything like that?
Dude, here's the thing that I wish I could tell you yes.
But I'll tell you this, man.
The last six months I've been playing tennis,
which is not the same as basketball,
but I've been playing tennis two to three times a week.
I was lifting two to three times a week. And, you know, squats, deadlifts, do it. Nothing was like, oh, my knee hurts. I
didn't like run around and feel like, oh, I'm in pain. The only warning sign looking back was the
morning of the injury. I was in my office with my staff and I was like, yeah, you know, we're going to do this
thing. I'm a smoke Bert in this thing. And they're like, how high do you think you can dunk? And I
go, I could definitely dunk on a nine foot hoop. And a couple of guys in my staff were like,
I don't think so. And I was like, what? And they were like, I don't think you can do that. And I
was like, bitch, watch this this and i jumped in the lobby
like as like in jeans no warm-up nothing well i i went i popped the ceiling right there's like a
ceiling tile and uh but i landed and i was like that kind of hurt a little bit
and i will say this if you're gonna do some shit like i did and you're and you're my age and built
you should like prepare for fucking six weeks.
Stretch a lot.
Get your fucking jumping muscles ready.
Don't just get into it.
Like, I used to play basketball, you know.
When I got to L.A., I played pickup games in Hollywood.
I would just play all the time.
I'm 22, and you just go like, I love basketball.
And I did not play for a long time.
But you still had the 22-year-old Tom out there slicing and dicing
on that fucking pickup game against what?
Five-foot-six Hollywood playing pickup basketball out there?
That game might be the best.
Is that the shortest game in America, the Hollywood pickup games?
No, dude.
No.
It gets grimy.
The Hollywood YMCA has, like, you know,
like little hustlers and, like, street people at it.
Like, it was a grimy game.
I mean, shoving matches, elbows.
And then there would be, like, the fucking guy from a Dove commercial.
And you're like, who the fuck are you?
What are you doing here?
I just think
of Tom Cruise coming out there on the court.
Give me the ball!
Give me the ball!
You know, like just so small.
The big
misnomer there is that Hollywood implies
sexy and chic.
Hollywood means grimy
and shitty. Hollywood means
there's fucking needles on the ground.
So you've got to watch where you're dribbling there.
Work on your handles.
It's disgusting.
Hollywood is so fucking gross.
Nick, what do you got?
Tom, glad to hear you're recovering well.
And when you get your strength back and you get back in shape,
is there any thought, because we know you're such a big wrestling fan
and the wrestling community loves you,
if you would maybe help Pat out in the ring the ring step into the ring anything like that what was
your character what was your character what was it mystic rick man who mystic rick that's what i
thought i'm sorry i i forgot about mystic rick and that mystic riggle dropped a turkey slicer on your
ass i know i saw your I saw your promos.
I saw them.
I saw them.
And you didn't want any of that smoke.
I remember that.
Nothing.
As soon as I saw Mystic Rick
in his first time talking,
I was like,
I want nothing to do
with that guy over there.
You don't want this shit, man.
I mean, Sammy G, Sammy Guevara,
I've talked to him
about getting in the ring.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens, man.
You're about six years away from
getting back into a fucking wrestling body i don't know if you know that that rehab six years
no i'm joking but that rehab process is a pain in the ass dude like you have to teach your knee how
to walk again and everything wait you you fucked your knee up right patella you had a dislocated
patella nothing like what you had but i had a dislocated patella it is how hard was your rehab the rehab had a dislocated patella. It is. How hard was your rehab?
The rehab, it sucks because you've got to teach your leg how to walk again.
Then they scrape the scar tissue.
That's like the worst day.
I don't even know if you've gotten there yet.
Did you do blood flow restriction?
Yeah, obviously.
They do the thing.
Yeah, the whole thing.
The compression thing.
Yeah, yeah.
I did my first one yesterday.
Hurt like hell?
Yeah.
Yeah, it hurt like hell.
And then she was like, she was, you know, but they always try to like pump you up.
She was like telling me like these NBA players she did.
She goes, that dude quit before you.
You're fucking better than him.
Yeah.
Fuck yeah.
Fuck that guy.
He might be an all-star, but he's a bitch.
Tom,
happy to hear that you've changed
through this whole process. You know,
happy you're a weirdo and you know how I feel.
I did a nice...
