The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 599 - LIVE From Radio Row In LA, Emmitt Smith, Saquon Barkley, Ian Rapoport, Taylor Heinicke, Jerry Jeudy, Pierre Garcon, Gabe Morency, & AJ Hawk
Episode Date: February 11, 2022On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys are joined by several incredible guests LIVE from Radio Row in Los Angeles including Emmitt Smith, Saquon Barkley, Ian Rapoport, Taylor Heinicke, Jerry Jeud...y, Pierre Garcon, and Sportsrage, Gabe Morency as they make their picks for the Super Bowl and look ahead to the game on Sunday. 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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Hello beautiful people. It is feel-good Friday, February 11th, 2022. Just days away from the
Super Bowl at Radio Row. We are here. Can't thank you enough for watching here at youtube.com
forward slash the Pat McAfee show. We are live on the FanDuel Sportsbook stage at Radio Row in Los Angeles. The anticipation is continuing to build because Super Bowl 56 is just days away.
This spread is currently sitting at four.
We will make our official picks today.
We will go through all the awards from last night.
We will have special guests.
And today's Feel Good Friday should be nothing short of electrifying. Speaking of electrifying,
big shout out to everybody
in California that made their way
to the radio row last night for
our spectacular special
surprise after hour session
in which Wiz Khalifa performed
three songs right here.
Bets were made, picks were made, and
fun was had. We appreciate you all so
much. Shout out to Wiz Khalifa.
Shout out, Wiz.
Thank you, Wiz.
I got a chance to remix, you know, a couple of Wiz Khalifa songs.
Yeah, that was sweet.
What?
A couple of features back there.
What?
Are we going to win a Grammy?
What?
What about an Emmy?
What?
Oscar?
What?
Tony?
What?
Egod?
What?
Is that my future?
I don't know.
You tell me.
It was amazing.
That one was mostly for us, but we hope everybody else enjoyed the hell out of it.
And congrats to all the boys in the back.
Zito, Foxy, Nick, DJ Bonix, and everybody else they had that made that thing sound absolutely crisp.
Absolutely.
Fuck yeah.
Well done, boys.
Fuck yeah.
If you have not gotten a chance to watch it, go to our YouTube.
We have that thing clipped.
He put on an actual concert here, and there was actual fans here. And what we learned
about the fan situation is they were originally
supposed to be here all week. Then it was
changed from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.
on Thursday, Friday.
This would be very self-indulging
and egotistical of me to say this.
I honestly believe there's a chance that they got rid
of the time for when the fans could come because
of how much we were promoting our fans to
come. And then once they saw what happened last night when we promoted our fans to come in an open time for fans,
when they didn't think many shows were going to be scheduled and said, boom, we are scheduling a surprise show.
They were trying to get them out of here, obviously.
Everybody's very safe.
But we had this place going.
Oh, yeah.
They shut down the fan experience a couple hours early to try to get everybody out of here.
Our people are the best.
You all are amazing.
Thank you.
Thank you, people.
Thank you all so, so much.
The boys are here.
Ad official, A.J. Hawk rocking his fake Tim sitting there.
Hey, well, a lot of people are wondering why wouldn't you just put your fucking hands up, guys?
I did.
I did.
There's video proof that I actually had my hands up.
I was trying to get Ty to get his hands up the whole time.
Just beat the hell out of him, my friend.
Because he's bringing no juice. That's just
not true. Well, yeah, so you just grab your thing
in the first sentence. Don't even start with that. Well, I'm just telling you, Nick
and AJ. This thing doesn't reach my
face and head are too big for this thing to get
all the way to my mouth. Well, you sound fantastic.
Thank you. And it was never a wonder. See, there's
your hands up for a second. Look at me doing it. Look at that.
Big Ben. Yeah, but I think you're doing like Wolfpack
too soon. Yeah, exactly.
Look at that. Yeah, you were trying to.
Is the thumb out?
What is that?
You can't touch the thumb, actually.
I'm looking at my right hand because I wasn't exactly sure what the thing even is, what you guys do with Big Ben.
But I was trying.
You don't know.
That's bullshit.
It's an honest mistake, but I was trying hard.
Well, anyways, you appear to be very uncomfortable.
A lot of people said that.
I want to let you know you crushed it.
Thank you.
Tone Diggs, Pittsburgh guy.
Wiz Khalifa's here. We started
in a basement, now we're here. How you doing? Keep it moving.
That was awesome. I got a lot,
probably more texts than I've ever got after
that show from people from Pittsburgh saying
that was the coolest fucking thing of all time. Yeah, I mean,
Pittsburgh is just one city, obviously, in this massive
country of ours, so I
do apologize. World, I guess.
But a lot of people, that was a home run in Pittsburgh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, some things, the internet seemed to enjoy it as well.. But a lot of people, that was a home run in Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, some things, the internet seemed to enjoy it as well.
There was a lot of like, this is absurd.
Now, as the media people will break down what happened there,
and they're, I felt bad for the other show.
I mean, there was a couple moments during the whole thing last night where I was like, man, there was only like 10 shows happening at the time,
but they had to hear numerous A.J. Hawks chants.
Oh, yeah.
They had to hear numerous fuck yeah
chants in the background, like all that
thing. So I did feel bad and we're going
through it all, but I mean, all in all,
I feel like we turned this motherfucker
up last night. Absolutely. I really did.
And a lot of people said that, but the way the media
is going to potentially talk about it is, we had
a rapper on here. Yep.
We talked about his weed that he's
selling. Yes. Then he did a song his weed that he's selling. Yes.
Then he did a song in which everybody was screaming, fuck yeah.
Right.
Being young, wild, and free.
They're drunk.
We're high.
So what?
Yeah.
And we are a radio row.
So we will have to remember that there's probably going to be a little bit of fallout for this entire thing.
At Ty Schmidt, your thoughts on all of this?
Well, see, I think the people that were in the bullpen, I bet that broke up the monotony
of the day.
Like, you know, you're coming in and doing that late night show.
It's like, oh, fuck it.
No one's in here.
Gabe Morenci's here.
Yeah, well, Morenci's here, and usually he's, you know,
yelling and bellowing out throughout the convention center.
But you come in here, and it's like, holy shit,
Wiz Khalifa's on the fucking stage over there giving a concert.
Like, I think they're – who knows about whoever's above those people,
but I think everyone in here last night is fucking jacked up.
Well, I'm assuming that that's not accurate,
and there's going to be people that are going to be pissed off,
but I'm excited about what we did here, and we've accomplished a lot this week.
And Boston Connors, speaking of accomplishments, brand-new jacket.
Brand-new jacket.
Got home, went right to the store.
Actually, you know, take that shit off the mannequin right now.
I want that one now.
I was going to get the same one, couldn't do it,
because that one-on-one is for Adrian Peterson.
For those that weren't here yesterday, yes, Adrian Peterson ended up with Boston Connors jacket
after Boston Connors was only able to wear it for like 35 minutes.
Bought the thing, loved the thing, had it for 35 minutes in here.
And Adrian Peterson said, that's nice.
And then Adrian Peterson was like, I'm going to have that.
Exactly.
And you gifted it to him, and then he gifted it to an assistant just moments later.
But the fact that you got back in the fight and got your own jacket,
that's kind of been this entire week, true underdog stories.
Yeah, you had to do it.
Speaking of true underdog stories, the Twitter, you know,
whatever they break it down for Coach Sirianni last night was hilarious.
One of the best things of all time.
We had like four things trending like in the top ten or top five at one point.
It was getting bananas.
Twitter had to figure out why Coach Sirianni in L.A. was trending.
They said, fans are loving Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni's comments
during Thursday's episode of YouTube series, The Pat McAfee Show.
I'm sure they did love Coach Sirianni's comments,
but I don't know if Coach Sirianni necessarily loved those comments.
Imagine him getting on the internet going, oh, what the fuck?
They've gone too far.
Now Twitter thinks it's actually him.
That's a great impression, Ty.
Thank you.
That's a really good impression.
Like you said, I'm sure he's not incredibly pleased seeing that.
And I don't know if people were actually loving the comments.
I mean, I didn't really look into it, but that was wild.
Yeah.
I mean, we knew exactly what we were doing
for that show, too. Yeah, of course.
As we went live. For weeks. As we knew
at 4 o'clock when we went live, we knew exactly
the giveaways we were doing, the hashtags we were
going to use, the amount of money that was going to be
given away, and that's really what makes this show
so... Yes.
What are you giggling about? You think it's an
algorithm or a human that does that?
Humans take that up.
Yeah, for all the trending topics because you can kind of see how they feel sometimes in their descriptions and stuff.
So that person, Ty really fooled that person then?
Yeah, well, that person read a bunch of people's tweets and then went and watched a clip and then just naturally assumed.
That's the ultimate compliment.
Oh, there's Jake Olson.
Oh, yeah.
Long snapper.
USC. Howdy, baby Jake. Howdy, baby Jake. Howdy, Jake. Howdy,'s Jake Olson. Oh, yeah. Long snapper. USC.
That a baby Jake.
That a baby Jake.
That a baby Jake.
That a baby Jake.
We're going to get Lou Holtz trending probably after today or tomorrow.
Nope.
Nope.
Let's go to some news.
Let's go to some news.
Last night was the NFL Honors right here in beautiful Los Angeles.
Now, beautiful is an interesting thing because the weather, the people, and the atmosphere
might be, but the city itself seems to be a little bit beat down.
Seems to be a little bit of poop, but they'll come back, obviously.
There's enough time in the day to fix this entire
situation. Hopefully somebody will end up
doing it. It doesn't appear as if a lot of people do a lot of work,
but I think it'll get figured
out of here, but in the beautiful city of Los Angeles.
Oh yeah, of course. Gorgeous.
NFL Honors happened last night.
And NFL Honors is an award show for the NFL
in which people who really matter
vote on things to make awards that will ultimately add a baby Ron.
Hey, we are commanders.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
You guys can have it.
You guys can have it.
You guys can have it.
Have a good one, coach.
Love you, coach.
Go, commanders.
Go, commies. I said it quietly. You couldn't hear me. Nope. can have it. A gift to you. Have a good one, coach. Love you, coach. Go, Commanders. Go, Commies.
I said it quietly.
He couldn't hear me.
Nope.
That's a little cowardly of me.
He's heard it.
He knows that.
He can't be screaming that across radio all week.
Well, he could.
Anyways, people were giving out awards last night for the NFL,
and these awards go on to kind of paint the legacy of a human,
paint the legacy of a player.
When did they play?
How did they play?
The rookie stuff, did they come in?
They were great.
Were they nationally respected?
How many MVPs?
Offensive Player of the Year, Walter Payton Man of the Year,
all these awards that are given by people that are in the media world
will inevitably be what they are judged upon by the media world later.
So you start kind of diving into that.
There's obviously some conflicting and hypocrisy in all awards,
but the fact that this happens every single year,
we must treat it as if it is something vastly important
because it'll be treated as if it's something that is vastly important.
So I hate to give that entire speech about awards being bullshit
because awards aren't bullshit whenever they inevitably decide
what somebody's future is and their legacy and legend and everything like that right aj absolutely
i think you hit it exactly right because 20 years from now we're gonna who got the mbp in 2022 oh
back-to-back champ aaron rogers see but now we live in a world where i would hope and who knows
what's gonna be like in 20 years we're probably playing ready player one we're on treadmills and
stuff in our house in the metaverse but i don't think there's ever a follow-up until modern
day that says, well, who's picking those
awards? Like, whose idea or
whose brain is it that those people are those?
That'll happen. I think that'll continue.
You know who's saying that now, though? Those people that don't win the awards.
Yeah, that's when I started hating awards.
You know, whenever I started losing a lot of awards.
And I was like, well, I don't care. I don't care what
that guy thinks, actually. Somebody go ask my
teammates. Somebody ask my coach what they think.
And then that's a callous of a loser that I've had in award situations.
But these awards do matter because they will be used to paint the history of these players.
So let's go through them.
Assistant Coach of the Year.
He took a defense from 32 to 18.
He became a Florida version of himself in Texas.
Oh, yeah.
After a stint in Atlanta in which he found a lot of misery
at the end of that thing, he has fully revitalized his career.
Congrats to Dan Quinn.
Danny.
Then, obviously, the coach of the year,
a man who's Ohio through and through.
A guy who will fist fight every one of his players,
and then he will spit Copenhagen out of his mouth and smoke a cig at the same damn time.
A man who's debunked the theory of what a coach has to be or should be.
A guy who does things his way and got his team to the number one seed in their conference
with 100 different players playing for their team weekly.
Congrats to Ohio State legend and icon, Super Bowl champion,
linebacker, tight end, head coach, Mike Frabel.
That's right, baby coach.
Good boy.
That's right, baby coach.
He looks good.
All cleaned up.
Look at him on the sideline.
Look at him in his suit.
Did he give a speech?
I don't think we got a chance to watch the beginning part of this.
Did Fraves speak and what did he say?
Was he there?
I think he was.
I didn't see it.
I saw a picture on the internet that I believe he was there.
Fraves would love that, right?
Do you think he cares about the award?
Excuse me.
That's what I want to ask you.
Fraves would love everything about last night, right?
He would give a great speech if he did.
I'm sorry if I missed it, but, man, I don't know.
Do you think he's worried about it?
You think he's like, oh, yes, he's calling his wife.
Hey, Jen girl, I did it.
I did it.
I made it.
Okay, so that's his wife?
Yeah.
Okay, Jen girl, he did it.
Okay, so like the-
I don't know if he calls her Jen girl, but yeah, her name's Jen.
That's very Ohio thing to do.
Hey, Jen girl.
Jen girl, right?
I need 20.
Give me 20 packs.
Smokes, reds today.
Let's have a good time.
I want to coach a year.
It felt like you were almost ready to judge Vrabes if he did take it too serious.
No, no, no.
I'm not.
Yeah, it sounded like you were.
That's not a Vrabes thing to really care about this.
Did he actually care about this?
Think about Vrabes.
If you know Vrabes, he has three Super Bowl rings as a player.
Yeah.
None as a coach.
He told Taylor LeJuan and the boy, Will Compton, that he would cut his meat off for a ring as a coach. He told Taylor LeJuan and the boy Will Compton that he would
cut his meat off for a ring
as a coach. So do you think him
getting coached there and getting knocked out of the playoffs as the number
one seed, I'm just guessing he's not super happy.
But yes, I'm sure he is proud of the work he has
done to get that award. It's a nice piece of metal!
It's great! Trophies!
I think he deserves it, too. I think it's awesome.
It's better than going out there and losing it.
Absolutely. 100%.
Well, to be clear, it's a big honor.
It is.
Huge honor.
It's a very big honor.
It'll be used probably in his next negotiation.
He just signed a deal right before that, actually.
You see that?
He and the GM got an extension.
Yeah, they did.
Oh, did they?
Congrats.
He got paid and awarded.
Four or five days ago.
Four or five days ago.
Oh, so they knew he was potentially going to win Coach of the year, which automatically ups the price a bit.
So they're like, let's get this thing knocked out right now
because we're actually deciding who wins coach of the year,
and that ups your value.
Let's go ahead and have this thing locked in for four years.
Congrats to Vrabes.
The Waltz Payton Man of the Year, Andrew Whitworth.
What a speech.
Hey, a lot of tears and eyes over there.
A lot of tears and eyes over there.
Good speech about working at the Boys and Girls Club in the city.
Hey, big wit.
I made it and all that.
The community is the most important part of, you know,
a large part of what happens off the field for individual NFL teams.
Every Tuesday, Andrew Whitworth was talking about it.
Anybody that's been in the NFL knows.
Tuesdays used to be the day off.
Now with modern sports science, some people have Monday off,
then Tuesdays a walkthrough.
Whatever the case, it used to be Tuesdays are the day off Tuesdays is always
community Tuesdays though if you're around
if you're young you're out and about rocking
cold skier getting introduced to new
different foundations or philanthropy
efforts that you could potentially help out
I remember I was at hospitals I was
at militaries we're building houses
Peyton Rhodes Big Brothers because I mean there
is just been a lot of those things and the fact
that one of those encounters
led to potentially
a guy making it to the NFL
and having hope
and then the speech
really hit a home run
I mean
congrats to Whitworth
and also
him inviting Jay Glazer
to Cabo
after Jay Glazer
broke up with Rosie Tennyson
had his heart broken
is the reason why
McVay stayed around
Matthew Stafford
got there the next day
so Andrew Whitworth
created the Super Bowl
and an incredible moment
that will be remembered forever.
