The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 378 - March Madness 1st & 2nd Round Recap, Ian Rapoport, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: March 22, 2021

On today's show, Pat and the boys react to all the craziness of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament and how we all took it for granted last year, and why for it is pound for pound, one of the best weekends of the year, plus a few special guests drop by as they react to all the new signings and happenings in free agency across the NFL this weekend. Joining the show is NFL Network Insider, friend of the program, Ian Rapoport joins the show to catch Pat and the boys up on everything that happened in free agency over the weekend including Kenny Golladay to the Giants, and all the other moves (30:54-52:27). Later, Pat and AJ Hawk discuss him causing Ohio State to lose in the first round, his thoughts on March Madness, going to the sun this weekend, and what he thinks about the current state of the NFL (54:44-1:41:32). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow and listen every day on Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM Channel 82. We appreciate you all for listening, come and laugh with us, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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think we all forgot just how awesome march madness is i am by no by no means a college basketball fan. Okay? I like when West Virginia wins. That's kind of how I watch college basketball. I like when West Virginia wins. It's better than West Virginia losing. But aside from that, if I want to see kids miss a bunch of shots, I will go to L.A. Fitness.

Okay? I don't even know what I'm here for. But March Madness, it feels like the play is better because there's only 64 teams invited it feels like the moment is bigger so some teams really dial it in and then these icons and legends emerge out of nowhere that we could have never imagined 101 year old nun is back in the pop culture because of a man who has a mustache and he's built like a guy who could potentially be coming fresh out of a divorce court or your uncle in front league maybe being the best basketball player I've ever seen in my entire life Loyola Chicago is a school that obviously did great a

few years ago but nobody remembered that that place even existed until March Madness happens yet again and by the way they might have the best fucking team out there. This school that is small, that obviously prays to the Lord. And Sister Jean is their mascot, 101-year-old nun that does pregame prayers where she actually lays out a plan of execution to the Lord while she's saying it. We have a great opportunity to convert rebounds as this team makes about 50% of their layups. Damn, this team stinks. We shouldn't lose to them. And 30% of its three points, our defense can take care of that, she says to the Lord. And the whole team goes, amen.

And God says, you know what? You're right. We're going to have that big co-burns home bitch in Illinois win. But with the analytical assessment you just gave to me, God says back to Sister Jean, you guys get the win. That team might win it all. Their defense is... Ball! Ball! Ball!

Ball! Ball! Ball! Shot! We're out. Fundamental basketball. Let's go ahead and weave this thing around. They have two plays on the offensive side of the ball.

Guess what? Just like remember the Titans, if you do them perfectly, it don't matter who you're out. Fundamental basketball. Let's go ahead and weave this thing around. They have two plays on the offensive side of the ball. Guess what? Just like remember the Titans, if you do them perfectly, it don't matter who you're playing. That team is awesome to watch, as has been all of March Madness, except for the game I went to yesterday. Oh, no. You know March Madness is here in Indianapolis? That's right.

A couple games in the first round were down in Bloomington, an hour and a half south, and West Lafayette, an hour and a half north. But everything's here in Indianapolis. Went to the West Virginia game, second round game. Okay. Shout out, Boss Connor. How you doing? Good.

How are you? I'm a little heartbroken about what happened yesterday. I lost about $20,000 yesterday. $20K? Yeah. Very quickly. Very quickly, too. Jeez. And I was at it. I actually got a20,000 yesterday. $20K? Yeah. Very quickly. Very quickly, too. Jeez.

And I was at it. I actually got a chance to watch it. So Syracuse, West Virginia had an incredible second-round matchup right there. Bankers Life Fieldhouse, which we like to call Bonkers Life Fieldhouse. Yeah. You know that whole place is packed out. And Syracuse, West Virginia, old Big East rivals now. Hey, long history.

My first ever game at West Virginia University was against Syracuse in a Big East matchup on ABC on Sunday. It is Syracuse, West Virginia. We've danced before. That's right. Jim Boeheim, we know this fucking guy. Oh yeah? He's been around a long time.

Long time. Had no idea he had a kid though. I don't think anybody did. He named his kid Buddy. Jim Boeheim, incredible name though. Okay. I don't think anybody did. He named his kid buddy. Okay. Jim Boeheim, incredible name for your kid. I might name my kid buddy actually now that I think about it. Buddy Boeheim is this kid who was illegally recruited to the University of Syracuse, has had high level coaching his entire life. I assume an NCAA coach at the highest of levels has bought him birthday gifts his entire life, given him cars, allowances, free gifts, everything,

and now he's a superstar on the Syracuse team. But don't worry, I said. Going into the second round matchup, we had Huggy Bear. Bob Huggins just won 900 games. How you doing? Keep moving. We got this little white named McNeil. He ends up scoring like 22 points, but he can get hot. McBride is incredible.

Culver's our big guy. Hey, we got a big guy. Don't worry about him. I watched right in front of me yesterday. Syracuse beat the shit out of us early. I mean, it was getting ugly. I thought I was a curse. I thought it was me.

I was looking around. This team stinks all of a sudden. Is it me? Then they get hot. Then we get back into this thing. Then the game gets going. And at halftime, I want to let you know, we were down six at that time, I believe, at halftime.

Buddy Boeheim had zero points in the first half maybe one or two whatever I watched him at halftime he came out of the locker room early he stood within the paint and he shot one at the rim it missed just like all of his shots in the first half basically then I saw him do it again it went in then he backed up a little bit it went in in. Then he started going to every single spot in the three. He didn't miss again. And I thought to myself, oh, no, the son of Jim, the illegally recruited kid that just caught on to Syracuse that we just learned about in the first round after dropping 35 points

or whatever, it appears as if he got hot. And let me tell you, that halftime performance he put on carried itself right into the second half. West Virginia put up quite a fight. But a travel call in the end is what cost him $20,000. But I want to let you know the madness did not stop there. Every team seemed to have lost this weekend that you thought was going to win. The teams that are supposed to go to the top have fallen so quickly.

March is madness right now. And I think we're just pumped to be a part of it I'm so thankful March Madness is back I loved it Obviously there was NFL news I think there was a golf tournament or two I think there's a lot of things going on But if you weren't paying attention to this

You're a sports fan I think you got it wrong The upsets were in a plenty Oral Roberts obviously Yeah Shut up Listen Bobs

Yeah The oral bobs. Yeah. Don't sleep on them. Can't sleep on them. Can not. Syracuse has a couple upsets. Oregon State has a couple upsets.

I mean, there are teams cooking right now, and we're just getting started. There's another full lineup of games that starts in about five minutes. Iowa's playing. Oregon actually. And Ty Schmidt. Iowa seems to have a guy in Luka Garza. I just bet a rather large amount of money that he's going to score over 22.5 points. I saw him in an interview.

He's got two earrings. Guy likes the big stage, right? Yeah, for sure, for sure. And he's been performing on the big stage all year. One thing that I'm a little worried about, some people think it's actually in Iowa's favor, but Oregon hasn't played since, like, March 12th. They're the only team that's first-round game got canceled due to COVID. So these guys have fresh legs. I am

a little worried about that. I was been in Indianapolis for over two weeks at this point, but it's at Banker's Life or Bonker's Life. It's not in Lucas Oil where you have to deal with the depth perception. I think the Hawks will come out and fly today. Yeah, the Oregon hasn't played in a long time

and they might be fresh, but they might be rusty too. They could be. It might take a little bit to feel that thing out. And guess what? The Hawks have been flying for a long time in the city, like you said, two and a half weeks for the Big Ten tournament. Big Ten stinks of basketball, by the way. Whoa! You're going to hear a lot of chatter, just like

we did this year. And I think I was even a part of it. Hey, Big Ten's going to go. I opened the show by saying I don't watch college basketball, but it felt as if the rankings, highlights, everything going on, Big Ten had some wagons that were ready to go this year. They stink. Iowa might be the only shot that the Big Ten has in this whole thing. Yeah, Iowa, Michigan, and Maryland, the only teams left right now.

So, I mean, it was tough sledding. What do you want me to say? The Big Ten did not perform. I didn't see it happening. I mean, you can go with the excuse that they just beat each other up all season long because there were, you know, like seven or eight teams in the top 25 all season. But, boy, did they get to bed in the tournament. So that didn't make them better?

Well, it did, but warm out. No, because the Eastern Washington folks, they said that they got better because they played against Gonzaga. That's all they did was scrimmage Gonzaga. It got them better. So, I mean, maybe the Eastern Washington folks almost had a massive upset. Now, this Eastern Washington team, I don't know if anybody watched them.

Electrifying. We're talking L.A. fitness on a Tuesday. You walk in there, you're like, I got next or whatever. And then you watch the team that's playing headbands on high shorts incredibly awkward dribble styles you see them warming up

like yeah my team's got I don't know who I'm playing with but we got next then you watch at 11-0 they just go right down the court right back and forth you're like oh my god

that's an Eastern Washington team they were they were playing against Gonzaga that's what made them so good they almost went in goddamn in March they almost won big time game you're saying in the big 10 they beat everybody up their confidence got low

they couldn't get better from that whole thing yeah maybe or just i mean it's a grueling schedule you know you look at some of the like the big 10 played every single game this year i mean other conferences did too but like there's a point where you know you're playing five six games in a row and every single one of them's ranked i mean at the end of the season i think if that with the crowds not being there too i don't know i mean there's really no way to justify it playing five, six games in a row, and every single one of them is ranked. I mean, at the end of the season, I think if – with the crowds not being there too, I don't know. I mean, there's really no way to justify it. They choked big time, but I think that would be an argument.

West Virginia did too, by the way. West Virginia was clearly the better team. We didn't even play the one guy that we had in Culver. The guy that I thought, like, you know, good news, we got the guy. Culver didn't even play him. He sat down the entire time. He didn't look – by the way, I had my eye on him. You know, he was sitting right in front of me there.

I'm like, hey, why don't we got that guy in? He was standing on the outside of the huddles too looking in clapping doing the whole thing though so it wasn't like he was hurt it wasn't like he was pissed off it was just like no i don't think we can use him because that zone that syracuse runs for whatever reason gumpy i think has been to every single game gumpy has been to five six games at at this point, right, Gumpy? Three. One every day this weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He was literally at Banker's Life. He was at Lucas Oil. He was at all these different places. Gumpy's big takeaway, and this might be a shocker, these refs stink.

Whoa. Gumpy, don't they? These refs stink. The end of that Texas game on Saturday night just ripped my heart out. Well, how about West Virginia? They end that thing with a travel. By the way, in the arena, you get nowhere near as good of a view of the game as people at home.

I don't even really like watching games unless there's a TV near me so I can at least see what's going on because I get closer to zooming. But it was nice to be a part of the clapping. It was nice to be a part of that. It is a very vital thing, but you couldn't really see him. Apparently, he definitely did travel there at the end of the game. Four and a half seconds left, though. Down three, I mean, after Buddy Boeheim makes one and misses one.

Just let the guy do a three-quarter shot, potentially review it late. What are we even doing? Why are you looking for a travel there? Didn't even give him a chance. Now, he did shoot it. I don't remember paying attention to whether or not it was close to going in. But, man, as soon as that whistle blows there, I'm like, oh, the ref literally just decided the game in this whole thing. Gumpy, it's been a bunch of bullshit.

I mean, that 80-year-old ref was calling things one way all day yesterday. It was very apparent. The guy on Syracuse, every time he inbounded the pass, his foot was over the line. He didn't even look at it. Can't see that, by the way, at home. Those are the things that we could see that you can't see at home. How bad was Lucas Hoyle seeing the game? He said it was not great.