We appreciate it. I love you guys.
I'm a big fan of both you guys
and I'm happy for all your success.
And fucking call more
often, man. What the fuck? Hey, seems like you
don't have much going on
for the next few weeks.
We will definitely do that.
Tom, we appreciate you so much, man.
You're a legend.
Absolutely.
My best to you guys, your whole staff, man.
Thanks very much for having me.
Tom Segura.
Yeah!
Thank you, Tom.
See you, man.
Legendary, dude.
Holy shit.
Oh, AJ.
That is a scary injury. It it really is how about him just going
home because the hospital had bad lighting or something i'm not getting this no way dude i'm
not doing this surgery here look at that fucking light get me out of here just goes home does he
have painkillers like how does he he slept on a couch by the way wait you're so you're crushed
on your arm yeah what a wild animal there yeah the arm thing having to wear that little thing to so if he bruised his nerve it's not is
that like the payton remember payton was waiting on his nerve to like regenerate is it a similar
thing yeah that's what i was thinking whenever he was talking about it might be three months might
be twice or might be three weeks might be 21 months because that was the big question that
payton had uh on whether or not he could feel a ball again. And the Colts had to make a decision on
whether or not they were going to cut him before a date. And it was
during the lockout, I think. And then there was a lot of shit
going on. And they were like,
we don't even know if he's going to be able to feel a ball again.
He was able to. Yeah. And Tom
will be able to get back out there and go
to that Hollywood meth basketball
game in the handles with the left hand
and dunk on a nine and
a quarter foot rim for sure
hell yeah hey you look good in that dunk you look like an athlete yeah in that dunk
i think he played uh football in college for maybe one year really yeah i don't he went to
a smaller school yeah he played in high school i think he tried to play his freshman year and
then he stopped what's his house like just incredible and? The house I was at was awesome, but that was
his old house. Now he's moved into
something next to the Kardashians, I think.
Wow! Netflix house!
He's out there in Calabasas!
AJ!
Yes?
Deshaun Watson has alluded to
potentially wanting traded out of Houston.
If you're Casario, the Italian man with a very distinguished jawline like yourself,
going into Houston, not a lot of draft capital, not a lot of future
because of Bill O'Brien's moves that he made to make your team how it is right now.
Would you trade the best player you have, Deshaun Watson,
to potentially get a lot of draft capital and be able to build forward?
Or would you say, I got a guy in a position that you need a guy in,
even though he's under contract, this is somebody we can't get rid of?
Man, it's enticing to think about trading him
and all that you could possibly get for him.
But look what every NFL team does.
If you don't have your franchise quarterback,
you're constantly looking for that franchise quarterback
and trying to find a way to win because that's what you need
if you want to win the Super Bowl.
But Deshaun Watson, the year he had was unbelievable this year.
I know they were a bad team, but how well he played, I don't think you can get rid of him.
Like, I just don't.
You have to have a foolproof plan in place of somebody to come in that is going to replace him, I guess.
And I don't think they have that.
Yeah, the issue is you're not going to be able to build your team with what you currently have
because you have no draft capital
and you don't have a lot of money, I don't think.
Now, J.J. will save you $17 if you cut him.
Now, that's going to have to be another massive decision.
Salary cap is not growing.
I don't know what they're going to do down there.
I'm intrigued to see who it is.
But, hey, I mean, if it's 5-1s like Ian Rappaport alluded to, don't do it.
It's going to be a tough sell.
But, hey, why not just have him play for Colts?
That's a good idea.
Play for Colts.
Trade him within the division.
You know, why not?
Why not, AJ?
Be smart.
Why not do that?
Other big news from the day.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank confirms a report that Julio and Matt Ryan could be traded.
Julio, Mr. Rappaport said
probably not as likely to be traded because whoever comes in there if they trade away their
best player who's beloved by the city in the face of your franchise that's a very difficult move but
Julio if he wants to get out of there maybe he'll have a little bit of a leverage play AJ
yeah he might be able to I think it'd be really tough to to trade Julio I mean obviously you'll
get some backlash from your fans.
They got Calvin Ridley down there, which is another good draft
pick, but Julio is just so
special, man. When the dude is healthy,
he's like, how tall is he? He's almost
6'5". I don't know how much he weighs.
He can run. He's faster than everybody. He goes up
and gets every contested ball.