Yep.
Thank you, Whit.
Big year.
Big year for Whit.
Huge.
His first lineman to play a game over 40.
I think that's what AJ's alluding to, right?
Is that what you're talking about?
No, everything.
How Jay told us how this Super Bowl came to be
started with Whit, right?
Can you rewind?
Because I tried to explain it,
but I don't think people understand
if they didn't hear that conversation yesterday.
Jay Glazer stopped by the set yesterday to push his book Unbreakable.
Unbreakable.
We did a little grapple.
What's that called, AJ?
I don't know.
It wasn't really hand fighting.
I don't know what they call that.
Well, that's because you're not a mixed martial artist.
You're right.
You're correct.
What did he basically say happened?
Because I tried to explain it quickly.
So, the Tennyson sisters.
Rosie.
Rosie. More specifically.yson sisters. Rosie. Rosie.
More specific.
More specifically.
Right?
Rosie Tennyson, I believe.
Right?
What's that?
Goop.
Quiet.
So they sat there.
I'm joking.
Keep going, Goop.
But the thing is, Rosie broke up with him.
So he was feeling low.
Sean McVay is in Cabo.
Witt's in Cabo.
Stafford's in Cabo.
Some of them invite Jay down.
Jay brings everybody together.
Drew Brees did a cannonball, and now we're at the Super Bowl.
Okay, well, I'm thankful for Whitworth winning that and being a good person.
Comeback Player of the Year, Joey Burrow.
Yeah, baby.
Didn't even take his award.
Nah.
Just leave that shit here.
Defensive Rookie of the Year, Micah Parsons here Defensive Rookie of the Year Micah Parsons
What?
Offensive Rookie of the Year
Jamar Chase
What?
Defensive Player of the Year
TJ Watt
What?
Offensive Player of the Year
Cooper Cupp
What?
And back-to-back MVPs
Aaron Rodgers
Being graced on this day
How are you, bro?
Good, brother
Great to see you, man
Thank you for coming
A man who has, you know Won the the MVP before, been a Super Bowl MVP,
all-time leading rusher, all-time leading rusher, touchdowns,
and he has a tequila right now called –
This is all-time as well.
What are you talking about?
This is all-time as well.
This is Herradura Ocho Añejo, baby.
Oh, what is it?
Whoa.
Cristalino.
Cristalino.
Well, Herradura.
Herradura.
Yeah, don't worry about it.
Just drinking.
Just drinking.
I like it.
We have some of that at the house.
Yeah, I believe we actually do because it tastes so fantastic.
We is in my family at my house, and we're sharing an Airbnb.
Oh, okay.
Y'all at that house.
Yes.
That house.
Hey, pretty good house, by the way, man.
Yeah?
I mean, I think you would appreciate what's going on.
Man, I need a cup.
I know.
We need a cup. We know, we need a cup.
We're going to raise like five cups or something.
We can do some tequila.
Yeah, they're getting cups right now.
It's going to be a coffee cup. So what's going on? Is that your tequila?
You know, it's not my tequila,
but it's Brown Form
and they produces it.
I represent this brand,
Hedadora itself. I wish it was
my tequila. I've been trying to work it
until I can make it become my tequila.
I'm the only one that's pushing this kind of thing.
But yeah, man.
Been working with these guys for about 12 years now
and it's been a great partnership so far.
Okay, so let's talk about Super Bowl week.
Obviously, you're three-time,
three-time, three-time Super Bowl champion.
And that was back, you know,
when the Cowboys, you know... Yeah, know, when the Cowboys, you know.
Yeah.
That's when the Cowboys was Cavaliers.
Oh!
Let's get into it, though, because off the backs of the teams
that you played upon and others down there in Dallas
is why the America's team even happened.
Obviously, Jerry Jones' big brain in marketing feeds into that.
But you're talking primetime games every single week still to this day
because of all the success you guys had.
Is it heartbreaking to watch it kind of have 12 wins is a lot of wins?
Yeah.
This is much better than years past.
Yeah.
But is it heartbreaking to kind of see another year go by here without?
Yes.
Yes and yes and yes because I think the expectation was so much greater for this team because
the way this team started the season off against Tampa Bay, everybody was so excited.
And then they went on a run from that point on,
and then all of a sudden Dak get hurt.
And when he comes back, things are different.
I hate bye weeks because once you're in a rhythm and you're in a groove,
you want to maintain that sometimes.
And sometimes a bye week may throw you off a little bit.
But this team here, it also shows signs of brilliance,
but it shows who they really were by the inconsistency
that they exuded throughout the whole entire season.
What is that from, top down?
What is it?
You think it's a locker room thing?
To me, it's a combination of both.
It's a combination from top down because you saw some of the inconsistency
also in the coaching staff.
And the play selections and everything else.
The decisions, the timeouts, and all this kind of stuff.
You've got to eliminate those little things.
It's like a bunch of little foxes spoiling the vineyard.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what it's like.
Those little things can hurt you. They add up, don't they?
Over time, right?
Over time, they add up.
Big time.
So, when you get into the playoff and you still haven't corrected those things,
they have a way of rearing their heads.
Yeah, it doesn't show up until it shows up, right?
It shows up.
Like Joe Evans, I don't know what you'd say,
this is our special team coach, it catches up to you when it catches up to you.
Yeah.
And it caught up to our Cowboys once we got into the playoff,
and everything happened in that playoff game that was displayed
throughout the whole entire season.
And so –
Are you kind of happy it didn't happen in the Super Bowl?
Without a doubt.
That would have been worse.
That would have been worse.
That would have been worse.
But they would have never got to the Super Bowl, though, not playing that way.
Because you cannot play that way in games as big as those games would have become
and make it there.
You just couldn't do it.
Yeah, I think Dak gets de-bowed by a ref.
That's kind of our last play of the entire thing.
De-bow, de-bow.
Like Debo Sanders was doing his end, too.
Yeah, that was pretty big.
He had a pretty good night down there.
But the entire thought of the Dallas Cowboys is that on paper,
they're always great.
They just need to make a run.
And the reason is because of your teams.
So whenever you look at the teams that are making it to the Super Bowl here,
and obviously Patrick Mahomes and them are going to be a dynasty forever
is what everybody said.
And then now Joey Burrow, Seth Rollins was sitting here the other day
and other people have this idea that,
well, I don't think Joey Burrow is going to win this year.
He'll win more down the road.
That is not a normal thing.
What you guys did was not normal.
What the New England Patriots did is not normal.
I think it's kind of debunked people's expectations on what reality is because people think you're just going to be able to go and win.
Why do you think your team was able to have such success in the time period that they did?
Great question. And if you look at our teams, look at how focused, how committed,
the little mistakes we made and the big plays that we made when we needed them.
And most importantly, the consistency that we've shown in those three out of four years.
The only time we lost focus, in my opinion, was when we when Barry Switzer's first year came in.
The White House?
Nope.
That's a whole nother story.
No, no, no.
That's a whole other story.
But we lost focus that year because of distractions and other things.
That was the same year.
You can talk about the White House if you want to.
It was the same year that Jimmy quit, Barry comes in.
It's the same year Eric Williams get into a car accident.
It's the same year, I believe, a lot of different things happened, and we lost focus.
But that loss in the NFC Championship game forced us to think about it and reset.
Woke you up a little bit?
Yeah, it was a wake-up call because we had just won back-to-back.
And so this would have been three in a row.
So the focus was not quite there because of the distractions. And I don't know if it was because Jimmy was gone.
It was new atmosphere, new this, new things,
or just being complacent that we won two back-to-back.
And so we probably needed a break, a mental break.
And that loss was hard.
But it got us back focused.
And we said to ourselves, right after that loss,
people were saying on a plane ride back from San Francisco,
this will not happen next year.
This will not happen next year.
That's what people were saying on the plane.
That quick was already happening?
That quick was already permeating throughout the whole entire team.
Now, our team had changed.
We did not have the same kind of quality players that year
when we played against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
It wasn't quite the same.
But the focus was there.
The commitment was there.
The dedication was there from everybody.
Go ahead, AJ.
What was it like when Barry Switzer comes in?
Like your team, obviously superstars all over the place, ton of success.
When he came in, like how does he – what's his first meeting like?
How does he kind of take control of the team
or at least make his presence felt?
I don't think he ever really took control of the team.
I think he came in.
A player-led team?
Yeah, it was somewhat of a player-led team because that's Barry's style.
Barry's style is not to babysit you or try to keep you
or teach you how to become a professional.
Barry was like, hell, y'all just won two Super Bowls.
What can I do not to mess this thing up?
That's awesome.
Did you like that?
I mean, for me, you had to be a very mature player to play under that type of system.
Now, you got to think about it from this perspective.
Coming from Jimmy Johnson, who was a hard-nosed coach,
who made sure everybody stayed between the lines.
If you got outside the lines, you better be Troy or you better be Michael.
You know what I'm saying?
Or Emmett.
Yeah, or Emmett.
If you won that, you was pretty much on a chopping block.
Hey, be who you can afford to be.
Exactly.
So you know if guys got to stay in between the lines,
they're going to stay in between the lines.
With Barry, the lines was blurred.
You could be at a club and kicking with Barry at the
same time. Oh, that's awesome.
He was at the White House?
It's pre-social media.
What?
There you go.
Hey, good on Barry.
I'm excited.
Barry was
a great coach in the context
of allowing
players to be men.
We were grown men.
Yeah.
So we had to have self-discipline.
And I think when we recognized that, that Jimmy was not coming back.
But Jimmy had given us the foundation that we needed.
Yeah, you needed Jimmy when you had him, right?
Yeah, we needed Jimmy when we had him.
But he had left us with the foundation of working hard, being focused, having self-discipline, being driven, and wanting to be successful.
And that's when the leadership really came into play.
If that makes sense.
What was Troy like?
What was Troy like?
Troy as a leader?
Awesome.
Love him.
Awesome.
He was so focused, man. I don't know if Troy Aikman had a good time playing football.
I think he's having a better time right now calling the game,
looking at the game from a different perspective than he did when he was actually playing.
Stress?
You can call it stress.
There was a lot of weight that he had to carry.
Think about this.
He's coming behind the legendary Starbuck
And then he's the number one draft pick
He's the guy
That's supposed to turn the organization around
That's a lot of pressure from Cowboy Nation
And Jerry's promoting
Jerry's doing everything Jerry's doing as well
Yeah so that's a lot of pressure
On someone to
Revive an entire city
And revive an entire nation and revive an entire nation
because in the 80s, we were sucking as the Dallas Cowboys.
So Michael, Troy, myself, all of us, and Jimmy made things a little bit different.
That's awesome.
Go ahead, Ty.
Oh, I'll crack it open.
Yeah, Emmitt, when you retired, could you kind of see the way the NFL was going?
Like, did you look at your records and think, like,
oh, there's a good chance that none of these are ever going to be broken?
Or do you look at guys now and say, like, oh, you know, this guy, he's got a shot.
Or did you kind of know when you hung him up, like,
oh, these records that I have are going to stand forever?
No, I mean, I'm going to let you choose your own poison and pour your own poison.
When it comes down to records, I learned a long time ago,
records are made to be broken.
If a human did it before, a human can do it again.
The question is not can he do it again.
The question is when it will be done again.
And who is that person going to be?
And so for me, knowing that in my mind,
I don't think about it from that perspective
because I know it can happen and it's a possibility it will happen.
I just don't know if I'm going to be around to see it because 18,355 is a long way.
See, y'all haven't even added up 18,355 yet.
Add it up.
Add the numbers up.
What did you come up with?
Come on, Ty.
What was it, 18,355?
Yeah, what does it add up to?
21?
No, your math is off.
Yeah, it's 22.
22.
Yeah, it is 22.
So that number was – that record was for me.
It was for me.
Did I not tell y'all that y'all in the Super Bowl 22, everything is 222, 222?
This is the year of the deuces, baby.
You're right.
Hey, I was picked 222.
Can't wait to do a shot with you here, man.
Let's do this.
What is this again?
What is the name of the tequila?
Hedadura.
Hedadura.
Yeah.
This is Otreñejo, by the way.
Cristalino.
Oh.
We appreciate you, man.
Also, 222, 22 this year.
222, 22 this year is National Tequila Day.
Oh.
Did you do that?
No, I didn't do that.
Everything's coming together.
It comes together.
It's awesome.
Hey, we appreciate you so much for joining us.
No, thank you guys.
You are the absolute best.
Thank you for the tequila.
By the way, drink responsibly.
Now, I'm leaving you with this bottle.
Oh.
Smart.
Smart play.
I want y'all to get over here.
We're a couple guys. Hey, I think y'all to get over here.
I think we're going to see you tomorrow too, right?
I think you're coming through the FanDuel Superstar Showdown. Yeah, I'll be there.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Ladies and gentlemen.
You're going to be competing against people.
Yeah, absolutely.
No worries.
No, I'm not going to compete.
I'm going to be there.
Yeah.
All right.
You're going to compete, ladies and gentlemen.
Emmitt Smith.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, Emmitt Smith.
Yeah!
Running back for the New York Giants, number two overall pick in 2018,
a man who is electrifying with the rock in his hands.
He's fast.
He's quick.
He's agile.
He's on a team in the middle of another turnover.
So what will his career be?
I can't wait and see. Out of Penn State, a member of the cult up there in Happy Valley,
Saquon Barkley.
Yay!
Boy, Saquon!
Here we go.
Hey, thanks for coming by.
Hey, no problem.
What is it here?
What?
This is X2 Endurance.
Saquon is actually an investor in said company.
Okay.
So we are now drinking some of Saquon's product right now,
which I like the fact that you take ownership.
Hey, Saquon, thanks for coming, man.
Good to see you.
Hey, I'm a big fan of the show, by the way.
No, no, you shouldn't be.
The show stinks.
But we do appreciate you saying that and coming on.
I'm a fan of the fact that you are an investor in this hands-on business.
This is smart stuff, St. Paul.
How'd you get in? It's the
only healthy energy drink out there.
As an athlete,
that's something that is a necessity.
I'm a partner with Levante
David, Kendall 2 from Peloton,
Kawhi Leonard.
Kendall 2 from Peloton. He's on the bike giving the
classes or he's out? No, she is.
She's on the bikes giving classes?
Yeah, she's a fitness instructor.
Great instructor.
Instructor.
She kicked the shit out of you guys.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, stand up now.
Yeah.
She does that all the time.
I'm not in a Peloton cult, but I do know it is a big one, and people are getting in very
good shape.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So she kicks the shit out of Ty and many others.
Yeah.
Bingo.
Okay, sweet.
But yeah, like I said, it's the only healthy energy drink out there right now.
You can get it at any convenience store, Subway, CVS, Amazon.
And on GoPuff now, you can get X2 to you within less than 30 minutes.
Hey, congratulations on your business moves.
Congratulations.
Have you always been an energy drink guy?
I mean, so that's how I kind of got into it.
You know, I don't – this is like the no jitters, you know, the tingling feeling.
I don't like that. Oh, you don't like that. I don't like that. So, like, when I was no, you know, the tingling feeling. I don't, I don't like that.
Oh, you don't.
I don't like that.
So like when I was younger, you know, you would, you would try those stuff out, but
it just wouldn't, it wouldn't really work.
It wouldn't really work for me.
And this is healthy, it's clean, especially where the world's going to, and especially
where I'm trying to get to in my career.
And you know, the longevity of my career, just putting healthier things in my body that
I know I can trust and I know it's going to get the job done.
Have you always been super careful with your diet and workout?
Because you are like a specimen.
I mean, you probably have like, I don't know what,
like sixth, seventh largest quads in the history of the NFL.
You got me up here.
Yeah, I've heard about your quads.
No, no, no.
They used to be okay.
No, but you are an absolute freak.
