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, 2022

On 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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,
Starting point is 00:00:46 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
Starting point is 00:01:02 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.
Starting point is 00:01:12 What? Are we going to win a Grammy? What? What about an Emmy? What? Oscar? What? Tony?
Starting point is 00:01:18 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.
Starting point is 00:01:27 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.
Starting point is 00:01:42 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
Starting point is 00:01:59 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.
Starting point is 00:02:20 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.
Starting point is 00:02:32 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
Starting point is 00:02:47 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.
Starting point is 00:03:03 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.
Starting point is 00:03:16 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.
Starting point is 00:03:27 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.
Starting point is 00:03:44 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.
Starting point is 00:04:04 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
Starting point is 00:04:20 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.
Starting point is 00:04:31 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.
Starting point is 00:04:46 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,
Starting point is 00:05:02 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.
Starting point is 00:05:21 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.
Starting point is 00:05:41 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.
Starting point is 00:06:01 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?
Starting point is 00:06:27 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.
Starting point is 00:06:44 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
Starting point is 00:06:58 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.
Starting point is 00:07:21 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.
Starting point is 00:07:28 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.
Starting point is 00:07:45 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.
Starting point is 00:08:01 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.
Starting point is 00:08:22 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.
Starting point is 00:08:31 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?
Starting point is 00:08:46 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.
Starting point is 00:09:03 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
Starting point is 00:09:28 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.
Starting point is 00:09:53 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.
Starting point is 00:10:16 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.
Starting point is 00:10:39 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.
Starting point is 00:11:08 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.
Starting point is 00:11:23 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.
Starting point is 00:11:34 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?
Starting point is 00:11:46 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-
Starting point is 00:11:54 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.
Starting point is 00:12:07 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.
Starting point is 00:12:18 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.
Starting point is 00:12:34 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.
Starting point is 00:12:50 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?
Starting point is 00:12:58 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.
Starting point is 00:13:10 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.
Starting point is 00:13:25 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.
Starting point is 00:13:43 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
Starting point is 00:14:00 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
Starting point is 00:14:10 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
Starting point is 00:14:18 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.
Starting point is 00:14:25 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?
Starting point is 00:14:35 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.
Starting point is 00:14:47 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.
Starting point is 00:14:58 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.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Right? Rosie Tennyson, I believe. Right? What's that? Goop. Quiet. So they sat there. I'm joking.
Starting point is 00:15:17 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.
Starting point is 00:15:30 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
Starting point is 00:15:45 What? Offensive Rookie of the Year Jamar Chase What? Defensive Player of the Year TJ Watt What? Offensive Player of the Year
Starting point is 00:15:52 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
Starting point is 00:16:01 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.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Oh, what is it? Whoa. Cristalino. Cristalino. Well, Herradura. Herradura. Yeah, don't worry about it. Just drinking.
Starting point is 00:16:27 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.
Starting point is 00:16:38 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.
Starting point is 00:16:47 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
Starting point is 00:17:04 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,
Starting point is 00:17:19 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
Starting point is 00:17:34 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.
Starting point is 00:17:50 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,
Starting point is 00:18:19 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?
Starting point is 00:18:38 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?
Starting point is 00:18:58 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?
Starting point is 00:19:11 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 –
Starting point is 00:19:25 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.
Starting point is 00:19:42 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,
Starting point is 00:19:58 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,
Starting point is 00:20:14 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,
Starting point is 00:20:40 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.
Starting point is 00:21:11 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?
Starting point is 00:21:37 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.
Starting point is 00:22:02 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.
Starting point is 00:22:17 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?
Starting point is 00:22:32 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.
Starting point is 00:22:52 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.
Starting point is 00:23:16 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.
Starting point is 00:23:35 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.
Starting point is 00:23:50 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.
Starting point is 00:24:06 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.
Starting point is 00:24:32 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.
Starting point is 00:24:42 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
Starting point is 00:25:05 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
Starting point is 00:25:21 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?
Starting point is 00:25:44 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.
Starting point is 00:26:09 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.
Starting point is 00:26:36 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?
Starting point is 00:26:48 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.
Starting point is 00:27:04 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.
Starting point is 00:27:12 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.
Starting point is 00:27:28 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.
Starting point is 00:27:36 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.
Starting point is 00:27:46 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.
Starting point is 00:27:56 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.
Starting point is 00:28:02 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?
Starting point is 00:28:23 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?
Starting point is 00:28:37 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.
Starting point is 00:28:53 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.
Starting point is 00:29:10 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?
Starting point is 00:29:25 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.
Starting point is 00:29:31 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.
Starting point is 00:29:43 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.
Starting point is 00:30:05 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
Starting point is 00:30:20 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.
Starting point is 00:30:37 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!
Starting point is 00:30:52 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.
Starting point is 00:31:11 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.
