The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 367 - Feel Good Friday, Field Yates, Ariel Helwani, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

On today's show, Pat and the boys chat about the fallout from the Russell Wilson drama and and everything that comes with it, the rift between him and Pete Carroll, and everything else going on in the sports world. Joining the program to chat about all the newest NFL news and prepare us for what we might see next week and at the start of free agency is ESPN NFL Insider and friend of the program, Field Yates (23:33-38:27). Later, joining Pat and AJ to chat about this weekend's UFC pay-per-view is ESPN MMA Insider and friend of the program, Ariel Helwani. They also chat about the Bills not signing JJ Watt, him and AJ potentially mending their relationship, and much more (1:04:42-1:28:53). 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

Hello, feel good Friday, March 5th. Hey, big show today. Yeah, huge show today. I enjoyed today. It'll be a great send-off into the weekend, we think. If you agree with us, please be a friend and tell a friend about the show. If not, just act like it never happened and just say, hey, you know what? Missed out on that time I could have had by listening to that stupid show and just never speak of it ever again. Yeah, I mean, it's that simple, but today is a fun show.

Today's a fun show. Have a great weekend. Well, we'll try to send you in to have a great weekend. Let's get to it, shall we, Ty? Russell Wilson situation in Seattle continues to cook. Let Russ drama cook. It's what's happening in Seattle. Obviously, Rossini's appearance on this show yesterday did not help that, but she's not the only one talking about problems over there.

Now ex-teammates of Russell Wilson are coming are coming out in defense of pete carroll saying there's a lot of people saying that they need to get rid of pete carroll if he can't get along with russell wilson you need to watch what you wish for and then that same person went on to basically just roast russell wilson and his uh his success rate and when they put the team on his shoulders without the defense and everything like that at this this point, if Russell doesn't leave Seattle, it feels like it's going to be much more surprising than if he goes back to Seattle. And if you're a Seahawks fan, I understand this

potentially just got thrown upon you in the last week or two or last couple of days. It feels like this one's a quick mover. I'm not knowing how that is going to end up. But if Russell Wilson ends up in Chicago, which is what everybody is thinking, good for the Bears being a good football team all of a sudden good for the chicago bears who have a great defense okay their defense is great uh the defense now has had a tendency over the last couple years to

potentially bow out after getting sick of what's going on the offensive side of the ball which i think that would change if you get russell. Now, I'm not necessarily sure that the Chicago Bears go immediately into the Super Bowl conversation. People will say that because they have Russell Wilson at quarterback with that defense, they should be in there. But we've got to remember that is a tough conference to win in over there. But if Russell goes to Chicago, that seemed like something that was very far-fetched, what, a week, two ago?

Now it feels like that is the most likely situation. Ryan Pace, the general manager of the Bears, has come out and said, we're keeping all options on table. Quarterback, they allegedly had a massive package together for Deshaun Watson as well. At least the Bears, if you're a Bears fan, understand what their problem has been, and he's trying to get it right. And this last chance for Nagy and Pace to win some games. That's going to be talked about.

Ben Roethlisberger's new contract just came out. He also came out with a quote about how happy he is to be a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers and lucky to be there, and he feels like he has the ability to win it all. There's a lot of other stuff to talk about. Skip Bayless just got paid $32 million. Good for Skip. Fox paid him $32 million, which is interesting because it was a bidding war for the 69-year-old hot take taker. ESPN offered somewhere in between $27 million, they're saying, and $31 million.

I guess Fox probably, if you look at the numbers, had a right to match. They give him a $32 million deal over the next four years. And I'll tell you what, I would assume that there's a lot of people that are bashing this. In the current position that we're in, okay, with Skip being a part of the second largest sports show every single day, behind one other show, if you look

at basically all analytics, this is great fucking news. Thank you, Skip. Now, a lot of people aren't going to talk about this, okay? Everybody just, I saw it in the comments whenever I tweeted out that this Skip Bayless news is remarkable, because it is. I mean, it is something where, just like the Russell Wilson to the Chicago Bears conversation, we could have never thought this was going to happen just days ago,

especially in the world that we currently live in, with the information that we have about everybody, basically, with the way the Internet kind of showcases what's going on. And you hear this Skip Bayless deal, and your immediate thought is, this guy does the same thing every single day. And I think that is the reason why people need to have a little bit more respect for what Skip Bayless has been able to accomplish. He's 69 years old, okay?

He just signed for $8 million a year. And he's been playing the same songs for the last 20 years. He is a musician that goes out every single day and plays the same hits. You know, a lot of musicians, they get sick of playing the goddamn songs. People talk about how they get sick of the road, definitely get sick of the road. They also get sick of playing the same goddamn tune every single night. Skip Bayless has been playing the same song for decades at this point,

and he's still getting paid. You have to respect the living shit out of that. Even if what he's saying is something that makes no sense in anybody else's brain, the fact that he's able to negotiate an eight-figure deal at the age of 69, doing the hits, playing the bang bangers and he had two companies that were going to offer him 20 some million dollars over the next four years one of them i'm currently

negotiating with which is we're in a much different time now all of a sudden i did not know that was potentially happening that that number was there but it is very interesting to see how the internet played out it's actually our poll for today our poll for today is strictly because of what i saw from the reaction of my tweet about it it's almost like i feel like this should give people more hope for humanity that at 69 years of age talking about sports you can make 32 million dollars somewhere at the age of 69 you can convince two different companies that are publicly traded or actually i think they're owned by the same company now at this can convince two different companies that are publicly traded, or actually, I think they're owned by the same company now at this point, but two different companies owned by one company can get into a negotiation, a bidding war over you for what you've, that is,

I think that's good for society, that that is happening to somebody. Let's check the poll, shall we? On YouTube, the poll is, after seeing Skip Bayless sign for $32 million at the age of 69, does this give you more or less hope for humanity? More hope? 16%. That's where I'm at, by the way. And a whopping 84% say, we're in trouble. Get us to Mars, Elon Musk.

That's 8,000 votes thus far. I assume this will continue to grow. At Ty Schmidt, your thoughts? Well, like you said, I think the fact that people just hate Skip is driving this without question i mean look hey listen we do a similar thing it is always good but i was curious and obviously you wouldn't know but do you think this does change a lot of things for current espn employees who are you know on like 10 shows a day and it's like you're giving me this much and you were going to give skip eight million to do one show like i imagine that has ruffled some feathers big time over there so listen fox is obviously the one that won the bidding war for skip bayless and i would like to go very hard on the record congratulations to skip

it i am in incredibly pumped for skip bayless but this has to change a lot of people's conversations you know espn is trying to do whatever they're trying to do you know that that world is trying to do whatever they're trying to do to you know state because the world is changing quickly that world is changing so espn obviously thought like what was the last big splash we had okay steven a skip bayless let's just bring the band back together people like it again and if you're horowitz who created that show basically now you work at the zone uh i believe he still works I'm not 100% sure but at DAZN he has to think back and say like oh these people at ESPN haven't been able to think of a new concept since what 15 years ago 20 years ago and they're just going to bring

it back by paying 28 million dollars I would assume that if you're at ESPN I'm not a ESPN employee I had an opportunity, obviously, to have a set number of dates for them, but it was never. And now I'm not. So it's like now we're in the middle of that conversation. Are we going to redo that? I am not there every single day. And it would take a lot more than $8 million a year to get us exclusively to ESPN. So I'm not even in that conversation because I enjoy the fact that we own our own business. We sell our own ads. We have a team here. We do our own thing. So my appearance fee is a little bit different than the people that work there all day. And it's like, Hey, we need you to, uh, all right, this is what we need. You need to be on a 6am. Yep.

And then we're going to need you at 1am. Scott Van Pelt. By the way, you get to be on ESPN. Remember, you don't have to be here. You get to be here. It's like you just offered. That's in the world that we currently live. That is wild. That's the biggest news by far of the last week in my life. And that is the most selfish thing of all time. But when I saw that and read that article, I was just like, this is great news. If that is what that is worth to somebody at some point point and i would assume we're gonna have these conversations are continuing uh but we're in a much different time now than we were just 24 hours ago digs what's going on covet cowboy by the way jacket is thank you spectacular yeah it looks like an old school starter jacket but it has a modern fit and feel to it you really did

well with that i believe your wife bought it for you. Congrats on the good purchase. COVID Cowboy, what are you thinking, pal? I'm thinking if I'm Skip, I'm probably quoting the late, great Ron Burgundy. We've been doing this for the last 12 years and in no way is that depressing. Same party. Same party. Same take. Eight million dollars a year. That's awesome. Good for Skip.

Tip of the cap! Tip of the cap! Tip of the cap, but I also woke up on this Feel Good Friday feeling a little gooder this Friday. Oh, why's that? Because it's locked in that we still have our future Hall of Fame quarterback coming back seven for seven with about $15 million less in cap space this season. So it just feels good. And Ben Roethlisberger taking $15 million less out of the cap. It was just feels good and ben rothisberger taking 15 million

dollars less out of the cap it was supposed to be 41.7 that contract was set up for failure regardless speaking a different tune if it was that regardless if covid's coming through or not by the way yeah and what you're referring to is the carson wentz effect that i had in if you by the way if anybody listened what digs just said attack him too uh but ben has come out and said it is my greatest honor. Okay? There's been a lot of honors. Now, that is, what about the day you found?

Your Lord and Savior. Whoa. Children. Remember, you got to remember, Keenum, okay, after the Minneapolis miracle, said that that moment on the spot was the third best moment of his life or something like that. It was either, I think it was wedding, Jesus, Minneapolis miracle. Bingo.

Ben Roethlisberger says, now I don't want to test anybody's faithhood here. Sure. It is my greatest honor. Oh, man, this is going to be hard for me to get past this. I mean, there has to be a bit of a riff with Ben after what happened. What happened? The man upstairs. That wasn't his doing.