Everybody in the NFL.
But you are a freak show athlete.
Have you always been super focused on your fitness and your diet
or is that going to only grow?
Put those back up there.
Hey!
You trying to feed out a little bit
so you can get the inside?
Get a little hamstring shot in there too.
It wasn't always like that.
As you grow, you get older, you realize
you got to get better. I mean, when I was 18,
19, 20 years old, I was putting bad stuff in my body.
Now you realize that the NFL, you know, I don't want to just do it for four or five years.
I want to be in here until 12, 14, or when I want to walk on my own.
And the only way you can do that is by putting the right things in your body.
So that's why I'm blessed and I'm happy that I'm a part of it.
We're pumped for you.
Now, obviously, we've all seen it, okay?
We've all watched what's going on in New York.
You guys are doing push-ups and full pads.
Coaches are running sprints.
People got hurt in bad positions.
You guys have had a rough go.
Seems like Joe Judd's probably a really cool guy.
Threw a banger booze and pizza party.
Dayball coming in there now.
And you've got an entire new operation.
What are you looking forward to to change the path here of how your career has gone thus far?
I think everybody watching the Giants goes like,
man, it'd be awesome to see him on a fully ready-to-go team
because of how talented you are, how electrifying you are.
Out of nowhere, the game can change with you.
It's awesome.
You and Jonathan Taylor, very similar style of running,
two very different programs right now.
Whenever you look ahead to the future,
first of all, what you've been through already in your early career,
what are your thoughts and what are your projections?
I think you've got to take from, you've got to
learn from what happened in the past.
Obviously, we're going into our third head coach,
but with Shermer, with Judge,
obviously it was unfortunate that
they got fired. Hey, that's not normal, by the way.
You're very young. That's not
a normal thing. So you take
from that, you learn.
They did some great things that we're going to have able to carry over uh and we got to be able
to keep the keep the core you know we got we got some talented players we have very talented players
we got to find a way to stay healthy um we got a whole new system whole new coaching staff coming
in so it's new the energy is going to be different uh as players we get a chance to prove ourselves
again yeah that's something big that's something that i'm looking forward to um to prove myself
and show there's different things i can do in my game to help this team win.
And I know it's been rough like the past couple, but we're not that far.
And I truly, truly believe that we're not that far.
We have the talent.
Now we're bringing the right pieces, the right coaching staff.
Obviously, we've got to go in and draft, draft well,
bring some guys in free agency.
What makes you think you're not that far?
It's because, listen, I'm going to talk about this from my personal experience.
I'm excited to hear yours. The year we won
2-14 or whatever, it was
like 7-8 games, I think, that were
one-score games. And then
when you watch the film back, it was like, hey, if this
play doesn't happen and this play doesn't happen,
which are just some random third down
in the third quarter that maybe
pops the thing open or whatever, you see
all the regrettable, like, hey, we should have won this game.
We could have won this game.
That's happening in your facility.
Nobody's lost hope.
No, see, that's the thing.
We've got the right players.
I'm not just saying that because I'm one of the leaders.
I'm just trying to talk good about my teammates.
We have the right players.
We've got guys that are willing to come in and work, grind,
do whatever it takes to win games.
Yeah, you guys are doing push-ups and full pads, and nobody said, hey, fuck off.
But you know exactly.
You know how the NFL is.
When you're three or whatever, two or whatever, some guys won't show up.
Some guys won't do this.
Some of the meetings, no.
Everyone's locked in.
Everyone's still trying to get better, and no one quit.
And I think it's adversity, and it's been adversity for a couple years,
especially in my career.
But we just got to keep fighting, keep believing we have the talent.
We just got to find a way to stay healthy.
That's a big thing.
I don't think me, KG, Shep, KT, Slay, Evan, DJ,
I don't think we all were on the field at one time this year altogether.
Okay, okay.
And then off the line, Gatesy, who was one of our captains, one of our leaders,
we lost him, we got banged up up front.
And all these things, you know, everyone can see that,
but you can't really say because it sounds like excuses.
But like you said.
Those are very real.
Those are very real.
Those are very real.
That's why I can confidently say it's like we're not that far.
We're not that far.
I mean, I'm not trying to make any crazy projections.
Like the Bengals a couple years ago, they were not a Super Bowl team.
And you just got to get the right pieces, have people that believe in,
have a coach and staff that's going to put us in the right places,
which I believe we do, obviously, with the GM, with Joe Shane.
He's doing amazing jobs so far with all the hires.
You know, we're hiring the new DC, bringing back T-Mac,
bringing back Caffa, Mike Caffa.
We got something going there, and I truly believe in it.
And I can't wait to get back there in April and work.
Hey, you sold me, man.
We got a Giants fan in the office, and he lives and dies.
We know your fan base is very passionate.
And then living through the man in the arena dock with Eli and Strahan
and everybody going back to the glory days of the Giants,
it's like what a program, what an organization that has lost its way for a bit.
But, man, I think hearing what you just said,
I mean, it makes me a little bit of a believer.
Go ahead, AJ.
You sold me for sure.
With the new staff and the new GM coming in,
how much communication have you had with them?
And what do you think your guys' –
do you have any idea what your offense might look like?
No, no idea, to be completely honest.
You're going to do a lot.
Yeah.
35 carries.
What Coach said, every team is different
obviously they had an amazing job over there in Buffalo
especially on the offensive side
what they did with Josh Allen
unbelievable talent
but every year is different
we got different players and he's going to align the playbook
align the system to fit us
and that's important
whenever somebody tries to put their shit in
we can't do that
that isn't our thing you got to, yeah, we can't do that. That isn't our thing.
You've got to do our thing.
We can't do your thing.
And that old – I think that's evolving, by the way, like with coaches.
You know, back in the day, I don't know, AJ's a little bit older than me,
and then he was like, hey, you're coming here.
This is the style we play.
And if you don't like it, that's really not our fault.
That's your fault more so.
You've got to adapt to your players.
Yeah, it feels like that's starting to happen now.
That means you're going to be working a lot.
Yeah, I mean, and that's how I train.
I train right now.
What do you do for training for those quads?
I see Aaron Donald trains with knives.
Squat.
Squat like 900 pounds.
Do you clean the squad?
What do you do?
I don't do no knives or nothing.
Right now, honestly, I'm at, like, the point in my career right now.
It's like I probably had one of the worst years of my football
career um in your whole life yeah in my whole life so a lot of reflection there yeah i had to go back
and now you gotta go back to the drawing board you gotta go back to the basics and now it's just
about getting my body right getting my body alignment right working on the little things
getting the muscle fibers working a little muscles and then i'm gonna get into the training and i
don't gotta be i don't gotta be in camp mode or try to go break records right now.
It's February.
I got to just get my body working on little things.
And as the offseason continues to go, continue to go,
get my training to become a little more intense and get ready.
So I just assumed you're trying to get your thighs and legs big.
That was Photoshopped?
That's Photoshopped?
That is very real.
No.
No, it's not. No, it's not.
No, it's not.
It can't be.
Impossible.
Can you dunk?
Yeah.
Actually, ever since I tore my knee, I haven't touched a basketball court.
Yeah, smart.
Yeah, we got that down the road.
The fact that you can get that massive ass and those legs up to dunk them is absolutely unbelievable.
Go ahead, Connor.
Yeah, Saquon.
What's Dan Jones like on a day-to-day basis?
Because I think it was last year, maybe this year,
that Joe Judge said that he was hurt basically all season,
but he kept playing and earned the respect of everybody on the team.
What's he like?
What's his work ethic like? And does the whole team kind of just follow his lead?
He's a dog.
And I can honestly say that.
His mentality, his work ethic, it's unmatched.
It's unmatched, and he's a very talented quarterback,
and we're going to get the right pieces around him.
Sneaky athletes.
We're going to get the right pieces around him,
and I truly believe in Daniel Jones,
and I'm not just saying that, oh, because of my team, because of my friend.
I'm there every day.
You know the people that come in and come into work,
and that guy's work ethic, I'm a big believer in anything you want to accomplish in life.
If you want good things to happen to you, you've got to work for it.
He has that mentality.
He's working.
He's going to continue to work and continue to get better.
As he continues to get better, I get healthier.
We keep the team healthy.
Like I said, we have a very talented team, so we've just got to keep working and keep our head down.
Go ahead, Ty.
You mentioned yourself getting healthier.
Do you feel like you're the same guy you were or are you still?
Hey, people are saying you lost a step this year, dude.
That's unbelievable, by the way.
It's un-fucking-believable that they just automatically come out, I guess.
Yeah, exactly.
I think, and I don't mean to cut you off, it's fair.
I mean, they can say that.
No, I don't love that.
No, no.
Because you know why?
We're a prisoner of the moment.
I went from two years ago, three years ago, before I tore my knee, arguably one of the better players in the NFL.
Or you can make an argument, the best back in the NFL.
No, you're right.
But, you know what I mean?
It's all opinion based.
And then tear your knee.
Then you come back.
And not everyone going through a knee injury and then have the ankle.
And I can make all the excuses.
And I just, like I said to the New York media and to the Giants media,
it's like I'm fine with that, you know.
You can say what you want about me.
I know my mentality.
I know how I'm going to work.
But when things turn around,
just how I can see how everyone shifted to the other side
and just make sure you stay on that side.
Keep the same energy.
Please keep the same energy.
We're excited to watch you kind of battle back in your third head coach
of your young career.
That is a massive stat that I can't wait to hopefully
see some continuity around you.
You and Daniel Jones and the way you listed off that team
ready to go. I'm excited to watch you,
man. It's going to be a fun story.
In this X2 performance, let's go ahead and move some.
Let's move some of this.
Cheers, man. Cheers to you. Do you guys have
any over there?
Let me see.
You've got to have a sp supposed to kill yeah strawberry kiwi this is a great taste by the way thank you thank you
appreciate that were you did you uh did you have to sample it before you got out yeah so i'm i'm
actually involved in all of it like i they bring it to my house and we go i drink it i taste it
um i don't like to just be involved with something because I think, oh, it's the next big thing.
I want to be authentic with it.
And I like it.
And I truly believe in the product.
And I'm excited.
I'm excited that it's growing and growing.
And especially where the world's going to, everyone's going to that more healthier mindset.
And energy drink is a big phase and a big space where I think we can capitalize.
So I'm just happy to be a part of it.
I just turned 25 two days
ago hey happy birthday let's go thank you hey your birthday same day as mine february 9th yeah really
yeah oh damn yeah that's what's up happy birthday man happy birthday yeah well it's not i'm may but
you did just say happy birthday to me i'll keep that one locked in yeah that's on me uh i can't
wait to maybe try gopuff what's that i assume i missed your. Yeah, that's on me. I can't wait to maybe try GoPuff and get X2.
What's that, buddy?
I assume I missed your birthday.
Happy birthday.
That's like the classic, like, oh, you have the same birthday as me.
Oh, happy birthday.
Oh, yeah, I know the whole thing there.
Yeah, that's on me.
Obviously, I'm an idiot, but you are not.
Good luck with X2.
Good luck in your recovery, getting back into a new coach.
I mean, I'm very excited for you.
I'm very thankful you stopped by.
Ladies and gentlemen, Saquon Barkley.
Yeah, Saquon Barkley. Yeah, Saquon!
Joining us now is a man who normally calls from his basement.
A man who had his wife...
I mean... Don't even mention it.
Well...
Shovel four feet of snow to make him ribs
while he sat and posted about it online.
Jesus.
Although they might say that this dude's a terrible person,
you can make those judgments for yourself
because what he does for NFL Network and NFL.com
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For the first time ever, live and in person,
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Ian Rapoport.
Yeah, baby! Rap Sheet!
He's boozed up still.
Oh my god.
Ian, good to see you.
Rap Sheet.
Appreciate you, buddy. Thank you.
Thank you.
What's up, Rap?
Jesus Christ.
Hey, did you have a meeting with Emmitt Smith earlier?
What a moment.
Oh, your mic's off.
Oh, God.
What about now?
Yeah, you're on.
Yeah.
What a moment.
This is awesome.
Don't let that chair swallow you there.
It's kind of offensive.
No.
What are you talking about?
We're a very pro-go-rap-a-port show.
Don't worry about that.
Thank you for joining us man
I understand there's happy hours and news to break out here at the Super Bowl
How are you doing?
Things start earlier here
Yeah it's LA well it's because it's actually later
It's ridiculous I can't get used to this
It's awful
What's it been like out here man?
No news has been broken I mean absolutely nothing
I mean
I think what's that? Why?
No it's just I mean there's still coaching stuff going on.
I mean, I don't know if anybody really cares about that by now,
but it's like Monday, Tuesday.
Like, I get it Sunday night.
The Dolphins hire a coach.
Like, let me enjoy my Super Bowl week.
So is that what you all have been doing?
Like, all you insiders have just decided that, you know,
this week we're not going to break any news.
We're not going to learn or find out anything.
We're just going to kind of booze and network and have a good time.
Hey, we had a long year.
This was the longest season ever.
I don't know if you knew that.
Wow, that's right.
Yeah, 17 games now.
Hey, it's going to be 18 soon, by the way.
And I told you that immediately upon the 17 games coming.
I said, hey, Rapsheet, once they see the money flows in from 17 games,
this is going to go to 18 games.
And let's just talk about that now.
And you said, let's pump the brakes.
We're already in that.
That's coming soon.
I'm pumping brakes.
This has been a long season, though.
Yeah, and talk to the players, too.
I think by the end, they're all like, it's fine, and they all got through.
But there was plenty of times when guys would be injured a little bit
and then miss games, and they'd be like, it's a long season.
I got to get through it.
It's like the strategy actually changed, too.
The insiders don't get a week off, though.
Oh, wow.
Never so.
We guys ain't doing shit this week.
I mean, what do you mean?
Is it because there's nothing to break this week?
You guys didn't even have the awards,
but you guys didn't even have the awards
before the awards show.
Come on.
I mean, I knew something.
Oh!
Rap knew. Hashtag rap. I mean, I knew something. Oh! Rap new.
Hashtag rap new.
Yep.
I knew something.
Your boy, Rogers, with the MVP.
Ah, back to back.
Congratulations.
Four times.
Gee.
Go ahead, AJ.
Are you seeing a load management type thing like the NBA does with the NFL now?
Yeah.
Really?
There's plenty of times this year when you talk to agents and teams like, hey, this guy's
got a sprained ankle. What do you think? And they're like, ah, just not going to press it. So I'd, you know, you talk to agents and teams like, hey, this guy's got a sprained ankle, what do you think?
And they're like, ah, just not going to press it.
So they're real conservative now, you feel like?
They don't mind sitting guys down with the normal they may not have?
More so than I can ever remember.
And, like, you know, if you look at the teams that are advanced in the playoffs,
the healthier teams, right, the teams are obviously their guys.
So it's like it actually pays off.
But more so than ever, guys would miss one game or two games.
Like what was it?
Like Kyler Murray, right?
Missed a couple games.
I feel like any other year would have been push, push.
This year was like, hold on.
Like we're going to be good.
It's a long season.
Everybody chill.
You know, it's different.
Strategy different.
What's going to happen with Kyler Murray?
He hates the Cardinals?
Is it because that rat bastard owner isn't paying the coaches their bonuses?
I did enjoy that storyline, which I don't think was true.
Oh, that's me.
I need you for the owner.
TBD, TBD, TBD.
He is definitely not happy about something.
I just don't know what it is.
Does anybody know what it is?
Do you think there is somebody on this earth right now
that understands why he's not happy with the Cardinals and that's somebody on earth being from the
cardinals organization are they asking no because they're asking questions too and you know i reach
out to people close to kyler murray and i don't it didn't seem like it was a planned like all right
here's going to be the strategy that we're going to try to get this big contract it seemed much
more sort of reactionary just to me like he needed a social media cleanse and was
kind of like i need to start and i guess the year obviously the year ended badly and it's like
i get it but it's a little bit of a mystery and i'm not sure he's in a rush to clear it up either
because i don't know it leaves everyone feeling uncomfortable i think it's pretty simple you just
give the coaches the bonuses that they're owed bingo and. And all of a sudden, Kyle Murray will play.