It wasn't bad. I mean, honestly, that was the first college basketball I've ever been to on Friday night, so I'm just living it up right now. Nice. What'd you think? Awesome. Oh, you loved it. i'll probably go every day he's going against that he said yeah it is i mean being there for that west virginia syracuse game it was much better than just watching it at home i guess but then like the the feeling but then like the not just like the dvr thing is is so vital in my particular style of watching things.

Did that mother, I do a lot of, that guy just. Hold on. Whoa. A lot of that. I do a lot of, can't do that a lot, but there's a lot of, you know, clapping. And then there's some moments I miss clap wise because I'm going right to the jumbotron because I'd like to see that thing back. And by the time I want to celebrate, it's already been quieted. So I think I'm just an awkward fan like in in audience fan like i think i just you know i i observe things differently but

it was a good time got to yell at the refs a little bit yeah it is my first opportunity to live in a city with a chance to do this so oh yeah because up there and uh we got we got no professional sports teams where i'm from. Well, these are college teams. Or colleges, even. Yeah, not even. What about Manitoba? What about Saskatoon? Yeah, Saskatoon.

The Dragons. Canucks stink, and that's a fair ride away. Iowa from three, brick. By the way, fun fact, Big Ten has not won a national championship since 2000. So they must be just beating each other up every year. How many Final Fours have they been to, though? Doesn't matter, national championships. I don't even know what that means. How many Final Fours?

How are we supposed to look into that? Is that a stat, you think? They said the Big Ten team has been in the Final Four for, you know, like 15 of the last 20 years or something. Who said that? Big Ten said that? No, it's an actual stat. Can't finish. No, I know. Forget the can't finish. I'm a little bit of a hater there about some Connor.

It is interesting. I would be getting that stat out as fast as possible if I was to Big Ten as well after what happened here early. Because some people had three teams that were in the final four as Big Ten teams. The Big Ten coming out of conference play, all riding such a high.

And then what happened? A.J. Hawk refused to say, I owe, and then everything went to hell. If I'm A.J., I'm saying, I owe the Big Ten, more specifically Ohio State, a lot more effort because whenever I mail it in, the fucking team mails it in. Hope you're happy, A.J. Hawk. He didn't even see it in, the fucking team mails it in. Hope you're happy, AJ. He didn't even see it, by the way. He's probably on vacation somewhere. No, he quit that.

Hates the kids, but he's probably on a beach somewhere. Those Buckeyes. He said. Probably took Oral Bob's. He probably did bet on the Bob's. Atone Diggs, a lot going on in the NFL, though. Let's not get distracted, okay?

Because we are not a March Madness college basketball show, although Luka Garza scoring eight points already here, three for three early, is great for the over 22 and a half. The kid wears earrings in interviews. Let's assume he's going to enjoy the big stage, okay? That's all I'm going to say when it comes to betting advice. Assume that somebody that does

that, okay, not scared of that reaction, he's probably going to show up whenever there's big lights on. Shout out to Luka Garza, probably winning me a bunch more money because West Virginia tried to tank me. But Diggs, there's a lot going on in the NFL as well, pal. Finally, a wide receiver got paid

speaking of let's get to that kenny galladay congrats to the fucking giants fans congrats to kenny galladay who nobody knew if there was going to be a real market for these wide receivers because there was a lot of smaller than expected deals done. Kendrick Bourne signs, Nelson Aguilar signs, but the Giants have been getting a bit active in $72 million deal with a max of $76 million with $40 million in guarantees. I don't think anybody saw that type of deal for really anybody coming out of this COVID. Actually, Pat, I tried to tell you last week that Kenny Galladay, in all likelihood, will

be a giant. I even, I nailed the $40 million guaranteed. So I tried to tell you whether or not you took that as gospel, that's on you. When did you say? I don't remember you saying that. Yeah, last week, you know, he was going to the Bengals and the Bears, and I just said Kenny Galladay is going to be ales and and the bears and i just said kenny holliday's gonna be a giant the simple as that you just had a feeling jay or did you tell anybody about this or is this just kind of post well no i mean that's my move is you know you

don't say it and then a week after i i let everyone know i actually i i was on this first i was on this first but uh yeah i mean i knew it was gonna. We didn't get it out as early as I would have liked to, but what are you going to do? Why are the Giants such big spenders all of a sudden? Do they see the NFC East and say, this place stinks? Let's go ahead. If not now, then when? And if not them, then us. Is that what the Giants are thinking right now in this terrible NFC East, Jay?

I believe that is what they are thinking. Also, you can only make so many excuses for Danny Dimes. I mean, either he fucking stinks or he doesn't. So you get some weapons around him. If he's not the guy this year, then who knows? You know, you go into the draft and you get someone else. Jay does not deserve this. But I'll tell you what, I did not know he was in the studio.

How did this come about? Let me book him. Well, the bald cap was the new addition. I need to figure it out. I think my hair is coming out a little bit, but this jacket was just laying around,

so I said, why not? Yeah, there are some things on this show that really get me. Me turning my head there to see you in full garb there was really good. Thank you for what you just did.

You got it, Pat. Oh, Jay. Still Jay. Sorry. I completely forgot about that. Oh, my God. That was awesome. Jay Glazer does not deserve that.

No. Love you, Jay. Love you, Jay. Love you, Jay. Aviva Lazzito is back in the – we do love you, Jay, by the way. Thank you, Jay. You know, they say that the most sincere form of flattery is imitation.

That's bullshit, by the way. What do you mean? Especially when it's done like that. No! Tribute! I love Jay Glazer. I do! He's the biggest Jay Glazer fan I know. Zito's back in the room, by the way.

Zito, great to have you. Zito was off for a week, and then he had to fill in for Jay, who's back, Jay. Two Jays. Two Jays, yeah. Zito, welcome back to the room. What is the poll for today? I'm excited to hear this one. This one is a good conversation piece, I think.

Yep. Hey, how's your bracket? Right now, my bracket stinks, winning 87%. Pretty good, 13%. Okay. So what is it again? If we could see it, it's what? Hey, how's your bracket?

Question mark. Okay. 30% pretty good, 87%. My bracket stinks. Our computer just crashed in the back, I guess. We cannot pull it up on the screen there. It's a shame for the YouTube folks. You can vote on that poll in the back, I guess. We cannot pull it up on the screen there. Shame for the YouTube folks. You can vote on that poll in the community page,

but you cannot see it currently via this stream because our computer crashed. Oh! We're back. 84% say my bracket stinks. 16% say pretty good. Who are they? Hey, tell me who the fuck you are, 16%. Oral Roberts people.

Huh? Liars. Yeah. The Oral Bobs fans. It's not just the Oral Bobs fans, though. It's also the fucking, I mean, the AECU or whatever. Yeah. How?

How? Can we put the upsets back on the thing, please? Can we put the upsets back on the thing? If your bracket is pretty good, that means you had to have gotten, what, at least four of these? Yeah. At this point? Unless those people are lying and pretty good is actually not great

because you'll see some open mic comedians that'll go up, probably me included. Actually, this would never happen because I have too much, I think self-awareness is something I do have a little bit of. But there'll be comedians that'll go up

and they'll do 15 minutes and zero people left the entire time, come off, how'd you do? Pretty good. It's like, okay, so this fucking person has idea what what a level of good or pretty good these people that say pretty good what are they saying they're they're saying their ranking is saying they're pretty good or that their actual bracket is pretty good i think they're saying their bracket's pretty good in good shape at least so you would have to get at least a third

of these then right yeah so they would have to pick okay we want oral roberts to go ahead and get the win over florida which a lot of people. Oregon stayed over Tennessee. North Texas over Purdue. That was in Indiana. Purdue, by the way, probably staying at their houses, if I had to guess. No, they had to come into the bubble probably because of the testing. But was anybody staying where they stayed?

Well, yeah, I don't know because they were in Indianapolis for the Big Ten tournament. So they probably stayed down here. Anyways, close to home. Close to home. Close to home. Close to home. But the bubble, are you really close to anything because nobody can get in? True. That's the question.

But they are geographically close to home. Close to home. Close to home. Nobody could have guessed that. Loyola, again, we all forgot the power of Sister Jean. She actually gets God on the phone. Yep. A lot of people sending prayers up there. A lot of people sending them. We all forgot the power of Sister Jean. She actually gets God on the phone. Yep.

A lot of people sending prayers up there. A lot of people sending them. Please, God, especially at this particular moment. At this particular moment, a lot of praying going on. There's a lot of people sending up action. Hey, need a raise. Boom. Would like to get another stimmy, maybe. Let me get another stimmy.

Okay. Would like our company that was just told it couldn't operate for 13 months to work or whatever. And okay, there's a send it boom, boom. They're sent up there. Sister Jean,

she's in the express lane. You know what I mean? She's 101 years old. She's committed her entire life to the Lord here. Whenever she picks up on the phone, whenever Loyola Chicago is about to play in the second round, sister Jean has the hotline right to God. And she says,

listen, here's the analytics. here's the deal. I wonder if Sister Jean ever keeps it real in those prayers. Every stat I've looked at, we got no fucking shot. Okay, God, but if you just want to do one of those little miracle things that you like to do, today would be a great day. And then do you think the team sitting around like, even Sister Jean thinks we're going to stay?

I mean, what are the chances here? I wonder, and then how does God answer that? Like, not your best effort, sis. Who has a better connection? Her Tim Tebow. Well, I think you would have to say Sister Jean. Yeah, sure. Tim brought some back to life, though.

Yeah, but she's like the American Pope. Like, when she talks, God's listening. Yeah, yeah. But Tim, college success is all we're really judging this off of, right? Yeah, he has. Because Sister Jean, college success. Tim Tebow, college success. Does God have a connection to college only?

Well, because it's amateurism. It used to be about both of them, probably. Well, it used to be just some success at the pro level. Yeah, that's right. But it seems what God giveth, God also taketh away. Which he did down there. That felt pretty good. But anyways, let's get to the more.

Syracuse over San Diego State. I picked that strictly because whenever I was feeling on my bracket, I did not know San Diego State even existed still. They were ranked higher than them. Shout out San Diego State. I wanted to be a member of your football team coming out of high school. Sent a letter and everything, handwritten. Jeez.

Come on. No answer. I just saw a picture of their school. Come on. There's like a beach there. Very nice. Hashtags. Yeah. I like to go picture of their school. It was like a beach there. Very nice. Aztecs. Yeah.

I like to go there, I think. Yeah. Played soccer there for ODP in San Diego. Loved the area. It's like, how do I get to this place? I'll never go back. Ohio over Virginia. Maryland over UConn.

UCLA over BYU. That BYU squad, they got that kid from Purdue. The big tall kid. I didn't know that. He was over there. He lost the jump ball. ACU versus Texas, Rutgers, Clemson, Syracuse over WVU, and then Oregon State, obviously, over Oklahoma State.

There has been what seems to be a massive amount of chaos in this year's March Madness. Everybody's brackets are fucked, even the people that say they're pretty good. And I guess that's why it's so goddamn beautiful out here nothing better than march madness and upsets like you said it before nfl playoffs 100 times better nfl super bowl 7 000 times better for sure okay no i just i just want to make sure we we do get our ducks in a line four days four days in a row though is the one thing that. And it engulfs everything. Yeah. It's playing all day. This goes, I put March Madness in with Olympics in World Cup.