What are you talking about? When the people told his story that wasn't supposed to be told publicly. Oh, you think he's potentially at on? I don't know. Let's get back to it. Ben Roethlisberger said, I mean, that is just not what I would expect out of somebody who. It is my greatest honor to be a Pittsburgh Steeler I mean, that is just not what I would expect out of somebody who...

It is my greatest honor to be a Pittsburgh Steeler and give my all for this organization, said Roethlisberger. I am grateful to be at this stage of my career and more than happy to adjust my contract in a way that best helps the team to address other players who are so vital to our success. I love this game, and I love to compete. And I believe in this team and my ability to deliver when called upon. It all starts with great preparation, and I'm ready to go. Hell yeah. Say no more, Ben. Take a pay cut, ready to go, thinks he can win. Pittsburgh Steelers might be in conversation with the AFC champs this year.

All right. He is now, a little fun fact, the quarterback who has spent the most seasons with one team for an entire career. Really? Because Brady left and went to a second team. You mean currently active? No, of all time. Really?

Uh-huh. How long was Brady with the Patriots? What was it, 20 years or something like that? This will be year 18. But this will be his last year and only playing for one organization is what I'm saying. So it's the longest active streak at the team. No, because Brady has played for two teams. I'm not saying it correctly. It's the longest active streak playing for the same team.

Well, that is true as well. But when he finishes his career, he will be the longest tenured career for a quarterback with only playing for one we don't know if that's true yeah you have no idea if that's true because all these statements could be just him wanting to rake in another what 20 million dollars or something like that no no no yeah it's an honor and he loves being a stealer and he's also getting another 20 some million dollars this is one okay maybe what happens in a year from now if it's growing stronger his elbow that he just got replaced and the Steelers are like,

we've got to move on. Yeah, but what if the Steelers are like, we've got to move on now because it hasn't been able to work, and Ben just happens to hit this quarterback free agency frenzy that has been happening to every quarterback. The fact that the COVID cowboy over there believes that there's no – you think there's no chance Ben Roethlisberger ever hits the market and goes somewhere else?

Zero percent chance. What if the Browns come calling in a couple years? Zero percent chance. What if the Indianapolis Colts give a call in like a year from now? Nah. I think it would take a lot because he could have done it this year, right? The team wasn't super committed to bringing him back. He basically gave them money back to come play for the team.

No, no, he could have retired. He couldn't have went somewhere else. He could have retired, took a year off, and then came back. It seemed like the conversations no he could have retired he couldn't have went somewhere else he could have retired took a year off and came back he could they were well it seemed like the conversations were they might have been willing to cut him if he played that right that's at nick miraldo uh pittsburgh stealer fan as well their dead cap hit would have still been like 40 million dollars or something like that they had to get a restructure right 22 if they would have uh cut him oh if he would have pretty large cap yeah so it was either cut him and pay him 22 to not play or pay him now 26 this season to play.

Listen, I love that Ben's coming back for you guys, okay? I think it's the best option for you guys to win next year. Like, I don't know long term, but next year I think it's the best option for the Steelers to win is with Ben Roethlisberger. But one year from now, if he becomes – because isn't it a bunch of voidable years on the back end and that what they made the deal it's basically a one-year deal till 2025 yeah those there's four years i mean ben roethlisberger is potentially going to be on the market boys

there's something you're just going to have to deal with that won't happen and if he plays one year somewhere else that record that you were breaking down their longest tenured only team quarterback of all time like that that is going to have to change potentially. That's potentially done. Because Aaron told us last year, you would always hope that you become that guy. Right. Aaron said he dreamt of being that guy for the Green Bay Packers,

and then he realized quickly with one sudden decision, just I think moments after he said that, or hours I guess because of how long it was, one sudden decision, it's not in your control anymore. It's all of a sudden it's everybody else's control and sitting around. And if Aaron does not go play for another team, he will then break that record of longest tenure to only playing for one team in your career as a quarterback.

You know, Aaron Rodgers. You know this Russell Wilson situation that's happening right now? Russell's viewed as this super good guy. Right? Yeah, for sure. Russell's viewed as this super good guy. Gumpy, Nick, sure. Russell's viewed as a super good guy. Gumpy, Nick, Zito, Mansuri, Jay, Diggs, boys are here.

Okay, good. Let's get to it. Russell Wilson always had this super good guy. Loves the team. Let's go, let's go, let's go. Put your eyes open, hearts. How you doing? How you doing?

How you doing? That whole thing. You know what I mean? Aaron Rodgers had the completely opposite stigma about him being standoffish and snubby and all that and all that stuff he has never once what had his team or anybody come out and say like hey what's going on the packers absolute bullshit which by the way he could if he really wanted everybody else outside of there has said it now i'm not saying that the packers aren't a good team they are okay they have that whole thing but the packers have obviously not tried to go like they have not they we're going to run this thing how we've always run it if we win we win we should because we've got a great quarterback but they have not gone all in

to go which is basically what russell wilson is saying about the seattle seahawks he's actually more hinging upon him not being viewed as a top five quarterback, allegedly. He wants to be viewed as a top five quarterback all the time, but he doesn't have the MVPs. He thinks, allegedly, that he's not even top 10. Aaron Rodgers has been able to do all that, but the team is still not doing their thing. It's like Aaron has always been this guy people think is a dick,

and Russell's always been this guy that people think is a hero. In now similar situations, and I'm not saying this makes Russell Wilson a dick at all. Okay, Russell, you do whatever you got to do. I'm just saying from the population perspective, this has to be quite a moment to be like, oh, the guy that we've always said was an asshole. Now, granted, this past season, I think changed that,

and people that know Aaron would never think that, but I'm just saying the overall perspective. And then now they're in similar situations. Like Aaron's just been quiet as shit. He's disappeared completely. His team's not saying anything. There's nothing like like that going on when clearly that could be happening very interesting how that watch a patent man of the year mvp watch patent man of the year not happy voicing it right mvp potentially best spot he's been in seems like yeah he's just like yeah whatever you gotta do that's a very that that human aspect of that whole thing is very interesting to me well and i think that is part of the reason why i don't

you know like i mean the russell wilson stuff it's whatever but it's because he is a robot so everyone just assumes that you know everything he says like anytime you see him do an interview or something he never says the wrong thing it's always the same pre-packaged stuff rogers told us this year he's like you know i'll be i i'm honest and then people take it like all this guy's he's an asshole he's a prick it's like but he you know if he mentioned stuff about personnel could you imagine if his team came out his team said something right aaron rogers team is not happy with what the green bay package oh my god it would be oh asshole egotistical aaron rogers back out of the game right now which by the way we would not

i just i'm going to say like this is not saying this is how i'm reacting to russell wilson or how i would react aaron rogers doing this i'm just saying it's interesting how the public always views these situations pick and choose on who's making a good move for themselves and who's a cocky asshole it's very it's it's almost like a sociology experiment we're watching happen here live in front of everybody. And I think that's why a large majority of their fans would give him a pass because he's never been seen like this. So when he comes out and he says all this stuff like, I want personnel and scheme decisions. I want to be viewed as an MVP and as a top quarterback.

It's like, okay, well, he's never proved any of this stuff before. But, yeah, I mean, if Rodgers did it, he'd he'd get absolutely crucified no question do you know who i do love though in their social media tom brady is oh yeah he's the best really what do you it was a hundred thousand how many tweets how many reads 110 000 or something retweets on that the avocado like we have was like 116 120 yeah just slaughtering social media greatest of all time and then yesterday he had to answer because you know baker mayfield said that he and his lady saw uh you know ufo coming out of lake travis i'm about 100 sure he said but listen about 100 about 100 sure my wife and we were driving. We saw something fall out of the sky that was not normal.

We looked at each other and said, hey, huh? You see it? We seen it? Boom, we see it. Let me go ahead and put this out to the world to see if anybody else also saw what I saw because, you know, social media is a way to get the voice of the people you maybe don't know within your inner circle. He puts it out there.

And OG in the game, Colin Cowherd's first reaction is, see? See, that's what I'm talking about. Never going to win. I don't want my starting quarterback driving with his wife, okay, seeing an alien, seeing a UFO, talking about it, and doing that whole thing. Just get your fucking head in a playbook. Yeah.

All right, that's all. That's Colin Cowherd, which, by the way, I have to repeat it again. I find that incredibly amazing that that is the first reaction Colin Coward which by the way I have to repeat it again I find that incredibly amazing that that is the first reaction Colin Coward has and that is why Coward has been doing what he's doing for so long just like you could think however you want to think it is amazing he thinks that way we did not have that thought then Colin Coward says you know my quarterbacks don't see UFOs you know what I mean the Tom Brady's Montana's, the Young's or whatever. He went through a whole thing.

Tom Brady in what, one, maybe six words, seven words, just completely buries his entire team. Tom Brady tweets out, who says, how do you know I have never seen aliens, Colin? Hey, Colin, how do you, Colin, just quick question. How do you have any idea that I've never seen Aliens, because Coward's quote was Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, Terry Bradshaw Terry Bradshaw has definitely seen it Oh yeah, many times

And I would assume Troy Aikman, by the way Probably as well I would assume Troy Aikman probably pretty open to the Entire UFO alien thing as well Joe Montana, I'm not sure I'm not sure about Joe Montana, I don't know much about that man he has those shoes that are really shape ups yeah he has the tony romo yep big uh monster truck shoes or whatever yep kind of like my uh nah they're not the kind of white yeah the sketchers are too uh selfish they put the s

all over it so it kind of makes it look like kids bop or or whatever. The Hokas are just like, hey, we'll stay off of this. You just do what you gotta do if you want to walk on a goddamn platform cloud. But I do like the thought that Tom Brady has definitely seen an alien. That's what it feels like, right? Sounds like it. It might actually be one. At the level he's at, right? The world that he lives in? I'm assuming he knows

the people. He's probably been to conferences with them. I'd assume he sat down next to them. A couple more doors open for him. And then a couple of doors open probably for his wife as well. Yeah.