No, I have no idea what it is.
But any time we see a player do something like that,
that is obviously a statement.
They know it's going to be a statement.
Speaking of statements, now A.J. Hawk says Aaron's going to the Packers.
If you're on the Aaron's going to the Packers side,
there was a lot of things said last night,
like he thanked Gunter Kuntz and Murphy first.
And then he talked about how handsome LeFleur's face was and how good of a guy he was.
Which, sorry to interrupt, I saw LaFleur last night, handsome.
Good eyebrows.
Perfect.
That is something that is properly procured.
His eyebrows are fantastic and impeccable.
But like the thought of, if you thought he was leaving the Packers, though,
you heard a lot of things in that speech that he was leaving.
So he said it's been a great 17 years and the memories and all that stuff.
Where did you fall after listening to the conversation?
And were you at NFL Honors last night?
I was at NFL Honors.
Whoa.
Drinking.
Wow.
I was on the red carpet.
Whoa.
I was behind the red carpet.
Oh, you were worried. That's what the
insiders do, though.
I had
people ask me to get out of the way.
We're taking this picture. Can you just kind of
step to the side? What's that all about?
I went up to say hello to Derrick Henry, and
the person who was with him was like,
actually, he's not doing...
Oh, and then let me say hello.
Because they were thinking that I was going to come up, like, take a picture.
Anyway, it was real awkward.
Well, it's interesting because Saquon down here, as he was walking off, he said,
Hey, Saquon, good to see you again.
And I actually saw him with his X2 Performance Energy that doesn't have the jitters.
Is that what he was drinking?
It's his company.
Why don't you learn something about the product you're supposed to come in?
He actually hit you with a whiff.
You know what I mean?
He was happy to see me.
I could tell.
Yep.
Has there been a lot of that out here in L.A. for you after the year that you've had?
Is there any awkward conversations that happened?
For instance, I have had a few.
I've had a few interesting conversations about the year that was,
and maybe we should think about it.
Nah, you can't think about it.
We've got to live in a moment, continue to live in in a moment and deal with any awkward conversations as they come but for you this has to happen on a regular basis i assume the super
bowl is a great place for all that to kind of combine and come to a head for you i mean super
bowl mobile like i am constantly you know what i do is not always the most popular thing sometimes
people want to keep stuff private and i do not um and yeah there's a human aspect to that too right you let the coach know before he was getting
fired hey just want to let you know you're getting fired i'm announcing yeah those are those are
awkward conversations but not quite as awkward as like hey sorry to ask you but have you been
fired like that happens sometimes oh my god my god. Really? Awful.
Because if I don't,
someone else is going to and then they're going to report.
That's a terrible
spot to be in. The bearer of bad news
is a terrible spot to be in.
There was a time there for a while in my
life when my mom would send me a text like,
have you heard? And it's like, no, I haven't heard.
She knew that I hadn't heard, but she was leading it off
with, hey, other people know this,
and you need to learn about this.
It was about a friend or something else like that.
That's what you are for a lot of people.
So whenever they see you in a Super Bowl, they're like, oh, this guy's the Grim Reaper,
and he's trying to get information out of me.
There will be some people who will literally answer the phone and be like, what's wrong?
Oh, is that why you buy booze for everybody in L.A. as soon as you get here?
I do have the expense account.
Woo!
Hey, Roger Gadier, why don't you buy me a little vodka?
Wine!
Tequila!
Wine!
More tequila!
Wine!
Emmett's tequila!
Wine!
The Rock's tequila!
Wine!
Ryan Reynolds' tequila!
Wine!
They all have tequilas?
Wine!
Wine!
Clooney!
Tequila!
Wine! Wine! Yeah, it's because allegedly we were told that nobody wants to get into the whiskey business They all have tequilas? What? What? Clooney? Tequila? What?
Yeah, it's because, allegedly, we were told that nobody wants to get into the whiskey business
because the whiskey business is basically dominated by those at the top.
The tequila, although there is a couple at the top, is a much more gettable, allegedly.
That's what we were told.
It's a much more gettable liqueur, if you will.
But what is your drinking choice?
Basically, anything that gets you fucked up.
That's a weak word.
No comment. I'm a bourbon guy
At a baby Saquon
At a baby Saquon
No eye contact
Is he in rapid board
He in rapid board
No he looked
He was like that's my guy
Nah he just
Nah he just
He just laughed yeah
You know it's not bad
Jeez what did you say about him
You said he lost a step
Only positive things About my good friend, Saquon.
No, I'm a bourbon guy.
Right.
And I will drink tequila.
My wife has introduced sipping tequila to our family, which has really been great.
The whole family?
The kids?
Not as much the kids.
Just you and her?
Yeah, just have a tequila in a glass.
Put a little ice in it.
A little cigar?
I
sometimes will smoke cigars, but now my
boys have been like, these are bad for you.
Why do you do that? And so I don't have an answer
so I will not
smoke cigars. Well, you should let them know, like, asking
stupid questions is also bad for you.
You're a kid. Shut up.
You know what I mean? But I don't know your kids.
Your kids are...
Actually, I do.
You do.
Jude and Max.
That's right.
When they come on your show,
they get extremely excited.
They're very cool kids,
but they also need to know,
like, hey, dad's a lot of dudes.
I don't have kids,
but hopefully one day
you're allowed to say,
hey, dad's a lot of dudes
because I'm an adult.
You're a kid.
Shut the fuck up.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't...
But again, I don't curse in front of kids,
so I would never say it like that.
You could, though. You're a good guy. Great guy. Who's bad, but... Go ahead, AJ. But again, I don't curse in front of kids, so I would never say it like that.
You're a good guy.
Great guy.
Boozebag, but.
Go ahead, AJ.
You say that, but you may have this awkward relationship. You are a boozebag.
My God.
I am not.
Every post you have put up for the last three weeks is booze, and it's like an hourly post.
Troy Aikman's beer.
It's really good.
I ain't drinking any right now.
It's actually a pretty good chaser for a tequila. How does Troy Aikman have, all these guys have teman's beer. All right. I'm drinking it right now. It's actually a pretty good chaser for tequila.
How does Troy Aikman have – all these guys have tequila and beer.
I need to get in some of that.
You're trying.
We know.
We see you.
I feel like that's my brand now.
They should embrace that.
Sorry.
You should.
Oh, no.
Ian, you are a very cool person.
Absolutely.
And you know everybody.
And everybody needs you because you can help them and you put info out for all of us.
But you mentioned Mobile, Alabama, Senior Bowl.
Yes.
This is a Super Bowl.
The Combine, I would assume, is a huge thing for you.
People that don't know about the Combine, with the coaches,
with the media that kind of hangs out,
what is that like behind the scenes at dinners at night, all of that?
Yeah, so obviously the Combine is like an important event in the calendar,
and the prospects are there, and the interviews and all that.
But for me, it is an incredible chance to get everyone that i could possibly know in the same
place and so i'll like literally go in and be like all right here are the new coaches here the
new coordinators who have i not met who do i need to send a booze over what do i need to buy a drink
to who do i need to have the awkward skills by the way and also hey man remember when i kind of
pissed you off about this thing uh let me
explain how we kind of went so i had a couple of those conversations in mobile a couple guys
weren't answering my phone you're running to him in a bar it's a little different you could be like
hey i actually reported this not what you thought so those are like as important as anything and
you know they kind of build the foundation for like hey this happened i need you to confirm this
you know because how do you make them trust you?
You just don't... You gotta wait to
say stuff? Nobody trusts you. They would have to
trust you to speak with you. Obviously, they do trust you.
You're telling me you keep stuff in that you know?
I tell you, but I
don't tell anybody else.
Thank you, Raffi. You're the best.
That's very, very nice of you.
But that really is like the...
It's an understood relationship, right?
You still have to earn their respect, though. Earn their trust, I should say. No, but that really is like the— It's an understood relationship, right? Yeah, and it's also— You still have to earn their respect, though, or earn their trust, I should say.
Right, but when I was younger and kind of just starting into this, I wanted to report everything.
So it was kind of like, I'd find out news, report it right away, but now it's like, yes, these two teams are in talks,
but it doesn't mean I should report this now.
Let's wait until the trade is happening, like that kind of stuff.
Big Cam Hayward just walked by.
Look at the size of that head.
Look at the head on that guy right there.
Look at the head on that human.
The son of Ironhead, of course.
That is a Hall of Famer right there.
Greatest commercial of all time.
That a baby Cam.
You see that, Pat?
A lot of big heads going through Ohio State, it appears.
Those big brains.
I used to play pickup basketball with his dad as a kid.
Was he good?
He was tough to beat in the paint.
Yeah.
Hard to defend.
Makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, but Cam is the best.
Go ahead, Ty.
Rapshie, when do you expect the quarterback carousel this offseason to really heat up?
Do you think it's going to be one guy that kind of falls and all the dominoes follow?
And when would we expect that to happen?
guy that kind of falls in all the dominoes following, when would we expect that
to happen? Yeah, I think it'll be a little
bit later this year because the coaching
stuff took so freaking long.
By this time,
there was a year when Alex Smith got traded
during the Super Bowl week.
Minnesota, whenever that was.
Was it Minnesota? Yeah.
That was like six or seven.
I can never
remember where the cities are.
Oh, no shit.
You're blacked out in every city.
That doesn't make sense.
Every city's the same if it's the bottom of a bottle, pal.
Jeez Louise.
People will tell me, oh, yeah, I remember Super Bowl 54,
and I'm like, I have no idea which one that is.
Literally, I just tell me the two teams.
We learned that this LVI was 56 upon arriving.
Yeah.
That's right. I thought they didn LVI was 56 upon arriving. That's right.
I thought they didn't do away with the
Roman numerals. It depends on how it looks, if it looks cool or not.
Because I think the L was a bad one.
Oh, right. Super Bowl 50.
Can't just have Super Bowl L.
I mean, we'll get buried.
Ian, we've got to get to a break here
on Sirius. I think we have some more follow-ups on
YouTube. Hour 2 wrapping up
here on this Feel Good Friday.
February 11, 2022.
In the next hour, we'll have Taylor Heineke.
Jerry Judy
still to join us. Gabe
Marenzi.
At SportsRage. And a lot of questions from Twitter.
Hashtag PMS in LA.
We appreciate you all so much.
We'll see you in roughly 6 minutes.
You're the best humans on Earth.
Boozebag Ian continues on earth. Booze Baggy Inn continues.
I U2.
That was you.
Did you see this?
The Cardinals did the same thing that Kyler Murray did.
Is this a joke?
So they unfollowed him?
No, they did a social media.
Hey, what's going on, man?
Good to see you, dude.
Sorry about the whole.
I mean, that's on me.
I appreciate you, man. So what are you saying? Okay, okay Good to see you, dude. Sorry about the whole... I mean, that's on me. I appreciate you, man.
So what are you saying?
Okay, okay, okay, okay, good.
Hey, so you're telling me that the Arizona Cardinals took Kyler Murray out of all their photos?
No.
They only have...
They have two photos and they're both Kyler Murray.
Oh.
Smart. See, a lot of you old heads in the game,
you and others in the insider game,
would say, this is 2022.
People got their social medias to put their gripes out there.
This is what we used to do.
Well, what you used to do was be able to go behind people's backs
and release information on certain networks and everything like that.
The Arizona Cardinals understand that this is 2022.
Anyone want to let Kyler know?
Kyler, by the way, big-time member of FaZe Card.
FaZe Card.
FaZe Card.
He could be a professional video gamer as well if he wanted to.
Professional baseball player, professional gamer.
Obviously, number one overall pick in football here for the Arizona Cardinals.
They're trying to recruit him back.
This is smart, Ian, don't you think?
It is kind of smart.
I don't have a problem.
Well, we know you're plugged in in Arizona.
Right.
Well, the coach's salary thing, I think that's, yeah.
It's a bonus thing.
I was all over that.
You're on your side of it.
You're on your side.
Yeah, opposites.
Right.
I don't have a problem with people going to social media.
Like, I don't understand why that's like.
No, it's 2022.
People used to do this through the media and everything like that.
Everything is different.
Now this is the modern way of doing it.
Yeah, and that's fine.
People should be in control of their own message.
It's like paying college players.
Yeah, people should be compensated for the stuff that they do.
That's really okay.
Yeah, but that goes directly against everything that you do, right?
No, I'll be fine.
I'll still find some stuff out.
Because they only put out what they want to put out,
and I'll find out the other stuff.
Oh, because you're saying you always survive.
Smart.
Thrive.
Oh, you are thriving, especially I'll find out the other stuff. Oh, because you're saying you always survive. Smart. Thrive. Oh,
you are thriving,
especially out here
with all the booze
and we can't thank you enough
for everything you've done
for us this year
and stopping by the set.
You're the best, dude.
You guys are awesome.
Thank you for everything this year.
This is goodbye
until next time we talk.
Boom.
Well,
I can see you later.
I think we've had enough.
Yeah,
it's been a good run.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Ian Rapoport.
Yeah, Rapji.
Thank you for everything this year.
We honestly appreciate it.
The weekly wrap-up with Rapji and friends has been a highlight for all of us.
Yeah, absolutely.
Me too.
I literally look forward to it.
Yeah, but you haven't broke any news on it at all.
Maybe season two.
Maybe season two.
Work our way up.
Can't wait to binge that.
Well, you binge everything nowadays.
That's what we're talking about.
Slow it down.
Was that Minnesota?
Miami?
What?
Was that Indianapolis?
It might have been L.A.
There's a lot of poop.
That's what you got to do to pick through when you found out information.
It's absurd.
It's wild.
Sometimes, during the time at the combine, there'll be times when I will run into someone at three in the morning, email myself, wake up in the morning and be like, huh, I should
probably check on that.
Ian.
Really?
Geez Louise.
Not that I forgot.
I'm just tired.
He's networking.
I'm tired.
He's networking.
Yeah.
It's a big part of business, by the way.
It's better than tweeting it at 3 in the morning.
Hey, did you know the entire beginning of this interview, you were doing this with your
headset and it was impossible for us not to do it?
So you're going to see a lot of photos of us doing this.
Yeah.
You're going to see a lot of photos of us.
Well I don't want to mess up my hair because if I put it on all the way then I'm going
to mess it up.
Ahhhh.
Smart.
Your Super Bowl feel good Friday ready.
We appreciate you ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks guys.
ART!
We'll be back in a moment.
Joining us now is a man who is a quarterback for a team with a new name.
They were once just a football team,
and then they had a two-year process in which they said,
we will debut a new brand, a new name,
to change the course of our mighty franchising program.
Hell yeah.
Amongst onslaughts of exposés,
of people learning about how things were run behind the scenes.
This team and this quarterback was somehow able to win games, and he's become a friend
of the show.
He stopped by a few times.
His moxie is fantastic.
The quarterback for the Commanders, Taylor Heineke.
Yeah, baby!
Taylor!
Good to see you, dude.
Good to see you, man. Good to see you, man.
What's up, man?
Thank you.
Taylor, super cool.
Appreciate it.
Hey, how you doing?
Great jacket.
I like that.
Wow.
Look at these shoes and everything.
Hey, hey, hey, listen.
You look super cool right now, dude.
How are you doing, man?
Doing good.
Doing good.
Got in late last night.
Walked around the city a little bit.
I'm not going to lie.
Beautiful.
I think I went down a wrong turn.
No! Careful.
Yeah, I can't do that.
I took a real
180 and headed right back to the hotel.
That's smart. You can. Incredible
J's, by the way. Good shoe game out here. Did you buy
those out here or you brought them out here? No, no, no.
I've had these around the year. I went on a shoe
binge this year. I probably bought about 16 pairs
of J's. I was trying to get all my receivers.
Out here, by the way, there is a lot of shoe stores you have.
You should need to stop by.
Now, granted, you should maybe not walk because you never know what you're going to get,
but there's a lot of great shoes out here.
Taylor, is this your first time in L.A.?
Big L.A. guy?
First time in L.A.
First time in Los Angeles.
Big stars.
First timer.
Wow.
You're going to go see the Hollywood sign, the Walk of Fame.
You're going to do a lot of photos and selfies.