Yeah, for sure. Okay, because they're the similar styles there. But whenever you talk like wild card weekend, where it's now it's three and three. I mean, it's just like, okay, it's going to be tough for me personally. But I do like betting on these 18 to 20-year-olds and how they're going to perform while living in a bubble in a place that they probably have never been before. I mean, this is a nice little social experiment

where you can lose $20,000 just like that. What do you have, Zeta? I was going to say, if you want an update on our bracket right now, we have four people tied for first place. Okay, and how many points do they have, and how many points do they have left? 38, and then the guy tied for first right now, 138 points left. That looks like the winner is going to be this guy, Chappy Van Winkle. Is that the name?

Oh, yeah. What's your real name? Rob Van Winkle. Why'd you change your name? Nothing rhymes with Winkle. Dance. Jim Carrey. Mm-hmm.

Hell, yeah. In Living Color. Impersonating Vanilla Ice. Hmm. Callback. Well done. Pretty good. A great one. Don't sell yourself short on that one. That was a greatilla Ice. Callback. A great one. Don't sell yourself short on that one. That was a great callback. That was back whenever Jim Carrey was wide open.

He was that fireman guy. Oh yeah, Fire Marshal Bill. And how about whenever he was the yoga instructor? Let's start with a stretch. Let's start with a stretch. You die like the rest. It was unbelievable.

He flattened his back on the ground from a standstill without moving his legs. This guy's a fucking animal. I think he was sleeping on couches at comedy clubs at that time. It was unbelievable.

But the brackets, Jack Van Winkle's in first. Did he do, you think Jack entered numerous? Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. Really? Yeah.

Probably. I thought about that just like moments before the whole thing tipped off. I'm like, ooh, fake email should make another one. That's what people do. I mean, you know. Yeah, I didn't even think of it. No, not at all. Too late.

Too late, I thought. Next year, we'll be ready. Okay. We took a year off, you know. That's right. We're kind of coming out rusty. Remembering how this all works. This is how the game works. An upset bracket. Everyone needs one.? That's right. We're kind of coming out rusty. Remembering how this all works. This is how the game works.

An upset bracket. Everyone needs one. This guy's hit. Yeah, it's like the serious photo and then the ha ha. Goofy! Those are brackets you need. You need the serious. This is why. Things gonna happen, okay? And then you got the no way! Crutwig is gonna do

what he's gonna do bracket. That might be my new favorite basketball player. Oh yeah. He goes to an NBA team, guaranteed, I'm buying the jersey. Hell yeah. Crutwig is going to do what he's going to do, Breck. That might be my new favorite basketball player. Oh, yeah. He goes to an NBA team, guaranteed, I'm buying the jersey. Hell, yeah. Crutwig is that guy out there, dude. He did an interview afterwards. He pulled onto a shirt like this and just was talking. I was like, I love this dude.

I love everything about him, man. He's a tough guy, Peck. He's got no shot. He's got no shot at all. Oh, yeah. They were defending him five feet off of him when he was standing just a foot off of the foul line right they're just like yeah go ahead and let him shoot i haven't watched enough film on him but i'd assume with how soft his touch is he'll be able

to learn how to shoot that relatively quicker uh quickly but he's a throwback under there man up and unders off, little finger rolls, incredible mustache. Obviously, he runs incredibly soft-footed, too. I mean, it looks like he could run potentially on eggs if he had to. He's nimble out there. Great passer. Oh, he's great. And all he does

is set screens all day. He'll eat it if he has to. I'm a big Crutwick fan. I can't wait to see what NBA team he goes to. Hopefully the Pelicans. Him and Zion on the same team. Give me a break. Lob City. No-look lob from Krutwig at the free throw line.

Sign me up. Jesus. That would be unfair, though. Speaking of NBA news, the SportsCenter Instagram account has been affected massively. Oh, yeah. LeBron James, high ankle sprain out indefinitely he says he's gonna come back though no big deal he's gonna bounce back it's gonna make him stronger okay i hope so the world's better with lebron james doing lebron james things but not just lebron james okay and you would think if lebrron James is out everybody's in trouble and you're right but if you think about that SportsCenter Instagram yeah hey oh LaMelo Ball is also out

oh the golden goose no hey by the way because of the SportsCenter Instagram I have become a fan of LaMelo Ball yeah I did not expect LaMelo Ball to be in my life as much as he is. He's in my life because that SportsCenter Instagram account is LeBron James, LaMelo Ball. Then they played against each other just a week ago. SportsCenter is very thankful that that happened because they had a moment where they dapped each other up and it was a vote. I love LaMelo Ball

from that account, strictly. The guy is a baller, seems to be chill, seems to be very mature. You think Ball family, you think who knows how this whole thing is going to go. That was years ago, though. Lonzo has become his own guy down there in New Orleans. LaMelo is now becoming an absolute superstar. I'm a big fan of LaMelo, but I don't know what that SportsCenter Instagram account is going to do on the internet.

It's going to be in trouble because those two guys always do incredible shit or stuff that is deemed incredible every single night, it seems like. Well, lucky for SportsCenter, LeVar Ball is getting back into the interview game. And he said that Alonzo Ball hated New Orleans and has been pitching Michael Jordan to get him up to Charlotte and obviously with Jello Ball as well, get him recruited over there. So I think SportsCenter is going to be okay due to LeVar Ball stepping up his game. Okay, so that's like, you know, you don't really see Chris operate much unless something happens.

Yeah. You know what I mean? But whenever one of the Kardashians, Jenner, something happens, Chris comes on in and she's like, y'all motherfuckers understand how this is going to go. Okay, and everybody's like, yeah, Chris, you're 100% right. Tell them. You're going to spin this somehow into some magically creative business turn where you're going to make another $100, maybe $200 million off of just this incident.

Then you're going to move forward. We get it, Chris. And then she'll do a media tour, interview tour, laughing, and that whole thing. And then it's over. Then the girls are back. Then, bang, she can go back. That's what LaVar will do here. As LaMelo is kind of out, fixing his wrist, LaVar will come in.

We're still here. We're still here. Don't you worry about us. We got a lot of NBA players in one fucking family. You might hate me, but that's impressive. And then whenever LaMelo comes out, LaVar just kind of drifts back. Classic, classic move there. It's a winning formula.

It's genius. Chess, not checkers. Vince McMahon, Chris Jenner, LaVar Ball. That's a winning formula. It's genius. Chestnut checkers. Vince McMahon, Kris Jenner, LeVar Ball. That's right. The big three. The big three.

The big three. Joining us now is a man who breaks a lot of news in the NFL. He has a podcast called Rap Sheet and Friends, which we listen to. Yeah, all the time. Do we not? Have to. Connor, what did you say about the last episode of Rap Sheet and Friends, which we listen to all the time. Do we not? Have to. Connor, what did you say about the last episode of Rapsheet and Friends?

The last episode I said, Pat, hey, look, there's some information on this thing that only Rapsheet and his friends have, and we have to listen to it. So whenever we listened to it, they were talking all about that. What were they saying? Well, they were talking about all the rumors going around the NFL right now. Where's Russell Wilson? What's happening with that? And it gave us the perfect insight so that we could carry it onto this show.

So that whenever we saw other things happening, we're like, well, that's not what we heard on Rap Sheet. Hold on. Yeah, that's not true because Rap Sheet and his buddies were just talking about how it's not. And actually, one of Rap Sheet's friends said, remember whenever we said that? Oh, Garofalo.

Yeah, because we said to somebody, we said, oh, wait, one of Rap Sheet's friends actually said, one of the hosts of Rap Sheet and friends said, that's what we said. They always know. So what we're saying is you should listen to that and watch his work on the NFL, ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rap. What's going on, dude? What's up, guys? That was very patronizing.

I appreciate that. No, it was not. Oh, my God. What is that all about? Stop listening uh we made it through the week that's the most important thing i'm now on the other side of it so life is good see we're talking about your last episode in july whenever we were just referring there it kind of got us going here rap scene friends podcast is currently on hiatus but it will be back at a time very soon and that's what we've been saying this whole very soon that's what we've been saying this whole time

i should have a big announcement on that at some point, potentially in the near future. Are you breaking news? Am I going head to head with your show? Are you breaking news to break news? You know, if you set the standard of, hey, I got big news coming, there's already been somebody else that has done that. And I'm not saying it has worked out absolutely perfectly for that person but what i'm saying is if you're gonna break news that you're gonna break news there's already one person that's at the top of the totem pole pal and his name is jay glazer listen pat i could have broken the news on rap sheets new podcasts uh and how it's

gonna change what i was being respectful towards so i'm gonna i'm gonna sit on that but yes very big news from the rap Sheet and Friends podcast coming soon. Thank you, Jay. That started today, by the way. That was absolutely Jay Glazer. I mean, I don't know who he is. That literally might be him.

Okay, let's move on. Jay Glazer doesn't deserve any of this. We appreciate Jay Glazer. But moving on. Kenny Galladay gets a lot of money from the Giants. We had no idea what the wide receiver market was going to look like. Was Kenny Galladay gets a lot of money from the giants we had no idea what the wide receiver market was going to look like was kenny galladay getting these types of offers from every

team and that's why everybody else was kind of held up or is this just a one market race with the giants saying we want our guy so on god this all like blends together but it's either either wednesday or thursday kenny galladaday had the first offer that I could verify from a team, and it was the Cincinnati Bengals, and it was one year up to $11 million. And I was like, man, Kenny Galladay probably has to take a one-year deal. And like, okay, it's not terrible reality. Juju took a really nice one-year deal. It's not terrible reality. Juju took a really nice one-year deal.

Corey Davis got a multi-year. But nothing wrong with taking a one-year deal and saying, you know what, the market didn't develop like I thought. It's fine. I'll just cash in next year. That's what I was thinking. And then got to Thursday, Friday, the Giants started doing a lot of research on him, started making a lot of calls, trying to figure out what went wrong in Detroit. Why didn't they tag him again there was a off the field incident that albert breer detailed this morning in monday morning quarterback that i know teams were looking into that he was completely cleared of completely cleared but that's something the teams were looking into just to see what it

was and then you got to friday and then we found out, okay, one, the bears had hosted him and it wasn't just leverage to get Alan Robinson to sign. They were all in multi-year deal, double digits. So that was a legit real offer. And then the giants have them over for a little slumber party. And once the slumber party thing comes into effect, then I knew it was getting done. I mean, I felt like he wanted to be there.

And when a team wants him and a player wants to be there and they're sort of kind of in the same ballpark money-wise, usually that's getting done. And so that got done Saturday. They were dancing, you're saying. They were dancing. How come whenever he went and danced with the Chicago Bears, stayed overnight, had a slumber party there, it didn't work out?

Is that because of Andy Dalton? How long did you know Andy Dalton was going to be a Bear, and is he potentially going to be traded for Russell Wilson, who's allegedly still on the market? I knew Andy Dalton was going to be a Bear. No, I thought Andy Dalton was going to be a Bear for a while. To me, it was the 49ers or the Bears. The Bears gave him a chance to start.

The 49ers wouldn't. So I knew he was going to be a Bear. What I did not know was when the Bears were finally going to get the no-you-can't-have-our-quarterback from the Seahawks. So that happened probably an hour or so before Dalton completed his deal with the Bears. That was really the holdup. So even though I knew he was going to the Bears, I couldn't say it because god forbid i reported then it's like oh yeah and the bears just traded for russell wilson um so that was kind of that dynamic as far as like you know are

the bears still trying like i guess anything is possible um i haven't heard a lot of momentum recently on them trying i mean it seems i would never say never on anything in this weird world, but it seems like once the Bears sign Andy Dalton, that probably was a wrap. And maybe it'll be next offseason when we'll be talking about Russell Wilson getting traded. Okay, so Russell Wilson is back as a Seattle Seahawk in your eyes full time. No questions asked. He said go Hawks at the end of announcing an NFL flag football team.