So that's what, four or five doors now at this point. I'd assume that behind one of those doors was somebody who knows about fucking aliens. Yeah.

Yeah. I would agree. Because what I, I had a sit down with a admiral who was one of the chiefs of staff for President Obama. He came in and spoke to our team as a motivational speech.

I think I told you guys about this. I had dinner after that meeting, and I was the last one there. And he came and sat down next to me, and his secret service was around the room or whatever. And he probably wanted to talk football or whatever. I was like, I'm never getting this opportunity again. So I hammered him with questions about everything. Tell me about the border, Ebola at the time. I want to boom, boom, boom.

He was giving me answers. I assume Tom Brady can have those conversations, what, every single night if he wants. He was eating dinner with who? Bill Gates, the guy that owns Lightning and Jeter or whatever down there. I'd assume he, Tom Brady knows. He's got a lot of doors open. I mean, I'd argue that if your quarterback hasn't seen or hasn't met aliens,

then they're not worth a shit. Yeah, that is potentially a good argument at this point. Now I will have to check in with Patrick Mahomes. I would assume Patrick Mahomes has also seen an alien. Probably. Joining us now is an insider from ESPN, ladies and gentlemen, Field Yates. Yeah, Field! field uh quick question um do do we know is it on record if patrick mahomes has seen an alien or not because at this point if your quarterback what's the cover cowboy saying should you be alarmed if

your quarterback hasn't seen an alien at this point. Is that something we should more look into? I don't think it's on the record yet, but I'm not prepared to discount the possibility that Patrick Mahomes has seen aliens. I feel like if there's an admirable quality in a quarterback, Patrick Mahomes probably has it. And we believe pretty firmly here that if you've seen an alien, that is an admirable quality. Actually pretty envious. It's a red flag if you haven't, right? Yeah, that's what we're saying, though. You've seen an alien. That is an admirable quality. Actually pretty envious. Let's get to it.

It's a red flag if you have it, right? Yeah, that's what we're saying, though. Because just yesterday, I mean, Aaron has seen a UFO orange bulb go through the sky. Four jet fighter pilots flying behind him or whatever. Then Baker obviously saw the thing fall out of the sky. Tom Brady basically said, I know them. I know these motherfuckers. That's basically what Tom said.

So at this point, now I'm wondering as Carson, like, hey, Carson, before we talk about you being a cult here, let's talk about whether or not you've seen. Let's move on. Russell Wilson has certainly not seen an alien, but he is currently entrenched in a PR battle with the Seattle Seahawks. It began with his team of people that surround him on a day-to-day basis releasing some information, him going on the Great Dan Patrick Show, talking about it a little bit. Seahawks. It began with his team of people that surround him on a day-to-day basis, releasing

some information, him going on the Great Dan Patrick Show, talking about it a little bit, and then more and more starts to leak out. This is getting ugly. If he goes back to Seattle, it seems like it'd be much more unlikely than for him to leave now. It seems like that is definitely what's going to happen. Has this been happening this quickly all along, or are we just now realizing it here in the last day or so? This is speeding up, it feels like, Field. Rarely do these things just come together out of nowhere, Pat. So I don't think this is like newfound frustration that just bubbled up one whatever morning it was where the initial reporting came out.

I think people have known about the possibility of Russell Wilson being frustrated. I think the question that we have to sort of figure out over the next few months is, if a quarterback is ostensibly one foot out the door already, what kind of success can you achieve? Like, if Seattle believes that Russell Wilson already has one foot out the door and everything we've heard publicly suggests that he does. Does that mean that it's just a matter of time that he's playing elsewhere? Whether that's a trade this offseason or a trade next offseason, it feels, at least right now, like an eventual separation is coming.

So Seattle has to make a determination. When does it make most sense to execute your exit strategy? Because it's a ton of money you're going to eat in terms of dead salary cap if you trade on this offseason. But if there's an offer that presents itself somehow, some way this offseason that you don't believe will ever be matched going forward, then I think you at least have to have eyes open to this. I think I, generally speaking, am doing my best to not even entertain the idea of trading Russell Wilson. But if it's going to become an inevitability, you have to at least size up the best offers available. Diana Rossini reported yesterday that the Seattle Seahawks are shopping.

She did not. She did not. But she did say the calls are going. She said calls are going both ways. It feels like Seattle is much more open to it than Houston, right? Houston, with what you just said about how much success can you have if you have a quarterback that's one step out the door, it feels like Deshaun Watson was an entire yacht out the door just a couple weeks ago, and it's only gotten even worse

after meeting with Coach Dave and having a conversation with him. Where are we standing at that? Are we ever going to – is that going to be – when's that going to blow up? That has to blow up at some point, doesn't it? I mean, at some point that whole situation is going to blow up. Yeah, I would think so. And you know what's interesting is that a lot of things that Houston has done so far this offseason, and it's not like we've even reached free agency.

But if you look at some of the players they've released, they have not yet, and I suppose they could, franchise tag Will Fuller as an example, then a lot of the moves they've made, even if they're closer to being around the margins, do suggest a team that realizes it's got a little bit of a rebuild ahead of it. You released starting center Nick Martin as an example. You've made several moves.

Duke Johnson released, David Johnson restructured moves that suggest this team understands it's got a lot of work to do to get this roster to be where it needs to be. And, you know, on the one hand, the easiest way to work backwards is to trade away Deshaun Watson because he's your best player by far. He's 25 as a franchise quarterback on the other hand if you're going to blow this thing up then trading to sean watson is going to net you the largest pick or i guess largest return of picks uh that you possibly could feel quick question at some point quick question quick question if you're the houston texans and you've not gone through a draft yet or a scouting process, realistically, you're not 100% incredible amount of picks in return to rebuild right now?

But on the flip side, is there a chance that Cesario and Easterby are looking at each other like, we don't even know if we're good with these picks. We have no idea if those three picks are going to turn out to anything. Is that something you think like is miami a real player in this with the amount of draft capital that they have or is miami after cutting kyle van noy just looking for things to kind of rebuild with yeah i mean i don't think three picks this year is enough to start i think that it would have to be at least three picks this year 317 and a second round pick plus potentially a first round pick next year because despite the fact that deshaun

wants and wants to get out like is that a fantasy football trade or is that real life that's like from what you heard three and then i would say this i'm just i'm just using logic here i don't no one specifically told me hey the asking price is a minimum of three first round picks but look at this offseason pack we've got several teams that I think need a quarterback upgrade. You can make the case for teams that need a quarterback upgrade to include Washington, New England, Chicago, teams near the top of the draft like New York, the Jets, I mean. Maybe Atlanta wants to add a quarterback to the pipeline, Carolina, Denver potentially. There are a lot of teams that need a quarterback upgrade.

Who are the quarterback upgrades that are available out there right now? Certainly Trevor Lawrence to take care of Jacksonville. Derek Carr? Yeah. But he doesn't even seem available. And if he is, that means that the Raiders have upgraded to somebody else, right? So they would have – but there aren't that many players that represent upgrades. The two that do on the veteran market are Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson. So I think the picks

are going to be, I mean, minimum pre first round picks. If you're Chicago right now and Miami says, Hey, we'll, we'll give Houston two first round picks this, this year, plus a second round pick Chicago may say, why do that? We'll give you this year's first, next year's first, following year's first, and a few other picks, and maybe a young player as well. Because I think if I'm Chicago, I'm anteing up at least that much for a player like Deshaun Watson. Yeah, it sounds like they've been the most interested in both Deshaun

via Jeremy Fowler, which I assume is a friend of yours. You're probably on the same group text via him. Chicago has packages for Deshaun and for Russell, I guess. They are in the market, which is good for all Chicago fans, I would assume. Ty Schmidt, what do you have? Field, have you heard anything about Aaron Jones? The Packers GM not too long ago said that they'd franchise him if he thought that was the best thing for the team,

but it doesn't seem like they're going to do that. Have you heard anything about where he might wind up? And a follow-up to that question, Field, but it doesn't seem like they're going to do that. Have you heard anything about where he might wind up? And a follow-up to that question, a follow-up to that question, Field, how come when the GM says that and he says, like, we'll make a decision that's best for the team or whatever, it's like, that's what we're asking you, pal. Like, did anybody – how come that never happens?

I apologize for that. But whenever – he gave that big statement that said nothing, and it's like, we're asking for you, pal, to give that answer. It's just, yeah, it's not an organizational philosophy to eschew the franchise tag although he says there are usual better ways to avoid it he says he'll use the franchise tag on aaron jones if that is what's best for the packers it's very much case by case it's like that's what we fucking asked you like what are you hearing over there yeah that first of all that's a big word to throw into a press conference right to the franchise tag like that i had to look that one up when i first heard it um so did we it's great to know that you did as well yeah it's great to know two birds with a feather um i would say don't say so i think it depends on where the franchise tag

ends up because we're still waiting on the salary cap i expect the number i mean as much as the salary cap being down is a detriment to basically the entire league amongst the few areas where things will help just a little bit and again you don't really factor i mean give it given how low the salary cap is, they're not really wins. But because franchise tags will be a little bit more affordable this year, with the salary cap being down, maybe that breathes some life into Aaron Jones getting a franchise tag. But oftentimes, guys, I just look backwards here. The Packers used a second-round pick last year, as you do as well, on A.J. Dillon, a friend of the program, A.J. Dillon, a friend of the program A.J. Dillon.