I saw the Hollywood sign for my hotel, so I'm good on that.
But, you know, there's some good, cool parties that we're going to go to,
you know, the next couple nights.
So I'm excited to see them.
You deserve to enjoy the entire Super Bowl process.
Obviously, your story of becoming an NFL starter is one that a lot of people
will look back on and say incredibly inspirational.
You guys have a new name, new team.
It feels like everything's going in a new direction.
What's the mindset going into the offseason?
Well, it's nice to have a name now.
Okay, you like Commanders.
Commanders is your name.
If you guys win, you'll like it.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And it's just nice.
The last two years has always been like, what's the new name going to be?
I'm just happy it's over with, and we have a new start position.
Are you guys going to say we're playing commander football out here?
Hey, listen.
Hell yeah.
Listen, there is a commander standard, okay, that needs to be upheld to
because we are commanders.
Bum-ba-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum.
What's that from?
That's your chant.
Get used to that, dude, because whenever you're doing this on a sideline
when the defense needs to stop in fourth quarter, you know,
when you guys are up, you did a great job getting a lead.
Now we need the defense to get a stop.
You're going to go like this on a sideline, maybe a towel,
Gatorade towel, you're going to go like this,
and they're going to be screaming,
We are commanders.
Bum-ba-dum-bum-bum-bum-bum.
And then it's just going to play.
You're going to be like, yeah.
Let's go.
And then the crowd's going to play. You're going to be like, yeah! Let's go! And then the crowd's going to be like, we are commanders!
But it's going to sound like this.
We, we, we are commanders.
And it's just going to be a loud noise, and that place is going to be electrifying.
But as you look to guiding a brand new name and a brand new team,
a storied franchise that has a new chapter, very new chapter.
Do you think about all the pressure and all the shit that's on your shoulder?
Does that even crack into your mainframe or is it just football?
It's just football.
Again, I always go back.
When it starts to feel overwhelming to me,
I always go back to where I was when I wasn't playing.
I was like, the only thing I would rather be doing is just playing ball.
What is that then?
Let's talk about what does that mean, like on a couch somewhere?
Yeah, yeah.
Or like, you know, again, after like losses and stuff like that,
and you're getting bombarded and you're getting blamed for this, this, and that,
and you're just like, man, this is a lot.
It's tough.
And you kind of take a step back and you're like, well,
this is what I wanted to do last year.
And I signed up for this.
This is a dream come true.
And it's just part of the process.
That's a great mindset, by the way, because you get to be in the NFL.
You don't have to be in the NFL. Sometimes people forget
that. The entire grinding process
is expected because the standard of the league
is the standard of the league.
Some people get lost in all the bullshit. The fact that you guys
were able to dodge, duck, dip, dive
and dodge your way through all that.
There was poop pipes bursting
in the stands. Yeah, all over.
Week one.
Well, not just week one.
It was also a little later in the week.
And then, obviously, there was fans from the Eagles
following on to Jalen Hurts almost killing him.
There's exposés coming out.
Somehow, you guys were able to stay focused on football.
How?
How were you guys able to do that with all the noise?
Because distractions already kill a team,
but you guys were able to play significant football for large, large portions of the season.
How?
How do you guys do that?
And did it not get to you guys a little bit?
I think it starts with Coach Rivera.
I think he does a great job of kind of letting the players just focus on football.
He deals with all the outside noise.
And, you know, again, we had a lot of injuries this year.
A lot of big-time names go down.
Chase Young.
Oh, he's good.
Montez Sweat was down with a broken jaw. And then he had some family issues off the field. Like, we had a lot of a lot of big time names go down chase young you know montez sweat
was was down with a broken jaw and then he had some family issues off the field like we had a
lot of stuff going on and then covet hit at the end of the year right when we were in our five
game division push so it was tough um it was a roller coaster of a season but for us to be in
the playoff hunt week 17 driving down the field with two minutes left against philly and then you
know they they picked that ball off in the end zone.
But to have that chance there, looking back at everything that we went through,
it's something to be proud of for sure.
Yeah, hell yeah, dude.
Go ahead, AJ.
There's your ball.
There it is.
We are commanders.
Bum, ba-dum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
That's what it's going to sound like.
Hey, coach, you just got done singing your praises.
Congrats, man.
A lot going on.
I'm trying to keep my job.
I did see as you were complimenting him,
your eyes went directly right where he was coming from, which is smart.
We do similar things here.
But what is your relationship like with him?
And what is he like as a head coach?
I assume he's a pretty accountable guy, old school guy.
Old school, accountable guy. He's a player's coach. he was a player you know obviously he won a Super Bowl he knows what it takes and uh he lets people just be themselves um and that's the cool
part um so yeah you know I was with him in Carolina uh that was probably my favorite locker
room I've ever been in uh with Cam and and uh Thomas Davis, Luke Keekly, Greg Olson,
all those guys.
It was a great locker room, and Coach Rivera is a big part of that.
Go ahead, AJ.
What made that Carolina such a special locker room,
and do you have some of that already in Washington?
Yeah, you kind of get the same vibes in Washington that you got in Carolina.
Dice game, cards games, what are we talking about?
Yeah, some of those.
All that stuff.
I remember in Carolina we had a little basketball hoop,
and every training camp we would have a horse tournament.
There would literally be 36 people in this tournament.
We would have a whole bracket.
We'd have times for each person to play.
See, that's awesome.
Yeah, it was cool.
How'd you play?
Are you pretty good or no?
Well, Cam obviously made me go against him in the first round,
so I had no shot. If he's 6'5
and he's got arms, he can dunk from
5 feet away and I'm sitting there like
Oh.
You can dunk in horse. That's a different game.
You're not expected to dunk.
He's just saying he's putting those short
low bunnies in. Yeah, he's like, hey,
you have to be touching this door
and make it. And he's able to just
drop it in. So he punked you a... He's able to just drop it in.
So he punked you a little bit.
Yeah, he punked me.
Yeah.
Hey, but it's all right.
You'll get back in there.
But that type of thing is big for team camaraderie.
I've seen you in the studio shooting some hoops.
Hey.
Yeah.
Getting it right.
You put that elbow tight, you know?
Now, those bunnies, the ones that he beat you on, they would beat me, too.
I don't fuck with that.
That's only worth two points.
I'm out here.
You know what I mean? I'm doing my whole thing. But that type of stuff doesn't get
talked about a lot. The horse tournament, the like being around each other, the whole locker
room vibe, that is what carries teams a long way. You're seeing it right now with the Bengals,
I think. They love each other. The Rams were able to buy in. They said it's like Pro Bowl
practice every single day. How do you continue to grow that in Washington? How do you think
for the commanders? I think you just keep doing that type of stuff.
When you're not at the facility, you need to make an effort
to develop relationships outside the facility.
And I think one of the guys on our team that does a great job with that
is Logan Thomas.
Him and his wife and his family always want everyone to come to their house.
They have a nice big house.
They're a little fence.
Sorry, Logan. Just threw you out there. Hey, Logan. Big have a nice big house. Oh. Sorry, sorry, Logan.
Just threw you out there.
Hey, Logan, big taxes over there, too.
How about it?
I mean, big house and big tax part of town.
But he does a good job with that.
And, you know, Brandon Sheriff is the same.
Kind of get the offense alignment, go to a steakhouse, just have a good time.
Things like that.
That's amazing.
Go ahead, Connor.
Yeah, Commander Heineke, how is it having Terry McLaurin on the outside?
Because, I mean, there was one ball where you just tossed it up
and it might have been against the Chargers maybe.
The left sideline?
Yeah.
Unbelievable catch.
Do you guys kind of work on that stuff in practice
or does he just go out there and make unbelievable plays?
He just goes out there and makes unbelievable plays.
Yeah.
And the coolest thing about Terry, too, is not only is he a great player,
he's an even better person.
And I think I was just talking to Jim Rome about this.
Oh, God.
Love that dude.
Hilarious.
You know what?
Receivers and DBs are usually like the divas of the team.
Yeah.
And for him to be almost the best player on the team,
if not the best player on the team,
and for him to be a good person like that, it trickles down.
No one else can be that way.
So it's huge.
He's a great player, and he's an even better person for our locker room.
So what do you think?
Like, I'll fucking make it work.
You just throw it in an area.
Is there a lot of that?
Because we know you hucked it a lot in college, and you're a gunslinger,
and you have that competitive mentality.
And we talked to Aaron Rodgers about, like, Devontae's catch radius.
Like, when Devontae's covered, he's open because I can put it wherever.
When you see Terry in any situation, it's like, ah, if we need one,
he'll make a play for me.
And it's, I don't want to say a throw in hope, but there is a lot of, like,
I mean, the way Aaron says, there's always percentages,
and the percentages might be blah, blah, blah,
because he doesn't want to ever be on record as saying,
yeah, I'm just throwing a fuck it ball,
because then it would sound like he's not cerebral.
But there has to be times whenever you're like, fuck it.
Like, Terry's going to make a play over this guy.
And I would assume that if something happens.
100%.
You know, when you have your best player one-on-one, that's what you want.
And you're saying my percentages of making a good play is him one-on-one.
So you want to give him a shot.
And there's a lot of balls this year that we didn't connect on, but there's a lot of
plays that he made this year that were unbelievable so hopefully how are you in beer
pong pretty good yeah yeah you're very good at beer pong yeah always have been always have been
since first time you picked up that five-star ping pong ball yeah um in high school whoa
college senior college
of course yeah yeah when i turned 21 it right it came in and uh yeah it's it's good i haven't college. College, college. College fraud. Of course.
Yeah, yeah.
When I turned 21, it came in.
And yeah, it's good.
I haven't played in a long time, though.
It's kind of more of a house party.
Yeah, I agree.
And there's no more house parties because of COVID.
Are you excited for a season without COVID?
Yeah.
I mean, is it?
Is that coming?
Yeah.
Is that going to be a thing?
Do you know more than I do, Taylor?
I mean.
What do you know in D.C.? What are you saying about it?
Yeah, you're in D.C., dude. You're the commander
now. Are you
shaking hands with other commanders?
I don't know, man. I don't know what's going to happen.
So you're the quarterback for the Washington commanders
in the commander time.
We assume you're going to get meetings with other commanders.
Yeah. Why don't you do...
No, you focus on football.
That's right.
But we need somebody to ask the questions.
Like, is next football season going to have COVID?
Because Ian Rappaport kind of squealed earlier.
Like, maybe we don't have this next season.
I'm like, next season?
What are we even doing?
Do you know anything?
What have you been told, do you think, by the NFLPA?
Or any of the politicians you're probably hobnobbing around with out there?
I have no idea what's going on.
I just hope that we don't have to report for OTAs until mid-May like we did last year.
I thought that was super cool.
Hey, as you get older in the league, by the way, those super cool dates get later and later.
Yeah, yeah, those things get later and later.
Go ahead, Ty.
Obviously, you guys didn't get to where you wanted to be this year,
but with the personal accolades, I think you were a two-time Nickelodeon MVP. Does it get any better than that?
I feel like you could almost just go off into the sunset at this point.
When you get the MVP, that's a nice thing to have, but
when you're going on a five-game losing streak, that's pretty tough too.
It's been a crazy year. Like I said earlier, we had a lot of injuries. We had a lot of COVID
stuff going on, a lot of off-the-field stuff going on.
How miserable is life when you lose?
People don't understand.
Now, granted, you're getting paid a lot of money.
We all know how much money you're getting paid.
But still, life is so much worse when you're losing games.
Winning's fun.
Losing is ten times the magnitude of winning, in my opinion.
You walk in on Monday and Tuesday, and it is like the world ended.
We suck. We can't do anything right yeah and you can you you might have lost by three points on a
crazy play but it's it's the same feeling so i'd rather get beat like we did against dallas this
year like what we got beat 56 to 14 or something like that i'd rather get beat like that than a
23 to 21 nail biter um because you Because sometimes after those big blowout wins,
you come in and you're like, we're not watching this tape.
We knew we sucked.
Let's move on from it.
Mentally, you're saying it's an easier thing to tackle.
Like, yeah, we all played terrible.
Let's move on.
But when you can definitely get a win and you don't,
and you see an opportunity loss right in front of your eyes.
And that's, by the way, we had Saquon on earlier.
He talked about all their pieces that got injured not being on the field at one point.
Then there's a couple games, and I referenced the 2-14 year,
where there was seven to eight games that were one-score games.
And if, like, two plays go a different way, our 2-14 team,
number one overall pick with Andrew Luck, might have snuck in the playoffs.
We would have got drummed in the playoffs, but we might have snuck the playoffs.
That's what the NFL is. The parody is so real.
This year, it was insane, and we've asked everybody
that's been in there, and nobody's been able to give us an answer.
Why was this year so absurd, do you think?
Like, 56-14 or whatever, and then
I mean, the Colts lost to
Jacksonville in the last week. Big Dog,
Willie Colon, hey, how you doing? Keep it moving.
That dude is electrifying. The Colts
lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars. We watch
hard knocks. The Colts have a good organization, good program,
good players. Clowntown was literally Clowntown
because their fans were so embarrassed by how
it was running. The Jags beat the Colts. Why
do you think this year there was so much fucking weird
shit that happened across the NFL? That's a great
question. Obviously, COVID
had something to do with it throughout the year, but
in that situation with the Colts
and Jags, I don't know. What did other players say to you?
What was their answer for that?
Everybody was like, they don't know why. It was definitely happening. Austin Eckler came on and we
talked to him because there were some games where they were maybe going to win the Super Bowl.
People were like, this Chargers team could go. And then there was periods of the
season where they would just lose. None of it made sense, it felt like.
That's the beauty of the NFL. You look at the Chiefs.
Do you feel like you're in a groove in though, in a season like week to week,
or is it just game to game?
It's game to game.
Yeah, I mean, it's tough.
Is it ever quarter to quarter?
Like, yeah, I felt great in the first, and then does it ever happen mid-game
where you feel like, hey, I'm in the zone, I have it, and then boom, I don't?
Yeah.
You know how all it takes is one play.
Oh, yeah.
And it might not even be a play when you're on the field.
It could be a special teams play.
You're up maybe four points, and you had a great long drive,
and now you're up with three minutes left, and you kick off,
and they run it back for a touchdown.
You're like, oh, shit.
It's gone.
It's gone.
Yeah, everything you just work for, you know, it just kind of just, you know.
Yeah.
And that's why I love the NFL.
Again, like earlier this year, the Chiefs, everyone was ready to write the Chiefs off.
You know, they've lost it.
This isn't that.
And then.
They became the Chiefs again.
They became the Chiefs again.
And then they didn't.
Yeah.
In the second half of the game.
It was like, none of it makes sense, but that's why the league is the way it is.
Yep.
That's why people keep looking around.
Whenever you think about next season, what are your thoughts?
What are your projections?
What are you getting better at?
Like situational. Is that something you are going to like study up on and
do you think quarterbacks around the league i don't know what it's like for you but there's
some situations that happen in dallas obviously a team that you guys love uh there are some
situations situationally where timeouts were taken or clock management was happening where
everybody at home was like these dudes are idiots what are they even doing how much do you think you
have to know those situations as well as a quarterback?
And how much do you think that is something you study and focus on going into a season?
Yeah, it's a big deal.
As a quarterback, you need to know every situation.
Let's just say that you get down in the red zone.
You have points.
You have at least three points.
Cannot turn the ball over.
Don't turn the ball over.
And I did that numerous times this year.
It's just something you keep beating your head over.
And, again, it was my first year starting this year,
and it's not my first time ever playing.
I know not to do that, but it was a big learning experience this year.
And I feel like I got better throughout the year.
There's still a lot to improve on.
Defense gets slower whenever, as the season went on?
Absolutely.
Yeah, like you're able to see what the hell is potentially
happening? And that's why I think I almost got that
second shot. You know, when I came in and played Tampa
in that playoff game, when I was sitting, after
sitting on the couch training. He had that seven.
Oh, yeah.
That's what you did. You did a sweet dive.
Yeah, I mean, when I made that dive this year in week
18, I was hurting.
So from coming off the couch and playing in a playoff game,
you can definitely tell the difference between the speed of, you know,
at that time of the year versus week one through six.