He's one of those dudes that if you're a DB,
have fun. Good luck. It's going to be a long day.
I was at a blackjack table next to him.
He was, like, probably about that tall.
Seemed like he was about that tall, sitting in the same seat I was sitting at.
Six.
Guys that big shouldn't be able to move that way.
Yeah, he had a tight tank top on that used to be referred to as a beater.
He had, like, linen pants on, sunglasses on,
and he was playing, like like four hands at a time
and then when he stood up it was like a full you felt it you know what i mean and then he
he like kind of just glided away onto the beach holy shit that guy and i play in the same league
and i'll take uh 25 dollars worth that is uh it was a while that change. That was a wild time being next to somebody that is just, you know,
he's bigger, stronger, faster, probably much, much smarter,
can catch a ball better, probably throw a ball better,
and a guy who, you know, aside from that one year,
has he ever really gotten into the spotlight like he should be?
I don't know if he has.
The guy's unbelievable.
Imagine him with the Packers, AJ.
Oh, jeez.
Come on now.
Yeah, it would be unfair probably.
That's not going to happen.
Imagine him with the Chiefs.
Wouldn't you?
If you're a fan of it.
Exactly.
Somehow Andy Reid will make this happen.
Yeah.
Somehow Andy Reid will restructure that contract to pay him in 2035,
if the world exists then, and it'll be like no big
deal at all other big news uh drew breeze said he came back this year not for the money but for the
city and the franchise yeah boy drew it's not for myself came back for city in the organization
that's why i'm here says nick underscore under hill don't know who he is but shout out to drew
for putting it on for the city,
putting the city on his back, AJ.
So he came back for the – is that the only reason that he came back to play?
Well, he's not back here for himself.
No, or the money.
It's not for me.
It's like Ben Roethlisberger.
Roethlisberger said, I could have retired for me,
but my guys love me and I love them.
And that's why we're coming back.
I like that relationship quarterbacks have with their team.
Are the Saints about to go ahead and do something special in the playoffs?
Drew's doing it for the organization.
Put the organization on his shoulder pads, stats on his shoes,
slinging the ball all over the yard within a certain distance.
Hey, don't overlook the Bears this weekend.
That's a good football team.
Who is?
The Bears.
I mean, Zeke's not here to bang the drum but you know hey teasing
piece of zeke by the way what if the bears win that what if the bears win a playoff game
i mean uh what's that they like their coaching staff we everyone had their coaching staff fired
already didn't we halfway through the season yeah yeah yeah what's that dicks uh unfortunately i
have some bad news the browns have placed placed another starter on COVID-19 reserve list,
safety Ronnie Harrison.
Oh.
Well, we hope he survives.
Yeah, but he's going to be out for a game.
So they got no play caller, no offensive lineman, no safety.
They lost one safety, but they got Sandejo back.
Okay, so that was contact tracing, I do believe,
is what got that one safety out, right?
Contact tracing?
Sandejo?
No, the other one.
Ronnie Harrison?
Yeah, I believe it was contact tracing, right?
No, he got it.
He has a positive test.
So there's another positive test today, then?
Actually, it's worse news.
There was some spread from Dr. Alan Sills,
NFL's chief medical doctor.
There was some spread one individual to another among the Browns.
So not from the community.
Okay.
So if there's another positive today, this is Thursday.
That means they haven't completely halted the outbreak, right?
Because that's what they get.
They got to stop all the spread.
So I assume they would need a negative tomorrow,
all negatives tomorrow and Saturday.
Because if not, what are they going to do?
Delay the game?
Monday night?
Are they going to delay the game to Monday night or Tuesday night?
Let Stefanski potentially get back on the sidelines?
Maybe let him in a fucking booth, huh?
That sounds like a forfeit to me.
Delay the game.
It takes all of us.
We get to the playoffs now, this shit.
They haven't made the playoffs in 18 years shit. You can't have a playoff. You can't have a playoff.
You can't have a playoff in 18 years.
And you can't contain the virus?
What are we doing?
It could have been a door dash delivery.
What if it was the cop that pulled them over while they were drag racing back home to get to the Zoom meeting?
I've already started before that.
Thank you for your service, officer.
But what if that...
How long were you speeding?
What if that was happening?
No big deal.
There's racing all around town with dope in the car.