So you've got a guy in A.J. Dillon who ran well down the stretch last year. The Packers did give him some work, even when Aaron Jones is healthy and on the field, that you're going to have to make tough decisions this year as a Packers organization. And while I'm sure Aaron Rodgers and many, if not all the Packers, would prefer that Aaron Jones is still there, if not all the Packers, would prefer that Aaron Jones is still there, you know, this team's feeling the cap crunch a little bit. And running back is the position that we know much more than others is easier to find replacement

players. Aaron Jones himself is a good example. He was a fifth round pick all the way back when he was drafted in 2017. So, you know, this is an example of a player that the best way to replace him might be to go find the next Aaron Jones out of UTEP. Yeah, dynamic players are always difficult to replace, and I think Aaron Jones has become a dynamic player. But you're right, it does feel like there are more successful running backs than other positions that are a little bit scarce. The salary cap thing you just hit on it there is going to be a problem for everybody.

The Washington football team has cleared a 14.9 million off because they released alex smith who just won comeback player of the year this follows gq magazine where alex smith said washington didn't want hey they didn't want me to come back they didn't want me to be the comeback player of the year they didn't want me to play i kind of forced them into this is it ugly behind the scenes? Because the Washington football team has come out and said now that Alex requested the release. Where do you see him potentially landing? Is he going to be a backup?

Does he still think he's going to be a starter? And what's going on behind the scenes over in Washington? Because the expose kind of stole the light. Now it sounds like Alex Smith potentially not thrilled with what's going on over there. Yeah, so I would say that on the one hand, any player is going to be frustrated, probably having gone through the pendulum of emotions that Alex Smith experienced over the past year, right? I mean, not knowing if a team believed he would make his way back or not. And then obviously having, you know, he was the third string quarterback for a portion of the season, right?

And obviously, he was the third string quarterback for a portion of the season, right? But I think we all know enough about Ron Rivera to know that a coach who's going to handle things the right way more often than not is typically Ron Rivera. As far as Alex Smith's future, I do think it's an interesting conversation. It was the best story in football last year. I thought it was an incredibly inspiring story. I thought there were some life lessons to be gained from watching Alex Smith return to the football field and doing what he loved. On the other hand, if you're looking at the potential starting gigs right now, there's not a ton. And we all love Alex Smith. All of us do.

I'm sure I can speak for this entire program in saying as much. He threw two fewer touchdowns than interceptions last regular season. He averaged like 190 passing yards per game. This is a passing league. When they won their five games down the stretch last year to clinch the NFC East, obviously the competition wasn't great, but he still was averaging like 6.3 yards per attempt. Just for some perspective, some of the best around the NFL are closer to 8.5 or 9 yards, not a vertical passer.

We know because of all he's been through with his leg, he's not a runner anymore. He had three rushing yards on 10 attempts last season. You think about the way the league is trending, high-volume passing offenses and quarterbacks that can, if not run for a ton of yards, at least extend plays with their feet and run for some level of yards, whether it's an Aaron Rodgers or a Patrick Mahomes, but they're all just going to buy time.

So I think Alex Smith probably makes the most sense as a backup somewhere. I think his greatest trait, to wherever he goes, would be leadership. I think there's a chance to be an excellent leader. Jacksonville. What do you got, Gumpey? Yeah, field. Seattle Seahawks player came out this morning basically said that russell hasn't won without an elite defense or run game and he believes more in pete carroll do you think the seahawks feel the same way like they can replace russell wilson so i think it's possible first of all um doesn't all, that strikes me as the kind of quote you'd hear from a player

that either plays defense or was a running back, right? Yeah. How many wide receivers are going to be saying that? Also a guy that did not go to Russell Wilson's birthday party. True. Which we do have to think about whenever we hear these quotes. Very, very good point. Yeah, yeah.

So here's what I would say is that I think it's possible the Seahawks believe Pete Carroll is one of the best coaches in all of football. I think it's also possible that they understand how difficult it is to replace Russell Wilson, especially at this juncture. It's funny. I was rewatching a video that Chris Mortensen tweeted back. I think it was February 26th, and it was revisiting a conversation that had been had I want to say like two weeks before that and Mort was retelling the story of the time that Seattle in 2018 went and saw Josh Allen in a pro day and there was actually a conversation between John Schneider

their GM and John Dorsey at the time the Browns GM. This is when the Browns had the first overall pick. No deal ever, ever gained significant traction. But it's sort of one of those stories that when you think about what's going on right now, it's hard not to remember that story and think about the idea that it's not that Seattle doesn't believe Russ is unbelievable, right? It's that I think many teams are going to be more mindful of potential exit strategies if they think there's a chance they might need a quarterback going forward it doesn't feel to me right now that russell wilson is examining an exit the seahawks excuse me are examining exit strategies for us they just paid them whatever it was a year or two ago four years

that was last two years ago four years and $140 million per season. I don't think Seattle was planning to have to repeat their quarterback depth chart before that. Had two chains on. He was in bed, I think, whenever that deal was signed. It was late night. I'm tired. Mr. Unlimited might be on the move, same with Deshaun, after signing $100 million deals. We appreciate your time here today, Field.

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Hey, it's good to see you. I put shorts on today, like house shorts. I wore my house shorts in here. I don't know if you've seen them, AJ. I've worn my house shorts here, you know what I mean? Yeah. And I never, ever do this. This is literally something I never do.

I think the boys have probably seen me in sweats outside of my house one time, probably. I wear jeans, jean shorts. I have a strict, you leave the house, okay, this is with me. There's like two different modes you've got to be. Like we're going to work. Okay, put the pants on. Even if they're jorts, we're going to work. Today wearing these house shorts might have changed me.

I tell you what. I feel pretty comfy with the legs flying around. You don't even really see it on the thing at all. You haven't really seen it at all. I'm maybe about to become a full-on bum out here. Ty, you've dressed this way for a long time. Yeah. I see why you do this.

Exactly. I mean, I wore jeans a couple days this week. I woke up this morning. I said, you know what? Fuck it. No one sees my legs on camera. I'm going to put my sweatpants on. It's a lot more comfortable.

Yeah, so that's what— Casual Fridays. That's my day right now. That's what we got going on. How are you doing, AJ? I'm doing well. I don't wear jeans unless i guess i really have to and for what i do for the most part day to day i don't really have to wear jeans i know and by the way it was something where i was judged by my teammates because nfl locker room maybe biggest sweats at workplace of all time

maybe maybe of all time aq actually has when he time. AQ actually has, when he goes home, he just takes his sweats off and his Crocs off, okay, and his Crocs are at the bottom of them, and then he'll, the next morning, he just wakes up, same exact pair, boom, and he does that for an entire season, okay? That's what he does for an entire season. That's like how, by the way,

Retro Force, no big deal, how you don't keep it moving. Oh. Ah! Ah! Yee! Ah! Ta! Ting! Pow! Boom! By the way, retro force, no big deal. How you doing? Keep it moving. Boom! Anyways, so big sweats at work place. I always had pants on. Always did it because I felt like that made me feel as if, you know, I was going to work or whatever.

I think I was mistaken, though. I think I should have done this the entire time. I feel pretty good here, AJ. Yeah, you should have. And when you're playing in the league, I guess people would probably be surprised to hear that sometimes throughout the week guys will wear the same clothes for five straight days because you don't really have them on you you show up the facility early in the morning you change instantly into your gear then i would always put my undershirts my underwear my socks everything in my bag i always had them wash some of my personal stuff as well i throw it in there with my football stuff. Smart.

End of the day though, but think about it. Wasting laundry detergent. But you shower up at the end of the day, put those clothes that you had on at 6 in the morning, go home, and then you go to bed shortly after it probably, like you barely have them on. Yeah, AQ, you said five days. AQ went four straight months.

And it was getting alarming. he was he was right next to me and i you know like three weeks you probably don't really notice but once you get past like the month straight of wearing something and he goes oh yeah i mean never just what aj or yeah aj just did he was like never wear them i wear them in i'll do the whole thing and then i'm like well it smells like at this point that you have. But that's the NFL or whatever. So it has been a good little Friday.

It has been a good little Friday with the shorts and everything like that. No real news. More kickers are getting released, which is just heartbreaking. Russell Wilson wants out of town, it sounds like. It's getting ugly over there, AJ. Hey, it's getting ugly in Seattle with sources and anonymous quotes and everything like that. It's pretty cool. I mean, we're right in the middle of it with racini's thing yesterday but this is getting wild agent i i wonder i've had multiple people ask me yesterday actually

hey do you really think this do you believe any of this russell wilson stuff and i wonder like what people think do people truly believe that this is russ doing this and he wants out well russ could have came out and said this right he's could have come out now at this point kind of mark rogers right his agent has already spoken to schefter so we know that chefty and his agent have a relationship all these things could get dispelled and they're not so that makes us question now just like i said yesterday this is not fair okay that russell wilson has to come out and potentially say that bullshit that was just created to be bullshit basically which is what this would all be if this was all a fugazi or whatever i understand that's not fair for us to have to do that but if he's allegedly one of the

top quarterbacks of all time this is the type of shit that's potentially comes alongside of it like it's not fair to him to have to answer if this is all just completely fake he started it but but russell started so this is this isn't like some yeah okay allegedly but he could easily come to spell i guess i was surprised yesterday i was caught off guard that i just assumed well yeah of course russ hasn't come out and denied it this is like his team exactly yeah i believe it 100 russ is sick of what's going on in cleve or in seattle and it seems like there's a rift between he and pete and pete was this guy for so long so yeah of course i believe it, but I had multiple people that didn't really – maybe they didn't want to believe it.

Yeah, I think that's more the thing now is the Seattle Seahawks fans. Now, by the way, I hope you know we're still in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. Yeah. I don't know what people you're just out and about talking about that are asking you about Russell. I don't know if you're just doing events and signings and everything. Zoom.

I Zoom with multiple people. Of course. Okay. What a hero. What a hero. Is that Wi-Fi? Yeah, exactly. How many Zooms are you on right now?