That's awesome.
Well, I can't wait to see what you do next year as the leader of the commanders.
Oh, yeah.
Appreciate you guys.
Because we are commanders.
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
I got to practice on that.
Sounds like you don't love it.
A little indifferent there.
Where did that come from?
They act like this is the official team chant.
There's a guy standing outside the stadium with four people behind him doing this chant.
Now they said, no, their whole stadium is going to be here. They were your super fans.
He worked for the team.
We thought he worked for the team. That's where this came from. He was representing
the entire organization. Okay, I was about to feel
bad because I didn't know if it was posted on our
Instagram and I just missed the memo.
You didn't miss anything. Well, maybe it depends on who's
Instagram because this person seemed to have a lot of authority
over the command.
Alright, we're going to get through a break.
We can't thank you enough for joining us. You're the absolute best. Good luck this year. Good luck this offseason. Enjoy LA for the Commanders. Yeah. All right, we're going to get through a break. We can't thank you enough for joining us.
You're the absolute best.
Good luck this year.
Good luck this offseason.
Enjoy L.A. for the first time.
And is this your first Super Bowl experience?
No, I've been to a couple in the previous years,
but this is pretty cool.
I like it.
Go get some new shoes, too.
Go shake some hands, kiss some babies.
Stay away from the alleys that you shouldn't go down.
Yeah, big time.
Ladies and gentlemen, Taylor Haneke.
Thank you very much.
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Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen,
wide receiver out of the Alabama Pipeline.
He's obviously on the Denver Broncos,
heading into year three, an absolute superstar. Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Judy.
Yay!
That was electric.
Yeah.
That was the best.
Yeah, best entrance.
This guy is awesome.
Hey, if you're a Green Bay Packers fan, you do not want to let Aaron watch what's about to happen, I think.
Hey, you were.
That was the best entrance all week.
Last person coming in, best entrance all week.
Yeah, it was unbelievable.
Everybody was kind of scared of those chains, and people were scared of coming out here.
You not, you at all.
No, no.
Ready for the...
Right through them.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hey, how you doing, man?
I'm doing good.
How you doing?
I'm great.
Thank you for joining us.
No problem, no problem.
Thanks for having me.
Hey, let's just dive right into it.
Why do you think everybody at Alabama is better than everybody?
Is it because Alabama people have all the best players of all time
and you compete against each other, you learn from each other?
What do you think it is, the swag, the natural shit?
What is it?
I mean, you just answered the question yourself.
Is that what it is?
We hear that answer from everybody that comes from Alabama.
That's a real thing, though.
Every single day we are battling.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Every single day we've got great players from around the country,
top players from around the country going against them every day the country, going against them every day in practice.
So you don't got no choice but to become better.
You feel me?
So, yeah, it's exciting, you know, and having a great coach like Coach Saban,
putting you in the right position, him being a great leader he is.
You don't got no choice but to become great when you go to Alabama.
Yeah, well, I mean, you can go other places too.
If you want to check out West Virginia, maybe hit the transfer portal.
Go ahead and feel free to do that.
I mean, that'd be fantastic.
There's a lot of guys there at Alabama.
Don't worry about going elsewhere.
It's part of the charm.
You go to the Denver Broncos.
You have a new regime coming in, right?
Yeah.
But that new regime offensively has been very proficient.
I mean, I assume you're very excited about the future with the Broncos right now?
Yeah.
You know, it's great having Coach Hackett, you know, great officer guru.
You know, he brings great energy to the facility.
Great guy.
So I'm excited to see what he's doing.
Have you talked to him?
Yeah, I talked to him.
How'd it go?
Phone, Zoom, FaceTime?
I talked to him.
I met him in person.
Yeah, I met him in person.
Yeah, we talked a little bit.
Chopped it up.
Handshake that.
Hug.
Oh.
Okay.
All right.
Hug, hug.
We talked on the phone before, but he already said, hey, when you see me,
you're going to be hugged, so get ready.
You got to love that energy, right?
Vastly different than a defensive coach.
You had an offensive coach now, so things are probably going to change
strategy-wise.
And, granted, you're only going into year three,
but you've probably learned a lot about the business of the NFL.
And how about on the field?
What do you think you've learned from the beginning of your days in the NFL
until now?
you've learned from the beginning of your days in the NFL till now?
You know, just really for just knowing, like, what reads you are in the offense.
You know, learn, like, okay, on this route I can slow it down because I'm the third read.
You know, or I'm the first read, so you might have to hurry up because you see the blitz. Just seeing different defenses and recognizing different things, that's really the biggest thing.
How much cerebral shit's going on in the field that people have no idea about
at every position?
Oh, man, it'd be a lot of crazy stuff.
As a receiver looking for trying to read the coverages, you know,
there'd be safeties by the D-end and there's Ron Batten at a couple of twos.
So it's like, how are you supposed to see that?
I'm with you.
Stuff like that. Other than that, it's all good. AJ, go ahead, pal. When you to see that? I'm with you. Stuff like that.
Other than that, it's all good.
AJ, go ahead, bro.
When you were at Alabama, you mentioned Saban.
You guys also have a ton of other great coaches on that staff,
like NFL coaches that have maybe transitioned and trying to figure things out.
What was that like just having all those guys?
And also Saban, I'm so intrigued by what he was like day to day.
Is he always on, you guys?
Always a grinder?
Does he ever laugh and have fun?
We've seen him dance with recruits, but that's about it.
Yeah.
No complacency.
I can't even get a word.
Complacency.
Yeah, I can't even get a word.
You're good.
Both Colt Saban.
You already know what you're getting from Colt Saban.
Every day.
Same guy.
Same guy.
Same way.
He walk in the office the same way.
This is what he do.
Let's see it.
Let's see it.
Every time. No, you're way. This is what he do. Let's see. Let's see. Every time.
No, you're good.
He do whatever he want.
He walk in the office with his little cup.
With his cup down.
How you doing?
Every day.
Every day.
Every day.
And nothing changed.
I think he take the same amount of steps every day, too.
So, yeah, it's kind of weird.
But at the same time, that's what makes him great.
The model of consistency, I think, has been Alabama.
It sounds like the head coach is a robot of a man.
But that is tough to accomplish whenever you're at the top of the world.
How do you think he remains competitive?
Why do you think Alabama has remained at the top for so long?
And as soon as Saban retires, what, 10 years?
He just signed his $7 billion deal.
As soon as he retires, is that going to fall off, or do you think
that Alabama thing is forever?
I mean...
Oh!
Oh!
Alabama's dead!
I'm all tired of that!
Alabama's dead!
No, it's not dead, now. Coach Saban's still there.
I never said that. I ain't never said that, now. I never said that,. No, it's not dead now because Saban's still there. I never said that.
I ain't never said that.
I never said that.
But it's hard to go against Saban.
As long as he's there, all I know is Bama's going to keep on rolling.
Hey.
Hell yeah.
Roll motherfucking Tide.
Roll Tide.
Roll Tide down there.
Go ahead, Connor.
Yeah, Jerry, speaking of Roll Tide, I'm a Pats fan, so we just got Mac Jones.
There's been some pretty legendary stories about him talking shit to Saban
in practice before he was the starter.
Were you privy to any of that shit
talk? No, Mac Jones, he probably
said something kind of funny or
something like that, but I was never
around to see the shit talking
to them two. What do you think
about Mac and his whole rise?
I mean, you think about
Tua, you think about Mack,
you think about Jalen, obviously.
He won other awards.
But the quarterbacks, like who, I mean, Tua came in and just did his thing,
but it feels like in Alabama, just like in every other position,
like Mack sat back and just did practice and learned film, I think,
and everything like that.
What do you think about the Alabama successful quarterbacks here
that have kind of been on a run?
You know, it just, that just speaks on the volume of the type of guys they are, really.
You know, Jalen, we had Tua, now Mac.
You know, just all them great guys being together in one room, you know,
so they pick a lot of stuff off each other,
and that's why they're in the position they're in now.
How do people not get – there's no jealousy, huh, in that building?
You can't because you're just competing with everybody, I guess?
Yeah.
Because a lot of superstars go into one place.
So everybody's, like in the NFL, everybody's a guy in the NFL.
No matter what college you come from in the NFL, everybody's a guy.
In Alabama, it feels like everybody was a high school guy, right?
And how do you manage that, you think?
I mean, some people, you know, you take it as, oh, just show the way that I'm the best.
So you go out there and compete each and every day.
You know, some people don't probably not get opportunity
But you know some people just wait they turn and just take advantage when the opportunity presents itself
So you already did you were so much fun to watch in college and obviously at Denver fucking unbelievable
Who knows your next quarterback is if you thought about all that? No, no anything about it. Stay out of it
Yeah, I'm staying out of it. You know, that's the
That's above my pay grade.
So I just control what I control and do what I do.
Go ahead, Ty.
Why do you think it is?
Like, we're seeing now when rookie receivers come into the league
that they're just putting on and playing unbelievable right away,
whereas, you know, 10 years ago that maybe wasn't the case.
Why do you think it is?
Like, did you feel like you were just ready to pick up everything and go when you got into the NFL and is that because of Bama or why do you
think so many of these young guys are showing out right away I feel like it's uh it got a little
bit to do with Bama but at the same time when you know at the end of the day it's football so you
gotta come in you gotta you know you gotta compete you know that other guys probably better or you
gonna have to find a way to get better or be as good as them.
So, at the end of the day, it's football.
So, I don't really take it too much as like, oh, I'm in the NFL.
I've been playing football since I was little.
You feel me?
At the end of the day, nothing really can change.
There ain't nothing too much to change.
You feel me?
So, yeah, that's it.
What do you work on in the offseason?
Cuts?
What do you work on?
What is like the little things you try to –
are you going to be doing any of those –
what are those sweet magic feet work?
Oh, yeah.
Those magic –
Yeah.
You want to be there?
Yeah, yeah.
A little quick feet stuff.
You know, I'm always going to have to get there.
You know, I got to keep the feet right.
So I'm always going to do something like that.
But, you know, during the offseason, I'm trying to work on my stamina.
You know, once you can run all day and nobody can stop you. You can run all day and I can't stop you. Oh, you do a Peloton? keep the feet right. I'm always going to do something like that. During off-season, I'm trying to work on my stamina.
Once you can run all day, nobody can stop you.
You can run all day.
Are you doing Peloton?
Are you getting on the Peloton?
A lot of people are on the Peloton.
I don't know about that.
I can't get on the Peloton. There's a lot of running.
This off-season, it's like, hey, I'm trying to run all day at max speed.
All day at max speed.
I could run a bomb.
I could catch a 50-yard slant, come back,
and run a 50-yard bomb without getting tired.
Is there a reason why you want to do that?
Did you experience that last year?
Denver, obviously, mile high.
Everybody talks about that being a game changer.
Have you experienced that,
or is this just where you want to take your game to the next level?
I mean, I think that's just where I want to take my game to the next level
because I feel like, you know, when you get tired,
you can't really move how you want to because you think about, I need to catch my breath.
But once you, when you ain't worried about being tired, you can do whatever you want
and you can play all day and the person in front of you is going to be tired.
You still got enough fuel to keep going.
So, yeah, that's why I want to do it.
How about the city of Denver?
Fucking awesome, huh?
Yeah.
Very laid back.
You love it.
Yeah.
Enjoy it.
Yes.
Where are you from originally?
I'm from Florida. Oh, South Florida. Yeah. Florida boy You love it? Yeah. Enjoy it. Yes. Where are you from originally? I'm from Florida.
Oh, South Florida.
Yeah, Florida boy in the building.
Hey, by the way, we have talked about Ohio guys.
You know exactly what you're getting from somebody from Ohio.
You know exactly what you're getting from somebody from South Florida as well.
You know it's going to work ass off.
Probably going to be faster than you were going to be.
And there's going to be shit talk.
Are you a good shit talker?
I mean, it depends. If you shit talk me, then I'm going to shit talk than you were going to be. And there's going to be shit talk. Are you a good shit talker? I mean, it depends.
If you shit talk me, then I'm going to shit talk you right back.
But there ain't no precedent.
We're going to keep it pushing.
That is awesome.
Go ahead, Connor.
Yeah, Jerry, do you feel like with Cortland Sutton being healthy and Noah Pham being healthy,
like Denver is the premier spots for a quarterback to go that either you draft
or, you know, one of the ones in the carousel this year?
Yeah, I feel like, I mean, we got great dudes all over.
We got a great running back, great line, great defense, great receivers.
I feel like, why not?
How about the defense?
Defense loses Von Miller out of nowhere, right?
I mean, allegedly we're told Von Miller had no idea that was happening, which is wild to think about in the NFL, especially with who Von Miller out of nowhere. Allegedly, we're told Von Miller had no idea that was happening,
which is wild to think about in the NFL, especially with who Von Miller is
as a player and as a person.
It's crazy that they're like, actually, you didn't want to trade.
Well, fuck you. Get you out of here.
It's worked out. Obviously, he's in the Super Bowl.
But the defense continued to play very well.
That team, it feels like, why do you think it's because the Chiefs are in the division
and you don't get talked about as much?
Because I remember last season when Aaron
Rogers was potentially traveling somewhere,
everybody was like, if he goes to Denver, that team
is a Super Bowl ready team, but it doesn't
get a lot of national conversation. Why do you think that is?
You know, probably because
not enough wins or something like
that, but I mean,
I don't know what they see, but I don't
know they're gonna know us
in the future though oh yeah like that yeah uh well we appreciate you for joining us man you're
the best no thanks for having me you're a really cool dude thank you you've been doing a lot of
these shows out here what is everybody asking about uh same things quarterback uh who'd you
say do you say anything that like maybe uh we're like you know aaron rogers would be a great
quarterback for the broncos that would just drop a bomb wherever you were to say it.
Have you said anything like that?
No, I didn't say nothing like that.
I mean, he is a great quarterback.
Who wouldn't want to play with Aaron Rodgers?
But at the same time, we've got two great dudes that we competed with.
But like I said, that's above my pay grade.
I don't got nothing to do with that.
I'm going to do what I got to do.
Hey, by the way, great answer right there.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a very good answer.
That was solid.
Yeah.
Always been good media, or is it something you had to grow into?
That's something I had to grow into.
Media was not really my thing.
I think this is my best interview I ever did.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Oh!
We're very thankful.
I mean, you came in like, I mean, you're the best.
We got a Nick Saban impression that probably most people haven't seen as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's probably just the energy.
You're just chilling.
I'm with my dog just chilling, having a conversation.
Hey, well, anytime you want to come back, man, we'd love it.
For sure, for sure.
Can't wait to watch you going forward.
Can't wait to see what happens with this offense.
I assume it's going to be a West Coast style lobby.
You're going to be getting a rock.
There's going to be a lot of reads.
I think this is a good thing.
We appreciate you stopping by, man.
Have an incredible Super Bowl week.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Judy.
Hey!
...us now.
He's an absolute NFL legend.
A man who was a teammate of mine with the Indianapolis Colts.
He was also a member of the Washington Commanders.
Been around the NFL a long time.
Friend of the show.
Entrepreneur. ladies and gentlemen
Pierre Garçon
you got the command
you got the zip up too
hey is that the
commander's alum there
commander's alum
right there
hey Pierre, love seeing you
out and about, love seeing you have success. Love
seeing you hustle. Love seeing
everything about you, buddy. How you doing? Did the commander
send you that immediately upon a new name change?
Immediately, with the Leatherman jacket, too.
It was amazing. He got a lot of nice gear.
Are they trying to bring you back into the fold, or are they saying,
hey, we got to rebuild this thing because it was tearing
down completely?
They're trying to get me back in there, but you know, I told them my knees
are not about it.
How many years were you in Washington?
Five. How many years were you with the Colts?
Four. Two in San Francisco.
That's a hell of a career.
I appreciate it.
Whenever you think about your career and the
evolution of, let's say, offenses
or in general, why do you think
Shanahan and them have success?
And why do you think there's some teams that are going
and some teams that are not?
He gives the ball to his ballers.
That's what he does.
Debo and George Kittle take over the game.
That's what they do.