We don't care about that anymore.
No, no, no.
We hope they're all safe.
They were trying to get to a Zoom meeting.
We don't know whose doobie that was.
Tom Pelsar does report that the game is still on as scheduled for Sunday.
For now.
Yeah, for now.
I mean, of course it is.
It's not fucking drop all out panic on Sunday night football at this particular moment.
Could you imagine Al Michaels?
Oh.
Calling game on a Wednesday or somewhere in a playoff?
That's what I'm doing.
Hey, we went hard for
Stefanski being able to drive himself
from Cleveland to Pittsburgh in his own car
because there's no fans allowed
in Heinz Field
in Pittsburgh. He goes up a back stairwell into a booth that has been completely locked down,
calling the plays from the booth that it would be open there.
But it turns out Stefanski doesn't want to do it.
Steelers fans are definitely not happy about it,
and nobody else is really fighting the fight that we're fighting.
It makes no sense.
I mean, let Coach Stefanski coach.
It's the only way the Browns have a shot.
Yeah, maybe we put Ronnie Harrison out there in a big old bubble
and roll around the field and still play.
When does it end?
That's a good idea.
Where does it stop?
That's a good idea, bubble boy.
Why is Gumpy so against the Browns?
I don't get it.
Because he knows it takes all of them.
I respect the damn shield.
That's why.
Who is the eighth team in the AFC this year?
I don't think the Finns are going to get a COVID outbreak
if they make it to the playoffs.
Well, that's because they didn't.
Exactly.
And they're making old men resign.
Yeah.
Yeah, he lost his love for the game a long time ago.
Classic Ohio.
AJ, your thoughts on the games this weekend?
Do you think the Bucs beat the hell out of the Washington football team,
and is it directly because of what Chase Young said about Tom Brady?
I mean, I saw what Chase Young said uh Chase Young is obviously he's a monster and if he is very confident in what he's saying I think he may he may get Tom a few times but I think the
Bucs win I think they probably win big I just don't think Washington can score enough to keep up
I think the Buccaneers offense will take advantage of the situation and I and I believe Tom is one of those guys who even if it isn't an actual uh disrespectful comment and I'm not saying um common Tom isn't
disrespectful because it kind of is but even if it wasn't I would assume Tom goes ahead and stacks
those chips right on his shoulder as he can I would assume and it feels like Tom Brady's competitive
edge has been one that has carried him to the GOAT title when it comes to NFL quarterbacks.
And I feel like that offense is playing better than they've ever played before,
and it's only going to get better.
I think this is a bad game for Washington football team.
Yeah, they're just happy to get in the playoffs, don't you think,
when you're Washington this year?
No, their shirt said, won, not done.
That's right.
Their shirt said, won, W-O-N, not done.
Yeah, of course.
It would be a huge bonus for them.
I don't think any of them are, well, okay, the players are expecting to win.
Yes, but I don't think a lot of their fans are expecting them to win.
Well, the Bears actually said we got nothing to lose.
They're not expecting to win, I don't know.
I do not believe the Bears are expecting to win,
even though they got a team up there.
Oh, yeah.
Mitchell Trubisky has completed passes in the last few weeks.
He has looked good.
They're getting nine and a half points in New Orleans.
When Sean Payton, if his plan would have worked,
would have been a home field advantage,
he wanted to quarantine 50,000 people, test 50,000 people,
put them on buses, get them in the Superdome.
All of a sudden, who that nation is all the way back.
That allegedly got turned down. I don't know by who. Seems like a sudden, who that nation is all the way back.
That allegedly got turned down.
I don't know by who.
Seems like a person who's not all in on the Saints.
Home field advantage, not that big of a deal.
But they think, the sportsbooks believe, this is damn near a 10-point game.
That's a lot of points for a playoff game, AJ.
That's a bunch of points for a playoff game.
I mean, that's just blatant disrespect to Zito's Bears, isn't it?
Yeah, well, Zito is hibernating currently.
Hopefully he'll be out of that soon.
You know what I mean?
He can't poke the Bear.
But Bear done.
Currently, he'll be back.
Goff was slinging the ball at practice.
He has a broken thumb.
He's got nine fingers, but he was playing quarterback at practice the other day going into playoff weekend.
We don't know if we'll see Wolford.