Andy celebrated Chris Carson signing to the Seahawks this weekend, two years, $14 million. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks, how are they going to get past it? Do you have any insights? I would assume you do because you're Ian Rappaport. Does Rappsheet have any friends inside the Seattle Seahawks organization that are telling you how they plan on managing the Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson, Team 3 offensive line potential

issues that could arise? It has started because one of the things they did was they traded for Gabe Jackson and Russell Wilson wanted a big time offensive lineman for agency. The Seahawks were in big on Zeiler and I think offered him actually more than the Ravens, but he ended up choosing Baltimore for family reasons. And then, you know, they end up trading for Gabe Jackson. So that goes a long way in telling Russell Wilson, like, we are serious about improving the offensive line. To my knowledge, they haven't had a lot of conversations, but I think that's okay.

You know, like if you're married to someone for a while, and Russell Wilson and the Seahawks have been married for a while, like you're going to have fights sometimes. this obviously this has not happened to my wife let's just say you're in a restaurant and you start yelling at each other everyone's like wow like they're getting divorced and then you get behind closed doors and you uh you you know you do the opposite of that uh so i would imagine they're going to get together and move forward, and I think it's going to be okay until next year when we end up talking about probably exactly the same thing.

Well, was it the food, you think? Oh, yeah. I mean, oysters, champagne, whatever. Oh, you're sorry. I never actually believed that oysters have that. That feels like a myth that you guys probably know better than me. No, that's why you got to go to Roman. roman you know what i mean you don't need the oysters they just if that's if you're doing if you're i mean they're terrible i've gone oyster uh fishing before in south carolina no big deal you you find them in like sand and mud

yeah i've been out that's not really fishing isn't that just picking through the sand yeah they have a name for it They have a name for it. They have a name for it. Have a little respect. Oh, Coastal Elitist. Ian Rappaport. I'm so sorry. You hate the fishermen out there that are getting the oysters for you to fight with your wife over.

You know what I mean? Yeah, that was a good tie-in. A rare joke. I was not expecting that. Yeah, I know. I understand. Juju Smith-Schuster. He allegedly had offers from the Chiefs, the Ravens, and he chose to go, maybe the Eagles. He chose to go back to the Steelers. This is becoming something now because

people are making it a story. People are turning down the Chiefs to go elsewhere, allegedly. Are there only a few teams that are still active or is there more teams than what we're hearing, like Chiefs, Ravens, Patriots, obviously. That was a big news because that was the first time they really got active in this whole thing. Ravens. Are there a lot of teams in the mix right now for signing all these guys that are left, or is there only a few spots? And are the Chiefs one of them? I mean, yes. I think the Chiefs will probably be in the mix for signing someone else. Could they sign a left tackle? I think that's possible. They also could draft one.

It's a really good tackle draft. There's just not a lot of players right now that people are really going to spend money for. So when someone like Juju becomes available, yeah, I mean, the Chiefs offered him, I think it was one year up to either 11 or 12. And then the Ravens offered him a really nice deal one year up to 13. Oh, really good deal. And he turned all of that down for 8 million from the Steelers with no

incentives because he wanted to stay. And I mean, I can't, I don't know if you're joking or not, but like, no, rarely do you see someone say it's actually not about the money and then prove it.

I thought that was kind of cool. I am a hundred percent on board. I think he did. I'm going to take it a step further. I think he did it in spite of two people, which makes me love the move even more. And one of them's in his office in tone digs and the other one's Mark Madden in Pittsburgh. I think he legitimately did it. Just listen. I wouldn't, I mean, I enjoy the way Juju thinks he's a businessman. He's running his whole thing. If he did this just to say, fuck you to Mark Madden and Tony Diggs,

I would absolutely love it. But also, I think he does like Ben Roethlisberger. And I think a lot of these guys realize that next offseason is going to be big, right? You're going to see a lot more. Like, for instance, Antonio Brown, potential free agent right now. Everybody assumes he's going to go back to Tampa Bay with Tom because who knows anywhere else. If he was to play another year somewhere, have success,

he can make another big-time paycheck if the if his off the field issue is obvious if it is when if it is what's being alleged we hope justice is served if not let's move on but he could potentially hit money again next offseason like a lot of other people if he takes a one-year deal you think he ends up at Seattle any chance or is he going back to Tampa uh I would say my guess is he ends up back in Tampa. Not saying it's definitely going to happen, but Brady wants him back. I think he wants to be there. It's also just, you know, how much money

can they come up with? I mean, Tampa, what happens when you win the Super Bowl as you... Did you win the Super Bowl or no? What's that? Did you win a Super Bowl? Oh, man. Ian, good seeing you. It was great having you on the Super Bowl or no? What's that? Did you win a Super Bowl? Okay. Ian. Ian, good seeing you.

It was great having you on the show. No, Ian, I'd like to let that. Yeah, yeah. We got a shout-out on the Joe Budden show, actually. A guy went to bat for us. I'm going to figure. I watched the clip, and he went to bat for me. Joe Budden made fun of him for knowing a punter's name, basically.

And the guy was like, he's got a ring. No, he's got a ring. I couldn't even repost the clip because what you just rubbed in my face. I actually don't. But I appreciate that guy. But I don't have a ring in. Thanks. No, so Tampa's had to pay everyone. And so I just don't know if Antonio Brown's going to get a real legit deal

from the Seahawks, then he might have to go because his deal with Tampa Bay I think is going to be a little bit of a prove-it type situation. If Seattle's going to say, we believe you, we trust you, we're going to give you real money, not like incentive-laden, then maybe he goes. Tampa wants him back. Brady wants him there.

That means a lot. My guess is he ends up back in Tampa. What's the market like for uh lombardi lenny rap sheet because ab said on an ig live that he also they're trying to get it done for so that he can come back to the box i don't know if that's what he said um lombardi lenny is we're gonna figure it out i think they said i don't think they said like we're going back to the box did they he said we're gonna figure out a way to get back. Okay. They're in the process of trying

to figure it out. I mean, they've been in negotiations with Leonard Fournette and his agent for like four days. I think it's, you know, I don't know if another team jumps in there and says, all right, we're going to make you an offer that's going to blow that away, and I think that's probably what they're waiting for. Again,

my guess is that gets done. Otherwise, I think Tampa has a really solid replacement because they'd probably just sign James White, Brady's buddy, who's been trying to get down to Tampa also. But anyway, I do think in the end it's probably Fournette there. I just know they haven't finalized the deal just yet. A lot of people in the YouTube comments are saying, I was punter of the decade though. So maybe maybe you remember that next time you do any little you i didn't i didn't know that

oh when you're talking with your friends oh okay you know people are saying things about you not having an episode king wasn't punter of the decade marquette king was awesome he's a friend of mine he was a friend of mine good guy great guy he's going to get back in the nfl i think actually but no probably best punter in the xfl for sure in the XFL's history. Yeah, but he'll go on to be the next decade. I think he's getting back in there. But, I mean, no big deal. What do you have, Ty?

Ian, have you heard any updates on the Deshaun situation in Houston or is all the stuff off the field kind of clouding things right now? There's a lot there, right? So I think there's the allegations. There's the lawsuits. They're all civil. No one has brought charges. There hasn't been a grand jury.

As far as I know, the police are not involved. The league is investigating. And I think teams are trying to wait and see like, what is any of this? And the short answer is no one actually knows. No one knows anything right now. Now I, I know I've spoken to a couple of teams where this has not deterred them in trying to get Deshaun Watson.

Like, I don't know if people thought they'd go, Oh, all right, I guess he's staying. But like, I haven't got that sense. Like some,

some teams who are interested in him are still very much interested in him, probably because of the character that they think of the player. Now, if something happens with this, maybe that'll change. Who's interested? There are teams I know that still very much believe in Deshaun Watts. Okay, okay, Ian, Ian, hold on. Any of the teams that you know are interested in Deshaun, do they have the potential capital to make it work to get him?

Yeah. There's probably like four or five teams with the capital and the opportunity now to get him. Okay. We're going to say some names here. We'll just watch your reaction. Are the Patriots potentially invested or interested in deshaun watson i have not heard that are the miami dolphins potentially interested in deshaun watson

uh yes i would never rule out a team like the dolphins that has such a high draft pick uh and has tua who also could be potential what an answer trade trade. So I would not rule them out. I would say that. Diggs, you were going to lean in there? Do you have a – Since the Bears' rumored offer was three firsts and a couple players, could they do the same for the Houston Texans? Huh.

They could, as a matter of fact. Oh! So Andy Dalton was assured to be a starter. Okay. He goes to Chicago one year, 11 mil. This is what I was told. Get me out of Dallas. I enjoyed it.

Got killed one time. We came back on the other side. Here I am in Chicago. Nagy pays his potential last year. This is going to be fun. And then he'll actually, funny you say that, because now you're one of the two starters we're thinking about trading out away. But they just signed Tyrod Taylor.

So what would that be? Would it be Tyrod Taylor and Andy Dalton? Oh, my God, Donnie Houston. Well, here's the problem. I haven't gotten any sense that the Texans would actually trade him. From the conversations I've had with the teams that have called the Texans, it's always been like, I'll talk about anyone but the quarterback. So maybe they do it. Maybe something changes

dramatically. I just haven't gotten any sense at all that the Texans would trade him right now or anytime soon. Yeah, Rapshie, now that we know that the salary cap is kind of just this fake number that you can just work around, is it definitely going to go up next year, or do you think it might stay the same?

I think it's probably going to go up. My guess, based on early accounting, which is math, which is where you use a calculator and try to put numbers together or divide them or subtract. We get it. Okay. Okay. We get it. Okay.

Just saying. What, you have a T9? Those of us in the business do it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. It probably goes up, my guess is, around $200 or a little higher.

But not like the dramatic jump that it would have been this year if not for COVID. But like making its way up there. And I think next year will be a little more normal, hopefully. Grinch was weird this year. Now, wasn't there something put in, agreed upon, between the NFL and the NFLPA whenever COVID started and they knew revenue was potentially going to be lost where the difference between a salary one year to the next could be greater than a certain percentage am I making that up in my head or because all these deals that are happening right now one year next year 14 million dollars that next year they're just kind of kicking things

down the road will teams be able to do that forever is that something they'll be able to do forever or is is this year just something where they've made agreements uh so they can get through the year basically uh i mean i think teams did contracts knowing that the cap would be lower this year and higher next year so the number would be bigger like for instance the raiders signed kenyan drake made his deal basically fully guaranteed and then the biggest payment comes next year when hopefully they'll have more money, it's guaranteed he's getting it but the actual payment comes next year. So I think you saw more of that you

saw, like some smart deals like deals where, like a lot of players sign two year deals, they go through this a little bit. And then when the cap jumps in 2023, then everybody gets rich. Yeah, I think this is gonna, I this is going to make people be active in the future. I think once they start seeing what the salary cap people are doing in New England, Kansas City, Tampa Bay, these teams that are able to acquire a lot of talent while structuring the contract in a fashion that's like avoidable years,

this is BS, we'll figure this out later, we'll do that whole thing, the Taysom Hill deal is maybe the picture of that entire thing last question before we let you go Ian and this is uh something that affects the city that we're in right now T.Y. Hilton okay T.Y. Hilton current free agent there was a trend on Twitter yesterday hashtag bring T.Y. home back to Indy he is loved here he has played great football here last year not his biggest numbers that he's ever had, but also he was the only guy, and Phil Rivers wasn't really going towards him early. He kind of got there late. What is the market for T.Y., and are the Colts going to bring in a weapon,

or do you see them potentially drafting? Because Jim Irsay and his presser said, we need like an explosive guy on offense, basically. How are they going to address that, you think? They are still in talks with T.Y. Hilton. I definitely not rule out him being back i think it's possible i know a couple of the teams who didn't get receivers um are interested in still talking to him the thing that's a little different from ty compared to some players is he is very smart and he is very savvy. So could he have signed on Friday and stayed in Indy?