Okay, concurrent with this FaceTime that you have. But the people asking about that, a lot of Seahawks fans, once again, I feel like they're torn. Like I feel like they're Seahawks fans I once again I feel like they're torn like I feel like they're Seahawks fans that are mad that all this is happening and I think they're even realizing like well Russ hasn't come out and said no or whatever at this point you know what I mean there's those people and then there's the people that are like oh we're sick fucking get them out it seems to happen this way fan bases if drama happens they're heartbroken about it and then

they immediately know that they're going to be a fan of that team regardless of what happens and they don't want to deal with the negativity that's going on with something that they feel positive about especially offseason russell wilson right now for some seahawks fans as the guy who has been the face of the seahawks for the last decade or whatever him potentially not wanting to be there probably a heartbreaking situation for a lot of seahawks fans and they're like fuck I don't want to deal with it anymore. Just move on from it. It's interesting because now there's a Team Pete Carroll camp. There's a Team Russell Wilson camp.

There's people coming out. It's getting ugly, and if they don't stop it, it's going to get very awkward if they don't end up separating. That's going to be a very awkward situation. Oh, it's absolutely going to get very awkward at some point if they're supposed to get back uh together in person but don't you think most people will side with russell at least early on in this whole situation they're not going to decide with pete by the way we let off the show with this and we are stereotyped as a pro aaron rogers uh show i would like to let

everybody know that as a sports show that is mostly NFL talk, we will always be pro NFL MVP show. Just so happens to be a guy that we know very well. So that kind of sucks for you, but just know going forward that's what an NFL show will probably be, is a pro NFL MVP. Imagine if this was Aaron

Rogers in this entire thing. The back, like you said, most people would side with russell i agree people aside with russell because we're in a world you know where it's like hey this person's got to do what's best for them okay that whole thing and i'm not saying i would ever be against but there's people that is if aaron was to do this because for whatever frustrations that would be very legit if he was to say this and he not that he would or has told us to do it but if he did it the people would pile on him so bad they this prick this selfish

egotistical guy and for whatever reason it does feel like right now a large majority of people are like yeah you're right russell wilson deserves to go somewhere else or something it's very interesting how that whole thing pans out but but I hope everybody ends up happy and everybody gets a billion dollars. That's what I hope. I mean, yeah, I hope the same thing. It's not going to happen, but yeah, you're never going to end it with everybody happy. That's just how it is. For whatever reason, however,

whether it's through an athlete, an actor, whoever it is, the image that they have, you're kind of stuck with that. It's hard to flip that around, I guess, when people know you so for so long as a certain way, they think they know you. I think we flipped it, by the way. I think the Aaron Rodgers stuff, I think, I think not we, that sounds incredibly selfish, but I do believe listening to him actually speak about things on a regular basis. I think it did flip it with a large majority of people,

to be honest, but there's still, and by the way, i get mentioned in a lot of it so that's how i know it happens there's still people that maybe didn't see any of what our conversations or know anything about them that still think that but i think that has turned a little bit i'm just saying in this particular situation that's happening if aaron was to come out and say you know what i want to be on a team that is going to go for it go all in you know i feel like at this stage I'm not being talked about how I should be talking. You mean Team 12 or would Aaron be saying this himself? Team 12 is saying this. Team 12 is saying this because Team 3 with Russ is saying he wants to be a top five quarterback all time.

He's not even top ten allegedly. And that, you know, all that shit. If Aaron was to come out and say that, oh, my God. They'd kill him. Oh, my God. He would get murdered for that thing and i guess that's why it's it's nice that you don't win an mvp yet everybody talks about how russell hasn't had a single vote for mvp or anything like that and maybe that's the difference of why that whole

thing but it is it is wild that maybe it's the whole uh maybe russell has the whole underdog situation following him around you know like later round draft pick he's not big enough people didn't give him a chance and then bam he just takes the league by storm and he's incredibly likable off the field let's go to some phones but then you go back you go back to what if next year he comes back to seattle they start oh and two then it just blows up he's not even playing you know what i mean he's not even playing he's not trying hard. Then he has to answer those questions and go Hawks at the end.

Yeah. Oh. And he wouldn't mean it. That's why he won't do it. Has he ever done it? That's why he's not speaking out, Pat, because he doesn't want to have to set the precedent with his first interview to not end and go Hawks.

Just the tweets, cool. Yeah, I mean, he could put together one of his incredible videos. Mr. He's doing it. Alinity. I've done worse things on the internet, okay? I definitely have, one of his incredible videos. Mr. Unlimited. I've done worse things on the internet, okay? I definitely have, but that one was awesome.

You know, just for a guy that doesn't make a lot of content to come out flying with Mr. Unlimited, I like it that he took that swing. I want to let everybody know I like that he took that swing. But it is something that you do have to talk about when situations like this arise with Russell Wilson. The fact that you think one of those videos that he puts together only takes a week or two or three. I mean, that's a two to three month production. No.

Not with his team. You don't know. Come on, Tony. You don't know. You think Spielberg has time to come up from the Mariana Trench and film one of those videos right now? It's going to take some time. I can't believe they even got some workout Scorseses in there. His workout videos are fucking awesome.

He looks so fast. It's all fuel. Talking Russ? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So he's been posting workout videos through this whole process? Fuel. It's just fuel, too.

Just fuel, man. All this is just fuel. All this is just fuel that he didn't create by himself. What was that, AJ? Is that a sponsor or what is that? Well, maybe it is probably a company he's launching. New drink or something. Just Fuel.

It's not going to be better than other stuff. You don't even know what it is. I was going to say something that I know it's not better than, but I didn't know who is currently sponsoring the show and stuff, so I wasn't going to say it. It's not better than Saucius for sure. Correct. Does he sell the concussion water?

Is he a believer? I think he was. He used to be a big proponent of it, yeah. Did it work, or did we back off of that? I don't think he's ever had one. Well, I know he's been sacked more times in the last nine years, so he might still need it more than anyone else. Hey, legit, though, if there's a water that fixes concussions,

great fucking way for – good for science. Yeah, obviously, Pat, if there was that water out there, every household in the world would probably have some. What? What are you saying? Not everyone's had a concussion. Everyone gets – everyone at some point can get a concussion, I guess, if they fall down, they bump their head,

their kids don't dong heads playing flag football together. Let me guess, you just think it's so easy to put out, what, how many hundred million, how many people are in America? 300 something million. You think it's that easy just to roll those things out? You think he can just roll out that concussion water to everybody

in America, huh? Maybe he should be running some other things that need to be rolled out if you think that it's just that easy. What do you want, tap water? Do you want concussion water? What do you think this is, dude? Maybe he should be running some other things that need to be rolled out. If you think that it's just that easy. What do you want, tap water? What do you want, concussion water? What do you think this is, dude? Okay, he's trying. He's unlimited. A little bit limited. With the way to roll out

the concussion water for everybody. The distribution. It's the bubbles. Let's go to Zach in Pennsylvania. What's going on, Zach? Hey, Pat. How we going on, Zach? Hey, Pat. How we going? Hey, A to the J. A to the G.

And a big shout out to the boys. What's up, dude? Shout out. Shout out. How are you guys doing on this beautiful feel-good Friday? Oh, everything's good, Zach. Thank you for asking. What do you want to talk about, pal?

That's the way the cookie crumbles, man. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I got a couple things. Bear with me. I'll try to make it Zach. Thank you for asking. What do you want to talk about, pal? That's the way the cookie crumbles, man. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I got a couple things. Bear with me. I'll try to make it quick. So stupid. Butt smart. So, a little ironic that the Steelers kind of cleared up $15 million there.

It's about the going rate for a wide receiver. Hmm. Big. I know you hate it. Next. Oh, he said Juju's back. The Bears. I know you think they're crazy.

Go get Deshaun Watson, but I think Marcus Mariota would be a good fit. He's better than anybody they got there. A little more room in the salary then for them to go get a wide receiver. All right, thank you, Zach. So he said Ben Roethlisberger took that pay cut not only because he loves the organization, it's his biggest honor to be a Pittsburgh Steeler, but because that's roughly exactly what people think Juju is going to make. That's an interesting little thing.

Let's get Juju back. It's a great home. Hey, Mike Hilton. Marcus Mariota to Chicago. Marcus Mariota had a great, what, half and a quarter or whatever? He looked unbelievable. He has a $20 million price tag. He's going to become a free agent.

There's a lot of moves that could make. Everybody's saying that Chicago's in for Deshaun or Russell, AJ. They did say, I know that they're going to explore all options, I guess. But, of course, maybe they'll kick the tires. What does that mean? Will they be able to give up enough to get those guys? The interesting thing, the Bears don't really have many draft cap much draft capital i don't think they're like anywhere near the conversation of that but maybe maggie the bears are under an extreme amount of pressure i'm sure yeah he don't knows that like

they know we got to win right now or we're out of here right now fired right now well that's from zeta that's not necessarily the owner if you're you're Ryan Pace, though, what do you care? You know, trade everything you got. If you stink this year, you lose your job anyway. And this is Bill O'Brien, right? This is kind of Bill O'Brien's situation. So the owner is probably going to have to okay it. It seems like the owner and Pace are very tight, it seems like.

It seems like they are very, very tight. If you fuck up too bad, though, does that mean, like, for, like, your next job, you're not going to get one like essentially no but they'll go back into scouting like there's always a rebirth you know what i mean no matter in coaching and in uh that world it's like if you really want to you can get back in it's like look what i've learned and taken away from and all that yeah we ruined an entire franchise for the next five ten years with the draft picks and everything like that but we've learned you know like that type of thing i mean don't you think though that coaches and gms are absolutely scared to death to go back in line and have to start all

over again uh if they want to be coaches and gms still you know like there's some people that get a head coaching gig and it's not going well and they're like you know if i didn't have this you know if i didn't have to deal with all this bullshit and I could just go back to being a defense coordinator, that would be cool with me. I'm assuming that there's a lot of that. General manager, like, maybe this isn't what I thought it was going to be. But the guys that, like, love being the general manager, love being the head coach, I would assume that they're like,

we got to keep this job at all. Like, hey, this is everything that we potentially wanted in, have worked for, and there's only 32 of those jobs, so it's hard to get to. The Bears have fully recovered from the Cleo Mack trade. They have all their picks this year and next year going forward. Really? Just one in each?