All signs seem to be pointing at Jared Goff starting this weekend in the playoff weekend. We don't know if we'll see Wolford. All signs seem to be pointing at Jared
Goff starting this weekend in the playoff game. Does that change anything in your eyes in this
game against Russell Wilson, who's been cooking again? He got back to the stove the last couple
weeks against the Seahawks up there. I mean, of course it matters. So, Goff right now, what is
he? He's listed as questionable, I'm guessing. Yeah, probably. But he's throwing the ball in practice.
He's going to play.
Obviously, it's going to affect him.
Any kind of thumb injury on your throwing hand
is going to affect you. Let's see how much.
Don't you think when the Seahawks go
and they get in the playoffs, Russ is dangerous
as he says. He's scary.
I imagine the Seahawks win this one.
I think Russ may have a day.
They're favored by 3.5. You think they cover that or no yeah i think they cover it oh so you
think they're just gonna beat the shit out of those uh the la rams well i mean no winning by
a touchdown is it's still a tight margin to me yeah you're right yeah you're right
ravens titans this one not we have not talked much about no. Titans have a running back who had over 2,000 yards.
Unbelievable.
They get a quarterback that has a complete rebirth in Tennessee,
has a $100 million contract, playing up to that level in Tennessee.
They win big games, win the AFC South, hosting the Baltimore Ravens,
the team last year that was the hottest team in football.
Then they get in the playoffs, lose to said Titans team one year ago in Baltimore.
The Ravens seem to have found their it factor again.
All signs seem to be pointing to the over bet here.
It's the highest of all the games.
I believe the Titans are the number one team in hitting over on the season.
I believe the Ravens are the number three team on hitting over on the season.
It's going to be a lot of running.
Will it be sparks flying?
How do you see this game going?
Who do you got winning it?
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's set up to be a shootout.
Tennessee's defense is known to give up some points at times,
and Lamar has kind of put things together, it does seem like.
The Ravens seem like they're one of those scary teams
that nobody's talking about right now.
Yeah, that's because they kind of disappeared
whenever the Tennessee Titans went and danced on their shield,
and then Harbaugh went out there and told Vrabel how disrespectful it was,
and Vrabel told him to go fucking coach.
Dude, get off the thing, man.
If your players want to come talk, let's do that.
They had that COVID thing that hit them pretty hard, I believe,
and then they all got back together.
It feels like they found it.
But the Tennessee Titans are going to be a tough out.
That's going to be a tough out down there in Nashville.
I mean, three-point home dogs.
I mean, I like that. I do do but i feel like the ravens are
very hot right now we got some gumpy nukes here on this particular game can't wait to hear it
home dogs since 1980 in the playoffs are 26 14 and one against the spread boom there's a pretty
big bomb right there so i guess we're betting on the titans uh and i don't think we have any colts and bills how do you the the colts okay jonathan taylor thomas is a guy not only home improvement but
superstar running back oh yeah he has come into his own going into a buffalo stadium that will
have fans i believe right yes there will be some Bills Mafia members there.
And a team that is so incredibly loose.
They're dancing the MC Hammer all over Orchard Park today.
There's videos of this Bills team dancing all over the place.
Stephon Diggs said, don't even worry about it.
I'm playing.
Who knows about Cole Beasley.
But Josh Allen seems to be in a zone.
How do you see this game going?
Because the Colts do have a great defense.
Jonathan Taylor can move the ball. T.Y. Hilton
seems to be getting hot at the right time. Ain't good special teams.
This is going to be a very good game,
I think. Yeah, and Darius Leonard's saying
he's already saying stuff to the
haters that aren't giving the Colts a chance.
What do you say? Sit back and watch them fly around and make
plays. I guess
I'm a little bit surprised that the Bills
are six and a half point favorites because I can
see the Colts winning this game. Buffalo Bills have just announced that Stephon Diggs is questionable
for Saturday. He was in those dancing videos looking pretty well. Right next to Josh. Buffalo
Bills doing a little gamesmanship with the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah. The X factor to our
offense that was acquired because the Minnesota Vikings and he hated each other. Questionable
this weekend. Don't even prepare for him.
Don't even prepare for him, Frank Eberflus.
Go ahead and take him off the chart.
And then Saturday, 105.
Wham!
Stephon Diggs, Minneapolis miracle right down the goddamn side.
Score!
Bam!
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