Probably could have. I just think once you get past a certain point and the money stops, people stop just throwing around money, there's no point in rushing to anything. So I think he's going to get a nice market. There's a chance he's back in Indy, definitely. But I don't get the sense he's in a hurry at all because he still could improve his deal if he just hangs out and waits a little bit,

which I think is what he wants to do. And if I'm T.Y., to your point, very intelligent guy, he could sign a training camp somewhere and have that offense done. And also, let's say, I don't even know if there's going to be an offseason at all this year, but there's certainly not going to get Vandy for the next month. So let's say he waits until after the draft and someone thought they were going to get a receiver,

doesn't get one and says, all right, we'll give you $9 million. That would be worth it. Okay, one year and then an actual free agency next year where 11 years, $110 billion meteorite steal potentially gets in there with fans back in the stands. Ian, we appreciate you, man. Let's put out another episode of Rap Sheeting, friends, for the boys. For the boys. Find some friends.

See, we were going in a nice direction until you told me. When I find friends, I will let you guys know. When we're ready to compete head-to-head, then I will make sure to get you guys in the mix. Hey, be a friend, tell a friend. We'll tell a friend. We told a friend.

There's a lot of friends that want to get in there. Ian, I think there are a lot in this room. Please. Please. Come on. Really? Yeah. You're not just saying that?

No. We wouldn't do that. That's not our show. No. We'll figure something out. Hey, we heard there was a chance that we helped you out on a news break. Did that happen? Actually, yes.

Yeah. Yes, it actually did. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, you don't have to say it, but you're welcome. I'm not going to say it. Yeah. But I was actually going to send you a text about that. Yeah, yeah.

One of the great moments of my reporting career, as a matter of fact. Yeah, we're lucky to be a part of it, and we appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Rappaport. Yeah! Thank you very much. Woo! matter of fact yeah we're lucky to be a part of it and we appreciate you ladies and gentlemen people go through many changes as we get older isn't that right oh yeah for men one of the less fortunate changes is that testosterone production begins to naturally decrease in the body did you know this aj i am aware for most, it begins around the age of 30, and testosterone production declines by roughly 1% per year.

My God. So if you live to 130, you ain't got shit left. No. Minus 30. Well, if it starts around 30, this is one of those questions on a test where, you know, begins around 30, and the testosterone production declines by roughly one percent per year so does it start at zero or does it start at 30 that's the thing

this is where they can get you it's one of them damn word problems this is one of those ones where you're like well wait a minute uh which can i ask a follow-up anyways i was good at those tests because i always viewed it as me versus the fucking teacher. That's right. I don't know what's going on, but this is me versus you. Fuck you. That's how I view it. That's why friends at Roman have a new supplement designed to support testosterone production. I did not know this. They formulated their own supplements with transparent and scientifically backed ingredients.

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National Championship. That team's Ohio State, but what we realized quickly last week is that even their most notable alumni hate their team. Because A.J. Hawk would not say I.O., a lot of bad things have happened to Ohio State and in turn the entire Big Ten. Joining us now to clarify why he chose to do such a thing, A.J. Hawk. Yeah! A.J.! A.J.! First off, congrats to, if you see my shirt,

Centerville Elks, Division I state champs in basketball last night. Hey, let's go Elks! Let's go Elks! Boys are already in the gym today, already working out for next year, so they're looking to repeat. But first off, I think we know what happened with Ohio State. They went into a juggernaut with Oral Roberts.

They're 2-0, right? They might run the table. What if they win it all? Listen, the Oral Bobs have a chance. But once they run into Loyola, which is going to have to happen at some point, they're not going to be able to beat that perfect defense. The practice tape defense that they're running with the soft touch from the uh mid mid-atlantic no the um Missouri Valley the Missouri Valley player of

the year Krutwig by the way this stuff I don't know if Oral Bob's is gonna gonna continue their magical run but I do know that Loyola might be unstoppable, and Ohio State's nowhere to be found. Yeah, unfortunately, Ohio State took the L. What did I say before this? Whatever you do all season long, it doesn't matter. Unfortunately, when it comes to college basketball, what matters, what people will remember, is what you did in the tourney. So you need to make a run.

West Virginia, Garza just pulled up from deep. Might be too little too late. We'll see. Four minutes left, 91-74. But the West Virginia Mountaineers lost to Buddy Boeheim, who was illegally recruited to Syracuse. How come nobody talks about that, AJ? Did you know that – so Jim Boeheim is still the head coach there, right?

Yep. Saw him last night with my own eyes walking back and forth. I had my eyes on him. I seen him. Yep, he's still there. He's been there forever. Like I didn't – I honestly didn't know he was still there. Probably this kid's whole life. Do you know how many visits this kid went on?

Do you know how many visits this kid went on? Illegal visits he was doing his whole life. How about the tournament gifts that this kid has been receiving? Oh, man. Just like Final Four, whatever, National Championship. I don't know if he's ever won one. I'd assume Syracuse won National Championship at some point with Jimbo. This kid got National Championship hat, national championship shirt.

He got gifts, birthdays, Christmas probably. Yeah, for his entire life from an NCAA head coach. This kid also just so happens to have one of the best shots I think I've seen in some time. He's unbelievable to watch, AJ. It is. He's so smooth. It's not like he's the most. He's just so smooth. He utilizes. He's unbelievable to watch, AJ. It is. He's so smooth. It's not like he's the most... He's just so smooth. He utilizes... He's very good, but it's all

bullshit. He shouldn't even be there. The guy should be in the G League already. Boeheim has been the head coach since 1976, so yeah. He's been there since... Carmelo. That's what I'm saying. Carmelo won the... He's really good. He's really, really good. That Loyola team, though, AJ, you didn't get a chance to chat about them with us

I don't know if you got a chance to see them play Because I know you had a long weekend being a dad And watching the Centerville Arcs I have like third degree burns on my face From sitting outside at soccer games Hey, shout out to you, dude No, not shout out Should have put some suntan on me

Ty took a trip to the sun as well Me too, I hear you I was not prepared on Sunday He went golfing out there And just ate it a little bit. Not as bad as his shin burn that he had coming out of Bahamas where it looked like he was actually walking on the sun for a couple hours. His legs were so inferno or whatever. But that Loyola team, you're going to have to do one thing to beat them,

and you're going to have to be very good at it, and you're going to have to have enough time to practice, which you probably won't, for what they do to you. They look like a throwback basketball team from, I assume, when basketball was created and the fundamentals were created. The defense is unbelievable. Their big guy can move. They got players. They got, what, four high school coaches starting, and then they got Krutwig, who's going to be an NBA player. It is unbelievable to watch them play. Hey, what was their record during the regular season?

I have no idea, but I do know that Diggs said the one guy who's smarter than the entire selection committee had them ranked eighth going into the tourney or whatever. So I guess they have been good all year. It's not like this just happened. We didn't happen to see any of it because they're in a Missouri Valley or whatever. 22-4 or something ridiculous like that. Who beat them and how'd they beat them?

Drake beat them once with the tournament team and I don't know who their other losses were. Wisconsin and Richmond were their other two losses. The wig was resting? Yeah, he was resting. No way he was punting. Save it for March. Did you hear

Ian Rapport break some news here? He. Saving it for March. Did you hear Ian Rappaport break some news here? He was probably saving it for March. Big wig. I caught some of Ian. Yeah, what? What did he break? He broke news about who's potentially still in for Deshaun. I guess Chicago Bears still in potentially.

Miami still in potentially. Now, these are all things that he had heard. He said about five teams. We only asked him about three. We could have probably asked about more. the patriots though he said he had not heard anything about the patriots probably carolina might be in that yeah because they were allegedly in from jump there get him back home jets probably in there hey does he know like are any are any of these talks or any of these teams exploring a trade is it are they somewhat on hold to for all

these allegations just to see see what happens we asked that that was the exact question that was asked actually and i don't know if he addressed it or not i'm not sure how he answered that he said it didn't seem to be yeah the teams that were interested still interested yeah i think is how he addressed that it's getting crazy down there though i hope if it's true justice is served that. By the way, this show will stand. That's what we say. If something bad happens, we would like justice to be served. That's right. That's exactly right.

Stand by. But if nothing happened, we'd also like that to be talked about by people that are covering it right now. I've seen the phone calls live all two hours and nine minutes. Should we go to them? Yeah. AJ, you have anything you want to get off your mind here before we get to the phone calls? I did want to say congrats to Val.

I heard she's out of surgery. Thank you. Shout out to Val. My dog is out of surgery. She's currently in the recovery. They have like a recovery area there. This is the first time we, this is her third surgery.

This is the first time they said that we went to a new surgeon when it has a different tool that could get into a more tiny spot because if it goes anywhere else, we had to go to a different place. It's like a full-blown hospital almost. Yeah, more precise tool to get in there or whatever. They said she might have to stay here the night or whatever. That did not make mom happy.

I tell you that. Are you going to stay with her? Could you? I don't think so. I think it's like a back room area or whatever. COVID. They don't want you giving COVID to the other dog. Val gets high anxiety in these places.

She does not. She comes back on the other side of these things whenever we have to put her in a place for a couple nights. She is not happy. She is. She's got scars on her because she tries to get out of the thing. she is not happy she is she's got scars on her because she tries to get out of the thing like she yeah like she it's like she literally looks as she comes out like when you fucking do it again all right i'm staying here listen i'll hold my piss however long it gotta be i'm not going in there so i think old mom is potentially gonna have to go i think this might be like uh like

we might have to go get her and get her out of there you know what i mean oh yeah jailbreak jailbreak yeah definitely break her out as long. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Jailbreak. Jailbreak. Yeah. Definitely. Break her out. As long as you pay your bill, they don't care. Yeah. You're right.

It's going to be a big one, too. I'll hack into the alarm system. Let's go to Michael in Columbus. What's going on, Michael? How's it going, Pat? Shout out to Hawk and the boys. Shout out to them. Shout out to them. Shout out.

Yeah, Pat, I was wondering, if you're in college nowadays trying to walk on as a kicker, what would you put in the film that you send in to coaches? And then on the off the deck. Good music. If you were a coach, what's something that would really catch your eye? Okay, so A.J. Hawks, he said, put some good music on there. That's a good idea. You know what I mean?

Make it something catchy that the coach is like, he makes him stop on that one. Yeah, bingo. Or also, remember, just like whenever you're playing Cards Against Humanity, you've got to play towards the person that you're sending it to. Maybe find out who their favorite musician is. Put that on there. Classic rock would probably be a hit with a lot of coaches in the league right now, especially the older guys.

And every time something hits, like a guitar, boom, the ball goes flying off. Play to the audience that you were playing for and in this particular case probably a special teams coordinator or maybe a head coach that's potentially going to get involved there uh but if i was making a video i would go right i go right back to the other side of the field and just start bombing balls and then i would show a clear one run around the horn type shot one direction direction, then the other direction, then that would be it. That's all I would do.