Yeah. Trade them away again. How about this? One through seven this year? Guess what? Oh, one through seven. We're keeping the second seven. And then next year, one through seven again.

Just take it. Fuck it. Who needs them? seven. And then next year, one through seven again. Just take it. Fuck it. We need them. And how about the next year, too? Fucking just have them all. Why not? If you're going to win a game, let's do it.

That's the way I would be a GM, by the way. That is how I would GM. And by the way, probably why I wouldn't get a job. You'd probably, hey, I'm going to win right now. I'm going to do whatever I can to have my team win right now, and I'm not even going to think about tomorrow or the next year. No, we're playing checkers, not chess. We are in it to jump and get kinged immediately.

Where's my ring? Where's my trophy? I'm retiring. Good luck fucking cleaning that up. Isn't that kind of like the Tampa Bay mindset, though? Yeah, but the Tampa Bay mindset has been evolving for so long. But, yes, they want yeah Tom Brady come on in they also had a rookie playing tackle this year who did very well Tristan Werff's great and a rookie playing safety did very well oh Winfield he was a stud they they did draft well by the way which I think if you go

back through Bruce Arian's career I believe he does have a pretty good eye for football players I think that is something he has not everybody has it it, by the way. To be honest, it's kind of alarming how many people miss on people, but that's just the way the NFL goes. Yeah, you never know. Like you say, situations are situational. Case by case, yeah. No one knows exactly what that means, but yeah, it's so difficult to, I guess, try to figure out, hey, is this guy going to be this good at the next level? AJ, I want to kind of circle back to hey, is this guy going to be this good at the next level? AJ, I want to kind of circle back to a conversation we had before you were on the air. Brock Lesnar, James Harrison

are the two we're sending. Tag team match against aliens to save all of our lives. You think that's good, too? You think we're missing anybody there? I mean, can you only send two? Well, it's a tag team. This particular tag team match. But if we do offer up a third, I'm sure they could find somebody out there.

I mean, yeah. Brock and James Harrison, they would definitely be in the top of my list of people that I want to send out. I don't know. Is there any guy under the radar? Maybe a smaller person you think that would be scrappy? Ray Mysterio. Ray Mysterio, maybe. Beat the other aliens.

Undertaker. Well, that's why we wouldn't like. Maybe Bob Backlund. Look at the knee walk out there. You felt so good about that. I love Bob Backlund. I don't know if Bob Backlund's making a cut in my world, but in your fight, maybe.

I'm not 100% sure. What about Triple H? Your boys with Triple H? You know, listen, there are people. First wave we're talking here, pal. Okay, we're talking fresh, the boat, Normandy, storming. This is our first. This is first off the bus, dude. This is first off the bus who we're sending.

I think those two. James Harrison was doing dips with five plates strapped to his waist. 225 pounds added to his doing dips, five of them. What a fucking beast that guy is. Yeah, he's a bit of a freak. He could probably still play. AJ, did you do any of that type of stuff whenever you were playing? I mean, not with five plates, no.

My torn pec really shut down my dip game a little bit. Did you have a good dip game? I was actually pretty good in high school and college, and then yeah i yanked my peck off and that the weighted dips really they want to they want to re-tear this thing if i try that so when i dip you dip we dip that became like a real lot of that that seems to be a it's a great i love doing dips like i i feel good they're doing that it's very hard but it's a workout that people do where it's like others notice. It seems like it is a – if you get in the gym and they have the pull-up on the rack and you start doing it, everybody is watching. You see how many you do.

And then the dip, I think, is the same exact type of situation. I've never fucked with the dip because my ass and legs are so heavy. It's like that seems like something I'm setting myself up for complete. Yeah! You know, because it gets to that point. Get on that machine. Get on the machine that the kids use where it helps you up. I'm not scared to put a little band under there either.

Not only kids use that. Yeah, adults use it. Jesus. I know. AJ? Let's get to Von Lylas in Indiana. If this is the wrestler Von Lylas, this man once beat John Cena. Von Lylas, what's going on?

Oh, no. It took him out. Von Lylas. Oh, no. Jesus. Dead. Oh, where are you? I'm in New York, man.

Can't hear you. I'm in New York, man. Can't hear you. I'm in New York, man. Oh. He's probably underwater, what? In Lincoln Town right now. Let's go to Taylor in Virginia. What's going on, Taylor? That guy did beat John Cena.

Hey, brother. Oh, this guy, Hulk Hogan. Ben hates John Cena. Isn't Ariel coming on? You'll see the guy in Frisbee Golf get the $10 million contract. He'd get there and bank some change around the office. Who's that, Brody? Brody got a $10 million contract in...

I didn't hear about this, but he would be the guy to get it. This golf, that's that game where you throw the... $10 million contract? Really? Who paid it? Who gave him the contract? Skip. We're learning about it.

Fox. I bet Fox. That would be a good decision. Hey, I've seen some clips. That is electrifying whenever it hits. I love Froffin. Yeah, I like Froff too. Are you going to go to a league?

Are you going to go to a league if that's what they have? Are they creating a disc golf league? Are they going to do that on a peacock? What are we doing? They do have a league on ESPN, the Ocho. It plays almost every other night. No one's watching that. Is that real?

I feel like I'm late night. I'm up. I've never seen that. I watch motocross. Sons of bitches are trying to kill themselves on dirt bikes. I've never seen that. For sure. I've seen it on ESPN, too, before.

I feel like I am a, I mean, I have a Rolodex of sports I will watch late night. What was that? Crushed Ice where they're ice skating down a mountain with Red Bull, that whole thing. I'll watch the motocross. I'll watch, I watched Aussie Rules Football. I found that. I will give sports a shot. I have never seen the disc golf on TV.

Oh, it's fun. But if it is, good for them making money off it. They have their own network. Hell yeah. Disc Golf Network, $9.99 a month. I don't know about that. Are you kidding me? I thought of how they pay the guys.

So they're going to have to get one million people to subscribe for one month to pay Brody back. You'll get there. It's Paul McBeth. Huh? Paul McBeth, 30-year-old Paul McBeth. Huh? Paul McBeth. 30-year-old Paul McBeth. 10-year deal.

Or $10 million deal. Wow. With who? Like a sponsor or what? Did you say how many years? 10 years, $10 million. I bet you there's a lot of avoidable years there for bankruptcy.

Yeah. I hope not. I hope he gets more than that. I hope it works. I hope it's front-loaded for him. Yeah, hopefully. It doesn't sound like it is, but I hope not. I hope he gets more than that. I hope it works. I hope it's front-loaded for him. Yeah, hopefully. It doesn't sound like it is, but I hope.

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Also, there's fantasy on there, daily fantasy, and free-to-play games where you can win money. Shout out to FanDuel. Shout out to you. Let's get back to the show. Joining us now. let's get back to the show joining us now joining us now is a man who you know is an mma expert uh for espn he's a man who has won a lot of prestigious awards he's a man who is celebrating canada today this morning by rapping alongside the lemon pepper freestyle of Champagne Poppy Drake.

And a man who comes on this show and tries to ruin it every single time. Ladies and gentlemen, from ESPN, Ariel Hawane. Hi, Ariel. You look like a stooge. What's going on? Hey, guys. I just wanted to say hello to AJ first. AJ, how are you? I'm doing great, Ariel. You look good. I like your sweater and your digital backdrop.

I love it, man. Thank you, AJ. Long time no speak. I'm happy that you showed up this time because you have been conspicuous by your app since the last couple of times. Oh, jeez. Come on. I'm happy that you showed up.

What are you saying, Ariel? What are you saying? Where's that prop cigar that you like to pretend that What are you saying? Where's that prop cigar that you like to pretend that you smoke every time? Where's that, bad boy? I don't know. I might get to it.

Don't worry about it, Ariel. Just get to the conversation, Ariel, okay? Stop trying to ruin the show. The background, what's that all about? Is that on that TV that was on a sleep timer the last time? No. I don't know what you're talking about.

You know, I just finished up the two-hour show for ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports. And in the middle of the show, I got sort of, I don't know, flooded isn't the right word. I got a couple of tweets that trickled in from your loser fan base. I mean, total degenerates have nothing better to do on a Friday afternoon than listen to you two jabrons go on and on and on about Lord knows what. Is Deshaun Watson going to sign? Is he going to leave? Will he disrespect it? and listen to you two jabrons go on and on and on about lord knows what is the sean watson gonna sign is he gonna leave will you disrespect it i mean shine in the brain is the most boring stuff

i've ever heard of in my life yeah in any event uh these guys came at me calling me a stooge and all this stuff what you don't realize how many times i get messages from people who say please come on patrick's show on fr Fridays to make us feel good about life. Please help them. Please boost their morale because they're swimming and drowning with these loser guests. Oh, geez Louise. Shinigami, dude? What?

You're calling Shinigami a loser? You're going to catch a shin to the mouth, pal. You start talking like that. Yeah, I saw that shinigami clip finally i mean you talk about you you talk about a grade a top tier jabron right i mean shinigami i mean you see let me tell you something i would show up wherever shinigami is wearing this 400 cardigan and the whole thing wouldn't get even like a speck of dust on it that's what i would do to mr shinigami is wearing this $400 cardigan and the whole thing wouldn't get even like a speck of dust on it. That's what I would do to Mr. Shinigami.

Are you kidding me? By the way, that's not true. Hey, shout out to my girl. All right. You had a two-hour show today. They never let you on TV. What happened? What was going on today?