Starting point is 00:31:29 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,
Starting point is 00:31:47 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,
Starting point is 00:32:04 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
Starting point is 00:32:19 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.
Starting point is 00:32:47 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.
Starting point is 00:33:06 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
Starting point is 00:33:21 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.
Starting point is 00:33:34 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.
Starting point is 00:33:50 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.
Starting point is 00:34:05 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.
Starting point is 00:34:27 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.
Starting point is 00:34:44 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.
Starting point is 00:35:06 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.
Starting point is 00:35:25 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.
Starting point is 00:35:38 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
Starting point is 00:35:54 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.
Starting point is 00:36:07 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.
Starting point is 00:36:23 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?
Starting point is 00:36:35 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
Starting point is 00:37:01 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?
Starting point is 00:37:23 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.
Starting point is 00:37:30 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,
Starting point is 00:37:52 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,
Starting point is 00:38:09 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.
Starting point is 00:38:26 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.
Starting point is 00:38:41 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.
Starting point is 00:39:00 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?
Starting point is 00:39:13 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.
Starting point is 00:39:29 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
Starting point is 00:39:44 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.
Starting point is 00:39:59 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.
Starting point is 00:40:26 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
Starting point is 00:40:45 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.
Starting point is 00:41:12 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.
Starting point is 00:41:24 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.
Starting point is 00:41:44 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 is nothing short of magical. For the first time ever, live and in person, the host of the weekly wrap-up with Rap Sheet and Friends, us being friends, he being Rap Sheet,
Starting point is 00:42:03 ladies and gentlemen, NFL insider, Ian Rapoport. Yeah, baby, Rap Sheet and friends. Us being friends, he being Rap Sheet. Ladies and gentlemen, NFL insider 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.
Starting point is 00:42:19 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?
Starting point is 00:42:30 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?
Starting point is 00:42:38 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
Starting point is 00:42:55 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.
Starting point is 00:43:11 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.
Starting point is 00:43:27 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,
Starting point is 00:43:43 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.
Starting point is 00:43:54 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.
Starting point is 00:44:13 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.
Starting point is 00:44:24 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.
Starting point is 00:44:33 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?
Starting point is 00:44:46 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.
Starting point is 00:45:07 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.
Starting point is 00:45:17 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.
Starting point is 00:45:33 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
Starting point is 00:45:57 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,
Starting point is 00:46:29 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.
Starting point is 00:46:51 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?
Starting point is 00:47:13 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.
Starting point is 00:47:24 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,
Starting point is 00:47:39 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?
Starting point is 00:47:59 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?
Starting point is 00:48:15 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
Starting point is 00:48:41 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
Starting point is 00:49:14 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.
Starting point is 00:49:29 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?
Starting point is 00:49:51 Wine! Tequila! Wine! More tequila! Wine! Emmett's tequila! Wine! The Rock's tequila!
Starting point is 00:49:57 Wine! Ryan Reynolds' tequila! Wine! They all have tequilas? Wine! Wine! Clooney! Tequila!
Starting point is 00:50:04 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.
Starting point is 00:50:24 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
Starting point is 00:50:36 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.
Starting point is 00:50:47 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?
Starting point is 00:51:02 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
Starting point is 00:51:17 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.
Starting point is 00:51:27 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
Starting point is 00:51:35 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,
Starting point is 00:51:42 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.
Starting point is 00:51:55 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.
Starting point is 00:52:11 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.
Starting point is 00:52:17 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.
Starting point is 00:52:31 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
Starting point is 00:52:57 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
Starting point is 00:53:27 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...
Starting point is 00:53:43 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.
Starting point is 00:54:07 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.
Starting point is 00:54:23 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.
Starting point is 00:54:34 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.
Starting point is 00:54:50 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.
Starting point is 00:55:05 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.
Starting point is 00:55:20 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.
Starting point is 00:55:36 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
Starting point is 00:55:51 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.
Starting point is 00:56:07 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?
Starting point is 00:56:21 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.
Starting point is 00:56:37 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.
Starting point is 00:56:56 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.
Starting point is 00:57:14 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.
Starting point is 00:57:27 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.
Starting point is 00:57:37 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.
Starting point is 00:57:49 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.
Starting point is 00:58:03 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
Starting point is 00:58:09 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.
Starting point is 00:58:19 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.
Starting point is 00:58:26 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.
Starting point is 00:58:36 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?
Starting point is 00:58:46 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
Starting point is 00:59:04 probably check on that. Ian. Really? Geez Louise. Not that I forgot. I'm just tired. He's networking. I'm tired.
Starting point is 00:59:11 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.
Starting point is 00:59:26 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.
Starting point is 00:59:36 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.
Starting point is 00:59:59 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!
Starting point is 01:00:21 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?
Starting point is 01:00:28 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.
Starting point is 01:00:38 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.
Starting point is 01:00:49 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.