Okay, let's say a special teams coach really actually watches some of these videos. What is he looking for to see someone separate from just a random dude? Well, the first thing you put on there is the bomb. Like, listen, all right? You're probably going to get a lot more videos. But wouldn't a coach be like,

hey man, this dude probably has a 20 mile an hour wind in his back. Well, that's why you do it both directions. That's why you do a round the horn one way and around the horn the other way. You got to go both directions. That is one easily. You could just wait for the wind to help you out the other way. And then all of a sudden that's when you cut the next video.

And well, I guess I agree. If you put let's say you edit it as well, even if you don't get a job as a kicker, maybe the coach is so impressed. He's like, whoever this video editor is, we need to hire him for this team. I don't know if he's kicking with the wind every single fucking time, but if he is, great editing. And if he's not, he's got a cannon. It could be a win-win.

But, yeah, I'd go deep ball first just to, you know, kind of get the old. And that would be like right out the open. You know what I mean? How about some CGI? Explosions? Like CGI in general. Off the foot? Maybe like a Marvel movie?

I mean, if we're coaches, right? Like this is the... If we are coaches, know who you're playing to. We would potentially want fire coming off the ball. Explosions. Maybe, hey, when it goes through Spongebob's face, slime zone!

Slime zone. Coach goes for a live visit. Where's the flames? I could get a scholarship, though. 22, Iowa can't find a bucket. Seems like the dagger is in. They're down 15. How many did Luka have?

They're dead. Luka had 27, I think. No, he's got 30 plus. 33. I was watching the first half. I thought Luka was going to score 100. Yeah, I bet on his over, so that was good news for me. Oh was watching the first half. I thought Luka was going to score 100. Yeah, I'm happy. I bet on his over, so that was good news for me.

Oh, they're hugging now. The Hawkeyes are hugging on the court. Luka, sorry we couldn't get it, pal. Jeez Louise. Oregon 95, Iowa 80. 35 seconds left. Luka's a senior. Doesn't matter.

This year doesn't count. He's gone. He's gone. He's gone to NBA? Mm-hmm. Luka's going to be an NBA guy? Top five. Probably not.

But, yeah, I mean, they already retired his jersey, and he is the all-time leading point scorer at Iowa, so his job's kind of done. Hell of a run, Luka. Thank you, Luka. Thank you, Luka. Would he have any chance of, you know, making his draft stock higher if he came back?

Probably not. He's won two Big Ten player of the years in a row. Hey, they're going to have to un-retire that jersey. Bring it down. For who? Me. That'd be awesome. I know you guys just did that whole song and dance thing. So if he goes out there and they don't draft him, let's say top ten.

I'm not saying, I assume he's going to get drafted very early. But if that doesn't happen, college kids can go back to school, right? If you don't hire an agent, right? What if Luka's coming back, like, I'm not going, I'm not fucking leaving. That'd be awesome. It would be great for Hawkeye basketball. That would be awesome.

All these guys can do that, by the way. Everybody can go back, because this year doesn't count. Like this Loyola Chicago team, if Bigwig doesn't go number one overall, which will be a surprise at this point, if he doesn't go number one overall, which will be a surprise at this point if he doesn't go number one overall, but he can come back next year. They can run it back. Brayden Norris, Chuck's kid, his dad's a high school basketball coach in Ohio.

That guy can bring it back. Come on back. They can do a lot of that. Yeah, they're going to be good for the next five years. Yeah. Because all the guys watching this tapes are like, wow, I look like Krutwig, but I'm not as good as Krutwig. I need to get to Loyola, Chicago to step my game up

another level. I want to become the next bigwig. Please. What's going on? College basketball players are able to hire an agent and everything, and if they go undrafted, they could go back to school as long as they cut all ties. What if it happens in second round, which is basically not getting drafted? It just says undrafted here, so.

Okay, I didn't know if it was like, not up to snuff. Like, if you don't get drafted up to where you would make a good living, can you? To where you were projected. Yeah. And then whose projections are they?

Are they the selection committee or the guy that you said is much smarter than everybody? That's the thing I gotta ask. I do feel the selection committee set us gamblers up a couple times with the way things were ranked and who was where. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's bullshit. I mean, Illinois, shit. You think they should have been playing Loyola in the second round? You fucking kidding me? I think Illinois deserved a little bit easier matchup. The number two overall seed in the tournament. They play one of the best goddamn teams in the field. That we've ever seen.

What do you want them to do? I saw people were upset about that. The matchup. Okay, if you're the number two overall seed, then don't you think you should win that game? What we're saying is, let them get their bearings here in the bubble, at least. They were just starting to warm up, and they ran into an NBA team playing in this thing.

Oregon hasn't played in 62 days. They seem to be doing alright. Look how fresh they are. There's excuses for everything, AJ. You think they have a lot of rust. You think being able to shoot in those big open arenas will be tough. No, they played a banker's life today. Yeah, banker's life, by the way. He set it perfectly for a jumper.

I've gotten wet in bankers before. Oh, yeah? Dunked there, too. Hey, how was it in person going to the game? It was cool. It was cool. A lot more pressure, though, to be vocal because everybody can see who's with who, you know? And when Syracuse was going on those runs early, taking a big lead, they were loud.

They were loud over there. Then as West Virginia started to do stuff, a lot of people were like, okay, we've got to get loud. We traveled all the way to Indianapolis for this. Let's do some stuff. But then Syracuse would bury us again. And then there was a run. It was cool, though. It was nice to get back in the public.

A guy immediately upon realizing that I lost probably $20,000 just wanted to an idea to me which i appreciate i appreciate that guy doing that you know it was very nice to see a lot of west virginia people but at the moment i didn't hear a thing that guy said i i've actually had to watch the video back to hear exactly what he was saying it was a little bit of a grieving period for me but i had fun i had some fun have you been to any sporting events yet i have not gone to anything yet i saw your video i i i thought you were going to thank the guy like you sound like you couldn't hear him at first you were kind of distracted you were upset so he pulled his mask down for you and got real close to your ear and really let you know yeah and i think his covid cannon it did find like uh you know like a sneaky angle potentially

into my mask like sydney crosby scoring from the oh. Felt like that. Because I had my mouth open, obviously. So that means that thing. So he was. Yodeled in. Fuck. God damn it. Did it feel like, if you were playing, was the atmosphere at least, did it feel good?

It felt like there was a little bit of energy, yeah. Syracuse's fans brought it, for real. Like it was. Now, granted, it's probably the entire Boeheim family. It's true. It's just a family reunion down there you got a legal recruiting popping off now at this point it's unbelievable but yeah they brought there was juice in there west virginia fans too brought some juice when we

were able to there was only a couple moments but yeah it felt good to you know hear that again it felt good to be a part of that again you know yeah like what was the like what are the restrictions like are the concessions open like normal do you have to wait for the bathrooms all weird? All right, so you got like a 95-year-old lady who's running the security or whatever. Every section has like three to four security gray coats on, right? There was this older lady, very old, but she was awesome. She had a sign that basically said, wear your masks or whatever. And she would just walk down the stairs with it okay then they would walk because every other row is basically missing you know because

there's space in front space and back then they would walk across the open row in front of everybody and then turn and then go up the stairs the other side and that was just like then another guy would come down then another lady would come down then they would do side. And that was just like, then another guy would come down. Then another lady would come down. Then they would do the whole thing. That was just basically what it was. So they were on you the entire time. If you weren't eating or drinking, you had to have your mask on, which I think Banker's Life viewed this entire weekend as if, I mean, I got a chance to talk to one of the guys over there

that was kind of the director of the, I think he's director of operations at the stadium or at the arena they're viewing this as like hey let's do this right so that we can fucking open back up you know like if they're asking for the mat let's do this like let's let's make sure that on the other side of this thing although texas is going to have 40 000 people and whatever indianapolis now we have thousands of people coming from every different place coming in there and i think there was a lot of onus on the people at each building, whether it's Lucas oil or banker's life,

or even the state fair, but a lot of onus. They're like, Hey, let's get this right so that we can fucking, you know, we can be a precedent for everywhere else, but they are very diligent with the masks.

Very, very diligent with the masks. Yeah. Just like Tom Cruise on the set. Remember when he went crazy on everybody, because this is what they're employing all these people and everyone's lives depend on what you do and the decisions you make. Yeah, now I'm not sure it's really that serious,

and I almost wanted to tell the one person who parked it right in front of me for what seemed like a minute and a half maybe. And, you know, the game's going on right there in front of me, so I had to do like a little one of those things where there's nobody in the arena basically. But we had a couple people with his gumpy's beard you know it's so big yeah his mask just kind of sits like it's a uh like it's a piece of toast almost in front you know what i mean and it felt like that did catch

the eye of the gray coats every single time they walked by they're like i don't care i do anything you're all you can't wear the gator couldn't wear the gator really only have certain yeah they have like a full full thing that was that uh that was at bankers though lucas oil is a different story my friend i see i had not been to lucas oil it's a bit more open huh a little bit more space wide open top they pop the top oh yeah let it eat i thought that let it eat all right let's get to a break uh actually jeremy, Jeremy, is your name Jeremy, I assume, in Chicago? Yeah, it's Jeremy. Okay, Mitt wrote in here, Jeremy.

Oh, come on. Oh, Mitt. Jeremy, Jeremy, what's going on, pal? What's up, Jeremy? Wouldn't it be great if college football had a bracket like this? Not 64, but like 16? He does sound like Mitt. Yeah, that would be the college football playoff

that a lot of people would like. The NFL has one of these. I mean, if you want to classify it and make it less, there's a lot of playoffs that are set up. I think the thing about March Madness is how it captivates all damn day. You know, like right now, 222, we got another game already popping off here

after already watching. It's like the World Cup. It's like the Olympics. You know. It kind of engulfs the entire lives of everybody because teams and things that you know nothing about are battling. We might as well watch and bet on it. That's the greatness of March Madness. I'm not sure college football would be able to do it because of how beat up guys get and everything like that, but a college football playoff is something we are all for, I think, on this particular call.

I think everybody is. Well, okay, when does Ohio U play again? Do you know? O-H. Today. Are they today? Yeah. Go Bobcats.

Yeah, I'm a Bobcat fan. My brother went there. O-H. No, I mean, come on now. We all know what happened. All of a sudden, you jumped on the Ohio State bandwagon. O-H. Come on. You jumped on to bet for them to lose, but to cover the spread.

And then all of a sudden, you're going to try to put that on me. I want to let you know. You are the reason that they fell apart late in the year. Okay, I am not the reason. Everybody has seen this has been a very public display. It's been a one-sided attack from you, and I don't even care to even come back. Because it's true. Because it's true.

Excuse me? Because it's true, by the way, and this hasn hasn't been an attack this has been me stating facts from everybody knows i observe and report pal you don't say io guess what happens ohio state goes right into the trash basket that's all you had to do say io dude now you should say i owe everybody an apology. This is my fault. That's a good one. I like that. Who put that together? Zito.

Zito put that together. That showed up in a group text and got a big pop out of me. Big Nut. Yeah, look at Big Nut. Big Nut would say I owe every single time. Every O-H gets a resounding I owe on the other side. You know why? Because Big Nut respects and appreciates tradition of the Ohio State University. And he wants him to win.

I don't think at this point he would give you what you wanted back from that. Oh, yeah, he would. He already did. Not to you. No, not to you. He wouldn't. Anybody else. I would say I.O. back to him as well if it was Big Nut.