Well, when I say show, it's more of a digital show, just like you're on. Oh, it's on the internet. Okay, on the worldwide leader's internet. Okay, all right. Well, I mean, yeah. That's why they're the worldwide leader. We touch many different platforms. Today we were doing the weigh-in show, which is a really big deal.

I think the weigh-ins are actually more interesting than the fights themselves, to be honest. I mean, it's theater at its finest. You don't get this at any of the sports. You know how you guys get all like crazy about the combine in indianapolis like oh this guy touched a little thing oh wow look at him he ran we get to see these athletes in their rawest form in their raw state step on a scale you get to see how much they weigh i mean that i mean it if you can find greater drama than that in sports, I have yet to see it. It's riveting, Ariel, and you do a good job with that.

I want to jump to football quick before you talk a little bit about MMA. AJ, thank you for the compliment. I am excited about the card. I couldn't hear you. It mutes you. But, hey, I want to know about JJ Watt. Were you upset he didn't go to the Bills? Who?

JJ Watt? What has that guy ever done? I mean, you talk about a guy who hasn't won anything of note in his entire career, and everyone's going all gaga for him. Yeah, good luck, J.J. Watt. You belong in Arizona, right? You can hang out with those losers who celebrated when they got a Hail Mary catch against the Buffalo Bills, and the Buffalo Bills didn't lose a single game after that.

You talk about a loser mentality. They're a match made in heaven. Now, Von Miller, we can talk if you'd like to join a winning franchise. I'd be open to it. But you know what? I want to take care of our own first and foremost. I want to see Jonathan Feliciano get a big deal from the franchise. I mean you talk about a guy who poured his soul into the season. I mean,

a torn peck, a torn shoulder. He won that courage award, whatever you guys like to call it. Jonathan Feliciano from the year is the man. But we could talk about Vaughn Miller, but no. I know you're trying to get me all fired up over there. You're talking about Ed Block. You're talking about Ed Block?

What are you drinking? Rubbing alcohol? AJ, is that what you drink over there? exactly yes rubbing alcohol here I am I try to offer an olive branch to you I try to extend love I ask Patrick about you all the time

I ask him how you're doing I ask him how your family's doing and you try to take a cheap shot like that on me disgust me I'm just trying to keep you on long enough until your screensaver hits and your backdrop disappears and you're an embarrassment to everybody guess what that'll be the best thing to happen to this rinky dink show so i'll be raiding through the roof okay you can keep me on as long as you want but i got other

shows to go on i hear rich eisen's about to call me i hear dan patrick's about to call me real shows hosted by real professionals, right? All right, well, if Skip Bayless gives you a call, you should probably answer it. And you should probably ask some questions about your employer, too, about that offer that he received. But let's move forward here.

What's that? What are you trying to do, get me fired here, Patrick? No, no, no. Sad state of affairs. No, no, no. You're a troll. I would never do that. I would never do that.

I would never do that. I would never try to get you fired because I think you do an incredible job. Speaking of, let's get to what you actually know about instead of speaking out of your ass about everything, okay? The 19 and 18 New York Knickerbockers, number five in the Eastern Conference with Julius Randle.

I know you don't talk about basketball on this show for some bizarre reason. Why don't you guys ever talk about basketball? You can have me on to talk about basketball. We'll talk about basketball. We would not have you on. Yeah, who would you have? Chris Webber.

We had Chris Webber on. He's in the game, and he's also doing talking during the game while you're sideline reporting things. Wait, wait, wait. Time out. Time out. Oh, wait, sorry. Forget about the time out. The guy who called an illegal time out is the guy... I'm sorry.

Pardon the pun. Pardon the pun, Chris. I i mean come on 1993 i was there i was there at the superdome i remember it you're gonna you're gonna tell me that guy that guy has more credentials than i have real chris weber i'm an nba sideline reporter for the worldwide leader i've got seven games three rookie league games summer league when are going to start doing overtime games? Hey, overtime's got high school games now. A hundred grand people are making. Yeah, well, let me tell you something about the – they don't have enough money in their budget for me to show up to one of those games.

They would let you talk, though. You would talk, though. You'd be a part of the broadcast. I do pros and pros only. I hang out with the likes of julius randall the most improved player in the national basketball association tom tibideau the coach of the year emmanuel quickly i know you guys know nothing about any of these what about dolan you're hanging out with him worst owner in sports

says who you guys gonna let charles oakley back in the building come on what are we doing yeah well don't get me started on all of that. I'm trying to feel good about my news. No, no, no. I just want to be real about it. You can make a strong case for the Houston Texans owner, whoever that guy is. I mean, look what he's done to that franchise.

Well, Jack Easterby is the one to blame, actually. That's a little bit of a deep dive. But let's talk about what you actually know about. Please, can we goddamn talk about what you actually have a little bit of credibility in? Just a little bit of credibility in. Just a little bit of credibility in. What's that? What's that, Patrick?

What do you want to know about? You're making it all by yourself. This is unbelievable. What do you want to know about, Patrick? What can I educate you with? What? What do you want? All right, so I want to let you know that I think that you're the best at what you do.

Okay? I think you are. I honestly believe that. In the shot that you got from ufc president dana white was bullshit we're on your side even though you make our show worse we're on your side but whenever you talk about ufc you seem to know what you're talking about this weekend we got a guy named style bender who is doing interviews from what appears to be a super eight motel he is wearing a lavish robe he goes up a weight and is fighting against some

polish guy people are telling me that he won't be able to knock him out it won't be enough what should we expect from this weekend because the last ufc card people are saying was a snoozer this weekend what should we expect well the main event last time the last pay-per-view i think you mean because they're on every single weekend uh endeded up being a great one. Kamaru Usman against Gilbert Burns. History will potentially be made on Saturday. And what's bigger than history, guys? There's nothing bigger than history. Well, her story, please.

Well, okay, fine. Israel Asani moving up from 185. No one has ever held the 185 and 205 pound titles at the same time. Only four fighters in the history of the UFC, the illustrious history of the UFC, have held two titles at the same time. Only four fighters in the history of the UFC, the illustrious history of the UFC, have held two titles at the same time. Count them with me. Who's number one?

Let's go. Let's hear it. Number one. Gracie, McGregor, Randy Couture, Chuck, Chuck,

Chuck, Chuck Liddell, Jay Glazer, Triple G. I think Jay Glazer trains. Triple G, Canelo, I think he also had. Jay Glazer. Triple G. I think Jay Glazer trains. Triple G. Canelo. I think he also had.

Enough of that. Listen, I'm trying to educate you here. Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Triple C, Henry Cejudo. Those are the only four fighters in the history of the sport who have held two titles at the same time. Izzy's trying to become the fifth and the first to hold the 185 and 205. But here's what's fascinating moments ago at the weigh-ins which i was a part of on espn the worldwide leader this guy israel assania weighed in at 205 pounds that's the second lowest weight ever for a light heavyweight title

fight in the ufc now he's not planning on adding more weight to his frame come saturday jan bohovich the champion is planning on adding around 15 pounds come saturday he's not planning on adding more weight to his frame come Saturday. Jan Bohovic, the champion, is planning on adding around 15 pounds come Saturday. He's going to bulk back up. He's going to rehydrate. So there's going to be a massive weight discrepancy come Saturday. But Izzy likes it like that. Israel Adesanya, by the way, just to let you guys know, we've got the All-Star Game this weekend.

A lot of great athletes will be competing in that. You've got baseball coming up. You've got the NHL. Israel Adesanya is the best athlete competing in sports this weekend. Clip that off. Tell the Stooges in the back, clip that off right now. The best athlete competing in sports this weekend is a young man who hails now from Auckland, New Zealand, nicknamed the last stylebender Israel Adesanya.

Listen to this. 20-0 as an MMA fighter. 9-0 in the UFC. Just 31 years young. Oh, by the way, 75-5. I did not stutter. 75-5 as a pro kickboxer. 5-1 as a boxer. Oh, by the way, 48-0 as an amateur kickboxer. Do the math, Patrick. Do the math, AJ. I know you guys have been hit in the head a lot. That's 100 pro fighting victories, 148 if you catch the amateur ones as well. That's a supreme athlete. That's unlike anything anyone's doing in sports today. This man needs to be talked about more. He needs to be given more respect. He needs to be given more attention. I'm doing my part on behalf of all of you but it's time that the lamestream media does the same as well interesting to think about saying that he's the greatest

athlete on earth right now now we have it or competing this weekend haven't seen a ball in his hand okay now i'm not going to say i'm a meathead that that is exactly how I judge what you do but I do believe if you're the best athlete somebody should be able to throw you a ball and you should be able to play catch I think that's something that should happen pretty often you serious right now you really want to get into this conversation you're telling me what Israel does in multiple sports

is it more impressive I'm not saying that sounds actually exactly like what you're saying. He's saying maybe impressive is not the same as athletic. Walking into a cage against another human being who's looking to knock your head off? It's still very athletic. Very athletic, but same. He's not comparing it to other kind of sports.

It's different. All I'm saying is the guys who are playing this weekend are very, very talented, and they get a lot of attention. This man probably gets one-tenth the amount of attention that the athletes competing this weekend are getting. Which many would say is the media's fault of MMA, which is you. What do you mean of MMA? What are you talking about? You can't even say his name.

You called him the last stylebender because that's an easier name to say than his actual name. True or false? Say his name. True or false? I don't know his name. Say his name. I'll be able to say than his actual name. True or false? Say his name. True or false? I don't know his name. Say his name. I'll be able to say it. No problem.

Israel Adesanya. Bro, that's easy. Israel Adesanya, bro. I am a wizard with words. Please take it easy. He's the last stylebender. I mean, that is a great nickname. We should utilize that as much as possible to maybe build up,

instead of one-tenth of the attention, maybe a little bit more attention, if the media in the sport that he's in would do a little bit better job and stop counting trophies all the time. Yeah, right. I mean, you're talking about a media core that I would put up there against anyone.