Starting point is 01:01:06 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.
Starting point is 01:01:20 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.
Starting point is 01:01:33 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.
Starting point is 01:01:50 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?
Starting point is 01:02:06 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
Starting point is 01:02:24 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.
Starting point is 01:02:41 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,
Starting point is 01:03:02 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.
Starting point is 01:03:24 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,
Starting point is 01:03:39 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
Starting point is 01:03:54 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.
Starting point is 01:04:06 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,
Starting point is 01:04:22 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.
Starting point is 01:04:40 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
Starting point is 01:05:03 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.
Starting point is 01:05:18 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.
Starting point is 01:05:36 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.
Starting point is 01:06:06 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.
Starting point is 01:06:22 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?
Starting point is 01:06:39 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.
Starting point is 01:06:56 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.
Starting point is 01:07:08 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?
Starting point is 01:07:19 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
Starting point is 01:07:39 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.
Starting point is 01:08:03 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.
Starting point is 01:08:15 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?
Starting point is 01:08:30 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.
Starting point is 01:08:43 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,
Starting point is 01:09:01 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.
Starting point is 01:09:13 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,
Starting point is 01:09:34 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.
Starting point is 01:09:50 100%. 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
Starting point is 01:10:18 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.
Starting point is 01:10:33 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?
Starting point is 01:10:43 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.
Starting point is 01:11:00 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.
Starting point is 01:11:13 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.
Starting point is 01:11:29 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.
Starting point is 01:11:59 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.
Starting point is 01:12:17 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.
Starting point is 01:12:48 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.
Starting point is 01:13:06 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.
Starting point is 01:13:28 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,
Starting point is 01:13:43 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
Starting point is 01:14:00 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,
Starting point is 01:14:26 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.
Starting point is 01:14:42 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.
Starting point is 01:14:57 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.
Starting point is 01:15:10 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.
Starting point is 01:15:20 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
Starting point is 01:15:44 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.
Starting point is 01:16:01 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.
Starting point is 01:16:20 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.
Starting point is 01:16:35 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.
Starting point is 01:16:57 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?
Starting point is 01:17:16 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.
Starting point is 01:17:35 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.
Starting point is 01:17:48 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.
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Starting point is 01:19:11 Shout out to FanDuel. Shout out to you. Let's get back to the show. 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!
Starting point is 01:19:30 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.
Starting point is 01:19:45 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.
Starting point is 01:19:54 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.
Starting point is 01:20:01 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.
Starting point is 01:20:15 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,
Starting point is 01:20:31 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.
Starting point is 01:20:47 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.
Starting point is 01:21:03 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.
Starting point is 01:21:12 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.
Starting point is 01:21:20 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.
Starting point is 01:21:34 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.
Starting point is 01:22:00 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.
Starting point is 01:22:24 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.
Starting point is 01:22:40 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.
Starting point is 01:22:52 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.
Starting point is 01:23:00 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.
Starting point is 01:23:13 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.
Starting point is 01:23:27 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.
Starting point is 01:23:48 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!
Starting point is 01:24:02 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.
Starting point is 01:24:15 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
Starting point is 01:24:30 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,
Starting point is 01:24:45 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?
Starting point is 01:25:02 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.
Starting point is 01:25:24 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
Starting point is 01:25:47 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?
Starting point is 01:26:12 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
Starting point is 01:26:43 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?
Starting point is 01:26:59 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.
Starting point is 01:27:10 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.
Starting point is 01:27:22 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.
Starting point is 01:27:35 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?
Starting point is 01:27:52 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
Starting point is 01:28:10 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.
Starting point is 01:28:22 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.
Starting point is 01:28:31 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.
Starting point is 01:28:48 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.
Starting point is 01:29:10 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.
Starting point is 01:29:34 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
Starting point is 01:29:52 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
Starting point is 01:30:11 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?
Starting point is 01:30:32 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.
Starting point is 01:30:46 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!
Starting point is 01:30:57 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.
Starting point is 01:31:09 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.
Starting point is 01:31:21 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.
Starting point is 01:31:34 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
Starting point is 01:31:52 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
Starting point is 01:32:09 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.
Starting point is 01:32:25 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
Starting point is 01:32:41 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.
Starting point is 01:32:54 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
Starting point is 01:33:12 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.
Starting point is 01:33:36 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.
Starting point is 01:33:56 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.
Starting point is 01:34:12 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
Starting point is 01:34:30 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?
Starting point is 01:34:46 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.
Starting point is 01:34:56 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
Starting point is 01:35:15 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,
Starting point is 01:35:31 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.
Starting point is 01:35:46 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.
Starting point is 01:36:00 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.
Starting point is 01:36:18 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.
Starting point is 01:36:30 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.
Starting point is 01:36:43 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
Starting point is 01:36:59 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.
Starting point is 01:37:15 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?