Oh, okay. So you're selective on when you decide to care about the school you want to. Okay, I understand that. It's genuine. If it's genuine, I will read it. You did not tell me, though, that I was going to stir quite a pot when I wrote OH after Ohio University won. I got everybody in Ohio coming after me for that.

Whoa. I've been on Ohio's side this entire time, and now I got – I did the OH. I figured we'd carry this thing. It's a state thing, OHIO. It actually said Ohio on the OH. I figured we carry this thing. It's a state thing. OHIO. It actually said Ohio on the bracket. It would be more OHIO than OSU was. And all of a sudden, Twitter's like, don't disrespect the Bobcats like that.

I'm like, you're right. The other Ohio team's out already. Bobcats are already going through. Why didn't you tell me that's not an everything in Ohio thing? I mean, is that my job to inform you on all the different traditions that surround Ohio State? Listen, if you were about to talk, okay, about something popping off at Plumboro Senior High School,

I would let you know what's going to really butter the bread, pal. I would let you know what's going to potentially be a spit in the face. I didn't mean to spit in the face. If you would have reached out to me before you put that OH tweet out, then maybe I would have told you no. I FaceTimed you didn't answer. I FaceTimed you didn't answer. Did you?

Yeah. Is it funny? I got murdered by Ohio State people and Ohio University people all weekend. I was trying to be supportive over there of that great state in between the two states that I've lived the majority of my life. Actually, all the states that I've lived in, that great state that connects the three. What are you going to do? Got to drop the ball, you know?

That's what's been happening, right? Yeah. Sorry about that, Jay Glazer. Sorry for dropping it. Did you see that earlier? Oh, my God. So he popped up in that without you knowing that he was wearing it? Yeah, so there was movement in the you know like there was movement in the peripheral so i knew something was happening and then all of a sudden like when

it seemed to dial back down i looked over and it was the most absurd thing i'd ever seen in my entire life and once again we have to say this the person that was on the receiving end of this potential thing does not deserve this good guy friend of show, but I'm not sure there's a lot of impressions of this guy going on. He deserves more of it. Yeah. I mean, you said it. It's flattery. I mean, it is. It's quite a process though. It is quite a process.

I wonder if you could say a chance like the good thing that Jay Glazer, the sport coat he's wearing, Lou Holtz could also wear that. I'm trying to tell you. I knew that Oral Roberts was going to beat Ohio State if you didn't say I-O, and now you just feel like a big, dumb, dip kid. And everyone thinks you are.

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was shooting at a bigger rim than West Virginia was. Doesn't it feel like sometimes some teams are just such better shooters? Now listen, this might be the CBD, but have we talked about momentum as a whole? Have you and I ever discussed this, AJ? It makes no sense to me. Momentum makes no sense to me. Still doesn't make sense to me. Not sure it ever will, but it's a real thing.

Big Mo's a real thing. It doesn't make sense to me, though. Why does it not make sense to me still doesn't make sense to me not sure it ever will but it's a real thing big mo's a real thing it doesn't make sense to me though why why does it not make sense to you because you and i both know that previous success means absolutely nothing in the present day like it means absolutely nothing if you don't show up it's not going to work like the fact that a team can and i think march madness is filled with that like the fact that these i think every game almost teams will stink, and then they just flip a switch, and they just get hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, and the other team is just like, oh. And you even know, like, the ref's going to make,

yesterday I knew there was going to be, we were on a run. I knew the call was going to be a charge instead of a block. You just, there's like something that just happens that's, it's a very real thing. Like, I'm not saying momentum's not, but it still makes no sense to me because, like, everything that you do in sports has to be so like I have to do this right now or I'll get beat, like that type of thing. So it's just I don't know how the switch gets flipped there,

but it seems to happen in basketball and especially March Madness more than anywhere else. But it happens in every single sport. Big Mo, momentum is a real thing. It's gigantic. I don't think momentum momentum when they want to talk about momentum from like a game carrying over like say you you know when they say oh you beat this team earlier in the year you're playing them again in the playoffs whatever you're going to beat them no there's no carry over there really there may be a little familiarity in what they do

but it's going to be a different game but like in-game momentum is it's it's a thing like i don't know maybe it's a is it just a confidence thing like once you get that momentum going you feel like you're absolutely unstoppable and if you're on the other side of it even if you can tell yourself as much as you want like hey it doesn't matter man it's just energy we just need to use it to our advantage it's still sometimes it can feel like all right what what can we possibly do to stop the bleeding yeah and there was a couple times where you know i'm sure you've gotten it right like there's been times where you just knew you were gonna make like was there ever a time where in like maybe in a second half like the defense was either getting cooked and then just you kind of switch it on you're like what happens there does everybody just start communicating better and is does that come

simply because of the confidence i think that is i think it's very fascinating to me because you get into there's people that talk about like zones, you know, like people get into zones. And I don't think I fully comprehend what that is either. I think it's an area where you kind of flip in and you're like, okay, every little thing matters. I'm not going to stray away from that. But the momentum that comes and goes in college basketball is something that is fascinating to me. And the fact that teams on paper aren't supposed to be as good as other teams, Loyola didn't even blink like Illinois got a momentum didn't even blink you know Syracuse West Virginia got hot you would think that thing would just continue but then Syracuse is like no

they just buried it is very fascinating how teams get hot and how teams get very cold and in basketball college basketball more specifically it seems to happen more often than not when it happens the NFL too right like that 35 nothing Colts chiefs playoff game all of a sudden you know the second half colts turning on it's a whole new story yeah but that's you you just called back to one game there yeah of course no but also think about the kansas city chiefs i guess right last year playoffs they had they had that entire run the niners did the same thing it feels like it does happen in football, but is it as normal as – like college basketball feels like every single fucking game is just moment – like no matter what, the guy could be the best shooter,

but if his team fucked up the last three times going down without him even touching it, there's no way that ball's going in, and it makes no sense to me. Well, you've got a 90-year-old silver fox ref in Jim's pocket. Well, they also have just so many more possessions. Like in football, even like a turnover is the only way you can like quickly because, you know, like you can still – I mean if a team goes to, you know, they pick up two first downs and then you get a three and out,

that's not the same as like getting three consecutive steals in a basketball game and like immediate points on top of it. And isn't it fascinating that a turnover can like kick start a thing you hear the other team after a turnover actually say put the fire out but the fascinating thing about that is the 11 people that are going out there to build the momentum on the defense that just made a play are a very different 11 group of people that just made a play like the the people that are on the sideline they might have absolutely by the way they might they might have turned it over the last time they were out there. They're not playing great.

But all of a sudden, if a different group of people do something, it's like, oh, Madden, like, okay, we'll start playing good too. It's fascinating, AJ. It's very, very fascinating stuff. I mean, that's probably why March Madness is so – like people love to watch it and love to be so invested in it because, yeah, there's no way to really describe why or how it's happening, but you do see, I feel like

there's a lot of really good college basketball coaches out there and they seem to find a way to scheme teams up when they get in the tournament. College basketball especially, that's what's fun to watch. How they can exploit their matchups even though they don't have the athletes that the other team may have.

Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! Ball! even though they don't have the athletes that the other team may have. Ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball Let's run. Great board. Basket weaves. Thank you. I boxed out very good. Board. Outlet. Outlet. Outlet. Outlet. Let's go.

Run it. Run it. Run it. They're so good, Loyola. That's it. Doesn't Iowa run a zone, though? Not anymore. Syracuse does.

They switch to it sometimes just because they can't. They're giving up fucking 95 points. They need to figure out something. Syracuse ran a zone yesterday. Yeah, they did. 1-3-1. Put our guy. It was 2-3, I think, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was 2-3. Syracuse? Yeah. They fucking were beating the shit out of us with that thing. I thought we potentially didn't know they were going to run zone. Really? At the beginning. I was like, did we know?

Sneak attack 2-3. Did we know? How about Col 2-3. Did we know? How about Colbert didn't even play that whole game, man? One of our guys didn't even play. What happened? I don't know. It was the zone thing. I think it was fucking with it.

Gumpy, we saw it. We're just watching. We're like, that guy had to have IVs put in him. He went back in, scored 10 points, had to get IVs in him, scored another 10 points. That guy's a guy. He wasn't out there, I guess, because the zone was crushing him or what? But how did you know Syracuse plays the zone? Like they came out and they just couldn't pass through it?

They didn't shoot the ball when they had chances? Oh, a lot of shoot yelling. Shoot! Shoot! The old guys in front were losing it. Shoot the ball! And then they would grab their mask, pop it off, like the coaches, and a lot of that. A lot of that yesterday.

Come on. Run. And then the sign lady, please wear your mask, walks by. God, I hope so. Come on. It was a good time. Let's go to Zach in Pennsylvania. What's going on, Zach?

Hey, Pat. How's it going? It's a beautiful day in Pennsylvania. Hey, man. All right. Shout out to AJ over there. Yep. Shout out to you. Shout out to Gump, you know, Boston, Connor, Ty, Zito, Foxy.

And Mitt on the phone for getting me on here, you know. Billy's dad. Shout out Billy's dad. What about Nick, dude? Well, I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason.

I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason.

I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here for a reason. I'm here on the phone for getting me on here, you know. Billy's dad. Child Bill's dad. What about Nick, dude? Well, I'm here for Josh. He the hawks. Jeez. Jay. That's a little tough, isn't it? Hold on, Jay.

Jay just got back? Yeah. Welcome back, Jay. Welcome back, Jay. Great to have you back, Jay. We missed you, Jay. It's unbelievable. All right, Zach.

This is a good call. Thank you, Jay. It's unbelievable. All right, Zach. This is a good call. Thank you, Zach. Thank you. Thank you, Zach. This is a good call, Zach. Thank you, Zach. Shout out. They're going to clip that one and send it to all the serious hosts

to show them how to handle callers. Hey, this is a good show. What do you think his question was? I saw the subject line that Mitt puts in there underneath their name, you know? I'm sure it was very descriptive. It's a juju in Pennsylvania. No, he does, every once in a while he'll go, but then the people sit there for a while, so they change their mind completely.

Yeah. You know, it's an interesting thing. Chad from prison down there in New Orleans is calling back in. What's going on, Chad? What's happening, Chad? We're back. Yeah, Chad. Yeah, Chad.

Chad, for those of you. It was an energy. All right. First time I get to talk to you, Jeremy. I like you. You serious, but you got that slick sense of humor. I like it. Yeah, slick.

Good to go. Where are you right now, Chad? I'm in my house, homeboy. I'm free as a bird. That a boy. Keep that going, Chad. Keep that going, Bob. Keep that going.

We can just talk if you want, but that dude who said he was an alcoholic, like a football player, that's pretty cool, bro. Because I've been myself. I got busted at 14 and went to prison at 14 and just got out at 19. But I've been sober for seven years, so that's a pretty good thing that that dude said that, man, for real. Before I get into my bullshit with you, I just

wanted to say that. Hey, congratulations on seven years. Let's keep that going, Chad. And shout out to Jordan Poyer, by the way. Jordan Poyer came on the show, did a great job for us, had a great conversation, great football player for the Buffalo Bills. He came out and chatted about his struggles and how he's sober. So shout out to Jordan Poyer.

Shout out to you, Chad. What do you want to talk about? That's good when they do that, you know what I mean? Because, like, I do that shit with kids, but I don't have, like, the statue or the money and all that, but I just tell them the real shit. Some kids listen, but some kids are dumb as fuck. They don't listen. That's right.