I'm a ten-time MMA journalist of the year winner. To me, more impressive, by the way, than the Nobel Peace Prize, anything that you can scrounge up aj knows it's true you see the thing about aj is he's a closet fan he had me on his podcast once and wrote me a nice note afterwards saying it was one of the highlights of his career that i came on and now he's doing this whole shtick like he doesn't like me i know he's a big fan aj can you just tell the people tell the people that you're a big fan that you look forward to my appearances each and every time I come on? Let's go.

Let's hear it, AJ. Come on! Well, first off, I'm not in sixth grade, and peer pressure hopefully doesn't affect me like it once did when I was younger. But yes, I have no problem admitting I'm a fan of what you do, and I'm a bigger fan now of what you have been doing because I would love to see you sitting in a room with the rest of your mma media and they're like and they watch you on this show

and they're like oh hey man and you're professional aerial there i would love to see the interaction you have with those people you stink over there is what we're saying you are you saying you i need to come out of my shell a little more and talk smack about everyone else like i talked back about youtube jabrons is that what you maybe i? Maybe. I think, yeah, maybe that'd be a good career move for you. And whatever you do over there. Why do you think that'd be a good career move? I think you're trying to lead me down the wrong path, AJ. No, you're way too smart to

take any advice that you don't think would be beneficial for you, Ariel. I think it would be great. I think it would get you out there more. Maybe you'd get some more minutes on SportsCenter. And maybe, by the way, Israel Atasanyanya would get a little bit more hype because you get a little bit more hype. Don't disrespect the man. The man would tie you up in a pretzel. I agree!

I agree that he would. A wise man once told me, guys, listen to me right now. I want you to listen to me very carefully. We're forced to, okay? It's a fucking show and we gotta hear things in, okay? We are forced to listen. Don't take criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice. Lord knows I don't go to YouTube, Jabron, for advice.

So I ain't listening to your criticism at all. Oh, by the way, I can't hear you because I got my Burberry patches across my ears here. And it's very, very loud in this room. Oh, my God. The Burberry's screaming. You have to say about me now. $400. $400. I would have chose maybe one with more

Burberry on it so I didn't have to do that move to show people that I had Burberry on. But, well, great investment. I saw you dancing this morning at the breakfast table alongside Champagne Poppy, Drake, Canadian God. You really loved it. How good is that track, though?

What's that? How good? Lemon Pepper and Aspax. I mean, that guy, the man doesn't miss. He's like me on this show. Every appearance, hit after hit after hit. Champagne Poppy, Drake, Drizzy, the six guys. The man don't miss.

The absolute greatest MC of all time. That's right. I said it. Okay. All right. Okay. But what about Bieber? Bieber released a song today too.

I didn't see you lose your mind. That's another Canadian guy. Good point. Can I tell you? Low key, low key, like on the low. Yeah. Hey, low key, dude. On the low?

Yeah. Yeah, dude. I'm a massive Bieber stan. I know the kids like to say that these days. I'm a massive Bieber stan. I mean, what he has done in the latter portion of his career, tremendous stuff. The evolution of his career, the maturation of his persona, that man, top notch. By the way, fun fact.

Go on YouTube, Ariel Hawani, Justin Bieber. Type that in. You'll see an old school interview. I interviewed the man before he hit puberty, way back in the day. I was on that bandwagon from day one. Sort of like with MMA, sort of like with this show. I just want to let you guys know that despite the disparaging

remarks, despite the slander, I'm a fan. I wish you guys the best. I just wish that you would give me the same kind of respect and let me know that, hey, you do boost our ratings and that's why we like to have you on. Yeah, but you don't. You only come on Fridays.

That's our worst days. Yeah, but it's one of those things that when I'm not on the show on Fridays, I get so many messages from people who say, we missed you. And I like to make the people happy. You saw the tweets from people today. It's the opposite. Hey, by the way, can we talk about that never was Cody Rhodes taking a shot

at that guy Patrick McAfee? Who's this guy to speak your name out? First of all, the words Patrick McAfee should not exit that man's mouth. You're running a failing organization that is bringing out old-timers and pro basketball players, and you're trying to hitch your wagon to the Patrick McAfee train? First of all, right, that is bringing out old-timers and pro basketball players,

and you're trying to hitch your wagon to the Patrick McAfee train? First of all, Cody, if you want to get by Patrick McAfee, you've got to get by me. Did he say Patrick McAfee? Well, you know, that's how I refer to you, so I'm going to keep that to myself. I couldn't believe that this guy would come up with a lie because I know you want to be with the big dogs in New York. I mean you're a Titan Towers kind of guy. You're not a down south 705 WCW kind of guy.

We all know that Patrick McAfee is the top guy. So Cody Rhodes, you better watch your mouth, my man. Don't you ever make any lies up about my guy Patrick. Hey, how about this? What about this? I mean we just extended the Cody Rhodes thing for like another week now. We go down to Jacksonville and we rough that

place up. What do you guys say, huh? What do you guys say? Ahmed, hey, Ariel, would you be open to Pat carrying you like in a little knapsack on his belly into the ring? That's cool. I mean if that's the gimmick we're going to go with, if that's what the booker man wants us to do. But you see, the difference between me and everyone else in this business, AJ, is that I got the pencil.

And you know what the pencil – Mansuri could tell you about the pencil. The pencil ultimately calls the shots. I got the pencil. I would never make a deal with these guys if I didn't have complete creative control. That's why I've turned down multiple deals from multiple organizations, dating back to NWA, back in the day. Even AWA, back in the day.

The Gagne family wanted me to be there. James, what do you have to say? Ariel, can you confirm or deny a story I saw on the internet about Jan Bohovic who found a man hanging in the woods from a tree and now every time before he fights, he goes and touches that

rope and he even made a bracelet out of that rope. Is this the guy's stylebenders fighting? Yeah. Is that true? Yes. That is 100% true. By the way, great get up. Loser franchise, but great get up over there that you got in that penalty box of yours bills um it is true apparently in poland if you find someone hanging from a tree i mean it's kind of mind-blowing stuff it's a sign of good luck and so one day what yeah as he tells it jan was walking his dog it's that that happens that often it

happens that often that it's like i don't hey i i – hey, I don't pretend to be an expert when it comes to Polish rituals. But I'll just say he claims to have found this. He claims that there was a rope that was left there. He claims that this is good luck. And then he claims to have gone there repeatedly over the last couple of years. But before this fight, he was worried that someone was going to take the rope away. I'm like, how is this rope still there all this time so yes he did take the rope and he turned it into a bracelet and he now wears the bracelet i mean my two cents a little bit creepy

you know not really my thing but uh you know more power to yan yan's a great guy newfound uh newfound motivation he's a father now just had his first child so he's a really guy. Newfound motivation. He's a father now. Just had his first child. So he's a really tough guy. Don't sleep on the pride of Poland. He's got legendary Polish power. Some have said they remind – he reminds them of a young Ariel Hawani. I'm not going to go there. I'll let you guys be the judge.

Yeah, let the fight showcase that. It will be the ones to judge if he's a young Ariel or not. And the thought now with UFC is Dana White, at the very beginning of this quarantine, was like, listen, we're going to have a fight. He went and got an island. And then Disney allegedly told him like, yeah, we can't, everybody's stopping. There's a reason we can't do it. And Dana came out and said, if I had to do it, I would have had a plan in place. We would have been able to continue doing this. And then obviously he gets back into the game before the end of quarantine, everything

like that. Texas is now open, okay? Texas is, how you doing? Come on in. We're playing games. Dana has said, okay, I'll go down there as early as 260, I think, which is coming up. He's potentially going to maybe be the first person with a live sporting event in America that's at capacity, I think, which is what could possibly happen in Texas. What are you hearing about that? Is that going to be that fast of a turnaround?

That would be pretty crazy to see. I would assume that gladiator atmosphere would be awesome the first time back. But the reaction, by the way, also going to be pretty big through that whole thing. Well, he also said that they tried to go to Dallas, and apparently Dallas wasn't interested right now. I think that this is classic Dana White promoting. I have no doubt that he wants to be the first to hold an event that capacity. I have no doubt that they're looking

at all options. March 27th, which is the date of that UFC 260 event, seems a little soon. I mean, I'm looking at the date right over there. It's currently March 5th. So that if my math is correct, that's in 22 days. Seems a little soon and seems a little unnecessary. Here's the thing about what the UFC has experienced over the past year or so. They've had a phenomenally good year. I mean, we're approaching the one year anniversary of the pandemic really starting here in America. And they deserve a lot of credit for having the foresight. Obviously, they didn't expect this, but they built essentially their own arena. It's called the Apex, small little quaint thing. And they've been able to save a ton of money holding events there.

And so that's why Dana keeps saying, the only way I go to a place is if I can get it at full capacity so I can make the most amount of money. Otherwise, I'm just going to stay here because I'm saving a ton of money. That's why he said they had their best year ever in 2020. Because think about the money they saved, 43 events. they didn't have to travel all over the world think about the cost their travel crew arena oh they don't have to pay for any of that even better than the wwe deal because the wwe with tropicana field they had to lease that place out and so i suspect that they will wait uh i have no doubt that he wants to go to houston but it seems to me like 22 days like what's the the rush? Why do it now? I'll tell you this. Conor's going to come back probably in the summertime,

and I would be shocked if he's not fighting in front of fans. They want fans when Conor McGregor fights because obviously he costs a lot of money. All right, last question. We appreciate that. What is your thoughts on who's going to win this weekend? Who should we be betting on? Shinigami, minus 700, all in on him doesn't matter anymore thank you ladies and gentlemen ariel hawaii can't thank you enough for choosing to listen to this show there's a lot of

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