They put the ball in your hand.
That's what he did with me.
Yeah.
Let's talk about the Bengals then.
The Bengals have three guys over 1,000 yards.
Joey Burrow is able to pick apart, and he's able to equally distribute.
You have to love everything about that.
I definitely love Joe Burrow and love what um jamar chase is doing you
know for a young guy for a young receiver to you know go to the super bowl your first year and
you're a big part of it it's a great feeling how what do you think is there these young guys are
going to learn through like from year one with the colts till year 10 or whatever with the niners
what did you learn what was the biggest part of it? Was it the way you read defenses?
Was it the way you train?
What is it about?
Honestly, yeah, things get easier your second year where you kind of know what to expect.
You know the coverage.
You kind of know how linebackers are set up, how they start sliding over.
They're kind of going to play cover three or how far back the DB is.
You kind of speed up the game faster.
The plays don't change as much, but you're just ahead of the game that much faster.
Can I ask you if any of these young guys remind you
this dude was a dog trying to fight people.
Ooh. Shit talking.
No, not trying to fight, but if they wanted to.
But if they wanted to, it was not a problem.
Was that how you always played?
Was that something you developed? What do you think?
It's like something you play with, like, hey,
I'm about that life.
But your mouthpiece used to, I mean, everything about you was like,
when you got on the field, it was a game changer.
It was awesome.
It was my job, man.
I was playing life or death every day out there.
By the way, trying to headhunt blocking, like, hey, he's going to block.
That's how I get defenders back.
They love to hit me, so whenever I get a chance to block.
What was that school?
Mount Union. D3 to hit me, so whenever I get a chance to block. What was that school? Mount Union.
D3? I don't know if they were
D2 or D3, but I would assume that
was something you wore as a badge of honor, and that's why
you tried to just absolutely take every
rep 3,000%.
I tried to represent, because there's a lot of guys I play with
at D3 that wish they were in the NFL,
and they watch me, and they're like, hey, man,
you could have did better, and I don't want to let those guys
down. Could you imagine you didn't give full effort as a Mount Union guy?
Exactly.
They'd fucking kill you.
Exactly.
Go ahead, AJ.
You're wasting opportunities.
Yeah, I mean, like Mount Union is a legendary school.
It really is for what they have done there.
But you mentioned Kyle Shanahan earlier.
When we see all these young offensive guru coaches getting hired,
like what does a great offensive play caller do other than just –
is it just find a way to get one-on-one matchups with the best guys?
Did you see him put Trent Williams in motion?
That's what he does.
He uses ballers.
He uses those guys, those impact players.
Is he always thinking about, okay, how can I find a way to run this
where we haven't made it look like this?
Oh, so it's player-driven as opposed to position-driven.
Yes.
You know, depending on the position of that player.
He put Trent in motion.
Next, he's going to get a jet sweep.
That's what it's called.
Well, actually, I mean, he overthought himself there, actually,
because he did it the one week.
He got all the hype.
Then the next week, McVay was also like, he's not going to do that again.
They're going to do a little dive, and they caught him.
But that's like that always.
And whenever I say it's worried about the player, not the position.
For instance, you have plays where the X does this, the Y does this,
we're going to do this.
But then if you have Deebo Samuel, it's like, well, actually,
we can drop a play right where Deebo is doing this as opposed to this.
That's great.
That's the evolution of the game.
You look at Cordero Patterson down in Atlanta.
You look at Deebo Samuel.
That would have been something I think you would have been good at as well
because you were a returner.
You ran hard.
You were fast.
Is this going to be something we continue to see, you think?
I hope not because guys are going to get tired.
Guys' bodies are going to hurt.
You know, we love the stats that they're receiving, but, like, that's a long season.
When you're running the ball and catching the ball and, you know, 2,000 yards is hard on anybody's body.
Long season, 17 games.
Yeah, and there's a long season.
Yeah, so you got all that on top.
And you got big heads like that one right next to you.
They're trying to kill you.
He's trying to kill me.
What are you talking about?
I'm just trying to get back at you.
You try to kill me.
Oh, man, we watch you play all the time, man.
Listen, we were scared.
Yeah.
Hey, Pierre's a dog, though.
Hey, Pierre is a dog.
I know Pierre well.
Believe me.
He's got a hard head, too.
Pierre, you obviously got broken off in Washington. Thanks. Pierre, you obviously got
broken off in Washington.
Congrats, man.
How different was it when you go from Indy
and playing with Peyton and everything and then you get to
Washington? You obviously get paid, but I imagine it's
like, am I even in the same league?
Man, it's crazy because when I was in Indy
I was just learning a lot. Now I was in Washington
it was like, alright, you're telling us what to do or you're
setting the tempo or your tone in and that's what kept me playing harder because I was like, all right, you're telling us what to do, or you're setting the tempo, you're toning in.
And that's what kept me playing harder because I was like, all right,
I'm the man now, so I've got to represent the way Reggie and Marvin was doing
and Dallas Clark and those guys.
Like, all right, just keep playing well, which, you know,
you don't have to talk much.
You just have to play well.
Then things will fall into place.
A lot of pressure?
It wasn't.
Off the field?
It was just more attention.
It was just more attention because you made the most on the team.
So they're like, all right, why'd you drop that pass?
Well, it was a low wall.
You're supposed to catch it because you made this amount of money.
Like, well, anybody could have dropped it or, you know, it wasn't there.
But, you know, it was just more attention.
I was like, all right.
You were awesome in Indy though, man.
You were beloved by everybody, dude.
I enjoyed Indy.
Indy loved me.
I loved Indy.
Yeah, Pierre, Pat has told this story before, but is it true?
Yes.
You dragged him to a date raffle in Indianapolis?
Is that what it was?
He signed me up for it.
He didn't drag.
He signed me up for it.
I learned about it on the radio.
Yes.
I appreciate you, man.
We always did community events, and we ended up in a crazy place.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was driving down.
The story is I'm driving in my car, and all of a sudden I'm listening to the radio,
and all of a sudden it says, come to this testing event.
You could win a date with Pierre Garçon.
And I think it even said, like, Pat McAfee.
I said my name wrong, and I immediately said, like, what are we doing?
It was a great event, though.
I enjoyed it.
I was bamboozled, but it was good.
I was just being a nice guy. I was like, sure, I'll go to the event. And then, you know, that's the way it turned out enjoyed it. I was bamboozled, but it was good. I was just being a nice guy.
I was like, sure, I'll go to the event.
And then, you know, that's the way it turned out to be.
I was like, all right.
I was like, I got a chance to hang out with Pierre a lot.
His interactions with people, the way he gave back to the city,
and the time.
You had a good time, too.
You were like an actual dude.
Yeah, we had a good time.
You were a good guy, man.
You were a great guy.
I was very lucky to be teammates with you.
I know.
I appreciate you, man.
You made us smile every day.
From the first day in the locker room, he had these Jordan cleats.
Yeah, yeah.
We're like, this guy, he's the punter.
He's wearing Jordan cleats.
I'm like.
They were just hanging around.
I found out I should have had those on.
Those are Marvin's cleats, Marvin Harrison cleats.
They were.
And I was like, well, I should not be wearing these.
But I think it hardened the sprints.
I think I maybe won some people over.
But, Pierre, you're the best, man.
We still in the compression?
Compression business, yeah.
We're going to grow the line and do more products.
You know, there's going to be a medical product where we're going to do knee sleeves, elbow sleeves.
Yeah, he needs them over there, especially all the booze this guy's been having this week.
Bingo.
It may change life a little bit for travel.
We appreciate you stopping by, man.
I appreciate you guys.
You're the best.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pierre Garcon.
Yeah, Pierre. Thank you, Pierre. Appreciate you, man. I appreciate you guys. You're the best. Ladies and gentlemen, Pierre Garçon. Yeah, Pierre!
Thank you, Pierre. Appreciate you, man.
Alright, we have to... Connor,
that's a nice jacket.
You want it? You want it?
It looked like it was my size.
Not two days in a row.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pierre, we appreciate you. Thanks, man. Not two days in a row. Awesome.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pierre, we appreciate you.
Thanks, man.
That was amazing.
Hey, thank you, dude.
See you, dude.
I would have gave it to him.
All right. That was awesome. Yeah, that was great. I would have gave it to him Alright
That was awesome
So Pierre obviously saw what happened yesterday
Yeah I saw the whole thing which is amazing
That thing is very large
Sorry Diggs I don't think your mic is on
We made sure that he
Was going to do that
Smart
Smarten him up on that thing
Let's get to our picks here as this beautiful show wraps.
Cam Hayward's head is the size of that pillar of hair.
Holy shit.
Could you imagine?
Yeah, I could.
No, he's on your side of the ball.
Yeah.
He's on your side of the ball.
Do you guys size up heads?
No, I mean, from afar, I have respected the size of his skull for a long, long time.
Absolutely.
Are you kidding?
I mean, his dad's name was Ironhead.
Are you kidding me?
All right, let's get to this because the show's wrapping up here from Radio Row.
We appreciate everybody who has listened all week long.
We have had so much fun here.
We've had so much magic happen, and we are very lucky for everything.
Before we get out of here, we've got to do a couple things.
Diggs, will you please give us that quick stat that you learned from the FanDuel folks
about the score on the Simpsons that isn't real?
I was talking to head bookmaker of FanDuel Sports.
He said their liability, which is if 34-31 Bengals happens,
they will lose $40 million.
Holy cow!
That is awesome.
Remember, we'll have a risk-free same-game parlay being promoted on Sunday.
We have a party tomorrow night that will be streaming live at
youtube.com forward slash the Pat McAfee Show.
I believe that starts at 9 p.m. Eastern.
There will be a lot of superstars there and $200,000 up for grabs.
A.J. Hawk, your pick for the Super Bowl.
The spread is four right now.
Rams are favored.
Bengals home team wearing the all blacks.
I'm giving you a score, too. Bengals 31, wearing the all blacks. I'm taking it. I'm giving you a score too. Bengals 31,
Rams 28. Whoa.
Whoa. I like the
I know, it's hard.
Tough. Do it.
Give me the Rams minus four.
Wow.
Okay. Give me the Beng minus four. Wow. Okay.
Give me the Bengals plus four.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know what the fuck's going to happen.
No idea.
No idea.
I like the Bengals plus four.
Final answer.
Chris Mad Dog Russo's next.
Have an incredible weekend.
We'll see you Monday.
Nailed it. Right on. I mean, that was on the screws. So we're on the's next. Have an incredible weekend. We'll see you Monday. Nailed it.
On the screws. So we're on the same side then?
Yeah.
That's nice. All season
when you're on the same side, typically it goes well.
You were forced to do it though because you live in
Ohio and people would have showed up
at the house and done that whole
thing. You're an alumni of the Bengals. You grew up as
a big diehard of that. Give me that
chili.
Skyline.
Give me that skyline.
I'm going to go get Jeff Ruby's
steaks. I'm going to cut them down with my pinkies.
That type of stuff. You know what I mean?
You had to pick them. I actually thought
I'll take the team getting the points.
Although the Rams could win literally
by 45 points in this.
I think they actually could do that. But I like the last. I think they actually could do that.
But I like the Rams.
Or I like the Bengals plus four.
Are the Bengals going to win?
No.
I don't know.
I don't care.
Hey, listen.
That ain't for me to worry about.
Yeah.
Me either.
You think they're going to win?
Yeah.
Well, it is for you to worry about.
You just need a correct score.
No, I think they're going to win.
You said, yeah.
You actually gave two points.
I'm not going to worry about it, but I think they're going to win.
I can win this weekend because I'll go 1-0 and you'll go 1-1
because if your score's wrong, boom.
Yeah, you're done.
Is that how it works?
Yeah, yeah.
You made it that way.
You decided.
You said, hey, listen up.
I would like to do one further.
You guys are picking the bets and the spreads and blah, blah, blah.
I'm going exacto because I'm doing score out there.
So I can go 2-0.
You can go 1-0.
That's what you mean.
Bingo.
Got it.
But you can also very easily go 1-1 or 0-2.
That's right.
I can only go on one.
So no matter the case, I'm probably going to win this one.
Wow.
Okay.
That's how you do it.
How about that?
How about us coming full circle?
Well done.
I really like what we did there.
Here we go.
And some things we say on this show are for us, but I want to let you know this is also a gift
to all of you who might not know who this
person is. This person is
heard and seen yelling
on a daily basis in our office on
at least one of the TVs. If you have
the channel Sports Grid, this guy should be
on for 24 hours straight
because the electricity, the big
brain. Ladies and gentlemen,
at Sports Rage, Gabe Morenci.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Yeah!
Let's go!
Yeah!
Let's go, Gabe!
Yeah!
How about it?
Good to see you, though.
Big hug.
All right.
Look at that jacket, man.
Beautiful jacket. You look like Evel Knie jacket, man. Beautiful jacket.
You look like Evel Knievel, Gabe.
Yeah, Gabe!
Let's go!
Okay.
Yes.
That's what we needed, dude.
Yes.
I can't believe we waited until the very last hour of this entire thing.
We needed that on Tuesday.
We needed that on Wednesday.
We needed that on Thursday.
Now that we're out here, we're staying in an Airbnb,
we don't get a chance to watch your bald
head spew greatness on a
daily basis like we do at the office. It is great
to see you, Gabe. This is awesome.
I've done a lot of things in my career, in my life.
This is as good as it gets, handed with
McAfee, Hawk, Hammer,
Don, the crew. And I
tell you what, I tell you what,
as Coach Harbaugh says,
who has it better than us?
Nobody!
That's right.
You might hear a little accent there.
Gabe is Canadian.
Gabe is Canadian.
Loves sports, loves gambling, loves chatting.
Your jacket does look phenomenal.
What do you think?
You look like Evel Knievel, man.
I like it.
It's sweet.
The back is right.
What's on the back? What's on my back? it. It's sweet. The back is what sells it.
The back is what sells it.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Look at that.
The camera's that way again.
The camera's that way.
There it is.
There it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Hey, every NFL player, every baller in the room, they're the ones that like it.
And every gangbanger on the street.
Those are the two. I'm walking down the street,
there's dudes, I hear them talk about my back.
In fact, though, I'll tell you a quick story
outside. By the way, me and AJ love the jacket
as well.
I'm wearing the pass outside.
I was getting some air across the street.
And so
a car pulls up, and they're like,
hey, yo, bro bro Can you get us tickets
To the Super Bowl
They say
You see
Is that a Super Bowl
Pass
And I'm like
No no no
It's just
It's just for a convention
Type thing
They're like
Come on man
We know you're somebody
Come on get us in
They're sort of getting
More into it
Here we go
Then one of the guys
In the back
What about that jacket
Oh
Can I get one of those
Yeah
No
And I was like Nah those are those are 200 bucks, bro.
No, you got to earn these.
Yeah, you got to go pick some winners.
Yeah, you got to earn these.
You got to go pick some winners, man.
You got to earn one of these.
You got to earn one of these.
Whenever you look at this game gambling-wise,
AJ and I forced ourselves to make the pick last hour without much thought.
We've gone both ways on this entire game, Gabe.
We see the Rams could win by 50.
The Rams could win by 50. The
Bengals could win by 1, by
2, by 10. I have no idea
how to pick this game. You are a guy who talks
about gambling all day, every day. You're
incredibly entertaining in this department.
What and how are you thinking about the
game on Sunday? Well, I'll tell you what. It's a
interesting game. I think you guys are bang on,
though. If the Rams could win in a blowout, no one's going to be surprised. At all. If the tell you what, it's a tough, you know, it's an interesting game. I think you guys are bang on though, as far as, if the Rams can
win in a blowout, no one's going to be surprised.
At all. If the Bengals win, it's going to be
Muddy Mack, last minute field goal,
Joe Burrow, Magic.
I think if anyone's getting blown out,
it will be the Cincinnati Bengals.
Now listen, there's been 55 Super
Bowls, only six times
has the point spread mattered, Pat.
The last time, the last time, guys, that a team lost a Super Bowl and actually covered the point spread mattered pat oh the last time the last time guys that a
team lost the super bowl actually covered a point spread was the arizona cardinals
and uh yeah against the steelers it's like 2009 and i used to have hair and aj had longer hair
long long time ago so think about it it's only only six freaking times there's been two pushes
but only six times.