Hey, Chad, you know there used to be a show called Scared Straight. Do you remember that show? Fucking right. Yeah, I've seen that shit. Yeah, so I felt like that had a pretty good out. Did that have good results, and is that what you think? Do you do that on a regular basis you know what to be honest Pat

if we're really talking talking to be honest Pat some kids they do it but their circumstances is so fucked up that they get controlled by like gangs and stuff it depends on where they live like in the projects in the wallows and shit I know like it's just the way of life

man their mama did it their daddy did did it, so they do it. And it's like little kids, they watch that shit, and they just don't have a chance. You know what I mean? They just don't have a chance. And, you know, when you get older, yeah, I mean, you can think, but if you're not taught that shit when you're young, bro, you're not going to have a chance to do anything. You know what I mean?

It's just the way it goes. Chad, hold on. Hey, that's a very real thing there, Chad. I had no idea a conversation would be here. I'm real, Pat. No, no. I'm real as fuck. No, yeah, Chad, I'm realizing that, and that's awesome.

I think that's why it's a good message, though, because I think we're all learning about that, how a lack of opportunity normally leads to a potential life of something that isn't idyllic for a lot of different people. Chad, I appreciate whenever you call in, man. Hold up, up bro don't hang up on me no no chad you're good yeah you're good bob all right good um gonzaga's got first of all i want to say like like now i'm gonna get into my stick with you you heard me yep gotcha yeah just bullshit like first of all them dudes who say like they had a special group and they're your biggest fans on the seat.

When I went in, Twitter wasn't bad. I don't know how to do nothing like technology. I'm trying, but I tried to win some of your shit. I tried to win some of your shit, and I sent a tweet to my fucking self. It's true, bro. I was like, how am I going to win a fucking chance of money to pay for my wedding when I'm sending shit to myself? I'm like, fuck this, bro. I was like, how am I going to fucking share some money to pay for my wedding when I'm sending shit to Muscle? I'm like, fuck this, man. Chad, we'll help you figure it out down there.

Hey, Twitter, I think, has become a place that they'll help you through it. And if not, there's a guy, Zito, would definitely walk you right through that. Oh, yeah. Right through that. I got to fuck with Zito. I messaged Mitt, but he's just... No, Chad. Keep messaging. We'll get back to you. Keep's just... Oh, Chad. Keep messaging.

We'll get back to you. Keep messaging. All right, Chad, we appreciate you, man. Chad's a good dude. Chad's a real... Now, listen, we have no idea if any of these humans are real on the other side. Okay? We have to very much understand that, you know, long before internet catfishing, there

was catfishing phones on a very regular basis, you know? That was a world issue long before Nev came through, and people thought they were potentially about to marry Katy Perry and stuff because of fake. On the phones, we have no idea. You know what I mean? But Chad is an incredible story. Guy snuck a phone into jail to listen to our show. Big shout-out to Chad.

Shout-out to Chad. Thank you, Chad. Now, Chad said he just got caught up, and we have not done any background checks, but what he has told us, basically, it sounds like revolves around maybe alcohol or drugs or whatever. Happy's on the other side of that thing. Great to chat with him.

I enjoy that type of stuff. I feel like I just learned some shit. And what he said is so real, too. Circumstances where kids come from is way more than one lesson they might get from a show hey these documentaries man yeah all these documentaries are very fascinating about the world that we live in aj uh shout out to chad though let's go to john in jersey what's going on john hey pat uh first time calling into a radio show so you're probably gonna have to excuse me

uh don't suck hold on john john hold on john we don't need you to set that tone there. I think you're going to do fantastic. I mean, you thought, you know what, I'm going to call in. I have a thought. I have a take. You're going to deliver this in incredible fashion. The fact that you're like, hey, listen, this might stink. I don't love it, but I'm excited to hear what you have to say. Thank you for setting the table at that point,

but I think you're going to exceed it, John. Let's go. Let's go, John. Hey! Let's go, John. Hey, let's go. All right. So it was basically about the Jets quarterback situation. Let's go Alright So it was basically about the Jets

Quarterback situation I was wondering if in your mind Do you think the Jets would be better Letting Donald Have one last go at it Before they move on Or do you think Drafting a quarterback or potentially

Trading for Watson would be better for them? Atta boy, John. Atta boy, John. You know, like, I don't know how long you thought that through and what you were going to say, but I think you laid it out pretty good. I think you did pretty good. Your question was, do we think the Jets should stick with Darnold or move on? I think that is something that is really the only conversation

about the Jets right now, though, John, don't you think? Yeah, pretty much. Aside from, hey, Bob Sala. Coming on in there, huh? Gotta love Bob. You do love Bob, yeah? Big fan? Yeah. Alright, John, not a bad call. Okay. John didn't have a follow-up.

You know what I mean? John was excited to get the question out there, but let's get to the answer. Bouncing back and forth, not great, but we we'll meet john one day it'll be a fantastic convo the jets i think i have no idea what they're going to do you could see both of those options literally being very feasible at this point now if deshaun watson is still being looked at i would assume people are still looking at sam darnold as well at this moment even though houston said they've not answered any phone calls and whatever's happening down there if something that is being alleged is true we hope justice is served if not we hope you get you get to move on but they said they weren't answering phone calls people were

still calling I would assume whenever the Jets came out and said we are answering phone calls people called about Darnold it's what can you get in return what are people expecting you have a high draft pick there's there's a lot of business that's about to get done and right now i think one of them is the smoke and mirrors of who's interested in what age right well the jets are they're picking number two right yeah so if they don't want to pick a quarterback if they want to give darnold a year they can they're going to trade out of that pick because we know someone's going to want to take a qb at two what are you going to get maybe a tackle in there who you're going to pick up if you want in the draft okay before we get to that i just thought of something if they were number one they're definitely drafting trevor lawrence

and trading right oh yeah that's crazy that one game they won or whatever they did their thing they legitimately now left their entire organization in like uh what the fuck do we do moment that's wild jacksonville mayor had a celebration when they beat the rams oh my god that's crazy oh man that's why all the fans that were pumped for the team that won, our team won, and then all the other Jets fans were like, you fucking idiots. We lost more, and then they were like,

oh, you're rude, you should be happy for the players and blah, blah, blah. As a former player, I think I kind of understood whenever fans were potentially upset that something might have been happening or not. Now, granted, that doesn't make me upset. I love the shit out of when we won on the year we potentially almost went completely defeated to get andrew luck that next year i was so happy but there were some fans that were not exactly thrilled and now that i'm older and i do a show i'm like makes sense but

the jets potentially have trevor lawrence sitting there they're going to change the entire shop sam darnold cut sam darnold now it's okay who do we like how do we like them i think they're going to change the entire shop sam darnold cut sam darnold now it's okay who do we like how do we like them i think they're potentially the ones behind the upsell publicly of these quarterbacks who justin fields now is allegedly back to being the guy remember all year he wasn't then as soon as this season or he was the guy number two or whatever clear cut number two and after his best game in his last game uh it came out that no no these other quarterbacks are way above him now he's potentially coming back up it's all bullshit right now aj i mean yeah you can't believe anything that's going on but i think if we

could predict like it was tough to predict what happened in free agency with the patriots doing what they did and all of the void years and everything we had happen i would assume that the time leading up to the draft and the actual draft, there's going to be a lot of moves that we didn't see coming. And who knows what these teams may do. Hey, we're going to have a big draft. We're going to have a big draft. Big. We're starting to plan it now, you know, because we're a big plan ahead team.

Oh, yeah. Always. Well, we hired a new person to the team. Drawn to the game is now a part of the squad. Graphic designer, great artist. But to get anything done, yeah, shout out Gertie. Shout out Gertie! Lucky to have Gertie.

But anything artist-wise and things like that, you have to, to give a real artist a shot, you've got to give them some time. Like, hey, can we do a little planning ahead? And I'm like, listen, not normally our thing, but I think if we can get some dope shit out of drawn to the game, which I think we're going to, we're going to do it. Now we're thinking head to the draft.

We've got to do that big, AJ. We've got to do the draft big. Last year, the draft was our big hello to a lot of people that watch us on YouTube, and it was a good time. Obviously, Aaron stopping by was great. The Packers trading up to get Jordan Love for one of the most magical moments of all time from Ty and Mad Mel Kuyper.

We got to have that moment again, AJ, at least one or two more years, don't you think? I mean, I think we, and especially as we move forward from post-COVID someday, like for these big events, these big things that happens in sports, I think we need to be there and we need to be doing like big shows.

Yeah, they're going to have people in Cleveland, by the way, for the draft. That is the plan is a live, large, in-person draft in Cleveland. They put out some sketches. It's next to the stadium. They got this big pavilion, it looks like, on the lake. It's going to be windy. It's going to be, there will be a lake effect, but allegedly up there near the lake on the other side of the stadium, they're going to have an entire setup.

The NFL draft will officially take place in Cleveland. The draft will be returning to its pre-pandemic form. The NFL says, excuse me, Fotch. All right. Excuse me, Fotch. We got something to say. We're going back to our pre-pandemic form with fans in attendance, prospects invited to attend, and Roger Goodell announcing picks in person, mask wearing, social distancing,

and capacity limits will be enforced via at my sports update. I think it's going to be a lot like the stadium or the arena I was at yesterday. Only certain places you can stand kind of be blocked off. But the draft says Roger Goodell wants to perform in front of a couple hundred thousand people the NFL is making dreams come true we're gonna get that thing in front of about a hundred two hundred thousand people and you don't think we're gonna have boats on this lake on the other side you are wrong I'm excited to see what type of show they put on AJ you really think they're gonna they say they're gonna have a hundred thousand people no no that was me just because they okay the last time they said 500,000

or whatever they said was down in Nashville. They were like, we have 770,000. It's like, what? How many people? When we did the game in London, I spoke or whatever with a couple of my teammates. Very thankful to speak over there, by the way. That was very cool of the Colts to let me do that. Conte, by the way.

Shout out Conte for letting me do that or whatever. And then we get back on the bus to go back to the hotel or whatever and they tell us the amount of people that we just spoke in front of i was like that seems a little little we just spoke in front of what a billion people wow that's basically what it was like the number was like 600 000 or whatever they just counted everybody that was on the street in London, I think. Well, yeah, Jake Leisure reported that to me. I'm pretty sure. So it has to be accurate.

Those numbers are big, though. Roger, like in the live performance world, you know, we've looked this up before. Paul McCartney, I think, has a really high one. Bono? No. Bono. Bono. Bono.

Yep, you got it. Bono? No. Bono. Bono. Bono. Yep, you got it. Bono did well, but Bono, I think, you know, he had a deal with Apple where his shit went into everybody's phone. He's doing pretty good as well. There's like, Roger Goodell. That went over well, too. People loved that. That was the worst.

It still comes on to this day on my Bluetooth whenever I get into my car. I still get something like, what is this? I'm like, ah, remember. Yep. They got in. They got in. Could delete it all, but never think of it in enough time. Roger Goodell has performed in front of so

many people. Met physical stunts. He's done the jumping shoulder walk. Physical stunts. Jokes. Monologues. There's jokes? Get out of here, dude. Yeah, there's jokes.

He's performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people. He deserves a little bit of credit in that entire thing. That's my commissioner. Can't thank you enough for choosing to listen to the show. The fact that you choose

and allow us to penetrate your ear holes, I am forever grateful for. You guys are the best. The best. I think we're doing a big giveaway at some point this week. We got a big show coming tomorrow. Be a friend.

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