Starting point is 01:37:26 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.
Starting point is 01:37:39 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.
Starting point is 01:37:51 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,
Starting point is 01:38:04 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.
Starting point is 01:38:25 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.
Starting point is 01:38:36 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.
Starting point is 01:38:45 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.
Starting point is 01:38:59 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.
Starting point is 01:39:15 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!
Starting point is 01:39:28 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.
Starting point is 01:39:48 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
Starting point is 01:40:10 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.
Starting point is 01:40:25 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?
Starting point is 01:40:38 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.
Starting point is 01:40:57 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!
Starting point is 01:41:19 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.
Starting point is 01:41:39 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.
Starting point is 01:42:04 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.
Starting point is 01:42:18 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.
Starting point is 01:42:30 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.
Starting point is 01:42:46 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
Starting point is 01:43:01 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.
Starting point is 01:43:13 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.
Starting point is 01:43:20 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?
Starting point is 01:43:30 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.
Starting point is 01:43:44 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.
Starting point is 01:43:53 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.
Starting point is 01:44:01 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
Starting point is 01:44:19 because the electricity, the big brain. Ladies and gentlemen, at Sports Rage, Gabe Morenci. Yeah! Yeah! Let's go! Let's go! Yeah!
Starting point is 01:44:34 Let's go! Yeah! Let's go, Gabe! Yeah! How about it? Good to see you, though. Big hug. All right.
Starting point is 01:44:42 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.
Starting point is 01:44:54 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
Starting point is 01:45:09 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,
Starting point is 01:45:26 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.
Starting point is 01:45:40 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.
Starting point is 01:45:50 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.
Starting point is 01:45:58 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.
Starting point is 01:46:18 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
Starting point is 01:46:28 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
Starting point is 01:46:34 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
Starting point is 01:46:41 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.
Starting point is 01:46:50 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
Starting point is 01:47:07 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,
Starting point is 01:47:24 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
Starting point is 01:47:39 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.
Starting point is 01:48:08 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.
Starting point is 01:48:22 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
Starting point is 01:48:35 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.
Starting point is 01:48:51 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.
Starting point is 01:49:01 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!
Starting point is 01:49:13 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.
Starting point is 01:49:21 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?
Starting point is 01:49:33 Nah, I had a few too many drinks. Really? Yeah. I was getting drunk with Rob Dibble. Remember Dibble? Yeah. Pitcher. Pitcher.
Starting point is 01:49:42 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.
Starting point is 01:49:49 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.
Starting point is 01:50:04 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.
Starting point is 01:50:16 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?
Starting point is 01:50:33 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?
Starting point is 01:50:47 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.
Starting point is 01:51:01 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
Starting point is 01:51:13 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.
Starting point is 01:51:28 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.
Starting point is 01:51:46 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.
Starting point is 01:52:01 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.
Starting point is 01:52:11 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.
Starting point is 01:52:24 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?
Starting point is 01:52:39 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.
Starting point is 01:52:55 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.
Starting point is 01:53:03 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.
Starting point is 01:53:15 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.
Starting point is 01:53:30 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.
Starting point is 01:53:46 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.
Starting point is 01:53:55 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.
Starting point is 01:54:14 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.
Starting point is 01:54:23 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.
Starting point is 01:54:33 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.
Starting point is 01:54:45 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.
Starting point is 01:54:52 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?
Starting point is 01:55:11 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.
Starting point is 01:55:25 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?
Starting point is 01:55:40 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.
Starting point is 01:55:56 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?
Starting point is 01:56:10 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.
Starting point is 01:56:22 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.
Starting point is 01:56:33 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?
Starting point is 01:56:41 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.
Starting point is 01:56:50 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.
Starting point is 01:56:59 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.
Starting point is 01:57:15 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.
Starting point is 01:57:31 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,
Starting point is 01:57:51 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.
Starting point is 01:58:07 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.
Starting point is 01:58:18 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
Starting point is 01:58:33 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?
Starting point is 01:58:49 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.
Starting point is 01:59:02 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?
Starting point is 01:59:13 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.
Starting point is 01:59:29 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.
Starting point is 01:59:38 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.
Starting point is 01:59:48 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?
Starting point is 01:59:59 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.
Starting point is 02:00:10 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.
Starting point is 02:00:23 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.
Starting point is 02:00:35 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.
Starting point is 02:00:49 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...
Starting point is 02:01:00 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.
Starting point is 02:01:09 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.
Starting point is 02:01:17 Put it back on the desk. Put it back on the desk. Redo it. Redo it. All right. Ready? Ready? Here it was.
Starting point is 02:01:21 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.
Starting point is 02:01:36 I love you guys. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Starting point is 02:01:41 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Woo! Woo! Woo! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I' I I appreciate you, Murray. Thank you. Love you, dude. Legend. Absolute legend. Icon.
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