So if you like the Bengals, you take them on the money line as well.
That's what I'm getting.
And if you like the Rams, don't be scared.
I got the Rams winning by six points.
I'll just get to the chase here.
Do you have an algorithm, a points thing?
Do you punch things in?
I hate people like that.
A lot of gambling people do that.
I know.
I'm an old school.
No, I'm not going to say I hate the data and stuff
I'm not a super computer geek
I'm one of these sort of, I soak it all in
Oh yeah, you're a well-rounded
You don't trust your instincts or what?
Yes, no, but I actually
I trust the players and the athletes
I throw everything out
Who's in the best frame of mind?
I like the Rams, I like McVay being here for the second time
I like OBJ.
How can anybody be nervous in a room, AJ?
You know, I think the first time they played, they were nervous.
They played against the Patriots.
They played Belichick.
Jared Goff was a young quarterback.
McVay didn't adjust to his own.
McVay was like 32 years old.
Exactly, man.
You know, now you're getting Zach Taylor.
He's not as intimidated.
You got Vaughn Miller in the room before.
He's been a Super Bowl MVP.
OBJ's just, you know, he's chill, man.
OBJ would be wearing a jacket like this.
Hey, that's a good prop, by the way.
That's a good prop.
I like OBJ to score the first touchdown of the game plus 900.
Oh!
Yes!
I like that.
Because McVay's going to want to feed and Matthew Stafford's going to want to feed.
Get him involved.
Get the crowd involved.
Get a little dancing going.
Let's go, man.
Hey, a little salsa.
Go ahead, AJ.
Well, Gabe, have you ever been to the Super Bowl in person?
Yes.
How many? The first one I was at was actually at the Nipple Gate, the Vol 1s. Well, Gabe, have you ever been to the Super Bowl in person? Yes. How many?
The first one I was at was actually at the Nipple Gate, the Vol 1s.
Oh, Timberland.
Timberland.
Timberland.
Did you know it was happening in real time?
Nah, I had a few too many drinks.
Really?
Yeah.
I was getting drunk with Rob Dibble.
Remember Dibble?
Yeah.
Pitcher.
Pitcher.
Dibble.
Dibble had heat.
Oh, yeah. Cool dude. Cool dude. Yeah, he threw a fucking gas. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell of a fastball. Oh, yeah, yeah. Hey, Dibbo had the heat. Oh, yeah.
Cool dude. Cool dude.
Yeah, he threw a fucking gas.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The nasty boys.
Oh, yeah.
They used to come out headbutting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were.
Oh, hell, yeah.
I was at the, I did the last one, and I did a broadcast at the Pontiac Silverdome.
Okay.
They put us out like the Silverdome.
The game was at Ford Field, Pat, so, of course, they put me at the Silverdome.
Well, that's unbelievable.
Just like you saw me.
I was like an airport lounge here.
Why?
I'm in the fucking back.
We came here on Monday night.
We came here on Monday night to move into this thing.
We're going to start doing Tuesday.
Zito was putting everything together, just came to check it out the night before.
We got started on Tuesday morning over here.
There's not a single soul in the building, but there is Gabe Yellen way out there.
And I was like, wait, I thought this was a sports grid.
I thought a sports grid was also here.
You said, no, they weren't happy to stay.
That's unbelievable, Gabe.
What's the deal?
Basically, you know, we arrived.
We're like, wow, what a set.
I didn't really think I was going to do the show.
And they said, no, this is also the sports grid set.
Yeah, that's what we are.
Other hosts of sports grid.
I thought I was the only host.
What's going on here? hell is going on here?
Come on.
What's going on here?
Gabe, with McVay, I know – I mean, he's one of these new school dudes.
You know what I mean?
Like if they – if he chokes in this Super Bowl, do you think he's – is he done?
Is he maybe –
No, he's not done.
He's only 36, but it'll eat him alive.
What about John Madden though?
TV.
TV.
You know, but being 0-2 is going to eat this guy
alive inside. I think he gets
it done this time. I think he gets
it done. I like the fact they're sticking
to their regular season routine and all that
crappage, you know what I mean?
Can you explain what they're doing? What do you mean?
They're practicing
at the exact same time.
Hey, as a gambler, are you looking for things
to reaffirm your feelings
or always changing?
No, I let it evolve.
I try not.
I'm not going to lie to you guys.
That first Sunday night after, we all remember recent bias.
I was like, I'm not laying four and a half points against this Joe Burrow kid.
I mean, this guy's Joe cool, Joe smooth.
Also, Joe Burrow, he's never not won or covered a playoff game before.
LSU and Cincinnati.
Oh, my gosh. That's Jamar Chase.
So this dude is an ATS guy.
He is.
He'll be a kingpin here.
He really will be, Joe.
Cool.
He really will be.
But speaking of which, he will be running for his life.
We know everyone's been talking about the D-line versus the O-line.
But instead of talking about it, let's make some fucking money off of it.
And he's going to be running for his life.
All right?
So rush yard's over.
It's not rocket science.
How many is it?
11.
10 and a half now.
Oh.
It went up to 12 and a half, and it's down to 10 and a half because people are stupid.
All right?
So he's going over the number, guys.
He's going to be running for his life.
Here's another one as well.
What's he going to be doing?
He's going to look over.
He's going to, oh, my God, here's Vaughn Miller. Here's Aaron Donald. He's going to be running first line. Here's another one as well. What's he going to be doing? He's going to look over. He's going to, oh my God, here's Vaughn Miller. Here's
Aaron Donald. He's going to be dumping it off to
Joe Mixon. Joe Mixon receiving
yards, guys, 23 and a half right now.
He's gone over this number in five
straight games. What?
He's going to make it six?
Money. What?
No one would think about this.
Matthew Stafford, over five
and a half rush yards. He's gone over five and a half rush yards, guys, in all three playoff games.
Matthew Stafford's actually Cam Newton in disguise.
He's got two rushing touchdowns in the playoffs, two in the last three games.
They do say that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cam Newton in disguise?
Yeah.
Oh, you're talking about his mobility.
Yeah.
AJ, what were you talking about?
Because he can move.
Matthew Stafford is very athletic.
I played against him for a long time.
I know exactly what you mean.
Is he sneaky athletic?
Dude, it's five and a half
in Jake. For me, he's just athletic
and tough as hell. And you know in a big game, bro,
these guys, like Stafford's not
going to run against the Carolina Panthers
in November. He's going to be screwed up.
I'm not taking an unnecessary hit. This is the
Super Bowl. It's the John Elway helicopter.
He could get that in one big third down.
Oh, here I got to tuck it down. Back's the turn.
I'm taking it off. It's one play.
I like OBJ.
We talked about the first touchdown.
OBJ's only 63 and a half yards.
We've really seen, man, how he's really coming to play here.
He's going to be in that single coverage where he just does his own thing
and runs his own routes where they're all in their own structure.
Stafford's got trots with him right now.
I think OBJ's a big part of this game.
I love you.
I love you.
The love is reciprocal, bro.
There you go.
You're talking about two ways there.
You're talking about two double sides.
Hey, honestly.
Let me just throw something to you.
You're responsible for this.
Yeah.
And I can tell.
I had a couple of guys on.
They're like, they used a special ball for the kickoff.
And I'm like, motherfucker, you stole that, bro.
You know what I mean?
So you didn't know that.
So anybody that drops it. I read a preview last night online,
and I said, as said on the Pat McAfee show,
but you know that prop used to be plus 200, plus 230.
This year it's minus 118 right now.
What are you talking about?
No touchback.
Yeah.
It's the hardest prop.
The cappers think they're smart.
Oh, you know, they use a special ball.
It's all because of you, bro.
You've not only changed the business.
Look at this. Give him a hand. No. Oh, look at smart. Oh, you know, they use a special ball. It's all because of you, bro. You've not only changed the business. Look at this.
Give him a hand.
No.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, shit.
Nobody cares about anything here besides what's going on here.
No, Dave.
It's all because of you.
Dave, listen.
They're already getting mad at us already.
We don't need you.
Well, did Wiz like light a split bump here yesterday?
Can I do that?
Am I allowed?
No, I'm not around.
He didn't smoke in here.
Oh, no.
Okay.
By the way, that was something.
That was an entire thought.
I was doing my show.
I'm like, oh, great.
I'm getting crushed.
It's like a soccer game over here.
Well, we know we didn't have any beef with you, though.
You would understand that.
But there was some other people, I think, who were not exactly thrilled.
I mean, now you're screaming at them as well.
I mean, that is a –
I did notice a heavier presence of law enforcement a few minutes after I arrived.
Where, here?
Yeah.
A bunch of them did come cruising right here.
Sweet Lou.
Lou.
Go ahead, Connor.
Yeah, Gabe.
Me and Gumpy actually watched you live with the Bills Chiefs game.
You've been a Bills fan your whole life.
Yeah, we saw it.
Was that the most heartbreaking defeat of your life?
No.
Where do you rank that?
No, I was totally used to it.
I was basically like, welcome to the club, kid.
Like, I just looked at younger Bills fans like, yeah.
You want to know a crazy story as far as the Bills?
Bingo.
We're doing the show yesterday, and I'm pointing at the airport lounge over there.
Hold on. We can get there. Lounge 17.
You've got to keep going.
Yeah, yeah.
Keep going.
Alright, we're close.
Yeah, we're somewhere in there.
What did I tell you? Yes, sir, I'm in there
with the animals.
It is bad. It's been a bad...
Us staring at everybody, yelling at everybody's show.
Where is yours?
Yours is over here, I think.
So, D'Angelo Williams.
I think that's you right back there, right?
That pop-up.
That back of that white pop-up right there.
That's close.
I think that's you, right?
No.
Looks like a spot to be.
I think that set is yours, isn't it?
Yeah, you're focusing on that.
With the pretzels?
No, I think that backdrop right there.
Where are we?
Yeah, no, you are.
You're right there.
That's the NFL alum.
I got distracted by the blonde girl there.
I'm sorry.
I had a baby game.
This one right here?
Yeah, this is you guys right here.
There we are.
Man, you're good.
I'm not that good.
I was wrong twice.
You work for the FBI, too?
Hey, the feds actually, turns out, shout out to the feds.
Yeah, shout out. The feds. Yeah, shout out.
The feds actually watch our show.
We learned that from them.
Oh, I know.
These guys are hardcore guys.
They love metal.
They love wrestling.
They love macros.
Hey, these people have been very cool here, right?
I don't know how you've experienced it, but all the people that have worked.
Super cool.
I agree.
Super cool.
The people that put this whole thing on have been very, very cool.
Put it this way.
If we were in, like, Texas or something like that, I wouldn't be doing the things across
the street I'm doing here.
True. True. Different place down there. Yeah, I did't be doing the things across the street I'm doing here. True.
True.
Different place down there.
Yeah, I did hear you earlier say you went across the street to get some fresh air or something like that
when the guy was asking about your jacket.
I assume there were some vitamins that were involved there.
Go ahead, Ty.
Renzi, I mean, no one's giving the Bengals a shot here.
Why do you think that is?
I mean, personally, you know what I mean?
I think they're the team to beat on Sunday.
I really do.
I hate using this, too, because I'm not as sharp.
I hate throwing on sharp squares.
The pro bettors, the guys that are betting five dimes, ten dimes, et cetera,
they all think the Rams are going to kill them.
They're going to kill them.
Johnny Sixpack wants to cash a ticket with the underdog, right?
You need Joe Burrow.
You're getting points, et etc. I don't think
it's going to be a blowout. I think it's going to be a game.
Like, I think 33-27,
you know, Rams by
six, but maybe it's like, you know, 30-20
ish. Maybe, you know, the Bengals are hanging around
after. But I like Joe Burrow
over 36.5
pass attempts, because I think they're going to be playing
from behind. And the Rams are very,
very quick starters, alright? They always win the to be playing from behind. And the Rams are very, very quick starters.
They always win the race first to 10.
Look for the Rams to win the first half.
Sort of what happened with Cincinnati.
Oh, wait, no, McVay used to have that record.
Remember?
He used to have that record. Oh, it was like 35-0 or something.
Yeah, and then he lost one.
To the Niners in Week 18.
Yeah, 35-1.
So you're saying they're going to win the first half
and they're going to win the outright game then as well.
And I like more points in the second half than the first half as well. Oh, because they can understand
and feel each other out. Yeah, you know, there's a little bit
of, exactly, the first drive is a little
bit scripted. I got a ton of wages. We got over
three and a half field goals. I think McPherson
combined. Yes.
That's a nice plus money. Made or just attempted?
No, made. Okay. Yeah, made.
Okay. McPherson needs, what, two
to break the record? He needs two, three to break
the record. Three, two, time. So. No, it's not just him, though.
Combined, both kickers.
Will there be over under three and a half field goals in a game?
I think there will be.
Cincinnati have shown that they will take the three.
I agree.
And by the way, they do it, and they make it, and they win.
It's better than these analytic guys.
That's what I'm about to say.
What are they like?
I don't know who they are.
And you get nothing.
Like Staley.
Oh, no. That guy, Staley. Oh, no.
That guy, Staley.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Hey, how many Gabe Morenci's impressions are out there, you think?
You know what?
I don't want to.
It's a true story.
I swear to God.
I had, like, an anniversary show once.
And before I got there, they did, like, Gabriel Morenci, who does the best impersonation.
The guy that won died like two days later.
Jesus Christ.
So I figured it would be a good idea never to do that ever again.
Oh, no.
True story.
Hey, everybody.
Oh, no.
I'm not doing it.
Positive story.
I've been working on one.
I'm going to have to fucking stop.
You know what I mean?
Fuck.
I wasn't planning on telling that story today, but it came out.
I'm glad you did because I was going to do an impression.
I'm not going to now.
That's fucking wild.
You know what I mean?
I'm fucking done.
You know what I mean?
Seriously.
I didn't see that coming.
I didn't either.
That was some misdirection.
I didn't see that coming.
Can't fucking do it anymore.
You know what I mean?
Hey, Gabe.
How long have you been doing this?
It was just my 20th anniversary.
Man, we appreciate it. Hey, how about it, Gabe? You guys rock, been doing this? It was just my 20th anniversary. Man, we appreciate it.
Hey, how about it, Gabe?
You guys rock, man.
Did the guy die?
You said it was an anniversary show.
Did he die right after that?
No, no.
It was a couple days ago.
Oh, a different anniversary.
I think the guy had a drug problem, though, too.
Rest in peace to that man.
Rest in peace to that man.
And I'm happy he at least got a chance to win the impression.
Right.
Went out on top.
Yeah, he went out on top. He went out on top.
He was a true underdog story.
Just like the Rams are going to go out on top.
No, they're not underdogs.
Oh, BJ gets a Super Bowl championship.
Boom.
Yeah, Matthew Stafford does too.
That's right.
And Sean McVay.
And the party goes on.
SportsGrid.
And also follow along at...
You all right?
Yeah, I was going to casually pick my sunglasses up, put them on.
Where'd they go?
Where'd they go?
They're gone.
Fucking lost them.
At SportsRage.
I saw him really panicking over there.
Yeah.
I saw some real...
I swear to God, no, I sat him down.
I saw AJ.
I was like, oh, they're going to fall or something.
Yeah, would you sit on them? Yeah. They're right. I was like, oh, they're going to fall or something. Yeah, wouldn't they sit on him?
Yeah.
They're right here in between the wire.
Right here.
In the front.
Oh, actually, look at this.
Oh, fuck.
There you go.
That really is.
That's not as cool now.
Like, what?
Oh, hold on.
Put it back on the desk.
Put it back on the desk.
Put it back on the desk.
Redo it.
Redo it.
All right.
Ready?
Ready?
Here it was.
Man, this is 20 years into this thing.
We are so thankful we get a chance to chat with you.
Absolutely electrifying stuff.
You can follow along at SportsRage and obviously watch it.
At SportsRage on Twitter.
That's right.
It's amazing to follow and watch.
You're the absolute best, man.
I love you guys.
Thanks.
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